🔌│tech

[pale sigil]

Wot

[astral haven]

you logged in?

[pale sigil]

Ye

They want a copy of my ID or link a credit card

Lmao

[reef patrol]

Yeah it's so weird.

[astral haven]

wth

[pale sigil]

Works fine on my phone

[reef tundra]

Proof you are an adult with your mums creditcard

[pale sigil]

Not assed like

But surprised is all

Oh

Apparently they started doing this recently

Due to European laws or some shit

Who thought that was a good idea

When you have countries or Sweden were having no ID is common

[reef tundra]

send them a dick pic

[pale sigil]

No

Irs insanely common to have no ID in the UK

Last time I had ID was 2011

Though I recently started the process for a provisional

Well you never used to need ID pre brexit for EU travel, as for outside, well ye I guess but it isn't super common.

Lol I've been abroad 4 times my entire life

And that's me being lucky vs a lot of people I know

XD

[reef tundra]

if the name on the id sounds arabic you would get randomly selected

[pale sigil]

I

[reef tundra]

wait, mmm. if you bought those prepaid debit cards would they work aswell

which you could get as a minor

Great way to verify age

[pale sigil]

I think it needs to be master card

Aka not something you can just get or get a virtual card of etc

It's actual credit

[reef tundra]

then use the moms creditcard you use to buy fortnite dollars

[pale sigil]

Well ye lol

Not the point though

[reef tundra]

they just want more data

[pale sigil]

But they already had my credit card

[reef tundra]

but not your government id :)

[pale sigil]

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Cif-youre-in-the-european-union-eu-european-economic-area-eea-switzerland-or-the-united-kingdom

I ain't giving no one that xD

[reef tundra]

Which is worth tens of thousands on the black market. its the apex of identity

i logged out and in again and it believed i was an adult again

Like it is going to stop someone from watching adult content. google search will even help you find it

[astral haven]

but you arent allowed to use google if you are under 18... /s

[reef tundra]

wait wait wait wait

their tos would have banned what the creators of youtube made it for in the first place.

Celebrity wardrobe accidents or nude photo leaks

[pale sigil]

Certain services you can't use

At certain ages

Youtube is 13

As with most social media sites

[reef tundra]

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802002#age_restricted&zippy=,other-types-of-content-that-violate-this-policy

[pale sigil]

Afaik most are 13

I remember when Google bought YouTube lol

[reef tundra]

After the infamous Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson Halftime show incident, the three creators realized they couldn't find any videos of it on the internet, after noticing that this type of platform did not exist they made the changes to become the first major video sharing platform.

[pale sigil]

Ahhh the good olde BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

In all its glory

[reef tundra]

Without google buying them it would have failed

[pale sigil]

"However, the company will keep operating its own Google Video as a separate operation"

[reef tundra]

what? did you say to make a social media and force it into youtube? will do

[pale sigil]

I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who didn't care about that

Lol

And I used Google +

[reef tundra]

I hate the fact it fucked up the urls mostly

What did it even do except be the comment section?

[pale sigil]

mining has come a long way

since using simple batch scripts

on 6 euro atm

[fair gull]

u sure the electricity u used doesnt cost more than u make

[ashen spindle]

or the sanity you might lose because now the next issue the pc has could come from this

[fair gull]

tru

at 200watts ur card alone sucks 4.8kwh in 24hrs

calculated on a year thats more than half of what a normal family home uses in a year

for just ur gpu alone

[pale sigil]

Just curiously

More than anything

But the site has a calc

Where you put how much your electric costs

Basically I can make up to £5 a day

But this is just purely curiosity

Cba mining these days

Wasn't as easy as back in the days

Or well profitable

[ashen spindle]

no shit, price of ETH wasn't nearly as much xD

[pale sigil]

XD

[fair gull]

imagine if i had my wallet from when bitcoin was just a funny dream that would never pay for itself

[ashen spindle]

you would've sold during the last rise 2 years ago already

[pale sigil]

Imagine if I didn't waste all my bitcoin on takeaway

Losing £10k

[fair gull]

@ashen spindle ya but id be the guy with dem servers

[ashen spindle]

you act as if you would've hold on it for that long and not sold it much sooner on an early rise haha

[fair gull]

imagine the hardware i could have bought

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle yay pantheon gets converted to unity's URP

[ashen spindle]

they weren't using that? wtf

[fickle ore]

well the project started in 2014 lol

[ashen spindle]

ah

[fickle ore]

guess that didnt exist then, isn't it 2019 feature? xD

[ashen spindle]

yeah started as a beta in 18 or 19

[fickle ore]

https://www.pantheonmmo.com/news/producers-letter-march-2021/

if you wanna read

[ashen spindle]

nah

if they make some GDC talk about that/using burst/their networking, that would be interresting

but a regular post won't really contain any info I'd find interresting

[fickle ore]

zaunkoening m2k weighs around 15-16g, uses a bga mcu, spdt latch switches and native 8khz ;O

atompalm or m2k.. hmm hmm, I need a scroll tho

@ashen spindle Yeah I would really love to hear about those. They have apparently really good network code that many parties are interested in

[ashen spindle]

now gigabyte is not listing latest agsa bios again, what are they doing for that to constantly go away

[fickle ore]

prob a new beta on that forum again

I will try 1.2.0.1 patch A when it comes to see if wooting ryzen usb is fixed

[ashen spindle]

but why would they remove a stable version from the list lol

also the usb fixes are in 1.2.0.2

not 0.1

[fickle ore]

they are in 1.2.0.1 patch A

atleast some of them

there is 1.2.0.1 and 1.2.0.1 patch A and 1.2.0.2 😄

[ashen spindle]

according to amd its in .2

[fickle ore]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/mdpx2i/results_of_agesa_1201_patch_a_and_1202/

[pale sigil]

Found a use for my spare monitor

[solar hinge]

masturbation station

[pale sigil]

Waifu Station

[ivory geyser]

I like the bloodied human torso on the window-pane. Nice decoration!
Just dont let it rot too much.

