off-topic

[wary holly]

I also miss the time when most apps used standard window decorations and menu bars. Menu bars especially, they're very efficient and easy to operate, but decorations make the operating system feel like a coherent ecosystem. Nowadays every app wants its own unique graphics.

This is on one Windows PC.

[sweet anchor]

And yet, we somehow drift to the same look of the "modern" style.

[woven forge]

hello for hvec beta, where to download obs beta version?

[wary holly]

@woven forge If you refer to the invite-only twitch enhanced broadcasting beta, you don't.

[full fern]

There's no current OBS beta right now. Are you thinking of Twitch's HEVC beta instead?

Ope, Chiyo beat me to it haha

[civic quarry]

You were either invited or not. Anyhow, this is already over

[woven forge]

yeah thats what I mean, I think I’ve been accepted into the beta, but the HEVC option doesn’t appear in the encoder section.

[wise bay]

For more information on the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting beta, please check out Twitch's help article or the Discord server.

[full fern]

^

[vernal current]

i have the option to watch the rightoues gemstones or only murders in the building

i only read good things about both but have no idea which one to choose

only murders looks kinda goofy....thats the only turn off

[terse helm]

I just started the new white lotus

[opal timber]

which recording format do you recommend for casual use? i dont need quality, I prefer lower file size

[void gale]

maybe MP4 since it is compatible on many devices
use Av1 or H265 encoder for lower file size however H264 is widely compatible

[opal timber]

thank you I'll try MP4

[silver fable]

Recording format does not affect file size.

[silver fable]

Recording in regular mp4 will cause total loss of the file, if the recording is inturrupted for any reason.

[slow pewter]

hello me like to ask again what is gpu :p

[civic quarry]

Graphics Processing Unit or just graphics card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

[slow pewter]

that answers my question thank you very much

[opal timber]

Thank you!

[sudden adder]

<@&715347355565817879>

[void gale]

friends i am addicted to valorant game

[livid plover]

🫡 bless your soul

[civic quarry]

Sorry to hear that

[sudden adder]

My condolences

The alternative is Marvel Rivals and getting crushed by some thighs

[amber sparrow]

Rivals is pretty good tho

I enjoy it.....mostly

[tall vapor]

My penguin shall keep me safe from games like Valorant

[sudden adder]

Penguin is DC, not Marvel 🙂

[sweet anchor]

Unless it's getting tariffed.

[tall vapor]

my penguin only eats european fish, so we good

[wild cradle]

Guys help pls) #windows-support message

[livid plover]

Please don't crosspost 🙂

[tall vapor]

that's.... that's a VU meter.

and yes, crosspostin is eeeh

[wild cradle]

well, to be honest, I don't understand where to write ahaha) I just don't understand what is responsible for the animation \ speed of this strip))...

[tall vapor]

it's a VU meter

[wild cradle]

I don't understand..

What needs to be updated/checked if it lags/freezes?

GPU \ CPU Driver?

Memory?

[tall vapor]

it tells you how loud the audio on the given source is. 2 meters per source cause stereo, ie 2 channels

either way, back to windows support you go

[amber sparrow]

Ice cream with the kiddos

[civic quarry]

I scream with the kiddos

[neon spoke]

Those look awesome!!

[sweet anchor]

Man, luckiest kids ever

Well, except the whole Matty for a dad thing

[hearty stirrup]

@prisma dove did you know about ethernet over hdmi? (they designed a standard for 100mbit between devices over the hdmi port)

[prisma dove]

Yeah, I know about it. I just wanted to be clear about the OP was describing.

[hearty stirrup]

the intention was to have hdmi on the TV or AV receiver be a switch for the home entertainment center

wanted to make sure on the cable supporting that vs the hdmi over ethernet extenders

[terse helm]

Afaik nothing actually supports Ethernet over hdmi

[hearty stirrup]

support for it is very limited

[terse helm]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a device that supported it

googling it doesn't reveal anything but other people asserting that no such device was ever actually produced

so it seems that the HDMI forum added it to the 1.4 spec and then device manufacturers chicken-and-egged it back out of existence

and if I understand correctly now the wiring pairs that it used have been repurposed for eARC

[paper temple]

Hi! I just became a Patron of Xaymar, but I haven't received access to StreamFX yet. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get the download link? Also, does Xaymar usually take a while to check messages?

[wise bay]

If you are looking for more information or support for the StreamFX plugin, please visit the forum resource page.

[paper temple]

Did I support the wrong creator? If I support Vhonowslend, can I still get access to StreamFX?

[opaque halo]

Nope 🙂

[karmic tiger]

Vhonowslend is the official streamfx stuff

new "brand" by xaymar

[paper temple]

Oh I got it thank you

[jaunty fulcrum]

circled the small text but not the big text

[paper temple]

I became a Patron, but I can't access the files because my Discord isn't linked properly. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[opaque halo]

I was pointing at the fact the poster was Xaymar 🙂

[karmic tiger]

ask xaymar

[compact lark]

https://www.xaymar.com/projects/ under streamFX they list https://vhonowslend.com/ as the owner
As of 2025 it is now owned and run by...

[paper temple]

So does this mean I need to support Vhonowslend instead?
If I become a patron there, will I be able to access StreamFX right away?

[opaque halo]

Going to have to be patient and wait for them.

[karmic tiger]

actually nvm

he switched the patreon too

yeah you need tto back the Vhonowslend patreon

[compact lark]

https://github.com/Vhonowslend/StreamFX-Public/wiki/About-StreamFX
Is StreamFX free?
No. We offer both source code and binary releases exclusively to our Patreon supporters. We offer multiple tiers based on which feature set you need, keeping the basic feature set affordable. https://patreon.com/vhonowslend/join

their vhonowslend site could use a lot of work

[neon spoke]

I would recommend not tying your production to StreamFX. You can do virtually everything it does with free open source solutions.

[vernal current]

If I downloaded an app from something like apk mirror then I have to manually update it and redownload it every time there is an update right?

No way to have it automatically update right?

[livid plover]

Yeah

You could grab it off f-droid if available there instead maybe

[split agate]

having a hard time using "keras_tuner", giving unexpected results

[terse helm]

I have added a note to your file

[vernal current]

What's f droid

[sudden adder]

https://f-droid.org

[vernal current]

Nice

Oh I have to install it on PC only?

[sudden adder]

The download button on their website is an apk

[vernal current]

Oh sorry I confused it with something else. I assumed you can download it from playstore

[livid plover]

Don't think so tbh

[slow pewter]

skibidi toilet

[civic quarry]

Sorry to hear that

[void gale]

What are some worth playing single player upcoming pc games?

I am excited for

• Sea of Stars (new dlc on summer)
• Hollow Knight Silksong

Searching for more games

[sudden adder]

How do we know if they are “worth playing” if they arent out yet?

Im interested to see what that Marathon preview is going to be, but i have zero clue if the actual game will be worth playing

[slow pewter]

interesting

[sudden adder]

Not really

Probably just an extraction shooter

[void gale]

based on their previous game works we can analyse on their upcoming projects

[sudden adder]

Who? Bungie? This particular project has had a bit of… issues along the way. The main project head was removed from it, and it sounds like Sony has been mismanaging them quite a bit.

This could be make or break for them, really

Plus no one involved with the original Marathon games is really there, and the game itself sounds like such a departure from what it was, but we’ll know more in about a week

[unborn lark]

Man why the fuck is it hard to get a job for 7 per hour dawg??

[livid plover]

roadcraft, rise of industry 2, borderlands 4, anno 117, mafia the old country, atomfall only recently launched, wreckfest 2 when it releases out of EA, assetto corsa evo also when out of EA

[void gale]

I am planning to buy lot of indie games on this summer and winter steam sale

[wary holly]

@void gale Portal, The Talos Principle, The Witcher 3, Steins;Gate. None of them are "new" games if you care about release dates, but they're new to you if you haven't played them yet.

[full fern]

Just a heads up to those who hang in support: Discords latest update was apparently a big one, and it turned back on the Discord in game overlay after I had it off.

[shrewd spire]

the ingame overlay though is no longer a hook/injected dll from what i have seen

so it shouldn't matter obs wise?

[full fern]

Oh, that's a good development! Thx!

[sweet anchor]

It's a balance. You give up some, for something else.

