🔌│tech

[wheat plume]

Buying a Windows device

1. Unbox
2. Do a clean install of Windows

[ashen spindle]

WoA is... an expeirence yes

[umbral heron]

Probably CMs are dying

[vapid ruin]

WoAh, pretty insane

[wheat plume]

WoAh?

whats the H?

/S

[vapid ruin]

hell

[wheat plume]

I have my C: drive named "Helldows 11" on my desktop xd

its not mounted rn but meh

[vapid ruin]

I just hope windows 11 will be good for me to switch once the game that I wanna play not on it anymore

[wheat plume]

🤔
I wonder can I run my speakers from the echo mini
....
They have 3.5mm input

[reef patrol]

Dutchlings - Where do you buy laptops online? (Shops with return products would be even better, I don't mind a scratch or two, or not original packaging)

Still keeping the feelers out for a good deal I can pounce on. 😄

And I figure ANSI being THE most common layout, NL wouldn't be a terrible place to look (provided they ship internationally within EU ofc)

[sullen bear]

@reef patrol productpine?

but generally I just use tweakers

Ive had decent experiences with productpine so far though

[ashen spindle]

https://geizhals.eu/ for anything tech in the eu to compare prices and lists shops with ratings

[reef patrol]

Unfortunately the 350 based laptop I was looking at sold out. So... still hunting 😄

[leaden kiln]

I finally found a used mbp m1 with an ansi keyboard here

[fair gull]

ansi is the most common layout in NL?

i mainly see iso and that unholy iso with ansi left shift combo dutch people dreamed up

[reef patrol]

Really? Everyone always keeps telling me it's ANSI. On keyboards and laptops.

At this rate I might as well go shopping in Taipei.

[thick elk]

I think it depends, Apple loves iso in nl, Lenovo uses ansi

[umbral heron]

Sure

[ashen spindle]

I mean honestly just look at a vendors website directly and if you find one thats nice ask support for a deal

[fair gull]

yeah was about to say prob depends on where you look

[ashen spindle]

dell lenovo hp etc. can give you like 20% off of a laptop just by asking support even as a non business

just need to have the right support person and talk nicely

[sullen bear]

Yeah Ive only seen ISO in the NL

[reef patrol]

I did take a peek at Lenovo briefly, but their website is... difficult to navigate at the best of times hah

My go to has been Elgiganten, the biggest brick and mortar here in Scandinavia (I think?), and they often have returned products. The laptop I looked at had an amazing deal on a 350/5060 combo, but they went quickly. Now it's mostly older Intels that don't compare CPU wise.

Of course I don't NEED a dedicated GPU, but i don't MIND one 😄

[thick elk]

It's a mix, but looking at listings I think ansi is more common.

In the house checking a few, only my grampa's old laptop is iso (old toshiba)

[sullen bear]

for apple I meant, but I gave no context tbf

[thick elk]

Oh yea, apple be weird like that.

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/uvYt1GgcsUI

ew...
I just noticed the top corners on the Neo display are round but not the bottom ones
why?! it looks so jank

[leaden kiln]

I think all the macbooks since 21 have that
looks fine though, mine did at least

[wheat plume]

oh fuck, no I hate that so much

is there a software way to make the top corners sharp?

make all 4 round or all 4 sharp...no mix matching like this, its hella ugly

[reef patrol]

You don't even own one. Chill

[leaden kiln]

the top corners are physically round

[wheat plume]

yeh I know
doesnt remove the fact its horrible looking, especially from a company that tend to care more about form over function

at least on a phone, all the corners are round

[leaden kiln]

it isn’t even noticeable

[wheat plume]

opening something fullscreen and it sure is

games especially I bet

[ashen spindle]

person using the laptop: it isn't noticeable
person not using the laptop: it sure is
hmmmm

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

XD

[tribal dirge]

All MacBooks had this since the 2021 redesign

But macOS handles it nicely

[wheat plume]

its like on Android when using the gestures, the bottom of apps is semi curved against the bottom edges where the app meets the gesture bar

[tribal dirge]

Like your mouse doesn't disappear around the corners

[wheat plume]

o?

[frozen ingot]

why don't you work in UI design if you're this obsessed about these kind of details

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, although the way macOS handles the notch I don't like, your mouse does disappear under the notch

[wheat plume]

I did consider it xd but im not good at making the UI, just sort of noticing things when its already done xd

[reef patrol]

I can sense spelling errors while skimming anything. Doesn't mean I'm a good writer.

[tribal dirge]

But I do use an app that makes the notch a bit more useful for me

@leaden kiln I think you might like this

[frozen ingot]

perfect, you'll be the editor

[leaden kiln]

I think I’ve seen that before on twitter

[umbral heron]

FFS
I had it with technology
Why would Lovense need firmware update for their devices

[tribal dirge]

It's open source too!

[wheat plume]

why is this not native?!! this is so cool!!

[wheat plume]

WAIT THE HELP MENU OPTION IS UNDER THE NOTCH, NO

bad ....

[tribal dirge]

Lmao, it gets a bit crowded up there

[wheat plume]

I thought they went to the other side if too long, not under....

[tribal dirge]

I think if it gets too large it just becomes hidden in a submenu

[wheat plume]

Wait, is it only cut off like that due to this app that makes the notch do this ??

[leaden kiln]

What’s it called
I have another macbook on the way now since I returned the other one, seller didn’t tell me about the dents in the screen 💀

[tribal dirge]

https://github.com/TheBoredTeam/boring.notch

[wheat plume]

o.o oh gosh

Open source macOS app, how quant

[tribal dirge]

Lots of good open source Mac apps!

[wheat plume]

I still havent a clue why the notch is so wide despite only having ONE CAMERA in it

at least on iPhone it makes sense, theres like 4 sensors in there

[reef patrol]

IR and so on?

For face recog

[frozen ingot]

its there to annoy chronically online people who'll never buy one anyway

[wheat plume]

nope, dont think macbook has that

[ashen spindle]

does it make a difference if its 2 or 1.5cm wide?

[vapid ruin]

this is cool

[wheat plume]

yes, it cuts off the menu bar items if the menu bar has a lot of options in it

a core UI design of MacOS since the very start

[vapid ruin]

im fine with the notch, it doesn't ruin the screen real estate since the screen is like 16:11 anyway.

[wheat plume]

yeh that part is ok

[leaden kiln]

I like that I can have a full width 16:9 video, the dock, and the menu at the top at the same time

[wheat plume]

its the cutting off the menu bar aspect of it that doesnt make sense to me

[tribal dirge]

It never cuts off in stock macOS I will say that much

Even though your mouse can go through the notch

[leaden kiln]

I didn’t see that in any of the apps I used either, maybe it was an earlier bug or smth

[wheat plume]

I did see on a Macbook Air review video that the notch does cut off the menu items in some apps

they get moved to the right side of the notch

[tribal dirge]

Interesting, for me it becomes an option in a submenu.

[wheat plume]

It seems when the first notched macbook released, the menu items just stayed underneath the notch and were not interactable

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2023/12/16/macbook-notch-and-menu-bar-fixes/

[tribal dirge]

Oh, well that's no longer an issue in MacOS 26

[wheat plume]

🤔 this one might also make the top corners sharp to match the bottom ones too

[tribal dirge]

At least in my experience

[vapid ruin]

I mean, i just have a full screen app and remove the top option button. I only need to move my mouse there to do stuff.

cause of how dark macbook pro screen can be, it's almost unoticable for me

[wheat plume]

That reminds me of the Unity desktop, you also had to move the mouse to the top in fullscreen to get back the menu and controls

I miss Unity desktop ;-; it had a lot of cool features

like the global menu that only applied when in fullscreen and the HUD that made menu bar items searchable

so cool

also had this one too

[thick elk]

What I know from my phone rounded corners are fine, would not prefer them but they are fine most of the time.

just don't make them too big.

[wheat plume]

Rounded corners are fine
If all of them are round

Sharp corners are fine
If all of them are sharp

No mix and match like the MacBooks do

the meme number

Touch ID is not as good as Windows Hello Facial Recognition
Is it not?! wut??

