public-chat

[fluid ridge]

and the 40 series

[idle skiff]

yeah no 10400 is where its at

[polar fern]

Boo

[near nebula]

ANYway back to the subject in hand, most of the time, we have one hot year and then a few years of wet weather throughout

[graceful burrow]

Nice webp

[idle skiff]

it just needs to transfer files and not chug along over time, their current one, i want to say early 2010's is 4gb ram, 2 hard drives, and a i5 6500

less than ideal.

[polar fern]

F

[fluid ridge]

all pcs will chug over time

[fluid ridge]

if it's a family PC only used for transferring files, skip the GPU and get a good CPU and SSD

[polar fern]

I would actually recommend a middle tier APU

Then down the line if you need to upgrade you can just pop in a dedicated GPU card

Ryzen 5 5600G

[near nebula]

If it's AMD, get any chipset with a "G" processor on it, such as the 5600G - Intel normally has Intel UHD graphics in most of the mid or better CPUs

I'm still happy that I managed to get a 5600X from a 5600G purchase! just writing a review of it now

[polar fern]

Yeah basically.

[near nebula]

and since the PC is full AMD it actually benefits and gets the framerate boost, even with a non-RT card like the Red Devil 5700 XT

[ocean narwhal]

Does ryzen 7000 igpu have encoders and decoders and stuff?

[fluid ridge]

intel igpus are better than amds

[ocean narwhal]

doesn't answer the question

[vapid smelt]

what you smoking

[woeful minnow]

yes

[fluid ridge]

wasnt answering your question

[ocean narwhal]

Then you're useless

[fluid ridge]

quicksync pack

[ocean narwhal]

Anyways, as good as the desktop encoder? I wonder if it will encourage "low" end rx 7000 to drop the hardware

[idle skiff]

ye im skipping on gpu

[polar fern]

I’m actually looking at swapping out my APU for Ryzen 5 2600 & a 4 gig 50 watt rated gpu because I gain 2 cores/4 threads & double the vram. This is mostly due to the fact that I could not get the system put together that I wanted at the time of its ordering

I wanted the better APU but it was several weeks back ordered

[fluid ridge]

well then intel CPUs work better for productivity

[idle skiff]

first i need to see if theyre willing to drop 550 on a dece new pc bc if they want cheaper idk what they expect lolol

[fluid ridge]

not everyone plays shadow of the tomb raider

[polar fern]

The higher endAPU that I was looking at required a slightly higher capacity power supply

[fluid ridge]

and not everyone out of that everyone plays on an iGPU

[idle skiff]

im runnin 5600x and 2070 super for my personal

[polar fern]

I actually forgot which graphics card I was looking at

[sonic barn]

you know your game sucks when its 95% off (need for speed heat)

[idle skiff]

hey the Worms series was 85% off recently and its a national treasure

i mean it might be that theyre charging 20 bucks for a game that came out in 1999 with basically no online play

but. worms

[polar fern]

Unfortunately the newer APU do not work with wattage/socket/board, so I gotta go CPU/graphics card.

[idle skiff]

(jk, everyone go buy Worms W.M.D.)

[polar fern]

A little bit frustrating but hey at least I am able to do that

[vapid smelt]

wtf

[fluid ridge]

you guys see how outrageous it is that amd stole intels LGA layout

[ocean narwhal]

???

[willow patrol]

hey man i dont think anyone cares about what you're saying it's obvious you're just blindly hating on AMD, so please actually participate in the conversation or something IDK

[ocean narwhal]

"stole" the LGA layout?

[polar fern]

I’m more upset that they couldn’t have at least a couple of generations backwards compatibility. They’re basically pushing a faster upgrade cycle which really pisses me off

[ocean narwhal]

who doesn't have backwards compatability

[polar fern]

My system is Zen +

Basically outmoded

[ocean narwhal]

Oh no, you only had 2 more generations to upgrade after the one you bought ?

[polar fern]

I don’t have the money to do anything aside from ditch the APU and get its same gen CPU plus graphics card

[near nebula]

We might see some 7-series with G processors sometime next year, if that's a future plan @polar fern

[polar fern]

No money

[woeful minnow]

that would require new ram, new motherboard and new apu

[near nebula]

fair enough, then a 5600 with a Radeon RX 5600 XT (or 1660 Super) would be a cheaper option

or intel's equivalent which would be 12400/12600

[woeful minnow]

just get the 5600g for $150

[near nebula]

yeah about that... the one I got shipped was the 5600X 🤣 - but still a valid choice

[polar fern]

Ryzen 5 2600 + rx550x

[woeful minnow]

thats more expensive and worse

[polar fern]

Low profile

[woeful minnow]

and uses more power

[polar fern]

It’s the same generation as the stuff I have now

[woeful minnow]

just get a 5600g

[polar fern]

Can’t.

[woeful minnow]

its cheaper

[willow patrol]

what mobo you on?

[woeful minnow]

more powerful

more efficient

[near nebula]

you misread, when I ordered a 5600G for £147.50 (at the time) the supplier gave me a 5600x --uh~

[vapid smelt]

apu better then a gpu

[polar fern]

Don’t @ me

[willow patrol]

Lol yea upgrade path is narrow

[near nebula]

is that a Dell??

[polar fern]

I can’t do that APU

[willow patrol]

lenovo

[woeful minnow]

it says lenovo in the middle

[near nebula]

yeah my bad, just looks veeeery similar

[polar fern]

Yes they’re very similar

[willow patrol]

yea my HP system also looks like that lol

[vapid smelt]

is that a E waste mbo that attaches the front io the the mbo?

[willow patrol]

yep

[woeful minnow]

yes

[near nebula]

mhmm

so you're stuck with the Zen +, it doesn't have upgrade to Zen 2? uh... one sec

[polar fern]

🧐

[near nebula]

2600X seems to be the best of the Zen+ architecture then

[polar fern]

It’s what I could afford & nothing gets plugged in there.

Everything is plugged into the main Io on the back

[near nebula]

how in the- I'm looking through all the Zen+ specs and there's no APU models?!

[polar fern]

Can’t do that one as it’s too high TDP

Needs 65 watt

BRB

[near nebula]

3400G. that's the best I can find

[vapid smelt]

i really hate myself for not selling my 5700xt last year

[near nebula]

same boat with the 1660 super

that's gone down to £185

[tepid bolt]

Glad I waited until a two months ago to buy a new gpu

[vapid smelt]

could have sold my $430 gpu for a $1,000

[near nebula]

yeah that's what I just did

although slightly questionable swapping from NVIDIA to AMD, the boosts right now since I got the new CPU have been night and day better

no RayTracing but it's ... not really needed that much

oh!! that's an eye-opener!

the 5600G must have been unavailable for some time, so that's why I got the X instead as an alternative!

[polar fern]

Yes

They had import issues

[near nebula]

or they silently discontinued it, glad I got it for under £150 then

anyway the best I could find, but I'm unsure if your PCMB would use it is the 3400G

it's in the Zen+ Architecture range

[polar fern]

I have the 5 3400g.

I need more cpu. 2 cores/4 threads more is a big improvement

Plus the gpu gets 4 gig dedicated vs 2 on the APU

So it’ll be faster overall

And not just faster but less likely to bog down.

