🔌│tech

[gusty herald]

calling C++ boring

[cedar stag]

I mean you do have a lot of fun things that happen, especially if you used mingw. But overall it's pretty boring. Today I mostly been rewriting someone else's bodge code to something that would be a more permanent solution and just doing housekeeping

[gusty herald]

Ok yeah code cleanup is p boring I can't blame u there

gl hf!

[cedar stag]

makes me hate people who use anything other than a 4 space tab and make a lot of line breaks not to get over the 50 col limit

if you think 80 cols is too little there is a movement for shorter lines reasoned by better read-ability. I rather have one long well nicely made line than half a dozen for just a simple if statement

[fair gull]

smh using vs instead of notepad.exe

[cedar stag]

we are way past the stone age. Yet some people refuse to let go of terminal editors

I, personally, also enjoy Vim as much as the next person does

[fair gull]

i didnt say terminal editor

i said notepad.exe

[cedar stag]

notepad has not went much far. It's basically the same experience but in a window

[fair gull]

smh

guess ill stick to vscode then

[cedar stag]

VSCode has went pretty far, oh and the ways you can customize it are endless. I like it.

[fair gull]

its my editor for anything but c#

[cedar stag]

sadly I need to work with things like Azure, dotnet and native Windows applications. That requires big guns

[fair gull]

but vs has addons for those

made by mircosoft

[cedar stag]

VS can be installed to have that functionality. With VSC you are not going to get far

This is what I have to work with (I have VSCode on standby tho, it makes for a great text editor)

[crimson wigeon]

Native apps? What's this! Why are you not using Electron

[cedar stag]

I write all the docs in markdown in VSC, and take notes in npp when I need to

[fair gull]

i found basically all azure services also have addons in vsc

even deploy addons

[cedar stag]

they are not that good, most people said. And I have just gotten so used to VS I don't take the effort to switch.

VS would be even better if it had native Linux support. Then I would drop EMACS, probably

[ashen spindle]

personally I'm expecting a version that at least runs on WSL to come at some point

[fair gull]

why would it run on wsl if it can just run on windows

maybe a real good wsl debugger

[cedar stag]

if it runs on WSL people will make it run native

I have not poked at WSL much, I have a computer running Linux next to my Windows box or I would spin up another instance on my ESXi cluster. I got a rapid deploy tool that gives a box to work with in about 20-30 seconds

[mint kindle]

when i use wooting my cursor comes to my screen in fortnite, does anyone have a solution?

[ashen spindle]

#archived_fortnite_double_movement

[cedar stag]

and since all of my storage is ceph transferring files is pretty easy, Windows sees it as another drive (a big one but a drive) and Linux can mount that anywhere

[fair gull]

i only have a linux vm to check if it actually runs native

otherwise wsl2 is my main linux thing

[ashen spindle]

I think it does have that already? coworker has a setup that links wsl to his vs and I think deploys debug builds or smth like that, gotta ask him again what exactly it can do

[fair gull]

then i dont see why theyd make vs run on wsl

[cedar stag]

I have basically set up a enterprise environment in the comfort of my own home complete with a ESXi and OpenShift deployment, storage and even my own MS licensing server

[fair gull]

i just use kvm on a debian host and rclone gdrive mount for storage

fuck buying hundreds of terabytes

[cedar stag]

Why pay when you can self host it all

[fair gull]

cause id need to buy at least 400tb in harddrives and a server that can hold those drives

and im not made out of money

[cedar stag]

I found it's cheaper in the long run to self host and use archive tapes

[fair gull]

so if i need access to any of the data id be just sitting and waiting

like if id have an amount of coldstorage that be good with tape id prob do it

[cedar stag]

You do wait a bit for the library to get the tape and stick it into the drive and for the drive to read the directory and wind to the correct spot but it's totally doable. And the stuff I use often is cached on solid state storage, the rest lives on hard drives and finally come the tapes. Worked for me

[fair gull]

i usually access a good 20-30tb in an hour

sometimes more depends on some factors

[cedar stag]

Video editing?

[fair gull]

no

archiving, comparing, reorganizing, reencrypting

tapes sould be too slow

[cedar stag]

Reasonable. My system lets me 'book' files in advance so they are saved into cache for me to work with again

[fair gull]

even rn im kinda capped by the 10gbit speed of my remote machine

altho it does work and idk how much further i can push the raid in terms of performance

or raids in this case

[cedar stag]

I have a 10 gig card and a fiberchannel installed for just that reason

FC is only for storage access.

[fair gull]

wish my home net could go to 10gbit symmetrical

then i could actually get rid of the remote machine and just do it inhouse

[cedar stag]

I wish my ISP would let me upgrade from 10Gbit both ways to 40. Would be of great use especially for seeding.

I have a main 10gbit connection, a 1.25gbit backup, a 300M and 100M radio links and finally a slow 50M NanoBridge as my backup.

[fair gull]

only got 1gbit cable at home sadly cause fibre is still being built rn as FTTH

its why all the grunt work is done on a remote machine rn

wish i could use the hardware i got home cause its basically just small time working here

[cedar stag]

I do about the same with my computer @ work. Just remote in and work. That machine has very fast access. Probably the only case where the kernel can't keep up with the storage

[fair gull]

well imma go catch some sleep

[cedar stag]

Same. It's 1:35 and I need to be somewhere at like 8:15

[wheat plume]

so you can format a drive as exFat using Gnome Disks.....

I rebooted into windows to use disk manager to do this last time, damn it

[shadow minnow]

Worked for me on macOS too. Issue was that Microsoft apparently does not want people to switch to windows and didn’t make it possible to make a bootable drive on macOS

[wheat plume]

the only reliable way to make a Windows bootable USB is the creation tool

[shadow minnow]

Yeah which I don’t get tbh

It’s as if they didn’t people to switch to windows

[ashen spindle]

<@&490097707487330305>

[wheat plume]

If you need Windows already to make a Windows Install USB, then yeah

[boreal ermine]

Your mark on the PCB

[cedar stag]

I would still prefer ZFS if you ask me

[reef patrol]

ZFS is a terrible solution on portable media.

[reef patrol]

Rufus has it working pretty well last I checked? 🤔 😄

[timid chasm]

Did Rufus just get forsaken by its own kind?? SHAME

[pale sigil]

https://twitter.com/boztank/status/1448336606360838145?t=OcdyknqNW54Nc6gz_Cs7QQ&s=19

Boz (@boztank)

Proud of the research Michael Abrash's team is working on at FRL-R Redmond—excited to get an early look at some of the technologies that will underpin the metaverse (we work on several prototype headsets to prove out concepts, this is one of them. Kind of. It's a long story.)

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Twitter · Oct 13, 2021, 5:15 PM

[cursive summit]

Ehh

That is honestly, quite different

[wheat plume]

Yes but that's a windows app

[reef patrol]

Which has linux and OSX clones 😄

Etcher for Mac and... fuck knows for Linux. Probably a ton of them 😛

[wheat plume]

There's a ton of ways to write an iso to USB

But barely any support doing it for a windows ISO

Except woeUSB

[reef patrol]

You literally just have to format it right and unpack the ISO 😄

It isn't rocket science.

[wheat plume]

I use gnome disks
Since it's most likely already installed on your distro xd and it's easy to use

[reef patrol]

You could even make a grub esque bootloader on USB and have a ton of installers mountable 😄

[wheat plume]

VENTOY?

I know xd

[shadow minnow]

Nope, it’s more complicated with windows iso, basically impossible on macOS

[reef patrol]

What? Literally no.

[fair gull]

so interwsting news to the 60℃ bios temp on the ryzen build

[cursive summit]

https://kotaku.com/report-xboxs-last-second-intel-switcheroo-left-amd-eng-1847851074

[fair gull]

seems to be the bios is borked

[ashen spindle]

gigabyte board?