[tribal dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/67-67-kid-edit-analog-horror-phonk-gif-3349401281762803381

[vapid ruin]

why? Touch id is plenty fast for me

[wheat plume]

yeh, id much rather than that facial recognition too

[umbral heron]

Touch ID and Face ID may not work as good
But at least they work

[wheat plume]

XD

I really love the finger scanner on my laptop 💜 using it to unlock my laptop and run sudo commands is super cool

[leaden kiln]

I don’t like windows hello face recognition because it’s so inconsistent, but maybe just because my laptop is old

[wheat plume]

Ive never had a laptop that supported it, even my current one cant

[vapid ruin]

I'm kinda hoping iphone 19 pro have touch id though, but I guess I can't really hope for it that much.

[wheat plume]

My fingerprint scanner doesnt even work on Windows on this laptop

🤦‍♀️

[umbral heron]

Nah, my coworker has HP Elitebook G10 from 2023
He has to go to L1 at least once a month because Windows Hello blocks him out completely

[nimble arch]

You'll find out in 2027

[leaden kiln]

I love faceid on my phone but windows hello doesn’t work as good

[vapid ruin]

I meant 18, I thought last year was 18. Numbers hard

[leaden kiln]

I can just put in my pin when it doesn’t work on my old elitebook

it can’t handle light and it can’t handle dark and it can’t handle growing facial hair I think

[tribal dirge]

I also use the Touch ID on my MacBook to authenticate for sudo as well

[umbral heron]

Sure you need PIN for Hello
But something in domain has f'ed up his PC (he is the only Windows in our team, rest runs Linux and Macs), so even if he puts correct PIN it doesn't let him through

[wheat plume]

yeh! pretty nice haha

[tribal dirge]

Sometimes it asks for your pin periodically, like on MacOS

[wheat plume]

HAH
The Macbook Pro wallpaper is pre-installed on GNOME 50

The Pride Wallpaper is nice though 💜

[vapid ruin]

close enough

[rough osprey]

atleast this one says something

[umbral heron]

I just use Wallpaper Engine

[wheat plume]

Wallpaper Engine doesnt work on Linux ;-;

[vapid ruin]

mac's landscape pic is plenty good enough for me

[wheat plume]

there is a plasma plugin but it doesnt work with most wallpapers I have

[umbral heron]

You are living 3 months in the past

[leaden kiln]

I usually just use pictures I’ve taken or artwork I like as wallpapers

[umbral heron]

New fork supports a ton more

[wheat plume]

huh?

I forgot I had Hades 2 running on my Deck, went to turn the Deck back on and boom, in the middle of a going to a new area of the map xd

[umbral heron]

RainyPixer forked Wallpaper Engine, rewrote most python modules in C++ and now actively works on supporting more types of wallpapers

[tribal dirge]

especially the animated ones!!!!

[wheat plume]

oooo hek

How far back does the Macbook Air display go?

[wheat plume]

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/GDC_2026_HWTalk.pdf

[nimble arch]

Give us a release date already, I’d like the controller.

[umbral heron]

2026*
-# *maybe

[ashen spindle]

mods someone is posting weird links

[wheat plume]

Valve have said they will ship all the new hardwar by the end of the year

so we will have them all by December 31st 2026

[plucky tapir]

Just ship the controller, only thing I want.

[wheat plume]

I also want the Frame

[plucky tapir]

The computer is useless to me.

[rough osprey]

imma open the valve

[wheat plume]

YES EXACTLY
Switching between Deck and PC all the time, THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING

cause when I play Warframe on my PC, I have max settings
When I play it on Deck,, I need to reduce them all again
When I go back to PC I have to raise them all again

EVEERY DAMN TIME

[umbral heron]

I'd say keep graphics setting in cloud, but UUID of device alongside of it, so you can easily bring back settings when game is reinstalled, but it won't move to other devices

[wheat plume]

oo yes

[rough patrol]

Warframe is weird cause sometimes it copies your settings and sometimes it doesnt

[wheat plume]

but then people will get pissed off that Valve is collecting hardware information and complain about invasive telemetry

[umbral heron]

I mean game knows how much RAM, what CPU, what GPU and what version of OS you have, plus of course Steam account ID
Fingerprint out of those is enough to reasonably differentiate between devices in an account

[wheat plume]

ookkkk, standaline VR on Frame must target 90FPS
That is interesting...but only 30 for 2d games

[crimson wigeon]

Because VR at low framerates can make people violently throw up, but staring at something flat at a low framerate is fine

[umbral heron]

Is sad that my brain is incompatible with VR

[wheat plume]

That is honestly what im worried about
I have 0 VR experience and I get motion sick if I use my phone in a moving car

[plucky tapir]

I own 3 VR headsets and I still can't play SUPERHOT in my house, I don't have enough space.

[bright briar]

sell brain and play vr

[umbral heron]

I tried it out in local Media Markt, maybe there's some electronics shop near you with VR booth

[plucky tapir]

Maybe I'll play outside like a lunatic at some point.

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/think-about-it-use-your-brain-use-the-brain-think-brain-gif-17677779115818009596

[frozen ingot]

VR needs both high resolution and high framerate to work for me

[leaden kiln]

I only felt motion sick at first when my framerate got very low, but now I feel fine even if it drops

[umbral heron]

you mean

[bright briar]

sell the brain to buy vr headset

[frozen ingot]

you also get used to it yes

[bright briar]

then enjoy

[wheat plume]

thats a big ask for ireland

[nimble arch]

Does that also explain the pink boots?

[wheat plume]

There is a VR arcade thingy in Dublin but other than that, im not sure

[leaden kiln]

get something with a good return policy, but it takes some time to get used to it

[wheat plume]

I hope Steam willl have a good return policy with Frame
But maybe not since its something you put on your face and gamers are very sweaty people

[leaden kiln]

the faceplate is probably replaceable, it usually is on vr headsets

[umbral heron]

EU BAYBE
14 days at least

[leaden kiln]

on the index it attached magnetically

I sold my index recently

[umbral heron]

Knowing Valve it's replaceable, you will be able to order replacements from iFixit and they'll provide CAD files for third parties

[wheat plume]

🤔🤔

Steam mobile app has an option to login on Frame

[umbral heron]

Good idea

[wheat plume]

If this option is here already....that must mean the hardware release is close....she says hopefully

[vapid ruin]

Nah, they'll be testing on the main server

[umbral heron]

Am sitting here
Sad
And GabeCubeless

[ashen spindle]

devs have had the frame since end of last year, software isnt telling you when its launching thats purely down to market

[wheat plume]

GabeCubeless? insert meme here

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/cube-cat-gif-18980868

[umbral heron]

I mean
Sunshine and Moonlight on Android box work really good

[ashen spindle]

and if they delay the machine long enough they have a chance to use a good gpu instead

[wheat plume]

They are targeting 1080p30fps on the Machine, so nah

1080p is nice for this use case anyway cause most people will use it like a console connected to a TV that will upscale it to 4k like it already does with most content pushed through it

[ashen spindle]

no? they are seeling it as a 4k60 device...

[umbral heron]

4K60 with FSR

[ashen spindle]

yeah and its rdna3 so you get the shit fsr

[umbral heron]

Would be funny if they ported support for INT8 FSR4

[ashen spindle]

verified doesnt matter this is what they market

[ashen spindle]

they got told off by amd when they did that

[tribal dirge]

Interesting

I wonder if that would result in people being angry with the performance of steam machine

Because they are marketing it as a 4k 60fps capable device

[wheat plume]

that marketing has always had the *FSR asteriks beside it

[tribal dirge]

Ah I see

[ashen spindle]

oh yeah because people always read the fine print and dont call its misleading

[umbral heron]

[tribal dirge]

My best guess is that steam machine uses FSR 3

[wheat plume]

naniii?

[reef patrol]

Asterix

[umbral heron]

Asterix

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

[ashen spindle]

yes, its just a laptop bin rdna3 gpu

[tribal dirge]

Ahh

Makes sense

[wheat plume]

Safari is very...chunky ... looking

[tribal dirge]

Holy ads

[wheat plume]

ikr

[reef patrol]

That's just the website...