[pale sigil]

[halcyon moss]

the fuck.. windows installed a pop up dialog for styeelseries engine for me.. asking to install it. the duck

[analog aspen]

The thing with my 8kHz is it either works, or it doesn’t and needs restart. Or it works until it stops working (after couple hours) and needs restart.
Can’t help but feel the support for 8kHz is extremely limited rn

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/l3daDnnz-2o 🤤

An actually visually pleasing poco phone

I love how he calls out custom roms

in a good way

or no bigger than 6"

hmmm

[fair gull]

nice public piracy

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/for-fucks-sake-disappointed-facepalm-gif-5231111

[pale sigil]

xD

its from tonys server

i swear

[fair gull]

its not

thats a torrent client

id guess deluge

[pale sigil]

which can grab web urls

😄

there

gone

[fair gull]

didnt know deluge can auth with google now

[pale sigil]

pft

[fair gull]

https://discordjs.moe/8xkaadcorbld.png

not from my drive

[lethal wasp]

Does anyone here know about enforcing youtubes VP9 codec @ 1080p?

I know that it triggers at 1440p but some people have got it at 1080p

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/156528760072568833/825373048495800340/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/156528760072568833/825373148823420988/unknown.png

this is the same video (base res 1080p) at 1080p and 1440p upscaled

[ashen spindle]

iirc it depends on what format/resoultion you upload it in, might also be something they use for people with a minimum subscriber count perhaps

[lethal wasp]

substantial quality difference from youtube's alternate codec

[ashen spindle]

yeah I think thats something youtube adds if your channel is big enough, idk if there is a way to trick it

[zenith sonnet]

What is URP?

[fair gull]

i thought adobe premiere offered a vp9 encoder

[ashen spindle]

idk if it matters what you use for the upload though, as youtube handles that?

[fair gull]

na doesnt

it completely reencodes

just checked

https://discordjs.moe/lsiiqwlu54q3.png

is vp9 encoded source file

[wheat plume]

Oo hey

[wheat plume]

Any reason my laptop has more detailed, less "harsh" sound quality than my new computer?

[reef patrol]

Yeah... if you care about sound quality you're going to need to invest in something every time.

Just because no one buys sound cards anymore for every PC, doesn't mean the motherboard sound chips are great 😄

[wheat plume]

can a DAC really affect it that much?

its not totally obvious until after about an hour of music, but its cleaner and less "noisy" than my PC

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckjr9x214c

Hold on now...

[wheat plume]

(idk the proper terms to describe audio)

lol

I dont want yet another thing on my headphones cable xd

I already have a cable extender

would it affect the sound if Plugged the dac at the end or the start of the extension cable?

maybe it would be best to plug it into the jack and then the extender into that

[reef patrol]

Usually they're USB, so the sound isn't affected.

[wheat plume]

I dont have USB C

I use the audio jack cause the audio is better over the jack than USB imo

but my laptop beats both USB and jack on my computer

oh?

TIL KDE Connect shows media playing on the phone also

and not just showing the media playing on the computer in the phones notifications

IDK if my phone beats my laptop

[ashen spindle]

its not totally obvious until after about an hour of music
that sounds like some other issue, idk why it would take an hour to manifest a different quality

[wheat plume]

the "noisyness" of it only makes me want to stop using my headphones after that long

but the less detail is always there compared to my laptop

[ashen spindle]

so it's obvious directly?

[wheat plume]

im not at my computer but yeah, I can tell this is more detailed than it

Ive heard this song so many times, I know xd

[urban lynx]

same headphones?

same media source?

[wheat plume]

same headphones, same video on youtube

same browser too lel

[urban lynx]

did you also select and enforce the same quality?

[wheat plume]

1080P

[urban lynx]

lower resolution also for some reason decreases audio quality

[wheat plume]

yeah they do

I play 1080

or 720 if the video isnt in 1080

cause a lot of music videos arent 1080

[ashen spindle]

just to be sure, you also didnt foreget to install the audio drivers or something

[wheat plume]

I didnt do that on both if thats the case

I just installed the OS and went about my day

[fair gull]

i mean

[wheat plume]

Fair enough

the only difference between the OS on my laptop and my com[uter is the desktop being used

Plasma on laptop
Gnome on desktop/

[fair gull]

youtube is compressed for bandwidth

[wheat plume]

both running arcolinux

below 720P is lower audio quality

and below 360 is lower again

[neat oriole]

YouTube is like less than 160 for audio

Around 100-140 in my experience

[ashen spindle]

I kinda doubt that linux can magically adjust hardware without the driver for it all I know is that without the realtek drivers it sounds worse on my pc

[fair gull]

linux distros come with drivers

[ashen spindle]

so it automatically finds the correct drivers just like windows?

still could mean it cant find it or uses the wrong one?

