🔌│tech

[crisp granite]

yeeesh

[astral haven]

works fine ofc
but goodness that was terrifying

[young pecan]

Boys.

[crisp granite]

what?

[young pecan]

My crypto is now EXACTLY at 1GH/s.

[crisp granite]

very cool

[young pecan]

1.000GH/s.

Oh yes.

SO satisfying.

[astral haven]

kaungrats

[crisp granite]

hit 69GH/s for me

:P

then I will say "noice"

[astral haven]

that would be very expensive

[young pecan]

Hmmm.

[crisp granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[young pecan]

About 1.6 million dollars.

Give or take.

[crisp granite]

at the rate Aeon is going, he'll hit it

[young pecan]

Gimmie like...

8 or 9 years.

Something like that.

[crisp granite]

a small loan of 1 million dollaroonies would speed that up, no?

[young pecan]

Then I'd have it next year.

[crisp granite]

and your investor would have a hell of a return to boot

[young pecan]

Actually yeah.

About mid next year if I got a million dollar loan.

Assuming I JUST buy 3070s in 12 card configurations.

[crisp granite]

but by that point you'd push to something else, no?

aren't 3080s more profitable?

wait, probably not

[young pecan]

ASICs, prolly.

And yeah, nah.

At current market price (1500 AUD/3070) it's the best.

Or, if you can get 3060Ti Rev 1s it's slightly better.

[crisp granite]

but getting 3060Ti rev 1's are rare as fuck

[young pecan]

Yep.

[crisp granite]

3070s are way easier to obtain

[young pecan]

yeeee.

[crisp granite]

I mean

I got two with full hash rate for less than 2k CAD combined...so

[young pecan]

Just wish I could buy em off you.

Shitty 3080 not fitting in anything. -_-

[crisp granite]

Aeon

the demon of shipping internationally

[young pecan]

sigh Ik.

[crisp granite]

it hurts me as well

[young pecan]

SCIENCE, HURRY THE FUCK UP ON MY PORTALS.

[crisp granite]

I'd love the extra 2 gigs of VRAM, faster VRAM and way more CUDA and RT for gaming

[young pecan]

I mean...

Maybe we can try find a good deal?

[crisp granite]

need to up the texture quality of Lady Demitresu's boobs

[young pecan]

It's certainly possible, I think.

[crisp granite]

I want to score an APU or something I can use in the meantime first

because rn...this 3070 is my only display output

:P

[young pecan]

You have the 2, no?

[crisp granite]

well yes

but my dad uses it

[young pecan]

Ah, that's a rip.

[crisp granite]

not really

he's happy playing AoE

and that makes me happy

[young pecan]

Tbh, I'm happy shipping the thing to you first for a replace.

Then you can yeet me the 3070.

[crisp granite]

with some extra dough in to sweeten the pot

[young pecan]

Yep.

Some amount of it.

[crisp granite]

it's only fair considering I'm sending a worse card overall

[young pecan]

But we'd need to find a cheap way of getting it overseas.

pay someone from africa to smuggle it in their anus

[crisp granite]

...possible proxies?

[young pecan]

I'd need to locate.

[crisp granite]

declaring them as gifts for customs?

[young pecan]

Could work.

[crisp granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[young pecan]

We'll need to check over international law.

[crisp granite]

tell ya what

I'll sleep

think it over

puke my lungs out

die lickity split

[young pecan]

[crisp granite]

then tell ya my thoughts on it

[young pecan]

I'm gonna see about lowering the tarrifs.

[crisp granite]

likely, I'll just pass and source locally

or keep this and wait for next gen

then sell the card to you if you still want it for a fair price

[young pecan]

By next gen I'll probably go for 4070s.

Hmm. If the card was worth less than a grand we could get away with it.

[crisp granite]

next gen I'll go for a 4080, 80Ti or 90

because...

HD boobies

[young pecan]

Clearly you're some kind of PEASANT.

NVLink 3090s.

[crisp granite]

...

[young pecan]

[crisp granite]

Aeon

[young pecan]

4090s or whatever.

[crisp granite]

I only have 8 gb of VRAM

[young pecan]

I miss SLI. :(

[crisp granite]

it's not enough anymore

and it was last year

major bruh moment

shit got really hard to run with the latest games

[young pecan]

Why do you think I originally purchased a 1080Ti?

I saw this coming from years away.

[crisp granite]

something something

HD boobies

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil-village-resident-evil-re8-tall-lady-lady-dimitrescu-gif-20069190

[young pecan]

Tbh idk why everyone is nutting over her so much.

[crisp granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

in game

total pushover

idk, that entire game was easy as shit

[young pecan]

Apparently everyone's a sub or something. rolls eyes

[crisp granite]

even on village of shadows difficulty

equivalent of RE7's Madhouse difficulty

she's a huge fuckin' target when you actually need to fight her

and when you need to run from her, she's slow as molasses

[young pecan]

Well yeah.

[crisp granite]

not too hard to evade her

[young pecan]

RE isn't a difficult series.

It's braindead easy.

[crisp granite]

it's supposed to be horror

and there was only one thing that scared me

[young pecan]

[crisp granite]

and I think that's because it sounded like responsibility

a child

[young pecan]

Horror game, 4 sure.

[crisp granite]

Aeon

the only thing that scared me was a fucking child

and that's because children are disgusting

[young pecan]

Fuck, it's been so long since we had any decent psychological horror.

[crisp granite]

Fiverr team

unity engine

lets see what they achieve

[young pecan]

Starfield.

[crisp granite]

...

that's about accurate

[crimson wigeon]

Nice of them to give you the crappy home version

[young pecan]

Use HWID.

