off-topic-tech

[visual tree]

I just buy some standard mouse and keyboard when I need it

[dire igloo]

it's pretty common for monitors, not so much for keyboards tho. Had one on my Creative K08

[winged valley]

I have my corsair passthrough plugged into bios port for easy flash

[dire igloo]

majority of corsair keyboards suck tho

[winged valley]

K70mk2 is awesome if you're willing to put in the time to change off the brown switches

I use the k100 bc I wanted speed silvers and rgb, works great

[visual tree]

I still use my cheap asus cerberus rgb keyboard I got as a compensation for a broken product at a pc store. Does the job I need

[dire igloo]

K65 Plus is the first actually good one I've seen from them

[visual tree]

But then again, I am not a demanding person when it comes to keyboard and mouse

[dire igloo]

others might've improved too after the drop acquisition

[winged valley]

g502/g502 hero or go home

[dire igloo]

fwiw, the gold standard for value gaming keyboards is Keychron V series
great quality, great featureset, great software support, easily customizable
basically a $150 prebuild custom keyboard for under $100

[winged valley]

ive used g502's for almost 7 years i love them

[visual tree]

I might consider it when my mouse micro switch dies again 👍

[dire igloo]

heavy as bricks, bad switches, mediocre sensors
Darmoshark M3 >>>

[winged valley]

Heretic

Also the hero sensor is good

I like heavier mice anyways

[dire igloo]

PAW3395 beats it easily

[winged valley]

I run 2650dpi with all the extra weights installed on mine

Works like a charm

[dire igloo]

I run like 6k on my mouse, but reduced sensitivity in Windows

[winged valley]

g502 my beloved

[dire igloo]

lovely shape, loved the extra buttons for the index finger, infiniscroll is nice, rest of the mouse just sucks

[winged valley]

issue of skill

[dire igloo]

liking heavy mice at high dpi is definitely a skill issue

[winged valley]

Id beat you in a kraber 1v1

Also 2650 is low dpi lol

[dire igloo]

for heavy mice maybe

for lightweight, anything under 1k is normal

[winged valley]

hero sensor goes to like 30k i think

[dire igloo]

and? you want an accurate sensor, not a super fast one

[winged valley]

fair

[dire igloo]

"I register 30000 positions for every inch you move me AND THEY'RE ALL WRONG"

[visual tree]

Can't wait to see reaction of younger kids when I tell them I had to clean my mouse ball back in the days and they will think it's some kind of a dirty joke lol

[winged valley]

i remember that in 3rd grade

[visual tree]

They still teach about "vintage" computer mouses in school?

[winged valley]

No? aback then thats just what they were using

[visual tree]

I know, I was asking if kids today are being taught how old computer mouse looked like

[winged valley]

oh no

they arent

[dire igloo]

in Germany we call this "average IT class room equipment"

[visual tree]

Because I don't plan on using that kind of mouse again lol (not that I am required to anyway)

[winged valley]

whatever you do dont refurb an old w95 machine

[visual tree]

I had windows 98 gateway computer but my parents threw it away

I remember back in the days when flat broadband was rare and everyone was afraid of getting a dialer on their computer which would result in huge bills

Correction: dialer was related to dial-up, don't remember the exact name of the malware that generated traffic so you would get huge bills if you had limited data plan

That was somewhere before 2005 if I remember correctly

[old seal]

Uuuh, does anyone know which format or how the blueprints are stored? Especially the sbp files? I made a mistake and accidentally created all my blueprints with basic walls which use steel beams. I want to replace them with the ones that use iron plates.
I would just like to open up an IDE and search and replace the id/string with the one that corresponds to the one I want. It just took me ages to create all these blueprints and I really don't want to do that again (2 days of work).

or more like how they are encoded so I can decode them

[old seal]

I'm actualkly not sure if the sbp format is the same format that ps1 games used to store data. Or if it's just the same name ending.

[maiden coyote]

Replace all the walls in one save it and compare the data?

[tough owl]

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025352

didn’t Microsoft have something already like this?

[old seal]

I tried already but the data seems wildly different

[winged valley]

I think so but it wasn't very good

Windows On ARM ran poorly on most hardware

And applications ran worse

[rotund hamlet]

it's getting better, and this will help

[maiden coyote]

Getting closer to the end of x86

[tough owl]

I wonder if we could use this with wine

[gilded helm]

Let's wait and see if this is actually all it's cracked up to be first. Qualcomm has somehow managed to get positive headlines for months despite the X Elite not actually being here yet. I don't really see why people are taking everything they say at face value any more than the shit Intel spouts/.

[tough owl]

theres three different chips under the same name

and on the surface and new lenovo devices I dont see anything to differentiate them(lenovo t14s ships with the middle skew)

[sharp oasis]

What do tall think of my shader

[tough owl]

I think ai marketing has gone too far

[languid gulch]

what ai do ai do ai you ai mean ai?

[wanton orchid]

I think your limit was a bit far too then
ai marketing went too far 4 years ago

[tough owl]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ4H4H7X/ they really want these gone

[twin dew]

The files are compressed, and probably with the same somewhat nonstandard compression as the save files use.
Compressed with standard compression, but in nonstandard blocks and not on whole file level.

[twin dew]

But cannot you just load the BP:s back into designer, use the replace material in place customizer functionality, and then resave back?
Should be much faster than original making.

[old seal]

It would be about 1k blueprints

[twin dew]

Documentation for older game version save files.
https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Save_files

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/ maintainer has coded blueprint file interpreter, for the BP library Live preview, but the code isn't public.
So you could possibly ask on the SCIM Discord about that.

[old seal]

I will have a look at that later 👍. For now, time to work

[rustic panther]

P decent price IIRC

[languid gulch]

still kinda impressed that SF can push my 6800XT to 99C

[sharp oasis]

That seems like cooling issue imo

[languid gulch]

oh it's just on air

[sharp oasis]

Sf can't push my 6700XT off 70

And I'm on air

[languid gulch]

& that's hotspot

[sharp oasis]

I can't compare my hotspot

Ptm is unfair advantage

[languid gulch]

global is 81

[sharp oasis]

I only have a max temp difference of like 10-15c

So if global is 70

Hotspot is 80-85

Usually

Can be less

Ptm is pretty good

And gets better overtime iirc

So far @languid gulch ive been trying to find what causes my Mc fps dips

Is it cpu getting too loaded with rt emulation calls

As my gpus rt accelerators are unused

Due to java

[languid gulch]

ah

[sharp oasis]

Like I think it's cpu

As clocking the GPU from 2880 to 2945

Yielded 1 fps difference

So

Cpu somehow needs to be faster

[languid gulch]

i'm running SF with all settings maxxed & getting a 17C delta

77/94C atm

[sharp oasis]

Lowest delta I've seen in a bit

Is 3c

But that's the gou at 60c and in a low load

I sit 7-13c usually

Sometimes 15

And at 255w

[languid gulch]

jeez

[sharp oasis]

It hits 30c delta

[languid gulch]

i'm at 275W

[sharp oasis]

The cooler seems to get too saturated for 255w

Despite being triple fan

I could try to make the fan curve more agressive

Tbh

It's rare my card breaks 210w

Also I have like some decent oc on my L3 cache

1.39TB/s

[languid gulch]

yea, if i turn everything down to high & drop down to 120fps it drops to like 160W

[sharp oasis]

I keep stuff capped at 80

If I let it roaf

Some games it hardly has effect

Others GPU starts pulling 230w

[twin dew]

Finally started trying Valheim.
Now trying to make a central main base location.
So much leveling to do...

[dire igloo]

I love the physics based building system ngl

[twin dew]

I somewhat hate the combat.
Very janky and the character doesn't know how to attack enemies below on a slope etc.

As the character just attacks into the direction you point, at level.
And if the attack hitbox hits anything, they take damage.
But no attempt for the character to actually attack the enemy you "point" at.

And bows are annoying, as you have to elevate manually, but without good distance reference...

As you are viewing 2D, not 3D.
So you can only try to do that based on target size.

Anyways, there is going to be about two character high sheer ground "wall" around that base, before the actual walls...

[dire igloo]

Isn't that usually referred to as a moat?

