🔌│tech

[pale sigil]

Felix (PewDiePie) does it too

[wheat plume]

Ooo

[pale sigil]

Yanno, the Linux dude.

[ashen spindle]

I dont think she meant server racks when talking about building pc on a wall

or if she did I wonder who puts a server rack onto a wall

[wheat plume]

I didn't mean that xd
I meant that type of wall you can put pegs and shit into line in the photo I made the comment under

[frozen ingot]

been wanting to build a 19" rackmount pc for ages but getting hold of a case suitable for desktop pc parts is kinda tricky and expensive

[rich pine]

i use nobara linux btw its great

[mild patrol]

Any recommendation for a good audio interface?

[frozen ingot]

focusrite if you're on a budget, rme if you want high end

[mild patrol]

I'm on a budget rn

Focusrite cost a ton for me in our country

[pliant thunder]

I would send my keyboard but it only arrives in 2 months

🫩

[frozen ingot]

behringer I guess then

[fair gull]

thats not rackmounted

[deft sapphire]

do I see lekker switches

I need those containers you put them in

[wheat plume]

They come with the container!

Wait no
Not that type
Nevermind

[fair gull]

thanks lineageos for making me have negative used space

its apparently using -15gb of android 16 space

[reef patrol]

[umbral heron]

https://www.firstpost.com/world/ireland-pushes-for-mandatory-id-verification-on-social-media-across-eu-13963777.html

[halcyon moss]

😠 🇮🇪

[analog sinew]

can the ires instead collect all the taxes we are losing due to them?

i'm so fucking tired of this timeline, everywhere is turning authoritharian and the EU is like hmm let me in on that while simultaneously being a joke of an international player

[daring tartan]

Don't know if im overthinking it, but when i press down on the left side of my spacebar (brand new, 2 day old 60hev2) I can hear the click of the right stabiliser as like an undertone sorta, but the middle and right sound fine, is there any fix for this?

[sudden imp]

What’s with the whole Twitter ai thing? Are they now scanning works posted for model training?

[crimson wigeon]

Probably

[reef patrol]

Yes.

[sudden imp]

Damn shitters gotten worse I guess

[analog sinew]

nowadays anything on the internet is ai scraped

if you want it to or not

remember: if you take something without permission it's theft or copyright infringement because you are a peasant, if the rich do it its cool

[marsh glade]

Society should execute malicious compliance and poison the well en masse

[analog sinew]

do we have to? they've scraped everything they can and its still shoddy af

i'm not convinced this approach they're taking to """ai""" scales anywhere

its mostly just markov chain soup

if it's not performing with this much data, the model approach seems flawed

they're just throwing more silicon and synthetic datasets at the problem but has it really gotten that much better since idk gpt-2? Feels like its plateauing hard

[marsh glade]

In ten year's time, society will look back at generative AI as a silly parlor trick

[analog sinew]

well, at least at current ones

dunno if there will be a breakthrough or not

[marsh glade]

No, I think that will be true for the entire concept of word soup by way of association

[analog sinew]

society will look at a fire and pot of stew and think of that in the highest terms with the way the world is going

[steady sail]

soo 64gb DDR5 ram or a Macbook Air

[tribal dirge]

thats insane

[ashen spindle]

yeah or we dont look at sponsored things and you can find them for much cheaper still

[sudden imp]

The ram is an investment it’ll appreciate with time /j

[steady sail]

[thick elk]

Don't know quick look at a price comparison 64 GB actually not too far away from that cheapest 6000 MT/s set

[ashen spindle]

idk I just saw the first entry on pc partpicker was like 480

insane still but not 750

[thick elk]

Ignoring the few very bargain bin entries with probably errors / limited stock comparable ram I saw cheapest at € 679,- here but did not spend much time searching.

[tropic ferry]

investing in ram gives you a better return then gold atm

[pliant thunder]

Chat i have 64gb of dd5 ram that i got like 2 years ago am i a millionaire

[frozen ingot]

maybe but you should send them over to me for a personal valuation

[sullen bear]

Its kinda at peak rn tho no?

[tribal dirge]

I still have my 8000MT/s 128gb of DDR5 from when I had my 14900K LMAO

[pliant thunder]

We can br millionaires together

[pliant thunder]

Mayhaps

[tribal dirge]

nah, the RAM might be cooked on them, they were over-volted at some point and I havent used them in several months

[pliant thunder]

Dude im so happy they removed like 2 months from the shipping date now my keyboards arriving within week

[pliant thunder]

Yikes

me when my pc bluescreens

[tribal dirge]

I mean, they might still work fine, but they have been sitting around for a good while

[tropic ferry]

kinda, i recon the next boom is going to be the new nvidia cards since they cut the production

[ashen spindle]

thats out by like a year or more though

[sullen bear]

they already gave us 5 booms in chat

removed ram for vendors, not selling low end nvidia cards anymore, reducing production, what else xD

[tropic ferry]

i am kinda glad i bought all my parts the beginning of this year

the upcoming years are looking kinda grim

[sullen bear]

Yep same

[ashen spindle]

them not bundling ram to AiBs doesnt really change anything for end prices it just moves margins around

[sullen bear]

I think it will massively increase prices ngl

[ashen spindle]

it wont

if the ram goes micron->nvidia->AiB or micron -> AiB wont be the cause for a big price increase

[sullen bear]

nvidia solders vs aib solders

[ashen spindle]

what

nvidia would sell the ram chips and the gpu die, not a card with the chips already soldered on it

that wouldnt even work

[tropic ferry]

i wonder how far they are willing to push AI

[marsh glade]

AIl the way

[sullen bear]

AiBs would have to now negotiate RAM contracts too in peak pricing

I dont think they just get the nvidia pricing for ram

[ashen spindle]

gddr is used for basically nothing but video cards, micron isnt suddenly making double the price because they sell to asus instead of nvidia

the total volume will be about the same

[sullen bear]

amd exists

[ashen spindle]

not a single amd card uses gddr7

[umbral heron]

I like how OpenAI fucks the whole world with money they don't have and can't hope to ever earn

[ashen spindle]

also you're just moving the goalpost every time to find something that suits the idea, I dont think you actually know how the supply chain for gpus works

[tropic ferry]

ngl it looks kinda grim for sam, google is throwing in there weight atm

[sullen bear]

goalpost moving is a thing if I had a specific argument, my argument started as it will increase prices 🤔

so should I not add my opinion on what would increase the prices?

[surreal thorn]

What even are the differences between gddr6/gddr6x/gddr7

[sullen bear]

it will increase prices > why? > yes. 👍

[ashen spindle]

well I'm trying to explain why that first point isnt a reason and you keep coming up with different points that are all wrong

[sullen bear]

ok

[ashen spindle]

its different memory standards, changes how the data moves to/from the chips for example, possible speeds of the chips, how many bits of information are in each signal etc.

[surreal thorn]

Ah ok

[ashen spindle]

for example the pinout for each spec is different, which rail has which voltage etc.

[gusty kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RssLJL30h0

chungus

[nimble arch]

See you in three weeks for the repost

[gusty kiln]

eww it only has a 50 WHR battery

[pliant thunder]

Pray to whooting it works (it'll take 2 months for the prayer to work)

[tribal dirge]

lolz

[frozen ingot]

who will win, audible gpu/usb noise in the audio path vs aliexpress jank https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009055829934.html

[tribal dirge]

why would anyone want that

holy shit its 60 dollars

[frozen ingot]

if it gets rid of the annoying static noise from gpu, peripherals etc am happy

$27 with discount code

[gusty kiln]

are you using onboard audio?

