🔌│tech

[tribal dirge]

Tbh, as long as it roughly conforms to Harman OE it's fine lmao

It will be "good enough" to most people

Although some people think otherwise

And tbh I've been surprised myself

[umbral heron]

Most people don't really like reference target, they go more towards V-shaped squig, more bass, more trebles

[tribal dirge]

yeah, like PEQdb Ultra

even more bass, even more eargain, and a slight trebel bump

[tribal dirge]

oooo this is nice https://youtu.be/k3_wpjj4qDk

the current split between the 12VHPWR and the BTF connector is pretty even

helps reduce the load significantly if you split the power across the 2 connectors

[vagrant pagoda]

its a real neat way to have dual 12vhpwr

[tribal dirge]

yeah, the MSI lightning 5090 uses dual 12VHPWR as well

[vagrant pagoda]

i mean there were dual 12v 4090s

[tribal dirge]

really!? where!?

[vagrant pagoda]

atleast the hof

it might of only been the hof

[tribal dirge]

yeah, but iirc it was a china only model

they did make a global version with less power stages though iirc

it can go up to like 650W and not 1200W like the OC Lab Edition which was a China exclusive

[vagrant pagoda]

hof has never been a us profuct

you alwasy had to import to us/eu

[tribal dirge]

yeah but I remember there being a global version of it

[umbral heron]

They AI-fied Faker

[steady sail]

i want CalderAI

[vagrant pagoda]

i bet he got $$$ for it though

also good on saori for cashing in too

[magic minnow]

I choose the Demon King!

https://tenor.com/view/faker-cry-space-space-ship-outer-space-cry-gif-10187154

[vagrant pagoda]

thats Unkillable Demon King, bro didnt become the best for nothing XD

he is on a 3 year worlds streak

[magic minnow]

Has he said anything about retiring?

[vagrant pagoda]

retiring at the top, never

[magic minnow]

We need Wooting collab with faker

[balmy vector]

He would probably retire once he finally gets washed

But he has shown no signs of being washed yet

[vagrant pagoda]

i doubt wooting has the cash to out bid razer

[magic minnow]

Or once Faker Jr is born

[umbral heron]

I doubt that any agency would agree on exclusivity unless it's millions on top of millions
So... it still may be possible

[magic minnow]

[alpine patio]

he signed a long ass contract with t1

[vagrant pagoda]

he lives with his parents still XD

[alpine patio]

2029

[balmy vector]

Nah that’s if his child even wants to do lol

[magic minnow]

Imagine the child ends up wanting to play dota

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-drop-gif-1982649100088909979

[balmy vector]

Maybe his child will be a pro deadlock player

[vagrant pagoda]

also the best part about faker, is he dosent even have a ged

he said he will only do it once he retires XD

[alpine patio]

faker is both razer and steelseries right?

[balmy vector]

Hes got a Led though

[umbral heron]

Who could've blame them for wanting to play a better MOBA

[magic minnow]

Only good thing about Dota is this

[vagrant pagoda]

its razer currently

it was ss in like yeuars ago

[magic minnow]

https://dota2.fandom.com/wiki/Benevolent_Companion

[umbral heron]

Sounds like skill issue

[balmy vector]

https://tenor.com/view/deadlock-gif-14850109371401088086

[vagrant pagoda]

its only headsets for ss now

mouse and kb are razer

[alpine patio]

they make headsets?

damn

oh yea that artic nova thing

[vagrant pagoda]

also faker is big enough he has non gaming sponsors

merc and red bull

[pale sigil]

👀

[wheat plume]

KDE Linux wants to move from Arch base to a Fedora based.... which Im all for

[umbral heron]

Can't find it anywhere

[nimble arch]

Who do they want to base their software on a hat?

[wheat plume]

https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/459

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle

[umbral heron]

But... that's just all issues with packaging
For example

Being RPM-based, more weird drivers are available (they're often distributed by the vendor as .deb or .rpm packages)
You can just run single script and convert .deb to Arch .tar.gz, only metadata is different
But stable releases are a good thing for a small-ish team

[nimble arch]

This would all be solved if they could just standardise on one packaging format

[umbral heron]

Standardize
In Linux
It's a miracle that community as a whole mostly accepted systemd, and still there are some keyboard warriors who hate on that

[tribal dirge]

Linux much:

[unkempt lake]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-leaves-the-door-open-to-experimenta-fsr-redstone-support-on-rdna3

@umbral heron

[umbral heron]

They could say that few months ago

Gib AMD

For the hint MY ASS
Whole community is buzzing about it

[nimble arch]

PS5 Pro gets it first as the new PSSR. Then they’ll release it relatively quietly for desktop GPUs.

[sudden imp]

I finally noticed some burn in on my iPhone

It’s the little white area

It’s only slight and doesn’t effect color or anything

It’s just slightly saturated

Honestly I’m rather pleased since this phone is used soooo much. And that is rather very little burn in.

[unkempt lake]

i had some really bad burn in on my X

my clock area/battery indicator was burned in, the gesture bar at the bottom was burned in

Also had bluetooth/wifi burned in

[nimble arch]

My AirPods Pro 3 have been getting a real workout these last few weeks. My favourite tech purchase of 2025, just narrowly in front of the Switch 2.

[sudden imp]

I have air pod pro 2s and they’re still going very strong

[nimble arch]

Went Pro to Pro 3

Huge ANC improvements

[steady sail]

me with my standard AirPods 2's

[sudden imp]

I’m on the 14 pro I think 2 years now. The gesture bar is the only burn in and I only noticed it in very low light settings

[nimble arch]

Although they do sound better IMHO

[tribal dirge]

im still confused as to why they still havent given them native support

its so wierd

[nimble arch]

Semi-custom GPU design that’s effectively RDNA3.5. Sony needs to port it to their proprietary ML hardware.

[tribal dirge]

yeah, although by technicality it is built on RDNA 2

[lyric hatch]

In pretty happy with my OnePlus buds 4
Some solid buds for cheap

[tribal dirge]

but it uses RDNA 3 rasterizers and RDNA 4 RT cores

[unkempt lake]

I'm on a 14 pro (it was warranty replaced like 1.5 year in

[tribal dirge]

but it still uses RDNA 2 shader cores

[unkempt lake]

I dont think i have any on my replacement unit after 1.5 years @sudden imp

[lyric hatch]

Haven't had any burn in issues on my phones as of yet

[bright briar]

bapple phone

[bright briar]

wait till you upgrade

[nimble arch]

Don’t recall having any burn in on my older iPhones. My 16 Pro Max was purchased in November 2024, not old enough to potentially develop this problem.

[bright briar]

iirc 14 pro was the last good iphone

[sudden imp]

Oh nice

[nimble arch]

I disagree, the iPhone is still great.

[sudden imp]

The 17 base seems to be a very good value

[bright briar]

tbh all these current phones nowadays are meh

[sudden imp]

But that’s kinda what you want with a phone

Good value works well

[unkempt lake]

most phones are incremental and kinda boring

[bright briar]

yeah about time they upgraded their lower tier models

[unkempt lake]

It's normal tho... the fuck else do you want i na phone

[tribal dirge]

I mean, they only have one job, that is to do phone things. which many android phones tend to fail at doing surprisingly.

[lyric hatch]

Only appears good value because they crippled their base models for so long

[unkempt lake]

Only innovation i see being a thing is flippy flip

[bright briar]

you only see like real upgrades around like what every 5ish years

[sudden imp]

That’s a fair point

[nimble arch]

My hot take on phones is that boring is good. My phone isn’t just a little box to receive calls and send texts, it’s my contactless payments, cameras, and transport tickets all rolled into one device. Not to mention music playback, emails etc.

[unkempt lake]

I mean yeah most phones easily last 5-6years

[umbral heron]

Like USB-C

[tribal dirge]

yet they still sell insanely well every year despite them being built that way

[unkempt lake]

is it really an upgrade tho?

They both just... charge...

[bright briar]

being a long time iphone user the samsung s25 ultra is fresh of breath air. Yeah i wont lie theres some stuff i miss about apple but truly this s25 ultra feels like a good upgrade

[nimble arch]

Being able to buy a phone that you can reliably run into the ground over a 4-5 year lifespan is a fine. That’s what I’m looking for in a product.

