🔌│tech

[old marlin]

basically impossible to make a decent product that sells well

[young pecan]

Just a bog standard mouse with top tier components and decent side buttons that doesn’t come with bloatware.

I’d buy.

[old marlin]

unless you have a big brand behind it

[old marlin]

aka 90% of what you get on aliexpress rn

boring FK clones

[young pecan]

Kek

[old marlin]

with decent components

for like

30€

market is absolutely flooded with FK and EC clones

that have decent specs

calder would not go for an OEM shell from what I know of him

which raises cost dramatically

[tender sparrow]

Paid 65 Euros for the Naga X, completely not worth it, it should be 40 MSRP. To think it's 80 GBP/Euros MSRP. Had to take the grip from an old tennis racket and fashion it on the pinky rest to make it bearable to use. Still the best MMO mouse on the market because it's the only one without some stupid gimmick and a half decent weight.

Razer have definitely been treating their mice better than their keyboards, even if it's because they decided to just rip off Logitech

[old marlin]

idk

wow ig

so you get another row of f keys essentially

idk

outdated game design

well

it is your shift bar

[old marlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJvXs5HG3E

his worst video yet

"so you want ANC headphones, but you could also get cheap IEMs and an overpriced wireless adapter that lives in your pocket next to your phone"

[ashen spindle]

you dont need an MMO mouse for FF14 but all 5 people I know that have one say it's just easier to play and more comfortable to use than rebinding keys etc.

but they also say if it were to break they would be fine without it

[wheat plume]

TIL this is how you are meant to wear earphones.....

Ive been doing it wrong this entire time

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/absolutely-not-nope-no-no-way-no-chance-gif-17243246

[wheat plume]

How do I get easyeffects to apply that profile on reboot?

[wheat plume]

🤔

how tf is localhost not working?

[young pecan]

Exactly.

Depends on the pair, tbh.

Some heaphones that're old can be great, some but not many.

And you need to be able to both find a pair for a reasonable price and afford it. Not the easiest of tasks for the nicer pairs.

[true quest]

it late and just received my cpu cooler do i install now

[wheat plume]

^^

[glossy sleet]

does it ship to outside of europe now?
or will I have to wait 1234567890 years?

How can I get a fairphone in the US

[vagrant elk]

Last I checked it was still Europe-only. I gave up on that and settled on a PinePhone which I don't recommend unless you love Linux. Other decent options are the Google Pixel which can't be repaired easily, I think OnePlus has some cheap options, and in general looking at used phones can be quite cheap assuming it's the cost you're after. If you want a repairable phone the only options I know of are the PinePhone and FairPhone.

[glossy sleet]

arent all phones based on linux? besides apple

[vagrant elk]

Android uses a fork of the Linux kernel so it is technically both Linux and not Linux.

Apple used a fork of BSD if I recall correctly.

Yeah, I just doublechecked. Apple is using a fork of BSD, Android is using a fork of Linux.

[young pecan]

Apple used Darwin which was forked from BSD originally and IOS was forked from OSx which in turn was forked from Darwin.

Lots of forks.

[vagrant elk]

Add enough forks and eventually you can't even call it the original.

[young pecan]

"What do you mean it's DOS?"

"Always has been"

[vagrant elk]

FairPhone only ships within Europe.

[empty wren]

If that is the price that is welcome change

[vagrant elk]

$750 is still a lot for a phone.

[young pecan]

Not really.

[empty wren]

I guess if we say phone yea

[vagrant elk]

I think the a series of Pixel phones are a couple hundred dollars cheaper right?

[young pecan]

Once logistics kick in it's a little above what I'd consider good.

[empty wren]

But if we say flagship then nah price is grear

[astral haven]

A series is alot cheaper
But on the other hand it's not flagship

Pixel 6 pro w more features

[vagrant elk]

I don't care about flagships, if I did I wouldn't have a PinePhone.

[empty wren]

Also add to mix a ton of top tier phones cost close to $1000 or more

Which I really do not see how it can be justified if it does not fold

[vagrant elk]

I just find phones over $500 to be expensive when I barely even use the device. It's just for me to send some messages, maybe do a couple calls and that's it.

[young pecan]

Folding is the most supreme gimmick, ngl.

[empty wren]

Ah fair enough den

[young pecan]

Needs to be WAY improved.

[astral haven]

Hey if it has a top tier soc, 5g, oled120hz, then 🤷‍♂️

[vagrant elk]

I know other people use their phones for everything though in which case a $750 phone can be justified.

[empty wren]

But they shove it down our throats

[young pecan]

Depends on the usecase. Personally I read a LOT on my phone, the screen and battery are nut for that usecase. Nice sharp text with an OLED display?

[astral haven]

And throw in a top tier sensor module then over 1k is fine

Or even 3

[young pecan]

I could do without any cameras, I think I've used mine twice in the last 4 years.

[empty wren]

Or 1440p lcd

[astral haven]

My phone has 4 top tier sensor modules and a throwaway one

[young pecan]

Yeet the cameras, they're actually pointless on a phone. Slim that bitch down or put better sensors in for facial detection.

[vagrant elk]

In that case, I'd say buying a $500+ phone can be justified. You actually use it a lot. In my case it just doesn't make sense.

[young pecan]

Read books, books good. :p

[astral haven]

Wut

Best camera is the camera you have

And uh
If that camera is actually capable? Even better

[vagrant elk]

I read books physically. I prefer owning the physical book because I'm weird and enjoy the feel of paper, hardback books, and so on.

[young pecan]

Fair enough.

[empty wren]

In today's time I guess it makes sense

[young pecan]

I far prefer digital. Makes just carrying them around better.

[vagrant elk]

I understand why reading things digitally is popular though. It's far more convenient.

[young pecan]

Sure but do you even use the camera for anything?

Taking pictures sure, but do you really seriously need the camera bar on the new Pixel, for example?

[empty wren]

Design element

And I already think multiple cameras is useless

[vagrant elk]

I don't use my camera on my phone for anything, I even disabled it with the dip switch and disconnected it from the motherboard. I had to leave it in though just to make it so that there wasn't an awkward hole in the top.

[astral haven]

Microscope, monocular, and actually taking pictures

[young pecan]

How often is anyone taking photos on a phone that need a great camera? That's the most counter intuitive nonsense in human history. If you're a serious enough photographer that you need something better...

Bruh.

[vagrant elk]

I prefer using an actual dedicated camera.

[young pecan]

Why are you even using a phone then? Even a tiny actual camera is going to spank the shit out of a phone.

[astral haven]

That's a 1mm by .6mm smd

[astral haven]

Ah but it wont

[young pecan]

It really super will.

[vagrant elk]

In almost every single case it will.

[young pecan]

Grandmother is a photographer professionally.

Her collection is amazing.

[astral haven]

Tiny camera have limitations

[vagrant elk]

I've only ever seen extremely niche cases where, without editing, the phone wins because of post-processing. Throw the camera's picture into some editing software and it wins.

[young pecan]

And they'll still be better than a phone just because of the lens distance.

[astral haven]

Again microscope and telescopic

[young pecan]

Anything even remotely expensive (going anywhere past $300 AUD) is going to absolutely ruin a phone.

[astral haven]

That's very much not true

Not without a lens collection

[young pecan]

Ngl that usecase doesn't seem like the thing you'd use a phone for, fixing micro components.

