🔌│tech

[acoustic harbor]

That doesn't come assembled

But all you have to do is push the module into the case

And screw in one screw to ground it

[royal geode]

okay bet thank you

[acoustic harbor]

[lunar elm]

i remember someone saying that they killed their PC with a screwdriver

[umbral heron]

https://www.xda-developers.com/steamos-now-runs-on-every-amd-handheld-and-valve-didnt-even-make-a-big-deal-about-it/?taid=69e936e4a9d16e00016b3c9f

[umbral heron]

New Amazon scam - people are putting DDR2 and DDR3 sticks in the DDR5 heatsinks before return

[reef patrol]

That's a lot of effort.

But I guess that just means Amazon have to pay customers for Motherboard replacements, and have some internal procedure changes.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - They are being far too lazy and lax with just assuming returns are ready for immediate resale, and it hurts customers thinking they're buying something factory new (and paying the price)

[tired sphinx]

i have to agree on that

[nimble arch]

I've never recommended buying PC hardware on Amazon, long before return scams.

I remember buying a GPU once and despite ticking the option to ship in a plain box, they just slapped the shipping label on the GPU's packaging.

[rough patrol]

i'd never recommend buying anything on amazon

@ amazon

[reef patrol]

I mean... it's made for it. But I would also be frustrated.

The SWTOR collector's box I got back in the day also just had a label slapped on it.

By a sheer miracle, it only took minimal damage.

[nimble arch]

Also this, I stopped buying on Amazon years ago.

Account deleted.

[steady sail]

Well https://wccftech.com/galax-exit-graphics-card-market-palit-assumes-full-control/

[lapis plaza]

Very sad

But because people struggle to build these days it could happen to more companies

[frozen ingot]

another casualty of the pc industry slopocalypse

[lapis plaza]

Thank AI shit

[astral haven]

that being said galax was not a manufacturer

next gen pny is potential kingpin which is 👀

[sullen bear]

P sure this is an oem issue not ai issue

[leaden kiln]

someone went to the effort of resealing a $100 charger with slightly larger sealing stickers
It had skidmarks on it, and after I got a replacement I noticed there was a bag I didn’t get with my last one

[frozen ingot]

AI has def impacted the whole industry negatively with a snowballing effect from extortion rate ram prices and to some extent also gpus

people buying considerably less pc parts hurts everyone

was it the sole cause? probably not, but coulda been the final blow to an industry already operating on thin margins

[umbral heron]

I've felt this way for a long time, but for the past month I've kept a journal where I put an "X" next to every date where a GitHub outage has negatively impacted my ability to work. Almost every day has an X. On the day I am writing this post, I've been unable to do any PR review for ~2 hours because there is a GitHub Actions outage. This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

[lapis plaza]

Ghostty is very good

Use it everyday

Curious where the project is going 🤔

[crimson wigeon]

Ghostty kinda overrated, if terminal emulator doesn't start immediately it's unusable

[reef patrol]

Thanks, Brave. You're always a champ (This function has literally never worked)

[tired sphinx]

pretty sure that’s a chrome feature since brave is chrome based

[unkempt lake]

https://www.techpowerup.com/348627/galax-shuts-down-famous-gpu-vendor-taken-over-by-palit-after-30-years

https://youtu.be/Vk95ZO-WAvY?si=1NF2v5iJiMdf0sGE

[reef patrol]

Yes we know - It was already obvious from their previous title, when this "news" broke years ago 😄

[umbral heron]

It was the case with Ingress, Niantic's previous game too
Data was used to improve Google Maps back then
In Privacy Policy it says clearly that data will be collected to improve Niantic's and Google's services

[fair gull]

its almost like people make up stuff that could be true to get views

[umbral heron]

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/new-all-iron-battery-sustains-6000-cycles

Seems perfect for solar installations

[nimble arch]

In EVs when?

[umbral heron]

I think it has not good enough energy density for EVs
But lithium batteries for EVs and sodium/iron for solar installations would be pretty good

Especially since we are getting really good at lithium recycling and Li-Ion batteries use less and less other rare materials

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/spacexs-market-claims-are-planet-scale-absurdity-2026-04-24/

[analog sinew]

Hi i'm tak and my company has florblglorple Equitunity of 244 trillion now give me money

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/cash-money-grab-got-it-gif-17506262

[lunar elm]

this is fake btw

[unkempt lake]

It's not fake just innacurate as Palit put out a statement 3 hours ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/palit-group-says-galax-gpu-brand-will-continue-to-operate-following-restructure-galax-management-centralized-under-palit-group-in-pre-planned-shakeup

Basicsllg galax's management is being swallowed

[ashen spindle]

yeah so rip HOF cards

[lapis plaza]

guys is 95 degree when I play pragmata on a 5600x too much?

[sullen bear]

Yeah

Thats thermal limit probably

[lapis plaza]

ok I am going to change the thermal paste

didnt change it since 2022

[sullen bear]

Check with hwinfo64 to be sure but i can say it with 99% certainty

[lapis plaza]

yeah I checked with hwinfo64 I was playing with a windows opened and suddenly I was like wtf it is really hot outside or what

until I removed the earphone and heard the ventirad turning like crazy and the heat coming from the case

I thought it was the gpu first but no it is the cpu

I just dont like doing the paste thing again but after almost 5 years guess it is time

[heady hazel]

depends on the paste id say but could be the issue

[lapis plaza]

first game it happens with

but it runs at 165 fps

[heady hazel]

what are the idle temps?

[lapis plaza]

wait

between 59 and 65

[heady hazel]

thats not outrageous depending on if you use wallpaperengine etc

[lapis plaza]

well I dont it is just dowloading a game on steam at the same time

[steady sail]

Yeah you use the cpu

[lapis plaza]

oh wait if I stop downloading

[steady sail]

If you stop the download your temps should go down

[lapis plaza]

yeah I relaunched pragmata while I stopped dowloading

[heady hazel]

i see 55 at "idle" on my 5900x so 60s on a 5600x is a bit high

[steady sail]

You can say its the paste but you could just clean the pc as well

Im idle at 45-50c with a 5800x3d

[heady hazel]

i mean it should not thermal throttle, if your cooler is up to the task it can only be paste

[steady sail]

Peerless Assassin 120 SE is fantastic

[lapis plaza]

ok if I dont dowload at the same time I have 87

while running pragmata

I will just open clean if there is some dust and apply new thermal paste

[steady sail]

Thats sounds fine with high graphics settings

[lapis plaza]

what do you think is the limit? 90?

[ashen spindle]

whatever the thermal limit set in bios is

probably 95

[lapis plaza]

ok

well I dont really feel like opening stuff and all of that but well after 5 years I guess it cannot hurt

[heady hazel]

95 is amds limit for non x3d chips iirc 90c for x3d chips

[lapis plaza]

oh ok then yes I was at the limit

[steady sail]

I remember playing battlefield 4 with friends and my 2600x hit 105c

[heady hazel]

yeah it used to be 105 back then

[lapis plaza]

yeah the good old time when a pc was also a heater

[steady sail]

It was during a summer

So no not really

[lapis plaza]

oh ok 😂

I remember letting my pc ran all night for dowloading stuff and becoming crazy with the ventil noise

[steady sail]

In winter i don’t mind if my pc becomes a space heater

[gusty kiln]

What about undervolting

[lapis plaza]

yeah I could do that too

[gusty kiln]

Undervolt but do not boost the freq

[lapis plaza]

but look if it is just the thermal past having issue then I still have to replace it

[gusty kiln]

Extra cool

[heady hazel]

how if fixed high temps i just removed the mesh

[sullen bear]

Only 7800x3d

[steady sail]

I don’t enjoy touching CPU voltages and any stuff with it

[sullen bear]

Under volt has 0 risk p much

[steady sail]

Yeah im still not someone who loves being inside the bios

[sullen bear]

Fair

But my 9800x3d idles at 40

If not lower

[steady sail]

I could undervolt my 5800x3d but i don’t think its matter that much

[ashen spindle]

no its just overclocking in a different name

the only difference is, it's harder kill a cpu with lower voltage vs higher voltage compared to stock

[heady hazel]

pretty much yes , i wonder if someone fried his cpu undervolting

[ashen spindle]

but you can get instability and damage on the cpu by undervolting too because you change the voltage spikes and behavior on load/idle

[heady hazel]

i guess it depends on the motherboard aswell , asrock used to melt cpus on stock settings

[sullen bear]

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/can-undervolting-my-cpu-damage-it.3886193/

Where do you get that from?

