off-topic-tech

[dire igloo]

Its usecase is incredibly narrow

[pure karma]

its usecase is when the framerate starts dropping below 30 and your desperate

and mobile hardware at all times

for efficiency

[dire igloo]

Then you enable FG and it's still 30fps, the GPU just makes up shit in between

Your CPU doesn't magically calculate the physics faster

[jagged snow]

I'd honestly really disagree
It's usecase is when you have 60fps and want it to feel a little bit more like 120

But the game still only runs at 60fps 🤷‍♂️

[pure karma]

at that point i would just play at 60fps so yea if you see it that way then yea its fuckall and useless

[jagged snow]

You have that right 😉

If you're at 30fps and desperate you turn down settings/resolution and maybe use upscaling

[pure karma]

i use it on my laptop to just get the extra few frames i can but its not a miracle

[jagged snow]

It still looks wildly unpleasant

[pure karma]

and since the true frame rate is like fucking 5 only inputs on the real frames actually happen

[jagged snow]

And it's going to look more garbage than either of these options at those low fps

[pure karma]

which is another issue

[jagged snow]

Yeah you're doing a really good job of explaining exactly why that's not the right way to use framegen 💀

[pure karma]

That wont help on a cpu bottleneck

[jagged snow]

Not entirely true

There are plenty of things you can do to reduce cpu load as well

And on a laptop, the less work your gpu is doing the higher your cpu can clock

Especially if you're running on battery

[pure karma]

not the case here since it runs minimum clock unless plugged in and running performance mode which them leads to being thermal limited and lower performance in the end

[jagged snow]

Hm?

That is not a valid english sentance, my friend.

[willow pike]

has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[soft bloom]

mayhaps or

[verbal raft]

it will to a point

[safe trench]

we all know my retardation is superior.

[verbal raft]

who the hell inserted an AI chip into a pressure conversion cube ?!

like seriously

[safe trench]

@silent fog

[verbal raft]

oh and see, now it pinging randoms 😤

[safe trench]

blame pioneer 3808

[pure karma]

eww square

[twin dew]

Which is stop icon.
Two lines is pause.

Which is very annoying when Twitch doesn't do Pause for live streams, and still shows that icon.

[pure karma]

thats.... awfull

not only can you not rewind anymore but if you pause it doesn't go back to live and stays permanantly delayed until you refresh

[twin dew]

I have several times "paused" in Twitch, and then tried to resume, to just continue playing from current live, instead of the "pause" point.

[twin dew]

That middle button will almost certainly take you to current.

[pure karma]

thats just the shortcut for next video

[sand saddle]

I got a 5.0 sound system 😭
Bought a reiceiver that needs an active subwoofer but my current one is passive.
Everything audio seems kinda expensive.

[pure karma]

everything tech is expensive other than adapters you dont need 💀

[soft bloom]

And complicated
Having headphones is cheap.and predictable
Setting a room for good sound is really not easy

[sand saddle]

That’s not the point rn though. The cheapest Chinese subwoofer amps I’m looking at are still like 40+ on aliexpress

I’m looking at ones with an RCA connector cuz that’s what my receiver uses

[thin trout]

Speaker/room setups are a lot more expensive than headphones

they are also a lot more complicated (there are more seperate devices - and the exact position, orientation, volume etc of each device matters a lot)

[sand saddle]

I already had a very old used cheap setup but the receiver gave up

Now decided to opt for a more expensive one, aka the cheapest one with hdmi arc so I could use a single remote.
What I failed to notive was the need for an active subwoofer...

The previous setup was around €50, 2008 Samsung, all low end probably.
Now the new receiver cost me €80... opting for a used active subwoofer or a new subwoofer amp(can't really find used cheap ones) costs like another 50...

I enjoy watching TV with my friends every once in a while and the surround makes it a little better.

[sand saddle]

Oo found 2 floor speakers and an active subwoofer for €50 on facebook. Could probably haggle it to 40.
They both seem superior to the current shit cuz the speakers are 120-50k hz and subwoofer is 28-200hz compared to the current 140-20k hz and 45-160hz

Idk about the speakers but I'd imagine I could hear/feel a difference between 28hz and 45hz.

[charred relic]

🙂

should work nicely for retro arcade stuffs and pinball

Also 200Hz is getting nice, into that good rumbly can feel it in the chest area

[pure karma]

tall monitor setups always surprise me

idk i feel like i would hate it

[charred relic]

it's just an adjustment

so not used to what most are accustomed to olooking at

but it's actually pretty damn useful

[pure karma]

its just one of those things were i feel like id only do if i was desperate on space

[charred relic]

Also depends on what you're doing.. like for me I'll have documents up... pdfs usually

[pure karma]

and even then i have no monitors with standard mounting or that can actually be mounted in diffrent orientations

yea i can see a few uses

[charred relic]

so i can fit more than a page on the screen and read it

[pure karma]

short form content/steamer chats and documents lol

[charred relic]

also retro arace machines at a monitor orientation closer to this than wide or 4"3

it was wide but on it's side

so... technically not on it's side sinjce they were designed for that purpose... but yeah

oh for content stuff having one of these would be golden

i want to add one to my main rig as a 3rd now just for other shit

[pure karma]

the amount of monitors you need to reliably mutlistream is wild

[charred relic]

i gotta get some mounts first and mount what i have... need to mount a 55" TV to the wall and get an arm for a 34" ultrawide...otherwise I'll never have room for all that

[pure karma]

like even when i tried twitch/youtube for the fun 3 monitors was not in fact enough to monitor every failure point

you got both chats both stream home pages(brower) both streaming softwares + primary monitor on whatever game or thing your doing

[charred relic]

I dunno I did ok with just 2 lol

[pure karma]

now if you use the streamlabs version of obs and pay a bunch of money you only need one streaming software but for free you need one per website

so i cant even begin to imagine the people streaming on everything at once

[charred relic]

Also used a tablet for macro grids

triggers are fun

where i need 3 more is when i have a bunch of audio related shit going

daw, amp interface, amplitube... the main ones

ideally those are all on their own so there's 3 right there lol

although with the ultrawide i can manage better with 2 now for sure since i can reasonably get 2 on there it's just not "ideal"

this vr shit is getting closer to doing away with the need for physical displays, kinda freaky really

[pure karma]

im at 4 now but i also have 2 computers

on the same setup

oof the latency of linux+arc+framegen+game streaming is rough

its probably over 500MS for sure

feels like a second of delay on keyboard inputs honestly

[tough owl]

what you need is a server

[pure karma]

and thats what i made

[pure karma]

between this framerate

or a second of latency at about 40fps... il take the latency

[jagged snow]

at that point I'd get a book 💀

[pure karma]

but books dont need 3 years of optimising the way you do something

[tough owl]

they do?

books aren't written overnight

[pure karma]

i refuse to write a book

[tough owl]

explains a lot

[pure karma]

id rather make a robot to write the book for me but thats expensive and not exactly what i care to do

[charred relic]

i refuse to refuse

i have a remote server....what i need is a local server

[languid gulch]

oh fun, potential data breach at my mmo

[charred relic]

reeroooreerooo intruder alert

This is not a drill

https://tenor.com/view/drill-unclebuck-johncandy-driller-gif-5719413

That.... is a drill

[safe trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/934062419733536768/1367567786620223510/caption-3-3-1-1-1.gif

[charred relic]

https://tenor.com/view/algorithm-terminator-feed-forcefeed-adsense-gif-23841667

how about now?

[safe trench]

50/50 take your chances

crazy how people betted on diddy getting released

if it wasnt for trump that guy is going NOWHERE

[charred relic]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-the-plays-mind-blowing-200iq-brain-gif-16451975

mind blowing

I kind of appreciate how he kinda ate his own lower lip, nice move

[safe trench]

it turns out people are bypassing age verification checks using gmod now lol

[charred relic]

wells hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPB3UTFDyE

[languid gulch]

it's almost like it was set up in the cheapest way possible

[charred relic]

fairly certain he's never ever walking on those legs again

[languid gulch]

lol

clearly these people have never see Joe Theismann

[charred relic]

lol folded

[languid gulch]

look closer

right leg

[charred relic]

That's called the sock foot

it just dangles around like a sock that's about to come off lol

[languid gulch]

i call them double knees

[soft bloom]

wait till they learn about specifically using cameras that can 'sense' distance

there's much to learn from countries with dictatorship

[soft bloom]

but sadly that means mostly less overclocking - more demand for more powerful cards...

if only 18+ would be put on ingame gambling and microtransactions...
but, oh well, that aint happening in capitalism, where draining wealthy parents through weak children is the meta

[soft bloom]

what Nvidia settings are mostly used for? overclocking, (dlss?)

