🔌│tech

[old marlin]

well wait until apples design and no optimizations for a new kind of chip will turn out horribly

[ashen spindle]

sadly they have the money to get it done for the basic important stuff so it will run

basic tools just fine and should be good enough to not be total suicide

[old marlin]

yea

they won't get stellar performance

[mighty bison]

@reef patrol ansi layout

didnt think that would matter ahah

[crimson wigeon]

I'm very much expecting the new ARM Macs to only run MacOS natively, if you want another OS fuck you here's a VM

(why would you buy a Mac and then not use the OS tho)

[ashen spindle]

yeah hence I said rip bootcamp

[old marlin]

@crimson wigeon apple oficially doesn't support VMs

[mighty bison]

because macos sucks ass to play tf2 on

[crimson wigeon]

Except at the event they literally showed Linux in a VM, unless you mean the other way around...

[old marlin]

huh

maybe their opinion on that changed

[ashen spindle]

yeah with disabled animations in the gnome VM because it probably doesn't work yet

[old marlin]

[crimson wigeon]

Ecks deee

[stiff herald]

macos is just closed unix software

[reef patrol]

Apple - Now selling the priciest Raspberry Pi boxes ever.

[crimson wigeon]

But it's certified UNIX!!

[ashen spindle]

https://videocardz.com/newz/acer-announces-swift-5-with-intel-tiger-lake-processor-and-xe-graphics so TGL Q4 for laptops confirmed

[pale sigil]

Wow

the Quest comes with something that helps with glasses

finally

[ashen spindle]

what do you mean?

[pale sigil]

An Eyeglass spacer

So that it stops the glasses from touching the lenses

it does come at a cost tho

[ashen spindle]

ah

[pale sigil]

the cost being more goggle effect

[ashen spindle]

I dont need my glasses for vr, but I tried it and it worked with no issues on my rift or the vive at uni

[pale sigil]

its really bizare that you dont get a clothe with the oculus quest

[ashen spindle]

o

ye thats weird

[wheat plume]

THem cOsT savInG meAsURes

Can't include a cloth, it'll increase the price too much

Lel I hate stuff like that

[fair gull]

almost sure thats not the reason

[wheat plume]

Probably not

[ashen spindle]

shhh let lana hate on facebook

[fair gull]

microfibre clothes are pmuch massproduced these days

[wheat plume]

Xd

[pale sigil]

i tried vrchat on the quest itself

that was a mistake

https://gfycat.com/lazyhollowdalmatian

https://twitter.com/oculus/status/1275474679055052802

Oculus (@oculus)

A Fond Farewell to Oculus Go, Plus A New Distribution Path
for Oculus Quest, Coming in 2021 // https://t.co/nWjJPhsCwb

Twitter

was poop anyway

[sick creek]

question tho

when was the last time you actually held onto that free piece of cloth to use with the device it came with

[ashen spindle]

I'm using the cloth on my oculus like every second day after I use it

[sick creek]

b/c i literally cant remember a time where i held onto it for more than a day

i use a big microfiber towel for my valve index

not the pitifully tiny one that came with it

plus i can actually throw it in the washing machine and it wont get lost/ruined

[reef patrol]

When you receive the final bill for your DROP headset imported to Denmark

[pale sigil]

Xd

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/EE1O4f4DH4M

WHY DIDNT I KNOW THIS EXISTED?? ;-;

I WANT IT

ooo even the number is on the phone too

[fair gull]

because its not as good as you prob imagine it

[wheat plume]

its the Note 6X from Xioami, its mostly like the phone I had previously and I loved it

[fair gull]

usually numbered stuff is meant for collecting and costs more

because well special

[wheat plume]

It comes with custom animations and a battery bank and a 3D image of her in a frame

[fair gull]

so u spend more and basically are expected to not use it for it to gain value

[wheat plume]

and a metal card with the number

it didnt cost too much more than the actual phone did

I think like 80 more

[fair gull]

would those 80 really make a difference tho

like its still the base phone

[wheat plume]

you get a powr bank and art you cant get anywhere else :D

and a case

[fair gull]

just that everyone knows ure a weeb

[wheat plume]

XD

and themes in the softwar you cant download on other xiaomi phones

oo its betterw than my previous phone

got the 660 in it

mine had the 636

[fair gull]

ngl i am also glad wooting didnt number the lekker uniquely

this way its not a highly collectible item

[old marlin]

remember when people complained about MUH LEKKER KEYCAPS

[fair gull]

yes so its still def special altho it made sense when calder explained that they wanted to have multiple lekker devices

as like some fashion line

[frozen anchor]

what else can even be made lekker though?

[fair gull]

prob the new 4key thingy

and i am sure they eill also make other products in the future

plus they do have merch etc

[frozen anchor]

true

[fair gull]

on the other hand i also dont remember any hints to such plans jist the actual reveal when it was basically too late

unless i actually missed smth

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/cuiasBC_qvY

[ashen spindle]

great, more stupid changes to cater to snowflakes that actually change nothing

[ivory geyser]

@wheat plume a lot of people actually refuse to do this since it is ridiculous

[wheat plume]

Just like that project that wants to rename gimp to glimpse

[ivory geyser]

Also wtf is racist at "master"?

[wheat plume]

idk man

[ivory geyser]

If that was related to the whole BLM movement, then they should concentrate on the word "slaver", not master.

Since master has SO MANY meaning in english that picking one that doesnt even get used anymore is just blatant cherry picking

[ivory geyser]

Introducing: MainCard!

[ashen spindle]

cant wait for next week when people think blacklist should be changed too

[ivory geyser]

That already happened

[wheat plume]

cant wait for next week when people think blacklist should be changed too
@ashen spindle thats already a thing

[ivory geyser]

A while ago

[ashen spindle]

ofc, shouldn't have underestimated idiots

[ivory geyser]

You wanna know something even spicier?

