public-chat

[plush rivet]

hence why it eventually toke over

cheap and works

[golden talon]

im pretty sure the 1060 is faster than the 1650 dude

[karmic bane]

and available

[plush rivet]

Is it? I could be wrong

[tired glade]

Oh, it's depends on game who is faster

[golden talon]

yes the 1060 is consistently 10-15 fps faster in most games

[plush rivet]

I haven’t looked at the benchmark for those cards ina minute

[rugged bridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jko2obSRF0k

[golden talon]

thats what i was looking at

reminds me of when i got my 1060 3gb 5 years ago at micro center

[plush rivet]

I mean it is cheaper for a small sacrifice in FPS

[tired glade]

Tomb raider 40fps on most popular gpu on Steam

[graceful burrow]

Honestly you should buy neither a 1650 nor a 1060
Buy a used 6600, it's more powerful than a 1080 and regularly goes for 200 used on eBay (at least in the usa)

[golden talon]

a used 1060 is like $75 tbf

[wintry dagger]

the 1650 is as powerful at a 970

WAIT

[karmic bane]

gonna look up 1070 vs 1660 super, i have both sitting here waiting to plug one into second PC

[tired glade]

But Steam statistics

[pearl remnant]

I hesistate with AMD cards because of driver support

[rugged bridge]

i bought my 6600 new, but either way, its been the best gpu ive used and its been great for the most part

[graceful burrow]

L tbh

[golden talon]

for the most part the driver issues are gone

[tired glade]

My quadra blue screen Debion yesterday

[golden talon]

my RX 6800 had a rocky start but now it performs great, 3080 levels with my overclocks for only $425

[hybrid shell]

true

[plush rivet]

Is anyone else buying sons of the forest for tom?

[golden talon]

REIMU

[vapid smelt]

what 1060 are we talking about the 3gb, 5gb, 6gb, 6gb gddr5x, 1060 6 GB 9Gbps?

[wintry dagger]

I didnt buy an amd gpu bc ive always used nvidia and was hesitant to get a 6700xt for some reason

[hybrid shell]

yes

[golden talon]

^_^

just by seeing this my day has become better

thank you brother

[pearl remnant]

sounds like you're being a know-it-all

[hybrid shell]

youre welcome

[plush rivet]

People being egotistical in the tech server???! Huh???

[manic torrent]

pot. kettle.

[pearl remnant]

then let people come to you for advice and don't be offended when they don't

[golden talon]

I definitely miss DLSS/RT but its not a huge deal i guess

my most played game is overwatch which is FSR anyway

[karmic bane]

depends on game for dlss, i dont notice a difference in some games with it on or off

[pearl remnant]

bob, i know you're mad at me but leave me alone

rule 2

[plush rivet]

I think your the only one mad here

[tired glade]

Is overwatch still a thing?

[golden talon]

yeah overwatch 2

[plush rivet]

It’s still kicking from 2

[tired glade]

Oh, it's still alive

[rugged bridge]

my discord font is comic sans ahaha

[plush rivet]

It’s not horrible

but could be better

[pearl remnant]

that's your perspective

[plush rivet]

Pretty sure everyone in this chat will agree with me

[rugged bridge]

nah it actually looks pretty good tho

[pearl remnant]

you should ask chat then and see if it truly is everyone

[plush rivet]

The fact that you even want me to do that proves my point perfectly

[pearl remnant]

you made the statement, not me. sorry for calling you out on it..?

[manic torrent]

I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at someone at work

[vapid smelt]

Nvidia shoulve made more models of the 1060

[manic torrent]

I find you eyerolling

[rugged bridge]

i meant comic sans looks pretty good sorry for confusion

[plush rivet]

lol

[tired glade]

Hadn't they restarted 2060 production?

[vapid smelt]

they did last year for the mighty 2060 12gb!

[rugged bridge]

@full fossil

[manic torrent]

only thing better than comic sans is papyrus

[tired glade]

Lol

[rugged bridge]

oh yeah that looks nice

[vapid smelt]

sir this is illegal and im calling your local authorities

[rugged bridge]

😶

[golden talon]

too many blue names bye

[rugged bridge]

i just used some css in dev console lol

[frail pecan]

We don't bite (usually)

[golden talon]

stay 10 feet away at all times

[rugged bridge]

we wont hurt you unless you hurt us first

[frail pecan]

[hybrid shell]

based

[frail pecan]

Exactly

Well, mostly

[rugged bridge]

hehe

[frail pecan]

jk

[vapid smelt]

i bite 😏

[rugged bridge]

impossible, penguins dont have teeth

[golden talon]

what’s he biting on?

[frail pecan]

Penguin chewing gum?

*Pengwin

[rugged bridge]

anyways im out for now, laters

[frail pecan]

See you

[vapid smelt]

yet they can still bite

[frail pecan]

Tux!

[plush rivet]

That’s actually so horrifying

[pearl remnant]

the beak part is what bites, yeah?

[river swift]

Tell me why I type in 14" gaming laptop and they give me 16" laptop results

[pearl remnant]

can you search by laptop and they might have filters for laptop size?

[river swift]

Its on google. I'm not sure

But the gaming laptop is not for gaming. Its for photoshop, visual studio, and dreamweaver

I have no insight for gaming

[river swift]

And usually only the gaming laptops have RTX graphics good enough for Photoshop

Oh I wasnt using amazon

[pearl remnant]

i showed google shopping too

photoshop used to be better optimized for mac than windows, even with a discrete gpu. is that still the case?

not the case anymore but as always yeah?

which way are you saying?

[river swift]

Thanks.

[golden talon]

[karmic bane]

color bar more good

[golden talon]

Yus

[karmic bane]

are those laptops? i dono anything about imacs

[pearl remnant]

Thanks, this is accurate and useful for the use-case

[golden talon]

yes

[manic torrent]

I mean, that is not a useful comparison of photoshop though, because the i9 macbook was fucking awful 🙂

[golden talon]

It's apple, they just want you to buy the new M2 Pro

[manic torrent]

... and the M2 chip is good. Also that diagram is terrible.

[vapid smelt]

wonder what the i9 macbook would do if it was really cooled

[manic torrent]

oh, for sure 🙂

[river swift]

So what Gorujo you are saying, a GTX will be good enough for Photoshop and Dreamweaver?

[manic torrent]

not be slow 😄

[manic torrent]

dreamweaver still exists!?

[river swift]

Thats the only HTML editor that I know of I still use.

[vapid smelt]

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

[golden talon]

must have this tbh

[pearl remnant]

That's cool to watch but means traffic lights need to up their security

[golden talon]

I remember I built and coded a wifi jammer using a $4 ESP8266 board

[pearl remnant]

what guide did you follow?

[golden talon]

the deauther

[full fossil]

Is there a help chanel?

[golden talon]

#1027757333117415424

[full fossil]

Thank you

[pearl remnant]

lol that is super cheap and easy

[golden talon]

8th grade was a blast with it

i stuck it into my locker hooked up into a power bank and could boot the entire school offline

[pearl remnant]

the wifi of it

ethernet still works

[golden talon]

Yeah but still makes most of the infrastructure useless

[pearl remnant]

your school was mostly wifi?

[golden talon]

every classroom was wifi, only office computers were run on ethernet

those office ones were reserved for administration mostly

[pearl remnant]

is that one of those schools where every student has a laptop?

[golden talon]

Everyone got macbook airs yeah

recently though i think they switched to ipad pros i believe

[pearl remnant]

lol how quickly was your device found?