[near nebula]

fair fair. That's the only APU you'll get with the PCB you got, but it's within the TDP range

[polar fern]

Mhm. I’m trying but I just don’t have the money for what I would prefer to have

I would actually really enjoy having the same small form factor design just with the updated chip architecture & board

[near nebula]

I feel you on that one - everyone, be it in a homeless sanctuary or living the life of their dreams is all suffering the pinch right now

[polar fern]

But by doing it full spec from the OEM versus upgrade later the way I did it would be far more expensive upfront.

[near nebula]

hmm, yeah...

[polar fern]

The thing I have now was only about $750 shipped from Lenovo

[near nebula]

and their other PCBs would be moreso expensive? yikes...

[polar fern]

The spec that I want out the door today would be about $1500

Initially I ordered it with 12 gig of ram it now has 24 gig. In between that it had 16

My plan is to order another two 8 gig modules to bring it up to 32 gig total

[near nebula]

It's also a note that it wasn't cheap doing my initial upgrade to AM4 - was almost £1k with the GPU prices at the time (and an okay but just bad performance nowadays 2600)

[polar fern]

That plus the CPU/GPU should give me a bit more of a lease on life before I have to replace the whole thing

[near nebula]

I finished upgrading in 2019 right before the prices started to skyrocket, and then the outbreak

[polar fern]

Yeah and I bought this at the height of the pandemic with stimulus money so no upgrades were really even possible at that point

And then I had a dental emergency which wiped out the money I really wanted to go towards a whole new dedicated video editing system

[near nebula]

although looking at my options, I might need to get matching RAM to 32GB, and maybe an upgraded motherboard (maybe a B550 if one's relatively cheap so I get more unlocks with the 5700 XT and maybe faster M.2 speeds)

PSU as I said would be a 650w like that list or a corsair/evga

[polar fern]

So I would have the current Lenovo for recording and light editing and then I would leave the heavier duty video editing machine to do the incoming and storage stuff.

Yeah that’s another limitation as I really have to be careful with power draw

I have two computers plugged into one outlet

[near nebula]

that's actually a pretty smart move, you got the rig for editing and storage, and the prebuilt for the recording of stuff and shorts edits

[polar fern]

Yes I have battery back up the news but if I suspect the system is too high with power draw I would have to somehow find a way to remote into one of the computers off of a different circuit in the house

[near nebula]

that's pretty hard to gauge without a electric floor plan

or well... knowing what switch affects where, like I learnt at the previous property

[polar fern]

Yes so what ended up happening is I got a NAS for storage and a Mac mini for heavier editing. That’s all I had a budget for and a lot of my files either came from an iPhone or or already poked at in iMovie

So between the familiarity with iMovie and the compatibility with iPhone recorded stuff the Mac mini made the most sense

[near nebula]

I guess it was the 10th gen Intel(or prior) or M1 mac mini?

[polar fern]

The Lenovo psu is 225 watt. The Mac mini is like 250 watt.

Yeah 2018 model core i5

[near nebula]

Still decent nowadays

[polar fern]

It only has 8 gig of ram but I plan to max that out as soon as I have the money available

I need to do stuff I’ll be back later

[near nebula]

Rest time for me anyways curls up to nap

[slate skiff]

hey can anyone help me open Epic Games on Mac
i can dowload it but it doesnt open

[ocean terrace]

Buildin a pc?

[full fossil]

8 gigabytes of ram gang

i've been coping with 8 gigs of ram with a 2060 super and 8700 for years

actually hasn't been that bad of an experience

it's very rare i have any issues related to memory

but i don't multitask that much on my computer

[ocean narwhal]

what 8 gb enough for

[vapid smelt]

im a gamer

[full fossil]

anything really

[runic lagoon]

I think hue killed the orginal hue off. 🫡 Like the base doesn't show server anymor. 😐

[ocean narwhal]

8gb aint enuf for anything i do

[vapid smelt]

8gb too small

[ocean narwhal]

im at 13/32 on just csgo rn

[past egret]

you fuckin suck

[ocean narwhal]

and

[past egret]

you should play something else

[ocean narwhal]

nah

[wraith sonnet]

Coop spare some ram?

[vapid smelt]

no

[wraith sonnet]

I'll trade you a 16gb dimm

Nah it's probably Corsair

[vapid smelt]

nah im keeping my 4x8gb micron E

[wraith sonnet]

Ah

What dimms should I get for my sleeper? No Corsair, also keep in mind I'm on the b550 chipset

[worldly kayak]

corsair ram is bad?

[wraith sonnet]

No I'm just this bitter about the scuff steam controller shit

[worldly kayak]

what lol

[gilded quest]

patents

[wraith sonnet]

*patent trolls

[gilded quest]

that patent system as a whole

[wraith sonnet]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Theswweet/status/1431777646128484353?s=19

James is boarding the Kuro 2 hype train (@Theswweet)

YO, VALVE WON ON APPEAL FOR THE STEAM CONTROLLER LAWSUIT LET'S FUCKING GO

https://t.co/u5eag6OZvg

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Twitter · Aug 29, 2021, 12:36 AM

There's a link in there, I'm not going through to screenshot choice parts of the procedure

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/VqJgXL/teamgroup-t-create-expert-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr4-3600-cl14-memory-ttced432g3600hc14cdc01

[warm sandal]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8PbJRv is this good for 1k budget?

[wraith sonnet]

Basically scuf bad, elgato bad, Corsair bought both so implicitly Corsair bad for rewarding bad behavior

[vapid smelt]

yes

[wraith sonnet]

Funnily enough I bought that kit and gave it to my brother since he was struggling and something in my system won't let me do 3600

[gilded quest]

pog

[vapid smelt]

the cl14 kit?

[wraith sonnet]

Yes

[vapid smelt]

should have gave it to me smh

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DbkWGX/gskill-trident-z-royal-elite-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr4-4266-cl16-memory-f4-4266c16d-32gtes

[wraith sonnet]

I would HIGHLY suggest swapping for one of the fractal pop cases

[ocean narwhal]

What does this mean

They won the rights to use some design?

[wraith sonnet]

You know how you can't buy the steam controller anymore?

[ocean narwhal]

Ye

[wraith sonnet]

That

[vapid smelt]

damn

[ocean narwhal]

I would buy a brand new steam cntrlr if it had usb c. I hate that mine has usb-suck

[wraith sonnet]

Why are you using it wired

[ocean narwhal]

Things gotta charge

I like the usb doongle tho

[wraith sonnet]

??? It doesn't have rechargeable batteries?

[ocean narwhal]

Oh am I not remembering right

[lucid echo]

It uses AA's

[ocean narwhal]

R u sure

It's a niche as fuck controller i don't rly use it often

[wraith sonnet]

I own one

[lucid echo]

I have two I use regularly. Never plugged them in

[ocean narwhal]

Lol I'm dumb I guess

[wraith sonnet]

The only reason to plug it in is for firmware updates

[ocean narwhal]

I never even done that

Bed time byebye

[wraith sonnet]

You don't know when/if you'll ever want a 5.25 bay but if you ever do it's a godsend

[lucid echo]

When? Is it 2007?

[vapid smelt]

its not 1995

[wraith sonnet]

I use a case from the early days of ATX and the 5.25 and 3.5 bays let me put USB 3 and a hot swap bay in a 20 year old chassis

[lucid echo]

So you're saying it helps if your case is really old and has neither of those already

[wraith sonnet]

https://www.delock.de/produkt/86273/merkmale.html?setLanguage=sw

Here, put weird interfaces on your front panel

[lucid echo]

No thanks

[wraith sonnet]

Like HDMI, rj45

[lucid echo]

Those are just fine hiding in the back where they belong

Needing those up front is an insanely small edge case

[wraith sonnet]

And if you for some reason do want them?

