Ah, and they didn't even use a standard plug for the 2-pin.
It wasn't C7/C8, but modification of that with one of the slots left off...
#off-topic-tech
twin dew
Where C5/C6 would be the grounded version.
So yes, classic Apple.
twin dew
That is the C5/C6 (one is the female, one is the male).
tough owl
Wouldn’t match their aesthetic 💅✨
Wanna know something else funny.
Their Mac minis aren’t grounded
maiden coyote
If they're plastic they don't have to be
twin dew
And they didn't even use this:
But modified version
tough owl
plastic io and foot
maiden coyote
Also, as long as there's input/output isolation in the smps, they don't have to be even if they're metal
tough owl
¯_(ツ)_/¯
maiden coyote
Unless the smps is metal, then grounded.
maiden coyote
Me either, I just know a little bit of code.
maiden coyote
Next level googling. Or duckduckgo
tough owl
Or is retired from working in nearly every technology field and has time on his hands
maiden coyote
And still has the sponge brain. Mine used to be that way. It's dried out over the years.
tough owl
I really like learning. I hate learning in a structured classroom
give me the info and make me do a project at the end of the semester that requires all of that info and I’m set
wanton orchid
I really like learning. I hate learning in a structured classroom
you mean remembering list of things, instead of learning, for the second part of that message
no wonder why so many people hates it : it's actually bullshit
"suprisingly" when people are taugh from really interrested and experienced people, they intantaneously start to be focused on what's being taugh and enjoying it
twin dew
That PSU connector series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320
tough owl
you mean remembering list of things, instead of learning, for the second part of...
Learning stuff and then being tested with a multiple choice test with short answer on what you can remember is really stupid
wanton orchid
but what I'm saying it's actually not even learning
twin dew
Much easier to standardize "By Rote", than real learning and understanding.
maiden coyote
C13/C14 are just what I call equipment power connectors
tough owl
but what I'm saying it's actually not even learning
school tells you otherwise
wanton orchid
school tells you otherwise
look the world we live in
twin dew
Memorizing "facts" vs. learning and understanding.
tough owl
where the youth is glued to a screen with the attention span of 60 seconds?
wanton orchid
trained distraction
btw just because I can just warn it again : distraction != entertainment
tough owl
entertainment can be a learning experience
Most of the time it’s not and is just a distraction from the passage of time
twin dew
C13/C14 are just what I call equipment power connectors
If you check the rest, you will see that C7/C8 is also very common.
C5/C6 is now common on laptop PSUs etc.
C1/C2 is used but the extremely low amperage limit limits where it is used.
C19/C20 is common in US, not so in 230V countries.
And yes, C13/C14 is the one used in most desktop computer etc. equipment.
But I'm off to bed, late again...
soft bloom
Do you also sometimes think that Baldur is just a next-gen GAI?
i must say that there's was a period of my work life when my tech lead told me to use vagrant to test hopw ansible was setting up docker compose... and that was actually better than doing so on a limited 0.4 machines company had to "spare" for 4faxSake atumation testing of their devices... but no, this time i only need it to test script of terraform managing Dokku (same shit but different names, basically)
history repeats itself lmao
as if i had nothing todo:
what could be a way to parse a table (let's say a file with table data)
that doesn't have any special separator charactor (aka when you decide that \t is how you separate cells, and so any encounter of \t inside cells is shielded/escaped)
isn't universally padded to left or right
can have empty cells, or cells with multiple sub-cells within a column
and... one more weird thing that i don't want to ention because i did overcome it
And today Gemini decided to love me because it was doing my requests up to a midpoint and than playing dumb with "sorry, i'm just a lanuage based AI model, i can't do that"
mental oriole
When will companies learn to take security seriously... oh wait...
soft bloom
Whta is soa?
visual tree
Not sure who didn't protect the data but they are getting a €50 million fine at least....
Security and intelligence agency (like CIA or Mossad)
soft bloom
Imagine this kind of shit happening with "very secure" system of tracking people who can be mobilized (btw, now also women) in Ukraine? Medical data included
visual tree
This is definitely the biggest leak that happened here...
Not to mention some people are overreacting and telling others to withdraw all money from their bank account even though nobody can empty your bank account with data that has been leaked
soft bloom
Oh that's an old fear. I guess it got popularized like a few decades back?
But the thing is that it is better to be 2 steps ahead than without legs 🙂
soft bloom
as if i had nothing todo:
what could be a way to parse a table (let's say a file...
i mean, how the heck are you supposed to work with this? (Qual column)
night girder
"Raised them well" 😂 Sometimes I don't even believe these are real answer from AI but just memes on the internet.
soft bloom
"Raised them well" 😂 Sometimes I don't even believe these are real answer from ...
that would have been truly 21st century's biggest surprise: memes that warp reality
mental oriole
??
visual tree
Update on "data breach": database was not hacked but rather an employee in Ministry of internal affairs exported all data on a usb drive and then sold it to third parties....
mental oriole
Thatss lot of fingers
visual tree
Most likely car insurance companies
twin dew
i mean, how the heck are you supposed to work with this? (Qual column)
You don't.
Best you can do is split on space and then manually fix.
twin dew
And that just cannot work...
As there is almost infinite amount of weird answers it can do, to almost infinite amount of search strings...
twin dew
??
The fingers...
AI Image generators have/had very hard time with doing hands and fingers right.
Because again they don't "know" what a hand or finger is.
Just that there is supposed to be sticks coming out of torso with lumps at the end with more sticks coming out.
(Also 3-armed people etc. have been somewhat common)
mental oriole
The fingers...
I noticed that, Im just confused with the statement "scrambles" like that is going to solve anything.
mental oriole
Because again they don't "know" what a hand or finger is.
Just that there is sup...
Why Ai can never be "smart"
twin dew
I noticed that, Im just confused with the statement "scrambles" like that is goi...
Google is just running around putting out local fires... So they scramble.
But cannot fix the issue with that, just play whack-a-mole.
mental oriole
charred willow
I know I've been gone from in here for a while. Life took over again.
Fight or Flight is visiting soon on a bit of a photo trip. He shipped his new utele to me so he didn't have to fly it down.
That's our Utele collection together
thick crest
how can i break this wall ?
charred willow
My stuff is all of the canon stuff
This was the life that had me busy for the longest bit.
But being a grad senior was a big part of it too.
Seems random but figured I'd drop why the phi guy disappeared.
Got rear ended and left me concussed for two months, and mental health went down the drain, came back in and am now a professional sports photographer. So interesting turnaround
night girder
Thatss lot of fingers
Still waking up huh? 😉
It's mandatory, if you want to work at google, to have 13 fingers!
edgy hazel
Got rear ended and left me concussed for two months, and mental health went down...
Making moves. Good for you homie
dire igloo
how can i break this wall ?
Wrong channel for a question like this, this is off topic nerd talk - but you'll need the Nobelisk Detonator
dire igloo
Seems random but figured I'd drop why the phi guy disappeared.
Now what about the Phis?
thick crest
Wrong channel for a question like this, this is off topic nerd talk - but you'll...
ok
charred willow
Still chilling under my desk, I actually got two different pickups lately that are really nice.
I bought a phi quad blade with socketed knl, and then from an old Intel employee got a xeon phi developer shirt hat and Mug
Still shipping from Europe though
soft bloom
Update on "data breach": database was not hacked but rather an employee in Minis...
haha, classic
soft bloom
You don't.
Best you can do is split on space and then manually fix.
yep, that's what i was thinking about...
but there's no guarantee i wont encounter multiple columns that have this weird values with space in them
so another idea was to somehow get indexes of column start/end by parsing header, but, column nmaes are not always padded to the left or right - they can be just in the center.
some maniac designed this, iu'm sure
soft bloom
It's mandatory, if you want to work at google, to have 13 fingers!
is having 13 fingerprints same as having 13 fingers? (duck typing)
twin dew
yep, that's what i was thinking about...
but there's no guarantee i wont encount...
