🔌│tech

[cursive summit]

But I don't like Android

[wheat plume]

yeah, is the codename for Android 13

xd

[cursive summit]

Idk man, I think I could have guessed

[wheat plume]

yep xd

[cursive summit]

Just like all of their previous codenames

[wheat plume]

:')

[cursive summit]

Still wondering how they didn't get sued by Oreo

[wheat plume]

I forgot what Android 12's is

[cursive summit]

Marshmellow?

[wheat plume]

or by KitKat

[cursive summit]

Huh?

I didn't hear about this one

[wheat plume]

ooo

Yeah, they stopped using the codenames publicly since Android 10

;-;

They just use version number now

[cursive summit]

I remember this one

A lot of android apps for some reason don't work before 5.0

Kind of an important version

[wheat plume]

Android 5 and up where actually good looking
I understand why people prefered iOS until Android 5

🤔 Android 13 has a new gaming API

To allow games to boost the CPU usage when they need to

[cursive summit]

Mobile gaming

Thanks but no thanks

[wheat plume]

^

[cursive summit]

I already hate my phone's battery

You want the pitiful battery to take a shit even more?

[wheat plume]

I love my phone's battery life <3

[cursive summit]

5000 MAH

HOLDS 1 DAY

No apps

[wheat plume]

5200mAh! Last's a damn long time

[misty saffron]

i'd imagine the alphabet isn't infinite

[wheat plume]

yeah but they stopped at P

[old marlin]

Yea and what is Q supposed to be

Android Quarkbällchen?

Nice and easy word

[wheat plume]

I think it's Queen Cake

[old marlin]

Seen some people recommend quince

Those people have prob never held a quince irl

Or tried to eat one

[shadow minnow]

Android 12 no cookies for Quinn

[patent glacier]

No cookies for @solar hinge

[wheat plume]

wtf is Quince?

o

[misty saffron]

pear

[solar hinge]

The flavour of my spunk

[wheat plume]

👀

[old marlin]

They are quite hard and taste really bad when raw

[wheat plume]

Makes sense, it says you need to cook them first

[wheat plume]

OOOOOOOOFFFFF HOT TAKE OF THE CENTURY :')

[astral haven]

It makes amazing jam

[crisp granite]

^^

this

quince is the best

but...you don't eat it raw, if that isn't already obvious

you cook it down

mmmmmm

[timid needle]

am i setting something up something wrong or is it just that the kraken 7.1 v2 mic sounds better than samson go mic

[astral haven]

Silver side towards you

[frozen ingot]

not impossible, I was surprised how well my kraken mic sounded, and samson isn't the most high-end audio brand out there

[cursive summit]

https://hothardware.com/news/zen-4-cpus-will-also-get-3d-v-cache-next-year

Has Greymon been wrong about much?

[ashen spindle]

no but that also doesnt mean anything

ofc there will be v cache on zen4 too

New leaked rumour: future tech will not stop using an improvement they made

wow

[old marlin]

New leaked rumor: new AMD CPUs will be faster that the current equivalent ones

[ashen spindle]

no way

[crimson wigeon]

Unbelievable!

[cursive summit]

Well at least Zen 4 won't have 3D stacking at launch

Instead will be later modified probably to the same X3D edition

Wonder if Zen 5 will incorporate the 3D stacking design on its launch products, not only for cache but the AI accelerators

Also, haven't heard if Zen 4 will have that programmable portion of the CPU that handles architectural things. They filed a patent that supposedly would let them update the arch, somehow, via updates that'd just interact with the controller

Sounds cool, but hadn't heard much of it since the patent went live

[astral haven]

Nah
Amd has already stated that only products that will benefit from it will receive stacking
We will only get stacked chips if Intel puts up something competitive for consumer

[cursive summit]

Weren't they bragging their new Lake stuff is supposedly really good?

What's the next one, Raptor right?

[astral haven]

i mean price competitive

on the chiplet products the unit price could drop in half and they would still be profiting about as much per chip as intel does

but even if, amds product, while signficantly cheaper, also is very very easy to iterate on, and within spitting distance performance wise

[shadow minnow]

I mean look at 11900k, there are cases where this doesn’t happen with new CPUs

[astral haven]

it usually happens when theres a big shift
look at p4
unfortunately for the 11900k that big shift was getting a new ceo lmao

[shadow minnow]

[cursive summit]

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-breaks-the-5-ghz-barrier-overclocked-to-5-15-ghz-on-msi-meg-x570-godlike/?beta=1

[shadow minnow]

Auto voltages can get scary ngl
Especially with ram
Though have to admit, default oc on 11900k was good enough that I almost couldn’t even beat it with custom OC on water. So kinda considering keeping it just so cpu runs on lower voltage usually.
Though my ram OC experience…. Why is this ram so horrible

Hmm the 3080 ti price went down to 1430€

[wheat plume]

GT4 AND RUST IS GOD

https://youtu.be/LOLKbNCc1rs

LOL

[misty saffron]

what

oh

so a nightmare for scientific literature

[wheat plume]

e?

I cant type the accent

[misty saffron]

russian letter ё

accent completely optional and even considered "anti-scientific" by some linguists

[wheat plume]

👀

[shadow minnow]

We have ä here in Slovakia

Perhaps weirder ĺ

My slovak language skills going bad too can’t think of a single word using it atm despite being sure there are quite a few

Oh yes

Stĺp

But forgot ä

[final flame]

àáâäãåāæ

[shadow minnow]

ė

LĹĽRŔŘ

[pale sigil]

bendy thing

[misty saffron]

thing that bends and stays there

[thick elk]

Hmm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseneck_(fixture)

stay-in-place hose would be another one

[old marlin]

Depending on what you are trying to do one of these might work?

[wheat plume]

This looks like LockPickingLawyer's 14 inch Johnson

[misty saffron]

looks like mine

i look at mine all the time

[wheat plume]

oh its 18 inches long

https://youtu.be/m-tKnjFwleU

[wheat plume]

This could take a while
Yeah...its been 4 minutes already

[wheat plume]

oo, nice :D

I use that all the time on Gnome and Plasma desktops and its amazing <3

it autoresizes the other window?

doing the mouse drag thing

oo nice

ayy

I get more fan noise on "power saver" mode than on "balanced" using Fedora on this laptop
very odd

make a layout for it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/bspwm/comments/fsfqt1/how_to_save_recreate_window_layout/

it seems you can take a snapshot of the state the windows are in and save it

oo

There are many things that reddit comments have solved for me over the years

[wheat plume]

Why does fedora make such a large boot partition?

