public-chat

[manic torrent]

not at all.

[orchid swallow]

don't act like people have a moral responsibility to it

[manic torrent]

I pay my bills.

[orchid swallow]

otherwise its pretty hypocritical

[manic torrent]

I mean you kinda do, when it comes to 500W video cards

[orchid swallow]

if you aren't running it constantly it really isn't that much of a power drain

let alone running it constantly at max power

[manic torrent]

yes, but somewhere in between "absolute moral imperative" and "why are you worried about effeciency" is sensibleness

ignoring it is stupid.

[vapid smelt]

i thought we where talking about not wanting to cool 400+watt cards and how they heat up our room

[orchid swallow]

It is more just personal preference, an average gamer really should not have to worry about it

[manic torrent]

exactly. from a pure cost and comfort standpoint, in summer my office needs to be cooled, and it's probably the biggest ongoing expense

[manic torrent]

an average gamer has a 1050ti

[orchid swallow]

I would estimate they still use less than a mini fridge on average

[manic torrent]

buying a $1500+ card is not "average gamer"

[manic torrent]

... a 1050ti? yeah no shit, it uses SFA power

[orchid swallow]

like that one guy said a max watt 4090 for 3 hours is roughly a mini fridge for a day

most people probably arent even playing that much daily at such high power and most people dont have 4090s

[fossil frost]

its not worth arguing, this guy is an idiot, or a troll

[south stone]

You're not taking into account idle states, most people have their computer turned on 10/12 hours anyways xD

[manic torrent]

ok none of this is relevant

from a PURELY self interest perspective, every watt of heat I put into this room I have to cool. and I want to play games when it is hot.

[orchid swallow]

nah dude you're kinda just inventing problems that don't need to exist

[manic torrent]

you mean like... paying for electricity, or having to cool your house?

I too, am sick of this adulting bullshit

[fossil frost]

see what i mean? idiot, or troll.. or both... not sure

[orchid swallow]

I mean if less than $10 a month for your $1500 graphics card is a deal breaker

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZnAwUg9CU

[manic torrent]

I mean honestly I don't even know what my electricity bill is, it gets paid automatically and my wife does most of that. But you're still a dick.

Your messaging is all over the place - you're more or less simply being contrarian\

[orchid swallow]

don't know why u think that

[fossil frost]

almost like they are a spoiled child 🙂

[orchid swallow]

I'm into a lot of science and futurism stuff. I tend to be an optimist in that sense so it probably contributes

I don't fear the future as far as energy goes

and there r several potential solutions to climate change if that becomes a very critical issue

[vapid smelt]

we are all going to electric cars and our grids cant handle it

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/california-heat-wave-flex-alert-ac-ev-charging.html

[finite cloud]

Hey I didn’t say that

[orchid swallow]

nuclear fusion, moon infrastructure, space mirrors, dyson swarms, beamed energy

:soyface:

[manic torrent]

it already is a critical issue

[manic torrent]

dude. effeciency is futurism. more effecient = more power per watt and per space and per heat output and per weight

There are many applications which limit one or all of those constraints inherently.

[vapid smelt]

next generations problem 😛

[south stone]

Its all components tho (Answer to albert) you want more efficient components because not only you have power consumption reduction, but heat output, less heat output, less you spend on cooling your gaming area.

[manic torrent]

I mean.. not even. I don't know if anyone has like... seen or read any news in maybe the last few years, apparently stuff happened with weather?

[south stone]

It all boils down to saving energy, ergo money.

4080 12gb similar in performance to 3080 12gb.

[vapid smelt]

nahhh

[south stone]

If they named it 4070 (12gb), at 3080 12gb performance, everyone would've been happy. lol

[gilded quest]

Anyone on discord Android beta

If so, has the most recent update been super shit?

[orchid swallow]

well apparently there isn't enough economic incentive to fix it yet, mass displacement should be

hopefully what we rely on for energy can change by then

I think fusion is crucial

[manic torrent]

it will be far too late by then. also the west already sealed its fate by accepting a 5-20% loss in workforce from covid

[orchid swallow]

otherwise if we dont have a new energy source we're fucked

[orchid swallow]

Far too late in what way lul

[manic torrent]

yeah you don't know what you're talking about.

[orchid swallow]

do explain

[vapid smelt]

we need to factory reset planet earth

[manic torrent]

if you need me to explain that, then you fundamentally don't have a grasp on what climate change is, what it does, and what is required to improve the situation

[fossil frost]

we are well on our way to causing that

[manic torrent]

"the invisible hand" of the market is ..... yeah. That shit doesn't work and never did.

[vapid smelt]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/31/smiling-sun-nasa-coronal-hole/ the sun is smiling because it got the orders to kill earth

[orchid swallow]

the invisible hand is the same public pressure that environmentalists go for, there just isn't enough interest yet because it doesn't affect the majority of people

and telling apart coincidences and results of climate change is hard to an average person

its not that far along yet

[fossil frost]

there isnt enough interest, because companies who make a lot of money on the status quo, have spent the last 30 years spending some of that money to supress the idea that climate change is a real thing. lying, being fined for lying, then continuing to lie anyway.... the real reason nothing is being done, is because those companies were allowed to grow to such a point where their money is used to pay for governments to exist

[manic torrent]

because of horrific misreporting, deliberate misinformation, bullshit hedging by weak politicians.

[orchid swallow]

so what exactly do you propose then

[manic torrent]

not that far along? how far along does it need to be to give a shit. I mean, if the scale is from absolute zero to the heat of the sun, sure.

[orchid swallow]

yep, nothing is going to change that until things crash and burn

[fossil frost]

tbh, a real fix for climate change? all political offices have a maximum term limit... that way, there is no point in companies spending money on buying politicians. because they will only hold that power for a short time, and if they do try and buy political influence, it becomes a very expensive ongoing cost

[orchid swallow]

and I disagree with it being "far too late" even by that point.

[manic torrent]

... it's not actually that expensive

[manic torrent]

I mean, you can disagree, but you'd be wrong.

[orchid swallow]

How do you propose we reverse climate change right now then

[manic torrent]

I think what you mean is "I don't care because I wont be affected due to [basically random chance] so hey who fucking cares"

[fossil frost]

once or twice in a career isnt expensive, a few times every 6-8 years, for enough of the ruling politicians for it to make your company have an influence (because there would be no senior politicians who have been doing it for 30+ years and are well respected anymore)... that gets expensive

[manic torrent]

I mean step 1, actually give a shit? I'm not saying I have a solution, I'm saying one should be sought

[fossil frost]

as i said previously... spoiled child...

[manic torrent]

dude, not at the scale megacorps operate, because they own the parties, as well as the individuals. Plus, they pool their money in PACs

[fossil frost]

im not saying it would be the fix on its own, but it would be a start, even still, it would be much more expensive than it is now

[orchid swallow]

they haven't been sought and won't be sought until there is real economic incentive, your "caring" won't save the planet unfortunately

[manic torrent]

so, basically you agree that's it's a serious problem, you don't think it will be too late when everything collapses, and since there isn't real economic incentive, it won't happen, so you might as well not give a shit, and tell others to not give a shit too, thus making it a self fulfilling prophecy.

[full fossil]

lollll

[fossil frost]

term limits also removes the political incentive to just say and do whatever it takes to get re-elected and maintain your power... if you KNOW that your power is gone in 8 years when you first get it... then you have no need to do any pandering to anybody, and just serve the local public... would work even better if it was 4 years, and if being an MP/whatever it is in other countries, was like jury duty, everyone was on the list, and everyone had a chance of being called up once every 4 years

[vapid smelt]

I love cats

[full fossil]

I love dogs

[manic torrent]

I love ice cream sandwiches

[full fossil]

same

regular ice cream cant compete

unless u have magic shell

[orchid swallow]

some coasts being engulfed isn't the end of the world actually. Numerous methods have been proposed for cooling down the planet and none are particularly high tech or hard to obtain... That's why it simply isn't scary to me

[fossil frost]

its not scary to you because you have been lied to, and believe the lies

[orchid swallow]

What lies exactly

I'm not denying climate change

[manic torrent]

and the violent storms, flooding, tsunamis, drought, that won't be a problem either.