[golden talon]

nobody ever found it

IT never even figured out it was a deauth attack

[pearl remnant]

insanity

[golden talon]

you could literally put it in your pocket

it was tiny as hell

[pearl remnant]

oh, its a type of ddos

I wonder if a wifi scanner would have found it

[golden talon]

@vapid smelt bad

they would see it but theyd have to physically look through every locker in the school to locate it

[pearl remnant]

not every locker

[golden talon]

besides it would be ridiculously easy to just leave it in a pocket

[pearl remnant]

If you were attacking my wifi like that, i'd look at the requests to which APs and try to get a general idea of where it was happening then take my wifi scanner around that area to get a more precise fix

[lament willow]

Thank you so much

new project yahoo

[golden talon]

deauth only works as well as it does because its tough to locate whats going on unless you have a physical connection

most modern wifi standards can block deauth

[golden talon]

have fun, i recommend you look at spacehuhn's github

use it carefully

[pearl remnant]

https://x4bx54.medium.com/use-802-11w-or-wpa3-to-prevent-de-authentication-attacks-in-your-wi-fi-network-4ce63ab20033

Someone posted a guide on how to defend against deauth attacks

[golden talon]

Yeah unfortunately its really rare even in many public network structures

[pearl remnant]

yeah, they said the modern standards account for it

neat find for the time

how long ago was that

[golden talon]

5, maybe 6 years

i was going through a pretty naughty phase

[pearl remnant]

Don't change

[golden talon]

I bought a USB killer and it was the public property of the entire grade for a while

Tens of chromebooks and desktops were killed

[pearl remnant]

your curiousity is useful in IT

[golden talon]

Useful more in crime i think

[pearl remnant]

they make some of the best white hats

[normal cargo]

Not sure it's a good idea to be taking down a school network access with it though 🙂

[golden talon]

No homework for an entire week, sounded good to me

[pearl remnant]

homework blows

[normal cargo]

I'm sold

[pearl remnant]

at my school homework was 60% of the grade. Meaning any monkey can turn crap in and pass

[golden talon]

The trick was to launch it on thursdays and fridays, so they would be panicking over the weekend and we usually had very lax days then

The best part was that nobody knew that it was an actual deauth attack besides me and a couple very close friends

[pearl remnant]

I didn't do homework but I aced my exams and participated in discussions,

[plush rivet]

no way test were 40%

i would love to be in your school

[pearl remnant]

nope, attendance and participation were 10% each. exams were 20%

[plush rivet]

thats even worse....

but i would abuse the hell out of it

[pearl remnant]

it was dog shit. The only paper I wrote in high school was about the failure of the education system

[plush rivet]

lol

[pearl remnant]

the point was to learn and I demonstrated that. I participated. I just didn't do the required study because I read the text books on my own.

the notion of homework is insulting to students

[manic torrent]

That's what school is. That's literally the point

[plush rivet]

but 60% grading is asking for cheating

[manic torrent]

I don't disagree. Projects? Yes. Homework? What the fuck is ghatt

[manic torrent]

Oh absolutely, I'm talking about the latter point

[pearl remnant]

yeah, we all agree

[plush rivet]

i mean was the homework hard?

[pearl remnant]

they just wanted kids to pass

[plush rivet]

oh lol

[pearl remnant]

no, it didn't even need to be correct

[plush rivet]

....

[pearl remnant]

YUPPPPPPP

school in it's current form is state funded daycare

[manic torrent]

Yes.

[plush rivet]

completion grade?

[pearl remnant]

and higher education isn't about education anymore. It's about how much wealth you can get from the degree

[pearl remnant]

60% lololololol

[manic torrent]

It has always been that way more or less.

[pearl remnant]

more so now than it was in the past

[manic torrent]

Yeah

[stray apex]

in the past only people who were already wealthy could afford it

[manic torrent]

But the reality is that university is just another way to ensure the poor stay poor

[stray apex]

it's like how modern scientists spend shitloads of time trying to get money because they're all broke

whereas in the past

basically anyone who was a scientist

[pearl remnant]

I'm an advocate of learning trade or getting certifications for technical work

[stray apex]

was already wealthy enough to be able to spend time on what was essentially a very expensive hobby

[fossil frost]

almost like a lot of research science should be state funded

[stray apex]

governments do fund a lot of research

[fossil frost]

nowhere near what they should be

[pearl remnant]

how many times do we see job listings require degrees but the job doesn't utilize the education. They are just using it as a filter and a way to justify their own degree.

[stray apex]

cold wars are pretty great for that, honestly

[fossil frost]

they are using it to filter out "stupid people"... people they deem to be lazy, or not smart enough to get a degree

[pearl remnant]

Then they should look at work history

[gaunt cave]

Honestly, after 10 years in a corporate job, it's clearly not working well

[stray apex]

people with work history cost more

[plush rivet]

you realize 90% of tech jobs take someone with 2 years of experience over someone with a 4 year degree

knowledge is cool, but not actually doing it is different

[gaunt cave]

After a point degrees become pointless imo, experience counts for more

[fossil frost]

and if you are 23 and dont have a work history, because all you have is that degree because you spent the last 3 years getting a degree, and the 2 years before that getting into uni/college, and the 5 years before that in high schoo....

[pearl remnant]

then it sounds like higher education was even more of a detriment

[plush rivet]

very much so, im getting picked up to be an cyber security starting level AND go to collage so i got super lucky

if i work with em for a year their willing to pay my tuition

[pearl remnant]

I did not go to college

37 years old. sysadmin. let's gooooo

[plush rivet]

i mean i enjoy getting an education and getting started all for free and getting paid with it

[tired glade]

Oh,my

[plush rivet]

do you have certs?

[pearl remnant]

yeah for the tech we use here

[fossil frost]

i didnt either, also 37, spent 21 years as a software developer. zero qualifications or certifications to back it up... but i do have a 21 year work history

[pearl remnant]

It was learning as I went

[plush rivet]

by chance did you get them there or before

[pearl remnant]

as I was working

[plush rivet]

ah

[pearl remnant]

Company said we are rolling out teams and I had to slam out that cert

changing firewall brands? Good lord, the studying

When I started, I used ubiquiti as our networking device platform because I was able to understand it. As I learned, I was able to pick up Cisco/Meraki

Had two learn two different SD-WAN providers

[plush rivet]

i do need to get my cisco cert, currently studying for my COMPtia a+ and network+

[pearl remnant]

what's really funny is when users bring me things I've never seen before and ask me to help

[plush rivet]

prob will study for security+ during collage

[pearl remnant]

how they use applications that I don't know how to use but I have to fgure out enough to fix

[plush rivet]

lol

i mean thats the life tho, no debt and making a ton of money

[pearl remnant]

cisco certs are rad. They have this system where as long as you keep certifying in harder material, it refreshes the expiration on previous cersts with them

[gaunt cave]

Anyone done q Cisco cert? How much harder is it compared to something like network+

[plush rivet]

have you done network+?

[pearl remnant]

😅 I should be earning more but the company lets me go unsupervised most of the time so that's a nice trade off

[pearl remnant]

defeintely more. Studying for the CCNA was hard

[gaunt cave]

Ya a few years ago, i found it pretty easy

[plush rivet]

lol i mean youll slowly climb the ladder anyways, and even you dont you got plenty of experience to back yourself up

[plush rivet]

really? how many tests is it?

[gaunt cave]

Hah me too

[gaunt cave]

Can't remember. More than 1 iirc

[plush rivet]

ah

[pearl remnant]

Even the comptia A+ was two exams lol

[plush rivet]

rn i think im on SNMP chapter 11

i need to rn memorize T560A and B

[gaunt cave]

I did a whole thing where i studied for network+, Linux+ and RHCP together with a tutor

[pearl remnant]

sNMP = Simple Network Management Protocol.