[ashen spindle]

bet nobody who talks about it knows where the name blacklist even comes from

[wheat plume]

What, will they want to remove the man command next? cause its sexist?

[ivory geyser]

Some idiot in US is calling out for tearing down all status and depictions of Jesus Christ as a white man since he he thinks it symbolizes the supremacy of the white man and it racist.

[wheat plume]

even though it means its short for manual

[ivory geyser]

Which is... a great way how to lose a lot of support for your movement lol

But enough about this in tech talk I would say :P

[wheat plume]

LOL YES :')

I cant wait to use my maincard to pay for things

and the school main to teach us stuff

[ashen spindle]

the origin of the blacklist btw, is from king charles, who had a list of people to be punished on a literally black list

[wheat plume]

o

nice

[ivory geyser]

I am gonna have main in philosophy now

[wheat plume]

XD

im a main of software dev

[ivory geyser]

Finally! Philosophy will be the MAIN subject! MY TIME HAS COME!

MUAHAHAH

[ivory geyser]

Also Wooting sounds sexy af with anti-vibration padding in the case.

Like holy fuck

[wheat plume]

hehehhe

[ivory geyser]

It took me 2.5 hours to get it done right tho T_T

[wheat plume]

what if all the people who demand master to be changed to main eventually catch on that main is an alternative to master and become offended again?

[ivory geyser]

Dunno

[ashen spindle]

and all the current books etc. dont have the correct terminology anymore so it's confusing people bc that is not something you should expect to change in newer version, unlike an api call or similar

[wheat plume]

are you actually shitting me rn?

there is an FDA approved video game to help combat ADHD

[ashen spindle]

you say video game but I bet it's a medical tool gamified or smth like that

not a random game tested and approved for it

[wheat plume]

OMFH MacOS 11 is named Big Sur? :') thats not going to b e made sexual....not at all /s

Excuse me big sir, I am in need of assistance

https://youtu.be/umw-YxJAdoM?t=428 the game for ADHD

[ashen spindle]

wow what a news guy

"idk anything about this topic so let me just assume it has to be nothing special" nice

[wheat plume]

he read studies about adhd and games before

wrote about it too

[ashen spindle]

mhm thats why he says "idk whats different than playing shrek on your xbox"

"video games in general increase markers of agression" ok dude

[wheat plume]

Apparently the origins of the phrase "no can do" are racist? uh, I need to look that up

[ashen spindle]

you found yourself in some weird part of youtrube again that you should probably leave for your own sake

[wheat plume]

yeah, the comment section of the github page talking about if they should change master to something else

[ivory geyser]

I am gonna rename my master branch to "slaver" just to piss those people off..

[wheat plume]

XDDDDD

[ivory geyser]

Or to the "great white whale" co COMPLETELY confuse the fuck out of them xD

[wheat plume]

LEL YEH

[wheat plume]

noice

Safari should now be 50% faster than Chrome in terms of page load times
That is big claims Apple, big big claims

[pale sigil]

Safari has always been pretty decent tbf

[ashen spindle]

lets be honest

page load times means how fast you can load ads

html is insanely fast by design

and I assume it's a claim on their new arm mac book?

if so, no shit, google needs to know the hardware to optimize for it lmao

[pale sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEwy8rPik4

Well this was cool to see

[latent mural]

Intel Core i7-9700F - 40GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - 1TB HDD + 480GB SSD how good is the build?

[wheat plume]

O.o

I want it

[latent mural]

bruh

its $1,150

not bad

[wheat plume]

O.o

True

[latent mural]

and thats at most

you can find a lot of these parts cheaper

cept the core

you want that baby factory new

[old marlin]

Why a 9700F wtf

Get ryzen

Has cheaper boards as well

Also dunno why the cpu has to be new, not like you could bin that one

[old marlin]

@wheat plume linux got a good antivirus now

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-atp/microsoft-defender-atp-for-linux-is-now-generally-available/ba-p/1482344

[wheat plume]

Dafuq

[old marlin]

android version comes "soon"

[pale sigil]

Imaging having an anti virus on Linux

[ashen spindle]

well in theory most linux versions are more vulnerable

bc the code is known so you can more easily find security gaps

obv just like it was with mac, less users = less targets so less likely someone targets

but now that macOS really isnt that rare anymore and most people who use it are more likely to have something valueable on it that the average windows users, it's no longer safer than windows

[fair gull]

windows doing more good for OSS than any other org rn

[old marlin]

M$ BAAAAD

[fair gull]

yes

bad company

[pale sigil]

i hate it sites still dont make it easy tod elete accounts

[fair gull]

why do i feel like u mean me aswell

[old marlin]

@pale sigil since you still are an EU member you can write a mail asking for all your data and the deletion of your account

if they don't do that within one month you can force it legally

GSDPR is great

[pale sigil]

Well

Unless the site doesn't operate within the EU

which privacy.com does not

[old marlin]

rip

[reef patrol]

Pretty sure GDPR works in the US as well.

[old marlin]

ye

can still enforce it

[reef patrol]

That's the entire point of the safe harbour - And why so many US sites blocks EU visitors to avoid dealing 😄

[old marlin]

unless they want to get blocked

[feral jolt]

What US sites block EU?

[pale sigil]

loads

[ivory geyser]

None if you use a VPN

[ashen spindle]

local news sites that are not even relevant for most of the us usually, so they dont need to change and technically dont even lose any visitor

[reef patrol]

A lot of newspapers do, yeah.

[old marlin]

https://www.shadowserver.org/news/open-ipp-report-exposed-printer-devices-on-the-internet/

wtf is wrong with koreans

like half the printers that are open to the internet are koreans

meanwhile that one madlad in greenland

[wheat plume]

So
It's entirely possible to make these printers print anything we want remotely?

