off-topic-tech

[night girder]

Not really that popular here. And I mean, the 3 I mention you find most often at a restaurant and in stores.

But I do love BBQ sauce a lot 😄

Which* one did you mean Australian lorax?

[tall forum]

what barbeque sauce

[night girder]

We have this one. Very orange.

[tall forum]

Why is it orange

[night girder]

But then also this one.

[tall forum]

where do you live

[night girder]

And as you can see, they are both called Barbeque Sauce but are totally different.

[night girder]

Belgium.

[tall forum]

alright guys i gotta go to school

bye bye

[mental oriole]

glhf

[bronze jasper]

i personally like the house of parliament sauce. the stuff they serve in the house of parliament.

it looks fancy but tastes like street food

[tall forum]

a lot

[night girder]

whaaaaat

[bronze jasper]

hp sauce

[tall forum]

its a very multicultral place but most of australian food isnt that good

[night girder]

no clue what you on about, never heard of it

[mental oriole]

[tall forum]

laptop?

[bronze jasper]

it's UK

[night girder]

That's an disturbing add.

[bronze jasper]

house of parliament sauce

[night girder]

Why is the plate empty?
Why is he staring at the dog?

[mental oriole]

Evil

[bronze jasper]

the dog is like "i want some"

and he's like "i got none!"

[night girder]

"EVERYTHING* goes with HP sauce ..."

[bronze jasper]

yeah it makes it so good the dog wants some

[mental oriole]

The implied message is that he is gonna eat the dog.

[night girder]

But yeah, first time hearing of this sauce brand.

And weird, if it's from the UK I would expect it to find somewhere around here

If it's from Canada, yeah then I get it's not available here.

[bronze jasper]

its sold in canada but its from uk

[night girder]

I need to have a chat with our King to make better deals with the UK.

we just live across the pond, shouldn't be that far to export the sauce.

[bronze jasper]

maple syrup

[pure karma]

https://tenor.com/view/black-cat-abyss-black-cat-abyss-eyes-black-cat-eyes-gif-14796431193904000393

honey + caramel on toast

[bronze jasper]

poutine gravy is just brown gravey. nothing special. fries. curds. gravey.

anything fancier is some house special and not traditional

you have to swear allegiance to the King

we just call them forests here

[tall forum]

school over

@inner shale you still awake

[twin dew]

Parallels often lags by year or so in support for games in their DX to Metal translation layer.
So Crossover is much better bet to pay for for gaming.
Or self-build Apple Game Porting Toolkit (another Crossover/Wine fork by Apple themselves, but meant for game devs to package with their game).

[tall forum]

ITS ALL GOOD my good friend is giving me windows on a usb because hes super nice and good with pcs

[flat grove]

Listem

[flat grove]

Listen

Swap the cpu

[tall forum]

why

[flat grove]

Because the 7800x3d is way better for gaming

And your aircooler can handle it

[tall forum]

and its also like 200 dollars more expensive

[flat grove]

If you get it tray

Its like 100 more

[tall forum]

no its not

My budget is 2500 dollars

[flat grove]

Yea tray is 500

[flat grove]

And do you really want rgb ram

[tall forum]

thats not including the 32gb ram btw

[flat grove]

Im aware

[twin dew]

And Tray CPUs have no warranty.
Boxed ones do have.

[flat grove]

Thats worthless

You will never need your cpu warranty

If its shipping damaged its still getting repöaced

And after it dont matter

[twin dew]

Say that to all the 13th and 14th gen CPU warranty needers, or all the people who got bit by AMD AM5 VSOC thing etc.

[flat grove]

Well thats just dumb imo

[twin dew]

And certain percentage of CPUs do die or go unstable during the normal warranty period anyways, just silicon lottery.

[flat grove]

Never buy smth new if theres no issue reports

[flat grove]

Prove you havent misused it then?

[twin dew]

Just binning gone wrong and being turbo table being with too little margin.

[flat grove]

Companies sadly will always look for a way to not pay

[twin dew]

So you would need to know in advance that there will be wide-spread issue that will be known in future?
That will necessiate large RMAs.

[flat grove]

As i said, dont buy fully new

Wait half a year or a years

[twin dew]

Which wouldn't have helped with 13th/14th gen issue.
And that AM5 issue was very near that 1 year cutoff.

[flat grove]

Well honestly better off replacing it

Lol

[twin dew]

Also, depends lot on country if companies can just deny warranties or not.
In EU they cannot.

[flat grove]

True

But hes australian

[twin dew]

And I only stated that Tray CPUs have no warranty.
I didn't say if that mattered in his/her case, because I don't know about Australian warranty practices.

[flat grove]

Regardless overall his build looks ok but i know the aircooler is thick af

[twin dew]

You then jumped in to say that all warranties are useless and not worth it.

[flat grove]

Havent checked the case size

Just make sure everything fits

[flat grove]

Cpu mainly

[tall forum]

everything fits and is compatible

[flat grove]

Then ur doing good

Mabye save money on ram if you dont need rgb

[twin dew]

Currently you buy what RAM you can get, you don't really get to choose.

[tall forum]

that ram is cheaper

[flat grove]

Fair

Idk bout australian prices

I can get ram for like 500-600 in your currency

[twin dew]

Looking prices in your country and doing currency conversion doesn't work for most part, for anything.

[flat grove]

I mean yea

But still

[tribal kraken]

My 13900k died in 5 months back in 2023. The new one that I got from warranty 🥰 have been kicking since, no warranty on it anymore as I delidded it shortly after for direct die cooling.

Luckily did not corrupt anything important, just broke PUBG and Win11 installs

[twin dew]

Got my 7800X3D warranty replaced because of VSOC damage, have had to warranty replace RAM before too.

General expectation is that about 1% of electronic parts will need replacement in first year of use because of latent manufacturing faults that only cause issues after some use.

I mean parts as in whole devices.

[dire igloo]

At least for countries with proper coverage, I find it easier to just check their PCPP or price comparison site instead of using whatever I have for myself plus doing currency conversion on top

If I have to check current RAM pricing anyway, it's no difference for me whether I search on geizhals.de, German PCPP or Aussie PCPP.
But two of these create extra effort for both me and whoever Aussie I'm helping

[dire igloo]

Also: this isn't true. A lot of scummy companies do this, but a lot of others figured out that a slightly reduced revenue from pro-consumer warranty handling is more than made up for by an increase in sales that comes from a good reputation

[dire igloo]

Also: don't forget to account for shipping costs, somehow PCPP isn't always reliable for that in Australia

[twin dew]

Also with those large regional variances in warranty processes, even for same company.

Even when there might not be regulatory difference.

[dire igloo]

iirc, Australian warranty laws are more towards the consumer-friendly end of the spectrum

[flat grove]

Can we end this discussion by now

[dire igloo]

But yeah, a company's US warranty department might have better claims handling than their Australian division

[dire igloo]

Not as long as there is advice to be given and misinformation to to corrected

[faint turret]

You should also feel obligated to take part in the convo even if you don't feel like it, it's mandatory

[flat grove]

No misinformation has been given and no advice is needed anymore

[dire igloo]

As for this list itself and the parts choices:

• pairing an AM5 CPU with DDR5-6400 depends a lot on how the XMP/EXPO profile is enabled in regards to fclk ratio, you might actually be better off going for 6000 or even 5600 MT/s (which can also save you money)
• that SSD is most likely quite bad. The MP44L has been partswapped into oblivion and I doubt its QLC cousin fared any better
• keeb is Rubberdome/membrane, tho I doubt you can fit mech into your budget
• the cooler you chose has fans with quite a low quality bearing, I doubt you'll see more than 3y of usage with it. Plus, it probably covers the RAM making the RGB.
• the PSU while performing well electrically is known to be on the louder side. Not an issue, just a heads up.
• depending on the usecase, swapping the GPU for its 8gb equivalent might save you enough money to upgrade other things while only losing a little bit of GPU horsepower.
• all other products are good quality when viewed in isolation, however I didn't check whether any of them have a less expensive or better performance alternative

[dire igloo]

Then tell me this:

• Was what I said not true? If it wasn't, please provide the appropriate corrections.
• Were my remarks made by someone else in this discussion? If so, my bad, didn't mean to repeat anything.
• Was my input unhelpful in any way? If so, please elaborate on why and how.

[flat grove]

SSD. i agree. Both ram points can be crossed off as he already said its the cheapest ram he can get. Hes not doing it for the rgb or anything else. Which makes sense regarding the ramprices. The GPU is fine because he wants to game in WQHD which im guessing from his monitor.

[tall forum]

ram not the ram im going for

what should i directly change

and what should i change to

[tall forum]

I aprreciate any help even if it is unnecessary people are still trying to help me with a problem i have

[dire igloo]

RAM is definitely untrue, at least for the Corsair kit.
Idk what he replaced it with.

WQHD is a bullshit term, correct term is QHD.
And it still depends on whether he's playing max settings Cyberpunk or Minesweeper.
Also, we don't know if it's just gaming, could be other things too (streaming, media editing, AI training, etc)

[twin dew]

W in that means 16:9.

[flat grove]

The term doesnt matter since the point is the same. And ram im going off what he said. Cant really check australian prices atm.

