off-topic-tech

[pure karma]

i trust a 4 segment battery to be fine one cell down but a 3 cell not as much

[soft bloom]

is it normal for windows go haywire and eat all possible system disk (ssd) usage?

[echo elk]

It can happen. Windows does Windows things

[twin dew]

Windows updates or something similar happening.

Windows Modules Installer Worker.
Handles installing OS updates, OS features etc.

And the Patch Tuesday was last night.
So it was installing the latest updates that were just launched.

[soft bloom]

meanwhile, Ubuntu silently does updates and I can just thank it...

[weary saffron]

Yo is there anything I can do to the health bar to not cause burn in on my screen?

[twin dew]

For games that don't allow selecting when HUD elements are shown, possibly mods, or getting anything other than OLED display.

[slow flint]

From what I've seen you don't really need to worry with most modern OLED displays

[twin dew]

They just hide it better until they run out of brightness headroom.

[mental oriole]

Just don't max out brightness

Makes it last way longer.

[twin dew]

What modern OLEDs do, is track each individual subpixels usage, and have in-built model on how they degrade from that usage, compensating for the dimming by making same input drive the more worn OLED subpixels higher, so that the visible brightness is the same for same input.

Until the max brightness is reached and it has to dim less worn subpixels instead.

But as Diluted said, the brightness and pixel temperature have major non-linear impact on that wear rate.

[rocky sleet]

is C just C++--

[mental oriole]

[twin dew]

C++ is D?

[sharp matrix]

C++-- = *&C

[night girder]

I found something new. A trend.

I got a website with games. Pure games. And they have a F.A.Q.

In those F.a.Q. are the most random things.

THis question is "Do you have school compulsory education if you are 16"

And then you get this AI generated bullshit underneath it.

This question is "Can you bend wood".

So they have all these random questions and answers, just in the hope they get higher in SEO, and get more trafick on their website.

Anmd that format of "Bold question" -> answer and ⚠️ I see a lot on different websites. Which makes me believe it's AI generated.

[mental oriole]

[night girder]

Yeah. I jinxed it.

This past week, I have encountered 10 websites in that format. Now that I am actively trying to find them again. I can't 🤣

[olive yarrow]

I run satisfactory on the radeon 680m igpu

Can satisfactory run on linux? if so does it have to be on a specific distribution

[night girder]

www.protondb.com/search?q=satisfactory

[pure karma]

Id say thats a little different since theres a difference between a iGPU built to be good vs built to be a worthless backup at most

[night girder]

What is your definition of devices designed for gaming?

PC's weren't made for gaming purely. It just got to the point, gaming became so popular, that it is it's own thing now I believe.

And when a manufacturer really focuses on a laptop for gaming, it;'s hard to say the device is not designed towards that.

As you should 😄 Was just wondering what you were discussing.
Laptops not being made for gaming? Steamdeck?

Depends on the games I guess. But if your games do run on low settings. Than it suits for you.

It's the subjective part.

maybe POE2 isn't optimized (yet)? Because that's another factor in the whole story.

tiny rant; I am still pissed off POE developers are so stubborn not to introduce a INGAME market.

2026. We got AI. But if I want to sell items. I have to refresh a fucking website to look for an item.

Then I have to go to a hideaout with some bot. Make sure I don't get ripped off.

Really? Ingame? 🙏

Because POE1 was scamming us a lot.

They put in an exalt orb and then tried to change it right before the trade and hope you click accept etc.

And it was just bots bots bots.

If you priced something too cheap, within seconds you get DM spammed. (Which to me was the clue, "Aha, I enter it too cheap") 🤣

Sorry 😄 Poe 1 PTSD.

Also, anyone notice the sudden UE5 hate?

Are people slowly waking up from the PR side of UE5. I get a lot of "negative" videos around UE5 in my feed lately.

And I haven't really looked for it besides guides and tutorials when working in UE5 environment.

That sounds amazing. Still, convoluted.

But I know the developer by now. He stubborn, old school and want to do things his way (which is fine).

Most would just implement a market place

but I guess theyw want the player to still do something actively (walking to hideout with boots) when it comes to trading.

Instead of opening a marketplace UI, putting the boots in there and be done with it.

Yeah, and POE1 stash etc carries over to 2. My main issue is the feature creep the game has. And the lack of a marketplace.

And this. Monetization.

Might give it a try. Not sure. I will wait for development to finish.

I can 100% understand that.

Every league adds a mechanic. And those mechanics carry over the next league. So eventually you have all these different mechanics layering on top of eachother.

[night girder]

Interesting NL voted for: NIS2 for companies, it's the law now to enforce NIS2.

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/nis2-directive

Now the question is. How do you enforce that law.

Or is it a retroactive law.

Company A got a data breach.
Goverment looks into it and see they didn't apply NIS2.
Company A gets fined by goverment?

Ah sorry, the netherlands. (bad habbit of mine).

[snow plaza]

If the punishment outweighs the cost of auditors; a lot of companies will pay to be audited against the law

[pure karma]

seeing crafton kicked out the door from subnautica 2 feels great

granted i pretty sure krafton is still the publisher temporaily but there esentially trying to kick them out brute force

[twin dew]

Krafton still owns Unknown Worlds, and no attempt to change that seem to be part of the lawsuits.
So very unlikely to change.

The deadline for the bonus calculations was moved to September 2026.

Gill got the CEO post and operational control back, but the ownership is still with Krafton.

[night girder]

Gotta be a lovely work environment

[sharp matrix]

Obvious the ceo is back and not happy with krafton, considering they were removed without actual justification. So naturally when they got back onto that steam page, krafton remaining the publisher had to go first

Love to see krafton getting what it deserves for sure😇

[pure karma]

i hope they push to seperate later once the initial lawsuit settles finally

i wouldent be surprised if they try because the original subnautica is now also published under unknown worlds and not krafton

same for bellow zero

[sharp matrix]

Unknown worlds doing house cleaning finally😇

[languid gulch]

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/jury-finds-live-nation-ticketmaster-is-illegal-monopoly-that-overcharged-fans/

from the No Shit department of news

[languid gulch]

ok i have a question about PSUs

if one's been unplugged for like a year, would it be "safe" to pop it open to swap out its fan?

[sharp matrix]

Probably, capacitors would usually be discharged by that length of time

[snow plaza]

is krafton the company that fired like half of their staff in favor of using AI or something?

[sharp matrix]

Yep ai first

Dont have exact numbers but ai slopification is at work

[pure karma]

They fired the original founders to not have to pay them out asking AI for legal advice in the process instead of there actual legal team

Overall just a joke of a company

[snow plaza]

sad thing is there is some legit use for AI/LLMs

but tech companies push it to replace artists

[languid gulch]

PSU was completely fine last time i used that pc, the only issue was its fan screaming bloody murder because i had transplanted it inverted into a new case

could honestly probably operate just fine without a fan at all considering all it's doing is running a 2600X/1660S

also i inverted it so that it'd be intaking filtered air straight from the inside of the case instead of the stupid inaccessible bottom filter

[languid gulch]

cocaine was/is a painkiller, but dumbasses magically managed to find some alternative uses for it

[snow plaza]

Yes, that is how the cocaine be

it's still used occasionally as a local anaesthetic

and was a lot of fun during my pharmacy tech course

[sharp matrix]

Instead LLMs are used for legal advise

[snow plaza]

We weren't allowed to talk about Schedule I substances

but cocaine and methamphetamine are both Schedule II

[sharp matrix]

I sure love how uses for LLMs, all seem to boil down to, how do we do things, in the worst ways possible

[snow plaza]

100%

my use is "do i sound like a sane, rational person with this statement"

basically grammarly with context lmao

also shitposts, it's great at shitposts

[languid gulch]

would love for every bar association to add in an immediate disbarment clause for using AI in official proceedings and documentation

[languid gulch]

especially considering all of them are fucking scrambling to label it all as "for entertainment purposes only"

ok, new dumb question

[snow plaza]

new dumb answer

[languid gulch]

is it dumb to set up 3 of my fans on a custom bracket thingy that links them together, and then magnetically mount them to the fish tank side exhaust, so that all i have to do to clean both them & the radiator is just yank it loose

[snow plaza]

idfk lmao

[sharp matrix]

Its all so stupid and after pushing for business use and then whoops its for fun only guys🤦‍♂️

Seriously this ai crap has gotten so dumb you cant make this up

[languid gulch]

def not a bubble

[sharp matrix]

Yes clearly no bubble

[twin dew]

Safe after few days.

[languid gulch]

should i wear rubber gloves just to be extra paranoid

[twin dew]

No.
It is just about the AC voltage main cap.
But capacitors discharge internally pretty fast when not powered anymore.

So right after unplugging, that cap will still have full AC voltage in it, but that dimishes fast once unplugged.
And after year, absolutely no chance to have charge.
Rubber gloves would just make it more likely you cause ESD damage to the PSU instead.

[languid gulch]

good to know

& it should just be a plain old 3 pin fan header on the board, right

[twin dew]

Unfortunately no.
Usually some form of two-pin, or direct solder.
Need to splice with the old fan cables in most cases.

[languid gulch]

oh ew

well, i'll take a look

might not be worth it

it's like a 550W 7 year old unit

[languid gulch]

speaking of

do PSUs know/yell at you if you disconnect the fan

[twin dew]

Usually no, except then overtemperature protection if exists shutting the PSU down.

