🔌│tech

[umbral heron]

Sure, but Proton Experimental gets fixes in hours, so it's not really a problem nowadays

It's 2026, not 2023, wake up

[halcyon moss]

It's because the USA isn't a reliable partner anymore

[lapis plaza]

Never been tbh

It is about dominating not partnering

But I dont blame them

World works this way

[umbral heron]

I want Windows 7 v2
I want an OS that just sits in the back and lets me do the thing I want to do

[lapis plaza]

The best OS is the OS you forget

[umbral heron]

Last one was maybe late Windows 10

[lapis plaza]

I missed every windows from windows xp to windows 10 😵‍💫

[ashen spindle]

just playing worst case devils advocate

[lyric hatch]

Shit do be breaking sometimes especially if you're into playing niche co op games like me

[crimson wigeon]

Or even non-niche marked as Deck playable (which means nothing as we all know). Like Halo MCC which crashes in co-op. But I figured if I load up in singleplayer and play that for a couple minutes then it works fine for the rest of the session no crashing at all. Fun

[ashen spindle]

yeah but then its a case of it just doesnt work and also isnt something you can fix by doing weird vodoo yourself either, so its either a it works or you cant fix it, not really the scenario he pointed of needing to to weird hoops of changing files and code paths without gui

issues yes, but if you want to just use it and ignore any issue that needs more than gui buttons to fix, you can still do most things just fine

[craggy harness]

honestly, that's what i consider win10 to be, at least after disabling all that telemetry, update and cortana garbage with donotspy11^^

[ashen spindle]

yeah as long as you never use modern cpus with different processors bc win10 is missing the thread scheduler for that, or never want to use updated HDR and other features

[umbral heron]

So... still good for 90% people

[craggy harness]

well, at least for now i'm quite fine with my setup and it running on win10, i7 12700KF, 32GB ram, rtx3090ti, runs like a charm on the debloated win10^^

[ashen spindle]

works yes, but will have more fps drops or similar as its lacking thread scheduler 2.0 for alder lake and onwards

[craggy harness]

except that i rarely ever got any fps drops AT ALL

like i still remember most people complaining about absurd frame drops in starfield, meanwhile i ran it at rock solid 120 (capped it there) and the most drop-like thing i could observe was the 80-90fps in cities 🤷‍♂️

[ashen spindle]

yes again, it works, its not a horrible mess but its still lacking compared to what win11 would give in games that wrongly schedule stuff to e cores

which is any number of games and also depends on what you do in the background like discord or browsers

APO and other further improvements for newer cpus also only work with win11

[craggy harness]

let me think about gains with winshit11 for a second giggles yea umm nope, not gonna brick my PC into useless garbage like i've observed on multiple friends pc's and laptops which cost me days on end to fix, since they couldn't even run basic apps anymore, like heck, the last laptop i had to fix couldn't even run a 500kb big serial reader, would just "process" it for about 5 minutes and then suddenly stop for no reason, same for opening folders which i had to backup before flatlining that nasty os, took me about an entire day to backup about 100GB of data, meanwhile after installing win10 on it it was dealt with in like an hour tops

and all it took to achieve such broken states was to "upgrade" to winshit11 and bam, congrats on your now useless piece of hardware

really makes me wish i could sue microshit for my wasted time spent on fixing their garbage, would be a nice lil paycheck by now

[ashen spindle]

https://klipy.com/gifs/moving-goalposts-goalposts

[tribal dirge]

Moving the goalposts!? lol

[ashen spindle]

yup

[craggy harness]

i mean to me that's not really much moving, since you naming potentially nice additions on a system that i know how bricked it is still adds up to being a downgrade overall, like potentially getting 10-15% more frames doesn't matter when your system won't even run the apps at all, no?

[ashen spindle]

it is moving when you dont even agree or talk about it and instead rant about some esoteric issue that happened lol

[craggy harness]

some esoteric issue? to me it's more like a definite thing when literally everyone i know irl had the same happen to them (no matter if it was on a toaster or on a rig that's even stronger than mine), so i simply don't see any need of agreeing with you or talking about it, when i already got a rather solid experience of what would happen after upgrading and the features in question simply being irrelevant in turn 🤔

or would you agree with me when i told you that un-plugging your fridge would help you save energy? since that's more or less the same to me

[ashen spindle]

feels like quite a strong want to talk about it if I just said its giving up performance and you could've just said you're fine with that in exchange for not experiencing issues you think come from 11

[lyric hatch]

Still being on windows 10 is not something I would recommend to anyone given it has lacked security updates for a while now and software support will start to die off as well

[ashen spindle]

nah due to EU regulations the security updates got extended by a year so its august? of this year

[lyric hatch]

That is only in the EEA otherwise you need to pay for it, and it is opt in

There are ways to get it for free but I don't expect the standard user on windows 10 to know how to do that or even know that it exists

[ashen spindle]

yeah fair

[lyric hatch]

I did stay on windows 10 for as long as possible tbh but I have an old PC and no HDR display but once security updates dropped I moved over. Honestly haven't had any issues but I also fresh installed

[eternal thicket]

i cant wait for wooting 60he v2 to come to me

it's gonna be a game changer

from my old keyboard xD

[craggy harness]

honestly, i did the same with winXP and win7, only ever upgraded years after the end of service and never caught anything to worry over, so imo the best security is still your head and knowing what to do online and what to better avoid, the software support would probably be the only thing to worry about, if it wasn't for the bad reception of windows 11 products that get returned or downgraded back to win10 or never upgraded in the first place, so i'd guess software will still target win10 for quite some time to come, at least gaming wise

[ashen spindle]

nvidia is dropping driver support after win10 goes EOL so its the usual case of stuff works but wont get as many udpates

[craggy harness]

ok, didn't know about that tbh, but still, i'd rather have it working than not

[empty wren]

@heady hazel PPA-GF annealed at 100 celsius for 4 hours on the left, right one is not annealed

should creep less now and hold shape at higher ambient temperatures

[heady hazel]

hmm did not think it looks that different do you use a oven or just the heat bed?

[empty wren]

toaster oven

[heady hazel]

ah not a bad idea

[empty wren]

can use kitchen oven too

or labratory oven

Though toaster oven will never have food in it now

[heady hazel]

i mean id rather not do that in my microwave oven tbh then again im not that concerned about if its toxic

[empty wren]

would a microwave really work though?

Also my dad bought one at the thrift store for me to use

[heady hazel]

its a combo unit, can do microwave and oven duty

[empty wren]

$7 vs this

[empty wren]

Ah

[vagrant pagoda]

i have a toaster over with a chinaman temp controller for doing pcbs, was under 10 bucks

reflow oven is like 200+

[vagrant pagoda]

i feel like im the only one who has one of these and knows that it dose both seperatlly XD most poeple dont know they exist

its confuses people when i them them it can use the microwave, the oven heater or both

like i put a rack in and bake cookies XD

you can also do the dual mode cooking, works amazing for like frozen dino nuggets

they cook in 5 min, but are also crispy like oven baked

also its how subway toasts thier sandwiches

[heady hazel]

yeah it does everything you need it to , from pizza to heating stuff up.

[vagrant pagoda]

the irony is now they also call them 3in1 mircowave convection, air fryer

even though an air fryer is just a crappy convection oven

[heady hazel]

its litteraly a convection oven with top and bottom heaters and a microwave tacked on

[craggy harness]

you forgot the absurdly overhyped and overpriced part^^

like seriously, convection ovens have been a standard for at least 25-30 years (at least where i come from) but now suddenly a butchered down version is being advertised like the latest and best shit available

[vagrant pagoda]

yep

my actual oven is also a convection oven

[sinful quest]

I still want my wooting air fryer

[empty wren]

do it come with 5G neuralink

[tribal dirge]

nah, Combi ovens are where its at

combi ovens are suuuuper nice

[umbral heron]

I loooove company policies
For RDP we now have to have 32 character passwords, which are checked against dictionary, so they are sure it's random

At least I set a cool wallpaper on our terminals

[halcyon moss]

whatthefuck, are they expected to be typed in?

[reef patrol]

So it can't use words? 32 random characters? They're just begging for people to write notes or use password managers 😄

[halcyon moss]

copy de pasta

[umbral heron]

Yeah
CrossDeviceClipboard* is turned off, so you won't copy de pasta

[halcyon moss]

what an absolute waste of time

start a timer every time you have to enter one of the passwords

keep track, and report

[reef patrol]

sales of gaming mice and keyboards explode

[umbral heron]

Safety
Or something
I dunno, at this point it feels like cybersec wants to actively bully all other employees

[halcyon moss]

during standup, yesterday i spend 5 minutes entering a password for rdp, 6 times that that day, so i lost half an hour

[sullen bear]

Haha that will make so many people just type random letters in a predictable way

What is rdp?

