off-topic-tech

[inland sentinel]

I dont like vr hurts my head but hey little brother does

[tribal kraken]

Did some racing and flight simulators, but just not comfortable to use

[inland sentinel]

And he doesn't have a ps5 hes on ps4 so why not

I did originally give him the option of a ps5 or the mq3 he chose the vr

[tribal kraken]

Only thing I liked about the VR, was depth immersion for like braking points in sim racing

[inland sentinel]

I like the vr ufc ganes those were cool

Good workout too if yoy actually use it to train not just throw random punches

And hand tracking isnt horrible on the mq

[tribal kraken]

5425MHz is the normal PBO for that CPU? And how is that 3800MHz 5070Ti cooled?

[night girder]

@visual tree you were looking for HW for servers?

Hetzner.

[visual tree]

I was thinking of checking websites which sell used hardware

Mainly enterprise kind

[lyric wagon]

just 3 fans, I'm going to get the MSI Gaming X Trio edition

Sicne it actually uses less power than the 2070 Super it produces less heat

[tribal kraken]

Thats just never going to work, with air you will get to 3,2GHz with little luck on silicon lottery. 3,8GHz is subzero cooling category@lyric wagon

[night girder]

...

that's exactly what I linked you afaik.

Hetzner is German server solution. So I assume they sell the stuff they replace.

[visual tree]

That looks like some kind of subscription service

[night girder]

Ok, also costumer. But filter that stuff out by location or something?

... =_=

English hard today?

www.hetzner.com - check it yourself. Or don't 🤷‍♂️

[visual tree]

I will, the image just confused me because of "€ max. per month"

Or their auction works differently compared to ours which confused me in the first place

[night girder]

worst is the hetzner website performance...

[tribal kraken]

Isnt that just rented "root" server, it lists the hardware it runs on? Not selling the physical HW

[night girder]

Seems so... if website loads again for me wtf.

[tribal kraken]

I've looked up some Hetzner because they have some server rooms in Finland too

[night girder]

Yeah indeed

[tribal kraken]

But atm run everything at home

[night girder]

storage box or s3 for me

Think website died. Again.

[visual tree]

That's what I noticed. Hope they actually sell physical hardware

Guess I'll check when the website returns 🙂

[tribal kraken]

Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D box with 128GB for 104€ month there

[night girder]

Yeah, okk. Sorry asablic.

It's rent 🙁

English is hard today 🤣

[tribal kraken]

Running dedi servers for games been one of hobbys too. Light servers like multiple Valheims for friends

If they buy me a beer when we see its enough payment 😄

[night girder]

eh... I got piles of projects. All on my todo list. But never done 🤣

First focus, backing up my NAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule

Then transfering iCloud to NAS.

Then gettting immich (FOSS photo app) back up and running on NAS in docker.

Then setting up the ThinkCentre to be a Firewall.

Then allow my phone to connect to NAS from outside network through the firewall.

[visual tree]

Great, now even citizens use AI for fraud....

He used AI to make the meat look raw and uncooked

[night girder]

Smart.

If corpos can use it to scam us.

We can use it to scam corpos no?

wccftech.com/nvidia-to-bring-back-geforce-rtx-3060-q1-2026-tackle-memory-shortages

We going backwards now! 🤣

[visual tree]

Except 3060 will probably cost more compared to when it was released knowing nvidia.....

RTX 3060 Nostalgia edition - €800

Screw this timeline.....

[night girder]

Cannot wait for the GTX 1080 to be relaunched aswell

[wanton orchid]

but with half the die size
gtz 1080 ai Edition
with same fps in most game (*with dlss) and newer memory technology (*half the chips and vram but on a newer bandwidth control)
boosted with latest ai acceleration technologies (*which is needed and fully loaded with dlss, *you can't use ai acceleration api because you do not have a Quadro professional license)

[glossy glacier]

If I want a 3060 I can just buy a 5060, basically the same performance

[twin dew]

But soon you might not be able to buy a 5060 anymore, because of VRAM chip availability.

While 3060 used VRAM made on older fab node, in different fabs than current gen stuff.

[glossy glacier]

Just make a 5060 lame edition then 🙃

[twin dew]

Designing new chip revision with memory controllers for different memory tech is expensive.

And takes significant time.

Even if the kitbashing and validation was free and instant, making the new photomask set would take time and be very expensive.

[sweet pewter]

What a scammy try

[glossy glacier]

How many Opera variants are we up to now?

[night girder]

Yeah exactly. That was the whole point.

Ram shortage. Let's go back to 3060 and milk it out.

They can't make a 5060 and keep shareholders happy. They expect more profit this year. So Nvidia gets creative.

[pure karma]

atleast 3 no?

there opera then GX and now whatever that ai slop is

[night girder]

Opera Air and Opera Neon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Other_versions

🤣

[glossy glacier]

More apparently
Base, GX, Air, Mini, One? Neon?

[soft bloom]

Still fewer then fire foxes

[sharp matrix]

Nvidia now launching rtx 3060 ai slop edition $900

[sharp matrix]

But itll be enhanced with ai slop and cost more than the original 3060

[glossy glacier]

Same price as the original, just with x4 framemoney - gen enabled

[midnight osprey]

Hey guys. I wanna play the latest CoD and it’s insisting I update bios.

I cannot figure out which drive it should be. I’ve looked in them and am getting things I’m not expecting.

easier to find in windows, lol

[pure karma]

if you need to update your bios to play a game the game is not doing things right cause why tf would you ever need that

usually its only secure boot you need?

[midnight osprey]

Something to do with secure boot

[pure karma]

then just turn it on?

[midnight osprey]

I found the drive.

[pure karma]

unless your living in 1864 it should be on any recent motherboard release in the last like decade at this point

[midnight osprey]

I’m a lil worried about this. In the past it bricked my mobo

Now it wants me to backup bitlocker settings. lol

Going round in circles here.

I hate windows, I really do

even following their own guides I get nowhere

[wanton orchid]

simply suspend or create new external key bitlocker in windows and then update and save your not pin password somewhere and delete pin
if you don't use bitlocker then it's easier

[midnight osprey]

I don’t remember ever turning that on tbh

Apparently a key is stored on ms website and the device name is a laptop and not my pc

[glossy glacier]

Check if your C drive has a lock icon next to the drive icon in file explorer > this PC
If not your drive shouldn't be encrypted
If it has a lock, next steps depend on if you have win home or pro

[iron dagger]

@cursive fable when i reinstalled w10 on my SSD recently i used the playbook atlas, they do W11 and they remove all the bloat. Still if i need to change OS i probably gonna go on linux

[cursive fable]

I'll take a look, cheers!

[oblique hamlet]

Do you have a distro in mind?

[sharp matrix]

But with 4x enabled itll be 1300

Nvidia now launching rtx 3060 ai slop edition 1300, its a real bargain

[iron dagger]

Right now i'm on W10 and staying as much as i can but if i need to switch ubuntu or mint were recommanded to me granted i am not experienced ( i can figure out tutorial or searching for help/answers on internet but no fix)

[languid gulch]

only amd can get away with keeping a 2 generation old platform alive with new product

[cursive fable]

Arch! ... Duh! 😏

[slow flint]

I would go Mint over Ubuntu tbh
I've used both and I had a better time on mint, was my daily driver for a good while
Mint is Debian based and uses a lot of Ubuntu packages so it gets all the benefits of Ubuntu

For gaming a lot of people recommend Bazite
I haven't used it but its based on Fedora which is really popular. My girlfriends machine is running it and we did have 1 issue but was able to fix it

[jagged snow]

I really like ubuntu, I daily it for my laptop and my work machine

I've messed around with bazzite a good bit and set some other people up with it and the experience was nothing short of flawless unless you play games with kernel anticheat

[slow flint]

Microsoft starting just turning Bitlocker on for devices signed in with a Microsoft account
I've had too many customer with lost data because of Microsoft...

[slow flint]

Kernal anticheat is just a Linux thing in general though
Sucks but it is what it is

[languid gulch]

i feel like linux usage for windows people has the same kind of stigma of an "Apple person" switching to windows and thinking it's basically in the same place it was in 1995

[jagged snow]

Yeah, I'm aware
Hoping we'll eventually see some improvement on that front

It's easy enough to avoid if you don't play competative shooters or mobas

[slow flint]

I recon it will come down to Linux reaching a certain threshold of desktop market share then 1 big company will support Linux and everyone will
Won't be for a long time if ever

[jagged snow]

I'm sure there will be a tipping point at some point

I doubt it'll ever be what windows is today, honestly

Hppe I'm wrong on that, at least in terms of scope

[languid gulch]

got a discord question

can you pop up more than 1 client on the same account to have 2 discord servers open and visible at the same time?

[jagged snow]

afaik yes

For sure with 3rd party clients that I'd never use

Not sure about the default one

[languid gulch]

i know that's googleable, but i figured someone here might have firsthand experience

[slow flint]

Probably
There 3 native discord clients
Discord
Discord PTB
Discord Canary
then 3rd party ones
Better discord
Vencord
Vesktop

[languid gulch]

when you say native, does that mean owned & operated by discord?

[twin dew]

Game anticheats have started to monitor MB BIOS versions too, and don't allow versions that have known Secure Boot vulnerabilities in them.

Which would allow injecting hacks into the system in ways that the kernel mode anticheat couldn't catch.