[fair gull]

na

just like windows updates

it uses hardware ids

and device paths

but linux doesnt download em

they come prebundled

u will know how hard it is to get the right drivers if u have some weird wlan card in ur notebook

id guess its cause the file lana listens to locally has 320kbit

not just 160

only saw the picture

of her locally playing rusty cage

[wheat plume]

Yea I did

[fair gull]

assumed thats it

[wheat plume]

^^

the screenshot was me playing it from youtube on my phone and the media controls showing on my laptop

[fair gull]

so the only difference would prob be kernel vers

and thus driver vers

[wheat plume]

or my motherboard audio being worse than my laptop's

[fair gull]

somewhat doubt that

[ashen spindle]

have you looked what audio chip they both use

[wheat plume]

not my laptop, no

[fair gull]

hm ya could also just be the audio chipset

[neat oriole]

Just get a dongle

[crisp granite]

get a nice dong

[wheat plume]

the sound is almost the same, but on my computer its less "balanced" some of the harsher sounds are more prominent and its gets tiring to listen to over time

and its less punchy

than my laptop

The audio puts the emphasis on the parts of the audio it should

DACs are expensive

[fair gull]

DAC != dongle

[wheat plume]

why need dongle?

[neat oriole]

I mean the cloud does have a pretty big upper treble spike

[fair gull]

external audio card

basically means

it sounds the same

wherever

[wheat plume]

mostly flat though

[neat oriole]

No

[ashen spindle]

ja really expensive

[neat oriole]

The cloud is most definitely not flat, it’s a v shape

[wheat plume]

what chart you looking at?

I listen to any genre if I like the song

Youtube is fine for me

[neat oriole]

Yeah it’s about 6db higher than 1k at 100

That’s a bass shelf

And then that pretty large upper treble spike

[ashen spindle]

can't notice that youtube has low quality if the headphones are already low quality

[wheat plume]

Nu uh, these have great sound

I love the profile on these

not too much badd but punchy when its there

[fair gull]

didnt the cloud 2 have shit freq response and was inconsistent aswell

[wheat plume]

and nice highs

[neat oriole]

Maybe that’s all Lana’s used

[ashen spindle]

I mean, I can only tell from personal experience they sound much worse than my sennheisers xD

[wheat plume]

Look, the headphones arent what is causing the audio quality difference

[ashen spindle]

cant say what exactly or what technical thing

[wheat plume]

idk what is

[neat oriole]

Get a dongle

[fair gull]

thats not what we said... we said they are shit to begin with

[neat oriole]

So you can use the same source on both devices

And see if there’s a difference

[wheat plume]

Even with a dongle, it would still sound different cause the input audio is different?

or can a dongle magically make all output the same no matter the quality of the input?

[neat oriole]

Aren’t they both YouTube?

[wheat plume]

ye

[neat oriole]

Then it’s the same

Or test with local files

[wheat plume]

I do notice that the "noiseness" is lower on local files, but its still tiring after a while

Meanwhile ive been listening to music on youtube for about 2 hours on my laptop rn and Im not getting tired of listening

[ashen spindle]

also if it cleans up the sound good enough it can potentially make it indistinguishable even if the devices output different quality

[wheat plume]

oo

laptop seems quiter but still loud enough for me

its like its not struggling to output the volume

idk how to describe it

laptop audio sounds fuller and wider

with sharper high frequencies, on the computer the high frequencies are too prominent but flatter and not sharp

[neat oriole]

Get a dongle

[wheat plume]

what one?

[neat oriole]

Apple or meizu

[crisp granite]

apple dong

[wheat plume]

Apple?!

[crisp granite]

yes

[wheat plume]

wot

[crisp granite]

IKR!

it's a tenner

[wheat plume]

o.o

[crisp granite]

get the USB-C to 3.5mm adapter

[neat oriole]

Best dac amp under $100

[wheat plume]

Yall are actually recommending Apple to me legitimately?

[crisp granite]

yes

[neat oriole]

Nothing wrong with it

[ashen spindle]

I swear this is like the 5th time you are going "O.o" about hearing that apple dongle is good

[wheat plume]

I dont have usb c

[ashen spindle]

or im just getting mega deja vu

[crisp granite]

...

wut

[wheat plume]

at least the case doesnt, my motherobard has a header for it though

[crisp granite]

no USB-C on the back?

[wheat plume]

no

internal usb c header

[crisp granite]

yikes

[wheat plume]

this motherboard was only as expensive as it was due to the wifi and BT built in

[fair gull]

bt

why

[crisp granite]

my mobo cost $130 CAD

and the two things it doesn't have is wifi and BT

[fair gull]

same

mine cost over 200eur

[wheat plume]

Yeah, thats why my mobo was the price it was

its got Intel wifi + bt card

[fair gull]

if wost comes to worst u can always desolder the shit stains called wifi and bt

[ashen spindle]

wifi costs about 10-20 depending what board SKU you are looking at

that is not the most expensive part lol

[wheat plume]

oh hm

[crisp granite]

my board was a mining board

it was designed to be cheap and durable

it has one PCI-3.0 x16 slot

the rest are x8 iirc

[neat oriole]

D*** pic

[wheat plume]

@neat oriole send me the link to the dongle you suggest then

oh

[crisp granite]

nice dongs

[wheat plume]

yeah, they all usb C

welp

[crisp granite]

nope, one is USB-C, two are lightning

[wheat plume]

They are all ports I dont have*

[crisp granite]

adapters

[neat oriole]

Get a type a to type c adapter

[wheat plume]

wont that also affect the quality?

[neat oriole]

No?

