off-topic-tech

[night girder]

I've lost some mirrors in my first year of driving, in those underground parking lots.

[maiden coyote]

Light turns yellow, car behind wants to run it, and speeds up, person in front stops.. bam

[night girder]

The concrete pillars, not my friend.

[tough owl]

car turns tighter than you thought

[night girder]

In this case, the second car is in the wrong right? Since the first one made the good call to stop for yellow light?

[tough owl]

yea

[jagged snow]

Yeah

[night girder]

Just checking if you have the same logic as we do over here.

[tough owl]

if youre coming to a yellow light just brake if theres a car in front of you

[jagged snow]

In the US yellow light means stop if safely possible

[tough owl]

nah it means speed up

[night girder]

screenshotted this.

[tough owl]

im going to jail 😔

[night girder]

if I ever get pulled over in USA while driving I'll show the cops a screenshot, "but but, someone said I had to speed up here" 😂

[jagged snow]

The belgians are spying on US citizens again

[night girder]

Nah, not to rat anyone out. To cover my own ass 😂

[jagged snow]

That's a good excuse

[tough owl]

ah yes the random online citizen, the arbiter of truth.

[night girder]

You are not random.

[tough owl]

to the police I sure hope to be

[night girder]

Atleast I am a bit happy that the laws surrounding driving seem somewhat consistence for some parts around the world.

[tough owl]

except the UK, them fools said yea we drive on the left

have to have special made cars just for them too, what a nightmare

[night girder]

Yeah, I cannot think of a good and logic explanation for that. I guess, it's easier to just keep driving left? They don't have to adjust everything 😄

[tough owl]

no idea but its weird

[night girder]

probably historical reasons and now money reasons / laziness / we are used to it.

No clue, but I don't want to drive there.

[jagged snow]

Neither do I

[night girder]

Blue is left handed. Red is right handed.

[jagged snow]

I just know I'd end up in the wrong side of the road out of habit

[tough owl]

makes sense why the aussies do it too

and india

[night girder]

A lot of sense.

[tough owl]

they drive on the left in japan too?

[tough owl]

https://tenor.com/view/british-empire-discord-this-discord-belongs-to-the-british-empire-gif-16404955

[night girder]

Many of the countries using LHT were part of the British Empire, while others, including Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Bhutan, Macao, Thailand, Mozambique, Suriname, United States Virgin Islands, Sweden and Iceland (which use RHT since September 1967 and late May 1968 respectively), were not. Most of the countries that were part of the French colonial empire adopted RHT.

United States Virgin Islands 🤔

[tough owl]

dont ask

[jagged snow]

That's some very convoluted history

[night girder]

Oh the Caribbean!

[tough owl]

the islands are def not virgin

[night girder]

Explain?

[tough owl]

id rather not

[night girder]

did they make baby islands?

(which is also a thing btw, countries are making islands lately)

[tough owl]

isnt that mostly the UAE?

[night girder]

This one is man made.

[jagged snow]

Iirc there's quite a few

China has been doing it too

[tough owl]

China building taiwan pt2

[night girder]

Nonetheless, it's impressive.

[tough owl]

kinda dumb, imo

[night girder]

not at all

[tough owl]

use your existing space more effectivly

makes sense for military bases though

[night girder]

One artificial island built on Fiery Cross Reef near the Spratly Islands is now the site of a military barracks, lookout tower and a runway long enough to handle Chinese military aircraft.[22]

Also considering the way things are heading (global warming), gaining experience in how to build islands can come in handy.

[jagged snow]

Given what China is doing in the Philippines, it might also come in handy for more immediate concerns as well

[night girder]

The Netherlands also has one of the largest artificial islands. 970 km2. It was made in 1969 and called Flevopolder.

[jagged snow]

Interesting

[tough owl]

thats a funny name

[night girder]

Levees and dikes were first built around the polder. However, unlike similar projects, the internal water was then drained by diesel and electric pumps.

for some reason I imagine, that's a lot of pumping.

[jagged snow]

Sure sounds like it

[night girder]

Sorry, last one I post. Then I'll shut up about it. But this graph shows sizes in descending order.

[jagged snow]

Oh wow

That's a wild difference between 1st and second

[night girder]

Yeah, I am surprised too 😮

Haha, utilisation of Fundao Island (the last one).

[jagged snow]

The Netherlands have pulled off a lot of cool engineering projects

[night girder]

How cool aint that? You go to a university and they made a freaking island for it 😂

[jagged snow]

That's awesome

[night girder]

Yeah, I am a bit jealous

[jagged snow]

We have some pretty cool stuff in the US too, but not the world's largest artificial island

[night girder]

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

This drone is also a dutch project.

can reach 300 km/h in just 4 seconds. And 350 km/h max speed.

[jagged snow]

Yup

[night girder]

I can see a whole new sport with racing drones in the future, can be cool 😄

[jagged snow]

Although iirc the original inspiration to that drone and the current wr holder for speed is from somewhere else

[night girder]

I didn't know that

[jagged snow]

Yeah
His name is Ryan Lademann and he holds the speed record at 225mph

Oh, he's in the US

I didn't know that

And apparently that 225 number is average, peak speed was 235

[night girder]

Impressive

I can imagine the military is also interested in this 😂

Besides sports and military purposes, I don't see what else we can do with drones that reach that speed.

[jagged snow]

The technology improvements that come from it could lead to improvements in heavy lift/cargo drones I suppose

[night girder]

didn't think of that.

[jagged snow]

Same way that data center tech trickles down to consumer stuff

[night girder]

and the same with racing cars and consumer cars.

[pure karma]

dosent drone racing allready exist?

[tough owl]

Yea

[maiden coyote]

Normally, the person who rear-ends is at fault.

if you run into the back of someone. you're almost always at fault.

[twin dew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8htMpR7mnaM

[rustic panther]

It could've been bigger too, but it was deemed unnecessary and would destroy the local environment

[night girder]

Never seen it on my TV screen like every other sport.

[night girder]

That's interesting to know 😄

[edgy hazel]

Drone racing is fire. The accuracy these guys have is insane

[pure karma]

because unlike every other sport its good lol

[dire igloo]

It does

[edgy hazel]

Happy Ides of March

[jagged snow]

@edgy hazel @night girder @dire igloo thought y'all would find this interesting, appears to be ai written www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/i-am-surprised-ive-not-gone-grey-satisfactorys-community-is-celebrating-its-5th-birthday-with-a-grand-tournament-and-even-the-devs-are-joining-in/

[night girder]

SignPostMerv mentioned it also in #satisfactory I believe 😄

[jagged snow]

Yeah

[night girder]

How do you know it's AI written?

[jagged snow]

Because it's wildly hallucinated

[night girder]

Cannot wait for regulations that force companies to mention if AI is used or not.

just a little marker/flag "This is made by AI" and we are already one step forward.

[jagged snow]

The tournament will include a special version of the Satlympics, which involves teams from the Netherlands, France, Germany, USA, UK, and Coffee Stain Studios. All of these teams will compete head-to-head in three games: an extreme version of parkour, solving complex puzzles to build a radar tower (and parachuting off said tower), and replicating a QR code—the first with a successful scan wins.

[night girder]

This is such bad journalism. If it's AI or real person, it's baaaad.

[dire igloo]

tomtlok.de/demo

My go to check rn

[jagged snow]

Took a snapshot on Internet archive

[rotund hamlet]

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/copilot-and-chatgpt-iterating-this-is-fine-memes-perfectly-captures-the-current-state-of-ai-faintly-alarming-hilarious-madness/

they're definitely pro-ai

this is the most nothing article I've ever read and it's probably AI generated too

[languid gulch]

anything AI generated shouldn't have ads on it, maybe that'll have some positive changes

or tax the company the rate it should have for the job lost by a human

[jagged snow]

Hopefully the reputation loss from that complete and utter garbage will cost them enough

I'm pretty content with getting my tech news from ars, the verge, and the wsj

[twin dew]

And seems that Spotify doesn't have any checking on what "music publishers" can put in there themselves for "band".
Someone uploaded load of "singles" with AI generated cover images and used the band field for tagging or like.
And one of those was "Serenity", which is real band, and all the crap got added like they had something to do with the "music".

