🔌│tech

[lyric hatch]

from what I see the bigger brands don't need to risk and have more to lose if they do

[magic minnow]

Because they have no competition at the moment in the US

[halcyon moss]

at the scale of samsung, a recall is expensive, and hurts image

[magic minnow]

Wait it’s fake

[crystal magnet]

CAN YOU STILL SEND SEND YOUR WOOTING BACK AFTER 6 MONTHS AND GET LIKE 75 EUROS FOR IT

[ashen spindle]

NO

[marsh glade]

NO AND YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL

[frozen ingot]

YOU CAN PROBABLY GET MORE THAN 75 EURO IF YOU PUT IT UP FOR SALE

[lunar elm]

NO YOU WOULD HAVE TO GET YOUR 75 EUROS FROM SELLING IT ON THE USED MARKETPLACE

so anyway

i decided to not wait for tandem

[marsh glade]

Y'all yelling had best be holding down your shift keys like proper ragers, instead of taking the lazy way out with capslock

[harsh pasture]

Can I use a normal usb cable for my wooting keyboard as a replacement when I take my pc somewhere?

[umbral heron]

Aye compadre, lazy way all the way, come forth, we have blankets and hot chip

[lunar elm]

as long as it meets the specs yes

[frozen ingot]

CAPS LOCK IS ILLEGAL

I should look at a new monitor this year

[lunar elm]

join me nightman 80HE enjoyer

[lapis plaza]

I am interested by this one could you make a review?

[lunar elm]

https://youtu.be/6JuMQvivVCM?si=o8ijsjfj5Xv4idcE

https://youtu.be/g6jMocL9vPg?si=CgACvc3j_3DYj5Ly best of the best OLED monitor rn

[frozen ingot]

I don't think I'll oled this time around but would be nice to see more miniled

[lunar elm]

the XG32UCWMG is pretty slim and sleek icl

compared to my AW2725DF

I dont have a side by side comparison since I alrdy sold the alienware

[lapis plaza]

is the text ok on it? Ofen people say on oled there are some fringe effect around the letters

[frozen ingot]

I have too much static things on screen in daily use to risk an oled

that thing will burn in within a month

[lunar elm]

for me yes

[lapis plaza]

ok people say the issue is more with 1440p than 4k

[ashen spindle]

you'll not see burn in on modern oleds unless you ignore the compensation cycles

even if you just use youtube and have the taskbar up all the time

[frozen ingot]

I like running high brightness too

[ashen spindle]

thats fine

unless you mean like the sun shines onto your monitor

[marsh glade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o593JmtLyMU
First mission to Luna in over 50 years, launching Wednesday 🚀

[vapid ruin]

can't wait to see the tech news talking about this

[tribal dirge]

Let's hope they don't scrub the launch

[empty wren]

ahhh, if i put both loadcells there the belts will slap the other loadcell and mount smh

[tribal dirge]

Lmao real

What are they for?

[empty wren]

Belt tension

Resding

0.13.x supports hx711

[umbral heron]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-free-promise-in-question-as-dolby-sues-snapchat-over-codec/

[umbral heron]

And even links to the article on the same site

Yeah, fair
But even if it was the case I don't think it would be enforceable - a ton of software implements AV1 now, and Dolby realized after a reasonably long period of time, so the whole case could end there

[ashen spindle]

orrr we go back to h264 for the rest of eternity

[umbral heron]

Nah
Till 2030 when all patents for H265 expire

Oh
wait
why do I care
I live in EU, there's no software patents here

[ashen spindle]

doesnt matter, nobody is implementing eu only options for serverside things

so for like plex sure but your streaming or vod services online will care

also hardware vendors

[umbral heron]

iirc China doesn't have software patents either, so here go hardware vendors

[ashen spindle]

yeah but also dont have access to intel/tsmc/samsung fabs so uh wont have decent new hardware either xD

[umbral heron]

world would be so much better without this small part of US

[sudden imp]

YouTube music breaks on my browser and I can’t listen to things with the browser minimized

I lowkey hate iOS

when can we get native side loading 🙁

[gusty kiln]

time to give self-hosting a try

[bright briar]

World would be so much better without this small part of the population

[lyric hatch]

Buy YouTube premium or buy an android

[umbral heron]

Nah
Just download music

[vapid ruin]

Fr

[vapid ruin]

Time to download the songs as mp3 and use mp3 player

Going back to its root (ipod)

[bright briar]

ipod and lime wire was peak

cant tell me differently

[minor citrus]

sounds like a skill issue, you mentioning "native" means you know about the possibilities there are already

[lapis plaza]

Honestly I think I listened to more music before spotify

[umbral heron]

Because Spotify gives you endless stream of songs you might like, so in the end you get overloaded and it just doesn't matter to you so much

[frozen ingot]

spotify is garbage

[lapis plaza]

I think I am also going back to mp3

[leaden kiln]

I only exceedingly rarely listen to recommendations or shuffle on spotify, always accidentally
I use it the same way I listened to music before I had it

[lyric hatch]

Depends on how you use Spotify you can just listen to your library if you wanted to

[leaden kiln]

exactly

it’s also the most convenient way I’ve found to mix podcasts into my queue
that’s the main feature keeping me I think

[lyric hatch]

And when you're feeling like trying something new the mixes and discover playlists are actually pretty decent

[lapis plaza]

Yeah I am not saying it is bad

It is just that I feel when you have only a few album on mp3

You tend to listen to them more

With spotify you can listen some songs only once and go chasing something else

[halcyon moss]

[sudden imp]

the ones i've seen inlove some gimmicky stuff that could be a potential issue for when I need to trade this in for my next phone

[heady hazel]

what are you doing to this poor x370 msi gaming pro carbon?

[vagrant pagoda]

Dont ask, dont tell

[heady hazel]

its actually a decent motherboard used to have one before i swapped to a x570

[pastel galleon]

for real calsy

[umbral heron]

[umbral heron]

Muse dash on OLED on max brightness and color intensity be like

https://tenor.com/view/wymioty-wymiotować-tęcza-rzygać-rzyganie-gif-21994652

[lunar elm]

man the XG32UCWMG has incredible HDR compared to the AW2725DF

[swift ivy]

Can anyone explain the differences between these switches?

I have the original Wooting 60 with the L60s, and I really do not like how they feel. I am looking for something more stable and better sounding, if that makes sense.

If anyone has tried a few of these, which one would you recommend?

[umbral heron]

[lunar elm]

sorry brainfart

[umbral heron]

Try #🔧│keyboard_modding, they will be able to tell you more
I'd say get Tikkens

[swift ivy]

thanks

[nimble arch]

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

[magic minnow]

N6?

[umbral heron]

[nimble arch]

Absolutely the worst thing about 8BitDo

[nimble arch]

Yes

[umbral heron]

Eh, at least their soft works on Wine

[nimble arch]

They used to support the Linux firmware thingy

[lyric hatch]

Gulikit has way more software support across OS

[umbral heron]

Gulikit doesn't have arcade controller

[lyric hatch]

with the current state of tekken 8 I have no need for such controller

[raw zephyr]

we love heat system

[lyric hatch]

Wooting fight stick? https://makerworld.com/en/models/2566552-joystick-keycap-full-functional#profileId-2828640

oh wow I just saw that post in general now I'm late to the party 🦥

[umbral heron]

holy magnets

[lyric hatch]

not wooting safe

[smoky parrot]

Oooh, you got one?

