🔌│tech

[ashen spindle]

unlikely unless they changed how the controllers get detected

but even if they added that, if you primarily want to play non vr games most people would likely still want a seperate controller because its a more familiar feel and easier to rest you hands as opposed to haeving two grips

like they show in their mixed view ad

either way they arent going to release just the controller

[crimson wigeon]

The frame controllers are designed to work with non-VR games however, since they have all the standard inputs

[ashen spindle]

oh thats neat

emulating it on quest controllers when I tried that was a pain

[lunar elm]

mood\

[sullen bear]

I hope you cut off the other 4 monitors

[leaden kiln]

🥀

dropped a camera on my phone, time for a new screen protector

[lunar elm]

i wish

[wheat plume]

This is what Android looks like to iPhone users

[lunar elm]

ion get it

[tulip marlin]

guys i have a question! why does my friend have some tap on the back of his pcb?

[wheat plume]

It tends to make the sound more muted and less clangy

It's a popular mod called the Tape Mod
Just make sure to use the right type of tape otherwise you can damage the PCB

[sullen bear]

?

[halcyon moss]

i dont get it either

[sullen bear]

Why are you on 1080p with a 5090

[lunar elm]

because funny Asus feature activated

where it died of death

[sullen bear]

[steady sail]

Huh ?

[sullen bear]

Im guessing blind tribalism

ifunny.com

[wheat plume]

ive seen many iPhone users say that Android is ugly and gross and lags and crashes a lot, and I found really ugly screenshots of a modded Android rom and shared them xd

[sullen bear]

How can you even compare ios vs android if most brands have their own ui and stuff

My gf has a xiaomi and the ui is really nice

[frozen ingot]

I never really found the UI or even the UX the problem with android when I used it

[lunar elm]

I have an iphone 14, iphone all my life and when I got my redmagic astra I didn't see a single thing off with android lol

[wheat plume]

Xiaomi's UI is pretty ok tbh
Though, I prefer the style of Pixel and NothingOS

OneUI is gross IMO, and OxygenOS is more like Xiaomi's now also since its using the OPPO UI now

[nimble arch]

Who cares about host OS when the availability and quality of apps is what makes the difference? After all, phones are just a tool.

The gap is arguably larger in the tablet market, but Apple/iOS still has a huge advantage in the quality of apps.

[frozen ingot]

because people think phones are a part of their personality or some shit

[nimble arch]

Which helps when the majority of global app revenue comes from the wealthy iOS user base.

[wheat plume]

most iPhone users I see have cracked displays on their phones cause its too expensive to repair the glass on iPhone

[nimble arch]

If it ain't broke...

I'm pretty sure they'd have cracked Android phones.

[frozen ingot]

the repair costs are about the same at 3rd party fixers

[nimble arch]

Someone using an iPhone with a cracked screen isn't an indication it's too expensive to repair, they could just be poor.

[frozen ingot]

a lot of the time the android is pricier because its easier and cheaper for them to stock large quantities of parts for a few iphone models than the plethora of android phones out there

[sullen bear]

Or they are just lazy?

I have oled burn in after years but im just too lazy to get it replaced, same for battery

Battery is 70€ iirc

[leaden kiln]

just cracked my screen protector today on my iphone, feeding into this negative stereotype

[nimble arch]

18 months in and my day one screen protector is going strong.

[reef patrol]

Better the screen protector than the screen.

[nimble arch]

Although I'm usually raw dogging a phone at this point in the lifecycle. Kept my case and screen protector on this time around.

That said, I did buy one of Apple's first party cases for £50

Extracting value

[leaden kiln]

it's slightly cheaper to replace the protector but most protectors feel pretty meh

[nimble arch]

Mine is a Belkin one, I think.

[tulip marlin]

oh okay tkanks

[sullen bear]

I just got some Chinese ones

[nimble arch]

Belkin UltraGlass 2 Screen Protector for iPhone 16 Pro Max

Yeah, it was Belkin.

[leaden kiln]

I had a screen protector first but it had a really thick black edge that covered part of the screen which was pretty bad

using a matte protector now but they aren't super durable

[frozen ingot]

I don't like screen protectors

[leaden kiln]

it sucks if they have worse coatings

[tulip marlin]

guys i can't find a video to hear the lekker tikken taped on ytb does anyone have a website to hear it?

[reef patrol]

I'm not a fan personally either - But the ones that are preapplied on OnePlus phone doesn't feel thick or disruptive. So I just didn't bother.

[frozen ingot]

I kinda hate most cases too, my phone goes fully unprotected most of the time

[wheat plume]

same, all the time except a glass protector

[halcyon moss]

these phones these days are too damn slippery

[frozen ingot]

that's true

also too much glass used in general

like why does the back have to be glass

[halcyon moss]

BuTmYpReMiUmFeEl

[rough patrol]

Ive had my iphone for over 2 years now

No case or screen protector or anything

Perfect condition no cracks or anything

I just dont drop my shit

[halcyon moss]

i also dont, but it only needs to be dropped once

and i have dropped it 3 times already :p

[rough patrol]

I hate those stupid tank cases etc

[lapis plaza]

just get a spigen one

lightweight

[rough patrol]

Anything that makes my phone thicker is a no go

[lapis plaza]

then you really have to be sure you will never drop it

I drop everything so I need a case

[rough patrol]

Stock thickness is good enough for me

[halcyon moss]

i got this one. its great
https://www.spigen.com/products/galaxy-s25-series-case-ultra-hybrid-s?_pos=9&_fid=57aa03120&_ss=c&variant=43470582349871

[lapis plaza]

yeah I always get this brand of case they are nice

[rough patrol]

I dont really drop my phone so its not an issue for me

If i drop it and crack it, my bad

[halcyon moss]

phones are too expensive now.

[lapis plaza]

honestly I dont care about phone I just want something that work

but these days you only have big phone

the size phone were several years was better

[tribal dirge]

real

[lapis plaza]

honesly my best phone was the iphone 3s or something

the cheapest one and it was small

like 10 years ago

I dont use my phone for a lot of things

if it was not for using google map or mail I would just get a nokia

plus I dont like that everything is forced on phone these days

[tribal dirge]

lol yeah

but thats just the reality of it

[halcyon moss]

htc one m7
great looking phone. shitty camera with a nasty pink hue

[umbral heron]

One of my favourite restaurants hid half of their menu behind their mobile app

[lapis plaza]

yeah people expect everyone to use a smartphone

[tribal dirge]

lmao yeah

[nimble arch]

Just getting a Nokia is fine until 2G/3G is switched off.

[tribal dirge]

literally cant survive in modern society without a phone

[nimble arch]

UK carriers have progressed quite well in the phase out of 2G/3G.

[sinful quest]

Ehh I personally like it more that way, but well- I don't like talking with strangers

[lapis plaza]

things that irritate me is people expecting you to use smartphone and people assuming you use social media

[tribal dirge]

here in the states I rarely use 4G/LTE anymore, 5G coverage is pretty good

[lapis plaza]

well I just prefer using a computer tbh for everything internet related. But I am old like I dont even understand what instragram is good for

[nimble arch]

It's pretty much all 5GSA in my area. A few not spots, so to speak, that are either 5G NSA or it just drops to 4G entirely.

[tribal dirge]

insta is like, mainly for chats

and if you're insane enough, reels

[lapis plaza]

yeah but what is the difference with message on phone??

[tribal dirge]

you can talk with kids with stupid androids

and filters for the girlies

[lapis plaza]

yeah well I am too old for these things

tik tok also I used to think it was an app for recording yourself dancing

I just learned last year that no

[tribal dirge]

nah, tiktok is just short form video

although who remembers musicaly

[lapis plaza]

yeah but if I remember at the beginning it was marketed for music no?

