public-chat

[full fossil]

life looks pretty bleak

[polar fern]

I think life is what we make it

[karmic flame]

Tried them all when i was younger, but when they figured me out it all leveled itself

[vapid smelt]

I'm on Ritalin (methylphenidate) $100 a bottle for a month supply 😢

[full fossil]

Why do we buy stuff just to throw away?

[vapid smelt]

But since we reached our deductible it's 10

[polar fern]

Obviously I’m not a doctor or pharmacist or pharmacologist so definitely don’t just stop taking medication just because I say it worked for me. It was a serious thing that I weighed and I’ve reduced my dosage to taper it off and have since discovered that caffeine has a similar effect but much more gentle

[karmic flame]

Yea i pay like 40 a month, without "Canadian Medical" its like 350 a month for mine

[halcyon ocean]

my parents skimped out on getting me diagnosed for anything psychological so i have no idea what i have

[polar fern]

Canadian medical sounds like a Pill box shaped like a maple leaf

[halcyon ocean]

i'd actually love to own that

[full fossil]

what is canadian medical

[halcyon ocean]

im guessing its canada's NHS

[karmic flame]

We have free medical lol

to a point

[polar fern]

The way healthcare mostly should be

[halcyon ocean]

cries in american

[karmic flame]

It still has its major issues tho

[polar fern]

Except for the maple syrup injections that they get every few years I’m not sure how that would affect my blood glucose 🤣

[full fossil]

root canals

do we need our teeth these days

[polar fern]

I’ve had several root canals it’s a very interesting experience

[vapid smelt]

I've only had 1 root canal

[karmic flame]

surprisingly out of all my blood tests a few months ago , that was the only one that came back good.

[vapid smelt]

My old cat had 3 root canals though

[full fossil]

my cholestroal is high though

[polar fern]

I’ve always thought it interesting that people dread having a root canal when usually you’re a huge amount of pain and then you have the procedure and then the pain is mostly gone afterwards

[vapid smelt]

Same

[full fossil]

its like 2 grand for a canal

teeth are like nerve endings, they dont grow back

[polar fern]

Yeah I am very thankful to have fairly good health except for my teeth because I have acid reflux. unfortunately I see a pair of upper dentures in my future.

Yeah I had to use one entire stimulus check last year for tooth stuff

[karmic flame]

I had super high cholesterol

[full fossil]

i eat oatmeal

with quinoa chocoalte powder

[vapid smelt]

When I was 15 my cholesterol was 250 now it's 188

[full fossil]

mine is 101

[halcyon ocean]

dont they give you a numbing agent?

[vapid smelt]

My bad cholesterol is genetic sadly

[polar fern]

Try having oatmeal a few times a week? I have a few packets and boil it in milk and I can’t quite explain it but my heart feels less stressed out ever since I started doing that a few months ago

[full fossil]

i use water

[halcyon ocean]

rip

[polar fern]

I don’t think I could use oatmeal prepared with water

[full fossil]

milk gives me no nos

[halcyon ocean]

water oatmeal feels wrong to me

[molten drift]

Cinnamon toast crunch. Oatmeal is a thing.

[polar fern]

Yeah the dentist has a numbing gel that they use before numbing the actual nerves in the jaw

[vapid smelt]

👀

[full fossil]

salt, oatmeal, and cane sugar with quinoa and coca powder

i call it my vegan sloppy joe

[karmic flame]

u wanna see my before and after tests

4 months ago

middle is where those levels should be

[full fossil]

oh i forgot its in metric

[polar fern]

The idea is to have food with less crap in it. I just have organic maple brown sugar oatmeal with organic milk.

[karmic flame]

then 3 months later

[molten drift]

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cinnamon-Toast-Crunch-Instant-Oatmeal-6-ct-8-8-oz/972188530

[karmic flame]

and - 80lb

[polar fern]

Oop

[full fossil]

i cant stand Cinnamon toast crunch

[molten drift]

I mean cinnamon toast crunch is a step down from my college days.

[karmic flame]

lol

[halcyon ocean]

cinnamon toast crunch absolutely destroys the roof of my mouth but it's really good

[polar fern]

Cinnamon toast crunch is definitely construction grade fill I’m not sure it should be classified as a food for human consumption

[vapid smelt]

Cinebench toast

[full fossil]

i limit myself to cheerios oatmeal or grits or whats that wheat souop

[molten drift]

So eat the oatmeal that I linked

[halcyon ocean]

dont worry about it

[full fossil]

cream of wheat

[halcyon ocean]

i just eat almond honey bunches of oats these days

[karmic flame]

I eat a dozen eggs in the morning lol

[molten drift]

In college I would take a can of green monster and put it in place of milk in the pre packaged lucky charms cause I had no energy.

[karmic flame]

almost

[full fossil]

does your breath smell fishy or rotten eggy

[vapid smelt]

That's disgusting

[molten drift]

I have been out of college for.... 7? Years....

[vapid smelt]

[full fossil]

I miss college and school

[karmic flame]

you are all babies still , im sure im older than all of you

[molten drift]

But it was the most efficient way to get the energy and nutrition

I'm 29 and 3 months lol.

[full fossil]

30

what do 30 years do?

[halcyon ocean]

have lower back pain

[full fossil]

check

[vapid smelt]

22 still here

[karmic flame]

39 in January

[halcyon ocean]

17

[full fossil]

at least my 20s were clean

[karmic flame]

lol

[molten drift]

Well Langley man... Atleast your doing better than Florida man

[vapid smelt]

Old enough to be my father if you had me at 16

[karmic flame]

Yikes, thats a scary thought.. I have enouph kids

[full fossil]

I cry when I see my yearbooks because i wasnt voted

[hoary sail]

@karmic flame bet you still game until 2am though

[karmic flame]

dont tell my wife, she thinks im working

[halcyon ocean]

"man those spreadsheets must be really intense"

[hoary sail]

You're networking

[full fossil]

balancing my k:d checkbook

[karmic flame]

lol

[vapid smelt]

How many kids do you have Langley?

[karmic flame]

1 daughter , and twin boys

[hoary sail]

That's like shining in reverse

[full fossil]

i wish my genetics were perfect for breeding

[hoary sail]

[full fossil]

you know how you want to pass on your legacy but scared of growing up all over again

Trying to be eccentric and unique in a world of numbers

life is like numerous software forks

[halcyon ocean]

being eccentric in elementary school made me get rejected from alot of social circles

[hoary sail]

You're supposed to type /imagine before the prompt nate

[full fossil]

/imagine

i dont get it

[hoary sail]

Me neither

[full fossil]

my epitaph will be "..."

[halcyon ocean]

confusion?

[full fossil]

exactly

i dont want to die i want to see the universe expand, the technology to move on to another planes of existence, collapse then go to sleep

but i am holding doubt that humanity is worth saving

[dusky egret]

anyone else in line for tech tips

[gentle spruce]

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[glacial basin]

https://fivedollarpsu.com/

[dusky egret]

ive listened to crab rave for like 14 minutes, pick up linus pls

[gentle spruce]

longer.

[chilly summit]

What position are you all at?

[gentle spruce]

43rd

[chilly summit]

1 🥹

[gilded quest]

wat

[molten drift]

The hell did I just open discord too

[gilded quest]

lmao

[open slate]

Hang on what did i miss?

Are they doing tech support again?

