public-chat

[ocean narwhal]

Lienus blame Intel for not comparing against 7000 series, but didn't complain when amd didn't compare against 13th gen. Huh...

[slim yacht]

while bitcoin is fine since theyre pretty transparent, other type of cryptocurrencies is eh....... shady

[tired glade]

It's rog red on black background?

[slim yacht]

some even reinforce their transfer system in a way where its near impossible to trace + decentrilization

[distant cipher]

monero go brrrrrrrrrrrr

[tired glade]

5800x3d compassing was way shadier

[ocean narwhal]

Yeah that was actually shady

Why would they have access to 7000 series...

[distant cipher]

monero is literally the best way to launder money, learned that from darknet diaries, great podcast

[tired glade]

Both AMD and Intel hadn't tanned 5800x3d with new CPUs

[slim yacht]

some early bird adopter in intel maybe
thats why theyre late

[tired glade]

And 7000x3d line also on the way

[dreamy rose]

Patiently waiting for mobile units

[slim yacht]

also i saw a video on how to calm the temp down with 7000 series with bios tweaks
you lose little to no perfomance as well + better framerate and stability in games

amd chips are shining right now

from 95 to 63

[distant cipher]

jesus overclocking is way easier than i thought

[tired glade]

If you lock your 7000 to 5,2 temps will drop by 30C

[dreamy rose]

Jayz2cents?

[slim yacht]

no, it was another guy
dont remember his yt tag

[tired glade]

Overclocking lowers temperature

[distant cipher]

should i start streaming ghostrunner?

just for fun?

[dreamy rose]

TF is that?

[distant cipher]

really good game

hang on i'll dm you a clip of me playing

[dreamy rose]

can you get stuck into playing it like the Space stage in Spore?

[slim yacht]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOYYHNGlLs
this was the video i was mentioning

[wraith sonnet]

Technically undervolting uses the overclocking menu

[slim yacht]

it was rather just simple tweak instead of oc'ing the chip itself

you get stock performance, but at normal temps

this iz the shit

[tired glade]

Yea, CPU just do it

[tired glade]

Or like that

[slim yacht]

7600x here i come

oh i would need a 360mm rad-

nevermind, 12600k then

[tired glade]

Good air cooler is enough

Just oc it and temps will be under control

[slim yacht]

NH-D15

[tired glade]

Rock 3 or something like that

[upbeat ridge]

Choo choo

[dreamy rose]

🤮

[slim yacht]

on your way to narnia?

[slim yacht]

its still a decent gaming chip
give credit where its due i guess

[wraith sonnet]

Based commuting

[upbeat ridge]

Is home okay?

[upbeat ridge]

indeed

[dreamy rose]

is that train a Short one?

[slim yacht]

sounds about right

[upbeat ridge]

Depends on what shirt is

[dreamy rose]

3 Carrage.

[hollow knot]

Me when the the when is:
me the the when when the is the when the the is when the is the when🤯

[upbeat ridge]

Okay but what length carriages

Because the sprinter trains have shorter carriages than InterCity trains

[dreamy rose]

trains over here are all 6 carrages, there's a pair of 3 linked together.

[upbeat ridge]

The shortest we have is three sprinter carriages ( about 60 metres in total for the 3 car one)

The longest passenger train that is allowed to run is the Eurostar E320, which is 16 carriages or 400 metres long

(Two ICE’s are also 400m)

But what about this

[upbeat ridge]

I forgot regional operators

[dreamy rose]

huh. ok our trains are Bigger then.

[jovial depot]

my upper part of my arms hurt so bad because i lifted dumbbells and bench pressed too much 😭

[upbeat ridge]

The shortest I think is 40 metres in two smol carriages with a engine carriage in between

[jovial depot]

i just started lifting weights a week ago so explains why im still weak

[dreamy rose]

i mean, look for yourself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X'Trapolis_100

[hollow zealot]

I'm currently behind a Toyota with no license plate

[upbeat ridge]

But here are the trains from my local station

[dreamy rose]

thats a Forklift bro

[hollow zealot]

Forklifts don't go 80mph

[upbeat ridge]

The text in red says that a overhead wire blew up due to a high voltage cable on the overhead wire sending 10 ish kV AC through wires and relays made for 1.5kV DC

[dreamy rose]

there's a Small boi in there

[upbeat ridge]

Yes

It’s the 40 ish meter one

That’s the “spitstrein” aka the rush hour special

[dreamy rose]

a single Carriage of the Xtrapolis trains are about 24 Metres long.

[upbeat ridge]

The IC coaches have the same length (the yellow and blue ones)

The Sprinter ones are 15 ish iirc

[night trout]

I was sore a lot when I started working for a moving company, I’m just starting to not be as sore now. After ~10 months

[upbeat ridge]

(Don’t do this, it blew up the overhead wires, the signals and both safety systems installed there)

[night trout]

Whoops

[jovial depot]

well if you keep doing the same thing over and over it stops hurting

[upbeat ridge]

For a stretch of 7km

[jovial depot]

like for example, The first time i ran a mile. my feet hurt a lot. Then, i started running a mile 2 times every week

@night trout your arms got stronger by doing all the work and not they dont get sore much

[night trout]

Yeah you get stronger in time

[upbeat ridge]

outch, that one hurts

[wise tundra]

If you don't enable XMP, at what speed will the RAM usually run at?

[upbeat ridge]

(Payment to uni)

[upbeat ridge]

2666 or 2133 iirc?

[night trout]

Grossly

[wise tundra]

I was wondering if it's 2133, 2400 or 2666

[night trout]

Think 2666 depending on the modules

[wise tundra]

JEDEC is 2133

[upbeat ridge]

Uploaded half of my total upload bandwidth usage in a single day lmao

This server has been running since march

[vivid creek]

Does raid 0 decrease boot times? (I have an i9 9900k, the raid will be in bios, the drives will be 2 samsung 860 evo ssd)
(Pls dont tell me raid 0 is a bad idea, people have said that to me like 30 times now)

[night trout]

Well, it is but shouldn’t

[tulip mason]

Stupid 22H2 update. 😡

[terse gull]

damn no meme channel

i had an amazing new meme to share

totally new

[night trout]

Be fine if you have another backup scheme

[upbeat ridge]

Or don’t care about your data

[night trout]

That too

[carmine merlin]

"I like to live life on the edge" sets server to Raid 0

[upbeat ridge]

And just want moar games

[vivid creek]

So, it does slow down boot times?

[night trout]

No it shouldn’t

[vivid creek]

Ok

[upbeat ridge]

It might actually

[vivid creek]

Why

[night trout]

If it does it’ll be marginally slower

[upbeat ridge]

Depends on software or hardware raid

[vivid creek]

I said, bios

[upbeat ridge]

Hardware raid basically not, software raid yes because you need the cpu tricked into thinking there is one drive with double the storage

Although that might also just be first boot

[vivid creek]

I have an i9 9900k

Does that help?

[night trout]

You using spinning drives or solid state?

[vivid creek]

U dont read?

Samsung 860 evo 1tb

[night trout]

I forgot 😛

[upbeat ridge]

Well you don’t have to be rude about it if you expect an answer from people in their own time

[vivid creek]

Yea sry

[night trout]

I’ve got thick skin if it bothered me I’d say something

But yeah if it does cause sport boots it won’t be by much on solid state drives

[upbeat ridge]

Yeah fair, but still, we’re all here unpaid yknow, rude comments to someone just trying to help isn’t nice

[vivid creek]

Yea sorry

[night trout]

Plus I’m used Linux communities they are waaay worse

Goes to support channels cause I’ve rtfm’d and didn’t understand it and been told to rtfm again

[vivid creek]

So, the answer to my question is: It will most likely not increase boot times, but if it will it will be a small amount

[night trout]

Yea

[vivid creek]

K, got it

[night trout]

Actually I’m on the clock at work so I’m getting paid xD

[vivid creek]

Btw my boot times now (with 1 samsung 860 evo ssd) is like 3-4 seconds

[upbeat ridge]

Ah fair enough

[night trout]

I’m just chilling in the passenger seat of the truck going down the highway not much else to do 🙂

[stoic beacon]

You could clean out your password safe...that's what I'm doing right now. Feels so good to have URLs for everything, accounts deleted for things I don't use anymore, passwords updated to be more secure, MFA added to everything...