[verbal raft]

mostly not OC

[soft bloom]

what then?

[verbal raft]

more like features, other settings

most people dont do OC you know

[soft bloom]

in some sense, I wish child labor would replace gaming
but, without risks for health, and with less priority then education.
I mean, minor dose of adulthood in playful form (grinding for rewards, hehe) won't hurt.
at ages 14+ 16+ many look for some job anyway, and are met with obstacles, rather then support.

[glossy glacier]

Checking for updates, tweaking game settings, changing global setting, maybe even streaming

[soft bloom]

tweaking settings that improve performance / visual fidelity / lag?

[verbal raft]

fiddling with filters, overlays,etc..

[soft bloom]

ok, overlays are good

fbut, filters? as in color?

[verbal raft]

yeah that sort

[soft bloom]

hmm, didn't expect. but I guess that depends on monitor and preferences

[verbal raft]

anyway, my point is that this wont make people buy higher end cards (at least not in a measurable manner)

maybe the odd few that use OC and are below 18 but realisticaly how many people are like that ?

[soft bloom]

well, even if it were, don't think there would be enough evidence

[soft bloom]

tech-savy teens?

[verbal raft]

yeah..

[dire igloo]

Nvidia app might need to be accessed for driver updates and driver rollbacks

Worst case: an automatic driver update bricks the GPU and you'll have to manually roll back to the old driver to be able to use it again

But since the app is locked, no GPU for you until the next automatic update

[dire igloo]

Could also be about enabling colorblind modes

[dire igloo]

Performance gains through OC are rarely big enough anyways

[verbal raft]

i actually didnt even know that you had to sign into the NVIDIA app to use it

[soft bloom]

hm, it's good that they are supported on such level.

but would make more sense to implement in monitor then

[verbal raft]

its more convenient for it to be in the driver IMO but maybe thats just me

im soo mad that optiscaler doesnt work with FSR 2 inputs in jedi survivor
spoofing, RT: 50
spoofing, raster: 63
no spoofing RT: 62 +24%
spoofing, raster: 74 +17%
(spoofing just means optiscaler in this case)

[verbal raft]

i wouldnt be mad if their TAA wasnt so atrocious

but it is pretty quite terrible

[visual tree]

How long does it take for Apple to update Look around after recording? Saw the car with cameras 10 days ago

Hope it's not longer than 1 year 😅

[glossy glacier]

experience was usable without an account at the beginning
then they forced accounts
and the nvidia app is usable without one iirc

[verbal raft]

ahh, i see
whats the point of having an account for your GPU driver though ?

[glossy glacier]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[verbal raft]

other than it helps NVIDIA collect your information and sell it

[glossy glacier]

^ this probably

[verbal raft]

gosh i hate them

for that (too)

[verbal raft]

and im very happy that AMD hasnt (yet) done this

[glossy glacier]

tbf, you could and still can just download and install the driver standalone from the website

[pure karma]

You dont but you can

And even then manual downloads exist

[verbal raft]

i just *heard * you *need * an account for Nvidia
I havent touched an NVIDIA GPU in years

[pure karma]

probably did at some point i stuck with geforce experience instead for as long as a could and now the app doesn’t need login anymore

[safe trench]

what is that

alien dark magic tech??

[jagged snow]

No its super easy to do

FaceID does it

[safe trench]

evil face id

[cyan crescent]

Can i use a reference waterblock on the powercolor 7900 xtx hellhound?

[verbal raft]

holy shit
spoofing, RT: 36
no spoofing, RT:65 +80%

guess i have no choice but to not use optiscaler on jedi survivor

im just gonna have to stomach the atrocious TAA then

[cyan crescent]

I dont know what to do with my second 7900 xtx

[languid gulch]

AI!

bitcoin!

[cyan crescent]

I dont like ai or bitcoin

[languid gulch]

spoil the hell out of a friend?

[jagged snow]

The hoops you have to jump through for performant JS

db = await SQLite.openDatabaseAsync('issueLog.db');
                const data_res = db.getAllAsync('SELECT * FROM downtime ORDER BY startTime DESC');
                const index_res = db.getFirstAsync('SELECT COUNT(*) - 1 AS new_index FROM downtime WHERE startTime > ? ORDER BY startTime DESC', newTime ?? 0);
                const [allData, {new_index}] = await Promise.all([data_res, index_res]); //Run both of these at once
                data.current = allData;
                newIndex.current = new_index;

[night girder]

🤨

[jagged snow]

Yes?

[night girder]

no all good.

Read sync. So I was like duh.

[jagged snow]

lol

[night girder]

Is that a function? Or part of a function?

[jagged snow]

Part of one

Updates ui from user refresh action

[night girder]

Ok, because the await fucks over your async. Just so you know.

[jagged snow]

Uhh
You mean awaiting the promise.all?

[night girder]

Yeah, if not mistaken. That tells wait for Promise to fullfill. So it stops further execution of code.
Which would result in null I think because that alldata and new_index and they might be still null.

[jagged snow]

Yes, but because this is called in its own function the rest of the ui update can run while the await block is being polled
Await only blocks the current function and lets execution of the synchronous calling code continue until the promise resolves

[night girder]

Ah right!

[jagged snow]

Await is basically just a heavily sugared way of polling to see if the result is ready and executing other code in-between

And the reason I'm doing it in the slightly convoluted manner I am here is that the sqlite interface I'm using will automatically combine those queries so I start them together and then wait for both to finish before pushing the relevant data to UI

[night girder]

I think I use .then() function with my promise

promise.all().then(date -> do something funky)

[jagged snow]

Ahh, yeah

That works just as well and is more or less the same thing at the JS engine level

I just prefer the async syntax for larger functions that are dedicated to async operations

If I need to call one async operation from synchronous code and then trigger a side-effect on its completion I'll use .then()

[night girder]

Yeah, I am looking into documentation to see what exactly happens.

[jagged snow]

MDN is the best

[night girder]

The then() method schedules callback functions for the eventual completion of a Promise — either fulfillment or rejection. It is the primitive method of promises: the thenable protocol expects all promise-like objects to expose a then() method, and the catch() and finally() methods both work by invoking the object's then() method.

I just like the syntax. It looks and reads clean.

[jagged snow]

Very much so, especially in the right places

[languid gulch]

got a fun one: is there a way to "fake" rescaling a UI in a game that doesn't have it natively?

[jagged snow]

Especially for things like updating this flag auth.authStateReady().then(() => isResolved = true);

[jagged snow]

Oof
not without some simple modding afaik

dow wh40k has some really bad issues with ui scaling at 16:9 or anything above sd

[languid gulch]

would something like ReShade make it possible?

[jagged snow]

And there is a community patch for it but even that only works at 1080p

[night girder]

where does the data come from that feeds the UI?

[jagged snow]

Depending on how the ui is implemented, possibly

[jagged snow]

Which of us was that directed at?

[languid gulch]

it's an mmo, so no idea

[night girder]

If the MMO supports mods, there should be documentation. If they don't, that means it can be possible. But not in a clean way 😛

[languid gulch]

what about not rescaling the UI, but "faking" the UI scaling, so that it'd be like "UI scaling at 1080p, rest of the "action" at 1440p"

[languid gulch]

sadly it's a very locked down game

[night girder]

If you fake the UI and it has buttons, how does it register mouse clicks?

[languid gulch]

that's kinda what i was wondering

[jagged snow]

Yeah if it's that locked down you may be sol, although it's not something I have much experience with

[night girder]

You gotta enlarge the actually UI I think, or build a costume one and hack in the interaction.

[languid gulch]

yea, basically 0 good options with it internally, was wondering if nvidia or amd had some wizardry available

[night girder]

I don't think it would be easy. Ofc you did look up if such mods do exist?

[languid gulch]

best we've got is some mild reskins of the UI

[charred relic]

I just exist in VR now

[pure karma]

fun

[charred relic]

I was playing xbox live cloud madden while I was pooping earlier

lel

[pure karma]

I exist online again now that im no longer at sea

[charred relic]

My neighbor thought he was sneaking up on me last night when I was in teh garage with that silly thing on

But I was in mixed reality and saw him the entire time lol

[pure karma]

Thats true i cant do that on my quest 2

unfortunately

only when zoning

[charred relic]

I waited for him to get behind me then I spun around and lunged right at him he jumps back like wtf

[pure karma]

sounds like fun neighbours

[charred relic]

Oh I have some of the best neighbors lol

We're not as wild as the old days... ahh the days where you might look at at 3AM and see Jerry running across the street butt naked to rouse V out of bed lel

The first year we all hung out together was pretty wild...

4th of July was pretty nuts... me and one of my neighbors rode to Alabama and had the back of his Suburban filled

We were both smokers at the time... we were scared to smoke.

