public-chat

[teal estuary]

ive got a 3945wx, so probably similar

[indigo plume]

thinking of getting keychrone q1 pro

[jaunty compass]

ublock origin my beloved

[winged yarrow]

Rate my pipeline:

Pushes to the main branch trigger the pipeline that runs docker build and pushes the built docker image to a local container registry using docker-registry, then it runs a POST to a webhook on Portainer that pulls the new image, and rolls over the docker containers in the swarm.

So push to main -> docker build in runner -> image goes to docker-registry -> portainer pulls new image -> UPDATE ACHIEVED

[teal estuary]

seems fine

[fossil frost]

seems standard

[winged yarrow]

fine is exactly how I felt

[teal estuary]

i assume you do all your dev work on a different branch though?

my personal projects, i push directly to master, so which has a CI runner do builds on everything, but releases are done based off tags

[winged yarrow]

ye except for when I fuck up but I usually catch it

[fossil frost]

i usually lock main from direct pushes, and it can only be merged into via a PR on github, works wonders to help you catch those times

[winged yarrow]

For personal projects I've been using GitHub way more

It's a lot faster than GitLab in my experience

[fossil frost]

its faster, because its better... and hosted on proper infrastructure

[winged yarrow]

Yeah pretty much lol

[molten drift]

I'm pretty hyped finished a 3 hour call saga with a member at work.. and I think I found the shelves I am gonna use to display my magic the gathering boxes.... How's everyone else's day going...

[fossil frost]

i fell over on my run, landed exclusively on my face, my neck hurts, my shoulder hurts, my nose hurts, and my jaw hurts, but other than that... my face protected my body quite well

[winged yarrow]

ouch

Are you scraped up/roadrashed or just bruised?

[molten drift]

Well... Atleast it was at running speeds and not bike speeds.

[oblique pivot]

Hello

[winged yarrow]

Hello

[fossil frost]

scraped shoulder, chin and just under my eye, and a very stiff neck

[molten drift]

Gotta take the victory's as you can

[dull granite]

yo suzi is that majima hannya pfp

[oblique pivot]

Ouch, what happened?

[molten drift]

Ibeuprofin and a Epsom salt bath time bizzehdee and yes sasanekpl I love majima.

[dull granite]

yoooo

[fossil frost]

a fly flew up my nose, and in my "WTF WAS THAT GET IT THE FUCK OUT OF MY FUCKING NOSE" i tripped over a tree root 🙂

[dull granite]

when driving a motorbike?

[fossil frost]

when running in the forest earlier today

[molten drift]

The plants and the flies conspire against you. Get the fire!

[sour plank]

Where should I go to ask about monitors?

[dull granite]

wow really

[molten drift]

#tech-chat-1

[oblique pivot]

Oof, that's bad. You should rest.

[winged yarrow]

That is, in the modern day by a large portion of the English-speaking populace, colloquially known as an "ouchie"

[fossil frost]

only time i have ever come off the bike, is when i got hit by a car when i had JUST finished a race... i turned left at a cross roads, and a taxi ran a red light and ran into the back of me... i hit the windscreen and got spat off the front of the car and skidded about 50ft down the road... that was 6 years ago, and i STILL have an itchy right arse cheek to this day from the road rash on my arse 😄

[winged yarrow]

any of the tech chats tbh

[fossil frost]

its the sort of thing where if any of my running friends were with me, they would have turned round, seen me laying on my face in the dirt, and then just laughed at me as i got up

[winged yarrow]

That's how you know it's not serious 😉

Unless they're assholes*

[oblique pivot]

Hope, you'll get better.

[fossil frost]

they are... but no, its not serious, im just gonna have a stiff neck and jaw for a couple of days

im still racing on the bike tomorrow though 😄

[winged yarrow]

Time for a spa day, go hit up the masseuse?

[fossil frost]

im booked in for a sports massage on monday next week anyway

[winged yarrow]

Hey, awesome, I was mainly joking since I haven't had a massage in years lmao

Timing works out ig

[oblique pivot]

I don't really know what happened, but you should take a rest for a while.