[umbral heron]

yee

[vapid ruin]

https://fixupx.com/hardwarecanucks/status/2038684903626215898

Hardware Canucks (@hardwarecanucks)

Turns out Sam Altman "buying up" 40% of DRAM wafers was actually him writing Letters of Intent. Letters he supposedly had / has no intention of converting to actual purchases now.
︀︀
︀︀And memory manufacturers are just getting DUMPED on today.🍿🍿

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FixupX · Mar 30, 2026, 6:28 PM

[umbral heron]

Something something can I pay with money I don't have yet

[lyric hatch]

This fall is related to the efficiency stuff not whatever bs this is

[old marlin]

it is both

[lyric hatch]

Only source I see for this one is Grummz Twitter account

[old marlin]

for what

[lyric hatch]

The openAI having no intent to actually buy the RAM

[old marlin]

well opeanAI has no intent to build the datacenter which they needed the ram for

so the only reason to buy the ram now would be to flip?

in which case they would probably get cracked down on

[steady sail]

Yay

[umbral heron]

Efficiency stuff only means they can now show investors they can run as many agents on their hardware, and that's more than them, so it better, gib money for more hardware
I guess OpenAI is slowly but surely bleeding

[steady sail]

Can they bleed faster

[lyric hatch]

Well I do need some more ram

[umbral heron]

Given the Disney pulled out, because despite $1B investment from them Sora has been closed... kinda gives off vibes to investors
Plus Microsoft would love for OpenAI to wrap up, they get all software patents and intellectual properties in that case

[ashen spindle]

oh no the stock thats up 110% is now down... 8%...

yeah that totally means anything

none of this is new either, multiple of these big investmenta were milestone or intent based and that was very clear and isnt a hidden fake that nobody knew about

same thing with the google turboquant that got peoples pants wet, that is from april last year https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874

[dim light]

https://fixupx.com/hardwarecanucks/status/2038684903626215898

Hardware Canucks (@hardwarecanucks)

Turns out Sam Altman "buying up" 40% of DRAM wafers was actually him writing Letters of Intent. Letters he supposedly had / has no intention of converting to actual purchases now.
︀︀
︀︀And memory manufacturers are just getting DUMPED on today.🍿🍿

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FixupX · Mar 30, 2026, 6:28 PM

oh shot already posted

[marsh glade]

Gotta be quick if you want to beat the nerds here

[analog sinew]

so all i gotta do is buy stock of company x, write "letters of intent" about buying all their shit, sell high, and bam i win. Got it. Or just be a gov member insider trading
This is called "free market" by the way

i mean the moment the dram companies weren't even interested in expanding production you knew something was up but man it's just wild what they are doing out there

[ashen spindle]

nah its compounding effects

people are buying more ai chips which need mroe and more dram, which then gets picked up and peoeple fomo buy which kills the supply chain model the worlds works on so prices spike more than actual demand would want

then you get some letters and some extra points from that but they alone wouldn't have done anything

not to mention its not just ai datacenter chips, cars are starting to eat up the same ammount of dram for their chips

[magic minnow]

I think I’m gonna cancel my Clicks like bruh they don’t even have a working model yet

[vapid ruin]

rest in peace

[magic minnow]

It’s being worked on by Mr Mobile and some Crackberry guy, just weird they haven’t shown a working model, but teased that in 2 months we’ll know the release date of the phone

[marsh glade]

Don't buy things on the promises for the future

[nimble arch]

This was always a scam

[smoky parrot]

I've been scammed by kickstarter once

And it was for an officially licensed jurassic park miniature game

I was so sad

[magic minnow]

I don’t think it’s a scam, would legit be YouTube suicide for their tech careers

Just maybe overpromised?

Or maybe it’ll happen who knows

But with Oppo going global

[nimble arch]

The iPhone Fold is the next big thing that'll release in the mobile market

[magic minnow]

Sadly Samsung discontinued the trifold

[frozen ingot]

they should make something good instead of following brainrot trends

[magic minnow]

If they brought back the iphone mini with pro specs

gg

[lapis plaza]

Honestly yes

I dont care for these giant phone

I dont even understand how we went to these size

[crystal magnet]

can i send my wooting back after 8 months becouse its dosnt work good anymore

[ashen spindle]

no

[rough patrol]

Contact support about warranty if your board is broken

[ashen spindle]

the answer doesnt change just because you ask it in a different way

[crystal magnet]

where

[ashen spindle]

you can not get 75euro back after 6 mnonths or whatever you asked last time

[frozen ingot]

would be nice yes but the masses has been phabletwashed

[old marlin]

We'll get the wide fold tho

[magic minnow]

with the baby battery

[gusty kiln]

Wonder how many more samsung generation until silicon carbon batteries

[crystal magnet]

quin get out the discord

[reef patrol]

[crystal magnet]

my wooting dos not work good

[ashen spindle]

[gusty kiln]

[bright briar]

no

quin is good peoples

[crystal magnet]

No he is not

[sinful quest]

Yes he is

[vagrant pagoda]

get the blackberry kit

[magic minnow]

The Zinwa one?

That one looks interesting

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah

the annouce a pasport mod too

but passport lacks nfc

[lunar elm]

@frozen ingot update: the backlight fucking died

[leaden kiln]

on what

[lunar elm]

xg32ucwmg

[frozen ingot]

I should just get a va again or somethin

[leaden kiln]

that doesn't even have a backlight

[lunar elm]

regardless point is the monitor is dead

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

[leaden kiln]

thank god for asus splendid customer service

[lunar elm]

yeah im only gonna get asus rma as a last resort

im going straigh to the retailer and asking them for the box to bring the monitor back with

gonna ask for either full refund or a replacement unit

otherwise they can do this the hard way with me using platform refund

[wheat plume]

most useful alias ever if you are like me and dont save screenshots only to clipboard

[crimson wigeon]

I just save them to /tmp and copy them out of there if I want permanence

[wheat plume]

Oo
interesting

How long does tmp keep shit for?

[crimson wigeon]

Until shutdown since it's a tmpfs on my system

[wheat plume]

Ah okk

[rapid hazel]

I'm deciding between getting the standard iPad vs Xiaomi's Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2 Pro.

Spec wise, besides the chip, the Xiaomi seems to be way better with a 120 Hz display panel and 12".

Will I notice a difference in touching faders on 60 vs 120 Hz?

Is the general touch feeling / registration more reliable than on the Xiaomi or is there no difference, compared to the iPad?

I mainly want to use it with Avid Control to control faders and parameters on Pro Tools.

[pale sigil]

What iPad?

[wheat plume]

the standard one, I assume the latest A16 regular iPad

[halcyon moss]

Screenshots are a source of good memories for me

[rapid hazel]

The standard 11 one

[rapid hazel]

Yes the 11 with the A16

[wheat plume]

Personally, I prefer Android to iOS but thats really the only difference to me
They both have great performance, they both are small and compact
They both have keyboard case with pens you can get to draw with though

iPadOS will get more software support, Xiaomi tend to only offer 1-2 Android upgrades

On the other hand
Xiaomi is android and you can side load and do whatever you want

[halcyon moss]

Newer Samsung tablets get 7 years of updates

[pale sigil]

Xiaomi

I love iPad OS but anything below the air is meh

[tribal dirge]

mini is nice tho :>

[lyric hatch]

True especially if the rumoured OLED version comes out

Need that modern day phablet

[halcyon moss]

I have a tablet for the kids, some. Educational stuff.
I have only 1.use case of rit so far, and that was because I was too lazy to get my laptop from upstairs to read a pdf with Lego instructions

[tribal dirge]

iPad Mini with cellular

im surprised ipads get cellular but not macbooks

big sad

[sudden imp]

I have a feeling brave was designed to be the “ad free” YouTube client on IOS

There’s options for removing shorts and fixes all the issues I was having in Orion with YTM

[tribal dirge]

missed opportunity ngl, apple would probably capture an untapped market if they made cellular macbooks

would be perfect for travelers ngl

[vapid ruin]

if I'm out and about I usually use my phone's hotspot. For Ipad I can imagine it's some people's main device which is why it has cellular

[ashen spindle]

probably a nightmare for regulation and modem signal? or they just want you to tether to their phone so you buy two products

[pale sigil]

Eh I guess it depends on use

[sudden imp]

Assuming the first

[pale sigil]

I couldn't find a use for such a small tablet myself these days

[pale sigil]

I should note me and Lana both have the pad 6 and hyperos is nice

I used to use an iPad Pro

[tribal dirge]

probs the ladder, not easy to hide massive cellular antennas nicely on laptops and make it look somehwat pretty.

