🔌│tech

[tribal dirge]

yeah

[magic minnow]

I want a pebble 2 time

But kinda pricey

[wheat plume]

Im sad they dont sell the Duo anymore

I emailed them, they said its out of stock permanently

time 2 is fairly ugly imo

[magic minnow]

Yeah apparently they had a small stock because they found a box with a couple of them

[wheat plume]

hmm

[pale sigil]

I wouldn't have wanted old tech anyway

[old marlin]

qi2

the pebble ring is such an odd device to me

[latent mural]

Does it make sense for me to get a 9800x3d if I already have a 9700x? Im debating but idk if its worth paying 200 more after the newegg trade in

[ashen spindle]

probably not

[latent mural]

Im debating cuz im mostly at 1440p and got a nicer -35 undervolt so it runs nice and cool

[ashen spindle]

save the money and upgrade next gen or when you need a new gpu that makes more sense then

[latent mural]

Likely yea

Probably get the next gen version when im upgrading from the 5070ti

[lunar elm]

no just save it

only situation I’d get it rn is if your ram is doodoo spec and you want to slap an x3d to bypass those losses

[thick elk]

Also very much depends on what you play.

but cases where it is worth it now, rare.

[latent mural]

yea no im running 64gbs of ddr5 6000mhz cl30 I got from a friend

Im mostly playing cyberpunk and stellaris on the pc, when its not gaming I'm mostly just working in python for undergrad work

[sullen bear]

Its only worth it for certain games, in this case, no its not worth it

[latent mural]

8 cores have been plenty for me, yea I think I'd rather save the money anhd invest in a potential upgrade next cycle

9700x also boost clocks slightly higher and runs cooler even when unlocked to the 120watt tdp right?

[thick elk]

Stellaris would be one of the most impacted games though.

but even then if it runs fast enough it runs fast enough.

[latent mural]

It runs pretty good, I dont notice any slowdowns. I was mostly considering an upgrade at all as I was already moving from my tower build to mini-itx and noticed newegg has bundle discounts

otherwise, I've been happy with my build so far

[thick elk]

In that case sounds like an everything is running fine no need to upgrade for a good while.

[latent mural]

thanks for the advice y'all

[halcyon moss]

Python does not benefit from x3d anyway

[latent mural]

it dosen't yea, I was looking at the x3d as a mostly gaming upgrade

but now I understand it would mostly be a side grade for me

[cerulean arch]

Not if you oc 9800X3D with ECLK, no

I run 5.75ghz

[balmy vector]

I just waiting for next cpus

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/DylanMcD8/status/2033263446578311387?s=20 lol

Dylan (@DylanMcD8)

Okay so apparently there's no thermal pad on MacBook Neo (why?), so it doesn't get hot externally. Explains why Photos keeps saying "Mac needs to cool down" LOL

X · Mar 15, 2026, 7:25 PM

[crimson wigeon]

Oh 8 gigs of RAM and overheating in normal use, nice

Unless that's just a thing to prevent it from getting too warm to touch

[wheat plume]

Ok how TF you have this many photos?!

[ashen spindle]

that screenshot doesnt show a number of how many there are anywhere?

[bright briar]

just look at his face. It explains the situation

[bright briar]

wdym?

[ashen spindle]

I mean that the screenshot doesnt say how many photos there are?

[ashen spindle]

for all we know he recorded one super long video lmao

[bright briar]

thats true

[ashen spindle]

yeah thats a file size not a count

[bright briar]

is this not related ?

[ashen spindle]

idk

didnt notice its the same guy but then im confused whats the point of lanas screenshot when the photo count is in the first tweet?

[bright briar]

yeah that i cant explain nor do i have the answer for it

[tribal dirge]

I can find that believable, all the photos, videos and scanned films that I have total up to about 8TB on my NAS

albeit they are pretty high res

usually between 24-100MP

[small frigate]

What stabilizer replacement should I get on my wooting two he

[fickle ore]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ru8y3d/reverse_engineering_apples_gpu_power_model/

[ashen spindle]

kinda old news

[thick elk]

Did not pay attention to it, but would say generally a good hardware reviewer verifies if power consumption in software at least matches reality.

[ashen spindle]

that and its just been known since forever that the reporting isnt accurate

as andrei posts about in the thread, he was the one that did mobile reviews at anandtech

only nvidia cards have the right hardware to measure that and report it correctly

[gusty kiln]

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

[lyric hatch]

The problem with alternatives is convincing entire friend groups to move over

[bleak merlin]

My friend group moved over 😛

[tribal dirge]

Most of my friend circles use iMessage or snap

[bleak merlin]

Well depends on what type of people you mingle with

My friend group uses IRC 😛

[smoky parrot]

I miss mIRC

[bleak merlin]

🚬

[tribal dirge]

They're all "normal" people ig

[bleak merlin]

Yeah normies won't bother

[modern sky]

I just use multiple platforms and dont care tbh

i try to move people onto one but its okay if they dont, most of my friends are spread between stoat and discord atm

[bleak merlin]

Tho I did convince one singular normie friend to use XMPP so that's an achievement ig

[modern sky]

also having to make a snapchat account stinks the thing is so invasive

[tribal dirge]

It is

[minor coral]

chat I got it

[covert steppe]

I haven't used snap in a hot minute, like I used it most of highschool, but now I just use insta

[sinful quest]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-gif-9320398

[unkempt lake]

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

[fast sable]

does pc case come with fans screws?

[covert steppe]

no

[fast sable]

well then this pain in ahh

w Lian li for me giving lil ahh screws

https://tenor.com/view/higuruma-hiromi-higuruma-jujutsu-kaisen-jujutsu-kaisen-meme-jjk-memes-gif-10370496866020481076

[fast sable]

anybody have HYTE Y70?

[lunar elm]

nah the fans themselves supposed to

[fast sable]

real

same here

[winter patrol]

my lancool 216 came with a box like this with screws and stuff

[umbral heron]

[fair gull]

i mean the answer is yes

just

the slowness man

[fair gull]

i really hope discords fudge up makes forums come back

[umbral heron]

Or will make the situation worse

[reef patrol]

https://vxtwitter.com/markgadala/status/2033230495283351624?s=46&t=ye1w8Yh6KR9_xVHfwN3X2g

Mark Gadala-Maria (@markgadala)

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being a…

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 15, 2026, 5:15 PM

Thank you valued customer.

[umbral heron]

I mean... no surprise there
They were collecting data since Ingress, their previous AR game, and using the data for a long time to improve Google Maps and other Google services, AI is just another Google service

[reef patrol]

[umbral heron]

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

[halcyon moss]

i should buy a new pc now right

[umbral heron]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/asrock-launches-new-frankensteined-motherboard-with-one-ddr4-slot-and-two-ddr5-slots-intel-board-signals-the-ram-apocalypse-is-truly-nigh

[shadow condor]

Lowk W

[analog sinew]

weird but kinda oddly useful

[reef patrol]

Nothing new, but unsurprised to see it reoccur given the current crisis.

DDR3 to 4 and 4 to 5 spawned numerous mixed boards, or ones with new CPU old RAM.

[thick elk]

mixed memory motherboards with both ddr4 and 5 on the same boards are rare though and really a product of the current memory pricing.

Do wonder how it performs combining ddr4 and 5

[reef patrol]

Are they? I guess I've just seen a lot of the few there are 😄

[umbral heron]

You can't use DDR4 and DDR5 at once, CPU only handles one at a time

[reef patrol]

Yeah wouldn't surprise me if it's one or the other only.

Lol... Imagine failing at something that obvious. Should have been a single DDR5 slot.

[umbral heron]

They could just do 2xDDR4 and 2xDDR5

[reef patrol]

Maybe it got too pricy with wiring in the PCB layers? Dunno.

[jaunty ivy]

This... is just incorrect. Most of it at least

[reef patrol]

Tech journalism getting numbers wrong? Call me shocked.

My point was using two 5 slots instead of two 4 slots.