[fossil frost]

i try to get a sports massage once a month or something like that, because i race (amateur racing, but still racing) so i train a lot, and i need to avoid damaging myself, especially since im edging towards 40 now too 😄

[fossil frost]

im not the type of person who would do that, unless its genuinely serious 😄

[dull granite]

i like shredded cheese and looking pretty

[fossil frost]

i train and race BECAUSE i like cheese and dont want to weigh as much as a horse

i pretend to enjoy it, but, it is mostly about eating cheese, cake, and cheesecake

[oblique pivot]

Well, that's what do if I hurt myself, I'm always trying to make people feel better.

[fossil frost]

ive hurt my face, i dont need my face for a bike race 😄

[teal estuary]

cheese, cake, and cheesecake
FTFY*

[molten drift]

I discovered birthday cake ice cream yesterday... Was not disappointed.

[oblique pivot]

Ooh thank goodness, it's not a bad thing. I thought something really bad happened.

[winged yarrow]

I like more savory foods

Like Cinnamon Buns

[fossil frost]

i fell in the forest while on a training run, and landed on my face

[oblique pivot]

Oof, at least you're ok.

[heavy swan]

does windows use more ram depending on how much I have? i had a laptop running windows with 16gb and it used less than 4/3gb on idle but now on a 32gb system it uses 6gb

[teal estuary]

yes

[fossil frost]

as i said, stiff neck, stiff jaw, small scrape under my eye, small scrape on my shoulder... it would have LOOKED far more spectacular than the the injuries would show though

[heavy swan]

any specific reason why or is it just "windows"?

[teal estuary]

its probably disk caching

[winged yarrow]

I like to think of it as "Windows Bad"

[woeful wolf]

cached stuff, it'll use more RAM to store more stuff in it to avoid accessing drives

[fossil frost]

all operating systems do it, they are designed to run in ram, and only page out of ram if it needs to do... you paid a lot of money for your ram, ideally you want it all to be used

[heavy swan]

hmm alright, thanks

[winged yarrow]

And yet the windows start menu search is still frozen for 10 seconds

[oblique pivot]

Stuff just happens :/

[winged yarrow]

After my upgrade from 16gb to 64gb ddr5

[teal estuary]

also, windows generally doesnt like to actually use 100% of RAM, it uses swap well before you hit 100%, so that could have some effect on it too, because swap behavior depends on how much RAM (%) you are using

[fossil frost]

yep, and this is pretty much only the 3rd time in the 10 years ive been doing this stuff that ive had anything happen to me

[teal estuary]

well, you said it yourself, "windows bad"

[woeful wolf]

14GB of stuff cached from disk

[dreamy rose]

not everything. if you are running KDE you're gonna see under 1GB of usage at idle. and windows at minimum uses 1.5?

[heavy swan]

just because I bought more ram doesn't mean I want it all to be used, one thing is running an app that uses a lot of ram the other is windows using 1/5 of the ram available. I get that its needed but imo what you said doesn't make much sense

[vital basalt]

ty

[woeful wolf]

Windows will throw stuff out of cache if an actual program needs it

[vital basalt]

h

[teal estuary]

12GB of stuff cached, of 42GB used

[fossil frost]

all operating systems are designed to run from ram... 1 OS being smaller than another OS doesnt mean that they will both use the same amount of ram... a basic linux OS with KDE on it, is not a fully fledged OS with everything running that it needs

[heavy swan]

ah alrigight, thanks.

[oblique pivot]

Ohh it didn't happen that often

[modern terrace]

Sounds rough

[dreamy rose]

this is an OS like Manjaro with so many packages added on. and KDE is exactly a fully featured desktop so. i mean GNOME uses 1.5 but at least it doesnt go any higher it Idle.

[fossil frost]

"in use" doesnt mean windows its self, it means all the services that are running, all the drivers that are loaded, all the apps that you have set to run on startup, are all allowed to use that bit more ram, when you have more ram

[dreamy rose]

KDE = Windows without the heaviness, Bloatware, shitty defaults and usability hits. and then with the added benefit of being extremely customizable. what windows really wishes it was.

