I don't do audio memes
#🔌│tech
neat oriole
Then just wait for schiit restock
If it’s actually good I’ll probably start shilling it like I shill the dongle
But as of right now it’s got big “flavour of the month” vibes so I’d stay away for now
Just be patient
Things in the audiophile community that are actually good tend to stay good for a long time
Just look at the sennheiser HD600 it’s almost 30 years old and it’s still one of the best dynamic headphones under $500
frozen vale
Forgot how pretty Shiit's stuff is
neat oriole
Used to sound pretty schiit too
But the newer revisions addressed a lot of the problems people had
So it’s good schiit now
frozen vale
maybe someday when I decide to upgrade from my Bheringer umc204hd...
frozen vale
not a bad price on the M2
neat oriole
M2 is pretty good
Headphone output isn’t super powerful but it’s pretty clean
Mic amp is good
Has a nice little display
halcyon moss
it runs fine on everything i;ve tried
(I have the DT 770 pro 80ohm on my head right now)
halcyon moss
uh its almost always way too looud
wheat plume
oop
misty saffron
interesting...
wheat plume
I keep my headphones about 40-50% and thats fine for me
halcyon moss
my in ears i need to go even lower though
wheat plume
I just learned about "Testacular" :')
why that name?? freaking hell
package-lock.json being a casual 13634 lines of code
halcyon moss
errr. does that mean it has 13k dependencies?
crimson wigeon
Well it's probably some JS shit so yes
wheat plume
Well it's probably some JS shit so yes
Yeah, Its Angular....
I cant find a good explaination for what the difference in these files is :/
package-lock.json and package.json
halcyon moss
lock is what you lock the version of the deps to
crimson wigeon
The lock is for ensuring you get the right versions
halcyon moss
so every install would ahve the same deps
package.json is more liberal in the versions used
so.. installs might not be the same
wheat plume
hmmm.
reef tundra
sudo
wheat plume
mmm very helpfl advice for windows
reef tundra
uninstall windows and install an unix instead
halcyon moss
dont do this on a company owned machine
halcyon moss
i dont know how it is in ireland, but in NL they cant force you to work on your own hardware :p
wheat plume
I am using my own computer despite needing to have signed an NDA :')
reef tundra
Damned Unions always giving workers rights ree
wheat plume
they no give me laptop or whatever
My friend did get a laptop from work though
He has to use that
halcyon moss
nda are quite common right? as is signing over the (copy)rights on stuff you create during work
reef tundra
NDA is just that you wont disclose trade secrets
ashen spindle
NDA in general has nothing to do with using your own hardware or not 
halcyon moss
indeed
wheat plume
NDA in my case means I cant share any documents from work
ashen spindle
yes
wheat plume
not sure if the code is considered a document or not
reef tundra
yes, as it is a file
wheat plume
flashbacks to a few months ago where we had to paste our code into a word doc to send to the lecturer
reef tundra
hand in a latex document instead
wheat plume
She wouldnt understand wtf it was :')
ashen spindle
usually NDA's are quite clear or they can be legally invalid
but again, usually just details what you can share or not, I still dont see how that relates to using work hardware
unless it stated you are not allowed to transfer it to not authorised devices or smth?
reef tundra
Allowing workers to use their own hardware means that you run the risk of security vurnabilities leaking your secrets and unable to do anything about it. Even allowing the worker to intentionally leak it and hide behind this
halcyon moss
So, im freelancing, and i need to provide my own hardware in this case, but i am required to have full harddisk encryption
and nda, eventhough its all opensource
ashen spindle
sure there are multiple valid options, but in this case it's a internship of a student, I heavily doubt many of these places would even give a student access to something that needs that much security :p
halcyon moss
you can look at my shitty code on github!
ashen spindle
god im glad it's like another year before my code has to be public lmao
it's such a mess
reef tundra
Freelancing is legally distinct from employee.
wheat plume
my friend works for a bank, they require him to only use the laptop they gave him to login for work
and to use their VPN conection to make sure its actually him while connected
halcyon moss
soudns normal
ashen spindle
ok, to be clear, did your NDA state your workplace will give you hardware or that you need seperate hardware?
reef tundra
That is pretty vague and could be unenforceble in some juristictions
halcyon moss
then normal law applies
oh wait.. i am assuming NL law, which is different from IE law
ashen spindle
ok, you said "despite signing an NDA", so that implied your NDA includes you getting hardware :p
reef tundra
That is a tiny contract lmao
wheat plume
wow xdf
reef tundra
The smallest contract I had to sign was like 30 pages
wheat plume
o.o
reef tundra
signature at every page
As proof that I had seen and acknowledged every page. So you dont get the senario of having the contract expanded after the fact
wheat plume
oh wtf
halcyon moss
25 poages for my current contract
hard token
wheat plume
:')
wheat plume
yeah, but I like wh en he uses something other than windows
holy fuckign shit did you just say?
reef tundra
eh, scammers bad
ashen spindle
die size and die failure rate is interresting, shows how many wafers the console chips really take away from xen3/rdna2 production
reef tundra
Heheh, from the authors twitter
reef patrol
wheat plume
Yeh....
crisp granite
even then, that stuff makes me gag, regardless of stench profile
wheat plume
I'd rather smell like fruit than that garbage
Fruit smells great
Why did I forget you can do this with the volume slider?
