🔌│tech

[fair gull]

most people dont give 2 shits if windows updates change stuff. they complain and then just accept it

[rough osprey]

ye its like a phone

[fair gull]

At the end of the day their programs still work the same and they are happy even if they complain

[umbral heron]

Exactly - they complain, accept, but do not want something better, do not want to try new stuff
That whole apathy that's causing enshittification in the first place

Not saying that Linux is for everyone, of course it isn't

But people for who it would work just fine don't even wat to give it a chance

[halcyon moss]

linux also changes UI constantly

[umbral heron]

And without it we will be stuck in MS ecosystem for a long time

[fair gull]

because it wouldnt work fine

speaking from a few years of experience as an IT tech working with private and business customers... they use so many programs that only exist on windows and are used to how windows does stuff

[rough osprey]

does linux have free customer support

[umbral heron]

For average joe that only uses web apps Ubuntu would be just fine

[fair gull]

the first question is how the average joe would figure out what distro they run beyond "its linux"

[steady sail]

That called ChatGPT

[rough osprey]

chatgpt cant even figure out cmd

[fair gull]

if the filemanagement and such works like on windows sure

[rough osprey]

they be calling linus tech tips

[fair gull]

(and yes average people already struggle with this on windows where external drives have drive letters and arent just a subfolder somewhere)

[nimble arch]

Buy an iPad Pro or iPad Air with the Magic Keyboard at that point IMHO

[fair gull]

unironically most people that dont use a laptop/desktop just use their phone or tablet

why buy a separate thing when the phone can do it all

i only got the tail end of this trend but still had a few people that just had all their life and data on their phone

[rough osprey]

ye true

people in my family only got computers for work

when they had to / could do work from home

[fair gull]

im sort of split on it though. i like the idea that 1 device can do it all and all of that 100% portable in a pocket. on the other hand i know how easyit is for the average customer to lose their data on a broken phone and not have backups

there is some really heartbreaking moments when you work on unlocking a phone of someone who left earth too early just so their family can read/go through their life cause they were young and fully digital on their phone

[rough osprey]

phone brands do be pushing for backups i think

only thing limiting might be the amount of data if you got lots of photos and stuff

but the default setups will backup basically anything

[nimble arch]

Apple and Meta do have some account settings for allowing someone to access after certain events.

[fair gull]

dont remember all the details but all i got given from the customer was the iphone

[rough osprey]

meta aint even letting me access my own instagram 😭

[fair gull]

but yeah lots of talking/messaging with apple support and sending some certificates over to prove things they helped unlock the phone

[rough osprey]

apple support is so good lowkey

[halcyon moss]

and use something like DEX

[fair gull]

was kinda weird cause the first few messages/calls where with some like community mod or some such not actual apple staff

[rough osprey]

I just use the messages app for it

[nimble arch]

Apple’s good recovery stuff is why I’ve left most of my important stuff there, for now at least.

The genuinely important things have been going to my iCloud email for a few years (also meant I could remove Outlook and Gmail from my phone). All the important accounts are in my iCloud password manager as well. Just in case.

Lowkey wish my family would stop buying Android phones so we could use more of the family stuff within Apple’s ecosystem

[rough osprey]

i should switch to icloud fully

but lowkey gmail looks nicer

like as a word

[blissful halo]

My family is the polar opposite with 2 of my uncles being the exceptions

[rough osprey]

im the only apple person

[blissful halo]

iPhone and at most a fold/flip phone as second carry

[nimble arch]

My Dad still has an iPhone but everyone else is Samsung

[blissful halo]

Only person in my entire family doesn’t use iPhone

[lyric hatch]

Seems a lot more common in some places like the US

[blissful halo]

I sometimes miss my fold

[fair gull]

very interesting way to try and classify this

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ONfIdotoEuo
You know... I hate these unboxings...but at least she knows her audience.

[fair gull]

this is more for actual marketshare of the OS (apparently from 2024)

[rough patrol]

Crazy how dominant iphone is in the us

[fair gull]

the US has this whole blue vs green bubble thing doesnt it

[rough patrol]

Yeah

[reef patrol]

Didn't everyone until recently?

[fair gull]

where you get shunned for not having an iphone basically (or at least some years ago it did)

no?

[reef patrol]

Oh the stigma part. Not just the fact that it exists 😄

[rough patrol]

I never even knew that was a thing until someone brought it up in a youtube video

I only ever used whatsapp

I didnt even know it existed

[reef patrol]

I don't message people on my phone, except on Discord or Messenger. Text messages are completely foreign to me. But the whole RCS thing is very recent here afaik.

[fair gull]

well wasnt really a stigma from what i heard but people basically not wanting to communicate via phone with people that didnt have iphones or even exclude them from friend circles

[umbral heron]

Nah, it's mostly tiktok and social media individuals

[fair gull]

well i can only talk about it from memories and having watched americans explain it when this was a bigger debate like 2020 or so

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah not sure what that's about, Whatsapp (for better or worse) has been basically the standard here since like the early 10s

Because SMS costs money but everyone has unlimited data

[umbral heron]

Isn't like unlimited SMS and calls a standard nowadays

[reef patrol]

Yeah unless you do a really basic plan. And even then data is usually the most limited factor still.

[crimson wigeon]

Nowadays sure but things were different back then

Whatsapp even ran on Symbian phones back then

[nimble arch]

Yes

[devout raptor]

Im really on the fence about the philips hue lights

they seem tempting but 80€ for 4 meters of light strip is insane

aliexpress led lights are kind of gamble, ive had one set just break instantly after I turned it on and one broke while I was installing them so I dunno what to get

[nimble arch]

SMS is unsecure though. RCS is better but E2EE isn’t enabled fully across UK carriers and mobile OS yet.

Which makes WhatsApp, iMessage, or Signal a better choice.

[ashen spindle]

yeah the secure whatsapp messages

the people that use WA over sms for security please come to me I got a bridge to sell

[blissful halo]

They’re only worth it if you already have other Philips hue products, there’s other cheaper brands like Govee with similar or better performing strips

[halcyon moss]

the protocol is the same as signal. But the app is being controlled by meta, and they can do whatever

[halcyon moss]

there are so many other zigbee lightstrips for less

most of them work with hue out of the box. but verify to be sure.

i do not use it with a hue hub, but i like my gledepto rgbcc strip controller

[raw forum]

WLED.

https://kno.wled.ge/

There is controllers for it that you can buy on AliExpress for like 10-15€

[raw forum]

Yes Gledopto ! Exacty that one. They work directly with Zigbee, too - but WLED has even more ways to be useful :) They can even sync up to one another through wifi.

[umbral heron]

Yee, Philips Hue is overpriced and proprietary

[raw forum]

I heard their lamps have really consistent colors across many years - but that's the end of the upsides.

[umbral heron]

I mean any RGB LEDs that aren't complete garbage are quite consistent nowadays

[rough osprey]

smart light strips might be a bit harder then just normal bulbs

[raw forum]

Apparently not. But I only have a single one from IKEA in the corner of my room. It was so freaking dirt cheap, and with home assistant has even adaptive light according to the time of day, etc, etc, etc, etc....... for what 10€ ?