[dusk plaza]

hello, i need some help with my current problem. hope someone tech-savy in here could point me to the right direction
recently when i came home from work, the circuit breaker was off. i left the pc on while i was away
when i reset the circuit breaker, i turned the pc on, but nothing was showing on the display
after a lot of troubleshooting, i narrowed it down to the gpu
replaced the gpu with an older one, and the pc was starting without a hitch
the pc is around 2yo and never had these kinds of problems with the gpu
the psu is a Seasonic Prime TX-1600, so i doubt it's a low power thing
but when i plug in the new gpu, the fans do turn on
i know everything points to the gpu being dead...but is it?
i don't have another pc to try and plug it in for tests
is there anything else i could do to check if the new gpu is dead?

sorry for the text wall

just kind of frustrated and desperate here

[twin dew]

Multimeter between the power connector ground and power pins in resistance mode.
But that basically says that there is short in the GPU when PSU does that.
Most likely VRM stage blew and shorted, and probably killed the GPU die with overvoltage at the same time.

[dusk plaza]

is that adressed to me?

[twin dew]

Yes

[dusk plaza]

hmm, i an not that tech savy... so i am not sure where those pins are. also i am not sure i would be able to open the gpu without breaking it

[twin dew]

The ones your PSU cable connects to.

Just between the upper and lower rows.

[dusk plaza]

oh, i see

hmm, not sure i have a multimeter here...might have to go out and buy one

[twin dew]

Not worth it.
High-quality PSU not starting with GPU cables connected with one GPU, but does with second tells there is almost certainly a dead short and the short circuit protection or overcurrent protection of the PSU is tripping.

[dusk plaza]

but the fans do turn fine...so are fans on a separate circuit?

this is what confused me

[twin dew]

Ah, so the computer does try to turn on.
Missed that line, that part of the system responds.
But then the thing would be to try that GPU in another system if possible.

And multimeter helps nothing anyways.

[dusk plaza]

no, i meant the gpu's fans do run and turn

the pc itself does turn on each time

it just stops when trying to connect to the gpu

with a motherboard error stuck at 97

which seems to be the step for gpu connection

[twin dew]

Yes, and that was what I misunderstood and missed.
Thinking the PSU doesn't really turn on at all for some reason.
Missed the line.
So PSU powers the system fine, and no shorts or like.
But just non-communicating GPU.
So less catastrophic failure.

[dusk plaza]

yes

so does the diagnostic change?
i mean, the gpu is kind of good and after 2...wait it's now 3 years
i doubt i can use the warranty, and given the current gpu prices...

[twin dew]

If still in warranty, then probably can.
But you might either be out of it, if 2 years or less warranty, or just on the edge if 3 year one.

[dusk plaza]

yeah, going to try and contact the seller...

yeah, i was hoping i wouldn't have to replace the gpu because i am honestly not sure i could even find another unit

[twin dew]

At least in EU, GPUs are in good supply with about normal prices.

[dusk plaza]

from a quick search, the one i have has almost doubled in price

[twin dew]

Old model.

Last units being scalped for higher price to those who absolutely cannot upgrade to newer one.

[dusk plaza]

yeah, it's a 7900 xt...with 20Gb ram

no more gpus with that much ram afaik

[twin dew]

Yeah, not without going to 5090, which cost 3k or more.
Might be again in next gen AMD GPUs once they come out.

But that is 6-12 months away.

7900:s didn't get replacements this AMD gen.

[languid gulch]

this might sound dumb, but have you tried a different DP/HDMI output? sometimes there's a short there that's killed just the port and having something plugged into it will cause a boot loop

JTC intentionally fried a gpu and it did exactly that

[twin dew]

https://cybernews.com/security/second-public-windows-defender-exploit-released/

Disgruntled hacker drops second zero-day Windows Defender exploit just hours after Microsoft patches first one

A vindictive security researcher has publicly dropped a second Windows Defender privilege escalation exploit, less than two weeks after Microsoft scrambled to plug the first one. The vigilante is threatening to start releasing even more dangerous remote code execution exploits because Microsoft “mopped the floor with me.”

From the dev:

It's way too funny. When Windows Defender realizes that a malicious file has a cloud tag, for whatever stupid and hilarious reason, the antivirus that’s supposed to protect decides that it is a good idea to just rewrite the file it found again to its original location. The PoC abuses this behavior to overwrite system files and gain administrative privileges,

[pure karma]

🤣

[dusk plaza]

hmmm, might try that when i have time. would be nice if it's only that

[elfin niche]

the 9070 xt outclasses the 7900xt in everything but vram, and the 7900XTX is barely better in rasterisation, so i'd say they did get replacements, not upgrades though tbf

[twin dew]

Doesn't remove the fact that 9070:s are 7800 replacements, and 7900 replacements didn't come, in the stack.

Which explains the RAM downgrade etc.

[elfin niche]

if we compare to nvidia's product stack, then it's totally a 7900xt replacement

although, on the specs sheet, it is a next gen 7800XT

[twin dew]

And the point of my original message was why there isn't currently any AMD GPU with over 16GB of VRAM, and that might change with next gen again.

[elfin niche]

hopefully we'll see that

MLID's leaks did picture a promising 10900xtx

and i would love to see a sub 400W flagship

[wanton orchid]

is there a reliable website to check hashes of windwos system files ?

[twin dew]

Don't know.
Really annoying that MS doesn't sign them all...

Ok, they have since added separate signature catalogs for them that contain SHA256 hashes of files.

So in theory you could now check that the signature catalogs have been signed correctly, and then compare the contained hashes to the files.
Doing it manually via every files Properties is just useless for more than few files.

Windows SDK has utility named Signtool that can do those verification checks for files against the signature catalogs with various options.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/signtool#verify-command-options

[dusk plaza]

@languid gulch nope, changing the gpu's outputs didn't do anything. seems the gpu is dead or something broke.
the one thing that annoys me is that the fans do work for some reason.
but there is no light turning on on the gpu along the rest of the pc.
i am tempted to open the gpu to see if i can fix anything, but before that i will wait for the reseller to tell me if i still have a warranty to use

while i wait....the ole reliable 1080 ti will have to be pulled out of retirement

[pure karma]

the fans will always work since they just need power lol

unless the card was unpowered entirely or the power rails melted or something insane fans generally always work at one speed or another

[languid gulch]

yea, definitely a shit situation to be in

had a psu blow on me about a year ago, somehow it didn't take anything with it

[pure karma]

to be fair its not supposed to kill everything along side it if the protectiosn work properly

[languid gulch]

true, but it seems like something usually gets taken out

[pure karma]

yea and i dont blame the psu makers since if something is worn out enough to fail in the normal chain of stuff than so can be the protections

[cyan crescent]

Are there by chance any wired earbuds with anc?

[jagged snow]

Finally made the jump and moved my last machine over to linux!

[slow flint]

🥳

So glad I jumped to Linux
Don't have to deal with the random crap of windows 11

Today I was supporting someone at work and there's a new bug on teams
Right click paste no longer works in Teams :D

This is a new bug, only a couple days old

[jagged snow]

Oh thats fun

I've had my work machine on Linux for a few years and I have a small homelab

But now I moved my last pc over!

[sharp matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12YONf1Wl0I

This is crazy if this becomes a federal law💀

The actual document isnt out so we don't know exactly how bad this is, but so far it isnt looking good

[slow flint]

Oh god not this guy

[languid gulch]

you know what? absolutely. 100%. force everyone to register. include an RFID implant so we can scan ourselves in

maybe also have a QR code tattoo over it

somewhere where it's easy to log in from, like your forearm

[slow flint]

I watched like 1 of this guys videos before
Later in my recommended got another from him that's was like "WOKE attacking FOSS ANTIFA Trump"

[languid gulch]

but on the inside of your forearm so that it's not always visible

[sharp matrix]

[languid gulch]

also be sure to put in language in the legislation that makes sure to mention things like "this historically large expansion of government into homes, at the expense of taxpayers"

[slow flint]

We gotta make our state surveillance fashionable
Can't have it too visible, just easily accessible

[languid gulch]

sorry, i like to needle to absolute fuck out of everyone with things that aren't inherently political, but have a political history that's impossible to ignore

[slow flint]

Yep just like a remembered
These are recent live streams

[languid gulch]

i love the people who refuse to understand that when they call something a "leak", they're confirming its real existence

[sharp matrix]

Oh i guess i dont watch to many of this guys video, unless its something that seems interesting, like this new federal law designed increase government surveillance on everyone

[slow flint]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-breaking-bad-walter-white-wtf-wth-gif-26435332

[sharp matrix]

Wtf💀

[slow flint]

Yeah that's how I stumbled onto them just a random video about a random topic
Then I went to their channel

[sharp matrix]

Wait is this person unhinged and i just didnt watch enough videos to notice

[languid gulch]

lol

i'd say something but it'd get taken down as political 🤣

[slow flint]

Yerp

[sharp matrix]

Odd they seemed normal in some of these videos but now i have to question it

[languid gulch]

that's how they draw you in

[slow flint]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of this stuff slightly leaks into other videos they make but they make a shit ton of videos so some of them just don't ever touch the unhinged stuff

[sharp matrix]

Ahhh

[slow flint]

Minimum 1 video a day
Sometimes more

[languid gulch]

slow burn

incremental introduction of the crazy

then it's a smaller & smaller jump to the truly batshit

[sharp matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointment-immeasurable-day-ruined-my-disappointment-is-immeasurable-and-my-day-is-ruined-gif-25049040

[zenith osprey]

Running satisfactory on Mac, you want to know more @ me

[night girder]

multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/imco-committee-meeting_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

totally forgot about that 🤦‍♂️

www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-say-mission-achieved-for-this-one-stop-killing-games-on-the-latest-european-commission-public-hearing

"I think that everyone that watched it might have noticed that there was no MEP that wasn't responding positively. Even the [European] Commission was pretty positive I'd say."