[umbral heron]

Officially they can run up to 5600MT/s, just like Ryzen 9xxx
But they support as high of a frequency as you can get out of sticks and as long as it's still stable

[jaunty ivy]

DDR4 can utilise all 4 slots pretty well. It's pointless using 4 slots with DDR5 as it'll likely be too unstable to run above 4800mt/s

And speed above 4800mt/s you would consider an overclock

[jaunty ivy]

I've seen 9000 series running like 6400mt/s at 1:1, even 8000+ at 2:1

But unless your motherboard is top teir it's not gonna happen

[umbral heron]

And I'm running my 9950x3d 1:1 at 6000mt/s
But in specs it says that it officially supports up to 5600mt/s, and that's what journalists will say

https://office.eu/

[nimble arch]

Microsoft lawsuit in 3…

[lunar elm]

yeah coz the minimum every bin gets is 5600

I know a dude who had to do 1.28vsoc for 6000 c36 9800x3d-absolute turd

my 9800x3d couldnt get past 6000 to 6200

my 9950x3d currently runs 6200C26 and potentially 7800C36, but didnt fully test G2 yet

with the release of 9850x3d its apparently more common to get worse samples on the 9800x3d now

but 9850x3d is essentially guaranteed to do 6400 and 8000

[halcyon moss]

who makes this?

[fair gull]

yeah who actually runs this

[rough patrol]

some dutch company

EUfforic Europe B.V.

looks like nextcloud pretty much

[fair gull]

if only nextclouds storage was good

i wanted to have a more private gdrive like portal but nextcloud sucks butt

[rough patrol]

self host

[fair gull]

on that note: if anyone has a good selfhosted gdrive like alternative im all ears. only need the storage part and nothing else

[deft sapphire]

I saw cloudreve recently, haven't tried it out yet

[fair gull]

looks good from a surface level view. i might try it later today

[umbral heron]

$90 for Lifetime Pro license? It's a steal

[magic minnow]

Preordered this they have no working model at the moment, so let’s see how it goes

[ashen spindle]

it says open source but I dont find a link to the code?

also some of these faq answers are very odd

[rough patrol]

website looks quite uh

vibe coded

[ashen spindle]

yeah

[reef patrol]

Why is the phone thicker than a lunchbox?

[ashen spindle]

privacy policy links to a pdf hosted on your-objectstorage

and theres not imprint of the site

[rough patrol]

theres more weird stuff with it

its all nextcloud rebranded looks like

[magic minnow]

To be comfy apparently

[rough patrol]

and the scrolling banner with logos is just people that use nextcloud but makes it look like they are customers

[reef patrol]

OH IT'S ANOTHER PHONE ANGLED. DERP

This is what I saw.

[magic minnow]

https://youtu.be/KCY5OMs5EBU?

[reef patrol]

Battery for days with a thickness like a lunchbox xD

[umbral heron]

Looks like your-objectstorage is Hetzner's S3 equivalent
But it all looks fishy af

[rocky quest]

Proton Drive might work

[nimble arch]

That's not self-hosted

[rocky quest]

Oh my bad lol 😂

[umbral heron]

I love HP

My laptop seemingly died out of nowhere, it was blinking Num Lock and Caps Lock, so hardware failure

[nimble arch]

HP

[umbral heron]

I popped out CMOS battery for a minute, plugged back in, works

Our company is all HPs

They didn't want to give me Macbook

[reef patrol]

Sensible company.

[umbral heron]

We made it clear - we want Linux or macOS

https://opendaw.org/

[magic minnow]

MacBook Neo time

[umbral heron]

I want to work on it though

[reef patrol]

How does having an HP laptop prevent you from using Linux though?

[umbral heron]

But we are using Linux

[reef patrol]

So you're having a non issue. You want Linux or MacOS, and you already have that 😄

[marsh glade]

Arch btw

[reef patrol]

MacOs is trapping yourself into a very slim ecosystem. Using general laptops is not.

[nimble arch]

Apple silicon clears any x86 laptop though

[ashen spindle]

the complaint wasnt about that though? it was that HP laptops are kinda bad and thats what the company got instead of macbooks

[reef patrol]

That is not what Calsy said though 😛

[reef patrol]

It might - But you're stuck relying on Apple's expensive Applecare service, which really adds up as a company.

[umbral heron]

Yee, and we wanted Macbooks at first
But they gave HPs with preinstalled Windows, and we said we want Linux or macOS
So company let us use Linux
We'd still prefer Macbooks though, but it's only for higher-ups

[lunar elm]

With this treasure I summon- X7 358H Pantherlake

Save x86.
Intel PantherLake

[rough osprey]

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-airpods-max-2-powered-by-h2/

random

[analog sinew]

fork

[lyric hatch]

We have the pleasant experience of supporting both HP and MacBooks

[tribal dirge]

Yeah I saw, very tempting

[umbral heron]

We have a lot of internal tools we made ourselves
But they target Linux, so porting to macOS is usually very easy
Whereas a lot of them don't work on Windows at all

[sullen bear]

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

[analog sinew]

yeah the helium supply was always sus af

[rough osprey]

how are we gonna fill balloons now

[analog sinew]

it has already risen a lot over the years in prices

i'd expect a fab to recover most of their helium tho

even our uni collected our helium from cryogenic equipment and pumped it to the physics building for liquification.

[marsh glade]

Semiconductors are the most complex product ever mass manufactured, with supply chains that reach every corner of the Earth; tens of thousands of companies across 100 countries or more.

It fully and completely relies on the freedom of navigation as defended by the United States Navy under the post-Bretton Woods world order.

However, the US has demonstrated that not only is it incapable and unwilling to defend the freedom of navigation, it has expressly acted to hamper it.

The only logical conclusion to that train of thought is that semiconductor manufacturing at scale can't continue if this geopolitical trend continues, yet the entire global economy relies on it.

[analog sinew]

what kind of navy recruitment ad is this

[marsh glade]

I can't imagine a world without it, and I sure hope things change so that I don't have to

[analog sinew]

i place my hope on the guy with the Fab shed

[ashen spindle]

They have months worth of helium resources it’s not going to change anything if this is all that’s happening

Only if more things happen would they have to look into mitigations

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, liquid helium has the benefit of being relatively easy to store in large quantities

Especially compared to other materials/chemicals that are typically stored at FABs

Like the photoresist chemicals

If your photoresist chemical supply gets affected/strained you're kind of cooked.

[marsh glade]

According to the Boston Consulting Group, there are more than 50 unique steps in the semiconductor supply chain where over 65% of all the existing supply is controlled by a single region.
https://web-assets.bcg.com/25/6e/7a123efd40199020ed1b4114be84/emerging-resilience-in-the-semiconductor-supply-chain-r.pdf

The good news is that the smartest people in the world know that this a problem and need to solve it, so there's hope I guess

[tribal dirge]

I'm not surprised, semiconductor fabrication is incredibly difficult

And the initial investment cost is extremely high, only companies with large enough capital can have a chance at it, but for most it's more feasible to go fabless (like Nvidia, Apple, and AMD)

And also lots of trade secrets that are very heavily guarded

[red swift]

My order for the Wooting 60HE v2 is currently showing “Pending – order on pause awaiting administrative attention.” I just wanted to ask if there is anything I need to do on my side to continue the order?

[reef patrol]

It should immediately be followed by "Reach out to us if it says this for more than 24 hours"

[red swift]

🙏

[reef patrol]

https://wooting.io/support

[vagrant pagoda]

foss audiotool?

audiotool is the OG

[ashen spindle]

oh god dlss5 ist just a snapchat filter that yassifies the faces and turns ambience into shit

[vapid ruin]

From Carol to Karen lmao

[reef patrol]

So they're basically running shitty AI filters.

[ashen spindle]

maybe RT is off in the first?

but either way this is just shit

[vapid ruin]

legit all atmosphere is lost, just looks AI generated

[lapis plaza]

What is wrong with it?

[reef patrol]

Are you serious?

It's this kind of shit all over again.

[lapis plaza]

🤔

I dont know what you are referring to

[reef patrol]

[ashen spindle]

see the background that just lost the entire fog and atmosphere that was set up? the faces that look like its gone through a chadface instragram filter and got a new jawbone?

[lapis plaza]

For the fog ok but dont you think the face photo realistic would be what we could have got in like 5 generation without AI and pure raster power improvement? I mean it looks like a normal evolution of faces in video game

[ashen spindle]

??? this isnt the face that the developers made is the issue lol

if they wanted her jawbone to be different they could have done that

[lapis plaza]

Ok I see better what you mean in this video

https://x.com/TechKard/status/2033613371959058927?s=20

Doesnt look like a videogame anymore

Piyush Bhasarkar (@TechKard)

First look at DLSS 5! Fusion of structured graphics and generative AI.