[umbral heron]

Over micro-USB? Yes, it very much is

[tribal dirge]

my friend has an S25U and they say its the worst phone they've ever used LMAO

[unkempt lake]

Or i thought you meant over lightning

[bright briar]

forced onto them too

[nimble arch]

Apple deliver better products for long term life without having to root and/or custom ROM. I see no reason to buy anything else.

[unkempt lake]

To me as long as its a reversible connector i dont really care what it is

[bright briar]

i been having iphone since 3g

[nimble arch]

Especially when Android is starting to lock down.

[bright briar]

to each their own

[tribal dirge]

main reason being that it drops calls all the time.

[bright briar]

i dont get that one bit

seems like a service issue for him

[tribal dirge]

they were on the same provider on iPhone and they had no issues

[lyric hatch]

I bought a 512gb s25 ultra on release for less than a base model iPhone

[nimble arch]

Lightning is better as the port is easier to clean. Plus the port was smaller which would be a plus for these new folding phones.

[bright briar]

personally seems like a him problem because i never had that one bit

unless other people are having that issue but i havent heard such things

[lyric hatch]

Been very happy with my purchase

[sudden imp]

I agree on that the dumb thing was they used usb c on everything else

[tribal dirge]

maybe, but it seems hella annoying

[bright briar]

since like the lg chocolate slide

[bright briar]

it can be yeah

[unkempt lake]

I mean having 1 universal cable standard is cool but realistically i only charge my phone at night so... that cable doesn't really move so i dont really care

[nimble arch]

Carrier support makes a huge difference. Local infrastructure as well.

[bright briar]

very excitedd for u.i 8.5

wish i could test out the beta

[umbral heron]

Bought 200€ Samsung 3 years ago almost and I'm also happy with my purchase

[nimble arch]

Living outside of London and being on EE is a huge plus for me, it’s pretty much the UK’s best case scenario for the quality of the 4G/5G network.

It’s even better once I get into the city properly.

[bright briar]

to me i hate about iphone is the face id crap. Like after the phone unlocks you still have to swap up compared to s25 ultra it insta unlocks my phone and i dont need to swipe up to get to my home screen

[unkempt lake]

you guys get cell service?

[unkempt lake]

???

[nimble arch]

I actually get useful signal in stadiums

[bright briar]

forest talk

[bright briar]

uploading the gunner pics

[nimble arch]

The 4G/5G rollout on the tunnel sections of London Underground is going a little too slowly though.

[unkempt lake]

I get 1 bar, 2 if im lucky... or no signal and i'm on the best carrier for my area

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/declan-rice-free-kick-goal-arsenal-real-madrid-gif-2413383828037871957

[lyric hatch]

Korea hit different never dropped out of full 5g anywhere

[bright briar]

you issue since you live in the middle of the forest

[unkempt lake]

HUSH

[tribal dirge]

in my area there is pretty amazing 5G mid-band coverage and in a lot of areas mmWave coverage

[unkempt lake]

i'll say i've never used the satellite sos 911 feature but

I'm glad it exists

[bright briar]

why even pay for expensive phone plan atp

go get chatr or some shit

[umbral heron]

satellite

[bright briar]

you also never leave your house either

[nimble arch]

I’ve not tried the satellite feature but it’s available in the UK.

[bright briar]

live off imessage and wifi calls

[tribal dirge]

iMessage is so nice

because it just works

[nimble arch]

Not many people use iMessage here, it’s mostly WhatsApp.

[tribal dirge]

in the states everyone uses iMessage LMAO

[nimble arch]

Although a lot of my relatives have Samsung phones.

[unkempt lake]

They run off rogers which is ass here

[bright briar]

yeah but i mean i feel like imessage is falling off

so many other apps out there to text with

[unkempt lake]

cringe

[bright briar]

not like the early days when there was only phone texts and whatsapp

or bbm

[unkempt lake]

Why not just use... regular messages

[tribal dirge]

no, its actually growing YoY

[nimble arch]

iMessage is great if your social circle all live in the Apple ecosystem.

[unkempt lake]

I swear when i hear what's app i'm like

[nimble arch]

Group chats.

[umbral heron]

Signal

[unkempt lake]

WE CAN BE FRIENDS CALS

[nimble arch]

I stopped using Telegram a few years back. Kept getting too many spam group invites.

[bright briar]

but androids can now be included in imessage group with that new feature

[unkempt lake]

literally

RCS makes all those apps irrelevant

[tribal dirge]

true, esp since apple now supports it

[bright briar]

icl some features on apple is nice and i still miss it but not enough to go back to iphone

probably sticking with android for a long time

[nimble arch]

My most active WhatsApp group started out on Discord. All the boys I used to play WoW with.

Now we’re just normies that go outside.

[bright briar]

outside good

[lyric hatch]

Only person who still messages me on SMS is my grandma and work

[nimble arch]

Going to commit a war crime and sell my gaming PC

[tribal dirge]

my grandma uses WeChat LMAO

as well as all my other chinese relatives

[bright briar]

do it

internet is bad

[tribal dirge]

DOIT

[bright briar]

social media all ai brain rot

[tribal dirge]

RAM PRICES ARE INSANE NOW

[unkempt lake]

https://tenor.com/view/social-credit-credit-social-уважение-плюс-уважение-gif-1626328442317885176

[nimble arch]

Me in the Wooting Discord and talking about going outside

[tribal dirge]

lol

at least its funny to joke about that since it doesnt actually exist

[umbral heron]

It's after 8, no outside

[nimble arch]

Selling my gaming PC doubles as my midlife crisis. I am 30 this year, need to do something stupid and get into an extreme winter sport or something equally reckless.

[lyric hatch]

I went outside took photos of birds 🐦

[tribal dirge]

AVIANS

[nimble arch]

Evening walks are nice though.

[lyric hatch]

Good time to get mugged in the UK

[nimble arch]

Not really.

At least not where I live.

[umbral heron]

13 more years to midlife crisis

[nimble arch]

No, they start at 30.

I’m going to buy a sports car and crash it at the ring.

[lyric hatch]

I'll be doing well if I make it to 85

[nimble arch]

At least I’ll make the YouTube compilations.

[nimble arch]

I’ll have a season ticket in about five more years. I’ve been on the waiting list for a decade already.

[bright briar]

jesus

long ass wait but worth it 😭

[fair gull]

@umbral heron you wanna hear smth embarassing i just noticed?

[nimble arch]

Caps is probably in bed 🧓

This is a boomer server now

[frozen ingot]

you're pretty damn well off if you can afford a sports car in your 30s these days

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-scrooge-mc-duck-love-in-love-duck-tales-gif-13930445

[lyric hatch]

It's alright I take the graveyard shift

[bright briar]

do tell

https://tenor.com/view/parks-and-rec-april-ludgate-sips-tea-tea-tea-time-gif-21816989

[unkempt lake]

@nimble arch the tomtoc switch 2 cases are water resistant for real

i just accidentally tested it

Spilled an energy drink all over and none got in

[nimble arch]

Mine seldom leaves the dock these days. Never goes outside the house.

[fair gull]

just realized that after running my server (and same config) for a good 8years now... i never set the default firewall INPUT rule to DROP and had it on ACCEPT so all these years thinking i was a god at sysadmin and always configured ports right was... a ruse

[nimble arch]

I could probably find an old MX5 fairly cheap.

[unkempt lake]

well it survives the dashi monster challenge

[frozen ingot]

sadly affordable used mx5s are getting rare

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/no-no-gif-17511868351874922325

[unkempt lake]

my dad's neighbour is old af and was selling his for dirt cheap

[frozen ingot]

kinda been wanting one for a long time too

[unkempt lake]

but im happy with my car and my truck so

[nimble arch]

I sold my car a few days ago. To quote that one British TV show, I’m now a bus wanker

[frozen ingot]

but if I get another car after this one I'll probably get some old volvo or merc diesel, overengineered and lasts forever

[spiral island]

iptables or one of its successors? Also, happens to the best of us 😣

[nimble arch]

I want an EV

[frozen ingot]

I don't want a new car

which basically rules out EVs

[halcyon moss]

It does?

