off-topic

[copper notch]

Ditto for Microsoft account.

It is kind of annoying though, that we make accounts on these centralized services and they become a part of our digital lives and digital identities online, but we do not actually own or control anything, and with a swift move of a bad AI or machine learning algorithm or bot, or a bad human judgment or whatever, you're wiped out instantly with no reprieve.

Becoming a much bigger fan of decentralized services based on open source though as a result.

Got banned from Instagram one day, still no idea why. Hadn't posted anything or commented on anything that violated anything. Barely ever even used it.

Only thing I could think of is that I used Firefox development mode to use responsive design mode so my browser appeared as a mobile device because their website didn't have all features on desktop, so I used it to post a few videos in lieu of a mobile device. If that broke some law there, then I don't even want an account there.

What is kind of funny is that IG is owned by FB, and I use the same email address on both accounts, and they blocked me on IG but didn't ban my FB account "just to be safe". 🙂

Gotta wait for their next gen of AI admin bots to get rolled out for that. 🙂

[stable forge]

Holy wall of text, give me 5 minutes

Aight only took me one minute bot okay. Here goes my theory:

You have a dynamic IP address from your ISP and you got one from a previous dude that fucked around and found out and might've gotten an IP ban of some sorts

[little glacier]

Since the topic was started by me, I have a static IP for about 10 years.

[stable forge]

I scrolled a lil, googled a lil, turns out they recently started doing this

Why exactly is not sure, one user thinks it's because he has VPN software (which I doubt)

Skeletonbow's situation is something completely different tho

[hybrid stream]

forgot no gifs lol

Hump day!

[open rune]

I need Coubs to embed please https://coub.com/view/akkd1

[cunning pine]

hehehe

literal slapstick

[scenic night]

anyone know why my cursor dissapears in minecraft when using obs?

[wise bay]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[civic quarry]

they added farmville to Discord, that's GG for me

[karmic tiger]

huh?

[civic quarry]

overly addicting farm game

[karmic tiger]

no I know what farmville is I'm not that much of a zoomer lmfao

but wdym discord added it

[civic quarry]

as a discord activity, its called farm merge valley but its made by zynga and plays exactly the same

[karmic tiger]

oh dear lord

[cunning pine]

oh sick, so it's just the facebook farming game remastered and re-released

I actually liked playing that game back in the day

[livid plover]

hell yeah

[civic quarry]

I just love the finale of Portal 2

[copper notch]

Yeah, great game

[marsh helm]

Bloomberg reports that Intel's workforce currently stands at 110,000, at the time when the company is scheduled to report its quarterly earnings, and it is reported by sources across the internet that Intel plans to layoff 10,000 of its employees, but the divisions affected are currently unknown. Team Blue has already disclosed plans to implement a large-scale cost cutting policy, valued at a total of $10 billion by 2025, so the layoff wave indeed is a part of the firm's long-term plan.

so instead of issuing an RMA they are just firing ppl

that still dosnt fix the issue

In amd news

rumored prices are lower than last gen

[copper notch]

They'll lay off 50% more of them in the next 5 years, replacing them with AI anyway, but it'll be running on their own chips so it wont work right and they'll go bankrupt. </prediction>

[marsh helm]

rofl

[karmic tiger]

just to know where did you get this from

[marsh helm]

bloombergy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-30/intel-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-to-reduce-costs-fund-turnaround

[copper notch]

Converting that to CAD, and rounding it up to the nearest "screw Canadians" nice marketing pricetag, it'll be $899 CAD

[marsh helm]

well the 9600x will be within 10% of the 7800x3d in games

and better multicore

the 9700x will be less of a gap

[copper notch]

I wonder what will be left of the ARC division.

[marsh helm]

lunar lake comes in sep

soo they still have a job

[copper notch]

They can lop off Celestial/Druid development though in a heartbeat.

[marsh helm]

idk tho

i think intel will be forced to Recall

[copper notch]

They said they aren't going to recall. Unless there is a massive CA lawsuit, or FTC/DOJ one, they probably wont.

[marsh helm]

there needs to be one

its billions USDof broken busted cpus

[copper notch]

Their brand is total dirt at this point.

[marsh helm]

this isnt like .5%

servers are around 20-40%

some are at 50%

[copper notch]

50%+

yup

[marsh helm]

they are making hedgefunds mad

epic games mad

tencent

soo many companies are really mad

not that its failing mind you

[copper notch]

Yup, all the laptop vendors switching to AMD also

[marsh helm]

they are mad that intel didnt say anything

and kept selling bad chips

they knew something was wrong since 2022 dec

found out about the fab issue midway in 2023

[copper notch]

They sat on their laurels for years, and AMD drank milk.

[marsh helm]

yet still refused RMAS

now lunar lake has impressive performance targets

and doubles the npu power

but who the hell will be buying it

[copper notch]

They could always put out a 600W desktop CPU at 8GHz with 60 E-cores, that might work.

[marsh helm]

Intel is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings on Thursday, August. 1. Analysts project Intel to report flat revenue for the second quarter compared to the previous year. Wall Street estimates Intel’s sales will increase modestly during the second half of 2024 and increase 3% to $55.7 billion for 2024. That will mark Intel’s first annual revenue increase since 2021.

[karmic tiger]

ty

[marsh helm]

they are also stealing expensive ppl from TSMC

for their not finished fab

sooo how many of those 1000s of people were fired to pay for that?

since 2023 intel has fired 15% of its ppl

if that report turns out to be true which we will know tomorrow

when intel puts out their earnings

if intel has to replace all of the cpus that have issues

it would wipe out all profits

for client

[copper notch]

Well, they do have one positive thing going for them though. AMD will be helping them going forward.

[marsh helm]

amd hired soo many ppl from intel

and so did nvidia

[copper notch]

They'll sell more CPUs so Intel doesn't have to sell as many, which means they wont have to recall as many faulty CPUs so it will save them money.

[marsh helm]

intel fired a lot of their experienced ppl

this issue isnt going away tho

like its only going to have more and more games that will have to put out reports that its the intel cpu

its going to keep happening for years

same with applications

and on top of that ppl will return their intel pcs the moment it ever bluescreens

[copper notch]

Even if Arrow Lake ends up decent, I can't see most businesses, partners, consumers that got screwed by Intel being all "Well, they totally screwed everyone last time but this time they'll be fine, I trust them"

[marsh helm]

theres 0 news of arrow lake

[copper notch]

I am seeing even die hard fanbois dumping Intel regularly lately.

[marsh helm]

and the QS leak was super boring

the 7800x3d beats it

[copper notch]

You watch, they'll fall hard, barely survive bankruptcy, then pick themselves back up from their bootstraps and invent a revolutionary new chip design.

[marsh helm]

yeah its a leak but its a QS

these are normally close to release copies

the E cores are very strong

around40% faster

but the P cores....

[copper notch]

I predict it'll be 1200W 9GHz, and they will launch the CPUs into low earth orbit to cool them in space, and use long range optical interconnects to communicate with people's PCs. You just have to install the laser system on your roof.

[marsh helm]

if you include the costs to FAB the client cpus

they havnt made a profit from client

in like 8 years

"Intel said its foundry business recorded an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023 on sales of $18.9 billion. That’s a wider loss than the $5.2 billion Intel reported in its foundry business in 2022 on $27.5 billion in sales."

that removes most of their profit margin

also amd new chips are super dense

AMD's Zen 5 chips pack in 8.315 billion transistors per compute die, a 28% increase in density. Something it did not do earlier.

[copper notch]

Looking forward to independent testing of Zen 5, should be interesting.

[tall vapor]

see? And that's why they aren't RMAing shit

Cause companies tend to, uh, be succy

[marsh helm]

they have parts but

i bet

the rmas would have the same issues

i think all have the issue

[copper notch]

Well, in a way Intel is RMA'ing. RecoMmending AMD 🙂

[tall vapor]

yah, at which point it would be a "return&get money back" situation

which intel no like, of course

intel want good earnings call

[tall vapor]

would that be "return your intel CPU and get an AMD one for free!" setup if ya think abt it practically? Well yeah

[marsh helm]

just from verified reports

its in the billions of USD

just from the few companies that said stuff

[tall vapor]

well yeah

[marsh helm]

one of the biggest oems said it was around 2-3 million out of 8 million cpus

thats already 1 billion

if i was that company i would be mad

[tall vapor]

when ya got 2 generations of chips out there in the wild of which a huge percentage practially needs to be scrapped&money returned.... well yeah, that's well, uh.... how do I put this..... not great for intel's finances and reputation

so they aren't doing that

just downplaying it

[marsh helm]

and it dosnt matter what update intel does its not going to fix it

[copper notch]

This has to be the largest CPU defect ever in history

[marsh helm]

its going to get only worse

[tall vapor]

the microcode thingie will lead to them CPUs lasting long enough for the warranty to expire and then well that's it, intel got no trouble

[marsh helm]

90% of ppl wont know about the code stuff

and the ppl who do will HATE it

as its already cutting performance by 30% in some stuff from the lower watts

all of those server ppl were running not even on OC

[tall vapor]

well and then they'll say "your fault that yer CPU broke as you didn't install the update as recommended by us. No refund!"