A trailer shows off DLSS 5 over games like Resident Evil Requiem, FC 26, Starfield and more.

#DLSS5 #NVIDIA

▶ Play video

X · Mar 16, 2026, 6:36 PM

[vagrant pagoda]

the irony that dlss nukes the lightning/rt

[reef patrol]

It's one step short of "Grok please change the main character to be a different skin colour, using this portrait of oscar winning actress so and so, while also making her an H cup"

[lapis plaza]

Yeah after seeing the video not sure I like it

It removes the timbre of the game

[sullen bear]

It looks uncanny

[vagrant pagoda]

it looks bad

[sullen bear]

But for fifa it looks good

[steady sail]

[frozen ingot]

hope that filtering stuff is still optional

because that goes way beyond "supersampling"

[fair gull]

you can clearly tell both are AI genned

[frozen ingot]

honestly though the og face doesn't look that great either for a 2026 game

[ashen spindle]

I mean my guess its not using a fair comparison and probably has effects turned off lol

but either way its at least not a yassified instagram

[steady sail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZlwTtgbgVA

[ashen spindle]

yeah the only good example in there is maybe starfield because that looked hot trash by default

[frozen ingot]

still retains the weird ass mouth movements when they talk though

[steady sail]

https://x.com/nvidiageforce/status/2033617732147810782?s=46 i love the comment section

NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce)

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall.

DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

Learn More → https://t.co/yHON3nGyxE

▶ Play video

X · Mar 16, 2026, 6:53 PM

[reef patrol]

If you say so. No one without a Twatter account can read them 😛

[marsh glade]

Can't see comments, so sad

Heh beat me to it

[lapis plaza]

Just make a fake account

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/N4xCVPenanVcI

[lapis plaza]

Then no comments 🤷‍♂️

[marsh glade]

My quality of life is measurably better by never interacting with Twitter comments

[frozen ingot]

ah yes we need mrs plasticface instead

[lapis plaza]

I only use twitter to get UFO news

[frozen ingot]

great job "fans"

[tribal dirge]

why is, dlss adding extra detail that was previously not there? or did they just decrease the LOD bias?

[ashen spindle]

The AI model is trained end to end to understand complex scene semantics such as characters, hair, fabric and translucent skin, along with environmental lighting conditions like front-lit, back-lit or overcast — all by analyzing a single frame. DLSS 5 then uses its deep understanding to generate visually precise images that handle complex elements such as subsurface scattering on skin, the delicate sheen of fabric and light-material interactions on hair, all while retaining the structure and semantics of the original scene.

[reef patrol]

Scroll up and look.

[ashen spindle]

tldr ai image filter slop

[lapis plaza]

I wonder if you run twice the scene will the graphic will be the same?

Is it deterministic?

[ashen spindle]

maybe, likely still has temporal parts as well

[lapis plaza]

Still I think that dlss 5 will be good after 1 or 2 years

[ashen spindle]

nothing here makes me think it will

it might, but theres nothing here that points me towards believing it

[lapis plaza]

It looks almost too much

[frozen ingot]

almost

[lapis plaza]

I dont know they might tune down photo realism

[frozen ingot]

[ashen spindle]

yeah and throw out half the feature because its not making the light better it just instagram filters it

[rough osprey]

cant they release interesting stuff like reflex 2

[steady sail]

Or the 6090 ?

[tribal dirge]

its still very much in development according to digital foundry at least

I wouldnt say too much about it, I will form my opinions about DLSS 5 once they release it to everyone

that does make me curious as to how DLSS 5 will handle DLAA

[ashen spindle]

if its an early state dont show a shit preview and call it dlss5

[lapis plaza]

Wait there is worse guys

https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/2033629852192907490?s=20

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus)

NVIDIA, the company that partnered with war profiteer Palantir to "accelerate everything they do," wants you to know it really loves Palantir. Here's their late Valentine's Day card, complete with <3s

X · Mar 16, 2026, 7:41 PM

[ashen spindle]

first time dlss had a massive regression

[steady sail]

Yeah that doesn’t looks like its in early development

[lapis plaza]

I found someone saying it will be out in september or something

[ashen spindle]

I dont want to look at deep learning sora slop in my games

[lapis plaza]

End of the year

[lunar elm]

the neural shit in charge of the face i think is an optional feature

[ashen spindle]

its the only thing that could be good if tuned down lmao

[reef patrol]

From the makers of fake frames, fake content. Just wait a generation or two, and we're just getting spoonfed with models and no textures for AI to halliculate.

[lapis plaza]

It will end up with dev putting cube around the game and AI making what it want out of it

[frozen ingot]

at least the basement dweller gamers will be happy, no more of those ugly woke style women in videogames, now they can goonfilter every female in every game

[lunar elm]

It could look good but some of them just straight up look like a mirror being too shiny

[tribal dirge]

it also requires a shit ton of processing power, the demos they showed required a dual 5090 pc with one running the model in real time and the other running the game

[ashen spindle]

the faces are instagram filters losing the artistic intent and the rest of the scene just looks different as if you use a reshade filter

[lapis plaza]

My main issue is that it doesnt really look like the same person, and second it does not translate anymore the timbre of the game. It kills the vibe

[reef patrol]

The faces also look dead.

[lunar elm]

this is a very early version thats not optimised at all- they plan to ship it on simply one card, its not gonna happen till way later this year or even next, considering 4.5 just got its official release

[lapis plaza]

Dont like nvidia but impressed by 4.5 upscaling

[rough osprey]

cant the gpu just generate the whole game

[lapis plaza]

This I dont know

[lapis plaza]

It could very well end up like this

[steady sail]

I can’t wait for DLSS 6 and its just Sora making the game for you

[tribal dirge]

yeah I know

[lapis plaza]

Or maybe nvidia is not really into gaming anymore and is a little bit out of touch

[ashen spindle]

if its a preview dont show a preview where the tool just makes it all look worse

[frozen ingot]

you haven't been keeping up that well have you

they haven't really cared about gaming for the past half decade

[lapis plaza]

I actually never owned a nvidia card

Went into gaming with amd

[frozen ingot]

every gpu I've had since 1999 except for one has been nvidia

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/carygolomb/status/2033632506482688449?s=20

Cary Golomb (@carygolomb)

AMD GPUs DON'T have DLSS 5.

Practically it's best feature!

X · Mar 16, 2026, 7:52 PM

[frozen ingot]

had a radeon hd3850 I think it was

[tribal dirge]

FSR5 when?

[steady sail]

Thats just true

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-amd-fsr2-radeon-upscaling-gif-14361789650951144310

[tribal dirge]

if FSR5 can match the performance of DLSS 4.5 I would be happy

[ashen spindle]

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7qs7s5GbA

[frozen ingot]

it'll be just enough behind to honor jensen and lisas under the table agreement

[ashen spindle]

the next step is basically there then its almost the same again and I hope they stay away from this horror

[lunar elm]

dont worry it’ll only be with RDNA 5 and it’ll be in like 0.5 games at launch

[tribal dirge]

I wouldnt be surprised if the two companies have been colluding with each other tbh

[ashen spindle]

that makes no sense

unlike dram they dont have a market that would benefit both from colluding

[frozen ingot]

am kinda convinced they are given how amd seemingly drops the ball on their gpu tech over and over where they could collect easy Ws

or they really are just that incompetent

not sure which is worse really

[ashen spindle]

what easy W in hardware are you talking about that they are missing

[tribal dirge]

entirely possible

[ashen spindle]

I think people are very much underestimating how difficult hardware is

[lapis plaza]

I am gaming since 2022 first I got a 6700 non xt now I have a 9070xt. My friend has a 5080 I just envy the fact that dlss is available in more games

[steady sail]

FSR4 is in a lot of games but u have to enable it in Adrenalin

[lapis plaza]

For new game yes older game no

[steady sail]

What older game would benefit from FSR 4 in your opinion?

[thick elk]

Also still wonder why they officially lock fsr4 to rdna4 on windows .I guess it's about validation and consistency but still not great.

