🔌│tech

[heady hazel]

yeah it did not like the extruder, its a creality stock design made from metal.

[empty wren]

It is fine for now

[heady hazel]

the oem one is uhm plastic and likes to break

[empty wren]

They all do

Probably abs-pc blend

Pc makes it more durable

But it is still abs

[heady hazel]

behold the 3€ dual gear extruder

[empty wren]

Still weak

[empty wren]

Hope that close to pure pc

[sinful quest]

3d printers are cool, sadly never had anything to do with them

[heady hazel]

buy a used one for dirt cheap and jump into the rabbithole

[empty wren]

Well you could always buy one later and print the slop other people do🤷‍♂️

[heady hazel]

i mean i like to print random statues but i want functional parts later

[empty wren]

Anycubic kobra x can go in your radar

If you are waste conscious maybe go with a single head printer no ams

[sinful quest]

I would need some income first for another rabbit hole, so I pray it will go well with the job interview

[empty wren]

I think toolchangers and ams units are overrated personally

[heady hazel]

i have no income , i mean no meaningful besides sourcing stuff for a instagram archival page

[sinful quest]

Soon trust

[empty wren]

Yall will get a job sooner or later

[heady hazel]

wait till you find about how much i have to pay for excenter bolts to align my car. i need four and one is 100€ by itself

[empty wren]

Is it made of titanium or something

[heady hazel]

nope just rare i guess

[empty wren]

Custom part smh

[heady hazel]

not even thats the thing

[sinful quest]

Yea, I should've gotten one 2 years earlier instead of going from one school to another

[empty wren]

It is fine

You will get to where you need to be at your pace

[heady hazel]

yeah then again my friends have a house and are getting married in june meanwhile im trying to fix a 28 year old junker.

[empty wren]

Everybody has their own life

[heady hazel]

yeah im just trying to figure out suspension geometry at this point , its super interesting how that works etc , i just will make my own spare parts if i need to

[sinful quest]

I really hope this job will work out for me
Would love to work in it system Management

[empty wren]

Ah information technology?

[empty wren]

Sounds fun

More fun if you got the equipment or access to some

[heady hazel]

i wonder if i should not pivot to learn that job aswell , because studying as is does not give me the real life skills i want.

[empty wren]

Could work at an auto shop sure

[heady hazel]

i mean i study 3d design etc but i find it not satisfying to just design something that will never exist

[sinful quest]

[empty wren]

Right assignments

That gets you a grade

That eventually gets you a piece of paper

Holy shit

I got into the diamond switch review channel

[heady hazel]

i mean like 3d printing is a huge step but i want to do more , i might let my ender do double duty as a vinyl plotter

[empty wren]

That is easy to do

[heady hazel]

yeah then again a used plotter is cheap aswell

[sinful quest]

WS diamonds?

[empty wren]

Yes

Just as we were talking

[sinful quest]

That's amazing, heard it will be a more limited run actually

So you got pretty lucky I guess

[empty wren]

Indeed

[empty wren]

This may be the switch I use for the staggered alice layout I am gonna design

Not sure yet

[sinful quest]

Guess it's meant to be the switch for your alice

[empty wren]

Perhaps perhaps

Supposedly this is a generation 2 wuque clack I gathered

Which I was very intrigued by already

[sinful quest]

I'm gonna wait for the sound tests

[empty wren]

I hope it lives up to the hype

[sinful quest]

It better be, for a $2 switch

[empty wren]

The goal with the keyboard is make a good sounded HE keyboard

Gonna be designed from scratch

But gonna salvage 60HE v2 electronics

[sinful quest]

In alice layout? So you gonna make your own pcb

[empty wren]

Yes

Everything I will design

Even a new stabilizer type

Maybe even new key cap profile I do not know

[sinful quest]

Oh sounds like a fun journey

[empty wren]

Oh it will be one

[heady hazel]

i really have to look into proper switches and a proper keyboard but damn this razer blackwidow from 2014 refuses to die ( back then razer clicky was something enjoyable)

[empty wren]

This beast will be ready to work at the end of this month of early next

[sinful quest]

Can't do anything wrong with wooting can get an 80HE from the outlet for cheap

[heady hazel]

oh i might do that and get a custom keycap set (main reason i want a new keyboard)

[sinful quest]

Good thing is, you don't have to pay machines for work, just the electricity bill and the product

[empty wren]

I spent ||several thousands to build this||

I am not gonna count it so thankfully past that yes

[sinful quest]

That's more than my car

[empty wren]

[empty wren]

But hey

Your car takes you to places

I am not gonna mount the printer and go onto the highway

[sinful quest]

Lmao

[heady hazel]

im 10k deep into a car that has a rust hole and does not drive right rn

[empty wren]

Ever consider at some point getting a different car...

[heady hazel]

no

[sinful quest]

Honestly, I am not deep into cars yet. I like other tech more
So I am pretty fine without modding my car -for now

[heady hazel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1028519165344096286/1482381897832337590/IMG_3441.mov?ex=69cf22f9&is=69cdd179&hm=8d8b720a3dadc1602f422a88c91d566bc48dca4868aeb9c7551cc65f02a170ce& yes i am cooked

[empty wren]

Yes just stare and admire it for now

[sinful quest]

German accent
We are both cooked on that one

[empty wren]

Europeans always have such a friendly or warm accent

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean to be fair it was a bit for another server so i egged it a bit on

[empty wren]

Americans meh

[heady hazel]

the really thick german accent is hard to emulate because instead of i think you say i sink etc

[sinful quest]

Idk about that one
Germans can sound really rude while saying normal words

[empty wren]

Well

Could say the same about the Slavic speakers

[sinful quest]

[heady hazel]

if im lucky its just one relay thats flickering

[empty wren]

German buddy keeps saying blyatt when he sneezes as of late

[sinful quest]

I speak Russian and German

[empty wren]

Though I did mess with him earlier by saying sek heil

So fair enough I guess

[empty wren]

Interesting

[sinful quest]

[heady hazel]

comrade coin

[sinful quest]

Oh yea, and English

[empty wren]

Aye now they encouraged it by laughing or saying no no

[sinful quest]

But that should be obvious

[heady hazel]

add turkish and you are the best csgo player possible

[sinful quest]

This no gud
Bad German history

[empty wren]

Well I did the The Tiger in German

Uh no

General leaking out again

[sinful quest]

[heady hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/tiger-this-person-is-this-person-is-near-your-house-this-person-is-100km-near-your-house-tank-gif-13711770375498576739

[empty wren]

Fixed extruder gears noah

[heady hazel]

hell yeah

[empty wren]

And big ones too

But the assembly was crap

I had to reassemble it myself

Binding happened since this relies on machining tolerances to be near perfect

There is no tension spring

[heady hazel]

yeah thats pretty cool tbh

[empty wren]

It is

I just hope it lives up to its promises

But so far it can eat any tpu

There is no where for it to go except up or down

[heady hazel]

i mean hard to say, i have yet to get my new direct drivinator.