[languid gulch]

ngl just about every game i've seen that deploys anticheat is something i have 0 interest in playing 🤣

oh wait that sounds kinda bad 🤣

NOT because i'm a cheater

the implementations of anticheat that i've seen don't seem to have much of an impact on cheaters, but pushes potential customers like me away over its intrusiveness+ineffectiveness

[glossy glacier]

I have seen it mostly on laptops, not yet on desktop

[sharp matrix]

that sucks, first thing i always turn off for laptops especially is bitlocker, because honestly if a hacker makes it onto my system to steal my data I kind of deserve it

though maybe I should be more conscious of my data security, especially with things like banking information, actually now that I think about it should see what security steps I could implement for some of my more important data that I really wouldnt want a hacker to exploit

[glossy glacier]

I can see why they turn it on on laptops and would actually support it.
If they told the user about at any point during setup/installation, which they don't, leading to many confused users and data loss if even the smallest thing triggers the tpm and it rufuses to release the key

[sharp matrix]

yeah thats one of the reasons i turn bitlocker off, because in some cases it lock you out of your data and refuse to release the key, it can happen, then all of that data you cant access anymore

[twin dew]

Same for any new Windows 10/11 install when there is TPM 2.0.
Even if you don't log into MS Account, the drive is encrypted, but the protection just isn't activated.
Need to be disabled in Settings, Privacy & Security, Device Encryption

[languid gulch]

yea just had to deal with that BS

relative had a garbo 128gb ssd in their laptop & it was root canal level of pain to switch out

it'll be fun to see how long their timetec ram will last 🤣

[glossy glacier]

And the dumbest thing is on home you can't do anything but turn it on/off.
Because it's "device encryption" not bitlocker, and bitlocker is pro and up only, and thus you have no bitlocker tools to pause the encryption or export the key on home
G fucking G MS

[twin dew]

You can?
You just toggle that slider at that location I wrote off.

And it unencrypts the drive.

[glossy glacier]

Sry, autocorrect removed the negation
Turning On/Off is the only thing you can do

[languid gulch]

i find it hilarious that i have a system that doesn't really break 400W and it counts as still top of the line

[sharp matrix]

modern technology follows many laws of diminishing returns, often with much higher wattage draw for only a very small amount of performance increase, for example 50 series is basically 40 series but at higher wattage, it basically brute forces its way to higher performance but really offers nothing special in terms of efficiency improvement, also no suprise given its on the same tsmc node from what I can tell

[slow flint]

25 hour memtest
Think it's safe to say the mix matched memory is stable

[sharp matrix]

looks good 0 errors, fingers crossed should be good to go

[languid gulch]

lol yup, got my cpu on eco mode & 4090 limited to 300W, and it's still above 5080 performance

[sharp matrix]

yeah should be, 4090 has great undervolting potential, not that alot of users take advantage of that, as desktop users typically only care about highest performance possible, those let the wattage flow indeed

[languid gulch]

haven't even undervolted it 🤣 might take a stab at it

[slow flint]

God I hope
Gonna be using it as a NAS, Nextcloud and Jellyfin server

Just gotta figure out if I wanna set it all up under something like proxmox, TrueNAS or manually setup everything manually on a Ubuntu server install

[pure karma]

yea power draws are getting kinda out of hand

i mean the matrix 5090 literally draws 800W OOB

[sharp matrix]

Just a bit yes

[twin dew]

And I finally got to doing first VM upgrade from Debian 12 to 13...

[sharp matrix]

The 5090 is clearly the worst offender, while i understand nvidia had to do it for the sake of performance, but its clearly going hard on diminishing returns now

[pure karma]

iv nerver tried undervolting because it just sounds like asking for trouble not supplying enough voltage for a component to work corectly but idk i guess its just the oposite of common sense in this context

[sharp matrix]

Also you can only go so hard until bad things start to happen, which they already are, burning and melting power connectors for one

Overall it doesnt look like the hardware was properly engineered for how much power these cards can draw now

[pure karma]

just the usual pushing beyond the limit and increasing the limits of existing standards only after the obvious happens

[sharp matrix]

Its made to handle it, it basically just results in the core clocks running lower to be stable, so nothing necessarily bad can happen

All silicon of course has different stable points, silicon lottery, etc

Not sure how common golden samples still are on the newest nodes

[glossy glacier]

Because no two parts are the same manufactureres almost always supply a bit extra voltage to keep all chips working. UV is just reducing this additional voltage to find the minimum a specific chip needs

Saving on power and temperature

[sharp matrix]

True, because silicon always has slight differences it would make sense to supply extra voltage to keep everything stable in general, even if a specific chip didnt need it

[pure karma]

i feel like golden sampels arent as golden for gpu's

i feel like for cpu's its way more noticible

like my old cpu has no care running tripple the rated wattage for 50% extra multicore performance

where as doing that for a GPU is questionably even possible

[glossy glacier]

Increased binning and nvidia hard capping their stuff has an influence too

[wanton orchid]

I suggest to use latest version
newer memory and cpu have more ways in which it must be tested and have some optimizations that discard some part of the tests

[twin dew]

And second VM upgraded to Trixie.
Maybe I will even get the hypervisor upgraded tomorrow.

[glossy glacier]

Only my VPN LXC had problems with the upgrade introduced. Everything else just worked.

[pure karma]

Great yet another 5090 variant

[night girder]

That loos like a hoverboard.

Not the shitty ones on wheels.

[jagged snow]

One of those things that has been possible for a long time but never needed because of cost and complexity until we got these insanely power-hungry cards

[night girder]

hoverboards?

[midnight osprey]

Lucky me it wasn’t turned on. I won’t use TFA on my iPhone either.

I used to work there. Many a disappointing story.

Like somebody dying and family members can’t access photos or contacts such as friends of the deceased.

Even more inconvenient for the living. Imagine losing all your contacts? lol

[sand saddle]

There should be proper regulation on sim cards/esims, like clearly stating when and if it throttles and by how much.

[jagged snow]

In a rare consumer friendly move the US actually has that now

It's actually been incredible
We have it for mobile plans and home internet

[pure karma]

theres places where its not stated how much data a mobile plan is???

i have 60GB its stated here in canada aswell

and has been for a while

[jagged snow]

In the states it used to be the case that "unlimited" plans would have 10GB or 20GB of "high speed" data and then they'd throttle you to unusable speeds of Kb/s or just a few Mb/s

[visual tree]

I pay around €10 for a mobile plan (10.000 minutes and SMS + 15 GB per month) + €33 for 1 Gbit/ 500 Mbit fiber

There is a mobile plan with unlimited data although I don't really need it but it probably has a data cap like you mentioned after which they lower your speed

[jagged snow]

I'm jealous of that internet
Pricing here is 100usd/month for 1000/50 and 110usd/month for 1000/1000

60/month for 100/100

[visual tree]

I picked the cheapest mobile plan because 10.000 minutes and SMS is just too much for me and 15 GB per month is more than enough since I am connected to WiFi 90% of the time

[pure karma]

1500/1000 is 120$ here (85$ USD)

[visual tree]

Guess it's the same everywhere. Mobile plans are cheap while the internet is obviously more expensive because of infrastructure cost

[jagged snow]

Internet is more expensive because there is a lack of competition

[visual tree]

That too. Don't know much about US market status but heard Comcast covers a lot of areas and there is no alternative

[jagged snow]

I have never lived anywhere with more than two providers avaliable

[visual tree]

I live in city which has 3 providers: 2 of them offer fiber while the 3rd offers cable

[pure karma]

i only know of bell and rogers personally

rogers is mostly targetting buisnesses and goes down regularly

bell is just here

[visual tree]

Wouldn't want to move to cable although they offer 2 Gbit/s because bandwidth is shared with your neighbours and you never know what your average speed might be

Fiber also shares bandwidth with your neighbours but the capacity is much higher compared to cable

Heard people on cable who had 1 Gbit/s before and when they wanted to renew a contract, they only got 300 Mbit/s because of oversubscription issue

[jagged snow]

And my understanding is that the bandwidth sharing on fiber is structured quite differently

[visual tree]

There is a feeder fiber cable going from the central office to the fiber distribution cabinet (usually per district) and the bandwidth is then split to 1:32 or 1:64 ratio

Bandwidth is dictated by what type of card you have inserted into OLT in the central office

Here is a picture of OLT in my city when it was first installed

[slow flint]

Ah yeah looks like I did download a legacy version lol.
I run another test tonight on v11.6

[slow flint]

I wish I had fiber again 😭
When I lived at my mothers I got the house upgraded to FTTP and was paying like $180AUD for 1Gbit down 400Mbit up
That price has come down since then but since moving out I'm stuck on FTTN on copper cables so old they max out at 50/20

I ❤️ NBN 🇦🇺

[glossy glacier]

we have FTTH with 400/200 for 50€/mo, could upgrade to 1000/500 for 90€/mo

[visual tree]

I had FTTN (VDSL) before switching to fiber and max bandwidth was around 80 Mbit/s download and 35 Mbit/s upload

And before 2016, I had ADSL. I am not going to mention bandwidth I had.....

Although I gotta admit it's a miracle how copper managed to handle broadband until now. It was designed for telephone only in the first place

[slow flint]

Oh god my friend was stuck with ADSL up until maybe 2021 or 2022
He only got off ADSL by moving house lol
I remember we would try to play games at his house and bandwidth would drop to like a few hundred bytes

[delicate flame]

Does this count

[dire igloo]

looks techy, so yeah
idk wtf it does tho

[slow flint]

The doohicky 4000

[oblique hamlet]

it doesnt look like you have a closed loop

[jagged snow]

Yellow connector goes on the exposed terminal on the near side of the power source to close the circuit

[delicate flame]

Its a giant battery

24 AA or smth

6 wasnt enough

I burnt out two LEDs

[glass panther]

proctologists are back-end engineers.

that is all.

[tough owl]

I should do this one right

[slow flint]

Depends on your income and what you need
As an Australian I would kill for $45 1000/100 😭

$93AUD for 100/20 💪

[tough owl]

I might be able to talk a friend into splitting that 8gig bill, and we selfhost all the things with it, esp since power is 11c/kwh

[slow flint]

I'm gonna try self hosting on our maxxed out super high speed Australian 50/20 internet
I need fiber...

Even the 1000/1000 would be enough for self hosting

8gig would be CRISP though, chefs kiss

[soft bloom]

phehe;
I opened the window for 10 minutes and gpu got so colder then 25C which is apparently the minimal temperature it expects to ever have, so fan control ramped fans to 100% for absolutely no need

[tribal kraken]

Its bee kinda cold outside for the holidays, down to -30°C. Usually temps in the staircase where my server and gaming PC radiator are exhausting, drop to +10°C when outside is that cold. That staircase is not heated anyway, just insulated and heat runs in when doors open. But now ambent in there is near +20°C and coolants stay around +25°C. Maybe because I've found time to play and the gaming pc pushes heat in there

[slow flint]

I'm about to lose my mind
I just cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong
I have a Netgear GS108E V4 Switch and just cannot connect to the management interface

[twin dew]

Does the network have some form of DHCP server?
Did you use the provided discovery tool?