Use HWID.

Gain Pro.

Free.

[young pecan]

The real question is how much more terrifying is the lightning 2? @prisma crag

Iirc the L1 was kinda crazy when it came out.

One of the best fighters of the time.

Logic would then dictate that the L2 would be more horrifying to deal with.

[old marlin]

Is 21H1 even in full release by now?

Afaik not for businesses

So none of the big OEMs would give it to you on delivery

[young pecan]

What the...

So why would anyone ever actually buy this instead of a VESA arm?

[halcyon moss]

depends on the price i guess.. but yeah same thought

[zenith sonnet]

Lol
Intel 10nm fell so far behind schedule they need to rename it "Intel 7" to make it marketable again

And intel's 7nm will be "Intel 4"

[young pecan]

They really just gotta rename their shit.

It's getting confusing at this stage.

[zenith sonnet]

Now they make it even more confusing

The should have embraced the +

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/Rq6TE2nZz3M

I WANT ONE

AMOLED ?! woah

[old marlin]

true

[wheat plume]

:P

Why is this tablet really nicely specced for the price but the pinephone and Librem 5 are really REALLLYYYYYY under powered for their price?

[timid chasm]

money was saved somewhere

[wheat plume]

I dont see where

Even their OS is custom built

[timid chasm]

oh then you pay for it with your data

[wheat plume]

but its Linux, people would be able to see if its taking data

[ashen spindle]

[timid chasm]

If it's a custom OS who knows what they'll do and hide

[wheat plume]

yes, but open source

https://github.com/JingOS-team/JingOS

[ashen spindle]

yeah because there surely isn't some sort of code you can run on a lower level than the OS

[wheat plume]

Hmm

I guess

[timid chasm]

like the popcorn?

[wheat plume]

popcorn :')

Yes

It would be amazing if there was a way to make the swipe to go home animation work the same way as iOS and Android, where it plays an animation of the app window turning into the icon on the home screen

RN it just dissappears from the screen

[halcyon moss]

eh, fluf

[timid chasm]

depending on the business things that fluff are necessary

[wheat plume]

ooo... Android app support?! That would be neat

[halcyon moss]

tbh, this is one of those things i'd rather wait and see if its good or not

because if it isnt good, its a lot of moneys

[wheat plume]

Thats why I said "would"

if it works well

oh, you meant the tablet itself

[halcyon moss]

yes

[wheat plume]

You can download an ISO though

Right?

Ive seen many videos showing it off in a VM

mikecrm?

We connect Linux and Android apps through technology
Yeah, they do :P

IDK what they are using

It isnt in the OS yet anyway

True...

[ashen spindle]

well if windows is getting it, I'd imagine linux will also get it soon-ish

[wheat plume]

I think DeepinOS can use Android apps now

but idek for sure

Nah, its Amazon Cloud I think

Hence, you can only get app from the Amazon store

Wot?!

[ashen spindle]

why would microsoft limit it to something only useable via their competitor...

since it's from what I remember running via WSL I'd imagine it's either using lots of open source code or will be something linux can take

then again, seems like it's mostly made by intel tech so it would depend on them rather than MS to make it open maybe

[wheat plume]

Intel, Amazon and Microsoft all working together to get Android apps on Windows?

Hmmmm

[ashen spindle]

?

[timid chasm]

I'd be down for mobile games on PC cause fuck games on mobile devices

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/oLtiRGTZvGM

ooo, it has 4 more buttons on the back

Thats neat

yet another option for controlling your games
scrolls to "Control" in the game library
Smooth xd

I wonder will this mean that Steam Share will support Linux now

And casting your game to friends

Wait, Control works well on Proton?! Thats good to know

[patent glacier]

The prompt has timed out.

[shadow minnow]

o.o

[wheat plume]

I love this product.... I havent even seen the specs yet https://youtu.be/0rkTgPt3M4k

[old marlin]

same

got no use for it though

lol

also thing is

[ashen spindle]

how can you love a product when you have no clue about it

[old marlin]

I could just get a laptop with the IO I want

if my battery goes bad

I could just replace it with a new one

or even just replace the cells

if I get one with regular cells

kinda ironic that the intro to the vid is such a shitty case

[ashen spindle]

https://videocardz.com/press-release/samsung-odyssey-neo-g9-mini-led-49-inch-ultra-wide-monitor-launches-on-august-9th not bad but I just want a regular ultrawide to upgrade to

[crisp granite]

oh shit dawg

I was constantly thinking "should I get the G9"

the answer is yes

the Neo model

[ashen spindle]

well, better wait for reviews incase this one also has issues at first

[old marlin]

yea

also

[crisp granite]

well...yea

fair

[old marlin]

kinda wanna get off ultrawide

even though I like it

getting a monitor that does EVERYTHING is possible even though expensive

but you still have odd outliers doing weird shit

[crisp granite]

that's kinda why I want the G9

it does...everything

[old marlin]

and discord streaming to people with 16:9 is kinda bad

[crisp granite]

it'll be my one monitor battle station

[old marlin]

vesa mount it

gl

weighs a ton

[ashen spindle]

thats why I'm so sad the G7 or what it would be is still using the old VA samsung panels

[old marlin]

arms exist

[crisp granite]

challenge accepted

[old marlin]

but how long will they last

[misty saffron]

so it might be viable to buy a tesla in russia after all...