[lapis plaza]

Or you need to use optiscaler

[ashen spindle]

no its bad management decisions

even fsr3.1 was a update they could only barely push out, management wanted that all to be in fsr4

[thick elk]

Just seems too stupid for managment to segment like that. sucks though.

[lapis plaza]

Apparently there is a rumor saying it will be available on older model

[ashen spindle]

its a rumor based on nothing

some random person just said that on reddit with no credibility or source

[lapis plaza]

Good question actually I dont know

[thick elk]

It does work on linux by emulating the instructions. though. If they wanted to they could on windows too.

[umbral heron]

What happened with Nvidia?

[steady sail]

Yes

[ashen spindle]

GTC is happening

[lapis plaza]

Yeah it is almost sometime like if amd was sabotaging its radeon

The owner of 7900xtx might be mad

[ashen spindle]

sabotage would mean they understand a decision is bad, they just dont understand the market

[umbral heron]

I just saw they are in bed in Palantir

[thick elk]

But managment incompetence maies a lot of sense though. Sadly

[ashen spindle]

oh thats just part of the opening slide of showing all their lovely partners

[frozen ingot]

that's been known since a few months now

[lapis plaza]

They are very proud of it apparently

[umbral heron]

Yeah, but they didn't shown this in people's faces

[ashen spindle]

they did

previous on stage talk by jensen had a segment about palantir using nvidia and their collab already

[lapis plaza]

I think they are showing it because they dont care anymore what public and gamers are thinking, but it makes stockholder happy

[ashen spindle]

yup

[umbral heron]

[ashen spindle]

cant stay biggest public company by following morals

[lapis plaza]

But it is not a surprise the control grid to monitor world population gotta run on something

[jaunty rose]

HAHAHAHA NVIDIA VERY FUNNY EARLY APRIL FOOLS JOKE AJAJAJJAAJJADAFKJLNBHFAEGYSBUHLIJVOGBLYUAIHOJVEOGEYIUHBLODSP:NEAGFUIOHP(BN:uogreuhoahunoi;gjber

[umbral heron]

What about this?

[lapis plaza]

This is the rumor I have seen

[umbral heron]

Wonder if it's only MLID-level of leak, so not a leak at all, just speculation

[lapis plaza]

For some reason on arc raiders when using native I have some flickers in the tree, when I siwtch to fsr no more flickers

[umbral heron]

Would be fitting when it comes to AMD

[ashen spindle]

no its someone making a reddit post about it that has no content about it and just the headline saying its coming to rx6000

so, basically just random post that could be true or not

ask your local coinflip whats true

[lapis plaza]

Honestly amd should better hire the optiscaler developper and let them implement stuff in adrenalin

[steady sail]

CalsAI is it true or not ?

[steady sail]

Thats not how it works tho

[lapis plaza]

I dont understand why it wouldnt work?

[ashen spindle]

if you add a mod that overrides dlss into fsr you are instantly going to get hit with a lawsuit if you are amd lmao

[umbral heron]

AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity
I'll stay with INT8 FSR4 and OptiScaler

[lapis plaza]

Oh that is for legal reason?

[ashen spindle]

partly yes

[lapis plaza]

Ok you convinced me tomorrow I will try optiscaler

[umbral heron]

Oh, and DLSS5 is AI slop, cool

[ashen spindle]

deep learning sora slop

[jaunty rose]

https://tenor.com/view/ren-and-stimpy-ren-stimpy-wake-up-day-ruined-gif-22521235

[frozen ingot]

am really hoping the slopification mode is optional

[jaunty rose]

me too............

[steady sail]

[frozen ingot]

dlss was doing so well up to 4.5

[umbral heron]

Sure is
30FPS native or normal FPS with slopification

[steady sail]

Everyone has a dual 5090 system at home

[lapis plaza]

Imagine they force everyone to look at this all day 😂

[tribal dirge]

It likely is, my best guess is that they will make 2 different presets, kinda like with DLSS 4.5.

[lapis plaza]

Yeah honestly we are making fun of it but I am sure they will make it good with something like this

[tribal dirge]

One preset being more aggressive and sacrifices latency and another that is less aggressive with maybe different model settings that has better latency and less processing overhead.

[steady sail]

This never gonna look good

[umbral heron]

Time to sell XTX and get 5080

[dense solar]

Yo guys is there a good video with sound from diffrent switches?

[tribal dirge]

It's fine, they just need to refine the model to not "overcook" it if you know what I mean.

[steady sail]

Its an undercooked sora filter

[tribal dirge]

Nah it's high key overcooked, it's doing too much

[dense solar]

Holy fuck

[tribal dirge]

Which is what people are mainly complaining about

[umbral heron]

[dense solar]

read my message

[ashen spindle]

no

[steady sail]

No

[dense solar]

Holy f what is this Furry discord

[ashen spindle]

https://fixupx.com/i/status/2033634199522185312

NikTek (@NikTek)

Nvidia showing gamers this and calling it the future:
︀︀
︀︀NO DLSS vs DLSS 5

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FixupX · Mar 16, 2026, 7:59 PM

okay

[umbral heron]

#🔧│keyboard_modding Try there

[steady sail]

I mean there is a link in #🪛│modding_faq

[dense solar]

"i mean"

Holy f its the same ppl typing in there

[ashen spindle]

literally not because its a faq where nobody is talking in but you do you

[dense solar]

ok buddy uwu

[reef patrol]

Someone needs a nap.

[lapis plaza]

You are not in the good channel I think at least go in general

[ashen spindle]

maybe he just is hungry

[dense solar]

no its tech

[jaunty rose]

You speak like a teenager who’s stuck in the year 2020

[frozen ingot]

this ain't a furry discord sorry pal

[lapis plaza]

The whole discord is tech

[tribal dirge]

In the big 26 at that

[frozen ingot]

except for #staff_furry_roleplay but that's secret

[tribal dirge]

Real

[steady sail]

But the Furry Staff RP Chat

[lapis plaza]

There is a video with the sound of the switches but I do not have the link sorry

[dense solar]

HAHAhahhahahahahahahahahah
bro u litteraly has he/him in ur name I love you too Vern ^w^

i cant im out

[jaunty rose]

Cya dude

[umbral heron]

[lapis plaza]

Wtf

[ashen spindle]

careful dont get hit by the door on the way out

[pale sigil]

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/2033634199522185312

NikTek (@NikTek)

Nvidia showing gamers this and calling it the future:
︀︀
︀︀NO DLSS vs DLSS 5

**💬 9 🔁 32 ❤️ 329 👁️ 4.6K **

FxTwitter · Mar 16, 2026, 7:59 PM

[jaunty rose]

Brother hating pronouns and being in a loving relationship

[pale sigil]

Why it no show both

[frozen ingot]

bruh scroll up literally 2 mins

[pale sigil]

Bruh

I replied

[frozen ingot]

bruhhhhh

[ashen spindle]

bruh youre literally replying with the same post

[pale sigil]

Yes 🙂‍↕️

[reef patrol]

When bruh bruh, bruh

[pale sigil]

I was changing the url

[tribal dirge]

Real lmaooo

[pale sigil]

Usually fxtwitter shows both images in embed

For some reason it isn't this time

[lapis plaza]

I dont know the link of the video with the switches otherwise I would have helped

[ashen spindle]

it shows both in my post though

[pale sigil]

Not for me XD

[jaunty rose]

Vxtwitter also works

[pale sigil]

The fuck now it is

[ashen spindle]

furries and their inability to see a second image smh

[pale sigil]

I swear it wasn't originally

[pale sigil]

I'll fucken ban you

Wait now mines showing both images

What the hell

[reef patrol]

[rough osprey]

ew grey discord

[tribal dirge]

I am able to see a 2nd image!!

[ashen spindle]

first I get hit on by a adolescent furry teen with anger issues then the brits cant see a second image smh

[jaunty rose]

People are fast with these jokes

[umbral heron]

[ashen spindle]

THE EYES

[tribal dirge]

Clearly, but Nvidia will likely see the reaction and then dial it back.

[tribal dirge]

Bro got lazy eye or what?

[frozen ingot]

dude's been smoking some heavy shit

[jaunty rose]

1000% (unless they’re stupid)

[tribal dirge]

I want some of that ngl

[reef patrol]

Aye lad. You seen me Skooma? Aye lad... whys there four of ye? Aye lad...