I'm so stupid
Hmm?
zenith sonnet
I'm getting black screens since updating to 21.2.1 
wheat plume
Ooohhhhhhh
safe heath
time to build a gaming rig i guess
man GPUs cost a ton right now
3070s selling for what a 2080 super costs...
safe heath
not hard to find parts, if you're willing to pay prices well over msrp
safe heath
mainland? you in hawaii?
xD
which island you on?
i miss hawaii a lot, but ya, pings sucked
oh shit.
i lived out in leilani for a while, 'til the volcano took my house
beautiful part of the island. the vog sucks though
i almost bought property up there
ht ever get fiber run in volcano?
niiice
they were about to start on leilani when fissure 8 consumed half the neighborhood
dunno where things are at these days
i miss the rain, im in the dry side of washington now
300 inches annually to 15 inches... rough change
but hey, no blasted centipedes
indeed. we had a handful show up in leilani. not too bad though. stayed over in milolii on the dry side for a spell though, and omg. they were everywhere
you know whats dumb? i miss the frogs. and the geckos.
loud af, but i got used to them. roflmao
its 12 outside here right now 😛
its probably what... in the 60s there right now? man id kill for that.
we're snowed in and cant get anywhere
must be wet.
lots of dew
hahaha, well most people don't know what its like for it to be in the 50s at 100% humidity.
it sucks the heat right out of ya
nice. you ever been up to the observatory?
i never found the time to get up there. need to do that some time.
i looooved driving saddle road at night holy moly
no kidding
ugh, i just paid $850 for a 3070. i feel dirty.
hell ya
im probably going to move back out there in a few years.
kinda want to build something out in waa waa, on the ocean side
crimson wigeon
Nice
safe heath
nice
wheat plume
The app windows overflowing the desktop preview?
Thats the same on ElementaryOS also
ivory geyser
Got a screen/video of it?
wheat plume
Ohh, I forgot how pretty their login manager is
ivory geyser
Well that looks much better 
wheat plume
YEP
Pantheon is such a pretty desktop
Such a shame its so hard to get working outside of ElementaryOS ;-;
ivory geyser
What is wrong with ElementaryOS?
wheat plume
its super slow at updates
Their release cycle is like one release every 3 years
ivory geyser
Oof
crimson wigeon
Speaking of slow updates
it's new glibc time that means rebuild all the packages!
3334 packages to upgrade, 2 new, 1 to reinstall, 1 to remove. ah shit here we go again
proud nacelle
3334
Jesus why do you have so many packages
crimson wigeon
Install all the things! But it's also an inflated count since what some distro might have in just 1 package this has in 10
Also a lot of random libs and such that I installed to compile something and then forgot about
proud nacelle
sounds like you need to clean up your packages. also what distro, if you don't mind me asking?
crimson wigeon
openSUSE Tumbleweed
proud nacelle
So it is. Well, at least you don't have to compile all those packages.
crimson wigeon
Yeah I don't really miss Gentoo
I mean I do but not the compile everything aspect
proud nacelle
Nope. Gentoo is heading in a terrible direction anyway.
I'll have to jump ship soon.
crimson wigeon
I have been thinking about trying something different sooner or later, like Nix
proud nacelle
Heard about it. Seems nice, but haven't tried it yet.
proud nacelle
Stupid question: Would anyone know if DDR3 mac pro ram is compatible with regular motherboards?
reef patrol
Sure?
It's usually the other way that's an issue. Macs can be a bit picky about RAM.
proud nacelle
Right... Is it unbuffered by any chance? If not, I'll just have to keep digging until I find something suitable.
I guess I should explain myself if anyone is interested, but I'm looking for DDR3 ECC unbuffered ram for an AM3+ system. Amazon has given me 0 results which are correct, and mac ram for whatever reason keeps appearing. If that works, I'll just grab that instead. Ebay has some results, but I haven't had good experiences with it in the past.
ashen spindle
is your system even able to run ecc ram
proud nacelle
Yes. I've verified in the BIOS and the manual for the mobo.
It's an iffy topic though. AM3+ chips support it, but motherboards weren't required to.
ashen spindle
Twitter
proud nacelle
So my understanding is that even if the option is there, there's no guarantee it's actually using it? What the hell.
Well that makes me wonder if it's even worth getting ECC ram then. Would I just be better off buying a newer system instead?
ashen spindle
why do you even want ECC
proud nacelle
Reliability really. I'll be switching to a AM4 in not too long, and I wanted to convert this one into a server.
Hell not even reliability, but accuracy
ashen spindle
ok then, what is it you want to do on the server that you need it
proud nacelle
Gonna be using it as NAS. Also gonna be running a HTTP daemon of sorts. Might also toss an FTP in there as well as a VM.
Not quite sure why you're asking though.
ashen spindle
yeah you're gonna have 5 power outages/issues before you get an ECC saveable error there, not really worth the hassle unless you happen to get some imo
proud nacelle
I'm not worried about power outages, I'm worried about bitflips.
ashen spindle
I know, I am saying those are way more likely
proud nacelle
If the system goes down, I don't care (because it's gonna be family content). What I do care is if some images or videos I upload get fucked on the way there.
