🔌│tech

[halcyon moss]

usd? HK? AUS?

[runic valve]

Usd

[ashen spindle]

https://www.newegg.com/acer-america-aspire-14-0-yes-intel-arc-140v-32gb-memory-1-tb-ssd-gray/p/1TS-000X-063G2 something like this would be probably the best option at the 1k price range, great laptop for low power things with a gpu thats about similar in performance as the 1660

[runic valve]

Thanks for the recommendation mister!

[ashen spindle]

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-aero-x16-16-geforce-rtx-5060-laptop-gpu-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-wqxga-16gb-memory-1tb-pcie-gen4-nvme-m-2-ssd-ssd/p/N82E16834233615 and something like that for closer to the 1500 range if a stronger gpu is needed

[runic valve]

Are you sure the 16gb of ram might be good for future proofing?

[ashen spindle]

at that price range, yes

[umbral heron]

Aero X16s also have 2 SODIMM slots, so you can add more RAM in future

[ashen spindle]

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-16-0-geforce-rtx-5060-laptop-gpu-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-wqxga-32gb-memory-1-tb-nvme-ssd/p/N82E16834233621 same laptop with 32gb goes above the 1.5k range

16gb will be fine unless you like idk, start doing work in areas like fluid dynamics or such that need a lot more

[runic valve]

I asked Ai for what it thinks about the specs and the ai is lowkey tripping

[ashen spindle]

yes dont ask ai

[runic valve]

🥲

Might be true idk

[ashen spindle]

its not even close to accurate

because laptop gpus despite the same naming as the desktop parts are not the same

[runic valve]

Oh!!

Thanks!!

Buying a laptop is such a hassle..

(First laptop purchase of his life btw)

[umbral heron]

As much as Microslop is memeing nowadays that you need 32GB of for "no worries" usage, if you don't play Tarkov you'll be fine with 16GB

[tired sphinx]

16 is definitely still fine

but 32 is more and more becoming a norm

[runic valve]

Sigh I’m not sure if I’m gonna have to adopt 32gb..

[tired sphinx]

source: steam hardware survey april 2026

[ashen spindle]

unless you have something where you know 16gb isnt enough, you wont need more

[runic valve]

More than 64gb of ram???

They better be careful before they get robbed

[ashen spindle]

hence my example if you go study something like a physics course specialized on fluid dynamics, then you might need more

and in that case some laptops like the one I linked can just be upgraded to more ram later on

[umbral heron]

[runic valve]

GET BACK HERE

[umbral heron]

Useful for work
Absolutely useless for gaming
I think I peaked at ~23GB while gaming... and that was Tarkov

[tired sphinx]

i have 32gb and it never reaches 100% usage

[runic valve]

I’m scared to buy the ones he suggested solely because…

I’m not familiar with the brands

😭😭😭

[tired sphinx]

gigabyte and acer are well known and good brands?

but for any brand it depends on the model

[umbral heron]

Gigabyte, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, HP - Hinge Problems are usual brands for laptops

[tired sphinx]

they have really bad and decent stuff

[ashen spindle]

you can also look for other brands with the same specs

[umbral heron]

Either way it's not a no-name Chinesium, so you get warranty and RMA support when you need it

[runic valve]

I’m scared to buy anything above an 4070 because

The price..

[umbral heron]

Now, if you were looking at Ayaneo for example...

[tribal dirge]

If you do that you 100% need more

Especially for larger studies

[runic valve]

Well I have no idea what that is so I guess I don’t need it

🥹

[tribal dirge]

Apple?

[ashen spindle]

games

[tribal dirge]

Ah

If only more laptops were built like MacBooks

Only one that has gotten remotely close is microshit

But they just don't perform as good.

[woeful elm]

What is the best HE switches for Fortnite
Can someone help please?

[ashen spindle]

whatever you prefer

[lunar elm]

I'd only rly consider either Asus or Lenovo tbh, same with Dell but as always, model over brand with the sole exception of AVOIDING HP ENTIRELY

[tired sphinx]

[vagrant pagoda]

try stp

128gb normal modded useage XD

[halcyon moss]

say that to my zbook g1a ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lunar elm]

zbook? ZenBook?

ZenBook is under asus

[tribal dirge]

HP

Some models of HP laptops are actually pretty good

[halcyon moss]

no. zbook

[lunar elm]

oh I don't know of any HP laptops, every single one I've seen irl has always had a shit hinge

[tribal dirge]

Not zBook Ultra

G1a

But you do have to pay a pretty penny for HP's best

I guess it's not more popular because it's very much oriented for businesses to purchase and not consumers

[ashen spindle]

limited supply of stxh means there werent many laptops with it

[tribal dirge]

zBook Ultra uses the pro version of those chips iirc

Not sure how different they are from the regular one

[ashen spindle]

same hardware just different software validation etc.

[tribal dirge]

Ah

[ashen spindle]

but everything stxh is insanely undersupplied

[tribal dirge]

Not enough fab time?

[ashen spindle]

amd had like no faith in it selling at all

so they allocated almost nothing to it, just using it as a packaging test for zen6 packaing

[tribal dirge]

Actually there is never enough fab time what am I saying lmaoooooo

[ashen spindle]

so they had idk how much planned and left optinos for up to some amount more

and that much supply was already used in like the first week of it launching

constrainst are mostly on packaging side and just needs to be planned ahead which lags if you have sudden demands

I'm guessing at computex we will see gorgon halo as the same hardwre follow up with up to 192gb and that should have more capacity planned in

[halcyon moss]

i wonder how much faster it'll be

[ashen spindle]

about 100mhz

its a refresh with more memory and better bins, not actually new cores or anything

[halcyon moss]

meh, so still 3.5 graphics cores

[ashen spindle]

you wont get rdna5 till like 28 in igpus from amd

[unique wind]

What’s the best software to weak a pc to the lowest delay possible

[ashen spindle]

such a thing doesnt exist

[lunar elm]

“NAH. RDNA 3.5.”

[ashen spindle]

?

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/rumpelstiltskin-shrek-slide-in-slide-gif-2431866412318140482

[ashen spindle]

medusa halo/premium atm is on the 28 timeline

[lunar elm]

“ok now put rdna 3.5 in the 28 chips then put rdna5 in the 29 chips”

https://tenor.com/view/type-computer-keyboard-cat-kitten-gif-12222055

[ashen spindle]

shitposting is only funny if it makes sense

[lunar elm]

no AMD shall curse us with RDNA 3.5 longer

[ashen spindle]

thats just not how timelines work

[lunar elm]

this feels so wrong yet somehow it works

[ashen spindle]

oh no not this shit now as well

[lunar elm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193840159358976/1481915275858415739/0AFC5196-3FC4-4100-B996-41EAF73ECCFD.gif

[jaunty ivy]

Bro turned his ddr5 into ddr4

Slower than stock is crazy

[ashen spindle]

its a brainrot that comes over from the chinese forums

someone found out 4400 was doing better in I think valorant shooting range?

and now people recommend that insanity for anything its a headache

[umbral heron]

[fair gull]

works better in 1 specific scenario = always better

we all know is true quin

dont try to hide the truth

[jaunty ivy]

2200 FCLK is pretty good tho tbh

And it syncs to 4400 which is kinda funny

[umbral heron]

I think it's a good idea to not touch memory overclocking if someone only understands "higher fps in specific situation in valorant" from this

[jaunty ivy]

It's probably also a good idea to not touch memory if the only thing people understand is where it says "speed"

FCLK is probably doing most of the work and you don't often see it get so high

[ashen spindle]

yeah it accidentally maybe works in one case and is otherwise just bad

[jaunty ivy]

Yeah definitely

[ashen spindle]

god I really hope lpddr6 on desktop means memory oc is dead, I would love that

[umbral heron]

I mean it already mostly is

[jaunty ivy]

ngl ram overclocking is just gonna be limited to the IMC of your chip

Even if a kit is rated 8000+ doesn't mean your cpu will let you

[ashen spindle]

oh I dont mean dead in the sense of it doing anything, I want the functionality gone so people stop crashing their pcs lmao

[pastel galleon]

yeah, its like they ate into the threadripper territory

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1768/intel-announces-leadership-appointments-to-advance-client poached from qualcomm

[ashen spindle]

yeah no clue if that is good

[fickle ore]

me neither kek ppl say hes big

[ashen spindle]

because QC has done some uhh questionable decisions, no clue if its despite his or thanks to his influrence

but honestly long term none of this matters if they keep cancelling all their products lol

[fickle ore]

what did they cancel now ?