[night trout]

I haven’t attempted it before I’m just guessing

[vivid creek]

ok

i will be doing it in like 2 months

[night trout]

I keep that clean anyway 🙂

Most of mine are local accounts on my network xD

[stoic beacon]

That's fair. I started mine about...13 years ago or so? It's got several thousand passwords in it, and I didn't start organizing it as I went until about 2 years ago

Once I migrated it from LastPass to Bitwarden, I noticed how messy it was because Bitwarden showed it all in a nice big pile

[night trout]

Think LastPass is doing that now with their vault thing

[ocean narwhal]

Lastpass is fucking horrible

Whenever they did that awful mobile only thing

[stoic beacon]

Probably. When I left it, it was an absolute dumpster fire of user experience.

[ocean narwhal]

"Limited switches" its fuckin password software

[night trout]

I’d like to switch to something I can host myself at some point just haven’t had time to do much research

[ocean narwhal]

Eventually I'll self host but I don't rly wanna toss it up on a cloud provider

[stoic beacon]

I've thought about doing that, but I don't really care too much about it now. Bitwarden is good enough for me at the moment. If it ever goes rogue, I can just reset my passwords and move somewhere else again.

I do find it entertaining that you can use Bitwarden for MFA though. Seems kind of pointless to have them both in the same spot.

[ocean narwhal]

I dint know that

[night trout]

Plus my 80 and 443 on my network are tied up to something else

[stoic beacon]

Yeah. I've kept it separate by having the MFA on Authy and the password storage on Bitwarden, which so far, has proven extremely effective.

[night trout]

Well 8080 is

[ocean narwhal]

I have like 4 mfa apps lol

[night trout]

I should’ve brought my old crappy phone and migrated some of my MFA from Google’s thing

[stoic beacon]

I was about to say, that's a lot, but then I thought about it....Authy for personal stuff, I have Microsoft for my Microsoft account, Duo for work....and then I use the built in Android MFA for my Google accounts

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, Google's thing is awful. No cloud backup whatsoever.

[ocean narwhal]

Yup i have all of those apps on my phone and an extra

[night trout]

I got screwed out of my twitch account cause I forgot to backup Authy and yeah

[stoic beacon]

Yup...always enable the cloud backup on Authy, and don't forget that special password. It's just as important as a password safe password.

I initially thought Microsoft's solution was going to be the best, but you can't use it on multiple devices, which is absurd

[night trout]

I factory reset it forgetting about it. RIP twitch

Really? That’s dumb

I keep a copy of backup codes on a couple flash drives in a couple places now though

Least for services that offer backup codes

[stoic beacon]

Yup. Mine are on two flash drives plus a sheet of paper.

[serene walrus]

e

[serene walrus]

paper??

[night trout]

What’s paper?

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, as a final emergency backup

[serene walrus]

so u r gonna write 01010101010111111111 right 🤣

[stoic beacon]

There are a few things I keep physically, just in case everything else goes to crap. Some wedding photos, my favorite books, my backup codes, etc.

[stoic beacon]

Backup codes. They're 6-8 digits

[serene walrus]

ohh

https://tenor.com/view/rage-rage-quit-linus-tech-tips-ltt-linus-gif-25154720

[night trout]

They laminated? Cause paper can get destroyed as well

[serene walrus]

Bruh

[stoic beacon]

All of those things are in a fire safe

[night trout]

Wut

[serene walrus]

well it is not cat proof lol

[stoic beacon]

Along with 2 external hard drives that have all my backup data

[night heron]

pretty sure a safe is cat proof

[stoic beacon]

I don't plan on losing anything.

[serene walrus]

nothing can stop my cat lol

[stoic beacon]

Ever.

[serene walrus]

🤣

[sonic barn]

My cat is a demon

[serene walrus]

aaaaaaaaaah

[sonic barn]

Destruction is all

[night trout]

I’d hope a save is cat safe…

[serene walrus]

lol *safe

[night trout]

Oops

Autocorrect got me

[stoic beacon]

If the cat knows how to use an angle grinder, I might be in trouble, yeah

[sonic barn]

Whenever I try going down stairs the cat blocks the stairs and tries scratching and biting me if I go down

[night trout]

Think the world is ….

[sonic barn]

The cat just waits there

[serene walrus]

lol

[night trout]

https://tenor.com/view/wl-grinder-myria-gif-26124840

[polar fern]

they say animals have a sense of people

[night trout]

If my kitties rip my new chair I’m ripping their nails out

[polar fern]

that sounds like it should be reported to the local animal welfare agency

[night trout]

I wouldn’t actually do it…

But they’d probably get told off and sprayed with the water bottle

[polar fern]

just put tape on the corners

[night trout]

My kitties learn after the second dose of water not to do something their not supposed to do

[sonic barn]

Mine scratched up my leather chair

Jumps on it and climbs to the top

Rock climbing but for the cat

But I think dogs are better than cats

They don't do dumb stuff

[hollow pulsar]

...like get on the couch and dig.

[sonic barn]

Indeed

[upbeat ridge]

Suggestions for OS/software to run an intel NUC (in 4K) for media streaming and game streaming? It has an i3-7100U, 8GB RAM and a 256GB (SATA) SSD.
And to clarify: I want to stream the media and the game from other devices on my local networks TO this NUC

[night trout]

I would Linux and plex

[ocean terrace]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HHGgpH

Current parts list, gonna order today and want to know if I should make any revisions

[obsidian hill]

Nice

[compact gust]

https://jellyfin.org/

[night trout]

Looks alright, whatcha planning to do with the system?

[ocean terrace]

Just gaming

[night trout]

Nice! Probably could get away with 16G of ram if you wanted to but all is fine imo

[ocean terrace]

I probably could, it’s kinda overkill but at least I won’t have to buy it if needed down the road lol

[night trout]

Exactly or if you decide to do some memory intensive stuff you’ve got it there

[ocean terrace]

Thats what I figured

It’s overkill but it’ll last me for years

I got like 5 out of my current machine

[lethal copper]

Is an S22+ a good replacement for an iPhone 12?

[prime roost]

Whats the best budget friendly motherboard for a ryzen 7 3800x ? Wanna buy a 3060ti or something along those lines so need pcie 4 also right?

[night trout]

Epic build regardless, enjoy it 🙂

[ocean terrace]

I will, thank you kind sir

[lethal copper]

I didn’t want to upgrade this early, but I think sanctions against my country may skyrocket in the next few days, and Apple will become even more trigger happy

[prime roost]

Yes the S22+ was launched to compete with the 13

[lethal copper]

I saved up enough to be able to afford S22+. My only concerns are

1. Will the camera not be a downgrade from my iPhone?
2. Will the battery be good?
3. Will it be supported for long enough?

[prime roost]

But you can just keep your 12? Perfectly good phone that will last years?

[night trout]

You mean x4 or Gen 4?

[prime roost]

Pcie gen 4*

[lethal copper]

I’m from Russia, my main concern is not wether my phone will work, but wether it will still have apps and features

[lucid echo]

What on gods green flat earth is this chart

[lethal copper]

Apple already removed half of apps I use from App Store afaik, and doesn’t allow things like NFC payment for Russian Mir card. Android doesn’t have any of these issues

[gilded crane]

If you want a good feature upgrade(camera, battery, speed), then you should get the S22 Ultra it has many huge advantages and upgrades

[lethal copper]

I love IOS but I just don’t feel that safe continuing to rely on Apple not pressing another red button to-morrow or the day after that

[slate agate]

intel trying to hide the 5800x3d exists as best it can short of not including it

[lethal copper]

I didn’t really see any advantages for the ultra over normal one for me?

[prime roost]

Anyone with a mobo recommendation?