[fair gull]

asus tuf gaming b450

cpu die temp is 30-35

bios always at 60 or more

[halcyon moss]

soo not an issue

[fair gull]

well idk if it coukd prevent boot

cause id image post steps use bios temp

[ashen spindle]

check if it is just borked or if it adds numbers

aka if hwinfo shows 50 does it still say 60 in bios or 90 then?

[fair gull]

maybe it adds mobo socket sensor and the cpu die sensor

that would be a nice 60

[ashen spindle]

go into bios with a worse cooler/no fans on it or so and see if it is stuck or rises

if its stuck then it wont cause issues for booting at ok temps

[fair gull]

eh i wont bother for now

if it works it works

i checked with hwinfo now

seems stable

and confirmed the readouts i got with aida64

[ashen spindle]

yeah most likely it's also just a visual thing aka bios reports it wrong but the actual data readout should be fine so protections should work as intended

[fair gull]

welp nice win11 pc

with a 3060

[wheat plume]

Isn't the gaming performance 15-20% less on 11 than 10?

[ashen spindle]

let me guess some youtube title said that?

[wheat plume]

I saw a video about benchmarks comparing them

[reef patrol]

Right now AMD suffers from up to 15% something.

Especially CPUs with many cores (8 and above)

However AMD and Microsoft supposedly have a fix that's being shipped by the 21st.

[ashen spindle]

also thats purely cpu bound cases and then average like 5-10 and sometimes 15

also a cache latency bug/issue not general performance hit from 11

[reef patrol]

It's not something I can consciously notice on my 5600X for the record.

I would have to do benchmarks.

[fair gull]

ftr its a 5800x

so i personally also doubt noticeable loss of quality

maybe the fps counter would tell you but i doubt theres any degraded gameplay experience

specially on a 27" 1080p monitor

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/hw_reveal/status/1448591394013024257

REHWK (@hw_reveal)

Should be the new Z690 AORUS Master? Looks NICE!!!!!!

@tomshardware @VideoCardz @AorusOfficial @wccftech @TechSpot @TweakTown @kitgurupress

Twitter · Oct 14, 2021, 10:07 AM

E ATX

[crimson wigeon]

Nice

[shadow minnow]

That’s a huge vrm heatsink

[crimson wigeon]

Soon motherboards are just gonna be heatsink

[shadow minnow]

Why does the top pcie slot look so weird

[ashen spindle]

prob different design bc pcie5

[shadow minnow]

That may be the case but this mobo is probably not finished, there seem to be no pins visible too, so it’s probably just placeholder for actual pcie slot that may indeed be different because of it being gen 5

[old marlin]

product images like that are almost always renders

I hope that intel and AMD could get around to do something about this shit

[crimson wigeon]

About what?

[old marlin]

low pcie lane count

can't even fit a single 8x card in that board

besides the GPU

[crimson wigeon]

Just buy a Threadripper or whatever Intel's equivalent is loool

[ashen spindle]

that big bridge looks so weird on a tiny board right above the pcie slot lol

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6lx1ntNoxE

Whaddya know. Linus does a truly informative video.

Testing cables and fake labelling.

[ashen spindle]

yeah every once in a while they still make good videos simply from them having the chance to do it by being such a big channel

especially funny that someone else released a video about cables today too lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7NTP4AD9Y

[fair gull]

i thought it was some fancy square cooking pan

[thick elk]

The level1tech video is a bit better and yes AMD is definitely more picky when it comes to crappy cables>
My experience comparing gt710's and hd5450's at work combined with terrible dvi to hdmi cables. Lot's of artifacting issues with amd, less so on nvidia.

[ashen spindle]

I mean it's not really better because it's sort of a different thing

one was about a cable tester and the other about issues with drivers and cables

and he mentioned in the comments he didnt even know about the cheap tester till he saw linus video today lol

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/zq43FvjTebU

[ashen spindle]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/activision-claims-call-of-dutys-new-anti-cheat-system-wont-look-at-your-files/ yea sure

[pale sigil]

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1448623176028729350?t=gg8xjCITmasm1lE3ZgwWmg&s=19

SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom)

The science behind Destiny 2’s Lorentz Driver weapon https://t.co/PmBQMyQgkS

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Twitter · Oct 14, 2021, 12:14 PM

o.0

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/rtingsdotcom/status/1448657633452298257 eve spectrum looked interresting but if they are still/again trying to bribe their way into reviews it's a bit weird

RTINGS.com (@rtingsdotcom)

Our statement on vote manipulation in our monitor Suggestion Tool poll:

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Twitter · Oct 14, 2021, 2:31 PM

[shadow minnow]

I mean, this was not directly bribing, more of a community thing, but yeah, eve has interesting history. Wish it won that pool normally though since it’s an interesting monitor I would want to see review of.

[neat oriole]

To be fair if you’re trying that hard for rtings to review your product you’re probably pretty confident in it right?

[fair gull]

still kinda shit cause rtings wanted the comunity opinion not manipulated results by a company and some specific people

[neat oriole]

Isn’t it just to see what the community would be interested to see get reviewed?

[reef patrol]

Yep.

[neat oriole]

Yeah like I said, they really wanted it reviewed

It’s not like the slipped rtings a 20 under the table for a positive review

[fair gull]

i dont think the community is a guy at eve paying for multiple premium accounts

or a person making multiple accounts to vote

[shadow minnow]

I do tbh, even though it probably would not happen that many times.. But it may have been eve as well indeed.

I guess if I really wanted I could try to get more information but not really

[cedar stag]

Never heard of eve spectrum. But hey, bad PR is the best PR. Also Rtings has nice camera reviews

[ashen spindle]

its some kickstarter things to make a good monitor since the gaming monitor landscape is a big step behind TV models but they have had some issues and this aint the first time they did this

[cedar stag]

My opinion is if you want a fast monitor, go the CRT route. I have a few Dell Trinitron displays I use. Those have literally zero input lag since they are analog

And source games are better played on 4:3

[ashen spindle]

not a great reason for having current tech stagnate and not get much better though

[halcyon moss]

im always confused by the term input lag with monitors.. arent we talking about output lag?

[cedar stag]

Well, rhe delay between signal going in and having the pixels fully changed on the panel / tube

[ashen spindle]

yea the delay until you can see the input, I guess output lag would technically not be incorrect either?

[cedar stag]

Let's just call it the delay than

[halcyon moss]

time to display

[ashen spindle]

"the part of click-to-photon latency that is caused by the monitor" 😛

[halcyon moss]

yeah but that is sooo much more than just the monitor

human reaction, phisical finger moving, click actuation, usb polling, os handling, game handling, ...

[ashen spindle]

Hence why I said the part of it the monitor is responsible for :p

[cedar stag]

Speaking of, here is probably the display with the newest panel I own (Asus XG17A)

[halcyon moss]

a "portable" monitor?

[cedar stag]

Basically yes. That thing usually goes everywhere my ThinkPad P1 goes

I also have a few asus XG258Q panels and a lot of UltraSharp displays from Dell.

[wheat plume]

Discord is not feeling so good

Been this way for 5 minutes and now its working again

[cedar stag]

Discord is always broken in one way or another. Their electron app is a mess

[wheat plume]

Electron apps always feel clunky and jank

[shadow minnow]

They don’t have the best reputation for a reason so not really. Know some people were trying to make changes, and some stuff seems to have gotten better, but still disagree with some things they do, even though not sure how much it changed recently.
The monitor is nice. Unfortunately non backer price makes it less competitive, but still it’s a really nice monitor, with HDMI 2.1, HDR 600, 1ms and 4K 144

[cedar stag]

I see. The only thing I like about it is the NO BS look like some of my Dell panels have. Just a rectangle with a screen. No bar at the bottom, no thick bezels. And that would really work well with the VESA system I have

[shadow minnow]

Yeah, also like the design, even though I am not such a fan of led placement, it can be turned completely off, so not that bad.