I remember seeing commercial with people dancing

[tribal dirge]

kinda, it expanded on musicaly

and in a way vine

vine was limited to 10 seconds

tiktok is limited to 60 seconds

[lapis plaza]

yeah tiktok you can talk about anything

not just music

[tribal dirge]

actually I think the limit is now 10 minutes

they changed it a while ago, but its 10 minutes now

[sinful quest]

Tik Tok was limited to 60 seconds
Now days you can actually watch movies there

[tribal dirge]

yeah they expanded quite a bit

I havent used the americanized version of tiktok for a while

[lapis plaza]

apart from youtube and discord I dont really use social media

and soon I wont be able to use discord I think

[tribal dirge]

I use snap for chatting only, dont use reels or use snaps

[lapis plaza]

where I live apparently they want to force people to give their ID to use social media

[sinful quest]

For what reason, if I may ask?

[lapis plaza]

no way I am giving my ID to discord

[sinful quest]

Fair-

[lapis plaza]

apparently to protect children but I think for censorship

[tribal dirge]

I mean, all it does is limit your account to under 13 privileges.

[lapis plaza]

if it is that ok idc

[tribal dirge]

so no nsfw channels

or channels marked nsfw

[lapis plaza]

well I hope it will be this way and not something like you cannot use at all

[marsh glade]

We have several of our moderation channels listed as NSFW, in the event that obscene content needs to be discussed in an official moderation capacity. A few of our team have been required to submit their IDs to Discord to maintain access... Real pain in the ass

[lapis plaza]

wtf

[sinful quest]

Oh shit, this sucks

[lapis plaza]

yeah

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-think-of-the-profits-profits-helen-lovejoy-gif-22673503

[lapis plaza]

not ok really

[sinful quest]

But what profits? Discord having your ID?

There is no profit for you I think

[marsh glade]

Profits for Discord, to monetize the data they have about you in a variety of ways

And of course, profits for the hacker groups who breach and steal said data

Most to the points, profits for the shareholders of Discord as they prepare for IPO and have addressed this business risk ahead of time

[bleak merlin]

😔

Dystopia

[lapis plaza]

yeah but all of this is allowed by states passing law forcing for ID check

neither companies or states are our friends

they cooperate

I dont believe a single second it is for protecting children

[nimble arch]

The state should actually provide a proper digital ID service if they want digital ID checks.

Rather than having private companies outsource it to the lowest bidder.

[lapis plaza]

they care so much about children that noone from a certain list has been arrested

[bleak merlin]

Are we forced to go back to IRC 😭

[nimble arch]

There's an app in the UK for digital ID verification to access certain government digital services. The foundations for something that could be used more broadly already exists.

[lapis plaza]

honestly we shouldnt be forced to submit ID at all

wtf

and let's imagine if the children protection excuse was real ok. So I would have to submit my ID because parents these day dont even know what their children are doing online

I dont even understand this idea

if parents were educating their children properly they wouldnt ask the whole world to submit ID

[vapid ruin]

Parents want to outsource it to the people they can blame

[tulip marlin]

do you guys would recommend tapping my 80HE with lekker tikken switch?

[lapis plaza]

true they dont want any responsability

[lapis plaza]

I love your nickname 😂

[tulip marlin]

your french as well!

[lapis plaza]

oui

[steady sail]

[lapis plaza]

that is me yes

[steady sail]

Im not French but this emote is fun

[tulip marlin]

l'adorateur de doudou a trouvé un des ancêtre de ce qu'il adore 🙇‍♂️

[tulip marlin]

stalker!

[nimble arch]

Even if they didn't, parental controls are lacklustre on a lot of mainstream platforms.

[tulip marlin]

why did you take a photo of me?

[nimble arch]

Plus general lack of moderation of supposed "child friendly" content.

[pastel galleon]

children just shouldn't be online anyway lmao

[nimble arch]

The companies are absolutely a problem and require better regulation.

Even if the Online Safety Act, for example, have their own flaws.

[lapis plaza]

I am sure it is breaking their attention span

doomscrolling all day

[pastel galleon]

one of the reasons

I also nerfed my youtube on my phone by removing thumbnails and shorts

[lapis plaza]

between this and AI doing homework

[pastel galleon]

so i have to read the title, clickbait doesn't work anymore

[lapis plaza]

yeah even for adult we can feel it is not good for the mind

[nimble arch]

My take on "children shouldn't be online" is far too nuances and idealistic. Children should be introduced to some social media platforms in their teenage years rather than throwing wide the gates at an arbitrary age. This would be achieved through a combination of parenting and the education system.

Plus how do you enforce "children shouldn't be online"?

[lapis plaza]

by good parenting

[nimble arch]

If you're going to make being online an adult only activity, you need to verify that people are adults.

[steady sail]

Just give them Duplo’s and plastic cars/dolls to play ith

[vapid ruin]

parenting hard when both are working to pay rising rent

[pastel galleon]

just don't give them a device that has a wifi card

[lapis plaza]

no it is just common sense that when you have children they shouldnt be on tik tok neither own a phone at 10

I dont know just dont buy a phone if your children are 10

[nimble arch]

There are reasons to have a phone at that age.

[steady sail]

They gonna grew up in a different age group now than how you grow up

[nimble arch]

My older siblings and myself all got phones when we started secondary school. This did pre-date smartphones, albeit not by much, but we still had phones.

[lapis plaza]

I had my first phone that wasnt a smartphone at 21 I think 😂

[nimble arch]

We were still texting in class and trying to hide it so the teachers wouldn't take our phones away.

Even if the technology changes, children and still children.

[steady sail]

We always listen to songs in class

[nimble arch]

There was an incident at my school in which it was trending on Twitter locally, back in 2013, and it was just students slagging off the teachers.

[steady sail]

Best times

[nimble arch]

Pretty low stakes in the grand scheme of things, but some people learnt the hardway about social media posting.

There was also a 4chan-like website someone found which wasn't picked up by the primitive safety software/filters the school was using at the time.

Got a few of us into trouble.

[marsh glade]

I remember asking my parents to buy me jeans that had huge pockets so that I could fit a portable CD player into them and listen to music during class using this trick

[pastel galleon]

the only phone they should have is a flip phone imho

[steady sail]

[steady sail]

And they gonna get home crying bc they got mocked about it

[nimble arch]

I disagree.

If I had children, I would eventually give them an iPhone.

Parental controls, of course.

[bleak merlin]

My children will have a raspberry pi

[lapis plaza]

my children will have a nokia 3310 I used when I was young and they will pass it to their children

[pastel galleon]

fair to disagree

[pastel galleon]

legendary 3310

[nimble arch]

My Dad sat me down to make an email account, Hotmail at the time, when I was 9 (might've been 8). Plus there was some teaching of online safety, albeit considerably primitive by today's standards.

[nimble arch]

Can they even connect to modern cellular networks?

[lapis plaza]

honestly I really think it can be used as a multigenerational phone

[lapis plaza]

yeah it can

this phone is indestructible

retrocompatible

[bleak merlin]

🗣️ 🔥

[lapis plaza]

it is just the perfect phone tbh

[nimble arch]

Hmm, there's a modernised 3310 with 3G/4G support. Safe for when 2G eventually gets disabled.

[lapis plaza]

I think I dropped it more than 50 times, a friend of mine had one he dropped it in dirty water it was still working

[lapis plaza]

yeah it can work too

[nimble arch]

Actually, the 4G version appears to be China-only.

[umbral heron]

My dad had the new 3310
He said it was one of the worst phones he ever had

[lapis plaza]

they sell one version on amazon for 50 euros

[pastel galleon]

hello calsy

[nimble arch]

That's probably the modernised version.

As for older ones...

