tech-coding-math

[rose yacht]

dont ask to as, just ask

[lost fossil]

check pins

[flint viper]

Is it fine to install an NVMe SSD in a laptop without putting a thermal pad and heat sink on it?

[lost fossil]

yes

it's just not gonna perform up to spec

unless it's one of these gen 5 ssds and you slam it with a benchmark then it might shut off or smth

[flint viper]

The only test I did was installing a 12 GB game and it reached 60° C

It seemed to plateau around that mark

This is the SSD right here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BHJJ9Y77?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[arctic yarrow]

60 is fine

[cold elbow]

Once your cache is filled Which is the part that get hot, your ssd will cool down and also drop speed.

In some scenarios you use the cache a lot so it might nerd a bit of cooling or airflow but these scenarios are not easy to make.

[exotic patrol]

So i have a weird knock off TV

No info about it but it has android and a bunch of fake specs

It also uses the TV remote as like a mouse pointer but you have to press arrows and it's very dumb

How do I flash a different android on it or control it in a better way

[cold elbow]

I don't think so

Just get a better tv box

[exotic patrol]

So Firefox with ublock origin is the best adblocker for websites right

[brave field]

yes

that or disabling JS on particularly bad sites

[lost fossil]

comfy discovers modern internet security practices

[sharp idol]

Are you guys having issue with clean commands too?

[hasty cedar]

Greetings can someone please help, what settings do I put for FXAA? MSAA? Nvidia TXAA? Running a 4080

[snow rover]

assuming you're talking about gta, probably just msaa depending on res

[hasty cedar]

1440p.. so I disable everything else correct?

[snow rover]

yeah just try like 4x msaa

msaa is heavy but it doesn't matter with a 4080 on gta lol

[hasty cedar]

Thank you

[exotic patrol]

Not really I just can't handle ads with the dead controls of the TV

It's just not gonna work effectively

They messed it up so bad for no reason

[maiden relic]

discord issue

[sharp idol]

Yeah gathered that, strange because deleting response/trigger still works

[maiden relic]

says its resolved now

https://discordstatus.com/incidents/7zq47gsmslvn

[sharp idol]

sweet thanks

[exotic patrol]

Hi

[brave field]

hello comfy

[exotic patrol]

@wispy mesa @cold elbow I located the actual link speed

[wispy mesa]

What was the limit before?

[exotic patrol]

390

[wispy mesa]

Does that say 8.612 tx success

[exotic patrol]

Yes

[wispy mesa]

That is really bad if its what i think it is

[exotic patrol]

What is it

[wispy mesa]

I assume it is packets sent have a 8% success rate

Ah it may also be 8.6 tx per second

Are successful

[exotic patrol]

What is a dad check

[wispy mesa]

Huh?

[exotic patrol]

Do you want to see anything here @wispy mesa

[wispy mesa]

Good question

Looks like phone is only using slow 5ghz

[exotic patrol]

Any idea why

[wispy mesa]

not really, could be phone or router

one of them isnt allowing it to use ac or similar

[exotic patrol]

It's using ac

But what @arctic yarrow and me are thinking is that because the phone has Wi-Fi 6 and its considered budget they cut corners on the ac adapter but allowed max speed using ax

What's funny is that I have the same problem on xbox using wifi but not ethernet

[wispy mesa]

if its at 250mbps, its unlikely to be ac

ok then sounds like a router issue

[exotic patrol]

Everyone suggests it to be an ac connection

The phone says its ac

[wispy mesa]

odd

[exotic patrol]

The router says its ac

[cold elbow]

Holly shit you still going about that phone wifi thing

[exotic patrol]

No I'm just explaining the updates

But I'm not looking for solutions or trying anymore

[cold elbow]

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ fun nerdy thing for yall

[brave field]

hmm

is this little alchemy?

[cold elbow]

U can make a watermelon or Dracula

[exotic patrol]

Do you need any adblockers with ublock origin or is it the best

[cold elbow]

Nope

[fickle finch]

T

This is how I'm getting internet

Cute no

Where did that T come from

[exotic patrol]

That's a funny looking adapter

Does it support 5ghz

[fickle finch]

Yes

325mbps max speed

[exotic patrol]

Why is it very slow like that

[fickle finch]

That's its capability

[exotic patrol]

Skill issue

[fickle finch]

Lol

[agile siren]

Probably Duplicate address detection (IPv6 stuff)

[agile siren]

its also likely that the SNR is low so even though u r getting good enough signal strength (-47dbm) there maybe some wifi signa/ SSID on the same channel causing some lvl of interference.

[cold elbow]

ew

[fervent granite]

Funky looking motorola razr

[exotic patrol]

Most of the time I'm the only one using 5ghz

[cold elbow]

Cus 5ghz is almost useless

[exotic patrol]

Why

[cold elbow]

Small range

Highly affected by anything on its path like a wall

So it's only usable if it's in your room
And if the router in your room just use a cable

[exotic patrol]

I use a wifi extender or beacon or whatever it is connected by ethernet so signal isn't affected

Using the bare router without it tho has awful signal

[lost fossil]

”isn't affected"

[cold elbow]

Only used 5ghz for my quest two streaming from pc and even that had quality and latency issues so now im using a long usb cable

[exotic patrol]

How can I know tho

[cold elbow]

If you know you know

[exotic patrol]

Ping and speed are the same even with it connected than disconnected when you're closer to the router

[lost fossil]

how can you be so sure tho

maybe it's barely making ends meet with thay extender

cable>

[exotic patrol]

No the ethernet cable is long and I think it's cat7

Talking speedtest wise connecting to ethernet from the router itself is the same without or with the extender

Anything else I haven't tested

[cold elbow]

Didn't know cat7 exist

[fickle finch]

cat6 is the latest

[agile siren]

use a wifi analyzer app and check for other wifi signals in the channel your wifi router is using. if you see an overlap then that might explain for such connectivity,

[agile siren]

ohh.. extender.. these are usually bad. you say u have it connected via cable? maybe the externed and your router are using the same Wifi channel.

[exotic patrol]

Wrong reply my bad

[agile siren]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrem.wifianalyzer&hl=en&gl=US

try using this one.

and checkout the graph and see if there is an overlap with your wifi.

and make sure you be at the place you are facing problem.

Ohh also, since Android 9, there is wifi scan throttling or something like that in android which will prevent the app from scanning every second, you can disable that in phone's developer settings. i think the app will notify you about this problem on the initial boot.

[exotic patrol]

The ones I blurred aren't mine

[lost fossil]

nokia

[exotic patrol]

You didn't know?

Better than a Huawei router

[agile siren]

Look at the Channel graph, there is the problem. (Very likely)

Same SSID but an overlap. i would suggest manually set the channel

[exotic patrol]

The router doesn't support any other channels than the worse ones

[agile siren]

uhm... it should though..

[exotic patrol]

Or atleast it won't let me select any other ones

[agile siren]

actually it depends on the country but it should atleast let you switch to one other channel.