[nimble cargo]

I somewhat hate valheims combat as well. (Also having a good chuckle at you calling it janky, that's exactly how I've been describing it)

[twin dew]

Won't be two-walled on the south side.

So some of it won't qualify as moat.

[nimble cargo]

Tried vrising, but it's tuned for group play, and I have no friends to play with. Combat and movement is weird in that game too.

[tough owl]

I tried my best to repaste my gpu

[edgy hazel]

Could... Couldn't you do that?

Like what's speaking against turning your GPU into a thermal paste Twinkie?

[sand saddle]

@twin dew Imo it’s necessary to mod Valheim to have fun unless you love endless grinding.
For your issue, get slope combat fix mod.
I’d be more than willing to link you everything else I used like a year ago so maybe there’s smth you like.

[twin dew]

Need to take a look at.
Saw there was lot of mods available, wanted to try without.

[rotund hamlet]

sanity

[twin dew]

Damn, I wanted to save some raspberry bushes that would have ended up being just outside the fort, but a tree I felled hit couple of other trees, and they in combination fell on the bushes...

[sand saddle]

Good luck getting anywhere near end game without mods or co-op.

Ofc I don’t know your level of dedication and free time

[edgy hazel]

But I wanna put schlop in my GPU

[sand saddle]

I made everything 2x cheaper and it still felt like quite a grind.

I haven’t played much

[charred pewter]

missed a spot over there in the upper right

[rotund hamlet]

but no

[twin dew]

I'm not expecting to "complete" the game, just use it as a time sink until I get bored.

And then return at later time,.

[sand saddle]

Wait until you get to the swamp and I imagine you get the same realization as me. The vanilla grind is too much.

[twin dew]

Probably.

Even just the amount of copper you can get from one complete node is just tiny...

While the "rock" is huge...

[sand saddle]

I had a mod to 2x every single drop and stack size

So simply put, everything became 2x cheaper

One mod so sailing wind is always at the back cuz I don’t want to look at the sea for half an hour waiting for the wind to turn around

[twin dew]

How close to the wind can you sail?

[sand saddle]

Wdym?

[tough owl]

Schlop gpu

[twin dew]

The closest angle to the upwind you can sail towards.

[sand saddle]

Idk, it’s marked in game UI

You can always row, slow af

[twin dew]

This thing:

[sand saddle]

One mod for equipment slots(like satisfactory) and then to keep them at death.
Another mod for auto sorting(just puts the items into the nearest chest with those items already in it)
A mod to 2x
One mod to save effects with relogging.
No/less fog, increased render distance
Bigger dungeons
Campfire inside

[sand saddle]

Yeah, it’s displayed in game UI

Top right

[twin dew]

Yeah, I'm just nowhere near boats yet.

[sand saddle]

I got a mod so the wind is always from the back

[twin dew]

Which is why I asked.
But that is very generous for that type of sailboat.

As in real one of that type couldn't do anywhere near as close.

[sand saddle]

The map is big and the boats are slow and there’s no real gameplay content for me to be wasting my time drifting on the sea

There are some sea encounters…

But overall not a fan of sailing without wind

Also thank you for helping me with the robot extinguisher shit. The robot is complete and presented. Gonna pick it up tomorrow and I can keep it.

Not much use for the robot itself but Pi 4 and some other shit is certainly salvageable

Render distance mod is quite a necessity for sailing btw

And you got a modern GPU now, right? No point in wasting all that potential on stupidly low render distance.

[twin dew]

Need to head back to Black Forest soon to get more copper, bone fragments and surling cores...

[sand saddle]

Iirc I might’ve also modded very minor speed buffs

[twin dew]

Out of combat infinite stamina would be nice option.

Damn... There is max offset you can do from the original ground height...

[sand saddle]

That’s what specialized food is for, you’ll get there

Basically can do full stamina food for just running around

[tough owl]

On android do yall use the three bottom buttons or gestures

[visual tree]

I am using them right now lol (buttons)

[dire igloo]

Gestures

More screen real estate, makes me feel efficient

[rotund hamlet]

buttons

[jagged snow]

Buttons

[maiden coyote]

Buttons, because I'm old.

[charred pewter]

i dont even know what the gestures are 😄

[maiden coyote]

Same. I tried, and hated it.

[rotund hamlet]

gestures are likely to fuck with in app gestures so i just don't bother

[maiden coyote]

Just swiping every which way.. nevermind trying to use gestures when I'm not supposed to have a phone in my hand

[mental oriole]

Try scroll up on discord phone and you hate gestures pretty fast... I lost count on the amount of times I accidently swipe to reply instead of scrolling...

[tough owl]

it’s really that bad on android

I don’t use a back button anyway on iOS but to close apps and whatnot yall still use bottons?

[dire igloo]

fair point, I have that from time to time

[sharp oasis]

Gestures

I also use like the goofiest home screen. Either you like it or you dont

I found a launcher that Brought back the livetiles from windows phones

[sage pier]

Sometimes if i scroll up slow it scrolls up to 2021 on mobile

Discord needs to fix their mobile app

[nimble cargo]

i dunno, their last fix made verything so terribly wonderful /s

[dire igloo]

sometimes when I click on the message someone has replied to, it takes me halfway to that message

Discord mobile is just awful

I get times where I have to restart the app entirely because somehow all media is shown as if I was in landscape mode

also, why the fuck are there two search bars?

[nimble cargo]

it takes you to their message? Mine just flails about and then goes black

[dire igloo]

it scrolls up for some time, flickers, then stops midway

[soft bloom]

Who thought its good idea to make blinking orange led a sign for "port connected but no internet"?

[old seal]

Guess I need to write a decoder for the blueprint files.
That doesn't count as hacking right? because I'm not doing anything on anyone elses system, right

[tough owl]

Not really?

[dire igloo]

to be convicted of hacking in Germany, you have to gain access to protected data you weren't supposed to access (note that you can't be convicted if that data is sensitive and you weren't supposed to see it but it also wasn't protected properly).
Alternatively, you can be convicted if you possess the tools to do such a thing

[maiden coyote]

So by just having a flipper gets you jail in Germany?

[wanton orchid]

not all hacks are bad hacks
90% of "you do not have right to do" lines of big software companies are abusive and sometimes straight up lies

[old seal]

Tbh I just want to edit my blueprints

[wanton orchid]

it's like mobile device manufacturers telling you do not have right to fix it

or when they advertise article about standard procedure as under copyright
when the material is external standard documentation under CC

or when Iran's Minister helicopter unfortunately had an issue

the problem is officials sucking the dicks

pretending it's valid
and giving power to scams doing so

[tough owl]

Are they blueprints like this

[old seal]

No

More like this:

[tough owl]

but like did the originally look like this

[old seal]

I don't think so

[tough owl]

Wrong kind of blueprints 🙃

[old seal]

It's a satisfactory blueprint

[dire igloo]

idk actually. That's like saying a crowbar makes you a potential burglar.
I'd say Flipper alone isn't enough, but owning hacking software or having the Flipper set up in an illegal way would

[tough owl]

Didn't canada reverse its ban on the flipper zero

I love amd naming schemes

epyc cpu in am5

[tough owl]

can I ask why epyc is being used to market am4 cpus

and what benefit it has over ryzen 7000 and 8000

[narrow folio]

AM4? 4004 is AM5

[charred pewter]

they spelled it rong

[tough owl]

typo 🙂

[narrow folio]

4004 basically is the same as Ryzen but with official ECC support

[tough owl]

so itll only work in am5 mobos that have ecc support?

[narrow folio]

Probably. My guess would be that we'll see server boards with AM5 soon

[tough owl]

https://tenor.com/view/nacho-why-confused-jack-black-gif-8714598

[narrow folio]

192GB RAM support, BMC and RaidXpert2 validation

[languid gulch]

since we kinda saw a merger of the workstation & gaming pc, i wonder if we'll see a "kinda merger" of desktop & server stuff

ok speaking of server hardware i have a dumb & probably unanswerable question

i know they can't exactly be directly comparable, but does anyone compare non-iGPU CPU core graphics capabilities to GPU capabilities? as in "the current Threadripper can render graphics like [this gpu]"

[tough owl]

Software rendering?

