Also note you are going to have some wonky scaling issues because of the mixed monitor resolutions
#Tech Lab forum - General Discussions!
sacred seal
sly valley
Mainly planning on having the 120 for assignments and stuff but the 160 is the main
sacred seal
Yeah. The problem is they are both 27", but to your computer they will appear as a 27" and a 13.5"
So the edges will never line up
sly valley
Ah okay, I’ll get that switch out then, better to have them sync than be annoying to mess with
sacred seal
And if you have something spanning the display it will be big on one and small on the other
runic thorn
Love my PC case with dust filters on the air input sides.
sly valley
And if you have something spanning the display it will be big on one and small o...
Ah I can see how that’ll be an issue with my modeling work so yup def switching it
crystal lance
and Steve could not hold himself steady
he had to already dismantle it bit by bit
sacred seal
Uhh, anyone know if something has gone screwy with discord?
Six of the groups I am in now look like this
And the number just went up. We are up to seven now
I highly doubt satisfactory or unity deleted their discords
And now satisfactory is back?
crystal lance
it's possibly your internet having an aneurysm
sacred seal
Tried reloading, apparently it is discord itself that is messing up
crystal lance
might be your local DNS node having problems
you can try restarting your router/flushing DNS
sacred seal
I don't think discord would have a loading message saying they are investigating the issue if it was due to my local config
Also that would probably affect more then just a few groups
crystal lance
depends if it's a stock pop-up meant to show on huge delay
crystal lance
Also that would probably affect more then just a few groups
you would be surprised how distributed different discord servers are over the web
I am impressed that somehow their API does not crap itself way more with the amount of different connections it needs to sync up
sacred seal
Reddit
crystal lance
dear lord, use downdetector, reddit is the last place I would look for reliable information
oh, AWS
that would explain some things
yeah, so it's not discord thing only
everything on AWS seems to be affected
sacred seal
THe reason I ened up on reddit is because apparenlty that is where discord makes offical posts...
surreal moss
I’ve gotten no alerts on my AWS environment today
crystal lance
downdetector is showing huge spike on it, cloudflare and many more
while outlook has moved down
so Azure is not affected
surreal moss
Discord devs tested in prod
surreal moss
Imma Copy Fail Crash
surreal moss
crystal lance
It gave me an error once, but then after few seconds let me get onto the next stage
I did preload my money into Steam Wallet though
just to make sure to not get the nasty stuck payment issues
surreal moss
Yeah it’s not even letting me add funds now 😂
surreal moss
crystal lance
I presume US Steam servers might have gotten botted to the point of ddos 😂
crystal lance
try in few minutes
surreal moss
Yeah, I don’t derisively need it and I’d I have to get a backlog I will
crystal lance
it's not Steam Decks or Steam Frame, so I doubt all the stock is going to move
I presume most sane scalpers will see free availability in EU and cut their losses
surreal moss
The site has been fine for me. It’s the purchasing step that’s struggling
crystal lance
yeah, my bad, should have posted about adding the funds to the wallet before hand when I was doing it
got 2 of mine ordered and paid already - and Steam still lets me add another to the cart on the same account o_O
crystal lance
The site has been fine for me. It’s the purchasing step that’s struggling
probably a lot of verification going on in the background at once
oh, the delivery date jumped from 3-5 to 6-10 days
surreal moss
Ha! I can’t even purchase funds
crystal lance
so EU stock is burning through it seems
surreal moss
Yeah, just tried and incognito browser on my work machine and it’s just not happening
crystal lance
so whole backend just did and died on the US probably
still working here with 6-10 days estimated time though
crystal lance
O_O
EU stock still 6-10 days
oh, you might have slower shipment/processing in customs speed than we here in EU
Rotterdam is pretty fast
surreal moss
I mean there’s no stock in the US now
crystal lance
there is stock... somewhere?
not 3-5, so maybe not yet processed?
I presume Valve will do the same as with Steam Decks, and once the dust settles, reshuffle some stock around
crystal lance
still available here in Europe
I wonder if the 6-10 days might be UK stock or something
surreal moss
Yeah I’m going it’s whatever lot was allocated there
crystal lance
cause I ordered mine from 3-5 days pool, and it did not run out for good 15 minutes
so 6-10 means it's either not yet processed fully in Rotterdam, or a stock from another region nearby
which, after Brexit, would be UK most likely
surreal moss
I wasn’t expecting it to run out here. I just figured I had time so might as well pick it up
crystal lance
A lot of the hype has been focused around US based news media outlets
Europe... does not succumb to hype as much as US, it's entirely new and very different market
well, at least you got a Steam Deck restock recently in America
surreal moss
Lol
crystal lance
we had very little stock leftover once US stock ran out (I think it was just some 512 and less 1TB oleds) so once it ran out in Europe
it's gone for the foreseeable future
meanhwile we already have confirmation of Valve receiving a lot of shipments with "game consoles", which we can tell with 99% certainty are not Steam Machine (since it's a PC, so Valve pays lower import tax)
crystal lance
I wasn’t expecting it to run out here. I just figured I had time so might as wel...
