off-topic-tech

[twin dew]

And you aren't looking for "encrypted cloud storage", you are looking for just storage without encryption.

Basically that "Client side encryption" is something that cannot be supported for service you want.

[visual tree]

For that price I'd rather buy 2 NAS devices and keep them in different cities while doing backup lol

[night girder]

man at this rate, it's going to be aws.

[twin dew]

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

[night girder]

Ah, Hetzner. Came across them.

[twin dew]

That seems to be the cheapest you can get in EU based on various comments, for just getting bulk storage as service via standard protocols, and not via Amazon S3 or like special API or provider specific software, or rolling your own by renting a server instead.

[night girder]

honestly, amazon is so complex

aws.amazon.com/pricing/

[twin dew]

Point was that lot of places have S3 compatible object storage API services.

But probably not a protocol that NAS backup software knows.

What NAS maker is it?

[night girder]

Seems Hetzner is what I need.

[night girder]

Synology.

[twin dew]

So can do rsync or Amazon S3 Storage (and clones) basically.
In addition to specific listed services.

For that Synology Hyper Backup in DSM 7.3

https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/7.3/software_spec/hyper_backup

[night girder]

Yeah I know 😄

It can do a lot. That's why I was confused with the other cloud wanting it's own software.

honestly 10 euro for 5TB is nothing.

Will probably turn on compression not sure if it will help a lot.

A lot of videos and photos. Already compressed.

[glossy glacier]

rsync on synology is abysmally slow

[night girder]

what setup? raid?

altough that shouldn't matter I think for uploading 🤔

[twin dew]

Implementation, CPU or like limits or something else?

[glossy glacier]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[night girder]

🤔

And you notice a differentce between rsync and ... ?

[twin dew]

rsync (via ssh) is VERY slow ( ~85 Mbit/s)
So not that slow, just slow in comparison to stuff that is expected to work on fast links.
Edit: Not on Synology.

[glossy glacier]

a syno nas can do the full ~100MB/s on a 1Gbps network with SMB, but barely do 5MB/s with rsync

[twin dew]

Ok, yeah, Synology was slower, 15MB/s in one part.
But rsync is very old protocol.

But it is the best generic protocol that that Hyper Backup supports.

[night girder]

www.synology.com/en-us/support/download/DS920+?version=7.3#packages

There is also other packages. Active Backup for Google workspace etc.

but hyper seems to be most broad.

[twin dew]

<Synologys own ecosystem>
Remote Synology NAS or rsync servers
Public cloud services: Synology C2 Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, JD Cloud, OpenStack Swift, Rackspace, HiDrive, hicloud S3, S3 Storage (and other S3-compatible backup destinations)

Support for various specific services via their own special protocols, but rsync is the only "standard" one, with S3 Storage approaching that at this point.

Hetzner has S3 Storage compatible service, but it is more expensive: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

[night girder]

What's the hourly rate about?

🤨

[twin dew]

That you can buy the storage for less than a month.
And if you rent, then cancel in suitable time, you get billed by the hours you actually used and not the monthly price.

Ah, that is even different. No was right.

[night girder]

why?

[twin dew]

Need for higher space for short time?
Or just needing space at all for short time.

[night girder]

but it says it for traffic 😒

Oh, for both. The little "i".

[twin dew]

Note you don't need extra traffic.
That is for downloads, not uploads.

So you need that only if you need to restore.

[night girder]

ok ...

So I only add that when I need to download the backup?

[twin dew]

Some is used when uploading, but not significant amounts,

As in confimation traffic etc.

[night girder]

😒

why so complicated ffs

I know they call it "flexibable" but it feels like a scam.

Like, I pay for storage.

How is my data going to get to storage if not by "traffic" ?

So why not ask just one price ffs.

[twin dew]

Billed for outgoing traffic, not incoming traffic, pretty common thing in enterprise space.

[night girder]

So what am I getting?

a container that I can use also for a website?

But also for storage or something?

In what scenario, would I have 1TB storage and 10TB outgoing traffic?

If I have a company and everyone is pulling in that 1TB constantly?

[twin dew]

S3 Object storage is often used as backend for sites etc.

For images etc.

[night girder]

Riggght... started to get that feeling mhm.

I should contact Hetzner support. And ask them the questions.

all I can contact is an AI 🙁

or a telephone pff.

Not even a mail adres.

[twin dew]

Customer support costs, if you want that, you don't go for the cheapest possible.

[night girder]

Yeah ... but not even an email for real?

The money they spend on the crap AI which will 100% not give an answer to my questions, they could spend on a human.

I don't imagine Hetzner being so big they get 500000 mails a day.

Let's give it a try shall we?

Damn, it did give me a somewhat decent answer.

So, traffic is min 1TB (I can select 500GB but pricing stays the same). If you go above, you pay 1 dollar per TB or something in blocks of 100MB.

whatr cloud do you use @twin dew ?

[pure karma]

i bet none

[twin dew]

None at that time.
I should, but haven't gotten far enough.
That was the point of why I had looked onto those couple several years ago.

[night girder]

wtf... you of all people

you dissapoint me 🤣

[pure karma]

cloud storage is just a waste still

[night girder]

🤦‍♂️

Your data, I don't care what happens to it.

To me it's too important too lose. So backing it up. Makes me sleep better.

[pure karma]

it costs more than getting the drives yourself

[night girder]

Why spend all the effort in getting a NAS, setting it up, and then not to the final think to make it foolproof.

[pure karma]

i could get using a free 5GB plan for backing stuff up but thats not storing stuff

[night girder]

IIt's like so much effort, but then not putting the cherry on top of the cake, and then all your drives get fucked and you just lost all your data.

[pure karma]

there a diffrence between sotring and bakcing up

[night girder]

You can backup your NAS to other drives and put them in a vault seperate place.

Then take them out of the vault every month, plugin them in, back up and put them back in a vault. Yeah. That can work.

[pure karma]

i dont back up anything

backing up 12TB is too expensive to care about

[twin dew]

I don't even have working NAS right now.
Will see when I have time to install and configure the OS.

[night girder]

So you have 12TB of data.

you don't give shit about to backup.

Why keep it?

[twin dew]

12TB?
No, I don't have 12TB of data.

[night girder]

Baldur ... 😉 a little bit up. Not you. MagicZ.

Should have used the reply feature my bad!

[pure karma]

i wont loose sleep over most of the stuff i could loose from a drive failure

[twin dew]

I have about 100GB of data that I actually care about, 10GB or so that would be semi-critical.

[pure karma]

2TB goes to windows which i could recover fairly effortlesly

2TB of games is jsut redownloadable

[twin dew]

All that is already mirrored and backed up inside same system on different mirrors with snapshotting.

But need to get that NAS up too.

For actual backups.
And then get cloud backups for the most important shit.

[night girder]

Not judging.

But I did not expect that from you Baldur.

I did expect that from MagicZ though 🤣

[pure karma]

and then i have a 8TB drive of videos and old stuff i dont use but want to keep that isent full + laptop and some other drives

[night girder]

probably recording 24/7 4K videos and too lazy to clean it up, so they keep buying more storage 🤣

[twin dew]

Limited time.
"Lost" basically all free time for stuff like that this year to other shit.

[pure karma]

so overall outside of passwords and acounts i really have nothing i would loose sleep over

[night girder]

Sorry, I feel guilty 🙁 👉 👈

I did use up a lot of your time.

[pure karma]

yea i do need to cleanup my raw recordings

[night girder]

Freaking new it!

[twin dew]

No you haven't.

[pure karma]

i have some going back to 2023 but there not actually taking much space

[night girder]

Nice, you forgot

[twin dew]

Talking here doesn't count in that at all basically.

[night girder]

Shiiiit, you haven't forgotten

haha 🤣

[pure karma]

ok thats more than i tought but still only 25%

also i dont record in 4K

mostly 1440P 60FPS and upscale if i need

[visual tree]

I haven't reached 1 TB yet but close to it

[pure karma]

i have that as windows bloat alone i think

[visual tree]

I also keep very important data on multiple locations while not-so important data is on NAS

[night girder]

well, 2026 I will focus on my NAS and all my data spread across multiple devices.

[visual tree]

I mean, I would feel bad if something happened to NAS data but not much tbh

[night girder]

But before I throw everything to my NAS, I want to make sure it's backed up.

[pure karma]

i should really go through my storage again

i havent since 2023 and its really becoming a problem

[night girder]

I have 2 drives with photography (.raw) files.
2 drives with entertainment. 2-3 dead laptops to recover data from. 1 PC to recover data from.
My current PC and laptop.