[ashen spindle]

did you not see the news about printers everywhere printing pewdiepie papers to tell people to subscribe yo him last year or so?

[wheat plume]

Omfh

No I didn't

[old marlin]

that is exactly the problem

those printers are open

so you can just print on them

[pale sigil]

How the actual fuck

[old marlin]

or fuck with settings in a lot of cases

[pale sigil]

do i find trash in gmail

[old marlin]

?

wdym with "trash"

you mean spam?

[pale sigil]

deleted emails

nvm

found it

[old marlin]

oh

[pale sigil]

had to scroll

ofc

[old marlin]

ye

for "more"

[pale sigil]

fuckin gmail

i hate it unless i use a mail client lol

[old marlin]

name me a better mail provider

german options are expecially bad btw

t-online mail

or web.de

absolute dogshit

spam is included with creating an account there

they also auto delete accounts if you don't use them

[wheat plume]

Gmail has the worst desktop interface

But mobile is nice

[ashen spindle]

ye I should prob go away from gmx at some point

[old marlin]

trust me

[ashen spindle]

but like, takes effort

[old marlin]

you haven't seen the worst

[pale sigil]

i know you're gonna meme me

[old marlin]

like the gmail interface actually is by far one of the best ones

[pale sigil]

but i have never in my entire life had an issue with outlook/hotmail

[old marlin]

ehhhhh

[wheat plume]

Oooooooff

[old marlin]

outlook has some problems

[wheat plume]

It really does though

[pale sigil]

oh ofc

[wheat plume]

Rounded corners on all apps
Round bubbles like design

[old marlin]

mostly related to the desktop version

and microsoft trying to force 365 down your throat

installs just bugging out

and crashing with certain actions

[pale sigil]

i has to many accounts

[old marlin]

partially caused by the 365 versions existing

the standard mail client is nice

is clean

[thick elk]

Outlook doesn't just have problems it basically is one big problem

[old marlin]

but the gmail client is more convenient

[pale sigil]

Self hositng is hasslee

and other email providers are poop

[old marlin]

and I prefer convenience

even then

self hosting won't give you a similar result to gmail

they have good spam filters and security

[pale sigil]

Well yes and no

[wheat plume]

Ooof

[pale sigil]

there are ways to introduce good spam filters etc

but at a cost

[old marlin]

you need a gmail acc nowadays anyways if you want to do a lot of stuff with your phone and online

[pale sigil]

i used to do it at work

[old marlin]

well there are ways

[thick elk]

If you ever wrote mailings outlook is the worst after that a bit of nothing and then you get gmail, followed by a huge gap and then you have the rest that actually does work properly.

[old marlin]

but the gmail one is basically the best one there is

[pale sigil]

you can use your own domain on gmail

which is decent

[old marlin]

self hosting is pure cancer if you ask me

oh yea you can do that

[pale sigil]

Apparently there is a huge delay tho?

[old marlin]

like unless you are a business

there is little reason to not use gmail

imo

[pale sigil]

ive jsut always used hotmail my entire life

its become apart of me

since like

2003

prob earlier

[old marlin]

early adopter of gmail

my first mail adress was there

[pale sigil]

i wish i could delete my first mail account xD

[thick elk]

I used gmail since beta, just don't ever want to use it as an e-mail program.
Before gmail I had hotmail.

[pale sigil]

ive started moving my shit to a new account

[thick elk]

My hotmail account is gone now.

[pale sigil]

and havign an account just for normal accounts

[thick elk]

I do plan to move some of my mail to my own mailserver, once I bother to set it up.

[old marlin]

like honestly

what options besides gmail do you have rn

that are actually good

like outlook which is decent

and then uhhhh

yea

[thick elk]

If you want it for free there is not that much choice that is good yea.

[old marlin]

well

there are a lot of paid services

couldn't tell you which is good

[pale sigil]

Why are you against outlook

if you dont mind me asking

[old marlin]

I am not

just want to know the options in general

[ivory geyser]

I despise outlook.

[old marlin]

I just have problems with the outlook software

[thick elk]

Same

[old marlin]

aka crashes

pairing phones

and people using it on ios devices

and the app breaking

the worst

[ivory geyser]

But in all honesty, I despise it, because I sometimes need to optimize email templates for it as a developer.

[pale sigil]

imagine using the eoutlook app

[old marlin]

outlook on ios is pure trash

[pale sigil]

Why tf would you use the outlook app

lmao

[old marlin]

yea don;t tell me that

[ivory geyser]

I dont have anything against the program itself

As a user

[old marlin]

the ios app can't even send itself a mail

like adressed to yourself

[thick elk]

I mostly hate the windows program, which for some reason is build on top of word, runs rather unstable, breaks it's own features and just is a nightmare of not wanting to sync al the time.

[old marlin]

which one guy in my company wants to use to send images from his phone to his pc

[pale sigil]

never had an issue with the ios mail app

[old marlin]

since he is not allowed to use itunes

[pale sigil]

EVER

and for android i just use the gmail app ironically

[old marlin]

not the regular one

he has to use outlook

not the regular app

[pale sigil]

Why?....

[old marlin]

can't pair otherwise

since we hsot it

with exchange

even pairing the official app is a pain

[pale sigil]

Mate

No

You can use the normal mail app

with self hosted emails

[old marlin]

trust me

we tried

didn't work

[pale sigil]

then you did something wrong

[old marlin]

and the guy that set the exchange up is not in the company anymore

[pale sigil]

because i use multiple self hosted emails and did it a lot of clients

[old marlin]

we have to redo our mailserver sooner or later

which is something I fear

[thick elk]

Never used exchange myself, always seems like a needless pain in the ass looking from the outside. What's wrong with regular imap?