[misty saffron]

largely, just to boot

[wheat plume]

🤦‍♀️ LOL

[reef patrol]

😏

You might say... he was russian to get that pun in.

https://tenor.com/view/beep-friday-mood-drive-see-ya-gif-12427083

[ashen spindle]

partially, to allocate space in one location

[wheat plume]

Im happy
My favourite GTK theme has a flatpak version so now my Flatpak apps can use it <3

Everything is unified again

but on gnome 42, you can only change the theme for GTK3 apps and not GTK4 since they are forced to use LibAdwaita theme

but that's fine cause Adwaita looks nice in GTK4

[misty saffron]

sure but why is sim tray removal bad?

i’d imagine pressing a button in an app is easier than physically inserting a sim card

lost/broke sim card? sol

[shadow minnow]

Well many carriers don’t offer esims yet

Tbh I want to see charging port gone

[ashen spindle]

wireless charging is shit though

even good options will have efficiency loss that a cable wont have

[misty saffron]

well in that case apple removing the sim tray would actually be good

carriers either do their shit or lose customers

[wheat plume]

I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack

Wired earphones are too good compared to wireless

[ashen spindle]

simple, only esims means carriers have even more control about your stuff

[empty wren]

People are gonna have fun restoring their iPhones when that happens

[ashen spindle]

thats the bad part

[wheat plume]

RIP Android custom roms once volume buttons are removed

[ashen spindle]

then get non shit wireless products

[wheat plume]

and ADB usage

[empty wren]

Touch uis exist

[wheat plume]

when the charger is gone

[crimson wigeon]

You'd just use ADB over the network like cool people do already

[misty saffron]

ah, the land of carrier locked phones

we don’t have that

[ashen spindle]

well that too, but what if regulations become stricter and you wont get a valid esim unless you follow xyz

[misty saffron]

don’t really understand what you mean

[empty wren]

Pretty sure two carriers in US are against esim

[shadow minnow]

I mean yea but still myself already used to it. So selfishly want removal

[chrome estuary]

I definitely do not want to lose the charging port. USB-C has more uses than just charging

[shadow minnow]

Ngl had so many destroyed cables for me can’t live without wireless

[chrome estuary]

Just because some weirdos think it's better to use cloud backup over local and wireless charging is more convenient doesn't mean we should remove them.

[empty wren]

Sadly it will just happen

[ashen spindle]

that makes no sense because keeping charging port doesnt mean they would remove wireless

so you could do it anyway

[shadow minnow]

I mean would be nice to have data transfer integrated too

[chrome estuary]

I don't see losing the charging port being a thing at least for Android phones

Apple probably

[wheat plume]

It will be a thing for Android phones if Apple do it

Its enivitable

[empty wren]

It could be a few years after apple

[chrome estuary]

I still say no.

[empty wren]

At the very least low end phones will still have it

[shadow minnow]

I mean, as I have said, it’s just my selfish want. Like sure for most people would suck but for me don’t use cable so rather would want Apple Watch level water resistance + bigger battery.
Sure not better for most, but for me better than nothing

[chrome estuary]

People can use the charging ports to replicate a 3.5mm headphone jack, have DACs and other things

[ashen spindle]

if they remove the port that's probably reason enough for me to switch to an android when I need a new phone

as if removal of a port would change the battery size at all lmfao

[crimson wigeon]

A couple years, at first the marketing teams will make fun of it and announce their devices still having these basic features.. and then a year later it's gone just like that

[wheat plume]

Apple: remove headphone jack
Android: Eventually removes the headphone jack too

Apple: Adds notch to screen
Android: Eventually adds notch to screen too

Apple: Removes charger brick from packaging
Android: Eventually removes charger brick from packaging too

[chrome estuary]

They might test the waters out with one phone or one version of a phone. But I see it being a flop

[shadow minnow]

Well it means more space and apple likes to utilize space

So probably yes

[empty wren]

That last one is only true for fanboy brands

[ashen spindle]

take a look at how little space it takes up and tell me how many mA you get from that space lol

[wheat plume]

no

no its not

[chrome estuary]

The USB interface does far too much. I don't see this being a thing that happens personally

[ashen spindle]

enjoy the 5 mA more

[shadow minnow]

Well better than nothing

[empty wren]

Xiaomi still kept it if I recall correctly

[wheat plume]

Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus
They all stopped sending charger bricks

[chrome estuary]

What's a notch? My LG wing doesn't have that. It's got this fancy motorized camera

[empty wren]

Hmm

Weird last I saw oh well

[wheat plume]

https://tenor.com/btCAJ.gif

[ashen spindle]

removal of charging brick comes from EU guidelines for e-waste and apple just did it pre-emptively to not conform to a standard

so android "following" that is good and not a following apple thing

[chrome estuary]

Also I'm not defending companies on this but 99.99% of the time, you already have a charging brick so thats gonna become ewaste

[wheat plume]

yeah......but if a new phone comes out that has 200W (for example) fast charging but doesnt come with a brick...then people wont be able to use that fast charging since the bricks they have arent that, so they will need to buy the brick with the phone and use another box and pacjaging for that

[shadow minnow]

Wait actually?

[empty wren]

Some of the newer phones can intake more current

[chrome estuary]

Yeah sure but does it really matter?

[ashen spindle]

ok so you buy if you need it and if you dont you dont, still less ewaste

[shadow minnow]

^

[chrome estuary]

25w is fairly standard on good chargers AND it's still plenty fast enough for a charge

[wheat plume]

Yeah, its happened already with the new Samsung phones
They have faster charging than the previous models and peoplel are complaining it doesnt charge as fast as they claim because the bricks they had already dont go that fast

so its a problem

[chrome estuary]

Not reallt

It's a first world "wah woe is me" problem

[ashen spindle]

how is it a problem, you can use your old charger, if you want more you buy a new charger

[chrome estuary]

The new Samsung phones do a 45w PEAK charge

Not a 45w constant

[ashen spindle]

in total at worst it's the same, in reality it will be less ewaste

[chrome estuary]

They more so do about 30-35w constant

[shadow minnow]

I mean apple would also provide 5w bricks up to like iPhone 11
Despite 6s+ already supporting 10w

[wheat plume]

o.o

thats just stupid

[chrome estuary]

Yup

[ashen spindle]

so how is them not including it a problem?

[chrome estuary]

It does suck for like... Getting your first phone or something

But after that... Who cares

[wheat plume]

Cause people are stupid and if you hear a phone charges really fast and you use your own brick on it and its slow AF then they complain about the phone and false advertising

[ashen spindle]

even then, just buy 2 items instead of one on your shopping cart lmao

[chrome estuary]

I use a 25w Samsung USB-C travel charger I got with my pre-owned LG wing

[ashen spindle]

ok so dumb people complain, we still have less waste

[shadow minnow]

I mean I know people with like 5 5w apple bricks and it’s just waste

[ashen spindle]

aka why is that a problem

[wheat plume]

Yeah...

[chrome estuary]

I'll continue using it unless I buy something like a Spigen or Anker multi port charger

[cursive summit]

Jokes on you naturalist, chads collect their chargers in a box

[misty saffron]

girlfriend got an iphone 11 when they stopped shipping the bricks and… she just used her old one!

outstanding!