The UK plans to retire all 2G networks by 2033 at the latest, with individual providers phasing out services earlier, starting from 2029.

That's not too far away.

[umbral heron]

Here 2G is being kept indefinitely as fallback iirc

[unkempt lake]

Someday it shall be gone

It's a matter of time

[nimble arch]

We're killing 2G/3G to free up spectrum for newer technologies.

[umbral heron]

For the foreseeable future

[nimble arch]

There's also provisional planning for the 4G shutdown.

[umbral heron]

3G is mostly dead now

[nimble arch]

EE have already killed 3G, the other carriers are due to follow suit.

[unkempt lake]

5g is the stupidest meme that ever existed phone wise

[nimble arch]

2G taking a little longer due to legacy systems, mostly non-mobile phone usage.

Early 5G is ass because it's data only.

5GSA or bust

[unkempt lake]

It's just not good unless you're in some big city

And half the time you're on fake 5g

Which has lte like speeds

[nimble arch]

FWIW the UK only has four network operators. Soon to be three as Three and Vodafone are currently in the process of merging.

Plenty of customer networks though. For example, Tesco Mobile uses O2's infrastructure.

Our broadband network is modernising quite a bit as well. Openreach are progression well on the FTTP rollout, plus planning is in place to discontinue all copper-based services including the traditional landline.

Something like 80% of all internet/telephone exchanges will be closing as well.

[unkempt lake]

This is a very good result for me lol

Generally ir's like 30-50ish

[gusty kiln]

anyone know which of the wireless android auto adapter is the best?

[lapis plaza]

it is good @unkempt lake

[unkempt lake]

Today yes

[lapis plaza]

max I have 50 in download but I might get optic fiber soon

[frozen ingot]

my very first mobile phone

got it on xmas 2000

[lapis plaza]

a very nice gift

probably the best phone I had

[nimble arch]

Taken indoors, can be a bit faster outside.

Plus if I’m actually in London, it’s even faster.

EE could do with some better cell towers in this area.

[frozen ingot]

toss up between that, nokia e71 and the 3gs for me I think

[tribal dirge]

A little better where I am

[leaden kiln]

🔥

[nimble arch]

I thought Sweden had good cellular?

[leaden kiln]

sweden is a big place

[nimble arch]

Stockholm server but not actually in Stockholm?

[tribal dirge]

you in a very dense area?

[leaden kiln]

the opposite

[tribal dirge]

oh lmao

[leaden kiln]

I live a while from Åre though, if I go there I can get over 500mbps iirc

[frozen ingot]

not so much in the countryside

telia claims 99% coverage but that's a lie outside of maybe emergency calls

you still barely get 3G speeds in the middle of nowhere in many places

[wise ruin]

If I am having vram leak in a game I am playing, roadcraft, does upgrading my gpu help that?

I assume no but was wondering what ppl had to say

[pale sigil]

You answered your own question

expected at warehouse april 8th

[median comet]

oh

ohh i understand now

its just that i ordered in in february and its was coming in 2 months

[steady sail]

whats your config atm ?

and what resolution are you playing ?

[wise ruin]

1440p with 32 gigs of ram, 4080FE, and a 9800x3d, I have everything cranked to the max and it seems every 20 minutes I have to restart the game

[steady sail]

its a game issue

[ashen spindle]

mostly a game issue, you can google what others did and find settings that minimize it maybe

like different/no upscaler, different texture settings etc.

[tribal dirge]

probs game issue

memory leaks are almost always never normal

[wise ruin]

ahh I figured, ty for helping everyone

[tribal dirge]

you could try re-installing the game and verify the game files

[wise ruin]

yeah it seems like using the 4k textures is killing me but I dont wanna give it up. will be restarting every 20

[wise ruin]

ty imma do it rn

[ashen spindle]

no need that wont change anything

its a known issue

[wise ruin]

ooooh

[tribal dirge]

is there a link to where the developers aknowledged the bug?

[wise ruin]

last time I had this issue was COD warzone, honestly forgot it was a thing

[tribal dirge]

like on a changelog, dev forum, or similar?

[ashen spindle]

I just googled it and there were multiple posts from this year and devs responding on steam forums and reddit

[tribal dirge]

any detailed straightforward fixes?

[ashen spindle]

nope

[tribal dirge]

damn

[ashen spindle]

just the obvious stuff like not using 4k textures makes it much less of an issue etc.

[magic minnow]

Jesus Christ I need the Oppo Find X9 Ultra

[unkempt lake]

no you need you tooth fixed

[steady sail]

just to send it back after a week ?

[magic minnow]

I got my temporary crown right now 2 weeks until the real one comes

[magic minnow]

No I’ll keep this one

[steady sail]

like all the previous ones ?

[unkempt lake]

you said that the last 5 times

[wheat plume]

https://youtube.com/shorts/89anpCQy8XE

Ok this is a nice feature 💜

[pale sigil]

IPod called, its wants its feature back.

[umbral heron]

iPod is dead though

[reef patrol]

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/black-dude-crying-cry-emotional-gif-14046052

[pale sigil]

my sister always owned ipods etc so i would rob them when she got new ones or when i wanted to play games

Sadly i lost it in College oops

[umbral heron]

Good ol' Brick

[pale sigil]

Ive only lost two devices in my lifetime, one was a phone i dropped into the sea when i was like 12 and the ipod in college, although i suspect someone swiped the ipod tbh

[wheat plume]

Honestly
If the iPod Shuffle could send files over USB , I'd get one

You need iTunes to send shit to it ._.

[pale sigil]

Uh Lana

I get what you meant

but thats still transferring over USB

But also you can, you put it into disk mode

[wheat plume]

Through the file manager

[pale sigil]

You can, especially these days

No need for ITunes

Not even on modern devices.

[umbral heron]

I need to look for some audio player
I love my Echo Mini, but it's not good with big libraries

[wheat plume]

how big is your library?

I have 456 songs currently...

[pale sigil]

ik you did not ask me

but my lib is yours

[lapis plaza]

I miss the good old time of naspter limewire and mp3

[wheat plume]

Ive added so many more songs since then xd

[pale sigil]

i had this bad boy once

before that i used thenm shitty onee

[umbral heron]

That's like half, because Poweramp really crunches my phone when I put more

[pale sigil]

I got caught with questionable pics on this in Highschool oops

twas embarrassing

[wheat plume]

oh, thats why you called it the bad boy xd

[pale sigil]

OI

[wheat plume]

SD cards be like

[nimble arch]

Not entirely unreasonable of Apple to kill off the line up.

It's not like you can't sync music files to an iPhone or iPad.

Plus the wider market has largely moved onto streaming apps.

[umbral heron]

Doesn't mean that we don't miss good ol' iPods

[wheat plume]

I used to have an iPod, idk what gen, the one with the screen and the circle wheel but it was before they added the rear camera to them

I loved it :D but I couldnt put songs on it so I had to rip CDs to iTunes and then send them via iTunes sync

and it was SO FUCKING TEDIOUS

[umbral heron]

Plus I love dedicated music player, separate from phone
No distractions, no notifications, it's nice

[wheat plume]

sammmmeeeeee

phone too big

also the audio output sucks even over USB C to 3.5 adapter

[leaden kiln]

did you get a passive adapter instead of a usb dac

[wheat plume]

I have the one that came with my Miku IEMs, though I dont use it often as it has a very bright blue LED on it

I also have

[nimble arch]

Apple's USB-C to 3.5mm adapter is the best

[wheat plume]

Apparently only the USA ones

[nimble arch]

Although I'm an AirPods Pro 3 enjoyer

[leaden kiln]

intl ones have less power but they aren't bad, there won't be any problem driving iems or other low impedance headphones

my fiio adapter is horrible, has a lot of power but will halve my phones battery in a few hours

[wheat plume]

If you buy two mono bluetooth speakers and pair them together so they act like one stereo pair
The audio output is still mono, right? or can you assign them left and right channels when they are paired together?

cause these are 20 euro each and I do want speakers that are portable

[reef patrol]

That would highly depend on the player. I doubt you can make one left and right channel respectively on a Fioo like that.