[jagged snow]

Oh geez

[twin dew]

As Spotify now supports adding multiple artists per song/single/album.
And the idiot used that for "genre" or something like that...

Got added 18h ago.

[twin dew]

And I would expect that the actual "songs" would also be AI generated ambience "music".

[night girder]

People wanted AI 🤷‍♂️

It's easy, it's fast, it's cheap and can create millions and million of "creative" media that big tech companies can get rich on.

[twin dew]

If the shit hadn't appeared into my "What's New" because of the "Serenity" as artist shit, I wouldn't have cared.
But seems Spotify has big hole in their system...

[night girder]

There is already AI to detect AI

So spotify will probably (or maybe already has?) implement an AI that will mark other AI generated content as "AI".

[twin dew]

Or just make it that the actual account for specific band has to confirm any addition of themselves as "artist" by others?

publishing account I mean.

[visual tree]

Just laughed so hard at an amateur TV show because a contestant answered the question wrong but the show host told him he is correct. The show host asked who founded Apple and the contestant answered it's Steve Jobs which is partially correct but the host told him he is correct anyways...

There are 3 founders

[night girder]

Asablic, you are correct. But most people only heard of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.

[twin dew]

And forget the person doing the actual tech?

[night girder]

Who cares about Wozniak anyway 😂

[visual tree]

Tbh, I didn't even know about the third co-founder

Only heard of Jobs and Wozniak

[twin dew]

Money, PR, Tech.

[night girder]

Jobs did em dirty.

Or maybe something happened, I don't know. But he is the face of Apple.

And the rest was laboring away in the shadows.

[twin dew]

And Cook wasn't there at start, the third was Ronald Wayne.

[night girder]

Never said it was cook.

[jagged snow]

I misunderstood this then

[night girder]

If you read my sentence again, you will read: "Most people HEARD of ..."

As in the general public knows Tim Cook atm.

[edgy hazel]

Yall talking about Tim Apple

[jagged snow]

Sort of how Tom Mueller isn't really known, just elon

[night girder]

Do you know how many designers leaving Apple? And the amount of work they have done. Nobody knows.

But that goes for every company.

Microsoft = Bill Gates. But that's like, what? 1% of the story? 😂

[edgy hazel]

But we all have Craig in our heart

[visual tree]

Some people don't consider Wayne a co-founder though because he sold his shares

[twin dew]

But Wozniak was the tech, Jobs was the money and marketing, and seems Wayne left almost right away.

[visual tree]

But technically speaking, he is a co-founder

Wozniak would be a cool teacher at school though

I love how he trolls people with dollar bill sheets and everyone thinks they are counterfeit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1TIYxm1vM

[night girder]

Ah it was Tang Tan, an Apple executive, boss of the iphone and Apple Watch design teams. He left for to work on AI with Sam Altman.

[twin dew]

Combining two mostly unknown things: 2 dollar bills and that US treasury sells whole sheets of uncut bills if you want them.

[jagged snow]

I've thought about buying one at some point

I've got a few two dollar bills hanging around

[visual tree]

Too bad you can't buy uncut euro banknotes

[night girder]

wow, asablic 😂

[visual tree]

*unless I am wrong and you can actually buy them

[night girder]

If it's literally legal to run around with a DoD tag because it not "department of defense" but "department of defiance", that's crazy.

And a bit hard to believe.

[visual tree]

If I actually bought those uncut dollar sheets and brought them to the exchange office here in order to exchange them for euro, I'm pretty sure the employees would call the police lol

Time for some shopping and trolling

[visual tree]

Found this on the internet but could be fake ID not created by Wozniak himself

[night girder]

still looks funny as hell 😂

[visual tree]

I am sad how nobody gives any credit to Wozniak because almost everyone heard of Steve Jobs only

[jagged snow]

I mentioned Tom Mueller earlier because I sorta feel the same way about him

[visual tree]

People only see the "face of the company" and not people behind the company

[edgy hazel]

Man please read that sentence slowly

[visual tree]

?

[edgy hazel]

Its the "face of the company" for a reason

[visual tree]

Well, yeah

I mean, CEO's are always on display and everyone knows them but they don't see rest of the people who are working for the company and might be more important than the CEO's

[night girder]

A company is as strong as everyone who is involved. It's a team effort. The problem is, you can't let every employee on stage for a big company 😂

So we get to see the big shots get the "glory". And the big shots will pass that glory and praise down to managers. Who then will tell employees "you are doing great" 👍

[charred pewter]

sounds like politics and government too

[night girder]

To me, they are a type of company too.

[charred pewter]

being more and more so

[night girder]

You have someone at the top, managing it all. And then people who actually put the theory into practice.

[charred pewter]

BigCorp gonna be running the country soon

[night girder]

That's what cyberpunk hints at 😉

[charred pewter]

i still need to play that

currently in rdr2 this past week ... only touched the surface

[visual tree]

I'm too scared to check how big cyberpunk update is because I don't have fiber yet 😅

Ignorance is truly bliss

[charred pewter]

it was 50gb last time it updated for me

yes i have it installed, but im not playing it 😄

i also have starfield installed, but im not gonna play that until spring 2025

[night girder]

totally forgot about starfield 😂

[charred pewter]

lol

the bethesda discord for starfield is like 2 guys who say something maybe once or every other day

[visual tree]

Glad I didn't preorder or buy starfield. Todd Howard tricked me once but not again

[charred pewter]

heeeh ... 'free' for me... so im not complaining, but i AM going to wait a good year before i bother (so mods and patchs settle)

[night girder]

how did you get it for free?

[charred pewter]

promo codes, cause like, i own a game store

[night girder]

I got it also for free. AMD. But like, there is a reason they gave away the game

[charred pewter]

right

[visual tree]

Pro tip: become a friend with someone who is organizing gaming tournaments (or someone know knows the guy organizing tournaments) and you might get games for free

My college friend has a brother who organized Dota tournament and he gave me a free key for Titanfall

*although it was because I did a small favour for my friend

[visual tree]

So, you receive games before they are actually released and can play them before release?

[sharp oasis]

All that power and heat. And it's still behind

[dire igloo]

intel doing the Bulldozer approach

just up the power intake and hope it's enough to overtake the competition

[charred pewter]

sometimes

sometimes i get promo codes to giveaway on a livestream launch hour ..... but ive not had the time to do those in awhile =p

WAS going to do it for Starfield ..... but too much shit came down where i couldnt get around to it lol

i do buy a lot of the games i have though =p

(nothing on Epic lol thats ALL freebies)

[visual tree]

I wonder if you could end up in jail for streaming a game before release

[charred pewter]

naw

especially since if they dont want you too, they tell you ahead of time =p

[night girder]

but what if you do?

[charred pewter]

most likely lose any chance of getting pre-release keys again 😄

[visual tree]

I guess the developers will mess you up in court with lawsuits lol

[gilded helm]

CFAA is notoriously vague in the United States. It would take the publisher or developer finding a willing DA.

[charred pewter]

its just not worth it, in terms of losing relations with publishers

even if there is or is not any legal standing ... the whole 'fuck you for doing that, we wont work with you again' is worse

[gilded helm]

Real legal standing doesn't matter, sort of. They just need a DA who can work the process long enough to turn your life upside down for a while, regardless of whether they get any charges to stick.

[charred pewter]

i know some streamers live or die by their streams .... (most streamers?) ... so doing shady shit is prolly not in their best interest

but, with how fickle the public is .... they may hate on some streamer one week, then forget the next and be all kissing their ass again in no time

[rustic panther]

Unless someone makes you sign an NDA I think it's not illegal assuming that you got the things you're showing legally

You are definitely fucking up your relations with that publisher though so good luck getting anything from them ever again

[sharp oasis]

And it doesn't lmao

[languid gulch]

FX-1490

it's like they're trying to break the ATX form factor

[night girder]

@jagged snow They edited the article. "the fifth anniversary and 1.0 release, which will come later in the year" 😄

[twin dew]

But left rest of the crap in?

[night girder]

maybe it isn't crap 🤷‍♂️

I am not a community manager, so I am not sure what the communication was between the two parties (CM and PC gaming). But the release of 1.0 got adressed.

But they are still going to replicate a QR code and scan it ingame. And do some parkour.