Here, have a consolation prize, it finally ran out
mossy gull
Lets wait for batch 2, 3 or 4😅
crystal lance
with how surprisingly slow they went
I am looking forward to all the scalpers bitching about inventory not moving 😄
crystal lance
still sold out here in EU
so I presume a bunch of bogus transactions got cancelled
jade scaffold
im in the UK likely a different stock list bought it about an hour after they officially released cos i kinda forgot about them
crystal lance
im in the UK likely a different stock list bought it about an hour after they of...
oh, yeah, the EU/UK stock held for 1.5 hours roughly
I can predict a looot of scalpers getting burned right around now 😄
timber barn
lol now I remembered what today is
surreal moss
crystal lance
delulu much I see
considering it's a controller, with not many of the things that are hard to get by
my friend just pasted this image in another discord
and now I can't unsee it xD
surreal moss
crystal lance
how are the scalpers after Valve announced it will be producing and delivering more yesterday? Can we make a sea out of their tears already?
mine are apparently departing the warehouse today
balmy flicker
who thought they would be a limited one time thing like amibos were
crystal lance
Valve is banking a lot on the Steam Input - they cannot be keeping the only device fully capable of utilising it from customers' hands
also, controllers are where they can make a decent profit
surreal moss
Lol yep
crystal lance
as the steam wallet purchase completely bypasses the purchasing API hookups it seems
so you cannot get the dreaded stuck payment error
and... set an alarm this time 😛
@mossy gull seems like it's going to be a batch 1.1+ongoing
surreal moss
I mean a reservation system sounds better anyway
surreal moss
I mean it seems no one expected the response
crystal lance
the last marketing push really put the hype up
also
how are those ebay scalpers right now? 
😄
notice how the reservation requirements very clearly states you need account older than the time they opened the sale last time
crystal lance
Well, seems like I might not have to do round robin with my 2nd one between my friends quite yet
I mean, unless my game dev friend will want one to experience it and set up for his game, but he has the old one for the basic premise
and... the internet at large is already laughing in scalpers' face
I presume Valve acted so quickly to curb them before the damage gets too big
sacred seal
I almost wonder if this was intentional. Get scalpers to buy a bunch of inventory that they won't be able to move, and then come out with a system to get controllers into the hands of thier actual customers so they end up looking like the good guys.
crystal lance
it's Valve, they usually don't do that much foresight
but I still appreciate the salty tears that must be flowing right about now 😂
#denied
sacred seal
Valve already knew scalpers were a potential issue, and they had used this system before on a previous product to prevent scalping.
It is a bit weird that they would get rid of a safety measure they had in the past only to reimplement it a few days later
crystal lance
hopefully this solution also deters future potential scalpers
sacred seal
It is also extra weird because the controller only works with steam, so limiting purchaces to people who actually have games in their library makes total sense.
crystal lance
you can add games from outside steam to the launcher to get Steam Input
surreal moss
it's Valve, they usually don't do that much foresight
Most vendors don’t normally have that much foresight
crystal lance
so you don't really need games on Steam to benefit
sacred seal
No, but how many people own PC games without having at least one game on steam?
Unless you are doing like exclusively epic freebies
crystal lance
I know a guy who ditched his Steam account and uses only DRM free games
and has a new steam account just in case
also, now I have another boatload of Steam Points to ditch after this and few big game purchases... well I hope the guys at #modders-workshop don't mind me spamming them with rewards again, like I did after getting my Steam Deck xD
balmy flicker
I mean odds are for most buyers pre Gabe cube have a steam deck so...