[dire igloo]

QHD is by its very definition 16:9
You don't say WUHD or WFHD either

[twin dew]

Meaningless but often used at that specific one.

[dire igloo]

Aussie pricing, lots of stuff oos:
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#sort=price&ff=ddr5&Z=32768002&S=5600,9600&L=25,380

Cheapest kit:
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/product/XsqPxr/

[flat grove]

^

@dire igloo

As i said, i didnt check.

Wouldve mentioned 6000 afterwards but appearently it didnt matter

[dire igloo]

Do you know how he checked that and what filters he applied?
Because I don't, so I gave extra input on what to consider

The 6400 comment still stands btw, tho I do agree that price could create a conflict if the cheapest kit was 6400

[flat grove]

^

[flat grove]

He checked w pcpartpicker

Atleast the ui checks out

[flat grove]

^

[dire igloo]

That's what he used to make the list, yes.
But once again, we don't know what filters he applied to get to his conclusion

Because if he used the same filters as me, he would've found a RAM kit that's over $200 less expensive

[dire igloo]

Let's take a step back first.
When will you be buying the PC?
The market is changing so quickly that it's pretty much impossible to give value-driven advice on specific parts more than a few days in advance

[tall forum]

i am planning on buying the parts one at a time and plan to have it by april-june

june is my birthday so if i dont have some parts by then i can just get them for my bday

[tall forum]

please name it

[dire igloo]

See above

[tall forum]

i could also get second hand ram?

[dire igloo]

That is quite a bad idea.
While you can skip on some parts of the build, the vast majority of them will be lying around in your room until you have them all together to actually assemble the PC.
I'll find the copypasta for that and send it here

[dire igloo]

Sure, if it's compatible

[tall forum]

how come?

[dire igloo]

There are four reasons why buying parts from a list over time isn't recommended:

• List will become invalid over time and will need constant updating (stock changes, price changes) over the buy period
• New products release — by the time you're done buying over a period of x months or weeks, the earliest part you bought is now x months or weeks old, and there are likely better alternatives out there
• Return periods no longer intersect if you buy over a long enough period, meaning you have to deal with RMA if you have a part that arrives dead, since you can't test parts until you have most of your parts with you, or if you have testing equipment.
• Buying over time serves no purpose, since a PC doesn't function until you have all the parts with you
  Conclusion:
  You're better off creating and buying a list at the end of your would-be buy period all at once, which will undoubtedly be equal or better than the list bought over time

Usually that third point includes links to messages in the PCPP server when people encountered that exact issue

Tho that conclusion isn't as accurate anymore given the market shenanigans going on

[tall forum]

mostly the part i want to buy now is ram

[dire igloo]

If you have a good deal on the used market, go for it

[dire igloo]

Meanwhile people who bought their RAM before Q4/2025

[twin dew]

I did try to tell you to try with your mobile phone as hotspot.

As your home internet provider was mistakenly banned as VPN provider.

[twin dew]

Probably not about proxy, but about CG-NAT.
Which from outside looks like proxy or VPN server.

With CG-NAT, the WAN ip of your router isn't same as what the various "what is my ip" sites tell, and is usually in 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255 range.

It very probably would have helped.

"Why bother, our kludges on kludges still works"

Because they don't have enough.
Which is why they use CG-NAT in first place.

And because of whoever was the abuse protector for that Intel service wasn't aware that that IP belonged to CG-NAT router.

Same thing with the AMD game I got with my CPU.
First to AMD service with one key to get another key to be used at game makers software.

Yup.

Also just from logistics.
As you don't get specific games, you get to select.
(Also makes it easier AMD/Intel/Nvidia as they can just get charged for the actually gotten games based on those middle-site conversion numbers).

Also part of blocking that kind of key trade in theory, as for AMD, getting the next stage needed verification app run on computer with right HW installed.

With login to that rewards account.

[waxen pendant]

@hybrid patrol its a shame that the steam deck is essentially sold out in NA and restock is unlikely due to sourcing issues.

I dont need one by any means but its a great option for ppl

[hybrid patrol]

I had one and really enjoyed it

I think I'm sticking with my current hardware for awhile. I don't think new stuff is on the horizon lol

[waxen pendant]

My "mobile" gaming rig is a psp I only use in the bathroom

[visual tree]

@night girder If you get an update on your iphone, don't install it. Apple messed up again....

I installed the update and when I rebooted, my iPhone suddenly froze and somehow called my coworker....

Can't wait for my iPhone to break soon so I can get back to Android

Only had issues with iPhone so far

I had samsung galaxy s before iPhone but the second sim slot stopped working after 6 years

Funny how I had good experience with samsung except when they messed up the battery once with a bad update but they fixed it later

On the other hand, Apple doesn't fix anything after making a mistake, they only make things worse

[night girder]

Thanks for headsup.

not first time Apple bricks with update.

[visual tree]

And they say iPhone is more expensive because of premium quality and service 🤣

[pure karma]

How do you guys manage to find this shit

[visual tree]

I took my sister's spare iPhone for now because my old galaxy s broke

Never actually intended to switch to Apple

[pure karma]

must be the EU builds that are rushed only cause normal ios has nearly no issues

[night girder]

My carplay is still broken since i got this one last summer.
Refurbished iphone 12, so was a bit of a gamble. And it's just the wifi/bluetooth hardware being fucked up, 99% sure.

Carplay works. But it only works randomly. Or if I go into wifi on iphone and connect manually to my car.
Bluetooth works always, so when I get into the car, the bluetooth media player always starts playing music.

But carplay is like "nah".

I was thinking of getting USB carplay cable to fix it, on my todo list.

[visual tree]

I also have iPhone 12 (pro max version)

[night girder]

I think they fucked up on the refurbish.

[pure karma]

Carplay has nerver worked and iv never used it

[night girder]

When I first got the phone, I got warnings stating "water damage" when I started to charge it and I was like "wtf? I just took you out. There is no water nearby".

My hunch, the phone got waterdamage, they slapped in some new parts and sold it to me 😊

[pure karma]

and im on a 15

[visual tree]

I have a feeling Apple is doing this on purpose to make old iphone owners buy a new iphone

[pure karma]

Yea

Here we don’t even have roads

forget getting public transport

The woods are pretty tho

[visual tree]

Apple be like: "If planned obsolescence doesn't work for your iPhone, we will do a planned obsolescence with software updates"

[night girder]

I don't know. Either they gave up on it. Or it's because of the new bluetooth.

Or carhardware not comaptible with newer iphone hardware for bluetooth I don't know.

Carplay uses bluetooth and wifi at the same time.

Something is 100% wrong with my phone. But only paid 300 euros for it 😄

[pure karma]

It was actually only 2C when i took that pic

its been really hot recently

[visual tree]

Do you also hate the volume slider which doesn't let you mute media volume? On android, you have a volume slider for everything

[night girder]

I hate so many things about it.

But I rarely use my phone. It's just my MP3 player.

Or my boredom device. But besides that, mostly I don't know where the fuck me phone is.

[pure karma]

I don’t either tbh

[night girder]

It's such a gimmick ngl.

[visual tree]

I also hate the gestures to pull down notifications and settings

[pure karma]

i use it to check discord here and there and because i have to scan QR codes at school and thats it

[night girder]

I nuked discord from my phone.

[visual tree]

Notifications - pull down from the top. Settings - pull down from the top right corner

[night girder]

for obvious reasons. the last thing I need is more discord honestly.

all these weirdos sending me DM's.

"Hey bro, I need help with a construction" was the last one I got a week ago.

[pure karma]

Check out fluxer its open source

[night girder]

The username was "Stalker".

[pure karma]

closest alternative iv found

[night girder]

Also, how social is all this stuff?

Sometimes it feels we are all just yelling into a void. But nobody is listening to eachother.

Which is not the definition of social.

[visual tree]

I might nuke it on pc and phone if they ask me to scan my face

Or I will print an image of someone and try to trick discord

[pure karma]

Enough to stimulate my brain i suppose

[night girder]

This channel is fine for sure. And there are normal social places.

but mainstream internet? Reddit? Facebook? X?

[pure karma]

Those not really

[night girder]

Nah, I learned these tools are not the way to go for social interactions. like real human connection.

It's ok to learn. It's ok to debate. But that's about it.

[visual tree]

Move to Croatia. We go to caffee bar and sip coffee for 2 hours while talking to friends. The best human interaction

[night girder]

Only thing I miss discord on my phone, is so I can straight take pictures and share it 😛

[night girder]

I think it's a me problem too. I just live on the internet 😄

[pure karma]

I dont like yamyum (samsung) so it was either a S21 or iphone 15 if i wanted to buy local

Yamyum is my microslop for samsung lol

[visual tree]

We are never getting rid of the coffee culture here while I am alive!

It is our identity

[night girder]

Samsung is a interesting story.

theresahoang.substack.com/p/samsung-the-backbone-of-south-koreas

Also, the power of the company in the country. And importance.

Samsung’s relationship with the South Korean government has also drawn scrutiny. Critics have long argued that Samsung wields disproportionate influence, with some claiming the company is “above the law.”

So, just another Google/Microsoft/Apple ...

Either fairphone for me.

[pure karma]

I had no idea fairphone existed until you mentioned them last time

[night girder]

Or Phinephone pro.

[night girder]

Dutch company. They also started to ship to US.

