Public infrastructure is usually deep
#off-topic-tech
visual tree
I feel sorry for people in US who only have comcast available since it holds monopoly in a lot of areas with no solid alternative
If there were multiple ISP's everywhere in US, I guarantee 100% their internet prices would be similar to prices in EU
tribal kraken
Same idea, different tech. Lidars actually are meant for large areas like construction sites, and are less accurate in detail. That is actually how you scan ground data for modern excavators 3D guidance systems. Leica Geosystems very familiar to me.
pure karma
only use i see for solar pannels is outages and even then you cant use them for that since they must power the grid at all times
visual tree
Here, you can lower your bills by 86% with solar panels if you obtain permit by the end of year. Those who get permit next year can lower their bills by 55%
With government subsidies, my investment return would be in 4 years
pure karma
4 years slaving away at maintaining them with nothing in return
and anywhere else its 8+ prettymuch
visual tree
They might not be worth it in some countries but they are 100% going to be worth it in my case
You get a return in a form of lower bills and total savings in 4 years will exceed how much you paid for them
Only need to clean them once or two times a year
night girder
ANd chat control got approved 
The "voluntarily" scanning, but what I read about it, it's the same law. Just more smoke and mirrors.
Now EU parliament has to approve it, and mass surveillance is a go go go!
Ofc official EU websites are not on whitelist
How can a company make a risk assessment, without actually scanning the messages and breaking our privacy 🤷♂️
Only the Netherlands and Poland voted against it, fml.
and EU also wants to ban lootboxes, platforms and social media for -16 in EU.
Holy fuck ...
EU wants to remove freedom 🤣
All for the children, the animals and climate ofc 👍
pure karma
EU wants to remove freedom 🤣
every country does
night girder
every country does
I am a bit carefull speaking of countries I know little about, so that's why I said EU 😉
pure karma
fair
reminds me of a article i saw that said canada wont exist by 2035 with how politics are going here and honestly i dont doubt it
night girder
483 voted for.
92 voted against.
86 dissapeared.
In EU for -16 ban on social media. It's only a raport at this point. So no laws yet.
pure karma
complete ban?
night girder
Yeah, parlement wants it banned. And all dark patterns. And all loot boxes.
Like, they want everything evil banned on the internet 🤣
But that's parlement, they can't make laws it seems haha. Idiots.
pure karma
thats teribble but makes total sense
social media lets peopel see trough gouverment lies and school and so on young
night girder
They argument is this:
97% of the kids use the inteernet daily. So it's an issue.
How idiotic of a reasoning is that
Like imagine, that back in the day when the car was invented. People tried to stop it, because young people all got cars (young people tend to go witht he times).
It's just a bunch of old farts, not going with the time, not understand this is progress.
pure karma
yea ban curencies ban loot boxes but ban acess to information and the entire internet
heck nah
night girder
And also, how much of the world revenue goes into the internet? I bet it's a lot.
So a bit silly to spend so much money on apps, websites etc. And then be surprised it is so popular.
Also, schools all use "smart school" and shit. A website you need for school.
Goverments don't send me paper anymore, but all through a website.
I don't get it.. One the one hand, EU is forcing us to use the internet.
On the other hand, they don't want us to be on the internet?
pure karma
age limits have a negative impact long therm anyway
night girder
And I wonder.
They say 97% of the kids use the internet daily. Does that mean if they play multiplayer it counts as "use internet?"
pure karma
They say 97% of the kids use the internet daily. Does that mean if they play mul...
use internet for them is technology as a whole probably
night girder
use internet for them is technology as a whole probably
So 97% means jackshit.
pure karma
yep
night girder
if 97% is scrolling 5 hours on FB as a zombie is a different story than 97% logging into a game for an hour to have funw ith their friends.
pure karma
i think social media should be lower than 13+ but higher than like 8+
its kind of a weird spot
13 is late and restricting to learning
night girder
Let's leave it up to the parents?
pure karma
well yea but thats not gonna stay for long
night girder
What's next? Goverment going to decide from what age kids can start to do a hobby?
Or what kids can eat at what ages? Like how far we go?
pure karma
What's next? Goverment going to decide from what age kids can start to do a hobb...
already have its called education
night girder
Nah, I mean, if I decide that my son can have facebook at age of 12, that's my descision no?
Goverment != parents.
pure karma
i mean yea should be but thats not what the goverment wants
iv been using youtube since i was like 4
i learned like 90% of what i know from youtube and games
i literally learned multiplications from satisfactory bruh
night girder
Also, TV was harmful in the 90s for kids too. Nobody banned that.
So many kids, sitting hours infront of a television screen watching at some talking vacuum cleaner and some weird sun with a face.
pure karma
not having acess to that is basically a dictatorship
im not gonna start with minimum ages for stuff since thigns like sexual content kinda falls on morals but those are a net negative in most cases too
you cant just regulate everything that way
night girder
If my kid, goes out to play outside at the age of 6, they can encounter individuals that have ill intent too.
And then goverments are like, let's ban that kids can go outside if they are -16
night girder
you cant just regulate everything that way
Exactly. But it doesn't stop them from trying. And crying when shit hits the fan 🤣
night girder
im not gonna start with minimum ages for stuff since thigns like sexual content ...
Dangers are everywhere. On the internet. In society. On the street. In front of my house, it's a dangerous world.
You can't tell innocent people to not go outside because bad people do bad things.
pure karma
Dangers are everywhere. On the internet. In society. On the street. In front of ...
yea some of them i think are reasonable like clubs and parties being generally 18+ since its a definitely above average danger enviroment but things like using the internet have literally almost no dangers outside of self harm which is possible anywhere
if you stick a screwdriver in a outled YOU asked to be electrocuted
if you searched for sexua lcontent YOU searched for it
night girder
If EU said; no sexual websites for kids under -16. I get that more . It's specific. It has a purpose.
pure karma
yea i get it
night girder
You can't visit an escort if you are not 18+ etc. All very specific laws.
pure karma
cant live under 18 prettymuch
night girder
But lately, it's all so general and broad.
pure karma
if your alone and not 16+ your basically set up for death
night girder
The first 18 years of your life, you are not free.
And then they let you free, but expect you to work 40 hours a week atleast.
And then you get REALLY REALLY free. But you're so old they put you in a home 🤣
You know, I love my history.
Look at history, and tell me, when did censorship end well
pure karma
dont know much of history but i can bet very few times
night girder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Remember that? Moonshine and illegal activities went through the roof haha 🤣
night girder
dont know much of history but i can bet very few times
Afaik, it never ended well.
Mostly led to falls of civilizations, wars, etc.
And it's a slow process, it can take a few decades.
pure karma
figured so from how things liek comunism went
if you dictate people it wont last long
night girder
It didn't work in Roman times either.
And the romans were more free on certain things than people were in the medieval times.
night girder
if you dictate people it wont last long
Yeah, I like to think of the people as water in nature, you can't control water that easily, you can build dams, but it will find other ways most of the times. It goes into the air, or into the ground, or makes new rivers.
and if you contain the water on all sides, the pressure builds up inside and eventually it gets free.
I love Bruce Lee when he talks water 🤣 Inspirational.
