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ashen spindle
young pecan
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But no, idk if this is actually happening.

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Even EVGAs new vid.

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Just... why the switch now?

ashen spindle
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I guess they wanted to do it a bit earlier but shortage might've delayed it?

young pecan
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Not Ryzen 2000?

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Even back then it was obvious that Intel was getting shoved to the back for a while.

ashen spindle
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sure, but it was still very risk free to jump ship from 1 to 2 vendors to support

vagrant pagoda
ashen spindle
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needs more manpower, bios engineers etc.

vagrant pagoda
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EVGA AMD GPUs when lol

young pecan
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Yeah, that's true.

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It just surprises me that we haven't heard rumblings sooner.

ashen spindle
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and that's ignoring things like not knowing how OC was looking on zen2/3 and if it would even be worth it, since I doubt the margin on low-mid range would be enough to switch over

young pecan
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Still happy that EVGA is choosing to poke at AMD now. Finally I can yeet the Asus board.

vagrant pagoda
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I got rid of Asus long ago

ashen spindle
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that also make me curious, will some amd/nvidia only AiBs add intel to their protfolio with Xe?

vagrant pagoda
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I imagine for the first generation Intel will be the only manufacturer

ashen spindle
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nah, there are already some that use the DG1 product so I heavily doubt a launch without AiBs for HPG

vagrant pagoda
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Remember Intel makes SSDs and motherboards

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So they have the capability

young pecan
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Intel is a long way behind almost anyone else for top tier spots.

vagrant pagoda
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I think 7xxx was the last gen and made branded GPUs

young pecan
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Their SSDs don't really outcompete stuff like Samsung outside of the enterprise space, for example.

vagrant pagoda
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Well ati

young pecan
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Iirc at least.

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I do remember their U.2 SSDs being kinda nuts a few years ago.

vagrant pagoda
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I mean

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Intels 600p set the price bar for NVMe ssds

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It was the first to 100 a tb

ashen spindle
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they have the options sure, but AiBs have a supply chain in place for it already, help with mindshare and marketing etc.

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there are reasons why nvidia wants partners on a really tight leash instead of just ditching them

vagrant pagoda
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Intel dosent make high end desktop stuff. The ssds, mobos and now GPUs will be midrange at best

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And Intel killed it at mid range for ssds

vagrant pagoda
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Intel's only ever made one to two high-end motherboards

young pecan
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AMD used to dominate the low to low-mid tier.

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Now...

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Not so much.

vagrant pagoda
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They've never made a high-end SSD for desktop

ashen spindle
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well, now it's for a lack of supply though, not lack of possibility

vagrant pagoda
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Intel's desktop products are only for OE's

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You can buy them as a consumer but they're designed for oes

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Also Intel makes the best nics

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So they have no issue making add in cards

ashen spindle
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in regards to the pcb sure, but they dont have any experience making cooling for it

vagrant pagoda
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Have you never seen a high-end nic?

ashen spindle
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the server grade stuff made for fans with 40billion rpm?

vagrant pagoda
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Or Phi

halcyon moss
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server fans.. you dont want those anywhere near your earholes

vagrant pagoda
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Also contrate what most add in card makers would want you to think it's not hard to design a good heat sink

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Most add-in partners spend very little on the actual key to sync design and most of it on visual design

ashen spindle
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yea... nice blowerstyle cooler on those lol

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that's not something a consumer pc wants

vagrant pagoda
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Lower design is the best for a oe

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Blower*

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You thing enthusiast is who Intel is making a GPU for?

young pecan
ashen spindle
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it's what intel said they are making them for

young pecan
halcyon moss
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1u server fans are.. loud

young pecan
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Honestly, those server fans are cursed.

vagrant pagoda
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Yeah and Nvidia wants to sell cards to gamers

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Lol

young pecan
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Rig has 2 server PSUs, loud af under 75% load.

vagrant pagoda
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Do you just have a crappy server where you can't control fan RPM?

ashen spindle
vagrant pagoda
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You forget that Dell buys more gaming products in a year than consumers do in 10

ashen spindle
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mindshare is important and rando X will ask his nerd friend if it's good and if he watches a review and the blower cooler shits itself, he will be less likely to do so

young pecan
ashen spindle
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rdna1 definitely suffered from having a shit reference cooler when turing moved to dual axial fans

young pecan
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Cryptonight-GPU uses something like 1000W and I need the GPU fans at 80% minimum to keep the cores safely cooled.

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It's cursed.

vagrant pagoda
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That's not cursed that's as design

young pecan
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Server PSUs are cursed. LUL

vagrant pagoda
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You should try being near Nvidia grid racks when they're running rendering

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I swear they're 100 plus decibel

young pecan
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Friend of mine purchased a 4U rack with the insane fans in em.

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We did a decibel reading and it was pushing 75 for that one 4U.

ashen spindle
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so, intel is able to launch it alone, but why shot yourself in the foot (which they are good at tbf) when they could make a much more impressive first launch

vagrant pagoda
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I mean we're currently in a GPU deficit so people will buy whatever they can get

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All the average consumer compares about is how many FPS does he get in Fortnite

ashen spindle
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they talk about looking at integrating FSR, dedicated Raytacing hardware etc.

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if they dont want to market at diy, they wouldnt mention that

halcyon moss
vagrant pagoda
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They aren't marketing it to DYI they're marketing it with buzzwords

ashen spindle
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not false I guess

vagrant pagoda
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For one case lowering the fan speed doesn't matter but when you have 10,000 cases lowering the fan speed matters

halcyon moss
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well stuff must have changed in the last 10 years :p

vagrant pagoda
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Because you have to pay for the power but also to cool the heat that those fans make

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No you just hear the ones that are running at full speed because they're under load

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The marketing is the same for when a manufacturer advertises their card and everything it really fancy heat design and then putting a plastic back plate on it

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Or having really nice fin stack and then covering the top of the card with a solid thing with an LED

young pecan
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Also remember that server racks have a LOT of moving parts.

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Things dying makes having enough uptime for your SLA hard.