[orchid swallow]

that's essentially what lobbyists aim for

[vapid smelt]

British people aren't scary

[manic torrent]

Do you know what the highest month of rainfall in history is for my state (victoria, AU)? ... last month.

[fossil frost]

go to a football match on derby day, you will change your mind 🙂

[vapid smelt]

35mm?

[manic torrent]

And the worst recorded fire in human history? Black Saturday, Feb 7, 2009

[fossil frost]

derby games are games such as liverpool vs everton, or liverpool vs man utd, or man utd vs man city, or the best one, rangers vs celtic (scotland).

[vapid smelt]

not the fire in 2020?-19

[manic torrent]

oh no, all these things are coincidence

[manic torrent]

no, that was big, but the black saturday fire was the hottest and worst - it literally sucked all the oxygen out of the air, and people died without inhaling smoke or being directly affected by fire.

[vapid smelt]

holy shit

[orchid swallow]

I mean it's not worth panicking over no, lobbying is definitely a big problem and the sooner the coal industry dies the better but also billions of dollars are being sunk into new nuclear tech which is enough to be hopeful

[manic torrent]

yeah, I was there, a bunch of guys from my brigade were [ ] this close to eating it

[orchid swallow]

when nuclear is more efficient than coal there isn't much to worry about

[manic torrent]

Let me guess, it's also not worth panicking over covid either?

[orchid swallow]

yeah and maga drumpf q anon

[small bolt]

We get fusion working and we're set for the foreseeable future. We're getting there too

[orchid swallow]

seriously though what dude?

[manic torrent]

If it's not worth caring about climate change, what IS worth caring about.

[vapid smelt]

im a healthy young man that got it twice i dont need to worry about it but others dont have the same healthy immune system as me

[orchid swallow]

idk man I'm not ur mom

[manic torrent]

• and lucky

[orchid swallow]

can't tell u that

[manic torrent]

so, what do you care about? anything?

fusion power, that's it?

[vapid smelt]

it worth caring about what the next iphone model will have/not have

[night heron]

the first time i got covid in early 2020 when we didnt call it covid yet i was extremely ill

the second time i got covid a few months ago i had no symptoms

[fossil frost]

had it twice, had a mild headache, and got insomnia for a couple of days... hate to think what people with weaker immune systems or those genetically predisposed to the worse symptoms went through

[manic torrent]

It's more complex than that - in many people it can cause ongoing (and/or permanent) issues.

[night heron]

my grandmother lost her taste and smell from covid a year ago and it never came back

[vapid smelt]

1st lost taste thought it was allergies, 2nd time one of the worst soar throats i remember having and mild hot and cold flashes for 5 days

[night heron]

she cant smell or taste whatsoever

[manic torrent]

some testing is showing now that covid can cause a condition that presents similarly to AIDS in terms of immune issues.

[ebon otter]

does anyone know why my 6900xt gaming x trio doesnt work on sygnal rgb?

[vapid smelt]

all rgb software is ass

[manic torrent]

depends on what brand it is. Join the signal RGB discord

[fossil frost]

yeah, friend of mine was a very very good runner/cyclist, and regularly did club time trial on the TT bike, very healthy, very fit... yet he got covid and now 18 months later, he still gets his arse kicked by going up stairs

[manic torrent]

Covid can cause lymphopenia. Our son ALREADY has lymphopenia. nothx. we stay at home and mask up

[orchid swallow]

yes fusion power. I prefer to look optimistically towards technology that can save us rather than just being doom and gloom about the end of the world or whatever. I'm not really sure what the average person can do to change the politics regarding that though.

it mostly comes down to polticis anyways

[fossil frost]

we are 50 years away from viable fusion, at least

[vapid smelt]

i would buy him a bubble

[orchid swallow]

if it were me I'd say put more funding into fusion power

[orchid swallow]

yea maybe

you know what would be cheap and easy though with current technology

[manic torrent]

we basically have. I work from home. My wife takes care of him. We don't go anywhere. anytime we do we all have N99 masks

[fossil frost]

yep, halving the world's population...

[orchid swallow]

well maybe not cheap but not based on non existing science at least

[manic torrent]

get snappin

[orchid swallow]

oh well yea that

[fossil frost]

i do, every day, but it hasnt worked yet

[vapid smelt]

i was thinking more of

[orchid swallow]

Moon infrastructure would dramatically decrease the lauch cost and construction of anything elsewhere in space. Literally a big thin mirror built on the moon has been a big consideration

as far as a good temporary solution

[vapid smelt]

fancy mask

[orchid swallow]

just put it in a lagrange point orbiting the earth and its stable

[manic torrent]

dude they are SO much better than the disposable ones - replacable filter, comfy, easy to use and wear all day.

https://flomask.com/

[vapid smelt]

how is it breathing in them?

[fossil frost]

yep, thats why james webb has a infinite life span... oh wait... no it doesnt, because lagrange points are not as stable as they are made out to be, and it needs to do corrective burns to keep it in the lagrange point

[manic torrent]

much much better than disposable. Clearer speech too.

Honestly I can't recommend them highly enough, I have never seen another mask even CLOSE

[orchid swallow]

that doesn't invalidate the idea at all lul

if it needs maintenance then it needs maintenance

[manic torrent]

it doesn't help with climate change at all either 😛

[orchid swallow]

the other options are

[fossil frost]

yep, missions to a point in space, over a million miles away... straight forward...

you are living in a fantasy world

[orchid swallow]

fusion, renewable energy, a fuckload of trees or stripping co2 from the atmosphere artificially which in itself costs energy

none of which are that feasible atm

a space mirror is the most feasible low effort solution imo

[vapid smelt]

we have so much space junk'

[manic torrent]

or maybe just... nuclear instead of coal?

[fossil frost]

"imo"... yep... you and your opinion are much more well informed than huge agencies such as ESA or NASA or JSA...

[orchid swallow]

the reason fusion is so crucial is that it'd actually beat out coal in terms of output and efficiency

[manic torrent]

no shit

[orchid swallow]

but yea itd be preferable if that could be done

[slate agate]

a coal plant puts out more radiation from burning it then a nuke plant

[orchid swallow]

it just isnt likely until every easily accessible reserve of coal is depleted lul

[orchid swallow]

nope that's why its a temporary solution until fusion can convince people even from an economic perspective

[fossil frost]

there is shit loads of coal, we are not running out. same with oil and gas... its just that at current prices, a lot of it isnt worth digging up, because it would cost more than you can sell it for... and as the price goes up because the stuff we can easily get becomes more scarce, it then becomes viable to get the next easiest coal/oil/gas, and these huge companies already know how to do that, so why would t hey do anything else other than drive up prices with artificial scarcity?

[manic torrent]

coal industry spent a whole lotta money to obscure that from common knowledge 🙂

also, @orchid swallow assumes rational behaviour from corporations.

[manic torrent]

and note that it's per twh, not in total, so the numbers are 100% comparable

[vapid smelt]

brown coal is tasty

[granite finch]

just got unbanned from this server after a week because someone else was making fun of my pronouns (she/wolf)

[vapid smelt]

brown coal is so good germany is closing down nuclear reactors and upping production of brown coal plants and mining

[granite finch]

yea ik

i said the same thing yesterday

i got unbanned yesterday

[fossil frost]

are you insinuating that they are talking shit and/or attention seeking?

[manic torrent]

and were they wrong? were you just making an extremely poor joke?

[granite finch]

Yes they are wrong because thats want i identify as, an no i wasnt joking

[manic torrent]

I mean, the kind of thing you identify as is word banned by the bot here.