Never heard skatter say it can cause damage either

[heady hazel]

i mean that answer does make sense electrically speaking at least

[sullen bear]

Doesn’t enabling pbo disable warranty already

[steady sail]

[sullen bear]

use of the feature invalidates the AMD product warranty

[heady hazel]

well the question is if they will still honor it

[ashen spindle]

XMP/expo is also over clocking but they tend to honor the warranty anyway

[heady hazel]

i think they have to because its needed to achieve the advertised speeds but technically yes its overlocking

[pale trellis]

surely AMD wouldn't pull an ASUS... light scratch on the outside of the case... denied due to user damage

[sullen bear]

So what now

[ashen spindle]

Idk how defects from touching the voltage could be similar to case scratches

[pale trellis]

the priciple of slimyness is really what I'm getting at

nvm, as you were

[ashen spindle]

https://bsky.app/profile/sarasocial.bsky.social/post/3mkm4ologns2r

sara (@sarasocial.bsky.social)

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

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[gusty kiln]

[crimson wigeon]

What a timeline

[vapid ruin]

yey, competition

[crimson wigeon]

Never thought I'd see something like that back when I was first toying around with wine gaming 19 years ago

[sudden imp]

COMPETITION GOOD???

CRAZY ITS ALMOST LIKE IT BREEDS BETTER PRODUCTS??

(I hate monopolies)

[vivid wigeon]

i think the issue here is more that in theory running something through a translation layer should always be slower so you'd really have to fuck up big for the linux implementation to be faster

and if the benchmark is steamOS with translating that's still lower performance than what you should realistically be getting

then again i don't think FPS is the issue with windows but it's more frametime consistancy that's far better on SteamOS

[ashen spindle]

https://copy.fail/

[umbral heron]

Welp, doesn't work anymore

Looks like patched in kernel 6.19.12, 6.19.11 is still vulnerable

[nimble arch]

Patch deez nutz

[umbral heron]

Oh for fucks sake, I'll have to make a company-wide patch for it tomorrow, won't I? Cybersec won't leave me alone

[nimble arch]

Wagie get back in the cagie

[umbral heron]

[crimson wigeon]

setuid strikes again

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle @gusty kiln damn

so close to piercing 100

NOK crazy too

[ashen spindle]

Yeah sometimes I’m just confused because there’s not even a positive headline one could put into connection with it lol

[rose mural]

im using my logitech mouse and my profile keeps switching basck as soon as i try to play a game

[vagrant pagoda]

inb4 tomorrow tump puts some bullshit on foreign fabs again

[empty wren]

@heady hazel buddy asked for a 230AC 500W minimum circuit

silicone substrate and kanthal resistive material
~560W via 94.5 Ohms

this is for a cross gantry 180^3mm^3 machine

[split shard]

goto ghub and see if you have profiles set up to change when you play certain games

i have some for different keybinds on games

[graceful stump]

can you hook up your own gpu to a framework 16 laptop?

(not a previous framework gpu you own)

[umbral heron]

hey, GUESS WHAT

[ashen spindle]

yes you can egpu almost any modern laptop

[graceful stump]

No no but the "problem" is I have a desktop rn, so it would be a deszktop gpu not a laptop one

would it still work? even if it would be inconvenient

alright i think yes

pretty cool

[reef patrol]

Isn't that an Intel only thing? Or are there alternatives to Thunderbolt? (I have literally no idea how this works, I remember doing a bit of research during laptops purchases)

[ashen spindle]

if you want to get a framework, don't is the best recomemndation lol

[ashen spindle]

usb4

[reef patrol]

[fair gull]

usb4 basically being what thunderbolt is just thunderbolt is the certified version that passes some tests set by intel/apple

[graceful stump]

wait why?

[ashen spindle]

because its one of the worst possible laptop deals you can get and offers you mediocre quality in return

[reef patrol]

ic ic. So an eGPU enclosure that sports USB4 and a laptop with a USB4 port "should" be compatible

You buy a Framework because you have the money to stick it to Apple and other brands. Not because it's a good value for money, or their build quality is amazing.

https://giphy.com/gifs/qKK2KYmSJeV44

[ashen spindle]

like, the latest fw16pro starts at 2500 and the equivalent dell you could get would be about 1500

[graceful stump]

well not a chance in hell i would buy anything pc related now anyway, maybe in 6-8 years when my pc becomes either too bad or below 120 fps in games at medium quality AND the prices hopefully have fallen down for ram/ssd/gpus

[ashen spindle]

if I buy a framework now and upgrade in 5 years to a new board, I paid more than if I had bought a new laptop now and in 5 years, and that way I would get a better screen, better battery etc.

[reef patrol]

I am very grateful to get a decent deal on my laptop world being what it is 😄

[umbral heron]

And ansible is chugging on all our servers

[topaz schooner]

Just 4 days left.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller

[umbral heron]

4th May at 19:00 CEST Steam servers will go down yet again

[lapis plaza]

I am sure they will sell a lot of them

Wonder if this will be out of stock

[umbral heron]

I hope not, with OLED Decks they were well prepared

[topaz schooner]

Calsy woo

[lapis plaza]

You will get one on the launch?

[tired sphinx]

hey that's star wars day

[topaz schooner]

I might.

For my birthday.

🥺

[umbral heron]

gibgibgibgibgibgibgib

[lapis plaza]

Oh yes

Because of you guys I might get one

[topaz schooner]

How did you put it in cart?

[topaz schooner]

Also €419? Scam.

[ashen spindle]

I just want the frame, and to know the machine pricing so people will stop having their weird imaginations of a chunk of old hardware costing 1500 lmao

[shadow condor]

Poland mentioned🔥

[umbral heron]

You can do it via SteamDB

[shadow condor]

Its polish money so like 4x less or sum

[tired sphinx]

that's not euros silly

it's 98,41 Euro if you convert 419 zloty to euro

[shadow condor]

Lowk im surprised its that cheap

[tired sphinx]

it's on the expensive side for a controller

[shadow condor]

I thought ts would cost like 300 euro

[tired sphinx]

i know LTT made a video about it

[marsh glade]

It's on the expensive side for an entry-level controller

[topaz schooner]

Thanks this might actually help me get it if it gets sold out fast.

[shadow condor]

No, the x box elite controler is on the expensive side

[tired sphinx]

https://youtu.be/MpJB7LTs5_s

[marsh glade]

Good thing it's not an entry level controller 😐

[topaz schooner]

It's not an entry-evel controller.

I was about to say 🤣

Feature-wise this beats the Xbox Elite controllers which are like €199-ish 😕

Okay... maybe it doesn't have replaceable thumbsticks or torque adjustment on them.

[tired sphinx]

xbox is way overpriced anyways

[topaz schooner]

But who cares about that.

[shadow condor]

No the xbox controller probably feels way better

[shadow condor]

Just slightly

I personally own one and love jt

[topaz schooner]

Saying feature-wise.

[tired sphinx]

not slighty, they simply are overprices

[shadow condor]

Cuz it got trackpadss

[shadow condor]

Nah they’re a good controler

The best controler i have ever used

[tired sphinx]

that doesnt justify the insane price tag

[shadow condor]

Its Xbox ur paying the 60$ more for the logo

[tired sphinx]

exactly

[shadow condor]

But it is the best controller out there

[topaz schooner]

Wait how do you do it? I don't see the option. And I do have the SteamDB browser extension installed.

[lunar elm]

8bitdo ultimate 2 wireless for me is nice

[umbral heron]

https://steamdb.info/sub/1558609/

[marsh glade]

[topaz schooner]

@umbral heron Thanks Calsy fren

[reef patrol]

Mark and his VPN life.

[lapis plaza]

If you compare 8bit ultimate and steam controller what more has the steam controller apart trackpad?

[topaz schooner]

And yes, this is AI'd I'm trolling.