[tribal dirge]

I'd use the safari content blocker to get rid of allat

[reef patrol]

It looks just the same as any other browser sans raspberry jam theme

[wheat plume]

no, the UI bar at the top with the URL bar and the back buttons etc, its very thicc

[reef patrol]

Not really

[tribal dirge]

I've also use the content blocker to get rid of the news section on YouTube and the games section

Very useful

[wheat plume]

my firefox UI is much thinner

ok with tabs its a little thicker

[tribal dirge]

Could also just use CMD + - to rescale the safari window

To be smaller

[wheat plume]

🤔 Now im curious how MacOS handles scaling

[tribal dirge]

It's fine, it uses 5% increments just like windows

[leaden kiln]

I like that I can use hide distracting items on my phone to get rid of stuff

[tribal dirge]

Yeah the safari content blocker is great

[wheat plume]

Wonder if macOS has the same bluetooth issues that iOS has on iPhone

[tribal dirge]

I never had issues with BT on Apple stuff

[leaden kiln]

thanos snap
idk i didnt watch the movie

[wheat plume]

Where it wont auto connect to the last used device unless you manually select it in the bluetooth list

[tribal dirge]

I actually prefer that lmao, I kinda hate auto-connect

Except AirPods, AirPods is the only one I like

[wheat plume]

The Spotlight changes are really cool
It makes Spotlight really really powerful now :D

[tribal dirge]

I love spotlight

[wheat plume]

Keynote's menu bar is too long for the notch ...

[tribal dirge]

The windows equivalent is just not the same

[tribal dirge]

It's fine tbh, it makes sense

[leaden kiln]

ur dragging this shit up again
it can be an issue on any device, and it’s not an issue if you just pair your devices normally

[wheat plume]

The Windows equivalent is not even built in, you need to install Powertoys to use it xd

[tribal dirge]

Yeah true

[tribal dirge]

This tbh

[wheat plume]

I like Powertoys, but the thick ass boxy window border it adds around the window when you make it always ontop is really annoying

[leaden kiln]

for the like 8th time

[tribal dirge]

At least for me Bluetooth on all my Apple stuff works as expected

It's not special, which is a good thing.

[leaden kiln]

and I have had that ”ios issue” on my steam deck

but it’s solved very easily

[wheat plume]

when I get in my car, my phone automatically connects to my FM Transmitter
when I turn on my headphones, it automatically connects to them
then if I go back into my car, I dont have to select the FM Transmitter again, it just connects

[ashen spindle]

if only there was a reddit post that we kept linking every time this topic came up with the solution that then gets promptly ignored..

[wheat plume]

yeh yeh

[leaden kiln]

I have like 8 different bt audio devices I use on my iPhone and they all connect first try without any trouble

[leaden kiln]

I like that if my laptop steals my airpods, there’s a small popup so I can take them back on my phone

good qol

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

It's nice

[ashen spindle]

you dont get to say yeh yeh if you constantly bring up some issue as a fact, when it's been disproven multiple times lol

[tribal dirge]

And the connection switching is nearly instant

Like if I get a call and pick it up on my phone, my AirPods instantly pair with the phone and disconnects from my iPad

Or my Mac

It's super nice, but only in the Apple ecosystem

[vapid ruin]

Ecosystem moment.

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

[wheat plume]

Wonder what percentage of MacOS features you cannot use if you also dont have Airpods and iPhone?

[tribal dirge]

Like, no iPhone mirroring, and no copy paste from iPhone to Mac

And from Mac to iPhone

[vapid ruin]

Not large enough for me to complain. Not being able to access my android file through a cable without a software/install is annoying though.

[wheat plume]

🤔 so plugging in an Android phone with a cable cant do anything by default?

[tribal dirge]

Well it shows up, as a storage device

Not a phone

After you give the Mac permission to connect to your phone from your phone

[wheat plume]

oohh

[tribal dirge]

Yeah

[vapid ruin]

Anyway, after I got an iphone that's it for apple for me for the next 4-5 years

[wheat plume]

Im not tempted by iPhone, I already get the chance to try them when setting them up for staff at work
Its not very interesting to me

macOS however, is tempting looking, it looks like a neat OS and I do like the design language for the most part

[tribal dirge]

Also Mac hardware is great

[wheat plume]

Yeah, the M chips are pretty awesome ngl

If I was not a fulltime Linux user, I would be a macOS user... I legit cant stand using Windows everyday

Linux does everything I need, so im happy with it

[leaden kiln]

and I can listen to music on my watch so I don’t have to bring my phone going for a run

[wheat plume]

oo, you can use Spotlight to search the menu bar like the HUD on Unity desktop
I approve

[wheat plume]

🤔

[tribal dirge]

omg trueeeeee

I forgot the apple watch has the spotify app

although thats because I dont use watches at all lmao

[leaden kiln]

my coworker has the natural titanium ultra which I wasn’t able to get, so jelly I almost have to buy one to replace my black one 😭

[wheat plume]

would that not mean you need to pay a data plan for the watch to make that work?

[leaden kiln]

you can download music with the spotify app

probably apple music too

[wheat plume]

oh true

[vapid ruin]

How does that work, is it offline?

[leaden kiln]

and my watch has 64GB so I can fit a few songs

[vapid ruin]

Damn, that's my whole music library with majority being flac.

[leaden kiln]

yeah I download through spotify, but if you have a data plan you could stream too, worse battery life though

[vapid ruin]

I see. Pretty cool

Guess it's an ipod nano afterall

[wheat plume]

Any OS that saves Screenshots to the desktop folder is really annoying

[tribal dirge]

spotify has a pretty efficient compression algo too, so you can fit a lot of tracks in like 30gb

[vapid ruin]

Yesh. My entire library is like 30gb. 1100 song as of now

[leaden kiln]

they should’ve given us opus

[tribal dirge]

you can change it at least in macos

I set it to save screenshots to documents

by default

[wheat plume]

aha nice

Gnome uses ~/Pictures/Screenshots

I think the only Linux desktops ive seen not use that folder is Deepin Desktop and XFCE

[halcyon moss]

You'd find osx quite annoying as it's the apple or the paid subscription third-party app way

[fair gull]

just paid third party app in general often

[wheat plume]

Same with Gnome desktop apart from the paid part xd

[fair gull]

very few good apps on macos that are free/foss

[wheat plume]

Which is a surprise since you need to pay to develop macOS apps

[plucky tapir]

If it's a 1 time payment and it's actually good, I don't mind.

[fair gull]

you dont

but ok

[wheat plume]

You need to pay to make iOS apps, so i thought the same applied to macOS

[fair gull]

you can also make ios apps for free

what costs money is publishing on the store (or to be more specific the whole certificate for signing more or less which also is needed to publish on the store)

[wheat plume]

Yeah

[warm osprey]

How does the Wooting ANSI Split (split spacebar) work natively on Linux? does it detect the layout as just 3 spacebars?

[fair gull]

not how keyboard work. your pc just gets pressed scancodes from the keyboard

if your keyboard is programmed to act as if all keys are spacebar your pc wouldnt know youre not pressing a spacebar shaped key

[tribal dirge]

except if you are keen enough you can just edit the binaries to get you the paid version of the app LMAO

thats what I do

ROFL

[fair gull]

if you want to know what our default mappings are for split keyboards you can check them out in wootility demo mode i believe

[warm osprey]

I see, thank you for your response

[tribal dirge]

I love Ghidra

[fair gull]

yes kids disabling copy protection can get you a nice spot in jail

[reef patrol]

"Keyboard tells OS key56 was pressed. OS looks at language to see what key56 is, outputs key56"

[tribal dirge]

lmao

although i've also used ghidra to fix broken stuff, albeit its rare that stuff breaks at the binary/assembly level.

[wheat plume]

The only time I edited a binary was to unlock the Playstation exclusive mission in control so I could play it on PC

worth it...is a funny mission

it has Kojima in it :D

[iron wave]

What's a decent camera with clean HDMI?