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Opens you to lawsuits.

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Better to have PWM.

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Saves time, money, and electricity.

vagrant pagoda
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Yes a fan will die after a certain amount of rotations

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Regardless of how fast those rotations are

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But the data center bandwidth is your number one resource

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Second is cooling

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Third is backup power

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I still think it's sad that Dell bought alienware and they still make cool shit

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HP bought voodoo and they make dumb boxes

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I'd give my left nut for a OG VoodooPC build

young pecan
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I'd give mine to get this fucking crypto build working.

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5 GPUs? Ok, fine.

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6 GPUs?!!?!?!

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Asking too much. Clearly.

young pecan
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Holy shit what is this cursed nonsense?

ashen spindle
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feel like that alone means its guaranteed GNR won't be Q4 2022 lmao

shadow minnow
reef tundra
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And microsoft want to convince you they can be trusted to do certificates

ashen spindle
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g play store isn't really curated anyway so I don't quite see why it would matter?

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like whats this supposed to stop?

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people ddossing the store with apps or what?

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ok so the article mentions they also need phone number and address

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now it makes more sense

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so just a clickbait title then

misty saffron
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yes, i am a cryptocurrency user, how could you tell?

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fuck USDT, me and my homies use RUBT

reef tundra
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Heard about the Oil market?

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Depends what the deal was

misty saffron
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literally anything is trackable

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it only depends on how much effort it takes

reef tundra
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Every unit has their own serial number thonk

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Mostly because they give no shit to track you

misty saffron
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not sure if you ever saw that cash has numbers and/or letters on it

reef tundra
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correlate where the serial numbers end up?

misty saffron
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easily trackable if you put enough effort into it

reef tundra
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I mean they could add a microchip to track em ;) without telling nobody

misty saffron
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get crypto in a mining pool’s wallet

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good luck actually tracking it

reef tundra
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And government agencies tend to suspect what is happing. The problem is reasonable doubt

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Coins tend to not be worth enough to require much tracking. The paper sheets is where the effort goes into. Where they will know exactly how it was made, who where the suppliers, who got the shipment, which goes until private individual has been reached.

pale sigil
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wtf

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me poor system

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running SoT

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what is going on with them drops

ashen spindle
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looks normal to me

wheat plume
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Looks like Fortnite but not

ashen spindle
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not even gonna question that

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anyway, SoT having drops has always been a thing afaik

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and those temps seem normal too

dawn vigil
gilded oriole
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yo, anyone remember Teamspeak?

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turns out they've been up to some business since last they were in the public eye

young pecan
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I want that go get blown open just for the spectacle.

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60 billion dollar fraud.

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Just... O_O

timid chasm
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So Teamspeak decided to become...Discord? A little late to the game

crimson wigeon
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Still in supahexclusive closed beta? Meh

gilded oriole
dawn vigil
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teamspeak is still used for competitive stuff actually

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it's audio latency is a lot lower compared to discord

young pecan
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You need squad leaders to be able to chat without flooding comms.

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And iirc only TeamSpeak and Mumble allow for it, and Mumble kinda sucks for it.

cursive summit
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Oh EVGA is going to make AMD boards?

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Market must be really good then lul

astral haven
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evga follows the performance

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and uh

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well they follow the performance

astral haven
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they never officially have

cursive summit
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Well they have apparently

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Athlon days

astral haven
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well shit id never heard of that before

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i guess they stopped before opteron
except that doesnt make sense since the original opteron was before the athlon x2

cursive summit
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Yeah this is 2005/2006 era

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・スプラ3の発表は良かった、まだ来年もSwitchが遊べると安心した。新型Switchの報道があり、E3で発表がなく株価が大きくさがりました。噂が出たときは何か対策はできないか?実際Switch新型はでるの?

当社は適切なタイミングで情報を発表をしている。新型に関しては具体的な話は差し控える。ただ今後も遊びの追求を続けていくので時期がくれば発表する。

Q. The announcement of Splash 3 was good, and I'm relieved that I can still play the Switch next year. There were reports of a new Switch, and without an announcement at E3, the stock price dropped significantly. When the rumors started, I wondered if there was anything I could do about it. Will there actually be a new Switch model?

A. We release information at the right time. As for the new model, we refrain from discussing specifics. However, we will continue to pursue the pursuit of fun, so we will make an announcement when the time is right.

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Said during shareholder meeting

wheat plume
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This makes me sad......

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Ive filled up a 1TB drive with just games and 6GB of music

wheat plume
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M.2 is sooo much fucking faster than SATA, my gosh :O

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1800MB/s VS 560MB/s

reef patrol
ashen spindle
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nvme* not m2

wheat plume
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oh

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still....

ashen spindle
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m2 is a form factor

wheat plume
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thats a massive difference

reef patrol
wheat plume
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The cheapest 2TB M.2 on this site is a Kingston NV1

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The cheapest 2TB SATA is Samsung 870 QVO

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Prob get the SATA cause both my M.2 slots are filled

astral haven
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avoid qvo

ashen spindle
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just make sure you can use the sata connection since it's most likely sharing lanes with the nvme slot

astral haven
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also that

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but avoid qvo

wheat plume
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why?

astral haven
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qlc

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in fairly common scenarios it slows down to hdd speed

wheat plume
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🤔

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my NVME is QLC

astral haven
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nvme isnt sata

wheat plume
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oh, QLC over M.2 is fine?

crimson wigeon
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But it's still QLC..

astral haven
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a nvme qlc will slow down to barely above sata ssd speeds

wheat plume
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uh

astral haven
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and in bad scenarios will drop below high end satas

ashen spindle
astral haven
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^

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nvme doesnt even have to be over m.2 either

wheat plume
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there is no way there is SATA M.2 drives?!

ashen spindle
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..

wheat plume
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no space on them, too small

ashen spindle
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yes ofc there is

astral haven
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ofc there are lmao

wheat plume
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???

reef patrol
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You bet your butt there is.