[languid gulch]

i miss my dad's suburban, those were great vehicles

was either a '99 or 2000

the one thing that chevy seems to always do well with is A/C & heating

that thing would cool down from phoenix heat inside about 2 minutes

[charred relic]

He got his when he got back from Iraq

No wait my bad it was right before he left actually

I met him right after he got back

I got the Hyabusa right after he got back lol

err he

He was chasing the dragon (adrenaline)

[twin dew]

Why is it downloading ALL the data in the downtime table each time?
And not just pages worth?

And couldn't that second one just be done by getting single record, with the opposite order by?
Instead of counting number of records, and getting the last one.

Ah, I'm somehow misunderstanding what that second one does.

[night girder]

Good morning Baldur

16GB of RAM for a laptop that is used to browse mainly. Am I crazy?

The old laptop had 8GB ... but I don't feel like that's enough for this day and age, not sure.

[thin trout]

16 is not a lot today

[night girder]

Right?

[thin trout]

the minimum amount of DDR5 for a consumer CPU to get good memory performance is 32GB

[night girder]

Nah, that sounds overkill too 😛

It's for my mom, all she does is open the browser. And print stuff.

[thin trout]

in terms of capacity, maybe, i am just talking purely about latency/bandwidth and the RAM performance impacting the speed of doing tasks with the CPU.

[thin trout]

in that case it doesn't really matter if the cpu is performing 15% differently

[night girder]

but I was tempted to keep it at 8GB.

I opened task manager and saw the 8GB was doing fine ... but then again. W10 and the system has some tricks when it comes to balancing memory.

[thin trout]

Well, depends again how you get there

you get 16GB of DDR5 on dual channel by half of the memory chips being missing, and so effectively half of the bank groups, which impacts performance.

You get 8GB by taking that crap memory setup and running 1 channel instead of 2

[night girder]

let me see what W11 recommends itself.

[thin trout]

which starts to have far larger performance impacts even if you are only using 4/8GB of memory

[night girder]

RAM 4 gigabytes (GB) 😏 (W11 requirements)

[thin trout]

1ghz 1cpu core also required ;D

[night girder]

By now...you should realize. That performance doesn't matter ... to open a browser

You keep talking like it's a gaming system 🤣

[thin trout]

mostly yes

if she has a phone she can use that

[night girder]

Old. (Not the phone, my mom)

Tiny screen, bad eyes. Needs laptop.

[thin trout]

yeah i mean you can plug it into a big screen and print/browse from there

[night girder]

was also thinking to throw linux on there 🤣

[thin trout]

just a bit scuffed

😄

[night girder]

I told her that. She blinked at me.

Totally confused.

I think I lost her when I said "external monitor" and she tapped out.

[verbal raft]

bad idea,

[soft bloom]

Apparently it's something that broke in my phone andade one of gov apps unusable.
But i am glad, since i don't need broken insecure apps on my phone gathering info for government that then sells it or gets breached

Land of innovations sometimes is just a land of mistakes

Recent revelation with 30% cut makes me wonder if something like this happens on broader level....

[night girder]

20 euro for more cores and more recent iGPU. Kinda weird the difference is so small.

Also. Wtf?

[thin trout]

LLM's have no concept of truth

they just yeet shit out

[night girder]

Yeah, I didn't search for LLM. Search engines just add the crap to the top now.

[thin trout]

yep

I asked one about satisfactory and it invented several resources 😄

pretty much useless as a learning tool because you already need to know everything that you're asking about in depth to be able to spot when it makes incorrect claims

[night girder]

"best" source; the manufacturer I guess, if possible.

[thin trout]

Yeah

[night girder]

This is from Lenovo themselves.

Is it me, or is that stuff not helping at all? Just naming a bunch of models. and then "it can be these 3 types of display resolution" ...

Instead of this specific models has these specific specs.

[verbal raft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtKac8eh0l4

the butterfingers of tech

[soft bloom]

Any ideas why would PC be in suspended mode for 8 hours and then on power button press just click (in powersupply, relay, I guess) 2 times and do nothing, repeating behavior on successive power button presses?

[soft bloom]

They might not know themselves?
As in just half-assing responsibility and putting together whatever they have as long as it doesn't contradict their promises

[dire igloo]

I'd rather invest in better build quality and better screen than better performance

*for this usecase

[night girder]

WTF

So I was wondering what the difference was between the two models. After reading all specs on tweakers and seeing no difference. I went to Lenovo. They have this button to show differences only. And all it shows a difference announce date 🤦‍♀️ 🤦 🤦‍♂️

So they just put out the EXACT same laptop, but a different model name for who knows what reason....

I wonder if it's a different motherboard.

[night girder]

Do oleds still burn in?

[thin trout]

I prefer to call it burn out, and yes, pixels experience continual degradation over time depending on e.g. brightness and color

difficult to ascertain how much of a problem it is, but questionable for heavy, sustained usage

most phones use OLED screens nowadays, my S7 has one and it's ancient

no noticable burnout

but manufacturer warranties are like.. 3 years at best, often only 1-2

which tells me that they are not super confident in their product

[karmic socket]

smartphones' screens don't stay lit up 24/7 though.

[thin trout]

yeah, 9 and a half years of continuous daily usage is still a pretty long time for it to look good-as-new though

[night girder]

my old apple laptop had burnins, fucking sucks.

little craters all over the place.

[soft bloom]

funny how this tells nothing about what exact model it is

well, you can see 7
and maybe can spot "5000 series"

[dire igloo]

Yes, but depending on the panel and the manufacturer's anti burn in tech, it's slowed down significantly

[verbal raft]

you can see the V-cace note and the R7 bit and you can see how its AM4 packaging so you can figure out its either a 5700X3D or 5800X3D

[dire igloo]

btw, LCDs also wear out

[night girder]

Cheers. I remember you mentioned it recently but forgot what it was 🤣

[dire igloo]

There are several monitor reviewers which are running a long term burn in test.
iirc rtings and monitors unboxed do this

[night girder]

doesn't sound worth the trouble for a laptop screen, doing those reviews.

[soft bloom]

can
or

[soft bloom]

longterm usage of laptop should be accompanied by a screen mounted at apropriate height and distance

[night girder]

What I mean is, the laptop screen is oled. The reviewers that Fireworker mentions, I doubt they test laptop screens.

[soft bloom]

yeah and I meant that regardless of built-in monitor, a separate one should be used, which makes attributes of built-in matter less.
but sadly many agree to use laptops as is...

[night girder]

Well, I touched on that subject earlier in the conversation.Tl;dr: external monitor is not an option.

[twin dew]

16GB is the default now for browsing/office use.
And on desktop DDR5, it suffers 10% lower RAM performance compared to 32GB.
But on laptops that is the norm.

8GB can be used, but might start limiting in few years.

And when on most current laptops, the RAM is soldered on, getting enough for the laptops life is important.

Not hard rule.
8GB is almost certainly enough now.
But might start running out during the laptops normal lifespan.
16GB is very unlikely to start running out before the laptop dies from other causes.

[night girder]

Gotcha.

The wifi adapter/motherboard is dying of current laptop. Have to go into BIOS everytime to get the wifi adapter to show up.

laptop is 10 years +

[twin dew]

And those display options that don't mention IPS, are TN.

[twin dew]

Lenovo has exact spec pages for all the submodels.
But that is just for the model line.

[twin dew]

Input those exact models (82R40VVMB and 82R400YGMB) there
https://psref.lenovo.com/

Ah, cannot search by those..

Need to go to the lineup page first:
https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_1_15ALC7?tab=model

[night girder]

what ...

[night girder]

👆

As you can see in the screenshot, I was on lenovo website. entered both models.

[twin dew]

Ah, sorry.

[night girder]

And then clicked show difference.

And it showed me 0 useful information.

Except that the date of announcement are different (duh).

and untill right now, I have still no clue what the difference is between those two except they end in VVMB and YGMB.

[twin dew]

So basically same thing, with possible difference in crapware.

Or accessories that come with it etc.

Or the WLAN chipset might be different exact chip as example, as the page only cares about spec support level for that point.

Two last characters are the target country (MB for Belgium it seems).
82R4 is the base type, and that 00VV and 00YG are submodels.

But AFAIK any change in the internals, even when equivalent in spec, AFAIK leads to different submodel.
Like SSD model, RAM chips, WLAN chip etc.

Or even different quick start guide included in the package.

[night girder]

mhm. Ok. Confusing.

I know both are Azerty.

Also same price.

But that can be coincidence.

[twin dew]

Might for example be different SSDs.
Lenovo has Samsung, WD, SK Hynix SSDs, Kioxia, Micron and UMIS SSDs listed in spare part parts for that model that are 512GB, 2242, with PCIe 4 x4.
And then submodels for STD vs Opal (HW encryption support)

But basically completely interchangeable for most users.