[fossil frost]

yep, i was right... attention seeking... 100%... im gonna go before they start sucking attention down like food

[vapid smelt]

i want some food

[tired bolt]

Yo

[vapid smelt]

🪀

[tired bolt]

Lol

[manic torrent]

if only there was ways to get food!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA

[rugged bridge]

hey everyone

how yall doing?

[vapid smelt]

great until i learned that you turned green

[rugged bridge]

:wahh:

i got a horrible sore throat

[vapid smelt]

i did to it was covid

[rugged bridge]

rip

i dont feel bad or anything its just that

but maybe when i get home i should do a test

[vapid smelt]

yup

[rugged bridge]

but having a sore throat is quite distracting

for me at least

[vapid smelt]

it hurt to drink out of my LttStore.Com when i had covid

[rugged bridge]

oof

it doesnt really hurt to drink water or anything

[polar fern]

@manic torrent vacuuming & taking walks

@rugged bridge a test should be a priority. Sore throat is the #1 symptom.

[rugged bridge]

yea, never had covid yet so

and im at school rn 😅

[polar fern]

At school with symptoms.

[vapid smelt]

Go sit next to the bullies and cough next to them

[polar fern]

Sigh

[manic torrent]

this is why everything is screwed

[rugged bridge]

lmao

[rugged bridge]

i never had covid before + i didnt even think of it being covid cause i kinda forgot what the symptoms were.

[polar fern]

😬

[rugged bridge]

either way im an introvert so i usually distance myself from everyone anyway

[vapid smelt]

like every sickness symptoms could be covid

[manic torrent]

yeah and covid can cause basically any organ system to fail

[rugged bridge]

well i got my 2 covid shots

i think phiza

[polar fern]

You’d think folks would want to avoid feeling like crap but hey.

[vapid smelt]

a free paid for athome vacation

im just happy the 2nd time i kept my sense of smell and taste

[rugged bridge]

tbh i feel theres a difference between people who come to workplace/school/whatever coughing and sneezing everywhere and me who just has a sore throat and thats about it

[polar fern]

Different people have different symptoms and the symptoms can also vary between the newer variants and the older ones

[manic torrent]

yes and no - it's not so much you particularly as the entire ... everything.

[vapid smelt]

i understand a runny nose one might think it was allergies , but a soar throat your sick with covid or something else no matter what

[rugged bridge]

got it

sore throat symptom of flu?

[polar fern]

A sore throat is usually a sign of some infection or injury. A runny nose could be literally anything.

[vapid smelt]

strep throat

[polar fern]

it could be a whole range of different medical things but they are specifically medical things

[rugged bridge]

yea i been sucking on some strepsils i think they're called

[vapid smelt]

menthol cough drops 10/10

[polar fern]

Sniffly runny nose could be a food sensitivity could be something as simple as chalk from a chalkboard our noses run to empty out irritants and stuff.

[rugged bridge]

i just stole the strepsils from my dads travel bag lol

i asked him ofc

[polar fern]

A sore throat is usually a sign that our Munes system is actively doing something to fend off infection or it could be something like you swallowed something that was too jagged or too hot

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-so-raven-thief-insult-judging-how-dare-you-gif-15772226

[polar fern]

🤣

[vapid smelt]

oh you asked

[rugged bridge]

[rugged bridge]

yes but i took a whole packet

i tell you what though, what probably contributed to my sore throat is the fact the AC in my class rooms is SO F**KING COLD

(cause its summer in australia)

im legit in a jumper thats how cold it is and im still kinda cold

[polar fern]

Then your air-conditioner is mouldy or there is too low humidity but typically a sore throat specifically is a sign of infection or injury.

[rugged bridge]

id say too low humidity

[polar fern]

and too low humidity usually causes throat irritation only if you breathe through your mouth exclusively such as when you sleep

[rugged bridge]

oh wait do you think it could be a diffuser?

[polar fern]

Bottom line get a PCR test as soon as you can. If you don’t have access to that then try a home test.

[orchid swallow]

diffusers add humidity no?

[gilded quest]

humidifiers do

diffusers blend light

[polar fern]

if you are fully symptomatic with a sore throat you really shouldn’t be around other people because you could be contagious regardless of if it’s Covid or not

[rugged bridge]

well idk i dont think its really a diffuser its more like a smell thing

[polar fern]

Infuser?

[rugged bridge]

maybe

[gilded quest]

oh the essential oil things

[polar fern]

A diffuser is something that spreads out flow

[orchid swallow]

oh

[rugged bridge]

yes

[orchid swallow]

stinky

uh

[gilded quest]

the essential oil things likely do not contribute meaningfully to the ambient humidity

[orchid swallow]

oh

[polar fern]

Smelly air

[orchid swallow]

stinky

[gilded quest]

https://youtu.be/oHeehYYgl28

[orchid swallow]

they make humidifier/diffusers

thats y i confused it

[polar fern]

We have crane humidifiers.

[orchid swallow]

used to own one until it crapped out

it makes ur room stinky and wet

just how i like it

[rugged bridge]

lmao it was kinda funny last winter for me cause our AC at home broke and needed to get replaced (it was early winter and the replacement was scheduled late winter) but i kinda contributed to keeping the house warm because of my servers/computer haha

[polar fern]

We have had three for about six years. The one that my girlfriend used for her bedroom started to have a leak after the tank was dropped but everything else worked fine.

Also you’re supposed to clean them out between uses

[orchid swallow]

nahh

[polar fern]

And every once in a while you’re actually supposed to clean them and let them dry completely before using them again

Otherwise stuff will grow inside the tank and the ultrasonic mist chamber

[orchid swallow]

i cleaned mine like twice

i think it broke because i tilted it and water fried the heating element or somthing

[rugged bridge]

oof

[polar fern]

It’s not like a microwave oven or a refrigerator where you can clean it once a year or something it really needs to be done at The end of each use

[gilded quest]

if you use distilled water you probably don't need to clean it between every use

[orchid swallow]

yea i used to use distilled because my water is hard as fuck

[gilded quest]

if you use tap water, the mineral build up is real

[orchid swallow]

rust literally stains the tub

[polar fern]

No stuff from the air actually gets pulled in and mixed with the mist and as the tank empties is it pulls in ambient air as well

[deft comet]

oh yeah, I live in an area where the wter is so hard you can chew it

[gilded quest]

wat

[deft comet]

humidifiers die quick

[rugged bridge]

wtf

[polar fern]

Yummy

[orchid swallow]

u know what else is so hard u could chew it?

[deft comet]

you know as a kid where you'd put the water testing tabs in the tap water kids brought from home?

[polar fern]

Lttstoredotcom?

[orchid swallow]

yes

[polar fern]

👍

[gilded quest]

cable ties from https://lttstore.com/

[orchid swallow]

ltt screw drivers from lttstore.com

[deft comet]

you'd go around the room, it would be like clear to pink/red..... yeah mine turned purple

it's really yummy water though

just really really hard

[polar fern]

If it turns purple that means you have excess iron

[deft comet]

waiting on my screwdriver

but I got black on black/orange, so waiting on special run

[orchid swallow]

we have extremely ironic? water

[rugged bridge]

im honestly quite greatful to live in australia

[orchid swallow]

ferrous?

rusty

[deft comet]

Ferric?

[polar fern]

The black shaft screwdrivers from the first batch should have started shipping in the last day or so I believe unless someone else has updated info

[orchid swallow]

oh

[deft comet]

oh cool

I just got my bag last week

[polar fern]

Linus said “end of the month” last month.

[deft comet]

not as big as my last bag, but I think that's good

[gilded quest]

ever box a kangaroo?

