public-chat

[fluid ridge]

out of the box video support?

what is there to be confused about

[burnt bone]

When you play videos, you are using some decoder to decode the video and watch the content.

The OS doesn't do anything relating to video encode or decode.

[simple quail]

the majority of Linux installs are probably headless (ie do not have a GUI at all), because of servers

[fluid ridge]

most definitely

i however run ubuntu on my laptop since windows 11 is a battery drain so i switched it out

[burnt bone]

If we're talking about .mp4, they're media containers that require codecs like libx264,aac .etc to play

That's separate from the OS

[fluid ridge]

it's mostly my work machine so all of the quirks and features of a more user friendly/fleshed out machine might be a little lacking

[burnt bone]

I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding

[simple quail]

they're patent encumbered by some company (Cisco?), so there's some limitation when bundling them with your software

[fluid ridge]

IDK, all i know is that when i have a MacOS, iOS, windows, android machine, when i open an mp4 file i know it runs without installing additional things by the end user

pate has told me that this is apparently something that ubuntu can do too but requires you to consent to install all of the extra content

[sonic barn]

I might actually switch my main pc to steam os maybe

Since it's a version of kde plasma

I only play CSGO which is basically native

[simple quail]

it's up to the choice you make when installing the system, as it asks you whether you want to also install proprietary software (like h.264 codecs)

[fluid ridge]

idk about that

ive never used steamos but it doesn't sound very non-gamer friendly

[fluid ridge]

ah

[sonic barn]

Try installing maven updates on your computer constantly

[fluid ridge]

ubuntu is good enough for what i use

i really appreciate that firefox and libreoffice come bundled with ubuntu

[severe moon]

Hello, I wanna start photography and looking forward to a advice for a decent used DSLR camera

[burnt bone]

Okay no they're not proprietary. They just have royalty

[sonic barn]

I tried reinstalling windows earlier and the VLC playback is so much power consumption. I got 5hrs watching stuff whereas on Linux I could be getting around 7hrs

[burnt bone]

libx264 is a thing

[simple quail]

yeah it's a bit misleading but there are some limitations to how they can be used, so they're still non-free

[burnt bone]

I can see why some people just go with webm

Less headache

[jade willow]

? seems likke they just mean that their OS should come with a built in media player

most do..?

[simple quail]

AFAIK, Ubuntu should have a built-in video player, but the codecs are separate system libraries

[burnt bone]

Yeah but that wouldn't mean that Linux distros have no native mp4 video players

Like my Linux install doesn't open up documents. Doesn't mean that Linux distros cannot.

I just chose not to install an office software

[burnt bone]

It's like saying Windows has no native AutoDesk Inventor support

[burnt bone]

R u irish

[severe moon]

I'm half Irish, yeah

[jade willow]

yeah but thats completely different. Almost everyone who has a computer will download and watch a video. That isnt the same for any autodesk application

[teal estuary]

almost every home desktop user will

[manic torrent]

thing is, what the "OS" does and doesn't do also depends on a whole lot of stuff that isn't "OS" but is either bundled or auto/easy to get

[teal estuary]

besides the obvious not needing to bundle it in a server OS that doesnt have a GUI in the first place, there is no need to ship mp4 handling to every raspberry pi that has a GUI for something where it doesnt need to play a video

[jade willow]

even professionals will download a video and watch it lmfao

[wind pulsar]

I doubt that's the point

[jade willow]

just seems like such a basic feature

[teal estuary]

afaik, ubuntu at leasts includes it by default for desktop

but, really it being an optional thing is a good thing

and ima be honest, i can care less if my raspi can playback mp4, it never going to do that, if not shipping that by default saves a few TB of bandwidth for the iso host, all the better

[full fossil]

🤔

Where is my food >:[

[teal estuary]

note that ubuntu's installer also has a checkbox about codecs, it might be in that, i install it rarely and immediately go and install vlc anyway, so, im actually not sure what ships by default with it

[full fossil]

:???:

just install it if u need it fam

[full fossil]

I ate it

[full fossil]

you're next >:[

[full fossil]

That food was yummy

[misty crown]

Help serwer gaming gier IP system OS ?

[sonic spruce]

Can you put an NVME drive in a pci express mini slot or no????

[burnt bone]

Nope. It wouldn't work

[finite cloud]

It’s basically stock KDE Arch besides the “gaming mode” with the Steam Deck has

[sonic spruce]

What can you put into it?

[finite cloud]

An m.2 slot

[burnt bone]

PCI-E mini was used to connect up 3G modems, WiFi modules. You can use a passive adaptor going from PCI-E mini to standard PCI-E at x1 configuration

[vapid smelt]

like this?.........

[burnt bone]

That's a PCI-E x1 tho. Not PCI-E mini

[vapid smelt]

[sonic spruce]

Any recommendations of what I can use it for?

[graceful burrow]

A 3g modem or wifi module

[ruby ferry]

Which pc stores in USA you would recommend for buying pc parts?

[burnt bone]

You can buy Mini PCI-E 3G modems or WiFi adaptor

[burnt bone]

Everyone seems to absolutely love Microcentre but they're few and far between

[wanton glade]

YO WTF

[graceful burrow]

You've never seen a pcie 1x to m.2?

[burnt bone]

NVME uses PCI-E lanes. You know those NVME adaptor cards where they can have like four NVME drives and fit into PCI-E x16?

[wanton glade]

💀

[burnt bone]

Well PCI-E spec also says that PCI-E is fully backwards compatible and lanes used are interchangeable, they'll just default to the lowest common denominator of lanes

So you can actually fit a X16 graphics card into a x1 slot

...some sawing needs to be done to the motherboard's PCI-E slot

[fierce moth]

I have

Specificly with pi cm4 projects

[graceful burrow]

OK and

[vapid smelt]

and Nvidia sucks

[graceful burrow]

True tbh

[full fossil]

the next person who names a variable x is gonna be disintegrated

[graceful burrow]

X = 3

[full fossil]

any last words?

[manic torrent]

Or you can use an adapter. Or you can cut the card.

You can also put a 1x card in a 16x slot, but you may need to wire the detection pins at the end

And while lanes are backwards compatible, they are not divisible so you cannot use two 4x gen3 cards in a 4x gen4 slot without a bridge to manage it.

[past egret]

(x^n)+(y^n)=(z^n)

[full fossil]

literally the code people write these days :V

[manic torrent]

Maybe it's you who can't read.

[full fossil]

Maybe it's you who cant write >:[

[manic torrent]

On the contrary, my brother in Christ.

[sonic spruce]

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth?

[sonic spruce]

Fry’s Electronics

[full fossil]

my coworkers need Jesus Christ :V

[sonic spruce]

And radioshack

[manic torrent]

I love that you don't know shit, and you're trolling the noobs

[sonic spruce]

Lol

Fr tho, try newegg and micro center

[full fossil]

oldegg

[sonic spruce]

Amazon isn’t that good ngl

[full fossil]

Amazon tortures their employees :V

[unkempt widget]

i remember something very bad about newegg

[sonic spruce]

Noctua fan from Amazon killed motherboard

[mild elm]

How

[full fossil]

Corporate overlords :V

[full fossil]

it had a bomb probably

[sonic spruce]

Defective it

Ig*

Since noctua and Amazon didn’t check it to see if it was good or not

They just sent a defective one and said it was good

[mild elm]

How does a fan kill a mobo

[unkempt widget]

i trust noctua

[mild elm]

Literally impossible

[sonic spruce]

Blows a capacitor

[unkempt widget]

amazon not so much

[mild elm]

Amazon is fine

[full fossil]

lmao

[mild elm]

How does it blow a cap

[fossil frost]

so, you forced the fan onto a motherboard header the wrong way round? or... you have a shit motherboard

that isnt noctuas fault, or amazons

[full fossil]

really powerful fan

[mild elm]

No

[full fossil]

100k rpm

[mild elm]

You can’t just get enough power to blow a cap from a 4 pin

[fossil frost]

ive plugged LED strips into fan headers on shit motherboards, and its been fine

[mild elm]

Weirdly structured, makes 0 sense

[sonic spruce]

Except I didn’t

[fossil frost]

and... caps dont get blown from power... they get blown from voltage... so if a cap has been blown, something upstream from that cap, sent it too many volts

[full fossil]

my pc doesn't have a single rgb light 😭

[magic crown]

it's either 5 or 12v

won't consider that as "powerful"

[sonic spruce]

Anyways Amazon screwed me over

[mild elm]

No

[sonic spruce]

Ok noctua screwed me over

[fossil frost]

no

[sonic spruce]

And I had to buy a new motherboard

[mild elm]

I think you’re just a bit stupid

[sonic spruce]

Ok Amazon and noctua both screwed me over

[magic crown]

actual skill issue

[fossil frost]

neither of those things happened... to blow a cap, too much voltage went through the cap... so 1. the cap was already fucked, and by plugging in any fan, that cap was always going to blow... or... you did something wrong...