[visual tree]

I think the problem with Samsung is that it has a huge impact on South Korean economy so the government treats it like a golden child

[night girder]

The switches are to disable hardware.

The pins is to connect a keyboard to the phone. Or a monitor.

Everything should be repairable. And Pine.

[visual tree]

Btw, read this recently https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/user-accidentally-gains-control-of-over-6-700-robot-vacuums-while-tinkering-with-their-own-device-to-enable-control-with-a-playstation-controller-security-flaw-reveals-floor-plans-and-live-video-feeds

[night girder]

and that for 350.00 € inc. VAT dafuq

[pure karma]

Thats way too good to exist around here

[visual tree]

Imagine buying one of the most expensive robot vacuum cleaners and this shit happens lol

[night girder]

This one is specific for EU.

350 euro is worth it just for the 32GB memory 😉

[pure karma]

Thats storage…

[night girder]

why dey put it under memory, blasphemy.

It started in California.

And it ended in Hong-Kong 🤣

The original Kickstarter page referred to Pine64 Inc. based in Delaware,[5] but all devices for the Kickstarter campaign were manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. based in Fremont, California.[6]

In January 2020, Pine Microsystems Inc. was dissolved,[7] while Pine Store Limited was incorporated on December 5, 2019, in Hong Kong.[8]

[twin dew]

I'm still on Jolla Sailfish.

But currently you cannot buy any new phone that would be supported by that OS.
Sony Xperia 10 V and Jolla C2 (with Reeder S19 Max Pro S hw) are both out of production.
And next Jolla device is in pre-order status.

[night girder]

sounds not FOSS

[twin dew]

Some is, Android app support and MS Exchange supports are behind paywall on those specific supported phones that the company directly supports.

[twin dew]

Various devices have community ports:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/community-hardware-adaptations/14081

[night girder]

this is what we need more.

[flat vault]

that case looks familar O_O

[half lynx]

What you mean

[flat vault]

I mean

It’s not too dissimilar

[half lynx]

Where you buy yours

[flat vault]

PC specialists

[half lynx]

I bought mine from best buy

It has a i5 14400k
A rtx 5060ti
32gb of ddr5
A 1tb ssd

[half lynx]

I stream as well

[bronze jasper]

Steam decks are temporarily discontinued due to memory and storage shortages. So the games journalists are saying anyways. I'm guessing Valve is just preparing for the frame launch.

[waxen pendant]

In NA the lowest ssd capacity one is completely discontinued

Honestly it was to small anyways

[bronze jasper]

i've got a 512 lcd model i'm thinking of selling. maybe now is a good time since they're harder to get

[bronze jasper]

i know a few people who bought those and upgraded the m2 inside

[waxen pendant]

Im not a mobile gamer. My switch gets no use.

So I just dont participate. But im glad its a thing

[waxen pendant]

Ya. Ifixit has all the official breakdown guides and replacement parts. Which is nice

And the fact its a off the shelf m.2 is nice

[bronze jasper]

i've never opened mine up. they use self tapping screws, so when you pull them out and put them back in, ther'es a little more flex to the housing.

i'm keeping it together as long as i can manage. I also got a 1tb oled and thats's what i use. the 512 is a spare and i've let friends use it when they're over. i've actually been trying ot sell it ot a friend since i got the oled but they are himinihaaawing about it still

[glossy glacier]

I bought a used 64GB LCD deck
It was open within 10min of me coming home to replace the eMMC/SSD

[tall forum]

@waxen pendant

do you have 4 cats?

[waxen pendant]

Had, they have all past

[glossy glacier]

also don't know where you got the idea of self tapping screws, but mine is basically the same after changing the ssd
the only thing of note is that the EMI shield is glued and now is a bit loose

[tall forum]

oh im sorry to hear that

[bronze jasper]

it means that when they make the plastic case, there's no threads in there. When the screws go in, they create the threads. It'll never be as tight as that fastening again if you remove them

[waxen pendant]

Cycle of life. I tend to have a soft spot for strays and the elderly

Ill likely go to the humane society when Im ready and adopt the cat thats been there the longest

Hurts everytime but they also bring much joy

[tribal kraken]

-18°C. The best weather for him to have extended morning nap right there with hes best toy

[dire igloo]

His best toy being the snow?
Valid

[tribal kraken]

That rubber thing on left. Anyone know what is it?

But yes snow works as well for play. Digging moles up

[dire igloo]

Either a garden lamp or a socket for mounting smth in the ground

Like one of these things, apparently they're called rotary airer in English

In German, it's "Wäschespinne", basically laundry spider

[dire igloo]

Either way, cute dog do slep, me want pet but not want wake

[tribal kraken]

It is a teat cup liner from a cow milking robot.

[dire igloo]

So its job is to suck but it doesn't suck which means it sucks

[tribal kraken]

Its durable rubber, takes a while for him to destroy

[night girder]

Oh right

[pure karma]

Vacuum end

[dire igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/well-yes-but-actually-no-meme-aardman-the-pirates-pirate-gif-26563702

[slow flint]

We call them a hills hoist here

[obtuse geyser]

Tech opinion needed.
I have two flatbed scanners - one modern canon lide 400, and one ancient canon lide 60.
The new one is for scanning analog photos (just havent had time to actualy do that) or lego instructions, and the old brick I keep for scanning paper/printed/old documents so the new one doesn't get dirty.
Is it worth keeping the old one though? I only scan dozen pages per year, maybe less, and have to keep a vm with win xp, because it doesnt have modern drivers.
Currently optimizing my storage space and trying to get rid of things.

[winged valley]

Not really worth it no

[night girder]

For the first time on PC, you’ll find **Pico **as an option in Upscale Settings. This “Progressive Image Compositor” is **developed by Guerrilla **for the Decima engine and is the same upscaling technology that’s used for Death Stranding 2 on PS5. Pico upscaling can be used with all supported graphics cards and can be combined with the various options for frame generation offered in the game.

Another upscaller!

[obtuse geyser]

Can we just render the video at 2x the res and downscale to skip the AA step?

[bronze jasper]

that's what super sampling is. it's a type of AA

DLSS is deep learned super sampling

[twin dew]

Basically taking the term for the best AA possible with horrible performance cost, and slapping it on opposite tech.

SSAA 8x was option in olden days.

[visual tree]

My work laptop is finally working properly. Had huge issues with freezing and network after migrating from Windows 10 to Windows 11. IT department did a clean install of Windows 11 and now everything runs smooth

[bronze jasper]

yeah i never used SSAA when it was around because i a budget pc gamer back in those days.

[visual tree]

Turns out migrating from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without clean installation is a nightmare because old drivers and settings from W10 will mess up everything....

[bronze jasper]

Yeah i never do microsoft upgrades. Going from 95 to 98 was the first time it fucked up. Every other upgrade has fucked up since. Clean install is always the ideal way to do it.

[night girder]

Can't wait for the benchmarks. And the pixel staring.

And also, why the hell did guerilla make their own upscaler.

it's a small dutch development company.

[visual tree]

Yeah. Unfortunatelly, corporations don't have time for clean installation so they just migrate from one version of windows to another and this can cause so many issues later

[night girder]

So they rather spend double the time then it seems?

Doing straight upgrade takes time from support.

[bronze jasper]

probably one or two people there were experimenting with it and figured out that theirs was actually marketable, and sold it to Kojima

[night girder]

Then x months later you come back. To do it again. So that's twice the work for support.

Sounds to me, clean install might actually safe them time down the road.

[visual tree]

It's laptop brand specific. Most will work fine after migration but some will have huge issues so they simply decide to migrate and do clean installation for specific laptops

[night girder]

Maybe. Just weird move.

[bronze jasper]

lol yeah make work games are common in office culture. do it the quick way to make more work later

[night girder]

Yeah, we had that slagon too.

"Job protection" we called it.

[bronze jasper]

lol

[visual tree]

Btw @bronze jasper, my calcific shoulders are almost gone after 5 weeks

First week was a nightmare

Not to mention I couldn't get proper sleep 😩

[bronze jasper]

that's so great. being unable to sleep is difficult to deal with. it adds up fast.

[visual tree]

Have a doctor visit next week for chronic sinus infection too. Once I get rid of that, I should be 100% healthy 😄

[bronze jasper]

rootin for you. it sucks that it sometimes takes so much energy to get a doctor to decide on a diagnosis. going to the doctor sucks when it feels like nothing is getting solved. it feels amazing though when you actually take care of ailments

here in canada i think doctors delay because the system is so overloaded that they have to do that.

[pure karma]

too busy doing check ups that lead to nothing

[bronze jasper]

i'm hoping, dreaming, that ai in healthcare will help with those kind of routine things. Do a little AI checkup that flags anything for a doctor to review

[visual tree]

Same thing here. There are not enough doctors and the system will collapse soon

Not to mention ageing population

[twin dew]

Here the trade union for medical doctors kept the yearly quota for new students way too low for 20+ years to protect the current doctors salaries.
Now lot of the old ones are aging out, and rest cannot keep up, and raising the quotas on short term to many multiples just isn't possible without tanking the quality.

[visual tree]

It's going to be a nightmare here. Number of employed people per a single retired person is only decreasing

[pure karma]

i mean thats essentially the same here

[visual tree]

Many people don't realize our generation will actually never retire

Work till you die....