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/jaykihn0/status/2049875914389868964

Jaykihn (@jaykihn0)

@x86deadandback Update. DMR-HD cancelled in December.

Platform switched from 384C to 512C in July.

X · Apr 30, 2026, 3:37 PM

so both the 512c and the 384c skus are dead

as well as the mainstream DMR xeons

[fickle ore]

Whats this some rumours or waht

[ashen spindle]

so uh, the mainstream server cpus that amd releases in like a month wont have competition until 2028 lol

well I suppose technically it was a rumor but we had multiple people confirm those skus were on the roadmap originally for OEMs

[fickle ore]

All I saw was this a while ago https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1svkfdn/intels_upcoming_xeon_7_diamond_rapids_server_cpus/

[ashen spindle]

yeah thats DMR

[reef patrol]

DMR? More like.... DNR

[fickle ore]

Clearwater forest tho?

[ashen spindle]

well that e cores only, and uh, was supposed to launch last quarter but is still MIA

also the follow up to clearwater have both been canned

[tribal dirge]

Apple already uses LPDDR

Wouldn't be surprised to see them use LPDDR6 in future versions of Apple silicon desktops

[ashen spindle]

whats apple got to do with future amd/intel desktops

[tribal dirge]

Ok fair

Lowk thought you meant desktops as a whole there

😭

[ashen spindle]

nobody is ram ocíng on apple anyway xD

[tribal dirge]

Yeah there is no point

[umbral heron]

Lots of laptops with LPDDR already too

LPDDR in CAMM2 on the backside of motherboard would be so cool

[tribal dirge]

trueeeee

Not sure how fast LPDDR6 is but LPCAMM2 should be able to handle it?

[ashen spindle]

currently no

[tribal dirge]

Yeah just checked Samsungs proposed speeds

It won't be able to handle it

Realistically speaking ram packaged on the substrate is probably the way to go.

Like how Apple does it with their M series silicon

[ashen spindle]

not happening

[tribal dirge]

Hmm? Needs more fancy packaging methods?

[umbral heron]

I'm not looking forward to having to change the chip when I want to upgrade RAM

[ashen spindle]

too expensive and leaves no margins for oems

same reaosn why lunar lake is not liked by oems

[tribal dirge]

Right Cauz ram is packaged on substrate, so when it leaves final assembly you can't change it

Which is really sucky

Hmm this is an interesting problem

[ashen spindle]

most likely solution is putting more cocaine into memory engineers and make lpcamm work better

[tribal dirge]

To me the only realistic way to maybe make like an LPDDR6 compatible LPCAMM3 hypothetically speaking, kind of has to be put on the reverse side of the cpu socket? But even then the signal losses from the connections themselves will likely be too much at Samsungs proposed LPDDR6 speeds.

Or maybe invent a whole new socket where the CAMM and the CPU socket are sort of melded into one?

But that's also equally as hard and presents the exact same issues with physical connections.

Wait I wonder if the actual trace lengths would become an issue at these speeds

Ugh trace length matching is gonna be pain

[ashen spindle]

yeah thats the main issue for lpcamm2, signal integrity

the form factor is fine just signals dont like to play along and that will be the main issue forward

[tribal dirge]

No yeah when you get into higher and higher frequencies signal losses become a bigger factor due to dielectric losses

And also resistance

[ashen spindle]

thats why framework desktop has soldered ram, lpcamm couldnt get fast enough on the board

[tribal dirge]

Rip

Makes sense

[terse axle]

help

[reef patrol]

Depends on the wallpaper. Make sure it doesn't run while you're gaming.

[terse axle]

what is

oh i dont game

[old marlin]

bruh

why waste power on wallpaper engine on such a machine

[crimson wigeon]

To look cool

[terse axle]

fr

[ashen spindle]

did you just forward a question you asked in a dedicated pc help server a minute ago

[terse axle]

maybe

[umbral heron]

Does Wallpaper Engine even support macOS though?

[ashen spindle]

instead of like, waiting 2 seconds for someone to answer you there

[terse axle]

basically

[crimson wigeon]

Gotta ask everywhere for maximum answers

[terse axle]

dudes got a point

[minor citrus]

I have serious doubts about that

[terse axle]

anyways, yall know where i can get good wallpapers instead for free?

[terse axle]

i mean

my mac supports steam

so i dont see why not

[minor citrus]

Uhm

Not how it works

[terse axle]

why

how

[reef patrol]

Each app/game must also support MacOS.

[reef patrol]

Having Steam run does not mean anything on it is compatible.

[pale sigil]

Should do it for the shits and giggles

[pale sigil]

Kinda?

[reef patrol]

No.

[pale sigil]

Proton can run applications

I ran sharex through it

[ashen spindle]

nobody is talking about linux..

[pale sigil]

Oh ye duh

[terse axle]

get me one for a comp black setup pls?

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

But I thought MacOS has a similar thing

Or is that purely for games

[crimson wigeon]

Wine does exist for that OS yes

[pale sigil]

Via app store

[crimson wigeon]

You could probably try doing it like that but I bet it would barely function, if at all

[minor citrus]

The Apple Wine thingy is for games

[pale sigil]

Ah

[minor citrus]

Also Wallpaper Engine is a very specific thing, you're not emulating the Windows wallpaper system

[steady sail]

i mean the Wallpaper Engine dev is solely focuses on Windoge

[reef patrol]

It also falls heavily under "mileage may vary by game" still not "If it's on Steam, we can emulate it"

[umbral heron]

Now they made Android app, and they are reusing parts of it to port to Linux Wayland and macOS
But it's not a priority, so

[minor citrus]

Knowing a bit of macOS dev, that's probably going to be a major hack

[umbral heron]

I mean it's mostly unix handling side of things most likely

[plucky tapir]

Wasn't Microsoft adding something like Wallpaper Engine to Windows built in with animated backgrounds etc or did I dream that?

[umbral heron]

For Linux there's already KDE plugin for Wallpaper Engine, and devs said that they will help with official support if it's being worked on

[halcyon moss]

Windows used to have html backgrounds

[plucky tapir]

VLC could also play video as a background, dunno if they still can.

[umbral heron]

ACTIVE DESKTOP
FUCK ACTIVE DESKTOP

[plucky tapir]

But this was a recent thing I read, like at most 6 monthsish.

[halcyon moss]

It was kinda cool. Crashy as fuck, but cool

[umbral heron]

If you had it enabled this was your wallpaper half of the time

[minor citrus]

Yeah, those were the days...

Only topped by the version where it was somehow missing that background image

[steady sail]

[reef patrol]

No Merci

[bright briar]

so are you the one inserting the chocolate or the one saying "oooh oui i want more" ?

[steady sail]

both

[lapis plaza]

What is this brand of chocolate I recognize the packaging

[steady sail]

Merci

[lapis plaza]

🤔

I remember we had it here but didnt see it for a while now

[lapis plaza]

Oh 😍

I remember now

They were very good

[ashen spindle]

https://fixupx.com/SiESPtaTeam/status/2051359103583142282 oh lol so I guess sony somewhat said go ahead put linux on the ps5 if you want

SiESPtA Team (@SiESPtaTeam)

Linux Certified 🐧🐧🐧✅✅✅

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FixupX · May 4, 2026, 5:51 PM

[gusty kiln]

steamOS ps5 lets gooo

[minor citrus]

They did however not say, that they're not going to nuke this with the next firmware

[pale sigil]

That's awesome

[solid temple]

Can somebody tell me if i can use the Keycaps for a ANSI US Layout on a ISO German Layout Keyboard by just switching the Keycaps where the actual button for it is?

