public-chat

[livid dirge]

Not gonna get one but is a b550 board good for a 5950x?

[regal musk]

https://soundcloud.com/sparx_x_x/cisco-opus-number-one-badgrrl-rework If I ever manage a PBX this is going to be our hold music.

[wary summit]

hello

[manic torrent]

yes

[glacial basin]

depends but most likely yes

[cerulean saffron]

is it safe to flick the GPU BIOS switch while the PC is on? I'll do a driver restart to apply changes

[hoary wren]

is it worth waiting for 40 series or buying msrp gpus now

[midnight geyser]

Can I ask a question

[tired tinsel]

Depends if you have the money for 40 series

and PSU

[hoary wren]

I have no budget

[tired tinsel]

Those things are gonna be power hungry asf

[manic torrent]

if you're buying midrange, buy now, if you're buying top end, wait.

[tired tinsel]

What he said

[full fossil]

lmfao

[tired tinsel]

While waiting for the 40 Series, invest in NVIDIA or something

Stonks might go up after this bill is probably signed

[midnight geyser]

Is it wrong for Ur parents to take Ur stuff away that U paid for urself with Ur money

[agile jetty]

I just repaired system files without cmd. HIdclass.sys

[manic torrent]

yes. Although that has some caveats.

[tired tinsel]

Depends how badly you fucked up

[hoary wren]

would you consider a 3080 mid range

[agile jetty]

Yes

[hoary wren]

im also looking at the 3070

[midnight geyser]

Say I was told to hop off and I said 1 min and then they unplug it from the cords ?

[glacial basin]

def not

[manic torrent]

haha, you're right in the middle ground of .... MAYBE 🙂

[glacial basin]

on the border of mid-high end and high end

[glacial basin]

unplug what

[manic torrent]

now that said, a 3080 will play everything at high detail and works right now and is great. So it's not wrong to buy one now.

[glacial basin]

and that seems reasonable, like just get off

[tropic wigeon]

does this apply to amd?

[manic torrent]

I could buy a 3080 now easily for what I paid for my 3070 18 months ago

[glacial basin]

unless it's really important

[glacial basin]

besides the 6950xt not really

[manic torrent]

the mid end is where AMD absolutely shines. 6600XT is awesome VFM, and the higher cards are good too.

[midnight geyser]

Ps4

[glacial basin]

6900xt is as cheap as like a 12gb 3080

[midnight geyser]

PS4

[tropic wigeon]

thinking of getting a 6600xt, but specifically the asrock challenger itx, would it be better to wait or get that specific one right now?

[glacial basin]

yeah seems normal to just unplug it, a bit infuriating but somewhat normal

[glacial basin]

do you need it now

[midnight geyser]

Cus my parents full on unplugged it and I didn't turn it off beforehand and I haven't gotten it back yet

I paid $350 for it

[hoary wren]

you think if i only wanted for now to use 1440p a 3070 is good

[tropic wigeon]

i have an rx590 right now

[tired tinsel]

Theres 2 Possibilities

1. Buy it rn for the good price of what $300/400?

2. Wait until September when 4090's release, pray all other GPU prices go down and save $100

@tropic wigeon

[manic torrent]

yeah my problem is I use 4k. I will upgrade probably next year. When I have more money 🙂

[hoary wren]

its $500 atm for 3070 msrp and $700 for 3080

like i have the money but i dont want to waste the 3080 lol

[hoary wren]

yeah i dont use 4k unfortunately

[sharp bobcat]

I have awaken to ask you all for the last time before I hit checkout button
kingpin kpx or kryonaut

I've heard some good things about kpx for direct die contact like laptop cpu/ gpu but then I also heard they both perform the same

[tropic wigeon]

i see it for ~600usd right now?

[full fossil]

Owo

[tired tinsel]

oh..

[noble estuary]

Hello

[hoary wren]

wait you see the 3080 for $600?

[warm wharf]

I doubt that

[tropic wigeon]

wait what

im genuinely lost

i was talking about itx 6600xt, since i was @'d

[warm wharf]

You were talking about a 3070 right before that

6600 XT at $600 is way overpriced

[tropic wigeon]

itx tax

[warm wharf]

I can buy a 6600 XT for $370

[tropic wigeon]

340 usd on newegg for me

[warm wharf]

https://www.microcenter.com/product/633196/powercolor-amd-radeon-6800-xt-red-devil-overclocked-triple-fan-16gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card

6800 XT for $629

[tropic wigeon]

but its not gonna fit in a velka 3

[warm wharf]

6800 XT is almost certainly what I'd buy if I had a $600 budget for a GPU

[manic torrent]

100%. absolutely kickass for the money. 6600XT perfect for a 1080p/1440p cheaper system

[warm wharf]

6800 XT is about the same price as a 3070, which is not a real decision IMO

[tropic wigeon]

should i wait until second hand 6600xt itx hit the market then?

[manic torrent]

second hand ITX? pfffff

thing is, a s/h ITX can be used by anyone, but you can ONLY use ITX

so you're not playing on an even field.

ITX costs more, that's the deal - same as white stuff.

[tropic wigeon]

yes i figured

[warm wharf]

Better than laptop tax. 😄

My laptop's GPU is about on par with a 6700 XT, lets not compare prices though.

Actually maybe 6750 XT

[tropic wigeon]

im just tryna figure if i should get it new while i can

[manic torrent]

I use a 6600XT egpu on my laptop - perfect.

[tropic wigeon]

i used to have an rx590 egpu on my laptop

over pcie 2.0x1

[warm wharf]

egpu's seem neat in theory, but every video I've seen benchmarking them shows that they get massacred by laptops with internal gpu's

Like IIRC this was a couple years ago

but a laptop with a 2070 in it matched a laptop with a eGPU 2080 TI

[tropic wigeon]

i mean i dont think the igpu in that laptop could beat an rx590

[warm wharf]

No, certainly not

but I meant compared to laptops with actual decent gpu's

[tropic wigeon]

i mean if you already have a 700 dollar laptop

whats another few for a decent gpu

[manic torrent]

2080ti egpu is stupid

egpu is midrange. If you want a high end laptop gaming experience, well, you're insane, for one, but yeah.

[warm wharf]

Eh, it's not that hard to get a high end gaming experience in a laptop

[manic torrent]

also egpu on the laptop screen takes a big performance hit

[tropic wigeon]

especially if youre on one lane

[warm wharf]

It doesn't compete with a truly high end desktop ofc, but it can come close enough

[manic torrent]

all modern egpus are pcie 3 x 4

[tropic wigeon]

modern is key

[manic torrent]

yes vbut it's huge and irritating

[manic torrent]

like... within 5 years.

[warm wharf]

Seems to vary a bit game to game, but I usually get 3060 TI-3070-ish performance on my laptop, in synthetics I can match a 3070

[tropic wigeon]

i think my laptop is 10+ years old

[manic torrent]

My laptop is an XPS13 - it's small and portable and awesome. And when I plug it into my egpu, it's a perfectly good midrange gaming system

and it charges from the egpu

[tropic wigeon]

i dont think anything that new comes with expresscard xP

[manic torrent]

I got my egpu housing for $150 AUD - add a $500 6600XT, and I'm laughing

[warm wharf]

I have a small portable laptop, but yeah, not the one I mentioned rivaling a 3070

My small portable laptop is a few years old, i7-9750H+ 1660 TI

Much larger is i7-10875H+3080 Mobile

[manic torrent]

My desktop... 3070 and a 48" OLED. Laptop? 13" intel 1165

[warm wharf]

My 1660 TI laptop's not as portable as a 13" laptop, but it's still quite portable

It's a 15" tongfang chassis

[tropic wigeon]

mines 14"

[warm wharf]

Weighs 4.17 pounds

pretty light, particularly for a laptop with a discrete gpu

[manic torrent]

I have a 15" USB C 4k external display

[warm wharf]

0.78 inches thick

so quite thin too

[warm wharf]

48" OLED....guessing that's what I'm using as a TV in my bedroom atm 😄

I've used it for my laptop as well though

I have a 48" LG C1

[tropic wigeon]

#build-a-pc pic of my old egpu riser

i think its def the funniest piece of hardware i have

[manic torrent]

ah, yeah I have the aorus FO48U

[grim ether]

I saw the steam deck clip where LTT upgraded the steam deck with hall effect joysticks
I was wondering if it is possible to do on an Xbox controller and if so, where I might find the source of the sensors? I've soldered in new joysticks a number of times for fixing drift and if I could get hall effect sticks that would be awesome

[warm wharf]

Ahh, that actually IS a monitor

C1 isn't technically one...but it certainly can function as one

I just assumed at that size you were using a TV as a monitor

rarely see things actually marketed as monitors that size

[manic torrent]

yeah it's the only one. It's absolutely awesome.

bit of an older pic, but fundamentally the same

[inland spear]

Best 120mm extra fans

[subtle pivot]

Who's all going to the LAN event this weekend? would love to try and meet some people here first to say i met online friends for once lol

[glacial basin]

my dell precision is at least 3kg or around 6 pounds

with a Quadro

[regal musk]

Man I haven't been to a LAN party since before the End Times. I'd love to go to one again.

