tech

[frozen meadow]

10mbps is all i'm getting so small improvement

i'll put it in recovery mode

[hexed aurora]

Breadstick: did you get ADSL or VDSL?

[frozen meadow]

ADSL

It's an ADSL line according to sky

We're meant to have Full Fibre Broadband with 76mbps speeds but it hasn't reach 70mbps in over a year

[wide temple]

I download more than I upload, especially with 4K streaming

Though I'd like a faster upload... maybe in the future

[frozen meadow]

I upload quite a lot but download much more

I used to have a nice 70mbps Down and 20mbps Upload

My router is limited to 60mbps down and 18mbps up which is pretty stupid

[wide temple]

I don't have FTTH/FTTC on my local cabinet

[frozen meadow]

and i have a 55mbps guarantee, haven't seen 55mbps for a looong time

[wide temple]

so I can't get fibre

[frozen meadow]

https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/35fKgiPA.png

😐 https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/25ASUkal.png

doesn't help that our package no longer exists

[hexed aurora]

@frozen meadow ADSL isn't Fibre, and is limited heavily by distance, and if that's what you got, there's no way to get anything faster without having them lay either Coaxial (fiber to the distribution) or Fiber to the house

[sinful monolith]

ADSL caps out at 24/1 or 8/3

[hexed aurora]

They can't guarantee anything on ADSL

ADSL2+ has some higher limits 3v

[frozen meadow]

Ugh, we've had BT come around the streets in my area upgrading the wires to fibre optics and we still have an old ADSL thing

[sinful monolith]

if the connection bonds multiple ADSL2+ lines then yes

[hexed aurora]

distance from DSLAM is king on ADSL, and you're stuck with that unless the government has some agreement that they should improve it for users

in which case, that's your card for getting fibre cheap-ish, otherwise you'll likely have to cover the cost to get fiber to the house

[sinful monolith]

4G can be a better option depending on the pricing on both fiber installation and mobile plans

[hexed aurora]

For sure can be a legit good option

but since BT supposedly laid fiber in the streets, the cost of getting fiber to the house shouldn't be too high

nowhere near what my parents are facing

[sinful monolith]

had ADSL2+ at my parent's place (20/1) and got a 4G router instead for a 30-110/20-50 connection (not as stable bandwidth-wise, but ping was stable)

[frozen meadow]

Well the thing is, the wire is from the telegraph pole rly and to do my house would mean doing the entire telegraph pole cos it's old 😐

[wide temple]

you can get it wired underground too, no?

I was given the option to get rid of the cable on my telegraph pole and stick it underground

[frozen meadow]

it's already been done underground in the streets

but we don't have underground cabling to our house

it goes on this wooden pole to the top of our house, down to the living room into the wall and into this old socket. Weirdly we have 3 phone sockets in the house, 1 is Virgin Media, 2nd is Sky, 3rd is IDK

We're not even on the new "Sky Q" and still on the ancient, hand-cranked Sky+HD And Sky Hub

i say hand-cranked cos it's that slow it's believable

[hexed aurora]

Basically: call your provider, have them do checks, and don't pay for more than the best plan that you can actually utilize on ADSL where you are

at about 1KM from DSLAM, you'll see 20/1 at most

that is if conditions are perfect and there is no bad wiring between you and the DSLAM

[frozen meadow]

i'm 1.2 Miles away from my local telephone exchange and i'm 404 feet away from my nearest DSLAM Box

oh wow

"404" feet

-_-

[hexed aurora]

Nearest doesn't mean the one you're connected to

[frozen meadow]

well it's the one that goes to outside my house so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hexed aurora]

My parents situation in a nutshell, nearest DSLAM is 150M away, they are hooked up to one 1K away

[frozen meadow]

ouch

there's like loads of grates in the pavement going from the box to my house, all over the pavement 😐

[hexed aurora]

Very rare that you are hooked to the nearest DSLAM, and you probably don't know which you're actually hooked up to as there are plinths between your house and every distribution point

[frozen meadow]

i mean

[hexed aurora]

heck, I don't think anyone is ever hooked directly into distribution points that have DSLAMs

[frozen meadow]

there's like 5 of them around me within 500 metres

[hexed aurora]

I think you're mixing the terms

Nobody puts 5 DSLAMs in a 500 meter radius

[frozen meadow]

am i?

erm

the green boxes or grey boxes in the street aren't they?

[hexed aurora]

no

DSLAMs are like a server rack, in a distribution centre

[frozen meadow]

ohh

[hexed aurora]

A single DSLAM normally covers a 2 SQKM+ area

that's just plinths

[frozen meadow]

ohh

i got 5 of them and then loads of these boxes on the floor

like grate things

[hexed aurora]

DSLAMs are usually either in the basement of a central building of sort, or share space with power distribution points

yeah, normal to have a lot of plinths in an area

[frozen meadow]

ahh right

[hexed aurora]

it's to be able to route to what distribution room your lines will be hooked into your provider's systems

I'm glad I didn't go down the tele repair path though

[frozen meadow]

lol

[hexed aurora]

most distribution rooms are hell to trace out a line on

[frozen meadow]

rip

i got 2 telephone exchanges within 3 miles

[hexed aurora]

imagine a room, with ~10k of these: http://www.ikn.no/produktbilder/420px_6901141.jpg

[frozen meadow]

oh my

[hexed aurora]

one line will use 2 of those on each end of the wire, to route

if you're "lucky" the points you wire are on oposite sides of the room

[frozen meadow]

ahh

[hexed aurora]

and you have to remove any old wiring

10k of those will be able to serve 50k buildings tops

[frozen meadow]

O_O

[hexed aurora]

though it's probably more like 25k phones total in a distribution room

And if you're lucky, you're wiring up ISDN

[frozen meadow]

Erm

My router got rebooted O.o

but the logs have disappeared

[hexed aurora]

normal phone lines run on 72V, ISDN runs on 192V

yay for random reboots

[frozen meadow]

it does it like 4-6 times a night when it ain't a bank holiday

when it's a bank holiday it doesn't reboot

that makes me suspicious for some reason

[hexed aurora]

but yeah, why the voltage matters: If you're "lucky" and accidentally bridge both sides with your thumb, you're in for a fun shock

[frozen meadow]

lol

[scenic ferry]

There was a video saying that graphics cards should start to get slightly cheaper due to new technology but im not sure how true that is

Didn't have time to check the sources. I'll see if I can find it

[hexed aurora]

It will drop in price, simply because they are ramping production on the memory now, since they are moving to GDDR6, for the past 6-7 months, most fabs have been making DDR4 memory targeting phones

That's why the "crypto currencies are causing the price hike" is so shallow reasoning

[frozen meadow]

I rly want this phone, it would be better than my rubbish previous phone... https://amzn.to/2qdnMMN

I mean for the price it's just great, all i need for a phone tbf

[hexed aurora]

The smartphones they have coughed out have performed well, so I don't see how those "dumb" phones don't match 😛

[frozen meadow]

if they put all the power of a smartphone in a "dumb" phone, then that phone will be the most powerful phone ever made due to mainly how slim the OS would be tbf

It could probs match up to 4 xbox 360s basically

[hexed aurora]

nah

[frozen meadow]

clicks noice https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/hXWVkNio.png

£30 is best price i found and it was from my own carrier too! (giffgaff). It's usually £50-£60. Amazing price and a great phone i can use that actually would work and not die...