[full fern]

Ah, I see

[white aspen]

Good afternoon

[sudden adder]

oh... hey there popup ads on Discord

[full fern]

I didn't even get an x, had to click through the stupid ad first

[sudden adder]

it shows as this in the lower right of my chat, and expands when I mouse over it

fun that they put it in the worst place. it could have had a Float:left or float:right in the chat box and allowed the chat messages to flow around it, but no, stick it in front of the useful buttons

[open rune]

Late to the April fool's day joke for a game about touching grass

[tall vapor]

it's purposefully placed where it is so that you see it as you're lookin for one of the useful buttons

but yes hover over it and bam x to close

[copper notch]

I got that on update several days ago, and there is a new category for it in Discord settings also. Haven't seen anything since, but I suspect they'll ramp that up over time

[terse helm]

last ep of white lotus was sure somethin

[void gale]

already played popular games

[sudden adder]

The Remedy-verse games? Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, Alan Wake 2, the upcoming Max Payne remake

[void gale]

played them already

[sudden adder]

I Wanna Be The Guy? I Wanna Be The Boshy?

[livid plover]

But i wanted to be the guy

[terse helm]

don't forget Sticky Notes, The Game

[sudden adder]

Yee, FBC Firebreak

[open rune]

Ostranauts, Caves of Qud

Wadjet Eye also has a ton of good titles if point and click adventures are your thing

[karmic tiger]

CoQ is reeeally good

[open rune]

Great soundtrack, and you can have a chair as a pet

[civic quarry]

your profile pic makes me happy

[jaunty rampart]

borderless based

[pseudo bronze]

.

[sudden adder]

Informative first message

[open rune]

They still beat you in punctuation though

[prisma dove]

by a point

[neon spoke]

And a wall. And copies of yourself. And of course my bro-in-arms, Oboroqoru the God of Apes.

[sudden adder]

One point

[neon spoke]

HAHA

[open rune]

I'm on Team Ctesiphus

[neon spoke]

I knew I loved CoQ when Oboro led the charge down into || Bethesda || where the cloning enemies live, and I had to fight a clone of Oboro...which what I mean by that is I fled for my life nickle and diming the monstrosity while the true Oboro had a kaiju battle in the depths of the labs with his evil twin, and he only won because of my nickle and diming.

I got both of these achievements in that same game.

btw I would recommend not picking a fight with Oboroqoru.

[open rune]

Somehow less than 70% of players have the achievement for dying

[neon spoke]

Yeah, it's funny. My assumption is they fire the game up into Joppa and bounce right out of the interface, or did prior to 1.0 when it was at least strictly better than Dwarf Fortress

Sort of like the Pathologic 1 & 2 achievements for just getting to the second day.

[open rune]

It's still a lot to adjust to but it's certainly better than Dwarf Fortress

[neon spoke]

I admit, I did set a low bar there haha

I have a LOT of respect and admiration for Tarn Adams ... who would no doubt side with me in my condemnation of their o.g. UI. The new one is actually not so bad

[open rune]

They've done a lot of great work with the interface and graphics overall since coming to Steam

Seems like it's paid off for them too

[neon spoke]

Yeah, they pocketed like $7mil in a couple months after release. True to form, they're still simple and sweet people. It's refreshing hearing them talk about how - basically - it just means they don't have to worry about food or healthcare anymore and otherwise they're unchanged.

I should fire up DF again. I'm neck-deep in Noita at the moment

[livid plover]

DF is goooood

[neon spoke]

It's hard to wade into, still have to follow the "what do I do" graph every time I start a game 🤪 but it really does generate some incredible narratives

[livid plover]

I need something badly brainless to just noodle at these days so currently 100% nerding around in far cry 6

[neon spoke]

FC games can be fun; I enjoy the "go tackle the fortress" game loops in those now and again.

[open rune]

I'm going to get into Dwarf Fortress eventually but for now Rimworld is more my speed

[karmic tiger]

it's a really good game but it's deffo not as similar as it's said to be

especially in terms of, like, vibe

[neon spoke]

That's such a good one too. I've played that on and off since its beta, it's come a LONG way

[neon spoke]

Yeah that's fair to say. Rimworld is a LOT more pessimistic haha

Dwarf Fortress just simulates nature, which is indifferent

[karmic tiger]

technically, DF is not out of alpha

oh wait or is it now

[sudden adder]

When a few teammates of mine were playing dwarf fortress a few years back, we had built a drawbridge over a big pit, so when invaders approached, we would raise the bridge and it would fling the invaders all over the place. So many completely broken bodies

[karmic tiger]

yeah nah it's still considered alpha

[neon spoke]

sorry I meant that for Rimworld

[karmic tiger]

oh ouki ^^

[neon spoke]

I still have the email with the janky URL to download the o.g. rimworld exe haha

DF I admit, I didn't have what it took to learn the o.g. UI and just watched a lot of others play it; I didn't try it myself until the steam launch

[karmic tiger]

but fun fact with dwarf fortress, the major version number represents the percentage of what would be a 1.0 of the game that the dev considers to be completed

so after almost 20 years in alpha we're at 51%

[neon spoke]

Their patch/update notes can be such a delight to read.

"We have given dwarves the ability to dream."

[karmic tiger]

^^

[swift salmon]

do you guys actually hate or uninstall xbox game bar?

[drowsy mason]

That overlay's an easy way to check the time without leaving a fullscreen game

Not sure if that's 100% the same as game bar, but the overlay when pressing the Xbox button on a controller is useful IMO

[open rune]

I have no issues with it, need it to sign in to some XBL games, and don't think there's a normal way to uninstall it anyway without getting into PowerShell commands

[tall vapor]

dunno, don't have a windows machine

[jaunty fulcrum]

I use it all the time for monitoring GPU usage, checking task manager, and especially controlling per-app volumes. i do wish its startup didn't take so long, that you could actually record at 100% video size, and that recording mic quality wasn't absolute rubbish.

[wary holly]

@jaunty fulcrum How long does it take to open?

[left mulch]

its immediate

[amber sparrow]

Yea mine feels pretty quick when I press xbox button on my controller

[jaunty fulcrum]

usually ~3-5 seconds for first launch if I don't have a game running, then instant on subsequent launches unless it crashes

[vernal current]

So I have had this problem for a few years now. My AV reciever does not always power on whenever I turn my TV on despite having the setting to do so on. The fix was to turn the TV on/off a couple of times until it "connects" again, but for about a year now it won't "connect" anymore

a few hours ago the electricity went out at my home for a couple of minutes and when it came back and I turned the TV back on, the reciever connected to my TV and I could hear in glorious surround again

I just turned the TV off and turned it back again and now it wont connect again

I have gone over multiple troubleshooting guides over the years and nothing worked for my onkyo AV

😦

[jaunty fulcrum]

i have similar weirdness occasionally with my Denon reciever. At this point I just use a remote that turns both on.

[carmine ibex]

why can I not load any Twitch streams, wtf

maybe I'll try restarting the ethernet adapter

nope

my phone works on wifi, something is def wrong with my computer

I can view the stream in Edge, interesting, maybe a restart of Firefox?

that didn't work, WTF is going on!?!? I tried disabling FFZ and uBlock

[livid plover]

Get a real browser /s

[carmine ibex]

private window in Firefox works, hmm

I disabled all extensions and logged out, still not loading stream.. but private window works!?!?!?

[karmic tiger]

yeet the cache and cookies?

[carmine ibex]

removing cookies worked

these crack me up so much, the "learn more" is just embed in the video

[livid plover]

HTML is too hard

[terse helm]

twitch still broken

[livid plover]

hmm?

[terse helm]

it won't load vods properly for me

I can get the video but no chat, and the video pretends it's live so I can't scrub

[livid plover]

no issues with vods here try incognito/another browser to rule that out?

[amber sparrow]

[terse helm]

hm turns out that vod was unpublished

but I guess I can see it because I'm an editor on the channel it's from

UI still broken though

[void gale]

best price to perfomance desktop build for 2d indie gaming?

[livid plover]

how 2d? because that might very well just be any system with a dedicated GPU or an APU

[sudden adder]

And many 2d games these days 3d engines anyway

[livid plover]

and some just plain unoptimized/heavy

[sudden adder]

Yee

[neon spoke]

If you're gunning for 2D indie titles for your content, I'd focus on building/buying a rig that's best suited for content making (streaming or video, whatever you're looking to do) because that system will have a very easy time with most titles in the 2D indie space.

