tech-coding-math

[jovial tide]

shut down the pc, then spam press both delete and f2

while turning it on

[unreal iron]

No they don't work lol

I have before lol

[jovial tide]

if you see that bar loading, bios is not bricked

idk what's happening there and unfortunately neither do you. so I recommend bringing it to a repair shop

[unreal iron]

Right it just doesn't answer to f2 or f12

Oooooo

Now it EHINES

Whines

Something has become unseated

What would be causing this issue? Hard drive connection?

[dense birch]

ive had that same issue with a loose sata connection

also with it trying to boot off the wrong drive or a flash drive

[unreal iron]

Ok where's the sata

This has an ssd

[dense birch]

yeah most of my knowledge is dated back about ten years tbh
might be worth asking cookie if hes on

[unreal iron]

Ah if your knowledge is 10 it won't help me

My computer is 9 year old

Bruh

What's up with the fan

@dense birch this one you'd know lol

[jovial tide]

Dude Dude Alienware X51

[unreal iron]

M1

She's an original.

[jovial tide]

Just press F2 during that load

[unreal iron]

I cannot

[jovial tide]

Well I'm sorry then it's bricked

[unreal iron]

.

[jovial tide]

you have to either give it to a repair shop that knows how to handle Dell desktops or Dell itself

[unreal iron]

There's a saying

[jovial tide]

I doubt it has a flash button and I doubt it's USB flashable

[unreal iron]

When you replace everything in your car, is it still the same car?

[jovial tide]

Who said replace everything?

They have to replace the bios chip

[unreal iron]

The ssd, ram and cd drive, and power brick have all been replaced

[jovial tide]

And yes, when your board's Alienware and you're still using alienware psu it is

[unreal iron]

The only original parts now are the cpu and board lmao

And case

I think it's working but the fan is now loud and haven't checked

How do I make the fan quiet

[jovial tide]

Here's my last word here, it's either 1-your keyboard not working on boot 2-your pc is somehow bios bricked

[unreal iron]

Probably

She's 9

[jovial tide]

If it's bios bricked you have no choice, it needs the rom to get replaced

[unreal iron]

Wait the bios is that little battery

Isn't it?

[jovial tide]

There's no other way around it, they have to remove the bios rom, put another one in

Nope

[unreal iron]

Dang

[jovial tide]

It's not user replaceable, it has to be soldered

[unreal iron]

That battery is original too lmao

If it's in there

[jovial tide]

Well that also needs to be replaced

[unreal iron]

Kekw

the fan? I'd like to check but even if it is working that fan is loud

It.feels clear and spins, but the clicking says otherwise

Figured the fan out

Was looking at the wrong fan.

Ayyyyy

It boots now

[slim bluff]

Your pc clicking reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTtR6ZpUOo

[unreal iron]

Hah

No it won't let me sign in

My windows is broken

Is that the blue screen that I should be expecting or the black one

[jagged lark]

On pc is it normal to have 6 discord processes in task manager?

This for example

[dense birch]

yes
just like how web browsers do

[jagged lark]

Also what does this mean?

If download windows is on no will it not download?

[jovial tide]

download windows downloads the latest possible image from microsoft and resets based on that 😉

it's usually a good option to say yes to if you have decent internet

[jovial tide]

How do I change my phone out of emergency calls only?

[jagged lark]

48 mins and at 60% completed. Jesus need a faster hard drive

[hidden nebula]

Try turning aeroplane mode off

Or restarting phone

Or make sure service is available on your location

[jovial tide]

Did all that like 600 times

I can't even get sms messages now

[latent drum]

Have you guys seen AMD MI250X?

[fervent granite]

it's a terrible option my guy

[jovial tide]

why? :/

[fervent granite]

clean install is best install

[jovial tide]

in most cases doesn't make any difference

that option is clean install
the only case that's different is if you have bloatware partitions.

[fervent granite]

it's not a clean install if it's reinstalling yourself

[jovial tide]

☝️

also if you choose cloud you're not reinstalling yourself

you're getting the file online, putting it in a temporary partittion, using that to wipe the drive and install the new OS; which is a clean install

[fervent granite]

which is why you should always have an iso ready

When I install windows I clean the disk using diskpart, and then proceed with the install

which makes a huge difference

[jovial tide]

yeah I disagree, makes no difference for most computers.
unless you have Dell/HP with crappy recovery partitions that auto install bloat on top
and even then you can go to disk management, remove all of them with that or diskpart, then reset using cloud image.

[fervent granite]

tbh everyone should clean install for new pc's, they come with so much crap these days it's insane

[jovial tide]

genius!

[jagged lark]

How come the i9 11th gen isn't that performing according to google

Like the 11th gen is terrible for gaming but its not

[civic cloud]

Google doesn't give you benchmarks?

[jovial tide]

The 11th gen was probably one of the worst generations that ever existed

[jovial tide]

Anyone know why i can't receive sms messages? I need it to log in to my playstation account

[jagged lark]

Gotta change it in your sim providers settings

[jovial tide]

Where's that

[jagged lark]

What sim you got?

[jovial tide]

Sim 2

Is that what you mean

[jagged lark]

What's the name of your sim card?

If i have an autodesk key do i permanently keep all the software or does it expire?

[jovial tide]

Where do I check that

[jagged lark]

What phone you got?

[jovial tide]

Samsung A12

[jagged lark]

Then go into settings and find network selection or that

[jovial tide]

Bonbon?

[jagged lark]

Its bon bon then

[jovial tide]

What now

[slim bluff]

So... after installing arch I seem to have become fallen into the trap of ricing my desktop

[worldly oar]

ok

[hard night]

um 3+61=i8t

[sly crane]

facts

[jovial tide]

delid the CPU they say, it performs better they say

(ref: reddit)

[fervent granite]

Decapped

[kindred temple]

solder the IHS they said

itll be better they said

[jovial tide]

Claire, it'll perform just fine with solder

[kindred temple]

im just memeing delidder

[jovial tide]

I'm dumb

[arctic yarrow]

OH FUCK

(Probably what was said after they "decapped" that cpu)

[jovial tide]

true, it's really dumb deliding the soldered CPU

[kindred temple]

Nah, blame intel for switching to thermal paste IHS in the first place

[latent drum]

My cousin wishes he didnt buy prebuilt

The cost saving are big and matter alot on budget

You can easily save enough money to run extra 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd than 128 by building it your self

Or get a better mobo

I think prebuilts are just like a 1st experince one thing
You believe in it until you dont

[jovial tide]

why should I care if someone buys a prebuilt or not

[latent drum]

I mean if you genuinely care about someone you will really advice them not to go down this route

I once travelled to my friend shopped for parts with him and built it together
He did say its was way more fun than just buying it
Also when you learn how to build it it usually gives you a clue of what each part does for first experince users

[jovial tide]

if someone asks me for an advice, I give them, but thats a one time thing. i mean its none of my business what they do from that point on, even if its my brother for example

[cold elbow]

Some pre builds are ok.

[latent drum]

Social relationship ships = 0

[civic cloud]

Melon 🥰

[cold elbow]

Gus ❤️

[jovial tide]

I cant deny that

[latent drum]

I took too many people and built their PCs with them
Its never gets old seeing the smile on their face after the PC posts

[cold elbow]

What if u cant be there

And they have no knowledge in computers

[latent drum]

I mean if they have no option its fine

But like
If they have the option and they deny it just genuinely try to advise them aganist it

its not cool to fuck up your first time CPU
but its also not cool to waste potential fun and helpful knowledge

[cold elbow]

We nerds love building computers

It's our hobby and passion

But a lot of people dont really care

They just want to use the device.