Basically he is saying. Adapt to situations.
sterile plinth
god programming c++ on windows is such a horrible experience
do yall use VS solutions, cmake or what because none of the build systems really compare to the linux ones
mental oriole
you need a build system either cmake or something similar. I prefer premake though, because it's one file setup and it can generate vs solution if you are on windows or a gmake project on linux.
pro with cmake is you can depend on other projects more easily, premake does not have that feature. And you'd have to keep track of versions and stuff yourself.
languid gulch
waxen pendant
@inner shale I like ICU its the best of some of the worst PC software lol
I like the EVGA and the Keychron soft ware though because they save to your hardware. then you can uninstall the software
my biggest issue With corsair is there own shifting standards
The keychron soft ware is browser based and you do not need to install anytthing
which is rad
ewww
Me no likey Razor
If you want a cool macro pad but that is more Hobby/ custom Project the Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 is cool
I can DM you a link if you like. Though some coding is required hence the hobby aspect
The 8bitdo Retro keyboard is sweet
its more user friendly
it comes with gaint 2 inch diamter macro buttons
you could look for a used k68
or build one
I do
<---- Canadian Linus sold me my first custom build lol
Im to used to 84 key Boards. normal ones feel bulky and weird now
I dm'd you a macro pad that clips to your existing k100
You still can one day
Im hoping my current KB is my last. Its fully customizable and modular so if anything breaks including the board i can replace it
Weasley, Like the Harry Potter Character ( I did not name him)
When i met him he was 27 pounds and a Cripple. At some point his hip was crushed and he couldnt jump. He did puillups to get into the bed with me
the 1660 was a solid card
I rocked the 1060ti until my Digital Audio Workstation started conflicting with it
then i switched to AMD. and I have been there since as it has been the bang for buck option
If my card died right now id buy a Arc
Im good at trouble shooting and such
Thge war in Ukraine needs to end so i can get more Displate
Where are ytou roughly located? Dont dox yourself lol
Gotcha
Ive been watching lots of Western European Sci-Fi lately, I just started watching Dark (its from Germany)
I gathered, It just triggered my ADHD brain to connect to the SCI FI ive been watching
Science fiction televison show
lol he is in a lot of Main stream Sci Fi, Supernatural, Stargate Tomorrowland
I am not aware of this book
ew.... weather is bad here. Much snow
high winds
I only speak Bad English worse French and a hicup of Japanese
I have a few polish friends. When i visit during holidays and there parents speak polish i am so lost
Im watching the last season of stranger things. good so far
i finished up my SAtisfactory playthrough this week. so im just killing tikme till friday
English is a shit language
safe travels
languid gulch
temulverine
🤣
ikearine?
$200 4090
ngl i've never bought anything off of aliexpress
yea we got one here
think i've been there twice
gotta do the full marathon
there's lifts in different spots tho
ours is 4 floors i think
i've never bought furniture there, just small stuff
those sounded good until they got busted using horse meat
yea not about to eat horse
that's a famine/siege level of desperate
far fewer than there used to be, but still too many
i was kinda thinking that that means that CSS is worse than bethesda since we can kill the lizard doggo 🤣
oh i mean in game
i'm kinda tempted to get the coffee mug
oh ouchie 🤣
the big issue i've been coming across with coffee mugs is how many of them aren't able to go in a microwave
nice
hoo $975 xeno basher 🤣
pretty sure i could buy a decent 3d printer and fill in with hardware store stuff for cheaper
i want a rebar gun anyway 🤣
awwww they say their mug isn't microwave safe
never owned anything from hyperx
i watched that JTC video on their melting SSD and swore them off
i had such crap luck with logitech that basically anything is better
the only thing of theirs i still have is my headset
and it's lasted because it has a replaceable battery
crap mouse switches
logitech could probably stop making mice, and just license out their scroll wheel tech to other companies
the infinite scroll with lock is the one big thing i miss
samsung screens & chips, yes. samsung appliances, hell no
panasonic cameras were decent
and tube TVs
🤣
remember Zenith?
1st gen of that stuff was great because they didn't cheap out
oh yea, we had an early one
thing weighed a TON
legit took 2 people to move
would be fun to see the manufacturing lines back then compared to now
yea that was weird
just diplomatically weird. i thought that people who have gone to taiwan are banned from china
yea, feels kind of obvious that it's being used for propaganda
yup
languid gulch
laptops always have crap thermal capacity
void pine
mine rarely gets hot
almost never
not sure why because the CPU's max power draw is 6W
GPU goes up to 40 watts
so it's clearly the GPU getting warm, but my framerate is capped at 30
languid gulch
yea, was gonna ask when the last time you cleaned it out
void pine
also all my settings are on low
languid gulch
laptop cpu/gpu are designed to run at max temps
mental oriole
another one bites the dust
languid gulch
also a fair amount of laptops with metal chassis use it as a heat sink
void pine
laptop cpu/gpu are designed to run at max temps
hm true
void pine
also a fair amount of laptops with metal chassis use it as a heat sink
*hot to the touch
mental oriole
void pine
im omw to get 5th degree burns
languid gulch
🤣
void pine
already 27ish inside
void pine
i know 69F = 18C roughly, from The Office
but that's where my knowledge of Farenheit ends
languid gulch
oven temps in C just sound weird to me
mental oriole
Everything in F sound weird to me
void pine
400F sounds like you're incinerating whatever it is
void pine
pizza is nerd stuff right...
languid gulch
180C just sounds like it's gonna be raw after 2 hours
mental oriole
Time to go freeze outside
languid gulch
it's 9 here rn
mental oriole
-3°C :))
languid gulch
temps is one thing, you guys would be outright pissed off trying to decipher weight/volume shit for cooking
i live here not for the 50C summers but the 7C winters
i've experienced the cold, i'm just glad i don't live in it 🤣
we'll get cold occasionally, just not cold enough to complain
yea, i'm enjoying the hell out of it being this cool. last few years it's been annoyingly hot this time of year
if i really want to i can drive ~2hrs north into the mountains for snow
yup
no option to do that going north from here tho
car's the easiest way
?
oh definitely
🤣
for a mediocre movie, it had great music
not really. a lot have too good of music to narrow it down
void pine
dire igloo
Samsung got folding phones already, gotta have folding TVs sooner or later
twin dew
From current model Lenovo ThinkBook:
Also has 2x DDR5 SODIMM slots and 2x 2280 M.2 slots, and fan that can be removed with minimal work for heatsink cleaning, without removing that heatsink.
languid gulch
From current model Lenovo ThinkBook:
still using those cheap ass hinges
twin dew
still using those cheap ass hinges
And what is the better alternative then?
languid gulch
And what is the better alternative then?
no idea but every laptop i've ever had with that style ends up snapping off
twin dew
Basically there is nothing better unless you have metal chassis.
And that style works fine until the hinge gets too stiff with age.
And is easy to repair.
sharp matrix
Well not tonight I need to go find my mews first
twin dew
still using those cheap ass hinges
The cheap-ass version doesn't even have the metal inserts for the screws in the chassis, and instead just uses screws going straight into the plastic.
And in both cases the failing isn't in the hinge, but in the screw to chassis part where the chassis plastic fails with time and cycles.
languid gulch
The cheap-ass version doesn't even have the metal inserts for the screws in the ...
i still hate the design. wouldn't mind paying $5 on a laptop if it meant a non-shit hinge design
twin dew
i still hate the design. wouldn't mind paying $5 on a laptop if it meant a non-s...
Point is that there isn't better one available.
Only thing possible would be for the designers remember that the hinge force will get larger, and design the chassis side for those higher forces for more headroom before failure.
sharp matrix
I'll take all your mews and keep them for myself
visual tree
Stranger Things just crashed netflix servers 🤣
twin dew
At least I got nice epoxy this time, with easy application of right amount of both components, and long working time:
I just cannot understand why it is so hard to get anything but 5 minute epoxy...
twin dew
As consumer.
fossil jasper
I just cannot understand why it is so hard to get anything but 5 minute epoxy...
that would because lets just say the nameless generation that need warning labels for everything. So rules and regulations had to change to avoid accidental gluing of fingers and other appendages together.
twin dew
Which is easier with fast glue than slow?