Notable exceptions being Noita and Dwarf Fortress ... the latter of which can still bring some truly titanic systems to their knees

[sudden adder]

Dwarf Fortress is fine. Its not the processor intensive game people think it is.

The slowest it ever gets is when it’s initially generating the world anyway

[neon spoke]

I mean.... have you tried a fortress with 200 citizens all working away at making shell jewelry they get from shells drying up on the river bed they need to keep digging out irrigation channels for and producing thousands and thousands of shells for a thousand art pieces a week because, I have to share with you...

Your processor gonna have a time with that haha

(In general it's okay, you just wanna cap your fortress pop)

[slow pewter]

brrrrr

[neon spoke]

If you're cold, may I recommend putting on a coat.

[slow pewter]

no i just like car sounds

[neon spoke]

Who doesn't

[slow pewter]

🗣️🔥 BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

;p

[slow pewter]

but thanks for the tip, its hot in the Philippines

[neon spoke]

I was just as surprised as anyone that you might be cold

[vapid tinsel]

Brrrrrrrrrrrap!

A10 Warthog sounds

[livid plover]

Brrrrrt-

[neon spoke]

yeah, the brrr sound from a extremely high rpm mounted machine gun is both rhythmic and haunting

[livid plover]

If you hear it, it wasn't aimed at you i believe. Bullets travel faster than sound

[tall vapor]

yup yup. Muzzle velocity on the gau8 is 1010m/s somewhere thereabouts, meanwhile speed of sound is 331m/s (at sea level at 0°C in dry air)

[slow pewter]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[void gale]

is gaming became costly now or is it more costly like a decade or two decades ago

[sudden adder]

Inflation happens. Tariffs about to happen. The crypto-boom happened

[sweet anchor]

Everything is more costly now.

Covid was a real bad time for our wallets. Showed how much you can increase prices, and people still buy it. We'll see how long that lasts.

[sudden adder]

Though I will say, taking inflation into account, games are still cheaper, even at $80. Back in the 90s, Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES was like 80 or $90. Inflated today it would be about $140 I think.

[tall vapor]

not really. Fact of the matter is that one generally just doesn't have as much spare cash floatin around with everythin bein pricey

[void gale]

recent increase by trump tax tariffs will affect digital game prices in steam?

[sweet anchor]

But it was also a finished product that you bought. Not one you were re-sold over and over, and that you could lose access to at any given point

And I'd also like to point out, any game with a subscription will be significantly more expensive in almost no time at all - despite inflation comparisons.

[tall vapor]

nope, they only cover goods not services

[sudden adder]

Depends on the game really. I tend to stick with the $5-$25 category rather than the AAA games that have a huge amount of production costs behind it

[tall vapor]

also only affects physical games for the most part IF you do be in the us, cause otherwise..... uh those cartridges&such ain't made in the US, are they

if they cartridges they made by nintendo ie not in the us, if they disks well sony presses those and sony got plants in the us but also in europe and elsewhere

soo

🤷‍♀️

[void gale]

switch 2 console is releasing soon
seems like this may affect it

[tall vapor]

nope

doesn't affect it unless you live in the US

otherwise it's just a cheap excuse that nintendo claims

[void gale]

Irrespective of game production budget i see there is price increase even in games like blasphemous 1 (which is indie game)

games like octopath traveller 1,2 by squire enix always having high prices

[tall vapor]

point is...

just don't pay 80 bucks for a game

or 90 even

lel

[sudden adder]

Be frugal with your game purchasing

[tall vapor]

the wishlist button is right next to the buy button

sooo

put on wishlist

and sales come by rather often

soo

May I suggest takin a look at your backlog in the meantime

[sudden adder]

That’s what I’ve been doing myself, and I have game pass in case there’s any AAA games that I do wanna play. Indiana Jones, doom the dark age, south of midnight, etc.

Been playing and almost finished with Tunic because of GamePass

[tall vapor]

there hasn't really been anythin AAA that I wanna play in years, tbh

cause "AAA" just means "hey you gettin scammed"

be it ea, ubi, 2k or nintendo yes

or sony

[void gale]

i wishlisted 19games for now

[tall vapor]

yup and blasphemous 2 for example is 40% off rn

if ya really wanna get it

my current wishlist is 36 games long

I use the wishlist as a "save for later" feature, tbh

then steam sends me an email whenever sth be on sale on there, and then I decide whether it's a good sale price and whether I actually want it

🤷‍♀️

[void gale]

but blasphemous 2 game was too cheap in cdkeys website
in steam it cost thrice

[sudden adder]

31 games long here

CDKey sites can also be scams

so you save money by playing the risks

[tall vapor]

yup. also often times when it's too cheap.... well you're just supporting credit card fraud at that point

and a third of the price, with the steam price currently already being 40% off?

yup

that's sus

[sudden adder]

id rather go thru steam so at least the devs see that money directly

[tall vapor]

or one of the actually authorized resellers that do indeed exist

yup

often times with indie titles they sell the game on their site too

all depends

[amber sparrow]

I paid $7 for a gtaV key. I feel zero guilt

[tall vapor]

well why would you

it's rockstar

lel

[sudden adder]

^

[tall vapor]

that's not a biggie

at all

rip off rockstar, 2k, ea and so on as much as you want

yes that includes nintendo for all who be askin

(way too many people treat nintendo like as if they're some 2 person indie company, lol)

[void gale]

i regret buying gta v because it has microtranscations

[sudden adder]

INB4 Silksong has microtransactions

😄

[full fern]

I paid similar for RDR2. No ragrets

[neon spoke]

I got Minecraft for $5 just before it went into beta. I haven't played in years but I still logged hundreds of hours, that's hard entertainment / dollar to compete with

[full fern]

Definitely a good value!

[tall vapor]

$5 bucks was before alpha tho, iirc

[neon spoke]

look, there's no need to dwell on how I've been alive long enough to... anyway, it was cheap at the time!

[tall vapor]

[hearty stirrup]

even at full price, factorio has been worth it for me too

[wheat karma]

No way

You gotta close the game when not playing

[livid plover]

oh even with that the hours add up 🙃

[full fern]

[sudden adder]

Whats the thinnest ribbon world you’ve played?

[hearty stirrup]

haven't done ribbon yet, but I'm leaning towards a 3 chunk minimum

[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.

[neon spoke]

wooooow haha

[void gale]

u might like satisfactory game too?

[rare elm]

Yeah, didn’t think talking about my music was overboard, but I get it

[hearty stirrup]

I don't like the fixed-map aspect

[void gale]

👍

[neon spoke]

My comment was in direct response to a comment you didn't make. I've no idea what you're on about, stranger.

[rare elm]

lol 👍🏽

[void gale]

I am new to reddit does anyone know how to increase karma easily? :P

[jaunty fulcrum]

participate in communities

[void gale]

unable to post in communities but i can do comments
it says i need more karma

[jaunty fulcrum]

commenting counts

[smoky rapids]

There's post and comment karma

[void gale]

is it possible to open pdf file without knowing its password?

[civic quarry]

[livid plover]

Yeah, but you won't see anything useful

[brazen thunder]

I wonder if any modders have custom maps on their radar. I see a few move/randomize resources things

[sudden adder]

So apparently Fortnite is now popping up a warning about the Nvidia stability issues

[terse helm]

yeah

I got that too

told it no thank you

and have had no problems

[jaunty fulcrum]

that's pretty funny.
I've also had no stability issues with Overwatch 2 in DX12 mode on 572.83 with a 3080.

[left mulch]

I had issues with one game and downgraded as a result

which is funny because now the game warns me that my driver is out of date every time I start it

[tall vapor]

fortnite: "heey the graphics driver on your system might cause stability issues"

other games: "nvidia got trash drivers downgrade to 566.36 if you don't want for your computer to crash&burn the moment we actually start this game"

and I think that's hella funny

[sudden adder]

Yep, because a large corporation probably doesn’t want to directly throw another large corporation under the bus by name.

