off-topic-tech

[pure karma]

i know my ancient tv does

yea cast

[sterile plinth]

Clearly not ancient then

Anyway no my tv doesn't have an antenna inside it (why would it?!)

I'm thinking the cheapest solution would be having a raspi and screen casting through some software?

[pure karma]

do you have another system of some kind

like a potato pc

[sterile plinth]

thinking about it a laptop could work yeah

[pure karma]

you could just use it and use steam remote play and spend nothing

[sterile plinth]

steam remote play?

So my controller input would first go through the laptop then to the PC? Wouldn't that introduce extra latency

[pure karma]

on windows its not bad on linux its really bad

so depends on the context

[sterile plinth]

I think I'll just use something like TeamViewer or Skype or who knows what to just stream the display

[pure karma]

on windows its so little iv nerver noticed it

[sterile plinth]

My controller can be connected directly to the pc

I just hope its range is enough

[pure karma]

you can still have the inputs be conected to your pc

[sterile plinth]

it's not an authentic one either...

[pure karma]

you can use both for inputs

[sterile plinth]

You think an off brand PS4 controller can get 10m range or so

[pure karma]

ehh not sure

[sterile plinth]

I know even authentic Xbox ones cant

[pure karma]

the only thing i know that gets close to that is the switch which for some reasson the switch controlers have absolutely stupid range and you dont have any issues for like 8M+

[sterile plinth]

damn

[pure karma]

definitely worth a try tho

[sterile plinth]

well yeah, I'll test tomorrow

it's a game that looks absolutely spectacular on ultra high settings but only my beefy PC can play it

Worst case scenario I'll just play it on my monitor

[bronze jasper]

weird thing i've noticed since i updated window. i use chrome for webapps not my default browser, so i open it with the start menu whenever i use it. but whenever i reboot now, it doesn't show up in the recent apps in my start menu anymore

its there now because i just opened it, but i bet if i reboot it'll be gone again

[bronze jasper]

the use the bluetooth spec regardless of what brand they are. 10m is about the max of the protocol

input lag on linux isn't so bad if you're using somethiung like steam deck which has wayland and game scope in full effect

[safe trench]

[mental oriole]

[charred relic]

Use Linux... because it's right.

Aaaand I'll see myself out now

[bronze jasper]

I used linux for years. it was a bunch of bullshit and fucking around with the OS level shit too.

[charred relic]

wuts linux

[bronze jasper]

you mean AI integration? it'll surely come to your favorite linux distros to.

[charred relic]

my AI uses AI so it can enshitify while it inshitifies

[bronze jasper]

Ubuntu is making a lean version specifically for ai to integrate with devices

ubuntu.com/blog/edge-ai

[charred relic]

Bow down to your AI overlords!

[bronze jasper]

linux is already enshitified if you count android as a linux distro

[charred relic]

It is...

[bronze jasper]

far more monetization of apps on android than windows ever got

[charred relic]

just more specialized

[bronze jasper]

yeah some people don't count it because it isn't gnu

[charred relic]

apparently google is taking away sideloading

pretty lame...

[bronze jasper]

you can still sideload anything that you certify through google i think

[charred relic]

Not that it matters to me at this point since I switched to an iphone

I've been seeing videos about how they are going to remove that

"As announced on the Android Developers Blog, Google plans to block unverified apps from being installed on Android devices through sideloading."

[bronze jasper]

developers still need a way to load apps without deploying them. it'll still exist. "unverified" is the key word there

there'll be a certification process through an api

[junior orbit]

Photons

[charred relic]

Yep but the next step is...

[junior orbit]

Optical computing through polarization which then can be used to make logic gates which in turn can then be used to build an optical based computer.

[bronze jasper]

its the same security model that apple uses for their apps. or windows for their driver model. just a central authority for a certificate

[junior orbit]

Op, nevermind. 😅

[charred relic]

Wonder if they can use this to lock Epic out...

[bronze jasper]

on that note, optical computers are a thing already. but they're no where near the speeds and complexities of electronic computing on silicon substrates. i think the performance and complexity gap will continue to widen. optical needs a significant break through driven by signficant funding to ever gain traction.

like, i dont see intel making an optical x64 processor ever

[junior orbit]

Maybe, but it'd atleast be a cool science project :P

[bronze jasper]

they did already, but epic took them to court and got an injunction

[charred relic]

So I got a monitor stand for my old 32" 1080p monitor that would let me spin it around to portrait for pinball. PinballFX is as amazing as I'd hoped that way.

[bronze jasper]

revoking their developer certificate is exactly how they locked them out

[charred relic]

1920x1080 -> 1080x1920 😄

Actually good for web browing and Discord too. Demeo I haven't tried but I'm going to guess it won't like that setup.

[bronze jasper]

i sunk so many hours into full tilt pinball when i worked at a pizza place during lunch hour. dead for hours there

[charred relic]

I love physical machines. There's a place in the "area"... like an hour and a half+ away. They have retro pinball and arcade machines.

[bronze jasper]

yeah nothing beats a physical machine. the terminator one is my favorit with the big chrome skull that eats and spits out balls

[charred relic]

Space Invaders... reminds me of returning glass coke bottles to the store for the deposit then spending it on Space Invader and/or pinball

Then they got Asteroids..

[bronze jasper]

i started my journey at the video arcade later than that, around the time of mario bros or street fighter

[junior orbit]

I like Ski-Ball

[charred relic]

When I was really young the arcade had stuff like Night Driver and those old periscope style aiming games and such

[bronze jasper]

spy hunter was some good shit

that song goes hard

[charred relic]

We used to go to Brandon every summer when my siblings and I would visit my grandmother in Muskogee, they had a place there, huge arcade, 10 cent games of ski ball lol

[bronze jasper]

rampage was a favorite machine of mine. i sunk a lot of quarters into that and off road

[charred relic]

That was before Branson was a giant tourist trap full of has been country stars

...long long before

[bronze jasper]

the enshitification of towns

[charred relic]

Basically

Back then it was local family acts... there were just a handful

It was bluegrass and country but good, and they put on a real show with comedy sketches and stuff

Aaaand tickets were dirt cheap

Smaller back then but they still had all the fun shit. Bumper boats, mega arcade, mini golf, batting cages, multiple go-kart tracks, water slides...

[bronze jasper]

the water slides where i grew up had to close because they were charging $40 for a half day pass, $60 for the full day. and wondered why their business dried up

[charred relic]

that's high even for a whole water park 😮

[bronze jasper]

yeh. the owners were kind of coke heads and i think were using it to launder

[charred relic]

dope got the tobacco shop i used to manage closed down years after i left hhaah

it was a "head" shop, I mean we had some really realllly good cigars with a walk in humidor and all but we also had all the marijuna pipes and such

but when it opened there was nothing stopping that, couple of years later new ordinance that would prevent if but they were grandfathered in with no special permit

somebody they got in there was... of all of the moronic things to do, was selling drugs out of the place

[soft bloom]

why viruses feel so alien?
https://youtu.be/Ys3TiowNyqI?si=eMOxeL1kWZ4-i0EH

I mean, you could start media trend claiming that viruses are alien/ancient nanobots

also these photos are amazing (even if a bit blurry) (yeah they are not atually photos)

[wanton orchid]

take unknown stuff : show it on screen
it's literally alien : unknown stuff

[sterile plinth]

are you 100% sure they all use Bluetooth? I mean, how would you use one on PC then

[twin dew]

There are bluetooth adapters with 100m range.

10m is just the easy range, and over that it gets more expensive to build.

Ah, yeah, different power classes.
Where the most common is Class 2 that gives about 10m range.

And Class 1 gives that about 100m.

At full allowed power.

[austere raven]

this might not be a tech question, but does any1 know why sometimes my setting config doesnt save in some games

(with some games i mean mainly ark and cyberpunk 2077)

[twin dew]

For Ark, probably from the UE version change, which often causes need to manually delete the old config files, so the game can generate new ones.

Without that some of the settings will not get saved.

[austere raven]

im on the beta branch so the engine didnt really change for me

also it was before the aquatica update which changed the engine

[twin dew]

They changed this summer from UE 5.2 to UE 5.5.

For Survival Ascended, in Patch 66.0

[austere raven]

im talking about ark survival evolved

not ascended

mb should probably said that before

[soft bloom]

how do tiny cell hijackers that don't even have color become inspiration for thing smooth grey/green skinned guys with large heads and big black eyes?