[mild elm]

Next time don’t put the pcie power into the cpu power

[sonic spruce]

Anyways moral of the story

Be careful what you buy from Amazon

[fossil frost]

moral of the story, dont be a moron

[mild elm]

No?

[sonic spruce]

I bought a Wii U game from Amazon new

It was clearly used

[fossil frost]

second moral, dont blame other people for your own failings because you are unwilling to accept responsibility yourself

[sonic spruce]

Same with Mario kart 8

I bought 4 copies new, all the disks were scratched

[fossil frost]

is that amazon who sold it to you, or, a 3rd party marketplace seller, on the amazon platform?

[sonic spruce]

Amazon

[fossil frost]

i doubt it, because any returns of games to amazon, get sold off at an action, and never get sold back on as amazon themselves

[full fossil]

this is why i prefer pirate tech tips

[sonic spruce]

Lol

[sonic spruce]

Idk

[full fossil]

compiling c is such a pain TwT

[burnt bone]

So I'm a bit skeptical as well. No way a fucking noctua fan blew up the motherboard

[fossil frost]

as i said, blowing a cap requires voltage not amps, so that cap was likely already fucked... and no matter what fan ended up getting plugged into it, it was always going to die

[wind pulsar]

Yeah, There's no way a 12v fan is gonna blow a cap like that

[manic torrent]

You have failed

[vapid smelt]

thats a great thing

[full fossil]

i feel disagreement in the air :V

[past egret]

yes probably

[vapid smelt]

i dont fucking know i dont play games made for kids with adhd

[full fossil]

mine

CPU:              560.92€      Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor
GPU:              924€         RTX 2080 Ti 
MONITOR:          1285.48€     Samsung C49RG9  
MOTHER BOARD:     183.9€       MPG X570 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard   
RAM:              81.63€       16GB 3200MHz CL16
HEADPHONES:       338.3€       Sennheiser 660x
PC CASE:          127.48€      Silent base 801 
KEYBOARD:         176.19€      Razer Huntsman Elite
MOUSE:            86.84€       Razer Basilisk
MOUSE PAD:        49.79€       Razer Goliathus Extended Chroma  
TOTAL: 3814.53‬€

it was in 2018 xD

[unkempt widget]

sheesh

[magic crown]

660s

[unkempt widget]

wait that monitor

[full fossil]

indeed xD

[unkempt widget]

wait wtf

[full fossil]

its the best part

[unkempt widget]

is that the one i'm thinking about

[full fossil]

ye, i should have bought amp too XD

[unkempt widget]

also why do you use that one

[magic crown]

nah won't bother with it on a 660s

[full fossil]

5120x1440 120hz 600nits HDR

[unkempt widget]

it's freesync and not gsync

[magic crown]

abigail dongle is more than enough

[full fossil]

freesync

[magic crown]

660s doesn't scale as much as 600/650

tfw your audio setup costs more than your pc

[vapid smelt]

hey you know its true

[full fossil]

idk, my friend just said that it has too many ohms, and im not getting the full benefit of it xP

[vapid smelt]

when your pc setup cost more than your car

[magic crown]

ohms is pretty irrelevant, sensitivity matters more

lower the sensitivity, the harder it is to drive

[full fossil]

isn't that the same?

[magic crown]

nah

[full fossil]

🤔

[magic crown]

two different units

one is ohms the other is dB/V SPL

[full fossil]

interesting, ill look into that when i have time xD

[fierce moth]

Ngl I just use LDAC on my earphones

Best audio quality I have atm

Shame windows doesn't support LDAC so I can't use LDAC on my school laptop

[full fossil]

once i have a home, ill make a theater room like Linus did >:3

[fierce moth]

But my main pc it ain't a problem

[full fossil]

im fully linux xD

[fierce moth]

My school would kill me if I installed arch on my school laptop lmao

[full fossil]

the hell with them xD

[fierce moth]

Plus I couldn't even if I wanted too

Cause they have bios locks

And it ain't controlled with a cmos battery

[full fossil]

remove cmos batter xP

wait what

[fierce moth]

It has a non volitile chip to store settings

[full fossil]

does it have internal nuclear fusion reactor? >:[

[fierce moth]

Nah

[full fossil]

WHAT

[wanton glade]

wtf is goin on around here lol

[fierce moth]

It's simple flash memory

[wanton glade]

💀

[fierce moth]

Nothing special

[wanton glade]

that's fucked up

[fierce moth]

Well I don't personally own the laptop

So makes sense tbh

[vapid smelt]

talking about dates we could take your mother on

[wanton glade]

ye ig

[full fossil]

lets brute force it then

[mild elm]

Find the chip

[wanton glade]

nice try, but no one wants to date a 40 yo moroccan woman who lives in france

[fierce moth]

It has a lockout

[mild elm]

And destroy it

[full fossil]

lol

[fierce moth]

And it won't boot

[vapid smelt]

but they use your tax payer dollars for it god damnit !

[wanton glade]

'sup @Agoofy

[fierce moth]

It's a private school

Lol

[full fossil]

im avoiding work xP wyd?

[vapid smelt]

rich kid out here

[full fossil]

take his lunch money

[wanton glade]

alr he got used to it. I'm in class rn

[full fossil]

finish school faster :V

[wanton glade]

@full fossil You took the higher road, i shall stop calling you Agoofy

Good mentality homie, you gonna go to places

[full fossil]

higher road? OwO

i liked that nick name btw xD

[wanton glade]

wait wtf do you mean by avoiding work 💀

[fierce moth]

Nah, Middle class

[wanton glade]

lmao alr

[full fossil]

you too xP

[wanton glade]

thx fam I appreciate

[fierce moth]

The public system is shit

[wanton glade]

FACTS.

[full fossil]

im at work, and i hate it >:[
its like coding + puzzle solving work.
worst code i ever seen 😭
i should post it on reddit i think, the world needs to see it

[wanton glade]

damn

[fierce moth]

Worse code than yandere dev?

[wanton glade]

I'm in english class, boring af

[fallen marten]

ah bask in the glory of the finnish school system

[mild elm]

Dutch school system is good, if you passed a test when you were 9

[fierce moth]

I don't code so I wouldn't know

[wanton glade]

I don't like high school, it's like going to a nightclub, but it's daytime, and it's boring

[full fossil]

well, its definitely not better than yandere dev xD

[mild elm]

Here a test in 6th grade decides if you go to university

[fierce moth]

Year 11 and year 12 decides if you have a easy time getting into uni

Otherwise there's another way in if you didn't do good in hs

[full fossil]

lol

[graceful burrow]

Yeah write "lived as he died, bein a dumbass" on my grave

[fallen marten]

here all the peeps who know what they want in life go into vocational those that dont go and do 3y of high school

[full fossil]

i quit at year 10 lol

[wanton glade]

here, high school is straight trash, nothing to learn, we ain't learning nothing actually. It's just shoving shit in our brains, to spit it out during some exams, and then you graduate.