[marsh helm]

just running stressfull workloads

[copper notch]

And AMD lowering the price of Zen 5 is like turning the screws under their fingernails too

[marsh helm]

they need to be sued

[marsh helm]

umm it could be

[tall vapor]

I love how intel bootlickers have been laughing so hard abt them zen5 cpus to be delayed, sayin that they surely must be borked af too...

but what actually happened is the following: There have been CPUs out there in the wild that were labelled as "Ryzen 9 9700X"

[marsh helm]

but thats only because they didnt tell anyone

[marsh helm]

hahaha

well amd does that to keep eyes on leakers sometimes

[copper notch]

Yeah, I saw the report on videocardz for that. It's kind of a brown paper bag over the head that it got that far, but good on AMD for having the integrity to fix what is largely a practical non-issue just to show responsibility.

[marsh helm]

amd said it was a performance issue

i dont see them lying about that

dosnt make sense to

[copper notch]

I haven't heard anything about AMD saying that, I recall them saying it was a quality control issue.

[marsh helm]

“We appreciate the excitement around Ryzen 9000 series processors. During final checks, we found the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations. Out of an abundance of caution and to maintain the highest quality experiences for every Ryzen user, we are working with our channel partners to replace the initial production units with fresh units. As a result, there will be a short delay in retail availability. The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors will now go on sale on August 8th and the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X processors will go on-sale on August 15th. We pride ourselves in providing a high-quality experience for every Ryzen user, and we look forward to our fans having a great experience with the new Ryzen 9000 series.”

ah your right

[tall vapor]

Yes.

And Ryzen 7 CPUs being labelled as ryzen 9 clearly be a qc fail

[marsh helm]

it does hint of performance stuff tho

[tall vapor]

where

[marsh helm]

and not all chips had that issue

[copper notch]

I don't see anything at all hinting at performance issues.

[tall vapor]

I mean it could be that some actually ryzen 7 chips ended up in ryzen 9 boxes due to that mislabeling stuff maybe?

[marsh helm]

i see experience a lot

[tall vapor]

Which yeah, when yer buying a ryzen 9 a ryzen 7 doesn't meet perf expectations

[copper notch]

I wonder if they had AI label the CPUs.

[tall vapor]

nah. Just had the wrong svg loaded up in the lazor °J°

or sth silly like that

could be as easy as a typo that nobody caught

[copper notch]

Maybe they'll rename Zen 6 to rAIzen

[tall vapor]

f no

[marsh helm]

next zen is last zen afaik

the chart ends

[copper notch]

There's been info leaks of Zen 7. It would make no sense whatsoever for AMD to end the highly successful Zen branding.

[terse helm]

the chart ending does not mean anything

[tall vapor]

yeah maybe they don't put out a chart that contains info from 10 years out in the future, huh?

🤦‍♀️

[terse helm]

making an infinite chart just does not make sense

[copper notch]

You rebrand when you are failing and need to refresh your image to attract consumers, or when you have something radically new and want to differentiate it as a big new thing.

[marsh helm]

i dont think amd will have a zen 11000 series

[copper notch]

Like their new "AI" branded mobile chips for example

[marsh helm]

also i found this from many years ago

https://www.pcworld.com/article/412135/why-amd-had-to-change-the-zen-name-to-ryzen-for-its-new-chip-architecture.html

[copper notch]

Nobody knows really what they will do every single generation, until they do it. But the most plausible thing is that they continue the same pattern they've done in the past, until they don't.

[tall vapor]

they can just invent a new numbering scheme

but yah, the Ryzen brand is worth keeping

don't kid yourself

[marsh helm]

have you tried the new framegen 2 from amd?

[tall vapor]

no

[marsh helm]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2411947/amd-releases-ai-powered-fluid-motion-frames-2.html

[minor meteor]

btw obs virtual camera does work in a vm

[marsh helm]

i havnt seen anyone review it just yet

[tall vapor]

I know what it is.

[minor meteor]

twb

[tall vapor]

It's just impossible for me to test a feature that is in the windows driver, just like it is impossible for me to test something that doesn't work on navi10 afaik

[marsh helm]

😢

i see

[tall vapor]

(nor do I have a need for it anyway with the games I play )

[marsh helm]

oh seems like Nvidia Blackwell is going into production in q4

the memory just got approved

[copper notch]

Yay, $3500 CAD consumer gaming GPUs!

[tall vapor]

Oh you mean $3500 US

[copper notch]

I think it'll be $2400 USD'ish

But AIB boards will be +$100-400

[marsh helm]

https://abingtonlaw.com/class-action/consumer-protection/Intel-Processor-Issues-class-action-lawsuit.html LETS GO

maybe they will do the right thing before being sued is needed

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1eebdid/1314th_gen_intel_baseline_can_still_degrade_cpu/ oh great

[wheat karma]

I demand intel send me a new cpu

[sterile flower]

helo its me intel we will give you new cpu if you give us your credit card details

[copper notch]

Did you hear the army is going to stop referring to intelligence as "intel", and going to now start calling it "amd"? 🙂

[amber sparrow]

That's a nice dad joke

[sterile flower]

Lmao

[open rune]

You knew what you signed up for!

[marsh helm]

[News] SSD prices expected to increase an additional 15-20% in Q1 2024, DRAM prices expected to increase up to 15%Jan 17, 2024

i remember my 2tb 850x nvme for $80

https://www.techspot.com/news/104047-logitech-ceo-proposes-mouse-service.html oh god

You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot.

[full fern]

Oh, gawds, there's yet another PFP hat/overlay going around. Is Discord trying to make it hard to distinguish between users, because it's working!

[tall vapor]

https://www.techspot.com/news/104047-logitech-ceo-proposes-mouse-service.html

Mmh, more company bs! Lock firmware upgrades&software features behind a subscription! How neat

dear goddess, we need FOSS mouse firmware like yesterday. Just like we got that for keyboards already

[open rune]

Here is the actual article
https://www.theverge.com/24206847/logitech-ceo-hanneke-faber-mouse-keyboard-gaming-decoder-podcast-interview
It's kind of stupid and doesn't seem worth worrying about at all

[livid plover]

They wanted the market opinion on it, and that they got

[sterile flower]

I heard Schlatt complaining about how his expensive car would literally disable features unless he paid for this dumb subscription thing

[open rune]

Tesla?

[open rune]

The peasants demand a Rolex mouse

[tall vapor]

Imagine that customers don't want even more subscriptions

[still turret]

I mean, you all joke about this but this is how literally every single enterprise hardware support contract works, and has worked, for 100 years.

There is nothing new or interesting about it. You're paying to make the mouse someone else's problem.

It's not that crazy or wild or whatever other sensationalist headline you want to throw at it.

And the actual quote doesn't even say it would be a subscription, it was mentioned as an option

[open rune]

How am I supposed to get mouse firmware updates

[tall vapor]

I know that the enterprise space works wildly different from the consumer space, yes. I just get annoyed when there are proposals (however out there&unlikely (as of rn) they be) to have enterprise-esque support contract-y things going on with normal end consumers like you&I in order to extract even more money

I never like it when things that used to be "buy it and ya got it, that's it" gets changed over to subscriptions/such is even just proposed

[full fern]

Back in my day, we bought hardware and software once, dammit. And if it broke, we called the company on a rotary phone and cursed them out before buying the same product over again waves cane

[tall vapor]

esp when those subscriptions are literally a ripoff

[full fern]

Adobe's is ridiculous!

I don't spend that much per year on my car!

[tall vapor]

like..... we're talking abt friggin mice here. Tf would you ever need a support contract there? You plug it in, use it until it dies, and when it does you chuck it&buy a new one

I don't need a support contract for me toothbrush either, do I

[full fern]

I have too many mice in the house already! I can break two and still have a functional one. Fuck it hahaha

[wheat karma]

very good, very nice 👍

maybe i can finally sell my barely used ssds for the same price i got em

[tall vapor]

ensure to issue the secure erase command on them before even thinking abt selling them 😰

[wheat karma]

how do u do that again, is it manufacturer software or

i dont think ive ever erased any ssds cos i dont normally sell storage, just use it until it breaks

[tall vapor]

idk how to do that on win, so uh.... grab a lin stick

[wheat karma]

which is actually really rare for me

how do u do it on linux?

hopefully its a simple command, cos linux scares me

[tall vapor]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing the arch wiki comes to the rescue, as always

secure erase for sata, sanitize for nvme

[wheat karma]

my pc has a 10 yr old hdd and ssd which are still working fine

[tall vapor]

just ensure to wipe the right drive

[wheat karma]

(inb4 they break tomorrow)

[tall vapor]

then why sell yer SSDs? Grab the best of that stack yer plannin on sellin&replace that HDD

[tall vapor]

cause well, it's lin. You tell lin to do somethin and it just, uh, does it

you told it to wipe the wrong drive? Whelp, yer ool

[amber sparrow]

!params

[wise bay]

To launch OBS Studio with custom parameters, see the list of Launch Parameters.