[pale sigil]

Very much miss it but it was the first gen and battery pooped itself

[tribal dirge]

apple likes to prioritize aesthetic a lot

thats just a fact

[ashen spindle]

yeah probably also something most people wouldnt need and savings on BOM for millions of products is always nice for margins

[vapid ruin]

also having less sku is nice

[tribal dirge]

not sure how different cellular regulations are on laptops vs phones apart from a big difference in battery size.

I know rules change when your battery sizes change

[ashen spindle]

signal interferene and complying with everything is probably just a mess

[tribal dirge]

its probably already enough of a mess on phones and tablets

[wheat plume]

Now im curious
How do they handle footnotes in an audio book form?

Is it a thing you would need a player that can skip to and from specific parts of a book or do they just ignore them if its just one long recording of the book?

[rapid hazel]

Ok, so the iPad isn't ahead when it comes to touch feeling?

That's like the most important to me, and responsiveness

For fader control and parameters

[zenith ferry]

Today someone on street asked me to take a photo of them with their smartphone. Now I'm scared they have recorded my fingerprint information. Am I too paranoid?

[pale sigil]

No difference really

I mean ill always prefer IPad OS thop

[rapid hazel]

You can never be too paranoid nowadays

We're transitioning into what used to be sci-fi

[lapis plaza]

Everyday passing the world is more is more insane

I would like a pause

For one year

[pale sigil]

I would love another IPad Pro but i cannot justify the cost even if i use my tablet everywhere.

[lyric hatch]

Smartphone cameras are good they're not stealing your fingerprints from a portrait photo of yourself good

[lapis plaza]

I have an ipad too perfect device for things other than gaming and working

[pale sigil]

I replaced my laptop in uni with my first ipad so i disagree

xD

[lapis plaza]

I wouldnt be able to work on ipad but I already struggle with laptop

[rapid hazel]

For just daw control, my limit was 300 bucks, if I got an iPad pro, I'd waste A LOT of money

[minor citrus]

In the end only you can tell yourself if you like the one or the other more. You need to go touch the real devices

[lyric hatch]

They have different ups and downs, iPad has better app optimization and android tablets are usually better value for money and have more customization options

[zenith ferry]

DAMN.. From now on, I won't touch a stranger's phone without touchscreen friendly gloves.

[lyric hatch]

Also if you're in the apple ecosystem already that's another pretty big factor

[rapid hazel]

Yeah but the iPad pro isn't a tablet anymore, it's a whole system in the form of a tablet, I already have a Mac Studio M4 Max

[umbral heron]

eInk Android tablet/reader

[minor citrus]

Weird response to my answer, but you do you

[rapid hazel]

I have a Mac Studio, but I'm not in the apple ecosystem, I mainly got it for music production, my last PC was a 14900k but I had to switch because Windows and current Intel CPUs are not professionally usable

[rapid hazel]

I'm saying that I probably would love to hold the iPad Pro LOL but it'd be a lot of wasted money just for the touch functionality and display

[vapid ruin]

I mean, you can say that about any tablet

since it's stronger than any 90's or 2000's computer at this point

[lyric hatch]

Display is next level though, hard to justify the price though for what I need it for

[umbral heron]

New Intels 200 are really quite good

[minor citrus]

I never mentioned the Pro, just to be very clear.

[rapid hazel]

Nah, they've messed it up bad, I'm back on Mac for the next 10 years at least

Except gaming, but I'll get an amd for my next system

[steady sail]

The new 200 plus is pretty great tho

[rapid hazel]

Intel fucked up so bad, I wanted my money back, for the CPU and motherboard, and since they didn't do that I'll avoid them probably forever

[umbral heron]

With 13th and 14th gen sure
But 250K and 270K are amazing, especially when it comes to price
But yeah, for gaming Ryzen X3D still better

[rapid hazel]

They fucked up so bad professionally, I'll not touch Intel with a stick anymore, no matter what anyone says about their new products

The way they handled it, unbelievable

Apple has done some stuff in the past but how Intel handled it can't be handled any worse

[nimble arch]

That's one way to severely limit your hardware choices

Unless NVIDIA ARM SoCs ever take off in the desktop PC market

[umbral heron]

Don't be loyal to companies

[rapid hazel]

As long as Intel isn't the only CPU manufacturer, I couldn't care less honestly

[nimble arch]

Even then, I doubt we'll see DIY variants of those rumoured NVIDIA ARM SoCs.

[nimble arch]

So you'd buy AMD over Intel even if AMD regressed to their Bulldozer days?

[rapid hazel]

AMD actually refunded whole CPU and Mobo combos when they had their CPU burn problem

[lapis plaza]

I get the best thing for the budget when I have to upgrade. I dont care it it is intel amd or whatever these companies are not my friend

[rapid hazel]

Yes

[umbral heron]

I doubt it will be that bad
But AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, so...

[nimble arch]

It was an extreme scenario for a reason

[steady sail]

FSR4

[rapid hazel]

I will also not buy an NVIDIA GPU anymore so, my choices are rather drastic lately

[lyric hatch]

6 months of daily black screens on my 5700 xt

[rapid hazel]

But with Nvidia, I could still steer back, with Intel, not in 1000 years

[steady sail]

The next RTX AI 6080

[umbral heron]

Just when they fixed most of the issues with drivers on Linux their GPUs cost a small fortune

[rapid hazel]

AITX 0090

[nimble arch]

The day NVIDIA finally solve their Linux problems will be a very good day.

[steady sail]

Can they fix gpu prices as well please and ram prices

[umbral heron]

They did a lot already
The only issues happen in very specific and odd situations

[lyric hatch]

Yeah didn't they finally hire software engineers just to work on Linux related stuff

[umbral heron]

[rapid hazel]

Linux is like going to a Mensa, it's never going to be popular and well supported

[lyric hatch]

Proton + vulkan driver stuff

[umbral heron]

Plus all DLSS new stuff and whatnot is in driver at the same time as on Windows

[nimble arch]

When it all works with secure boot on a mainstream distribution, then I'll be happy.

[umbral heron]

It doesn't?

[lyric hatch]

It does on several distros

[umbral heron]

I mean, mainstream distros support Secure Boot for a long time now, the rest you can just as easily sign yourself with one command or click in GUI

But iirc Ubuntu, Fedora and whatnot do this automagically nowadays

[lyric hatch]

Yeah I think there's a few issues specifically with Nvidia gpus for this but there are distros that include workarounds as part of their package now

[umbral heron]

ah, nice

[nimble arch]

Ubuntu LTS still needing the driver PPA to get newer releases does annoy me 😔

[umbral heron]

Just use newest stable

Or Fedora

[nimble arch]

I really don't see the point in Ubuntu's non-LTS releases

Especially with the LTS point releases that backport newer kernel versions etc

Plus I'd like a mainstream distribution to solve these problems as they're easier to recommend.

Ubuntu is still the gateway to the Linux desktop for the masses.

[umbral heron]

Non-LTS is for PC, with stable releases of relatively fresh stuff
LTS is for servers, where you want it to run stuff and don't care about it
And backports for LTS take like 3~4 months in case of most packages, so...
Still remember when support for new AMD or Intel GPUs came to LTS several months after their release

Plus Ubuntu comes with issues of their own, like outdated snap packages, where some of them can completely break your system with old libraries...