[chilly summit]

My parents have cancer and diabetes on both sides so I get it

[molten drift]

What ....

[halcyon ocean]

what

[finite cloud]

trick.garden.drive

[halcyon ocean]

thats a massive curveball if ive ever seen one

[chilly summit]

I mean medical history of ancestors

[molten drift]

I'm now more confused and wondering why I'm part of this server...

[halcyon ocean]

we like the tech tips

[chilly summit]

I mean the hard drive has many viruses so I would hate to bring that data to other drives

[halcyon ocean]

understandable

[chilly summit]

I wonder if this tech support thingy has some solution like the call tree one

[dusky egret]

They just tweeted it

What position in the queue are you guys in? I've perpetually been in 3 since I pressed the call button

[chilly summit]

Hmm they deleted the tweet

[chilly summit]

1

[chilly summit]

I was at 2 they hung up and I recalled and I was now at 1

[chilly summit]

Its been an hour since the tweet

[loud parrot]

for why is there not #macOS channel! o.o does linus hate the macs.

[ocean narwhal]

Yes he does

[loud parrot]

id believe it :P

[halcyon ocean]

probably to stop alot of arguments from happening

[loud parrot]

XD

haters gonna hate

[halcyon ocean]

just like this afternoon

[loud parrot]

did i miss an argument about macs?

[halcyon ocean]

mainly about apple in general

[loud parrot]

ah

their phones are trash, tablets half trash, macbooks are ok depending on what you need it for (programming is pretty solid on macbooks, if you are a web developer or somethin) and anything vintage is dope af.

[ocean narwhal]

o_O

Their processors are borderline magic, the only thing that sucks is that you have to buy a Mac to get it :-(

[loud parrot]

yeah XD

their new shit is fucking amazing js

[halcyon ocean]

one of the biggest gripes about ARM macs that alot of people i talk to is that you have to buy parallels to vm windows

[loud parrot]

i am waiting for the day an M1 comes into work for me to play with before i send it to ebay to resell

[chilly summit]

What did everyone think about the iPhone 14 going simless in the US

[ocean narwhal]

Just don't use apps that run on windows :) it's that easy!!! 😉

[loud parrot]

macOS has everything windows has except a huge game title set

[dusky egret]

lmao now im in position 2

[loud parrot]

or something equivalent (or better)

[halcyon ocean]

snapdragon doesn't seem to be providing that atm

[chilly summit]

So it does move if you wait long enough?

Qualcomm sucks

[halcyon ocean]

and it's really holding back windows

[dusky egret]

Apple Watch Ultra is magnificent and I really want one

[chilly summit]

They have a monopoly and Samsung's exynos isn't help

[loud parrot]

the apple watch does seem to be better than the android watches out there

[chilly summit]

Microsoft and intel are holding back windows

[halcyon ocean]

especially if you have more apple devices

[dusky egret]

Apple has a ridiculous lead in ARM based consumer processors

[loud parrot]

apple has gone through numerous different architectures and cpu manufacturers over the decades and always continues to upgrade their systems while changing as little as possible of the base look and feel of it

[halcyon ocean]

i think qualcomm's exclusivity contract with windows on arm is preventing bootcamp from being a thing idk i havent really looked into it

[dusky egret]

I think there's a potential hacky workaround but yeah the official reason is that Qualcomm has exclusivity. You can still virtualise windows on M1 though

[loud parrot]

anyone confidently able to use say the latest macOS Monterey would be able to go on any old mac and be able to figure it out with relative ease

[dusky egret]

GUYS IM POSITION 1 what tech support should I ask for

[halcyon ocean]

yeah but u gotta pay like 100 bucks a months

[chilly summit]

Nooo the hold music stopped and it disconnected me

Whoops aorry wrong reply

[loud parrot]

i mean the i9 9880H macbook pro can run windows isnt that enough? who cares if you cant run it on the M1

[dusky egret]

Yeah same, it keeps turning the mic on and off as well idk why

[halcyon ocean]

if you keep bottas behind... p1

[chilly summit]

You probably took my spot

[dusky egret]

They deleted the tweet and removed the URL

[chilly summit]

Ugg

[dusky egret]

Ah too bad, almost got to talk to linus

[loud parrot]

bummer

[chilly summit]

I hope someone got his tips in tech

[loud parrot]

:P

[tough trellis]

I was 3rd in line then the call disconnected beacuse of the call volumes or whatever, i tried again and i was just 2nd in line before it jsut stopped working lol

[loud parrot]

:P

blew tf up and killed the land line

lmao

[tough trellis]

damn

i remember waking up and seeing the tweet

2mins after they posted it

sad, i wonder if they actually could have helped me

[sleek quarry]

why did the iphone 14 use last year's chip??

[loud parrot]

:P

[chilly summit]

I remember pulling up the Twitter account to see if they made a tweet about apples event and seeing that tweet being 40 minutes old

[loud parrot]

cus the iphone is trash?

:P

[halcyon ocean]

gotta juice up those profit margins

[tough trellis]

yeah i just saw it on my twitter when i woke up, but i did see they made a apple bingo

[sleek quarry]

🤓

[chilly summit]

Because you're not pro enough for apple

[loud parrot]

M1 iphone and itll be legit

lol

[halcyon ocean]

that'd bring so many cooling issues

[chilly summit]

Seems like it could also be useful for cold hands in the winter

[loud parrot]

m.5

XD hahahaha

[halcyon ocean]

that's a bit like what the m1 is

the iphone 12 chip but more cores

[chilly summit]

I love how Apple made the still huge ass notch a feature

[halcyon ocean]

its a selling point now

[dusky egret]

Dynamic Island ™️

[chilly summit]

✨ Dynamic Island✨

[chilly summit]

It's not a trademark it's magic

[loud parrot]

did you know the bite taken out of the apple was in the logo the entire time? its the leaf.... :P fits perfectly in the bite XD

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-squarepants-wow-mindblown-gif-13169052

:P

[chilly summit]

Nah Steve Jobs just got hungry

Also rem?

[loud parrot]

yeah you got a problem with rem?

[halcyon ocean]

whos rem

[loud parrot]

die

[granite tinsel]

you mean a holepunch

honestly i really like that tho LOL

[dusky egret]

I literally thought we were referring to the pop band

[granite tinsel]

it's mesmerizing to look at it

[halcyon ocean]

yeah the pill kinda looks cool

[granite tinsel]

however i'm still not getting it until the EU forces tim apple to put USB-C connectors into iphones by hand at gunpoint

[chilly summit]

I hope some country forces them to allow sideloading of apps

[granite tinsel]

because yes, they're still on lightning

[chilly summit]

That's the deal breaker for me and the Apple ecosystem

[granite tinsel]

apple is going to die on this hill goddammit

[chilly summit]

The removal of the Sim slot makes me think that they could honestly go portless soon

[loud parrot]

apple wont do it, they will just include an apple to USB-C connector you stick on the end of your phone

[chilly summit]

Like even the new airpods have magsafe

[loud parrot]

guaranteed, they wont. :P

[halcyon ocean]

we need legislation to twist their arm into making it more open

[granite tinsel]

fuck it, at least they'd be accepting defeat that way

[loud parrot]

and people wouldnt let the government ban iphones cus they wont change itll get thrown out the first year without iphones

[primal gorge]

I'm so sad.. I was spot 3 in the calls for the tech support.. and they took down the page..