[umbral heron]

I have some TP-Link RGB strip, consistent color, very cheap,works with HA, am happy

[raw forum]

It doesn't even measure the power use at that price

[rough osprey]

lol

[raw forum]

Left one includes measuring power, right one doesn't. 😭

It's such an insane gap in price

[fair gull]

ikea has some really cheap stuff in general like AA/AAA rechargable batteries and also the plug to charge em

[rough osprey]

when they updating those

[raw forum]

wdym ? Don't need an update no ? They're just Zigbee smartplugs haha

[rough osprey]

yes their new smarthome lineup does support thread tho

these dont yet

[raw forum]

Aaaaah, okay - I don't aim for retiring Zigbee anytime soon yet.
But fair !

I think Zigbee is just still so cheap to make. Which is it's main advantage.
I feel like a lot of these standards don't realize that one of the most important victory conditions is being dirt cheap to add to a product

(especially Z-Wave lol)

[rough osprey]

dont think thread really adds much more either

also 2.4ghz

some devices added it just via an update

[raw forum]

I feel like thread might be good if you really go all-in and have everything in the smarthome, as in every single switch.

For my 5-10 zigbee devices it makes no sense to have anything in thread, especially when it means i need a second antenna.

Not that I don't look for compatability when buying and prefer the option that "futureproofs"

[rough osprey]

i think it will be the best option for most people as you dont need new hubs and stuff

but product and software rollout has been kinda ehh

[umbral heron]

It's so bad with RAM that people go single-channel
https://www.pcguide.com/news/ryzen-7-9850x3d-is-still-great-for-gaming-with-single-channel-ram-keeps-up-with-9800x3d-despite-half-the-memory/

[halcyon moss]

their lights are amazing. bright, can dim well, accurate, great connectivity

[halcyon moss]

wifi 🤢

putting lights on wifi is a mistake. most smart home devices should not be on wifi.

[rough osprey]

yep they should be on bluetooth

[halcyon moss]

why

[rough osprey]

blue

[halcyon moss]

zigbee or thread or z-wave exists

[rough osprey]

too reliable, fast and energy efficient

[serene ruin]

Where ducky at 👁️👁️

[vapid ruin]

Single channel 16gb stick

Good enough 😭

[halcyon moss]

Inspelning are great. i got a few of them

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeh-JxYYmDc
Oh boye

[rough osprey]

where lekker waifu

[rough osprey]

[rough osprey]

[blissful halo]

We need a Lekker companion

[umbral heron]

Exactly
Switchie Plushie

[rough osprey]

with ai

[steady sail]

We have to push Switchy Plushie to be out

The investors are getting angy

[sonic rain]

My first keyboard came in the other day. Now if I can get my pc to work today that I’m building it’s going to be 🔥 also I’m new here so if I posted in the wrong text channel let me know.

[raw forum]

@grok is this ai

[reef patrol]

Yes

[raw forum]

Not enough words, cannot be an AI

"Yes, the image in question.... bla bla bla .... bla"

I do want a plushy tho - maybe not as buff tho 😂

[raw forum]

I have like 90GB of DDR4 c:

or was it 70 ? I am not sure.

Buying that for that Data Science thing I once did was a good decision afterall 😂

[serene ruin]

Ducky here yet

[alpine patio]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ROGb7HY-84

[halcyon moss]

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

1.5h.
I am ready

[reef patrol]

I saw the title - Sounds ranty and conspiratorial. I skipped it. I'm sure someone can provide a brief summary.

[halcyon moss]

It's not?

Well I'm 7 minutes in

He's spitting facts so far

[reef patrol]

I said - Sounds. I cba to watch a 1½ hour long video. 😛

[ashen spindle]

you dont need to watch 90 minutes to see chapters and listen for 2 minutes what its about

[reef patrol]

I don't watch two minutes of a video that's an hour and half long.

[ashen spindle]

so then the title wasnt the reason you skipped it?

[reef patrol]

It was.

[ashen spindle]

so you dont want to listen in for 30 seconds to see if it might be interesting and not what you first assume?

[reef patrol]

Correct.

[ashen spindle]

feel like having watched a single video of his should tell you its not a right wing grift so idk you do you I guess

[reef patrol]

He's...borderline at times. So I don't agree with that.

At any rate. I'm sure one of you fine people can provide a brief summary if the topic turns out to be worth watching him rant for that long.

https://giphy.com/gifs/baby-bye-slide-m9eG1qVjvN56H0MXt8

[ashen spindle]

its not a rant..

[fair gull]

or we dont cause its worth watching for that long

[minor citrus]

My new workplace is AI everything, so I just threw the video into Gemini to test it once:

Fun things, don't know if anything of that is true as I haven't watched it, but I guess I should trust it, cause my workplace wants me to... or something

[ashen spindle]

idk I aint wasting my time reading ai slop

[astral haven]

This is why we can't have nice things :/

[minor citrus]

At the very least Mansen now knows that the video for non-US ppl really is only about an hour

[reef patrol]

I somehow doubt that.

@Car*

[astral haven]

Or a half hour if you can watch videos at 2x speed

[minor citrus]

Why limit yourself, watch it in one minute on 60x

[astral haven]

Because that is faster than our auditory system can process?

[minor citrus]

Sounds like a skill issue

[astral haven]

Yea but I'm no bioengineer, and our visual system can handle it so why bother

[ashen spindle]

yup its a good video to show someone whos still unsure about renewables

[frozen ingot]

must be fake

that's way too cheap for a teenage engineering product

they must have forgotten one or two zeros

[rough osprey]

wasnt it free

[astral haven]

Also for people who are sure about it but don't act

[astral haven]

Model is free, filament isnt

[pale sigil]

@ashen spindle remember when I asked do you think I should get a new nvme in Oct before prices go up?

I think my nvme is dying 😅

[rough osprey]

?

the first launch was free

[pale sigil]

At least it's not ram I supposed

[rough osprey]

maybe shipping added

but now not anymore ig

[umbral heron]

Hoo boy, 1.5h Alec video, good thing I bought snacks

[ashen spindle]

also I'm still really confused what video of his one could possibly watch to think his stance could be weird anti science republican

[frozen ingot]

yeah he never came across as conservative/science skeptic to me

[umbral heron]

I'd be really confused if he didn't mention latent heat of vaporization in one of his videos

[jaunty rose]

I just found a spec list I made about 5-6 years ago for my dream pc at the time, how did teenage me do

[iron wave]

Teenage

Dream machine

Windows 11

👴

[jaunty rose]

You dont see it here but the case I wanted was a Fractal Design Meshify 2

[iron wave]

Single GPU dream machine is weak sauce.

[jaunty rose]

Was I onto something or was I on something 🤔

[iron wave]

Seems fine, just maxing out the sliders basically.

[ashen spindle]

yeah typical case of falling into the trap of more=better

dont need that cpu or board for gaming

[balmy vector]

Cant believe you didnt put playing yume-nikki on your list

[iron wave]

More threads is more faster for what I do though.

[jaunty rose]

This is actually pretty close to the build I have now in terms of specs which is surprising because it was a surprise gift from my boyfriend that I had to build myself without him knowing any prior knowledge of what I wouldve wanted

[iron wave]

Research is research.