Or are you trying to connect to it when you only have the switch and computer directly connected to each other, with no DHCP server in the mix?

[twin dew]

So which variant of the chapter 2 are you trying to do?
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS108Ev4/GS108Ev4_UM_EN.pdf

Basic possibilities:
1: DHCP with NetGear utility
2: DHCP with DHCP-server assignments (not in manual)
3: Direct connect with manual IP assignment on PC

[slow flint]

I've tried connecting with only my laptop and the switch together

I tired running the discovery tool however I did have to do ./tool name --appimage-extract to get it to run but it found nothing

I tried manually assigning an IP on the same subnet

Tried disabling DHCP on my modem (Big mistake even devices with reserved IPs could no longer access it)

Idk what else been fucking around trying to get it to work

[twin dew]

So you didn't really follow any of the instructions...
Just fucked around tried things in wrong order.

Connect the switch both to that modem, and your laptop, then run that utility.
Or check the modems DHCP allocations to see which IP the switch got, and connect directly.

For that third in my list, first in yours, you would have had to assign manual IP in 192.168.0.x range to the PC with 255.255.255.0 mask, and then connect to 192.168.0.239

So from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254, but not that .239, for the computer.

[slow flint]

Sorry if I didn't explain myself very well its just been a bit overwhelming

I've tried to follow the user guide but just haven't been able to
When DHCP is enabled in the modem and the switch is plugged into that and my laptop the switch IP will not appear in the modems dashboard but the laptops does.

When I ran the utility was the same setup with laptop to switch to modem

I tired setting the laptops IP to an unused IP in that range, think I did 192.168.0.40/24
I haven't tried Changing the mask though

[twin dew]

Should have been /16

Ah, sorry, no, I fucked up

That /24 is same as setting mask to 255.255.255.0.

Is that new switch? Or used?
Have you tried resetting its settings?

Page 70 of the manual.

[slow flint]

Its new yeah and I tried the factory reset button on it before this troubleshooting
I tried yesterday and a couple days ago with issued so reset just i n case

Yeah ok double checked page 70 and I did reset it correctly

[sand saddle]

That's amazing, I'm in egypt rn and researching different esims was hard. The local physical sims have some locking law or some shit and dunno how much I can trust the capacity they offer cuz 60GB for $10 is 100% scam.

I bought some 12GB esim for €9

[night girder]

Logitech fucked up.

Certificate. Impacting hardware. Only for macOS.

It is striking that some peripherals do not work properly. Users must have Logi Options+ to reprogram mice such as the Master series, for example. These mice have a button that can be personalized by linking actions to it. The same goes for keyboards and webcams. According to some users, it is now not only impossible to reprogram those buttons, but the buttons do not work at all.

[slow flint]

I dont know how Logitech has a good rep

@twin dew I got it working!!!
I connected my PC to the switch without the router
Set the IP
Didnt work at first but found out it was because when I was refreshing the page Firefox decided hmmm actually this should be a https address and not http
Removing the S let me in lol
I think its possible that I didnt power off the switch before trying this method last time which may have caused issues

[night girder]

Afaik, Logitech MX Master series is well received.

It's 4th iteration now.

Altough mine broke ... so maby you right. 😄

[tribal kraken]

My G29 wheel just had its 9th anniversary

Also M705 mouse with laptop has lived from 2018, taking steel and rock debris from hars enviroments and still the battery life is amazing on it.

[thin trout]

they don't, they have worst support in the industry and fairly shoddy reliability

they ship only through digital river, one of the most infamously bad distributors in the world

[dire igloo]

Their "good reputation" is largely from consumers who can't tell good from bad for lack of experience and in small part from enterprise customers who just buy their stuff in bulk through third parties

Two major contributors to the first part: a longstanding history in the tech scene with good products many years ago as well as a lot of advertising in esport

[thin trout]

I am saying that as someone who has owned about 10 logi mice over many years and a few webcams 😄

Half of them (including a second gen g pro wireless) broke the left clicker before their time.

[dire igloo]

And tbf, most of the "Logitech used to be good" would be more accurately described as "tech used to be shit, Logitech just less so"

[thin trout]

Went back and forth with their outsourced tech support who couldn't understand english for weeks when one of the webcams didn't work at the advertised resolution/fps on any PC in my house for no apparent reason. They were trying to blame my specs the whole time, when we have a handful of PC's from shiny new to old stuff.

[dire igloo]

Same. My dad has some office stuff from double-0 times which still work well whereas my 2015 stuff broke a week after warranty expired

Tho tbf, "works well" is quite a low bar to clear here, it's office hardware, as long as there are no inaccurate inputs, it's more than good enough

[thin trout]

I'm pretty shocked at how bad stuff generally is in offices

like, mouse, mousepad, keyboard, sometimes even monitor

[dire igloo]

Why spend 50€ on a good keyboard when you can get a decent one for half that much?
With mice however, 100% agree. The office crap is just mind boggling

[thin trout]

i've seen offices that are super fancy and then they have a $4 rubber dome keyboard for somebody who types all day

[dire igloo]

Plus the mousepads they provide are rarely good enough for proper mice usage (move with your arm, not your wrist)

[dire igloo]

We got Logitech stream keyboards. They're quite good for rubberdomes but definitely not without issue.
Couldn't convince anyone to spend hundreds on mechas tho - I'm still fighting to make 27" qhd the standard instead of 24" 1080p

[tribal kraken]

Typing this with Logitech K120, 12€ keyboard

If it breaks, pull another from the shelf 😄

[thin trout]

full mech boards start around 50 eur now, came down a lot last 15yrs. Used to be all Cherry but now Cherry is failing because offbrand switches got better than them at far cheaper prices

but if you are using a board for 8 hrs a day for 10 years then 150 eur is nothing for a completely different tier of tool which has some impact on both comfort and productivity. Less than 1c an hour. It's in pays-for-itself territory for anything that you are actually typing on regularly

[tribal kraken]

I've tried to get used using 3D mouse for CAD work, which mainly replaces keyboard if it has enough buttons for shortcuts

but still need atleast keypad to input dimensions

3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro. They have included virtual numpad to use with that but somehow I never really felt good using it. Maybe need to train more

[night girder]

Don't shit on the brand. Shit on the models? Mhm... who did say that in here and is now shitting full on logitech 🤣

The master is pretty solid imo. But that's the only thing I would recommend from Logitech.

Especially S2, for it's price it was very good value.

Also my logitech G502 is 10 years old and going! And my mice before that was the same. I think I never had any other gameing mouse besides logitech.

Started as a kid with the old version of the gaming variant.

Never want anything else.

Unless they really fuck it up. But 502 is golden to me.

[twin dew]

Fucked up the servers boot while upgrading OS, GRUB2 not loading....
Now trying to switch it over to SystemD-Boot at the same time with chroot.

[night girder]

😕

[twin dew]

Didn't probably like that I have two separate EFI partitions, one on each disk, neither mounted on the default location, or something.

Or possibly that I put in too new amd64-firmware set.

[quasi citrus]

best addition for my space sim setup! that 3d mouse + a stick.

[dire igloo]

Fullsize ISO-DE, black on white caps?
Highly doubtful.

Also: it's 150€ to buy smth yourself or use the 20€ stuff your employer gets you

And if we were to switch all our employees from 20€ boards to 80€ boards, that's be tens of thousands in taxpayer Euros

[dire igloo]

Some things are brand consistent, like customer service.
The few good products Logitech has are either too expensive in comparison, too hard to obtain or have other flaws that just aren't as meaningful

Like mx master being heavy as a brick

[quasi citrus]

i switched to the G403 from a master a few years ago

now on my 2nd G403

The G213 (keyboard) is sooo loud but it feels great typing on it.

i would love using the g213 in a large office setting 😄

[dire igloo]

Had Proteus spectrum, failed mere weeks after warranty ran out.
Recommended it to a couple friends, similar experience, none made it a year longer than the warranty.

Hero had a fucked sensor and iirc even the G502 X buttons still have a higher failure rate than the rest of the industry.
Plus, heavy as shit and expensive as hell

[quasi citrus]

Could you stop working so we can think?
~coworkers, probably

[night girder]

I had two G502 mice.

First one I raged on and killed myself after 10 years.

Second one is also G502, now also 10 years + old.

[quasi citrus]

nice

[night girder]

So I had two models, lasting more than 10 years, without button issues. So not sure what you on about Fireworker.

[tribal kraken]

I've never tried if works as joystick in games, or do you need custom drivers?

[night girder]

And for what ... 50-60 euros back then?

[dire igloo]

I had one g402 and a g502. G402 had a minor break at the USB plug rendering it useless for gaming, but got salvaged and is lying around somewhere on a shelf in case it's ever needed as backup.
G502 started double clicking and got binned

[quasi citrus]

for me, with mice it is usually the wheel giving up or double click symptom.

i ususally see about opening them and fixing it but sometimes it is just a hair in the wrong spot or dirt or it is faulty

[night girder]

Maybe Logitech puts some extra effort into their hardware for my country, but they are good here.

[dire igloo]

Anecdotal evidence.
Both from you and from me.

My point is: there are too many anecdotes about QC/longevity issues with Logitech mice to justify their price

[night girder]

No, tested evidence. I use it daily. 3 models over 30 years.

[dire igloo]

We literally share a border, I doubt they run separate production lines

[night girder]

But we can start looking up reviews, see what the "hardware gatekeepers" think of it.

[dire igloo]

Then you also have tests showing sensors like PAW3395 outperforming the inhouse Hero stuff.

And yeah, I'm glad your mice worked. I personally haven't seen a single Logitech gaming mouse that lived beyond 3 years

[night girder]

My opinion, logitech has a few gems, not many, but not all their hardware is shit.