[deft comet]

means I have to carry around less stuff

[rugged bridge]

im waiting on getting a screwdriver cause shipping costs almost the same as the screwdriver 💀
i exaggerated a bit there

[rugged bridge]

no

[polar fern]

It’s funny you say you got a bag I actually got one that was like $16 or something

[deft comet]

I was using my dead friends laptop bag for the last 2 years, it's nearly falling apart because I carry too much stuff around in it

[rugged bridge]

lmao my laptop case one of the zippers legit just broke off

[polar fern]

This one https://a.co/d/3utKgrA

[orchid swallow]

-10 tainted bag

[rugged bridge]

are you guys aware of the $1 gamepass loophole?

[polar fern]

Wasn’t $16, was $9!

[deft comet]

weighted down with emotional baggage as much as anything else

but it's cool, I like the fresh start of the new bag

[polar fern]

you know there are people you can talk to you about that stuff

[orchid swallow]

emotional debuff

[deft comet]

oh yeah, I have a great group of friends and good support

[polar fern]

I cannot believe my throat is still bothering me.

[gilded quest]

is it like the catholic loophole?

[deft comet]

poophole loophole

[rugged bridge]

whats that?

[gilded quest]

you can skip mass every 5th sunday /s

[polar fern]

Do I even want to know what that is?

[rugged bridge]

oh lmao idk

[deft comet]

I'd drop a youtube, but it's rather R rated

[polar fern]

🤦‍♂️

[gilded quest]

lmao

[deft comet]

"#$%# me in the @#@ in the name of JESUS!"

[polar fern]

Cake or death?

[rugged bridge]

its to do with the xbox pc app being extra janky

[full fossil]

Both, let me eat cake and die

[polar fern]

https://youtu.be/PVH0gZO5lq0

[full fossil]

ahhh.....

[rugged bridge]

the cake from portal?

[full fossil]

hmmm

yes

[rugged bridge]

speaking of portal, its novemeber and portal rtx hasnt released yet :(

[orchid swallow]

sfhfj

[full fossil]

give it time

[rugged bridge]

ik lol

[orchid swallow]

is it both portal 1 and 2 getting it

[deft comet]

death by cake?

[rugged bridge]

just 1

[orchid swallow]

fuc

what if valve made another portal game lol

[rugged bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

they technically already have

[orchid swallow]

yea

[deft comet]

portal 2 episode 1?

cause they can't make a 3

[orchid swallow]

ik its asking a lot cus portal 2 came out so recently

but itd b cool if we could see something about what they plan on doing with the ip soon

[gilded quest]

wat

[orchid swallow]

portal 3 peleas

[rugged bridge]

eh either way, valve is updating tf2 so im happy

[gilded quest]

portal 2 is over a decade old

[orchid swallow]

didnt it come out in 2011

yea

so its only been a couple years

[gilded quest]

"recently"

[full fossil]

Yes

[orchid swallow]

surely they will update us on whats to come

they wouldnt leave us hanging for over a decade haha

[rugged bridge]

it might be nice to see a remaster of tf2 maybe

[deft comet]

I'd like to see them make HL3 IP available to MOD groups... get all the biggest MOD groups working on officially licensed HL3 games

name them "HL3: <mod group name>"

get like a dozen groups making games

[orchid swallow]

aren't there multiple projects like that based on the leaked script

for hl3 episode 3

i think they all lost traction

especially when alyx came out

[deft comet]

help them out with things like art direction, maybe with the initial licensing of the IP, it comes with X number of horus of voice acting, etc..

alyx looks great, but I'd have to pay $1000 to play it

[rugged bridge]

whats ur currency

[orchid swallow]

vr still not really worth

[deft comet]

USD

[rugged bridge]

1000 usd? that doesnt make sense

[deft comet]

I'd be looking at a steam VR, since anything meta/oculus can get bent

[rugged bridge]

ohhhhh

nvm then haha

[orchid swallow]

yes

[rugged bridge]

i was thinking, the game doesnt cost that much 😂

[orchid swallow]

im colorblind

[deft comet]

no the game comes with the steam vr

but the VR setup is $1000 usd

[rugged bridge]

ye

[gilded quest]

what about HP Reverb G2?

$400 new rn

should be fully steam VR compatible

[hybrid dagger]

Hell yeah.

Backpack arrived.
But it's at home and I am halfway across America trucking and I left last Sunday.
Not balc for 4 week

Bruh
No gripe, just unfortunate for me. Just an oof lol

[rugged bridge]

itd be funny if you happened to be carrying an ltt backpack in your cargo

[hybrid dagger]

Oh, I just got hired and was shipped out for orientation.

[rugged bridge]

i see..

[little hound]

yo guys

[deft comet]

oh let me look

[rugged bridge]

👋

[hybrid dagger]

Also it was shipped from Canada and was using USPS so I definitely wouldn't have been shipping it.

It would have been hilarious. Though I am also only doing refers

[little hound]

come meet me in #tech-chat-1 yall

[rugged bridge]

🤔

[indigo remnant]

Yah ir nah
https://www.pccasegear.com/bundle/200293/pccg-amd-aerocool-gaming-system

[rugged bridge]

go to pc part picker and build the same system and see if its any cheaper

[indigo remnant]

oh thats smart

[rugged bridge]

and if you watch the pc building guide im sure you could save a buck by building it yourself

[indigo remnant]

i dont want to build it

[rugged bridge]

ok..

well then idk how youd do it but you can still see what it would've cost just by getting the components

[orchid swallow]

is userbenchmark total bullshit

or just a little bullshit

[indigo remnant]

already a compatiblity problem

[manic torrent]

NEW HATS

[manic torrent]

more or less garbage. It is somewhat useful for comparing amd vs amd or intel vs intel or nvidia vs nvidia, but even then, grain of salt - you're almost better sticking your finger in the air to feel the wind.

[gaunt hawk]

Guys in acronyms In the English language you dont put a letter for the word of like in usa etc but sometimes you do like in epcot is there a reason?

[manic torrent]

because it suits the person/people/corp making the acronym

you would have to pronounce E P C T, but you can say epcot.

[gaunt hawk]

Ahhh

Makes sense

[gaunt hawk]

Thanks

[manic torrent]

np. I like myself a bit of etymology

[gaunt hawk]

I have to remember that word

[orchid swallow]

or sticking it in my butt

[manic torrent]

just remember, it's like entomology, but not about insects!

[gaunt hawk]

I wanted to google and bookmark entomology but accidentally wrote ethnology and now learned another new word

[restive iron]

Love YouTube suspending channels for no reason because of a bug they can’t patch on their website.

[gaunt hawk]

3 min of talking with you and i learned more vocabs than the last whole year in school

[gaunt hawk]

I think they can

But they dont care enough to do so

[restive iron]

Just saying because I’m trying to like raise awareness of this termination my friend got today, and like, it wasn’t his fault.

It’s the same stupid bug of a channel being taken over, rebranded, and then being terminated for violating guidelines

[gaunt hawk]

Tell hin to sue YouTube

Depending on where you live it might work

[restive iron]

Lol I wish, if that was the case everyone would sue them. He’s 19, in college, he doesn’t have time to sue them

Just stupid what the hell they’re doing.

[gaunt hawk]

In germany a YouTuber got striked and terminated retroactively because he showed people what a scumbag and scammer another youtuber was

And he went to court and won

They had to reinstate his channel

[runic lagoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waabw_tp0LY&ab_channel=LinusTechTips
I think this is probably the scaries video i've seen.
Because voltage, with no safety cover, and the lack of eletrican gloves.

[manic torrent]

This is why I prefer learning by doing. Just dive into something and start learning shit. Like water-cooling and ott rgb

[manic torrent]

Haha oh yeah, it's damn scary.

[runic lagoon]

having been shocked by capacitors yah.

[manic torrent]

look if you haven't stuck your finger in live 240V, you haven't lived!

[runic lagoon]

well my like you haven't technically died, and then continued to live.
Me, it just nocked my ass on the ground, and felt my heart turn over.

[manic torrent]

I mean, I mostly remember a few seconds later coming around sitting on the floor

<@&750150305383186585>

[runic lagoon]

back in the day, discharging CRT just to work on the computer. 💀

[full fossil]

what case is that?