Hope to have one ring to rule them all. My NAS 😄

but seems I am better prepared than most in here.

[visual tree]

I should probably backup this to NAS too

[night girder]

Man ... why do you even have that on your system.

I saw 2-3 pictures on a YT video and got nausieus. 🤮 Bunch of rich white men with girls that have their names on them like they are some sort of product.

[rustic panther]

Heck yeah, NASes

[visual tree]

I guess you could say curiosity has killed a cat lol

[pure karma]

just incase i ever needed it lol

[night girder]

No, Asablic with Epstein files.

[pure karma]

its supposed to autodelete after some time normally but mine nerver did and i nerver needed the space

[night girder]

That's disturbing.

[pure karma]

oh

[night girder]

What's your setup? (backup, cloud, ...)

[visual tree]

I want to see if there is some confidential data which has been redacted in acrobat reader but you can copy it to word tbh

[rustic panther]

Honestly having a backup of that laying about is understandable if you put the right amount of trust in the us government

[night girder]

He is not from the US! 🤣

It has nothing to do with us.

[visual tree]

But it's always good to know about the world secrets!

[night girder]

hahaha, secrets ... yeah ... haha, most well known secret.

[rustic panther]

I have a 24tb nas i bought for 80 bucks, and it's served me well as a samba disk to stream off of

[visual tree]

Maybe someone left crypto wallet seed key in there 🤣

And forgot to redact it

[night girder]

Ok, but you don't back it up?

and 80 bucks for 24TB sounds sketchy.

but ideal for a media station if you don't care for the data

[rustic panther]

It's configured as raid 1 so there is some redundancy, and if both drives break I have the important stuff externally backed up as well

[pure karma]

why are you so stressed over data loss tho????

[rustic panther]

It was an official WD refurb that just... Cost 80 bucks. The 12tb version was 500 so everyone was suspecting price error

[pure karma]

even my decade old M.2 hasent had any significant data loss

[night girder]

Why aren't you?

[rustic panther]

But everything was honored, no emails or anything

[pure karma]

iv nerver had a storage drive fail from internal factors

[rustic panther]

So, yknow, we take those?

[night girder]

I had. And pictures of my family, people who are dead, ... I don't want to lose that.

It used to be all on paper (for my grandparents etc). Now it's all digital.

[pure karma]

thats fair

[night girder]

I also have 200GB worth of music since my puberty. Like 20 years + of music collection.

[pure karma]

but print them out?

[night girder]

Just the library alone is super important to me.

[night girder]

yeah... paper is not really fire resistance. Or floods. Or any natural disaster.

I do wonder what happens if I die 🤣 Will it be forever in the cloud.

[pure karma]

a plastified printed pic is more flood resitant than a storage drive

[rustic panther]

I'm not a biker, but I'd still wear a helmet and protective jacket all the time even though it's likely that it wouldnt be necessary on any individual trip

[visual tree]

My most important file is KeePass database lol. I keep it in 4 locations: my PC, USB, NAS and cloud

[rustic panther]

Something about having to be unlucky only once to be screwed

[visual tree]

And the master password is stored in my head and a piece of paper

[night girder]

honestly, if people think about it, that's already big step. MagicZ clearly though about and just has the conclussions it's all data they can miss. I understand that.

[pure karma]

having to manually copy every file i own to a bunch of drives on a diffrent pc through usb sticks sounds like such a pain in the ass

i dont care enough

i backup my passwords on a few usb's at once aswell as both my pc's and thats all i really care about

everything else can be recovered from there or isent the end of the world

[visual tree]

I could set PC to backup password database to 3 locations at the same time and then put it on USB stick later

So I don't have to do it manually every time

[night girder]

Eh, I am not sure. The more places you store the DB, the more points of vulnerability you add. And if it's all your passwords.

[twin dew]

My keepass DB is on my three Windows computers, my phone, and dropbox.
And dropbox doesn't have the corresponding key file (+ password), but that keyfile has printed backups instead.

[night girder]

brute force is still a thing ...

if you update your passwords every x months, it shouldn't be a problem.

[twin dew]

Without that keyfile it can only be done direct on the DB file main encryption.

As it basically forms part of the password.

So they would need to brute force the actual 256bit AES or ChaCha20 key
Not the manual password used to unlock the actual key.

[night girder]

It is likely, if not inevitable, that quantum computers will soon be able to break the encryption methods that secure your passwords, your data, and anything else kept under digital lock and key.

In a 2021 research paper, Google engineer Craig Gidney and his coauthor suggested that it would take eight hours for a quantum computer with 20-million noisy qubits to factor RSA-2048 encryption.

I know, but still. It's something in the back of my mind. I would rather store DB on a device that's not connected to the internet (usb stick. floppy disk, cd, ...)

[pure karma]

with new year pretty close what would you guys rate your 2025

im genuinely curious

cause i think my 2025 was overall solid despite all the stuff that happened but everyone says 2025 sucked

[visual tree]

3/5

Could be worse 🤣

[pure karma]

yea id give myself like i think a 9/10

[visual tree]

You'll drop the rating when you see RAM prices next year lol

[pure karma]

yea i think next yea will drop

i just went through my phone and found what my setup looked like at the start of the year and realised how far iv come this year

[visual tree]

I am going to shoot myself if 32 GB of RAM is going to cost more than 50% of PC hardware total cost (although it already does for some brands....)

[night girder]

Personal year progression?

World year progression?

Technology year progression?

[pure karma]

january vs now

[night girder]

What are we rating, because all 3 are different to me.

[pure karma]

id say personal

[night girder]

Personal 4/5.

World 2/5.

[pure karma]

avoiding other people and the world what was your 2025

yea fair

[night girder]

Technology 1/5. It got totally fucked by big tech and Trump.

[pure karma]

agreed with that one

[night girder]

and I just calling a dog a dog here.

And no.

Next year wont drop I think. I posted about it a while back.

[pure karma]

everyone thinking asus was gonna solve the shortage proves the average person ahs no understanding of the situation

[night girder]

Nah.

People in here were still on copium while I was posting articles of one after another vendor deciding to leave us in the cold.

and focus on AI companies when it came to RAM.

[pure karma]

yea that was a cold but expected move

i hope there money catches on fire and they burn with it

[night girder]

Micron foretold issues untill 2027.

[visual tree]

Saw a lot of videos about how Asus was going to save the RAM market and consumers and was like: "Yeah, that's not going to happen" 🤣

[pure karma]

there were some but few at first

[visual tree]

Expecting corporations to save consumers is worse than trusting the government

But that's just cynical me 😅

[night girder]

www.digitimes.com/news/a20251201PD209/2026-memory-dram-demand-nand.html

that was early this month.

Transcend’s letter describes Q4 price moves of 50–100% in just seven days, while CyberPowerPC warns that system price increases will likely persist into 2026 unless component pricing normalizes.

Red94 cites Reuters interviews with smartphone makers who warn that handset prices may rise 20–30% by mid‑2026 purely due to higher memory costs.

Red94 cites SK Hynix as projecting that new conventional DRAM capacity will not come online until 2027–2028, implying sustained tightness until at least 2027. Red94

Doesn't read as; "there is a light at the end of a tunnel".

It reads more like... there is more end of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel 🤣

[visual tree]

Thanks for rubbing the salt in the wound Letterdief, I needed that 🤣

[night girder]

and meanwhile China took aciton again.

News from today on Reuters.

[visual tree]

At least I managed to upgrade RAM on my work laptop before the RAM craze began

Although I don't follow laptop RAM prices lately

[night girder]

Which if true, will further fuel the tech war untill it spirals out of control and everyone is in isolationism mode.

[visual tree]

Not to mention if China invades Taiwan, electronics prices will skyrocket

[night girder]

Fucking AI...

[visual tree]

Wish people realized AI is a tool which has it's strengths and weaknesses and it's not some miracle device which will solve all problems

But guess corporations literally think it's some miracle device

[night girder]

Most people believe what AI companies and leaders tell them.

it's snake-oil sold by the rich and powerful.

and since they went all in on it, which is at best a calculated risk, they wont turn back now.

[visual tree]

Unfortunately this

[night girder]

I do miss NFTs now 🙁

There was a year where every company vowed on NFTS. Like most major game studios had some near years speech mentioning NFTS.

Now it got replaced by AI 🙈

[visual tree]

Maybe we will go back to times when people didn't have electronics and had to go out and have fun and maybe it's a good thing

[night girder]

atleast NFT didn't mess up hardware market.