[old marlin]

also sad mouse and keyboard situation for that guy

[misty saffron]

superchargers coming soon in these locations, along the highways

[ashen spindle]

the normal sizes use new VA, the super ultrawide use it, but the regular 21:9 G7 is using older VA tech with black smearing

[crisp granite]

definitely not

[old marlin]

oof

still big gaps

[misty saffron]

moscow to st. petersburg is 700 km

[old marlin]

rip

dunno what is baller atm

[misty saffron]

perfectly reasonable tbh

[old marlin]

but planning to do monitors + PC next year

[crisp granite]

Hollow

as long as you can get electric car charging wherever you park your car for the night

in St. Petersburg

[misty saffron]

there are shitloads of chargers in moscow actually

[old marlin]

if he only has one car

[misty saffron]

st. petersburg probably too

[old marlin]

it is too inconvenient

tbh

like if he has to do a single longer trip to pick something up he has to look on where to lend a car

in germany it works well by now

since there are enough superchargers

[misty saffron]

i won’t make longer trips in russia

i tried once

hated it

not driving more than 300km anymore

[ashen spindle]

what even is in russia? my mind is blank from when I went there aside from big colorful church windows

[old marlin]

lol

[misty saffron]

if all you remember is churches then i don’t think you spent the time right

[old marlin]

cabins in woods

[crisp granite]

shitty towns

opioids

[old marlin]

basically moscow

[crisp granite]

poverty

[old marlin]

• dayz map

[ashen spindle]

oh and some oriental room in a palace we weren't allowed to take pictures of but I still did

[old marlin]

but like insane amounts of that

[crisp granite]

mmm

true

[misty saffron]

oh in hermitage?

yeah they don’t allow you to do that with flash

[crisp granite]

oh

[old marlin]

one could say it is basically pre unification DDR + west berlin

but bigger

although

not quite

[misty saffron]

you can take pictures of whatever the fuck you want without flash

[old marlin]

even pre unification DDR is a bit better off in culture

[misty saffron]

when i was in Pushkin (city) it was quite cool

they have the school preserved really well

was neat

[ashen spindle]

I think when I was there like 9? or so years ago they just weren't aware of phones that can do pictures without flash I guess lmao

[misty saffron]

come to st. petersburg

[old marlin]

not decently back then

[misty saffron]

i’ll show you how to spend time

[old marlin]

even reg cameras struggled with that back then

[crisp granite]

as long as it doesn't include getting STDs

😬

[ashen spindle]

ehh no thanks, being back on the cruise ship to eat food was the best part of the day

[old marlin]

if he just wants to get smashed on alcohol etc he can do that in any german city

or go to prague

and do it cheaper

[crisp granite]

Prague

[ashen spindle]

also I dont drink so that's not an option

[crisp granite]

where getting fucked up on beer is cheaper than drinking water

[misty saffron]

only meth?

can be arranged

[old marlin]

[crisp granite]

hm

actually

[ashen spindle]

only the purest homegrown one

[old marlin]

quintosh with his "kosmos: kristalle zuhause züchten" set

[crisp granite]

Quin might like krokdil, or whatever that fun dirt cheap opiate used by russians is

average life expectancy of a user is a single year

[old marlin]

[crisp granite]

👌

[old marlin]

basically the evolution of drinking wiper fluid

[ashen spindle]

[crisp granite]

quite literally

[old marlin]

which country was it where they give children vaporized ethanol in baloons to bypass laws?

[misty saffron]

isn’t inhaling ethanol vapor like

really really bad

[old marlin]

well

yes

kinda

[crisp granite]

idk

people smoke and vape

[old marlin]

but the laws only forbid it in liquid form

[crisp granite]

lobby hard enough and anything is legal

[old marlin]

if it was just about drinking they would have probably went for tampons soaked in vodka

[crisp granite]

...

[misty saffron]

pussy soaked in vodka uwu

[crisp granite]

I remember buying a rum ball on a school trip when I was...13 iirc

[old marlin]

I meant anally inserted

how the homeless people do it

[crisp granite]

turns out it was a chocolate cake ball...soaked in rum

[misty saffron]

homeless people do that?

[old marlin]

Ye

Absorbs the ethanol MUCH quicker

[crisp granite]

there had to be at least 4 drinks in it because it was soaked through

[misty saffron]

not sure what i’m meant to do with this knowledge

[crisp granite]

wow

that's kinda brilliant

[crisp granite]

pour vodka down your ass

[misty saffron]

i know people do meth by stuffing it in the ass

yikes

[crisp granite]

literally everyone does it that way

[old marlin]

That is why women die if sniffing cocaine off butts goes too far

[crisp granite]

since the intestines go direct to bloodstream iirc

no liver, stomach or anything like that in the way

[old marlin]

Body absorbs it so quickly that overdosing happens stupidly quick

[misty saffron]

yes but wtf

you’d literally burn your asshole

[old marlin]

Well

Yes

[crisp granite]

blue angels

if people think that's a good idea

ramming coke up your ass seems perfectly safe in comparison

[old marlin]

Better than freezing to death

Ig

[crisp granite]

true

[misty saffron]

coke doesn’t burn as much

[old marlin]

Nope

[misty saffron]

so, well

[old marlin]

Gets absorbed so quickly that you basically overdose immediately

[misty saffron]

at least the asshole isn’t full of blood ♿

[old marlin]

Lol

[crisp granite]

Mr. PoopyButthole, meet Mr. BloodyButthole

btw, the only time I've ever shat blood was after...

I'll stop

[misty saffron]

i’ve met mrs bloody butthole

should’ve used more lube tbh

[crisp granite]

[latent mural]

https://tenor.com/view/xd-meme-funny-emoji-gif-15406750

[wheat plume]

I reallllyyyy wanna get that purple transparent shell for my Switch

I love seeing the electronics inside

[zenith sonnet]

That actually looks interesting

[wheat plume]

I miss the old Gameboys, you could get those transparent right away

[zenith sonnet]

Still not a fan of the whole 32:9 thing, though

I'd prefer it if it were 16:9 or 16:10

[dry tendon]

Still not MicroLED so its bad

[zenith sonnet]

Explain please?