[night girder]

that's retiring (from life).

[night girder]

What We're Changing Right Now

We heard you, and we want to get this right. So here's what's happening:

We’re delaying our global rollout to the second half of 2026. Where we have legal obligations, we will continue to meet them, but we will only expand globally after we've done the following:

https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing

[mental oriole]

uuugh

Good they're delaying but...

Age verification can still goto hell

[night girder]

It seems the goal is still the same.

Adding more verification options. We already had alternatives in development, including credit card verification. We’ll complete and expand those before scaling globally so you have more options you’re comfortable with.

I hope they add a questionnaire to decide your age or something stupid.

[mental oriole]

A drop down box saying I'm a 200 year old foxgirl.

Because fuck off any other kind of verificatoin

[night girder]

"Do you drink Alcohol?"
"Do you have a job?"
"Are you married?"

🤣

[mental oriole]

How aboyt you don't ned to know any about that.

[night girder]

If you're among the less than 10% of users who do need to verify, we'll give you options, designed to tell us only your age and never your identity. And if you choose not to verify, here’s exactly what happens: you keep your account, your servers, your friends list, your DMs, and voice chat. The only thing that changes is you won't be able to access age-restricted content or change certain default safety settings designed to protect teens. Nothing else about your Discord experience changes.

Also interesting piece of information.

Somebody says this is the real reason: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed

Researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification checks say they discovered an exposed frontend belonging to Persona, the identity-verification vendor used by Discord. It revealed a far more expansive surveillance and financial intelligence stack than a simple “teen safety” tool.
...
In those files, the researchers found details about the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users. Beyond checking their age, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks, runs facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screens “adverse media” across 14 categories (including terrorism and espionage), and assigns risk and similarity scores.

• February 20, 2026

[pure karma]

yea thats the true reasson behind all of this atleast for the US companies

im confused what the UK is looking to get out of it since that hasent leaked yet

[night girder]

According to The Rage, Discord has stated it will not continue to use Persona for age verification.

But yeah, damage is done in UK.

reportedly Persona was tested by Discord in the UK—will not install the level of trust needed for users to feel comfortable submitting to this kind of scrutiny.

[mental oriole]

I don't trust any of that bullshit

Once it's in they can much easier leverage it

"we're just adding this to improve the platform"

[night girder]

What don't you trust? The investigation?

"269 distinct verification checks, runs facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screens “adverse media” across 14 categories (including terrorism and espionage), and assigns risk and similarity scores."

[mental oriole]

This part will not install the level of trust needed for users to feel comfortable submitting to this kind of scrutiny.

[night girder]

That's what perssona was doing.

[mental oriole]

idk

[jagged snow]

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/uk-fines-reddit-for-not-checking-user-ages-aggressively-enough/

[night girder]

It was not just checking age. It was also checking a WHOLE lot more.

[night girder]

Oh yes, 100% PR bullshit.

[mental oriole]

It's all about control

[night girder]

Also Persona. Damn.

[mental oriole]

yup

[night girder]

So to me, it seems two forces are at work here.

Goverments pushing age restriction on online platforms. (But not directly asking for a full identification against 269 parameters)
Companies who can provide such services, age checks, using this opportunity to gather way more data.

[waxen pendant]

The biggest of which is in the case of discord is profit.

They want to collect all this data and sell it giving discord a higher financial value

The age checks they are putting into place does not meet EU standards. They generally don't live up to the scrutiny of verifying age either as everyone can use a photo of trump and pass.

I can rant about this forever.

[mental oriole]

Pretty much

[night girder]

when the stars align ...

[mental oriole]

I'll get foxgirl powers.

[tall forum]

anyone seen dark

[night girder]

German show right?

[tall forum]

i believe so

i watch dub tho

[night girder]

I've seen S1 and 2 I believe.

[tall forum]

what did you think?

[night girder]

Been a while, but from what I remember I liked it.

[tall forum]

im on season 1

[night girder]

Not again.

[mental oriole]

sigh...

[tall forum]

<@&387163995947270144> please help

thank you kind moderators

[mental oriole]

[night girder]

We need bot, that if it recognizes those four images.

Nuke that account.

[tall forum]

we have baine, cmddata and elcatto on our side

[night girder]

It's the same four images. So theoretically. You can automate

[orchid verge]

We have talked about this already

It’s direct attachment

So would be a bot that would need to download and parse and detect

We already block the “link” version

We can block in full by simply no longer allowing attachments

[tall forum]

hey baine i wanted to ask a mod this do you guys like to play this game or are you just here to mod the server?

[orchid verge]

But that impacts all you good people

[night girder]

First time I hear this explenation. Makes sense.

[orchid verge]

I like to play the game, not a lot of time to do so, but I do enjoy it.

And the mods server is working on a bot to help

[soft bloom]

Send to text reader (otc? Oct? Tetra something?)
If it contains crypto and beast or mask - ban

[night girder]

Discord focusing on age verification.
Meanwhile bots spamming scams in communities 🤣

[mental oriole]

The eternal struggle.

[tall forum]

are the accounts that send the images real because my friend sent me them but i could still hold a conversation with him and he acted normal but kept trying to make me do it

[mental oriole]

compromised accounts.

[night girder]

chatbots/ai/llm

[mental oriole]

At least that's most likely.

[night girder]

and like Kit stated, they use real accounts (compromised)

[mental oriole]

Now you can just feed the chat history into an llm and get "decent" output.

[tall forum]

but now i think he isnt hacked because he talks to me about normal stuff but when i ask him about getting hacked he says he never got hacked?

is he even the same person 😭

[mental oriole]

prompt injection.

[tall forum]

but we call on his account

and play games like satisfactory, minecraft, rocket league

[mental oriole]

Then he probably trolling you. Or is stupid enough to believe the scam thing is real.

[tall forum]

i think its the second option (he is 11 and was 10 when the scam thing happend)

also by the way incase anyone was thinking im weird for hanging out with kids im only 14 too 🙏

[last tide]

I have no clue what's mostly going on here. The best that I know about is how steam engines work. To the point I'm trying to create my own. Well, I can't because I'm still not old enough to do that nor do I have a job........... But I have ideas.

[pure karma]

not being old enough to do anything is the story of life these days

[last tide]

Yeah, you're, you're not wrong about that.

[visual tree]

"Are you married or happy?"

You can't have both

[pure karma]

none of the 3 just like it should be

[night girder]

then you probably a minor

[visual tree]

https://youtu.be/7Kil2t20t18

[pure karma]

yes but also only cause i work 3 months of the year lol

so technically still prossible

[mental oriole]

Im just a minor inconvenience

[tranquil helm]

i want to build pc but don't know if nvidia can work with amd cpu

[twin dew]

Yes, both speak PCIe.

[dire igloo]

It's a long standing urban myth that there is some form of manufacturer synergy between CPU and GPU.
In reality, you can basically pair any AMD or Intel desktop CPU with any AMD, Nvidia or Intel desktop GPU.

There are however still compatibility issues that arise elsewhere, usually from physical obstruction.
If the GPU is too long for the case or the motherboard's PCIe slot placement cause it to interfere with the CPU cooler, you'll have trouble building.
The solution is to use a part picking site that includes a compatibility checker, like https://pcpartpicker.com - and ideally, to have someone knowledgeable look over the parts list before purchasing (I'm sure the people here would be happy to, at least I know that I am)

[tranquil helm]

thanks

[wanton orchid]

CPU motherboard + GPU
power requirements vs PSU
can also be a limiting thing when upgrading

[dire igloo]

RAM also a factor with CPU/MB
CPU/GPU is moreso an optimization thing than a compatibility thing - you'd want the best for your usecase within your constraints (tho there are still potential compatibility shenanigans with those, albeit rare ones).

Other compatibility factors:
Case vs CPU cooler
Case vs fans
Case vs GPU
Case vs PSU
Case vs MB
RAM vs CPU cooler
Storage requirements vs drive slots

[visual tree]

Not bad tbh

Guess I can play on high settings with RTX 3060 ti and Ryzen 5 5600X on 1080p

[waxen pendant]

not bad at all. actual proformance yet to been seen though lol

My laptop meets and beats recommended specs of POE2 and it cant really play it

i gotta max DLSS and it is still not great. I just dont play it on my laptop

[night girder]

just use PICO

[visual tree]

You mean VR headset?

[night girder]

PICO

#off-topic-tech message

Upscaller for DS2 for PS5 ported to PC.

So we have Xess, FSR, Nvidia shit and PICO.

[visual tree]

Oh 😅

Never heard about it and thought you were talking about VR headset lol

[night girder]

I was talking about it yesterday 😊

[bronze jasper]

death stranding has had pico the whole time. the recent release was making it available to everyone

[night girder]

DS1?

[bronze jasper]

2, mb

[night girder]

So not the whole time.

But yes, it was on PS5. But since DS2 wasn't ported to PC.

Pico wasn't ported to PC. And now we get both 😄

Yay fake frames 🥳

[bronze jasper]

oh death stranding 2 hasn't been on pc since launch? didn't know

[night girder]

I think DS2 is on the way for PC 😄

[twin dew]

Sony delays various games PC releases by few years from PS versions.