[runic lagoon]

But it deffently gives a diffrent look than tub benders.

[manic torrent]

ye basic biatch O11 Dynamic

[full fossil]

looks nice

trying to decide on a case

even tho i have a perfectly fine evolv ATX but feel like switching it up

[manic torrent]

O11 is super common, but ... .that's because it is awesome, and isn't even that expensive. I switched to the O11 for my RGB/water cooling/a e s t h e t i c build.

My only regret is 1) not curing my boneitis, and 2) not getting the XL

[full fossil]

i still have an 800D lying around

maybe ill repurpose that behemoth into a modern build

[manic torrent]

My old server was a cooler master stacker. I removed the buttons and had 16 hotswap sata bays in it

[runic lagoon]

Atlas II is a cool "case"
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acff6a25cfd7981de9a7c18/73cacef2-51cc-42a5-93ca-ddede8698dee/Narada+-+Atlas+II+-+24+Edit+2+JPG.jpg

[manic torrent]

ooooh I love it

[runic lagoon]

thjey also make the
https://yuelbeaststore.com/products/calypso

https://yuelbeaststore.com/products/atlas-ii
the atlas I was significantly cheaper. 💀

[fluid ridge]

is it normal for your eyes to absolutely die when you change the presets on one of your monitors

[manic torrent]

yeah once you start down the route of the a e s t h e t i c, setting money on fire becomes almost garaunteed

[manic torrent]

if it's dark, absolutely

[fluid ridge]

like idk i changed the preset from "cinema" to anything that's not cinema and it looks insanely grainy and washed out for some reason

[full fossil]

yo hardware bob whats good

[fluid ridge]

and i feel discomfort while looking at that monitor

[manic torrent]

What's good is that there does not appear to be a supported/nontrivial way to transport audio from PC to PC (but that's doable), but more importantly, wired digital audio to/form PC/phone

[full fossil]

i mean

i just export as mp3 or wav then move it to icloud then get it on my phone. cause i do all the audio shit on my mac. but tbf you said PC so

[manic torrent]

my current idea is two USB audio soundcards crossconnected with spdif

[manic torrent]

nono, live. for phone calls.

[full fossil]

OH

[manic torrent]

file transfer is trivial

[full fossil]

i saw that u can connect windows 11 to android phone, but never tried it before. maybe theres a way to do it on there

[manic torrent]

you can easily do it with bluetooth, but why am I using wireless if they are right next to each other.

[full fossil]

ah i get what u mean

i mean shiii

[manic torrent]

obviously analog TRRS->TRRS->USB adapter will work, but why are we going to and from analog, it's just lossy and stupid

I am going to see if I can use a hdmi capture card to get surround from the computers

[winged vault]

Going to help a friend who has a data center sell off older 3080/ti cards on r/hws 700 seems like a good price shipped? Some will be as low as 650 for lowerend models like zotac and stuff.

All have been used for clients or mining but were cleaned weekly-biweekly(generally)

[small cobalt]

hey i have a question about a recent video

in Linus's breakdown of the HP 845 G9 laptop, he keeps touching a yellow thing with white buttons. Almost obsessively. anyone know what it is?

[empty carbon]

it looks like a remote of some kind, but I can't tell exactly what it is

[manic torrent]

controller for the teleprompter

[empty carbon]

also damn, I just got here and I already have the regular role?

[manic torrent]

regular == pleb 😉

[empty carbon]

ah okay

[manic torrent]

I swapped my = and - key accidentally when I cleaned my keyboard.

[orchid swallow]

look at what they're selling for on ebay

the 10 gb 3080s are being sold for like $550

[clever cape]

Just upgraded my ram. no more maxing out for me!

[winged vault]

Thats around the price I was expecting to list. Was going to do 525-550 for 3080 10gb and 650-725 for 3080ti's

[clever cape]

16GB > 32GB

^ not a math equation

[robust fjord]

32gb>64gb

thats my opinion since I still run out of ram at 16

[frigid egret]

Who can help with trouble shooting

[orchid swallow]

how were you maxing out 16gbs

[polar fern]

24 gig tho

[long kraken]

[long kraken]

I do daily just running chrome

[orchid swallow]

do you have 32 gbs or 16

[long kraken]

I idle at 14-17 gb and max at around 27 ish

32 so it allows it to use that much

[orchid swallow]

yea

its a windows thing

[long kraken]

Maxing 16 gb with only 16 is hard

[orchid swallow]

it actually drops that memory when it really needs to be used for something else

its a convenience feature to keep stuff loading faster on windows

[long kraken]

Yea

Ayo we made our accounts on like the same day

• • 8 days but close enough

[manic torrent]

... by doing stuff? it's not hard

[orchid swallow]

Thanks for sharing, very useful

[manic torrent]

50+ tabs, discord, RGB, teams, various management apps and background shit

[orchid swallow]

I'm curious because i have 16 gbs but i cant do close to that much

[hearty spear]

16 is plenty for most people, but it's far from different to max out

[gilded quest]

Funny. When I went from 16 to 32gb, my idle usage increased from ~7 to ~11 gb

[manic torrent]

I'm just working.

[ripe flame]

i cant believe how much the steam controller costs now

i got it for like 5 dollars

[wraith sonnet]

fuck corsair

[long kraken]

Yea would suck if it didn’t bc then why buy more ram if you can’t use it

[gilded quest]

Yeah I'm definitely cool with it 😅

I paid for 32gb, I'm gonna use 32gb

[wraith sonnet]

so windows just decides to take just under half your ram every time?

[gilded quest]

Although I didn't pay for it

[livid belfry]

https://www.pcgamer.com/three-days-after-launch-activision-disables-modern-warfare-2-family-sharing-on-steam/

[gilded quest]

I should try and remember to screenshot my ram usage now right after boot

[livid belfry]

Windows expands the "page file" to account for your systems ram so it doesn't hit the disk thus expansion of ram equals expansion in the system page file in ram

[gilded quest]

Also, I'm fine with services running if they are useful services to me

[wraith sonnet]

tbh games like this kinda need either this or something to prevent online play while family sharing

cause aimbots

[full fossil]

well yeah cause NVIDIA is a school yard bully at a corporation level.

[wraith sonnet]

is there a reason you're grabbing a portion of my bio?

[livid belfry]

No it's totally Activision being greedy because oh my God steam actually allows a feature that families use

[full fossil]

what?

[livid belfry]

That is literally like five separate purchases of call of duty

So Activision AKA blizzard AKA blizzard Activision disabled it

[wraith sonnet]

on the other hand that's an aimbotter buying the game five times

[full fossil]

respectfully agrees with statement in a friendly way
"and i took that personally"

[wraith sonnet]

we weren't talking about Nvidia, so I thought it was an out of nowhere attack

[livid belfry]

Hacks exist you're never going to 100% get rid of them

Nvidia is literally the worst company on the planet have you seen the crisis to over tesallized k rail

[wraith sonnet]

raising the barrier this slight ammount does cause inconvenience at least

[full fossil]

not everyone on the internet is out to hurt you... im sorry but i love the link pfp

[livid belfry]

If you think everyone internet is out to get you please for the love of God find the quickest way outside of your house and touch grass

I forgot to mention the quickest and safest way had a couple people do it stupid

[wraith sonnet]

I'm way too tired to argue over my reaction, it was shitty and I'll leave it at that

[sonic spruce]

Where do I ask for help with non tech based problems?

[rotund sluice]

anyone using Google Play Game PC beta?

[sonic spruce]

I need help making up a story?

[gilded quest]

I am intrigued

[polar fern]

why was a message i was tagged in deleted?

[sonic spruce]

I need to create a story in which I answered a 2nd grade kid’s religious based question

[manic torrent]

because it had a bad word

[polar fern]

which one?

[manic torrent]

FIIK, that's not how it works

you've been here long enough, you should know how warship does.