[agile siren]

can u make the change on the extender?

if not then.. maybe you can set your channel width to 40Mhz instead of 80. Yes that means less overall throughput but less interference and more cunsistency.

[willow tiger]

qukcuno che ha voglia di giocare

[exotic patrol]

The extender doesn't really have any settings it just follows the router

[agile siren]

check if you can select channel 161 on the extender.

that sucks..

[exotic patrol]

Should probably replace the extender with a good router but ehh

I gave up on trying to make it work

[agile siren]

try lowering the channel width to 40Mhz and then shutdown both, router and the extender, then first let the router boot up fully then boot the extender and then have a look at the channel graph. hopfully they will be on their own 40Mhz channel.

[exotic patrol]

How do I get it over to 40mhz again

[agile siren]

it should be in the settings somewhere.

if nothing works then.. well. dont really have any solution for this.

[exotic patrol]

These are the only noteworthy settings

[agile siren]

Well.. 😕

nothing you can do i guess..

[exotic patrol]

Tho my internet does stop when its on load

Not nessecarily heavy but if it's like 100+ mbps being used it stops for like a minute and gets throttled

Isn't as bad on ethernet tho

[signal wind]

recently I'm interested in ram tuning, I tuned my ram from 3600mhzCL16 to 4200mhzCL18, every game run just fine, except GTA5, it's either crashed or bluescreen, I don't know why but for me the game just very sensitive about memory, anyone here have the same experience ?

[brave field]

interesting

I'd've thought newer games would be more sensitive

Does it get worse for games that uses even less ram?

[frigid echo]

Usually memory speed issues are tied to the memory controller on the cpu. What other games have you played?

I'd also check with task manager to ensure the speed you set is actually what boots up. I had that issue with my 3700x and 32 gigs that could support 3600 mhz

But it's only stable with that cpu at 3200

Anytime I'd set it to 3600 I'd boot into windows and actually be at 2400 mhz which could case issues like it did for me

[signal wind]

I tested it with cp2077 benchmark got 15-20 fps boost compared to xmp stock settings, and a lot of min fps (maybe because I tune 2nd,3rd and other timings), my other games are batman arkham knight, rdr2, ff7remake, immortals fennyx rising, and other small games,

previously I use 1.45v dram voltage and 1.35 SA voltage, but then changed it back to 1.35 for dram and auto for SA volt, turn out I can still fine boot to 4123mhzCL18, gonna try run the game later, to test, maybe the culprit was voltage

[cold elbow]

Have you tried ryzen ram calculator software?

It can tighten your timings while keeping frequency the same
So u get more performance and stability

[kindred vapor]

we knew this was coming but it's so amazing that text to video ai has come this far

[wispy mesa]

Yea its pretty good

at this point generated videos/images should be getting cryptographically secure embed metadata inside the frames pixel data so it can be detected if generated by AI

[exotic patrol]

Man ublock origin is insane

It's amazing

[snow rover]

I'm real tempted to pick up an s24

607€ for the 256gb model, and i can sell my s23

wait it's exynos rather than sd8g3

nevermind then

[cold elbow]

Only the U comes in gen 3 afak

[exotic patrol]

Very pointless

Those fancy AI features are already coming to the 23

They're not even fancy

The only difference is the titanium frame

And the ultra gets the anti reflective screen

So more pointless then

[snow rover]

longer updates at least

[charred otter]

ok so i dont remember if i asked this or not, but how hard is it to upgrade ssds on my computer? like when i get the new ssd how would i go about getting all my data to the new one from the old? and is it just worth more to just get an HDD with more storage to store non used games and then keep my current SSD for games i play which is 1tb? ive upgraded my ps5 storage already. i'll probably get the same ssd i got for my ps5 for my pc but i havent got a clue for HDD

[dense cove]

nice

[exotic patrol]

Just clone to the new SSD

For HDD storage compared to SSD I say always get the SSD if you want the storage purely for games

Just don't install games you don't play

Also I wouldn't get the same PS5 SSD without checking compatibility first

[charred otter]

its not a dedicated ssd for the ps5 but a ps5 compatible ssd, i will be checking compat tho

also as for SSD is cloning an easy task?

[exotic patrol]

Ye just look it up it's pretty easy

[charred otter]

ok

[exotic patrol]

Also this is pretty much the easiest way if you have windows on that ssd so you won't have to reinstall and everything

[charred otter]

ye i suppose this could be a good way of getting rid of the apps i dont want but also annoying for installing games since my wifi isnt the greatest

so i'll probably just clone it over

[exotic patrol]

Just look into how you're going to clone and compatibility then you're ready to go

[quartz kayak]

im pretty sure u can get either version on ebay

thats what i d do

oh nvm s24

may not come with an sd

but i think their exynos is better than all of the sds no?

im staying with my s22 ultra until it appears as "upgrade" on those tiktok lists

[brave field]

@charred otter clonezilla

new condition hard drives aren't even worth the price under 12TB. Keep and use both of your SSDs.

[charred otter]

[brave field]

Friends who have Samsung S-series phones with esim support: Can you use multiple esim profiles at once?

and if not, can you download/save multiple and switch between them without any extra effort?

[signal wind]

I use intel platform

[fickle finch]

I learned something new today if you get a blue screen. Open up Windows Event Log Viewer and look for bug check.

To fix it do sfc /scannow (Fixes corrupt files)

[lost fossil]

instead, download bluescreenview and use that to dig for blue screen details

[fickle finch]

its what ive been doing for this past hour

[fickle finch]

😮 oh

[lost fossil]

and sfc scannow barely ever fixes anything

[fickle finch]

can you please send me the website 🙂

[lost fossil]

first link (nirsoft)

[fickle finch]

Nirsoft

Oh it scans the minidumps that were saved from the log viewer

how do i usei t

[lost fossil]

you go to google with this

optionally include this (whichever is highlighted in red)

[fickle finch]

i see

[fickle finch]

im stuck

finally got to load the crash dump in windbg its now debugging

sfc scannow seems to have fixed the problem for now

im running this game and its not crashing it only crashed because of memory issue according to the crash dump log

also the wins32 thing but i believe sfc scannow took care of it. I'll report back if it happens again. Thanks for the new tools and knowledge

[bronze pasture]

E

[exotic patrol]

Is that a new feature

[lost fossil]

no

[fickle finch]

i bought a cat7 cable

[cold elbow]

[fickle finch]

what lol

[lost fossil]

The Cat7 specification is a proprietary standard developed by a consortium of companies and is not endorsed by IEEE or TIA/EIA. While substantially similar to the performance characteristics of Cat6a, Cat7 cables features proprietary GG45 connectors and robust shielding. Cat7a (Category 7 Augmented) is a further refinement of Cat7, capable of 40 Gigabit speeds over 50 meters and 100 Gbps up to 15 meters. The proprietary nature of the Cat7 and Cat7a standards and lack of support from IEEE and EIA has resulted in a relatively small installed based for Cat7/Cat7a.

basically, u got scammed

you don't need more than 5e for home use

[wispy mesa]

buy a 305m roll of cat6a, done for life

at home that is

[fickle finch]

i see

[exotic patrol]

Why do people do this
https://www.xda-developers.com/discord-google-drive-cloud-storage/

These people are gonna make discord ruin their CDN

[snow rover]

shits and giggles

i love it when the

[rose yacht]

because

1. fuck discord (some users)
2. dont want to make their own servers/poor

[brave field]

There's a whole bunch of projects for it on Github. Using student/military perks and accounts for vps hosters is more efficient.