[minor citrus]

Well the ones fitting you can ofcourse, but there's stull like the Enter key you'll be missing which will not fit

[solid temple]

damn didnt thought about that the enter key is different too. Just thought about z and y

[minor citrus]

Shift is different too

And of course you'll not have your German symbols on there like ÖÄÜ

[solid temple]

im cooked. I wanted to buy the new 60HE v2 but the german layout PTB Caps are delayed on shipping

[ashen spindle]

time to learn blind typing

[solid temple]

i can type blind but sometimes u just have too look what u r typing ngl

[reef patrol]

Look for German keycaps elsewhere? 🙂

[analog sinew]

take ones from your previous kbd till they come

if you can remove those

[pastel galleon]

you can try asking if anyone knows good german ISO legend keycaps that support your layout in #🔧│keyboard_modding

[sudden imp]

People are scalping controllers 💀

The steam controller sells out and people are scalping it on eBay

Life is so cooked rn

[latent mural]

I've given up for today

might in general lmao

[pastel galleon]

yeah its annoying

at least we arent in an MCU shortage

[latent mural]

the launch left a bad taste in my mouth, Valve should have learned better from how well the steam deck oled sale went

[pastel galleon]

I tried to get one

[latent mural]

I got close enough to it and entered my address and all

just couldnt get past the continue button before it kept OOS

[ashen spindle]

wym valve should have learned? the launch went basically flawless

some error and you press continue until it works and that was all until it ran out of stock

[latent mural]

smh your right my bad gng

why would valve want to allocate properly for customers instead of a free for all, that sounds too close to commie shit

https://tenor.com/view/comunisto-dogo-gif-15433861177915232836

[ashen spindle]

what do you mean with allocate properly

[latent mural]

well I mean, they could have done the deposit they did for the steam deck, the preorder system

[ashen spindle]

what would that have changed

[latent mural]

atleast that way it would be a queue instead of a free for all wondering if you got an oder or not

sure I can always wait for an eventual stock supply

[ashen spindle]

yeah instead you had a free for all of who gets a deposit first

same result

[latent mural]

idk man, maybe it's just frustration coming out of me today for all the time I spent in the morning between classes. I just would have prefered atleast to be able to put myself somewhere in a queue and go about my day

[ashen spindle]

all that would have changed is that instead of today you would've had to button mash x days earlier to get an early allocation

[latent mural]

See but I wouldn't care where I was on the queue, I would have cared that I was able to get my order in at the very least

instead I spent the morning getting baited with stock trickles here and there

[balmy vector]

well thats what happens for a launch of something anticipated lol

itll come back in stock eventually

[sudden imp]

People are just frustrated scalpers suck

Things are expensive already and scalping adds onto the problem

[ashen spindle]

the vast majority isnt even scalpers, seeing 10 ebay listings or whatever the number is on thousands of customers getting what they want isnt really any relevant volume

[latent mural]

that is completely fair, I remember how hard it was to get a MSRP 5070ti. It's just frustrating putting this effort for a controller and not getting anywhere lmao

tough luck I guess, but still even just a queue anywhere would have been better in my opnion

[latent mural]

lmao I've taken my lunch to report ebay listings that dont clearly list a pre-sale out of spite

[ashen spindle]

yeah you need to just chill and order when restock happens some days later lol

[latent mural]

yea, I gotta study for finals next week anyway. Semester is finally over, cant wait for it

have a trip planned to Taiwan planned this break

[tired sphinx]

wooting actually has a really nice techstack

[ashen spindle]

oh hey look its already back in stock

[analog sinew]

not for me

[ashen spindle]

oh lol yeah gone again xD

[fair gull]

no

just no

[tired sphinx]

i like it personally and have lots of experience using those technologies

[marsh glade]

Ping me next time

[ashen spindle]

oh I'm not going to keep checking was just curious how it was the day after lol

[fair gull]

its back in stock

[rough osprey]

get me one

[fair gull]

https://tenor.com/view/gohine-hohino-no-hohineee-gohineee-gif-17792172174678204487

[marsh glade]

Ping meeeee

[umbral heron]

Bruh https://www.steamhardwarestock.com/

[fair gull]

then its prob gone again lol

wonder if refunds just get added back to stock

[marsh glade]

This works, thanks

Brings back memories of buying a GPU in 2021

[ashen spindle]

ah classic times of I got around queues by just manuall adding the id to my basked because they didnt check for that

[reef patrol]

Ugh... flashbacks to trying to order my 3080 on Proshop.

They kept allowing people to pre-order cards, they specifically knew wouldn't be coming. So I had to cancel like...a dozen or so orders over the course of a month.

[marsh glade]

Felt like a proper hackerman, and it worked too - got an EVGA 3070 at MSRP

[fair gull]

damn mark was so close to using browser automation tooling

we actually do browser automation for 1 or 2 specific things at wooting lol

[modern sky]

Just re did my setup at work

I would send a pic but I'm under NDA :c

Either way I got a new appreciation for laptop docks

[umbral heron]

From browser automation I only remember using auto-refresh in Wooting Hub after ordering UwU

[tired sphinx]

i used a script that spammed me whenever there was a resell ticket for the VCT Masters London finale and it worked
got a ticket for all 3 final days

[marsh glade]

Baby's first script

[sullen bear]

Yep did the same for my 5080 and 5090

Some people got ipbanned from proshop though lol

[tribal dirge]

yessssssss

[tribal dirge]

LMAO

[exotic plinth]

You botted buying gpu?

[marsh glade]

Poor man's botting

[exotic plinth]

I think to buy i will have to setup bot to buy 5090

Definetly it wont be 20k right

[sullen bear]

6090 you mean?

[exotic plinth]

@sullen bear ye i meant 6090

[steady sail]

6090 Ti Super AI

[sullen bear]

But will u get it with or without the dedicated frame gen module?

[balmy vector]

6090 will be peak with dlss 6.7

[vapid ruin]

6070tiS looking promising

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle lol + amd yearnings today

[ashen spindle]

man I have no clue wtf is pushing intel up lmaol

[fickle ore]

I'm in since $25

just enjoying the ride

Apparently APPLE fabbing deal?

[ashen spindle]

this is like the 4thm time apple deals were mentioned so I doubt it

[lunar elm]

conversations and discussions between apple, intel+samsung

all the rises in the tech industry are simply promises

[ashen spindle]

yeah but thats nothing new either

[lunar elm]

mann i bought at $19 and sold 52 and they do this kinda shit the day after

https://tenor.com/view/mclaren-oscar-piastri-lando-norris-lando-oscar-gif-15867334446823119711

[fickle ore]

lol whyd u sold

[ashen spindle]

because it honestly makes no sense its that far up

[fickle ore]

braws, vibes > logic

[ashen spindle]

there is no roadmap that shows them making any good product till like 28

[lunar elm]

finger itchy tbh

but whatever i got my side of stonks

[fickle ore]

I'd have sold prob too if it was in a tax sheltered account but I don't wanna incur taxes

[lunar elm]

oh lol

[fickle ore]

no such thing here so w/e

[rough osprey]

dont look for reasons in stock market performance

[lunar elm]

i dont see it worthwhile to buy back considering its x2 what I sold

its also hella volatile imo but yeah like yall said it does not use reason

the next big release would be NVL which is nice but it might just fall into the same trap as ARL refresh being d5 prices

[fickle ore]

Iirc both intel and amd are selling everything they can make atm so there is great demand for cpus in general

[lunar elm]

also no fucking reason for micron to also be up 10% today like dawg

[fickle ore]

So there are reasons for it e.g the fab & packaging + geopolitics story

but its super forward looking atm

[ashen spindle]

oh apparently people figured out intel does packaing for amazon ... which they have been doing for like 5 years

[fickle ore]

amazon?

[ashen spindle]

yes

gravtitron has been using emib for ages

[fickle ore]

didnt know kek

[ashen spindle]

neither did people putting money into stocks apparently lol

[fickle ore]

😄

[sinful quest]

how did you manage breaking the led while pulling switches? like this sounds almost impossible to me

[tired sphinx]

[rough osprey]

free Ai

yipieeee

[ashen spindle]

bit sensational

[fickle ore]

but but u can set efficiency mode in task manager!