[lethal copper]

Pen would be a gimmick for me, and camera doesn’t seem to be that much better?

also my classmate got the ultra a week ago and it would be weird to get same phone lmao

[median idol]

TFW the 5800X3D beats both flagships from Intel and AMD

[lethal copper]

But really, I feel like S22+ is almost perfect for me

[night trout]

Gen 3 works I forget if there is a preference hit, I believe JayTwoCents did a test, I’d check his channel

[prime roost]

Not weird at all

[lethal copper]

Well, as perfect as an android phone for an Apple refuge

[gilded crane]

The normal one is quite similar to the iPhone in terms of camera and specs they both are near the same level but regardless any S22 model is a great phone

[lethal copper]

I got green light from parents but they asked to wait a week to see how many more sanctions we will get

Who knows, maybe I’ll be rocking a mi 12 in a week 😂

[prime roost]

I think there is a performance hit on certain cards. Guess i would have to look at a pcie gen 3 benchmark on the gpu i wanna buy

[lethal copper]

Also do I understand it correctly that S22+ will have an insane battery compared to my iPhone 12? I have 88% battery health as well

[night trout]

Yup, and depending on what features you want on a budget board

[sonic barn]

and that chip was last gen, using half the wattage

💀

[lethal copper]

How bad is it if my phone will be exynos version?

[prime roost]

Bad

Get snap dragon

[lethal copper]

I don’t care if it’s not as good in games, I just need it to not have worse battery and not lag in normal use

As long as it doesn’t get me 1 hour less battery or something insane like that I’m fine

[gilded crane]

It should be perfectly fine

[white radish]

Is it safer to drain a swollen battery?

[prime roost]

If you ain’t gaming you won’t feel a difference tbh

[white radish]

Cause my iPhone X batter is swollen rn

[lethal copper]

Alright sounds good

I used to be a mobile gaming and now I just don’t play on my phone at all

[prime roost]

Same lol

What did you play pubg and codm right?

[dry trellis]

Stab it (don’t)

[lethal copper]

Honestly all I need from a phone nowadays is a telephoto lens, good battery, long updates and not slowing down when doing basic things

[prime roost]

You will get that with the S22

[white radish]

I’m draining the battery rn with crab rave

[prime roost]

But if you can get the snap dragon version go for it

[lethal copper]

Sigh, I wish I could just keep my iPhone

I mean, I technically can

But Apple already removed so many from store and blocked so many features… much rather not

[dry trellis]

Are you trying to repair it right now? Generally in the shop we didn’t bother trying to drain batteries at all, however it is recommended

[white radish]

Gonna repair it today

[lucid echo]

That Michael guy who's been saying for months that 13th gen would absolutely dominate... he's been awfully quiet about this

[gilded crane]

You should look at the upsides of android instead of fearing of the downsides

[white radish]

Bought an Ifixit kit to do the repair myself

[lethal copper]

I don’t see downsides, I just prefer feel of IOS

For instance, for some reason keyboard feels much more natural for me on iOS. I get that I don’t use android much but it just feels snappier when I type on an iPhone

[white radish]

Battery now at 30 percent so another hour of crab rave should deplete the battery

[prime roost]

Dude just boot a game up or something lol

[gilded crane]

You can always change the keyboard to a keyboard that you prefer

[dry trellis]

The real issue it going to be using the battery tabs wiyhout them breaking on you

[white radish]

Can’t, it would explode the battery

[sonic barn]

intel is just a mess right now internally

[dry trellis]

But yeah it the shop we never bothered with depleting the batteries.

[lethal copper]

Also I’ll be upgrading to 256gb because it’s literally cheaper than 128gb 😂

[white radish]

Yep gonna be a pain

Next pain the battery notification popping up

[dry trellis]

Do you have iso and a heat pad?

[sonic barn]

amd is taking all the previous marketshare intel held

[white radish]

Nope

[sonic barn]

no point in buying something that costs more for lower performance and higher power draw

[dry trellis]

Uhm be careful then

[white radish]

Just gonna heat the glue with an Ifixit heating stick

[sonic barn]

same goes for their arc lineup

329$ usd can get you a 3070ti used

[dry trellis]

I’ve done batteries without heat, but depending on the state of the adhesive without iso can be an issue

[lethal copper]

What will I even do with all that storage?!

I remember when 64gb was enough

[lucid echo]

Emphasis on used, without a warranty or fancy streaming codecs. More GPU competition is good

[dry trellis]

Iso even helps with keeping the battery tabs from breaking as you roll them out on tweezers. It moisturizes them

[prime roost]

You would be surprise.. one vacation trip and a couple 4k videos should do the trick

[sonic barn]

the encoding on the rtx cards will be way better than intel's arc

[dry trellis]

And loosens their adhesive

[sonic barn]

they got no proper support for lower than dx12 games

[lethal copper]

Good thing I got a server with immich (google photos alternative) now 😄

[prime roost]

Nice

[sonic barn]

and problems with software

[white radish]

Ye that’s my last resort if the tab breaks

[lethal copper]

Now I’ll be able to finally delete local copies of memes I just keep for the sake of it and old vacation photos

[sonic barn]

they rushed the release

[white radish]

Waiting for the package makes me hungry

[gilded crane]

You can also use OneDrive it’s very reliable OneDrive is also integrated in Samsung phones

[lucid echo]

Arc is good even if you never buy an Intel GPU - it helps drive prices down for other cards. Don't let your intel rage cloud your judgement

[upbeat ridge]

I’m looking for something to consume the DLNA supplied content

[sonic barn]

they're just a very scummy company

[lethal copper]

I’m in Russia, that’s the reason I’m switching. Doubt one drive still works here

[lucid echo]

Every company is scummy, that's inherent to being a company

[sonic barn]

bruh you should get out before they close the borders at the end of the week

[lethal copper]

🤨

[lucid echo]

Don't think one is morally better than another. They're all soulless profit machines

[sonic barn]

georgia and finland are accepting people but queues are 12 hrs long

[lethal copper]

No thanks.

[sonic barn]

gl with getting drafted

[lucid echo]

You should def take immigration advice from a child on discord

[lethal copper]

I feel fine living in my country

[near nebula]

Okay, so I got the delivery of the processor upgrade, and I'm happy to tell you: I got the 5600X instead

[lethal copper]

Absolutely!!!!

[sonic barn]

emigration

[near nebula]

and for £147.50 - the price of the 5600G at the time. Lucky error?

[lucid echo]

I was gonna edit it but I wanted you to go to the effort of correcting me

[sonic barn]

sure

[lethal copper]

Evil man will grant me, a 16 year old IT student with a few health problems drafting ticket personally!!!! 😂

[sonic barn]

they drafted some nuclear engineers and business execs

also 17 year olds

[prime roost]

Andrew is all of this happening due to the whole ukrain situation

[lethal copper]

1. IT people don’t get drafted
2. Students don’t get drafted
3. People with health problems (especially mine) don’t get drafted

Mate why did you have to bring politics into this

[lethal copper]

I mean, Apple sure is blocking apps for that

[prime roost]

That sucks man

[lethal copper]

As Linus recommended, I’m voting with my wallet 😄👍

[lucid echo]

Why is it every time I see Ihuezio in here he's overconfident on how the world works in some special new way

[dry trellis]

If the country I live in went to war and decided to draft I’d rather chop my foot off than risk the worse

[lethal copper]

Leather cases are great, should I get one?

I loved the leather case on my iPhone 12

[lucid echo]

Because they know more than you about the country you live in

[lethal copper]

But it broke in less than a year

[flat python]

@full fossilhi

[lethal copper]

Oh right, I forgot about that, my brain is full of stolen Nutella right now 😔

[lethal copper]

Hopefully S22+ case is not as badly built?

[near nebula]

Somehow, being Samsung, I doubt it

and in a year or two's time, that battery go swoooole!!

[gilded crane]

For durability you could go with a high quality case from Amazon from spigen and a tempered glass screen protector

[lethal copper]

I mean, at least it won’t have paint coming off like iPhone one did

[tawdry rapids]

Fold time :3

[dry trellis]

I would personally try another brand.

[lethal copper]

Obviously no Amazon here, but I guess third party cases may be worth giving a shot

[lethal copper]

Isn’t that unlikely if you actually charge your phone?

[lethal copper]

Any suggestions?

[near nebula]

they may or may not have the durability but they're better than nothing

[lethal copper]

I am a big fan of pixels and was looking forward to P7pro but I don’t think they will find their way to my country in any sane price

I remember how much pixel 4 and 6 cost on launch, ugh

No official stores inflates the price

[sonic barn]

bbc and bloomberg did articles on the subject where it was the case

[near nebula]

@lethal copper unknown, apparently charging in LPM makes it less likely to happen but knowing how hot Samsung devices are (especially us long-suffering Exynos users), it may be more likely

[sonic barn]

anyways russia is closing borders at the end of the week

[lethal copper]

Mate please stop with politics we are discussing tech

[gilded crane]

Also if you decide to get a screen protector you should get a tempered glass screen protector since it protects from scratches very well also easy to clean

[dry trellis]

Some of the Sonys look good. Research into them I might suggest.
I plan on getting a zenfone 9 soon as I like the size, however software support may not be long lasting

Looking like only 2 years is promised for the zenfone

[near nebula]

2 years as right now?