Seeing it on xda is weird though. They're not just "the android modding site" anymore

[wet bay]

i was having some screen problems today, only to open amd software and realize the latest driver is from 2023

amd at its best again...

[small mural]

tf is this

obviously rumors but what is that

[snow rover]

fidget spinner

[exotic patrol]

That pro model is definitely a meme

[quartz kayak]

💀

What the fuck

[exotic patrol]

https://www.xda-developers.com/youtube-as-storage-data-to-video/

When is this going to stop

[rapid lake]

They should keep the hard edges

[small mural]

I really hope it’s fake rumors

Because I was planning on upgrading this year

regular 16 looks nice tho

[fervent granite]

it's just an iphone 11 with a smaller glass camera bump

[gaunt granite]

ik I'm late but believe me this sort of stuff is not why discord is doing the cdn changes lol

they don't care much about a couple of people abusing the site lightly like that, it's the people hosting whole ass porn sites that cause multiple terabytes of outbound transit they don't like

which is fair honestly

[exotic patrol]

What are the newest galaxy buds and watch

[lost fossil]

this is the kind of question that 99.9% of people will have to go to google to find the answer to

[supple walrus]

Buds Pro2 (I think)
And series6

[lost fossil]

why do you make other people go to google for you

[supple walrus]

I guess I'm that 0.1% lel

Only reason I know is I'm planning to get the S24 sometime soon... ish and will probably get new buds + watch with it
Although I'm not sure if there's anything newer than the buds pro 2, so might just be phone + watch

[exotic patrol]

Because Google will only look specifically in my country and specifically for online stores so it's pointless since a bunch of them don't have it online and because AI is stupid with this and because I don't want to search 30 mins on YouTube just to find what it is

Also the Samsung levant servers run on potatos

[lost fossil]

then go to yandex

or 🦆 🦆

[lost fossil]

as someone with ears that can't hold any earphone at all, i find earbuds cringe

[supple walrus]

Perfectly understandable

[junior flax]

i had buds 2 pro for 9-10 months they r good but mine broke around the end

charging case broke on mine

i got airpods pro 2 now tho and i can confirm they are basically the same other then better transparency on airpods but sound is basically similar

[supple walrus]

I've had my buds pro 2 since they released pretty much, best set of in ear headphones I've used
Only time I'll use my Sony XM3s over them is on aircraft, because Sony's active noise cancelling is on a whole different level of good

WH-1000XM3s, specifically^

[junior flax]

personally i prefer the airpods shape after around 2 months of having them now

:>

idk noise cancelling has always hurt my ears

it makes me feel like my head is going to explode frfom pressure

[exotic patrol]

Ok these prices are way too high just for some accessories

[junior flax]

i dont use it on any headphones cos of that

[supple walrus]

that's why I tend to bundle them in when I get them, so it's cheaper
Like sometimes samsung will do deals where you get buds/watch with the phone

[small mural]

11 and 12 was a W design icl

and they had to ruin it

[craggy thicket]

Banned calin9569 (Case #238272) (user notified with a direct message)

[plucky raft]

yo guys how can i block ads on mobile games?

[brave field]

patch the game to remove the ad provider lists and hope that isn't bannable, or use an ad-blocking dns

if the game doesn't require internet on each launch, you can also clear the cache and then play it in airplane mode

[plucky raft]

dont think i can do that on iphone

[brave field]

dns should be possible then. Doesn't block everything, but some should work

[plucky raft]

i will google that

thanks

[brave field]

as a last resort, there are a few apps that abuse the phone's VPN support to do it, like Blockada

[quartz kayak]

The only resort is not playing goofy games

Blockada doesnt work on recent apps, on android nor on iphone, only for internet dependent ads which most apps dont use

Blockada is also paid.

Some old poopy games may use internet dependent ads tho

[brave field]

TIL, thanks

[quartz kayak]

What would work is using some 3rd party app to patch it

Like on android we have lucky patcher or shizuku based apps that do it

[lost fossil]

running pihole on your network and using it as the dns server

[quartz kayak]

Idk about any for iphone that dont need jailbreaking tho

[brave field]

lp is what I used to use for it, but I've stopped playing mobile games

[exotic patrol]

You can't natively add a private DNS on iOS right

[brave field]

think you can

[exotic patrol]

Nice

[quartz kayak]

You can probably do everything on iphone you can on android but customizations, it just takes more steps

[jovial tide]

Absolutely! iPhones and Androids both have their strengths, but when it comes to customization, Android definitely takes the lead. iPhones offer a more streamlined experience, but if you're willing to put in the extra steps, you can still achieve a lot on an iPhone. It's all about finding what works best for your preferences and needs!

[rose yacht]

ad guard dns

[exotic patrol]

70% of things you can do on iphones in a complicated or harder way than android but the other 30% is mostly sideloading without needing a PC or jailbreaking and not needing iTunes to fully connect to PCs etc

They both have been copying each other for a while they got pretty close

[plucky raft]

I can't install modded apps on iPhone

It sucks

[exotic patrol]

You can you just haven't looked into the proper ways of doing it

[cold elbow]

Rate my new cooler

[brave field]

suboptimal air pressure, no RGB lighting, not horrendously overpriced,3/10

[quartz kayak]

Tf is that

Looks like a radial engine cooler off some airplane

[quartz kayak]

Guys i need help

Best laptop for around 800-900, could be 2nd hand

Gona use it for gaming, gta, r6, minecraft and studying eventually

[brave field]

no response, rip

make sure it has a dedicated GPU at that price

The latest iGPUs are impressive but I doubt they'll be in affordable laptops this year because... money

supposedly there are new 2024 models using 11th gen intel

[lost fossil]

living in the death valley be like

[sharp coyote]

[lost fossil]

one of the drives in one of my zfs pools was constantly giving me read errors so i replaced it and it was fine for a bit but now the replacement drive is also giving me read errors

could it be a bad cable?