That "value with space" is why one of the reasons there needs to be the manual pass to fix it.
soft bloom
easy to say when there are literally millions of such rows
twin dew
Say that this is impossible and that you need to get better export?
soft bloom
already thinking of switching to another format they provide, but one that made by browser break 🙂
what a time: parsing XML seems better than parsing HTML
because that HTML contians worst kind of table i have ever seen
(its a bunch of tables and other stuff, sometimes with links inside a, all inside giant pre)
yep, it still does break the tab it opens in...
twin dew
But if you can save it to a file, and then parse with something else, it doesn't matter if it breaks browsers.
soft bloom
True
but initial impression was "it's way larger, what if i wont be able to scrape it at all?"
twin dew
You might even be able to just use text-replacement tools to convert that HTML into some CSV type and then actually parse that.
midnight osprey
I can't believe that Roccat only made US layout for their Vulcan II Max
I thought I had been mislead when buying one off ebay
can't find non linear switches either
does anyone know a place I can buy the other types for this particular keyboard?
soft bloom
You might even be able to just use text-replacement tools to convert that HTML i...
nah, these problem came after all HTML was removed
twin dew
I meant with suitable replacements.
Not removal.
Like each <end-of-cell><start-of-cell> being replaced with ;
And each end or row, start of row with line-change.
soft bloom
Like each <end-of-cell><start-of-cell> being replaced with ;
And each end or ro...
ahaha, i wish it was like that...
twin dew
Yes, very simplified, but the base idea.
soft bloom
table is not made with html elements
its a giant blob of text inside a <pre> that has a bunch of table-like™️ portions, which have some <a> inside of it
aka in its core it doesn' have clear separation for cells/columns
i can drop you a link in dm (its a long boy)
twin dew
Ok, I can take a quick look to see if I can think of something.
Because that is for human viewing and the linked KML file would be the one you are expected to parse for machines.
Just that the KML file link doesn't work.
And even the page version should be just splittable by character number position once the HTML is stripped.
So you strip the HTML away, then split on first space before each header entry, except for the Time, Lat and Lon.
@soft bloom Sent PM with that specific page you linked parsed to CSV, how I did it as partly manual process.
Could use grep and awk to automate it for example.
Or not sure right now what would be the easiest to use linux command line tool to strip parts of lines away from a file based on regex.
night girder
Did youtube just swap their layout, confusing AF.
Comments are on the side now (were videos were before?) and the videos are below ... where thje comments were 😒
and now if you scroll the comments, you also scroll the videos.
So it's just them pushing the idea of us viewing more thumbnails 🤦♂️
WTF! It just changed back to the old layout 😒
Wtf is going on 
Some @ youtube playing with a feature toggle or something 🤷♂️
soft bloom
Dam, my internet actually got cut off when i said "probably will try with the other XML format, even if that means more requests to make"
soft bloom
<@373928641622573057> Sent PM with that specific page you linked parsed to CSV, ...
Worst case scenario would be downloading everything, concatenating and than doing it manually...
Oh, wait - Excel wont load so many rows, haha
Shit
twin dew
Excel can only do little over 1 million rows.
soft bloom
Just that the KML file link doesn't work.
Hmmm, it was long time since i last looked at the KML file, but my impression was that it doesn't have data i need.
Will check as well
night girder
twin dew
Ok, might be different and just for visualizations.
night girder
Looks like more people got the new layout 😒
soft bloom
Excel can only do little over 1 million rows.
Not enough 😦
soft bloom
Ok, might be different and just for visualizations.
I think it was for Google Earth, and not as detailed
twin dew
But anyways, the table on the page itself is just character position delimited.
So question just becomes if the delimit positions are contant or need to be checked per import.
soft bloom
True that
mental oriole
Comments are on the side now (were videos were before?) and the videos are below...
I had that layout a few months back, I have the old style back now...
night girder
Yeah, I was looking up a video and suddenly got the new layout.
mental oriole
I hope not it's absolute garbage.
night girder
For multiple videos. I closed down firefox (that automatically deletes all cookies). Now the old one is back.
You can barely read the comments, but you get flooded with thumbnails.
luckily there are already add-ons to bring back features that Youtube is messing with. Youtube Redux is one of them.
They must be really really bored and doing some hardcore job protection in the YT development team. And out of ideas. But they don't want to get fired.
So better to make up random shit and ruin a good thing. They should leave the UI alone imo.
soft bloom
Problem with XML is that it...
(Well, not actually a problem)
Has something like 4 flavours of the same term 🙂
Which makes my head spin when i try to figure out data structure.
At least, i can safely just save it and know that someone some day will figure it out, eventually
night girder
And please, somebody with money (Elon, Bill, Sam Altman, ...) make a competitive video platform that can be an alternative to YT.
I would switch in a heartbeat. So fed up with YT but 0 alternatives that have the same content.
mental oriole
Problem with XML is that it...
(Well, not actually a problem)
Has something like...
Suppose you refer to self closing tags?
Among other things.
soft bloom
Uh, no?
Not the xml itself
But how elements inside of it where named in for this particular dataset
twin dew
And that is scientist made XML probably.
soft bloom
Exactly
twin dew
It isn't, just that if the data doesn't exist, the specific subleafs don't exist.
Like expected with XML.
You don't want to write your own parser for XML anyways if you can avoid it, and just use one of the ones already existing.
And those handle that kind of thing fine.
edgy hazel
You prefer yaml? json?
dire igloo
edgy hazel
night girder
Still funneh they first closed their API because they don't want AI to use it. Harming a shit-ton of 3rd party apps. And now AI uses Reddit. Fuck Reddit 🖕
edgy hazel
Yeah been off reddit since the thing happened
night girder
me too.
edgy hazel
Especially since you simply cannot beat tumblr ads
I don't want an adblocker for it tbh
pure karma
sharp oasis
Cus dirt /j
twin dew
Hmm... 4K 1000Hz monitor, when DP 2.1 UHBR20 caps out at 323 Hz on 4k @ 8bit without DSC or chroma subsampling...
tacit mauve
out of curiosity, can anyone recommend me a rackmount case designed for a standard ATX motherboard? my laptop is starting to no longer cut it, but I don't hvae desk space for the typical tower so I intend to suspend the computer from the bottom of my desk
edgy hazel
Rackmount cases are expensive as hell
Go for a normal one and just screw it into the desk some way
twin dew
And there are plenty of options to mount normal tower case under a desk?
Or just put it on the floor?
edgy hazel
Unless ofc you're happy with spending 150-300$ for a rackmount case
twin dew
And it would need to be very fat one to have room for proper cooling.
edgy hazel
Plus the rack you'll need under the desk which will be another 60-80$
twin dew
As they are meant for "sound levels don't matter" fans.
edgy hazel
There is a reason I 3D print most of my rack stuff
soft bloom
oh no
charred pewter
interesting
tough owl
There is a reason I 3D print most of my rack stuff
Which 3d printer do you have again?
edgy hazel
Which 3d printer do you have again?
Ender V2 neo
edgy hazel
Being able to do this myself is so nice
tough owl
How many pis does one need
sinful rain
one as main server, one as CA and one for octoprint
bruh just get 1 pc
edgy hazel
bruh just get 1 pc
I do also have a normal x86 server yes
twin dew
Well, three Pi:s is also cheaper than almost any PC.
sinful rain
depends on the pi
but even a cheap pc on x86 could out process it, even with low power consumption
twin dew
I personally have x86 firewall, then separate x86 server, couple of desktops, one Pi and I would need new Pi 4 for one specific thing.