I am aware
Anyway, mobo is a sabertooth 990fx r2.0. If anyone has experience with it and can confirm ECC actually works, I'd appreciate it. If not, I'll just have to take a risk and try it.
reef patrol
why do you even want ECC
Fewer errors. And ECC is apparently part of DDR5 spec.
ashen spindle
mansen we are talking about DDR3, and I know what it is, I was asking about his specific usecase xd
and yes, 8bit error correction is part of the ddr5 spec
pale sigil
Crashing in safe mode 
crisp granite
Fewer errors. And ECC is apparently part of DDR5 spec.
epic
wheat plume
.-. fucking favicons are being used to track people now
reef tundra
Nice
reef patrol
I still can't stop giggling at those 1x1 pixel tracking cookies.
wheat plume
wheat plume
I still can't stop giggling at those 1x1 pixel tracking cookies.
yep :/
ashen spindle
welcome to, 2010 I guess?
probably even earlier
like I'm glad it for whatever reason gets more attention, but that is far from being new or unknown xD
reef patrol
I give it a couple of weeks before both Google and Mozilla force it away 😄
ashen spindle
yeah I guess more attention means the browser will have to deal with it instead of the user needing plugins
reef tundra
its a nice PUP not malware i promise
reef patrol
Like... asking for a favicon every time Chrome visits a site, without telling the server it already has it. And then caching it outside of the normal standards for bookmarks.
You can't track my favicons if I have NO favicons.
crimson wigeon
guess I'm safe then ecks dee
ashen spindle
yea, the linux version is safer when the linux version doesn't exist 
crimson wigeon
I do wonder why browsers aren't consistent across operating systems though
reef tundra
Different way of interfacing with the operating system. But that is mostly concern for the browser engine
wheat plume
<:thonk:568526682110296066> guess I'm safe then ecks dee
is brave really that shit?
crimson wigeon
I dunno, not being vulnerable to this seems pretty decent to me
proud nacelle
I could have sworn this wasn't news to anyone.
I remember hearing about it ages ago
If you don't want to deal with favicons : don't bookmark stuff. Or go use a text based browser or something.
Or use a non-existing magical fix it all browser.
proud nacelle
As in, don't bookmark links.
Also it's funny people care about this when there are many other worse leaks currently existing.
Like, for example, using chrome.
urban lynx
uh, you talking to someone who hasnt bookmarked a thing in her browser for years
reef patrol
🤨
wheat plume
I dont bookmark, I just keep tab open :')
urban lynx
if my computer wasnt off, i'd show you, lol
wheat plume
my computer isnt off but in the wrong OS to show you
proud nacelle
Oh you're using that? Jesus
proud nacelle
I have, but my goodness was that awful back then. Swore to never use it.
proud nacelle
Just save the webpages
For crying out loud
What happens if the profile gets corrupt?
Not to mention, those tabs don't actively get saved (last time I check it keeps track of the url, but doesn't keep the content of it). So you're sending a request every time.
wheat plume
help me
urban lynx
wdym?
wheat plume
13 hours on computer
urban lynx
13h? rookie numbers
wheat plume
yeh but i spent like maybe 1 hour not at my pc
urban lynx
once weekend hits i can show a different one
wheat plume
oooof
urban lynx
when a friend did his 24h stream i was already up for 6h
and i stayed up another 4 afterwards
i spent the entire time at pc
apart toilet breaks obviously
my body hurt so much everytime
now i that i am older and more exhausted due to work, i dont manage as easily
also the weekend cyberpunk released? i put in about 46h from friday to sunday evening. actively.
same thing happened with stardew valley, stellaris and... and...
i forgot
ah yes
factorio
took me about 78h of playing with trains until one finally managed to steamroll me
and i blame lag by playing on a friends hosted server
wheat plume
I kinda wanna boot up my old xbox and play a kinect game
urban lynx
gonna go play on my ps2 this weird camera detection interaction game i had as a kid. it was the shit, lol
reef tundra
The classic with halo 2
wheat plume
Just Dance and Dance Central are literally the only games I have played that work 100% flawlessly with the Kinect
Even Microsoft's own games have issues with it
meanwhile dance central knows if your hands or legs are even 1mm off the right position...
O.o someone ported Drum Go Dum to DC
wheat plume
OMFH
reef tundra
Just to show their dominance
wheat plume
I got real good at this song as this and poker face where the only sonfs I had cause I only had the demo of the game :') https://youtu.be/yPWIAy_btdY
wheat plume
Every time .-.
I always press remember and it never does
Also wtf am I looking at? :')
misty saffron
where is youtube lanced
old marlin
some manufacturer got sued for selling replacement side panels in other colors
afaik they somehow got molds
cursive summit
@wheat plume Don't worry about it
Some startup promised to sell replacement side panels since Sony rn isn't
wheat plume
o
wheat plume
my gosh...
cursive summit
Startup closed
And now Dbrand, which is far more established than a startup, is doing the same thing
And are actively provoking Sony to sue them
wheat plume
oh.... xd
cursive summit
But dunno if their side panel replacements to infringe on Sony's intellectual property or not
They don't use the square triangle circle X memorabilia at all on their products
It just slots right in on the PS5
No real "Sony trademark" is being used
wheat plume
Yeah true
cursive summit
So I wonder if Sony's lawyers are going to actually have a field day or not 😄
cursive summit
Hmm
wheat plume
Long long link
crisp granite
hopefully not
wheat plume
all options are open
crisp granite
I do want senn headphones, but I don't want to buy then off of apple
or worse, only be able to use them with apple products
cursive summit
I mean after AirPods Max I doubt Apple wouldn't want to buy Sennheiser
crisp granite
the apple bra was an utter flop
female friends said it offered no support
and felt very tight
wheat plume
the case looks like a bra
crisp granite
thanks for saving my ass there lana
wheat plume
:')
wheat plume
Yeah... and it doesnt even do anything .-.
the LEAST it could do is fucking turn them off
but nope
crisp granite
apple is a joke unless you absolutely must have MacOS for work
but, why would you subject yourself to macOS?
wheat plume
macOS has this really modern UI design
but has that ugly cursor that look like its from 1990
crisp granite
anyway
I would like to try airpods max someday...
when it costs less than my GPU
wheat plume
thats more than half the price of my whole computer
crisp granite
my GPU was $800 (MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio)
wheat plume
crisp granite
the apple bra would be something like $900-$950 with taxes
wheat plume
.-. welp
crisp granite
yup
wheat plume
my €25 euro wireless earbuds have a case that CHARGES THEM!