Fedora good and mainstream

[wheat plume]

Fedora 44 💜

[steady sail]

I wanna play around linux in VM’s

[umbral heron]

Virtualbox and go

[steady sail]

I have VMvare

[umbral heron]

Works too

[wheat plume]

Even better
Get a cheap ass 125gb SSD and USB C adapter and install it on there to try ok native hardware

[steady sail]

I have a spare 120gb ssd

Sata to usb

Idk if my front usb-c is hooked up

[umbral heron]

Ventoy and go

Ventoy is nice if you want to try and install several different distros
You don't have to write USB each time, just copy ISO to stick and done

[steady sail]

Ventoy is weird

[wheat plume]

Some distros still don't really work well from it though

[umbral heron]

Every single one I threw at it works just fine
Even Secure Boot support

[steady sail]

Im gonna stick to rufus

[umbral heron]

Give it a try sometime, it's really nice

[sudden imp]

good afternoon

[steady sail]

[umbral heron]

I have a 128GB stick with multiple Windows, Linux and toolkit ISOs like Hiren’s BootCD, very useful for repairs and at work
Plus I love reaction of my coworkers, when they boot from it to this screen

[steady sail]

Lul

[umbral heron]

Bless people who added themes support to GRUB

[steady sail]

Im just gonna do some stuff in VM’s

[umbral heron]

what kind of stuff

[steady sail]

Learning

And lewd

[umbral heron]

Fastest ban in the west
No one even pinged

[steady sail]

I didn’t even see anything

[umbral heron]

[rapid hazel]

Is there a good tablet desk stand you guys can recommend that can reach a little inwards?

Not an arm one

[steady sail]

Nope

What kind of table for it even

[umbral heron]

I have something like this for mine, works good

[wheat plume]

.....i legit have that exact stand at work, though sadly its silver and not pink

[steady sail]

Paint it yourself?

[umbral heron]

I got this one from Shein for like 7€

[tribal dirge]

wut

[tribal dirge]

I 3D printed my own lol

[south bay]

I just ordered a wooting

Is this broken? It seems like the plug is misaligned

I cant plug it in..

[reef patrol]

60HEv2? Pull the Module out and reseat it properly.

[empty wren]

Funny easter egg

[rapid hazel]

It must be the new wireless 60 HE

[pale sigil]

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/havrehoj-holder-for-tablet-40534576/

I use this for my bedside

[pale sigil]

I have one, I kinda hate how fidgety it is.

Does the job though

[tribal dirge]

nah, you gotta get a lap desk

lap desks are the way

[umbral heron]

Iunno, this one is quite sturdy
And "alumiunium"
Eh, one day I'll 3d print a proper one, for the money it's really good for now

[wheat plume]

Why does Huawei Health want to open my apk?

[empty wren]

You should let it

[wheat plume]

I was tempted to see what would happen

[bright briar]

It keeps thunderstorming where I am. This is a sign to update my bios

|| ||

[empty wren]

what if

power cuts during update👀

you have a dual bios though in all seriousness?

[bright briar]

Don't tempt me with a good time

https://tenor.com/view/grug-boomer-zoomer-caveman-gif-14921043220516948974

I'm just trolling vadam I'm not going to update my bios

unless.....

I open my window and fly a kite with a key tied to kite string

[empty wren]

i got a better idea

take the desk outside

[bright briar]

for maximum boost

[empty wren]

with the pc

and run a extension cord

connected to the keyed kite

THAT IS HOW YOU UPDATE THE BIOS CORRECTLY

[bright briar]

[bright briar]

holy sigma

no cap fr fr this might be the move

[empty wren]

Expected

Will the A1 series be superseded by the A2 series I wonder

Maybe next year...

X1 and P1 were publicly available in 2022

[magic minnow]

Damn OnePlus might be dead and Oppo replacing it as the global side

[empty wren]

Yeah pretty normal

They have similar looking devices and watches are near identical. I hope that means more high end skus make it global

[magic minnow]

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra is going global which is nice

Might get it

[woeful yew]

what are some good budget IEMS and microphone

[vapid ruin]

#🌐│pc_gear

[vapid ruin]

suspicious

[crimson wigeon]

Funny

[steady sail]

Where is nvidia’s april fools joke ?

[ashen spindle]

"next gen gpus is for gamers"

[marsh glade]

NVidia is the April Fools joke

[steady sail]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/ what a lovely day

Found it

[marsh glade]

How many hands does the guy need??

[steady sail]

Yes

[frozen ingot]

he is the sloptopus

[marsh glade]

Koo koo kachoo

[thick elk]

Also what he didn't tell the guy, it's actually a gtx550 scam card.

[hushed herald]

Quick question which Interface do you guys recommend Wave XLR mk2 or rodecaster duo Need Help with to make a decision?

[lunar elm]

We are glad to announce tbat this will be launched in 1st April 2016

[hushed herald]

hahahhaha

[sudden imp]

This year has been full of jokes today is march 32nd and no one will tell me otherwise.

[empty wren]

Finally

[empty wren]

The Chinese overall are designing and producing the best tech these days in my opinion

[tribal dirge]

If only they could make a working EUV machine

They're getting closer

[ashen spindle]

they are as close to EUV as we are to nuclear fusion for energy gain lmao

[reef patrol]

What did Paradox do now?

[tribal dirge]

Yeah lmao

It's slow progress

[abstract steeple]

does anyone know why watching youtube normally is 3% gpu usage and instantly when going fullscreen it rises to 60%?

[ashen spindle]

could be video super resolution in the driver, hardware acceleration settings being funky in the browser or its switching codec when going fullscreen

[abstract steeple]

ohh yes im assuming its the super resolution cuz i just checked on a video with 1440p and its only 7% usage (im using a 1440p monitor so it wouldve been upscaling 1080p)

ok now i tried a different 1440p video and its maxxing out my usage wth 😭

[reef patrol]

This is highkey infuriating. I just can't get Windows to change my Windows UI language fully.

Even with various powershell scripts.

[plucky tapir]

That and also keyboard layouts being bugged by default so you need to install UK and US english language then remove the keyboard layouts then delete the languages or they will magically show up and you'll have the language bar in system tray.

[plucky tapir]

Is it because of locale? Some things for me are in Swedish even though I don't have that set anywhere but locale.

[reef patrol]

I've tried everything at this point.

Forcing GB, forcing US

[plucky tapir]

Only one thing to do then, throw out the PC.

My main issue these days is I want to use US english for everything but then a lot of things defaults to 12h clock and no thank you.

[crimson wigeon]

It is such a strange regression, locale and language was (and still is in some places!!) separate settings in the good old days but noooooo we gotta unify it into one language setting because fuck you

[reef patrol]

And yet it isn't. Cause about 80% of Windows is in English. But the Settings panel is still in Danish.

And it is driving me cray

[plucky tapir]

That's a new one for me, settings for sure is in English for me.

[reef patrol]

And it says that certain settings are administrated by my org. I am the org. There are no group policies at this time.

[plucky tapir]

Did you use any of those amazing "debloater" programs?

[crimson wigeon]

And so instead we get this ludicrous thing where English has many different variants for all the countries and locales where people want proper formats.. except software barely supports those language variants so you screw yourself if you pick one of them

[reef patrol]

Fresh install via Rufus.

[plucky tapir]

Hmm, ok, I usually just do the Windows Media Creation Tool, only really use Rufus for linux. I don't think that's the issue though.

[reef patrol]

I don't want to be forced to use an MS account to login. So no more creation tool.

[crimson wigeon]

Windows being AI slop is probably the reason, it barely functions

[plucky tapir]

There is a lot of things I don't like about W11 but there is no other Windows version I'd use over it.

[plucky tapir]

Fair, I've used MS account since Windows 8 so it doesn't bother me much, I have an outlook mail just for it. I even paid to upgrade from Windows 7 for Windows 8 😛

This works fine for me.

[reef patrol]

It bothers me that I won't be able to log onto my PC without internet, cause Microsoft decides to throw a fit. Had that issue so, so many times with customer PCs.

I have a local login. That's all I need and want.

reeeee

[plucky tapir]

I actually use Edge as my main browser so it "seamlessly" logs into both if you login to either, hue.