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In fact that's how the M.2 form factor started 😄

astral haven
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thats like saying theres no way there are 2.5 inch hdds

wheat plume
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how tf does it plug in?

astral haven
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m.2...

reef patrol
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...

wheat plume
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but if its sata it needs the power and data cables plugged into it?

ashen spindle
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they are the same aside from the controller

reef patrol
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SATA is a measurement of SPEED.

wheat plume
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ooh

reef patrol
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This thing could be NVME or SATA.

wheat plume
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oh

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ok

reef patrol
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The golden bits at the end is what decides speed. In a VERY dumbed down way 😄

ashen spindle
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just an fyi how 2.5inch ssd's nowadays look like

reef patrol
astral haven
wheat plume
reef patrol
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So to re-iterate. SATA is both the physical connectors. Power cable and data cable. For the 2,5"

But it is also a protocol - Which tops out at those 550MB/s or so.

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This is also why calling an NVME an "M.2" can be very wrong, since SATA also exists on M.2 😄

wheat plume
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I still need to buy 2.5 inch SSD next cause both m.2 slots are filled rn

astral haven
timid chasm
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I want an adapter that converts nvme to usc-c but it also 90 degrees so I can "wrap" it around my surface pro for stability

wheat plume
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and if I get an M.2 instead, id have no way to transfer data over

timid chasm
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Somebody make me one please

ashen spindle
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you can just get a pcie card for more m2 slots

astral haven
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^

reef patrol
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PCI-E card or a USB box. Cards are usually cheaper.

astral haven
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most chipsets can handle 3 m.2 drives in some way shape or form

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mine can handle 3 with cheap adapters

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my old one could handle 4 with slightly less cheap adapters

wheat plume
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Id like to get another nvme for the speed but id have to transfer data somehow

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My friend has a portable SSD and a USB connector adapter.... I could use that to copy data to and then install the new one 🤔

astral haven
zenith sonnet
misty saffron
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windows keeps disabling ethernet when going to sleep, is there any way to change that?

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i get 20 seconds without internet every time it wakes up, so annoying

timid chasm
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apart from the obvious disable sleep, I assume?

misty saffron
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don't want to disable sleep

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it's 40 degrees in my room and i can't afford having my pc running lol

halcyon moss
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afford? or does it generate too much heat?

misty saffron
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can't afford because i will literally cook myself alive

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it's probably the bios disabling network

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guess i'll enable wake on lan

pale sigil
misty saffron
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the fuck

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i would pay for that

wheat plume
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oooo

misty saffron
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if it saves me time searching for shit i don’t know

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please accept my credit card data

wheat plume
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yeh! dang

misty saffron
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i feel like it will be a part of github pro though

wheat plume
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its a VS Code extension

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oh, you need to login

ashen spindle
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cant wait for tons of boilerplate coming from that

crimson wigeon
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Great can I have it write all the fixes for open source stuff I want

ashen spindle
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with the same security issues going to be in all instead of just one company soon lel

misty saffron
ashen spindle
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well how do you think all those security issues get exploited

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or how nobody noticed why gta5 loading took sooooo long

wheat plume
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I knew why it took so long

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they are using the same networking code from many many games ago

ashen spindle
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but it had nothing to do with networking?

wheat plume
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It had

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thats how the fix was found

ashen spindle
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the issue was string handling...

wheat plume
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oh?

ashen spindle
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idk what you are on about if thats not it

old marlin
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fml

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I need an msi x470 gaming plus max

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but they are sold out in stores I can order at

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and no other AM4 board has this stupid pcie config

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or it is the asus pro ws x570 ace

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and costs almost 3 times as much

ashen spindle
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well there you go kek

wheat plume
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7200RPM HDD should be fine for games? Even though a lot of new games suggest at least an SSd?

misty saffron
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it was a miracle gta 5 could even run on it, thought long loading is just how it has to be

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apparently rockstar thought so too

ashen spindle
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yea and apparently nobody ever ran it on pc in QA

wheat plume
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👀

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wot now?

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Someone made me super worried my Intel SSD wont last very long .-.

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Cause its QLC apparently

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and it doesnt last long

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idk how long that is but yeah

rapid moss
old marlin
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3 times

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if it is JUST about slots

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I could use a ton of other boards

rapid moss
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You need a ton of pcie lanes?

old marlin
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no

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3 slots

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with x8 lanes

rapid moss
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Yeah, that's a lot of lanes

misty saffron
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no he just wants 3 x8 slots to use something that uses x1 speeds

old marlin
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that is not a lot

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npt pcie 4.0

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and that is a cheap mobo

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sub 100 euros

rapid moss
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You need also 3x8 lanes?

old marlin
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yes

rapid moss
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Or just 3x a x8 slot?

old marlin
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I need 3 x8 slots

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electrically

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not x16 slots that are only wired up with x4 electrically

rapid moss
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That's Epic or Threadripper territory.

old marlin
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or a 100€ AM4 board

rapid moss
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Nope, AM 4 also has 3 x16 slots, but always with a 8 4 4 lane layout

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Epic or Threadripper are your options (or Xeon)

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Do you need the 3x x8 concurrently or non-concurrently

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Because if only one x8 device at a time needs the x8 bandwidth, you could use a riser cable with a PCI-E multiplexer

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Analog to a network switch

old marlin
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nice that you tell me that

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but uhhh

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not the case on the msi board

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ah wait nvm

rapid moss
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Probably a case of being able to use 16 8 with either second or third slot

old marlin
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the slot is connected by 8 electrically

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but the chipset only handles x4

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wtf

rapid moss
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Yeah, the cpu has 20 or 24 lanes

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You now guess what happens 🤪

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The board devides those 20 lanes over the available slots

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Or 24 lanes

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If you need more you can either use a multiplexer, which will enable all connected devices to use the x16 (or x8 depending which mobo slot you used) bandwidth, but have to share it is the use it simultaneously

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Or go buy a swerkstation

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With a Epic or Threadripper (Pro)

fickle ore
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sounds complicated, just use less devices

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What else can you need than a single GPU

rapid moss
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Multiplexers are not complicated 😉

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Well, an IT guy may want to virtualize multiple pc's for a test environment on one physical system

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Or you could let multiple engineers use one physical system, but all with their own computational accelerator.