[umbral heron]

I wonder if it emulates DInput or XInput when without Steam though
Tablets and phones don't have Steam Input, and Volvo say it's compatible with them
If XInput then it'd be amazing

[crimson wigeon]

No, read the first sentence. It requires steam

[topaz schooner]

It's using the Steam Link app, fren.

I wonder if the puck comes with a USB-A plug or a USB-C plug.

[fair gull]

just f12 and go to console then addToCart(1558609)

[umbral heron]

Easy to spot, you wouldn't pay tax on top in EU, duh

[reef patrol]

For now. I assume people will be able to do an open source driver for other machines like Arcades and whatnot eventually?

[topaz schooner]

Yeh and also shipping is free.

[tired sphinx]

i find it an interesting choice they made the steam controller incompatible with xbox and ps

[fair gull]

why a browser extension when steam lets you add stuff themselves

[reef patrol]

https://giphy.com/gifs/movie-austin-powers-international-man-of-mystery-l1KVb2dUcmuGG4tby

[tired sphinx]

500iq move

[topaz schooner]

It will function in "Lizard Mode" probably if you don't have Steam installed.

[ashen spindle]

now make a script that cycles through all IDs until you find when they add stream frame/machine and get fame by leaking price and date of that

[umbral heron]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-lizardmeme-lizardbutton-ACeIDlMpgc4yOf1Lyt

[topaz schooner]

Just search "Steam controller lizard mode" it will explain

[nimble arch]

They should really support GameInput when running standalone

[umbral heron]

Isn't GameInput reliant on Xbox overlay?

[nimble arch]

Not functioning at all without Steam running is kinda meh… not that I personally play anything outside of Steam in big 2026.

[crimson wigeon]

But as I've said the protocol it uses is fairly simple, and SDL supports it directly so there is code available that you can steal to liberate the steamy controllers from Steam

[fair gull]

dont need to the id is in steamdb

if it exists

[umbral heron]

Oh, they've added SDL support half a year ago https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

[fair gull]

and this happens

[ashen spindle]

ah

[topaz schooner]

So who is getting it?

On launch.

[marsh glade]

🙋

Two

[crimson wigeon]

Still undecided

[umbral heron]

me
Already sold CS skins to get munny

[topaz schooner]

One for my birthday?

[marsh glade]

[topaz schooner]

I take that as a no 🙁

[marsh glade]

All for me

[topaz schooner]

[umbral heron]

One for Mark, one for Dali

[topaz schooner]

Eh.

If I get guest...

[fair gull]

you mean two for dali and mark might be allowed to use one

[topaz schooner]

They can use Xbox Elite controller.

[fair gull]

ok thank you ill take it home as well

[vapid ruin]

No money, but even if I have, steam doesn't sell their hardware in my region (have to go through third party)

[nimble arch]

I’ll attempt to order one on Monday.

[vapid ruin]

I'll prop get it in 1-2 month

[topaz schooner]

Noooo, you can't keeeeeeeeep 🥺

[fair gull]

but its the trash guest controller

you have the steam one

[topaz schooner]

Yes but I need it if other guest comes

[fair gull]

get another cheap controller for them

[topaz schooner]

No I already got Xbox Elite

[minor citrus]

No worries Tony, you can have my Xbox Elite controller. The rubber is peeling off though which makes it feel disgusting to handle for longer sessions

[umbral heron]

For guests there is F310

[fair gull]

elite or elite 2

[marsh glade]

This is the way

[minor citrus]

The first one. After this incident I didn’t bother buying the second anymore

[nimble arch]

I’ve got an Ultimate 2 and Ultimate 2C somewhere in my house. Wasn’t the biggest fan of either in the end.

[umbral heron]

But most 8bitdo controllers is unusable - they have wrong stick layout

[rough osprey]

elite 2 foreverrr

[fair gull]

see toasty gets it

[umbral heron]

DualSense Edge would be cool, but Sony fumbled the only aspect that would matter for me there, which is replaceable sticks
They are never in stock

[rough osprey]

i have never broken a controller 🤔

[marsh glade]

I have never as well...
But people in my vicinity have broken mine

[rough osprey]

if you got a good heart, you wont get stick drift

[marsh glade]

Well that's not entirely true I guess, one stopped working after a transcontinental move

[sullen bear]

I dont think ive ever have broken one either or gotten one broken by friends

[marsh glade]

Which I guess is on me

[umbral heron]

Never got stick drift either, but if I spend so much on a controller then it better be repairable, so I can use for long time

[sullen bear]

This would make me quite annoyed

[fair gull]

i guess desoldering doesnt count as repairable?

[lapis plaza]

I will resist the hype

[marsh glade]

Ach it was a kid, shit happens

[rough osprey]

maybe it wasn't ready for such a change

[marsh glade]

Clearly not

[nimble arch]

My issue with premium peripherals is that input APIs haven't caught up. Back buttons on a controller, for example, should give you additional binds directly usable in-game instead of needing to use system-level utilities to map an existing bind to them. Same for gaming mice with thumb buttons, anything more than two thumb buttons is useless without that bind mapping out-of-game.

[sullen bear]

I taught my neighbor’s kids to be careful or be ready to sell their ps5

[fair gull]

kinda interesting that people dont count repairing an items by soldering stuff as repairable.

[rough osprey]

humans are pretty repairable

[marsh glade]

Surprisingly so

[rough osprey]

although cpu kinda hard

[lapis plaza]

issue is that we learn nothing in school. Most people after school should be able to do basic soldering or fixing basic stuff in cars or even basic stuffs at home yet I dont know a lot of people knowing that

[umbral heron]

It'd be, if company provided replacements
If I need to rely on 3rd parties, then I don't count it as such

[split shard]

mainly due to the fact many people dont have soldering machines or have the technical knowledge to

which is weird but yeah#

[umbral heron]

SDL supports all inputs on pretty much any controller you throw at it

[fair gull]

so cars that dont get OEM parts anymore are also not repairable? even if third party parts exist?

[split shard]

like saying a car aint repairable when rhe fuel line is cut cus you aint got the tools

[lapis plaza]

imagine spending 15 years in the school system and not even being able to build a pc by assembling component

[lapis plaza]

honestly most people dont know how a car work

[split shard]

that was more just an example from me as a mechanic

[sullen bear]

I mean why would the average person learn this

[nimble arch]

My issue extends beyond controllers though, gaming mice are just as bad for this if you've got a MOBA/MMO mouse.

[split shard]

true

[sullen bear]

I think theres much more important life skills which dont really get taught

[split shard]

yeah like how to do taxes lmao

[sullen bear]

I mean we get that in the netherlands

[split shard]

we didnt in the uk

[lapis plaza]

because some things like computer, cars, fridge... are basic stuff society ask us to use. At least we should have some sense on how these work and how to repair basic stuff

I dont know

[split shard]

but i have learned taxes are automatic for us

[sullen bear]

But how to buy a house and what life costs you can expect living independently for example, how to budget

[sullen bear]

Same here

[fair gull]

taxes in the netherlands are smth you dont need to learn lol

[split shard]

thats why we have specialty courses for them

trade schools

[umbral heron]

But there were parts available during support period, and 3rd parties had access to original parts they could copy, and not figure out on their own
But for example take iPhone, where Apple doesn't provide replacement screens for customers, only for authorized repair shops, so I wouldn't count that as repairable
Basically - company has to put a minimum effort to support repairability as such, and not actively work against it

[sullen bear]

I mean theres a difference between blindly accepting every yes button on taxes and knowing what to do to save on taxes etc

[marsh glade]

Disagree...

[lapis plaza]

well I know in france I didnt have any of that. Had to learn it by myself

[fair gull]

well third parties have access to oem parts right now as well... can just disassemble a new controller

[marsh glade]

Just because you can complete them without understanding them doesn't mean you shoul;d

[split shard]

you should have most colleges or universities offer courses like that

[fair gull]

well i filled it out with the help of dutchies and they filled it exactly like i would have so idk

worked for me

[sullen bear]

Most dutch people dont even know about lijfrente

[split shard]

it wont be caleld like mechanic course or anything itll be called something like light vehicle repair

[lapis plaza]

I swear here in university they dont teach mechanic (apart following an engineering degree), how to fix a computers or any of that

[split shard]

itll depend on the college / university

[fair gull]

i mean sure but i also dont see how i could safe any taxes because they ask about things that just flat out dont apply to me

[sullen bear]

If you have a stable income and would like to live for a long time, you have a jaar ruimte with lijfrente, you can dump money into that and save on taxes.