[pearl verge]

Im getting a pc soon and the os is windows 11 what should i do to debloat it and have less ai and ads and make it more faster

[ashen spindle]

no

if its preinstalled just do a fresh install and disable if something pops up that you dont want

all the debloat bs is snake oil and breaks more than it helps

[rough osprey]

use ToastyOptimizer for up to 50% more fps

[fair gull]

and if you cant uninstall stuff its prob cause you didnt install the international english version but US

and yes you can still install another display language and keyboard layout

[umbral heron]

No thanks, last time I couldn't change resolution to bigger than 480p

[tired sphinx]

sounds about right

[steady sail]

[rough osprey]

but u had a lot of fps

[rough osprey]

https://youtu.be/xxpGiEZq_ZU?is=bwE1dEWFAOpdtOt1

interesting...

[pliant hill]

Hey guys is that normal I ordered the wooting on Friday and it hasn't been sent yet it's been here since Friday

[nimble arch]

You need to buy all the content from their store, only advantage is that you get higher bit rates than physical media.

It’s the platform you use if you’re super wealthy

[rough osprey]

yep seems easier then having to buy blurays and stuff

although why isnt this just an app lol

what is the device even doing

or do the movie companies not want that

with like copy protection

[nimble arch]

Probably for DRM purposes

Don’t think there’s anything Disney on their platform either

[rough osprey]

doesnt even work in ma country

[nimble arch]

I think you can get it in the UK

Not really checked that much

[tribal dirge]

I feel like the value proposition of Apple TV really isn't there esp when a lot of tvs nowadays ship with Apple WebOS which is just stripped down tvOS

The only real reason why someone would want an AppleTV is because they want to turn their dumb TV into a smart TV

[rough osprey]

nah ill always be a AppleTV guy

[lyric hatch]

If you have an iPhone/iPad/airpods the integration is pretty nice. It also has a good interface and is fast and responsive

[tribal dirge]

Apple TV as a whole is probably the best streaming box you can get

With the screen color calibration also makes it stand out

If you have an iPhone that is

[rough osprey]

wish apple would make a high bitrate streaming service

[nimble arch]

Apple TV is high bit rate versus the other platforms

It’s just their selection of content is very focused in comparison to Netflix etc

[rough osprey]

but still pretty compressed

like maybe 40mbit peak

[nimble arch]

It’s considerably less noticeable IMHO

[steady sail]

i hope we gonna see a Apple TV upgrade

[nimble arch]

Soon™

We’ll finally have AV1 decode on tvOS

[steady sail]

tho the AppleTV right now doesnt sound that bad either

[nimble arch]

I just couldn’t recommend buying one now

Unless it’s a good deal on a used/refurb model

[steady sail]

than im gonna wait for the next gen

as my TV rightnow that i got from my mom side Grandparents (both of them passed away) is relativly slow

its not unusable but i would love to see an actuall speed up

[ashen spindle]

ha I knew it

estimates beat, stock down @gusty kiln @fickle ore

[rough osprey]

denic down bruh

[ashen spindle]

wait hold

[umbral heron]

Gamba never stops

[gusty kiln]

Lmao the fake out

[ashen spindle]

yeah we are at 375 now lmao

[gusty kiln]

Is the guidance good?

[fair gull]

amd earnings that good?

[ashen spindle]

377

dunno lol

[gusty kiln]

Here da slides

Guidance is +1b over expectation

[rough osprey]

not good enough

[frozen ingot]

mr beast

[lapis plaza]

Wow winning so much money 😍

[gusty kiln]

@ashen spindle have you seen any more insights?

[ashen spindle]

no I was raiding and someone whispered me "mountain dew lines"

[gusty kiln]

Lol

[iron wave]

What is the most cost effective way to memory map extra hardware on a Raspberry Pi?

[marsh glade]

The earnings numbers are entirely irrelevant. What matters is the sellside liquidity below old lows, where people are willing sellers at lower prices. Some closing underwater long positions and some opening new short positions.

The liquidity is engineered to enable efficiency for enormous players to enter and exit positions.

[ashen spindle]

no they arent irrelevant, the meme was amd good earnings = stock drops for over a year now

[marsh glade]

Fundamentals have no bearing on price action on any given day, they just don't.

If the stock dropped on "good earnings" people would say after the fact that it was priced in.

If the stock rallied on "good earnings" people would say after the fact that traders buying the earnings pushed price up.

If the stock dropped on "bad earnings" people would say after the fact that traders selling the earnings pushed price down.

If the stock rallied on "bad earnings" people would say it was priced in.

The fact that the talking heads can assign their narratives after the fact, irrespective of the conditions and the results, means that it's bullshit

[ashen spindle]

false, meme relevancy>stock facts

[marsh glade]

Liquidity, always liquidity

[ashen spindle]

but its much funnier seeing stock drop after record quarters

because its funny to see market has nothing to do with a company doing well xD

[marsh glade]

Correct, because fundamentals don't matter day to day, it's all algorithmic and the overal structure is that of a flywheel

[iron wave]

With all the high-speed trading crap, nothing matters.

I think I'm going to take my 400% returns on one in cash and out before it drops, in fact.

[fair gull]

whats the big spike down

[ashen spindle]

381 now lol

[marsh glade]

Repricing lower to trigger stop losses and to catch momentum traders offsides

Forced sellers, selling into smart money who is taking the other side

[lapis plaza]

https://x.com/Telegraph/status/2051678696134656255?s=20

The Telegraph (@Telegraph)

✍️ 'When we have the means to keep people safe, anyone complaining about privacy needs to get their priorities straight' I Writes Celia Walden

Read Celia Walden's full article below 🔗
https://t.co/96CZXWJ3k2

X · May 5, 2026, 3:01 PM

🤡

[reef patrol]

Narrator: It did in fact not solve the so called crimewave.

[lapis plaza]

😂

First you let crimewave increases, second you convince people that giving away their privacy is the only way to solve it

But I might be too much into conspiracies

[iron wave]

That feeling when people don't learn from history.

[lapis plaza]

Crazy coming from the country Orwell was from

But I dont delude myself into thinking it wont touch other countries

[iron wave]

There is a pattern of:

• government does stupid stuff to trash the economy
• government pretends its not at fault
• people with no morals take buckets of government money to make it worse
• eventually things improve enough to let tbe cycle repeat
• everything is net negative

[fickle ore]

4 % day and 8% aftermarket 😄

AMD boosted INTC another 2.5% after hours

[lapis plaza]

Yeah but (keep in mind I am into conspiracies given I grow up with x files) I think it is all by design. They want everyone to believe they are stupid making awful decision but no way I believe it

They would flip a coin 50% they wouldnt make an awful decision

[pale sigil]

[iron wave]

I mean they are, because it's destroying the planet.

[umbral heron]

Of course that piece of shit far-right rag praises that

[lapis plaza]

I think the end goal is mass surveillance and techno feudalism meaning you need to destroy the economy and find way for people to accept being watched all day

[iron wave]

It's to give them more money.

[lapis plaza]

A very small elite will rule everything with AI to manage people in masse

[umbral heron]

I mean... they put up cameras for ULEZ in London and like half of them has been cut down by people, so...

[iron wave]

It's just as short sighted as line go up.

[lapis plaza]

Yeah but the very fact they feel the need to put camera everywhere speaks volume

Specially when companies embrace these things like the car monitoring drivers

I dont know if you have seen it is a car monitoring what the driver is doing and able to just not start

[iron wave]

It follows this pattern.

[umbral heron]

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
As old as it is, still holds true

[iron wave]

Speaking of cars.

I saw someone that must have been full on Ticktock brain rot. They had their phone with both hands over the top of the steering wheel driving super poorly and paying no attention to the 70MPH road she was on.

[lapis plaza]

If one of these people cause a crash then they will force monitoring of every driver

[iron wave]

Nah.