[manic torrent]

I remember the heyday of LANs. Circa 2000. It was awesome.

[regal musk]

Last one I went to I utterly dominated at UT99. I was a dirty camper, but hey, a win is a win

[coral verge]

Bob

Hiiu

[manic torrent]

Yello

[stoic lily]

Does anyone here have experience with those Chinese x99 motherboards?

[manic torrent]

No, and I like it that way 🙂

[fervent tapir]

Sometimes you can hit a Chinese goldmine, though

I've had good experiences with Chinese brand monitors

[manic torrent]

Oh, nothing wrong with that, just I have no desire to use off brand, low/no documentation out of date hardware if I don't have to.

[fervent tapir]

I've had 5 Asus monitors RMA'd of the same model

[manic torrent]

wow. I had two aios die in a row and I got a refund

[hallow canopy]

i have the 42 and 48 oled on a 3070

[fervent tapir]

RMA is normal when you're living on the bleeding edge I guess

[hallow canopy]

using the 48 as a side monitor lol

[fervent tapir]

Chinese, Korean, whatever

[stoic lily]

It's just really hard to tell which ones specifically support E5 4600 v4 series CPUs. I recently got a big shipment of 4600 v4 CPUs and none of the Chinese x99 boards seem to specify

[hallow canopy]

really need to get a 3080

[fervent tapir]

I'm getting the new 48 OLED with the matte display. I've collected the auto dimming is less aggressive.

I had the 50 and the 48 OLED TV's a few years ago. They were unusable for coding on macOS

For windows and gaming they're all great 👍

LG UltraGear 48GQ900

[hallow canopy]

yeah i'm on windows

and the auto dimming is aggressive on the 48; no so on the 42

[fervent tapir]

Interesting

Would you elaborate on your experience?

Finally someone who can tell me about the 42

[hallow canopy]

the 42 has these "dark modes" that the 48 doens't have but i don't really use them

everything looks better on the 42, guessing because of the pixel density

[fervent tapir]

The auto dimming issue was only apparent when I wrote code in macOS, as 99% of the pixels stay static

Insta flow breaker

[hallow canopy]

yeah I code too; it's annoyin af on the 48

[fervent tapir]

Hmm

So the 48 does that autodimming when you code, but the 42 doesn't?

Really?

[hallow canopy]

yeah really

[fervent tapir]

woah

Fuck

[hallow canopy]

I wasn't even expecting that benefit, I just wanted it to fit in an area where the 48 didn't fit.

[fervent tapir]

Oh right, I need the UltraGear 48GQ900 anyway, because I need Displayport 1.4 (DSC)

macOS runs on 4k144hz 8 bit only through that

Thanks for the info regardless

[fervent tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-shocked-face-wow-flirting-impressed-gif-15212259

[odd nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[fervent tapir]

What's the point of that gif feature if it doesn't preview it lol

[odd nebula]

oh no...

[fervent tapir]

They must be disabled on the server

[odd nebula]

very weird banned words

[graceful burrow]

You have to have a certain role to embed here

Booster or pilot

[fervent tapir]

What role?

[odd nebula]

the bite of 84? or 73

[graceful burrow]

Or twitch sub

[odd nebula]

sever is p2w

[fervent tapir]

Twitch sub?

[fervent tapir]

Who the hell pays money to Twitch in 2022?

[odd nebula]

@finite cloud can u share ur sandwhiches

[finite cloud]

Everyone who watches a female streamer

[manic torrent]

shitloads of people

[fervent tapir]

oof

[finite cloud]

Hell nah

[fervent tapir]

RIP twitchgrills.com

[odd nebula]

people rlly do be watching people online while spamming dumb emotes for hours on end

[fervent tapir]

2011-2016 something

[odd nebula]

17*

[fervent tapir]

Why do you know that

[odd nebula]

I simply checked

[fervent tapir]

Alright

[manic torrent]

twitch is where it's a .. thing.... that rhymes with schmonly cans... but plausible deniability on both sides

[fervent tapir]

They ran that site into the ground

[manic torrent]

it's the implication....

[fervent tapir]

I bought merch in 2011-2014

[odd nebula]

I love floppy drives

what if floppy drives got "modernized"

[finite cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/sanandreas-gta-floppy-disk-gif-5232470

[finite cloud]

Sort of has already with SD cards

[odd nebula]

but is not 3.5"/5.25"

sadge

[finite cloud]

You’re not wrong they don’t make 3.5” SDs

[graceful burrow]

You said modernized

Modernized means small

[fervent tapir]

Watch someone make a Steamdeck accessory for floppy drives

Probably happened already

[odd nebula]

yeah modern cars are the size of a backpack now

very different definitions of modern, anyhow, 1tb floppy disk when?

[finite cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/he-vibin-vibing-drive-invisible-car-black-guy-gif-16358472

[latent plank]

thats like 6 pixels

[finite cloud]

You can really smell them

[latent plank]

lol

[odd nebula]

6p ultra hd

[uneven stag]

hi

[odd nebula]

i like green, cause is green color :)

[fervent tapir]

green gud

[odd nebula]

true

[uneven stag]

green blob=dream

[fervent tapir]

bright colors gud

🍄 🌈

[odd nebula]

ew

[uneven stag]

mc dream

[odd nebula]

ew

[finite cloud]

I played so much Half Life Alyx the other day I had a weird dream about it

[odd nebula]

anyone else just feel super patriotic whenever someone has an opinion about your country?

[fervent tapir]

Depends

Gimme me an example, Sai

[finite cloud]

Not really because most of the time people say “America sucks”

[fervent tapir]

America is the definition of YinYang

[odd nebula]

true

[odd nebula]

listen here you

"once you taste the fat filled greasiness of america's freedom you'll change your mind"

[latent plank]

https://tenor.com/view/no-bugs-bunny-nope-gif-14359850

[fervent tapir]

Yeah in the short term

Then you feel like shit

[odd nebula]

small chungus

[finite cloud]

Way ahead of you

[fervent tapir]

I linked my discord with the forums, let's see if there are some surprise awards

Nope 😢

[odd nebula]

nopkop

[fervent tapir]

I was a bronze whatever a decade ago, could be a cool badge

[odd nebula]

I love the way the exa drive looks, it looks so awkward

[fervent tapir]

I need that backpack

The hype is real

[round kettle]

can someone recommend me a good wireless headset?= below 250€ and preferably with dongle, since my mobo doesnt have bluetooth (dm me)

[fervent tapir]

I don't have a recommendation but this prompted me to look this up and I need it now

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/hk5v2r/jankiest_dt_990_pro_wireless_mod/

[round kettle]

i kinda dont want dto do that xD

[fervent tapir]

I'm honestly astounded Beyern Dynamic haven't produced a wireless DT 990

Nothing comes close to its ergonomics

[round kettle]

that explains why i coulndt find one

and im tired off the horrible audio of my roccat one

idk why i even bought it

[magic crown]

audio chat in general, that's wild

[fervent tapir]

There's a new model https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Balanced-Bluetooth-Headphone-Amplifier-Supports/dp/B09G9TNB2R

[magic crown]

n700nc m2 and get a bluetooth adapter or something

990 is trash anyways

[fervent tapir]

🌶️

[magic crown]

warmpoo

q5k less dead sounding and it's cheaper

[round kettle]

that murders my budget

[magic crown]

n700nc m2

[round kettle]

and also, i dont have bt built into my pc

[fervent tapir]

That and 990 combined is 250

[magic crown]

goes for around $100 ish, you could get a usb bluetooth card for like $20

990 is trash and a $20 honestly sounds better

[round kettle]

is it?