[split shard]

but you may need to find a specialised trade school

[split shard]

oh so thats like a pension?

[sullen bear]

Yep

Private pension

[split shard]

yeah

[sullen bear]

They dont apply to you because you dont make use of it

[split shard]

one thing ive learned tho is

[sullen bear]

But they could

[split shard]

when you have both government and private pensions the government pension doesnt pay out properly

[lapis plaza]

Yeah but I just mean for basic repairing stuff on everyday things we use. Of course it doesnt mean everyone should be a mechanic, but everyone should be able to change basic stuff in cars if wanted

[fair gull]

i wont buy properties, crypto or stock or such for maybe getting tax benefits

[split shard]

thats what youtube is for

i still google shit now

[fair gull]

nor will i just get children out of nowhere just to say i got children

[split shard]

like i still have to google where an air filter is in certain cars

[lapis plaza]

I do too I just complain that school teach things I will never ever need, while dont teach things I need. At least in my country

[sullen bear]

I mean not getting into stock is certainly a choice, theres a difference between instagram stock investors and just getting a good bond/stock mix to grow or at least maintaint your money’s worth with

[ashen spindle]

idk how dutch taxes are compared to german, but stuff like home office write offs, returns on hardware that you can classify as 50/50 private and work use like a laptop etc. all can be making you money

[fair gull]

none of that applies to me

also i only do income tax

im already sad enough i started doing income tax

cause apparently i didnt have to

[ashen spindle]

you never plan to buy any hardware?

[fair gull]

i do but not for work

[ashen spindle]

and yes you can subtract valid claims from your income tax

[fair gull]

no field for it in the web form i fill ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lapis plaza]

if it wasnt so much administrative work that I hate, one way would be to create a small company you dont use and buy stuff and say it is for the company?

[ashen spindle]

dont even need to do that, you can claim most things as partly work related and dont have to proof it

[marsh glade]

This is not permitted

[fair gull]

i feel like we are into tax fraud territory

[sullen bear]

Ok but your money losing value due to inflation does count for you no?

[fair gull]

what money

lol

[lapis plaza]

yeah depend on the country you can or not do that

[sullen bear]

😭

[fair gull]

the few grand of buffer i keep?

[ashen spindle]

just means you cant subtract the entire amount but lets say you but a 3000€ pc you could still lower taxes by 1500 without providing proof potentially

[fair gull]

the rest i spend on stuff i want anyway

[sullen bear]

You have no savings?

[fair gull]

i just said i do

[lapis plaza]

when people do that it is borderline tax fraud, when big company do the same it is called tax optimization

[fair gull]

but its like 3 grand tops

[sullen bear]

Few grand buffer is emergency fund no?

[fair gull]

lifes too short and im under no illusion that ill become rich

[ashen spindle]

yeah you should look into creating some savings for retirement so you're not stuck with the massive gap from just having state pension

its not to become rich its to not be old and poor

[sullen bear]

You can make a revolut and put it into a monetary fund, that is insured up till 20k€ and at least gets you a few % per day

[fair gull]

we got some weird pension fund we have to pay into here ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[marsh glade]

*per year

[ashen spindle]

I doubt the dutch pension is enough unless wooting forces a good enough plan onto you?

[sullen bear]

No its paid daily

[marsh glade]

Not a few percent

[fair gull]

like i said there is an extra pension i have to pay into

[sullen bear]

Fair, overly simplified

Its still a % just lower 😛

I have it in a gbp fund for highest %

[marsh glade]

Wooting is forced into a very expensive pension fund scheme due to the fact we sell D2C.
Which is fantastic for Tony, but worse for someone who wants to take a more active approach in their own financial management

[ashen spindle]

okay so its as it should, save the unwilling at the cost of the willing xD

[lapis plaza]

everyday you have free money?

[sullen bear]

Yea

50£ per month at this rate

[ashen spindle]

thats how interest works yes

[lapis plaza]

that is good wow

[sullen bear]

But i only have this filled until its max insured rate

Lets say revolut goes under, ill at least get 100% of my money back

[lapis plaza]

ok what do you need to do to have that?

Is it only in your country?

[ashen spindle]

its literally just a savings account at a bank

[sullen bear]

No

Savings are only 1-2%

[ashen spindle]

depends on the bank

[sullen bear]

This is a monetary fund you buy into

At revolut

But its “free”

[ashen spindle]

why not just get a money market etf at that point

[sullen bear]

Thats not insured

I do have that too

[lapis plaza]

so they pay you for letting them keep your money?

[sullen bear]

Yep

[lapis plaza]

and you can get back your money at any time?

[sullen bear]

I was just talking about the safest options because tony doesnt want to invest

[sullen bear]

Yeah

[lapis plaza]

well it is very good

[sullen bear]

But not in weekends if you have a free plan

Or well you can, at a slight cost

[lapis plaza]

is the tax office taking a part on the free money?

[sullen bear]

Just check if you can make a revolut and you’ll see if it works

[sullen bear]

In NL we’re tax free on investments below 70K iirc?

[lapis plaza]

here I dont know

but honestly I am not good at all with money investment all these things

[ashen spindle]

its not different from just going to any bank or online brooker with a deposit that gets you 3% or more and then just change to keep the higher %

[sullen bear]

Most e-banks make it simple and easy for you

Then you just have to do some self research to see what is safe and what the limits are according to law

[lapis plaza]

yeah I will check revolut I know it exists here

[sullen bear]

They make it simple and easy for you because they make more off your money than you get back from them

[ashen spindle]

just look at your current bank what they have before looking at something else

[ashen spindle]

thats just any bank

[sullen bear]

Yeah but some like to screw you over too

[lapis plaza]

the thing is that I dont want the money to be stucked for years in case I need it

[sullen bear]

Most trad banks thats the case in NL but with ebanks thats generally less so

[lapis plaza]

yeah I will check what my bank and something like revolut have and see if it could work for me

[halcyon moss]

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1sz9li4/invisible_bend_insensitive_bidi_fiber_is_amazing/

[ashen spindle]

wonder how durability is

[fair gull]

if there was rj45 compatible connectors id actually be using this already

but i dont wanna run another switch in my room just to connect 2 pcs

[topaz schooner]

🥺 💅

[worn marlin]

one of those are going to be on my setup, might be a bit expensive, but i think those touch pads are going to be good for a lot of games, especially inventory management, i am afraid the controller is too big for my hands though

[analog sinew]

yea i might get one

[topaz schooner]

Yeah, it is pretty big.

[analog sinew]

doesnt it mostly look big cause it fills out the croissant

the overall width doesnt seem that much bigger

[topaz schooner]

But I don't think it will be a problem.

[analog sinew]

on the bigger side but not extreme

[worn marlin]

I hope some shops will have it, so i can try it out first

[topaz schooner]

I don't think they will be sold in shops.

[worn marlin]

nor do steamdecks, yet here we are

i think some places import them to save the issues of importing and help reduce fee's

[frozen ingot]

I was thinking finally a controller that looks designed for adult hands

[analog sinew]

from an aesthetic point of view the angled squares irk me but i get why they are that way

[worn marlin]

hey i am an adult 😮
but i was thinking more in small hands and artheritis could be an issue, joypads are often a problem, too small and my hands can't handle it, too large and my hands can't handle it.

[lapis plaza]

It is good you guys think about it while still being young

Growing older you end up regretting not avoiding articular issues

[heady hazel]

@dull hollow i kid you not this was all that was wrong with my car in the end damn 12€ relay i got on ebay

[mild dome]

Anyone got experience with lighthouse VR controllers like the Valve Vive Knuckles? I am looking for recommendations.

[misty bronze]

they actually can be in display, you just have to be in a cool country like japan

[misty bronze]

the knuckles aren't readily available anymore so it's kinda hard to recommend

shiftall are making a couple lighthouse controllers

[mild dome]

I can see some stuff on ebay for the Knuckles, but I found a used pair reportedly in good condition that costs $240+45shipping
I saw the gripvr, and flipvr, and they seem to do all the same stuff. Which would you think is the better deal?