[burnt bone]

linus

[full fossil]

lol

[fierce moth]

Already did a cert 2 in electrotechnology when I was 15-16

[wanton glade]

and then if you wanna be an engineer, prepare for 2 years of hell. I wanna be a deisgner, so I couldn't care less

[fierce moth]

Was the top of my class

[fallen marten]

im vocationally trained elec myself going to a technical uni in maybe 5-10 years

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-alert-gif-19367699

[split ice]

Got to get that degree

[fierce moth]

Although a cert 2 is only about 6 months of a cert 3

[wanton glade]

that fuckin piece of papaer

[fierce moth]

A cert 3 is 4 years

[vapid smelt]

debt is more than a piece of paper

[wanton glade]

I ain't getting in debt

I can't anyways

[fierce moth]

I'm only using debit cards

[wanton glade]

any interest in a debt is forbidden by my religion LMAO

[full fossil]

lol, the hell with them!

[fallen marten]

so i presume your in NA bc dats not how it works here

[split ice]

That paper could get you a decent starting pay though👀

[wanton glade]

technically I don't need it, I just need a good portfolio

[fierce moth]

Sa

[wanton glade]

😎

[fierce moth]

Aus

[fallen marten]

Ah

[full fossil]

smarter companies like google already removed the requirement for papers :V

[full fossil]

same xP

[fallen marten]

our electrical certs are something you can do after couple years of on the job

[fierce moth]

You get certs when you finish an apprenticeship

Or you do a year of vet

[fallen marten]

we dont get it like that

[fierce moth]

The vet option is ofc not as good as an apprenticeship

[split ice]

True, tech department is getting bigger in today society, makes sense why bigger companies are hiring people who are interested and experience in IT

[wanton glade]

but I'll go to college anywyas because gotta grind that exp

fuck high school guys

it's garbage

[fierce moth]

When I finish my electrical apprenticeship I'm gonna become a smart home electrician

[wanton glade]

sorry I just needed to rant

[split ice]

Graduating from university is my goal though, much more opportunity out there.

[fallen marten]

you basically do vocational and after maybe like 3-5y do a cert usually either S1 or S2

[fierce moth]

I assume you're in the UK?

[fallen marten]

nah finland

[fierce moth]

Oh

[full fossil]

ye, tho hope education system evolves and people could learn themselfs instead of paying thousands to someone else xP

[simple quail]

from what I've seen, the IT industry in general hasn't cared about papers you get from school all that much

[simple quail]

nice to see fellow Finns over here :)

[fierce moth]

Doing a it degree in uni is silly

[fallen marten]

ayy

[fierce moth]

Cause it's gonna be outdated in a couple of years

[fallen marten]

well doin a engineering degree there isnt too bad

[wanton glade]

You guys really are all getting in debt tho ?

[full fossil]

i tried, i couldn't, once they forced me to write "hello world" code for tests and needed to write essays about the history of door handles, i just quit instantly XD i couldn't handle it, it was literally torture, and actually prevented me from reading books and learning something

[wanton glade]

Nah coz in France, colleges are free

[fierce moth]

I get paid if I do an apprenticeship

[burnt bone]

Based EU country

[wanton glade]

fr

[burnt bone]

Yeah FR

[wanton glade]

their schools are garbage nonetheless

[fierce moth]

It's a job and you learn about what you're working on

[burnt bone]

Ance

[wanton glade]

belgium got good and cheap schools tho

[split ice]

Well I have yet to experience university, right now Im waiting for college applications to open.

[fallen marten]

i didnt get a apperenticeship when iwas in vocational so ijust did it the nomral way

[fierce moth]

Ik a couple of people that are doing coding degrees over there

[wanton glade]

might go there for design school

[fallen marten]

and then did the my military service and now ive been on the job hunt

[fierce moth]

Yea vocational ain't paid here

[wanton glade]

gonna be great, I'm gonna learn how to 3D model your mom

[fierce moth]

God damn

[full fossil]

from my experience, its literally the same as high school, just different name lol,
maybe the teachers are just more chill sometimes xD

[wanton glade]

lmao

[fallen marten]

here its only paid if you get a contract with a company to train you up

[mild elm]

Not enough ram to do that

[wanton glade]

she's so big I'll have to sli 3 4090 to render it

[vapid smelt]

cant sli 4090s nerd

[wanton glade]

ong, I'll need a terabyte

[wanton glade]

I couldn't care less, I'll do it anyways

[fallen marten]

had good on the job traaining tho

[simple quail]

IT degrees should focus more on how to keep up with the rapid pace at which IT is progressing, instead of just trying to teach what they have the material for, in addition to the things which have stayed pretty much the same for the past 30 years

[fierce moth]

It's surprising how weird education is between countries

[fallen marten]

yee

[fierce moth]

This

[fallen marten]

we have like 3 on the job learning cycles rest is in school if you dont get a apperenticeship

oh yea thaats also a thing ive been getting into i started to learn python

[fierce moth]

The schooling system here is, primary school > high school > apprenticeship, uni or job

[fallen marten]

bc why not gives me more base for playing with automation

[simple quail]

meanwhile me, in a quantum state where I'm technically not an apprentice, but I'm at work, whilst I'm considered a student even though I don't go to the school

isn't it fun to be stuck in the cracks of the flawless system

[full fossil]

i want it to be primary school > job

[split ice]

I quite literally took my cambridge gcse exam last year💀

[fallen marten]

it has weird shit like that yes

[fierce moth]

McDonald's wants to know your location

[simple quail]

last autumn we barely had any students in school because they weren't teaching us anything and people had enough of sitting in cheap chairs all day lol

[full fossil]

lol, thats exactly the problem

[full fossil]

its time to burn the system down and rebuild! >:3

[full fossil]

i want to know your location >:[ 🔪

[simple quail]

the problem is that nobody quite knows what to do, so I just sorta am here, working away, and the school is just sitting there, seemingly passed out

[split ice]

Are we all following the british education system?

[full fossil]

factory worker education system xD

[full fossil]

no

[simple quail]

I recently read an article about how people are decreasingly satisfied with the vocational system in Finland, seems to check out since nothing seems to be happening lol

[fierce moth]

I follow the south Australian education system

Education varies in the different states

[simple quail]

all of my friends are.....sometimes...in school

[split ice]

United states is still the the top 1

[simple quail]

yeah right

[full fossil]

but they all probably have a class room with 34 chairs and a white board where you are told what exactly to do or get punished xD

[fierce moth]

Don't make me laugh

[fierce moth]

All digital

In my school

And some of my classes have like 15 at most

[split ice]

I wish I was pulling my leg

[full fossil]

and they try so hard to recreate same experience xD

[fierce moth]

They try to ban earbuds

It fails horribly

[full fossil]

OwO

[simple quail]

meanwhile in Finland, our idea of a remote class seems to be to go to the classroom in person, and then we join a Teams meeting anyway

[split ice]

I could be half asleep and not be bothered

[fierce moth]

Well all digital means like you still have a normal class with teachers, you just do the work on the laptops

[simple quail]

I used to get detention for being late when I was in comprehensive, but I just played Tetris and browsed Reddit on my Pebble at the time lol

[fierce moth]

Like no paper shit

[fallen marten]

for us with vocational some of our shit was done with no teacher

[full fossil]

Finland is the place of highest traffic fines xD

top gear taught me that XD

[simple quail]

that was the case for me last autumn, most of the time the teacher wasn't even there

basically just checked for absences and went somewhere else to do whatever

[fallen marten]

at the start of 2021 when my last projects where on i was with like 2 others doing automation in our lab class

[simple quail]

we did install a few VMs and were told to drill one hole... the entire class was literally told to drill one hole... of course nobody did it because the teacher wasn't there to answer one question, and the teacher got angry and slammed the emergency stop button, killing all of the servers in the room lol

[full fossil]

lmao xD

[simple quail]

(to clarify, not one hole for each student, one hole total for the whole class)

[full fossil]

with a drill? or hole in vm security? o.O

[simple quail]

drill

[full fossil]

lol

[simple quail]

to run a cable through an Access Point

[full fossil]

i see xD

[fierce moth]

I hate mosquitos

[simple quail]

luckily they're only a problem during the summer for us

[fierce moth]

And summer is at the worst times down here

[full fossil]

im a mosquito magnet

i carry a small flame thrower

[fierce moth]

December to February here

[simple quail]

for some reason mosquitoes don't really care about me

[full fossil]

anyone know any good open source mmorpg games?