[wheat plume]

xd

[cursive summit]

I still have Nokia 3310 charger somewhere

[ashen spindle]

why is customers being dumb a problem that should mean they should not stop shipping chargers

[chrome estuary]

I wish apple would just give iPhone USB-C already. They did it with the iPad pro and it's wonderful

[shadow minnow]

I mean sure but that’s kinda their problem, less e waste rather than making sure few stupid people are happy

[misty saffron]

i feel like people would also bitch if apple stopped shipping a dildo with iphones

[chrome estuary]

Pff

Subwoofer buttplug you mean?

[misty saffron]

uwu

[cursive summit]

How about, instead of "buy a charger" since that's honestly good for environment, sure, but also just a way to cut losses for the company and not give them out for free

Let's make it "do you want a free charger"

[misty saffron]

one of those vibration speakers that you attach to something

[shadow minnow]

Well issue is

[empty wren]

Xiaomi did that for a while

[shadow minnow]

Some people who won’t need it will take it

[ashen spindle]

because if its free most people would take it even if they have one???

[wheat plume]

ye

[shadow minnow]

Since they don’t care about environment enough to bother

[cursive summit]

Best of both worlds

[ashen spindle]

no

tf are you smoking

[chrome estuary]

That defeats the whole purpose

[misty saffron]

“do you want a free anything remotely useful” will result in yes 99% of the time

[wheat plume]

^

[chrome estuary]

I mean yeah it lets companies cut losses with a cheap ass 10$ charger

[shadow minnow]

And also way more e waste

[ashen spindle]

it's not even bad for companies because they can get them at scale

so it's not even cutting losses

[shadow minnow]

And more waste from shipping

[chrome estuary]

Yeah that too

[shadow minnow]

Well not waste mostly but other environmentally unfriendly stuff

[chrome estuary]

The only thing I'd like is a better cord included but I have plenty of those now

[ashen spindle]

granted having less chargers is only a small amount compared to the metric fuckton of waste apple and co produce just to sell more, it's still helping

[shadow minnow]

Tbf I broke lot of lightning cables
Kinda why I like MagSafe

[shadow minnow]

^

[misty saffron]

i would not be angry if they stopped including cables either, quite frankly

[chrome estuary]

I've only ever broken cables after years and years

Also some higher end androids have magsafe cases and I want one

[shadow minnow]

True

[chrome estuary]

I'm thinking of buying an S22 Ultra and getting a magsafe with it

[shadow minnow]

Well I could break cables in like a year

[misty saffron]

already got too many lightning cables i got from fuck knows where

they just appear

[chrome estuary]

I've had my cable here for something like 2+ years and I have plenty more laying around

Dad is the one who constantly loses or breaks them which is annoying

[shadow minnow]

Also if apple goes carbon neutral with entire chain, sure motives may not be environmental but at the end environment gets the same effect from it

[misty saffron]

you know how apple's cables are supposed to be fragile right

the cable part

[ashen spindle]

they are not going to end up carbon neutral in a decade or more unless reguilations step up lmao

[misty saffron]

mine is in tact 2.5 years later, only cracked the plastics on the connector

[ashen spindle]

the claims apple makes in regards to carbon neutrality is the most bullshit out of all their marketing ever

[misty saffron]

i’ve seen my parents’ cables and i have zero clue how they abuse them that much

[ashen spindle]

pulling on cord to unplug it is my guess

[chrome estuary]

Dad loves the idea of wireless charging but I think that's so he can be even more lazy than he already is

[misty saffron]

i slide my nail into the seam and unplug it like that

can’t be more careful

[shadow minnow]

Just lying down with your phone vertically is horrible for both cable and you when charging

Doesn’t happen with MagSafe

[misty saffron]

solution: don't tug on the cable

[astral haven]

Magnetic cables are the way to go
Original magsafe not this new bs

[sudden glacier]

i use magnetic charging cables for my headset

very nice to have

no longer need to find the hole while wearing it

[shadow minnow]

Well magnetic charging cables are nice but still can’t fix this

[ashen spindle]

use a longer cable or attach it somewhere and then its fixed too

[astral haven]

My magnetic adapters come in straight and 90 degrees
No problems either way

[shadow minnow]

Well what I am saying is that it makes it really uncomfortable to have cable coming from below the phone when lying down and having phone resting. Which used to have issue with time to time

[wheat plume]

You have problems trying to find holes often?

[misty saffron]

vio you forgot to switch accounts

[wheat plume]

:')

[reef patrol]

[sudden glacier]

[wheat plume]

here we go :D

powershell10k

[ashen spindle]

I swear you have more hours looking at UI than I played games

maybe next pc upgrade should benchmark ui rendering and not games lol

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

Valorant needs secure boot enabled :/

well then .... Another reason I cant / wont play that game

[sudden glacier]

what game doesn't need that

i feel like every modern shooter is unavailable on linux

[wheat plume]

any game Ive played so far works fine with it disabled

[ashen spindle]

val anti cheat needs a deeper kernel access than most so that will be harder to run on linux than others

[wheat plume]

I'm talking about windows

[ashen spindle]

yes and I replied to darren

[wheat plume]

Ahh ok

[misty saffron]

secure boot requirement is to prevent drivers with expired certs from loading

literally just to deter 1% of skids who don’t know what they’re doing

[ashen spindle]

I mean, if it's that easy to get rid of an entire percent thats already worth it

[misty saffron]

i’m convinced you fuck more legit players with that requirement

[ashen spindle]

how so

[misty saffron]

there is still a public vulnerable driver that isn’t signed with an expired cert

even better, it’s signed by intel

[ashen spindle]

I mean, that just means it wont work as much but how does that fuck legit players?

false sense of security?

[misty saffron]

presenting a requirement that is actually completely useless for vanguard’s functionality

[misty saffron]

^

[ashen spindle]

yeah but that's only the case because lana breaks her dual boot

[misty saffron]

you can spoof secure boot state and vanguard will run just fine

[ashen spindle]

anything that makes the barrier even a bit higher while not really impacting the user is fine with me

if secure boot is flawed because an intel driver issue, dont think that should be a reason for them to not use it then

rather tell intel to get their shit together

[misty saffron]

no, it’s that secure boot absolutely doesn’t matter for game hacking

[ashen spindle]

not even a chance that there would be an easier way to get cheats for it going?

[wheat plume]

I forgot this feature exists

Smol apps

[pale sigil]

heyo

How can i install linux to my sdd directly and boot into it

as i cant find my usb

[final flame]

personally I'm more of a split screen person

pop up is cool but imo it's less useful compared to having 2 app in their own spaces

[reef tundra]

https://youtu.be/RnqAXuLZlaE

[reef patrol]

Those dang swedes.

[reef patrol]

Sounds like? Straight from Windows and then boot it up? I guess you could probably partition a drive into a smol 1GB partition, etch a Linux bootable on it and then boot from BIOS?