All of these teams will compete head-to-head in three games: an extreme version of parkour, solving complex puzzles to build a radar tower (and parachuting off said tower), and replicating a QR code—the first with a successful scan wins.

Now I am doubting every article on their website 😂

[twin dew]

So obstacle course, puzzle map to get items to build a radar tower from "locked" places, and making QR code replica (not scanned ingame, scanned from monitor).

[twin dew]

Those are possible.

[dire igloo]

Maybe it's not the article that's written by AI, it's the tournament

[night girder]

Who knows, maybe both 😄 Writers do use AI to help them out.

[dire igloo]

Except good writers will notice the uncanny valley of AI written texts

[dire igloo]

Which one? ESL? Blast?

[night girder]

PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024

[dire igloo]

Ah nice

[night girder]

I still need to install my 7800X3D

[sharp oasis]

Core cycler, yay or nay

[twin dew]

Not perfect solution, but necessary for Curve Optimizer tuning and like.

AS one of the softwares used.

[tough owl]

uh oh

[night girder]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-gif-15190379

You can always use X now since it's a video first platform.

[tough owl]

x videos

[dire igloo]

Good luck fulfilling EU regulations

Fake IDs exist

Also data protection nightmare

Not even considering that a lot of people don't have an official identification document

Driver's license and passport are the go-tos: neither is mandatory, one you must pass a test for, the other you only really get when leaving the country

Then again, not even SSN is actually supposed to be used for identification

Stupid?

[twin dew]

The official line is that SSN isn't guaranteed to be unique and should only be used for the social security.

And not for anything else.

[edgy hazel]

So... my first session as DM is over, they killed the dog of a widow who's husband got assassinated and then threw her to the ground infront of guards. All in the same day. Now the guards are after them and all of this wasn't planned they fucked my storyline uuuupppp

[gilded helm]

So, SLS is now obsolete. That's quite a rich mission history it garnered during its long run, though.

[twin dew]

It has been obsolete before the designing was started, as Congress mandated using "same" parts as Shuttle to keep the money rolling to right companies.

[gilded helm]

But I don't doubt Congress will still try to funnel missions to it. We have a long history of supporting obsolescence for the sake of jobs.

This week's launch was only 'partially successful' with reuse in mind. If you just make each SpaceX rocket fully expendable, it can still carry more than SLS for a fraction of the price.

100 million versus 2 billion dollars, if a quick Google is correct.

[twin dew]

That 2 billion is IIRC very much low end.
IIRC it only includes the per unit costs, not the yearly costs...

And when at max they can build ONE per year, the yearly costs are huge too.

[gilded helm]

Yep, the whole thing is a black hole of pork

[twin dew]

IIRC those fixed yearly costs added another 2B per year.

[tough owl]

under 100% load 61c on a ryzen 5600 is a fine temp?

[twin dew]

I would call that very low.

[tough owl]

its holding 4.2 just fine. leaves me to belive I have OC headroom too

[twin dew]

PBO not enabled?

[dire igloo]

My DM wanted to trap the party in an illusion that'd eventually TPK them - only to be revealed they're all fine and have to find out what caused that illusion.

Turns out they survived the illusion

[languid gulch]

when you can't DM your way out of some really amazing rolls

reminds me of the Critical Role purple worm session fail 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c189ArVQ3k4

[dire igloo]

We had the opposite last session: bunch of shitty rolls with a big oversight on my behalf and a slightly overpowered encounter lead us to the death of our Tiefling fighter

[sand saddle]

DMing sounds like too much homework

My brother is buying a 65'' Q90T for 550€ tomorrow

Feels like a solid deal, brand new price bottomed out at 1.2k in 2021

[visual tree]

And I still keep my 10 year old (or older) Sharp LCD just because it has a sticker that says "Made in Japan"

[sand saddle]

He currently has a really old TV that he got with the apartment, thing's ancient

Also small by modern standards

Q90T is mini led

[visual tree]

Are stores even selling tv's that are less than 42 inches?

[sand saddle]

The better question is, are they even being produced?

[visual tree]

My parents have a bedroom where there is not much space for TV and all the stores sell only big TV's....

[sand saddle]

42'' is small...

There are computer monitors with smart TV features, expensive tho

[visual tree]

I hope they won't be exponentially increasing TV size because we are going to have a problem then lol

Just checked. The smallest one being sold with a lot of brands is 32 inch

There are 24 inch tv's too but only 2 models and from some brands I have never heard in my life

[sand saddle]

Probably quite shit tho, I'd prefer a 32'' monitor and hook it up to a mini PC/pi/digibox

32'' 4k mini led monitors have gotten quite cheap

[visual tree]

I have TV's in each room but only use 1 😅

[sand saddle]

Nah

Bigger=better, no exceptions

I said no exceptions

[visual tree]

I have a feeling my Sharp TV could last another 10 years because it's manufactured in Japan

[sand saddle]

I'm just fucking around

[visual tree]

But perhaps I am biased and "made in Japan" is overrated

[sand saddle]

Monitor size is totally subjective

[visual tree]

I have a panasonic in one of the rooms and it still has some older working version of Netflix which doesn't detect I am in a different household sharing password

On a newer samsung TV, netflix immediatelly knows I am sharing a password and won't let me watch lol

[sand saddle]

But I'll still look at people weird if they tell me 32'' 1080p is fine

[visual tree]

Guess Netflix didn't block older apps but they are probably going to soon

Sometimes I spend 30 minutes browsing Netflix because I can't find anything interesting

[sand saddle]

Streaming is too expensive if you only got 1-2 shows you like on each platform

That's my main issue with it

Wouldn't mind paying 30€/month if I got access to every TV show and movie there is

I don't care if it's profitable, y'know what the alternative is...

[dire igloo]

🏴‍☠️

Yarr

[sand saddle]

Foundation is one of the newest shows I like

Not sure where I'd put it on some quality scale

Loved The Expanse, watched it more than once
The show is dead now tho.

From a pure quality standpoint would have to look at movies more than tv shows

I haven't watched Dune 2 yet, friend wanted to watch it in cinema with me

[visual tree]

My coworker was talking about Dune 2 all the time, should have gone with him to the cinema

Heard it's good

[sand saddle]

Actually it should be profitable in an utopia

Utopia not as in people having more money, but just that it could somehow be split between producers

[dire igloo]

Space DnD

[languid gulch]

my first experience with 3.5e was getting 1 shot in my first encounter

sorc that failed a perception check in the first room in undermountain, didn't see that the statue was a construct, crit me with a bastard sword

[gilded helm]

My first experience with 3.5 was playing a monk, doing poor with rolling stats altogether, and having people tell me putting an 8 into constitution was fine.

[languid gulch]

oh good lord 🤣

-1 to con mod right off the bat on a monk that uses concentration

[gilded helm]

Down the road it helped me sort of appreciate the title of this OotS

www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0791.html

[languid gulch]

yea, i had to learn that rng bullshit was part of the fun

& just go with it

[gilded helm]

Sort of. As long as you don't get someone who goes nuts with critical failure nonsense.

[languid gulch]

i think that's why i like BG3, that's 100% included

[gilded helm]

First panel a few strips later is another great dig at optimization 😛

www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0793.html

[languid gulch]

also it's just fun to throw dice in prison for being crap

i wonder how much a full set of 3.5 books goes for now

gotta be thousands

[gilded helm]

I bet you could get any particular book for $5, barring some that might be super rare or something? But damn, there are a lot.

[languid gulch]

no idea about sales, but i know that wotc licenses a ton more D&D stuff than mtg

[gilded helm]

It's definitely there, but you don't seeing any popular media adaptations like MTG

I did hear it was good, but I haven't had the energy for movies in a while

[languid gulch]

i know the floor for D&D movies is low, but that it definitely beat expectations

[tough owl]

all is fine

yea this is fine right?