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Especially if they do not need to have excessive power all the time, but only ever so often, virtualization is your budget's best friend

wheat plume
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ive spent 2776 hours inside Linux since October....

halcyon moss
zenith sonnet
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I used my monitor 34500 hours since January 2016

ashen spindle
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drives are still powered in a dual boot system if they are not assigned to that os

crimson wigeon
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But I suppose you could power them down if so desired

zenith sonnet
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Would like to see benchmarks on DOOM RT with AMD's new drivers

crimson wigeon
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Yes please moar RTX ON

zenith sonnet
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No, please no RTX

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Just do agnostic RTRT

crimson wigeon
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But that's not as catchy

zenith sonnet
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Some guy on reddit:

I jumped into the game for 10 minutes and with my 5800x/6800xt build was getting 130-144 fps with RT on and Ultra Nightmare preset at 1440p. It ran really well and looked good too. With RT off I normally got 200fps which is way more than I needed anyway so this is the first title I recommend playing with RT on at only a 30% frame cost. It was only 10 minutes in a map in the middle of the campaign but opened or closed environment did not seem to have a major impact

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Wonder if that holds in actual controlled benchmarks

wheat plume
halcyon moss
wheat plume
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no

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on windows rn

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which is installed on another drive

wheat plume
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ooohh

halcyon moss
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that

wheat plume
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makes sense I guess

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oh crap... I took out the data sata cable when I removed the old 2.5 HDD :/

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I shoulf not have

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cause its a pain in the ass to get into the motherboard slot at that angle

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pain to plug out too

halcyon moss
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you cn unplug it at the disk end next time

wheat plume
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yeh

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should have done that

zenith sonnet
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HP making an AMD only laptop with under 1 Kg of weight
Up to 5800U as an option

wheat plume
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hp though

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no thanks

zenith sonnet
crimson wigeon
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And how will it be compromised compared to the Intel variant pepelaugh

zenith sonnet
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intel needs too much cooling, can't run this light :p

wheat plume
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doubt it would run hotter than my system under load

zenith sonnet
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Now watch them put shoddy memory in those laptops and ruin them

zenith sonnet
wheat plume
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the have a fuck ton of bloatware :/

zenith sonnet
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Like everyone else?

crimson wigeon
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Imagine not clean reinstalling

old marlin
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best window

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guess what it is

zenith sonnet
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A progress bar

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Duh

old marlin
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ig

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well

zenith sonnet
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ig?

cursive summit
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Pretty sure Dell has the most bloatware

old marlin
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technically no actually

cursive summit
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Proprierary shitty bios

old marlin
cursive summit
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Preinstalled shitty apps

old marlin
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ehhhh

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their bios is dogshit

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lenovo and hp bios ain't better

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hp is arguably worse than dell

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in that regard

old marlin
zenith sonnet
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So they're all terrible

old marlin
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yup

zenith sonnet
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And it doesn't matter which evil you pick

old marlin
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their preinstalled apps are

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uhhh

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existant

zenith sonnet
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Just clean it up

old marlin
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dell is kinda bad

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but at least you can deinstall all of them

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without loosing any functionality really

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with lenovo you need to at least keep the service bridge

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to be able to update drivers

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iirc

zenith sonnet
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Personally, as a grown man, I don't care if a laptop weights 1 Kg or 3 Kg, so I'd pick other options anyway

old marlin
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same

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current one is almost 4kg OMEGALUL

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but I get why people like lightweight ones

crimson wigeon
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Yeah so they fly off in the wind if placed outside

old marlin
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exactly

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warranty claims

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etc

zenith sonnet
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Considering my schoolbag would weight sometimes 10 Kg or more when I was just 10... it doesn't really matter in the end

old marlin
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yea

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bit more even

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like 10-15kg is common for elementary school

zenith sonnet
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Nah, you don't have that many classes in elementary school
My bag would never get that heavy until 5th grade

old marlin
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idk

wheat plume
zenith sonnet
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When suddenly books are larger cause they contain two years worth of content...

wheat plume
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at least on asus, the armory crate is handy

old marlin
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my german, english math and biology/geology books disagree

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  • stuff you are allowed to write into
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  • stuff to keep papers handed out
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  • some more stuff you can write into but with tasks
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idk what to call them

halcyon moss
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i do care, and im happy my x1 extreme is lighter than my t440p

wheat plume
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Good news, you can change DNS in the system settings now

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and per wifi connection if you want

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or globally like in this screenshot

young pecan
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Is that a Switch?

wheat plume
#

Thats Windows 11

young pecan
#

o_o

#

Why would you do anything like that outside of Control Panel...?

wheat plume
wheat plume
#

dont have to scroll tiny lists to find it now in control panel

young pecan
#

I just want control panel to get a facelift.

#

That’s it.

#

Bin the shitty settings menu that barely works, make control panel smoother.

wheat plume
#

it uses the new rounder buttons...oh gosh

#

they look so bad here

young pecan
#

Nothing else is rounded.

ashen spindle
#

..or just use the really hard to miss button for editing it that's already in win10?

young pecan
#

If everything was rounded it’d look good, but it’s just the buttons. :/

wheat plume
#

all the corners for me are rounded

wheat plume
ashen spindle
#

yeah but you already have two options to set it, why another in 11 xD

young pecan
#

Fair point.

wheat plume
#

I hate the the settings has your MS account email address and name and photo ALWAYS ON THE TOP CORNER .-.

#

makes it so annoying for screenshots

ashen spindle
#

I...

#

who tf makes regular screenshots of the settings menu

young pecan
#

That’s a good question.

#

Why?

wheat plume
#

people showing off the new Windows 11 features in videos or blog posts

#

xd

young pecan
ashen spindle
#

ok so no no real usecase

young pecan
#

Yep.

wheat plume
#

I like the new notifications design

young pecan
#

I want whoever did that design to fix my cable management.

#

Look at this.