[wheat plume]

oh

[ashen spindle]

why are you saying you dont have the port if you say there is one on the back...

is the cable not long enough?

[wheat plume]

wdym?

[cursive summit]

Something's clearly not long enough

[wheat plume]

I dont have a USB C port

[crisp granite]

giggity

[wheat plume]

wow

[crisp granite]

can't reach the end

[cursive summit]

I can relate

Imagine watching 22 mins out of 25 min episode and it starts permabuffering

Irritating

[wheat plume]

my headphone cable already cant reach the front jack on my computer
So I got a headphones cable extender
Plugs my headphones jack into that cable and that cable into the front jack

[crisp granite]

mhm

the worst

[neat oriole]

8 years old almost

[crisp granite]

the one good thing about macs

they last a long time

[neat oriole]

It overheats like a motherfucker tho

[crisp granite]

[neat oriole]

Idles at 70°C

[wheat plume]

O

[fair gull]

sounds good

means warm toast all day

[neat oriole]

Sounds like Apple

[ashen spindle]

perfect to keep your food warm

[crisp granite]

or your hands

[fair gull]

ikr quin

[crisp granite]

when typing

[crisp granite]

...

you don't actually warm food with your PC, right?

[fair gull]

what who doesnt

[neat oriole]

But I mean my MacBook is now just my designated “online file transfer” machine

[fair gull]

oh and not pc

we warm our food with macs

[crisp granite]

smert

[fair gull]

pcs usually dont idle hot enough

[crisp granite]

thank god for heatsinks and fans, am I right?

two things apple can't do

[wheat plume]

I love how the term "idle" is used when the computer is doing many things that arent demanding

[neat oriole]

The whole body is a heatsink

[crisp granite]

sounds like a bad idea

just, in general

[neat oriole]

Not comfortable on your lap, no

But more surface area to cool

[fair gull]

https://youtu.be/BLdXfFsgvkE?t=200

[crisp granite]

yooooooooooooooooooooooooo

thermi at it's best

making breakfast

[neat oriole]

If I’m downloading stuff from the internet, the MacBook goes to like 80+ C on the CPU

[fair gull]

ya but thats what idle means... the cpu is lazy since its not filled with activity

"not spent or filled with activity" is a way to define idle

[crisp granite]

hit that CPU to make it run faster

[wheat plume]

True, having a lot of things open is more ram heavy thing

[crisp granite]

give it hard work

[fair gull]

also a linux user saying their pc does lots of non demanding things

[wheat plume]

?

[ashen spindle]

[fair gull]

sec grabbing a screen

[wheat plume]

I have discord and youtube open

[fair gull]

htop

pls

[wheat plume]

htop here

[fair gull]

https://discordjs.moe/xilo950rl3k8.png

doing so many things

oh noe

30tasks

how will the cpu survive this onslaught

[wheat plume]

mine is 95 tasks

[fair gull]

OH NOE

[crisp granite]

[wheat plume]

idk why tf you being sarcastic over

[crisp granite]

that CPU is gonna explode

[fair gull]

https://discordjs.moe/bi7ksu62w68m.png

also nginx is like half of my 30tasks

so

https://discordjs.moe/gut56jlxg2t1.png

[ashen spindle]

laughs in Anakin skywalker?

[fair gull]

no

thats ben swolo

[wheat plume]

after a reboot

[fair gull]

bruh

pls

[wheat plume]

cpu at 1% now

[fair gull]

make it not add that edgy shadow around the border

makes the pic unnecessarily large

[wheat plume]

idk why it does that

^^

[ashen spindle]

🪞

[crisp granite]

^^

[fair gull]

was about to say the same

i can aswell

[ashen spindle]

prove it

[fair gull]

but u clearly ignore it

im confused... are u delusional enough to think tony can really not say one positive thing is positive or did u speak out loud and think wed hear it

[ashen spindle]

[crisp granite]

this battle will be legendary

[wheat plume]

"I havent been this entertained since the Stock Market crash of 1929"

[crisp granite]

lana = 5000 year old loli

confirmed

[wheat plume]

wot now

[fair gull]

lana would be the tallest loli of them all

[wheat plume]

Arent I older than you, doge?

[crisp granite]

ye

[ashen spindle]

[wheat plume]

xd

[crisp granite]

well then

lana

you are a lot older than I am

[wheat plume]

I just wanna know why my audio quality on my computer isnt as full and detailed as my laptop

[neat oriole]

Probably just different dac/amp chip

[wheat plume]

idk how to check that

[neat oriole]

Look up their spec sheets

[wheat plume]

I just know the glowing orange line on the motherboard is to do with the sound , and idk what my laptop is doing

[ashen spindle]

idk, since you probably have linux on the laptop find out what linux command shows the chipsets used

[neat oriole]

But I mean it doesn’t matter which exact chips they use but it’s 100% not the same chip

And even if it is the same chip the different implementation could change how they sound

[wheat plume]

laptop

wot

[ashen spindle]

sunrise point is the mainboard name

doubt thats the audio chip name

or, platform name rather

again, I'm pretty sure that's not the actual chip

[wheat plume]

There is very faint hissing when not playing audio

That I dont get on my computer

[crisp granite]

something electrical interference

fairly normal if you have lots of parts in a small space

say

a laptop chassis

[wheat plume]

Yep

this laptop is barely thicker than the USB port

well, without the width of the screen added

[fair gull]

u mean depth/thickness

[wheat plume]

thiccness yes

Yeah, the audio quality under Windows on my computer is slightly better than Linux on my computer but still
Not as good as Linux on my laptop