[river mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/dew-it-galactic-republic-palpatine-gif-21847982

[tough owl]

it failed 😔

[pure karma]

i feel like 32 is fine if you have arm mounts but going over 28 whit the legs is just so impractical for space

[serene charm]

24 is too small though even at 1080p with a monitor arm, source i own 3

[languid gulch]

i went from 34" 2560x1080 to 34" 3440x1440, & my god is it such a jump

PPI is the one thing that apple kinda got right before everyone else

[pure karma]

dawg i used 20's for like 4 years

and i dont understand how people can even consider 24 or 28 small

because 20 dosent even feel that small

im using two 28's and a 24 now and honestly there just so big and because they don't have arms my desk is 99% monitor

[sand saddle]

I’m using 34” UW and 23” with legs

[serene charm]

because it is, it actually feels small when its more than 2 foot from your face

[visual tree]

Finally got time to switch to KeePass. Should have done that a long time ago....

My company also recommends people to use KeePass at work. I wonder what makes it better than other password managers than even companies support it 🤔

[dire igloo]

It's free and it runs locally

Bitwarden is nice too, but more focused on being a hosted database

[visual tree]

Damn, should have been obvious lol 🤦‍♂️

Good thing there is a working android app too (I use KeePassDX)

[visual tree]

Lmao, NVIDIA account website is a nightmare

If you want to logout, there is no logout button. You have to go to the security and then click logout

First time I have seen anything like this

[visual tree]

You can do it this way or rotate the screen to the left where the finger is pointing but you will still get it wrong lol

[jagged snow]

Yeah, I had to do one of those and I was actually unable to complete the captcha

Tried for 20 minutes

[wanton orchid]

"make it the sense :
A. yes
B. maybe
C. banana
D. well"
next gen captcha
will soon catch up academy on absurdity

[night girder]

You spend 20 minutes, on a captcha? 😂

I would say "fuck this" and move on 😄

[twin dew]

Just six images that you look through and select one.
That in this case would have had the monitor screen surface to left.

and right edge towards the pic/user

[visual tree]

That's the most logical solution but it won't work in this case for some reason

This captcha is used by Rockstar Games btw

[edgy hazel]

Party got to see the big bad the first time

[dire igloo]

imagine putting work into your campaign

my DM just uses grid paper with pencil drawn lines, markers are boardgame figurines for PCs and M&Ms for the bad guys

and most of the time we don't have anything at all

[stray badger]

We use d6s for players, d4s for enemies

Occassionally, small resin ducks for players

[charred pewter]

so many broken mothers backs ... do they just not care ?!

[edgy hazel]

It was so much work. Its understandable

[charred pewter]

howdo you handle fog of war with 3d prints

[dire igloo]

basically this meme

[edgy hazel]

I just lay paper over the map lol

[tough owl]

so uh this is normal right?

[dire igloo]

Adobe moment

[tough owl]

i mean.....

[radiant nimbus]

Hello friends, my English is not very good. Is there anyone who can help me with setting up a dedicated server?

[twin dew]

#dedicated-servers

[winged valley]

bitwarden

[dire igloo]

yeah, once you do server-hosted password library, Bitwarden wins because of usability

[pure karma]

its not a tv if you are more than 2 feet away whit 2 monitors or less what are you even doing

[serene charm]

idk i was in bed and couldnt measure it but its more like 1 foot

[languid gulch]

the ram usage?

or just all of it

cuz it looks about right

[tough owl]

ram usage

[languid gulch]

i think they follow the chrome method

suck up all of it

[tough owl]

Unused ram is wasted ram?

[languid gulch]

a lot of programs now load everything they can into ram/vram to make the total program faster

[tough owl]

I mean it makes sense

I also was loading up 59 8000x6000 jpegs trying to make a panorama

[languid gulch]

plus whatever changes you were making that it autosaves for undo, sounds about right

[jagged snow]

Yeah, Ive seen it go all the way to 30 when stacking. 24mp raws

[tough owl]

Did you limit it to 30gb

Because it auto set the limit to 23gb

[jagged snow]

No, I just had other stuff taking the remaining 2gb

[tough owl]

Makes sense

64gb is cheap. I might upgrade

[visual tree]

Just spent half a day changing password for more than 50 accounts and storing them in KeePass database

And I bet there are a lot of other accounts I completely forgot they exist lol

[tough owl]

I wish there was a tool to automatically delete unwanted accounts

[visual tree]

And I already remember of additional 4 accounts I need to add...

[maiden coyote]

I like bidwarden and keeping it behind a wire guard vpn

Bitwarden.. I think that's probably a good idea for most tech savvy people. I'd be worried about places like last pass getting hacked

[tough owl]

academictorrents.com/details/5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e so grok is open source now

[sand saddle]

Y bitwarden free?

[tough owl]

Huh

[night girder]

Grok, elon musks open-source AI?

[edgy hazel]

The chatbot is similar to tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and Microsoft’s Copilot, with the biggest thing setting it apart being its sarcastic tone and wittiness. Unlike other chatbots, Grok will respond to more controversial questions that others simply refuse to answer.
this sounds like it sucks horribly

Grok only has access to data from X (formerly known as Twitter) rather than the wider internet as a whole

this can't go wrong

[night girder]

Yes, read something similar.

[night girder]

This is a benefit, since it can use the "Twitter/X" engine to get the latest of the latest news.

and then they will make sure other AI can't get access that quickly to that information 😉

[edgy hazel]

are you sure about this? The latest of the latest news is usually newssites trying to push a story with as little research as possible

[night girder]

I am not. But a journalist is.

But a difference is that it can tap into the Twitter engine to provide real-time updates on news.

Last year, the Tesla and Space X boss demonstrated that the bot would have no hesitation in joking about Sam Bankman-Fried or riffing about how to make cocaine.

“It is designed to have a little humour in its responses,” Musk said.

[tough owl]

Yes. I have 120 gigs of it as of now

[night girder]

So, "fast" or direct access to twiter engine. And joke answers. Oh and open source!

[edgy hazel]

open source might be the only thing saving it a little, the other stuff makes me throw up a little

[night girder]

We will see how it plays out 😉 (someone said that X wouldn't last a year, and so far, it's still here)

lately musk is trying to play the open-source card a lot.

[edgy hazel]

and considering how they basically destroyed almost all API calls to twitter, I doubt it's very useful outside of the official bot running on their servers

[night girder]

Wait wait ...

API calls not public is NOT the same as API calls deleted.

[tough owl]

I dunno we should see. It definitely won’t work on my gpu

[night girder]

All they are forcing is users have no longer access to API, they have to use grok (I assume) to get it done.

So they are just forcing people to use their new technology. Maybe with a price tag? Not sure.

[edgy hazel]

I highly doubt musk is allowing users to constantly ping twitter with their API calls via grok. Even with a paid subscription.

Hell any normal website is not gonna do that

[night girder]

No, but the information you want to extract from API call can be done by grok 😉

[languid gulch]

i'm sure hocking an AI with the brains of an 8 year old suburban boy will do wonders for the stock price

[edgy hazel]

twitter is at this point running on a raspberry pi. The infrastructure will not allow this

[night girder]

That's a bit too black n white view for my taste 😄

[languid gulch]

he was literally bragging about not paying his bills & having a ton of his servers repossessed

[night girder]

The artificial intelligence model is now available to ‘premium plus users’ of X (formerly Twitter), the third and highest level of paid subscription on offer, which costs £16 per month.

[tough owl]

Twitter has no stock price

[languid gulch]

oh all of the stocks associated with musk

[tough owl]

Ah

[night girder]

Well X is still up and running no?

[edgy hazel]

not for long lol

[languid gulch]

i feel like every board should kick him out based on their favorite excuse, tanking their portfolios

[night girder]

How would they do that? He owns most of it.

[languid gulch]

boards have rights too

[night girder]

They either have to buy him out no?

[languid gulch]

even as minority stakeholders

[night girder]

Or go to court?

[edgy hazel]

he owns 20% of teslas stock

[night girder]

Yeah, fully agree. But I am wondering how they would achieve this at this moment.

I think if it's as easy as you make it sound, they would have done it long time ago 😉

[languid gulch]

it's law that publicly-held companies based in the US basically have to do the most profitable things possible that aren't criminal. him choosing to do batshit crazy stuff constantly could be easily seen as in direct opposition to that, & they could then remove him

[night girder]

He negotiates with presidents. Just saying. The man has power.

[languid gulch]

that just means he has blackmail on those people, not that it's impossible to take those actions

[night girder]

At this moment? I cannot see how.

In the distant future, sure.

Even that facebook guy is still OK after all these hearings.