The €700 Airpod Max have a case that does NOTHING
crisp granite
well
the airpods max are apple
which means shit and overpriced
what did you expect?
cursive summit
Tbh MacOS has a good amount of office adoption iirc
Also MacOS software engineers I heard earn a shit ton
wheat plume
C++;
ERROR: 'C' is not defined
ashen spindle
which is why you never would've gotten the job
cursive summit
Which is why they're on the verge of bankruptcy 
An audio technology company is making guides on Kpop
I mean if that isn't them trying to appease the SEO index then idk
wheat plume
Brits be like: that's a constructor, __init__?
cursive summit
Why you suddenly programmer
fickle ore
maybe we get an answer now soon as this thread got some recognition https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/llkk5v/so_are_we_supposed_to_just_accept_that_usb_just/
wheat plume
wtf?
ashen spindle
no because the pcie4 issue is seperate
fickle ore
they are talking about both
ashen spindle
but maybe it leads to a common root cause
also the issue jsut being on usb3 ports seems like a different issue
fickle ore
idk its a mess. like for example on 1.9.0.0 I had no issues with drop-outs but installed 1.2.0.0 and first thing booting in bios I could barely move my mouse. It was gone after increasing FCLK -> which increased SOC voltage so I feel like it may be related to voltage somehow but idk
ashen spindle
definitely has multiple issues yea
fickle ore
1.9.0.0 had no issues with c-states on for me, but 1.2.0.0 c-states couldve been the issue. its all over lmao
ashen spindle
really hope they can find more new devs so that they can a) fix this and b) not have similar issues once AM5 arrives
fickle ore
shit actually, u know what changed
from 16gb to 32gb ram.. that was the catalyst for mouse not really working properly at stock setting
until I upped SoC
hmm hmm.
rugged pelican
Maybe I'll have to consider going back to gnome again
Recently switched back to KDE
wheat plume
:P
WM are neat but I dont want to spend the time to setup the many config files for everything
rugged pelican
I tried the WM life for a while a couple years ago, got a bit fed up with it
have resorted to the DE simplicity with tiling WM plugins
wheat plume
I like gnome desktop a lot
but they way it handles QT apps is janky
rugged pelican
yeah, is kinda similar with KDE & gtk apps, but at least in that case they have a bit more built-in support for gtk
never really bothered me either way tho
once I got themes all set up properly then it was grand
wheat plume
I think GTK apps in Plasma work and look perfectly fine
rugged pelican
yea, helps a lot that they actually have built in theming for gtk
wheat plume
Dont blame you :')
rugged pelican
can't really beat kde system settings tho, miles ahead of gnome settings
wheat plume
I wanna go back to Plasma, but it doesnt like nvidia GPUs very well
rugged pelican
the fact that you need tweaks to even access some necessary settings is a bit ridiculous
wheat plume
I fear it will be worse on 5.21 cause they focused on Wayland more than anything else
Plasma: no like nvidia gpu
Wayland: no like nvidia gpu
rugged pelican
oh yea, I'm currently running with an old nvidia gpu from a mate til I can get my sweet sweet amd gpu. Is a bit annoying, but only issue I really get now is vscode terminal sessions and some apps corrupting like fuck when I wake from sleep
wheat plume
🤔 my issues on Plasma is stuttery mouse movement in game and some games crash after about an hour
doing anything else is fine
rugged pelican
🤔
crimson wigeon
I'll def give the G another shot too but I probably won't end up using it since I'm too lazy to figure out how to port my wlroots/sway hacks to it
wheat plume
👀
rugged pelican
haven't got that, only thing I got with games was csgo fps randomly going in the shitter til I switched window modes after a couple matches. But a mate of mine got that on a similar nvidia gpu and he defo wasn't on plasma
ngh hackerman
crimson wigeon
Same with the Plasma although they actually seem to want to have the ability for fullscreen'd games to have proper vsync off so my hacks probably not necessary in the future
wheat plume
you can already turn vsync off for fullscreen apps
crimson wigeon
Wayland throws a wrench into that since as far as I know all compositors (except my hacked sway) enforce vsync regardless
wheat plume
o
rugged pelican
am looking forward to the day when wayland can actually fully replace xorg
wheat plume
yep xd
crimson wigeon
Maybe soon they'll finally come to an agreement on basic shit like letting apps grab global hotkeys reeee
wheat plume
oh, speaking of Plasma 5.21
I need to upgrade to that on my laptop
cause its already available for Arch
966MB
Thats what I get for not running updates for 3 weeks .-.
crimson wigeon
Or maybe I'll stay with this setup forever and keep piling on the hacks and eventually make it a full on DE kind of system
wheat plume
sounds delicate
ashen spindle
I think I might try out linux on my pc one day, but only once they finally add solid SR-IOV etc. so I can just use looking glass when needed
not bothering with it till then
correction, once they add stuff like that to consumer hardware
wheat plume
Idk what that is!