[empty wren]

It will perhaps be a bit nicer

They started making presses or on piece gears

So no grub screw and more concentricity a few years back

[heady hazel]

i mean i just am happy if i have dual gears im not even sure how they are cut

[empty wren]

Dual gears one tooth gear

Both is fine

Prusa one large gear

And two smooth bearings

[empty wren]

The truth it is was kinda a lie

Though perhaps it will an improvement over the stock one

[heady hazel]

i mean yeah 100% they are at least dual driven gears

[empty wren]

Well I just the fact

We got tiny gears

And those gears were not machined all that well

Also grub screws

Bondtech a German company

Fixed their mistakes after a not so big YouTuber went into it throughly

Apparently the Chinese stuff was better machined

Anywho there are a lot of layers to this

[heady hazel]

thats so funny given germany is pretty hard about machining normally

[empty wren]

My German buddy says he got long lead times and crappy form a German shop

Contacted a china business

Fast lead time and significantly better quality

The place made a part or parts for BMW

They made me one part too

[heady hazel]

i would not doubt that , at times its not ideal here

[empty wren]

Not sure it was worth it now that I think about it

But I guess better in their hands

[sinful quest]

Back when made in German was a sign of quality

[empty wren]

Rear Z axis

[distant tapir]

Still is sometimes

[heady hazel]

yeah i mean honestly i get all my stuff from aliexpress , why should i wait for some guy here to rebrand it

[sinful quest]

Not as much as before. At least that's how it feels for me

[heady hazel]

i agree yeah

[empty wren]

Same measurement in cad exactly

[heady hazel]

i have a parkside caliper it works well

[empty wren]

Yeah I mean

Higher end ones are just smoother

[heady hazel]

i legit oiled mine so it was smoother , works well enough

[empty wren]

Ah okay I remember now

Hard anodized 7075 aluminum

Okay I take one dimension back

They did overshoot by 50microns

But like it is detrimental and then again.... It is a slightly longer cross which is good. But the long cylinder is exactly 81.00mm

Honestly whatever they got rushed

[vapid ruin]

https://vxtwitter.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2039020889329541326

Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets)

🦔 Oracle laid off between 20,000 and 30,000 employees Tuesday morning, roughly 18% of its global workforce, via a single email sent at 6am EST with no prior warning. System access was revoked almost immediately after. The cuts are expected to free up $8-10 billion in cash flow. Oracle's stock has lost more than half its value since September 2025 and the company now carries over $124 billion in debt, up from $89 billion a year ago, with free cash flow running negative $10 billion last quarter.

My Take
Oracle posted a 95% jump in net income last quarter and still eliminated 18% of its workforce by email before most people finished their morning coffee. This is not a company in distress in the traditional sense. It's a company that made an enormous debt-funded bet on AI infrastructure and is now converting its workforce into cash flow to service that debt.

We've covered Oracle's AI gamble for months. The $300 billion OpenAI deal through Stargate, $50 billion in capital exp…

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 31, 2026, 4:43 PM

Rest in pieces

[halcyon moss]

One rich asshole called Ellison

[umbral heron]

https://lttjet.com/

LANA!!! What did you do?

[crimson wigeon]

Made Valve mess up (or correct?) the sampling since the Chinese language dropped a lot too

[halcyon moss]

its always a sampling

[quartz token]

I swear I saw they made a video on the jet or some sort of teaser, but can't find it?

[nimble arch]

Wooting Jet when?

[marsh glade]

It's in their April Fools video

[umbral heron]

I know of this insta post https://www.instagram.com/linustech/p/DWjtnWmCZH3/

[distant tapir]

Damn. I was hoping it was serious and set up by Steve or something

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/thanks-steve-intel-gamers-nexus-thanks-steve-gif-2570818544130153718

[quartz token]

oh I see, I saw it in their stories promoting floatplane

[minor zealot]

Coil whine at high fps (280) is normal, unavoidable and harmless right?

[reef patrol]

Coil Whine is typically just a nuisance. Not a defect.

[minor zealot]

So basically just put on my headphones and ignore it

I only hear it when i have them off since my pc is on desk and when im playing soulstone survivor on 280 fps

[plucky tapir]

My old 3080 Ti was so bad I could hear it 4 rooms away during load.

Sent it in for a replacement, they said they couldn't hear anything at all.

[reef patrol]

Old people, high pitched noises. Who would have thought.

[plucky tapir]

Didn't want to return it completely either because it was during the GPU shortage and there was nothing else in stock anywhere and I sat in queue for 4 hours to get this one at MSRP.

[reef patrol]

[distant tapir]

"I dunno, sounds okay in my 50 dB noise floor workshop?"

[plucky tapir]

Got tinnitus as well so I could also be more sensitive I guess.

[fair gull]

did someone already post that claude codes source code leaked due to them using bun which had a bug that it published source maps even in prod when it shouldnt

[lyric hatch]

That is funny though

[crimson wigeon]

It's a feature

[marsh glade]

My favorite part is that a large language model uses a hard coded regex to determine prompt sentiment 🤡

[minor citrus]

This reminds me that I need to test this. Time to „wtf“-ify all my prompts at work

[steady sail]

https://x.com/XenoPanther/status/2039320493270962648 lovely bloatware

Xeno (@XenoPanther)

Ever get bored of debloated installs of Windows 11?

Well, I am proud to introduce Chonkdows 11!
An install of Windows 11 25H2 complete with a random assortment of programs!... and Vmware tools.
All you need is a Win11 compatible PC and 92GB of free space
https://t.co/kfKp45fEdl

X · Apr 1, 2026, 12:34 PM

[plucky tapir]

Never had that many things installed in my life

VLC media player not being called VLC Media Player triggers me, I tried to get that changed like 10-15 years ago and they didn't want to change because it would look too much like Windows Media Player.

[fair gull]

ironic since they look like a traffic cone to puke into which fits them

[halcyon moss]

pidgin. that stuff was great when there was actually stuff to connect it to 🙁

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah but these days people want every little messaging service to be its own separate webapp

[halcyon moss]

webapp? desktop app

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah which is just Electron, so webapp

[halcyon moss]

not in the pidgin days

oh i misread your message

[wheat plume]

Not this xd I don't use Arch btw

[umbral heron]

Noooo, the 5%

[halcyon moss]

i just got the question to submit my data

oh lordy. win95 theme for Home assistant
https://bsky.app/profile/home-assistant.io/post/3migseqwf7g2x

Home Assistant (@home-assistant.io)

You asked and we listened! For years, the community has been asking for a new design in Home Assistant. Something modern and timeless, something to match the power of the platform.
We’re pleased to announce that an improved UI trial is now available. 👇

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Bluesky · Apr 1, 2026, 1:30 PM

[sudden imp]

half of those programs are browsers

[pale sigil]

Perfect

[heady hazel]

ok i use winamp but just because they have cool skins

[reef patrol]

[queen python]

winamp winamp winamp

it really whips the llamas ass, dude i used the sickest skins had that shit always on top of aol 5.0 with visual basic behind it i'm leet as fk btw don't approach

[queen python]

granted but tbh in 2026 if your ui isn't a spa at some level whether its tori or electron or whatever you're sort of swimming against the current

[pale sigil]

I know everyone hates Alexa here but my god Alexa + is bad....

[lapis plaza]

winamp > all

[pale sigil]

It's so inconsistent, for example half a sentence it'll use AI voice and the other half default.... It rarely pauses between words and more annoyingly it keeps assuming I'm asking for the wrong stuff, for example when I asked it to turn my bedroom light on it turns on my lamp, EVERY DAMN TIME or when I asked it to turn off my fan it assumes I mean big fan.

[pale sigil]

Built eq you can adjust via web app > all

[queen python]

i would never allow that thing in my house lol it is closed source

[pale sigil]

Eventually it'll get replaced but nothing on the market beats it, my entire home assistant and smart devices are all offline via ZigBee though.

So I fake a Phillips hub Alexa can control

[lapis plaza]

which web app?

[queen python]

what are you using, HA?

[pale sigil]

Yes I'm using HA

[queen python]

bro don't use alexa

you're compromising a sovereign stack

[pale sigil]

Alexa isn't connected to my HA

[queen python]

oh that's cool but what does ur RACK look like post a pic rn or else u aint real

[pale sigil]

You mean server stuff?

[queen python]

don't send me a picture of a raspberry pi dawg i swear to god

if you send a rpi with an external hd connected to it plugged into your verizon router i will crash out

[pale sigil]

Oh the irony

Brb

[queen python]

lmao i knew it

[pale sigil]

That runs HA but I do have an actual server

Cat approved

10700k/40gb ram/21TB

[queen python]

lmao i totally called it

[pale sigil]

Why do I need a server rack?

😅

[queen python]

40gb ram! 🤯

[heady hazel]

i have it hooked up to some govee light strip i use as a wall lamp it works well for that

[queen python]

bro

[pale sigil]

All my smart devices are fine but I meant voice assistant

[queen python]

you need to get your wife to vacuume holy shit

[pale sigil]

It's my workbench, it's meant to be messy.