[marsh helm]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-delivers-solid-state-battery-for-EVs-with-600-mile-range-as-it-teases-9-minute-charging-and-20-year-lifespan-tech.867768.0.html hey

new battery tech

[uneven spear]

I was convinced, utterly, between 5 and 8 minutes in. XXDD

Yes. But but but cabbage slug!

[full fern]

There are some neighborhood ravens I have been hoping to make friends with. Just now they were hanging around my next door neighbors' place (they usually have peanuts) but they weren't home. So i grabbed my own roasted unsalted peanuts and put a few out on a nearby stump. Sadly they had roosted a bit far away by the time I put them out.

Next time maybe. I will teach them to bring me shiny things in return.

[uneven spear]

Shiny things!

[full fern]

❤️

[hybrid stream]

[vernal current]

IM BACK

[civic quarry]

[livid plover]

Baby's back, baby!

[livid plover]

Sure, goes in a compute rack anyway, so let it eat

[marsh helm]

theres a 50% increase in greenhouse gas stuff

mostly caused by ai

this last year

its also using up fucktons of water

[silver fable]

Good thing 78% of the planet is covered in the stuff. 😝

[marsh helm]

thats my water

get out

you can use this to cool 1

[livid plover]

Microsoft put servers in your water already

[marsh helm]

😱

[copper notch]

when you are unknowingly leaning closer and closer to your laptop screen straining to read things without realizing it... to realize 4 hours later that you turned the brightness of the display down to the lowest setting at bedtime last night...

[tall vapor]

yah, project natick. I mean it makes sense. Just put the container of servers into the ocean and bam, you basically got your cooling taken care of for free. The hard part is making it as such as for there to be no leaks&that thing lives for a LONG time&all, which is what is being researched with said project

[livid plover]

they pulled it out recently

actually no, that's just somebody recently reporting on it only again, the original one was pulled back out in 2020

[sweet anchor]

Literally heating up the oceans

[karmic tiger]

they're putting servers in the ocean to turn the sharks programmers

[jaunty fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/blahaj-laptop-calmdown-calm-work-gif-17743309529173398862

[stable forge]

Dare I say, epic embed fail

[livid plover]

Blahaj uwu

[copper notch]

Damn, the open source AI stuff has been advancing a lot this year. I'm now getting great results from Meta Llama 3.1 and Google Gemma 2 running locally on my slow ass laptop, and at speeds that are not as good as the big cloud AIs but are way faster and higher quality than most of the other smaller company cloud AIs. With a laptop with no AI acceleration. Getting 17.5t/s on Gemma and 7.5t/s on Llama. It's insane... I used to get 1.5-2t/s on Llama 3 a few weeks ago.

5x the performance, and less VRAM usage, with higher quality output. Blows my mind.

[copper notch]

Some forms of AA and other filtering more or less do that. There are also things like contrast adaptive sharpening.

[little glacier]

Here's a follow-up to me registering a Facebook account. Keep in mind, I've never used the platform for 10 years before, and the only Facebook-owned platforms I've ever used are a little bit of Messenger and WhatsApp.

[open rune]

Maybe it's a sign

[little glacier]

But that's weird, isn't it? A platform so popular that you are basically expected by everyone to own an account on, and then they just decide that they don't want me there anymore, for supposed violation of their community rules of "literally not doing anything".

[open rune]

I would assume it's some kind of automation being stupid and the company is probably so big there is no practical way to reach out for support for account or registration issues like that

[little glacier]

This is not the first time this has been happening, btw. Like once in 2 years I try to register an account, and only I can't after identity verification. The rest of my family and friends still can.

[open rune]

They must have put you on the naughty list

[little glacier]

Even if I did do something 10 years ago, that'd still be a bit too of an extreme reaction to indefinitely ban me, even if I presumably learned my lesson given then 10 year wait.

[copper notch]

Yep, that is my assessment of this happening in general. I think it is more common than legit reasons where the person has no real idea why and didn't do anything actually wrong.

Sure there are people who do wrong/bad things and have no personal responsibility or accountability and are in denial and feel rules are suggestions, but they seem to be easy to spot in the crowd IMHO. So many people get nuked by bad algorithms these days with no recourse.

[little glacier]

I'm a bit skeptical that it's automatic, since I did have to wait 24 hours for the decision, and I doubt that automation is this slow.

[copper notch]

If it's manual, then probably some human searched Google for the person's name, found one political statement or opinion they made on Orkut or Friendster 15 years ago and thought "I'll show them! DENIED I have the power! You have no recourse! LOLZ"

[wary holly]

If I had to guess, someone was banned by IP range for CP or some such, and you were in that IP range.

[copper notch]

I suppose netblock related problems could be an issue also, however residential etc. Internet is in known ranges and companies know dynamic IPs exist. I myself am not on a dynamic ever changing IP. I'm on a dynamically assigned but constant IP.

[little glacier]

My home internet has static IP, and both my grandma and little brother successfully created their accounts here.

[wary holly]

Then maybe your name doesn't look like a real name to them.

[little glacier]

I honeslty doubt it. I've seen so many names much weirder than that.

[copper notch]

I use my real name on Facebook, but I use my alias everywhere else mostly.

[karmic tiger]

I have a facebook account whose name is a wordplay on the french word for "slut" and the pfp is a pic of a fridge

(please don't judge I was like 14)

but like, yeah

[tall vapor]

if they were unsure whether yer name actually be real they'd ask to confirm yer identity though, no

[copper notch]

My Microsoft account got blocked randomly one day. I looked into it and had no recourse that was worth the exchange of time for the value of recovering the account so I did not bother. My nephew took my info and looked into it on his own and told me he thinks he knew what happened. He said that if I do not have 2FA enabled on my account (I did not), and someone tries to hack the account enough times whether they are successful or not, Microsoft may lock the account for suspicious activity in order to be safe. He gave me instructions on how to contact Microsoft to get the account reenabled and confirmed this whole issue with them.

So it might be as simple as calling Microsoft and fixing the issue in 20 minutes and having my account back.

[tall vapor]

so yah, it's not that

[copper notch]

But there's one problem.

I don't want to do that, and don't care about it, and am not going to spend the time to pray that Microsoft permits me in their all powerfulness to have the privilege of having my glorious account back.

It is a matter of principle for me.

[little glacier]

If the fact that I'm a russian-lithuanian, with a russian last name spelled with latin letters from Lithuania, is the most suspicious thing in the world, then idk anymore. And, as I've been writing this, I now think it has something to do with russians being on Facebook.

[copper notch]

Keep my account Microsoft, you keep it.

[karmic tiger]

I mean tbh fuck facebook

[copper notch]

Keep the 4 games or whatever that are on my Xbox PC games collection that were freebies, I probably have free copies of them on Epic anyway or just don't care.

[tall vapor]

again, if this was a name issue they'd ask to confirm yer name, lel

[copper notch]

I can't log into github anymore? Oh well, I guess I wont use github anymore. I'll set up my own git repository on my own server again like I used to use years ago. No big deal at all.

It's about perception of value, and principles for me.

[little glacier]

Identity verification has always been the first thing they require on sign up, at least for me.

[copper notch]

I can't contribute to projects hosted on github without an account there? Hopefully they'll accept unified diffs via email. Otherwise, oh well.

[tall vapor]

weird, back when I had an account on that crap site they never asked me

[copper notch]

Sometimes there is a price to freedom, and it is worth it to pay that price.

[little glacier]

Yeah, well, without my full name and a photo of my face, they don't let me continue with account registration. And refer to my initial message for the result of that.

[tall vapor]

Eh whatever, nothin of value hath been lost anyway imho

[wary holly]

Agreed.

[tall vapor]

That whole site only exists for yer weird uncle to post racist ai generated "memes" and such anyway, let's be real

[civic quarry]

no it exists to farm your data.

[open rune]

You reduced the amount of freedom in the package though
I'm onto you

[tall vapor]

well yeah, sorry for trying to make a joke abt what is to be seen on Facebook

ig

[little glacier]

That's a lot of data if it's still at this stage for 15 minutes...

[wary holly]

The idea here is that you get bored and leave. Or maybe they'll not give it to you at all, throwing some fake error message.