[misty bronze]

knuckles aren't the most reputable for durability, and it doesn't help that it'll be difficult to get proper support on them now

[crystal orbit]

If I get a usb c adapter to lightning can I then connect it to my iPhone and it would work sorry for asking here I didn’t know where to ask (wooting uwu)

[worn marlin]

yep in Denmark too 🙂

[misty bronze]

my knuckles are horribly drifting and it's really a matter of time for it to drift with those joycon joysticks

[mild dome]

That should work, as far as I recall lightning just uses the USB 2.0 protocol

[ashen spindle]

wait for the frame imo

[misty bronze]

if you are looking for a new headset, for sure

they specifically asked for a lighthouse controller so i just assumed they already have a different headset

and already have base stations

[mild dome]

I've already got the lighthouses, so waiting for the frame is a bit silly

Would you recommend the flipvr or gripvr? I suppose it depends on the games you play, but might as well ask

[crystal orbit]

I mean if I got a adapter worked would the wooting uwu work?

[misty bronze]

i haven't used either of them for extended time, only really tried it at demoes before

that being said, i think flipvr is the more versatile one for social vr, and also just using your keyboard and stuff for example

can't speak for if it's good for intense sessions in boneworks or something

another consideration is just using vive or tundra trackers on some other solution

i'm personally going to get the frame and probably never use my index and base stations again

[ashen spindle]

my recommendation is still waiting for the frame even if someone has base stations, can always just sell them

[misty bronze]

from reviews so far, I heard that the sizing feels like between a ps controller and xbox controller, so it seems like it's not as much of an issue as people are thinking it'll be based off of the looks

[mild dome]

Why should I wait for the Steam Frame? For the inside out tracking?

[misty bronze]

imo just a more seamless and convenient experience

convenience is really significant to how often you'll end up actually getting in vr in my experience

[ashen spindle]

better all around experience unless you have like one of the tethered super expensive things like the pimax crystal for racing sims or such

[worn marlin]

sounds good, i can somewhat use my ps5 controller, i don't have an xbox controller, but have an 8bitdo ultimate 2c (switch controller) i think its about the same size as xbox, i have a bit of troubles with the 8bitdo.

i do think most controllers are made with men in mind though

[mild dome]

I have purchased the Pimax.

I have also backed the Fluxpose, but that (hopefully) will arrive later in the year. I presume I could maybe use the Fluxpose to entirely replace the lighthouses later on.

[misty bronze]

unfortunately that's the more common demogrpahic for these products so yeah

[misty bronze]

based fluxpose backer

eventually using fluxpose tracked controllers could be a very nice option too

i think index controller might make sense if it's as a temporary solution until fluxpose or frame or whatever arrives

[mild dome]

Can the fluxpose replace the lighthouses for tracking, or would it still need it for the VR goggles to act as a reference point?

[misty bronze]

the headset needs to track itself somehow

so if the headset can only track off of lighthouse you'll need lighthouse still

if the headset is self tracking via cameras, then fluxpose can replace all other tracking

fluxpose tracks off of the beacon which is suppose to act as your hip tracker, so the beacon needs a reference point to base all other tracking off which'll be your headset, so with fluxpose you put one tracker on the headset

[tribal dirge]

fluxpose is a bit strange but it works, technically the lighthouse is the beacon on your hip

but the lighthouse knows where it is relative to your body

because it has its own tracking via gyro and IMU

and then the sensors around your body track themselves relative to the beacon on your hip

[misty bronze]

the beacon doesn't track itself

[tribal dirge]

because it doesnt need to.

all fluxpose needs to know is your body XY pose and your individual tracker XY pose in the coordinate space of the beacon

[misty bronze]

yes i explained how it works above, your statement on beacon tracking via gyro and imu is inaccurate

[tribal dirge]

strange, so if its all realtive to beacon for the smaller trackers, how does it do whole body XY translation?

or XYZ for that matter plus pitch yaw and roll

[misty bronze]

i explained just above

[tribal dirge]

ok so beacon positions itself using positional data from headset?

[misty bronze]

yes

[tribal dirge]

using the coordinate space of the headset and transforms it into its own coordinate space?

[misty bronze]

something like that, the fluxpose trackers only knows its position relative to the beacon, and therefore relative to each other

[mild dome]

Maybe I should've bought the Pimax SLAM version, but then again they seem to be having some delays with that model

AnyhooI I think, I've got a spot where I can just leave the base stations

[tribal dirge]

using a transformation matrx?

[tribal dirge]

yeah so transofrmations between coordinate spaces is required, which is fine tbh

which is all relative to headset

[misty bronze]

yes it works very well

but the headset still does need to be tracked, so if the headset can't track itself, you'll still need lighthouses

[mild dome]

So if I am getting the Fluxpose, should I still consider the flip/gripvr or aim for something else?

[misty bronze]

if you're keeping around the lighthouse regardless due to the headset, there isn't that much reason to rush to have your controllers tracked by fluxpose

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, also another weird thing I guess is that your transformation matrix of the headset coordinates to beacon coordinates is constantly changing, because you can bend rotate your head relative to your hip. So I am curious as to how it can compensate for that since everything it measures is relative to your headset.

[misty bronze]

all first hand experience i've heard of seems to not have an issue with this so i wouldn't worry about

[tribal dirge]

Nono, not saying there is something wrong with that, but I'm curious as to how they do it.

Because it's genuinely an interesting problem that they solved here

[misty bronze]

you just put a tracker on the headset

[tribal dirge]

Right but the beacon also needs to know where it is via its own sensors

[mild dome]

Suppose I just gotta decide if I want the Grip or Flip from shiftfall

[tribal dirge]

In order to create the transformation matrix

[misty bronze]

the beacon knows where the headset is relative to itself because of a tracker on the headset

that means the beacon also knows where itself is relative to the headset

and if it knows where the headset is it can figure out the rest

[tribal dirge]

Right but what happens if I move my hips and not my head?

Let's imagine a hypothetical scenario where you only moved your hips but your head stayed absolutely still

The only way that you can create a new transformation matrix is to get positional data from the beacon itself

Relative to the still movement of the headset

[misty bronze]

i'm not exactly sure which part you're confused about, the beacon just knows it moved relative to the headset

and if the headset, which is tracked separately, isn't moving

that means the beacon is the one that's moving

[tribal dirge]

By what mechanism though?

[misty bronze]

??

[tribal dirge]

By mechanism I mean what is it doing between the headset and beacon? Is it cameras? IMUs? Or SLAM?

[misty bronze]

with the same mechanism as all the other trackers

like i said like 3 times now, you place one of the tracker on the headset

[tribal dirge]

Oh ok that makes a lot more sense

😭

[misty bronze]

i've literally said 😔

[tribal dirge]

I thought you meant an IMU already built into the headset

Mb bro

[misty bronze]

imu trackers are nowhere near accurate enough

standalone headsets are all slam tracked as far as i know

[tribal dirge]

I guess I should have said whatever tracking the headset used,

Ok I see how it works now

Makes a lot more sense

[misty bronze]

here are examples of how it'd be mounted

[polar juniper]

Considering switching my headset out for IEMs and a clip-on mic of I’m not able to get ahold of some other stuff. Does anyone have recommendations for a set and a DAC.

[distant tapir]

#🌐│pc_gear

[misty bronze]

just letting you know that I can't find where i heard that statement from, so I may be remembering wrong

[lunar elm]

for dac i recommend apple dongle and thats it

[tribal dirge]

Yeah that makes way more sense

[tribal dirge]

This tbh

[vivid wigeon]

Actually anything using a CX31993 is generally better than the apple dongle because it supports higher bitrate and frequency+ it doesn't have volume issues on Android

This is the one i use. It's the same one as the moondrop one except without any branding (even has the moondrop VID in device manager)

[tribal dirge]

Volume issues on Android is because the phone itself cannot supply enough power

That's the fault of the phone not the dongle itself

Ban this guy!!!!!