[frozen ingot]

you can find various versions at more or less money than that and they do work in a lot of cases, its cheaper from aliex than western vendors tho

no external usb

[gusty kiln]

JDS LABs sells something similar but expensive

https://jdslabs.com/product/synapse/

[frozen ingot]

yeah there's a bunch

just made sure the chip used had enough bandwidth

[gusty kiln]

no external dac?

[frozen ingot]

the audio interface is external but from it to the speakers its analog only

[gusty kiln]

ferrite choke not enough?

[frozen ingot]

these monitor speakers have always been kinda sensitive to emi/noise from badly insulated sources but wasn't a big enough deal before bc it wasn't that loud

this new gpu made it a bit louder though so may as well try a few potential fixes

got a couple more things to try should this not do the job

[steady sail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqULCTwf-Q its kinda general topic but again WTF

[tribal dirge]

you can get cheaper ground loop isolators man

[ashen spindle]

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded post to scare a rust dev @umbral heron

[molten steppe]

Heyy, does anyone have experience with X-raypad mousepads?? I am interested in buying their Aqua control+

[frozen ingot]

you can isolate the analog path from interface to speakers also but figured its preferable to try fixing the digital usb side of the signal path since I don't risk compromising the analog signal path that way

[tribal dirge]

fair

[indigo zenith]

Do you guys know if it is possible to connect a wooting 60he+ to the ps5? and it will connect immediately or do I have to turn off the nkro function on the wooting software?

[empty wren]

You will have to turn it off

[indigo zenith]

There are some users from whom I have heard that even if you turn this option off, the keyboard still does not work. I still don't have the wooting 60he, I have to buy it soon, so I wanted to be informed before I bought it.

[empty wren]

Can share where you heard that

[indigo zenith]

I watched the YouTube tutorial video on how to turn off this feature, and in the comments some users pointed out that even if I turned off the keyboard feature, it didn't work. Of course, I do not know if this is true, but of course it is right that I should be informed.

[empty wren]

This?https://youtu.be/Aa5qVMNfQbU

[indigo zenith]

That's what it is.

This is it

[empty wren]

I read all of the comments

[indigo zenith]

I'm like 200 comments, I haven't read all of them

[empty wren]

Are you expecting double movement with the keyboard on the PS5

[indigo zenith]

I didn't understand, sorry

I mean, I wanted to know clearly if as soon as I buy the keyboard and turn this function off, the keyboard will work

[empty wren]

Right

Just trying to ease your mind is all

[indigo zenith]

All right then, thank you very much and goodnight if it's night with you (I'm Italian)

[empty wren]

If it does not you can happily return it, but rest assured it will.

Some of the comments are brainless: the people responding think there is a way to disable it without using a computer, they completely skip the video and ask what the video answers and then there is one person who reset their keyboard and from my understanding did not disable nkro again

[indigo zenith]

As for saving the setting, when I go into the software and turn off the option, do I have to do a kind of save on the keyboard to make sure that when I disconnect the keyboard from the PC and connect it to the PS5 the setting stays and is not restored?

[alpine patio]

settings are stored in the keyboard

so after saving your good

[indigo zenith]

I want to understand if when I put this NKRO setting I have to click a few keys to save this setting so that when I disconnect the keyboard from the PC and connect it to the PS5, the NKRO setting is not reset and then enabled again.

Does the keyboard automatically save? Does it have the right internal memory?

[empty wren]

It does have internal memory

[indigo zenith]

Oh I got it perfect

[empty wren]

That will retain even after being powered off

[indigo zenith]

Thank you so much

[empty wren]

You will be only able to keep 4 profiles on board bear in mind

[indigo zenith]

4 profiles of what?

[empty wren]

1 digital profile

3 analog profiles

[indigo zenith]

What do you mean by analog and digital? i.e. profiles of what? what can I include in these profiles

[empty wren]

Keybindings

You can remap any of the keys

You can set the acuation per key

There is also gamepad mapping but you will not be able to use that on the PS5

You can also set different led colors per key

And different led effects per profile

[indigo zenith]

about the rgb led, do you mean that from the software I can set a key combination that if pressed while using the keyboard on the ps5 will change the color for example if I chose blue the keyboard will remain blue? or we are just talking about led effects?

[empty wren]

Both

But you set the effects or colors on the computer first

[indigo zenith]

Can I only do 4 profiles? and why 1 digital and 3 analog and what is the difference between analog and digital?

[empty wren]

Well analog ones have analog features

Dks

Socd

Gamepad mapping

[indigo zenith]

What about digital?

[empty wren]

You might be able to use dks on the PS5 for instance thoufht

[empty wren]

Digital is more digital, you can set acuation per key, colors and remapping

You can use a analog profile like a digital profile though

So you technically could have 4 digital profiles

Anyways have a good night

[keen cave]

I moved the USB c port around a bit cause it was curved a tiny bit

it won't affect perfomance correct

[weary spindle]

It wont

[jaunty rose]

whats ya'lls thoughts on the iphone fold leak that may or may not be real?

[empty wren]

People will buy it

[stoic olive]

apple = insta buy 💔

[keen cave]

promise @weary spindle ?

[weary spindle]

No promise

[stoic olive]

it should work fine if you just moved it

[empty wren]

Mass production means acceptable quality

[keen cave]

bro what 😭

[empty wren]

It means a slight misalignment is normal

[stoic olive]

he's right

[keen cave]

promise?

so it wont mess with latency or anything right

[empty wren]

It will be fine, plug it see for youself

[keen cave]

no but like perfomance wise

[stoic olive]

nope unless you damaged the pcb when you were moving it

[keen cave]

so the pcb board is what controls all perfomance related specs?

[empty wren]

Yes

[keen cave]

and how would i damage the pcb board

[empty wren]

Well you could damage the output port

[keen cave]

js like a heads up incase i ever take it out again

[stoic olive]

agressively taking it out or dropping it and such

[keen cave]

wym agressively

[empty wren]

But if it snuggly attached it is likely still fine

[stoic olive]

wooting has an entire video dedicated on how to take apart your wooting

[keen cave]

i take it out slowly im psure

[stoic olive]

just watch those

[keen cave]

should i record a video of me taking it out rq

[empty wren]

Nah just do not do a techrex video on it

[stoic olive]

^^ just copy what they do

[keen cave]

alr ty

what if i took it out without knowing how to

like what i did was js put the thing in

[empty wren]

So long as can apart smoothly enough

[keen cave]

pull and gently remove it from the case

[empty wren]

No sudden sounds

Probably fine

[keen cave]

no sudden sounds at all

anything else?

[stoic olive]

idk man if there's a problem you'd prob notice it instantly

i think you're fine

[keen cave]

u wouldnt notice it perfomance wise due to small increments

alr so im 100% good?

[stoic olive]

i think so yes

[keen cave]

alr ty

[frozen drift]

https://youtube.com/shorts/RY3EC_FBYHo

Holy mother of god that sh*# looks really bad and scary, and I mean it on an extreme level. Like oh my god.

[modern sphinx]

jsut use a 350w power supply to keep the wattage and temps low; no more melting

[lofty pivot]

oh not again.

You've been warned @keen cave no more okay? The timeouts will get longer and escalate to bans.

[keen cave]

brooo

I was js asking a question

[lofty pivot]

ask it again and we're escalating the timeout to be much much longer.

you have your answer. no more asking and no trolling.