[ashen spindle]

if the OS makes a difference I'me once again certain it's more of a driver issue

[wheat plume]

I havent installed any drivers for audio on any OS on my computer or laptop

[ashen spindle]

then do it and update them xD

[wheat plume]

I just let it do whatever it does itself

[fair gull]

combine the 2

7hrs easy

[ashen spindle]

I didnt do anything with it and it doesn't sound great
well, default isn't always the best setting, would be the first thing I'd touch

[wheat plume]

Hey, its pretty great on my laptop xd

[crisp granite]

it doesn't have a huge battery though

and that ARM chip isn't eating as much as an intel mobile CPU

ARM's got that special sauce 👌

[rapid moss]

The analog output circuit is key to sound quality

[crisp granite]

ngl, an ARM desktop CPU would be wild, but x86 is a must for most games iirc

correct me if I'm wrong

[rapid moss]

Drivers only marginally can influence the output quality

[ashen spindle]

sure but updates/settings are much easier to adjust and see if that fixes it than touching the circuit or buying something new 😛

[rapid moss]

Key features that make a real difference: galvanic insulation of power and signal paths of the audio portion, decent quality analogue components, like op-amps, capacitors, transistors etc.

[wheat plume]

👀

[fair gull]

old news

[ashen spindle]

March 3rd

[wheat plume]

I know

still odd

Most apps people use arent native to M1 so they need Rosetta

[ashen spindle]

no not really odd

pretty much what literally everyone expected since introduction

[wheat plume]

hmm

[crisp granite]

a reason to buy the new macs?

and kill off macs of yester-decade?

[fair gull]

clearly

the solution is to buy a 32bit mac

[ashen spindle]

literallty just a repeat of what they did with rosetta 1...

[reef patrol]

Can we talk about how none of these games should have been 32bit to begin with 😄

Some ancient games in there.

[fair gull]

what mansen said

128bit masterrace

[reef patrol]

Military camo green ftw 😄

[fair gull]

same

i remember the cs1.6 days

[wheat plume]

green?

[reef patrol]

Back when all it was, was a server browser. And then suddenly you could activate your Valve games on it. And then it became a sales platform.

[fair gull]

yes green

[wheat plume]

what

[crisp granite]

I'm not that old

christ

[crisp granite]

damn

[wheat plume]

woah

[crisp granite]

that looks awful

[wheat plume]

ew

^^ very

[fair gull]

na

[wheat plume]

wait

[crisp granite]

^_^

[wheat plume]

thats half life

[crisp granite]

and the original counter-strike

not even the source engine port

[wheat plume]

Steam still looks pretyt bad

but origin is worse

[fair gull]

ure right steam looks shit

green one was better

[wheat plume]

ew

no

[crisp granite]

yesn't

it's...

[pale sigil]

Steam looks awful xD

[crisp granite]

people would hate it

[fair gull]

never had the green one crash on me

[pale sigil]

Judt give me multi account support on gog

And I'll be happy

[fair gull]

https://i.imgur.com/w2bmr2H.png

yet we all forget about the real enemy in all of this

steampowered.com vs steam.com

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah, but now there's s.team

[fair gull]

ngl im surprised we havent seen a .steam tld

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/ZOzZ8R4gphE

O gosh

[wheat plume]

Oh wait, hes not using serenity rn yet hes trying to port shit to it
Would it not be easier to use the system you want to port to?

He is trying to port a project called DevilutionX, which is a port already :')

Its a port to modern OS's

And he wanna take that and port to Serenity

[crimson wigeon]

Why not

[pale sigil]

Felt like a personal attack

[wheat plume]

rip

the most demanding game Ive played so far is CyberPunk

and Minecraft with shaders

which gets the same FPS as CyberPunk did :')

Until I use settings I dont find overkill

[zenith sonnet]

Valheim gets less FPS than CP

On my PC

[wheat plume]

o.o

[crisp granite]

that be me d00d

got that RTX 3070 to play fallout new vegas, with lots of graphical mods

[astral haven]

Hey csgo is only 9 years old I'll have you know

[wheat plume]

Even though it's QLC (SSD), it's much faster than a hard drive
Linus - 2021

[wheat plume]

He saying that QLC is just as fast as a hard drive?

[crimson wigeon]

No he's saying it's much faster

[wheat plume]

But "even though it's QLC"
And this is a special type of ssd called the fuse drive

So it's faster than regular SSDs

[reef tundra]

other SSD technologies > QLC > HDDs

that is the logic, there

[wheat plume]

Ahh

[proper crystal]

QLC is in principle slower. But if the SSD has DRAM for caching and some segment of the flash is operating as SLC for caching as well, you can get very good results.