[cold elbow]

GUYS

ARCTIC LIQUID FREEZER 3 ANNOUNCED

[lost fossil]

you're too late

[cold elbow]

Released *

[lost fossil]

i currently have an nzxt x63, should i upgrade later?

mostly for aesthetics tbh

[cold elbow]

Fuck that nzxt crap

Imagine using CAM

[lost fossil]

i don't

[sharp coyote]

Yes bro

[lost fossil]

[cold elbow]

The hummer is the most important tool for pc installation

[exotic patrol]

Average #gta-tech-support person when you ask them for specs https://youtube.com/shorts/S-GWDMPpcCo

[junior flax]

it’s kinda the opposite when i ask for my friends specs

they be like “i have i7 and gtx 16gb ram”

and be like “it can run anything”

[snow rover]

ah yes the classic "i7"

[lost fossil]

i7 980 and gtx 160 (aka 9600 GT)

and 16 gb ssd for windows

[exotic patrol]

And he wants to install rdr2 on the same ssd and is confused why it won't work

[junior flax]

the funniest is when my friends are like "my pc is better i have i7"

and it ends up being like 5th gen

[lost fossil]

damn

i have a 5th gen i7 too, the 5820k

[junior flax]

im joking nothing wrong with that 😭

jus an example but a stupid one

[lost fossil]

well, i decommissioned it a long time ago when i upgraded that platform to a xeon 2699v3

still, intel had okay ipc at the time and 6 cores was good then and probably still good now

i feel like 5820k/5930k would still do alright in modern tasks

or 5960x

but, uhh, well, actually the 5th gen is in the no man's land because there were like 1.5 cpus for the platform and generally intel went from 4 to 6

[wicked ferry]

Bought the Sony XM4, absolutely great headphones and I love them

[snow rover]

i want to say something but i'll refrain from doing so

[wicked ferry]

Do it

[lost fossil]

i see these headphones a lot in public transport

[snow rover]

same

i think like 4 people at my workplace have them

[lost fossil]

i want cringacle to test sony xb950/xb950b1

see how bad they are on his graphs

[snow rover]

i mean if you're fine with a 10db bass boost that extends to 400hz i guess they're fine

absolutely vomit inducing imo but whatever

[lost fossil]

he just didn't disable the bass boost mode during testing

when i put smth on full volume and with bass boost in my 950b1, i get a headache almost immediately

[snow rover]

rtings has measured the 950b1

it's no bueno

[lost fossil]

i know

i'm fine with that tho sounds just right with hard dance

[cold elbow]

U bought a headphones?
Lemme pull a graph

[exotic patrol]

Funny question I know but

How does one capture 120fps video if possible

[lost fossil]

obs

looks like the latest nvidia app can do that too

[exotic patrol]

Can you do upload it via discord and things like that or do they all get compressed

[lost fossil]

most of the time it won't fit ( )

[languid narwhal]

https://x.com/soren_iverson/status/1761046079884406926?s=46&t=Qik7pYX0o5NIvbV0R6OLBQ

Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) on X

Apple Health live activity for how long you have left to live

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 3:11 PM

[lost fossil]

i'd rather have elon's neuro implants than this

[olive dagger]

Out of curiosity, can a seed system like minecraft's generate any string of numbers with any lenght (given a "stop" command somewhere)?

[wispy mesa]

What do you mean with the stop command

[exotic patrol]

💀

[astral sphinx]

Nah that’s crazy

[olive dagger]

If it would be possible to generate a seed for random number generation, and at the end of that seed is some sort of string of numbers that say "past x characters, stop generating numbers"

I belueve this would be ideal for compressing algorithms if it were possible because you could reduce virtually anything to just some numbers

[wispy mesa]

but how do you get it back out from those numbers?

[olive dagger]

The same way minecraft generates worlds

An algorithm generates pseudo random numbers based on the seed until the stop signal

Except that those random numbers would always result in the content being compressed because of the seed

[wispy mesa]

But the seed is getting more random data out then compressing anything

[olive dagger]

I mean, wouldn't it be possible to find a seed that generates exactly the same ones and zeroes of the content?

[wispy mesa]

Yes, every seed

every unique seed will generate the same thing

But thats like taking the first digit of the seed and thats how many "villagers" there are

well more complicated

[olive dagger]

Well i don't work with computing so this is just a curiosity of mine, but wouldn't different seeds generate different things? And an algotithm would find a seed that generates exactly the same characters or content in the same exact order

But since it would go on, the stop signal prevents it from doing so

[wispy mesa]

Yes different seeds produce different things, i kinda of get what you mean, but thats kind of how compression already works, but the word 'seed' here is basically the 'compressed data'

But both are done in completely different ways

[olive dagger]

I thought current compression works by setting a reference to every character and referencing it everytime it appears, but if my idea is even possible it would allow for virtually anything to be compressed down to kb's

Because it wouldn't have any references, just an initial seed

[wispy mesa]

Yea but that seed, would have to so big, it would basically be the size of the data already

because you can only get so much info out of a seed

[olive dagger]

Make a seed for the seed then

[wispy mesa]

thats lossy

so you loose final data

[olive dagger]

Would you really lose data if you generate the exact seed? It would still use that to generate (decompress) the data and it would be the same seed

[wispy mesa]

Yea but the seed can only be half the size roughly of the data

Thing is, the time it would take to get a unique (being the only seed that outputs this data) would take longer to find then you could be alive for (assuming data is large enough)

[olive dagger]

Yeah true

But since there's a stop command i think there are infinite seeds because anything can happen past the stop, it wouldn't matter

Unless there's something else about seeds that would make this impossible

But if you can have infinite strings starting with "123" then you can probably have infinite strings that start with the seed as well

[slim bluff]

A seed in computer science used to generate a psuedo-random number (it's not perfectly random and wont be unless we sample something like the decay of an unstable neucleon which we consider to be completely random) is much closer to what we call a hashing function. A hashing function given some input will always return the same output however it is incredibly difficult to calculate the parameters provided to a hashing function given the output which is why we use these to store passwords etc. Who cares if a company leaks their hashed passwords for users (it's not ideal but damage is minimal). However in the login system all that needs to be done when you attempt a login is hash the password the user provides and if its the same as the stored hashed password you allow them to log-in.

[arctic yarrow]

Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps with a camera pointed at it to generate a truly random seed, and people are encouraged to walk in front of the camera to interfere with it, making it more random.

[gentle roost]

If you'll had a chance to quit your job or etcs and pursue higher math (no worry bout the money) would you it? And how long would the course be?

[jovial tide]

I am doing Computer Engineering but I would love to quit and do medical/pilot

[cold elbow]

That's a huge shift

[jovial tide]

Yeah

My parents aren't up for it

[rapid lake]

Med school is really expensive

So is flight school

[quartz kayak]

Depends on what area of piloting

[timid spire]

holy shit i just saw an arc a770 being sold for 800 bucks usd????

am i losing my mind?????

[icy wyvern]

anyone able to help with a math question i have? ive done a question and its then asking me to compare and contrast D'alembert's principle and the principle of conservation of energy. would anyone be able to help?

[high matrix]

Ayo sup y'all,
I just got a 4k tv and it is amazing...... except anything other than 4k,how can I make 1080p games and videos look good?

[snow rover]

huh

1080p scales cleanly to 4k so it shouldn't look any worse than native 1080p

[cold elbow]

Nvidia shield i heard has good upscaler for video
And for games you can use FSR and DLSS

XESS also works

[high matrix]

Thanks for the info y'all

[gaunt granite]

Slight necropost but it's actually even cooler! I've been to their London office and they have chaotic double pendulums there, and iirc they have something in Hong Kong too

[arctic yarrow]

Different offices have different things from what I'm reading. Their singapore location measures the decay of a small amount of uranium for their random seed.