[cedar stag]

But overall looks kinda like my pair of Dell US2027Q displays

[shadow minnow]

Hmm, kinda. They seem to have different target, since they support extra color space, but aren’t 144hz nor 1ms. Also HDR 600 is quite nice on spectrum.

But also, 4K 144hz… enough to make my GPU go to 100% usage when using wallpaper engine animated wallpapers

[cedar stag]

I just look at a few windows in SecureCRT, Netw0rk, Vim, Firefox, KiCAD and Visual studio. That computer is purely for work and nothing else

[shadow minnow]

Yeah, for that the dell monitors are imo definitely enough

[cedar stag]

They do a great job. I have them scaled to 2K but the text is even sharper this way. I get distracted very easily so the closest thing to a game on this machine is Unreal Editor and that is built from source every time I change something or break a dependency

[halcyon moss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w6TwnLCFwA

[cedar stag]

I would prefer feature branching. When you got to roll features fast, this is the way to go. Also rolling release works great. And users can pick which channel they want to be on. Stable, beta, nightly or dev

[cedar stag]

alright here is a little something that annoys me: why can't peripheral manufacturers agree on a standard for software and have it as one open source standard so users don't have to install yet another electorn app. Just a obvious thing really

[earnest jay]

But that way they won't sell hardware. Or what ever excuse(s) they use.

[reef patrol]

Because having their own standards means you have to keep buying into THEIR products.

Sunk Cost fallacy.

Like (Free to play) MMOs but with hardware.

[fair gull]

i mean

wootility open source when

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/neva-never-marc-homealone-youcantstopme-gif-9816521

It got exploited once

[fair gull]

wot

[pale sigil]

During its early days someone managed to find an exploit that allowed access to secure shit.

As before I think it was possible to unpack It all or something idk

[fair gull]

i mean its still possible

[pale sigil]

They reached out and it got patched right away

Good example of open source

People can fix ya shit

I also don't think its possible to flash the keyboard now

[fair gull]

id really get a hardon if wootility went open source

[pale sigil]

Manually

[fair gull]

thered be so many fixes people could just pr

[pale sigil]

I'm still for it being open source personally

But as you know wooting are perfectionist :p

The double movement software is a good example

A bunch of fixes are from people afaik

[fair gull]

i get the points for wootility closed source but at the same time it could massively benefit from basically free work

cause while someone would have to check PRs its less work than writing new functionallity/fixes

[pale sigil]

Wooting doesn't like free work entirely

[wheat plume]

@vagrant elk
https://youtu.be/Ar8JdKj5Yv8

[fair gull]

dont see how free volunteer work is a problem tbh

[ashen spindle]

make it open in the same day some linux stuff gets added and you will get a horde of no life devs adding shit you can take

[pale sigil]

Basically free work = not reliable

In their eyes

[fair gull]

thats usually not how open source projects work

and as i said theyd still have control over merged PRs

[pale sigil]

The only reason anyone got anywhere was down to it being either being paid or doing it officially as a placement for uni etc

They prefer to not rely on anyone who isn't being paid or on some sort of intern thing.

[ashen spindle]

going over a PR and make sure it's reliable is a lot faster and cheaper than making it yourself

[pale sigil]

I agree

[ashen spindle]

then again I also don't mind some things being closed source just to spite some of the extreme open source lovers

[fair gull]

i mean the linux kernel somehow still works

despite only free work

[wheat plume]

Not to mention, the kernel spinoffs that are custom made for gaming or for better server usage or desktop usage

[crimson wigeon]

Well it's not really free work, almost all who do it are employed by big companies who pay them to do it

[fair gull]

wut

[wheat plume]

Zen kernel
Xanmod
etc etc

[fair gull]

well its not torvalds paying them

thus basically free work

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah true

I think open sourcing wootility is the way to go, nerds here would surely fix the niggles they have with it

[ashen spindle]

mh I think better way would be making parts of it open

not fully but more than SDKs

[wheat plume]

No longer a selling point once the EU law for the right to fix software if it doesnt work comes in!

[ashen spindle]

that way people can add on but as a company you retain some options to keep it closed

the law is not forcing open source..

[crimson wigeon]

Well yeah firmware maybe not yet

[fair gull]

na firmware can be closed

but the wootility as opensource would surely give rise to a war faster development cycle

and maybe a proper enter svg

for iso

[ashen spindle]

and maybe it makes the mousepad to come out faster

[halcyon moss]

well its an electron app, cant you extract the code from it?

at least the JS parts, and hope it isnt minified to shit

[fair gull]

it is minified

cause default electron does that

and you unpack the entire app

as in the html, images etc

the only real roadblock to easy modification is the minify/obfuscation

releasing the sourcemap files would already be all thats needed really

cause you could theoretically just repack the stuff and update the app.asar itself

in other news a distributor of mine claims to have 100 manli gallardo rtx 2060 6gb dual fan cards

for 499

[ashen spindle]

[crimson wigeon]

100 cards for 499 sure I'll take one

[fair gull]

each

[crimson wigeon]

oh nvm then

[pale sigil]

Is thag a custom loop on the GPU... But Single channel ram and a stock cooler?....

[ashen spindle]

looks more like a passive cooler gt1030 or similar

[pale sigil]

Now j see it

I was mistaking something got a pipe somehow xD

[ashen spindle]

yeah not the best picture angle for it

[shadow minnow]

Intel why

https://twitter.com/intel/status/1448672444936564736?s=21

Intel (@intel)

(1/5) Confessions of former Mac users. What made you #GoPC?
✨ a thread ✨

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Twitter · Oct 14, 2021, 3:30 PM

[crimson wigeon]

omegalul

[wheat plume]

HAH

[cedar stag]

intel throwing in the towel, again.

I mean, tossing in some old fashioned cringe works for marketing

[shadow minnow]

Not well

The most liked reply has 5 times as many likes and is this

https://twitter.com/apple_tomorrow/status/1448932791584952332?s=21

Apple Tomorrow  (@Apple_Tomorrow)

@intel You’re not invited.

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Twitter · Oct 15, 2021, 8:44 AM

[cursive summit]

More shitty Apple products?

USB-C port when

3.5mm jack when

[crimson wigeon]

Buy more dongles!

[shadow minnow]

Literally both things are gonna be there

MacBook event

[cursive summit]

Only thing I probably care about from Apple is their phones maybe

So, 3.5mm jack when

[shadow minnow]

Well M1 stuff is interesting

[shadow minnow]

I want them to go portless tbh

[cursive summit]

M1 hopefully going to be obliterated by Exynos 2200

[crimson wigeon]

But probably not

[shadow minnow]

How? Also new M1X will most likely be released with even more cores and power

[cursive summit]

Apple can't do good graphics processing

They can do processing, but not graphical processing

Eh the more competition the more Apple can fail which is all good in my book

[shadow minnow]

They do a better one than my iGPU
And for that matter their phone A15 has a leading GPU in smartphone market.

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1449062215777198082 lets see if patch3 fixes it for real

VideoCardz.com (@VideoCardz)

Ryzen L3 lag in Win11 fixed https://t.co/3NDze4SZe3

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Twitter · Oct 15, 2021, 5:18 PM

[shadow minnow]

I mean, would be interesting to see if Google and Microsoft would have a lawsuit for being OS monopoly, and how would it end if that would happen
But apart from that, want to see more competition in arm desktop stuff and also some possible inovatiobs so yeah don’t think that would be good.
In general competition tends to be good, even though tbf apple has also started some bad trends.

[ashen spindle]

want to see more competition in arm desktop stuff
that already exists and it called intel/amd

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah but it's x86_64 and that's boring!

[ashen spindle]

for desktop use the instruction set does not matter

[wheat plume]

For wifi antennea with a wire going to the plastic antennea, does it matter how twisted the cable is for how fast the wifi connection is?