But for some enterprise buyers, you must have exact same components.

Three different WLAN adapters listed as spares.

And as that specific laptop model has 8GB soldered, and then one SODIMM slot, 8GB models are also ok.
As you can add the SODIMM later to upgrade.

As that halving of RAM bandwidth doesn't really matter for the usecase.

[languid gulch]

waiting for laptop makers to do one with a 5800X3D

[twin dew]

No solderable version available currently.
So the laptop would need to be very thick to use one.

[languid gulch]

gimme the thiccness

[jagged snow]

Gets the index of the item in the first query where the timestamp is newer than some value

[jagged snow]

It's loading from a local db so you're not waiting on the network and it's more performant to do that and take the hit in terms of a little extra memory usage than it is to lazy load

[night girder]

What specific laptop you talking about? The two models I am speaking are 16GB.

[twin dew]

Yeah, but the others of the same line.

With same MB, need to check from that PSREF.

As the 8GB models will be with 8GB soldered, taking one channel, and with empty SODIMM slot.

Hits IGP performance hard, and CPU somewhat, but as neither really matters in this case.

[languid gulch]

is jedec working on ddr6 memory yet?

[twin dew]

Validation ongoing for actual hardware.

With expectation to enter into actual usage in servers in 2027.

[soft bloom]

would a glass of water boil if it's inside a bowl of boiling water on a stove?
https://youtube.com/shorts/xgKNmcBcJjY?si=W0hC6_KztaMWJG_K

I think it's a bit not a full picture.
the same thing she talks abut is sort of happening in the bowl itself, but
steam forms on the very edges of water+metal contact. metal is hotter then 100C on the outside, but directly in contact with water it can't get much hooter then 100C too because that would turn water that is directly in contact with tat section into vapor, taking heat from metal, cooling it down.
So, the thing is that steam tries to quickly escape, and thus penetrates column of water, mixing it up.

but the flaoting glass of water, has glass, that will act as insulator (not saying it's good at it), and thus even if whole bowl is actively boiling, glass will only get to about 100C on the outside, and heat water maybe to the same temperature, but it won't have (much) excess heat to boil water in the glass at large scale.

maybe I am wrong

[jagged snow]

You're basically correct, the boiling actually happens at the boundary layer between the pot and the water. There is no boundary layer above boiling point anywhere in the glass, so it'll stay right at 100c and just slowly release some steam without properly boiling.

[karmic socket]

I have not watched the video, but shouldn't there be a layer where the glass and metal touch each other, where the metal could reach above 100°C ?

The glass would then reach above 100°C as well and the water could boil away?

[jagged snow]

The glass is floating in the water

[karmic socket]

ah ok, makes sense then

[soft bloom]

I wish educational content was more nuanced (though this one is actually proomotion of TeamWater with a topic-related example)
Nuance is where research advances science. Before telescopes stars were just dots in the sky, and then someone studied nuances of how they look, nad move, and thus we got the ide a that our planet isn't in center of everything. Atoms where named after a word for indivisible, but then someone was playing with the smallest ones and found some neat nuances that made us question what matter consists of yet again.
Without nuances curiosity dies under pressure of neat models.

[charred relic]

Particle Man, Is he a dot or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows, Particle Man

[soft bloom]

is steam wet?

[pure karma]

yes

[jagged snow]

Is ice?

[charred relic]

moist

https://tenor.com/view/moist-lips-wtf-tongue-mouth-gif-14357067

[jagged snow]

Looks like I'm finally going to have to replace my gpu

[pure karma]

corection. replace your wallet

[jagged snow]

Lol

In light of that, do you think 7900xtx is a better buy with more vram, or the 9070xt with better rt and effeciency

They seem to be very nearly equal in raster performance

[pure karma]

9070xt

[jagged snow]

Why?

[pure karma]

cause theres barely any gaming scenarios where curent gpus dont run out of raster before vram so 24GB of vram with the raster to use 12GB is useless

[dire igloo]

By the commonly used definition of "wet" in the English language, no.

2 and 3 don't apply

[dire igloo]

In any non-gaming scenario where vram matters, Nvidia tends to win out significantly.
And for gaming, MagicZ already explained that it's rarely beneficial.
On the other hand, the better featureset and longer driver support of 9070xt make it the better pick (assuming equivalent price or lower)

[maiden coyote]

Here's something interesting.. my ac blows ice cold when my truck is cold, after it's warmed up and driven for a bit it only blows cold when the vehicle is moving.

It's almost like the radiator is getting hot and restricting airflow, but that sounds insane.

cold, my condenser temperatures are 110F - 120F and after driving for a bit, they're ~160F ... and the discharge temperature of my compressor is almost 200F

[verbal raft]

+you get FSR 4

[dire igloo]

Is that an ironic statement?
cuz to me it makes sense that a radiator gets hotter if the thing it's attached to is being used

[twin dew]

• motor radiator and general engine bay heat making the AC radiator work less well.

[maiden coyote]

Less well... how about not work at all. I've got a problem somewhere

An ac condenser should not be 160f, that's like running your cpu at 110c when it's tjmax is 100c

[tribal kraken]

Is the radiator fan working? For cars/trucks, the electric fan, or both fans should engage when vehicle is stationary and the AC compressor magnetic clutch engages.

[tribal kraken]

No experience on later AC systems with variable displacement compressors how their control circuit works, believe they are variable fan speed too. But still the fans should run at high speed when your car is stationary and AC on = condenser has no airlow from vehicle moving.

[wanton orchid]

usually ac fan is heard very obviously on stationary running car

ac radiator is always in front of car radiator

[verbal raft]

i suppose they havent fixed PT crashing yet

[tough owl]

but we get dlss4!

thats good right

[pure karma]

Amd skill issue

[verbal raft]

FSR* but yeah

[tough owl]

same difference

[verbal raft]

Tru

[verbal raft]

I lasted like 30 minutes this time though
That's 25minutes more than last time

Also despite having to use FSR performance mode to get 60fps it still looked pretty damn good

With FSR 4

[verbal raft]

Though fine lines weren't the best

By that i mean bad VS quality mode

They are dead cuz they were terrible value at launch and had many problems

Brgu

[pure karma]

on what 9060xt?

[verbal raft]

16GB of course

[pure karma]

wow thats.... bad

for some reasson i expected it to be a decent gpu

but thats worst than my B580 on native

[verbal raft]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[pure karma]

whatever exists by then probably

[verbal raft]

cope that

[pure karma]

the thing is i cant even max out the B580 cause cyberpunk is too cpu intensive for my 10700F lol

[verbal raft]

Just don't put crowd density to high and you will be fine

My 3600 level CPU could handle PT 🤷‍♂️

[pure karma]

i dont really care tho cause native cyberpunk looks like blurry pixelated ass

[verbal raft]

At 60, pretty much locled

[verbal raft]

Native TAA is ass in every game these days, also, what settings are you using there ?

[pure karma]

maxed everything other than thwe RT if i recall

at 1440P

with a 50% performance increase OC on the CPU and default gpu clock

i wonder how overclockable the B580 is

i havent tried

[verbal raft]

Ahh, i was Like, "is this RT ? No it cant be, performance too good"

[pure karma]

it is

rt and path tracing just its not set to physcho

i had it on minimum or one notch up from minimum

and this is on windows on linux this would be more like 35fps averages

[verbal raft]

Sure as sh't no PT there would be in the 30s
So just regular RT is what you are saying

[verbal raft]

Linux RT is f"cked, you loose so much performance

[pure karma]

and on not amd you loose like 20% raster

on top

[verbal raft]

While with AMD you gain 1-20% depending on the game

that has nothing to do with it

[pure karma]

my second system is on bazzite yea

[verbal raft]

You just probably have lower standards than us

[pure karma]

even if its a 25% performance loss i feel like the lower idle resource usage will make up for it since this is a system thats gonna run practically 16 hours at idle a day lmao

although now i want to play cyberpunk on linux again so brb lol

took me 2 seconds

[verbal raft]

Hold up,fellow scrapmechanic player ?

[pure karma]

yes...

[verbal raft]

Tell me, Has it gotten a single update in the past month ?

[pure karma]

no

it hasent gotten an update in like 9 months

[verbal raft]

🤣

Good lordy

[pure karma]

i will say sound quality on bazzite is better by default

sounds clearer but its also much quieter

i forgot i only have like 2 screws in this motherboard until just now

i plugged in something into the back usb and the entire motherboard shifted lmao

i want somewhat to make old motherboards for the millions of homeless cpu's

[charred relic]

Find those responsible and ensure that they suffer.