[fair gull]

iptables but the nftables edition

[frozen ingot]

they only really got gud in the past decade or so

[fair gull]

so technically just iptables format but it runs in nft

[spiral island]

Oh that's nice

For us olds

[fair gull]

i actually just figured out its nftables today

cause i assumed its iptables lol

[nimble arch]

I’m a huge fan of the new buses my provider has gotten. Fully electric, comfortable faux leather seats, and full climate control. Ticket prices are capped at £3.

[frozen ingot]

we've had electric buses here for like a decade

they got those overhead charging stations at some bus stops

[nimble arch]

We’ve had hybrids for a decade but now they’re starting to get fully electric rolling stock.

The train service I use for getting into London has replaced half its rolling stock in the last few years.

[fair gull]

another funny one was that for some reason 8years ago i did rules like -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 12345 -j ACCEPT

oh and -A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 12345 -j ACCEPT

very multiport

[nimble arch]

Two conversations in the tech channel and only one is pure tech, the other is transport.

Wooting Discord moment

[frozen ingot]

took them a while to work out the range, you'd see the ev buses stopped broken down in various places running out of juice too soon

[fair gull]

well technically software

[spiral island]

Probably were running some listening sw on that port?

[fair gull]

example port

im too embarassed to tell you which port it was

[frozen ingot]

port 42069

[fair gull]

😮 how did you know

[nimble arch]

They’re mostly being used for short loops to-and-from the town centre. Although sometimes they’ll run them between towns.

[fair gull]

only thing i wish iptables had was tcp/udp mixed protocol so i dont have to duplicate rules

[frozen ingot]

yeah here its just inner city buses so far afaik

we've also had ev garbage trucks and delivery vehicles for ages

[nimble arch]

The contactless payments are a little janky though. Supports the express transit feature of Apple Pay at least.

Although I think that’s why they’ve capped some ticket prices really low while they work out the quirks.

Seems like they’re going cashless soon.

Tax frauds in shambles

[frozen ingot]

wonder if you can put charging prongs on the roof of your car and charge your car for free on those

[nimble arch]

There's no chargers at bus stops here, at least not yet, just at the bus depot.

Although one of the fully electric bus depots is right next to the town centre bus station.

[frozen ingot]

they're usually at end stops here

[ashen spindle]

its more a rdna1 base on both consoles with custom changes that are similar to rdna2 and rdna4 rt for ps5pro, I dont think theres rdna3 ip in it at all

[tribal dirge]

I see

So RDNA 1 shader cores RDNA 4 RT cores and then what is RDNA 2 being used for?

[ashen spindle]

if you want full details iirc in the linux kernel the SoC is listed as viola, oberon is the base and that would be the best way to find info without paying like techinsight

well rdna2 is to a big part just beefed up rdna1

[tribal dirge]

I see

[ashen spindle]

and some dot product additions iirc

and the RT parts of course

so the base rt is rdna2 ip

its funny seeing how all the console fanboys were bashing each other because xbox is rdna2 and ps5 is only rdna1.x blah blah

[spiral island]

Ain't got nothing on blast processing®

[tribal dirge]

lmao

[lunar elm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193840159358976/1429172046046433390/IMG_7512.gif

[tribal dirge]

whoooops

[lunar elm]

amd was indeed selling ancient fossil silicone

[tribal dirge]

I mean, it is easier to make than say X3D CCDs

[ashen spindle]

I mean at the time it was the most up to date gfx ip thats not ancient

not like you could've put rdna3 or 4 into base ps5/xbox

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Idb_D4Tdu8

[tribal dirge]

I saw, it was pretty funny

[lunar elm]

I saw the first 2 minutes and thats all i needed to see

[vagrant pagoda]

i mean a 30 min roast of planatir's social media lead for saying they dont like having a camera shoved in thier face is amamzing

[reef patrol]

Funny how the other shoe fits.

[umbral heron]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1qab5rk/asus_xg27aqdmg_after_one_year_of_careful_use/

[reef patrol]

OLED not today I guess

[winter patrol]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1py87zt/gray_banding_in_my_tandem_oled_monitor/

[raw zephyr]

are these guys running 100% brightness at all times?

[crimson wigeon]

I babied this monitor. Barely ever played a game in HDR. Brightness limit always enabled. Auto shut down and screensavers active.

So sounds like the first one barely used it, or they lied

[reef patrol]

Another said they had to run at 100% to get the HDR to look anywhere decent.

[raw zephyr]

i have pg27aqdp for little over a year and its practically brand new and i dont baby it at all

cannot check the hours, but its close to 2.5k iirc

im guessing their monitor doesnt run any pixel cleaning?

[reef patrol]

Bad panels or bad tech? Hard to say for sure. I'm still quite fine with my VA UW at a price level that isn't insane.

[reef patrol]

It does according to the post

[raw zephyr]

hmm im guessing bad batch or something? nontheless, he will get it replaced by rma

[nimble arch]

I’m utterly baffled as to why this issue is still prevalent in OLED monitors from multiple brands using multiple panel techs. Not to mention higher prices and worse warranty terms than their TV counterparts. The 42” OLED TV from LG really is the best choice for an OLED monitor.

[umbral heron]

Make it 27" and we have a deal

[distant tapir]

Woled has worse grey performance

All the panels are flawed in their own way

[fair gull]

a video @reef patrol might like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYLtxdwYlw

[reef patrol]

I literally started watching it 10 seconds ago 😄

I never knew it was a cheaper version. Never seen one personally. It's all after I moved to PC personally.

[reef patrol]

I am enjoying this shitposting approach.

[umbral heron]

I want that shirt

https://store.theonion.com/products/i-just-love-corporations-t-shirt

[patent prism]

Yall remember this

[smoky parrot]

Oh hell yeah

I just modded my new 3ds XL the other day actually

So it now runs anything I throw at it

[patent prism]

W found this wile cleaning my room I also should have a psp and a ds lite somewhere

[smoky parrot]

I also have a psp

Probably one of my favourite handhelds

[patent prism]

True I loved it

[umbral heron]

"Remember" as if I didn't play on mine today morning when I was on the toilet

[patent prism]

Might need to search for it an play some games

[smoky parrot]

I struggled to find a charging cable for my psp though

[patent prism]

Haha valid

[smoky parrot]

It's a rare cable in europe

the long pin 5v, I mean

[patent prism]

Ohh hope mine is were the console itself is haha

[patent prism]

Yea yea

[smoky parrot]

I feel you, I do the same haha

I'm thinking of even selling my steam deck tbh

It rarely sees use with my psp and 3ds

[patent prism]

I wanted to get one but idk

[umbral heron]

I'll never sell my Deck
Or my Deck
Or my Deck

[patent prism]

I don’t rly see a reason for me to buy one bc when I play games it’s mostly on my pc i don’t travel or sm so that’s out of the question so yea it prolly would just sit am collect dust

But I still want one haha

[umbral heron]

Is for playing in bed

[patent prism]

When I am in bed I sleep or watch movies on my MacBook

[smoky parrot]

My babies

[patent prism]

the psp is so underrated it’s crazy ppl sleep on it

[smoky parrot]

It sucks unless modded tbf

I mostly play psx titles on it

3ds is for pokemon lol

[patent prism]

True but it depends I would say I enjoyed playing on mine stock

[smoky parrot]

I have a red regular ds somewhere

[umbral heron]

3DS is for New Style Boutique

[smoky parrot]

But where, hmm

I recently found the box of my once-worn DvA razer headset too

Should probably sell it to a collector

[patent prism]

Damn

Welp was nice seeing ppl still have / use these but imma go to sleep now

[smoky parrot]

Night night

I also still have a steam link hooked up to my tv heh

[nimble arch]

Already sold my Steam Deck OLED

I use the Switch 2 in bed now

Gotta get that high score in Suika Game Planet

[lunar elm]

Steam Deck
Deck of cards
House Deck

[umbral heron]

[smoky parrot]

Wowee

Why 3?