[pale sigil]

exchange is easy af to use

lame, you need gsuite

for domain use

[old marlin]

exchange is not cheap though

[pale sigil]

also, question, what would you guys use before your name.com 😄

i never said it was cheap or good

i said it was easy to use lol

[old marlin]

yea

like exchange works

and isn't especially complicated

especially when you have windows doamin stuff set up and use it anyways

[pale sigil]

imagine usign a windows server though in 2020

[old marlin]

yeaaaa

kiinda have to though

I mean

we have to run windows servers anyways

since all our production clients and hosts run only on windows

[thick elk]

Samba is a thing, samba can act as a domain controller, so you can go that route.
That being said I can see why you would not want to go that route, it is however still an option.

[old marlin]

yeaaaa

like

number one requirement is reliability

and our domain controller ran for years without problems

[thick elk]

It's more effort to set up but it is very reliable.

[old marlin]

meanwhile external guy that did IT in my company before tried to sell us a centos firewall

he just dropepd a "demo unit" off in front of the IT office

and then sent a mail

centos version was already outdated btw

not something I would plug into a network

and then have it controll trafic

[pale sigil]

There are still way to many people using Windows Server 2003/2008

[old marlin]

we are atm forced to have machines with win98

that use SMB1

to transfer a single .txt file

ever 20 minutes

talk about security issues

[pale sigil]

if i ran my own business i would honestly refuse people like this

unless they want us to upgrade them

[reef patrol]

Keep the network closed off?

[pale sigil]

2 clients like this, it was like sigh time to go back in time

[thick elk]

Oh well I am responsible for it where I work and at some point I planned to migrate most users to linux / actually not use pirated windows anymore but that failed due to some weird issue with something breaking if we use to many linux clients from one connection. Now the company had to downsize a bit and I really don't have the time to continue it.

So basically we use pirated windows no domain or anything (just the same local password on most pc's). Certainly not great but I simply don't have the time to change it. Also now that we downsized it's less of an issue.

[pale sigil]

You can get paid to snitch on companies for that here

[old marlin]

@pale sigil thing is

we have no other option

is a measuring device

replacement would be like 20 full time chemists

[pale sigil]

haha i aint judging

i just find it funny there is such a thing here

[old marlin]

well

[thick elk]

Running old software like that is not too bad as long as you try and keep it separate from the rest of the network.

[old marlin]

the thing was origianlly built 30 years ago

stuck on win 98 for dos support

[thick elk]

and the internet.

[old marlin]

we can't really separate it

unfortunately

[pale sigil]

no

its BAD

end of

[old marlin]

ye it is

not denying it

stupid part is

it is rather simple in function

but not bigger manufacturer managed to develop a competing option

[pale sigil]

its a fucking nightmare to work with

for people in the position i was in

[old marlin]

nah I meant the measuring process itself

[pale sigil]

Windows Server 2003 touched me inappropriately

[old marlin]

or do you have experience with developing xray measuring devices

[pale sigil]

My soul

[old marlin]

lol

we don't have server 2003 running anywhere luckily

some 2008

unfortunately

for software that doesn't run on newer stuff

[pale sigil]

I get windows is piss easy to work with

[old marlin]

yea

trust me

if it ran on something better

[pale sigil]

but i feel like the rewards outway the effort for linux

[old marlin]

it wouldn't run on server 2008

[pale sigil]

Also

fuckin

omg

i forgot the name

but it was like a file sharing thing in windows server

it was a nightware

[old marlin]

SMB?

[pale sigil]

No

[old marlin]

like SMB1 is a pure security hole

[pale sigil]

lemmi try find it

its so long

[old marlin]

fr though

we need to set up a replacement mail server

and it still isn't decided what we take

cause people that decide obv want to spend as little money as possible

[pale sigil]

Microsoft SharePoint

HATED IT

[old marlin]

oh yea

fuck sharepoint

does it even have any unique use

[pale sigil]

A lawyer firm used it so much

that was one of the clients

[old marlin]

oh yea while we are at it

[pale sigil]

One thing that always bothered me was when we remoted into machines to fix shit they'd just casually have legal shit open

the AMOUNT OF DEATHS I SAW

OR ACCIDENTS

OML

i saw someone get run over by a bus

[old marlin]

got a clue what passwordmanager is good to use in company enviroments

[pale sigil]

on the bus cctv

[old marlin]

oof

[pale sigil]

I saw my friends cousins case file

i was holy shit

talk about fuckin

ugh whats the term

the legal term something of interest

conflict

[old marlin]

oh yea

our external guy

implemented a password manager

and we wanted to extract our passwords and put them in a different passwordmanager

which still didn't happen btw

we got al logins from all of his clients though

[pale sigil]

My webcam isfrom the 90s

xD

[old marlin]

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT116E2W2JQ

[pale sigil]

im serious

the world is changing

Companies are starting to shift permanently to work form home

[old marlin]

ye

air travel changed

completely

747 won't come back

[pale sigil]

microcenter

whats that

ah so overpriced shit

if only we had that

[old marlin]

brick and mortar store

for pc hardware

only possible here if you live near the HQ of a big store

like I do

ehhh

not that nice tbh

I just order

it arrives the next day

[pale sigil]

we have the follow

[old marlin]

and I usually get better prices

[pale sigil]

https://www.scan.co.uk/
https://www.aria.co.uk/
https://www.ebuyer.com/

[old marlin]

I mean

[pale sigil]

Most are overpriced but sometimes decent deals

[old marlin]

germany is basically mindfactory

[pale sigil]

oh https://www.ebuyer.com/914400-hyperx-fury-16gb-2x-8gb-3200mhz-ddr4-ram-hx432c16fb3k2-16