[pure karma]

i guess the new cyberpunk update nuked RT On arc cause its no longer suported

[charred relic]

I remember back in my early linux days the headache was modems... at that stage virtually eveything on shelves was a "winmodem"

[pure karma]

cant enable raytracing or path tracing on arc anymore

[charred relic]

which meant it required software in the OS to function instead of having it all on ROM

[pure karma]

option is there but you cant interact with it

[charred relic]

the non winmodems were around... but had to look and more expensive, but linux would support it

then i shared my 56k internet on a LAN and it didn't relaly matter since linux supported every NIC under the sun

an isdn back then was just too much money

the only other option was way way more expensive.. a T1 drop

And that'd have gotten me an install bill involving everything from the CO to my house on top of the monthy heh

The T1 would have gotetn me a touch over 1.5Mbit...

1.54

The only residences I knew of back then that had that were large local BBS systems that would have 1 or more...

But those were almost all used for phone lines not data

[pure karma]

eww

why tf am i on pcie x8 aghhh

cyberpunk is a full time job i swear

[jagged snow]

Every time I'm like "oh, I'm gonna try AI again" I get bs like this "That is an excellent and very sharp question. You've noticed a subtle but important detail"
I don't need my computer to spend 2kWh and 15 minutes to generate twenty tokens of useless butt-kissing

[pure karma]

my desk is probably finally going to be finished by thursday so thats fun

[pure karma]

no its just a normal one

i feel like an ajustable one would not only be a tranformer at this scale but also be more inconvinient than anything

[thin trout]

llm's are 80% butt kissing and 20% lies

[safe trench]

i hate collectors edition of games

[pure karma]

and its only getting more fucked as time goes by

[sharp matrix]

I know, why I try to not listen to the news anymore. Look this is all fucked and I can't do anything about it.

Just give it to amon, end it

[pure karma]

you know screen tearing is bad when even vsync dosent fix it

and also holy sheet does PSU exhaust air smell like death

gona have to tell seasonic to put air fresheners inside there power suplies at this rate

[safe trench]

i some how found a moron complaining about 10 series driver support

[pure karma]

to be fair its the next one on the chopping block

[safe trench]

does he know that it was 14 years? (older than 70% of roblox players)

[pure karma]

its only been 9???

[safe trench]

im including the 700

[pure karma]

i am NOT letting my 1070 die before it hits 10 years old

neither my 7700K

[safe trench]

just stuff it into a new rig lol

[pure karma]

it will make it to 2026 wether it likes it or not

[pure karma]

no thats cheating

[safe trench]

i dont think anyone is deranged enough to throw it away

[pure karma]

havent done a single hardware replacement in that system all of it has lived even the m.2

which is a miracle

since they were speculated to only live like 3 years originally or whatever

[safe trench]

slurs!1!11

[pure karma]

why would i spend effort to get a personal ai chatbot

thats practically modern woman anyway

[safe trench]

*this is degenerate slang

im gonna scare every nvidia fanboy in satisfactory who will read this

[pure karma]

i would be the most npc boyfriend ever i already know it

[safe trench]

we all do

that also applies to everyone in satisfactory pretty much

[pure karma]

how much vram would that even be lol

i really want a 2080ti for no reasson

[safe trench]

i just wanna get a founders edition so i can hang it up on my wall like its a goddam trophy of brain damage

[pure karma]

i think its just cause 2080ti sli was the norm when i started getting into tech more seriously

[safe trench]

(the mirror look is so nice)

no one is named grok here sadly

so i cant just randomly ping them if i want to

oh you seen the new ign study?

in like 10 years consoles will be dead or something

[pure karma]

truth is consoles are just worst pc's

and unlike in the past there no longer a good deal either

[safe trench]

true but you know

its still quite a shame that they will just stop being made

[pure karma]

ehh i still see myself using my switch in 10 years if its still working

but nerver again will i unironically get a sit down consol

theres nothing pulling me in

[safe trench]

@hearty shore is this true

[pure karma]

@yokasiri is the true siri

sometimes i question what your even talking about

and this is one of those times

[safe trench]

i love vencord

i love linux

i have 0 regrets switching to it

isnt that what we all did

i just wish folder searching wasnt as stupid as it is now

we need more mews

[pure karma]

youtube's ai inspiration is learning

from the best

[sharp matrix]

The ai is learning well

[pure karma]

i will say the art is sick

the fact that it actually has like a bit of sense behind it unlike usual is kinda impressive

like even the suggested script is technically not that crazy

[dire igloo]

It is because it's presented from a game design perspective and not a programming view

If you wanted to see if you could somehow get satisfactory trains to spiral around themselves, you'd have to look into how CSS implemented the game within the engine

It's very obviously the average video-essay-esk content slop you see all over YouTube but applied to Satisfactory.
It's not trying to explore niche details about the game, it's applying the same content blueprint you already see everywhere

[pure karma]

You act like this isent improvement

Last time it told me to eat slime rancher slimes for a week 🤣

Id love to go back in time to when it wasn’t 5am

[stiff jungle]

I thought about building a picture generation AI on breadboard

[visual tree]

Why does every single time just before going to vacation some sudden technical issue appears and I have to worry about solving it while half of the company is on vacation?

One word btw: SAP

I just want to go on vacation and pretend I don't have a job

[dire igloo]

In a boat filling with water, this improvement means using a bucket instead of a teacup - the correct solution would be to plug the holes or not use a leaky boat in the first place

[dire igloo]

I got another for you: Cisco

[visual tree]

And I thought Cisco was a reputable brand

Good news: SAP One.ERP support is already working on my incident I opened and they will hopefully solve it

[languid gulch]

also: comcast

[visual tree]

The most hated company in USA 🤣

I hope more ISP's are covering areas in USA so Comcast doesn't keep it's monopoly status

[dire igloo]

Microsoft

I did not understand what you meant with that question, I just know that Dyson vacs are comparably overpriced and aren't actually that well-built

They seem sturdy, but they failed reliably under stresstest conditions (Stiftung Warentest endurance testing which resulted in the battery connector housings melting)

I did not

I am considering buying one for myself too, but holy hell it's nigh impossible to do research on that

My current shortlist of products I'm considering:

• 140€ Levoit LVAC-200
• 150€ Shark Detect Pro IW1611DE
• 175€ Black&Decker Powerseries Extreme Max
• 180€ Roborock H5
• 199€ Tineco Pure One S11
• 200€ Bissell Powerclean FurFinder
• 210€ Levoit LVAC-300

There is one (noise, suction power, handling, etc) but it's generally not worth it compared to other high-end vacs (Miele HX2 Triflex, Shark Stratos IZ400EUT, Shark PowerDetect IP3251EU, etc)

What for?

The tires? Would be surprised if it did

Or do you mean soot/ashes/rubberdust?

[mental oriole]

eeey arch ❤️

that was like a few months back

Ngl I've had no issues so far.

And I don't mind tinkering a bit either.

[tribal kraken]

USB rotation table pushed to limits

about 5.5kg steel piece

[mental oriole]

Don't play that much, but everything I've played so far works.

And there are ofc games that will never work (mostly competitive pvp games) that require shitty anticheat but those are a no-go either way.

[visual tree]

Guess corporate decision to hire Indians for SAP procurement support was a bad idea. They might know english well but they are clueless about business processes and gave me wrong answer which only made me more confused regarding technical issue in SAP

And I have a feeling they used AI to figure out what I am asking them to do...

[safe trench]

the only way id get pissed at arch is if it fucking just
you know

deletes all my files

but i dont use "disk destroyer"

[dire igloo]

You gotta remove the French language package

[safe trench]

yes

[charred relic]

Timelapse test

Hostess cupcake vs Ants

If the neighbors cat doesn’t eat the bait first

Took a picture of my iPhone with my iPad and uploaded it to the iCloud

Whilst listening to my EarPods

[tough owl]

apple eco

[visual tree]

I bet a cat or dog will eat the cupcake soon

[pure karma]

New desk is almost done hehe

need to install the shelf which is a problem for tomorrow me

[safe trench]

days since desks were talked about in offtopictech: 0

[soft bloom]

I am waiting for dentist in couple days with temporary thing a tooth, and today, I had a feeling like it began to expand, after being itchy for a few days
in the first hour after the thing was first put there was so intence that after first dose of painkiller I just stray any observation again from teeth
it was itching, sometimes slightly feeling swollen, weird (coffe? metal? blood?) taste in mouth sometimes, but today it felt like some extra volume preventing from properly closing mouth was there
the only question is: how long before I stop imagining what it could be and just open up a search to find out what it might actually be.