[dire igloo]

Agree. They have some good products, but they're rarely a good pick due to pricing and competition

And for the overwhelming majority of mainstream Logi stuff: it sucks

[quasi citrus]

i used Sx2vJoy + vjoy (2 mapping tools)
had my instructions from forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/sx2vjoy-get-your-3dconnexion-device-working-like-a-3d-joystick-formerly-sn2vjoy.35024/

[dire igloo]

Obviously this is comparatively speaking. Even the shittiest headset sounds good if you don't have a reference to smth better

[tribal kraken]

I see. Been a while when last time used virtual joysticks, maybe try if I see it could be usefull.

[tribal kraken]

These would be nice universal joystics, too bad pair of them cost more than 5090. I have a plan to use chinese universal hall-effect 5V joystics, and Teensy board to control them as USB joysticks, then just model and 3D print the frame on top them, and use cheap micro swithces. But its been a sitting project

[solemn forge]

there is no escape

they will scam you

[sand saddle]

I'm Estonian and there are multiple Estonian guides here, cost a bit more but actually trustworthy. Will go with one on a city tour, another on a sea tour and 3rd on a safari'ish tour.

And then my whole family will be able to perfectly understand them

But yeah if there could be some regulations around sims, like as soon you plug one in it tells you the real capacity cuz I'm sure the actual telecom operators don't need to rely on scamming.

[thin trout]

and how many taxpayer euros pay their salaries for 10 years?

At 60 eur a piece you're talking about 300 plus employees, at 50k euros a year that's 15 million euros on salary.

So the 20k expense has to increase productivity by 0.13% to break even. You don't think that's realistic?

If you're not sure if you're gonna be operating next month, that's one thing - but if you're the german government, you operate as if you'll still need basic tools like keyboards for years to come. In that circumstance you can't afford not to buy decent tools. They increase productivity by 10x more than buying crap tools saves.

[sand saddle]

Cuz orange reportedly has that function but I didn't get it working.

[twin dew]

But at least my VM server boots again.
VM startup is broken after the OS upgrade.

So just checking that microcode update works, then going to update BMC/IPMI firmware, then see about fixing that.

[pure karma]

By making above average cheap e-waste

There not good they just sell to lower standards

[pure karma]

yea thats the thing like i got a M550 as a throwaway mouse for my laptop and iv nerver had to change the battery once in the last 2 years and the mouse buttons are way above average quality so they do have some good stuff but there mostly just getting caried by G502 fans

[twin dew]

And the VM thing was just that libvirt lock manager had been split into new package.

And as I have configured the system to not install recommended packages automatically, shit can break.

[twin dew]

But I will never again buy an AsRock Rack product,,,
Their firmware support, at least for the cheaper products, is abysmal.

Compared to Supermicro

[dire igloo]

Thing is: government doesn't calculate productivity.
If better keebs helped reduce sick days, I'd say that's a valid argument to make - but even if you could back that theory with irrefutable evidence, it's still nigh impossible to find keyboards that meet the criteria (100% ISO-DE, black on white)

It's not impossible to change the status quo and I'm willing to be the one to push for change, but I doubt that there's enough research out there for me to make a compelling argument

Especially since our health and safety advisors said we should use low profile keebs to reduce wrist strain

And cherry streams are by no means bad Rubberdome keebs. I've had days when I preferred my work keeb over my home one (customized Keychron V6 with durock T1 and pudding caps)

[pure karma]

flat keys are great but they wear out and destableise so unbearably fast

[dire igloo]

My experience with QHD doesn't look promising

[dire igloo]

Kinda? I've had several keebs fail with broken/disconnected stabs, but ultimately nobody cares enough to track that cost.
Keyboard breaks, user brings it in, IT hands out replacement, IT discards old keyboard. Repeat until stock runs low, then order like 10 or 20 new ones

[twin dew]

To update NUT to be from Debian Testing or not... To get newer mainline version and Debian enabled SystemD Notify integration...

[soft bloom]

Is there some easy way to have a client on a phone to receive notifications in local network?
I would imagine it won't be nice for battery life without your way-to-go notification services (that don't actually even need an app of a phone really...), but I want to make a local temperature monitoring with notifications

[sand saddle]

The physical sim we tried was 2GB instead of 34GB 😆

But my 12GB esim is 5/12 and working

[jagged snow]

Android/iOS don't support notifications from anywhere except APN and FCM

(At least OS-level notifications)

(Coming from an external service)

It's possible to have an app poll an endpoint and trigger notifications locally when desired but this only works if the app is in the foreground.

Apple and google provide the services for free still
But delivering notifications does require you to host your own backend with certs for APN/FCM

[soft bloom]

exactly. that's why I said about battery time. but I want purely local solution, wihtout any external services

[soft bloom]

not really as service, but certificate is what will allow you to tell apn/fcm to send push

[jagged snow]

It's a service 🤷‍♂️ You have to be on their platform, you have to apply to get the certs, and apple only provides it if you pay the developer fee.

[soft bloom]

I mean, you can get a certificate and send notification only when you need to, without having 24/7 server(service) running in 'cloud' or anywhere

you send request to them - not the other way around. that's what I am clarifying

[twin dew]

But now I'm sad... I lost my128MB (not typo) USB-stick today... And might have either dropped it into waste, or vacuumed it up...

[jagged snow]

Oh, gotcha
By "service" I just meant that they host a backend that you can send requests to

[twin dew]

Put the new BIOS on it, went to the server cabinet, noticed I hadn't remembered to vacuum the filters in ages, did that, didn't find the key anymore.
Basically dropped it from my hand to where-ever when switched to vacuuming preparations.

And I had 150l trashbag half full of plastic waste right next to that...

Might go through that tomorrow and move everything one by one into another bag.

Which is why the vacuum itself isn't likely destination, but I could just have completely missed that for some reason.

Been using it mainly for BIOS updates etc.
So not lot of writes overall.

[jagged snow]

Counterintuitively a lot of older silicon(because of larger node and not age) is inherently more durable than what we can make today

[twin dew]

That too, as why I was using it for firmware updates.

[jagged snow]

If we suddenly stopped producing any and all ICs, stuff made pre-2000 would likely be the last to die from a pure silicon standpoint
Capacitors and other components are the limiting factor in practice

Nuclear dearmament has been a good thing but the loss of highly enriched fuels really limits tech in so many ways

[twin dew]

US has restarted production of RTG-grade plutonium.

[jagged snow]

I'm aware, but it's in very small quantities(potentially doesn't even meet demand from space industry) at very high cost

[twin dew]

With target of 1.5kg per year.

[jagged snow]

And highly enriched fuel has a lot of potential for terrestrial uranium power systems as well

[twin dew]

PU-238 isn't that suitable for other uses, just good for RTGs.

And for terrestrial RTGs, you can use shorter half-life stuff that just gets switched at intervals.

[jagged snow]

I'm not talking about RTGs

I'm talking about using highly enriched uranium or re-enriched fuel in traditional presurrized or boiling water reactors to extract far more energy from the fuel and potentially lower costs

Sorry for the lack of clarity

Yeah, the production is so low that we essentially have to reserve it for missions to outer solar system
Even europa clipper didn't get a cut, had to make do with a smaller power budget and a ton of mass going to PV

[twin dew]

No, James Webb is glued and completely unmaintainable, as the weight budget was completely used up from the start, and all weight overruns caused major issues.

"We have launch rocket that can lift X kg, we shall design the satellite to use it all". With that budget split from the start to various things, with no overrun allowance.

And that original weight budget split way underestimated some subsystems weights, like the solar shield.

Lot of wishes, but the final design has everything "extra" removed, including using glue instead of bolts etc. where-ever possible.

To level of:

The review identified that Webb launch and deployment had 344 potential single-point failures – tasks that had no alternative or means of recovery if unsuccessful, and therefore had to succeed for the telescope to work.

That launch was ESAs contribution, in return for observation time.

So split locked in before even the real design was started.

[bold tapir]

Bruhhhh @twin dew hope you dont mind pings, you remember my gpu heat problems, now i feel stupid bc i forgot about fan tuning

hope he doesnt wake up to my ping

good night to him

[jagged snow]

<@&387163995947270144>

[sharp matrix]

Nobody has more sleeping issues than me

[pure karma]

im surprised its not more of a concern that most of the population in the world cant sleep at night anymore

[pure karma]

dunno just do

i definitely prefere a 40C summer day over a -20C winter day il tell you that much

[sharp matrix]

No we still live in a captialistic dystopia and pretend its all normal

No wonder people cant sleep anymore, cost of living increase, stagnate washes, decreased qol, also if you live in the us, our healthcare system is equally ass to

[slow flint]

Australia is having a hot week this week
Where I am its hitting 40c but other hotter parts are hitting up to 47c

[pure karma]

the sun is a deadly red ball 😅

[slow flint]

Terraria blood moon

[pure karma]

im jealous

theres this random white cat that just roams my street and i still have no idea where it came from

[sharp matrix]

Clearly this is the end times

ill see you all in the afterlife

[pure karma]

the sun and moon seem to like trolling up north

for exampel the moon is perfectly vissible at like 3PM during hte day but not during the night

and the sun loves impersonating mars

now its the ai takeover 💀

[sharp matrix]

Which well accelerate oil depletion

Ai well became like ai from matrix, harvesting humans for energy

Ok probably not because that sounds dumb, but still i just cant see this ending well for humanity in the end

[jagged snow]

Fun fact, the original matrix script called for the AI to be using the humans for compute, not power

[pure karma]

unrelated but iv now hit 8000 hours on this PC so this computer has lived in a functional condition longer than my old pc lived functional and broken combined

[sharp matrix]

We will sacrifice all of our oil for the ai

Send me dm

We just dont tell baine about our secret discussions👀

But baine finds us and bans us in the end anyways, its over

[pure karma]

i called him the baine of my existance one time and we had a good laugh over it 😂

[sharp matrix]

All addresses lead to vancouver remember that

[bronze jasper]

Burnaby is where the studio was. Lower mainland is where all the alien worlds are. Very few episodes were in Vancouver.