[tall vapor]

wouldn't surprise me if they artificially slow down the gdpr request data retrieval in the hopes that you'll just forget abt it

[little glacier]

Oh no, it just finished. But now I can't download it because of an unexpected error.

[wary holly]

I wonder if they can be sued for that.

I heard back when this feature law was first added, those requesting their data would find themselves banned for "suspicious activity".

[copper notch]

😛

[copper notch]

Yeah, pretty much this. 🙂 And to suck our brains through a straw. LOL

To be fair though, that is 3/4 of the Internet nowadays.

[little glacier]

Can anybody give me directions on suing them for GDPR violation? 🙂

[tall vapor]

Can't do that based on this. Try again later. Try in a different browser (esp one without any plugins) etc

[little glacier]

Yep, I'll try everything and at reasonably different times.

[tall vapor]

it's on you to prove that they are actually violating GDPR and not just experiencing a technical issue/that it be an issue with your sys, after all.

[little glacier]

I'm not sure what if it happens to be that they require a "certain OS and version, and a certain version of browser and features".

[tall vapor]

and if it's actually not that you notify the relevant places in yer country of residence, they'd sure love to add more to the current suit that the EU got against meta rn

[livid plover]

GDPR might've not done much great, but it sure made it easy bullying data out of american sites. Just quote GDPR article bla bla and bam, they get shit done

[tall vapor]

The DSA also has been helpful. You report content to site and site doesn't do shit? Well, report it to yer local authority that takes care of DSA reports instead! And bam, suddenly the site /IS/ able to take it down

[livid plover]

huh, discord finally got that discord server message scraper bot thingy shut down, guess that explains the lack of reply to my GDPR request to them

[tall vapor]

Discord is a mess when it comes to gdpr requests in general. Last time I tried it it took like a month till they actually sent me the link to the archive 🙃

[livid plover]

this was another scraper bot, dis.cool, spy.pet/etc names

[tall vapor]

e.e

[smoky rapids]

I think my stomach hates me.

I had 3 of these https://www.knorr.com/us/en/p/cheddar-broccoli-rice-side.html/00041000022784

[copper notch]

carbpocalypse?

[prisma dove]

you'll feel those for awhile

[amber sparrow]

!aitum

[wise bay]

For help with the Aitum OBS plugin or their tools and services, please join their community Discord server for direct troubleshooting.

[civic quarry]

speaking of aitum.... https://x.com/AitumTV/status/1819051967823650890

[amber sparrow]

That's why I did that so I could quickly get link to their server to check status

That's a pretty big W

Now I just need good nets

[prisma dove]

does it replace Vertical?

[karmic tiger]

yeeee

[karmic tiger]

afaik no, it's smth separate

[wise bay]

Self-advertisement or advertisement for others is not allowed on this server unless it's directly relevant to a discussion or question. Please read the rules in the #rules channel.

[amber sparrow]

First post in over a year. Betting that's getting spammed in every server they are in

<@&715347355565817879> the whatsapp number is prob enough to have this yeeted

[still turret]

@ionic chasm Hi, please don't advertise here. Make sure you take some time to review the #rules, thanks!

[ionic chasm]

Sorry won’t happen again 💯

[little glacier]

I've got my download. After extensively looking through all the data they included, there's basically no data, like at all... The only thing that might indicate that I'm registering the same account is the record_details.html where it lists an "email change" activity as a new registration. But other than that, there's literally no data at all.

[topaz prairie]

the fog is coming.

[sudden adder]

fun movie

[opaque halo]

One of those evenings I don't need to be active in w-s. So.... 🍿 and just enjoy the evening 🙂

[smoky rapids]

🫡 https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=39405

[wraith thunder]

how do i change mkv to mp4?

[wise bay]

Remuxing allows you to copy video and audio from one MKV/FLV to another video container format for use in players and editors that do not support MKV/FLV. This process is safe, lossless, and takes seconds.

To remux any recordings made with OBS Studio:

1. In OBS Studio, click the File menu → Remux Recordings
2. Click on the … (three dots) button, then select your MKV or FLV file
3. Click on the Remux button

[stable forge]

Anyone care to try a site for me

https://tax.ohio.gov/

I get 403 forbidden

[wary holly]

@stable forge

[stable forge]

Damn I think it's blocking EU and our simple VPN

What are the odds you're actually from Ohio? 😄

[wary holly]

I'm not.

[stable forge]

Could be that our VPN has to be located more closely

Okay

[livid plover]

yeah lots of US sites straight up geoblock to not have to bother with GDPR

[stable forge]

They're the ones asking us to submit tax info through their site instead of, previously, by mail 🥲

Clowns

[livid plover]

works fine here, no VPN or funny business from the EU tho, so it's a you problem 🙃

[stable forge]

Wut

Whereabouts?

[livid plover]

denmark

[stable forge]

We've tried on 4 different phones, different providers, different locations lol

Ever since trump called us a hell hole it was downhill from there

[silver fable]

Also works fine for me.

[civic quarry]

Forbidden for me, too. But I'm not located in the US

[karmic tiger]

403 from france

[sweet anchor]

403 Denmark. Definitely blocked outside US because with VPN it works fine.

There can still be scenarios where you need to pay taxes while abroad so this seems little asinine to me.

[livid plover]

fine for me in denmark

[sweet anchor]

Sure you're not on a VPN?

[livid plover]

i've never used an VPN lol

[shut marsh]

Hello how do i bypass the error AN ADMIN HAS BLOCKED YOU FROM RUNNING THIS APP (OBS)

[sudden adder]

you need to ask whomever has admin rights on your computer to give you permissions to launch OBS

[terse helm]

ask your admin

[shut marsh]

actually i’m using a company laptop …

[sudden adder]

so ask the company admins of said laptop

[terse helm]

so ask your company it department

if you have a business reason to use obs I'm sure they'll fix it for you

if not you'll need to get a pc that you own

[amber sparrow]

I don't get this

[sudden adder]

Smellivision

[sudden adder]

i blame it on ghosts

[prisma dove]

They're here

[left heart]

ahhhh yekindar...

[vernal current]

https://x.com/vidsthatgohard/status/1818822796480287140

guys i proposd to the love of my life today

you can see the video

[sudden adder]

today? the video is from a few days ago

[amber sparrow]

Naar trolling?

[sudden adder]

it is if its actually fun

[opaque halo]

TBH - could be a trigger for some... and NOT in a good way

[vernal current]

yea i wouldnt do that

but im gonna take a guess and say he knew her enough to do it

[open rune]

That's uh, kind of a weird video lol

[vernal current]

dont be mean to me 😦

[open rune]

Well find a better way to propose next time!

[vernal current]

:x

[full fern]

Holy fuck those people should be put in jail

[copper notch]

Hrmm.... Microsoft Copilot just showed up beside my start menu on Win10. Didn't expect that.

[open rune]

Ask it how to disable Copilot

[civic quarry]

Asking Copilot how to disable Copilot is like using Edge to download Firefox

[prisma dove]

"Skynet, how do I defeat Skynet?"

[civic quarry]

[civic quarry]

Who knows best, if not themselves?

[prisma dove]

right?!?

And with Skynet's ego, they would want to do it better than any human could.

[tall vapor]

nah it's not, the latter actually works

[civic quarry]

Agree

[timber furnace]

how can i appear live on discord when streaming through obs?

[wise bay]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[civic quarry]

Oh, got that wrong. You mean to show that you are live in your Discord status? Make sure your Discord is connected to the streaming service in the settings

[copper notch]

OMG, that is next level brilliant. I'm embarassed to have not thought of that LOL

Thanks Microsoft Copilot! 10 out of 10 review! LOL

[civic quarry]

@tall vapor

[timber furnace]

there is no obs to pick

[civic quarry]

OBS is not the service you are streaming to...

This is completely outside OBS

[copper notch]

You have to link Discord to your Twitch/YouTube/etc. account.

[civic quarry]

If Discord is capable of it..

[timber furnace]

oh you mean twitch. it's linked to my twitch but it still does not show it

[copper notch]

In Discord Settings->Connections, link connected accounts

It may not sync up instantly, it can take a few minutes etc.

[timber furnace]

its been like this for months

[copper notch]

Also be sure to go to Settings - Activity Policy and set it up properly to share your status.

[timber furnace]

its all enabled

[copper notch]

If you have problems with getting it to work, keep in mind that this functionality is entirely between Discord and the linked service and unrelated to OBS. You may need to visit the Discord support server for assistance if it doesn't work.

[open rune]

What if you don't set your status to Invisible

[civic quarry]

Right, you must be seen as online on Discord, otherwise there won't be any status

[open rune]

As long as it's set up like this in Discord (and has the right channel) and you aren't hiding your status it should work

[timber furnace]

i always set my status to online when i'm streaming but it's still not working

[open rune]

Might take a minute to detect that you're live

Other than disconnecting and reconnecting the account in Discord I'm not sure what else to suggest

[timber furnace]

this is enabled too. same goes for the privacy thing

[livid plover]

if nothing else works, you'll need to contact discord support sadly

[timber furnace]

i'll try that. thx klax, sapiens & echo 🙂

[civic quarry]

you need to make sure streamer mode is enabld in discord, otherwise it will not show.