[jaunty rose]

Case: Corsair 4000d airflow
Mobo: MSI MPG B550
PSU: Corsair RM850x
Gpu: Gigabyte Eagle Oc RTX 3070
Cpu: Ryzen 7 5800×3D
Ram: corsair vengeance 2x 16gb 3800mhz
Storage: 1tb and 2tb Samsung 970 evo plus

Thats my current build

[iron wave]

X3D is good for gaming.

[jaunty rose]

The cpu so good I dont even need to upgrade to the am5 platform

[balmy vector]

Still gotta play yume nikki though

[jaunty rose]

Deer’s sudden urge to play a 2000’s rpg maker game

[iron wave]

That would be so expensive right now.

[balmy vector]

No i always loved them

[iron wave]

I have a 4090 with a 5900X and a 5090 with a i7-10700KF.

[jaunty rose]

Yeah……. I think I’m gonna wait it out anyways and whenever I do upgrade just get a whole new pc with the old one being used for experimentation

[balmy vector]

Can i have that 5090?

I need to play cool games on it

[iron wave]

No.

[balmy vector]

Like yume nikki

[jaunty rose]

Offtopic but what in the hell was I deciphering in 2020

[iron wave]

It's doing SCIENCE right now.

[balmy vector]

But yume nikki is the SCIENCE of human psychology!!!!

Oh and bombrush cyberfunk

[umbral heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VneKjsUR1oM

[balmy vector]

We love gobou

[balmy vector]

https://youtu.be/8l1zY5ndOXI?si=IWvK5RrHN2DB45Or

Best one

[umbral heron]

wen

[iron wave]

Real SCIENCE.

[unkempt lake]

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/VfjARknxFV

WHAT

[iron wave]

Works fine here.

[umbral heron]

A/B testing
Works amazingly for companies to gaslight users who have new "features"

[iron wave]

I bet it'll be quickly fixed.

[balmy vector]

🔜 ™️

[ashen spindle]

itll get added to premium and adblockers will just add a way to pretend you are in focus of the tab

[iron wave]

I remember when the YouTube PiP was a YouTube Red feature.

[umbral heron]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-visibility/
Using it to farm orbs in Discord

[unkempt lake]

Smart

idk i dont have issues with youtube because im a leech

why pay when you can just BORROW

🧠

[iron wave]

They serve ads and I say no thank you, no malware please.

[umbral heron]

Funny that, isn't it?
All governments seem hell-bent on violating people's privacy to "protect children"
But when it comes to prn ads on YouTube and child prn generator on Twitter they completely ignore the issue

I WONDER WHY

[iron wave]

Because it's not about the children.

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

[umbral heron]

I feel like politicians may interpret "think of the children" in a different way than normal people would

[iron wave]

Yeah "we are taking away your rights to enrich ourselves."

[unkempt lake]

What's funny is most of the population support governments who do this xd

Even after its a thing

Look at the uk look at australia

[wheat plume]

Or the more .... Pedo....way

[iron wave]

There is a joke I can make here that I will not make.

[tropic sundial]

i am ashamed to say im in the uk

[marsh glade]

Oh hell yea, I'm so ready for this

[bright briar]

some interstellar shit right there

[smoky parrot]

That's some slenderman shizz

[azure otter]

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[tribal dirge]

And for productivity!

[raw forum]

It's technology connections, he does rand slightly sometimes - reasonably - but is really not
.

[raw forum]

Thanks for sharing gonna watch it now, first minutes are already touching on so many things I've tried to make people realize more for a long time 😂

[pearl aurora]

Can anyone help me my keyboard won’t turn one after i accidentally unplugged it mid way through updating it is it broken or what?

Please help if anyone can

[ashen spindle]

#1019755933959733258

[pale sigil]

Omg why is wiring ethernet connectors such a pita

[iron wave]

They aren't that bad.

[pale sigil]

I'm really struggling to get them straight

[empty wren]

You can maybe twist the wires then🤷‍♂️

Are you not able to put each wire one by one in the housing

[iron wave]

What kind of connector did you get?

If you got one of the ones where the wires can go all the way through it, just kind of line them up and then feed it in and just carefully finagle it in there and you'll get it down.

The Greybeards call it cheating, but I call it work smarter not harder.

[serene ruin]

Found it for a good price around my original budget

[tribal dirge]

epic! go for it!

[serene ruin]

Already purchased 🕺

[tribal dirge]

nice

[serene ruin]

Shit went from 2400 to 1800 💀

[tribal dirge]

because PTL came out

[serene ruin]

Probably ram price dropped

Wait whats that

[tribal dirge]

Intel's new Core Ultra series 3 mobile CPUs

[serene ruin]

Ahh

[ashen spindle]

nope they are more expensive and old ones mostly stay the same

[tribal dirge]

then how did this legion drop in price then?

[ashen spindle]

unrelated sales

[tribal dirge]

fair

[serene ruin]

interesting. Fuck it we ball

[tribal dirge]

real

[serene ruin]

Now i can finally cad on the shitter

[tribal dirge]

exactlyyyyyyy

I am guilty of actually doing that ngl

I guess thats what I get when I forget I have a CAD assignment

[serene ruin]

Haha who hasnt. Coded on the shitter too

[tribal dirge]

SAMEEEEE

[serene ruin]

Lmao

[tribal dirge]

MATLAB Project done in 5 whole minutes on the shitter

[serene ruin]

Beautiful

When your legs go numb thats when you know you just gotta just sit there and lock in

[tribal dirge]

realllllll

[serene ruin]

Hyped tho. Arrives next friday

[tribal dirge]

epyc

[balmy vector]

Usually that just tells me i found a deadlock match finally

[serene ruin]

Trying to decide if i should trade in my apple m4 pro mbp

[tribal dirge]

nah, that is still good for literally anything other than CAD

[serene ruin]

Thats what im thinking tol

[serene ruin]

Haha

Havent had the time to play deadlock but i have it in my library

Now i definitely dont have time for anything

[tribal dirge]

MATLAB runs way better on my Macbook than on my Windows Laptop LMAO

and my jetbrains IDEs

[serene ruin]

Oh shit havent thought of matlab on my mac

[tribal dirge]

omg its so much faster

[serene ruin]

Officially supported?

Or port?

[tribal dirge]

R2025b is officially supported on Mac

[serene ruin]

Oh fire ok

[tribal dirge]

https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/matlab-mac.html

the only like small thing about it is that parallel computing toolbox cant use Metal so no GPU compute with the parallel computing toolbox on Mac

iirc the parallel computing toolbox only supports Cuda for GPU compute

[serene ruin]

Ah i see cool

[pale sigil]

I did

[iron wave]

Yay.

Just takes some persistence.

[pale sigil]

I've failed so many times

I think I'm struggling with the colours since I'm colourblind

[empty wren]

send a close up of the wire insulation colors

[pale sigil]

Why does there have to be two types of Rj colours

Reee

How can I tell which one I have

[empty wren]

Send picture

[pale sigil]

I'm not there anymore

[empty wren]

Left to right

[iron wave]

Oh that hurts.

May I see a crimp?

[pale sigil]

I'm not at my desk anymore

I'm in bed

I can link tho

https://amzn.eu/d/aOPDnXJ

[iron wave]

I meant of one of the failed ones, not a huge deal if you're not going go right now.