[tall vapor]

on one hand sure, but they could still give a hint abt what's goin on at the very least rather than leavin folk clueless. (ie ala "install nvidia driver 566.36 if you want DX12 mode")

but whatever, not touching fortnite anyway 🤷‍♀️

[open rune]

That would probably invite more support requests than it prevents

Now instead of people reporting game crashes they're asking for help to follow the popup's instructions, or break their drivers or whatever

[tall vapor]

fair

didn't think of the fortnite target audience

[left mulch]

heh has nothing to do with that imo, it would be the same with any audience.

[tall vapor]

Was just tryin to have fun

[open rune]

But do you have your permit

[terse helm]

I'm actually on 566.36 and it gave me that warning

which I upgraded to because COD told me the older one I had before wasn't good enough

[void gale]

anyone tried installing steam os on your amd gpu pc?

[tall vapor]

I do, as a matter of fact! Question is... do /YOU/ have your permit?

[open rune]

I'm the fun police I don't need a permit

[tall vapor]

been running desktop archlin on me desktop amdgpu sys for years, soo... but not steamos specifically tho, cause read only rootfs and ig starting directly into big picture rather than to desktop would annoy the hell outta me. Otherwise same thing practically, for what it's worth

[left mulch]

wait I was told my job was to prevent all fun happening here? 😮

[tall vapor]

and I know that sos would work cause I did test runnin gamescope directly on kms/drm that worked perfectly fine

[void gale]

are u having better game perfomance and stability over windows 10/11?

[tall vapor]

never bothered with win11 and 10 annoys me too so eh, don't care whether it's 2 fps more or less depending on the game as compared to an os that I wouldn't wanna touch anyway.

I don't run lin cause it's better for what I play or whatever, I don't run win cause I don't like win

[sudden adder]

So steamos 3 is officially available to download now?

[void gale]

i want to use steam os but nvidia doesnt support steam os well as much as amd

can i expect nvidia to support steam os well in future?

[tall vapor]

nope still the deck recovery image, but they def making preparations to have a "hey install this on other handhelds!" release once 3.8 reaches stable I'd wager

[sudden adder]

Ill probably just build an Arch box, since all the Proton stuff works fine with it

[void gale]

https://youtu.be/ZFtCB0zO0-A?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/-D3SRS5h87Q?feature=shared

these videos are tempting me to use steam os

[sudden adder]

And fully open

[tall vapor]

handhelds only for now cause they don't wanna deal with Nvidia proprietary driver, and nvk's still gonna take a bit for perf parity

also for desktop too they'd want "boot to kde" as an option

[tall vapor]

yeah exactly

[sudden adder]

That being said, I did get NodeJS and NPM installed on my steam deck, and after numerous updates, they’re still operating fine

It’s just a whole process of getting homebrew and everything installed that was annoying

Plus i still cant get VSCode and Github Desktop to properly remember my GitHub credentials, due to the lack of some password wallet functionality on the Deck

[tall vapor]

honestly for that I'd just set up a distrobox env and done

distrobox ships with the deck even

as a "you can install whatever you want all without touching sos" thing

[sudden adder]

Ill need to take a peak at that over the weekend.

[tall vapor]

also the nix dir on root is present too, specifically so that folk can set up nix if they want

[sudden adder]

I’m incredibly happy with the dock that I purchased for it. $30, supports far more displays than the official dock does, and supports triple monitor output via HDMI, DP and VGA (of all things). And the DP supports DP to HDMI adapters

I returned the official dock because it straight up wouldn’t work on any of my TVs

[prisma dove]

what, no parallel port?

[sudden adder]

No SCSI either, sad

Though I do have a USB3 to eSATA adapter

[prisma dove]

sad, indeed

[tall vapor]

connect an external drive that uses UAS(P)

[open rune]

Where do I connect my serial mux box

[amber sparrow]

To your butt

[tall vapor]

I'd recommend plugging your serial equipment into a compatible receptacle

[sudden adder]

I put my cereal equipment in a bowl with milk 🥣

[tall vapor]

Are you cereous?

[sweet anchor]

no clearly they are cereal.

[tall vapor]

a cereal killer, even?

cause it sure sounds like it

Question is whether they put the cereal in bowl and then milk ontop or other way around, cause one of them options is highly concerning

[sudden adder]

Spoon first, then water, then dehydrated milk powder, then cereal

Always more than 2 options

[opaque halo]

Two bowls. One with milk, one with cereal. Spoon full of cereal slowly lowered into the bowl of milk for the perfect amount of soaking and volume of milk to cereal

[sudden adder]

Oat chex in a bowl of chai latte sounds really good for some reason

Am I pregnant?

[sweet anchor]

prenangante?

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[marsh helm]

i have breaking news

https://youtube.com/shorts/5ljb0Oqh8hw?si=7qnWDbE1da0EEJ6W

soon we shall have mammoths

[still turret]

The amount of misinformation and dishonest marketing around this company is staggering.

Which is stupid because the reality of what they're actually doing is kind of impressive, they don't even need to lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0zgedLyTw

[sharp sigil]

Anyone here good with tech? My drive is suddenly full despite having 100+ gigs free earlier.

[prisma dove]

"earlier"? what about right now? What's the current state of the storage?

[sharp sigil]

I cannot post screenshots here but it was at 100+ gigs fre earlier now its 7.78 free.

The only major thing I did today was try and reinstall Valorant a few times but it kept failing.

Then I learned my disk space was low from playing Valheim.

[prisma dove]

Time to free up some space. Move media files, docs etc to other storage devices. Uninstall apps and games you don't play anymore.

[sharp sigil]

Brother, it was all free before all this.

[prisma dove]

And something filled it up.

[sharp sigil]

No way installing, reinstalling, then compeltely uninstalling Valorant fucked me up that badly.

And even with Valorant installed it should have been just 50 gigs used.

[prisma dove]

Evidence kind of shows otherwise, right?
You can post screenshots here.

[sharp sigil]

It wasn't letting me earlier.

One sec.

[prisma dove]

At this point, I don't know what answer you are looking for, except to examine what you have taking up space, then decide what to copy first before freeing up space.

[still turret]

@sharp sigil https://diskanalyzer.com/ is a good tool for this kind of thing.

[sharp sigil]

Yeah I'm trying to figure out WTF took that space. Since before the Valorant issues, I had 100+ gigs free

[sharp sigil]

I tried TreeWiz and its telling me its soemthing in Program Files but literally all I downloaded today was Valorant/Riot Client over and over again.

[still turret]

well, you can drill down to see what

that's the whole point of the tool, is to rapidly drill down in to the largest files/folders.

but I wouldn't be surprised if each time you did that created a new temp download cache that wasn't cleared out.

Riot is kind of notorious for terrible launchers.

[sharp sigil]

Fuck it looks like that. I also can't seem to post SS here.

Oh there.

[livid plover]

hmm, fun

[still turret]

reboot

files that get stuck there are typically cleared on reboot

[sharp sigil]

Did that a few times already.

[still turret]

idk then, probably ghosts.

[livid plover]

can try running the Disk Clean utility and selecting clean system files maybe, unsure if it'll fix anything

[sharp sigil]

I already ran bleach bit. Let me try rebooting one more time.

[livid plover]

not the same

otherwise just try nuking valorant/the launcher again and seeing if it's fixed with it gone

[sharp sigil]

Its already uninstalled

Same with Vanguard and Riot Client.

[livid plover]

what a great client

[sharp sigil]

I did a full shutdown and restart

Finally

Gonna use those programs to check then uninstall them too.

This was stressful cause I was not enjoying that issue T.T

[livid plover]

computers are nothing but stress

[sweet anchor]

Except for when they work.

So like, 1% of the time they're

[sharp sigil]

Randomly getting my shit filled up and no clue what caused it. I was stressing over the idea of a virus and having to have my crap wiped again.

[prisma dove]

as long as they work and mind their own business, computers are fine.
But once they contradicting commands from astronauts or launching nukes on civilization...

[livid plover]

throwback to windows leaking memory and filling my SSD with 120GB of page file/swap lol

[opaque halo]

Tree File Size will show you what's taking up what space

[sharp sigil]

We just resolved it. Thanks tho.

[full fern]

Oof Throwback to search index filling up my hard drive more than once LOL

[still mica]

What the heck even is $Extend

[opaque halo]

A coupon??