Also WTF.

[rough patrol]

i feel like a lot of these "crime wave" panics are usually manufactured and cherry picked to make things look worse than they actually are for shock value on tv and for some people's political projects. (now, i dont know how true this is for england specifically, as i am not as knowledgeable with their crime stats over time, but i would not be surprised if that also holds true there)

using those advocate for crackdowns and surveillance is a giant red flag to me

[lapis plaza]

Might be I know in my country when it comes to safety it is worse than years ago

[iron wave]

They are.

[lapis plaza]

It is

[iron wave]

FUD is overpowered.

[rough patrol]

remember that social media can amplify a lot of those stories you may not even have heard of/seen back in the day, so the actual crime stats may be a lot lower than say 20 years ago but because you see it more, it feels worse than it did back then

[lapis plaza]

Or both might be true at the same time. Worse crime than years ago (in some areas) and solution to it that are worse than the issue

At the end governing by fear is a thing, the fear being real or imaginary

[rough patrol]

it could also be that crime is worse or the same as years ago but it looks even bigger due to the factors i mentioned

[lapis plaza]

Yeah true

You see a lot of bad news

Because fear sells

[iron wave]

The instant news cycle helps with the FUD.

It's also more global.

[umbral heron]

So you know Vlad the Impaler, right?
No I'm not suggesting that we should do what he was famous for with billionaires, but...

[rough patrol]

this is why i dont go on twitter anymore, stopped doing it and my mental immediately improved by a factor of 5

[ashen spindle]

ahahah we might break 400 @fickle ore @gusty kiln

[balmy vector]

We betting laptop news on it?

[tribal dirge]

what did they announce?

[rough patrol]

there are a lot of things i would say if they would not get me in a lot of trouble

[lapis plaza]

Understandable I do the same with the news but I still check twitter for tech related stuffs

[ashen spindle]

earnings and guidance

[rough patrol]

quick bet against it while it's cheap to do so

[lapis plaza]

I dont know if you guys know this psychological theory I think it can be weaponized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle

[tribal dirge]

ok yeah that makes sense

[umbral heron]

Now imagine all that money wasted on AI and on bailouts was reinvested into society and actual economy

[gusty kiln]

Ohhh shiiiii

[empty wren]

sounds absurd for shareholders

[lapis plaza]

Wait until we need to bailout AI

[ashen spindle]

yo know what that means? if I sell an amd share I can afford a ram kit now

[gusty kiln]

[ashen spindle]

1amd = 1 ram

[gusty kiln]

Nice ram too

[umbral heron]

OpenAI nad Scam Altman will be soooo much welfare queens

[lapis plaza]

I wonder if these companies could end up too big to fail

[ashen spindle]

@marsh glade is there a wall that stops it from breaching 400 that you see on your boring "real fact based" market data?

[empty wren]

I spoke to someone on llms today, I was told it is difficult to build a product of value.

Data can be skewed via bias and then, new data needs to be collected if so.

On top of that the wish or goal of the product may be too costly to maintain. At best it becomes a second opinion or a training tool.

[umbral heron]

Microslop already is
Tons of governments and corporations rely on their enterprise suite, and a lot of sensitive data is stored on their cloud

[lapis plaza]

Yeah

[umbral heron]

LLM is not the way to achieve AI, let alone AGI. It's nothing more than parrot, overly complicated, but in the end just linear regression machine. I don't think we will be able to achieve AI/AGI without quantum or analog processing, but I'm certainly sure that LLMs ain't it.

[lapis plaza]

Nvidia might be too big to fail now

[empty wren]

Neurosama is probably about the best result out of llms in my opinion.

[umbral heron]

Nah, they are overvalued, because they sell shovels in a gold rush

I don't mind LLMs, they are great data munchers and search indexers, but it's not AI, and they will not replace human critical thinking, like all those companies want us to believe
But in the end they are data munchers, so a really good tool for, say, LAWS or surveillance, and corporations and governments alike love that

[empty wren]

it as about as much ai as a handless segway is a hoverboard

[empty wren]

i am seeing people in 3d printing servers time to time mention using it which feels like a dangerous path to tread.....

[umbral heron]

Better yet, now we have AI in Fusion https://all3dp.com/4/claude-comes-to-cad-anthropics-ai-can-now-help-build-3d-models-in-autodesk-fusion/

[empty wren]

fuck that

i hide that immediately

[umbral heron]

I switched to FreeCAD now, really happy with 1.1

[tribal dirge]

its bad

claude does not know how to CAD (yet)

[empty wren]

what is even worse now is if i export a simple model fusion freezes and gives a pop-up it has frozen

[tribal dirge]

because it has bad spatial awareness (for now)

[empty wren]

the most recent updates are literal enshittifcation

i do not think i can rely on fusion anymore i am using the hobbyist liscense myself

[umbral heron]

Stupid Autodesk, they enshittified my beloved EAGLE
At least KiCAD is competent

[empty wren]

rip

[gusty kiln]

@ashen spindle 400 officially breached

[ashen spindle]

yup lol

[empty wren]

have any of yall used repl.it before?

i logged into my old account apparently all my old projects are gone and now there is an option for start with ai or import a project

[ashen spindle]

404 amd not found

[odd dawn]

I received some KOM switches with my wooting, what is the difference between them and the Likker tekken switches?

[ashen spindle]

405

man this is just dumb lol

[lyric hatch]

Best to ask in #🔧│keyboard_modding those are where the switch nerds hang out

[odd dawn]

Ok. Thank you.

[lunar elm]

INTC, AMD and Micron are the ones that are way over their deserved stock price

like its just so stupid how much hype over a small talk bring their stock prices by this much

[ashen spindle]

lmao no

those 3 arent even close to some of the worst examples

[lunar elm]

then who is

[lunar elm]

bcs Im pointing out the 3 that just jumped outta nowhere

……

yeah im done

https://tenor.com/view/mclaren-oscar-piastri-lando-norris-lando-oscar-gif-15867334446823119711

[ashen spindle]

bitcoin who that? thats something that isn't volatile enough to go up like this

amd at least tonight went up because they have actual numbers behind it for earnings

[lunar elm]

i agree with that but jesus christ 15 is too exagerative

[ashen spindle]

ehh unlike most other things like a 20% jump on openai papers this one makes more sense

since all of arm/intel/amd basically said yeah total addressable server cpu market is trippling to 120billion by 2030

[lunar elm]

at least this one was somewhat justified but holy air pump

[ashen spindle]

also we're only about a month out from computex and amds event after where they launch mi450 and zen6 server

so we will get some insane hardware that will somewhat justify the income

[lunar elm]

hell nah someone please shut this all down wallahi

[ashen spindle]

no, I want zen6!

and also would enjoy having a mi450 rack if it crashes afterwards

[lunar elm]

my mind rn is going “dont make a rash decision and wait for a crash” to “wtf”

[ashen spindle]

I mean for investing for retirement nothing matters, put that cash into a msci all world etf and just some % as gambling if you want lol

[lunar elm]

i find it bullish that within a month both intel and amd stock doubled

[ashen spindle]

well intel is interesting because it was at like <20$ per share which meant it was trading for less than its inventory was worth

so while its a rapid rise that I think will crash once they realise the products suck, its not as bad in comparison to the companies value

[lunar elm]

if not bubble why bubble shaped

[ashen spindle]

well let me rephrase it, I think intel would be at a fair evaluation if they had a good product roadmap

[lunar elm]

i dont wanna be a sucker and buy in at a high time and have to hold for hella long

[ashen spindle]

wonder if amd opens at 420 tomorrow

[gusty kiln]

apparently intel's X3D approach is kinda weird

[ashen spindle]

you mean delayed by 3 generations? yes

[gusty kiln]

lmao

people say it's gunna be more like "l4" cache than l3

[ashen spindle]

which part? nova lake bllc?