[pale sigil]

Mate I have like 5 failed ones lol

I got one so close with just two wires in the wrong place

[empty wren]

Arrow points to stripe

[pale sigil]

My cousin is coming tomorrow so he'll be able to help

See, I thought that's the case

[empty wren]

That is okay, you got make a few mistakes to do it right

[pale sigil]

Luckily I'm using a random cheap wire

For testing

Which I suspect is not helping

[empty wren]

Mm does not matter all that much what matter is awg

[pale sigil]

As the wires seem pretty shit, it doesn't even have a stem in the middle

[iron wave]

I had a bad crimp too, but color blindness would make it hard.

[pale sigil]

The crimp is fine I think, I got another one but it's like impossible

[iron wave]

That's CAT6e that has that, anything lower doesn't need it.

[pale sigil]

Fair enough

[empty wren]

By stem what do you mean?

[pale sigil]

https://youtube.com/shorts/mhTaQdVVveE

[empty wren]

Shielding?

[pale sigil]

Fucking wizardry

[empty wren]

Or a spacer

[pale sigil]

No, I forgot the name

It splits wires into 4 sections

[iron wave]

The cross in the middle yeah?

I'd guess that's CAT 5e or 6.

[empty wren]

He did cut his wires down

To be fair

It is stiffer that way to handle

Thought maybe your wires may have silicone not PVC or teflon

[pale sigil]

If I can't perfect it tomorrow I'm just drilling two holes and admitting defeat

Fuck doing this 4 times

🙃

[empty wren]

Just slow down a bit

[pale sigil]

I don't have time to

My cousin is coming tomorrow

[empty wren]

I wonder if maybe you could use a rubber band to straighten the wires in line

Or if you want

Use heat shrink to separate the pairs next to each other

And then heat shrink them again to combine the bundle again

Just an idea

[pale sigil]

So like

I've gotten used to getting them in

Its colours now

[empty wren]

Fair

You could also take a picture as you do them and turn on Android color blind mode if you have not

[pale sigil]

That's a thing?

[empty wren]

Yes it is

[pale sigil]

Mate it pissed me off d

I've done electrical work before, in the walls, sockets, plugs etc and It was easy

[pale sigil]

Ethernet has a million pissing colours

[iron wave]

It takes me a good five to ten minutes for a crimp and I've done it before. Just chill.

[empty wren]

there are way worse connectors to crimp; jst sh for example this one has 1mm pitch between pins

Hirose DF53 has a pitch close to half of that

It is a wearable tech based connector

[iron wave]

OOF

When is flat flex easier?

[empty wren]

You probably can use that more than likely

Though ribbons are not very thick, so I guess on a very dense board if one needs thicker gauge for whatever reason cannot use a flex ribbon.

Seems that the DF53 is used for power which makes sense.

In a lower power device like a computer mouse ribbon seems like a no brainer.

I got a few ribbon connectors in my mouse.

[iron wave]

You could use multiple conductors if it's not too high, I've seen flat flex batteries.

[empty wren]

Oh you mean one of those click in place connectors

I know what you mean

[empty wren]

Must be a design choice then

https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-eu-software-updates-loophole-3636627/

Not a good look

[iron wave]

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network

What fun, TOR at home.

[serene ruin]

Ethernet crimping is fun

Installed a poe camera system around my house and it was a fun time

[empty wren]

Shoulda used SPONSORED BY NORD VPN

[iron wave]

I wouldn't call it fun.

[empty wren]

It looks simple when you line them up and crimp once

There is no double criming a single conductor

Once for the connection and the second for locking in the insulation

[iron wave]

It's not hard, just not fun.

[empty wren]

Speaking of wonder if Callum managed to get the colors aligned

Linusb C

https://www.lttstore.com/products/ltt-truespec-cable-usb-type-c-to-c

USB 4.0

Silicone outer insulation is great

[pale sigil]

I was and still am in bed

[pale sigil]

Meanwhile I get mine from AliExpress from a reputable brand for like $1-2

[empty wren]

He says all conductors have individual shielding

[pale sigil]

No idea what that means or if it even matters to me

Id only use super high quality cables for say vr or video

[empty wren]

It might be marketing jargon

Have yet to watch the video

[empty wren]

I think I bought a thunderbolt 3 cable a while back and it died. It was braided, in my experience braiding looks nice for a while but it makes cables too stiff.

Also seems better than the Anker cables I bought before, they were 240W rated but 480mbps of data transfer. Not sure what I did to one of those, maybe still laying around.

[vapid ruin]

30 cad is not too bad. I thought it'll be like 50 or even 80 each

[empty wren]

Yeah pretty good price

Only complaint people may have is the color

[vapid ruin]

Ehh, black is all i need.

[empty wren]

If the release a white version could potentially use rit dye on it

[empty wren]

Oh no

[heady hazel]

not even using a trusty ender 3

[empty wren]

You wanna see an ender 3 someone designed

[unkempt lake]

Only usb c cable i use for video is uh the one that came with my switch third party dock

[heady hazel]

lol thats better than most ender 3s at least dual motor

[unkempt lake]

Dunno the spec and dont care it works

[empty wren]

In my opinion there is a certain word one could use for that and below is better design in my opinion

https://youtu.be/mh0rmYptH-0

CFRP bed and kapton heater

[tribal dirge]

I always bought apple cables LMAO

[heady hazel]

thats impressive im having issues with my extruder. gonna convert to direct drive so i can print tpu if i need to also helps with petg

[tribal dirge]

my V0 is crazier LMAO

[empty wren]

What printer?

[serene ruin]

To each their own

I had fun doing it

[empty wren]

Tiny little monster

[heady hazel]

keystones are fun imo

[empty wren]

https://youtube.com/shorts/6H1LkEzcJpI

[unkempt lake]

not fun when you do it too much

Fun if its just a once in a while thing

[serene ruin]

Its easy tho

Really easy

I used cat6 too

[heady hazel]

upgraded ender 3 i got from a friend cheap, honestly dual z motors is pretty decent

[empty wren]

3 v2 nice

[serene ruin]

Beautiful

[empty wren]

What is the tpu shore hardness?

[heady hazel]

ill check

[heady hazel]

95A but it did just not feed with the current extruder

[empty wren]

May have to manually feed it through first

[pale sigil]

I miss my printer

[heady hazel]

i mean a direct drive kit was like 3€ on aliexpress ill just convert to direct drive

[empty wren]

Alrighty then

[heady hazel]

currently it likes to chew at pla because of the angle anyway so id solve another issue

[empty wren]

I got it to work on my former 3 v2 and helped another guy get it work on his idex

[empty wren]

You can adjust the mechanism some

But sure it could have been better designed

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean at this price point? i figured id just go direct drive and not have to care

[empty wren]

Fair enough

[heady hazel]

so far i have printed random things to dial in the printer, i still have to print a bracket to hold my cars radiator hose

[empty wren]

Hope you use the right material for that

[heady hazel]

id say petg?