It extends your monies

[still mica]

extends a thwap

[open rune]

Like a cable stretcher

[livid plover]

NTFS stuffs n things

[simple pulsar]

[void gale]

my steam big picture mode is bugged ew

multi monitor setup using gsync on freesync premium monitor
i am facing some rare issues :(

[livid plover]

VRR be like-

[ripe cape]

Still learning obs

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[amber dragon]

are there any plans to update obs ui/ux?

i wanted to know more about ui design

[karmic tiger]

there's work being done on it constantly, and now there is even afaik a full time project member working on it

[amber dragon]

yeah i saw someone revamped the audio ui

a while back

where can i see the progress?

might learn a thing or two

[karmic tiger]

in obs, I guess

like, it's not one monolithic thing, it's constant work so a lot of separate PR and commits, some very small, some big

[amber dragon]

ow cool

[karmic tiger]

like, for example this : https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/11787
pretty big stuff

this : https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/12031
bit more minor

almost all of the UI PR and commits will have the frontend: prefix if you wanna scrounge the repo for it (but not all frontend stuff is UI/UX)

[amber dragon]

Hm. thank you

[jaunty fulcrum]

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3AUI%2FUX

[karmic tiger]

ah right, fkin forgot labels were a thing lmfao

[jaunty fulcrum]

i tag PRs daily 😂

[terse helm]

weird flex, but ok

[karmic tiger]

yeah imma uh, brew more tea

[stable geyser]

Im still surprised the Pride Logo is up all this time. I love it!!

Love ya LGBTQ Family

[full fern]

[stable geyser]

[sweet anchor]

As time passes and the message gets more and more important, the longer the duration it stays.

The fact that it's up almost the full year now, speaks volumes to current state of affairs.

[stable geyser]

Of course

[full fern]

We used to say that every time someone complained they hated it, it would get left up longer. Now it's around almost all the time and I, for one, love it

[stable geyser]

Hahahaha

same here XD

[full fern]

Same thing happened on another server I am on. I got two rainbows in my server list

Oh, wait, three now

[stable geyser]

my favourite moment was when some wannabe pastor tried to use the Lord to force the removal of the logo

so 7 more days got added

[full fern]

Bwahahaha

[stable geyser]

Hahhahaha

[prisma dove]

7 days... how ironic

[stable geyser]

Yes

[hearty stirrup]

I dream of a time when such flags don't happen not because the people are wiped out but instead the flags are unnecessary because the people are just accepted as-is

[sweet anchor]

You're welcome 🙂

[full fern]

You da bestest.

[sweet anchor]

Not quite a rainbow, but close enough!

[proper valve]

I love LGBT people

[stable geyser]

I have a few trans friends who I love dearly, but sadly, the communication was lost

[swift salmon]

I shared this problem in the twitch support server but has anyone got this problem?
that the twitch clip create gets stuck like this?

[wary holly]

@swift salmon Screenshot settings>output>streaming.

[jaunty fulcrum]

cleared browser cache?

[amber sparrow]

@left mulch watch any new black mirror yet? Just watched first episode. Holy shit

[left mulch]

I watched the first 2 so far, have friends coming over Sunday for the rest

I heard all of them are good

[amber sparrow]

That first one is pretty messed up. Fantastic. But holy hell

[still mica]

I would have liked the first one more if it wasn't basically a documentary...

[amber sparrow]

documentary how?

Unless you mean like "basically real life but as the episode"

But that's a rather common theme across most of the episodes. Especially that one with Selma Hayek

[still mica]

That, yeah. Sometimes it's just kinda painfully on the nose.

[amber sparrow]

Yea. Very blatant social commentary in lots of episodes

The more subtle ones are indeed probably a bit better due to needing to analyze a bit more

[still mica]

Though the problem with the ones that are particularly on the nose isn't really the episode, it's that living in some of those realities kinda sucks.

[amber sparrow]

Well episode 2 was interesting. ||Mandella effect on crack eh?||

[left mulch]

episode 2 is awesome

and yeah, black mirror has basically turned into "this is definitely exactly how this would play out"

[spiral crater]

hey guys, i need help
is it possible to switch to normal account on twitch after becoming a streaming channel?

i don’t even stream so i wanna go back to being a normal viewer

[prisma dove]

It's all one account, whether you watch streams

Or stream

[jaunty fulcrum]

the only place that indicates you as a "streamer" is when you're in your own chat

[spiral crater]

i see

[jade saffron]

hey so how do i get the chat on my screen while playing? i onyly have 1 moniter and ive tried some tutorials but the chat only shows up on OBS and not on my screen when im playing. any way i can fix this?

[smoky rapids]

Unless you want to play windowed mode you cant as the only ones I know of won't work with fullscreened games.

[jade saffron]

atp id play windowed mode becuase ive tried everything and i can see the chat working in OBS but nothing even shows up on my screen when im not even playing games

[smoky rapids]

https://github.com/Enubia/ghost-chat/releases

That's the one I recommend in this case.

This is another option as well https://github.com/baffler/Transparent-Twitch-Chat-Overlay/releases

[stable geyser]

No Linux option 😦

[swift salmon]

nothing to do with OBS

But I'm in off-topic?

[stable geyser]

The screenshot he posted showed a loading issue on Twitch's Clip Creation page and he was asking if anyone else was having the same issue

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[stable geyser]

at this point, i dont even know of that stuff is real or fake, im gonna start seeing that as stolen

i dunno what to believe anymore

[zinc meteor]

Any object show fans here?

[stable geyser]

Social Media became soo bad, I got mentally trained to see any promoted art work as Stolen and AI generated

Thank god I deleted any social media I have. That trash can die in Hell Fire

[full fern]

Getting rid of Facebook really helped me out. I feel so much better not seeing every fucking stupid/bigoted thing people think in front of me.

[stable geyser]

Twitter (i refuse to fucking call it X) is so much worst then Facebook

[full fern]

It is absolutely terrible. I'm still perusing it sometimes but with heavy use of group blocklists.

[stable geyser]

However, the job of deleting social media is not done

[full fern]

Never is haha

[stable geyser]

I do not want to see Entitled people shitting their ego everywhere

[full fern]

For sure!

[stable geyser]

You either behave like a normal human being or you just shut up and mind your own business

[full fern]

Aymayon!

[left heart]

I used to use my twitter account as a follow button, essentially. "oh hey I like this person's stuff, I'll follow their twitter" even though I never really went on the website to look at the feed.

when I decided to go and look at the feed, it was completely useless and full of everyone retweeting the same things as each other, usually game tournament announcements which I already knew about.

so in an attempt to make it more useful, I went through and removed everyone I didn't know personally. then I just realized "wait I could just go talk to them instead" and stopped using the website

[stable geyser]

Social Media is just smoke and mirrors at this point

Nothing is real

[left heart]

I mean I classify discord as social media, it's just that discord has me directly talking with others instead of a lot of other social media which seems to be designed to disconnect people from each other as much as possible. it all feels very impersonal if I'm not just chatting with someone else

return to IRC

[terse helm]

if you look at it like that IRC is social media too

but discord is not usually considered social media because it's not "media"

media being like, publishing or broadcast

[plucky bridge]

Guys, does anyone know the most legit website to sell a YouTube channel? I'm selling mine along with its AdSense account to help cover medical expenses.

[terse helm]

no thanks

anyone buying such a thing is just a scammer

and I'm pretty sure it's against youtube's rules

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[hollow vault]

ok

[stable geyser]

thank god that does not work

[terse helm]

well it wouldn't regardless because that tag is everyone not everybody

[karmic tiger]

which, also wouldn't work XD

[stable geyser]

thank god

Fenrir sees everything

he will have no issues removing you from the server

[stable geyser]

So, to update the Meld Studio topic i have discussed here.

Apparently, people like Meld Studio more then OBS Studio due to its more user friendly UI

Their custom .AppInstaller exe is just a fancy XML wrapper

I tested it out on my Windows 11 To Go SSD and sure enough, it does indeed look much simpler then OBS Studio

By default Meld Studio does not send any Bframes, it does not have advanced encoder settings and has built in Multi-streaming functionality.