[lucid echo]

By all means if you're one of the 10 people who want that, 5.25 is the move

[wraith sonnet]

The pop has a cover for the 5.25 on top of it already...

You don't have to stare at the 5.25 devices it's just there if you need it

[lucid echo]

Perhaps you should ask what their use case is before urging them to get something that statistically they'll never use

[wraith sonnet]

Like front panel USB or audio

[lucid echo]

Personally I find 5.25, even the covers, to be ugly and outdated

It screams budget 2012 Bitfenix case

[wraith sonnet]

Have you seen how the pop handles the 5.25???

[manic torrent]

haha yes exactly

[lucid echo]

No, just checked it out and it's really saying something if your feature has to be completely hidden for it to be appealing

[manic torrent]

I know when I will want one - never.

[lucid echo]

I stand by what I said regardless, best not to mislead people into thinking they'll need something that they probably won't

There's lots of solid cases that make better use of that space in that budget

[wraith sonnet]

Consider the idea of hidden hot swap bays so you never have to open the chassis if a hard drive dies

[manic torrent]

given that cases don't have them, nobody is going to make devices to go in them. chicken meet egg.

[lucid echo]

Again, extremely niche use case

[vapid smelt]

what if i only use nvme ssds like i do now

[lucid echo]

Like I said, it's probably best to ask what they're even using the computer for before diving into an hour long debate about a deprecated feature

[manic torrent]

then you have to spend up big for nvme hotswap bays 😄

[wraith sonnet]

Are you suggesting to swap the case every time USB has a revision?

[lucid echo]

What do you intend on using the computer for?

[lucid echo]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. This is the only reasonable conclusion from what I've said so far

[vapid smelt]

he could use the pop case bay to put his candy

[fluid ridge]

lineoose finally did a video on the nr200p

[vapid smelt]

candy bay

[lucid echo]

The guy doesn't even have an HDD in his system build

[lilac sage]

you mean the weed stash

[wraith sonnet]

Look the 5.25 bay is niche but when you need it it's a godsend okay?

[vapid smelt]

you would want a nzxt case to hot box then

[lucid echo]

Needing it is a niche okay?

[wraith sonnet]

Fair

[lucid echo]

My man hasn't even stated what he's using the computer for

[lilac sage]

they only way to make 5.25" bay looks good on cases is it you put it through the top on an angle or stick it at the very bottom coming out at the front.

[lucid echo]

If he's making a plex server or media ingestion machine, yeah 5.25 is worth considering. If he's building it to play roblox and fortnite (like most of the kids here) they'll have to google what it even means to have a 5.25 bay and get confused why they'd use that when an m.2 drive is the size of a gum stick

[wraith sonnet]

I think I use the hot swap bay more than anyone else on this planet

[lucid echo]

Sounds like it

First step is to ask what they're using it for

[wraith sonnet]

When you don't have a lot of money to spend on storage extra hard drives are great at being ludicrously cheap

[lucid echo]

Well this kid has a 1TB nvme in his build so I think he'll be alright

Depends on what they're using it for

[wraith sonnet]

Didn't see that, why a 1tb nvme?

[lucid echo]

Maybe you should ask what they're using it for to find out if it's a reasonable decision

[vapid smelt]

external hdds are super cheap

[lucid echo]

Cheaper than internal for some reason

[wraith sonnet]

Tbh a 250 gb for boot and a 750 gb for games sounds a lot better than 1tb for both

[vapid smelt]

i dont get the separate ssd for boot people

[lucid echo]

This sounds like a massive pain

[wraith sonnet]

You can shell it for a cheaper hdd

[ocean terrace]

My external was like $40

[lilac sage]

me neither. 90% of these ppl arent even reinstalling windows.

and if they did they would still wipe all the drives because they dont know how to make al ltheir steam icons come up on the desktop screen

[tulip vale]

hey guys i got a question im looking to upgrade my gpu i have rx5700xt challenger and looking to upgrade it to rtx 3080ti which one would be the best for its value and also i have a asus z390 and i7 9700 cpu should i upgrade any of thoes too pls help 🙂

[lucid echo]

Bronze you work for an SI how did you form these opinions lmao

[wraith sonnet]

Game drives have a lot more read writes occuring than a boot drive

[ocean terrace]

Well, I bought the zotac 3080ti

[warm sandal]

just get a 3090 ti

[lucid echo]

Modern SSDs can handle ~50GB of writes per day for 10 years

[wraith sonnet]

I also built for myself and friends for ten years before working at an SI

[lucid echo]

That's not what I asked

[vapid smelt]

my ssd

[wraith sonnet]

I may just have terrible luck with ssds dying on me

[lucid echo]

It probably wasn't from readwrite wear

That's a thing of the past (like 5.25 bays )

[ocean terrace]

I would rather use a seperate drive to boot off of rather than one for everything. That way I wouldn’t have to reinstall all my games

[lucid echo]

I just have 8 different SSDs, easy solution

[wraith sonnet]

This is another argument I've heard for game drives

[vapid smelt]

just get 10Gbps internet then

[wraith sonnet]

There's also the argument for having each drive performing their own tasks rather than one drive performing the tasks of both at once

[lucid echo]

I gotta go do things this was fun and reminded me why I'm taking a break from this server, goodnight yall

[ocean terrace]

Peace

[echo ridge]

Why

[ocean terrace]

And besides, I’ll have 2 m.2’s in the new system and I won’t even see them

[wraith sonnet]

I have opinions and I acknowledge that they're weird, I just am upset that the space I know is basically gone

[echo ridge]

Cheap

[wraith sonnet]

Put them on risers so you can see them at all times lol

[lucid echo]

This is a good reason, but only if you're doing two SSDs. Doing this to justify an SSD boot and HDD game drive for the sake of saving twenty bucks in 2022 is an awful idea.

[ocean terrace]

“Glues them to the glass side panel”

[lucid echo]

Waste of time quarreling with people and their weird opinions

[wraith sonnet]

Oh wait did you think I was saying a game hdd?

[lucid echo]

You have a fascination with cheap HDDs so it wasn't a stretch to assume

[echo ridge]

I mean where could you even get a 750gb hdd

[ocean terrace]

I mean I currently use a couple hard drives

One is for capture files and one is for games

[wraith sonnet]

God if I know but now I kinda want to find one

[lucid echo]

Laptop drives from 2010

[echo ridge]

Imma bet 80 percent of them are dead

[lucid echo]

bye for reals

[echo ridge]

Bye sanic

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#A=750000000000&sort=-a_capacity&page=1 58 o them

[wraith sonnet]

Killed by resonant frequency

[ocean terrace]

I found one on serversupply.com

[echo ridge]

See you idk where

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/NLs8TW/crucial-mx300-750gb-25-solid-state-drive-ct750mx300ssd1 micron even had a 750gb ssd

[wraith sonnet]

Holy shit caviar blues

[wraith sonnet]

That's not hard, 3 256 gb flash chips

[ocean terrace]

We only accept slow spinning mechanical drives

[echo ridge]

I use the 500gb one and a 960 evo

[wraith sonnet]

: )

[ocean terrace]

I want to be able to take a coffee break while using the computer

[echo ridge]

*lunch

[ocean terrace]

Go to work

Come back and it’s still not loaded lol

[wraith sonnet]

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NedOfTheNet/saved/nmVBjX

[echo ridge]

Why.