[halcyon moss]

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm12345678

remote desktop

a very easy, and weak 32 char password

[umbral heron]

I'm gonna try

[halcyon moss]

wat, no!

[umbral heron]

Ah, they smort

[sullen bear]

What if u do it in reverse?

mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq0987654321

[reef patrol]

Put the numbers somewhere in the middle.

[halcyon moss]

oh, it was 34 chars, not 32

[umbral heron]

My current has 34 too, so potato potato

[sullen bear]

mnbvcxz0987lkjhgfdsa6543poiuytrewq21

[reef patrol]

[halcyon moss]

1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;/

top to bottom :X

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/faceroll-keyboard-cant-even-tech-support-gif-20234453

[sullen bear]

@umbral heron i think you were looking at oled right?

Will be budget aw2726dm with 1440p 240hz qd oled for 350$

So like 300€?

[umbral heron]

I have one
Callum was looking for one
Oi @pale sigil , wakey wakey

[umbral heron]

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/

Anna’s Archive is also ordered to destroy all copies of works scraped from Spotify and to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, including valid contact information for the site and its managing agents. That last requirement could prove significant, given that the identity of the site’s operators remains unknown.

[reef patrol]

Good luck I guess

[halcyon moss]

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/firefox_nightly_web_serial/

Wootility doesn't use web serial right?

[umbral heron]

WebHID and WebUSB

[crimson wigeon]

Not... yet? Time to become a serial device too for more browser compatibility

[halcyon moss]

Meh, doesn't make much sense imho

[umbral heron]

You know what would make more sense?
Implementing WebHID and WebUSB support

Firefox also doesn't support PWA for some reason

[sullen bear]

oh nice, idk how recent this update is

[pale sigil]

I already looked and compared

Isn't the MSI one better?

The brightness on ten Alienware one is pretty bad

[sullen bear]

Yeah but this one is quite a bit cheaper no?

[pale sigil]

No

£370

£30 cheaper for extremely bad brightness so I decided nah

[ashen spindle]

bad brightness? do you put the screen so the sun shines on it?

or in what world is that bad brightness

[vagrant pagoda]

it has steam too XD

[inland delta]

im stealing this and using this btw

[lunar elm]

I found the previous 360hz AW2725DF brightness to also be kinda ass, I imagine this new one’s worse

[leaden kiln]

violence

[umbral heron]

It's the same panel as with 274QP we looked at yesterday
Go with 272

[ashen spindle]

I really wonder what people do to have issues with their screen brightness, when I have mine set to 25% lmfao

[umbral heron]

Here it's more about HDR too, it doesn't even have True Black 400 on OLED...

[distant tapir]

Mine is always at 100% and yeah I could definitely do with a brighter one. Several times brighter

[ashen spindle]

cant lie I dont really see a difference using hdr1000 or true black400 on mine, as far as hdr that seems almost identical

[plucky tapir]

Lycoris Recoil or w/e that show was called, was good.

[umbral heron]

But these ones don't have neither hdr1000 nor true black 400

[steady sail]

Sayuri

I have to rewatch the anime

[plucky tapir]

Same sad when VA for Yuna died (Sayaka Kanda)

[leaden kiln]

but now it’s time to larp like u read witch hat atelier before it was cool

[plucky tapir]

There is very few times I've read a manga before the anime is out, I usually read the manga afterwards because the shows never get finished!

I'm anime first with manga as a substitute.

Sometimes I wish I didn't finish the manga, read Call of the Night and wanted to forget I ever read it.

[umbral heron]

Was it cool yet in 2020? I started buying it then

[plucky tapir]

I have all the Atelier games is that close enough?

[leaden kiln]

I wouldn’t know I’m just larping

[cinder hill]

can anyone helpe me with my keyboard=

[steady sail]

I do wanna get my hands on the Double Helix Blossom manga

[plucky tapir]

Witch Hat Atelier is just going to be another show that won't be finished. Like how is Solo Leveling or My Dress-Up Darling not getting a last season to finish it off? WAAAAAAAAAH.

[steady sail]

My Dress-Up darling last chapter was cool tho

I enjoyed the ending of it

[plucky tapir]

Yeah, same, I want to see it in anime form!

Call of the Night as well, even though I cried like a bitch.

[steady sail]

Call of The Night was chefs kiss

[umbral heron]

The most expensive manga I have must be Highschool DxD 07 in Polish
Due to problems in publisher's printer shop there been only initial run printed
Last one that showed up sold for a bit shy of 900€ iirc

[plucky tapir]

It was so not the ending I wanted :<

[umbral heron]

pls no spoilerino, haven't read yet

[steady sail]

Yeah thats true but thats how the last few chapters were going

[plucky tapir]

We'll get a few more chapters in a few years, hopium.

[ashen spindle]

Snape kills Darth Vader

[steady sail]

Spongebob dies at the end of Endgame

[plucky tapir]

Land of the Lustrous is good too.

[umbral heron]

The best anime of all time is Mirai Nikki and that's final

[steady sail]

The ending was weird when i first finished it

Than i watched the OVA for it

[plucky tapir]

Mirai Nikki without the OVA

Is 💩

[umbral heron]

Which is weird, because OVA was just few last chapters of manga, no idea why they split it like that

[plucky tapir]

I hope Oshi no Ko gets an anime original ending

And not the manga ending

[umbral heron]

Ooooh, May is next
Time to order another 50 manga books

[plucky tapir]

I've been binging 6/10 isekai shows for the past like 3 weeks, 1 season 12 episode shows and I'm having a good time. Some are actually fun and I wish they hade more episodes.

[craggy harness]

literally every isekai out there^^

[plucky tapir]

Nuh uh

[umbral heron]

I prefer books, only because I can read at my own pace

[craggy harness]

either they're too short or feel weird 😄

[plucky tapir]

I have no imagination so books don't do it for me.

[craggy harness]

even with imagination, it's simply a totally different feel to watch an anime vs just reading plain text or some still images with text^^

[umbral heron]

But that's why prefer manga over anime too
Stuff in manga just happens
In anime sometimes there are fillers, sometimes there's some story missing
Like in case of No Game No Life Zero or Kimi no na wa where 1/3 of the book was missing from anime adaptation...

[old marlin]

that really depends on the specific adaptation though

[plucky tapir]

Only light novel I will read will be Spice and Wolf when it finishes.

[steady sail]

I love the Spice and Wolf remake

[pale sigil]

Wait ye

[craggy harness]

well, can't miss what doesn't exist for you and some fillers can be nice (for as long as it's not naruto level shit like that mecha naruto stunt they did)

[pale sigil]

Ye that's what I discovered, still deciding on it but I keep thinking maybe I should just get an automatic cat litter thing instead

[craggy harness]

oh and speaking about spice and wolf, anyone else ever wondered why they're calling holo a wolf when she's clearly behaving and looking more like a fox?

[umbral heron]

If you are happy with your current monitor still then sure

[plucky tapir]

I wont be happy until I get an 8K 32" 500Hz monitor

[pale sigil]

I take It back, I ain't buying an automatic litter tray

Holy pricing

[pale sigil]

Well, it's popping with excitement

[frozen ingot]

I'd like a 5K 32" monitor

[leaden kiln]

I don’t know if I watched it but I don’t think any ending could save that

[tribal dirge]

oooooooo

[vagrant pagoda]

my kitchen is mostly auction commerical stuff XD

[plucky tapir]

Billy mays here?

[vagrant pagoda]

thats consumer crap

[leaden kiln]

I need a good soundtrack and voice acting

[umbral heron]

Good voice acting? So no English dubs?

[leaden kiln]

I never watch dubs

[umbral heron]

[leaden kiln]

bad subs suck too though
disneyplus subs for medalist are obviously mistimed and also obviously mistranslated for a lot of parts 💀

[plucky tapir]

Subs for english parts should be illegal

[vagrant pagoda]

dubs are for the weak

[reef patrol]

It's so convenient though.

[plucky tapir]

Too distracting, "just don't look at them" is not a solution!

[reef patrol]

So toggle them off.

[vagrant pagoda]

the issue is there will be foreign language then english so you need them on

[reef patrol]

Besides with how bad sound mixing has become, they're practically mandatory in some movies and shows, just to understand the dialogue.

[leaden kiln]

If I’m watching at my computer I’ll just hit my keybind to turn them on and off real quick
But I do that all the time anyway

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0pgHEC8xO0 @empty wren wild

[empty wren]

Now that is interesting, will watch it later

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-stfu-shut-your-mouth-slap-slapping-gif-8050553153066707611

[vagrant pagoda]

like less than 1% has good dub

[faint vapor]

i need help

my wooting 60he+ is dead

[faint vapor]

let me try ty

[heady hazel]

honestly thats why i prefer dubs in my language 9/10 times the audio mixing is so much better than original

[plucky tapir]

You either constantly sit with the remote in your hand or you put the volume at a good level for hearing and just accept that explosions are as load as real ones.

