tech-coding-math

[kindred temple]

But thats just a basic scammer?

[brave field]

Doesn't look like scalping, just bad people

[jovial tide]

i bought my 50 dollar 3080 off of ebay and it was full of rocks wtf how is this possible!

[kindred temple]

there are like hundreds of 3070 and 3080 being rma'd

Because of bad vram errors.

[jovial tide]

vram go brrrrrrrr

[kindred temple]

Or easily: just buy boxes from prebuilt retailer and then fill it like that.

[eager tapir]

Idk dude, sucks that you now are at rock bottom

[jovial tide]

[arctic yarrow]

The issue is the same people who are scalping cards are also pulling this shit.

[fallow forge]

my pc still refuses to update

[eager tapir]

Force update it

Reinstall windows

Idk

[silent mason]

I just reinstalled Windows myself.

[strong saffron]

is there a way to check which Network adaptor an app is using? (Windows)

[elfin tangle]

Who can say me how to fix it if i go in my moc that there is don't a black screen

[stone harbor]

read channel description

[elfin tangle]

In which channel i can do it?

[stone harbor]

again

read channel description

[elfin tangle]

Tech and coding

[jovial tide]

guys im hakcing

[fervent granite]

@fervent graniteDoes macOS have the ~ directory and do you know what its supposed to be?
@brave field it is supposed to be the home directory yeah

[brave field]

hmm

[fervent granite]

There’s no directory physically named “~” though

[brave field]

then I believe the OMV headless install script I used just wipes the home directory and leaves nothing left but its .deb file

I don't see why they'd go through the effort of making separate ones for headless and a setup with a de

Does the home directory existing somehow use more system resources even if nothing ever runs in them?

[fervent granite]

Well here are some of the processes running for me right now, we can obviously ignore stuff like adobe or onedrive processes

most user processes use similar amounts of resources so I don't think it simply existing would make any noticeable difference

[brave field]

huh

makes no sense to me why they'd nuke a home directory that consists of empty folders

[silent mason]

I finally have my Windows 10 Pro on my new rig on the 500GB Samsung SSD

[formal frost]

Can anyone give me tips on trading stocks just started today

[formal frost]

I heard that crypto costs a lot though

[kindred temple]

https://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/joao-silva/intel-reportedly-wants-motherboard-manufacturers-to-adopt-the-atx12vo-standard-in-time-for-alder-lake-s-launch/

[fervent granite]

Flex

[brave field]

It would be cool if Intel really cared about efficiency, but we all know the truth here

They know 12th gen will use twice as much power as 11th gen and want to do something to lessen criticism for it

[silent mason]

I fucking hate cable management

[silent mason]

This side of the RGB fans is usually covered by the dust filter and case, and will be done that way going forward, but how nice does it look.

[light sinew]

either those fans are really small, or your case is tall af lol

[silent mason]

they're 120mm fans, 4 of them

but the Enthoo 719 isn't the smallest of cases 😂

[light sinew]

holy shit

xD

[silent mason]

does 57cm count as "tall af"?

because that's how tall the Enthoo 719 is

[kindred temple]

Considering thats my height when i was born, yes

[silent mason]

So you were the same height as my case when you were born kek

[nocturne berry]

sounds about average for a case i think

[silent mason]

It's a full tower case, not mid tower

[zealous pasture]

try dism

[lost fossil]

wow

[lost fossil]

nice unifans got some too

[fallow forge]

Already did that

[zealous pasture]

whats the error code

[fallow forge]

None

[zealous pasture]

hmm

wait

goto registry

or services.msc

[fallow forge]

Just showed me 3 progress bars at 100%

[zealous pasture]

and search for windows update

something named wuauserv

[fallow forge]

Not at my pc

[zealous pasture]

oh ok

[fallow forge]

Ill do that when i get home

[lilac heath]

Whats that

[zealous pasture]

just services

[fallow forge]

For now its not forcing the update, i can choose if i want to update and shut down or just shut down

[zealous pasture]

this for reference

if its stopped, start it

if its not present, you might need the registry keys

[lilac heath]

Windows update error

[zealous pasture]

happened with me too

it was a headache

@fallow forgetry running scanreg.exe too

also does your pc take longer to boot than before

if all else fails, download Restoro repair pc tool

[slender trellis]

For some reason, Nucleuscoop (Split screen mod) fucks up the default User Shell Folders that stored on registry.

[silent mason]

Three 140mm at the top, one 140mm at the back, four 120mm at the front. Will be adding one 140mm at the bottom too.

[lost fossil]

that's a lot of money to spend on fans

[silent mason]

It's got a 5900X, RTX 3070, 64GB RAM, Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi motherboard, etc

[lost fossil]

imagine using wifi

[silent mason]

Won't always have access to ethernet so just means I can still get online.

[fallow forge]

dont have that

[fallow forge]

oh wait i have this, its running

[fallow forge]

every morning it starts updating, and at 100% it says we couldnt complete the updates and undoes that changes, then it boots in 10 seconds

[zealous pasture]

hmm

very weird

try restoro pc repair tool

or

scanreg.exe

[fallow forge]

do i have to download scanreg?

nvm im running restoro now

@zealous pasture ofcourse its a paid version that can fix it

smh

is it worth the 34 bucks for a year?

[brave field]

don't pay money

[fallow forge]

this thing found a whole bunch of shit and idk what to do with it

[brave field]

this thing looks suspicious, its GUI looks far too "clean" or user-oriented, designed

and the fact that it can't do anything without you paying makes it seem pretttty similar to all the spyware and adware disguised as system optimizer apps

Do you think those numbers match up also? ~100GB of cached things, recycle bin, update files?

[fallow forge]

i mean thats accurate

my recycle bin is at 90gb rn

[brave field]

ah

[fallow forge]

anything else i could do?

[brave field]

After the last time, did you set up your windows install so your programs and such were on a separate partition from the OS?

If so, reinstall, its quick and you don't have to redownload anything

[fallow forge]

no clue

probably not

[brave field]

ouch, sorry to hear

I'd probably reinstall Windows though, it just solves everything quickly

and I'd be sure to set up a reinstall-proof setup this time around

[fallow forge]

i fucking hate that windows update is so garbage you have to reinstall to fix every problem

you said something about disabling windows update, how do i do that

[brave field]

Head to your network options

The UWP one, not the 7 one, weirdly enough

then change connection properties

and turn on metered connection

[fallow forge]

no clue what either of those is

[brave field]

should be here, accessible by right clicking the tray icon with an ethernet or wifi symbol in it on your taskbar

[fallow forge]

i dont get the option to change the properties

[brave field]

agh, they must've moved it again

I'm using an older version, let me see if I can find a guide that lists where it is now

https://pureinfotech.com/windows-10-set-wifi-ethernet-metered-connections/

[fallow forge]

its going down though

okay metered connection is on

[brave field]

you don't need to set anything else now, Windows update assumes you have a data cap set somewhere and won't download new updates

[fallow forge]

okay

hope that works

guess ill find out tomorrow morning

[zealous pasture]

hmm

[formal frost]

I’m thinking on a nzxt h500 or nzxt h510 elite which one should I get

[brave field]

normal h510

h500 is not in production and costs more, h510 elite is just an h510 with a fan controller and an RGB strip

elite might be worth it if its within $5, but certainly not if the price difference is anything more than that

[jovial tide]

both shitty cases

look into the p360a

for a similar price

p400a p500a 4000d airflow etc

[brave field]

wouldn't go that far

The h5xx series sucks if you're running overclocked 11th gen Intel + a 3070 or higher but for something more average its temps aren't anywhere close to being problematic, and they make cable management extremely easy

[jovial tide]

id just get a better airflow case for a similar price

ive heard great things about p360a

for 70 bucks

mesh front 2 rgb fans with rgb strip etc

[brave field]

Those Eclipse P cases are nice, yeah

The NR600 is one to consider as well, it attempts to keep something similar to the h5x0's minimalism but replaces the front with mesh

[jovial tide]

yeah

id just avoid nzxt though

[kindred temple]

P300A mesh is 40$-50$ 99% of the time and 60$ at street price

Its literally my new go to now

Because focus G legit looks and builds like my old PC case but with fractal logo :linuth:

[cold elbow]

Hacked again

[jovial tide]

good case when its on sale

but 60 bucks is a yikes with only one fan

[fervent granite]

legit?