[jovial tide]

yknow this wasnt how I thought before, and it really depends on the persononality of the guy who asks for ur advice, there was this one time that happened to me that I gave an advice to one of my relatives upon buying a motherboard, they bought what I suggested and after a few months the board was broken, and they thought its all my fault even to this day they scold me for that

[latent drum]

yes and no
a normal person wont enjoy building 6 computers a day
but building their first computer , all people said it was fun and they learned stuff along the way

[cold elbow]

[latent drum]

its like
you dont go ride the roller coaster everyday

[jovial tide]

I bought a prebuilt on newegg and I'm happy

Better than feeding scalpers

Also I checked the price was about right on partpicker

Hold on a sec let me build my current pc prebuilts list

[jovial tide]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/R4rhRT

[cold elbow]

For example your friend that works somewhere asks you for a computer to do a certain task like calls or Photoshop.... They reach out to you because of your knowledge and they trust you to give them a good computer....
They dont want to build one or learn how
They want to do their tasks and that's what they care about the most.

[jovial tide]

These are all the exact parts in my pc

• a m.2 addon wifi card on the board which is on B560M-A AC

and I paid total 1628USD for them

but if you were to buy the GPU directly from Newegg with a low 3060ti price of 1100$ on the websites, it would have totalled 2000USD (1900 if you don't count windows)

[jovial tide]

I just fucking wrecked a board by applying voltage in reverse fuck me

[civic cloud]

when and where?

[jovial tide]

who me?

[lost fossil]

oh hey adapang long time no see

[jovial tide]

how dare you insult me like that

adapang is like a swear

like

look at that adapang guy

[void raft]

i need help

[cold elbow]

same

[jovial tide]

we all need

[hot goblet]

With what

[hot goblet]

With what

[hot goblet]

With what

[cold elbow]

i want to get rich

[hot goblet]

Same

[jovial tide]

i wanna go back to an hour ago and be careful working with the board

[hot goblet]

What board

[jovial tide]

some amplifier board i was supposed to repair

do i look like i give a damn MS?

[arctic yarrow]

Lemme guess, TPM 3.0

[jovial tide]

• cpu

its a 4700HQ on my laptop

[jovial tide]

@latent drum i am the only cum bender

[cold elbow]

same

[slender trellis]

Bruh, download this:
https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat/blob/main/bypass11/Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update_v4.cmd

I installed W11 on my Surface tablet that don't support any of the required stuff and it still works flawlessly, you should try it out for yourself. Once you run it, go to Auto Upgrade.

[jovial tide]

yea I know about the trick, its actually piece a cake to circumvent it all by adding a few reg keys while the installer is about to start.

the thing is im not really willing to move to win11

dunno why, something's pushing me away from it

Ive tried it on VM already, enough's enough

[brave field]

Microsoft is pushing you away from it

[jovial tide]

whether MS is pushing me away from itself or its the Unix gods pulling me towards themselves

[brave field]

Unix, smelly! macOS is the last certified desktop Unix in big use.

[cold elbow]

Don't see any reason for upgrading to Windows 11

[jovial tide]

Well, less ram usage, pretty much most drivers are compatible, sounds are cool and eh, settings ui maybe

[jovial tide]

believe me, If we're talking about cosmetics and ram usage , KDE is offering much better for free

[brave field]

Did they change a lot in 11 over the past month? The taskbar (powered by Microsoft Edge Webview2™️) and its ram use was annoying in the insider releases

[jovial tide]

It's better now, Win11 the official release version uses much less ram compared to beta and dev versions

[jovial tide]

by gods I mean, sir Dennis Ritchie ,Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson specifically

It's a bit weird though, like I installed it on my laptop and on boot it gives me microsoft teams errors every time, unfixable errors.

[dense birch]

i havent ran into any problems on my install, been trying it since this morning

it actually seems to perform better than windows 10 did all around on my potato pc

[jovial tide]

That's true, but you know what else is true?

A clean windows 10 install on a local account (instead of microsoft account) would perform the same and maybe even better

[dense birch]

Nah, did that first

[jovial tide]

what are your specs

[dense birch]

i5 2500, 8gb ddr3 ram, and an rx560

took a bit of fuckery to get it to install but it works

[jovial tide]

oh that's old old hardware

how does it perform after the years

[brave field]

old old hardware
This is crazy to think about. Still have 2 core2duo PCs in the home not replaced yet

[dense birch]

better than youd think for gaming tbh, just with some graphical sacrifices like antialiasing

[jovial tide]

I mean no offense I've had a similar CPU a 2320 or 2310 I believe

[dense birch]

ram limits me more than my cpu atm

[jovial tide]

With H67 (not sure maybe H61)

[brave field]

Do you play many DX12 or Vulkan games that don't have DX11 support?

[jovial tide]

back in the day I didn't know much about computers so I just went into a small PC shop (where I come from its different) and asked them for a suggestion and some ideas and bought it

the board didn't last me long, it was like 70% of its original state when I sold it, the capacitors were bloated as well.

[cold elbow]

You are comparing beta to stable release
But im comparing to windows 10

[jovial tide]

Yeah Win10's better

[cold elbow]

Mine doesn't use a lot of ram cus i debloated it

[jovial tide]

That debloat custom OS is better for sure

[cold elbow]

Not a custom os

Just a scripts to remove them

[jovial tide]

Melon I'm having a problem

[cold elbow]

A lot of that bloat is now integrated into windows 11

[jovial tide]

The teams that comes with win11 gives me error on every boot, reinstalling it, repairing it, uninstalling it doesn't work

It says incompatible image

[brave field]

Fix things the Windows way

[cold elbow]

Its probably a Registery issue

[jovial tide]

I even tried reinstalling windows with reset (cloud)

it says dir/dir/dir/microsoftteams_numnum\webview2loader.dll is either not designed to run on win or contains errors try reinstalling or contact admin

and says the same for bunch of other files in there giving me like 10 errors

[cold elbow]

Sounds like a messed up issue

Only way is to reach to it's roots

[jovial tide]

I'm gonna try to change to beta build

[cold elbow]

And windows doesn't like u to do so

[brave field]

Have you used any hypervisors recently? Virtualbox's VRDP streaming has a terrible audio stutter, do you recommend and tweaks or something different on a Debian host?

@jovial tide What did you run your W11 VM on?

[cold elbow]

Proxmox might be better

All i used was unraid back then so idk much about it

[jovial tide]

Hmm does VMWare work in linux?

Aside from the vsphere/esxi

[brave field]

workstation does

[jovial tide]

You're a moral man, I would have given you a key or two but I know you won't accept

[jovial tide]

vmware, tried on both linux/windows hosts

[jovial tide]

yes

[cold elbow]

Yee it does

[brave field]

License verification, how does it work?

[jovial tide]

It's all offline, checks, accepts done

[brave field]

Nothing like Adobe's use of 3-4 exes and 2 Windows services, ye?

[cold elbow]

I like how linus is making a video about using linux and he picked popOS as a start just like me

I hate installing an adobe software

[jovial tide]

I wasn't a fan of vmware tbh, but i had to use it for the workshop im working in, cuz it has the exact crucial feature i was looking for which virtualbox doesnt have, USB port management

VMWare Workstation is one of the easiest programs to work with in this aspect

It works flawlessly and effortlessly

[brave field]

hmm

sounds very nice

perhaps I should look into acquiring a license or three

[jovial tide]

well yes, actually it does run multiple daemons in the back ground (as kernel modules), but it can be manual

how much does it cost do you know?