[shadow minnow]

By more I mean also apple next to intel and amd, was mostly reply to apple fail stuff.

[shadow minnow]

Don’t think so unless you break it

[crimson wigeon]

You don't want to twist the signal too much though

[wheat plume]

my wifi speeds tanks randomly since I plugged back in the antennea

[ashen spindle]

not happening unless both intel and amd suddenly stop making better stuff

apple is way too behind to make a desktop push with their own hardware

not just apple, any company because the knowledge and expertise is just not there

[shadow minnow]

So far yeah, but they may one day. Nice to see them always using newest nodes too.

But with M1X or next gen laptop market may get interesting

[ashen spindle]

nope, always using newest node means they are relying on node and not IPC and also exponentially more expensive

it's cool to see the newest tech being used but from a consumer standpoint it's not nice

[shadow minnow]

I would say that it’s still imo nice for stuff where efficiency matters. Will be interesting to see 3nm in watches possibly next year for example. But yeah, does not make it cheaper

[wheat plume]

and its back to being fast af again

Odd but welcome

[ashen spindle]

I mean yes for that one product it's nice but it would be better if the efficeny came from IPC and not the node

see for example the efficeny increase from rdna1 to 2 on the same node

[shadow minnow]

But, intel isn’t alone in their marketing.
https://twitter.com/snapdragon/status/1448317606365179906?s=21

Snapdragon (@Snapdragon)

"We've decided to make our own smartphone SoC instead of using Snapdragon" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Twitter · Oct 13, 2021, 4:00 PM

[crisp granite]

only apple does that iirc

the Axx line of chips

[shadow minnow]

Samsung and now Google may follow

[crisp granite]

[shadow minnow]

Which snapdragon seems to be salty about. Apple was never really a market for them so don’t think they care unlike intel

Exynos and Google rumored stuff however

[empty wren]

There is good reason why google wants to have control over the chip, they are gonna introduce more AI features like a smart photo eraser. The pixel visual core did a good job for photography compared to whatever qualcomm uses.

[wheat plume]

Uh oh! DT is angry

[ashen spindle]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-oh-no-anyway-gif-18887547

[latent mural]

imagine not judging ubuntu releases by how repulsive the default background is

hirsute hippo hate gang

[ashen spindle]

im just waiting for the LTT videos about using linux as daily and for the first time in years I'll read youtube comments

to read what the absolute worst of the linux fanboys have to write that's still legal in youtube ToS

[young pecan]

Mmm. Random question but does anyone here have experience with immersion cooling PC comps? Datacenter stuff using Novec etc.

[wheat plume]

Plopping them into tanks of oil or whatnot? That's a neat concept but sound scary

[reef patrol]

Novec is a special fluid that doesn't want to bond with PC. It looks kind of freaky. Like a PC boiling but not dying.

Novec is also hilariously expensive.

[wheat plume]

TIL when Unity Hub says "Restart and Install Now" it means it will restart your computer and not the Unity Hub

[reef patrol]

https://youtu.be/cPx4qyKPsw0?t=19

Loud convention floor - Timestamped for your viewing pleasure.

[latent mural]

is there a difference between novec and conventional mineral oil?

[reef patrol]

One doesn't stick to your components forever. The other does.

Every time Linus has had to drag out his old oil PC, there are massive oil leaks EVERYWHERE on the floor 😄

[latent mural]

i looked up the video because i didn't know linus did a mineral oil build and went to the middle and saw this

[reef patrol]

[latent mural]

are the choker straps a requirement?

[true quest]

always

[reef patrol]

It's a dumb advertisement for channel superfun for those super confused.

[latent mural]

apparently luke ran one for 5 years

wild

[young pecan]

Mineral oil is extremely viscous which makes it hard to pump and it sticks to everything. Dip anything in mineral oil and I promise you it’s never getting fully clean again.

But my ASICs in my crypto farm are becoming an issue due to sheer noise and thermals.

So I’m looking into immersion cooling and it’s slow going.

Just the fluid is going to run me 10 grand. ._.

Either I get a different fluid from America or China and it’s uber expensive shipping or I get Novec recycled and it’s still uber expensive.

[cedar stag]

Here we witness an example of what not to do when tasked with maintaining elastic

[wheat plume]

Time to learn how to use Unity so I can use AI to build custom maps in it

[misty saffron]

time not to learn unity please

[crimson wigeon]

y not

[cedar stag]

learn Unreal

[ashen spindle]

nah she knows some java and c# so unity is the better idea

[cedar stag]

then Unity is fine. I been a die-hard C++ person

[ashen spindle]

I wager c++ is a hard die for her instead 😛

[misty saffron]

unity is never the better idea

[cedar stag]

Unity is mainly what indie devs use. Larger studios use Unreal

[young pecan]

Just use Frostbite.

• EA

[cedar stag]

Or you can roll your own engine

[misty saffron]

renderware anyone

[cedar stag]

I am waiting for LethalGE to come out, but that would be years

[ashen spindle]

im hoping for ubi to make snowdrop public

there were some rumours about that a while ago

idk if it's great or anything but another option would be nice

[young pecan]

Ngl I’d really like a new open source engine.

All of the new techs included and the such. Really a modern design.

[misty saffron]

https://github.com/aap/librw

librw pls ♿

https://github.com/td512/re3/blob/master/src/rw/MemoryHeap.cpp#L103

LMAO

welcome to the world of 2000s compilers

[wheat plume]

Ayyyy

Linux Build Support

[pale sigil]

@chrome minnow @ashen spindle might be useful

It’s his job

[ashen spindle]

what?

[chrome minnow]

i could use some programming help regarding quaternions😅

[wheat plume]

?? ;-; why it fail?

[ashen spindle]

uhh gotta be more specific bc quaternions are a big topic haha

[pale sigil]

Cos Linux

[misty saffron]

doesn’t want you to use unity

thankfully

[wheat plume]

It worked when I launched the project with that version

[ashen spindle]

dont install visual studio via unity

[ashen spindle]

do that on its own

[wheat plume]

Other way around

This installed VS

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah actually for best results install Unity from the VS installer pepega

[wheat plume]

🤔 oh?

[ashen spindle]

no you install unity on its own and VS on its own

also get out of your habit to use beta software lol

you want to be on stable versions if you want to learn something

[wheat plume]

I selected non LTS and it installed beta for some reason

is there any stable non beta or non LTS version?

[ashen spindle]

why not the LTS?

also I only saw the beta on unity hub didnt even look at the actual unity versions lol

[wheat plume]

This is beta

Not any of these are installed

so I dont have beta installed

[ashen spindle]

yes, your unity hub is a beta version not the unity editors you have installed 😛

[wheat plume]

Oohhh

[ashen spindle]

also no need to install documentation, it's just what unity docs webpages as local files

[wheat plume]

it ddnt give me much of a choice about installing the docs

[ashen spindle]

..yes you can just not install them

doubt they broke that in the hub beta lol

wait you're installing it on linux or windows?

[wheat plume]

Windows

[ashen spindle]

IL2CPP is also something you wont need and can save disk space on btw

[wheat plume]

o

[gilded oriole]

Any suggestions for 2FA methods?

My Pixel 3 very might well brick on me at any moment

Movin' my shit to Authy for now\

[empty wren]

Why is that?

Yahhhhh now dats hot

Looks like a mini tank cannon

[gilded oriole]

Hardware problem for the pixel 3

more and more reports are coming in of random pixel 3 owners having their phones peace out outta the blue

[empty wren]

Oof that does not sound good.

Well if it does, contact Google they issued some people replacements so all hope is not lost.

Though I find it strange Google has not found the source of the problem.

[gilded oriole]

Shrug.