[brave field]

@cold elbowif its okay to ask, you use password manager? 2fac?

[cold elbow]

No

Spotify has that?

[brave field]

I dunno, I don't use it, but a password manager would work on it

but I was thinking, is it possible you have something locally getting your info?

There are people with basic 1 word passes that don't get their accounts broken into

[cold elbow]

Idk a lot of my accounts keeps getting hacked

[fervent granite]

that's actually a really serious issue

[jovial tide]

ive never been hacked

[brave field]

Anything like one of those bootleg Ring doorbells?

[cold elbow]

Nah

It's probably because i use the same password everywhere

Well almost everywhere

[silent mason]

screams at top of lungs FRACTAL DESIGN!

[cold elbow]

So they keep trying because probably some app accounts got leaked

[brave field]

multiple times though...

[fervent granite]

yeah that's something you should never do

I used to be that way but recently I've started to move over to the bitwarden passwd manager

[silent mason]

Yeah I've moved over to Firefox Lockwise

[brave field]

I've been wanting to move to a password manager but they're so hard to trust

[cold elbow]

Some people suggest that i can host my own password manager on a server

[fervent granite]

I trust bitwarden although I would've loved to use icloud keychain, too bad it isn't supported on firefox or anything else that isn't apple for that matter

[brave field]

There is no "oops, forgot my master password" or "my config files got corrupted, can I have passwords back?" and now instead of having to guess multiple passwords, someone only needs your master to get in

[kindred temple]

Lastpass

[brave field]

selfhosted bitwarden at least fixes that third one if you don't make the port available to the outside world

[kindred temple]

Now bitwarden is dad

I should self host them when i get my 3rd pc

[cold elbow]

Google Chrome always been my kinda password manager

It saves them

[kindred temple]

Browser password manager is bad imo

[fervent granite]

I've never trusted browsers to store passwords, I always enter them in myself

[brave field]

you need 2fac on your google account then, and people are able to get your passwords easily if they have physical access to your device

[fervent granite]

they can also get your password from a compromised website that you might've used, this is why that one-password thing is dangerous

[brave field]

github

one file, few dependencies (forgot sqlite is used here to get them), all your passwords are gone

[fervent granite]

a few years ago while I was cleaning out my sister's laptop I could see all the stored passwords in chrome

they didn't even bother censoring them out with asterisks, it was as simple as going into settings

[brave field]

multiple is still strange though

Are you being targeted? Was your new password just as predictable?

[cold elbow]

Yeah that already setup

Google told me that some of my accounts got compromised

[fervent granite]

you really should do a security audit and go through each account

[cold elbow]

Yeah

[brave field]

^and delete old accounts you'll never use again

read their privacy policy and if you're able to, ask them to delete everything about you too

[cold elbow]

Thing is

Do u know flipnote or something

[fervent granite]

the dsi application...?

[cold elbow]

An app that used to be popular

Lemme see

Evernote*

[fervent granite]

I've heard of that yeah

[cold elbow]

I had an account there but nothing really there

One got an email that someone logged it so i logged out and changed password

Few days later they logged in again

Deleted the account

[brave field]

evernote is terrible

employees had access to accounts and passwords were in plaintext iirc

lots of people's accounts were signed into, notes were looked at, data was leaked

maybe your stuff was leaked then, 2019-2020?

[fervent granite]

malware possibly?

[cold elbow]

Nah my systems are clean

And i changed password by the phone

[fervent granite]

something about coming across wild malware is both interesting and fucking scary man

I came across another fake jailbreak tool that was actually a trojan, thankfully it was already investigated but it's interesting that it's available for macos and windows

https://securelist.com/shlayer-for-macos/95724/

Nevertheless I'll archive

[silent mason]

I'm pissed off with these Unifans right now

[brave field]

Shlayer, interesting

wonder why they moved to python from bash with their older variants

[fervent granite]

[brave field]

nicely crafted fake pages prompting to install the malware under the veil of a Flash Player update

ah yes, classic

[fervent granite]

they get pretty crafty though, the one I got was from a fake unc0ver website tool

[brave field]

Fake Flash updates: Destroying PCs since 1997

fake unc0ver?

Was it just tossed in with the real thing, or did you not even get unc0ver with it?

[fervent granite]

nah it's just flat out fake

the actual tool is an ipa that would be sideload, they disguised it as a pretty gui that you run on your pc with your phone connected (does absolutely nothing to boot)

[brave field]

Ah, I was thinking of checkra1n

that seems high-effort

just grab a basic installer template, toss the malware in there with an outdated version of the real thing, and you're good. Wouldn't target something that gets distributed as a .ipa file and write a whole GUI

[fervent granite]

especially since it wouldn't be able to do much without actually using the exploits

pretty new too: this gem popped up in my video feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o0r9YYPSN8

[brave field]

oh ewww

I'll never understand these type videos

ones where the person making it isn't the malware author but they waste time staging a fake tutorial of them using fake software

How do you even find people to make videos for you like this? Offer money in their email?

[fervent granite]

Was about to say... people would need incentive to do this

My other guess would be that they are the author but he's just using different accounts

[brave field]

that's possible

but then I have to wonder for people who spread things like WannaCry or Seguarzo or things like that

would the authors risk using a google account, knowing one of the largest tracking companies owns the video sharing platform?

I can really only imagine them emailing this person and pretending to be legitimate and requesting a tutorial video

or malware authors are very good at changing their voices/webcams for the few videos where they show that

[fervent granite]

then again this is youtube after all, I'd imagine shit like that just goes unnoticed

I'm sure they have some sort of protection against that, especially when releasing a potentially widespread virus like wannacry

[brave field]

You have any idea why bash is so popular for *nix-like/based systems but Windows shell scripting always gets ignored? Why is there never .bat or .ps1 stuff floating around?

[brave field]

hm

guess its just weird

feels like built-in python would make distributing and executing malware EXTREMELY easy on other OSes compared to learning and using just bash

of course the human factor is important, and the main reason why you can't just give people adware.py and have them run it

but Windows stuff is always c/c++ weirdly, no shell scripts, understandably no python/java/dotnet stuff that requires a download

[fervent granite]

probably because you'd have more flexibility with c rather than shell scripts for windows

[brave field]

@fathom parcelnot able to use my microphone at the moment

[frigid echo]

Whats going on?

[brave field]

I'm in a VC typing here, sorry about this. Should've gone to a DM, it just felt it would make more sense here with more people being able to help.

Breadboard it if you can, just an entire rebuild outside of the case, one last time

@fathom parcelGo with the shop if it doesn't cost money for them to take a quick look at it. Haven't had something like that before, sorry didn't get fixed.

[silent mason]

I scratched my case 😦

[brave field]

The tall EATX Full tower from the other day 😦 ?

[silent mason]

yep

Thankfully it's just the paint on the outside that's scratched, so could probably fix it with a coat of paint

[silent mason]

And the unifan control box is broken.

[silent mason]

Fixed it. Whew.

[silent mason]

The tall case no longer has built in rgb... snapped the strip by accident while cable managing the strimer cables.