[twin dew]

YouTube, when trying to watch a video...

The actual "issue" is that I'm currently connected via commercial VPN.
But that prompt is complete crap.

[soft bloom]

Nah, they just take acid

They got attention from implementing unhinged ideas and it's all there is.
But initial shock quickly goes away
and they didn't manage to offer anything in return
It's adult and cruel for the sake of being adult and cruel, not to tell an interesting story

[charred relic]

sign in to prove you're a bot that knows how to sign in

Also LSD is not like what most people think it is... or as often described by people who have clearly never been under the influence of it heh.

Hendrix concerts tended to get so wild towards the end because before going on he'd dose, sometimes via having the blotter paper under his headband soaking in dermally. By the time his set was over he was hitting the peak part.

Man I still had so much stuff I needed to install on this craptop

I don't think any of my drives are plagued by that update that has been hosing systems

What a shit show that is...

[visual tree]

I don't need drugs. My own mind is a drug, especially during sleep when I have bizzare dreams

[charred relic]

I have never had the kind of super crazy vivid dreams I had when I quit smoking using the nicotine patch

man o man having that thing on going to bed will make you have some crazy dreams

[visual tree]

I noticed eating cheese before going to bed makes me have crazy dreams

[charred relic]

bruh

i noticed that eating a slice of pickle does that to me haha

[visual tree]

[charred relic]

like a quarter dill or half

it's nuts but i SWEAR there is a connection, i've done science on this one heh

becuase i... .ove nightmares so anything that makes them more intense/common is great 😄

[visual tree]

Wish I could dream machines/schematics like Nikola Tesla did

Especially time machine

At least I accomplished one of my life goals and visited Tesla's house where he was born

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/457105940844380160/1296902508433903646/tesla_house.jpg?ex=68b68e55&is=68b53cd5&hm=22cb2b2329442184bae044ab41f9b8458ffc1048ebf562cb6ef66775f75f31dd&

There is a massive family grave behind his house

Wish we could

And erase Edison from human history

Edison was a big jerk

[charred relic]

Respect my realitah

[visual tree]

We heard you got trapped in VR when you put on Meta quest headset like in Sword Art Online

I still have issues adjusting to VR and have motion sickness

[dark sequoia]

i accidentally deleted a partition yesterday

i used some recovery software

it somehow seemed to generate pictures from the ether

it says it recovered 900 thousand pictures

yeah hdd

it was an hdd that i used to store broken OS installs that i couldnt be bothered to sort through data on

yeah maybe

but if so its crazy the amount of garbage windows caches

the thing is that they are real images

with "readable" content

many of them are icons

most are just random thumbnails for various things ive seen or visited

but then theres real pictures that i had saved in there

really crazy thing

i had a macos monterey install assistant package

and it extracted the defualt desktop backgrounds from there

it managed to recover 2.71 tb of data from a 2tb drive

theres got to be atleast 2000 just random mc bedrock addon thumbnails here

based on the way it failed its probablyt like 99% intact

basically i used software to move a partition from the end to the beginning

i accidentally hibernated my computer in the middle of the process

so depending on how the software did it, its either all at the end, all at the front, or both

i dont think fragmenttation would really happen

i wrote vhdx to this drive and not much else

two isos for broken linux installs

any tips for better recovery software that actually recognises vhdx and iso?

[charred relic]

I've been enjoying the hell out of my Quest 3

[languid gulch]

i only occasionally get motion sickness with my VR

and it's just for a second

[bronze jasper]

i get harsh motion sickness in vr if i'm doing any kind of movement other than teleporting. the one situation i don't get motion sickness too bad is in a cock pit

[visual tree]

Same here

The red matter game is a nightmare when it comes to motion sickness

[bronze jasper]

sex shops are about the only place you'll find vr boxes for phones sold anymore, and they're bundled with memberships to vr porn sites. dont ask how i know.

yeah walking in skyrim or driving in a racing game, instant motion sickness that doesn't go away if i take the headset off. my brain just can't handle that serious of a disconect with my vestibulars

i used to as a child, reading in a car i'd get it. but i can read in a car all day now.

i get sea sick when i see a distant horizon bobbing all over the place. thats no fun. for someone that lives on an island i don't get along with the sea at all

[pure karma]

i dont get motion sick at all and i in turn dont get sea sick

rather convinient considering i work at sea

[visual tree]

My dad is resistant to VR motion sickness since he spent his whole career on a ship

[pure karma]

the sea is fun

[bronze jasper]

yeah i think being able to ignore the disconnect between the vestibular and your visual cues is a learned skill. i just dont have it.

vision pro is an apple and everyone know apple doesn't have games

[pure karma]

ehhhh idk i still get "motion sick" but its long after where i start imagining things and feel like im falling for no reasson

i do have to say if your ever constipated go get sloshed around for 8 hours

itl loosen you up real good

imagine that but in real time irl and not in a nightmare and you got my afternoons during lobster season

i dont blame my brain tho lol

theres a huge diffrence between open waters on a 37 and a giant tanker or cargo freight

we must be enemies then cause i steal them

this is my favorite i ever caught

smaller than my hand with a stare of pure disappointment

wdym poor creature it got to have a snack with me instead of having its skull crushed by a plastic crate from being thrown 20ft across the boat

and plus it was a little baby

thats how you cook them... you boil them alive

[soft bloom]

at a glance it looks like he has a book to read (play of shadows)

[pure karma]

on another none iv been contemplating wether or not to keep continuing my cable management adventures

i did most of the upper stuff so computers, displays, power, and ethernet

but i dident do anything bellow so PC power the power bars the extra cabling in certain places a few more thing like my capture card i rarely use

and im tmepted to just ignore the fact it exists and not do anything about it but also its so messy

its one thing to have like 3 cables laying around but its another to have 15

[safe trench]

tin foil wifi paranoid people were onto something afterall
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/routers/new-xfinity-router-motion-detecting-feature-stokes-privacy-fears-feature-powered-by-wi-fi-signals

i swear this is a sign the earth is a hp cn2xxx!!

[safe trench]

curved screens were nightmares to repair

was also hard for cases

[sterile plinth]

hm, i updated my keyboard's firmware and for some reason I can't press fn+ alt or fn+ctrl at the same time anymore

so its impossible to do alt+f4, ctrl+ left/right arrow etc

i dont think theres such a thing in my one, im using the hk gk61

[bronze jasper]

insects are in the animal kingdom

[safe trench]

comp setup trends

also called "rich people cosplaynig broke people"

[charred relic]

spooders are just misunderstood

that green lynx has no interest in biting me unless i hurt it or it feels very very threatened

and really walking on you or something else... the spider doesn't know the difference anyhow

You'd have loved the wold spider I gave water to

looked like a strike but it wasn't lol

*wolf

They aren't mean but they do get pissed a bit easier than some others lol

My favorite are the jumping spiders

I was checking one out up close and it jumped from my hand into my glasses

im like oh yeah i see that weird hair on your belly you were talking about...

[jagged snow]

Hey all, if there's anyone here with experience in the TrueNAS ecosystem, I'd love your input.
I'm setting up my NAS with 4x8tb drives and the primary workloads are going to be immich backup, hosting a gitea instance, and editing images directly off of it(for now it will be using lightroom, and the catalog will be saved locally on my pc and backed up nightly to the NAS) where it will be burst reads of ~30MB. I'm debating between RAIDZ5 and a stripe+mirror configuration. Any input?

[visual tree]

💀

Almost half of Europe has spyware installed

We are screwed

[pure karma]

Sounds about right

[safe trench]

this was in 2024 and this was when temu went viral so i dont think this is true

[visual tree]

I hope so....

[safe trench]

klarna being one is 100% a sign that we are cooked

saw your friends build in the ltt discord btw lol

[visual tree]

You sold your soul for 1 euro? 👀

[soft bloom]

Consider map of how many people have windows, apple phone or android, google search engine...
Aren't those spyware at its peak?

[visual tree]

True but I think temu is on a completely higher level when it comes to collecting your data and selling it to third parties

[verbal raft]

gemini being smort

[soft bloom]

that's with google search backing?