[undone creek]

Hey

[jovial tide]

True

[jovial tide]

But it wasn't about money, I could have got into Goverment College (Public) and they are one of the best and cheap

I am in PVT college rn but still have a scholarship

[kindred vapor]

finallly someone did some good numbers
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1b0ln9d/historical_analysis_of_nvidia_gpus_relative/

[sour marsh]

[exotic patrol]

Inbefore it explodes 2 minutes later

[snow rover]

almost 140€ for pieces of plastic

oh well

[plucky raft]

Wasting money is a lifestyle of yours

[snow rover]

shame on me for enjoying things

anyway gmk sets can actually increase in value later

see gmk darling for example, complete kits sell for like 1k

[junior flax]

not ur money not ur problem

[lost fossil]

darling in the GMKXX

[snow rover]

it is literally based on the character from that anime

[lost fossil]

why do they hate ctrl so much

[snow rover]

no, they hate caps lock

[lost fossil]

why do they hate caps lock so much

[snow rover]

it's not a useful key

[lost fossil]

but removing it saves absolutely zero space and helps absolutely noone

i'd understand if it was where the fn key usually is but that's not the 💼

[snow rover]

you wouldn't understand...

[lost fossil]

i mean, i know that, but what tangible benefit is there from removing the key in that location

[snow rover]

it looks visually interesting

[lost fossil]

[exotic patrol]

Does watching a YouTube video in 2x reduce the money a creator would get

Funny question I know but people say that's the case and I find it pretty funny

[snow rover]

yes

watch time is counted as real time spent watching the video
lettuce say we have a 10 minute video and someone watches it from start to finish at 2x speed

that counts as 5 minutes of watch time, not 10

and while watch time doesn't directly affect the revenue made from a video, it does make it less desirable in algorithm, which leads to less views and therefore less revenue

[exotic patrol]

Oh

[fervent granite]

the ctrl key should be where the alt key is*

[rose yacht]

For me it would be shift key

[exotic patrol]

What are some good IEMs

[cold elbow]

For what

[exotic patrol]

What's the price range for them to be decent

[cold elbow]

Intel extreme master

[snow rover]

https://elysianacousticlabs.com/products/annihilator-2023?variant=46605072695604

[cold elbow]

These are so big

[exotic patrol]

Where did that price come from

[snow rover]

flagship product markup

https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/truthear-hexa-1dd-3ba-hybird-earphones-with-0-78-2pin-cable-earbuds

you can get something conventionally good for pretty cheap

[lost fossil]

just recommend the chu and move on

[snow rover]

🚋

[lost fossil]

or chu 2

[snow rover]

why is that the train emoji

🚆

this one is better

[cold elbow]

Airpods pro 2

Also yall should jump into the liquid freezer 3 initial sale cus 77$ for a 240 is a steal

[snow rover]

i was considering it

no non rgb white though

eh

[lost fossil]

just get rgb and put rgb elsewhere (like ebay)

[snow rover]

white 360 is sold out

i can save my money

peerless assassin is too good anyway

[junior flax]

i love my airpods pro 2

[lost fossil]

for $420

[lost fossil]

1+ released a genshin phone

[plucky raft]

When is cod phone

[fervent granite]

[lost fossil]

half body pillow is kind of just a regular pillow, maybe a bit bigger than regular

[exotic patrol]

Is there a way to stop gboard on android from clearing the clipboard every hour

It's so unproductive

[cold elbow]

That's why samsung keyboard is superior

[lilac heath]

fr

[exotic patrol]

Everyone makes fun of me for using it

Do iPhones also clear their own clipboard after an hour

I only have one problem with Samsung keyboard

The fact that the landscape mode keyboard doesn't fit the entire area

[lilac heath]

iphones do not have any feature to show clipboard history

[exotic patrol]

iPhones are always one step forward too late two steps back

[lilac heath]

True

[exotic patrol]

Can you atleast change the default keyboard on iphone

Does it have gboard

And if it does does gboard also clear the clipboard in an hour on iOS

[lilac heath]

Yea u can install gboard on ios

[exotic patrol]

Nice

So not all hope is lost

I'm sure someone made a keyboard that could have some clipboard history on an iphone

But you always question why they keep improving the chips if they restrict you from all the things that would be actually great and productive with it

Aside from editing and gaming

[cold elbow]

It took apple years after Android to allow custom keyboards

[lilac heath]

Yea u can pin the clipboard items

Then it will not disappear after 1 hour

[exotic patrol]

When will it disappear tho

[lilac heath]

Never

[exotic patrol]

Huh

Where's the pin button

Do you just hold the text you want and click pin or something

[lost fossil]

pinning clipboard sounds like poor security practice

[exotic patrol]

Why

[lost fossil]

bc you'll pin your nsa account password there and post it somewhere accidentally

[lilac heath]

Yea

[exotic patrol]

Does it stay even after restarting

[lilac heath]

It should stay

[exotic patrol]

Thanks for letting me know about this

[lilac heath]

np

[exotic patrol]

Can I ask you about something else maybe you could know

In One UI 4 and under or android 12 and under that used to be a feature that showed if you sent messages to a person in your call or contact log via SMS and RCS

After one ui 4 it got removed

Is there an alternative to it

[frigid echo]

My current one ui still shows that

[exotic patrol]

You sure

Can you get me a screenshot of that

[frigid echo]

Ok

[exotic patrol]

That's not what I was talking about

In your call log the one in the phone app it used you show you if you've messaged an unknown contact via sms or rcs

Thank you for trying to help anyway

This shows it better https://youtu.be/VE3sHsD-Tl4

[frigid echo]

Ohhh that. I never noticed that on my 20 when I had it. Huh

[cold elbow]

I will rename myself to windows 7 wade walker and become the biggest W this universe have ever seen

[exotic patrol]

What's the WR for installing windows 7

[cold elbow]

Work routine?

[lilac heath]

Why are still using sms tho💀

[snow rover]

what else

[lilac heath]

Whatsapp ofcourse

[snow rover]

but that's a meta thing

[lost fossil]

🥁

[exotic patrol]

No the world record

[exotic patrol]

RCS is great but it's still gonna be SMS since iphones

[cold elbow]

Why would u think anyone would understand WR as world record

[cold elbow]

Yeah but still works a lot better than apple and google shenanigans

It just works ™️

I wish i can block news about AI, crypto and RCS bullcrap

[exotic patrol]

I like to watch a lot of speedruns so I thought it was known

[lost fossil]

i didn't know that wr stands for something other than world record

[exotic patrol]

I think win 10 1809 ltsc wr is 1:40

but 1809 pro is 5:46 with oobe skip and manual cmd install

[brave field]

Are you allowed to install from an existing installation and apply install.wim, or do you have to start from the ISO?