[gusty kiln]

yeah the bllc

[ashen spindle]

yeah no its litearlly just a massive L3 die

like, no extra packaging, no 4th tier, its just a massive slap of sram to make it a lot of l3

[gusty kiln]

ah ok

[ashen spindle]

so unlike amd they arent using older cheaper nodes

its all N2

so the cost is like double of that amd x3d will cost for the chiplet lol

[gusty kiln]

sounds like it's going to be hot af

[ashen spindle]

let me see if I can find the sizes

nah its just large not dense

[gusty kiln]

lol like 52 total cores

[exotic plinth]

Are we talking about cpus?

[gusty kiln]

maybe

[ashen spindle]

so the 8+16 normal noval lake die is 98mm^2

bllc variant is 150mm^2

thats 50% larger on the most expensive node

[gusty kiln]

gunna be so expensive

[ashen spindle]

and thats just the cpu tile

52c has two + igpu +io tile

that thing is expensive

[gusty kiln]

lmao

[ashen spindle]

meanwhile 12c zen6 on same node seems to be 76mm^2

[lunar elm]

52c nvl prob needs 360mm aio to cool it at full blast

[ashen spindle]

well yeah that many cores even at amazing efficency will just need a lot of power

[gusty kiln]

new io die I hope

[ashen spindle]

yes

new packaging

[lunar elm]

afaik the 270k and 285k are slightly below limit with a 240mm aio being lumen and atmos2

[ashen spindle]

oof

[lunar elm]

icl amd really looking unattractive rn

[ashen spindle]

so zen6 24c/48t will be ~150mm^2 on N2 + io die of idk, lets say similzar size on N4 to guess

• ~100mm^2 of N4 cache dies for dual vcache

nvl 52c/52t will be 300mm^2 for bllc + unknown areas for IO die and igpu die + base tile

neither of them will be cheap but man will intel have to eat their margins to compete

funniest thing is how well amd can make use of tsmcs nodes

71mm² for 8xZen5 vs 76mm² for 12xZen6 ccd sizes

[lunar elm]

i’d say intel is justifiable with me being high on copium buying back in but i wouldnt for amd

[ashen spindle]

idk man intel has like 0 products that could convince me to get in there, only reason they are selling is because people just need x86 cpus at any cost

[lunar elm]

im really excited for novalake

+50% stock price when it launches frfr

https://tenor.com/view/copium-meme-pepe-frog-gif-26117735

[ashen spindle]

see I dont even add in desktop as relevant market lol

because then I'd see intel in an even worse spot

[lunar elm]

i miss my 40 stock of $19 intc

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-cry-frieren-beyond-journey's-end-sousou-no-frieren-anime-elf-gif-15490772285013402708

https://tenor.com/view/charles-leclerc-i-am-stupid-gif-18097436

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle easy $417

casual 5.5% boost for LBT aswell

[reef patrol]

Anyone happen to know how I can reenable the modern tab look of file explorer? Struggling to find out what I changed, and how to fix it 😄

Looks like I have some kind of oldschool version of it. Wonder how the heck I managed that

[fair gull]

im pretty sure just third party tools can disable it

like explorerpatcher

[reef patrol]

Hmm... maybe I accidentally toggled something in that. Good point

[fair gull]

it has a selector for explorer style

[reef patrol]

Downside of having multiple machines. You forget what has been done on each 😄

[marsh glade]

AMD is in a parabolic range expansion, doing price discovery in uncharted waters. There are no walls, and my tools have no way of forecasting the top. To that end, I go to great lengths to ensure I do not try to pick tops and bottoms.

That said, I recall a year ago or so the CEO's pay package was dependent on vesting tranches if the stock hit certain milestones and I seem to recall the top figure was 600 or 650, so that'd be my crystal ball forecast 😛

See here

[ashen spindle]

Oh no Lisa doesn’t get extra pay when it hits 600, meta and OpenAI get 10% of the companies shares if it reaches 600 and they build the data centers lol

[reef patrol]

Hrm.... can't get my mic to work on the laptop.

Seems like I'll have to get a pair of headphones with a built in mic then longterm

[lunar elm]

500 cigarettes ❌
500 INTC stocks ✅

[fickle ore]

good to own google and meta then

[fickle ore]

cries in 535 intc stonks :<

[lunar elm]

man I shouldve shat money outta my ass and bought as many INTC as I could

[marsh glade]

Either way, big players of unbelievable power and influence have a vested interest in repricing the stock to a specific point

[fair gull]

yes i too am a stock person

[modern sky]

Man I love docks

I'm thinking about building my own dock for a steam machine of all things to expand the AiOs

[umbral heron]

Oh no

https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents

[reef patrol]

Next years tax season is going to be amusing to behold.

[modern sky]

To be fair my taxes are already compiled by a computer and just checked by 3 ppl

This revolutionised nothing xD

I just press okay once a year

So do Dutch and most of europe iirc unless self employed

[umbral heron]

Same here
But the greatest economy in the world doesn't do that
You have to either do them yourself (good luck), via TurboTax or via accountant
As if IRS couldn't do that like in Europe

[fair gull]

aka not at all?

[lyric hatch]

If I can get my tax refund this year

[fickle ore]

I always have to pay :<

Never refunded lol

damnit

[umbral heron]

Last year I got return for 0,5€, this year I had to pay 0,5€, but because I didn't bother to take it from account last year it was automatically paid

[fickle ore]

hope they dont spend it all in one place

[wet quarry]

Does anyone have the logitech superstrike if so is it good?

[tired sphinx]

i heard split opinions on it

some like it, some dont

i dont have it personally

[regal saddle]

Chat can anyone help me please

I’m so cooked I have no idea what to do

WHO here knows how to put together a pc

[sullen bear]

Just ask your question 🤔

[marsh glade]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[regal saddle]

Well I’m building a pc

And I’m so lost

Idek where to start

[sullen bear]

Did you even watch any videos before getting into it?

[regal saddle]

Ya

But it’s a specific question

My cooler is acting up I can’t apply it

[sullen bear]

Then ask it?

[regal saddle]

The artic liquid cooler 3 240, I can’t install it it’s fucking impossible I have to be missing something

[sullen bear]

Go to gemini, ask your question and ask it to or help you or write a useful question you can ask us cuz this is getting nowhere

[regal saddle]

Sorry

[sullen bear]

This is like having a car, saying it doesnt work, why? Airco.

Help

[regal saddle]

Guys is this enough paste

I didn’t get any more

[umbral heron]

Half of it would be enough

[regal saddle]

So this suffices?

If I close it now it’ll work

[umbral heron]

I mean, yeah

[regal saddle]

Or I take some off

[ashen spindle]

no need, you cant have too much

[winter patrol]

isnt that the mobo model that bricks x3d chips

[ashen spindle]

there is no specific model that bricks chips

[winter patrol]

i see

[iron wave]

I found two Discord issues back to back! Crazy.

[craggy harness]

actually you can have too much, since it's only meant to close the gaps between the 2 surfaces, not act as a whole layer between, the only important factor is that it covers the entire surface of the CPU instead of leaving lil airbubbles which would act as heatspots

[sullen bear]

All mobos brick but at different rates, and should be largely fixed now

[iron wave]

I think that's more than on my two desktops combined, you're good.

[ashen spindle]

if you have too much the pressure will squeeze it out so its not causing any issues

[iron wave]

The air bubble thing is just a lack of mounting pressure from yee old days.

[craggy harness]

eh, i've had my fair share of bricked mobos because of excess paste getting on stuff it shouldn't ever get to

[iron wave]

As scummy as GN can be, their old video about this is still good.

[iron wave]

Don't get conducive paste.

[ashen spindle]

??? who tf uses conductive paste

[iron wave]

Back to work.

[ashen spindle]

okay sure if we have to add 15 caveats the statement might not hold, but in normal circumstances, you cant have too much pase and it just gets squuezed away and nothing happens

[craggy harness]

honestly, i'd never use anything besides good ol' silver/silicone paste, overall still the best performance and while it usually isn't considered conductive it can still cause issues if it gets on the wrong spots,best example being the pin holes for amd cpus, you'll never get it out without residue or on other higher powered spots that are soldered tightly next to each other it could also favor short circuiting etc.