[magic crown]

thin, harsh, compressed af

[magic crown]

yes, something that only techtuber shills

[fervent tapir]

audio chat in general, that's wild
You seem like the root cause

[magic crown]

bad recommendations is bad recommendations

[fervent tapir]

Yes, every other take is bad

I have spoken

[wary summit]

someone tell me if this website is good or bad:

http://techno1geek.me/

[feral rampart]

Ayo chat
My Amazon order went through

[full fossil]

wants to order a legit product
goes to some no name website

yea good job kkxx 👍🏾

[full fossil]

congrats

[wary summit]

[fringe moon]

I have a bit of a silly question. I was reading on my Kindle Signature Paperwhite (2021 model) and noticed it had a small black rectangle at the top. It sort of looked like a really small webcam. I found this a bit odd since the Kindle shouldn't have one. I searched it up a little bit and found nothing. I was wondering if someone might be able to solve this mystery for me. Is the black square at the top a webcam or a light sensor?

[full fossil]

light sensors are basically web cams

in the grand scheme of things, your speakers can literally hear you breath if someone wants to get into that nitty gritty

[wary summit]

speakers?

[full fossil]

diagphrams that have the ability to use magnetic waves to create sound waves, yes, speakers

[wary summit]

tru

basic reverse engineering

[full fossil]

i imagine i cant post links here but ill try it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk

well that worked just no embed/preview

"MOSQUITO: Jump air-gaps via speaker-to-speaker communication"

[wary summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8CNxYe5dk

[full fossil]

👍🏾

[wary summit]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[fringe moon]

Holy cow I didn't even know it was possible to do that with speakers.

[full fossil]

read channel descrip

[full fossil]

they do a lot of cool stuff, basically if it uses energy, i can get information from it from far away

if i want to. i prolly dont care enough to though.

@late flax

[fringe moon]

You know, in Physics how information is used is very interesting.

[graceful burrow]

<@&750150305383186585>

You're supposed to tag the role, not individual mods

[next forge]

Ah ok

[fringe moon]

<@&750150305383186585>

Awesome thanks.

[full fossil]

gracias lupu

that was some cancer

[next forge]

Is it worth $120 to go 6900XT instead of 6800XT

[fringe moon]

Is ray-tracing important?

[full fossil]

i agree, hawking radiation and quantum stuff is cool

[next forge]

Not really

[vapid moss]

this pls and thx

[solemn cosmos]

does anyone use ae here

[fringe moon]

What is ae?

[solemn cosmos]

after effects

[fringe moon]

Ah.

[hidden willow]

is a prebuilt with i9 12900ks, rtx 3090, 32 gigs of 6000 mhz ddr5, 2 tb m.2 ssd, 6 fans, 360 mm aio for 3k usd. A good deal?

[finite cloud]

I prefer Before Affects

[full fossil]

good is subjective to you but thats fine

[fringe moon]

What about Mid Affects?

[graceful burrow]

I use ae sometimes

[finite cloud]

Nah that’s During Affects

[fringe moon]

Ah, of course my bad.

[solemn cosmos]

my ae compsitions dont load doo yk how to fix it

[graceful burrow]

Ye
Uninstall ae because it blows

[solemn cosmos]

i did

[graceful burrow]

Based

[solemn cosmos]

didnt work

[graceful burrow]

No you're supposed to leave it Uninstalled

And never use it again

[solemn cosmos]

wtf

im an editor

byee

[full fossil]

giving your life and soul to adobe

[solemn cosmos]

fr

[graceful burrow]

Adobe doesn't deserve the praise it gets

It'd be cool if the company went under ngl

[solemn cosmos]

i got ae for e

[full fossil]

student discounts are sweet (in the end, I pay more for subscriptions through my college)

[solemn cosmos]

free ae

[full fossil]

either way, goodbye my money

[feral rampart]

My first custom rig
Is 2 weeks from being completed

[small flint]

Is 4.2.2.2 dns is safe it's default from router/isp

[feral rampart]

My amazon stuff just reached my U.S shipping address

[desert dagger]

4.2.2.2 is probably safe https://serverfault.com/questions/88115/who-does-the-nameserver-4-2-2-2-belong-to

[feral rampart]

I 100% agree
But that's highly unlikely

Only if blackrock wanted

But they don't

[wary summit]

[wary summit]

ye

i use Before Effects from Cs.rin.ru

[tired glade]

How that data calculated anyway?

And is it world wide?

[wary summit]

australia

cuz we rich

[tired glade]

So,it less than 50million people from 8 billion?

[wary summit]

yup

[tired glade]

That pointless information and a half

[wary summit]

25millon people

[wary summit]

its weather i should buy an Airtag for my E-scooter or a Samsung Smart tag for my e-scooter

i'm thinking Airtag atm

[tired glade]

Oh,even less

I would avoid both Apple and Samsung

[wary summit]

but probably gonna use an old andoird with a sim and google tracker tbh

[tired glade]

My bank app has support for NFC, I don't use Google pay method

No

[dusk gull]

bro how dare you use such language

nah fuck you twat

[wary summit]

anyone know an andorid debloater

[wary summit]

You use google wallet

[tired glade]

It's not even installed

[wary summit]

@tired glade do you know how to change the unlock screen, my phone currently requires my to press ok for a 4 digit pin :/ it annoying

[tired glade]

Settings/ security and you will find it

[lethal copper]

I am starting to believe the "Career chooses you"

2 years ago I wasn't even sure I wanted to go to IT

1 year ago I didn't know what field to pick and was like most kids thinking "gamedev!!!"

No I realise... that web dev chose me

[wary summit]

thought ru didn't have discord?

no offence

cuz they cut visa, mastercard etc

[lethal copper]

Wait what

[sinful pilot]

Hm

[lethal copper]

of course we do!

Discord cut off Nitro but it's honestly a good thing

although currently it shows Nitro ad here in Crimea smh discord we both know I can't pay for hit

[wary summit]

ye bc visa, stufff cut

[lethal copper]

I am finally feeling anything except hatred when I use JS

Starts electron

It shows my datalist options

:D

[lethal copper]

also no YT ads, practically YT premium for the whole country. Sucks for local content creators I guess but awesome for users

[full fossil]

1337 EU!

[frank gulch]

What's the best prebuild computer I can get for $1000

[graceful jackal]

build yourself

you get much better specs

[full fossil]

Still think it's insane, how LTT/WAN show refuses to read YouTube Chat while live

Some tech channel, should help LTT with how to have 3 chats on at the same time

[desert dagger]

Youtube chat is crap and superchats broken

[tired glade]

For what channel?

[desert dagger]

think they even showed broken chat ...2 wan-shows ago on the stream? or maybe even further away, was quite recent.

[stiff wasp]

How much are Mastercard and visa demanding

[lethal copper]

demanding what

[stiff wasp]

He was saying that MasterCard and Visa was demanding a fee for using them if I read it correctly

Or did I interpret that incorrectly?

[lethal copper]

I think they are just out

[dusk mica]

Hey uh, if I have a question regarding laptop modification, which channel do I post it?