[night girder]

I downloaded death stranding yesterday 🙈

[night girder]

How else is console going to compete with PC.

If they don't resort to exclusives or "don't release this game for x years on PC."

[bronze jasper]

they probably just paid for exclusivity. they're the only company doing that still

[night girder]

cough cough gears of war? cough cough xbox?

[bronze jasper]

i thought xbox games all release on windows at launch

[night girder]

I was looking up a game yesterday and it was still only for console. Damn forgot it's name.

well, I don't see original gears of wars on steam. Not sure.

[bronze jasper]

nintendo does exclusives but those are more first and second party titles. they don't pay other companies to release exclusively on switch afaik

[twin dew]

If owning the studios making the games in question can be said to be "paying for exclusivity".

[waxen pendant]

did you try the microsoft store?

[bronze jasper]

i said platform exclusives. steam is a store not a platform. the games on it run upon win32 platform

[night girder]

no, didn't.

[night girder]

when did it release?

[bronze jasper]

yeah i bought it there lol. at release

[night girder]

The game got released in 2006 on xbox 360.

[bronze jasper]

the "ultimate for windows 10" edition

i think it was one of their first big UWP games. honestly, UWP isn't such a bad platform. The only problem i had with it is it made modding difficult. But it also made cheating difficult

[night girder]

Ah demon souls!

You can't find that game for PC I believe. Atleast remaster.

[bronze jasper]

looks like it came out summer of 2015 on windows

[waxen pendant]

i got my ps3 version. im covered.

[night girder]

I gave me console away to my niece/nephew.

[bronze jasper]

microsoft used to do console exclusives certainly. I think they've moved away from it though in recent years.

[night girder]

the 3 consoles (ninentendo, sony playstation and mirosoft xbox) all did it in the early 2000 till 2020 more or less.

[waxen pendant]

tehy moved to "everything is a xbbox"

[bronze jasper]

bloodborn for pc i think doesn't exist either

[night girder]

nop

[waxen pendant]

not legally

[night girder]

But profit rules.

And once they see a game doesn't sell on console, but might sell again on PC.

They ship it to PC for more money 🤣

[waxen pendant]

A friend got a hate letter from his ISP for downloading a pirated pc version

[night girder]

oh wow.

your friend learned the value of a VPN? 😄

[bronze jasper]

i admit, i bought gta v for console and pc. then again for red dead redemption 2

[waxen pendant]

naw, he do he lol

[night girder]

I have Red Dead Redemption twice also. PC and PS4 😄

I don't mind. Good game. Gotta support the good stuff.

[bronze jasper]

yeah its a great game and the pc was a signficant enough upgrade

[waxen pendant]

also its a legal grey area in canada as it is format shifting if you have a legal version

[bronze jasper]

i was playing at 24fps on that game for tooo long

[night girder]

personally one of the best games made. Maybe on a story telling level mostly.

And the camp. And the music. And the social interactions.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a masterpiece.

[bronze jasper]

one of the greatest immersive simulators ever made imo

[waxen pendant]

i couldnt get into it

[night girder]

It's a really really good game I can't help it. I felt really involved with the characters, story, everything.

And they did things different than other games.

[waxen pendant]

same with Fallout 3 and on, the witcher 3. I think i just dont like action RPGs

[bronze jasper]

i can't help but do the camp chores. the ambience they create makes me feel compelled to contribute

i hate doing the camp chores , but someone has to do them

[night girder]

That's it. That's what the game does to you.

Some games just feel like super long movies.

were you are in control of the MC.

And I think those games always have a special place in my heart.

Not because they are fun to play, but also give me food for thought etc. And make me learn stuff (historical etc).

[pure karma]

Loosing customers any% speedrun

[bronze jasper]

Rockstar are masters at story telling. The stories are pretty generic really, but they tell them remarkably.

[night girder]

That's why I look forward to GTA 6. For the story.

[bronze jasper]

i want them to remake their old warriors game. I really loved that one. Suddenly made an ancient b movie into such a great game

[night girder]

I kinda epxeect the gameplay to be the same. No suprises there.

But I also heard some disturbing rumors around GTA6. (Bitcouns? NFTS? ...)

[waxen pendant]

here in canada almost all the infrastructure is owned by three companies one of which is west cost only(for infrastructure) in short it sucks

[night girder]

so my plan is.

[bronze jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0QKmFrAGo warrrrrioaarrrs. come out to plaaayaaayyy

[pure karma]

Let me guess it was rogers

[waxen pendant]

COME OUT AND PLAYYYAAAAAAAAAY

[night girder]

let other people stand on the rug for a few months. If the rug doesn't get pulled. I will buy GTA 6. If it's a rug pull, I wait for a sale or something 🤣

[pure karma]

bell dosent give a shit lmao

[night girder]

You gottta read BF6 reviews now.

[waxen pendant]

Virgin so Bell canada

[bronze jasper]

clink clink clink clink

[night girder]

At release everyone was praising BF6. now people say it's a rug pull haha idiots.

[pure karma]

Thats a mobile plan 💀

that i havr

[waxen pendant]

they do home internet too

[pure karma]

why tf

[bronze jasper]

happenes with battlefield everytime theres a release. tons of hype because people who play it are hyped. it comes out and the hype ends. all thats left is the gamer gaters who are pissed about women in battlefield games

[pure karma]

they cant even do 1mbps right why are they even bothering

[bronze jasper]

i'll never be able to take battlefield criticism seriously. everytime i look at what people are saying it's about the women characters having voice lines

[night girder]

everyone is pissed now 😛

[waxen pendant]

its all bell infrastructure. It doesnt matter if you go through bell or Virgin for internet. The same bell tech comes to your door

[night girder]

You kinda had to follow the trainwreck from the start. But I could see it comming honestly.

[bronze jasper]

it's probably a 1% rule thing. A small minority of people are "pissed" but it's manufactured controversy. Everyone enjoying the game isn't bitching on forums about it.

[pure karma]

my bell fiber works wonders and never goes down so im impressed virgin has issues if its simply a branch

[night girder]

Nah man.

I think you wrong on this one 🙂

The previous BF, yes it had some flack for females.

[bronze jasper]

wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule it's a rule. vocal minorities rule the social web

[night girder]

But no one is ranting agbout that. It's about DLC. Content and pricing.

They are just greedy and gamers not taking it.

[pure karma]

Its just another running simulator shooter no one wants

[night girder]

I haven't read a single comment shitting on woman in BF6.

[waxen pendant]

ya i use "virgin" fiber as that was the deal that was the lowest cost. Same experience as with bell. When i switched the bell guy came and replaced my modem..... with the same model modem lol

[bronze jasper]

it was the best battlefield launch theres ever been. fastest selling.

it seems like a minority of people are insisting that nobody wants it

[night girder]

But I know what you mean IceyCold though. I know what you mean. I saw those comments too.

BF1 I believe? The world war one? or two.

and it had females characters and that was a bridge too far for some.

And it was too colorful too for a wargame.

[bronze jasper]

battlefield 5 introduced women. battlefield 2042 kept the choice. and people are mad again about women being in battlefield 6

[night girder]

Started off good, but the seasonal updates are terrible. Little content drip fed for three months.
1000 devs, and this is all they can offer?

[bronze jasper]

were women characters in bf1? i forget. i loved that one. its unique because everything is low tech and slower

[night girder]

nah, I'll stop being polite finally and say what it is truly
It was 2025. With the amount of available research, and technology there's no excuse for a big especially experienced corpo to release the game with so many unpolished and forgotten, but yet important aspects.
I played beta, and I was hyped.. It's still feels like a beta sometimes.

[waxen pendant]

yes because its the 1800's and they are property. they should follow you and shoot on command. not be a playable choice

[night girder]

I know people were arguing "But there were not as many female soldiers in WW1 or WW2 as in the game" blablabla

[bronze jasper]

sample size of 2?

[night girder]

I can't post all the negative steam reviews 😉

but most are just about content. Not females.

[bronze jasper]

doesn't seem like everyone to me. everytime i dig deep into it, it seems mostly like a small minority of players that want to shout loudly

[bronze jasper]

right. but angry people are often not honest. when you get these people 1on1 and press them, guess what comes out of their mouths?

doesn't seem like everyone is pissed. you can cherry pick negative reviews from any game really

[night girder]

Yeah, this one. But that's world war 2 right?

[bronze jasper]

though, i will say, i do hate the "seasons" business model that has shown up

all competitive games are doing that one though

even beyond competitive like diablo

[night girder]

man what?

[waxen pendant]

diablo 2 even lol

[night girder]

Who's cherry picking? 😕

[bronze jasper]

no battlefield v is modern conflict. in the future a little i think

[night girder]

that's just a screenshot straight from the steam page, without filters.

Mixed for both All reviews and recent.

Does it show different reviews based on continents?

[bronze jasper]

maybe it's your country? i'm seeing only 135k steam reviews on mine

i've kinda never trusted steam reviews anyways. it's like trusting the magazine you get at movie theaters to tell you an honest review about the movie they're selling you. i don't think a store should be facilitating consumer reviews. there's a conflict of interest

[night girder]

Wow! 😮

That's interesting.

[bronze jasper]

steam is an algorithmic content machine. don't trust it to be honest

[night girder]

I do. But I think your side is filtering something.