[exotic patrol]

I believe you can only start it from the ISO

Before the setup does anything

You can see it here

https://youtu.be/2fT_lAOfytk

[small mural]

got a pair of AirPods Pro’s and none of the ear tips fit my ear perfectly

damn

[junior flax]

D:

the ones that were already on it fit in mine

maybe try wearing em abit see if ur ears mold to them?

when i first got earbuds they barely fit

[small mural]

I’ll try that

currently using the largest ones

[lost fossil]

too

[exotic patrol]

Why did you get airpods

[lost fossil]

i didn't get airpods

i wouldn't get airpods in a million years

[lost fossil]

zackjerryrig has no idea what he's doing

[exotic patrol]

What does the dislike feature on comments even do

No one talks about it

[lost fossil]

it doesn't do anything anymore but it's not about that, it's about sending a message

[exotic patrol]

Who even sees that message

Not even the commentor sees it

Does the creator tho

[lost fossil]

noone sees it but i gotta do what i gotta do

[exotic patrol]

Wait

Isn't this the one you're talking about?

The bot changed profiles now

[lost fossil]

it is

[exotic patrol]

How do sellers on g2a or cdkeys even get the keys

[snow rover]

reselling keys from cheaper regions for profit
getting free keys from devs/publishers by pretending to be an influencer and selling those
buying keys with stolen payment methods and selling those

probably the most common methods

[exotic patrol]

How legal is it

That all seems borderline legal

[snow rover]

that is

a very complicated topic

knowingly buying stolen property is illegal in most jurisdictions

but you can't really know the source of a gray market key and you can plead ignorance

[exotic patrol]

I guess that's how they get away with it

[steady hull]

I see math.... 😈😈

[fickle finch]

Man

[brave field]

RIP Yuzu and Citra, you will be missed

Nintendo really did the authors dirty though

Required to factory reset their consoles ( ), banned from working on any other emulators, forfeiture of their domain name, it's much more insulting than cratering the project and taking the $2.4mil settlement money

[lost fossil]

[charred otter]

i wont miss it

[lost fossil]

i guess he never miss, huh

[charred otter]

my thing is with stuff like Yuzu etc is at the end of the day sure you get a better experience but its meant to be on their console for a reason. they have the right to protect that. the devs of these emulators knew the risks, knew the potential consquences. only thing they didnt know was when. Nitendo has made it very very clear that they dont want their games on other platforms which they also have the right to do.

[languid narwhal]

lol

[gaunt granite]

if nintendo made shit that could run their games better than 15fps at 720p this would be a way smaller issue, if nintendo did various things this would be a way smaller issue. this is just a massive corporation bullying people who try to make their shit better for users. fuck nvidia, burn them to the ground

accidentally said nvidia

lol

fuck nvidia too for various reasons

[lost fossil]

ninvidia

[charred otter]

i agree, fuck nvidia

[gaunt granite]

but fuck nintendo too

[brave field]

It's just scummy how they do things though. Nintendo didn't argue about the right to keep software exclusive to the intended platforms, they argued that mentioning Lockpick in your quickstart guide facilitates piracy.

[gaunt granite]

if nintendo could sue italy for having people named mario they would, nothing they do is about good faith

[languid narwhal]

If only Nintendo also made their older games available to play on their current systems too

[charred otter]

i dont agree with their methods, im just saying that they technically arent in the wrong other than morally but in a world where most companies are after the money and only that nothing suprises me these days.

[gaunt granite]

I think it was gabe newell who said this, and he'd fucking know, "piracy is a platform issue", if you have a platform that doesn't suck, fewer people will 'pirate' (and I'd argue this absolutely isn't piracy anyway)

and the ones who still pirate were never gonna give you money anyway

[languid narwhal]

Emulators aren’t illegal and that’s not what Nintendo was suing for

[charred otter]

i think the only games i remember running poorly on my switch was pokemon sh/sw, sure s/v ran poorly but at the end of the day it was playable and i still put 40+ hours into it.

[brave field]

I mean, look at how vague this is. I hate legal-ese.

[charred otter]

but ig its all those years on console that just lowered my standards on games.

[gaunt granite]

lemme rephrase

"Software that validates ownership of a game before letting you play, as opposed to bypassing ownership checks and allowing anyone to play, violates copyright"

that's what they were doing, literally doing ownership validation for online stuff so that people couldnt just pirate the games

[fervent granite]

why can't nintendo just chill out

smh

[snow rover]

why do people support Nintendo to begin with?

[languid narwhal]

Bad company that makes good games

[arctic yarrow]

FR. I don't know anyone who pirates valve games.

[lost fossil]

back in the day, i had an orange box digital video dvd disc... naturally, it was counterfeit so everything on it was pirated

[cold elbow]

This is why valve is unstoppable even for a private company

[arctic yarrow]

I'd argue it's because valve isn't publicly traded that it's the industry leader.

[cold elbow]

I was talking about their mentality is what kept them awesome at what they do

[arctic yarrow]

Who's better for sustainable growth, direct owners of the company who are invested in the long term, or out of touch shareholders?

[cold elbow]

Yee exactly

[wispy mesa]

would be odd one day for us to get notices that valve will be going under voluntary administration because they're out of money, n we didnt even expect it because theyre private

[arctic yarrow]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if valve was worth a trillion or two if they (god forbid) ever went public.

TBH, their employee overhead is super low

Most of their overhead is probably in server space.

[wispy mesa]

Oh yea for sure

[cold elbow]

I would like to call them "forward thinking company"

They dont give a flying F about whatever is being hyped and focus on what is actually good.

[rose yacht]

Me

I pirated both portal 1 and 2

Cs 1.6 too

[wicked ferry]

How dare you 😭

[latent drum]

The provider iam with have unlimited youtube 4G package
Can i trick the system to think iam doing youtube while iam not?

[rose yacht]

It was years ago

Chill

I have payed for both

[languid narwhal]

What is an unlimited YouTube package

[exotic patrol]

Go to Google hq

Ask them how

[latent drum]

like

watching youtube doesnt affect normal data

[wispy mesa]

probably not

depends on how theyre checking for it

they may pretend to be you. (near your end IP) and get a dns query of youtube.com

where you are getting data from

n then they void its usage

to that IP for you.

thats the only way i can actually think theyd properly know you are using youtube

[latent drum]

hm

i heard people do it through tunneling but i dont really like to fuck around with networking alot

[wispy mesa]

Not sure that works in this case

[exotic patrol]

Why would an ISP give unlimited youtube access is the question

@lost fossil

What's your PC setup

[lost fossil]

https://pastebin.com/dcVVY4GU why u ask

[lament sage]

Does anyone know what happened to meta?

[lost fossil]

as the saying goes, shit's fucked

[lament sage]

@wet bay

[charred otter]

wait there was a spike everywhere???

was this a planned attack

[snow rover]

nah someone tripped on a wire

[subtle veldt]

my bad

[lament sage]

How do I change the swipe to see members settings?