So if that was relevant, you couldn't get 5 minute fast epoxies, but you could get slow ones.
But it is exactly the opposite, everyone sells 5 minute or faster epoxy, almost no-one sells slower epoxies to consumers.
That specific one I'm using is nominally 1,5h for worktime from mixing.
visual tree
At least I got nice epoxy this time, with easy application of right amount of bo...
Think my dad bought the same thing
Btw, I think I am ready for cloud gaming
I don't really need more than 500 Mbit/s for upload
Btw @twin dew , is this a good indicator ISP modem is good?
quasi citrus
As consumer.
- For a reasonable price. In commercial settings that stuff is standard but as a consumer it feels like you are trying to buy secret Tec 😅
dire igloo
Btw <@994445356047810581> , is this a good indicator ISP modem is good?
What's the spread on the loaded latency?
visual tree
What's the spread on the loaded latency?
twin dew
So ISP side fucks up for downlink.
dire igloo
Yup, 95th percentile shouldn't be in the triple digits
visual tree
Got this shit but I am going to replace it with my router soon anyways
dire igloo
Not even the max should be
twin dew
Also visible as those dots, whenever ISP side throttles downlink, insane spikes.
visual tree
I will ask ISP in a month to remove ONU modem and give me an ONT + Modem combo so I can easily plug my own router into ONT
I am but wanted to test our own crap modems
RDK platform is a nightmare since there is no modem website where you can play with settings. Modem can only be customized from a mobile app which offers limited functionalities....
Good for dumb users but terrible for advanced users
pure karma
Good for dumb users but terrible for advanced users
everything nowadays
idk why but recently i noticed that for mobile devices my router works for 1 minute cuts out for 1 minute works for 1 minute cuts out for 1 minute
its absolutely terrible if your doing stuff like browsing and not just mass watching youtube or smt
but even then it buffers generally because why would you ever load 60 seconds ahead
pure karma
Btw <@994445356047810581> , is this a good indicator ISP modem is good?
i should run that on mobile vs pc to see the shear difference
tribal kraken
First look at new LG C5 OLED as it arrived today but connecting laptop was not as I expected
Can only reach 3840 x 2160 30Hz
twin dew
So the laptop only has HDMI 1.4 output.
tribal kraken
I'm not sure. Seems like none of the connectors make the TV connect to RTX4070. Its always NVIDIA optimus to Intel iGPU
Also my USB-C to HDMI cable can be limit too. Picked it up from work
twin dew
Yeah, that should be active converter from DP alt mode then.
There is no HDMI out of USB-C currently.
tribal kraken
It will be weekend until able to remove old monitor and hook this LG up to the desktop. And maybe do some extra work if want keep the old monitor there too. Will be funny desk with 55" main monitor, and 65" and 32" side monitors. My trysty heavy Martela corner desk might be need litte sawing.
With HDMI to HDMI cable now it is 4k 60Hz
Mobile 4070 not excatly going to break 60fps most games at 4K
twin dew
Your USB-C to HDMI converter was just HDMI 1.4.
tribal kraken
Already gave it to tech chief to take look at
visual tree
Unpaid intern
pure karma
Mobile 4070 not excatly going to break 60fps most games at 4K
not even 1080P lol
tribal kraken
It did run Farming Simulator 25 for 26fps
mental oriole
void pine
<:hehe:382483156542029825> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZo4waMB3c
Low level
hollow arch
Unpaid intern <:hehe:382483156542029825>
Paid in room, board, and entertainment
languid gulch
the entertainment when being an unpaid intern is fucking around with every system and structure in the company to challenge what's effective there
"pay me to stfu" tends to let them be a bit more reflective of their choices
dire igloo
Rebuilt my setup
languid gulch
getting ready to do that myself
but my center ones are ultrawides
and i'm gonna have to move my tv either up higher or go somewhere else entirely
what's gonna go where on your monitors?
dire igloo
before I decide that, gotta find a way to snap windows to the top and bottom halfs of the monitors, it seems to no longer work for some reason
languid gulch
nvidia or radeon
dire igloo
7800xt, setup linked in bio
languid gulch
i feel that ship of theseus
my current one is the only one i haven't gutted at least once
cyan crescent
if usb c can get 40gbps, double of hdmi, why do we even still use hdmi?
languid gulch
"stay in your lane" bullshit, mostly
dire igloo
if usb c can get 40gbps, double of hdmi, why do we even still use hdmi?
if DisplayPort is free to implement and technologically superior, why do we even still use HDMI?
languid gulch
usb-c can do 240W, which means 3 of them could power a 5090
cyan crescent
usb can do 240w and 40gbps, ditch hdmi for usb c
you could power a whole gaming pc in a couple years with just usb c
languid gulch
resurrect the old C13 plug on PSUs for the monitor, but have it be usb-c this time around 🤣
cyan crescent
i agree. also, im tired of monitors having external power bricks
cyan crescent
put a c13 on the monitor with the power brick built in already. its dumb
dire igloo
the only one of my monitors without an integrated PSU is the 1080p one
cyan crescent
my old monitor from like 2008 had one built in
languid gulch
modular psu for monitors, let's do that. it goes boom, swap it out
cyan crescent
my $1700(iirc) monitor has an external brick
languid gulch
have it be brick sized, but accessible and removeable
languid gulch
my $1700(iirc) monitor has an external brick
that's just insulting
cyan crescent
i know
languid gulch
i have a cheap ass backup 24" 1080p one with a brick
cyan crescent
my "old" 27" monitor that was like $230 had an "external" brick but it was one of the ones where its brick is directly part of the plug on the wall
languid gulch
oh god a wall wart of epic proportions
cyan crescent
we need to get rid of wall warts and power bricks
cyan crescent
i have a few gamers nexus shirts
i got their cyber skeleton shirts. i have both the silver and gold ones
languid gulch
i'm waiting for the tech tubers' vids about the phoenix microcenter
languid gulch
before this one opened my closest one was 7hrs one way
cyan crescent
oof
languid gulch
we've only had intel as a major manufacturer here for 30 fucking years
and 5 million people
dire igloo
closest MC for me is several hours by plane and idk how long from the airport
idek which one would be easiest to reach
languid gulch
i don't hate LTT. i've just had to learn to view them as primarily an entertainment channel and not a tech channel
cyan crescent
ive begun to dislike ltt mainly cuz of all the super large projects they do that are out of the possibilties for the average person. like what ever happened to handy tech under 100? of simple projects the average person could do for cheap? then they got into $1mill server, solid gold controller
languid gulch
they were very sneaky transitioning from being a tech channel to entertainment
cyan crescent
i like the things like whole room water cooling cuz thats somewhat feasible for the average person, just scale it down a bit
languid gulch
i can see why some of the recent departures ended up leaving
cyan crescent
i rarely watch ltt now
only reason i watch them is for when new hardware like cpu and gpu comes out then i compare their performace reviews with others
languid gulch
i'll watch them for some of the details stuff. sometimes they find a thingy as either a temporary or permanent solution that is something i've been looking for, but can't find because of search terms
cyan crescent
when ive watched some of their stuff recently like the nas stuff, i want to do that but they dont provide enough detail anymore
languid gulch
when linus was doing his house water cooling stuff i was kinda horrified, but also interested because he was using some stuff i sell 🤣
and constantly using teflon tape wrong
cyan crescent
the whole room cooling was kinda interesting as it kinda showed how you could drag heat outside. i had an issue back at my parents house where my pc could quickly heat up my room
languid gulch
i'm a dirty rotten cheater with it and just have my exhaust about a meter away from the air return
cyan crescent
and if done right, you could use winter air to cool your pc
languid gulch
means it's cheap to max it out
cyan crescent
ive done 120+fps for long enough thatb i cant handle anything less
i will quickly notice
languid gulch
i can definitely tell a lower frame rate, but i played on cheap laptops for so long that i'm still fine with it
cyan crescent
unpopular opinion, i want more movies in fps higher than like 24
languid gulch
i'd like it if broadcasts would actually air 4k
cyan crescent
kinda wish we had vc here
voice chat in the server
i decided to not get a 4k monitor and went with a 3440x1440 240fps monitor
i do. just no vc in this discord server
i know. still a bummer tho
not much can annoy me. one thing that does is wasting my time.