[lethal copper]

Idk I will just move to android soon and start using Mir pay

Wanted to switch to those cards for a while anyway

*by soon I mean whenever I save up enough to buy a flagship

[fading rapids]

heyyy gm

[stiff wasp]

#build-a-pc

[full fossil]

Guys, I need a quick advice
Which one is better?

https://amzn.eu/d/74n7qbY

https://www.amazon.it/dp/B08D9S37L9/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_D10EAEGFQ9XGVGS0Z7DV_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&th=1

[marble pilot]

i found it
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zIAj6F6UhV88Yat35oFNA?si=2defaefcce1a45f7
ltt intro song

[hollow zealot]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3050-Laptop-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1650-Ti-Mobile/m1570008vsm1091296

Raw, the 3050. I'd however suggest buying another stick of ram if possible, or finding something over 8GB of ram.

And then if you want an upgrade without replacing the computer,
Getting an externally powered monitor and turning off the laptop's monitor generally pulls a bit more performance out of them

[hollow zealot]

https://amzn.eu/d/hjDDQt5 this one also has a used one available for a little bit higher than what you were looking at

Better spec tho

[mellow flower]

Is this well organized?:

A professional email

An email only used as backup for the professional one

Email where I store photos and videos

An email only used as backup for the photo and video ones

Old emails (2) will be used for gaming/randomly(not stupidly).

Email only used as backup for these 2

[hollow zealot]

The ideal is to just have work, personal, and junk imo

[hearty spear]

7 emails? Jesus christ

what the actual fuck

[mellow flower]

😅

Well, somehow I was able to log in to my very old hotmail on my laptop and now I have to verify myself (post log in)

[dry trellis]

Nothing like waking up to a flooded room after a storm knocked out power the night before. Didn’t think to lift my bag off the floor onto my chair when the storm came last night…

Stuffed my psvita and laptop into the dehydrator

[hollow zealot]

Whoop
Are you okay?

[mellow flower]

But I have not updated it's security in like 8 years, so I'm stuck 😅

[dry trellis]

I’m fine. A bit worried about my laptop and vita. But most of my important stuff should be ok. Probably losing a few DnD books, and maybe a few other books in a box at the bottom of the closet

[hollow zealot]

Awh :(

Hopefully they don't come out damaged beyond usability

[mellow flower]

Where do you live?

[dry trellis]

It should be fine since I haven’t waited and put my laptop in the dehydrator as soon as I got to work. My bag wasn’t laying flat, the laptop only felt slightly damp. The vita did have visible water on it however

[dry trellis]

Near St Louis

The thing that kills electronics with water is 1) turning on and using them while wet. 2) waiting to get the water out of them

[hollow zealot]

Yeah make sure you quadruple check the chassis for any debris or anything

[dry trellis]

If you drop something in water, don’t wait. Take it to a shop immediately if you don’t know how to handle it

Luckily I just know how to handle it given I used to work in repair (still sort of do) and handled many water damaged devices

[mellow flower]

Is waiting to get it out not an ok solution?

How come, I mean

[dry trellis]

Water begins to corrode the internals

[mellow flower]

Ohh

What if I spill coffee on my laptop?

[dry trellis]

Even if it’s not powered on

Yes. Immediately take to shop. Don’t know what could be happening

It might be fine who knows, but there’s a higher chance it won’t be after time

[waxen cobalt]

just let it die

[mellow flower]

My mom accidentally did that like 3 years ago

[dry trellis]

Some built well laptops do have some plastic covering the boards and water holes for water to sink out of

[mellow flower]

He took it to the shop, but couldn't do much

[dry trellis]

But that doesn’t mean it’s all good

[mellow flower]

But my cousin is quite talented

He fixed it

You said something about putting it in a dehydrator. Does a low heat oven work? @dry trellis

[warm wharf]

I'm not disagreeing that 3050 >1650 TI, it is, but userbench is not at all a reliable benchmark

[full fossil]

Anyone know if the secretlab Magnus desk is better than an Ikea desk

[dry trellis]

Ovens and dehydrators are not the same

[mellow flower]

Oh 😅

Enlighten me

[dry trellis]

Oven will take much longer to accomplish the task. Dehydrators move air around while an oven the air stays static

[warm wharf]

If you put a laptop in an oven you'd likely literally melt numerous components of it 😄

I'd assume a dehydrator doesn't get nearly as hot either, if it warms up at all

[dry trellis]

It does get hot

[mellow flower]

Oh, is it like a mildly hot space with fans?

[warm wharf]

I cook most things at around 400 F

My laptop shuts itself off to avoid dying around 220 F

[hearty spear]

That's about where laptops should throttle to hell, yeah

[mellow flower]

Honestly, better to google that. Does it have a specific name, or is it just called "dehydrator"? @dry trellis

[dry trellis]

Typically just a food dehydrator

[warm wharf]

It throttles around 210, yeah. 220 I think is its "Shit, throttling isn't working, shut down now" spec

[dry trellis]

The one I currently using goes from 105F to 165F, however I’ve seen them go hotter

[warm wharf]

😄

[dry trellis]

I just put my laptop in at the lowest setting

[mellow flower]

I see, thank you!

[warm wharf]

I have luckily only ever actually had one laptop with bad enough cooling that it'd actually ever shut down, despite all the memes people have where they make it sound like a basic laptop occurrence

[dry trellis]

I have one of the Zephyrus G14s. Expensive so I wanna make sure it’s good. But I don’t see this chassis simply melting lol

[warm wharf]

I bought a Toshiba Qosmio around 2013, it was a very bad idea. 😄

Price seemed good, till I realized it came with a feature none of he other laptops with similar specs had. A meltable motherboard.

Literally fried the mobo on it three times. Replaced the first two under warranty, third was right out of warranty. I think it's pretty obvious why Toshiba didn't try and make another gaming laptop after it.

[dry trellis]

I love my G14

Made sure to get the 2021 model so it wouldn’t have W11 on it

But also I actually like not having a webcam

[hollow zealot]

I must be cringe on the daily

[warm wharf]

This seems silly.

I mean, I genuinely prefer W11, but not even that

Wiping it and putting W10 on a laptop would be a 20 minute process

[dry trellis]

Was unsure how W10 would act with the 11 key and didn’t want to deal with an activator. Also it was shown that the 2021 model had slightly better battery life, and a few other pluses for me

[warm wharf]

I'm not sure what all the differences are, so not saying 2021 is the wrong choice

just meant I wouldn't pick based on OS

[dry trellis]

Didn’t want to deal with a forced Microsoft account to use 11 either since it comes with home

It wasn’t solely OS, but OS was another reason piled on top of the others that was a deciding factor

[warm wharf]

I'd buy laptops without an OS if it was an option actually

I did with my Clevo, but most companies don't offer that choice

[dry trellis]

I like 14 inch laptops, and think the giant razor logo on the back of theirs was ugly. Only really 2 options for 14 inch gaming machines at the time

Asus or Razer

[warm wharf]

Never owned a 14", so can't really comment on IF I'd like one, but I don't think I would

just because I don't usually like small keyboards

I've got one 15" laptop that's about 4 years old, but most laptops I've owned were 17"

[dry trellis]

Portability is important to me. I also do not like numpads, especially on laptops where it feels like they off center the keyboard, and then also off center the trackpad to be directly under the spacebar but not center chassis

[warm wharf]

I consider a numpad to be required, trackpad placement doesn't matter to me though

I literally never use it, wireless mouse gets used any time the laptop does

[dry trellis]

I have never needed a numpad. And just use the row above the the letters 99.9999999% of the time

[warm wharf]

I regret buying the MSI laptop I'm using atm, it has a better gpu than the laptop I bought before it, but everything else about it is basically worse

[dry trellis]

I bought the g14, and also iPad mini. I consider these some of my best investments in myself. Before I was using an old T440p

[warm wharf]

I bought a MSI GE76 about a year and a half ago, thing has terrible build quality

hinge is garbage

[dry trellis]

Can’t stand bad build quality

[warm wharf]

It still works, but with the hinge broken, it's basically a desktop at this point

As I can't open and close the lid easily at all

Luckily I kept the laptop I bought the year prior to use as a backup if necessary, so I still have a decent laptop if the MSI does completely die

[dry trellis]

I convinced a friend to get the G15 when they were looking for a laptop. They’ve been happy as they can still run about anything at playable settings

[warm wharf]

Doesn't take a high end gpu to run games at playable settings really

I have a laptop from 2018 that was $999 then

it still plays all modern games just fine

It's the 15" I mentioned, that's also pretty much an ultrabook, but with a dedicated gpu

4.17 pounds, 0.78 inches thick, pretty sure that meets Intel's specifications for being an ultrabook anyway

Has a GTX 1660 TI

[dry trellis]

Actually they bought the M15, but still good

I paid close attention to reviews and such when deciding mine. Became pretty clear which machines didn’t have a leg to stand on for build quality

[warm wharf]

Can be hard to tell

Like, a lot of reviews will comment on materials, etc.