[lost fossil]

degens working at

[exotic patrol]

It doesn't even work

[minor saddle]

probs still being pushed out or need update

[lament sage]

I saw it but I couldn't find it

[minor saddle]

/\ @lament sage

[hexed crystal]

someone asked for help for our c++ class
we are supposed to make an even number checker, simple right?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
// Error
int main()
{
double x;
cout<<"x="; cin>>x;
{
switch(x)
{
case 0:  case 2: case 4: case 6:
    case 8 : cout << "Even number";
case 1: case 3: case: 5: case 7:
    case 9 : cout << "Odd number";
    break;
}
return 0;
}```

no i didnt fuck up the formatting

thats how they sent it

[gaunt granite]

oh no

There's like 8 things that hurt me here

[hexed crystal]

every line of code hurts me

[gaunt granite]

tbf there's a few lines that don't hurt me

the blank line is ok, and at least one of the opening and closing braces

[snow rover]

[hexed crystal]

they said they missed the lecture on modulos (notes are posted to the class website) so they just DIDNT BOTHER

[gaunt granite]

we all know the correct way to do this is firstly to use python, and to write it as

print(["Even","Odd"][ord(input("x=")[-1])&1],"number")

[hexed crystal]

[gaunt granite]

what it's totally fine

[hexed crystal]

i mean

print("Even" if num % 2 == 0 else "Odd")

no?

[gaunt granite]

sure but that's boring

if I wanted to codegolf it as much as possible I'd do

print(["Even","Odd"][int(input())&1])

[hexed crystal]

just obfuscate it as much as possible yeah

[charred otter]

count is spelled wrong

[hexed crystal]

/j or /srs rn mf

[hexed crystal]

how about

print("eovdedn"[eval("FTarlusee"[num%2::2])::2)```

[charred otter]

i know very little of that code, thought it was genuinely a spelling error

[hexed crystal]

😭

its not\

std::cout just prints to the console

basically

console out

[arctic yarrow]

Bro what the fuck?

Pain

[brave field]

it turns out running wireguard over port 80 did not get around it being blocked on this network

How do I even go about troubleshooting a specific networking blocking my own wg server, but not something like protonvpn's wireguard connections?

It's gotta be only specific outbound ports allowed (and not 51820 or 80) or UDP as a whole being messed with, right?

[wispy mesa]

depends how its being blocked. Port 80 blocking udp is very common, but also deep "packet" inspection (for udp) can detect wireguard tunnel data, and block it.

So it really depends, on what method is being used

you could try port 53

but DNS runs over that, so be sure it wont stop you or others from getting DNS

[quartz kayak]

🤠

Thats such a funny one

I havent learned c++ yet

May learn someday

[lilac heath]

ChatGPT

[quartz kayak]

Im good

Learning coding with ai seems really cursed

Like from 0

[exotic patrol]

Is discord canary useful for anything

[brave field]

@wispy mesa Thanks, I'll try it and 443 next.

I wish there was some tool I could use to just figure it out. I have to test a few more things, maybe I can limit the third party VPNs to UDP only and see if they stop working

[wispy mesa]

Only if you wanna bug hunt

[wispy mesa]

Use port checker websites

They can provide half the info

[brave field]

thanks again

[lament sage]

They still didn't fix the mobile version?

[exotic patrol]

In what way

[snow rover]

it does not happen

[soft hazel]

heist

[languid narwhal]

The whole app needs to be revamped

[cold elbow]

https://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-ends-wsa-3422754/?fbclid=IwAR0gAx17ptehV7XZ0dQku6BxCmNgVIBgVYls3piTyobFfx2jG26yu7if6kw

Probably half of windows 11 users upgraded for this exact feature and got screwed now

[brave field]

eeeyup

Just started to enjoy this thing two weeks ago

haven't felt this salty since Google Goggles got replaced with Lens

Having Sandbox, WSL, and WSA all on the same machine was awesome

I suppose I should go ahead and get familiar with consumer Hyper-V

[cold elbow]

These are already in windows 10

Probably more stable also

[charred otter]

I upgraded to just upgrade

I like the UI

[exotic patrol]

People actually used this?

[charred otter]

anyone know of the program thats causing this to be open? or a way to close it somehow

[snow rover]

i already told you how

open amd software, go to performance and disable performance overlay

[lost fossil]

isn't that the novideo overlay?

[snow rover]

no it's mad

[charred otter]

i genuinely didnt see this 😭

[exotic patrol]

What is this game

[charred otter]

?

[exotic patrol]

Oh

[charred otter]

still need to change but

[cold elbow]

Bad wallpaper

[wheat spruce]

Fr

[exotic patrol]

Why is messenger a shortcut on your pc

[lost fossil]

man

landing on the moon took 179 thousand 572 times less memory than an app used to call people racial and other derogatory slurs on the internet

[wicked ferry]

Reddit?

[lost fossil]

i stole the 4kb number from reddit

maybe it was 64kb, i don't know, but still, that would be far less memory for allat than what discord uses to let you insult people on the internet

[quartz kayak]

Does this mean i could technically go to the moon

[lost fossil]

you send me over the moon

[charred otter]

Because i use it?

[exotic patrol]

Why

[charred otter]

My friend

[exotic patrol]

Fair enough

But tell your friend to download discord and stop giving meta anything

[cold elbow]

Yeah give it to tencent instead

[charred otter]

She has discord too just didn't add her on it

[cold elbow]

She

[charred otter]

shut up melly'

[cold elbow]

Oki 😩

[quartz kayak]

[arctic yarrow]

Anyone have a recommendation for a dashcam?

[exotic patrol]

What does this even do
https://youtube.com/shorts/FPa5TX0xAcs

Looks like a troll

[cold elbow]

Xiaomi dashcams i heard are pretty good

They are called 70mai or something

[quartz kayak]

Really? Xiaomi? 😭

Do they come with ads? 💀

[lost fossil]

xiaomi is gud

[quartz kayak]

Nuh uh

My uncle bought a xiaomi phone

Let me tell you that things horrible

Even after turning off the ads, most built in apps have ads

Even the installer has ads 😢

I was giving him a cracked version of an app he wanted and that thing started playing an ad above the installation bar 😫

Idk about dashcams tho, maybe they are good, if me lon says so

[lost fossil]

install a custom rom

[paper condor]

Melly always right

[exotic patrol]

You know there's one thing you could do that will fix all of that right

Just use the ad guard dns

If it becomes so bad that they cache in the ads then its custom rom time

[quartz kayak]

no the ads are also from system not from an online provider

blockada does nothing,

the only real option would be romming

[charred otter]

so my download on PC is like really really bad, mostly due to not using ethernet. whilst ethernet is an option technically id like to avoid it as its going to be a huge pain to get throught the house. is there anything i can get that will improve my overall internet to my PC without ethernet or shouild i just cave in and order an ethernet cable?

[lost fossil]

is it possible for u to bring your pc to the router or at least run a "demo" cable through the house to verify that it's actually because you're not using a wired connection

[charred otter]

not really

i mean ig its kinda possible but not without huge headache of figuring out where to put it etc

[lost fossil]

no i mean just put the cable whereever just to connect your pc with it for 5 minutes

not putting it anywhere

[charred otter]

i dont even own an ethernet cable

[lost fossil]

ah

u could get a powerline adapter (or two)

though i personally don't like the idea

[charred otter]

hmmm

so there isnt like a better dongle i could get?