[heady hazel]

honestly yeah , in dubbed shows and movies its more bearable imo but some tvs and soundbars have a dialog boost

[reef patrol]

This. I balance it for explosions and enable subtitles if the mixing is shit.

[plucky tapir]

They don't even think the mixing is shit, because it is more realistic.

There are things I've tried to increase the center channel by +6dB but it's still ass.

But it's not a set and forget permanent fix, for games I want the sound of a voice in games be the same if I spin around when a character is talking, I don't want it to be much louder if I'm looking at them because the center channel is boosted.

Shows with only 2.0 audio is the best, in general it just has less dynamic range from my experience.

[umbral heron]

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/mark-zuckerberg-reportedly-making-ai-clone-of-himself-to-reduce-time-in-meetings-3351389/

[lapis plaza]

I should make clone of myself for this discord

[vagrant pagoda]

plane smart phones and tv speakers XD

90% of users use them

and they have terrible sq

[leaden kiln]

do they sell oil proof e readers

[vagrant pagoda]

oil proof?

[leaden kiln]

I guess I could just put a normal one in a plastic bag

[vagrant pagoda]

you work on a rig or something XD

[leaden kiln]

nah but everything here is covered in oil anyway

[vagrant pagoda]

i use i think a kobo in the shop for manuals with cnc machines

and never had an issue with oil/water

other than haveing to clean the touch screen

[vagrant pagoda]

have you tried soap?

[leaden kiln]

nah what’s that

I just wanna slack and read a bit
could just read on my phone then put it in the dishwasher

[sudden imp]

New phone what do you guys think??

[wheat plume]

why are the corners so round?!

[steady sail]

Every iphone is like that

[plucky tapir]

Light mode best mode

[nimble arch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo

[umbral heron]

https://gitlab.com/graf.montfort.official/ntakt

[reef patrol]

Gesundheit?

[halcyon moss]

That's unusual for a repo to be in German

[fickle ore]

https://www.mahlkoenig.com/products/e64-ws-espresso-home-grinder
I need this in my life

[craggy harness]

just get one of those, they're all adjustable in how fine it'll grind the coffee and at least affordable (ranging from 20-100€) 😅

[umbral heron]

https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict

[vagrant pagoda]

almost none of those are going to get fine enough to compete with a modern expresso grinder XD

[craggy harness]

mill espresso too fine and it just get's bitter anyways 🤷‍♂️

[pale sigil]

Pragmata got a hypervisor crack before release

[reef patrol]

Good for them. Fuck the DOJ for real.

They had an open and shut case. Reeks of corruption.

[leaden kiln]

yeah

[umbral heron]

-2 day crack, 40% discount on keys from actual retailers and not random key resellers... what's going on with this game

[craggy harness]

no matter what it is, one can only hope for every game that uses denuvo to follow the same path soon enough so that there might be a chance of nobody using that garbage anymore 😅

[vagrant pagoda]

also though not a crack, you have been able to buy offline activations for games for $1 or less for years

[nimble arch]

Maybe it's shit?

[vagrant pagoda]

so it was never very effective

[umbral heron]

I dunno, demo was really good

[pale sigil]

$1 not for a while

[umbral heron]

Year 2040 - you have to buy a Denuvo PCIe card which connects to Denuvo servers whenever it wants and downloads your game licenses from there, publishers have a full control over your licenses
Year 2041 - random Balkanian furry living in a shack creates a bypass for Denuvo PCIe card out of old flash drive and 2 tuna cans

[craggy harness]

well, it was effective in one thing, bloating up game prices with it's cost which is stupidly high, like up front payment of like 120-150k (for just 1 year), every single activation costing another 0.50 and the time and money it takes to even implement it in the first place 😅

[ashen spindle]

denuvo is not causing game prices to go up lol

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah its going to be the same with or without XD

[craggy harness]

so you want to tell me developers are paying those sums out of their own pockets without calculating it into the game's price?

[vagrant pagoda]

denuvo was effective early because they hired/payout the early crackers XD

[craggy harness]

would be the first time ever that additional costs wouldn't get rolled over to the customer tenfold

[umbral heron]

Denuvo is solely so that management can have a good night sleep, because they think that piracy negatively impact game sales

[ashen spindle]

the additional cost is offset by people buying the game instead of using cracked keys, even if they use cheaper regional pricing

[umbral heron]

And to annoy legit buyers

[ashen spindle]

it doesnt perfectly stop piracy but it absolutely causes more people to buy it in the first week(s) than if a game doesnt have it

[craggy harness]

that's another can of worms, where plenty of studies existed at one point or another that actually proved that piracy is helping sales^^

[steady sail]

Imagine if games would have demo’s

[ashen spindle]

studies such as?

[umbral heron]

Eh, how more people will buy game because of DRM though is also debatable, the gap becomes even smaller, as people in poorer regions wouldn't buy the game anyway, and people in richer regions don't bother with piracy as much anymore

[ashen spindle]

for poorer regions thats more depending on regional pricing being done well than drm

[reef patrol]

Objectively it makes a game more expensive to put to market.

Whether or not a publisher would pocket that money if not used is up for debate.

[ashen spindle]

okay but that is the same as if they just randomly put the wanted marging from 50 to 60% on spreadsheet, its the same on paper math that doesnt matter after a week if its a cost or not just like denuvo if you assume you made the cost back the moment its on sale

so yes on paper it is a higher cost but its paying X with the assumption otherwise you have X less in sales

[craggy harness]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228977068_The_Effect_of_Piracy_on_the_Market_Penetration_of_Subscription_Software
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377221721005129

[vagrant pagoda]

first one isnt applicable

[ashen spindle]

first one is subscription software like adobe

[craggy harness]

just took the first 2 examples that popped up, there's plenty of similar reports across the field

[ashen spindle]

Specifically, when the entrant’s entry cost is moderate, the incumbent could use piracy as an entry deterrence strategy to prevent the entry of a powerful entrant.
and the second one is talking about something when you are competing so lets say adobe 1 time purchase vs clip studio

neither of them apply to games

I know these studies exist I just havent really seen one about games

and thats not the same

This study demonstrates that even when the use of piracy does not increase the consumer’s willingness to pay for legal products, the incumbent may still choose to accommodate the piracy to deter the potential entrants.
like this is specifically about market share and keeping other options out, not games

[umbral heron]

Usually it's not though
Take several regions pricing for Pragmata from the lowest prices
Indie - 3799INR vs 28000INR median wage
Phillipines - 2590PHP vs 13000PHP
Indonesia - 779k IDR vs 4000k IDR
People won't spend a quarter of their salary for a video game

[ashen spindle]

well then it wont matter if it has drm or not for the sales (and a case where I think if it has drm and then you remove that after idk 6 months? they can have it "for free" but theres no obligation to have that on launch)

[lapis plaza]

Pragmata is too expensive

60 euros for like 15 hours

Sorry but it should be 40

I will just wait it is on sale

[ashen spindle]

that makes no sense

[umbral heron]

Capcom Gaming
Plus expect better performance in cracked version, because Capcom and Denuvo is not a good mix

[ashen spindle]

game duration isn't directly tied to price or boy would people not like some other games

[steady sail]

Have you played a COD campaign

[ashen spindle]

if you dont want to pay that fine but saying it should be 40 just due to the duration is a bit silly

[vapid ruin]

Time to add 25 hours of collectibles to make it 'worth'

[reef patrol]

Capcom pissed off the gooners by suing a modder into the ground recently iirc.

Probably not a huge margin lost, but it isn't helping

[craggy harness]

and there's the catch, if it won't really impacts the sales as much as people think it does, since quite a lot of people are openly rejecting denuvo for example which would actually buy it if it wasn't present, they're losing out on sales in both cases, just that the DRM case actually costs quite a lot and constantly while the non-DRM route has no additional costs and every pirate that talks about a game is still free advertising in the end or heck, might buy it if the product is solid

[ashen spindle]

resident evil games are like 10 hours of playtime and only have more if you want challenges and such, and despite most people not doing that its 95% positive while it costs more

[ashen spindle]

it wont impact the sales in 3rd world countries, please, do I really have to be that detailed for obvious points if we just talked about regional pricing in indonesia..