They're on the pixel 6 now

Why care about the 3

[gilded oriole]

I have a mooltipass, may get a yubikey

[empty wren]

i wish the nice looking titan keys supported more protocols

[empty wren]

My pixel 3 xl is still running very well though even on release candidate android 12

[fair gull]

LTS is stable... LTS means long term support aka stable af

everything else is either beta or obsolete usually

[pale sigil]

https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1449125327108669440?t=HWBwHKUWtv9JpgKAmrIaXw&s=19

Steam Deck (@OnDeck)

Devil May Cry 5 is on Deck. #SteamDeck https://t.co/2p8qRVi2r4

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https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1449064034691469312?t=ZXxVTIc8E3MUEuHg7C-wYg&s=19

Steam Deck (@OnDeck)

Skater XL is on Deck. #SteamDeck https://t.co/tDK62x45cC

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https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1448788812318973953?t=qh5wKz7wqpXc7wrRbq_89A&s=19

Steam Deck (@OnDeck)

Sable is on Deck. #SteamDeck https://t.co/nzRlWUhof6

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https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1448754721733308435?t=r6TIv6WYoA12TES6icmzCA&s=19

Steam Deck (@OnDeck)

Psychonauts 2 is on Deck. #SteamDeck https://t.co/d7WOxqPOYQ

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https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/1445737514761801746?t=565vVAVRlGS1D2Ks2BP6Bg&s=19

The Witcher (@witchergame)

Open a portal into the world and play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt wherever you go once Steam Deck is out!

Check out the footage of the current-gen version of the game running on Steam Deck 👇 https://t.co/3IdIC2zGZJ

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Twitter · Oct 6, 2021, 1:07 PM

[ashen spindle]

y u spam

[crimson wigeon]

Y not spam when you can

[ashen spindle]

[pale sigil]

It's fun

[fair gull]

so

we get the confirmation that basically

what everyone thought would happen happened

[young pecan]

Ngl it's a pretty cool little device.

Now we just need Switch games on Windows and the Switch becomes pointless.

[misty saffron]

yuzu

[young pecan]

Yuzu lacks servers.

Not a great way to really be doing big multiplayer.

[wheat plume]

Why are my nvidia drivers installed as flatpaks?!

[vapid zodiac]

because flat best

[wheat plume]

Ive been trying to get CouchDB to install
the website suggests to use Snap
So I installed the snap version and I cannot edit the config file cause snap packages are read only 🤦‍♀️

and you need to edit that file to create an admin user

[cursive summit]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-amd-fsr-interview

[crimson wigeon]

A whole article only to say it's just lanczos?

[ashen spindle]

looks like a decent article since it's coming from rich

and not cucktaglia with his nvidia boner

[cursive summit]

It does sound like we aren't going to see an "FSR 1.1" or let alone 2.0 anytime soon

FSR's still pretty great for how it launched though

[ashen spindle]

depends, some work some dont

[fair gull]

nice repost

[ashen spindle]

oh god

its coming to laptops

https://twitter.com/FrontTron/status/1449395735099703298

Tron ❂ (@FrontTron)

Pretty much the notch in the new MacBook Pro is confirmed.
Introduction of "Safe Area" in macOS AppKit + Some circuitry and module drawings + rough overview of design + multiple leaks saying same thing, bruh.
https://t.co/3ZhvRGAxvh

Twitter · Oct 16, 2021, 3:24 PM

[misty saffron]

not seeing why that’s a bad thing though

i would very much prefer a notch compared to the giant bezels which have become the norm

[empty wren]

Lol notch on laptop

[ashen spindle]

aside from looks, means people need to design around it and do more work and if they dont it's a much worse experience for the consumer

[misty saffron]

face id would be nice on a macbook

probably asking for too much considering how thin their display assemblies are

[empty wren]

Such sensors can go under a display if you remove the rgb camera

[misty saffron]

can you fit the projector in a thin assembly though

about nothing i’d imagine

the top bar thing will likely just be as thick as the notch

dot projector?

face id(?)

thing that makes me think there will be face id is the fact the notch is just too damn big for just the camera

honestly really big photoresistor and status led

idk

true, but do you need THAT much space for these two components?

camera is small as fuck

apple isn’t really known for wasting space in their shit so that’s that

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH3Otn9Lz3I

Bollywood sure is ... something xD

[cursive summit]

Was about to link this https://wccftech.com/leaked-photo-allegedly-shows-rumored-notch-on-the-upcoming-m1x-macbook-pros-display/

[wheat plume]

I just realized something
I wonder will the sound quality from my new laptop be as amazing as my current one? Cause damn, the sound quality from my current laptop is freaking great

(when using headphones)

[misty saffron]

barely anyone bothers putting a good dac in a laptop

[wheat plume]

It seems dell has

This laptop sounds amazing with headphones

[cursive summit]

Dell has pretty good speakers in general

Bang & Olufsen speakers are also OK

I think mostly HP incorporates those in their laptops

[reef patrol]

You can just call them B&O. No need for the whole spiel 😄

[young pecan]

That’s a little odd.

No speaker ever should be buzzing under load.

That... isn’t a boast.

If the DAC is freaking out so hard on that Dell unit that it’s buzzing then there’s probably something wrong with either the chip or the laptop, an award shouldn’t be given for basic functionality, however.

But hey, I suppose there’s a good reason for the ‘Better than Dell’ award to exist.

[old marlin]

Small reminder that hp did exactly the same thing on their prebuilt

With the addition of choking it

[young pecan]

'Better than Dell and HP but not always one side' doesn't quite roll off the tongue. :p

[neat oriole]

Notch on laptop why

Dell has windows hello and the bezels are pretty thin

[reef patrol]

Because laptop webcams need to stop sucking such major dong 😄

[neat oriole]

iPad doesn’t have a notch

It just has uniform bezels around the device

[reef patrol]

The iPad has the entire hardware behind the LCD. Laptops generally do not. Unless they are... tablets.-

[young pecan]

Wait what?

Wait so the iPads have embedded cameras behind the screen but iPhones don't...?

[reef patrol]

No they have a thick bezel.

[young pecan]

Ah.

Been years since I've even seen an iPad, ngl.

[neat oriole]

11” iPad

[young pecan]

Huh...

That's... why?

We had hyper thin bezel iPad years ago, what caused this?

[neat oriole]

These are as thin as they’ve been

[young pecan]

O_O

[neat oriole]

Unless you’re talking about the side

[young pecan]

Could have sworn we had hyper thin iPad bezel.

[neat oriole]

No

[young pecan]

Holy shit I'm actually retarded.

Fuck my memory of this is awful.

[neat oriole]

Possibly

[wheat plume]

2021 iPad pro

Thinnest the Bezels have ever been

[young pecan]

Alright so, next question being why are they still thicc?

[neat oriole]

Symmetry

[wheat plume]

Cause fuck using a device with thin bezels and accidently touching the screen when holding it

[neat oriole]

That too

[young pecan]

A tablet in essence is just a large phone, not really many differences between them.
Apple seems willing to cause the side touching issue with phones, why not with tablets?

There's also a fair few things you can do to stop the side touching thing, so that's not a huge issue.

[neat oriole]

Phones are smaller and lighter so you don’t have to grip them in a way

[wheat plume]

If you have a tablet that large
You need one hand to support the weight
So you need a lot of room for your thumb to hold onto the side
If your bezel is thin af, most of your thumb will be on the screen

[young pecan]

Sure, but there are a hell of a lot of ways to solve for that.

[wheat plume]

Go on?

[neat oriole]

Such as?

[young pecan]

shrugs The device has an accelerometer in it as well as a heap of other interesting measurement tech. You can pretty easily make an algo to predict shit like 'is the device being held to read?', it's been tested before.

Maybe a little jank, but do remember Apple has a very tightly integrated system, they can probably work something out.

[wheat plume]

You mean like palm rejection when drawing but for side touches? Xd

[young pecan]

Kinda sorta.

[neat oriole]

Palm rejection isn’t 100%

[wheat plume]

Or... Just keep the bezel at the average thumb size and be done with it

[young pecan]

You'd end up mixing hardware feedback and you'd probably be checking what the person is actually doing at the time.