[open slate]

OOF

[granite tinsel]

i think i'm gonna continue having my ear to the ground regarding whether apple will adopt USB-C

there were rumours of it happening next year after all

[halcyon ocean]

they're probably doing it for next year

[granite tinsel]

and the rumours were pretty accurate this year

[loud parrot]

im not so sure they are going to bend like that :P

[halcyon ocean]

and i dont think they'd give up the EU market just to keep lightning

[loud parrot]

i do

because they know it wouldnt last

[chilly summit]

Yeah apple makes a ton of their income through officially licensed accessories

[loud parrot]

people would be in rage over not being able to get an iphone i promise you

[granite tinsel]

yeah but since it's a cash cow they're milking it for all it's worth

[loud parrot]

that law wont last long against apple :P

[granite tinsel]

that's apple for you; if it's a big revenue driver for them they will fight for it until the bitter end

[loud parrot]

apple and its proprietary stuff they stick to their guns man

[granite tinsel]

i mean think about how useful it'd be to their ecosystem as a whole

someone with an ipad, macbook, and imac could just have a single C-to-C cable for everything if their iphone was also USB-C

[loud parrot]

they can still have a single Apple to C right now

:P

[granite tinsel]

it's not like apple has zero reason to adopt USB-C on iphones

it's just that they have more compelling reasons to stick to lightning right now

[halcyon ocean]

imagine if they introduce c on iphone but it's still usb 2 speeds

[loud parrot]

the apple lightning connector is smaller

[gentle spruce]

whats that? you think apple would make their customer experience better? you're a funny

[granite tinsel]

they literally have prided themselves on end-user experience since the 90's

[gentle spruce]

in the 90s

[halcyon ocean]

thats marketing talk

their main goal is money

[gentle spruce]

apple'

[loud parrot]

i have a shitload of apple computers >.> lol

[gentle spruce]

apple's balls got bigger, they dont have to care about end user experience

[granite tinsel]

like, apple's philosophy is literally end-user experience first

[gentle spruce]

is that why the self repair service is so garbage?

[loud parrot]

12 i think

[granite tinsel]

that's not exactly within the realm of end-user experience

[loud parrot]

thats power user

[gentle spruce]

its absolutely in the realm!

[granite tinsel]

i'm talking about just using the device throughout your day

that's what i mean by end-user experience

[loud parrot]

and if you are one of those its not that bad :P if you know what youre doing

[halcyon ocean]

to be fair, most people would rather just go to an apple store and go shopping for an hour at the surrounding shops and come back to a fixed phone

[chilly summit]

Legally they would argue it is

[granite tinsel]

how easy is it for you to do the things you want to get done on the device?

of course i'm not giving apple a free pass on right to repair LOL

[loud parrot]

i can legit read and modify the EFI bios of macbooks from 2010 to 2017 and flash them back to them..

[granite tinsel]

but i'm just pointing out there's a reason why your grandma can usually figure her way around an iphone more easily than an android phone

[gentle spruce]

kids and teens i think you're going for, my parents (let alone grandparents) can't navigate gesture-based systems

[halcyon ocean]

apple prides itself on a streamlined experience but the minute you try to take things into your own hands, they try to make it difficult for you

[granite tinsel]

basically this

[loud parrot]

you just have to understand them

once you understand the mac, it becomes very easy.

i have streamlined the process of refurbing macbooks at work and i am very good at it.

[gentle spruce]

that philosophy can be applied to anything though, even android

[granite tinsel]

i also have to say that i've had my first experience with face ID through my ipad pro and it's fuckin magical how it's nearly invisible like 90% of the time

[gentle spruce]

"once you understand (blank) it becomes easy" like

[loud parrot]

i can check if their serial number is MDM locked, in about 20 seconds, get around its secure boot in about an hour, and flash a clean system in 3 to 5 minutes.

[granite tinsel]

i mean true, i do give linux evangelists shit for saying that

[gentle spruce]

oh god

look as much as i dislike apple, i cant justify linux users

[granite tinsel]

but linux in my experience has often felt like a bunch of basement programmers made disparate parts of a system that on paper should work together but in practice just are way too rough at the edges for any non-power user

and that's because it often is that way

[loud parrot]

pretty much

[lilac sage]

grandmas handle linux better than most users

[granite tinsel]

it's damning that i can say that windows feels more cohesive than most linux distros

considering windows is built on like 25 fuckin years of a kernel held together with duct tape and miracles

[lilac sage]

I wonder is theres a Facebook group 'Arch for Grandmas'

[loud parrot]

lol

[granite tinsel]

the steam deck gives me hope though

[halcyon ocean]

im thinking of installing asahi linux on a used 14in mbp for the luls

[granite tinsel]

i've been using one and it's actually been mostly painless

except for when i tried to adjust settings for the emulators i installed via emudeck

then i got lost in how linux does filesystems

but that's on me

i haven't even had to enter the terminal once btw

[loud parrot]

i try to avoid linux, its not that i cant use it, its that i prefer not to XD

[chilly summit]

I think the best operating system is one that's easy to get into and understand for simple tasks but has a high skill cap for more complex tasks

[granite tinsel]

funny you should mention that...

[loud parrot]

sounds like macOS

lol

[granite tinsel]

there is a reason why the graph of mac users vs their relative level of computer knowledge is an inverse bell curve

[chilly summit]

Maybe also windows?

[loud parrot]

windows is fine. but if you tryina do work, macOS is de wey.

[granite tinsel]

well it depends on the work

[loud parrot]

i roll around a battery on wheels with a macbook pro and a 23" screen at work for my mobile workstation :P

[granite tinsel]

mac address had a great video showing a use case where a guy switched from mac to PC because the cornerstone of their workflow did not use hardware GPU acceleration on mac

sure you could argue that's the makers of that program's fault, but i can't really blame them for not wanting to deal with metal 💀

[halcyon ocean]

mac address is so god tier esp with the production value

[dusky egret]

It really feels more TV than Youtube

[loud parrot]

you can tho... shaft all your apple subscribers like that cus you dont wanna hire a programmer

[granite tinsel]

metal is a fucking shackle and a curse upon all GPU-dependent programs

[loud parrot]

or god forbid learn it yourself

[granite tinsel]

just

[halcyon ocean]

please apple just support more graphics api's

[chilly summit]

MacBooks don't come with touch screens so I can't draw

[granite tinsel]

for fuck's sake we have vulkan

you want more than just RE8 on macs? literally just support vulkan and proton will make like 60% of all PC games in existence playable on mac

[loud parrot]

drawing should be done on a wacom table

[granite tinsel]

i mean granted valve will need to retool it for macOS but that's the fucking easy part

[lilac sage]

I really dont get why they dont have vulkan support

[halcyon ocean]

because they want control

[loud parrot]

because its apple

[granite tinsel]

erusxcgisdfhgfjghsdjg control

it bothers me a lot because the potential is there but apple intentionally handicaps themselves

[loud parrot]

depends on how you look at the glass bro

[granite tinsel]

apple should recognize how much stress game developers already are under and that they don't want to have to deal with a whole-ass new API for a platform with just 10% market share

[loud parrot]

apple doesnt market their hardware for gaming

never has

people just keep making games for them tho

[halcyon ocean]

my friend thinks that apple makes some of the best products but he just cant get behind how petty they are as a company

[granite tinsel]

so why did they pay capcom to port RE8 to apple silicon?