[timber furnace]

streamer mode was also active

[open rune]

Can you test it now so we see if your status changes?

[amber sparrow]

Almost time to buy

Buddy of mine bought amd stock years ago when it was in the crapper

It is now quite an investment

I think he bought at like $6/share or something stupid

Actually 2016 at 1.80

[sudden adder]

The usual “get in early, make bank when they do well”

Many people did that with Apple when Jobs came back

[amber sparrow]

Yea. 2000 shares at less than $2 per. He is sitting on a nice chunk atm

[livid plover]

get in early, and make big or lose chips

[tawdry orbit]

I was literally joking yesterday that I should short intel stock 😦

[prisma dove]

buy at the bottom

[left heart]

@uneven spear and @still mica re: #encoding-talk message you'd probably like this https://nandgame.com/

[uneven spear]

[marsh helm]

how yall doing?

intel having bad day

[amber sparrow]

Intel having a bad year

Minus 2 billion profit through first 2 quarters

[marsh helm]

pat didnt even mention the massive 13-14th gen stuff

it really feels like they thought their name had more weight

than it does

when they put out their cpus and ai gpus and nobody bought them

i think they were shocked

they are still blaming the winds of the market on why they are down

they are down 60%+ from the stock market avg

i dont think its the market intel

[sudden adder]

the whims of the market?

[marsh helm]

ill try to find a quote

no winds

Revenue was in line with the range we provided in May after receiving notice of an export license
restriction which negatively impacted our client business in China. Intel Products and Intel
Foundry both delivered 4% year-over-year growth, offset by headwinds in our more cyclical
businesses```

umm

ok im worried

quarter. And as mentioned earlier, we are already gearing up to launch Panther Lake next year to
further extend our leadership position. So, very good progress in CCG and a super strong
roadmap over the next 18 months.``` this is the only mention of arrow lake

scale ai... to desktop

why....????

[amber sparrow]

They aren't going anywhere. Just doing like a lot of tech companies at the moment. Right sizing where they need to

[marsh helm]

they need to cut a lot of management and fire ppl causing drama

[sudden adder]

technically, is was more interested in your usage of "winds" vs "whims", and was wondering if i had missed a turn of phrase

[marsh helm]

soo many ofthe heads try to sabotage one another

[marsh helm]

i think the wind is the shockwave from nvidia

[sudden adder]

like when people say "mute point" when they actually mean "moot point"

[marsh helm]

two-thirds the cost of competitive offerings. To put it into perspective, we expect Gaudi 3 to
deliver roughly 2x performance per dollar on both inference and training versus H100. Gaudi 3 has
strong ecosystem support including Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo,
Supermicro, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Inventec, Quanta Cloud Technology and Wistron``` aint nobody cares about  this

by the time its out blackwell will be out

[open rune]

Isn't this from a quarterly earnings report

[marsh helm]

yes

[open rune]

So then yeah

It reads like an earnings report targeting investors

[marsh helm]

intel expects even lower numbers next quarter

i dont think they expect lunar or arrow lake to sell well

they see that ai on desktop and laptop isnt going anywhere

[sudden adder]

(for those who are superstitious) this is because they released a 13th gen 🙂

[marsh helm]

😮

In addition, Intel disclosed in May that the U.S. Commerce Department was revoking export licenses for consumer items to a customer in China, widely believed to be Huawei. Intel said fiscal second-quarter revenue would still be in its previously announced range of $12.5 billion to $13.5 billion, but below the middle of the range. Thursday’s outcome did line up with that update. ah

“Clearly, as a lot of tiles externally in ’25, we bring those home in ‘26,” Gelsinger said. “That’s when we’ll start to really, as Dave said, see the benefits of the model that we’ve put in place. Tiles coming home, leadership process technology, leadership products, starts in ’25, deliver big time in ’26 and beyond.”

these are words

i read this as dont fire me now please

in 2026 the 150 million you give me will pay off

[sudden adder]

11th Gen : not as good as 10th Gen
12th Gen : has some bendy CPUs that the after market fixed-ish
13th and 14th Gen: mostly good except for the high end / server end CPUs having potential corrotion issues

[marsh helm]

13700k isnt really high end to me

[sudden adder]

most of the issues have been the xx900+ series from what i have seen

[marsh helm]

its still 25%

and thats just so far

[sudden adder]

are you refering to 25% failure rate?

[marsh helm]

of errors

25% of errors are the i7 from what i recall

off a video i saw

[sudden adder]

most of the stuff coming from the data that Level1 and GamersNexus have seen has been from the i9 series. 13900k, 14900k, 14900kf, etc. Unless things have yet again changed since the last GN/L1 videos

[marsh helm]

in the lvl one i think there was a pie chart

and around 1/4 was i7

[sudden adder]

the pie chart i saw was the i9s

[marsh helm]

well some other chart i saw showed a breakdown

of a pie

i have a pie in my HEAD

[marsh helm]

soo 20%?

[sweet anchor]

There's i7s there 😄

[sudden adder]

the point i was making is the majority was i9s

like 75% of the pie is i9s

[marsh helm]

oh sorry 16%

[sweet anchor]

There should be 0% lets be real.

[sudden adder]

^

[sweet anchor]

It's kinda outrageous.

[marsh helm]

i was waay off

[sweet anchor]

Still stuck on a 10900 because money.

[marsh helm]

still safe from this bs

because money

[sweet anchor]

Not that I'm complaining, I could be fucked by this.

[sudden adder]

regardless of what CPUs are in the chart, the fact that there is even a chart this far down the line is nuts

[sweet anchor]

It's been 18 months.

[marsh helm]

i read this

[sweet anchor]

I wonder if you can send your CPU back and get a new one lol.

[marsh helm]

as 1/4

i didnt see that sneaky 13900ks

and 14900ks

[sweet anchor]

Like now that they're patching things - if you already broke the one you bought - can you send it back, get a new one patched and not have issues?

Or are you just like.. down $500-600 w/e they cost these days?

[sudden adder]

no idea, yet

eventually we will hear something, or Steve will come a knocking

[marsh helm]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-customer-bemoans-cpu-rma-process

on reddit theres some ppl being offered cash for the rma

since intel is out of chips

[sweet anchor]

Gamers Nexus, the only thing standing between Capitalism Tech Corpo, and justice lol.

[marsh helm]

true

[compact lark]

wendell casually mentions a 13700T also having issues

[marsh helm]

thats probably super rare tho

but seriously its really unstable and can corrupt your data

and crash a lot for random reasons and you dont know if you have a chip going bad till its waaay too late

[sweet anchor]

Next upgrade being a 12th gen it seems

[compact lark]

whatever I'm reading points at raptor-lake architecture

[marsh helm]

yes

they rushed it

[sudden adder]

"furious owner" so one person so far,

[marsh helm]

they thought this wouldnt happen soo fast

intel dosnt have many customers left

give them a break

[sweet anchor]

Should tweet @intel

stares

[sudden adder]

when it becomes a wide-scale issues, that guy above will have something to say

[marsh helm]

well he is okay

he was able to return to amazon and MC

at least he didnt get it from newegg

they would of charged him a fee

[sudden adder]

i mean, if i ordered an Intel part from Amazon, i woudlnt go to Intel first for a replacement, id go to Amazon, since I gave THEM my money

[marsh helm]

amazon asks you to go to intel first

[sudden adder]

hasnt stopped me from returning products sold thru amazon before

[compact lark]

tbh, intel does have 'fakes' floating around in the secondary markets.. but if their purchase was a new onshelf purchase (MC) with the seals intact that would be annoying to hear

[marsh helm]

yes but they want you to verify if possible

i havnt seen ppl do the same to amd cpus yet

[sudden adder]

ive sent back and got refunded on CPUs ive received that didnt work properly

[left heart]

there are fakes of everything

[sweet anchor]

Apparently Amazon doesnt even verify the return, just the weight of the package.

Which is like wtf.

[left heart]

$0.05 ICs all the way to desktop chips

[marsh helm]

yep

[sweet anchor]

Buy the diiiiip

[copper notch]

Hmm, this all sounds like a top-tier turn-key synergistic solution stack, that will be enterprise grade.

Did I win a bullshit bingo yet?

[marsh helm]

i dont know what this word means

[copper notch]

🙂

[marsh helm]

you said funny words

[sudden adder]

if im remembering correctly, 1 month of Amazon Prime across all of its estimated subscribers paid for the production of the whole first season of Rings of Power like 3 or 4 times over at least

[amber sparrow]

Speaking of

[left heart]

presumably he's talking about manufacturing what intel calls "tiles" in-house

[amber sparrow]

Just started watching first season

[left heart]

context obviously missing

[marsh helm]

wat....