[fossil frost]

KDE is a desktop environment without some of the problems that windows has, but DOES have its own set of problems, and the use of it over gnome or xfce or anything else, is literally personal preference

[gilded quest]

i am a sucker for gnome

but the steam deck has forced me to try KDE and i am growing used to it

[fossil frost]

and thats fine. personally its XFCE for linux os's for me... as i said, personal preference

[dreamy rose]

for majority of people KDE is going to do everything they want. the problems people attribute to KDE are no longer True,

[mighty lantern]

Is 8gb ram enough for gaming? Or 16gb is must?

[fossil frost]

depends what you are playing. for almost all games, its fine. for some times, you need 16

[dreamy rose]

XFCE is another amazing choice. just the wayland support on it is. lacking heavily.

[dreamy rose]

ideally you want 32 for all situations but 16 gets you by more times than not. 8 is the bare minimum for Web browsing and daily use nowadays.

windows plus a web browser and discord easily sucks up over 4GB of RAM.

[mighty lantern]

Actually I was going for the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 with rtx 3050ti.
But suddenly two options came up with sale.
Gigabyte G5 KE with rtx 3060.
And Msi Alpha 15 with rx6600m. However the MSI only has 8gb ram.

[fossil frost]

check if the msi has an extra sodimm slot, if it does, you can add an extra 8gb for 16gb total, for far less money than the cost difference of the 16gb model

[dreamy rose]

if the MSI has an extra slot then go for it. unless you might need to upgrade one stick or not at all if its soldered down.

[modern terrace]

Any laptop in 2023 that ships with 8 gb of ram should be constituted as fraudulent

[dreamy rose]

i agree. 16 should be the standard. unless its coming with a celeron or athlon.

or again Chromebook.

[mighty lantern]

Can you please help me? All videos show 16gb variant

[gilded quest]

so tell me how you really feel about apple

[silent cosmos]

I think any big business decisions by LMG's new CEO on July 1st should go by Lunis first so the company won't get ruined by the new CEO on July 1st

[graceful burrow]

Who tf is lunis

[silent cosmos]

Linux*

[gilded quest]

[graceful burrow]

Mhm

[silent cosmos]

Dang it autocorrect

[jaunty compass]

I'm curious how much LTT makes from one ad supported viewer over 5 years of watching videos

[graceful burrow]

Homie strugglin

[silent cosmos]

Linus*

[gilded quest]

i wonder how much they make from my $3/month floatplane tier

[silent cosmos]

They make $3 a month from you

[jaunty compass]

it's not really that simple

[gilded quest]

Correct. I wonder how much of the $3 is left after costs

[jaunty compass]

I know each individual ad viewing gives them fractions of a penny, i'd be surprised if the average ad supported viewer made them even $1 over multiple years

[onyx heath]

What y’all think of the new discord ui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tGL4-icGBw

[jaunty compass]

it looks like shit

[onyx heath]

Personally I like it

[graceful burrow]

L

Thank God they're making it opt out

[onyx heath]

Bro

[graceful burrow]

I ain't bros with no drifting granny

[gilded quest]

I've been trying the new layout on Android and it's very buggy/laggy

[onyx heath]

I’ve found the only thing is the folders occasionally freezing up

And not working

[gilded quest]

Mine will occasionally stop responding to tap input

[onyx heath]

That’s about it

Other than that the new ui look better to me imo

[gilded quest]

I shouldn't have to force restart the app every 10 minutes

[plain dome]

same on ios aswell

[gilded quest]

Scrolling server/channels feels slower now. Idk if just android issues or the animations are worse

[onyx heath]

Then again I do use iOS

Haven’t tried android yet

[slim barn]

My condolences.