[sonic spruce]

Can you help or no?

[polar fern]

i didnt even see it or get a notification

just tagged messages in here with "message cannot be loaded"

[wraith sonnet]

Just princess bride it.

[sonic spruce]

What?

So what’s the question?

[wraith sonnet]

Tell the story of perceus like it's the princess bride movie.

[polar fern]

o.o

the cliffs of insanity tho

[sonic spruce]

Is the princess bride the Disney movie of the chick in San fransisco that was secretly royalty?

[manic torrent]

As you wiiiiiiiiiiissssshhhhh (I had more letters but warship got the sad)

[polar fern]

haha

[manic torrent]

omg, kids these days don't even know the classics

[sonic spruce]

Also I’ve never seen the princess bride

[polar fern]

some mornings i feel like i fell down that hill x-x

[wraith sonnet]

Turning Greek mythos into the princess bride would be far too easy

[manic torrent]

we can tell

[sonic spruce]

What’s something dumb an 8 yr old would ask?

[wraith sonnet]

Do yourself a favor and go watch it

[manic torrent]

one day, there was a society, and some guys worked out, if they made up stories that explained stuff that nobody could explain, people were much happier, and could also be controlled with that, and you could consolidate control and wealth and power.

[wraith sonnet]

Is my dog going to hell?

[polar fern]

is there wifi in all of these afterlives and if so what bands do they use

[manic torrent]

If jesus fed the starving masses at the mountain, why is it ok for christians today to reject refugees?

[wraith sonnet]

Does Gordon Freeman die at the end of "all dogs go to heaven 2"? ||If you get the reference please respond||

[sonic spruce]

Something less complicated

[sonic spruce]

Lol

[polar fern]

that lil girl is the best hero of all the don bluth movies

[sonic spruce]

That’s actually a good one maybe?

[wraith sonnet]

Why is Ned Flanders Satan?

[sonic spruce]

Never saw us it good?

[sonic spruce]

I saw that episode lol

[polar fern]

its amazeing

[wraith sonnet]

You don't get the reference

[sonic spruce]

Treehouse of terror

[manic torrent]

If you claim that people in drag are [xxxx], but in actual fact, church leaders are PROVEN to be [xxxx] at a far higher rate, and the system protects them, then doesn't that make you a horrible hypocrite asshole?

[polar fern]

cant sleep clown will eat him?

[sonic spruce]

I don’t want to know wtf you’re talking about

[sonic spruce]

What?

[wraith sonnet]

An 8 year old wouldn't ask that

[sonic spruce]

A messed up one would?

[manic torrent]

they would - not as I wrote it of course, but they can see hypocrisy

[sonic spruce]

So anyways

[polar fern]

i need to load & run the dishwasher

[sonic spruce]

Should I just open the page of my bible to something random and use that?

[wraith sonnet]

Maybe I just wouldn't have said that

[polar fern]

hey siri do the dish stuff

[wraith sonnet]

In the beninging

[polar fern]

doc brown et al were the innovators of home automation

[manic torrent]

"so, this mission, you have to go on it with another person right? and you have to try and convert people? have you ever considered that it's not to convert people, it's to teach YOU that you are alone and you cannot leave, because people out there will not support your beliefs?"

[sonic spruce]

What?

[manic torrent]

.... you really don't know much about the world, do you @sonic spruce

[sonic spruce]

I don’t know a lot of references like that sorry

I promise to watch princess bride before end of this year

[polar fern]

shelter from the storm - bob dylab

[sonic spruce]

I promise, I will put it on the list rn

[manic torrent]

I'm not making pop culture references, I'm talking about LDS

[wraith sonnet]

Or the Mormon route of disecting 1 Nephi 2:15... I don't like talking about my religion but the context for that one always leads to profound interactions based on the ridiculous nature of the verse.

[sonic spruce]

Imma look up what lds is

[wraith sonnet]

Mormon

[sonic spruce]

Oh

[wraith sonnet]

Me

[polar fern]

religion is like the firmware of society

[manic torrent]

wow, you must live in a cave

[sonic spruce]

Idk much about mormons

[manic torrent]

....that's an absolutely horrific take.

[polar fern]

it has its bugs

[manic torrent]

I mean it's not required at all for society to run

[wraith sonnet]

Like Utah's existence.

[polar fern]

deseret

[wraith sonnet]

Oh and fry sauce.

[polar fern]

the salt of the (lake) earth

[wraith sonnet]

Fry sauce exists because of Mormons

[polar fern]

fry sauce?

[wraith sonnet]

You know mayochup?

Imagine that but good?

[sonic spruce]

….

[polar fern]

nah i dont buy edible commodities

[wraith sonnet]

It is the most hyper local trend imaginable, frysauce really only exists in Utah and Idaho

[manic torrent]

if noah had all the animals on the ark, what happened to all of the insects and plant life? Also, given what we know now about inbreeding, how is it possible that the animals bred out to their current levels.

[wraith sonnet]

Imagine the thousand island sauce for in n out but make it specifically for french fries

[polar fern]

i dont really do that kinda "food"

[wraith sonnet]

It's a condiment not a food

It's weird here to dip your fries in ketchup rather than fry sauce

[sonic spruce]

I accept the first half

[polar fern]

i just bake mine in olive oil & seasonings

[manic torrent]

it's not a matter of accepting, this is established fact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhTFDBj-rw

[wraith sonnet]

Are you saying people bake french fries in ketchup?

@vapid smelt @fast willow fry sauce force go!

[polar fern]

i sprinkle olive oil & seasonings

[wraith sonnet]

[sonic spruce]

If you make French bread outside of France is it really French bread?

[polar fern]

yes

[wraith sonnet]

It's HRE bread

[sonic spruce]

Hre?

[gilded quest]

Sourdough is the best

[manic torrent]

Or, is it simply a story from many many years ago, when the world was "smaller", compiled into an anthology by authors unknown for reasons unknown, and not-perfectly-translated by a team of people unknown commissioned by king james.

[polar fern]

xur and the ko-dan armada?

[sonic spruce]

True

[wraith sonnet]

Holy Roman empire

[sonic spruce]

The part that I understood enough to help me do the question thing

[manic torrent]

is vietnamese bread french?

[sonic spruce]

How was god able to command so many animals onto the ark?

[polar fern]

holey German club

[manic torrent]

I mean that's a weak AF question, god is all powerful, end of story.

god thought it would be funny to kill everyone, so he did

[sonic spruce]

It’s an 8 year old asking, how powerful can it get?

[manic torrent]

could jesus make a burrito so spicy, he himself could not eat it.

[sonic spruce]

That’s from family guy

No wait simpsons

[wraith sonnet]

Suspension of disbelief doesn't necessarily go hand in hand with religion.

[sonic spruce]

From that episode where homer gets medicinal marijuana

[manic torrent]

yeah but there's a strong correlation

@sonic spruce you need to like... read some news or see the world or something. You seem very sheltered (not having a go, being serious)

[polar fern]

a visit to the local library's website might be a good place to start

[sonic spruce]

I know I’m sheltered af, I know I need to see the news, but I’m busy af rn with college and university essays and I really need help

[manic torrent]

OTOH, the world is pretty screwed up RN. probably better to stay ignorant tbh

[sonic spruce]

How about a kid trying to memorizing hymns or something?

[wraith sonnet]

Is that a thing religions do?

[sonic spruce]

Remeber a prayer, yes

[manic torrent]

oooh yeah. You gotta know the special words.

[wraith sonnet]

I've never been told to memorize a hymn or scripture.

[sonic spruce]

Not gym but prayer my bad

But yeah it’s important for them to remember like an entire’s book worth eventually

Around 5th or 6th grade

[wraith sonnet]

Fuck, other religions sound more cult like than the religion I belong to.

[sonic spruce]

What religion are you?

OMG NOT 8 years old lol
What’s something a 4 to 6 year old would ask?