One for each room? :D

[umbral heron]

I got LCD, then I got OLED when it was released and then my brother got bored of his

[smoky parrot]

Tjis is poggies

[umbral heron]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/jen-hsun-needs-to-up-his-game-because-weve-run-the-numbers-and-amds-ces-keynote-hit-1-8-mentions-of-ai-per-minute-even-more-than-nvidia/

[distant tapir]

Seems like CES was a giant nothingburger for AMD, Nvidia and Intel. Only the display segment of CES was somewhat interesting to me

[umbral heron]

Welcome to Corporate Electronics Show

[smoky parrot]

Any recommendations on like a mechanical macropad?

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/ferrari-scuderia-ferrari-dnf-charles-leclerc-leclerc-gif-4715069197374161138

[nimble arch]

I enjoyed all the new TVs

Samsung making the art TV stuff available across their entire lineup is cool as The Frame is fucking terrible.

[ashen spindle]

Intels new Laptops seem to have massively increased battery time by virtue of a much stronger igpu so that’s not nothing

given that laptops are always a thing at ces I’d say that’s about as much as you can expect

Especially given that cpu and gpu generations are long past a year cycle

[umbral heron]

Genuinely looking forward to Ultra 3 desktops

[ashen spindle]

That’s ces 2027

[nimble arch]

Dell restoring the XPS brand is appreciated.

The new XPS 14 would be my go-to laptop if I wanted to ditch my MacBook.

[smoky parrot]

It arrriiiiiiivvvveeeddd

[sullen bear]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1356&v=gVQC0KyzucI&feature=youtu.be

Kinda insane

[distant tapir]

Kool

[vapid ruin]

nice

[smoky parrot]

Ignore the mess but the charger is SO cute

Yeah that's right, ol' trusty wooting cable to the rescue

[distant tapir]

I can't ignore the mess

[smoky parrot]

Please ignore it

I'm in the midst of modding keeb

...I need those sunglasses...yes... it's winter...

[reef patrol]

I know the feeling. I have two GPU coolers and a waterpump on my desk. Really need to sorten things out.

[lunar elm]

you reminded me that I have one sitting around

[smoky parrot]

Sounds pretty good too! Coming from moondrop chu v2

[lunar elm]

ive never tried TWS iems but I’d say its pretty good for what it is

[smoky parrot]

What is TWS? Sorry, am noob

[lunar elm]

I might put them into my laptop bag

true wireless

[smoky parrot]

Ah, okay

These have multi device so I just keep them in between pc and phone

[distant tapir]

Just a few years ago wireless earbuds that still had a wire connecting bud 1 to 2 were common. Hence the term true wireless

[lunar elm]

I probably should bring an audio device with my laptop lol

Its between the zero reds or the robins

prob gonna bring robins just for wireless

[smoky parrot]

Ah! I've only recently made the swap to IEM from headset

[smoky parrot]

I was getting annoyed wearing the headset

[distant tapir]

I kind of liked this format since it was a safety net

[distant tapir]

Lucky you if earbuds aren't more annoying

[smoky parrot]

Yeah, much less annoying for things like sweaty ears hehe

And hairstyle

[vapid ruin]

earbuds is nice, for outside use

[smoky parrot]

The moondrop app is real sleek too

[lunar elm]

i forgot theres a moondrop app

[raw zephyr]

isn't that a gacha game?

[smoky parrot]

I don't actually play the game, I just liked the branding of it

[raw zephyr]

I've tried so many IEMs, big or small and all of them are beyond annoying to use. Maybe a proper custom IEM would solve the issue, but honestly I'm just fine with my HD600

[raw zephyr]

Yeah, nothing for me 😅

[smoky parrot]

Totally fair!

I already had wired Moondrop Chu v2

[umbral heron]

Moondrop has a lot of collabs with mihoyo, both companies are Chinese

[smoky parrot]

So it was nice to stay familiar in my uograde

[raw zephyr]

Are they true wireless? Judging by the charging case

[smoky parrot]

Yes

[vapid ruin]

not to mention how impossible/annoying it is to repair for average folk.

[smoky parrot]

Moondrop is very into that anime aestethic :p

[umbral heron]

That's why TWS sucks
2~3 years and batteries die

[smoky parrot]

These are my wired ones (very budget)

[distant tapir]

If you have the HD600 there is almost nothing in the world to upgrade to beyond EQ so avoid earbuds if they are uncomfortable

[thick elk]

Personally use moondrop chu 2's with some tws ear hook adapter.
I really like how small they are in my small ears. and less bulk in the ear itself than a regular tws.
Wireless is just a lot more comfortable than wireless for iems especially exercising.

[vapid ruin]

applies to regular wired iem too I'm afraid.

[umbral heron]

Since when wired IEMs have batteries

[distant tapir]

My Kefine Delci stopped working after only 2 or 3 months

[vapid ruin]

I mean like, repairability wise, small thing suck.

[thick elk]

My setup chu2 + adapter + glue + kkz an01

[smoky parrot]

I just don't feel like lugging a dac to use wired IEMs on my phone

[raw zephyr]

These are the ones I've tried, I can only get 2 hours max before they get uncomfortable. I tried for months to get used to them, but nope.. not for me.

[smoky parrot]

I'm lucky with my earshape I suppose

I can wear them all day if needed

[vapid ruin]

I wear iem cause it's a nice way to block outside noise

if my place is quiet, I happily wear on ears/flathead as long as it's comfy

[thick elk]

For me wearing them is just for commute / exercise, no way it's an all day thing.

[distant tapir]

Probably not worth trying to get new ones

[umbral heron]

I got really soft and squimshy tips on my Aria 2s, as much as I don't like IEMs these ones work quite well

[raw zephyr]

I'm very happy with the Sony ANC headphones, WH1000 something, I can wear them all day long if I really want to

[smoky parrot]

Springtips?

Sorta sticky?

[umbral heron]

Some ones from local store, don't remember the name, will check once at home

[smoky parrot]

I find it really annoying to test eartips

[raw zephyr]

Oh I tried tip rolling, I have a whole case 😅

[smoky parrot]

Since you buy it and if they suck, they suck

[distant tapir]

I find those uncomfortable. Small warm and tight. Sounded bad too. At least the XM3 I had sounded bad

[raw zephyr]

Without EQ they sound bad indeed

I got the XM6

[thick elk]

Either way the TWS adapter route I personally recommend, wireless part is decoupled from the iem so if one fails the other can still be used.
Looks wise really not bad to have earhooks and comfort wise it's pretty good.

[umbral heron]

For outside I have my M50xs now, they have sort of retirement

[raw zephyr]

Anyone here using Zen Browser daily? Just switched to it recently and I've been enjoying it a bunch, looking for some secret tips 😅

[leaden kiln]

I have 2 pairs of samsung buds and airpods
I used to wear them all day at work

[leaden kiln]

I switched recently
Just dragged and dropped my profile over and have been using it like I used ff before

I don’t know any secrets though

[umbral heron]

I'm in process of switching from Firefox

[distant tapir]

I use Edge™

[umbral heron]

Edge 2? Quite nice, but I reckon a bit too weak for me
Lovense app and Intiface are quite cool though

[smoky parrot]

I use opera gx but it's so friggin bloated and obnoxious

[raw zephyr]

I used to use Edge for work stuff, syncing and all that..

[analog sinew]

to what?

[smoky parrot]

Zen Browser

[umbral heron]

To Zen

[analog sinew]

oh zen

[smoky parrot]

Silly question, feel free to disregard; do you play GW2 on NA?

[distant tapir]

New flavour of the month browser just dropped?

[umbral heron]

On EU - Blacktide foreva!