[wheat plume]

the claim a 3d audio experience when two are paired together, which idk if that is possible if its mono?

[nimble arch]

I highly doubt €20 speakers have a good soundstage

But that's another discussion

[marsh glade]

That's incredible, TWO SPEAKERS? What will they come up with next?!?

[nimble arch]

They've invented stereo

[marsh glade]

Absolute madmen

[wheat plume]

the last wireless speaker I had was from some random brand from the cheap tech shop and it sounded like garbage and had like 4 second latecy

this one is from Fiio, a well respected audio brand, so its gonna sounds good at least xd

[marsh glade]

I've never heard of that brand before

Not to say I'm any manner of informed on audio tech, I try to avoid that niche..

[nimble arch]

Who the fuck are Fiio?

[wheat plume]

lol

[marsh glade]

They're well respected, Johners, I read that on the internet

[nimble arch]

Plus it's a €20 speaker, I highly suspect it'll sound like a cheap speaker.

[marsh glade]

From the people who literally invented the stereo? C'mon no way

[nimble arch]

Try this: https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/sonos-play

Sonos make great hardware

[marsh glade]

Sonos is well respected

[wheat plume]

bish this is 300 dollars

[nimble arch]

There's the Roam 2 if you'd like something cheaper

[wheat plume]

$300 + Doesnt come with the power base that is required so you need to buy it seperatly

[nimble arch]

You get the base, not the wall wart.

[wheat plume]

ooohhh ok

What is people's obsession with plastering stickers literally all over the back of their kindle???

[vapid ruin]

Aesthetic

[wheat plume]

Reminds me of that really really busy wallpaper I've seen on someone's laptop at college before.....
It was really packed with lots of shit and they have desktop icons all over it too

Oh ;_;
My kindle doesn't have this
Would be nice to avoid accidental turns when adjusting how I lay down in bed when reading

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/1g0RzOGxe40

I assume Google send your fingerprint data to their servers if you use fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone?

[frozen ingot]

they collect everything and your moms so I would assume so

[ashen spindle]

definitely, and occur billions in fine for doing so because that would totally be worth it

[tribal dirge]

Bro the re-install of macOS is useless lmao!?

[wheat plume]

thats only if you get a used or refurbed device

[tribal dirge]

Refurbed devices from Apple have already been completely wiped like this

[wheat plume]

no one can sue them if its in the ToS

[tribal dirge]

But not sure about 3rd parties, it will probably vary

[ashen spindle]

everyone can sue them if its in the ToS

[frozen ingot]

as if google would care about a couple billions in fines

[ashen spindle]

in no known country to me does a ToS overwrite laws

[wheat plume]

that too

[ashen spindle]

they would if its for something that at best would get them millions for doing so

mh yes lets make a million and pay a billion sounds like a very bad deal

[frozen ingot]

these companies break laws all the time, everywhere

[ashen spindle]

yes for something that they think is worth it

[frozen ingot]

an occasional lawsuit is a drop in the bucket

[ashen spindle]

you dont risk a fine that costs more than the benefit you could ever gain from it

[frozen ingot]

they would if they think they can get away with it

[ashen spindle]

you dont risk billions in fine for something anyone with wireshark could test

[wheat plume]

Fairly sure the amount of data Microslop collects from Windows users is more than RedStarOS at this point

[frozen ingot]

they never get fined anywhere near what they make

[ashen spindle]

they do

[frozen ingot]

doubt

[wheat plume]

any time ive seen any large corp get fined, it was barely a drop compared to their yearly revenue

[frozen ingot]

that's still coffee money for these companies

[ashen spindle]

sure but in these cases its usually breaching rulse with their entire set of data

do you really think google would want the top spot, for just fingerprints?

[frozen ingot]

again, if they think they could get away with it, yes

I think you underestimate how short term greedy these corpos can be

[ashen spindle]

why would they, they wouldn't be able to make much money with it

[wheat plume]

If they solf fingerprint data to data brokers, theyd be the only source of that data, as no other OS sells it

[ashen spindle]

I think you are underestimating that they arent doing this the first time and arent risking something that makes like nothing

[frozen ingot]

they are not rational, they just want more right now

[ashen spindle]

no they are very rational

[ashen spindle]

ah yes, make it even more obvious so a judge doesnt even need to think to fine you lol

[frozen ingot]

yeah investing most of your profits into AI is very rational

[ashen spindle]

it's making stock go up and thats their primary goal as a public company

so yes its rational for their obligations

and that would include not taking dumb risks for next to no gains when you can take small risks for massive gains

[frozen ingot]

right now it is

[ashen spindle]

they could be fined for like 15 billion if they would just store everyones biometrics

all of youtube doesnt make that much, plus you'd also have to repay everything you made from selling the data

[frozen ingot]

they'll make billions using that data to train their AI models you see

[pale sigil]

[wheat plume]

It drives me insane that macOS and Windows hide the file extension by default

[frozen ingot]

only smelly nerds need to know such things

they used to show it in the old days of windows

like win95/98

[reef patrol]

I could swear it wasn't hidden by default till like... 7? 10?

[frozen ingot]

I don't recall how it was in vista/7

[wheat plume]

ah yes, cause when your non-tech savy family member downloads cook_book.pdf and opens it thinking its a guide on how to make yummy food, but its actually .exe but the extension was hidden, creating a virus on their system, then sure yes, only smelly nerds need that info

[ashen spindle]

common file endings were hidden since windows 95..

[frozen ingot]

but pretty sure it was still there by default in xp

[ashen spindle]

because a real pdf could not be a payload for maleware?

[frozen ingot]

I guess my windows versions had them all visible by default then

[ashen spindle]

aside from the most basic virus ones it doesnt really make a difference for security reasons

[reef patrol]

Guess there might be a home/pro difference? Cause it seems far too early for anything before XP to hide it.

[ashen spindle]

it started in the 95 file explorer to have less desktop clutter and allow longer filenames but it wasnt universal

[frozen ingot]

yep I can't recall them being hidden on 95/98 machines anywhere I used them, and I used them a lot in those days

[pale sigil]

Conzoomers don't need to see them

[tribal dirge]

Yeah lmao

[reef patrol]

I dunno. I like knowing if a file is jpg, png or bmp. Or mp3, wav or ogg

[ashen spindle]

you're far above the average consumer knowledge level though

[reef patrol]

Even for basic shit.

Why my player not playing song? Cause it ogg, not mp3

[ashen spindle]

the linux version of making it so something in the file decides what to display as icon and not the file ending just has other issues to it, neither are really superior on average

[reef patrol]

Gods. I genuinely hate the Linux approach 😄

I have - legitimately had to question which file to execute, because the filename wasn't obvious, and there's no filetype to fall back on.

[wheat plume]

you can easily fool Windows into thinking a file is a different type of file just by changing the extension

[ashen spindle]

yes and thats the intended behavior

[wheat plume]

on Linux, its harder....you can still open a video with a .music extension without issues

and the thumbnail still shows too

[ashen spindle]

and what if I want to open it with a music player instead

[wheat plume]

a video?

[ashen spindle]

in this example yes

[wheat plume]

oh just to play the sound from it?

right click and open with a music player, easy

[ashen spindle]

what if I always want to open that file with music

[wheat plume]

checkbox

[ashen spindle]

nono

not file type, just this file

[reef patrol]

Having a filetype doesn't prevent me from opening an mp3 in photoshop. Doesn't mean it's sensible 😄

I just find it frustrating not having a clear picture of what a file is intended to be.