[chilly summit]

I thought apple had less then 10

[loud parrot]

because they can make a shitload of money doing so?

[granite tinsel]

why did they have RE8's director get on-stage in WWDC '22 and talk about how great the metal API and apple silicon is for like 3 fucking minutes?

[halcyon ocean]

its actually been growing quite a bit with apple silicon

[loud parrot]

people are going to learn to program shit on the macs for the sake of doing so, and so third party developers will eventually launch games

[granite tinsel]

you don't think that was apple trying to court game developers?

[chilly summit]

That makes sense

Hopefully they become a big enough competitor for Microsoft to start giving a crap again

[halcyon ocean]

i'd love competition in the space

[granite tinsel]

iirc chromebooks have eclipsed macs tho

[polar fern]

Apple Arcade 2.0 gonna be awesome

[chilly summit]

I would argue Chromebooks aren't competing with Macs or Windows

[halcyon ocean]

mainly because they're dirt cheap and give them out at every school

[loud parrot]

well you see some of those developers will learn how to program with apples API and they may not stay with those companies forever and eventually move on and bring their experience elsewhere and thus the wave of mac developers will emerge

[granite tinsel]

they aren't, but it's still worth noting

[polar fern]

Chromebooks are garbagio

[chilly summit]

I would say calling them garbage is going too far they have a purpose

[granite tinsel]

the thing that holds me back from a full switch to mac is how shit gaming on mac is

so i'm planning on getting a mac mini for desktop and productivity and keeping my PC around for gaming

[polar fern]

Oh. Oh no. They are -garbage-.

[loud parrot]

yeah, creating ewaste. i destroy thousands of them a month

[polar fern]

Mac mini let’s goooo

[thick rune]

to automatically brick themselves after 5 years?

[halcyon ocean]

mac mini is such a great value

[granite tinsel]

they are garbage but schools never gave a flying fuck anyway

my high school thought it was okay to saddle us with fucking 8-year-old thinkpads that ran the fucking desktop at like 20FPS

[loud parrot]

they literally are garbage. if it doesnt have a USB C on it, it gets thrown in a gaylord for shread cus its garbage

[halcyon ocean]

as long as it connects to the internet and is cheap as all hell, they dont care

[loud parrot]

if it has a USB-C, some idiot will pay us 150 bucks for it if it works. but fuck it money is money

[chilly summit]

on the other hand chrome os flex could save many outdated machines from the bin

[granite tinsel]

you could say that for any linux machine tbh

[loud parrot]

this. we sell a TON of older systems with flexOS

[loud parrot]

but no one buys linux

[granite tinsel]

trueeeeeee LOL

[loud parrot]

they buy flex cus its basically chromeOS and they know its easy

[chilly summit]

but its a much more accessible and user friendly linux

[granite tinsel]

yeah but it's also google and google sucks

[loud parrot]

we give them the option though, they can have ubuntu, flexOS or windows for 30 bucks extra

[polar fern]

Chromebooks could be better. Their build quality is laughable at best. More robust frame, hinges, and bezels would make a HUGE difference.

[granite tinsel]

i just don't like google lol

[halcyon ocean]

well you gotta keep em cheap somehow

[chilly summit]

really you guys have already adopted it? didn't is just roll out?

[loud parrot]

yea

[granite tinsel]

i've seen enough of their bullshit as a veteran of google+, google play music, and google hangouts

[loud parrot]

we use it on 3rd and 4th gen laptops

[granite tinsel]

they are the most frustratingly inefficient company of the big 5

[loud parrot]

usually the education type with a pentium or celeron in them

100 bucks a pop, they fly off the shelf.

[polar fern]

The chromebook hinges are so fragile they break if you look at them wrong.

[granite tinsel]

google could easily, easily achieve a level of vertical integration on apple's level

but their corporate structure is so broken and bloated that they never will

[polar fern]

Antitrust laws would prevent that.

[granite tinsel]

think about how it took that new google chromecast like 6 fucking months before it got stadia support

[chilly summit]

i used a Chromebook for 4 years 2 of them broke but it was never the hinge

[granite tinsel]

also let's not forget the current debacle with google meet and google duo

that was such a stupid fucking idea that they actually backtracked on it for once, to my surprise

[polar fern]

My girlfriend’s kids went through 6 of them in like 3 years.

[chilly summit]

how old were they?

[loud parrot]

yeah cus kids

kids break everything regardless how tough they are

[granite tinsel]

i've just learned the hard way that if the google service isn't search, youtube, drive, android, chrome, or chromeOS, that you should never, never expect it to stick around

[chilly summit]

like you shouldnt be giving computers to kids under 12 period

[wild briar]

LINUX: is there a way to install a app to a microsd card i am on a old chromebook with linux installed and only have 32gb hard drive so i wanted to install a app to a 256gb microsd card if possible

[halcyon ocean]

i would not give any personal device to my child before 13

[polar fern]

They broke because they were opened and closed 2x a day for 2 years. They were not mishandled

[loud parrot]

i was 13 when i got my own computer

[full fossil]

I think you can side load apps on chrome os

[granite tinsel]

everything that isn't those six things is stuck in a revolving door from hell of google executives thinking it's better to start over from scratch than just adding the new features to the existing fucking service

[wild briar]

I dont have chrome os

[loud parrot]

and it was an iMac with the CRT monitor built in. hard to break that thing without dropping it

[full fossil]

Oh nvm

[granite tinsel]

i'd give my kid a device! ...my GBA SP

[chilly summit]

give em one of those fire tablets with a thick plastic case around it

[polar fern]

As far as I know, chromebook frames are plastic.

[granite tinsel]

you'd be best off asking #linux

[loud parrot]

this. this is appropriate for under 12 ish lol

[granite tinsel]

actually on second thought i might give them my wii u or 3DS

[full fossil]

I’d give my kid those little boot leg arcade toys with 300+ games on it

[polar fern]

Again - they were not abused or mishandled

[chilly summit]

i mean like a soft plastic maybe im thinking of foam?

[full fossil]

3DS

[polar fern]

Y’all are missing the point. Kids sitting at a desk don’t need to be treated like rampaging zombies

[graceful burrow]

chromebooks are honestly kind of elite ngl

[chilly summit]

hey um I just remembered Im under 12 can I have it? (im not actually 12 as that would break tos)

[graceful burrow]

give your moms and grandmoms chromebooks
kids and stuff

[polar fern]

The problem isn’t kids - it’s the way they’re built.

[granite tinsel]

no it's actually an NES edition

[chilly summit]

yes it is the way kids are built

[full fossil]

Give your kid a Panasonic tough book now they can’t break that laptop

[granite tinsel]

thinkpad

[polar fern]

Having seen these Chromebooks in person with remote school I can tell you it’s the design. It’s not the kids.

They just -break-

[granite tinsel]

with so many of us in agreement that we shouldn't be giving our kids internet-connected devices at an early age i'm actually wondering if we're going to eventually see a decline in children's internet content and such once more millennials and gen Z grow up and have kids

[chilly summit]

no you are all wrong they should give kids this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpdqO1EZK0

[polar fern]

These Chromebooks are locked to the school’s online edu program. They aren’t used as personal devices

[granite tinsel]

do elaborate

[chilly summit]

My school had that too but it didn't mean I got around it.