[astral haven]

Qlc write speeds can be slower than high end hdds

Even with caching

Tho not nvme

Only sata

[crisp granite]

any cheapo SSD will do

preferably NVME for a boot drive

but SATA for games is just fine

buying spinning rust nowadays is kinda dumb except for a NAS or something like that

and you don't need PCI-E 4.0

^^

this

locke

true that

and I don't even think SSDs fully saturate a PCI-E 3.0x8 slot rn

so, why the 4.0?

well, yes, but running out of M.2 slots is possible

wait

PCI-E to M.2 cards

my bad

I guess it is

if you go completely bonkers with M.2 storage

but most aren't going to have more than 2 or 3 drives in a system at most

don't have anything worth storing on a NAS

I just have two drives

a 1TB sata SSD for my steam library

and a 1TB M.2 for everything else

so, OS, discord

stuff like that

and my games boot fast enough

metro exodus finally can load levels in seconds

not minutes

Xbox HDDs

yikes

enough for me tbh

and if I need more

I got an M.2 slot

and a bunch of sata ports

and another large mess of cables to stuff a drive into

[crisp granite]

they also happen to be good for refurbishing older systems without M.2 ports, and a tad cheaper

that's really it though

[wheat plume]

You know its sad when the best tablet for the price is a Galaxy Tab A7

thats on sale for 200 euro

[zenith sonnet]

Tablets are a niche product anyway

[wheat plume]

Its got Android 10

which is great cause the one he is using currently is Android 4

[zenith sonnet]

They're for people who want the limitations of a phone with the screensize of a netbook

[wheat plume]

^^ yeh

he doesnt want anything smaller than a 10 inch screen

[pale sigil]

hmm

tempted to make a bootable linux drive with my spare ssd

but from usb

[wheat plume]

you mean install it to spare SSD?

[pale sigil]

Yes but the ssd will be put into an external caddy

[wheat plume]

ahhh

[pale sigil]

because afaik

it wont make a difference

in terms of speed

as long as its usb 3

[pale sigil]

HDD speeds

x.x

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

xD

I use teracopy

xD

As in the clips?

Nah, 1080/60, 1440p/144fps would be way to large

lmao

https://mrpl.me/zd3937b_rff4.jpg

those 2gb ones were 5 min clips

hmm apparently there is no difference in file size

for 1080p and 1440p

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

Either way

i have 150gb of clips

from D2 alone

getting out of hand

[misty pier]

you tried OBS?

could tweak quality settings through OBS and slim down the file sizes

[pale sigil]

Nah obs isnt good for replay like functions

Replace works great because it uses nothing to run unlike say xbox or obs which still uses cpu and judt isn't friendly for replace

Replay

[misty pier]

alright

i've had pretty good results pushing it to my cpu when i do recordings

did need to tweak it a little for destiny 2 to get it running smooth

[pale sigil]

kden it wasn't lying

1440p makes no difference in file size

TIL

D2 also hates software that captures it

aye

[crimson wigeon]

Because the bitrate is probably the same

[pale sigil]

That is a very good

[misty pier]

yeah I just cheese it by letting it record the whole screen rather than the game window

[pale sigil]

And obvious point

But there is still a large difference

I've

[ashen spindle]

You've

[crimson wigeon]

Yes my understanding is that Shadowplay does everything on the GPU so what comes out is a raw h264 or h265 stream whatever, whereas if you use OBS then it has to do a blit there and stuff

[pale sigil]

correct

[reef patrol]

OBS can do the same.

[crimson wigeon]

AV1 plz, even if it's a bitch to encode and decode right now

[reef patrol]

It's just NVENC (Forgot what AMD calls theirs) encoding - aka. GPU

[pale sigil]

the godly nvenc

yes obs can do it

but it sucks for replay

and also still uses CPU

[crimson wigeon]

The point is that OBS still has to do its scene rendering and stuff

[reef patrol]

Personally I don't really see the point of NVENC. CPUs have so many cores that are mostly idle.

[ashen spindle]

amd's is AMF or so

[pale sigil]

cos using anything

[misty pier]

i only use nvenc for streaming

[pale sigil]

other than nvidia tech

means i lose fps

[misty pier]

h264 only for recording

[pale sigil]

also tbh

shadowplay is just great

rest of experience not so much

😄

[zenith sonnet]

You lose FPS with shadowplay as well

[pale sigil]

like 1

[pale sigil]

Dmy poor mouse is becoming bad for sniping

[timid chasm]

You mean you're bad at sniping?

[pale sigil]

Bitch

But no

Sadly the right click is very sensative

I have to put a fair amount of force into it

To be consistent

[timid chasm]

so it's not becoming bad then it just IS bad

time for a replacement

[pale sigil]

Not bad enough for me to spend money j don't have rn

XD

[timid chasm]

it's possible you could take it apart and fix it depending on the issue

[cursive summit]

I'll be honest Claire, from what I saw, you are really bad at shooters

There was some game where you failed for an entire minute to hit anywhere near a moving target

[pale sigil]

Huh

What game

[cursive summit]

I dunno, you showed a clip where you were trying to hit a target at distance who was moving

And you couldn't aim at all

[pale sigil]

That was a ps4 clip

Showing how bad I am at controller

[cursive summit]

Or you are just bad in general

Show clips of you rekking shit in Destiny

[pale sigil]

https://gfycat.com/MixedIdolizedIndochinahogdeer

Was it this one

[cursive summit]

Yeah something similar

Yep

[pale sigil]

https://streamable.com/g5vm4l

Not at my desktop rn

[cursive summit]

Not half bad

👏

[pale sigil]

I once alone ended an entire round of trials (hyper competitive) in less than a minute

[cursive summit]

Dunno what that means but... grats

[pale sigil]

hyper compet pvp

time to see what i left on this ssd

an entire os apparently

wot

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This was the ssd i added trying to sell my computer as a whole

i remember now

[rapid moss]

Sensible, installing a fresh SSD with no personal information at all.