[brave field]

unfortunate

[sinful mural]

Dead channel

What do you think the GPU performance is closest to @brave field

Since its all from ryzen

I'm thinking RX 5700

maybe some optimization tweaks

[brave field]

Weaker than a 2060 in realtime RT, probably around the 2070 to 5700 area in raster

[sinful mural]

And some of leftover 8 core CPUs

[brave field]

also the CPUs are strange

they look like a 4800h which we discussed before

but the way the OSes are means they're even less so

The OS completely reserves 1-2 cores

[mossy grove]

Right fools I’m here 😂

And yes @brave field your right about that lol

[brave field]

not shares like on a PC, but fully reserves. Games can't even access it

[mossy grove]

True that lol I have seen

[sinful mural]

So basically@brave field

Looks like a 4800h

Performs like a 4600h

All because they wanted to do all these fancy game switch techniques with the OS

I mean I guess it's fine since that way the OS won't affect performance on the rest of the system but it just seems unnecessary

[mossy grove]

Also did you guys know that GTA dose work on phone as in easer phone however you would have to run a VM so you can run windows however because a razor phone dose have a good processor it dose happen to be able to run the game around a stunning 55 FPS with the classic low refresh rate allowing it to run 55 but look like 60 in the human eye so that’s not bad however if we’re talking battery 🔋 it dose not last long and I would only recommend this if you have plans for a power support

[sinful mural]

I'd rather a good clean non CPU intensive UI and more CPU performance than a wierd advanced ui with all these features I'll never use

[brave field]

add in that Microsoft was encouraging developers to aim for singlecore performance because of how clocks/power is set

its bizarre, yeah, but having the option to turn it off would be bad

[sinful mural]

If it does I'm not surprised

[mossy grove]

The good news is the one plus charger happens to be around 30 what’s to 20 what’s because of the good friend USB type C so it’s a faster charge depending on the device your running

[sinful mural]

Mobile processors are pretty powerful nowadays

And GTA 5 runs on a toaster

Well not really

But 720p 60 seems achievable

Maybe slightly less than 720p

[mossy grove]

I would of course still recommend having s power block or a power case that stores extra power so the psu dose not time itself out after a limited amount of time yes razor phones are using pc CPUs however still running Android APU and because of that you would have to run a VM on top and that can burn extra power lol

[sinful mural]

lowest settings 720p

[brave field]

I have a few doubts

[sinful mural]

I've been saying GTA can run on mobile processors for a couple years now

[brave field]

VMs on Android is in a terrible state

[sinful mural]

IDK why they haven't made a port

[sinful mural]

I haven't used one in years so I wouldn't know lmao

[mossy grove]

@brave field same here because if the CPU or any one of those fans quit the phone would quit because a phone is not meant for gaming however the hardware itself is

@brave field yes they are sadly a bad state however if you have pc components in your phone there’s no reason why it won’t run however you have to think of processing power

Because that’s a load lol it’s gonna have to go somewhere

[brave field]

Also, x86 on ARM is pain, regardless of components right now

[mossy grove]

And on top of that the razor 🪒phone dose opt about 16 GB of ram and 4 that can be switched to storage

@brave field haha true that 😂😂😂

[sinful mural]

Is there any videos of it running on Android?

[mossy grove]

It works however it’s a pain and it has low low gameplay and nope @sinful mural not that I have found lol

It of course would have to be tweaked to run tho

[brave field]

If you really do have proof of GTAV on Android I'm interested in the software they're using to emulate essential parts of Windows

[sinful mural]

Same

[mossy grove]

Yes because that would be a very high amount of software because most of windows base operation dose need physical hardware

[brave field]

I can't even find a good VM manager fkr Android on Android yet

VMOS is it, and its extremely shady

[sinful mural]

Windows on the new m1 iPad tho

I'm very curious

[brave field]

Rosetta is dead

Is it Windows on ARM?

How would they have Windows on the iPad without it?

[sinful mural]

Didn't they get a fully working copy of windows 8 on IOS? @brave field

[brave field]

[sinful mural]

My bad it was Windows XP @brave field

I'm a dumbass

Can GTA even run on XP?

[brave field]

with tweaks, possibly

definitely not out of the box

XP is stuck with Directx9

[fervent granite]

@sinful mural I know for a fact they ported windows xp to iOS

You get like 5 fps but it works-ish

[sinful mural]

Wonder if it'll change with the m1 iPad

[fervent granite]

It’s pretty old though, I’m sure it runs much better now

[brave field]

How did they get that to work?

A direct port, since chunks of XP's source were released?

some translation/emulation/virtualization stuff?

[fervent granite]

Well I guess ported was the wrong word, they basically modified an xp image and made a virtual machine app

ibox it was called

I think they made a better vm app but I forgot what it was called

[sinful mural]

The frustrating thing is finding people that actually gave enough of a shit to even attempt it

It seems like windows XP runs relatively fine

Unfortunately it seems like Ram usage will be limited to only around 30%

[brave field]

interesting

[sinful mural]

M1 iPad pro has 16 gigs of ram

So

Can GTA run on 4 gigs of ram

Probably not very well

[fervent granite]

Couldn’t you artificially limit it to only 4 gb?

[sinful mural]

Oh nevermind

[brave field]

It probably could run

[sinful mural]

The minimum requirements says 4gb

So

Probably could

[fervent granite]

If only rockstar could make gta ports

[brave field]

Assuming you're running singleplayer, 4gb would be semi-okay on lowest settings

[sinful mural]

Lowest settings 720-900p wouldn't look that bad on an 11 inch screen

[fervent granite]

I actually think it could pull it off

[brave field]

The Xbox One does it with a total of 5gb split between system ram and vram

[fervent granite]

Gta 5 on my MacBook runs at a smooth 60 on normal settings

And this is on integrated graphics

[sinful mural]

I'm thinking realistically 30fps

[brave field]

The M1 is certainly capable hardware-wise

[sinful mural]

Maybe 60

[fervent granite]

I doubt apple would add Rosetta 2 to the iPad though

[brave field]

overkill, even. We'd see the same singlecore flaw every other platform has before any part of the M1 would be a limiting factor

Rosetta 2, what state is it in?

First it was going to be put on everything, then its macOS only, then its cancelled/removed, now its region-locked?

[sinful mural]

https://youtu.be/Bvm_oRl08ic

Assuming the performance hit isn't too hard with the VM using m1

And allocating 4gb of memory

Probably could do 720p lowest

Either 30-40fps or more

Probably not more

Probably just 30-40fps

[fervent granite]

I guess available everywhere unless copyright laws say otherwise

[brave field]

ah

speaking of copyright laws

Why is Rosetta 2 a copyright issue at all?

[sinful mural]

Somebody got windows xp to work with half life

So that's something I guess

All we need now is for somebody to install 3d mark on Windows XP on their iPad pro @brave field

[brave field]

hm yes

I wish we could push for native *nix ports of games

[fervent granite]

@brave field 9to5mac said it could be because translation software might use proprietary x86 code

[brave field]

ah

[fervent granite]

…Intel threatened Microsoft by claiming that the x86 architecture has proprietary technologies and could not be emulated on other processors without permission.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/02/apple-may-disable-rosetta-2-on-m1-macs-in-some-regions-macos-11-3-code-suggests/

[brave field]

Intel threatened Microsoft... wonder how that would go with Apple

[fervent granite]

I guess apple is playing the safe game but I’m sure apple could counter it if they wanted to

[brave field]

On one hand, Apple pretty much called Intel out and now Intel is advertising against them frop dropping their CPUs. On the other hand, Apple's mobile devices exclusively use Intel network adapters. But this is just in the realm of selling products, not really licensing or anything software, nor their actual business relationship

@fervent graniteWhat are your thoughts on something like a "jailbroken" ipad pro?

we don't really have much info on how things would be with the M1 ones but

[mossy grove]

I am back I just flopped kids ok league of legends

I’m really thinking about playing comp for this lol

[brave field]

I can see some Debian-based Linux distros being awesome on it if they could get the GPU in the M1 to work with it

[mossy grove]

Honestly shits insane lol

[fervent granite]

I mean it would certainly be a killer tablet

The thing that really holds it back is iOS

Tweak devs can do some amazing stuff but at the end of the day it’s limited by the os

[jovial tide]

if it is possible could i put two 3090s in my pc?