[lapis plaza]

https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/2033645717634334895?s=20

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus)

What was the prompt for this one? "Upscale this Altmer elf, but make it look like he owns an island?"

X · Mar 16, 2026, 8:44 PM

[tribal dirge]

Bro got possessed by DLSS 5

[lapis plaza]

Crazy that noone at nvidia told it was maybe not a good idea to present dlss 5 now

[frozen ingot]

jeffrey elfstein

[tribal dirge]

I'm pretty sure the people actually making the model probably didn't want the marketing team to show the model in its current state but the marketing people did anyways.

[steady sail]

Its like this

[frozen ingot]

my god the memes just keep flooding in

[modern sky]

funny enough, arguably some games like starfield outright look worse

the animations get so messy and jiggly

[lapis plaza]

Yeah this thing need some improvment

[lapis plaza]

Yeah crazy how it ended up

[tribal dirge]

Also DLSS 5 wasn't the only thing they announced

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/space-computing

Orbital datacenters

I guess the small benefit of this is that it could help with weather prediction.

[umbral heron]

bringing AI compute to orbital data centers
we are truly living in the worst timeline, huh?

[lapis plaza]

It is insane how powerful this company has become almost feel like a blade runner corp

From video game to this

[thick elk]

Wait it is real, the whole idea is pretty stupid imo throwing artistic intent out the window. It's all slob in the future why blame devs for ai generating when we can make the whole world look ai generated.

[modern sky]

yay more space trash

cant wait for it to get blasted away and nvidia to do absolutely nothing about that just like the strips of copper nails america shot into our orbit to get better radio range

[tribal dirge]

I mean, we already have a bunch of starlink satellites in LOE

[lapis plaza]

I think these companies are just setting up a control grid that is the purpose of these data center but I also wear a tinfoil hat daily

[modern sky]

starlink at least has a decent purpose despite me absolutely hating elon and anything hes doing

[thick elk]

The problem is gpu's have no good reason to deal with the many drawbacks of being in space

[tribal dirge]

Solar radiation, but supposedly they made a special Vera Rubin module that can handle the harsher environments in space

[lapis plaza]

The only advantage of these orbital datacenter is that they are probably safer over there. Why would they want to get very safe datacenter that is the question

[tribal dirge]

They call it Space-1

[umbral heron]

Creative

[thick elk]

Problem is heat, you can only get rid of if via infrared, not to mention to cost to launch it in space. It's solar roadway levels of stupid.

[lapis plaza]

Soon they will install camera everywhere for security purpose, well not our security but the security of elite, and they will monitor everyone with the help of these data center.

[tribal dirge]

It's a solved problem however, like how they are able to regulate the temperature of the ISS.

[thick elk]

Just lile you can build solar roads, does not mean it's not stupid

Insanely expensive costs less resourcess to add enough solar panels and batteries to run it year round on warth.

[tribal dirge]

I mean, like I said, the marginal benefit is that it can help with things like weather models and predictions.

[ashen spindle]

digital foundry allowed to get irl dlss5 after shilling nvidia again

[tribal dirge]

VRO LMAO

[steady sail]

[unkempt lake]

But that doesnt work in mp games w anticheat

[ashen spindle]

so?

those games are mostly cpu bound and then not benefit from upscaling anyway

[distant tapir]

First versus second playthrough

[umbral heron]

The very games I don't care about

[reef patrol]

Skeet

https://giphy.com/gifs/mean-girls-regina-george-stop-trying-to-make-fetch-happen-5G98t8QjqBLK8

[thick elk]

I think they should replace the r with s next generation, just don't tell them the s stands for slop

[vagrant pagoda]

the best part about skeet is white people dont know what it means - dave chappelle

[unkempt lake]

Dlss 5 is literally this meme all over again

[vagrant pagoda]

they should have photoshoped aloys hair and ear thing onto a real photo of the model

[distant tapir]

It feels so childish when people black out their profile pictures like that. It's a digital tantrum

Will he replace it with a sobbing heart emoji Bart?

[ashen spindle]

bruh hes getting harassed for a video he didnt even know existed who cares what he does with his profile picture

[unkempt lake]

John Linnerman throws another temper tantrump

[unkempt lake]

He's always been cringe on his socials and getting ragebaited way too easily

[distant tapir]

Remember the Zelda marketing video?

[ashen spindle]

???? he wakes up and gets shit talked for something he had no input in and disagrees about,how is any part of this about him doing something wrong

[unkempt lake]

I'm talking in general

[ashen spindle]

I dont care about in general

[unkempt lake]

Like he threw a massive bitch fot over hogwarts legacy for example

[ashen spindle]

hows that relevant at all

[unkempt lake]

And refused to do a technical analysis on it

i'm just saying he's got a history of getting angry on social media

And getting ragebaited

Even if he knew or didnt know about it

He was gonna get shit on regardless because people think its funny to piss him off

Because he has a history of overreacting

Like

It literally doesn't matter what the video was about or if he knew about it or not

He was gonna get trolled about it regardless and throw a temper tantrum

[distant tapir]

Who owns DF? Who pulls the strings? How did he not know about it

[ashen spindle]

hes a video editor and writer

hes not at the event

[unkempt lake]

People have even trolled him over his FF rebirth analysis

[smoky parrot]

I thought he was right not doing harry potter content

[unkempt lake]

He was gonna get shat on regardless

[unkempt lake]

it's a technical analysis it was silly not to do it

It's still interesting from a technical perspective

[smoky parrot]

I don't quite agree on that one

[unkempt lake]

He's also been mad at other games like before

[unkempt lake]

Nvidia's a piece of shit conpany yet we still make technical videos about them from a technical pov

[marsh glade]

Harassing people online isn't justifiable

Attack ideas not people

[unkempt lake]

Apple has slave labour killing themselves in factories and we still make videos about their products from a technical standpoint

[smoky parrot]

Idk, this is a tricky subject

[unkempt lake]

Something can still be interesting and enteraining despite being against the company or the author

[unkempt lake]

Indeed but im just trying to explain the guy gets rage baited every few weeks

So it's really nothing new

[distant tapir]

Nvidia is a million times worse than HL

[smoky parrot]

I simply disagree in the case of harry potter. I don't really subscribe to the seperate the author from the work

[unkempt lake]

hell i've watched ev reviews and those companies are basically owned by the ccp

[marsh glade]

As much as I'd love to share my two cents, I'm being told it's bedtime by the master of the house

[unkempt lake]

And the ccp does a lot of awful things but it's interesting to see things from a technical standpoint

I'm not necessarly going to buy the product

I may not even care but i'll still rrad about it and be interested

Just like i may read a review of a game i'm not going to buy

Ir a technical deepdive into unreal engine 5 for a game i'm never going to play like fortnite

You can still enjoy the tech aspect of things without being a consumer of those products

[nimble arch]

[unkempt lake]

It's also not going to make me want or buy any of those things more

[nimble arch]

Good night unc

[thick elk]

Reading the comment section on the video, I have rarely seen such agreement within the comments. Was scared some people actually like this but seems noone does except df.

[unkempt lake]

Hell i hate elon and what he stands for but i'll watch a video about the technology behind teslas

Or about starlink

[ashen spindle]

bruh this is about someone getting harassed for something they dont agree with and had no clue about, wtf are you talking about elon and the chinese government

[unkempt lake]

We changed the topic while you were gone

Go read

Come back

[smoky parrot]

Well, I mentioned Harry Potter and you sorta dragged everything in

[unkempt lake]

I mean i think it applies to all of those

[ashen spindle]

I did and you went on a tangent lol

[smoky parrot]

Again, I disagree and that's okay

[umbral heron]

FUCK JK ROWLING THAT OLD BITCH TERF HAG

[smoky parrot]

Yeee

[unkempt lake]

I just said that john linerman gets triggered easily and trolled regularly

Like JK may be a dumb self centered poopybutt who posts the stupidest crap on social media, but the game based on her franchise has interesting UE5 implementations and i think someone can look at that without it being "the game"

[sullen bear]

[tropic sundial]

shes still alive? damn

[unkempt lake]

Hell when i watch DF i literally do not care about the game half yhe time

I care about the engine and the implementation

[smoky parrot]

I'm in the videogame industry and even my school boycotted the game

[umbral heron]

Unfortunately

[unkempt lake]

So you're not in the videogsme industry you're a student

[austere oracle]

why are you hating bro 😭

[smoky parrot]

Uh... No?