[wraith sonnet]

Mormon, or LDS for those that care enough

[manic torrent]

dude, the difference between a religion and a cult is a very very blurry line.

[wraith sonnet]

Again, is my dog going to hell?

[sonic spruce]

One has people being interested enough to actually do stuff, the other isn’t

[manic torrent]

"why do we go to church every week, I'd rather play video games, it's super boring"

[manic torrent]

lol, not even close.

[sonic spruce]

Dog’s don’t have a soul so no

[gilded quest]

@sonic spruce this is 100% what a second grader would ask

[manic torrent]

child cries

[gilded quest]

lmao

They would tho

[sonic spruce]

They would what?

Oh yeah definitely

[wraith sonnet]

And there's the line. Some religions will in fact say that all dogs go to heaven, some will say hell, some will say they have no soul.

[sonic spruce]

I was told animals don’t have a soul so no heaven or hell for them

[manic torrent]

dogs are like me - a meat sack with electricity in it

[sonic spruce]

So we can power stuff with dogs if they have electricity?

That means if we have enough dogs we can power a house?

[manic torrent]

I mean, in simple terms - yes. In reality? no.

[sonic spruce]

Dang

[wraith sonnet]

Crabs running Doom.

[sonic spruce]

LOL

[polar fern]

animals are biochemical machines

[wraith sonnet]

You trust chemicals to tell you

[polar fern]

?

[manic torrent]

yeah, although the brain runs on a lot of electricity as well

[wraith sonnet]

Have you not seen this image?

[manic torrent]

basic brain in a jar thought experiment

[polar fern]

chemistry does not exclude electrical stuff

[sonic spruce]

So can we power homes with brains in a jar?

[polar fern]

no

[manic torrent]

You cannot prove you are NOT a brain in a jar

[sonic spruce]

If we use the sweat of sweaty gamers can we create a watermill to generate electricity for an entire country?

[wraith sonnet]

4090 running onBRAIN

[manic torrent]

we can use galvanic skin resistance to make up a new religion though

[polar fern]

binary stuff is faster but its less contextual

[sonic spruce]

What?

Wait I think I get it

So basically make a religion using a popular gamer?

Like mrbeast or pewdiepie?

[polar fern]

gross

[sonic spruce]

What?

[manic torrent]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology <- Religion | Meter-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter

[polar fern]

we humans sure are creative

[wispy marsh]

May I suggest

[grizzled mulch]

anyone know how to fix shitty download speeds im downloading to a m.2 and my wifi is testing at 300+ mb down 21 up but im downloading the new COD on battle.net and it goes at 15mbps down pleas help

[gilded quest]

what a username

[wispy marsh]

The next time Apple is being attacked (tagged with personal emotions) by android fanboys about their software, they read these before thinking that Google is the good guy

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/20/india-fines-google-162-million-for-anti-competitive-practices-on-android/
https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf

The reports may be almost half a decade old, but a leopard doesn't change its spots.

You may find the source of these materials from Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsS4VTuhRY

[hollow pulsar]

As soon as Google changed their “don’t be evil” motto - they basically were telling everyone “we plan to be evil”. And the world was more than ok with that.

[grizzled mulch]

someone help

[manic torrent]

how are we going to make battle.net faster.

[hollow pulsar]

Are the download servers saturated?

[grizzled mulch]

my buddy who is my neighbor is getting 45 down so i dont think its server issues

[wispy marsh]

This is not the problem for me. The problem for me is that people in this server has picked cherries on multiple occasions about my preferences towards Apple despite me saying that I understand their point and me not doing the same to Android.

You probably have a different internet plan

Customers being civil towards competitor's customers goes both ways.

I'm just venting

[hollow pulsar]

There will always be folks like that everywhere. I too prefer apple for my mobile device. I have my reasons, but when offered a real competitive choice, I’d drop Apple and Google in an instant

[wispy marsh]

In a community with millions of subscribers and followers it is bound to happen

[grizzled mulch]

i pay for 500 down and get like 300-400 on adverage but even if he pays for 1gb down it shouldnt be such a differance on a download

[wispy marsh]

I agree

[hollow pulsar]

If he has 1 gb and is getting 45mbit down. It’s neither of your problem. It’s battle.net

[wispy marsh]

Prolly the cdn prioritising your preferred weightage less due to metrics lol

If I were you, I would get him to put on some sneakers and roll over an ethernet cable to your network, or use a USB

[graceful burrow]

I think it's just a skill issue tbh

[hollow pulsar]

Or ISP throttling, but that gets ugly and there’s almost nothing you can do anyway.

[grizzled mulch]

yeah true thats dumb if that's the case

[grizzled mulch]

honestly

[wispy marsh]

It's not dumb

[grizzled mulch]

yeah that shit is fucked

[wispy marsh]

It is a decision made with financial concerns in mind

Nothing from corporate that makes customers less happy is "dumb"

It's maliciously crafted

[grizzled mulch]

yeah

thanks boys pro nothing i can do

prob^

[wispy marsh]

Well

Lan cable or USB, get him to transfer the files to you

Probably much quicker the old school way

[manic torrent]

every corporation is evil.

[wispy marsh]

Yeah, especially militech, arasaka, biotechnica etc.

[manic torrent]

... often those decisions are made with service levels in mind, but hey

[dull violet]

Whats happening to my account

[manic torrent]

I ate it.

[dull violet]

This is the only server i can talk in right now i cant switch channels either

[manic torrent]

have you tried turning it off and on again

[fickle linden]

hi

[dull violet]

I was able to restore the account but it still says im deletes

[graceful burrow]

Skill issue

[plain rampart]

should i cook food rn

[graceful burrow]

Yes

[dull granite]

y

[plain rampart]

bet

i have made pringles basically my whole diet its not very good

i have so many empty pringle cans

im going to keep at it until i can make a fortress

[fluid ridge]

david :C

[orchid swallow]

why is every monitor matte and not glossy

[graceful burrow]

Glare sucks

[orchid swallow]

several thousand dollar pc and can't put up blinds or turn off lights

whenever i see glossy displays in stores they look so sexy

[jaunty topaz]

god damn i want a steam deck so badly but i have no need for one

[sonic spruce]

Do we have a channel for conspiracy theories?

[graceful burrow]

It's only 400 bucks

[sonic spruce]

Jesus was black. Ronald Regan is the devil. And the government is lying about 9/11.

If you don’t get this reference then you’re young af

Or I’m old af or I watch a lot of tv

[jaunty topaz]

i don’t really have any financial obligations so im not really worried about the price. it’s just that i already have a pretty strong gaming pc setup already and i don’t travel

[sonic spruce]

Im assuming the tv

[jaunty topaz]

but playing in bed/lounging around the house with it sounds great

[graceful burrow]

So buy it then

[unborn flare]

I mean it's all about the handheld form factor

[unborn flare]

Yup

[dull granite]

RAID is like SLI but for harddrives/SSDs

[manic torrent]

It really isnt

[dull granite]

it is

👍👍👍👍👍

yes

[wispy marsh]

Sure, raid 0 == raid 1 == raid 5

[wary summit]

morning

[left leaf]

morning

[manic torrent]

== raid6 == raid01, blah blah etc

[left leaf]

raid shadow legends

[ashen terrace]

Why isn’t there a “Mac” or “apple” text chat ?

[left leaf]

Mac

[dull granite]

cuz it suuUUUCKS

[manic torrent]

Lol

Because apple people aren't real people.