[stray badger]

Blender benchmarks i guess

CPU vs GPU

[languid gulch]

does any site compile those scores in the same list?

& does the same score mean the same actual performance at graphics rendering, because i have a hard time believing that even a epyc 9754 would have the same graphics performance as a 2080Ti, but they're next to each other on the chart

[stray badger]

it shouldn't have a score, just a render time

i only found the epyc running classroom and bmw in 3.5 while the 2080ti ran them in 2.9, meaning that comparisons are useless

looks like the epyc is faster than a 3090 in blender

at least, comparing 3.5 to 3.4

[tough owl]

isnt software render versus gpu render different in sense one is more accurate?

[tough owl]

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-fluent-bit-flaw-impacts-all-major-cloud-providers/

[wanton orchid]

cpu is not igpu

[wanton orchid]

"SMT" 😃

like..

[stray badger]

yes, i know

blender can render on CPU cores or GPU

[wanton orchid]

oh yea you mean the tech in old pentium

[sharp oasis]

Pbo is being aids rn on my 5800x

It's got more temperature to go for and more voltage to push

But refuses to

And keeps settling at 4.65 all core turbo

When I want it to target 4.7-4.725

[languid gulch]

what's the saying? "it ain't the cloud, it's someone else's hard drives"

[tough owl]

Someone’s else’s computer

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1044127196039630878/1242678192528162856/MEGAWATTS.png you think the osha guy is gonna like this?

[twin dew]

So just renaming old "Ryzen Pro" branding on AM4 to "Epyc 4004" on AM5.

[sharp oasis]

I think there will be some airflow issues with front mounted push pull

Hopefully it's not too much tubulence

[twin dew]

No, there are Ryzen Pro AM5 non-APU ones too...
Just not full lineup.
And all the APUs on AM5 have Ryzen Pro counterparts.

[sharp oasis]

@twin dew pbo only

4.75ghz all core turbo

[languid gulch]

moving SF onto an nvme drive really helped with the save game stutter

i'm surprised at how noticeable it is compared to a sata ssd

[sharp oasis]

Ofd

I seem to be plateuing

At 4.78ghz all core

Doesn't seem to want to go faster then that

Despite not being thermally or electrically limited

[edgy hazel]

Need

But with a functional plug standard and not that crap

[tribal kraken]

I've been playing lot Helldivers2 lately and have the game installed on Samsung 980 pro NVME, loading is fast. But when grouping with my friends who have the game on sata SSD, the loading screen where hellpods drop down must the double the the time.

[edgy hazel]

Its so long when some dude has it on an HDD....

Yeah I'll just chill in the loading screen for 10 minutes sure

[dire igloo]

Seems to depend more on the specific model than SATA vs NVMe in general

[sharp oasis]

Bruh

Ai is actualy stupid

[dire igloo]

It was never intelligent to begin with

[mental oriole]

...

[sharp oasis]

Real

@dire igloo you have any idea why my 5800x is kinda plateuing for all core boost

I'm not thermally or current limited

And I'm not at frequency max

[dire igloo]

Voltage limit? idk

Or power limit in general

[sharp oasis]

I'm not at voltage max

[dire igloo]

Maybe you have some other limit elsewhere so it wouldn't make sense for the CPU to run faster - tho then it'd jump all over the place when the other part is less or more demanded

[sharp oasis]

Either and power limits are loose enough to allow the cpu to boost further

[dire igloo]

Idk why, I'm not into OC - and this sounds like smth that ties into that

[sharp oasis]

It is

Sorry thought you may have something that I haven't checked

[dire igloo]

You could try overclocking (higher clocks, undervolt) and see how that impacts things

idk if PBO was a thing with 5800X, could try enabling that

[dire igloo]

Does that work with VS-NfD?

[edgy hazel]

Not much for the German speaking area.

[sharp oasis]

Pbo is enabled

I've been putting the beans to pbo rn

[sharp oasis]

Odd phenomenon happening

The higher I set the pot the more it preforms.

But it doesn't draw the actual wattage

[twin dew]

Doesn't throttle on spikes probably.
As the shown value is average over X time.

[sharp oasis]

I mean I had the wattage limit at 200w

And it was still refusing to draw over 142w

Okay

It seems to hit a limit and not draw more

[twin dew]

Frequency, voltage and thermal limits there too.

[sharp oasis]

As there was no gain between 200w ppt and 300w ppt

[sharp oasis]

All loosened

[twin dew]

And amperage limits

[sharp oasis]

We aren't hitting anything

But the cpu refuses to boost over 4.78ghz all core for cinabench

[twin dew]

And what do you expect it to boost to?

[sharp oasis]

4.8 or so

We aren't thermally loaded and have plenty of juice to work with

Cpu max temp is 75c under load

I moved my radiator to the front to assist with this

Is 4.8ghz unrealistic for this cpu

[twin dew]

And AMD has this kind of things going in most of the CPUs.
And also separate limits for different amount of cores and for some AVX instructions etc., which all limit the max clocks:

Example of a frequency-voltage-temperature boost table for AMD core.

So might for example be that the test is using some AVX instructions that cause the CPU to downclock, but the shown frequency is average over X ms.

[sharp oasis]

Dam

So I'm getting clock reduced due to avx instructions

Damn any way to mitigate for it

[twin dew]

Just partially filled table, as it is experimentally determined, not read from the core.

[sharp oasis]

Ye

[tough owl]

NA wall outlet is good an you know it

[tough owl]

uranium 😋

[edgy hazel]

I agree with Technology Connections on that one

US plug is dumb

[tough owl]

Nah it’s the best for doing dumb stuff with

[tough owl]

Step aside discord I got this

[wanton orchid]

it shouldn't be
that means the save process is flawed
using locking i/o when not needed and using forward writing instead of write back

[twin dew]

Or the system might be swapping.

[maiden coyote]

I figured most of the stutter is from freezing the game to save it's state.

[winged valley]

I'm at the Chicago airport rn. Their public wifi is ccalled Boingo Hotspot. However, there is another open network called _Free_ORD_Wifi and I'm sitting here like ah hell no

[maiden coyote]

I don't remember if the saves are compressed or not.. prehaps it's still frozen while it compresses the save. most saves are <15MB which would write to an HDD very quickly

[winged valley]

I reported that

[twin dew]

Yes, but what affects the amount of time the saving takes.

And yes, the saves are compressed.

[maiden coyote]

connect to it and hack them back. just don't use a device you care for

I've heard that you don't bring devices you like to places like china.

[winged valley]

I'm going to ohio not china

[maiden coyote]

well, I've setup multiple containers of pihole.. one for each vlan, and moved home assistant from a hyper-v VM to a proxmox. that was fun.. I still haven't figured out how to make unifi.lan resolve to 192.168.0.1

[maiden coyote]

you're 5 hours by roadway from dayton. I've made that trip numerous times when I was doing jobs in chicago.

[winged valley]

I don't live in chicago

I am coming from crab land

[twin dew]

Anyways, changed worlds in Valheim and put 2.0x loot multiplier on, wanted a base with harbor, still near the center of the world.

[sharp oasis]

So @twin dew i get 4.85ghz non avx and 4.78ghz avx for my cpu all core turbos

Not bad I think

My 5800x wasn't low bin I was just feeling it wrong

[twin dew]

Just Home version?
So cannot set Group Policy to not do that?

Or just generic joke pic from Internet?

[edgy hazel]

I use Linux.

[twin dew]

I somehow expected that to be work related.

[sage pier]

@twin dew they finally responded with this
 
You have the EERO, and that is connected to the TP-Link or TP-Link to EERO? Which one is first from the connection we provide?
 
Whichever device comes first, should be in router mode, and the second one should be Bridged.

If the first device is bridged that maybe causing some issues.
If both devices are acting as routers, you have a double NAT, it would likely be best to have the EERO first, and then just an ethernet switch after it.
 
The first one is what we would need to have setup as the MAC address in our system, so if you change it, the system won't work.
It looks like you have the EERO first with MAC ending in A4:C0, you can check that in the EERO app.
 
Speeds from servers, the further away the server is from your location, the slower the speed is typically.

Also some servers have a throttle, so a few people won't use their entire bandwidth (game servers as an example)
When you are downloading the game itself.
 