Could be run on the server, but I want the thing doing the thing to be in different place.
edgy hazel
I mean it does run on my AMD ATI 0a:00.0 Device 744c
twin dew
Dedi doesn't need GPU.
edgy hazel
I mean normal gameplay. It's from my main rig
twin dew
Ah, but the main game also somewhat fine on that IGP if the computer has at least 16GB of RAM.
sinful rain
I personally have x86 firewall, then separate x86 server, couple of desktops, on...
i never seen the reason to have so many pi's maybe 1 or 2 for a pihole then for 3d printers
sinful rain
fair
edgy hazel
I personally have x86 firewall, then separate x86 server, couple of desktops, on...
talking about firewalls, what are you using? Thinking about setting something dedicated up (not just ufw) and am thinking about opnsense
edgy hazel
Which is just frontend to NFTables or IPTables.
my main issue is, that those don't advertise their product with a giant fucking shark slapped on it
how could you say no to that
maiden coyote
I personally have x86 firewall, then separate x86 server, couple of desktops, on...
That's your camera thing yeah?
Opnsense has a nice web frontend
When unifi nolonger meets my needs I'll be switching to it
twin dew
I'm more of a console guy for stuff like that.
None of those thingies of mine even have GUI, and no talk about browser based management.
tough owl
Ender V2 neo
How much was it
edgy hazel
like 230
tough owl
that’s not bad
languid gulch
my main issue is, that those don't advertise their product with a giant fucking ...
needs to be sharktopus
tough owl
rocktopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MuwWgKZ7Q wonder if they really need that vpn money 
edgy hazel
wonder what happened in aug 23
tough owl
edgy hazel
their growth was also linear in 2023 and is starting to slow more in 24
nimble cargo
wonder what happened in aug 23
some scandal, iirc. but so important to my brain that i totally retained what.
tough owl
wonder if they were hacked or something
edgy hazel
it was the gamers nexus video on the false infos LTT keeps giving out and the madison abuse thingy got big
nimble cargo
right, that sounds familiar.
tough owl
which take it as you want but their 3rd party investigation said nothing was found
edgy hazel
yeah it's a nothingburger from the start this "third party investigation"
dire igloo
How did dbrand say it?
"The lawyers we paid to say no said: 'No'."
gilded helm
I stopped watching LTT long before GN pointed out the things I already figured out for myself. And I have zero FOMO for it.
I used to watch WAN show clips occasionally, but I've even stopped doing that.
sand saddle
Occasionally watch the stupid expensive shit noone else does for entertainment
gilded helm
IIRC one of my last straws with LTT was their Alchemist reviews. It seemed like they were bending over backwards to try and make them look better than they were, especially by not including the most relevant competition from AMD in their charts. 'Look at the value compared to Nvidia!' Yeah, no shit, that hasn't worked for AMD for years, and sure enough, Alchemist has probably at most taken a little bit from AMD and done zero to Nvidia.
night girder
GN cares about journalism, being objective, fact checking etc. LTT cares about being entertaining, getting the views and clicks etc. Both channels have different priorities. The only thing they have in common is that they talk about tech.
gilded helm
They ultimately even fail to be entertaining. To me, at least. It's probably just another example of deadlines causing things to be half baked.
jagged snow
As Linus loves to parrot, I think it's just not for you
I don't particularly enjoy a lot of their content either anymore, but plenty of people do
night girder
Yes a lot of people like their* content. I did for a while too. But then I got bored of the gimmick 🙂
I just read that the sexual harassment investigation, regarding LTT, is completed.
but according to the article, fans aren't happy with how they tweeted (again).
It's more of a drama channel at this point than a tech channel 😂
"We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation." - some users think this is a threat.
dire igloo
"We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or furthe...
not that. This is the threat:
At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us.
basically "we could sue you and ruin your life. We choose not to tho"
night girder
That's messed up. Why say it. Just take the high road, don't spell it out.
jagged snow
I feel like that was a fair response because a bunch of people had been asking why they didn't sue for defamation
dire igloo
How did dbrand say it?
"The lawyers we paid to say no said: 'No'."
also, this
jagged snow
So there is context for it
dire igloo
That's messed up. Why say it. Just take the high road, don't spell it out.
exactly this
could also be a hidden threat to anyone else thinking about uncovering smth similar "we stood back this time, but don't you ever dare speak up publicly against us"
night girder
Also, am I stupid to think: a law firm != investigators?
Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation.
I though they would hire someone who knows how to ... investigate. Knows when someone is lying. Dig into some evidence or stuff like that.
Detectives have more knowledge of psychology than law (sometimes)
edgy hazel
Also, am I stupid to think: a law firm != investigators?
yup... Result is:
We can't find anything that would be usable to find someone guilty of sexual assault/abuse in the workplace. (This investigation was sponsored by PIA)
night girder
So, they basically just confirmed, that legally, they are probably in the safe.
edgy hazel
yes
night girder
Because they can ask an employee: did you say x or y to this person. That employee can answer: no. For a lawyer, that can be enough. But for an investigator, depending on the context, they might think you are lying. Weird.
gilded helm
uBlock wins again, haven't noticed a thing
languid gulch
i detest the new UI
tough owl
for youtube?
languid gulch
yea
tough owl
looks normal to me
languid gulch
title & comments are thrown all the way to the right for me, with no vid suggestions at all
tough owl
add this to your block list to get rid of shorts
languid gulch
mine looks like this
languid gulch
yea good point
tough owl
are you in theater mode?
languid gulch
nope
languid gulch
UI's just as fucked when i do that
i usually have it in theater mode but that bugged me
tough owl
why is the title all the way on the right
languid gulch
exactly
that's my problem
title & comments are over there, no vid suggestions pop up
tough owl
and you dont pay for premium?
languid gulch
fuck no
obtuse geyser
Ah, the angry man channel. Love listening to him.
tough owl
the only channel where he gets angry over valid reasons
tough owl
wccftech.com/amd-800-series-am5-motherboards-launch-ryzen-9000-zen-5-desktop-cpus/ so we just gonna skip a whole naming generation?
twin dew
> Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and emp...
Ah, that explains the blanket clear...
Just no documentation about malfeance...
But yeah... That doesn't seem to have been actual independent investigation, that was law firm collecting evidence to protect them in future if needed in court...
But cannot know what actually happened.
twin dew
Ah, that public released thing was written by LTT, not from the independent report.
languid gulch
weird. restarting my pc fixed the youtube UI issue
double weird: logging in bugged the UI again
twin dew
Ctrl+F5?
Force reload everything without using local cache in most browsers.
For the current page.
languid gulch
no luck
when it's loading in, there's a split second where the background assets appear normal, then when it's done loading everything's thrown to the right
oooo could it be ublock messing with it
lol nope
however adding in some ublock filters fixed it
twin dew
I did say I wouldn't spam more of these...
But there has been base building progress.
But now I need to actually get back into playing instead of doing this, I need lot more copper and tin.
So next I need to make a road to the closest copper nodes, and place a portal there for morning commute.
edgy hazel
What is he doing
twin dew
Graphical marker that the player is wet (specific debuff), I took a swim in the moat before the pic.
night girder
weird. restarting my pc fixed the youtube UI issue
#off-topic-tech message I had the exact same problem.
Suddenly I got the new UI. I closed my browser and tada, back to old UI. The new one sucks so much. I was already on a warpath when I saw it 😂
languid gulch
yea, new UI sucks. 100% vindictive action by google
night girder
Look up: Youtube Redux. That one might have fix in future.
languid gulch
added filters to ublock, that fixed it
night girder
and like you pointed out, ublock has a filters for it.
languid gulch
not really comfortable using an extension to do it
night girder
Just sad we, as a user, have to actively "fight" them.
languid gulch
youtube really needs some direct competition
languid gulch
🤣
night girder
😂
languid gulch
the main problem is that youtube's got good content, which even now seems to override any obstacles they put in the way
twin dew
There are couple who have tried like playeur.com, but not enough incentive for video makers to move if they aren't being limited by YouTube content rules.
And as that one for example limits non-playing users to 720p max, users don't really want to move either.
night girder
I know off Dailymotion, Vimeo, don't like em though 😄
twin dew
Vimeo:s problem is that they charge the uploader.
dire igloo
floatplane
twin dew
And it isn't really meant to be the hub, just place the uploader would link to for the actual hosting.
dire igloo
Our sponsor Nebula
night girder
And it isn't really meant to be the hub, just place the uploader would link to f...