#

Ugh. Yuck.

#

It’s a cable hell.

#

Some of it is halfway well done, but all of the yellow cables are just kinda everywhere.

#

None of it looks decent like Windows 11 does. :L

ashen spindle
#

just give it the linux treatment

#

when you make it so modular you need to manually put every cable piece in a cable together, might as well do it clean while spending 5 days on it kek

young pecan
#

Pls no.

wheat plume
#

Sidegrading to 11 xd

#

This distro comes with 5 songs in the Music folder by default

#

I guess its the music the dev chills to while working on it

young pecan
#

5 songs?

#

On repeat? Nah.

wheat plume
#

xd

young pecan
#

I’d wager they probably just tossed some favs in for fun.

wheat plume
#

Maybe its just to demo the media controls in the panel

#

idk any of the keybindings.... gosh damn it

young pecan
#

Mate...

wheat plume
young pecan
#

@wheat plume Just upgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 95.

#

Obvious play.

wheat plume
#

xxd

#

my media keys on the keyboard work out of the box

#

thats pretty nice for a tiling window manager

ashen spindle
#

..isnt that the point of media keys?

young pecan
#

I want to daily drive Linux, but there just isn’t enough use for me to justify it.

wheat plume
#

Sometimes they dont work properly on Linux

#

well, it seems more dependant on the desktop / window manager

young pecan
#

Just... Windows is far better 99% of the time.

#

I’d suggest OSx, but that can’t be installed on shit that isn’t Apple, and the general consumer unfriendliness.

#

Not really another option. :/

#

I mean...

#

There’s always TempleOS. KEKW

wheat plume
#

LOL

#

yeh

#

no viruses cause it cant connect to internet!

#

I am in love with how this distro looks <3

#

you can change the theme and layout from the openbox menu too :O

#

its so pretty :O

#

oh yeah... this is the distro that DistroTube bashed to death over how small the font was .-.

#

Who cares.... There is easy way to change that in the menu

pale sigil
pale sigil
#

Now I wanna see how dead my ipads battery is

wheat plume
#

What that do?

pale sigil
#

@wheat plume monitors input power including how much electric has been used etc

wheat plume
#

Oo

reef patrol
#

They connect to Apple's battery API.

#

Protocol?

pale sigil
#

Fuck knows

#

But it's not the only reason tbh

#

Got it for other sfuff

shadow minnow
reef tundra
#

The NSA is monitoring all traffic that goes in or out of the US

wheat plume
crisp granite
#

ooooOOOOOOooooo

#

the government is weeding out people who don't follow the extreme left agenda

#

<democratic party boogyman joke>

reef tundra
#

Edward Snowden leaked that information in 2013. Also patriot act is mostly republican doing with Trump trying to make it permanent instead of just x years and having to reauthorise extension

#

Mostly enables domestic call-record collection as well as the collection of other types of business records.

#

Surely not for his own benefit

#

he would never

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unless

#

😳

reef tundra
crisp granite
#

destabilising socialist countries is their bread and butter

#

you can't just take that away

reef tundra
#

Just ask South America dogekek

crisp granite
reef tundra
#

Prime hunting fields for them

#

Middle east is close second

#

What can we do? The US really likes their bananas.

#

and oil

ashen spindle
#

@fickle ore kek

reef tundra
#

lacks funny numbers

fickle ore
#

@ashen spindle NOT BAD

#

but not affordable

ashen spindle
#

has to exist as unobtainium before it can come down to us plebs 😛

fickle ore
#

was that in cpu port? 😄

ashen spindle
#

there was something with 7x the random read too btw 😛

#

oh btw I noticed i never updated hwinfo in like a year

#

I have a 5600x so just once CCD, I forgot, did we end up figuring something out about these if it shows as ccd2 or was it nothing in the end? @fickle ore

fickle ore
#

@ashen spindle god that was years ago 😛 can't remember, some 5600x had 2 ccd's maybe?

ashen spindle
#

cpu isn't even out for a year 😛

fickle ore
#

;b

#

it's a saying

wheat plume
#

`wtf is this!?

#

I boot up PC and this is here now

reef tundra
#

UI

wheat plume
#

is this part of the new windows update?

reef tundra
#

🤷‍♂️ I dont use unstable os

wheat plume
#

the little blue coffee mug

pale sigil
reef tundra
#

Dragma?

wheat plume
#

:/ where tf this come from?!

reef tundra
#

From the software

reef patrol
reef tundra
#

"Secure boot" btw

reef tundra
#

When someone does it

crisp granite
#

technically the truth

reef tundra
#

If they got it on the Raspberry Pi 4. Which is ARM based. The M1 should be doable

empty wren
empty wren
#

Lol

wheat plume
#

ew

#

Skype

#

miss me with that shit

ashen spindle
#

yet you're using skype for work blobhyperthinkfast

wheat plume
#

well, the backend that I dont see

#

I also have to use Windows for work shudders

zenith sonnet
#

Do they make those in Wörth?

pale sigil
#

Anyone wanna buy me a xmas prezzy? https://youtu.be/WoOY5vIoBpE

Note (19/3/19): some firmware updates may affect this lens's OS performance - a couple of people have mentioned the image looks less steady now, but that Sigma tell them performance has actually improved.

Find it here (Amazon affiliate link) (Be sure to get the right lens for your camera system):
https://geni.us/sigma150600c

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astral haven
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I just got the sigma 16mm 1.4 "for zoom" lol

#

Like zoom the web conferencing thingy get it?

pale sigil
#

What colour is this

reef tundra
#

black

pale sigil
#

Bitch

zenith sonnet
#

Orange?

crisp granite
#

purple

vapid zodiac
#

cyan

pale sigil
#

Fuck off -_-

#

I'm colorblind ;-;

crisp granite
#

looks like an orange with tinges of red

#

mkay?

wheat plume
#

Is orange

reef tundra
#

Grow some cones

astral haven
#

It looks like orange but it could be red with camera artifact

pale sigil
#

Irs red

#

Measuring a power bank capacity atm

#

I just realised this power bank has fast charge lol

#

So just switch from 5v to 12v

astral haven
#

Naice

zenith sonnet
#

With a purple sheen to it

young pecan
#

@pale sigil Ever tried those fancy af glasses?