[craggy harness]

see the second part of my statement before going nuts over it, people openly rejecting denuvo (myself included btw) won't buy the game, which in turn also impacts the sales, so yea, plz try to understand the whole of it, ty

[ashen spindle]

option 1: you have drm and more sales but not piracy-marketing and some people that wont buy it because denuvo
option2: you lose sales in the start and potentially have piracy-marketing and the couple people that boycott denvuo

we have numbers for the first case and its generally beneficial for studios, we do not have numbers on the second case so its purely speculation that it would be better

just because you lose sales either way doesnt mean you lose the same ammount and thus would waste money on drm, thats just wishful thinking

[umbral heron]

To be honest Pragmata has a really cool mechanics and it was really nice to play in demo
But I won't get it simply because it just feels too expensive to me for Polish reality and wages

[vagrant pagoda]

denvo also kills engine mods and thirdparty patchs

[lapis plaza]

Sorry but I dont feel like spending 60 euros on something I will finish in 2 days

[ashen spindle]

yeah I said thats fine, but people clearly are interested so saying the game should be 40 doesnt make sense, you can say you arent interested in it for 60

[lapis plaza]

I dont understand why saying it should be less expensive make no sense

[vapid ruin]

Not about finishing a game in 2 days but enjoying the thing that makes you think the $60 is worth.

[sullen bear]

So is a longer game worth more then too?

[vapid ruin]

If that's were the case, Ubisoft and Bethesda game are GOTY every year.

[craggy harness]

another thing that often get's ignored whenever piracy comes up is the fact that quite a lot of pirates actually do it for play-testing since we're in an era where demos are either non-present or sometimes forged into tricking people about the actual state of a game, so a lot of friends pirate stuff, check it out and if it's any good they buy the package, if not they at least didn't lose anything, seen thousands of folks going that very same path as i did over the past 10-15 years, so while there obviously isn't any concrete number to put on anything, it sure as hell get's blown out of proportions when people state the negative sides.

[ashen spindle]

because it doesn't make sense to set the price based on one persons preference, thats what sales are for if you like a game but not at full price

[umbral heron]

Though I'd love to see study about piracy impacting video game sales now, because even though cracks are a-plenty, the whole scene feels way smaller than it used to be
Also harder to come by for actual good piracy releases

[lapis plaza]

No a game has to be good AND has to progide at least 30 hours of fun I think

[craggy harness]

oh and once you consider stores like GOG that have a 0 DRM policy and still thrive it should become even more obvious, that piracy can't be THAT negative of an impact

[pale sigil]

i read it was 10

[sullen bear]

Idk ive had plenty of shorter games which i would pay 60$ for again if i could replay them from scratch

[pale sigil]

Also

Titanfall 2 was short but that campaign was amazing

[sullen bear]

Armoured core 6 was short for me but i wish i could play it more

[pale sigil]

I hate 50 hour campaings

[lapis plaza]

Well I am extremely frugal when it comes to video game

[ashen spindle]

GOG is a storefront, they dont care if people pirate games? that lowers their margin but not really relevant since the dont put money into making them

[pale sigil]

Also GOG DRM free

they expect it lol

[steady sail]

I mean if you collect everything and look out for stuff its gonna be around 20-30 hours easily

[lapis plaza]

I only buy game on sale tbh except if someday a new uncharted come out

[ashen spindle]

if you are GOG you have someone put it on and you take a cut, very different from making your own game and frontloading it to make money back

[lapis plaza]

Yeah when it will be less than 40 euros I will get it but knowing capcom it wont happen soon

[craggy harness]

thing is, studios are selling their games on there DRM free and if it would have too much of an impact they wouldn't, simple as that

[pale sigil]

Piracy is never a simple conversation

lol

[umbral heron]

Hmmm...
Also a point about game being good, and people wanting to buy it
Baldur's Gate 3 and Expedition 33 released without DRM and people were more happy to buy it than download

[ashen spindle]

Yes as it turns out it’s not the same for every sort of game so not every studio is doing it

Nobody said piracy means it so bad game would die without drm

[craggy harness]

more like it becomes clear which studios actually think about the consumer and which are only interested in their own wallet

[sullen bear]

Meh i think theres plenty of people who only virtue single and yap too

[pale sigil]

I used GP for it

But yes

[distant tapir]

Game that's worth nowhere near the price: RE3make

[pale sigil]

it was decently priced too

[ashen spindle]

Ah yea, studio wanting to make sure it can pay and employ its people = evil only thinking about money

[umbral heron]

It was like 4€ though

[sullen bear]

Crimson desert performance requirement relases: “whoa it runs amazing and looks amazing in 2026 witth hardware from 2010”

They say its with denuvo:

“wow garbage requirements, could be so much better, greedy af ruined the game”

[lapis plaza]

I dont blame piracy depending on the money of people. If you can buy a game and still do basic stuff in life (eating…) then buy the game otherwise if you dont have money and video game might be one of the hobbies you need to relax a little bit I wont judge

[distant tapir]

Yeah but look at the price now
Even 4 is too much though. No one should buy the game

[steady sail]

I mean its me but even if a game has a length of 60-80 hours it doesn’t gonna guarantee the success while a random game with 10-15 hours of content click with more people.

[lapis plaza]

True I dont say that longer game are better

[ashen spindle]

I know someone who stopped playing elden ring because he said its taking too long to finish one playthrough

[lapis plaza]

I just say that the game I enjoy are fun and last a for a while and does not cost a lot of money

[distant tapir]

ER does feel too long and bloated with repetitive content to me

Btw if game length = price then how do you price sandbox games without objectives like Kenshi

[lapis plaza]

Elden ring I tried it and did not like it but I dont like anything of fromsoftware

[umbral heron]

I love gameplay of ER, but I genuinely hate their way of storytelling

[distant tapir]

It has gotten just a little repetitive

They've been doing that for 30 years

King's Field games also do this

[steady sail]

Never cared about the story in ER

[lapis plaza]

Rage inducing game I stay away from them

[steady sail]

I mean its a game that test your mechanical and learning skills

When to dodge/parry

[umbral heron]

ER is a simple game
Not easy, but simple, learn boss mechanics, defeat boss and move to next one
Multiplayer games are truly rage inducing

[ashen spindle]

its funny how the imo hardest one, sekiro, had the most directly told story xD

[umbral heron]

Sekiro was the easiest one for me, but maybe because I haven't played Dark Souls before

[steady sail]

I waa stuck in sekiro’s first mini boss

Sorry im still stuck at the first mini boss

[ashen spindle]

okay well yeah, hardest one on controller for me, very easy on mouse xD

[sullen bear]

I think ER was the easiest out of all of em and therefore sadly the most boring one, for me the selling point is difficulty, not the rest

[steady sail]

Yeah that was enough sekiro for me

[sullen bear]

Did you die more than twice

[steady sail]

Atleast 15 times to the same enemy

[sullen bear]

Thats where you went wrong, shadows die twice, not shadows die fifteen times

[steady sail]

The game is just hard for me xd

[sullen bear]

🫂

[steady sail]

But in ER i was able to defeat a few bosses while i played Seamless COOP

[distant tapir]

Another funny hangover from the King's Field days is that interacting with NPCs even back then has them turn and look at you and tell you 2-3 sentences before looking away. So you have to interact with them a few times to get all dialogue. They have never let go of this design which I can respect

[steady sail]

But to be honest Stellar Blade is my favorite Souls like game even if its easy af

[nimble arch]

🍑

True, I like Eve’s ass the most.

[steady sail]

Regardless of her ass

The game is great

And i did enjoy collecting her new Dresses

[umbral heron]

Don't Stop Girlypop on OLED with maxed out saturation, can highly recommend

[nimble arch]

I like the all cans outfit

[steady sail]

I should 100% that game

[umbral heron]

When proper and not HV

[steady sail]

Huh

[umbral heron]

For Stellar Blade

[steady sail]

I still not understand

[nimble arch]

[umbral heron]

Denuvo bypass

[steady sail]

The game runs perfectly with denuvo tho

[umbral heron]

I don't care about running it
Expensivo
Unless maybe I'll look into keys

[steady sail]

I mean i bought it via key for pre-order

[umbral heron]

Because yeah, no way I'm gonna pay 92€ for that

50€ for key
waiting for proper then

[steady sail]

So i payed 80.99€ for a pre-order key

It was for the Complete Edition key

I love the Hungarian Tax on it

[umbral heron]

If it falls under 40€ for complete then I'm picking it up

[steady sail]

Good luck

[unkempt lake]

not tech but

Well idk kinda tech

I have a ninja sparking water machine and i had a defect with it

And they gave me a free upgrade to the new model

[steady sail]

W ninja ?

[unkempt lake]

Instead of just replacing my old 1000 model with another 1000

[steady sail]

They just said take it

[unkempt lake]

its nice

[steady sail]

It cost the same or more ?

I don’t know ninja’s pricing

[bright briar]

guys if we wanna pop the A.I bubble we gotta start counting in binary

I'll bring the punch cards if someone can bring the calculators

01001001

[unkempt lake]

The new model is more expensove

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/tokusatsu-kamen-rider-kamen-rider-zero-one-gif-14921293

[bleak merlin]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250
Man I just woke up to see this
Age verification on the national level

[pastel galleon]

bit of a long question

say there are 2 NVME TLC Gen 4 drives, one with a DRAM cache and one without a DRAM cache (but uses HMB). If your operating system is on the "HMB" drive, but all your games are stored and writing and reading data from the DRAM cache SSD, will there be much of a performance penalty? I'd assume not since the drive that would be taxed is the DRAM cache SSD.