[onyx heath]

Apps tend to work better on iOS

[harsh quartz]

iOS isn’t bad, I prefer old IOS but it still isn’t inherently evil, unlike macOS

[jaunty compass]

ok lmao

[onyx heath]

I like the pre iOS 7 iOS

[jaunty compass]

iOS is limited by what apple allows on the app store

[onyx heath]

Those icons were so perfect

[harsh quartz]

Whatever IOS was present on the iPhone 7 with the physical button, that was good ios

Meanwhile macOS is just pure hatred of the consumer

[jaunty compass]

you know what made me stop using iOS forever

the fact that it was such a pain in the ass to download emulators

[harsh quartz]

I do my emulating on windows so it’s fine

[jaunty compass]

i just wanted to play gba games on my phone FFS

the last iphone i had was an iphone 7

[harsh quartz]

And the hardware on iPhones is so far above other phones it’s a no brainer for me, I want to buy a phone every 5 years, not every 2, and that’s what an iPhone gets me

[jaunty compass]

I was in high school and didn't have the option of emulating on windows during lunch period

or during band

[jaunty compass]

okay this is just a weird kind of cope

[harsh quartz]

No? iPhones have lasted me far far longer than any other phone has

[onyx heath]

I like macOS

[harsh quartz]

Sure, it’ll need a battery replacement after 3 years or so but that’s manageable

[onyx heath]

I don’t get why some people hate it

[harsh quartz]

It’s just not user friendly, and Is hard to get the applications I need

Also, because macs hate gaming

Idk, but they took the n64s out of McDonald’s for some reason

[onyx heath]

Depends what ur doing

If it’s only game get off of macOS ASAP

[harsh quartz]

Primarily gaming for personal PC, but also just web browsing macOS is annoying to use, or file transfers, or anything really

Bigmacs are actually tall, not fat, a whopper is fat

Must’ve been like 1989 or something then

…the workers don’t determine the size of the food my guy

Also, what McDonald’s pays 10$ an hour?

Ones around here still pay minimum wage primarily, maybe add on an extra .75 if they’re lucky

[gilded quest]

probably mississippi or something

[harsh quartz]

Mississippi? People in the south paying above minimum wage? Kek

If anything it would be somewhere in the northwest

[night heron]

a lot of places in the boondiggies still pay like $8/hr

or so people on tiktok claim to be paid

[harsh quartz]

Our minimum wage is still 7.25 and a lot of places will pay that

And if you have a job that makes tips then legal the minimum wage is, I think, 3.50/hour plus tips

[earnest bolt]

man it is weirdly nerveracking to overclock

i just set my R5 2800G to 4.8ghz and its holding fine

[modern terrace]

Do benchmarks

[earnest bolt]

cinebench time

[modern terrace]

Hit it with a cinebench run

[forest valve]

Not really

[earnest bolt]

honestly I think a lot of the earlyish Ryzens were pretty undervolted

i am on the stock AMD cooler, inb4 i hit my TPS limits

because they actually work on AM4 CPUs.

[manic torrent]

Did you use the coversheet?

[earnest bolt]

the whatnow

what doohickey be that

[manic torrent]

The new coversheet for the TPS reports. didn't you get that memo?

[earnest bolt]

Bro no because they took my fucking stapler

[earnest bolt]

yeah it hit parity with an I7-7700K, but also it hit 93 celcius

[echo canopy]

I could not live without face ID anymore.

[harsh quartz]

I miss hardware Touch ID

[echo canopy]

Also i wouldnt argue in hardware favor which apple still has a advantage in. i would argue in software support

[manic torrent]

That's garbage. I mean iphones are fine, but oooof.

[echo canopy]

a average of 8 years of software updates is absurd compared to android

[harsh quartz]

I would prefer IOS 5 years down the road instead of Samsung 5 years down the rosd

[desert night]

If I need help for question of what to upgrade in a computer where should I ask?

[harsh quartz]

What are you calling garbage here?

[echo canopy]

I never exprience ios 5-9

[manic torrent]

your take on iphone hardware

[harsh quartz]

iOS updates might slow your phone down a little but Samsung updates crashed my phone every 30 fucking minutes and their Touch ID locked me out of my own phone cause it would detect my pocket

[desert night]

I used to be a diehard Android user until I realized it wasn't that good and I just had iphone since

[harsh quartz]

Saying that iPhone hardware lasts me 5 years as opposed to other phones that lasted me 2?