[old marlin]

sometimes alternate

and in rare cases caseking

btw

https://skinflint.co.uk/?m=1

gl

[pale sigil]

Oh i remember this place

afaik it was mostly for businesses to buy from

[old marlin]

is just price comparison

[pale sigil]

Oh ye

now i actually remember remmeber it

i used to use it at work

and have them order shit for me and take it from my next months pay

[old marlin]

nahh

just price comparison

https://skinflint.co.uk/kingston-hyperx-fury-black-dimm-kit-16gb-hx432c16fb3k2-16-a2118788.html?plz=&t=v&va=b&vl=uk&hloc=uk&v=e

for example

that kit you linked

[pale sigil]

nonon

[old marlin]

with cheapest delivery

[pale sigil]

i mean i used to use it to look for prices

[old marlin]

oh

ok

[pale sigil]

we used it internally also

to buy shit for repairs

[old marlin]

I use it a lot privately

can also do lists etc

to calc cheapest prices for whole setups

and tell you if the price falls or rises

and give you the cheapest option to buy it at x amount of stores

[pale sigil]

Where are you from

[old marlin]

germany

is austrian software

[pale sigil]

oh the site works for different countries

[old marlin]

ehh kinda

I can include UK and polish stores as well for example

well and austrian

[pale sigil]

it doesn't seem to include most uk places tho

[old marlin]

end result usually is

mindfactory

rip

hit them up

maybe they can add them

fr though

mindfactory is dirt cheap

[wheat plume]

Dave "I do prefer the girth" Lee

https://youtu.be/PG6jxXgrOh0

[pale sigil]

chunky if you wanna use it as a tablet

[wheat plume]

You can't really do that though

The screen can't come off

[pale sigil]

which is literally

[old marlin]

can you just move the screen closer?

[pale sigil]

what i just said lol

[old marlin]

wait

the screen doesn;t have to come off

[pale sigil]

chunky if you wanted to use it as a tablet

[wheat plume]

Yeah,you can move and tilt the screen

[old marlin]

you just have to tilt it all the way back

[wheat plume]

As far over the keyboard as you want

[old marlin]

reminds me of soem medion convertibles

lemme look for it

[wheat plume]

Everyone is freaking out about the ugly macOS 11 battery icon

https://youtu.be/tRlV5YOunGA

It's really ugly...

[old marlin]

nah

medion had some horrible ones

[pale sigil]

new macos in gneral is ugly

[wheat plume]

Yeh :/

I like some of the icons thigh

Though*

And the apps design

[old marlin]

fml

the old medion ones were complete garbage

uglier than this

can't find it though

[pale sigil]

Surface would be nice if they weren't so overpriced

[old marlin]

basically

I mean

they have good build quality usually

[wheat plume]

^^ what Callum said

[old marlin]

but still doesn't justify the price

[pale sigil]

My main issue is the hardware is shit unless you pay a crazy amoutn

justl ike apple

[old marlin]

yea

or lenovo

[pale sigil]

Lenovo aint as bad

[old marlin]

not as bad

but still pretty bad

I also love the E580

meme machine

specs sound reasonable for the price

until you realize that you pay for a dedicated gpu

that is completely turned off

oh and E480

[pale sigil]

Razer are the best for laptops

[old marlin]

ehhhh

I have heard of problems with warranty

can't comment more on it

had good experiences with my alienware

[pale sigil]

totally memeing

[old marlin]

would prolly get an alienware 15 instead of a blade pro

or well

an XPS

[pale sigil]

i do love their laptops and xps

[old marlin]

if it doesn't need tons power

ehh

it makes sense for laptops

to go 3:2

if you get small formfactor especially

[pale sigil]

ultrawide laptop sounds awful

[old marlin]

yup

best part is

my alien DESTROYS it

granted

mine is newer

not kitted out CPU though

[pale sigil]

ew

[old marlin]

don't say ew

[ivory geyser]

That looks epic

[old marlin]

acer is one of the 3 companies with an analog keyboard

that actually does analog input

and the first hall effect board that does it at that

too bad total travel is 1.4mm

true

my alienware doesn't

new version has one

the new ones are quite good

[reef patrol]

not a crazy one
i7
2070

I mean... christ just buy a compact desktop at the least, so you can keep it running for more than two years.

[old marlin]

ehh

mine is dekstop parts

under 7 liters

I can

well

desktop chips

not pars

[wheat plume]

Now Microsoft and Adobe will need to make arm based version of Office and Photoshop etc

Yet they still won't make Linux versions

[ashen spindle]

uhhh vastly different changes you need/people you need for that etc.

[wheat plume]

Don't think anyone will use arm Mac if those aren't on it

[ashen spindle]

yes I meant changing it to ARM is vastly different from changing it to linux

both from a literally technical sense as well as in terms of company strategy

[reef patrol]

I sure can't wait for my Raspberry Pi 4 version of Photoshop 😄

Also quite jealous of your G5. Never found a cheap one here I could gut.

Time to use those 64 pi node arrays

[halcyon moss]

my biggest fear with the arm macs is that they'll be super locked down

[wheat plume]

As if they aren't already

[wheat plume]

https://www-techradar-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.techradar.com/uk/amp/news/this-new-dell-xps-13-build-is-ditching-windows-10-for-ubuntu?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techradar.com%2Fuk%2Fnews%2Fthis-new-dell-xps-13-build-is-ditching-windows-10-for-ubuntu

Ooooo

Nice

[chrome estuary]

But there are already arm versions of both of those

[crimson wigeon]

ugh, amp link

[chrome estuary]

You guys realize that office AND Adobe Photoshop are on both iOS and Android.