[frozen meadow]

Somehow instead of going to Leeds, it has ended up in birmingham wtf

[hexed aurora]

Well, that's your fault for living in Leeds

[jade trench]

Ewww Leeds

[frozen meadow]

m8, leeds is better than brimingham

[grizzled crow]

it clearly got robbed

cos its leeds

[wide temple]

that's liverpool

not leeds

[grizzled crow]

naa leeds is teh same

[spiral yew]

i ordered new pc patrs but can't decide whether to get a 240gb SSD or another 500GB HDD because i've used 232GB out of the 500GB

[hexed aurora]

500GB HDD, in 2018

[spiral yew]

lol well that's what i'm using now

[hexed aurora]

I wouldn't consider anything less than 4TB a year ago

the price per GB on < 4TB drives is quite high here

[spiral yew]

well i'm from the US

tuxy i currently have 500GB primary drive and a 2TB secondary hard drive for my steam games

[hidden shell]

500gb, lol :)

[hexed aurora]

Even Sysgen laughs

a 2TB drive costs 60$…

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178993

a 500GB costs 48$…

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822179011

for example

pretty easy to see that the price per GB on the 500GB is through the roof

Doubling from 2TB, you don't double the price: 95$ for 4TB:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822179299

once you clim over, into 6 and 8TB area things start to go the wrong way again price-wise

so even in the US, the 4TB area seem to be the sweet spot in price to size area

[grizzled crow]

how come my internet keeps going off but discord works perfectly fine the whole time

and chrome is like naaa

[hexed aurora]

Discord uses websockets, so the connection is already established

could be DNS failing, to verify, try setting your DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1

[grizzled crow]

na i think its the router now cos wifi is playing up as well

[hexed aurora]

Then Discord would drop as well

[grizzled crow]

na i had a moment where chrome wouldn't work and i had a little triangle and it was saying network isn't connected but discord worked 😂

[hexed aurora]

yeah, but then your router would have to route data still 😉

hence why the likely cause is DNS, not your entire connection

[frozen meadow]

i bet your router dns is giving up cos ur spam krav

[spiral yew]

Well I just realised that my mobo wasn't fully screwed into the case since I'm upgrading my pc

[frozen meadow]

my pc mobo is missing 2 screws cos when i bought it, there were 2 screws missing 🙃

[spiral yew]

And I've had the pc 4 years before doing upgrades

[frozen meadow]

lol gg

[spiral yew]

So wtf cyberpowerpc for not checking the screws to make sure they were tight

[frozen meadow]

wut

oh gg

[spiral yew]

Yea I had originally ordered this pc from them and didn't even check the screws

[grizzled crow]

internet is stable now

it was annoying my mum cos she was streaming on tv and it kept going off

so that's a positive

[charred granite]

Yo, does anybody know how to fix this issue where whenever my monitors go to sleep mode then when I turn them on the first display goes greyish colour so I have to go to the nvidia digital brightness tab and refresh it

My other display is connected to my mobo cos i only use it for discord and such so yeah

[jade trench]

@charred granite First display being the one connected to nVidia GPU or Mobo?

I'd suggest plugging them both into your GPU, it won't cause much (if at all) performance decrease

[charred granite]

First one is to the gpu

@jade trench

[jade trench]

Try them both in GPU

[charred granite]

already did

[jade trench]

Same problem?

[charred granite]

yee

[jade trench]

On the one or both screens?

[charred granite]

ye

1

[jade trench]

Tried switching the monitors on the gpu?

[charred granite]

wdym

[wide temple]

do you lose your settings when you restart too?

[charred granite]

nope

i just put the marker to like 100 and then cancel @wide temple

[wide temple]

aren't you supposed to press apply?

[charred granite]

no

digital vibrace on 100? lol

vibrance*

whatever

but yeah it's like a restart

not computer restart

[wide temple]

hmm

cos I've always read about a bug in windows 10 and nvidia control panel resetting after a restart

[charred granite]

aha

any luck on how to fix it?

hold on

Nvm I fixed it

I had to change the dynamic range to ‘full’

[dusty timber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2z4pjgP-AM&t=0s

[hexed aurora]

boyah, colleague didn't like new monitors, so I got them xD

now I got 2x1440p at work

the pixels

I has all

[primal frigate]

What a genius

[grizzled crow]

ikr

[marble forge]

^my mum's laptop/tablet thing doesn't work properly and when you want to use it as a tablet that's is the only way to do it

[frozen meadow]

Anybody know how to improve fps in ETS2 for a Nvidia GTX 1050ti 4gb Card, i'm getting average 20-30fps when i'm supposed to get 60+fps and people with lower spec cards seem to get higher fps and ones with lower spec CPUs too but my pc is high spec and i can't figure out why my fps i so low, even with lowest and highest graphics there's probably a 5-10fps difference. I cleared backgrounds apps and used ParkControl CPU thing and set priority for ets2, reset the config for ets2. I've done a load of stuff but still no improvement :/

My CPU keeps going at 3.7GHz to 3.9GHz while playing ETS2 so idk

[wide temple]

checked your temperatures?

could be thermal throttling

[frozen meadow]

Usually at 51°C when playing ETS2

But it's always at around that temperature anyway

[wide temple]

installed the latest GPU drivers?

[frozen meadow]

Yep, always keep my pc and drivers up to date

[wide temple]

did you do a clean install of your GPU drivers?

[frozen meadow]

Shouldn't it do that everytime i run an update from Geforce Experience panel?

[wide temple]

no

run display driver uninstaller

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

[frozen meadow]

ahh ok

anything else that i could do?

this is not re-assuring me... https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/1Og6neZb.png

my pc is a 3.5GHz but it's saying it's max is 3.49GHz

oh boy... https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/vGZc9TEA.png

doing clean nvidia install

it had an option on it to uninstall all nvidia and install

[wide temple]

I wouldn't worry about tiny discrepancies in clock speed

I'd run display driver uninstaller instead

not sure how much of a "clean install" nvidia's option is

[wide temple]

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/13/apple-lawsuit-repair-shop-norway/

woo, go norway!

[hexed aurora]

Good… now US come up with universal right to repair acts…

[grizzled crow]

its already in process 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w

[hexed aurora]

I know, except that there are some big forces on the other side of the table, and inept on the legislative side

[frozen meadow]

So got a MacOSX for AMD vbox, just waiting patiently on this page lmao https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/FADEf0w3.png

2 hours later...

that "Creating Account" spinner is stuck so idk

[hexed aurora]

[jade trench]

That’s Apple for ya

[frozen meadow]

Nah that's Hackintosh for ya 😛

[spiral yew]

Question if the cpu states this is the memory type DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V does that mean that's the only memory I can use 🤔

[flat grove]

is your CPU unlocked or not?