[brave field]

You could, its possible

[jovial tide]

so i didnt buy the second one for nothing...

[brave field]

If you're thinking of using two to get better performance in something like a game, its pointless

but for 3D rendering in something like Blender or Maya its very, very useful

[jovial tide]

no i just wanna tell people i have two 3090s

[brave field]

It would be so, so nice

M1 ipad with a stronger frame running Manjaro

no Apple software, no slimy Windows if you don't care about games

[fervent granite]

well apple software is partly what gives apple product's their "magic"

[brave field]

I suppose

[fervent granite]

yeah even the newer ios vm platform which is utm wouldn't take advantage of the m1's power

it requires a jailbreak for ios 14 and it doesn't support gpu virtualisation

[brave field]

people find ways to run the Linux kernel on anything

native would be best

[fervent granite]

given that the bootloader hasn't been cracked since the iphone 2g days I don't see it happening in the future for running native linux

[brave field]

ios is just... painful, sorta

I get the tradeoff between simplicity and power but its just too much

Sucks enough that windows disincentives people from learning by hiding pretty much everything as an "advanced" option or putting in "ease of use" features that are hard to disable and annoy power users

but ios is designed in a way where you don't even have a choice to mess with things if you wanted

Seeing macOS and iOS as products from the same company is just shocking

[fervent granite]

but the advantage is that they "just work" because they're made for the hardware that runs it

I guess it's just that they're made for the general audience, I mean try sitting your average user in front of an arch install screen and see how far they get

I can at least give macos props for giving you the option to enable su and disable sip, but ios can be both a blessing and a curse sometimes

[brave field]

something that's approachable, doesn't get in the user's way, doesn't make it hard to transition from an average user to a power user, but still is somehow hard to mess up would be ideal, but sadly is probably impossible

agh, deleted the dumb rant and I can't type out my thoughts either

[fervent granite]

read it anyway :P

[brave field]

Some middle ground with both OSes and software would be so nice

I mean

[fervent granite]

I guess when they're making their os's they assume that the user won't know any "advanced" features

they could learn sure, but the reality I think is that most users just don't care to

[brave field]

I agree with that

[fervent granite]

in basically every pc os there's nothing stopping anyone from opening the command line, it's just unless they have a reason to they won't bother to

[brave field]

but not hiding a useful option deep within 3 menus would at least not disincentive people from attempting to learn as much, and then having that skill is better than being completely helpless

I think I have a way to express it

simple things shouldn't be weak, they should be simple

These companies could have much more capable customers if "simple" was also powerful and safe

[fervent granite]

so what you're saying is, they should bring order to complexity?

[brave field]

capable customers is the opposite of what most companies want, but it would be nice to have

urh, maybe, yeah

[fervent granite]

straight from jony ive

[brave field]

You're going to have something not work regardless of what device you try to use

but whether you choose to have a company fix it for you or you choose to fix it manually, you shouldn't ever be forced into one option, and you shouldn't have to fight against the software you use just to fix the issue

[fervent granite]

now that makes sense

I do agree but at the same time, there's always going to be something blocking you just because the company needs to make money

One of the biggest imo is proprietary hardware/software, there's no getting around it it's just the way it is

for example, although android gives you lots of freedom you can't really do much if your device's bootloader is locked, and that's just because it was designed that way

[brave field]

Yes and that's trash and I hate it

But nothing can be done. Its extremely profitable

And people are very quick to let go of their money

And even if you do work towards not being helpless, you still have to deal with not having control over your device 90% of the time

Google, Apple, and Microsoft all keep their backdoors to abuse for whenever they think it would make sense

There are benefits, but there are drawbacks too, and I wish we could have the former without the latter

[fervent granite]

it's kind of alarming that faang (faamg?) basically power the internet

but yeah at some point you just have to cut your losses

[silent mason]

Anyone know how to replace the light strip in the Phanteks Enthoo 719?

[brave field]

Does it look like a normal 3/4/5pin RGB strip, or are they being "fancy"/anti-consumer and using a special connector or MOLEX/SATA/USB? @silent mason

[silent mason]

It uses a standard 3 pin ARGB connection.

But it goes from the inside of the case around to the top, and then round the front and then round the bottom.

[brave field]

hm

you have a way inside at all without risking denting or damaging something?

[silent mason]

Does that showcase the RGB of the case properly?

[brave field]

you able to tell if there are normal strips inside the casing there?

a standard strip behind that sort of translucent plastic

[silent mason]

Yeah it looked like a normal strip inside the case. Dunno about outside.

[brave field]

ah

if you're able to find how they all connect together internally, it should be easy to grab an aftermarket strip and throw it in, its just that first part that would be difficult if its not built to be opened up

[silent mason]

Yeah, if I could find a teardown for the case that'd help but it's so hard to find.

Other option is waiting just under 3 years for the warranty on the components inside to expire and then buying a new case.

[robust dust]

Im not racist

[jovial tide]

ayo if anybody can like private vc and help me out with gta modding in story mode I downloaded all the openiv stuff and followed the tutorial but I think I messed up

crypto is crashing hard rn

wonder how low it will go and will miners panic sell gpus

panic sell gpus xd

all the newbies to crypto mining will probably do that if it falls low enough and the coin value goes low

we will see what happens though

idgaf about crypto itself i just want gpu availability to go up

[opaque sonnet]

finally built a pc but i got no dedicated gpu

probably worst year to build a pc

[zealous pasture]

Sadge

[opaque sonnet]

at this point im not even sure what gpu to get if the gpu crisis ever actually calms down

[jovial tide]

hey anyone know why mask vpn is installed on my pc lol i think its a virus cuz i havent and i dont see anywhere that windows pre installs it cuz like i dont wanna uninstall anything that can break my pc lol plz just ping or reply to this msg

[silent mason]

It's a trojan. Get rid of it.

[jovial tide]

lol what found it through my firewall and it dosent sow up in ad or remove programs lmao i guess i gtg into the drive and then deep clean it lol

[jovial tide]

done also had pnk buster installed thanks m8

[silent mason]

OK, so I just need to find someone who can solder some electronics together.

[jovial tide]

3060ti is a good bet

[pliant lynx]

me

[silent mason]

You're also very far away lol

[pliant lynx]

[silent mason]

Yeah, gotta get my case RGB resoldered

[silent mason]

Hmm, should I get this?

[jovial tide]

yes

[opaque sonnet]

rgb pc and rgb room

😎 getting rgb before gpu

priorities people

[lost fossil]

brother you need to wipe that piece of glass ✨ clean

[silent mason]

I did. It smeared everywhere.

Also that was a photo from a few days ago, when I first received the PC. So probably a couple of weeks old photo.

[stone harbor]

how do you even get the case dirty like that

[jovial tide]

touching it once

[stone harbor]

well just dont touch it

[silent mason]

Easier said than done when you've been making a lot of modifications to the system.

[brave field]

@night timber Do you know how I can send a list/dict using socket easily?

[night timber]

nope, didn't do socket programming before

[brave field]

I've read some SO posts about it but the best I have so far is to encode, convert it to a string, decode, and then put it inside eval() to turn it back into a list

ah

Something about having eval() in it worries me

[night timber]

eval doesn't worry me

exec does

I've seen some beginners commit unforgivable sins with exec, if you know what I mean

[brave field]

hm

[night timber]

how does that send lists/dicts? I don't get it exactly

[brave field]

From what I've understood while reading, I can't directly send the list through socket, and it acts weird when I try

[night timber]

and what does it have to do with the CSRF attacks I was talking about

[brave field]

aaa = str(aaa).encode()
s.send(aaa)

is on the client, and

aaa = aaa.decode()
aaa = eval(aaa)

is on the server

oh uh, nothing, was just wondering if you knew an alternative

I have't researched eval enough, is it easy for someone to just throw whatever malicious stuff they want in there?