[pale sigil]

it was my game drive

😄

[rapid moss]

Assuming you used a secure wipe

[pale sigil]

used the ssd provider one ye

but again wouldn't matter anyway

as it was a game drive only

[rapid moss]

Secure enough usually, only very specialised folks would be able to retrieve data, and you're not important enough to warrant the cost 😉

[pale sigil]

fuck ye better speeds

peaked at 400

External 95mb/s no more

fuck mechanical drives

😄

Except the ones in my NAS

Love you

dont fail on me xo

[rapid moss]

LoL

Mechanical drives have their uses, but no longer in PCs

For mass storage in a NAS, or similar they are still fine

[pale sigil]

Now im limited again

xD

cos ofc NAS is mechanical

my next nas will be a custom build

[rapid moss]

With home internet speeds increasing above 500mbit here in the Netherlands I'm tempted to go for the cloud, dumping my important stuff in a veracrypt container

Still using a NAS as primary backup here too.

[pale sigil]

never wanna rely on offsite

tbh

[rapid moss]

Personally I'm very fond of Synology

[pale sigil]

same

[rapid moss]

Intuitive interface, and a large active community.

[pale sigil]

but i wanna run my own NAS

or at least my own OS

[rapid moss]

So whenever I needed help, just going through the forum was all I needed to find a solution

[pale sigil]

Speaking of

I bought a rasberry pi

and i have no idea where i put it

[rapid moss]

You can run any OS on that?

[pale sigil]

but all the important ones

[rapid moss]

Some Linux or BSD distro

Looks solid

I get why you want that Nas, energy efficient, compact, run , within technical limitations, the OS of your own choice.

But tech savvy as I am, personally would still go for a Synology device.

I started out with a 1010+, but I'm now using a 716+II , also because of energy efficiency.

Synology has quite the lineup, so if you don't pick the overkill device, ie a 8bay when you only need a 2 bay.

[pale sigil]

anyone here use paysafe

[fair gull]

@pale sigil bruh paysafe

thats a blast from the past

[fair gull]

mine is just an old server

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/DHza5X2Jt2g

Plasma desktop dev fanbois over gnome desktop

what a time to be alive

[pale sigil]

really going for that osx look aint they

[wheat plume]

MacOS with the virtual desktops of ElementaryOS :P

But the shitty notifications that only gnome has

Plasma has the best notifications by far

[pale sigil]

BOXES BOXES BOXES

why is gnome obssesed

with boxes

[wheat plume]

Thats an unthemed QT app

not a GTK app

Thats not made by gnome devs, or designed for gnome desktop

take a look at the actual file mananger gnome uses

[thick elk]

Well the thing about kde dev's talking about gnome, he is talking about the features of gnome, not the features it does not have in the first place.

the settings are clearer because half the settings kde has are not even at thing.

[wheat plume]

^^

The motto of gnome desktop: What it can do, it does great

:')

Motto of Plasma: What it has, it does ok

[thick elk]

Important thing about Plasma and KDE in general is, if you want to change it, you can.

[wheat plume]

^^

I wish that using the KVANTUM application style still let you disable the titlebars like you can with the breeze window decorations

Even if you use the breeze decorations with kvantum, it brings the titlebars back

[wheat plume]

how I use?

[fair gull]

by knowing what ure even looking at first and foremost

[wheat plume]

I havent a clue

[fair gull]

after that ud also look at the freq responses of ur audio device

and then u maje it balances

[wheat plume]

I did this xd

there is a difference already

but idk

Rtings has a chart for left and right earcups?! wot

why would they be different

the "boosted" profile sounds better already, but slightly too much bass

it makes things punchier, not just bass

[fair gull]

because low quality standard headphones

[wheat plume]

but they sound wayyy better on my laptop

we went over this

[fickle ore]

@prisma crag LOLLL and I have thought for years my right ear has worse hearing

Bless you

[wheat plume]

whot?

[neat oriole]

Usually the channel balancing tolerances between left and right are a couple db

Of course most people can’t tell

Even if the difference was a lot more drastic

Like the Sony wh1000xm4

[astral haven]

And usually the larger problem is the source

For channel imbalance

[reef tundra]

If the hardware sucks.. fix it in software. Just push the problem to someone else

[astral haven]

You are everything wrong in tech right now

[reef tundra]

eh, sometimes it is justified. tbh. Like finding hardware bugs late in development and it is too expensive to fix. Firmware gets to have to deal with it then. Shit has to get done after all. you could even fix it with next batch of hardware and disable the software fix.

Usually a good hardware engineer would be closely assisting the firmware engineers in understanding it and getting it done.

[astral haven]

That last part is usually skipped tho

[latent mural]

you say this is perfect eq but doesnt it really depend to what you're listening to?

[neat oriole]

If you actually want to get into eq-ing gear get equalizer apo

It’ll give you more precise control for eq

[fair gull]

what u listen to and the freq responses of ur current audio output devices

[wheat plume]

I didn't even listen to consistent things xd

[astral haven]

Yea tbh eq isn't really an exact science

Like practically

[old marlin]

I mean

Depends on how deep you get into it

[astral haven]

i said practically

[old marlin]

If you want a perfect harman curve eq for your headphones it gets rather exact

[astral haven]

except if your audio track you are listening to isnt mastered to a harman curve you get boned

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/CopPj3S3YQ0

[halcyon moss]

ಠ_ಠ

[reef tundra]

I was hard untill kde got involved 8/10 ign

[wheat plume]

Oooof

[ashen spindle]

I noticed I made a mistake

I put the wifi card into the pc and now I dont know how to get the driver for it

as the website has only win10 version..

yay linux

[misty saffron]

"linux is free if you don't value your time"

[halcyon moss]

its free as in speech and beer also!

yeah, wifi can still be annoying in linux.. intel is acutally quite good at this in linux

[wheat plume]

Yeah, I only suggest intel wifi cards

im luck thats the one the motherboard I chose uses cause I didnt think about that beforehand tbh, I forgot :/

[halcyon moss]

oh i did, but im not running linux on it =]

[wheat plume]

Although, non of my devices had issues with wifi on Linux, neither my old or new laptop or computers

[ashen spindle]

Ok it wasn’t the card he default dns was just set up to be some weird local ip???