Also there will probably be some form of x86 emulation like how the windows on arm thing has

[ashen spindle]

yeah but imagine the already insane ammount of freezes/crashes PS has and now add x86 emulation issues

nobody will seriously use that version

[pale sigil]

me subwoofer is blowing warm air against my feet

[wheat plume]

O.o

[wheat plume]

this new iOS 14 Siri is a crackhead
Luke Miani 2020

Why do they have brightness and volume sliders on the menu in the panel? We can do that with the touchbar on the keyboard
People without the touchbar: "You forgot about us"

[chrome prawn]

Question from a relative keyboard noob.

Are the GMK sets $190 for just the keys?

[ivory geyser]

Yes

Sometimes they are even 300$

Just the keycaps

[chrome prawn]

Lollll. I mean good for them, and I'm no stranger to buying expensive things, but… no.

[ivory geyser]

Yea it is insane.

People just like it because of the unique designs and colors tbh

It is a collector thing

[chrome prawn]

Yeah I mean. I'm a collector myself, of things like watches, even clothes and fabrics, tech. Keycaps feel a bridge too far for me.

[ivory geyser]

You know what is the worst part?

The GMK keycaps are made from ABS and in a few months or max a year, they will start to shine

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSREdoTyvOQhwfK5TO7tZNRW-08pG-TTqRD5AoXhCKpXyeXvJE&s

Kinda like that

[chrome prawn]

Lmao

[frozen anchor]

if they were pbt doubleshot every set would be $300+

[reef patrol]

PBT will shine eventually too.

[frozen anchor]

its very hard to get those colors with pbt

[ivory geyser]

@reef patrol PBT gets some sort of shine in a matter 3-5 years of use.

But it will never shine AS MUCH as ABS.

[chrome prawn]

Lekker is PBT

[ivory geyser]

Yep

[reef patrol]

Depends entirely on your oils and the finish. I've managed to get PBT just as shiny as ABS 😄

[chrome prawn]

And they're giving us novel colors + keyboard

[empty wren]

better yet get pom keycaps if i am not mistaken they already shine

[frozen anchor]

well lekker is dyesub so thats why its easier to get nice colors

[ivory geyser]

A lot of GMK is also dye-subbed

Most of it arent even dual shots lol

[chrome prawn]

I agree though. I've never really had keyboard shine on anything, and yet my iPad smart keyboard has developed some slight shine or wear in six months of use, but then that's a fold up keyboard that's basically a tablet cover.

[ivory geyser]

... Razer shits out 30$ dualshot PBT sets...
Just GMK is overpriced af

[chrome prawn]

... Razer shits out 30$ dualshot PBT sets...
Just GMK is overpriced af
@ivory geyser

Kono too: https://kono.store/products/kono-backlit-ds108-keycaps-pbt-doubleshot

[ivory geyser]

Yep

Leopold makes good PBT dualshot on they keebs.

It is not impossible.

[empty wren]

those are cherry profile though(so price will be higher)

[frozen anchor]

taihou is the best place to get decently priced pbt doubleshots with good color https://shop.tai-hao.com/categories/pbt-double-shot

[ivory geyser]

Cherry profile is the most desired in the enthusiast communities tbh

TahiHao is good, ye

[reef patrol]

Cherry meh 😄

OEM ftw

[ivory geyser]

I still want an answer for the mystery I post about in #💬│general lol

It is just so perplexing to me

[empty wren]

could be so tight and people pull at an angle??

[frozen anchor]

idk about those in particular but in games like osu its not uncommon to hear of people breaking keycap stems from tapping too hard

[ivory geyser]

Gotta be the angle.

osu?

[frozen anchor]

oh wait i read it wrong

[empty wren]

oh maybe shitty stem material, to clarify i mean on a razer keyboard

[frozen anchor]

lol

[ivory geyser]

Like, I have the Razer caps on my board... took them all off at least twice already.

Didnt break a single stem

So... you know... it gets me a bit confused.

It really has to be the angle.

I cant find any other explanation for it

[frozen anchor]

probably people that dont have keycap pullers trying to pry them off

[empty wren]

razer is so cheap it would not include that, sounds reasonable

[reef patrol]

Razer wouldn't / shouldn't need to. Wooting do. It's the Wooting board 😄

[empty wren]

well i mean for their customers

[frozen anchor]

a lot of keycap sets come with keycap pullers

[ivory geyser]

@empty wren the razer caps DO come with keycap puller.

[empty wren]

i would think razer keycap buyers would mostly be razer keyboard owners

okay well then that is out of the picture

[frozen anchor]

i dont doubt people wouldnt use it even if its given

[reef patrol]

Given how they're the only mainstream PBT supplier with the "most common" bottom row? You'd be surprised.

[ivory geyser]

The caps also come with both standard and their special bottom row support

And ISO/ANSI extra keys

[frozen anchor]

"oh idk where i put my keycap puller ill just pry it off with whatever ive got" sort of thing probably

[ivory geyser]

Errrrr

That is probably it, ye

[empty wren]

yeah my friend would do that

[ivory geyser]

Improper use

[reef patrol]

That's totally doable on a regular mech. Not with the Analog stems though

[ivory geyser]

Ye, it is brittle.

From what I have seen

[frozen anchor]

a lot of people probably dont know you cant do that

and just do it

[ivory geyser]

Even more of a reason to do it properly

Kinda wishing Wooting would make they own dual-shot PBT upgrade keycaps 👀

But I get that it is likely too expensive

[empty wren]

another problem being is the tool is small but still keep tracking of belongings seems rather simple

[reef patrol]

They did a limited run of PBT

[frozen anchor]

some keyboards now have holders in the bottom of the kb for a puller

[empty wren]

GMMK

[ivory geyser]

Yes, but those were dye-subbed

I have like... 5 different keycap pullers at home

[empty wren]

plastic ones?