Remember, BC is more than double texas

no one who has been here makes fun of the nature here. except maybe the rain and squitos. but that's just sulky complaining

"Ehhhh i hate all this magnificence" yeah.. sure bud

for a while vancouver was every american state that fox and scully had to investigate

travelers was from the stargate guys i think

flash is fun sometimes

reboot and beast wars if you count animation

second season of last of us

it's a zombie video game, where people are zombies because fungus cordiceps evolved to take control of human hosts

the show is really well done. i've never played the game but the show is 100x better than walking dead imo.

[slow flint]

Its a common practice in rural/bush areas to check the pouch of roos that have been hit by a car and they mark them with spray paint so people know there's no babies at risk

[bronze jasper]

cyberpunk 2077 is a recreation of cyberpunk's tabletop descriptions and lore, which is far older than even the og deus ex

deus ex was pulp cyberpunk by the time it landed, copying eveyrthing around it

cyberpunk tabletop game was 1988 at first. night city all happened then. 2077 builds on top of all that lore

it was nice. i never finished the game. it was a slog. and i was bummed out because i had to restart. non lethal builds were allowed, so i tried one for my first go. except then you can't beat bosses because even teh very first boss fight wasn't designed for non lethal characters. locking them out of the rest of the game

so i wrote off stealth and non lethal gameplay and played that way, but never finished

human revolution had great visual design an story, but man the game mechanics were such a slog and poorly designed

i heard they remastered and released it again, fixed this time, but charged again for it so i never bought it

should've just fixed the og version

original is better on account of the game mechanics working. it was an actual immersive sim game. not a broken rpg

i love watch dogs 2. legion is where the series fell off

[pure karma]

i enjoyed cyberpunk but them getting screwed by there testers sucked

[bronze jasper]

naw. tomb raider is a franchise that will sell if they make something for it. there was always going to be a new tomb raider

i'm not going to buy a dlc for a game that i didn't enjoy in the first place

so is satisfactory

coffeestain is owned by embracer. no split about it

i did. and i'll do it again. it was delicious

[sharp matrix]

I wonder if atlantis is coming back to or just sg1

Wait i dont know if they confirmed its going to be a sg1 based tv show or just set in the same universe

I know they did confirm they arent going to break any canon but rather continue the canon, which is very nice

[bronze jasper]

so they're bringing back one shot to stun, two shots to kill?

[languid gulch]

sadly no. had one a few years ago

had to catch me mid-keyboard teardown 🤣

the on/off switch for it is losing its mind, so i'm opening it up to see if it's fixable

he was a great pick for Ultron

avengers

i think spader's one of those "artists"

where he needs roles that fit his ego

he was the main character for The Blacklist tv series

speaking of egos.......

yes

i watched all of SG1 in its original run

corin was a good addition

i think he considered himself more important than that role & the time on screen

meh

ngl i kinda miss when tv shows had people die & they stayed dead

first season of TNG sucked for a bunch of other reasons, casting wasn't one of those 🤣

sure os fun trying to dismantle a keyboard with no instructions

lol

i wonder if they even kept one for their archives

well figured out why my keyboard is having issues

poofy battery

[languid gulch]

straight replacement is half off rn so i just grabbed it

it'd basically cost as much to repair it

and now i'm on a dogshit $2 Dell keyboard for the next week

i might still try to have it fixed and just give it an easily replaceable battery

[languid gulch]

k, battery superglued to the case is sitting outside again, grabbed the board & switches 🤣

this particular dust storm is the famous one from a few years ago

i remember it rolling in

went from full visibility to not being able to see 20m almost instantly

we don't have too much fire here, but it's mainly because there's not much alive to burn

🤣

hey now

those czechs came from SOMEWHERE

no idea 🤣

i'd go there to find out, but you're closer to Lisbon than i am to chicago

in turkey?

yup

wow, 39N

oh, sorry, was asking if it was Soma in Turkey that you were talking about

it's always funny to me how far north europe is, i have to put up gridlines and pan around

OH

yup

phoenix is at 33N, go see where that's at over there 🤣

you're at 50N in Prague, and that's above all the US except for Alaska

canadian border is 49N

what always throws me off is how far east South America is

eastern brazil is only 3hrs behind UK

oh definitely

LOL ok i had to

CZ over arizona

phx area has 5ish

7.6m for the entire state

we have history, but it's mostly "stuff was here for a while, then disappeared about 1000 years ago, and then white people showed up"

ngl

never played a fallout game

lol

does kinda match the old style of how maps were done for here

1885 LOL

oh, i found the original in the Library of Congress

wanted to read the text on it

here's what that area looks like now

suburban hellscape

40,000km2 of low density

skoda?

i love the little info blurbs at the bottom

population: 8500

there is, it just got destroyed

what would be interesting is having a team or 2 from Pilsen come to the Chicago area and meet up with descendents of Czechs who might have some old papers/photos/stuff

a lot of people came over before & between the wars

true, but there's also a lot of stuff that hangs around in closets & attics

forgotten, but still here

www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/local/mesa/2015/11/27/pioneer-park-train-in-mesa/76457056/

played on that when i was a kid

1912 one, yea

we just add more engines when needed instead of building bigger ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4K1e5nb57U&list=RDA4K1e5nb57U&start_radio=1

also shows that people are still plenty interested

🤣

i don't mind

as if bohemia didn't give us decent music 🤣 glad to make the trade

we really only have 1 line coming into the valley

we have the big Antonovs come in every once in a while

since we're more known for aviation here

i wonder if there's anything from Skoda that's relabeled and sold here 🤣

asynch from the motors i assume

ngl i think it's cute

beats our cheap TGV knockoff

hey, Tucson has some

lol with specialized decent aircon 🤣

we're looking at building A/C bus stops

oh yes

that's mandatory

mid 30s at night here in summer 🤣

no escape from it

oh right

because they still haven't found a way to make their machinery run well enough to survive the heat 🤣

we used to have GM's proving grounds for all their cars

they'd pull the car up to a wall, crank the A/C, then walk away and wait for something to fail

lol

LOL

"Play at 2x speed and you can witness how fast 1149.6 km/h is"

sadly we'll never have TGV here

eh

used to have a truck, got rid of it

[tribal kraken]

Ordered the new Beyerdynamic wireless MMX 230 headset. My 7 year old MMX300 headband wont hold together anymore 😄

https://www.reddit.com/r/BEYERDYNAMIC/comments/1fy6eez/plastic_piece_connecting_headband_to_the_left_cup/ same weak spot both sides. Have fixed them three times now

[tribal kraken]

-26°C CAT been purring 8 hours soon. Waiting for trucks to arrived for unload

Can happen, we have 4 different sizes to suit your car

[pure karma]

rattly boi

[soft bloom]

So somehow yt is now not just requiring me to reload a tab to be even able to set 1.5 speed (instead of that crapy not working speed menu),
But also can somehow downgrade speed back to x1 and revert to that crappy menu on it's own

[mental oriole]

Plastic wears down after a while so explainable. GG on 7 years though 😁

[tribal kraken]

It will still work when fixed with duct tape, fits just one size head then

During 7 years I've replaced 2 cables and 1 pair of the ear cushions

Also there are these

But want to try if I can live with wireless headset, its been problematic before

[pure karma]

You would be jealous of my ram protector

[night girder]

With how expensive ram is, it's important to protect it.

[sharp matrix]

literally

[visual tree]

Finally managed to get rid of stupid all-in-one modem and got ONT + modem combo which allows me to replace modem with my own router which needs to be plugged directly into ONT (need to buy Unifi Dream Router 7 + sfp module first)

[visual tree]

@twin dew My ISP only specifies using 100 vlan id for pppoe. First time I saw vlan id priority and wonder if it makes any difference

Read online it has something to do with QoS

I managed to remove the white modem and connect my asus router directly to ont and pppoe connection works fine

[twin dew]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_P802.1p

[visual tree]

But I will replace my asus router with Unifi Dream Router 7 soon and buy an sfp module for it

[twin dew]

But very unlikely that the ISP will honor that setting, but just strips it away.

[visual tree]

Oh, so it it related to QoS

Btw, I am glad people have managed to eliminate even ONT completely

[twin dew]

Yes, that extra header to Etherrnet frames contains both VLAN ID and that specific QoS ID.

[visual tree]

You basically have to change sfp module serial number to the serial number of ISP-provided ONT

And then it will work without any problems

I might buy 9070 XT next when GPU and RAM crisis is gone

*if it's gone

[mental oriole]

🤣

[visual tree]

Interesting. I barely get more than 120 Mbit/s on 2,4 GHz while on 5 GHz I get up to 800 Mbit/s even though access point is in the same room

I bet it's 2,4 GHz SSID congestion

I need to setup channels again then....

Omg, why....... 😭

3 out of 5 SSID's use 40 MHz channel width....

No wonder I get low speed on 2,4 GHz

[jagged snow]

That's very very good performance for 2.4

[visual tree]

I think it can go above 200 Mbit's but not sure tbh

[jagged snow]

Theoretically, yes
That's very good real world though

And it's always funny to me because I work with IoT radios that only get a few kb/s

But can do it over km with significantly less power than wifi uses

[visual tree]

I am really pissed a lot of SSID's use 40 MHz width and all of them use the same channel

I moved to channel 11 now

[jagged snow]

40MHz width was needed for a long time when that was most peoples primary connection

Now that it's mostly just used for longer-range or smart devices it makes more sense to have a narrower bandwidth

[visual tree]

Oh wait, if I put channel 11, it will overlap with channel 6 SSID's which use 40 MHz

[visual tree]

When you let an electrician fix a fiber optic cable (not my picture) 🤣

Another one of those "Never let an electrician touch your network"

I had to fix my sister's ethernet jacks on the wall because an electrician messed up everything

If he actually used a lan tester, he would knew he didn't connect wires properly

[pure karma]

i found it at a lego store and couldn't resist 😂

i love how there esentially just land seals

[maiden coyote]

Yes, if you've got people around with 40mhz.. your boned.

2.4 has 3 nonoverlapping 20mjz channels. But a lot of devices in the US at least do not like channel 11.. so it's really only 2.

5ghz has... 2 non dfs non overlapping 80mhz channels... 4 40mhz channels..