[visual tree]

But the world will collapse because it's too dependent on technology

[night girder]

Then I lose all my NFT value! 🤣

[night girder]

Oh it will crash. It always does.

And then it blooms for a good period of time.

Since we exist, you can pretty much divide history between "dark ages" and "light ages"

[visual tree]

Guess we might see this soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhVxTxjS-Y

"When JC Denton destroys Area 51 at the end of Deus Ex, the center of multimedia communication and the Aquinas communication grid, the Internet is disabled and humanity descends into a period of war and economic recession known as The Collapse."

[night girder]

Eh, not sure if it will be a singular event.

Most of the time it's the accumulation of events over years leading to "climax"

when the stars are aligned, we go to war.
when the stars are aligned, we make peace.

and war in the broad sense, economical, culutral, physical, cyber, political, ...

the only accute threat I believe is real atm, is nuclear.

and I mean, threat that is imminent and can fuck the world in a few seconds.

just needs one wrong interpretation and the missiles are send... that's what I believe

it's not mentioned anymore, because I don't think they want to scare us. But that doesn't mean the threat is gone.

[visual tree]

Something similar already happened but we were lucky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[night girder]

exactly! That's what was on my mind too.

Thank god for people who use their brain.

[visual tree]

I feel sorry for the guy because they punished him in the end when he literally saved the world

[night girder]

His subsequent decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol,[3] is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that would have likely resulted in a large-scale nuclear war.

He should have gotten a medal, from every fucking country in the world tbh 🤣

[visual tree]

They were like: "We don't care if you saved the world, you disobeyed our orders and that's the only thing that matters"

[night girder]

I haven't looked it up yet. But I heard france also has a nuclear nukes

And most of these countries have this ambigious "if the existence of our country is treatened... then we are allowed to use it."
Which is for interpretation ofc. So they can use it whenever the fuck they want.

Which technically would allow france to take in land, say it's french soil, and if they want to take it back "the existence is threatened" and the nuclear option is on the table.

just got to make sure to take land of a non nuclear country 😛

[visual tree]

Hope France doesn't let us carry nukes since we recently bought Rafale from them 😅

Not sure if it's the BF3 version though

[night girder]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-mexican-standoff-finger-guns-michael-scott-dwight-schrute-gif-15805326

It's this situation since the first nukes got developed.

nobody wants to use it, nobody wants to lower the guns, so we have to keep pointing the guns to keep others in check.

It's a situation that's never got solved. We just ignore and live with it.

if solved, all countries would have started to reduce nukes. But instead, we are increasing production.

Not we, but the US.

[visual tree]

Oh, you are referring to MAD doctrine but it assumes people are rational

All it takes is some crazy person and we are cooked

I find it ironic that they named it the MAD doctrine

[night girder]

I think ... what I really hoped for was they actually never opened pandora's box.

and never developed nukes. The world, and I mean literally our planet, would have been safer without them.

[visual tree]

We already did open pandora's box, it's called AI

[night girder]

Nah, AI is nothing without nukes.

but now if AI really does what we see in the movies, it can take over submarines and launch nukes I guess?

AI is harmless, as long as it doesn't have tools for mass destruction 🤣

but on the bright side, US submarines still updated with floppy disks.

because of no internet, for obvious reasons.

and they can't update the system either, technical difficulties 🤣

[visual tree]

My nephew doesn't know about AI since he is a toddler but he is already terrified of Roomba lol

[night girder]

I 100% don't want to be the IT guy that needs to update a nuclear submarine or the weapon system of the nukes itself 🤣

[visual tree]

He won't sleep in his bed unless we remove Roomba from the room

[night girder]

"Update failed... Launching all nukes. Have a nice day." - FUCK.

[visual tree]

At first, my nephew was curious about Roomba but later developed fear for some reason

Probably because it's loud and it might look like it's chasing you from his perspective

Hard to tell what's going inside a toddler's mind

[night girder]

should put some kids stickers on it, to make it more kids friendly

[visual tree]

But he is smart enough to know which remote belongs to which device. If I give him AC remote for TV, he will give it back and look for the TV remote

[night girder]

mhh...

maybe he is so smart, he already knows what's up 🤣

can't trust technology

https://tenor.com/view/bumba-clown-gif-12210324116470804531

also might be confused with Bumba and Ruumba.

[visual tree]

Probably. At first, he was obsessed with Roomba but he doesn't like it anymore

[night girder]

mhm, I remember reading somethbing about Roomba this eyar.

[visual tree]

The company went bankrupt

[night girder]

Yeah

[visual tree]

because the competition sells cheaper robot vacuum with better specs

[night girder]

how the fuck did they pull that off.

damn, sounds like a lot of fuck ups and free market at work here!

[visual tree]

They had a huge ego and though their robot vacuum is the best when in reality it's just overpriced and competitors can offer the same thing for less

[night girder]

Good to hear. robot vacuum cleaners are still expensive for what a "additional cleaning tool" is.
Most of those robot vendors say you still need to use a regular vacuum cleaner to keep the house thighty.
So it's not even a replacement.

[visual tree]

I love it because I despise cleaning under the bed and hard-to-reach areas

But still use regular vacuum for some areas Roomba can't reach

Best combo is robot vacuum + cordless vacuum

[night girder]

Yeah, I still want one. But my current living place isn't suited for it.

[visual tree]

I remember when we had an electric lawn mower 20 years ago. I hated it so much because we have a big garden and moving the cable was a nightmare

[night girder]

The robot will struggle 😉

[night girder]

the amounts of time I drove over the cable 🤣 fixing it with ductape and piecing the wires together.

this thing is a life safer for fixing the cable 🤣

[visual tree]

I drove over a rock hidden in the grass 1 month after buying a new gasoline lawn mower. Damaged the blades 😭

[night girder]

100% not safe for moisture etc.

I also need a robot vacuum cleaner that can handle animal hairs.

[visual tree]

We had a tabby cat long time ago

Buried him under the tree in the garden

[night girder]

I burried a cat 2 years ago.

a year later, goverment called and said they had to dig open the yard for a river.

at the spot where I burried my cat ofc ... =_=

[visual tree]

Sorry to hear that

[night girder]

I was not amused.

and now I got a fucking river in my garden too 🤣

[visual tree]

My cat got choked to death by a german shepherd whose owner was a terrible person

[night girder]

🙁

mine got killed by cars.

wait. No.

mine got killed by idiot drivers.

[visual tree]

I probably shouldn't own pets since there is risk of getting too attached to my pet

[night girder]

the car isn't to blame 🤣

funny story, a while back, I made my first emergency brake.

where the car comes to a full stop and the blinkers automatically go on because it assumed I was in an accident of some sort.
Or made emergency brake.

the reason. a frog on the road 🤣

I went full stop for a freaking frog. Nobody was behind me anyway.

[visual tree]

I tried adaptive cruise control on rain once, never doing it again

The car detected "nothing" and applied brakes

Not to mention line assist is a nightmare on curved roads because it thinks you are switching lanes and forces your steering wheel

[night girder]

doesn't suprise me at all

I have a lot of false possitives in my car for collision.

on empty roads.

[visual tree]

I try turning all that shit off, the technology is not reliable yet

[night girder]

and I haven't found out what is causing it. Must be light or something.

or certain shapes + contrast + light ...

[night girder]

I hate it turns on everytime you start the car, because mandatory by EU.

still thinking about buying that hacking device.

to hack the car and unlock features and turn stuff on/off permantly.

[visual tree]

Btw, my personal mechanic confirmed start/stop feature damages the engine which I suspected from the very beginning. I turn that thing off each time I use my car

[night girder]

So happy to pay 20-40k on a car, that I don't really own, but EU does

[visual tree]

The mechanic also said electric cars are very expensive to repair. People fall for the "if it has no moving parts, it's cheaper to repair" bullshit

Not to mention the inverter and battery will go dead after 10 years and you might as well dispose of your electric car

[night girder]

not that, it's all cars.

[visual tree]

I replaced brakes on my car 2 years ago and I barely used the car. Went to a yearly inspection and I passed but they mentioned brakes on the left and right side don't brake equally

I was like: "Are you saying my new brakes already have issues?"

[night girder]

road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/european-road-safety-observatory/statistics-and-analysis-archive/esafety/intelligent-speed-adaptation-isa_en

road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/european-road-safety-observatory/statistics-and-analysis-archive/esafety/brake-assist_en

like all these systems are pushed by EU.