[glossy sleet]

fair phone will probably start shipping to other countries when they build another thing thing there

[young pecan]

That's more of a 'use a tool for it' moment.

[empty wren]

Ultra wide is better in my opinion and can do double duty

[astral haven]

Use an ultrawide that can macro

[vapid zodiac]

the phone cameras are very good for their size but still wont beat a proper sized sensor

[young pecan]

This.

Sensor size and lens distance play the biggest factor.

[vagrant elk]

You just need a lens for the use case.

[astral haven]

Find a microscope with a 12mp flagship tier sensor

[vapid zodiac]

just use a sem

[empty wren]

Most of the magic is software

[astral haven]

Not on opencamera

Which is what I use because it allows more zoom

[young pecan]

...

[empty wren]

But the real reason phone cameras are so good is because you can use filters and send it to Snapchat

[vagrant elk]

Who uses Snapchat?

[young pecan]

My guy, the sensor... no microscopes don't have a 12MP camera, but that isn't the point, yes?

A microscope doesn't record things with a sensor.

[empty wren]

Probably nobody anymore they killed the android audience and Instagram just pulled up and snatched them all

[vagrant elk]

Imagine using social media.

[astral haven]

These days you get a digital microscope

[young pecan]

Not all the time! I've actually managed to come across a fair few use cases that it really isn't needed.

Usually when you aren't professional.

But hey, if you're doing something for profession you should probably be using really nice equipment if you can.

[astral haven]

Yes but a digital microscope is better for your neck

[young pecan]

The customer is always the risk of a karen.

[empty wren]

Electron microscope

[astral haven]

And a digital conversion kit is the cost of a phone and a $20 bracket

[young pecan]

...

A phone with a 12MP camera being... how much remind me?

Between 500 and a grand or something, aye? (AUD)

[astral haven]

Something you already have

Again it's about the tool that you have on you

[young pecan]

Point being if you're doing component level repair for any reasonable amount of time it's probably a pretty worthwhile investment.

And a decent microscope for that job is a couple hundred or so.

And WAY better than a phone (which is both less good and more expensive) and an adapter.

[astral haven]

If I'm repairing a $200 nic it's cheaper for me to actually just buy the nic on eBay than to buy a microscope and fix it

[young pecan]

Not really.

Budget option is maybe 200 AUD.

Which is 140 USD.

Note also you'd have a good tool to fix future component death.

And hey, maybe the chip you need is between $10 and $50 or so.

[astral haven]

Ah but my time is worth something

And I'd also need a new component tester because my multimeter can't see this cap

[young pecan]

Indeed. Save time by having good tools if you're already going to do the job?

Actually how much is a component tester?

[empty wren]

Can be more useful than that

[astral haven]

Actually probably I'm just gonna return it lol

What

Periscope landscape???

[empty wren]

The camera that is square with mirrors in a phone

[astral haven]

Landscape is usually wide angle

Periscope is only useful for zooooom

[empty wren]

You could use it to take a picture of where you cannot go, but landscape is not the best word unless if vegetation is very abundant

Some areas are protected or I do not think anybody want to jump into the Grand canyon

[astral haven]

Anyways my phone goes from 16? to 110 mm physically (35mm equivalent)

[empty wren]

If only super resolution algorithms were present on phones would make more use of multiple cameras

[astral haven]

And my phone is smaller and lighter than every single one of my lenses

Even the cheapest Canon kit crap

Have you considered gcam?

[empty wren]

Yeah even on a camcorder a picture of a moon looks so good zoomed into even in digital

[astral haven]

Ah shoot the moon isn't out tonight

[empty wren]

What you wanted to become a wolfman tonight?

[astral haven]

I could show you what a phone can do

[empty wren]

Is it continuous long exposure

Or some kind of zoom?

[empty wren]

Oh interesting

[astral haven]

Here's a pic I took of the moon a few nights ago

[empty wren]

Just a question

You do not have a Huawei phone which pulls internet images and then gives you it as the shot taken of a moon?

[astral haven]

This was a few nights before that when the moon was red for some reason

[vagrant elk]

Discord compression really doesn't make the pictures look good.

[astral haven]

Nope
See the first image? That was me testing it

[astral haven]

Sure but these are waaaaaaay better than any camera I've owned can do

[empty wren]

Hmm can you upload that to google photos for a second?

[astral haven]

The problem is that you need 300mm equivalent
And those lenses are suuuuuper expensive

[astral haven]

Attached to my real name :/

[empty wren]

Ah nevermind

[young pecan]

Yeet it into dropbox or something?

Or Mega?

[astral haven]

They really aren't a whole ton better

It's all infinity focus in theory

[empty wren]

Still looks alright, acceptable with how much distance it looks to be from you

[astral haven]

If your infinity focus is calibrated well it should just work

Let's put it this way
My phone can outperform my eye at everything but speed

It can see smaller, zoom further, and record better

It can see better at night too

[astral haven]

And this is actually tough

Because if you have too large a sensor it will move too much for you to be able to take a clear image

[astral haven]

This is about what I see compensated

This is what my phone can make out

And this doesn't have a tripod

The big problem with large cameras (DSLR or milc) is that they cant stabilize for shit

[empty wren]

Hence why I see people carrying tripods

[astral haven]

Long exposures require a tripod with a full size camera

Easy as that

But that's not true for a cellphone

[empty wren]

Actually eh

[astral haven]

A good cellphone

[empty wren]

Yeah software can somewhqt compensate

But if you want a non blurry or messy photo still a tripod is good for phone long exposure

[astral haven]

No not even software compensation
I mean actually how phones do long exposure

[empty wren]

Like a minute?

Or how do you mean

[astral haven]

Gcam will take sequences of images then composite them in software

[empty wren]

Oh

[astral haven]

Digital cameras will physically expose the sensor for that period of time

[empty wren]

Ah

I see your point now

Though still I will say you can mess it up

[astral haven]

Ofc

But it's alot harder

[empty wren]

It can be made a lot harder with motion photos as well

[astral haven]

Yup but ibis doesn't really help with long exposures :/

I've seen comparisons

Like don't get me wrong a proper milc or DSLR will slaughter a phone in many circumstances

But the problem is that I have a phone on me now

And my very tiny camera weighs 6 pounds because of my microscopic collection of lenses

And God you have no idea how expensive close focusing lenses are

Fuck I just totalled it
If I spend any more money on my camera I'll have spent more on it than on my phone

And only 2 out of my 5 lenses support autofocus

[plush summit]

https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode

thankyou for comming to my ted talk

[empty wren]

This would be a great way to introduce edgy teens to coding

[fair gull]

no

[crimson wigeon]

yes

[pale sigil]

https://youtu.be/-ii8HCs6YGc

[chrome estuary]

Neat

My buddy is still talking about getting one. He had one reserved and I hope he can because I'll fuck around with it and see if I wanna buy one next batch

[pale sigil]

Well then

Both the benchmarks and Calder

XD

[timid chasm]

What's that video from?

[reef patrol]

Calder was on Toms a few weeks ago talking about Wooting and the 60HE

And got a bit of a grilling on analog in practice in games 😄

[timid chasm]

Is it worth watching if it's from Toms though?

[reef patrol]

You won't find any new information if you're from the Discord.

[timid chasm]

One of the few drawbacks, I guess

[fair gull]

we did get infos why theres no pink wooting

[wheat plume]

Pooting

[ashen spindle]

expansion https://twitter.com/aschilling/status/1443886114243239939

Andreas Schilling (@aschilling)

AMD will open a new design center in Iași (Romania). The teams there will focus on key design developments for future CPU core architectures and AMD Infinity Fabric.

