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pale sigil
sick creek
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eh but as long as you didnt short out the LEDs you can fix it

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so its really not a big deal

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just do it some day when you're bored

pale sigil
sick creek
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that doesnt look that bad

pale sigil
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It is

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Most of the leds don't work

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And I soldered my caps lock in the wrong place

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👌

sick creek
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you can de-solder it

pale sigil
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I tried to de solder

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Can't do it

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Gave up

sick creek
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haha

pale sigil
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It keeps getting stuck inside the pcb itself

sick creek
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you need a third hand

pale sigil
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If I didn't spend so much I would have just threw it away

sick creek
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send it to me i'll fix it 😂

pale sigil
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If you were in the UK I actually would ngl

sick creek
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surely theres someone you know or someone at your university that can help

pale sigil
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Nope

sick creek
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no electrical engineering profs?

pale sigil
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I mean

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Not that I know of

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Nor would I approach lmao

sick creek
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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never hurts to ask

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but if it keeps getting stuck, you prob dont have enough heat

pale sigil
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I give it all I could

sick creek
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you need to suck up as much solder with desoldering braid and then heat it up and pull it out

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or get a desoldering gun

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but i dont even own one

pale sigil
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Desolder braid?

sick creek
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yeah hold on

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er, "solder wick"

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looks like this

pale sigil
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The solder keeps getting stuck in between and I just can't for the love of God de solder

sick creek
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ya, the wick will draw the solder away from those joints

pale sigil
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Oh my

sick creek
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the solder will go wherever is hottest

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so if theres a blob on the other side

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just keep using the wick til it comes thru

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you will have to let the pcb rest every 30seconds or so

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so you dont burn it

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but otherwise thats the way to do it

pale sigil
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So this wick stuff absorbs it?

sick creek
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yep

pale sigil
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This could make my life so much easier

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Holy shit

sick creek
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literally designed to do this

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remember, you heat the wick, not the solder

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basically just press the wick into the solder using the iron

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you will have to cut it often

pale sigil
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That's fucking amazing

sick creek
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doing what you're trying to do without this sounds like torture hahaha

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but hey, you dont know what you dont know

pale sigil
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I use a de solder tbigy

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Thingy

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I forgot the name

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Gun?

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Pump

sick creek
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yea its a vacuum thing

pale sigil
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It's so useless

sick creek
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oh ya heres what it looks like

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also holy shit that guys iron 😂

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WTF

pale sigil
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Tbh if I could find someone I'd pay them to just re do the entire thing

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Also soldered the switches the wrong way

sick creek
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eh you'll fix it eventually

pale sigil
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If it works out well tbh I'll probably de solder everything

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Most expensive thing was the actual bloody metal case

sick creek
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at least everything will be tinned already haha

pale sigil
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Seriously though this wick stuff sounds like a miracle cure

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When de soldering

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Why do people suggest pumps

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Over wick

sick creek
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well, they're faster/cleaner

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if they work

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sometimes its hard to get wicks in tight spaces too

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its extremely flexible

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but on a wide open flat board... ez

pale sigil
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Gonna order some now

sick creek
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just be patient with it

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it heats up first, then it heats up the solder

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then the solder flows into it

pale sigil
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I just wanna fiz the switch honestly

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More than anything

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Look at it lmao

sick creek
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ahaha ok yeah that would bother the fuck out of me

pale sigil
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It's put me off buying caps for to long

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I'm using caps from my proto woot

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Which don't look partially nice with this keeb

sick creek
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hmmm

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heatshrink hides my shitty joints haha

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mostly needed it to protect from shorts

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also to be fair to you, most keyboards are soldered by machines

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wave soldering

pale sigil
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Pretty good

sick creek
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it'll work

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i have to dremel out the hole in the case for usb c plug

pale sigil
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My keeb is usb c

sick creek
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and then i can put a mountain of hot glue in there so it doesnt get pushed in

pale sigil
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Was pretty happy with that

sick creek
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nice, yea

pale sigil
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I just wish it worked usb c to USB C

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Apparently it doesn't :/

sick creek
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most dont afaik

pale sigil
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It was my main reasoning

sick creek
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they're almost all usb 2.0 via type c

pale sigil
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For getting it

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So I was gutted

sick creek
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i mean what would be the purpose

pale sigil
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Makes me wonder what's the point of having usb c on my motherboard

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I would have used the USB c port on my mobo

sick creek
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oh, well, external ssd, egpu, etc

pale sigil
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Ye but

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Useless to ms

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All of them

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I wanted to save a USB port lol

sick creek
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haha

pale sigil
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I use so many

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It's annoying

sick creek
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get a hub?

pale sigil
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I also use a hub :(

sick creek
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o

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then idk

pale sigil
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Tbh I just want an itx so I can hide my pc

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Tbh I just wanna smash everything in my room

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Bin it and start over

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If only :/

sick creek
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how many devices do you have plugged into your pc tho

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like how are they all taken

pale sigil
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3x keyboards
3x oculus stuff
1x mouse
1x snowball
1x usb hub
1x DAC
1x Xbox play and charge
1x speakers
1x Bluetooth
1x USB C wire

sick creek
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damn

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i have usb from monitor (which acts as a hub) and charging cable for my astro a50

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lmao

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monitor has kb/mouse

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speaker is optical

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thats pretty much it

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but i only have 1 kb/mouse

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and no VR

pale sigil
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I wanna just like have a simple clean set up