Yeah
dire igloo
And it isn't really meant to be the hub, just place the uploader would link to f...
I mean, you could use the hub as a video platform, no?
twin dew
I mean you aren't supposed to find videos on Vimeo through the Vimeo site.
But be linked into there for specific video from elsewhere, and it just acts as cloud storage and player for the video.
dire igloo
That's not the hub I meant
night girder
🤮 🤮 🤮
twin dew
Where as with YouTube, you are supposed to find the videos on YouTube site.
night girder
Cheapos just added the word AI to their description and title.
This also doesn't help:
When you search a video (duckduckgo as search engine, which is Bing?) you get YT.
dire igloo
It also finds Vimeo from what I know
But if there's no content to find or the content is harder to find, duh
night girder
Yeah, so ... it doesn't help. YT has a monopoly basically.
dire igloo
Network effect
Welcome to the internet
YT doesn't have a monopoly because there aren't any alternatives.
It's because nobody uses the alternatives.
night girder
And nobody uses the alternatives, because they don't have enough content.
dire igloo
And they don't have a lot of content because nobody uses them
aka network effect
Welcome to the internet
night girder
I call it a vicious cycle 🤷♂️ never heard of network effect
dire igloo
night girder
Just found out that the archive.org has movies/videos on it 😄
dire igloo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Basically:
Network effect is a phenomenon that arises when the value for a user scales with the number of users
edgy hazel
mental oriole
soft bloom
what if that's just their new way of "disappearing for good"?
edgy hazel
night girder
Weird...
That's an image from USDA 8 April 2024 ... (source: ask.usda.gov/s/article/What-is-a-safe-internal-temperature-for-cooking-meat-and-poultry)
night girder
And it's also in text form. Since AI cannot read images.
edgy hazel
38°C is like perfect for bacteria
night girder
Cook all raw ground beef, pork, lamb, and veal to an internal temperature of 160 °F. Cook all poultry (whole, pieces & ground) to an internal temperature of 165 °F as measured with a food thermometer. For reasons of personal preference, consumers may choose to cook meat & poultry to higher temperatures.
twin dew
So? That the actual information is available from logical safe place doesn't mean that the machine model will use that for the answer.
night girder
Wait... wtf is that part about Goku?
"You can ask Goku for help?"
Like ... Dragon Ball Z Goku?
twin dew
Or that it uses any single source and just doesn't mix whatever, most not relevant to the question in any way.
twin dew
Like ... Dragon Ball Z Goku?
Probably.
edgy hazel
twin dew
ChatGPT type "AI":s don't work on actual data.
night girder
By reading it's power level ... wtf am I reading. This must be a troll or something.
twin dew
You are reading ChatGPT type AI hallusinating.
Those can just change what they think they are answering to in mid-paragraph.
night girder
then again, the source is Tumblr 🤷♂️
anyone can just edit the html, take a screenshot and upload it.
I am just questioning how many of them are fake.
warm vault
Hiw the fuck can i fix my fucked up power grids gang
twin dew
Call the utility company?
Or if related to some game, ask on right channel, this is Off-topic.
tough owl
the air temp at home exceeds that for like 4 months of the year 😭 i guess im cooking chicken outside
wanton orchid
?
edgy hazel
twin dew
Related to this
wanton orchid
no air temperature records are around 59C
these are like 62C and 73C minimum
oh
the 38 thing ?
twin dew
Yes.
wanton orchid
mb
charred pewter
this is basically anything these days "Thinking about doing something" ... "Actually doing it"
visual tree
Contractors were installing fiber distribution cabinet today 😀
Can't wait when my internet/mobile plan contract expires and I move to fiber 😎
charred pewter
fun
visual tree
If someone told me every single home and apartment building in the city is going to get fiber this year, I would declare them crazy lol
I had to wait for a whole decade though 😅
night girder
still waiting here
jagged snow
That's funny, didn't realise the US was so far ahead in our fiber rollout
charred pewter
they even spread it out in our podunk city 😄
they used to say 'fiber to the curb' ... well, they do 'fiber to your router' LOL ... they go straight through the wall to the exchange box which is then next to the router
"we arnt really supposed to do this, but the exchange box cant be out in the weather... so we just run it straight in and plug it indoors"
they actually said some people complain the unit looks ugly exposed on the baseboard ....... so they put those installs in like the basement and run more wires around
i mean ... sure ... but ... i dont care, its hidden enough 😄
oops wrong button
edgy hazel
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kKJYFs sound good?
tough owl
Lot of 7s Xs and 0s
edgy hazel
true true
jagged snow
Why the aio?
Also could probably save a bit on the psu if you wanted to
Could also maybe find some higher quality mem at that price
sand saddle
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kKJYFs sound good?
Not really
edgy hazel
okay
sand saddle
My main issue is the ssd, then cooler but other stuff could probably be optimized as well
tough owl
origin pc 🤢
sand saddle
Oh god that's terrible
charred pewter
you dont like walnut ?
sharp oasis
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kKJYFs sound good?
Looks Allright
Tho fof has his suggesgions
languid gulch
i actually kinda like the look of the case
wanton orchid
my advice is do not cheap out on PSU
but then keep it long time
my psu is under 10 year warranty
way less expensive than buying new each new setup
languid gulch
my problem is that i'd want to put wood-look contact paper on the gpu to make it blend in better 🤣
wanton orchid
and is more gentle to other components
tough owl
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/nvidia-denies-pirate-e-book-sites-are-shadow-libraries-to-shut-down-lawsuit/ even books are in these datasets it seems, illegally used too
edgy hazel
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ht46t7
I got a smaller PSU and went more ham on the CPU
oh and better mobo
sand saddle
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ht46t7
I got a smaller PSU and went more ham on th...
That cpu is 6+6 with half the cores having 3d cache meaning a downgrade from 7800x3d in gaming
charred pewter
wood vaneers ... finally a reason to keep noctua fans ...
sharp oasis
Yeah
edgy hazel
That cpu is 6+6 with half the cores having 3d cache meaning a downgrade from 780...
yeah but there will be a lot of WoW on that machine which scales better with higher clocks, and the 7900x3D does boost higher
tough owl
wood vaneers ... finally a reason to keep noctua fans ...
Square galvanized steel?
edgy hazel
Square galvanized steel?
and screws borrowed from their aunt
tough owl
Little John
languid gulch
how about those new patented screws from corsair
edgy hazel
Please tell me they made RGB screws
winged valley
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kKJYFs sound good?
Crucial P3 is fine but why not just get the Solidigm P44 Pro or a 980 Pro?
languid gulch
Please tell me they made RGB screws
somehow no, tho i bet multiple companies have tried
edgy hazel
It shouldn't be that hard tbh
winged valley
RGB screws would either require the most hellish wiring scheme, or an electrified chassis
Pick your poison
tough owl
Need every drop of performance added from rgb
winged valley
You also realistically wouldnt be able to run 4pin argb on the screws, only 3pin
Likely only 2pin with a set patter though
edgy hazel
I have a 0.1mm nozzle for my printer. I will do some prototyping
winged valley
You would need to squeeze a pcb into a screw mold with only 01005 components
Have fun prototyping that by hand
languid gulch
i guess you could get the R by just shorting it out until it glows red
edgy hazel
Heated Chamber PC is new
languid gulch
here we go. trademarked & patented corsair screws
charred pewter
RGB WiFi AI enabled Screws when
languid gulch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIu8TToPY3A&t=1188s
15:40 if you want Steve's official comments on it
tough owl
I saw the way the back of mobo power was a thing and knew it was a bad case
languid gulch
i think it's the nonstandard thread single turn
wanton orchid
it's only thread type and screw length dependent
it's like if I was filling a patent for a car which's wheel are exactly 1/10 the length of the car
languid gulch
wanton orchid
here we go. trademarked & patented corsair screws
I checked it, does not seem patented at all, its simply trademarked right ?