[night timber]

ah, right, eval can have malicious input

that's why input sanitization is important

I don't exactly know how to explain it, so just take a look at this handy post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/661084/security-of-pythons-eval-on-untrusted-strings

that was 12 years ago, but I doubt eval changed much

[brave field]

You can get to os using builtin functions

so that SO answer essentially just said to open up SSH but with no auth, very nice of that user

I wanted to do things the quick and easy way but I guess I'll write a function for dealing with it

eval was just such a nice way. The string without the eval statement is literally the list but as text
something like "['1','2','3']". But if I try to have that convert to a list automatically, it makes a list out of every character

[night timber]

ye, taking any unsanitized input is very dangerous, I never encountered someone doing malicious stuff with eval before, but it can happen (that's why I am struggling to answer a bit)

I mean, if the user can't input stuff to eval, which means only you input stuff to it, I guess it's safe

[brave field]

There's no user input, but the way the server/client is set lets anything that knows the port number interfere

any other device on the LAN that can send a string to that port can use the eval

[night timber]

oh, how would it interfere exactly? can it send direct input to your socket?

[brave field]

yeah

This is REALLY primitive and basic, there's no sort of auth or checking if the devices match or anything of the sort right now

Its "Here's a port, listen to whatever ends up here and evaluate it"

the reason I'm struggling with it is because I need the receiving one to turn the string back into a list, but what the sender will send varies in length, I can't just get substrings easily without first modifying the list before its sent, and that would probably slow things down a bit

[night timber]

I mean, that's pretty unsafe, you should code a function to sanitize user input before you evaluate it then, since I never used sockets before I don't really know how to help any further, but the solution here is to completely dump eval and find a way to send the list as a list, I'll do some research and tell you about the solution

[brave field]

Thanks for the advice

I'll look further into it

[jovial tide]

is this over priced? ||if it had all the ports lol||

[cold elbow]

That's a very good question by a mac user.

[vapid grove]

Look up some $3500-$4000 Windows laptops and then answer your own question

[strong saffron]

@brave field Try: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval
Safer than eval and does what you want but it can still technically be used to crash the interpreter (warning inside)

>>> ast.literal_eval("['a', 2, 'b', 4, 6, 7]")
['a', 2, 'b', 4, 6, 7]```

[jovial tide]

If you absolutely need MacOS, then no

But a similarly priced Windows laptop will perform way better

That does have some good specs though

[jovial tide]

i always found windows shitty

although windows 7 was nice to work with

[jovial tide]

Then get the Mac

If you can afford it, that is

[cold elbow]

And that's an intel mac

[brave field]

If you don't like Windows but don't need MacOS apps, get a Windows laptop and use Linux

[jovial tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_c4sGDrPg&ab_channel=LinusTechTips yes mom i need a 10k pc for roblox and google meet

[fervent granite]

do you need a pro model?

[jovial tide]

airs are total shit

[fervent granite]

that m1 air is no joke

imo unless you know you need a pro model you shouldn't get it

they're not even selling the 2.3 ghz i7 13-inch model anymore

[jovial tide]

still

its the worst product to price

ipad pro better

[fervent granite]

I feel like most people who buys these know what they're looking for

[jovial tide]

yeah

[fervent granite]

ipad pro is a really good tablet but it's still a bit pricy

[jovial tide]

if im buying apple laptop its gonna be a pro model

[fervent granite]

I went with a 2014 15 inch model macbook pro

I would've gone for a newer model but I need the ports, it was a high-end model in good condition and because

[jovial tide]

i like 2015 13 inches

[ocean scroll]

I am codeign moment 101010101010101110101010010110110010101010!!!

[ocean scroll]

I mean rovlox has fps unlocker so why not

[zealous pasture]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEu2R1gYSs

[unique willow]

What pc should I buy I’m in a 2k budget

[brave field]

Do you have access to Microcenter?

[unique willow]

Yea

[brave field]

If you don't want to fight for your GPU, there's this system at Microcenter https://www.microcenter.com/product/630675/hp-omen-30l-gaming-computer?storeid=029. Note the mobo is custom and the cooling is trash

Should be $2050 or so. If you're fine with fighting to get the GPU, you'll save a bit of money

[unique willow]

Alr I’ll look in to it and maybe increase my budget thank you though

[brave field]

prices are just really bad right now

if things can improve within 8 months, you'll be saving at least $400 or so (also, a $2000 PC might be huge overkill for what you're trying to do)

[unique willow]

How would the graphics will be with a Xbox series x and a pc?

[brave field]

hm, there aren't too many games with the most direct comparisons but The Series X seems to run games in the range of Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 2060/Super

If there wasn't super high demand and production shortages right now, that would be somewhere in the $750-900 range depending on how much you spend for storage and dealhunting and such

Graphics comparisons between different systems isn't really easy or linear though, there are some things PCs can do easily that the Xbox struggles with and vice versa

[cold elbow]

@frosty vortex linus is calling for u

[fleet plover]

What is an API

[jovial tide]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ibuypower-trace-mr-gaming-desktop-intel-i7-11700kf-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-10gb-500gb-nvme-ssd-1tb-hdd/6455410.p?skuId=6455410 what about this though

[cold elbow]

Looks ok

Opened the Canadian site for me tho

[silent mason]

Urgh, so much data I'm having to transfer.

[lost fossil]

what in the crispy kentucky fried fuck did i just read?

the latest razer phone that came out is razer phone 2 and it came out in 2018 and it has a snapdragon 845

you must be doing some high quality crack if you're able to come up with such bullshit and then follow up by saying that there's crossplay in GTA between retail and fivem

mr 20k hours of playtime

[jovial tide]

r/copypasta

[silent mason]

Whatever it is, I want some of that crack. Must have got it from El Rubio.

[brave field]

I need my scrapyard to start accepting PCs from closing businesses again. I have some great homeserver ideas but the free PCs need GPU-accelerated video decode, how can I convince them so I can get some cheap systems again?

[night timber]

application programming interface

[silent mason]

Right, let's see if I can make Starship WiFi work

Which if it does, will be my old desktop running as a portable hotspot to make up for the dogshit WiFi in my room

And as for why it's called Starship WiFi... mum calls my room the Starship Enterprise because of all the tech I have in here, so it's a nod to that

[brave field]

interesting

you doing this bridge stuff with just one wireless adapter?

[silent mason]

Yep. It's just my room I want to buff the WiFi in

Rest of the house is already effectively served by a mesh WiFi network but my room refuses to cooperate with the mesh network.

[silent mason]

OK got it working now. The WiFi password is 50 characters long though to help protect it

[formal frost]

Getting a pc in July can’t wait😊

[pliant lynx]

dam

i am thinking of putting QR code for my WiFi system

[kindred temple]

I dont know why, but red dead redemption 2 crashes any time i run my audio through Sonarworks' software.

I can only use my onboard audio driver.

[rich remnant]

I've been trying to figure this out for a few hours now. Windows doesn't recognize my 2tb hard drive, but my bios does.

[strong saffron]

Can you see it in Disk Management? (Win + X > Disk Management)
If you do, you might have to reformat it. Is it new?

[night timber]

@rich remnant does AOMEI parition assistant detect it? when I reinstalled my OS from scratch disk management console wasn't able to detect it, but AOMEI was

It's probably a bug

[jovial tide]

why has apple just gotten worse
the new imac is just shitty to me
no sd card slot, no usb no hdmi
like specs its better but functionality? its worse
just like the 2016 macbook pro

[cold elbow]

Buy a dongle

[fervent granite]

Yeah they’ve been doing that for 5 years now it’s nothing new

[jovial tide]

the imac though of all things

[fervent granite]

Yeah… something we totally saw coming

[jovial tide]

why the fuck is everyone using hcaptcha now cuz its so annoying

[lost fossil]

hcaptcha has cool pics sometimes

[rustic cape]

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/computer-deals-electronics-on-sale/dell-g5-gaming-desktop/spd/g-series-5000-desktop/mktgd5000 quick question do you think this desktop is good or bad?