[ivory geyser]

Yep

[frozen anchor]

wire puller masterrace

[reef patrol]

ew 😄

[ivory geyser]

I sadly dont have those

[empty wren]

i snapped my corsair one trying to remove a keycap

[ivory geyser]

Talking about modding

I took apart my wooting last night and stuff the case full of butyl rubber too get rid off reverb and vibrations.

I was nervous af that it wont work again lol

But it did!

And the keeb has a nice bass-y sound to it now when I type

[frozen anchor]

lekker might already have dampening which is nice

[ivory geyser]

Huh

[empty wren]

I thought that was for the future

[frozen anchor]

nope

its not confirmed that it will happen

but its likely

[empty wren]

okay then

[frozen anchor]

this is the stuff that calder mentioned https://www.amazon.com/Foam-Cosplay-Black-Sheet-Density/dp/B07DCGMXQZ

eva foam

[ivory geyser]

These foams arent as efficient tho.

[empty wren]

Huh
Discussed before the wootup and during a bit, Calder explained there would be a sound type of modification unlike the one you typically would get and it would be a premium feature without costing a premium

[ivory geyser]

As the butyl rubber

Or similar

[pale sigil]

@frozen anchor You're going to hell for that theme

[frozen anchor]

lmao

its great

[pale sigil]

H E L L

[nova carbon]

Not as bad as discord light theme

[thick elk]

I have gotten used to the light theme now, though I should really install better discord again to get rid of the stupid bold text.

Honestly I can get used to most themes, even crappy ones as long as they are not those crappy dark themes.

I never understood why anyone would want to put themselves to reading light text on a dark backround when they don't have to.

[nova carbon]

Blasphemer! Glory to the dark side

[frozen anchor]

Light text on dark background is way easier on the eyes

[wheat plume]

Opposite for me actually

Make me lost focus of the text is too bright

Lose*

[frozen anchor]

its not about reading faster

its just more comfortable to read light on dark

[halcyon moss]

i hate it when websites to the light grey on white sting

even on a good monitor its too damn little contrast

[zenith sonnet]

Grey on grey is ok

But white on black is almost unreadable

Best theme is dark grey text on medium grey background

[old marlin]

what

why is white on black "almost unreadable"

[zenith sonnet]

Thanks to how eyes work, the text blurs
Sort of like looking at a lamp, which you only really see as a bright spot, just less intense

[halcyon moss]

i often go into the inspector to change the color of text

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/Rajaontheedge/status/1275986161568112640

Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge)

BFP - big ‘fabulous’ package😀

Likes

116

Twitter

[old marlin]

https://twitter.com/Rajaontheedge/status/1275987575484739584

Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge)

And..they let me hold peta ops in my palm(almost:)!

Likes

191

Twitter

[ashen spindle]

but the efficiency rating of that is ++++

[old marlin]

wowee

well

at least the gaps following 6th to 7th were bigger

[old marlin]

what is that at the bottom

[halcyon moss]

a hand

or.. fingertips

[wheat plume]

Powertoy: introduces bulk rename, run prompt and semi auto window tiling to windows 10
Linux: "I see you have caught up slightly"

[ashen spindle]

You tying to tell me there was no way to bulk rename on windows before?

[wheat plume]

not sure, if there was, then why is powertoys also including the feature?

it adds the option to bulk rename in the file explore right click menu

[halcyon moss]

not included i think

[wheat plume]

dont have my laptop rn to try it out

[ashen spindle]

its not native in windows, but there were other tools doing it, or you coulduse batch scripts etc.

[reef patrol]

Sure there is.

It just sucks 😄

file.jpg
file(1).jpg

Etc.

[halcyon moss]

replace most with some

and you are correct

[reef patrol]

Sure - But on the other hand. I can't remember ever needing mass rename.

Closest I've come is MP3 tag to filename 😄

Only Linux users expect niche tasks to be part of the core OS 😄

[wheat plume]

how is bulk rename a niche task? or having a run prompt? even macOS has a run prompt (spotlight)

[reef patrol]

Windows DOES have bulk rename.

[wheat plume]

powertoys

[reef patrol]

In basic explorer...

[wheat plume]

then why does powertoys include it too?

[reef patrol]

To add more features to it? 😛

[ashen spindle]

what do you use bulk rename for?

[crimson wigeon]

But also you can batch script it (or powershell if you're in current year) etc..

[reef patrol]

There. Basic bulk rename. More than plenty for 99% of users.

[pale sigil]

Oh lord

[wheat plume]

O.o

[reef patrol]

If you need that level of renaming. You need a tool regardless 😛

No normal end user is going to need that realistically.

[halcyon moss]

indeed

havent used mass renaming in years

[reef patrol]

Who are definitely not your average end user 😛

[halcyon moss]

like drag and dropping files

[pale sigil]

Mansen likes to crush people

[wheat plume]

🤔 swappiness?

[halcyon moss]

no were just being pedantic about what is a normal user

[reef patrol]

We're really not.

[halcyon moss]

@wheat plume yes swappiness

or, how quickly the system will resort to using swap

[wheat plume]

ooohh

[pale sigil]

u wot

google drive

[wheat plume]

is 10 a good value then?

[halcyon moss]

i have no idea i havent really used swap in years :p

[wheat plume]

oooh

[halcyon moss]

well i guess thats not true..

don't mess with it :p

[wheat plume]

this font makes the | look like : and I hate it...

[halcyon moss]

which font? do you DARE to critize the holy font Terminus?

[wheat plume]

Hack font :')

Switched to Ubuntu Mono for terminal

[halcyon moss]

terminus is best, no shitty aliassing :p

hmmm

[wheat plume]

hmm

[reef patrol]

https://imgur.com/gallery/gFv4Nok

Don't forget spring cleaning!

