🔌│tech

[empty wren]

i read that diesel vehicle have a higher fuel capacity though i am not sure on that

oil?

you would likely have to compare both cars to find a tangible difference in price

[hardy idol]

oh diesel is cheaper here

[empty wren]

wow

otherwise here

[hardy idol]

E500 was 3k more expensive in buying

but cheaper in running

gas is more expensive but the environment tax kinda cancels that effect out

[empty wren]

well then in the long run diesekl would win

though maybe the price could be environmental impact

[hardy idol]

no, because diesel is expensive when cuz environment tax and

you get fined when u drive into some cities

or some areas

[empty wren]

yeah so that environmental taxes messes with it

[hardy idol]

yeah diesel might be cheaper but the taxes on it make it more expensive

thats why gas V8 won and i dont think my dad wants to go back to slower cars

[empty wren]

hmm they could have also placed taxes on manufacturing of the diesel car hence why higher consumer price to other vehicle

[hardy idol]

no because its the used market

[empty wren]

oh you got it from there then my bad

[hardy idol]

and in the 2000s

nobody gave fucking shit about environment

[empty wren]

interesting

then i do not know

[pale sigil]

Best way to deal with IP changes when point your domain to a home server?

[coral loom]

Put it alllllll behind a CDN

😛

[pale sigil]

@coral loom Im guessing you link your server to one?

[coral loom]

not mine

[pale sigil]

no i mean ing eneral

[coral loom]

our company

[pale sigil]

not literally you

[coral loom]

you can if you want to access it publicly

but i was just joking 😄

[pale sigil]

Basically

My friends IP changes

[coral loom]

its an internal media server, doesnt even need to be behind a firewall

[pale sigil]

And he is hosting a website i setup

if his ip changes ofc we would manually have to change the domain settings

[coral loom]

cant you host it on AWS?

[crimson wigeon]

Isn't this what dynamic DNS is for

[pale sigil]

Well he wants to self host everything

i personally run my own server

[coral loom]

you can static host on AWS S3 for pennies man

[pale sigil]

externally

[coral loom]

ah ok

[crimson wigeon]

I just wrote a script that checks IP address every now and then and if it changes it updates the DNS record

Using the Cloudflare API

[coral loom]

yea, over engineered

but works

[crimson wigeon]

Pretty much!

[pale sigil]

Ye i thought about clouflare

but idk where to look

never had to use a dyndns

[coral loom]

you could set static ip

less headache and easier to manage

[pale sigil]

not optional

[coral loom]

what OS you use

[pale sigil]

i mean no static WAN address

i use ubuntu personally

and so does he

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/cV1z7zkitgs

[zenith sonnet]

This is a pretty good video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=i13MhuYJdsI&feature=emb_logo

[hardy idol]

Eeek Fuel consumption (urban)
16.3 mpg on the 2004 S211 E500
@latent mural
it's not even too bad

14L/100km

But we've also done 11L/100km

[dim orbit]

wb

[empty wren]

Looks more like a jetsuit from fate of the furious

[wheat plume]

Rip Redmi Note 5 Pro

You served us well

The screen finally broke beyond use

[empty wren]

Dang

[wheat plume]

I used it for like a year
Then I gave it to mom cause she shattered her phone

Within a week she also shattered this one

-.-

[empty wren]

.:S

[wheat plume]

She's so careless -.-
Leaving the phones in her pocket and getting into the car and not realizing it fell out and got run over -.-

[empty wren]

That is careless, it being in her pocket I would think she would notice the loss of mass in her pocket when it came out. There was a girl with an iPhone 5c and cracked the glass on the so much that it looked like the screen would pop out at any moment

[wheat plume]

O.o

[empty wren]

I was terrified to even look

What gorilla glass was on that redmi 5 pro?

There has been progress to a method of levitation using ultrasound waves, more larger objects can float.

[wheat plume]

im not sure

gorilla glass 3

[shadow minnow]

I used to drop my Phone like every day, in one year, and screen got damaged just one time 😄 now I learned to be more careful

[wheat plume]

welp

I once dropped my current phone onto tile

its ceramic, no scratches on the back but the screen has a little dent but barely noticable

[shadow minnow]

What Phone do u have?

[wheat plume]

Mi Mix 2S

got it for €220

pretty damn good deal xd

[shadow minnow]

I have got 6s plus. It luckily has steel back. Do not wanna imagine how would it look, if it has glass back like newer flagships, it would have cracked like 10 times.

I am not dropping my phone as much as before, but still sometimes I accidentally move charger by knee and it falls. Hope I can learn to be more careful before 12 pro comes out

[wheat plume]

I really HATE the trend of glass backs

like why tf would you want a second large surface to deal with that can shatter and scratch

you put a protector on the screen but not the back, if you use a case then the fancy look and feel of the glass is gone away

no point in having a fancy looking phone if you just keep it in a case 24/7

[empty wren]

maybe the frame should be made from glass

or ceramic

[wheat plume]

nahh, things that can be dropped shouldnt be glass :')

ceramic feels great tho <3

[empty wren]

well with a bumper oit may be fine

but my point is better signal strength

and no weakpoint due antenna lines

no point in having a fancy looking phone if you just keep it in a case 24/7
@wheat plume i agree though i do want to drop my phone and it to crack again whichs brings us back to square

[shadow minnow]

The reason is wireless charging

[empty wren]

well partially

[shadow minnow]

I would say mainly, there was no need for glass back before wireless charging came to phones

[wheat plume]

ceramic can do wireless also

[empty wren]

plastc can allow wireless charging too

[wheat plume]

and its more duarable

[empty wren]

so either ceramic or plastic is a better choice

[wheat plume]

yup

[shadow minnow]