[keen cave]

it was a different question most of the times broo

[lofty pivot]

i've said what needs to be said. You've been warned.

this isn't a negotiation

[keen cave]

thats js unfair

[reef patrol]

That's pretty fucking cool. Imagine being able to replace air travel in some corridors altogether.

[nimble arch]

Needs more than just train tech to do that, sadly.

Airline lobbying is still quite powerful.

Plus they typically don’t pay tax on their fuel, for example.

Plus the whole politics around funding and building this kind of high speed rail.

[reef patrol]

Having the tech is a good place to start. 😄

[umbral heron]

Mostly in US
In China it's enough that train companies get a bit of subsidies and they'll be everywhere

Also call it for what it is - bribery

[frozen drift]

I know it's just a sarcasm but the thing cannot even run 🤣🤣🤣, just wanted to continue the conversation and clarify for others. Man the RTX 5090 is SO POWER hungry that you need 1000 W PSU MINIMUM, with recommended PSU spec of 1200-1300 W for good level of overhead.

[sullen bear]

Is only power hungry if you let it be power hungry

I dont think mine goes past 400watt on avg

And no way the other parts use 600watt

[lunar elm]

Nah someone’s using a sf750 and a 5090

I undervolted and powerlimited mine

scaling past 450-500w isnt good anyways

[patent carbon]

I have a 5090 heavily overclocked (as are the CPU & RAM) and 1000W has been plenty. 1300W isn’t necessary at all.

[steady sail]

me who just looks at the 5090 price and dies inside

[ashen spindle]

this is like worst case spikes of the card so 1000W is absolutely save unless you like run a 14900k blender run at 500W on top

[lunar elm]

only time 1k wouldnt be enough is with 800w vbios and a CPU magically eating 200w+

which unless you do both a full gpu and cpu stress test separately at the same time should not happen

[ashen spindle]

since most 1000W psus are 2000W peaks for <=1ms

[lunar elm]

sf series really slaps

[magic minnow]

OnePlus 15 tomorrow

1 more day until China gets access to all my info

[vapid ruin]

don't say it like that, say that you trade your information for better understanding of your needs

[frozen ingot]

ngl china seems to know their content recommendation algorithms a lot better than western social media does

[tribal dirge]

This

[noble violet]

TECH no lo GY

[marsh glade]

@balmy vector apparently the universe could end in "the Big Crunch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqmefUdKFVM

[noble violet]

Fake news

We all know the universe prefers to chew over crunching

[sudden imp]

This new years I’m going to try and do better online privacy and security practices. Any suggestions to start? I do want to use an ad blocker so I might try and install Firefox and start using DDG.

[ashen spindle]

make sure you're fine with stuff being worse

[empty wren]

Pihole can do it network wide instead of local

[nimble arch]

Proton instead of Gmail

[tawdry brook]

i enabled tachyon on a profile and now it says that 1 button is always slightly pressed?

is it normal or did i break something?

[tacit ermine]

my german keyboard isnt german anymore how can i cange it back

[empty wren]

Unplug and replug the cable

[tawdry brook]

@empty wren thanks 🙂

[sudden imp]

What does that mean??? I’m using chrome right now….

[ashen spindle]

Id say try something like brave first so it’s still
Chromium but with an adblocker

FF is good for privacy sure but they do these dumb ai decisions, browser is slower, tends to have more issues etc.

I went to FF when they blocked Adblock on chrome but I’m going to brave soon because I’ve just had too many annoyances

[sudden imp]

So brave has adblocker built in? I know all chrome blocked ad blockers so that’s why people switched. Wouldn’t going to another chromium based browser give the same adblocker issues? Though the FF ai decisions seem dumb.

[crimson wigeon]

Brave has the blocker built in, not as an extension so it skates past those problems

[balmy vector]

Id be the one to cause it

[sudden imp]

Can I use proton for free? And still have my Gmail connected? I do need to keep my Gmail open while I still get things phased out. What I’ll do is switch all my accounts to having the proton linked to it then.

[magic minnow]

With giant dorito

[crimson wigeon]

Proton does have a free tier but it's not as generous. And yeah you can just set gmail to forward all your mails to another address so you can smoothly transition

[sudden imp]

What’s the differences?

[crimson wigeon]

Significantly less free storage for one, if it even matters for you. Free accounts also have other limitations and might be more likely to get closed down for silly reasons

[sudden imp]

So proton may try to actively push for users to purchase their subscription?

[crimson wigeon]

Maybe? Why not create an account and find out

[sudden imp]

True true

[balmy vector]

https://tenor.com/view/isopod-blingee-isopod-memes-gif-25580889

[nimble arch]

They've got a lot of resources for switching to Proton Mail - https://proton.me/easyswitch

[umbral heron]

Try out https://github.com/imputnet/helium

[fair gull]

i personally switched from a chromium based browser back to firefox (after leaving firefox for said chromium based browser) and unlike when i switched away from firefox it is now ways better than before in my opinion. but id stay away from normal firefox mainly for the mentioned AI driven direction they want to take

[umbral heron]

They are fine with putting in AI, but WebHID is a "sECuRitY pRobLEm"

[ashen spindle]

yeah it might work fine for you, I'm just having issues with FF that people often have but it might still not appear for you

but aside from it not remembering tabs I have open it now also forces me to restart sometimes because it just hangs after I try to watch twitch vods

[fair gull]

i have 0 issues with tabs on zen and on firefox i just installed an addon that stores the session separately and restores it if needed ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ashen spindle]

tab session manager? yeah cba doing that when it should just work

[analog sinew]

ai ai ai

[fair gull]

i mean it shouldnt but ok

tabs should always be treated as temporary

people using them different doesnt change that they arent meant to be used the way a lot of people do

[ashen spindle]

wym it shouldnt? if I set it to remember tabs on closing then thats what I expect that feature to do?

[fair gull]

the same that chrome does

delete it sometimes

[ashen spindle]

if thats not how its intended to be used done make that a feature

[fair gull]

like it does for my gf and me

[ashen spindle]

never had an issue with it in chrome once

and plenty of issues known about it on ff forums

[fluid compass]

Hello,
During a firmware update on my Wooting 60HE+, my PC shut down.
Since then, the keyboard is no longer detected by any computer or by Wootility.

what do i do?

[fair gull]

open wootility and click help on the left

then follow instructions

[fluid compass]

ty man appreciate it

[ashen spindle]

but thats just one, and I know some people had issues with it on chrome too though less it seems

the bigger issue recently is when I was refreshing sites to update a twitch vod it would constantly end up having to close the entire browser or no tab would load anything

[fair gull]

cant speak on that as i avoid twitch it seems

[umbral heron]

I'm a big fan of what they've added recently

Just kinda bummer that you have to dig in userChrome.css to disable close tab buttons on them, but otherwise it's quite nice

[nimble arch]

The Twitch player really breaks on Safari for me

Which is fine, I've pretty much stopped watching and more people are multi-streaming to YouTube.

[ashen spindle]

its the vod not the live streams that cause dit for me

normal livestreams are fine

[marsh glade]

Twitch streams constantly break for me, so much that I refuse to use the platform

[ashen spindle]

but as I never had these issues in idk 7+? years on chrome I just cba trying to fix firefox for me

[marsh glade]

I think it has to do with the audio codex and bitrate, but I only ever have the problem with Twitch and no other streaming/video services

[ashen spindle]

doubt it, they are so slow updating to newer codecs lmao

[marsh glade]

🤷

[fair gull]

maybe thats the issue

lol

[ashen spindle]

nah its not ancient unused onces

[fair gull]

stream of jpegs

[ashen spindle]

but they only now start showing some h.265 streams

[vagrant pagoda]

@astral haven you see they got the ASRock addin amd chipset working in Intel as a pcie switch?