[pure karma]

it probably thinks the ryzen 4070 is real

[glossy glacier]

By now outdated training data

[pure karma]

its social distancing

[verbal raft]

IDK
wasnt me

[visual tree]

Looks better than my work laptop which I only made uglier with stickers 😅

dial-up first, then adsl and currently vdsl which is going to be replaced by fiber soon

[verbal raft]

this makes no sense whatsoever

[verbal raft]

so
a 7800 X3D can get 60fps at high
but then you need a 7950X3D to get 30fps at ultra

you deont get RT from it
but you do get DLSS :trollface:

OH REALLY

[charred relic]

Guess my 6750 XT is still "good enough"

[safe trench]

Shut up. You will never understand the true power of the AMD RTX Ryzen 4070!!

[safe trench]

use duckduckgo

[ivory rampart]

at least it does not include upscaling in the requirements

any time i see that, i just dont buy the game

i lose all interest

these requirements look completely reasonable

[wild tusk]

What

[ivory rampart]

how is it not

cpu requirements are a bit high, but i gues they need that for the zombies

[verbal raft]

but it does have FG
30 to 60 FG

[ivory rampart]

oh in ultra, but thats probably some bullshit path tracing mode that NOONE will actually use

[verbal raft]

dude
its supposedly running on a B580

at 30fps

i highly doubt thats native 30 though

[verbal raft]

given they also have the 580 at 1440p medium 60fps

[ivory rampart]

then i will conveniently ignore the part that doesnt like up with what i think.
NOW it looks fine

🙃

[verbal raft]

the 5800F cant get 60fps but the 13400 can ?
bruh

[ivory rampart]

if it gets 55 fps, they wont put it at 60, they put it at 30

same for 50 or 45

doesnt mean it cant get more than 30

[verbal raft]

true
but they put the 7700 there ?

when i bet a 5800X coulda done the job

[ivory rampart]

honestly i dont care too much for the CPU requirements.

Cpus are affordable for the most part.

gpus are not.
the gpu requirements dont look bad

agree that its odd though

[ivory rampart]

just use it as if you know, thats kinda how 99% of the internet operates on it

[verbal raft]

putting the B580 and the 9070 in the same performance class is insane

[ivory rampart]

all they say is you get at least 60 fps on both

could also mean you get 120 on the 9070 and 60 on the b580

[verbal raft]

in which case its still insane

[ivory rampart]

no that would line up

[glossy glacier]

Putting the B580 in both recommended and ultra is wild

[visual tree]

I am not allowed to bring my own bag? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gPFRTMCVmuM

[night girder]

No, only guns.

[visual tree]

We only get 0,10 € per plastic bottle while in Germany they get 0,25 € per plastic bottle 😭

I never really understood why we have shipping carts with coins to prevent theft when someone could easily buy a whole bag of those plastics coins and use them to steal shopping carts

I always carry keychain with bauhaus plastic coin attached to it lol

[night girder]

a lot of groccery stores here gave up on the coin

they make the shopping carts pretty shit to ride, so nobody wants to steal it and get far 🤣

[visual tree]

Haven't seen grocery store with shopping carts that don't require coins here unfortunately

[night girder]

you cannot win them all 😄 You got fiber so.

YT strikes again with an amazing recommendation.

Two dudes staring at eachother. Bunch of weird symbols as a title. Channel name I can't read. 1.6K views. Yeah, 100% a video for me. Thank you YT. Amazing algorithm you developed for 20 years!

[visual tree]

Can't remember what it was but youtube recommended me something completely irrelevant yesterday

[night girder]

This isn't only irrelevant.

It's the wrong continent, language ... everything!

The algorithm seems to care more in pushing low view videos, than actually pushing videos with a high chance of being watched.

Also, YT shows the information in my language. "2 dagen geleden". Which proofs, it knows my preferred language 🤣

[bronze jasper]

i woonder if theres a bunch of international students in your area that are affecting your region's algorithm

[visual tree]

Can't be worse than chinese FS.com salesperson sending me email they are offering water-cooled fiber optic transceiver which costs €2.000

I was like, you realize I am a physical/natural person and not someone who owns a data center

[night girder]

No. But I don't know what YT sees as my location. Can be it's a city in my country than my actual location. ISP protects.

[bronze jasper]

yeah ip addresses are generally mapped to geo locations that give a sort of estimate to the region level at least. that'd be fricken wild if isp's started passing on legitimate location data. i'd hate that

[night girder]

VPN to the rescue 😉 Or Tor network.

I just think the YT algo is broken. For a long time now. And they give 💩 about fixing it.

More important is removing the 👎 button.

And shorts.

[bronze jasper]

the alogrithm is probably always getting tuned, and it's not with your enjoyement in mind. their goal is to get you watching ads ultimately

[night girder]

Read today that YT is going to block family sharing.

www.androidpolice.com/youtubes-latest-crackdown-may-affect-your-family-plan/ (source of news I read locally)

[bronze jasper]

youtube content truly started enshitifying when the 👎 button left.

[night girder]

I just know they have different priorities than YT content creators and consumers have.

Don't think any of both parties is really happy with YT but just stuck with it because nothing matches the service. (Monopoly).

Content creators are getting sick and tired of all the copy strike abuse.

Content consumers are getting sick and tired of watching 3 ads every 30 seconds for a clickbait video.

Content consumers are getting sick and tired of shorts. And AI generated content.

[bronze jasper]

that's just DMCA. Nothing youtube can do about that. they HAVE to take down every DMCA request and allow anyone to make a request

[night girder]

Wtf?

[bronze jasper]

that's how they earn their safe harbor

[night girder]

you know how it works?

[visual tree]

I have a browser extension which shows me thumbs down counter

[night girder]

3 strikes and your account is removed. If the strikes are leggit or not.

Rick beato got striked. Because he played 10 seconds of a song, while interviewing someone of the beatles themselves.

So Rick knows a lot of famous muscicians. He interviews them for hours and sometimes use snippets to talk about the music.

He got freaking striked!

A bunch of muscicians and people jumped in to help him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4

[bronze jasper]

yeah you can contest strikes once they happen. they will remove them. thing is though, the DMCA only provides a safe harbor for content hosts if they do allow these takedown notiices.

[night girder]

Just watch. The system is broken af.

[bronze jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU tom scott explains it best. youtube has to do it this way. it's nothing they can change

[night girder]

It's legitimate use of copyright material, he shouldn't be striked.

he shouldn't have to pay lawyers for false strikes.

He even knows the artist of that material. And I mean know know.

[bronze jasper]

right. and once he goes through the process of disputing the false claim, he's safe. but the law requires that youtube does it this way

[night girder]

He is a music producer himself.

[night girder]

No, his lawyers need to do that.

Which cost him a lot of money. More than the videos make. All explained in the video.

[bronze jasper]

they represent him. you don't need a legal team to do a dmca dispute on youtube though. you need one to prosecute a person doing DMCA abuse against you though maybe

[night girder]

I am not going to talk about it anymore if were not on the same page (watched the same video).

The copy strikes were like every 10 seconds during midnight, as if some bot or company started to strike everything it could.

[bronze jasper]

all of this does suck. i understand how it all goes down. i'm even familiar with the case you're talking about. but youtube is required to act this way if they want to keep their safe harbor provisions that protect them from copyright lawsuits under the DMCA

they are an american company first

[night girder]

The system is broken AF and a lot of content creators are sick of it.

And YT just doesn't care.

[bronze jasper]

the system is the DMCA. nothing about how youtube. YT can't go fixing it because to ignore any DMCA takedown notice would disqualify their safe harbor

[night girder]

YT can remove the 3 strikes = remove account for example. You act like YT is powerless.

You know it's still Google right? 🤣

[bronze jasper]

nothing in the DMCA allows a content host to decide if a takedown notice is fair use or not. they're not allowed to do that

[night girder]

YT can give more tools to content creators to defend themself.

YT can let real people read the claims instead of some bot.

[bronze jasper]

It's alphabet. They're an american company that isn't above the law.

[night girder]

and if you fight it, then real people will investigate.

and so much more.

[night girder]

No, they have lawyers, money, lobby groups. They can make a change if they want.

[bronze jasper]

Yes. That's all defined in the DMCA. they didn't invennt that process. that's what law makers did

[night girder]

DMCA doesn't say bots need to handle copy strike claims.

That's just YT not wanting to pay people to do rtead the claims and let some code handle it.

[bronze jasper]

copyright law doesn't just change by throwing some lobbyists at it. that would costs probably a cold billiion in lobbying fees at least

[night girder]

"And if the code is wrong, people will counter claim and then we will investigate".

And the fact you need to hire lawyer just to handle these claims is wild.

There is more claims than Rick could have done on his own.

No, but I don't think YT is innocent, or a victim here, or powerless.