Would not want to have plastic on back of phone, it feels bad on touch, and has problem with scratches

Glass nowadays is surprisingly scratch resistant

[empty wren]

not all platic feels bad to touch pixel 3as were like pixel 3s

[wheat plume]

I dont mind a plastic phone, feels ok, wont shatter when dropped, cheaper so less to pay for the phone and they can focus cost on what matters

[empty wren]

and ceramic is very scratch resistent

so cermaic for scratch resistence, pretiness and heft

[shadow minnow]

Ceramic likes to shatter

[empty wren]

well depending on its hardness

it may be on equal fighting ground

i noticed

[shadow minnow]

I have cousin who has ceramic furnace and is making things from ceramic. It will not be good idea, it is also hard to get it accurate shape.

[empty wren]

have you dropped your phone before Lava the Mi Mix 2 one

[wheat plume]

Yeah, once onto tile from about waist height

I missed my jean pocket -.-

[empty wren]

did it crack

[wheat plume]

nope

[empty wren]

well there you go Bexin so long as you take care of your phone and barely drop it should be fine

anything can break it just depends

[wheat plume]

iva had it may times in the same pocket with my car keys while going shopping

but I made sure the back was facing the keys, not the screen

[empty wren]

yeah which a nice feature of ceramic

[wheat plume]

its heavy tho....I cant find a car stand that can hold it

I may need to get one that hangs from the windscreen glass

I dont want one that attaches to the heat vent

I dont feel like roasting my phone during winter

[wheat plume]

ooo the essential phone

[empty wren]

yeah that is a friend of mines

it felt a bit heavier to me

[wheat plume]

I love the design tho :DD

[empty wren]

though what is even heavier are the samsung and iphone phones

it is funny they say you can keys in your pocket with your phone

[wheat plume]

the pixel 4 is such a beautiful phone also <3

[empty wren]

ah you mean the oh so orange color one

[wheat plume]

I like the design in general yes :D but the orange is damn nice

[empty wren]

ah yeah minimalism and they color the antenna lines in

[wheat plume]

I also like the black frame around it too

wait...

thats the pixel OG right?

[empty wren]

yeah nice contrast and the whole thing is matte and it is

the xl variant is smaller than i thought it was

[wheat plume]

Pixels are compact

im so excited about the 4A

assuming the battery isnt shit like the 4 then Id love to buy one

rlly Google...2800mAh??? on a phone with a 90Hz screen and RADAR CHIP?

-.-

pure BS

[empty wren]

yeah, since they should have tested with all that on, in fact two guys left the pixel team recently

[wheat plume]

over the camera

but idk what the reason was

[empty wren]

one guy left to do other stuff i think

he has been around since forver on the pixel team

the other guy not sure

maybe he was not that great of a manager allowing such things to get by like poor battery life

also why not the pixel 5

[wheat plume]

Cause I wont be able to afford the 5 if the previous pricing in Ireland is to go by for the 4

starting at €900

[empty wren]

i would hope not but i guess we will see

since it will have an snd 765g or something

[wheat plume]

the 4A looks slick tho <3 Pixel 4 like but with smaller bezels and little blackhole camera

[empty wren]

ah okay

[wheat plume]

blackhole cameras are my favourite if the phone really doesnt have enough bezel for the camera to fit there

I hate notches, no matter how small they are

[empty wren]

i guess that is the trend people who do not like notches prefer the punch hole

[wheat plume]

yeah, if it done right

some blackhole cameras I saw, are in line with the bottom of the status bar....not centered in the status bar and that doesnt look verry nice to me

also the samsung status bar icons are so small its stupid, so the blackhole will look even more stupidly huge beside them even if it is centered

[empty wren]

well the oval does more

[wheat plume]

I dont mind that either

but if that is used on cheap phones its 2 seperate holes with software coded black area between them xdd

[empty wren]

e.e

[wheat plume]

so that part of the screen is coded to always be black

[empty wren]

how dare they

[wheat plume]

its like how budget phones make rounded edges

its still a rectangular screen witha rounded phone frame and software to match the rounded curve of the physical frame

not a legit rounded screen

but hey you dont notice it

[empty wren]

i do not think it is rectangular

[wheat plume]

unless the aliasing is so bad

[empty wren]

and you may if there is light bleed

[wheat plume]

I dont notice it on my phone

[empty wren]

well then xiaomi did a good job

[wheat plume]

or my note 5 pro mostly cause its a high res screen I assume

[empty wren]

but is the mi mix 2 a phone with oled

[wheat plume]

I know for a fact the mix 2S isnt a real rounded screen

because there was a custom rom that didnt round the edges in software and it was really noticable

also, the boot animations dont account for it either

In their new versions of the rom, they did fix it and added that rounded corner to it so its working fine now xd

but is the mi mix 2 a phone with oled
@empty wren nope LCD

[empty wren]

okay

then i see

your screen likely looks like weird octagon

[wheat plume]

huh?