But uhh... honestly just wait till tomorrow and grab a USB imo xD

[pale sigil]

nice find

[frozen ingot]

swedes? that's norwegian

[wheat plume]

Fedora is Arch.. Isnt it
@pale sigil - 2022

[pale sigil]

Based on arch I meant

Like Ubuntu is based on debian

[wheat plume]

yeah I know xd

[pale sigil]

Am I wrong?

[wheat plume]

Fedora is based on Redhat Linux

[pale sigil]

Fuck dat

I'm aborting

[wheat plume]

?

Why?

its literally the most stable OS you can use

[pale sigil]

ill dm

[granite robin]

Linus Torvalds uses Fedora

There's that

[pale sigil]

am never listening to Lana

3 distros later

Just want Gnome 42 with Arch

[crimson wigeon]

So just install it...?

[pale sigil]

Im used to Debian

Arch doesn't even have a gui after install

whyis that fake arch

im downloading that atm

xD

thats what i want

she just did

downloading now

[crimson wigeon]

For those who don't want to pacman -S whatever-de

[pale sigil]

I like Debian.

Debian is cozy, always nice to you and caring for you.

But i need to get out of my comfort zone

also SteamDeck

it uses arch

[wheat plume]

ArcoLinuxB

That has Gnome 42

Im using it on my desktop

[pale sigil]

[reef patrol]

I hate Linux so much rn xD

Trying to bring my NAS back up. And it just won't connect to my network for some reason.

Well...FreeBSD technically I suppose.

[wheat plume]

oh thats not Linux

thats BSD

[reef patrol]

I corrected myself. It's all shells and obscure (poor) documentation xD

[wheat plume]

the same shit MacOS is loosly based on

[reef patrol]

First I figured moving damaged the NIC. But nope - When I grabbed a Windows 10 USB bootable the PC appeared on my Router immediately.

[thick elk]

freebsd kind of sucks in terms of hardware compatibility

[reef patrol]

Yes, sure. But this hardware worked previously.

Sigh... full reinstall of TrueNAS and it still won't connect.

FFS

Motherfuc...

Fresh install works just fine. So... guess I gotta ask the TrueNAS forum gurus about wtf happened to my old one.

[wheat plume]

wtf is the name of the new gnome console app???

its not gnome-console though thats the package name

but I cant run gnome-console cause its not a thing

[crimson wigeon]

gnome-terminal?

[wheat plume]

Ok...
When I'm back

The same happened for gnome-text-editor on my desktop too

But that command works on my laptop to open it

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dells-proprietary-ddr5-module-locks-out-user-upgrades

.....
Laptops really dont need to be thinner

Making ram non upgradable just for that is stupid

[crisp granite]

they do tbh

[wheat plume]

Nah

[crisp granite]

they're meant to be portable

I'd kill for a macbook just slightly thiccer than an iPad

[ashen spindle]

because ram on a laptop is totally what people upgrade all the time anyway

[wheat plume]

My laptop is barely thick enough to fit a USB A port on the side

We don't need thinner than that

[crisp granite]

^^

[crimson wigeon]

No, bring back the modularity! Bring back the card slots!

[crisp granite]

laptop upgrading is non-existent and to get to the point of it had huge compromises and was still proprietary af

[ashen spindle]

as cool as the framework laptop is, doesnt mean everything should be like that

[wheat plume]

I want one of those

I like that idea and the way they do it is so clever

[ashen spindle]

yeah and I dont think I'd want one for the foreseeable future because I wouldnt need the features

doesnt mean im against modularity or repairability

[crisp granite]

anyone remember the Alienware Area 51?
"user upgradable" using only proprietary parts that aren't actually compatible with other chassis IN THE SAME LINE, preventing user upgrades, also Dell doesn't just sell those parts a la carte

xD

[wheat plume]

Yeah.....

[crimson wigeon]

Itsadelle

[crisp granite]

closest thing we got to a user upgradable laptop to date

the framework with expansion, replaceable keyboards and port selection is cool

but...eh

not expecting anything close to what dell attempted

[ashen spindle]

also those modules seem to take like half the space

so more room for battery

[reef patrol]

It's actually worse.

Previously you'd either just have the SODIMM sockets for full user replaceability. Or you'd skim on size and solder the fuckers. This is just the worst of both worlds.

Proprietary and pointless for end users.

[wheat plume]

Yep....

[crisp granite]

"bring back the luggable" is what I'm hearing

[wheat plume]

Soldering is worse than this Dell idea

But you can only buy dell ram

That will definitely cost a fuck ton

[crisp granite]

also the tooling to actually make the sockets

lol

[reef patrol]

I disagree.

This is Apple's "lets put SSDs without controllers into our new mac minis" kind of slippery slope bad.

Calling it now - They might turn laptops that don't need this solution into this solution to save money internally. And then ALL of their laptop owners will get fucked.

[ashen spindle]

that point I can get behind, in not trusting them and seeing it as the start of that slope

[wheat plume]

Fair

[ashen spindle]

but these modules on its own are not a purely bad aspect

[crisp granite]

wait wut

please tell me this was 10 years ago and not an issue with their M-series products

[ashen spindle]

oh no this is their latest stunt

[reef patrol]

Oh yeah. They made these special NVME style SSDs that are just the storage modules. But not the controller. So only Apple has any you can slot in.

This also means that if the motherboard dies, your data is fucked. Cause the controller keeps track of where data is (I'm sure you CAN theoretically recover it - with a ton of work)

[crisp granite]

...

[crimson wigeon]

ShOuLd HaVe BaCkUpS

[crisp granite]

that is true tbh
but still

[crimson wigeon]

Like, to the cloud perhaps!

[crisp granite]

there's questionable
and then really fucking dumb choices

[crimson wigeon]

Yes... send all your data to the cloud...

[crisp granite]

this is most definitely the latter

[young pecan]

Yeah no.

[reef patrol]

That's what you pay Apple for with iCloud.

[young pecan]

PC specific DRAM is already a thing massively in the server space.

Dell doesn't let you mix kits for shit.

Soldering, however, is worse because it means you can't even repair with Dells shit.

[reef patrol]

Oh also - Apple removed the recovery environment that you could use previously to reinstall MacOS without USB or anything. Just needed internet. Now you need a SECOND MAC

[young pecan]

M8 how'd they install new OSx if you always need N+1 Macs to install it?

[crisp granite]

...

[reef patrol]

Oh - They also put power through an uncovered screw internally.

[crisp granite]

ok
so now I know
apple products are solid
until something goes wrong
then it's UGLY

[reef patrol]

[young pecan]

Oh yeah this shit.

Y'know a few guys in Apple approved factories nearly died to that?

Minor heart palpitations are just that, minor!