As an example of speedtest.net - I get 500-600 of my 600 down to a server about 100 miles from me.

If I go ~1,000 miles away to Los Angeles It goes down to about 230. That's expected, as the further

out you go, the more infrastructure you end up sharing with other users.

I never changed the mac address o_o which is probably why they're confused with my router situation

[twin dew]

Most of it isn't relevant.
Only those last few points, but that is the result of insufficient investment in the peering.
As that costs both in one-time-costs for new hardware etc.
And for more running costs, both for the peering point location rack rents, and as peering traffic costs, as users can actually use more of the bandwidth they bought.

[sage pier]

He says to have the eero connected with a network switch connected to the eero but when i had that i only got 600 mbps up down and any online game would get 100-1000 ping

I do think thats better than having the tp link router hooked up to the eero router

But i still get less than 100 Mbps down thats useable

If i do it like that

[twin dew]

Like previously said, if the speed depends on where you test, it is ISP network congestion, not your stuff.

Which the helpdesk is talking about at the last few paragraphs.

[twin dew]

That EERO just doesn't have the processing power to act as NAT-router for 1000MBit/s connection.

Which the speed limit tells.
And it has way too large buffers for data it hasn't processed, causing that insane ping when it isn't able to handle all the traffic.

You won't get any help from the ISP.
As the congestion is by design and they are aware of it,.

[tough owl]

Like for everything?

[dire igloo]

Yup, even for wiping

[winged valley]

There are funny commands for powershell ms doesnt want you to know about which give you gpedit on home

Or MAS. MAS works too

[tough owl]

Makes sense

[winged valley]

Linux is great for diagnostics

[edgy hazel]

Basically. Except for my MacBook with macOS which u know is pretty close and my work laptop Windows which is for running terminal and teams

[tough owl]

another successful conversion

[tough owl]

fastest single core intel pc is a 14900ks right?

[twin dew]

Yes

[tough owl]

Can you do some estimates on how much faster single threaded it is versus a 10600

[winged valley]

Look at passmark

[jagged snow]

Probably a factor of 2 based entirely on memory

[tough owl]

yea

For work I have hundreds(each 50+ pages or so at times) of pdf documents of record drawings for buildings on campus

And I have to link things together within the pdfs and using software that’s entirely single threaded using a “visual search” to auto find all similar items to link together

and 10600 is dog slow on 2666 ram

[sharp oasis]

New oc record

[winged valley]

damn 2133mhz

Wait those numbers arent right

[sharp oasis]

The gpu numbers are

The cpu

[winged valley]

cpu bad

[sharp oasis]

125ghz ig

[visual tree]

Is this technically possible?

I mean, if you had a single LNB, could you connect two satellite receivers?

Or you can connect both receivers to a single LNB but watch satellite tv on only one device at the same time?

[wanton orchid]

if satellite is only receive
and filtering only is inside receiver
maybe it could have multiple
but you need very good receiver otherwise it will interfer

[visual tree]

My problem is that the conduit doesn't have enough space to run two separate cables for each individual receiver

When the house was built in 1988, the contractors made a lot of mistakes when installing conduits

I still hate the worker who decided to run the phone cable from the attic to the bedroom and cover it with concrete....

Instead of installing a conduit inside a wall and then running the cable through the conduit like every normal person would do

And the person who installed a phone conduit on the house outside wall in a snake form instead of a straight line must have been drunk....

[jagged snow]

Conduit wasn't common in new construction in the US until the last few years

[visual tree]

You have drywall though which makes pulling cables much easier. In a concrete/brick house you need to install conduits first or you are screwed

[jagged snow]

Well, yes and no
It's much easier in a lot of respects and just as difficult in others

[visual tree]

Considering my house was built in late 80's when yugoslavia was starting to fall apart, I am not surprised contractors made a lot of mistakes lol

At least It wasn't built in 70's when contractors used aluminium instead of copper for electricity

There are still some contractors who put wires directly into wall and cover them with concrete....

[charred pewter]

blrip blam hrm doog harf harf

https://tenor.com/view/cat-power-cord-struggle-cute-gif-3520090

a nice thing about an open airy old home ... nothing in the way of much of anything 😄 can route wires willynilly

not even any inner wall insulation to deal with hahaha

or in my house, OUTER WALL insulation 🤣

thats right! i have no insulation in any wall of my house ... just some up in the attic, and its old crappy stuff, with a layer of other old crappy stuff on top

i dunno, been here 14 years now, and its really 'not that bad' ... i prolly could shave $50/mo in winter months ... but the cost of having someone rip all the walls open and insulate with blow-in, and reseal all the holes and repaint ... i would never get that money back for 20 years

heh ? naw

and my new a/c unit upstairs is so effecient vs the prior one... it keeps all heat at bay, and for some reason is cooling downstairs enough where that unit doesnt even come on anymore

so in a sense, im already saving money on cooling during hot months, just because i changed the unit

so while "it would be nice" to have insulation in the outer walls ....... there really is no pressing desire to go through the hassle/costs

especially given USA contractors these days ask for $300/hr for their work, and then upcharge all materials on top

a plumber wanted $600 to run 2 feet of pipe to a new spiggot on the outside wall. parts (if i didnt buy them myself) would have been 5x what i get them at the home depot ... i laughed hard

haha ... plus $9 for each glove he wore

[languid gulch]

our old A/C guys wanted to run a new drain pipe up thru the attic using a pump. we ended up opening up 2 walls to reroute it from the backyard to the front yard, no pump needed

[charred pewter]

a box of 100 gloves is $9 .. yet the hospitals still think they can charge that PER glove used in any treatment 😄

[charred pewter]

the part that cools and has runoff from the humidity? they wanted to add a pump?

ive got a small 'level activated' pump on a bucket in my basement unit since there is no 'down' for it to go LOL ... so it pumps it up to the basement ceiling then drains outside

some $20 pump ... installed myself, but i imagine a contractor woulda charged $500 for the job, and $100 for the unit

and $10 per foot of the plastic pipe

😄 ... i really should just go into contractor work ... fuck make 10x what i make doing computer work

[languid gulch]

to send it up & over rooms since there wasn't a drain nearby, yea. there's a reason they aren't our a/c guyus anymore 🤣

[charred pewter]

a/c units are usually two parts around here... the outdoor compressor, and then the indoor evaporator

the outdoor thing makes the most noise .... gets really hot ... cause its taking all the heat out of the building

the thing inside will accumulate a lot of water from humidity in the air, and then its gotta drain OUT of the house somehow 😄

newer homes tend to have a drain built right below them, so no pipes/pumps needed ... older retrofits, sometimes needs creative things

[languid gulch]

oh also this house is a concrete slab, so in their minds it was either the pump or jackhammering a new line into the foundation

[charred pewter]

right way to do it:

🤣

[visual tree]

I'm starting to wonder if heat pump is overhyped and EU is forcing us to adopt something that might not be financially viable

[charred pewter]

heatpumps suck

[jagged snow]

Heatpumps are pretty great actually

What's your concern about financial viability?