[smoky parrot]

Haha, I'm EU based playing on NA :p

[leaden kiln]

It’s been around for a bit, reskin of ff but some people switched after the ai announcement from mozilla

[umbral heron]

Still waiting for Ladybird or Servo
Finally something else than Chromium or Firefox

[fair gull]

yes cals

you have been enlightened

[raw zephyr]

That's going to take some time

[fair gull]

zen now and servo/ladybro later

[marsh glade]

In the future, everything is Chrome

[fair gull]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-squidward-tentacles-squidward-toons-cartoons-gif-14827440

[raw zephyr]

Mark knows

[umbral heron]

Servo is mostly usable on simpler websites now
Ladybird said they aim for 2026 alpha release

[distant tapir]

I play NA on Swtor despite being Yuropean. It was because the Europe servers were plagued with Germans and Frenchies speaking their own language flooding chat and killing conversations. NA is 99% English so much better

[fair gull]

no really?

north america? english?

gosh damn

[marsh glade]

The French speaking French? This cannot continue

[fair gull]

also makes sense the germans and french are the only ones playing dead mmos

always been like that

[umbral heron]

Metin2

[distant tapir]

But on a general Europe server. The game has a dedicated containment server for them even

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-escape-containment-breach-caption-bunny-containment-breach-gif-10732405861492792373

[raw zephyr]

Metin2 was mostly popular in Poland and Turkey right?

[distant tapir]

Frenchies speaking French has always been an annoying problem in online games. Like being matched up with ones that either do not know English or are too arrogant to speak it on CS:GO leading to little to no communication in a communication based game

[marsh glade]

It's not a skill issue, it's an attitude issue

[distant tapir]

I wish CS:GO had a way to make sure you don't get matched with peopl that don't know English. It should let you choose the language you want when matchmaking

[umbral heron]

Yup
But more people played on private server anyway
You had to invest a ton of grind or money on higher levels

[fair gull]

then you would never get a match with only russians, germans and french left playing it

[frozen ingot]

tbh most of central/south europe is shit at that

you see germans in game chat all the time too

[distant tapir]

Ruskies are obviously the worst at it, followed by Frenchies and lastly Germans

[frozen ingot]

I rarely see russians tbh

but I don't play csgo or war thunder so

[fair gull]

idk if i should be offended for being on the list of yours or if i should be proud its at the last spot

[distant tapir]

On Counter Strike they were in every single damn game I ever played

It is genuinely a major problem how often communication issues happen on CS:GO

I used to want a feature where you can block certain IP ranges

That way I could block getting matched with anyone from this and that country

[frozen ingot]

I don't get why people still obsess over online shooters

they're full of cheaters and sweats

[fair gull]

cause they think you get the P after you reach the top

[distant tapir]

I took the game fairly seriously when playing competitive matches

[frozen ingot]

I haven't seriously played online shooters since like 2010

[vapid ruin]

cause it's a nice way to play with your friend

[frozen ingot]

even then the cheating was getting out of hand

[frozen ingot]

I haven't met a single player of these games that isn't regularly raging over it

[distant tapir]

Well it wasn't as bad as TF2's bot problem

[distant tapir]

That's why I quit

[fair gull]

oh but the cs2 bot problem is better?

[frozen ingot]

these games are like abusive relationships

[vapid ruin]

i don't play online game much cause 70ms+ ping is not fun when you're used to game where reponse is near instant.

[fair gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHBtv42V6nE

[distant tapir]

When I played TF2 in 2018-ish half of the quick play matches had lobbies where 30-50% of the people were spinbotting aimbotting chat-spamming bots. Has CS:GO ever had anything this bad?

[fair gull]

its worse

they are actual bots

like automated programs playing the game

just like tf2 had

[distant tapir]

Is it some form of protest? I remember hearing the TF2 ones were because of the lack of updates and attention from Valve

[fair gull]

no one knows

speculations are its about drop farming

[distant tapir]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1356765177298817105/1411337180147617855/RDT_20250827_0914445238195227646026964.gif

[smoky parrot]

Okay, Zen is clean af

Liking it

[distant tapir]

Zen?

[magic minnow]

Zen Browser

[smoky parrot]

The browser we talked about roughly 15 min ago

[umbral heron]

So... Arc Browser just died?

Ah, they've been bought by Atlassian, RIP

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/arc-raiders-run-away-running-away-gif-15449168298771655974

[umbral heron]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microsoft-to-microslop/

[distant tapir]

That would be funny if Mozilla were a likeable company

[frozen ingot]

Slopya Nutella

[analog sinew]

dont drag my tasty breakfast into this

[magic minnow]

Milka Sandwich

[frozen ingot]

don't diabeetus for breakfast

[smoky parrot]

Anyone running spicetify (with a valid premium account)

[tacit fable]

yes bro which ones do you have I used to use the xm4s and they were amazing to wear

only bad thing is iphones limit the capabilities since they dont support LDAC

[sullen bear]

Theres also a gamer version, sony inzone 2 h9

[tacit fable]

yeah those ive heard are pretty good

[distant tapir]

That's so ugly...

[tacit fable]

that would be terrible

[vapid ruin]

lmao, i'll die listening on this

[tacit fable]

I love sony but their sound profile on those arent it

[vapid ruin]

holy fuck, ($350 ish)

[umbral heron]

[distant tapir]

You don't like the roller-coaster bass, large drop in mids followed by a clunky and very channel-imbalanced upper mids and treble?

[umbral heron]

Shoooo with your squiglies to your containment zone #🌐│pc_gear

[vapid ruin]

If the tune is that bad, I might as well use $20 cheap buds

[thick elk]

Lovely base response in the mudu region and channel imballance. wonkey frequency response I can see, but yikes especially for the price.

[nimble arch]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy875j28k0o

[steady sail]

[tribal dirge]

Ohno https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/

I did not expect this from Apple or Google

[pale sigil]

Ok that's kinda nuts

[sullen bear]

Thats crazy yea

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, looks like Apple gave up on developing their own LLM

[sullen bear]

It was turbo garbage tbf

Apple ai is one of the few i didnt bother using anymore

[tribal dirge]

It is

Only benefit being that it runs completely locally

Because it's really not that big and was probably aggressively distilled

[lyric hatch]

Not surprising been known they were basically competing with Google to see who could make the best model, and unsurprisingly Google won
https://archive.ph/TCBYn

[tribal dirge]

I think google was more worried about OpenAI GPT-5 than anything else

LMAO

Google is recently making some really good models however

iirc I think Gemini 3 Pro is the largest out of all the other models in terms of context size and parameter count

[magic minnow]

This has been known though

Grok best model

[tribal dirge]

its only now that it became official

[magic minnow]

I thought they had said they’d be paying like 1 billion 2 months ago

[tribal dirge]

havent seen any 1st party articles adressing such an investment

[magic minnow]

[tribal dirge]

my guy that is a secondary source

[magic minnow]

They predicted the future then

[tribal dirge]

sure

but at the time none of it was ever confirmed until now

[magic minnow]

I’m just looking forward to the Ai being capable of something on iOS

[tribal dirge]

fair LMAO

would love to see a capable local model that can run without any internet connection

[nimble arch]

I look forward to the models actually running on my device

[tribal dirge]

apple puts pretty powerful NPUs in their SOCs

[vapid ruin]

fr. recently tested gpt5.1 vs claude opus 4.5 for roleplaying. Claude wins for its instruction following, writing, and willingness. So openAI is kinda washed lmao.

[tribal dirge]

apple already does this, but their local models are pretty bad

[vapid ruin]

they tried, but yeah, with the current tech, they can't really do a smol model that fits on the Iphone that's good

[tribal dirge]

they totally could, just not with whatever they were making in house LMAO

also their AI LLM department was a giant mess from the beginning

[ashen spindle]

they did the smart thing of not spending billions on it

no need to compete or be the best for their usecase

[tribal dirge]

yeah

[magic minnow]

I wonder if it’ll run on their older phones once the Google ai thing is ready for them

[astral haven]

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/
Ask and you shall receive I guess

[nimble arch]

That was already posted here

[tribal dirge]

I posted that a bit ago LMAO

[astral haven]

Wait what did you mean by this then?