And we gotta pay for it too.

[visual tree]

Truck drivers are going to be pissed lol

[night girder]

I guess EU doesn't want us to buy brand new cars and use older ones. Because they do everything in their power to make them less appealing.

[visual tree]

Especially regarding speed limiter

[night girder]

all implemented btw.

if you buy new car manufactured after that date, in the EU, you will get all those systems mandatory.

you can turn it off, per travel. So car turn on/off = reset again.

[visual tree]

I don't think I'll be ever getting a new car again

If I need it for special circumstances, there are apps which let you borrow a shared car

Much cheaper than buying a car which only eats your money

[night girder]

Still thinking about buying older car and fix it up myself.

I might have someone who can help me out with it.

[visual tree]

I have 157.000 km on my 16 year old car. It will still last but the repair costs are higher than the fuel cost....

My city is going to buy new buses for free public transport and at that point, I won't be needing a car anymore

They are building a charging station 50 meters away from my home. Pray they put a stop sign near my home lol

Not to mention my city is small and you can get anywhere fast by walking or using a bicycle

Wish more european cities had the amsterdam concept although some are too big for that

[night girder]

amsterdam concept?

[visual tree]

I mean, how they designed the city for bicycles

It looks like utopia compared to my country

[night girder]

😕

Well, yeah. It looks like one.

[visual tree]

We will probably never reach that stage (if ever)

[night girder]

but you ever visited it?

[visual tree]

No but I am planning to since flight cost is cheap and it's close

And no, I won't be going to the red light district

[night girder]

hehe, curious if you still think it's a utopia after you visited it and been dodging bicycles for a full day.

[visual tree]

Oh, like I am not dodging food delivery guys on bicycles already lol

[night girder]

100x worse.

because they all use bikes. So imagine every car, being a bike that can come from anywhere at high speed.

and are 100% pissed off at you, as a pedestrian for not dodging em.

[visual tree]

One guy with a bicycle ran into my dad waiting for a green light and just went away without checking if my dad is ok. He is lucky I wasn't there....

[mental oriole]

Why do bikers think they have right of way...

[night girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d8RNiRROA4

Enjoy.

[visual tree]

I almost had a collision with a cyclist on pedestrian walkway just around the corner

[night girder]

oh one got hit already in the first seconds lol.

How is that even possible.

[visual tree]

🤣

[mental oriole]

There is a reason I call them idiots on two wheels.

[night girder]

🤣

I mean, sorry Asablic. Didn't want to shit on your dreams.

[visual tree]

No problem

[night girder]

but it has drawbacks trust me.

I really don't like these "let's go 100% this or that ..." reasonings.

"Let's go 100% electric cars, let's go 100% AI, let's go 100% green energy and fuck nuclear ..." all without thinking.

What we need is transition plans and vision.

I think bicycles can be great. But not like in Amsterdam.

in the end you are just shifting traffic from cars to bicycles.

So accidents are bound to keep happening. People will keep dying.

[visual tree]

I am probably going to get hit by a food delivery guy on a bicycle at one point considering how dangerously they ride

Already had close encounters

[night girder]

• they legelised canabis over there.

So half of them are stoned in traffic 🤣

[visual tree]

[pure karma]

bikes are not a solution

travel will always be a problem for as long as it exists which is likely to be forever

just depends which consequences are best to bear

[visual tree]

I hate food delivery services because they reward fastest cyclists and those are usually the ones ignoring traffic rules

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsmyzBc7wU0

Red lights mean nothing to that guy

Also, food delivery services ruined restaurants imo. When they entered the market here for the first time, they attracted customers with cheap prices

But after several years, restaurants became too dependant on them because of larger customer pool and food delivery companies then started charging higher prices because they know restaurants can't survive without their service

[night girder]

Yeah indeed.

[pure karma]

a good large meal here now is like 30$ which is insane

[visual tree]

5 years ago, you could find a pizza between 4,5 € and 5 €

Now you can't find anything under 12 €

For large cities that is

They are still selling pizza under 8 € in my city but it's because the city is smaller and so are the costs

[night girder]

oh, that also has another reason.

pizza prices are because of Ukraine being under attack.

grain prices went through the roof, and so went pizza 🙂

[pure karma]

https://tenor.com/view/bobo-bobo-the-bear-ree-screaming-crash-out-gif-13370196021775187861

[night girder]

EU reflects the same.

And while the prices did go down, pizza prices stay up 😭

[visual tree]

Yeah. History has taught us prices rarely go down once they are up even if the input cost has been reduced

[night girder]

This is a good question for AI.

Bro this is some brainwashed AI shit.

You literal can guide the AI to the answer you want to hear, lovely 🤣

[visual tree]

Since it's trained on internet data, it probably hallucinates you need to inject bleach to protect yourself from COVID

[night girder]

Well, that's a fact.

We all know bleach cures covid 19.

I think bleach can even cure life itself

[visual tree]

If you kill yourself from poisoning that is

[night girder]

cured is cured.

[visual tree]

AI is basically garbage in, garbage out

[night girder]

in the presidents defense, noboby said people needed to be cured AND alive.

[visual tree]

lol

[night girder]

That's the conclussion I came too after using it intesively for about a year or two now.

[visual tree]

I wonder what the AI model trained on reddit looks like

[night girder]

I tried to be open minded. Implement it in my coding work flow. Or workflow when searching information. Or for learning.

But it keeps failing so much still.

if the thing actually helps me save time, it would be useful but so far it hasn't.

So either I still don't understand how to use the tool. Or like I said earlier today, it's snake oil.

[visual tree]

I think people grossly overestimate what it's capable of

[night girder]

Crayon AI also still sucks. It's a free AI so ... 😕

but it doesn't know what dreeaming is. Concept.

It even draws a pig riding a unicorn for some reason 🤣

and a kitten turned into a unicorn.

[night girder]

I think so too, but not everyone agrees with us

Isn't "Hello Kitty" IP? 😏

Hello Kitty, also known by her real name Kitty White, is a fictional character created by Yuko Shimizu, designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio

[visual tree]

I feel sorry for Hayao Miyazaki and how AI butchered his ghibli style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

[night girder]

Wow, he called it an insult to life itself.

[visual tree]

I guess it's because AI strongly reminded him of his disabled friend and he felt insulted by that

[night girder]

Yeah he mentions that.

But I have to be honest. I don't fully understand what he is trying to say.

Because what the researchers show, is an AI using a 3D body to move around and it does this in a creepy way. So the researchers conclude that it can be used for a horror game.
Then Hayao brings up his friend that has a disability. And that it's an insult to life that AI does this.

I don't see how they are correlated without trying to be rude to what he feels.

At first I though he would say something that he hopes AI would lead to technology that could actually help his friend.
Not do tricks like drawing or mimick music.

[pure karma]

his argument isent really objective but i also cant side with whatever abomination the ai presenters are showcasing

its not unatural movement its a teribbly trained model you made in an hour

[night girder]

Oh yeah I agree.

But the argument of "it can be used for a horror game" isn't that far fetched 😛

[mental oriole]

I'm amazed it didnt make the text all fucky wucky

[pure karma]

it needs a subscription so they put 1% more effort

[forest horizon]

I turned my pc off after I got off stream and I tried turning it back on and I ts saying the cpu fan has an error idk what to do can someone help

[pure karma]

probably not detected as plugged in but i wouldn't be able to help you check that if you have no pc building experience

[void pine]

Gotta love NOVIDEO

Can’t even fix it because nvidia

[coral timber]

Thoughts on the phone UI?

[languid gulch]

not enough rainbow unicorn vomit

[languid gulch]

(kidding btw, i actually really like the "mostly greyscale" thing going on

[jagged snow]

Alright, I've got an odd diagnostic issue
Case fans spin up and rgb works, but no post and no USB power to rear or front io

GPU fans also spin up but no display output at all

Done the usuals of reseat RAM, gpu, clear cmos, reconnect all power cabkes

I'm going to check rail voltages in a second but if I get nothing there I'm going to assume dead mobo

[oblique hamlet]

#off-topic-tech message

[jagged snow]

No lol
Was more just sharing the story, troubleshooting for a friend and have no tools or spare hardware

[languid gulch]

also check wall power

garbage in, garbage out

wouldn't also be above it being a failed PSU either

it is kinda suspicious that it's unresponsive across the 3.3/5/12v spectrum and not just a single rail

[jagged snow]

Except the fans and rgb work

And there's no hub

So there's at least 3.3v and 5v to the mobo

Its lga1700 so I just told him to buy a new board

[tough owl]

Anyone have actually been successful ripping 4kudh blurays

Got some Christmas money and I think now is the time to buy a drive

[languid gulch]

ngl i ditched discs before bluray really took off

i did discover recently that one of the inventors of the disc laser also invented the Super Soaker

[jagged snow]

Depending on the lvl of DRM it's not unlike ripping a dvd

Sometimes you need a specialized reader

[twin dew]

The board doesn't have even the diagnostic LEDs?
And you don't have a PC beeper to plug in to get the audio codes?