[fair gull]

what is clean hdmi

like i guess any device has a clean hdmi when you get it

[iron wave]

A no UI mode on the HDMI out to use as a high quality webcam for computer vision.

[fair gull]

huh i always thought they all do that unless you mess with settings

[iron wave]

There are a good amount where this is not an option from what I understand.

I suppose I could go to Best Buy and ask if they know anything about it.

[fair gull]

cant you just bring it back to best buy if it doesnt

or was that walmart

[reef patrol]

https://bsky.app/profile/magisterconway.bsky.social/post/3mhntbkyadc24
Hah. AI can't read shitty old fonts either.

I feel vindicated for not being able to read cursive from my grandparents and beyond.

[iron wave]

I mean yeah, but that's a massive pain.

[fair gull]

so buy a bunch and return all you dont want lol

[plucky tapir]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCU_b_GF2c
You get so scammed buying an S26 if you're getting the Exynos model...

[frozen ingot]

just don't buy assmung ez

[plucky tapir]

The Ultra is fine but making the base model shit in Europe etc every year is getting lame.

Google is lame in every market every year, wouldn't use their phone if I got it for free.

[empty wren]

One cannot root the Snapdragon sku, so one never truly owns said device.

[tribal dirge]

"snapdragon for galaxy"

also lowk Assmung should just give up on exynos lmaoooo

it always consistently underperforms compared to Apple and Qcomm

actually them making a Snapdragon SKU of their S26 is literally an admission that their Exynos is bad.

[lyric hatch]

True we should only have 1 brand making all of our chips and nobody else should even try

[minor citrus]

You‘re talking about tsmc?

[tribal dirge]

TSMC orrrrrrrr?

[lyric hatch]

What other chip making brands are there

[tribal dirge]

Intel Foundry

[ashen spindle]

exynos 2600 is probably the only mobile rdna4 chip btw

[tribal dirge]

oh yeah I forgot Exynos used AMD graphics

unlike Apple and Qcomm that use their own graphics architectures

[lyric hatch]

What does Intel use for its latest CPUs

[ashen spindle]

what smartphone uses an intel cpu

[lyric hatch]

True

[minor citrus]

Wasn’t the Atom used in one way back then?

[empty wren]

Mediatek dimensity is supposedly good though

[pale sigil]

Most of these blocked requests are plex wtf

[ashen spindle]

also leaked gpu score of the new exynos do put it ahead of the new snapdragon

cpu behind but thats also in parts just from using samsung foundry

[iron wave]

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/interchangeable-lens-cameras/aps-c/p/ilczve10-b

Looks like this one does it and I can get one locally in a few checks.

[tribal dirge]

Geekbench?

[ashen spindle]

think so? dont remember

[lyric hatch]

think most modern cameras will fit this, but the zv-e10 is solid

[iron wave]

I don't want something super cheap, but if there's something decent for less I'll look into it some too.

[pale sigil]

Pretty cool HA integration

[astral haven]

For the most part anything that doesn't support it oob can be hacked to

[iron wave]

OOB?

[tribal dirge]

yeah its interesting the HA stuff you can do with Bambu printers since they use MQTT

[pale sigil]

Sadly limited if you're not using LAN mode

I want the best of both worlds 😭

[umbral heron]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amds-unreleased-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-officially-announced-by-asrock

[reef patrol]

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is supposed by ASRock motherboards

Yes too I sentence good making

[umbral heron]

They were quick to remove it though https://www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?iD=5760

[lunar elm]

a 9950X3D2 doesnt make sense at all rn anyway

[ashen spindle]

very likely it was just a regular one with 100mhz higher and someone told them no its dumb

naming aside nothing hints towards a dual vcache chiplet even being tested outside their labs

[lunar elm]

Thing is it’d hardly have any benefit over the normal one either way

[ashen spindle]

yup they said cache coherency even caused issues and downside in their tests

[fair gull]

didnt asus or asrock or smth also have bios patch notes during some initial drama of fixing x7d cpus and such

[fickle ore]

msi fixed AM5 longstanding pcie issue a day ago or someshit

[regal saddle]

Is it possible to convert this into wifi/ethernet?

[reef patrol]

Depends. You might be able to get internet via Cable (tv)

Depends on how your apartment is connected and if anyone offers that where you live.

It probably won't be amazing though.

[regal saddle]

I’m only gonna do it if it would be fast

I was tryna look for ethernet connect points in my home for my pc

[sullen bear]

Moca adapter?

[old marlin]

I think you mean in-home connections?

[regal saddle]

Yes like connected to router

To get ethernet to pc

[old marlin]

you can use moca for a point to point connection, which likely is not the case here

what mansen was talking about is getting internet via docsis

[regal saddle]

So basically im cooked?

[reef patrol]

Oh you're talking internally in the apartment?

That outlet goes outside of your home, so not relevant.

Your best bet would be to drag some actual ethernet cables from your router to where you need.

Along the skirts of the floor and under doors if possible. Or drill.

[regal saddle]

My parents will NOT let me do that

Cooked

[rough osprey]

powerline time

[regal saddle]

My best bet is to just plug an adapter in the power outlet and draw ethernet from that

[reef patrol]

A power line adaptor MIGHT work. But it's never a guarantee, and make sure you can return it

[regal saddle]

I alr have these thingies

[smoky parrot]

I run mine under the lil boards like this

This is where my old desk was

Just ripped em up, then attached them back down with the cable underneath

New desk we did this but might ziptie it to the back of the like bar here

[regal saddle]

I have stone Floor

Best bet would be taping to the ceiling lol

[smoky parrot]

Oh

[regal saddle]

Do these things even work

[smoky parrot]

Depending how important looks are

You can run a lenght of ducttape across it

So it's basically taped down

Through the lenght of the ducttape

Like this

That way you can't really trip over them

[unkempt lake]

https://cybersecuritynews.com/crunchyroll-data-breach/

[regal saddle]

I’ll ask my parents if im allowed

Lol

[hollow path]

If you’re lucky the coax runs to the modem if it’s meant for television signal, there is a lot of information about moca on youtube and what to look out for

[umbral heron]

Only LAN? You'll be better off with some Wi-Fi 5/6/7 mesh
Not only MoCA adapters are quite expensive if you want to have anything more than 100Mbps through them, they are also not very reliable and not very easy to get
Powerline is even less reliable

Trust me, I tried it too
In the end settled on ominous cubes emitting magic

[sullen bear]

I guess swap to ziggo and get a wifi 6E motherboard xD

[hollow path]

And get shitass upload for more money

[iron wave]

At my place for my workstation it's fiber modem -> switch -> switch -> PC.

[umbral heron]

As founding fathers of IEEE intended

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-predicts-that-cars-will-need-300gb-of-ram-memory-laden-vehicles-could-exacerbate-shortages-but-create-robust-long-term-growth-in-automotive-memory-demand

[reef patrol]

Jesus

[old marlin]

I am 100% sure that for both my cars the radio has more ram than the entire rest of the car

[frozen ingot]

"will need"

[old marlin]

also what is that based on

I am pretty sure they coud use the niantic dataset with less than that

[frozen ingot]

that's like saying a toothbrush needs an rtx gpu

for fucking what exactly

[old marlin]

it is like the exact opposite of the 640k saying

[frozen ingot]

last I checked we've had cars going along just fine for about a hundred years without their spyware riddled garbage in them

[dim niche]

Soon dodge will be the cheaper ram lol

[umbral heron]

Based on that Micron is memory manufacturer and they want to secure clients for when AI companies won't pay them anymore

[frozen ingot]

I hate the future so much man

[old marlin]

100 years, sure but they have had spyware for longer than you'd imagine

they basically got it as soon as they got ecall

[dim niche]

Im just sad that were getting all the bad shit from a cyberpunk universe without the sick aesthetic

[old marlin]

https://klipy.com/gifs/future-srK

[frozen ingot]

its not been very sophisticated at all until quite recently

[old marlin]

friend of mine used to work on vehicle telematics, it was quite sophisticated for a while

and would cause quite a big scandal since it breaks european law, there just is no whistleblower

[frozen ingot]

I know, been into cars for some 35 years, studied 3 years to be a technician

still pretty primitive telemetry compared to today

[crimson wigeon]

Cars need to run those AI models for reasons man

[sullen bear]

not if u have fibre

and what actual use is 1 gbit upload speed, also what would u rather have, shitass upload speed or shitass internet in general with his KPN setup

[old marlin]

oh absolutely, we need to find the reason still but I am sure they ned it

[frozen ingot]

todays cars can basically study your breathing patterns to see if you're on something

endless creep factor

don't buy new cars it ain't worth it folks

you pay more than ever for one and yet you're still the product

[hollow path]

Does ziggo even have real fibre for consumers?