But hey, doing so would give you thin af bezel tablet. :p

[empty wren]

You could also use a case

[young pecan]

^ Or this, yeah.

[wheat plume]

You don't seem to complain about how thicc the bezel on your monitor is, do you? :P bet that's thicker than any ipad

[young pecan]

Mine are thinner than an iPads.

[wheat plume]

Most aren't

[young pecan]

About 3mm, it's pretty nice.

Maybe 3 and a bit.

[wheat plume]

Tbh
Idk much about bezel
I'd prefer it to a notch

Just enough bezel for the camera

That's fine by me

[young pecan]

Mm.

[empty wren]

I am surprised we still have monitors with thick bezels they and TV's are probably the only device incredibly thin bezels make sense for even.

[young pecan]

What's the progress to underscreen everything these days?

[wheat plume]

Or....
Have a thin af bezel and no front camera

Best solution tbh

[young pecan]

^

[wheat plume]

No more selfies in the world would be great

[neat oriole]

I don’t think it’s good design to design a large unwieldy tablet and then tell the consumers to spend additional money on a fucking pop socket or w/e

[young pecan]

Absolutely this.

Omfg.

[wheat plume]

^

[empty wren]

Damn shots fired at apple

[wheat plume]

Under screen cameras creep me out....

[young pecan]

Why? What about an underscreen camera freaks you out more than a normal one?

[wheat plume]

Imagine when that tech is good enough to be cheap to buy
You'll get a bunch of giving freaks and pervs putting cameras under things to spy on everyone

[empty wren]

The great part of the technology is they go inside hotel TV's and you will not know😉

[neat oriole]

Because I can’t tape over it without blocking my screen

[wheat plume]

Yeah...... Or charging room mirrors

[young pecan]

Oh please. If my personal FBI agent feels like watching me watch TV or porn I guess they can.

Not like anyone on earth can do shit to stop it.

[empty wren]

If only popup cameras stuck around

[young pecan]

Those were cool.

[wheat plume]

Yeah.....I love those

[young pecan]

Actually good cameras could be used in those as well.

With an actually big sensor.

[wheat plume]

And since they only activate when popped up
No one can spy

[young pecan]

BUT AVANNA!

[wheat plume]

Cause it's just seeing the darkness of the inside of the phone

[empty wren]

Not true, but you would know

[neat oriole]

Big sensor doesn’t automatically make it a good camera

[young pecan]

What about the microphone!

[wheat plume]

True

[young pecan]

The Chinese! The Government! THE SCARY MEN IN BLACK!

[wheat plume]

I know Google use that for a fact

[young pecan]

Well yes, no shit they do.

[wheat plume]

And Gboard

[young pecan]

I talk to someone about someone in a youtube video and someone else listening to that convo with their phone in their pocket gets that suggested in 2 days. That doesn't happen if shit isn't listening.

[empty wren]

I think at this point it is just pulling hairs, I see people put sticky notes on laptop webcams but not the microphone. Even then I find it silly since they could close the laptop lid

[young pecan]

And they'll do that then buy a Google Home or Nest.

[empty wren]

XD

[neat oriole]

I’ll just close the lid when I’m using my laptop

[young pecan]

That heavily implies you are both interesting enough to spy on and important enough to be of any consequence, ngl.

[empty wren]

Okay fair if you are using it, but is the concern is if they see or if they know your surroundings?

[young pecan]

BUT they might see your eyes and from the reflections in your eyes be able to reverse engineer the database and listen to the keyboard strokes to determine your keystrokes and use that to reverse engineer the mainframe holding your password and Mission Impossible 2 that bitch and steal the money!

Can never be too careful.

[wheat plume]

Xdd

[empty wren]

Well there is virus that can hop between computers with ultrasonic sound so I guess fine

[young pecan]

Now that sounds awesome.

[latent mural]

source?

[empty wren]

Uh hold on, lemme find it. Only one guy came across it and it infected all his devices

[neat oriole]

Idk if you’ve ever heard of insecam but they basically did 24/7 live streams of people’s Webcams

[empty wren]

"BadBIOS - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS

[neat oriole]

Webcams that had shit security that is

[young pecan]

Was popcorn involved? I feel like livestreaming webcams needs popcorn.

[neat oriole]

If you want to eat popcorn while watching random people’s Webcams being streamed sure

[young pecan]

I mean...

What else are you gonna do? Someone sitting down looking at reddit to work out what price doge is going to...?

[empty wren]

I just really find strange that someone waste their life worrying about some else, not like in a friendly way or a parenting way

[latent mural]

this seems about as plausible as 9/11 NOT being an inside job

[young pecan]

It technically works, but lmfao no this isn't being a real thing.

Agreed.

[empty wren]

There is a lot that goes unnoticed

Not telling you to believe that it is 100%, but who really knows what goes on in the government besides the government

[young pecan]

It's not about gov, that one.

[empty wren]

I know

[young pecan]

That's more of hardware limitations, there.

[empty wren]

Well alright

[young pecan]

'Cause yeah, with a speaker you can push certain soundwaves out, but you need to work out some way of propagating them far enough away that sound dampening isn't going to kill the encoded data before it hits a microphone.

Then assuming you can do that you also need an exploit that works on everything and short of something like Specter that's a really hard ask.

THEN you need to assume the objects are stationary for long enough that the 20 bit/s upload can successfully deliver the payload with no handshaking involved because the recipient isn't going to do that by itself.

And then you need to assume the firewall rules will allow for that kind of fuckery.

It's just not realistic.

[latent mural]

i mean even at the first step -- how would you account for environmental factors like background noise?

[young pecan]

Oh and you also need to presume that whatever device picks up the soundwaves actually is vulnerable to attacks through the microphone, which almost nothing is.

[young pecan]

Presumably with extremely tight soundwaves in the high and low kHz, but not so high or so low that the environment fucks about and the device in question can pick up and isolate the signal.

Which you would need to presume will actually stay in memory to allow either a buffer overflow exploit (fuck I hope not lmao) or somehow ninja it's way into something more complex.

Which, let's be honest, 20 bits per second just isn't doing.

@wheat plume Sorry to say but I think this one is busted.

Ah lmao, my fail.

@empty wren

[empty wren]

I am still here reading

[young pecan]

Ah.

[wheat plume]

GG

[young pecan]

Though I guess it's technically possible under theoretically ideal circumstance, so that is kinda awesome for the thought anyway.

[empty wren]

Well then good regarding the first part

[young pecan]

It'd be a kinda nightmare tier attack, tbh. Just having devices passively delivering data to everything else in hearing distance.

Eventually such an attack would spread and then I guess everything is fucked.

[ashen spindle]

government this, conspiracy that yall are missing an obvious issue

someone will just have a bugged version and that will do all of this by accident at some point if that didnt already happen lmao

oh discord didn't scroll down all the way but I think it's still relevant lel

[empty wren]

Ah yes bootleg Gods Eye

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/RMXViPlehAo

😍😍

[iron wave]

So the API I want to use is broken on Linux but works fine on Windows 10.

Got to love "supports Linux" being a lie.

What a funky looking air filter.

I swear, the most stressful thing I do on this laptop is running a Windows VM.

Code compiling doesn't even make the fan go so crazy unless it is a huge thing that takes like 5 minutes to compile.

[wheat plume]

I just saw that the people I'm getting my laptop from don't offer the warranty if they find out you installed linux on the laptop
Even if it's a hardware problem, they won't fix it

.-.

[reef patrol]

That's literally not how the law works.

You're in the EU. 2 year warranty.

[wheat plume]

Yes
But they won't honor warranty if you have Linux on there when you send it back

Unless I'm interpreting it wrong

[reef patrol]

I can only repeat myself here - If they refuse warranty within the first two years, you reach out to your consumer rights org and they will sue Dell or whomever on your behalf and win.