[fierce moth]

Nope

[simple quail]

ooh, a lot of snow coming where I live

[fierce moth]

I have 35c heat here

:(

[simple quail]

:)

[full fossil]

we had so much snow, literally mountains of snow xD
roads were like river

[fierce moth]

Oh great, it's 32c tomorrow

[simple quail]

in December we had about half a metre of snow, with snowploughs creating piles like 1.5 m tall lol

[fierce moth]

Another day of blasting cold ass air-conditioning

[full fossil]

i want more 😭

until it reaches the roof

[simple quail]

I would prefer being able to go outside lol

[full fossil]

normal people problems xD

[fierce moth]

I feel like I won't make it to 2050

[full fossil]

this is why i wanna buy a house on iceland xD where atomic bombs wont reach hopefully

[simple quail]

I really should get some emergency food in case the door gets blocked and I can't get outside tbh

[full fossil]

lol

[fierce moth]

Or go to one of the tiny island nations

[full fossil]

any recommendations?

[fierce moth]

Let me see

Papa new Guinea

[simple quail]

it's fun living next to the country with......ambitions...

[fierce moth]

Who like to declare special military operations

[full fossil]

their name shortened is png xD

[fierce moth]

True

[simple quail]

country.png

[full fossil]

lol

[fierce moth]

I'd suggest any country that doesn't piss the nuclear powers off

[simple quail]

our country usually tries to be as indifferent as possible

[full fossil]

nah, its too militarized :V
i picked iceland cuz it doesnt even have military

[simple quail]

who needs an army when you have Nordic broskis

[fierce moth]

Nz might be good

[full fossil]

lol

[fierce moth]

But nz is like cheap clones of aus

No offence

[full fossil]

looks not bad xP

[full fossil]

not cheap enough, their rent/wages are like 4x what i make lol,
i couldn't afford to move xD

[fierce moth]

I meant in terms of culture and products

And a few laws

[full fossil]

ik ik xD

[fierce moth]

Is 4096 bit RSA a bit overkill?

Cause apparently the Chinese cracked 2048 bit rsa

[full fossil]

the heck, how OwO brute-force?

[fierce moth]

I think

Although it was quantum computing

[full fossil]

those cheaters >:[

[fierce moth]

I am currently using 4096 bit RSA on my yubikey

[full fossil]

gtg back to work TwT

[fierce moth]

Aight

Don't suffer

[strange crane]

lite ?

[graceful burrow]

Windows s mode?

Sounds like s mode to me

So disable it

Install Linux like a real man

And

With proton it doesn't matter

Didn't we go over this or was that someone else

[thin echo]

https://forms.office.com/e/wjUXXmuvcM Hello everyone, can people do my survey for college, thanks very much, be appropriate. It is revolving around Ai and technology

[graceful burrow]

Csgo works great
Valorant's anticheat blocks proton because the devs are cringe

Tim Sweeney is scared of Linux lmao

[thin echo]

Bro pls its for school, takes less than 1 minute on jah

[graceful burrow]

On nah*

[thin echo]

do this for Linus

[graceful burrow]

Linus would never click the link lmao

[fierce moth]

There's always lurkers

[manic torrent]

"AI is good for humanity." My answer is it's irrelevant, you can't stop it 🙂

[fierce moth]

My messages went poof

[manic torrent]

also, what is the limits of humanity. Is AI, were it to be sentient, human-ish because humans begat AI?

what if it's a portion biological?

[graceful burrow]

New ai tech is neat
Next question

[manic torrent]

also, there is extremely little things I would class as "AI" rather than just simple ML.

ML is not AI.

[fierce moth]

What password manager do yall use

[manic torrent]

keeppass

[fierce moth]

Bitwarden for me

[graceful burrow]

My brain

[fallen marten]

paper mostly

[fierce moth]

The ole word document

[hexed plover]

Google

I know..big tech bad

It's fine

[stray apex]

I mean, machine learning is just a really condensed version of evolution
who's to say that given enough time it wouldn't develop sentience?
it's not as if we know how that works

[fallen marten]

i actually use dash plus paper now

[fierce moth]

I don't want to bow down to a machine any time soon

[stray apex]

you're manipulated by machines daily

[manic torrent]

exactly.

also - we don't know how trained nets work NOW.

[graceful burrow]

You are not immune to propaganda

[fierce moth]

Well not in the sense of like government

Yknow

[manic torrent]

yeah, but you're manipulated by machines.

[graceful burrow]

@manic torrent do you take a propaganda at things often

[manic torrent]

oh ho ho.

[graceful burrow]

Had to
You know how it is

[fierce moth]

Isn't everyone

[manic torrent]

The hilarious thing is nuance. But also GIGO. Train your net on white people and it can't see black people.

[graceful burrow]

That response doesn't even make sense in relation to my statement
Good try tho

[fierce moth]

Oops

[manic torrent]

but I suspect that an AI will actually be BETTER at nuance than a lot of people.

[fierce moth]

Sorry replyed to the wrong person

[fierce moth]

Meant to reply to this

Replying on phone sucks

[fallen marten]

machines are already good with little details

or well as good as their code lets

[manic torrent]

Yes, but you cannot understand the code of a neural net

[full fossil]

i cant take it 😭

[fierce moth]

I like looking at willrobotstakemyjob.com

[manic torrent]

I mean, the problem isn't that robots will take your job. It's that the owner of the business and the robot will get everything, and you will get nothing

[full fossil]

they are making api requests TO ITSELF

[manic torrent]

That can be valid.

[fierce moth]

Make my own business, trumped the system

Lol

[manic torrent]

... not really

You need to look at population level

[fierce moth]

Well apparently electricians are safe

Which is what I'm gonna be

[fallen marten]

we are pretty safe specially if you have some background in automation

[fierce moth]

Like if you're a factory worker

You're fucked if that's the case

[manic torrent]

All of this is selfishly seeing how long you will last

[fierce moth]

Although poorer countries may be different

[manic torrent]

The only rational approach is to fix our economic systems

[fierce moth]

Try explaining that to the government

[manic torrent]

Yeah, that's fundamentally broken as well, hooray!

Just too much inertia.

[fierce moth]

Once my generation gets in government it might get better

Maybe

Gen z

[full fossil]

ah yes, the good old http protocol communication between two functions that are next to each other xD

also my stupid node debugger keeps crashing,
and the project itself keeps crashing,
im on a brink of flipping my table and walking out xD

they wrote this shit, they can deal with it

[fierce moth]

Someone I know seriously said Ubuntu is better than arch

Like stock arch

[graceful burrow]

It is in certain respects

Everything has its place

Better is situational and subjective

[fierce moth]

Ages ago someone said that canonical contributes more to windows stuff than linux

Don't remember the details tho

[manic torrent]

"better" is a fucking stupid word to use to compare them though

it's like saying "a jeep is a better car than a minivan"

what sort of jeep? what sort of minivan? what country? what roads? what use? what cost?

better needs to be qualified, ALWAYS. In some cases it can be implied, but "better AT" is always better [ed: hah.] than "better"

[full fossil]

i use arch even for servers xD

[manic torrent]

yeah see servers are cattle, not pets.

run em up, blow em away.