[ivory geyser]

Out of all the things coming out of the keyboard, I think the cat was the only one which didnt want to get out lol

[old marlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEVlmP9GI94

[zenith sonnet]

It's a big IHS, very WOW

[frozen anchor]

hol up how did you get that video its unlisted right now

yama bringing us leaks 👀

[pale sigil]

All i see is a g403

[old marlin]

all I see is the only licensed successor of the intellimouse in a market of copycats

[wheat plume]

https://www-zdnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/chinese-bank-forced-western-companies-to-install-malware-laced-tax-software/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fchinese-bank-forced-western-companies-to-install-malware-laced-tax-software%2F

[empty wren]

Sure @wheat plume

Lemme just update it

Really hate that the notification keeps coming back

[wheat plume]

I hate having any notification

Except messages from my sister cause I love her

Hmmmm
New photos icon. They also changed the maps icon a while ago :/

[empty wren]

Ugly

But I realized the old icon looks bad too

[wheat plume]

Does apple still only allow NFC on iPhones to be used for apple pay?

And no other app

[sly needle]

most likely

[wheat plume]

That means you can't use your phone to have your bus or train cards either
GG...

[ashen spindle]

why dont you put that exact sentece into google insted of basing your opinion on someone saying "60% chance of yes"

[wheat plume]

I am going to look that up

Apple has lagged on NFC for years. Android devices began adopting NFC in 2010, but Apple didn’t come on board until late 2014, and even then, it wasn’t a full embrace: NFC hardware was added to the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch solely to enable Apple’s proprietary wireless payment solution Apple Pay, and could not be used by other apps. It took until late 2016’s iPhone 7 launch for Apple to let some iPhones read NFC tags, and three more years until Apple added NFC writing abilities to iOS 13.

Last year they allowed all apps to use it

Ah.... 5 years after including it on iPhones

[sly needle]

lmao

but i do recall that the "innovative" apple stuff has already been a thing with Android based phones for a while

[wheat plume]

The only reason Apple adds a feature to iPhone is to lock it down to their own services and still be able to brag about having the feature

Even the new picture in picture only works with apple TV

Some reviews say that apple will add suport for more apps
But if apple themselves need to do it, and not the specific devs for that app then they probably won't add any more supported apps

[halcyon moss]

apple does allow some other uses for the nfc chip

for example in the netherlands you can scan your id for the Dutch digital signin stuff

[empty wren]

@wheat plume

It is happening

Component updates via the play store

[wheat plume]

noice!

E N T E R T H E G U L A G*

[empty wren]

I rather not enter it

[wheat plume]

XD

[ivory geyser]

Reeee I want my film, lube and springs to arrive already!

[frozen anchor]

they are meant for switches with loose housings

most modern switches have no issues and dont need films

but for something like vintage blacks films make a huge difference

[short cove]

@ivory geyser hmm I looked at the review you sent me, and it not working 100% with all games kinda worries me

I know this sounds dumb but is there a setting to make it just regular keypress in case the game doesn't work with it

[crimson wigeon]

Yes if it's in digital mode it's like any other keyboard

[short cove]

Ah ok that's reassuring

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/Q2aaCDNjWEg

[ivory geyser]

@short cove the only thing that doesnt work in some games is the analog mode. It works perfectly normally as any other keyboard in the digital mode.

[short cove]

Just making sure

[ivory geyser]

Ye, no worries

If the analog doesnt work, you can always fall back to a normal keyboard style easily

[reef tundra]

analoog maar piet niet

[pale sigil]

I need some help on google sheets

iw ant it to be so when i select extra it will auto do the price

itwill call from the price list

in a another tab

[reef tundra]

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/75943?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

=tabname!cell

it seems

But why use google docs? Csv are my spreadsheets or xml if I want to annoy people

[reef tundra]

unix life hack. if permissions are not set correctly instead of having sane permissions you use sudo su first

it even disables the password thingy

[pale sigil]

Oooft

https://hackerone.com/theflow0

Guy who was a known exploiter for the PS scene recently sold his finding to Sony

Not super good news at all for the PS4 scene.

https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1276257380255371269

Andy Nguyen (@theflow0)

PS4 scene, you’re starting such a drama over nothing. I was actually planning to disclose something in a few weeks/months (which I will still do...) and after that, I‘d like to announce my retirement, even if I was never part of that toxic and entitled „scene“.

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Christ the replies make me cringe.... they act like $10k aint nothing

i can understand people's fustration though due to this tweet https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1237646511388930048

Andy Nguyen (@theflow0)

Also don‘t update past FW 6.20 if you want a kxploit

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but entitled mofos

[empty wren]

Screenshot (Jun 27, 2020 1:50:15 AM)

[pale sigil]

?

[empty wren]

Sony just announced the bug bounty program as well 🤔

[pale sigil]

Ye

Thats pretty much the entire situation

Just a day after they did this

the listing was added

that he had been paid $10k

[empty wren]

Honestly he is kinda getting a win win

[pale sigil]

https://hackerone.com/oct0xor

Another guy

Who is also part of the scene

[empty wren]

Damn

It looks like he sold out

[pale sigil]

Dont even blame him.

Id do the same

lmao

$10k aint pocket change

[empty wren]

Honestly being for this and in turn amp security is not a bad way to go

After all you can keep finding bugs

[pale sigil]

it doesn't specify in the bounty program however that he has to keep the info private

it just means that his findings will be patched

with important versions

[empty wren]

I would think so

Apple is giving developer type of iPhones to hackers offically

[pale sigil]

" I was actually planning to disclose something in a few weeks/months (which I will still do...)"

Leads me to think he is saying

fuck you

have what you want

and im done for good

[empty wren]

Maybe but I guess wait and see

There may be different terms

[pale sigil]

the problem is the PS4 "scene" is fueled by piracy

not homebrew

[empty wren]

Never knew that