[lost fossil]

it would cost a lot, probably even a lot more than a pair of powerline adapters

[charred otter]

so it might be easier to cave in and get an ethernet

[lost fossil]

yes

definitely a lot cheaper

[cold elbow]

wifi users are living L

[charred otter]

shut up melly 😭

im a console user at heart, i never deal with this

but the fact a 600mb file takes 45 minutes to put on google drive is just insane

or like a 200mb update takes more than 30 seconds 😭

[cold elbow]

LLLLL

[charred otter]

ok i'll cave in and get an ethernet

but i gotta figure out how im gonna get it to my router

[cold elbow]

maybe move the router

[charred otter]

that would be uh

challenging

because of the way it is, its attached to the wall with wires

but perhaps i could work something out

[cold elbow]

do u have like pipes inside your walls for cables?

[charred otter]

probably not]

[cold elbow]

maybe you can fishwire a cable

[lost fossil]

i have all my cables hidden in the baseboard if that's what it's called

tidy and ez

[quartz kayak]

Ethernet on mobile?

[brave field]

ughh that reminds me, have to re-run my cabling because I don't get gigabit anymore

[quartz kayak]

Isnt gigabit on the us like 1k a month

Someone told me that somewhere

[brave field]

I got forcefully forced into fiber, so I get some 700mbps both ways for the price of DSL, but my entire lan is getting cut to a max of 100mbps with this dying cable

[cold elbow]

we pay like 150

[quartz kayak]

Did you have a limit before?

[quartz kayak]

Still alot but more reasonable

[arctic yarrow]

Thanks. My dad needs one for the truck he just got.

[brave field]

My limit was 1 gigabit, my router and devices don't have 2.5G yet. Though, I'd love to move to all cat6 cables to be ready for it

[arctic yarrow]

Given the fact he's hauling large telehandlers and scissor lifts with his truck, a dash cam is kinda needed.

[quartz kayak]

Meow

[charred otter]

ok so here is another question

how are the dongles supposed to be angled?

for wifi on my pc

until i get an ethernet

[lost fossil]

like his eyes:

[charred otter]

um

[lost fossil]

do u mean wifi antennas or

[charred otter]

Yes

I fucked with em and now i made my speed even slower 😭

@lost fossil how are they supposed to be lol, im assuming not like my picture

[lost fossil]

like that is probably fine

[exotic patrol]

Just get one

Don't worry about your antenna setup

It'll do until the cable arrives

[charred otter]

i still have to figure how im gonna get it to the router

and to make it

hiddden

id rather not have a cable go through the house

[exotic patrol]

Well that part is just way too easy

First of all you bring a hammer and smash that wall right up

Do that until you reach the router while routing the cable inside of those nice walls

Then unsmash the walls

[charred otter]

[exotic patrol]

Jokes aside it shouldn't be too hard

Unless your router is like upstairs or something

[charred otter]

its not

but its very far

and the overall layout is sketchy

[exotic patrol]

How long of a cable are you getting

[charred otter]

was gonna get 50ft just to be safe

[exotic patrol]

Isn't that a bit much

[charred otter]

50 feet

it is

but i dont know what i need

[exotic patrol]

I'm sure the distance isn't that far

What room is the router in

[charred otter]

living room

[exotic patrol]

How big is the house

[charred otter]

front of the house

im in the back right corner

its some distance away

maybe 20 feet?

[charred otter]

ok so another question, is a wifi extender/extra router worth it? i asked my mom about getting an ethernet cord and she seems to think its too much when i know it isnt. but she brought up the idea of getting an extender/extra router to put in my room for better signal. would this help?

[polar moon]

Why buy an ethernet cable when you could make one? But a router in your room is not bad as well. My dad hardwired my room to his switch, and got me a personal access point. Went from 30ish mbps on good days to 900mbps at very minimum.

[lost fossil]

good dad

there should always be at least one ethernet cable going to every room

[charred otter]

what are your thoughts oleg

i get ethernet or router

[lost fossil]

i'm not a fan of any of these gadgets tbh

if it was up to me i'd run an ethernet cable

[charred otter]

but would it theoretically work?

[lost fossil]

a cable will always work

[charred otter]

it

so theoretically a wifi router in my room with an ethernet connected to my PC would work

[lost fossil]

yes

i got one of these mesh systems and i put one of the cubes in my room

i also have a cable going from the "router" to my room so it's all wired

[cold elbow]

No. It will make things worse

And i told u before about powerlink but you never listen to me 😩

[exotic patrol]

I don't recommend it much

Also what's the point of getting a wifi extender that connects to the router when the extender itself is very far from the router

Unless you connect the extender with an ethernet connection and use another ethernet cable for your PC then you will have way better speeds on all devices

[junior flax]

ye extenders kinda don’t make sense unless connected by ethernet

[charred otter]

find the message you told me this tf

[cold elbow]

Now u have

[charred otter]

but saying you never listen to me when you never said it prior is rude!

[cold elbow]

shut up skizz

[charred otter]

[supple wharf]

For the more knowledgeable PC builders out there, how does this look?
Yeah yeah pre-built I get it
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/legion-tower-7i-gen-8-(intel)/90v7003bus

[arctic yarrow]

I'd throw in more storage, but other than that it's gtg.

Not a terrible price too

[supple wharf]

Yeah that can be rectified

[supple wharf]

If I can get it before the discount goes away

[cold elbow]

That's like

Top tier specs

Why u buy it pre built

[quartz kayak]

Ew a prebuild

Also looks just like their 3060 prebuilds man tf

Atleast if ur wasting money 9n a prebuild buy a different one

[arctic yarrow]

I'll be honest, I just look at the specs, nothing more.

I personally don't care how a chassis looks, as long as it's functional.

[snow rover]

honestly seems decent

Lenovo use all standard atx parts which is nice

the motherboard probably sucks

[arctic yarrow]

I use a phanteks enthoo pro for my current build.

[snow rover]

the bios certainly sucks

[arctic yarrow]

That's my chassis

[quartz kayak]

https://danscustombuiltgamingbeasts.com/products/asus-rog-strix-hyperion-eva-02-i9-14900k-5-9-ghz-64gb-4tb-rtx-4090-windows-11

Triple or nothing

[arctic yarrow]

I personally don't see a reason to pretty up my computer, when what's important is the eyecandy on the screen.

[quartz kayak]

Borty

Tell me about you

What do you like

[arctic yarrow]

Performance at an affordable price.

That's what I like.

[quartz kayak]

Nononono

What do you like

As a hobby

[arctic yarrow]

I have a few different hobbies.

[quartz kayak]

Outside of pcs

Tell me

[arctic yarrow]

Guns

[quartz kayak]

America

[arctic yarrow]

Cars a little bit.

Networking

Some DIY with wood.

[arctic yarrow]

Too much useless shit on there. tbh.

[quartz kayak]

Excuse me