PS You can only use DDR4/DDR3 with your CPU

[spiral yew]

no I have the i7 6700

[flat grove]

K or non-K version?

[spiral yew]

Non k

[flat grove]

then you're limited to the given specs. So DDr3/DDR4 with the given Clock speeds.

[spiral yew]

Hmmmmmm interesting when I connected the hard drive with win 7 installed I was able to get the pc to boot to bios but not with a new hard drive

[spiral yew]

Got it to work 😀

I learned one thing and that is to not insert your gpu card when installing Windows on a new pc

[frozen meadow]

My pc all clean now :3 (it is turned on but the camera got the fan completely still xD)

I have a very tiny mobo lmao

i taped my bluetooth/wifi antenna to the top of the pc for better signal

[spiral yew]

The shutter speed on your camera matched the speed of the fan

[frozen meadow]

Samsung Smart Auto Photo mode works i guess LOL

My PC 2 years ago, it looks so tidy and more of a work pc than a gaming pc

wow i had a bad camera then

[spiral yew]

Haven't installed my gpu card yet cause Windows is still installing

[frozen meadow]

Wow my pc looks crap compared to yours lmao

My pc is crap tbf

I need a new pc altogether tbh

Which is gonna cost me sooo much

[spiral yew]

I used to have a mini atx mobo

[frozen meadow]

My mini atx is just a pain for connections and space

wait i think mines a micro atx

idk

[spiral yew]

I upgraded to have more connectors

I think my old one is the same size as yours

[frozen meadow]

I need a new mobo, new pc case, new cpu fan, new cpu, new disc drive (blu-ray maybe), new chassis fan, etc...

Cos my pc is more dead than anything

I've had my pc die (re-install after) about 12 times

All died and stopped working

i also had to BIOS die on me and i somehow got it working again after a little BIOS flashing

Never trust prebuilt PCs

And i hate ASUS for giving me this rubbish

[spiral yew]

old mobo and I've hated pre-built pc's even though I've never had one

Yes pre builts cost less and the reason they cost less is cause they use cheapest parts available

[frozen meadow]

oh my

that looks very

basic...

[scenic ferry]

Interesting orientation of CPU fan but looks good

[frozen meadow]

lol i was wondering that

I'm gonna build a pc and make sure it isn't crap like what i have now

[spiral yew]

I had a sound card that I could've used the pcie header but it would've been directly under the gpu fans so I had to use a expansion header so that the gpu fans would get enough airflow

[frozen meadow]

rip

[spiral yew]

Yea I might change it if I want to add more ram cause the cooler is covering one of the ram slots

[frozen meadow]

oh i miss this setup, so clean and nice. Now mines a giant mess that needs cleaning...

lol my old iphone is on that pic

[spiral yew]

Ewwwwwww iphone

[frozen meadow]

before it died cos battery shorted the phone

crappy B&M thing killed my phone so rip

I'm now using a Nokia 3310 3G 😐

[spiral yew]

The one that you posted a pic of earlier?

[frozen meadow]

yeeep

cos all my other phones died

and my iPhone wa best phone i used

until it died

[spiral yew]

🤦

[frozen meadow]

I had many android smartphones

i had an older iPhone

that died too

I have an iPhone 3GS, it's like don't even bother

[spiral yew]

Are smart phones expensive where you live?

[frozen meadow]

Errrm

Just a bit

[spiral yew]

So how much would a S7 cost?

[frozen meadow]

https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/G4ZK0hQs.png £349 for an iPhone SE 😐

An S7

lemme see

£500

or £600 for the S7 Edge

[spiral yew]

I have the S7 now I was thinking bout getting the S9

[frozen meadow]

S9 camera was just a flop for the phone

They tried to make it really good that was gonna be best camera ever

and just failed so hard

Like the 4K 60fps might as well be called 720P Upscaled

[spiral yew]

I don't even use the camera that much anyways

[frozen meadow]

I can get an iPhone SE for £230 from giffgaff which is better than £350

[wide temple]

don't buy the SE

It's due for an update very soon

[scenic ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-DOeAm-PQ

[jade trench]

@frozen meadow switching an iPhone battery isn't hard

Just need the tools

[frozen meadow]

Er

The entire main board shorted out with the charging port too...

On both my iPhones

[jade trench]

Ahhh, you could probably switch them out too but you wouldn't get your storage or anything

[frozen meadow]

Cos smartphone fans are a bad idea

I also got a broken home button to (i accidentally snapped the cable), so i might as well sell both for spare parts and save up for a new iPhone tbh

[frank dirge]

I just switched from an SE to an 8 yesterday. Man the 8 is an update, I really like it. Apple normally release new phones in September so if you can wait till then, the older generations drop in price

[jade trench]

I have an SE, waiting until october / november to get a 7/8 when the next ones are released

[frank dirge]

I was tempted to wait but my SE was slowly dying on me. I’ve used that thing so much

[frozen meadow]

I'm waiting for the SE 2 if it does come out

oh boy

what happens when it comes to iPhone 9

Will they have to do an iPhone 11 or 10? 😛

[frank dirge]

The X is the 10

[frozen meadow]

Yeah but when it comes to after iPhone 9, what will be next, a new iPhone 10 or an iPhone 11 😉

[thick mural]

iPhone 10 is already out

iPhone X 😛

[frozen meadow]

i know

but what will happen tho that's the thing 😛

[upper dove]

About that “The entire main board shorted out” you can switch the main board and charging board, but you’ll be stumped starlight away because of the annoying pentalobe screws and you’d need to find a screwdriver on eBay

Most of the time they’re like 99p tho and some are even from the UK as well so quick shipping

[wide temple]

Wouldn’t surprise me if they skipped iPhone 9 just like Microsoft did with windows 9

[upper dove]

Yeah but remember, 7 8 9

[frozen meadow]

flip sakes..

[sand valley]

Don’t get the iPhone SE I’m with it and it’s really bad this is my last week with this phone then going to the iPhone 7 😄

[frozen meadow]

SE is just ageing now tbf and is probably getting an update this year or something similar will get released this year after seeing all the stuff going on about it.

[wide temple]

It's definitely due a spec update now

[hexed aurora]

[frozen meadow]

That's one hell of a hostname...

[hexed aurora]

loads of them

[dusty timber]

Meanwhile in the world: Russian government is trying to block Telegram messenger. 16M IPs is on the blocking list (including Amazon and Google cloud services). Telegram is still working.