[queen python]

debris and shit

[sullen bear]

Why not just vacuum yourself

[halcyon moss]

Several things wrong with that statement

[pale sigil]

Also this

[heady hazel]

i just tell alexa to turn the lamps on or off or play songs it does that reasonably well

[queen python]

look here's the thing is i have true masculine, dominating energy so we can all drop the act around me, ok

im crushin it

[reef patrol]

[sullen bear]

I dont listen to people with only a 3090

[queen python]

plz vacuums

[sudden imp]

this looks like a crime scene man\

[halcyon moss]

K bro. How's the crypto crash

[queen python]

omfg that is ridiculous you would sting me on that deep of a level bee

[halcyon moss]

And the supplements? Quite expensive ey

[sullen bear]

1 sting 1 kill

[queen python]

😂

[empty wren]

https://tenor.com/view/andrew-tate-top-g-sigma-sigma-male-bugatti-gif-27465333

[queen python]

i am going to actually upgrade everything in this besides the 3090

[heady hazel]

if your gpu aint got a screen on it dont bark at me

[queen python]

and now still feel bad

[sullen bear]

Cant even afford a 5090?

[queen python]

can't afford or refuse to afford

[sullen bear]

refusing to afford is poor people talk

[pale sigil]

Poor guy hasn't seen my entire office

[queen python]

wow you're all calling me poor

fun chat this is guys i come in here

KEYBOARD ENTHUSIAST

and i get blasted for being poor that's messed up

[sullen bear]

who said keybaord enthusiast

its keyboard professionals only here

[queen python]

alls im saying is i feel a litle alienated right now

this isn't an accepting community clearly.....

[lapis plaza]

some people say ram price are falling wtf I dont see that

32 go dd5 6000 kingston 500 euros

how are the price falling exacty

we should pay this 150 euros max

[heady hazel]

it wont for a while then again if open ai explodes faster

[lapis plaza]

that is all I wish for

[queen python]

do you guys know what i'm paying for tokens

i am blasting openrouter api all day long, if the adderall is with me, spiritually, i can spend 1k

[marsh glade]

Your dignity?

Oh

[halcyon moss]

Time to /ignore this one

[queen python]

wow, dismissive! however you'll never build anything great like myself, a dignified architect and true artist

[marsh glade]

K

[queen python]

mark, we're going through some stuff right now with ai

and i know it's hard to understand that michelangelo and leonardo are both alive at the same time,

and in a single body

but just try to be humble

[reef patrol]

[queen python]

accept it

[heady hazel]

is this man sane?

[vapid ruin]

nah, a troll

[queen python]

a troll under a bridge, indeed i actually don't know what i'm talking about

have you considered that yes in fact i may perturb you but take a more nuanced opinion such as, this person is superior to me in a masculine and mental way but also in a technical way

[lapis plaza]

I saw a guy on internet I dont remember where saying that AI is now like banks it cannot fail

if it fails government will inject money to save these companies

because if one company fails the whole stock market could fail

something like that

[vapid ruin]

I mean, if they can get military contract that would certainly be the case. Considering they also have China's AI to worry about.

[marsh glade]

This has become tiresome. Either stop on your own volition or the choice will be made for you.

[vapid ruin]

But Chinese's AI is cheaper and also fast growing due to the competition present within their own place as well... Plus they have a fuck ton of data.

[lapis plaza]

clause refused to be used for killing people by militaries so they stopped the contract

[queen python]

wrong you're demoralized and their context window is shit

[lapis plaza]

honestly all these companies trained their model on us they should give us back if they make enough money

[queen python]

you guys wtf

lift yourselves up and adapt

[lapis plaza]

it is like if they stole human knowledge

[queen python]

LIFT

[lapis plaza]

lift toward what being dumb because AI is making everything specially making us obsolete

[pale sigil]

@queen python just for you xo

[vapid ruin]

yeah... but there's also Gemini (Google) and Open AI

Gemini is more or less better geared for war purpose imo.

[lapis plaza]

claude is my fav AI honestly

[lapis plaza]

why?

[gusty kiln]

https://www.techpowerup.com/347966/steam-deck-2-ditches-semi-custom-apu-for-off-the-shelf-amd-silicon-eyes-2028-launch

Damn 2028

[lapis plaza]

never used gemini

[queen python]

steam deck is a shit product and i will absorb it btw

[lapis plaza]

steam deck I have one but never use it

I dont lke small screen

[queen python]

well you'd be interesting in being a beta tester for me since you seem like a power computer user

[pale sigil]

I love my deck, had it since launch.

[vapid ruin]

google is trying to make it accurate and have it be able to do as many things as possible. Plus they have practically all the data they need (Map, information, hardware, and such)

[pale sigil]

Easily over 2k hours on it

[vapid ruin]

open AI just have stuff that they stole

[gusty kiln]

I went with the 1st gen Legion Go

pretty nice

[lapis plaza]

oh yeah

but I think AI is aliens tech

[queen python]

my product is so much better than steam deck in every way short of ugc and lcd it is actually bonkers

[lapis plaza]

what is your product?

[queen python]

not appropriate to advertise in wooting chat

it is a context aware stack, but the programmatic layer is incoherent

[reef patrol]

What the fuck are you saying

[ashen spindle]

kepler_L2 aka hes guessing random shit

[queen python]

mansen i am flexing please give me space

[ashen spindle]

kepler has like no insight into valve

[reef patrol]

The flexes are weird and incoherent at best. You're welcome to do that somewhere else.

[queen python]

naw

[pale sigil]

https://youtu.be/zGoIY37ZtDQ

[lapis plaza]

apparenly linus lost members of hi team tired to work for him

I used to like this channel some years ago

now I prefer gamer nexus, hardware unboxed or moore law is dead

[queen python]

steam deck

STREAM DECK https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck-plus

ah my old rival you have shown your ugly face

[crimson wigeon]

oh so not steam deck

[queen python]

CORRECT

STREAM deck will die

have yall ever thought that

maybe i have just reached such a level of enlightenment in business and tech that i see all usbhid devices as the same product

and that my view is TOTALLY ELEVATED to the point where i can't dissern between products

on the count of my elevated pov

[sinful quest]

you sound delusional to me

[queen python]

that's sad to hear it saddens me to hear that irl tbh

[halcyon moss]

Stil that one guy? Just /ignore

[lapis plaza]

I hope you succeed

[queen python]

stream deck is like a shitty macro with a javascript sdk and a ugc ecosystem that somehow has captured a little bit of the iphone market so that it can exist by clumsily distill keybinds and api requests into icons that normal users understand

u feel me?

[lapis plaza]

well instead of criticizing other create your own product and be happy

[queen python]

bitch, please

[sinful quest]

language.

[lapis plaza]

if so many people buy stream deck for years now maybe the company was on something simple as that

[marsh glade]

I've issued a timeout to make it clear that when I say stop trolling, I mean it. If you continue this nonsense, you will be removed from this community

[sullen bear]

why do u keep sending me friend requests @queen python

[marsh glade]

Block them

[nimble arch]

Stream Deck is based

[lapis plaza]

I dont have one but the stream deck + seems nice

[nimble arch]

I’ve got the Stream Deck+ with XLR Dock MK2

[lapis plaza]

the ability to set up the volume of different app seems nice

[sinful quest]

oh, is it worth the upgrade to the mk2?

[gusty kiln]

bruh they keep removing r/all from reddit. It's still there on the old reddit interface but wtf are they thinking

[reef patrol]

I guess they think r/some is superior

I dunno. I didn't red whatever IT was

[marsh glade]

[leaden kiln]

another day, another chance for youtube to randomly fuck up my settings, open up the site and it's a different language, video previews are on, and and ambient mode is on

[queen python]

oh

hello

what do you get from upgrading?

[nimble arch]

That depends on what you've already got. In my case, I upgraded from the Wave 3 to XLR MK2 with the biggest addition being the onboard DSP for the main audio effects to be done on device.

There's a new version of the Wave 3 which also has the same DSP.

[queen python]

i bet you have several nintendo switch products

[sinful quest]

I see, I have the non mk2 dock rn

[nimble arch]

I do own the Switch 2, Nintendo make some fun games.