[granite tinsel]

still thinking about how my mom--who's the head of a language program at the local uni--received a bunch of fucking 14" M1 macbook pros for her department

like... what the fuck why

[polar fern]

As a parental figure with actual day-to-day observation and use of these things with the remote school for the last 2 1/2 years I can tell you these devices are garbage. It is not an opinion they have fallen apart just sitting there being opened and closed on a flat well-made desk

[halcyon ocean]

can i have one

[granite tinsel]

why would you need a fucking macbook pro for language studies

[chilly summit]

my college was giving away surface go's

[granite tinsel]

nah they're managed by the uni

not even i can use hers

[halcyon ocean]

an m1 air would be perfectly fine for that

[granite tinsel]

as much as i'd like to...

[polar fern]

Colledge 😬

[granite tinsel]

yeah... but i guess tbf they are the base spec probooks

256GB with just the base M1 pro

[chilly summit]

I really struggle with English (even though it my 1st and only language)

[polar fern]

Yeah me too I am dyslexic

My brain has a very unique and interesting wiring layout it seems

[chilly summit]

But I'm not even that I'm just stupid 😭

[granite tinsel]

i mean hey, learning a new language ain't easy

looks at how my progress in japanese has slowed to a crawl because of kanji

[chilly summit]

😭 Its my native language

[halcyon ocean]

i read that as "even though it isn't my first language"

[granite tinsel]

ohj wait safghfiguhiu I'M SORYR LMAO

[halcyon ocean]

i think you might also be dyslexic

[polar fern]

Written and spoken languages are not something that just happens with evolution it is something which our adaptable brains learn to use so obviously they’re going to be times when people struggle with written and spoken language

[granite tinsel]

nah just ADHD 💀

ADHD can actually kinda fuck with your ability to read things somethings because oops you glossed over that message and thought it meant something else

[polar fern]

I mean do you really think that we used language eons ago when our species first emerged?

It’s amazing that we can even communicate with each other at all

[halcyon ocean]

do you also read a paragraph for school and then go in a loop going "wait i forgot to comprehend that whole thing"

[polar fern]

That is related to how your brain intakes processes and interprets written language

[chilly summit]

cramming got me in that habbit. glance over sentence get gist of it. if it doesn't seem important forget about it go to next sentence or passage.

[polar fern]

Precise language is important but it is useless without people paying attention

[chilly summit]

I feel like the things I never took the time to learn (mostly in English class) have really screwed me over

[polar fern]

You can go into dictionary.com or other sites even Wikipedia to learn about things it’s never too late our brains are very adaptable even in older age

[chilly summit]

I also do this in spoken conversation too

[granite tinsel]

yes, i usually need to reread something once or twice

but i am a fast reader

[halcyon ocean]

i feel like my brain is made out of callouses even though i'm only 17

[polar fern]

Sensory overload can also affect speech/language interpretation

[granite tinsel]

like, really fast

[chilly summit]

exactly

[granite tinsel]

if i do focus and don't reread i can usually get through an average-length novel in about 3 hours

[polar fern]

Are you getting enough sleep?

[halcyon ocean]

reading out loud is a struggle for me because my mind is completely out of sync with my mouth

[halcyon ocean]

full 8 hours

[chilly summit]

my body wants 9+

[polar fern]

Actual restful complete sleep?

[halcyon ocean]

i think

[polar fern]

When you wake up does your head hurt at all?

[halcyon ocean]

no

either that or i repress all of that

[polar fern]

I mean even the very most vague slightest headachy type feeling?

[halcyon ocean]

not really

[polar fern]

Lack of oxygen while you sleep can deeply affect your retention ability and capacity

It will also affect your memory and a bunch of other things

[halcyon ocean]

i do sleep on my stomach

[polar fern]

I recommend sleeping with your mouth open a tiny bit if you can. Your nose is good for some breathing but can easily become congested while you sleep

[halcyon ocean]

alr

[polar fern]

BRB 👀

[chilly summit]

drinking water before bed can help with a congested nose

[halcyon ocean]

room temp?

no i'm thinking abt what temp i should drink water at before bed

[slate agate]

I get sleep paralysis off and on at times when I sleep on my back, used to be only my back but I've "woken" up on my stomach with it a few times

[halcyon ocean]

now that i think about it

i should dust off my bedroom every so often

inhaling it in my sleep is not very good for my asthma

[slate agate]

20" box fan with a 20" hepa furnace filter taped to the back

great cheap way to keep a room free of dust and fresher smelling

[stone rivet]

does anyone know what the name of that one green slime pokemon is?

[halcyon ocean]

solosis?

[stone rivet]

no no not that one this one doesnnt fly

[halcyon ocean]

damn

[jovial depot]

is the 1660 super a good card to get for recording, good gaming, and streaming

[halcyon ocean]

does it produce the slime instead of being made up of slime?

[gilded quest]

macbooks

[jovial depot]

wdym by mid gpu

[edgy moss]

should 12gb of VRAM be the new standard for midrange cards?

[jovial depot]

too expensive

[halcyon ocean]

m1 airs have good value for their performance

refurbished ones are also like a hundred bucks off i think

[jovial depot]

still a 900 dollar laptop 💀

[edgy moss]

yes

maybe try to save for a 2060 if you really care about streaming

[jovial depot]

i cant get a job

[gilded quest]

welp

[little osprey]

Oof

[halcyon ocean]

rip

[edgy moss]

Well then I don’t see how you can afford a 1660 super either

Sorry to hear that though.

[jovial depot]

my dad said that if i get straight As this year, he will buy me a pc. i really need one so i can stream and create content

i cant do jack with this laptop...

[graceful burrow]

Better get them a's

[gilded quest]

gaming content?

yeah get off discord and hit the books

[halcyon ocean]

but don't burn yourself out

[jovial depot]

im do my hw in school so i dont have jack to do at home

[jovial depot]

i always get As and Bs so im gonna try this year

[polar fern]

Back

In the middle of pairing the TV with my Apple TV remote

Something went wrong and I had to re-pair it with the Apple TV and now the TV set

All better.

[old smelt]

anyone know if Jake replies often

[harsh lodge]

urgent help

I turned my pc on and my gpu seems to be underperforming

usually get 300-400 fps on fortnite and now its not going over 165

limiter?

wdym?

I didn't do anything , just turned my pc off and turned it on and it is not working as expected

[slim iris]

i would assume he means undervolting?

[harsh lodge]

the graphics card is the rx 6600xt

I even restarted it and it performs the same

[fluid ridge]

eren yeager computer issues

[slim iris]

did u check the radeon graphics app

[fluid ridge]

the simplest solution is to not play fortnite

[harsh lodge]

it affects overall

[slim iris]

@harsh lodge ^

[harsh lodge]

what do I look for there?

still doesn't make sense I didn't change anything on there

it shouldn't change settings by itself

[slim iris]

idk anything that may affect your framerate

software is weird man

[fluid ridge]

thats not very helpful bru

man went up to a guy with a car that wont start, told him to open the hood and "check for anything wrong"

[slim iris]

never used a radeon card so not sure what to look for lol

[fluid ridge]

fair enough

[harsh lodge]

rma ?

I know .

I put it on max , it shows 300 fps but drops down to like 60

and 20 , making it unplayable

[fluid ridge]

your GPU is saving you

[harsh lodge]

or perhaps it isn't my gpu and its my cpu?

possibility?

I feel like its a cpu problem

how would I isolate the problem?