[lethal copper]

Oh yeah I really liked zenfone 9, my only reason for not getting is software support and no telephoto lens

It’s actually really cheap here

[dry trellis]

I love the size of the smaller device

[hollow zealot]

S22 owner here, do this. I got a cheap screen protector and my screen looks horrible

[lethal copper]

Sony are fine and I almost got one a few years back, but they get hot I heard, and being small company they may not provide support and Polish I would like coming from iPhone

[hollow zealot]

Not having a case on modern phones is absolutely horrifying

[dry trellis]

Sony Xperia 5 III is showing on sale for me, but unsure how it looks for you

Their naming scheme is so bad

[near nebula]

if you have to go official, look in Mobile shop retailers (ie your version of Currys) and get those on sale, I got pretty lucky snagging a iPhone 13 Pro Magsafe case for £20, but mileage varies per-device and per case chosen

[lethal copper]

Also Sony phones are a bit too expensive, mark 4 I is something like 90K rub

[dry trellis]

Some are expensive. But there are “budget” models. That look at similar prices as Samsungs and iPhone

[lethal copper]

I am currently caseless😃

[near nebula]

Honor do some alright midspec ones

[lethal copper]

All I have on is a MagSafe wallet to counteract on lack of Apple Pay

[hollow zealot]

Yikes

[dry trellis]

There is the nothing phone

Not high end

[hollow zealot]

I'm scared that my cameras will be destroyed if I don't use an OtterBox

[lethal copper]

Hopefully I’ll get a Mir card soon to have NFC payment back

[hollow zealot]

The camera hump is so big

[lethal copper]

Gotta be able to pay when you suddenly get urge to go to Not-McDonald’s in the middle of the day

[near nebula]

yeah most devices have that problem - moreso iPhone 12 upwards

bump on that phone without a case is a frightening prospect

[gilded crane]

Is samsung pay still supported in Russia?

[lethal copper]

(Speaking of, the official cola rebrand they sell there is meh and unofficial ones are often better)

[dry trellis]

The Zenfone just looks banger to me. Want to switch to it from a 12 mini when I have the chance

[lethal copper]

Nope, but unlike Apple it doesn’t block apps from NFC

So local card system works

[near nebula]

does Google Pay work, or is that not viable?

[lethal copper]

Nope

[dry trellis]

A bunch of little bugs on iPhone and gripes I have with the OS, but few small sized quality androids exist

[near nebula]

ah right, got to remember the ...

[lethal copper]

Any pay that isn’t from here (Sbp and Mir pay) is not working

[near nebula]

not going into that, noted.

[lethal copper]

Sbp is just QR code and works with anything and Mir is native solution but only with their card system

And I am on… Mastercard? I think?

[near nebula]

most Debit and credit cards have shifted to Mastercard after what's been going on with Visa

[lethal copper]

Huh?

[near nebula]

because Amazon had a dispute with Visa - at least I think in the UK?

[dry trellis]

This is also why I’m such an advocate for DRM free services, owning your own content. And all that. To ensure your entertainment isn’t cut off by external factors.

[near nebula]

then all the banks shifted over to Mastercard

[dry trellis]

Wait really?

[lethal copper]

Great to hear!

[near nebula]

yes, it actually did happen earlier this year

[dry trellis]

I have an Amazon branded credit card from VIsa

Or Visa card from Amazon/chase

[near nebula]

I'm actually surprised they didn't contact you about changing your card over

[dry trellis]

Whatever the relationship I should refer to it as

[near nebula]

it was something to do with fees per-purchase or something from VISA's updated Terms of Service

[lethal copper]

I have ВТБ (vtb) brand card which is like the N1 bank you don’t want to have card from if you want international pay right now 😂

[dry trellis]

I was sent a new card still visa just some months ago as it was nearing renewal

[near nebula]

however, a month after they managed to resolve the dispute

plenty of new accounts/cards seem to be using Mastercard here in the UK

[lethal copper]

Ohhh my bank offers a virtual card?

Damn may this finally be what I need, just a thing to use for small payments when I don’t have my wallet on me?!

[near nebula]

that may be a good idea to circumnavigate Apple Pay/Wallet

[dry trellis]

Isn’t the “virtual card” still stored in the apple wallet and such?

[near nebula]

yeah it is

I got subcard on Apple Wallet and a shopping clubcard

so it supports gift cards and anything not normally supported on Apple Pay

[sonic barn]

russia was blocked by swift payments and visa

there are also sanctions for other bank payments

[lethal copper]

Yep, I won’t be able to use it in wallet

But at least something to have NFC payment in a special android app

[near nebula]

and it also affects... Ukraine as well...

[sonic barn]

there's also that other big one that was blocked, forget what was called

[lethal copper]

Because my bloody student cards integrated Mir card is locked

[sonic barn]

yeah

yeah mir was blocked

[lethal copper]

I really need to get a card from them tbh

[lethal copper]

Thanks Moscow gov for atrocious website and confusing system

It’s like that deathloop part ||”you already know the passcode” NO I DONT||

[dry trellis]

Have you considered just getting a full on wallet case

[lethal copper]

I have MagSafe wallet right now 😂

[dry trellis]

The case with like 2 or 3 card slots on the back

[wintry dagger]

yeah our student card is broken too

[sonic barn]

just carry your bank with you everywhere

[near nebula]

the sooner the better, because you never know when there'll be like a ticketed gate system, within a year, where I went to to study IT was full of ticketed gates at the entrance

[wintry dagger]

I saw a wallet case that isnt bulky and its basically just a sleeve

[lethal copper]

At least the student metro discount works

[wintry dagger]

I bought one I like it

[dry trellis]

Not everywhere even accepts card let alone NFC

[lethal copper]

Because I have to commute from east Moscow to a place right by Kremlin every day for school

[sonic barn]

can you get prepaid loaded cards?

[dry trellis]

Was at renfaire last weekends and most shops were cash

[wintry dagger]

most people do here in cali

[dry trellis]

Couldn’t buy food without cash

[sonic barn]

I think that's your best bet

[lethal copper]

Nah, but 30 days and 90 unlimited are cheap

[dry trellis]

They had ATMs, but I didn’t bother with my bank card

[sonic barn]

with interest after or during?

[lethal copper]

Unlimited rides, which I use to their fullest extent

[dry trellis]

I was with friends so relied on them

[lethal copper]

? I meant Moscow metro pass card

[sonic barn]

oh thought it was a bank lol

[lethal copper]

There is no interest it’s 30 days unlimited rides wooo hoooo

[dry trellis]

Wish we had a proper metro here

[lethal copper]

Also I love the fancy new screens they put a week or so back

[dry trellis]

We have one it’s just not every encompassing/useful unless you’re deep in the city

[lethal copper]

Just going into metro one day and bam every station has light up screens on tourniquets

I don’t even remember what it used to be but it was like small segment display that was hard to read

[lethal copper]

I mean, if you’re in NA you do have small single family housing, hard to make metro for that

Majority of people here live in a flat. In fact, 99% of people in Moscow do excluding that weird red egg house in the downtown

[dry trellis]

I’m near St Louis. We have busses. And a functional metro line that people mainly use for sporting events. But it’s hardly like other parts of the world.

[lethal copper]

Yeah, that’s NA for ya. A lot is done around cars afaik

I got a giant discount and my S22+ will still be 1.5k USD 🥲

That’s fine, the prices have always been like this, no worse than India I heard

[near nebula]

no worse than the UKs as well, thinking about it, even though Tax is auto-applied here

[lethal copper]

I’ll try going to the store soon just to get the feel of wether I like S22+ in person

I looked at it a few days back but more as an afterthought

[near nebula]

kinda similar when I was looking into Zen 3 processors myself

[dry trellis]

I encourage looking at other models as well

[near nebula]

yesterday was a sound call though 👍

[lethal copper]

I looked at Xiaomi 12, does that count? 😃

I looked at a bunch of different phones. I feel like Samsung S series is just the most stable and familiar for me

I had Samsung phones and tables (and even watches!) in the past, so at least the culture shock of leaving IOS won’t be as bad

[dry trellis]

Fair

[jovial depot]

is ther anywhere i can get windows license keys for reasonable prices?

microsoft sells them for 140 dollars 😭

[lethal copper]

🏴‍☠️?