[elfin niche]

On the iGPU? I'm curious how it handles "vram" usage,

[twin dew]

Same as any other IGP?

[zenith osprey]

M4 mini 16Gb it runs at around 9ish gb

It can go up with more fauna

[elfin niche]

So system ram? That's interesting

[elfin niche]

All low?

(The settings)

[twin dew]

Like any other IGP.

[elfin niche]

Yeah, but not all of them can handle the vram requirements, hence why i find it interesting

[twin dew]

Just depends on how much RAM you have.
8GB RAM and you will need to keep the saves very small even with Low textures, 16GB or RAM and no problems for most part.

[elfin niche]

My (quite shitty to be fair) laptop's is hard capped to 2GB as far as i can tell

My shitty iGPU can handle the loading scene at a decent fps

And that depends on the amount of system ram you have

[elfin niche]

Ram isn't my issue on my laptop, how much vram it can use is most likely the issue

Wow they got mixed up

[twin dew]

That is just the dedicated RAM as VRAM.
They then use more as needed dynamically.

That is just allocation that cannot be used by CPU as RAM at all.

All the other RAM can also be used as VRAM if free.

[elfin niche]

No, it is hard capped on thid iGPU

Cannot use more than 2048MB of system ram as vram

[twin dew]

Not since 15+ years ago.
It is just listed as Shared Video Memory in Task Manager etc.

[elfin niche]

2012 was less than 15 years ago

The iGPU in question is the hd4000

On a laptop with a sata ssd, and 16GB of ddr3l

[twin dew]

Yes, that should have been able to use rest of the RAM as needed as Shared VRAM.
In addition to that Dedicated VRAM allocation.

Like this, that Dedicated is what is set in BIOS, and that Shared is then half of rest of the RAM in this case.

[elfin niche]

What exactly tells you you can actually unlock the amount of ram it can use as vram? My research told me otherwise

[twin dew]

Basic thing since forever, and I actually used 4th gen Intel with that IGP for long time and it was using shared (V)RAM fine.

Became first a thing during AGP times with limited amount being usable for dGPUs.
And later became basic thing usually up to that half of RAM with dynamic allocation, for both IGPs and dGPUs.

[elfin niche]

I'm not on haswell, haswell uses hd4400 or 4600, i'm on ivy lake mobile

[twin dew]

Gen 7.0 vs. Gen 7.5. No major changes.

[elfin niche]

Laptop or desktop?

[twin dew]

Doesn't matter.

[elfin niche]

Dude

A shit ton more stuff is locked on a laptop

[twin dew]

The feature set depends on that IGP generation.

[twin dew]

Not possible for laptop maker to disable.

[elfin niche]

But it's possible for intel

[elfin niche]

Well i can't even set the dedicated memory amount on mine so i doubt that

[twin dew]

Because that is setting that needs to be exposed.
It isn't, but it isn't exposed exactly because it doesn't really matter, because of that dynamic allocation.

[elfin niche]

Do you have any way i can benchmark that?

[twin dew]

Just check that Task Manager Performance tab entry for the IGP?

It reports what the IGP driver reports.

[elfin niche]

Task manager isn't a benchmark

I've never managed to make it use more than .8 GB

Maybe a tad more when i was launching satisfactory, in the few seconds it would manage to not crash

But i'm yet to see any proof this thing can use more than 2GB, might have seen 1.5 for a split second

[twin dew]

Because you are probably using softwares to monitor that that only look for the use of that Dedicated part, because they have been coded for dGPUs.

Where for dGPU, using RAM as extension is slow.
For IGP it is same speed as the dedicated part.

Which is why I said to check that Task Manager entry.

[elfin niche]

Are you actually telling me that your "proof" is just task manager? Seriously?

[twin dew]

That is the basic sanity check, before I tell how to actually test.
Because that testing needs that anyways.

[elfin niche]

The software i use is afterburner, and i seriously doubt it wouldn't show dynamic ram allocation when it shows paging file use

[elfin niche]

If you could tell me allat now i'd appreciate it, i won't be anywhzre near my pc before Sunday

[twin dew]

It would be separate entry if it was there.

At least not shown by default, don't know if configurable.

Not going to install to check.

[elfin niche]

To be fair, i don't recall seing usage above the vram size on my 3080

[twin dew]

But the idea is to just have something that actually shows both dedicated, and shared, VRAM usage open, and run something.

And you will almost certainly see that shared usage jump up, while leaving significant amount of the dedicated part free.

That only gets used once the RAM starts to run out for the system.

[twin dew]

Because that VRAM usage in Afterburner shows that Dedicated VRAM usage reported by the GPU driver.
And doesn't include that Shared VRAM usage.

Like with basically any other VRAM usage monitoring software.

The ones that even have support for showing shared VRAM usage as second entry are very few.

[elfin niche]

Actually, i'm pretty sure i've seen over 10240 MBs, but i'd need to double check, might have been 10170 and not 10700

[elfin niche]

Then how do yiu explain me using 800 MB while being far from running iut of system ram (on basically every game that is somewhat playable, lost tecently poppy playtime and portal)

[twin dew]

That was the point, that the IGP/driver only uses that dedicated part up to certain percentage, then uses shared RAM after that, until RAM starts to run out and it starts to use rest of the dedicated part.

[elfin niche]

Sounded to me liek it was a whole lot more than nearly half of it

[zenith osprey]

Actually high settings with dlss and frame gen

[pure karma]

it literally cant be

it just says that to not overdoo it on the usage since it uses that as a point of reference for what a good target is but if it deems justified it will go over all day long

[pure karma]

iv seen 17GB/12GB on my 4070ti because of shared ram doing its literal purpose

just because you dont do anything good enough to trigger it it makes a big impact whenever it does kick in

generally only kicks in at high resolutions tho since thats when your most limited by vram

[elfin niche]

My issue with that is that it's relying on task manager

I'd love to see a benchmark where the benchmark itself tells you how much vram and shared mem it's using

[pure karma]

thats called 3D mark cause nothing reports shared ram

hence why task manager is the only source

[soft bloom]

I don't get much hype around quantum computers after understanding just how limited their abilities are, at least in the near future.
but,
if only we could manage to use quantum entanglement without destroying it
if there was a way to exploit it beyond just measuring one particle and knowing what's with the other
that would be an incredibly neat way of communicating

[night girder]

Only thing I found interesting ishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

[oblique hamlet]

It would help with space travel a ton

Another interesting idea is Ted Chiang's Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_Is_the_Dizziness_of_Freedom)

[dire igloo]

that's not a scientifically proven application for quantum computing tho

Just a sci-fi novel spun around one mechanic of quantum physics

[dire igloo]

As for space travel, no clue how that's related to quantum computing either but I don't know enough to rule it out either

Don't confuse quantum mechanics with quantum computing.
One is a field of physics with several theories and mechanics, one is a real world application of some mechanics from that field (partly applied to computer science)

[night girder]

Well to be fair, both are intertwined (mechanics vs computing).

But I don't know which are theories anymore, and which are actually being applied in real life.
The Quantum Crytpgraphy, as I understand, is something I think most governments and law enforcements fear.
Since it claims it can't be intcercepted. But then again, I wonder if we can eventually use it for encryption of chat messages etc.
Which would be a HUGE boost to being annonymous on the internet. And probably used by criminals anyway.

[dire igloo]

The number 1 cryptography issue with quantum computing isn't encryption, it's decryption.
The standard algorithms work based on prime pairs and solving that encryption is infinitely easier for quantum computers.

As for encryption, there have already been several algorithms developed which quantum computers won't have an advantage at solving - exactly for that reason.

Governments rely on secure communications too and criminals aren't the only ones who want to shroud their communication from foreign actors (journalists, whistleblowers, political activists)

You also can't protect against communication being intercepted, but strong encryption will ensure that whoever intercepted the message won't be able to read it within any realistic amount of time

[soft bloom]

He was talking about kind of quantum communication where intercepting breaks entanglement

[sharp matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_W2v6BQyK8

[dire igloo]

Communication based on entanglement hasn't been implemented for all I know.
Just a theory by some sci-fi nerds to create faster-than-light transmission of data

[soft bloom]

Nah that's a different one.
That requires special lines of communication. It's not ftl, and specifically aim to make interception easy to detect (or even breaking the message?)
And for all i remember, new successful concept tests have been popping for about a decade now

[night girder]

Wait. Whaaat?
The whole point is, that if observed, it collapses. So in theory, the encryption, or the communication/data cannot be observed by any external parties.

If one attempts to read the encoded data, the quantum state will be changed due to wave function collapse (no-cloning theorem).

This could be used to detect eavesdropping in QKD schemes, or in quantum communication links and networks.

As such quantum cryptography is a critical component in the advancement of a quantum internet, as it establishes robust mechanisms to ensure the long-term privacy and integrity of digital communications and systems.

Not sure if the wikipage is fanfiction but that's what it says.

[pure karma]

we need to bait those ai companies to make quantum ai so it disapears as soon as it is used

[soft bloom]

Another recent thing on topic
Phys.org/news/2026-04-quantum-bottleneck-wide-channels.html

(bruh link bot hates tech news)

Also shit my previous one got deleted

[soft bloom]

It already has too many probabilities involved

[soft bloom]

That thing is real

But imho the great part would discovering ability to use entanglement without breaking it, making possibility for long distance communication.

[night girder]

What's the problem scientist face when it comes to long distance communication?