[fierce moth]

I use raspbian lite for my pi server

Don't really need the bleeding edge of performance for a plex server

[full fossil]

lol

[manic torrent]

I generally use ubuntu, but I've used a bunch of other distros as well. Never arch or mint, because cbf, and they are not relevant in an enterprise context.

[manic torrent]

I'm serious - your server config should be infrastructure as code, and if your server literally dissapeared, you should just push a button and a new one appears.

obviously, this is from a cloud enterprise standpoint, but it's generally good practice not to have something cumbersome and heavily modified that recreating it would be an ordeal.

this is why I use docker for my setup, all I need to backup is my config/log files and my docker build configs.

[full fossil]

exactly xP this is why i learned kubernetes for hosting, and docker compose for local development,
too bad my 10 YEAR SENIOR BOSS doesn't use ANYTHING on production, which gets like millions of traffic and millions of eur's are riding on it,
just a month ago a bug occurred on production for a day and company lost about 200k xD

[manic torrent]

hahahahahahaa

who fucking cares. You get paid either way

[fierce moth]

Also do yall use serial

[manic torrent]

I present my expert advice / proposals / analysis. That's what I'm paid for. If they don't take the good advice they paid me for, IDGAF, I did my job.

[fierce moth]

Ngl serial is cool

[manic torrent]

... in what context

[fierce moth]

Like rs-232 for terminals

[manic torrent]

why would you be using it for a terminal

I mean I use serial all the time for arduino stuff

and I used it at work for interfacing with various machines.

[fierce moth]

Lack of monitor or networking?

[manic torrent]

... have you heard of LOM? it's kind of.... decades old

[fierce moth]

No I haven't

[manic torrent]

I have needed to use a serial console on a machine in the last 10 years ... once.

and even then it was a virtual serial port in LOM 🙂

LOM = lights out management

remote access to the hardware of your server.

I needed to use the serial connection to get the kernel panic messages off the console of a server that was crashing intermittantly. I finally worked out how to crash it on command and was able to find the issue

[full fossil]

i guess lol, im gonna still quit in few months for sure,
its too painful to see people making such basic mistakes and not being able to do anything about it,
need to find a better place xP

[deft folio]

Intel i11 when?

[manic torrent]

now. Just call your CPU an i11. It will be just as meaningful

[full fossil]

yall i got a question, how do i change the "scroll select" icon? (when u click down the scroll wheel it pops up an icon)

[mint yacht]

I guess the closest equivalent are the sapphire rapids xeons coming soon, featuring up to 56 cores / 112 threads that can be overclocked

[full fossil]

I need one for school

[mint yacht]

Sure you do

[fierce moth]

Amd be like, check this shit out

[stable reef]

Can anyone recommend an mmorpg? Last one I played was TERA and that was years ago

I tried final fantasy but combat is not my taste

[full fossil]

no one makes good games anymore :V

[river vector]

Mu online

[wanton glade]

Sony does.

2 of my favourite games as a matter of fact

[night heron]

i do as well

isn’t sapphire rapids releasing several years later than it was supposed to?

yeah it says 2021 was the initial goal

[unkempt widget]

i feel like the person who makes the subtitles should at least have some basic knowledge in tech companies and terms

i just had nvidia written as invidia

[hollow pulsar]

Subtitle bot?

[mental oxide]

https://youtu.be/CTiRNnSg0jA?t=984 linus doesnt oc his ram nor do the people who wrote this script otherwise they wouldnt call 3600C18 low latency

[stable totem]

i want the new cpus

that power output is JUICY

[mental oxide]

Also the 4400cl19 I got was $200 for 32GB my DDR5 was $240 32GB 7200C34 A-fie that can hit 8000 Mhz

[astral carbon]

what is the website to make configs pls?

and compare prices

[mental oxide]

Pcpartpicker

[astral carbon]

ty

do you know why there are a lot of products but they are out of stock? Can we enable a filter on the website to see only products in stock?

[unkempt widget]

it's a human doing it i think

because it shows who's speaking

like names of who's speaking

[copper lake]

damn the non x ryzen cpus are looking nice

[unkempt widget]

lmao

[copper lake]

?

[unkempt widget]

lol

[twin raptor]

?

[unkempt widget]

wait what the hell

if you overclock the 7900 slightly
your 7900 just becomes your 7900x

[karmic wedge]

The 40 Celsius at full load blew me away

[past egret]

welp sold my main monitor now i only have the wacom

[copper lake]

same

[unkempt widget]

i thought my 67C on my cpu was impressive, after i installed an aio

[copper lake]

mind blowing to think about

[unkempt widget]

(it is intel i7-10700K)

[wanton glade]

is there something such as a 7950 ?

[mint yacht]

No, only the 7950X

[fair sage]

isn't that 1:1 ffmpeg preset naming ?

[west yoke]

Hey guys, I looking for buying a smartwatch (can't afford anything from apple, really expensive in my country). Here are the features I need: step meter, body temperature, a way to quick set up alarms and reminders and if possible the watch vibrating so I can't ignore it. Any recommendations? Xiaomi is a really accessable brand where I live.

[fair sage]

how affordable it needs to be ? Maybe Amazfit GTS 4 Mini ?

that is around 100 euros

but typically smartwatches just take your configurations from the phone

so it takes over phone alarms etc

[west yoke]

It's a bit off my budget unfortunally :/

[fair sage]

in that case you drop down to fitness watch category, which has very limited on-device functionality

[whole lake]

I regret not buying prebuilt, I got a dead mobo and I had to go order replacement parts after they didn’t replace the M.2 cooler thermal pad

2 months RMA

And then wait for even more parts

After I get all the replacement parts I get sick

[west yoke]

https://www.amazon.com.br/Relógio-Smartwatch-Amazfit-Bip-A2017/dp/B08JS4Y2QQ/ref=asc_df_B08JS4Y2QQ/?tag=googleshopp00-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=379787833841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4751016081327270514&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9102215&hvtargid=pla-1152458321221&th=1

what about this one?

[fair sage]

you need to check reviews to see what features it has, if it fits your needs

[random jolt]

btw this is the same link without all the tracking https://www.amazon.com.br/Relógio-Smartwatch-Amazfit-Bip-A2017/dp/B08JS4Y2QQ

[fair sage]

just search youtube for "Amazfit Bip U" and see if it fits your needs

[west yoke]

the pice is really good

the best conection is through bluetooth?

I listen to music all the time, so I might have some problems?

[fair sage]

it only acts as media control device, so it doesn't play back your music. a phone can connect to many BT devices

typical limit of Android is around 30 or so devices

[sonic barn]

You can probably get more

[full fossil]

I'll get more of you

[sonic barn]

Avali army

[full fossil]

[solar osprey]

is there a coding channel?

[wooden ocean]

I believe if there were, you wouldn't have to ask

[noble gazelle]

MSI Afterburner dead?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-afterburner-ukraine-war-complications

[winter spindle]

Bruh

Russia sucks

[fair sage]

actually sorry, 5-7 devices is the typical limit, with 30 connections between them

[winter spindle]

#development

Is coding

[hexed pulsar]

Your in the ltt server too

[fair sage]

i am everywhere

[hexed pulsar]

Toasty bros?

[fair sage]

nah

[hexed pulsar]

Not everywhere but mostly everywhere

[dusty rune]

well, either use trash apps to OC or get amd and use its own software

[sonic barn]

But can't you virtualize them too

[minor elm]

yo

[full fossil]

I have a bet with a friend which one of us will get swatted first xD

[static stag]

apparently MSI reached out to try and figure out how to get the dev paid now.... as for why it took this long, we already know based on msi's claims "they didn't know cards were being sold on ebay at scalper prices from an arm of the company" that communication between departments/divisions is horrible.