Also I wonder if steam will let third parties make controllers that use the steam input system
The steam input system on the deck while a bit clunky is insanely powerful especially in games with full integration like mns
crystal lance
First impressions - my worry about the controller feeling too big and heavy might be unfounded
It's wider and taller, but at the same time it feels waaay thinner and has less weight down the middle than Xbox controller
most of the weight seems to be in the grips, probably the grip sensors + gyro + haptic motors
ok, both the puck and controller updates require the cable connection (which is good, cause wireless update = pepo.pain.jpg) but you get a pop up saying you can just disconnect the puck and use the cable for steam controller, and it auto-detects once you connect the gamepad directly
the turtle mouse mode works out of the box it seems
the trackpad as scroll wheel function seems waaay, waay smoother and responsive than the one on the Deck
crystal lance
the one thing I am not 100% sold on yet is the location of back buttons, but that will require more testing in an intense game, for now Im just fooling around mostly
the windows navigation as mouse + scrollwheel? Stellar
couch gaming/chilling with YT/Netflix/Anime will never be the same again 😅
crystal lance
@surreal moss 90 minutes left - money preloaded into Steam wallet? 😂
timber barn
opaque tulip
crystal lance
@surreal moss 5 minutes left 😛
surreal moss
I’m in a meeting 
crystal lance
and reservations are Liveeee
crystal lance
the news stated that the US stock should be opened for purchase in next week or so
so just be prepared
don't go on any sightseeing trips like Jack 😛
I love the desktop navigation with right trackpad as mouse and left one as scroll wheel
SO GOOOD
they made the scroll wheel function of the trackpad somehow waaay smoother than on the Steam Deck
timber barn
I got the OG controller. Didn’t use it much, but worried that the same happens
The OG did not have proper sticks, I think that killed it a bit for me on it
crystal lance
I have pretty small hands for my height, and can easily reach the sticks on this one
also, the ability to ping the controller like old school wireless home phone headset 🤣
those haptic motors can actually play decent sounds, I wonder if Valve will let us into that API
and if haptic motors are part of why audio from the speakers on the Steam Deck feels so good even at super low volume
surreal moss
I got the OG controller. Didn’t use it much, but worried that the same happens
I loved the OG. Was so fun for Rocket League
timber barn
Maybe I should try again
cerulean helm
I want one just cause I like the look of it. I have many other controllers including an elite.
crystal lance
I want one just cause I like the look of it. I have many other controllers inclu...
once you experience the trackpad superiority, there will be no going back
I feel like at a $100 Valve could have pushed the trigger functionality a bit
cerulean helm
Does it have extra programable buttons? Thats a key feature I require for some of my games to map keybinds to them.
crystal lance
there are 4 back buttons
and you can use trackpads as hotbars/radial menus with programmable buttons/layers
here is a decent video showing what you can achieve
people have made full steam deck/controller binding layouts for Paradox games, including Hearts of Iron 4
do you know how many keybinds that is?
balmy flicker
I need to find or make a full ONI bind and I have made versions for heavily modded (double overhaul mod) Minecraft and started one for star sector
balmy flicker
Does it have extra programable buttons? Thats a key feature I require for some o...
every button can also be multi bound (in MHR if have the back buttons over bound to dodge and snack short vs long due to misinput issues) you can also set it so that one bind requires 2 buttons to be pressed I did that for NMS and some games let you bind game functions directly and have built in mode switching (NMS again) the steam software is mildly clunky for macro writing though
crystal lance
you can also have full control layers
so you can use one of the binds to completely change the rest of the binding to secondary function
surreal moss
mossy gull
When people say Wi-Fi is slow
opaque tulip
when people say wifi is fast
mossy gull
when people say wifi is fast
opaque tulip
did you get a commercial grade wifi extender?
mossy gull
did you get a commercial grade wifi extender?
I have an entire Ubiquiti network set-up with like 4 U7 Pro XG
mossy gull
HOLY SHIT
All the PCs also have the Intel BE200 WiFi chip
Except 1 PC, which hasa Gigabyte board so I cant upgrade the WiFi from it
crystal lance
https://youtu.be/tw5Luf_7F8c
Checked, does not work 😅
surreal moss
Checked, does not work 😅
Glad I don’t have to now
opaque tulip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ttMMQl838
love people repurposing hardware to do unrelated stuff
like play doom on a pregnancy test
timber barn
crystal lance
https://youtu.be/tw5Luf_7F8c
crystal lance
also, a word of warning - Steam Puck has a pretty powerful magnet
I keep placing my headphones next to it when standing up from my desk
it sticks to them pretty nicely
surreal moss
Mine will be in my living room under my tv
crystal lance
just make sure it's not right next to something metal or that would be susceptible to a lot of magnetic interference
I think I might buy some tire weights and stick one to the bottom of the puck to keep it in place more
surreal moss
I’m thinking of printing a mount so it’s on the wall underneath
crystal lance
I’m thinking of printing a mount so it’s on the wall underneath
see how the controller pulls the puck, so you need a mount that locks it
like the one the guy shows
surreal moss
mossy gull
timber barn
@crystal lance 👆
crystal lance
<@265934501744476170> 👆
does not work on mine for some reason
cinder lagoon
The triggering seems to be a little finicky, might also only work after a couple tries but a soft-ish surface like a carpet should work
crystal lance
I am using a bed with comforter and thick woolen blanket
does not work, I suppose it might be firmware version specific or something
cinder lagoon
Could also be ^^
crystal lance
I could try with the 2nd one, but that one is more of a spare, so don't want to risk it
cinder lagoon
You got two? :o
crystal lance
yeah, EU stock held available for like over an hour
and I wanted to have 2 (one main, that I use myself and travel with)
and the other that is more of a spare in case someone visits, or one of my game developer friends wants to have a go
cinder lagoon
Pretty sure I'll also get one, but I need a controller so sparely that a sim-rig would probably come first ^^
Ahh okay, good plan ^^
crystal lance
Pretty sure I'll also get one, but I need a controller so sparely that a sim-rig...