languid gulch
i'm wondering if miniLED is going to outrun oled at some point
cyan crescent
i'm wondering if miniLED is going to outrun oled at some point
i think it might
you part of dsp discord?
languid gulch
nah, i'm the opposite. i have a hilariously underutilized 4090
cyan crescent
neither are
languid gulch
i have it, got bored with it too fast, sadly
cyan crescent
i cant wait for AMDs next card that will beat the 7900XTX
i want them to go after the high end cards again
languid gulch
Radeon 9900XTX3D
cyan crescent
put gpu on the cpu with HBM memory
languid gulch
gpu with HBM on the die, then GDDR7
cyan crescent
just in terms of bandwidth, gpu has so much more
languid gulch
yea but GPUs are also dumb
compared to cpu
this is my first case with more than 1 glass panel, and it sucks to keep clean
cyan crescent
then you got apple with unified memory between cpu and gpu
languid gulch
it would be interesting to see what would happen if you stuck DDR5 chips onto a gpu
cyan crescent
shit performance is what would probably happen
languid gulch
probably
cyan crescent
put GDDR7 on a cpu
languid gulch
lol
cyan crescent
or HBM
languid gulch
the good thing about most RGB is that you can turn it off
the bad thing about RGB is that when it's different companies, their colors can differ by a LOT
my first gpu sitting on my 4090
GT610
the showoff is the builder 🤣 if i had been given the same budget without sponsor restrictions my choices would have been almost completely different
i'm legit tempted by that new silverstone case
FLP01
oh and FLP02
lol
would love to see a 16:9 version of these as an AIO
oh i didn't say i'd buy it 🤣 screw apple
i just miss the 90s & early 2000s aesthetic
everything's just a black or white box now
that all-Noctua pc that LTT built actually looked amazing
i do miss the chunkiness
pretty sure i could use my first laptop as a firm pillow
my P400A had grey noctuas
i got mine before the define 7 came out
P400A was also GN's case of the year, and is like $70
oh i have 3 P400As i've used for my family 🤣
0 interest in actually building in this current case, do not recommend
yea but it's a 6500X. pretty crap for $250
languid gulch
GN rightly tore into it, and were right on all counts
pure karma
im gonna start calling you a boomer at this rate
languid gulch
im gonna start calling you a boomer at this rate
i was thinking it'd be nice to put a low shelf over it instead of having a big box just sitting taking up room
and my parents are the boomers, not me
pure karma
yea could be nice for putting on a shelf but the case dosent really have a "old asthetic" just a unusal one in my opinion
i feel like im both boomer and z
languid gulch
i get that feeling occasionally
pure karma
i like OLD stuff and new stuff but not inbetween
i like anything before the 90s and after 2010
languid gulch
i'm a fan of stuff that functions well
1963 volkswagen? hell no. 1963 chevy pickup? sure
pure karma
im not even in my 20's yet common
languid gulch
lol
pure karma
ofc i dident play scamout76
languid gulch
im not even in my 20's yet common
and now i feel ancient
pure karma
oh dont worry i also feel acient
languid gulch
i'm comfortably old enough to be your dad, i'll put it that way
pure karma
not a surprise outside of fireworker and fight or flight everyone here is over 40 lol
no but im curious to find out what my first pc was
i still nerver have
i bet it was pentium
languid gulch
this is the oldest computer i've gotten to use
pure karma
i have used windows XP daily atleast so theres that
gives a decent idea of the age of my first pc
glossy glacier
question, why is cpu memory so far behind gpu memory?
RAM is build for capacity, cheapness and flexibility
VRAM for bandwidth and parallelism
languid gulch
i see russia destroyed their only way to space
american, yes
where i live it's fairly heavily invested in the space program, so that kind of thing gets noticed here
we did half catered this year
we're already planning on doing something completely different next year 🤣
violet valley
uhh how do i fix this my keyboard shows £ instead of the hastag when pressing shift on 3 for some reason
languid gulch
some of the episodes definitely don't hold up
also i feel old because i remember watching the finale
languid gulch
i must be weird. i've never owned a tablet
my experiences with them at doctor's offices and places like that have pushed me away from them
i've never actually signed anything on one of those and had it look like my signature
oh yea i'll take the crappiest android one over any apple
same
also i tend to wait so long between tech generations that 1-2 gens old is just fine for me
was watching reviews of my Quest 3S and how it is compared to others, and my god those tech youtubers are so fucking spoiled
$250 VR headset that easily beats every spec of my CV1 that originally was like $700+
or at least more easily accessible
lol
i can't wait for the AI bubble to pop & see who it takes with it
especially the companies that have nothing to do with AI, but big genius boss man felt like dumping everything into it and losing it all
yup
they're plenty terrifying
and they're just one of the ones we know about
i just try my best not to be political in this channel, i've seen the mods drop the hammer a few times
(but no)
hitting the car show tomorrow if that counts
oof
probably one of the stupid trucks
it's the 2026 models
🤣
i mean, sister's in the market, so going to one without needing to deal with salespeople is nice
her car has 250k km on it
royal dew
What does she have?
languid gulch
god i hope not
oh there'll be plenty of people doing that
same
everyone is and it sucks
same
agreed
definitely
free pest control
oh just to have around
yea that too
our rabbits are......different
lol
nah, just here specifically
sonoran jackrabbit, SW desert part of the country
rest of the country has "normal" ones
ours are big, lean, and mean
🤣
i consider us to be the australia of the US
we have shit here that nobody has anywhere else
tarantula, gila monsters, rattlesnakes, scorpions
roadrunners are kinda cute
yup
it legit can look like the cartoons
oh i'm good 🤣
scorpions are friends when they're outside
free cricket & roach control
yup
well, phoenix-ish
it's a big area
it's a decent area, just suburban hell in parts
nah, that's the area between us & Los Angeles
doesn't surprise me
our junkyards are famous
nothing rusts here
we've had a "wet" year, and that means 13cm of rain
last year i think was 5cm
and when it does, it all shows up in 2-3 storms
oh yea, NE of the valley
a few people die doing it every year, that makes the news
we're a massive aviation hub
yea, happening way faster than predicted
our lakes aren't doing amazing either
none of them are
it can cause production delays around the world
🤣 of course not
we still have a ton in common
and lots of family
🤣
ok there's that part
i was more thinking culture, food, that kind of thing
1.3M czechs here
hell yes
yea but they're really only good+cheap in the midwest, they have the cows
canada has the DOUBLE BIG MAC
got any places open late there?
oof
sleep it off 🤣
for the card or food
🤣
vodka: for when you want to get drunk fast
always with you too 🙂
go sleep and enjoy friday
sounds like a US based schedule
languid gulch
they used to have a point
and now there's full fat windows laptops that are ARM
already working on thanksgiving leftovers
void pine
h.
apple m3 has the highest single core performance
compared to intel's 14th gen chips and amd's i forgor
can't post the link guh
languid gulch
ngl i refuse to count 13/14 gen intel. those things cook themselves to get those speeds
languid gulch
yea
void pine
and now it's just intel 3,5,7,9
languid gulch
285K is the new top
but also nobody's buying them, so idk if it matters at this point
what really sucks is apple having so locked-down of an environment that other hardware & software companies can't get ahold of the chips to use with their stuff
languid gulch
yup. they're free to have the fastest chips, and nothing to run on them
void pine
why can't apple just be reasonable
languid gulch
as with so many other cases we see, they'd rather be so greedy that it actually costs them money in the long run
soft bloom
Well actually almost doesn't seem to burn through charge when left idle for entire day.