[brave field]

Can I completely murder those background daemons and it not affect the program? (and not re-enable itself)
Virtualbox's sound issues are a pain and most Linux-centered hypervisors are entire OSes or don't support RDP. If so, it sounds perfect

[jovial tide]

I think so

[jovial tide]

its linux world man, everything's in control

[jovial tide]

I had sound issues with virtualbox too, specifically running software like guitar pro in the guests gave me huge stuttering on the output, which im not seeing anymore on vmware

[brave field]

Its so inconsistent

when its good, its really good

and then you update to fix one visual issue and it introduces sound issues that don't get fixed for a year, and then that fix brings a different one

@jovial tide wait wait

How do you easily tell which daemons belong to what?

systemctl/service can list them, but is there a quick and easy "this daemon is linked to this package/file" somewhere?

[jovial tide]

well the names of the services pretty much tell where they belong mostly

besides, the manual of the software names all the modules and services it uses

[brave field]

In the event of malware pretending to be something useful, is there a tool to find the source, install date, and such?

[jovial tide]

well yes, if ure suspicious about a service/daemon activity, theres plenty of tools available to monitor it, cmds like 'lsof' , 'locate' or softwares like wireshark

If im suspecious abt some unknown service, I google it first of all, then I use the tools to monitor its activity

if ure talking abt vmware, I dont think u should be worried abt it as long as u keep it up to date

[jovial tide]

pop os is a neat distro, they are doing great abt nvidia drivers on linux specially optimus laptops

[slim bluff]

pop alright, good for people that are unsure what tools the need to get started gaming on linux

proton is looking decent, havent looked at the statistics in a while

[brave field]

I'd like to interject a moment. What you are referring to as sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /* is actually sudo apt install steam, or as I've recently taken to calling it, The Linus Special.

System76 getting negative press direct from Linus himself is... possibly unrecoverable?

[slim bluff]

It's a shame because this has sent a bunch of people just sending in angry emails too system 76

[kindred temple]

What happened?

Tea has been spilt?

[slim bluff]

linus just doesn't like pop os

[brave field]

shame indeed :(

[kindred temple]

Oh, the entire Pop_OS kernel panicking on linus.

Ic

[brave field]

r/apple is wishing for the death of Pop, for some reason

[kindred temple]

I mean thats linux for you, if you dont reinstall for once youre just lucky

[brave field]

this reinforces the "See? I told you Linux was entirely unusable" crowd that spams steam forums

[kindred temple]

And r/apple is just dumb even for apple enthusiast :/

Always self learn on em, or just ask at other forum

[brave field]

Its fair criticism, and I'm indifferent to Pop!_OS

but Linus has a HUGE media presence

The way he words things can kill products (not that pop is at risk, but their reputation might be turned to dust with this)

Would be much less a deal if even someone still somewhat-large like Hardware Unboxed or GN or Marques Brownlee did it instead

[kindred temple]

Honestly speaking yeah, but ill be hard pressed to know any other linux distros with that tight of an integration with nvidia.

[brave field]

but Linus put all the info explaining that it isn't common at the very end of his video, where people are not likely to watch

[kindred temple]

Watch it, it wont kill pop by a long shot.

But ngl, damn

Mint looks easier to setup than i thought

[slim bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/linus-torvalds-linus-nvidia-fuck-you-gif-19475186

[kindred temple]

Lol

[brave field]

anyways

Intel GPUs will save the world BTW

[jovial tide]

the iconic nvidia fuck you

[kindred temple]

Rude

[civic cloud]

hiiiiiiiii

[brave field]

hello Gaussianer!

[civic cloud]

anyone got an Idea why BF2042 keeps turning my Shadowplay off? 🤨

[kindred temple]

Also hot take, garuda is basically ubuntu with arch

[civic cloud]

like it just turns itself off after 30secs

[kindred temple]

[civic cloud]

youre hot :*

[slim bluff]

you edited the message, now it makes no sense

[kindred temple]

:)

[brave field]

I edited it 4 minutes ago

sorry friend :(

[slim bluff]

scrot was dying on me

I post my neofetch too much, I need to stop

i'm just enjoying the arch btw

it will soon be gentoo btw

[brave field]

sprinkle in some bpytop screenshots during your neofetch-posting

[slim bluff]

dwm, my own custom fork

[brave field]

i3/dwm with obscure anime wallpaper, neofetch, bpytop, and hollywood

your fork... What language is dwm in?

[kindred temple]

And also your stock trading client open in Firefox

[slim bluff]

C https://github.com/KJ002/dwm-status-thread

[kindred temple]

For r/humblebrag material

[slim bluff]

just one commit because I had to move it all over to a different repo lmao

[slim bluff]

nearly

[brave field]

this readme

is this their actual readme???

[slim bluff]

yes

[brave field]

its so... sad 😭

[slim bluff]

I haven't changed it

[slim bluff]

why? I'll probably revamp it and make it all of that md good shit

[brave field]

I dunno, I guess compared to how heavily used md is on every other repo, it looks a bit barren

the subtitles having dashes under them, code blocks not existing, idk

[slim bluff]

lmao, that suckless for you

[brave field]

md is not bloat!

[slim bluff]

linux kernel is bloat

vim is bloat

[brave field]

that one is true

[slim bluff]

neofetch... bloat

[kindred temple]

The GUI is a bloat

Use purely command line to talk in discord

[slim bluff]

just make api requests with curl

[jovial tide]

😄 when people say bloat this comes into my mind

[brave field]

cUrl is in C huh
waiting for someone to start spamming their new, safe Rust fork online

[jovial tide]

all gui is bloat bro, let's remove everything and go back to dos days

[brave field]

GUI is bloat though

cowsay is a viable window manager

[slim bluff]

read the raw electronic signals with your eyes

"become one with the system"

[kindred temple]

Exactly

Chipsets are also a bloat

Remove the USB ports, interact directly with the CPU

Linus Torvalds himself dont use GPU, dont bother with it

[slim bluff]

replace brain with CPU

become the computer

[kindred temple]

Alter your DNA to code arch from scratch in your body

Removes the storage from the equation

[brave field]

arch is bloat though

LFS is truly minimal

[kindred temple]

Yes

[jovial tide]

Installing ubuntu

[slim bluff]

bloat

[brave field]

ubuntu is too hard to install

clicking through the "please give us 100% anonymous telemetry data to feed on" is annoying

[slim bluff]

lol i'm writing some Nim and... it's fun

proc htmlASCII(text: string): string =

  for i in text:
    result &= "%" & ($i).toHex()

[brave field]

Nim

ABC/SETL-style, like Python3?

It looks nice.

[slim bluff]

Python at the speed of C

pretty much compiled python

although it gets no where near as much spotlight

[brave field]

Could you explain compilation to me?

[slim bluff]

compilation in general?

[brave field]

Python is compiled to .pyc bytecode, and then run by the PRE, ye?
Java is compiles to .class bytecode, and then run by the JVM, ye?
All the CLR languages to dotNet runtime stuff, yeah?
Why is Python considered interpreted and Java considered compiled? And why do the CLR languages have their own processes in htop/task manager, but the PRE and JVM take up that spot for those languages?

I get C/C++ being compiled to lower languages

[slim bluff]

python is not compiled, a pyc is just more of a cache iirc

[jovial tide]

My Node.js ass is going to sit back and watch

[slim bluff]

Java isn't technically compilation it's more transpiliation which is going from one lang to another (for example, TypeScript to JavaScript)

compilation is a specific type of of transpiliation where it is converted to machine code

However, Java gets close enough that it can be considered compilation

Python is interpreted (which means executed on the fly), so think of a program that reads a file and every time it see an 'a' it prints 'a' the console. This is an interpreted language we have just created, we read and input and every time we see an instruction we execute the operation that corresponds to that instruction

I'm trying my best but I am sure you could find a more in depth - and better - explanation online, I'm not really a language developer I just work with lower level programming languages so I just know what I need to so that I can get by.