[jovial depot]

you can pirate keys? tf???

[lethal copper]

As per rules 9 and 6 I will not go into details

[jovial depot]

no no. i was wondering if someone sold official licenses for resonable prices

[lethal copper]

Alright, got it

[jovial depot]

so does anyone sell them?

[lethal copper]

Not sure but maybe enterprise keys may be cheap?

Like, if a company got a bunch of keys and had some leftover or something like that

[jovial depot]

im not in a business 💀

or a workplace

[lethal copper]

I meant looking up enterprise keys on eBay or something

Im only speculating, but if used server CPUs are cheap, maybe windows keys are too

🤷‍♂️

[stoic beacon]

You can buy OEM keys for cheaper. They are one time use per PC. Or, you can buy from Microsoft, at which point it's tied to your Windows account, so you can reuse it.

[jovial depot]

what are those

[stoic beacon]

One time use keys.

[jovial depot]

and where can i buy them

[jovial depot]

where can i buy them

[stoic beacon]

Google it.

[gilded quest]

Bing it.

[dry trellis]

I forget there are people who don’t get windows

[jovial depot]

@stoic beacon my laptop had it preinstalled. Can i use it on the pc im getting?

[stoic beacon]

I bought it through Microsoft, so now it just moves with me from PC to PC.

[wintry dagger]

yeah I have a whole bunch of keys that I got for 20 bucks for win 7 pro

[stoic beacon]

No. That's a one time license, for that PC only.

[wintry dagger]

they work with win 10 pro too and I got like 10 for 2 bucke each

[gilded quest]

I bought a retail Windows 10 Home license in 2015, and still using it today, but free upgrades to Windows 11 Pro :)

[dry trellis]

I have files I can use on any pc I need. That’s about it. Even if the network does down

[wintry dagger]

(im using the same key for 11)

[jovial depot]

ah. is primetechkeys safe for buying?

[stoic beacon]

Google it.

[gilded quest]

Yahoo! it.

[dry trellis]

DuckDuckGo it

[stoic beacon]

Nice correction there

[jovial depot]

cause primetechkeys is selling keys for 20 dollars

[stoic beacon]

If this is already this difficult for you, just buy directly from Microsoft and have the license tied to your Microsoft account. Makes it nice and easy.

[lethal copper]

Yandex it 😎

[jovial depot]

im not spending 140 dollars on a license key

[gilded quest]

"hey siri" it

[stoic beacon]

Why not? That's how much it costs.

[lethal copper]

I shill Yandex all the time yet don’t use their products because my primary language is starting to become English

[dry trellis]

Apparently you can OneSearch it

[gilded quest]

then just install windows without a license

[stoic beacon]

Ask.com it?

[jovial depot]

but i wont have features and stuff

[stoic beacon]

surprised pikachu

[gilded quest]

[stoic beacon]

Pieutreighd, it sounds like Linux is the OS for you

[gilded quest]

[dry trellis]

If someone doesn’t know how to get windows I doubt Linux is for them.

[lethal copper]

Ubuntu is great

[dry trellis]

Maybe get a Mac

[gilded quest]

[lethal copper]

Macs and Ubuntu are my favourites!

[dry trellis]

Better yet get an iPad

[stoic beacon]

No PC is for this guy, honestly. Mac, Windows, or Linux. But if your qualifying statement is "I want to use something, but I don't want to pay for it," Linux is the only option.

[gilded quest]

get a steam deck

[lethal copper]

MacOS for laptops, Ubuntu for desktop, windows for being-forced-to-use-it-for-games

[jovial depot]

i will get a oem key from primetech keys 👍

[gilded quest]

gg reaching conclusions on your own

[lethal copper]

Get a free VPS, install Linux and use ssh+self hosted vpn

Nothing to pay for!

[gilded quest]

get a job at microsoft >> get free windows

[lethal copper]

Honestly will be boring going back to a black phone. My current iPhone is navy blue and I like it very much

[stoic beacon]

Or buy it once and never buy it again like I did

[dry trellis]

Find on old windows 98 compaq on the side of the road? Free windows!

[lusty heron]

Thinking of upgrading from a xfx radeon 580 to a intel a770. Any thoughts? I have a ryzen 5 3600

[gilded quest]

thats a bold upgrade
good luck

[stoic beacon]

Wait, which one are you upgrading from?

[gilded quest]

6600XT???

[lusty heron]

Rx 580

[wintry dagger]

it literally says it in the post

[stoic beacon]

Oh right, Intel makes GPUs now

I forgot.

[lucid echo]

I would wait for reviews before making that decision

Would be good to consider used GPUs too

[lethal copper]

Do y’all buy black/white phones or go for interesting colours?

[stoic beacon]

Black phones, since a case is going to go on it anyways

[lusty heron]

There all mining ones 💀💀💀

[jovial depot]

i just get whatever's affordable

[lucid echo]

I don't buy any black tech nowadays, I always lose it

[dry trellis]

I would have bought red but black was what they had in store and I wanted a new phone at the moment

[stoic beacon]

That's fine

[lethal copper]

I will go for black if I decided to go through with S22+ since not really liking Green

[dry trellis]

When I get the zenfone I’ll go red

[lethal copper]

Oh nice, I kinda liked it’s blue colour

[stoic beacon]

Zenfone red does look nice. Hopefully cases will pop up in the same color

[lucid echo]

That's fine. Doesn't hurt performance or longevity. Most are better taken-care-of than used gaming GPUs (undervolting, constant load, good airflow)

[lethal copper]

I would go caseless but leather cases are great

And only reason I don’t use one is because my old one aged too much

[dry trellis]

The red one comes with a black case in the box I believe. I think blue comes with a blue case

[stoic beacon]

Think again, he went over to a different channel and started crying there.

[lethal copper]

Oh and btw will it be easy to get my new phones hotspot working with my MacBook?

I’m assuming no more easy connectivity from laptop whenever the phone has WiFi on?

[dry trellis]

I mean it shows up as a Wi-Fi network right?

[lethal copper]

Yeah

[stoic beacon]

I mean, a hotspot is usually just a wifi network. You just turn the hotspot on and connect like WiFi

[dry trellis]

I wouldn’t expect issue

[stoic beacon]

Assuming your MacBook doesn't have WiFi issues in general, it won't have hotspot issues

[lethal copper]

I guess it will, too bad it will no longer be like laptop turning the hotspot on by itself

I meant that little phone pop up that let’s you connect even if hotspot is off

[stoic beacon]

Leaving your hotspot on 24/7 isn't....that bad of a thing

[lethal copper]

And turn it off once you’re done

[dry trellis]

Apple discontinued their minis so there wasn’t ever going to be a chance at another iPhone for me anyway

[lethal copper]

I almost got 12 mini, kinda regret it

[dry trellis]

Only reason they were appealing was because small decent built phone

[lethal copper]

Actually… kinda glad my parents talked me out of that one

[dry trellis]

Honestly battery not that great

[lethal copper]

I heard the battery is a bit small

[lusty heron]

What gpu would you reccomend? Like a 1080 ti?

[lethal copper]

I hope S22+ is much bigger battery life

[stoic beacon]

1080ti is a really nice GPU

[lethal copper]

I think it should be around 22 ultra level, right?

[lusty heron]

Better than 580?

[stoic beacon]

S22 Ultra battery life is pretty awful. S22+ was far better.

[lethal copper]

Like, a bit smaller battery but also smaller screen with smaller resolution

[dry trellis]

The zenfone 9 has double the batter size of the 12 mini basically

[stoic beacon]

It's a lot better.

[dry trellis]

Not sure how that will translate to total life given different chips/efficiency

[lusty heron]

Wouldn't i want a 3070 if i was gonna get a gpu for 500$

[stoic beacon]

I know Asus's version of Android is generally super light on resources

[stoic beacon]

Yes.

[lusty heron]

Is a TI version of the 3070 better

[stoic beacon]

Yes.