Twitter · Oct 1, 2021, 10:30 AM

[crimson wigeon]

More designs that will be not available due to the shortage pagchomp

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/C3xeBlEuufw

[vagrant elk]

3D printing a PCB was the main part of the video that caught my attention. It sounds so interesting!

[wheat plume]

wait.....

HUH?!

but thats not one material, thats metal and plastic and whatnot

[vagrant elk]

Mhm, but in the video they said that some 3D printers can heat to over 300 degrees Centigrade and 3D print PCBs.

[reef tundra]

We can 3d print metal

legit

[vagrant elk]

I looked into it later and they weren't joking, it's an actual thing.

[wheat plume]

Woah

[reef tundra]

Machines just are a tad expensive..

100k range

[crimson wigeon]

Hopefully we can also print components soon, finally, a solution to the shortage

[reef tundra]

and 100 euro per kg of powder and up

[vagrant elk]

Not sure about the high-end 3D printers but the lower end ones use a metal/plastic mix to make the circuitry which is less electrically conductive than pure metal traces.

[vagrant elk]

Actually there are some with the capability of 3D printing PCBs that are only $1000.

They just use cheaper materials and are more limited in size.

[reef tundra]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintering#Sintering_of_metallic_powders

Not the ones which work with metal directly.

[vagrant elk]

I know, like I said above they use the cheaper materials. One of them is a material mixed with graphene so it's electrically conductive but not as much as metals. Mostly good for prototyping with the cheap printers, the big ones are if you want actual production-ready PCBs.

[reef patrol]

Multi head printing.

[reef tundra]

Graphene? Other than great performance in the lab it has yet to show its use for the cost

[reef patrol]

Not like your inkjet printer is printing one colour at a time either, or the plumbing would clog and mix up for weird hues.

[reef tundra]

Remember to get a hardend nozzle with reinforced filament :) brass is pretty soft

[vagrant elk]

Graphene was used in a mixture with other materials to make it conductive but it's far more common to make a weird mix of other materials to get the same effect.

[reef tundra]

Charcoal finely ground up not enough?

[vagrant elk]

There are various conductive filaments available today. For 2D prints, the most commonly used material is ink containing a metal such as silver. As well as this, conductive variants of most filaments exist, such as ABS, PLA, HIPS, or TPU. These filaments contain graphene, which allows them to conduct electricity, although not as well as metals.

https://all3dp.com/2/pcb-3d-printer-all-about-3d-printed-circuit-boards/

[reef tundra]

Marketing.. wait.. is it technically containing graphene? A pencil is technically making graphene

[vagrant elk]

I was mostly just quoting this article.

[reef tundra]

What is the resistivity of the filament anyway?

[vagrant elk]

I actually don't know, the article doesn't say unfortunately.

The cheaper 3D printers for PCBs use filaments with graphene or ink that has silver in it. The more expensive ones do actual metal traces.

[reef tundra]

I wouldnt even bother if electroplate coating would be adequete. Might serve as base to stick the copper/silver/other metal to 🤔

[old marlin]

even then you need multi nozzle machines

[vagrant elk]

I just thought the technology was really interesting and that I'd share.

I feel like PCB prototyping would be extremely good with the cheaper printers. Yes, they require multiple nozzles but they would be extremely good for quickly making board changes and arriving at a final version faster than waiting for production somewhere in the world and shipping.

[reef tundra]

You can do it all in with one nozzle, but do have to deal with lots of purging of the filament and loading, changing temp potentially. Somewhere in the 50% would be just to purge the material iirc

[vagrant elk]

Worth noting as well that it's possible to 3D print the PCB and do the traces with a separate machine or by hand if you so desired.

[reef tundra]

Can do some light cnc work if you have the know how

[vagrant elk]

You just have to leave trenches for the traces.

[reef tundra]

Just dont hope to cut steel :)

[vagrant elk]

Well with 3D printing there is no CNC work required. Just put trenches in the model being printed and it'll leave trenches for you.

[reef tundra]

Can do both ;)

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/qEKFgNhLEsg

Maybe I should learn Rust

[reef tundra]

For the controller there is no absolute difference, all it knows is move motors and read sensors. Add or remove material 🤷 that is up to the realworld with the toolhead to deal with

[vagrant elk]

Rust is a really good language, just don't tell Richard Stallman that you want to learn it or he will give you a lesson on free software.

[reef tundra]

Hmm, reminds me that the gcode for cnc and 3d printing differ in meaning but not sure.

oh, and make sure the slicer doesnt make too much short movements after eachother enforcing some minimal distance. Helps with arcs and curves mostly

[vagrant elk]

Pinch, I thought WordPress was a meme but it's actually based.

Lazy web development, plugins let you use any payment processor, and it's cheap. Perfect for someone lazy like me.

[reef tundra]

Just avoid Paypal is all I can say for sure

[vagrant elk]

Mhm! That's why I refused to use Square and Squarespace. They technically allow me to open a store in Iceland but only if I used PayPal exclusively which is a horrible idea.

[reef tundra]

Would rather deal with direct bank transfers than paypal

[vagrant elk]

The goal was to have a website provider that is:

1.) Cheap
2.) Has options for payment processors and doesn't force PayPal
3.) Is reasonable and ideally doesn't skim more money off the top of every transaction

In the case of WordPress it's dirt cheap and it lets me use basically any payment processor, many of which support Icelandic businesses. It also doesn't force user tracking on my website and doesn't skim money off the top of purchases.

[reef tundra]

😎 If it works and client aint complaining

[vagrant elk]

If there are bugs I can fix them myself Pinch! It's open-source too! 😄

[fair gull]

maybe you should learn go

maybe swift

maybe c

[crimson wigeon]

Nah Rust is the end all be all language, eventually everything will be rewrittten in it and it'll make all software finally perfect and not suck

[fair gull]

rust succ

[sage lodge]

rust is c++ but we focused on memory safety and being usable for everything

so rust is a language that literally does it all, from hardware to web dev

[reef tundra]

Memory management aint too hard, keep those pointers in check :)

[sage lodge]

ah not memory management. memory safety, rust is inherently memory safe and you have to try to mess it up (and even then likely won’t). it does have memory management if you like that though

[crimson wigeon]

But I like subtly clobbering memory without even realizing it only to have it bite me way down the line

[hardy idol]

im wondering do people like the Spatha X mouse

it's very big

[old marlin]

it is also an absolutely unwieldy shape

and weighs about twice as much as a mouse it's size and volume should weigh

even if you don't try to make it lightweight

[hardy idol]

yeah i thought that

[old marlin]

it is like 189g or something

not to mention that it took them ages to use even a somewhat recent sensor

[hardy idol]

haha yeah

but what mouse would be the best mouse currently?

still the G PRO X Superlight?