[ashen spindle]

buT itS ArM dOnT ApLY youR x86 LoGiC

[reef patrol]

iMacs have had unshielded PSUs for ages 😄

[crisp granite]

...

that's really funny

[crimson wigeon]

Only M1 makes it possible?

[crisp granite]

anything should be well built

no one would be buying Bad Dragon if they fell apart within an hour of use

same with computers, regardless of what's inside

[ashen spindle]

you know there would be people buying it because of that

[crimson wigeon]

Oh dear

[young pecan]

How fucking dare you, calling sustainable business a good thing. How else will Dell sell you a new G5?

PLEASE think of poor Dell.

They need all the money.

[crisp granite]

I don't buy dell

dell makes

shit

[young pecan]

About to declare bankruptcy.

Woe it is to be Dell.

Such a poor company.

Not even a trillion dollars.

[crimson wigeon]

Good riddance

[pale sigil]

Im about to say something

that shouldn't surprise anyone

Especially @ashen spindle

can you guess?

[ashen spindle]

your pc broke

[pale sigil]

close

No, but tbh if it broke at least it can heal.

My spine cant heal

xD

My new G703 seems to have died.

[shadow minnow]

Oh no

Well that’s unlucky

[pale sigil]

RIP G703 26th Dec 2021 - April 18th 2022

[shadow minnow]

My only shown die like behavior after two years

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/pay-respects-press-f-call-of-duty-respect-press-x-gif-22309724

[shadow minnow]

And was right under two years so got it replaced for a brand new one

[pale sigil]

playing a game and it just stops working outright, no lights etc, try to plug it in and turn it off and on and no response at all.

Not even wired it works

[shadow minnow]

Leave it a bit on charging

[thick elk]

Warranty time I guess

[shadow minnow]

Shake it a bit

[pale sigil]

wired

Bexin

xD

[shadow minnow]

Still

[pale sigil]

it doesn;t work on wired

[shadow minnow]

Let it just charge a bit while it’s off

And sometimes shaking helps or reconnecting enough times

@pale sigil I had the same issue once, 3 months ago and enough reconnecting would sometimes genuinely make it work. Then after like 3 days the issue just completely disappeared

[pale sigil]

i mean

i dont wanna keep doing that

id rather get a replacement so it works like its supposed to lol

[shadow minnow]

Well worked that way for me after

Just try so you don’t have to wait to reconnect it and turn off on couple more times

[pale sigil]

good news

its not dead

[reef patrol]

It's... UNdead?

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-zombie-smiling-scary-creepy-gif-15796626

[pale sigil]

So erm, when i went to charge it last night apparently the wire was loose so it just died of low battery, just had to replug the wire xD

[shadow minnow]

Oh

Should have rmad for sure

[pale sigil]

Now i remember why i dont like wired anymore

or well

im reminded

wot

[wheat plume]

Oh wait....
When did Windows let you install to SD card??? last time I tried it didnt about 6 months ago

[thick elk]

It shoudn't normally, but I guess there are ways around it.

Last time I tried a portable windows, I installed it on a spare ssd and used that in an external enclosure.

[wheat plume]

oo

[reef patrol]

Linus did a video on it, but it is just... not working. Performance just isn't there.

[thick elk]

Last time Digital foundry tried it, it went a bit better.

I guess somethings have changed a bit inbetween.

[cursive summit]

https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/nvidia-ada-lovelace-leaked-specifications?s=r

I don't remember seeing this leak yet?

[wheat plume]

And March too

[ashen spindle]

but that doesnt matter

[cursive summit]

That's when the leak happened, yes

But I don't recall headlines such as this coming out of that leak

[ashen spindle]

there is no new leaked info

just a summary and analysis from the authors as they say in that article

I really wonder if you ever read more than the headline of articles

[misty saffron]

he does exactly what those websites want him to do

so pls

[ashen spindle]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/a-year-after-apple-enforces-app-tracking-policy-covert-ios-tracking-remains/

apple privacy features doesnt fully do what it says

in other news water is wet

[pale sigil]

Water isn't wet

[misty saffron]

and it’s the chinese doing that

indeed what a surprise

[wheat plume]

Did you know that the Chinese are using the sea to hide their submarines???

[formal pumice]

Diabolical

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/_jaa7QSLlnI

HIS HOUSE IS FUCKING MASSIVE HOLY SHIT

[wheat plume]

Why TF are USB C to HDMI adapters 40 euro???

[earnest jay]

Try ugreen?

[wheat plume]

huh?

[earnest jay]

Is a brand that sells stuff like that, their stuff is reasonably decent for a decent price.

[young pecan]

Low demand product, needs onboard logic, etc.

40 euro sucks, but I'm not shocked.

[wheat plume]

I need to order an FM transmitter from amazon cause non at the local stores power from USB

[young pecan]

...?

An FM transmitter? What?

[wheat plume]

cause I have dash cam so the lighter is being used

so I need to get a lighter charger with two USB ports...one for dash cam and one for the FM transmitter

[young pecan]

Ok but why do you need an FM transmitter?

I'm curious now.

Should just be internal power or smth? No?

[latent mural]

Can someone help with Wooting double movement?

[wheat plume]

Cause I wanna play music on my car speakers

[crimson wigeon]

#archived_fortnite_double_movement for double movement help

[wheat plume]

#archived_fortnite_double_movement

[young pecan]

#archived_fortnite_double_movement

[young pecan]

No radio in the car then?

[earnest jay]

What about an aux port in your car?

[wheat plume]

Radio yes, CD slot, yes.....bluetooth no

[young pecan]

Aux port then, yeah.

[wheat plume]

Aux port is borked.... got to hold the cable at the exact angle so it works right

[earnest jay]

Ahh.

[cursive summit]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-suggests-AMD-Zen-5-CPUs-to-pack-impressive-IPC-performance-gains-and-hugely-increased-core-counts.614335.0.html

[wheat plume]

only works when the passenger is playing music

cause they can hold the phone still

[young pecan]

Replace the aux port, perhaps? Might be able to get one.

[earnest jay]

Can't you get like BT recievers for cars?

[young pecan]

Yee, you can.

BT receiver to aux.

[wheat plume]

yeah, thats what I want. that is powered from USB from the lighter charger

I cant use aux

as I said the port is borked

[earnest jay]

How much would it cost to fix the car's aux port?

[young pecan]

Not much.

[wheat plume]

Could these work? Plug the dash cam into the USB power port at the front

[young pecan]

Theoretically, or you can fix an aux port.

The part is probably like 20 cents.

[earnest jay]

They could work.

[young pecan]

Ngl I reckon do both.

Order in some replacement components and hope for the best.

If not then you have the alt BT.

Either way that's a win.

[wheat plume]

IDK if the dash cam will be ok with a QC port

its powered by standard 5W

[pale sigil]

Cost £5-10 here

[wheat plume]

.....

bruh

i hate ireland

fuckign expensive .-.

[earnest jay]

I found these.