Wtf did it do that as a reply lol

[marsh glade]

I was confused haha

[marsh glade]

I assumed you were tagging me so that I could mention that Intel couldn't innovate their way out of a paperbag

[astral haven]

Hadn't seen that but I want it

[tribal dirge]

interesting

[astral haven]

Not that ver tho, I want the stackable one

[umbral heron]

I can have BB1300 motherboard?

Now I only need M-key to full PCIe adapter, and I can stack multiple of them

[astral haven]

The stackable ones have built in full pcie slots on top

[nimble arch]

Oh nice, Ubiquiti make a travel router.

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/category/wifi-special-devices/products/utr

[tribal dirge]

no SIM or cellular functionality is kind of a turn off ngl

if they made a cellular version of this i'd buy it

[nimble arch]

Yeah, this looks ass.

[tribal dirge]

interesting that its not in the Cloud gateway category and its only in the WiFi category

[prisma aspen]

Does anyone have a 500hz Monitor and is it worth it?

[rancid burrow]

hello can some one help me with my woooting

[fair gull]

will prob be subjective

some people wouldnt even say 120hz is worth it

[tribal dirge]

I dont have one but I have experienced one

although, it is a VA panel but it has backlight strobing

I would say it is only worth it, if and only if you play competitively

[rancid burrow]

My keyboard is connected to my PC but it still won't download the update

[ashen spindle]

#1019755933959733258

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGT_CKGgFE part 3

[fair gull]

finally

that means the data from dutch software man gets released now

[unkempt lake]

poor businesses 😭

oh noooo

[ashen spindle]

leave it to dashi to cry in defense for the big business when the first example in the video is literally how honey was hiding coupons from users

[sudden imp]

I think it was sarcasm

[ashen spindle]

no I dont think it was

[sudden imp]

Oh

[bright briar]

mou tech

[unkempt lake]

absolute moumou

[bright briar]

mou machine

[sudden imp]

Anyways thanks for all the suggestions! I’m looking at password managers and creating more secure passwords. Is it a terrible idea to write down all my passwords on a paper and storing it in a safe.

[magic minnow]

Did you get the proton one?

I used 1password for a while as well

https://9to5google.com/2025/12/30/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-camera-bump-hardware-leak/

[bright briar]

why do i feel personally attacked by this

[bright briar]

which one did you decide to use

i heard proton one was good and might use that one tbh

[sudden imp]

I haven’t decided on any especially if they cost money. I thought the paper idea would be effective as if you have different passwords for each site if a data breach would be occurred. You understand what password it is, and you have them written down somewhere safe.

If that makes any sense? I’m sure a lot of other people do something similar.

Password managers seem expensive and it’s hard. There is also the one with IOS I have since I’m a iPhone user.

But I don’t think it works with windows

[bright briar]

proton is free iirc

[bright briar]

[sudden imp]

Oh! Neato okay I’ll investigate this further then. For 3 bucks do I also get the VPN services?

[steady sail]

i don't trust VPN's

its not gonna save u if u login or register on a website

[magic minnow]

1password is the most liked manager btw so look into them as well

I think it’s 3$ as well

[sudden imp]

What do you mean?

[sudden imp]

Does the pass plus include the proton email?

[fair gull]

why not bitwarden

[magic minnow]

I think every other proton service is separate

[steady sail]

i made an account and it gave me a free proton mail

[fair gull]

wait is this some subscription to all proton things

[sudden imp]

I don’t know

[steady sail]

no dark theme but enjoy

[magic minnow]

What does it show for lifetime

[sudden imp]

This can be very confusing (I understand why people don’t bother with this stuff)

[steady sail]

its kinda ass for $199

[sudden imp]

Do you use proton?

[steady sail]

i don't

[magic minnow]

If you have an iPhone just use the built in password manager

It’s Apple

[steady sail]

i don't use any password manager

[sudden imp]

I feel like the paper idea isn’t so bad after all 🙂

How much worth is it to use a non Gmail email.

[steady sail]

i would just stick to gmail

[steady sail]

tbh im more interested in creating my own Linux theme

[sudden imp]

What do you mean by ‘Linux theme’

[steady sail]

the way of a distro look i want to moddify one for funsies

[gusty kiln]

Mullvad

no account needed, it just auto generates a 16 digit number

[bright briar]

i made free proton emails

[bright briar]

is it free?

iirc the proton vpn is free no?

[magic minnow]

Quin beat me

[wheat plume]

Yes but you can only choose from like 3 regions to connect to

[bright briar]

ahhh ok ty

[wheat plume]

You also don't need the vpn app on desktop if you download an open VPN config file to use with your built in network settings

[bright briar]

cant you also get proton pass extension for free and use its sign in and 2fa stuff or you have to pay that

[wheat plume]

Yep
Pass can be used for free but if you wanna use it like an authentication app you can only get 3 accounts to generate codes for on the free tier

But you can have many accounts to store the logins for

[bright briar]

ahhh yes thats what i was thinking about okok ty

[wheat plume]

I'm using it purely for storing login details and I have yet to hit a limit on free tier...not sure if I will hit one or not xd

[sudden imp]

I think I’ll dip my toes in slightly. I’ll try fire fox with an adblocker. It should be similar enough to chrome. Should I also switch search engines?

[leaden kiln]

yo speaking of search engines where did the kagi family that was forming here go 💀

[bright briar]

people say duckduckgo is good

[sudden imp]

Okie dokie.

I’ll give it a try

[steady sail]

its a good one

[sudden imp]

sold

[magic minnow]

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

[junior tree]

i got a question, ive had my wooting 60he+ for a while now, i dont know how to describe it but it feels differently than it used to kinda like it feels worn out a little, if i just replace all the switches (idk how to lube them) would it sound/feel fresh again?

[tropic ferry]

the switches are pre lubed

[junior tree]

yea ik so if i js replace them it would feel nicer?

[tropic ferry]

ye would feel way better

[junior tree]

oh ok thx

also dyk any screw drivers i could order to disaassemble my keyboard

cant find any online that i like

[tropic ferry]

can't help you with that one i dnk

[steady sail]

Philips PH1 screwdriver works

[junior tree]

erm do you know any screw replacements if some of mine are chipped from failed attempts

[steady sail]

There should be a few included in the box

[junior tree]

oh i forgot i had that box

[junior tree]

where do i find this?

[steady sail]

Amazon or in stores

[junior tree]

i cant find it on amazon

[steady sail]

https://www.ifixit.com/en-eu/products/phillips-1-screwdriver

Its an EU link but you can find this

[boreal meteor]

if you dont have any screwdrivers at all, do yourself a favor and grab a driver kit from ifixit

[winter patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/cinnamon-toast-ken-baby-smile-feed-gif-10137625

[steady sail]

Yeah just get the Mako Precision set

[spare badge]

anyone know how does amd clip work?
im having a hard time using it

[junior tree]

erm thats like 5x the price ;-;

[azure otter]

chat are iems supposed to hurt ur ears

my shi lowk tight n it hurts after a while

[tribal dirge]

Like, no?