That's also an exam name?

[plush rivet]

its like an entire chapter

[pearl remnant]

i should do that

[plush rivet]

for network+

i honestly wanna collect a ton of certs

[pearl remnant]

Instead I listen to people who know more than me and steal what they know

[pearl remnant]

balance certs with projects

Employers get hard seeing projects you were apart of

[tired glade]

Wait, you should listen

[gaunt cave]

The tutor thing is a bit expensive if done somewhere like USA or Canada though

[plush rivet]

was it a physical tutor or a online tutor

[pearl remnant]

yeah

lol lots of youtube

^_^;

[gaunt cave]

Physical, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week for 4 months

[pearl remnant]

well yeah that'd be expensive. lol you're basically employing them

[tired glade]

Or you can go down in rabbit hole of free literature

[pearl remnant]

4 months???? Did you have to offer benefits?

[tired glade]

Wait, just tunnering for 8 hours?

[manic torrent]

Lol physical. I think "in person" is the term

It just sounds like you were ..... Being physical.

[plush rivet]

idk i wanna get Cisco and my security plus but idk how the hell ima do it by myself

[tired glade]

Cisco?

[plush rivet]

im not about to pay out the ass for me to get lazy and not do it

[plush rivet]

cisco cert

[gaunt cave]

The exams were paid for, it was rhcsa, rhce, Linux+, network+, security+, a+ and I'm forgetting at least 2 more

[tired glade]

What's cicso?

[plush rivet]

oh boy

[plush rivet]

one of the biggest major tech companies in the entire world

[tired glade]

US?

[plush rivet]

world

[gaunt cave]

But a few years ago i enquired about red hat Tutors in Canada, and even the basics was super expensive

[pearl remnant]

do people not google anymore?

[tired glade]

Banned on it

[pearl remnant]

show me

[plush rivet]

they are responsible for most of the networking in the entire world

like your prob using something by them right now

[gaunt cave]

I'm pretty sure literally every business is a Cisco client lol

[plush rivet]

pretty much

cisco is everywhere

[gaunt cave]

And the govt

[tired glade]

Yea, it's primary western countries

[plush rivet]

if your in tech and are unaware of cisco you may wanna do some research lol

[pearl remnant]

oh google is banned for your country?

[tired glade]

Twice

[gaunt cave]

Nah, outside of china i think where there's some issues is ubiquitous when in Asia, eu and the middle east

[pearl remnant]

well, change what I said. Do people not use search engines?

[plush rivet]

tbf i didnt know what IBM was for a while

[tired glade]

You know, even 3 times

[pearl remnant]

you're not banned from every search engine

[wind pulsar]

You could've just answered his question and be done with it

[tired glade]

Is that joke that old already?

[pearl remnant]

Yeah but why do people ask easily searched questions. I'm using it as a teaching opportunity

[wind pulsar]

Then don't

You're wasting your time

[pearl remnant]

I'll do as I please, thanks

[tired glade]

Because it's point of this conversation

[plush rivet]

regardless, yes cisco is absolutely massive in tech

[pearl remnant]

That doesn't really change what I said to you. You asked a easily searched question

[plush rivet]

almost anything to do with networking has something to do with cisco

[tired glade]

But you hadn't figured out it was a joke

[pearl remnant]

its interesting that this person is involved in tech enough to be banned from google three times yet doesn't know what cisco is

yeah, can't hear tone thought text

[plush rivet]

ok leave it alone now lol

its fine

[pearl remnant]

I guess

[wind pulsar]

Poe's Law exists btw

[tired glade]

That was the point of the joke

[pearl remnant]

yeah, cool

[tired glade]

Let me have some fun

[pearl remnant]

Did anyone have fun with it aside from you?

A show of hands from chat?

even its just to spite me?

[tired glade]

?

[pearl remnant]

ask a more complete question

[tired glade]

I think, everyone already moved on

[pearl remnant]

yeah, so many people tried to actually answer it that I don't think they got the joke either

[plush rivet]

i didnt tbf lol

i was deadass explaining it lol

[pearl remnant]

samsies

[tired glade]

Yea, you were

[pearl remnant]

soooo yeah, that was fun

[wintry dagger]

OLED Pokémon switch came in

[tired glade]

Congrats

[wintry dagger]

thanks! it looks rlly nice and the screen is beautiful

def worth the upgrade over the rego switch for me personally bc I never use docked mode

[pearl remnant]

I am not going to get the OLED. It was not enough of an upgrade for me. I'll wait for a hardware update to spend another $300 USD

As a handheld player as well

[night heron]

the oled wasnt made for original switch owners to upgrade

it was just a better version for new shoppers

[pearl remnant]

Log upgraded

[wintry dagger]

fair enough

[night heron]

log wanted the significantly better display

[wintry dagger]

michael before you say buy a steam deck, I tried my dads, not for me personally

[pearl remnant]

mhm I am envious of it, just not $300 worth of envy

[night heron]

why would i tell u to buy a steamdeck

oled switch is cool

[pearl remnant]

I like Proton but I watch how Proton works and I'm like that's so tedious

[wintry dagger]

it was 391 after tax

[wintry dagger]

shit ur a diff michael

[night heron]

there was a guy who ran a burnin test on the switch oled

it took like 3000 hours of showing a static frame to get burn in

it's a great device

[wintry dagger]

yeah thats why I finally bought it bc I was concerned about burn in

plus that was in a single image, not gameplay

[night heron]

everyone panics over burn in but everyone uses oled phones

there was a guy the other day on the oled gaming subreddit who posted a picture of his alienware aw3423dw he's had since launch

[manic torrent]

oled phones have suuuuper high density and algos to not have burn in, and can get away with it because of the density

[night heron]

hes been running it on hdr 1000 mode 24/7 without hiding the taskbar and using a static background

no uniformity issues lmao

ltt screwdriver moment

[pearl remnant]

YES! I have it too! It's fantastic

That ratchet is amazing

[dense maple]

I can’t wait to get it in the mail

[manic torrent]

I have an FO48U and it has had some burn in, but as long as you move your windows around a bit and don't use a static background and hide your taskbar, it's fine

[pearl remnant]

I was skeptical about the ratchet working for low force small screws but yeah its fantastic

[night heron]

i hide my taskbar and turn it transparent

and i use a blank black background with no shortcut icons

i never used desktop shortcuts anyway i always hit windows key and search

[manic torrent]

I have had desktop icons turned off for years.

[night heron]

same i had them turned off before i went oled

[manic torrent]

but I use a rotating digitalblasphemy background

[night heron]

i use my aw3432dwf on srgb mode 2.4 gamma 100% brightness

[dense maple]

I’m making a school minecraft server

Discord update moment

[night heron]

the legendary dell 1280x1024 school monitor

[proven mauve]

How hard is it to play stat citizen on a 60%?

[night heron]

if u have to ask this you dont want a 60% keyboard

[manic torrent]

if you need to ask, you shouldn't have a 60%

[proven mauve]

Haha I already have one

[manic torrent]

60% keyboard is basically like one of those devices for your appendage with a lock on them

they exist, and if you like it that's fine

but it doesn't make sense for most people

[dense maple]

Bet you there’s a xp desktop

[full fossil]

Order 155674?