[smoky parrot]

Imma buy a mustang 2016

[sullen bear]

yea

[hollow path]

Not their bullshit fibre to coax marketing

[ashen spindle]

Nothing new, Mercedes had a talk a awhile ago about their chips for cars and boy do they use a lot of HBM

[sullen bear]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/220093300672167936/1478772787760992359/image0.jpg?ex=69c201ba&is=69c0b03a&hm=623aa85011d6b562af9f508a46cac5263c8744677078c929e144e67651f75b50&

[old marlin]

to be fair, afaik mercedes is the best developed self driving system out there rn

[dim niche]

Why not just kpn fibre tho

[sullen bear]

cuz hes on wifi and they dont offer 6e modem/routers

[dim niche]

Ohh like that, yea good point

[old marlin]

docsis 4 can actually do 10gbit lol

[hollow path]

You’re probably the only person in the Netherlands with full fibre ziggo

[sullen bear]

nah

[hollow path]

You can turn off the wifi of your modem and use your own wifi 7 router, shocking

[old marlin]

cause they used to not lay fibre, docsis is existing wiring from the late 90s and 2000s in a lot of cases

[hollow path]

Not on a 30 year old rusty coax cable

[sullen bear]

ur telling a person who is asking in the server for coax > ethernet connections

what do u think is easier

[ashen spindle]

ye

[sullen bear]

and lives with their parents who manage the internet

[old marlin]

my 20+ year old cable can do 1gbit just fine

[dim niche]

Isnt flevoland fully kpn fibreglass?

[old marlin]

idfk I don't live in/on flevoland

[sullen bear]

I think atp swapping providers who will set up everything for u is easier than convincing your parents to set up a wifi 7 router

[dim niche]

Fair enough lmao

[sullen bear]

also wasnt it with KPN where you had to pay extra to even get the certs to use the bridge mode on a glass fibre modemrouter

[magic minnow]

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws

[hollow path]

I recently went from ziggo to kpn because its 20 euros cheaper per month and symmetrical

[dim niche]

"Dad i swear the gaming router is needed for homework"

[sullen bear]

🤣

[old marlin]

gaming router 💀 💀 💀

wifi 7 specification is an absolute jumbled mess btw and most companies are not keeping to spec

[sullen bear]

dad this 200 euro router, which cannot connect to the internet by itself, so we have to set our kpn modem to bridge mode so we can start with tri band connectivity and 6ghz and 5ghz and 2.4ghz is so that I can finally get usable speed on the 2nd floor is easier than swapping to ziggo!!

also I am a kid so you'll have to buy it for me and set it up

good luck

[dim niche]

Most realistic solution "dad i need this 40 euro cable and a roll of ducttape and ill stop bothering you about restarting the router daily"

[hollow path]

No one is going to swap to a more expensive provider because the supplied modem has 6e

[sullen bear]

more expensive is completely relative

[dim niche]

Ziggo and kpn are fairly similar in price afaik and signing up new to a provider always gives them a sales hardon with a nice discount

[sullen bear]

to the deals and current contract

[umbral heron]

Nah, son, why won't you stop bothering me altogether and go outside once in a while

[sullen bear]

I can bet I pay way less than you for 1 gbit @hollow path

with ziggo over kpn

[hollow path]

I have never seen a ziggo preacher, pretty inch resting

Since they lost f1 everything has gone downhill

[sullen bear]

I dont preach ziggothough?

thats as stupid as being blindly loyal to any brand

I preach lowest price for best return

[dim niche]

I just go with the option with the least headache lmao

Im willing to pay more if it saves me headaches and time

[sullen bear]

I pay 35 euros per month for 1gbit up down

[dim niche]

Damn dude

Tv not included probably?

[sullen bear]

no xD

I dont even have a tv

[dim niche]

Fair enough, i dont watch tv, just have a tv for streaming services and piracy

[sullen bear]

yeah I have a projector with a xiaomi stick for that

[dim niche]

Idk projectors kinda flop in any situation except total darkness imo

[fair gull]

i wish kpn fibre was available at my place

theyve been putting in fibre in this street for 2years now

[dim niche]

Maybe ive only seen shit beamers and projectors but thats my experience lol

[sullen bear]

yeah but during the day im working or at my pc anyways lol

but ur right, they flop with too much ambient light

but for 60$ its good enough for me

[dim niche]

Mmm delicious mix of sedimentairy soils and unplanned power lines

[fair gull]

i mean ziggo got it done in like a year

[sullen bear]

at my prev house they put it in the ground then never connected the houses lmao

[fair gull]

(my cat hates ziggo though it seems and "unplugged" the fibre from the terminal)

[umbral heron]

Your cat knows what you are doing on the internet

[sullen bear]

woothub

[dim niche]

Im currently in a newly built appartment and im so happy that the only use for wifi now is mobile phones, i have 4+ ethernet ports per room

[sullen bear]

but ill never understand blind brand loyalty, if kpn or odido(maybe not anymore) was cheaper, I wouldve gone for those instead

[fair gull]

me in ww2 era apartment building: yes ethernet ports

[sullen bear]

but I dont think any other provider matches 37.5/m right now

[dim niche]

I dont have a modem thatd fit all but i just swap which cables are plugged in depending on which ports i need lol

[dim niche]

Odi

[sullen bear]

get a switch?

[dim niche]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-les-simpson-matt-groening-ouff-non-gif-11592092171817688539

[dim niche]

I could but its not needed for now

[sullen bear]

action sometimes has TP link 1 gbit switches for 9 euros

there was also a deal for ethernet cables on amazon for 40 cent per piece

[dim niche]

Only time i need to switch ports is the rare occassion where for some reason i need ethernet in the kitchen or storage closet

Which i dont need

[sullen bear]

still here I think

[dim niche]

Honeslty my dad would probably still have a 1gbit switch lying around somewhere if i needed one

[sullen bear]

Good enough for me for the occasional movie watching

[dim niche]

Oh thats not bad ngl

Hows the sound though?

[sullen bear]

Sound is actually amazing

Was positively surprised

Its just that on max brightness the fan can be loud

But this pic wasnt on max brightness

[dim niche]

Neat

Ive got a 65 inch philips mled ambilight

[sullen bear]

Yeah that will be 10x better anytime of the day, but also 30x the price probably

[dim niche]

Oh most likely lmao

[ashen spindle]

finally good arrow lake deals

[umbral heron]

Indeed, 8+16 is 18

[steady sail]

[reef patrol]

[steady sail]

Made with AI

[ashen spindle]

I mean yeah they replaced a lot of PR staff with an AI agency

[steady sail]

Didn’t know that AMD uses P and E cores

[exotic plinth]

New intel? Is it good?

[ashen spindle]

its the same cpus at better value

basically if you dont go for a 9800x3d intel has the better options

[steady sail]

I mean sure replace stuff with AI but atleast put someone who is checking it if the AI makes stupid shiet

[umbral heron]

For productivity Intel 2 series has better stuff now than non-X3D AMD

Good - competitiveness

[ashen spindle]

basically intel is the best option for everything except the 9800x3ds gaming performance crown

better productivity/platform/mediaengine/value

[exotic plinth]

@ashen spindle i saw ltt video and that ultra 7 is better than amd cpus except in Adobe

[umbral heron]

bring back SMT intel...

[ashen spindle]

not happening and also not needed

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/golgra-expedition-33-clair-obscur-super-saiyan-golgra-super-saiyan-gif-9274717243192426391

[exotic plinth]

SMT?