[dry tendon]

MicroLED > OLED > MiniLED

[old marlin]

microLED = each subpixel is it's own dimmable lightsource

[dry tendon]

Yes

[old marlin]

so basically perfect contrast

and insane peak brightness even at high pixel density

basically limited by thermals at that point

[dry tendon]

good lifespan too

[old marlin]

only problem is pixel density atm

dunno where the wall is at

[zenith sonnet]

What's Mini LED then?

[old marlin]

.84mm pitch apparently

so still not great

[old marlin]

what the ipad pro does

basically a ton of backlight zones

names btw

oh also

with the wall you don't get a bayer pattern

that is odd

[zenith sonnet]

So this is actually an LCD?

[old marlin]

will prob be a lot more purple than typical screens

[old marlin]

what?

the G9

not LCD

but VA

afaik

[zenith sonnet]

The NEO G9

[dry tendon]

VA is a type of LCD panel

the best type imho

[old marlin]

welll

debatable

ips vs VA vs tn is basically a game of rock paper scissors

although the previus G9 basically had none of the typical VA downsides

same goes for LG IPS though

[hard thicket]

the g9 VA is magic

[zenith sonnet]

I don't know
I'm reading that press release and it does not mention what kind of display it is
It just says MiniLED

[old marlin]

yea it has to be LCD

cause OLED and QLED work differently

and microLED is not developed far enough for that tech yet

[zenith sonnet]

The Odyssey Neo G9 utilizes the same Mini LED technology built into Samsung’s latest Neo QLED lineup. This next-generation display technology is enabled by a new light source, Quantum Mini LED. At 1/40 the height of a conventional LED,1 the Quantum Mini LED has incredibly thin micro layers filled with many more LEDs.

That's about all it says

[crisp granite]

[zenith sonnet]

And it makes no sense

[old marlin]

the pixel pitch of the G9 is more than 3 times lower than the one of the wall

[hard thicket]

that sounds bonkers tbh

[old marlin]

same company

[hard thicket]

if its on the same level as their neo tv's

[old marlin]

if they were able to get that many microLED pixels in such a small space they would on their halo product

[hard thicket]

thats like the top tier shit

[old marlin]

wait

I forgot

QLED was different than OLED

[crisp granite]

the G9 Neo kinda is their halo product...no?

[old marlin]

but iirc it was a variation on VA

[old marlin]

the wall is

like the G9 neo is a halo product

but not as much as the wall

[crisp granite]

the wall...wait wut

[crisp granite]

oh

[old marlin]

292 inch 8k microLED

[crisp granite]

that's fucking awesome

[old marlin]

but fully modular

basically studio stuff

for filmsets and stages

[zenith sonnet]

So, it's a 240 Hz VA panel, with a 2048 dimming zone backlight that they call "MiniLED"?

Meh

[old marlin]

as well as huge flexes for rich people

[zenith sonnet]

Lost any interest now

[old marlin]

[crisp granite]

home theatre setup material?

[old marlin]

you are quick to loose your interest

[old marlin]

if you got a few 10k burning a hole in your pocket sure

[crisp granite]

[zenith sonnet]

VA does not have the response times for 240 Hz

[crisp granite]

I'll check

I probably don't but I might...

[old marlin]

https://www.connection.com/product/samsung-292-0.84mm-the-wall-series-led-display-unit/iw008r/37156949

[dry tendon]

Pray for 240Hz Oled display

[old marlin]

23k pre tax

[dry tendon]

will literally obliterate TN at 240hz

[old marlin]

for the 292 inch config

oh also

no mounting whatsoever

so prob more like 30 to 40k

to get it into your wall etc

yea

people that can afford such a "TV" have walls that big

[zenith sonnet]

There's this 120 Hz LG OLED display/TV thingy
Response times are promising
But it can't even hit 200 nits brightness....

[old marlin]

you can buy a house for the price of getting and installing one of those

well

it is just a wall

I assume people with enough money interested in that don't have walls cluttered with stuff

[zenith sonnet]

People with the money for it can just have a faux wall installed in their house

[wheat plume]

For the config I choose, this isnt too bad

Considering if any part breaks, you can get replacements or switch and swap any of the expansion cards

[ashen spindle]

laptop != desktop market

[wheat plume]

Yeah.... thats ok with me cause laptop

[old marlin]

AMD laptop is faster and less power hungry

[wheat plume]

oh

[ashen spindle]

not really because they dont have the same low power idle states, or are you 24/7 running your laptop as full load

[old marlin]

considering that you have to hope that they have replacement mobos in 5 years getting something as powerful as possible for the TDP and power draw you can have at the moment would be good

[old marlin]

well yes obv

but they provide A LOT more performance

and even then

how long do people use laptops unplugged

where do you sit where you could not plug them in

at the park?

[ashen spindle]

idk I only use a laptop when I cant use a pc

[fair gull]

i wonder if i should turn my pc into an esxi/proxmox host

for vm advantages like no hardware serials

[wheat plume]

Apparently the Frameworks laptop has an option in BIOS to disable the battery so when you are having it constantly plugged in, the battery is not being over charged

[old marlin]

like quite honestly 30 minutes of battery life are enough for 99% of use cases

[old marlin]

no

proxmox not good at passing through pcie

roommate does qemu

[wheat plume]

Not for 3 college labs in a row....