[ashen spindle]

since renaming doesnt change what the system sees the type as, I dont want to use it for the entire filetype just for this one file

[wheat plume]

if its the only file with that extension on the system then this checkbox would do exactly what you want

[ashen spindle]

yes but what if its not

if I have 20 video files, I want one to open in the music player

[wheat plume]

then idk how you would set only that file to open with a specific app outside of the other files with the same extension

[reef patrol]

Now if Linux would read file headers and display the filetype, we'd be gucci...probably. But that hasn't been my limited experience every time I've had to use it for a Raspberry Pi or the likes 😄

[ashen spindle]

on windows I'd just change that files extension to be one the music player uses, how would I do the same on linux

[wheat plume]

thats exactly what it does, no?

[reef patrol]

I literally said it doesn't. 😄

[wheat plume]

its an option

[ashen spindle]

where does that display the filetype?

video is not a filetype

[wheat plume]

ok now you can do it xd

there is type and detailed type I just realised

🤔 my .mp4 arent showing thumbnails, not sure why...

[reef patrol]

It's a container. So depends on the codec used, and if your distro can (and will) read it,.

[tribal dirge]

Birb :>

[wheat plume]

Ok I installed all the missing codecs and all the shit works now

[wheat plume]

Intel systems

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-43.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld --allowerasing

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-43.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install intel-media-driver --allowerasing

AMD systems

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-43.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld --allowerasing

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-43.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install mesa-va-drivers-freeworld --allowerasing

These yt-dlp aliases are becoming very kinky 😅

alias ytv-best-sub='yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mkv --write-subs --sub-langs "en.*" --embed-subs'

[steady sail]

[wheat plume]

NIXIE TUBES 😍 I LOVE THESE THINGS SO MUCH

[gusty kiln]

AMD is up while everything else is down

[ashen spindle]

keep forgetting easter monday isnt a holiday in the us lol

[fickle ore]

nebius is up more

[tribal dirge]

THE SHADEEEEEE LMAOOO

Ts satire

[wheat plume]

HAH

HDDs are still fast enough for media backup and whatnot right?

[ashen spindle]

what possible reason could there be for that to not be the case

[wheat plume]

Like you have a drive on your NAS, all the games are on that
If you automatically mounted that nas drive to a local folder on your system and told steam to use that local folder as the library

Would that work???

Same way that I automatically mount my Google drive account on my file explorer to easily access my photos and videos from Google drive or upload new ones like it's a native folder

[minor citrus]

In most cases that will be slow as hell

[ashen spindle]

are you asking to use it as backup or to play games from it while its network connected to the pc

those are very different things

[wheat plume]

Backup pretty much

[minor citrus]

Backup doesn't care about speed, so that will be fine

[ashen spindle]

then I reiterate, what makes you think it would not work

[wheat plume]

If it was an SSD over gigabit Ethernet would be fast enough to play games over? Xd

[gusty kiln]

gigabit internet would be the bottleneck

[tribal dirge]

Nah, 2.5G at least

Ideally 5G

[wheat plume]

Hmm okk

[gusty kiln]

5g is rare, 10g ezpz

[minor citrus]

And in many cases the protocol will also take a toll on speed

[tribal dirge]

Yeah 10G

[ashen spindle]

thats not something you could answer for all games because for some it would work fine and some wont even start

[tribal dirge]

Although the latency would be very bad compared to built-in SSD

[gusty kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JL-RVUHj6o

needs a lot of setup

[ashen spindle]

if you load it all to ram you just have super long loading screens, if you constantly stream the level it either is going to crash or have 1 fps

[wheat plume]

Oop

[tribal dirge]

That's probably the unavoidable major downside with doing storage over network

[wheat plume]

Latency is totally fine for my Google drive shit
But that's just streaming photos and video

[ashen spindle]

just have enough ram to store it into ramdisk before you launch it

[pale sigil]

Oh boy truenas has changed a lot since then lol

[gusty kiln]

truenas also changing it's business model right?

[pale sigil]

Are they?

I hope not because a lot of what I use is free

[tribal dirge]

128gb of ram much

Actually that's probs not enough for some games

[umbral heron]

I do that with some games

[umbral heron]

https://tenor.com/view/like-a-glove-ace-ventura-jim-carrey-gif-4703773

[umbral heron]

[frozen ingot]

honey its time for the monthly outage again

[steady sail]

at this rate this gonna be weekly

[umbral heron]

In the other news, Linux will be incompatible with another piece of hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start-removing-support-for-37-year-old-intel-486-cpu-head-honcho-linus-torvalds-says-zero-real-reason-to-continue-support

[vapid ruin]

rest in peace

[frozen ingot]

last time I used a 486 was in school in the late 90s and they were dinosaurs already then

[lapis plaza]

my first cpu was a 486 if I remember

then I got a pentium

[frozen ingot]

first home pc we had was a pentium 100mhz, before that we used an atari st

[reef patrol]

486? So emulation at this point

[pale sigil]

Is this why my DNS has been shitting itself

Everything feels slower

[thick elk]

Are we vibing or are we ddossing?

[umbral heron]

How tf OpenAI is still holding up I have no idea
I tried to talk with ChatGPT about networking issue - I had to convince it to basic facts I have given it on the first prompt, still didn't gave me a good answer.
Claude did that in 2 prompts

[pale sigil]

Ye it can be pretty shit

[pale sigil]

The irony

@reef patrol @umbral heron @empty wren

[empty wren]

Well you are not the only one, there are diy hobbyists that abandoned their machines for a bambu labs printer.

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/todd-howard-it-just-works-bethesda-this-all-just-works-gif-20598651

for now

[umbral heron]

Meanwhile I'm eyeing some Vorons

[empty wren]

Go trident not 2.4 if you do

[umbral heron]

Trident 350x350 would be a dream

"Business Innovation Technology" team was pestering me at work that I don't use my Claude nor Gemini subscriptions at all
So I started to ask Claude about EVERYTHING
Guess who just hit a cap

Off to Gemini

[ashen spindle]

silly, should've set up a bot that just lets them speak with each other

ask them to talk about a topic, send it to one then let the other reply and wait for both to run out of tokens xD

[umbral heron]

[pale sigil]

🤤

my mind wants but my wallet does not

[ashen spindle]

unironically though, set it up so the topic is "I'm supposed to use this more, argue which of you is better and why "

https://videocardz.com/newz/corsair-quietly-increases-amd-strix-halo-pc-price-by-1100-for-flagship-sku

ram prices totally coming down!

[astral haven]

Halos on a delay since it has to go through amd + tsmc

[ashen spindle]

huh?

halo isnt on package memory

[astral haven]

Isn't it shared substrate?

Oh it isn't
Wth

Wonder why it didn't move that much

[ashen spindle]

oh it did

the issue is amd assumed it would do much much less

so supply was SUPER limited for the longest time

[astral haven]

Ah so prices started higher bc scarce and ram ate profits?

[ashen spindle]

hard to say but yeah likely

[astral haven]

Wild that asus z13 128gb halo is ~a grand more than the cheapest 128gb ddr5 kit on pcpartpicker

Oops was only looking at desktop ram, there's a laptop kit that is $300 cheaper
So like 1300 for entire halo device

[ashen spindle]

well technically its lpddr5 not ddr5

but I doubt thats much cheaper

[astral haven]

Shj

Lp5 probably decently cheaper since it's not current

(For servers)

[astral haven]

Oh and cut off the price of the ssd there's another 300

[lunar elm]

Advanced Marketing Disaster

[ashen spindle]

? whats this got to do with amd

[lunar elm]

[balmy vector]

Something something when next zen

[lunar elm]

announced 2027 released 2030

explodes by 2031 as a feature

[iron wave]

https://youtu.be/1Va9HsXSN4Q

Some good/bad news about ISPs.