[wraith sonnet]

@ocean terrace

[echo ridge]

WHY

WHYYYYY

[ocean terrace]

Let me take a look

[wraith sonnet]

It's meant to be painful

It all technically works together but you should not under any circumstances do this

It also requires some jank

[ocean terrace]

I might cry

Most beautiful selection of pc parts I’ve ever seen

[wraith sonnet]

Such as a HDMI to dp adapter to properly do thunderbolt

[echo ridge]

Add. To. Cart.

[wraith sonnet]

That 1030 will suffer

Also that fan is way too loud

[ocean terrace]

1030 best gpu

Better than 4090

[echo ridge]

Only thing good is that 3100

Well used to be

[ocean terrace]

No

It’s def the intel stock cooler

[echo ridge]

3300x>all cpus

[ocean terrace]

My first gaming pc was almost that bad tbh

[wraith sonnet]

Notice that the board uses lga 115x mounting

[vapid smelt]

paper launch cpu

[echo ridge]

Me and my 3300x

[ocean terrace]

I’ll spec out my first build, one moment

[wraith sonnet]

And that it's the slowest possible ram to make the 3100 cry

I could swap for an apu since the board doesn't support onboard graphics

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3j8Zxr/gskill-memory-f33200c13d8gtxdg i need some ddr3 3200

[wraith sonnet]

I love how ddr4 5200 is more stable with that extreme of an overclock than ddr5's 5200

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/stD7YJ/kingston-fury-renegade-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-ddr4-5333-cl20-memory-kf453c20rbk216

1.6V

[wraith sonnet]

Ddr4 5200 143% ddr5 5200 8.3%

Ddr5 is kind of a shit show rn

I want to see a benchmark of ddr4 5200 ecc against standard ddr5 5200

[ocean terrace]

This was my first pc, not the original cpu but you get the idea

[dusty rune]

5333mhz ddr4 exists??

[ocean terrace]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hsZpNc

[wraith sonnet]

Youngin

[vapid smelt]

looks like ecc ram only goes up to 3600 xmp

[wraith sonnet]

Fuck

[ocean terrace]

I was 15 when ryzen first launched 😂

Very quickly realized 4gb wasn’t enough and got another stick

[wraith sonnet]

I graduated highschool may of 2017, Zen came out that fall iirc

[ocean terrace]

That’s when I built

[vapid smelt]

ok grandpa i graduated in 2018

[wraith sonnet]

My first build was something based off the phenom 64x2

[ocean terrace]

I’ve had computers before then, but that was the first one I built myself

And the first one built to play games

[woeful minnow]

Ok grandpa I graduate in 2024

[vapid smelt]

@wraith sonnet wait is it not past your bedtime its nearly 12 on a weekday

[wraith sonnet]

Nah

[vapid smelt]

i saw that first msg

[wraith sonnet]

I'm redoing my first build @ocean terrace

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NedOfTheNet/saved/DGmzP6 here, it ran on vista 32 bit home premium plus

@vapid smelt here now call me old

[vapid smelt]

damn thats slow

[wraith sonnet]

Back then not really

[vapid smelt]

my first was a fx 8350 and a gtx 950

[wraith sonnet]

This was 2010

[vapid smelt]

i had a xbox 360 back then

[echo ridge]

I may or may not of been 8

[ocean terrace]

Better than mine lol

[cloud notch]

Why does my blue yeti make a terrible high pitch noise? When I plug my headset directly into the mic, it sounds perfect. But when I hear it ingame/in voice recorder then it makes an unbearable sound. this happened a few months ago, and it eventually fixed itself.

[ocean terrace]

New pc will be killer tho, just waiting for the parts

[wraith sonnet]

Waiting to see if the 3600af is real

[wanton glade]

whats 3600af

[ocean terrace]

I already bought a 5000 series

[wanton glade]

which one

[echo ridge]

Do you remember 1600af

[ocean terrace]

Ryzen 7 5700x

[echo ridge]

I'm looking at getting a 5600

Upgrade from zen 1

[ocean terrace]

I upgraded from an r3 1200 to the r5 2600x

Now from that to the 5700x

[mystic ivy]

NEW SCOTT THE WOZ VIDEO

[ocean terrace]

Ok

[echo ridge]

I think 1700x to 5600 would be a good jump

[wanton glade]

💀

[ocean terrace]

Oh yeah for sure lol

[ocean terrace]

You asked

[velvet marsh]

My vr rig has a 2700x and it's aging

[vapid smelt]

go all out and buy a r7 5800x3d

[echo ridge]

No.

[wanton glade]

bro buy a 5800X, it's same price but better

[vapid smelt]

y e s

[wanton glade]

wtf

[ocean terrace]

It wasn’t in stock genius

[wanton glade]

fact

[echo ridge]

Depends where you are

[vapid smelt]

treadripper rig and a 2700x pc?

[wanton glade]

tru

[echo ridge]

In canada its 50 dollars mkre

[velvet marsh]

I have like 6 lol

[echo ridge]

More

[velvet marsh]

3960x, 5800x, 9900k, 2700x 6850k, and a macbook lol

[echo ridge]

Why

[velvet marsh]

Why not

[echo ridge]

-560

[ocean terrace]

From the first time I did the new build to yesterday (2 day span) the price of the 5800x went up $75 usd

And it went out of stock, the 5700x will be fine for me anyways

[echo ridge]

Why is the x3d out of stock everywhere expect amazon

[ocean terrace]

That’s where all my parts came from

[echo ridge]

I live a 10 minute drive from Canada comp and memory express

I would rather do that instead of waiting a day

And best buy

[ocean terrace]

I live 1.5 hours from the nearest real computer store

[manic torrent]

s.. store?

I live 0 hours from a web browser

[ocean terrace]

Well, I’m speaking as if I needed something today

[manic torrent]

You almost never need something today.

[echo ridge]

But I want something

[ocean terrace]

But if I did

[manic torrent]

If you "need" something today, it's because you have failed to plan adequately

[ocean terrace]

That’s not my point

Also I tend to do that but also not the point 😂

[echo ridge]

Also 90 percent of the time canada computers, best buy and memory express are cheaper then Newegg and amazoj

[vapid smelt]

only like 100 people live in Canada

[echo ridge]

You forgot about the polar bears and beavers

[echo ridge]

That means 80 percent of us are ltt employees

[vapid smelt]

true

[wanton glade]

bruh what

[wanton glade]

kajiji be like

[echo ridge]

Who the fuck uses kajiji

I have see 2 posts on kajiji

One was a car

The other was a more expensive car

[wanton glade]

called kijiji now lol

"Kijiji.ca is a Canadian online classified advertising website and part of eBay Classifieds Group, which was acquired by Adevinta in 2020."

found an rtx 2070 super for 400 bux lol

aye prices are decent in kijiji

[echo ridge]

Very reasonable

350 dollar 1060

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-computer-components/vernon/asus-1060-3gb-gpu/1628159997?undefined

I had to make my filter to all of bc

[wet schooner]

huh i always price matched on memory express using newegg's proces

[echo ridge]

Newegg used to be cheaper

Now its usually more expensive

[hollow veldt]

You could probably get a 3060 for that much

[echo ridge]

You can

[wanton glade]

3060 ti even

[echo ridge]

Nah 450

[woeful minnow]

6650 xt

[vapid smelt]

6700xt

[woeful minnow]

damn

[echo ridge]

This is cad

[vapid smelt]

almost a 6700xt

[devout orchid]

Guys I’m going to New York in a few weeks, what are some things I really need to know about and what are places I NEED to visit?