[edgy hazel]

he currently mostly uses his money and contracts with his space company to do deals with dictators

[languid gulch]

you mean the guy that's been collecting information on just about everyone on the planet for the last 15 years? gee, i can't see why anyone wouldn't want to take action against him 🤣

[night girder]

What action has been taken against him? Nothing.

He came to the house of representatives I believe? He answered questions. He left the room.

[edgy hazel]

yes because the court system is definetly not flawed at all in any way 😉

[night girder]

wasn't even court, was representatives of the people.

[languid gulch]

this is how mob shit works. you don't have to take any active action against someone. just having those people know you're watching them is enough in a lot of cases to convict on intimidation

[night girder]

If you like it or not, I am afraid we are stuck with certain individuals.

[languid gulch]

for now

[edgy hazel]

yeah people are starting to get pissed

[night girder]

I don't understand why 😒

[edgy hazel]

Lol

[night girder]

And before you lynch me. I don't understand why Elon or Mark specific?

[languid gulch]

something really fucking stupid is going to happen that is either going to make the entire thing collapse all on its own, or be so bad that even slow governments are going to finally take some concrete actions

[night girder]

There are so many people around the world to get angry on. If the public wants to get angry, they have to be fair and be angry to the whole bunch.

Not just cherry-pick, half of the anger is because of the media reporting on specific persons.

[languid gulch]

with Elon he's branded himself as some great inventor, when he did some minor coding for a payment site, then bought it with daddy's money, then bought a tiny upstart electric car company with daddy's money, then upped his game & started a rocket company with US gov't money. he hasn't built a damn thing despite constructing an entire public persona around it

[edgy hazel]

Its more a "politics is too busy licking rich peoples boots than to help the public" type situation

[night girder]

That I can get into yes.

[languid gulch]

yea, the whole "not paying taxes" thing gets old after a while too

[night girder]

It get's even crazier when leaders of countries are acused of tax evasion 😉

Haha, how do you explain that to the people. And somehow, it's all dandy.

[languid gulch]

plus Musk did some super kind things like asking how much it'd cost to actually get rid of food shortages around the world, got a number from experts, then went & spent twice as much (of someone else's money) buying X. super nice guy stuff there

[night girder]

The Elon Musk hate is really strong here. Wow.

[edgy hazel]

yeah because he's a clown

[languid gulch]

when someone constructs a persona to be massively public, then go and do objectively shitty things constantly, don't be surprised when people don't like that person

i used to buy into the musk stuff, for a bit. i used to think that getting to billionaire value status meant that they worked hard or were some kind of genius to get there. i have since learned better

[night girder]

Well me and herg had a few discussions already about Elon Musk. I heard pretty much all there is at this point.

And with a lot you both say I just agree. But then I also know he still does "good things" directly or maybe without realizing it, or with ulterior motive. But in the end, it still helps a lot of people.

[edgy hazel]

which ones

[night girder]

starlink.

AI bill. (regulate it)

[languid gulch]

the bad things & ulterior motives more than nullifies any "good things". it all ends up tainted, because you can't tell which stuff was done just to be good, & which was done to ease a guilty conscience, or which was done to make money for themselves

[edgy hazel]

which he's using to siphon money from governments which could have been used for public services or infrastructure. Apart from that, starlink is also a massive hit in the military sector.

[languid gulch]

starlink. which he switches off to help russia invade a neighbor. or quietly hands over control of the network to the russians to monitor the invaded country's comms on it. so no, i wouldn't say it's a good thing.

[night girder]

That's not the whole story and you know it.

[edgy hazel]

which he made to have time to push his own AI. Wait how relaxed he'll get with the regulations now

[languid gulch]

his control of it taints it

[night girder]

👆

[languid gulch]

if all someone needs is to call up daddy elon to use a bit of tech to fuck over someone else, i'd rather that tech not exist

[night girder]

Tell that to the soldiers on the front this moment 😉

[edgy hazel]

like giving someone hungry bread and then slicing their hand off and then saying you're good because you gave them bread

[languid gulch]

which side

cuz i can guarantee that the ukrainians would have never used starlink if they knew elon was going to let putin have access to it

[night girder]

doesn't matter. Soldiers will appreciate the technology if it saves lives.

[tough owl]

I love the divide one man has in this channel

[edgy hazel]

it doesn't tho

[languid gulch]

it's not one man

[night girder]

it does.

[edgy hazel]

no

[tough owl]

Elon seems to be all yall keep talking about in an endless loop

[night girder]

Communication is key to saving lives. That's where starlink comes in.

[languid gulch]

if ukraine knew that russia was listening on those lines, then they wouldn't have used it

[edgy hazel]

it's literally used to communicate coordinates for bombs. How does that save lives?

[night girder]

He is a controversial person.

[languid gulch]

elon chose to cover that up

& shit went wrong for ukraine multiple times

that ain't saving lives

[night girder]

and for scouting, and for medical calls, for support communication, orders, ... and all sorts of things.

[edgy hazel]

AND KILLING PEOPLE

[languid gulch]

if they don't know the enemy is listening.......

then they don't know they shouldn't be using the damn thing

is something not translating right?

[night girder]

washingtonpost

[languid gulch]

exactly

known right-wing publication that swings for elon & russia

[tough owl]

weird

[languid gulch]

iirc they were the first ones to publish headlines like "yea, nothing to see here between trump & russia" at the same time the FBI is actively watching russia funnel money to trump

[night girder]

Oh, that's cool. Didn't think of that.

[languid gulch]

now add in their opinion section & see that needle bury itself

[edgy hazel]

what fucking reddit rabbithole did you pull out that website

[tough owl]

www.allsides.com/news-source/washington-post-media-bias

[night girder]

You have websites that rate news sources. They are pretty cool.

[languid gulch]

founded by a guy who worked for GW Bush, McConnell & the RNC

[night girder]

I mean, I don't mind that you disagree with my opinion. It is what it is.

Don't want to get into a heated discussion tonight 😅

[edgy hazel]

After working as a Republican political operative in the 1980s in the southern United States (including for George H. W. Bush, Mitch McConnell and the Republican National Committee), John Gable switched to the technology industry in Silicon Valley where he recruited software developer Scott McDonald to help him launch AllSides and become his CTO.

yeah not giving that site any trust at all

[tough owl]

ranked number one on google (which is pretty left leaning) take it as you will

[languid gulch]

if he had worked for bush, then obama, then maybe some credence

[tough owl]

adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?utm_source=SourcePage&utm_medium=OnPageLink

[languid gulch]

or if he hadn't worked for any of them, because none of that is a prereq for doing media bias work

i do wonder if that include the opinion sections, because wapo likes to put that front & center

i can see it leaning left if opinion section is excluded

[tough owl]

yea seems accurate to me

anyway its #off-topic-tech not #politics so I think we should end it

[night girder]

You shouldn't have brought up Grok 😂

[tough owl]

anyway

[night girder]

Only 296GB

[tough owl]

and the whole model iirc has to be loaded into ram for it to be effective

I wanna say thats how AI works but ive got no clue

[night girder]

me neither tbh. I don't want much to do with it atm.

[tough owl]

devin is coming for your job

[languid gulch]

hot dog?

[night girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8wHY1AFpI

these are fun though. Makes me want to try it out myself.

[tough owl]

i mean we have no idea how big gpt4 is

[languid gulch]

🤣

inside joke

[tough owl]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1055289309604876330/1214717131971625051/0y2bp9W.gif

[languid gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3BfB6aaUDQ

just watch the first like 2 minutes

it's definitely brain dead content, but it's hilarious

[mental oriole]

Smii7y is chaotic enough as is. I don't need to watch that video.

[languid gulch]

🤣

[mental oriole]

Valefisk better imo 🙂

[languid gulch]

oh yea it's 3am quality

but it explains my hot dog comment 🤣

[mental oriole]

Fair enough

[languid gulch]

reminds me of the bloopers from Boston Dynamics

[tough owl]

i found my old iphone 5

how did anyone use this phone

[languid gulch]

🤣

was that one of the tiny ones?