[pale sigil]

Amazon

[wheat plume]

I had to find a decent laptop for a friend's birthday from best buy in america

and there was a laptop with 16GB ram, 512GB NVME SSD, RTX 3050TI and it was $1000

like WTF????

that shit would cost 3 grand here in ireland

[pale sigil]

Um

That's pre tax

And Ireland sucks

[ashen spindle]

the cables are expensive because you still need an active component so the 5$ ones are most likely not going to work

also for the 3rd time, what about fixing the aux port instead

[pale sigil]

I mean

Mine works

[young pecan]

Really this.

Fixing an aux port is cake.

Little solder and a new port, good as new.

Just like... don't snap the panel off while you try and get at the components.

[wheat plume]

It'll be hard af to get the aux port out of the dash

You'd have to pull on the cables behind it

[young pecan]

Hmmm.

[shadow minnow]

Well it definitely works to some extend since ever since it was released Facebook no longer gets info from other apps I am using, and that it used to get a lot of before

[ashen spindle]

jfc

can you at least read what I say before going into apple defense mode

"not fully" doesnt mean it doesnt do anything

[frozen ingot]

a lot of fm transmitters has rather poor audio reproduction imo

should only be a last resort if no possibility of an aux/line input

[cursive summit]

TIL that LG is again releasing another yearly iteration to their C lineup, this one being C2

More OLEDs

I truly wonder when'll they switch up the panel tech

[pale sigil]

why tf is my new flash drive write protected

what is this shit

[ashen spindle]

rekt nerd, get protected

[crimson wigeon]

Always use protection

[pale sigil]

i didn't opt into this shit

its just an os drive

[ashen spindle]

always be safe

[cursive summit]

That sounds like something that should be write protected

[pale sigil]

OS as in isos

[cursive summit]

Well get fukt then

[empty wren]

$4,500 printer

[crimson wigeon]

kekw

[wheat plume]

🤔 oh no

parallel download is great <3 <3

[thick elk]

depends on your download speed:

Actually manage to max out my download speed with one at a time and 1.4GB I had to download does so in around 15 seconds anyway.

[wheat plume]

Fucking smart TVs

[cursive summit]

That's a lie

[thick elk]

What happened,>

[cursive summit]

Wanna disable them? Ban the addresses from where ads are being fetched in an ad firewall

I forgot wtf that thing's called

[wheat plume]

the space they take up will still be there but empty

[cursive summit]

Better than being served random shit ads

[wheat plume]

yep

[cursive summit]

LG smart TVs also are able to get their ads blocked

[thick elk]

As for smart TV's My method is just never connect them to the internet, granted the one we have at home is a panasonic from 2014 which is pretty useless on that department.

[empty wren]

Nothing, it just is inconsistent shit that has parts that worn out and cannot be replaced since they do not get made anymore

[thick elk]

Ah, older printer, things moved quite fast for a while.

[empty wren]

Yeah obselete af and honestly I am surprised that it seems okay at first but then goes to shit

[wheat plume]

Fucking Samsung

At least you can remove the ads on MIUI

and the bloat apps

[cursive summit]

Why tf would you even buy anything Apple or Samsung?

Two cancer companies of the market

[wheat plume]

IDK honestly

[crisp granite]

eh...Apple is doing some cool shit with hardware nowadays

[cursive summit]

Means literally nothing

[crisp granite]

and cost wise...well

somewhat reasonable

wasn't the case with intel macs

[empty wren]

Eh would be fine if Knox did not have a fuse on Qualcomm socs

[wheat plume]

o.o

[pale sigil]

Lol what

[reef patrol]

[crisp granite]

compared to intel macs of yesterdecade, yes
compared to comparable thin and light windows laptops, at least for the macbook air line, yes

[ashen spindle]

compared to the cost of the components it's shit

but compared to the laptop market it gets a lot better

mostly because most laptops are shit

[pale sigil]

But we are talking about pgomss

Phones

And thousands isn't reasonable

Lol

M1 bass model price is so stupid

[ashen spindle]

isnt the iphone se 500?

sure they cost a lot but not actual thousands

[pale sigil]

He's on about macs

[ashen spindle]

oh I thought its back to phones lmao

[crisp granite]

same lol

[pale sigil]

Oh no I was saying phones then I responded to his mac being rssoable comment

None of apple products are reasonably priced except

[crisp granite]

I will definitely give in that iPhones are seriously fucking overpriced compared to competitors

[ashen spindle]

yeah the cost is high but give me a non apple laptop that exists that have a similar feature set

[pale sigil]

And the base ipad

[crisp granite]

650 Canuckistani for an iPhone SE?...

eh...

could have got a pixel for that

and a really nice one at that

[ashen spindle]

there ins't a laptop you can get and say it's basically the same as a mac for less

[pale sigil]

Hardly reasonable considering they won't even bloody update the shitty outer model

[crisp granite]

eh

[ashen spindle]

do you mean software updates?

[crisp granite]

I actually wanted a smaller phone with a home button

[ashen spindle]

because my 6s still has the lates iOS

[pale sigil]

No it's using the same crappy old design

[crisp granite]

I hate the gesture system, and the phone-tablet line blurring trend

[pale sigil]

And terrible battery

That's not being reasonable for the price

That's just you preferring that type

[crisp granite]

compared to other overkill phones, yes

I generally have 50ish% charge left at the end of the day

that's...well
quite good
my previous couldn't even survive a day of use

[pale sigil]

I'd be more inclined to say its reasonable if the screen, battery and design wasn't meh

The fact it's considered a budget phone kinda bdffles me

[crisp granite]

it's...yeah

not budget
not flagship either

it's quite literally the entry level for apple

[pale sigil]

The battery is my main issue though.. Even 100 euro phones can have bigger batteries

[crisp granite]

...but I don't have a single negative thing to say about it, at least in my use
thing works damn well, even if it ain't perfect

[pale sigil]

And better screens

[crisp granite]

my non-functional eyes can't tell a difference

[pale sigil]

It's not a bad phone irs just stupidly priced

[crisp granite]

stupidly priced, yes
relative to competition

but if you're buying an iPhone SE...chances are you didn't look at the competition

[pale sigil]

That's kinda what this convo was about

[crisp granite]

(literally me lmao kill me)

[pale sigil]

You saying reasonably priced which I disagree

Nor saying its a shit phone

You're talking to someone who used a £220 phone for nearly 3 years or 4

[crisp granite]

for phones
no, but the iPhone SE had stuff I wanted, partially due to it's dated design (home button ftw)
macs
yes

[pale sigil]

Can't say I agree with macs either tbh even if I love the m1

[ashen spindle]

what laptop has comparable specs to it that is cheaper

there are none so its not unreasonable sorta

[crisp granite]

there's also that the ARM aspect of the new macbooks makes them insane when it comes to battery life

and they are still stupidly small and light laptops

[pale sigil]