[dry trellis]

Can’t wait for my LTT screwdriver

Will actually be quite useful for work

[lusty heron]

LMAO 1080s are more expensive than 3070s

[near nebula]

well, shortly the CPU swap will be beginning.

got the BIOS ready for the 5600X regardless

and yes, yesterday I said I got the 5600G, but I will post proof if it succeeds

[upbeat ridge]

depends on if you want an igpu lol

[lethal copper]

Wow, awesome!

I heard it’s got great battery life

Honestly it may be a much better phone for me seeing it’s almost half the price of the S22+, but i am becoming more of a large phone person tbh

[dry trellis]

Basically I’m just waiting to pull the trigger and sell some stock to get it

[lethal copper]

~~I have become the thing I swore to destroy ~~

[dry trellis]

What do you like about a large phone now?

[lethal copper]

Mainly battery

[dry trellis]

I enjoy having my iPad mini 6 for media consumption now.

[stoic beacon]

I will say, large phones are great for reading. My work phone is a fold, and it's incredible having the nice thin form factor for calls/texts, and then unfolding it for images/books/articles

[lethal copper]

And also seeing more when reading an article

[dry trellis]

I use my iPad for reading and comics as well

That way when I read I dedicate myself to it

[lethal copper]

Yeah I also don’t have an iPad now. So it’s either my phone or a 14 inch MacBook

or a 27 inch desktop

My phone is becoming my main computer for a lot of thinngs

[dry trellis]

Well zenfone is half the price. Get zenfone 9 + iPad mini and you may have everything you need out of the two

[night trout]

I hate my 8 plus my hands are to small to comfortably reach both sides

[dry trellis]

My iPad has become my main device

[stoic beacon]

S22+ sounds like a good choice for you, but if you want to have the iPad functionality and a ton of computer functionality in general, you also could look at the Fold

[lethal copper]

As I said I cannot get Apple products 😔

[hollow zealot]

Get a Samsung and use Dex
Two birds with one stone :)

[stoic beacon]

Then you don't have to carry so many devices anymore

[dry trellis]

TypeC has been a boon

[lethal copper]

Otherwise I would’ve went with a 14 pro max

[stoic beacon]

If Dex wasn't so slow, it'd be nice

[dry trellis]

Ah I just thought some of your apps weren’t working

[hollow zealot]

This is true

[gilded quest]

samsung really needs to put USB4 on their phones for DeX

trying to find a compatible dongle suuuucks

[dry trellis]

Dex isnt a priority for them I don’t think

[night trout]

I’d like to see more USB C

[stoic beacon]

Also, I haven't messed with it much, like adjusting the settings, etc. but the double click to interact with a lot of things is straight up awful.

[lethal copper]

One thing I kinda don’t like about Samsung is that it’s not pixel 😂

[gilded quest]

samsung has objectively better hardware, but I like using Pixels more

[lethal copper]

For instance, I like the notification bar from pixels. I don’t care that it’s less buttons, it looks awesome. And the solid network and WiFi icons look fantastic

[night heron]

i hated my pixel 2XL

[stoic beacon]

Samsung for hardware/reliability, Pixel for amazing software/low reliability

[night heron]

buggiest phone i’ve ever owned

and all i used was basic apps, no games or productivity

[gilded quest]

my pixel watch prediction: slower with thicker bezels than Galaxy Watch 5, but will be a nicer user experience because of google's software

[tired glade]

How long pixels last?

[dry trellis]

Both Samsung and pixel I’d rate low on reliability lol

[lethal copper]

If only there was a way to theme notification bar on Samsung 😔

[stoic beacon]

Depends.

Flip a coin.
Heads? 5 years.
Tails? 3 months.

[tired glade]

Oh

[gilded quest]

shame
my Pixel 2 non-XL was amazing

[night heron]

mine turned into a dangerous brick

[gilded quest]

bring back squeeze for assistant

[tired glade]

They dies in warranty window

[lethal copper]

After lurking on google pixel subreddit it seems like Pixels are either the most reliable or least reliable phone you’ll ever see

[gilded quest]

well, all the LG manufactured pixels were kinda yikes

[stoic beacon]

Yes, and there's no in between. I've owned 10 pixels, due to the sheer number I had to RMA.

[tired glade]

Google gives warranty, right?

[stoic beacon]

Camera failures, screen failures, battery failures, cellular connection failures, bootloop failures

[night heron]

id have to slide open menus or open apps like 5 times for it to finally work and stop closing and if i left the phone on for a few days it’d lock up and play a tone so loud it blew out the primary speakers

[stoic beacon]

They are absolutely AWESOME when they work, but it's a really really big "IF"

[night heron]

i almost threw the phone when it happened in the grocery store

didn’t want people to think i had a bomb or something

[lethal copper]

On r/iPhone it’s either generally positive or generally negative opinion on the phone. On google pixel it’ll be “this phone killed my dog and got me fired” post followed by “this phone took best photos and cured my illnesses”

[stoic beacon]

There are things I hate about my work phones, which have always been Samsungs, but I've never been worried about them failing in any way.

[night heron]

i was really close to shattering it intentionally

[gilded quest]

old samsungs were shit tho

[stoic beacon]

Well, that's because for iPhones, the only thing wrong with them is the closed ecosystem, honestly. And that's usually a pretty minor con for most, and the pros are minor pros for most.

They just work.

[gilded quest]

my family all has Galaxy S3, and the boot loop and random restart issues were horrendous

[night heron]

my family is all apple excluding my mother

[stoic beacon]

Samsung did not even become remotely functional until the S5 series. HTC and LG ruled the android world before that.

[gilded quest]

our Note4 would reboot if you set the device down in anyway but gently

[stoic beacon]

And S8 is when Samsung finally figured it out

[gilded quest]

my sister's S8 started boot looping after a few years

[night heron]

my s4 was unusably slow and buggy before i replaced it

[lethal copper]

Note 7…

[wintry dagger]

as it should be

[night heron]

that was a very long time ago

[lethal copper]

My family is all Apple but not for long 😃

[wintry dagger]

iphones are best for old people imo

[stoic beacon]

Interesting...most of my family is android. Don't know many people with iPhones personally

[wintry dagger]

easy to understand and easy to use

[gilded quest]

HTCs downfall is so depressing

[lethal copper]

My dad talked to me about android and might ask the company to change his iPhone 12 Pro Max for an S22 Ultra

[stoic beacon]

Yup. The HTC One M7 was the greatest phone for so long, and then they just followed it up with.......nothing

[night heron]

my dad won’t touch an android phone with a ten foot pole

[stoic beacon]

I'd steer him towards the S22+ as opposed to the Ultra

[night heron]

most of my family won’t, the only ones who use android are also the people who barely understand how to use a phone

[gilded quest]

Pixel 2 (and 3a?) were the last great HTC devices

[night heron]

iirc the 2XL was made by LG

[gilded quest]

yes which made it bad lol

the POLED display had burn in issues at launch

[lethal copper]

I kinda debated getting a 4XL back when that was a thing

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, 2XL wasn't a great time.

[night heron]

i never had burn in but the colors were extremely inaccurate and the phone itself was unusably buggy

[gilded quest]

and LG battery issues (solder failure) were common in that era

[stoic beacon]

The Pixel 2 was really nice though

[gilded quest]

but the small P2 from HTC? boring in design, amazing in execution

[lethal copper]

Hold up I remember watching MKBHD video on it, meaning I watched English YouTubers for over 3 years?! I remember when I just switched to English internet for fun

[night heron]

i’ve never seen a phone screen have such inaccurate colors that i genuinely disliked using the phone

(the pixel 2xl)

[stoic beacon]

AT&T Fusion 2

[gilded quest]

LG's plastic oleds were yikes

[night trout]

My phone was the Samsung evergreen

[gilded quest]

it made sense for the LG G Flex, but nothing else tbh

[night heron]

ironically the 720p lcd on my iphone 11 looked dramatically better than the 1440p oled on my pixel

[night trout]

God I miss the slide out keyboard

[stoic beacon]

Like we said, Pixel 2XL was a bad time

[lethal copper]

So currently my cart has an S22+ 256gb (cheaper than 128gb) and a leather case. Waiting a week but may pull the trigger earlier depending on how I feel

[gilded quest]

the AMOLED on the P2 wasn't up to par with Notes or Galaxy S, but was noticeably higher quality than the POLED P2 XL

[stoic beacon]

Nice! Hope you enjoy

[lethal copper]

And depending on if the discount that makes the phone affordable for me goes away

[gilded quest]

i still kinda want an LG Wing

[lethal copper]

Otherwise + will be more expensive than the ultra in my local store 💀

[night trout]

OG razor

[lethal copper]

They legit had ultras for sale for cheaper than I will spend on the + a week ago, idk where that discount went

[dry trellis]

Text selection is hogshit

[night trout]

XD

[lethal copper]

Hopefully this one won’t vanish that way too

[dry trellis]

I hate it. Coming from android

I use text selection so often

[stoic beacon]

I don't blame them. I had an S22 Ultra for about 3 weeks, and the crappy battery + not being able to make/receive phone calls was very bad.