[empty wren]

you do not have for edges

you have 8

[shadow minnow]

That is weird

[wheat plume]

the OG Mi Mix had even less top bezel...omfh

the edges of that screen or practically the edges of the phone

[empty wren]

look closely at the edges

you only loose a bit of screen

[shadow minnow]

That bottom bezel 😄

[wheat plume]

its where the camera is

[empty wren]

well the display ribbon needs to be somewhere

[wheat plume]

I often compare it to an upside down pixel 4

[empty wren]

hmm kinda looks liek you are right

[shadow minnow]

Hope cameras under screens will come soon

[empty wren]

they are already here

you just cannot buy a phone as a consuemr with one yet

[wheat plume]

actually, if you use the stock miui camera, itll tell you to turn your phone upside down to properly take a selfie :')

but that doesnt work on other apps very well

they are already here
@empty wren true

[empty wren]

and the quality is bad so i would think you would not

[wheat plume]

Xiaomi have one :D

[empty wren]

oh really

[wheat plume]

yas :DD

They were the first I am pretty sure

[shadow minnow]

Problem will be that iPhones use special FaceID system that requires more things, also dot projector...

[empty wren]

nah

[wheat plume]

https://www.google.com/search?q=xiaomi+under+screen+camera+phone&oq=xiaomi+under+scr&aqs=chrome.3.0j69i57j0l6.5120j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[empty wren]

some of those can go under the screen worry not mate

the rgb camera has been the problem

[wheat plume]

I wonder will we have a combo of underscreen cameras and a blackhole for anything that cant go under it?

[empty wren]

i feel like a black hole will remain for lcd

[wheat plume]

maybe yeh

at least it looks decent

[empty wren]

almost anything but our cameras have yet to

[wheat plume]

Assuming the software centers it in the status bar

[empty wren]

hence why there are hole punch camera on even oled

[wheat plume]

and doesnt make it touch the bottm of it

[shadow minnow]

imo it is done so badly (that underscreen camera on xiaomi)

[wheat plume]

hm?

its the first ever made so makes sense

[shadow minnow]

They could have put one more layer between camera and display with blacked glass

[wheat plume]

oo

[empty wren]

the glass is not black

there is oled tape

to give it the black appearance

[shadow minnow]

I mean blacked glass, like on lidar sensor or Apple front facing cameras

[empty wren]

the oled itself is transparemt

oh you mean tinted glass

[shadow minnow]

Yeah

[empty wren]

well would that not hinder the screen

[shadow minnow]

Under screen

Between screen and camera

[empty wren]

but what if the camera is underneath the screen

and you tint the screen basically

think about it

[shadow minnow]

Than screen will have different colors

[wheat plume]

"This doesnt belong on the floor" needs to be the new "Linus Drop Tips" meme

[empty wren]

it may look muted

or at loss of brightmess

sure it may hide the camera more so

[shadow minnow]

Again how I mean it. OLEDs are basically transparent, so if there will be tinted glass under OLED, it will look black. Then just put camera under that glass, cameras can work under tinted glass.

[empty wren]

well that could work but a lot more engineering will be required higher phone cost too

also do not expect your phone to really fold

or bend

[wheat plume]

she is looking at the camera like "why tf am I even in this video?" :')

[empty wren]

😂😂

[wheat plume]

UwU https://youtu.be/r27WcPRtpWM

[empty wren]

maybe an electrochemic glass layer underneath the oled

[wheat plume]

pretends to understand wtf elecrtochemic glass is

[empty wren]

i will show you

[wheat plume]

ha yeh, that could work

[empty wren]

it is fine

not everyone know everything

[wheat plume]

tbh im still unsure how displays work...not to mention transparent ones....

[empty wren]

i was trying to hold a car conversation yesterday it was difi=fiult

[misty pier]

🤔

[wheat plume]

yeah...I was reading it :')

[empty wren]

oled emit lights themselves

[wheat plume]

I know

[empty wren]

lcd need a backlit to manipulatye the crystals

[misty pier]

what’s the display that uses a polarizing filter again

[wheat plume]

wow, so its not a marketing term when they say crystal

[empty wren]

not really

\unless they exgerate the crap out of it

and make it sound like so magic crystal

[wheat plume]

o

[empty wren]

what’s the display that uses a polarizing filter again
@misty pier is that not a privacy display

i think a black berry has one

[misty pier]

no like it needs the filter to work

so you can see

[empty wren]

hmm

[misty pier]

wait I think that’s for TVs

[empty wren]

https://youtu.be/XxNJXEMUjfU

[misty pier]

some older lcd TVs used to have that filter on them and people used to tear them off

and they couldn’t see the screen anymore

[empty wren]

hmm

oh like they may their screens invisible

[wheat plume]

LEL like what happened with the galaxy fold

[empty wren]

it got bought by the cartel

[shadow minnow]

Nothing special about that concept

[misty pier]

do people still want foldable phones?

just use a flip phone

[empty wren]

😂😂

[wheat plume]

:')) Escobar Fold

[shadow minnow]

AR camera on iPad is also blacked that way

[empty wren]

yes and escobar fold 2

[shadow minnow]

:')) Escobar Fold
@wheat plume lol

[wheat plume]

XD

[empty wren]

and it basically the same phone

[misty pier]

those things are engineered to be good at what they do 🗿

being a phone

[wheat plume]

legit the same with custom wallpaper and gold back

[empty wren]

just use a flip phone
@misty pier motorala rzr is both basically

[misty pier]

does it make a nice clack when you fold it up

[shadow minnow]

And maybe some software that reads your personal information 😄

(Escobar)

[empty wren]

not sure i would think so

[misty pier]

without it it’s not truly a flip phone

[shadow minnow]

Someone knocking my door, hope escobar did not read this chat 😄

[misty pier]

how else are you supposed to hang up calls

[wheat plume]

LEL

you need to be able to angrily flip it closed to hang up

thats the most important requirement

[empty wren]

over exagegrated

[wheat plume]

wat dis?