[ashen spindle]

hyper threading

[exotic plinth]

Ooh

[umbral heron]

not needed

[ashen spindle]

it doesnt really do much on desktop if you can get more cores instead

so its just a tradeoff where either way is fine, for servers you want the extra density gain much more

[frozen ingot]

pretty sure they already use surface mount

[exotic plinth]

Did amd fix issue where thry cant handle quad ddr5?

[ashen spindle]

they could always do quad rank?

you lose max memory speed but thats just normal for more sticks

[lunar elm]

they can depending on imc luck and how much capacity the dimms are

[exotic plinth]

So intel is still better in this departament?

[ashen spindle]

for what? memory OC results? yes

productivity that needs 4 ram sticks? idk depends on the performance on the cpu still

[rough osprey]

id pick depending on what color you prefer

[gusty kiln]

too bad you cannot afford the ram to maximize the new intel cpu

[fair gull]

ofc you can

who said going into crippling debt is off the table

[gusty kiln]

32GB of 7200 DDR5 is 500+ at my local microcenter

so glad I'm comfy with my 5800X3D and 32 GB of 3200CL14 B-Die ram

[heady hazel]

i think who makes the ram chips beeing a huge difference is also just a relic of early Ryzen days when it was very picky about ram

[umbral heron]

I like RAM

I made a script which creates a ramdisk and copies the game to it before launching, so I don't have loading screens

[heady hazel]

i have mixed ones neither of them samsung and the pc runs just fine

[lunar elm]

frankly speaking you dont need fast RAM to game on it anyway

you could just use a normal 6000 EXPO/XMP kit and its like 1% off a tuned 8800 CL42

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5OP2OxiV0aA

I ... I think someone just invented the air fryer version of a pizza oven. So tiny 😄

[frozen ingot]

wooting airpizzaoven when

[reef patrol]

We need to finish the air fryer first.

[wheat plume]

AAA this font is so nice to code with 💜

[crimson wigeon]

Ew ligatures

[wheat plume]

xd

[lapis plaza]

Catppuccin Frappé + Jetbrain mono > all

[fickle ore]

Made on what?

Wish I had a setup like this

[halcyon moss]

Setup is doable, the actual machines is.. Yeah.. Loads of money

[lapis plaza]

Oh I was just talking about a theme for coding

[fickle ore]

lul

[gusty kiln]

Man I think it's time to sell my 6XX

[vapid ruin]

Why?

[gusty kiln]

consolidating and don't see myself using it much after getting the D1

[vapid ruin]

I see

I would've keep it as an emergency pair

[gusty kiln]

sennheiser is keeping it alive now, so if I wanted a pair later on it's not a big issue

[wheat plume]

Why are cars turning into pokemon?

They now project their name onto the ground when you unlock them

[ashen spindle]

[umbral heron]

[sudden imp]

I read that as wank a neer

[balmy vector]

Wagooneer

[sudden imp]

HA

gooner

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/biscuitflash-deer-interview-UmflJIqBXGGtoScVno

[gusty kiln]

https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/sennheiser-wird-verkauft-sonova-will-sich-von-der-audio-marke-trennen/

according to this German site, sennheiser consumer is getting sold again

[wheat plume]

LOL

[frozen ingot]

all this stuff together with the animated turn signals and light up grilles just look so tacky to me, we're in the peak of the vulgar shouty look at me era of humanity across every branch it seems

cars from quarter of a decade ago looks so classy and understated in comparison

[wheat plume]

Light up grills??? Ew no thanks

I already really hate the monobrow car trend -_-

This shit

Have separate lights please

[rough osprey]

man i need better pc

[wheat plume]

Trying to use Windows 11 on 16gb ram?

[rough osprey]

nah blender on 32gb

[wheat plume]

..... understandable

[rough osprey]

and 16gb vram

[wheat plume]

...wow xd

[frozen ingot]

you trying to model the earth in 1:1 scale or smth

[rough osprey]

whole universe

but running out of memory is pretty easy in creative software so

happens in photoshop too

[wheat plume]

Yeh....
Upgrading orders of the m4 series MacBooks to M5 for free if the order was within a week of m5 being released....
MacBook Neo launch.....
iPhone 17e being decent value
Regular iPhone 17 being decent value

It's all been decently nice PR for apple lately .
What's up?!

[ashen spindle]

simple the m5 costs about the same to make so you can just stop the m4 production and save on costs

macbook neo has good margins

iphones idk, but those two points are just very normla things

[frozen ingot]

yeah that's also tacky, like its so forced pHuTuRe

[ashen spindle]

also apple always had good pr, they didnt get a cult following from constantly bad products

[frozen ingot]

newer mercedes and bmw are the worst offenders of this I find

https://static1.topspeedimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2024-bmw-5-series-led-grille.jpg

looks like a piggy comes driving towards you in the dark

[wheat plume]

Oh...yeh
That's BS

It reminds me of those bull fights for some reason

[frozen ingot]

can hear the bad piggies score in my head

[wheat plume]

Xddddddd

It's like those clown lips GPUs used to have at the end of them

[frozen ingot]

bmw and merc have fallen so far, they used to have some of the best designed cars 20-30 years back

now your modern executive mercs have more mood light in them than a cambodian brothel

[wheat plume]

Same for Toyota
Now their new cars have side mounted rear lights that bulge the mirrors width from the side of the car

[frozen ingot]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/d3/43/c8d34325d913b6411edbf46403d4d60b.jpg

like good grief its so tacky

is this a luxury car or the inside of a gaming pc

[wheat plume]

Xd

[rough osprey]

wait that one doesn't even look that bad in the pic

[frozen ingot]

like I would have liked that when I was 16, but am pretty sure that's not their customer base

[wheat plume]

Hot take
Shiny glossy silver is not a good look

It's basically a mirror that'll get super smudgy looking immediately

[frozen ingot]

brushed metal is better imo, but I don't mind some chrome on older vehicles

[wheat plume]

Also
How TF are you meant to see over that dash??????
It's way too high

[frozen ingot]

its a bitch to keep it nice and clean though

[wheat plume]

Wait
That's an Audi
Audi drivers don't care about seeing shit in front of them

[frozen ingot]

an audi with a star logo on the wheel?

[wheat plume]

Hmmm
Wait.idk what brand that is

[frozen ingot]

well its a press pic, I haven't seen any so far looking good irl

[frozen ingot]

mercedes? who else has a brand like that

[wheat plume]

Oh
My point stands ever moreso

[frozen ingot]

but every car interior apart from the sex club lighting is basically the same these days

just awful touchscreens plastered everywhere

[wheat plume]

With horrible laggy unresponsive UI that makes it dangerous to use when driving cause you have to look at it to see where to tap

As much as I hate Tesla
Their touchscreen UI is not laggy whatsoever

[frozen ingot]

it saves them money over engineering decent quality switchgear

[wheat plume]

Everyone else makes it feel like you have a crappy phone from 2003 trying to run the system

[frozen ingot]

and plebs who don't know any better thinks its more luxurious because they get a bunch of software bloat they see as more features

[wheat plume]

That Easter egg with the broken glass is funny though
The rest is just cringe and cheesy

[frozen ingot]

don't even get me started on the subscription fees on using hardware already installed in the car

[wheat plume]

TIL you can get a @linux.com email address for the measly price of $250 worth of donations

[wheat plume]

YEP -_-

[frozen ingot]

can people stop giving these companies money to reward this behaviour pretty pls

[wheat plume]

Never
Got to
CONSOOOOOMMM

[fair gull]

nice wheels

[tribal dirge]

I got a duck.com address for free!

[frozen ingot]

plural? I only see one

[wheat plume]

Oo
Nice
How??? Xd

[tribal dirge]

duckduckgo forwarding address something

basically free email protection

[wheat plume]

Didn't know they offered that

Nice
I'm already using proton for that!