[old marlin]

like ubuntu host with qemu windows vm

[fair gull]

thats pmuch esxi then

[shadow minnow]

Is not that normal? At least saw that on all devices I have used, as soon as battery is charged, device only running on power from charger, and battery not getting power anymore.

[old marlin]

with his mods he even gets more perf than stock

[dry tendon]

Billion Dollar AMD program vs small Dutch developer's beta software
Wooting actually has the correct icon size LMAO

[shadow minnow]

[old marlin]

even though his 3900X looses out on 2 threads

[fair gull]

except that esxi has a useable configuration utility

[wheat plume]

never seen that before

[old marlin]

yea but how much perf does esxi drop

[ashen spindle]

but the idle state on intel goes so low, amd's idle state can't go that unless it's turned off lmao

[fair gull]

idk like 100mb ram and 1 cpu core

[old marlin]

to be fair the main point with his system is to bypass eac and battleye from locking him out of games

[wheat plume]

My laptop is fair stupid though, id not be surprised if it keeps charging the battery well after its gotten to 100%

[old marlin]

while still having 100% ram control

[fair gull]

well i also just need it to bypass forza hwid ban

[ashen spindle]

like in a laptop it's too close to call it for either side unless you have a very specific usecase that is obvious on what cpu to get

[fair gull]

cause it bans harddisk serials

[old marlin]

eg

[fair gull]

which arent easily spoofed without paying tons

[old marlin]

that is easy af

what

???

with a VM

[shadow minnow]

Hmm, really? Thought that is normal. At least from what I have checked, as soon as this 2017 MacBook got to full charge, battery started receiving no power, and device ran off power brick.

[fair gull]

with a vm yes

[old marlin]

you can just change it in memory

without the host ever knowing it is fake

[fair gull]

the vm doesnt even get serials lol

why would i pass hdd serials

[ashen spindle]

yes that is very normal on basically every device for god knows how long

[old marlin]

yea then make it think it does

[ashen spindle]

unless it's extremely cheap

[old marlin]

that is the reason why battleye and eac ban vms

cause you can just mess with the memory

and the host system never knows it

[fair gull]

i mean

u could just write a testsigned kernel mode driver

and mess with it anyway

but eh

[old marlin]

I would assume microsoft knows how to check for that

[fair gull]

no they use normal wmic

[old marlin]

also

there are already bypasses for those checks written

[wheat plume]

Mine is on 44% battery leath

[old marlin]

since battleye bans hwids

[wheat plume]

lasts at most an hour

[fair gull]

forza doesnt use battleze

[shadow minnow]

How old is it?

[old marlin]

so people obv made programms to bypass that

[wheat plume]

I got it almost 5 years ago

[old marlin]

by changing hwids

[fair gull]

afaik it literally fetches the serials on boot

[old marlin]

gg

yea

with a vm

still bypassable

[wheat plume]

oh...

[fair gull]

yes

ik

id just be really put off by the fact id basically virtualize my entire pc as it is rn

[shadow minnow]

Still, that’s bad. If I will need laptop for college, only to bring there with any OS, I will most likely just go for M1 MacBook Air, to not have to worry about battery life that much.

[misty saffron]

bruh

[old marlin]

why do you need battery life at college

[misty saffron]

you literally have a driver for that

[old marlin]

do the rooms there not have power outlets

[misty saffron]

ready to just compile

[fair gull]

i already tried it

but is it worth constantly running with testsigning on

[misty saffron]

i sent you a github repo to bypass dse...

[old marlin]

like in germany they have at least a power outlet for every student in every room

[shadow minnow]

I mean, for being in the school, and writing stuff there. Idk there may be power outlets, but for sure not gonna bring desktop to classes if I need some pc.

[fair gull]

already had the driver loaded and all

dw

just unsure if its wise to constantly run in testsigning mode

[old marlin]

yea not telling you to bring your desktop

[misty saffron]

dse bypass = no testsigning

brother]

[fair gull]

what

[misty saffron]

driver signature enforcement

dse

[fair gull]

no like

i cant remember u sending me a link

lemme check dms

a fuck u did

[shadow minnow]

The thing is that I don’t have anything else really. So if I need to bring something else than phone - most likely will just get lowest storage MacBook M1 air, while having desktop for all other stuff.

[old marlin]

yea not arguing against you having a laptop

[shadow minnow]

Hope I won’t have to too tbh

[old marlin]

I don't get why people need their 8 hours of battery life though

within the time to finish college you would need to replace the battery anyways if you don't wanna charge there

[shadow minnow]

PC was already expensive enough. And also school… yeah. Would be best if I won’t have to get a laptop.

[crimson wigeon]

Maybe you just want to be out in the nature all day

[shadow minnow]

For example

[old marlin]

then be out in nature

and actually be in nature

[misty saffron]

@fair gull you can even use the same bypass on battleye

[old marlin]

not in nature with your laptop for 6 hours

[misty saffron]

given you bypass battleye's vulnerable driver detection

[old marlin]

[fair gull]

dopnt play any battleye games

[old marlin]

it is vulnerable

[crimson wigeon]

pepega

[shadow minnow]

What if you want to be in nature while… distance learning for example since corona

[fair gull]

nor am i banned anywhere else

[misty saffron]

which is essentially just cleaning MmUnloadedDrivers, PiDDBCacheTable, g_KernelHashBucket

all named ntoskrnl and ci.dll global variables

[old marlin]

didn't even assume that to be an option with the shitty mobile data you get in germany

no

I am questioning why people need more than 2 hours of battery life on small laptops

or in general on laptops

like I get that some laptops need it

but 90% of people don't

they carry their charger with themselves anyways

[misty saffron]

you can even clean MmUnloadedDrivers without editing the actual list if you're smart enough to check how drivers end up there :^)

[old marlin]

and they have outlets everywhere

[crimson wigeon]

And maybe you just want to be unplugged, you know similar to how people like wireless peripherals

[shadow minnow]

Point of laptops is well… battery

[old marlin]

like literally everywhere you would reasonably use one you have an outlet

[shadow minnow]

Not really

[misty saffron]

hey can i brag about my 3 year old macbook battery

[old marlin]

and the places that don't typically are not places people use a laptop for 2 hours

[shadow minnow]

That’s quite good.