[queen python]

do you have those things like the ones with the big heads

i think they are made by the same people who originally dubbed dbz episodes

[umbral heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTe8Pi9J_8

[frozen ingot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ&

[empty wren]

not seen the video but sounds about right

[crimson wigeon]

Why would you get one in the first place oh right convenience

[nimble arch]

If only there were more self-hosted solutions

[ashen spindle]

theres plenty it just not advertised much int he us

synology or other NAS have surveillance station for home use etc.

[heady hazel]

id argue that a smart camera thats not POE is pretty easy to disable with a small esp32 wifi jammer

[pale sigil]

That's why mine are offline

[sudden imp]

Did Linus actually buy a private jet after denying people raises. while employees complain publicly and privately about wages not being enough??

Mr beast levels of greed

[heady hazel]

i mean hes on his second mansion at this point

[sudden imp]

Dudes such a tool wtf

[heady hazel]

iirc every employee that left said the wages were meh for what they did work volume wise etc

[sudden imp]

Dudes exploitive

Canadian Mr beast

[heady hazel]

to be fair hes not the first youtuber with a jet/aircraft but most actually do content centered around air

[empty wren]

a shame

i remember one guy said he does not think he can afford a house when his boss has 3

[heady hazel]

i mean for some youtubers id say it makes sense, as a positive example, cleetus mcfarland owns a small helicopter and he uses it A to help during catastrophes and b when he has to get from one event to another

[ashen spindle]

I dont think linus has 3 but people took it like that, more so he moved into the 3rd house while doing the same job

[empty wren]

perhaps

also in the expensive part of canada

to be fair is linus' company though

[pastel galleon]

never trusted them to begin with

[empty wren]

a shame though i was under the impression they had fun making videos but i guess in sense if wages stay the saem loads increase well eh, also i think the guy who said that was a high school graudate so perhaps the LABS side gets paid well

[heady hazel]

i mean alex iirc was an engineer and he said the pay was eh , and they did not want to give him a chance to make a car focused channel

[empty wren]

but if we are being honest, having a degree could mean you went through school passed ect

[empty wren]

ah right

that is fine, people grow out of stuff too surely ltt could have better supported alex

MKBHD has autofocus

his company i imagine is smaller

[gusty kiln]

I mean turnover is common at all workplace, just more noticable on a media channel

there's no big real drama

[empty wren]

fair point constantly in public eye rather than privately doing work

[gusty kiln]

Mr. Beast treat his employee the same at those huge AAA gaming studios

[ashen spindle]

mr beast is a whole other shitshow

[empty wren]

a shame, he seemed decent

[gusty kiln]

I mean EA is a pretty big shit show

[heady hazel]

which to me is a huge loss, since there is a big cross interest between tech and car content so alex was pulling in a lot of views reviewing cars and the tech

[gusty kiln]

and Bobby Kotick era activision

[empty wren]

they will probably regret it later

[sudden imp]

One of the issues is he used his employees to do contracting work and make content out of it. Issue is they were only being paid salary meaning the contract work they were doing was basically free labor.

Or atleast I took it that way

[ashen spindle]

none of his employees are contract workers so they could not have gotten a bigger salary for that anyway

[sudden imp]

That’s my point

[empty wren]

salary employees do not get overtime

[sudden imp]

He’s a cheap skate from the looks of it

[ashen spindle]

no my point is they were not doing free labor

[heady hazel]

iirc LMG wanted to give alex his own channel but under the condition that all the proceeds go to LMG which i mean why bother

[ashen spindle]

they were never going to get contract work from anyone else because they dont have qualifications for it so there wasnt anything lost

[gusty kiln]

LTT feels like more of a learner/feeder company

[ashen spindle]

thats like saying someone would hire school IT guy to run cables at your home, thats just not what anyone would do

[gusty kiln]

you work there to get production experience then move on

[empty wren]

bruh, so he would get nothing smh

[gusty kiln]

only the OGs get any real elevation/stake into the company

[ashen spindle]

if they were asked to like make a carpenter education then work for free on it that would be free labor

[empty wren]

you mean like a apprenticeship or internship?

[ashen spindle]

either one that would make them overqualified and then entitled to more pay

[sudden imp]

That makes sense, it just always felt weird to me.

[ashen spindle]

but essentially they did work that just happened in the bosses house for regular salary, with regular requirements for it, they didnt lose out on something

[gusty kiln]

stuff outside of the job description

depends if learning the new skill can be done during work hours or not

[ashen spindle]

in exchange its not like linus would've been able to claim refunds from it if for example alex would've wired something wrong in the garage and it was up in flames

[empty wren]

this may sound like bullshit a bit but that does make them more valuable as an asset

[empty wren]

ah yeah they could make a video on the followup then

[sudden imp]

That seems like a stupid risk actually

Especially for a million dollar home

[ashen spindle]

not really because you can still claim some regular stuff on your insurance as long as it was done withing whatever regulation canada has

or a risk you end up taking if you use not a licensed electrician for that job

hence they didnt work for free, he paid them and got what he paid for

and hey, worst case they'd make big youtube content out of it

[empty wren]

Now I see the point they are making quin but I agree with you, he did fairly compensate them for their qualifications

[ashen spindle]

with the jet it seems like he got a deal where it can basically be refurbished and later sold for almost the same price so over the lifetime you can write off taxes from it and then at the end be at a net negative cost so he didnt really waste money on it that he could've put into salaries

gets a bit more difficult since delayed money back and all, but theres more nuance to it than "my boss didnt pay me 50% more and now bought a private jet"

[heady hazel]

there is yes but LMG is bleeding talent and presenters so its not a good look

[empty wren]

Would you rather do the same boring thing every day or have variety is one way to frame?

[ashen spindle]

well its not a good look because people misrepresent it or dont want to understand it, but the jet on its own doesnt really change if they can raise salaries or not and if thats fair etc.

[heady hazel]

no but Linus does not come off as humble while flaunting a private jet that for now has no extra worth to the viewer

[ashen spindle]

yeah presentation of it is always an issue

[empty wren]

Employees also be stealing company property

[heady hazel]

i mean yeah but id argue you can steal a lot of pencils , even ddr5 ramkits before you get to the price of a jet of that caliber

[tribal dirge]

That too lmao

[empty wren]

They be stealing about near anything they want 🤣

[heady hazel]

youtube at the end of the day is an optics thing, imo the jet does not help linus after his reputation kinda took hit after hit.

[gusty kiln]

everything is basically for "work purposes"

[empty wren]

I guess to add more fuel to the fire the amd or Intel tech upgrades are not grace from Linus, since the companies pay for the video

[gusty kiln]

I'm sure the jet have generated a lot more click than usual

[heady hazel]

if its presented as a jet to be used for content or good researched documentary style videos folks would be relaxing

[empty wren]

The effect of it is also clear

[ashen spindle]

I mean it is shown as something to make content with

[empty wren]

This channel is in discourse over it, so the jet idea worked

[ashen spindle]

it would just be very stupid to not also use it as you cant really make content in it 24/7 and just having it stand around is going to cost money that gets you nothing

fuel for a big company trip is probably cheaper than business class

[lyric hatch]

There's a reason rich people use them

[ashen spindle]

and if you can use it for lets say 5 years then sell it for same cost, why not use it in the meantime to fly cheaper

[heady hazel]

im not saying the jet is a dumb thing financially just image wise

[tribal dirge]

This tbh, albeit maintenance cost is insane

[empty wren]

All media is good media

[gusty kiln]

the only thing is that linus can't be preachy about the environment anymore

[heady hazel]

allegedly all the engines have been rebuilt to brand new condition

[sudden imp]

Me when I’m told to drink through paper straws when the ceo needs a third jet

[tribal dirge]

Getting an aircraft cleared for takeoff is not cheap, you gotta keep it almost spotless, you need skilled pilots and crews, etc.

[heady hazel]

adblockers are piracy dont forget that

[gusty kiln]

[ashen spindle]

I mean I agree with him there, but he also said people should use it

[tribal dirge]

And I mean spotless, aircraft detailers charge tens of thousands per job.