[manic torrent]

probably like... the park?

[marsh dragon]

Goodbye Stadia

Rest in piss you won't be missed

[wanton glade]

lmfao

L stadia, who uses this

especially when there's nvidia

[full fossil]

Joe's Pizza

[mystic ivy]

Bruh I got these (TEXT ME ON TELEGRAM) Scammers in my replies again 😠

[marsh dragon]

Google couldn't fix that, they're too busy killing other products

[mystic ivy]

google employees killing products be like

[vapid smelt]

the candle shop since it smells so bad

[upper mountain]

When setting up your computer desk where would you put it at.?

Im thinking of putting it next to the door

[fossil frost]

outside, in the garden, then there is loads of fresh air to keep your computer nice and cool

[full fossil]

Why didn’t anyone do that before?

[elfin python]

Opinion on iPad airplay to modern smart TV vs hdmi adapter

[full fossil]

ayo any audio nerds in chat ? is it ok if I plug in right RCA in left and left RCA in right to change speaker positioN??

[full fossil]

yeah, it’s fine

[slow trellis]

Question.
How much of a pay could I ask for as s part-timer in an IT company?

Looking for a new job and don't want to be underpaid

[dire roost]

jackshit probably lmao

[kindred tangle]

mobo has 4 pin for cpu, new psu doesnt have 4 pin. what do i do? new mobo?

[mystic cobalt]

is a 3060 a high end card

[small zephyr]

🤔 Pokemon legends arceus or splatton 3

okay i get splatoon i dont like how the gameplay looks like in legends arceus

[edgy silo]

ya hide in bush, throw some wooden looking balls towards animal that is minding their own business and running away from bigger animal

[tepid bolt]

It's an entry level card so no

Very much the opposite

[full fossil]

Have fun with that

[manic torrent]

In the middle of the room, asset dominance.

.... I did actually have that setup before, the house was bigger, but it sucked terribly. upstairs was an oven.

[upper mountain]

Right now I have it in a corner with a bed next to it

[manic torrent]

L desks are best.

[soft swan]

Anyone know what happened to the newegg zipfest 15% off sale thing

I thought it was till October

2nd

[mystic ivy]

shall i get a Wii U

[upper mountain]

I have one too

[manic torrent]

Excellent!

[upper mountain]

Would show a picture but cant post it lol

[short iron]

You can probably upload it to Gdrive, share it and copy the url and paste here, wont show a preview on this discord though.

But just taking a guess how it works here. 🙂

[quartz shuttle]

Hi can anyone help me?

[manic torrent]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[quartz shuttle]

Ok

If I boot my pc on it doesn’t boot and just don’t goes farther than a2 and I can’t enter the bios

Or does this need to be in #tech-chat-1

[full fossil]

#tech-support

[manic torrent]

remove cmos battery, unplug, wait, plug it back in

[quartz shuttle]

Already done

[manic torrent]

and/or check your components one by one

[quartz shuttle]

I already did that

But it just doesn’t do anything

[past egret]

oh i love this website ive seen it before

[mystic ivy]

I'm downloading Rocket League on my PS4

[full fossil]

Damn I need to get one but my walls come down

[full fossil]

hate when people reply with just it though

[manic torrent]

what else should be said then?

[full fossil]

something productive rather than just replying with an unknown link

[manic torrent]

productive from a question of "can someone help me" ?

[full fossil]

you're deflecting

[manic torrent]

no I'm talking about this exact scenario that occured.

[full fossil]

yes, you're deflecting

when i say 'say something productive'

i mean say something useful like 'could you tell us more about the issue?'

[manic torrent]

... like... what is it?

[full fossil]

then chuck in the link

[manic torrent]

The effort in the question determines the effort in the answer.

[full fossil]

i am baffled by your laziness

[manic torrent]

does that make me an asshole? yeah, a bit.

MY laziness?

[full fossil]

yes

it is possible for two people to be lazy believe it or not

if asking 'could you tell us more about the issue' is too much effort for you

i don't know quite what to say

[manic torrent]

... I'm not being paid to be here.

[full fossil]

i hope not

[manic torrent]

It's also not a support channel.

[full fossil]

which is why i redirected them to #tech-support

[manic torrent]

I will go back to my wiring.

[past egret]

thats why i usually just dont respond to such questions

[languid badge]

is buying a laptop off of ebay a good idea it's brand new and the thing is I can't find any retailers that sell the same macbook with the same specs

[ashen zodiac]

if you can't find that model anywhere that's a bit sus

[languid badge]

not really it's just either it's not there or it's therebut way more expensive than retail

and even the apple store doesn't sell any macbook pros m1 rn

[edgy moss]

https://youtu.be/J-kMNoHzsjE

The real YouTuber fight night

[tired glade]

Oh,new video

[mystic ivy]

I'm using PS4 Remote Play and the Software thinks I have Bad WiFi

[tired glade]

It can be little bit finniky on WiFi,cable fix it

That more hardware problem

[mystic ivy]

it could be

[tired glade]

They fix that with pro

And ps5

[mystic ivy]

The Real Fight Night

[open sable]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-kMNoHzsjE 7:20, But never zero

[mystic ivy]

How do I get Image Perms

[past egret]

pay for floatplane

or use other channels

[sonic barn]

You write out the images using a 1920 grid of pixels by 1080. All using emojis

[ashen zodiac]

or just pay for floatplane

[open sable]

[ashen zodiac]

[timid flower]

At the point when they finally announce GTA 6 I will probably have kids :]

[fossil frost]

1920x1080 32bit bytes, each byte represented as a 8 character hex string. which is 2073600 32 bit bytes, or 16,588,800 total characters

[languid badge]

????

[carmine merlin]

either
-become a mod
-sub to fp
-sub to twitch (only recommended for people with Twitch prime)

[fossil frost]

if its too good to seem true... it usually is too good to be true

[languid badge]

no it's a amcbook pro m1 with 256 gb ssd and 16gb ram for 1200 pounds

[ashen zodiac]

that's a lot of money for last gen

[fossil frost]

thats a lot of money for a toy laptop

[languid badge]

well what do u suggest then

[timid flower]

Man with my latest experience with that design I wouldn't touch it with a stick

[ashen zodiac]

can we stop the apple hate?

[timid flower]

The screen part has a major flaw, I'm sure of it

[ashen zodiac]

i'd get current gen, maybe M2 air?

[timid flower]

At this point LTT should do a video about it honestly

[ashen zodiac]

source?

[timid flower]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m1-macbook-cracked-screen-lawsuit

Also, I have a great example at home. Computer screen cracked spontaneosly

[fossil frost]

its a macbook its a fashion statement... if they said proper mac pro, in an actual tower or rack mount case... then i would say spend away..

[timid flower]

Quality of MacBook is pretty grim, at best.

[ashen zodiac]

i have a 2015, 2012, 2011 and a 2006 MBP. all still uncracked

[ashen zodiac]

it's a good laptop though

[manic torrent]

I had a 2015 MBP I used for many years and it was great.

[timid flower]

I'm speaking about this model in particular

[ashen zodiac]

2015 is goat

[manic torrent]

My wife has an M1 air and it's awesome.