languid gulch
so it's even dumber 🤣
wanton orchid
its simply marketing then, trademarking does not cost anything basically
it's not illegal
patenting things not new is illegal
sharp oasis
tough owl
I prefer the m1a1 Abrams
gilded helm
Specifically the A1?
obtuse geyser
Not enough ram. that power supply can easily power two such pcs. Budget ssd with no dram cache or heatsink. And the price of the case could probably be put toward upgrading to 4090.
tough owl
jagged snow
Yep, that one
tough owl
from this channel?
jagged snow
Yep
languid gulch
so spoofing channel names
tough owl
it finally happened
its hosted on this channel 🤣
languid gulch
they've even duped the real channels' vids
tough owl
languid gulch
lol instanuked
languid gulch
should livestream current elon & not 2010 elon
tough owl
whats weird is the audio sounds pretty good like elons voice
though the lip movement is a bit off
I honestly forgot youtube had something like this with the check mark
tough owl
they've even duped the real channels' vids
I wanna know how, all of them match upload dates and iirc you cant upload something to the past
only facebook allows you do edit post date to be in the past afaik
languid gulch
i suspect the dummy accounts are made a long time ago, & that gives them the ability to modify upload dates
stray badger
wanna see the PC a friend is gonna buy?
That case is really bad
tough owl
i suspect the dummy accounts are made a long time ago, & that gives them the abi...
The official us department of health and human services one too?
languid gulch
?
tough owl
it finally happened
This stream took over that channel
and had copied the official Tesla account with videos and dates
languid gulch
sounds like someone got ahold of the passwords
twin dew
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kKJYFs sound good?
Be aware to buy before those China sourced electronics tariffs actually start again and raise prices.
If in USA.
25% price hikes for GPUs etc. coming.
gilded helm
That's going to be interesting for laptops.
I wonder how much assembly outside China can save you from your AMD CPU or Nvidia GPU.
twin dew
Even just doing the final packaging in some other country would probably count for the thing to not be China-origin anymore.
languid gulch
wonder if i'll be able to resell my 6600XT for a profit when they hit 🤣
twin dew
When your apartment is still 26 C in the morning after the night with vent windows open...
twin dew
I currently like 24-25 C inside, but when it will hit 30 C in the evening, and is probably still 28 C when heading to bed.
Makes getting to sleep harder.
edgy hazel
Sleeping is a 17°C activity. And then summer comes, you let your AC run in hopes of getting the 28°C down to something reasonable and then you wake up with 28°C ANYWAYS and your sleep was shit
I hate summer and I hate that it keeps getting hotter year after year
languid gulch
my place is 26C with the A/C on
edgy hazel
I'm a fucking space heater
languid gulch
11pm & 31C here
edgy hazel
Yeah nah that's horrible
twin dew
17C or so for sleeping is pretty normal and recommended.
languid gulch
i think some parts of the world will have the general population using those nasa spacesuit body cooling garments before 2100
twin dew
Too bad that no-one in Finland sells proper non-fixed AC units.
Only crappy ones with zero or one pipe for the hot side.
And no units with two.
edgy hazel
I can put as many fans on the window as I want, house is like "nah dude chill I got like 10000kw of heat stored idiot"
twin dew
I can easily keep the inside temperature same or little lower than the temperature outside the windows when the fans are running.
And if I bothered to set up foil to not allow the sun to hit the black curtains, that would help a lot.
But what is the point of AC unit that takes inside air, cools it and outputs back to room.
But to deal with the heat, it also takes inside air, heats it and ejects out with one pipe.
And then hot outside air is drawn in to replace that...
When you are supposed to have one pipe pull outside air in, heat it and eject back out.
Ok, seem to be finally available in the 1000e or over price range.
twin dew
Yeah.
Will see if I finally need to splurge on some unit this summer or not.
languid gulch
i kinda cheated. got my tower less than a meter from the air return back into the A/C unit
tough owl
I love living in America having hvac in nearly every building where I’ve lived or been to
tough owl
wonder if i'll be able to resell my 6600XT for a profit when they hit 🤣
Definitely
charred pewter
i kinda cheated. got my tower less than a meter from the air return back into th...
ive got a flap on the backside of my desk which i can close and then all the air gets sucked out to a closet in the next room 😄 suck ALLL that heat out of my office
during winter i open the flap, and it dumps out INTO the office
night girder
I love living in America having hvac in nearly every building where I’ve lived o...
An American saying they love the US huh? 😂
jagged snow
The states are cool
charred pewter
america is cool, its the politicians which aint 😉
but that could be said for a lot of the world haha
siberia is cool, but the politicians arnt ... ok maybe not the whole world
visual tree
Yeah.
Will see if I finally need to splurge on some unit this summer or not.
At least you have magical winters in Finland, oh wait....
That guy keeps ruining the fun 😅
twin dew
I would take the weather in that video over current one any day.
tough owl
An American saying they love the US huh? 😂
I have pride in my country. I don’t have pride in the idiots running it
night girder
I have pride in my country. I don’t have pride in the idiots running it
I never heard an American say they don't love their country, is what I was pointing at 😉
dire igloo
I have pride in my country. I don’t have pride in the idiots running it
So you have pride in some part of your country but not all of it
How do you draw the line anyway?
Borders? Population? Culture? Citizenship?
tough owl
what I like I have pride in. What I don’t I don’t have pride in
night girder
Anyone uses a VPN + Synology?
visual tree
Anyone uses a VPN + Synology?
Yes, I have setup OpenVPN server on Synology
night girder
Do you get a lot of logs that people/scripts* are trying to connect to your Synology?
Since you opened a port for the OpenVPN to work?
I was thinking off setting up a VPN to a docker container on my Synology. But I am wondering how much the port get's scanned.
jagged snow
So you have pride in some part of your country but not all of it
I can be proud of the things my country does well and desire to improve the things it does poorly at the same time
visual tree
Just checked the log, almost all IP address range is same so I guess it's me connecting to home network from work
Haven't noticed anything suspicious
I wanted to install docker too but my model doesn't support it 😦
night girder
I forgot to close my SSH for one evening.
I had like 100+ logs of stuff trying to connect to it.
it looked like this (image from google):
but not only admin, the users were like: steam, root, mongodb, jenkins, admin, lighthouse, ...
visual tree
That looks concerning
twin dew
SSH gets lot of password attempt spam to common usernames all the time.
night girder
and all in like a few minutes, so something was trying to brute force it's way in.
twin dew
And all of IPv4 space gets probed completely for all ports on all IPs multiple times per week.
twin dew
Reason why there are special programs to monitor such brute forcing and ban IPs for a time.
jagged snow
twin dew
After few attempts.
night girder
Reason why there are special programs to monitor such brute forcing and ban IPs ...
Yeah, but the IP kept changing. I have auto-block enabled.
twin dew
Yeah, but the IP kept changing. I have auto-block enabled.
Because there are lot of systems doing it at same time.
LOT
night girder
Ah, here 165.232.84.28 - Netherlands - Blocked - 05/04/2022 😄
twin dew
If you have SSH server to internet, it can be expected to have several attempts per second.
night girder
I was struggling with getting SSH to work back then.
twin dew
Point is to not have any of those common usernames with login with password enabled.
night girder
(in the end it had to do with username + password format) but at the time I didn't know why it didn't work. If I remember correctly, I opened the ports on my router 🤔
twin dew
Either completely blocked, or just with public key auth.
night girder
now the ports are blocked. And if I use SSH, I disable it afterwards.
I needed it to modify some files in synology itself.
sudo vi /usr/syno/synoman/webman/modules/DisableAdminNotification/config -> "autoLaunch":true to false. So it stops nagging me I am using admin account 😂
Still stupid that synology ships with admin accounts, to then nag at the user but hey, that's just my opinion.
twin dew
Because point is to change the username to something else?
night girder
No, you cannot do that. You have to make a different account.
twin dew
So that kind of brute force spam to "admin" can never succeed.
night girder
then disable the admin account.
twin dew
Yes?