How is this even possible?..
soft bloom
I wake up when I want to
or when it's too cold or hot (yep, who would have thought that in this part of the world it can get too hot even with radiator valve closed... pass-through pipes transfer a lot of heat)
or when neighbours decide to have an argument, or watch tv very loud, or listen to dumb politicians
or when explosions happen
...
wait, I don't wake up when I want 🙁
dire igloo
m1 and above are all a scam
Passmark ranking is a scam.
Unlike UBM, their testing is at least fair, it's just super intransparent what/how they're actually benching with basically zero equivalency in real world performance
soft bloom
You know, I don't think it's correct to present it like that.
Because one very important nuance is missing: it's now someone launching drone at me.
Instead it's group of people with chain of command each making decision or following order of certain scale. Not a single one of them know that I exist.
At best I am collateral damage. At worst I am depersonalized enemy and other labels induced by propaganda.
But even then: not at any point there's a button labeled "x% chance person A will die - launch explosives". Person launching it doesn't think of this.
It would very different if they even just saw face of any civilian they put in danger. And even if they had full dogma about these people being an enemy, it's still a powerful stopping factor.
This is evident from how police officers react to situations when they have to open fire, even at armed people. (More accessible info). And in war most shots fired from handheld guns are not to hit, but to suppress.
Topic is somewhat explored in that game that got removed from stores last year (black ops the line?)
Fact is, when action is decoupled from people who can get harmed, it is much easier to make someone take that last bit of action that directly causes harm.
And this works on top of the ideologic depersonalization of "enemy".
You might think that it doesn't have any application to you, but I suggest you keep an eye on any situation when any of this happens.
void pine
what
soft bloom
Back to buck stuff...
Quick search found some that need at least 1.5V difference
Isn't that too much for car battery trying to power at 12v?
twin dew
Which is why I said to look for L(V)DO regulators (Low (Voltage) DropOut)
Instead of linear regulators
void pine
gn does a lot more objective reviews, ltt is more digestable
hi...
of what
my USB-C to VGA dongle only gets warm, not hot
tribal kraken
Looks like the WLAN on the new scanner is not the fastest. Should be wifi6 but can only reach 125mbits, at same spot my laptop does 800mbit
When you have 20GB to transfer, its more than 1 coffee difference
twin dew
You could probably double that if you change the receiving device from wlan to wired.
As if it is wlan to wlan, it takes double the time.
tribal kraken
Setup is: Toucan scanner <--wlan--> TP link Archer NX200 <--Gigabit ethernet--> Desktop
It is able to export on USB stick too
glossy glacier
Looks like the WLAN on the new scanner is not the fastest. Should be wifi6 but c...
Sounds like a single 2.4GHz band
tribal kraken
But other than that the scanning itself works great on large flat areas, when using markers. That was the problem with old scanner that it loses tracking on objects of this size if it has no detail
Was able to get that bucket into SolidWorks CAD about 2 hours, with 2 scans. Propably could have done it 1 scan but thats all the markers I have now 😄
Only need half. Rest is just mirror
visual tree
Now scammers are trying to call you on whatsapp since people refuse to answer unknown phone calls lol
Can't wait for a message on whatsapp, going to troll them hard
tribal kraken
scanned Glorius Model O from desk too. The honeycomb is 3,50mm measured with my calibers
cyan crescent
I hope to god thats in the wrong spot
twin dew
AI server farm builders bought 40+% of yearly RAM die production on long.
long term deals.
twin dew
We are currently in the scalping phase, when no-one knows when more RAM will enter channel, and at what price.
Will probably be at least few months until prices stabilize to near what they will cost for next few years.
thin trout
AI server farm builders bought 40+% of yearly RAM die production on long.
40% just being OpenAI btw lol
twin dew
Reason for that 40+.
No-one else has AFAIK made PR statements about raising their long term buys from before by significant amount of yearly production.
night girder
The amount of bot invites from this server is getting silly.
Atleast one random invite a week 😠 I think I have to disable friend invites from this server too.
pure karma
Atleast one random invite a week 😠 I think I have to disable friend invites fro...
Must be a target cause iv never had any invite from this server
night girder
Must be a target cause iv never had any invite from this server
...
you probably disabled friend requests then.
twin dew
I don't have them disabled, and only time I get those is when someone thinks that me replying in QaH means I want to be friends.
pure karma
i have messages open and i think friends open too
glossy glacier
All open but no requests
night girder
The fuck?
Well rando's keep inviting me from here. And only mutual server I have is satisfactory.
also you can disabled on server level
So this means jackshit.
And I am just tired of creating tickets for it anyway 🤣
pure karma
The fuck?
iv had i think 1 person contact me for scam art but i dont think it was from this server
night girder
The thing is, they don''t even say anything. Heard it from another moderator (not this server), the bots wait for users to interact with them. So they stay under the radar.
It's just friend requests 🤷♂️
@pure karma , you gotta click the server.
All servers is just what the default is, but that doesn't mean all your servers are set to it.
pure karma
pure karma
hmm really?
night girder
Or wait. I though we could dm straight from the profile.
pure karma
should just send it in my thingy so i can accept it
night girder
Ah its' right click.
the fuck, why do I get these requests and yall claim not. Is it the cup? 🤣
pure karma
i have one sitting in spam
night girder
Who is it?
pure karma
should say if you go in your message requests
night girder
All I got 🤣
pure karma
weird
night girder
Ah, well I clean up the message requests I think 😛
Can't stand the red badges.
Is that ash theme btw?
pure karma
yep
visual tree
ChatGPT really sucks at making memes 😅
night girder
I don't get it.
visual tree
Netflix is teriffied of tailscale because it's one of the few working mesh VPN's which tricks netflix into thinking you are in another household to bypass password sharing protection
Basically, I could place raspberry pi in my sister's apartment, run tailscale on it as an exit node
And I when I open amazon fire stick in my home and connect to my sister's raspberry pi as an exit node, netflix will see ip address of my sister's home network instead of mine
night girder
So it's a good meme?
visual tree
Since my amazon fire stick is logged into my sister's netflix account, netflix will see the stick has same ip address as my sister's TV where she watches netflix and will assume it is in the same household
dire igloo
it's rather poorly made on a technical level
night girder
Totally not surprised of you to say that haha
visual tree
At least it somehow works
dire igloo
At least it somehow works <:hehe:382483156542029825>
i meant the meme, not tailscale itself
visual tree
i meant the meme, not tailscale itself
Oh 🤣
night girder
Like, man it saves me hours and hours of troubles... #sarcasm
visual tree
it's rather poorly made on a technical level
Yeah, it just placed tailscale logo on the door which made everything stupid
night girder
To be fair.
It seemed to try to align it to the door, which is impressive.
OR it just uses templates.
visual tree
I would love to see someone wearing tailscale t-shirt and hat enter netflix office 
night girder
Well, I can't seem to find a template.
visual tree
Google "the shining meme"
night girder
What you think I am doing? I said I can't find the template itself.
👇 Template; white area for text.
visual tree
Oh, that one
night girder
Yeah, I though if AI picks up template (so white area for text).
All it had to do was slap on logo/text.