[old marlin]

there is no "best mouse"

[hardy idol]

yeah okay but

best go to mouse

[old marlin]

comes down to what you want

might be the gpx for you

might be the razer viper ultimate

might just be the viper mini as well

finalmouse sl12 is good as well buy bs to get

I personally prefer the cox cm600 over my other mice

but it is a pain to get and is kinda odd in general

[sage lodge]

logi g502 has stayed consistently good since it’s not meant to be light, a lot of other similar mice are well regarded

[hardy idol]

I always liked my gladius II Origin
I now have a Rival 710 and idk it's so incredibly meh

[sage lodge]

logitech still has a distinct advantage with free scroll mousewheel

[old marlin]

ah

you mean what the basilisk v3 has

but worse

still don't see the point in it though

suuuuper niche use case

and worse than drag scrolling in 9/10 cases

[reef tundra]

OS makes sure that memory is never violated Even gives a nice segmentation error to tell ya about it, (core dumped)

[old marlin]

what about gladius 3

looks like shit now

[hardy idol]

I dont know?

[hardy idol]

Bruh

[old marlin]

asus designers got inspired by 90s cars

[reef tundra]

Agree

[old marlin]

and now everything looks washed round

[sage lodge]

it has about 2 use cases: 40+ page pdfs, and breaking videogames

[old marlin]

drag scrolling is better for pdfs

faster and more accurate

and you can "break" few games with it

[reef tundra]

page up and down 👀

[old marlin]

those that you can just make a macro for it

[wheat plume]

If I get a cheap ass wifi card just to get its antenne, will those antenne be as good as the one that came with my motherboard?

[hardy idol]

I'm pretty sure that the Gladius III technically isn't too bad

but ok

Also

[sage lodge]

macros are usually banned

[wheat plume]

cause the one withj my motherobard has a wire and just sits on my computer

[reef tundra]

Larger antenna are better at receiving signals in general

[old marlin]

how does a game know if it is a macro or a physical wheel spinning

if the input comes from the mouse

[wheat plume]

physical size?

[hardy idol]

Also I'm kinda
Falchoin keyboard is sooo sick

[sage lodge]

repeatability and consistency

[old marlin]

if macros are banned so should be "physical macros"

[sage lodge]

physical spin has drag

[old marlin]

physical spin activates at every possible interval

you only can activate every so often

and even then

what games do you break

that have safeguards for things like that

[sage lodge]

borderlands 2 breaks really nicely

[old marlin]

does not have macro detection

or even bans macros

since you know

singleplayer game

[reef tundra]

As long as the wavelength and antenna length are matching at some semi-tone but: external antenna > pcb antenna. More power to allow signal detection and generation

[sage lodge]

so does any shooter where semi auto uses mouse clicks and has a max fire rate, scroll wheel saves your hand from carpal tunnel

[sage lodge]

speed running does though

[wheat plume]

The one that came with my motherboard is external but its attached to a long cable that plugs into the back of the computer so I need to rest it ontop of the computer

I want to get the ones that just plug into the back directly

[old marlin]

then the rules are

just like in minecraft

hardware abuse and software abuse should be equally bannable

you don't actively press the button by spinning a wheel really quick

[sage lodge]

the only game that allows a macro for that kind of thing is Doom, where the rate at which you spin the wheel actually affects the outcome so they just made a macro to make it fair

[old marlin]

if I was in such a community I would comically abuse it until it gets banned

aka

make a giant flywheel

with an optical encoder attached

and activate the LED on it with a foot pedal or something

[sage lodge]

borderlands is frame rate limited/game speed limited (and it’s mostly for carpal tunnel prevention since you can achieve the same result from a mouse click or dual binds)

[old marlin]

attach a fast mcu

and make 4k button presses a second

why are dual binds allowed

but not macros

still bs

[sage lodge]

cause the game allows them

[old marlin]

also have fun until shitty drag click lords get to it

clicking at 50+ clicks per second

[sage lodge]

dual binds as in bind 2 buttons to the same action

[old marlin]

coming from a game that doesn't recognize more than 7 a second

point stands

hardware abuse should be as bannable as software abuse

[reef tundra]

Try and see if it works, most important metric is amount of corrections/requests to resend you get. Reliability is the metric. The photons still go at the speed of light :)

[wheat plume]

I just swapped my antenne with the ones that dont have a wire my friend has and my connection is a lot slower

its just two antennea connected to the mobo ports

and its down to the same speed my mobile hotspot has

[sage lodge]

the other thing is, the hardware just allows the glitch to be performed more consistently or easier. not any true advantage since the actual speed limit in the game at that point is the enemy spawn timers

[reef tundra]

Not sure if impedance would be relavent.. impedence matching is fun i tell myself

[wheat plume]

🤔

[old marlin]

same with software though?

[reef tundra]

If not mentioned I assume it to be standard and non-relevent for wifi antenna

[sage lodge]

sure? macros are mostly banned for sequencing purposes, not repeatability purposes

[old marlin]

so why ban macros that just repeat a keypress

[sage lodge]

if you made a macro that performed at the same speed as the free scroll mouse wheel nobody would care

[old marlin]

and what hinders me from making a hardware sequencer to press buttons

[old marlin]

ah

[sage lodge]

the macro rule also bans that

[old marlin]

which you can do

in logitech software

[reef tundra]

Why dont everyone use macros if it so OP?

[old marlin]

or any decent macro software

?

[sage lodge]

in DOOM they required people use a macro with set timings for their version of the free scroll trick

[reef tundra]

you can also have the macros the other players are using, software baby

[sage lodge]

so nobody had an advantage or disadvantage

the general idea of the rules is that anything that is simply repeated presses of the same key is free scrollable but something like a menuing macro would be banned

[old marlin]

so why do you need scroll wheels

if a macro that imitates the inputs of a scrollwheel would be ok

[sage lodge]

the other thing the free scroll hardware does is limit you to only 2 inputs on that wheel at once

so if you want to do 3 things at that speed, no can do

also, in the multiplayer speed runs it facilitates one of the more clever tricks where you drop 20 fake copies of the gun you’re holding

[reef tundra]

I would let macros be, use em if you think its the meta. Any setup can be copied by others if they want to.. :)

[sage lodge]

the general rule is one button press = one in game input

which is pretty fair

the wooting multi actuation point macros kinda break that rule? so idk if they’d be allowed

[reef tundra]

Especially at professional level with all the hardware made identical 🤷 The crowd wants the best gamers in the competition

[sage lodge]

the other reason scroll wheels are allowed is since you can do it non free scroll, it’s just harder

[old marlin]

which is bs

forces you to use certain hardware

"just build the giant flywheel that can input a 4k inputs a second"

"just write a software that can do the inputs for you"

although those are both less intrusive in how you play the game ig

[sage lodge]

nah, there are categories which don’t use it, and also have you ever seen a bl2 speedrun? game’s busted

[reef tundra]

Its most interresting when the rules are more lax for me. More adapting strategies and scene.

[sage lodge]

yeah, the scroll thing dates back to hl2 bhops

[reef tundra]

As long as anyone can do the same, it is all fair game to me

[old marlin]

yes

anyone can write the macro, build the flywheel and buy the g502 as much as the next one can

[sage lodge]

i think most games where it’s permitted, it’s not the thing that actually makes the speedrun work

[reef tundra]

Exploits would be fine, if anyone can use it and isnt some instant win kind of deal

[sage lodge]

that’s why DOOM requires a macro, since it’s what makes the speedrun so fast

not using it is an instant disadvantage

same reason some games are ran with an fps cap

[old marlin]

not having a free spinning scrollwheel does in bl2

unless you wanna get health issues

not really a compromise

[reef tundra]

🤷 They choose to not do the macro, they lost fair and square. *if they had the opportunity

[old marlin]

you could argue that TAS is legal for normal runs with that logic

[sage lodge]

nope. movement and spawn timers is what makes or breaks that run.