Arm for sure irs a bit more difficult to argue with

Being they are the only ones making an effort

But their pricing is stupid

Especially when it comes to storage

[ashen spindle]

give an example of a laptop that can do similar stuff then

as I said, yes its dumb if you look at material cost, but there are no other options

[crisp granite]

and you also aren't buying an apple product comparing it to windows or linux alternatives
it's...well...ecosystem

[pale sigil]

Pretty much any laptop will run your shit like an M1 mac for less than a thousands, I'm just talking about the normal M1 mac

[ashen spindle]

battery life, size, screen quality

[crisp granite]

yep
and for 1300 CAD, you really can't get a remotely comparable laptop to a Macbook Air

[pale sigil]

Get oled or ips, both very common in laptops now

[ashen spindle]

yeah and still mostly shit lol

[pale sigil]

Right but what are you using that fancy svreen for

I said mostly remember

[crisp granite]

I will agree that if you bother to really get extra storage and stuff like that, a Macbook Air 13" can easily cost more than pretty much any top tier windows laptop...but...why would you do that?

[ashen spindle]

idk im not in the market for one, but that is kind of a werid argument against it

[pale sigil]

Just bothers me how many people them cos apple and that's why they cost so much.

And their eco system is bs

Like I love but hate the apple wafch

[crisp granite]

idk, the interconnected BS cool shit is cool to me

[ashen spindle]

for the longest time there were only shit screens in laptops and that only changed recently and apple still has some of the only good ones

[pale sigil]

Because if you're not in their eco system it's useless

[crisp granite]

...did you actually buy a smartwatch?

...

bruh

[pale sigil]

Apple doesn't allow a lot of functions to work with android now do they allow android watches with ios

[crisp granite]

just in general
smart watches are...terrible, and apple's attempt is no exception

[pale sigil]

Nah the apple watch is pretty awesome

Always wanted one but because I don't want their shit Irs useless to me

It's why linus has a phone specifically for his apple watch

Because the apple watch is simply awful outside of the apple eco system

[crisp granite]

it's more smartwatches in general
I had one a few years back...but...eh
I genuinely didn't use it much at all, found I still pulled my phone out of my pocket to do shit
then I went kayaking and watch went...zzztph no worky

no loss to me

it's the absurdly tiny screen that does it for me

it's...really hard to play minecraft Pocket edition on it

[crisp granite]

wait wut

so does he have an apple and android device on his person at a given time?

[pale sigil]

Yes

He uses an iPhone and the galaxy fold

[crisp granite]

lmao the fold line

[pale sigil]

Isn't an issue in later models

[crisp granite]

one less thing I can tear into samsung for

lame

[cursive summit]

Is an issue

I've touched the Fold3, an exposition model

Wasn't there probably for a long time either, the crease was massive though

Disgusting phone ngl, and I kinda wanted one

Even for a brand new phone though

That is not a fun crease

Fuck foldables, embrace rollables

[pale sigil]

Barely noticie

[cursive summit]

Looks like the crease differs per unit or something

Cause I have seen some shitty creases on that phone

[empty wren]

Oppo Find N

3 minor creases

[wheat plume]

🤔 "Please don't theme" is a real tag that Gnome are adding to their apps now....

[wheat plume]

I just learned more about Good Lock on Samsung phones...

Its like having all the features of custom Android ROMS in an official app with no root needed

[astral haven]

Yeeep

[wheat plume]

I still hate the design of Samsung's Status bar icons

they are too small and cramped

[empty wren]

There is a way to replace it

But will not hide the quick actions icons

[chrome estuary]

I owned a fold 2. The crease is not that bad and the inner screen on the fold 3 is a thousand times better

[rare bay]

Dont want to go against terms of service if this goes against it however if anyone is interested in buying an rtx 3070ti and a gtz 1060 6gb, 3070ti for £950 and 1060 6gb for £200 message me thank you

[wheat oar]

Ebay

Is the place

[wheat oar]

I was playing around with one in currys a couple months back, the crease is relatively noticeable

[astral haven]

You use a phone with a hole punch daily?

Cause it's basically the same thing
Sure it's there but it vanishes into your subconscious

[wheat oar]

Yes but it's not in the middle of your phone

[astral haven]

And?

Your blind spot is in the middle of your eye lmao

[wheat oar]

I get what you are saying that you can get used it but for me it will just throw me off everyday looking at it.

[astral haven]

Spoken like a true person who hasn't used it for long enough to get used to it

There are so many mechanics in your brain that prevent you from seeing stuff right in front of your face that it is not funny

[wheat oar]

People's brains work differently

[astral haven]

https://youtu.be/IGQmdoK_ZfY
No
No they dont

[true quest]

if they didn't we'd all be the same

[astral haven]

Nope
People's brains all work the same way
A person can be unique, but people are not

But this isn't unique to humans
All visual cortexes will grow accustomed to repeated identical stimulus and will filter it out naturally

If that didn't happen in humans we would never have made it out of the savannah

[wheat oar]

I swear every server has atleast one nutjob

[crisp granite]

but I didn't post anything

is someone taking my job from me?

[true quest]

i am coming for you

[astral haven]

"I know im wrong so I might as well insult this random person on the internet to make myself feel better"

[wheat oar]

2 Nutjobs

[crisp granite]

finally
someone to tuck me in and say they're proud of me before turning off the lights and leaving me alone to sleep

[wheat oar]

No point arguing with stupidity.

[astral haven]

😉

[astral haven]

Catching up on my xkcd and it is still so true

[chrome estuary]

I know you're wrong since I owned one and thought the exact same thing. Now some few times you'll see it if you pick it out specifically or the light will hit it just perfectly.

You'll either get used to seeing it and look past it then not notice it due to that. Or you'll stop caring and you'll stop noticing because of that

[shadow minnow]

I mean kinda but sometimes if you do notice it it does reverse thing and starts annoying you for a bit. Though it’s worse with scratches that can get really hard to unsee

But tbh yeah, holepunch probably vanishes completely in ones mind

[chrome estuary]

I never scratched my screen

[shadow minnow]

I mean, I have a phone with a huge notch yet unless I think of it wouldn’t realize it’s there. Just used to it and usually don’t look at that part of the phone either

[timid chasm]

lol what. So their point is that when focusing on a task some people notice things happening in the background and some don't...

Well no shit

[astral haven]

The point is
Human brains are human brains
If you can see and are a human, you have a visual cortex

And visual cortices all work the same way

[young pecan]

Short of neurological mutation, yeah.

[pale sigil]

-_- my isp router takes so long to call home on reboot

Good 5 or so minutes

Sometimes 10

My fault for trialing the new router

[shadow minnow]

My issue with having both water temperature and outside air temperature sensors connected to mobo at once is I never know which is which in monitoring apps

Especially with how close water stays to ambient with two thick rads and no GPU

Tbf still better than the time I connected temp sensor to reset pins instead of temp by accident

Time to once again try to boot at 4800mhz

[thick elk]

Personally glad I replaced my isp router, I can actually use full bandwidth and it no longer crashes every other week.