crimson wigeon
Hopefully sometime this century..
ashen spindle
nvidia originally said ampere would have it
but then after asked again "oh sorry, no we dont enable that on the pleb rtx cards"
I aint buying a titan and pay for grid to have linux run without annoying dual boot lmao
intel actually has promising stuff in the pipeline with oneAPI
supposedly even open source so should useable by all regardless of hardware vendor
ashen spindle
Idk what that is!
wheat plume
Gpu passthrough?
ashen spindle
the video isnt long and is a pretty good summary
wheat plume
I use youtube music app
crimson wigeon
Sure might as well try it.. ugh Rust so it's gonna take forever to compile
ashen spindle
bad mouthing rust? good that simon is gone 
wheat plume
Xd
crimson wigeon
Heheheh...
wheat plume
Compile
You on Gentoo??
crimson wigeon
No
wheat plume
Oh
crimson wigeon
toxic chonk
cursive summit
Aren't these actually called 'Toxic Atomic'?
I heard somewhere they will combine both
ashen spindle
Unless Toxix is Hybrid now and atomic fully watercooled?
Toxic atomic sounds shit ngl
crimson wigeon
thread 'main' panicked at 'called Option::unwrap() on a None value', src/app/backend/api_models.rs:329:50
Ah yes, Rust making sure developers don't make stupid mistakes 😉
ashen spindle
which model?
neat oriole
https://www.whathifi.com/news/sennheiser-could-sell-its-consumer-audio-business
Nothing of value would be lost tbh
The consumer audio stuff is just the various Bluetooth headphones they have for the most part
ashen spindle
What you mean „nothing of value“ 
that’s what I’m using, it’s great
Oh wait, I assume you don’t mean the things with a separate wireless station but for direct Bluetooth connection? Nvm then
cursive summit
So all they are selling is their wireless division?
Then I guess that's not as important as their professional audio products
wheat plume
I'm dead :")
My aunt just rang me on my uncle's phone telling me that her phone is broken and there is a thing on the screen that won't go away
So I asked her to describe what was on the screen
She said the word fastboot was there and a "green dog with large ears"
I told her shes in fastboot mode and all she has to do is hold the power button for 10 seconds
wheat plume
:')
wheat plume
RIGHT?!
wheat plume
pot lel
ashen spindle
https://blurbusters.com/porsche-design-aoc-agon-pd27-hits-240hz-on-the-curve/ well I dont remember who I was talking to about this, but so far seems like I might sadly be right, first model doesn't seem to be too impressive, but I'll wait for a review of it
astral haven
Hopefully that's the samsung panel that we already know is excellent
proud nacelle
@ashen spindle Rust would be ok if it wasn't forced on people who didn't want it.
or hell, let alone can't compile it.
ashen spindle
I just know simon likes it, never touched it
proud nacelle
If Simon wants to use it, he can go right ahead.
I can't remember if it's GTK2 or 3, but one of them started pulling rust a couple months ago. Now a python crypto is also pulling it in. Firefox has been pulling it in. It's becoming like SystemD. And I don't like that a bit. I also think there was a svg or png thing that started pulling it in.
ashen spindle
he already used it for the wooting sdk im pretty sure
proud nacelle
Let's be honest though, who actually uses that? If anything, the population of SDK users is the equivalent of stadia users.
Unless that number has gone up since I last checked.
cursive summit
Lads
What's prolly the best smartphone sub 400-450$
Taking into account mainly processing power, screen technology and battery life
Storage and display size is non important
halcyon moss
pixel 4a
wheat plume
^^ solid af choice
wheat plume
Ok then
Anything by Xiaomi at your price range!
cursive summit
Not made by China
halcyon moss
yeah buy a chinesium phone!
wheat plume
.-. every phone is made in China
cursive summit
Unless it's One Plus, I'd maybe make an exception
@wheat plume DID YOU JUST CALL TAIWAN CHINA?
halcyon moss
one plus is not what it used to be
wheat plume
Idk man
cursive summit
So no chinesium or googlesium
wheat plume
Good luck avoiding phones made in China and around there
halcyon moss
then a samsung
cursive summit
A71?
wheat plume
Samsung are Korean
Too much people think they are American .-.
halcyon moss
maybe a nokia
cursive summit
@wheat plume Same way people think Sony is American
wheat plume
Yeh -.-
wheat plume
.-.
Get a samsung and deal with all the duplicate apps installed then
And the ads in the notifications tray
cursive summit
OOO
I heard of this
This phone is sick
P-OLED display, Snapdragon 765G, 4300mAh battery
No wifi6 weirdly enough
Yup it's priced at 407 euros locally
cursive summit
Nope
halcyon moss
€400 over there
cursive summit
See I have a quarrel with Google's monopoly, so the same way I don't want to feed money to China, I don't want to feed money to Google 😄
halcyon moss
worse software
and worse updates
not sure how they are doing now, but they used to be quite bad
cursive summit
Well if the rumours they are exiting the business are anything to go by, it won't get any better
The colour scheme looks sick though
halcyon moss
LG can't fight the china phones
cursive summit
Tbh nobody can
Apple has the Apple monopoly going
Samsung's trying to fight both china's cheap chinesium and Apple's fanboys at the same time
wheat plume
From the front
The velvet looks the same as my phone
cursive summit
It actually would fit my GF's needs
She hates the weird "spider" camera displays
And the Velvet does not have one
So yeah it's not for me, a birthday gift
Tbh, maybe iPhone SE?