[old marlin]

yea

now gl after 3 years of college with improper charge cycles done every day

[shadow minnow]

Well, things like distance learning, or traveling long time to school and using laptop in bus or train, and then in school.

[old marlin]

wait the whole starbucks thing is not a thing here

do they offer power outlets to customers

that might be the single argument

cause ik some people in the us sit there for like 8 hours on end

doing stuff for college

[shadow minnow]

Also a thing

[old marlin]

trains have power outlets here

busses have not enough space to use a laptop

they don't have enough space for me to sit straight

[shadow minnow]

Trains here usually, if they have any, don’t have enough

[old marlin]

well

[shadow minnow]

For example two power outlets for compartment of 6 people

[old marlin]

I rarely see people using their laptops in trains

the power outlets have been there for as long as I can remember

and they get used to charge phones 90% of the time

if not more

[shadow minnow]

And also not having to bring a charger with you is nice

[old marlin]

your regular trains have compartments

[old marlin]

you bring a bag with you anyways

if you get a gallium charger it prob won't be much bigger than your phone charger

and it charges both your laptop and your phone

[misty saffron]

any mercury chargers?

[shadow minnow]

Can’t charge my phone to more. 90 maximum capacity after not even a year. Most likely faulty battery, since other people I know who also use their phone around as much, have 97-100%

[old marlin]

well the ecologic savings would have to be there

unless they build in a big battery

only to cut it down to a quarter of the size in use

would be funny though

people in 20 years will

when nickle becomes a much rarer resource

prices are slowly rising up

we will prob get a serious nickle crisis in our lifetime

unless we actually get new types of batteries

still need nickle

like A LOT of nickle

that is why zinc air is even considered for car batteries

well besides the whole catching on fire thing

but the nickle is in much more dire demand than the lithium

[wheat plume]

I have a question...

Why does replacing the Switch's game card reader with one that not 100% compatible make the touch screen stop working?

[old marlin]

ah

dunno the english term

and english loves their les

yea right now it isn't

but imo people should get a bit better at predicting future problems by now

and they REALLY do not need the extra 6 hours of runtime in most cases

problem is atm the batterys cost piss all to make

so even if the savings would be given straight to the consumer most people would ignore it

[shadow minnow]

Yeah especially since you can get all that battery life in an extremely thin chassis so almost no reasons why not.

[old marlin]

like the rate it is going atm

nickel prices might be the one thing why electroplating has a future in europe

cause even if we have a lithium crisis

almost all places were coal was mined have lithium in riverbeds

germany has enough coal in the rhine to supply europe for the following decades

not worth to fish it out atm though

and by the time the price difference is enticing for the general public it is too late

cause I personally don't see that there will actually be a big change in batteries in the next 20 years

that will actually get to the consumer by then

even if the EU mandated zinc air in all smaller devices by then

would be too late too little

or they would need to introduce some way to enforce recycling of old devices

cause atm if a phone is broken it will probably either end up in land fill or trash burning

glass bottles have a better chance to end up back where they started

[zenith sonnet]

Wait, people don't give their old electronics into the collection?

[old marlin]

2035

[old marlin]

what happens with the collection

you get rid of it when you move or die

and even then

the collection is not part of the recycling system

so it is as useful as landfill in that moment

more useful actually

doesn't cost the trash company any money

[zenith sonnet]

I'm pretty sure it is being recycled

[old marlin]

in the collection?

yea sure

it has "some use"

aka

electro messi

[zenith sonnet]

?

[old marlin]

or what collection do you mean

[zenith sonnet]

By the trash company

[old marlin]

thought the obligatory collection of all smartphones from the past 10 years

ah

well

where do phones go if you wanna get rid of them

[zenith sonnet]

I give them to the trash collection

[old marlin]

2013

usually gifted or to the private collection

20% have a chance at going somewhere again

although 31% are just given away again

[reef patrol]

chuckle

Eine handy

[old marlin]

handy is the german word for cellphone

lol

[reef patrol]

Sure.

[old marlin]

200 million old cellphones

on not even 100 million people

and that is JUST cellphones

not even laptops

[zenith sonnet]

It's pronounced Händy

[reef patrol]

If anything it just makes me want to put even mroe of a silly german accent on it 😄

[old marlin]

AND THAT ALREADY IS WITH 19.4kg E-WASTE A YEAR

also

19.4kg is still "good" in comparison to the other big countries in the western world

[crisp granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[zenith sonnet]

æ

[old marlin]

ä = eh

in the pronounciation of handy

[reef patrol]

A hEHndy

[crisp granite]

well

[zenith sonnet]

Finns pronounce it the same as Germans

[crisp granite]

that's a variation of a theme

[reef patrol]

I'm sorry Hansi. It makes it sound just as silly.