[empty wren]

Maybe anneal it too

[heady hazel]

its just a small braket so its more suface area than a ziptie

[empty wren]

Ah I see the break

Fair enough

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean its been for 2 years like that but at this point id rather 3d print something than having to replace that hose

[tribal dirge]

i've seen the shaper graphs for these, its really really bad

so many resonance peaks

printed frame is a great idea, just not very practical

[empty wren]

It was printed to bend instead of the x gantry

But I get your point

[tribal dirge]

the frame bending is arguably even worse

[empty wren]

Remember it did that run on stepper motors

[tribal dirge]

ideally your frame should be rigid

[heady hazel]

i had an old anet a8 laying around but i figured id rather use a ender before i upgrade the a8

[empty wren]

It also is an odd size

[tribal dirge]

odd size is whatever tbh

if it fit it fits, if it doesnt fit it doesnt fit

[heady hazel]

paid my friend 50€ for the printer seemed like a good investment lol

[green finch]

should i get the 60he v2

[empty wren]

https://youtu.be/LDrulFDEXtM

[green finch]

i have the 80 but i only wanted it for gd

[empty wren]

Great investment, can print more with two printers

[tribal dirge]

I like this, but gantry racking can be an issue if its not built precisely or if a stepper desyncs for whatever reason.

[heady hazel]

that thing sounds hillarious lol

[empty wren]

I see what you mean

[empty wren]

It can also be over constrained

[tribal dirge]

yeah, but its also built that way to avoid cantilevers

[empty wren]

Oh for sure and the belt paths are ideal

[tribal dirge]

indeed

[empty wren]

Can probably even use closed loop belts

[tribal dirge]

oh for sure

you deffo can if you get your center to center distance between pulleys correct

[heady hazel]

honestly 3d printing just opened up a lot of opportunities for me to not have to order random plastic parts from across the world

[tribal dirge]

yessss ikr

and the ability to customize and make new things!

[empty wren]

Same I paid like $40 for a part from shapeways and then decided to get an ender 3v2 years back for a little over $200

[heady hazel]

this dumb piece cost me 17€ and like 5€ shipping

[tribal dirge]

I mean, FDM does have some limitations, but for light use parts its perfectly sufficient

[heady hazel]

i mean that part is 50/50 on if it holds, but still i could have tried

[tribal dirge]

oh for sure

3D printing is great for making prototypes

[empty wren]

Would take time out your day to recreate the part though, some people just wanna print stuff for example

[heady hazel]

im just not sure it could hold that force since its also angled

[empty wren]

Probably correct is that regard

[heady hazel]

I mean petg with infill id give a chance of holding but for how long?

[empty wren]

Oh petg will creep

You would want either ppa or pps and anneal it

[heady hazel]

Yeah im not sure the ender would reliably print that

[empty wren]

That part in your baggie may also have plastic indicators

[empty wren]

This may sound like a joke but you could put a cardboard box over it

But those filament types they cost a multiplier of what the part cost you

[heady hazel]

Actually makes sense

[empty wren]

Some people buy weed tents🤣

[empty wren]

NASA documented a way to print engineering grade polymers on a cheap build

[heady hazel]

Honeystly not a bad idea

[heady hazel]

We just deemed it was too complicated to print because of how complex it was

[empty wren]

Well imma put it like this

When reverse engineering a part there are many ways to go about it

You can take pictures of the sides

Then line them up to a ruler

Put it in cad scale it up

And just slowly draw shapes and lines

[heady hazel]

well i guess my engineering student friend was just too lazy to help me lol

[empty wren]

To be fair

The first revision will not be perfect

It could take a week-two weeks-a month to do it well

[heady hazel]

im thinking of printing a tpu inlay for a gauge pod holder so its better friction fit

[heady hazel]

i think just priting a tpu circle should be easy enough so ill start with that i have to open up that hole anyway

i had a magsafe phone holder and dont want to repeat that issue

[empty wren]

Oh I see now

[heady hazel]

i doubt this china special guage would enjoy getting flinged at me so i just want to do a tpu inlay that has a tighter friction fit

i figure tpu is going to be a solid option

[heady hazel]

do you have experience printing tpu? is there something i need to consider besides direct drive beeing preferable?

[azure otter]

@tribal dirge yo

the tips on my iems keep getting loose and coming out and getting stuck in my ear, any solutions?

[tribal dirge]

Ummmmm, are these the stock tips?

[azure otter]

ya

[empty wren]

Well I printed some 95A though I did get some 60A awhile back. Still need to put finish designing some printer parts before they get fabricated.

I will let you know my experience with 60A when I use it.

[azure otter]

moondrop blessing 3 stock tips

[heady hazel]

hmm i have 95a here

[empty wren]

Really you do not got too much to worry about at 95A

[heady hazel]

i think ill just print a ring and adhere that to the plastic

[tribal dirge]

You sure you're pushing them on all the way?

[azure otter]

ya

they become loose in like a week

[tribal dirge]

strange

[empty wren]

If you ever do start messing with lower durometer, the filament path being constrained is gonna become even more important

This one is 100% constrained, so much so that the anodizing is get rubbed off by the gear interaction

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean even PETG has some feeding issues here and there as is i think direct drive is the way to go for reliability

[empty wren]

Maybe your hotend is partially clogged

Though I do not like the way your Capricorn tube is constrained to be honest

You may wanna let it be a bit more free

The dark blue tube

[heady hazel]

yeah i tried it will always do that with PLA but petg does not get chewed up

[empty wren]

PLA is brittle

Though perhaps you got too much tension going on

[azure otter]

i guess this is why the iems came with so many tips

[heady hazel]

likely but i moved the spool holder and have not found a solution, i mean it just makes a mess, Pla runs through without issue

[empty wren]

I think you can also adjust the idler or gear distance a bit too

It is a bit of finagalling

[heady hazel]

getting tpu into it was pretty hard because you have to fight gravity and the tpu want to go everywhere but stay in the extruder gears

[empty wren]

I know what you mean

Ideally it is printed slow in bowden configuration

Perhaps some day soon adjustable cams will be adopted for printer extruders

[empty wren]

Even the diy market extruders mostly use spring loaded idler arms.

[heady hazel]

i mean its some upgraded extruder that my friend threw in , but hey i hope direct drive will work just better, retraction with petg is a bit meh at times

[empty wren]

You will need a lot less retraction yeah

Did you dry your petg

Very important as it is hygroscopic

[empty wren]

Only part that is upgraded really is the arm and those apparently do crack being abs

[heady hazel]

well not really but it seems to print just fine

[empty wren]

You may want to dry it out at some point

It will be stringy

[heady hazel]

i have no issues with stringing only bad adhesion was a bit meh on my Pei plate

[empty wren]

Ah maybe tram the bed

At some point

Still better than glass to an extent

[heady hazel]

i did it just had issues with buildup and would kick the print of the bed that was the main issue

its running a custom firmware with auto bed leveling so that at least was easy

[empty wren]

What bed temp and material

[heady hazel]

80c bed temp now for petg

[empty wren]

I would do 85C if you do have issues again

[heady hazel]

yeah the first layer is not even bad

printed a small waving cat for my mom and it turned out well

[empty wren]

You could baby step Z a bit down

[heady hazel]

well the main issue seemed to have been the bed leveling, so i leveled it and redid the build mesh

[empty wren]

You can try to print a sheet later

[heady hazel]

i also checked with a piece of paper

[empty wren]

Oh sorry I mean a plastic sheet

Over the nearly the whole top surface

If you wanna be sure for larger prints

You basically print one layer thick

[heady hazel]

ohh yeah i could do that true

[empty wren]

Here is my machine, still gotta finish up the tool head design

Good ducts are not simple

Back Z arm that will not creep this time under heat and weight

[heady hazel]

damn core xy its neat ngl

[empty wren]

Even when it is finished up, it still has yet to receive the final gantry design.