[finite cloud]

That’s probably not a good bet…

[full fossil]

Too dangerous for this world xP

[scarlet shard]

Hi! Im thinking of buying Dell s2721dgfa screen, does anyone have experience with it or can recommend something better? Im looking for a 1440p 144hz IPS screen thats either 27" or lower

[gilded quest]

I have 4 of them (the US version is called S2721DGF, but they seem to be the same); and they're fantastic

[finite cloud]

There’s a lot of things you can update can you be more specific?

[scarlet shard]

Nice 😄 why 4 of them? 😮 sadly i just saw that its sold out, not sure if its gonna come out a newer version or if they gonna restock

[gilded quest]

er, 4 in my apartment
2 for me and 2 for my roommate

I think Dell had it for $180 a few months ago, killer deal

[scarlet shard]

Are you kidding me? US is too good sometimes. Its 460dollars here in Sweden and its never sale

[gilded quest]

yeah rip europe

[still yacht]

hello guys

[gilded quest]

https://tenor.com/view/austin-evans-science-hey-guys-whats-up-greetings-gif-11286861

[barren hornet]

Hallo

[still yacht]

Whats'up

I live in Turkey and How I can go to abroad such as Amerika, UK etc. for work by become software engineer?

[gilded quest]

Build resume & portfolio
Apply for jobs that accept foreign workers (likely via H1B Visa)

https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

[still yacht]

So what can I do if I want to work in big companies like apple? I have a certain level of programming language knowledge and I continue to build on it.

[gilded quest]

Keep in mind the US has seen ~250,000 tech worker layoffs in the last year. Many of those are foreign workers with Visas. Some were able to find other job, others had to pack up and go back to their country

[still yacht]

So how is the situation in England?

[gilded quest]

I do not know

[still yacht]

Okay For example, I have a startup idea and is it possible for me to develop it and come to America?

I hope you understand something from my English.

I take lesson from special teacher to improve my english.

[full fossil]

You will need kevlar west with steel platting and m16

Then you can come to America

[severe kayak]

💀

[still yacht]

Why would I need the vest and the m16?

[severe kayak]

Murica 🇺🇸🦅

He’s saying that because of all the weapons

[full fossil]

Survival ofc xP

[full fossil]

Lol

[still yacht]

I guess you live in Chicago.

[severe kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/viralhog-gun-fire-murica-flag-america-gif-12183553

[severe kayak]

💀

[full fossil]

Lol

[still yacht]

Where are u from?

[fossil frost]

just been playing kerbal space program... managed to get a pod into orbit with an astronaut on board.... 100% forgot that i need retrograde thrusters to get him back down to land... hes been stuck up there for 38 days now 😄

[severe kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/freedom-america-usa-im-sorry-i-cant-hear-you-over-the-sound-of-my-freedom-gif-9521927

[severe kayak]

Nah I deinstalled that game I don’t like the graphics

[full fossil]

Europe actually lol

[severe kayak]

Same

[fossil frost]

europe isnt a country

[still yacht]

Europe is no different from America.

[full fossil]

"Hello everyone it's Scott Manly here!"

[severe kayak]

We never said that

I live in Germany @fossil frost are you now happy?

[gilded quest]

kilometers

[fossil frost]

thats better

[severe kayak]

Walkable cities

[full fossil]

I'm not sure about that xD

[severe kayak]

No school shootings

Better health care

[full fossil]

You're not a country

[severe kayak]

I can go on for hours

[full fossil]

Could be better XD

[severe kayak]

Days

[gilded quest]

if you can find investors in the US, you would still need a Visa to come and work here

[still yacht]

For example, if you live in France, you probably see what happened. events in Paris.

[still yacht]

I currently have a tourist visa.

[full fossil]

Well what do you expect, it's France

[still yacht]

Which city?

[severe kayak]

Im pretty sure you need a green card to work in the states

[full fossil]

Different country, Lithuania xD i doubt anyone heard of it

[gilded quest]

not the same thing
tourist visa might allow you to come and pitch the startup to investors, but you need a work visa to stay and work here

[severe kayak]

Oii

[still yacht]

There are people who are very in line in my country, a little less likely to come out to me.

[severe kayak]

Lithunia is a country right?

[still yacht]

Yes, I know I cannot stay on a tourist visa.

[full fossil]

More like a big village with cave people

[severe kayak]

lol

[still yacht]

he throws it off his head.

[severe kayak]

But Germany is also a nice country

[still yacht]

Let me ask you something, what are your thoughts on Turks?

[severe kayak]

oh hell no

Nah jk

[full fossil]

Nein!

[severe kayak]

[still yacht]

They say they are racist in my country. But most Turks live there.

[full fossil]

My country is super racists XD
Buts it's mostly cuz no one here seen different color people lol

[severe kayak]

Yeah there are some people but most people don’t have a problem with Turkish people

[still yacht]

In my opinion, Europeans consider themselves superior to people of other races.

[gilded quest]

would germany be the california of europe

[still yacht]

no way

[gilded quest]

isn't germany the largest economy in the EU tho

[severe kayak]

Yes

[severe kayak]

Wtf no

[still yacht]

For example, France has the highest number of Muslims in Europe, but it is one of the countries with the most racism.

Anyway, there's no point in prolonging it.

I think let's talk about technology.

[opal pulsar]

huh?

we dont, we dont talk about france thats like the ohio of europe

and britain

[still yacht]

The subject has spread to many different places. So let's talk about technology.

[flat fjord]

Can a motherboard lock the ammount of watts a cpu can get?

[jaunty compass]

Yeah

If the vrms are bad it basically does that automatically
And you can also do it on purpose to prevent it from overwhelming your cooling

It should be a setting in the bios

And you can also do it in your OS itself with something like throttlestop

[flat fjord]

I have tried setting my power limit higher but it still throttles down without reaching high cpu temp, guess i have to check vrm temps

But whats strange is it doesnt throttle down if i use intel tuning utility stress test but it does when using aida64 or prime95 any idea why that could be? @jaunty compass

[fossil frost]

#overclocking

[zinc brook]

samsung galaxy fit 2

i have it, works well

£35 for me, around 40 euros pretty sure

[wind pulsar]

No

[graceful burrow]

dont restart that stupid convo

[wind pulsar]

Germany is effectively the US in itself

Depending on the city, people are just different

Frankfurt for example, is straight up Ohio

[wind pulsar]

I hope you stub your toe at night

[graceful burrow]

[wind pulsar]

Generate more anime girls

[graceful burrow]

no

[wind pulsar]

Why not, the one I use for my pfp is amazing

[graceful burrow]

i simply dont want to

[jaunty compass]

Imagine ai generating your pfp

[graceful burrow]

have

both mine and akiras
easy way to get somethin that looks nice

[jaunty compass]

I tried once, it's bad at doing my character

[graceful burrow]

your character isnt in the dataset and is very abstract, so that checks out

[jaunty compass]

Even something similar was hard to get it to do right based on my best approximation of the terms

But I think the newest version of like
Dall e 2 is better at it now

[polar fern]

I’m curious as to when folks will get the hint and leave Twitter

[fossil frost]

i find joy in watching the dumpster fire

[graceful burrow]

transit i thought you left this discord

[polar fern]

It’s not “a dumpster fire”. It’s a hate speech & disinformation machine. Anyone still on there is complicit

[graceful burrow]

that's truly a braindead take but it's your right to be able to have them

block me i aint scared

[polar fern]

It’s a fact

[fossil frost]

its an opinion

[jaunty compass]

To be fair
I never use my Twitter, I just haven't deleted it

[polar fern]

Twitter is a hate speech platform. Participation, even as a spectator makes one complicit.

[graceful burrow]

transit

you're preaching to people who think twitter sucks

what's your goal here

because you're wasting keystrokes
go complain somewhere else

[polar fern]

It doesn’t “suck”. It’s a hate speech platform - and anyone remaining is complicit.