[brave field]

bad

1. Its Dell, and they like to do Dell things (making PCs impossible to upgrade or repair easily, intentionally slowing them down/breaking them, hidden fees, bloat)
2. The prices are terrible as well

I'd avoid them

[rustic cape]

There's another version that's like 1.6k I'll tell you the components in a sec

[brave field]

Also, the sub-$1000 ones don't have SSDs, so its almost entirely pointless to have modern parts

[rustic cape]

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-10700F processor(8-Core, 16M Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.8GHz)
laptop
Windows 10 Home English
videocard
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6
memory
16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2933Mhz
harddrive
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
fallbackcolor
500W Chassis with Bezel and Internal Lighting + Clear Door

that's the 1.6k version

[brave field]

Not worth it imo

[cold elbow]

Dont u ever think about that piece of junk ,,, it's just a fucking e waste

[brave field]

using a bot for the 3060 ti and buying it at a $100 markup and then getting equivalent parts will cost something around $1300

you'll be able to repair it, upgrade it, resell it

Its drives won't die a month after its warranty is up

you won't need to reinstall Windows as soon as you get it

and you won't be roped into their other nonsense

[cold elbow]

And it has thermal and build issues

[rustic cape]

I was never gonna get it anyway

[cold elbow]

Gamersnexus just made two videos about it

It's so garbage

[brave field]

gotta love that slightly extended mobo for the front IO

[cold elbow]

I hate the word DELL

Wish that company burn

[brave field]

Their PCs around 2008 weren't actually too bad

custom mobo, yeah, but everything else was usable

[cold elbow]

Their laptops are trash

My friend bought one and after a while it stopped charging

[rustic cape]

I'm gonna find a monitor with built in speakers real quick

[cold elbow]

Turned out the charger has a chip that handshake the laptop then starts charging

That one was messed up and u can only replace it by a charger from dell that costs 80$

@rustic cape u better off with bluetooth speaker

[zealous pasture]

tbh they arent that good

they do the job, but not good

[rustic cape]

I was only gonna use the built in speakers for youtube and netflix

[cold elbow]

Yes they are usually horrible

[brave field]

Most of them are pretty bad even for that

You'll get better quality using an app to stream the audio to your phone's speaker

[cold elbow]

I use lg bluetooth speaker and its amazing

Connected by AUX

[zealous pasture]

or get cheap wired speakers

for like 20 cad

[rustic cape]

https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/8rni Is this monitor good?

[brave field]

TN panel at $160, hmmm

[cold elbow]

Dellllll

No

[brave field]

1080p144IPS should be cheap enough now, I'd look elsewhere

[cold elbow]

Get at least a VA panel

Should be around 180$ ish

[rustic cape]

This might be a dumb question but do I need anything else so I can hear my games or do I just need my headset?

[cold elbow]

Only headset

[brave field]

a speaker or headphones of some sort, anything that outputs audio will do

[rustic cape]

Alright

Do you have any gaming monitor recommendations?

[cold elbow]

Yes, stay away from TN panels

Va is good and cheap

Ips looks amazing but more expensive

[rustic cape]

Is spectre a good monitor brand?

[cold elbow]

Most of them use Samsung or LG panels so the brand doesn't matter most of the time

Make sure it has a display port and the size u want

[rustic cape]

I'm gonna try to find a monitor that's below $200

[zealous pasture]

try asus or dell

[brave field]

The AOC C24G1 looks interesting

[cold elbow]

Yeah aoc makes good monitors

For good prices

[rustic cape]

the fuck a monitor for $499

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-XG32VC-FreeSync-DisplayPort-DisplayHDR/dp/B08GL5DPJH/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Asus+gaming+monito

[brave field]

1080p, 144hz, Freesync Premium, and a VA panel at $160. Semi-professional reviews look promising too

$500...

[rustic cape]

That's like the price of a low end gaming PC

[cold elbow]

Yes because of the amount of features it has

Most of them u don't need

Like 2k res

[brave field]

It just looks a little sad compared to what the S2716DG used to be

[cold elbow]

And gimmick features like curved

[zealous pasture]

dont necessarily go for rog lol

[brave field]

$150 more and you're mostly getting HDR and some software-side things explained solely by buzzwords in the description

[rustic cape]

Wait send me a link to a monitor you recommend and isn't above $200

[zealous pasture]

well im playing rn

[rustic cape]

What are you playing?

[zealous pasture]

forza horizon 4

[rustic cape]

Nice

[cold elbow]

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-VG240Y-Pbiip-FREESYNC-Technology/dp/B07VFPYRP3/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=24+144hz+monitor&qid=1621609116&sprefix=24+144&sr=8-13

https://www.amazon.com/LG-24GN650-B-Ultragear-FreeSync-Adjustable/dp/B08V85XBFZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=24+144hz+monitor&qid=1621609026&sprefix=24+144&sr=8-14

[rustic cape]

time to check these monitors out

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-FreeSync-Non-Glare-Optix-G241VC/dp/B07QR7KTG2/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=gaming+monitor+curved+24+inches&qid=16216095

What about this one?

[cold elbow]

I thought that u want 144hz

[rustic cape]

Well

I don't even know what monitor to get

I just want it to be below $200

[cold elbow]

The lg i just sent

And the acer

[rustic cape]

Yeah I saw it

But is the monitor I just sent good?

[cold elbow]

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Non-Glare-Super-Narrow-Bezel/dp/B08KCFVL1W/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=24+75hz+monitor+ips&qid=1621609802&sr=8-5

This one IPS

And has display port

[rustic cape]

Hmmm

I choose this one

[cold elbow]

By using display port u can enable G SYNC on it

And IPS gives u great colors

[rustic cape]

Yep that one I'll probably get

[brave field]

@cold elbowGsync compatible still doesn't have complete Freesync over HDMI support?

[cold elbow]

Nope

[brave field]

Man, that's bad. Its been 3 years now

[cold elbow]

Because nvidia using adaptive sync which is part of DP specs

[brave field]

ah

So not a limitation fully due to Nvidia, some gsync compatible monitors are just using ONLY DP adaptive sync

[cold elbow]

Yeah pretty much

[brave field]

I need an OS somewhere between Lubuntu and Ubuntu Server

200mb idle ram use or less but with a DE

Almost starting to feel like x86 raspbian is a good choice

[jovial tide]

yo guys i have 25 GB of data used (ethernet) is that bad, and doeds it cost money?

[stone harbor]

do you pay for your wifi

or does someone else

[jovial tide]

not me

[tranquil token]

25gb isnt a lot if its a pc you use daily. And it may or may not cost money. Where i live its usually that you just purchase some speed and you always pay the same no matter how much you use. But sometimes it may be that either the amount of data is capped or you pay for how much you use.

[jovial tide]

ok bc the limit is 15 but i have more

[tranquil token]

if the limit is 15 and you used more, it will either cost extra money or you will now only get slower connection.

[unique willow]

Should I buy the rtx 3080?

Or buy a new cpu

Cause my Processor is kinda f-Ing up but my graphics in my pc is as

[brave field]

What do you have right now?

[unique willow]

Amd ryzen 7. 5800x and a rtx 2800 ti

[brave field]

What are you using this for? For most uses, you can't get anything significantly better than the 5800x, and the 2080ti also doesn't really have much worth upgrading to

[jovial tide]

5800x is a beast

if you really want graphics upgrade next step up is a 3090 tbh since 3080 wont be worthwhile

or keep 2080t

[brave field]

Just wondering about the workload, some will do better with a component change but there's no way this is for playing games, surely?