Good fitting IEMs should be comfortable for long periods of time

Maybe the shape of the ones you have just don't quite fit your ears specifically

[azure otter]

oh

[azure otter]

meh doesnt matter they sound frickin amazing

[tribal dirge]

Real

My Truthear Zero Blue 2 and my Moondrop Chu 2 IEMs fit me well

So I'm happy

[vapid ruin]

Nope. You can try different tips like Tangzu sancai

[azure otter]

alr

[vapid ruin]

The one I listed fit me better compared to standard silicone tips

Do note it might change the sound of the iem

[azure otter]

how so

[vapid ruin]

Physics

[azure otter]

makes sense

[vapid ruin]

Wider bore tips increase bass, narrow bore increases treble iirc.

[vapid ruin]

Don't worry too much, it won't be too drastic

[azure otter]

its not the tips i dont think tho

i mean it kinda is

but i stick the iem like in my ear

that could just be me tho idk

[vapid ruin]

If it's pain like your ear canal feeling weird or too spread, it's the tips. But if it's where the iem shell touch, it's the shell

[azure otter]

its both

[vapid ruin]

Rip

[azure otter]

[modern sphinx]

I get that from my IE200's and tip rolling doesn't help, which is odd given how small they are. That's the downside to iems, there's no universal shape but tip rolling usually helps

[azure otter]

okay

[azure otter]

i just gotta break em in

get used to em

[vapid ruin]

*break in your ears

[azure otter]

yea

thats what i meant

[vapid ruin]

Good luck, just make sure it doesn't hurt too much

[azure otter]

thx

i put the biggest tips on and they feel better

[fair gull]

bitwarden is pure password manager. and given the screenshot mainly mentioned like accounts and devices i thought its some proton password manager subscription

it is 100% free though unless you want some extra functions like checking against haveibeenpwned automatically for example

[sullen bear]

+1 on bitwarden

[nimble arch]

Proton Pass is free for passwords, 2FA, and passkeys.

[umbral heron]

Bitwarden
Plus KeePass for SSH keys

[nimble arch]

Passwords app on iOS for myself

For now, at least.

Not everything supports the export and import of passkeys. No, I won’t be recreating them.

[thick elk]

if you are using keepass anyway, could just switch to keepassxc and keepassxd on android imo.

[umbral heron]

Well yeah, I'm using XC, just it's kinda main KeePass in my and my coworker's brains

[fair gull]

i use bitwarden for ssh keys

[umbral heron]

I just don't want to have my personal and work stuff mixed, that's why KeePass

[fair gull]

i just made a second bw account

since company uses the bw cloud anyway

i do selfhosted

[raw zephyr]

how do you do backups? i want to selfhost vaultwarden but im kinda worried about backups

[fair gull]

i backup my entire server

other than that bitwarden comes with a data folder that contains all backups

cant speak to smth like vaultwarden as i only use bitwarden itself

[halcyon moss]

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1pzvysh/new_ikea_matter_over_thread_devices_might/

nice

[wheat plume]

Why does VLC want to open ISO files??

[fair gull]

could be a dvd

first mistake was installing vlc and not mpv

[wheat plume]

Both LOL

sometimes VLC doesnt handle mkv properly ...

[fair gull]

the only thing i use vlc for is playing blurays after i ripped them to label episodes correctly

[wheat plume]

ugh how do I change the scaling on GDM?!?!

its super huge on mym 1440p display

[fair gull]

ask the gnomes

[wheat plume]

Wayland is disabled on GDM for some reason???

[crimson wigeon]

Read it again more carefully

[wheat plume]

fucking double negative shit

[spiral island]

No double negative, it's just commented out 😕

[umbral heron]

Ooooh, it's so nice, thamk you AMD
I can finally use AMF and RADV without having to play with amdgpu-pro

h264_amf going 5 times faster than libx264 on 32 threads

[sullen bear]

https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20251229_0003458273

I guess nvidia is moving goalposts now

[old marlin]

Well not much they can do if the BOM increases by a large amount

[unborn whale]

what is the dihfrrnce from the 5090 and 5090 laptop

[sullen bear]

I was kinda sarcastic as someone else said that the ram is only used for gpus and that the prices wouldnt go up in the context of nvidia not bundling ram for AiBs anymore

[sullen bear]

5090 laptop was equal to 4070ti super desktop iirc

[unborn whale]

eh ok

[sullen bear]

So still good for a laptop format, bad with desktop equivalent

[old marlin]

Also mobile gpus heavily depend on their power budget

[fair gull]

no? it just defaults to true so waylandEnable is always true unless you want it to be false

[bright briar]

use mpv player

[leaden kiln]

love mpv

[lunar elm]

not even close

its as good as a desktop 4070

[bright briar]

if i didnt get windows 11 pro i would still use it

goated player

shii still might download it again

[leaden kiln]

why do you not use it on w11

[gusty kiln]

I like MPC and VLC combo

[bright briar]

on my am4 build i didnt have pro

so i didnt have hevc encoder and etc to watch my obs videos

[fair gull]

pro doesnt come with hevc either

hevc is always an extra thing in windows

cause microsoft sugg

[bright briar]

its not included in the windows 11 pro ?

[leaden kiln]

I use mpv with the uosc osd since I had my steam deck, slightly different ui

[bright briar]

for some reason i cant watch hevc encoded videos in media player but now i can with pro

[fair gull]

never was when i installed windows pro almost daily a few years ago

[bright briar]

before i couldnt

[gusty kiln]

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

[fair gull]

how it worked back then is installing hevc from the store via powershell commands

im almost sure it still works like this

yeah that one

but there was one for OEMs that was free

https://archive.org/details/microsoft.-hevcvideo-extension-2.0.61931.0-neutral-8wekyb-3d-8bbwe_20231114

this one

[bright briar]

well for some reason i can now with pro

compared on my am4 build with just windows 11

this is interesting now

i shall deep dive into why i am able to do that now

compared when i could before

[fair gull]

wonder if they retroactively added it later

[gusty kiln]

https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/N6Black.html

[bright briar]

possibly

@unkempt lake confirm this

[gusty kiln]

Jonsbo finally making a NAS case that uses normal HDD trays

[fair gull]

i can confirm that the 1USD extension for the codec is not installed for me despite being on win11 pro

i only have the one from the free extension trick

[gusty kiln]

definitely the case I get when I need to upgrade my NAS solution

[nimble arch]

Whenever I've cleaned installed W11, Home or Pro, the store auto installs HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer.

[fair gull]

no rubber BS straps?

wut

[gusty kiln]

yeee

[nimble arch]

Usually after GPU drivers.

[fair gull]

yeah i saw

i just cant believe my own eyes

this must be some fake url somehow

or some dns hack or smth

jonsbo would never

[gusty kiln]

complaining works

kekek

[fair gull]

i mean still a bit sad they dont have handle levers to remove them or click them in

but step in the right direction

[gusty kiln]

yeah, make it satisfying to load the drive in

[fair gull]

for me the main issue is always at some point the rubber straps get brittle or just rip slowly

[gusty kiln]

yeah

[fair gull]

or better yet they become goo and sticky

like those rubberized usb sticks

[gusty kiln]

or some of those older logitech mice

gunk city

though my ideal nas case is still something like the HL15, but it's wayyyyyy expensive for what it is

[unkempt lake]

Confirm what

And yes it comes with pro

Home doesnt have it

[bright briar]

must be a new thing since tony said he doesnt have it

when he installed it

[shell temple]

https://insider-gaming.com/nvidia-rtx-5090-prices-to-5000-in-2026/ - there is no way this is true? could it?

[fair gull]

i mean

thats basically what they cost already

[shell temple]

huh? no they dont lol

[fair gull]

arent they 3grand usually

[shell temple]

yeah i mean thats what i paid but 5 grand?