[terse helm]

that's fine

so far as I could tell it may be easier to use for newbies but more limiting for advanced users

[stable geyser]

Im still gonna use OBS Studio regardless

[stable geyser]

one of the QoL of Meld Studio is the bitrate presets it has

[terse helm]

I'm not talking about bitrates

[stable geyser]

I know

[terse helm]

but like it has (so far as I know) no support for video output hardware, it has no scripting support, it has no remote automation support, etc.

which is fine, arguably 90% of streamers don't use those things

[stable geyser]

So thats why the interface felt choppy and low FPS

The hardware acceleration option in the Output was greyed out for me

Apparently the CEO told me there were users who got Meld Studio to run under Wine on Linux

I automatically assumed Wine did not support this .AppInstaller exe thingy

[karmic tiger]

I mean tbh wine is a tiny bit black magic

[stable geyser]

Yes

I also learnt XML can be used for a custom installer look

whatever you call it

[prisma dove]

Wine is magic 🍷
Oh, you mean the other wine

[karmic tiger]

oh, both

[stable geyser]

hahahhaah

[still mica]

<-- discovers that Meld doesn't seem to respect DPI scaling.

[stable geyser]

ouch

[still mica]

Wow, doesn't even let you set it manually in the prefs

[neon spoke]

That's not great

[sweet anchor]

Their discord, and it will probably be fixed according to Harris. They seemed to be quick with updates. Nothing is perfect first time around 😛

[stable geyser]

Im sorry but I dont agree with TikTok explaining how you can optimize your PC to get 1 Million FPS

Unless you want to fuck up your Registry and break Windows, yea, I'd avoid PC Performance tips from TikTok

Infact, i'd use that Dell Optiplex 7010 for lurking in many streams as possible

[tall vapor]

Honestly to me breaking windows is a fun past time. Would consider it a hobby of mine, actually!

[amber sparrow]

Drunk karaoke.....ENGAGED

[full fern]

Woooo! Get em!

[left mulch]

Radiohead creep please

[open rune]

Pearl Jam Yellow Ledbetter too

[smoky rapids]

Teenage dirtbag pls

[full fern]

It isn't karaoke if someone doesn't sing Creep.

Those high notes are a real pain, though. Gotta practice in the shower for em myself.

[silver fable]

Oh, and Africa, by Toto

[full fern]

Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks always went down pretty well back in the day

[amber sparrow]

I DID IT without needing to be requested

[amber sparrow]

That's next

Sang it on golf courses earlier

[silver fable]

What about Down Under by Men at Work?

[full fern]

Yayayayayay!

[amber sparrow]

Nothing like a good round of golf followed by drunk karaoke

Off the tee at 15

[full brook]

@crisp niche check your DMs please

[errant glen]

Please do not use this server to ping other users at random. Thanks!

[full brook]

sorry we were talking about something in DMs

[errant glen]

I understand that, but it’s not an appropriate use of this server.

[slow pewter]

womp womp

oop

i didnt realize the chat above me

oh nvm

womp womp 🗣️🔥

[civic quarry]

Kids these days

[vernal current]

I need to vent about blue prince

fuck RNG

end of vent

[wintry marten]

Sorry to bother

But I think I have someone pretending to be someone else on my dms from this server

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[wintry marten]

Anyone I can talk to about that?

[full fern]

!report Happens sometimes. Report to discord and block DMs from this server

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[wintry marten]

Ok thanks sounds good sorry for bothering

[full fern]

All good! Sorry for the double bot message!

[vernal current]

did you guys know that call of duty has predicted the future of what will happen in 2025?

it predicted it about 15 years ago too

[carmine ibex]

Wait, I just realized, that's Teto in the profile picture
I think I subconsciously knew it but just didn't fully put it together
It is smol

[drowsy mason]

Teto's got mad vocal chops, for a vocaloid

[carmine ibex]

SynthV, technically... but, yeah, I agree

[marsh helm]

Feesh photo

[slow pewter]

it says #off-topic sir

pepe is sometimes a kiddy thing

-_-

womp womp 🗣️🔥

[civic quarry]

It says "no shitposting" as well

[carmine ibex]

Honestly sung by Teto, amazing song
I like Evil's version as well
I don't know which version I like more... they both good
feel like a lot of the umpf of the instrumental track got removed on Evil's version and the SynthV voice can be much more tame on the high voices

here's an example of the song HERO, the Miku Vocaloid voice is much more tame

[smoky rapids]

0.0

[carmine ibex]

nifty, yeah
wish desktop had same function

[jaunty fulcrum]

Better question, who thought this was a good idea. Just make the download button always visible and not in that spot

[carmine ibex]

I just really want to share this section XD
on the original it's very in the background but here.. nope, just right in your face.. I love it

I really like how in Vocaloid/SynthV songs that a lot of them are like experimenting with things you just don't hear in other songs.. plus, some of them do really fast parts or high parts, cause a human doesn't have to sing it

I have a question.. so, like, I cut the mp3 and encoded into flac.. but you should just be able to cut the mp3 on frames and not reencode, right?
ffmpeg can do that, maybe? actually, mkvtoolnix I think did mka which I then converted to mp4 and then just renamed to m4a and popped in Discord and it may have worked for an AAC file I had.. can't remember

[acoustic needle]

Never knew OBS was involved in AC Shadows!

[terse helm]

!logo

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[terse helm]

nope

I always forget what the name of it is, but it's a fairly common thing

[civic quarry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe

[terse helm]

right that

[acoustic needle]

So, OBS' creators' ancestors were Japanese

[civic quarry]

Lain just liked the symbol and used it

[livid plover]

<@&715347355565817879>

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[carmine ibex]

yep, just did a reverse image search, different people made those
lmao, scammer
was pretty obvious, the art style is waaaaay too different

[terse helm]

crazy

why would someone lie on the internet

[shrewd spire]

Money

[terse helm]

scandalous

[livid plover]

yeah, can't they just make an onlyfans or something like everybody else

[carmine ibex]

seemed like a hacked account
idk.. seemed incredibly fishy but clearly people fall for it if they post that stuff...

[shrewd spire]

Same stuff you get constantly in small twitch streamer chats

[urban anchor]

Can anybody here give me their opinion on a monitor issue?

I wasn’t sure where to ask 🤦🏻

[neon spoke]

After three decades of coding with IDEs like visual studio, code, and intellij (and a brief 5 year dip into emacs) I have fallen into the Vim vortex and I'm honestly taken aback at how good it is. I'm a little fussed I never tried it before.

[neon spoke]

If it's not working / needs fixing, you'd be better off jumping into !techsupport

[wise bay]

If you need more in-depth technical help for your computer issues outside of OBS, you can join the /r/TechSupport Discord server

[smoky rapids]

Firefox just works

[tall vapor]

That's..... that's not a firefox issue tho

[open rune]

Firefox needs to take responsibility for its error messages

[tall vapor]

that's mkiosk's doing though, not firefox e.e

Microsoft Windows needs to take responsibility for what Google Chrome is doing!

[urban anchor]

Thanks brother 👍🏻👍🏻

[thorn stirrup]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/metro_2033_redux
https://store.steampowered.com/app/286690/Metro_2033_Redux/

Free for time being

[full fern]

Thanks! Looks cool.

[opal timber]

I'm loving my Wave:3 so far, the only annoying thing is that I can't mute it through the physical button while I'm using a foam filter lol

Any way to dodge this problem?

[left heart]

I'm surprised the button is covered by the filter

[prisma dove]

Why not? Does the foam block the button?

[opal timber]

yeah

the mute button is exactly on top of where the foam goes

[left heart]

scissors? lol

[prisma dove]

What? Where in the hell is the button?

[left heart]

I'm also confused here

[opal timber]

it's the little rectangle shape on top above the logo

very odd position for a mute button

[left heart]

no way...

[prisma dove]

Stupid design

[left mulch]

hotkey it and move on 😄

[left heart]

yeah that's that then

[prisma dove]

Just use a hotkey. Don't like touching hot mics anymore than I have to.