But the real issue is longevity, I'd rather a plastic laptop that lasts than a metal one that breaks

[dry trellis]

But was also willing to finance it anyway. Got the Best Buy credit card and walked into stores. So I’ve still got 8 months before I need to pay it off without any interest

Going into store to see is good

[warm wharf]

And knowing quickly how well something will age can be tricky

Like this MSI is a metal chassis, the Clevo I bought before it was plastic, some people will say that means the MSI is higher build quality

but the Clevo has a more durable hinge, and that's what matters to me

[dry trellis]

I was also considering what machines were most popular, for easy access to replacement parts in the future if necessary

[warm wharf]

To me build quality is more about longevity, not "premium feel"

[dry trellis]

Definitely

Many times they will go hand in hand

[warm wharf]

I've only owned one Asus laptop, I was happy with it, but it was super old.

I'd likely buy another Clevo as my next laptop, but will depend on pricing of various models when I decide to make the purchase

[dry trellis]

I was always with older thinkpad as before this, where were tanks

[warm wharf]

Clevo's aren't necessarily good looking laptops, but they seem to be built like tanks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/999760741630496859/1001508183304572978/unknown.png

That's what the current gen Clevo models look like

super basic looking

but not much tends to match them for price performance ratio

[dry trellis]

Old Thinkpads were often the same. My t440p was thick but could withstand a beating

[warm wharf]

That's a $2,588 laptop in the picture there

[dry trellis]

They also generally last forever with many institutions and businesses still using them

After 10 years

[warm wharf]

but it has a 165 hz 1440P IPS that's DCI-P3

[dry trellis]

With serviceable performance for their tasks

[warm wharf]

i7-12700H with a RTX 3080 TI Mobile, 32 GB DDR4 @ 3200 Mhz, 1 TB SSD

[dry trellis]

Some beefy specs.

Still a bit big for me. I was already into portability and you can see it in near all of my electronics lol

G14, Switch Lite, iPad Mini 6, PsVita, PsPGo

[warm wharf]

the Clevo I bought a few years ago was more like $1,900, but it has a i7-10875H and a RTX 2070 Super, at the time I remember seeing alienware's and asus's, etc. with similar performance

but they were more like $3,200

[dry trellis]

I still have normal ps3 and 4, but the only reason I even built a desktop was due to finding parts in a dumpster

[tired glade]

Isn't 10875h very hot?

[warm wharf]

Eh, depends on the laptops cooling

[tired glade]

Oh,my

[warm wharf]

It's pretty similar to a desktop i9-9900 basically, but in a laptop

[tired glade]

That is very hot CPU

Not 11900, but still

[warm wharf]

Still a way better cpu IMO than the original 10th gen i7

i7-10750H came out first, but was 6-cores

then 10875H came out a while later, to compete with AMD, since AMD had launched a bunch of 8-core laptops

[tired glade]

Hi

[warm wharf]

10875H is basically an i9, was the first 8-core mobile i7

[dry trellis]

Hot damn

[tired glade]

Really?!

[warm wharf]

Are we sure we're old enough to be on discord?

[dry trellis]

Were you born before 2008

[winged ravine]

10875h is very hot even fans up to 7200RPM

and i use mocooling x grease

but have a smoother temperature curve than original on 3dmark

[dry trellis]

You’re not?

I was asking to see if you were old enough to be on discord

I mean you could be older than me, but mentally maybe not for coming in talking like this

[winged ravine]

But still overheating after 15 minutes，and downclock

[dry trellis]

Like no offense but your first few messages were typed as if you were new to using a keyboard.

[warm wharf]

After 15 minutes of what?

The only thing I've ever really had make my cpu run too hot are cpu benchmarks

like cinebench

[dry trellis]

Maybe it’s a poor/aging paste application?

[warm wharf]

I was just curious what application was making his cpu overheat, it's expected to in something like cinebench

but most games shouldn't be that cpu intensive

[winged ravine]

3dmark

[warm wharf]

3dmark what? Timespy?

[winged ravine]

it still overheating when i play csgo an hour, 300fps reduced to 200fps

[winged ravine]

yup

[warm wharf]

Huh, shocked it overheats from CSGO

200 fps sounds super low for that cpu too

I get over 400 fps on CSGO with my MSI laptop, not sure what my clevo gets

but both have 10875H

[winged ravine]

MSI laptop,too

GP76 10UG

[warm wharf]

basically same laptop then, more or less

GE76, 10UH I think

I know it's 10th gen GE76, might have the UH wrong

[dry trellis]

What overheating. What temps

[warm wharf]

Thank you for your purchase of GE76 Raider 10UH-274

Yeah, found the email receipt, it's a UH

[winged ravine]

i played hackintosh , maybe that’s why my cpu’s not good

[warm wharf]

I remember testing CSGO a while ago

with my igpu enabled I averaged 350 fps, with it disabled, 420

[lucid echo]

Ryzen 5000 series: Is the 5800X still the best-case chip for someone who's just gaming? I haven't followed the reviews since launch and can't remember

iirc anything higher than that 5900/5950 should only be bought if they're also doing editing/rendering/coding

[warm wharf]

5800X3D is clearly the best AMD cpu for gaming, but not necessarily the best one price-wise

5950X is better than 5800X for gaming too, but barely

but 5800X3D trumps the 5950X

[lucid echo]

Fair enough ty

[warm wharf]

Looks like 5800X3D gets about 10% higher fps than a 5950X at a glance

might vary more in other games

[coarse cypress]

My mouse dpi is stuck idk what dpi means but how do i get it back up??

Its irl so im nto posting it in tech support since its not really like computer tech its irl object tech

[hearty spear]

What do you think tech support is for, if it's not for IRL Tech Objects?

[warm wharf]

What's non-real tech?

Do some of us have imaginary mice or comouters?

[hearty spear]

I def have some imaginary tech floating around in my head.

BUt I can't imagine needing tech support for it

[slate agate]

ryzen 7000 may be launching next weeek

[hearty spear]

not holding my breath, AMD would most likely make more noise about it

[slate agate]

https://www.techpowerup.com/297184/amd-ryzen-7000-series-likely-to-launch-on-or-before-the-4th-of-august

[slate wharf]

i bet theyre going to delay it

[lucid echo]

Gonna announce the launch at best, but the actual launch will be a month or two away

[slate agate]

`Courtesy of Planet 3DNow! we now know when AMD will be launching the Ryzen 7000-series of CPU's, as the site posted about an upcoming AMD event called Meet the Experts on Twitter. The event registration page reads "Supporting the recent launch of AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors," which suggests that the new Ryzen 7000-series is likely to launch on or before the 4th of August. The event takes place at 11:00 in the morning, CET (Central Daylight Time) or 16:00 UTC.