I can only speak to the us rules though.. I think Europe has an extra channel on 2.4 and 5ghz.

Zigbee or zwave is about the best you can do for iot shit.. and if your device supports it.. 6ghz wifi

6ghz has the advantage... dis advantage of shorter range so youre less likely to get interference from your neighbors... but you need more AP's

[twin dew]

20MHz is the normal channel width on 2.4GHz.
By the spec, 40MHz "double-wide" is supposed to be only used when there are NO other visible 2.4GHz APs.
But lot of APs use it anyways all the time.

[twin dew]

And all those APs are so faint that they don't matter.

[twin dew]

And with N or AC, with 2x2 transmission, 20MHz 2.4GHz is 150Mbit/s max in theoretical, 40MHz is 300Mbit/s max theoretical.
And in actual use you usually halve those for "best case" actual throughput.
AX upped those to 287/574.
But if the device is only 1x1 capable, then the speeds get halved.

[visual tree]

I will use 5 GHz then since my important devices are near it. I get up to 800 Mbit/s

[twin dew]

And mostly the issue with "use always" have been the ISP provided router/APs.
Retail stuff got fixed fast and only very early devices with very early firmwares use 40MHz channels when on Auto.
Of course user CAN always manually force it, but mostly the issue is those crap ISP devices with spec breaking firmwares.

[visual tree]

They probably don't even know about channels

I live in a house surrounded by residential buildings. Situation would probably be much worse if I actually lived inside a residential building

[visual tree]

Didn't know our capital city was the coldest in Europe yesterday although it shares the place with Helsinki which had same temperature

Really hope it's not going to be -17 degrees on monday as the forecast says

[soft bloom]

Is it alright to laugh when someone hopes it won't be cold?

[visual tree]

As long that person isn't freezing to death in the end

[soft bloom]

Hmmm, so technically alright to laugh until you freeze first, before someone you laugh at?

[visual tree]

If you mean on homeless people or people without heating, it is never ok to laugh at them no matter what

Thought you were asking about us "spoiled" people who have a home or heating but still complain

[tribal kraken]

-30,5°C at 8:00 clock. Had a problem with my car, ignition lock either broke or low temps contributed that the key wont turn past ACC position. Tried to warm it up carefully with hair dryer and lock oil but no luck for an hour so working from home today

First time in my life could not get car my running when its cold. But I think the ignition lock is broken in a way not related to cold as its warm now and still wont go past ACC position

[visual tree]

They had to heat up tram tracks here because everything is frozen

[tribal kraken]

Did not went to has torch level yet

But I did heat my car key with lighter

[mental oriole]

It's winter and snow falls.

Insert surprised pika.

[visual tree]

Several trams also derailed because of ice

[mental oriole]

[visual tree]

Check the Orville too

It's like Star Trek except the crew is full of idiots

[soft bloom]

checks the local news again
Yes I was

Although more like 'temporary kore fortunate'

[soft bloom]

Yesterday contcat power lines got ice layer so extensive network of electricity driven public transport was nonfunctional

But this night brought more 'presents'

Some homes are emptying pipes to prevent damage since water is now not supplied

And we expect coldee weather soon

[visual tree]

Our water pipes are burried deep and insulated so we are lucky we never had issues with frozen pipes

[soft bloom]

Which means... That more appartment building will have no utility other then occasional power and maybe gas
Big maybe on gas though, since half of our gas storage was hit this night

[soft bloom]

Water runs underground, couple meters,
though idk about amount of insulation.
I bet they are more worried that pipes inside appartments might freeze solid

It's quite a big technical chalange to make utility production and destribution resilient
Cough
Esepcially when budget disappears

[visual tree]

I can heat my house on natural gas and AC. Also have a chimney flue I don't use but I can install wood stove because of that if things go really bad

[soft bloom]

Oh so you are now rubbing that in? 🙂

Despite having warmer regions to the south it's kind of hard to get there cause mountains so more likely to run west, even if it's a bit colder sometimes

[visual tree]

My deceased grandfather turned us into preppers lol. He told us every home should have at least 2 sources of heat if possible: natural gas, electricity and wood stove if possible

Any combination of those

[soft bloom]

Well you can't do anything really in appartments
And I am talking not about myself, but about millions of people without utilities in a winter

[visual tree]

My parents bought a house before the war started and they always made sure to have an alternative source of heat

[visual tree]

Oh yeah, apartments are in a tricky situation

[soft bloom]

Btw many new buildings have just water and power connected, but no gas.

[visual tree]

If you live in a residential building, you need an approval of at least 51% of landlords in order to do some major construction

[soft bloom]

But regardless, once gas storage is bombed - it's of little use
Hence why some buy small portable gas stoves and gas tanks
And make the news with accidents...

[visual tree]

My parents were always worried about gas tanks. We don't have it and run a gas pipe directly to boiler and kitchen

[tribal kraken]

Central heating on this house can use diesel or wood. Diesel can work with help of generator if grid is down, generator also helps if wood is used by running the water pump on the central heating. Solar panels are kinda meh as currently no battery for them and they are configured so that they are offline if grid is down

Also on addition to fireplace at central heating theres 3 other fireplaces, big brick oven used for bread which stores lot of heat on it even after the fire is out. Then Sauna and a just a normal small fireplace

[soft bloom]

Meanwhile somebody has to watch the kids in apartments with no water, no heating, no power...

Which is more likely to 'survive': gas, liquid or solid?
In gas every molecule is in it for itself, randomly bumping into each other, having momentary exchange, probably never to meet again. Not caring much about gravity or electric charges of each other. Always trying to take all available space.
In fluid they are more closely interacting neighbours, but still allowing for many changes, following shape of the container, sometimes forming more rigid surface bonds.
And in a solid body, resisting external change, in a rigid structure... Kinda boring.
But what is survival? If stone is grinded into sand - did it die? Did it evolve? If a water droplet went full circle of vapor, snowflake, compressed ice sheet, back to water, does that count as survival?

[thin trout]

What did he do?

[visual tree]

Not my picture but the electrician obviously has zero clue how fiber optic cable works

Or someone did this as a joke and lied the electrician did it

But they always told me not to underestimate human stupidity so maybe the electrician actually did this lol

Not to mention an electrician installed some cheap ethernet cable in my sister's apartment and didn't properly wire ethernet jacks. Had to fix his poor job

[thin trout]

did what

I just don't understand what i'm looking at 😄

[visual tree]

The electrician basically connected damaged fiber optic cables together like they conduct electricity

Guess he doesn't know how fiber works

[twin dew]

Fiber spliced like power wires.
Even for copper based signal wires that would be just stupid.

But as the maker didn't even try to strip the fiber, more likely a joke.

[visual tree]

Perhaps. I noticed people keep posting fake stories on reddit because of karma farming

or rage-bait

[twin dew]

The stupid stuff I do with local nftables to prevent outgoing connections except to very specific servers...
List of allowed NTP and HTTP(S) server IPs gets updated hourly from DNS records, or right before update checking happens for the HTTP(S).
And right after nftables service gets (re)started.

Inside VMs.

Ah, sorry, also needs networking to be up and DNS resolution to be up for that service that is tied to nftables state.

After=systemd-resolved.service
After=nss-lookup.target
After=network-online.target
After=nftables.service
Requisite=nftables.service
PartOf=nftables.service
BindsTo=nftables.service
ReloadPropagatedFrom=nftables.service```

And just noticed I need to add another reloadpropagatedfrom for that timesyncd to the NTP server version...

And removed the after for same from the non-NTP one.

[jagged snow]

I'm switching away from gmail, do any of you have experience with other providers?
I'm strongly considering protonmail at the moment

[visual tree]

I used Proton Mail to spam members of the European Parliament in order to prevent them from adopting Chat Control

[jagged snow]

💀

[maiden coyote]

I did something dumb too.. when I had a bind mount for /usr the system didn't boot lol

I still have /usr bind mounted, but I'm using a systemd service to do it

[twin dew]

Why are you doing it that way, that the primary mount is under /mnt/ and secondary is bind-mounted in the right place, and not the other way around?
As is expected.
And why the ton of different binds?

[maiden coyote]

it's on a pi with a 16GB emmc, and it has a 256GB nvme.

instead of booting off the nvme, I just set up a bunch of binds so it uses the nvme for logs, apps, user data etc.

[twin dew]

And you could still mount the NVMe partitions directly into the right places, not first into /mnt/nvme/ and then bind-mount to right place.

[maiden coyote]

the nvme has a single partition.

if I had formatted it with separate partitions, then it would've been easier.

[maiden coyote]

Yeah, that's the right way to do it, but what's the fun in that lol

[twin dew]

Using single (mirrored) BTRFS partition for everything except EFI and swap.

With subvolumes for the various partition replacements.

That "raw" root subvol is only mounted at /var/btrbk/System/

[maiden coyote]

I would like to setup my proxmox server with that, eventually.

[maiden coyote]

have a btrfs mirrored boot drive, even if the VM's arn't stored there just to have that extra reliability.

[twin dew]

Firewall computer has just single small Optane, with similar setup, just using BTRFS in mode that puts all the data doubled on same drive.

Doesn't protect against full drive failure, but allows for bit-rot prevention etc.

Doing same on both Pi 1 and Pi 4 for the SDCards.

[soft bloom]

Theoretically, is there a way to gamify creation of abstractions and interfaces between systems?

[jagged snow]

Yeah 🤷

[twin dew]

But Debian team is annoying and doesn't include XXHash64 kernel module in the installer...
I need to do partial install, load the xxhash_generic module from that partial install, then create the actual file system, move the already installed files over, and continue...
As CRC32C is just bad, and SHA256 and BLAKE2b are just so much slower, even with AVX2 acceleration, as they are cryptographic hashes.

Or CPU SHA256 instructions too.

(Just btrfs things)

xxhash64 "only" takes double the time of crc32.

Where as in the test CPU, Intels inbuild SHA256 instruction took 68 times longer per 4k block.

Next thing is to switch router/firewall away from using FirewallD as extra layer, and using NFTables directly instead...