Could possibly get those out with multimeter voltage measurement mode from the header.

Or possibly resistance mode between the ground pin and ground, as usually the modulation is on the ground side, working by connecting and disconnecting it for PWM.

[jagged snow]

Yeah, sadly was just socializing at a friends house and had no tools, didn't expect to be looking at a pc

But yeah, no diag tools or anything

[twin dew]

So very cheap MB if it didn't even have the four diagnostic LEDs.

[jagged snow]

Either way, was a super cheap build with an unbranded mobo and a gigabyte bomb psu

[jagged snow]

Yep

[visual tree]

I hate people who call themselves "independent" journalists and then post fake news like this....

More like independent idiot

Perfect example of dunning-kruger effect

[night girder]

Jokes on you for still using X

And expecting real journalism on a platform ment for entertainment.

If you want real journalism, go buy a newspaper.

[visual tree]

Bold of you to assume newspaper contains real journalism

[night girder]

Better than whatever the fuck that X is.

[visual tree]

Can't remember when was the last time I actually read some decent article by a journalist

[night girder]

You can say what you want, but atleast, journalism has some extra steps built into.

X or the internet in general is a platform for everyone, fascists to tree huggers.

And everyone can nilly willy spout more or less nonsense they want.

[night girder]

True sadly.

But do yourself a favor, stop reading social media for your mental health.

Make that your 2026 goal. Unless you do it for the fun and giggles.

[visual tree]

Too late, mental heating is already ruined

[visual tree]

Speaking of tree huggers, you just reminded me of this lol https://youtube.com/shorts/ieKQngPIizs

I love Fire Department Chronicles

[night girder]

😊

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

Reminded me of that.

[visual tree]

Poor skeleton in the background

[night girder]

So funny 🤣 All of it.

[visual tree]

Good thing they are from UK so I am safe if I ever have to call paramedics lol

https://youtube.com/shorts/qrfIzLe5Vvs

[languid gulch]

his channel is amazing

i suspect it might also be therapy for him 🤣

[visual tree]

Makes me want to become a firefighter so I can at least risk my life while meeting dumb people

[languid gulch]

can't pay me enough to do what they do

i've heard the stories

[visual tree]

I probably wouldn't even pass health inspection lol

[languid gulch]

oh same, 100%

[night girder]

listening to a top 25 of 2025 songs.

[languid gulch]

even if i could, i couldn't handle the trauma

[night girder]

and I like 2 songs so far 🤣

ok 3 now.

[visual tree]

This guy has so many videos like he meets dumb people every hour in his career

[languid gulch]

overproduced & autotuned garbage

[night girder]

Yeah, it's from a rock magazine.

"rock"

They put Lilly Allen Pussy Castle on number 3.

number 2 is hiphop. and number 1 is punk. 🤣

[languid gulch]

it's also all tiktok trash

[night girder]

Yeah, 4 songs I like. All the rest is trash.

[languid gulch]

also i hate that the trashiest fashions of the 70s & 80s are back

i thought that nothing could be worse than the super sterile 2010s looks

[night girder]

I don't really follow fashion

[languid gulch]

then they brought back shag carpet & mullets

[night girder]

Kneecap is impressive though.

Irish dubstep/punk half of the lyrics in gaelic.

Got banned by Orban.

They also got into a fight with a politicien, who wanted them arrested and took away their funds.

But they fought that in court and won, actual genius 🤣

[languid gulch]

i love seeing losers lose

especially in the most public & official ways

[night girder]

Gimme Kemi's money and give her my thanks
We'll call it reparations, Badenoch, ya w*nk

🤣

Kemi Badenoch, the UK Conservative MP

So, yeah, that's the best band I found so far that I didn't know about.

Gives me hope to see punk movement is still alive in whatever form.

[tough owl]

That's what I was hoping to find. Because the internet has a lot of differing opinions

[coral timber]

-# its secretly bugged out if u didnt notice

[languid gulch]

i mean, misalignment ain't too awful

[soft bloom]

Veritasium's last video is actually about chips manufacturing

[soft bloom]

Why care about fashion when you can unapologetically wear what is comfortable for you, right?

[soft bloom]

This is amazing at how simple yet effective it is
arxiv.org/abs/2510.01171
Verbal sampling technique for LLMs
Just ask for examples and get much more diversity out of model without additional training, compared to asking multiple times

[languid gulch]

ok how have i never thought of this as a way to combine driving & flying. scaling this up would be an absolute global transformation

mercuriustech.com/mercury/#details

[wanton orchid]

it makes inefficient wheels and inefficient blades/propeller

[languid gulch]

i mean, yes, but it's also the best combo of both i've ever seen

using the same electric motor for both is something i've never seen attempted before

[twin dew]

Doesn't even seem to be using same motors for both.
But separate wheel/rotor guards and then propeller motors inside the wheel spindle.
Instead of just using the propellers as the spokes too and rotating outer edge.

One motor per side for wheels, shared with gearing.
And then one motor per rotor.

So just using the bad wheels as overweight rotor guards.

And that wheel gearing gets busted very fast by any real use, even if switching to light metals.

In that prototype, it is all just 3D printed plastic.

[soft bloom]

unlikely it will ever be same motor for wheel and rotor
those (seem to be) very different kinds of loads
rc flight channel showed how much efficiency changes for same motor when you change propeller shape... so now imagine changing not just that, but also rpm and torque applied on the motor
wheels go slow and sometimes need a lot of force to go upheel,
rotors go fast and can change rpm rapidly

[twin dew]

There is reason why there is always some kind of gearbox between electric motor and ground wheel. Usually just fixed gearing one.

Letting the electric motor to run at much faster RPM than with direct drive.

[soft bloom]

On the topic f combining technologies... usually it doesn't work.
I am honestly surprised that we got to see CPU being universal,
and that comes with big asteriks:

1. it operates on boolean oeprations, with everything possible to be done built around that limitation/concept
2. it still uses a bunch of very specific parts to do very specific operations, so in reality it's a swiss knife in disguise

[soft bloom]

in my small experience with gearbox videos I haven't seen that can optionally change ratio on a the same axis.
my dumb imaginations tells me you need at least 2 gears and that would also reverse direction

[twin dew]

Multiple gears, but fixed ratio, single speed gearbox instead of changeable ratio.

[twin dew]

In this, for the top wheel, it just goes motor to that small gear, to the wheel inner surface gearing.
Two gears with fixed ratio between them.
For the bottom wheel, it goes to the larger gear under the small one, then through two other same size gears, into that second wheels small gear, to the wheels inner surface gearing.
Where most of that is just to move the force around, and just that small gear to wheel acts as really a ratio changing gearbox.

But usually you have multiple stages, to keep the size down.

[twin dew]

How to not do software updates...

In a way that even makes it possible for the vehicle to brick up.

[sharp oasis]

Well that makes two of us then

Cept mine was hardware failure

[twin dew]

Not my pic, just from Internets

But for that to even be possible, Ford software engineers fucked up hard.

[wanton orchid]

for anything remotely critical dual boot rom is always the way to go
you 2 step patch

one Rom patch, hard reset on it : it it fails fallback
if it succeed you perform reliability/integrity testing
if that fail fallback
if not you go on with less critical / easily reseted software update with runtime cycling tests

abc

[bronze jasper]

it'll never happen. helicopters already exist and most traffic is not those. and if you've seen how half the drrivers out there operate their cars, you'd know that would be a collosal disaster to put those kinda drivers into helicopters.

[visual tree]

Question: since power outage can damage electronics, is it better to install a surge protector in your breaker box or hook up a battery to a solar inverter so you get immediatelly notified when there is a power outage and you can shutdown your electronics properly on time or disconnect them

Every time a power outage happens, I am like: "Great, guess something will stop working soon...."

[bronze jasper]

that was more of a concern in the past as i understand it, but i also never run without a surge protector still to this day.