[brave field]

The explanation helps a lot ❤️

Java is transpiled, unless its running on actual Java hardware, and .pyc and compile() are a scam!

[slim bluff]

yeah compile doesn't actual mean "compile"

you'll see tools online that convert python to a binary files, this isn't compiled python. It's just the python code bundled with a python interpreter in a file. Python can not be compiled

[brave field]

ah yeah, pyinstaller and py2exe stuff

[slim bluff]

yup

[brave field]

PyPy seems to stand out

Its no Nuitka/IronPython/Jython/Cython/Brython sort of thing, it claims to not transpile to anything else and somehow still be "compiled Python?"

[slim bluff]

PyPy takes advantage of what is know as JIT, Just in time compilation. Which when a function is called, initially it will be quite slow but it optimises the function (this is usually more beneficial for more computationally intensive functions that work with a lot of math)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

numba is a python package that "wraps" functions to do this https://numba.pydata.org/

example of numba I stole this from the numba home page

from numba import jit
import random

@jit(nopython=True)
def monte_carlo_pi(nsamples):
    acc = 0
    for i in range(nsamples):
        x = random.random()
        y = random.random()
        if (x ** 2 + y ** 2) < 1.0:
            acc += 1
    return 4.0 * acc / nsamples

[brave field]

ooooooooooh

[brave field]

thanks again

[arctic yarrow]

That feeling when you use a subroutine and it shaves off 150 lines of assembly code.

[unreal iron]

@brave field in your professional opinion.

New pc or buy the shit version of the Xbox to play Forza

$356.96 is the estimated cost of those parts

But Windows is somehow breaking and idk what has to be fixed if windows dies

Idk how much it would cost if Windows breaks kekw

[arctic yarrow]

Windows can easily be reinstalled if it's breaking for you. I recommend pulling your product key before you attempt it.

All you need to do is load the correct ISO on a bootable flash drive.

Which is free.

[unreal iron]

:hidepainharold:

Ok

[arctic yarrow]

I use jellybean keyfinder to write down windows product keys before reinstalling.

If a physical sticker isn't present.

[unreal iron]

I've reinstalled windows at least twice

She's 9

Kekw

[arctic yarrow]

Ah, in that case.

[unreal iron]

I mean I've bought it both times

[arctic yarrow]

What specs are you running?

[unreal iron]

Uh

I3-2120 was state of the art at the time

It came in i5 and it but I got the i3

[arctic yarrow]

What version of windows are you attempting to run?

[unreal iron]

Windows 10 when I get it up and running again

[arctic yarrow]

Gotcha. What problems are you facing?

Does it seem extremely sluggish?

[unreal iron]

The part where it's a 9 year old pc and I want to play Forza

I've got a 1060 in it, that's not the issue

But a 2120 is

A little dated

[arctic yarrow]

I mean, does it take forever for the OS to boot and programs to run?

[unreal iron]

No they load fine rn

I haven't attempted to run a forza game on it yet

[kindred temple]

You gonna want 6/12 or even 8/16 on FH5

They really favor multicore

[unreal iron]

I have 16 gb of ram, an ssd and a 1060.

But the board

The board has to be upgraded to put a better cpu on

And that means new ram

[arctic yarrow]

Agreed, the RAM too.

[unreal iron]

Because it's using ddr3

And mobo now uses ddr4

Or even 5

[arctic yarrow]

If you're dead set on a replacement, I would recommend going for a R5-3600, a b450 or b550 motherboard, and 16gb ddr4 3600 mhz ram.

[unreal iron]

Cookie built me this I think

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LYgDYg

Either cookie or Patrick

[fervent granite]

Or both

[arctic yarrow]

That's not a bad build.

[unreal iron]

But I must ask myself if it would be better just to buy the shitty xbox

Because of availability and cost

[arctic yarrow]

Would actually be slightly cheaper than what I recommended.

What kind of xbox do you have?

XB1?

[unreal iron]

I do not have an xbox

I have never owned an Xbox

I once had a pc to play forza on, but I sold it for $400. Before covid hit

It had a 1080 in it

[arctic yarrow]

Ouch

[unreal iron]

Fucking $1000 card now

[pliant lynx]

@fickle flume u got force arma to run on your gtx?

[arctic yarrow]

Well, xbox one is going for $240, while those components are available and going for $380, so it's up to you what you want to go with.

[unreal iron]

Forza 5

It's actually down from 450

Which is nice. The chip squeeze eased up a bit

Cookie said if I am patient this build should be half cost

[fickle flume]

yes

[arctic yarrow]

Well, in that case, I recommend waiting for now. The game still has a few issues, like AI being stupidly OP on corners.

[pliant lynx]

your screen went completely bluescreen u said?

[fickle flume]

yes

[unreal iron]

I just want to play the Bronco and get the Dom toretto award

[fickle flume]

wait i post the error

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/733313505004093501/908777858770567199/unknown.png

[kindred temple]

AI feels OP? Just git gud

Learn to drive fast

[unreal iron]

I always play on easiest difficulty

[kindred temple]

No balls

[unreal iron]

I play games to relax not sweatfest

Fh3 was really fun even on 2nd easiest the ai were tough but felt rewarding to beat. I wasn't absolutely shitting on them

[arctic yarrow]

I'm dead serious, on above average and higher, I can take the same corner as the AI at the same speed as them and end up wrecking, meanwhile, they are able to unnaturally turn on a dime.

[pliant lynx]

This error is triggered when a driver tries to write on a read-only segment of your computer's memory.

[unreal iron]

I could usually win, but it wasn't as if I'd been handed that and could have taken 3rd or so if I'd messed up

[pliant lynx]

[arctic yarrow]

Plus, they rubberband up to you just as you're about to get close to the finish line if you've gone way ahead of them.

[unreal iron]

Yeah I hate rubberbanding.

[arctic yarrow]

I mean, they've gotta be hitting 500kph at certain points near the end if you're far ahead.

[unreal iron]

Nfs heat didn't have it and I loved beating the ai

Is the rubber banding at higher difficulties or at all levels

[arctic yarrow]

I haven't played NFS since NFS 3: Hot Pursuit from back in '98.

I might actually still have that CD around.

[fickle flume]

Melon asked me to do a memory test so

[pliant lynx]

do lor

[kindred temple]

Do for dale!

[fickle flume]

after my genshin dailies

[fickle flume]

@pliant lynx so i did the memory diagnostics

but the event viewer cannot find the results

[pliant lynx]

let melon or cookie help, im a minor minor tech support

[fickle flume]

didnt say i transfer you to my senior or someone experienced

bad service

[brave field]

@unreal iron wouldn't go for an Xbox above $50-80 unless it was the Series X really
Mostly being done for one game and you'll still need a semi-working PC afterwards, and already have half the parts, and the storage, and the software? Just doesn't sound great value

Though, with how things are going now, something might happen with prices as the 12400 rolls out

the stupid deals over the past weeks with i7 10700KF's for that same $200 the 10400F currently sits at seem worthwhile

[unreal iron]

So you say wait for the rollout too?

[brave field]

If you want things immediately, no

but if you can wait, do wait

but note its probably going to be closer to 3-5 months before things change significantly

[unreal iron]

As long as nothing shits the bucket that's easy

But I wanna get on forza while everyone's plqying it nowwwww

[brave field]

hmm well

If the experience now matters more

go for the easiest option and enjoy yourself!