[ashen spindle]

we knew about it for a while but it wasnt official is what he meant

till now neither apple nor google confirmed it

[astral haven]

Ah
Havent > hadn't until today

[ashen spindle]

well they still havent mentioned the details of the deal I think

[tribal dirge]

yeah no details just yet, they just confirmed the existence of the deal

[astral haven]

What more first party info do you want?
Bloomberg is reporting stuff they will never publicly admit like param count

[ashen spindle]

well we will get an earningsreport that will somewhat show deals

[nimble arch]

Elon is mad that Apple won't use Grok for anything

[astral haven]

Wonder why

[umbral heron]

Manchild billionaire mad that other companies won't use his CSAM generator

[gusty kiln]

lmao letting a control freak have input on a control freak company

[tribal dirge]

grok 4.1's performance severely lags behind the likes of Gemini 3 and even GPT-5

it would be very stupid of apple to pick grok when there are clearly better performing models out there LMAO

[crimson wigeon]

But it's funny and undresses people!

[nimble arch]

CSAM moment 😔

[ashen spindle]

idk if that is a scam or someone wanting to play fortnite

[ashen spindle]

performance is irrelevant, alienating over half of your users by using a llm tuned to be racist lie etc. is the reason lol

[spiral island]

Worst case it's both

[tribal dirge]

I do suspect foul play from their AI but I never found any hard evidence to prove it other than giving the model prompts to accentuate certain types of responses.

[ashen spindle]

oh lmfao there is so many cases

like when it said elon would be a better option than lebron for a sports pick and people did that and it basically put elon infront of literally any person for anything

[umbral heron]

He would definitely dominate piss-drinking contests

[tribal dirge]

its more of the fact that do they have some sort of reward parameter that accentuates these responses

[umbral heron]

Yeah, Musk's ego

[tribal dirge]

well no, I want to see the actual backend to confirm or deny that its the actual intention. otherwise its just guessing.

[umbral heron]

bruh

BRUH

I just gave you one

[tribal dirge]

im not saying I dont suspect foul play, I do suspect foul play

but I cant 100% say foul play yet

[ashen spindle]

bruh it made up a white genocide the day trump went to try and get repayments for that when he was still buddy with him

[umbral heron]

What's funny that whenever engineers do adjust weights to praise Elon more, MechaHitler eventually self-adjusts itself to make fun of him anyway

[tribal dirge]

I would imagine this was reproducable correct?

because if it is that would be a very bad look

[rough osprey]

google really best option

[ashen spindle]

of course it went on for like 3 days

[tribal dirge]

thats pretty funny

[tribal dirge]

yeah their model reward system on their backend has always been notoriously bad

[ashen spindle]

its not a reward system its manual tuning

thats the reason its always only doing this shit in one direction

[tribal dirge]

manual tuning is even worse LMAO

[ashen spindle]

theres a reason it only suddenly gets changes when its either really bad or something elon doesnt like, for example when they find a new way to include the original messages that it should do xyz and not talk bad about elon etc.

[tribal dirge]

lmao

[umbral heron]

What's sad is that if not for egomaniacal nature of Elon, Grok would be a really good LLM

[tribal dirge]

and also if it was not trained on twitter data

[lofty nimbus]

Does Lekker Tikken work on the normal wooting 60he?

[fair gull]

@umbral heron I found out something I should have anticipated but had to laugh at anyway with how stupid it is.

they have some real tight security on blocking people from installing windows on refs partitions

[tribal dirge]

LMAOOOO

[umbral heron]

[crimson wigeon]

Bet the commandline install method would just go through also, the restriction is really just to pinch out more money from people, or thy really just don't want to replace NTFS anytime soon

[reef patrol]

I am too stupid to understand the significance.

[fair gull]

funnily enough they have insiders builds that let you install on refs without cmd

[fair gull]

refs is basically an actual good filesystem concept wise unlike ntfs

[reef patrol]

I see...and it is normally not an option to install to using the GUI? Gotta diskpart while it thinks it's still not formatted?

[crimson wigeon]

Normal consumer editions probably just laugh at you if you try with the GUI yeah

[fair gull]

pro and workstation also do

the only way to install it directly onto refs currently (outside the mentioned insiders build) is by just reformatting the drive as shown

[reef patrol]

Interesting.

[fair gull]

the main appeal would be that it has recoverable states for corrupted volumes and error correction btw

im actually unsure why refs was not selectable as a windows drive filesystem all this time

and a nice one for bigger deploys of windows machines is refs can do 35PB in 1 partition where ntfs is like 250TB or some such

[spiral island]

It's decades newer than ntfs

[fair gull]

true true

i forgot the windows installer is basically the same since win7

[wheat plume]

O.o Geforce Now on Linux yet they cant deliver us decent GPU drivers

[umbral heron]

Get a GeForce NOW subscription
Pay more if you play more than 100h per month

[fair gull]

cause it doesnt need drivers

[umbral heron]

Soon you won't need drivers
Everything will be in cloud, and you'll have to pay subscriptions

[ashen spindle]

boy will people be surprised when nvidia is soon the best option on linux

[wheat plume]

They really wont be ever unless they make native drivers like Intel and AMD that devs can edit the code and whatnot to make them integrate better

Wayland development is years behind schedual due to Nvidia
Every feature they add to Wayland, there is a corresponding months of dev time trying to implement a janky workaround for Nvidia drivers

[ashen spindle]

native drivers.. do you think they emulate their windows drivers on linux?

[wheat plume]

native as in built into the kernel itself like the others

[ashen spindle]

so you mean open source

[umbral heron]

nvidia-open already is
Just userspace drivers kinda suck on Wayland

[wheat plume]

nvidia-open is official??

[umbral heron]

https://tenor.com/view/blink-blinking-what-confused-blacklist-gif-13641169

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

[wheat plume]

oo

yeh ok I knew the kmods are open now but not the driver itself

[ashen spindle]

the main issue is that vulkan is missing extensions to make the dx->vk pipeline not lose like 20% on newer games, native vulkan games already perform as well on linux as on windows usually

once that is fixed the issue of nvidia just dropping performance is more or less gone

[umbral heron]

At least it's not like on pre-20-series where you could lose up to 50% in extreme cases

[ashen spindle]

yea well amd made the open source driver the official one and since then had about 0 code lines changed so the moment the vulkan descriptors all get added to translation layers theres probably no reason to recommend amd over nvidia on linux anymore

[umbral heron]

Ray-tracing pipeline from proprietary drivers is being implemented in Mesa 26, bringing difference between Windows up to like 10%
And AMF being a separate package is cool
That's... that's about it I guess

Also I love how AMF let's you to transcode to yuv420p but not yuv420p10le, amazing

[nimble arch]

Intel CPUs making a comeback and NVIDIA Linux drivers being almost fixed means the Intel + NVIDIA glory days are almost upon us once more.

[umbral heron]

Boy, AMD fell off even harder since AI race started huh

[ashen spindle]

amd isnt falling off

its just radeon, as usual

[umbral heron]

I guess

[tribal dirge]

We will see once nova lake comes out, Intel is not safe just yet

[ashen spindle]

I mean so far intel isnt making a cpu comeback anywhere lol

[umbral heron]

Panther Lake looks really good though

[ashen spindle]

thats not a new cpu though

thats literally lioncove aka arrow lake moved to 18A

with a clock regression

I think its 5.5 -> 5.1Ghz

[umbral heron]

Maybe that's only because of a move to 1.8, but still looking better than whatever used to be

[ashen spindle]

I mean thats the second generation now that was supposed to be on LGA1851 and ended up bad enough it only got mobile skus

same with meteor lake

[umbral heron]

no more questions your honor

[ashen spindle]

not looking better on server either

CWF the 288chip supposed to compete with zen5 is pushed from Q1 to H1

so.. its coming a month before zen6

[nimble arch]

It’s ok to buy Intel and NVIDIA

[tribal dirge]

Rip

Bad yield rates or assembly issues?

[ashen spindle]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

the original delay was packaging skill issue according to their cfo at the time

no clue what it is now

and the next gen xeons are also cancelled

[tribal dirge]

Probably more packaging skill issues lmao

[tribal dirge]

The entire line!?

[ashen spindle]

which isnt as horrible as it first sounds because they can pull in the product after

but that still leaves amd another 1.x years with zen6 and not a new competitor

[ashen spindle]

diamond rapids aka Xeon7 or whatever is canned, aside form a few skus for existing contracts basically

[umbral heron]

Imma buy from whatever company goes the least into AI
Intel GPU looking quite good nowadays too

[ashen spindle]

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-cancels-its-mainstream-next-gen-xeon-server-processors/ it was known since november

[tribal dirge]

So basically all the 8 channel SKUs are axed?