Always get the refusal in writing of course.

[wheat plume]

O

Hmm

It's just an odd thing for them to mention :/

Why would the os matter if it's a hardware problem
Unless wifi or whatever doesn't work due to lack of driver
But that's a software problem

[reef patrol]

My experience with warranty at OEMs is that they just wipe the drive, install Windows and basic drivers to see if it's a software problem.

Unless it's an obvious hardware issue.

[ashen spindle]

it's not odd it's an easy way to try to safe money by pretending they dont need to fix something

[wheat plume]

Hmm

Allegedly, Intel have bribed Microsoft to optimist 11 for Intel CPUs
Because there is up to 20% performance loss on AMD currently and Intel worked with MS on providing drivers for 11

[ashen spindle]

no they did not

and also thats old news

already fixed

and yes intel did work with MS to make 11 it's necessary for the new cpus

ffs please dont just watch random youtube videos and believe them

[reef patrol]

Won't be out for another 4 days. Are you a time traveller? 😄

[ashen spindle]

it's out for insider or smth

[wheat plume]

It's not fixed
The patch made performance worse

[ashen spindle]

no there is another patch

[wheat plume]

Hopefully it's fixed

I'm still not upgrading regardless

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1449062215777198082

VideoCardz.com (@VideoCardz)

Ryzen L3 lag in Win11 fixed https://t.co/3NDze4SZe3

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Twitter · Oct 15, 2021, 5:18 PM

[wheat plume]

Ah... When that hitting stable?

[reef patrol]

The 21st.

[wheat plume]

Ook

If I update to 11
I may not dual boot anymore
Unless I run all the available 11 updates in settings and then pause them forever

Or maybe MS made it so that the chance of dual boot breaking after an update is no more

But I doubt that

[ashen spindle]

just throw on WSL and be done with that issue

[wheat plume]

Ew

No

That's what MS want

[ashen spindle]

ok and?

[wheat plume]

They want people who are considering linux to use wsl instead so that if they enjoy linux after trying it, they will still be using it on windows and won't actually switch

[ashen spindle]

and?

still dont see the issue

[wheat plume]

Anyway
I may still dual boot and never update the windows 11 install

[ashen spindle]

great talk

[wheat plume]

Hmm
But if there is a critical update I can't apply it

Ffs

Why must it break dual boot .-. it's on its own drive, it shouldn't affect the other ones

[chrome estuary]

it doesn't.

[wheat plume]

It does

[chrome estuary]

tell your motherboard to load the drive grub is installed to and it should bring it up

grub just likes to install itself wherever the fuck it damn well pleases 99% of the time

[wheat plume]

It's happen to me a few times
Either Linux or windows will no longer show up in uefi

[chrome estuary]

on your motherboard or on grub?

[wheat plume]

Mobo

Bios

[chrome estuary]

then your motherboard is fucked

update your bios

[wheat plume]

It's not the Mobo...
It's too do with the windows boot manager

[chrome estuary]

i've literally never had a windows install or update completely hide other installations from my UEFI selection on the mobo

[wheat plume]

It doesn't happen every update
More major ones or random patches

So I just pause them all so it doesn't risk it

[chrome estuary]

either or. any update at all full stop
or
a brand new installation

[wheat plume]

I did a clean install a month ago

Ran all updates

Then paused them all

Once that batch was done

[wheat plume]

The OLED Switch screen is made by Samsung!

Damn
That's a good choice

[cursive summit]

Most widely recognised OLED TV maker: LG

Lana: Samsung!

I guess they do manufacture decent AMOLED displays themselves?

[urban lynx]

got a question.

what be advantages of a second gpu in system?
not the same as the "main"

[pale sigil]

Um

Shit

What's it called

[latent mural]

more monitors

gpu passthrough

balls

[pale sigil]

GPU pass through

That's the one

[ashen spindle]

crossfire can work with different types to a same degree, acellerator for blender/photoshop etc,

physx card if it's an nvidia one

mining/folding@home

[urban lynx]

what is gpu pass through?

would something like obs benefit from one that isnt used in another way?

as in, only having 1 monitor anyway?

[ashen spindle]

no

[reef patrol]

VM direct access to a GPU.

[urban lynx]

[reef patrol]

Let's say you boot up into Linux normally. And you have two GPUs, a small and a large one (or an onCPU one)

You then boot up Windows with the full, large GPU with no sharing with Linux and however much CPU you want to give it. Better performance, less issues

[urban lynx]

hm... could be nice with a second monitor too...

(do have planned to acquire one)

[wheat plume]

you dont need a second GPU for a second screen...Unless your current one has one port

[vagrant pagoda]

you only need one port

https://looking-glass.io/

[urban lynx]

i know i dont need a gpu per screen...
I've used 3 screens on this gpu before

[vagrant pagoda]

no that lets you remote view the VMs GPU from the host system GPU

[urban lynx]

the question was more along "what's the advantage if i took one of my old gpu's, and just put them into my current computer"

[reef patrol]

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

Something something means of production, comrades.

The constant barrage of socialist jokes is just.

[latent mural]

azan pc pog

[ashen spindle]

[reef patrol]

Jokes aside it's a pretty solid build.

[wheat plume]

TIL there is an app that can look at a photo, or take a photo, of someone and use their facial recognition database to find out who they are and where they live....

[latent mural]

ok that vid was cringe i can't believe we gave up a himbo pc building stream for this

[reef patrol]

smh

[wheat plume]

I give that build top MARX

[pale sigil]

Xiaomi QIN F21

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003237904663.html

me want

[wheat plume]

The DDNS host my friend is using stopped working on my MC server... so I was looking into other options that our router supports, and this is one

Do you think this would be a good option? It has a free tier and also has a guide specifically for using this with Minecraft, so that's pretty neat

[young pecan]

Just buy a TLD through a service and port that bitch to Cloudflare.

Just run it yourself.

Might cost you 40 bucks or something for a year.

[wheat plume]

I do run the server myself, but the current provider no working anymore

[young pecan]

Personally I use DirectUpdate and I pruchased my TLD through NameCheap and ported into Cloudflare.

I'd pretty highly suggest DirectUpdate.

[wheat plume]

fixed windows 2000 support

damn, this is old

[young pecan]

Yep.

Works perfectly on Win10 and 11.

[wheat plume]

you see, this is a linux machine the server is running on!

So welp, cant use this

[young pecan]

Mmm.

[pale sigil]

want to use my url?

can make lana.mrpl.me

[wheat plume]

oo

as a DDNS?

[pale sigil]

oh i assumed this was your mc thing

xD

[wheat plume]

it is

[young pecan]

I mean...

[wheat plume]

but I need a DDNS cause that machine doesnt have a static IP

[young pecan]

You can use noip, I guess?

[pale sigil]

aye

i assumed

use cloudflare

with a custom domain

[young pecan]

^

[pale sigil]

its what i do

[wheat plume]

how do?

[pale sigil]

dm me your static ip

[young pecan]

Buy a TLD through a registrar and port it to Cloudflare.

Might take a few days.

[wheat plume]

I dont have a static IP, this is why I need a DDNS!

[pale sigil]

OH

[young pecan]

Once done just configure as normal and throw the key into the DDNS updater.

[pale sigil]

you can still do it

[wheat plume]

The router supports many ddns providers

so you can login to the router instead of needing their software

[pale sigil]

you can just do it on linux

itll update your cloudflare when the IP changes

[young pecan]

Ngl tho if you want a really good solution it's use Proxmox.

[pale sigil]

does it not allow custom?

[young pecan]

Proxmox with linux and windows servers with a docker DDNS container.

So pog.

[wheat plume]

the server runs on a Promox instance.....

[young pecan]

Oh lmfao.

[wheat plume]

xd

[young pecan]

Why not just use a DDNS updater in a container?