[tough owl]

4in screen

[languid gulch]

ha

[tough owl]

better yet how did I use this small thing'

[languid gulch]

i think i jumped from a slide phone to a galaxy 8

[tough owl]

i went iphone 5 to 4 then to an iphone x then to 13 then to 15 pro max

[languid gulch]

ah, S7

my mom used her S4 until the battery pillowed

[tough owl]

my grandma had an s4

then she bought an iphone once she saw the note 7s blow up

[languid gulch]

i'd love to compare the phones from today to the original BendGate ones to see if they were actually worse, or we just started taking better care of how we handled phones

[tough owl]

the charging port on the s4 was weird

[edgy hazel]

s9 gaaang

[tough owl]

still running fine?

[edgy hazel]

100%

[languid gulch]

oh the galaxy S4, not the iphone

micro B

[tough owl]

wait maybe it was an s5

[night girder]

iphone 6s

[tough owl]

oh yea she had an s5 not an s4

[languid gulch]

god i remember the like 30mm wide proprietary charger bullshit years

[edgy hazel]

this shit was horrible

[languid gulch]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[languid gulch]

wtf are the prongs!

[tough owl]

i remember this

[tough owl]

looks pretty

[edgy hazel]

everybody did their own shit and a different one for each model

it was bad

[languid gulch]

it was sooooooo dumb

yea, not even common company plugs

models

[tough owl]

im just now realizing some dev was up LATE

was created at 3am

[languid gulch]

i hope that was time & a half

[edgy hazel]

or some freelance from india

[languid gulch]

lol or that

[wooden vessel]

Question on GPU temps. I've got a 6800xt here, bought used. I think its paste is done. Running furmark 1440p on stock, the hotspot immediately hits 110c and I watch the gpu core throttle back considerably, back to 1500mhz from 2100. This is with the fans blasting. I'm planning to repaste it; good idea, yes?

The regular gpu temp indicator waffles around 82c

[jagged snow]

Yes, I would absolutely repaste it

[winged valley]

Simplifying boolean expressions is fun bc I go from this

To this

[languid gulch]

yea, 110C is definitely too hot for a 6800XT

hotspot shouldn't really punch thru 90C that often unless you have it stuff in a hotbox

[jagged snow]

Or unless it's like my card, where bad design causes thermals to slowly worsen over time

[languid gulch]

oh this looks like fun. Apex Legends getting hacked
https://twitter.com/hannahmariezt/status/1769535394327011447

Hannah Marie ZT (@hannahmariezt) on X

Advice is circulating to avoid EA games or any title protected by EAC. I cannot confirm or deny whether this is necessary, but with the potential of an RCE (Remote Code Execution) exploit being abused within Apex, it is unclear what the capabilities of the responsible hacker(s)…

Twitter · Mar 18, 2024, 1:24 AM

my 6600XT would pin at 108C if i was running it all out, but that's because it was a red devil that could run at 3000MHz

[languid gulch]

was there ever a lower-tier gpu that could overclock to match or beat the next tier up?

[night girder]

I wonder what caused the damage to the internet infrastructure for Ghana.

[languid gulch]

i wonder if it was a software patch that missed something

[twin dew]

The sea cable damage?

[dire igloo]

4070 Super can match or outperform 4070 Ti, idk if that counts

Otherwise, GTX 1060 performed close enough to GTX 980 to maybe beat it with OC

[languid gulch]

i consider the entire 40 series naming scheme to be bullshit, so i don't think that counts 🤣

oh i meant same gen

[dire igloo]

Otherwise: GTX 1070 Ti being blocked from overclocking because you'd be able to put it too close to GTX 1080 with OC

[dire igloo]

Ahem, AMD 7900

[dire igloo]

This would be my pick

[languid gulch]

oh one side being bullshit doesn't stop the other side from being equally bullshit 🤣

[languid gulch]

can't wait for it to have been an errant chunk of a partially dismantled ship that floated away

or if someone caught a russian sub fucking around

[night girder]

yes, what caused it

they don't damage themselves afaik

[languid gulch]

unless it's a crappily done termination

[twin dew]

Usually anchors or dragging nets on the ground near shore.

[night girder]

but they put them in places and depths top prevent that

[twin dew]

Not really.

Happens several times per year IIRC that some sea cable gets damaged somewhere.

[languid gulch]

doesn't prevent a drunk dumbass from forgetting to raise the anchor on their way out

[twin dew]

Only really shallow portion near shore is buried, otherwise it is just laid where it ends.

[twin dew]

And at least 4 link spammers so far today...

And another at least on general-off-topic between previous and this message...

[gilded helm]

I had two pieces of spam/phishing actually make it through to my Gmail inbox in the last day which is weird.

One of them was a well disguised invitation to a video meeting. But I'm more surprised the horny girls want to talk one landed in my inbox instead of spam.

[jagged snow]

Interesting, mine is typically quite good

[visual tree]

I must be an important person because a lot of nigerian princes are trying to send me money

[tough owl]

I sign up for each site with a new email alias so I know which one it got leaked from

[dire igloo]

I've been getting a lot of lottery related spam lately - and an email by polish DPD about a package that is shipped, even mentioning my adress.
Thing is: I don't expect a shipment and I can't recall ever giving DPD my email adress

[jagged snow]

Interesting

I get the most spam emails in russian, interestingly

And most of them are offering photography-related things

[tough owl]

you dont take them up on that?

[charred pewter]

same lol i have so many damned alias boxes

i actually make a new alias, not just the "normalbox+somethingelse@" trick

or d.o.t.s.t.u.f.f.i.n.g

we get people who signup multiple accounts (by accident) because they couldnt remember which place they stuck a dot in the email name lol

some do it on purpose because they are just stupid

[tough owl]

seen two more since then

[jagged snow]

There have been quite a few

It's driving me nuts

[tough owl]

its sucks for me because I have edit history on(unoffical) and I see edits and deleted messages

[jagged snow]

You using vencord?

[tough owl]

cannot confirm nor deny

[jagged snow]

Yes, I'm sure you would never dare violate discords TOS by using a 3rd party client.

I am absolutely not considering it and/or looking for advice on the different alternatives avaliable in the world of custom clients

[tough owl]

i am a law abiding citizen

[edgy hazel]

thank god TOS isn't law. Would be really bad if cooperations could make up laws...

[tough owl]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-caveira-meme-skeleton-meme-react-gif-25373327

[jagged snow]

yeah, that sounds like a nightmare

[edgy hazel]

would be really bad. Thank god this is definetly not happening

[jagged snow]

It's definitelky not happening in the capacity that it could be

I'd still like to see it happen less though

[tough owl]

nice deleted

[jagged snow]

yeah well I changed my mind 😉

[edgy hazel]

btw isn't this whole seeing deleted messages not only breaking TOS but also against european data protection laws?

the whole right to get data deleted thing

[jagged snow]

Well yes and no
Discord isn't storing the message after you delete it

So they're in the clear, the only liability would be personal

[edgy hazel]

lemme check if this only applies to cooperations or not

[jagged snow]

I think it applies to both

[tough owl]

its cached locally on my computer

it does it for all "active" channels im in

[jagged snow]

Yeah
So in theory, you could be in violation of the gdpr if I understand it correctly

Same reason that it applies to your personal security system @edgy hazel

[edgy hazel]

yup just checked.

kade is breaking EU law

[tough owl]

LETS GOOOOO

good thing I aint a citizen

[edgy hazel]

yeah and since the owner of the discord server is responsible for moderation and the server is also operating in the EU we could sue coffee stain studios now

(which is why most official servers just straight up ban anyone found out to be using a 3rd party client, at least the one I moderated a whiiiile back did)

[jagged snow]

Yup, good thing kade isn't using one

[tough owl]

would be a shame if I was

[wooden vessel]

ordered a kryosheet, gonna clean up the paste and see how it goes. arrives tomorrow.

[languid gulch]

nice 🙂 let us know if there's anything special or stupid with the process

[sage pier]

I agree you should try 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 either one could be better

[tough owl]

Yes let’s send our dns requests to google

Great idea

[winged valley]

messagelogger is a must have for custom clients tbh

(i say this using vanilla discord)

I used to use it tho, and usually its just funny but its occasionally useful too

[winged valley]

I only use google dns when all else fails

[tough owl]

Host your own dns

[winged valley]

If only

I don't have the equipment to properly isolate a DNS server

[tough owl]

Docker 😍

[winged valley]

Okay yes I could but also like whats the point of self hosting DNS if its only gonna be interally usable

[tough owl]

you could use it externally

[winged valley]

A large portion of our internet activity is external

[tough owl]

Port forwarding is a thing

[winged valley]

Docker isn't a foolproof security plan

[tough owl]

It’s pretty close

[winged valley]

hmm

Should I bridge it or custom network

[twin dew]

Then report them to the mods?