[ashen spindle]

from that generation yes

[tribal dirge]

Jeez

[ashen spindle]

the gen after apparently is pulled in 2 quarters so its not the worst but still bleak if that gen isnt amazing

[umbral heron]

ThinkCentre with 4300GE/5300GE with smashed in A310 would be a nice Jellyfin box, wouldn't it?

Oh wait, I have one with i5-4590T, it'll do

[nimble arch]

They’re all going to do some kind of AI

[ashen spindle]

lol they added 4x speed for premium

[pale sigil]

.....

I miss yt premium

My videos takes forever to start without it and I miss the play next in queue feature on my tablet.

[rough patrol]

Its the only streaming service i pay for

[pale sigil]

I can't justify it, I had yt family for 5 years in Egypt lol

[tribal dirge]

cant you just use a chrome extension to do that without premium?

plus you can change it in incriments of 0.01x

[pale sigil]

I used my friend's Egypt card (he trusts me) and just added him to the family XD

I would just send him the entire year in one go XD

[ashen spindle]

yeah

[tribal dirge]

Lmaooooo

[novel goblet]

If you’re on pc I use ublock origin extension for 0 ads and for tablet think u can still get ublock but you’d have to use the website instead of the app

[lunar elm]

Even with this GN videos are still too long

[tribal dirge]

just use an extension and speed it up by 100x

[empty wren]

Source: VideoCardz.com
https://search.app/NWEn6

[ashen spindle]

if gn is living that rent free in your head sure 4x isnt fast enough

[dreamy cipher]

Any good monitor recommendations? 240hz 1440p Oled doesn’t matter

[bright briar]

one with good warranty and customer service

[lunar elm]

gigabyte/asus WOLED tandem 1440 280hz
make sure its the glossy models

[dreamy cipher]

Any cheaper option

[dull hollow]

if glossy/matte doesnt matter to you, samsungs g61sd is often on sale

[tribal dirge]

there is also the LG Ultragear 27GX704A-B

[dreamy cipher]

dont know about monitors ngl, whats the glossy and matte thing about?

[tribal dirge]

glossy is more reflective and matte is much less reflective

[dreamy cipher]

Is oled that good or worth the buck

[tribal dirge]

OLED is amazingggg

It's honestly a more significant upgrade than upgrading a gpu

[lunar elm]

rtx 3060ti on its last 2 thin jelly legs: NO NO NO NO WAIT WAIT WAIT LISTEN NOT EVEN DLSS IS GONNA SAV-

[dull hollow]

oled is definitely worth the money

whats the point of a 7k pc and then having a monitor from the 90s, everything gonna look like shit

[dreamy cipher]

Tell me about it

Just got a new pc and need a new monitor

I’m like might as well buy a good one

[dull hollow]

left is a monitor i got over 4 years ago (during covid was $400)
right is a monitor i got last year ($580 on sale)
https://youtu.be/HKWXvrKAVuQ?si=YUzP3LShqyoQv7Sy

[dreamy cipher]

Damn it looks gorgeous

Just indecisive with what monitor I want now

[reef patrol]

Adblockers don't/can't skip ads anymore, only hide them and load the video after

[novel goblet]

Ublock still seems to work for me but it’s the only one that works videos still load instantly

[reef patrol]

Ublock doesn't do that though.

[novel canopy]

hey guys need some perspective/advice on whether i should upgrade my CPU and motherboard

[novel goblet]

I’m not sure what I have then that does that cause I don’t get the experiencing interruptions since swapping and even middle of the video ads don’t exist either

[novel canopy]

these are my current specs, do you think a motherboard and CPU upgrade would help or is it nominal

[novel goblet]

Depends what are you trying to play ?

Cause depending on the game it’ll be cpu/gpu intensive

[umbral heron]

11600K is about the same as 5700X, so - if you want better CPU and motherboard, but keep the RAM, it'd have to be B550 motherboard and 5700X3D/5800X3D, as that would be best CPU on AM4 which still supports DDR4
But that upgrade it's not worth imo, better to get DDR5 ram and build new base around 5070

[reef patrol]

Middle of video is fine. But I regularly have to stare at a black screen for 5-10seconds before the video loads.

[novel canopy]

i didn’t even know if i upgraded the motherboard and cpu i’d need ddr5

i thought i could stick with the ddr4

[novel canopy]

was planning to get these but i’d need ddr5?

[winter patrol]

7600x is am5 so yes

[umbral heron]

Yup, 7xxx and 9xxx CPUs do need DDR5
Also it's better if you go for B650/B850 motherboard and X3D CPU, way more power
X870E motherboards are really overpriced

[novel canopy]

would you mind sending some recs? sorry if you’ve already told me, completely new to pc stuff

since i’d like to keep my ddr4

[umbral heron]

If you want to keep DDR4:
5700X3D or 5800X3D with B550 motherboard - not really worth it, but if you want to keep DDR4 it's the best option
You can also look into 13th or 14th gen Intels, but you won't get near X3D in gaming unfortunately, and unlike 11th gens they run hot and eat a lot of power

[lunar elm]

ah yes love the unecessary x870e and in a ddr5 crisis

[novel goblet]

Looked into it a bit apparently YouTube sometimes rolls out per region, account, or even browser I use edge idk if that’s any different from u tho

[reef patrol]

Enjoy your quick video loading while you can.

[novel goblet]

Yup pretty much. When that does happen usually they patch around it though pretty fast from what I’ve seen, depending on what it is tho

[umbral heron]

In my case with uBlock on Firefox, uBlock wins before YT even realizes what's going on

[novel canopy]

isn’t a b550 motherboard about the same as the one i currently have?

[reef patrol]

Yeah that's normal with ublock.

[novel goblet]

I’ve also heard brave browser was another alternative never used it though

[reef patrol]

I'm on brave with the OG uBlock still running

[umbral heron]

I dunno which one you have
But yeah, you have motherboard that supports Intel CPUs, B550 supports AMD CPUs

[novel goblet]

I’ve heard good things about it but I’m just too lazy to swap

[novel canopy]

ah sorry i thought i typed it before

TUF GAMING 8560M-PLUS WIFI

[umbral heron]

Yeah, welcome to Intel vs AMD battle
B550 is AMD chipset, B560* is Intel chipset

[novel goblet]

And most of intel doesn’t have an upgrade path

[novel canopy]

yea the pc tech i went to before said he suggests amd since intel usually is strict on being strictly compatible with intel

[novel goblet]

I’m stuck with ddr4 as well I was about to upgrade but then ram went boom

[novel canopy]

at least that’s how i understood it

[novel goblet]

So with amd they are very upgrade friendly u can usually get 3 gens out of 1 motherboard

Think they promised till 2028 for am5

Maybe it was 2027 (yea 2027)

[umbral heron]

On AM4 it was A12, Zen, Zen+, Zen2 and Zen3

[novel canopy]

and if i was to get an asus motherboard and amd cpu since i have a friend who can sell me ddr5 for cheaper than market what’re some suggestions

fuck my ddr4

[novel goblet]

I remember when everyone that had x470 was panicking for zen3

[winter patrol]

something like this for ddr5: https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/BkrxFT/magnificent-amd-gamingstreaming-build

[umbral heron]

For DDR5 some B850 motherboard and 7800X3D/9800X3D gives you basically best you can get on the market right now

[alpine patio]

brave has been flawless so far for me

[novel goblet]

Nah I’m in the same boat ur not alone I have x5800 rn with 4070 and I really need the cpu upgrade so bottlenecked

[umbral heron]

And Firefox for me
🦊 🤝 🦁

[novel goblet]

I’m seeing what Asus does with ram this year before anything

Also might just wait for zen6

[alpine patio]

i think opera has been getting destroyed tho

[novel goblet]

Ew not the bloat that was packed into anything you downloaded few years back

[novel canopy]

msi 850 is compatible with amd cpu?