Love that embed.

[lunar elm]

embed seems to be down rn

[sudden imp]

Interesting I think this means YouTube’s filtering bad ai content to ensure good ai content gets disseminated

[umbral heron]

Time to adjust fan curves
My PC sounds like a landmower when turning on

[plucky tapir]

I set mine based on water temp so most of the time it's like 700rpm, I can still hear it on my desk but it's fine.

[analog sinew]

nah its just cutting grass in time for spring

[umbral heron]

me when spring or summer

[fair gull]

a landmower? damn i thought we stopped at mowing lawns not lands

[leaden kiln]

my charger came with a skidmark

[gusty kiln]

Rip, Amazon?

[leaden kiln]

yeah

[lunar elm]

sorry im your amazon driver i was wrestling with a kangaroo over the package

[vagrant plume]

after updating my wooting 60he, it felt like the acutation point is much more sensitive than what it used to be, did anyone feel that too? i run the lowest, .10

i kind of want to get it back to what it used to be before the update, does anyone know the equivalent of it?

[umbral heron]

Well

Fuck

Laptop be kaput
I have replaced mosfet but turns out that mosfet was fine

[reef patrol]

[umbral heron]

It's some epoxied IC that's dead
So... motherboard replacement, which costs about the same as whole laptop

[gusty kiln]

They should be able to provide a swap as long as it want a high dollar item

[leaden kiln]

was like $100 but idk if I care enough to send ts back

[gusty kiln]

Ayyy new laptop shopping time, consoooooommmmmm

[leaden kiln]

It’s just a small mark

still works fine

[gusty kiln]

Was it sold as new?

[leaden kiln]

yeah

[gusty kiln]

Lil sketch but whatever

[reef patrol]

Time to sell it on BabushkaBay and buy a new one.

[steady sail]

[marsh glade]

Replaced the Mosfet with Mos Eisley?

[reef patrol]

[ashen spindle]

if you find Mossad in your laptop you might be compromised

[umbral heron]

[fickle ore]

lol intel x musk :S dunno what to think

https://x.com/intel/status/2041501301318766866

Intel (@intel)

Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology.

Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power

X · Apr 7, 2026, 1:00 PM

[nimble arch]

[ashen spindle]

was obvious since they annoucned the terafab project

not like musk would go with tsmc or samsung

[sudden imp]

Intel also has US funding/backing this was kind of invetiable

[ashen spindle]

in what capacity we dont know but I dont have hopes of this doing anything

[reef patrol]

With Elon involved, it can only result in a decade of delays, catastrophic failures and funny articles.

And probably half of Texas being dead.

[ashen spindle]

at bests its probbaly like the tsmc join venture we got in germany

which is starting production next year and is for industry products

[fickle ore]

u guys say it was inevitable but didnt buy stock at $20

[ashen spindle]

because something happening is easier to know that knowing if that good for a stock price

[fickle ore]

yeah I think terafab is doomed

will see, idk even what intel doing for them

[ashen spindle]

nobody knows yet, could be anything from joint venture to offering manpower or tools

[fickle ore]

hope they not giving free ASML tools lol

and knowledge

[fickle ore]

joint venture would be rlly big but todays price movement is pretty small so maybe its not that

[ashen spindle]

I mean public info for stock market is the same as what we know, nothing really

depending on how joint it is and what risk/cost there is that could even lower the stock

[fickle ore]

always insiders moving it bigly tbh

they always know

[ashen spindle]

if it was insiders it wouldn't have moved on the announcement

[fickle ore]

thats either public moving it little due to the announcement, or it was something small so the insiders arent moving it big

theres another news today about amazon google doing advanced packaging with intel too, so thats part of it too

[fair gull]

so i finally figured out what makes this weird vibrating noise in my pc

i thought it was the d15 vibrating against the gpu

turns out it was the gpu+brace vibrating against the psu shroud

[reef patrol]

Wake up babe. Another funni name Distro released. Cause if we can have 59 distros, why not 60.

I do love the wallpaper 😄

[marsh glade]

The fact that the small yellow creature isn't a Pikachu has ruined it for me already

Little Red Riding Kitty is pretty cute though

[lapis plaza]

be careful if nintendo learn you used pikachu you can got to jail for life

[reef patrol]

[frozen ingot]

PikaOS

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-nintendo-switch-cease-and-desist-nintendo-wii-wii-u-gif-21051413

[nimble arch]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/macbook-neo-a19-pro-chip-next-year/

[umbral heron]

And water be wet
After Neo success it was a no-brainer there will be a next one

Imma go tomorrow to store and check how it feels to use
rest in pepperoni me pink Thinkpad

[sudden imp]

thinkpads are probably the best windows laptops on the market

[nimble arch]

Plus it's just recycling binned iPhone Pro SoCs into another device

Apple's vertical integration paying off strong now they can be the king of budget/affordable devices

[umbral heron]

I want anything but Windows
Prefer Linux, but can accept macOS

[sudden imp]

i guess

[umbral heron]

2026 makes no sense
Apple being affordable

[sudden imp]

2026 may be over vro

[umbral heron]

Would be cool

[nimble arch]

VR gets so expensive that Apple Vision Pro is the best value for money option

[vapid ruin]

Weird future, but then like also a net positive because all those a19 chips can be something else other than an Iphone chip

[pale sigil]

Is the A19 better than m1

[umbral heron]

But Vision doesn't have objectively the best VR game

[vapid ruin]

just buy a $3000 pc and virtual desktop

[nimble arch]

Steam Link should be available on Vision Pro soon

[pale sigil]

I don't understand why the neo couldn't have had an m2

[nimble arch]

They don’t make the base M2 SoC any more

[pale sigil]

I'm genuinely asking

[nimble arch]

The Neo is reusing binned iPhone SoCs with one GPU core disabled

[pale sigil]

I haven't looked into apple in ages

[nimble arch]

Which is why it’s cheap

[pale sigil]

I guess the m chip is reserved to the air

[umbral heron]

It's not like you will be doing heavy stuff on it to justify M chip in it

[nimble arch]

Plus they don’t make the older SoCs anymore, it would cost more if they did.

Product segmentation also.

[lyric hatch]

Faster in single core by quite a lot and even beats it in multi threaded tasks

[gusty kiln]

M1 is quite old now

[lyric hatch]

Yep, my m1 pro still doing the thing though

[pale sigil]

I see

[tribal dirge]

Also because Tim Cook knows how supply chains work

That's like his main skill

[ashen spindle]

a19 clocks like an entire gigahertz more than m1

[tribal dirge]

I think that's pretty obvious, A19 uses much newer Apple silicon core architectures than M1 did

It makes sense

[ashen spindle]

its more so that its N3P vs N5

[tribal dirge]

Yeah that too

Newer process nodes

Also A19 has much more system cache than M1 but I think that choice was made for improved efficiency rather than just performance alone

Making calls to RAM takes way more energy than it does to make calls to system cache

[umbral heron]

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/hero-cat-saves-owner-as-pc-catches-fire-from-nvidia-rtx-4090-meltdown-3348004/

[frozen ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-jensen-huang-safe-to-upgrade-gif-26481071

[jolly raven]

What u guys think about the wooting build I might get

[marsh glade]

Please don't post the same question across multiple channels

[balmy vector]

I still need to know what the game is

[umbral heron]

Neko Atsume VR

[balmy vector]

Bookmarking this

[alpine patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcY30KEeNs

[latent mural]

Good pc build?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qfnxGk

[ashen spindle]

do you need 32gb? if so you can probably get a cheaper kit at least and then get a 9600x for the cpu instead

[latent mural]

5% difference for cheaper

I’m gonna buy a mobo ram ssd deal from microcenter

That’s like what 500$ off

[ashen spindle]

then just make sure to get a better cpu, the 9600 will be nicer in everyday use

[lunar elm]

whats the price diff is the question

[ashen spindle]

like 20 bucks based on pcp

[lunar elm]

tray or boxed?