[charred pewter]

they really dont work well in the midwest ... where winters can get too cold for them to heat the house well without running 24/7 ... and then the heat in the summer gets too heavy for them to cool enough indoors

[jagged snow]

Remember that most of the us has significantly cheaper power than in europe

[charred pewter]

yeah, electric power here is def cheaper

[visual tree]

They are so expensive compared to gas boilers I am not sure they are worth for existing homes. For new homes perhaps they are

[jagged snow]

Firstly, a properly specced system should run more than 90% of the time on your coldest or hottest days
Secondly, that's not really true anyways
We see winter temps around -25f here and I don't know of anyone with a properly specced heatpump having issues

Same goes for summer temps, we'll hit over 105f with some regularity and I don't know of many issues

[charred pewter]

give me good ole freon 22 ... i wann destroy the planet to live comfy 😄

hahahah

[jagged snow]

Yessir

[charred pewter]

i have a boiler for heat, it warms water that goes to big radiators in every room. its gas, and gas costs here are crazy

but its the most comfortable heating ive ever had in my life ... 😦 and peanut LOVES the radiators in winter

[visual tree]

Leaks freon, goes to jail

You can get huge fines here if you somehow leak freon

[charred pewter]

yeah

none of my ac units have that r22 anymore, even my 40 year old car has been converted to r134

r134 seems to leak more though ...

so every 3 years i gotta fill 'er up

unsure how thats more environmentally friendly ... but i guess r22 is just really nasty on the ozone

wonder if there is a heat pump conversion kit for my old VW 😄

[visual tree]

I am thinking of ditching a gas boiler with water storage and buying a heat pump water heater (not a traditional heap pump)

It would be used for heating sanitary water and gas boiler would only heat radiators

[charred pewter]

neighbor put one of those in ... he complains its a constant noise in the basement now, and his basement no longer is a nice cool temp in summer

🤷‍♂️ i want an on-demand ... get rid of my giant tank and pilot light gas burner

the damned pilot light is on 24/7 and i cant use stains or high octane paints in the basement on projects 😦

cant even clean things with mineral spirits for fear of igniting the basement 😄

there we go: On demand heat pump water heater. Wait 20 minutes to get a luke warm shower for 5

but its efficient!

a) low energy costs, b) prevents you from wasting water in long showers

[visual tree]

Once I realised my gas bills are 80% radiators and 20% heating sanitary water, I started taking longer showers

[charred pewter]

LOL right???

[visual tree]

Most of the natural gas is consumed on heating the house, I thought it was opposite

[charred pewter]

my water heater heats up like once a day, then the hot water is there to use in the morning ... barely runs, but the radiators??? wow ... burrn burrrrn burrrrn burrrrn

tell em to turn it up 😄

[visual tree]

Temperatures below -10 degrees celsius are becoming rare here

[charred pewter]

i ran my heat up to 71° this last winter, and my overall gas bill wasnt any worse than prior where i suffered through at 68°

its all in how the unit comes on/off and only for what is needed (it doesnt overboil the water)

old units would just overboil ... wasting gas

newer ones even monitor the outdoor temp, to spot trends and ramp up to cover just what is needed to get the right temp stable

its amazing just how many more sensors and tech in newer units work for effeciency

they wont let you insulate the pipe to cut down on emmission?

im unfamiliar with district heating pipes ... a friend in new zealand was talking about how a recent volcano destroyed their heating system in the city ... and i was confused, because its like wow, if a volcano destroy my heating system... surly it would have consumed my entire house to get at it.

then i learned its a wide pipe system like how they pipe water

doh

heh!

i just wear a hoodie and warm socks 😄

easy to bundle up to get warm, right?? hard to get more naked if you are still too hot

😦

sorry

[stray badger]

We in memory training rn, that is supposed to take awhile right?

[languid gulch]

on newest gen, yea

[tough owl]

and the more ram the worse it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkh_erWSn6I can I ask why a water heater needs to be iot?

like do they no longer heat up water when the tank is empty?

[stray badger]

Ok so i had the ram sticks in the wrong slots, its a2 and b2, not a1 and b1

Works fine now

[glass panther]

hands up who else thinks safari is potato browser?

[cinder light]

Alr im here

[cinder light]

Its decent, not the best but isnt bad

[tough owl]

on iOS or MacOS?

[cinder light]

In fact, lots love it and use it as their daily driver, i use edge tho

[glass panther]

either

[cinder light]

iPadOS

[tough owl]

webkit

all other browsers are forced to be(outside of the eu now)

[maiden coyote]

firefox with ublock is better... oh wait iOS [: for my privacy and security.

[cinder light]

What?

Idk what that even means 😢

I just know safari handles all kinds of websites fine

[tough owl]

all ios/ipados browsers are forced to use the safari browser framework, so essentially theyre all safari with a few changes

[cinder light]

I have never faced such an issue. Even shitty gov websites load without issues

[cinder light]

Ik that part

I use edge cuz of sync and edge drop

[glass panther]

reasons why safari is potato:

• stubbornly refuses to implement standards
• is only available on expensive hardware
• bugs on mobile ios simulator in dev environment do not always behave the same as bugs on actual ios hardware

[cinder light]

Again, your website should be able to handle it

Lots of people use apple in this world

[tough owl]

you know webkit browsers are on non apple devices?

[glass panther]

is only available on expensive hardware

[cinder light]

Again, so?

[glass panther]

you going to buy me an ipad so I can test on an ipad?

[cinder light]

More than half of the US uses apple

Yes majority

In india too, its going in the same direction sadly

[tough owl]

theres more people outside of the us than in the us

[cinder light]

Ik

But apple users are still a big chunk

[cinder light]

Cant Coffee Stain help you out? Im sure someone uses apple there

[glass panther]

doesn't matter how many people use expensive potatoes if I don't have an expensive potato myself

[glass panther]

does not work for coffee stain

[cinder light]

Ohhhh

I always thought u did man my bad

[glass panther]

not for want of trying, lol

[abstract leaf]

This is just his hobby/hyper-fixations

[glass panther]

has applied 😛

[maiden coyote]

they probably don't pay that well. or if they do it's bad benefits lol

[glass panther]

googles

[cinder light]

Why wouldnt they?

[maiden coyote]

then again, they're EU, so it might be fantastic.

[glass panther]

average swedish salary is 35k gbp (481k sek)

[abstract leaf]

Sweden is like the best place..

[cinder light]

Sweden is where there are a lot of teslas tho...

I love sweden but they gotta use hybrids more

[glass panther]

• swedish healthcare
• fika time
• summer holidays
• has bits in the arctic circle if things get too warm

[glass panther]

*looks at css being 20% dutch, is hybrid *

[cinder light]

Man atleast sweden has respect, whenever i say im from india, i get racist comments

[abstract leaf]

I know this shit rock. I'm sorry you have to deal with those comments.

[maiden coyote]

That's a little less than what I make now. I'm sold on the benefits tho

[cinder light]

Time to apply

[glass panther]

https://jobs.coffeestain.com/

[cinder light]

Pls make goat simulator 3 for switch

[glass panther]

different studio

[cinder light]

Im not applying, they are

[abstract leaf]

I like the way Simon is on there. He hasn't been there in over a year. We miss you delay man

[cinder light]

But i thought coffee stain made goat simulator?

[glass panther]

yes

[cinder light]

So wym diff studio?

[glass panther]

coffee stain north makes goat simulator 3

[cinder light]

Ohhh

[abstract leaf]

Get the diagram!

[cinder light]

Well he can still tell that studio cuz he would have the inward track

@maiden coyote so before you apply, work on ur resume :3

I love how it went from trashing apple to getting a job in sweden

[glass panther]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-double-two-gif-12065945

[abstract leaf]

Apple bad.
That's all goodnight.

[cinder light]

Apple not bad

Apple greedy but also quality

[glass panther]

apple potato

[cinder light]

I use samsung and apple both in my ecosystem

Apple ipad and samsung s20FE, my fam also uses samsung phones

Both are amazing

[glass panther]

looks at apple's history of lying to customers about the repairability/recoverability of hardware

[cinder light]

Samsung and other brands did that too

Its pretty common practice among brands

Microsoft is thr worst of all cuz they steal all the data

Recall feature will make that harvesting much more

[glass panther]

pretty sure most companies take data 🤷‍♂️

[cinder light]

Yes but microsoft does the most

Also ads in windows 11 😭

Why did they even add ads 😭

To an OS!!

[glass panther]

looks at samsung phones stuffed full of ads

[cinder light]

Exactly what I mean!!

[tough owl]

linux

[cinder light]

Eww no

[tough owl]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-dog-with-butterfly-on-nose-dog-with-butterfly-butterfly-gif-13282441872748349107

[cinder light]

I like windows more than linux bruh

I hated ubuntu, no MS Office

I need MS Office

[glass panther]

do you need ms office or do you need ms office-compatible software?