#

Apparently they work pretty well. At least the science about it does.

pale sigil
#

Nope and prob never will

#

dont like glasses

young pecan
#

Completely understandable.

#

My vision is fucked blurry at distance and I could get glasses... but.

pale sigil
#

i have glasses

#

i just dont like wearing em

young pecan
#

Yep.

crisp granite
#

glasses suck so bad, 'specially for the one use case I got

young pecan
#

I’d rather cut out my eyes and clone new ones, tbh.

crisp granite
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

I'd rather wear contacts

#

glasses themselves are just the worst

young pecan
#

If we’re going fixes I’d just replace the eyes whole.

crisp granite
#

that could end poorly

#

same with corrective eye surgery

young pecan
#

Well yeah, we just don’t have the tech yet.

#

Still waiting.

crisp granite
#

contact lenses address my issues with glasses while not being surgical in nature

young pecan
#

I just want machine eyeballs.

crisp granite
#

I can see more than 3 metres in front of me, no bulky BS on my face, peripheral vision restored

crisp granite
young pecan
#

Sure.

#

Was more thinking the bionic eye we have irl on steroids, but CP eyes work as well.

crisp granite
#

I was thinking something like the Maelstrom gang member's optics

young pecan
reef tundra
#

has he tried to delete system32?

pale sigil
#

sorry what was that, i couldn't see you.

#

my left eye i cant really see

young pecan
#

Hmmmmmm.

#

Just got hit with some backdoors (a lot of backdoors) and ffdroider, hilariously enough.

#

Anyone know some tools to expunge this shit? Clearly something is left, but just not being caught.

reef tundra
#

Typically a doorlock helps in keeping doors shut

young pecan
#

rolls eyes You're the apex of comedy.

#

And yeah nah, door locks are hilariously ineffective. Why go to the lock when one can merely open it from the back with a hook...?

reef tundra
#

Thats why you get an actual lock.

young pecan
#

Yeah, I mean those.

#

Damn near all actual locks can be picked in a matter of seconds, if not minutes.

#

And almost every single door available has a bypass.

#

Literally stick garbage into the side of it if the jackass installing it didn't do his job right.

reef tundra
#

Not if you got an actual certified one to make it easier to just ram the entire door than to deal with the lock

young pecan
#

Or even worse just knock the hinge pins out and literally walk the door off the hinge. I've seen a few installed backwards like that for reasons.

#

Or simply slip a hook over the door and pull the handle up.

#

Or go under the door.

#

Or around the door.

#

Or use a lever to widen the door frame itself and just walk the door out.

reef tundra
#

I just have to twist the lock further to enable the night lock. Only with the key in the inside will it disengage then

#

Also has a cover to make drilling practically useless

young pecan
#

In which case we simply enter during the day with the magic of social engineering and wait until night.

reef tundra
#

But if you are inside, the lock becomes irrelevent

young pecan
#

The lock was always irrelevant.

reef tundra
#

It keeps the outside outside

young pecan
#

It's a polite notion to not come in, but anyone with small amounts of money and google can defeat 95% of shit out there.

#

rolls eyes My penetration testing kit can probably do almost everything lock based.

#

Not the rare crap, but the common stuff? Yeh.

reef tundra
#

With a breaching charge, you dont need any google

#

Problem is they are loud

empty wren
#

Not a bad investment, lots of praise on it

young pecan
#

I need to upgrade my Vive Cosmos.

#

Anyone got Index controllers?

empty wren
#

Well they all kinda ask for one, if it is plugged in

reef tundra
#

cool

empty wren
#

Hmm

reef tundra
#

Facebook nods yes

empty wren
#

Maybe for intial setup, multiplayer, updates and downloads

#

It is after all a portable computer so it be bonkers for a hard internet connection requirement especially with it not even having a sim slot

young pecan
#

Mate.

#

Facebook going after data can be visually represented by Tyler 1 on a good day.

reef tundra
#

Proceeds to get banned of facebook and unable to use the thing

empty wren
#

That is why people should use a burner account

#

And not their personal one if they like to share strong opinions

young pecan
#

But the previous question.

#

Anyone got Valve Index controllers?

empty wren
#

Check eBay for some used ones

young pecan
#

Yeah, but idk if they're the supreme goodness people say.

#

Switching Index base stations in.

empty wren
#

Ah fair enough, reminds me my friend has some and I never got to try them lol. His room was messy and then he moved and it is messy again.

#

Those plug in the wall

young pecan
#

Finger tracking is just dope, but idk.

#

They're not cheap in Aus.

#

Everything new tech is expensive here.

empty wren
#

Well you could look into the leap motion unless you really want haptics

young pecan
#

What I really want is full body tracking.

empty wren
#

Ah

reef tundra
#

Get one of those body suits

young pecan
#

I know I'm not spending less than 10k on an end setup, since the whole suit and tracking thing.

empty wren
#

Well usually in the city they do

young pecan
#

But as a start it's be interesting to have some tracking.

#

Every single house in Australia regardless of location since 50 years ago has them?

empty wren
young pecan
#

Would I expect a rudimentary poor hut to have it? Fuck no.

#

But uhh, literally every single new house is required to have them.

#

Have for about 50 years now.

#

I live in a tiny house. ._.

#

We have them.

#

You have been to Aus, yeah?

#

Nobody uses those anymore. :L

#

We're all on electric anode heaters.

#

Have been for decades.

#

Again, nobody uses them.

#

We now use portable shit.

reef tundra
#

Here we just tap into the network of power. Loads of kWh at your disposal. Just need some fuses to not burn down everything and some groundfault detection

young pecan
#

Dude, Aus is a pretty linked area, you can get electricity almost everywhere.

#

The fuck do you need propane heating for? Jungle living?

reef tundra
#

Use gas then

young pecan
#

Wait wait wait.