[ashen terrace]

Hey ..I’m a proud windows and Mac user

[velvet marsh]

But Macs are terribly slow

[urban talon]

that's quite a statement 😁

[stuck stratus]

[velvet marsh]

I mean they have a decent encoder, but the hardware isn't super fast

[ashen terrace]

Not the m1 pro

[velvet marsh]

Yes the m1 pro

[ashen terrace]

I love my M1 Pro vs my r5 5700u I used to have

[velvet marsh]

I mean yeah the Mac was probably double or more than the 5700u laptop

[ashen terrace]

And it’s the best 2k investment I’ve ever done

Windows 11 vm then too

[stuck stratus]

https://youtu.be/MwNVYg2EwZg?t=89

apple silicon is fairly powerful

[velvet marsh]

I mean it's good for an igpu yeah

[ashen terrace]

For a desktop no I’d never get a Mac Studio or anything. Windows alll the way for that but for portability macs are king

[stuck stratus]

^

[velvet marsh]

They are great for certain circumstances, like editing certain codecs, but pure power they fall behind

[manic torrent]

.... Certain circumstances like ... Everything normal people do with a computer bar gaming.

[velvet marsh]

bar anything that uses a gpu

other than codecs supported by the media engine

[stuck stratus]

that goes for any GPU

[velvet marsh]

pure gpu power it's like a 3050 at best

[manic torrent]

So what?

[stuck stratus]

yeah, in a laptop

[velvet marsh]

I mean I'm just playing devil's advocate here lol, I have an M1 Max

[dull granite]

apple bootlickers when they get scammed for 8th time this day

[manic torrent]

Apple just needs to go and step on a rake for the debacle of external monitors.

[velvet marsh]

I also hate that my gf's $600 laptop has a better screen than my Macbook

[stuck stratus]

if you have an M1 max, then you have a micro led display

[velvet marsh]

mini led but yeah

[stuck stratus]

how would that be worse

[velvet marsh]

hers is Oled with better color coverage

[manic torrent]

My laptop has an excellent display. OLED 3.5k

[velvet marsh]

Yeah

[stuck stratus]

but how bright does it get

[velvet marsh]

500 nits, which is as bright as the Macbook gets outside HDR

[stuck stratus]

the macbook does 1000 nits, with a peak of 1600 in HDR

[velvet marsh]

"We now tested the brightness in HDR mode and can confirm that more than 500 nits are only possible with HDR contents"

1000 nits sustained in hdr, peak 1600

SDR is maxed at 500 nits

[limpid fern]

Wtf is the new YouTube

[stuck stratus]

looks nice imo

[limpid fern]

Where dislikes go?

[stuck stratus]

that's old news

[limpid fern]

Lmao

[stuck stratus]

use the return dislike extension if you want them back

[limpid fern]

Im on the app

[stuck stratus]

f

[forest wedge]

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-staff-layoffs-long-hours-shifts-work-jobs-2022-11 hope this is not to political

[heady orchid]

anyone owns a logitech g pro x wireless headset? I need help in #1036902056616792074

[lucid cove]

it was partly because of Cisco stepping in and made Open H.264

[wispy marsh]

How is the quadcast pro?

[misty scarab]

When rotating 90 deg does it become (-y,x)?

[full fossil]

Greetings

[short surge]

" good day

How are ya'll doing?

[full fossil]

Does anyone know thefieldstor

I heard he was in this server

[simple oracle]

should i get the rx 6800 at a lower price or wait for the 7800

[full fossil]

I must speak with him, does anyone recognize him?

[lethal copper]

I found a great deal on a Garmin Fenix 7x and was happy but then realized 51mm watch would look comically large on my wrist 😔

~~45-47mm is my preferred watch size and even that looks a bit big

Charging my watch 10 times a year would've been cool

[fervent prairie]

The announcement is like a Day and a half away. Just wait for prices and then decide if it's worth it.

[surreal thistle]

Dead server

[manic torrent]

all dead, all rotten

[surreal thistle]

Basically

[placid crest]

https://facebook.com/contacts/removal

[dull granite]

so tommorow at 21:00 GMT?

RDNA 3 announcement?

[vapid smelt]

Wonder if the 6900xt will hit $500 used/new after the new GPU announcements

[hoary furnace]

I hope the XTX competes with a 4080

[wispy marsh]

Well, it is $650 now

[vapid smelt]

I have the money, I just don't like spending over $450 on a GPU

I can afford a 4k 144hz 13900k 4090 setup but I find that pointless and wasteful

[hoary furnace]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63478657 lols

[amber cairn]

They really think that will turn out well during a recession?

[vapid smelt]

I would need to be paid a lot extra to work in the mail industry during cyber Monday and black Friday

Or get free food

[amber cairn]

yeah, here they've started with a "black week" nonsense so it's like 7-12 days straight of chaos with delivery and service points

the definition of a week becomes increasingly vague for each year too lol

[vapid smelt]

Cyber month

[amber cairn]

cyber quarter, gotta pump those Q4 numbers up

[wraith sonnet]

Why is coop awake?

[vapid smelt]

Driving to Las to fly to lax to fly to Hawaii!

[wraith sonnet]

God dammit take me with you

I'll be as quiet as you need me to be in your trunk

Kekw

[vapid smelt]

Mom found $250 round trip tickets per person

[amber cairn]

that's real good wow

[twin raptor]

Damn nice bro

[hoary furnace]

The funny thing is that they're majorly losing out to the courier competitors, who will just get more work because of this, but i guess that's the workers telling the execs why they're being dumb and it'll hurt them

[wraith sonnet]

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GGF8H15VZ09MET9HFBRQX4S3.png

Just leaving that here

[vapid smelt]

Do you normally wake up at this time? @wraith sonnet

[gentle thistle]

why are you awake?

[wraith sonnet]

Yes

[vapid smelt]

The earliest I wake up is 11:50

[halcyon ocean]

i usually wake up at 5-6am

[vapid smelt]

Way too early

[halcyon ocean]

it's good for when you want to get stuff done before class

[wraith sonnet]

Or work

[halcyon ocean]

that too

you can also go on an early morning run and still have time to spare

[vapid smelt]

Thats what midnight is for

[wraith sonnet]

So I guess I'm derailing from what I was planning on doing at UVU, switching to getting associates because my dumbass only now found out they don't have a doctoral program for CE

[halcyon ocean]

i like early morning runs because it's nice and cold most of the time

45 freedom degrees / 7 c is my sweet spot

[wraith sonnet]

What are the odds that this is another Utah nerd @vapid smelt ?

[vapid smelt]

Low

[empty carbon]

I guess I'm another Utah nerd too

[wraith sonnet]

@fast willow @vapid smelt we've found another

[fleet matrix]

hey guys i need some advice i recently got a i9 13900k and its getting pretty hot i think 75 to 90° is that normal?

[fast willow]

huh

[vapid smelt]

A local fry sauce connoisseur

[wraith sonnet]

I know am5 gets warm, what are you cooling it with?

[fleet matrix]

nzxt aio

[wraith sonnet]

120?

[fleet matrix]

no 280

[wraith sonnet]

280 mm rad?

[vapid smelt]

It can suck up to 300 watts depending on your mbo so yes

[wraith sonnet]

This

[fleet matrix]

ok thanks i will keep an eye on it

[fast willow]

still mildly confused about me being from utah now i guess?

[halcyon ocean]

i'm from georgia

[glacial basin]

country or state

[halcyon ocean]

state

[glacial basin]

ok

[fast willow]

yeah last time i checked im not even from the states.
actually german but i'm just confused as to why i was pinged there as i haven't even talked to any of them before

[empty carbon]

Odd

[vapid smelt]

@wraith sonnet you fucked up

[wraith sonnet]

What happened to the other radio?

Huh

[fast willow]

maybe name change or smth

[vapid smelt]

Are you a local valley utahn

[wraith sonnet]

So I guess the other @topaz patio is still here

[topaz patio]

Hi

[fast willow]

heya

[wraith sonnet]

Lol

This is the man I asked to defend fry sauce with no context

[topaz patio]

Yeah

[fast willow]

i mean
fry sauce do be good

[vapid smelt]

I put fry sauce on everything

[topaz patio]

I put ranch on many things

I barely use fry sauce

[wraith sonnet]

Wait how do you know about fry sauce