[proven mauve]

I just wanna know how hard it is to configure because never played Star citizen

[dense maple]

Wrong

[full fossil]

Close enough tho

[proven mauve]

My mouse is a mmo mouse

So I get by typically find

[full fossil]

55674 is definitely there but idk the rest

Can’t see

[dense maple]

What’s it going to do lmao

[full fossil]

Don’t use iPhone drawings to cover up because it doesn’t do it properly :3

It doesn’t matter for this but don’t trust it for important stuff pls

Just letting you know lmao

[dense maple]

Ok

[full fossil]

You can just edit the settings and see the info behind it

[dense maple]

Ok

Good to know

[fossil frost]

ive had loads of people sent me iphone screenshots with black bars drawn on... on an iphone, they are solid black... on a decent monitor, or a decent android phone, they are about 50% black and you can 100% see what was there before

[dense maple]

I’m getting solar like Linus

[fossil frost]

used to happen all the time in my last job when i would see customer complaints

[rigid shadow]

very nice

[full fossil]

You edit exposure and highlights and stuff on it you can just see right through lol it’s vaguely transparent

Not enough to the naked eye

[full fossil]

Hilarious shahaha

[tired glade]

Water cooled?

[dense maple]

I think they can I have them on the roof now tho

[fossil frost]

ive had people send me screenshots of their bank account to show that a payment had been made, and they blanked out other entries, and their account details... or they thought they did

[full fossil]

Bruhhhhh lmfao

[dense maple]

No not water cooled I have a pool heater tho lmao

[tired glade]

Yea, those are great in winter

[dense maple]

True

[tired glade]

Get cooling on panel, will increase output

[pearl remnant]

I call winter overclocking season

[golden talon]

I call it boost season

[manic torrent]

I call it winter

[manic torrent]

❤️

[heady flicker]

oh hey I've seen you before in the azur lane discord

[vapid smelt]

your winter is barley cold though

[manic torrent]

barley? it gets to 0C here.

[heady flicker]

0C is the bare minimum

[vapid smelt]

i thought new south wales average was 8.8c

[heady flicker]

winter's nice

[manic torrent]

I'm in VIC, and that's average

[night heron]

0c is the bare minimum to have snow its not cold

[manic torrent]

and look, it doesn't snow here, but it's not "not cold"

[night heron]

im ready for summer to come back

i miss sitting on a lawn chair under the sun

[vapid smelt]

people still wear shorts here and a thin jacket when its 0c

[sonic barn]

I saw someone wearing shorts at -13c

like a girl was wearing mini shorts in -13c weather

[vapid smelt]

im ok with that

[sonic barn]

hypothermia

[manic torrent]

... and skin coloured tights?

[vital niche]

bunny costumes at halloween

women be fashion

[rugged bridge]

he actual kinda scary lol

[pearl remnant]

[manic torrent]

no. delete this.

[rugged bridge]

theres ways to do it for free lol
idk if its allowed tho

[plain oyster]

wah

[vapid smelt]

i stole a key from my public school

[plain oyster]

it looks like im stealing it from someone lmao

idk where to get it everywhere is so scetchy

[vapid smelt]

you dont need a key to use windows you can download it and use it for free from microsoft

[brave lodge]

Whattup Gs

[plain oyster]

yea but theres a watermark

[brave lodge]

🕴️

[plain oyster]

and watermark=bad

also i want a background pic

[vapid smelt]

https://softwarekeep.com/help-center/updated-how-to-get-rid-of-the-activate-windows-watermark

[blissful pike]

Anyone knows if Windows just opened for more laptop CPU to upgrade to windows 11?
mine is a i7-6700HQ. it has always been "not compatible with windows 11" and it´s not on there website list.
But today i got a popup that i can install windows 11.

should i do that? or should i wait if it a bug so i can have future problems on windows 11?
(Hope you can understand my bad english, im from a non english speaking country)

[vapid smelt]

just open photos right click then got to set as

[plain oyster]

WHAT THE FUCK IT WORKED

ITS GONE

[plain oyster]

animated background

[sullen saddle]

it starts with the letter K and the 13th and 19th letter in the alphabet

[vapid smelt]

Why use GPU resources

[sullen saddle]

just use wallpaper engine if you want animated backgrounds smh

[polar steeple]

No

[sullen saddle]

[polar steeple]

Stinky wallpaper engine

[vapid smelt]

Pretty sure you have to do that every time if you shutoff your PC btw

[rugged bridge]

best 5$ i ever spent

[sullen saddle]

do people not know about...

M, first letter in the alphabet, 19th letter in the alphabet

[sullen saddle]

legit the only software i actually paid for

[polar steeple]

Mfs speaking in code and shit

[sullen saddle]

i wonder why i am

[plain oyster]

would it work if i dont have windows?

[vapid smelt]

Map

[polar steeple]

No we already all understood

[plain oyster]

honestly i should try bc i can just return the game if it doesnt

[sullen saddle]

MAS

[vapid smelt]

Mad

Max

[plain oyster]

tf yall saying

[sullen saddle]

you wouldn't understand

[plain oyster]

:((((((((((((((((((((

max i agree

[sullen saddle]

my version of windows is HWID activated permanently

[plain oyster]

opinion?

[sullen saddle]

https://steamdb.info/app/431960/info/ wallpaper engine only works for windows lmao

[pliant karma]

same with mines and it was a boot drive I swapped over from my old motherboard. Somehow windows was like yea this matches. Everything but the motherboard matched

[sullen saddle]

nice

[plain oyster]

fucking hell

[sullen saddle]

i thought your using windows?

[polar steeple]

Animated wallpapers are silly

[pliant karma]

it eats at my gpu resources so I stopped using wallpaper engine

[polar steeple]

Yeah, this

[pliant karma]

I had the shrek movie running as my wallapaper once though

[sullen saddle]

ok simple solution, get a better GPU

[polar steeple]

But

You could just use a static wallpaper and consume no resources

[sullen saddle]

that's cool

[pliant karma]

I have windows rotate through photos I took from my camera that i consider worthy and drone pics for my wallapapers

[vapid smelt]

Nerd!

[polar steeple]

Wallpaper engine consumes more resources than it's worth and can fuck up your time by crashing or otherwise operating slowly. It's just one of those novelty kind of things

[pliant karma]

lol portfolio worthy photos make their use as wallpapers for me so dual purpose

[sullen saddle]

you do know you can set wallpaper engine to automatically close if a game you selected is running...right?

[polar steeple]

I watched a cool video where a guy took 3 tvs, flipped them portrait, dressed them to look like windows and used his drone shots of land and city scapes to simulate a big bay window

[polar steeple]

Talking about idling and web browsing

[sullen saddle]

[full fossil]

bro needs extra resources for web browsing

[sullen saddle]

inb4 using more than 2 chrome tabs

[polar steeple]

Bro doesn't need the gpu fan spinning while I'm browsing the web because of an animated wallpaper

[full fossil]

if your gpu fan spins bc of wallpaper engine you shouldnt use it anyway

[sullen saddle]

bro got a nvidia GPU from wish

[full fossil]

my old 1650 super didnt even do that

[polar steeple]

Okay

[full fossil]

it was hp oem too

[strange lion]

Could use a bit of help with some blue screening in tech support 🙏

[vapid smelt]

No

[rugged bridge]

buying car parts off ali express

[vapid smelt]

I'm suing you for cross posting

[strange lion]

🤖

[sullen saddle]

then it explodes in the middle of the highway

[polar steeple]

It's a 6700xt reference bought directly from amd lol

[sullen saddle]

[polar steeple]

[sullen saddle]

[polar steeple]

[full fossil]

need halp in tech support if anyone knows about mobos

[manic torrent]

I use displayfusion

[manic torrent]

nobody knows

[random sapphire]

is sons of forest same fps for 4090 and 7900xtx 1440p

from whative seen its same, i liek when game is optimized for both

[south stone]

The sons of the forest devs deserve all the love they can get.