If Valve does a bit more trackpad customisation, it could make the controller a really great tool for sim-rig
I wonder if they could make trackpad read as for example, multiple slider zones
cinder lagoon
Huh?
I was thinking about racing sim rig (and hotas second)
What would you consider a controller in there for?
cinder lagoon
Ahh well, the kind I'm talking about has a direct drive force feedback motor and an actual car seat attached xD
crystal lance
yeah, but that is like 50x more expensive setup than just paying a hundo for one controller
and also
it works great as a mouse alternative
right trackpad is the cursor, left is the scroll wheel by default
super great for navigating menus/etc
cinder lagoon
Hell yeah, steam deck has already been lit
crystal lance
Hell yeah, steam deck has already been lit
the scroll wheel action of the controller vs the one on the deck is... just 1000x better
I don't know what they did
but it works so much better
and when getting my Steam Deck 2 years ago my first impression was "give me this without the middle part as controller plx"
but... they did make solid improvements
the only thing that I would change for now that would not be like a big feature change, would be to add thin dampers to trigger springs
crystal lance
crystal lance
did you get one from reservation, or just the end of initial pool? o_O
jade scaffold
initial pool
crystal lance
took a while
crystal lance
while the triggers not being dual stage mechanically is a bit of a letdown, for a $100, this is a great offering
also, it is balanced very nicely
Xbox controller gives me problems in my wrist cause of how the weight is distributed
this one seems to be fine
like, if you put it in both hands, the feeling of weight completely disappears
jade scaffold
took a while
I'm in the UK so maybe it just took a moment to ship here
crystal lance
crystal lance
opaque tulip
Was hoping id finish the more today but I managed to get voice to command to response working at least
The response is quiet but it picks up
surreal moss
Oh cool! What are you using on the backend there?
opaque tulip
llama.cpp for the llm assist, whisper.cpp for the voice recognition and piper.cpp for voice synthesis. also miniaudio for the audio engine
surreal moss
That’s cool! Are you making your own personal agent or something different?
opaque tulip
alexa style personal assistant with iot command capabilities
requires a bit more work but after i finish this part that will be the core functionality done
i want to give it actuall assitance apps after, like a calendar, task list, music player and others
opaque tulip
i want to give it an online search function but the ai is so prone to hallucinations because of the size of it, unless i make like 5 specialised models i will have to mostly use algorithmic responses
surreal moss
My work is integrating AI with our It management. I’m looking at building out something to run on prem and do that for us in house. I’m hoping the narrow scope keeps hallucinations to a minimum
opaque tulip
My work is integrating AI with our It management. I’m looking at building out so...
you will have to tune it either way, its a narrow scope for you but its just 0.5% of trained data for the ai
surreal moss
Oh for sure! Thankfully we’ve got a dedicated box just for it so we can run a more comprehensive model
opaque tulip
a dedi box for ai is very powerful, especially if you got an NPU on it
my whole thing is run on just a raspi but i really want to get then npu module for it but thats like 170 euro
surreal moss
That makes your setup really impressive imo
cerulean helm
I use Home Assistant, and their Voice PE but have a Linux PC with 2 2080 ti gpus running whisper and piper in a docker container. Wake word is Jarvis, lol.
surreal moss
I should use Rukh as a wake word 
opaque tulip
I use Home Assistant, and their Voice PE but have a Linux PC with 2 2080 ti gpus...
i wanted to use Azazel but until i tune the voice reconginition model, it wont pick it up
so for now assistant works
cerulean helm
so for now assistant works
https://esphome.io/
This is what Home Assistant's Voice PE runs on. You can build your own speaker too.
opaque tulip
i made my own mqtt server, though a no-code envoirnment is pretty cool
cerulean helm
Yeah, I wanted something simple so I opted for the HA Voice, as Whisper has an integration with HA already so, really really simple to setup with a local LLM. I use A Qwen 2.5:7b model. Seems to work mostly good. Though I am limited in that I am using a 2080 ti.