And it changes it back to that on restart????

[halcyon moss]

179.* ?

[ashen spindle]

127. something

[halcyon moss]

127 is localhost, every pc has that

oghwait, dns

[ashen spindle]

Given it says I have a connection but it can’t resolve the name

[halcyon moss]

d@K ~> cat /etc/resolv.conf

Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.

run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.

nameserver 127.0.0.53

[ashen spindle]

That one yep

[halcyon moss]

so you're using network manager then

[ashen spindle]

I guess

Idk what I’m doing I’m trying to figure that out

[halcyon moss]

what does it say here?

"here" is the wifi network's settings

[ashen spindle]

One sec I’m getting a mouse

Keyboard only works worse than in windows zzzz

[halcyon moss]

try osx :p

[ashen spindle]

Don’t hate myself that much yet

[halcyon moss]

its alsmost impossible to use keyboard only in osx ive found

and you need to enable an accessibility option to even use tab in a pop up -_-

[ashen spindle]

Found the mouse

It’s set to dhcp

[wheat plume]

you want to set a custom DNS?

[halcyon moss]

he wants a sane dns, from dhcp i guess. (like every network)

[wheat plume]

ooh hm

idk much about networking

[halcyon moss]

run systemd-resolve --status

and look at the wifi link

[reef patrol]

You mean force a DNS onto clients through DHCP?

[halcyon moss]

cant really "force" through dhcp

[ashen spindle]

No I just want wifi to work and dns might be the issue

[crimson wigeon]

You shouldn't touch /etc/resolv.conf because I think on all modern distros they use a caching resolver so resolv.conf points to localhost to force everything onto caching DNS

[misty saffron]

quintosh i have a solution

[reef patrol]

That's why I asked 😄

[misty saffron]

boot into windows

[halcyon moss]

good joke, youre not helping

[ashen spindle]

What am I supposed to look at in this lol

[ashen spindle]

Says none/no

[halcyon moss]

link # (wl*******)

[ashen spindle]

Link 3 wlp2s0

[halcyon moss]

what are its settings

only care about Current DNS Server

[ashen spindle]

None/no except for llmnr that one says yes

Don’t see that part

[halcyon moss]

your dhcp is setup to hand out a DNS?

[ashen spindle]

Uhhh I think so?

Not certain

[halcyon moss]

probably

[reef patrol]

Usually most OS's are set to auto - so if DHCP offers they take that.

Which you set up in the router.

It typically just clones your public IP's DNS from the ISP. But you can usually change it there, and then it will forward that new DNS to all clients that aren't specifically defined manually.

[ashen spindle]

Ok someone give me the up of google do I can ping it without looking up the name and see if that works firstly

Ip*

[reef patrol]

8.8.8.8

[halcyon moss]

PING google.com (216.58.211.110) 56(84) bytes of data.

[reef patrol]

8.8.4.4 as the backup DNS

[halcyon moss]

you can also set a static dns server true

[reef patrol]

Cloudflare's even easier to remember. xD

1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1

[halcyon moss]

and use that if you feel comfortable to use google or cloudflare over your own EU dns 😉

i as hell do not

[ashen spindle]

Network is unreachable ok so it might not be the dns

[reef patrol]

Personally I'd rather use cloudflare than be blocked by my ISP on so many sites from a decade ago 😄

They still have a DNS block on the Piratebay

[ashen spindle]

Do I need to find drivers for this card first maybe?

[reef patrol]

Could be.

[crimson wigeon]

Since clearly something is detected what does nmcli say

[halcyon moss]

if no drivers, you would not even see the wlp0

[crimson wigeon]

So yeah you should probably just connect it to a network

[ashen spindle]

I did, and it’s connected according to the menu

Don’t tell me getting a connection via the UI is also broken on Ubuntu zzz

[crimson wigeon]

Heh, it wasn't broken when I last tried it

[reef tundra]

nmtui

[ashen spindle]

Well it seems a reboot was necessary bc now it works after connecting apparently

[crimson wigeon]

NetworkManager can be one fickle thing at times

[ashen spindle]

Thanks so far

[reef tundra]

if you had just installed it, it would not be able to run as the service is not running

rebooting will start it

[ashen spindle]

Ok, last issue, how to I tell it to give sound to the hdmi cable?

[crimson wigeon]

Or just restarting NM, probably with a sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

[ashen spindle]

Did that one earlier and it didn’t work

[reef tundra]

alsamixer

[crimson wigeon]

Oh well, anyway settings -> sound, should be easy enough

[ashen spindle]

Ah yea I’m blind and didn’t see that lol

Fingers crossed it all works now

[reef tundra]

Also the audio is muted when first installed, if applicable

[ashen spindle]

Man those animations for things going in and out of fullscreen or other window sizes is really weird

But it works so I won’t complain

[halcyon moss]

have you tried rebooting yet? :p