[hexed aurora]

yeah, Russia('s government) is great

[dusty timber]

So, Russia blocks themself

It is the Internet regulator website

[dusty timber]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-ban

[hexed aurora]

Cue them doing a Pakistani Telekom and announce an IP range that doesn't belong to them

[hexed aurora]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NU7yOSElE

[upper dove]

^ I was literally about to post that here as well 🤔

But then I found this https://youtu.be/jIOJY6xUd1s

[hexed aurora]

https://youtu.be/oNl2q6YZXlA

[upper dove]

Ah so my macbooks I have here in my room that I bought broken and I fixed (almost) successfully are now counterfeit according to Apple, and that they’re PCs

[hexed aurora]

not only that

but because of that, Apple won't help you if there's an issue with another part

nither will an Apple Authorised repair centre

that's really the core of Linus' issue, Apple doesn't let anyone repair the broken machine

Apple won't do it, no Authorized repair center can get the replacement parts, because the certification required to repair the machine doesn't exist yet

and no 3rd party repair can do it, because the part is too new, and apple refuses to sell the part to 3rd party repair centres

Tailosive's arguments are disengenious for what the real issue is

[upper dove]

The only reason that there getting away with it is, as Louis suggested, they’re taking advantage of the fact that the US government won’t get involved- so they have a monopoly and then anyone who tries to break that monopoly for them they’ll be like ”Well we’ll sue you”

And people are like “Whaaa Apple has loads of really expensive lawyers so I’ll settle with this unreasonable agreement because I don’t stand a chance of winning”

^ Hence that

[plucky whale]

oh boy

I may have a dying hard disk

games wont launch from it

and those that do freeze instantly

my ass

anyone here tell me if this is bad or not

I've also got hd tune running

not sure if it'll be helpful or not

and event viewer has 11 minutes worth of bad block disk errors

[wild forge]

@plucky whale ye it is bad your hdd is dying indeed best idea is backup everything that is on it and copy it to a new/other drive

[hexed aurora]

https://youtu.be/zBnDWSvaQ1I

[hidden shell]

Mind blown! I'm gonna try that!!

[hexed aurora]

It answers some strange ads I've received in the past

[hidden shell]

I've just tried on my Android phone and nothing. I did the same thing he did but with a different subject and not a single add about my subject. I'll try with my laptop later.

[hidden shell]

Nope, I could not recreate what he did on my Windows 10 laptop. Made sure the microphone was working, turned off ad-block and nothing. No ads related to my subject.

[hexed aurora]

could be faked as well

[thick mural]

I think it is faked

How can Google hear something what you are talking outside the browser?
I mean I did not check if he fully ended the browser

[hexed aurora]

phone

[hidden shell]

Well anyone that can try it, please do and report your results here.

[plucky whale]

here goes

[grizzled crow]

rip £100 spent on upgrades for the church PA system

[grizzled crow]

y cry @thick mural

[thick mural]

£100 could be spent better 😛

[grizzled crow]

meh

the upgrades will be worth it

[thick mural]

If you are right, it is great then

[grizzled crow]

thats one of the tings https://i.imgur.com/1r2FCA4.png

[thick mural]

I do not know it, sorry 😄

[grizzled crow]

its bluetooth :p

[thick mural]

For what? 😛

[grizzled crow]

for idiots who buy a phone with no headphone jack

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

we had that problem abit ago

someone had some music on a phone that had no headphone jack and our system has like no proper backup system

i might not have enough plugs anyway 🤔

well socket plugs

[thick mural]

Okay ... 😄

Sounds useful 😄

[grizzled crow]

i was originally getting another cd player with bluetooth built in but apparently that was too expensive smh

[thick mural]

But you are rich ... or? 🤔

[grizzled crow]

meh

not rich

its either like £100+ for a cd player with bluetooth or £30 with like £10 accessories for a xlr thing

[thick mural]

Too much expensive 😄

[upper dove]

@grizzled crow Ah is that like a Bluetooth to XLR thing? Didn't know those existed xD

[grizzled crow]

same until i found it

[thick mural]

Yep. And then Krav came and wrote about it as he was Pro with those things

[untold matrix]

Is it normal if my computer shuts down at random points when I'm recording

[spiral yew]

nope

@untold matrix do you get a blue screen or does it just shut down?

[untold matrix]

It just shut downs and then restarts

[grizzled crow]

Maybe its overheating;)

[untold matrix]

Idk. Thats why I'm asking

[grizzled crow]

£30 for a server shelf smh

[wide temple]

Check event viewer to see why it shut down

[marble forge]

does anyone know what kind of power supply plug this is? its for some CD drive but i have never seen that kind of plug before 🤔

[wide temple]

looks like a SATA power cable

[marble forge]

yeah but it's a small 6 pin version

[wide temple]

yup, it's a slimline SATA power cable

http://www.scythe-eu.com/uploads/tx_cfamooflow/Slim-Line-Sata-Cable-conectors_01.JPG

usually look like this

not too surprising considering it's on an OEM power supply

[grizzled crow]

naa

doesnt look like a slimline

[marble forge]

Yeah

It's just a 6 pin adapter

My friend wants a new gpu which needs a new PSU and normal PSUs don't have these stupid 6 pin data connectors

[wide temple]

@grizzled crow google slimline SATA power cable and that's what comes up

[frozen meadow]

People saying they can’t live with an 8gb storage phone. I’m sat here with 32MB storage phone

[thick mural]

Yea. But your Android with apps does not take 6GB

[hexed aurora]

@marble forge just toss out the drive, if he really wants that, you can pick up a new one, with standard plugs for next to nothing

[marble forge]

That's exactly what I told him

[hexed aurora]

[marble forge]

It's not my problem, if he really really needs a cd drive he's just gonna have to use an external one

He has some rubbish hp computer and expects it to "just work" with a new GPU 🤷😂

[hexed aurora]

it's not an unreasonable expectation tbf

[marble forge]

Well...

[hexed aurora]

PCs have been sold in the past as being upgradable, but system integrators nixing that without making people aware is… sad

like the dark ages of Dell, where they swapped 2 pins on the ATX power, so if you used a 3rd party psu, bye bye motherboard

[marble forge]

😂

[hexed aurora]

but expecting a PC to be upgradable, without much work, isn't unreasonable, system integrators are arguably the ones that should be called unreasonable for not adding the extra 6/8 pin necessary for a GPU upgrade

[marble forge]

It's gonna be interesting once he gets his new GPU and PSU... We had to settle for a compact version of elthe 1060 and I'm not even 100% sure there's enough space in the case 😂

[hexed aurora]

how tiny is his computer?

sounds like it's rivaling my laptop in size

[marble forge]

idk it's a pretty normal case but the DIMM slots are literally right in front of the pcie slot which is currently only used by some small crap GeForce GT card

Oh and the CD drive is also a limiting factor because it's installed in the front

[lofty mason]

Hi

[pure tinsel]

I just set 8x MSAA on ETS2 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[untold matrix]

I have 0x msaa

[hexed aurora]

Home automation

https://files.inf.thor.re/screenshots/18/04/25/opera_2018-04-25_13-40-50.png

I see now why people get addicted to it

[wide temple]

Oooh, is that your own dashboard? What sensors are you using?