cerulean helm
Updating BIOS is always a nerve wracking endeavor. I have a 13700k and I did have the original microcode update to "fix" the degradation issues but I hadn't updated since and that was in 2024. I was 3 microcode updates behind, whoops.
crystal lance
Could also be ^^
OK, today it screamed at me once after few attempts - it's just RNGesus...
cinder lagoon
yes I've heard it screams about 25% of the drops
runic thorn
That's a smart way by Valve to make people shake parts loose in their controller so they have to buy a new one. 😛
opaque tulip
https://youtu.be/5w7_J9djA18?si=XniMX-rN9CbwgoIM
Ok many opinions
1 what in the origin junpworks is that ad
2 GPU performances are just stangnated that they support multi GPU connecting again
3 holy RAM batman
crystal lance
- your kidneys would probably need to be pristine condition to afford that
opaque tulip
4 the cost will probably be double of a good gaming pc
At least it doesnt have a separate power port
I was worried about that
And a usb c connection sounds interesting, like being able to use a GPU power for other devices
Like a laptop or tablet
mossy gull
- Good question
- You just need proper Bifurication
- Yep
- Which 5090 doesn't cost more than a gaming PC?
crystal lance
bloody hell, and I thought the Steam Controller/Machine leaks were dumb, but I guess VR crowd takes the cake 😅
balmy flicker
care to elaborate
crystal lance
so, apparently Steam Frame dev kits have hit developers en masse
and 1. a certain german VR youtuber got his hands on one from someone he knows, and kept publishing posts about it, claiming that "since he did not sign an NDA it's fine" - guess how it ended...
- Some marketing people representing VR developers are reaching to media outlets/social media influencers, with an e-mail saying something along the line "we would love for you to be part of exciting event, when Steam Frame launches next month"
sacred seal
and 1. a certain german VR youtuber got his hands on one from someone he knows, ...
It would be the company that provided him with the steam frame that would be in breach of the NDA. Legally speaking he is doing nothing wrong.
crystal lance
It would be the company that provided him with the steam frame that would be in ...
except being a giant asshole about the whole thing
so he's probably never gonna see any company wanting to work with him in the future
cinder lagoon
Yea I seen that clip...
Not sure how i feel about it - on the one hand he's finally taking the suspense out of that launch.
On the other hand - totally spoiling valve's plans on this basically gaming launch of the decade
Tho given valve has not yet moved their "Q2" promise - that launch date kinda could've been expected
In other news:
I've bought a
- low power server board + CPU combo for 160€,
- 16G of DDR4 ECC for 40€
- and a 40GBit QSFP+ NIC for 30€
today!
Will finally be setting up a proper NAS at home, probably better than what most companies have.
Was able to snatch about 8 4TB HDDs so far, not sure how many of them still work or what exact configuration I'll be running them in but I'll definitely be using raidz1 alongside an offline-storage and in the long term, offsite backup to a buddy of mine.
The server will sport a 1TB nvme cache and I'm thinking about Network booting my PC off of it 🤔
Last couple weeks I was preparing the house for fiber optics from top to bottom (and on every floor).
Sometime next-ish week, that network will be up and running ^^
At first probably via a bunch of CAT8 runs, given the extra cost of QSFP+ and SFP+ adapters (without even mentioning a ubiquity switch they go in), but 2.5G across the house will be hella nice 🔥
cinder lagoon
Ohh huh? Jetson equivalent with apparently more power? Craaaazy
Tho pricetag of 4000$US
crystal lance
I can't tell why I defaulted to reading generative ai as degenerative ai at first glance, but, with that price, that thing better also have workstation level performance in things outside of AI slop
surreal moss
They do but they’re optimized for ai. I’ve got one of Dell’s versions at work and it’s pretty capable depending on which model is loaded
cinder lagoon
It's optimized for AI but anything that makes use of such multi-dimensional math hardware would also run fine
opaque tulip
nueral networks and graphics processing are very similar, both need tons of basic calculations where a cpu does basic and complex calculation
surreal moss
Really for us the value is in offsetting costs of renting cloud hardware for training and testing. Using it as a regular workstation wouldn’t be a good way to do it. Kinda like daily driving a humvee to the office and for grocery runs
tender plank
I got a new keyboard and I suddenly understand why keyboard snobs are keyboard snobs. My old Corsair K70 felt like such a big step up compared to the cheap membrane keyboards, but compared to my new one it feels like a lawn chair compared to a la-z-boy. I got a Wooting Two HE full keyboard.
surreal moss
Is the keyboard the lawn chair?
crystal lance
Yeah, times where Corsair mechanical keyboards were considered premium/elite choice are far gone
tender plank
Yeah, times where Corsair mechanical keyboards were considered premium/elite cho...