[empty wren]

galazy fold z

[wheat plume]

oooh

[misty pier]

zzzzz

[empty wren]

the bristles are smaller

and very few

how else are you supposed to hang up calls
@misty pier motorla rzr lets you do that

[misty pier]

it’s paul from marketing

[shadow minnow]

😄 but that shitty glass marketing, with only problem being there was plastic on that glass that if was damage, screen would get damaged too

[misty pier]

he came up with that idea

[shadow minnow]

But Samsung did more false marketing this year

[empty wren]

i watched the video they show the glass below the plastic

i think samsung over thought people would see that

because who would not want glass not plastic on the top laydr

[shadow minnow]

Yeah that is the problem, that there is Plastic on that glass

[wheat plume]

Prison tech is clearly different to everyday tech

C L e a R l Y*

[misty pier]

plastic get scratch

people get mad

[wheat plume]

yeh...

glass get scratch no one upset

[shadow minnow]

Also that 100x space zoom advertising. Every company until now advertised hardware zoom. And it also looks kinda blurry on that zoom, because real zoom was 10x

[empty wren]

people get mad
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[wheat plume]

friends with benefits? Nah

We got 3D with Extras!

[misty pier]

space zoom, for looking at the stars

yes

portable telescope

[empty wren]

oh that was fake

on huaweis side

[misty pier]

yeah I figured

the camera on my phone can not zoom that well either

[empty wren]

they compared the photo on your side i think to a web image

and gave yiu the web image photo 🤣

the camera on my phone can not zoom that well either
periscope lens is good step in the right direction to fix that

[misty pier]

iphone camera poo poo

[empty wren]

friends with benefits? Nah

We got 3D with Extras!
what is that

no actually very good

not at zooming maybe

[wheat plume]

Its the Unity engine launcher ahahah

[misty pier]

half of the time I can’t get it to focus right

[empty wren]

that looks so different now

half of the time I can’t get it to focus right
which iphone

[misty pier]

xs 🗿

[wheat plume]

which iphone
@empty wren the S20 Ultra

that cant focus for shit

[empty wren]

really i thought samsung had that last genration

[wheat plume]

and this to

but only in the Ultra for some reason

[empty wren]

xs 🗿
i cannot believe that, focusing is important for video even more

strange

samsung puts so much hardware in their camers

like the dual aperature

and dual pixel

that is a big letdown if it cannot work properly

[wheat plume]

im scared of people doing shady shit with the oneplus xray cam now

can see through some clothes ...

[misty pier]

e

[empty wren]

are some people wearing plastic

[misty pier]

polyester uses plastic

[wheat plume]

no, it works on fabric too

[empty wren]

O_O

[wheat plume]

polyester uses plastic
@misty pier yeh this

[misty pier]

i heard they are disabling it at least

but who knows now

[wheat plume]

candid photos are going to get shadier

[wheat plume]

i heard they are disabling it at least
@misty pier they did, but there is already a Magisk Module to bring it back

[empty wren]

any camera can do this pretty sure

[misty pier]

ruh oh

[empty wren]

just have to remove the ir filter

[misty pier]

time to wear a thick coat now

[empty wren]

can see through some clothes ...
xrays clothing finds out the person is an alien

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/wFJQI5iNjM8 omfh

[ashen spindle]

great, "x-xray infra red" already hating the articles about it

[empty wren]

it would be better if companies considered marketing names

i really do not like how the segway like boards without a handle are called hoverboards

[misty pier]

how are those even practical anyways

next thing you're gliding, next thing you're head first into the tv

[empty wren]

it is not, and some of them explode

i see some people on their phones riding it

[misty pier]

just ride a skateboard or something smh

[empty wren]

yeah

[misty pier]

that's something you have control over at least

or even electric scooters

[empty wren]

yeah that could go out of your control for sure, there was a video of a dumb girl crashing a making a hole in the wall

[misty pier]

but those don't have a very good safety track record

[empty wren]

those got banned in downtown at a stream

because people keep driving them INTO THE WATER

[misty pier]

🗿

[reef patrol]

[misty pier]

people sure are vicious

[empty wren]

omfh
says code is awful shows if a( == true) return true; else if (a == false) return false;

[wheat plume]

wat?

[empty wren]

i wonder when he made that code

seems awfully too basic

[wheat plume]

......... you need to go into display settings to change screen brightness on iPad???

[empty wren]

i know right

[wheat plume]

-.-

[misty pier]

why do people put nendoroids inside their computers

[wheat plume]

put what in their computers?

[ashen spindle]

if its watercooled/blowerstyle cooler they probably dont get warm

otherwise that sounds risky

[zenith sonnet]

Put what now?

[reef patrol]

Why not?

Figures - Small figures.

[wheat plume]

oooh those

right

[reef patrol]

I have my trust Titanfall pilot in mine 😛

[wheat plume]

wtf

ffs

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/hatersgonnahate-skateboard-weird-funny-noclothes-gif-4929757

[torpid monolith]

Titanfall 2 best fps of the decade fuck apex legends

[reef patrol]

[empty wren]

i hope they make another one, the first one had a messy campaign, the second fixed that all

[ashen spindle]

wrong, TF2 >Tf2

[reef patrol]

Ehh... two different subgenres. I have love for both.

BONK

[misty pier]

yeah i have a nendo that i'm scared to put in mines

probably because the manual that came with it said, "do not put next to extreme heat"

[reef patrol]

No heat issues here. It's on the backplate of my GPU.

A high end GPU gets to around 80C at the most at full load - I'm custom water cooled, so that heat never goes near the backplate.