[old marlin]

with older electronics at least the romanians cared about recycling it

but modern electronics have too little gold in them to be worth it

[crisp granite]

the politicians there are afraid of witches, that country is whack

makes sense that they'd be exceptions to the rule

[zenith sonnet]

Same here

[crisp granite]

[crisp granite]

aldi selling handies?

ngl, I'm pretty sure that would violate prostitution laws if they exist there

[reef patrol]

Talk about customer support.

[crisp granite]

otherwise, I'm game

[timid chasm]

But is it power efficient enough to buy in California

[fickle ore]

2500$ for not an OLED? COUNT ME OUT FOOLS

[timid chasm]

It's about to be for high refresh rate monitors

already a thing for desktops

CA, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and maybe one or two more

[zenith sonnet]

We already came to the verdict it sucks

The resolution is stupid

Not really usable properly, unless you literally can tell a game to be 16:9 fullscreen in the middle

[dry tendon]

If you cannot feel validation any other way 😦

[ashen spindle]

dell is using that as an excuse btw, people in other areas have reported they also can no longer get it

also it's a bit weird, becuase bandwith is one factor that can increase the limit, but then something like Infinity cache on amd gpus would work against amd in terms of that limitation

granted it shouldn't matter, but shows how many issues that law has

oh wow

https://twitter.com/gouki201/status/1420041563908960270

gouki201 (@gouki201)

@TFTCentral https://t.co/Y1HUjnk0Kz
Here's the panel info about Odyssey Neo G9.
( S49AG95N, G95NA )

Turns out, it's not Samsung panel, the panel is made by CSOT, which is a company belong to China, also a sub-company of TCL group.

I think they does stop the most LCD production recently.

Twitter · Jul 27, 2021, 3:21 PM

[old marlin]

lol

[ashen spindle]

amd earnings calls in 20, slides are already out

https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1420118863300243462

Patrick Moorhead (@PatrickMoorhead)

$AMD cranks out an incredible Q2:
-Revenue +99% (yes, for real)
-GM 48%; +4pp
-Operating margin 22% (woah)
A quarter where every product line was firing on all cylinders. The improvements are astonishing.

Twitter · Jul 27, 2021, 8:28 PM

[ashen spindle]

damn

zen 3 epycs ramp faster than previous gen and sales doubled Q/Q

[fickle ore]

Report positions in OP or..

[ashen spindle]

OP?

you know, they invest money into stock buybacks because they dont know where else to invest

but they cant even buy fucking decent microphones for earnings calls

like holy shit why are people with 5$ audio equipment allowed to talk in a web call of a multibillion TECHNOLOGY company

[crimson wigeon]

So long as you can vaguely understand what's being said it's fiiiine, right?

[ashen spindle]

also questions from people with shit audio setup should just be declined by the operator at the end...

[shadow minnow]

Pog, mobo and cpu replacements (hopefully actually replacements) are on their way.

[ashen spindle]

nice

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/CbNu34psxZI

This is really nice gnome setup he has here

aha!

possibly yeah

Gnome 40 seems more laptop / touchpad focused than Plasma is

Plasma is annoying on touchpad sometimes, really small UI elements etc

[plush summit]

discord has threads now

[empty wren]

Yep pretty cool

[wheat plume]

O.o

wot now

[empty wren]

Comment to temporary conversation

[reef patrol]

Threads fucking suck. I will die on that hill 😄

[empty wren]

Less of this is x channel go to channel y doe

[reef patrol]

It's basically temporary sub-channels. But a LOT of people won't reply to the thread and continue in the main channel.

So now you've got split conversations.

[ashen spindle]

wasn't a fan of twitter threads and I feel like on discord it's even worse

[plush summit]

i dont think its going to work either

[pale sigil]

That's kinda stupid

[shadow minnow]

Yeah. Don’t think it’s a good feature tbh. May just cause confusion. And almost no one really wanted it, unlike some stuff like built in mod tools.

[empty wren]

gotta make that cheeda cheeda cheese somehow

[pale sigil]

Ah we don't have threads yet

But we got the alert for it

[young pecan]

Sounds like a good hill to die on. I’m in.

And btw, look at this shit.

Wtf happened overnight?

Went from maybe 2k USD a month to 6k now.

Ezil? You ok buddy?

[pale sigil]

Oh no

But how will I spend all my savings now

[tender sparrow]

Just buy a custom keyboard like every dumbass on r/MK

It'll be even more low quality than the recent iPhone 12

[pale sigil]

I'll have you know

I've done that already

Pft

[crisp granite]

*spend way too much on one

you know you've spent too much if you're wondering if you can make rent after buying that super cool group buy case that won't ship this calendar year

idk why, but it seems like some of the coolest (in my opinion) mechanical keyboard chassis happen to be on the cheaper end (compared to a lot of the really popular "endgame" cases people nut over)

oh, and generally, custom keyboards are significantly better built than prebuilt options both for keyfeel and sound

there's also a hell of a lot more variety due to differences in how cases are constructed and such

[pale sigil]

More expensive overrated materials

Idk why people love having metal. Cases

Feels awful

[crisp granite]

CNCed alu is a huge improvement over ABS for rigidity

means it'll last a hell of a lot longer too

[empty wren]

Plastic is better for sound apparently

[empty wren]

Rigidity is worse on full size or larger. On a 87 key keyboard probably alright, below should be pretty great.

[crisp granite]

yep

I was thinking tofu boards

those are pretty common "first builds"

[empty wren]

Sigh tofu boards

[crisp granite]

alu

rigid

[crisp granite]

...I know that the swath of polycarb boards basically decrowned them as budget kings

but for alu case on the cheap, still no.1

[empty wren]

Yeah but problem is most people still think tofu keyboard is amazing

Like there is the gmmk pro

And I think keychron is also gonna release a metal keyboard

[crisp granite]

the Q1

which is basically a GMMK Pro competitor

[empty wren]

Or that

Even then people can get some barebones maybe for even cheaper

[crisp granite]

the Q1 is 140 USD for a barebones

or 170 for prebuilt with ABS doubleshots and gateron switches

[empty wren]

Ah okay then that is pretty good

[young pecan]

Everyone arguing over good keyboards and custom solutions.