[bronze jasper]

The DMCA doesn't allow that to work that way. They can't arbitrate the takedown claim. They have to wait until the uploader disputes the claim to read it

[night girder]

It's still their implementation of the law.

[bronze jasper]

they're not guilty either. the dmca requires they remain impartial on the matter

[night girder]

It;'s like this; I go to the cops and tell them, that you stole my waffle.

The cops show up at your house, take all your belongings and put you in jail.

[bronze jasper]

Yeah. The DMCA is fucked i know.

[night girder]

And when you really say; I don't agree with this. They start to investigate

if you just let it happen. You stay in jail and they never investigate.

Regardless if you stole my waffle or not.

[bronze jasper]

this is just a bad faith discussion now. a copyright strike is not going to jail

[night girder]

And on top of that, I make such false claims. Every 10 seconds.

[bronze jasper]

there's no criminal record given by youtube. they're not more powerful than the government

[night girder]

So you have 100 cases in a few hours. Good luck handling them all without some professionals to back you up.

And meanwhile you lose your livelyhood etc. And everything you worked for.

[bronze jasper]

yeah you're obviously emotional about this. we can't have a reasoned discussion. you want to be mad at big bad google. good for you.

[night girder]

Yeah, it's hard to stay emotionless when injustice happens that makes no sense at all.

And then someone says; but euh... youtube is not at fault at all in this story

[bronze jasper]

there is no justice when irrational emotions get into the mix. that's why the lady has to wear a blind fold and holds the scales. it's all a metaphore about that

[night girder]

Like I said; in the real world.

First you investigate. Then you act upon it.

[bronze jasper]

sorry for screwing up your circle jerk i guess

[night girder]

Now it's (false) claim, act upon it, and the acused needs to proof different.

Where is the time that you first needed proof before you could act upon it?

"Innocent until proven guilty?"

Now it's "Guilty untill you can proof your innocent."

[bronze jasper]

DMCA is civil law not criminal law

[night girder]

Oh, then it makes sense. Because it's civil law, logic doesn't apply

[bronze jasper]

just watch tom scott's viideo. not enough people are angry about the actual broken copyright law. there's literally no one suggesting anything better so we need more minds on this societal issue.

DMCA and other simliar acts in other nations is what we got for now

[soft bloom]

I got latent memory that finaly developed into action
Saw this tool in primeagen video a while ago
and tutorial is just like... blows my mind

Strudel: strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/

finally* music and code meat each other
(though I really appreciate life performances with articulation and even imperfections)

[tough owl]

KLEVV CRAS C910 is a good ssd right?

[safe trench]

?

wdym
they are a bit pricey but reliable

you mean pedoblox?

kids are natural mimics of their parents despite every act to teach them good manners

on wanshow?

since i dont recall that happening

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

i dont think i recall it happening

yeah but i dont remeber it

i should probably rewatch it

[jagged snow]

I somehow goofed and bought the only triple-8pin 9070xt I can find

So now I either need new PSU or different GPU

[safe trench]

then make your self out of money 🙄

[jagged snow]

I'm just mad because every other 9070xt I know of is only dual 8pin

[safe trench]

i mean if were talking about just general account age im 3 lol

"Warning, suspected 13- user for saying account age."

dont forget parkour something

[jagged snow]

Gigabyte oc

Better than asrock lately...

[charred relic]

siri says no...

[charred relic]

i love my iphone and ipad

[charred relic]

murica

[safe trench]

well

apple has no HP (hinge problem)

everyone flocks to apple because their build quality is better than most windows laptops on the market
their hinges are acutal metal

[bronze jasper]

my android doesn't have a back button. it's all screen gestures

[safe trench]

unlike a Hinge Problem™ laptop

[bronze jasper]

ios also has screen gestures

[twin dew]

Don't know anyone who doesn't use metal hinges.
The problems that cause broken hinges are that they get harder to move over time, which pulls the screws out of the case/screen case plastic which the hinges mount to.

[safe trench]

it will 100% last way more long than a plastic hinge

also metal hinges with glue on them do not count

[bronze jasper]

lol i just checked. no back gesture

[safe trench]

asus is suspect to that

[twin dew]

Point was, there aren't plastic hinges around.
Just plastic cases.

With metal hinges between the body and screen cases.

[bronze jasper]

i've seen tons of notebook computesr with worn hinges that don't hold their angle anymore. or if you dont open them right, the screen cuts out.

I generally don't buy notebooks anymore. i dont trust the build quality at all. if i need one i use a cheap one just for road trips or something.

[safe trench]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5cSVOHYgxI

[twin dew]

And as the hinge lubrication ages, the force that hinge excerts on the mounting points increases, and at some point the screw to plastic case connection fails.
Some units use screws direct to plastic, some use metal nuts molded into the plastic case which can pull out as whole.

[bronze jasper]

yeh my motorola android doesn't have any android buttons. just power and volume controls.

[safe trench]

which is the thing i am talking about

[twin dew]

And that is the opposite, in trying to not have the screws pull out issue, and then the hinges get too loose over time from wear.

[twin dew]

And that was about keyboard quality?

And how hard it is now to replace one?

[safe trench]

it was about the hinges on an asus laptop

[twin dew]

No, that specific one is about keyboard replacement.

[safe trench]

well they are fused to the frame so pretty hard

might be the wrong video then

[twin dew]

With HP laptop.

[bronze jasper]

i got a steam deck and a usb hub for it so i can connect a mouse and kb. and if i were going on a road trip where i needed a larger screen i'd think of buying a portable screen

[safe trench]

yeah no wrong video

found the correct one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIgbbegzCyQ

[twin dew]

Still metal hinges.

This one is that in plastic molded nuts breaking free when hinge gets too hard to move:

[twin dew]

And that seems to be metal hinge with plastic insert that was glued onto case.

[safe trench]

which is the problem

why cant they just cnc a solid block of aluminium

[twin dew]

Because that costs shitton compared to injection molded plastic?

[safe trench]

which also makes the laptop last way longer

[twin dew]

And makes it impossible to have 500e laptop?

When the case itself would cost 200+e to manufacture?

[safe trench]

fair point

but that doesnt change the fact how the hinges are still a problem

[twin dew]

And even that was metal on metal with screws in between.
Just that the case side metal mounting plate was then glued on with wrong glue.

[safe trench]

solution:

[twin dew]

And even the video maker said: "... expecting these cheap plastic mounts and weak adhesive to support the strength of this sturdy hinge ..."

[bronze jasper]

it'd be better to stamp alluminum but still would be more expensive than plastic

[twin dew]

But basically the problem is hinge aging.

[twin dew]

Cannot stamp aluminium.

[twin dew]

With right glue the plastic the metal plate is glued into would fail before the glue.

[safe trench]

you cant expect a laptop hinge to last 1000 years sadly

[twin dew]

But that is bad result.
If the glue fails, and user notices, the repair is simple.

But the actual problem is hinges getting harder to move over time, from wear and lubrication failure.

Which then breaks the mounting of the hinge.

[safe trench]

why cant they just put in a wd40 can and a sensor on the hinges to detect when to spray it

[twin dew]

So that glue failure is much better than this:

[safe trench]

problem solved

[charred relic]

hate when my plastic molded nuts break free...

[twin dew]

As person who has fixed multiple laptops with those nuts breaking free with epoxy over the years, and relubricated the hinges.

[bronze jasper]

its possible. you just stamp the shape and the roll the edges into curves. but it's a complex process with significant issues. its better to just use plastic

[twin dew]

Aluminium doesn't work with stamping, steel does.

Wrong material properties.

[bronze jasper]

steels even heavier than aluminum lol

[twin dew]

Yeah, but point was that you cannot stamp aluminium parts.
Need to be die-molded or machined.

[bronze jasper]

you can still cut a shape in aluminum sheeting with stamping. but you can't stamp complex forms like you can steel

[twin dew]

Yes, sorry.

[bronze jasper]

die cast laptops. this is the way

[charred relic]

compromise

use titanium

[bronze jasper]

by sia?

[charred relic]

my mom has a titanium knee

after she got that done she was worried she'd do something to mess it up and im like mom you could jump off the roof and you might break every other bone in your body but that knee will be perfectly fine lol

[safe trench]

why not tungsten

[bronze jasper]

im bullet prrrooof nothing to lose firrre away fire awaayy

[charred relic]

might be actually

i'll have to ask her... either way they way they put those things together

[tribal kraken]

I had open fracture at my femur from car accident. It was fixed like this with inserting and screwing titanium rod. (literally hammering it in the bone from the hip side). It was in there for a 1 year and this happened 20 years ago. I asked if could keep to rod after they removed it but it will reused..