[opal timber]

I guess it's the only solution, but Im tempted to cut the foam too

I'm super used to mute through physical button

[left heart]

at least there's a silver lining, like Papa Luigi said a hotkey will let you mute without touching the mic itself

I definitely do agree with you on liking physical buttons. they're fun

[prisma dove]

Hotkey, button on remote control like Touch Portal or Stream Deck. Anything

[tall vapor]

anythin but rubbin ye thumb across your mic, aye

any potential viewers/listeners will thank you

[left heart]

wire up a nice toggle switch to a microcontroller :P

[tall vapor]

or just set up a keybind to mute yer mic in os globally, does the same thing as the button on mic would

button on mic at that point would only be for when you're not using it&just wantin it double surely muted

😅

[opal timber]

it doesnt make any sound when i touch the area to mute, it's not a real button, it was handy cause I'm bind starved

if im playing specific games i have 0 available binds

[left heart]

is it a capacitive touch sensor?

[opal timber]

yep

that's why it's impossible to trigger it with a foam thingy on top

[tall vapor]

oh convenient, automatically mutes those whom think that they gotta eat their mics

[left heart]

if you're okay with jank maybe some copper tape extending down the side could help you out

[opal timber]

lol, that's creative but I'd rather pierce the foam at this point x)

[tall vapor]

keybinds can be keycombos too

[opal timber]

I dunno, I mostly play stacraft 1 and 2 and dota

everything is already a modifier / binded

[left heart]

sounds like you could use some extra buttons lol

[opal timber]

good point maybe a mini keyboard on the side?

like those keyboards with 3 buttons only, I saw them around

[tall vapor]

a macropad?

yeah those work, but 3 keys is a tad smol

can be a dedicated macropad, can be a cheapo but still qmk/via(l) pad numpad....

I use a "numpad", for example. none of the keys are actually bound to numpad things

[prisma dove]

Old phone or tablet, Touch Portal will get you two pages, 8 buttons each. For free

[tall vapor]

that works as well, yup

if we talkin obs controls specifically

[left heart]

speaking of buttons, I really should get that adafruit macropad I wanted to mess around with sooner rather than later

[opal timber]

5 euros on Ali, I think it's cute enough

something similar to this one

ugh, it requires to download an app from an hidden chinese site, guess not

[left heart]

it's not gonna be 5 euros, but if you want a solution that already has software provided elgato also makes stream decks.

[opal timber]

ya, I'll figure something out.. goes to the list of extra hardware to be purchased

[left heart]

just saying, conductive tape is fun :P

or if you want to be even more jank, just tape a wire to it and see if touching the other end of it works

[livid plover]

capacitive buttons are also neat

[tall vapor]

yeah, if going for a macropad or somethin off of ali look for one that runs qmk/via(l)

which is why I also proposed qmk based numpads, cause those can be excellent macropads too if found at the right price

[drowsy mason]

Very expensive for what it is (arguably -- it's at least built well), but... the uwuting from Wooting always makes me smile when I remember it exists.

Spensive version of that Ali Express 3-key macropad, basically. But with 3 more little buttons as well as the (analog capable) keys. ($40 for no RGB, $50 for RGB version.)

[tough lantern]

yoooo

[livid plover]

Yaaaaaa

[full fern]

Yeeeeeee

[neon spoke]

Yiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[sudden adder]

Yuuuuuuu

[opaque halo]

Yyyyyyyyyy (cause sometimes Y)

[sweet anchor]

ZZZZZZZZZzzz

[opaque halo]

<@&715347355565817879>

[prisma dove]

So many comebacks. But I won't

[opaque halo]

Thanks RE

[cunning cloud]

OBS was on my local news

[left mulch]

oh cool, what was the context?

[cunning cloud]

a local news network who kept people updated during an oil and gas leak, which cancelled his school

[terse helm]

these are pros

[full fern]

LOL

[cunning cloud]

his setup had a stream deck, so that’s why the naming is like that.

[shrewd spire]

totally not written for obs studio

apparently youtube now offers overlays

[jaunty fulcrum]

ooooh, nice!

[still mica]

[citation needed]

[shrewd spire]

for breaks
when there are no ads available from what i'm understanding

[jaunty fulcrum]

yep I just found that screen myself

[still mica]

Interesting.

[jaunty fulcrum]

the Learn more link just goes to a generic "Monetize your live stream" page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7385599

[open rune]

This is a worrying amount of typing

Not as bad as expected

Let's maybe just not do hand wave-y motions all of this, for both sides

🫃🏻

Thanks

[karmic tiger]

"hey chill, mpreg" - Sapiens, 2025

[open rune]

Gotta keep 'em off balance

[karmic tiger]

ngl, based

[livid plover]

what a beautiful belly

[civic quarry]

Congrats

[silver fable]

Great movie. That, and Twins.

[open rune]

God he looks so young

[terse helm]

this movie is from the '90s no?

[wheat karma]

released 31 years ago 😔

but even then he looks pretty good for his age there

he's 47 there, can you believe it

[terse helm]

a little bit of movie magic I'm sure

[amber sparrow]

@left mulch did you finish black mirror?

[left mulch]

nope, have only seen 1-3

[amber sparrow]

👀

Friends not come over Saturday or did you rewatch ones you saw already?

[left mulch]

it was a friends birthday so we ended up going out/back to her house

I am honestly fine slow rolling the episodes though, I am always guilty of just instantly powering through everything

probably won't even watch any today since there's a new stand up special on netflix I want to watch instead

[amber sparrow]

I got halfway through the finalé and fell asleep

I def binged

Last episode is hour and a half long

[left mulch]

yeah I am most excited for that one

[amber sparrow]

I didn't realize what it was til I started it and got hit with a recap

I was like "OH SHIT! Let's goooo"

[novel thorn]

Anyone here able to animate an image for me so I can create a transition from scene to scene for my stream?

[neon spoke]

What do you mean "animate an image"? Do you need an animator to take a concept image and make a video / animated gif? Do you have the frames already and need to compose it?

[novel thorn]

I have an image and I would like to make a transition for it using software such as after effects

Like obs scene transition with an image I can provide

[still mica]

I can do that (for $100/hour)

[prisma dove]

1 hour min.

[neon spoke]

Yeah, folks may accept cash-monies to do it. You could also roll up your sleeves and learn something new for free. Lots of folks on YT have videos on how to work with track matte transitions (if you want a stinger) and the Scene As Transition plug-in can make it really easy to skip the track matte stuff entirely.

[open rune]

I wish I knew how to stitch together two clips with a brief fade in Avidemux lol

[left mulch]

I wanted this exact thing a few years back, ended up just taking it as an opportunity to learn to use affect effects a bit...definitely was not very easy starting out but there are tutorials for everything on the internet.

otherwise there are a ton of people on Fiverr who will do this for cheap

[neon spoke]

If I understand correctly, this sort of thing is trivial in Davinci (modulo a pass with ffmpeg to convert the clips to something it can work with if necessary). Maybe Davinci is a bit too heavy handed 😅

[open rune]

Yeah I'm probably picking the shittiest way possible but I don't want another tool for this, I want to use the wrong tool

[left heart]

me, when I use a screwdriver handle to hammer something

[opaque halo]

Screwdriver (or pretty much any tool) can be a hammer

[left heart]

I see we're sharing that brain cell

[opaque halo]

y2kkmac and I had the same idea

my half was just running a little slower

[livid plover]

if you need a hammer, anything within arms reach is now a hammer

[opaque halo]

I have been known to use a drill as a saw

[left heart]

I suppose the real lesson here is to always have an actual hammer within arm's reach

[livid plover]

or make some part of your tool hammer-suitable

[opaque halo]

tool belt has two purposes. To carry the tools to the location you are working and to hold your pants up. Once I start working I'm too lazy or forgetful to put the tools back into the belt and constanly wander around saying "where the hell is it"....

[open rune]

Okay look

[opaque halo]

and yet.. somehow manage to get the job done

[open rune]

I already use Avidemux for cutting

It would be SUPER nice to slap my shitty file bits together with more than a hard cut

[livid plover]

how about we just do entirely away with non-hammer tools. everything is now assemble-able with a hammer. none of the screwing, bolting, etc stuff that doesn't hold up anyway

[open rune]

If Losslesscut did it I might consider switching back to it but I hated it for cutting alone

[opaque halo]

it's why I just stream. You miss the live.. hope the vod stays up long enough .. 😛

[opaque halo]

I've heard good things about PowerPoint and it's transitions

[livid plover]

[neon spoke]

I'm willing to bet that ffmpeg can do it 😅

[open rune]

I'm sure there's an old Doom9 post from 2007 explaining it

[terse helm]

losslesscut has decided that re-encoding files is out of scope (other than the experimental mode that lets you cut outside of keyframes) so I doubt they'll do transitions

seems avidemux considers that out of scope too

[open rune]

Avidemux will re-encode if you tell it to

[left heart]

I've never used avidemux for putting clips together, is that not what the transition filters are for though?