[misty bronze]

thanks mods

[vivid wigeon]

ok well why does every single dongle except for the apple one have normal volume then

it's only the apple dongle that's quiet

[tribal dirge]

Depends on the model too tbh

The EU model can only do 0.5V

[misty bronze]

apple dongle in the EU has less power

[tribal dirge]

The US model can do 1V

So my Apple dongle is plenty powerful for all my IEMs

[misty bronze]

people usually don't recommend apple dongles if in eu

[tribal dirge]

I think Apple dongle is 0.5V in EU because of some obscure regulation

I forgot what it was tho

[misty bronze]

yeah something like that

[distant tapir]

Apple dongle does 24 bit 48 kHz which is already behind human hearing in reasonable scenarios

[tribal dirge]

Yeah 48k is plenty

Heck 44.1k is the standard

For 95% of content out there on the internet

And actually if you ran the dongle at a diff sampling rate than the source then it has to be re-sampled by the audio API which introduces loss of detail.

[misty bronze]

games and stuff are usually 48 iirc

anyways it doesn't matter

[tribal dirge]

Yeah, usually stuff like music and videos is 44.1kHz

[vivid wigeon]

i have the apple dongle here somewhere so i can check but yeah that's kind of the point. apple doesn't have a lot of options for the sample rate so depending on what your audio source is you might run into this issue

[misty bronze]

if you got more than 44.1k you shouldn't be worrying

[vivid wigeon]

for some professional applications you'd use 96khz

[distant tapir]

Not for playback

That's for mixing

[misty bronze]

higher can makes sense if it's source audio meant for mixing

[tribal dirge]

Very rarely used for playback.

[vivid wigeon]

idk i have mine set to 48khz because games yes but i'm not sure if the apple dongle has both that and 44.1khz as options

[misty bronze]

i believe with phones they just output whatever the source is

[distant tapir]

96 kHz is very pointless for playback. Higher can even potentially be harmful

[tribal dirge]

The USB-C version can do 44.1K and 48K both 16 and 24 bit

Lighting version is 48K only

[vivid wigeon]

i mean in general the cs31993 dongles are just higher build quality than the apple one (at least the one i have) and cost the same + support more bit rates and sample rates so it's kind of a no brainer imo

[tribal dirge]

Resampling issues yeah

[tribal dirge]

Here Apple dongle is cheaper :P

At least in the states

[vivid wigeon]

idk here the apple dongle is 12 euros and the CX31993 is 11 but you also get a box and c to a adapter

[gusty kiln]

apple dongle kinda flimsy though

just get the cheapest with the better build

[tribal dirge]

Yeah ts fair

[misty bronze]

apple dongle will just kill itself if you shove it in your pocket often

[vapid ruin]

I mean, if you're really worried about the quality, get something that allows you to replace the usb cable, that's usually where it'll fail

[misty bronze]

btw i shill for qudelix 5k

[gusty kiln]

something with at least some sleeving than the bare rubber of the apple dong

[misty bronze]

bluetooth support and onboard peq

[vivid wigeon]

my main issue with it is the rubber that apple uses for the cable and stress relief tends to turn bad after a while and discolors and start to flake off + the internal wire will break giving you popping issues and disconnects

[tribal dirge]

Yeah sonic frequencies can be an issue

[gusty kiln]

yeah

I mean if you have shrink wrap laying around, it's a good way to bulk up an apple dong lol

[vivid wigeon]

also glossy plastic is kind of an ick for me because it scratches so easily

[misty bronze]

that's what i did to the apple dong in my car

it's been lasting years thanks to that

[vivid wigeon]

i used electrical tape and just wrapped it like the tennis racket grips lol

[distant tapir]

My Apple dongle I bought several years ago is still going strong g

[gusty kiln]

The TRN Black pearl has been getting hype for a cheap dong where you need a lot more power

[vivid wigeon]

you don't really need more power with IEM's usually though

can even be bad because you lose granularity with volume selection and if you accidentally set the volume too high you can blow up the drivers

if you're using 80 ohm headphones then sure get something with more power

[tribal dirge]

What's the voltage?

[reef patrol]

Why Discord. Why the fuck do you suddenly feel the need to force haptic every time I post an emoji.

Genuinely wtf.

[tribal dirge]

Lmao?

[reef patrol]

Yep.

[misty bronze]

what

[vivid wigeon]

oh you mean like on your phone keyboard?

[reef patrol]

Da fone go buzz buzz when you click an emoji

Bad vibes, Mon.

[tribal dirge]

Lowk dun got that on iOS at least

Ts strange

[reef patrol]

Just wait. It'll come

[distant tapir]

Being 80 ohm doesn't mean it's hard to drive

[tribal dirge]

Ohms lowk don't matter, sensitivity does

[gusty kiln]

lol got timed out trying to post a shortened amazon link

[tribal dirge]

Like I've seen headphones that are under 100 ohm and aren't very sensitive so they require a lot of power to drive

[gusty kiln]

Operating voltage:
4.5v-5.25v from their website

[tribal dirge]

Hmm, that's USB input voltage, more curious about output votage

[gusty kiln]

up to 4vrms on balanced

[tribal dirge]

Ooo nice

[gusty kiln]

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Pearl-Decoder-CS43131-Portable/dp/B0FD3G2613/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=hlIOG&content-id=amzn1.sym.a9c4acee-9ca0-46be-bae3-532a2b4b0d29%3Aamzn1.symc.5a16118f-86f0-44cd-8e3e-6c5f82df43d0&pf_rd_p=a9c4acee-9ca0-46be-bae3-532a2b4b0d29&pf_rd_r=KXRPSTSKHYJ4H5W7XV76&pd_rd_wg=SnTCH&pd_rd_r=a6431708-486a-45d6-b585-c2322ab2a1d4&th=1

it's like half the price of comparable big dongs

[distant tapir]

Whenever I see low impedance headphones I brace myself for the sensitivity

If I see a headphone that is for example 200 ohm then I feel like I don't even need to look at the sensitivity because usually they are not hard to drive

«You need a powerful amp to get full use out of your HD800S»

[tribal dirge]

Lmaoooo

Literally cope

[gusty kiln]

it should be 102 DB/V not mW

should still be relatively easy to drive

[distant tapir]

Ah yeah. But that's still easy

[gusty kiln]

think you need at least something like the FiiO KA11, 22mW @300 ohms, for the HD800S

[vapid ruin]

yesss, just more power to reach the full potential of hd600

[steady sail]

https://x.com/noctua_at/status/2049826460676837689?s=46

Noctua (@Noctua_at)

Why do https://t.co/Ba5zpVGWY1 fans launch later? Black colouring additives alter the polymer’s behaviour during injection moulding, so to maintain our ultra-strict tolerances, we require completely new toolings and months of rigorous validation tests: https://t.co/BR4kpRhV6p

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[young stag]

yo does anyone here with a xm2w 4k know if theres a big difference between the frost and black

[bold sapphire]

yes

there is a big difference

[young stag]

in the build quality?

[bold sapphire]

no

color

[young stag]

ive heard the frost is like slightly more wobbly or smth so i wanted to make sure with someone who owns it idk

[pastel galleon]

saw this, very cool blog post

[fickle ore]

https://wccftech.com/intel-emib-hits-90-percent-yield-signaling-foundry-breakthrough-emib-t-scales-12x-reticle-2028/

[vagrant pagoda]

@astral haven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MEkVig19I4 fancy

[astral haven]

Been there done that (on gen 3)
Problem is the new one for pcie 5 is well over a grand

[ashen spindle]

hock tan thanks you for paying your broadcom tax

[vagrant pagoda]

I mean thats why though bought PLX

PLX and Nvidia are the only major players in pcie swtiches.

[astral haven]

#🔌│tech message

Switchtek exists

[vagrant pagoda]

nvidia dosent make anything consumer now

[astral haven]

And somehow microchip hasn't been aquired by anyone yet

[vagrant pagoda]

so dose asmedia but they arent major players

[astral haven]

Afaik they were first to gen 6

[vagrant pagoda]

before conectx?

[astral haven]

Both were oct 2025 release it seems?

Nvidia was probably first because they launch privately first

[mortal swallow]

yall i lowkey reset my bios on accident

it fixed all my problems but i dontr know what to turn back on]

like everytghjing is back to default

[reef patrol]

Does the PC boot? Then there's usually only one thing to toggle on. Maybe two.