[marsh helm]

he sounds drunk

[left heart]

you sound like you're posting quotes in bad faith

[prisma dove]

Spoiler alert, Sam throws Frodo into Mt. Doom

[sudden adder]

for those who are super into Tolkin and LoTR, Rings of Power isnt very liked. That is understandable. For people that are just in it for the fun of it, its enjoyable

[copper notch]

<cues Led Zeppelin - Out On The Tiles>

[left heart]

yes, intel is doing badly. represent that accurately.

[amber sparrow]

I started watching with no preconceived notions

So it's been enjoyable

[compact lark]

I bought used intel alder lake chips, I'm aware of how to read the ihs and check their warranty status..
the fakes can't be bothered to change ID's to match what it's supposed to be, I'll go look at what this customer said/provided

[sweet anchor]

I watched like half the first season, wasn't bad. I mean, if you like high production fantasy, why wouldn't you?

[marsh helm]

i dont like

elves

[sweet anchor]

wow racist

/s

[sudden adder]

its their wispyness, isnt it?

WE all have to trapse in the snow, while THEY walk on top of it like they are sprites or some other fuckin soda

[marsh helm]

they look like they smell like dirt

[marsh helm]

i thought that quote explained itself pretty well i didnt cut anything afaik

oh one part after

That's when we'll start to really, as Dave said, you'll see the benefits of the model that we've put in place. Tiles coming home, leadership process technology, leadership products starts in '25, deliver big time in '26 and beyond.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/08/01/intel-intc-q2-2024-earnings-call-transcript/ heres the full transcript

he just has a weird way of speaking

always has

[compact lark]

ye iunno what intel was smoking, their own public tool says their ihs and chip serials match up

[marsh helm]

<.<

wait only 2026

they extended it 2 years

whats the default warrenty?

[compact lark]

*The warranty expiration date shown is estimated based on the manufacturing date of the product and typical warranty periods. *

[marsh helm]

so they knew and didnt stop production to check?

that seems like a long time to fix

they didnt tell their enterprise ppl of the issue

i hope they dont make it an issue for ppl to rma

[left heart]

let's just consider the imaginary scenario of if a foreign object found its way into a vacuum chamber, started degassing, and it took until their internal failure analysis lab found it in a completed chip, then they checked other sample chips and didn't find the oxidation, why would they stop production?

no idea what caused it in the first place, and obviously their "screening" was insufficient if those chips made their way to customers, but it's not infeasible to see why they wouldn't need to stop production...

[marsh helm]

i guess they might of just made a TON of 13 and 14gen before it was fully cleaned out

so even what looks to be new retail boxes could be from the time it wasnt as clean

[left heart]

the oxidation issue was clearly stated to be a 13th gen only issue

there are two different problems affecting those chips

[marsh helm]

that seems worse

what is the second issue?

voltage?

[left heart]

rewatch the gamersnexus video... they explained it quite well

[marsh helm]

i didnt catch in that it was only 13th gen

for the oxidation

that makes sense tho

[amber sparrow]

So do they have a true root cause for 14th gen failure yet?

[open rune]

Two depending on the situation

[compact lark]

I read that buildzoid has an opinion regarding voltage, don't think they've been mentioned yet
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/buildzoid-analyzes-0x123-versus-0x125-microcode-using-his-oscilloscope.400232/

[civic quarry]

lots of good related info here https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a

[marsh helm]

[amber sparrow]

So voltage at high temps? And for only as little as 50ms? Yikes

[amber sparrow]

What 2? I'm only really seeing the voltage concern. The oxidation seems to be limited to 13th gen

[left heart]

it doesn't appear to be temperature related, L1techs spoke to server hosts using unstable desktop chips, they logged temperatures and they were maxing out in the 80s

[amber sparrow]

80s is what buildzoid mentioned

[left heart]

he's got a few videos where he pokes around and shows voltage traces on a scope, but it's still just experiment

[marsh helm]

[left heart]

(as he says multiple times, he's still poking around with it)

the scope traces are insightful though

he's also got one of those fancy 12 bit scopes

[compact lark]

wanted a used 14700 to play with later, guess I'll have to goto a new platform anyway

[amber sparrow]

Either way, it's kinda nutty

[left heart]

yep it's bad

[civic quarry]

what is funny is I had to RMA my 12900K a couple years back and was seriously considering RMA>sell>buy a 13900K

not wanting to deal with doing that paid off it seems

[amber sparrow]

Yea. Pretty good call there

[open rune]

Not like you would have gotten more p-cores out of the deal anyway

[marsh helm]

so i listened to MILD

they said its rumored that arrow lake will still be lower clocks vs raptor

im thinking the performance difference isnt going to be really that big then

[sudden adder]

well that makes sense if you "Lost World" it.

Raptors can run thru the long grass
Arrows will lose momentum faster in the long grass

[marsh helm]

it feels like they were aiming for 30%+ by removing the hyperthreading and in late 2023 that stopped being possible

they removed all mentions of performance uplift

and just talk about AI performance and performance per watt

which on desktop feels kinda moot

when intel changed the slides on arrow lake i was worried and was more worried when they didnt even mention it during the big event last month

this is supposed to come out in q4 and we still have nothing

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/08/02/apple-just-sent-a-major-warning-to-nvidia-investor/ umm i do feel like long term asic based stuff makes a lot of sense for training ai

[opaque halo]

Fixed the gaps between my monitors and created more desk space. Should have gotten this arm years ago

[copper notch]

Ergotron?

[opaque halo]

Nah - wasn't gonna spend that much 🙂 Huanuo (recommended by Yolo and a few others). $70 USD for the 3 monitor one. Took me about 30 minutes to set it up as I'm familiar with these from using them on the Radiologist workstations at work.

The Huanuo is VERY similar to the Ergotron arms.

[sweet anchor]

eyo 3x 1080p 24" ganggang

[copper notch]

House is full of flies, ugh. Swing fly swatter at them for 10 minutes, didn't get one of them. So... think smart not hard right?

[sweet anchor]

Even has the pullout keyboard table, and same mouse as me

[opaque halo]

Yup.. don't game that much so it works 🙂

[copper notch]

Turned on all the lights on main floor and basement. Opened microwave oven and put 1L of water in a bowl. Turned basement light off, wait 1 minute, close basement door. Turn entrance hallway light off, computer monitors off, computer area light off, livingroom light off, dining room light off, range light off, wait a minute. Turn kitchen light off...

Flock of like 10 flies b-line it into the microwave, slam. 5:00 BEEP

F*** you flies!

[opaque halo]

Love the 502. Have 2 others for if / when this one gives out. Grabbed 'em from amazon when they dropped to $24 USD 🙂 Would LOVE to use a mechanical keyboard but need the ergo one due to hand / wrist issues.

[copper notch]

Looks like there are another dozen or so though, so I'm going to have a lot of bowls of hot water tonight.

[sweet anchor]

Paid like $130 for it. Goes to show how long I've had this thing lol. Not even the wireless version. Wonder what it costs here now, I assume prices dropped over time.

yea okay its $45 here now

[opaque halo]

This was about 2 yrs ago. A good thing is we use them at work so when people have issues it's a quick thing to program the mouse and "deploy" it

[sweet anchor]

The fact it's lasted 8 years is honestly baffling to me.

[sweet anchor]

Yea the local profile not having to deal with logitech software is nice

[opaque halo]

Until someone gets into and reprograms the buttons for what the want then another person comes in and "it broke"

I do have a 600 for when I'm doing repetive work. not as comfortable but ALL the buttons 🙂

[amber sparrow]

Making some.nachos that F

[sudden adder]

hopefully your wife knows you are seeing some hot nachos on the side

[amber sparrow]

She's involved 😉

[sudden adder]

maximum cheese

[opaque halo]

Well - there's one serving

[amber sparrow]

There's literally a lb of shredded cheese there. Soooooo good

[opaque halo]

ya gonna smoke 'em??

[sudden adder]

i stand corrected : maximum blockage 😄

[amber sparrow]

Too late. And rainy

[opaque halo]

Friday night No poop nachos

[amber sparrow]

But I plan on hopefully doing a brisket and smoked spam tomorrow

[opaque halo]

That's right.. you gotta wee bit of a storm down your way

[amber sparrow]

And also, I'm lactose intolerant so there's no issue with not pooping

[opaque halo]

way to counteract the effect

[amber sparrow]

Damn straight

3am not gonna be fun haha

[silver fable]

Shit happens.

[amber sparrow]

A lot after these

[opaque halo]

Matty tomorrow morning

[amber sparrow]

Some frankes red hot drizzled, sour cream, and avocado to top em off

[wary holly]

Your sour cream almost looks like cream cheese. Or perhaps you keep sour cream in the freezer?