[visual tree]

Damn, this looks good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jey6cdAjNaU

Looks like some kind of wild west cyberpunk

[soft bloom]

So, for some reason, the bluetti's quirk striked when it was really not the time for it...
I think I was writing before bout how it did a few times seemingly discharge only to display 100% when plugged in
Today it was under standard load of network stuff and then an hour later after checking 60% charge it turned off and was not responding. Having no other ac power source (soon it will be full 24h without power) other then identical unit, it did turn on and display 100% again, reporting 0W charge but drawing 36W from the other unit (which is fairly unusual powe= draw, since it usually is 150-250W when actively charging).
Not sure what that is, since after last time it did power off and display 100% immediately it did work successful y providing power from it's battery for at least couple weeks now.
Some error in battery readings? Or could this be deeper?

[visual tree]

Broke personal record in december and made a monthly bandwidth of almost 1 TB

It's probably going to be bigger this month since I already made 500 GB until 9th of January

[pure karma]

how???

are you just reinstalling your steam library over and over and over

[visual tree]

Something like that

Not just steam, I am also reinstalling games on other platforms so I can play them again

[pure karma]

fair

i think i could drop like 2TB atleast on a full install of my library now

if i dident think they woudl throttle my internet id probably try to hit as high of a usage as possible

[visual tree]

My sister also has access to my NAS from a remote location and she backups files from there

[oblique hamlet]

you know you can transfer steam games accross local network right?

i hope your storage doesnt wear out

[pure karma]

yea but for some games its abysmally slow

like i tried to tranfer one time across gigabit and it was going at like 6mbit

at that point may aswell download new

[visual tree]

I don't want to waste space on my NAS for game backups so I just download them when I want to play them

[slow flint]

@orchid verge got a crypto scammer

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1382503740380024832.webp?size=56&animated=true

[jagged snow]

Man, why is it so hard to get a good username

[pure karma]

if only M.2's werent so darn expensive

[fervent token]

satas exsist bro

ssd*

[elfin niche]

time to hit up the used market

[soft bloom]

when power is so shit that it doesn't even charge...

[sharp matrix]

for me it gets even better, one of my laptops recently died and it doesnt even detect the ac adaptor being plugged into it either, let alone boot up

[soft bloom]

That's something you can pay to get repaired

[sharp matrix]

who knows, that laptop is as dead as a door nail

[soft bloom]

I mean, it didn't explode

So there's still hope

And you can get the drives to make backup

Would be funny if it's just one of the contacts being loose on power input and dead battery

[sharp matrix]

there is, thankfully its under warranty and im sending it in soon under rma, so its going to depend on my seller to somehow fix it

[sharp matrix]

hmm well idk, it doesnt detect ac power being plugged in it at all and one time i was able to get it to boot it did say it was 0% charge on the battery and it didnt stay on and shut down some time after that, that was the one and only time i was able to get the laptop to even boot on and gave up after that, as nothing i did seemed to work

so it could be a dead battery or that 0% battery charge windows told me was a sign of maybe something else, idk

[pure karma]

Buying used drives is like the #1 thing you shouldn’t do

[pure karma]

No mounts and not really worth the cost proportionately to the speed gains last i checked

[soft bloom]

With those power station things, is it better to have them stay connected and charge on their own, or regularly turn on and off the grid ? In terms of longevity

[elfin niche]

Nah it's easier to test their helth than psus

Just ask the seller to run cdi

[fervent token]

🙏

[bronze jasper]

The magic black smoke that makes computers work is still inside

[sharp matrix]

maybe🤣

[languid gulch]

i've only had 1 device do that, and i was home when it happened, but i missed it

was in a different room when i heard the tv make one hell of a pop

definitely smelled it tho

finally got around to hooking up my tv as another monitor, and it reminded me of how old it is 🤣

32" 1366x768 native resolution

either too many or not enough

oh wow, had to check model number. TV's from 2012 🤣

[night girder]

https://tenor.com/view/menin-tights-careyelwes-face-side-gif-6096908

[languid gulch]

closest we got was watching david hasselhof dance on the berlin wall

and the Yugo

i was watching a show talking about the modern english accent, and how kevin costner's american accent is actually probably closer to the english accents of the time

[night girder]

These days, you cannot ask anyone to put on any accents if you don't own it 🤣

And isn't old english totally different?

Fæder ure, þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod. To
becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa on eorvan swa swa on
heofonum. Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg, and forgyf
us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. And ne gelæd
þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. Soþlice.

All I can understand fromt hat text is "To become ? rice ?"

Anyway, I don't think we would understand Robin Hood if he talked in the language of that time period 😛

[gentle osprey]

clean or no

[pure karma]

not with apps vissible on the desktop

[gentle osprey]

i forgot to hide them for the screen shot

should i add more to it

[pure karma]

you should get rid of copilot and edge

before anything

[dire igloo]

That's the Lord's Prayer (our father)

[dire igloo]

Old English died out around the 12th century.
The first stories of Robin Hood were recorded in the 15th century.

I'd go as far as speculate that robin hood spoke a form of English closer to modern English

[languid gulch]

yea this is my desktop 🤣

[waxen pendant]

Clean in my opinion. Also that wallpaper is great

[mental oriole]

here be mine :p

[pure karma]

mine

[glossy glacier]

Too much stuff pinned IMO
Is that a wallpaper engine wallpaper? Can you send a link/workshop ID?

[soft bloom]

Don't trust ai make reflections lol

[visual tree]

Finally some good news

They totally deserve it

[gentle osprey]

You want it

[gentle osprey]

I got it from Pinterest i think

I well send it but cant now

I well dm you

[visual tree]

Ubisoft created a new subsidiary Vantage Studios and Tencent has a minority stake in it

[pure karma]

hmmm i wonder why my back io keeps cutting power for drawing too much

[minor pawn]

So I just began having issues with the hall sensor on my hp victus 16. Is it worth getting replaced or should I just save up money for a new laptop?

[sharp matrix]

good, its been a shell company for some time anyways

it used to make good games like black flag, but those days are gone

[pure karma]

can i have it too?

[night girder]

Haven't seen this one before:

[jagged snow]

Isn't this illegal? There is no "don't ask me again" and I already manually disabled personalized ads which are on by default

This is the third time I've been prompted

[sharp matrix]

sadly no, just be glad it isnt worse, because youtube can easily do it and no laws exist to really stop it

[glossy glacier]

The Microsoft way of asking consent

[night girder]

Yeah, I don't see anything illegal either.

[jagged snow]

That's funny, I thought this was covered under the DSA

[night girder]

Democratic Socialism of America?

DuckDuckGo moments

@jagged snow One could argue this might be a dark pattern.

Ban on dark patterns - Deceptive design tactics, such as aggressive pop-ups or confusing and misleading consent buttons, are now prohibited.

source: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act

And also:

Feed options - On large platforms with over 45 million monthly users in the EU, you can now opt for non-personalised feeds. This way, you decide whether to see content based on the algorithm’s suggestions, sometimes pushing specific content which may be more appealing or even addictive, or other criteria, such as the chronological order.

So you might have a good case, if nobody is already on it (which is likely, not every investigation is public, might lead to fines in the future).

Btw; this is why I still use google. Because it actually gives me what I want. Referring the DuckDuckGo fucking it up in previous screenshot.

[jagged snow]

Huh

[night girder]

???

[jagged snow]

Oh, just interesting

[night girder]

Ah, yeah. My two cents are, dark patterns. What are those. What falls under it. 🤷‍♂️

The opt for non personalised feeds is pretty clear. Just sad it doesn't included personalised ads.

[bronze jasper]

dark patterns are like, articles that bury the lead deep under a lot of rambling paragraphs created for SEO purposes, with targeted ads between each of them.

things that product designers do that benefit the bottom line, but does not benefit the end user at all.

[night girder]

I meant literal.

The legal definition of dark patterns.

I have my ideas what dark patterns could be, but that doesn't mean the EU see it as a dark pattern 😉

[bronze jasper]

Deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something. For example:

www.deceptive.design source

[night girder]

www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2025/767191/EPRS_ATA(2025)767191_EN.pdf

I think EU kept it open for interpretation on purpose.

[bronze jasper]

yeah it's kind of a loose definition. there isn't a strict one. that's why examples are often best practice there. "burying the lead" is one that's not as obvious as the others, since it's only tricking the user into scrolling down further which isn't really that big of an action

[night girder]

#off-topic-tech message

Dark pattern or not?

You have two choices it seems. Continue with personalised ads. Or ask again in a week.
It's possible that if Fight or Flight clicks continue, they get option to opt out of personalised ads and it will never be asked again.
But if the app keeps asking it every week ... then I would say it's scummy design.

[dire igloo]

Dark patterns on online interfaces of online platforms are practices that materially distort or impair, either on purpose or in effect, the ability of recipients of the service to make autonomous and informed choices or decisions. Those practices can be used to persuade the recipients of the service to engage in unwanted behaviours or into undesired decisions which have negative consequences for them. Providers of online platforms should therefore be prohibited from deceiving or nudging recipients of the service and from distorting or impairing the autonomy, decision-making, or choice of the recipients of the service via the structure, design or functionalities of an online interface or a part thereof. This should include, but not be limited to, exploitative design choices to direct the recipient to actions that benefit the provider of online platforms, but which may not be in the recipients’ interests, presenting choices in a non-neutral manner, such as giving more prominence to certain choices through visual, auditory, or other components, when asking the recipient of the service for a decision.

It should also include repeatedly requesting a recipient of the service to make a choice where such a choice has already been made, making the procedure of cancelling a service significantly more cumbersome than signing up to it, or making certain choices more difficult or time-consuming than others, making it unreasonably difficult to discontinue purchases or to sign out from a given online platform allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders, and deceiving the recipients of the service by nudging them into decisions on transactions, or by default settings that are very difficult to change, and so unreasonably bias the decision making of the recipient of the service, in a way that distorts and impairs their autonomy, decision-making and choice. However, rules preventing dark patterns should not be understood as preventing providers to interact directly with recipients of the service and to offer new or additional services to them. Legitimate practices, for example in advertising, that are in compliance with Union law should not in themselves be regarded as constituting dark patterns. Those rules on dark patterns should be interpreted as covering prohibited practices falling within the scope of this Regulation to the extent that those practices are not already covered under Directive 2005/29/EC or Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

source: §67 Regulation (EU) 2022/2065
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj/eng

[dire igloo]

Yes, this is a dark pattern. The following sections of the EU definition undoubtedly apply here:

Providers of online platforms should therefore be prohibited from deceiving or nudging recipients of the service and from distorting or impairing the autonomy, decision-making, or choice of the recipients of the service via the structure, design or functionalities of an online interface or a part thereof.