Or mine isn't filtering something out.

[bronze jasper]

you shouldn't lol. they're not that ethical. while okay, steam makes lots of choices i'm cheering on all the time, they're also a business that wants your money. not a friend.

[waxen pendant]

mine as a third party

[night girder]

I trust the masses.

More than I trust gatekeeper reviewers who are one person.

[bronze jasper]

i like what epic is doing tbh. they link to opencritic, an open review platform that isn't run by any profit interests

[waxen pendant]

@night girder what country? Maybe its region based. Icey and eye are on the oppesite coasts of canada

[night girder]

Left client. Right website. Something is getting filtered.

[bronze jasper]

mines from my client

[night girder]

I got more reviews than both of you.

250k on steam client. 100k from website.

So I think steam is automatically enabling some filter. That I turned off in the client side.

[bronze jasper]

its "all languages" is where the larger number comes from

[waxen pendant]

thats more again

135425 vs 258776 vs 321728

[night girder]

I am not going to say it's a perfect method. But I remember ages ago, I read IGN reviews. Man ... 🤯

[bronze jasper]

all languages and only steam purchases comes to the right 258k

[night girder]

So now I use a mix of review methods.
I check steam reviews. I check some youtube gameplay videos to see if it's my thing.

and on that information, I make my own descision still 😄

[bronze jasper]

i remember gamestop, did a thing for kane & lynch 2. then they fired jeff gertman cause he reviewed the game like, 6/10 while they had full page advertisements for it

[waxen pendant]

my big question as of late is "is this a scam or malware" before buying not reviews lol

[bronze jasper]

but gertman was never outraged. he never contested his firing and went to work for them again later

[night girder]

Nioh 3 for example had good reviews. But once I saw the graphics and price tag I tapped out.

It's still on my radar. But for a sale or something 😛

[waxen pendant]

I was PISSED when i bought borderlands one at gamestop and in the cd case was a piece of papper with a steam code

[night girder]

Same for Stalker 2. Read reviews. And it wasn't looking good. But I just postpone.

And it's hard for a reviewer to make a review objective. So I am more a fan of the global consencus of reviewers, aka steam reviews, metacritic, rottentomatoes, ...

while not perfect. Better than single reviewers (who I view sometimes as gatekeepers).

[waxen pendant]

holy shit my steam account is 17 years old.

thiey should stop asking me to age check next year

[pure karma]

Il check mine

[bronze jasper]

yeah. i remember those days when physical pc games were being thrown aside for steam codes. i was pissed when valve and bethesda colluded to make skyrim steam exclusive. all copies were steam keys. it was a bitch because back then steam forced updates all the time, which was hard for modding. so you had to crack your copy of skyrim in the older days.

[night girder]

Apple announced they started to work on updated their age verifcation tools

Today we’re providing an update on the tools available for developers to meet their age assurance obligations under upcoming U.S. and regional laws, including in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Updates to the Declared Age Range API are now available in beta for testing.

[bronze jasper]

i find the outrage over age verification laws funny. because all these companies that take payments are all required to know your real identity anyways. "Know your customer" laws means they must verify who you are and what country you're in. The moment their system flags any account that they don't have accurate information on, they ask for government id and a paystub or bill with your address.

I learned about that when Valve froze my account until i did that

[pure karma]

steam must be country based

since all 3 of us canadians have the same reviews lol

[night girder]

Still weird, my country is smaller. 🤣

[bronze jasper]

if it was about spying on eveyrone's identities, they would've just made a law that said that

[night girder]

Like, a village to Canada.

[pure karma]

i wouldent be surprised if less people are reviewing stuff

reviewing things isent really a culture thing here

its just not something we do

[night girder]

Yeah I start to notice that.

[languid gulch]

are there any full fat ATX mobo open-air fancy cases similar to this one?

[waxen pendant]

i googled Wall mounted open air case and i can see many options.

now whether open air case is a good idea is another questions entirely

[languid gulch]

low dust, low humidity environment, otherwise similar risks of flinging a drink on it or something

[pure karma]

seems unstable af

i feel like that would 1000% fall over

[waxen pendant]

do you have stable Temperature control?

[languid gulch]

360 AIO

and yes, HVAC

[waxen pendant]

i ment in the roopm it is in.

[bronze jasper]

depends on your environment. Where i live in pacific north west it would do better since dust isn't crazy here and the air is good for deep cooling. full of that humidity

[pure karma]

my room has terible temp stability

ranges from 18-30C

[languid gulch]

would be right near the air return

[waxen pendant]

same 10-30's C here it cost me mor3e to put my ac inm the window

[bronze jasper]

dry air is actually a good insultator and is why convection is important. which might require a good case for positive pressure design

[waxen pendant]

i piece of acrylic can go far lol

[languid gulch]

was more thinking desktop, not the LTT humble PC

[bronze jasper]

so much dithering

[waxen pendant]

ive put a micro pc in a kettle lol

[languid gulch]

lol yea, only way to get it small enough for the full gif

at least without Nitro

[bronze jasper]

its a neat effect with the dust cloud

[languid gulch]

not paying to be able to post more than 30mb images

[bronze jasper]

there's always animated webp's

[languid gulch]

i HATE webp

[bronze jasper]

lol i know everyone does

discord embeds them all shittily too if i recall

[languid gulch]

it never autoplays like a gif

[pure karma]

ohh yea gifs get like 144P resolution and thats it

[languid gulch]

you can do higher res but short duration

[bronze jasper]

that's a webp i found

[languid gulch]

huh

i wonder if they actually fixed/changed it

[pure karma]

they made it better at one point

but its still only OK at best

[bronze jasper]

maybe. png used to suck too before browsers started implementing them right

[pure karma]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1247289404071088246/1254274414929776711/Untitled_video_-_Made_with_Clipchamp_2.gif

like i turned a clip into a gif a year ago or so and it gave this

acceptable but 480P at most

[bronze jasper]

little bit of mp4 compression on that one i guess. better than gif still

[languid gulch]

22mb gif 🤣

i have a 90mb one

[bronze jasper]

high quality gifs are peak

[languid gulch]

omg it's letting me load it

[pure karma]

thats more than most my 20+ second clips

i can fit 30 seconds in less than 10MB when im desperate but having a gif be 9x that is wild

[bronze jasper]

billy maddison is amazing

[pure karma]

took a few seconds to even start playing lol

[languid gulch]

such a classic 90s movie

23mb of me in SF rn:

[waxen pendant]

is he shooting screws>/

[languid gulch]

🤣

OMG that'd be brilliant for a SF gatling gun

[bronze jasper]

predator is peak 90s too

[languid gulch]

i thought it was 80s

[bronze jasper]

probably. i saw it in 90s

[languid gulch]

yup, 1st one was '87

[bronze jasper]

movies lasted longer back then i feel

[languid gulch]

which means it's almost 40 years old now

shit. now i feel old

[bronze jasper]

the new ones are dumb imo. too much blending it with the gong show that is alien lore

[languid gulch]

lol yup

[bronze jasper]

i never liked other aliens movies. only James Cameron's. The first is really great but it's a slog. The rest are popcorn imo

prometheus was a big wtf

i woulda said 3 was the worst one until prometheus happened

it should've died after resurection. I dont know how the franchise survives tbh.

though.. i kinda liked alien earth

[pure karma]

https://tenor.com/view/betty-white-cheers-salute-shots-drinking-gif-2213666948687721228

dont worry you are old

the sooner you embrace it the better

[waxen pendant]

one of the golden girls was 41....

[waxen pendant]

betty white was on the show golden girls a sitcom about 3 old ladies.

The youngest was only 41

so if you are in your 40's you old

Me <---old

[pure karma]

im half way there almost in that case lol

[languid gulch]

this guy was 35 in season 1

[pure karma]

nah for me i consider 50+ old since thats when you see people start deteriorating mentally

[waxen pendant]

im 41 and i look half his age lol

[languid gulch]

ikr

[bronze jasper]

they all seem so old in that show, now i'm older than all them

that's myf avorite filmed in front of a live audience show btw

[languid gulch]

i keep telling my parents how good they look for their age, because it's fuckin true

[sharp matrix]

Im practically there, im old now

[sharp matrix]

Wtf im older and he still looks older than me, what is this

[bronze jasper]

i think people aged more in the past too, on account of all the toxic shit from early industrialization processes. Also, smoking was SO rad.

[sharp matrix]

But im commonly told i look young for my age to

[waxen pendant]

absolutely.

[waxen pendant]

by ppl who look at cheers and sees a 35 y/o look 60 lol

[pure karma]

people went outside and got beat up more lol

[languid gulch]

the first Doctor, on the first episode, was FIFTY

[bronze jasper]

no doctor who is an immortal time lord acshually

[sharp matrix]

Yeah maybe, i definitely dont look nowhere near this old and im almost 40

[waxen pendant]

well that is just a madman in a box .he dont count

[sharp matrix]

But i look like im in my 20s, maybe i shouldnt complain

[bronze jasper]

i'm 43 and still get mistaken for a teen if i shave

[languid gulch]

can you imagine going back in time looking like you do now, people would probably hang all of us for being witches if we could prove our age 🤣

[waxen pendant]

same i lead groups of temps. When i clean shave they think im 20.