XMP for your RAM speed. ReBar for your GPU if it isn't already enabled out of the box.

[mortal swallow]

i jus turned rebar and secure boot on just now

im tryna 9figure out if i need a new psu or not

its like ten years old

[pearl verge]

Chat i have a question

[reef patrol]

And we are unable to provide an answer till you actually pose it.

[reef patrol]

The very bedrock yawns with anticipation of your next move.

[jaunty ivy]

POV you're playing chess

[reef patrol]

[sullen bear]

Check the psu tierlist

[lunar elm]

dontasktoask.com

[mortal swallow]

Second thought I don't wanna get through all of this

Holy cable management

[analog sinew]

✂️

[sullen bear]

Fix it man, fix it once and you have less headaches in the future

Not perfect but at least getting to everything is easy now

[smoky parrot]

It's because of the RGB board

Proof that RGB makes everything worse

[sullen bear]

Mine has full rgb too

Ah u meant the hub, i have a fan hub bottom left, would prefer a compact rgb hub somewhere maybe

[woeful elm]

Will Wooting upgrade their switches in software
To do minimal adjust actuation to 0.05 ?

[vapid ruin]

0,1 already good enough

[rough osprey]

i need dust to actuate my switches

[lapis plaza]

https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-may-be-preparing-steam-machine-stock-as-game-consoles-reach-us-warehouse

[umbral heron]

I mean, Steam Machine in updates suggests it may be Machine, but it may as well be Frame at this point

[lapis plaza]

Yeah

This is going to cost 1000 euros I think

[umbral heron]

Also also
I don't get the people who say that they'd prefer Steam Controller without touchpads even though they haven't used it
Like... I'm buying it because it has touchpads
There's multum of other controllers without touchpads out there, let us have this one

[lapis plaza]

I know I wouldnt use the touchpad

I hate touchpad

Well now maybe for game like stellaris it would be ok

[rough osprey]

make steam controller with normal layout

[misty bronze]

controller trackpads my beloved

[rough osprey]

not the playstation one...

[misty bronze]

horipad for steam

[umbral heron]

It has normal layout

[rough osprey]

👎

[misty bronze]

horipad for steam got asym layout, has capacitive sticks and gyro, and full steam input compatability

[marsh glade]

It's fine Cals, let the scrubs whine while we get to enjoy our absolute peak couch gaming controllers

[lapis plaza]

A touchpad will never replace a mouse I feel

[misty bronze]

it won't

but can you use a mouse while lounging back on your couch?

[nimble arch]

Can't wait to rub my pads while gaming on the Steam Controller

[lapis plaza]

Which games are you going to play with the steam controller touchpad?

[marsh glade]

Something something South Park

[marsh glade]

Kodi

[rough osprey]

i only use controller for forza soo

[misty bronze]

i've played the portal series with og steam controller

[rough osprey]

dont think i could use touch pads for that

[marsh glade]

I've played 1 and 2, and coop with the steam controller, excellent experience

[misty bronze]

i don't have friends for coop

but otherwise yeah great experience

[lapis plaza]

Ok apart from the prestige of owning a valve controller I think the 8bit is better for people not needing touchpad

[marsh glade]

The Steam Controller brings all the boys to the yard

[misty bronze]

if you aren't using any of the unique features i wouldn't recommend the steam controller either

there are cheaper and or better feeling options out there

[lapis plaza]

Well I know I wont use the touchpad but the controller seems nice

[craggy harness]

depends on who you're asking i guess

[lapis plaza]

Honestly peace in the world will never happen when you see people going tribal for a controller 😭

[misty bronze]

i find symmetrical to be more versatile for conventionally non controller games

as in, when i play soundvoltex on controller

the joysticks becomes the knob and doesn't really make sense being asym

[lapis plaza]

There is a reason for the asymetrical design you want the button on the right side at the same level as the left stick

[misty bronze]

for games that is played like that sure it might be considered better, but there are also games where you play mainly with both joysticks or dpad and face buttons

[craggy harness]

symmetrical allows you to operate everything without releasing any of the 2 sticks, while on an asymmetrical one you'll always have to let go of one of the 2 sticks to operate the D-pad, so it's quite simple which is superior per design 😄

[misty bronze]

how do you use the dpad without releasing sticks on either

[misty bronze]

oh

right i've seen some people do that

not something i've ever tried or even considered doing yet

[craggy harness]

if you wanna go extreme you'll use your middle fingers for the upper back buttons and the ring fingers for the triggers

[misty bronze]

the back buttons helps to have options too

i usually just put common face button functions to the back and it's typically enough

[misty bronze]

honestly i wish controllers experimented using those fingers more

[lapis plaza]

Best way to game is with a razer naga in each hand

[misty bronze]

why not on each foot too

[lapis plaza]

Also

[craggy harness]

https://tenor.com/view/no-game-no-life-ngnl-anime-gif-9227848

[misty bronze]

season 2 when

[craggy harness]

going by S1 and then the movie and how it messed the timeline plus the time since both of those i really doubt we'll ever see a second season tbh

[misty bronze]

hey a man can dream

i hope the new steam controller trackpads will be noticeably easier to use than the steam deck

steam deck never fully filled my steam controller itch

also I hope the tmr sticks will be significantly more accurate so I can just feel less bad on joysticks

and gyro should be a lot better not being tied to a heavy handheld

[umbral heron]

Movie is before S1 by timeline, it's about how it all started and how now the world is ruled by those who are better in games
By books it's a 6th volume, then it continues on with Sora's and Shiro's story in 7th volume, and currently we are on volume 12 or 13 iirc
Also half of the book was cut from the movie, pacing is a bit different
Also fuck Jibril

13th volume released on 24th this month

[worn marlin]

I won't hold you to it, i'll be checking the shops first anyways, i often try and buy in physical stores if possible to help support them (unless their prices are unreasonable, then i dont mind paying a little bit extra)

[vagrant pagoda]

i actually use foot petals for most games XD

[misty bronze]

racing games?

[vagrant pagoda]

fps

[misty bronze]

[vagrant pagoda]

been playing arma for decades

[misty bronze]

don't know arma enough to know the significance of that and foot pedals

[vagrant pagoda]

arma allows analog input for lean

[misty bronze]

intriguing

[vagrant pagoda]

use it in arma and tarkov

[misty bronze]

how does it handle that api wise?

[vagrant pagoda]

you set it in controls like any other control

[misty bronze]

xinput doesn't have enough axis assuming the rest is used for the usual right

i see

[vagrant pagoda]

why would you use xinput for something that isnt a xbox controller?

xinput literally emulates a xbox controller

[misty bronze]

you're right, not familiar enough with racing rigs

[vagrant pagoda]

it isnt a racing game

[misty bronze]

i assumed you use pedals from one though?

[vagrant pagoda]

no

[misty bronze]

are there readily available analog foot pedals out there?

[vagrant pagoda]

i use flight sim rudder pedals

[misty bronze]

oh

i'm just not familiar enough with the sim hardware game i guess

[vagrant pagoda]

you want symmetrical pedals, driving pedals arent

xinput is only for making a device work with a console port game that dosent have actual joystick support

any good pc game will support directinput

[misty bronze]

is analog leaning actually significant in that game?

my experience with leaning was when pubg was good(or less bad) and the meta was to just spam them to make head shots harder lol

[vagrant pagoda]

i mean you have to lean in steps or lean+mouse wheel

arma is realism not arcade shooter

[misty bronze]

oh so you just don't get a choice in that sense

[vagrant pagoda]

you cant just wiggle lean, there is aceleration and decel on movment

[misty bronze]

i don't think pubg is typically considered an arcade shooter too, but maybe comparatively it is

[vagrant pagoda]

pubg is closer to arcade than realism

[nimble arch]

I miss the early PUBG days when it was scuffed.

60 FPS if you were lucky.

One map.

Good times though.