Mate, just gimmie a second.

Just get 150 of these and tape them together.

Nothing a USB hub chain can't solve.

[empty wren]

So many cables though

[astral haven]

64 USB devices per controller

[young pecan]

Whoever said one controller?

[astral haven]

That's expensive

[young pecan]

So is a custom keyboard.

[crisp granite]

well...yes

but it's a spectrum

[astral haven]

It's alot more expensive than a custom keyboard

[young pecan]

Mate mate.

[crisp granite]

my personal barleycorn build was 300 USD

it's possible to build a TKL for over 1k USD

[young pecan]

Do I need to attach the /s for that to be obvious?

[crisp granite]

I could probably build a cheap ass keyboard for 100 USD

amen to that, brother

the worst part is the credit card bill at the end of the month

and just seeing...several hundred

on one fucking keyboard or part

[young pecan]

Lay in bed, thinking about your nice headphones
Remember that they cost more than your first car did
Panic
Remember you've got bills coming up soon
Panic
Remember that the problems don't exist if you don't think about them
Sounds like a future you thing

[crisp granite]

jokes on you, I never had a first car

[young pecan]

Neither did I.

[crisp granite]

well...I don't have one...yet

might get one later on

[young pecan]

I'm avoiding driving until I can do the hilarious thing of learning to drive in a hypercar.

That'll be a fun experience.

[crisp granite]

ok

[young pecan]

Technically there's no road laws saying I can't.

[crisp granite]

I learned to drive a pretty chunky SUV in a dense city

I do not recommend that

[young pecan]

I can't do my Ps like that.

But my learners? Technically I can.

And I mean...

Limiter plates exist.

So technically if the car is limited to under 300 horsepower I'm good to go on my Ps.

According to road laws that definately did not take this idea into account.

[echo garnet]

it's the results, not the thumbnails that I pay attention to.

if you actually cared to watch the video, they explain that they use a digital thermometer just before the 5 minute mark

well if you want the techspot article, they say literally the same thing with almost identical results https://www.techspot.com/review/2020-msi-x570-tomahawk/

hardware unboxed just happens to measure things fairly professionally, so they are one reasonable point of reference out of many, just because it's a video doesn't mean it's to be frowned upon.

Alright, so you're going to start not liking techspot articles because the hardware unboxed guy happens to write things for techspot?

Alright, well anyways, you did make a good catch that it was steve who wrote the techspot article, so i'll give you credit there.

but still, I think Steven Walton has proven himself to be a professional in his measurements and provide reliable information.

Who wouldn't buy more lego?

i want my next house to be made out of nothing but legos

even the plumbing will be legos

the chimney? legos, ofcourse!

[crimson wigeon]

Threads are an actually useful feature unlike stickers though, like right now the convo here is not thread related so I'd rather just stick this message in the thread-thread...

[crisp granite]

that would allow for the flow of the chat to...feel less disjointed

like in #archived_the_lekker_switch, it seems like the big talking points are typing experience and the killer features for competitive gaming

[crimson wigeon]

And then take it a step further, only allow conversations in threads and then.. wait a minute.. that's just forums!

[crisp granite]

being able to have a thread to allow both to be added to at the same time without interrupting flow would be amazing

[crisp granite]

no

auxiliary/whenever you need more than one

besides, the auto-archive feature seems awesome AF

being able to go back and see a neat list of issues for a new wootility version, or one person's thoughts on modding an LE/HE board (examples), separate from the actual chat and easily accessible would be incredible

[young pecan]

Anyone got some opinions on the Anycubic Photon S printer?

[fair gull]

i need a proxmox expert

[old marlin]

for what

[astral haven]

probably has problems with esxi /s

[old marlin]

proxmox does not use esxi

[fair gull]

virtualizing my current physical disks

as in

[old marlin]

ah

[fair gull]

putting a new ssd in

installing proxmox

and then using my physicaldisks

[old marlin]

ye

you need to make a raw image of them

[fair gull]

but with virtio or smth to have serialnumber control

[fair gull]

wait so kvm can use physical disk paths entirely

but proxmox cant

[old marlin]

ah

you wanna route the physical disk

forgot

[fair gull]

route it but be able to control the serialnumber passed

idk if thats doable or not

[old marlin]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

can't tell you if the serialnumber is passed through

[fair gull]

apparently u can use virtio for physical disks

so i can freely change serial

other question: how much performance impact is there

[old marlin]

ah

well

IF you use virtualized disks

you will want to use virtio

[fair gull]

i also assume bitlocker and proxmox passing dont have any big issues

[old marlin]

never tried that

but I assume you can get that to work

[fair gull]

well seems like qemu itself does support tpm passthrough

[old marlin]

https://formenergy.com/

absolutely malding

they want to build large scale iron air batteries

for renewable but non-constant sources like solar or wind

seems like some factorio project if you ask me

also is it any more efficient than simple rotating mass or hot salt

no claims about anything apparently

no comparison to rotating mass or hot salt etc in either efficiency, density cost or anything else

[fickle ore]

Allowing batteries to "breathe-in" oxygen, oxidizing iron and then reversing the process seems quite ecological

[old marlin]

so is rotating mass though

or lifting mass in your wind turbines

and with rotating mass you basically have no degradation