[jagged snow]

Speaking of, I made a custom desk

[pure karma]

a desk here, a desk there, desks everywhere

[jagged snow]

Gosh dang it

I helped a friend build a pc

[pure karma]

big mistake?

let me guess... now you have to fix it

[jagged snow]

No I've just spent the last three nights helping him debug why a bunch of games wouldn't launch and he was insisting that he had the hdmi plugged into the gpu but it was plugged into the motherboard after all that time

Speaking of, anyone have reccomendations for a reasonable 2-or-4 drive sas hba?

[languid gulch]

LOL so i decided to do the "compress this drive to save space" on one of mine, and it compressed it a whopping 0.01TB out of 4TB

[soft bloom]

OS compression?

[languid gulch]

i do appreciate that some prebuilts now come with a "NOT THIS ONE" sticker over the mobo hdmi

[safe trench]

this is what happens when we get too jenuis.

[pure karma]

thats great until you your motherboard has permenant sticker residue on it

[languid gulch]

well yes

but i still appreciate it as a stupid check

as demonstrated above, it would save quite a lot of headaches if it were a standard everywhere

[pure karma]

find a way to put a child proof lock on the onboard graphics instead.... PLEASE

sticker residue is the worst

[languid gulch]

lol

better idea: have a cover that slides in place over the mobo hdmi when you put a dedicated gpu in

[pure karma]

but using the onboard for extra screens is something some people do so that would be problematic

[languid gulch]

maybe give it a double action, where it initially slides into place, but then can be manually slid back out of the way

[pure karma]

the fact that out of everything video playback is the limiting factor of my gpu is depresing

i guess raw playback is just a lot harder than it looks

[jagged snow]

Geez, are you decoding 4k120 av1 or something?

[pure karma]

1440P60 av1 yea

[jagged snow]

That makes sense

[pure karma]

with very low compression

[languid gulch]

ok i have a dumb question

when you plug into the mobo's hdmi, is the "screen behavior" like what happens when you plug a 2nd output into a gpu?

where you do stretch/duplicate stuff

or can you have it behave completely separate from the gpu

[pure karma]

its the same since its essentially just sli between the gpu and igpu

and it sucks cause it has all the downsides with no benefits other than the extra display outputs for like signage or something

[glossy glacier]

If you have an iGPU they behave like separate GPUs. Although some stuff might be rendered on the one GPU and then copied to the other GPU to display.
I'd you don't have an iGPU there is no output

[languid gulch]

i was kinda hoping to do something like maybe plug in a "basic" non-gpu-intensive output onto one display using the dGPU, and be able to do things like turn it off/on without that doing the stupid Windows "omg something happened to the displays, i better reset everything"

[visual tree]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1mi9ioj/new_semiconductor_tariff_plan_coming_as_soon_as/

I bet Trump will give up soon and forget about this when a large group of representatives from tech companies pay him a visit

US leads in seminconductor design but manufacturing is something completelly different

And it takes years & a shit load of money to build a semiconductor factory

[languid gulch]

yup

TSMC fab here isn't up yet

[visual tree]

We considered building a semiconductor factory here but it would cost 5 billion USD. The bigger issue is finding qualified workforce related to semiconductor industry which virtually doesn't exist here

[pure karma]

not to mention materials

your not solving manufacturing if your importing everything instead of only the final product

[languid gulch]

and also all the support infrastructure

they've built a lot of the fab, but not much else, so people will have to travel 40km to live & eat

[visual tree]

*unless Trump is doing this just to scare leaders of the tech companies and try to manipulate them which is probably not going to work

[pure karma]

intel is too busy trying not to go bankrupt

amd is busy monopolizing the threadrippers

and nvidia is busy making garbage drivers

i dont think a single one of them could care less

[safe trench]

realisticly trump could capsize them

[pure karma]

i want intel to go down and make a comeback honestly

[safe trench]

as in completly down

[pure karma]

would be much better than just continuing this petty slighly better than the last fight each quarter

arc is good

if they split arc and focus on arc while they sort out cpu's they would do perfectly fine

[safe trench]

have you guys seen tsmcs earnings

they are litterally the monopoly and the reason why everything is so expensive

and we always blame the "smaller" companies for it

[pure karma]

nope... and i probably dont want to lol

[safe trench]

no one credible is even trying to fight tsmc

no one gone after tsmc just because they are so big and have all this power over pretty much all of computing

[pure karma]

its also just one of these things so complex nowadays that starting over from scratch is basically impossible yet alone achieving competitive results doing so

[safe trench]

how is tsmc not a monopoly

when both intel and microsoft suck it is honestly really bad for the industry as a whole

[pure karma]

i should probably go to bed but im feeling like the irresponsible goober that i am tonight

ehhh im not sleeping yet

ima push to 6AM and then call it quits for these long nights i think

its enough for one summer

im prettysure i have insomnia anyway

but im a deep sleeper usually so i hide it well

[safe trench]

probably something you will need later into the game idk

[safe trench]

just so you know you will infact regret doing this normally

[pure karma]

the thing is im more productive at night because my brain is more focused on one thing at a time during the night

[safe trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1355127621368676456/1399611772494938154/togif.gif

[pure karma]

cats are science... right?

there biology technically

[dire igloo]

Cats are important companions for us basement-dwelling tech cobolds

[dire igloo]

me wanna pet, very cute, nice fluff

[charred relic]

The experiment continues.

[languid gulch]

is there any reason to try to recycle keyboards or mice

[main locust]

environmental reasons? theyre more of a process to recycle so its better than sitting in a landfill. in san diego we also had "recycling" programs for electronics that would fix the equipment and donate it to schools/programs/etc

[languid gulch]

was more thinking of old & busted ones

[night girder]

Anyone know if on a iPhone 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz are from same network chip or seperate?

[dire igloo]

Decoration

[languid gulch]

lol

i doubt most of them are even adequate for that

so many garbage tier items because i was "too cheap" to get something good

[night girder]

Because afaik, it should be the same piece of hardware handling this? And for some reason, my iphone can only see 5.0Ghz. While the laptop can see both networks.

[languid gulch]

i wonder if it's one of those software things that apple likes to do occasionally

"i'll choose not to see your pathetic 2.4GHz network"

[glossy glacier]

Might be on a channel the iPhone does not support

[night girder]

Yeah I read that too. But that wasn't my question 😄

I need to find out how the iPhone network hardware works. 99% sure it's the same hardware.

But you never know what apple does 😄

In belgium.

[visual tree]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1mj15fo/jim_acosta_sparks_fury_with_interview_of_dead/

This is wrong on so many levels....

Read somewhere parents apparently approved to make an AI avatar of their killed son ....

Better prepare a letter and give it to my relatives in advance. I don't want anyone to make an AI version of me whether I am alive or dead

[dire igloo]

I actually want one, but not before my death but while I'm still alive - see how the AI would become me

but the risks are just too high

[visual tree]

I would probably punch the screen with my Avatar and say: "You are just a fake version of me and you will never be trully me!"

[sharp matrix]

this is so creepy💀

[night girder]

if someone made a AI based on whatever is going inside my head, I think the AI would be so conflicted it terminates itself 🤣

"I hate AI's" ... "Wait I am an AI" ... "WTF?" - Existential crisis. Termination.

[visual tree]

My dreams are so bizzare they would confuse the hell out of AI

Last dream was me hearing footsteps and realizing some guys dressed as goths broke into my house. When I found them, I realized they are just goth real estate agents who came to help me sell my house

That's how crazy my dreams are. I should be hired by the Tool band

Don't need shrooms or drugs. I have my own mind

[night girder]

Goth real estate agents 🤣

[visual tree]

If I decide to apply for a job in marketing, I should just tell my dreams in a job interview

They will hire me on the spot for "indescribable imagination"

[night girder]

or send you the a madhouse.

I wanted to say loony bin... but I am not sure if that's correct 🤣

looney bin? looneybin?

[visual tree]

I had dreams that are crazier than the goth real estate agents but I forgot them by now lol

I actually wrote one weird dream on my tablet while I remembered the details, please don't send me to the asylum 🙏

"Big storm - there is a cloudless part in the sky that flickered like a computer screen
Helicopters dropped portable barbecue grills for cooking food in each house garden
The first alien appears and attacks
Humans realized that it is necessary to feed the aliens so they do not attack again
The aliens weakness is light
They can be destroyed by a special man who shines but can only be found in a secret underground base full of aliens"

And no, the man who shines is not Snutt and his head

[night girder]

Those aliens wouldn't stand a chance on earth 🤣

We crush em during the daylight.

[visual tree]

Well, that's why dreams don't make sense lol

[night girder]

they never do.

Well, sometimes I can see where my brain is getting the inspiration from when I dream.

[visual tree]

I wonder if the Tool band was under drugs when they made music videos

[night girder]

no, if you know tool they are actually against drugs. A lot of lyrics are about junky friends etc.