[unkempt lake]

And that tends to happen when people get upset over shit

[ashen spindle]

shes a horrible human

[austere oracle]

why?

[tropic sundial]

she lives to see another day smh

[smoky parrot]

I'm a technical artist, I was in school when the game was doing the round

So no, I am not a student

[unkempt lake]

I mean colleges and unis have a tendency to ban anything that will cause any conflict

Because people can't just look at something without freaking

[smoky parrot]

You're making a lot of assumptions

[umbral heron]

Sits whole day isolated from people, spewing horrible stuff on social media, fights against the very existence of others and still preaches that Brexit was a great idea
Also - old bitch terf hag

[unkempt lake]

it's not an assumption it's called ive been to college and uni

[austere oracle]

oh fr dang

[tropic sundial]

brexit fucked everything what

silly old bint

[unkempt lake]

If you're trying to pretend like there's no cancel culture on campuses you're blind to it

[distant tapir]

I had a game design class when HL released and while some were upset and wanted the game banned from the Discord server the teachers permitted HL discussion anyway which I'm glad for. Banning discussion around it would have been stupid

[sullen bear]

Half life?

[smoky parrot]

You keep snapping from one subject to another so fast I'm getting whiplash

[distant tapir]

Hogwarts Legacy

[unkempt lake]

no im still talking about the same subject

[unkempt lake]

i guess we should ban discussing apple for supporting the uygur genocide

[umbral heron]

I liked the game
Showed how many terrible people are on the social media, no matter who they are

[unkempt lake]

And every big tech company

[distant tapir]

The game was mid

[unkempt lake]

from ever being a topic of discussion

Lisa su is friendly with trump

we should ban discussion of amd

[tropic sundial]

i forgot hogwarts legacy even existed

[unkempt lake]

it's just silly at some point

[umbral heron]

Game itself was mid
You could unlock unforgivable spells really early and spam them everywhere

[distant tapir]

And no consequences for it

[unkempt lake]

I remember watching the first harry potter movie as a kid and being very bored

[tropic sundial]

was the game just overall not received very well or?

[unkempt lake]

Only interaction with the franchise i ever had

[unkempt lake]

Generally the reviews were positive

[distant tapir]

It was received very well not that that really means all that much

[tropic sundial]

[smoky parrot]

Taking -a- stance is better than taking no stances at all

[distant tapir]

I still like the game more than ||RE9||

[smoky parrot]

No matter how many other atrocities are in the world, it doesn't diminish the sheer hate exuded by the author

[jaunty rose]

sure man.

[smoky parrot]

Sure. You can call me ignorant or whatever, but I try to stand up against as many bad things in the world as I can

[jaunty rose]

buying anything related to harry potter is supporting jkr's hate for trans people

there is no seperating art from the artist

if you're giving them money

[tropic sundial]

Agree

[umbral heron]

HP franchise is mid anyway as soon as you start thinking about how the whole world building works...

[nimble arch]

I... I enjoyed the game

[umbral heron]

I mean more like books and movies

[tropic sundial]

i never understood any of the world building

[nimble arch]

It's incredibly flawed as an open world RPG, but it was also the Hogwarts game I've wanted since playing the scuffed PS1/PS2 movie games.

[umbral heron]

Sure, game was mid, but there was fun to be had there

[tropic sundial]

all i know about HP is “we go hogwarts and do spells and shit”

[nimble arch]

It's also just oddly Bri'ish because of the location/franchise

Call me when more games are Bri'ish

[unkempt lake]

supporter of hate

nazi

how dare u

[vagrant pagoda]

better than being french

[distant tapir]

Most of the game doesn't take place in Hogwarts. You go around the Scottish countryside doing menial garbage tasks and sidequests

[nimble arch]

Yeah, I then finish my day by watching The Wizard of Oz

[unkempt lake]

johners the transphobe bigot

[nimble arch]

I hope the tin man enjoyed the lead poisoning for my entertainment

Obvious sarcasm

[unkempt lake]

YOU GAVE HER MONEY

[vagrant pagoda]

but dose the tin man have a sheet metal cock?

[unkempt lake]

DO YOU REALIZE SHE MAY GET 1 CENT

[tropic sundial]

throwing the word nazi around is… definitely interesting.

[ashen spindle]

you know you dont need to repeat an unfunny joke 50 times we get it after the first attempt

[unkempt lake]

i'm just being ironic

[smoky parrot]

She's mocking us, dw about it

[unkempt lake]

I'm mocking the twitter crowd, you're associating with the twitter crowd

[vagrant pagoda]

i bet you hate minecraft too XD

[unkempt lake]

I wasn't mocking you

[tropic sundial]

weird way to go about but i thinks i shall depart now…

[unkempt lake]

yeah notch's an awful guy

What do we do about that

[distant tapir]

Thank god no one does that these days

[unkempt lake]

Who here hasn't bought a copy of minecraft

[vagrant pagoda]

awful is a stretch XD

[vagrant pagoda]

i had to paypal notch directly XD

[umbral heron]

What Microslop is doing to Bedrock Edition? Yes

[tropic sundial]

i almost dismissed this until i realised it was sarcasm

[unkempt lake]

You bought java tho

[pearl folio]

jezz i remember getting my code for my copy of minecraft when i was 12

[unkempt lake]

Bedrock was fwee

[ashen spindle]

you do understand the difference between actively supporting someone who gets money from the purchase and expresses their views in their art and a game where the guy doesnt express anything in and isnt even part of it anymore or is that too difficult?

[pearl folio]

I might be in the minority since i started on Java

[unkempt lake]

Most people here bought minecraft while notch was there

[smoky parrot]

I agree with the twitter crowd on this point. Anything jk rowling touches is poisoned.

[nimble arch]

Everyone draws their own boundaries over what media is acceptable to enjoy which is just a perk of the human condition. I, for one, don't have an issue with Hogwarts Legacy as hundreds (if not thousands) of people would've have worked on a game that's several layers removed from JKR. I won't fault anybody that chooses to not buy the game or opts to play a used/pirated copy instead.

[umbral heron]

But now is a buggy mess with MS pushing as much microtransations in it as they can

[unkempt lake]

so johners is bad because he bought the game

[nimble arch]

[vagrant pagoda]

yes

[tropic sundial]

i didn’t even know who tf notch was, i was a literal child

[smoky parrot]

Nuance is clearly lost you

[ashen spindle]

and most people had no clue who he was or what his points where when he hasnt talked about anything before he left?

like nobody expects people to be perfect and omniscent

[unkempt lake]

bullshit

[vagrant pagoda]

guilt by association, wonder why no one has done that before

[unkempt lake]

notch was always an ass

[ashen spindle]

this is also not what anyone here is saying

[unkempt lake]

Literally

[nimble arch]

Reflecting on the media you enjoyed as a child is an aspect of maturity.

[tropic sundial]

i am so confused whats going on here

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah but he isnt awful by any stretch

[ashen spindle]

being an ass is not what anyone has an issue with

[nimble arch]

It was perfectly acceptable to enjoy the music of Lost Prophets, for example, before the lead singer was outed as a nonce.

[tropic sundial]

Cant listen to a single one of their songs now after that came out

[unkempt lake]

The dude was a bigot a long time ago

[vagrant pagoda]

more of a troll than a bigot

[ashen spindle]

most of the things people take issue with where long past him selling minecraft

[vagrant pagoda]

3 commas just made him not care

he was always the same

[ashen spindle]

idk I'd say he wasnt openly posting quite bigoted and alt-right posts before 2014

and if he did it didnt get much traction

[vagrant pagoda]

i didnt say he was open about it

he knew well enough to have a good public persona

[ashen spindle]

yeah and nobody is expected to be omniscent on what a person things so you cant compare that to supporting jkr now

[umbral heron]

He started his social media stunts in like 2016?
And most of us bought the game in early 2010s

[nimble arch]

The bulk of Harry Potter's success was before JKR outed herself as a terf.

She already has the money to keep being a terf.

[ashen spindle]

yes but shes still actively involved in it now and her views are inside her creations

[nimble arch]

We funded that by buying the books and seeing the movies.