But it seems the ai put the tailscale logo, and aligned it with door, to hide the axe?
visual tree
Yes
visual tree
Wish I had more powerful synology NAS which supports docker
night girder
Like see?
visual tree
ChatGPT learned how to photoshop people. Must have learned that from influencers
night girder
Maybe it's not allowed to copy images so it just recreates them for "creative" purposes. Not sure. Or it used slighty different frame of the scenes. Or a different image.
but something seems off about her (in the chatGPOT)
Also look at the right shoulder of the original.
visual tree
I think it recreated a similar version
night girder
I think it recreated a similar version
Yeah, kinda scary.
visual tree
Although I don't watch LTT anymore, he recently made a deep fake version of him in order to teach people a lesson about deep fake
It's getting better and better with each day
night girder
I heard an AI soul song from 50 cent lyrics. And it's really spooky good.
it went viral so I think everyone in here heeard it
ez money.
- Generate AI content on YT.
- Build up a community.
- Put in ads.
🤑
visual tree
I wonder if the dead internet theory is actually going to happen
night girder
Do you think YT cares about AI content flooding in, knowing that they generate revenue for YT?
visual tree
Of course not
They don't even care about thousands of live streams related to crypto scam
night girder
once AI starts to outpace humans content output, we might have a problem 🤣
visual tree
People unfortunatelly bought into the lie that AI will create new jobs
In best case scenario, it will destroy more jobs than it will create
night girder
Eh, the training centers create jobs.
More demand for hardware can create jobs.
the servers running AI create jobs.
I can't say how many are created vs maybe lost.
But people have been thinking that with every evolution.
visual tree
I can't say how many are created vs maybe lost.
That's the tricky part, I am not sure it will create enough jobs
night girder
You know there was a time, people lit the street lanterns manual? You know that right?
It was a job. And then electricity came along etc.
visual tree
You know there was a time, people lit the street lanterns manual? You know that ...
There are still gas lamps in Zagreb where they are lit like that
They are more of a tourist attraction that anything though
night girder
and all the manual labor got replaced by machines.
visual tree
night girder
Industrial revolution.
This can once become AI revolution. Who knows.
Suddenly I had to think about this movie 🤣
visual tree
I am also worried about AI godfathers telling us society is not ready for AI
That already tells you something
night girder
not for whatever the fuck we call AI now.
which is "code" that learned to do tricks.
When you posted that chatGPT was bad at creating memes.. The first thing I though was; because it doesn't have a concept of what a meme is.
The same issue with the glass full and AI unable to draw that.
visual tree
It's getting better through years from my experience
Older AI youtube content was crap and now it's getting more realistic and people don't even know if it's real
night girder
my experience has been pretty horrible. Yesterday I asked how to code that a gun aligns to the hands. And not the hands to the gun. Which is a big difference.
It failed to do that and kept trying to guide me to align the hands to the gun with IK. And what it provides is 50% accurate at best. It guides you to things that don't exist.
Very rarely, it spits out a concept that I can google and look up properly. But I would never use it to code anything. Not reliable. Could be the AI I am using.
visual tree
When making a python code, I mainly use AI for generating simple scripts
In most cases, OCR script for work
Python Pandas ftw 😄
Helps me avoid wasting hours on tedious tasks and automate them
night girder
Yeah, maybe it just sucks at UE 😛
visual tree
Oh, that's probably too advanced for AI
Although it struggles with simple python scrypts too and you have to go through trials and errors until the script works
mental oriole
Linux things... :)))
night girder
🤣
night girder
Oh, that's probably too advanced for AI <:hehe:382483156542029825>
Also it misses context sometimes, it can give you "solutions" without it being standard ones and scale-able once (you will run into issues further down the road).
mental oriole
AI:
You're absolutely right that thing Y also needs consideration.
Here is an updated version
does not contain Y thing
repeat forever
night girder
🤣
visual tree
Btw, I am off to watch some movies on TV with beer and popcorn 🍿
night girder
AI: here is solution A.
Yeah, but isn't that dirty code? Wouldn't it be better to do solution B.
You are correct, it's better to do solution B.
It's like having a dumb co-worker 🤣
mental oriole
yee :))
soft bloom
I have to restart network manager almost every 30 minutes on laptop sometimes...
Idk if that can be coilwine.
It is older though, and it is definitely making noises when cpu is working and idle.
Can't say it's very consistent at how often things happen.
Can be 5 minutes xan be couple hours can be entire day working fine
Network manager journal has encryption errors
Well it has intel cpu with integrated gpu
soft bloom
Now I am kind of lost on how to actually find and buy one
As in tooo many variables 🙂
SOmething like this to find a part...
www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/power-management-pmic/voltage-regulators-linear-low-drop-out-ldo-regulators/12v/699?s=N4IgjCBcpgLATATiqAxlAZgQwDYGcBTAGhADcA7KAFwCcBXYkAeygG0QAOAdi7A5AC6JAA5UoIAMq0AluQDmIAL6KSANhQhpAE3FgeyEWMiSZ8kCSoBPYQXFa86ZUA
and then look for actualy placeto buy
and then pray I don't have to repeat that cycle 20 times
visual tree
First time I am seeing a locker for a grocery store (I've only seen courier lockers and online store lockers):
Apparently, it has a freezer inside
Good for people who work long hours and can't buy food on time although they could do that on weekend
tribal kraken
soft bloom
Good for people who work long hours and can't buy food on time although they cou...
24/7 groceries are too good.
but am glad people can buy at night without needing other people to sell.
I was surprised to see such lockers for 'hypermarket' focused on renovations
void pine
Why windows…
Also I don’t get the hype with anything above 1080p for gaming
For reading, where having more PPI/text density matters, I definitely like it
tribal kraken
Windows is only option for my softwares to work.
And why would I want to play 1080p with 5090? Think my main monitor has been 4K for 7 years now? Sure 4K gaming was struggle with 2080Ti 😄
Now switched to OLED and moved the 65" VA-panel to side monitor
dire igloo
Also I don’t get the hype with anything above 1080p for gaming
How far away do you sit from your screen and what games do you play?
pure karma
Also I don’t get the hype with anything above 1080p for gaming
i dident either until i switched to 1440P and now 1080P looks like 480P
i can see every single pixel and count them too at 1080P
visual tree
24/7 groceries are too good.
but am glad people can buy at night without needing...
We have an online store which delivers orders to a locker only so people can pick up their orders. People who are too shy to buy contraceptives in grocery stores love that 🤣
Although they could use self-service checkout and nobody would know what they bought
soft bloom
We have an online store which delivers orders to a locker only so people can pic...
Why even be shy about contraceptives?
I would understand if you had to buy something when you don't have sex...
dire igloo
i can see every single pixel and count them too at 1080P
After rebuilding my setup, I'm now sitting closer to my 27" 1080p monitor than before.
AND OH MY GOD, IT IS HIDEOUS, HOLY FUCKING SHIT
visual tree
Why even be shy about contraceptives?
I would understand if you had to buy some...
People be people 😅
soft bloom
But then, I am that guy who encourages girl to moan and let neighbours know that we are busy to ight, hehe
visual tree
Pray those people never go to an american grocery store where cashiers comment everything you buy lol
pure karma
After rebuilding my setup, I'm now sitting closer to my 27" 1080p monitor than b...
Yea i cant handle 1080P above 20 inches
bronze jasper
Why even be shy about contraceptives?