So what is the problem with the nag?
night girder
That it ships with an admin account in the first place. (ENABLED)
Instead of shipping with "Welcome to synology, enter a username to get started" ... problem solved from the beginning.
Just look for yourself what a user has to do to disable admin account. It's stupid in my opinion 🤷♂️
Items that cannot be duplicated include, but are not limited to, the following:
Download Station: Download tasks created by admin. File Station: Shared links created by admin. The links stay valid if the shared files/folders shared by admin are not moved or deleted. Synology Chat Server: Message history of admin. Synology Drive Server: File versions of the files located under /homes/admin/Drive. Synology Moments: Albums that are automatically created for admin and manually created by admin. Synology Photos: Albums that are automatically created for admin and manually created by admin.
And not everything get's duplicated either.
edgy hazel
night girder
And they added the nagging from: DSM 6.2.4
soft bloom
When you scraper tries to handle dozen-megabyte response... you understand you got into serious shit
solemn perch
Yeah, but the IP kept changing. I have auto-block enabled.
Fail2ban with permanent persistence =)
gilded helm
Probably still too expensive to matter
tough owl
New framework has 120hz
It’s a 130upgrade over the existing panel (it’s for rounded corners so likely was made by Microsoft)
gilded helm
Until it gets to a point where you're not better off just buying a whole new laptop every 3 years, Framework doesn't interest me.
maiden coyote
Yup, if you have a public ssh server it will very attacked
So you need uncommon user names, and setup fail2ban so repeated attempts to login will result in an ip ban
It's kind of ironic that Google and the state of Texas is very concerned with protecting the children and making sure the internet is "safe" and yet it's unbelievably hostile if you have any kind of open ports that'll answer or reject a ping request
gilded helm
More often than not, when any tech company talks about protection these days, it sounds more like a protection racket.
jagged snow
Until it gets to a point where you're not better off just buying a whole new lap...
I think they're very very close to that point
They've shown they're committed and that they can follow through on promises
My next laptop will likely be a framework 13
Interesting thing to note is that they're really expensive used
gilded helm
Right away, Framework's website rermains terrible. First two links on Google don't even bring you to functional pages on their website.
jagged snow
Does for me?
gilded helm
When trying to look up the 13, the first two links on Google (for me) were to now removed product pages, presumably with old configuration options.
jagged snow
Ah, I just searched for framework laptop
Searching framework 13 returns valid results on both Google and ddg
gilded helm
If I had to buy something like the Framework 13, Inspiron 14 is $650 right now for 16GB/1TB. I'm sure it's worse, but for the price, meh?
Framework 16 is more the form factor I'm interested in, but Framework's basically proprietary port modules make colossally inefficient use of a platform's IO and don't really work out for me compared to things like the Legion 7 I have now.
jagged snow
Inefficient how?
gilded helm
There's no good way to split up the bandwidth. If you want more ports by splitting it up.
jagged snow
And it's not proprietary considering it's an open standard with a ton of community support
gilded helm
And they made it too skinny to proerly fit Ethernet
Any open standard only used by one company (that also invented it) is basically proprietary.
jagged snow
None of these problems are solved by other laptops though
jagged snow
And they made it too skinny to proerly fit Ethernet
So are most other thin & light laptops
That problem has already been solved
gilded helm
DOn't get me wrong, there are a lot of problems with the laptop landscape. But Framework is not turning out to be the savior I wanted.
I can riff on the bullshit Lenovo, HP, Dell and the like pull all day long too.
Ooh, you want a fingerprint reader or any sort of Windows Hello? That's an enterprise feature. Pay $1000 more please.
jagged snow
Imo the problems framework introduces are not as impactful as the problems it solves compared to other laptops
gilded helm
Right, it's a game of pick your dysfunction, and price becomes a big factor when you can't get what you want anyway. It makes me want to go cheap.
What's the lowest you can get away with on a Framework 13? There are too many 'not terrible' Dell, MSI, and so forth on clearance to justify even $800 for a Framework 13 IMO.
I could see revisiting the 16 if some interesting modules get made. Not for the dGPU though. Buy one laptop now, a second later remains the better option for that.
edgy hazel
What's the lowest you can get away with on a Framework 13? There are too many 'n...
Main thing with framework is that you save in the long run
gilded helm
No you don't
edgy hazel
yeah instead of getting a new laptop you just get a new mainboard
gilded helm
But why would you do that?
edgy hazel
why would you buy a new laptop?
gilded helm
WHo's the user? Because there are a lot of Kaby Lake (or older) machines out there that are still looking for a reason to upgrade. As a simple productivity device, mainboard upgrades are a solution in search of a problem, because you don't have a benefit.
edgy hazel
not everyone only runs excel
tough owl
Wouldn’t a new main board be better in the long run if you bought a 1st gen framework and was now able to use the same chassis battery and everything but was able to buy just a main board with let’s say amd or the new core ultra processors
And large excels sheets and whatnot suck on 8th gen
gilded helm
So how many people are actually doing that, now that it's an option?
tough owl
Framework says they have 100s of business and small companies using their laptops
edgy hazel
I got like 3 people in my class with frameworks
tough owl
and if a board does break would it be better to have laptop parts on hand to have a same day repair in that company or would it be better to buy a new one. Or send it off to the manufacturer to repair
gilded helm
Buy a new one
And the question wasn't who's using them, who's upgrading the mainboards for performance and saying, oh yeah, that was worth it? I can see that being worthwhile every 5 gens or something.
edgy hazel
yeah
it's not an every year thing
but imagine never having to change stickers
It's gonna be a pain once my macbook dies ;-;
gilded helm
Meh? THere are so many good enough productivity machines on clearance that I still look at the price for the 13 and say pass.
For $650 each, buy 30% more units of the XPS 14 (or whatever) than you need, and hand out replacements while you deals with warranty stuff.
night girder
Framework has a nice price. Damn. And I mean nice, in a good way.
It's a bit in the upper class, but still less than a Macbook Pro.
I just gave it a quick look, not extensive. But it's something I would consider. If only you could order them a bit cheaper without W11 😄
gilded helm
Is 16GB enough on corporate machines these days? That are burdened with hilarious amounts of security software?
night girder
Corporate machine? Depends on which company. If you ditch all that AI bloat, maybe it's enough? 😄
My macbook pro has 8GB of memory, 1.4GHz. For the same money, I can get a way better framework laptop.
Framework
Ultra 7 155H (up to 4.8GHz, 6+8 cores)
16GB Memory
512GB Storage
Windows 11 Home€1,869.00
Macbook Pro
8‑core CPU
10‑core GPU
8 GB Memory
512 GB SSD€ 2.029,00
That's the cheapest macbook pro I could find.
And not the cheapest Framework 😂 (that one is about €1,389.00)
16 inch macbook pro's start now from € 3.049,00... wtf
gilded helm
Damn
I'm on laptops all day long, and honestly I get paying that much for something that you use all day. But all laptops end up having a bunch of dealbreakers that make me end up going for value.
night girder
Well, there is still the macbook air 😄
gilded helm
Not suitable for me.
night girder
night girder
Not suitable for me.
What part is not suitable for you?
gilded helm
I want ports
3 USB-A and 3 USB-C and Ethernet were a big selling point to me.
I get that USB-C is the future, but I populate all the USB-A more than all the USB-C, so that's still reality.
night girder
Even the macbook pro has 2 ports I believe.
Oh, no 3 usb C.
2 left, 1 right. Also an aux again. And magsafe... again...
Is that magsafe at both sides? 🤔
gilded helm
I think one is a card reader
night girder
That's why I hate Apple, they are so finicky. We remove this. We bring this back. We know the way. We don't know the way.
They are just mucking around with their models. Clueless and without any inspiration. They only thing they know how to do, is increase the price 😂
and decent hardware I guess. I mean CPU and GPU.
gilded helm
Power delivery from multiple sides is a sort of intriguing thing about USB-C PD, but in practice I doubt enough people care for the resources to be spent making the board able to receive power from every port.
night girder
but the design of the Macbook Pro itself is in decline for the last decade. They need someone with a 🧠 again.
night girder
Power delivery from multiple sides is a sort of intriguing thing about USB-C PD,...