[unreal iron]

Pc parts yea?or rent to own an Xbox and return it

[brave field]

returns are never guaranteed so not that second option

[unreal iron]

Fuck

[brave field]

if you want an xbox for it, can afford it, and will find use out of it, and definitely value the experience of the game being new, sure

maybe you can find some good local deals?

[unreal iron]

Haha no

I'd rent and return it. The only other xbox game that I will ever ay is halo and that looks like butt

Pc makes more sense but dang that's a lot for one go

"Low price"

And it's in omaha. Ew

[brave field]

at least they have the price in the title

[unreal iron]

Where are the "console for sale no controllers no cables"

[brave field]

If Craisglist/FB Marketplace forced people to sell at their listing prices you'd probably be able to get 25-30 PS5s for $1

if people are clogging up the low price sort near you

Is Forza not on the Xbox One?

[unreal iron]

Ps5 750
850
650

[unreal iron]

There's a series X for 600 rn

This is it

Literally it within 100 miles

[brave field]

$100 above MSRP for a one-use product, meh

remember "I'd rent and return it. The only other xbox game that I will ever ay is halo and that looks like butt"

[unreal iron]

Yeah let me get "console with no controllers no cables" lmaoo

[unreal iron]

it DOES look bad this year

[kindred temple]

Play on PC

[latent drum]

they upscaled the game LOGO

WTF

[jovial tide]

let them try MS and Apple really cant stand the existence of *nix like OS's, but they cant do shit, to me its funny how MS tries to tie itself to opensource realm. but you cant really mix water and oil, can you?
they cant just stop a dynamic community of opensource devs overnight.

[brave field]

MS cares somewhat about bringing the sort of environment to Windows

Apple just does their own thing with their high profit margins, they really only hurt their own customers.
Like claire said, r/apple is just though. Awful community.

[slim bluff]

lmao arch broke on me today so I decided to by a HDD (I was using USB's previously) and install sweet old comfy void back on it

luckily I keep my config files in a private github repo

[brave field]

oooh

How did arch break?

Do you also maintain a script in that repo to apply everything?

[slim bluff]

after an nvidia update, something with initframs

[slim bluff]

I should...

[indigo plank]

Hello, world

[jovial tide]

hello stranger

[jovial tide]

Im planning to buy a desktop pc in a few months, and I'll make damn sure nvidia is not in my buy list

[slim bluff]

yeah, im gonna go with an AMD GPU next time

[unreal iron]

What kind of Hard drive would you add to this build?

[civic cloud]

an SSD

🤌

[brave field]

If you're reusing your old/current SSD https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mwrYcf/seagate-barracuda-computer-2-tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm008
If you don't have an SSD, and only a hard drive https://pcpartpicker.com/product/7tCFf7/silicon-power-a60-1-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-sp001tbp34a60m28

[unreal iron]

I have that Toshiba ssd but I don't think I can afford a NICE ssd with the way prices have been

What's the life expectancy of an SSD and a HDD

[unreal iron]

These will fit that mobo?

[arctic yarrow]

What's the interface of that toshiba? m.2 or sata?

[unreal iron]

Uh

It plugs in

[arctic yarrow]

Looks like the motherboard supports two m.2 SSDs and 6 sata drives.

[unreal iron]

The one on the right

[arctic yarrow]

Yeah, you should be good.

[unreal iron]

It's not as big as my old HDD

It's only like a quarter of an inch thick

[arctic yarrow]

Yup, that's typical for a sata SSD

[unreal iron]

But the SSD and it is Probably somewhere between 4 and 6 years old

I'd replace it with a nice large HDD but Google says those only last Is 3 to 5 years

[arctic yarrow]

Have you rewritten to it a bunch of times? If not, you should still have quite a bit of life in it.

[unreal iron]

Rewritten how

It's only like 100 gigs or something. It fits windows 10 and 2 games

Like gtav and wot

Or wot and wows

Since I don't push it too hard other than those games that's the only 3 I've put on it kekw

[arctic yarrow]

OK, so you haven't deleted and installed a new game that often. You should be golden.

[unreal iron]

Uhh a couple of times yeah

But not like once a w3ek

But I did put wot and wows on an external drive

[arctic yarrow]

Probably more like once every 3 months or something?

[unreal iron]

Probably

The external is uhhh an ssd I'm pretty sure. It's like a half inch thick

1 terabyte?

I just launch wot and wows off that external

[arctic yarrow]

Mathematically, that's like 24 rewrites on the same NAND flash. IIRC most SSDs from 2015ish is rated for 3-5000 rewrites.

[unreal iron]

It has like some Greek name I think

It's not named toshiba

It's one of the names they own

[arctic yarrow]

kioxia?

[unreal iron]

No

Ocz

Found em lol

Consumer SSD pioneer OCZ Technologies has officially started the process of filing for bankruptcy. In a statement published this afternoon on Marketwatch, the company announced that this past Monday, November 25, its depository accounts were turned over to the control of Hercules Technology Growth Capital due to OCZ's failure to comply with the conditions of a loan from Hercules. Per the loan agreement's terms, OCZ has begun the bankruptcy process—with the goal of dissolution, not restructuring.

2013

Either this drive is older than I thought or I bought a ssd from a dead company

[arctic yarrow]

OCZ still made SSDs until the brand was dissolved and all their assets merged with Kioxia.

[unreal iron]

The ssd external is a WD myPassport

Of some kind

[arctic yarrow]

Is it smaller than your internal SSD?

[unreal iron]

Larger lol

[arctic yarrow]

Ahh, gotcha

[unreal iron]

The internal is like 500gb

It only holds 2 games in addition to its own OS

Like thas tiny

The externL is like 1 to 3 tb

[arctic yarrow]

Probably a sata ssd inside with a sata to usb adapter, or (shudders) a usb controller direclty on the drive.

Or wait, usually a larger external drive is a hard disk drive

not a SSD

[unreal iron]

Can I have a shop turn that external into an internal?

https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable-External/dp/B01LQQHI8I/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?crid=37DH47VUNIKPV&keywords=my+passport+western+digital&qid=1636849349&qsid=139-7665146-6533439&sprefix=my+passport+wes%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-9&sres=B07VP5X239%2CB07GKHQ9M6%2CB072PTM4R8%2CB0823P78ZH%2CB001IG9D1C%2CB01LQQHI8I%2CB00IS57JOY%2CB07MW159XC%2CB002KQ9MJM%2CB004445JHM%2CB00W8XY7AQ%2CB002KPU4G8%2CB002NEFUA6%2CB01N26GBLS&srpt=COMPUTER_DRIVE_OR_STORAGE

Dat url

This is it

[arctic yarrow]

Yeah, or you can do it yourself. They're usually not too difficult to pull open.

[unreal iron]

UT what about the connectors

[arctic yarrow]

I'm checking it right now to see if it's a USB controller directly, or a SATA to USB adapter inside.

[unreal iron]

Wait this is an hdd too

It's so light though!

[arctic yarrow]

nvm, this HDD has one of those stupid USB logic boards.

Why WD has a hard-on for usb logic boards? I don't know.

But you can't make it internal.

[unreal iron]

I hear WD is one of the better companies in general but idk what puts them above the others

[arctic yarrow]

WD is considered reliable because they're one of the more common brands.

In terms of failure rate however, they're usually average or slightly worse.