[fluid ridge]

is it really a problem tho

[visual fern]

can a vpn still hide your traffic if the network blocks encrypted dns traffic

[heavy moss]

for someone looking to learn to code, where would i start? i just want to learn how to code

[harsh lodge]

@fluid ridgeI just turned off bluetooth and it works good now

im so confused

[fluid ridge]

it's just your background processes eren

that could slow down your machine yes

[harsh lodge]

I almost returned my damn gpu

these tricky machines '

[fluid ridge]

returning your gpu because you didnt get enough FPS in fortnite

[harsh lodge]

no

[fluid ridge]

you should be buying more of them GPUs

[harsh lodge]

returning because it was underperforming overall

[fluid ridge]

yeah no next time check task manager

it shows you utilization of system hardware

[robust fjord]

I really hope amd learned their lesson with the 6500xt

and wont launch 64 bit bus on a "gaming card" ever again

[fluid ridge]

i would like to see a pro focused Radeon GPU

[glacial basin]

Radeon Pro exists

[edgy moss]

ouch.

[robust fjord]

eSIM? no thanks fruit brand I like my physical sim card

[vapid smelt]

allot of phone can use e sims but also have physical sim cards

[full fossil]

iphon 14 is coming guys omg

[edgy moss]

honestly surprised with how they changed pretty much nothing on the new iphone

[full fossil]

it has island!!

best feature on a smartphone that i’ve seen yet!

i mean at this point i seriously wonder if they changed anything meaningful

there’s still a chance they’re overhyping the stupid island thing

[edgy moss]

what even is it

is it the satellite thing

[full fossil]

maybe it’s just hard to innovate in such a way that pleases the general public and meets their goals

i mean where is all that r&d even going?

[delicate moth]

idk

[edgy moss]

software???

[full fossil]

what software

they’re not innovating anything

[delicate moth]

agree

[full fossil]

at this point though, are we the technology enthusiasts just being loud for no reason?

either our voices are just unheard or there’s not much else you can do to innovate the same thing

[kindred sorrel]

So

Think I just got scammed from a reddit trade

[delicate moth]

lol

[full fossil]

congrats

[glacial basin]

rip

[kindred sorrel]

Knice

[hearty spear]

depends on if you're flexing it or not

[fluid ridge]

people shit on apple "for not changing anything" but whatever apple "doesn't change" somehow causes all the competitors to "not change" too

despite what people say, apple's yearly keynotes and devices are very innovative

[opaque mantle]

you know one thing that's not being trialed with the screw driver is how well it chisels on a flat blade bit?

[fluid ridge]

not a mac user lol

[hearty spear]

cuz you don't do that with ratcheting drivers

[fluid ridge]

but i swear to god people shit on apple for the sake of shitting on apple

[hearty spear]

cuz apple mostly earned it

[latent plank]

or any screw driver

[fluid ridge]

i do not get the hate around apple

[opaque mantle]

well, your not mean to do it on any screw driver, but people have no common sense 😛

[fluid ridge]

apple makes very good quality, (expensive), but good quality products

[hearty spear]

you can get away with it more on a non-ratchet driver

[fluid ridge]

the A13 from the iphone 11 claps any android chip from 2022

[opaque mantle]

sure, but how much extra storage can the a13 take?

😛

[kindred sorrel]

Nick would you nick me? Please say yes

[fluid ridge]

presumably as much as in the phone you have?

[hollow citrus]

it’s more of the ecosystem lock they put you in. to replace your screen is $300 or you scrap your phone. they make good products but the changes have been very minimal every year. They really aren’t doing anything super innovative or impressive anymore

[hearty spear]

#Awkward

[fluid ridge]

i dont think A series bionic chips are replaceable

[latent plank]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-spongebob-fish-stare-what-gif-16202349

[opaque mantle]

ah, i have a a90 - i dont need more then 8gb SD

i had 5g before 5g was cool

[fluid ridge]

it's not minimal though

[kindred sorrel]

Goal is to get 3 peps to sign my water bottle

Linus, Anthony, Nick

[fluid ridge]

camera quality goes leaps and bounds, new chips, new software

[vapid smelt]

i still dont get the point of flagship phone with the best/fastest cpu all we do on phones is snap pictures and like cat photos on your preferred social media app

[latent plank]

there are 4 nicks

[wintry dagger]

nobody cares about linus its all about anthony

[hearty spear]

Who TF is Linus?

[wintry dagger]

ikr

[kindred sorrel]

Depending on what your doing

[hearty spear]

You mean that midget that hosts videos, sometimes?

[opaque mantle]

Anthony - nah, I'm a Riley fan - love his mo

[hollow citrus]

nick light, nick medium, nick heavy, nick massive

[kindred sorrel]

I run vms on my fold 3 for server stuff

[wintry dagger]

anyways

[latent plank]

3/5

[hollow citrus]

tbh alex clark is my favorite

no offense nick

[wintry dagger]

alex is cool I forgot about him

[hearty spear]

At some point I want to go to a LTT Event just to make linus feel short lol

[wintry dagger]

hes as small as his 🐔

[latent plank]

he is aware he is short

[hollow citrus]

yeah i’m 30 feet tall

[wintry dagger]

30? rookie numbers im at least 45

[hearty spear]

I'm 6'7", so I'd make nearly all the team feel short

[kindred sorrel]

How tall is Anthony?

[hearty spear]

(I used to be taller, but I'm shrinking as I get older lol)

[wintry dagger]

this chat is full of virgin

[latent plank]

eh

[hollow citrus]

i’m super excited for my screwdriver tho. the high torque spec is good because i build robots and often stick a pair of pliers on the screwdriver to get extra leverage

[wintry dagger]

did I say im not a virgin

[vapid smelt]

to bad you cant fit in a airplane to meet them

[latent plank]

how about just watching what you say.

[fluid ridge]

aint nothing wrong with full metal alchemist

[hearty spear]

I fuckin' hate airplanes

[fluid ridge]

[wintry dagger]

👽

[hollow citrus]

rude i fly airplanes im omw to your house rn

[kindred sorrel]

Trust me bro helicopter.

[wintry dagger]

helicopter made of pc fans when

new video idea

imaging being straight smh

[hollow citrus]

never lmao

[hearty spear]

Amusing fact:
If an Airborne vehicle loses all engine power? Helicopters are more likely to land safely than airplanes.

[kindred sorrel]

I was, Then got a skirt and feel more jealous

[hollow citrus]

the thrust to weight ratio for pc fans is like 0.8:1

[hollow citrus]

uh what

i feel like that’s just blatantly wrong

[kindred sorrel]

Can you not say

[wintry dagger]

you remove the casing and then strap it to styrofoam

[kindred sorrel]

Ok, Fine. Femine guy

[polar vale]

What is even happening

[wintry dagger]

no lol planes are safer because you can still control them when they lose all power

[hearty spear]

100% a thing. Look up "Helicopter AutoRotation Landing"

[wintry dagger]

dude can we talk about how good trans people have their lives

[hollow citrus]

yeah i know what autorotation is, but i don’t think it’s safer than airplanes lol

[hearty spear]

you'd think? But you'd be wrong.