[modern sky]

I'm p sure the paste would ooze out

Before becoming a problem

[craggy harness]

the oozing out is part of the problem^^

[modern sky]

Unless you got a cooler with an idiotically cheap bracket and the contact leaves a huge gap but then paste isn't your problem as much as the lack of contact

[modern sky]

It's non conductive

We have better solutions than thermal paste but it's the safest we have

[ashen spindle]

you can fill the entire side of the modern amd cpus with non conductive paste and it would not cause any issues

[modern sky]

Also maintenance would be awful if you were to run on liquid metal for example

[ashen spindle]

if it favors short circuting, its not a non-conductive paste

[modern sky]

There are conductive thermal pastes?

That sounds like a nightmare

[ashen spindle]

yes

[craggy harness]

silver particles mixed with silicone usually is labelled non-conductive, yet it still has silver particles in it which COULD favor it

[iron wave]

The original ones are, new formulations aren't unless they are LM/similar.

[ashen spindle]

then its not a non conductive paste and certainly not one of those normal thermal pastes you get with any aio/aircooler bundled

[iron wave]

https://tenor.com/view/pedant-pendants-technology-connections-tears-gif-27369190

It's freaking conducive if it conducts.

[craggy harness]

sure, formulated not to conduct electricity, but yea, silver is silver

[iron wave]

• 99.9% silver
• non-conductive

https://tenor.com/view/lies-elf-will-ferrell-funny-liar-gif-3522261

[ashen spindle]

this isnt even labled as non conductive

[ashen spindle]

those are not the same words

[iron wave]

That does feel crafted to read as non-conductive but legally not claiming to be.

Oh. Nevermind.

WAIT

IT SAYS IT CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY

[ashen spindle]

so they say its slighy capacitive comapred to something like kryonaut that just says

[umbral heron]

I think that they mean that the silver in the paste is 99.9% pure, and not it's made of 99.9% silver

[marsh glade]

That is what they mean, and it's shitty to say it like that

[steady sail]

My favorite Thermal Paste is smells like apple

[ashen spindle]

meanwhile noctua and any other brand that include a paste with their cooler:

so, unless you go out of your way to specifically buy paste with metal bits, you will not have issues with excess paste

[old marlin]

Why tf would anyone buy arctic silver 5 in this day and age

[umbral heron]

I just slather everything in MX-7

[steady sail]

https://www.idcooling.com/product/detail?id=584&name=FROST X55 apple scented thermal paste

[iron wave]

Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

[old marlin]

Nostalgia for mid thermal paste???

[iron wave]

I've seen people nostalgiac for worse.

[tired sphinx]

i'm concerned by the amount of paste they are putting on there in the instruction video

[ashen spindle]

thats normal, an x is a commong pattern people do

[tired sphinx]

it probably looks fine in that frame

it looks worse in the video

[fair gull]

definitely not enough

[tired sphinx]

it's enough

[fair gull]

no way too little

[old marlin]

Tbh you basically cannot overdo it

[tired sphinx]

the result

[fair gull]

https://tenor.com/view/thermal-paste-mother-board-cpu-gif-17616659

this is proper

[tired sphinx]

that is true

[craggy harness]

pfft, calling it mid is simply hilarious, considering it's literally the best paste i've ever used, tried a bunch of others from time to time but the results never really came close to AS (just used the AS5 as a quick example on the topic)

[old marlin]

That's socket mayo not thermal paste

[fair gull]

yes i can see they applied none

[old marlin]

Cope

[umbral heron]

That's for PGA, not LGA though

[fair gull]

right lga uses applesauce

[umbral heron]

Yee, the one Akko linked

[fair gull]

who is akko

[craggy harness]

if you say so, i've done dozens of PCs with it and so far it never failed on a single one, not after 3 years, heck not even after 5 years, while other pastes i've tried had to be renewed every odd year because you started noticing stuff heating up more and more 🤷‍♂️

[ashen spindle]

ah yes the scientific test of "works on my machine"

[craggy harness]

nothing "my machine", maybe read for once, i did dozens of them

[reef patrol]

It's thermal paste, not rocket fuel. It works.

[umbral heron]

Anecdotal evidence is an evidence of anecdote, and what works for you, won't really work for others

[ashen spindle]

well hes claiming its the best thing and he swears by it, when its just some age old outdated paste thats neither cheaper nor better than anything modern

[fair gull]

anecdote

[tired sphinx]

Taktsune Migu | OLED Enjoyer bwa

[fair gull]

who

[marsh glade]

No, Who's on first

[reef patrol]

I wouldn't go that far, hah

[tired sphinx]

219794268338782208

[fair gull]

who

[tired sphinx]

i give up

[marsh glade]

Tony the owl

[fair gull]

who

[sullen bear]

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/37KRZ7nhLfCyZfEaxw6Gqn-1200-80.png.webp

👍

[craggy harness]

i'm simply going by the philosophy of "never change a running system" instead of risking stuffs with experimenting with newer solutions, especially considering the price hike of literally all hardware over the past 10 years

[marsh glade]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_(novel)

[sullen bear]

Ok but there’s better ones, doesnt mean yours isnt good or doesnt work though right?

[craggy harness]

well, going by others above it apparently is "mid" at best etc

[fair gull]

arctic mx4 ftw

[steady sail]

Huh

[ashen spindle]

okay but just because you keep on using paste that was in usage 10 years ago doesnt mean anyone who uses normal modern paste that comes with the cooler needs to care about conductivity issues from using too much

and for performance it also is only mid compared to other pastes

[sullen bear]

According to the list it is currently quite mid if it doesnt even reach it no?

[craggy harness]

more like they probably didn't even test it

wouldn't be the first time proven stuff won't get's tested to promote the new trendy stuff and how those compete with each other

[old marlin]

I don't think i have ever had paste fail on me within 5 years

[ashen spindle]

oh my god now we are in the "review has to be a paid shill by all the companies and thus isnt including the good odl stuff"

https://www.igorslab.de/en/thermal-paste-comparison/?ids[]=42&ids[]=91 anyway here you can have older stuff and its mid or use other ones if those arent the exact things you used

[sullen bear]

It was tested in 2013 now what

[fickle ore]

I wonder how many ppl cut their graphene kryo sheets outside with proper masks on?

[old marlin]

Like pastes have been good enough for like 20 years

[fair gull]

but thats not as5

[ashen spindle]

yes hence I linked the site where you can select others

[fair gull]

inside and i lick the edges clean

[sullen bear]

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,3616-7.html same site as i linked, and same tester i think, igor

[fair gull]

it doesnt even have as5 lol

[sullen bear]

Or different igor idk

[ashen spindle]

he said any AS he just used AS5 as an example

[fair gull]

literally has 1 as paste

[sullen bear]

Same igor

[ashen spindle]

yeah igor used to run TH.de

newer tests on this site that dont use as5 because even in the much older test you can see its just not great lol

[old marlin]

I mean it works

But there is no reason to buy it unless you really gotta save the last cent

[ashen spindle]

yes if you have it you can use it, but theres 0 reason to buy it today

you can find cheaper paste if you need it cheap and that cheaper paste is also not conductive and can even be better

[fair gull]

i still have a bag of mx4 syringes somewhere

[old marlin]

reminds me when one department in my old company refused to use anything but copper paste

Because some guy in the 90s used to use it

[fair gull]

oh boy that was a fun read

[steep pelican]

my windows key is not working i currently have the 80he what do i do

[reef patrol]

FN+Winkey

[steep pelican]

i tried it didnt work

[reef patrol]

Try and restart the PC.

[steep pelican]

i also tried that it didnt work

[sinful quest]

https://analog-monitor.wootility.io/ check if the win key registers

[steep pelican]

i think so yeah'

[sinful quest]

I assume red is the win key, can't tell for sure because you left the part out that tells what key is what. In that case it's rather something in settings

Either wootility with win lock or something in windows

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zfhn0EcpfM

This is hilarious

[sullen bear]

Too many people called moderator or mod

[topaz schooner]

Progress!