[unreal iron]

Bruh

[arctic yarrow]

So I took an exam for assembly language, and one of the questions was to compare R3 to R4 and place a value in R0 depending on if R3 was greater, less than, or equal to R0. Here's the code I typed for that answer:

0101 000 000 1 00000    ;R0 <- 0
1001 100 100 111111     ;R4 <- NOT R4
0001 100 100 1 00001    ;R4 <- R4 + 1
0000 010 000000010      ;BRz x3006
0000 001 000000010      ;BRp x3007
0001 000 000 1 11111    ;R0 <- R0 - 1
1111 0000 0010 0101     ;TRAP x25
0001 000 000 1 00001    ;R0 <- R0 + 1
1111 0000 0010 0101     ;TRAP x25```
Can you guys guess what mistake I made?

[brave field]

Is 0001 000 000 1 00001 rather than some xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx allowed?

[arctic yarrow]

Yeah, the assembler doesn't care about spaces on each line.

Here's a hint. Where's R3?

I forgot to add R3 to R4.

Yeah, I kinda feel dumb about it.

[brave field]

Don't feel dumb!

You still got all the other parts of it!

[arctic yarrow]

Well, good thing all of my exams in this class can be retaken once every week.

[brave field]

sounds wonderful

retake it and get the good grade you deserve

[arctic yarrow]

Oh, I intend to, but first I'm gonna take a day off to unwind my brain.

[brave field]

I can't get audio from xrdp!
VMWare doesn't seem to have a native remote display like Virtualbox does and recommends you host the rdp session from inside the VM, Virtualbox's has broken audio, xrdp inside the VM doesn't transfer audio, Parsec can't host on Linux!

[unreal iron]

Wait @arctic yarrow does that mobo have wifi or no

The one int he build I had

I have a bookmark for a wifi card and remember that being an issue

[arctic yarrow]

lemme check it again, one sec

@unreal iron That motherboard doesn't have wifi. Make sure you're buying a pcie x1 wifi card or USB adapter.

[unreal iron]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081SLD8JF

This is what cookie recommended last time

[brave field]

Intel AX200-based, yes!

What are your thoughts, Bartor? I still need to research newer networking stuff but AX200-based cards are just so, so, so low-priced for dualband and BT and Wifi6

[arctic yarrow]

I don't know too much about wifi cards tbh, never really played with them.

[unreal iron]

Based on the age of that zco and the fact I'm running games off an external hdd, should I get a bigger internal drive or no

[arctic yarrow]

I'm the kinda guy who solders two CAT5 cables together so I can connect my desktop in my bedroom.

[unreal iron]

Can I use Flash SD cards as memory for this pc and call it good

Anything n
To save money ig

[brave field]

You can use SD cards as storage but not memory
Most SD cards are horrendously slow and more expensive than faster options for $/GB

[unreal iron]

I have a like 128 I'm not using

[pliant lynx]

good delays

[brave field]

throw videos or music and word documents on it, but nothing that needs relatively-fast IO, like a game

I think the Barracuda 2TB is a good fit, since you already have a boot SSD and the 2TB is better $/GB than anything smaller

[arctic yarrow]

Been running it for a little more than a year now, hasn't increased my latency.

[unreal iron]

And that mobo has a slot for that weird wifi card?

I dont have money to be wrong

[brave field]

standard mobo supports standard wifi card, yes

price increased to $40?! Time to find a different model

and

unless you buy from Newegg, you'll have a decent return window, and you'll be convered in the event of some weird software-side incompatibility, don't worry

[unreal iron]

That's WITH the Seagate and wifi card

[unreal iron]

It has a $22 version

That looks smaller

[arctic yarrow]

That motherboard has two standard PCI-E x1 slots, which can be used for wifi cards.

And yes, both of those wifi cards will work.

[brave field]

That lower-priced one works

sucks that its not an AX200

[unreal iron]

Ok so final cost is 453

[brave field]

but AX200's aren't worth double the price

[unreal iron]

I got the 4 year protection plan on the wifi card. There's no way that card will survive 4 years keke

[brave field]

huh?

do not!

Wifi cards last 15 years!

[unreal iron]

It's $4

[brave field]

yeah

too high

[arctic yarrow]

Most protection plans are ass.

[brave field]

They often end up fighting you 3 years in, in the event something does happen

[unreal iron]

I've heard getting really long ones are great for getting free replacements because Amazon always sends out garbage that doesn't live as long as the plan

[arctic yarrow]

Well, that's stuff amazon manufactures or contracts out for manufacturing.

AFAIK, MSI doesn't make amazon basics shit.

[unreal iron]

Ok so it's now 449

Without that

Whats the form factor of this thing? Mid atx?

[arctic yarrow]

yeah

[brave field]

micro ATX/mATX

[unreal iron]

I k ow you said my case is way too bug

[brave field]

though your case you already have determines everything else

[unreal iron]

Big

[arctic yarrow]

oh mb

[brave field]

just gonna look empty inside when you install it all

[arctic yarrow]

Micro atx is the 4 slot shit, mid atx is larger

[unreal iron]

So I can buy a square case that's about the size as the alienware and even that weird wifi card will fit?

[arctic yarrow]

Are you using the same case or buying a different one?

If you're gonna be saving money, use your current case.

[unreal iron]

I have a Full atx to put it in

[brave field]

Yes, provided the case has at least 3 spaces for PCIe slots

your 1060 will likely take up two, the wifi card one

[unreal iron]

It's overkill but that's what I have lol

[arctic yarrow]

Yeah, that should work. The only issue is it will look a little empty, but that's an asthetic issue.

[unreal iron]

The alternative case is an alienware x51 but that's all form fitted to the Andromeda parts with a sister board

Cookie agrees its an ass setup

[brave field]

use the standard EATX full tower you have

[unreal iron]

The Andromeda lol

[arctic yarrow]

Yeah, dell likes to do proprietary shit for no reason at all.

[brave field]

Looking like this is better than not being usable at all

[unreal iron]

Lmao

[kindred temple]

900D

[unreal iron]

I was thinking I might ask that computer shop if I can trade that sharkoon for a smaller case they have

[brave field]

Maybe. 2011-looking cases aren't really in style, but they could have something worthwhile

Make sure its a real ATX or mATX case though, nothing with a Dell or HP logo on it

[unreal iron]

Nah they have a bunch of aftermarket cases and stuff

[unreal iron]

The chip is shipping separately

I'll get EVERYTHING Thursday except the cpu

Cpu listed thrusday all the way to like the 23rd lol

[brave field]

ouchie

[arctic yarrow]

oof

[jovial tide]

that's cute lol

A good video to give to newbies instead of writing paragraphs about Win11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3zvY7KzYs

[fervent granite]

Assuming they can even install it

It’s not that big of a deal anyway, it’s just some new icons

It’s sad really, Microsoft can make their graphics prettier all they want but they can’t hide Windows’s true self

[nova steppe]

Windows 10.1

[fervent granite]

windOS 11

[fallow forge]

seems like i REALLY need to get a better CPU now

i need to set BF2042 to low to keep 60 fps and even then it isnt stable

90% cpu usage with 10% gpu usage

[cold elbow]

nice

[jagged lark]

Finally geforcenow is working properly. Bought a 5ghz adapter and not a single problem lol

[jovial tide]

The "Definitive" Edition

[slim bluff]

lmao I put in a HDD recently, it seems to be too wide for the tray so its at a 45 degree angle, hope it wont degrade performance

took it out of a pc that had it mounted at a 90 degree angle so should be fine

[ancient nacelle]

oxc00007b ERROR GTA5 PLS HELP dm me if u know how to fix

[latent drum]

Like if i didnt hate the trilogy already this is fucked up

[pliant lynx]

why people so happy about the defnitive edition

idek HM

graphic enhancement and... ???