[lethal copper]

Oh right will I still be able to search images by text in them?

[dry trellis]

And its horrendous

[stoic beacon]

Google Lens

[lethal copper]

I use it all the time to find memes, the dna of the soul

[night heron]

the only complaint i have with iOS is that extracting photos is a headache

[lethal copper]

I seen Samsung is adding a clone of apples text select in android 13?

Like it’s even in same spot as apples

That would be nice

[gilded quest]

they're trying to emulate iOS 16's lockscreen a bit

[dry trellis]

Didn’t realize how often I used text selection and highlighted text until I switched to iPhone and found how terrible it was

[night trout]

Apples swipe to text sucks

[lethal copper]

The only lg I deal with right now is the common logarithm 😔

[stoic beacon]

They're just moving the UI. The text selection is already WAY better than what apple has

[lethal copper]

Oh that would be nice

Widgets on Lock Screen good

[stoic beacon]

Those have been around for years now

[night trout]

Some reason and is always ABS

[dry trellis]

I’m regularly actually shortening links by removing all the nonsense and even just doing that is a pain

[lethal copper]

My poor Apple Watch will only sync once a day 😔

Joining the ever increasing club of people wearing Apple Watch without an iPhone

[stoic beacon]

You could always jump over to Garmin...their watches are really nice, and they work great with android devices

[lethal copper]

My next watch will probably be another garmin but that’s a few years away, maybe fenix 8

[stoic beacon]

Nice, called it lol

[lethal copper]

Oh yeah I’m a big fan of garmin!

[dry trellis]

The one thing I’ll miss when I go back to android is airdrop

[lethal copper]

I still have an instinct lying around but I kinda prefer Apple Watch

[stoic beacon]

Nearby Share works great

[dry trellis]

And iMessage syncing messages between iPad and phone

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, instinct is my current watch

[dry trellis]

It’s about sending things between my own phone and tablet

[golden talon]

and Mac

[stoic beacon]

Ah....the one feature that makes it impossible for me to get an iPhone....I need to be able to text from my PC

[golden talon]

I can text from my PC but for different reasons

[lethal copper]

Cool! I quite frankly switched to Apple because I was a bit bored with it 😅

It’s just so solid that garmin didn’t make any major updates! XD

I heard instinct 2 added a lot of what I missed, but tbh Fenix or Forerunner would be my choice nowadays

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, I definitely could see myself using this for a long time. I really would like one that combines the Instinct and Forerunner together, in the body of an Instinct, but they haven't done that quite yet.

[lethal copper]

Oh yes a forerunner as rugged as instinct or fenix (non S!) would be great

[dry trellis]

I can text from my tablet without issue even when using an android. It’s that messages I send won’t sync across devices only messages sent to me, as I have a sim in both

[stoic beacon]

But yeah, I've never seen a company make such a successful 180 as Garmin. They noticed GPS systems were going out because of smartphones, so they decided to make the best smartwatches possible to survive as a company.

And so they did.

[lethal copper]

The 955 is cool and all but it’s not as rugged as I would want my watch to be

[lethal copper]

They truly did 😄

Although I find it funny how they try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to smarter of their models

Do they still not use google wear os or whatever?

[stoic beacon]

No, because not only is Wear OS garbage, they want control over their own stuff

Garmin's watch operating systems are so far beyond any other android one, they might as well keep making it

[lethal copper]

I guess

I really liked when Apple implemented garmin-like workout screens

[stoic beacon]

Apple copied them for a reason instead of Google in that scenario

[lethal copper]

Ugh why do I never close background apps on my iPhone

[stoic beacon]

You don't really need to

[lethal copper]

But I end up having like 20

Is there a way to ask android to auto close old windows?

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, still don't really need to. Apps will reload themselves if necessary

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, you could look into Tasker or Bixby Routines for that

[lethal copper]

Something similar to "if I don't open it in 3 hours close it"

I had apps open from a week ago

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, look into Tasker

[lethal copper]

Oh no I will loose Apollo for reddit right

😭 it's the reddit client I've come to enjoy a lot

[stoic beacon]

Get Sync Pro

You also can look into Boost, Bacon Reader, or any number of other ones, since there's about 50 options

[lethal copper]

I looked into sync and it seems good enough

[stoic beacon]

It's my personal favorite

[lethal copper]

What does pro add?

Idk if I will be able to pay for it but if it's good enough might try workarounds

[dry trellis]

Why will you lose it?

[lethal copper]

I'm moving to android

[stoic beacon]

Ad removal mainly. Several other features as well. You also get the updates sooner, including the V20 series updates.

[dry trellis]

I’m sure android has better Reddit clients to be fair lol

[lethal copper]

Sync has ads? :(

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, once you get used to Sync, especially the V20+ versions that you get with Pro, you'll never want to go back

[stoic beacon]

All of reddit has ads. That's part of why Apollo is paid

[lethal copper]

I am currently in bet version and I don't have I think

[near nebula]

With an RX 5700 XT? Would have had minimal gains

But I'm happy, just doing the Time Spy benchmark

[lethal copper]

Hold up does sync use Google ads?

[stoic beacon]

It uses whatever Reddit uses.

[lethal copper]

May my free YouTube premium extend to other apps?! 😎

[stoic beacon]

No.

YouTube Premium just removes ads on YouTube.

Geez, Apollo makes you pay a subscription just for notifications...that's insane.

[wintry dagger]

I hate youtube premium only because they signed me up for it automatically after I donated 2 bucks to a streamer

they used my card details to automatically charge me for premium dispite me not asking for it

[stoic beacon]

I feel like you're missing something there, since I've never heard of anyone else having that issue.

[stoic beacon]

https://apolloapp.io/pro-ultra/

Based on this, the free version of Sync will get you 99% of the features you have to pay for with Apollo lol. And then if you want ads gone, it's just $5.

You have to pay to even post lmfao. They're robbing you blind

[lethal copper]

I meant Google ads not working here

I have no ads on YouTube

I don't pay for it and I don't have an ad block in the app

[wintry dagger]

nah like legit I didnt even sign up for it, I have no need since I use adblock

[lethal copper]

If YouTube brings back ads I'm using newpipe or whatever the fancy ad free apps are

[stoic beacon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[stoic beacon]

YouTube does have ads, right this very moment...

[lethal copper]

Not in Russia

[stoic beacon]

Ah

Yeah, they'll come back eventually

[wintry dagger]

well thats because nobody wants to advertise in russia given current times

I'd take advantage of it tbh

[lethal copper]

No, it was quite the opposite

[stoic beacon]

It's more complicated than that. Russia threatened Google for showing ads related to Ukraine, or showing Ukraine in a positive light.

Google responded by taking away all ad revenue for the content creators in Russia to help incite them against the government, and to cut Russia's overall income.

[lethal copper]

Too many propaganda started appearing, got to the point google just shut down ads here so that they don't get sued 😂

[stoic beacon]

Also not at all what happened

[wintry dagger]

wow so in otherwords, they fucked the content creators hard and killed their income even though it wasnt their fault, and was their governments

thats a great move google 👍🏻

[stoic beacon]

I still think it's a good idea. Anything to cut off support to the country until the war is over

[wintry dagger]

yeah but its still fucking people who have no choice

[lethal copper]

That's the entire police of the west rn, congrats

[stoic beacon]

They do have a choice. Overthrow the current government.

That's the statement being made here.

[lethal copper]

ban visas
suggest people to leave

Topkek

[stoic beacon]

This is too close to politics at this point anyways...we should go back to discussing reddit clients or something

[lethal copper]

Apollo is cool

I like Apollo because it feels nice

[stoic beacon]

Nah, an app I have to pay for just to post is not cool.