[hexed aurora]

Netatmo environment only so far

but going to research into power meter ones

[tawdry tundra]

Nice

[untold matrix]

Ok the computer hasnt restarted it self in a week now

[wild forge]

@untold matrix if there is no windows update there is no reason to restart

[untold matrix]

It just restarted by it self. I have disabled updates

[wild forge]

disabled updates

[untold matrix]

yup

[jade trench]

“Disabled “

[frozen meadow]

@grizzled crow I finally got a Samsung phone

But i now know what iPhone 7 users feel like when they have headphones but no headphone jack on their phone...

So im getting this adapter for mine

It's a Samsung J7

oh i mean Samsung SGH-J700V 😛

sadly it is packed full of vodafone as it is the vodafone version but i unlocked it to use my giffgaff sim card (hax)

[spiral yew]

Oh you got the stripped down version of the S7

[hexed aurora]

disable automatic updates is bad

[spiral yew]

I have mine set to notify me before downloading

[grizzled crow]

I just let it update

I check every night before bed to wake up a hot phone that has somewhat bugged out

[grizzled crow]

80% done

[grizzled crow]

Why think @thick mural

[thick mural]

Interesting design

[grizzled crow]

From the top shelf to the amp it was all void

Now I have a air vent then a shelf then 2 blank panels

[thick mural]

Send it when it will be done

I am looking forward to it

[grizzled crow]

It is done

Just the amp isn't screwed cos it was being crap

And it weighs a tonne

And I had a thumb letting out red liquid

[thick mural]

Yea

But probably you will not have any bateries there then

[grizzled crow]

Why

They are on a shelf above the vent

[thick mural]

It looks weird for me personally 😄

[grizzled crow]

How

Batteries are more emergency

[thick mural]

It should be clear without any stuff

[grizzled crow]

What should

Nothing is gonna go bang

[grizzled crow]

tbh i dont know why i have that many batteries

[grizzled crow]

@thick mural that was like before

well several months before but ye

[thick mural]

Church?

[grizzled crow]

ye

[thick mural]

LOL

[jade trench]

Praise the Lord

Kravaty did something nice for once

[grizzled crow]

What you mean nice for once smh @jade trench

[jade trench]

😂😂

You’re just a meanie

[limber isle]

Kravatie, the forum nub. You're a meme now

[grizzled crow]

go do maths

[sand valley]

what is maths

[untold matrix]

@grizzled crow you bully everyone

[grizzled crow]

Its his name

Math-98

[jade trench]

2+2 is 4 -1 that’s 3 quick maffs

[ionic bobcat]

*Maths

[grizzled crow]

@jade trench most facepalms ive seen

[jade trench]

Yuuuup

[grizzled crow]

https://i.imgur.com/l3Dm2yz.png

new update

[hexed aurora]

just in time to now be 2 months late 😛

[wide temple]

inb4 it breaks everything

[strange wing]

probably will, it's windows

[hexed aurora]

so far, windows 10 feature updates have been quite good

for me

[grizzled crow]

i like the new sound thing

[hexed aurora]

been waiting for that, installing it now

[grizzled crow]

potato internet https://i.imgur.com/WsYhlDr.png

it was downloading like 5 videos in google drive at once at the same time

https://www.tenor.co/Pjmc.gif

[hexed aurora]

look on the bright side, it's slow to install too

https://files.inf.thor.re/screenshots/18/04/30/ApplicationFrameHost_2018-04-30_19-31-56.png

been stuck there for 20 minutes

[wide temple]

It's probably quicker to do a clean install than it is to update

also, new sound thing? wut

[grizzled crow]

my laptop is faster than my pc at downloading

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hexed aurora]

you can control which audio interface each app uses

krav: probably the p2p stuff doing the laptop install faster 😉

[grizzled crow]

ew

[wide temple]

oh, shame I only have one audio interface rip

[grizzled crow]

the laptop is being a peasant

and stealing the stuff from the suffering pc

[hexed aurora]

it'll be nice to use with eg. Virtual audio cable

[wide temple]

fair point

[hexed aurora]

also lets you put eg. spotify on speakers while having everything else on headphones

[grizzled crow]

that'll be cool at church 🤔

shame it only has one audio jack on that pc

[hexed aurora]

also very illegal to use at church 😛

[grizzled crow]

how

[hexed aurora]

Public places (a church is a form of public place) it's considered a performance

[grizzled crow]

naa

we have a licence 😉

[hexed aurora]

performances is against Spotify's terms

[grizzled crow]

we dont use spotify

[hexed aurora]

I said "you can use spotify on speakers", and you said "that'll be cool"

[grizzled crow]

no i ment the idea of splitting stuff

[hexed aurora]

I assumed then that you meant using spotify to do so

[grizzled crow]

we have this https://i.imgur.com/V8bDhCW.png

[hexed aurora]

I was talking specifically regarding spotify ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grizzled crow]

we have another one about copying music but idc about that

cos thats the choirs thing

[hexed aurora]

no amount of licenses will let you use spotify in a performance setting

[grizzled crow]

i just have ripped cds

the only time i play something is when the schools come in and give me cds 🙄

[sinful monolith]

suddenly 1803 everywhere

[hexed aurora]

finally 100%

[grizzled crow]

pc is restarting now

i staggered them so my pc will hopefully finish before my laptop

@hexed aurora https://i.imgur.com/vzHw40p.png

thats what it looks like if it hasn't updated yet

[hexed aurora]

finally on 1803 as well

reboots took a while

[grizzled crow]

im waiting for laptop now

[sinful monolith]

I use the enterprise update schedule (60 or 90 days delayed, idr)

[hexed aurora]

depends

[jade trench]

Well I’m late to the party 😦 boots laptop

[sinful monolith]

got sufficiently burned by one of the previous builds as an early adopter

[grizzled crow]

that update proper killed my latop

[tame violet]

?

[grizzled crow]

had to contact asus support

[tame violet]

?

[hexed aurora]

gg

[grizzled crow]

it rebooted into the bios and froze

so i restarted it and now its like not even loading up the bios screen smh

but when it rebooted into the bios there was like nothing displayed

[jade trench]

Oh I hope that doesn’t happen

I have an ASUS laptop too

runs backup

[sinful monolith]

aaaand that's why I use the enterprise update schedule

I let everyone else run into the issues so they're all fixed by the time I update

[jade trench]

😂 You got that version

[sinful monolith]

I'm still on 1709

[jade trench]

I mean you've got the pro / enterprise edition

[hexed aurora]

have to be enterprise to be on the slow ring afaik

pro only get Semi-annual channel and targeted semi-annual

[sinful monolith]

semi-annual is the delayed option

targeted is the "give me when released to public"

enterprise can tune further

[hexed aurora]

right, I got a pretty sane desktop, so not worried

it was built around Windows 10

[sinful monolith]

mine is from last year

[hexed aurora]

that moment when you don't remember the password to your wifi

no wonder.... it's random

[jade trench]

Some idiot at college today had a raspberry pi on the network and I was able to SSH in with default credentials I wrote a nice note on his Desktop 😂

Probably broke a law or two but oh well

[sinful monolith]

is it burglary if the front door is open and no-one's home?