[soft bloom]

Old people try to prove it's just hidden variable despite every new experiment proving them wrong

Aka non-locality vs locality

Entanglement suggests non-locality, "spooky" action regardless of distance

Some try to prove that's wrong, saying that other must prove it's not local, that there isn't some hidden variable that just gets revealed later

But in practice, nobody managed to re-use entanglement, aka measure state, change state and measure it again, as far as I know

[visual tree]

I should sell my old car and buy this so I can freak out/troll my evil neighbour

[olive yarrow]

you definitely should, lol

[mental oriole]

For that price it's ugly AF.

[north rapids]

Anyone know any good (preferably free) chiptune VST plugins with a bunch of presets for common sounds heard in old chiptune music? Been looking for something easy to use that would be sort of a one-and-done type solution

Rather than having to assemble my own from scratch

[night girder]

Is it me or pictures a bit deceiving for a 123 tall robot?

Like perspective stuff.

And camera low to ground.

[visual tree]

Yeah, the one on the website looks like a toy model lol

[night girder]

Also, 1k to send.

I mean between 300-1200. Which is still a lot of money just for shipping costs.

[visual tree]

It's not about the money. It's about sending a message

To my neighbour: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FPEkwIgOxDA

Although it's a WIP, at least it can wield a katana lol

If you actually called the police here claiming a robot is chasing you a katana, you would most likely be charged for "false report"

Because police gets so many false reports and prank calls they will assume you are messing with them

[sharp matrix]

Only in this case it would be a real report

[pure karma]

arent they not allowed to refuse a call

granted unless you call like 8 times a day every day and are clearly wasting there time

[visual tree]

People here abused this rule and made false bomb reports for shopping centers

Police had to evacuate shopping centers all the time even though they knew the report was almost likely fake

[sharp matrix]

Guess if you call about a robot chasing you help isnt coming

Until real life deaths by killer robots

No really seeing these videos of what robots can start to do does make me question that police maybe need to start taking these calls more seriously

[visual tree]

At least they have proven to be good in chasing wild boars https://youtu.be/hEsGe5WiiZQ?is=74e5t3bonqMDn0RT

[languid gulch]

ok, dumb tech question time

is it possible to have 2 GPUs in a system (with hopefully enough CPU cores to do this), and have different games running in vram on each of the GPUs

[twin dew]

In theory, if one of the games supports GPU selection.
Unreal Engine does via launch argument for example.

And Windows has a way to suggest software which GPU to use.

[languid gulch]

how would the outputs work under that circumstance, would i run another cable from the 2nd GPU?

[twin dew]

Mostly same as with any current multi-GPU, final frames being copied as bitmap over PCIe to the GPU with display connected.

Rendering GPU and displaying GPU haven't needed to be the same for long time now, for most part.

[languid gulch]

you're tempting me

knock it off

[twin dew]

Way too much hassle to be worth it for most part, but in theory possible with some caveats depending on the exact games.

[languid gulch]

yea

ngl i only asked because i can run my mmo and one of my newer games at the same time with this system, but not both of my newer games

my modded ksp currently sucks up almost all of my vram

the real question: would i be able to pull this off with both an nvidia & radeon

[twin dew]

Yes. You can run AMD and Nvidia GPUs (and IGPs) in same computer at same time.

[visual tree]

Ditching my iPhone and getting galaxy S25 soon

I just don't like iPhone tbh

I could buy other phones but I am planning to get a phone through my company as a benefit since I would only pay €200 instead of €700

[languid gulch]

what's always so sad is that iphones would basically be the sole phone on the planet if they dropped the stupid walled garden and made them more compatible with non-apple products

[south current]

@twin dew sorry to ask you, you're the only one around that i know who know his computer stuff
this is the second time in a couple of days that my laptop suddently shuts off, the power cable light turns off too for a couple of seconds then turns back on and I can turn the computer back on. There were capacitor noises. Do you know what could this be a symptom off? Could it be just the power charger or is the mb dying?

I opened the laptop and battery seemed in good health

precision: it's not overheating because that second time I literally had just mozilla open

[twin dew]

Does the computer run just on the battery without external power?
If yes, then the charger shouldn't matter to thing like that.

[south current]

no it's almost always plugged in and it was the case in both cases

[twin dew]

But point was to determine if it can run on just the battery.
Or if it needs charger to even run.

When the battery is dead and doesn't hold any charge.
Separate from ballooning.

[south current]

ooh no it can run on the battery

[twin dew]

And AFAIK capacitors don't make any noise, except if they pop and get destroyed.
Coils can whine.

[south current]

there were little popping noises, but not big

like maybe arcs noises?

[twin dew]

But no, not something I'm able to diagnose remotely with my experience.

[south current]

I see, thanks for your time!

[dire igloo]

Dang, where'd you get the legs for it?
/j

[dire igloo]

If you can reproduce it reliably, you can try setting up a video recording to show it to helpers like us.
But if there really are capacitors popping or stuff's arcing, then please please please put your personal safety first and get it repaired/replaced.
Don't push your luck with electrical safety, shit's scary as FUCK

[south current]

I'll take the safety words of fireworker2000 serisously haha

I don't think I can reproduce it reliably, both times were very random

[dire igloo]

Ironically, my interests in fireworks and PCs/tech are unrelated aside from me being neurodivergent

[twin dew]

Can you even say if the noises have come from the power brick, or the laptop?

[south current]

yea yea we know your experiences in the back rooms of the shop

[dire igloo]

But yeah, I've had some seriously bad experiences with improper fireworks safety (mainly poorly secured displays tipping over and shooting sideways)

As for electricity, none yet, aside from teenage me grabbing an electric cattle fence as part of a dare

[south current]

I WOULD be leaning to say they came from the power connector but really not sure

[visual tree]

Why does this sound familiar? 🤣

[dire igloo]

I might've talked about it in the past

[visual tree]

I mean, I actually did one mistake as a kid in the past

[south current]

but yea definitly the laptop

[dire igloo]

Or it's just a common occurrence with people who are interested in figuring shit out

[visual tree]

Put a rocket in a pot and the rocket tipped because of the wind 😅

But I was a dumb kid back then

[dire igloo]

Honestly tho, I could not tell you what I'd be less willing to fuck around with, live fireworks or live electricity.
Not because of me not knowing the dangers, but moreso me not knowing how badly I'd fuck around with either

[visual tree]

Fireworks are more dangerous imo because of low-quality ones

[dire igloo]

Take a champagne bottle, fill it up to a third with sand, use that for a launchpad

[visual tree]

Following safety protocols might not be enough if the fireworks are poor

[dire igloo]

Alternatively, take a beer crate and enough bottles to fill it, use the bottle to weigh it down (fill them with water or sand if they're empty), use the holes in the middle to stabilize rocket launches

[dire igloo]

Oh, yeah, 100%
No BAM, no boom.

BAM being Germany's Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing.
Each item of fireworks legally being sold in Germany has to display a BAM number which verifies that that product has passed BAM safety testing.

[south current]

fitting acronym

[visual tree]

Most dangerous are firecrackers with premature explosion due to poor quality

You could easily loose your hand

[dire igloo]

Kinda. With firecrackers, I like to light a few of them from a distance:
Lay them down on the ground, take a step back, lean forwards to light fuse, immediately step back.
Gives me a rough idea of how short the fuse is and whether or not I am willing to risk lighting them in my hand

Tho I've stopped lighting loud explosive fireworks a few years ago after seeing how absolutely scared the family dog was

I would consider the largest part of that danger to come from the likeliness of the issue, not the severity of the damage.
A display tipping over and firing sideways or a rocket launching diagonally into making a nosedive are MUCH more dangerous in terms of the damage they can do

[night girder]

Here fireworks often leads to horses in the barbwire etc.
And now it's forbidden in my country. Too much animals panicking, stressing etc. And for what?

[languid gulch]

i'm glad my roof is concrete shingles

[night girder]

I think there was even a city here, that started to do laser shows. So still pretty lights in the sky, without the boom boom.

[languid gulch]

drone shows are great

[night girder]

I am a big fan of drones tbh. In the sense of recent/modern advancements that took track.

[languid gulch]

we finally got our first official one this year

[night girder]

I notice more and more sport events use drones for nice shots. Which I like. Better than a helicopter.

Then it's easier for law enforcement to search for people with drones. Again, better than helicopter.
And as Cuyar mentioned, drones can also do light shows. Alternative to fireworks.

[languid gulch]

i remember they kept trying to do those cameras on cables over the fields & they kept falling. idk how nobody ever died during a game from one of those

[night girder]

Oh, yes I've seen those too. In NFL.

[coral blaze]

4 bit number display we made in class

Last week

0000 = 0, 0001 = 1, 0010 = 2, you know the drill

[twin dew]

Weird to have that Arduino there, when that could be replaced with just bunch of diodes and resistors...

Controlling the 7-segment driver directly with the DIP in exact same way.

Depending on the driver, even the resistors wouldn't be needed, just diodes to prevent backflow.

Ah, sorry, wouldn't work like that, would need some gates too for logical operations.

Brain didn't brain.

[noble hemlock]

My frc team qualified for worlds and I plan to volunteer to help run the event🎉

[jagged snow]

Hey, congrats!

That's huge

[pure karma]

fun

[dire igloo]

Probably meant to be an educational programming exercise, combining binary encoding with a basic coding exercise in an environment that can be scaled to more complex implementations

[coral blaze]

Yes

[visual tree]

Wait till you find out samsung copied apple and started charging their phone accessories like they are made from gold

€49 for a phone case on official samsung store.....