[open sable]

i wanted more groping in linus V CSF

[ashen zodiac]

mine runs linux now tho

[manic torrent]

I run an XPS13 now, so eh

[timid flower]

I wouldn't advise a Apple for "quality" nowadays...

Sure the M1/2 are great, battery life is pretty good, screen quality is top tier too, sound quality is absurdly good and you may like MacOS. But the material quality is sh**

And their design even worse honestly

[ashen zodiac]

how can an all-metal laptop be shit?

[manic torrent]

exactly. I only buy toughbooks, because everyone has the same requirements.

[timid flower]

Well, screens breaking spontaneosly isn't a good sign of great design right?

[ashen zodiac]

ah yes i too like my laptop to take up all the space in my backpack.

[timid flower]

You have the Surface Laptops and there aren't that many reports about screens breaking spontaneosly

[ashen zodiac]

friend of mine has an M1 MBP, uncracked, working perfectly, he's had it basically since launch

[manic torrent]

That is why you drive everywhere in a HMMWV

[ashen zodiac]

too small. you need an entire train carriage

[manic torrent]

hahahahahahaha. I had a surface. They are ok, but that's a hilarious comparison

[timid flower]

Its until the day he opens the lid and find the screen broken and is charging with a 650€ bill from Apple to repair

[fossil frost]

with all the money that ms spend on windows, especially deep down in its core, and how little apple spend on their OS dev (except for making it look pretty), i still dont get why the windows audio subsystem sucks so hard... and how apple can have theirs have such low latency and just be so much better

[ashen zodiac]

it hasn't happened yet

[timid flower]

Windows supports 20 year old software

[ashen zodiac]

becuase Apple uses a Unix base

[timid flower]

You either remove that and improve stability and make your professional customers mad, or you keep it, get the money from those well paying customers and make some internet nerds happy

[fossil frost]

doesnt matter, you can still optimise your sound subsystem and have the APIs have the same endpoints

[timid flower]

Put that on the scale like you were microsoft

[fossil frost]

microsoft rewrite whole subsystems all the same, but keep API and ABI compatibility ... why not the sound subsystem

[timid flower]

Wait, you're actually talking about the windows audio

[timid flower]

Yet...

[manic torrent]

except that everyone who really cares about audio is using ASIO and it's fine

[timid flower]

I woulnd't risk it, specially since the repair price is huge...

[woeful jasper]

all cracked screens are people putting stuff on the screen like privacy sliders

[timid flower]

my gf didn't put anything on her screen

[ashen zodiac]

even something like having a grain of rice on the keyboard and then slamming it shut can do it

[timid flower]

Yeah the design is terribly flawed...

[past egret]

?

[ashen zodiac]

no that's tight tolerances and glass for you

[timid flower]

My asus ROG I even pressed the screen on purpose and screen didn't break

[languid badge]

well can someone at least recommend something then...

[ashen zodiac]

has it got a glass screen?

[timid flower]

What's the point having a glass protection if the screen is more fragile than without it

[ashen zodiac]

it's not for protection, how dumb are you? it's for image quality

[timid flower]

Basically everything can break that screen

[timid flower]

Man I'm not insulting you, please show some respect

[woeful jasper]

its so flawed 0.1% of sold laptops are affected

[ashen zodiac]

this is the internet buddy, no respect here

[timid flower]

<@&750150305383186585>

[manic torrent]

Everything sucks

[timid flower]

Let's see what the mod thinks...

[ashen zodiac]

[timid flower]

I'm done discussing matters with you.

[night heron]

why are you beefing over glass

it’s 9 in the morning

[ashen zodiac]

it's fun

[manic torrent]

Why are you glassing over beef

[night heron]

for real bobert

[manic torrent]

incorrect.

[night heron]

09:18 in the correct timezone atm

[ashen zodiac]

🦅 ?

[ashen zodiac]

i'm still here

[timid flower]

Man, grow up

[ashen zodiac]

you tagged mods, who's childish here?

[timid flower]

Dunno, I don't have an anime profile pic and didn't need to insult someone to make my point

[ashen zodiac]

anime is based

[night heron]

[open sable]

tru

[ashen zodiac]

[open sable]

[ashen zodiac]

what the hell is this supposed to be?

[open sable]

💀

[wispy marsh]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756589299310526494/1025398091152625685/image0.jpg

[ashen zodiac]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756589299310526494/1025398091152625685/image0.jpg

[wispy marsh]

Ty

[ashen zodiac]

anyways adding featurs they never should have removed

[wispy marsh]

Not really

[timid flower]

It wasn't removed, they redesigned the start bar entirely lol

[wispy marsh]

11's UI is made by a different team of interns than 10's UI

[timid flower]

Codebase is entirely different

[ashen zodiac]

so? that task manager thing was in like, 98SE? XP? when did they add it i can't remember

the point is muscle memory matters

[wispy marsh]

They added it today or yesterday, I think

[manic torrent]

omfg what idiot removed that in the first place

"oh nobody uses that" EXCEPT FOR EVERYONE

[ashen zodiac]

no like, in old versions of Windows (10 and prior) that same task manager shortcut was there

[wispy marsh]

Well, it's still there in 10/-

[manic torrent]

ironically that's my biggest issue with windows 11. Which isn't a huge deal, but it's just stupidly annoying

[timid flower]

You could just kept using Win10

for a year now the entire point of Win11 was the redesigned UI lol

[wispy marsh]

Nah

[manic torrent]

I could have, but I didn't, because I don't care that much.

[timid flower]

everyone who knows a bit about programming has realised by now their UI codebase is being totally revamped

[manic torrent]

I can hit windows and type task

[wispy marsh]

The entire point of W11 is to show that interns at microsoft can code

Not just the seniors

[ashen zodiac]

control+shift+esc

[manic torrent]

yeah that's wayyyyy worse ergonomically

[timid flower]

I've been using it since day one and I can say, it improved a lot since launch

[ashen zodiac]

you can macro it

[ashen zodiac]

it's still not as good as 10, and 10 isnt as good as linux

[manic torrent]

I prefer not to build depenancy on customisations for basic functions

[timid flower]

Linux is a kernel, not an operative system

[ashen zodiac]

[manic torrent]

that is a ridiculous comparison

"better" is meaningless in this context

[timid flower]

In UX and UI Win11 is a lot better than Win10

[ashen zodiac]

if you have a touchscreen laptop. otherwise it's yuck

[edgy moss]

its fine

[timid flower]

If you actually get work done in your computer, the centered task bar is very good

[edgy moss]

I use both daily

[ashen zodiac]

you could do that in linux 15 years ago

[manic torrent]

what sort of peasant doesn't have a touchscreen laptop!

[timid flower]

you can even do that on win10, whats your point?

[ashen zodiac]

what kind of monster does? the smudges on the screen would drive me insane

[manic torrent]

Although the best reason to not get a touchscreen laptop is because your small children will get their grubby fingers on it 🙂

[wispy marsh]

Children?

[manic torrent]

you know, small inexperienced humans

[timid flower]

I dont see it being very useful, unless its a surface

[wispy marsh]

You have children around you?

[manic torrent]

I mean, he lives here. He's asleep right now

[keen bough]

how is everyone?

[timid flower]

Readying for WW3, you?