[plucky tapir]

What if you delete your installed danish language?

[reef patrol]

Tried that,

This is WITH only US

[plucky tapir]

Hmm

What if you open Control Panel, go into Clock and Region

Change date and time etc

Change the welcome language and locale

[reef patrol]

Been there, done that. I've tried all of these things, including Powershell wizardry. But it never changes away from Danish fully 😄

[plucky tapir]

You know what to do this weekend then, fresh install time.

[reef patrol]

This IS a fresh install.

[plucky tapir]

Fresher then

[reef patrol]

;-;

[plucky tapir]

Is it only settings or all the "apps"?

[reef patrol]

Apps? You mean notepad and such?

[clever mesa]

is there any other haptic mice besides superstrike

[plucky tapir]

Everything that isn't win32

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah it seems to be slopped over, I just tried to change the language on my machine and some bits are now in the language I selected, most are still in English. So sounds like a broken feature

[reef patrol]

Can't believe I might have to reinstall the entire OS just to change a language variable...

[plucky tapir]

Maybe install an older W11 build, sort languages etc then upgrade?

23H2 or some shit

[reef patrol]

I bet it's the fucking Samsung software or something.

[plucky tapir]

Magician?

[reef patrol]

Their laptop stuff. To control fans and such

[plucky tapir]

Ah, never owned a Samsung laptop so no idea what they come with.

[reef patrol]

Something keeps reinstalling Danish and setting it as default.

[leaden kiln]

I decided to just buy once cry once and got a 140w belkin, sadly has a usb a still but it's cheaper and runs more efficiently than the same class charger from anker, has travel plugs too which is neat
just gonna return the ugreen one I bought yesterday 😭

[plucky tapir]

So when you delete it and restart it's installed again?

[reef patrol]

Yes.

[plucky tapir]

Lulz

[reef patrol]

Of all the potential issues I expected to have from a new laptop, this sure as fuck weren't on the list 😄

[plucky tapir]

https://giphy.com/gifs/reactiongifs-mrw-picture-VS95jHa4UCOe4

[nimble arch]

USB A would still be handy for me, the travel case for my electric toothbrush is USB A for charging.

[leaden kiln]

I would have rather had a port I would actually use, anything I use that charges over usb I have a cable with c on the other end

it still has 3 usb c's at least

but I would've preferred 4

[plucky tapir]

JUST GET A MACBOOK IT JUST WORKS OK

[vapid ruin]

usb a to usb c converter time

[reef patrol]

Honestly I was considering the Neo - Until I saw 8GB limit. No thanks. Also has heat issues 😄

[vapid ruin]

rest in peace. What laptop?

[plucky tapir]

I want the M5 Max so bad but like wtf am I going to use it for? I don't even go outside I just use my main computer for everything. I just want it.

[reef patrol]

Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro U7-258V/32/512

[plucky tapir]

I think the Neo is quite decent even with 8GB ram.

Ofc that depends on what you want to do with it.

[vapid ruin]

noice. Hmm, close to macbook pro's price though

[reef patrol]

I got it for 1100

[vapid ruin]

ooooooo

[vapid ruin]

Alright, Imo I think you can just reinstall windows and hope for the best.

[reef patrol]

I cba to log into everything a third time in a week.

I would rather struggle with powershell for another 6 hours.

[ashen spindle]

yeah sometimes I have no language optinos sometimes have 2 englihs languages

changes like every other day or so

[plucky tapir]

This is the correct choice every time, waste all the time and then go back and do the other option anyway so you wasted all that time for nothing. At least you were not bored trying to fix it.

[umbral heron]

This new cooler is pretty nice

[plucky tapir]

Which cooler?

[umbral heron]

Peerless Assassin 120 SE

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, that one is really good for the price, better than a lot of the more expensive ones.

[marsh valve]

guys do you think wooting will ever make a mouse

[crimson wigeon]

Wasn't that just announced

[marsh valve]

idk but i got the keyboard but i want a mouse now]

[umbral heron]

https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/4/1/1284

[minor citrus]

I did actually reinstall Windows 11 a few weeks ago using the Media Creation Tool USB stick and for me the oobe\bypassnro workaround still worked when I noticed that I did in fact miss my network drivers

[reef patrol]

I tried this earlier today. No go.

Don't know what changed but suddenly the OS is English. Still insists on reinstalling Danish as a language every bootup but doesn't change back to it at least now.

There's some fuckery about that I can't seem to narrow down. But the Os is English which was my issue. So I'll let sleeping dogs lie for now I guess. Actually use the laptop

[plucky tapir]

I feel like this is something fucked because of the MS account bypass

The whole organization thing

[reef patrol]

Who knows at this point. It works for now. If it keeps being a bitch, I will install Linux on it just out of spite 😄

[marsh glade]

Rage installing Linux

[plucky tapir]

Every time I try Linux on my main PC I have the same experience as Linus from LTT, there is always issues.

[crimson wigeon]

Mine doesn't even have a device setup region, guess that's why the EU settings are missing after my latest reinstall

[minor citrus]

Mine does correctly state it's Germany, fully installed in all "English (Germany)" and that organization banner is not there (though my last install had that too somehow)

[reef patrol]

Using such a high resolution is... interesting. Most apps seem to not like Windows scaling, so I have to scale this individually.

[plucky tapir]

I used to hate windows scaling, I've returned 4K monitors in the past because of how bad it was at least 3rd party program support.

With W11 and rebooting after setting my scaling to 150% I can't really complain. There are some websites that scale badly in browser but that's about it.

[umbral heron]

[lunar elm]

yeah so i got my monitor working

its back to dead

[nimble arch]

[reef patrol]

Multi edition was the source of all this pain.

And now I'm in too deep to reinstall.

I suspect it may have interacted with the bios serial number info. Assumed I wanted danish without asking. In an English installer

[ashen spindle]

never underestimate laptops OEMs ability to fuck shit up

[reef patrol]

I even had to grab drivers manually post install cause it couldn't find WiFi drivers and no ethernet.

[umbral heron]

Nah, f it
Just reinstall and be done with it
With Ventoy you can skip OOBE for local account even when connected to internet, I tried it today, still works

[reef patrol]

Too many accounts to log back into. This is the second time I did this in a week.

First laptop had dead pixels, and I didn't notice afterwards (ofc...)

[umbral heron]

[plucky tapir]

Dead pixels suck, what's worse is some say it's "normal" and refuse exchange.

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/Hc0aqOEU2w8

[nimble arch]

#🐸│memes message

[reef patrol]

Thankfully I have 14 return with no questions asked. All I ended up paying was for bus to and back from the store and the original shipping.

And the laptop(s) are open box returns, so I saved about ...200€ on this model I think?

Only sign of prior ownership was a silhouette of an Ubuntu sticker

[wheat plume]

LOL

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, same, need to fully return it. It's just bad if you bought on a sale for example they will not honor a new one at the same price if the sale has ended.

[reef patrol]

True

But at least you're not stuck with it

[sullen bear]

how old is this

[sullen bear]

at least you can see yourself in the reflection cuz its glossy

[vagrant pagoda]

i mean it is under most warrenties

[plucky tapir]

Most warranties say a few dead pixels is fine unless it's in the middle of the screen.

[lunar elm]

unboxed 30th march less than 10 hours usage

[lyric hatch]

Dead pixels do suck

[sullen bear]

Send it back

[lunar elm]

yeah I am

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/R0GB59nBKHs

[wheat plume]

time to rename my C: to Winslop 11

[wheat plume]

feels good contributing to the Linux marketshare on Steam <3

[nimble arch]

Me but Windows 11 Pro 25H2

[wheat plume]

Not sure what version of Windows I have installed, it got the new Start Menu though, where you have the app list in the Start Menu instead of needing to click the "more" button

[reef patrol]

And it is thankfully easy to remove. Unlike the Recommended thing.