#

You don't live in this country, no?

#

Dude, nobody in civilization lives off grid like that.

reef tundra
#

Then dont use batteries, heating water in general takes a lot of power

young pecan
#

THONK Y'mean the tiny as hell townhouses?

#

Basically a single room.

#

As in, cannot get any smaller without not being a house?

#

Yeah uhh...

reef tundra
#

Lmao

young pecan
#

Nobody lives in those here.

reef tundra
#

We give prisoners more room

young pecan
#

Same.

#

Yes, a house.

#

Idk man, I can't classify that as a house.

reef tundra
#

Maybe house is a word on itself and tiny is a modifier

young pecan
#

Last house had a shed that was bigger.

#

My server rack is almost a 6th of the size. :L

#

Ok so here's what we've established. Tiny houses are stupid nonsense buildings that barely qualify as a house, and nobody in Australia realistically lives in them?

#

So my original statement I made is still correct?

reef tundra
#

In short, come live in the 21st century ya amish wannabe

young pecan
#

Technically true.

#

But damn if that's not a tradeoff.

#

Shit all room, shit all power, can't really run complex anything, can't store much, etc.

#

Wait, and where requires this as law?

reef tundra
#

But have to accept the restrictions of not-fixed dwelling such as power, gas, water, not having your house lifted by some truck and running off with it

young pecan
#

That is hilarious.

#

Holy fuck.

#

Idk if I've ever personally witnessed more of a meme house that people really use.

young pecan
#

shrugs There's utility, but it's crippling utility.

reef tundra
#

Capitalism just works, or something

young pecan
#

Become homeless and then nobody can tell you where you need to live. WeSmart

#

I mean yes, technically the truth, but uhh.

#

Yeah...

#

Living in the 21st century and using technology for my day to day and liking stuff like technology, I can say that sounds like hell.

#

Also limiting.

#

Just my mining rack alone would consume more than a tiny house could possibly produce.

reef tundra
#

It sounds like those knights in the 18th century claiming plate armour is still good.

young pecan
#

raised eyebrow And vtubers keep popping up. Because everyone does it doesn't make it a smart idea

#

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE

#

100 grand? xD

#

Bruh, wtf?

reef tundra
#

You can buy an entire trailer for that price

young pecan
#

You'd be better throwing a mortgage on a property somewhere good and just paying that shit off.

#

Or renting an apartment and doing crypto/business investments.

#

100k for what you consider good living sounds like you've been beaten down enough to give up on life and say you've won.

reef tundra
#

Maybe not with the truck attached. Those start from 120k or something

young pecan
#

I don't even know what to think about this.

reef tundra
#

But you have 33 euro pallets of room

young pecan
#

I mean...

#

Pog to you if that's your ideal life.

#

But doing so trades away so much potential it's hilarious.

#

Makes more sense to just go rent out an apartment so you can start actually doing stuff.

#

What, $200 a week?

#

Then go rent a townhouse or duplex.

#

Don't even try using security risk BS on me.

reef tundra
#

The US likes to overvalue the land 🤷 Keeps the economy from going tits up

young pecan
#

Someone could come up to you with a trailer and steal your house.

reef tundra
#

Reachtruck goes yoink

young pecan
#

Sounds like a case of you gotta move the hell away.

#

Guess what you could have done with 30k?

#

Yep, so you probably should have moved somewhere nicer.

#

There's a LOT of places for that.

#

Yes, and because of it you're kinda fucked for opportunity, no?

reef tundra
#

Sounds like you need some policing around there

young pecan
#

From 30k to 100k in 5 years?

#

Then?

reef tundra
#

If doesnt mean shit. Cant sell things you dont have anymore?

young pecan
#

Right.

#

In how many years?

reef tundra
#

One problem. Find someone to sell to at the price

neat oriole
#

Small house is good. Ez to clean.

young pecan
#

So you'd be looking at a net profit from the house of roughly 15k annually?

#

Assuming you purchased at 30k and sold at 100k?

#

And sold after exactly 5 years.

#

Right.

#

Which is respectable, sure, but you could have done better going the apartment route.

#

In any other city.

reef tundra
#

So you did construction work and it became more valuable?

young pecan
#

Does it not make more sense to head off to a city, live light, and start more profitable ventures?

crisp granite
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

totally depends on what you want to do

young pecan
#

You kinda need resources to exist in this world, tiny houses don't appear to give you all that many.

#

Y'know, unless you place them extremely well.

crisp granite
#

idk, I've lived in one my whole life, it's not all bad

#

...

young pecan
crisp granite
#

wtf mate

young pecan
#

^

young pecan
#

@prisma crag Ok, but what kind of city area?

reef tundra
#

Can we proactively arrest people for murder?

young pecan
#

I'm moving soon, lots of in development places about 40 mins outside the city for easy prices.

#

Basically just houses.

#

No apartments or scrapers in sight.

#

Just houses and hills.

#

It's in the middle of a little almost valley thing.

#

All different looking houses, it's kinda dope.

crisp granite
reef tundra
#

Suburban hellhole. The best way to show urban planning is missing in the US

young pecan
#

@crisp granite Nah, brand new high tier area.

crisp granite
#

usually it's the same fucking house copy pasted the entire fucking block

young pecan
#

Every house has gigabit, they're all good designs and nothing is copypasted.

#

Saw at least 30 different kinds of house.

crisp granite
#

that's kinda cool

young pecan
#

Ikr.

#

Rent there is up to 400 AUD weekly.

crisp granite
#

where I am, houses are fucking expensive (several million to start) and old, in need of serious work to modernise

young pecan
#

Eyeballing a few places at 340 atm.

#

Well yeah, you skip those areas.

#

New development places. You miss on some stuff, but the new dev areas are great.

#

Only the nice ones, however.

crisp granite
young pecan
#

Trick is finding them that're just far enough away from society to be worth little for now.

crisp granite
#

all that good land near the city centre was taken forever ago

neat oriole
#

Canada housing kinda sux

reef tundra
#

Here we intentionally try to mix people to make people less isolated and forming ingroups

neat oriole
#

West coast and east coast especially

crisp granite
neat oriole
#

If you live in the middle of Canada it’s aight

young pecan
#

Move to Aussieland, bois.