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But it feels impossible

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No matter what I do

sick creek
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declutter

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put your oculus away when you arent using it

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1 keyboard, 1 mouse, 1 speaker OR DAC+phones

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cable management

pale sigil
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Ye no

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It's the sensors

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That's taking up so ambu

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Many

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Oculus itself I always remove when not using

sick creek
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sensors?

pale sigil
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Yes the oculus sensors

sick creek
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oh i didnt realize oculus had room scale sensors now

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i thought only the vive had it

neat oriole
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Why do you have 3 keyboards tho

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Also just get a USB audio interface so you can get a better mic and get rid of the snowball and the dac

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Also just get powered monitors and feed it an analogue signal

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Also what’s the Bluetooth thing

pale sigil
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@sick creek they do but you've still got to if then in

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@neat oriole I have a USB audio interface lol

neat oriole
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Why do you still have a USB mic tho

pale sigil
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@neat oriole Bluetooth dingle for another keeb and lenovo explorer

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Because I have a snowball

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It's usb

neat oriole
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Just get an xlr mic

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They sound better anyway

pale sigil
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Money tho

neat oriole
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But the 3 keyboards tho

pale sigil
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I have to many wires in general

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Because different switches

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One for typing, one for gaming and the other for general use

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I can esisly remove one tbh

neat oriole
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I just use one keyboard for everything

pale sigil
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I don't like using browns for gaming

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Mofos are 80cn

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I mean

neat oriole
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Aren’t they less than that

pale sigil
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Greens

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Sorry half asleep

neat oriole
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I use silvers for everything

pale sigil
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But ye I would get a new mic but it's month I don't have nor want to spend

neat oriole
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Just get a shure sm57

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It’s probably like 60 quid

pale sigil
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Exactly

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Don't have that

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The only reason I got a snowball was cos I got it for £25

neat oriole
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So when are you gonna upgrade

pale sigil
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I don't need to

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I rarely use it

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Tbh

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Only for discord

hard rampart
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What are we talking about

neat oriole
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Or just get a headset

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Eliminate the need for a dac or mic

pale sigil
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I hate headsets >. >

neat oriole
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Y tho

hard rampart
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I love headsets

neat oriole
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Also I don’t really know why you’re even running an audio interface tho

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Your M50x doesn’t really benefit from it and you don’t use an XLR mic

pale sigil
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Because I got it dirt cheap

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XD

neat oriole
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Honestly I’d just unplug it

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If I needed the USB port

chrome estuary
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I wanna get an AT-2020

neat oriole
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At2020 lacks bass pickup iirc

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AT2035 is better

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And AKG P220

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But for around the price of the AT2020

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Shure SM57

chrome estuary
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Hmm. Alright

harsh terrace
ashen spindle
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malewarebytes probably

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well there are online options that basically run it through multiple AV's filters

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forgot the websites name

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virustotal

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probably best to check md5 sums etc. with big files

solar hinge
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Windows ME is #life

plush summit
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nonono, windows vista #life

reef patrol
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Dos 3.1!

queen sparrow
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win98plus pls

pale sigil
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i need to figure out how to disable the shit that makes things open before i even login

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i just turned on my pc to "THIS VIDEO IS SPONOSRED BY NORD VPN REEEEE"

plush summit
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XD

supple latch
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ctrl maj escape
start tab (the 4th one)

reef patrol
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That's not related to what callum's describing.

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He's talking about the "Your desktop as you left it" feature, they implemented back in the Creator's Update a while back. 😃

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The new kind of hibernation, yes.

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It's faster.

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That's the entire idea.

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If your Windows just loads itself into RAM and shuts down, it can boot back up without having to go through a shutdown and a startup sequence.

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Microsoft decided to make this default behaviour, since Windows Update is generally the only reason for a reboot these days for most users.

ashen spindle
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rooThink I shut down my pc completely when I go to bed/ leave

reef patrol
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Same.

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It is.

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No no no.

plush summit
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wut

reef patrol
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No...

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Well yes

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Let me rephrase.

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Hibernation takes the RAM and loads it into the HDD. Which is less wear than a shutdown/startup sequence. And faster.

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Sorry - I kind of messed that up at first. Long week 😄

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Sure it does.

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Lots of things written to the drive on a shutdown or reboot.

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Both - Windows doesn't write to the harddrive a whole lot during runtime, since it can store it in RAM. But it needs to commit changes at some point.

pale sigil
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i dont evem have

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the note book icon

fair gull
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@proud nacelle eventlogs and stuff

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basically just lots of backend shit the user usually never sees

sick creek
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Couldnt help myself

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I bought a mac mini 2018 (for work)

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Doing ram and thermal paste upgrade

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8 -> 32gb

plush summit
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apple will lock you out

chrome estuary
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That thing just fucking screams apple if you know the inside of literally any of their other devices

neat oriole
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Yeah don’t try to user upgrade

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T2 chip gonna give it to ya

sick creek
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Lmao nah

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Its user upgradable no problemo

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The ram only, anyway

misty saffron
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you know what else screams apple?

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a dead cpu

reef patrol
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Yeah you can upgrade the RAM and that's it. Can't even change OS on it blobLUL

sick creek
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Haha wut you can install windows/linux via bootcamp

reef patrol
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That's bootcamp. Serious limitations.