[manic torrent]

that isn't at all what you said 🙂

[harsh quartz]

That’s just my factual experience

[desert night]

I had iPhone 4, iPhone 5

[echo canopy]

Man, fuck Samsungs bashing on apple for not having 108MP modes when at usable distances apple is consistently higher fidelity

[desert night]

then I had Google Nexus 4, nexus 5, lg nexus 5x,

[harsh quartz]

That’s literally what I said

[desert night]

xiaomi mi mix, htc u11+, pixel 4a

but now i'm using a iPhone 11 and its a lot better, and more cost effective

[harsh quartz]

Yes, if you cut out the part where I said the rest, then no I never said the rest

[manic torrent]

the rest doesn't change what you said

[echo canopy]

The main shooter camera and current SOC yeah thats true. Androids only win in either in stupid edge cases or where they have a software advantage.

[desert night]

Maybe you guys are right that Android is more powerful hardware wise and i'm ok with that, but iPhones might be slow but they work pretty well most of the time, not always but most of the time

[harsh quartz]

That is my opinion which is based on the factual experience, so when you cut out my experience part of it, then yes, the opinion sounds unfounded and stupid

[desert night]

my iPhone 11 is smooth gesture wise, none of my Androids were

thats such a user experience changer

And I don't ask much of my phone, and the iphone 11 has good standby battery

[manic torrent]

your opinion IS unfounded and stupid. Now, I'm not saying the iphone is bad, or that android is better, but the idea that the apple hardware is so much better? yeah nah.

[desert night]

i'm not surprised its one of the most popular phones tbh

[manic torrent]

especially because 'android' is a phone OS, not a phone vendor.

[desert night]

iPhone does work better than Android in general

Not faster, but better

[harsh quartz]

Bruh it’s an opinion backed up by my OWN FACTUAL EXPERIENCES which I laid out, calling it stupid and unfounded is a personal attack and you need to chill the fuck out on that one

[past egret]

lol what does that even mean

[slim barn]

In your use case maybe. Not in everyones.

[echo canopy]

POV you have the biggest sensor on a real phone

[modern terrace]

Yikes

[earnest bolt]

its on the stock AMD cooler tbf

[modern terrace]

Fair enough

[manic torrent]

your experiences of a handful of phones tops, and how do you measure the hardware being so much better?

[earnest bolt]

bro my legs are fucking like they're next to a spacewarmer lmfao

[desert night]

In general it does because all the syncing stuff takes full backups of your stuff, you can send money over text messaging through apple pay, the stock apps are good, the phones gesture are smooth, the phone usually ages pretty well

Android phones are usually cheaper than iPhones at launch, I have a iPhone 11 but I paid $200, unless I bought a pixel 5 or something i'd have a lower end Android which would have given me a plastic frame and stuff

if you buy the newest $1000 phone, android or iphone its the same

You won't even feel a difference in speed

[harsh quartz]

By the fact of how long it lasted as a usable phone and how well it performed years down the line, my experiences which involve Samsung, Motorola, and iPhones, the iPhones have well outperformed the others in all categories except the Samsung had a better screen, but it didn’t fucking matter cause the phone lagged all the time

[echo canopy]

Man androids UI sucks ass, even googles own services have terrible integration with each other. I bought google drive storage but in reality it signed me up for google one, something i didnt ask for

[jaunty compass]

Holy moly this man is coping really hard I left like 40 minutes ago

This conversation is still going damn

[harsh quartz]

Na, this man came in swinging and brought this shit back up

[molten drift]

Polar... We're these experiences done with standardized testing?

[harsh quartz]

Like I said, it’s an opinion based on my experiences

[desert night]

A lot of people are using iPhones because they have a reputation of being functional and easier to switch from iphone to iphone than iphone to android

Even if this reputation isn't true, we can't deny that its working

[slim barn]

@desert night All your persoanl experiences and usage. Not everyone's.