[ashen zodiac]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3XaZps4tLJfALSnlzZuYB1?si=bc449b9fee6040c2

i'm just vibing

[keen bough]

im makeing a book

[manic torrent]

I thought the same, but then I had one, and it was really handy. I don't use it all the time, but it's great for couch scrolling

[full fossil]

what's it about

[timid flower]

I can see how it maye be good yes

I already thought about getting a tablet, my S22 is quite small

[keen bough]

the zombie apocalypse

[full fossil]

the?

[keen bough]

yes

[wispy marsh]

Our*

[mystic ivy]

I Played Rocket League with PS4 Remote Play

[keen bough]

i gtg byeeee

[wispy marsh]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

Apparently all employees who were working on stadia only knew about it 30 minutes before the press release

[tender glade]

That's how Google works though

They shut shit down faster than any other company

[wispy marsh]

Just like ArtisanBuilds

[tender glade]

Think about every Google service that's been shut down in the last like 10 years

So many

[wispy marsh]

I only know of G+

[tender glade]

Google play music

[wispy marsh]

Don't really use other products that much outside of youtube and gmail

[tender glade]

It's a huge list

[wispy marsh]

Yeah, https://killedbygoogle.com

[tender glade]

But they have good ideas, they develop them on a surface level, enough to release them then they discontinue them when they aren't developed enough

[wispy marsh]

Sounds like W11 launch

[tender glade]

Or they buy out a smaller company make a joke of their product then fire all of their employees

[timid flower]

Worse was the dev developers who spent weeks on porting the games to stadia

finding out yesterday too

[wispy marsh]

The world is heading towards high-powered mobile gaming

A stitched-together M2 with supported games will be able to kick ass like a 4080, but with half the power consumption or less

[tender glade]

I don't know about that

Console gaming is already here and has most of the world in a choke hold

Right now the gaming world is headed towards 3 company's owning every single studio, with Sony buying out like 3 devs last year and Microsoft making moves on blizzard and other companies. It's gonna be rough to have a game not owned by them eventually

[wispy marsh]

Steam but yeah

[full fossil]

Hello

How are yall?

[leaden gale]

Maybe in like 10 years, sure

[night heron]

a 4080 can kick ass like a 4080 but with half the power

modern hardware is so extremely power efficient and hugely benefits from undervolting

[full fossil]

Wait what

[sage ether]

CAP ALERT!🧢🧢🧢CAP ALERT!🧢🧢🧢CAP ALERT!

[ocean narwhal]

Which 4080

[tired glade]

I guess,he is about real 4080, not 4070 with new name

[full fossil]

bob has a son

[dawn jackal]

HardwareDad

[sonic barn]

why is my ryzen 4650u locked from undervolting

if modern hardware benefits from undervolting

[night tulip]

DO NOT USE ZIP PAYMENT ON NEW EGG

[delicate topaz]

why

[sonic barn]

bruh

just don't use new egg

buy from oem on their websites

asus, zotac, founder, etc

[night heron]

skill issue

[delicate topaz]

is there any real concern for the atx 3.0 if looking to get a 4090 and have a 1200w psu?

[past egret]

power bills

[sonic barn]

your house burning down

[delicate topaz]

not entirely opposed to that but fine fine. sigh

just built this pos this year too

[tired glade]

Wait for reviews

[delicate topaz]

copy. will do

[tired glade]

You won't get it on day one, anyway

[full fossil]

Guys I am creating the LTT malware

[sonic barn]

does it just have sponsor popups every minute

[full fossil]

linus jumpscare

[full fossil]

It will have Linus face, intro and a lot of mp3 Linus sponsorship segue

segue

[sonic barn]

linus bootup logo

[full fossil]

it's spelt segue by the way

[sonic barn]

just his face

[full fossil]

Okay

segway is the vehicle

not often i get to drop that fun fact

Sorry my main language is not english.

[sonic barn]

seagull

[full fossil]

all good no need to apologise

Ok

[toxic knot]

I'm a native speaker and I still don't understand it

[sonic barn]

I don't understand french

trash language

[gilded quest]

french is odd

[sonic barn]

https://news.yahoo.com/china-opened-overseas-police-stations-154545452.html?guccounter=1

also wtf is this

Europe is home to most of the police stations, with locations spread across the continent in places such as London, Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Athens, Paris, Madrid and Frankfurt. North America is also home to four of the stations, with three locations in Toronto and one in New York City. In all, there are 54 such stations in 30 different countries.

[full fossil]

Why does ag tech and mech class count as foreign language

[stoic beacon]

You're speaking to plants and robots

[full fossil]

Lol

I'm kinda mad my school put it as a foreign language

[full fossil]

dw americans prolly get that wrong more than non native speakers

[full fossil]

maybe

[night tulip]

where should I buy a gpu from?

[mystic ivy]

hello

[analog quest]

does this look good for some 14 year olds first build? https://at.pcpartpicker.com/list/qVZNW4

[ocean terrace]

Looks like a pretty sick build to me

[violet moth]

hello

[void kestrel]

yo quick question for everyone

Is linux and OS or a kernel?

[violet moth]

hmmmm

OS mabye

[void kestrel]

I would say OS but one of my mates are full on debating that its a kernel

[analog quest]

yall think I should buy a illegal Windows Key or actually buy it

like 100 euros full of not worth it

[quick prairie]

linux is a kernel

[violet moth]

i have a stupid idea a Poe powered laptop

[quick prairie]

thats a stupid idea

[violet moth]

yes

would make a good video though

that is possible

[dawn jackal]

On paper it’s kind of doable

[quick prairie]

it is

[latent geyser]

i wanna know your thoughts on buying the new airpods pro 2? i've had my pro 1s for about a year now and one earbud is slightly softer than the other but besides that no issues - more like a minor inconvenience that bugs me every day

should I spend 230 quid on it?

[quick prairie]

no

[graceful burrow]

where do you even get 230 squids

[latent geyser]

quid = pounds

[graceful burrow]

squids

[latent geyser]

mind me asking why not?

[quick prairie]

really bad value considering they are gonna die in like 3 years

[latent geyser]

mmm

i really do like the airpods though and travel in a bus every day

the noise cancelling lets me sleep so im not sure the extra noise cancelling will help

[quick prairie]

ig if you need the anc go for it

[river narwhal]

So I have a bunch of those USB LED chips that I use around the house when the power goes out or as a nightlight on my portable power brick, but is there anyone making them for USB C so I can plug them into my phone to make crossing the streets at night a bit safer? The phone's a Sony so the flashlight isn't even half as strong as a Samsung's would be.
If your wondering what a USB LED chip is it'd be this https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-10PCS-Laptop-Keyboard-Camping/dp/B00MEKUSR4/

I could just buy a flashlight, but that'd be another thing I have to carry with me for the day and my work doesn't allow cargo pants. I could get a backpack but I don't like looking like I'm carrying anything valuable when I'm walking.
Well anyways, I'm heading off to work. I'll check this later today if anyone actually replies to this.

[ashen zodiac]

how's everyone

i'm currently reinstalling macOS which is... fun.

[near nebula]

you've reminded me to reinstall Windows 10 on the laptop... more fun

[ashen zodiac]

at least it's not 11

[near nebula]

yeah, because the laptop is AMD and NVIDIA

and it was bundled with Windows 11

[ashen zodiac]

i have this old beast while my newer Mac reinstalls though

[ashen zodiac]

EW

[near nebula]

yeah. so I had to do the 8.1 ➡️ 10 "upgrade" process

[ashen zodiac]

why? you can just download 10 no?