[sudden imp]

No-no you see we pay for advertisements so ad blockers are just losing paid content

[gusty kiln]

pilot on retainer is also super expsensive

[heady hazel]

has anyone tried using the internet without one in 2026 like i genuinely would not recommend browsing without an adblocker at all

[ashen spindle]

oh btw @gusty kiln https://www.it-times.de/news/ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing-179715/ if you didnt see it since not many places catched it, this is a big deal long run

[cerulean arch]

holy trinity

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1387900443400863875/1489338419846054028/20260402_204130.jpg?ex=69d00dfd&is=69cebc7d&hm=34e94a7593c491774a61adcdef1d141d60c3dbf1c96461e517f4b14cc15c9d31&

[empty wren]

One does have the option to pay for media

[ashen spindle]

yeah the non ad non piracy way would be youtube premium

[gusty kiln]

oh damn, arm making moves

[tribal dirge]

Ooooo

[heady hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-depp-captain-jack-sparrow-at-worlds-end-pirates-of-the-caribbean-movie-gif-15231899

[empty wren]

I mean they need to pay for it somehow

[heady hazel]

i mean supposedly youtube is profitable

[gusty kiln]

I'm a youtube premium subscriber

it's nice to know when I watch obscure channels that I give them an extra 5 cents lmao

[empty wren]

I will say though what is insulting imagine paying for like cable TV and then getting ads

[heady hazel]

if youtube did vet their ads properly , id be inclined to not run an adblocker, but they vet more about monetisation than the ads they actually run

the amount of scams or litteral propaganda i got on youtube was crazy for a while

[empty wren]

Yeah where ai could help

Instead of having poor humans filter it

[heady hazel]

ai always has been poor humans at least in the tech sector

[ashen spindle]

I mean I think its fair to use adblock while its a shit option to see dumb ads, but I also dont see an issue with calling that piracy

[empty wren]

In some instances people pay for services and pirate it as well so I get what you mean

Official platforms or means can be a slog

[heady hazel]

oh i have netflix , does not mean i do not have a copy of cyberpunk edgerunners that is not legit, its just sometimes internet is out etc

[empty wren]

Fair

[balmy vector]

Half a dozen eggs

[gusty kiln]

instead of paying for the content we have the vpn provider instead

[heady hazel]

what irks me the most is pricing of some media, there is no way in hell i will spend 80€ on a single season of an obscure anime etc

[empty wren]

I mean pay Crunchyroll

Maybe buy the physical media if it good I guess

Maybe pirate one episode and pay to watch rest if it good

Your choice how to go about it

[gusty kiln]

physical anime is like collectors item now

100+ ez

[empty wren]

Well then I eat my words

[heady hazel]

got both volumes for like 39€ which imo was fair , ripped them all to my harddrive for easy keeping tho

[gusty kiln]

it's a niche audiance so they make it all special and stuff to jack up the price

[empty wren]

Well sure but like why not price fairish

Streaming is hella convenient

Most people may not even download the media ever they may just play it on demand

[heady hazel]

i mean it used to before every company got their own service and you have to figure out where to stream what at this point

[empty wren]

Now if it is a collectors edition fine

[gusty kiln]

my bad looking like 50+ for the nicer stuff. older plain jane blu-rays are in the 20-30

[heady hazel]

its a huge spectrum tbh

[empty wren]

This does not seem bad in my opinion

[heady hazel]

if you want niche anime that are not that common , its gonna cost you a lot

[gusty kiln]

lol my reply at the top

Imagine trying to collect all of One Piece though

[empty wren]

Lemme check one hold on

[gusty kiln]

that's like 1000+ in blu-rays

[heady hazel]

like this is not even that niche and still they want 60€ for the dvd one

season 1 only

[gusty kiln]

jeez

[empty wren]

Motherf****

Why is that expensive

[gusty kiln]

prob rare af

[distant tapir]

Paying for ones and zeros dressed in a box

[heady hazel]

so bascially 60 x 5 yeah uhh i think ill set sails

i feel like 60€ for one season of any show is fleecing you

[gusty kiln]

yeah

[empty wren]

Still better than 200 bout near

[gusty kiln]

well physical blu-ray is the only way to watch it in true 4K

streaming shit is never true 4k and compressed

[heady hazel]

ill gladly take my webrip and run it through nvidia video resolution before i do that

[gusty kiln]

[distant tapir]

Not the only one. Can download remux files

[empty wren]

This seems fair in my opinion

[gusty kiln]

there's also coalgirls I guess

they use flac for the audio track

[heady hazel]

how many episodes? i go per runtime kinda but yeah its reasonable

[heady hazel]

i like my physical media but ripping it and then encoding is also kind of a chore after a while

[empty wren]

fünf­und­zwanzig

[heady hazel]

hmm in total?

then again most animes are cursed to stop at 13 episodes

[empty wren]

Sechshundert Minuten

[heady hazel]

ok thats fair

[empty wren]

No season 2 read the light novels and psp game

[gusty kiln]

OPM s3 was better off not being made 😭

[empty wren]

Yeah it has a PSP game where you can get married to each of the girls

[heady hazel]

i got all to mod my psp gonna get into that once more

[empty wren]

I have ppsspp

I should pirate the game

[heady hazel]

i used to work at a social thriftstore so i got mine for 5€

[empty wren]

Lucky you

[heady hazel]

works fully but the lens is cooked , turns out nintendo knew why the clamshell design was used

[empty wren]

It was alright but like saitama kills the vibe in my opinion

Hinges break too

This looks fugly in my opinion though

[heady hazel]

yeah this is still dirt cheap for a reason

[gusty kiln]

lol the clam shell DS are going up in price

[empty wren]

I wanted one so bad as a child

Never one friend let me use his ds lite

Now that I think about the console has a tiny screen

[heady hazel]

i have all gens of ds here , kinda crazy they went through the roof

[gusty kiln]

https://ayaneo.com/product/AYANEO-Pocket-DS

if I didn't have a legion go, I kinda want this

[empty wren]

That almost looks like a phone on top🤣

But alright that does solve the small screen issues

[heady hazel]

still its good enough to run doom on it

[gusty kiln]

basically a 7" tablet lol

[empty wren]

Damn

[empty wren]

3DS XL?

[heady hazel]

yeah vs the og one

[empty wren]

Yeah already big difference

[heady hazel]

size wise i actually prefer the og 3ds

if you are out and about its the better console imo

[empty wren]

Switch has an even bigger screen

Actually my bad skipped one Wii U

[heady hazel]

issue on mine is the codec chip is cooked so the 3ds xl has a stuck select button

it will register as getting pressed all the time so i had to disable it with software, so the DS mode will bootloop

[empty wren]

With how simple electronics were back then

Probably simple fixes

[heady hazel]

well i asked in the homebrew discord they said its motherboard swap or bust

[empty wren]

Serialization?

[heady hazel]

the codec chip is bespoke and bga reballing is out of my scope

[empty wren]

Ah

So not impossible just not what you ask an average hobbyist

I see I see

So bit complex

[heady hazel]

yeah also whats wierd to me if the 3ds has been off for a longer time it does not happen, just when its got power then after like 5 seconds the select button starts

[empty wren]

Drained capacitors maybe

Anyways funky stuff regardless

[heady hazel]

maybe one that shorts out? issue is there are no board diagrams so far to trace it really

[empty wren]

Would have to be manually done yourself yes

Time consuming mostly

[heady hazel]

im just waiting for the community to get to it for now, i am not really good with electrics

[empty wren]

That is fine

I am not looking forward to later diagnosing my delta printer

Either the drivers-firmware-motherboard are having issues...