She's an android girl but maybe she'd love the Apple ecosystem
cursive summit
Is P-OLED better than AMOLED?
wheat plume
IDK
cursive summit
Ohhh it's a P(lastic)-OLED
wheat plume
O?
cursive summit
halcyon moss
probably quite comparable in quality
phone displays are already crazy good these days, waay better than most computer screens
halcyon moss
so my pixel 2 xl has an lg screen, its really fine
halcyon moss
3 years btw
still dont know what to replace it with.. kinda dont want to. maybe a pixel 6
hopefully a new camera sensor this time around
cursive summit
Anybody know if wireless charging is useful n all?
Pop your phone on the charging pad and let it do its thing?
halcyon moss
cursive summit
ChromeOS?
Heh?
I guess Chromebooks became super affordable or something?
Cheapest chromebook here is 320 bucks
cursive summit
Yeah I don't see much of a reason to go with a chromebook rather than a contemporary Windows powered laptop
halcyon moss
you dont, but for many others it does what it needs to do
halcyon moss
chromebooks are so easy to maintain
very little, softwarewise, can go wrong with them
halcyon moss
we had some for a project with kids, even without them being managed in a group, super easy to reset and setup
cursive summit
Yeah tbh looks decent for home computing
I wouldn't go with chromeOS but you know, whatever floats your boat
halcyon moss
neither would i personally, but they absolutely have their uses
just like i might get an ipad in the future...
Because they are excellent for kids. :/
cursive summit
My kid will get his own gaming PC from age of 2
Pro gamer since infancy
Our family got a PC when I was 5 I think, we still got that case
Of course the insides are completely overhauled, I got it more up do date
I had a PS1 also, since age of 4 I think?
I believe I got a PS2 when I was 7
PSP when I was 10/11
And that's about it with consoles
I'm only 20 my dud 😄
I think back in 2005 the PC first had some Intel Pentium
Afterwards when it got an overhaul in 2011 (didn't have any knowledge of PC's back then), it got replaced by an A4-5400
And at age of 17 I reworked it into a GTX 1050Ti / FX-8350
What's a Tie
Isn't that a Star Wars thingy, the TIE- fighter?
Yeah I got no clue
Never saw Star Wars
I dig the lore
I did read up on it in the wiki
Same shit with Silent Hills, MGS, Game of Thrones
I dig the lore
Can't be bothered to play the games or watch the thing, read the books
I have a really stupid question
Does IP68 certification mean that in theory I can take my phone to shower
And use it while showering?
Cause honestly, I would really love to be able to do that
crimson wigeon
Sure
cursive summit
Apparently the 8 rating means "suitable for continuous immersion in water"
That tbh is really cool
Nothing 10 minutes of oven at 200 degrees can't fix
Motorola EDGE 5G for 341 eur
A lot cheaper than the Velvet, and seemingly feature superior
But I just like the Velvet's name and design a bit more
halcyon moss
also chinese
halcyon moss
yes, lenovo
pale sigil
Everything is Chinese
pale sigil
I mean wooting heads quarters is in the Netherlands 
cursive summit
Imagine Wooting being owned by CCP
ashen spindle
google sold motorola to lenovo in like 2015 or around there
cursive summit
Yeah I'd rather support the Koreans then
Oo the Velvet has an optional double screen accessory
That's kinda lit
reef patrol
Imagine Wooting being owned by CCP
Iceland EVE devs or China? 😛
ashen spindle
50/50 split
reef patrol
wheat plume
ashen spindle
thanks I'll abstain from watching chinese ads 
ashen spindle
I know neither the channel nor did I click on it, title was enough fro me to ignore it lel
ashen spindle
5kh?
old marlin
yes
actually unsure what it even does
seemingly returns values of something?
as in monetary values
unsure of what though
wheat plume
it it says it uses SATA power, I assume you cant use the sata port on the mobo for that?
old marlin
what are you trying to connect?
pale sigil
there are loads of cheap rgb fans
crimson wigeon
Yeah but data is still electricity just force the motherboard to keep high and there you go what could possibly go wrong
wheat plume
yeah... no xd
ashen spindle
cursive summit
wheat plume
Anyone know a way to easily make flowcharts for a code outline?
I need a for loop around the whole thing with if statements inside the for loop
Cause in powerpoint it's frustrating
ashen spindle
just take the first google result there are tons of them
wheat plume
They all need an account and the two I tried are really bad
ashen spindle
wheat plume
hmmm
ashen spindle
first google result, free, later google results recommend it, idk what you were searching for lmao
neat oriole
I’m not sure, try swapping gear around to see if the problem still persists, it could be a bad cable that’s shorting itself or something
sudden glacier
might be ground looping issue
frozen vale
also good to check cable routing, mine do that if I say put my phone on top of the cable
ivory geyser
Jesus Chris... Xiaomi calm down, I dont want your MIUI12 themes...
misty pier
rover has landed 
ivory geyser
I see the 360p cameras still rolling strong on 2021 tech 👍
misty pier
that's what happens when we don't fund nasa 
ivory geyser
Could have just packed one Xiaomi phone on the thing and taped it to the window...
ivory geyser
Xiaomi will have more customers I guess
proud nacelle
nice to see the rover landed, hopefully it lives a long life
scenic kayak
proud nacelle
i can't get what you're trying say, what I meant is I hope it don't have a fault or something outside it's control that would result that it dies early.
no, I don't
Also, NASA should be given a break
AFAIK they're the only people who are actively capable of sending these rovers when they're underfunded
Well doesn't mean enough though
reef tundra
Nasa's budget only gets slashed
The militairy really needs those missles to blow up those dirt huts
proud nacelle
What a sad state the US is in.