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If you actually install something raw, you're locked out of the drive, and if you try to force your way in, the chip bricks the machine.

pale sigil
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🔥

misty saffron
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holy shit

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why are they digging their own grave

pale sigil
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Because they can

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Because they know that even though they are digging their own grave, they are able to enter it whenever they like.

misty saffron
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hold on

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the machine is bricked once you do that?

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like, completely?

pale sigil
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Not sure tbh

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Don't cere about apple stuff

misty saffron
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neither

reef patrol
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It's "You need to hand it over to an Apple certified repair shop" bricked.

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Only they have the tools to reset the chip, and I fully expect there to be data loss, since the SSD is encrypted.

misty saffron
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yep

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that's not gonna end up well for them

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The parts affected, according to the document, are the display assembly, logic board, top case, and Touch ID board for the MacBook Pro, and the logic board and flash storage on the iMac Pro.
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t o p c a s e

reef patrol
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I patiently await the EU lawsuit, since it actively blocks repairs. Even something like speakers.

misty saffron
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I wonder if Jews have taken over Apple

reef patrol
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I mean you're not wrong. And that's kind of sad.

sick creek
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sorry for starting this lol

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and yeah, i'm philosophically opposed to their tactics

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but they still make really nice machines ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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and for me, OS X is the nicest OS experience out there

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tbh, most people having problems are accidental damage claims

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the reason you dont hear about it as much with PC manufacturers is because there are so many manufacturers, most with way less exposure from the public than apple

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apple is a giant target, understandably

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also tbh, why would anyone buy a mac mini to run linux? i know the point is that you should be ABLE to, but why would you want to at all

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just buy an intel NUC

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and for what its worth, i'm no stranger to this

pale sigil
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its nice cos its dumbed down

reef patrol
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Don't get me wrong. I love the apple hardware design. I just hate their business model of being anti consumer 😄

pale sigil
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and full of animations

sick creek
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ehm what

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os x isn't "dumbed down" any more than windows is

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lmao

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in fact you can enable way more power user shit on os x than you can on windows

pale sigil
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like?

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also i dont like windows too

sick creek
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well just for starters

pale sigil
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hidden

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locked down

sick creek
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locked down? not at all

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most people dont need these features

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but they're still there

pale sigil
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Sorry what, are you kidding me. Stop Photos from opening automatically on your Mac?, dark mode? thing in windows anyway, idk anything about the dock qqquit thing.

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are all these dock things?

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In macOS and OS X it’s possible to show one application at a time.

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this should be norm?

sick creek
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that defaults-write site is kinda shit

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looking at it now

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i just did a quick google

pale sigil
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Lol

sick creek
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but secrets.prefpane is where its at

pale sigil
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but these are just part of windows

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in general

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not hidden

sick creek
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lol

pale sigil
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unless im completely missunderstanding

sick creek
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this isn't any different than having to go through the registry to change settings you cant change in windows via a ui

pale sigil
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that i wont deny, but its a lot more powerful things than well adding the ability to not auto open pics

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haha

sick creek
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that's a bad example but sure, keep using it

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i guess i am just looking at this from the standpoint of a development background

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windows is godawful

pale sigil
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they are both awful

sick creek
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either you have to run something on a VM or cross your fingers with some shitty ass term emu/powershell

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linux as a desktop os is still really fucking shit, i don't really care what anyone says

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it just is

pale sigil
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hey

sick creek
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elementary OS's ui is the closest anyone has ever come to a palatable interface

pale sigil
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there is a reason im not using it full time 🤷

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but its not shit

sick creek
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gnome, kde, xfce, all shit in one way or another

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unity is a joke

pale sigil
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Elementry OS is just as silly as bloody OSX

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it locks everything

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you have to do all sorts to get access

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i hated it

sick creek
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yeah but what did you need it to do that it didnt already do

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for a normal every day OS

pale sigil
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i could only really install their applications or limited ones

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i could not install tweak tools

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terminal was limited af

sick creek
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maybe i'm just jaded because i come from the days when getting wifi working on linux was a fucking achievement

pale sigil
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i used to be like that

sick creek
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now you install any distro and it works out of the box with like 98% of wifi cards

pale sigil
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when everything was so aids

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like just installing java or some shit

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but its not where near like this now

sick creek
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chrome still sucks to install

pale sigil
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nah

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you just use store or packet installer like an exe

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or you can even use terminal

sick creek
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running a fucking shell script? you kidding me

pale sigil
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sudo apt-get install chrome-stable

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ez

sick creek
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oh so you can get one that's 10 versions behind

pale sigil
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you just download the file

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and install it

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its not rocket science

sick creek
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no it isnt

pale sigil
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does everything for you

sick creek
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but its like this over and over

pale sigil
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all an exe does

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is unpack

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lmao

sick creek
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yea no shit but windows/os x at least have standard libraries to build an application against

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with linux you could want to install a calculator and need 150 deps

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and look

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i'm not saying thats a terrible thing

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but it highlights the difference between them

pale sigil
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most of these deps come under debian tho

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which is used in ubuntu

sick creek
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yea but the point is they are required

pale sigil
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not always

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like i said

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if you download chrome

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from the website

sick creek
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the last time i did it, which admittedly was like 2 years ago

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it was a shit show

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so maybe it has gotten better

pale sigil
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Man, Linux is not perfect.

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I have had my fustration with it.

sick creek
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yea, just tired of people acting like it's the next messiah i guess

pale sigil
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But its no were near as bad as people claim it to be especially now.