[jade trench]

🤔 Exactly

[grizzled crow]

ye

cos you're still taking property that isn't yours

[jade trench]

But I didn't take anything 😉

[sinful monolith]

What if all you do is place a note saying "oi you left your door open"

[grizzled crow]

then its trespassing

if you dont take anything

[jade trench]

They can't do anything, bc who r u?

I think a court would dismiss the case

[sinful monolith]

in Finland it's technically "breaching the peace of home"

however, signing into an unprotected device does not count as a crime

only if you use a user account that doesn't belong to you, or bypass protections put in place

[hexed aurora]

If it requires any kind of sign-in, you would be breaching a law most likely

[frozen meadow]

ooh https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/TjYLvQ0l.png

[grizzled crow]

i like that affect https://i.imgur.com/LMoVEmu.png

[frozen meadow]

how did you get that?

is it that 1803 update or something?

Cortana died again craaaap https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/5cV9niZM.png

[grizzled crow]

ye

[jade trench]

Effect*

[grizzled crow]

sh

go back to posing with dog filters

https://www.tenor.co/wxuN.gif

[frozen meadow]

ok... https://i.sgtbreadstick.tk/mqYENjQ9.png

[grizzled crow]

do it

[grizzled crow]

lol whats the leaf for https://i.imgur.com/pTRtoMA.png

[frozen meadow]

The update failed rip

Anyway, these headphones i got for my iPad are brilliant, the bass is so good on them they actually move on my ears lmfao

Yet the speakers are so small due to them being on-ear headphones but still, they actually move like hell on my ears

[wild forge]

@grizzled crow leaf is powersaving i think

[frozen meadow]

i got upgrade error "0xc00000fd" from upgrade assistant after

My Windows Update database is somehow corrupted

well gg Microsoft

:3

[untold matrix]

Nice

[frozen meadow]

ok just take a picture of my desktop and not the upgrade assistant, that's totally a good thing 😂

This time it shall work

If not i need to get a new pc cos i would have had enough with this piece of crap

I probably know why they called it Windows tbf

Because it makes you wanna throw it out f***ing one

😂

[frozen meadow]

SDKJFHNSFUBSDKJ https://i.imgur.com/RC7CAdO.png

[wild forge]

@frozen meadow use the media creation tool

[frozen meadow]

Would b it my pc died so having to fix that now...

[hexed aurora]

does anyone have experience with light meters for home automation, any recommendations for a good one? Should I pop for a Z-Wave based system? If so, recommendations for a nice stand-alone gateway? I want it to integrate with Home Assistant, which runs in docker, so rather not have the gateway as a usb device on the HA host.

[frozen meadow]

:3 https://i.imgur.com/HU2ltt2.png

[grizzled crow]

copy cat

[frozen meadow]

Gonna see what's causing Windows Update to fail

[grizzled crow]

probably you

[frozen meadow]

It says something about your spam wtf

[grizzled crow]

it encrypts every letter i type in a browser https://i.imgur.com/MkMvhq8.png

[frozen meadow]

Well that would be resource wasting wouldn't it?

Plus Windows Defender is more useless than you tbh

[grizzled crow]

naa

my pc is still uber fast

[frozen meadow]

Uber is slow...

[wide temple]

using a dedicated anti-virus in 2018

adblocker + windows defender + common sense

you'll never get a virus

[hexed aurora]

Moh: that's the thing though, common sense, despite it's name, isn't all that common

[jade trench]

https://i.imgur.com/JmNORei.jpg

[frozen meadow]

lol

I have malwarebytes, adwcleaner, Sophos Home :3

But... https://i.imgur.com/isbuV6M.png

Usually adwcleaner fixes that, this time it didn't

[limber isle]

Maybe it's a sign from god, he is showing you that you shouldn't upgrade your PC

[long walrus]

Oh boy

[gilded hill]

Why is the exclamation mark there??? It’s making all the pictures on my phone (iPhone 7) blurry and it’s really annoying. Please help me.

[grizzled crow]

probs cos its apple

[hexed aurora]

I doubt the exclaimation point makes your pictures blurry

have you tried touching it and reading what it says?

[wide temple]

are you using the stock camera app or some 3rd-party one?

never seen that before

[gilded hill]

No it does

Yeah I have and it doesn’t work

I took all those photos from... my iPod...

Could that possibly be the problem? That I took those pics from a different apple device?

[frozen meadow]

Usually that exclamation mark circle is a problem with syncing, it has a small version of the image but unable to download the full version from iCloud.

Usually a quick reboot or iCloud Photo Library toggles fixes the issue

[hidden shell]

Clean your lens, it's probably got fingerprints on it.

[hallow sand]

Honestly, I got an iPhone 7 as well and I feel like the focus is terrible on it

[jade trench]

@gilded hill make sure your photos / camera app has internet access (Mobile Data or WiFi), turn off Low Power Mode and it should work. If not, try rebooting or turning on and off the iCloud Photo Library

[frozen meadow]

I here Google photos cos it just loves to be annoying to me...

I wish i had an iPhone and blot this rubbish Android phone

[gilded hill]

Google photos was giving me the same problem

Ok I think low power mode might be the problem thank you all

The problem was indeed Low Power Mode thank you

[frozen meadow]

Am i the only one who still use CDs to store some stuff?

[frozen meadow]

Currently downloading Windows 8.1 for a dual boot on my pc, because i want to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1

And yes i meant upgrade 😂

Pls get the joke

[night summit]

@gilded hill it could be because you’ve got a lower resolution photo saved to your phone instead of the original. I had the same issue on my iPhone 8 until I sorted it the other day.

[frozen meadow]

Ok going from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1 is a deffo upgrade 😂. Just need to get used to it again but it's much better

[marble forge]

better? You gotta be kidding

[frozen meadow]

Nope

I love the bigger icons in the taskbar and the old start screen that was colorful

Plus control panel being useful again and no annoying ads from Microsoft and no Microsoft edge oh and, it can play DVDs without 3rd party or paying £12.49 hehehe

[glad parrot]

Ads?

Also, don't you wanna have fluent design? It looks way better than Windows 8's design imo

Windows 8 was just too much solid color for me

Also, don't forget multiple desktop feature

Was about time they copied that from MacOS 😛

[hidden shell]

Creepy !! Google Duplex, what do you think? https://youtu.be/ijwHj2HaOT0

[grizzled crow]

how do u get your start menu back smh

dm it like died and came back alive

[frozen meadow]

Windows 8.1 was full of colour, but Windows 10 is just the same exact colour that you set, it gets ugly after time and boring but with windows 8 it’s just loads of colours to brighten it up

[pure tinsel]

It won't overheat, right?

[frozen meadow]

Should be good, if it overheats it will shutdown. Well it should do unlike mine -_-

[pure tinsel]

Wait, really?