I would understand if you had to buy some...
because not everyone is raised to be a hedonist
pure karma
1440P 27 you can see them on icons and stuff but you cant tell were they end and cant really count them so there just small enough
dire igloo
Yea i cant handle 1080P above 20 inches
Damn, you must be sitting hella close to your screen the
bronze jasper
if i'm sitting in my chair leaning back and can touch my screen, i consider that too close
visual tree
R.I.P. Miele https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3LXPwAIY6LI
Even they started using cheaper parts....
pure karma
Damn, you must be sitting hella close to your screen the
I mean not really
my desk is long and i sit somewhat far since my monitors have such a wide radius
Id say i sit further than average by a smidge
From my pov i see about this
i consider that far personally
dire igloo
How the fuck is 20" your maximum size for 1080p then?
pure karma
cause i dont sit as far on smaller monitors?
and at this distance i can see pixels on 24in
still
night girder
Fireworker is very passionate about video display resolutions 🤣 Gives me flashback to when I said I loved to game on 1080p and didn't get 1440p and above
pure karma
Fireworker is very passionate about video display resolutions 🤣 Gives me flashb...
I want 32K gaming
visual tree
Death Stranding 2 PC version accidentally leaked (they will probably release it in 2026)
night girder
what is that description/summary?
"a man cut in half by a giant machine, the word "f**K" is heard in the game." - is that written by AI?
visual tree
At least it's not as bad as local news websites which forget to remove the last sentence "Would you like me to generate that/this?"
night girder
I was reading the summary and was thinking to myself "this isn't warming me up the game at all" 🤣
wtf is a battle guitar?
it's not even a melee weapon it seems?
visual tree
I only saw the guitar in the trailer so I guess it's some kind of competition
night girder
it's a gun 🤣
100% written by AI.
Also, battles are accompanied by "blood splatters" hahaha, wtf is this
visual tree
That's pretty much almost every video game today (depending on the genre)
night girder
Here have my 80 euros. You had me at blood splatters
visual tree
You should see descriptions of houses/apartments sold online. People write like poets when they are trying to sell old apartments which have not been renovated in years
night girder
"Zelda Rise of The Gods is a new adventure game with amazing features, such as walking forward, jumping upwards and swinging your sword. You can press buttons and your character will respond to it.
These ground breaking new technologies are all next gen and will provide you for an amazing time with friends and families. The game will even render on your monitor in FULL COLORS!" - AI
visual tree
Yeah, that's 100% AI lol
night girder
Man, I hope someone will hire me as an AI. I do a better job.
If AI replaces our jobs, and we replace AI, we all good?
Anyway, hope you will enjoy death stranding 2. I already said my piece about the game. Not my cup of coffee.
I do respect Kojima and his studio.
It's the same that I tried palworld few months and was thinking ... "huh, this it? What was all the hype about"
visual tree
Yeah, if you hate walking 15 minutes to deliver a cargo while trying to avoid any damage to it, you definitely won't enjoy it 😅
night girder
I need a bit more action 😄
The last Kojima game I played was metal gear solid. But forgot which one. You could steal people and pick em up by helicopter.
And the same for animals. It was just one big sandbox you can goof around in. Amazing time 🤣
visual tree
I spent last 20 hours in DS1 collecting materials to build highways
night girder
That one 🤣 It was so much fun haha.
You could steal everything and launch it in the air with a balloon.
You gotta respect it, making a fun game and also trying to balance a bit of realism.
Like most games that do this, go fully goofy. Also in graphics etc.
visual tree
I started playing 20 year old games because I feel like modern games have lost their soul
or maybe I am just nostalgic
night girder
Indie games keep me at it.
And a few niche games (not big studios)
To be fair, have you ever though about how to make a game yourself? And what you can do different without alienating the player?
It's not easy coming up with good ideas/mechanics, that are fun and refreshing. Let me put it like that.
visual tree
To be fair, have you ever though about how to make a game yourself? And what you...
Not really interested tbh. I just pray developers make some decent games
night girder
Not really interested tbh. I just pray developers make some decent games
Well, if you ever bored. Try to think of what you would do different that is new, I spend a lot of time thinking about it.
visual tree
I am not really experienced so I would probably make a crap game lol
night girder
Nah, you are a gamer. You know game mechanics.
For example, how do you handle doors?
Most press a key/button when near door and then door rotates to open/closed. How can you make it more interesting?
Maybe add lockpicks? Maybe make the door destructable so player can create gap to shoot through? Give player options to plant C4 to blow open door from far away? etc.
But all these mechanics. Are already done. Lockpicks you have in oblivion etc. Shooting through the door is Rainbow Six stuff. C4 also.
visual tree
If I wanted to create a game, it would probably be something like minecraft with house construction
night girder
Sounds like there are 10000 of thoise games now.
Hytale will be release in a few months.
It got stuck in development. Bought up. Stuck again. Sold again to previous owner.
And now they are going to release it as alpha and work from there. If I understood the whole story.
But it was meant to be the next minecraft (as in hype etc).
visual tree
It got stuck in development. Bought up. Stuck again. Sold again to previous owne...
Speaking of this, I wonder what happened to System Shock 3. Last time I heard the development got stuck in the limbo....
agile smelt
is there someone here that can help me with my keyboard
night girder
Warren Spector has since stated that OtherSide stopped working on System Shock 3 in 2019, and that they are now working on an immersive simulation based on a new intellectual property developed by OtherSide.[125][126]
agile smelt
i think i found something on amazon and it says its hall-effect but i lowkey think its wrong
visual tree
I think OtherSide sold SS3 license to Tencent
night girder
I think OtherSide sold SS3 license to Tencent
You are correct.
visual tree
Btw, I really appreciate fiber since I no longer get demotivated when I see I need to download 20GB update for a game on Steam/Epic when I want to play something
Now I can download it in few minutes instead of hours
This was a huge dealbreaker for me when I had vdsl. Simply gave up when I realized I need to wait an hour or more
night girder
Eh, I am used to it.
"Fiber is not available for you." 💩
we have 30% fiber available, EU average is about 63%.
Oh, we even got a slap on the wrist from EU because we're so slow 😂
pure karma
yea im so lucky to have fiber in a small town
you go 5 minutes any direction and the max wifi you can get is 5mbit copper
so having gigabit is SOOO nice
night girder
I can only imagine
soft bloom
Correct me if i am weong
But above/below average actually referrs to median aka top/bottom 50% (of all values sorted)
visual tree
"Fiber is not available for you." 💩
I hope you at least live in a city where fiber usually gets deployed first
night girder
I don't understand your question. Average and median are two different things no?. 1-1-1-3-10-10-10 ... median is 3 but average is 5.1?
night girder
I hope you at least live in a city where fiber usually gets deployed first
No, we been talking about this for years at this point.
It's one of these things that's out of my control, so I just 🤷♂️
Nothing I can do to speed it up or get it.
visual tree
I was considering starlink while I was about to lose hope but the latency would probably suck
night girder
Nah, that sounds silly to me.
I also have moral objections about the company, don't want to give them my money since I don't support their vision and how they handle things.
visual tree
I really don't like Musk in general but think in the terms of getting lesser of two evils
night girder
and waiting a few hours, or letting something download at night, isn't the end of the world to me.
visual tree
It's like when a local pc store is trying to rip you off and you decide to buy hardware from amazon because it's cheaper even though amazon isn't innocent
I just pick the lesser of two evils
night girder
well, the lesser of two evils sound subjective rather than objective.
no way to measure it.
If I had no internet at all, and starlink was my only option. Different story maybe. I think it has it's purpose.
But I have "ok" internet.
visual tree
I mean, I don't like how Bezos treats their employees but employers in Croatia are much much worse
night girder
Eh, Starlink is meddling in world politics. Totally different ballgame to me.
night girder
I mean, I don't like how Bezos treats their employees but employers in Croatia a...
I do try to avoid amazon.
visual tree
I had great experience with amazon so far and they always refunded me when the package was lost, returned a product because I actually don't need it or it's damaged
Local stores here will always try to find a way not to respect your warranty and fix the product for free
I despise them from the bottom of my heart....
night girder
I know Baldur has a opinion about amazon. #off-topic-tech message
and he made some points that makes me try to avoid amazon.
night girder
Local stores here will always try to find a way not to respect your warranty and...