[polar vale]

They usually don’t

[wintry dagger]

they can use the womans and mens restroom

[fluid ridge]

average andrew tate fan

[hollow citrus]

autorotation has a shorter glide range than airplanes

[polar vale]

They get hate crimed a lot

[wintry dagger]

I mean I live in cali so idk about any other states but here like nobody cares

[hollow citrus]

maybe if your in the mountains it’s safer but everywhere else it’s not

[hearty spear]

can we talk about how:
This is not tech related?
This server is also anti-shitposting and trolling?

Just sayin'.

[wintry dagger]

my trans friend lives in north dakota and she hates it so

[latent plank]

not tech related

[wintry dagger]

cope ig

[hollow citrus]

i ❤️ tech

[wintry dagger]

ikr like the worst place for a trans person to live lol but she cant afford to move out bc shes 16

so

[hearty spear]

(NGL? I'd hate living in North Dakota, too.)

[wintry dagger]

(lets not get into the whole child trans thing ok)

[fluid ridge]

whats a north dakota

[kindred sorrel]

Ok, Is it legal to run facial sensing on a camera in a public place. For research?

[hearty spear]

a very large middle of the USA State that has very little in it but farmland

[hollow citrus]

as long as it is your property or public property i guess. it’s a little weird tho

[wintry dagger]

and old people who hate people who arent straight

[hearty spear]

legal? Yes. When you're in public you have no guarantee to privacy.

Ethical? Entirely different story.

[fluid ridge]

so like most of america?

[wintry dagger]

yes basically just like how england is mostly farmland

[vapid smelt]

can you even lay flat on a queen bed

[lilac sage]

most of most countries are farmland

[kindred sorrel]

Is it weird to locate someone that you know will be in a area for a time

[hearty spear]

it also can frequently hit -30F / -30C during winter.

[fluid ridge]

sounds nice

[hollow citrus]

i’m looking at drone mounted lidar for terrain scanning

[fluid ridge]

i frequently face -20C temps

[wintry dagger]

you say that until you have snow

[kindred sorrel]

And have a couple friends and some backpacks with cameras on top

[fluid ridge]

i am canadian after all

[hollow citrus]

yeah if it’s not your property

[wintry dagger]

snow sucks ass

[hearty spear]

I'm taller than king/queen beds are long. Cali King are the only beds longer than I am tall.

[wraith sonnet]

chemistry question

[vapid smelt]

$$$

[fluid ridge]

sodium diflouride

[wraith sonnet]

why does solder have urea in it?

[hearty spear]

that'd mostly depend on the solder

[wintry dagger]

oh so its just def fluid

time to solder with def fluid

[fluid ridge]

[hearty spear]

this is 110% the wrong server to ask this on

[wintry dagger]

[wintry dagger]

I second this

[wraith sonnet]

Yes? but this is barely an appropriate question.

[hollow citrus]

bro just had to say yes

[hearty spear]

that's nice. This is still not the correct server to have this convo on.

[fluid ridge]

please do not search "gok" on the discord gifs feature

(please do)

[hollow citrus]

i’m in a server with every person in this server

[wraith sonnet]

I need bleach for my eyes thanks

[hearty spear]

is that all? I was hoping for worse.

[hollow citrus]

hoping?

[fluid ridge]

hoping

[hollow citrus]

you too, are on this server

[wraith sonnet]

it's relatively tame but it was the last thing I was expecting.

[hearty spear]

I cut my internet teeth on late 90's / early 00's internet trolling. someone's feet ain't even a blip on the radar.

[vapid smelt]

why yall feeding the trolls

[fluid ridge]

thats not just "someones" feet that be goku

[hearty spear]

absolutely NOT what I was expecting, but also hella tame.

[hollow citrus]

hell i’m trolling the trolls

[hearty spear]

I was trying to not spoil for anyone else who'd look

[fluid ridge]

oh

welp too late for that

[hearty spear]

oh, lemme find you something triage

[wraith sonnet]

oldschool chans were great

[hearty spear]

some, absolutely

[wraith sonnet]

I vaguely remember a 3chan being a thing but am I just misremembering?

[hearty spear]

and I think I just hurt Triage

[wraith sonnet]

ooh boy the internet of old hits hard doesn't it @fluid ridge?

[fluid ridge]

horrendous

i think i have PTSD

[wraith sonnet]

I have diagnosed ptsd, that one was nothing

but if you contextualize that image it can be even worse

[fluid ridge]

[hearty spear]

the internet is a warehouse of truly frightening content. (And that's before you get into the real world death stuff.)

[wraith sonnet]

Mormon.

[hearty spear]

I don't think "alcohol parties" are really a thing? But yes, people go to parties that do have alcohol.

[wraith sonnet]

I feel like english is either not your first language or you're struggling to find material.

[hearty spear]

I'd counter that with Jersey Shore 😛

[wraith sonnet]

or any FF movie

[manic torrent]

But also in a culture that doesn't do alcohol

[midnight elk]

How much does floatplane cost and on what interval?

For ltt

[gentle spruce]

why dont you

[vapid smelt]

are you under the legal drinking age?

[gentle spruce]

go and find out?

[wraith sonnet]

5 usd, monthly

[hearty spear]

That's not a good plan overall. But you're young, so... you're free to make mistakes.

[manic torrent]

It's called being in your 20s

[gentle spruce]

well aren't you cool, do you feel like a cool kid?

[wraith sonnet]

nice bait

[manic torrent]

I have never in my life before now heard the phrase "alcohol party"

[hearty spear]

I mean, I recently went to a Convention and I took ~5 gallons of hard liquor with me? So.....

[gentle spruce]

what mean? i go party to drink alcohol and do dance and the sniff sniff and pick up femahls

[wraith sonnet]

Are you referring to wine tasting parties?

[glacial basin]

collège parties

[wraith sonnet]

I think covid killed that

[glacial basin]

/s

[manic torrent]

How do friends even work? IDK I stay at home all the time and don't go anywhere.

I stay here with my wife and son

[hearty spear]

it's been weird for the last ~2.5 years or so

[wraith sonnet]

my friends don't work. I'm the only one out of my friends that has managed to keep a job longer than a week

[manic torrent]

It's ok though, we compensate in other ways

[gentle spruce]

ideal

[wraith sonnet]

sigma bob

[glacial basin]

aw

[wraith sonnet]

is "sigma" a a compliment?

[hearty spear]

generally not the kind you want to keep long-term

[gentle spruce]

or literally anywhere else

[manic torrent]

Honestly... Nobody knows anymore. There's so many layers of bullshit and irony

[hearty spear]

going to booze parties with high-schoolers is a terrible plan, unless you're also in high school

[fluid ridge]

damn lil homie got the batman whip 😈

[manic torrent]

I barely even drink anymore

[glacial basin]

I don't drink, only occasionally with stuff like jolly shandy

water and barley is 👍

[gentle spruce]

mad respect, i don't drink at all I find it infuriatingly disgusting, and its effects worse

[manic torrent]

That's objectively not true

[hearty spear]

there are plenty of ways to have a social life that doesn't involve drinking, and almost all of them are better for you

[wraith sonnet]

so what I can piece together, "demi" is either a minor that is trying to brag with people they perceive as either the epitome of the nerd emoji or is some sort of Chris Hansen level b8r

[hearty spear]

Por Que No Los Dos?

[wraith sonnet]

da

[gentle spruce]

ja

[manic torrent]

All of my hobbies are better when I have better control and reflexes 🙂 hard to engineer a ridiculous rc boat when you're smashed

[gentle spruce]

exactly!

no

[glacial basin]

aka trying to be a tough guy

[gentle spruce]

we broke it

[hearty spear]

Pick up a new hobby. You want to meet some fun people of both genders? Go find some local "Flow Arts" groups and learn something there.