[wheat plume]

nah I prefer having the app list there, its just one button away unlike the one button then a click like before

[plucky tapir]

Recommended is at least not a thing anymore on the new builds.

[reef patrol]

Just let me put my icons in Start as I please and leave me be.

[plucky tapir]

Category view is absolutely useless though, it puts wrong apps in wrong folders like it was just blind and picked randomly.

FACEIT in productivity, Forza Horizon in others (THEIR OWN FUCKING GAME) etc etc

I just use the list view but it looks so sad

[reef patrol]

Now this is my jam. Full control, sorting manually 😄

[ashen spindle]

til that there is a view like that

[plucky tapir]

MusicBee 👀

[ashen spindle]

so many years I've only used it as a shortcut to open search menu lmao

[reef patrol]

Search is hidden but appears if I start typing. So it doesn't clutter when not needed.

[plucky tapir]

If it's pinned in start I find it faster to just click than win+search

I have search bar disabled as well, multi-view and all that BS

Nothing pinned

[torn estuary]

how do u do that

[reef patrol]

Group policy.

[plucky tapir]

I think Windhawk and other stuff works too

[torn estuary]

aight ty im gonna search up on it

[reef patrol]

Windhawk used to work, but after several Windows updates, it's gotten "funny"

[torn estuary]

i fucking hate the new taskbar and start menu

[reef patrol]

My explorer will randomly vanish 😄

[plucky tapir]

I actually miss the W10 start menu, it was a good mix of W7 and W8.

W11 is usable but I'd rather have the W10 one back.

[reef patrol]

You CAN do that with paid apps like... is it Start10?

[plucky tapir]

Yeah

[torn estuary]

agree i dont mind w11 as much, but the start menu reallyyyy sucks

[ashen spindle]

thinking about it.. I also dont remember how w10 start menu was, I also only used that as a hotkey for search bar lmao

[torn estuary]

it had tiles

[plucky tapir]

Best change with W11 is centered icons on taskbar but then they make it so start icon has to bet here as well 💀

[torn estuary]

😩 you could turn off all the unnecessary stuff in this start menu and not get the annoying msg

[plucky tapir]

I really tried to like MusicBee but the UI and me don't click at all.

[reef patrol]

Yeah it's kind of awful. But I needed an offline Spotify alternative shortterm.

[plucky tapir]

I don't remember when it was but probably around 2010 or something I canceled my Spotify

Didn't have Taylor Swift or Nightwish and their client didn't allow and I don't think it allows today either to play lossless local files.

[ashen spindle]

yeah that looks familiar lmao

[gusty kiln]

I used to use musicbee until I switched over to my plex server

the Metro Theme is nice

[plucky tapir]

Foobar is my baby now and I'll never go back to Spotify, I use Plexamp on phone when I'm out.

[sudden imp]

literal jumpsace (lovingly)

[reef patrol]

I cancelled mine a couple of weeks ago, cause I could no longer (easily) download my music from Spotify as MP3s for offline use. So... their loss 😄

[plucky tapir]

Plex works quite well for music, I even use it for audiobooks with Prologue.

[gusty kiln]

I used Audiobookself for audiobooks

[plucky tapir]

Yeah I think Prologue is iOS only, I never tried Audiobookshelf

[plucky tapir]

This layout reminds me of Dopamine Music Player

[gusty kiln]

nice UI but doesn't have ez access like plex does

need to use VPN or remote or whatever

I use plex app instead of plexamp though on PC

Plex app has exclusive mode

[plucky tapir]

Plexamp on PC is kinda meh

[gusty kiln]

plexamp not yet

[lyric hatch]

Do you not just download the songs you want to keep and they will remain playable for 30 days without internet

[reef patrol]

On a device that can install Spotify? Sure. On a device that doesn't? Like an MP3 player? No.

[lyric hatch]

Well that makes sense that it wouldn't work

[reef patrol]

So to clarify - I used to be able to download - mp3s - from Spotify.

Now that this is no longer feasible on scale. I no longer have a need for Spotify

[plucky tapir]

BACK IN MY DAY you used to buy your music from Spotify, and all streaming was P2P so it would use your full upload speed at all times if Spotify was running.

[lyric hatch]

I mean there are much easier ways to download music that don't involve Spotify and at better quality so probably for the best

[plucky tapir]

TIDAL squid used to be nice but shut down now.

[reef patrol]

Mhmm. Ended up getting a free trial from Deezer - Who had a free import tool from Spotify. And then downloaded 90% of my music through that. The rest from other sources. I am now fully offline, and using Youtube's far superior algorithm for finding new music - and for free.

[gusty kiln]

I use youtube music to discover new music, and selfhost on plex

I'm paying for youtube prem anyway

[plucky tapir]

Finding new music is such a chore

[lyric hatch]

Reminds me of downloading music videos from YouTube on my jailbroken iPod touch or the classic YouTube to mp3 converters

[reef patrol]

That is surprisingly still a solid way to do things, unless you need FLAC.

[gusty kiln]

I remember the Cydia days

[plucky tapir]

I used Cydia oin my iPhone 4

Think you themed with something called Winterboard

Good times

[lyric hatch]

Had it on my 3gs

[gusty kiln]

think I had an iPhone 5

that was when iphone started getting bigger

[plucky tapir]

I think iPhone 5 was the first TouchID one?

Might've been 5S or 6

How I don't miss the home button and massive top and bottom borders

Apple just need to learn now that there are right handed people and let use swipe back with right hand

[frozen ingot]

I don't even like the swipe back and forth feature

[plucky tapir]

I think monochrome is one of the easier options these days, doesn't require installing anything.

[lyric hatch]

Apple hates giving people options it goes against their vision of the perfect phone

[plucky tapir]

Gesture navigations is done correctly on Android, iOS just needs to implement what Android is doing and we're good.

[frozen ingot]

nah don't fuck with what am used to thnx

[plucky tapir]

Also

Swipe down for notifications instead of search, please.

[steady sail]

No we don’t need that crap LOL

[plucky tapir]

Swipe down for search is useless, I've had my iPhone for 6 months and have used it 0 times.

But I'd fucking love swipe down for notifications like on Android.

[steady sail]

I use it a lot for fast currency converting

[plucky tapir]

@steady sail 240 euro nobody wants it because it has 2 dead pixels 😄

[plucky tapir]

I just use my browser for EVERYTHING, browser is life.

[steady sail]

Works like a browser

[plucky tapir]

Disabled as much as I can, can't disable it completely.

These are the only apps I use anyway, if it's not here I don't use it.

ALSO

I want double tap screen to sleep, thanks.

[lyric hatch]

iPhone users when people want more options: actually I don't like that therefore it should not be added as an opt in option

[frozen ingot]

I honestly don't care what's added as options

but I don't like things getting changed for no other reason than the sake of change

[plucky tapir]

Current genture navigation doesn't work right handed at least

Left handed is fine

[empty wren]

Huh, do you have tiny hands

[lyric hatch]

All that's needed

[plucky tapir]

I have normal size hands and a 17PM

[empty wren]

Not sure I understand this then

[wheat plume]

All that's needed

Works on any screen not just home

[plucky tapir]

If you use your left hand the OS navigation feels designed for it

[empty wren]

If you mean how apple uses the back button fine

[plucky tapir]

When you use right hand it's clunky and you need to stretch your fingers to swipe back because it only works from left to right etc

[wheat plume]

Android works on both sides for the back gesture 💜

[plucky tapir]

Why can't I swipe back from right to left with my right hand?

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, Android gestures is much better.

[wheat plume]

They copied apple and made it better

[empty wren]

Probably could if jailbreaking was still a thing

[plucky tapir]

Which is fine, it's Apples time to copy the Android implementation because most of the world is right handed.

[empty wren]

Perhaps a floating button would work?

[wheat plume]

When I set up iPhones at work
I am left handed, so going back for me is perfectly easy

[plucky tapir]

Nah don't want buttons

[lyric hatch]

We love options

[wheat plume]

What skin is this???