[misty bronze]

the game doesn't seem relevant anymore

i see sponsorships of pubg mobile once in a while and that's about it

[vagrant pagoda]

if youre not tracking rounds in each mag it isnt realism

if it just has a round count for ammo and you pull full magazines out of hammer space its arcade

[misty bronze]

so cs2 got closer to realism with that logic

don't question how they just stand on top of each other

[vagrant pagoda]

cs2 is ammo counter

[misty bronze]

learning new fps subgenres

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/mfg-mf-ghost-fog-gt86-toyota-gif-27343654

what bro expects us to be doin

[misty bronze]

i do the drone part of that

i enjoy fpv sims

[lunar elm]

yeah did you know if you step on all 3 pedals you take a screenshot /s

[vagrant pagoda]

lean lets you only expose your gun/head from a corner

[misty bronze]

yeah i understand that

[vagrant pagoda]

lean+shoulder swaping is a big part of why it feels more real

irl you wouldnt just step to the left and right rapidly to peak

youd lean out

[misty bronze]

yes i understand that

actually not the shoulder swapping part, so do you switch which side you hold the gun on

[vagrant pagoda]

yes

normal is right, but if you lean to the left with gun on right you cant go far

[misty bronze]

what's usually the control for swapping

just a key?

[vagrant pagoda]

crtl a

i have different binds though

arma controls are a cluster so you eityher change them or study

[vagrant pagoda]

have this monstrosity https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/107410/manuals/Arma_3_keylayout_ENG.pdf

[sullen bear]

Tarkov is also quite nice

[vagrant pagoda]

i only play spt/fika mostly but yeah

[sullen bear]

Someday ill play spt

[misty bronze]

i see

[vagrant pagoda]

its better than ever

[sullen bear]

Wont you have to downgrade tarkov to run it now

[vagrant pagoda]

they have a mod to make a second pc/client the raid host headlessly

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah but the content has been backported.

[misty bronze]

so by default is lean just q and e?

[vagrant pagoda]

well not quests

but they are working on quests

but with headless, pve is better than 1.0

you can have a 60fps host even with 30+ ai bots

[misty bronze]

i'm taking that pubg controls were pretty heavily inspired by arma but dumbed down

[sullen bear]

I had like 400 fps on eft sp

[vagrant pagoda]

zero shot

[sullen bear]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802650580354203648/1345426160275947540/image.png?ex=69f62041&is=69f4cec1&hm=a49015deedbcb8f069fcc97c017bab3a54ff80c1d26b80723c4ad450c5a42d98&

[vagrant pagoda]

oh you mean 1.0 pve. cant really compare, the bots in spt are way way better

[sullen bear]

No

This was pre 1.0

[vagrant pagoda]

is that frame gen? pve on offical was single threaded

[sullen bear]

You cant do frame gen on eft no?

Even with smoothmotion its blocked iirc

[vagrant pagoda]

you can on pve as you can disable be]

[sullen bear]

But no

Wasnt the case

[vagrant pagoda]

but still, pve is single threaded, no shot i belive its actually 400fps. even wth top end cpus you can barely get mid 100s

[sullen bear]

Idk what to tell u the screenshot doesnt lie

[vagrant pagoda]

they 100% can XD

[sullen bear]

Streets i was already getting 150

[vagrant pagoda]

streets isnt local

getting 150 on pve is hard

like 9800x3d+128gb hard

[sullen bear]

I have 64gb

and a 9800x3d

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/620609003667456001/1349060513283182682/image.png?ex=69f58142&is=69f42fc2&hm=85ce17bcf6fe91731c4c7d06475f37339f76322e2d6be5ad0eb0112a2cef9170&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2244&height=1262
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/620609003667456001/1349058334136729612/image.png?ex=69f57f3b&is=69f42dbb&hm=99abdaf59db4d06140d657fd7f857ff1d354cbb48938080ab91e472ecb2c4355&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2244&height=1262

[vagrant pagoda]

im saying that if you magiclly getting 400 fps on pve when everyone else is lucky to get 100 with the same hardware

[sullen bear]

Skill issue I suppose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFsI6uYGmo

[vagrant pagoda]

"skill issue" that even the dev as admitted is an engine issue

[sullen bear]

this guy already gets 230 first 5 min

and his vram is maxed out

[vagrant pagoda]

thats pvp

pvp = ai on server, pve = ai on pc

and its single threaded so it bottle necks on a single core

a 9800x3d+4090 is lucky to get 150 on pve

[pale sigil]

It ran pretty well when I was testing my cousin's new build with a 5070

I did do pvp though

[vagrant pagoda]

yeah pvp is fine

the issue with pve is the ai is loaded in the same thread as the rest of the game

[sullen bear]

is smoothmotion in pvp now?

idk, dont have any money in this so I dont care much more, but I hit 400 fps in pve tarkov, outside of interchange, no clue why others cant hit it

[vagrant pagoda]

because that information isnt accurate somehow

[sullen bear]

they changed interchange so cant rlly test it either

[wheat plume]

Valve recently got a load os shipments labelled "Game Console"

Which means Machine or Frame... though why classify the Machine as a console? when they mention how its a PC too in their product page

[marsh glade]

CBP doesn't care what you market it as

[wheat plume]

Tarrifs in the US are higher on Game Consoles than on PCs and PC parts

[marsh glade]

Are you just saying that or do you know that to be true?

If the latter, what are the HS codes in question?

[wheat plume]

I heard that in the video I saw about this... xd

also
I want Steam Streaming to work when the monitor on the host machine is not on ;-;
Please....

[marsh glade]

Right, because that video creator is definitely an import specialist

[wheat plume]

why must I have my monitor on to stream games from that PC?!

[pale sigil]

You don't

[misty bronze]

i believe sunshine/moonlight works without a monitor

[pale sigil]

I've told her this before

[wheat plume]

you do

Ive turned off my monitor and tried to stream and it didnt work

[misty bronze]

you can probably use virtual display drivers if you want to make it work with steam's built in streaming

[tribal dirge]

like US HTS code?

[marsh glade]

Indeed

[wheat plume]

WAIT NOW YOU CAN TURN THE MONITOR OFF....after you confirm the connection on host PC

[misty bronze]

[wheat plume]

Wait wtf now it isn't working again

[misty bronze]

i didn't suggest trying that because i assumed you already did with how you were so confident in the complaint

[wheat plume]

I did it before and it didn't work

And now it's not working again after that first try just now

Is it dependant on the game??

[misty bronze]

no idea

[wheat plume]

PRAGMATA worked but not distance

[misty bronze]

anyways i think games and gpu typically just needs to see a display driver to output to, so making it work without would be extra development for valve requiring implementation of a virtual display

i could see them considering it with enough requests though

so probably should complain to them instead of here

maybe the steam machine and steam frame will increase the demand too

[wheat plume]

Distance only works as controller
Blank screen on deck but it controls the game on my monitor

[misty bronze]

i'd try playing around with display settings like fullscreen/windowed

[wheat plume]

O
Same for indigo park

[crimson wigeon]

No reason why it wouldn't work

[pale sigil]

Auto dim

@wheat plume you can also use virtual monitors now I think

Without needing third party software

[wheat plume]

Ooo???

[wheat plume]

which recording format might be best on a fully AMD system on Fedora????

[sinful harbor]

depends if u want to share it

[umbral heron]

On RDNA3 and newer AV1, on older HEVC

[wheat plume]

Regular or AV1 10bit?!

[sinful harbor]

again it depends on what you need

there's no single best solution for everything

[wheat plume]

just to record and maybe upload to youtube

[sinful harbor]

do u play HDR?

[wheat plume]

my monitor has the fake HDR spec... so I always leave it off

[sinful harbor]

what gpu do u have?

[wheat plume]

not sure if having VRR enabled will interefer with a 60FPS recording?

[sinful harbor]

just use regular AV1

u don't use HDR and 10bit is overkill

[wheat plume]

whats the upload limit for this server without nitro?? I know its boosted but is it 100mb?

[steady sail]

8mb ?

[sinful harbor]

100

[steady sail]

no boost no nitro

[sinful harbor]

the server is boosted to level 3

unlocks 100mb for everyone

[steady sail]

yeah but she asked without

and that is 10mb

[sinful harbor]

ur illiterate and it's 8 not 10

[wheat plume]

yeh..thats what I thought, but do you still need nitro for that?

[sinful harbor]

nope

[wheat plume]

yeh but that gets overwritten when the server is boosted

[sinful harbor]

100MB for the server