[unreal burrow]

can someone help i have a wooting 60 he+ but i hate the sound i want it to sound like clacky creamy

[ashen spindle]

#🔧│keyboard_modding

[heady hazel]

i kid you not a friend of mine put a starlight headliner in his c43amg

[regal saddle]

Is that possible with kpn

[sullen bear]

Nope iirc they only support wifi 6 with the black modem

[quasi sun]

Does anyone have any experience with telescopes? Does anyone have like a good starting point around/below 500 EUR?

Or is it not worth it at that pricepoint

[analog sinew]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo @iron wave

essentially FCCs you can soon only get your US made** palantir router :D

[iron wave]

This will only make things worse and that's the entire point.

F it I'm buying the one I've been eyeballing.

[umbral heron]

One exception to the general absence of US-made routers is the newer Starlink WiFi router. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's company SpaceX.
HMMMM...

[iron wave]

Ordered.

https://tenor.com/view/linux-linus-linus-torvalds-middle-finger-fuck-off-gif-16334894

[iron wave]

Again, the point is to make everything worse.

[marsh glade]

No, that's an unfortunate consequence

[reef patrol]

Entirely incidental.

[ashen spindle]

might just be a mandate for the shitty ISP provided boxes

but gl since those are all chinese ODM boxes as well so thats going to make things cost more quite a bit

[umbral heron]

Still funny
"Over national security concerns"
Not like the biggest security concern sits in presidential chair

[reef patrol]

He doesn't want Americans to know about life outside of the great firewall.

Wait...

[iron wave]

Again, making everything worse is the explicit goal.

[nimble arch]

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/introducing-apple-business-a-new-all-in-one-platform-for-businesses-of-all-sizes/

[sudden imp]

I'm thinking they will try to get into the education sector

[umbral heron]

If it weakens Microsoft's grasp on corporations and governments then I'm all for it

[sudden imp]

Also how will this work? will people who have asus routers have them taken?? this makes no sense to me :C

harboring illegal routers gasp

[sullen bear]

New excuse to breach your home in the US

“We suspect you’re harboring an illegal router, prepare to have your constitutions ignored”

[paper ledge]

No, its explained in the article lmao

Still weird af tho

[sudden imp]

paywalled

[paper ledge]

I dont think it is, I can open it just fine

Maybe regional block

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cbs-swat-shemar-moore-cbs-jmSjPi6soIoQCFwaXJ

[analog sinew]

its for new routers. but its crazy overreach regardless and also nonsensical cause noone makes SMDs n shit in the US

[snow lark]

yo, so i just got the wooting 60he v2, and its just spamming random stuff, just presssing every key randomly

the ss is just to show im not touching it but its just glitching between 0.3-0.45

[tribal dirge]

Oooo

[steady sail]

replug the keyboard

[snow lark]

fixed it, was an issue with the rgbs pulling too much power

[sturdy mountain]

thats the firsdt thing i did

idk the coil cable just is bugging out when the rgb is on full brightness

[minor citrus]

God I hope my company gets rid of Jamf with this

[pale sigil]

Didn't they already

Apple devices are amongst the best devices for managing like that

https://www.apple.com/uk/education/

[reef patrol]

Gotta get the kids hooked early.

[pale sigil]

I think Chromebooks have taken over too much already.

Idk the accuracy of this lol

It's prediction tho

[reef patrol]

When I was in school last (Around start of Covid), like 90% of students had some variant of Macbook. And we sold so many refurbished Macbooks. I swear even old Air models outsold everything.

It was a genuine disease.

[pale sigil]

There ya go

[reef patrol]

Chromebooks is for the kid, kids. The ones that break them once a week 😄

[pale sigil]

Unis are definitely dominated by MacBooks

[ashen spindle]

this isnt showing how much of it is chromebooks though..

[pale sigil]

When I was in school we didn't really use laptops in glasses till my final year and they were shitty HP notebooks.

[ashen spindle]

this is showing which areas chromebooks are in

[pale sigil]

I know

I'm just saying they kinda become the go to for education and most customers who use them are for education

[plucky tapir]

The Macbook Neo is so fucking good for the price, Chromebooks can go extinct for all I care.

[reef patrol]

It'll probably sell like hotcakes, just cause it's a Mac.

Like I said - Students didn't NEED a Mac. They were literally just using office.

[pale sigil]

Pretty much

Everyone I saw had MacBooks even used Google docs lol

Especially when I had group work

[reef patrol]

The fun thing was when students went to classes where Office didn't have Mac alternatives. Is it... Access that doesn't exist on Mac? They were forced to use ancient HP desktops in class from the school for those lessons.

[plucky tapir]

I love my tablet, when I replace it I'll probably get a macbook instead.

[reef patrol]

Still waiting for someone to return an AMD 350 laptop with a 5060...

[plucky tapir]

I dunno what it is

But I'd never buy a windows laptop

I've been burned too many times, never again.

[reef patrol]

It's a Ryzen 7.

[plucky tapir]

It's just the build quality for me, performance is secondary.

[reef patrol]

I don't manhandle my laptops. And I don't want to be locked down by MacOS.

[plucky tapir]

99% of the stuff I do I do in the browser

So what OS I use is kinda irrelevant

[reef patrol]

I stopped caring about Apple, when they moved to Intel CPUs, and stopped making hardware repairable 😄

[plucky tapir]

I never cared about them tbh, stupid and overpriced.

But Windows laptops have caught up on price and Apple is the affordable option now.

Same with tablets, Samsung is charging 1500 euro for their S11 Ultra and it's so fucking shit compared to the M5 iPad Pro that costs the same I just want to laugh.

I like the apple hardware, just don't like the software.

[reef patrol]

I liked the hardware, when I could open it up and do maintenance and repair 😄

[plucky tapir]

The only windows laptop I could see myself spending my own money on is the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 or G14

Anything else and it's not going to be my money I'm spending

[nimble arch]

iOS 26.4 is out

Plus all the other Apple OS variants.

[rough osprey]

and new nvidia driver

[vapid ruin]

ooo

finally, the battery limiting now available by default

[umbral heron]

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

Apple again 2 years behind everyone?

[unkempt lake]

The battery limiting was already a thing tho

I'm a bit confused what he's talking about

[rough osprey]

my current iphone and the one before that had it 🤔

[vapid ruin]

I meant for mac, prev you have to install a software for it

[rough osprey]

ohh

[umbral heron]

Ah, fair

[sudden imp]

So I found out that apple doesn't allow for extensions on other browser apps (shocking right?) so when I tired to find Ublock on firefox mobile i got a big ol f u

APPLE PLEASE AD SIDELOADING

I BEG NATIVELY SUPPORT IT

There is this though which I’ll try hopefully it has working ad block

[lyric hatch]

My biggest purchase regret is getting one of those

[lunar elm]

specsheet drivers when it comes to mb neo:

https://tenor.com/view/angry-inside-out-gif-11513642238838645405

[plucky tapir]

Buy stuff, refurbish stuff, sell stuff. Might keep this one though I don't have a blue one yet.

[rough osprey]

https://fixupx.com/iancutress/status/2036496126434529394?s=46

𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress)

Today @Arm announces its AGI CPU at its event.
︀︀
︀︀➡️ 136 Arm Neoverse V3 Cores
︀︀➡️ Up to 3.7 GHz, 300W, TSMC N3(P?)
︀︀➡️ 2MB Private L2 Per Core
︀︀➡️ 96 x PCIe 6.0 with CXL 3.0 Support
︀︀➡️ Up to DDR5-8800, 6 TB/sec BW/core
︀︀➡️ 8160 cores per air cooled 36 kW OCP V3 Rack
︀︀➡️ Two chiplets inside
︀︀➡️ Date code 2613 on chip (ie, this week)

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FixupX · Mar 24, 2026, 5:31 PM

[ashen spindle]

end of this year/early next year chip, just another meta/broadcomm design that will end in cloud so they can attempt to not buy intel/amd if anyone wants a summary of what this product is

[rough osprey]

calling it AGI cpu 😭

[tropic sundial]

fun stuff is happening

[old marlin]

can firefox on ios install extensions by now?