They're kind of like bike helmets. once they've protected a couple of big surges, they're kind of damaged and don't protect as well after that. (bike helmets should be replaced after any significant impact, not a few).

so you want them in places where they're easily replaceable. but also, some houses do get wired up with surge protectors in the box. those are just more expensive than power strips are.

[visual tree]

I have APC surge protectors for my PC and a TV but I would like a "central" surge protector which would protect the whole house

But not sure if backup battery might be a better option

2 kW battery should be enough so I can shutdown everything properly in 1 hour

[bronze jasper]

older electronics would pop the moment they caught any amount of out of spec surge. i think it's mostly fine now a days, though it's still smart to mitigate surges hitting your machines

[night girder]

🤣 Bird: not shocked.

[bronze jasper]

i live in a very power outage heavy area. 70 - 100 foot trees are everywhere in this forest, rising high above the power lines. branches and trees fall all the time.

i heard current doesn't actually travel through the wire or something. it goes through the field around the wire

[night girder]

Asablic, it sounds you are looking into seperate things tbh.

backup battery != surge protection afaik.

[bronze jasper]

most apcs come with surge protection too

[night girder]

This is a surge protector in my country, green/yellow wire is ground.

[visual tree]

I wanted to buy this:

Not sure if there is room in the breaker box though

[night girder]

Your residence doesn't have that?

I though it was mandatory. Can be wrong 🙈

[bronze jasper]

thats a more robost surge protector that would go on a circuit breaker.

i think we're talking about the ones that are power strips that plug into the outlet. while they don't guard against big surges, they're good enough for residential use.

and countries with 240v might want to have a little more protection than countries with 120v

[visual tree]

I only have a main rcd breaker and standard breakers for each circuit

[visual tree]

I actually prefer that over a power strip since it protects the whole house

[night girder]

it just makes more sense to put protection where electricity enters the house instead of every seperate device in the whole household.
But that's just me 🙈

[visual tree]

I want a "centralized" product to protect all electronics

[night girder]

Because if you pull that off, you don't have to worry and think about it again when you plug in more devices over the years.

And a backup battery might be good for your NAS etc. Things that don't like it when they are turned off nilly willy 😛

[bronze jasper]

its the varistor component that is what fails after a surge. it doesn't protect anymore after that. i just replace my power strips once a year myself. i'll probably replace it again sooner than a year because this past season was incredibly stormy and we had many power issues.

[bronze jasper]

if it's a RAID nas. usually they're fine if they get interupted power if they're not in a RAID config

[visual tree]

It's RAID 1 (mirroring)

[night girder]

Doesn't sound like something I would risk 😄 (but I still need to have a backup myself).

Now I am thinking, is it worth it if I have a backup of my NAS.

Because if my NAS gets bricked, and I got backup in the cloud. I should be fine.

[visual tree]

I think power outage might have damaged one of the hard drives in the past. Synology NAS really hates sudden shutdowns

Or NAS in general

[night girder]

I got so lucky. It happened 2-4 times last year because of power outages.

but might be because I put my NAS to sleep when it's not used.

[bronze jasper]

#off-topic-media message

NAS

[visual tree]

I could set it to backup files on cloud services

[night girder]

I don't think that NAS is backed up in the cloud.

[night girder]

That's what I am about to do in a few days 🙂

[bronze jasper]

with AI being trained on his music, kinda sorta

[visual tree]

Guess I am going to change my small NAS network name to "Lil NAS X" then

[bronze jasper]

peak

[night girder]

www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

german based cloud service.

Had Baldur help me out when I was searching for a good cloud in EU.

and a decent price.

www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

there is also S3.

And honestly, for piece of mind, 10 euro isn't much.

[visual tree]

This might actually be cheaper in the long run than buying SSD and new NAS

[night girder]

I am not getting rid of the NAS.

Just double protection 😄

[visual tree]

Also, I had to buy 2 new drives which failed and that's additional 150 euros

[night girder]

Redundancy is key.

[visual tree]

I think we have an online store where you can buy inventory from bankrupt companies. Might check if they have some file server

[bronze jasper]

also, redundancy is key

[visual tree]

Guess stranger things killed netflix servers again lol

Netflix still trying to load after 5 minutes

[solar dust]

2025-12-30 19
2025-12-30 29
2025-12-31 231301 53
2026-01-01 001152 54
2026-01-01 221055 76

[languid gulch]

true 🤣 i always forget human stupidity for some reason

[jagged snow]

Epic launcher memory leak 💀

Also, it appears that CEF applications(steam, vscode) have an issue where they have a slight transparent gap at the bottom of the screen when maximized...
Could also be a windows issue but it does only happen with certain programs.

[mental oriole]

ooof.

I managed to crash blender

[jagged snow]

Hah
That's a good one

[night girder]

Eh, ...

not that hard to do I think 🤣

What did you do to make it crash?

[mental oriole]

74million verts

and then add a geometry node to slice that to like 20k

64gb memory not enough

[night girder]

Yeah, I ran into such scenarios

material maker has a few presets you can download but my PC cannot load 🤣

[mental oriole]

Trying to take a heightmap, and then slice it into chunks to generate map parts

[night girder]

ah, UE has features for that.

you load in heightmap and can slice it up for partial loading.

[mental oriole]

I've got some code for that as well, not the partial loading but not hard to add.

[night girder]

partial loading helps with large size maps, not a must

[mental oriole]

But I wanted to pre-generate certain areas so when I design certain areas I can have that area in blender as a reference.

Mainly cities

[night girder]

Sounds nice!

[mental oriole]

But maybe that's overkill

[mental oriole]

I want an open world game so 😄

I deffo need it.

[night girder]

for reference: dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/world-partition-in-unreal-engine

[mental oriole]

But I'm not using unreal :p

[night girder]

No I know. But just to get the gist of how they implemented it.

[mental oriole]

Fair

[night girder]

The concept itself if that makes sense.

[mental oriole]

I'll might look into it, but I kind of already know how to implement it 🙂

[pure karma]

the new GN video being a horror movie theme is sooo good

[languid gulch]

i'm surprised i haven't seen a $5090 meme yet

[twin dew]

If you got the S3 type (Object Storage), remember to configure the bucket privacy settings correct, so that the contents aren't public, even when the data is encrypted.

[twin dew]

Wiggle-Wiggle...
https://youtu.be/5oYJn1yTUXE?si=VPMu4xpXbgLBjBSA&t=628

2+A difference just from pulling or pushing individual wire.

[languid gulch]

at this point it should just be a solid copper bus bar

[indigo axle]

Y'all I need some ppl to test out my new chatbot

[mental oriole]

@night girder Finally started on my project again, now it compiles once more
But next is to plan and redo the design.

[night girder]

Sounds nice!

[mental oriole]

Probably gonna scratch a few things 😂

[night girder]

like what?

[mental oriole]

Some old implementation stuffs, to be replaced but the old system doesnt really work well.
Hence the redesign thing.

[night girder]

gotcha

[mental oriole]

Gonna focus around having an application context struct that contains user defined application data.
Or at least that's the idea.

Basically
extern AppSetup(AppContext& ctx) // user defined.

void AppSetup(ctx)
{
ctx.resourceLoader += userDefinedResourceLoader
ctx.resourceLoader += userDefinedResourceLoaderAlternative
}
etc...

Gonna have other things there as well, as the ability to add scenes and layers if the application needs it. (e.g editor layer, and in game debug layer)

[languid gulch]

are there any recent-ish dual full ATX mobo cases?

[twin dew]

Don't think there really has ever been one.
I know just ATX + ITX cases in the past.

Corsair not honoring orders for RAM or complete computers, which had been done at older prices, but canceling them.

[twin dew]

And YouTube seems to have decided that for me, "Auto" means 360p...
Possibly because of adblocking.

[bold tapir]

do they still ship good quality only with premium?
at least on mobile i can see that 1080p and 1080p premium

[twin dew]

Just single 1080p option for me on desktop in browser.

[bold tapir]

i hope youtube alt clients are not prohibited to discuss on discord

[bold tapir]

yes same on desktop

[soft bloom]

I am almost sure that if original video is at 60fps, there will be duplicated options for HD and higher with 60fps;
on mobile 1080p 60fps is premium

[languid gulch]

my bet is that it's a .1 cent fine for pulling greedy shit like that

if it's even illegal

[glossy glacier]

I never trusted the auto setting on YT and always set it manually until I got a plugin on desktop or changed app on mobile

[visual tree]

EU energy labels for fridges are really confusing. I thought all electronics need to have A class minimum until I looked for fridge labels online

Then I realized they did rescaling which is more confusing because I don't know which new class belongs to the old class....