No thanks, I will rather buy a €15 case from Amazon

Bought one for iPhone (it was around €11) and it's quite sturdy

Correction: everyone started copying apple strategy where they charge a lot for official accessories and earn a lot of money from it

Kinda how printer companies earn more money from cartridges than from printers

[coral blaze]

At least they dont have the gated community bullshit

[visual tree]

I bought a leather phone case for my mother's phone and it's still going strong without any damage

Buying official phone cases is not worth it imo

[pure karma]

iv been wondering for a while but WTF is making these massive smooches in my monitors despite nothing physically ever touching the screen

they disappear when the screen is on but when lit just right when there off you see these and i have no idea what they are

[pure karma]

Anyway the actual reason i respawned is cause before i started making my keyboard i actually ordered some GN mouse mats and they came in a few days ago

I don’t really have any complaints outside of them being pretty rugged so there definitely static generators

[oblique hamlet]

are you left handed?

[pure karma]

no why?

[oblique hamlet]

from the first picture it looked like you had it set up for a left handed mouse

[pure karma]

i have it setup to protect the desk lol

i put stuff like drinks and metal objects that love to scratch the paint since the desk is actually white

That keyb is for my second pc i dont use much im still using my original mouse pad for my main mouse and keyboard since its mostly black it dosent wear down from the constant movement of the mouse

[oblique hamlet]

very cool looking

[pure karma]

More than 5 years of daily use and its spotless still

[oblique hamlet]

i just get excited when i see a fellow left-handed person

there are so few of us

[pure karma]

Honestly i could left hand a mouse just right handing a keyboard seems miserable

[oblique hamlet]

which is why i use a right handed mouse

[dark stream]

arduino :o

[coral blaze]

Uno :3

[dark stream]

ehe :3

[sterile plinth]

Is there a name for a high power low uptime fridge

Something like a mini fridge for storing drinks, except since drinks don't go bad it'd be a waste of energy to have it on 24/7

[coral blaze]

Saw it on a cooking show once

[sterile plinth]

If it can get them cool within 30mins-1hour or something

[coral blaze]

Yea

[sterile plinth]

do you happen to know the name then

[coral blaze]

"The [something] freezer is not a reverse microwave"

[coral blaze]

No idea it was a while ago

[sterile plinth]

Reverse microwave sounds like exactly what I'd want xd

[coral blaze]

Lol

[languid gulch]

stupid question time: can you mix keyboard switches

[sterile plinth]

Yeah, I believe I saw somebody using different switches for wasd and the keys around it (lower actuation for gaming) somewhere

[languid gulch]

yea, new keyboard is a bit on the clacky side, which is fine, but my old one is the same model, different switches that were a lot quieter

[sharp matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KdgaeXWVs

I'm going with the obvious conclusion, most ai companies are heading for clear bankruptcy, cost, scalability issues, etc, most of it easily meets most reasonable definitions of unsustainable, openai, etc being clear examples of business models are clearly arent going to work

[visual tree]

And yet, most of those companies that will go bankrupt have bought all of the RAM supplies and caused price increase....

All for nothing

[sharp matrix]

It was to power nvidias instagram filter, that isnt for nothing right

[languid gulch]

it was yet more international, multi-industry fraud perpetuated by the people who have benefitted the most from it

they've known it's a bubble since the start, and duped a ton of idiots into thinking that somehow this time would be different

the worst part is that those people will never see a day in prison or lose a dime of their scammed gains

[mental oriole]

Keyboard tapping sounds

[sharp matrix]

Its like what we did with crypto but we are doing with ai this time, lets hope nobody is paying attention

[twin dew]

OpenAI didn't even buy any RAM.
They have piece of paper that says they might buy some RAM at future date.

[sharp matrix]

Its more like buying azure cloud computing credit, that then buys a piece of paper that say it might buy more ram capacity in the future

[twin dew]

Not even that.
No money has changed hands, and there is no actual requirement on either side for anything.

[sharp matrix]

And its not even like that, because microsoft loans openai that credit, so its just a circle

Right so this is all just illusions

[twin dew]

There was no RAM wafer shortage.
Just market that didn't read what was actually signed and acted irrationally.
With the RAM makers pulling everyones legs with prices charged.

[sharp matrix]

The microsoft is basically footing the bill via azure, question is how long ms wants to keep the game going

[twin dew]

Acting like OpenAI has actual binding purchase agreement

[sharp matrix]

Lets pretend openai isnt losing 83 million per day

This is going to end well right?

[twin dew]

They already cancelled lot of actual contracts for new build datacenters.
Which caused the RAM price bubble to start popping.
But that hasn't made to consumer prices yet.

[sharp matrix]

I heard about that, apparently alot of that ended up only being promises, not actual legal binding agreements on those datacenters, and many of them are being cancelled for many obvious reasons

[twin dew]

Letters of Intent.

[sharp matrix]

Also heard ram makers were hoarding the ram stock, for demand that didnt actually exist, and are left holding the bag, i feel no pity

[twin dew]

Or was it the next step, Memorandum of Understanding.

[sharp matrix]

www.techspot.com/news/111947-nearly-half-us-data-centers-planned-2026-facing.html

https://tenor.com/view/well-there-it-is-jeff-goldblum-gif-14058551

at least half of datacenters are effectively cancelled already

Basically they rushed to try to put datacenters online without even having the basic infrastructure to support it, these people are true morons

well to be expected, this is a bubble so of course the morons would be coming out in full swing, trying to get these projects off the ground and in scales that cant realistically happen either....

[twin dew]

Everyone else was announcing datacenters, so everyone rushed to do so also.

To not get left behind.

Even when no-one had actual use for those datacenters.

Just that everyone thought the AI market would explode and if they didn't have the processing power ready, they would be left in the dust by those that did.

[sharp matrix]

left behind, well those that did....

mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf

95% of corporations are seeing zero return on ai

this is just to funny, cancelled data centers, all of this money spent, most corporations are seeing no return, its perfect storm of bullshit

at this point with ai its like watching a train wreck in progress

[night girder]

www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

https://tenor.com/view/salute-raa-gif-14938908953589068603

[languid gulch]

or they were never actually planned by these companies, just announced to be planned, trying to pass the speculative investment losses 1 more line down the chain before they get stuck with it

reminds me of insurance companies in the early 2000s investing in housing market losses because they all fuckin knew it was a bubble about to pop

[twin dew]

OpenAI has pulled out of most of their "Stargate" datacenter deals, leaving other companies that actually build the buildings trying to scramble new customers for the spaces...

[languid gulch]

they won't find them, at least not another company that'll be doing AI

there's a reason the investors with 2 brain cells either never bothered to invest in AI, or have already cashed out

[visual tree]

Got a new smart power meter for solar power plant installed

There is also a reset switch in case I go over 13,8 kw

[languid gulch]

set up a giant van de graff generator for overflow

[visual tree]

My coworker lives in an apartment building and he has to reset the meter all the time because apartment buildings only have like 3,6 kw

And you can easily go over 3,6 kw if you have an electric oven and air conditioners turned on at the same time

[wanton orchid]

twitch is really weird lately
like half the content is ai generated, it's really weird

[pure karma]

We can’t be fr

Its literally snowing rn

Shoo go away winter

[waxen pendant]

ya, we got that on the weekend. There is threats of that this week too

[sharp matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6O4LCmah98

Oh yes black listed once more, we all knew this was going to happen

[dark stream]

Im not quite following both AMD & Intel

So ye i kinda expect both do bad stuff

[waxen pendant]

They are both mega corps trying to extract maximum $$

[verbal raft]

kek

[sharp matrix]

Basically yes, also nvidia to

Council of corruption

[waxen pendant]

absolutely

[sharp matrix]

Its a fitting name

[sharp matrix]

Well jensen is on the council of corruption, it all makes sense

[verbal raft]

WHO COULDVE THUNK

[dire igloo]

HUB showing small margins is crazy rare

[waxen pendant]

A friend wants to burn some money on a pc that can 4k game and its hard to recommend a gpu.

[sharp matrix]

Its worthless for gaming

The 9950x3d is what 700 and 9950x3d2 is 900...we all knew this wasnt going to be good

[slow flint]

I think from memory the marketing was more focused on work station software but even then probably not worth the price

[sage condor]

I wouldn't even pay half that for a CPU

[pure karma]

AM Does not improve

[sharp matrix]

people wanted the X3D2, what do they say now that they got their wish

expression careful what you wish for

[pure karma]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-jim-halpert-different-but-not-really-different-not-different-gif-25538137

[dire igloo]

AMDeeznuts

[pure escarp]

i was told to talk about it here, im wondering peoples experiences with linux on higher end gaming computers? do most things work on there (ARCh?) and if so, how different is it from windows? I know Debian is pretty similiar to windows, but not sure the performance gains are there when ive only ever used CL versions of linux as a hypervisor and then windows vms for servers.

[waxen pendant]

i can weigh in come this weekend after i install. Mint was a pretty good experience. But im testing Distros atm

[twin dew]

You select the desktop environment you want to use, and the base you want to use (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch), and select subdistro that has that desktop environment.
With then also decision between rolling release vs. short cycles vs. long cycles distro.
Debian for example as is is pretty bad desktop distro, unless using Testing, as the release cycle is 2 years.

Base determines the CL side etc.
Desktop environment determines the GUI side.