[ashen spindle]

boxed

[lunar elm]

i’d just afford the 20 bucks if its boxed over the no warranty tray

[latent mural]

70$

9600x new is like 190 7500F is 120

[latent mural]

They’ll probably have a x3d

[ashen spindle]

it says 156 on the list?

I mean yeah if you can get a 9800x3d that would be the best

[latent mural]

not on aliexpress

[latent mural]

You think I have THAT budget

[ashen spindle]

idk you didnt say a budget

[lunar elm]

grab a 7600x3d if its possible, else stick with 7500f

i doubt 7600x3d is tho

if you wanna ball slightly higher grab a 7800x3d

[latent mural]

That’s 230$

[ashen spindle]

what about 9600 non x

[latent mural]

the 7500F is still great for 125
I’ll see what microcenter has before I decide.

[lunar elm]

thats honestly not bad if you want and can afford it otherwise the list is good

[latent mural]

Eh

[ashen spindle]

the price I mean, idk what thats on alie if you're looking there

[latent mural]

Only for CPU

Again I will look at microcenter and decide

[ashen spindle]

yes the 9600 is a cpu..

you said the 9600x is 190 whats the non x

[latent mural]

250 new

[ashen spindle]

oof yeah nvm then

[sullen bear]

Good build

P sure u can get 7500f for 100 on ali no?

7500f or intel imo

Or a 800x3d

[lunar elm]

mb i thought we were doing snapdragon or apple silicone

[sullen bear]

?

[magic minnow]

[vapid ruin]

Mmm, mini camera

[magic minnow]

I love the eyeball cameras wish more phones did them

[umbral heron]

So trolling or Apple

[lunar elm]

0.1% marketshare versus fruit

[latent mural]

Yeah

Same price on eBay so

Might aswell try my luck

[gusty kiln]

Damn tech market up a lot today

Guess they really like the ceasefire

[ashen spindle]

entire market up yea

[steady sail]

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace im sure it wasn’t posted but why ?

[gusty kiln]

@fickle ore think nokia can hit 10?

[fair gull]

@Grok is this true

[fickle ore]

If it follows AI and COHR tailwinds maybe, lol I'm in since 3€

9.3 is pretty close so probably haha

lol the stock is up 150 % since

[craggy harness]

all i know is that my used 3090TI is worth more now than when i bought it, partly due to being absurdly lucky on undervolting stability, can literally undervolt it by 40-45% and it's still running perfectly stable and considering it's power it can still hold it's ground against more recent cards rather well 😇

just enter multiple times or have your family/friends get one for you and you could easily get a dozen or more depending on your social circles

[void bison]

is here a difference between the wooting 60he and the wooting 80he besides the size?

[fickle ore]

70HE wen

[ashen spindle]

this comparison is lekker edition erasure I wont stand for it

[crisp granite]

it's just a 2HE with fancy keycaps and colourway
oh, and it's 100% AVR architecture

[molten steppe]

heyy

I am choosing between Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 17, 15 got a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, and 17 got a Snapdragon 8 gen 5 chip, and also 17 got a whopping 6300 mAh battery, so 900 mAh bigger than 15. Is it worth buying 15, or should I pay a bit more for 17?

[ashen spindle]

if its worth it depends on if you want to the spend the extra money it

[molten steppe]

I dunno if there is that big of a difference?

[ashen spindle]

its a tiny bit better and has teh bigger battery so depends on how much you value better battery time essentially

[keen steppe]

Good 1440p OLED 27" monitor recommendations?

Open to 32" too

[ashen spindle]

check rtings or tftcentral or monitorsunboxed for comparisons in the priceranges and other things you want

[keen steppe]

tyty

[gusty kiln]

Rting is paywalled now

[ashen spindle]

you can still see their suggestions and cross check that

[bright briar]

router ban in the usa lmfao

[gentle osprey]

My man, you’re responding to messages from over a year old….

[hollow path]

Holy necro lmao

[marsh glade]

My sure Discord just didn't scroll down, happens to the best of us

[reef patrol]

[vapid ruin]

how, it shouldn't be cached and the date is quite obvious

[reef patrol]

....

[umbral heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-lLt5X3Rs

[marsh glade]

Loius Rossman featured

[umbral heron]

I'd love to see an actual gladiator arena fight between Louis and some CEOs, like Apple and John Deere ones
It would be a massacre

[gentle osprey]

Rossman is a legend

[craggy harness]

yea no clue, just saw some replies that led to them and felt like responding, like normally you don't expect to have a chain of 2 replies leading 1 year back after all 😅

[gentle osprey]

Haha no worries

[craggy harness]

time shown wasn't helping either since it was just 1-2 hours before my responses and the year/month isn't shown in the always enabled timestamp

[frozen ingot]

watched rossmann since he had that cramped ass store in NYC like 2016 or smth

[umbral heron]

After that video... yeah, I think that it would be really cool if one of these rockets that are are flying between Iran and Israel right now would hit Davos right when WEF is happening, world would be so much better off

[umbral heron]

Yee, I learned some repair tricks from him

[frozen ingot]

I was kinda shocked to learn he's like 5 years younger than me, looks older and has more grey hair

dude works too much

[distant tapir]

Apple will temporarily transfer leadership to a professional fighter

[umbral heron]

Nah, the participant must be on a CEO position for at least 5 years
Square up Cook

[eager lantern]

They will just have a figurehead/rubberstamper for COO for 5 years

There was this position during soviet occupation of Poland in journals, there was a special chief editor who went to jail if the censorship bureau didn't like what the journal printed - this was his only job

Anyway, anyone experiencing Electron app problems lately? Half of those won't run for me (about 2 weeks), insta-crashes with windows' diagnostic werfault running. Some apps work out of the box (discord), some (Signal, Github Desktop) work with --no-gpu-sandbox or --in-process-gpu flags, sadly Wootility isn't one of them :|.

[sudden imp]

@umbral heron you do this stuff in your free time right?

https://youtu.be/prG9xFkvlNg?si=3w-vF1SSYDWfmqci

[halcyon moss]

Ui? As a server admin?

[steady sail]

I do wanna do this with windows

[umbral heron]

In free time I watch movies, play games and nap
If I tinker with Linux it's mostly making scripts and tools which help with stuff or just for fun, for example HDR support

[sudden imp]

I see

[sudden imp]

Ikr

I think windows 11 would be much more loved if we had more customization

[umbral heron]

Although you know something ain't right up there when you remember all Proton specific Steam launch options
For legit games you don't have to do any of that, but with games from torrents... well, there is still a bit of tinkering

However Fi****l has finally upgraded their repacking software like almost a year ago, so it doesn't crash in Proton

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/Vxp8IgLBknY

[bright briar]

what do i have to sacrifice to learn the knowledge you obtain over the years

cals are you kira?