[visual tree]

Guess they really have a vivid imagination

[night girder]

I think it's the basist if not mistaken. Or guitarist. He makes the videos in clay. Or used too.

[visual tree]

I could only imagine things in their music videos in my dreams and never while I am awake

[night girder]

Adam Jones, who is not only the guitarist but also a talented artist and director.

Big Tool head 😄

[night girder]

WTF is going on in US?

“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

[pure karma]

bruh

[night girder]

AMD is hiding 🤣 But honestly, this shit is getting crazy.

[twin dew]

Intel hasn't yet paid 1M to Trump for a dinner.

[pure karma]

anyway on better than this bullshit news... my new shelf is coming along nicely

[twin dew]

Like how Trump changed tune with Nvidia after such dinner.

[night girder]

yeah, this stinks. And idiots like MagicZ doesn't know how this will impact us.

And I call him idiot, since that's literally his tag.

[pure karma]

nah your fine i embrace it at this point

[night girder]

Isn't it because of the new 60% rule or something?

[pure karma]

i dont know everything and im not gonna act like i do but im also not gona stop defending the things i do believe

[willow pike]

bigly

[night girder]

Now, let's hope they go after Nvidia. Maybe we get lucky and get cheaper GPU's 😊

[twin dew]

Like I said, Trump called for Nvidia to be split.
And after a dinner with Jensen, switched to praising instead.

Where Nvidia paid that $US 1M for that dinner access.

[night girder]

"Hey, this was a lovely dinner. Want to come over to my hotel room to continue this conversation?" 🤣

-The next day- "I love Nvidia."

Apparantly some senerator, Tom Cotton, called out Tan for having relations with China.

The CEO, Tan, is not even Chinese, but from Malaysia.

99% this is just a Political reckoning.

[pure karma]

political beef about politics beefing in a server where politics are a no no is peak i cant lie

[night girder]

There is no beef here.

[willow pike]

it is not possible to talk about tech without talking about the orange cheeto in the room

he didn't know what nvidia was at first and said he was gonna try and compete with them somehow

"how much of the market do they own? they tell me they own 100%"

and that it would take ten years to catch up assuming nvidia stopped advancing, which is true

only after this did trump think about playing nice with jensen

meanwhile, intel is taking government money and shitting the bed so trump does some angry tweets

cause it's a day with a Y in it

[soft bloom]

https://youtube.com/shorts/4uBt5hdoKTg?si=pyZQP2d9mgIdNja0
diy clouds nothing extra needed

[pure karma]

now THAT is a desk

[sharp matrix]

Just the normal madness, I've gotten used to it.

From what I can tell intels foundry business is in the process of failing and likely not to recover

Also heard the yields are about 10% for 18A which is nothing short of a disaster, so its basically over for intels foundry if these numbers are accurate

And that's reported to be up from 5% from last year....

[night girder]

Yeah, I read similar things. That's why I don't get this move to publicly crucify a CEO of a company that's in trouble.

[sharp matrix]

Right, its not helpful, especially if they have 10% yields on 18A, that makes it non viable for mass production

So if that's right, its over for 18A and any future nodes to

[night girder]

10% is really horrible when you aim for 50%.

[sharp matrix]

Yep, 18A is dead if this is true

[night girder]

You know who the source is? I read that a south korean newspaper reported about the 10%. Wonder how reliable information is.

[ivory rampart]

want to know a wild bug?

in Windows sandbox, if you open the search bar, there will be random (and often adult content related) search tearms listed as recent searches.

this has been happening for at least 2 months, thats about what i found online. |

i use Sandbox at work to test some of our software, and almost got into trouble bc of that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/1lfq0iz/has_any_of_you_encountered_adult_content_in/

[night girder]

That doesn't sounds like the behavior you expect from a sandbox lol

[sharp matrix]

Good question because I have heard wide range 10-50%+ for what the yields might be

Why im inclined to just wait and see what happens, part of me couldn't believe the yields would still be that bad, so hopefully it isnt accurate information and its at least 50% now

As that would cross it into being viable for mass production

[ivory rampart]

if i had to take a gues, its searches from other users in sandbox.

maybe the account that is "created" for the sandbox user inside isnt unique and bc microsoft LOVES always online, it syncs searches from other mashines

i had some asian/chinese/japanese letters in recent searches aswell

when i wouldnt even know how to type those

was intensely uncompfortable

[night girder]

Good use of microsofts sandboxes rofl.

[ivory rampart]

i was testing if the new installers for our software work as intended, (they did) so i was showing how they work.
open up the search bar to have the most explicit searches possible

good day

[night girder]

That just sucks. Should actually contact Microsoft tbh.

Or out of the name of the company you work for.

[ivory rampart]

its all good in the end, no problem.
But man that moment just sucked

[night girder]

Well it shouldn't happen.

[ivory rampart]

yeah idk, maybe ill make a bug report or something

[night girder]

Especially in a bussines environment.

Imagine having a meeting, with CEO's and you have to run them through your code/application.

and that shows up, you might be in trouble and get fired.

[ivory rampart]

yeah if someone gets unlucky, there might be realy bad consequences

[night girder]

and top brass isn't always smart. So you can say it's a "bug" or explain what happened. They still think you looked it up.

[ivory rampart]

how high are you

[safe trench]

@verbal raft of course they have to

[jagged snow]

It turns out that blueprint issues are the bane of every game, not just satis

[visual tree]

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1mjzbcg/hbo_maxs_password_sharing_crackdown_will_start_in/

I share my password with my sister

I wonder if I could bypass all of this by placing a spare router in my sister's apartment and run a VPN server

Or vice-versa

Me or my sister would have to connect to the VPN server in order to get same ip address and trick HBO into thinking we are in the same household

Someone mentioned Netflix checks your wifi name but I doubt they would do that since there is an easy workaround

[pure karma]

i just learned that the reason was my monitors were screen tearing was NOT in fact the cable but that they simply do that if there not set at 165HZ in settings

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[night girder]

If only there was something you could enable to prevent screen tearing. Oh wait there is. Vsync

[languid gulch]

my personal favorite is when windows updates and resets all that

[night girder]

Can't you do it Nvidia/AMD side Cuyar? Don't leave such thing in the hands of windows.

[languid gulch]

yes

but also windows likes to fuck around occasionally

[night girder]

WIndows fucks with AMD/Nvidia software? Interesting. Havent seen that happen.

[languid gulch]

yup

had it happen a couple months ago

[night girder]

No worries.

Microsoft added AI. It will fix it all 🤣

Or don't update (immediately). I let updates cook for a bit 😛

let other people do some free QA on Windows updates so Microsoft can fix some bugs before I update.

[pure karma]

dosent work since its physical

thats why i was mad confused

its probably a defect cause it seems to be an issue specifically with this monitor and not the other ones

where if its set to 60HZ it has a mental breakdown

[mental oriole]

One of my old screens had the same issue, if it wasnt running the max refresh rate it would cause colors to be all pixelated, specially the red channel.

[charred relic]

I exist only in VR now

[pure karma]

are you sure you dont exist in a loop

[safe trench]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/497142796961054721/1023084775856156773/image0-13.gif

[maiden coyote]

Well.. it looked like dust.. I guess the fins were dust

[charred relic]

Don’t judge me I’m embracing the future

[languid gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgyS8oJC8g

[visual tree]

@tribal kraken Made a decision. I am going to pay for main electrotechnical project this year and most likely install solar panels next year:

I'll apply for group purchase in order to get at least 20% discount + 50% government grants. Will pay around €2.500 in the end for 6,37 kW

[tribal kraken]

That's sounds good deal

[visual tree]

I need optimizers though because there will be solar panels on both west/east side

And if russian hackers start taking EU power grid down, I might as well buy solar batteries

Not sure how grid works in other countries but if there is a blackout here, grid-tied solar panel system will not produce power for safety reasons unless you have a battery

[willow pike]

what software is that

[visual tree]

SolarEdge Designer

[soft bloom]

I think YT wants me to become communist

like, for what Fing reason it promotes random videos with so few views

and this was second suggestion for the vid on Adventure Time's plot retrospective

||that could be linked to communism only by the red color of 'god' of chaos lol||

[maiden coyote]

Makes sense, you don't want a cloud to cause a brownout..

[dire igloo]

Happened before with YouTube.
Under every video, the second recommendation was a wildly unrelated video with under 1k views from an unrelated creator

[pure karma]

Mobile data makes me want to crash out

WHY DOES IT ONLY WORK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN

[jagged snow]

Because radios are black magic

[cyan crescent]

My new motherboard is getting stuck on boot. Ugh

[jagged snow]

Are you sure it's not just memory training?

[twin dew]

Memory training on AM5 happens before any picture is shown.