[neon spoke]

recently I needed to do floating point math in a bash script on an extremely isolated system. I didn't know awk could do floating point math. Sometimes nothing is out of scope for an old command line program

[neon spoke]

and lo

ffmpeg -i one.mov -i two.mov \
  -filter_complex "\
  [0:v]format=yuv420p, setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v0]; \
  [1:v]format=yuv420p, setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v1]; \
  [0:a]asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS[a0]; \
  [1:a]asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS[a1]; \
  [v0][v1]xfade=transition=fade:duration=3:offset=27[vid]; \
  [a0][a1]acrossfade=d=3[aud]" \
  -map "[vid]" -map "[aud]" -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -movflags +faststart output.mp4

I think that will combine one.mov sequentially with two.mov using the xfade and acrossfade filters with a 3 second crossfade. Note that I did not test this. Also note you'll need to check whether ffmpeg -filters does have acrossfade and xfade

[open rune]

No real interest in using FFmpeg CLI for it though

[livid plover]

doesn't get simpler than drag and drop 2 files on it and out comes your fancy video tho

[neon spoke]

ffmpeg will not do that, unfortunately

[open rune]

Also gives me no insight or control over anything without further fucking with FFmpeg

[copper notch]

The ultimate wrong tool would be to use OBS with a VLC source playlist with the 2 clips, and a move filter that manipulates a color correction filter's opacity property to fade out, and record the output. 🙂

Pretty easy to toss 2 clips into Blender and fade out with keyframe animation tho.

[terse helm]

fucking with ffmpeg is great

if you're a masochist who enjoys pain

[open rune]

I think I almost got Avidemux figured out

A humbling experience lol

[neon spoke]

Nice work!

[open rune]

Not yet! haha

[left mulch]

open a file, append a file, export???

I have only used it a couple times a while back tho so maybe more involved

[open rune]

Yeah appending/concatenating I'm okay with, but sometimes it would be nice to have a quick fade if I want to cut out a boring section

I'm just being slow about understanding the fade filters

[left mulch]

you have me curious now though, why not something like shotcut of openshot?

[terse helm]

I'm having a new thing I think where it will only let me set A and B points on keyframes

ah that happens when you have play filtered enabled I guess

hm yeah I don't think that fade filter does what we think it does

[open rune]

Mostly out of an unreasonable desire to not add a second program for a really basic edit if I can shit it out with Avidemux alone

[wary holly]

@left heart

[carmine ibex]

again?

front page video

[smoky rapids]

VOD or channel?

Because I'm not seeing anything on mobile desktop view.

[carmine ibex]

I can view it not logged in.. wtf????

livestream is what is blocked
or any of their VODs
but not channel

there's almost zero chance they blocked me.. unless my name is spreading around as a typo, or something

I don't want to link directly to the page or anything, cause don't want to come off as advertising, but yeah, that's what I see

I can see their whole page and stuff

[tall vapor]

once again works just fine here

[carmine ibex]

I think I can type something in their chat? didn't try but it is letting me type in the text box

this is very strange

[tall vapor]

and by that I mean this side of the pond

[livid plover]

Login in another browser and test?

[carmine ibex]

could be a cookie thing, I guess

[tall vapor]

Ain't got nothin to do with me

[carmine ibex]

I mean, the fact I can type in their chat.. well, didn't try sending a message but it starts letting me type in the text box... probably didn't block me.. probably just a glitch of some sort

[drowsy mason]

Ctrl + Shift + R? Delete dat cache?

[carmine ibex]

nah, didn't work.. it'd probably be tied to cookies and not cache, anyway

[drowsy mason]

Or maybe you have some content preferences set somehow?

[carmine ibex]

[drowsy mason]

(You can clear site cookies too if you wanna be methodical)

[carmine ibex]

eh, I doubt it.. I had to clear them not too long ago and I had this issue before that as well

[drowsy mason]

Very 🤷

[livid plover]

Twitch moment

Pop up whatever virgin browser you keep spare however and test in that before/after logging in

[carmine ibex]

yeah, trying a different browser with same account would be a good idea...

I forgor my password 💀
I don't feel like changing that right now.. oh well

[smoky rapids]

Not sure why it's acting funky for you.

[livid plover]

That's why we're trying to find out if it's account or browser related

[errant glen]

Yup, because streamers can choose to decide if you're banned in the chat you can no longer watch their streams.

Content restricted could just mean you're banned and the streamer has just decided to employ that anti-harassment measure. You could choose to try appealing your ban if they allow that as well.

[terse helm]

I don't think that's true

if you're banned it shows that specifically

where the chat would normally be it would instead say "you banned bro"

if you want to test that without going "testing testing 1,2,3" in the chat just try a bot command

[carmine ibex]

yeah, pretty sure when you are banned on Twitch, it very clearly tells you
and I could still access the chat and stuff
just not the stream...
YT is a bit different, you can be shadow banned in the comments

[terse helm]

supposedly, twitch also has shadowbans for people with the same IP as banned accounts

which a bot command handily verifies that your message indeed went through

[carmine ibex]

Just remembered I can try on my phone, that's Twitch app

Firefox same thing, well, says "content restricted"

[livid plover]

account issue 💀

[carmine ibex]

seems to be pretty rare.. still.. hmm...

[terse helm]

afaik it normally shows that stream if there is a geo restriction

but that does not normally apply to normal streamers streaming normal video games

[carmine ibex]

that also wouldn't make sense cause it showed me the stream logged out

[terse helm]

weird

did you try a chat message

[carmine ibex]

no, I'll just wave and see if it goes through

[terse helm]

I suggest a bot message

for the reason mentioned above

also he's not live anymore

!vods works

[smoky rapids]

Geo restriction gives one of those numbered errors and mentions that.

[carmine ibex]

💀

[terse helm]

wild

[shrewd spire]

Shared banlist or something like that?

[smoky rapids]

Possibly.

[terse helm]

🤔 maybe

[carmine ibex]

if it was, then it was accidental

[livid plover]

should've been a good boy and ate your wheat brans

[carmine ibex]

guess I could ask the mods, if I really wanted to...

they probably can access that info?

but maybe I just won't worry about it

[terse helm]

they can certainly /user rainboomdash and see if anything comes up

[carmine ibex]

obviously... if I come across someone I care about and this happens, sure.. but.. the two people I've come across, I don't know them.. I just won't worry about it

[terse helm]

I mean if you were randomly banned in channels where you have no reason to be banned, and it doesn't show the normal stuff about being banned, I'd be a little worried

[carmine ibex]

???????????
I can... view them now...? let me see if the command works

wait

it says content restricted when I go to live, but I can view VODs

yeah, command doesn't work

[terse helm]

the channel isn't live though

[carmine ibex]

well, I meant "chat"

which takes you to the live video player

[terse helm]

right, but that's still weird that it shows content restricted now, given that there is no live video

[carmine ibex]

but I can view VODs

[serene jackal]

Off topic, but everytime I try to add my phone number to my twitch acc it says Its already linked, and its an old account of mine that I dont remember the user of nor email, so there is an option to request usernames via phone number and i tried it its not sending me anything, no sms

[shrewd spire]

Do you mean 2 factor or actual twitch account?

Because 2 factor stuff works exclusively through authy

[serene jackal]

No, just adding a phone number to my account

[shrewd spire]

In that case probably time to open a ticket with them.

https://help.twitch.tv/s/contactsupport

[serene jackal]

I did but they arent helping much

They just said make sure phone number is correct and stuff like that, I am not sure if its automated message or not

I dont think I can be affiliated even without fixing this issue.

[shrewd spire]

Not sure what to tell you in that case.

If even their support is unable to provide a solution...

[serene jackal]

I do have my phone linked to Authy

But not the twitch acc I am currently using

I have 3 total, 1 i forgot, 1 uses authy I have access, and 1 im currently using

But I dont want to use the one with authy anymore for personal reasons