[old marlin]

so mouse choice should be irrelevant

[reef tundra]

%any

[sage lodge]

you can also do it by spamming buttons (some people do)

[old marlin]

so you either use a stupid method, a method that risks your health or use a mouse that you don't wanna use but are kinda forced to

nice

[sage lodge]

you can also use a normal mouse wheel

[reef tundra]

Some people do that kind of random things

[sage lodge]

the game only allows a certain amount of inputs per tick

so over some number it doesn’t matter

[old marlin]

ok

so the free spinning aspect of the wheel is irrelevant

[sage lodge]

just makes it more comfortable

[old marlin]

aka the whole feature is useless

[sage lodge]

i use free scroll more for textbook pdfs

[reef tundra]

Also keep in mind that professional level/athletes is the only place it would matter enough to bother

[old marlin]

aka

holding mmb and dragging your mouse

but worse

well yes

but the people that make the rules are the ones that abuse it

[reef tundra]

Having a computer also assists in the situation

[old marlin]

until someone takes the stupidity of the rules to a peak

[old marlin]

no that is required

[reef tundra]

That is not a if, but when

[old marlin]

yes

aka

the giany flywheel

inputting stuff at superhuman speeds

but you started turning it with your own power

so it is completely legal

ig

[reef tundra]

You would have to sacrifice the ability to more finely tune with macros, and a button which could have done another task instead. I guess so long as the input are initiated by the players. Someone has to choose to the end result

[pale sigil]

Put the fifth leg on for mh desk

Hopefully it helps

[umbral knot]

I want a new desk, my current one is awful

Mine is a ikea desk but it's a curved corner desk

I want a L shaped desk

[reef tundra]

Would need to limit aimbot, wallhacks and the like though, bots can keep doing that. Hmm, probably for its nature to remove any skill and ending up with two scripts playing against eachother, taking the tactics, outsmaring and whatnot out of the game. Those tend to be the exciting moments in pro gaming for me

[reef tundra]

Make one

[umbral knot]

u rite

I become lumberboi and cut my own tree and everything

[reef tundra]

Indeed and while you are at it make society 2 it really needs a sequel

[sage lodge]

this is literally a thing people do in cs go, hack vs hack

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/naiP2Y-OCWU

[reef patrol]

Not clickbait, gone sexual

[wheat plume]

I love Wulff Den

and no, its not clickbait

[reef patrol]

But it DID go sexual?

[wheat plume]

hes playing with joysticks

if ya know what I mean

Achieved with CryEngine
Warface - 2021

[ashen spindle]

no way

crytek using the cryengine for a game?

[wheat plume]

ikr!!

Who'd'a'thunk'it?!

First time playing an FPS game on Switch, here we go!

(after I wait for the loading to happen)

hmmm..... what variety of basic white man do I wanna be?

oh, one black guy also...nice

[reef tundra]

Oh no, think about the children, wait no. oh no.. little timmy .. oh no.. atleast.. the horror

anyways here is some folklore about a some monster going to terrify you at night rated all ages

[reef tundra]

Could hide some ... flour ... as well :)
so good it is made criminal :)

[wheat plume]

Mine hasn't gotten too warm at all

Oo

Makes sense

[reef tundra]

Liquid nitrogen nothing can get warm dont forget to refill ;)

[wheat plume]

:')

[reef tundra]

Fans tend to not do much in terms of cooling, just move air and release some waste heat for entropy

it does cool better than standing air would who knows why aerodynamics works 🤷 We make plane anyway

[vagrant elk]

Worth noting that there are still arguments between people that claim C is better than C++ and vice versa. Zig is another language similar to Rust that focuses on memory safety but is more akin to C. Unfortunately it isn't at version 1.0 yet but I think it will be nice to have a language that is essentially a new C++ and another language which is essentially a new C.

[crimson wigeon]

And I still am keeping an eye on Zig

[vagrant elk]

Pinch is a chieftain now? What did I miss?

[reef tundra]

Rude to let your pointers just hang without a free to keep it company

[vagrant elk]

Rude to meet me in person and not give me a hug.

[crimson wigeon]

I just don't like Rust at all

Well, I like some of the ideas but the language echh and the gorillions of microdependencies

[vagrant elk]

Rust is a good language but it has the same issue that C++ has: you struggle to read other people's code in a lot of cases. I prefer C solely due to the readability of the language and how easy it is for other developers to come along and understand your code.

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/correct-yes-yeah-yep-youre-god-damn-righ-gif-5154822

[crimson wigeon]

I just want to try this simple looking TUI app whoops it just took forever to compile and ate a whole goddamn GiB of storage

[vagrant elk]

But Rust would be a great addition to the Linux kernel! Finally something to make my computer blow up!

[reef tundra]

Wont show you Mars then, wont be too impressive then ;(

[crimson wigeon]

Best is when a dependent crate somewhere uses a native library except an old incompatible version and I'm not even sure how to get started patching that

[vagrant elk]

I have issues with Rust as a language, I'm waiting for Zig to reach the 1.0 release and then I'll learn the language since it is literally a drop-in memory-safe C replacement.

Rust is a good language, don't get me wrong, but it has issues. Centralised repositories is one that bothers me.

[reef tundra]

Have you heard about the magic of #DEFINE and \ preprocessor go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[vagrant elk]

I have! Zig completely removes #DEFINE, pre-processor macros and other stuff that makes code hard to read.

[crimson wigeon]

Zig got that comptime magic yo

[reef tundra]

Ill place them in the middle of the code then, without any comments why the numbers are what they are, great for larger projects and causing huge headaches for production to deal with :)

[vagrant elk]

Just stole this from the Zig website.

[reef tundra]

They bound to forget to edit every magic variable eventually.. 😈

[vagrant elk]

The fact that Zig supports so many architectures so easily is really appealing to me.

It might actually give me a reason to get a development machine that runs Power9 or RISC-V.

[crimson wigeon]

Also actually caring about being bootstrappable

[vagrant elk]

I just need to keep an eye on their development surrounding other architectures. Some are working fine while others are in a rough spot right now. I think 1.0 will have all of them working though.

[reef tundra]

The OS already gracefully guides your error to the error message which caused it to drop the process core dumped :)

[vagrant elk]

I always knew you were sus.

[reef tundra]

Walt, you seeming kinda sus lately..

[vagrant elk]

Nobody says they are the least sus unless they are the most sus.

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/idk-walt-sus-sussy-baka-gif-21929026

You see, the imposter would be looking for someone to put their suspicious on. Crewmates do tasks.. take a seat Walt we are voting red first

https://tenor.com/view/why-hit-the-emergency-button-red-is-sus-reddy-is-sus-reddy-is-sus-among-us-among-us-gif-18673500

Evidence speaks for itself, doesnt it

[vagrant elk]

Believe it or not, I never played Among Us.

[reef tundra]

I was too busy doing C to play the game

Turns out the compiler didnt lie

It is always correct

[vagrant elk]

C is better than C++.

[reef tundra]

Embedded microprocessors might ignore your instructions 🤷 because it just hates working the first time

[vagrant elk]

Pinch I'm starting to think that I'm an idiot. In the future if I ever started making PCBs I'm thinking I'd use SiFive's RISC-V processors.