[umbral heron]

Hol up
I have never bought a movie or book

[nimble arch]

The "we" wasn't that specific

[smoky parrot]

I don't think we need to shift any blame away from the center of the vitriol

[tropic sundial]

this convo has slipped into so many different categories im not even sure where it ends

[ashen spindle]

nobody is an evil person or anything for buying the HP game either thats not the point despite dashi trying to read it like that

[smoky parrot]

But also; I like Johners and buying a game won't change my mind about that

[nimble arch]

My interpretation of the art has changed since JKR's opinions have become more apparent. I do, however, think there's a degree of separation regarding Hogwarts Legacy that I'm ok with. As for the new TV show, I've got zero interest in watching it and won't be giving it my attention.

[smoky parrot]

I do think that as a trans woman myself, the hate is a step closer to my wellbeing and as such I will never buy anything harry potter adjacent or related

[distant tapir]

I'll watch it for the inevitable shitposting

[nimble arch]

As a broader comment, the negativity around these topics is tiring. Please spend your time and money supporting the art that represents what you want to see in the world. The positivty is something we really need more of.

[smoky parrot]

Buy BG3

Buy the new Divinity when it comes out

[tropic sundial]

is bg3 the big dnd style based game

[nimble arch]

Yes

[tropic sundial]

[ashen spindle]

dashi just enjoys arguing points nobody made and pretending someone acts the way the imaginary person in her mind acts

[nimble arch]

Why are we having a #🎮│game/#🐸│memes discussion in #🔌│tech?

[smoky parrot]

I'm in the credits of bg3 :>

[distant tapir]

Been replaying BG3 lately. It's very good but I don't like the D&D systems. I want Larian to return to their classic style

[tropic sundial]

how what huh

[nimble arch]

That's pog

[smoky parrot]

My internship was at Larian

[tropic sundial]

i forgor you is big nerd

[nimble arch]

I've never finished a BG3 run because Act 3 was really buggy at release. I took a break to wait for a patch, never went back to it.

[smoky parrot]

That's me

Da beeg nerd

[tulip flicker]

I need help with my 60he i unplugged it while it was updating

[tropic sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-discord-nerd-gif-1740190795572976015

[tulip flicker]

And i cant force it into recovery

[nimble arch]

You'd be better off posting in #1019755933959733258

[tulip flicker]

Oh ty

[sinful quest]

Meme potential

[empty wren]

Non-functional texture, but still neat a slicer can turn an image into a 3d texture.

[vapid ruin]

ask on their server, not here

[smoky parrot]

@vapid ruinthe Dunu Lyre is fine! The only thing is has is quite a bit of microphonic noise if you're walking or something. But I use them stationary at my desk so it doesn't bother me

[vapid ruin]

Ooo, microphonic shouldn't be an issue for me too i guess

Since the iem I wanna put it on is mostly used while playing game

[smoky parrot]

I haven't tried tightening the cable with the cinch yet either

So it might be better, let me teest

Yeah it's fine when tightened

[lapis plaza]

Do you guys know of a good cable wih a microphone included?

[magic minnow]

@wheat plume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri2lLTWImE

[mortal swallow]

can anyone recommend me a good aio for my 5800x3d

[ashen spindle]

yes its called a aircooler

you dont need an aio for that

[reef patrol]

[quasi sun]

AIO is more aesthetically pleasing, you can get any with that cpu

[ashen spindle]

well if the question was a good one I'm assuming its not done for optics

[quasi sun]

Well no, because why would he ask for a bad aio?

"Can anyone recommend me a horrid and absolutely vile aio for my 5800x3d?"

[ashen spindle]

no I mean if it was for looks I'd ask can anyone recommend me a good looking aio vs performance first

[quasi sun]

I think you're reading too deep into the question kekw

[ashen spindle]

idk either way I'm saying go aircooler

[quasi sun]

I've got the ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro, cheap option that had pretty decent looks imo

280 version actually only because the 360 was sold out

[marsh glade]

I've got the same one

[snow coral]

The 5800X3D is easy as fuck to cool so it's really just gonna come down to what your budget is, what aesthetic you want and what size rad you're after.

[marsh glade]

Or maybe the II not the III

[umbral heron]

I mean all Ryzens you can easily cool with air coolers

[reef patrol]

They will try to run turbo and run hot anyway 😄

https://giphy.com/gifs/speed-ixKbC3GkQL1Mk

[halcyon moss]

thats not sonic

[reef patrol]

(I am appalled at the first three full pages of gifs for "speed" are that annoying streamer)

[ashen spindle]

aside from the 5800x which just cant be cooled well

[lunar elm]

fr treat the ryzen like a baby

just nuked and reinstalled w11 bcs I was doing funny CPU and mem tunes

[halcyon moss]

how does that require a win reinstall?

[lunar elm]

because they can corrupt the OS

gp2 engine gp2 engine

[umbral heron]

https://giphy.com/gifs/honda-mclaren-fernando-alonso-y5QJ9frmVCMO0Z9kN0

I wonder how high I could make my dies run

But with current RAM prices I'd rather not try it

[lunar elm]

I might downgrade to a 9850x3d for better imc

[umbral heron]

Don't they have the same one?

[lunar elm]

you can still try it, on ryzen you’re gonna run into IMC issue rather than overvolting the ram

[lunar elm]

better binned

[umbral heron]

So is 9950

[lunar elm]

on overclockers thread a user binned 77 and almost all were essentially capable of 6400/26 and 8000+

[lunar elm]

dual ccd has the IMC working harder

it basically has to connect 2 brains hence it fights an uphill battle

but ram tuning on it is still effective bcs of CCD1

[nimble arch]

I've gotten another export of my Discord user data and they've only deleted about half of the messages that I requested to be deleted under GDPR. It seems they're not willing to delete anything in public/community servers you can find via the server search feature.

[ashen spindle]

yeah they only are in mailicous compliance

https://discorch.org/ try this

[nimble arch]

I've been using this tool for the support way.

I'll look into the more hands on approach another time.

[steady sail]

its sad but its true at the same time

[ashen spindle]

its not true though

dlss1 was shit they completely rewokred for 2 to be good

rtx is just raytracing marketing so why list it twice

[reef patrol]

I love how they mentioned raytracing twice.

[nimble arch]

The final DLSS1 implementations were kinda decent

[ashen spindle]

and it didnt gent mocked or clowned, the tech was insanely impressive it just had a massive performance downside but you could say performance could improve

[misty matrix]

goddd I love ai slop please shovel me some more

[ashen spindle]

this one is a "well if it does something completely different it might be good"

[reef patrol]

Yeah this was basically the reception.

"Man those mud puddles look amazing. But ehh... Not at the cost of 3/4rds of my FPS in Battlefield"

[ashen spindle]

and the only fine dlss1 implementation was in I think control? wher eit used a special build for the game

[reef patrol]

RTX remained mostly a fancy tech demo for pretty screenshots and pre-renders till... fuck... Cyberpunk I guess? First time people had the hardware to use it properly afaik?

[smoky parrot]

And now we have it in WoW

Can't wait to yassify the lich king

Slay, King

[ashen spindle]

also dlss up till now was a case of ML used to not make slop, it was to reconstruct the ground truth image with whatever method to have a performance gain with ideally 0 visual difference

this is no longer trying that

[nimble arch]

WoW has NVIDIA Reflex (and the Intel equivalent, I think) plus some DirectX Raytracing features.

Blizzard hasn't done too much with the rendering pipeline in recent expansions.

[fair gull]

https://unhook.app/

discovered it due to the just released pewds video

[frozen ingot]

tbh dlss was their best ace up their sleeve up to 4.5, this is really going off the rails

[lapis plaza]

they still have the best path tracing

[frozen ingot]

yea but its still mostly just useful to the high end segment, dlss is kind of the magic bullet for all the midrange setup users out there

[ashen spindle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rvwube/dlss_5_fixing_it_in_post/ so it can be made not as horrific

which means either the entire pipeline of devs have forgotten what color grading and tonemapping is, or they decided we need to show a bigger difference to have an effect and thought it was okay

idk which one is worse but at least the tech can be made better

[ashen spindle]

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1773392979

[tribal dirge]

ooooo

QNED is cool because its more economical to make bigger screens with them

[gusty kiln]

Gib monitor plz

[tribal dirge]

although I dont remember what advantages GaN nanorods give vs organic layer

[ashen spindle]

Mostly no burn in

[tribal dirge]

ah yeah, GaN is more stable than an organic layer

[rough osprey]

gimme 5k oled

[gusty kiln]

What about brightness stability

Cuz that's the issue with vrr flickering

[rough osprey]

will they ever fix near black on oled

[tribal dirge]

non organic LEDs tend to be brigher than organic LEDs

so I would like to say that GaN nanorod based LEDs are brighter and more efficient than organic LEDs

but not sure if that reflects reality, my knowledge mostly comes from reading random research papers on these things

[tribal dirge]

already exists no?