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these days people run into one issue thats small and cry

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haha

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i agree

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with you on there

sick creek
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all the while shitting on other OS that are just as good/better

pale sigil
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The issue is we need it to be

sick creek
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at the end of the day, you use the OS that works for your brain

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and i get that

misty saffron
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it is bad until there is a cross-platform implementation of os-specific apis

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c++20 is moving slowly towards that

sick creek
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yea linux's downfall (as it has been up to this point, and will be for a while longer) is that it gives you TOO much choice. TOO much freedom (in a sense). this is linux with ways to do things: https://xkcd.com/927/

xkcd: Standards
Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
misty saffron
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this is true, but i'm talking mostly about winapi

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there is no networking in c++

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you have to rely on winapi or whatever the linux api is called

sick creek
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yea i'm not super familiar with the actual api libs

misty saffron
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and it's not just networking

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definitely not just networking

sick creek
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a stack if you will lol

misty saffron
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std::filesystem is already a good step towards code being cross-platform by default

sick creek
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yea i mean, say what you will about electron

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but performance aside, it's basically a christmas miracle

misty saffron
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a crippled miracle, though

sick creek
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yeah but a miracle nonetheless

misty saffron
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the idea is good, the implementation is not

sick creek
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before electron there were never this many <any> platform apps

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yea but it can be refined. most of it is javascript's fault IMHO

misty saffron
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they could have made a language specifically for that, or made a JIT compiler for an existing one

sick creek
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yeah but good luck getting people to learn yet another language

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i mean thats why transpiling is a thing

misty saffron
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just give it c-style syntax

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done

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oh and good documentation

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c syntax is the only good programming language syntax imo.

sick creek
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haha i am actually chuckling at the thought of JS devs learning a C-style syntax'd language

misty saffron
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tbf js is already pretty close to that

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for comparison, get python

sick creek
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ew gtfo

misty saffron
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i genuinely wanted to end it all once i've found out that indentation matters

sick creek
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whitespace-based langs are the most idiotic thing ever

misty saffron
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i agree

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honestly a cross platform JIT solution would genuinely be good

sick creek
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part of why i fucking despise coffeescript

misty saffron
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electron is crippled as

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the portability hurts

sick creek
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only a small part though

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coffeescript is just fucking awful all around

misty saffron
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i don't want to have 10 chromium instances on my pc

sick creek
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lmao

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true that

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but that's what 32GB of ram is for /shrug

misty saffron
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just get a bloody JIT compiler once

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it's kind of like c#, .net framework and mono

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the concept is real decent but they're not pushing towards mono being widely used

sick creek
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C# .net is actually not terrible

misty saffron
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it's not

sick creek
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i hated on it hard but did devops for a company that used it

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and grew to like it

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i mean i didnt have to write code in C#

misty saffron
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the part that frustrates me is that compiler never assumes

sick creek
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but debugging build issues was not aggravating at least

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doing the linux build with mono on the otherhand... not fun

misty saffron
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exactly

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it is a missed opportunity

sick creek
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well, it's mono's fault

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mono loves to just dump stack traces the second it encounters something it doesnt like

misty saffron
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the code is JITed, there is nothing stopping people from just using that everywhere

sick creek
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it wasn't uncommon to also have a build log be > 500KB from warnings

misty saffron
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christ

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i love debugging c# on windows

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microsoft really have done an amazing job

sick creek
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yea on windows they have it down

misty saffron
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not sure if there is step backwards for C#

sick creek
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for IDE/platform microsoft definitely wins

misty saffron
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but there will be for c++

sick creek
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visual studio is pretty amazing

misty saffron
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STEP BACKWARDS!!!

sick creek
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i suck at writing server-side .net code, but it held my hand the whole way lol

misty saffron
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my coworkers constantly ask me questions which can be answered with "learn how to use the debugger"

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like, come on

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it's extremely powerful in vs

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and apparently all we got is breakpoints

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oh and call stack

sick creek
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lol

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welp, gotta get back to work. good talk tho

ashen spindle
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I started by learning C# and it makes it so hard doing anything else, with how good debugging in it is lol

toxic jolt
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wasn't c# developed FOR vs?

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that would make sense then

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on the other hand, C++ being more universal, you would lose lots of that added functionality

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then again, I feel like vs doesn't understand how it's supposed to compile c++ half the time...

misty saffron
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msvc is literally the best compiler :/

toxic jolt
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sure the compiler itself is fine

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but vs itself being a borked mess

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random memory leak-y things where it'll complain about not being able to create objects for compilation because of some thing

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and you can't figure out what's wrong

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but in reality you just restart your computer and everything is fine

misty saffron
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are you using vs2013?

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there is absolutely nothing wrong with current version of vs

toxic jolt
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last I used was 2017 I think

misty saffron
#

if the code doesn't compile then the code is of questionable quality

toxic jolt
#

from my cs professor who has a phd lol

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

I'm telling you man, it was a stupid bug

#

you'd just restart your PC and it would be fine

misty saffron
#

I've never had any issues with vs2017

#

and I use it daily

pale sigil
#

is it just me

#

or has fullscreen mode changed

plush summit
#

Can someone explain to me how you supernet properly

#

For the life of me I could not understand it

ashen spindle
#

It’s when you are using the internet, but the one for superheroes vvEZ

plush summit
#

...

knotty bear
#

@plush summit supernet is really just a internet BGP concept in which you advertise your allocated prefix without subneting.. that's just a concept but not sure about how it is related to keyboard lol.. 😉

plush summit
#

@knotty bear not in the slightest but it's a course I'm taking in college

#

And I bombed the exam because of it

pale sigil
#

Rip

#

Crydia being shut down after all these years

plush summit
#

?