[reef tundra]

Once couldnt read a floating variable because it didnt have expliicitly defination of 0

[reef tundra]

128 bits integers are required! refuses to eleborate - client

[vagrant elk]

I was more so thinking that with SiFive's RISC-V processors you can specify exactly what you need for an MCU or something else and get a processor which is capable of exactly what you need.

They actually have the E31 and E34 which are intended for specifically signal processing and are intended for use as an MCU.

[shadow minnow]

Don’t think you can combine different cores yet though. Also the price would probably be… and possibly lot less pre made software too

[reef tundra]

E-mail with random usecase with vague details follows on monday 🤷 Yea.. had one that wanted to keep the algorithm secret and in software :) It ended, cant program what I dont know lmao

[vagrant elk]

Unfortunately you can't combine cores but the cost is relatively comparable to ARM, or at least through what I have seen. I could be wrong and maybe RISC-V is more than 3x more expensive, I don't know, it's been a long time since I last checked.

[reef tundra]

Imagine learning C to one day learn about some magic algorithm to yoink

[shadow minnow]

I mean, especially coat of custom risc soc vs of shelf arm.

[vagrant elk]

ARM and RISC-V processors are good for MCUs though assuming you are pushing the electronics to their limit with 8000hz and such.

[reef tundra]

OS can deal with that mess

[vagrant elk]

I just think that RISC-V has one major advantage over ARM which is the ability to specify the exact amount of cache you need, whether or not the debug console is easy to access or requires a password, what kind of cache you want, how many floating points you need and so on.

You can tailor it to your exact needs which is nice but I'm sure the customisation would cost a lot more than a standard ARM CPU.

[reef tundra]

Interrupts are the magic thing, maybe.. dont want to have interrupt enabled when doing multi-core/threaded workloads things get wacky

Interrupts are a little.. instant

Atleast with AVR they do

[astral haven]

They aren't on any ooe cpus

[reef tundra]

😈 Function stacks might be getting real wacky

That is where you use have global interrupt enable to get it to chill sometimes

Dont forget to have interrupts enabled when sleeping. Else it wont turn on any longer

Reset or the programmer can fix the oopsy luckly hehe

[reef tundra]

FPGAs would be more the solution for those kind of needs

overengineered calculator

[shadow minnow]

Technically it’s all just binary calculators

[shadow minnow]

Computer does not want to detect my calculator so I can’t install doom on it 😦

[reef tundra]

Subtraction is the only instruction needed for turing complete algorithms

[pale sigil]

Found some old pics

This is why I don't enjoy buying second hand xD

[reef patrol]

That's an odd laptop

[reef patrol]

Ohh. It's a ps4

[pale sigil]

Ye xD

[reef tundra]

Shiny

[reef patrol]

Couldn't recognise it till you posted the fan.

[reef tundra]

A real fan of fans

[reef patrol]

Afraid to open my PS3 and see what's inside. Or how bad the situation is with the dead BD drive and cracked shell.

[pale sigil]

Well sadly I bought from a smoker

Which I didn't know

:(

[reef tundra]

Turn that frown upside down

[reef patrol]

Ugh... Might as well replace the entire fan unit. And drop the entire case and motherboard in IPA

Dang smoke tar and shit

[pale sigil]

Even the controller was pretty poo but I only paid £120 back in 2018

Its alright these days

[reef tundra]

Better than early models of the xbox 360 :)

[fair gull]

actually in the right channel now

phew glad i remembered the fuckin shortcut for help section

yet again i beseech thee and question if i shall get a b100 or g502 until my g100s is fixed

[old marlin]

b100

What even broke on your g100s

[fair gull]

the usb connector

[old marlin]

Oof

[fair gull]

pins somehow got loose

and pressed out

[old marlin]

You can use a b100 cable in it

[fair gull]

ripped the pads and all

i wish it was the cable

i really do

[old marlin]

Wait

The JST plug

On the pcb

[fair gull]

yes

[old marlin]

Had that happen on a viper ultimate

They use an SMD plug for sidebuttons

And the plug sits tighter than the soldered connection

[fair gull]

horrible death

i just soldered in new chinese shit aswell

like literally

disassembled it for new switches

disassembled the entire shell to get all the grime off

wanted to reassemble

went in buttery smooth

mouse no work

disassembled

connector borked

[old marlin]

Just buy some g90 from aliexpress

They cost 15€ each

Same mouse as g100s

Besides color and skates

Which you don't even use

[fair gull]

i only want the pcb anyway

guess ill order 1 or 2

[old marlin]

Wait

Can't you just soldern on a new plug

Or did it rip the pads off

[fair gull]

pads ripped

[old marlin]

Oof

[fair gull]

check the pic

u can even see them up on the pins

[old marlin]

Ah

[fair gull]

welp

almost 8yrs of service

for 20bucks

no 30

if i count the omrons

what switches come on the chinese g90

[old marlin]

I think 10m omrons

I would just order some d2f-01f anyways

[fair gull]

so imma replace em immediately

still unsure about the aliexpress jap omrons

most of them either have the definite wrong pic

or confusing article names

imma hope for a distrib to get some back in stock

[old marlin]

They should be named as d2f-01f

[fair gull]

they are

[old marlin]

There are fake omeons

But afaik only fake 50ms

[fair gull]

but also mention tons of other omron models

the pic is of some random chinese one

and then idk what it is

g90 it is

first b100 till i get em

[shadow minnow]

Apparently could install Tetris, chess, doom, Pokémon crystal and many other games on mine

But only have old MacBook Air for some time with me and it refuses to detect it smh

[fair gull]

b100 shit

too fast

[wheat plume]

👀

Dafuq is this pricing?

[crimson wigeon]

Super

[wheat plume]

mmm, is so sexy 🤤

/s

[pale sigil]

@wheat plume prob still runs better than yours

[wheat plume]

its got an RTX card

Yes, yes it does

[pale sigil]

Probably won't survive as long as yours though

Cd

[wheat plume]

nope! cause that motherboard is custom build and useless outside of this specific case

[pale sigil]

Dell?

[wheat plume]

HP

[fair gull]

was about to say

[pale sigil]

Not surprised

[fair gull]

only hp does the 1 mobo shit

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/4OZGmWZyhac

[fair gull]

where front io is literally motherboard

[wheat plume]

^

[pale sigil]

Ah

[fair gull]

https://discordjs.moe/gpncewa143n7.png

[pale sigil]

Didn't notice that

[fair gull]

fucking stupidest shit ever

like why

[crimson wigeon]

Lockin

[fair gull]

i mean depending on the price of that pc

id just buy it for a gpu

[wheat plume]

$1430

[fair gull]

lol

[wheat plume]

with RTX 2060 Super

and 10th gen intel

32gb ram

[pale sigil]

Lmao

Fuck that

[fair gull]

so -70 for the 3060

put it to mining

wait a few months

its paid off

gg

[wheat plume]

idk why tf the 3060 is cheaper

[fair gull]

dont question just buy product

[crimson wigeon]

As I said, super

[wheat plume]

Gamer Nexus: "It's a timeless design... It could be from any decade!"

True.....

[fair gull]

timelessly shit

[wheat plume]

Indeed

[pale sigil]

Considering it has an m2 slot

Couldn't be from any time xd

Unless that's WiFi

[wheat plume]

he taking about aesthetics xd

Yes, I think it was wifi

[fair gull]

even with wifi it cant be from any time

there was mini pcie

way before m2

[wheat plume]

Alienware have a neat GPU support thingy

thats the best thing I can say about this computer though

[ashen spindle]

seriously you need a get a live twitter/blog going for your youtube blogging

[shadow minnow]

Not looking the best though tbh. Most GPU supports don’t even though some mounted next to mobo can look pretty good.