(oh wait you talked about that lol)

[tropic sundial]

jesus almost £200 for the dualsense edge controller

[sudden imp]

I know 🙁

im going to try the "focus verison"

but apple is being STINKY

[old marlin]

hey at least the sticks are on sale now

you could not buy them before

(just buy a better controller)

[tropic sundial]

im just gunna look around, the edge one has back buttons which i dont neeed

[old marlin]

wait so what do you want the edge for

[tropic sundial]

i thought it was just like a normal ps5 controller

didn’t realise it had back buttons and whatever little black things under the sticks

[old marlin]

it is but now sticks are a subscription service

[umbral heron]

Does AGI here stand for Absolute Garbage Infrastructure?

Oh, and partnered with "I promise, I'll pay you back, I just need another investment round"

[tropic sundial]

ugh

[plucky tapir]

Got a PS3 slim with 2 dualshock controllers, 4 buzz controllers, 2 move controllers, 12 games for 37 euro. We'll see in the end what I keep and what I sell.

[alpine patio]

thats sick

[tropic sundial]

holy fuck

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-the-misery-oh-the-misery-everybody-wants-to-be-my-enemy-gif-25368312

All I needed was probably an extra 1-2g

https://tenor.com/view/go-for-it-you-can-do-it-encourage-do-it-gif-14006408

4 more layers

This might work omg

[obtuse gyro]

is huntman v3 pro 8khz better or wooting 60he v2

[ashen spindle]

what do you expect people to say on the wooting discord

[obtuse gyro]

um

i expect huntsman v3 pro 8khz trust

[umbral heron]

Eh, about the same when it comes to performance, but when it comes to moddability and software Wooting wins

[rough osprey]

when it comes to cute snake logo, razer wins

[obtuse gyro]

ngl without razer logo ggs bro wooting wins

[alpine patio]

razer logo looks like a disgusting chinese herbal drink logo ova here

[obtuse gyro]

lol

[rough osprey]

but they got a plushie

[obtuse gyro]

wait whattt

[obtuse gyro]

LOL

why does it lowkey accurate

[alpine patio]

because im pretty sure its where they got it from

the founder of razer grew up here

[obtuse gyro]

lmao

[old marlin]

isle of man water

[vapid ruin]

nice to have this option now on default

[lyric hatch]

Wonder how much that actually benefits in the real world

My guess is not much

[leaden kiln]

any difference is nice since it’ll have your device lasting longer
phones have been doing it for a while, and you can still just turn it off anyway

[regal saddle]

guyssss

is this a good build https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/

or would yall make any major changes

i choose 1x16 bc i want to buy another one a bit later

[leaden kiln]

forgot the list

[regal saddle]

i cant afford 32g rn

[regal saddle]

huh

[leaden kiln]

click the link

[regal saddle]

i did and it opened fine

[vapid ruin]

I just do it, besides, the thing survive all day even with just 80% of battery

[leaden kiln]

copy the link and open in an incognito tab

[regal saddle]

oh ya ur right

[vapid ruin]

huh, interesting, it also has a button to charge to full

guess that'll be useful if I'm gonna go somewhere

[leaden kiln]

I have my phone on 80 limit too unless I’m traveling

[regal saddle]

does it work now https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/mqjjck

[leaden kiln]

yeah

[vapid ruin]

yesh, but this one is a nice quick switch when you need it

[regal saddle]

So is it trash

[leaden kiln]

sry I’m clueless about hardware I was just saying the link didn’t work

[regal saddle]

Ur good dw

Holy anticlimax

[umbral heron]

I clicked on first link and was like "this build looks surprisingly similar to mine"

[vapid ruin]

seems okay

[regal saddle]

So that means it’s decent?

[regal saddle]

My friends are saying I should do 2x8gb ram and i agree but I want to upgrade to 2x16gb within a few months and don’t want to have to sell ram

[umbral heron]

Pretty okay build, just replace 32 to 2x16 and it should be good to go

[vapid ruin]

go for 2x16

like, even if it's expensive now, you'll at least be set until windows 13

[regal saddle]

Too broke rn

[vapid ruin]

aww

[regal saddle]

Is temporary 1x16gb fine?

I’ll upgrade it 2 2x16 as soon as I can

[vapid ruin]

as long as you can get a matching stick I guess?

[regal saddle]

Id get the same 1

[vapid ruin]

hmm, the charger light doesn't turn green. Guess for this feature it'll only turn green at 100%

[regal saddle]

What😭

[leaden kiln]

laptop

[vapid ruin]

talking about laptop

[regal saddle]

Mb

[vapid ruin]

might have to buy a dock, the orange light is annoying me. Me want it greeen.

[ashen spindle]

list is mostly fine, could save like 20 bucks on a cheaper aircooler or cheaper ssd but otherwise thats fine

for ram just get the cheapest thing you find, doesnt have to be 6000, speed for a 9800x3d doesnt matter

[leaden kiln]

or regular usb cable

[sudden imp]

DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD

[vapid ruin]

Carter here

[frozen ingot]

now do suno as well

[umbral heron]

Hol up
Wait a minute
Something ain't right
Actually GOOD AI news?

https://tenor.com/view/yay-yeah-happy-dance-gif-18266119187889292563

[ashen spindle]

this is missing the better part

disney pulled out of the 1billion dollar to sora deal

[umbral heron]

[nimble arch]

Strong pull out game

[sudden imp]

likely why sora closed

[ashen spindle]

other way around

sora closed then disney pulled out

but also sora was just losing them money

[umbral heron]

But I thought it's not about money, but about innovation

About future

So that people won't have to work, because AI will do everything

[tropic sundial]

id love to see AI be a house wife.

[umbral heron]

Now I wonder if Disney will work with other AI company or delay/cancel some of the TV shows or movies

[tropic sundial]

Disney hasnt been good for a while no?

[sudden imp]

They probably knew Disney was backing out ahead of time so the service no longer became viable inmho

[tropic sundial]

AI just sucks anyway

[umbral heron]

They kinda overestimated amount of people being interested in both Disney+ and later stages of MCU
MCU had perfect formula - 3 movies a year, enough so that hype was going on, but also not so much, so people had time to keep up with it
After Thanos they started making TV shows too, people weren't really interested in those and hype slowly died

[umbral heron]

Watch OpenAI moving from wanting to do IPO to becoming Microsoft's subsidiary and taking care of mostly governmental and private surveillance contracts

[tropic sundial]

i never quite understood the hype with MCU

Dan Vasc got a 62 inch CRT for his retro gaming setup, love that for him

[umbral heron]

Cool movies, well written, so that people who didn't care about Marvel Universe still had a good action movie to watch, and those who did got quite decent comic adaptation
Then Marvel did a new approach to movies at the time, making them all into one storyline, but it was simple enough that everyone could follow - there are stones, Thanos wants stones, gotta stop Thanos

[tropic sundial]

i think the only one i remember seeing was thanos getting killed

[umbral heron]

Also writing fell down hard

In movies we get to know that something got Nick Fury's eye
Now, people then wondered what the hell it could be if it got to Nick
And then we have TV show and it was just a random cat

[leaden kiln]

watching an anime with subs from disneyplus and they’re both mistranslated and mistimed

[tropic sundial]

cat with a big mouth and sharp claws

wait

i thought it was revealed in captain marvels film what happened to his eye?

[umbral heron]

Weebs with autism will do incomparably better job than team of corporate translators

[umbral heron]

I don't remember
I don't know, didn't really cared anymore

[vapid ruin]

and for free

[leaden kiln]

yeah but they’re sadly delayed for this show so it’s just the disney subrips now

[umbral heron]

Crunchyroll - a joint operation between Sony Pictures and Aniplex... which is just Sony Music Japan
But also Japanese Animec, which is joint operation with Kadokawa... of which Sony is controlling shareholder...
Oh and let's not forget about A-1, CloverWorks, and multiple other studios - all owned by Sony
Live2D? Believe it or not - Sony
I wonder from whom Disney licenses anime, let's see... Aniplex of America? Sony again?!

[vapid ruin]

waow, sony do be dominating where they're based from

[heady hazel]

let me guess avex is also owned by sony?

[leaden kiln]

Someone told me cr is moving to hardcoded subs now 🥀

[tropic sundial]

meaning?