[misty pier]

ah, the backplate of mines gets hot to touch

probably won't be good for plastic and paint

[ashen spindle]

or, it will make your gpu turn into a npu, nendroid processing unit :p

[old marlin]

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1QQ4y1A7Xv

fml

might become razer mouse shill now

also good source

managed to get stuff leaked again

like their last 5 mice or so

[torpid monolith]

Whoa whoa whoa what happened

[old marlin]

well

viper got leaked

so did the ultimate

so did the mini

then the new basilisks and deathadder v2 got leaked

and now this

[fair gull]

ya the viper leaked heres the design

[old marlin]

all from different sources

[torpid monolith]

The viper got leaked?

[old marlin]

razer viper

yea

taco used it like 6 months prior

at cs events

same for the ultimate

[torpid monolith]

Uh, I thought the viper ultimate was already out tho

[old marlin]

yea

as I said

their last 5 mice

this time it was the deathadder mini

[fair gull]

in reality there were no leaks

and they want us to think its leaks

[torpid monolith]

I wish they'd drop a viper ultimate mini

[fair gull]

they prob leaked it themselves

[old marlin]

would be weird

uhhh

not too sure

the deathadder v2 got leaked on multiple occasions

including bestbuy

and afaik people there may have gotten in trouble for it

[fair gull]

i know it went down

[old marlin]

happened a few times in the past

[fair gull]

someone from razer called best buy and was like "bros just already put it out we want u to sell it first"

and best buy was like

"you sure? but our contract says no before this date"

and razer went

[reef patrol]

[old marlin]

well

[fair gull]

"ya its skidadle skadoodle you sell and we bamboozle"

and then they just sold

[old marlin]

razer went after bestbuy for exactly that situation in the past

[fair gull]

and then later razer was like "hah bamboozled ya bestbuy"

and then best buy was like " 😦 "

[old marlin]

lol

well

watchmono leaked really stupidly

they got permission to do a tease

but then you could just look at more images

cause they indexed them one after the other

[fair gull]

best way

easy for auto generating shit

and easy for web crawling

[old marlin]

especially for stuff under NDA

[fair gull]

ya

thats how i keep my nintendo sdk files on my website

easily numbered

[old marlin]

lol

oh btw

he smol

[vast moss]

Steam does something weird for me in that when a game update is pending, it says it's scheduled for a later date, sometimes a few weeks ahead. It never immediately downloads it like I have set. I have reinstalled Steam once and it didn't fix the issue. What could be going on?

[pale sigil]

I get that too

Do you log into steam often

[vast moss]

I open Steam often (assuming once or twice a day is often) but I don't log out between sessions

[pale sigil]

Ah well I don't and was wondering if that could be a similarity

[young flicker]

I don't know if this still works but there used to be a cache file you could delete that would solve a myriad of problems including download issues, you could look into that.

[crimson wigeon]

It's a "feature", games you don't play much get updates scheduled later (way later now due to corona)

[empty wren]

you mean like this

[misty pier]

yeah that's a strange feature

does that for me as well

[vast moss]

Yeah, like that. Can I turn it off? I don't want it

[crimson wigeon]

Not really

[empty wren]

maybe this may fix this

yeah fixed it for me

did not touch anything quit and restarted steam

i think the restrictions on downloading go on and off

still good they provide an automatic update option, this is similar to 480p video by default on youtube you could say

[solar hinge]

steam also said that with covid 19, they are not just updating all the games that you have installed

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/0NuV-QQ5524

:/

[coral loom]

whats wrong with Huawei

lol, put your handbag away bruv

[pale sigil]

Let’s not start an argument again

[coral loom]

you think Google is better 😄

[pale sigil]

Getting really tired of it

[coral loom]

no one is arguing, pinky 🙂

[pale sigil]

I’m talking before one is started

[reef patrol]

[coral loom]

haha @latent mural Theyre all same shit different smell

they all collect data, and abuse it and have been for years

Politics and Dollars, don't let it worry you 🙂

nah man. theres no threat.

its all chess

[empty wren]

@wheat plume that seems so foolish of the US government

[coral loom]

its US vs China.

no threat or anything related

for the first time in many years, China becomes a real threat to the US economy. Although it always has been

US trying to fight back thats all 😄

[reef patrol]

Ehhh....

[coral loom]

youre dreaming man. relax

[reef patrol]

Taiwan and HK are technically Chinese territory. Japan most certainly is not. Same thing with Korea. Very, very different situation.

[coral loom]

haha have you ever asked a Taiwanese if theyre chinese?

😄 😄

or told them, you're all the same arent you? 😄

[reef patrol]

Here's thing thing. The mainland doesn't care about that. If they wanted to take the island, they'd succeed 😛

Anyhoo this is quickly reaching non #🔌│tech levels.

[coral loom]

make a channel called "The Pit"

Gib island plox

[reef patrol]

I don't recall difficulties ever having stopped China from doing anything. I mean they're literally paving over the China sea to claim more of it 😄

[pale sigil]

Hong Kong....

[coral loom]

Chinese weed = Hong Bong

https://tenor.com/view/asian-dance-gif-6014113

[reef patrol]

I know perfectly well the history. It literally doesn't matter.