[pale sigil]

Prefer this sort of mount I got with my GPU

[wheat plume]

Ahh, eye bleach <3

[pale sigil]

My biggest regret is not getting white ram

[young pecan]

Those cables are nightmare.

Omfg please straighten them out.

[pale sigil]

Which ones

[young pecan]

GPU.

[pale sigil]

Ye that's cos I was working in the back. And they were loose

XD

[young pecan]

[pale sigil]

Tho the have their limits sadly

I knew there was something off

Looking back at old pics and just realised my cooler pipes are not as clean xD

I can't fix it till. Tomoz

I'm triggered

[fair gull]

i thought ur biggest regret is 30series rtx card

which is why u hide the number behind cables

[pale sigil]

XD

I've grown to love it

Especially in the current market

[crisp granite]

that was both a shitty price and a good price for the GPU

shitty because it should have never been 800 quid, but good because you'd probably be paying 1000 or more otherwise

[young pecan]

rolls eyes

1.5 atm.

[young pecan]

I’ve made enough crypto to buy about 9 GPUs so far. :p

[fair gull]

[fair gull]

wait so u can buy a SE for me

dont need to pay 300eur myself

[shadow minnow]

Need windows to get Pokémon or super Mario on my calculator 😦

[empty wren]

You can use boot camp lol

[shadow minnow]

Not simple on a most likely pre 2010 MacBook Air with most keys on kb not working, trackpad barely usable…

[empty wren]

Bruh

[shadow minnow]

It’s just basically non usable for anything. You can’t use keyboard and barely can input anything with trackpad, and since I also don’t have mouse and kb with me yet…

[empty wren]

I find it ironic you an apple fanboy that bought almost every PC part minus gpu due to inflation did not get it fixed.

[shadow minnow]

My pc works just don’t have it with me

[solar hinge]

My mom sometimes needs to restart my pc in belgium, as it hangs itself from time to time and she mentions it when friends are over 😁 so I did this

No more complaining 😋 😋

[shadow minnow]

Also I am for sure an apple fan but would not say a fanboy. Also my pc experience is not that bad. Sometimes can help others with pc issues I have never had, just most of my issues…
My new 11900k just died. My ram sometimes behaves lot better on lower timings. Just how?

[misty saffron]

what, a fangirl then?

[shadow minnow]

A fan grill. No more dust.

[iron wave]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CASELABS IS BACK!

https://youtu.be/EgR9KCphReY

The new owner is working on getting things running.

[young pecan]

Oh I am so ready for caselabs. Wanted something from them for ages. :D

Hmm.

How much are we thinking they'll cost? Fuckloads of demand for them since they're caselabs and even before caselabs couldn't produce many cases at once.

Probably a few grand initially.

[fair gull]

why does it hang itself tho... no suicide pcs in my vicinity

[solar hinge]

Occasionally it shares a room with a macbook

[fair gull]

oh understandable then

[wheat plume]

Can you use a banks authentication app on a tablet to approve an online purchase?

Because you don't have a smartphone

[reef tundra]

Try and see 🤷

[ashen spindle]

banks dont all use the same app so how are we supposed to know

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

How remove the keyboard language thing on the taskbar? I only have one language pack installed

[ashen spindle]

does it only show you one when you click on it?

[wheat plume]

English: US
English: Ireland (Irish)
English: Ireland (US)

Wut...

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/linux-linux-is-better-why-linux-is-better-shitdos-windows-gif-19494703

[wheat plume]

My keyboard is us layout

[ashen spindle]

so fix your language settings and it wont show up if you really only have 1 left

[wheat plume]

It is the only one

[crimson wigeon]

You add the languages and keyboard layouts that show up in the taskbar, then remove them

Or just don't bother because sooner or later they'll come back to haunt you

[wheat plume]

.-. that's backwards

[ashen spindle]

idfk what that menu even is never seen that one lol

[wheat plume]

Windows 11

[crimson wigeon]

Daamn 12 already

[wheat plume]

Xd

I had to enable "Use the desktop language bar when it's available" option

[reef patrol]

That language bar has been there since XP as long as you have chosen more than one keyboard layout in Windows.

An interface language includes a keyboard layout unless you head into control panel again and clean up.

[wheat plume]

Hmm

Why does it have that sun and clouds there

[vagrant elk]

CaseLabs is coming back and Wolfgang released a new video? Today is awesome! 😄

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qACTvCW_yDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qACTvCW_yDc

He has an Odysee account too but I'm not on Odysee right now.

[wheat plume]

Ohh
That guy!

Gentoo install ASMR guy xd

https://youtu.be/CopPj3S3YQ0

[reef patrol]

Long ass video description and no parts list.
2/10

[young pecan]

"JuSt dO YOuR OWn pArT lIsT"

[reef patrol]

[vagrant elk]

He is the definition of a distribution hopper. Not too long ago he did a video on why he was switching to Mac, then his next video was corebooting a Thinkpad T430 in the forest and using Linux on it.

[reef patrol]

[vagrant elk]

He has also swapped between PopOS, Slackware, Debian, BSD, MacOS, and more in a single video before.

Can't remember which one it was but it was quite interesting.

[wheat plume]

O.o

[reef tundra]

Lies, it cannot be the perfect home server build

[reef patrol]

So... Where do I suggest new distros? Cause we gotta get him to install AmogOS

[wheat plume]

Yes xd

[vagrant elk]

He's done 3 home server builds if I remember right, this one included of course.

They normally have a lifespan of around 6 months, then he explains why the last one was a terrible idea and makes a new one.

One of them was a laptop motherboard retrofitted into a NAS.

[wheat plume]

O.o

[reef patrol]

I mean as long as each build improves from the last... xD

The whole "So what have we learned?" part of Tech youtube is very rare.

[vagrant elk]

Wolfgang is weird. His Mac video was complaining about how heavy old ThinkPads are, nothing else competes, etc. and then the next video he explains why he will never leave old ThinkPads behind.

[reef tundra]

Compiler compiling the new compiler

[reef patrol]

[vagrant elk]

I just love how he's self-aware but continues doing stuff that way anyway.

Around a year ago he made a video on why Distribution hopping is a giant waste of time and despite that he distribution hops almost every video.

[wheat plume]

Yep xd

[reef tundra]

Running a ponzi scheme and admitting scamming my audience (as a millionaire)

[vagrant elk]

I found the TechLead viewer.

[reef tundra]

nah

[vagrant elk]

I just realised that without knowing any better I bought a Corsair AX850 Titanium power supply and somehow, without knowing anything, it is apparently one of the best PSUs for ripple, safeguards, and overclocking.

[reef patrol]

[vagrant elk]

At the time of building this PC I bought some of the better overclocking parts on the market such as the motherboard and RAM. To be honest I just sorted power supplies by 80 Plus rating which I now know thanks to Gamers Nexus that it is NOT a way to determine which power supply you should buy.

I am actually extremely happy that I accidentally got a good power supply. Looking at the box it's safe for use in all countries by just replacing the power cord. That's huge if I ever decide to move.

[crimson wigeon]

Most (decent) power supplies are like that

[reef tundra]

Proper switching power supplies with feedback.