I don't think they were ever premium. They were just an easier to adopt option. Corsair ICue is awful these days so I'm kind of okay moving away from it.
tender plank
Is the keyboard the lawn chair?
The new keyboard is the La-z-boy. It's so smooth and clean to type on.
It's a Hall Effect keyboard, so there's no gritty feeling from the sliding metal contacts.
tender plank
having the miniscule activation range on these keys is pretty interesting and allow ridiculously quiet typing. It's a fair bit slower than bottoming out the keys but my ears love it.
timber barn
@tender plank https://dygma.com
tender plank
<@147221167453896704> https://dygma.com
Just as bad as 60% keyboards, no numberpad to use.
cinder lagoon
I would advocate for a standalone standard numberpad, or custom second layer on those ergo ones
timber barn
Just as bad as 60% keyboards, no numberpad to use.
It is fully programmable so usually you just hold a thumb button and you get a colored numpad
timber barn
I would advocate for a standalone standard numberpad, or custom second layer on...
I got on of those as a usb device when I just had a notebook
tender plank
It is fully programmable so usually you just hold a thumb button and you get a c...
However that's not in the same grid as the numpad, it's all the offset locations of the normal keys.
timber barn
The defy is columnar
But also angled vertically so if you need a strict square then yes it is not one
tender plank
Oh, another part, they don't seem to have any HE keys. Everything looks like it's standard mechanical keys.
tender plank
Figured I could take a picture of the setup now that a few things have been updated with it.
And yes, the cables are awful, but I'm allergic to wireless devices at this point so it's just something I have to put up with.
cerulean helm
I sprung for a Glorious keyboard a couple years ago as it was more than half its usual price. I won't go back to "gaming" keyboards by big brands.
tender plank
I guess I should clarify, I'm "allergic" to wireless devices because I found them too unreliable. I'm not electrosensitive or whatever the term is.
cerulean helm
Main reason I went with Glorious was a programable dial aka volume dial. Seems to be a hard feature to find on custom boards today.
Keyboard is wired, and weighs like 8 pounds. Mouse is wireless.
tender plank
For me is was very much like this. I started going wireless everything, but then I'd basically have periods of the day where everything was glitchy and really hard to work with and then it would go away. So less "low battery" and more "connection lost" but otherwise the same.
cerulean helm
I use a G502X lightspeed. Expensive AF but I maybe charge it once every 2 weeks. Hell when it says "low battery" I still have like 60 hours of charge left.
One charge lasts almost 200 hours.
tender plank
Yeah, Logitech has some pretty good battery life and wireless tech, but I had a series of their devices die about 6 months after warranty so I'm not touching their stuff anymore.
Getting something for an office? Logitech wireless is fantastic. Getting their higher end devices? They seem like they're time bombs set to go off not long after the warranty ends. 3 headsets and 2 keyboards.
cerulean helm
Hmm. I've had my G502X Plus for 4 years, no issues. Which I would expect as its a $160 mouse right now.
surreal moss
Going on 5 years with mine and a powermat for it with no issues
tender plank
Yeah, I've still got a low end Logitech membrane keyboard that's about 15 years old. You can see the side of it in one of the pictures, I use it for the KVM on my servers.
opaque tulip
Figured I could take a picture of the setup now that a few things have been upda...
what are those gadgets below the right monitor
and also why do you have salt and pepper on your desk
i dont think thats what they mean by seasoned build
tender plank
what are those gadgets below the right monitor
Weather station panel and a CO2 meter.
tender plank
and also why do you have salt and pepper on your desk
My desk is my table for eating.
opaque tulip
My desk is my table for eating.
same here but i usually season my stuff in the kitchen
tender plank
That side of my desk is in my kitchen.
opaque tulip
ah
tender plank
Notice the fridge right next to the desk?
opaque tulip
thought that was a gamer fridge ngl
sonic meadow
For me is was very much like this. I started going wireless everything, but then...
What's funny is that for some of the.. logitechs? you can get a wireless charging/running mousepad. So you can run the mouse wirelessly through the mousepad 😆
tender plank
To give an idea of what I was dealing with, this is a radio frequency noise waterfall chart from two directional antennas, one is facing towards the back of the house, the other is facing the front of the house. Basically throughout the day I would have random bursts like this where pretty much the entire frequency range gets completely flooded with noise. It was the same on the 2.4 band too.
sonic meadow
2.4 could be a microwave running, but that wouldn't hit the 5.2 band.