Jeff bezos can buzz off.
imo both aren't great
adds a lot of mechanical complexity which means more chance of it to go boom
Yay, more chances of them nuking each other into the apocalypse.
Hopefully a way off earth exists soon that is affordable and doesn't lead to death afterwards.
safe heath
man, fuck these winter storms delaying all my packages
i have a desk chair that's been sitting in a warehouse 1hr from me for like
the weather isn't even that bad here
reef tundra
But now they have an excuse
reef tundra
👁️ 👁️
crisp granite
it'll come...eventually
safe heath
i have dog food that's been sitting in a warehouse for a week. hasn't moved from ohio where it shipped from
nope.
normal fedex
same with a mattress sitting in a warehouse in utah.
its all fedex. UPS and USPS are working fine
but fedex is like "LOL THERES A SNOWFLAKE ON THE GROUND IMMA JUST WAIT"
reef tundra
Lmao, private companies failing to the federally run postal service
safe heath
ive found USPS kicks the pants off of ups and fedex /most/ of the time.
especially in rural areas
reef tundra
USPS is legally required to service everywhere
Which makes them a great last mile carrier aswell :)
crisp granite
ffs
reef tundra
But that would ruin the monopoly the ISPs have agreed between eachother
reef tundra
Just hoping they wont become a mesh of debris to make spaceflight impossible without the risk of being shredded
crisp granite
starlink will... help with some of that
but starlink is so expensive compared to what I pay rn
safe heath
they have a lifespan of 5 years, are designed to burn up completely in-atmosphere, and their low orbit will ensure rapid decay even without powered deorbit
ya im paying $450/mo for the service starlink is charging $99 for
reef tundra
The US infrastructure is a laughingstock
safe heath
i've got tmobile home internet coming on monday, but the best im hoping for is 40mbps down, the service here isn't great
they've got 5g bands flipped on but they haven't upgraded the backhaul
but hey, $50/mo for a 40mbps backup line for when my shitty microwave goes down? yes plz
reef tundra
40mbps? that is shit
crisp granite
I get a 20mb connection
but it's never more than 5-10 mb in practice
so, yeah...
safe heath
on my $450/mo line im "guaranteed" 100/20, most of the time if runs 60/5, on realllllly good days i get spikes up to 280/90 but that's on the clearest days when nobody is on
and it goes down for a few hours a week because the company doesn't understand how to build redudancy
i could get gigabit fiber! if i wanted to pay $1600/mo on a 5 year contract...
crisp granite
wow
safe heath
and wait 9 months for the build-out
crisp granite
jesus christ
safe heath
and the company who would be running it to me are half the reason my microwave goes down anyway
crisp granite
luckily, my area should have fibre laid within the next 5-7 years
safe heath
since they provide the backhaul to the microwave tower
reef tundra
I dont know how much the contract was but currently the download is 250mbps
safe heath
im hoping within 7 years fiber won't matter that much for rural anymore, thanks to starlink and its eventual competitors
reef tundra
Pretty much always
safe heath
which isp?
reef tundra
An dutch ISP
reef tundra
Monopolies
safe heath
well more than just that.
we have wide swaths of unoccupied land between our major cities that cost a fuckton to string lines over, so the cost of our infrastructure is substantially higher than that of most of europe. combine that with monopolies, then ya we're fucked
right? its insane.
crisp granite
dude
same here
we also inhabit like none of the land rn
pretty poggers
so much land and resources
safe heath
where you at?
crisp granite
yep
safe heath
wow, just did a google, the US has 1/14th the population density of the netherlands
crisp granite
beforehand, transport was via river
reef tundra
Civilisations were around rivers mostly for that reason
reef patrol
Rivers and canals. So useful 😄
safe heath
well, yes and no. the fertile land was the main reason
eventually transport became a big draw too
reef tundra
Transport, food, water, defence
crisp granite
well
safe heath
indeed.
crisp granite
canada used to be nothing but a giant hunting ground
crisp granite
the rivers were the only way in and out
reef tundra
Do you have the permit from the Lord before hunting the forrest, young lad?
safe heath
roflmao
reef tundra
wheat plume
Apparently the reason my phone doesn't have the MiUI 12 super wallpapers is because Xiaomi thinks the cpu isn't powerful enough to run them
.-.
It's a 730G
You can play call of duty on this shit
reef tundra
Hmmm, trusting Chinese company with a lot of personal data...
wheat plume
What's that got to do with this
zenith sonnet
The US infrastructure is a laughingstock
So is the German...
It's like the worst in whole of Europe
reef tundra
The German autobahn are atleast great
zenith sonnet
Sorta, in places...
It's mostly pretty good
Our main issue is with construction...
Can't build new roads most of the time
And replacing a stretch of road 100km long usually takes between 10 and 40 years
That's not a joke
And we desperately need new bridges
But it's almost impossible to get one constructed any more
reef tundra
There is a provential road which has been partially shutdown due to potholes but nothing happens. Just some road controllers and stop lights and now both sides of the road is destroyed
Its like that for 3-4 months
The province doesnt want to pay it while being it in their juristiction
Now the entire 1.6km of road has to be completely repaved
ivory geyser
Hmmm, trusting Chinese company with a lot of personal data...