#

just a repository that shut down

#

nothing too bad

pale sigil
#

The actual application

#

Is being shut down

#

Crydia is the application that hosts repos

#

Not a repo itself

#

Tho he does have a repo pre installed

plush summit
#

wait

#

the actual ap

#

is going under?

pale sigil
#

Yes

plush summit
#

.......

#

Why

fair gull
#

tbf who uses an iphone

pale sigil
#

the hell

#

i cant qquote anymore

fair gull
#

plus idk but i think its called cydia

sick creek
#

Yea it was cydia

#

Used to jailbreak my iphones but tbh its not worth it anymore

#

Aside from putting say 5 icons in the bottom row or arbitrary icon placement

#

There really isnt much to jailbreak for

plush summit
#

Rip

#

Bragging rights

#

Though with Apple's horrible security there's not much bragging

fair gull
#

now im even more happy im team android

pale sigil
#

cydia doesn't jb

plush summit
#

City is installed after you jailbreak

pale sigil
#

yes but it doesn't kb

plush summit
#

Or as part of the jail by process

pale sigil
#

*jb

plush summit
#

No I know

pale sigil
#

Cydia is just an app store

plush summit
#

A convenient place to get tweeks

#

What do you do now?

pale sigil
#

i missread brpcs message

sick creek
#

Yea i wasnt saying cydia was the jailbreak but you cant get it without being jb’d

#

Sooooo

#

Tbh it was full of trash and malware anyway

#

Just like google play store 😉

#

dons flame retardant suit

pale sigil
#

You can get it without JB

#

It just wont work correct.

pale sigil
#

What is wrong with people, this is my mums data usage

fair gull
#

dont need to lie to us just cause u love facebook LUL

pale sigil
#

For a starter I don't use an iPhone

#

Lol

fair gull
#

thats why u rooted ur phone to make it look like one

#

i strongly believe that u actually use 2 iphones

pale sigil
#

U wot

fair gull
#

idk man im just bored

pale sigil
#

Though you got something somewhat right

fair gull
#

i wanna go home and get back coding ais

#

i dont get what i got right

pale sigil
#

Looking like an iPhone

#

Everything on screen

#

And slide down to search for apps

fair gull
#

looks like samsung

#

not iphone

#

replace icons of system stuff reee

pale sigil
#

Samsung

#

Also nothing wrong with the icons

fair gull
#

i hate the samsung icons

pale sigil
#

Can't be assed buying icons

#

Tbh

fair gull
#

just steal from uphone

pale sigil
#

U wot

fair gull
#

iphone*

#

make it look exactly like an iphone

#

or stock android

zenith temple
#

anyone know any ultra wides ips monitors that can show 2 pc at the same time (alternatives to LG dual link)

plush summit
#

Not to my knowledge

zenith temple
#

id like to save desk space and cable clutter with a single screen plugged with 2 rigs

misty saffron
#

@pale sigil just download icons off play store and use them in a 3rd party launcher

#

actually, i think pixel launcher supports custom icons

pale sigil
#

@misty saffron I'm using a launcher

#

But again cba buying icons

misty saffron
#

download

#

not buy

pale sigil
#

You mean cracked apks

#

Just say it fam

misty saffron
#

no i mean free

pale sigil
#

But the free ones are crap

#

Oh

misty saffron
#

there are good ones

#

I kinda like those

pale sigil
#

Aye

reef patrol
#

"folders"

#

Clean up dat phone sir!

pale sigil
#

Ugh

#

The bottom triggers me

#

So much

misty saffron
pale sigil
#

That's just mine but flipped

#

@reef patrol folders are life

#

@misty saffron vk is weird

reef patrol
#

Folders are plague 😅

#

Also the bottom has scroll.

misty saffron
#

have to use vk unfortunately

#

the concept of messengers is unknown to my coworkers

sick creek
#

Best razer keyboard that exists lmao

#

Num enter is not pressed in bc i have to shave out corner for the keycap

sick creek
#

fixed it but cant be bothered to take a pic

#

just had to sand down the corner

pale sigil
#

Could be worse

#

Could be this

chrome estuary
#

oh god why

#

what

pale sigil
#

Soldered it in the wrong place

fair gull
#

how does one even do that

pale sigil
#

Because the kbd75 allows for special locks cap

#

And I happened to solder it there

#

It's a common mistake on this pcb

fair gull
#

hope u fixed that

pale sigil
#

Nope

#

Can never be assed

fair gull
#

that would have instantly triggered me

pale sigil
#

Last time I tried to de solder I failed hard

fair gull
#

desoldering gun, desoldering handpump or wick?

pale sigil
#

Well I think you suggested wick the other day

fair gull
#

na wick only for smd

#

through hole u should always use a desoldering gun or pump

pale sigil
#

Wait no that was from @sick creek

#

I can't

#

Like I've tried so many times

fair gull
#

usually its as easy as add new solder

pale sigil
#

Ye well it keeps getting stuck in the hole

fair gull
#

and then just melt it, put the pump ontop (yes while the iron is still at the pcb) and then just suck