Well, I have good experience. I returned the PSU to a local shop and got my money back.
visual tree
Lucky you. Certified repair centers here are a nightmare
night girder
I was kinda surprised too how smooth it went, ngl
visual tree
I remember how one "certified" repairman tried to scam me when I called him to fix a leaking dishwasher. He wanted to take the dishwasher with him and charge €100 for repairs. I declined
Then I called another certified repairman and he said he just needs to replace a bad rubber seal
That first one was probably trying to tear my dishwasher to pieces and replace original parts with spare ones while also fixing the rubber seal
night girder
you always have to stay vigilant
visual tree
People here think that "certified" means qualified and they can't scam you
I've seen first-hand that's a blatant lie
Like, if you need to repair a broken samsung galaxy phone and you bring it to a repair center certified by samsung, you would expect nothing to go wrong since it's certified by samsung itself
But unfortunately, that's not always the case and sometimes uncertified "back-alley" repair centers can be better if you know what to look for
night girder
I don't trust back alley repair centers
visual tree
Me neither but I get really mad when sometimes those questinable repair centers are actually better than certified repair centers
Like, you are certified, I expect at least some minimal standards
night girder
understandable
I told you the story of my local shop and how unhelpful they were.
I think because it's a village, they mostly do stuff for elderly people. Simple things.
And all I wanted was to test the gpu separate to pinpoint the problem and they said they didn't have motherboard. I had to bring my whole system they told me ... which defeats the initial test.
visual tree
And all I wanted was to test the gpu separate to pinpoint the problem and they s...
Oh, yeah. I remember that. Totally not something I would expect from a PC repair service
night girder
I know I had little chance, because all they put out in the store is intel and nvidia.
There isn't a single AMD product to be found ...
visual tree
Around 15 years ago, I had a big problem with my PC not wanting to boot up. Visited one of the largest PC stores in a country which had a huge repair service. They "fixed" the PC and returned it to me but the PC would still not boot up sometimes. Then I demanded they fix it in front of me and they said it's probably a faulty PSU and I paid for a new one
Went to another repair service and they immediatelly diagnosed it was a faulty motherboard and the problem went away when I bought a new motherboard
So, I wasted money on a new PSU which was not even a problem
night girder
Yeah, the one thing I learned is. It's pretty darn handy to have spare parts to diagnose faulty hardware.
dire igloo
I know I had little chance, because all they put out in the store is intel and n...
Didn't know UBM ran physical store locations
(/j)
night girder
It's really a weird store to step into. And it's super tiny. About a year or two ago, I was talking to them when I had issues for the first time. And they immediately blamed AMD.
They have very strong opinions. But they are never helpful. That's why I never buy anything there 🤣
Like why wouldn't you help me, because I have AMD hardware, that's so weird to me.
visual tree
That's like Mercedes owners looking at everyone else like they are peasants and below them lol
visual tree
They better close the store if that's everything they have in stock lol
night girder
And this is what I get for searching AMD.
visual tree
Speaking of Mercedes, I have to admit I sometimes behave like this when I look at Gen Z 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FT3QLOn54FM
My parents had it even worse. They had to type their graduation thesis on a typewriter and if they made a typo, they would have to start typing the page again from the beggining
pure karma
My parents had it even worse. They had to type their graduation thesis on a type...
but typewriters could erase....
visual tree
Not the one we had
pure karma
visual tree
My parents had a basic typewriter which unfortunately didn't have that feature
pure karma
unfortunate
void pine
How far away do you sit from your screen and what games do you play?
Minecraft, Satisfactory, H!1/2, and I sit about 40cm away ish?
22” monitor
I have a 27” 1440 monitor
soft bloom
I don't understand your question. Average and median are two different things no...
Yes, that's why my realization is confusing...
But meant in the way it's usually used.
Like, when you say "above average salary" you don't actually mean math average aka mean, you intend to say above median, or above (min+max)/2 in some cases?
Same goes for prices, performance etc.
I mean, it's fairly ambiguous, isn't it?
I mean outside of strict math context, in day to day life
soft bloom
Minecraft, Satisfactory, H!1/2, and I sit about 40cm away ish?
That's very close unless you totally eyeballed
Afair good distance is about armlength away
And unless you are a child you have longer arms
pure karma
i love seeing people crash out over how little mousepad space i need to be happy
to be fair i dont blame them looking back
but youd be surprised how far you can get rotating a mouse on the spot instead of moving it
languid gulch
FPS throws off people's perception of what you actually need
i'm on 1440UW and 2500dpi, can cross my screen in the width of my hand
soft bloom
i'm on 1440UW and 2500dpi, can cross my screen in the width of my hand
hand? not wrist?
languid gulch
between the two really
pure karma
i'm on 1440UW and 2500dpi, can cross my screen in the width of my hand
im on 1000dpi and can cross all 3 of my screens in about that yea
depends how fast i move the mouse
the faster i move it the more distance i can travel on screen with the same distance irl so really depends
void pine
That's very close unless you totally eyeballed
Afair good distance is about arml...
I feel like it's 60cm now that I'm sitting at the desk
pure karma
Minecraft, Satisfactory, H!1/2, and I sit about 40cm away ish?
yea thats pretty close im about 75CM back
twin dew
the faster i move it the more distance i can travel on screen with the same dist...
That is Windows feature, which messes up use of muscle memory. And like Cuyar said, often disabled intentionally because of that.
Enhanced pointer precision:
visual tree
🤣
iron aspen
🤣
there isnt even a ground pin and the live/neutrals are pins instead of holes
i have no idea what a north american plug is but power on pins is bad, should be holes
oh also the live and neutral wires are connected
visual tree
It's a custom "meet your maker" american plug
twin dew
And those pins are 90 degrees in wrong orientation.
But would cause the fuse to pop immediately, as that white wire would connect live and neutral together, when that was plugged into socket, if the pins were in right orientation.
But again, LLMs doing whatever.
iron aspen
Cant spell LLM without L
twin dew
Just aware about bunch of elements that are commonly used, with no idea what they actually mean or how they relate to each other.
glossy glacier
As I always say: LLMs don't know anything, they just repeat words in the most likely order.
Same for drawings
twin dew
Yeah, just aware about that specific elements almost always exist, but no idea how to connect those elements in this case.
sand saddle
Found an interesting use for it thought haven't tried it out.
Feed it all the rules of heavier board games and their expansions and searching smth would bring up all the places it's mentioned. Like CTRL+F on steroids.
Some rules just aren't well put together and one thing can be mentioned on different pages or I just don't know whether I should look into one of the 3 expansions rulebooks or the main rulebook.
One dude has put together a very good reference sheet for EU board game and without it it'd be unplayable. But even with it I haven't been able to play it much, too long for my table aka takes over a day.
dire igloo
Found an interesting use for it thought haven't tried it out.
Feed it all the r...
"tell me where to look for X thing" is probably one of the better uses for LLMs that doesn't involve rephrasing/rewording
sand saddle
I mean it would kinda be rephrasing or rewording during the search to find all the places it could be mentioned it without being word for word.
But I'd imagine it would work. People who fed Google NotebookLM the rules and then asked questions were still getting wrong responses so sadly can't do that.
tribal kraken
Ded
visual tree
I also get bad sectors warning on my synology NAS for one of the drives but It somehow still works (I have RAID mirroring)
twin dew
I also get bad sectors warning on my synology NAS for one of the drives but It s...
Bad sectors aren't immediate death, but they are marker that today tells that the drive is dying and should be replaced.
visual tree
I'm not sure if I should immediatelly replace it or wait for it to die since I have disc mirroring