I saw a few hours ago they were at 50k players.

[pliant karma]

5 hours later we finally landing. As you said I will fly by the volcano cause

[south stone]

250k players right now, DAMN.

[plush rivet]

I mean yeah it’s a new multiplayer game

And it was hella hyped up I hope it has 250k lol

[pearl remnant]

but they said halp

[limpid hamlet]

Thinking about getting an upgraded case. I kinda wanna get the thermaltank core p3?

[polar steeple]

You do full length MSFS flights? Damn

[pliant karma]

yep

[polar steeple]

That's cool in a way

I wanted to love MSFS it wasn't for me

[random sapphire]

lancool 3 or lancool 2 mesh or fractal design torrent

[polar steeple]

Torrent series is great

[random sapphire]

only big one

small ones are eh eh

[polar steeple]

Compact is the best out of all of them lol

You get the same amount of 180mm fans and it's a much smaller case

[native crag]

ChatGPT just broke me

[tepid bolt]

Ask it how to fix yourself

[unreal kelp]

Bing ai has broken me for awhile

[native crag]

Me: "So you're a male named Katherine?"

ChatGPT: "No, I am a female. My name is Katherine and my brother is David. We are both identical twins".

[ripe epoch]

Does anyone know why my asus mother board is showing a orange light

[random sapphire]

multi rail or single rail psu

in my case rm1000x or hx1000i ?

[near nymph]

btw anyone here know if I can drop off a package designated for Florida in Seattle with a sender's address in Florida?

thru USPS

[random sapphire]

delaware storages ?

[unreal kelp]

Why is the senders address an fl one?

[near nymph]

because I live in Canada and I want to send my friend in the USA a letter

and I'm going to be in the USA anyways

[native crag]

Maybe, but you're still going to pay the full mailing rate from where you mailed the package from, not based on the address of the sender

[near nymph]

eh... I'll set the origin as a Post Office in State

[unreal kelp]

Yeah, that would be the easiest

[native crag]

Can't. Spoofing to reduce shipping fees is an easy caught scam

[near nymph]

I'm not...

I'm trying to do the right thing lmfao

I dont have a US address

so I will use the USPS address

[unreal kelp]

Hes saying hes going to put the sender as the store hes using in seattle

[native crag]

You can use a USPS address, but your shipping will be from where you physically mail from

[near nymph]

Oui. I'm not trying to dodge the system lol. I just dont know how USPS works lol

[unreal kelp]

You just go into a store with your package without a label, tell them the destination, they give you a label and charge the fee there

[gilded crane]

Guys I have a issue with windows 11 upgrade on my pc

[gilded crane]

So basically my pc is prompting me a full screen message to schedule a windows 11 update saying my device is eligible even though my processor is unsupported for windows 11 and my pc doesn’t meet the TPM requirement

[unreal kelp]

Just ignore it or update, simple as that

Up to you

[gilded crane]

If I update will it recognize my pc as supported for windows 11 because I don’t have TPM or supported processor

[native crag]

What CPU do you have?

[gilded crane]

i7 5500u and my pc says it’s eligible even though the processor is not supported

[unreal kelp]

It wont brick your system

[native crag]

Yeah, it's not supported. You shouldn't have been prompted as being eligible

Interesting bug

[gilded crane]

Yeah I have a full screen prompt telling me to either install it or schedule it for 24 hours saying my pc is eligible

[native crag]

Seems sus. You sure it's not a malware screen?

[gilded crane]

Yes it was in the settings app and when I rebooted it’s a full screen prompt

Also a few days ago the settings app always said my pc is unsupported

[native crag]

Shut the computer down, and reboot

The clear out the SoftwareDistribution folder.

Rename C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution.old
Then delete the SoftwareDistribution.old folder

It probably cached the installer it shouldn't have

[gilded crane]

I rebooted and it’s gone but the settings app says windows 11 is ready to install

[native crag]

🤷‍♂️ Delay it for 24 hours. Once back in Windows 10 desktop, make sure your data is backed up elsewhere just to be sure

[gilded crane]

Does installing windows 11 delete your files?

[gilded crane]

Oh wait, I selected a option in settings to stay with windows 10 and my computer checked for updates and now it says my pc is not supported for windows 11

[native crag]

You're not missing out with Windows 11 anyways. The UI is just a wannabe OSX

I can run 11, but refuse. Staying with 10 until EOL

Hopefully Windows 12 can turn that around

[unreal kelp]

Personally, i find it to run a bit quicker

[native crag]

It's not the performance, it's the layout and lack of contrast between menu bars

[unreal kelp]

Plus im ok with the ui changes, and have even adapted to them relatively quickly

Fair enough i guess

[native crag]

And new Task Manager is fugly.

[rugged bridge]

i fucking hate it

[native crag]

So much wasted space. It's very inefficient UI design. Seriously, epic FAIL

[rugged bridge]

win 10 task manager w

[unreal kelp]

I must be missing something because it doesnt look different at all to me, but maybe that shows ive gotten too far away from windows 10 (just kidding i have to image it at least once a day for people at my job)

[rugged bridge]

its this feature update

[native crag]

22H2 has been out for awhile now on both 10 and 11

23H2 is in beta

[unreal kelp]

Ah, i keep everything up to date

[rugged bridge]

at least i think it is

i haven't updated yet and i still got the old taskmanager so i think its that

[unreal kelp]

I cant tell you to update, but i can feel my security specialist glaring at me if i dont at least mention updating

[native crag]

That's what a SOC (Cyber Security) is for in IT

[unreal kelp]

Its mostly for insurance purposes with stuff like that

[native crag]

bull fucking shit

You obviously know nothing about this industry

[unreal kelp]

If you dont keep shit updated, your insurance either skyrockets or you get dropped, both a bad time

[native crag]

Red / blue teams anyone?

https://www.sans.org/digital-forensics-incident-response/

Because SOC isn't glorified helpdesk 🤣

They datamine, sure, but you've got to be aware of threats and how to hunt and prevent infiltration

Deep rabbit hole, not much time to dive into that. But are you more interested in finding exploits or prevention?

I work with SOC members. I know all about what they do.

I'm not SOC myself, but I do have to interface with the departments

They bird-dog and dive into the investigations

Usually it's stupid stuff such a e-mail being the vector. But it's the payload that some of those cats find interesting

You are a vector

[unreal kelp]

Lmao

[native crag]

I prefer to type on other's keyboards with a very long stick 🙂

It's called a "day spa"

[unreal kelp]

Is this pc being held by the mob wtf lmao

In the comic

Yeah about

[vapid smelt]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/eight-rtx-4090s-can-break-passwords-in-under-an-hour ez

[polar steeple]

Damn lol

[native crag]

Not anymore once Argon2 is used more

It's basically GPGPU proof encryption

[vapid smelt]

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/machine-learning/you-can-now-rent-entire-ai-supercomputer-google-cloud

iwAntToBuYahouse8967$% is a great password no one will ever break into my accounts

[native crag]

Argon2, the winner of the 2015 Password Hashing Competition, is available as an alternative to PBKDF2 (learn more). There are three versions of the algorithm, and Bitwarden has implemented Argon2id as recommended by OWASP. Argon2id is a hybrid of other versions, using a combination of data-depending and data-independent memory accesses, which gives it some of Argon2i's resistance to side-channel cache timing attacks and much of Argon2d's resistance to GPU cracking attacks (source).

https://bitwarden.com/help/what-encryption-is-used/#changing-kdf-iterations

[vapid smelt]

the learn more link is broken

and hash browns are tasty

[native crag]

You don't have trillions of years to live

[vapid smelt]

the earth will be dead by then

[unreal kelp]

Not if i use a sentence and include spaces

[native crag]

I mean, if you get close enough to a blackhole, you can let the rest of the universe fast-forward. Not sure it's worth it to crack a PW, but whatev

[hollow pulsar]

Create a passphrase, hash it. Use the hash as the password.