[fair gull]

so not too far of

basically there already

the fact people pay 3grand is already unimaginable

[shell temple]

https://a.co/d/3oMfY5a $3,399 for this

[bright briar]

silly me i should have bought a 5090 and burned my house down

now theyre worth 5k

[shell temple]

I'm honestly thinking about buying one

shit why not, if the price goes up

For my racing sim PC lol

[fair gull]

im already upset i spent 2grand on my 4090

[shell temple]

it sounds fucking stupid but shit ill take an extra 2k

[bright briar]

honestly money well spent with how prices been going

[fair gull]

back then it wasnt imo

should have been around 1.3k imo

maybe 1.5

[bright briar]

forsure

[shell temple]

kind of scary

[bright briar]

but now with how everything is going 2k doesnt sound too bad for what you got

🙂‍↕️

[fair gull]

yeah i know

[bright briar]

wish i got my hands on a 4080 super or 4090

50 series is ass

[fair gull]

but its ridiculous that 5k sounds like smth theyd ask for and not just a meme/joke

2k can get you a car

5k can get you a nicer one

like what the crap

[sullen bear]

“Not even close” names same gen same level gpu

[bright briar]

at this point might be time to retire pc gaming

[shell temple]

https://ebay.us/m/GUg1SZ $2,649.99 used refrub

[bright briar]

with how expensive things are getting 5k is enough for a vacation in mexico

[fair gull]

at this point amd and intel might be better choices and just not playing on highest settings

also you know how much ddr5 ram i could get for 5k?

[bright briar]

yeah especially when most games arent even optimize or run well why buy the best hardware

[fair gull]

actually

not much i realized

maybe consoles will have an uptick again

[gusty kiln]

64gb of high speed ddr5 is like 800 already

[bright briar]

probably

but theyre trying to push 1k for them

DX

[fair gull]

still better than pc prices tbh

[sullen bear]

1000+ here

[fair gull]

and you dont have any hastle with building it or windows

it turns on and works

[bright briar]

thats true

[sullen bear]

They already did no?

[bright briar]

if it doesnt work you just exchange it

[fair gull]

i mean more like massive up tick

[bright briar]

none of these headaches finding out which part is broken

[gusty kiln]

cheapest 32gb 6000 kit is $326 at microcenter

[fair gull]

half the cost of a ps5

lol

[gusty kiln]

6000 CL36

[sullen bear]

My ram is 2x the price of a ps5

[gusty kiln]

CL30 is 370 lol

[fair gull]

do you want a ram kit or an entire console with controller

your choice

[gusty kiln]

I bought my 32GB of DDR4 Samsung B-Die for $99 a year ago

[fair gull]

do you want a top of the line GPU ORRRR do you want a console, controller, nice TV and a vacation

your choice

[gusty kiln]

amazing deal in hindsight as even DDR4 prices are going up

[fair gull]

i bought 32gb ddr4 last year as well for my gf for i think 60eur or smth

[sullen bear]

5080 or 64gb ram

[gusty kiln]

for now

[sullen bear]

[gusty kiln]

5080 about to be 2 grand

[steady sail]

5080 with 32gb vram mod

[fair gull]

pc gaming being expensive isnt new but it being basically not obtainable in the future if you want top spec is new

[sullen bear]

4k

[sullen bear]

Worst part is that games require to spec now too which is idiotic

[gusty kiln]

used market is still viable except for ram

[fair gull]

pls dont use that word at the end thanks

[fair gull]

idk with gpus

[gusty kiln]

lets check jawa

[sullen bear]

Its why i stayed 1440p with my 5090, until they release 5k 1440p

[fair gull]

given the gpu repais i watch a lot of them have invisible cracks near the socket connector and its scary to think one can buy a gpu that seems fine but just breaks in a year

[sullen bear]

You mean the 5090 weight cracks?

[fair gull]

this happens on gpus since ages

not just 5090

like 20seires, 30series, 40series also had it

[sullen bear]

Yeah just heard more about it for the 5090 lately cuz its a 2.5k gpu haha ontop of the connector burning down

But i do have my sag bracket thingy

[gusty kiln]

is a 6700XT for 265 a good deal?

[fair gull]

yeah i got a gpu brace years and years ago when i saw gpu repair videos about these issues

[gusty kiln]

dunno if that is better or worse than a new 9060XT 16GB

oh wait those are 399

[fair gull]

arent those like a grand new

[gusty kiln]

not the 6700xt

[sullen bear]

Thats the 6800xt+ iirc

[fair gull]

https://www.kievitcomputerservice.nl/powercolor-red-devil-radeon-rx-6700xt-12gb-gddr6-vram-videokaart-gpu-amd

1300

[gusty kiln]

WTF

that's like eol supply pricing

[fair gull]

most listings i can find are around a grand

could be eol supply prices yeah

[sullen bear]

AMD RX 6700 XT price is $959 on Amazon currently. Used price is around $245 on ebay. The release price (MSRP) in US was $479 at launch.

[gusty kiln]

original msrp was like 400-500

[sullen bear]

Check 5(x)00x3d prices

[gusty kiln]

6700xt is a reasonable 1080p-1440p gpu

[sullen bear]

If u want a jumpscare

[gusty kiln]

if you aren't chasing high end

[fair gull]

ik i did for my little brother a few days ago

[sullen bear]

Only issue is that amd wanted to drop support on them

[fair gull]

almost fell out my sandals

[gusty kiln]

yeah my 5800X3D is basically MSRP pricing again lol

[sullen bear]

My gf bought a 5700x3d for 200$, we got an offer for 370$ a few days ago

[gusty kiln]

5800X3D is going to be relavent for a decade

[sullen bear]

Great cpu

But i did upgrade her to 7800x3d and ddr5

Because i bought some ram before the price increases because we got told 2 months in advance it would go up haha

[pastel galleon]

it leads up to this moment in time

[gusty kiln]

nice, specs?

[steady sail]

My 58x3d and 9070 gonna stay with me for a few more years

[pastel galleon]

• Ryzen AI 7 350
• Radeon RX 7700S
• 2x16GB DDR5-5600 (before price increase)

[gusty kiln]

nice

[pastel galleon]

my friends wanted me to get a laptop

[gusty kiln]

ram is a lil slow, but I guess you have a dgpu so it's fine

[pastel galleon]

but i always hated them for not being very servicable or upgradable

[sullen bear]

Framework seems perfect yea

[pastel galleon]

fr

[sullen bear]

Glad they are getting supported because it opens up the market so much

[pastel galleon]

I don't play AAA games much

[gusty kiln]

I like that you can convert the motherboard to a stand alone pc when yit is outdated

[pastel galleon]

even so I'm putting them on low-med settings with FSR

[gusty kiln]

would be a great efficient server head

[sullen bear]

Fr?

[gusty kiln]

yeah

[sullen bear]

Thats crazy good

Makes me want to buy one even though i dont need it hahaha

[pastel galleon]

I play mostly single core CPU games like GD and Ultrakill

[sullen bear]

Gd?

Geo dash?

[pastel galleon]

Yes

Geometry Dash

One of the main reasons I got into Wooting boards

besides the amazing community/support and RND first approach mentality they have

but yeah, I'll have to get this bad boy assembled

I'll load CachyOS onto it

so I can finally have an excuse to start learning Linux and eventually ditch windows

[steady sail]

If the next Windows is gonna be more AI heavy its time for surely

[wheat plume]

MPV best 💜
I use it for everything
Even summoning my YouTube Music playlist from the void

I have a keyboard shortcut on my desktop that I can press and within a few seconds, my playlist starts to play on shuffle mode

[pale sigil]

I barely game lol

[reef patrol]

How the fuck is a fan using more power than your server.