[amber sparrow]

Freshly opened and the cheap brand. Didn't bother whipping at all to loosen up

[copper notch]

I just fried up 1kg of bacon, and made bacon n boiled eggs

sooo good

[opaque halo]

though you were boiling flies

[copper notch]

Oh, I did 3 batches of flies so far. Still more flying around.

[opaque halo]

You got something dead under your house???

[copper notch]

I opened the door every day the last 5 days to go out for a walk, so a couple of flies must have gotten in, and probably bred in the basement or something, I dunno. Either that or they're coming in via the range hood vent.

It happens every few years and I get attacked by hundreds of them, but ... I have... The Technology™

[opaque halo]

Something die in the range hood vent? That many flies isn't a good sign

[copper notch]

Who knows... In past years I found swarms of flies in the basement, baby flies, so they were clearly breeding in small spaces down there where it was cool. Probably the same thing again.

Not much you can do about it except use fly paper, a fly swatter, or microwave oven technology.

[opaque halo]

or hire and exterminator 🙂

[copper notch]

All food waste goes into used ziplock bags in the freezer and then taken right to the garbage bins, so there is no food or other things attracting them.

What I think actually happens, is I do some laundry, forget and leave the laundry room light on, come upstairs and turn the main basement light on, then if there are flies in here and I go to bed, all the lights are off but they can see a light coming from under the basement door and go down there and reproduce like rabbits.

[wary holly]

Flies reproduce much faster. I once saw them mating and tried to swat them off, they flew off without, ahem, "dismounting".

[copper notch]

There is another way to catch them easily too, a special DIY flytrap I could make. Basically it is a 2L pop bottle or similar, and you darken the top half of it by taping a garbage bag to it, and put an apple core or 2 in it with a bit of cider vinegar. Make this simple contraption that goes over the top in such a way that they smell food in there, and they go inside, but they are attracted to light so they do not go back into the dark side and can't see to get back out, so they get stuck in the pop bottle and just die in there. You can catch 100s of flies like that. YouTube has tutorials on making them. Great for camps.

[copper notch]

Don't do that, that just turns them on more. 🙂

About once a year I get inundated with one insect or another for a few days/week or so. There are tutorial videos on YouTube on how to catch/kill just about anything with simple household items etc. tho so it is not really hard to get rid of things if you do your research.

I've gotten rid of swarms of flies, fruit flies, GNATS ARE THE WORST FFS, earwigs, ants, spider mites.

I wouldn't wish gnats on my worst enemies during a war.

The stupid fruitfly wannabe jerks they are.

[opaque halo]

Do you live in the jungle or a swamp with Baba Yagga??

[copper notch]

No but insects do exist you know. 🙂

[opaque halo]

I know 🙂 I have wetlands / swamp in my back yard.

[copper notch]

I've had mice a few times too which was annoying but the landlord blocked off the way they were getting in so haven't had a recurrence of them. I also had one totally freaky pest that I had never seen before that totally freaked me out.

A "mouse" with no ears, no eyes or face.

It wasn't a mouse, but that's what it looked like.

Lemme find a picture..

[wary holly]

spoiler it

[opaque halo]

sounds like a vole

[opaque halo]

yup.. that's a vole

[copper notch]

nope 🙂

[sudden adder]

looks more mole than vole

[copper notch]

It's a North American short tailed shrew, the only poisonous mammal in North America

Running around my friggen house. Fortunately thanks to National Geographic showing me shrews killing big snakes, cats, dogs, they mentioned that the venom is not poisonous enough to kill a human.

They have to eat every 4 hours or they will die due to their super high metabolism, keeps their heart beating at like 1200bpm or something.

[sudden adder]

so what you're saying... is you are Taming the Shrew to attack snakes now? 🙂

[copper notch]

So they are ferociouos... they be like "GIMME FOOD" like that movie Crank where he can't stop or he dies.

[sudden adder]

wasnt expecting to hear the movie Crank mentioned tonight, lol

[copper notch]

How I discovered it was I saw an odd coloured mouse running around escaping me so I knew there was one in the house, but I put out one of those sticky traps behind the couch. A couple of days later I was sitting at my PC and hearing this "chirp" sound that kind of sounded like some kind of rechargeable device with a dead battery using the remaining fumes of juice to alert you that it needed recharging, except I don't own anything like that.

So I was like "what's that friggen noise", and went in the direction it was coming from and found the sticky trap had a mouse in it. It was dark so I didn't notice the details. I picked up the trap with a pair of pliers and didn't look at it, tossed it inside an empty pizza box on the table and went about my business for a while. Then I kept hearing that chirping noise and went to look and WTF... A MOUSE WITH NO EARS OR FACE!

LOL

I googled that and found out what it was, then watched NatGeo

He died a few hours later from starvation, so that was that.

Gotta eat every 4 hours or you die, then don't step on a sticky trap dude or you're skrewed.

[sudden adder]

ya just made me think of a great tshirt idea. the text "NatGEO" above a 20-sided die that looks like Earth.

Natural Geographic

that has to exist

[opaque halo]

🤦‍♂️

[sweet anchor]

You are all nerds. Also has anyone tried the MultiStream plugin from Aitum yet?

[clear phoenix]

I saw like two days ago a video on YT someon talking about this plugin

[sweet anchor]

Was just released yes, was more wondering if any of the peeps had had time to give it a whirl yet.

I know the previous multistream plugin had.. quirks?

[clear phoenix]

the Aitum multistream interfaz look like better but I didn´t tried it yet, I installed it but didn´t tried it yet

[clear phoenix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOJXhmiIBoU&pp=ygUMYW5nZWwgbWVuZGV6

[copper notch]

Oooo, just discovered Exeldro's Markdown plugin... very nice.

[sweet anchor]

I don't think it supports the original OBS version sorry

You're on like version 1.7 right?

[copper notch]

hahahaha

On this machine I've got 26.x, 29.x and 30.x

[late surge]

why so many?

plugin compatability?

[sweet anchor]

Oh boy, you've done it now Christopher.

[copper notch]

The TL;DR answer, is I have a highly complex OBS configuration with hundreds of scenes developed since around 2017 with lots of custom made visual FX, using various plugins, shaders, scripts and other stuff, and OBS over the years has changed how various things work which makes a lot of the things I developed break or produce incorrect color, incorrect alpha or other problems. To make it all work on current OBS requires spending dozens if not hundreds of hours reprogramming a lot of stuff which I intend to do eventually but it is not a life priority. 🙂

So I have various different use cases for OBS, and the ones that are not complex, I use newer OBS releases, but for compatibility with old content/fx etc. I still have older releases.

I can pipe the output of one OBS release to an input source in a newer release in order to take advantage of newer CODECs, platform integrations etc. if/when needed.

[open rune]

I want to change your name to skeletonbow is typing...

[sweet anchor]

To be fair, if you take a look at history, that was the TLDR version..

[cosmic gale]

Can someone please download temu off my link or use my code so I can get free stuff?

[sweet anchor]

Aight 5 am, I'm hopping to bed. Nn Sapiens, SB

[open rune]

Negative captain

[cosmic gale]

Pls

[open rune]

[opaque halo]

How do the kids say it... "Yeah, nah bro"

[sudden adder]

not into Temu, but i do like milk in my tea

listen... its been a long day 😄

[late surge]

temu
tea-mooo
good one

[copper notch]

LOL

[late surge]

didnt deserve this win

[marsh helm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vQlvefGxk

Gamers Nexus intel shady

<.< notice the difference

[copper notch]

haha, I just came to post about that too. 🙂

[cunning pine]

So they offer support for tray when it comes to influencers and tech news outlets? Or they initially offered and then stopped

[marsh helm]

they are soo slimey

[copper notch]

yeah, no kidding eh

[marsh helm]

removes fruit

why isnt he reducing his pay to 0

the foundry is already running with a skeleton crew

yeah they knew

and they didnt do anything to tell any clients

they need to be forced to pay

[copper notch]

Hey don't blame the foundry's problems on me! LOL

[marsh helm]

all skellys know one another

intel is changing official messages after media talks about it

[copper notch]

Finished the video... that was scathing. I can't see how Intel can turn this PR nightmare around.

Just about everywhere people talk about CPUs that I'm in, even people who are or have been Intel fans or fanbois for a long time are making comments that they're going with AMD in their new build. Ooof.

[wary holly]

Pretend it didn't happen, downplay the severity of it, recall a few products here and there.

[copper notch]

I can see Dell and other companies prying the "Intel Inside" stickers off their PCs and laptops and hoping nobody notices.

You know what else is unusual, usually with controversies like this is when the super fanbois come out and go ultra defensive. It seems they are mostly dead silent.