Maybe it is the wire to motors but that would be odd

One had a dead mosfet so I replaced it with a different driver since I do not have a spare one

[heady hazel]

you never know thats the issue with that

[empty wren]

I know BTT makes shoddy boards so you are not wrong🤣

I had one new motherboard out the box plugged in correctly and it set itself on fire

[heady hazel]

i mainly play only 3ds games on the 3ds xl so im not that worried to fix it perfectly, i use my 3ds to play ds games on the move or take funny blurry pics

[empty wren]

Well if it works it works

[heady hazel]

you just have to deal with the shutter sound beeing loud as heck (because some japanese citizens apparently would use them to take upskirt pictures otherwise)

[empty wren]

Man that looks like a toy

[heady hazel]

crisp 640 × 480 for you

[empty wren]

😄 I mean I would not blame you if it was the early 2000s and that was your phone camera

[heady hazel]

yeah the vibes are there it fits

[empty wren]

On the upside the driver is one page

Several pages for the mainboard

[heady hazel]

actually those diagrams are not too hard to read

[empty wren]

Not really no

Tracing stuff is annoying though

These diagrams show the connections not where they are

[heady hazel]

true

somtimes you can measure out a board , i did that with my old ps4 psu

[empty wren]

Simple stuff sure

I took apart my 48V power supply and did that

Cuz it would turn off when it turned on...

[heady hazel]

still had to order a new one, turns out ps4 pro psus like to crack solder joints and become noisy as hell. like genuinely the inductor coil was getting pulsed so it was bad

[empty wren]

Coil whine

Maybe cold joints

[empty wren]

Fair enough solution

[heady hazel]

i wish , apparently the coil gets pulsed often enough that it gets to resonate like a broken fan

[empty wren]

Hmm

[heady hazel]

i suspected the harddrive first, but eh swapped it out for a ssd and it still did it, so now my ps4 has a 860 qvo in it

[empty wren]

Hmm

That sounds tougher to fix

That is fair thought though

[heady hazel]

a 30€ aliexpress psu did the trick

also i cracked the first face plate so i had to order proper tools and a new one

[empty wren]

Oh well now you got a blue one instead grey/black

[heady hazel]

the issue is on psp 1000 sony was so smart that they made the face plate and the screen lens one part. so yeah

[empty wren]

No modern psp though

[heady hazel]

no you can drop in a lens replacement

[empty wren]

Loadcell is in the US

[heady hazel]

aliexpress really be blowing up my inbox at times

[empty wren]

They do not make em like they used to

🤣

[cerulean arch]

yees

[empty wren]

I am shocked $5 loadcell+amplifier free shipping tariffs included and flight to the US

[heady hazel]

yeah aliexpress is crazy like that

[empty wren]

It almost feels like a glimpse if there was peace in the world

[heady hazel]

yeah before things were bad

[empty wren]

Like stuff can be affordable, but is it convenient to some parties to not do so. Not saying a 3090 should be $5

[heady hazel]

oh 100% the companys take full advantage over every thing since covid to raise prices

[empty wren]

Honestly we can try to frame it however we can it started back in 2020 with sars cov-2

[empty wren]

Well I mean the greed

[heady hazel]

i want those years of my life back honestly

[empty wren]

It's hand has tightened further in strangulation

The economy will crash just a matter of when

[heady hazel]

yeah

[empty wren]

Yet, it has happened before and before and before

Feels silly

[heady hazel]

2008 is calling

[pale sigil]

I love Ali choice

[empty wren]

you reminded me of one song cannot find it smh guess this will do instead

[pale sigil]

I've got 8 items being delivered and like 10 other items that arrived in march lol

Also I got this via price error for £8!

[empty wren]

@heady hazel ah here it is, that sounds like 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkjORlNonk

[heady hazel]

ngl i dig it

[empty wren]

of course it is called a word i overlook

[umbral heron]

Quite hypocritical of him too
He was saying about ElonJet and how people are being silenced
And he himself was banning people on LTT subreddit about mentioning LTTJet website, so...

[umbral heron]

Ay, I call bullshit
Corporations should adapt to users, not the other way around, if they want to earn money

We seem to be so deep in late stage capitalism that corporations want us to care about their bottom line (and sadly it works quite well for some... coughNintendocough)

Piracy implies that something is illegal, but ad blocking is very much not
Thankfully we are not yet living in a world where platform's ToS is a rule of law

[pale sigil]

It's pretty bad... I read a lot of the drama, can't wait for wan show 🤣

[ashen spindle]

I mean you can say youtube does a bad job so you should use adblock and they should use a better model to make money, I dont think these things are mutually exclusive

it's not something criminal that breaks law but you are going against ToS and while ToS are not law, they are still binding as long as they dont go against laws

[umbral heron]

https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-memory-stockpilers-start-to-panic-as-falling-prices-leave-them-stuck-with-modules

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/abcnetwork-thegoldbergsabc-the-goldbergs-abc-goldbergsabc-OeLZSWYJvvrW6qaCAm

[ashen spindle]

it means now you can buy it at a discount before it goes up again

[cerulean arch]

Vanced is all you need for YT, it gives you so many more features than premium

[ashen spindle]

I dont need anything extra though

[lyric hatch]

skipping in video ads, intros, non music all pretty nice stuff

also can block shorts from showing up at all

[ashen spindle]

so its just sponsorblock

[lyric hatch]

basically but on your phone

[ashen spindle]

oh fair I dont use youtube on my phone

got a big screen so not going to watch shit on a small screen

[reef patrol]

Yeah... YT on phone is insufferable. Definitely would try out Vanced or the like if I wanted to use it.

The UI is awful and bloated, ads are very intrusive etc...

[umbral heron]

ReVanced comes with SponsorBlock and DeArrow preinstalled already

Morphe too iirc

[lyric hatch]

oh yeah I just install it I don't read how it works
but that makes sense

[bleak merlin]

ReVanced Morphe drama sure is something

[ashen spindle]

huh turns out rtx video super resolution finally works on youtube and other streams but I still cant get it to work on vlc or mpc-hc

[sullen bear]

Its worked on a lot of things for me for the past year

Just not on firefox

[ashen spindle]

firefox is fine, could not get it to work on vlc since it first came out

[halcyon moss]

There is a setting in vlc iirc

[ashen spindle]

Tried the special VLC build in release, nothing

[thick elk]

Personal setup for youtube on my phone is using tubular and mpv to play the video.
Granted I don't search for video's on my phone just via what is send to me or rss feeds.

[heady hazel]

most TOS are actually against the law , so good luck trying to enforce them

[empty wren]

funny number

[tribal dirge]

Shoulda been 67 smh

[vapid ruin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqEs28CgU

good headphone to pair with macbook neo

[plucky tapir]

Reddit is dead 💀
Stopped working for me as well, there is now no way to find a feed of reddit that isn't just shit shovelled to you by an algorithm.

You can't even sort by "hot" anymore by default, the setting is removed from your account and they always sort by "best" now.

[gusty kiln]

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

Only old reddit works

[plucky tapir]

Old works but the old interface is so dog I rather not browse reddit at all at that point.

[gusty kiln]

[plucky tapir]

All is being removed from old as well anyway.

[gusty kiln]

enshitification comes for all

[plucky tapir]

Need a new website...

[gusty kiln]

idk man, no one can dethron youtube either

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, I don't like the YouTube algorithm either, they also started messing with my subscriptions tab because it's no longer sorted by newest first it's just what it thinks I want and a bunch of shorts.

I have to scroll like 2 screens down to get a feed based on upload time like fml...

Not to mention recommending me auto-dubbed crap with no way to disable.

[gusty kiln]

I'm a youtube prem subscriber so mine might be different

[plucky tapir]

I open home on reddit and in the top 5 there is a post that is 6 days old like what do you mean... IT'S 6 DAYS OLD WHY ARE YOU IN MY FEEEEEEEED???

[plucky tapir]

I guess it's back to only browsing individual subreddits, anyone have a good extension or something to automatically sort feed by "hot" instead of the default "best" they shove down my throat?

[astral haven]

Its prob experiments
I was getting the bs they describe until I got an extension to hide them

(I have prem)

[gusty kiln]

@astral haven btw I got the Heddphone D1 about a 2 week ago and it basically replaced my 6XX.

It works really well for my ears at least

[astral haven]

The only reason I still have headphones is because the wh xm4 has amazing noise cancelling
iems for life

I got the divine and they live up to their name

[thick elk]

Comfort, ear wax, really would not use iems most of the time.

just commute, exercise those sort of things.

[halcyon moss]

Eversince I've stopped wearing my true wireless Sony wf 1000 xm4 I don't have earwax issues anymors

[thick elk]

I have some if I don't manage it, but definitely being conscious about it, and juzt general comfort.