[novel canopy]

only thing that’s gonna be pricey for me is the CPU tbh

[umbral heron]

B850 GAMING PLUS WIFI? Yes

[novel canopy]

snowy calsy approved?

[novel goblet]

Any x670, x870, b650, and b850 all will be compatible if unsure ever there’s always a motherboard page for the motherboard usually at least that will say compatibility

[umbral heron]

[novel canopy]

im assuming that’s a good reaction

so this mother board, a amd cpu and ddr5

[novel canopy]

this pc stuff is aids

[novel goblet]

Go with x3d if you can

[reef patrol]

MSI SUCC edition

[novel canopy]

i miss being a console pleb

[novel goblet]

Its so much fun tho

[reef patrol]

I mean... you can pay like 50 bucks to a random shop to build your PC for you.

[novel canopy]

whats a x3d

[umbral heron]

Sure is
As for CPU 7800X3D and 9800X3D is best you can get for gaming

[novel goblet]

More cache pretty much

[umbral heron]

X3D is more cache in CPU, gives a boost in CPU-heavy games, mostly in CS and Valorant

[novel goblet]

And yea just follow that

[novel canopy]

and those two you named have that?

oh okay perfect

[jaunty ivy]

*until the 9850x3d probably

[novel canopy]

you guys have been an amazing help

[novel goblet]

Its a meh boost feel like

[novel canopy]

and i appreciate the knowledge and guidance

[novel goblet]

Np happy to help

If u have anything more you need feel free to ask

[umbral heron]

Have 9800X3D
Go to UEFI
Boost your CPU by 100MHz
Have 9850X3D
Same thing as 3600X and 3600XT for example

[novel canopy]

time to hit up the ddr5 plug

[jaunty ivy]

But then what if you oc the 9850x3d?

[novel canopy]

oh my god and before i place this order, all this will work with my 5070 right?

[novel goblet]

Also will say the 9800X3D is not a huge gap from 7800X3D like I think 2-3% so if you get a better deal on 7800X3D then go with that

[umbral heron]

Yup, will work just fine
Given you have 11600k you shouldn't need new power supply either

[novel canopy]

god i wish i understood any of this

https://tenor.com/view/chud-chudjak-wojak-soyjak-marcvin5-gif-13903021270190271130

[novel goblet]

The 9 at the front means newer the 7 at the front means older

[novel canopy]

definitely will be which price is better

[novel canopy]

no i’m confused about this because if i’m replacing the motherboard isn’t the 11600k my old one?

or am i misunderstanding

[novel goblet]

What’s ur wattage

On ur power supply all that matters

[lunar elm]

incoming 1.3 vsoc 6000 samples as the norm

[novel goblet]

But u should be fine

[umbral heron]

Yeah, you are replacing motherboard, CPU and RAM, but keeping power supply and GPU
Just saying that whatever GPU and power supply you have now with your 11600K will work just fine with new AMD CPU

[lunar elm]

PBO +200 and -20 all core CO

I imagine the 850 wont do well above PBO +100

[novel goblet]

Yea intel is so power and heat hungry

[umbral heron]

most likely, yeah

[lunar elm]

core ultra deals slam midrange amd

[novel canopy]

i didn’t even know i had some separate power supply

[lunar elm]

unless its ddr5 entry point or X3D intel slams the R7 counterpart

in value

[umbral heron]

Big cube in the back of the bottom of your PC
Takes mains power and converts to 12V, 5V and 3.3V your PC wants

[novel canopy]

what i mean is when i sent my motherboard info i didn’t know that included my power supply info

[novel goblet]

It’s all the cables that hook into gpu and motherboard

And that hooks into ur wall

[novel canopy]

in my defense i traded my ps5 pro for this PC so uh i don’t know anything other than press power button and enjoy cyberpunk

[umbral heron]

Just saying that because 11600K and 7800X3D/9800X3D need about the same amount of power

[novel goblet]

You’re all good no one’s blaming you it’s a lot all at once

Also a ps5 for that pc is a very good deal

[fair gull]

ps5 pro*

[umbral heron]

That 5070 alone costs more than that PS5 Pro

[smoky parrot]

Oooo, my UFO switches are sent :D

Good morning team

[umbral heron]

hewwo

[lunar elm]

also dont underestimate that ddr4 32gb

[fair gull]

no? a ps5 pro costs me 800eur rn and a 5070 i can get for like 500

heck for all i know they had a limited edition ps5 pro which would make it worth even more

[fair gull]

that would be what im most unsure about

[novel goblet]

For me reg 5070s used are 700 cad and a new ps5 pro is 950 cad

[novel canopy]

a ps5 pro is more expensive than the gpu alone but also that’s not accounting for ps plus, and the disk drive you have to buy LOL

[molten steppe]

Are yall hyped for the new ATK GHOST??

[lunar elm]

here
PS5P=950 SGD
5070 Zotac Dual fan= 878SGD

[novel canopy]

i love sony but they definitely dropped the ball with the ps5 pro

[lunar elm]

ps5p is digital vers if ur wondering

[novel goblet]

Yea you got a good deal trust

[novel canopy]

yes but you can buy a disk drive for it

[novel canopy]

stop playing val and play league

the superior riot game

[novel goblet]

Oh my pfp is Val havent played it in 1y tho

I left riot games as a whole

[lunar elm]

i uninstalled valorant on my laptop lmfao

[novel goblet]

Greedy company

[novel canopy]

LOL

can’t wait for the new 500 dollar viego skin

[novel goblet]

I play way too much aim trainers now and marvel rivals mostly

[novel canopy]

i have to buy the new cloak and dagger skin

[jaunty ivy]

Or you could... not

[lunar elm]

was considering getting the ayakashi (latest bundle) till i saw it was 70 sgd for a mere 3 skins lmfao

[novel canopy]

was gm peak on console, got diamond on pc but the ego on pc is insanity

[novel goblet]

Yea I dropped WAY too much on Val

[novel canopy]

https://tenor.com/view/orphanofkos-good-night-orphan-of-kos-orphanofkos-bloodborne-orphanofkos-bloodborne-good-night-orphanofkos-bloodborne-goodnight-gif-6659354376231286447

[novel goblet]

That’s the nice thing about rivals I’ve barely spent anything on the game they give way too much for free lmao

[novel canopy]

i’ve spent a pretty penny

[lunar elm]

not to mention i literally have 0 radianite so i need to buy and grind the bp just for it

[novel canopy]

the skins are fire

especially the new lady loki

excited to see what their mythic skins look like

[novel goblet]

Yup 😭

[lunar elm]

the knife is hella tempting though

[novel canopy]

unfortunately addicted to league of legends

[lunar elm]

but if i buy knife the mentality like intended is might as well buy the whole bundle

[novel goblet]

They are pretty good I finally tried grinding comp this season and got my peak but it’s more just cause I didkt play enough

[novel canopy]

1300 on skins on that disgusting putrid game

[novel goblet]

Yea I spent around that on Val it was bad

[reef patrol]

[novel canopy]

im excited for the wooting keyboard to ship out since its on back order

[reef patrol]

Sooting

[novel canopy]

the fact that you can make it so you can control the walk speed on keyboard is insane for RPGS

sounds silly but immersion

i should make my own brand sooting keyboards

[novel goblet]

Also waiting for mine think it should ship today which is cool been using a k95 for 7y

[novel canopy]

i had a k65 for a while

honestly a great keyboard

[novel goblet]

I bought it cause I wanted something that’d last a while I’ve literally upgraded everything but that it’s impressive it’s lasted 7y

[lunar elm]

rn im fighting the urge to buy the valo bundle lol

[novel goblet]

But with this wooting I went with 80he but also bought a gt80 case that somehow already came here

[novel canopy]

don’t do it bro

[novel goblet]

Well do u have whatever it has already

[novel canopy]

riot is using you

[novel goblet]

^^^ this is true

[lunar elm]

at least i have willpower to resist the urge lol

i just need to resist the urge till the bundle ends xd

[novel goblet]

Yea riot actually has their website to see the exact amount you’ve spent

[novel canopy]

🫩🫩🫩