[timid chasm]

Kind of a blanket statement to say all brains work the same way. Sure, generally, they function the same way but that has next to nothing to do with noticing a fold in a phone lol. And no idea what you're on about making it out of the savannah lol. Survival and something needing to happen is a bit different than preference with multiple other options

[cursive summit]

https://www.gsmarena.com/amd_unveils_6nm_ryzen_pro_6000_for_business_laptops-news-54010.php

[halcyon moss]

only asus and razer "sell" 6000 series amd cpus atm :/

[thick elk]

Kind of waiting for more mainstream 6000U laptops to hit. While I don't use my laptop much my current one does show it's age.

[ashen spindle]

yeah they should be great but supply is still stuck somewhere

[thick elk]

Skylake 6200u that crashes.

[halcyon moss]

i looking at the HS series, or maybe H

[shadow minnow]

This ram smh

[halcyon moss]

single core performance is what i want.

[thick elk]

I just want something somewhat portable / thin with at least somewhat usable gpu performance

[shadow minnow]

Despite low 4600 voltages and timings won’t boot at 4800 or more no matter what

[ashen spindle]

could also be your cpu that sucks if the ram should run it

bad memory controller

[shadow minnow]

Well it’s on gear 2

So would have to be horrible mem controller since this is 11900k

[ashen spindle]

yeah but could be

[shadow minnow]

Guess I will never know tbh

Unless I would buy new cpu which well

At least the iGPU bin is solid

1650 at 1.3v entirely stable

[halcyon moss]

i wonder what T/X series amd thinkpad will be available..

[ashen spindle]

hm I cant even find an asus model with zen3+ anywhere lmao

did you look at us stores?

or did the dutch steal the EU supply lol

[halcyon moss]

https://tweakers.net/laptops/vergelijken/#filter:NcmxDsIgFIXhdzlzBwpYDQ_g5sRoHAi56k1IS4AwtOHdpamdvvznbOC5Uir2u0RLgXzhZYZ5u5BpQHQfsrwSzEX0Suzpwf3ukSP5O4dCKcNsUErL3eoCzBNyVOKGYXeSf_Whng6v5y7waq39AA

ah, "niet op voorraad" so. not available

[thick elk]

I think the Dutch may just be tapping into the US market, as we can just take us ansi keyboards. \

Could be that they didn't bother to make them with iso keyboards yet

[halcyon moss]

actually some models are available and shipping in 2 days

[thick elk]

As for germany, seeing as alternate does ship to germany as well: https://www.alternate.de/ASUS/TUF-Gaming-A15-(FA507RE-HN006W)-Gaming-Notebook/html/product/1806828

[ashen spindle]

how did you even find that or did you just go through all amd listings lol

[thick elk]

I just went to that tweakers link, changed to de and pasted the product name

[ashen spindle]

ah

[old marlin]

as alternate does ship to germany

not like they are a german company to begin with

[reef patrol]

[thick elk]

I knew they were not dutch, but was to lazy to lookup where they were originally from.

[wheat plume]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/19/23032869/netflix-ads-streaming-reed-hastings-lower-price

[reef patrol]

Good. Goooood. Let them get fucked.

Less contents, higher prices, everyone is a competitor, terrible support for HD.

Aggressive anti VPN* the list goes on.

[ashen spindle]

also shit audio quality depending on if you use web or app etc.

[empty wren]

Huh a ton of shows have hd

[reef patrol]

I'm talking about the client.

[ashen spindle]

aaand it's sold out

[reef patrol]

Netflix on Edge or as app feel like you're dragging your mouse in molasses, are full of in service ads, crash so easily.

Just let me use fucking Chrome already. Muh DRM standards.

[wheat plume]

.......
Ah yes
Because everyone has an EV charger laying about already

[reef patrol]

I mean... Thats actually not a terrible idea.

That means you'll get a BETTER, wall integrated solution instead of a bank charging cable.

[empty wren]

Actually there are ton of chargers out there, I was surprised to see two at my dad's workplace parking lot

[wheat plume]

Hmmm

[reef patrol]

Mmmhmm. 20% of all new parking spaces here in Denmark have to be EV. And existing ones have to be retrofitted at curved percentage rate till ... 2030 i think.

Still doesn't solve long distance driving of course.

[empty wren]

Gas generator with EV to gas generator wire

[reef patrol]

Personally I'd rather see more investment into hydrogen.

[wheat plume]

I've only seen one EV charger at a public parking lot here

One charger at one lot

Tbf
You could probably drive the entire length North to South of Ireland in one charge anyway

[reef patrol]

With a fresh battery and in summer maybe.

Five years down the road with a battery that's worn and in cold weather?

https://c.tenor.com/Z8CAcKpB864AAAAM/pod-racing-pod.gif

[wheat plume]

Cold weather

Ireland is good at that

Too good...

[ashen spindle]

oh wow either they already cut away bot orders or it was just gone shortly and is back now

good to see hardware isnt gone instantly anymore

even if cpus are in a much better position anyway

compared to gpus

[young pecan]

I'm actually in support of this.

Like even with Apple or what have you.

Now I'm only in support if you lower the price of the product if you're not including the cable.

[ashen spindle]

Or keeping the price if you otherwise would’ve increased it

[young pecan]

But it's absolutely a smarter choice than just bundling in a cable so any time you buy a replacement thing so now you're collecting duplicate cables you don't need.

[ashen spindle]

ah it doesnt sell out instantly so.. time to raise the price??

[reef patrol]

Maybe they secured more stock at a slightly higher price.

[ashen spindle]

given its in stock on the amd site..

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

I always read it as xD

[thick elk]

I think the comparisons between the 5800x3d and the next gen would be interesting. I am pretty sure the 5800x3d will still outperform in certain scenarios and possibly by quite a bit as well.

[ashen spindle]

doubt it

mostly because next gen runs purely on ddr5

in very weird scenarios, maybe

[thick elk]

Sure but ddr5 does not have the latency of extra cache, not by a longshot and certain loads benefit a lot.
But yea not in most cases, but there will definitely be outliers

[ashen spindle]

well yeah but it still offers more than ddr4 performance and that on top of new ipc gains, new node, higher clocks

so it diminishes the value extra cache would have by a bit

not entirely, but some amount

but we also dont even know how the regular cache layout looks like on zen4, it might be higher on base skus already

[young pecan]

Iirc AMD is using stacked cache for DDR5 compatible CPUs, no?

[ashen spindle]

not on launch on desktop

[young pecan]

Didn't they make a big thing about it just being standard tech after Ryzen 5000?

[thick elk]

Factorio would be one game where x3d will still win quite heavily

[young pecan]

Satisfactory as well, probably.