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/orbNfowzlrY

[rough osprey]

3k lowkey budget setup

[wheat plume]

starts off at 350 then maxxed out at 2.5k

[ashen spindle]

3k is nowhere near an expensive sim racing setup lmfao

[rough osprey]

2.5 gets you one good pedal

[ashen spindle]

its not even enough for the cpu parts of it lmao

[tribal dirge]

Why does my sim racing setup lowk cost more than 3k lmao

Without a motion rig

[lunar elm]

for F1 all you need is a nintendo switch

[tribal dirge]

(TBD I will be making one soon)

[tribal dirge]

No, you cannot feel what the car is doing at all without a force feedback wheel lmao

It's like driving with a blindfold on

[lunar elm]

its sarcasm btw copied from charles and max

[tribal dirge]

Oh lmao

[tribal dirge]

Although I guess you can't really feel what the car is doing either without a motion rig.

[lunar elm]

neckripper 3000

[tribal dirge]

Nah you can set acceleration limits for motion rigs

[lunar elm]

me doing a mercedes to the guy who tried max FFB on his 25nm wheel:

https://tenor.com/view/kimi-antonelli-george-russell-mercedes-f1-kevvyinho-gif-5743567642411239244

[tribal dirge]

Makes sense, steering wheels on real F1 cars don't have electronic power steering

To save weight

So around corners I can see the torque on those wheels peaking at 25Nm

Esp with the heavy downforce

[tribal dirge]

Actually I think electronic power steering is completely banned

[wheat plume]

🤔 30 euro for a remote that only turns pages on your e-reader
Maybe if you have one of the larger devices this might be nice actually
Or you have some disability that makes holding them difficult for long reading sessions

[wheat plume]

Anyone on macOS using Firefox
Found a neat theme to make it look like safari xd
https://github.com/yiiyahui/Neptune-Firefox

[pale sigil]

use ya nose

[tribal dirge]

we need more phones with Silicon Carbon batteries https://youtu.be/WIXVJghX1JQ

[wheat plume]

Xd

[tribal dirge]

also the battery safety regulations that Chinese phones have to pass through is much stricter than the rest of the world.

iirc its the 3C/CCC mark that they must get.

[balmy vector]

Im just holding with my 14 pro to see if the 18 will be worthwhile

[leaden kiln]

have to put tape over the clip on my peak design bag, opens a bit too easy 💀
almost dropped my camera grabbing the strap

[lapis plaza]

I only use brave for not having ad on youtube

[leaden kiln]

I use safari with ublock on both my phone and laptop

[tribal dirge]

and if ubo doesnt work, then the tap to go away feature on safari is really good.

im surprised not more browsers have this

[leaden kiln]

but ubo doesn't not work so it's fine

[tribal dirge]

it doesnt not work sometimes

for me

[leaden kiln]

too many negatives

you mean it doesn't work

[lunar elm]

as in…. you crash into them

[vapid ruin]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1scb558/why_struggle_this_much_just_to_say_hi/

Input: Say Hi to me

AI be like

[analog sinew]

i think that would be "dzień dobry" here

calsy AI would get this right...

[halcyon moss]

Qwen?

Qwen.

[vapid ruin]

yes

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah qwen seems to think a LOT

[vapid ruin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAUDVx9f7w

Hmm, training a neural for texture so that they can have the same quality for much less ram/vram usage seems nice

for console that plays game at 30-60fps, could be nice since it does increase the compute time needed.

[umbral heron]

Unironically, this is one of the best explanations how it is with social anxiety

[tulip marlin]

hello i just bought a 80HE and it'll arrive in a month but before getting it i wanted to ask since it's not a prebuild do i need to have supplementary accessories?

[umbral heron]

If you ordered all necessary parts i.e. module, case, switches and keycaps you only need a Philips screwdriver

[vapid ruin]

just ph1 screw should be enough

[tulip marlin]

how much dos it cost? and where can i find it?

[tulip marlin]

i did

[vapid ruin]

you can buy it at any hardware store

[tulip marlin]

her's my commande

i have everything right? i just need the ph1 screw?

[vapid ruin]

yep

[tulip marlin]

tysm

[marsh glade]

https://www.ifixit.com/products/moray-driver-kit
Get a set similar to this, very useful around the house

[tulip marlin]

wait i think my dad might have one

can i take a photo and send it here?

[vapid ruin]

sure

[tulip marlin]

okay once i go over to my dad i'll take a photo

[marsh glade]

This is what the tip of the screwdriver should look like

[tribal dirge]

I mean, neural compression isnt new

[vapid ruin]

First time hearing it, but it'll be nice to see it more

[tribal dirge]

aye!

[wheat plume]

Firefox + ublock = no yt ads

[leaden kiln]

you can do the same thing wih ublock too, remove an element

[ashen spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0TZUCX8JI GTC videos are up and theres quite good things in them (I assume he references them but didnt watch it)

this is also neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxgpYZnJo2U

[vapid ruin]

maybe when it doesn't make me sleep

I just wanna see grass being grassier

[bright briar]

nice tips

[thorn harness]

quick question guys and gals, I'm building a second wooting 60he, this time I'm building it for office use, does anyone have recommendations for a more silent switch?

[wheat plume]

Til apple give you the option to just straight up move your entire home directory onto any drive you want
External or otherwise

This video showed how to move it to a thunderbolt external SSD

[reef patrol]

Catching up to Windows and Linux I see.

[wheat plume]

Yeh xd

Wait how you do that on Windows?

Ok
This is a cool setup xdd
3d printed mount for the Mac Mini

[tribal dirge]

this has been a feature for a while?

you were able to change your home folder location for a very long time now

[pale sun]

hii, i wanna get a new keyboard and i went and tested the razer huntsman v3 pro tkl and really liked the sound and feel of it, but ive heard mixed reviews about it. for the price, is it better if i go for something else? I game a decent but not a crazy amount and will use it for typing a lot

$80-$120 usd is my budget, preferred TKL but 65% or 70% is okay too, tactile switches or something like the razer huntsman v3 pro where it feels nice to press and isnt as clicky as the huntsman mini, black rgb something simple, and i am not looking to build or modify the keyboard as it would push beyond my budget, im not a competitive gamer im casual

[ashen spindle]

I'll never get people who ask for keyboard suggestions on a competitors discord lol

[pale sun]

are u stupid im asking in general im js giving a reference for what i liked

[ashen spindle]

its more a quesiton of do you really think people in the wooting discord would not be somewhat biased towards recommending you a wooting keyboard?

[pale sun]

okay and thats my issue not urs lmao im js asking for suggestions why are u analyzing it so deep

[wheat plume]

Check out the Wooting Outlet to see if a keyboard you are interested in is reduced to fit your budget
https://wooting.io/outlet
@pale sun

[pale sun]

thank you!

[wheat plume]

Any of the refurbished ones only have cosmetic damage but they all function correctly

[bright briar]

wtf is your profile 😭

[wheat plume]

Probably from some weird egirl kitten server 😅

Wait probably not
She don't have nitro xd
That's usually how they get it on those servers

[bright briar]

how would you know ?

https://tenor.com/view/zuh-cat-side-eye-stare-cat-staring-ca-gif-7404392670733848800

[sinful quest]

you seem to have experience with that

[wheat plume]

I've watched too much NoTextToSpeech videos about deranged servers

[sullen bear]

can respect the hustle ig

[bright briar]

someone get Aerobrake to test out it

[wheat plume]

[reef patrol]

I bet this is why I can't access my other PC via SMB. Microsoft you bastards 😄

[wheat plume]

They also don't let you disable Core Memory Protection :/
Which makes a lot of virtual machine shit stop working

[steady sail]

i do have that off LOL

[wheat plume]

Are you on 25h2?

[steady sail]

yea

[wheat plume]

🤔

[ashen spindle]

if you couldnt turn it off it wouldnt be an option..

[wheat plume]

It turns off until the next reboot

[reef patrol]

I bet there's a group policy for that on Pro.