[jagged snow]

I can give some experience here
I run kubuntu and debian for work and hobby related stuff
I've used both arch and bazzite for a gaming desktop(7800x3d, 9070xt)
Arch, in my experience, took a very significant amount of fiddling
Bazzite was a near-flawless experience. I have one hardware related sleep issue that I haven't been able to fix, but that also showed up on windows
So far, my entire steam library has been a near flawless experience and performance has been similar or better to windows. Playing on a 240hz qd-oled with freesync and vrr works great
1% lows are slightly better than windows. Average fps either went up or down by around 5%, depending on the game. Generally, I'd say the trend is towards an increase in performance over windows.

I haven't encountered any rendering issues or major bugs with linux. So far the only notable issue is that helldivers 2 crashes when someone joins my party if it is in fullscreen and in the background at the moment they join

Bazzite is generally pretty usable as a general desktop experience, but some more advanced use cases are more work than they would be on another distro
If you want to do a lot of power-user type work, a debian or arch based distro would be my reccomendation

[dire igloo]

I don't have any experience with Linux on gaming PCs cuz some of my most important games don't run on Linux and I can't be arsed running dual boot

[pure escarp]

okay, i appreciate that type up. Im not sure if i should try and switch to linux since there are somethings that wont run on linux (including a lot of games with anti cheats) so i think I would have to setup dualboot specifically for those games, and even then, ive read that those anticheats can sometimes flag you for dualboots

[jagged snow]

What anticheats are you talking about specifically?

Most games that don't use kernel-level anticheat are generally a safe bet

[dire igloo]

How's bazzite from a Linux user perspective?
I've heard that it's quite locked down and basically only intended as an easy way for gamers to switch over

[jagged snow]

Arc raiders works perfectly and valorant is a nonstarter, for example

[dire igloo]

More specifically: what games are they playing?
And how important are these games compared to the rest of their library?

[dire igloo]

Destiny 2 is fucked, Brotato runs like a charm

[jagged snow]

It is quite locked down in a lot of ways
They've made some improvements to it, but you really can't easily modify/tweak the OS beyond what's in the settings menu
A lot of the changes you make won't persist reboots(which is nice, makes it harder to break stuff), but it means that if you need to tweak something you generally need a ujust for it or you need to make a script that runs at startup and makes the change every time

For web browsing, word processing, and gaming, it's excellent
For software dev, probably not going to be a great experience

I'm a photographer, and I've been messing around with getting an image editing workflow going on bazzite like I have on kubuntu and that's been a bit of a pain as well

But, conversely, it does make some things easier

The built-in lutris integrations mean that running games from gog or itch.io is super simple and, in my experience, pretty foolproof

[glossy glacier]

Mostly depends on your hardware.
You will have some problems with the latest stuff shortly after release. How quick it gets fixed depending on the distro.
GPU you will loose performance with nvidia, amd or Intel cards are mostly on par or better than windows.
Gaming generally works, as long as you dont play games with kernel level anti cheat. IMO the FPS are a bit lower but more stable.
Getting things running can be a bit of a hassle outside of steam, but doable once you know how.

[pure karma]

intel is anything but on par but yea your only safe on AMD in therms of getting mostly your full performance

[dire igloo]

KLAC itself isn't the issue, some of them do support Linux.
Most however don't and when devs do use those that could work, they're too lazy to enable it

[soft bloom]

is there a good way to clear directx caches?
they take quite a big chunk on a disk

[twin dew]

Disk Cleanup?

[soft bloom]

not the standard one. or rather not the one that comes first...

it says that directx cache is just 172Kb

isn't that too few?

when I do windirstat it shows 2 fodlers totaling ~14GB

[twin dew]

Those are probably GPU driver caches.
That other is OS cache.

AMD has simple clear button in their software.
For Nvidia need to be manually deleted, or turning the global shader cache off, then back on.

[soft bloom]

this is a lot

[twin dew]

AMD Software, Gaming, Graphics, Reset Shader Cache: Perform Reset

[soft bloom]

I never would have guessed going into 'gaming' for this

[twin dew]

Same place as all the other global 3D related settings.

Yes, that Graphics used to be in different place, but was moved to same place as the per-game pages about year ago.

[visual tree]

Had my first sinus and brain CT scan and saw the rotating magnet inside the CT device

Thought the scan takes 15 minutes but it only took literally 2 minutes. Medical technology has really advanced fast through recent years

[waxen pendant]

ya its crazy awesome. I go for a brain scan every other year

[visual tree]

I remember going to MRI scan 25 years ago as a kid and it took 2 eternal hours

Not to mention it was difficult for me as a kid to stay still

Funniest moment today was a radiologist telling me I don't need to remove a watch, keys, wallet or other metal items

I watched Final destination on Youtube and thought metal item restriction applies to CT scan too 🤣

[dire igloo]

CT is just 3D Roentgen

[night girder]

2 hours? 😮

[visual tree]

Yeah, they expect a child to remain perfectly still for a long time. Didn't happen considering I was hyperactive as a child

[night girder]

I think I also once had a MRI scan as a kid, can't remember it taking that long.

I do remember them taking me out of it because they couldn't see my vains or something and had to put a fluid inside of my vains so it showed better on scan.

So I had to do it twice. And it made a hell of a noise.

[visual tree]

Oh, they probably gave you something called "contrast"

I had CT scan today without contrast while some other hospitals have older CT devices which require contrast

[pure karma]

Keyboard update 3

[waxen pendant]

have you seen this? I been meaning to send this your way for a month or so now lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FEv1qw4_w

[pure karma]

nope but ig il check it out

i have everything i need now so its just a question of finishing it

[waxen pendant]

fuck ya, must feel nice. Are you lubing up the switches? (mine came prelubbed, i have no interest in lubbing lol )

[pure karma]

fuuuuckkk no there prelubed

im not signing up to be a switch surgeon these are so tiny

[waxen pendant]

my thoughts EXACTLY

[pure karma]

so already i see there talking about the space bar which mine is unironically pretty perfect no woble side to side or double clunk ig il call it

but im sure with wear it will be inevitable

[waxen pendant]

It;s just generally interesting. Its not YOU MUST CONSIDER THIS!!! lol

[pure karma]

ik but any cool inovation is worth checking out lol

i got nothing else to do other than lissen to music while putting on all they key caps lol

im finally gonna have a caps lock again

[waxen pendant]

for you to hit by accident during worst social moment

[pure karma]

honestly most the time its just that i forget its on because its not something i check

and the lights are on the whole ahh other end

Why are there 2 of the same key but one the wrong size lol

[dire igloo]

ISO maybe?

[pure karma]

Finally Done 🥳

[pure karma]

Probably yea since i have a large backspace too

[night girder]

Yeah, that's it.

[waxen pendant]

love the color

[waxen pendant]

reminds me of my fav lego set

#off-topic-media message

[pure karma]

that is a very unique lego set

never seen anything like it

[waxen pendant]

its Blacktron 2 its space Pirate themed. it came out in 1991

[sharp matrix]

Wow i love it😍

[waxen pendant]

We used it as the theme to our black metal band 20 years ago or so

#off-topic-media message

[sharp matrix]

Cool😎

[pure karma]

music and bands are a dying art man

theres only 1 band at my school

there absolute machines tho so they definitely got a future in music if they want to keep going

[sharp matrix]

Indeed, especially because we are going to have ai music slop now🥴

[pure karma]

i dont have the brain cell coordination to play an instrument tbh

they performed recently and the singer fell on his ass trying to flex and i remember you heard the entire room do a partially held back giggle

[oblique hamlet]

marching percussion is great

[languid gulch]

i have a cousin who's almost 2m tall, and naturally he played sousaphone in marching band

didn't ever have to guess where he was on the field 🤣

[mental oriole]

Pretty sure ISO.

[mental oriole]

Sure? What about the 4 ones in the top right?

[waxen pendant]

I played a punk show once (i was just filling in on Guitar) and people were fucking hammered trying to climb up on stage. one guy ask me to hit him to launch him off the stage. My Les Paul Jr has a tooth mark on the butt from smashing a guy in the face who tried to take it

[pure karma]

Those are the media controls which arent standard for keycaps so ima have to order them separately

I dont plan on using them tho so its not like it maters much

[waxen pendant]

sounds liek a great spot for custom Keycaps for flare

[mental oriole]

Explains it 🙂

[waxen pendant]

sand down the extra | key put a slide decal and then seal it. custom key done

[twin dew]

And finally got that Intel X550-T2 network adapter yesterday.
And seems to be actually new production official Intel product, not some clone with the Intel chip.

[sullen tangle]

Workshop is cramped and so many machines to sort

Organised chaos of IT.

[languid gulch]

i hadn't been on twitter basically since the takeover, and i decided to take a look. except for keeping my account there, i'm happy i didn't stick around. hot garbage is several levels above what it's turned into

[sullen tangle]

Yes that laptop is sitting on a chair, I ran out of workbench space.

[waxen pendant]

i see room under the desk

use your feet, sell the footage for some side profit

[sullen tangle]

I have used the floor a few times, and the random computer towers as impromptu laptop desks.

[waxen pendant]

fuckkk i really need to stop procrastinating and buy a Universal Power supply for my NAS

[sullen tangle]

Off work in 45 min, no clue if I'm upto doing satis tonight though.

[twin dew]

You mean UPS (Uninterruptible power supply)?

[waxen pendant]

derp yes\

[languid gulch]

i even turned off adblock for the full experience

[sullen tangle]

I'll look at doing some repairs tomorrow when I have desk space, got plenty to keep me busy,all broken due to staff 🤷‍♂️

The office chairs aren't too bad, I can't complain.

[waxen pendant]

@twin dew UPS is a space I'm blind to. I guess i should research and find one with a easily replicable battery (that has long standing availability) for when i need to do so

[twin dew]

And another thing you want is actually working automatic self-testing.
So you get warning about the battery being almost dead from age.