[stoic beacon]

You'll like Sync a lot then. It's extremely intuitive

[lethal copper]

From what I looked sync seems a lot more androidy

I can't explain

[dry trellis]

You use Firefox right?

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, you're referring to Material Design. You won't find app on the android ecosystem that follows Apple's design language.

[wintry dagger]

hell no

I use chrome

[stoic beacon]

Ooh, he's in for a bad time in a few months

[dry trellis]

Good luck with that Adblock come 2023 lol

[wintry dagger]

ill switch to brave

[lethal copper]

Is there share as image in sync?

[dry trellis]

Brave is still chromium

[stoic beacon]

Not only is that even worse, it still is Chromium.

[dry trellis]

Look up Manifest 3

[wintry dagger]

someone will figure out a workaround soon

[dry trellis]

Affects all chromium browsers

[twin raptor]

Use netscape

[lethal copper]

🥲

[dry trellis]

There is a workaround.
Firefox

[stoic beacon]

I was about to say that lol

[lethal copper]

I wish some app followed apple design and looked like it's using swiftUI

[wintry dagger]

firefox sucks ass

[stoic beacon]

And bonus points, Firefox doesn't sell your data like Brave

[lethal copper]

That would be fun and cool

[wintry dagger]

switches to opera GX

[stoic beacon]

Android users care more about functionality than flash, so they aren't going to copy Apple apps

[lethal copper]

My browser on android will be Firefox

[stoic beacon]

Still chromium

[gilded quest]

why do people use opera gx

[stoic beacon]

Marketing.

[twin raptor]

switches to chromium

[lethal copper]

So many people about to discover everything that isn't Firefox or safari is chrome

[gilded quest]

is it really as easy as calling something "GAMING" and people will start using it?

[tired glade]

Mainly because marketing

[stoic beacon]

Yes, welcome to the discord.

[gilded quest]

new product idea
Gaming Calendar app

[dry trellis]

Indeed. People for some reason think Firefox is bad even though they haven’t used it in years

[lethal copper]

Every is browser is safari in a trenchcoat, every android browser is chrome in a trenchcoat

[tired glade]

Doesn't discord has good alternative?

[gilded quest]

Gaming notes app

[stoic beacon]

Yup. Oddly enough, Firefox works the best on mobile anyways. I had been using Edge up until Manifest 3 announcement because it's so fast on desktop, but the mobile app wasn't great.

Firefox on desktop is slow, but the integration with the mobile app is awesome, and it will still allow adblock.

[gilded quest]

Microsoft Office, but for Gamers

[tired glade]

Most likely already exists

[lethal copper]

Honestly Firefox was my first choice when I switched to Mac

[gilded quest]

its just a regular app, but in black and red

[lethal copper]

Safari on Mac felt awful to me, like a mobile browser in a big window

[tired glade]

Most likely it's already exists

[lethal copper]

Firefox also has the benefit of looking nicer than competition imo

[stoic beacon]

Eh, I custom colored mine to match Edge and Chrome

[dry trellis]

Nobody’s going to build a new browser from scratch. So your choices are basically chromium or Firefox forks.

[stoic beacon]

I was about to suggest Vivaldi, but nope, even that is Chromium...

[lethal copper]

Let's goooo edge rewrite in Firefox 2025

[gilded quest]

eh
there's new browsers all the time these days

[lethal copper]

We need native Firefox for the best gaming cpu, Elbrus 16C

[ocean narwhal]

example?

[gilded quest]

but 99.9% are just chromium under the hood

[tired glade]

Everything is Chrome now, only Firefox left

[dry trellis]

Those aren’t new browsers. They’re all chromium

[tired glade]

You mean late 90's?

[dry trellis]

The whole point is finding something that isn’t chromium because of manifest 3

[tired glade]

Had you forgot Internet explorer era?

[gilded quest]

i mean there's been a bunch of chromium skins in the last 5 years lmao

and people keep on making more chromium skins for uhhhh reasons i suppose

[tired glade]

There were a lot of Firefox skins before it

[dry trellis]

Only viable alternative to chromium for Adblock is dem dere furryfox

[lethal copper]

Step 1. Fork chromium
Step 2. Custom app icon and set different CSS for rounded tabs
Step 3. Add your telemetry
Step 4. Profit

[upbeat ridge]

Yeah that’s fair

Steam remote play hates me

[stoic beacon]

It's so that they could market them differently and scam people with them, just like Brave did.

[lethal copper]

Guys guys

I've got an idea

[dry trellis]

Eh. Brave still has good functions

A chance brave might be able to have it built in

[gilded quest]

at least with Chrome/Edge I know who's mining my data.
random startups with "free" browsers? not sure how I feel about that

[stoic beacon]

Still don't trust them in the slightest

[lethal copper]

Somebody should write a browser using electron

Browserception

[tired glade]

Yea,good luck selling it

[lethal copper]

"100% web based"

[ocean narwhal]

electron is the nastiest stain on the desktop

[dry trellis]

People really did give google too much power. Allowing most browsers to be based off of it and controlling 99% of ads. But ofcourse most companies are happy as people see their ads

[stoic beacon]

Original was better

[wintry dagger]

only took a month for my school to update their roster

[ocean narwhal]

what service is that

[wintry dagger]

spotify

[ocean narwhal]

ah, i just dont pay for that

actually I will have to soon, because I am making an app in a course that has spotify integration, needs a legit pro mode to interface with the app

[wintry dagger]

I do homeschool so for me 5 bucks a month is worth it because I listen to it for 4 hours a day

[ocean narwhal]

I just pirate on desktop and android, dont care

[dry trellis]

I’m more than willing to spend money on music. I just like to own the music I spend money on. Bandcamp. Discs. Ect

[lethal copper]

is this a mobile plan?

[gilded quest]

Spotify student is a fantastic value (it still comes with Hulu, right?)

[wintry dagger]

just spotify

[gilded quest]

But Spotify as a service is.....meh

[wintry dagger]

spotify is spotify

[wintry dagger]

yeah and showtime but both are with ads

[lethal copper]

I don't really listen to music that much

when spotify left I was like ok and? XD

[gilded quest]

For $5 it's definitely acceptable

[wintry dagger]

yeah I've had premium for like 2 years so for half price with hulu is good

although I dont rlly use hulu bc all of my anime is on funimation which I get for free through my debit card

(without ads)

[gilded quest]

I don't use Hulu anymore cause my friend cancelled their subscription

[full fossil]

delivery driver stole em lmao

[golden talon]

wtf

[wintry dagger]

you can use mine

[gilded quest]

I have a Disney+ login, and in theory, Disney should be launching a Hulu section in the Disney+ app at some point

[wintry dagger]

ah

[gilded quest]

But idk if they've given a timeline for that

[full fossil]

was hoping to get them before work but i guess not

[golden talon]

report that shit bro wtf 💀💀

[full fossil]

i did

[wintry dagger]

yeah disney says stuff they will do and then it never materializes

so if it doesnt happen in the next year its probably not gonna happen

[gilded quest]

Oh I think it'll happen in the next 6 months probably

[wintry dagger]

HRGFBHDHEH disney reflections

[gilded quest]

They're also supposed to be working on an ad supported tier

[small zephyr]

😂 i found the tank pc case on amazon

a total bargain only 406€

[golden talon]

just go to the apple store and buy

much easier and faster

[near nebula]

Okay, results are in, and while the overall results were... small, the CPU test fared a lot better - with the CPU score being over 1.4k points better, and I got near 9200 on the Overall card

[full fossil]

i will once i get my refund

[near nebula]

the heatsink did NOT want to go on the board at first though!

[wintry dagger]

haptics on ipod classic 5th gen here we go

[slender sapphire]

Hey, I'm getting 44-48 fps on lowest settings on my laptop, it's a vivobook; Does anyone know how I can get to 60, please ?

[gilded quest]

Never had an iPod

[slender sapphire]

Oh, I forgot to mention, it's Valorant actually

[wintry dagger]

I'd to to #tech-chat-1 theres alot of experienced people in there

[slender sapphire]

Oh, I'd thanks sensei!

[wintry dagger]

sad, I got made a custom 5th gen with ebay parts and a motherboard thats from the side of a road lmfao