[latent drum]

its just

playing san andreas was already crap , the gamestory is good but the gameplay is probably the worst to ever exist

the defnitive edition made it even worse

its the andriod version of the game

[jovial tide]

Indeed

[jovial tide]

nothing to worry about as long as it is mounted firmly

[slim bluff]

nope, just slotted it in there couldn't be arsed to screw it in however as I said it doesnt fit meaning that there isnt really any wiggle room for it

[jovial tide]

#gta-tech-support

[brave field]

@fallow forge When do you plan to look for upgrading?

Intel 12th gen/Ryzen 6000 are pretty soon and 12th can use both DDR4 and DDR5, mayhaps one of those could work well

[civic cloud]

@cold elbow remember how worried i was about the rattling noise in my pc? I ignored it and it just..stopped

like what the heck

I spent all that time worrying and now it's just gone

[arctic yarrow]

Maybe something stuck in a fan? 🤷

[civic cloud]

No

[latent drum]

Bruh how Ryzen 6000 will use ddr5

Intel 12th gen been out for 2 weeks now here

[brave field]

yeah

Skipper is on a 7700k (unless changed recently)

Don't think the 12900k/12700k pricing is worthwhile though

Something like a normal 12600/f might fit well, or if they could make the 12500 have the P and E cores, and not just be the 12400 with 100mhz extra on its boost

[latent drum]

Well

They dont

How we know?

The configuration for current and 2 future generation have been leaked

Like a year ago

And the 500 I5 is OEM part

Thats why its weird

[brave field]

gross

[jovial tide]

didn't you open the front fans?

[hearty stirrup]

https://nzxt.com/product/bld-kit-starter-pro-pc

Found it in a dawid does tech vid

1400$ for 11400f 3060 ti 16gb ram 1tb ssd

Seems like a mad deal

But it only has a 550w psu does that work

[kindred temple]

Barely fit tbh

BLD is also kinda eh in build quality tbh

[brave field]

550w is alright

I think the i5 10/11 + 3060ti system was raised to $1600 around mid September so this price is much safer, though not MSRP

[kindred temple]

I mean if we talk MSRP cookie

You can fit 3080 in 1400$ budget

And thats with beefed up motherboard and 750W PSU

[brave field]

MSRP is impossible

[kindred temple]

Yes

[brave field]

but I still feel a desire to compare to how things would be in an ideal timeline

I remember all the $1100 3070 PCPP lists when it was first announced 😭

[strong condor]

Nice

[zealous pasture]

i need a virtual machine which is resource efficient

i have the home ver

i just need something that doesnt consume a lot of resources

optimised vm

VirtualBox?

wait you can install hyper v on home ver of windows?

[fervent granite]

No don't ever buy those keys

[kindred temple]

Grey market keys shops are dime a dozen.

[fervent granite]

If you're going to buy windows at least do it through ms, those keys are dogey at best

[kindred temple]

[brave field]

virutalbox is probably your best option

[kindred temple]

But 100$ dont make any sense at all

[brave field]

no piracy or gray market needed at all

[fervent granite]

Which is why I use the a certain redacted script

[brave field]

bro don't name that!

[kindred temple]

Thats piracy

Also

[iron pecan]

We neither condone nor punish the use of online mods or glitches, unless it's impacting our users in a negative way.

That being said, detailed discussions on how to do or find glitches and online mods are not allowed. This includes mentioning mod menus by name.

For more information, see Section 8 & 9 of the Rules of Conduct: https://discordapp.com/terms

Requested by: @kindred temple

[kindred temple]

[fervent granite]

What about vmware player?

[brave field]

Virtualbox is plenty usable, doesn't have the nasty background services VMWare has, and isn't tied to the OS like hyper-v is (also hyperv kills using any other virtualization software)

[fervent granite]

A good thing to note is that windows pro or better have access to windows sandbox, so if you just need a quick vm you don't need anything else

[brave field]

vmware will keep its port forwarding after being closed, yes

Windows Sandbox

I wanted to like it

[fervent granite]

I expected better from it ngl

[brave field]

it has Windows-10-on-a-5400rpm-hard-drive performance, and editing the config involves editing an undocumented text file

bad look for hyperv since it uses it, but I know that's unfair criticism to hyperv

and it does stupid stuff like disabling windows defender and messing with programs, so you get a different experience from a real Windows install

[fervent granite]

I expected at least windows xp mode-like configuration

[brave field]

random text file would be somewhat okay if they documented it

but there's 4-5 posts from blogspam sites that have "yeah, you just uhh, copy and paste and some of the text changes stuff... and things"

also it steals 8GB from C:/ and that can't be changed in any way, why

[fervent granite]

What can I say Windows loves eating storage space

[brave field]

they really marketed it hard, and having an easily-accessible place for testing untrusted apps and getting familiar with VM use could be so nice

Azure uses it where?

o

I don't think Hyper-V is really failed, but everything consumer-facing relating to it feels more annoying than the alternatives

Its probably super good software

Its just also paywalled behind pro and a heavily-marketed project that uses it is garbage and having it enabled in Windows features causes problems in all other virtualization software

even messes with WSL at times

Kinda makes it hard to use

ooooh, interesting
Where does it get Ubuntu from? Direct from Canonical's FTP, some mirror, does Microsoft keep their own build? WSL2 Ubuntu image but with systemd?

unattended install is pretty standard but grabbing install images for you is not, nice

They have other choices somewhere?

[strong condor]

Oh

[ionic aspen]

bruh i thought i found a 1660 super for 320 bucks, and it ended up completely changing and being 675 when i looked at it on the website

[lost fossil]

1660 for 675 united states of american dollars

[ionic aspen]

united states of american dollars

has a nice ring to it

[cold elbow]

Freedom currency

[ionic aspen]

and all others are like 800, im telling you the world is going out of its way to try and scam me

the lowest prices are at fucking walmart they really do have everything wtf

749???? WHAt THE FUCK???

no
im just going to buy a 1050ti

[lost fossil]

[civic cloud]

lil Oleg 🥺

[lost fossil]

what's the best way to download my own 11.5 hour stream in 1080 60?

[civic cloud]

Click on download and hope the server you're downloading from is fast?

Or cut it to 1hr lengths

[lost fossil]

it doesn't work quite like that, not with it not being 1987

i tried

[civic cloud]

🥺

[strong saffron]

Does ytdl work with Twitch?
It works. Use youtube-dl or ytdl-p

You can specify the quality when you download, and resume partial downloads

[lost fossil]

but will it work if the video is blocked worldwide due to copyright

[strong saffron]

Probably not if it's blocked worldwide But if it's just blocked where you live, you can have yt-dl work through a VPN/Tor

[lost fossil]

it's my own stream that i can view just fine but it's blocked worldwide so noone other than me can see it so i need to download it in order to remove the blocking song

[strong saffron]

you can login to yt-dl with your twitch credentials i think

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/hxfzvb/downloading_twitch_videos/

[lost fossil]

it's a youtube stream tho

can i login in yt-dlp?

[strong saffron]

yep

[pliant charm]

i have a question.

a teacher of mine asked me if i could look for drones for his new drone course, he told me he wanted atleast 2 like good instructor drones, and a few drones for beginners, his budget is 5k for everything and it needs to have a camera and preferably the ability to attach sensors to it. i was wondering if anyone has experience with drones, and could give me recommendations, i've already looked and found some potential, but if you have a recommendation ill surely look into it.