#

Aussieland good.

neat oriole
#

But who wants to live in Manitoba

crisp granite
#

the GTA is especially shit

young pecan
#

Aussieland living is pog.

#

Fuck everywhere else.

neat oriole
#

Nah m8

crisp granite
#

jesus christ, a house near me, that was f-ugly and tiny sold for $2.5 million

neat oriole
#

Too remote 4 me

reef tundra
#

Florida man did nothing today. absolutely nothing

crisp granite
#

not even 2500 sq ft

young pecan
#

@neat oriole Remote...?

crisp granite
#

as in the middle of bumfuck nowhere ontario

young pecan
#

Dude, it's Australia in modern times. :P

neat oriole
#

I don’t want to pay a million kangaroo bucks to ship something

crisp granite
#

where main street is a brewery and an ice cream shop if you're lucky

#

nope

#

I saw a family moving in

reef tundra
#

I dont want to pay kangaroo buck when i can pay in austrian pesos

neat oriole
#

Lot of wealthy foreigners invest in real estate in Canada

crisp granite
#

for that price, you can't even get a cardboard box on the street

young pecan
#

Aussieland is great for everything but technology.

crisp granite
#

hookers and blow, good luck

neat oriole
#

Put their kid through school, buy a house, etc

young pecan
#

We're always the last to get anything.

#

VR, for example.

#

Still don't have any access to Index stuff unless imported.

reef tundra
young pecan
#

That too.

crisp granite
#

...

neat oriole
#

Canada already scuffed for tech I can’t handle Australia

crisp granite
#

it's true, and it seriously sucx

young pecan
#

It's not so bad if you can afford it.

#

Just don't be retarded with money.

#

Life kinda is that simple.

reef tundra
#

tldr. dont be poor. ya poor person

young pecan
#

I say, knowing I'm buying 2 keyboards today. THONK

crisp granite
#

Aeon

neat oriole
#

Have you just tried not being poor?

crisp granite
#

calm the fuck down

#

I buy 3 keyboards a week, max

#

2 a day?

#

jesus

young pecan
#

M8, I'm about to lose $300. :(

crisp granite
#

boi

#

calm down

neat oriole
#

I’ve got a couple more boards coming too

young pecan
#

Big sad.

reef tundra
#

Billionairs have the oppiside problem. they cant spend it fast enough

young pecan
#

Poverty is a weird one, tbh.

crisp granite
young pecan
#

It's not inescapable, not by a long shot, but you need to be resourceful.

reef tundra
young pecan
#

And you kinda can't be resourceful if you're an idiot, so you get this weird stigma on that. Poverty is impossible to escape from because nobody escapes from it. Yeah, except those that do.

#

It's the thing with the planes in WW2.

#

I forget the name.

#

Trying to strengthen the hit parts and all.

crisp granite
#

like substance addiction

young pecan
#

Ah yes.

#

That thing people do that they say is harmless except for all the times it's harmful.

#

Pog.

reef tundra
#

Isnt an issue with rich parents

crisp granite
#

I've been to too many parties where one kid gets so strung out on codeine that it becomes their life

#

of course, I haven't lived long enough to see just how bad it gets around the succing pp for heroin and failed rehab bit

young pecan
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Then there's all the idiots smoking weed. Yes it's not addictive/it's not bad/it's helpful/it's for my stress/my dealer is my cat, whichever bullshit people will say.

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Holy fuck I see a lot of people running useless lives because they're always smoking weed.

crisp granite
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Aeon, it's helped me

young pecan
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Good, then you're not the target of the point, are you?

crisp granite
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but yes, there are a lot of nuts out there who really don't need it

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still do it

young pecan
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Dude, no.

crisp granite
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then the mob would have a monopoly in it

young pecan
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I know a guy that just smokes weed and nothing else all day, he pennies off all of his money on weed because he doesn't give a shit about anything else.

true quest
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no need we already experienced it

reef tundra
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Last time the prohibition happend

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now the kartels

young pecan
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Not even addicted, it's just become such a simple thing in life for him to escape reality that he just does nothing but weed.

crisp granite
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christ

young pecan
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Yep.

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And then all of the degenerate apes will start bellowing that weed is fine.

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Bullshit it is.

crisp granite
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it's fine, when used properly

young pecan
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Medical weed is fine, it's a medicine.

reef tundra
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Thats what education should drill into the minds

young pecan
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There's a very fine line between correct use and wasting your life because you want the happy plant and then do nothing with your life.

crisp granite
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if every tom, dick and harry starts smoking up because it's hip and fresh, that's a lot of people fucking up their lives

young pecan
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Yep.

crisp granite
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and a lot of productive people dragging their asses along

young pecan
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Then the alcohol problem, the ciggies problem etc etc.

crisp granite
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ciggies are just retarded

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but hey

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lobbying

young pecan
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People just want an escape and people love to say it's harmless.

crisp granite
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

reef tundra
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Cigarettes give lung cancer lmao

crisp granite
reef tundra
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They knew this in the 60s alreadty

crisp granite
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but pinch

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doctors smoke camel brand cigarettes

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it's the doctor's choice

reef tundra
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No one has died directly from weed

young pecan
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Fatality is not a good measurement. I know a guy that is a useless human being. He could die and nobody would miss him, for all purposes he is dead.

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Weed.

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Mate.

crisp granite
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the US has yet to declare war on at least 3 of those 4

reef tundra
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Millions every year

young pecan
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I'm against both, but strawmanning one by saying "iTS nOt aS bAd" is an idiot move.

reef tundra
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And if it doesnt kill it does permanent damage to the mind

crisp granite
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the non-dominant is easier to lose

young pecan
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rolls eyes Lmao

crisp granite
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you use it less

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still really bad either way

young pecan
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But it'd still fuck you up, yep.

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It's just one poison versus another.

crisp granite
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amen to that