[pure karma]

yall are all so much older than i tought bro holy

its really just me and fireworker thats less than 30 in here left

[languid gulch]

i will say i'm below 40

[bronze jasper]

i dont act my age if that helps

[languid gulch]

same

not about to use a term like rizz tho, fuck that

[pure karma]

i dont either but im not even in my 20's yet

[waxen pendant]

I have imposter syndrone and pretend to adult lol

[bronze jasper]

i've tried using rizz in conversation. it felt strange and weird

[waxen pendant]

https://i.imgur.com/IMmnmFJ.mp4

just bringings something positive here lol

[sharp matrix]

I think thats part if my problem to, im always shaven and people think im in my early 20s or something, heck i still get carded if i go to a bar to

[bronze jasper]

also, my profile pic is a red herring. i rarely watch anime and don't know the name of this guy. i know he's from my hero academia, but i've never watched it cause i don't like highschool animes. I only picked it because he has awesome jets for legs and that's cool.

since people make assumptions about who i am because of it, i've just kept it forever

[waxen pendant]

im in my 40s and i get carded too

[languid gulch]

lol

i started going grey the second i hit 20, so i don't think i've ever been carded

[waxen pendant]

that would do it

[pure karma]

my pfp is something i drew in 15 seconds on a random day

[languid gulch]

i regularly cycle mine across various dumb shit i find on the internet

[waxen pendant]

mine is my ffxivg character drawn by a friend. Its not in the style i draw but i love it

[sharp matrix]

I would just say im 20 and make it believable🤣

[pure karma]

cyberpunk screenshot i took a few days ago for further moral support

[waxen pendant]

nothing says inspiration like the future dystopia mega corps want

[pure karma]

gotta accept reality when you have no control 🤷‍♂️

[languid gulch]

where are my cybernetic implants

[pure karma]

i work for $7.15 an hour 3 months of the year lmao

[bronze jasper]

harry potter is just a rip off of starwars formula

[pure karma]

idk go ask vik

you got debt to pay to him anyway

[languid gulch]

ok i do have the option of getting one if i really wanted to, but apparently they like to deep fry you

[waxen pendant]

which is just the standard mythology arc.

[bronze jasper]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2470010/DEFECT/ this new cyberpunk game from old id software devs that left the studio and rallied up with mick gordon. looks so fucking hard.

Steam

DEFECT

REVEL IN THE ANARCHY OF A CITY ON THE BRINK

DEFECT is a cyberpunk, SWAT sim set in the last city of mankind, where THE SYSTEM, an authoritarian AI, rules with inhuman logic. Choose from a collection of dangerous factions—The System’s own policing force, Rogue Police Elements, or a host of gangs vying for power—Play in Single-player for a…

Release Date

To be announced

[sharp matrix]

Funny enough i also look really young in my pics to, want to see some

[pure karma]

i think i could pass off as over 20 but not by much lol

[languid gulch]

i intentionally try not to get personal on social media, but i'm not gonna stop you

[sharp matrix]

And it gets really fun because i always look young in my pics lol

[sharp matrix]

Yeah i know, but its not like people are going to stalk me, im a boring person that isnt worth stalking anyways

Not like im a celebrity or anything

[pure karma]

yea same

like i don't intentionally show my face but if it leaks what do i give a shit lmao

[bronze jasper]

i'm so mad at hugo martin and marty stratton, the way they chucked mick gordon under the bus after they were't paying him for his work. I haven't even watched a trailer for doom dark ages. i'm so not interested in id games anymore. Those two are toxic.

[waxen pendant]

i do, im hideous! I want to inflict maximum mental anguish

[waxen pendant]

a feeling well placed

[bronze jasper]

i didn't even get the dlc to doom eternal. i love the doom series so much but after the business end of id software fucked over the legend Mick, i'm done with it.

maybe it can be resurected by people who are deserving of the Doom franchise, but marty and hugo are not

[sharp matrix]

Fuck and you know whats worse i bought the game before i learned about this

[bronze jasper]

forgiven. Doom is awesome.

[sharp matrix]

And when i played it i wondered what happened to the soundtrack, now im pissed

[waxen pendant]

i still play q3 arena

[bronze jasper]

is the soundtrack not as great in the dark ages?

[sharp matrix]

I its sad because i loved doom eternal to and bought it

[bronze jasper]

maybe Carmack and Romero will get the band back together and return for a new doom

[bronze jasper]

Ohhhh the DLC. Yeah.

[waxen pendant]

that would be something

I saw american mcgees alice has turned up in the spotlight for some reason

[sharp matrix]

But man what id software is doing, wtf they are slowly ruining such a great franchise

[bronze jasper]

Microsoft owns them now but i think they're giving hugo and marty toooooo much autonomy. They should fire those guys. They're the thorn in the product

They had Mick Gordon loving working with them, and then they tried to not pay him for his work because of some beurocratic shit.

[waxen pendant]

im sure itll happen Microsoft wants xbox and all related gaming studios achieve 30% of increased revenue year over year

[sharp matrix]

Microsoft is clearly delusional at this point....

[pure karma]

microslop*

[languid gulch]

i think we should call it all slaip

completely new term

[bronze jasper]

i mean... for all the hate that MS catches... they're a big part of why PC gaming is such a viable platform.

[waxen pendant]

oh absoluteley. They are in late stage capitalism. Maximum profit is the only option

[pure karma]

only cause there the only option that suports everything

thing keeping me away from linux is video production ironically enough

[bronze jasper]

not really. they invested a lot to make sure that support was there. Linux really wasn't a viable gaming platform until Valve started investing into it, which was a long time later

[pure karma]

i like doing it enough that its not worth swapping to inferior software over it and OBS barely works on linux

[waxen pendant]

im on linux mint right now lol

[bronze jasper]

before that, gaming on linux was limited to shit like opentux

[languid gulch]

i wouldn't mind linux if i knew wtf i was doing with it

[bronze jasper]

just dive in the same way you did when you didn't know windows. it'll stick sooner than later

[waxen pendant]

its pretty easy to navigate these days. But still requires some user learning

[pure karma]

i liked bazzite but wouldent daily it unless it had a better default screenshot tool and support for stuff outside of gaming

[waxen pendant]

you can run it on a thumb drive and not install. this allows you to preview builds and learn before you pull the trigger.

in my case i did this until i found a build that seemed to meet my needs then installed it on a Sata drive i had laying around

[bronze jasper]

if you want all the gaming bloat, garuda linux

[languid gulch]

is there an idiotproof "this is as close to windows without breaching copyright as you can get" version?

[oblique hamlet]

i liked manjaro kde edition

[sharp matrix]

Sure am looking forward to watching this plan fail, ms deserves it

[pure karma]

bazzite was good outside of corupting on me in therms of idiot proof

[waxen pendant]

im sure it will result in studiop closures

[bronze jasper]

github.com/reactos/reactos

[pure karma]

ubuntu was a challenge since it has no documentation for shit

[bronze jasper]

garuda basically is manjaro with lotsa bloat on top, iirc

[waxen pendant]

i started on ubuntu Backtracks a lifetime ago to steal internet from a neighbour

[bronze jasper]

this isn't linux btw, but it's open source windows 😄

[oblique hamlet]

you cant be wasting performance imo. you need that for stasifactory

[bronze jasper]

unallocated memory is wasted memory. leave it to the kernel to manage.

besides, all the "bloat" is stuff like screen recording, overclocking tools, screenshots, shit that gamers want

[sharp matrix]

MS is probably working in its AAAA title, because that worked out so will for Ubisoft cough skull and bones cough

[bronze jasper]

also, i say this as i am sitting on 64gb

[languid gulch]

dumb question: can you load something like legit Office365 onto linux

[oblique hamlet]

i got 32 gigs right now and usually have swap of about 12-20

[pure karma]

yea causei ts browser based

anything browser works

[languid gulch]

oh. i do the local office365 apps

[waxen pendant]

i got 128. i dont think about ram

[pure karma]

those dont exist and you wouldent be able to buy them anyway

you can get a web emulator app to run em as there own app if i recall but its still just a buggy browser version at the end of the day

[languid gulch]

ah

[bronze jasper]

you can still buy stand alone office

[languid gulch]

lol maybe i should break out all my old office 2003 CDs

[oblique hamlet]

if you don't need microsoft office libreoffice has worked fine for me

[sharp matrix]

Adobe products though

[pure karma]

you can but it costs money lol

[pure karma]

il stick to notepad

[sharp matrix]

Just use adobe and truly own nothing and be happy

[bronze jasper]

always remember. People lie about microsoft all the time. It farms great views and microsoft has a habit of not denying false claims

[waxen pendant]

which they SHOVED CO PILOT IN MFERS

[pure karma]

yea but its microsoft what did you expect

[waxen pendant]

good thing i still have noptepad++

[pure karma]

its in Visual studio code too

[oblique hamlet]

good thing i use vim

[pure karma]

copilot is in everything microsoft could put it in

[bronze jasper]

only because you forgot how to quit vim and are stuck in it forever

[sharp matrix]

Microslop has arrived

[oblique hamlet]

:qa!

[waxen pendant]

anyone wana see a NOPE! farm?