[rough osprey]

not in reasonable sizes

[tribal dirge]

https://rog.asus.com/us/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-strix-5k-xg27jcg/

i'd argue 27 inches is a reasonable size

actually

no this isnt the oled one shoot

[rough osprey]

😭

[tribal dirge]

lmao

[tribal dirge]

I guess the closest you will get to a 5K OLED is the Apple Studio Display XDR

[rough osprey]

i could produce my own panel for that money

[tribal dirge]

its MiniLED

[tribal dirge]

oh boy how wrong you are

[rough osprey]

no trust me

[frozen ingot]

32" or larger or bust

[rough osprey]

tv

[pale sigil]

Should have used bambu instead.

[heady hazel]

Nah i just upgrade my extruder

[pale sigil]

Tbh I never ever really got any mentions of bambu myself whenever I had issues with my ender.

I have however seen hate for having Bambu lol

[heady hazel]

i mean thats what you get when you close loop in a diy space. personally im happy with my ender it prints well i just had issues with the stock extruder

[pale sigil]

Tbh, it really depends, I didn't hate my ender, in fact I kinda miss it but at the same time I don't miss the fixing stuff or replacing parts yanno?

Especially when the A1 exists for such a low price, however when I got it the A1 was a lot more 😅

[heady hazel]

i mean at the end of the day a 3d printer always needs maintenance

[pale sigil]

I've gone 160+ hours printing and only maybe 3 errors, one was on me which makes me happy at least.

[heady hazel]

most of the enders issue is the stock glass pad imo

[pale sigil]

I wouldn't recommend it though, I paid a crazy amount for my life to be easier.

If I wasn't in a wheelchair these days I probably would have suggested elsewhere.

[heady hazel]

i paid 50€ for the ender , it has dual z axis , auto leveling etc

[pale sigil]

Ye your case is very specific I remember

[heady hazel]

id rather learn on a platform like that before i get a out of the box printer

[pale sigil]

But I mean for someone new to 3d printing you simply cannot go wrong with the A1 for how little it costs. I would definitely recommend that over Ender but I definitely wouldn't be recommending a PS2 Combo lol

I paid way to fucking much but got me personally it's a godsent.

[pale sigil]

Ye that's valid, I had an ender 3 S1 plus then a V3 KE, bloody loved my KE

I "jailbroke" it

So I can run fluidd etc

[heady hazel]

the kobra x is neat aswell might get that one

[pale sigil]

Aye I looked into that one too

[jaunty rose]

Guys what if technology was better than yesterday

Thanks for listening to my TED talk

[reef patrol]

Deep.

[jaunty rose]

I didnt mean to send that

Whoops

[jaunty rose]

https://tenor.com/view/bowing-thank-you-tom-and-jerry-take-a-bow-chasing-gif-17838160168594208358

[lunar elm]

now I want a 4K 32”, maybe might even consider going as far for a 42/48” LG C series TV

[lapis plaza]

I want a 32" 4k but not sure if my gpu will do well

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3e68b90dw

[umbral heron]

https://www.theverge.com/tech/895453/ai-deepfake-netanyahu-claims-conspiracy

[tropic sundial]

i keep saying AI version of him

people think its real for some reason

[frozen ingot]

yeah there's like 2 or 3 videos of him where he looks uncanny af

[distant tapir]

I think he's dead or just not capable of making an appearance

But what's the endgoal here if they are truly doing AI fakes. He'll have to be announced as dead eventually

[gusty kiln]

I thought he escaped to Germany?

Oh wait he only parked his plane there

[crisp granite]

I sincerely doubt Tehran is capable of a targeted strike that would result in the death of the PM
that kind of thing would be a hell of a hard thing to hide in a democracy

lack of time to arrange a press conference or even record a statement in English and Hebrew, between sirens as the barrage is ongoing
makes a ton more sense

[lapis plaza]

They should just have used dlss 5

Video are much more realistic

[dull hollow]

each post makes it look more and more ai like

[vagrant pagoda]

maybe its a long game to make iran think they got him

only for mecha-netanyhu to appear in tehran and start leveling the city

[wheat plume]

Hall Effect CONCRETE typing rectangle
https://youtube.com/shorts/ciheKGes96o

Why concrete though?!?!

[chilly atlas]

Guys quick, 1k 4k or 2k or 8k polling on mouse

[steady sail]

2K or 4K

[chilly atlas]

But isn't or only placebo

[steady sail]

8k eating your battery like hell

[chilly atlas]

Yeah so stick with 1k?

[steady sail]

its up to you

i use 2k or either 4k

[empty wren]

10k or bust

[stone fjord]

2k

After that there’s like barley a diffrence unless u use a really high sensitivity

[chilly atlas]

General chat said 1k cuz my specs

[stone fjord]

What are ur specs

[chilly atlas]

Ryx 3060 5700x

[stone fjord]

U should be fine with 2k

But what dpi do u use

[chilly atlas]

800

[stone fjord]

Ok so 1k then

[chilly atlas]

They said 1k mouse and 1k or 8k kb

[stone fjord]

Cause unless u use 1600 or higher your mouse won’t need it

[chilly atlas]

Ok

I van just half my sens and use 1.6k

[wheat plume]

https://x.com/i/status/2033302398488478192

Windows Latest (@WindowsLatest)

Microsoft appears to be using AI slop to promote Windows 11 features that don’t look real.

Yes, it looks like Microsoft’s marketing team can’t even capture a screenshot in Windows 11 to promote a basic feature like the Snipping Tool or the desktop.

Microsoft proudly says the

X · Mar 15, 2026, 10:00 PM

[ashen spindle]

msft appears to be using ai
yeah no shit they've been doing this for a while?

[tribal dirge]

I think they've been doing this for a while

[rough osprey]

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/896290/spotify-exclusive-mode-windows

[balmy fossil]

i'm playing geometry dash and my key just randomly goes out and idk why does any1 know a fix?

it's like only when i spam, it just gives out

[tribal dirge]

I like this, this is good

[lunar elm]

Use DLSS 4.5 performance

its internal render resolution will be 1080p

[tribal dirge]

Or ultra performance with preset L

[lunar elm]

I think thats around 1440p quality for 4K ultra performance

[empty wren]

I could be wrong but sounds less affordable than a quest 2

[mild dome]

They might be planning on a Quest 4, and Quest 4s
Or keep the old Quest 3 and Quest 3s as the affordable options

[vagrant pagoda]

maxium thonk?

[hasty thunder]

https://www.razer.com/breadwinner

[leaden kiln]

bigscreen beyond pictured 🤤

[umbral heron]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/jensen-huang-says-gamers-are-completely-wrong-about-dlss-5-nvidia-ceo-responds-to-dlss-5-backlash

[lunar elm]

yeah im sticking with 4.5 presets

[reef patrol]

Then he should have cleared that with marketing and the studios involved.

Cause all they've managed so far has becoming the big laughing stock of the gaming industry, showing off the worst AI filters possible, confirming every concern gamers had about AI ruining their games

It's kind of impressive really. That no one with the power to stop this didn't think for a second.

[umbral heron]

They think about one thing - line going up

[vapid ruin]

too scared to get fired

[reef patrol]

[glad bobcat]

It’s really impressive how much they want to sell us this AI bullshit that almost no one wants

[umbral heron]

Shareholders want it
Governments want it
Data collection companies want it
You don't thik about little guy at all smh my head

[glad bobcat]

Sadly, yes

[lunar elm]

literally every shitter except
the consumers want it

[analog sinew]

they are such a monopoly they dont rly have to care

[tribal dirge]

Unfortunately

Well mmm, Apple Silicon is pretty nice ngl