[pale sigil]

Lol

[reef patrol]

Don't count on it. It's an internal matter. Which is where my point about Korea and Japan comes in. Those are a very, very different matter 😄

[pale sigil]

America love China

America love China, Even with trump pretending to hate them

[reef patrol]

Aaaand Discord is dying again - cba waiting for two minutes for a message to go through. Ciao 😄

[wheat plume]

HAH no

they against china

[coral loom]

its a CHINEEEEESE virus

😛

[empty wren]

@wheat plume what do you think about the situation between the US and Huawei?

how about no

people live there and are fine today

let them decide that

[reef patrol]

Alright - Off to #💬│general with you all. This is not about tech at all anymore 😛

YEET

[empty wren]

😂

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/6WHxK46lLAI?t=91

sounds really good tbh

thats the only good thing about the board lel

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/jumanji-jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle-jumanji-gifs-kevin-hart-iwould-rather-die-gif-9846308

[wheat plume]

XDDD

same

[empty wren]

i have yet to see a mechanical keyboard in a local store

[wheat plume]

They sell Steelseries + Razer mech keyboards in tech stores here

ofc they have like 20% added onto the cost cause Ireland

sometimes they have the HyperX Alloy too

and random cheap ones

[empty wren]

is the hyper x alloy a good keyboard?

[wheat plume]

no idea

ive tried it in the store

sounds decent, and feels a bit like the wooting imo, some force needed to press the keys

im so used to my lastboard still , that thing was light af

so..missed a space

damn it

im not a good typer, dont take my word for it

[empty wren]

what is words per minute even with that said?

[wheat plume]

dont do tests like that

[empty wren]

😂 alright

[wheat plume]

xd

[coral loom]

in London, you get NO tech shops that you can go and buy gaming gear from

[wheat plume]

O.o

[coral loom]

and the big brands in the UK dont even stock enthusiast gaming shit

dumbass country

you have to go to outside london, them little towns if you want to buy from suppliers

or if you go into london, you get some random indian dude tryna sell you some used gaming shit for 3x the price

Bruh, Ireland is 10x better than england

[wheat plume]

what? heck nah

you pay like 40% extra for any tech you buy here

[coral loom]

yea

[wheat plume]

probably

and 23% import fee -.-

[coral loom]

was talking about Northern Ireland but yea

[wheat plume]

shudders

[coral loom]

or is it the same shit

cant be

[wheat plume]

NI is england

[coral loom]

LOL

ok

[wheat plume]

they use pounds

and miles instead of kilometres

and inches

[empty wren]

wahhhh

[coral loom]

i dont even speak inches

i speak miles/km

not inches though

[wheat plume]

miles per km

xddd

[coral loom]

😄

1.5

[reef patrol]

Eh.

[empty wren]

or inches per second

[coral loom]

thats what she said

[wheat plume]

sometimes i hit a key on this kyboard a little bit not centered and I miss the key press

got to get used to being precisly in the middle of the key

see...missed the e in keyboard -.-

[coral loom]

smartest thing one can do is receive london salary but live in Ireland

no

[empty wren]

see...missed the e in keyboard -.-
flat keys?

[wheat plume]

yeah....its the UK layout with euro instead of pound symbol

[coral loom]

Irish keyboards dont have the Catholic key

😛

[wheat plume]

:')

they should lel

[coral loom]

they sure should

[wheat plume]

you cant go anywhere in ireland without finding a church

[coral loom]

well you couldnt go anywhere in London without finding a suspicious Bin 😛

[wheat plume]

🤔

[coral loom]

jk

[wheat plume]

lel

im curious, I love this damn board, I just cant get used to the heavy switches ;-;

my last one was so damn light

I missed less keystrokes

this activates faster, but harder to press when typing

[coral loom]

what board you got

[wheat plume]

wooting 2

[coral loom]

ANSI?

[wheat plume]

my last one was a roccat suora

uh, iso

[coral loom]

ah, ive always used ANSI in UK

that big shift key

and more keycap options on ANSI

[wheat plume]

i dont mind the shorter left shift

[coral loom]

yea its not a problem

[wheat plume]

I stil type faster on my laptop keyboard

[coral loom]

weird, I use ANSI layout but UK settings

the @ sign is to my right

and not the "2" button

the 2 button is "

[wheat plume]

I just use the UK layout

[coral loom]

yea i always use the UK layout, but all my keyboards been ANSI

never ISO

[wheat plume]

o.o

[coral loom]

weird i know

but now I cant use ISO with UK

or ANSI with US

have to use ANSI with UK

i wonder what pipe is on ANSI

[wheat plume]

its a bit trippy when swapping from writing code on my laptop vs my computer

I got a USA layout on my laptop and UK on computer

so the special characters for code are different places

[coral loom]

shit I cant even write bash on this keyboard

[wheat plume]

o?

why not?

[coral loom]

no pipe

[wheat plume]

O.o

ansi has no pipe?

[coral loom]

has, but not with UK layout

[wheat plume]

wtf

[coral loom]

because the pipe is on the Left

[wheat plume]

||||||||

[coral loom]

after the Z

[wheat plume]

ISO has it beside left shift

[coral loom]

yes between shift and Z

ANSI dont have a button there

goes SHIFT -> Z

[wheat plume]

true
on USA its above tab

[coral loom]

no

[timid chasm]

above tab? thats tilde

[wheat plume]

oh

[coral loom]

above tab is ` and ¬

[timid chasm]

pipe is above return

[coral loom]

or `

[wheat plume]

yeh nvm

wait..got to go look at my laptop now

[timid chasm]

tilde and grave I think it's called

[coral loom]

no

[empty wren]

is the pipe not shift + backlash

[timid chasm]

yes

[coral loom]

tilde is ~

[timid chasm]

|\

` is grave

~` same key

[coral loom]

if your using US layout yes, tilde is before the 1 button

UK layout, its not

[wheat plume]

if I press alt + ` it gives me |

wat

[coral loom]

what

let me try that

[timid chasm]

yes but we were talking above tab on usa

[wheat plume]

right alt

not left

[coral loom]

oh shit

¦

wtf is that

[timid chasm]

there's also all the alt keys with numpad

[coral loom]