[thick elk]

I don't want to see the usage statistics of my whole setup.

scary thought

display's alone

[pale sigil]

tbf im the same, i just monitor my desktop

[thick elk]

4 of them though must add up even at lower brightness, lights constantly on.

[pale sigil]

100w fan during winter

the smaller one is like 60w?

[thick elk]

I think most people don't use them constantly

[pale sigil]

correct

they were used a lot during the summer, pretty muvh always on lol

[reef patrol]

100W fan... so a HEATER?

[pale sigil]

now that its colder the big one was packed p

[thick elk]

server pulling 20w 24/7 would be expected to be more

[pale sigil]

18" floor an

[thick elk]

20w just a guess maybe more.

[frozen ingot]

don't you have heating in your building?

[pale sigil]

These fans are for cooling not heating

[frozen ingot]

100w is quite a lot for a fan

most floor fans are like half that here

[pale sigil]

I wish I could get my server cost down tbh

But I've done everything I can and a lot is being used on it

[reef patrol]

Get seedbox. Turn on NAS once a month for longterm storage.

[pale sigil]

Multiple VMs, a game panel, 22 docker containers and my data storage.

[pale sigil]

Doesn't really achieve what I want though, also multiple users use my server.

I don't wanna spend £600+ on a NAS

[reef patrol]

If more people use it, they help pay for it.

I built my nas from parts over time. It still uses a 2200G

[magic minnow]

Got my OnePlus

[frozen ingot]

new rectangle

I miss 00s phones

when each new phone you got had a completely different design

[slender harbor]

I snagged a bunch of 4 TB Reds from the company to complete my NAS

saves at least $500 just in storage alone, ez

[magic minnow]

Why doesn't android have a streamlined version of taking a screenshot being able to copy it and it just deletes itself like iOS?

[leaden kiln]

that would be way too convenient

[magic minnow]

So dumb honestly

[wheat plume]

I just heard the most stupid Steam Machine theory

Apparently many people think that Valve will sell a barebones version of the Machine without RAM or SSDs due to the RAM shortage

The ENTIRE POINT OF THE MACHINE is that is runs SteamOS....
If you need to supply your own SSD, RAM and OS, people are just gonna install Windows onto it which defeats the whole purpose of it being a console-like device

[gusty kiln]

maybe it comes with a steamOS installation USB

[nimble arch]

Nah, that's just pricing cope.

[frozen ingot]

it better ship with half-life 3

[nimble arch]

It'll be $1000 USD and dead on arrival

[frozen ingot]

more important than ram

[nimble arch]

It's cooked

[ashen spindle]

idk not the most stupid idea, offer it without ram for people that have it

its just normal ram they use

I dont understand the notion of using your own ram means people install windows????

that makes no sense

[gusty kiln]

lol ddr5 sodimm is actually a lil more expensive than ddr5 dimm

[frozen ingot]

isn't a big part of the appeal to be as plug and play as possible for a "pc" though

[ashen spindle]

yeah so it would make sense just offering both

with ram for people who have no plan to touch it and without ram for people who want to

thats not adding a lot to the shipping overhead

[wheat plume]

the supplying your own SSD part not the ram

but usually barebones systems dont come with ram or ssd as a bundle

[wheat plume]

def not 1000

[nimble arch]

I don't see why they'd ship the system without it working out of the box.

[wheat plume]

They wont, not at all

[nimble arch]

It'll just have a really shit price.

[wheat plume]

its meant to be a plug and play computer

[tribal dirge]

oooof

[wheat plume]

If the Machine is 1000, then the Frame will be even more costly cause thats got the whole VR shit too

[tribal dirge]

how about lpcamm 2 RAM?

[wheat plume]

People are saying the Machine is less powerful than the PS5??

[magic minnow]

Gamer mode

[tribal dirge]

technically steam machine is less powerful than PS5 when it comes to GPU compute

[frozen ingot]

people say a lot of things

[tribal dirge]

CPU is likely to be on par with PS5 Pro

[wheat plume]

a lot of people are saying its dead on arrival cause it cant play most online games

[tribal dirge]

and they're right, because they use anti-cheats that dont play nice on linux

[nimble arch]

PS5 Pro is the same CPU as the base PS5.

[wheat plume]

yeah cause the devs dont want to port it to linux

[nimble arch]

Sony's mid-gen refreshes have only been GPU bumps, there's not even more RAM.

[frozen ingot]

online pvp is overrated af anyway

[tribal dirge]

base PS5 has less ram though

[nimble arch]

Nah, they're both 16GB.

[tribal dirge]

but PS5 Pro has comparable memory capacity to Steam Machine

[frozen ingot]

its mostly sweats and cheaters these days

[wheat plume]

true

[nimble arch]

It's literally just a larger and newer GPU die for the PS5 Pro.

RDNA3 with some backported RDNA4 features plus Sony's custom ML hardware for PSSR/FSR4.

[tribal dirge]

PS5 can only access 11gb of that RAM whereas PS5 Pro can access 14gb of that RAM

[umbral heron]

Ye, people be saying tons of shite
Steam Deck was success and still doesn't support online multiplayer

[nimble arch]

Steam Deck isn't really that successful in the grand scheme of things, Switch 2 outsold the entire PC handheld market in it's opening weekend.

[umbral heron]

Different markets

[frozen ingot]

there are a lot of nintencucks out there

[umbral heron]

If we wanna look at the consoles PS5 still outsells Switch 2 consistently, a 5 year old console

[tribal dirge]

i've helped someone chip their Switch OLED and its hilarious how much they kneecap performance on these things

[tribal dirge]

because Playstation offers better online services and a better software experience.

[nimble arch]

PS5 doing bank because Rockstar will make gamers double/triple dip for GTA VI

[tribal dirge]

not surprising that people buy the better product

Xbox is still really bad

no reason to get a Switch other than for switch exclusives

[nimble arch]

PS5 Pro > Steam Machine in terms of performance though. Not even close.

[frozen ingot]

tbh people buy tons of garbage so I have no faith in peoples sense of what a good product is

[nimble arch]

Even the base PS5 is more powerful than the Steam Machine.

[tribal dirge]

when it comes to consoles though, PS5 and PS5 Pro are objectively the best you can get for a home console

[umbral heron]

I mean when it comes to online experience it's a very low point of comparison

[nimble arch]

PS5 Pro is incredible

I do enjoy mine

I'm looking forward to the FSR4 upgrade that's coming in 2026

That AMD and Sony partnership is cooking

[tribal dirge]

its still an important component of the product though,

[frozen ingot]

imagine paying for online play

[tribal dirge]

and its still something that Sony does better than everyone else

[umbral heron]

Of course
That's why it's baffling that Nintendo still doesn't do it properly
Or started just recently

[nimble arch]

Yeah, just get free PS+ Premium from a game industry contact.

[tribal dirge]

oh yeah sony gives out subscriptions like that, its really funny

[wheat plume]

X to doubt

[umbral heron]

We can thank, as usual, Microsoft for that
PS2 and PS3 had free multiplayer still
Pretty sure if not for Xbox it'd be like this to this day in Sony consoles

[nimble arch]

Honestly, I blame WoW for normalising paid online in the western market.

[tropic ferry]

the good old days

[nimble arch]

Blizzard had 10+ million paying subscribers in markets that otherwise had free online gaming on most platforms.