The event will showcase motherboards from AMD's partners and representatives from ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte and MSI will be attending the online event. There's still no mention of the B650E chipset, but apparently X670E and X670 products will be shown, but not even B650 at this point. Based on the short summary blurb, we're also likely to see a PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD being shown off. AMD will obviously have a separate launch event for the Ryzen 7000-series, but if that will take place on the same day, or on a different date, is unknown at this point.`

[coarse kayak]

If you're literally just gaming a 5600x performs pretty much same unless you are low res (as in 1080p) super high frame rate and is way cheaper. Like others said if you just want BEST then yh 5800x and especially x3D but if you're actually buying it 5600x is still dank and dank af value

[lucid echo]

Alr makes sense, I have the 5950X but my buddy is upgrading his 3600 to better pair with his 3070

[hollow zealot]

So I accidentally changed my Amazon app to Italian helping someone here

How do I change it back lol

Nvmnd I followed an American link and it switched it back

[fallen siren]

hello

[rustic star]

hey guys, for the mc server, is there single player sleep? and if not, where can i create a ticket?

[winged ravine]

yup

[hard oasis]

vr chat got tanked heavily now 11k negative revievs

[winged ravine]

it’s msi center now

[hard oasis]

and 20 k votes on EAC in vrc being a bad thing

[winged ravine]

i don’t need help

just talk about it

never mind

[hearty spear]

I support more software using protection to ban / block third-party clients

Especially if it's possible to gain unfair edges using third party tweaks / hacks over the original client

[weak bridge]

I support it if they can do it in a way that isn't intrusive and doesn't prevent people from using Linux

[hollow zealot]

It's time for my favorite part of my job: waiting on hold to talk to a usually unenthusiastic tech support guy who's way too overworked

[sick magnet]

hi

[feral rampart]

Hey chat
My zotac
My 980 1 tb
TP
All got shipped to my U.S shipping address

Ready to pay taxes agane

Yo chat
Should I use the heat sink that comes with my mobo or the one the SSD comes in?

[sick magnet]

mar 18

[split kelp]

Meta stock just dropped 5% today

[split kelp]

Thanks for the link

[vapid cedar]

Do you know the midijourney AI ? I tried "Linus sebastian from LTT shocked because he drops a graphic card" and the AI give me that : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AomBNnYtj-rdjHKbywCbVOiW6lKG?e=xAGTOj

[split kelp]

That's nightmare fuel

I want to unsee it

[vapid cedar]

XD

[split kelp]

NOW!!!!!

[vapid cedar]

too late 😂

[split kelp]

[sick magnet]

?

[full fossil]

Does people actually use flat screwdrivers?

I always just use a knife

[split kelp]

No

[vapid smelt]

Older products use flatheads

[split kelp]

Yes

[sick magnet]

hmmmm

[vapid smelt]

Boomer technology

[forest sand]

sup, que honda

[sick magnet]

I don't know if I want the wan hoodie or Short circuit

[forest sand]

wrong colors, that notebook is not cat6 and is missing a pair.

[feral rampart]

I would get wan

[sick magnet]

Am I overly a fan

[finite cloud]

You could say obsessed

[forest sand]

the spout lid bookmark is what does it for me

[finite cloud]

What about the TeamSpeak male

[forest sand]

Clearly that's the audio connection. It's a male connector. No need to look there.

[pliant karma]

I see that steelseries rival 310 bookmark i have one but the right grip fell off and ya I lost it

[sick magnet]

I needed one for my older style Linus tech tips water bottle cuz mine got broken cuz it got ran over by a truck

[sick magnet]

I would love to get the mouse but it says it's not available

[pliant karma]

rip I got mines on clearance

was like my temp mouse after my g502 started having double click

[balmy sonnet]

I like how VirtualBox thinks that the e cores on my 12900h have smt lol

[pliant karma]

then I got the razer viper ultimate wireless

[full fossil]

@TheCoopaTroopa#2371

@pliant karma hi

Microsoft Rewards Program: Worth a daily check / participation if I've got idle time? Has anyone here ever won anything from them?

[sick magnet]

5$

[pliant karma]

hi

[full fossil]

Wyd

[pliant karma]

Playing a lot of just cause 3👀 liberated most of the provinces by now

After I tackle the story mode

[full fossil]

Oh nice

[pliant karma]

My friend expected me to play in order but I’m like nah if it’s open world ima have fun. I don’t even care about the story at that point lol

[terse matrix]

I do sometimes but that's just because I'm terrible with stripping screws

[ionic abyss]

would this https://www.ebay.com/itm/125431077939?epid=27041792183&hash=item1d34465c33:g:PKoAAOSwmiJi3ZpJ be good to upgrade my omen 45l ram

i dont mind used ram

also what is legacy game support mode in my bios?

[twin verge]

If companies that are known and sell worldwide are only having competitions solely for Americans does that count as Xenophobia/racism?

[lucid echo]

No, it's usually a legal/logistics issue, global giveaways/competitions are absolute hell to setup. Also no politics

[hearty spear]

also, shipping costs, import duties, and other hassles make overseas giveaways a #$%#$% nightmare

[polar pine]

🚨

If you have an 8th gen Gigabyte or Asus motherboard, you may need to upgrade your UEFI firmware to remove a potential UEFI rootkit

[lucid echo]

Pog

[tawdry idol]

i have a tdagger

i modded it for a custom pattern

aka etched some of the black paint off

imagine a clear mouse with no paint on

thatd be siiick

pass the sand paper rq

[regal musk]

Tempered glass is cool, but I really want a case built out of transparent plastic, 90s style.

[lucid echo]

Wouldn't be transparent for very long lmao

[hollow zealot]

I wish that coolermaster sold a steel side panel for my case so I could cut a large hole for a few more 200mm fans

[regal musk]

I mean my original G3 iMacs are holding up pretty well.

Like I don't want a plastic window, I want the entire case to be built out of the stuff.

[ionic abyss]

what does legacy game support do in bios settings

[half shadow]

Hey sanic I have a fantasy of cleaning your house with you

[lucid echo]

I was talking about scratches

[hearty spear]

https://www.mountainmods.com/product_info.php?products_id=550

[eternal latch]

Thinking about replacing my windows 10 with Steam OS 3.0. Is it possible/worth it this early on?

[lucid echo]

You'd be better off running something like Manjaro or Ubuntu & installing Steam + Proton instead, it would have the same effect with fewer early-adopter bugs

[dreamy otter]

It really depends on the games you play.

Some games have anti cheats that don't work well

[eternal latch]

That makes sense. I guess I'll need to rewatch the LTT linux videos again before switching over. I work in tech, but linux still scares me a bit.

[eternal latch]

Mostly Halo infinite/Marvels Avengers currently

[dreamy otter]

have you checked ProtonDB for the scores on those?

[eternal latch]

I don't think I've heard of ProtonDB before

[dreamy otter]

ProtonDB is basically a scoring system for how well a game works on Linux iirc

[eternal latch]

Halo infinite "BORKED" haha

[lucid echo]

Halo Infinite 100% does not work on linux

[dreamy otter]

lol. Sounds like you won't be able to switch then if you want to play that

[lucid echo]

If you have a second SSD, do a dual boot. Get your toes wet but not commit

[eternal latch]

yeah...guess I'm still stuck with that blue windows background since I don't plan to activate windows anytime soon

[lucid echo]

https://medium.com/wireless-bidet/how-to-activate-windows-10-using-command-prompt-9c5d248f3420

[eternal latch]

whoa

[eternal latch]

did you use this process? Have you had any difficulty since doing it?

[lucid echo]

I haven't used it personally but I know people who have. It's just a funky OEM workaround

Some people will shame you for it but that's the worst case scenario

[vapid smelt]

But Microsoft is a small company and it needs your $120 windows key money

[lucid echo]

They're $120 away from bankruptcy

[eternal latch]

Then they should reach out to walmart and ask walmart to ask all of us to donate money everytime we shop

[lucid echo]

[dreamy otter]

lol

[lucid echo]

Nothing to see here

[dreamy otter]

yep!

[vapid smelt]

[eternal latch]

That worked! Thanks Guys. I should drop in this chat more often

[lucid echo]

Maybe not THAT often

[ionic abyss]

so my grey market windows 11 pro key for $13 didnt help microsoft?