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

[wheat plume]

idk what that is

[timid chasm]

╘╓4Åá

[wheat plume]

its on my keycap but the OS doesnt print it for me, it prints | instead

[coral loom]

\\

[timid chasm]

█ÄA├Tσ yay random spam

[coral loom]

ah no way

if i press alt

my symbol keys change

[wheat plume]

¾½

€³²¹

[coral loom]

#~|

omg

[wheat plume]

←↓→

[coral loom]

#~|

check this out

these

so

#~ \ |

[wheat plume]

ok imma go 1 - 9 with right alt

¹ ² ³ € ½ ¾ { [ ]

[coral loom]

are ONE button

and ~ are UK layout

when i press ALT + that button i get \

and when i press ALT + SHIFT + that button i get |

[wheat plume]

left alt is so useless

doesnt do anything for me

[coral loom]

me neither

only right one

[timid chasm]

lets me alt-tab

it's use 99% of the tme

[vast moss]

Aw, man, the US layout doesn't have any alt + number keys

[wheat plume]

O.o somehow spamming my jeyboard with left alt gave me a discord menu bar

[coral loom]

¬`¦ <- all 3 are one key

[wheat plume]

wtf

[timid chasm]

you can use right alt and numpad

[vast moss]

I suppose I could keep my computer on international layout

[timid chasm]

☺

left alt 1 numpad lol wtf

[wheat plume]

guys how tf do I hide this menu bar?

[vast moss]

nothing for me

and what menu bar?

[wheat plume]

I somehow got a menubar spamming left alt with my letter keys

[coral loom]

hah this is sick

[vast moss]

Press alt again

[coral loom]

fn + ALT + numbers

[wheat plume]

no good

[coral loom]

change your discord channel

[wheat plume]

nope

[timid chasm]

never heard of it

[wheat plume]

ok restarting the app removed it

[timid chasm]

sounds like sticky keys but with alt

[vast moss]

Alt + Fn + a random string of numbers from the numpad yields random characters for me, I surmise pertinent to their Unicode values

[timid chasm]

same except I don't need Fn

[vast moss]

same

[wheat plume]

when I try to type wasd as lightly as possible

[vast moss]

Yeah, I don't either, I guess

[wheat plume]

wasdwasdwaswadwadwasdwadwaswasdwasdwadwadwasdwasw

some missing d and s xd

[timid chasm]

THERES A JOKE IN THERE

[wheat plume]

LEL

[timid chasm]

why you gotta be light? go heavy

go with the flow

the heavy flow

[wheat plume]

maybe my keyboard is too high on my desk

[timid chasm]

finger crunches

[wheat plume]

but then id have my mouse and jkeyboard on different levels if I lowered it

and I dont want that

[timid chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/bulking-not-sulking-no-pain-no-gain-protein-power-finger-training-work-out-gif-13768253

[wheat plume]

XD

[coral loom]

you keep misclicking the J and K

[wheat plume]

yeh

I knw

happens too much of the times

[coral loom]

is the wooting two comfortable

[wheat plume]

I like the size

[coral loom]

how the typing?

[wheat plume]

I wish the keys were lighter

[coral loom]

reds or blues?

[wheat plume]

but typing isnt my strong suit, I use the two finger improvise method

I got red

[vast moss]

the keys are smooth, I use linear but clickies are smooth too

[coral loom]

you want softer than reds?

lol

[wheat plume]

if you hit directly in the center of the keys then its smooth

but if you dont they are hard to press and sometimes miss a stroke

[timid chasm]

oh god Lana do you really use two fingers?

My wife does that shit and it drives me insane

[wheat plume]

yeah I cant type prperly for hsit

see..

[coral loom]

damn

that would trigger my OCD

[wheat plume]

I cant type properly for shit**

[coral loom]

two finger typing

[wheat plume]

GOSH

[coral loom]

out front desk admin lady used to Two finger type

[wheat plume]

well sometimes i use more finger for the keys that are off to the sides

[coral loom]

i could hear her from the kitchen

[wheat plume]

lel

ye its loud

[coral loom]

you need a huntsman TE

its what Im using now

you blow on the key to register a press

[wheat plume]

my suora was lighter than my membrane keyboard

[coral loom]

if you think the wooting two is bad, try the huntsman TE

im swapping mine for the wooting two

[wheat plume]

the wooting two is the same heavyness as the membrane board I had but activates the keystroke much faster

it feelsd like im typing on membrane with mech keycaps and sound and faster activation

[coral loom]

i cant type one sentence without typo with the Razer Huntsman TE

[wheat plume]

I cant do that no matter board I use

[coral loom]

its literally ONLY good for competitive gaming

[wheat plume]

ooof

yeh its razer what you expect?

[coral loom]

if you own a huntsman TE, you need to own another keyboard

for normal use

[wheat plume]

too light?

[coral loom]

1mm actuation

super sensitive soft keys.

and you cant change it either.

[wheat plume]

I have mine to 1.7mm

maybe I can lower it to make sure I dont need to bottom out

[coral loom]

i think Id need 2mm

or 2.2

i like to rest my hands on WASD

[wheat plume]

but then I ned to concentrate more

ooh

well me too when gaming lel

the lowest wooting goes is 1.5mm

outside of tachyon mode I think

[coral loom]

if i was to use 1.5mm id just turn on Tachyon

[wheat plume]

uwu

:') I like my trick to make this alias work even if the version number changes

[coral loom]

wootility for Linux?