So much scope creep

Also what you see is not stock anymore, I just about redesigned it all.

[heady hazel]

friend of mine designed his own from scratch its uhm a process

[empty wren]

Definitely is

[empty wren]

I wanna do that some day too

[heady hazel]

i mean he kinda stole from other designs but as far as i know he fully built it from scratch , and basically used a donor printer for the hardware.

[empty wren]

Not bad

That has easier panel sourcing than mine if he ever encloses it

[heady hazel]

he is thinking about it but he is toying with the idea of getting a multi filament printer

[empty wren]

Makes sense

Toolchangers may make a big comeback this year

AMS systems are wasteful though, the H2C helps reduce the waste with more chaos

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean i paid him 50€ for the ender so im very early in 3d printing but for now i think its more than enough for my level of printing

[empty wren]

It is giga-rabbit hole warning you now🤣

[heady hazel]

yeah i figured, lol ill add it to the pile of rabbit hole hobbies : Computers, Cars and now 3D printers

[empty wren]

Sounds expensive

😄

[heady hazel]

it is like genuinely im 3k deep in the car in mods and maintenance

over 5 years its not too bad tho

[empty wren]

So long as they make you happy

[heady hazel]

its a nissan its like a hot abusive girlfriend lol

[empty wren]

My dad has an Altima

Mostly reliable, it did stop a few times from that one pesky sensor

He bought some counterfeits replacement parts then a genuine one

[heady hazel]

Crank angle maybe?

[empty wren]

Not sure, it is like a giant USB c plug

Without the middle section

Not a car person sorry

[heady hazel]

uhh where does it sit?

[heady hazel]

ahh yeah thats the crankshaft one

[heady hazel]

the big plastic one on the right does the same essentially but its just a trigger sensor that measures crank angle and then fires the cylinder based on that

[empty wren]

Liquid leaked into it causing a failure

[heady hazel]

yeah that happens a lot

[empty wren]

Would some tarp over not help?

[empty wren]

That way it is described to me is very common yeah

[heady hazel]

oh nissans have a specific set of issues its either rust or electrical sensors

[iron wave]

I'm so happy I don't have crank sensors.

[tribal dirge]

Can't be worse than Subaru CVT failures

[sudden imp]

I swear I’ve been getting significantly more advertisements on YouTube than before

[halcyon moss]

Ublock origin in ff still works for me. Sometimes it takes a while for a video to load (I assume instead of seeing an ad)

[magic minnow]

I haven’t had any trouble on my browser

[reef patrol]

Ublock origin ln Brave. No ads, but only blacks out ads. Still gotta wait 5-10secs now and then

[thick elk]

If all fails there is still yt-dlp but no algorithm to recommend things if you go down that route

[marsh glade]

Best feeling imaginable "Experiencing disruptions? Find out why!"

[thick elk]

Usually it's fine just the start, takes a bit longer every now and again

[tacit leaf]

windows 11 iot ltsc is lowk the best version of win11

[ashen spindle]

I’m starting to think that’s just ff being slow bc it’s works much faster for me in brave

[frozen ingot]

firefox felt slower than chrome/chromium browsers for years imo

just in general

[fair gull]

cant say i noticed that but i might also just not be sensitive to slight loadtime delays

[sullen bear]

Firefox feels very responsive to me, just youtube is actively screwing it over

“Experiencing delays? Find out why” > cuz ur blocking adblockers

[fair gull]

cant even say yt is messed up on ff but maybe cause i use yt premium idk

[frozen ingot]

if you're used to firefox it probably isn't that noticable but if you go straight from chrome to ff you do notice a slight delay on loading sites in

[rough osprey]

lol that appeared after my premium ended

although i still dont see any ads

just stopping randomly in the background sometimes

[sullen bear]

Yeah thats probably it

[sullen bear]

Same

For me at most it takes 5 sec longer to load

[sullen bear]

Idk for me chrome feels sluggish af

If you said any other browser then sure

[rough osprey]

that gotta bee annoying

[sullen bear]

It stings unbeelievably

[frozen ingot]

yeah idk on my system its been the fastest for some time

[rough osprey]

all the other browsers are weird or evil too

[old marlin]

I have switched multiple times the last few years and i gotta say the experience is usually the same

[iron wave]

EVs have no need for them. :-)

[old marlin]

didn't stop companies from trying to make CVT EVs

also 2 speed gearbox EVs are becoming more common slowly

CLA 174 for example

[frozen ingot]

gears can still be of use for electric motors

[old marlin]

and CVT tech is still not at it's peak

[pale sigil]

Cousin's cooler came with rubbery thermal paste lol

Thankfully I have plenty, never seen that before.

[steady sail]

Its rate but can happen

[pale sigil]

Aye I can imagine but still surprised

I've made so so so many builds and it's a first

[teal idol]

is that a thermal right cooler?

[devout raptor]

this 9850x3d release seems like a bit of a joke

[steady sail]

Yeah it doesn’t includes AI

[devout raptor]

the marketing images look ai

[sullen bear]

Yeah i said it before somewhere else, but all the people in that video advertisement were ai too iirc

[crimson wigeon]

AIMD

[devout raptor]

great work

is it not just an overclocked 9800x3d

[fickle ore]

Nova lake >

[balmy vector]

[fickle ore]

releasing this year

[balmy vector]

Ok but when 10900x3d

[fickle ore]

No point getting that just w8 for Nova lake with stacked 3D vcache

[balmy vector]

And when crunchy air cooling

And when laptop news

[steady sail]

I don’t wanna touch intel even with a stick

[tribal dirge]

Not yet at least

[fickle ore]

I myself buy whats better. No need for brand loyalty

[iron wave]

There's literally no need.

[tribal dirge]

It's probably going to be called Ryzen AI 9 Max 468

Knowing AMD

[iron wave]

https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/cloud-gateway-fiber/products/ucg-fiber?variant=ucg-fiber

HMMMMMMM

[rough osprey]

kinda

atleast you dont need eclk to reach these clocks anymore with it

[steady sail]

Its not about brand loyalty i just could not spend money on a pc with these prices

[fickle ore]

Ah well shame

My 5800x needs an upgrade

[tribal dirge]

Intel is bouncing back I do have to admit, they are kind of getting their shit together

[steady sail]

Wait and see

[rough osprey]

Miku cpu

[tribal dirge]

They just need to cook with nova lake like the did with Panther lake

[devout raptor]

gpu prices are going up again

how much of this so called shortage is completely artificial

[rough osprey]

although amd could just be releasing slow till they get real competition

[tribal dirge]

It's not, it's simply because there is massive demand for DRAM by AI companies

[frozen ingot]

we'll find out if/when the AI house of cards blows over

[fickle ore]

It won't

[frozen ingot]

until then they got the dibs on most of the silicon wafers made

[fickle ore]

AI is gg for Ad revenue

[frozen ingot]

like even before it becomes chipsets

[fickle ore]

So Google and Meta will rock

[tribal dirge]

They're already scared of their laptop chips because Panther Lake is beating them in terms of efficiency.