[tired glade]

looks like

there was leak of 96 core AMD cpu, it wasn't working on 10 and 11, so it can be because of that

[vapid smelt]

Now they can no longer provide power for their small business

[ionic abyss]

yeah yeah and kroger coundnt stay open if they didnt cut insurance for part timers who work less than 26 hours

[vapid smelt]

Exactly

[ionic abyss]

oh your only gaurenteed 18 hours and full timers are gaurenteed 32 but need 36 to get insurance

[vapid smelt]

Didn't know Kroger offered insurance for part time

[ionic abyss]

corperate greed isnt good

[dreamy otter]

DId y'all know Kroger has a Wireless Carrier? (MVNO)

[ionic abyss]

they suck

[vapid smelt]

I did not

[dreamy otter]

Kroger Wireless

[ionic abyss]

im stuck with att for 16 more months

if i cancel i owe $800 for my galaxy s21

got it "free"

[dreamy otter]

T-Mobile was paying off phones for a while $800/line idk if they still are

[tired glade]

800?!

[ionic abyss]

"free" phone provided you stay for 32 months

[dreamy otter]

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/switch-to-t-mobile-from-verizon-or-att?carrier=att

[vapid smelt]

Not buying a phone out in full is pretty cringe

[ionic abyss]

leave before your term is up and get billed the full price for the phone

[dreamy otter]

I've considered switching to T-Mobile just to have all of our lines paid off

lol

[dreamy otter]

Yeah it's crazy

it was $1000 / line a bit back

[tired glade]

is T-mobile at least reliable?

[dreamy otter]

Depends what you do/where you go

T-Mobile has the best 5G but the least coverage out of all the US carriers

[ionic abyss]

id love to trade my s21 for a "free" s22 ultra but that would reset the 32 month period

[dreamy otter]

T-Mobile in my town

[tired glade]

how stable is their network?

[dreamy otter]

Usually atleast usable if you have 5G.

[tired glade]

below?

[dreamy otter]

4G is most of the time usable. About the same as Verizon.

AT&T has the best 4G LTE. But their 5G is ass

[ionic abyss]

im trying to figure out how to pay a $4600 dfental bill without giving up internet or groceries

its not in my budget

[dreamy otter]

Can you downgrade your internet plan?

[vapid smelt]

How many kidneys do you own?

[tired glade]

do you have friends?!

[pliant karma]

or you can buy an unlocked device. I don't think t-mobile locks the phone but at the same time I thinking yes

[tired glade]

what city?

[dreamy otter]

They do.

[vapid smelt]

You could pay that if in a year to year and a half donating plasma

[dreamy otter]

Verizon unlocks phones after 60 days of owning though. T-Mobile is immediately after paid off and AT&T you have to request an unlock after paid off.

[pliant karma]

ah lovely also been considering getting an e-sim

[dreamy otter]

eSIMs are nice but they are a PITA to transfer btwn phones

Unless you have two iPhones.

[pliant karma]

yea that the main caviate but how often do I upgrade my phone, not a lot

[dreamy otter]

You don't really have anything to lose then

I like eSIMs because I can activate service with a new carrier super easily

[pliant karma]

I only went through 3 phones cause my nexus 6p had shit battery life and was slow/lag, my razer phone 2 hmmmm I hated it after a year and not we on the iphone 11 which is serving nice

I just need a battery swap in a few months before december when I leave on my trip to europe

[dreamy otter]

Yeah. My 12 Pro Max battery after a year was at 88% health. Guess that shows how I handle charging my devices lmao

[pliant karma]

lol mines at 87% I got the phone used

[tired glade]

everyday charging?

[dreamy otter]

I charge like every couple of hours lol

[shy geyser]

i can get a sabrent 2tb rocket 4.0 plus for 140gbp or a 2tb 970 evo plus for 120gbp. what do i buy

[tired glade]

oh

[dreamy otter]

My 13 Pro Max is still at 100% capacity somehow

[vapid smelt]

Unless you need gen 4 speeds for editing I would save the 20 pounds

[pliant karma]

but my charging habbit is decent I don't charge often at home, only wireless charging for the most part. On vacation though when I am at the hotel for maybe an hour or 2 to rest then go again that's when I use my 60w charger and get my battery topped off

but vacation is when I top off my battery as much as I can

[dreamy otter]

Yeah. Your battery will probably last better than mine lol

[gilded quest]

Qi is very convenient

[dreamy otter]

The 12 series had pretty bad overall battery life

[hollow zealot]

My phone (s22) is plugged in virtually all day since I use it for navigation
Tho I have it set to not charge above 85% which helps

[pliant karma]

I beat my ipad airs battery to death though

always plugged in and barely/rarely was it off charger

now that was young panda who didn't know shit

[dreamy otter]

My MacBook Air is usually always docked 😂

[pliant karma]

so now it barely holds a charge for more then an hour

[hollow zealot]

Too bad there's no way to disconnect the battery and just run it off the wall power when it's done charging

[dreamy otter]

iPhones don't even run without a battery..

I tried it once. haha

[hollow zealot]

Which is extremely unfortunate

[pliant karma]

my macbook pro mid 2015 still is pretty good for the battery, last time I checked like 550 cycles

[dreamy otter]

My 12 Pro Max did not end up well lmfao. It's now in the graveyard

[shy geyser]

what about also the 980 pro, i can get that for uhhh not sure how much but similar price to those two

specifically longevity wise also, i dont rly need the speed

will pcie 4 be useful for directstorage for games also, in the future?

[hollow zealot]

You're not gonna have issues with longevity for Samsung ssds tbh

[pliant karma]

I just have a loose usb port and nicked screen when ahemm some dingus tossed something at my laptop in high school

[dreamy otter]

the 2015 macbook pros are still decent

[pliant karma]

but it is around the webcam barely noticable, just when you use webcam you see crack

[dreamy otter]

I was considering that before my M1 Air, but I was worried about the age of them

[hollow zealot]

I have a MacBook something sitting under my bed but I refuse to use it because I don't bode well with macos

[dreamy otter]

and how expensive they were, it wasn't worth it

[dreamy otter]

Put a different OS on it

If it's not ARM you can do it pretty easily.

[pliant karma]

hehe nuke the mac os partition on it run linux 👀 I did that on accident once

[hollow zealot]

I'm lazy and have no experience using Linux

[dreamy otter]

Use Windows then?

[hollow zealot]

I USB booted Kali onto it once tho 👀

[dreamy otter]

I've wiped my 2012 iMac before and only had windows installed lol

I've even put Windows 11 on it lmaoo

[hollow zealot]

I use W11, and I bought a physical copy

If that explains why I won't boot it to windows

Maybe I try popos?

[dreamy otter]

KDE Neon is a nice distro

[pliant karma]

you were saying lol almost a year old but 5 months old

[hollow zealot]

What are you doing to this poor thing

[pliant karma]

it's on a death run

[pliant karma]

nothing lol it's purely my boot drive and temp file storage

[hollow zealot]

Well I stand corrected

[fluid ridge]

5 months old already 98%

[pliant karma]

originally housed my obs recordings until I sorted them out but yea

[fluid ridge]

[pliant karma]

I have 2 870 qvos 1.5 years old still going fine

but i'll see if it gets worse by 90% I'll start looking at replacing it if it is before the end of the year or early into 2023

[hollow zealot]

Would you say old laptops make good server machines

[pliant karma]

yea they can hehe and bonus they have built in batteries

which you can replace

I turned a laptop with a broken hinge into a screenless laptop so just a LAP I connect to monitor like a mini pc

[hollow zealot]

My previous gaming machine is 6 core @3.2 boost and 8gb ram @ 2666
Though I'm having trouble deciding if I want to be sentimental or just wipe it and make a nice lil server

God forbid the fans turn on tho, I wouldn't be able to sleep

[pine iris]

clippy on windows 11?

[forest bough]

hey i have a bit of a question

does using a windows insider build break graphics card drivers?

[pine iris]

crap cant send screenshot

[pine iris]

I don't think so

[forest bough]

i'd ask this in #tech-support but it's a simple question

[forest bough]

hmm alright

[hollow zealot]

Depends on the build?