[unique willow]

Problem is with my 2800 ti it’s always over heating and it f up my pc

Just I don’t know what is the problem

[unique willow]

I’m planning to be a graphics designer for rockstar one day lol

[brave field]

ah
Your 2080 ti should be throttling itself far before there are any actual overheating issues. Is your GPU getting to 100C or so and shutting off completely?

[unique willow]

It’s keep shutting off everytime I do school work gaming, etc

[brave field]

grab HWiNFO64 and MSI Afterburner/EVGA XOC and monitor it

[unique willow]

Alright what’s the cost?

[brave field]

Modern GPUs should NOT get hot enough to shut themselves off EVER

They're free, you don't have to pay anything

[unique willow]

Ok ima Check them out thank you

[cold elbow]

lmao

[fallow forge]

whomvste pinged

[jovial tide]

Guys

Gta is such a big game

But the min specs aren’t even that bad

Btw is this the official server or nah

[brave field]

There is no official server

and yeah, the minimum specs are ps360 era, story mode runs surprisingly well on low end hardware

[frigid echo]

Ah the ol PS-360 when the console wars finally ended and they merged into the ultimate console.

[jovial tide]

its weird how bad gta scales up with better hardware but it can run on a potato no issues

[brave field]

It heavily favors singlethread performance, which really hasn't improved that much since 2011

The i7 2600 is still very viable for many games, only falling behind a bit the past 2 years with VK/D3D12 adoption increasing

1-2% gains each year for a decade and then maybe an 8% or so increase more recently kinda sucks

[fervent granite]

do you think it's better to get a newer, mid-range cpu or a high-end older cpu?

like for example would an 8th gen i7 be better than a 10th gen i5?

[brave field]

depends on the specific SKU

an 8700k probably beats out a 10400/f when at 5ghz

[silent mason]

Yeah, hopefully GTA runs good on my 5900X at 2.5GHz

(It's set that low to prevent overheating until I can get my big honking Noctua NH-D15 installed)

Yes, I lowered the clock from 3.7GHz to 2.5GHz

[fervent granite]

Doesn’t it dynamically change the clock speed depending on the load?

[cold elbow]

@silent mason use Ryzen CTR

[silent mason]

I've already got the Noctua. Just need to get my cousin to fit it

[brave field]

Anyone know why Whoogle keeps its Tor service running and uses 80mb of ram when not actively being used?

[tall dome]

I usually hate MSI

but this board looks neat and pricey

[cold elbow]

and mostly useless

[tall dome]

almost useless, except if you get one to sell it

[cold elbow]

who would pay that

[tall dome]

nobody probably, depends on collector's price

some just buy it to collect

[jovial tide]

wow such a good deal

i might buy one for my pc 👍

[fervent granite]

but why they gotta make it look like that though?

it's like an irl person wearing excessive bling

[jovial tide]

I NEED A MODDER PLS IM LVL 1 WITH 4K

[stone harbor]

[urban tree]

If I entered a site and that site gave me viruses and then I deleted all the history of all the cooks, data and cache I still have problems?

At a time when my phone had 2% he said that in 30 seconds it will close TABLETA if I do not charge it

Thrvpad

Tablet! And I'm off the telef

Phone

Pls help me

[brave field]

Simply going to a site won't give you a virus

If you're talking about one of those fake mobile popups, just close the tab. If you didn't download anything, you're fine

[hearty stirrup]

Since theres still almost no ps4 emulation do u guys think a ps5 one is gonna be possible before the decade is over lol

[urban tree]

Effectively I deleted everything possible to delete from google

But my phone was telling me the tablet was off! This tablet

What tablet

Wtf

And when I entered that site I did not allow him to give me notifications

Do you think it was bug or virus

[brave field]

neither

Those mobile popups are everywhere

and its normal for them to be wrong and misrepresent your device

especially if you're on Android

[urban tree]

Okay, so it's not a virus.

[brave field]

LG and Motorola phones running Bromite or other Chrome forks in particular get detected as tablets, Kindle Fires, or even Android Desktop systems often

[urban tree]

I'm from huawei

So it's okay to make mistakes once in a while? It's not virus it's buh

Bug

[brave field]

I think I misinterpreted this, actually

Its no issue if your phone says "plug in this tablet" when at low battery, its possible Huawei made a mistake there.

The site should not have given you any problems if you didn't download anything, still, but the charging message, if it happened outside of your web browser or app, is fine

If you DID download and install something, you'll have issues, though. You should uninstall whatever you uninstalled if that's the case.

@hearty stirrup I think PS5 emulation isn't going to progress at all until PS4 gets worked out, yeah

[urban tree]

I didn't install anything

[brave field]

PS4 emulation is making some nice progress but they're getting held up working on however the OS deals with splitting that one chunk of 8gb of ram into vram and ram for the OS and ram for the main app being run. The PS5 being so close to PC hardware now is also a problem. AMD and Intel would need to improve much more than they did over the past decade by then

[urban tree]

Oh thank you so much I was very scared

[brave field]

I think we'd need the sort of performance gains you'd see in the 90's for PS4 emulation to be viable even if the emulators were perfect

[hearty stirrup]

Yeah just a quick google search shows pretty much no actual ps4 games are emulated at all

[brave field]

Spine can run the Megaman collection, Orbital can run the home menu in safe mode

GPCS4 can output sound, I think

[hearty stirrup]

Looked up ps5 emulator for fun so many fake programs and videos

[brave field]

I really hate all the fakes and such

Nobody new to emulation wants to try something out and their first attempt ends in ransomware 😦

PCSX4's site needs to get destroyed

another fake, a long-standing one

[hearty stirrup]

Is device emulation the only way or is there another way people recode console games to pc

[brave field]

They can make a native or semi-native port if the source code for the game gets released

[hearty stirrup]

That happens with old games i assume?

Or just leaks

Heard something about projectred or whatever cyberpunk studio is called get hacked and the threat was leaking source code lol

No idea how the situation turned out

[brave field]

I think they restored from a backup

Source code can get out for any game

but you need the assets too

that's a bit easier for older games where you might be able to substitute things like textures from the console version's files. Mario 64 PC and GTA 3/VC PC both work this way.

But for many games you still have the issues of system-specific calls in the source code, audio being processed differently by different platforms and anything GPU-related will be incompatible. Even harder for new games where shaders have to be compiled and the GPU-related work was done in full by the original developers instead of letting the GPU driver do all the work. I don't really work on this stuff, its probably extremely tiring and annoying to deal with

[hearty stirrup]

Yeah and game specific whereas if device emulation works all games should

My 3200g wasnt good enough for the ps3 god of war 3 game should i even try zelda and mario for the switch

[brave field]

If the Zelda game you're interested in is BoTW, dump the game from a Wii U and play it on CEMU instead

PS3 emulation is insane

[hearty stirrup]

Yeah botw and odyssey

[brave field]

BoTW will have a few hiccups on a 4 core but its very, very playable. If you play the game at its native 720p30 it'll be flawless.

Playing at 1080p with the framerate unlocking packs gave me around 50-70fps on a 2200g about a year and a half ago

around 40fps at worst

Not a perfect 60 but if you have Freesync/gsync it'll be good

[hearty stirrup]

That is very playable in my book

[brave field]

considering playing it on your own switch or wii u has drops into the low 20s, yeah, its pretty good

CEMU's creators did really well, wish it was open source

[hearty stirrup]

God of war 3 ran at 9 fps really not playable

[brave field]

You really need 12+ threads for RPCS3 or Intel TSX, everything else just suffers

[hearty stirrup]

Last of us is also a console exclusive right

[brave field]

The emulation for the SPUs/PPE is going need 6 threads at least to work well

Last of Us is console-exclusive, yeah

Days Gone just got ported to PC though, so maybe it'll show up in a year?