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, I've been "forced" to use my phone left handed since I got the iPhone because right handed is just so much slower when I have to move the phone around in my hand to reach the other edge from a resting position.

[wheat plume]

Xd

[empty wren]

What about one handed mode

[wheat plume]

I'm ambidextrous except for writing and using a fork

[empty wren]

Do you have that available

[lyric hatch]

That's just goodlock (one handed operation+)

[wheat plume]

One handed mode on iOS just pulls down the display
There's no options to swipe down to open control center or notifications

[empty wren]

Lol

[wheat plume]

Wait wait
OneUI is moving to material expressive ui now??

[plucky tapir]

Yupp, I want swipe down for notifications hello why is it search lol

[empty wren]

What about the action button

[wheat plume]

Yeh it sucks xd

[empty wren]

I wonder if that can be remapped to backwards function

[plucky tapir]

Action button is flashlight 😮

[wheat plume]

I double tap my power for flashlight

[empty wren]

Actually

I have one idea leVvE

[empty wren]

Back tap for back

Maybe that will be alright for you

[plucky tapir]

I have back tap for control center

[lyric hatch]

Actually idk about that

[empty wren]

Well guess there are no other options left

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, give me swipe from right edge to go back NAO

[empty wren]

Maybe in half a decade you will have the option

🤷‍♂️

[plucky tapir]

But yeah, the biggest isses I've had going from Android to iOS is gestures is worse and keyboard is MUCH worse than Gboard.

[lyric hatch]

Seems like for settings yeah it is https://www.sammyfans.com/2025/07/17/samsung-material-3-expressive-core-android-settings/

[empty wren]

You can install Gboard on ios

[plucky tapir]

Gboard on iOS is abandonware, not worth using.

Not updated in 5 years.

[empty wren]

Well alright

I mean honestly does it really need to be updated

[plucky tapir]

It has bugs on newer iOS versions

[empty wren]

That sounds like typical iOS

iMessage crash bug here

App bug there

[plucky tapir]

Afaik they stopped updating it when they were required to show what data they collect.

[empty wren]

Skus are far few to let this happen

[wheat plume]

Material Expressive is so pretty 💜

[plucky tapir]

If only the Pixel phones were good, and almost nobody else is implementing it.

[wheat plume]

I really want a Pixel phone
Maybe I'll get the 11a or 12a in two years time

[empty wren]

Motorola will

And so will some other companies

[wheat plume]

The only downside of pixel is how garbage the modem is
And battery life .-.

[plucky tapir]

I could get a Pixel 10 Pro XL free last year if I just signed a 1 year 20e/month contract, they just wanted to get rid of the phones.

Performance is like 2-3 generations behind.

[lyric hatch]

When will pixel use a CPU that isn't at least 3 generations behind in performance

[plucky tapir]

Buggy shit hardware in general.

[empty wren]

Would have been better to use a more polished mid range soc

[wheat plume]

I've got a 250 euro phone and there's absolutely 0 lag or stuttering.
Clearly I only care that the UI and apps are smooth
That's really it

[plucky tapir]

Pixels costs high end money like an iPhone or Galaxy Ultra but performs like a 2 year old midrange.

[empty wren]

After a while your apps will lag as you continue to update

[plucky tapir]

They are delulu

[empty wren]

And software will start to break down.

[empty wren]

Yeah should have cost less too agreed

Few phones warrant a high price tag in my opinion

Heck even the Find X series has a scatter of devices for options but they try to justify the premium side

1inch sensor for example

[plucky tapir]

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra looks really nice

Global release too

[lyric hatch]

Not to mention people shit on Samsung for battery life but pixel be like

[empty wren]

That is not a good luck for Google

However potentially there is a lot software running the background compared to Samsung now

[plucky tapir]

I don't remember the last time Google released a phone that didn't have major hardware issues.

[empty wren]

Now Playing, Gemini ect

[lyric hatch]

Actually let me chuck the s26 ultra in there

[empty wren]

Well maybe pixel 5

And people did not seem to like Google doing so

[plucky tapir]

Kinda sad that Apple were running like 3000mAh when Samsung started with 5000mAh, the 17PM now has more while Samsung still at 5000mAh.

[empty wren]

Well you have battery bump cases and ECT to compensate on the apple side

[lyric hatch]

Isn't it still less unless you're in NA

[gusty kiln]

samsung probably have millions of 5K in the warehouse

[plucky tapir]

True, EU is like 4850

Apple still has much better battery life but I dunno how much that is down to iOS not allowing any background apps.

[frozen ingot]

I shit on samsung for being shit

[empty wren]

They are a battery manufacturer makes sense

[frozen ingot]

simple

[lyric hatch]

They are but so is everyone else

Out of all the factors to me they are the least shit

[empty wren]

Only mark down the OPPO devices can get is lack of bootloader unlocking from the OEM I would say

[plucky tapir]

Samsungs 5000 performs better than some of the Chinese 6500+ newer silicon batteries.

In battery tests

Same SOC

[empty wren]

Hmm

[plucky tapir]

Samsungs batteries also rated for 2000 charge cycles before 80% while newer ones in the Chinese phones is like 500 charge cycles before 80%.

[empty wren]

Actually wait I thought the silicon carbon batteries were supposed to be rated for more

They could have been bigger also

But they expand more than lithium ion and polymer so carbon was used to stabilize them which lowers their potential capacity

[plucky tapir]

They will use less charges overall because if they last longer you don't need to charge as often

I did read that the S26U has 1200 charges instead of 2000 but I dunno if that is correct

[empty wren]

Hmm

My Asus rog phone 6 drained too quickly with its 6000mAh

Never figured out what it was kernel perhaps maybe rouge system apps

[plucky tapir]

I got my iPhone in October and I have 62 charge cycles on it 😄

[empty wren]

Maybe it was armoury crate

[plucky tapir]

My friend used to buy the ROG phones as well, he liked them a lot.

[empty wren]

Yeah but Asus backtracked on bootloader unlocking

Might have sue them later for that like some other did

[plucky tapir]

Samsung has as well since One UI 8

[empty wren]

They got worse I think on 7, no more front facing speakers

[empty wren]

OneUI has gotten better I agree

[plucky tapir]

One UI 8 removed bootloader unlocking though, which I would sayu is not better 😄

[empty wren]

Most people do not care

So probably fine for most

[plucky tapir]

It's for all devices, if you had One UI 7 you could unlock and then upgrade just fine but if you upgraded before unlocking you fucked.

[empty wren]

That sounds awful

See Asus had a boot loader unlock tool pulled it down

And the reason one could not unlock devices anymore is cuz it was a server side unlock wtf

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, I think so too, I used to like unlocking my bootloader and I ran CyanogenMod for years but banking apps etc started being harder and harder to run.

Also AdAway system adblocker.

[empty wren]

Could run it on a watch

[plucky tapir]

I don't use a watch, never have, never will 😄

[empty wren]

Forever and always

[plucky tapir]

Good times, these days on the iPhone I just use the AdGuard DNS profile, it works for most things just not YouTube etc.

I just use browser for that though, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock on browser.

[empty wren]

I think substratum died also

[plucky tapir]

Is that the Samsung theme thing?

[empty wren]

I made a small apk with unsupported apps to theme then

No it was OMS developed by Sony and Google merged it into AOSP

[plucky tapir]

I used to have samsung icon packs and stuff in settings, when did they remove that?

[empty wren]

Samsung has their own thing

I think it can be tampered with still

Also one of the few that survived

HTC and LG had their stores for themes too

But they ded mobile companies

[plucky tapir]

I was thinking of Hex Installer

I dunno if that works anymore for One UI

[empty wren]

May or may not

A lot has changed

[plucky tapir]

I remember when I got my LG G2, those bezels were next level at the time nobody was even close.

Software was so dogshit, that's the phone I ran CyanogenMod on for so long.