[lunar elm]

in terms of gaming this pretty much doesnt matter

[pastel galleon]

so should be perfectly fine then

[unkempt lake]

Its irrelevant

I have my os on an hbm drive and its perfectly fine

[pastel galleon]

great to know!

it's more so for continuous large file transfers right

[lunar elm]

yes

[pastel galleon]

Thank you both

[empty wren]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ybK096qFJA8

I mean 🤔 this does not seem far fetched

[lunar elm]

they actually already exist, ask the people who managed to get their cars stuck onto the tree

“sir you cant park there”

[shadow condor]

Does the metal case make that big of a difference ?

[winter patrol]

Every gram matters when you're defending against a home invader

[shadow condor]

I have a heavy airsoft gun im chillin

[vivid tangle]

I got myself a wooting v2 and superstrike

But idk which skates i shud go w

I have artisan zero

Can anyone recommend me

[lapis plaza]

check the raypad

[smoky parrot]

Uhm, I think westlabs has cloth skates too?

[bleak merlin]

Westlab skates are good

[vivid tangle]

Which one thi

[vivid tangle]

I checked that too but idk which one

[lapis plaza]

I like the jade I dont like the jade ultra

I havent tested the other one

[bleak merlin]

Westlab blue, black dot skates are good (Personal preference, I like speed )

[vivid tangle]

I play like 800 0.5

Which one wud u recommend me

[vivid tangle]

Hmmm

[plucky tapir]

The toolbar looking this bad should be criminal, firstly it can't be disabled and then it puts the url there with a line and it just looks ass.

[bleak merlin]

What is 800 0.5 😅

[steady sail]

0.5 is ingame sense and 800 is his DPI

So he plays on 400 edpi

[bleak merlin]

Ah I see

[lunar elm]

i totally dont know that one friend playing on 800 dpi 1.12

[steady sail]

That would be like what 950 edpi or something like that

[lunar elm]

every cm he moves is a 360

[steady sail]

Idk mate

[lunar elm]

genuinely ive never seen him get flashed

[steady sail]

Never understood dpi/360cm soo lmao

[lunar elm]

best part is he moves back to the original placement so fast

[umbral heron]

https://wccftech.com/intel-to-rival-amd-with-future-sockets-in-longevity-plans-raptor-lake-refresh-lga-1700/

[sullen bear]

Insider says intel wants to make money and not constantly lose

More news at 12

[ashen spindle]

this is age old news and not even their first attempt

the current socket was planned for 4 generations and aside from ARL they just all got cancelled

and the rpl refresh is because people still want that since thats on such a cheap node its better for some OEMs

[reef patrol]

IEMs? #🌐│pc_gear

[snow coral]

Sheeeeet. My bad mate, I'll delete and repost there

[reef patrol]

[sudden imp]

I mean I hope they can? AMD got very competitive in price and performance then Intel just kinda pooped their pants.

More competition is certainly welcomed

[pastel galleon]

good morning wootgang

[sudden imp]

I’d love for Intel to be a great ITX option again

[ashen spindle]

they are mostly the best option for anything not 9800x3d performance though?

like as it currently stands, 9800x3d performance aside there is basically nothing else where amd is the better option currently

[jaunty ivy]

Intel needs to stop retiring a socket every second generation lol

[ashen spindle]

they arent, the issue is 3 out of 4 cpu generations for this current socket got cancelled

[jaunty ivy]

Intel is a better recommendation for purely productivity. Even though something like the 9950x3d is better, it's worse value because yikes it's expensive

Threadripper also exists lol

[ashen spindle]

9950x isnt better in most cases, if we ignore the few avx512 workloads

[umbral heron]

Pooped their pants with 13th and 14th gen, but got back quite well with Ultra, especially 270K

[ashen spindle]

and TR is such a tiny market that its not even relevant

[jaunty ivy]

285k and 270k plus are actually good options. Too bad they'll be the last generation to match the socket

[ashen spindle]

you dont want the other options that could fit on the socket lol

and next gen doesnt fit on the socket for multiple reasons

[sudden imp]

yknow theres cpu compettion, but gpu is non-existent imo

people who use intel will likely use an nvidia
AMD will either go with amd or nvidia

Intel seems kinda stuck with nvidia when it comes to gpu choices

don't know why that is

[empty wren]

i got an A770 been playing games in 1440p just fine, imma guess you mean high end offering for 4k and raytracing

[sudden imp]

yeah

[empty wren]

what does not help is the memory shortage

probably why there is no b770

[umbral heron]

Nah, we knew there won't be B770 before memory shortage already

[ashen spindle]

there is b770

its a pro b70 its only sold as workstation card

[empty wren]

fair enough

[ashen spindle]

but you could buy it and game on it, performance is like a 5070ti I think

[empty wren]

that to me sounds kinda high end

well neat

[umbral heron]

Isn't 5070Ti cheaper

[sudden imp]

pc gaming is suffering hard rn which sucks

[ashen spindle]

sorry thats a typo, 5060ti

and yes its a 5060ti gaming performance that costs a grand

bc it has 32gb ram for ai

[empty wren]

darn

[ashen spindle]

they could have made a 16gb version for gaming like a year or more ago but management said no

https://x.com/tonymongkolsmai/status/2036837105456885900 from an ex intel guy who now is at nvidia

Tony Mongkolsmai (@tonymongkolsmai)

Hey look, the thing I was told 2 year ago no one would want and there was no business value around buliding is being built (using similar hardware from 2 years ago)... Good for the AI market at least...

X · Mar 25, 2026, 4:06 PM

[empty wren]

Peek will have the same behavior when annealing occurs also

[gusty kiln]

AMD new ATH

[umbral heron]

[ashen spindle]

say thank you france

[fickle ore]

what did france do

[umbral heron]

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-4-16-amd-and-the-french-government-announce-plans-to-advance.html

[fickle ore]

bah i hate when my stocks fly on hopium

[ashen spindle]

why hopium, thats a guaranteed exascale contract

also other analyst firms upped the rating https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/amd-stock-hits-record-high-bernstein-says-ai-ambitions-get-a-boost-with-meta-deal/cZJvnmSRIDN

[fickle ore]

most projects seem to fail in EU but hope it succeedds

[gusty kiln]

There's also a rumor deal with Anthropic using mi450

[umbral heron]

Companies seem to have an ick against labor laws

And if it's the case here too, then picking France was possibly the worst option in Europe

[lunar elm]

the stock market is literally overinflated by hopes, greed and AI bullshit rn

[fickle ore]

I thought it flew on the news of the 10th year 5800x3d editions kek

[fickle ore]

overinflated fiat maybe

[lunar elm]

frankly speaking AMD hardly deserves to be 200 imo

[ashen spindle]

dont think a single supercomputer project failed in the EU? the only fail recently was the aurora one that they got from intel

[lunar elm]

its like pumping air into chicken to make them look bigger

[ashen spindle]

but that was only a fail for intel because they had to make the entire supercomputer basically for free because they missed targets twice lol

[fickle ore]

Dude both intc and amd are small 300b businesses, hardly inflated

[umbral heron]

Tesla 362 P/E let's goooooo

[ashen spindle]

well thats the entire point of stock markets, price in future expected returns

if it was all current everyone who can read a earnings report would instantly make money lol

[fickle ore]

Yeah Tesla & Spacex has counted future cash flows from mining nearest planets and stars already lol

2T IPO btw (SpaceX)

[marsh glade]

The market is executing a seek and destroy profile on epic proportions, beware

Taking out liquidity on both sides with extreme prejudice

[umbral heron]

Bring more coke to shareholders

[fickle ore]

Thats cool

[ashen spindle]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/wayve-fund-raise-amd-qualcomm-arm.html also never heard of wayve

[fickle ore]

Smooth

[gusty kiln]

Lol garage start up

[fickle ore]

lmfao

[gusty kiln]

"Backing" as in here a couple thousand dollars to see if it even become anything

[ashen spindle]

man why is computex in june this year

I want to see mi450 launch now xD

[gusty kiln]

the rumor hype is that it beats rubin comfortably, but obviously who knows

[ashen spindle]

oh I know, the reason rubin got a TDP increase is 450x

[gusty kiln]

lol interesting

[ashen spindle]

I also just want to see how well zen6 server is doing

so close to seeing the first N2 chips finally

[gusty kiln]

2027 right?