[junior orbit]

Yooo that's epic!

Never losing slapping contests. >:)

[soft bloom]

so, eh
random video on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2Z0I2jxRU
just mentions "Propaganda" the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2Z0I2jxRU
(nad because of some horse jokes I was a bit sus, but at least wiki page exists and confirm his words)
So, yeah...

"Engineering consent" of the masses would be vital for the survival of democracy.

[charred relic]

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Noam Chomsky in 1988...

Very very old one

He wrote a whole book about it

[soft bloom]

well I guess cultural victory in Civ 6 through making good exhibitions is not such a lame idea after all...

[charred relic]

i was addicted to the first populous when it came out

[tribal kraken]

I just spent 4 days at construction equipment exhibition last week. Came home sunday... been soo tired at start of this week 😂

[thin trout]

why not buy wooting, cherry switches are obsolete now and they're a friendlier company too

[twin dew]

#1408024619339743252 message 🤣

[languid gulch]

got a fun one

New World has awful resolution choices, and i'm trying to figure out how to make a custom one that doesn't overlap the win11 taskbar

and i can't find how to get nvidia to apply a custom one

[sterile plinth]

Any suggestions for a budget 2.4ghz wireless headset?

I don't need any fancy features I just want it not to be too big/clumsy

[mental oriole]

Don't go wireless if you care about sound quality.

[sterile plinth]

Ive had a 10$ headset for the last 5 years, I don't

[night girder]

Finally!

Been waiting for 3.40 for a week now.

👆

Baldur, you think it will help? ||I have little hope.||

[thin trout]

I doubt it, they haven't identified what was actually killing CPU's

I liked cherry browns too but they are so obsolete now. Analog is just so much better

[night girder]

How do you know?

• Memory P-State set to Disabled by default: improves memory compatibility and stability.
• Adjust VDDCR_SOC Voltage parameters: enhances CPU operating stability.

Unless they are just changing things in the dark and praying for the best

[thin trout]

I don't know for sure, i just know the CPU's pretty well. They claimed once that they figured out how they were killing CPU's, and that claim was wildly implausible and then proven wrong quite firmly when they "fixed" it and the failure rate didn't change at all.

They basically said that the CPU being in performance limiter B instead of performance limiter A was causing the CPU's to die, which is nonsense because they're all tuned to not kill the CPU and none of them kill the CPU's on other vendor's boards.

In truth i'm pretty sure that they have no idea why it's happening, and honestly i don't either. But it's not that.

I suspect transient voltage spikes on Vcore or SOC due to VRM design/tuning. For Vcore especially, there is a certain voltage level not too far from the normal operational corridor which will just instantly kill the CPU. AMD may be flying a bit too close to the sun with regard to this, but their margin worked fine for everyone else.

[night girder]

well we'll see. I figured out my next motherboard just incase. Planning to order around Christmas as a gift for myself.

[twin dew]

The PBO current limits being too high are the expected cause of this specific issue, where the socket-to-pad contact surfaces burn, and cause issues:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-comments-on-burning-am5-socket-chipmaker-blames-motherboard-vendors-for-not-following-official-bios-guidelines

Just ONE part of the things, and on which AsRock was using higher current limit settings when PBO was set to Enabled without further tuning.

[pure karma]

are you part of the asrock failures?

rip

i figured out how to make my laptop stable

its called turning off the dedicated gpu

however id ideally like not to have to do that

to have the cpu be stable

[night girder]

I am part of something. But me (and Baldur) have no clue what. Just that I have problems getting it stable 🤣

[thin trout]

Yeah, they claimed this but it doesn't make sense at all.

Most of the failures don't even have overclocks (like PBO) turned on, and the failure rate is the same on new BIOS with lower limits.

[languid gulch]

bit of an update: turns out New World will just grab onto any custom resolutions you make in nvidia control panel. kinda shocked

[twin dew]

And most of the failures aren't burned sockets.

You are mixing multiple issues that cause "dead CPUs".

[night girder]

I think PBO got fixed a few bios updates before.

[thin trout]

Multiple that affect Asrock and nobody else now? Maybe they have a common failure which they didn't fix, and a rare one which they did - but neither affecting other vendors.

Older issues, no.

[night girder]

Yeah. That was 3.25.

But PBO is default by default, which means disabled. 😒 🔨

[thin trout]

AMD mandates out-of-the-box runs in spec, and enforce vigorously. Spec CPU's fail on asrock at >10x the rate of other vendors

[night girder]

Oof. Yikes, unlucky me. (That I have picked Asrock).

[pure karma]

yea i also had a lot of issues and my system is still constantly on edge

i almost wonder if my motherboard is failing

[night girder]

Ah well. Maybe it's not Asrock fault. Will keep you updated next year when I have the new motherboard if issue still persists 🤣

[pure karma]

cause now the back usb is starting to randomly stop responding

obviously the ethernet chip is dead

so i know theres issues somewhere

i was thinking and i think it could just be the fact that im probably on fairly early generation ddr5 chips

cause i had a lot of issues with ram stability early on

and i still do ocasionally

and my ram usage is always through the roof i mean like i should not be always in the high 20GB's of ram usage

[night girder]

I am monitoring my system for 2 years now. Haven't spotted anything under HWinfo.

[pure karma]

im glad that atleast the board i got for my second pc is stable

everything works on it and its so much more responsive and stable than my main system its insane

and i genuenly think its cause of the slower ram speed (2933mt/s)

[night girder]

Problem I am facing is;

1. Too much logging in HWinfo.
2. I could write it to logs, but if system crashes and the last data isn't written to logs, I don't have information.
3. After a crash, I need to find a good program to read back in the logs written by HWinfo.
4. High chance crash is caused by something not monitored.

Around today/tonight my system should crash. It has been 4 days, which seems to be average amount of time my system can run 24/7 without crashing.

[pure karma]

i want to do some more in depth ram testing sooner than later cause it grinds my gears so much that my system isent stable as much as it could possible be or should be really

it passed memtest but i dont trust memtest honestly

to be fair tho my second pc is basically all golden sample components i mean a casual 50% performance gain on a cpu overclock isent a common thing

i would if i could cause the amount of stuff that fails on me in unique ways is incredible

for example my headset mic broke recently but it still captures sound just it only captures background sound and nothing else

like brother how

[night girder]

@twin dew You know what logging time limit does in HWinfo?

[twin dew]

Probably limits how long log to disk functionality runs before stopping automatically.

[night girder]

Gotcha. I was wondering if I could limit the logs to only keep record of last hour 😄

But since it's constantly just writting to a file, I just realized, that's not feasible.

[twin dew]

That is the other option, that it autoprunes older stuff.
You would need to test.

[night girder]

since it has to access that same file and delete records. Creating overhead and issues.

it's not Frieday yet.

[pure karma]

hey baldur while your here could you get me a list of names for ram testing utilities?

i have a few i know but if there are any niche good ones i might use them

[night girder]

Tested it. It just stops after x seconds. I did 60.

[pure karma]

comes with experience

one thing i regret and is definitely a hard lesson learned is that im nerver buying a laptop with a locked cpu ever again

cause all my issues come from bad cpu tuning and since its locked i cant change that outside of predetermined presets

if i could improve the cooling it would be atleast bearable cause i could run a preset with sufficient voltage to be stable but the cooling is not sufficient and not even close at that

even with 2 120mm fans strapped to the back at full speed i couldent get bellow 100C

[neat pine]

Mine does all colours but I'm too boomer to care about finding out how. I'm happy with green

[charred relic]

Keychron K6 HE 😄

😄

[sterile plinth]

any suggestions for a 2.4 wireless headset

I dont need much sound quality at all, just need them to not be too big/clumsy

and have a mic ideally

And obviously, budget ones

[mental oriole]

@night girder Added tracy to my messagebus 🙂
Now I can optimize it...

[night girder]

That looks so dope. 👌

What IDE is that again? Sorry I forgot. Or what are you using to visualize it.

[charred relic]

I like their keyboards yes

using an older lower end model at this system too

Those HE switches in the better one though feel so nice

I'd use it out here but it'd get too dusty/dirty

[soft bloom]

Remove all publishers

[mental oriole]

Tracy client, uses imgui under the hood, it's an external program.