[lost fossil]

let's see

[jagged lark]

How do i make the timer go up by 1 second in scratch? Somehow bugged it

[strong saffron]

Is there no official way to do this btw? I imagine lots of streamers get a copyright strike now and then

[lost fossil]

there is but it's 720p30

[strong saffron]

oh

[lost fossil]

what ytdlp downloaded is also 720p30

[strong saffron]

Use the -F flag to see if a 1080p60 stream is there

[lost fossil]

god bless

[pliant lynx]

erm

your flowchart bugged the timer

[jagged lark]

Flowchart?

[pliant lynx]

is the timer set in the background?

[civic cloud]

Basic DJI Drone for 120 bucks?

[pliant lynx]

set it to your background

[jagged lark]

Ohh like that

I'll do so when i get home or have VGDev tomorrow

[autumn shoal]

what is coding

[strong saffron]

programming

[livid kestrel]

Are threads called logical processors in task manager?

[jovial tide]

yea ig

[livid kestrel]

Ok thanks, sorry for late reply

[little meadow]

wow, elon is looking at you and having a good laugh

[jagged lark]

If i buy crypto for the set price $100=0.0xx which its real value is yyyy.yy how much do i make?

[cold elbow]

Crypto is a scam

Dont bother

[brave field]

Hard disagree, there have been plenty of legitimate and helpful uses over the past 10 years

this is an awful time to get into it if trying to use it as an investment, though

[jagged lark]

This for example

Do i make the $100 back or how much 0.0015 is worth?

[brave field]

0.0015 BTC is just under $97 USD, strangely low fees
You don't make anything yet, and BTC is at its high, you're infinitely more likely to lose money than gain anything

absolutely would not purchase $100 in BTC through moonpay (or any BTC at all)

[jagged lark]

Only got the crypto app cus I thought it was free OF from a streamers bio dont ask why

[brave field]

get out of there

[jagged lark]

Oh so once the prices go up then i make money?

Eh back to tryna do paid carries then

[cold elbow]

Crypto is the official currency for illegal or sketchy acts

[brave field]

With most cryptocurrency transactions being easier to trace than physical cash, whyso?

Outside of Monero

[cold elbow]

that's called money laundry which is not allowed

but u cant control

everywhere

[kindred temple]

[jovial tide]

dont compare crypto with a knife its actually a ninja sword

i can blame the ninja sword

for its designed for malicious purposes

[arctic yarrow]

I'll tell you one thing, I wouldn't want to buy illegal shit with crypto. My transaction could easily be traced to my wallet, and it would be a simple matter of finding out who owns that wallet.

That's the thing with transactions over the blockchain, that info never goes away.

Fun fact, most cryptocurrency crimes are scams.

[brave field]

Illegal transactions on a network where all your transactions are public and easily traced in a world where you almost always have to sign up for an exchange or conversion service that often requires tax info/SSN or equivalent... right

Not saying it doesn't happen, but the good projects far outnumber the issues caused by the last few people in... Switzerland, the last place where you can really exchange without KYC law

[strong saffron]

The existence of exchanges ruined crypto for me smh. so much for decentralised anonymous payment. It's essentially an investment good now

[brave field]

@strong saffron same, infuriating
"Its decentralized, you just have to rely on x or y big company and provide enough personal info to open a bank account to use it!"
There are groups still pushing to mandate cryptocurrencies in Western society but all the governments already have complete control

[jovial tide]

Alright guys, fine, you say what is being done with crypto rn is also being done with physical money too,(or used to be done idk) right?
what about the side effects of crypto on environment and electronic parts prices? who's the winner of this financial tussle at the end of the day? me or you? hah! i dont think so

[brave field]

side effects on the environment is fair

though bitcoin ASICs alone is some 70%+ of that. Altcoins that suck for investments but have good projects behind them are verified in their own ways, good coins use proof of stake with delegation, and not all proof of work algos are designed to be as difficult as possible

For electronic part prices, there's still little reliable sources behind cryptocurrency being the main issue, with there being 0 sources at all from 2010-2017.

[arctic yarrow]

One of the reasons why a lot of cryptos are moving towards proof of stake instead of proof of work.

Power consumption dramatically decreases with proof of stake.

But... you can't traditionally mine it at that point.

[jovial tide]

well, personally, thats the major reason I never supported crypto since it became a thing, I've not traded or mined a single dollar although i could do that.
the environment is the ship we're all on board, if it sinks we all sink together.

[brave field]

trying to understand a bit better, are you avoiding all cryptocurrencies for environment issues caused by a few?

[jovial tide]

some because of the env. ,some because I dont like the idea of their existence

[brave field]

BTC power use is horrendous right now, everyone is racing to see what will happen to it when the last 2 million are done being mined, and most of its ASICs are in the 3000W range now. Super fair to be against that.

[arctic yarrow]

Well, do some research into Cardano. Not only is it proof of stake (meaning minimal power consumption when "mining" it), but it also supports smart contracts among other things, useful tools from an economic perspective.

There's a few other cryptos like that, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

[brave field]

Nano, Ripple
Monero and Ethereum are both proof of work and still are immensely less power hungry than any of the SHA-256 currencies

[arctic yarrow]

Ethereum is still pretty power hungry though, from personal experience (I'm a dirty single-card miner).

However, it's gonna move to Proof of Stake around Q2 2022

Actually, ETH 2.0 is already here as a sorta "Beta" and it's Proof of stake.

5% APY

[brave field]

I have no faith in ETH truly going proof of stake

They've met every goal announced but proof of stake always gets pushed back every year

[arctic yarrow]

Maybe the smart move for me is to mine ETH rn and dump it into ETH 2.0

You could, but it would only really be viable for that general area. Impedance would waste a ton of power if you move it too far away.

[brave field]

Our governments and celebrities can order enough solar panels and wind turbines to power entire small countries in less than 5 minutes but they don't. Manufacturers want profit, buying land sucks, batteries are expensive, and the consumer wants to pinch every penny possible

[strong saffron]

You'd need a ton of land to pull that off probably

[arctic yarrow]

Plus, even when there's plenty of sun and wind, it's still intermittent.

The electrical grid requires a constant source of power.

One of the reasons why politicians should shed their fear of nuclear and allow the construction of more reactors. It's way more environmentally friendly than coal, very power compact, and not intermittent unlike wind and solar.

Hydro wouldn't be a bad thing either.

[strong saffron]

What about the amount of power? I live < 10 degrees from the equator and solar isn't that popular here apart from residential applications

[brave field]

The whole world really should find a way to adopt solar more
I vote for photovoltaic sidewalks

[arctic yarrow]

That's not a bad idea. Much better than using vehicle roads for solar.

Yes, solar and wind can be used for supplemental power, but you need a constant power source to support the grid.

[jovial tide]

on earth surface? I dont think thats viable(huge amounts of money required) who will risk that amount of money for volatile currency like btc? Satoshi Nakamoto?
but i think it could be viable if they design huge miner satellites who always keep their face towards the sun somehow( no downtime for the batteries)
but this is one is also more resource/money hungry than on earth's surface

[brave field]

Non-residential transportation and industrial uses are a nice 85% of fossil fuel use in the US, for example
As someone who knows nothing about the field, update factory machines and trains, then move to houses and deal with 4000W/hr heating and air conditioning, and then push cars with regenerative braking

[jovial tide]

I think the plans you're mentioning will eventually happen want it or not, fossil fuels will run out someday and we'll have no other choice. maybe not for another century, but it happens finally.

[brave field]

shouldn't wait for fossil fuels to not exist when we have enough alternatives to power the world 🙁

[jovial tide]

but why companies are not doing all they can for this matter right now, I really dont know, maybe they wanna pass the burden to future generations

im not saying they are not doing anything atall, but its really not enough

[river ingot]

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