Wish they used the old one imo

Because back in the days, E or F energy class were considered extremelly energy inefficient

Also, those energy "experts" made a complete confusion when they said a fridge consumes most of electricity and it makes 30% of your electricity bill which is mathematically incorrect if you look at the energy label annual consumption and your total annual consumption

They only make 30% of your electricity bill if you have some really OLD fridge

[soft bloom]

DeepSeek released paper on their new tech: manifold-constrained hyper connections

[jagged snow]

If you have that old fridge you probably still have incandescents and then it's still not true 💀

[visual tree]

I have a 10 year old fridge but never understood how those experts calculated that 30% of your electrical bill goes to a fridge

Here, experts keep repeating that fridge is the biggest consumer of electricity but my math doesn't add up

My air conditioners consume more in a year than a fridge

[jagged snow]

Yeah, a fridge consumes incredibly little actually

I think it's just politics

[visual tree]

Here is a report how much a single AC unit in my home consumed electricity in 12 months

Can't extract a report for multiple units unfortunately

[soft bloom]

nice to have other means of heating

[jagged snow]

Yeah
I'm still on purely electric heat and it's terrible

[visual tree]

I use gas boiler for heating but plan on totally switching to AC heating when I install solar panels

Because radiator pipes are old and outdated and I don't want to remove new flooring so I can install new pipes

Inverter AC that offers heating is almost identical as using a heat pump

[jagged snow]

That is a heat pump

[visual tree]

I mean, it's 95% the same but there are probably some differences

[jagged snow]

The differences are marketing 😄

(realistically there are some differences in pressure ratios and condensor/evap sizing)

[visual tree]

Heat pumps here have both indoor and outdoor units and they are also connected to fan convectors or wall-mount AC

While a typical individual AC has an indoor and outdoor unit only

I think the keyword is that a heat pump is usually centralized while a standard AC is not. Each unit is an AC itself

Although the way they work is identical

[twin dew]

Not really.
Just some weird way marketing works in your country.

[jagged snow]

They do the same in US

Use "heat pump" to refer to central, forced air heating as a marketing term

[visual tree]

That. When they say "heat pump" here, they are talking about a system where you have a central heat pump with multiple units and those units can be air conditioners, radiators or fan convectors

[jagged snow]

But really heat pump is just that specific type of phase change cooling with a compressor and refrigerant, evaporator and condensor

[visual tree]

If you wanted to install a new AC, called your HVAC technician and said: "I want to install a heat pump in my room" instead of saying AC, a HVAC technician would be confused

Or if you wanted to replace 3 AC units in your house and told your HVAC technician you want to install 3 heat pumps, he would be even more confused

Example: When we say "AC" here, we mean on this

But when we say heat pump, we mean this

[twin dew]

"ilmalämpöpumppu" for the models that just have air at both ends as the transfer medium in Finland.
ilma = air
lämpöpumppu = "heat pump"

Then for example "maalämpöpumppu" with maa = ground for ones that have the outer unit instead with underground piping of some sort etc.

[visual tree]

The main difference here is that a heat pump has an outdoor and inside unit. An indoor unit is then connected to floor heating, radiators, fan convectors, water tank or wall-mount AC or whatever setup you have in your home

At least, that's how marketing works here

[twin dew]

ilma-vesilämpöpumppu (air water heat pump) with air outside and water inside.

[visual tree]

I guess it's primarily marketing issue here

[twin dew]

Yeah, used the generic base name for one very specific version.

So all the others need weird names instead.

[visual tree]

I can't install a central heat pump here because I have one-pipe radiator system and they are not compatible

I think a high-temperature heat pump might be compatible with one-pipe system but they are much more expensive

[twin dew]

But for languages without combination words, somewhat expected.
When in Finnish you can just slap stuff together and it doesn't end in something weird like the english direct translations.

[bronze jasper]

My heatpump is an outside unit that pipes into two heads in the house

I love it. Way better than AC in the summer and wood burning in the winter

We still got the wood stove set up and maintain it though. Power outages are too common

[pure karma]

yea i have 2 of those

[visual tree]

Trying out Ubuntu live on USB after a long time:

Need more USB sticks for every linux distro

Or one large USB with multiple OS to run

Never tried Ventoy but guess it can make multi-boot OS USB stick

No

[glossy glacier]

ventoy is good

[visual tree]

I am still using a bootable USB I got as a promo gift

Maybe it's time I buy a big one for Ventoy

[dire igloo]

UwUntu

[glossy glacier]

no, thats another distro

fine for ssds or small hdds. for 3,5" HDDs you need additional power

just get one with usb 3.0 or better

[bronze jasper]

Mine has an electric heater in it to supplement if it's needed. Been performing on the coldest nights just fine

[pure karma]

Yea Linux being somewhat usable running off usb is quite nice

[visual tree]

Let's test it in Winnipeg

Wouldn't want to live there during winter lol

A.k.a. Winterpeg

[pure karma]

Nyarch

Ours have a heatter outside aswell and no drop in temp in -30 last night

[visual tree]

Coldest weather I ever experienced was around -22 degrees celsius

[bronze jasper]

Theyre still more efficient. Even if you supplement them with baseboard heat or other sources, it makes those operate more efficiently too

[visual tree]

Although that was in 2018 and the average temperatures here keep increasing

[bronze jasper]

I live on the coast so it gets to -15 here but that's worse than -20 in drier higher climates

Coast air is thicker so has more thermal capacity. Wetter so it's less of an insulator

A lot of people don't believe me when I say coast air is different, and then they get out here and realize why we all dress with layers when it's still above zero

[visual tree]

I regret not insulating outer walls with rockwool and went with EPS styrofoam instead

The problem with styrofoam is that it won't let the walls "breathe"

[bronze jasper]

I just checked and it looks like Winnipegs utility companies are offering heat pump rebates

[visual tree]

We have EU funds for heat pumps but you need to have an energy certificate for your home and your home needs to have a high energy/insulation rating

Because heat pumps are worthless if your home insulation is poor and the air keeps escaping everywhere

I don't understand people who recently built a home and decided to install an AC or a heat pump without even insulating outer walls

Some of them have bricks which aren't even covered by plaster on the outside

I think we recently adopted a law which requires new homes to cover outer walls with plaster or something else in 5 years so you don't see those ugly brick homes

An example of a house in my city where there is no insulation but multiple AC units

Whoever laid the bricks made a very poor job and using multiple air conditioners in a house with no insulation is a nightmare

This gives me a heart attack each time I see this house

And that balcony looks unsafe

I wouldn't want to walk on that....

[dire igloo]

funniest part about that is that proper outside insulation will save money on both heating and cooling
lower upfront price at the cost of higher operation cost

[visual tree]

Literally this

They might have saved money on not insulating the walls but their electricity bills won't appreciate that

[dire igloo]

or gas bills

maybe both

[visual tree]

If they can't pay so much at once, get a loan and I am sure your monthly payment will cost less than the money you pay for your electricity or gas

[dire igloo]

idk how many times I've had coworkers talk about EVs, insulation or more efficient heating and every single time they had a calculation for when they broke even on cost
none of them were longer than 5 years

makes no sense to me to build a "forever home" and cheap out on stuff that'll cost you more after only a few years

the only people I've heard speak against stuff like heat pumps were either too poor to buy one ("I would if I could") or politically motivated ("I'm not getting indoctrinated by those greens")

[visual tree]

We literally cut our heating costs by 50% when insulating the walls

[dire igloo]

if you can afford a 400k home, you can afford spending 5% extra to upgrade efficiency

inflation aids those with debt yet somehow debt is a flourishing business

[visual tree]

A lot of people around me are so skeptical about solar panels when I mentioned I am going to install them. They won't be laughing soon when electricity prices increase....

Not to mention I will have net metering where you pay utility company only if you generate less electricity than you consume and this model cuts down your electricity bill by 86% which is a lot

[dire igloo]

sounds like murphy's law

[visual tree]

New model from 2026 has no net metering and savings drop from 86% to 55%

Good thing I got permit before 2026 and will use net metering

[dire igloo]

you don't become a billionaire by being charitable

[pure karma]

dang those units are tiny

[dire igloo]

why does this sound like I'm reasoning against charity and justifying billionaires when my intention was the exact opposite?