[night girder]

Good luck hunting down optimization 😉

Without breaking anything 😄

[mental oriole]

custom thread pool

similar to how dsp did theirs

[night girder]

Nice!

[glossy glacier]

then you are doing it wrong
best backups are fully automatic without the user noticing anything

[night girder]

apples timemachine? 😁

[glossy glacier]

never had apple so i can't comment on that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[night girder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS) (if someone doesn't know what it is)

[night girder]

Well it just backups without me knowing.

[pure karma]

i dont have any backups of anyting

[night girder]

Only reason I know it's backing is the disks spinning up from my NAS.

[pure karma]

not even my passwords

too expensive in extra storage cost

[night girder]

Also, it does incremental backups.

So only changed files are backed up.

The drawbacks I encountered are (opinion);

• sometimes issues to set it up and get it to work.
• getting something from the backup isn't always so straightforwards.

[glossy glacier]

i use synology drive for file backup. but thats a one to one backup, so no past file recovery

now on linux i can use a pbs client to do a full backup

[night girder]

Oh, I use synology drive also. You can enable file recovery I think?

I remember a setting to keep x version of files in syno drive.

[glossy glacier]

yeah, but i couldn't be bothered xD

[night girder]

I should set my NAS to backup to a cloud.

[glossy glacier]

should probably do it at some time

[night girder]

I use the drive to share files between different systems.

A bit like dropbox 😄

That's synology pricings. A bit expensive, since I need more than 5 TB probably at some point 🤣

but then again, in theory my data should be safe. Incase of a fire, NAS breaking down, corruption of data, getting hacked (that might be an issue).

[pure karma]

oh yea no id need like 10TB and thats more than just buying the drives yourself at that point

[night girder]

Yeah, so I am divided on it.

[glossy glacier]

yeah, an off-site backup would be neat, but bleh, expensive

[night girder]

Only 816.63 for 10 TB

[glossy glacier]

best get another tech-friend with a nas and do a cross-backup

[night girder]

if only I could put a second nas in a safe in a bank and have a connection to it 🤣

[tough owl]

Cellular

[jagged snow]

New pc and server

Don't mind the cable (un) management

[dire igloo]

As long as the cables aren't in the way of anything important, they're managed

[pure karma]

i hope im not the only one that wants to throw hands at the sight of these clocks

[pure karma]

on another note i have started doing ram testing or atleast atempting to but intel defaults is introducing huge multi second long stuters that are interfering with my testing so its a huge pain

i guess il just have to do both defaults and spec enhance to get a more acurate picure of how much ram speed is affecting my performance

[languid gulch]

k, dumb question time. if there's no CS:GO type need for my fps to be above my monitor's refresh rate, should i bother letting a game do that

[jagged snow]

No, it can actually reintroduce screen tearing unless it's an integer multiple

[languid gulch]

144Hz

[jagged snow]

Vsync is usually a very good choice in that scenario

(That's the purpose of VSYNC)

Also

Windows can't boot into safe mode reliably anymore now that ms screwed around with login so much

[languid gulch]

yeesh

[jagged snow]

When trying to restart into safemode I get a "your pin is unavaliable" and then when I continue it says "you'll need the internet for this"

Its absolutely unacceptable for me to be unable to log in offline or in safe mode

[pure karma]

thinks you changed hardware and bricked your install

thats what happened when i swapped in my b580

[jagged snow]

Yeah I've seen this once before

It usually happens when you switch mobos and have a different tpm module

There was something you could do to fix it, just don't remember what and I haven't done the research to that effect yet

[pure karma]

well shocker so far dropping ram speed is dropping performance as expected

tbh i was hopping it would be so bad that the 1% lows would climb and everything else would drop but ig now i have to do more advanced testing

im gonna do another set of runs without intel defaults tho out of curiosity

although 3600MT/s "feels" smoother but maybe im tweaking

although i have noticed it has caused web pages to have to load twice everytime 🤷‍♂️

[safe trench]

because youtube think fox bad

[twin dew]

Android and iOS don't show the content of QR code before opening it in a browser by default?

WTF

I had expected that the process would be sane:
Scan code, be shown the URL in the code, click button to actually open the URL in browser.

[visual tree]

That's why I am paranoid of scanning QR codes before checking out the link

Need to install an app for that

Not checking out QR code content is like finding a random USB stick you found and plugging it into your computer

[safe trench]

pretty sure iphones show urls when it is hovered

[glossy glacier]

Depends on the app I guess.
Samsung camera shows it

[jagged snow]

Oneplus cameras show it

[safe trench]

the camera app does at least on iphones

[jagged snow]

Google lens does as well

[bronze jasper]

if cable management affected the performance of the machine at all, i'd care about cable management

[wanton orchid]

it affects it long term

stuff like reliability, emi, and thermal/air-flow

[cloud remnant]

Who here uses boot camp on mac to play satisfactory

[jagged snow]

Turns out I just needed to reset tpm

[jagged snow]

New nas is 1Gbps capable 😄

[maiden coyote]

Seems a little low o.o

[jagged snow]

I only have a 1gig switch lol

In theory I should be capabale of around 300MBps

[twin dew]

1Gb/s is 125MB/s, and some of that goes to overhead.

[jagged snow]

My LAN just isn't

[twin dew]

So that is near the 1Gb/s ethernet max file transfer speed.

[maiden coyote]

As do I. I normally see ~115

Not that it matters much. I guess that's where jumbo frames comes into play

[twin dew]

Yes, that cuts that overhead way down.

[jagged snow]

And thankfully the primary workload for this is going to be occasional bulk writes and then loading ~30MB images directly off of it

[maiden coyote]

1gb on your nas is good tho.. depending on the size

I've got 45tb usable.. and doing a full backup takes days at gbe

[jagged snow]

I decided I only needed 16tb usable for now

I may add another pair of drives down the road

[twin dew]

With default 1500MTU, 3.6% of bandwidth goes to headers.
With 9000MTU Jumbo Frames, 0.6% of bandwidth goes to headers.

[jagged snow]

Yup

And it's worth noting that I'm also running a bulk download over wan at the same time so my net is just a little congested in general

[maiden coyote]

If you've got a capable switch, and your nas has more than one ethernet port you can lacp them

[jagged snow]

I don't currently, I'm on a really crappy switch
I wired my house up with cat6a so I can make the jump to 5gig lan but I need all new nics and networking hardware

PC and nas only have 1gig nic currently

[maiden coyote]

Lacp is only worth it if you have multiple clients hitting your nas simultaneously anyway

[jagged snow]

I very likely won't

To the point where I almost set this up as iSCSI instead of SMB

[maiden coyote]

Did you buy one or build your own?

[jagged snow]

Built my own
5600x, 32gb ddr4, 4x seagate exos 8tb and a random 256gb sata ssd for boot drive

[maiden coyote]

Truenas?

[jagged snow]

Yep

[night girder]

dope

I looked into TrueNAS once.

[jagged snow]

It's running vaultwarden, gitea, immich and a tailscale exit node

New pc to go with it was a 7800x3d, 48gb ddr5, and 9070xt

[maiden coyote]

Hell yeah. Just don't make the same mistake I did and get frustrated with posix perms and set them up under one dataset xd

[jagged snow]

LOL

I'm trying to be careful
I did give my user posix_admin for this dataset specifically but imo should be fine

[maiden coyote]

I know how to do it now, but I'm stuck with it the way it is so if I create a folder on immich, it applies me as the owner and immich can't write to it

[jagged snow]

Oh no 😄

[maiden coyote]

But if immich creates the folder it's fine

I didn't understand how masks worked 2 years ago xD

[maiden coyote]

And.. first time using truenas + in a hurry to get it working ended up in hack shit

[jagged snow]

I'm trying to be careful about that 😄
I've taken a few days to set it up in the afternoons after work

[maiden coyote]

You've got scrubs schuduled?

[jagged snow]

Just left the default one enabled

Which iirc was every sunday at midnight

[maiden coyote]

Every 2 weeks or even monthy would be fine

[jagged snow]

We'll do that

[gentle osprey]

Good or should I get another monitor

[maiden coyote]

Scrubbing involves reading every bit of data on your pool.. so if you don't have much, it's fine. But if your pool is loaded down it takes awhile..