A neighbor doing spark gap Morse perhaps 😆
tender plank
Not for minutes at a time like that across a massive band.
tender plank
what are those gadgets below the right monitor
Just remembered I have these. The second one was when the panel crashed and was catching up on hours of logging data.
opaque tulip
Just remembered I have these. The second one was when the panel crashed and was ...
pretty cool, your own weather data
tender plank
Yeah, got tired of reading data that's about 2-6 degrees off.
opaque tulip
Yeah, got tired of reading data that's about 2-6 degrees off.
i just thought i was just a couple thermometers, but thats a whole as weather station
cerulean helm
i just thought i was just a couple thermometers, but thats a whole as weather st...
There are a handful of companies that make weather stations. Can't tell what brand is in the photo. I use a Tempest station at my place. Its hooked to my Home Assistant and used for automations. Not cheap though. Think I spent $380 for it.
opaque tulip
i found this while doing some research
completely non tracking de googled os
my phone model doesnt have a way to install the os but when i upgrade, ill keep this in mind
cerulean helm
Well, Just realized I burned $250. I purchased a PCIE M.2 expansion card with onboard bifurcation chipset earlier in the year. Forgot about it and just found it and pulled up my motherboard expansion slot specs only to find out the expansion card won't work with my board. My 2 remaining pcie slots are both x16 physical slots but only x4 lanes. Crap.
sonic meadow
bifurcation chipset
Is it bifurcation or a pcie switch?
Typically bifurcation is provided by the motherboard, and any on-card stuff is just passive/signalling.
Pcie switching is where you tend to have a chip, and they should work on basically any number of input lanes
sonic meadow
yeah that should probably work in an x4 (electrical) slot. its a pcie switch just like I thought rather than adding bifurcation. though you wont get as good performance out of it as you would in an x8 (electrical) slot. how much this matters depends on how many m.2 cards you are running, what kind of performance they individually have, and how much you are using them all simultaneously
there doesnt seem to be a whole lot of information on the ix8024 chip used in that card, and a quick google doesnt show people talking about using it in a x4 (electrical) slot. that said pcie devices are generally supposed to work in reduced lane applications.
Personally I would just try it, and if it works it works, if it doesnt. well.... poop 😆
cerulean helm
I'll give it a try after I'm done for the evening and shut the ritg down. Its not really about performance for me. Just tiding up and freeing up a pcie slot. I'm already over saturating my chipset lanes. I have 6 nvme drives plus a HDD and the internal usb all sharing 8x pcie 4 lanes basically.
opaque tulip
this will store heat like a motherfucker
opaque tulip
fair enough
cinder lagoon
This puppy has 20TB of usable storage currently and will get 2TB of SSD as a cache, alongside a 40GBit Network card
Still looking for an actual case since I want to wall-mount it in the basement
But this will be enough to test.
It's a fairly low-power setup aswell
opaque tulip
its a personal cloud machine?
cinder lagoon
Very much so!
Maybe it will also serve as the storage for a clustered VM setup or a network boot of my gaming pc, but not sure yet
All used hardware (especially the drives) but using ZFS Raid so I'll be fine
opaque tulip
cool, i want to make my own but currently i have no use for one, personally i would make one out of a rasberry pi
and i have 3 other projects on the list before it
cinder lagoon
Already have the rPi one and it's running out of expansion slots haha.
Literally no way to connect any meaningful Storage to it. Its PCIe is just too slow and the OrangePi's is PCIe is still half of what I'd need
cinder lagoon
and i have 3 other projects on the list before it
My project pile keeps growing but in the near future I'll have a couple things to cross off ^^
cerulean helm
Well. Just ran across this article. Make sure your BIOS Secure Boot is on/set to Windows UEFI. Mine was set to other os for some reason.
Key take away about a coming update to the new secure boot certificates "Older hardware and disabled Secure Boot configurations will block the update"
cinder lagoon
Yea, not really important for people that don't need any secure boot for their anti cheat or bitlocker.
It's a little clusterfuck on servers that contain sensitive data tho
surreal moss
I mean it’s worth having on for most users. And at this point I’d be surprised if most new consumer builds don’t have it enabled by default
cinder lagoon
Its basically always on but I think most people would anyways just disable it if it ever recognized something (like a rootkit)
cerulean helm
My wasn't disabled in BIOS but apparently ASUS default setting for secure boot was "Other OS" so windows wouldn't activate it and you got the warning "hardware not supported" message under security.
runic thorn
How well does thermal paste keep? I have some Noctua paste that recommends storing for 3 years at most before use, and the paste is probably like 6 at this point.