Instead of noting it when the UPS doesn't work when needed.

[waxen pendant]

thanks

[sullen tangle]

I prob should look into a ups myself, right now I'm looking at getting a laser engraver.

At home I use a massive arm chair.

[languid gulch]

the fun part is i have basically all the metric stuff from my pc blocked, and am following only 2 people on there, so it has no idea what kinds of ads to customize for me, so it was just a bunch of the few kinds of companies that still advertise on there

[sullen tangle]

My chair isn't practical for dragging around, but it's hella comfy.

Good thing since it cost £1000

[twin dew]

Some UPS might say they have self-test, but it doesn't actually do anything.
So need to be careful with that one.
And that it is actually automated on schedule, some only do when asked.

[languid gulch]

they also tend not to actually raise or lower the arms vertically enough

[twin dew]

On the cheap end.

[languid gulch]

there's cheap, then there's decent, then expensive, then stupid, then cheap but expensive

[twin dew]

I only know that APC Back-UPS Pro line has working automated self-test. (Edit, originally as APC Smart-UPS, which is separate line).
And that at least some Eaton and Cyperpower models don't.
Don't know about APC consumer models.

[waxen pendant]

thanks, I apprecaite the input. Cyberpower is 80% of the offerings here

I have aa serta Mesh back. I really like it

[languid gulch]

my chair arms went too high for what i need, but not low enough, so i rigged some longer bolts to drop the arm mounts down by ~8cm

that's why i cheated 🤣

[twin dew]

And might not be right for APC either, as the stuff changes.

[languid gulch]

huh. maybe not 8cm, more like 3-4

[waxen pendant]

I would break that. I am Rough on arm rests

[languid gulch]

i forgot i overshot with them the first attempt, then used shorter bolts

with them in stock, the arms would always hit the table, and i wanted the chair to go all the way under

[languid gulch]

i'm 100kg and i could swing off one of these bolts

[pure karma]

my arm rests spin up

[sullen tangle]

!

[languid gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45jxjne3BU

no, it's not AI

[pure karma]

Seems like it could be fun for a sim

[languid gulch]

i'd probably be a dirty rotten cheater, grab a captain's chair out of a wrecked van, and rig up a decent base for it

maybe leftovers from a nissan warehouse that hasn't been touched since 1989

i've sat in them and they aren't auto grade

maybe ATV grade

i do wonder what i could piece together from junkyards and business liquidation places for the cost of that scorpion chair thing

nah, that's a signature of the "gaming" look

[twin dew]

Copying racing car seats.
Basic thing in almost all "gaming" chairs.

But doing it badly, just for the looks.

[languid gulch]

yea, bucket seat

[languid gulch]

lol imagine trying to put a gaming chair in a porsche and going on the highway with it

the one thing i've seen in gaming chairs that is slightly tempting is the leg lift things

the biggest issue with desk chairs in general is that none of them can really deal with the existence of the keyboard. "gaming chairs" all seem to be aimed at making playing with a controller a bit more comfortable

wider chair

yup, that's what mine is

leather & tubular steel

try local places either moving or going out of business, can probably get something cheap because they don't want to have to pay to move it or throw it out

even if you need to buy a new hydraulic piston for something older, if the rest of it works well for you, that'd be all that matters

maybe you should switch to one of those ceiling mounted swing chairs

oh that's right

standing desk then?

just some heavy duty brackets & an ikea butcher block tabletop

[waxen pendant]

I get mine from home depot. its cheaper

[languid gulch]

idk if there's a home depot in Pilsen

[waxen pendant]

it may be made of asbetose but itll last til the end of time

[languid gulch]

ooooh

ask the local hospital if they have any of these laying around, or the mobile carts

knock a hole in the wall, bolt the CRT to the studs

sledgehammer needed no matter what then 😛

oooo maybe one of those school TV carts with a bolt on keyboard tray

eh, different styles mostly. plus we haven't had the major cities bombed to oblivion........twice.

a lot of our houses are still brick on the outside walls, just studs & drywall for the interior walls

[pure karma]

The older rich ones maybe

here its all wood unless you ask specifically for bricks

[languid gulch]

and things like office buildings & apartments are cinder block

mine's 2x6 for the exterior, with a fuckton of plaster & stucco

[pure karma]

Yep 2x6’s and plywood covered in either hard wood or siding

[languid gulch]

depends on what the original style is

matching that kind of thing after a repair is the art

the materials are cheap, you pay for the repair guy's ability to match

kinda similar to plaster work over brick in europe. make the repair job disappear

stucco is this kind of exterior

it's a kind of plaster, just stronger than interior stuff 🤣

kinda moving towards concrete in its consistency

and it'll shred your skin if you rub against it

OH 🤣 yea not so much used for stuff like stamped art around here, just thrown onto walls like plaster

but like 3-4cm thick

there's different ways to finish the top, and that's where the artistry is for the construction & repair guys

yea, in a desert here, so water's not really an issue

good material for the environment. just like doing wood siding would be awful with how hot it gets

reverse case of that stucco damage

wood siding is mostly fine with water, stucco.......not so much

it looks like one of those "don't touch it for a week, then clean it off" kinds of repair jobs

true

will take 3 committee meetings to figure out that they should let it dry for a while 🤣

oh that's right 🤣

we weren't here first

it used to be a bit nicer, but also native americans built canals and farms where phx is now

it's a decent halfway point to put an outpost between new mexico and california areas

there's high schools around here that were built in the 60s/70s that double as nuclear emergency shelters

first floor is completely underground with 15cm thick reinforced concrete walls

i mean, here it's always been water

oh, i thought you meant irl

we've got 7 states currently bitching over what remains of the Colorado River

agreed

everything went to shit when Harambe died, i wanna jump universes over

it's really the only "big river" the western US has that doesn't connect to the Mississippi

🤣 same

so apparently the Colorado River has the same average output as the Seine

505 m^3/s

uhhh far less 🤣

no major cities on it

yea, some industrial & agri

we also extract so much it doesn't go to the ocean anymore

you mean hydroelectric?

oh that thing. yea, i unsubbed

something felt weird about their recent vids

it changed without being disclosed or explained. that to me damages trust

oh i never watched fern

with veritasium, it went from a physics prof teaching physics to doing some weird deep dives and advocation stuff without explaining why

i think it's called Reputation Laundering, using someone's name to push your own agenda

[pure karma]

are you dumb or are you dumb level question

you missed the point

the point i was making is firefox is begging me to use firefox while using firefox

[pure karma]

after asking around i have found a video of it... honestly i remembered it being funnier

[waxen pendant]

https://youtu.be/XAg5KjnAhuU?si=_8_DYragh6-7zBSH

[pure karma]

i completely forgot.. i wanted to see you guys try and guess the price

[waxen pendant]

$350

[pure karma]

USD?

[waxen pendant]

CAD

[pure karma]

higher

[waxen pendant]

lopl

rough

usd then 😛

[pure karma]

yea 550 CAD 670 if i count the 4 keys i ordered for the corner earlier

[waxen pendant]

to rich for my blood

at least as one purchase

[pure karma]

yea no even for me that was way too much

[waxen pendant]

over time ill spend that though lol

[pure karma]

definitely not worth it but since im mostly doing it as a one time thing i figured id ball out

truth is anything good in the mechanical world is 250+

[waxen pendant]

also YOU built it so when something breaks you can fix it

[pure karma]

that too but some of the switches are so stuck in there that some wont ever be coming out ever again

[waxen pendant]

push them out fronm the rear if they are already broken

[pure karma]

some are buttery smooth and some are so tight they dont even release

[waxen pendant]

when they break

[pure karma]

wdym exactly from the "Rear"

[waxen pendant]

remove the board so its just the latus the switches socket into.

prvided your case and setup allows for it. My latus screws into the board from the rear

[pure karma]

oh yea i guess i could try and fully tear it down but yea idk i dident bother checking for screws since i have no intetions to take it apart

i manged to get all the keys to work and thats all that matters

[pure karma]

i am so upset that this checkbox circle is off center

[sharp matrix]

Join me in my quest to end ai finally for all, and to at last uninstall copilot for the last time...for it to never return

[winged valley]

we writing manuals at 2:30 am

It's a manual for a server. That's the shortest quickstart I could possibly write that covers all the critical bases

[soft bloom]

so, NASA said that very bright thing is Venus
I still wonder why it looks like it has a ring

[mental oriole]

[winged valley]

Yea or nay on putting this in the manual

As a matter of fact

both the cache and array are btrfs

Why do you ask?

It depends

It's more fault tolerant than ext4 because of its snapshots, and also has a decent compression algorithm built into it that you can optionally enable

Great for single drive with no parity (which the cache is because customer is cheap)

Lol

In my professional opinion, you made a good choice

[glossy glacier]

zfs master race 🙃

[glossy glacier]

How does the dns "redirect" to anything?

[winged valley]

This is for home users, the assumption is 192.168. I can adapt on a case-by-case basis

Also, generally the intention is for me to be there in person (for extra money) to install it and make sure everything works. The manual is there for if they didn't pay for that or for if I'm not available

[glossy glacier]

Imo I think you should (visually) put npm between external and everything else, and replace the "redirects" with "proxies"
Basically switch the position of unraid and npm

[winged valley]

Intranet redirects.

Primary DNS gets set at gateway level to .43, and on applicable devices too for good measure. DNS server redirects *.lan to NGINX which based on the hostname redirects to IP:Port

[winged valley]

External doesn't go straight to NPM, it can only reach it because of the DNS server

Which I unfortunately had to add because there is no way to make .local TLD work over a VPN on IOS

Apple hardcoded it to use local network rather than active network

[glossy glacier]

So nothing is reachable from external?