[near nebula]

not quite

new boards and that requires an upgrade before it becomes digitally activated

[ashen zodiac]

i'm used to macOS and Linux, i yeeted Windows from my life like 2 years ago at this point, and neither macOS or Linux have activation

[lethal copper]

Welp, just switched to android, I guess it's my destiny to switch every upgrade isn't it

[near nebula]

but you're right that I had the USBs with those distros (via their media tool) available so I did technically download the upgrade that way

[ashen zodiac]

i tried it recently, and they still haven't fixed that it becomes gradually slower over the period of a month or so...

i'm back on iOS now

[lethal copper]

Well, beats loosing most of my country's apps to me

:D

[ashen zodiac]

oof

[lethal copper]

It's a korean version which was funny

[near nebula]

ah yeah, I do remember the convo last night regarding issues with certain things being used and that

[lethal copper]

trying to find where to switch language was... fun...

are greyed out apps being downloaded?

[near nebula]

I would assume so?

if it's on the Play Store or the app equivalent the bar or circle should fill then when it "disappears" it's installed and available

[lethal copper]

here I go installing all the apps over again

[near nebula]

always fun swapping phones and sometimes OS

[lethal copper]

Fortunately after a factory reset it didn't even install korean apps

still had to manually remove korean keyboard thought

[near nebula]

as long as the data rate's infinite, you should be okay unless it's backed up on the Cloud

[lethal copper]

I do have infinite data

it's far too expensive but the carrier no longer offers unlimited and I literally won't survive with a limit

I use like 1.3tb a year or something crazy like that

I thought I didn't like the feel of android but turns out it's just that I mostly used budget ones XD

My eyes were getting really irritated by small lag when scrolling

anyway, the case wasn't available at the local store so now I am caseless for a day :D

[near nebula]

welp, always a good idea to check first, which you did

[lethal copper]

firefox will be my browser of choice :)

I really like mobile safari (desktop one sucks imo), but for android firefox is great

[near nebula]

a decent enough call

[lethal copper]

oh wow they warned me about korean bloatware but I don't even have normal one

wtf I literally don't see any useless uninstallable app, I can even remove facebook which doesn't work in my country anyway

[patent iris]

haha, the opposite of me. I've always used prepaid and will probably never switch. If people really need to contact me, they can message or call me.

[near nebula]

you might have done the right thing with a root factory reset then

[lethal copper]

I am too lazy to get my old phone so I currently try to remember which apps I wanna download

[patent iris]

I use uYouPlus to download yt videos I want to watch later. And I use Tidal to listen to music offline.

[lethal copper]

I think so

[lethal copper]

Like: "Hm, I go to school, what do I need for.... of course, Moscow Metro app!"

The main problem is that to-morrow I will attempt not showing that I have a new phone to my classmates

[patent iris]

school on saturday?

[lethal copper]

Yeah I do have it on saturday

[patent iris]

oh. haven't heard that in a while.

[lethal copper]

it's fine, Friday and Saturday aren't that bad. Main thing of Friday are 3 Literatures and for Saturday 2 Physics and 2 project classes

[patent iris]

I liked physics during secondary school.

Was my favorite subject

Didn't have to study much for it, and still got good grades. And I found it interesting.

Quantum tunnelling is something I still did not understand

but somehow I still got a 8.1 / 10 for that subject xD

[sonic barn]

My favorite subject was history, best class with our teacher

english always sucks

I complete everything in class but its the worst imo

[patent iris]

Rn I'm studying software engineering, in my third year doing my internship.

[sonic barn]

shakespear

[lethal copper]

My school uses suspiciously many double lessens whatever the english word for it is

[patent iris]

Waking up every day at 7 and arriving home at 6 makes me tired though.

[sonic barn]

just skip

[lethal copper]

I mean, that's probably a given for one of country's top schools but it's a bit annoying with my lesser favourite subjects

[mystic ivy]

I got YouTube (Web Browser Ver) Working on PS4 Remote Play

[patent iris]

can't skip internship, I get paid to work & learn xD

[lethal copper]

"Finally, this geometry lesson is done!"

"Mate, we have another one in 10 minutes"

[sonic barn]

say u got covid

cough cough

[patent iris]

xD

I enjoy my time there, my body is just still adjusting to a new sleep schedule

[lethal copper]

smh can't get the hang of where fingerprint reader is

it's too high

[sonic barn]

but unemployment claims though

free easy money

enjoy it while your country still has it

[patent iris]

If I wanted to just earn money I wouldn't have gone to college. I would have continued development on Boblox. That earned me a couple of hundred bucks a month at the time.

[sonic barn]

ew

[patent iris]

Could've probably started my own game and make money that way.

But Boblox game development is toxic and I wanted to do something useful instead. So I decided to go to college.

[lethal copper]

I still can't wrap my head around western college and uni being same thing

[sonic barn]

yeah they are the same

[patent iris]

not in the Netherlands

[dusty rune]

worst

[patent iris]

college = HBO, uni = university

[sonic barn]

college is pointless though imo

[patent iris]

I can still do a masters if I wanted to after college.

[lethal copper]

here you go to college after 9th grade for more specific and often lower ceiling job

uni is after optional 10 and 11th and usually gets you a better job in the end

Like I was taught to not even think like college is an option

[night heron]

in america you do 13 years of traditional school or you don’t graduate

[patent iris]

we have MBO, HBO and UNI here. (lowest to highest level of education, also lowest to highest average salary)

[night heron]

hbo max

[patent iris]

If I wanted to get a university diploma, I could do a Master's degree in 1 year (or 2 years if I need extra time) after HBO.

[lethal copper]

why does it feel uncomfortable using the screen on new phones

[patent iris]

But I'm not sure if I want to do that yet.

It does pay about 300-600 euros more on average each month if I do uni.

But if I don't need it, eh.

[lethal copper]

I feel very bad ruining the hydrophobic layer, knowing I likely won't replace it

but it's either that or just not using the phone

[patent iris]

screen protector: am I a joke to u?

[sonic barn]

hbo house of the dragon?

pog

[lethal copper]

I get a lot of scratches but I'll be damned if I get a screen protector 😎

the screen just doesn't feel quite the same

[night heron]

it doesn’t look or feel the same

[lethal copper]

and it's a pain to find a high quality glass

[night heron]

but it’s better than replacing a screen

[patent iris]

The simple dutch school system: https://www.tio.nl/.uc/ib6d9b12f0102da130700b92a42022a08f19848afc2f60701c4ee02120280/gy1tsu5orelfoxvaovhgw.jpg

[lethal copper]

😀

should I limit charging to 85%?

[patent iris]

tl;dr I did pre-university education, didn't wanna go to uni. Went to higher professional education (HBO) instead, and now in my third year.

[patent iris]

yes, prolongs your battery life by a lot.

[lethal copper]

hold up wasn't the A13 update out on S22 series?

I don't think I'm on android 13

[lethal copper]

I think it does the opposite, but does protect the battery's life :D

my iphone is o n 88% health after 2 years

[eternal herald]

hi would you guys know where to get a cheap rasberry pi 4 b?

like under 100 $

[sonic barn]

house of the dragon cast?

[lethal copper]

probably because I used magsafe charger with VERY slow outlet during a hot summer

[patent iris]

HBO = Higher Professional Education (Hoger Beroeps Onderwijs)

[lethal copper]

EGE exam scary

[sonic barn]

that's hpe

[patent iris]

sadly no dragons involved

[sonic barn]

sadge

good show though

[lethal copper]

why is it still android 12 :(