I assume the smart thing to do is to dump the old and use new, especially since thermal paste isn't exactly the most expensive part of a PC upgrade.
sacred seal
It should be pretty obvious if the paste is good or not. At six years I don't know if you will be able to get it out of the tube
runic thorn
It was still fine about two years ago when I repasted a GPU. I think I'll dump it though. Even if it comes out of the tube, who knows if it's still got the longevity in use?
sacred seal
Impressive. I had a tube of the same stuff that was only three years old, it was already very dry.
runic thorn
Huh. That sounds like more reason for me to consider it used up. Good paste though.
opaque tulip
massive price bump but understandable given the situation between first stock and now
crystal lance
It seems that the price bump is uneven depending on the region, so I suspect they also did some currency exchange correction
opaque tulip
they unfortunetly dont have base steam deck
crystal lance
yeah, but I am worried now, cause if they rise Steam Machine prices to those levels, those things are not going to move at all
Steam Machine needs to stay somewhat relative to base PS5, gaming laptops, and mini PCs of similar performance
opaque tulip
im thinking if not converting my rasberry pi into a steam deck like platform and just run steam link to my pc
right now, i use a 3rd party xbox controller with steam link
crystal lance
right now, i use a 3rd party xbox controller with steam link
I am retiring my Gamesir Nova Lite in lieu of Steam Controller,
it's just... great
as for converting something into a handheld, there are some nice boards you can get
opaque tulip
probably the best controller out rn
crystal lance
like the Framework 13 one I believe
crystal lance
probably the best controller out rn
the only disappointing thing in the new Steam Controller are the triggers
I might try to mod an oring onto the spring socket or something
so it mutes the spring vibrations a bit (if you do rapid trigger presses, like in QTE, some of the trigger spring vibration travels throughout the controller chassis)
sacred seal
Pretty sure this doesn't exist, but I thought I would ask anyways.
Anyone know of a device that allows a SD card to be shared between two different devices?
Basically I have security cameras that save to a SD card, and I would like to be able to ingest that footage without having to first remove the SD card and put it in a PC.
surreal moss
Do the security cameras have any method of connecting to them?
sacred seal
Nope. Just a SD card slot that it saves clips to
runic thorn
So it would have to fit in the card slot and masquerade as a card enough that the camera can't tell a difference.
opaque tulip
Pretty sure this doesn't exist, but I thought I would ask anyways.
Anyone know o...
You could run a local cloud that saves everything onto SD cards but since that's not an off the shelf thing, it would require development
Potentially could have 2 usb cables connected to the server so that you don't need it connected to wifi
Again that would require usb cameras
So either WiFi cameras or usb cameras
Otherwise no
Or you could make a data bus switch for SD cards but that would require extensive development as it's a very niche situation
sacred seal
Yeah, no, none of those would be options in this case.
There used to be a USB to SD card adapter that let you plug a USB stick into the SD card port of a device, but the one I found is no longer sold. From that I could probably go into something like this
https://www.amazon.ca/UGREEN-DH2300-2-Bay-Capacity-Diskless/dp/B0FNWHSPXF/
cinder lagoon
Nope. Just a SD card slot that it saves clips to
Pretty sure there are SD to Ethernet adapters (i.E. You configure them, plug them in and they save everything to a network path=
Actually: this is the implementation you asked for in the first place:
https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0F5HMJJZR
BUT I know of ones that directly write to a network path
sacred seal
Pretty sure there are SD to Ethernet adapters (i.E. You configure them, plug the...
That is exactly the type of thing I was looking for
cinder lagoon
I think these two terms might yield search results:
- Toshiba FlashAir (discontinued but still around) and the older Eyefi cards had Wi-Fi built in and could auto-upload photos/videos to a destination, sometimes including network folders.
- EzShare Wi-Fi SD adapters do something similar at the cheap end.
sacred seal
Thank you, I will definitely be looking into that
cinder lagoon
Np ^^ happy to help
cinder lagoon
In other news:
did a classic plunder and got the wrong kind of ECC DDR4...
currently waiting for the correct one (at double the capacity) and sending back the mishap (which really was a pretty good deal :(
cerulean helm
Sucess. Really happy with this. Using Home Assistant I set up an automation that kicks on my HVAC fan to circulate air only for 30 min on the hour; when the AC is off, the basement temp is lower than outside, the humidity is lower in the basement than outside.
balmy flicker
wonder if you could pair it with an exterior vent for airing out the house when it is cool at night
cerulean helm
Old school for that. Box fan in window. And right after I wrote my last post I completely rewrote the automation as I realized the actual problem (besides old home little insulation) is a temperature imbalance between rooms due to the gaming rig and a server rack running in the living room. As such its almost always warmer than the other rooms in the house.
So, now the automation runs if the living room temperature is greater than 3.5* than 2 other rooms in the house or the living room hits a specific temperature (80*). And the AC must be off.
balmy flicker
well I want to build a set of automated forced air vents into my windows to use outside air to cool my houce while I am asleep/ at work preferably intagrated with my portable AC