[forest bough]

i'm running build 22621 on the beta channel

[hollow zealot]

No I mean like

[pliant karma]

from my experience when I was in the win 11 beta program no but others might have differnt experiences

[hollow zealot]

It'll be case by case

[vapid smelt]

Tried to run paresec on a old HP laptop 2c2t Celeron n3050 with 2gb of ram, task manager would utilize 100% cpu at times

[hollow zealot]

I had issues with it on occasion while in w11 insider

[forest bough]

right

[pliant karma]

not being able to change audio source in taskbar It was a pain

[forest bough]

the issues with my graphics card likely aren't even related to my windows build but i am asking just to be sure

[hollow zealot]

I just want my taskbar on the top of the screen yo

[forest bough]

so from what i can gather, my graphics card has quite a lot of errors generally making me come to the conclusion that it doesn't want to work

it's probably physically damaged

[pliant karma]

I see you one of those who like it on top, same here I got use to a top task bar

now my taskbar hides

[hollow zealot]

Hidden task bar was very annoying because it was too slow and finicky at times for me

[pliant karma]

oi new floatplane coopa I better see you comment on it jk

[forest bough]

I'll talk about it on #tech-support actually

[hollow zealot]

I use top because web browsers use the same thing

This lady has her thermostat set to 80°

[pliant karma]

Water from you know where. I’ve been getting lazy with dumping it every 2 days so I’ve tested the every 4 day method while checking level every couple of minutes with ac on

[hollow zealot]

Don't drink it

[dreamy otter]

Ours can barely keep up with the heat. lol. Running at 76 right now

[hollow zealot]

Yikes

[pliant karma]

lol drinking no but watering plants during socal's drought

aka my grandma's green thumb and her garden in the front and back of the house

[hollow zealot]

This lady's heat pump is a 3 ton, which is 1 ton over what her house needs

She could turn her house into a refrigerator if she wanted
I'm so confused

[pliant karma]

lol

[pliant karma]

how cold we taking.

[vapid smelt]

Got to keep the dead bodies in the basement cold

[hollow zealot]

Well not below 40 deg but

Pretty dang cold

[dreamy otter]

I think the coldest home i've ever been in was 65f

[hollow zealot]

The compressor is running at 6.5 amps, if that tells you anything

[dreamy otter]

never seen anyone go colder than that

[vapid smelt]

My basement has been below 60f

[pliant karma]

lol you ever just crank the AC to the lowest in a hotel

[hollow zealot]

Yes

[dreamy otter]

who doesnt lol

[hollow zealot]

Every time

[dreamy otter]

In the car I have the AC on "LO" the whole time

with cooled seats on max if the car has it lmfao

[pliant karma]

lol did it once the maid thanked me for doing it so I was like huh so they do like it

[hollow zealot]

Ah sweet it hit 100° outside

[vapid smelt]

It's been 96+ for a little over 2 weeks

[dry trellis]

I wanna see Linus do something on water damaged tech. Treatments, it’s effects, different types of liquids. Would be an interesting feature to talk about for flood damage, or say if a water cooled pc experiences an unattended accident.

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tASvbnODtq4

[dry trellis]

I’m saying a more informational take. That’s him doing the act, but I’d love to see more discussion on say pool water vs rain water vs the liquids in water cooling

Why you should absolutely never ever ever ever put your electronics in rice and it’s a terrible idea

Seeing the effects of it over time

Maybe throw the effects of a cleaner in there too

Emphasizing again the terrible idea that putting things in rice is

[vapid smelt]

Sounds very time consuming and expensive

[dry trellis]

Take half broken/semi working boards. Expose to different liquids. Set aside and see effects over a week or two. Write scripts on those and general knowledge

Also doing one in and out of rice. Any of the damaged laptops or devices they might have a bit of

[hot bough]

Yeah I think what most people don't realize is it usually isn't the water alone that kills electronics, it's usually the minerals/etc in the water that cause the board and components to corrode after some time. Hence why a lot of times you'll have something work fine after being dropped in water then die a day or two later.

[vapid smelt]

And if it's on or not

[hot bough]

I think in theory if you drop something in distilled water it shouldn't damage it at all, or at least not if it's turned off.

I forget exactly how that all goes. Did some research on this stuff ages ago when I was trying to save a phone I dropped in a bucket of car wash soap.

Didn't make it, but it was an LG Nexus 5X so it wasn't long for this world anyway

[shy geyser]

guys https://www.amazon.co.uk/sourcing-map-Aluminum-Heatsink-70x22x3mm-Gold-Tone/dp/B08JLLF4RB/ref=sr_1_16?crid=1X82CS2H9BRKM&keywords=m.2+thermal&qid=1658877818&sprefix=m.2+thermal%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-16
should i put one of these in my laptops game drive ssd or not

its a little heatsink, idk if i should bother or not. its a 970 evo plus - what do u think?

[vapid smelt]

What temperature does it reach right now

[shy geyser]

i dont actually own it rn lmao

[vapid smelt]

I would wait then

[shy geyser]

im about to buy it and considering if i should add this to the cart or not

[shy geyser]

free shipping if i add it now though

its only 3.50

shipping is a 5ver otherwise

[vapid smelt]

Might as well then, I wouldn't bother attaching in until you test it

[modest briar]

hi :)

[patent patrol]

guys can someone help me build a keyboard

[agile jetty]

I miss the stealth hoodie

Had one, got broke,they went off sale

[vagrant hornet]

It would probably be easier to scower YouTube or Google for that

[wary summit]

buy Bajeal K100 TKL, its hot swappable, get your own switches and 3d print a base and fill it with kinetic sand

[vapid smelt]

The #peripherals nerds can

[full fossil]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0957WH8Q7/?coliid=I13TMZGFQ8V89B&colid=2IF0WP2AO7OTB&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

is this decent?

[wary summit]

ballsticks ^

[lucid echo]

Technically yeah it would be fine in deionized water, but it naturally ionizes over time when in contact with certain substances, so you wouldn’t be safe for long. Even if you took it out of the water, eventually the trace amounts of water would ionize.

[pliant karma]

ironically first time I am hearing someone reccomend it minus from hippyo's video

[wary summit]

huh, i had it before hippyo

its not a bad idea, cuz the keyboard is cheaper than buying a barebones

[pliant karma]

but anyways I am perhaps thinking about a new keeb, I do wanna try out Keychrons newer boards with a the knob lol. getting barebones

[wary summit]

you get free blue switches

[wary summit]

lol, add an OLED screen onto it

trust that shit will change your life

[pliant karma]

hehe smalll oled on keyboard

[wary summit]

Shows: volume, PC battery ,CPU usage etc

[pliant karma]

huh now I am thinking deeper an oled screen on keyboard that reads out the volume level when you turn the knob👀 and other functions to it too

[wary summit]

yee

thats whay im going to do when i get my ebay pay out

[pliant karma]

I had an app that would basically hide it completely but it likes to not work sometimes HideVolume OSD

but I hate that it takes so long to fade away

[quaint robin]

hello my name is baljit and I provide tech support

[agile jetty]

Nolan is the best CSR @charred estuary

[frank kelp]

does anyone know what speakers CallmeKris got in the LTT video build?

[odd nebula]

1 usd from 1930 great depression era has the purchasing power of 17 usd rn

That's how much I make an hour bruh

[half shadow]

Does my pc have a course

[muted merlin]

Hello

[wary summit]

https://neal.fun/progress/

[topaz kindle]

okay then

a automod killed my question

i was asking staff how do i reach out to possibly talk with the team and join it

i can't find an email anywhere

or to do something similar to what linus tech tips does

[stray apex]

do you live in canada

[manic torrent]

First you get the money

Then you get the power

[sage quiver]

Hi there! In accordance with rule 8, please don't ping LMG staff directly. Job listings are at https://linusmediagroup.com/jobs, and the contact form can be found at https://linusmediagroup.com/contact-us.

[full fossil]

I would be an amazing writer about Apple products. I hate apple

And the general "we know what you want better than you do" attitude of the whole company in general

[topaz kindle]

i am very transparent