[fossil frost]

thats quite a hard-light, right-wing style view... claiming that people are complicit for watching something happen, that they cannot affect in any way... comments like that are just as ignorant as the comments made by the people you say are making the hate speach

[polar fern]

You can sit back in your privilege and say that my thoughts on it are just an opinion, but it’s not, it’s the reality of the situation.

[jaunty compass]

[graceful burrow]

ignorance does not equal malice, transit
you'd think you'd be pretty aware of that

[fossil frost]

leaving, and not participating, and not combatting the hate speech, and just letting it fly... i would say is being more complicit... by leaving and not staying and trying to fight... YOU are making the problem worse

[jaunty compass]

With a stance like that, I'm sure you have a solution for something the average person can actually do about it

Right?

[polar fern]

If Kmart started training terrorists after hours & you knew about it and still shopped there you’d be complicit.

[graceful burrow]

according to transit, twitter trains terrorists

[fossil frost]

and if you knew you could explain to them that its a bad idea... but didnt... you are also complicit

[polar fern]

Yes - delete your twitter account. First download your data, then delete your DM’s then delete the account.

[ebon otter]

Hi

[polar fern]

It’s a punctuation

[jaunty compass]

I think I've only ever used my Twitter for points in gleam.io giveaways lol

[graceful burrow]

hi

[ebon otter]

Same

[fossil frost]

its like mila cunis complaining about what is happening in "her home country"... she lives in the USA, and is complaining from the USA about putin invading ukraine, if she actually gave a shit, she would be over there, doing something, rather than using her platform to remind people shes ukrainian and trying to get sympathy for it

[polar fern]

That doesn’t sound like complaining that sounds like raising awareness but ok

[fossil frost]

people are aware of the invasion of ukraine. we didnt need her to tell us about it

[graceful burrow]

is raising awareness about something being shitty complaining in a place where everyone already thinks something is shitty about something being shitty

[stray apex]

Yes, PR is definitely not useful at all and that's why Google is going out of business

[polar fern]

Wat

[fossil frost]

she was doing it about 3 days in, when everyone was fully aware, and when everyone was fully on board with helping, ukraine needs her PR today, when its been going on for a while, and when its not front page news, every hour of every day, she needs to remind people about what is going on NOW... not 3 days in.... 3 days in is glory hunting, NOW is doing something

[stray apex]

No, 3 days in was by far the most important time to gather support

[polar fern]

The fact that no one has yet agreed with me that Twitter is a hate site and informed us about deleting their account tells me that people are too comfortable in their privilege and complicit.

[stray apex]

That was when it was questionable if there would be significant aid provided

[polar fern]

Scary stuff

[fossil frost]

COUNTRIES were gathering support at that point, COUNTRIES were doing something...

[stray apex]

The narrative has changed a lot, but back last year we weren't sure if anything would happen or if we would just 2014 again

[stray apex]

No, countries were considering doing something

[graceful burrow]

this chat sucks and isnt at all related to tech

[stray apex]

Yes

How did chat end up on this topic, anyways?

[fossil frost]

absence of evidence isnt evidence of absence. just because we didn't explicitly agree, doesn't mean we disagree... you just assumed what we were thinking

[polar fern]

The news has been full of terrible things about that invasion. What the news has failed to address and bring to light, is the fact that the Ukrainian medical system has basically collapsed due to a combination of the invasion and influenza and Covid.

[graceful burrow]

transit had another breakdown about twitter

[stray apex]

Ah

[fossil frost]

somebody bitching about twitter rather than doing something about it

[polar fern]

I already deleted my main account and my newsfeed account weeks ago

[stray apex]

Why
There's literally no way twitter makes money off most of us

[polar fern]

It’s not even about ad revenue at this point

[twin raptor]

War --> propaganda. Dont claim to be sure of anything going on until after/personal e perience.

[fossil frost]

so, actively running away and putting your head in the sand, rather than replying to the hate speech, rather than reporting it, rather than actively trying to make it a nicer place?

[polar fern]

Why would I engage with people who would wish me harm?

reporting does nothing, there’s no moderation team there anymore.

why would I engage with someone to legitimise their stance?

[fossil frost]

are you face to face with them? are they right there with you? no? so.... how are they going to harm you? so, safely behind your keyboard... are you saying that replying to 100 comments isnt worth it on the off chance that maybe 1 person changes your views?

[polar fern]

I am not going to legitimise someone by replying to them

[graceful burrow]

doesnt that inherently make your stance unlegitimate as well

[fossil frost]

you legitimise them by allowing them to go unchecked

[graceful burrow]

[ebon otter]

https://tenor.com/view/ltt-linus-tech-tips-meme-wan-show-gif-24453065

[stray apex]

if everybody had this mindset, we would never see people like tate get ratio'd

[polar fern]

What’s the number one rule of the Internet? Do not feed the trolls! They want attention. So you deny them it

[molten drift]

I'm really hoping this HDMI switch I bought is not a paperweight.. I don't have the.product packaging for it

[jaunty compass]

Tate not only got ratioed, he also got arrested

[broken basin]

Is there a brick and mortar location in the USA to buy a steamdeck?

[jaunty compass]

No

[polar fern]

I don’t want to bring attention to their ideology I want them to go away

[fossil frost]

the product is guaranteed and under warranty, not the packaging

[full fossil]

This cable won’t come off

[stray apex]

might be a pain to ship it back, though

[jaunty compass]

In the USA you can only get them from valve directly, and I'm not sure why you'd want to do otherwise unless you're visiting from a country where the deck isn't available

[full fossil]

To my motherboard

[jaunty compass]

And won't be there (in the U.S.) long enough for it to ship

[broken basin]

I live in an apartment. It will get stolen.

[summer folio]

Thought a shop named mortar would sell mortars

[fossil frost]

they already have the attention, they already have the platform... you are too late to just let them go away... so the only thing you have left is to fight your corner, put your viewpoint across... or... just let them say what they want, and assume that they are right because nobody is fighting back

[stray apex]

get a PO box?

how do you get packages rn?

[polar fern]

You don’t engage with someone with extremist ideas. It makes their presence legitimised. There’s no “fighting back”. You IGNORE & deplatfotm.

[gilded quest]

This is kinda where I'm at now. Everyone I was following stopped using it, thus I barely open the app these days

[fossil frost]

ignoring them only attracts more of them, and they have a platform, with a leader of that platform that is happy to have them... so... by ignoring them, you are making it worse, and allowing it to grow

[jaunty compass]

I don't have the app lol

[gilded quest]

Or go to the website

[summer folio]

Don't they ring the bell & mms a picture of ur package delivered?

[gilded quest]

But you get what I mean

[polar fern]

Yall have some stuff to learn about social engineering and psyops. For real

[stray apex]

That only works if they're not already platformed

[broken basin]

no they drop it in the lobby. this is the poor part of a poor city.

[polar fern]

Like I said - if a company participates in what can be construed as extremist activity, and you still patronise the company - you are complicit.

[fossil frost]

thats your opinion... but the only way to change anything, is to stand up, and fight, not sit back and hide

[jaunty compass]

The steam deck ships through like
Fed ex or some shit

I don't trust them at all

[polar fern]

There is no fighting, all they see is interaction numbers, that’s what they want

[jaunty compass]

The day my deck was going to be delivered I just sat on my front porch the entire day waiting

[polar fern]

You have no idea what you were talking about, no offence

[summer folio]

Also, why pay extra for home delivery? You don't get packages delievered to your local Grocery store as the cheapest option/standard in America?

[fossil frost]

and you right now, are sitting back and hiding, because twitter isnt going anywhere, and by hiding, you are actively allowing it to get worse

[polar fern]

Hiding?!