[rough osprey]

damn

[fickle ore]

Panther Lake is crazy

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, not as good as like Apple Silicon though, but they are getting pretty close

Apple silicon is still the efficiency king

[rough osprey]

tim still cooking

(he made the chips himself)

[fickle ore]

Iirc Nova Lake is releasing with APX extension, so true "64 bit" like ARM has been for ages. ARM is simply just more efficient until APX. Tho AMD will use it too next gen. One of the reasons Apple silicon (ARM) is better for now

[tribal dirge]

It's also worth mentioning that the Zenbook Duo is a Dual Screen laptop.

[rough osprey]

ye ideally you would disconnect the display and everything else

[frozen ingot]

read some rumors that the ai techbros had gotten a bit of cold feet re their datacenter construction plans bc of the monetization struggles

no idea how credible those claims might be

[rough osprey]

lol

[frozen ingot]

US gubermint will probably hand them some tax money to do it anyways if that's the case

[rough osprey]

OpenAi going bankrupt would be funny

[tribal dirge]

It's probably just going to be re-negotiated to something like $25b or $50b

[leaden kiln]

I’ve been wanting to get a used apple silicon mb but tragically I live in sweden so all the keyboards are swedish layout 😭

[tribal dirge]

Lmao

Also I know people who are still holding onto their M1 MacBooks

They're just that good

[leaden kiln]

Yeah an m1 or m2 would probably work great for me aswell

[ashen spindle]

wtf are you talking about APX is AVX512 has nothing to do wioth ARM

[fickle ore]

It can do things ARM can do

[ashen spindle]

nothing of that relates to efficency

[fickle ore]

withiout it u cant

yes it is

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, ARM uses way way way different instructions than X-86 extensions

[ashen spindle]

literally nothing of APX has any relevancy about efficency of regular code

[frozen ingot]

there is treatment for ansi handicap, consult your typing rehabilitator today

[leaden kiln]

are the m2 models significant improvements? I kinda wanna get one because the screen with the notch looks funnier but they are a bit more, unsurprisingly

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, it's more about Microarchitecture optimizations and power management.

[ashen spindle]

no its about using better nodes lmao

[leaden kiln]

I just prefer the easier to reach enter, I rarely type in Swedish anyway

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, it's worth getting M2 for the stronger single core performance

[tribal dirge]

I was considering it given the A and the B CPUs being made on the same process node but yes that is a big contributing factor

[leaden kiln]

I see, hope I can find one for a nice price

[devout raptor]

edition xs worth it for 209€?

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, usually MacBooks depreciate a lot slower than windows laptops so keep that in mind when looking around

[leaden kiln]

did the M1s ever come with a Touch Bar or are the listings trying to scam me with an intel mac

[leaden kiln]

most of the ones for sale are 8gig models too

[frozen ingot]

same tbh but I can't be arsed to mess about with a custom language layout, or undo some 35 years of muscle memory

[tribal dirge]

M1 MacBook Pro 13 inch did have the old chassis with the touchbar yeah

[leaden kiln]

Hm

I wasn’t aware, good to know

[ashen spindle]

what the fuck is that reddit post

LLMs dont come up with crap like that

[tribal dirge]

Huh? Wait I need to read this twice lmao

[leaden kiln]

consult your typing rehabilitator?

[ashen spindle]

it just uses some random thing that has 32 in the name and thinks its got anything to do with 32 bit

[fickle ore]

Then read https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/advanced-performance-extensions-apx.html

[leaden kiln]

It’s gonna be impossible to find ansi so I’ll just cope anyway

[tribal dirge]

And brush up on my ARM V9.4-A stuff

[ashen spindle]

Intel APX doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs) from 16 to 32.
like that sentence alone from there shows the post you showed before is full of shit

[fickle ore]

It's more efficient and performant

case closed xD

[ashen spindle]

no?

its the best change to avx512 they did since introducing it yes

but its got jack shit to do with arm or 64bit

[frozen ingot]

if there were any significant benefits from changing layout aside from aesthetical ones I'd maybe suffer through the readjustment

[tribal dirge]

I do hope Intel brings back AVX512 when they find out how to include it on E-cores as well.

[ashen spindle]

yes nova lake has it

[frozen ingot]

but I don't care that much about having more boutique keycaps to choose from

[tribal dirge]

\o/

[fickle ore]

It's called APX now

[ashen spindle]

e cores double pump it like zen4 did

[tribal dirge]

Oh interesting

I do want to see how nova lake will perform, would like to see intel cook with them as well. Competition is always good to have.

[pale sigil]

I've got many cuts

I very much dislike cheap desktop cases lol

And fat hands

[marsh glade]

Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort desktop case 🎵 🎶

[pale sigil]

Never struggled so much wiring a computer case

But then again I was trying to make it clean for him

[marsh glade]

I installed a harddrive today only to realize that I'm out of SATA cables

How does one run out of SATA cables? Literally never happened to me before >_>

[tribal dirge]

Real

[leaden kiln]

They do be like 50%+ more expensive it seems like
I might go for one of the pro M1s instead, I can probably get some extra storage that way

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

M2 holds its value well

If possible try to find a M1 with the redesigned chassis

[leaden kiln]

is that one without Touch Bar? Or how would you recognize that

[tribal dirge]

Without the touchbar, has a notch on the screen

[leaden kiln]

Ah

I can find a few but they’re basically M2 price already

[tribal dirge]

Rip

[pale sigil]

Fucking hell

Mfg is actually impressive

2x doesn't feel horrendous on cyberpunk

[frozen ingot]

2x is usually acceptable for singleplayer games

[raw forum]

https://teenage.engineering/store/computer-2

It's your end boss

[ashen spindle]

uhh you do understand MFG 2x means litearlly just regular frame gen?

[pale sigil]

Yes but I don't see reflex on

And amd franegen I can feel the lag

[ashen spindle]

wtf does that have to do with reflex

and you dont feel the lag you feel the uneven frame pacing

[rough osprey]

apple wallet order function kinda dumb

dont think my germany to germany package will be send via USPS 😅

[old marlin]

They'd do it if you paid enough

[rough osprey]

id paid to see one of their vehicles

[frozen ingot]

which case did you get

[leaden kiln]

mine was expensive as fuck so i bet youd like it

[balmy vector]

Lagtop news!

[wheat plume]

Wtf are "living hinges"???

[sudden imp]

I meant in the yt app on my phone, I might switch to browser cause of this though. Could be gaslit testing when only some people experience this.

[reef patrol]

First lesson of CS. You ask Google before other humans.

[empty wren]

LLM could also work

[tribal dirge]

basically you flex the material (or plastically deform) it to create a hinge about an axis

these are living hinges

pretty simple

[devout raptor]

are edition xs still worth it today?

[analog sinew]

xbox?

[leaden kiln]

hifiman

[hollow path]

If its discounted in your country to the equivalent of 220 euros it’s very worth it, the headband isn’t good but the drivers make up for that big time

[raw forum]

I ain't no designer, lmao. Tho I guess as explained there where the material does the hinging 😂 thanks to both ducks

[frozen ingot]

limited use hinges

perishable hinges

[devout raptor]

they are 209€

I only have a moondrop dawn pro, so do I need a beefier dac/amp

[hollow path]

Good price

I have ran them off an Apple dongle, they’re pretty sensitive

[devout raptor]

Hmm

interesting

[pale sigil]

Ngl after putting in my cousin's 5070 I'm a tad little jealous, not enough to waste my money on one though.