I just see that the channel has had new messages, but then doesn't.

So I know someone tried to post unallowed link on both general and here.

[tough owl]

whats the point, the bot auto removes them

[twin dew]

To get the poster banned.

So that they don't spam more over time.

Because most of those are bots AFAIK.

[sand saddle]

Getting a new internet plan tomorrow, over 5G. 150/30, cheaper(main reason we’re changing) than our current 100/25 over a phone line. The provided Huawei AX3 doesn’t actually look like total shit. 4 cores.

Oh wait, it has 2 models? One with 2 cores, I bet that’s what we’re getting.

We,ll see in about 22h

[tough owl]

have fun with ping

It’ll likely be like 25ms ping to the closest data center

[sage pier]

my wifi is like 300 ping up and down

[sage pier]

but on ethernet its like 3

[sand saddle]

If I'm dissatisfied I can tell them I don't want it after everything is set up and I've ran a speed test.

And under 50ms should be quite fine, I don't play anything competitive.

I'll also run bufferbloat to see how the router is haha

[tough owl]

Makes sense

How far is the nearest 5g tower to you

[night girder]

The confidence.

[wanton orchid]

0.9999...
is '->1'

[sand saddle]

Iirc I got E233 for my secondary

No complaints, traded it for a 60hz 1080p ultrawide I had

[tough owl]

this is real

[dire igloo]

no Lego Satisfactory

[edgy hazel]

the OG set before LEGO changed it:

[tough owl]

classic lego

[sand saddle]

Damn, I mean some smaller details are better due to the OG not having as many pieces to work with, but yeah...

[edgy hazel]

more colours is more better says LEGO

[tough owl]

Contrast to 11

[stray badger]

Could also be a lighting difference

[tough owl]

cant have the green dragon 😔

[languid gulch]

i didn't have legos much beyond primary colors 🤣 let alone shapes that could do a dragon

[gilded helm]

Is Reddit at war with VPNs?

[tough owl]

yea

using my vpn provider it takes me a while to find a server that reddit is cool with

[gilded helm]

I'm on PIA, same, took 6ish tries just now

[tough owl]

we love to see it

[gilded helm]

Nitter is somehow still hanging on

Reading about the TikTok ban, I think I understand why I've never successfully made an account. Not that I've tried hard. It basically straight up doesn't work unless you resolve it with its own infrastructure?

The last time I tried it was using a burner Gmail account and Google login over PIA, I think.

[tough owl]

i just never had the need for an app dedicated to brain rot

[gilded helm]

Yep, hence why I've never tried hard. So I've still never had an account.

[earnest thunder]

same

[tough owl]

https://twitter.com/PhantomOfEarth/status/1770148657595138520

PhantomOcean3 🌳 (@PhantomOfEarth) on X

Additional lock screen cards such as finance and sports are rolling out for Windows 10 in KB5035941 (19045.4235), the feature can be enabled by running:

vivetool /enable /id:48801541

Twitter · Mar 19, 2024, 6:01 PM

for a dead OS microsoft still loves to update it

[wary olive]

Dont shit on my windows 10 pal

[tough owl]

I’ll do it again if you want me to

[wary olive]

:((

[tough owl]

rx6600/xt?

[sharp oasis]

6600

Guess what cpu and ram is

[tough owl]

i had a gpu just like it

fans got really loud

[sharp oasis]

Giggleshit eagle?

[tough owl]

yea

[sharp oasis]

Yeah sounds about right

[tough owl]

5600 and 32gb ram

[sharp oasis]

Right on the 32gb

But wrong on the 5600

It's a 5800X

[tough owl]

was close 😔

[sharp oasis]

Yeah

[twin dew]

Those have VESA mounting holes, but the mounting is recessed, so multi-size VESA mounts with larger mount option won't work.

Cannot be sure from images if 75x75 or 100x100.

HP used to do 100x100 with that type of recessed mount.

[languid gulch]

i've been tempted to make some kind of dock that'd sit just under my monitor, but mounts to a vesa stand

[twin dew]

With the recess itself being 130mm wide.

[edgy hazel]

Get a 3D printer, then you can make that easily

[languid gulch]

i kinda worry about the mount area cracking if it's just plastic like that

i had thought about hunting down a monitor stand with a usb hub built in, but they're expensive & you're SOL if it dies

plus that kind of thing isn't exactly customizable

[edgy hazel]

100% infill will fix that for you

[languid gulch]

i guess i could also do that dumb thing where you use longer bolts but add a nut to lock things down

[edgy hazel]

The upper rack is 3d printed

[languid gulch]

ok that's nice

might also just hunt down some angle brackets at home depot 🤣 hammer 90 degree bends & drill holes where they're needed

[twin dew]

I need to tape USB 3.0 HUB to bottom of my desk on the left, on opposite side from the computers...
I have the parts, just haven't installed yet...

One forward port, 3 downward ones.

[languid gulch]

i did this janky shit to mount a cable box to a wall mounted tv so it'd move to the right angle 🤣

[twin dew]

First part of hub install done, now mounted in right place and the cord done up to the desk back cable channel.
Still need to do the wiring inside the channel and to the computer.

But that is for later day.

So as long as the used VESA mount is max 130mm wide, it will work.

If wider, needs spacers & long screws.

[mental oriole]

Another useless update.

[indigo marsh]

my graphics card is messing up in a way i havent seen before...

any1 got a clue whats wrong with it?

[jagged snow]

Looks like possible hardware failure

Do you have a different cable/display to test with

[indigo marsh]

no, unfortunatly.

[jagged snow]

Can you try a different port?

[indigo marsh]

theres just 1 on this display, but if i use the tv's apps they go away

[jagged snow]

No, I mean a different port on your gpu

[indigo marsh]

only has 1

zotac 3060

restarting the pc makes it go away for a few days before coming back

but if its hardware going, i guess ill be getting a new one soon...

[jagged snow]

It's hard to determine weather or not it's hardware failure without being able to troubleshoot further. I'd recommend DDU and full reinstall as a first step.

[twin dew]

Most probably bad cable.

Do they go away if you switch the computer to lower resolution or refresh rate?

@indigo marsh

[indigo marsh]

havent tried, ill try that when i get them to come back again

it is a decentl;y long cabel, so maby

[sand saddle]

New internet over 5G and tested over wifi

Safe to say it’s not smth you want to be uploading with, which noone is doing in this household.

[night girder]

First time I see this. Your monitor is like space, darkness with stars.

[dire igloo]

No ttv/Goldensoldier, sad times

[charred pewter]

lmfao

[mental oriole]

I need that.

[remote tusk]

Dry ice cool pc

[edgy hazel]

blowing up your cooling loop and killing yourself with carbon dioxide in one quick move

[twin dew]

That is (config) problem in the router.
Set upload rate limit if possible to little under the tested max upload speed.

Properly done router would autolimit the used upload buffer.
And if that isn't happening like in this case, setting rate limit manually might help, if that is possible.

[sand saddle]

Didn’t change a thing

Ig it just depends on the time I’m testing.

And this is still wifi, I’m not sure how I’ll go about getting wired.

The cable I used for my PC is now getting used by the router and 5G antenna.

Ig I’ll buy a 2nd router.

Maybe one without wireless capability.

[sand saddle]

Cuz the 5G tower is closer to my room while the central router placement is essential for proper wifi coverage.

[twin dew]

Bufferbloat (and the rising latency on upload) is because network device has too large buffer to store traffic, which it uses fully before starting to drop packets when there is too much data.
Because some network gear manufacturers engineers or programmers think that dropping data is a sin.
When in actuality with network gear, you want to have minimal buffers needed to archieve full utilization, and then start dropping data early when overloaded.

Dropping packets is the intended way to signal that the link is overloaded.