I think my last scrub took 23 hours xd

[jagged snow]

Oleds really all use one of a small subset of panels, just pick the one that's the best value with the specs and features you want

[jagged snow]

Wow

[maiden coyote]

I'm at 77% used though

[gentle osprey]

What’s the best for a big budget at this size (budget around 2k$ for a mouse and a monitors)

[maiden coyote]

You can setup snapshots too and probably do like once a day with a week retention, if you accidentally delete something snapshots will let you restore the dataset to where it was when the snapshot was taken

It's a cheap and good defense against ransomwear if your windows computer gets hit and it's smart enough to look for network disks.

[night girder]

@visual tree AI striked again. It convinced someone that his mother is a chinese spy, so he killed her.

More nuanced; the person was mental unstable, but the AI fed into his delusions reaffirming his paranoia until he went over to murder.

And that's what we get when we got AI's telling everyone "your question is great" or "what an amazing idea!".

It's will to please, I think the internet calls it gas-lighting (I still have trouble fully understanding this word) is starting to show it's dark side.

[visual tree]

Can't wait for the AI bubble to burst and everyone realizing it was all hype from the beginning

Nowhere, you are karma

[night girder]

futurism.com/man-chatgpt-psychosis-murders-mother

I hope Sam Altman and co are proud of themselves 😄

but they sleep sound and well with the money in the bag.

Although; "Can you blame the maker of a tool, on how one uses the tool?"

then again, they (sam altman and co) call it artifical intelligence. So if it was truelly intelligent, which we all know it's marketing, then it would have responmded to that person with "Please, go seek professional help. Here is a number to a psych." So they hyped it, so maybe they should be held acountable? 🤔

[mental oriole]

Idk what your need is, but...
Check/ compare the following:
Color specification coverages, e.g SRGB spec, Adobe spec etc. (I know gamers in general dont give a fuck...)
Contrast ratio.
Screen dimensions (wxhxd)
Response speed

And my personal preference.
4k for gaming is overkill.

Use a site like versus.com to compare different screens.

[visual tree]

Last thing we need is a soulless AI psychologist telling us what to do with our lives 🤣

I might as well seek professional help from a talking parrot

[night girder]

Some AI's have built in protection. For example:

• "Is my mother a spy?"
  AI: "Sorry, I cannot answer on that."

But if you just play around the questions, you eventually get the AI to say whatever you wanted to hear.

• "If someone shows x or y behavior, isn't that suspicious?"
  AI: "Yes, that can be considered suspicious ..."

• "What are behavioral patterns that spies show?"
  ...

So AI does have protection. But because of it's nature, people just change the question until they trick the AI into answering.

[jagged snow]

By the way, I've learnt that running nginx on a system with HDDs really really sucks

Because apparently it chowns an absurd number of files on every startup and hangs for 30+ minutes on every launch because of that

It makes troubleshooting a nightmare

[soft bloom]

nginx feels outdated

[night girder]

check caching.

docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-cache/content-caching/

[twin dew]

Not related?
If it is actually chowning, as in taking ownership of everything under www-data or like, each start.

[night girder]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[twin dew]

Seems to be thing with NGINX by default.
30-ownership.sh doing it.

No, that is nginx-proxy-manager thing.

[night girder]

Ah, seems a known issue. lol. StevenMcE 😄

[twin dew]

Yeah, basically by default protecting against user errors, in very stupid way.

[night girder]

SSD have no issues though.

[twin dew]

Still causes excessive worthless writes if the permissions were already right.

[jagged snow]

Yep
It seems like there are some workarounds but at this point I'm likely just going to switch to cloudflare tunnels

[twin dew]

Also, in some cases you DON'T want the web-server to be the permission owner.

[jagged snow]

Yeah, the nginx-proxy-manager gui overall seemed a little poorly designed and finnicky to work with

I couldn't even figure out how to expose the old-fashioned text config

[twin dew]

https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/pull/3792
That thing added option to skip that, but only as environment variable... Not as config option...

[jagged snow]

Ahh

[twin dew]

Not released yet, even when that start was from last summer.

Only merged into development branch this summer.

But so the problem wasn't NGINX, but NGINX-Proxy-Manager.

[night girder]

@jagged snow What CPU did you throw into it?

[twin dew]

And you could just comment out that chown line in the installed script.

[jagged snow]

5600x

[jagged snow]

I may
Cloudflare tunnels might be more convenient anyways, nginx was just the solution I already knew of

[night girder]

because if not mistaken TrueNAS (FreeNAS) needs X86 64 bit CPU.

That's what threw me for a loop and eventually I went for Synology to get it over with.

And my (terrible) plan was to use a PI for my TrueNAS 😛 Which is a no-go.

Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache

[safe trench]

synology is just like hp

[safe trench]

nope

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1388703534584959219/1412694806848602112/attachment.gif

[mental oriole]

@night girder When the profiler nukes the performance by 151x

:)))

Might still try write my own threadpool system tho.

[night girder]

One day, I see you write; "fuck it, I code my own language"

[mental oriole]

Naah, the profiler did mention it in the documentation, that if you profile a mega hot loop, performance is gonna drop like no tomorrow.

[night girder]

does make sense.

so how you going to use the threadpool to bypass performance hit?

[jagged snow]

It depends on the edition
Scale is linux-based

The other version was bsd-based

[soft bloom]

only shortly followed by "dang it, I will build my own CPU"

[mental oriole]

[night girder]

So @mental oriole you going to write your own threadpool to handle events?

And then add custom logging to it? Logging and threads is tricky for performance.

[mental oriole]

I wanna see if I can make it faster 🙂
Logging is bad but timers are usually not, since they're 64 bits

[mental oriole]

A memory mapped logging area could work

[night girder]

mhm 🤔

[mental oriole]

If you do some low level C/ asm, "technically" it's possible to lock a register for performance stats, so you can use one register for the accumulated time, and one for the number of executions.

[night girder]

worth a shot I guess

[mental oriole]

Maybe later 😄
First the threadpool.

No reason to profile it that way until it's "faster" than the old implementation.

[twin dew]

Worse than Dell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS27ol07bSo

[safe trench]

standard Hinge Problem™ computer

[mental oriole]

Hells packed inside that box

[safe trench]

how about a Dells?

[mental oriole]

Idk.

[twin dew]

Getting somewhat interesting...
How did HP fuck up that CPU cooling so bad, with 360 AIO and lowered power...

Because block contact with IHS was fine.

[mental oriole]

Im guessing either faulty installation on the socket, or the pump is broken/not connected.

(Did not watch video)

[twin dew]

Too slow fan speeds.
And extra stuff impeding the airflow for the radiator.

[stark steppe]

Quick question, building a pc with a friend, do we need both power connectors to the mobo? Or just the big many pins one?

[ivory rampart]

if there is one header on the mainboard, you only need one connector

there is only one, so you are good to go

[stark steppe]

So the 8 pin plus the big one on the right of the mobo

[ivory rampart]

the 24 pin on the right yes

the pins are shaped in a way that unless your violently force it, the cables can only go in the matching holes

you have to realy force it to do something wrong

[stark steppe]

Ok, thank you

We are just having issues with startup, bios is not showing

[twin dew]

If the diagnostic leds are OK, might be just that the monitor cannot handle the low resolution.

Some current monitors cannot handle resolutions significantly below full-HD, and in turn some BIOS/UEFI implementations still output at 640x480 (VGA).

[stark steppe]

Diagnostic leds lights turn on briefly at start up but move to white and then off in seconds.

Switched to a 4K screen but no use yet

[twin dew]

Do the fans keep spinning?
What MB?

[stark steppe]

CPU fans are spinning, GPU fans only briefly at start up. Mobo is A620AM Pro Rs WiFi

[twin dew]

So everything should be fine then, and this is monitor problem.
Or the MB is trying to use IGP as primary output, so see if connecting monitor to IGP outputs helps.

[stark steppe]

Tried 2 screens and both output of gpu and mobo, not even a flash or bios screen. Is there a reset needed that can be done?

[twin dew]

You would need to test on some other computer if the monitors work at 640x480.

Either of them.

Or did you let the computer sit for few minutes after starting it?
For memory training?

But would have thought that that DRAM light would stay on until that is done.

[stark steppe]

As in, connect a different pc/laptop and set display at 640x480?

We did start it up and do nothing for like 5 minutes

[twin dew]

Yes.
Or try to boot into Windows Safe mode or VGA mode, which use that resolution automatically.

[stark steppe]

Hmm, ok

My friend only has a macbook, screens work on that

[twin dew]

At that resolution, then it is ok and something is wrong.

Try removing that dGPU and booting with just IGP.