Other than the rear fan being the wrong way I think I did alright with how much of a pita the case is. (It's an OEM case we re used)

[ashen spindle]

the card is barely better than yours though?

[frozen ingot]

almost like my rig

that case looks a bit smaller tho

[pale sigil]

In my defense the rear fan I didn't remove as it was cable tied and I couldn't be bothered or noticed lol

[frozen ingot]

looks like its mounted backwards though

[pale sigil]

Which?

[frozen ingot]

the rear exhaust fan

[pale sigil]

It is

[heady hazel]

5000 series really is just a letdown especially for the pricing

[pale sigil]

That's what I'm saying, we re used his ore build case so I left it alone, I didn't notice it.

[pale sigil]

Just having a new GPU feeling and mfg was nice

I was surprised how well it felt, especially vs AMDs version.

Also it was insanely butter with path tracing

[frozen ingot]

I got my 5070 below msrp during black friday

[pale sigil]

Like the game was incredibly playful high with path tracing

[frozen ingot]

yeah the 5070 got dunked on a lot bc of that awful 4090 "comparison" by jensen and costing well above listed msrp on launch

but for like €490 its great imo

[pale sigil]

It's still shit pricing

Vs say a 9070xt

[pale sigil]

Idk how much a 9070xt is in euros but I still wouldn't pay that, at least in my case.

[frozen ingot]

its quite a lot more expensive

[pale sigil]

It was quite cheap for a while but they went up a lot

[frozen ingot]

it was closer to the regular 9070 when I got mine

[pale sigil]

You could buy them msrp and cheaper for ages here

[frozen ingot]

9070 was a bit cheaper than 5070

[pale sigil]

What was your last GPU

Out of curiosity

[frozen ingot]

4060

[ashen spindle]

again, 2x isnt mfg

[pale sigil]

Ok but still

It feels nicer

I can't feel the latency

4x wasn't as bad as I thought either

[pale sigil]

Fair enough

[ashen spindle]

isnt there an optiscaler mod to have FG on 30 series?

[frozen ingot]

I would have been quite fine with the 4060 for another year or two but seeing the impending ram/wafer crisis I decided to upgrade

[pale sigil]

No idea, either way it made me a teeny bit jel, don't overthink it.

New hardware is always fun

And it feels wrong my cousin surpassed me, he's always had my hand downs lol

Or bought from a friend

[frozen ingot]

you do get some neat tricks with the nvidia tax, dlss and fg are still improving quite a lot with every new version

[pale sigil]

My 3080 was still bigger than his 5070 tho lol

Pretty sure I have the biggest 3080 model

[ashen spindle]

someone just needs to violently punch the radeon management guys to allow some more software features like fixing FSR FG desync or fsr4 on lower end gpus and that nvidia tax would get you nothing anymore

[frozen ingot]

yep

[heady hazel]

if you can get it for that price they are mostly hovering around 550€ here

[frozen ingot]

sadly amd seems to hate being truly competitive on their featureset

[pale sigil]

We didn't re install windows tho, I cleaned via AMD cleaner, ddu etc

I told him a fresh os is always nicer but he didn't want to and it he has issues he knows how to re-install himself anyway.

[heady hazel]

ok nevermind its more 600-700

[frozen ingot]

yeah I got it for that during black friday

its gone up almost €200 since then here

[pale sigil]

They are not as cheap ATM

[heady hazel]

i mean to have a meaningful upgrade to a 3080 id wager it at least have to be a 5070ti

[pale sigil]

I wouldn't even say a 5070ti is worth it

[frozen ingot]

I didn't have a 3080, my previous was a 4060

[heady hazel]

genuinely it seems that way yeah ,

[frozen ingot]

5070ti was more or less twice the money I paid for the regular 5070

[pale sigil]

I feel like my gpu got a second life when I got a 9800x3d

All my complaints went away immediately

[frozen ingot]

I don't really game enough to warrant that kind of spending on a gpu

[heady hazel]

this is the equivalent card to my current one

i paid during covid 700€ for my 3080 LHR which is nowadays just a normal 3080 since they patched out the LHR code

[lunar elm]

amd on their way to backstab themselves:

[frozen ingot]

I'll probably upgrade my cpu to an X3D sometime this year

[heady hazel]

currently running a 5900x so im not sure a 5800x3d makes sense for me

[frozen ingot]

got a 7600x atm

[lunar elm]

(it wouldnt unless you’re going all in on gaming

[heady hazel]

yeah thats what i figure with rendering etc for studies it makes sense to have the extra cores

[frozen ingot]

several of my most played games are pretty cpu intensive, an x3d would probably be quite a lift

[heady hazel]

and it does not even have a screen smh

[lunar elm]

unless you’ve got a bro to hook you up with ddr5 pricing that isnt stupid either its just better to stay in the parking lot

[heady hazel]

nah i dont, im just gonna ride out am4 maybe amd is gonna release a new wave of am4 chips

[pale sigil]

It was night and day for me

Also I agree, ride it out or AliExpress 5700x3d

[lunar elm]

there wont be any worthwhile “new” am4 chips unless amd flips the script backwards for it which they wont and shouldnt

they’re not gonna revise DDR4 platform CPUs just for consumers

[nimble arch]

You'd be better off getting used AM5 if you want/need to save money

[pale sigil]

The 1%s aloke going to x3d Is huge

[bright briar]

thats how it was for me when i went from 5800x to 9800x3d

[pale sigil]

Definitely

Not that it matters in this example

XD XD XD

Still a huge increase

[bright briar]

yeah the 5800x would give me micro stutters in games sometimes and 9800x3d been flawless

[pale sigil]

Yup! That's the main reason, mine stuttered like mad, gaming annoyed meetc

Everything became butter smooth after upgrade!

[lunar elm]

Unless you can get a MC bundle for DDR5- Forget about DDR5 in total

[nimble arch]

Damn, the RAM kit I purchased back in 2023 has been selling for £300 used

[pale sigil]

Ye it's nuts

My cousin paid £280 for his ram

[nimble arch]

It's not even that good of a kit

[pale sigil]

Same for his

[nimble arch]

It's CL36

[pale sigil]

C36

[raw forum]

Sick, I am upgrading once GTA 6 gets announced for PC otherwise not worth at these prices imo 😂

[pale sigil]

Chuffed, my cousin did some drilling into the wall for me so now my router is in a better place and my speeds are wonderful.

[heady hazel]

i mean there are rumors of added x3d chips but hard to say

[ashen spindle]

no theres not

[pale sigil]

Sold my motherboard today which was the last bit of my old kit, however I chuckled a little after the guy left because the reason he got a new motherboard was due to Windows 11 requirements 😅

Which he could have easily bypassed 😅

[tribal dirge]

Except games are starting to require secure boot and TPM 2.0

Which are not easy to circumvent

[nimble arch]

Yeah, people will have to upgrade if the eyre gamers.

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, it's just sad that it's gotten to this point, this is why cheaters are scummy

[nimble arch]

Same for the PS4 and Switch 1 slowly losing the live service titles.

The side effect is that some people are getting priced out of gaming.

[pale sigil]

True

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, esp with the DRAM shortage

[pale sigil]

PS5s are surprisingly expensive so long after release.

Tis weird