[ashen spindle]

.. it doesnt take effect until you reboot so I dont think that would be the case

[ashen kindle]

i have an LTSC version and I think I disabled core isolation via chris titus's tool and it stays disabled

[ashen spindle]

and yes as usual group policy can do everything since thats how they make sure business isnt getting fucked by sudden changes

[wheat plume]

Damn
Probably won't be allowed use that at work

[ashen spindle]

why for gods sake would you want to disable it at work

[crimson wigeon]

Why disable it in the first place

[wheat plume]

Like I said
That feature when enabled breaks the VMs some of our staff need to use

[tribal dirge]

havent had an issue with core isolation and VMs

[wheat plume]

It was fine on Windows 10
And Windows 11 23h2
But in 25h2 it won't stay disabled

[ashen kindle]

I disabled it on my own pc, at work probably wouldnt want that

[ashen spindle]

why do you use VMs to then disable safety features that isolate it on a work pc

that sounds very counter productive

[ashen kindle]

surely there has to be a way to use VMs properly without disabling security features

[wheat plume]

We need VMs so they can use this application that won't work on new Windows

[tribal dirge]

from what I know Hyper-V works well with core isolation enabled

and its already built into windows 11 pro and enterprise

[tribal dirge]

there is

and microsoft already made one called Hyper-V

[ashen spindle]

is it like a custom written VM or how does that even break it lol

[wheat plume]

It's Windows XP xd

[ashen spindle]

thats an os not a vm

[wheat plume]

.....a VM of it

[ashen spindle]

yes what is the vm

vmware, hyper-v, virtualbox

aka what ancient hypervisor is causing this

[calm vale]

Hello guys, i suddently started having an rgb bug on my wooting 60he v2 keyboard

[wheat plume]

I had this issue just now with a few of the songs in my library.....

They messed up the new firmware update but they fixed it so the current links on the website are working properly now
I tested the same songs and everything is fine now on my echo mini

https://www.hifihub.com.br/en/firmware-driver-and-app-updates/snowsky-echo-mini-3-3-0-firmware-bug-affects-music-playback

[magic minnow]

[calm vale]

The RGB are going crazy

[mild dome]

"Hey guys, the sponsor of this video, Epstein, has invited me to his private island."

[lofty pivot]

Honestly the hate he’s getting for it is dumb. It’s a good write off for content if the company structured it well and jet tech videos will likely do very well

People just jumping on bandwagon to hate because they’re frustrated about state of economy and seeing Linus jet as symbol of wealth gap even though he seems to pay and treat his employees quite well.

I saw people talking about ‘wages not being enough’ when that’s never been the complaint by ex employees. The recent ones quit because they realised they could make content themselves that they enjoyed and earn more - that’s very different to Linus not paying enough.

[halcyon moss]

Didn't jakubs vid show otherwise regarding pay?

[lofty pivot]

See that’s the misunderstanding

He said he saw his bosses company buying things and felt he needed to earn more, but that’s not a reflection on him being poorly paid

He could be paid really well and still it would be right decision for him to move to his own channel and make his own content because self employed YouTuber makes way more than Linus could ever pay him

[craggy harness]

in the end poor/decent/handsome pay is always just a subjective opinion coming from ones standards, so overall it's kinda hard to judge without seeing any actual numbers

[lofty pivot]

As someone who has worked in both situations, no employer is matching self owned YouTuber pay

[craggy harness]

well, freelancing has it's merits, but can also end up being a financial death trap so it usually equals out benefits wise

[lofty pivot]

Yep, you trade stability for higher income and more creative stress on yourself - so it’s a personal choice

End of the day I don’t see Jake quitting as a reflection on Linus tech tips at all, he just wanted to do his own thing and earn big YouTuber money

A lot of people just jump on the anti Linus tech tips train when none of his ex employees have said they’re underpaid

[craggy harness]

well, people love to polarize themselves and losing sight of what's really in front of them^^

[lofty pivot]

It’s actually an ongoing tricky thing every big youtube channel tends to run into quite often. You’re basically training and growing hosts for your channel but eventually they have the skills to do things on their own and earn more than you could ever pay them

So for me it’s more about how do those channels deal with those employees leaving - do they burn them or let them leave cleanly, that matters more to me than the fact employees leave

[halcyon moss]

Fair explanation. I dont care too much about the ltt stuff. Haven't seen the jet vid yet

[craggy harness]

meanwhile i'll probably never gonna understand how a youtuber could ever earn as big as quite a lot of them do 😅

[halcyon moss]

Ltt seems to do this well

[lofty pivot]

Yep. From what I’ve seen so far LTT has been quite good to ex employees too, with giving them very favourable conditions for leaving, so I can’t fault Linus there either

[lofty pivot]

Sponsors pay a lot

On top of their own merch/products and Adsense, sponsors pay handsomely. I had one sponsor pay $500 for a spot in a 10k view video before

[craggy harness]

yea, i know that the pay can be ridiculous, i just won't really understand why someone would pay that big for what it is, but that probably comes mostly from me not seeing youtubers as more than people with an attention seeking hobby 😏

idk, been like that ever since the first youtubers came into existence back in the day and didn't really change since

[halcyon moss]

Ad space is worth money

[lofty pivot]

Yeah ads and influence make a big difference. Wooting for example exploded due to 2 YouTube videos early on

Companies track metrics and know a good video ad can make them a lot of money if the product is good

[craggy harness]

meanwhile i never really heard of you guys if it wasn't for one of my warthunder buddies telling me about analog keyboards and me looking up the matter afterwards 😛

[halcyon moss]

It's a hole in the reach!

[craggy harness]

but yea, only had the board for less than a day and it already feels natural to me, just gotta get a lil more used to the gamepad input strength and fix some weird behavior in war thunder which more likely than not is on the game side tho^^

[halcyon moss]

I wish there was native support in games for analoge

[craggy harness]

well, that would be the best, but a game having gamepad input is already plenty if it allows for simultaneous inputs from kb+m and a gamepad on top

[halcyon moss]

Yeah but I'm lazy :p

[craggy harness]

pfft, i feel ya, took me a good hour until i figured out how to make war thunder accept the axis i've set on W+S for forwards/backwards accelleration and then another half an hour until i gave up on the steering axis since it was totally zonking out

but then again, i've been gaming for long enough by now to literally feel something being missing when i won't at least have to spend 10-20 minutes on setting up stuff to my liking 😂

[raw bear]

Hey anyone heard of the Palmlab OO1 ?
I can't find any reviews about it... and their social media are like empty...
https://www.palmlab.net/lancer001

[magic minnow]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iranian-missile-blitz-takes-down-aws-data-centers-in-bahrain-and-dubai-amazon-declares-hard-down-status-for-multiple-zones

[lapis plaza]

world is going insane

I feel like living in a parrallel dimension for several years now

[magic minnow]

[lyric hatch]

looks like a standard gpx clone and there are quite a few on the market already

[sullen bear]

Again?

[lunar elm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1055103856465428532/1489108393493921843/image0.gif

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/yT_aFozeDc8

[bleak merlin]

I love her vids so much 🔥
Waiting on the linux part 2 vid

[wheat plume]

Day 99999 of begging Valve to release the Steam Controller earlier than the other hardware ;-;

the Controller has IR for tracking in the Frame...but for non VR games, why would you want it to be tracked?

[vapid ruin]

So you can see the controller when you're using the steam frame

[crimson wigeon]

Motion controls

[vapid ruin]

Also possible. Imagine it can allow really accurate motion control for aiming

[wheat plume]

motion...right ok makes sense

[wheat plume]

I have the Deck and yes, motion controls + touchpad is AMAZING for FPS games

[crimson wigeon]

I'm using tilt controls!

[wheat plume]

takes a while to get used to but damn, im close to keyboard and mouse in FPS games with this combo

[wheat plume]

fuck...now I wanna play mariokart again

[ashen spindle]

They aren’t going to ship the Controller any sooner because it’s going to be bundled

[marsh glade]

[ashen spindle]

At best it’s sooner because the machine gets canceled and the frame comes out with it

[wheat plume]

Frame has its own controllers

[ashen spindle]

for vr not for non vr games

[wheat plume]

could you not use them for non VR games too?

[halcyon moss]

unknown, but likely