[sharp matrix]

Did i tell you i go out of my way to uninstall anything related to copilot

[bronze jasper]

back when i did more tech work and a lot of php hardening stuff, i used vim and caught harsh tendonitis from it. It has the worst UX

[pure karma]

i did too at one point but it keeps reinstalling so i just dont use it

[waxen pendant]

i still remove it when it makes my computer hicup

[bronze jasper]

isn't copilot just an edge window that opens to the webpage? how would that make your computer glitch?

[oblique hamlet]

once you get used to it after a couple months it becomes really easy, to the point that i accidentally used vim keys in vscode

[bronze jasper]

there's copilot+ stuff that microsoft has in windows, but that only runs if you have a copilot+ chip in a laptop that features it

the regular copilot that everyone gets for free is just an edge window

which is just chromium

[waxen pendant]

honestly IDK But last weeks update gave me lots of issue my go to is disabling and removing copilot which made my internet lag spikes disappear

im still ahve other issues that i havent solved

[pure karma]

copilot is always running in the background so yea it waste shit constantly

[bronze jasper]

lol no thats not how it works though. it's a web service

[sharp matrix]

More proof that its a virus

[waxen pendant]

every few updates co pilot returns here

[sharp matrix]

Damn

[pure karma]

it dosent follow startup instructions

[bronze jasper]

i honestly dont understand how people get here. mine is just next to the start bar. if it's running in your taskbar like that, its just a container to a webservice. not really lag inducing.

[pure karma]

it just runs with no fucks given

[bronze jasper]

i've never seen it in the taskbar once

it's literally a webservice. if it's running, that's just a webpage container

how do panicky people not understand this? the year of the linux desktop is doomed to never happen

[waxen pendant]

im guessing my current issues are wide spread as i am having many in windos since last weeks forced up date.

My pc sometimes turns off fo no reason at all. Just quits. all screens go black my audio stops and i have to hard reset.

explorer takes forever to search for things

clipstudio and my drawintg tablet dont function as intended

hence the linux on the other drive

[bronze jasper]

i'm having some of those issues myself. i'm suspecting either my power supply, or my wall socket

[pure karma]

black screen is a nvidia driver coruption issue but i have it too so idk wtf is causing it

[oblique hamlet]

what distro?

[waxen pendant]

testing mint atm

[sharp matrix]

More proof it should be treated as a virus

[bronze jasper]

my monitor is doing a thing too where it gets flickering horizontal lines in the corner. and then they disappear. Sometimes if i wiggle the power cable. sometimes all on their own.

so i'm thinking the power supply here sucks. good thingi'm moving in the spring/summer

[pure karma]

5000 errors most of which are internal windows issues

[waxen pendant]

a ups can help with that in the mean time if it is power

[night girder]

random or when starting up the monitor?

[sharp matrix]

Time to get that linux drive ready

[pure karma]

i just bought a 2TB one too

sadly its going in my secondary pc lol

might put bazzite on it again lol

but i wouldent use it so it would be a waste

if swapping operating systems dident require a full reboot id just dual boot but yea

the dream would be operating systems being able to quickswap

[bronze jasper]

you can run linux with windows inside of it, and using vfio features you can pass the gpu hardware address directly into the vm so windows thinks it has a native gpu instead of a virtualized one

or if you have nvidia you can do that in reverse, boot into windows and run linux with gpu access

[pure karma]

you can but thats a lot of work

[bronze jasper]

just to set up

[pure karma]

and would lead to a lot of file location problems

[sharp matrix]

And risk giving copilot a home in linux, oh no

[bronze jasper]

copilot is just a webservice... i keep saying it but it like its falling on def ears

[pure karma]

i really want linux on my laptop but the kernal isent having any of it 😭

[bronze jasper]

copilot+ is the stuff that runs on native hardware

[pure karma]

its still a waste of sand

[bronze jasper]

btw to stop copilot from autostarting, just go to task man startup apps tab and prevent it from auto starting. we used to have to use msconfig for that, but microsoft moved it to the task manager. And people still ignore it

[sharp matrix]

https://youtu.be/3n0_UcBxnpk?si=EDMvUB1hHdQWlf6d

Like this to?

[bronze jasper]

needlessly dramatic. Par for the course for GN

[waxen pendant]

steve is a bit of a drama queen lol

[sharp matrix]

https://youtu.be/caU0RG0mNHg?si=87Lf7RIxeaUzW7KL

Or maybe this?

[pure karma]

#off-topic-tech message

[pure karma]

<@&387163995947270144>

i dont get why the spam is only in this channel lol

all the others are always squeaky clean

[sharp matrix]

Ahh this again...sigh

[sharp matrix]

#fan-art message actually heres one more

[oblique hamlet]

the spammers probably think the people who use this channel are all mega ai/crypto bros who vibe code whole programs daily and make money off of the blockchain and debate which llms are the best.

when does all the ai bs end again? hopefully soon.

[sharp matrix]

Pray for the ai slop to end soon

Well obviously chatgpt is going to die for starters first, that much is a given, question i have really is what happens after that

[oblique hamlet]

I think it will mess up the circular investing and start pulling the economy down

[waxen pendant]

my immediate response violates Both CSS community rules as well as Discords.

anyone check out TEchnology connections video on Solar

[sage pier]

Mostly a question for baldur, but does anyone know a good book/resource to understand how network infostructure works?

[sharp matrix]

It will mess that up, but as far pulling the economy down, sure it will impact nvidia stock that is btw massively overvalued, seriously worth 4.5T, get back to reality please

Anyways, idk how much it will impact the economy overall, ai even product wise is still niche, most of the economy would easily exist without it, and also ai products themselves at least in mission accurate work have proven to be a disaster in reliability, with more and more companies infact switching back to humanies after realizing just how error prone ai models infact are

[lyric wagon]

Oh I was doing some thinking today, if we're going to put a stop to climate change, cryptocurrency MUST GO!

[quasi citrus]

how relvant is crypto power consumption even in comparison to AI power consumption?

[languid gulch]

my controversial take is that i'm not against crypto or AI. i'm against how they're being done right now

[dire igloo]

Lacks some nuance, but I agree with this take

[wanton orchid]

there is no good AI
because AI is a buzz word
the "good" AI existed before the AI bubble shit
and is not called like that nor is it so much pushed forward
AI is basically a gigantic scam machine, optimised for scamming at great speed

[dire igloo]

So your main issue with AI isn't with the AI-labeled products themselves, it's with the fact that they are called AI in the first place?

[wanton orchid]

no I said basically that "good AI" is Not labeled AI

So you can remove all the AI
and you will still get "the better of it"

[dire igloo]

As in: hard-coded automation beats AI automation?

I don't really understand what kind of point your making - either that or I fail to follow your logic

[dire igloo]

If we apply Boolean logic to this statement, doesn't this mean that anything labeled as AI is definitely not considered good AI?

[bold tapir]

Can i get more factory frames using Lossless scaling app?

[waxen pendant]

Well it isn't AI its LLMs and such.

But naming aside id have less issues with it if it didn't feel like the people pushing it are 80s morning cartoon villains pumping waste into the marsh for laughs.

It uses a lot of resources on a large scale for no notable gain.

Keeping it small scale until it is a proven method with a proven use. AND when all this resource is used for the greater good. Atm it feel like yhe best case scenario we get a cyberpunk dystopia. Worst case it is a bubble and we see the greatest economic crash in history

[dire igloo]

Which would lead to a different kind of dystopia

[waxen pendant]

Aging myself here

I'm nit saying no good can come from it.

The internet we have today was payed for in the dot com bubble where they laid all the infrastructure that the internet we now have is based on.

But I was also around when that bubble crashed. It was horrible. And the current money and resources being pumped into this current bubble makes the .com bubble look like nothing.

[soft bloom]

was veritasium video already discussed here?

[twin dew]

Seems the be pretty click-baity channel with not lot actual real content, in general.

Click-bait alarmism channel.

Masquerading as science channel.

[dire igloo]

I used to respect Veritasium for his informative videos, but sadly the size of his channel has caused him to increase algorithm exploitation

The ramanujan video was more or less the only one I watched in the last months

[soft bloom]

well I guess then security of and trust to open source software is not important

[twin dew]

So the almost hour video about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

With the title making it seem like sky almost fell and civilization ended.

[soft bloom]

disaster
and wiki practically doesn't talk about any threat originating from this.
2 very different ways to tell the story

[twin dew]

And that is my point, that channel to me seems to be today all about crying the wolf about everything, making everything seem like giant world ending threat with hugely overlong videos with barely any content.

[soft bloom]

ssh.com/blog/a-recap-of-the-openssh-and-xz-liblzma-incident#how-dangerous

How dangerous is the liblzma?

Ubuntu 24.04LTS was a month away from being shipped with this backdoor, with other distros being on the same boat. Maybe the best way to describe it is this: had it gone undetected, Linux servers would have been running with a bomb waiting to be activated remotely. CVE-2024-3094 is a digital sleeper agent waiting for someone out there to pull the trigger when the time is right, potentially causing one of the most devastating acts of cyberterrorism ever.
to quote ssh itself

[twin dew]

Yes, and we can talk about the issue, without referencing click-bait video about the issue.

Trying to infiltrate open source projects does happen with regularity.
And in cases has made to production too.

That isn't in any way unique case.