#

after that if u got some solder in the holes still

#

pull on the key while going over the pins to basically wiggle it out

pale sigil
#

I have so many times

#

Ye no

#

Still means the solder gets stuck in there

fair gull
#

hm i desoldered a whole pcb like that cause i dont have the money for a desoldering station

pale sigil
#

I'm just going to order some wick

#

Hope for the best tbh

fair gull
#

personally never had luck with through hole and wick

pale sigil
#

Meh it's just a £2.30 loss

fair gull
#

im trying to get my hands on a jbc soldering tip

#

basically a manual desoldering station

pale sigil
#

Hmm mechkeyboard UK offer a service to re solder everything etc

#

For me

fair gull
#

for free?

pale sigil
#

No ofc not

sick creek
#

yea i suggested the wick because there might be too much solder

#

worst case scenario if wick doesnt complete the job 100% you will at least have soaked up enough solder to then effectively use the vacuum pump

pale sigil
#

If his price is reasonable

#

I'd rather he do it

#

Lmao

sick creek
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

timid chasm
#

oooo modmic wireless reviews

sick creek
#

Ooo what

chrome estuary
#

oh what?

#

this i gotta know

timid chasm
#

Antlions modmic wireless has some video reviews

#

I'm guessing they're only posted because the reviews are good but who knows

#

You know for those of us who hate wired headsets

#

fucking expensive though

sick creek
#

Yeah thats a lot

chrome estuary
#

wew jesus fucking christ

#

$120?!

#

plus i can't have been the only one hearing all the crackling and popping

timid chasm
#

I didn't hear any

neat oriole
#

Oof

reef patrol
#

PS1 Classic get.

#

Time to see if it's really as bad as people say (it is - It totally is)

misty saffron
#

yeah it is

#

seems like snes classic is better at emulating ps1

reef patrol
#

It'll be interesting to do some benchmarks of it compared to my Raspberry pi

zenith mirage
#

Yeah I've been curious about that too

#

I keep putting off building a Pi emulator console, but it'd be a really cool thing to have

reef patrol
#

My PI 3b runs them quite comfortable.

zenith mirage
#

How much did it cost you to make? I can't imagine it was much over like €20-€35 right?

#

Or more, perhaps my perception of Pi prices are warped

reef patrol
#

I think in total it's a bit more expensive than a retro console.

#

Especially if you add in two controllers.

#

Let's see...

#

15£ for the SNES themed case and heatsink.
4£ for a tiny fan for it (not required but nice to have)
35£ for the Pi
19£ for the 128GB MicroSD card

zenith mirage
#

Not too bad then

misty saffron
#

just 3d print a case bitch

zenith mirage
#

Just have access to a 3D printer Wheeze

reef patrol
#

I prefer not having a case that looks like shit 😛

misty saffron
#

you don't?

#

boo

zenith mirage
#

Alright Bill Gates, not all of us are billionaires 😅

misty saffron
#

3d prints look great unless the person who launched the printing is a tard

reef patrol
#

It really doesn't.

#

You need so many hours of post-print sanding and error correcting.

zenith mirage
#

Tbh I haven't paid real attention to 3D printing for a bit. I just remember them being crap, but maybe it's changed

reef patrol
#

I'd rather just pay for a molded and painted case with a fitted heatsink 😄

misty saffron
#

you don't need to sand anything, really

#

print with abs and leave it in an enclosure with acetone

reef patrol
#

We'll agree to disagree on that.

misty saffron
#

good idea

reef patrol
zenith mirage
#

It's always those lines that bug me

#

Like it's just not smooth

misty saffron
#

that's one huge case for a pi

#

at least it looks huge, though

reef patrol
#

Nope

#

And... it's themed. So it has to fit proportions 😛

misty saffron
#

you really can get rid of the lines with acetone

reef patrol
#

My kuma case is on the large side iirc

misty saffron
#

then it's as smooth as it can be

reef patrol
#

Good - Now tell everyone who 3D prints to do that :

zenith mirage
#

Is it generally brittle plastic?

#

I seek to remember anything 3D printed feeling real cheap. Either too soft or too brittle

reef patrol
misty saffron
#

plastic is plastic, man

#

there are tons of filament types

reef patrol
#

Plastic is definitely not just plastic 😄

zenith mirage
#

Yeah I guess, just seemed that every one in experienced sucked

#

I thought it was too big a coincidence, but I guess everyone was just cheap 😅

misty saffron
#

I'm saying that you should expect whatever type of filament you have to feel exactly like that

zenith mirage
#

But I guess you're spending a fair bit for filament that doesn't suck right?

#

At that point, it might be cost effective to just buy a case that already exists

#

Maybe I'm assuming too much about pricing here but it doesn't make sense in my mind

misty saffron
#

but what's the fun in that?!

#

filament isn't expensive btw

zenith mirage
#

I mean I guess you're free to make it your own at that point

#

I'm working off assumptions here, thanks for the info 😊

misty saffron
#

around 20eur for 330m of abs

#

the spools usually have 330m of filament

#

and, hell, that's really a lot

zenith mirage
#

Is that 330 meters?

#

Just for scale here

misty saffron
#

yes

zenith mirage
#

Right

#

That sounds like a lot

misty saffron
#

1kg

zenith mirage
#

Is it a lot?