[umbral heron]

Billion dollar corp CEOs are still alive, so no

If I were whole world would adopt Right to Repair long ago

Come to think of it - holy heck, was Kira narrow-minded, taking care of criminals only from local areas
Plus I betcha that Interpol wouldn't care at all, even more so, with "justice" system in Japan local police would be delighted to not have to deal with criminals

[bleak merlin]

https://youtu.be/5DGHOWw1vq4
😭

[pastel galleon]

also lower hw requirements and a lot of optimizations and less AI

[ashen spindle]

last part yes, first part no

we actually suffer from hw requirements not being higher

if they would have put them higher at the cost of some dumb intel atom cores not running it, we could have software targeting win11 with MUCH better performance baseline

[umbral heron]

Some good news https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

[reef patrol]

Get fucked big tractor 😄

[fair gull]

now we do the same with other things that need special tools

[umbral heron]

My favourite pastime - trying to pass RtR bills so I can hear Apple lobbyists invent the most bullshit excuse possible using their infinite wells of creativity

[smoky parrot]

They're sneaky and they know it

[umbral heron]

Something something AGI

[crimson wigeon]

Spicy autocomplete is getting out of control

[umbral heron]

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487

J...just... 800 billion more and we will have AGI...

[vapid ruin]

the better question is, can it goon?

If it triggers its safety words and refuses to do instruction at the sight of porn, all that we need to do is to sprinkle PH link on our code

[analog sinew]

god, the endless yapping each time he says sth to it

"start the timer"
alright i'm starting the timer go on your run have fun blalblaa

[halcyon moss]

theres a difference between an llm knowing the time and it using a tool to set timers/get the time

[lunar elm]

7 minutes later- You have approximately ran for 6 hours 9 minutes 42 seconds

[smoky parrot]

I have a dedicated CalsyAI key, to summon her

[nimble arch]

https://tenor.com/view/grok-is-this-true-windmill-water-wheel-gif-5302497903247327835

[umbral heron]

no touchy in here!

[plucky tapir]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZdrUuSEC0LygaFXtNT

Not even the same size or profile!

[ashen spindle]

Ah so that’s why their stock went up

[ashen spindle]

https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/ oh hey 8gb vram on linux isnt worse than on windows anymore

[umbral heron]

It may sound unbelievable to some, but not everyone has a datacenter beast with 128GB of VRAM shoved in their desktop PCs.
LIES

[umbral heron]

https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/

[umbral heron]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issues/

Gotta love Secure Boot

[frozen ingot]

but its for security, its even in the name

[crimson wigeon]

You see it's a third party thing encrypting your files, that's bad. BAD! Only BitLocker is allowed to do that!!!

[reef patrol]

[tribal dirge]

why would one need an extra firewall?

[crimson wigeon]

And an absolutely proprietary one at that

[tribal dirge]

like, MacOS already has a built-in application firewall with a pretty comprehensive set of rules that is always active

and if you dont think thats enough you can enable the built-in system level firewall and set your own rules

like, some of these tools are super unecessary.

[nimble arch]

macOS also never allowed kernel-level security software.

There's plenty of macOS security software, they just don't get to Crowdstrike everyone.

[tribal dirge]

yeah, because the SIP and the secure enclave would go insane

[ashen spindle]

Scott Hanselman, a VP and Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft/GitHub, responded to Windscribe's tweet, saying, "Should be fixed in a bit," and added, "We've been sending everyone emails since October 2025."
Hanselman pointed to a Microsoft blog post noting that, starting in October, the company began requiring "mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program," which also covers certifying software drivers. Last month, the company updated the post to say: "Accounts that did not successfully complete account verification and received a Rejected verification status have been suspended from the Windows Hardware Program, and submissions from these accounts are no longer permitted."

so basically he didnt read his emails since october and didnt do the new steps in 6 months

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/hardware-dev-center/action-required-account-verification-for-windows-hardware-program-begins-october/4455452 this was the notice

Effective October 16, 2025, Microsoft will initiate mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program who have not completed account verification since April 2024.

so since april24 he had a chance to update the account because msft increased guidelines and security things, then the notice was started in october25

and now 2 years since the first option the account got closed essentially, I think thats not microsoft fault this time

[tribal dirge]

ok yeah there is really no excuse LMAO

[crimson wigeon]

And things are already supposedly getting sorted out, so social media outrage wins again

[umbral heron]

Windscribe's tweet? But that's about VeraCrypt

[ashen spindle]

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-mysteriously-freezes-accounts-for-veracrypt-wireguard-windscribe

it hit 3 big projects because I assume they all didnt do their admin task and scott replied to one of them but reached out to all

this was in another discord and I thought what you posted was the same but it was just about vera

[umbral heron]

I smell bullshit from MS side, doubt that people from 3 projects would miss something as important
And now it's been picked up by outlets so they play as if nothing ever happened

[ashen spindle]

unless they are blackmailing the devs(which would be easily better PR to get out lol) why would none of them say no I did do the updates about it

[umbral heron]

fair

[ashen spindle]

and given this was mandatory for everyone, just 3 is quite a small number

[umbral heron]

Hm... maybe I should just get a Framework 13

[nimble arch]

No, get a MacBook.

MacBook Neo specifically.

[ashen spindle]

Get the arm framework to have the worst of both worlds

[bleak merlin]

I want to support framework, wish they weren't that expensive but I understand 😔

[umbral heron]

why hate on framework

[nimble arch]

They’re not good laptops

You’re also funding LTTs second jet

[ashen spindle]

Because framework is just horrible value and quality, the idea is nice but that’s about it sadly

[bleak merlin]

RISC V framework tho

[umbral heron]

Imma go to Media Markt after work to check on Neo

[nimble arch]

You’ll like it

There’s even a pink option

Blush as Apple call it

[frozen ingot]

Framework is a good idea terribly executed in almost every way imaginable

[nimble arch]

But muh right to repair

But muh Linux

etc

[frozen ingot]

right to repair is great, blatantly overcharging by riding on its ideals less so

[umbral heron]

That pink looks like barely pink at all
Citrus looks cool though

[nimble arch]

Maybe it looks more pink in person?

When not under pristine studio lighting

[umbral heron]

Just saw it in person
But it is quite nice

[nimble arch]

Time to consume

[halcyon moss]

if you want really slow tho

[bleak merlin]

I know its slow af lmaoo

[bleak merlin]

https://frame.work/blog/framework-next-gen-event-is-live-on-april-21
Hmmmm

[ashen spindle]

guessing its just the announcement they support arm boards now or similar

or outdated intel chips

[halcyon moss]

Man, you really got a hate-on on framework

[ashen spindle]

idk I'm just disappointed by their offerings

[reef patrol]

They're expensive, and their cheapest model has a bad panel. That's all I know.

[ashen spindle]

I want them to succeed, I just dont like the option of bad value/quality purely for the argument of (at times questionable) ability to repair

[halcyon moss]

True, their models by itself are not a good deal. Maybe the upgrade makes it worth it. Haven't checked

[unkempt lake]

Also warranty issues

Especially woth european customers

https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/s/7QirUaQBVr

I've seen several posts about them just disregading eu laws

Oh and in australia

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

🤢 AI in my Windows update list

[ashen spindle]

person with copilot on the pc seeing a copilot related update, wow

[fickle ore]

cool stuff https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1766/intel-and-google-deepen-collaboration-to-advance-ai

[ashen spindle]

question is does that mean google wants to get intel to do asic designs for them, so be a cheaper broadcomm or is intel outsourcing asic design

[wheat plume]

ooooo wait layout?! wanna see how this is done

[halcyon moss]

You're telling me you've never used ai

[crisp granite]

ChatGPT is really good for parsing info from NV crash logs

that's the only use I've had for it to date

[tribal dirge]

yeah

[tribal dirge]

chatgpt is lowk bad at that.

[crisp granite]

it's the only thing I've thrown at it that has worked better than a me at

asking it actual questions, no

[tribal dirge]

eh, could have just used Nsight Aftermath to parse it properly

[crisp granite]

it isn't really proper modding unless you're uncertain it'll last more than five minutes tbh

at least with NV, imo

[ashen spindle]

https://chatjimmy.ai/ the fun ones to use are older models that are just so muhc faster

once ai at home is this fast I'll be fine using it

[tribal dirge]

I run basic models locally,

gemma and qwen