[broken basin]

That's not a thing in the midwest

[gilded quest]

The problem with this analogy is that most people aren't shopping in the Kmart. Most people are sort of standing in the Kmart parking lot or by the entrance, peering inside to see the chaos unfold in real time

[polar fern]

so because I don’t want to be exposed to terrorists and people with extreme ideologies, I am “hiding”

[jaunty compass]

@broken basin the best option I can give you is to wait in the lobby all day on the day the deck is supposed to be delivered

[stray apex]

I mean, if it makes you uncomfortable then don't do it
Just don't dress it up as the morally superior option

[broken basin]

so not gamestop lmao

[polar fern]

it sounds like a lot of privilege is going around and you can’t see it because the hate speech doesn’t affect you - yet

[broken basin]

or microcenter

[fossil frost]

no, because you are running away from a platform you were already a part of, which already had those people on the platform, and bitching about it somewhere else, instead of doing something about it... and throwing "privilege" around like a weapon, is its self very very privileged

[jaunty compass]

They don't sell in any brick and mortar locations

[stray apex]

Ignoring hate speech doesn't make it go away lmao

[summer folio]

But you must have a post office of some kind? Maybe the local gas station is the pick-up-point? You show them your passport , they scan it on the post system computer & if it's valid you get your package?

[jaunty compass]

Neither GameStop nor microcenter. At this current time no retail store carries them

You have to buy one online

[gilded quest]

My Twitter timeline is hate-less

It's mostly cats at this point tho

[jaunty compass]

They're not sold at retail in the U.S. in any capacity at this current time, you can only order them online

It sucks but that's how it is right now

[broken basin]

[polar fern]

Well, like I said, you can deny it all you want, but resting in your privilege, while other people have their lives threatened & their homes and places of worship etc defaced and attacked is far more cowardly than leaving a social media platform. 🤷‍♂️

[stray apex]

Yes, I'm sure the people who left Germany in 1938 really helped out there

[fossil frost]

ignoring the hate speech and racism lead to my country making one of the worst decisions its ever made... which means that the costs of everything has gone through the roof, the ability to DO anything has been made harder, even getting medical treatment has become a MASSIVE hassle compared to what it was... so yes, im well aware of what the hate speech on twitter can do, im well aware of what weaponised social media can do... just because its not sexism, just because its not hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community, doesnt mean its not hate speech... so... get off your high horse, you are not special because you are part of a community that is NOW being attacked on twitter, you are only the victim as long as you allow yourself to continue to play the victim

[jaunty compass]

Valve has very robust customer support, so if your deck gets stolen they'll help you I'm sure

[gilded quest]

It's a shame valve doesn't let you require signature for deck delivery

[jaunty compass]

A lot of the time it's stolen in transit

By fed ex employees

[stray apex]

It's pretty rare

It's just that when it does happen
People complain very loudly

[jaunty compass]

And the deck is shipped in the most obvious packaging too

So it's an easy target for porch pirates

[gilded quest]

Yeah it should have a plain outer box

[fossil frost]

same as everything else... you dont hear about anything these days, unless something goes wrong... which is why reviews are either 5 stars or 1 star for practically everything

[jaunty compass]

It basically screams "I'm a valuable gaming console, steal me"

To porch pirates

[stray apex]

I think mine came in a plainer box
But it's been a few months

[jaunty compass]

Pretty cringe

[vapid smelt]

ive never had a package stolen 🙂

[gilded quest]

Target was shipping PS5s at launch with no extra packaging....so delivery companies were just leaving PS5 boxes on porches

You can imagine how that worked out in some areas

[vapid smelt]

the ps5 box comes with a handle on top so much better to carry to the door

[summer folio]

Same

[gilded quest]

It's convenient, but also makes it a target for porch pirates

[jaunty compass]

I haven't either

[stray apex]

I mean, it's not like you'd need a dolly for it otherwise
It's not that big

[jaunty compass]

Mostly because my driveway is like 50 meters long

[gilded quest]

I haven't had anything stolen, but I've had packages get lost several times

[fossil frost]

ive had a 5800x turn up in a 5950x box... and then amazon said it was me that swapped it over. even though i had a video of the unboxing, because of something similar happening previously... returned the 5800x to amazon, who refused to send me a replacement 5950x, a refund, or... the 5800x that they claim i swapped... and 2 levels of different customer service deep.. still fuck all... so eventually went to my bank, who said the video was good enough to claw the money back

[gilded quest]

Or delivered several doors down

Or left in the middle of the street

[shadow hazel]

a thought that occurred to me- if I could use machine learning or another form of software to filter memes out of linustechtips videos as they're being played, I would.

[gilded quest]

Amazon flex drivers are the worst delivery people

[jaunty compass]

i can literally go on vacation for like a week with a bunch of packages on the porch and none would get stolen

my driveway is so long it wouldn't be worth it

i've had that situation happen multiple times where i'm gone for a week and a bunch of packages came in

[gilded quest]

Back when I lived in the suburbs, I did leave packages on the porch for a week without them getting stolen

[jaunty compass]

I live in a more rural town in a nice neighborhood so I don't have to worry about stuff like that

the internet is hot garbage though

[gilded quest]

I even had neighbors call the HOA security cause I had the audacity to park on the curb slightly between my house an another one

[jaunty compass]

I don't have a HOA luckily
I'd never live here if we did

[gilded quest]

Ironically the HOA itself was mostly fine. Just the NIMBYs who wasted HOA resources were a PITA

Like they'd send "threatening" letters with pictures of the overgrown weeds in my yard after every rainstorm

[stray apex]

I mean, the concept of an HOA is not unreasonable, but the people who tend to get invested in it often are

[gilded quest]

Twas really the worst of it

[gilded quest]

This is the best way to put it

If everyone is altruistic, HOAs can be awesome

[jaunty compass]

personally I hate homeowners associations. If I want to paint my house some random ass color who are my neighbors to tell me otherwise

[gilded quest]

Like we had huge private lake with maintained walking paths, grassy areas, and playgrounds

[jaunty compass]

what if i like color purple in a neighborhood where the houses are brown

[stray apex]

If you're literally reducing the value of their assets, then they should have a say

[vapid smelt]

the devil made HOA s

[fossil frost]

no, they shouldnt, because you own your own land, you own your own building, what you do with your building doesnt change anything on their land on their building

[jaunty compass]

housing is a place to live, it shouldn't be considered an investment

not to mention, yeah; it's not their fucking property

[gilded quest]

HOAs that give a fuck about house color are too gone to be saved

[stray apex]

It absolutely does

The neighborhood a house is in has a definite effect on its value

[fossil frost]

no, it affects their perception of what their property is worth, it doesnt make their property worth any less

[jaunty compass]

I've literally had the police called on me because my grass was too tall

[stray apex]

All value is subjective
Doesn't mean it's not real

[gilded quest]

Lol wtf

[jaunty compass]

this was when i had covid and it was 100 fucking degrees outside

[gilded quest]

File a complaint that the HOA is wasting city resources

[jaunty compass]

having the police called because of my lawn when I had covid and it was hot as shit outside definitely put me in a bad mood for that entire week

[summer folio]

As a kiddo, I once woke up before my mum & went to school on a non-school day.

Proceeded to grab all the mail in the schools post-box & put it in random first house mail-box, take that house mail & put in nxt house mail-box & ->Repeat,
on all street houses on my way home. 📬 🚸 📭 🏘️ 📬 📭

[fossil frost]

no such thing as HOA in the UK, yet... and we DO have people doing odd things with their houses, makes fuck all difference to the values of the rest of the houses around them... properties are worth what they are worth on their own merit here... the only thing the location affects the price on, is the locations proximity to amenities

[stray apex]

Maybe the UK housing market isn't as much as a hellhole as it is in major US areas

[gilded quest]

Was this malicious or were you a dumb kid

[polar fern]

“Die for your lawn!”

[fossil frost]

yep, and the locals love it

[summer folio]

[fossil frost]

it certainly is a hell hole

[summer folio]

I was like 7

[gilded quest]

So a dumb kid