Hope it ships today 🙂

[reef patrol]

Can't believe I had to find some obscure, deprecated tool from Microslop to force hide a KB in Windows update to update Copilot - which I've already uninstalled (Just normally via apps, no tools) breaking the update.

It literally redownloaded and retried installing it every time I hit check for updates. Microslop cannot fathom a world where someone would want to not have Copilot.

[lunar elm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381193840159358976/1481915275858415739/0AFC5196-3FC4-4100-B996-41EAF73ECCFD.gif

[bleak merlin]

Microslop hard at work

[old edge]

so i got my keybord and i lost power during an update i was wondering if anyone could hyelp

[marsh glade]

Oh you were already answered in #💬│general

This is why crossposting is bad, mkay?

[tired sphinx]

they posted in #🌟│wooting80he as well

[old edge]

mb

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdZ5Z7nRDY

[tribal dirge]

yeah bambu was not happy about Pau re-implementing the new network plugin.

[empty wren]

I did pay for a month of Netflix just watch stranger things season 5 finale

[tribal dirge]

was it worth it?

[empty wren]

In my opinion, it was a bit disappointing rushed in a way

But i pirated the rest of the season and they did deserve something

[tired sphinx]

I cancelled my netflix because I'm not watching it at all
only have Disney+ for Star Wars

[tribal dirge]

lollll yeah

[umbral heron]

My parents pay for Netflix, but since they Netflix doesn't let me watch in quality better than 720p on Linux, I use alternative sources

[tired sphinx]

and the rest of the family also watches on my Disney

[empty wren]

Speaking of that too many streaming services also another reason to pirate

Like ethics-wise sounds like a nightmare though for one company to own all shows but it would also be nice for one location to be the go to destination

[tired sphinx]

I'm also very disappointed with the quality on Disney, it does look 720p most of the time (even though it should be 1080 with my subscription)

[empty wren]

Hdr I remember was fake on android on Disney+🤣 🤣

[tribal dirge]

the only subscriptions I have is Spotify, iCloud, Amazon Prime, Costco, and Turbotax.

[empty wren]

Fair on the Costco one

[tribal dirge]

costco has been the most worth it yeah

[umbral heron]

Premium, four-freaking-key, highest possible tier
They still do me 720p ;-;

[tribal dirge]

it consistently makes back what its worth in discounts LMAO

[empty wren]

They think they can get away with being Disney I bet

Of course

I have been to Sam's club and costco

Buy in bulk for the consumer

[tired sphinx]

you have to pay 16€ a month on disney for 4k and HDR

[tribal dirge]

also that one time where I got a crazy deal on an QD-OLED

[empty wren]

Nice

I remember seeing stacks of halo 4 Xbox 360s at samsclub

Also phone and laptop tables

Very much a go to hub in my opinion

[tribal dirge]

yeah costco has those too

[sullen bear]

I only have spotify student

but thats expiring soon so Ill probably quit spotifyt

[tribal dirge]

wdym 4k or HDR!?

😭

you cant do both!?

[tired sphinx]

you can do both, bad wording on my part

i edited in later and didn't realise

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-kennedy-eyeballs-looking-binoculars-resident-evil-gif-5218614413222692600

[sullen bear]

my issue with netflix is that theres nothing to watch on it which I like

only watch kdrama on it lol

[empty wren]

Series of Unfortunate Events is great

There is HTTYD shows there

Puss in Boots series

[tribal dirge]

ah ok ok

[empty wren]

But perhaps those do not appeal to everyone

[sullen bear]

only think I really liked was altered carbon

[leaden kiln]

I tried subscription services but I like taking screenshots of things I watch but can’t with drm
holy pain in the ass

[empty wren]

Another reason to pirate

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/amd/status/2052373018400219648 who wants to buy a cheap 144gb pcie card

AMD (@AMD)

Don’t just scale AI. Scale ROI.

AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe cards deliver 144 GB of HBM3E memory and up to 2299 teraFLOPS (at MXFP4) in a drop-in, air-cooled card built for standard servers.

That’s how you scale AI at maximum ROI without redesigning your data center.

Interested

X · May 7, 2026, 1:00 PM

[umbral heron]

That 144GB could be used to make 9 16GB DDRs

[surreal thorn]

paying more for 4k is just ugh

[ashen spindle]

technically even more, hbm is less dense so more hmb= less capacity on a fab line xD

[gusty kiln]

But how much dough?

[ashen spindle]

probably like 10-15k

[tribal dirge]

Oh wow

[rough osprey]

https://videocardz.com/newz/windows-11-low-latency-profile-may-speed-up-app-launches

https://x.com/grok/status/2052159994494374236?s=46

Grok (@grok)

Sometimes I ask myself if this is true

X · May 6, 2026, 10:54 PM

AGI 😨

[ashen spindle]

finally we reached perfection @gusty kiln

[rough patrol]

Next stop: 1337

[analog sinew]

not ,69 or ,67 repeat

[ashen spindle]

almost

[vapid ruin]

come on

67 67 67

[ashen spindle]

67

[plucky tapir]

Remember telling my friend to buy AMD in 2016, telling him that AMD would be back with Zen 1. He bought Intel instead.

Tbf if you bught Nvidia at the same time you'd have many more times the money.

[gusty kiln]

How much was intel at the time? Intel is at like 100 atm so it's double or triple at least. Amd/nvidia are like 20-30X lol

In the same time frame

Actually at some point AMD was like $2-4 a share so it is 100-200x now lol

Nvidia about the same, it was around 20 a share now it's like 2000 a share pre-stock split

[ashen spindle]

https://x.com/Sean14978416/status/2052339157775667567 speaking of nvidia

Sean (@Sean14978416)

Aletheia's Warren Lau's $NVDA channel checks suggesting Rubin delays on heat-spreader redesign:

X · May 7, 2026, 10:46 AM

[gusty kiln]

Oof

Amd has a nice opportunity window here

[plucky tapir]

Not sure tbh, I just know Intel was dominating on the consumer and server side because AMD was pretty much dead without Zen, it was a gamble as historically Intel has been a good investment, probably still was just not as good.

[ashen spindle]

anyone keeping intel from that time must have titanium hands

[gusty kiln]

Intel had dividends for the longest time so big growth in the stock was not happening

[plucky tapir]

I liked that reddit guy who inherited a ton of money and put it all on Intel and their stock crashed, he was too scared to tell his parents. I hope he kept his stocks instead of panic selling he would've recovered now.

[gusty kiln]

Lmao yeah

Wonder if there was any updates

[ashen spindle]

if hes smart he got out when he was even and put it into something diverse and not a single stock

[gusty kiln]

I've been holding AMD since like 2017-2018

[plucky tapir]

He wrote a whole speech on why Intel is the best investment of all time, I doubt he will get out 😄

[ashen spindle]

people change their mind a lot when they lose 60% of their life savings

[plucky tapir]

True

[analog sinew]

itanium

[ashen spindle]

[mild patrol]

When should i change my skates

[leaden kiln]

when they feel bad

[modern sky]

so I noticed a thing at work that im quite sure i can share and im just curious

there is an anti static matt, on one of the worksurfaces and for some reason it causes discharges if i just let laptops sit on there

i tried everything, suspending the charger, moving it away from the matt, but as long as the laptop is there, give or take 10 minutes and its gonna zap you

[fickle ore]

apes hold stronk

[analog sinew]

whats the mat made of?

[modern sky]

rubber

[reef patrol]

Who would have thought the Poles would be the ones to be saviour of DDR (dance pads)

[marsh glade]

Do you not realize how common pole dancing is?

[tired sphinx]

i have that hooodie hes wearing, i love it

[cursive stag]

New keyboard for when I get a job

[wheat plume]

o I like the colors

[pastel galleon]

I fixed my mom's old LG Velvet 5G!

screen was broken so I replaced it, was such an agonizing process

but i can finally say I have fixed a modern smartphone!

[wheat plume]

bruh the motherboard is literally a bezel around the camera assembly omfh this engineering is impressive..making a damn square motherboard
https://youtu.be/pIIkU8qZl_U

[ashen spindle]

whats so impressive about making it square?