[wraith sonnet]

Interpreting intoxicated blue prints is kinda fun tbh

[manic torrent]

I didn't complain, it was a statement

[night walrus]

I'll make you a 3d model for free if you want. I'm bored in my engineering class cuz were going over shit I alr know, so if you want gimme the dimensions in dm

[manic torrent]

I'll get some pics I actually need 2d laser cut drawings of in a sec 🙂

[hearty spear]

you can try to be a tough guy all you want, but you ain't gonna get shit for respect with that routine. It's kindertgarden tier at best.

[wraith sonnet]

you really should be paying attention, most of the time you'll pick up a new perspective on something you already know

[manic torrent]

Mehhhhhh

[night walrus]

No like it's just intro stuff about software lmao

[night walrus]

Can you reword that cuz my brain just died lol

[wraith sonnet]

there's more than one way to pick up a shovel, it's not always going to be sitting on a rack.

[manic torrent]

I have the design sketches, I need the 2d files to get it laser cut

[formal sandal]

Okay so does anyone have a idea of why my pc can't run games if I let it idle for like 2 hours (I have cleaned it, restarted it, checked for viruses/updated it.)

[night walrus]

Gotchu, I'll give u it in a dxf

[night walrus]

#tech-support

[formal sandal]

My bad

[hearty spear]

check task manager and such and see what your resources look like?

[night walrus]

Np

[wraith sonnet]

thermal paste?

[night walrus]

Just dm me the drawings

[formal sandal]

I bought it from a store prebuilt so that shouldn't be it but idk

[wraith sonnet]

when?

[night walrus]

You would he suprised 💀

[formal sandal]

around ayear ago

[night walrus]

It def could be thermal paste if it's been a year

[formal sandal]

it's a hp pavilion

really?

[wraith sonnet]

I've seen some pretty dry 3090ti paste

[formal sandal]

I thought that stuff lasted like years

[night walrus]

That case has no airflow

Ur alr gonna get high temps

[formal sandal]

I got around 160 f

[night walrus]

So having ur pc suffocated for a year can dry out the laste

[wraith sonnet]

ignore that just ignore what I said

[night walrus]

Say in C pls

[formal sandal]

not sure what it is in c

[wraith sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/ignore-me-the-venture-bros-grand-galactic-inquisitor-ignore-gif-18430223

[formal sandal]

might be around 80-60

[formal sandal]

so what should I do to keep that from happening

[night walrus]

That's 70

[glacial basin]

under load?

[night walrus]

Take off your front panel

[formal sandal]

guessing this means I'm not using it to it's highest? (I'm slow)

[night walrus]

Idle

[formal sandal]

won't it get super dusty that way though

[formal sandal]

at idle it goes down in temp

[glacial basin]

under load means while playing a game, running a stress test

[formal sandal]

to about like 60 c

[night walrus]

Better than it dying with temp, and you can always put a mesh

[formal sandal]

yeah

[night walrus]

O nvm then, it's prob not thermals

[formal sandal]

every time I restart it it works fine again

but after 1-2 hours of idle it does the same thing

[night walrus]

Take yhis to #tech-support rq

Don't wanna get in trouble

?

Dw!

[near nymph]

🤔

I think LTT Store support just ghosted me

After the screwdriver defect announcement

[latent plank]

there is about 4k support tickets

and 2-3 CSR

[near nymph]

Ah…

Ouch…

4K support tickets? Wtf?

How many screw drivers were sold that day?

[calm spindle]

Hi

[latent plank]

40k in a day

[near nymph]

Soo that is aprox… $4M in?

Wew

[vapid smelt]

2.8mil in one day

[near nymph]

$100 CAD after tax ish…

Dang…

[near nymph]

AT THE POPUP???

Wtf?

Isn’t that illegal?

[wintry dagger]

its legal until the cops catch you

[near nymph]

As a person who loves jumping around the rules in the past… I don’t think announcing that you like going to parties and drinking with underage people is a good idea..

[wintry dagger]

not really tbh a surface go is much better in speed

its all plastic except for the glass front but its faster

[latent plank]

lol no, the back order that opened up just after

[wintry dagger]

at least the i3 model

[near nymph]

That’s good. It’s a nice driver. I enjoy mine… with the exception knowing there is a minor issue and it came scratched up. Lol

[fluid ridge]

aight im buying an apple watch

camt wait to pay with my wrist

[wintry dagger]

you realise you can do that with a iphone right

[fluid ridge]

yeah

i pay with my phone right now

i just want to pay with my wrist

[wintry dagger]

I cant even pay with my phone because its not my phone and my parents wont let me

so I just tap my card now

although I havent been spending much lately since my gpu costed me 550 bucks which is the biggest purchase ive ever done

its too old

get a go 4

[fluid ridge]

do you not own a phone

[wintry dagger]

nope because my parents wont cosign me for a cell plan so I have to wait until im 18

dispite me being able to pay for it

[fluid ridge]

nice parents

[wintry dagger]

ikr

[fluid ridge]

when someone shoves you into a van and drives off, they'll be glad to know you have GPS and 911 capabilit-

[opaque mantle]

i dont use my wallet, its got credit cards and drivers licenses, and loyalty cards in it, but Samsung pay has everything i need, and my state has digital drivers licenses, and our socialist healthcare system has digital member cards too.

[wintry dagger]

literally my 18th bday first thing im doing to do is get my own phone

[wintry dagger]

I have a phone that I use for work it just isnt my personal phone

its a shared phone dispite my sister being 13 and me being 16

and its not like we cant afford it either my parents make good money

honestly tho

[fluid ridge]

i buy 2

one for each wrist 🥶

dripped out in ice

[wintry dagger]

I want to upgrade from my series 0 but im 1600 bucks deep in my pc so I need to get it finished before anything else

😪

[opaque mantle]

grab a 2nd hand one off your local pawnshop - big uk chain here has 24 month on all purchases (its called CEX)

[wintry dagger]

I want a blue series 7

I can pick them up for 200 bucks for the 44mm

refurb

[opaque mantle]

I am WFH at the moment, I have two surface pro 7's - and the rest of the stuff is all refub from CEX (2 screens, mice, keyboards, USB hubs, cables etc) cost me $70 to get setup

best thing i got was a rival 3 for $2

nice mouse

[kindred sorrel]

So, payed a guy for a game

Didn't get it and Guy refunded me

[fluid ridge]

pay for game yourself

[kindred sorrel]

Card blocked it, because it is a (adult store)

[fluid ridge]

sus

cloud is sus

[kindred sorrel]

I did?

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TtWGVw finally the perfect 4k gaming pc

only $998.89

[wintry dagger]

OMG IT HAS A CELERON

[opaque mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-robot-mafia-mafia-clamps-gangsters-gif-3814055

[wintry dagger]

oh its pcpartpicker

I thought it was a prebuilt

[opaque mantle]

Only OEM i would trust to put a Intel Celeron G6900 3.4 GHz Dual-Core Processor in a case would be Dell - and that just becuase they are Cheap mofo's

[kindred sorrel]

It's not funny

[fluid ridge]

impossible

im the funniest person here

[ocean narwhal]

Fantastic story