I would rather trust Chinese company with my personal data than Google or Apple tbh...
reef patrol
Let's be real here. You're just giving the info to the Chinese AS WELL.
Alphabet, Facebook, NSA. They are all slurping already. 
ivory geyser
Tbh, I am not sure what EITHER of those companies going to do with my data.
Show me ads through my VPN adblock - good luck.
ashen spindle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4 not 100% tech focused but listening to jim is always nice imo
wheat plume
finee
ashen spindle
if it's not blatant piracy it's some scam to give someone else access to the pc.. really don't think either is something to post here
ivory geyser
@wheat plume if you have a license key already, then you dont any extra steps to begin with.
wheat plume
oh hmm
I have digital license, as long as I sign in, its auto activated
it expires next year tho ;-;
ivory geyser
I thought you used Linux
wheat plume
I have both
I do everything I can on Linux and boot windows for some pesky games that ban you if you use them in wine
🤔 new Insider feature
ivory geyser
What is that?
crimson wigeon
Yes, will definitely not be used for advertising...
wheat plume
it shows weather and news
wheat plume
Yes, will definitely not be used for advertising...
totally not! /s
ivory geyser
Why...
Why do they keep putting this shit in Windows.
I want tabs in fucking explorer.
And explorer that doesnt look from 2004
wheat plume
there is a fluent file manager with tabs but its not very stable
wheat plume
Thats their design language
ivory geyser
It lacks half the functionality of normal file browser.
And crashes half the time
Total commander is better than this
wheat plume
Yeah, I said its not stable enough rn
ivory geyser
It is more about being strictly worse than unstable.
I tried it, uninstalled it in 10 minutes.
crimson wigeon
Oh I member.. they did implement tabs for Explorer and friends for a bit, only it was quite scuffed and very tied to Edge for some bizarro reason, but still!
wheat plume
oh
Sets yeh
Thats not a bad price :') Thats cheaper than what even Razer are selling them for...
cursive summit
@wheat plume You do know that the audio quality on these is simply bad
wheat plume
Yeah ;-;
wheat plume
I heard online they sound better than the regular non kitty ear krakens
cursive summit
But after Cloud Alphas and now K371
They sound genuinely bad
Hell even Steelseries sound better
wheat plume
o
cursive summit
@wheat plume If you genuinely need a good product
AKG or Sennheiser
Pick either cause then you won't regret your purchase
I'd also say Sundara but that's a bit expensive
wheat plume
i thought AKG got rekt when they got bought by Samsung?
Unless you mean their older stuff
cursive summit
Uhh no?
At least I doubt so?
Doubt a leadership change would fuck a product line
wheat plume
the sound quality dipped
cursive summit
Still incredibly good I'd say
ivory geyser
Thats not a bad price :') Thats cheaper than what even Razer are selling them fo...
Lana no, dont. Dont get those T_T
wheat plume
im not
I wanna get the ears and put them on my headphones though
you can get those from the razer website
cursive summit
For 30 euros or whatever they cost
misty saffron
girlfriend kept bothering me about wanting these
cursive summit
Just DIY them yourself
wheat plume
or find a way to wear my headband at the same time as my headphones
ivory geyser
girlfriend kept bothering me about wanting these
There are certain times in life when one must say a firm "NO"
wheat plume
I need fans and I want light in my case
may as well get RGB so I can have any color I want rather than ones with a static color
warm white is great
wtf?!
11 months
yep
/s
for an item that they have IN STOCK xd
cursive summit
Girls only care about aesthetics 😄
When I first turned on my LG CX, I nearly came my pants from how amazing the sound was
My gf was like "yeah I don't really care"
misty saffron
i can totally relate to that
wheat plume
dont LG phones have DAC in the headphone jack?
cursive summit
@wheat plume The LG phones actually have quite good DACs
The Velvet has a dual DAC
Some other LG phones like the G8x I think, have a quad DAC
Beats me
misty saffron
makes you think you didn't overpay
frozen vale
/waves fingers magically
cursive summit
Quad DAC actually works like any other amp-and-DAC combo. The amplifier generates a lot more power than your standard headphone jack, thus giving LG devices the ability to power higher impedance headphones like the 300-ohm Sennheiser HD600. Meanwhile, the DAC portion supports audio files with up to 32-bit audio at 384 kHz sample rate (as of the LG V60).
misty saffron
brb wearing high impedance headphones outside
i actually don't understand why the fuck they have to care so much about audio
in phones
99% of people wear wireless earphones
frozen vale
can you even find a file like that?
misty saffron
and at home you'd usually have an actual dac+amp
and if you don't i don't think you actually care enough about having good sound
frozen vale
same, also hard to shop for considering how many people believe in magical cables
neat oriole
The ess chip in LG phones isn’t that great
reef tundra
2 capacitors, 2 bjts, 4 resistors and viola your own Class A amplifier.
neat oriole
@wheat plume the only person who thinks Samsung buying AKG ruined AKG is probably dank pods. AKG did themselves in with shit headphones a few years before Samsung bought them. The newer stuff like the K361/371, N400, Galaxy Buds, Buds +, and Buds pro are pretty good.
cursive summit
Galaxy Buds are AKG designed?
neat oriole
AKG/Harman tuned
wheat plume
they got the AKG logo iirc
misty saffron
at the same time i doubt they needed akg to make something good
neat oriole
Austrian Audio, the company formed by ex AKG employees, has put out nothing but junk.