#

Like how many small things would that make?

misty saffron
#

the slicers usually show you how much filament is going to be used

#

but it all depends on the infill

#

but 330m is definitely a lot

zenith mirage
#

Right

#

Yeah I just sounds like a lot but when you get into it, it can probably go fast

solar hinge
#

I WANT AN ULTIMAKER 2

misty saffron
#

really depends on how much you print

ashen spindle
#

we got an Ultimaker 3 at uni recently vvISee

misty saffron
#

I've had this one spool for like 4 months and it's not even half done

#

gotta say I only print stuff I actually need

solar hinge
#

i want it 😢 @ashen spindle

ashen spindle
#

think we'll use it to print the spaceship you are controlling in our project

pale sigil
#

Why can't anything be simple with me

#

My system is being retarded yet again

#

My temps in the bios are 50c

reef patrol
#

Immigrate to a western country like Denmark, and I'll take a look at it 😄

pale sigil
#

i just dont know why im so unlucky, i went years, perfect temps and perfet performance

#

then fucking shit goes up the roof

#

Literally nothing, thats the thing, when i got this new GPU everything was golden... like super golden, my temps have never been great tho even when i replaced my h80i with a h100i

#

It was a fresh install when i got this GPU

timid chasm
#

yeah try the ole reverse psychology on it

pale sigil
#

ye

pale sigil
#

Oooft friend is making a succesful product... even tho he used no resources from uni etc they are claiming they own 100% of the app he is developing...

misty saffron
pale sigil
#

?

#

btw what software is this

#

ive noticed this directly type of software before

#

what is it

#

@misty saffron fam give us some context

misty saffron
#

new title manager for switch

#

seems like it's broken though

#

yep

#

rip jenkins

timid chasm
#

That doesn't make much sense @pale sigil. I've heard of universities owning a professors lecture but never of a student piece of work

ashen spindle
#

it makes sense when you make it with stuff from your uni, common in media degrees like cross media, film, audio, etc.

pale sigil
#

thats what i sai

#

said

#

but he never, it was all done at home using open source

timid chasm
#

If you're using their content I get it. I wouldn't agree if you were only using their devices in creating it

pale sigil
#

The tutor wanted to see his source code... he refused and she said they own his work.

#

So he is going to try and tank the code and do another "project" seperate from uni

timid chasm
#

If you pay them and pay lab fees I feel like you're paying to use their resources, excluding media type stuff

#

I'd say fuck em but that's me

ashen spindle
#

depends, if the uni got it under conditions, like with software licenses for university etc. it can also belong to the uni (not the case here it seems but that can be a thing in general)

pale sigil
#

it does

#

there was a high profile case of this in the uk a few years ago

#

SOme students used software at uni that made millions via the NHS

#

UNI sued the students

timid chasm
#

Unless it's software not otherwise obtainable I don't get that

ashen spindle
#

licenses can be expensive if you want to buy them for personal use and not education

pale sigil
#

Its because you are using resources they provided.

timid chasm
#

I do hate universities though

pale sigil
#

I remember in college my tutor said to me, dont make anything in college.

#

Otherwise they will take it from you.

timid chasm
#

bunch of greedy fuckbags

ashen spindle
#

but that's almost never the uni's fault??

pale sigil
#

Said that to all his students.

ashen spindle
#

not really the uni's fault if the software is expensive for commercial use

timid chasm
#

By that logic isn't anything you make with the education obtained from your university theirs?

pale sigil
#

it doesn't matter, uni provided the tools for said product

#

which means they are part of it

#

yes

#

that seems to be the case

#

Uni work for example you cant publish.

#

Like diessertations, have you ever seen research papers before? ones from students? they ALL are published by the uni.

#

As they own it.

timid chasm
#

I get that to an extent if it's something you did while doing work for them. Those usually seem to be research funded by the school

#

dissertations is annoying but they sometimes fund shit related to those

pale sigil
#

Ha

#

Funded by the uni

#

Fuck off xD it's funded by the crazy debt I have

timid chasm
#

I mean everything is but they also get some bs grants and stuff to put towards them

#

some scholarships

#

at least here, not sure about over there

pale sigil
#

It's all debt here

reef patrol
#

Thank God for socialist trends in Vikinglsnd.

chrome estuary
#

Tab A is older, slower, smaller battery, less ram, smaller screen etc etc.

#

Tab S4 is their newest one.

fair gull
#

@proud nacelle ud need to specify which tab a... theres multiple ones

reef patrol
pale sigil
#

I never used prime for pop

#

Tbh

#

But I did use it for other stuff related :(

reef patrol
#

Suuuuuuure 😄

pale sigil
#

😋😁

ashen spindle
#

Wow the Amazon Prime delivery in the UK sends you status updates that are this detailed? Getting jealous

pale sigil
#

Hahaha

#

I know you were making a joke but they actually do..... Prime now is live tracking and normal prime says how many doors away

ashen spindle
pale sigil
#

My phone provider went down an entire day, they give us a choice... Receive compensation or give said compensation to charity... They said here's your 0.90 on the other hand awesome people who donated taxied x amount

#

Fk u

#

If people knew how much we would have got it would have gone to character

#

I'm really annoyed...