“Need to use a special character”

[native crag]

8 is weaksauce regardless

lol, no it's not

[vapid smelt]

my password is all 10 finger prints

[wispy marsh]

[hollow pulsar]

I wonder if there’s like, extended hash values. Like using the entire UTF-8 tables in the hash value.

[wispy marsh]

Fingers you say

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/ass-poop-gif-9420023

[hollow pulsar]

Right, but that’s not necessarily going to work for hashing a password to use as a password.

[native crag]

https://alteritysolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HiveSystems-PasswordTable-768x768.jpg

[hollow pulsar]

Or for comparing file hashes.

[native crag]

As long as you've got a 16 character PW with num, upper, lower, and symbol, your good for awhile.

That calculus will change as compute gets more advanced. And frankly, all that goes out the window if quantum compute gets more advanced

[sullen saddle]

by the time my password is cracked everyone in this server would be dead

[rugged bridge]

wtf is this gif

bro scanning his ass

[vapid smelt]

https://youtu.be/h7SBVutX6OU

[rugged bridge]

OH THAT lmao

[native crag]

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html

[rugged bridge]

link not sus at all

[native crag]

Anyways, I'm out for the night. ✌️

[vapid smelt]

can you click it for me? my mouse is broken

[rugged bridge]

nah

im good

[full fossil]

Not sus at allllll

I clicked it, it just deletes system 32. No problem 😀

[hollow pulsar]

That’s just a brute-force technique too. I haven’t kept up with rainbow tables.

[full fossil]

is it worth trading a ps5 digital for a 3060 ti?

[dreamy rose]

NFT Game

[vapid smelt]

it would for me since i dont own any ps5 games

[ocean narwhal]

Rainbow tables should be essentially killed by salting no?

[full fossil]

in general lets say ive invested 150 bucks in games for the playstation

u think its still worth it? just tryna upgrade from this 1080

[dreamy rose]

PC >PS5

[full fossil]

hell naw

[ocean narwhal]

Also i thought argon2 was worse than bcrypr

Unless argon2id is different

[dreamy rose]

sell the PS5 and buy a Radeon 6000 card anyway

[full fossil]

yeah i think selling it would be a better bang for my buck

[dreamy rose]

if you want value than throw the idea of a GeForce card out the door

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/CCJp99/asrock-challenger-d-oc-radeon-rx-6700-xt-12-gb-video-card-rx6700xt-cld-12go

[full fossil]

oh thats smart

[dreamy rose]

nvidia forgot that for customers to buy it the value needs to be handed to them. not Nvidia

[onyx heath]

are airpods just wireless apple earpods

[heady flicker]

Not quite but functionally yes

Airpods have "better" audio

Also noise cancellation

[vapid smelt]

and nearly unfixable

[heady flicker]

People just love destroying the environment

Some things don't need to be wireless, personally I believe earphones are one of them

[manic torrent]

you can't see any use case where wireless earphones are a better user experience?

[vapid smelt]

i love my wireless bone conduction headphones for working

[royal lodge]

I really wanted to start to build my new pc but one issue

[vapid smelt]

did you spend all your money on coffee?

[royal lodge]

I miss some parts like the motherboard

[royal lodge]

?

[thin fjord]

or do you give us codes for giving you coffee

[royal lodge]

😔

[vapid smelt]

how much coffee per code

[timid meadow]

I feel like anyone who does almost any physical activity at all would disagree with this

[golden talon]

wireless earphones are gods gift to us normies

just want something quick and convenient to plug in and just start listening

[vapid smelt]

oops it has low battery

[golden talon]

just charge it

you can actually charge the 2nd gen airpods pros in 4 ways

with lightning, with the apple watch charger, with magsafe or with a qi charger

[graceful burrow]

Ngl
Hate my wireless headset

[vapid smelt]

2 plug or wireless

[golden talon]

wireless magsafe

the plug is reserved for macbooks only

[vapid smelt]

wireless headphones for desk use is dumb imo

[golden talon]

its fine if you plan to use it with a bunch of devices

[vapid smelt]

if you leave the house i see wireless as useful

[golden talon]

i only use my G435 at my desk but its useful for when i want to switch between my switch to my pc to my macbook to my phone

[deep nova]

how's it going?

[neon mesa]

so i bought a vibration speaker and broke it in 15 mins

[vapid smelt]

😏

[neon mesa]

because my dumbass curious mind decided to put it on glass and fire it at 400Hz which is the resonance frequency of glass

[amber cairn]

[neon mesa]

it did not end well

[unkempt widget]

💀

[amber cairn]

congrats on inventing a glass grenade

[neon mesa]

10 bucks down the drain brah

[amber cairn]

bruh

[neon mesa]

i'm just going to buy a regular bluetooth speaker kek

[unkempt widget]

did you at least break some glass?

[neon mesa]

the glass survived

[unkempt widget]

damn

[neon mesa]

it's just the suction cup goes lose and it drops the speaker

because well putting it on resonance frequency is not a good idea

[vapid smelt]

was this speaker for adults only?

[neon mesa]

stop it

[unkempt widget]

[neon mesa]

fuck it i'll order another one of the resonance speaker

this time i wont break it

[unkempt widget]

why would 400hz break it

isn't a4 just 440 or 432

[neon mesa]

glass frequency

it causes the vibration to be extreme and lets air into the suction cup

[unkempt widget]

was it made of glass?

[neon mesa]

i attached it to glass

it's a resonance speaker

it needs surface

[unkempt widget]

ah

well i just watched 2 people in spelling be go for 40 words in a row

[neon mesa]

well luckily someone bought my DDR3 RAM for 8 bucks

cover up the losses a bit

[vapid smelt]

my god you really are a nerd

[unkempt widget]

i wasn't one of them

[vapid smelt]

who the fuck watches a spellingbee

[unkempt widget]

the entire school did

[timid meadow]

🤚

[unkempt widget]

well 2 years ago i would've had to duke it out like that if i didn't accidentally say "g" when given the word "jodhpurs"

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/dnd-dungeons-and-dragons-child-childless-children-gif-12075788

[unkempt widget]

:(

[rose kestrel]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1078584311441281074

i need to find kb/m that doesn’t look super gamer-y

[graceful burrow]

dell business keyboard

[unkempt widget]

ew

[graceful burrow]

hey man if they wanted serious answers they should have posted in the right channel im out here for a good time

[rose kestrel]

i don’t want answers lol i’m just looking myself

[graceful burrow]

then dell business keyboard

[rose kestrel]

classic

i have a mac keyboard that i also like using but it doesn’t work until after i boot into windows

[unkempt widget]

just get any keyboard and turn off the rgb

[rose kestrel]

that’s kinda sick

i really really like 60% but i like having the numpad just for typing in my pin at login

it’s like muscle memory now

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/keyboard/#m=901

[rose kestrel]

i might just go to best buy tomorrow and play with all of them for an hour

[manic torrent]

I just buy keyboards randomly sometimes

that might be why I have ... a pile of them. Same with mice

[rose kestrel]

def need a new mouse but the a4tech i have i’ve been using for literallt 7 years now

[manic torrent]

JFC a4tech

are they even still in business?