[ashen spindle]

no its launching alongside mi450

so the advance ai event amd has 2 weeks after comptuex is probably where its launching

first time in a while that the cpus are launching on server first

[heady hazel]

Peek is above my paygrade

[empty wren]

fair

honestly metal parts make more sense at that point

and if a company wants peek parts good chance they are made in house if fff

[umbral heron]

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2044723123287666921

We are soooooo fucked

[ashen spindle]

I mean seems like the attack vector is having acces to your phone?

sure this is bad but easily fixable if the backened is done well

[umbral heron]

I feel like PIN shouldn't be encrypted or stored at all, but more be a key to the vault with rest of the keys

Sure, it's not production ready, but the practices used now aren't really reassuring for the future

[ashen spindle]

depends I'd say, if they have separate backend and frontend teams that worked on it this could just be a sign of bad frontend and not super tight scrutiny for that part

just thinking about what would be the most likely case given where priorities lie

also its open source demo so will depend on how they react to the feedback

[halcyon moss]

thre are sulotiuons for this already. like IRMA

oh, Yivi these days apparently

[umbral heron]

https://cybernews.com/tech/ipv8-proposal-slammed-by-tech-professionals/
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

[ashen spindle]

does irma support ZKP?

[umbral heron]

[ashen spindle]

this isnt a thing, an Internet-Draft is just something anyone with an email can send and it gets put on there

[umbral heron]

But funny

We are barely moving to IPv6 and then some people want IPv8

[ashen spindle]

nah someones having a giggle or used ai to be insane

[nimble arch]

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/pull/63

[halcyon moss]

I forgot what zero.Knowledge proof means 😒

[ashen spindle]

basically that the one requesting the verification gets no other info aside from yes or no and the party that does the verification has no clue what its used for just that a thing is getting checked

[halcyon moss]

Ah yes it can do that

[umbral heron]

B-b-but... the verification company... and 1173 other companies have legitimate interest in your data

[novel oar]

(ง’̀-‘́)ง FIGHT ME IM TRIGGERED

[halcyon moss]

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/

[vapid ruin]

The question now, how better is it at non benchmark stuff

[halcyon moss]

It's a joke benchmark

[vapid ruin]

<@&1098943457654997093>

[umbral heron]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-bring-back-ryzen-7-5800x3d-as-am4-10th-anniversary-edition

[lapis plaza]

Nice

[vagrant pagoda]

gonna be like 10 units

and sellout instantly

[gusty kiln]

wonder if it'll be og msrp

[vagrant pagoda]

https://klipy.com/gifs/doubt-press-x-3

[gusty kiln]

400-500 are the ebay listings

I can see a little higher

[vagrant pagoda]

used price

450 new would be a steal

[gusty kiln]

yeah and AMD is not making anything from used sales

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah im saying people are paying 400~ for a used 5800 vs buying a 7800 because of dram prices

[gusty kiln]

unless you're close to a microcenter

[pliant spoke]

guys am facing this problem a lot i tried everything restart unplug wait for 10m works sometimes but its like 70% of the time like this

i emailed them about it but nothing but the respond was the same just restart or unplug and wait and i don't want to be doing this all the time

and my letter G double click triple click sometimes

[lyric hatch]

Make a thread here #1019755933959733258

[vagrant pagoda]

mc has high ddr5 too

[gusty kiln]

the bundle make it a little easier to swallow

vs a $500 used 5800X3d

[steady sail]

That’s such a good combo

[gusty kiln]

ram is probably meh-mid but you don't need great ram with x3d

[spiral island]

Nearly what I paid retail for those parts 3 years ago T_T

[lapis plaza]

This is a very good deal

[umbral heron]

Hm
Question - anyone tried the BGA practice board kits from Aliexpress, and are they worth getting?
I can into SMD, but not so much into BGA

[vagrant pagoda]

i mean just get some old gpus

order some gddr2/3 stencils and balls

and practice on them

[umbral heron]

Practice kit is 7€ though

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah but not cool

old gpus are like 20 bucks

you can also do ddr1/2 cheap ass too

hardest part of bga, esp if its rework, is not killing other shit

[marble oar]

Anyone using nzxt controller hub have any problems plugging in the pcie connecter

[lucid acorn]

Guys I need help with my keyboard
The 60he2 just got hereBut it appears the charging port is not sticking out all the way
Neither end will go into the keyboard.
Its brand new out of the box.. so I'm a bit worried. I don't know what to do.
I can show pictures to show you what I mean.

Oh my god

It wasn't pushed into the case...

[pastel galleon]

you can take it out of the case and see if one of the silicone plugs may have fallen out of place

[pastel galleon]

oh ok

[bright briar]

Does linux make you gay?

Asking for a friend

[distant tapir]

Depends on distro

[sinful quest]

As long as you wear thigh highs you are fine

[empty wren]

WINDOWS OR BUST

@bright briar use what you want though seriously

[bleak merlin]

If linux makes me gay then what does BSD do

[empty wren]

it gives you neurolink

so have fun with un-skippable random ocular ads

[bleak merlin]

https://youtu.be/uTrOIPIx7pY
OpenBSD kinda tuff tho

[empty wren]

If you wanna use it that is fine

I located some simulation software that I will have to setup through a terminal command line

And it is open source, sure it would be nice to use graphical software but unless one knows their doing it will give a result, not a correct result but data to visually examine.

[reef patrol]

Please don't spam multiple channels in the future, please.

[latent mural]

Windows + WSL to larp as a Linux user lmao

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ces2-a2rDQg?si=jnuDOG5RJMZYYLuJ

What I be using lmao

This hurt me so bad

[latent mural]

https://tenor.com/view/pc-computer-thermal-grease-thermal-compound-thermal-paste-gif-13348710043538260171

https://tenor.com/view/how-to-build-a-pc-gif-11904172621874549368

I’ve got a few saved for times like these

[latent mural]

https://youtube.com/shorts/RPZ0-h1f2nU?si=UnSPoS8dVVgDnS9o

Ooooh

dude I just search up pc fails

And I see this abomination

I love when I stubble on these while doom scrolling

pains me to watch but also helps me figure out what not to do

I once saw someone force the gpu into the ram slots

Like shoved in it in there, it was solidly stuck in

[smoky parrot]

If it fits, it sits

[latent mural]

Heh

Tbh sometimes that works

I made my website from a flask server, it’s just a static build that I freeze from flask. I just lifted the shit I wrote for my lab’s website and got rid of the backend and DB

Just brute force it

But NOT a gpu into a ram slot

[halcyon moss]

at that point just use something like Hugo 😉

[latent mural]

Could’ve but I mean, it’s not what flask is built for but hey

I’m a physics undergrad not a cs one, I’m too lazy to not reuse stuff I’ve already written

All I did was css and changing the routing. The rest was just blabbing in my CV and research publications (don’t look at my repo plz)

[halcyon moss]

anything is fair. im a big fan of static pages as it basically means free hosting and no security complications

[frozen ingot]

fuck off mercedes lol

[plucky tapir]

Screens in cars is so dumb, you'll have to swap the whole fucking dashboard when it breaks and in like 15 years good luck finding replacements.

[smoky parrot]

That's wider than my pc

[frozen ingot]

am hoping the eu commission bans this stupidity soon honestly

[smoky parrot]

People will crash more

Watch it happen

[analog sinew]

cant wait for the first pensioner to run over children with 70 kmh because "there was no speedometer it was updating" or sth

[frozen ingot]

studies are already showing its horrible for road safety and driver attention

[analog sinew]

who woulda thunk

[smoky parrot]

Yeah, I bet

[frozen ingot]

its ridiculous it was allowed in the first place

can't use your smartphone while driving but you can use an oversized smartphone attached to your center console

makes perfect sense

[old marlin]

Speedometers being fully digital ain't exactly new

Most of the car industry has been using the same supplier for them as well (continental)

And it has worked just fine

[frozen ingot]

you can choose so many different modes and screens for your dashboard it wouldn't surprise me if they pick some where the speedo is so confusing they wouldn't be able to read it

[plucky tapir]

Put a shit screen on your car, lock it down so only you're allowed to service it. Charge an arm and a leg to replace them when they break because they will break. Profit.

[old marlin]

Really not much new there

The mercedes hyperscreen sucks for other reasons tho

The current one gets really hot

[crimson wigeon]

Imagine ultrawide gaming on that thing tho

[plucky tapir]

Wonder what the resolution and PPI is

[analog sinew]

yea but is this not part of that large display

[reef patrol]

Being digital, and being part of a complex operating system that runs the equivalence of a windows update at the worst times are very different things though.

You can have a fully digital display, that isn't a complex OS.

[old marlin]

That also very much is not new

[old marlin]

The displays themselves have been running windows for like 10+ years btw

[reef patrol]

Which is bad.

[old marlin]

Has not been an issue

[reef patrol]

It's never an issue, till your shit forces an update mid trip.