[glossy glacier]

Use .internal, official tld for internal use

[winged valley]

This is a topology of the server's internal network. External network on this diagram is specifically referring to outside the server, not to the public internet.

But no, the only thing accessible from the outside is wireguard

[winged valley]

Does it autoresolve with multicast DNS?

If so, it won't work. Same problem as .local

[glossy glacier]

Not yet probably

[winged valley]

Also .local is a published IEEE standard I've never heard of .internal

Does .internal do anything special at all, or are you just suggesting it for convention's sake?

[glossy glacier]

IANA put forth a proposal and ICANN approved it July 2024
www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-special-meeting-of-the-icann-board-29-07-2024-en#section2.a

[twin dew]

.local is not standard in actual DNS, only for mDNS and like.
.home.arpa is what is supposed to be used for actual DNS.

And that .internal wasn't approved and has expired.

Ah, sorry, it was reinput and approved in 2024...

First attempt was from 2013 to 2018.

But .local isn't supposed to be used for anything other than mDNS.

And that isn't supposed to work over VPNs and like, only in actual local network cell.

[twin dew]

Edit to earlier, .home.arpa, not .local.arpa.

[winged valley]

Yeah that's why it has a dedicated DNS server

Specifically for that problem

[night girder]

Anyone with github. They enabled it by default. I just disabled it. Just a headsup.

[mental oriole]

Why...

Data horny crap

Also disabled the agent crap

[rocky sleet]

what..

[night girder]

AI strikes again.

It's so fucking dumb. Like even the basic shit it gets wrong.

[visual tree]

Here, a hiker got in trouble for using ChatGPT lol

He got lost and instead of calling rescue service, he asked ChatGPT for directions and ChatGPT told him to go into even worse terrain 🤣

[twin dew]

How can you even get lost if you still have internet access...

[visual tree]

"A lost hiker on Sljeme mountain in Croatia sought help from an AI chatbot instead of emergency services. The chatbot advised moving into more difficult terrain and failed to suggest calling 112, increasing the risk. The Croatian Mountain Rescue Service ultimately rescued the person unharmed, highlighting the dangers of relying on AI in emergencies."

[visual tree]

Makes me wonder too....

Not to mention it's a small mountain overlooking capital city. You would need to be a moron to lose sense of direction

[night girder]

Maybe he had chatGPT running locally on his phone? 🤣

[bronze jasper]

oh centralised map services are not perfect. Google gets so many maps wrong on my island. People take the wrong way to my house ALL the time

[night girder]

chatGPT is telling me it isn't possible

[bronze jasper]

i live people getting lost while having gps nav

[night girder]

Or maybe it is? I can't be arsed to look up the real info.

[bronze jasper]

i used to live in the age where calling shotgun meant you had navigator duties and were using the map in the glove box. Everyone who can't drive anywhere without a gps are like the typical "chatgpt" meme to me, for the last 25 years

mapquest was the last time i saw people bothering. Google maps killed all sense of knowing how to use a map it seems

[night girder]

Funny you mention that IceyCold. They did a test recently here.

They put the younger generation in shotgun with a map. And they had to direct the driver to a village somewhere in my country.

They didn't know what the fuck to do with the map 🤣

[bronze jasper]

lol yeah pretty fkn much

[night girder]

I mean, I am not mad at the younger generation. They use the tools they get handed.

[bronze jasper]

iuf you're going anywhere with back roads, gps nav won't help you. gotta use maps

[night girder]

But the older generation knows, if the power goes down. You pretty much fucked. (especially if you don't know how to read a map, or how to survive without electronics).

[visual tree]

R.I.P. new generation

[bronze jasper]

physical maps that were printed locally

[visual tree]

It's like those stories how Gen Z can't read analog clock

[bronze jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Eki4IEFYw Whatchu gonna do when the grid goes down?!

oops media link in tech. still, i'll leave it. it's relevant

[night girder]

My goverment started a campaign a few weeks ago. To start preparing us for disasters. A.k.a. prepbag.

[bronze jasper]

yeah i need to rebuild my go bag i think

[night girder]

Just in case of natural disasters, war, or cyber attacks. And nuclear.

[bronze jasper]

i might have a halogen head lamp in it

i'm coming into wild fire season again. i almost had to evacuate last year. the fire was spreading fast towards me lol

stressful to be sure

[pure karma]

nah i give them credit especially large maps its a pain in the ass to find where you are sometimes if theres too many roads around

just because it was the best at some point dosent mean it was good

[bronze jasper]

you use the index and go to the page with the grid. or if it's folded then there's a way to fold it keeping the grid index right

maps are tried and true

[night girder]

I can only image 😒

[night girder]

Magic, did you read what I said?

[night girder]

👆

[visual tree]

Even local news here mentioned Belgium preparing for emergency situations. Gotta buy a survival kit and some survival food

[night girder]

And I mean. We used to make fire as cavemen.
Then we advanced. And have like all this fancy stuff to make fire.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't have the skill to still make a fire.

[pure karma]

nah i mean this

but yea thats also true

[bronze jasper]

we still use fire. it's a pretty good tech

i don't smoke but i always carry around a bic lighter in my pockets. portable fire is amazing

[night girder]

It's just when shit hits the fan, it's handy to have backup skills.

Like reading a map and compass, how to make fire with sticks and stones.

Pretty much everything they do in those survival programs 🤣

[visual tree]

Time to do some "emergency" shopping

[bronze jasper]

building a fire in the rain with wood you've had to scavenge from the wet forest floor.

That's a true test. i was doing that 15-19 while i was in advanced scouting . wonder if i still could.

[bronze jasper]

MREs are pretty amazing tech

[night girder]

You were in the scouts? I was too 😄

[bronze jasper]

i like those youtube channels where guys find ancient MREs and eat them sometimes

[night girder]

Actually happy I did scouts as a kid. Learned a lot of things that are handy.

[night girder]

oh, I think I know which one you mean. I had those in my YT feed a while back.

[bronze jasper]

Yeah i did the whole scouts thing. Scouts Canada. started as a beaver, cub, a scout, a venture and a rover. i got my Chiefs Scout and Queen's Venture Award. Do i call it the King's Venture Award now i wonder?

SO much hard work to get it

[visual tree]

Yeah, almost all army MRE products here can be found in a grocery store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh1pKc7XkrQ

No need to buy an MRE, just go to a grocery store and buy the products from the MRE

[night girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxDk1OcdrM

I think I watched that one. 👆

[bronze jasper]

MREs are more of a field ration situation. if you're hoarding a ton of food for home base, MREs are probably not what you want

[night girder]

If you don't watch, the dude got a headache after a day or two 🤣

[visual tree]

At least we aren't getting protein bar from Snowpiercer

[night girder]

We got recommended to buy preserved food in cans for atleast 3 days.

[visual tree]

*assuming you know what it's made from

[night girder]

But my grandparents, they had canned food for like a year 🤣
They survived WO2 and had learned from it.

[bronze jasper]

i'd eat cockroach bars in a survival situation

i think in the snow piercer comic it was worse

[night girder]

Never read the snow piercer comic. I did watch the show but I found it a bit boring 🙈

[visual tree]

Yeah, it was literally the only food you could eat if you were a tailie

Movie is better than the netflix series tbh

[bronze jasper]

i love the show

ONE TRAIN

[night girder]

I think I got through the first season. But I had to dip out in the 2nd season.
Might be me. Sometimes I am not in the mood for it, but doesn't mean the show is bad. Just that my brain is off at the time I watch.

[bronze jasper]

Sean Bean doesn't die in the first season! He avoided that by not being in the first season!

[night girder]

Also what do you mean with one train?

Don't they encounter a second train passing em by?

[bronze jasper]

The show. They'd chant that as a rally cry to unite everyone on the train

spoilers: ||wilferd is on the service train, a second smaller one, and catches up to them||

[night girder]

Right, yeah I remember that.

[visual tree]

It's not just you. I enjoyed the netflix series but still enjoyed the movie more

[bronze jasper]

I like the director Boon. Mickey 17 was good too

[night girder]

I might need to give it another watch, it felt like not much was happening.

[night girder]

I liked Mickey 17 allot. But I haven't met many people who share that sentiment.

[bronze jasper]

Bong Joon Ho. got his name wrong.

[night girder]

And also Parasite.

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Not boon. OOPSIE (iykyk)

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Frozen hand scene in Snowpiercer movie was brutal

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https://tenor.com/view/toasty-mortalkombat-gif-13660924787964632104

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If I remember correctly, it felt like not much was happening in the show. Or too slow.

And I think I got a bit frustrated by that.

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some seasons developed pretty slow

it was all over the place. production problems behind the scenes. almost getting cancelled, etc...

but it finished and tied up the series. Over all i liked it

Also, Connelly. My first celeb crush. ❤️ She's still got it

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I got pissed because Sean Bean was hard to kill lol

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yeah you usually expect him to die

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He always manages to pull out alive from crazy situations

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A departure from his usual type cast for sure

Sean bean gets killed in the first act all the time

That quote is even LOTR, which is like... where he dies in the first act

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Btw speaking of comics, trying to get my hands on hellboy (not omnibus) and having a hard time finding something.

Saw the hellboy movie a few weeks ago and suddenly I was like "oh, hellboy also has a super interesting world".

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which movie? haha. i didn't mind the reboot with Harbour so much. It was no Brother Pearlman though

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I also have a feeling John Wick is still alive, he is basically immortal at this point