[full fossil]

helloo bob.

[rose kestrel]

every other mouse i’ve owned has broken in like a year

[graceful burrow]

g502 baybee

[manic torrent]

when you buy cheap shit bottom of the barrel garbage, yeah.

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8C6qqs/logitech-g-pro-hero-wired-optical-mouse-910-005439 my bb

[rose kestrel]

this is cheap bottom of the barrel garbage

i think it was like $3

logitechs have never lasted me more than a year

[graceful burrow]

which ones

[rose kestrel]

normal ones, i’ve never owned gaming peripherals

[vapid smelt]

back in the day when i was child we had a Logitech mouse that was at least 15 years

[rose kestrel]

they don’t make ‘em like they used to

[rose kestrel]

what’s this board btw?

[vapid smelt]

^ one of these

[manic torrent]

yeah the cheap bottom of the barrel garbage 🙂

logitech make good mice, but they don't give them away

they also make a load of garbage

[rose kestrel]

i’m looking at that 🤦‍♂️

huntsman mini looks nice

[vapid smelt]

i just used google imgs i dont know which one it was

[full fossil]

hola

[graceful burrow]

[vapid smelt]

grumpy old man using a cute happy blob emote

[graceful burrow]

iirc you're older than me

[vapid smelt]

im 22

[graceful burrow]

L
doxxed
it's that easy folks

[vapid smelt]

im also dating your aunt

[graceful burrow]

based
she's a dumbass tho

cant be worse than the dude she's with rn

[mint kiln]

I’m dating your uncle….. wait hold up

[wise tundra]

I was wondering, if I'd cover my roof in aluminium foil, couldn't I improve my WiFi as the neighbors WiFi wouldn't interfere with mine?

I'm not gonna do it cause that would look horrible, but just thinking

[full fossil]

Yes. But walls would help more I guess

[wise tundra]

Also the floor

I'd only need to cover one wall as on the other side there's the elevator

And my apartment is in the corner

[near granite]

Guys, you know how to change boot disk format from MBR to GPT?

Disk C

[wise tundra]

In disk management if I recall correctly

You can do it from diskpart too

[near granite]

but it doesn't want to change so it's a boot disk. Generally it doesn't work.

[cold raptor]

Has linus done reviews on this

ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-H Gaming (WiFi 6E)LGA 1700(Intel®12&13th Gen)ATX gaming motherboard(DDR5 -7800 MT/s, PCIe 5.0 x16 with Q-Release,4xPCIe 4.0 M.2 slots,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C®,front-panel connector) https://amzn.eu/d/248Ej0L

[stray apex]

ltt hasn't done a motherboard review in years

[graceful burrow]

they dont really review motherboards anymore

[stray apex]

anyways
asus strix boards are generally good but expensive

not great value but I mean
is motherboard

[cold raptor]

Would thst motherboard fit into a corsair Tempered Glass Airflow 4000d case

[graceful burrow]

does the case support ATX motherboards

[cold raptor]

Yes

Also supports mirco atx aswell

[full fossil]

apparently, you can do mbr2gpt /allowfullos from within windows 10/11 in a command prompt as admin (however it may leave you with a random system reserved partition afterwards)

[cold raptor]

I posted that in wrong channel

[amber cairn]

Do they even make comparisons between vendor-cards for GPUs? Feels like the only review for a gpu becomes the review sample that lands first even though there's a fair bit of difference between them. Like the 7900 XT(X) reference cards being bad vs 3rd party cards in terms of cooling

[brazen relic]

today's task in IT support apprenticeship :
restoring a drive image onto an HDD based PC
another 12 of those waiting in queue
never touching an HDD ever again after that if I don't take a disk from inside one of them to slit my own throat with

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa almost an hour to restore a 40GB size disk image

just because higher ups decided to cheap out 5 extra bucks per PC for an SSD ffs

[amber cairn]

are these really old workstations or is your employer just insane and hasn't figured out SSD prices are way down

is it even that much cheaper? from the right vendor it's basically 0 difference in terms of money for a desktop fleet

[brazen relic]

most likely the second one since our own PCs have SSDs and we actually require actual performance for our own tasks

[past fjord]

is it safe to clean ur laptop vents with a toothbrush

from the outside

[brazen relic]

we're running VMs to learn about Win Server instances and setting them up
the other class is about medical administration and they really don't need anything powerful but the single component bottlenecking the entire build is the cheap ass 5400 RPM 300GB HDD in there
it slows the damn thing so much it's crazy
I put one of them in my own machine just because I thought the CPU was the bottlenecking part, it literally took the same time because their HDDs are that slow

[brazen relic]

you're not gonna do anything this way
pop open the hood, use a dry air spray can, blow it out from the inside

be thorough with the heat sink's fins and the fan(s) blades and 90% of the dust will be out
if you own your laptop for over a year and it's used for medium/heavy applications, I cannot stress enough how much I'd recommand redoing the thermal paste

[past fjord]

about the thermal paste, it hasnt been redone in years

prob half a decade

im too scared to do them bec i couldnt find a video to disassemble my laptop to clean it

[slim mirage]

debating between a new laptop or getting a pc again and just streaming it remotely but game streaming has never really worked well the past few times ive tried it :/

[brazen relic]

yeah, you might want to redo that by now
I own my laptop for under two years, the avg temps went up over time, I replaced the factory paste, temps have literally never been better, actually better than factory thermals

[past fjord]

i get around 90-100C when playing games

is it normal

[brazen relic]

game streaming over long distances suck
unless you're in the same building I really don't recommand anything of the sort

[slim mirage]

ive set it up for my partners brother and he uses it like every weekend and it seems to be playable but not ideal but they are both on the same ISP and closer so i think i would need to change ISP as the router my current one provides has problems with UDP traffic and streaming games over it

[brazen relic]

no
at first my laptop ran games around 85-90 with fans about 3/4th of their max speed
a year later, it's running 95-102 with fans locked at max speed
after repasting it, it's running 80 with fans 2/3rds of the max RPM

[slim mirage]

honestly thinking about an intel laptop with a semi decent gpu and then have a thunderbolt dock with a 3070 or something in it

[brazen relic]

how's your budget ?

[slim mirage]

not sure yet i take it thunderbolt gpu enclosures reduce performance slightly with the limited pcie lanes?

[brazen relic]

I have absolutely no idea, I never worked with extGPUs on laptops

my daily drive laptop has a 3070, darn thing runs smooth af

churns out FPS quite impressively for a portable 3070

[slim mirage]

im on a 2060 laptop just now but a few recent games have shown it to be lacking a bit

[slim mirage]

what laptop is it?

[amber cairn]

honestly some gaming laptops are insanely good compared to just a few years ago even in the mid-price segment. Lenovo legions with 3060/3070s are real damn good even

[dull granite]

no

[slim mirage]

i was eying one up ive already got a legion 5 but theres one just now that seems alright for the price but holding off incase it goes down in price more with the 40 series cards

[slim mirage]

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9498149?