[old marlin]

You say it is bad because you feel bad about it, in practice it has not been an issue though

[reef patrol]

I say it, because there's been several stories about this exact thing. So uhh.

[old marlin]

With how much cars have to handle digitally nowadays the speedometer being digital is the least of your worries

[reef patrol]

I never said digital was bad. I'm saying it doesn't need an entire OS to run 😛

[old marlin]

The car does need one though

[plucky tapir]

My monitor had a 5 minute update yesterday swapping from Tizen OS to One UI.

[reef patrol]

I never argued otherwise. I am saying that if your dashboard is complex enough that you will be prompted to update it yourself - not passively through a yearly checkup at the dealership - Your shit is too complex.

[old marlin]

Yea that is the world we live in though

There are a ton of stupid legal requirements

Friend worked at continental, they didn't make cars so complicated because they felt like it

[frozen ingot]

my solution is avoiding new cars

[old marlin]

same tbh

[plucky tapir]

Old is always better

[frozen ingot]

new cars are so coma-inducingly boring and enshittified its like a psyop from big train to get people to abandon cars for public transport

[pale sigil]

Now building my second system for someone, this feels real whenever I'm putting together all the parts

[reef patrol]

Now do the math on a PS5 and a couple of games and a second controller.

[frozen ingot]

now do buying food paying bills owning things

[pale sigil]

Not £1800

[reef patrol]

You don't need an 1800 pound PC to match a PS5 though.

[craggy harness]

sure, but matching a ps5 isn't exactly a challenge with pc hardware anyways 😅

[ashen spindle]

its a challenge matching it with the same price

[craggy harness]

sure, you might have to spend maybe 1k for matching a ps5 with current prices, but if you consider the game prices and limitations that come with the ps5 then a pc will ALWAYS come out on top

[ashen spindle]

no, fully depends on what you play

[marsh glade]

Economies of scale and hardware subsidies make it very difficult to match console pricing and specs with a computer, but that ignores the added value of having a computer to do literally anything versus a console that can do.... some games

[ashen spindle]

having to pay 400 bucks more on games takes a while to catch up

[ashen spindle]

most people have phones for anything else these days

[craggy harness]

like just the overall utility is already huge in comparison, the games are quite often 10-20€ more expensive as well and let's not forget about the subscription shit for basic online functionality 😂

[reef patrol]

Having tried to to CS work on my phone, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. A laptop is mandatory, if all you have is your console and phone imo

[craggy harness]

like even if the games would be priced the exact same, thanks to that subscription alone the pc is paying itself off in savings over the course of 1-2 years tops

[ashen spindle]

that is still 20-40 games to catch up to be at the same price if you assume thats the case for all games

and you have other benefits like no shader compile times or stutters, no issues with drivers or windows breaking

[reef patrol]

(Just a bunch of game crashes to the PS home screen)

[sullen bear]

I mean tbf, piracy fully negates that point anyways

[ashen spindle]

what an asinine argument

[craggy harness]

again, just considering the 10€/month subscription you need for basic online functionality is plenty already

[sullen bear]

why?

why is piracy not an option for PC?

[smoky parrot]

It's an option for consoles too afaik

[ashen spindle]

you need that if you want to do certain online things, thats not mandatory, also people that play online games tend to buy less individual games so you arent going to get to the 40 games needed to make up the 400$ difference

[sullen bear]

so your only argument against piracy on pc being a thing is that its asinine?

[ashen spindle]

no I can also say its a stupid braindead point that I dont engage with as a serious argument

[craggy harness]

umm buddy, quite a lot of games require that 10€ monthly shit, add a few games to that and you're already above 400€ within 1-2 years

[ashen spindle]

dunno never played a game that needed it and the games I did get were either timed exclusives or not more expensive than on pc

[craggy harness]

but seriously tho, just thinking about my steam library and how many titles aren't even available on the cashgrab boxes and those that are are quite a tad more expensive and with that amount alone i'd be spending like 500-1k more than i paid on pc 😅

[ashen spindle]

thats not how many games most console players have though

its not the better deal for everyone but for the majority that would look at getting a pc at the same price point

[odd sun]

Guys, can you tell me if this is a bug?

[umbral heron]

Unplug, wait 5 seconds, plug back in, wait 5 seconds, it will recalibrate the board

[quasi sun]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1025367809070465099/1494000327807074476/caption.gif

[odd sun]

okay

thanks

[real sapphire]

So I was wondering if anyone knows the keycap sizes for the 60he V2 iso UK layout

[real sapphire]

Mostly like left shift

[reef patrol]

Keycap sizes? You mean the width?

[real sapphire]

Yes plz like 2u? 2.25?

[reef patrol]

For ISO left shift is 1.25u, right Shift is 1.75u

[real sapphire]

Ok thank you for you help bro appreciate it ❤️

[reef patrol]

[sinful quest]

right shift is 2.75u on ISO or am I misunderstanding something?

[real sapphire]

I believe so ye 60 he V2 doesn't have arrow keys but I believe he's right for left shift

[reef patrol]

Right. My bad. 😄

We need an internal U chart. Grabbed a random one from the web, and it is indeed squished for ... is that 75%? 65%?

[sinful quest]

75% I imagine, 65% wouldn't have f row

[umbral heron]

*tsk tsk tsk*

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/amazed-chopper-sugoi-1mvU9Y6fxyyeCzkEZV

[bright briar]

i was just making a joke but i appreciate it. I'll be downloading a linux distro soon

[still mauve]

I spilled some bacardi mixed with coke on my keyboard, how do i clean it without damaging the Keyboard?

[real sapphire]

Appreciated thanks for help everyone ❤️

[lapis plaza]

😵‍💫

[analog sinew]

immediately unplug, dissassemble, clean with isopropyl alcohol

[unkempt lake]

Pour isopropyl alcohol on it

a lot of it

Also replace your baxardi with that

[steady sail]

that Dark Cherry color looks nice

[unkempt lake]

want

Still not a massive fan of the design tho

[steady sail]

Yeah that’s a hit or miss

[unkempt lake]

But at least with those colors

[steady sail]

But the colors are point on

[unkempt lake]

Its better

Yeah the 17 pro's colors made the design look so much worse

Now it goes from horrible to like fine

[steady sail]

Yeah

[vapid ruin]

@dull hollow Soju

[dull hollow]

[vapid ruin]

Hmm, I'm not attracted to any of the color besides light blue

[dull hollow]

i need to soju maxx

though sojus are quite a deep blue

or well its a beri blue color

[sinful quest]

real, I expect all my sojus on monday

[vapid ruin]

Sorta disappointed though, I expect the red (dark cherry) being much more in line with my kind of red.

Like, I feel disappointed enough that I rather just get 17 lavender since I genuinely like that color more than any of these.

[steady sail]

I mean these just rumors from macworld

[vapid ruin]

Yesh, gonna huff copium

[sullen bear]

where da black at

[steady sail]

[empty wren]

https://youtube.com/shorts/CISojLQbenA?si=mlLYfsXzjJXr2L0s

respect for keeping the fall on record

[latent mural]

Is this a 5900 or a 3900?

[snow coral]

Thats a 5900

[latent mural]

Thanks

That’s what I thought!

[sudden imp]

I just got the 17 pro

[tribal dirge]

baby blue iphone coming back!?

[tribal dirge]

apparently the chinese market really likes it.

[frozen ingot]

I could do with the silver or blue

[latent mural]

Got a lot of parts with this build already

Cpu mobo ram and ssd

https://www.buildcores.com/builds/tH3eDxOew?share=true

[ashen spindle]

is that a question or just showing the build?

[latent mural]

Question

Any other good gpus under 700$.

[ashen spindle]

not really

[latent mural]

maybe like a 7800xt bc I’m saving for a car

I need to replace this transmission on my ls460

[ashen spindle]

well depends on the performance you want

[latent mural]

What’s wrong with a 7800xt?

[ashen spindle]

you coudl look at a 9070 non xt

well its quite a bit worse than a 9070xt

5060ti or 9060xt if you want a weaker card I suppose

that would be like 550ish

[winter patrol]

a 5070 is under 700

[ashen spindle]

yeah but just get the 9070 instead, same price, same performance, 4gb more vram

[lunar elm]

its only 10% faster (tpu) than a 5070, imo I’d only justify the AMD card at the same price if its the 9070xt

[old marlin]

still 10% faster

Know some people that had both a 9070xt and a 5070ti and all of them would actually prefer the 9070xt

[crimson wigeon]

But DLSS

[lunar elm]

I’ve had both
the 9070XT was only okay for minesweeper

[reef patrol]

[old marlin]

but FSR

[crimson wigeon]

But it's wooooooorse!!!