[wheat plume]

yeh yeh

[coral loom]

damn didnt know they supported

[wheat plume]

AppImages are OP

[coral loom]

thats sick

if you support linux, then you know youve got a good f* team

[wheat plume]

you package your app into an AppImage with the dependencies it needs and all you need to do is double click to run it

yeh :DD

exactly

sadly xInput isnt on Linux, but that isnt wooting's fault

[coral loom]

what did you use to create the image

[wheat plume]

ffs microsoft

what did you use to create the image
@coral loom nothing

direct from the website prebuilt

[coral loom]

wow.

talk about convenience

[wheat plume]

yeh :D

[coral loom]

i am so close to Linux becoming my daily driver

[wheat plume]

I think I had to make it executable but i dont remember for sure

[coral loom]

just need to a few more months for Proton

and a few other softwares.

we had a DevOps engineer join our team few weeks ago. Asked him what do you prefer to use

[wheat plume]

oh btw, for Linux....you either start Wootility wiht sudo privilege or do some tricky udev rule shit

[coral loom]

he goes "Windows"

we facepalmed

[wheat plume]

so I just run as sudo

O.o

[coral loom]

gave him windows laptop.

he sat between the rest of us who use Mac/Linux

2 weeks later, he goes "Can I have a Mac"

[wheat plume]

OMFH XDDD

[coral loom]

😄

[wheat plume]

its MUCH easier to jsut run it as sudo each time than mess with udev configs

[coral loom]

make a startup bash script

[empty wren]

can you close it afterwards?

[wheat plume]

even better, make an alias for it in terminal

[coral loom]

itll just run on boot

[wheat plume]

where tf does fish store aliases??? AGH

[coral loom]

lol

fish shell?

[wheat plume]

I made an abbreviation

basically what fish shell calls bash aliases

I have * after Wootility so I dont need to change the command if the version number changes

[coral loom]

just use alias

[wheat plume]

just use alias
@coral loom this is what fish uses, basically they are aliases

[coral loom]

yea

[wheat plume]

but fish actually tabs out the full command when you run it

unlike bash that just keeps the alias there

fish is neat, you use a web page to configure it

[coral loom]

you can convert bash aliases to bash scripts also

[wheat plume]

but y?

can you close it afterwards?
@empty wren huh?

[coral loom]

exactly 😄

[wheat plume]

LEL

[coral loom]

i personally use zsh, at work, just got used to it

[wheat plume]

I like ZSH too

[coral loom]

i prefer it, when working with git repos

[wheat plume]

o yes yes

[coral loom]

especially when youre on different branches 😄

[wheat plume]

lol it remembers

[coral loom]

haha nice

[wheat plume]

i just typed sudo

if I could learn to type properly and not bottom out my keystroke, Id love the wooting more especially on the lowest actuation force

[coral loom]

muscle memory is your best friend

[wheat plume]

still awkward when I dont hit a key straight on and it takes even more force to press ;-; but thats my shitty typing method at fault

[coral loom]

old habits never die

[wheat plume]

yup

[coral loom]

we see that a lot in our team at work

especially with the seniors

[crimson wigeon]

fish stores configs in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fish like all well behaving software

That env var defaults to ~/.config

[wheat plume]

wtf is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME?

just printed my home directory

hmm nvm XDG Is for default directory shit

I'm not good at Linux dont judge me

I just know how to install it and tweak the hell out of desktop environments

[coral loom]

lol

nothing wrong with that

[wheat plume]

Too many people think you need to Kno how to code to use Linux

Not install it

No

USE it

Ah yes
Lemme open Minecraft real quick

Starts to code and entire bash script to start the game up

Like no bitch, that's not linux
I tpye Minecraft into the app menu :')

[coral loom]

lol

knowing basic coding principles helps when using linux, but is irrelevant

[wheat plume]

Tbh you don't need the launcher
It's just bloatware
Run the game jar directly via command

Lel xd i died

And to download new version you just type the stupidly long download link that appears on the website when you hover over the download button

And want to use snapshots? Fuck you, you can't

[coral loom]

literally the only reason we use linux/mac at work is mainly because we did everything from scratch using IaC

[wheat plume]

IAC?

[coral loom]

Infrastructure As Code

[wheat plume]

Ooh
Idk that still but go on

[coral loom]

basically your whole Infrastructure is made using code

any changes/roll outs/updates/roll backs is done through code

[wheat plume]

Ahh

Managing mariadb in windows is so stupid

[coral loom]

loool

[wheat plume]

You need to cd into it's directory to run it

On Linux just type it and off you go

[coral loom]

because its a container

[wheat plume]

I remember in web development classes
The teacher literally had the path to that location on the board at all times

Cause no can remember it

[coral loom]

lol. i only see windows being good for one thing

ADFS

[wheat plume]

And here I am with my Linux laptop (used my laptop instead of the college computers cause it's faster) already in the terminal running the database while everyone else was trying to cd into that folder

Was fun
Someone asked me how I already had phpmyadmin open

I was checking for errors on my SQL script and I can't stand the terminal interface on mariadb

[coral loom]

ew. mysql

haha

love mysql though

our data team always harassing me for read/write access to production database

and i keep turning them down

you should try redshift

its cancer

[wheat plume]

Why use redshift ?

My desktop has it built in

Well
Its own version

[coral loom]

i meant in terms of shittiest DB's to work with

for me, AWS Redshift has been the worst

for user friendliness

[wheat plume]

Oh redshift is a database

Oof

Was thinking of that software to filter blue light

for me, AWS Redshift has been the worst
@coral loom no no no no no

Oracle database

That shit breaks too easily