[spark walrus]

It looks like there is a harddisk attached with a boot sector without OS

[twin dew]

Should error out in that case.
Not get stuck.

[spark walrus]

SO when there is a readable boot sector, the message NO OS is skipped

[twin dew]

Meant that that next stage boot loader errors out.

[spark walrus]

Another issue could be USB enumeration

[twin dew]

Most common cause I know for that state is Windows Fast Boot freaking out, where forced shutdown and then poweron helps.
But also marginal RAM or CPU can cause that.

[spark walrus]

Itf this is on a harddisk which is not primairy , the error for bootloader is also skipped

If it's a RAM or CPU error, there are lights or a nummeric display on the motherboard displaying this error

[twin dew]

How? When that error is from the bootloader itself, if the MB tries to use it.

[twin dew]

Not in case of marginal OC.
Where the basic boot worked, but once switching to full performance something fails.

Those again work before there is any picture.

[twin dew]

Also, not relevant to any GPT partitioned disk, only old MBR partitioning has boot sector.

[spark walrus]

Just trying to guess some issues 😄

[cyan crescent]

If i switch to the previous mobo i was using, i boot just fine into os. Problem with the previous mobo is i cant enter bios settings.

[spark walrus]

IF you run windows 8, 10 or 11, just click restart in Windows while holding your Shift button on the keyboard, a blue screen with several options inluding enter BIOS will come up (Click windows start button, click on the power symbol, Press and hold the left Shift on the keyboard, Click restarrt, hold Shift pressed until windows says , wait a moment or something like that

[night girder]

I read so much issues around fast boot over the years that it makes me wonder wtf is does that can go wrong.

If it makes a snapshot on shutdown of your system so it can load faster, how can this cause issues.

And how can fast boot even work, when it's first time booting up the system 🤔

[soft bloom]

So I get this pretty much every morning
PC is not booting, just doing click-clack when I press power button
then I disconnect it from the AC, couple minutes of waiting, and it boots
or just boots on second press after click-clack noise
no idea

[night girder]

So apparantly, on windows shutdown, when fastboot is enable, it takes snapshot of hiberfil.sys. This is your kernel state. And on boot, it skips normal boot steps and just reads the hiberfil.sys and loads kernel in.

[spark walrus]

If you have some weird problems going on on, Holding Left Shift before you click shutdown will empty this file and forces windows to reload completely on next boot. You won;t loose files, settings etc. You just force windows to reload full

[cyan crescent]

Im in bios on the old board.

What could be the issue that is preventing me from entering bios on a normal start up?

[verbal raft]

"Advanced gaming" AKA minecraft ?
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-launches-radeon-rx-7400-designed-for-advanced-gaming-with-43w-gpu-power

[spark walrus]

It could be because of the UEFI mode enabled

[cyan crescent]

In windows or bios?

[spark walrus]

BIOS

[cyan crescent]

Now bf6 thinks secure boot is disabled when i was just in bios and it was enabled

I really hate tech

[night girder]

You can double check what windows side is registering.

You find this in "System Information" > System Summary

[languid gulch]

it's also still in beta for the next 2 months

i'd assume that'd be an issue they'd fix before full release

but i'm also the kind of person who wouldn't report that because i don't like doing a company's work for it for free 🤣

[twin dew]

It loads part-way, then makes snapshot.
If HW state changes at all from when that snapshot was made, it breaks.

And it is often slower with SSDs than not having it enabled...

Made significant difference in boot time on HDDs, with downside being much longer shutdown time.
But with SSDs it is mostly useless and just extends shutdown times unnecessarely.-

[mental oriole]

µsoft is just a small startup so it's gonna happen

[wanton orchid]

there is no point in not having it "enabled" it's old standard already

[twin dew]

Basically with UEFI type boot, by default the UEFI firmware passes control to the OS immediately, without prompting for entry into it etc.
Need to use OS side menu to enter or change UEFI side options to not do that.

[soft bloom]

wait, so magnetic field is just a property of surrounding matter's tiny dipole's positioning themselves and storing energy in it means orienting them one way (not meaning as one straight line, but as in 'specific' formation)so that when something tries to orient them the other way there will be some resistance?..

[unique pivot]

so I'm looking to upgrade phones and am currently looking at the Samsung S24 FE, anyone got some experience with it? ( it's under 500 euro here. coming from an A13 )

[soft bloom]

Looks like to trigger this, it only needs to stay off for couple minutes
And when trying go turn on, it may click-clack once, or twice with a small 1-2 seconds pause between pairs of sound.
That's getting weirder

What could be wrong with the grid or psu that causes this?

[twin dew]

PSU protections triggering relay state to off.
And need full power removal to trigger it back to conducting.

So most likely PSU that is starting to fail.

[soft bloom]

But why is it doing so after staying connected to the grid (with switch on) while pc is not running?
I mean, no issues during operation.

I hope it's not from nay sort of overheating..
Though, maybe i should check dust filter

[jagged snow]

https://youtu.be/GmoaOzUzXkE?si=YyGXCZMwVX3t8Um3
this is cool

@mental oriole you're being ripped off

[mental oriole]

?

How am I being ripped off?

For doing a hobby?

[night girder]

yes

[mental oriole]

Watched the video and it sounds overly complicated. But again depends on the approach you take.
I have some of those systems already designed but I'm doing things differently. So calling it "ripped off" is wrong either way.

Also this "being" silent idk what that means...
I still got a discord ping...

[night girder]

Huh ...

You got a ping sound or a ping badge?

[mental oriole]

Ping icon on taskbar and in app

[night girder]

ah yeah.

[mental oriole]

So silent my ass

[night girder]

Silent only removes the ping sound I believe

[mental oriole]

So dnd already does that

[night girder]

uhu ... but you can @silent someone to not make a sound.

If you can't be arsed to see if they have DnD enabled etc.

honestly first time I see that feature. And it's here for 3 years already lol.

[mental oriole]

Never seen it

[jagged snow]

I try to use it for politeness

[jagged snow]

Yeah I just thought it was interesting because you were working on your own engine

[night girder]

Yeah, I understand that. It's a nice feature. Didn't kknow about is all.

I personally nuked sounds out of discord.

[mental oriole]

That's fair 🙂

[soft bloom]

so, if I disconnect it from the grid while not sing for a long time, it boots up right away

[twin dew]

Which is why I expect it to be PSUs protection circuitry starting to misbehave, and not being triggered because of actual protection trigger.

[willow pike]

https://youtu.be/cXVQVbAFh6I

yeag

[sharp matrix]

Its going to be a tough time for intel

[wanton orchid]

taught in management schools
yea it's probably already getting poured in manuals Intel you already did it, as a bad player

[twin dew]

Intels highest levels aren't willing to take the profit margin hit to turn the ship around.
So instead they switched to maximizing short term profits before it dies from its own weight.

While trying to seem to be doing something for purely financial people, so the share price won't tank.

Playing musical chairs & chicken combination to see who gets out with profits, and who is left with ownership when things actually collapse.
Where longer you stay, more you profit, unless you are still in once that collapse happens and you lose everything.

[twin dew]

[Chairman of Intel Board Frank] Yeary, a former investment banker, had drawn up a plan for Intel to exit from the foundry business entirely earlier this year when acting as interim executive chair. Yeary’s proposal involved spinning out the business and having other companies such as Nvidia and Amazon take stakes in it, the people said. Yeary also explored brokering a sale of the business to Taiwan’s TSMC, the people said, but that effort went nowhere.

And seems there is now power struggle betwen the new CEO, who wants to keep the fabs, and Yeary.

https://archive.is/20250808033847/https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-trump-board-9cc08631

[willow pike]

why the fuck would nvidia want it

they like being fabless thank you very much

[jagged snow]

It lets them jack up prices and not take the blame for supply restrictions

[twin dew]

GitHub CEO left and Microsoft is ending the semi-independent status of GitHub and merging it into their "CoreAI" team/group.

[pure karma]

well github is dead in that case

[night girder]

Baldur! Lip-Bu Tan is meeting Trump on monday for the 1 billion diner you talked about.

And at the same time Craig Barrett, ex intel ceo is saying Intel needs a big injeciton to be saved.

40 billion dollars.

And he says Apple, Nvidia en Google need to pay that.

Large American customers such as Nvidia, Apple and Google need a so-called second source for the production of their most important products, Barrett argues. The availability of such an alternative producer is necessary for reasons such as pricing, geographical (in)stability and securing supply chains. Intel's old x86 chip competitor AMD once became big because it was second source for Intel. This was a condition of the then computer giant IBM, which wanted to spread risks for the supply of x86 processors.

[twin dew]

Well, "only" 1M or 5M per seat depending on exact event.

[willow pike]

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-rip-jensen-adam-deus-gif-26053399