[old marlin]

you can cry that it looks worse but that is not the experience I heard

also when there are people that can actually stomache frame gen you can just use whatever upscaler tbh

[crimson wigeon]

Also RTX

And ShadowPlay or whatever they renamed it to

[old marlin]

that's a name

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-gif-22015334

[old marlin]

and amd has had relive for like 10 years now

[crimson wigeon]

Dunno, someone I know who recently switched to AMD graphics is constantly crying about how that relive thing is broken and they have to use some crappy third party software

[lunar elm]

radeon department deadass looks like a circus rn

[old marlin]

the 9070 is faster in ray tracing than the 5070 btw

[crimson wigeon]

Is it now..

[old marlin]

according to computerbase, yes

[lunar elm]

uh
what

[old marlin]

and from my experience they do about the most comprehensive testing

also according to techpowerup

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asrock-radeon-rx-9070-steel-legend-oc/35.html

[crimson wigeon]

Where Cyberpunk 2077 path tracing benchmark

[old marlin]

they only tested 2/3 path tracing games

black myth wukong performs badly on amd cards, alan wake 2 performs horrible on the 5070

[crimson wigeon]

Oh well seems like it just gets clobbered in those marks

[old marlin]

"clobbered" aka 5070 barely manages to keep up in alan wake 2 until it gets killed in 4k because of vram and then it has a single better title in black myth wukong

one might think that 12gb is not enough if you buy a card nowadays if a current game can run like this

[crimson wigeon]

Also, do thes games look the same since RTX is also just the fancy exclusive techs like that ray reconstruction that apparently makes things look amazing

[lunar elm]

im looking at one rn and the 9070 XT (not non XT) edges the 5070 by 10% in RT ultra but in this scenario the 5070 is vram limited

4K DLSS4 Balanced and FSR4 Balanced

[old marlin]

so what you are saying is that the amd card is faster in this case again

[umbral heron]

15 fps let's goooo

[lunar elm]

I said the XT versus the 5070 in RT ultra

[old marlin]

ah

well if your purchase decision is made on 2 games alone, sure buy the 5070

[lunar elm]

I wouldnt buy the 9070 over the 5070 bcs I value my 4K DLSS4.5 Performance

[crimson wigeon]

Oh yeah also do you even get MFG or something equivalent cause it's like a free FPS tripler

[lunar elm]

9070XT or 5070 at like 1440p im def taking the 70XT

[old marlin]

MFG looks and feels super ass to use though

[lunar elm]

I at most use normal FG

MFG is just not it yet

[old marlin]

like normal FG is tolerable at best, if you do 2x or more it just feels like shit

combination of input smoothing and bad motion blur, which essentially is what it is

[lunar elm]

as long as its above 60 base post FG its good

[old marlin]

if your purchase decision is based on who made it then you are a sheep

[lunar elm]

if you’re getting below base 60 dont even consider MFG

[old marlin]

not to me

[lunar elm]

ok

typically I use it to go from like 120>240

[old marlin]

just turn on motion blur

same effect

but without input smoothing

[crimson wigeon]

But then number does not increase

[lunar elm]

mfg x3 and x4 are just really shit to use unless you’re on one of those high refresh tandem oleds at like 540

and you can get a good base

I found FSR4 quality at 1440p to be the best option whilst DLSS4.5 Balanced is doable albeit a few things here and there

I didnt like FSR4 Balanced

[lapis plaza]

Ok when fsr5

[rough osprey]

soup

[ashen spindle]

Fsr5 you’ll get on rdna5 only

[lapis plaza]

I hope not but might happen

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah they'll probably do something stupid like that again

[lunar elm]

announced for RDNA5 only AND fully released one year after launch*

[lapis plaza]

and then they will wonder why people still prefer paying the nvidia taxes

[ashen spindle]

Nah there’s just so many changes we already know of in the next gen cards that unlike 4 I’m very convinced they literally can’t make it run on older hardware or would waste the options they have

But that doesn’t mean they can’t make 4 good enough so nobody cares to “only” have that, after all people are the slop that’s dlss2 and loved it

[lapis plaza]

is it the same for nvidia?

[lunar elm]

inb4 they replicate the shit in DLSS5 demo

[ashen spindle]

No we know almost nothing about nextgen nvidia

But also less likely because the reason why everything dlss kinda works on all card since Turing is they had many of the fancy things AMD is only adding with rdna4/5

[lapis plaza]

the guy from moore law is dead said the next gen console will be a generational leap so the next gen gpu should also be

[old marlin]

mlid is unreliable af tho

[ashen spindle]

Consoles are only using AMD gpu so means nothing for nvidia cards

But also yeah it’s going from rdna1.9 to 5, that’s a massive jump

Don’t need to have any leaks to see that

[old marlin]

Well technically nintendo is using nvidia atm

Which is kinda funny to me since they used to use ati when the others were still doing their own weird thing

[lunar elm]

MLID is full of shit

[ashen spindle]

Yeah current gen-2 nvidia ip

Fuckin ampere in 2025

[lapis plaza]

MLID is a good channel

[ashen spindle]

lol no

[lunar elm]

the nvidia ampere chips were promised to them 3000 years ago

[ashen spindle]

He’s a clown that at times gets real slides and is too dumb to correctly interpret them because he doesn’t understand the technical aspects

Or did stupid shit like getting banned from hot chips because he live streamed the talks that are explicitly not live because you are supposed to buy a ticket or wait for them to be public later

[lunar elm]

he also spreads a hell lot of bullshit and misinfo afaik

the switch 3 will be launched in 2035 using the 5050 chip
source: trust me bro

[ashen spindle]

People tracked his accuracy and a coin flip was more accurate

[old marlin]

Anti-mlid hardware index

[ashen spindle]

He does have some real info at times, but unless you basically know the info already or have someone who could confirm it, you won’t be able to figure out what’s made up lol

[lunar elm]

he’s one of the reasons why amd’s stock is so inflated rn

1% chicken 99% air

[ashen spindle]

There was also the time someone made a fake slide, he put it in and pretended to have 3 sources talking about it but all 3 were text from the same fake slide email

[ashen spindle]

Lmao not even one bit

He has like 0 info about instinct and that’s the only thing investors care about

[lunar elm]

as in holy amd glaze

[ashen spindle]

Okay but who cares that’s not changing stock

[lunar elm]

he has the investor mindset following onto empty promises and moves

[ashen spindle]

He does the same for Intel CPUs, he started saying arrow lake was +40% single thread over raptor…

[lunar elm]

LOL

[ashen spindle]

He’s just either glazing or talking products into death because that’s getting more clicks, and he just seems to get more real and slides so it’s easier to hype that up

Like he did get some idiot to send him real slides about zen7 but then couldn’t even do real math about physical sizes to figure out out the 72core option would not fit in desktop socket

[lunar elm]

im still pissed about selling my intc at 52 and it rising to fucking 69 over the week like dude WTF

ho lee sheet i hope their ER brings them back down

[steady sail]

Are there any reliable sources when it comes to next gen stuff ? Or only when they are already showcased ?

[ashen spindle]

Eh somewhat depends, you’ll need to trust someone to be accurate, and accurate leak can still change before release etc.

Without knowing stuff yourself the best way is probably if there’s a consensus of multiple people saying something is accurate or if you have someone that’s almost always accurate lol

Like for nvidia a twitter guy called kopite kimi has like 100% accuracy lol

But doesn’t share things super early and mostly just the raw specs of the cards

[steady sail]

Yeah i do follow kopite kimi

[ashen spindle]

For Intel/AMD there’s nobody who’s public and entirely accurate

It’s more that sometimes you have very obvious accurate leaks like when igorslab had ARL slides a year before launch lol

And then you also sometimes have the funny cases of people have accurate predictions but hardware issues 6 months before release make it much worse like rdna3 so even the most accurate leaker wouldn’t know that before hand

[steady sail]

Yeah thats somewhat understandable

[pale sigil]

Poor thing has been abused

[reef patrol]

But do it run

[lunar elm]

Does it have legs?

[pale sigil]

No idea yet, the rest of the system is coming later but the case next week 💀

[reef patrol]

[gusty kiln]

Is that the one with magnetic fans?

[pale sigil]

no idea prob not

i bought the cheapest one vail

avail

or well i got the person im building a system for to

[vapid ruin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XPRBz3aV6s

Early still but pretty noice overall

[cerulean arch]

anyone else ever had creaking in their hifiman? I didnt have it in Stealth V3/Organic but it was very annoying in my HEKSE, just lubed it with Krytox 205G0 and its perfect now, so weird that the hinges dont come lubed better

[ashen spindle]

#🌐│pc_gear can probably help

[umbral heron]

Weird, I have Stealth v3s but haven't had any creaking

[cerulean arch]

its fixed i was just curious

its probably because its metal and not plastic like on V3 and Organic

[umbral heron]

Ooooh, I can't read

[cerulean arch]

also Hifiman threadlocks the screws, that can really fuck someone over lol genuinely anti repair behaviour