[visual tree]

Not to mention Gree AC is one of the cheapest chinese AC manufacturers and only poor people buy them

That house owner must be a cheapskate

[dire igloo]

well, being poor is expensive

[pure karma]

not cheap enough to not have AC

[dire igloo]

you need to be able to afford the upfront cost of the stuff that saves you money in the long run

[visual tree]

I have a cheapskate neighbor too and he always brings hvac technicians or tradesmen with questionable qualifications

He recently installed Midea AC and he keeps wondering why our new AC outdoor unit pipes look neat and hidden while his look like a spaghetti monster

I was like: "Maybe pay an actual HVAC technician and not someone who thinks he is an HVAC technician because he watched some youtube videos"

[dire igloo]

funny how having money makes you less likely to learn financial responsibility

and the cheapest people are often ones with money to spare

[visual tree]

We have a saying here: "I am not rich enough to buy cheap stuff"

[dire igloo]

someone explained to me once that when you're poor, you buy deodorant when yours is empty
and when you have spare money, you buy deodorant when it's on a good discount and store it away until the current one is empty

[visual tree]

Btw, hope my neighbor doesn't use Discord but here is his new AC outdoor unit lol

Those pipes look ugly the way they were laid

[pure karma]

that looks teriffic and the placement is somehow even worst

[visual tree]

A certified HVAC technician would not make that mess

[dire igloo]

also, a 3 for 2 pack of deodorant may save money overall, but it's still twice as expensive as a single pack, so you still can't afford it

[visual tree]

Wish we had a bulk store like Costco here so you can buy more amounts of something and save money that way

And I mean on things you really need like deodorant or toilet paper

Closest thing to Costco here is Metro afaik

[jagged snow]

This affects so many areas of life
Clothing, furniture, electronics, household goods

Boots theory comes for us all

[tough owl]

Buying in bulk for things that matter is amazing

For a cheaper per ounce can of food just because you need it once for a recipe is likely not going to save you money

[sand saddle]

I mean if it lasts then why not

But sure buying 5kg of tomato sauce to make Bolognese for two isn't the smartest choice.

I buy a lot of stuff bulk or just try to find cheaper deals

Nutella is cheaper on amazon.de than local grocery stores for me lmao.

Not by much, amazon is €8/kg, local is 10

[wanton orchid]

I would say 2 is much at this point

[sand saddle]

At the rate I consume it, yes

Flying to Egypt today. My first proper trip, 3rd time flying on a plane.

Went to sleep at 2, had to wake up at 3 🫠

And then the flight got delayed for 1.5h

[twin dew]

Youi can have brick outside, with insulation on inside of them, then the inner walls.

Which is how it is usually done in new buildings (internal insulation)
External insulation is for cludging older buildings up to code.

And that multiple small ACs gives better per room temperature control, and might even be cheaper than central AC with ducting.

And cavity wall insulation is also very common too.
But based on the brick patterns, that really was built by idiots as some really weird version of solid brick wall, not the "standard" one of that.
Still might have that inside insulation.

[night girder]

The IEA estimates that “space cooling” — mostly air conditioning but also fans — consumed around 2,100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of power in 2022.

For context, global electricity use in 2022 was around
29,000 TWh. That means AC uses around 7% of the world’s electricity.4 That’s nearly 20% of electricity use in buildings.

Of course, some of this electricity comes from fossil fuels, so AC is also a driver of carbon emissions. The IEA estimates that space cooling caused around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 from electricity use in 2022.

That’s around** 2.7% of total CO2 emissions** from fossil fuels and industry.5

I will keep resisting AC as long as I can. They are a solution to a problem (heat). And the "solution" actually feeds the problem further.

[jagged snow]

What percentage of household use is heat responsible for?

[night girder]

Not households perse.

[visual tree]

Tell that to @languid gulch . He will kill you since he lives in an oven

Not that the situation here is much better but at least I don't live in the desert lol

My mother would probably die from a heart attack if there was no AC considering how sensitive she is

Not to mention she has problems with circulation, prediabetes and arrhythmia

[night girder]

Ok, but there are other solutions for not dying to heath/cold.

Don't want to ban AC, but I also think the increase of AC in regular households can lead to multiple issues.

[bold tapir]

for some reason fps limiter doesnt work for me, i just want to reduce gpu load

vsync is enabled, framegen is enabled, what could be wrong?

[night girder]

framelimit with adrenalin?

That's for satisfactory only. (Top left corner).

When enabled you can configure those values.

I know it's not an answer to your question, more of a work around.
But I have no idea why satisfactory isn't respecting the limit you set.

[languid gulch]

i had a heat pump in the house i grew up in. it worked ok except for when it got really hot. then it didn't work at all, which is the worst option possible

[night girder]

You can also vsync from adrenalin.

[visual tree]

Ouch, I would move out to hotel until heat pump is fixed. I have low heat tolerance and even 30 degrees celsisus is a lot

Guess I can tolerate cold temperatures better than hot temperatures

[languid gulch]

our lows in the summer don't usually go BELOW 30 🤣

[visual tree]

I sometimes use wim hof cold shower therapy and can tolerate freezing water for a couple of minutes

If you survive first 15 seconds of hyperventilating without fainting, you are fine

Wim hof breathing method is also cool. Managed to hold my breath for more than 3 minutes few times

[visual tree]

Ugh, I will have to annoy my old college because they didn't enter my diploma into a government digital diploma register....

Or perhaps it's a conspiracy by college deans who have connections with people who have a counterfeit diploma and they want to protect them from being exposed

*puts on tinfoil hat

[dire igloo]

Friend of mine did a Football Manager stream a couple years back and created a player for every friend of his that was interested.
The game sent that team to a training camp in Pilsen once a year, after and during which the team's performance always tanked

[inland sentinel]

We stay here! Cuz that guy was a gamer gamer

[lyric wagon]

This is my setup

That is a custom GPU backplate, courtesy of V1Tech

[inland sentinel]

Is that saii?

My pc is in storage rn ion got pics

[lyric wagon]

it is, it's a fully MSI computer, everything that could be by MSI is by MSI

[inland sentinel]

I need a new graphics card too so.

[lyric wagon]

The: motherboard, mouse, keyboard, case, PSU, GPU, AIO coller, both monitors, and headphones

[inland sentinel]

Im kinda stuck rn

[lyric wagon]

this PC is 4 years old, I am due for an upgrade when I get the money

I need to graduate from college first though

I have 1 semester left

[inland sentinel]

I need to stop spending on lego

The one piece sets have cripples me

[lyric wagon]

I'm going to get a 5070TI and a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64GB of RAM

that CPU is clocked at 5.4GHz

and the GPU clocks at 3800MHz

[inland sentinel]

Is it bad i dont know ky specs off by heart?

I kinda just built something and it worked

[lyric wagon]

something about my GPU, it clocks the memory clock speed at only 7000MHz, which means an extra 1192 MHz is on the table

I overclocked my GU from 1970MHz to 2070 MHz

[inland sentinel]

My fps for satisfactory was in the 240s

With mods obviously

[lyric wagon]

I do run the game at 1440P at Max settings though, and I still get 120 FPS

[inland sentinel]

I dont max

80%

[lyric wagon]

my monitors are both 144Hz

one is 1080p and the other is 1440p and they're both 27inch monitors

[inland sentinel]

My moniter can withstand 500hz

Its an alien ware

[lyric wagon]

not really a point lol

I've talked to optomitrists and they said the human eye is capped at 60FPS

[inland sentinel]

But I run mainly 240

[lyric wagon]

I don't know, they're only a f***ing doctor!!

with a PhD

[inland sentinel]

I can see the difference from the ps4 pro that is 60 to the 180 I run on spiderman 2 on pc

[lyric wagon]

I miss my PCP

she got promoted

[inland sentinel]

Its clear as day

One is sm smooter one is choppy and looks considerably worse

[tribal kraken]

Try VR headset at 60 and 90Hz, the difference is obvious

[inland sentinel]

Fr.

[lyric wagon]

I'm working on my next Youtube video

[inland sentinel]

Cant the meta question 3 go to 120?

Quest*

[lyric wagon]

For refrence I am an actual credentialed political scientist and economist

I have 4 college degrees

AS in history, and a BS in: philosophy, political science, and economics

[tribal kraken]

Yeah, I have early version of Pimax 8KX which only can do 90. Later models can do 120 with firmware update

[inland sentinel]

I bought my brother the meta quest 3 this year he said its sm nicer on the eyes

120 frames really help apparently

He was on the 1st one

[inland sentinel]

Im totally stealing it fir a month to buy and play arkham shadow

[tribal kraken]

My heaset is just rotting on the table, not mature tech to me yet