[sand saddle]

With download, the antenna is getting somewhere in the ballpark of 500mbps, so it should keep our 150mbps stable at all times.
But ig I could see if I can set the upload from the intended 30 to like 25 or smth.

[twin dew]

Yes, the normal latency is high, but the upload active latency is 2.3 seconds.
Purely because of too much buffering.
In the second test it is "only" +35ms, which is still somewhat bad, but much more in line of expectations.

And some is also on ISP side, but mainly I was talking about that 2.3 second upload latency increase in first test, that is almost certainly local in the router.

[twin dew]

But the second test only brings the upload buffer bloated latency to same value it is at base in the first test, from ISP oversubscription.

[edgy hazel]

Nothing is funnier than the barbarian kicking in a door, forcing a fight, then rolling the lowest initiative and thus blocking the door for everyone else until it's their turn

It's just pure comedy gold and has already happened 4 times in 2 sessions

[gilded helm]

Heavy armor reliant? Low dex, low build resources to invest in initiative, makes sense.

[edgy hazel]

Yeah and the party ain't got a rogue or anyone capable of lockpicking. Maybe the ranger but she's too busy with petting her wolf

[dire igloo]

I too would be busy petting my wolf if I had a wolf that I could pet

[dire igloo]

As long as the party also thinks it's funny, keep it going
Otherwise, you as DM should start allowing the party to be able to squeeze through

[edgy hazel]

Yeah the party finds it funny but it still drags out combat unnecessarily. First I let them roll acrobatics but after the 3rd time I just said they're used to it and are able to squeeze by. Doesn't stop the ranger from still rolling acrobatics to run on the wall for style points

I love this so much

[dire igloo]

My favorite take on this so far
https://youtube.com/shorts/bTpPqijvcOs

[rotund hamlet]

platypus polygon?

[rotund hamlet]

PERRY THE PLATYPUS POLYGON

[dire igloo]

Fun stuff
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-server-updates-cause-domain-controller-crashes-reboots/

[night girder]

Baldur, want to know something stupid? 7600 didn't crash for about a month now 😢

So either, the AMD updates fixed it. Or I am lucky.

last big crash was: 27/02/2024 19:07:59

[twin dew]

And what is the IF etc. set to right now?

[night girder]

What it should be (according to you), default 1733MHz (1729.9MHz in HWINFO). I would expected if the CPU started to die, thatit would become more unstable. Maybe it's too soon to speak. But it seems more stable than before.

[twin dew]

Does it now work on 1800 or 2000MHz FCLK?

[night girder]

I don't think so. But it's not suppose to work on those?

I mean, those are OC values, so that can lead to unstable behavior is what AMD would say to me.

[twin dew]

2000MHz is what every CPU "should" be able to do for FCLK by AMD.
1733MHz is stock and guaranteed.

[night girder]

Roger 👍

[twin dew]

ASRock is on 2.08 UEFI right now for latest stable, with 1.1.0.2b AGESA.

[night girder]

Ah, good to know. I think I am a bit behind. 2.02

a few bugs in AMD software: Adrenalin Edition also got fixed.

Like for some reason, the same "new messages" would appear in Adrenalin.

Under there. It always had the same "Did you know you can press blablabla" message. Every... time... I booted.

[sand saddle]

Parents want a new bigger TV, like 55-65''
But damn cheap TVs suck.

[tough owl]

Yea they do

[edgy hazel]

Finished the next miniboss: Karkos the Beautiful

[mental oriole]

Very handsome.

[winged valley]

The 3D print texture makes him look almost holographic in a way

[edgy hazel]

yeah for NPCs I'm using 0.16mm layer thickness iirc

[midnight osprey]

anybody tried training AI for private use?

[edgy hazel]

yes this is my homelab:

[midnight osprey]

lmao

it's takes a lot less than that, haha

[tough owl]

do you sleep at your job?

[midnight osprey]

btw, can it play minecraft? haha

[edgy hazel]

most of the time yes, but usually between 8am and 7pm

[midnight osprey]

I once did a full PC upgrade just cos I wanted a lot more ram

to play mods and texture packs

how can java be so shite?

[tough owl]

java was never meant to be agame engine iirc

[midnight osprey]

I wonder what made him choose it

[spring sierra]

I have more than a thousand hours of gameplay using the Epic Launcher. Now the game simply stops running on my machine/PC. So I paid for the game in full, I just want my right to continue playing!

[midnight osprey]

I believe there is a better channel for that

#1038092680493801533 might be a better place for ya

[spring sierra]

I'm sorry for the outrage

[edgy hazel]

what u mean

[midnight osprey]

no need, lol

[tough owl]

server?

[edgy hazel]

yee

[tough owl]

linux lets go

[gilded helm]

I want some sort of power strip or pigtail to plug into a 14-50 outlet and turn it into a bunch of regular 120v outlets. Should I just look for UL and GFCI in it and it should be fine?

[tough owl]

im sorry

you want 50 outlets off one strip?

[edgy hazel]

did you just hex us?

[gilded helm]

NEMA 14-50, otherwise known as an oven or RV outlet.

[midnight osprey]

lol

[edgy hazel]

bro got that plug with the third eye open using his chakra

[midnight osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/chacras-gif-pleiadianstarseed-gif-27078603

[edgy hazel]

why the heart chakra going nuts

[gilded helm]

www.homedepot.com/p/AC-WORKS-1-5-ft-Adapter-NEMA-14-50P-RV-Range-Generator-Plug-to-4-Household-Outlets-with-20-Amp-Breaker-S1450CBF520/311382948

Basically I'm looking for something like that

[midnight osprey]

I was once told my heart chakra was faaaaaaaaar too open

[tough owl]

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

[languid gulch]

ouchie

always the predictive stuff

[dire igloo]

used OLED/QLED. snatched 55" C9 for under 500€

[languid gulch]

my parents' tv had one of the backlight zones die, so the image looks kinda interesting now

big darkish zone across the third quarter of the screen

[stray badger]

it was originally going to be a web app

[tough owl]

oh goody ebay

[languid gulch]

try it just for shits & giggles, see how good it does

[sharp oasis]

My first build vs my current

[languid gulch]

what's that PCIe power connector on the right snaking down to?

[rustic panther]

From what I'm reading the DMP on those chips just accidentally dereferences pointers sometimes, which sounds like a major oopsie

[twin dew]

Optimizes for case where the previous RAM contents was a pointer which would contain what address was to be next read, and getting that before the program asks for it.
But when the previous RAM content wasn't pointer, does extra memory read that wasn't needed, and is in this case a security hole.

"Is or isn't this data we just retrieved from RAM a possible RAM address pointer? If it looks like it might be a pointer, then get the contents of that RAM address already, just in case it is needed next".

[pure karma]

its defedently a improvement thats for sure

i have a bigger range from my first pc and my curent pc than i should really...

i started whit windows XP on a CRT monitor even if it dosent look like it lol

[sharp oasis]

Spare I'm replacing card soon

[dire igloo]

Common Thermalright W

[edgy hazel]

This was so much work Jesus

all 3d printed

[tough owl]

Even the paint?

[charred pewter]

3d printed paint ... nice!

[mental oriole]

[charred pewter]

but the models are nice, took how long to print?

my father has a Bambu 3d printer... thing takes multiple colors at once, its crazy

//bambulab.com/en/x1

one of the nice things about it, is it autoconfigures based on the filament you plop in, all based off rf tags ...

of course if you have a couple grand to throw at a 3d printer ... geezes

still cheaper than a nvidia gpu 🤣

[edgy hazel]

the NPCs take around 2 hours each

one tile (2x2) is 3-5 hours

and one tile is 7.5x7.5 cm

grouping them together as 4 is usually the fastest

[charred pewter]

lotsa hours !

you gonna add more tiles? make HUGE rooms 😄

[edgy hazel]

it's planned. I use openforge tiles and just scale it up to 150%

[maiden coyote]

what?

[charred pewter]

need a tile with a bottemless pit ... and a tile with a giant throne ... and a tile with grates (or make grates that slot into holes in any tile)

[maiden coyote]

If you want help with this.. shoot me a message.

[charred pewter]

grates = wall of bars like fence/prison

[edgy hazel]

look up openforge, it's insane what they got

(it is very confusing tho)

[charred pewter]

wow