[empty wren]

That was the first 4G phone

[plucky tapir]

I still have it somewhere, it has TWRP on it but I wiped the OS partition at some point

[empty wren]

Fair enough

I got tired of twrp personally

It was very laggy

Low end, or high end phone

[plucky tapir]

I really liked TWRP, I don't remember what I used before that but TWRP was the first "touch" friendly recovery.

[empty wren]

It was useful

But just not pleasant to use

I did lock myself out of my phone once, and I used two to delete the password file

[plucky tapir]

I stopped tinkering before Magisk was released so I never used that. I used to use something else but don't remember the name.

[rapid kelp]

Ggs

[empty wren]

Former Magisk developer works at google now

[plucky tapir]

Xposed

That's what I used

😄

[empty wren]

I feel it had gotten more useless over time

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, it did, that's kinda why Magisk took over anyway.

[plucky tapir]

Same story with the RuneScape guy who made the RSBuddy bot I think he works for Jagex now.

[empty wren]

Neat

And I probably will stop using this, did not know it had been stale that long

[plucky tapir]

Always sad when software stops being updated

[lyric hatch]

Yeah he did he left like 11 years ago now though

[plucky tapir]

I'm not that up to date on runescape stuff these days 😄

[empty wren]

adaway it not being updated anymore but it does not need to be

[plucky tapir]

You can still update the blocklists right?

[empty wren]

Well yeah

[plucky tapir]

Rooting in general has quickly died off because of banking and other apps not working while rooted

And if you find a workaround it only works for so long until it breaks again

So it's quite annoying to run on your main phone

[empty wren]

Needs to be spoofed works fine

Or can use another device like a watch

[plucky tapir]

I only really rooted because the stock software was complete trash with TouchWiz and whatever LGs abomination was called so I "needed" root and custom roms or xposed modules to make the phone work like I wanted.

These days everything I want just works so I don't feel the need to root anymore, just using a DNS url and browser blocking is good enough for me to not need AdAway anymore.

I also used to use GravityBox

[empty wren]

Fair

I just want my amoled themed apps back

[plucky tapir]

I think I also used Greenify or something like that to get better battery life

[empty wren]

Adblock and may some extra stuff like I have Bluetooth app to accept any file format or block certain format

[plucky tapir]

I hate pure black 😄

[empty wren]

I love it so much

It creates such consistency

And the contrast is great

[plucky tapir]

When I see pure black all I can think of is my screen getting reverse burnin even faster

[empty wren]

I use low brightness

Not a concern

I have seen one commoner old guy with his Samsung Galaxy phone

At full blast, I could tell where stuff burned in

[empty wren]

In fact people actually complain about my low brightness

So probably low enough for no concern

[plucky tapir]

Audio brightness for life.

[empty wren]

I cannot stand that

Have permanently turned it off

[empty wren]

It usually likes to be brighter than the actual surroundings

[plucky tapir]

That's my current brightness level

[empty wren]

In my experience

[plucky tapir]

In my experience if you set it to something at outside/inside etc it kinda remembers what you want

[empty wren]

Maybe iOS is better at it

[plucky tapir]

Brightness I never touch on my phone or tablet, and I never touch the volume on my PC.

[plucky tapir]

My S21U was really good at it too tbf.

[empty wren]

But I can tell near instantly when the ambient light sensor algorithm is wrong to my tastes

[plucky tapir]

Fair

I do have Truetone it w/e apple call it disabled.

[empty wren]

I have the light filter enabled on OLED monitor

I am used to it

But not on my phone

[empty wren]

I remember watching older stranger things episodes with my parameters, episode goes by no battery loss

[bright briar]

i need that 8.5 samsung update to come out

https://tenor.com/view/download-gif-18955759

[empty wren]

Thanks for the link by way, let me know where you are up for halo again

[bright briar]

yeah np

probably be down sometime this week

[empty wren]

@heady hazel weighbridge belt tension reader

[heady hazel]

damn that looks actually well designed

[empty wren]

I still need to compactize it

But once done that part will at least be done

No toolhear yet

No resonance frequency modulators yet

Still need to figure the structure to use for dealing with thermal expansion on x-y and toolhead-x carriage

Still a lot more to do

maybe will be designed fully by the end of the year

[heady hazel]

hey i mean all optional you dont need that

[empty wren]

Well you can absolutely use input shaper

I am not gonna recommend people to use my ideas

It is basically a hardware dampener which will add weight, immediately scaring people off most likley

[heady hazel]

i mean its smarter to use mechanical dampening to me at least.

[empty wren]

Correct

Which is why I am doing it,

Input shaper shaper is a smoother

[heady hazel]

hmm i guess weight beeing an issue is mostly around the gantry right?

[empty wren]

Not a dampener it smoothens motion by avoiding accelerations

[empty wren]

My tool head if probably gonna be sub 200grams

And this with the high end hobbyists stuff

Big gears, long meltzone

[heady hazel]

hmm yeah i have a short meltzone i wanted to run a ender v3 hotend but i would have had to rework the full toolhead

just got a full metal heatbreak hoping for the best

[empty wren]

You could do a dragon honestly later

And pick up a Sherpa or orbiter 2.5

What you got right now is not terrible

[heady hazel]

hmm yeah its decent once i get it all back together

[empty wren]

Sometimes I wish I had blissful ignorance and just never disassembled my ender 3v2

It worked fine

Quality can be better than a core xy

Sure maybe not as fast at certain sizes

[heady hazel]

imo quality is damn impressive if you are not after speed

[empty wren]

https://youtu.be/mh0rmYptH-0

Here is a better built bed slinger

[heady hazel]

most of the time its just a bad model beeing eh with the ender you really can get good looking prints

[empty wren]

Well that is not designed for 3d printing if I am being truly honest

[heady hazel]

100% yeah but hey i wanted a figure of max and its good enough

[empty wren]

Well if you are happy with it, it did the job at the end of the day

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean i just needed to see if direct drive was working well

[empty wren]

3d printer frequency modulator years back

[heady hazel]

i still have an old anet a8 somewhere i wonder if i can steal the linear rails for my ender 3

[empty wren]

Probably could

[heady hazel]

maybe that would be a decent upgrade, id have to see

[empty wren]

The guy who designed this said before that contraption existed he could hear the printer through the thick walls

I think they were mortar

It also deals with layer shifts

But anyways most people will pass that off which is fine

[heady hazel]

i mean yeah that makes sense, mortar ?im not sure i have brick walls and i have never heard my printer, but then again the ender is pretty quiet

[empty wren]

At fast speeds

And heavy objects you may

Though supposedly his bed assembly weighed 1.2kG so perhaps it is heavier than yours

[heady hazel]

likely yeah , i mean i could get a ligher bed but at some point a bed slinger will just get heavy with filament alone

[empty wren]

Glass slab

You have pei

[heady hazel]

oh for sure glass beds are uhh

[sinful quest]

I feel to old for the conversation in general
How you both doing?

[empty wren]

Ah you do not say with the Gen alpha brainrot memes

[heady hazel]

we talking tech

[empty wren]

I looked in there and was like

[heady hazel]

time to 3d print a tung tung tung sahur vape case

[empty wren]

Damn general leaking into tech smh

[empty wren]

Doing better today how about you

[heady hazel]

really not a fan of the stock extruder even made from metal parts

[sinful quest]

Mentally preparing on a phone later, I might get a Job if phone call and the following Job Interview go well

[empty wren]

If you want later I can design you a better print head, when you are willing to consider a different hotend and extruder

[empty wren]

May it go well

[heady hazel]

yeah if i go down that route that would be cool , i just hope the full metal heatbreak helps with consistency

[empty wren]

It will let you print above 250 or 260 without inhaling ptfe cancer

[heady hazel]

hell yeah that sounds good

i just hope tpu works so i can print some dampeners for my doors etc

[empty wren]

That is doable