[frozen ingot]

well in that case they have actual servers they have to pay for

[nimble arch]

That absolutely helped normalise paid online.

[umbral heron]

Not sure until we see benchmarks
Base PS5 has exactly 6700XT chip in it
Most likely won't beat it, but it still will be a proper indie/medium-AAA machine

[frozen ingot]

a lot of online games was peer to peer still back then

or just not mmos

[wheat plume]

It will force devs to optimise for the Steam Machine though
Since many people wont be able to upgrade or build a new PC in 2026 due to RAM prices, a lot of people wont be able to play the new AAA games since they will demand even more powerful computers, and weve already seen the new Doom and Borderlands games make a fucking RTX 5090 struggle so its gonna get even worse next year when no one can upgrade or get a new PC

[tribal dirge]

not to mention, PS5 Pro is able to consume more power than Steam Machine

[nimble arch]

It will force devs to optimise for the Steam Machine though
lol, lmao even

[frozen ingot]

optimize

fat chance

[wheat plume]

Devs already optimise for Steam Deck quite often

[nimble arch]

80+ million PS5s have more leverage

PlayStation is too popular

As long as your PS5 version is good, any other platform doesn't need a working game at release.

[tribal dirge]

it doesnt help that you can kit out steam machine with different RAM configurations but with PS5 you only have to really optimize for PS5 and PS5 Pro, not like 10 different variations of Steam Machine configs.

[nimble arch]

There's clear evidence of this over the last 5+ years, even during the late PS4 days.

[umbral heron]

Betcha we won't see optimization as much
But there will be a ton more reliance on FSR/DLSS

[frozen ingot]

is that why ps titles on pc outsells the ones on ps

[umbral heron]

Nah, that's because they work really good on mid-tier PCs

[wheat plume]

Yes, a mid tier like Steam Machine

[frozen ingot]

point is ps players seemingly aren't as big cash cows as some make them out to be

[nimble arch]

I can assure you, they are.

Games like Helldivers 2 are an exception

[tribal dirge]

oh and now MFG

[nimble arch]

The average game will sell half, if not more, of it's copies on PlayStation.

[umbral heron]

Well, also that PC players get way better deals on games than console ones

[nimble arch]

There's a long trend of this since the PS4 days.

Sony won AAA gaming especially.

[tribal dirge]

cauz XeSS 3, and DLSS 4 support MFG

[frozen ingot]

not hard to win in a market where your main competitor gave up long ago

[umbral heron]

Make actual games that people want to play, which aren't just live service cash grabs and people buy them?

Let's conveniently ignore Concord here

[tribal dirge]

sports titles are also considerably more popular on console than PC like F1 25 and NBA 2k26

[frozen ingot]

helldivers 2 became the game sony wanted concord to be

a profitable live service

[nimble arch]

Some sports games still don't make it to PC

Looking at MLB The Show, for example.

[frozen ingot]

nobody cares about sports games on pc

[umbral heron]

But it's a child that Sony doesn't love
They want something new, and theirs

[tribal dirge]

yeah

[frozen ingot]

can you even play something like fifa on a mouse and kb

[frozen ingot]

idk they're pouring a lot of money into it

[nimble arch]

You could

[tribal dirge]

you can, the controls are actually pretty nice on PC

[nimble arch]

It had pretty nice keyboard and mouse controls actually

Although controllers are a thing, use one

[tribal dirge]

EA usually does a good job with controls (excep Battlefield for some reason)

[frozen ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-no-nope-nah-never-gif-16208499

[tropic ferry]

fifa is a gacha game

[tribal dirge]

BF6 controls are still really shite

[frozen ingot]

controllers are made of suck

fite me

[tribal dirge]

its nice not having to develop carpal tunnel

[frozen ingot]

idk man I've been using mouse and kb for close to 40 years and its yet to happen

[tribal dirge]

some people get it really bad

[frozen ingot]

meanwhile I get cramps from using a controller after like 10 minutes because most of them are too small

[umbral heron]

With that said using auto-aim with gamepad on PC is a dishonor on your whole family

[frozen ingot]

still blows me away how halo got so huge

despite the severe control handicap on console

[tribal dirge]

like, if you consistently work on a computer for long enough it can really fuck up your hands and muscles to the point where you would need PT to recover https://youtu.be/8zBO_Q8b9U8

[gusty kiln]

And now Halo is in the dumpster

[frozen ingot]

sounds like skill issue tbh

[frozen ingot]

revenge for ruining pc gaming in the 00s

[gusty kiln]

nah that's just microsoft natural incompetence

microsoft only real sucess in the past few years is Azure cloud and starting the AI shit

[nimble arch]

They've got, err, Windows 11

[umbral heron]

First Halo was amazing
It was Halo CE who popularized using right stick as camera on consoles
And enemy AI is still amazing, behavior is dependent on AI being in group or not, on rank of enemy, they can even flank you
Halo CE on Legendary changes a man

[gusty kiln]

I think they are re-remaking Halo CE

[frozen ingot]

halo was the harbinger of a billion garbage pc ports in the 00s

and awful game mechanics in fps

[umbral heron]

It's a remake of a remake (MCC) of re-release (Win 10 version) of remake (PC port) of Halo CE

[gusty kiln]

[frozen ingot]

fps games were one of the few genres where pc still dominated back then and then consoles came and enshittified that too

[nimble arch]

GTA-ass port lineage

[gusty kiln]

oh and it's on UE5

[frozen ingot]

am still traumatized from the GTA4 pc port

[umbral heron]

If you want to play first Halo currently it's best to play one from MCC with old textures turned on
New textures and models are not quite exact with hitboxes
Also they ruin the atmosphere and enemies, that were designed to be colorful and pop off, with new textures blend in horribly

[ashen spindle]

lmao nobody is going to optimize for a underpowered pc that just normal hardware and wont sell a ton

[frozen ingot]

that shit still barely runs decent on modern pc hardware

[ashen spindle]

even the steam deck "optimizations" are in most cases just presets

[bright briar]

the day they take down halo mcc ima cry

[ashen spindle]

and the deck will sell a lot more

[frozen ingot]

the bar of what's considered playable on steam deck seems pretty darn low too

[gusty kiln]

shame the HALO show is ass cheeks

Fallout is doing well in comparison

[nimble arch]

Some of the Steam Deck Verified games aren't even playable

[frozen ingot]

I might actually watch that

[gusty kiln]

pretty good show

solid 7.5/10

[frozen ingot]

from what I hear the overall vibe seems to be more like og games

[gusty kiln]

yeah

[frozen ingot]

then bethesda slop

[umbral heron]

I'll just say that offline modes of MCC games are protected only by Steamworks DRM

[gusty kiln]

a few scene where it's set up like it is a choice you would have had to make in the game

[nimble arch]

Protect deez nutz

[frozen ingot]

its interesting though how this is such an issue for some and not others, I've used pc for hours and hours daily going on for decades with no particularly good posture or ergonomic aids and nothing

they must have some serious compromises in how they interface with their pc, like sitting offset from the screen and having to bend or stretch their arms in some awkward way

[analog sinew]

maybe your descendent from politicans

[magic minnow]

Crazy how dogshit android is compared to iOS when it comes too little things

[nimble arch]

Very

[magic minnow]

I'm just not too happy with iOS 26

Idk if to return oneplus and just get iPhone 17 at this point

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, genetics also plays a huge factor into this

[nimble arch]

Yes

[frozen ingot]

I was pondering making a return to android again but nah