[hearty stirrup]

Alright nice talking to you gonna watch resident evil village now 😂

[brave field]

Horizon, Detroit, Days Gone, Death Stranding, soon FF7R, lots of PS exclusives seem to be on PC now

alrighty, enjoy

[pale thistle]

Used a XP Virtual machine installed visual studio 2003 and installed Xbox Neighborhood and took these raw screenshots from my original Xbox

So yes this is tech related

[rapid lake]

Question: I'm trying to make a build for my friend, and I'm not sure which PSU to pick. They're on a limited budget of ~900£, I don't want to go for something so expensive, neither do I want the mobo and GPU to die, what do you suggest?

[brave field]

Depends on what components he has, but assuming 11400/f + RTX 3060-3070, the TX650M is currently on sale and worth taking a look at https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/PVzZxr/corsair-txm-gold-650w-80-gold-certified-semi-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020132-na

[rapid lake]

It won't need more than 600 watts I'm sure

It's a 3600x with a 1660 super

[brave field]

Looking through UK PCPP, the only other PSU that isn't a bomb in this price range or lower is the CX550M, at just 1 quid less (though, its not as good a PSU. Its build causes buzzing sounds, occasionally https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/3hkwrH/corsair-power-supply-cp9020102na)

Why a 3600x with 1660S? Is the 3600x heavily discounted right now?

[rapid lake]

They don't want to build the PC themselves, so they're doing it through a website, and that's the best CPU I could find, you don't get to choose whatever you like

[brave field]

ah

[rapid lake]

I wish I could've gone for a 2600x

Because I'm well over budget rn

I'll give you a link to it if you're free, you can probably make the best out of that 900, unlike myself

[brave field]

His is under the "Ryzen Extreme" category?

[rapid lake]

I need to have another look, just a minute

Yes, it is

[brave field]

ah, I made one under home/office

They're price gouging a bit hard here

[rapid lake]

It'll be used for animation

That's as far as I was told

[brave field]

any idea on 2d vs 3d?

a program he uses, maybe?

makes a huge difference with hardware now

A 2060 is roughly 6x as fast as a 1660 super in rendering in Blender Cycles, he'll REALLY not want to miss out on that even if it requires more work and going through parts of the build process

and it should fit in this budget if we cut down on all the parts this site overcharges for, like storage, and replace them with store-bought ones

[rapid lake]

She'll be using a program called "Maya", also they want to game on the system

For 3d animating

[brave field]

Maya has Arnold, hm

The GPU is a bit less important there but the denoising makes the viewport much better still

[rapid lake]

I'll just act like I know what you're talking about

[brave field]

Uh, an RTX GPU is still very useful here but its not a make or break like it is with some other 3d animation programs

This comes out to £755 without VAT for me, did that 900 from before include VAT?

[rapid lake]

They just said they'll also use Unity

[brave field]

I'm not sure what you have on the site, but toss in the TX550M and swap the 3600x for a 3600

[rapid lake]

Oh I misread that, my bad

I couldn't get it under 900

[brave field]

and if you can, ask when they'll have 10400/f in stock again, its nearly £60 cheaper than the 10500 they offer and is cheaper than the Ryzen options too

I get it to fit under £900 by dropping to a 1TB hard drive and 256gb SSD but neither of those are great to cut down on for this, agh

[rapid lake]

You can have 100 more in that case

They just prefer to stay under 900

But their full budget is 1000

[brave field]

gonna go with 3600 + 1660S + B450-Plus, the 2400mhz 2x8gb kit unfortunately, 256GB SSD, 2TB Barracuda, the TX550M, and removing the wifi card and recovery media and OS license

[rapid lake]

Which SSD did you take?

[brave field]

Took the mystery SATA one

[rapid lake]

Great. Didn't realise they had to charge 70 just for the OS

[brave field]

Unity and Maya also both run very well on Linux, if she can't get ahold of a Windows 7/8 key and hates the watermark

[rapid lake]

We shall see. Thank you very much, friend!

[brave field]

anytime, friend

[silent mason]

Argh, now that I've finished arguing with the Asus ROG BIOS and AiSuite, my Unifans are finally under control

[arctic yarrow]

Got a question. I have a cable drop comcast replaced 2 years ago that still hasn't been buried, even with us constantly calling and trying to get them to bury it, and I'm frankly sick of dodging it every time I need to mow the lawn. What would be the best way for me to bury it myself? I have some sprinkler lines I'd rather not hit that I'm unable to locate at the moment, and I'm also wondering if I should install a conduit as well.

Also, how would I locate the sprinkler lines?

[olive dagger]

Aptio setup utility 2012 in an old ASUS. Does anyone know how to solve it? Even if i press "exit", it goes back to this screen

Ping me if you know it please

[brave field]

@olive daggerdo you have a "Launch CSM" option?

[olive dagger]

Let me check

...i'm starting it up and it shows the asus logo instead of the screen

Did it fix itself

I've googled it and apparently closing the screen isn't permanent tho

HOLY it's started up normally, what the hell?

[brave field]

Seems this issue is related to secure boot, a feature that doesn't benefit the user at all while causing problems if something goes wrong

might look into disabling it if this happens again

[olive dagger]

I tried disabling it and even if i saved and left it would go back to the screen

[brave field]

Secure boot relies on both your OS install being good and your mobo

its possible something weird is going on with your OS, then

[vapid grove]

The only way to do it is to dig down at the sprinkler head to see which direction the line goes. Draw a diagram of your yard and plot the heads to get a picture of the layout. Sprinkler systems usually only use 90° bends and Ts, and have straight runs, so with some guesswork it shouldn't be too bad to trace back to your inlet.

If memory serves they are usually buried like 5 to 8 inches deep at max. Been a long time since I had to repair one so I could be wrong on the depth.

[arctic yarrow]

got it, i'll map it out using your suggestion. Should I use conduit or just simply bury the line?

[vapid grove]

no idea

[zealous pasture]

so my pc takes longer to boot than before and my windows defender threat service isnt working
is there anything i can do except reinstall windows

[cold elbow]

Install a better anti virus like bit defender
And check your startup apps and services

[zealous pasture]

oh well
i have 3rd party antivirus(malwarebytes) for now
and almost all my startup services except windows defender and realtek audio are disabled

[cold elbow]

When u install another anti virus windows defender gets disabled

[zealous pasture]

yeah ik

but

i installed malwarebytes cuz my defender wasnt working

[urban tree]

You remember me.

the tablet will close in 30 seconds if you do not charge it

That's what he looks like to me when he's 2% left.

So it's okay? Is it a bug from huawei?

[pliant lynx]

here a heart attack for you

caution, u will have one

[zealous pasture]

why

[tall dome]

any way to get better cables for NZXT?

these just look ugly

[cold elbow]

I think that u can get a sleeve for them

but since they're black just try to tuck them somewhere, i dont notice them a lot of builds with the same cooler

[lost fossil]

you can try to ziptie them together while keeping the microusb cable at the top so it hides the other cables a little bit

[urban tree]

Why is it that when I put my finger above the front of the phone, my ecren actually closes and when I take it inapoo it opens?

[jovial tide]

Who's a mining nerd here, is crypto finally fuckin dying or

[brave field]

cryptocurrencies aren't dying and mining is still very profitable, around where things were in early February @jovial tide

[jovial tide]

F

[brave field]

You really aren't going to see cryptocurrencies as a whole die for a long time. If any worthwhile die in the next 3-4 years, it could really only be BTC, if the whole supply being mined causes it to become worthless, or DOGE

[kindred temple]

Oh boy, salted gamers, doge flavor.

[brave field]

hardware communities are so toxic right now

[stone harbor]

i have been mining for a bit over a week now

earned like $7

thats how i got nitro

[brave field]

DOGE deserves a painful death though, its one of the few coins that actually don't provide anything worthwhile

$7, what are you mining?

[stone harbor]

eth i think

but i have a trash gpu for mining

so its slow

[brave field]

What GPU?

[stone harbor]

GTX 1650