[crimson wigeon]

Took you that long to type that out huh

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/andycringe-alex-jones-minecraft-gaming-gif-16682554

[vagrant elk]

Motherboard: ASROCK C236WSI
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100
RAM: 2x 16GB DDR3 ECC
Hard Drives: 3x Shucked external drives (My Book from WD, 6TB each)
SSD: 1TB SATA SABRENT (no model number provided)
Boot Drive: 128GB SATA drive (no name or model number provided)
Case: Streacom DA2
CPU Cooler: Noctua L9i
Power Supply: Corsair SF450
NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-3 CX311A
KVM: Raspberry Pi with PiKVM for remote management if something goes wrong
Fans: Random 140mm Noctua fans he had lying around
Total Cost: 755 Euros (The US and UK keyboard layouts don't have Euros or I'm dumb)

Yes I re-watched parts of the videos numerous times to get the parts. Couldn't tell if you actually wanted the parts list or not.

[reef patrol]

I didn't actually want the parts list. I was scoffing at how the MAIN thing you'd want in the damn video description was the fucking thing he was building, not what monitor arm he uses 😛

[vagrant elk]

Well, I potentially wasted a good 5 extra minutes. Oh well, maybe someone else wants them.

[reef patrol]

[vagrant elk]

He tends to forget to put a parts list so it's quite common for him to make a video like that, get backlash in the comments asking for a list, and then he creates one.

[pale sigil]

its so stupid geforce now stopped supporting 144hz

[vagrant elk]

Wait what?

[pale sigil]

during the beta test

[vagrant elk]

But why?

[pale sigil]

it supported higher resolutions and refresh rate

[reef patrol]

Less bandwidth, tigher latency

I assume anyway.

[vagrant elk]

I guess they are cutting that back so that they have more resources for more people to play games?

Companies love money.

Mansen I have a question about Case Labs. I've heard of them, I've heard nothing but good things about them, but they were out of business before I built my PC. Weren't they mostly custom water cooling cases due to being huge?

Might be thinking of the wrong company.

Started watching the Gamers Nexus video and they were an expensive, American-made case manufacturer known for their quality, modularity, and high prices. Regardless, their cases look awesome so if they come back I may purchase one if I have a use case for it.

[pale sigil]

1080p looks so bad though on 1440p

I can only tolerate 1080p on my laptop

[vagrant elk]

I unfortunately don't know the struggle. I only own 1080p monitors.

[reef patrol]

LCD scaling that isn't exactly double looks terrible.

[crimson wigeon]

Something something FSR/DLSS

[reef patrol]

Gotta have that4:1 pixel accurate scaling

[crimson wigeon]

That would probably look weird due to the video artifacts

[reef patrol]

Eh? No that is how to get perfect scaling 😛

One pixel becomes four.

[crimson wigeon]

(I was continuing my FSR/DLSS thought)

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

I need a very small ethernet cable xD

[reef patrol]

Nothing unusual. You see super short ones that go from one rack to the one above everywhere in servers.

[pale sigil]

oh ik

:p

[vapid zodiac]

patch cables

[young pecan]

Terminate your own micro cable. :D

[vagrant elk]

I love server rack cable management.

[pale sigil]

I did this when we setup a new office

Got moaned at

But don't regret it

Wish I could find the pics xD

[iron wave]

Are those Dell?

[old marlin]

psus look like dell

[iron wave]

:-)

[old marlin]

rip ears

[iron wave]

It's not awful, but I need to get something better/a sound dedining box.

[pale sigil]

I need to start making my own ethernet cables again

[iron wave]

That sounds painful. Having to twist all the pairs and make sure they actually meet the specs.

[crimson wigeon]

pepelaugh

[misty pier]

making cables isn't hard

[misty saffron]

currently watching a woman very high on stims in the underground

welcome to moscow friends

[reef tundra]

That is why they wont be up to spec. 😎

Crimping tool for them is cheap atleast

[crimson wigeon]

Who cares about making it to spec anyway so long as it works it's good enough

[crisp granite]

welcome to Moskow...comrade

and seriously, welcome to a lot of of city life

[storm pasture]

when will the wooting 2 he realese

[crimson wigeon]

Soon

[reef patrol]

Technically it was released a while ago. There's just no stock of it atm. 😄

But to answer your question in a SINGLE channel (please don't crosspost), depending on when you ordered you're either in Batch 1 or 2 and that determines when your board arrives. 🙂

[vagrant elk]

Actually the city I live in has very few people like that unless you are in the bad part of the city. It's easy to stumble upon by accident but it's often quite far out of the way.

I know most cities are quite bad though. If I lived a tiny bit more South the entire city is depressing. Homeless people everywhere (I don't hate homeless people, just saying that it makes the city look grungy and hints that the city may have underlying issues), needles on the sidewalks and streets, constant fights. It's bad.

[crisp granite]

I mean...yeah, avoid the sketchy elements

of course, the sketchy elements can come to you as well

[vagrant elk]

Can't even enter a mall there without walking past at least 10 people that are using needles.

[crisp granite]

wooooo

client-facing jobs

[vagrant elk]

At least you're positive about it. I can tell by the extremely enthusiastic "woooo".

[crisp granite]

that was...sarcasm

at least, I think it was

[vagrant elk]

Mine was sarcasm, yes.

[crisp granite]

so was my statement

[vagrant elk]

I know.

[crisp granite]

honestly though, every city will have a bad area

it's life

just stick to the better areas

[vagrant elk]

I think it has something to do with population. The smaller the city I visit the less bad parts there are and the cleaner the entire city seems to become.

Definitely isn't solely based on population but it's likely a factor.

[crisp granite]

yeah

[misty saffron]

hahaha fun fact

[crisp granite]

it's a piece of the puzzle regardless

[misty saffron]

that was in a really wealthy area

every second car is an s class merc

[vagrant elk]

I used to help homeless people by buying them food when my shift was over but then I started noticing homeless groups popping up. It would be 10-50 people all over the city with the exact same clothes, sign, bible, and so on asking for money. Since that started around the time the pandemic started I haven't trusted anyone.

[crisp granite]

privileged kids do drugs too, something about being hip and fashionable

[vagrant elk]

They were groups pretending to be homeless just to be clear.

[latent mural]

it's not that deep

[crisp granite]

I learned that when I also learned my grade 10 aquatics class had 5 naloxone kits between us, in a fairly privileged area

out of 20 kids

5 of us were prepared to help someone with an opioid OD

and one person I knew, not personally, just in classes and such actually did OD after school, learned a week later he dropped dead

very wholesome

[misty saffron]

5 of them are prepared to help you?

damn

[crisp granite]

I don't do opioids

thanks for asking

[reef tundra]

Makes shit hard

[misty saffron]

riiiight...

[vagrant elk]

I re-installed Pop!_OS (I learned that this is apparently the proper capitalisation and grammar) and let me just say that I am not going back to Fedora. It feels so much better.

I just had to tweak the dock a bit and now I have my own Linux version of MacOS.

[misty saffron]

pov you’re a linux user

[crimson wigeon]

Mmm... distro hopping..

[vagrant elk]

I am and I will shout it from a mountain top if I have to.

I am not a distribution hopper.

I was using Pop!_OS for almost two years but the update to 21.04 broke my installation. Caused such a headache that I switched to Fedora Workstation for almost a year, switching back to Pop!_OS now because I prefer their layout and way of doing things.

I use Arch (btw) on my PinePhone though.

[gilded oriole]

I have no idea what that means.