[frozen meadow]

And i found out my BIOS needs updating but i have no clue how I'm going to do that

[pure tinsel]

I didn't know that it will shutdown when it's overheating

[frozen meadow]

All should to protect itself

[pure tinsel]

You need to do it with an USB drive

[frozen meadow]

Yeah but i don't know where the thing is to update it cos my BIOS is two years out of date lol

[pure tinsel]

What Mainboard do you've got?

[frozen meadow]

Erm lemme find it

[pure tinsel]

Ok

[frozen meadow]

Cos I'm on phone rn

[pure tinsel]

No need to hurry

[frozen meadow]

MATE

Stupid bot

[pure tinsel]

Yes?

I didn't see what happened

[frozen meadow]

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30BF_M32BF_A_F_K31BF (FM2+ )
Is my motherboard that i have

If deleted it cos caps

It*

[pure tinsel]

I see

A laptop?

[frozen meadow]

Desktop

[pure tinsel]

The website of Asus can't find any model...

Do you know the name of that Mainboard?

You can find it in the BIOS

[frozen meadow]

Try the desktop pc K31BF

[pure tinsel]

There we goo

MicroATX Mainboard?

[frozen meadow]

Yep

[pure tinsel]

Ok please don't read the name of this file xdd

[frozen meadow]

Crap, mine is early 2015 version

[pure tinsel]

I'll send you the link of that

[frozen meadow]

Just how do i update the BIOS with the CAP file?

[wide temple]

Less to do with the fact that it’ll overheat and more likely to crash instead

[hallow sand]

if it sparks, the it may overheat

[pure tinsel]

Realises that the CPU is dead

[frozen meadow]

giffgaff, you're epic... https://i.imgur.com/VkIOgnM.png

[spiral yew]

@pure tinsel the CPU ratio is your processing power so you have it set to use only 60% of each core

[pure tinsel]

Does that really mean 60%?

[spiral yew]

Yes

[pure tinsel]

When I enter 47, I'm getting 4.66 GHz

[spiral yew]

Do you have the unlocked version of your cpu?

[untold matrix]

@frozen meadow The 1 GB will make a huge difference.

[frozen meadow]

ikr

[frozen meadow]

Google... Why... https://i.imgur.com/6qzRU37.png

Fun https://i.imgur.com/eIaSYM7.png

[spiral yew]

5.6MB/s is slow

[sinful monolith]

45-ish Mb/s isn't too bad

[frozen meadow]

Can i remind you i live in the UK with Sky Fibre Pro @ 50-56mbps download 😉

Most of the time when i’m on xbox i get like 125MB/s SOMEHOW but ye. 😂

[marble forge]

That would be gigabit internet 🤔🤔

[frozen meadow]

I was thinking that too

Omg i prefer Windows 8.1 over Windows 10, it's so much better and not boring with the same colour you set and it is colourful lmao

[wide temple]

Lul sky

Virgin media do 300 Mbps now

[frozen meadow]

350Mbps i would love

[wide temple]

Supposedly even trialling 1GBps in some areas

[frozen meadow]

My parents was gonna get Virgin Media

Until we realised something...

The channel numbers were totally different to Sky's, Sky Atlantic isn't there (my mum always watches it 🙄 ), all our recordings and programs will disappear cos new box and many other things

[wide temple]

If the numbers thing was the main reason for not switching, that’s silly

Losing your recordings is a legitimate concern

Virgin are giving out new TiVo boxes but my family doesn’t want to upgrade because of all the recordings they have

(I don’t watch TV so I don’t give a shit)

[frozen meadow]

lmao

The numbers wasn't main reason

The recordings were

[wide temple]

Legally you can’t transfer them so they’ll never give the option to

[frozen meadow]

Yeah

[wide temple]

Mine on a good day

[frozen meadow]

Oof

Omg i found something really sad

I image of my Internet speed actually going to 70mbps so long ago 😭

I can't even get 56mbps nevermind 70mbps lols

[spiral yew]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7304488677.png

[frozen meadow]

even my upload speed is faster...

[spiral yew]

from the desktop app

[frozen meadow]

nevermind

you got almost double my upload now

Is it bad i still use Microsoft Office 2007?

https://i.imgur.com/KG2AqGy.png

Wow erm that's odd

holy crap that's different for an upload speed https://i.imgur.com/XYROaOh.png

ERM https://i.imgur.com/yY0bfwU.png

[spiral yew]

which is which?

[sand valley]

Both seem to be upload looking at the arrow

[frozen meadow]

It's the upload speed for both

Pink=Upload - Blue(ish)=Download

[spiral yew]

🤔 389MB upload speed

[frozen meadow]

well rip me it's now down at 21mbps https://i.imgur.com/Hw25nUO.png

if it went that fast my router should have exploded

tbh it already has once

[spiral yew]

literally exploded?

[grizzled crow]

https://www.tenor.co/sTFz.gif

[frozen meadow]

as in it died and somehow it's still going

[grizzled crow]

then it didnt explode

if someone explodes it generally doesn't keep going

[frozen meadow]

exploded as in it completely died after something happened and i had to spend ages re-doing the firmware and getting it working again

[frozen meadow]

Got a new Logitech G105 keyboard 😛

[night summit]

Noice

[frozen meadow]

Well one way of fixing my windows update problem... https://i.imgur.com/wYG3dhl.png

[frozen meadow]

Stuck on this for about 20 mins now... https://i.imgur.com/V050pyd.png

[tame violet]

Till now?

[frozen meadow]

still stuck on 100%

i'm restarting the win update service

[frozen meadow]

now stuck on 80%

[wide temple]

you could look in the Event Viewer to see what's causing the problem

[frozen meadow]

Problem

There is nothing showing up in event viewer

not a single log is there

it now just crashed

[wide temple]

could run Windows Update diagnostics

[frozen meadow]

that didn't do a thing lmao

taking a long time tho https://i.imgur.com/uo686UE.png

it's actually doing something now but taking a while cos it is a big update tbf

[frozen meadow]

Noice

[untold matrix]

I get unlimited 4G internet for 24.90€ a month

[night summit]

@frozen meadow aha. Guess we’re both giffgaff buddies pmsl

[frozen meadow]

lmao i even used all my reserve cos i left spotify on high quality so all my data has gone until tonight when it restarts

[proud sentinel]

Can you recommend giffgaff?

I'll test it here in Germany

10 pounds for 3GB is not bad for german prices!

I pay 9.99€ per month for 1.5GB... 3GB for 11.33€ is much cheaper!

Thank you EU! 🇪🇺

[frozen meadow]

i don't think you can get giffgaff if you don't live in UK, you can go in EU countries and use giffgaff but idk.