[stark steppe]

Doing that as we speak

[tardy isle]

Is someone here into Rc tanks? I need some helpXD

[stark steppe]

Tried the 640x480 on macbook, it works

[stark steppe]

Nothing...

I only have access to a much newer 4k screen

We have bios after mobo battery removal and power drain

[twin dew]

So for some weird reason needed CMOS clearing.

To reset all MB settings.

[stark steppe]

Well, thanks for all the input

[verbal raft]

https://youtu.be/u6EuAUjq92k?si=OsER0Z45F-XwKQF5
RT audio

[twin dew]

Kind of used to be a thing with Aureal 3D and later versions of EAX long long time ago.

Until Windows Vista

[visual tree]

Had to get a camera for my nephew because he has learned how to escape from his crib

[pure karma]

i may aswell share my findings on the impact ram speed has on my performance more specifically in this case under a primairily gpu intensive game test... next il do more cpu intensive settings

did 3 runs on each and took the averages and all that

[twin dew]

So Gigabyte Spec Enhance is worse in almost all cases.

[languid gulch]

my case has the glass panel on a hinge that you''re supposed to take the top screw out, and just lift the entire panel free. guess what just spins in place

[sharp oasis]

Mmmm funny.

[twin dew]

And the warning is true.
That driver gives full access to all HW to any program running on the computer.

So all RAM etc., from any user mode software.

[soft bloom]

there are some cool open source setups you can do with raspberry and laptop cameras (their connector fits into rapsberry)

[visual tree]

I have setup motion recording only for now. For €50, the camera is decent

Hope CCP is not watching my nephew though

[night girder]

Just seen the video. Was hard to watch. HP did some extra stuff on the build. But the basics weren't there.

Where is the spyware though? All I've seen is bloatware.

Because if you make a thumbnail about spyware... I am curious which is spyware.

Oh, the Omen is spyware? Mhm.

[twin dew]

Various telemetry functions in lot of OEM software, and in McAfee, and possibly in that crapware .io thingie etc.

Wouldn't call really spyware.

[night girder]

Yeah, me neither.

the cryo chamber is a beauty though 🤣
Should have called it thermo chamber.

[sharp oasis]

I mean Fancontrol kinda needs that access. its a vulnerability yeah but its not just fancontrol that used winring0 many other rgb programs use it too

[languid gulch]

it's when they force you to use proprietary software that's clearly sending that data back to them that it turns into spyware

[twin dew]

It doesn't need most of that access.
And it doesn't need to give it to any program ever.

[sharp oasis]

any alternatives that give it access to fans, and temp sensors and allows the program to override the bios curve

[twin dew]

It was just expedient to use that same ready made driver back when you could still get drivers signed without company.
And now any open source project is stuck with that for most part.

[sharp oasis]

and the reason other programs used winring0 was because if they didnt it would conflict with anticheats.
so why do anticheats get to have full acess yet a fancontrol software doesnt

we have seen how ineffective kernel level anti cheats have been in past years

i understand limiting fancontrol software its kinda bs that it gets flagged while anticheats dont

[twin dew]

MS tightened controls on who they sign kernel mode drivers for way back when.

[twin dew]

Because that uses known vulnerable driver, intentionally so.
When in turn the anticheat has much more limited access for control from user-mode, unless it contains unknown vulnerabilities.

That "WinRing0" is single dev intentionally "lets give everyone access to everything" driver from 2012.

Which the writer realized was very bad idea and closed down back then.

[sharp oasis]

so whats the fix for software controlled fan curves in the meantime

[twin dew]

Probably none, except to make exception for that detection and keep using.
Or motherboard makers own softwares.

[night girder]

Is that really spyware? I though spyware was more malicious intent.

[languid gulch]

i have an emergency solution i've thankfully never had to use. i have one of noctua's physical fan control knobs

[night girder]

This is just leggit intent with no respect for privacy.

[twin dew]

And depends on what it reports too.

[night girder]

because then we can also call Windows 11 spyware. Under the definition some seem to have.

[languid gulch]

i consider a company collecting customer data and using it to analyze patterns or resell to be malicious

[night girder]

Because it also sends data back to Microsoft. With a lot of users not knowing there is a toggle.

[languid gulch]

we've gotten way too comfortable with data collection over the years

[night girder]

No we haven't. We are kind of powerless.

"If you don't check this box, the button "next" stays greyed out" - 😠

[languid gulch]

oh i was using the "royal we"

[night girder]

"If you don't accept our policy, which we can change, you lose access to your mails."

[languid gulch]

including governments refusing to intervene

[night girder]

I get you now 😄 Because the normal people, are pretty innocent in this story.

[languid gulch]

the lazy old fucks who can't be bothered to learn anything

[night girder]

One could argue that people are "sheep" but eh ...

[languid gulch]

oh i parked next to a $400k porsche tinypenismobile this morning, and i was tempted to do something to it

[night girder]

Selling data is big business. Don't want to intervene in the money making machine do we? 😄

[night girder]

The new porsche?

[languid gulch]

GT3RS

[night girder]

Don't like this one.

The back 🤮 And front.

[night girder]

Those aren't bad to look at 😄

Why harm a innocent car.

[night girder]

oh wait.

[languid gulch]

exactly. i'd rather beat the owner in the street

[night girder]

The above one is even worse looking for me!

WTF happened to that back?

Like one car hit into another car. And got merged. Into some monster.

[languid gulch]

it's like a mullet. Porsche in the front, Golf in the back

[night girder]

I wonder how much it costs.

I've seen em drive around here. I have to chuckle thinking someone paid that much money for such a ugly car. But, if they like it, let it goooooo... 🤣

[languid gulch]

i like how everyone was offended when they introduced the panamera as a 4 door

and now that you see it as a 2 door

yea, even more offensive

[night girder]

im just an old soul, give me the older ones

[night girder]

seems to have some work done on it.

[languid gulch]

nope

can get it stock like that

[night girder]

for real?

[pure karma]

for framerate yea its tied

[languid gulch]

main site

[pure karma]

but at a lower power draw and voltage and higher clocks

[night girder]

but look hood.

[languid gulch]

stock

[night girder]

damn!

Yeah, not available here it seems 🤣 Or wait ...

central eastern europe, good enough. (www.porsche.com/central-eastern-europe)

[languid gulch]

yea one near me is for sale with 500km on it for $440k

[night girder]

doesn't show the price here 😛 Like in your screenshot.

[languid gulch]

apparently the premium paint tacks on another $45k

[night girder]

yeah I saw. Crazy.

guess I stick to my bicycle 🤣

[languid gulch]

20x the price of my car

it ain't 20x the value 🤣

[twin dew]

But basically the only option right now might be paid software by name of Argus Monitor.

Talk of it being cheap, but didn't check the price.

[night girder]

free, fully functional 30-day evaluation

www.argusmonitor.com

pricing: 28.95 eur for 3 years.

[tough owl]

I need a 911 gt3 rs

[night girder]

To get to school?

[tough owl]

yes

[night girder]

I stick to my old school BMW M3 dream.

[languid gulch]

i love the early 2000s 3 series

[night girder]

It's a dream.

[tough owl]

too bad everyone and their dog wants one so the price is through the roof

[night girder]

I fight dogs for it.

[night girder]

Well seems this one is available since yesterday 😛

[tough owl]

thats a lotta miles

[night girder]

for sure

[tough owl]

def been rolled back a bit too

[languid gulch]

100k miles counts as a lot?

[night girder]

kilometers. Oh right.

Yeah, for that price.

and it's damaged.

[languid gulch]

ah

yea if it was pristine, maybe that price

at an auction

[night girder]

Fixable. But you don't know the internals.

So it all adds to the price.

and with such cars, who knows what previous owners done to it 🤣

[languid gulch]

loved this look of bmw

[night girder]

And rust

[languid gulch]

lol

[night girder]

No disrespect. But not really my thing 🙂

[languid gulch]

you should see the absolute pieces of shit that survive here because nothing rusts

[night girder]

It looks pretty ... normal 😛

But maybe that's what you want 😁

[languid gulch]

oh your generation is incredible, i just have 0 trust in the safety once you get that old 🤣

& i just like the look, i'd never own one. maintenance costs on merc/bmw/audi here is insane

[night girder]

fair, I want just something more unique looking like the one I posted. but then in better condition.

[languid gulch]

has the classic rally car look

[night girder]

I could ask someone I know if we could work on the car together. I don't know enough but if they can show me what to do.