Iirc you should be able to.

[wheat plume]

Uh, til thats a thing?

[pale sigil]

you run a mail server on ya alienware/

[wheat plume]

nah, mc server

[pale sigil]

oh

its a web panel?

[wheat plume]

I made a bash alias to get the external ip

xd

[young pecan]

https://hub.docker.com/r/qmcgaw/ddns-updater

DDNS updater in a docker container.

[pale sigil]

why not just run normal linux

oh

ye you hate terminal stuff

:p

[wheat plume]

because this is not the only use we have for my alienware

my friend setup another instance for a linux dev environment

[young pecan]

Ok but @wheat plumewhy not use a container?

[pale sigil]

Ye

[young pecan]

I see no reason it won't work.

[pale sigil]

an MC container too

xD

[wheat plume]

idk how and I wasnt the one who setup the server

I just copied over my world and whatnot to it

[pale sigil]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[young pecan]

Right.

[pale sigil]

Lana BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[young pecan]

Uhh yeah.

[wheat plume]

xd

[young pecan]

Yeah no, that's not practical.

[wheat plume]

I only can access the minecraft server instance

via ssh

cause its ubuntu server with no gui

[young pecan]

...

Ok so why did you do this in the first place instead of running that bitch in Docker?

[wheat plume]

and the console output of the server is in a tmux session

[young pecan]

The only benefit native Linux or Proxmox has over Docker is shit like waterfall, and that's only for uber big stuff.

[wheat plume]

idk, ask my friend that question

Like I said, I just used filezilla to copy over the server files

and run it over ssh

[young pecan]

You should probably just make a Docker instance for MC.

And put DDNS into another container.

From there just interconnect them.

[wheat plume]

mc worlds are a pain over command line

cause sometimes when you unzip one, its in a folder in another folder

[pale sigil]

tmux

[wheat plume]

and then got to copy shit

[pale sigil]

why use tmux

[young pecan]

Yes so just run them via docker?

[pale sigil]

tmux is garbage

[young pecan]

You seem to have done this in the worst possible way.

[wheat plume]

ASK MY FRIEND THESE QUESTIONS, OK?! GOSH!

he just came to my room one day, told me how to login with SSH and use tmux keybindings and to start the server with the bash script he made

[young pecan]

Dude, I don't care about that.

It's your server no?

[pale sigil]

screen -dmS Woot_MC java -Xms2G -Xmx12G -XX:PermSize=256m -Dfml.read.Timeout=560 -jar serever.jar nogui

[young pecan]

Just...

[ashen spindle]

I mean then either the friend should set this up or you should figure out how it works otherwise it gets a bit hard to use it doesn't it?

[young pecan]

This.

[wheat plume]

Yep

[young pecan]

If you don't know how to do what you're currently doing you should probably use Docker or KVM via Proxmox and UI that bitch.

CLI is annoying to use at the very best of times.

Effective yes, but CLI is always horrible to use compared to GUI.

[pale sigil]

Poor Tony knows how it feels to have someone nag him every second for help

not me i swear

[timid dome]

cli is just fine, i don't know what you're on about

[wheat plume]

TIL the external IP is the same for every device on the network

IM A MORON

[young pecan]

Sure CLI is fine, it is.

But good CLI is never as good as good GUI.

Both can be usable and good, but one trumps the other hard when it's made correctly.

[timid dome]

When it's made correctly is a key point. It's not hard to make a CLI. it's pretty easy to mess up a gui.

[young pecan]

^

[timid dome]

🙂

[young pecan]

Exactly.

Fuck I wish we had more GUI designers that knew what they're doing.

[timid dome]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/485138525885431808/896584077929513030/1633832672088.mp4

found it

this is actually horrendous

[young pecan]

Anyone studying for it should use this nightmare mess as a case study in what to avoid.

[wheat plume]

S I B E L I U S C R A S H E D

[young pecan]

THE MUSIC MELTS IN THE SIBELIUS.

[timid dome]

task failed successfully?

[misty saffron]

sony vegas

[young pecan]

THE CHEESE MELTS IN THE MICROWAVE.

[young pecan]

Aight lads, I've worked out a maybe overkill cooling system.

[ashen spindle]

put it in the mariana trench?

[young pecan]

VFR to split single phase into 3 phase into a 1m wide belt driven drum fan, from there slap that bitch into a door as an exhaust and tie it down hard.

20 thousand cfm.

:D

FAN GO BRRRRRRRRRR

[pale sigil]

Lmao

[umbral knot]

I read cooling as cooking after reading microwave so I was very confused

[pale sigil]

I'm feeling the amd less perf issue on w11

With fc6 after the update it runs worse

[wheat plume]

The Unity Hub icon is very ominous looking

I love coding to an interface...

Why is this returning 0?!
I pass in 6 and 24

[timid dome]

@wheat plume because you're using integers. those don't handle decimals

use a float or double

oh, i took another look at your code. there's one other option-- multiply by 100 before the divide

that way you won't have decimals that matter unless you want precision past the %

so either change the interface to

float op(float num1, float num2);

or change your implementation to

@Override
public int op(int num1, int num2) {
    return (100 * num1) / num2;
}

the different methods will perform slightly different due to the differences between float/double and int

so, I might as well talk about number types in general since you don't seem to have an understanding of how they work.
a byte is a 1-byte signed integer, which stores integers (as in the math term, no decimals behind the 1s place) in the range [-128, 127]
a short is a 2-byte signed integer, same thing, but in the range [-32768, 32767]
an int is a 4-byte signed integer. [-2147483648, 2147483647]
in theory signed integers can use any amount of bits/bytes you want, but due to computer architecture and how the hardware deals with bits/bytes, they're usually in sizes of bytes, by powers of two
so like, 1 byte, 2 bytes, 4 bytes, 8 bytes, and you could go on, but most languages don't, including java

floating-point numbers are stored completely different (think scientific notation) in memory and they store a huge range of numbers but don't have exact precision
so, say, if the float conforms to the I-EEE 754 standard (most things do), it can store values from very small to very big, with varying precision. the more bits used to store the number, the higher the precision and larger the range.

I have attached some diagrams for floating-point numbers to help my explanation

[pale sigil]

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1449878844991627267?t=DqUQ-dbeJQNSVZQXCxIMBQ&s=19

Linus Tech Tips (@LinusTech)

What has Linux Linus gotten himself into this time?!

Retweets

113

Likes

4311

Twitter · Oct 17, 2021, 11:23 PM

Uh oh

[timid dome]

so i had a hard time finding a good two's complement integer diagram, so I've made my own here

[fair gull]

nerd

[wheat plume]

O.o
That's a detailed reply
....

Thanks so much ahah! I fell asleep right after sending this oops

I'll try that solution in a while

[reef patrol]

He and Luke made a bet a few weeks ago to change to some kind of Linux Distro as their daily drivers - for everything.

It's going to be a multi part video series.

[pale sigil]

Oh i know and I'm excited

[reef patrol]

I was responding to Locke 😄

[pale sigil]

Ah

Also

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsey-move-your-ass-move-gif-12767888

Valve I need deets

[wheat plume]

Why is yours earlier than mine?!?!

[reef patrol]

Cause he pre-ordered earlier? 😄

[wheat plume]

When??

[ashen spindle]

....

[pale sigil]

Like

[ashen spindle]

its int he picture..

[wheat plume]

Oh
It is

[pale sigil]

Literally when it was avail to pre order

[wheat plume]

Send me that one and you can wait for mine!
Deal? Xd

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

It doesnt say "After Q2" for you

wut

oh

also early reservation date

I bet a lot of reservations are scalpers

:/

heh?

Does that make that kind of money?!

[old marlin]

ye

if you trade well etc

[wheat plume]

O.o

[old marlin]

you can make a couple thousand a year

without problems

but obv VERY unsafe

[wheat plume]

heheheheheee
The DDNS is working :D