It should also include repeatedly requesting a recipient of the service to make a choice where such a choice has already been made [...] or making certain choices more difficult or time-consuming than others

@night girder see my answer to your question above

[jagged snow]

Noted, thanks for digging that up

I'll be curious to see if this behavior rolls out globally

[dire igloo]

the issue here isn't about personalized ads or not.
It's that you don't have a choice to permanently opt out of tracking data collection and that some features (blocking specific ads) are locked behind data collection even when there's no legitimate reason to do so

[night girder]

Wait wait we don't know that right?

[dire igloo]

yw

[night girder]

What happens if you click "continue"?

If you go to a screen that lets the user select what ads they want (personlised or not), it seems legal?

[dire igloo]

read the popup, it says it right there

enabling ads allows you to control which data they collect and to block ads

[dire igloo]

well, if we don't know, it's a dark pattern

[night girder]

No.

It just tells the user what personalised ads are.

[dire igloo]

but I guess, yeah
it's possible that the "disable all" option is hidden behind the "continue" button.
but it's also possible that the "continue" button is considered consent to data collection

[night girder]

If you click continue, and the next screen is "enable/disable personalised ads".

Then the user consents to using personalised ads.

If then the pop-up never appears, there is no dark pattern afaik.

If the pop-up keeps popping up untill you enabled personalised ads ...

[dire igloo]

except it's not. it's advertising features to you so that you agree to them collection your data

[night girder]

And if the user ignores the pop up, personalised ads aren't turned on. YT should be fine, probably.

It's not like if YT (google, Alphabet) doesn't have a legal team figuring this all out beforehand 😉

[dire igloo]

you say YT should be fine, but imo they make the user experience for opting out a lot more intransparent

which is a dark pattern

they nudge you towards clicking "continue"

doesn't matter what that button does, it's manipulative

[night girder]

Fine legally in EU when it comes to DSA and the screenshot.

I am purely speaking "is it legal in the eyes of the EU law or not ..." (DSA in this case).

And if you go to court, what will be the outcome (% wise).

[dire igloo]

that's exactly what I'm talking about.
Tell me that this section does not apply to that popup:

Providers of online platforms should therefore be prohibited from deceiving or nudging recipients of the service and from distorting or impairing the autonomy, decision-making, or choice of the recipients of the service via the structure, design or functionalities of an online interface or a part thereof.

[night girder]

I am mixed. On the one hand I think "YT isn't poor and dumb to not respect EU laws at this point ..." on the other hand... "Well, maybe YT knows they get away with it anyway. And the fine is just pocket money for them".

You can always report it to EU (gotta look up what instance) and let them know what's going on.

[dire igloo]

if the punishment for breaking the law is a fine, that means it's legal for a price.
and if the fine is low enough, that price for legality is merely the cost of doing business

[night girder]

You tell me what does apply?

[dire igloo]

enforcing the law is costly too

[night girder]

Because I am not sure if this is nudging, or deceiving.

Seems pretty straight forward to me. "Can we show personalized ads or not?"

[dire igloo]

nudging recipients of the service and distorting the decision-making

[night girder]

Altough. It is ambigious. Because I still don't know what happens if you click continue.

You know what. If I have to think this much, you are right.

[dire igloo]

if it was a simple yes or no question, that would be true
however, that is not the case. the choice is "continue" or "maybe later"
which would then fall under

repeatedly requesting a recipient of the service to make a choice where such a choice has already been made

[night girder]

Yes. Just had to think a bit about it.

[dire igloo]

fair

tho I agree with you, it's not clear which part of the regulation applies

[night girder]

Did you know there is a database public with DSA - Statements of reasons?

Oh nvm. Though it was something else.

The Digital Services Act (DSA), obliges providers of hosting services to inform their users of the content moderation decisions they take and explain the reasons behind those decisions in so-called statements of reasons.

Though it was EU ruling on DSA cases.

I was looking up, how we can actually report stuff like this. If even possible.

Found it!

Users of an online service who believe that the service's practices violate the European Digital Services Act (DSA) may lodge a complaint with the Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence).

Contact form doesn't work.

So you have to send it by post to;

2a, rue d’Anvers L-1130 Luxembourg Luxembourg

This is so dumb, that means you gotta print the screenshots 🤣

You must forward the information you have in your possession to substantiate your suspicions (e.g. screenshots, webpage URLs, images or videos, electronic correspondence, emails, terms and conditions, decisions by platforms, etc.)

[visual tree]

I hope they are overreacting regarding RAM prices going 10x of the original price: www.techradar.com/pro/is-ram-the-new-bitcoin-ddr4-memory-prices-are-rising-so-fast-some-tracker-graphs-are-running-out-of-space-and-i-fear-2026-could-well-see-a-10x-price-rise

[night girder]

... =_=

[visual tree]

Because 10X price increase would basically mean the end of PC gaming 💀

[night girder]

Do I got some news for you.

[visual tree]

Please don't 😭

[night girder]

rumor: https://videocardz.com/newz/power-supplies-and-cpu-coolers-may-be-next-for-price-increases-distributor-letter-claims

Seems the whole market is getting a bit ... less stable.

[visual tree]

Looks like they want to force us to subscribe to cloud gaming....

Because gaming PC will become a luxury

[night girder]

Buying a PC might get more expensive than buying a car 😄

[visual tree]

If gaming PC is going to cost more than a gas boiler which is already expensive, I am going to kill myself

[night girder]

I just quit gaming at that point 🤣

I will go outside and touch grass or something.

[visual tree]

Lol same

People might move to console gaming but they will become expensive too since they have cpu, gpu and ram

Well, current consoles might already get price increase soon

[night girder]

I feel so powerless with all these price shenanigans.

[languid gulch]

they're forcing the subscription model, just like streaming services did. almost completely killed off the home media hardware market except for enthusiasts & the wealthiest who don't care about pricing anyway

[pure karma]

They already have no?

didn’t Xboxes double in price

[night girder]

Mhm, not sure if I would use the word forcing.

The stars just align for them now to pull this off.

[pure karma]

I swear Nintendo is the only one that stood its ground so far

[night girder]

The demand from AI is a welcome opportunity to 🖕 gamers and go for the big tech companies.

[twin dew]

Might work through the national ones too?
https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartels/european-competition-network/national-competition-authorities_en

[night girder]

But I am not sure that the rise of AI and the impact on hardware market, was deliberate and calculated together with subscription models.

[languid gulch]

knowingly using the AI bubble to hamstring parts availablility for consumers so that when that bubble does pop they'll have a steady subscription service to keep them going

[night girder]

You can be right, it's possible subscription model is a backup plan for AI bubble popping

And if it doesn't, they have extra and steady income.

[languid gulch]

the house always wins

[night girder]

That's why I said I feel powerless.

[pure karma]

the fact that geforce now is popular says it all

[night girder]

Citizens can literally do nothing about it.

We can't even "boycot" them by "not" buying their product.

there is no product to buy 🤣

[pure karma]

that too

[night girder]

and I am 100% sure.

When they come crawling back to gamers. We will all just buy it happily again.

Even though they kinda drop us like nothing 🤣

And I say that, because I've seen the shit (price of their hardware) Nvidia got away with over the years. Baffling to me.

[pure karma]

Cause we have no choice just like everything else

you prettymuch cant go without a computer of somekind anymore

[night girder]

We do have choices to opt for other brands.

[pure karma]

THERES 2

and both dont give a shit

[night girder]

But I am guilty of it too. If not for people in this chat. I would still be buying the "big" name brands*.

[night girder]

3? For GPU's? And way more for RAM.

[twin dew]

Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had CES keynotes almost purely about AI hype.

[night girder]

Yeah, I saw articles about it. Didn't want to read them fully. Made me sad.

Same was with NFT. Companies hyping it up. Without really a demand for it.

Seems the same is going on right now. Them telling us what we really want.

Also, have you read the articles about all the old gen stuff they brining back? DDR4/5 boards for example.

[pure karma]

Intel is just a fun side character

[night girder]

And then Nvidia bringing back old ass generations of GPU.

[night girder]

Eh, I root for them more and more. But maybe I am too optimistic on that front.

[pure karma]

There GPU’s are good but they arent competing

[twin dew]

Takes long time to break into market if you aren't overwhelming technically, and sometimes even then.

[night girder]

Also, there is Bolt Graphics now

[twin dew]

And when even AMD cannot get more when so many just tell to get Nvidia, no matter what.
Brand recognition is sometimes very real.

[night girder]

10x better than 5090 for path tracing performance.

[night girder]

Exactly. That's what I meant. Same goes from memory.

[twin dew]

for memory?

Or what did you mean with that "Same goes from memory."?

[night girder]

brand recognition, and people will buy the same brands if prices lower back down.

[mental oriole]

As someone who have never heard of... what is that?

[night girder]

Some startup at CES that was spotted.

Read about it in an article.

And they playing it smart. Promised a GPU on the market around 2027 and they don't seem to focus on AI like Nvidia and AMD do.

The journalist is skeptic though. Company is only 5 years old. Bold claims etc.

[oblique hamlet]

hopefully they add drivers into the linux kernel like intel. that is a big thing for me

[night girder]

Eh, let's see if they make a working GPU first and not some demo stuff.

[oblique hamlet]

of course

[night girder]

The one thing that does strike me is that, if Nvidia and AMD focus on AI, it can create a hole in the market for others to fill in.

[oblique hamlet]

i sure hope so

nvidia and amd need some serious competition

[night girder]

Are there a lot of GPU's with integrated CPU's?

[oblique hamlet]

i think so