[proud sentinel]

http://www.giffgaffeuropa.com/en/

[frozen meadow]

I don't think a 9% fragmented hard drive is good for performance is it? 😐

[frozen meadow]

Well... https://i.imgur.com/867326j.png

[hybrid abyss]

😐

[untold matrix]

Why so small motherboard

[hexed aurora]

probably pre-built

Looks like the kind of boards we used back in the 90s, no flashy heatsinks or anything like you see today on self-build parts

[flint storm]

I need to upgrade my rig...

[tame violet]

I don't have ATX
I have microATX
@untold matrix

@hexed aurora I didn't build the pc myself

[hexed aurora]

Well, I guessed so 😛

these days, that kinda board is pretty much exclusively OEM

if you're lucky, they are custom enough that no after market board will fit

[grizzled crow]

its some HP pre built crap

[tame violet]

@grizzled crow true HP
But it's not crap
https://steamcommunity.com/id/HT3germany/images/

😉

[grizzled crow]

Well it is a prebilt

[hexed aurora]

prebuilt doesn't make it crap

but if they are doing shenanigans that makes it hard or impossible to upgrade then it's crap

[frozen meadow]

That's medion in a nutshell

[hexed aurora]

was Dell at a point

HP has been guilty of it as well

[frozen meadow]

EWWWWWW https://i.imgur.com/e4eaG5J.png

Windows, why is this in the insider build, oh god my eyes

[hexed aurora]

It's a step in the right direction

[frozen meadow]

yes, but maybe too early and too messed up lmao

[hexed aurora]

don't use fast track then if you don't like jarring changes 😛

[frozen meadow]

it's on slow mode lmao

I like they're doing a light theme but tbh they could redesign the file explorer again for a dark mode eeash

[marble forge]

dark themes are nice and all but that looks awful

[hexed aurora]

Windows 10 dark theme is pitch black, so not the best of choices

[wide temple]

Ye black theme only really works on OLED devices

Should use an off grey like discord

[hexed aurora]

too bad they haven't worked out the burn in issues with oled

[austere vortex]

this is what im going to use for collage /work https://pcpartpicker.com/list/shWqmq

[spiral yew]

@austere vortex have you made sure the asus motherboard supports that ram cause i had the same issue with my ram not being supported by the motherboard

[austere vortex]

That what I saw in pc builds videos on YouTube

[spiral yew]

with my motherboard there was a list of which ram were supported

[austere vortex]

Ok

Just long as it has 288 pin ram cards

[spiral yew]

mine actually had a specific brand of memory

[austere vortex]

I seen videos that ppl uses desktop gpu for laptops

[spiral yew]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-Z370-E-GAMING/HelpDesk_QVL/

[austere vortex]

If u read the manual there info in there about the rams

[spiral yew]

well i didn't read the online manual before i bought my ram

[austere vortex]

What rams did u get

[spiral yew]

i think i had corsair dominator platinum

[austere vortex]

High end rams should not cause any problems

[wide temple]

@austere vortex AIOs come with thermal paste preapplied

[frozen meadow]

Rip windows https://i.imgur.com/jeeNd9t.png

[night summit]

rip

[frozen meadow]

Currently recalibrating my iPad battery for first time since i got it around August 2016...

Has 93% it’s original capacity so it’s done alright tbf, after the use i gave it :p

Been stuck on 10% charge for way too long -_-

[spiral yew]

Anyone else having issues getting 2 different audio sources to work on win 10?

[plucky whale]

so this drive has a problem where the BIOS can't find it randomly

which stops it from booting

now this drive isn't important I just want to see if there's anything I can do about it

just to maybe throw a game or 2 on there

the other ssd (the exact same type) is working fine

although it has about a quarter of the power on hours

this is the good drive

it's also the boot drive so there isn't much room for games

[spiral yew]

120GB SSD's 🤦

I have two 2TB HDD's and yes I know SSD's are faster but I'm not gonna spend that much money for a 2TB SSD

[plucky whale]

I didn't buy them

lol

(yes I know they're really small)

[wide temple]

check the SATA cables and SATA power cables?

could be a failing SATA cable, I had one fail on me randomly (lost access to the drive then my PC wouldn't find it at all)

[plucky whale]

I swapped the cables from a HDD to it

so they should be alright

I'll leave it for a bit and see if the problem returns

[frozen meadow]

I saw a 4TB SSD on Amazon a few days ago, £400+ my arse

[strange wing]

well the cheapest 4tb ssds go for around 950 pounds here

[frozen meadow]

O_O

[strange wing]

i wouldn't use an ssd for mass storage anyway

[tame violet]

http://prntscr.com/jjx8hr
https://www.vodafone.de

^^

[pure tinsel]

Unitymedia ftw

[tame violet]

vodafone ^^

[sinful monolith]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7323127604.png

[pure tinsel]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/999999999.png

lol xd

[sinful trout]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7323377294.png

[tame violet]

lel

We all have fast internet here! 😄

[grizzled crow]

ew

[spiral yew]

bought a case to put it in

[plucky whale]

did the same thing with a laptop board

and the screen from said laptop

I was bored lol

[hexed aurora]

best type of computer is the one that has it's cables sprawling all over the place

😛

[spiral yew]

i have 3 old pc's with win XP installed that are in pieces

different driver installation window

[sinful monolith]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7324143114.png

[plucky whale]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7324285679.png

muh powerline ethernet

[spiral yew]

3v got that 1GB fiber optic speed

[frozen meadow]

Ya’ll with your high tech things, im doing fine with...

[pure tinsel]

:D

[night summit]

Lol. Nothing wrong with windows XP. I used to use it for a while before I went to Windows 10

[wide temple]

The x64 edition of XP was so badly supported though

[jade trench]

I never saw anyone use it

I didn’t know there even was 64 but processors then 😂

[frozen meadow]

I’m still trying to get internet to work on it

No luck rn

Lol my win10 doesnt have a blue screen of death

It has a green screen of death instead

Wait until i get tmp on winxp mwuahahahaha

[frozen meadow]

Wow the support is horrid, it’s win server 2003 but for desktops, ewwww

Well rip me

[pure tinsel]

Uhm, that doesn't sound good

Close the task and keep an eye if it's going to restart

Restarting your PC takes 60 minutes?

Anyways, I don't prefer McAfee

I prefer Windows Defender

[plucky whale]

Windows Defender + commonsense.exe

[frozen meadow]

McAfee is more of a virus than an anti-virus

Anything that has McAfee i try to uninstall McAfee if possible

[ashen girder]

I refuse to use it. Never have and never will. Just some pile of crap

[frozen meadow]

Worst thing is that when i uninstalled it a few times, it says i would have 230+ virus if i continued with the uninstall. I'm like, ok i'll risk it for these so called viruses

[ashen girder]

I’ll risk it, especially if it means getting rid of the major virus on my computer

[frozen meadow]

lols

[grizzled crow]

sophos tho

[wide temple]

lul using an antivirus that isn't Windows Defender and common sense in 2018

[grizzled crow]

sophos is an extra bit of mind

sophos has picked stuff up that windows hasn't

[frozen meadow]

Cough, malwarebytes

[tame violet]

ew