[cinder light]

MS Office

And it doesnt run on Linux

[tough owl]

the web version is a thing

[glass panther]

cos I can't remember the last time I used ms office, google docs/sheets/etc. works fine

[cinder light]

And that thing lacks half of the features

[glass panther]

take that up with microsoft 😛

[cinder light]

For u, i use advanced features of powerpoint

[cinder light]

MacOS has MS Office btw

But not Linux

[glass panther]

use wine, problem solved

[cinder light]

Tried it

Didnt work, kept giving error. Tried fixes, nothing worked

Also shouldnt be made to do that, an OS should work out of the box cuz most people arent techy

[glass panther]

run windows vm, problem solved

[cinder light]

Or use MacOS so no ads + u get MS Office

[glass panther]

OS works fine, microsoft has history of not liking linux

[cinder light]

Macbook Air M1 is still so good in performance

Also awesome battery life

[glass panther]

yo dawg I heard you liked potatoes so we put a potato in your potato so you can potate while you potate

[cinder light]

What potato?

Idk why yall hate on Apple so much. I did that for years but when i tried it, i am loving it

[glass panther]

• Mac OS
• MS Office

[cinder light]

Both are great tho wym?

MS Office is better than google's

I have used both and its not even close in terms of features

MS Office obliterates google

Google is fine for causal work

But if you want anything more, MS Office

[glass panther]

given I haven't needed to use desktop office apps outside of a day job in over a decade, is moot for me

[cinder light]

Ik

[glass panther]

firefox just added pdf editing

[cinder light]

But i like to use Powerpoint's features

I love the morph transition

The panels u can open, cant do that on the web/tablet version

Apple gets too much hate

I used to do the same until i used it

Actually i used it before too but now that iPadOS is actually good

I am loving it, it has everything i loved about android + its smoother

I can sideload, i can create commands

Emulators are now officially on app store so i dont need to sideload anyways

[glass panther]

I did like.... 3 presentations or so at my last day job. for a tech crowd, so fancy smancy animations were moot

[cinder light]

Ik but i use morph man

[glass panther]

there's a project that compiles n64 to c, I'm wondering if there's a build target for ios/osx

[cinder light]

Thr problem with today's world is, everyone is criticising everyone else's tech, why cant u just let people be happy?

[glass panther]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-goodbye-wave-hand-wave-smile-gif-11695705

^only morph man I know

[cinder light]

Thats why i said, apple and samsung are both good. Used both and they have their own charms :3

[cinder light]

What is this?

@glass panther my ipad never closes apps if keft in recents

They start from exactly where i left them, even if days ago

[glass panther]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XZWXi3ymiYQ

[cinder light]

@glass panther see this is why i like apple

This is not possible on android cuz of optimisation issues 😢

[glass panther]

👀 Morph has zelda TOTK powers 👀

[cinder light]

Cant watch this rn, listening to music

[glass panther]

looks like android widgets to me

[cinder light]

Not talking about widgets

Im talking bout apps staying exactly where i left them

Even some games like gta

I also like a right click menu thingy on it, by holding on it

[cinder light]

This feature is also on Samsung but it doesnt work as well imo

See its not a potato marv

Its an apple :3

[maiden coyote]

I thought getting pihole would let me connect to things on my local network by myserver.local and it would be that easy.. I was very wrong.

[cinder light]

What is pihole?

[maiden coyote]

adblocking dns server

[cinder light]

I use that on my ipad :3

Actually i did but then i reset my ipad

Then forgot to readd it

[maiden coyote]

pihole is network wide adblocking.

[cinder light]

Ohh, i used to use something similar on my ipad

Some website that downloaded some profile, i hit allow in dns settings and it would block ads in mobile games

Used to appear here

[maiden coyote]

similar maybe but totally different. setting up pihole requires you to reconfigure your network. either you have to point your router to it as your dns server, or you let pihole run your dchp server and dns or just dns

[cinder light]

Idk bout that stuff, i dont mess with my router

If it doesnt work, i just wait for the internet company's repairs to be done

[maiden coyote]

you can also set it up so your client (device) uses that as it's dns server

[cinder light]

They usually have some server repair if its not eorking

I never even restart my router

[glass panther]

apple: pomme
potato: pomme de terre

[cinder light]

But seriously, see the clips i sent

Its so smooth and fast :3

I love my ipad for those reasons :3

[glass panther]

is all moot, goes back to "only available on expensive hardware"

[cinder light]

Im not talking bout safari, just showing that apple isnt potato

[languid gulch]

"ground apple" just doesn't have the same ring in english as it does in french

[glass panther]

is cider ground apple?

[maiden coyote]

but ohboy, making something as simple as home assistant.. or even the control panel for a wifi connected printer.. I had to set up pihole, edit the /hosts file.. then I had to setup a seperate server to run ngix reverse proxy and point the edits in the hosts file to that server for name->IP resolution.

[languid gulch]

ground & then leave it alone, but yes 🤣

[cinder light]

Is ground apple selling meth?

[glass panther]

my point is that my experience of the apple ecosystem is that it's either objectively shit or when it hasn't been it's been irrelevant because I don't have the hardware

[cinder light]

Damn

[glass panther]

whut

[cinder light]

Mine has been pretty good

[cinder light]

Nurthing 👀

[languid gulch]

ngl i haven't owned an apple product since about 1991

[cinder light]

Just dont look in my save game, i def dont have meth in my satisfactory save

And i def dont feed it to lizzard doggos

[maiden coyote]

look at all the fun I had. and big thanks to stack overflow... and cut and paste.

[cinder light]

If you ever see very fast lizzard doggos, they didnt get meth from me

[languid gulch]

ah, make that 1993

[cinder light]

Now add "print Hello World"

As the cherry on top

[maiden coyote]

print "Hello world" or something like that

[glass panther]

I will tell you something I found amusing though;

narcissistic shithead of an ex-employer: "I wanna charge people to make ios apps"
narcissistic shithead of an ex-employer: gets apple hardware because that's the only way to make them
later narcissistic shithead of an ex-employer: fails to get people to pay for making ios apps, takes company property home
client: le website no worky on ios/osx
marv: gonna need apple hardware to diagnose apple issues
narcissistic shithead of an ex-employer: pikachu face

[maiden coyote]

I think tweaking lizard doggos would be thin... because they won't eat

[glass panther]

misreads as twerking

[cinder light]

They do that sometimes if they have had too much weed

Dont ask how ik 👀

[glass panther]

imagine this but lizard doggo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CHIQ8u0e0po

[cinder light]

Yet they allow hot tub content and twerking women

Cuz that brings them money, this doenst

Hence this harmless emoji can be banned but not those p*** streamers

Cuz money

[cinder light]

So why do u hate apple? It seems like u just hate ur ex employer

[glass panther]

I can hate more than one thing 😛

[cinder light]

Yes but why do u hate apple?

Rn, in most countries, Samsung costs more than apple

[maiden coyote]

the same could be asked as to why you like them so much. people like different things.. I don't care for their products because their software makes me feel like I'm 5 and mommy and daddy need to look over my shoulder and make sure I'm not doing anything naughty.

[glass panther]

I have a general disdain for overpriced tat

[cinder light]

So u must hate samsung too then

[maiden coyote]

and android isn't much better to be honest.

[cinder light]

Samsung costs more than apple

[cinder light]

Im sick of android's unsmoothness

[glass panther]

looks at samsung monitor

[cinder light]

I want this

[glass panther]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qRQX9fgrI4s

[cinder light]

Suddenly fs18 broke my ipad

Oh good ole farming simulator

Always doing itty bitty things

@maiden coyote do u use windows?

[cinder light]

What does he make?

Also his yt channel's name is "pirate software" and piracy is illegal

[glass panther]

games

[cinder light]

Mac isnt for gaming

Its for work :3

For gaming i recommend windows

[glass panther]

looks at the developers of halo's first game having come out as a macos exclusive

[glass panther]

looks at entire ios game selection

[cinder light]

I am not a fan of halo anyways

[cinder light]

Thats for ipad and iphone

[maiden coyote]

windows, debian, android, and ios.

[cinder light]

I said mac isnt for gaming u silly sign post :3

[cinder light]

Nice

Did u see the new recall feature for windows?

Aka spymaster 2000

[glass panther]

apple would disagree: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlec6667e7/mac

[cinder light]

It takes screenshots of what u do on ur pc

[cinder light]

Ik apple is doing that crap

But macos is shit for gaming

Its mostly for work

[glass panther]

it's not that macos is shit for gaming, it's that apple is shit for gaming.