#

People are getting shamed big time

halcyon moss
#

you have a non annoyed state"

#

?

pale sigil
#

They didn't say how much would be sent out or what charity it was being donated to

#

If they disclosed this id imagine people would have sent it to charity

#

No I don't

#

There's nothing good in this world to be happy about pft

halcyon moss
#

well what is one day of a normal contract?
contract is 27 for a month? so one day comes to 90 cents

fair gull
#

that explains why the battery is same etc

#

its the new tab a not the older ones

#

@proud nacelle the tab a 10.5 doesnt have a stylus, lower screen res, only an IPS display not AMOLED, a snapdragon 540 instead of a 835, obviously older gpu adreno 503 instead of 540, lower cam res, only usb 2.0 type-c

#

also no fast charge

#

and some other connectivity details like older bluetooth

misty saffron
#

fast charge is basically the device accepting more current than usual, sometimes at higher voltages

#

regular charging is usually 5v 1a

#

my phone does 9v 1.67a, which means significantly faster charging

#

compared to the ones without the feature that is

misty saffron
#

that shouldn't be the case if the voltage is higher

#

ampacity can be higher with a thick cable, right, but that doesn't matter for voltage

#

I would assume the board is throttling the charge then

#

lower voltage at higher current can deliver more usable power than the other way around, but 10W peak should still be worse than 15W peak

timid chasm
#

Is buying pop via Prime actually worthwhile there? Way too expensive here

pale sigil
#

Every so often yes

fair gull
#

whats pop

pale sigil
#

Fizzy drink

#

Or "soda"

timid chasm
#

soda

fair gull
#

oh like coke

#

or sprite

timid chasm
#

yah

fair gull
#

ahh

#

idk why i thought of lolipops

pale sigil
#

I rarely use the word pop

#

Tbh

fair gull
#

thats the pop i thought of

pale sigil
#

Oh fuck off

fair gull
#

legit a dring

pale sigil
#

😂

fair gull
#

drink*

#

they also sell gold'n'shower

pale sigil
#

We have a drink called "Pussy" here

fair gull
#

noice

pale sigil
#

And their ads were "have a pussy"

fair gull
#

LOL

pale sigil
#

Ha

fair gull
#

so ironic

#

that dude has never tasted pussy

pale sigil
#

American ad

fair gull
#

japan has the best ads tho

pale sigil
#

It causes a lot of drama

#

And they started selling them under p**y

fair gull
#

dat pin

pale sigil
#

I hatw the discord app sometimes

#

Just wanna edit a message

fair gull
#

same happens to myself aswell

pale sigil
#

But noooooo

fair gull
#

psure the app just trolls u

#

cause i swear the pin option slides right under where u touch

pale sigil
#

What's weird is If you pin in DM you get a prompt asking if you're sure

fair gull
#

why not on servers

pale sigil
#

Exactly

fair gull
#

reee

pale sigil
#

Ironically you don't hear people saying "Pussy" tastes nice it's the opposite which makes it even more ironic

#

And hilarious

#

Because it just funny either way

#

It's perfect really

#

You can't trash talk the drink without having a laugh

pale sigil
#

Which side looks best, first image the desk is against the wall

#

Computer and fridge left or right

ashen spindle
#

I am very confused as to what I am supposed to see

pale sigil
#

Little better?

ashen spindle
#

ahh

#

I'd probably say #2 because more space for you, not going to hit the right wall when you move/stretch etc.

pale sigil
#

Hmm the back of the pc would be facing me tbh

ashen spindle
#

o I assumed you would be siting at the south

pale sigil
#

I mean this

#

It directly facing me like

#

The IO would be facing west I guess

ashen spindle
#

then probably whatever side is easier to see the door from, I prefer not needing to turn around if someone comes in

pale sigil
#

Door is on left

#

My room is so small I have to shuffle to get up

#

😂

ashen spindle
pale sigil
#

It sucks

reef patrol
pale sigil
#

I saw this

#

Wasn't surprised

pale sigil
#

What do you guys do for coolers on the top? Intake or out take

ashen spindle
#

depends on your case/case position/how the other fans are set up

reef patrol
#

Out.

#

Front is always intake because of the GPU. And top/back is outtake, unless you have an air cooler, then top is intake.

pale sigil
#

I think I want a new case

#

And with this case I'll make more of an effort for cooling

toxic jolt
#

So today I hacked my car

#

Unlocked s-sport mode and launch control 👌

pale sigil
#

Welp, i regret the way my desk is now

timid chasm
#

The cons of rearranging

#

If you're like me you have no sense of decoration and will have to move it a few times before you find a way you like it

#

or...just get a wife who won't let you decorate anyway 😂

neat oriole
#

How do y’all feel about low profile switches

reef patrol
#

No thank you blobno

neat oriole
#

What about low profile key caps

fair gull
#

u think its worth using 32gb of ecc memory in a pc?

ashen spindle
#

if you do anything that benefits from it sure, it's not going to make anything worse, besides the cost I think rooThink

reef patrol
ashen spindle
#

rooOldMan back in my time that was something from the future

pale sigil
#

@reef patrol Im dissapointed in you

reef patrol
#

Review sample. Couldn't resist the offer 😁

#

It'll be interesting to see the performance difference to my PAL PS1 and my Raspberry Pi

chrome estuary
#

My issue is the only PS1 game I enjoy and actively go back to is Legend of Dragoon

reef patrol
#

I had tons

#

FF, Spyro, Tombi, Crash, Ridge Racer

#

So on

reef patrol
pale sigil
#

Well damn he's recovered

reef patrol
#

He's been busy lately 😄

pale sigil
#

Need some directory advice

#

one of my NAS drives is for home files, such as backups, downloads and backups

#

How would you guys go about doing the dir

#

Atm its

./
All Downloads (DO NOT DELETE!!!)
Backups
user_files
VMFiles

im very very stressfull withf ile names etc