It would be cool. Because if you have a laptop, you take it everywhere.
And sometimes it can be handy to charge from the other side, for example in a pub or something with a socket on the other side.
And I am happy they bring magsafe back. That was a super neat feature. Especially when people trip over your wire.
gilded helm
I know enterprise IT folks who have struggled with employees not understanding that not all ports are equal, especially for docks that don't work in a 5gbps USB-C port.
night girder
Yeah, but to fair. It's not that they advertise it either.
You have to look in to the motherboard specs I believe to see the lanes etc.
I didn't know either, untill I met this channel 😛
gilded helm
Yep. To Apple's credit I think they avoided that, don't they stick to Thunderbolt specs which give you the throughput minimum on any port?
night girder
Yep. To Apple's credit I think they avoided that, don't they stick to Thunderbol...
Not sure tbh.
DuckDuckGo has a new feature? It doesn't answer our question though Red Maw.
gilded helm
AI answer? They're trying to copy Google.
night girder
AI answer? They're trying to copy Google.
Yeah, seems so. But based on Wikipedia content. Interesting idea to train AI only on Wikipedia content. (If that's what they are doing...)
Instead of reddit
gilded helm
Lower chance of sarcasm than Reddit, yeah 😛
night girder
Or getting weird answers. Like jump of the golden gate bridge 😂
And without a sing-up or anything. It doesn't answer the more controversial questions.
gilded helm
At least it tells you it's using wikipedia too
night girder
Yeah! Well done duckduckgo! Proud to be using it too 😄
I am really rooting for the 🦆 atm.
Not perfect by all means, but I always try it first. If it can't find a good answer, I add !g and it searches on google.
gilded helm
Google, Amazon, and so forth deliberately becoming worse to force you to spend more time on the platform just shows how much of a monopoly they are.
night girder
It's innovating, trying out new things, learning from other search engines and has privacy as a focus point.
and ***if ***I can believe following image, not doing bad:
gilded helm
I don't know what the breaking point is for Google Search, but at some point it's going to start making people ask how to change their default search.
night girder
I don't know what the breaking point is for Google Search, but at some point it'...
Wouldn't be a bad thing.
Maybe Google starts thinking about how to please their users again instead of their investors/CEO's
gilded helm
Product development is probably becoming subordinate to marketing at Apple, Google, MS, and pretty much every tech company
tough owl
Yep. To Apple's credit I think they avoided that, don't they stick to Thunderbol...
Yea. My MacBook has 40gbps ports. Though usbc on iPads and 2015 MacBook beg to differ
tough owl
dire igloo
Drill through the CPU, use a bolt and nut to secure the cooler
night girder
Drill through the CPU, use a bolt and nut to secure the cooler
"Ok, I did that. Cooler works! Now my CPU wont work. Can someone help me?"
dire igloo
skill issue
night girder
Where can I buy skills?
night girder
Driven: 301 miles 🤣
This looks more leggit though.
(Atlas APC)
platform is the Ford F550
tough owl
I should convince my school to buy these for the repair shop trucks
tough owl
That funny enough would replace our entire fleet of trucks
tough owl
I see no issue
night girder
What confuses me though, this picture only has 2 windows at the back:
and this one has 3:
Guess different models 🤷♂️ And me thinking Ford was dead Atleast in Europe.
tough owl
longer wheelbase
night girder
Do you know the concept of LEZ? Is it something you see in the US?
No way that thing can enter our cities because of LEZ 😂
tough owl
legal experts zone?
night girder
low emission zones
your license plate get's scanned at entrances to the city, checked with DB for emission, and if it's too high. You get fined.
tough owl
sounds annoying
night girder
Yeah, most of the major cities in my country have it implemented.
night girder
That's why EU cars aren't the same. They have a bunch of "tricks" or "hacks" to "lower" emission 😉
Car geeks remove those things, but they also get fined if police finds out 😦
tough owl
tough owl
Car geeks remove those things, but they also get fined if police finds out 😦
Cant fine me if they can’t catch me
dire igloo
That's why EU cars aren't the same. They have a bunch of "tricks" or "hacks" to ...
like recognizing when they're being tested for emission
tough owl
just a fancy ecu you install that detect when the emission tool thing is being used to retune it
night girder
Last week, they did a large police control in "Limburg" a province over here. They caught 38 cars. But mostly had to do with lowering, or having exhausts that made too much sound. You really can't have any fun in my country 😄
night girder
Yeah, police doesn't care if it sounds nice.
If it's above a limit, you get fined.
Also one person was tripping balls 😂
tough owl
(There’s ways to make it sound normal for police inspections)
night girder
Atleast we, the Belgian citizens, get a nice report from the Police.
tough owl
Just gotta route the exhaust with some valves through the muffler when being tested. And not through it when not being tested
night girder
Lately, everybody finds everything annoying. Where is the "live and let live" attitude, I miss it 😦
tough owl
I’m going to refrain from speaking because it’s not tech talk 🙂
night girder
You don't hear my complaining when some F-16 fly over my house.
They also make a hell of noise.
But yeah, when it comes to cars. This is not a great country.
I think other places are more chill when it comes to car tuning and stuff.
night girder
This looks more leggit though.
This is the proof.
tough owl
In my home state you can legally drive a tank on public roads so long as it has rubber treads and the turret is disabled
night girder
If it's not damaging the public roads and it's not a weapon, then it's leggit. 😄
tough owl
They’ll let us drive tanks but not kei trucks
night girder
One can argue a tank without a turret is still a weapon though 😉
tough owl
oh definitely
night girder
You can't drive this?
tough owl
Nope
night girder
Why not?
tough owl
lacks modern safety features apparently
even though you can drive pre 90s airbag vehicles just fine
sharp oasis
Drives an Abrams to school
tough owl
definitely could
night girder
So, you don't have LEZ in the US? Or a similar concept?
tough owl
maybe in more progressive states but afaik no
tough owl
just strict emissions testing in some states and areas
night girder
I mean, if electric is the future, it's solves that problem I guess.
tough owl
some parts of states require emissions tests. Some don’t
night girder
Problem here is that electric cars are still too expensive for the average citizen.
tough owl
that’s the issue world wide
call me back when you can get an electric sedan that still has another 300k miles on it for 10k
night girder
If every citizen in Belgium get's an electric car, we would have a big problem. Not enough public chargers So that's the 2nd problem.
If that problem is solved, then we don't have enough electricity. So that's the 3rd problem.
And once that is solved, we are good to go I guess.
dire igloo
Lately, everybody finds everything annoying. Where is the "live and let live" at...
lately everybody thinks they can be as loud as they want without any concerns about their environment.
What happened to the "let live" part of "live and let live"?
tough owl
night girder
lately everybody thinks they can be as loud as they want without any concerns ab...
Yes, you live and let other people live their lives
and they let you live your life.
night girder
https://tenor.com/view/meme-gif-26461359
Yeah, we are opening a few more nuclear power plants 😄
dire igloo
exactly - and I can't live my life if people decide they're above the law with their desire for being annoying
tough owl
Yeah, we are opening a few more nuclear power plants 😄
Germany meanwhile shutting all theirs down
night girder
To ease the transition to green energy. Or so the company said in an ad.
dire igloo
Yeah, we are opening a few more nuclear power plants 😄
what's the current state on Tihange?
night girder
what's the current state on Tihange?
Prolonged. They negotiated and prevented the shut down.
dire igloo
Germany meanwhile shutting all theirs down
it was the Fukushima craze after all, I'm not happy about it either - especially with how we cling onto coal power
night girder
Hey, the world wants electric cars 🤷♂️ You need electricity.
dire igloo
we have enough of it, we constantly have to export some
it's probably cuz we don't use it
gilded helm
Ukraine has also set nuclear back quite a bit
night girder
Ukraine has also set nuclear back quite a bit
True.
tough owl
it was the Fukushima craze after all, I'm not happy about it either - especially...