They be sitting there thinking "uh, I got nothing man..." 🙂

Or, they are unable to comment on anything because their Intel CPU cooked

$10 says US government lawsuit from the FTC/DOJ within 3 months on this.

[drowsy mason]

I think the fanboys are less excited rn because there's no performance wins on the horizon (Arrow Lake is more about efficiency it seems), hasn't been all that close for gaming since Ryzen 7000X3D series really... When nothing to brag about, why stick around for losing this brag-fight? And people really don't like their electronics burning up, so... Not much to defend.

[copper notch]

indeed

[marsh helm]

yeah

[drowsy mason]

I like my intel stuff, but I was always put off by refreshing it so many times for marginal gains and never putting it properly on sale for 13th and 14th gen, so I didn't end up getting that, and I'm not affected by the burn-ups. Plus the "more E-cores" thing rubbed me a bit the wrong way somehow, couldn't shake a suspicion of them.

[marsh helm]

i was watching and said wow thats a lot and noticed i was just 40% through

This is pretty much what im seeing from other sources

[copper notch]

AMD should release Zen 5 with every CPU $50 cheaper than what rumours are expecting. Kill shot.

[silver fable]

I have no brand loyalty when it comes to CPUs. I buy what seems to be the best at the time. I've owned Intel, AMD, and Cyrix, depending on the time frame.

[marsh helm]

nah just buy 7800x3d if u want something cheaper

[copper notch]

The profit margins on Ryzen are pretty big, so AMD could totally afford it, and make back in market share anyway

[marsh helm]

its not like its worse

amd margins are 30% on the older stuff

probably less on the new ones

[drowsy mason]

I was able to get a better price/perf buying 12th gen when I did compared to Ryzen 7000, even if just by a bit, and their decade-plus-old CPUs are holding up okay if you have a use-case for old parts, etc. (But I am not going to have much point saying that, it's stating the obvious and doesn't change that they haven't protected customers from this latest thing at all so far.) So that's about the extent of my "fanboy's case for intel."

[copper notch]

Intel's BOM costs are higher so AMD can do a price war and cause Intel to lose both marketshare and make basically no money.

[marsh helm]

amd already has them bet on price

why do they need to lower their costs even more?

the 7800x3d is $300

amd dosnt see their older stuff as worse

they see it as more budget options

you get what you pay for with amd

[copper notch]

They don't. But if they lower their prices even more they still make a lot of money due to their profit margins being high, while it puts pressure on Intel to have to lower their prices too, which makes Intel's profit margins very small. So Intel either has to lower prices and make very little profit, or keep prices higher and lose market share. Either way it is a kill shot strategy AMD could use, and one could argue that they are already doing it with the prospective Zen 5 prices being rumoured.

[marsh helm]

well remember

theres time before arrow lake even drops

[copper notch]

So it wouldn't be a necessity, it would be a business strategy.

[marsh helm]

its going to be 3-4 months before its on shelves

if they launch in dec then it really wont even be in stock til jan week 2

[copper notch]

Yeah, enough time for X3D to drop too, with its new features as well.

[marsh helm]

soo by then they can drop prices $50

and have the 3d announced or out

[copper notch]

yeah, probably

$50-100 depending on sku

[marsh helm]

last time intel released their cpu during dec they had like 1 day of stock

and the rest was moved over by boat which means second week of jan

because of lunar new year and holiday transportation fees

theres some rumors that amd wont have full boats of the chips till sep

so like 2 weeks

it takes around a month to move a boat of cpus to a port and onto shelves

[copper notch]

It's funny... I was talking to a friend last year who said Intel has nothing to worry about because they're too big to fail and the US gov't needs them for government/military as they are US-made, so the government wouldn't let Intel fail hard. Truth is, military ditched Intel in a bid. Also, the idea that Intel's processors are made in the US means something is laughable because they're mostly made at TSMC now too, plus the motherboards, most of the other chips, capacitors, other components in a whole system are all made in Asia as well.

[marsh helm]

i dont think ppl understand

SAMSUNG is also here

has a working fab

[copper notch]

Yeah, and TSMC is building in US also

[marsh helm]

and military needs 10nm and 14nm

they dont use or need 3nm

it dosnt matter at all to them

before amd bought xilinix

xilinix sent up a spy sat to spaace

[copper notch]

Pretty sure the gov't/mil do not want 50% failure rates on their hardware too. 🙂

[marsh helm]

you wanna guess the nm size on that?

https://www.xilinx.com/video/fpga/introducing-the-industrys-first-20nm-space-grade-fpga.html

and thats SPACETECH

they dont need or order or want the advance nodes

and china is already at 7nm lvl

can produce cpus at about intel 10th gen i5

you dont need anything faster for most offices

i think intel has a lot to worry about

[drowsy mason]

More bigger = more reliable. The whole "cosmic ray bit flip" meme is probably a bit less of a meme out in the vacuum of space, no protection from atmosphere or other ground-level things.

[marsh helm]

aaah yes

less chance of radation damage

and probably emp

more surface area

[drowsy mason]

Source: I am guessing.

[marsh helm]

makes sense to me

the most advance pc in space was like 32nm

before that 20nm was put up

intel isnt needed

BECAUSE IF IT WAS

it would have customers

[drowsy mason]

I gots to go to bed, see y'all around. Wishing you all a good night.

[marsh helm]

night

[fresh oriole]

Don't you mean morning?

[tall vapor]

maybe, if it's like a thinkpad on the ISS that has a sandy bridge CPU. Most things up there in space be 45nm at best tho.

[marsh helm]

if intel stopped making cpus the government would have many options

[tall vapor]

45nm PPC, to be exact

[marsh helm]

i was SHOCKED

when i read that

i learned about it when i was researching what the heck xilinix is

[tall vapor]

how did you not know 😅

[marsh helm]

never heard of them

ever

[tall vapor]

but yah, there be a whole lot of PPC CPUs up there in space, on mars etc

[silver fable]

Kinda makes sense, really. None of the CPU tech that has gone into space, by govenrnment agencies, has been cutting edge.

I should change that to computer tech in general, since the Mercury/Apollo didn't have centralized CPUs at the time ( since they didn't exist ).

[tall vapor]

yah no, ya don't want cutting edge. Havin more cutting-edge-ish things works on the ISS, but yah further out... phew

[marsh helm]

https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/ wow

TSMC starts 4nm later this year

and actual production runs in 2025

[copper notch]

What... what could be wrong with putting an OC'd 14900KS into an interstellar space probe?

[marsh helm]

heatsinks!!

TSMC Arizona's first fab is on track to begin production leveraging 4nm technology in first half of 2025. The second fab will produce the world's most advanced 2nm process technology with next-generation nanosheet transistors in addition to the previously announced 3nm technology, with production beginning in 2028

[copper notch]

I mean besides the chip failing before it made it to the next planet's orbit.

[tall vapor]

yah TSMC do be expanding outside of taiwan

[marsh helm]

yeah INTEL better move

because once that 4nm is setup i think theres going to be a lot of buyers

[steep kite]

i read this article earlier this summer and it's really the sort of thing that's asking to be expanded into a full book. packed with super interesting cultural intersections

[copper notch]

How awkward will it be... Intel engineers leaving Intel's design lab, and driving past Intel Foundry, going down the road and pulling into the TSMC parking lot to hand over the chip designs to get them made?

[marsh helm]

theres a lot of cultural issues

well skelly

as i said theres just skells at the foundry

[tall vapor]

they also be building a fab in Germany rn, for example. That one be 22nm for now though, because they wanna keep their highend stuffs in Taiwan tho.
But it'd make so much sense to have a huge high-end fab in Germany, like ASML&all be right there

[marsh helm]

Intels germany fab is canned

and it seems like this current one which has no customers

[tall vapor]

I'm talking abt tsmc

[copper notch]

Should be all ran by robots and AI anyway 🙂

[marsh helm]

is burning money

[tall vapor]

inb4 it already is

[marsh helm]

nvidia said they use ai to make chips sooo

[tall vapor]

wouldn't surprise me, considering those 13th&14th gen chips °J°

[marsh helm]

whats the production amount of intels foundry?

[tall vapor]

which one

they got a whole lot of fabs

[marsh helm]

Intel says they needs $25B to $30B of capex per 10,000 wafers per week for their new fabs. TSMC has stated they requires about $42B of capex per 10,000 wafers for their 3nm in Arizona even after the “cost overruns”. We are unsure what the delta is for Intel versus TSMC on these numbers as the TSMC figures include site prep, shell, and tooling. Regardless, taking Intel’s numbers at face value, this is a huge wall given Intel always needs 150,000+ wafers per month of capacity on the leading edge to remain competitive in volumes with TSMC.

[tall vapor]

says who

[marsh helm]

OH sry

i read this wrong

italy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-cancels-fab-investment-in-italy-and-randd-facility-in-france-chipmaker-remains-committed-to-other-european-expansions