[brazen relic]

OMEN 15 en1028nf
dunno if that particular build is still sold but the en10XXnf series is solid
Ryzen 7 5800H
16GB@3200MHz
RTX 3070
and it comes with a 500GB NVME that I changed to 2x1TB

the bang and olufsen speakers are nothing like I've ever heard for something portable
and the fans really churn air through the heatsink quite efficiently

that is, until the factory paste dries out

[amber cairn]

the thing is it's so easy to upgrade the M.2s in it by yourself so the best thing is to cheap out on storage and get an extra M.2 stick yourself

all of hte legion 5-7 ones also have dual m.2 slots so boom extra storage

and replaceable RAM so if you can find a cheaper DDR4 kit you can also cheap out on that

[slim mirage]

what does the charging connector look like and how bulky is the power supply?

[brazen relic]

that's what I did
picked the laptop, ordered a couple of Crucial P2, popped the hood, cloned my original drive, slotted them in and there we go, 300% storage size increase

[amber cairn]

unlike stuff like the G14 that has ONE upgradeable ram stick the other module is soldered to the board which makes upgrading kinda pointless

[brazen relic]

the power supply looks like a harry potter thick folded map and it has a blue 4.5mm blue barrel connector and goes up to 200W (stress tests told me the laptop only draws 140 really)

[amber cairn]

also the gen 1 G14 had a horrible plastic bottom that broke real easily, it was nice but not really a great laptop more like it was great for the footprint at the time

[slim mirage]

barrel connectors always freak me out lol i love the square lenovo connector just feels really solid and not like its going to go loose over time

[amber cairn]

also love the ports at the back, makes cable management on a desk so much cleaner

[brazen relic]

the one I have is solid af, I can't say I was really careful with how I treated it and yet it isn't disformed at all from day one and it never got loose

[amber cairn]

also full-sized ethernet 🙏

[brazen relic]

I got ports on the side since the back is vent exhaust and I also got fullsize gigabyte ethernet

[muted relic]

Oh boy that new Gamer's Nexus video is great

[amber cairn]

the origin pc one?

[muted relic]

Can't wait too see Origin's response

[amber cairn]

Imagine putting the fan curve all between 30-40 degrees celsius like wtf

also the bios thing...

[muted relic]

So great that Steve let the PC fans co-host the video

[amber cairn]

they sure made themselves heard through the episode

also better response than the corsair rep's email about quality control

[sleek gull]

Anyone else hate that part, you remember a game you played as a kid but can't remember much from it?

[brazen relic]

wdym, you don't remember the title or the content ?

[sleek gull]

Only thing i remember is that you could use cheat codes to unlock all cars, and IIRC there was a bus in it as well or a big 4 wheeler

and it's animated

[sweet jetty]

It was a version of Papa's pizzeria on maybe friv or a site like that where there were monster pizzas

That's all I remember about mine

[sleek gull]

the game i talk about was a racing game, animated, where you drove different places, mountains etc. IIRC

I hate that i can't find it.

[full fossil]

What's a good budget case that's not extremely expensive but still has very good performance?

[brazen relic]

well, first of all, you're not gonna get extra performance out of a case
but you can get a good airflow out of it, which will help your system's thermals
by default, I'd recommand the H510 I guess, nothing too impressive, nothing bad about it either, relatively cheap but a surefire value

[errant vault]

which software is good for a Logitech g mouse
I heard ghub is bad

[wispy marsh]

striking tree extreme letsgo

[full fossil]

Is the h7 elite good or is there a better price to pref case

[brazen relic]

I can't picture that reference off the top of my head and I can't look it up right now, discord is mostly open on the side when I have a few moments between tasks sorry

[brazen relic]

it really isn't
I have a G502 wireless with GHUB enabled, changing the sensitivity settings and binding the keys is real easy, the only issue I've got with it is that for some reason it's the last startup software to open so I'm on windows sensitivity until the driver kicks in (which is just a 20 seconds delay post boot at worst really)

[slim mirage]

worst software ive ever used it always fails to load or used to hog all of my cpu for no reason

[brazen relic]

that's weird
never saw that kind of issue before

it keeps being regularly updated and I've got zero issues with it so far

[slim mirage]

lmao

[brazen relic]

again, weird, all mine does is being late to open on start up but like, I just have to wait 20 seconds at most
changing the sensitivity, binding keys in different games, changing the color scheme of the leds on it, absolutely no issues with it whatsoever

same

it opens automatically on start up, goes in the app tray, uses barely 1% on the CPU when it's updating

where did you get your installer ?

[slim mirage]

it just happens once in a while like ill have to restart my full pc just to use the app so i never open it i just set the dpi profiles and then disable it on start up

[brazen relic]

wtf

yeah I think that's what's happening
maybe you got a cracked one
@slim mirage

[slim mirage]

its fine now tbf its just unreliable at times

[full fossil]

anyway should I get gpro x super light razer viper or gmodel o?

[brazen relic]

if I were you, I'd wipe the thing and use the installer directly from the official website
never, ever, trust something that you've not acquired from the official editor

[slim mirage]

ive tried reinstalling it many times before its probably just something on my laptop im due to reset it anyways as it will probably help a few things out

[brazen relic]

just to make sure, did you get it from this page ?
https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/innovation/g-hub.html

[slim mirage]

no

[brazen relic]

yeah that's probably why

that's the official page from logitech to get it

[slim mirage]

i got it from https://www.logitechg.com/en-gb

GREAT BRITIAN!!!

[brazen relic]

well, get it from the US website then, the installer will recognize your localization and ask for a langage pick anyway

[slim mirage]

i only use it when i use the stupid spinny steering wheel thingamabob

[brazen relic]

yeah but if you have a gaming mouse that has variable DPI settings and key binds, that's stupid not to take advantage of it

[slim mirage]

it has the onboard memory thing

[brazen relic]

meh

good enough I guess

[slim mirage]

i have the pitbull mouse mr g305

[brazen relic]

nice one

[summer folio]

1337 EU!

[full fossil]

[summer folio]

But no onboard screen, Lame.

[dreamy rose]

i'm watching the Firetruck again

[full fossil]

bro why does Nzxt Europe cost so much 😭😭😭

[summer folio]

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/a58d06e3-4233-4335-b81c-55e9a56577fa_1.20f18520db56aaf6d918c75852a48231.jpeg

[slim mirage]

what is that url

[summer folio]

Gotta have a thumb monitor on your mouse

[slim mirage]

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/a58d06e3-4233-4335-b81c-55e9a56577fa_1.20f18520db56aaf6d918c75852a48231.jpeg

why it got a screen

[summer folio]

Thumb screen Mouse!

[summer folio]

More screens = Better

Microsoft Sidewinder

[summer folio]

To know which DPI you're gaming at, duh!

[dreamy rose]

bruh the Audio cuts out and it just ends

[red barn]

does that model has that infinity scroll thingy?

[slim mirage]

idk what that is

[arctic pond]

I think it's an unlocked scroll wheel (it continues to spin until you stop it) (I also don't know the answer)

[manic torrent]

oh hell yeah.I used CRU to dump the EDID of my monitors, then forced that onto the HDMI 'fake' passthrough things I have so it doesn't change screen setup when switching the KVM

[open kestrel]

where is the channel to talk about what laptop to buy?

[plush rivet]

All the tech chats and #build-a-pc

[open kestrel]

ok got it

[sonic barn]

I got access to the bing ai

its really good

[full fossil]

my table looks like a dumpster exploded

[summer folio]

[full fossil]

help 😭 its collapsing on me

[gentle slate]

Youtube wants to paywall 60fps playback for us

[manic torrent]

excellent.

[sonic barn]

DROP TABLE awoofy;

[full fossil]

dont worry, youtube will die 🙂

[full fossil]

my pc is on the table xD

[sonic barn]

waiting for microsoft to make a yt competitor

[full fossil]

what >:[ thats the worst idea ever

[sonic barn]

what about if discord did