Didn’t y’all also start to cut down a ton of forests for coal plants or something
tough owl
Ukraine has also set nuclear back quite a bit
I love mismanagement
night girder
I love mismanagement
Mismanagement 🤨
dire igloo
Didn’t y’all also start to cut down a ton of forests for coal plants or somethin...
forests and villages, yeah. Illegaly too - and calculations show that coal isn't even needed
gilded helm
Including those idiot Russian soliders taking up positions in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 2022.
tough owl
Mismanagement 🤨
AFAIK Chernobyl operators ignore standard procedure which caused it to runaway
night girder
In front of the coast, in Belgium, they wanted to make a large Wind Mill park to provide electricity. Citizens didn't want that because of the view
It's always something. We want green energy, but don't fuck up our landscape. And we don't want coal. And we don't want nuclear.
tough owl
windmills are an eye sore I agree
night girder
Everyone knows what they dont want. But they don't have solutions.
tough owl
funny enough I’ve flown my drone in Virginia close to a nuclear power plant
tough owl
Everyone knows what they **dont** want. But they don't have solutions.
Why you ask girls what they don’t wanna eat when you take them out
night girder
funny enough I’ve flown my drone in Virginia close to a nuclear power plant
How!?!
dire igloo
Germans don't want wind power cuz it's an eyesor but destroying entire landscapes for coal quarries is perfectly reasonable
night girder
An airport was shut down over here because of 1 drone in the vicinity.
night girder
Germans don't want wind power cuz it's an eyesor but destroying entire landscape...
sounds like the average human being.
dire igloo
An airport was shut down over here because of 1 drone in the vicinity.
meanwhile FRA got a specialized team to hunt down drones
night girder
I took off. Saw nuclear reactor and flew towards it till I was out of rc range
Problably didn't get close enough for them to worry about your little drone 😛
dire igloo
sounds like the average human being.
see, the coal quarry isn't in my backyard so I'm perfectly fine with it
gilded helm
There are bridge replacements that are overdue all across the USA (and possibly the world), where new designs keep being shot down because people say they're not pretty enough. So cost goes up, functionality goes down in new designs, and nobody agrees on what to do.
tough owl
tough owl
night girder
Is that a second one in the distance?
tough owl
Probably
night girder
damn, how many you have
tough owl
more than Germany
night girder
meanwhile over here, there is a lot of discussion (drama) because of 1.
you gotta build them on the border though.
Mutual destruction = mutual responsibility.
night girder
that's in the middle of north carolina even 😒
a bit more to the coast but still ...
next to Raleigh, which seems like a city?
tough owl
Which is the states capital
tough owl
Nothing since it was installed (minor part issue but didn’t cause any radiation leak)
night girder
You can't predict the future 😉
still, it makes more sense to build them along the coastline imo.
night girder
- Water for cooling. 2) In case of emergency flood it. 3) If it explodes less casualties.
tough owl
I’m not so sure the ocean people are gonna like us dumping radioactive material in the ocean should something happen
night girder
That's literally why Fukushima was built where it was.
tough owl
Oh yea but I don’t think that’s the smartest idea. Though I’m not a nuclear engineer
Do know someone who is though
night girder
I don't think there is a right answer. Just trade-offs.
but building a nuclear power plant next to a city feels counter intuitive.
or building a city next to a plant (reversed).
tough owl
let’s build one in the city central
night girder
can also be a juicy military target 😄
tough owl
So if it goes up in flames so does the population
night girder
tough owl
Do you not have work in the morning to prevent you being up this late?
night girder
We build em near borders 😄 (kinda)
Especially Doel and Dessel. Ghent is shut down.
Tihange is the southern part, doesn't hit Antwerp I think.
tough owl
didn’t France build one like right next to you guys?
night girder
If this image is correct, we are kinda fucked anyway 😄
night girder
didn’t France build one like right next to you guys?
tough owl
chooz
night girder
We gotta build a few back 😉
Maybe they do it also to ~~share ~~ sell the energy more easily?
tough owl
night girder
east coast vs west coast.... wow 😮
tough owl
Maybe they do it also to ~~share ~~ sell the energy more easily?
majority of the energy from the hoover dam isnt even used in las vegas
night girder
Did the Canadians also build a few on the border?
tough owl
nope
night girder
So with that in mind... Montana is pretty safe?
Central ... nothing on the border 😂
tough owl
(thats where we keep our nukes cant have reactors there too)
night girder
or Wyoming.
night girder
(thats where we keep our nukes cant have reactors there too)
Gotta keep all the nuclear stuff apart from eachother.
night girder
Holy fuck... there is an actual map 😂
tough owl
it was a search result ¯_(ツ)_/¯
night girder
And that's why you put them on subs.
tough owl
😳 who told you
still wild to me that the autobahn is still functioning with no speed limit
or at least portions of it are
night girder
Yeah, it's getting harder and harder to keep it that way. Or so I heard/read.
tough owl
before I die that is one thing I want to experience
night girder
A lot of politicians and lobbyist want speed limits.
tough owl
why do they have to ruin all the fun
night girder
safety. Apparantly.
tough owl
just add another lane 🙂
night girder
Why build cars... with 300HP or more. When we can only use a few horsies?
Makes no sense. All that potential. Wasted.
night girder
Nah nah.
Here people buy/lease those cars as a company car.
To drive to work. And back. Just because they can.
And then if I get such a car, I want to test out the horsies. And I am a bad person for it. Feels wrong.
tough owl
automakers worldwide shouldve done what japan did
night girder
It's like having a machine gun... but restricting it to shooting one bullet every minute.
tough owl
"limit" their cars to 274hp so government agencies didnt regulate them
night girder
I think they allow it because it sells ... more HP = more cash = more taxes.
tough owl
or
you just make a luxary car
meanwhile you have mercedes doing this /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_M120_engine
night girder
Somehow, I don't think a luxary car with 90HP will sell that well. Especially not for 100-200K.
tough owl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M70 and bmw
tough owl
Somehow, I don't think a luxary car with 90HP will sell that well. Especially no...
probably because 90hp wouldnt be enough to get it to highway speeds in the US
obtuse geyser
majority of the energy from the hoover dam isnt even used in las vegas
Are there direct wires to every location on the list, or is the plant just powering the national grid, so sending energy to everywhere?
solemn perch
@night girder
.avif?
night girder
night girder
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.avif?
firefox 😄
solemn perch
oof
tough owl
shoudlve bought it
obtuse geyser
It's like having a machine gun... but restricting it to shooting one bullet ever...
One bullet per trigger pull and its called "civilian version" of firearm, at least locally.
night girder
shoudlve bought it
was thinking about it.
night girder
One bullet per trigger pull and its called "civilian version" of firearm, at lea...
No no... every minute. With a freaking timer on it.
tough owl
Are there direct wires to every location on the list, or is the plant just power...
beats me. I just know thats the percentage of energy produced supplied to each location
night girder
shoudlve bought it
it was 24.990,00 euro. From the 90's.
tough owl
how many miles on it
jagged snow
Are there direct wires to every location on the list, or is the plant just power...
It just feeds into the grid like any other plant
night girder
how many miles on it
that information is gone sadly 😦 can only see one crappy picture, a price and "expired".
had roll bars and everything.
tough owl
engine was probably modified
I drive this at work on ocasion and it handles like a boat on water its bad
night girder
was track safe (had the papers).
jagged snow
I drive this at work on ocasion and it handles like a boat on water its bad
Oh yeah that era of pickups was terrible
tough owl
night girder
I don't know why, but I really do love BMW M3.
tough owl
this looks exactly like it minus the dent (caused by me) in the bumper and the v8 magnum badge on the front panel
tough owl
Oh yeah that era of pickups was terrible
and theres like 5 of them that the school has in its fleet
jagged snow
They sold well
tough owl
avif