[cinder light]

Mac can run mobile games cuz of m1 chip

[cinder light]

Not really

Ipads and iPhones run games well

[glass panther]

refers you to earlier pirate software short

high barrier to entry = pants

[cinder light]

That is for mac, not iphone

[glass panther]

anywoo, I have to get my teeth drilled later, sleepytime

[maiden coyote]

ouch 😦 goodluck

[cinder light]

Dont forget to clip and post on ur website 😜

Just name it "satisfactory teeth drill"

[glass panther]

too busy maing calculator to update websites atm

[cinder light]

Ur making a calculator?

Noice :3

[glass panther]

https://tools.satisfactory.video/experimental-production-planner/

probably won't work well on your expensive potato 😛

[cinder light]

Man why u so mean

Why cant u let people enjoy their stuff?

[twin dew]

Yes?
If the coaxial cable used can do the frequency range needed.
You can just then combine the two frequency ranges (terrestrial, satellite) into one cable, and just connect all devices to that.

[glass panther]

you can enjoy your stuff fine, just making light of the earlier conversation about me being unable to test stuff on apple hardware 😛

(but also me not being a good ui designer :P)

[cinder light]

Lol

[cinder light]

Im sorry but its true

There is no spacing on the site 😭

You should add line breaks more often

Just so it has more spacing

Like leave a blank line between 2 diff thingss

To seperate them

[cinder light]

Ik bro

[maiden coyote]

is that your site, either hosted on your home network, or you renting something like aws.. and I guess would you be willing to help me with backend?

[cinder light]

But line breaks are easy to add

[glass panther]

ionos

[twin dew]

Just needs to use parts and cables that can handle the higher satellite frequencies, and not just the lower terrestrial TV frequencies.

[cinder light]

Hosted on some potato ig 😜

Glados potato

[maiden coyote]

Well, I'm not against learning myself. my issue is I don't know what I don't know to google. xD

[cinder light]

This happens to me so often

Thankfully ai helps me now

Bing ai isnt accurate tho, use a diff one

[glass panther]

my sites are generally statically built, so rarely need to tinker with server configs.

ping me in the afternoon, because as mentioned I need to get some sleep before I go to get my teeth drilled

[maiden coyote]

will do

[maiden coyote]

I don't think he's using a potato.

[twin dew]

Only major difference between satellite TV and terrestrial TV is that frequency used.
On basic level both work the same and can do same kind of things after the antenna.
Like that multiple receivers, which can look at different channels, if the dish is aimed so that all the wanted channels are received by it at same time.

[maiden coyote]

for coax mixing tv and satellite.. I'm not sure that would work. I also think the LNB's for satellite's are powered?

[cinder light]

Its a joke dw, if he calls my ipad a potato, his setup shall be potato too

Everything is potato

Potatoes rule the world 🌍

[maiden coyote]

I think they're both using 75 ohm coax tho.

[twin dew]

Just DC fed to the coax.
Same is done for amplified terrestrial antennas.

And satellite grade coax can handle terrestrial fine.

Just that all terrestrial grade coax cannot do satellite frequencies.

[cinder light]

Gmail is so slow to update

What r they adding 💀

[twin dew]

So the house wiring needs to be done using satellite TV grade parts.
And then just inject the terrestrial antenna signal into that too, with filter that only passes the actual terrestrial TV frequencies, which that diplixer is doing.

[maiden coyote]

is the satellite coax already run?

[twin dew]

That was the problem, that want to modify but there isn't space for multiple coax cables.

Example of combined plug for FM-radio, terrestrial TV and satellite TV, with just one cable coming in and another out.

[maiden coyote]

I figured. might be worth having some some dc blocking filters (capacitors) going to the tv, and to the antenna to avoid any issues

[twin dew]

No, designed for that.

[maiden coyote]

that thing would be yeah.

[twin dew]

Like I said, used on terrestrial TV side too.
Many digiboxes can output 5V DC for amplifiers for example.

[maiden coyote]

that's a nice solution. seems like the way to go.

well my concern was if the antenna had an amplifier that used 5V fed through the coax, and the satellite lnb had a 24V power supply or something like that.

[twin dew]

Thing that can take 2x 4-receiver dished and FM+Terrestrial-TV antenna and combine them and output to 8 lines for wall plugs.

[maiden coyote]

can you mix moca with all of that too?

[twin dew]

Depends what frequencies the MOCA uses.

[maiden coyote]

I think they're 850 - 1500 Mhz

[twin dew]

As long as it doesn't clobber one of the received ones.

Then probably, as that should be above the terrestrial, but below the satellite frequencies.

[maiden coyote]

if they didn't run coax all on the outside of my house under the eves I probably would've left it and used moca adapters.

[twin dew]

But I don't know the specific limits.
If I needed to do something like that I would go to the local TV antenna supply/install shop and ask.

Or find one with good online catalog and look through it as base step.

[steel peak]

anyone remember an old game where theres like a ball bouncing off walls, you can control x and y to draw a line to make where the ball can bounce smaller, if the ball bounces off the wall youre creating, you lose

[twin dew]

Various versions of that have been made.
Don't remember names of any of them.

IIRC first one I played was still DOS.

[visual tree]

Thanks for help, will make sure to buy coax for sat tv 👍

[twin dew]

And just checked, MOCA uses the same frequency range as the downconverted satellite TV signals use (950-2000MHz).

Where as terrestrial TV usually stops at 850MHz.

[edgy hazel]

Just ordered something very yummy

It's a pie, made of raspberries

[dire igloo]

Now I want pie

[twin dew]

I want a Pi 4...

[dire igloo]

I want four pies...

Not whole pies, but one piece of each, so I get more culinary diversity

[glass panther]

Math.ceil(Math.PI);

[dire igloo]

No clue what this does

[twin dew]

Gets value of Pi from math library and rounds it up to nearest integer, so to 4.

[glass panther]

makes ~3 pi 4

[dire igloo]

Ah

[dire igloo]

So apparently Bing is down and with it all related search engines (Duckduckgo, ecosia, etc)

[night girder]

Been away for a while, has this been shared here? /www.pcworld.com/article/2308047/scraper-spies-on-600-million-discord-users-and-sells-the-data.html

nothing major, though interesting how easy it is to scrape public discord servers

and you can get it for $5 USD 😒

Not yet 😉 - Sorry to disappoint you

nah, just went on a holiday

[edgy hazel]

I was the microplastic guy

btw thicc layers look fucken beautiful

.6mm nozzle (which is my standard at this point) with a .4mm layer hight is really nice

[night girder]

What do you mean?

[twin dew]

It only gets automatically enabled if there is both TPM, and you are using MS account.
And then the recovery key is stored in that MS account.

And that has been a thing for a long time already.

[twin dew]

When you install Win11, if you have TPM and login into MS account during the install, it automatically encrypts your C: with BitLocker.

[night girder]

With a warning? So that users know?

[twin dew]

AFAIK no.

[night girder]

I did a quick google on the news with "W11 + bitlocker" didn't find any articles (yet)

[twin dew]

Been default for multiple years already.

Just with different name for the encryption, as officially Home doesn't have BitLocker.

[night girder]

I did find an article about it being default for W11 pro

[twin dew]

Device Encryption

[night girder]

Is TPM on by default on mobo?

[twin dew]

TPMs are enabled by default now.
And with normal MS image you cannot even install Win11 if TPM isn't enabled.

[night girder]

Because I have W11 Pro and no BitLocker?

[twin dew]

Only for new installs in X last years, if you use MS account and not local account during install.

[night girder]

Ah! That's it. 🖕 To MS account. I always prefer local.

[twin dew]

Or don't use RUFUS image creation setting that disables that (on by default?) etc.

[mental oriole]

Same, local acc all the way.

[edgy hazel]

Isn't MS the only ones to force the user this hard to use an online account? I mean you can even set up apple shit without account

[twin dew]

Well, Home only has that automatic "Device Encryption", not BitLocker. But the difference is just the UI and that MS account autobackup for recovery key.

Yes, if you lose the MS account used while installing the computer.

With normal BitLocker, the user has to stash the recovery key somewhere.
With Device Encryption, it is accessible in the MS account stuff via browser.

[night girder]

Also, did the adds feature in the menu go through this update?

[mental oriole]

Idm bitlocker, but don't fucking force it for home pc stuff because "security" I would use it if I need it, not on my home pc though, but on my working pc sure. (If I had one)

Mmm

[night girder]

(I keep using duckduckgo, sigh. It's offline) - But here this feature: www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-pushes-start-menu-ads-to-windows-11-users

Because I just updated and my menu seems fine?

[twin dew]

24H2.
So the big update in fall.

[night girder]

Yeah, EA announced they are going to put ads in 70 bucks games too.

[night girder]

Wait, this is not correct.

"the ads are part of the KB5036980 update that rolled out to Windows 11 on Tuesday."

[twin dew]

Ok.

Didn't know about the ads specifically, sorry.

[tough owl]

iPhones kinda suck without an account but not the same class of device

[twin dew]

I have had the setting that controles them disabled for a long time tho.

[night girder]

Yeah, Windows and other companies think it's a great idea to let us pay. And then force ads on us too. Fucking greed.

This is an example of mass effect 😂 (obvious fake, but still funneh)

This is what the CEO Andrew Wilson said:

I think it’s still early on that front. And we have looked over the course of our history to be very thoughtful about advertising in the context of our play experiences. But again, as we think about the many, many billions of hours spent, both playing, creating, watching and connecting and where much of that engagement happens to be on the bounds of a traditional game experience,our expectation is that advertising has an opportunity to be a meaningful driver of growth for us.

We’ll be very thoughtful as we move into that, but we have teams internally in the company right now looking at how do we do very thoughtful implementations inside of our game experiences. But more importantly, as we start to build community and harness the power of community beyond the bounds of our games, how do we think about advertising as a growth driver in those types of experiences?

It's the same as product placement in movies and TV-shows I guess?

[mental oriole]

I hope I can disable that crap...

[twin dew]

The old "Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more." should disable the new ads too.

[mental oriole]

No.

But if they force shove it down my throat without ways to disable I'm perma changing to linux, be it on the expense on the ability to play certain games or not.

💀

Then it's time to uninstall life

[stray badger]

Product placement (subtle) in games may be a viable way to do ads tho

[night girder]

Yes you can! Like Baldur said. It's still a strange move from microsoft, but atleast we can disable it easily.

[mental oriole]

Good.

[night girder]

I have mixed feelings about this. It even annoys me in movies and TV-shows when you can clearly see a can of coca-cola with the brand name perfect angled towards the camera.

And the price of games just went up from 60 to 70 bucks (the triple A games afaik).

If EA said, we are thinking about placing subtle adds AND lower the price of our games, different story. But to me it seems they just want to milk the cow when/where ever they can.

[mental oriole]

Meanwhile indie games... does everything better.

[tough owl]

you know there’s an easy fix to this. Install your personal favorite Linux flavor 🙂

[night girder]

That's another part of it, EA games aren't that good anymore either. No garantue of a quality game.

[night girder]

For the microsoft adds in the menu you mean? But that doesn't solve adds in games.

[tough owl]

Indie and AA game studios seem to be carrying the industry

[tough owl]

Can’t see the ads if they don’t work on Linux 😎

[night girder]

Didn't someone post here someone wanted to put adds through HDMI cables? (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/hdmi-customized-ad-insertion-patent-would-show-rokus-ads-atop-non-roku-video/)

[tough owl]

Yea

and one company wants to put ads everywhere where the screen is paused

I forgot what company

Might’ve been Microsoft on the Xbox

[wanton orchid]

this tbh

[twin dew]

Many of the regulators can only be reactive.
Would need new laws made to be proactive, but that is on various representatives.

[rustic panther]

No, you don't have to sell in the entire EU

[night girder]

And in the backlash, Helldivers 2 got a new CEO. Or it's a "coincidence".

[rustic panther]

Not really, a company can choose where to support its services, because there's a regulatory burden to releasing in EU markets as well

For example, for medical devices you have to have both a correct translation and support in all the main languages of the countries you market in

But I bet Steam has to provide support in Czech on some level

[tough owl]

According the the old one he stepped down and hired a new one cuz he wanted to have more control over how the game is made

[rustic panther]

I can't imagine being able to market a service and telling people to get bent and learn English if they need help

[night girder]

i read it too. dont believe it

At the time of the account linking news, they had 110 000 players. Now they have 60 000.

With a big BUT it's possible that people just got tired of the game.

I never played it because of the kernel anti cheat.

[rustic panther]

Is it an official language? If not and you can't e.g. refund a game in Czech, you might just be able to sue Valve :^)

[rustic panther]

Speaking from my own friend group, we got tired of the game

[night girder]

Understandable 😄

[rustic panther]

Fallout 76 actually is good now apparently

[rustic panther]

Still, one very good thing to do when interest naturally wanes is give people another reason to quit your live service

Because in online-only games people leaving tends to lead to people leaving

I mean, it's a functioning game now that is fun to play, apparently (I don't play it, I've got enough trash I play)

[night girder]

ghost of tsushima let's you play without a account but then you don't have the online features.

Also I heard the sony overlay is causing a lot of frames/instability issues.

You have to go to some folder and remove the overlay to prevent it from working to get a FPS boost. I did not test it but read this in the reviews of the game.

me neither.

[charred pewter]

surprise

[night girder]

Link your Steam account with your account for PlayStation™Network and gain access to the following early unlocks:
Archery Master’s Attire
Charm of Canine Recruitment

This is new to me 👀

Why is sony suddenly pushing so hard for PSN accounts? I don't get it. Is it the data they want?

[rustic panther]

Not my thing, but sure, why not

[mental oriole]

Guarantee they want your data.

[rustic panther]

Data and keeping shit in-house, I'm sure

[twin dew]

Or did executive bonuses get partly tied to PSN growth?

[rustic panther]

isn't playstation the only branch of Sony that axtually makes money?

[twin dew]

Cameras or camera sensors?

[rustic panther]

Oh their earbuds are good too, hope that makes money so they make some more

[twin dew]

That was question for you about which of those two.
So camera sensors?

[rustic panther]

I'm happy with mine

[sharp oasis]

Hey guys and gals. I don't exacyly like Google putting gemini in my messages

It also has access to my approximate location lol

But testing it.

It's not 100%

But it's not completely stupid

But it does just parrot known information

Like most ais

[charred pewter]

i dunno how many times i have to tell google 'no' when it asks if i wanna turn on location for more accurate results (like how the fuck does my location gotta do with answering questions about some world global digital game?)

wheres the damned "no and fuck off for good already" button?

https://tenor.com/view/nope-dbl-nope-button-button-press-gif-15765112

that gif takes a turn doesnt it 😄

[sharp oasis]

Idk what to call it

Imma call it a parrot

[wanton orchid]

they basically ask you until you say yes by miss clicking

[charred pewter]

and then its forever burned in set to 'on' ... lol yup

i even tried to train the ublock origin to block that popup ... but the whole page is broken until its interacted with so it doesnt help to block it :/

[stray badger]

Hmm, good reason to get a define 7

[obtuse geyser]

Got new GPU installed, testing power draw. It pulls 315W at the wall VS my older 5700XT 340W.
And hardwaremonitor and gpu-z say core voltage is 0.780 VS techpowerup review stating default is 1.05.
I am mighty confused. Is it iddling or what????

[The fans are definitely on, but car barely hear damn thing]

[jagged snow]

Clock is a little low, would expect that card to boost somewhere in the 2.2GHz neighborhood

But power draw is right in line with what I'd expect from that card

That makes me think that it's just a voltage misread from hwmonitor

[obtuse geyser]

gpu-z gives same result

perhaps I need to fiddle with OC settings in drivers and raise the power limit?

I have been worried it will draw 50-75W more than my previous card, but it seems to draw less.

also side note: Who the hell needs power supplies larger than 600W if this high end card can barely use 80% of it?

[winter path]

I have a 1660 super and curious on what am4 processor I should pair with it?

[jagged snow]

None

[jagged snow]

Well, you typically want to keep your 12v rail under 85% sustained load. Some amd cards will pull well over 300w, and something like a 4090 will pull over 450w

If you pair that will a cpu like a 14900ks that'll pull 350w+ you're sitting at 800w in just rated die power between cpu and gpu

[winter path]

Do you mind explaining why?