[desert night]

and if it was a horrible phone, it wouldn't work anymore

[desert night]

Yeah but at the same time we can't deny that its one of the most popular devices so it has a lot of fans

And people are willing to buy a older iPhone full of scratches instead of a new Android

Even if its just the brand, they would rather have a phone with 30 minutes battery life and scratches everywhere

[echo canopy]

imessage my beloved

[desert night]

Apple has a very strong brand and reputation for selling a working product, to the point of people buying a used iPhone instead of a new Android

and for the people who buy the latest flagship iPhone or Android, well it doesn't matter. both of them are extremely good

it doesn't matter which one is 10% more powerful or has more RAM, you won't feel a difference

Its a phone

[jaunty compass]

One lets me use newpipe or YouTube revanced
The other doesn't

[desert night]

But I don't think thats what most people are doing, and YouTube revanced is a cracked YouTube premium, the people that buy iPhones can probably afford a few streaming services

If they want to download youtube videos they are more likely to buy Youtube premium, and same goes for the Android user lol

So thats not enough to sway the general customer, the average iPhone and Galaxy user would rather just buy the software

[jaunty compass]

I don't give a shit about what most people are doing

Whatever most people do doesn't affect what I am doing with my device

[desert night]

But if it was a popular opinion there would be something done about it

[past egret]

personally i download youtube videos using third party websites, even having youtube premium

[desert night]

I don't use Youtube on my phone

Tbh, so I can't comment on that

[jaunty compass]

YouTube premium has DRM on the videos lmao

Can't watch them if you haven't been online in 3 days or more it's absurd

[desert night]

I had youtube++ (cracked premium for iphone) on my phone, but I didn't use it

I don't crack software anymore now

[past egret]

i only have one video on premium and thats "You can always go around" only for plane flights

[jaunty compass]

YouTube premium being worse than the free option YouTube revanced basically makes YouTube premium worthless for me

[desert night]

Maybe as you say Apple removed that app now, which is fine, It wasn't legitimate and I don't need it anyway, so for me I won't leave iPhone over it

[forest valve]

This is because of stupidity

[desert night]

I mostly use premium on my PC to avoid ads

[desert night]

Yeah but there is something that causes people to make worse decisions just to own the Apple device

[jaunty compass]

You know what Gabe Newell said about piracy being a service issue, he's still correct; but companies don't seem to realize that

[forest valve]

Stupidity

[desert night]

What is it? Its because they are known for being good?

I don't know, everybody I know is using iPhone now

[jaunty compass]

The brand loyalty cope is real

[desert night]

i'm not brand loyal but somehow I have iPhone and so does almost everybody I know

[forest valve]

That's called being a sheep

[manic torrent]

so what?

[desert night]

I just bought it because I needed a new phone and it was $200

And i'm happy with it, I can see why people like it

[manic torrent]

"omg you don't spend effort thinking about this thing I spend time on, so you suck"

[desert night]

it has a simple interface, smooth gestures, and easy to setup all the features

[manic torrent]

I have a pixel 6. It works fine. I don't care.

[desert night]

so when i buy another phone maybe it'll be iphone just because icloud makes it really easy to transfer to a new phone

yeah i had pixels too but it hardbricked on it self

the last one I had so i had to replace it and they are hard to come by in my country

Maybe thats why iPhone is popular, its available no matter where you are, in a warzone in the middle east, in China, in Europe

so is Galaxy but some of the other phones

[manic torrent]

yep, that doesn't hurt

[desert night]

like Pixel, Pixel is really good but its not easy to find everywhere

[gilded quest]

yeah google struggles to execute

[desert night]

If the Pixel was more well known it'd be in more peoples hands

and just more available in general, because it is a nice phone

[slim barn]

Android is on hundreds, if not thousnads of brands and models.I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have trouble finding one wherever yoou are.

[gilded quest]

I see more Pixels than any other android handset here

[molten drift]

Tomorrow is going to be rough.... We have to do 20 min processes of updating passwords or we loose account access.. for every rep...

Glad I did mine today but it's gonna be busy tomorrow I can tell .

[gilded quest]

Most popular phone brands that I see

1. iPhone
2. Pixel
3. Galaxy

[harsh quartz]

Out of androids, I’ll agree pixels are probably the best

[mighty lantern]

Hey just wanted to tell you guys. Just ordered my first gaming laptop. It's only a 3050ti but I am happy about it.

Thanks a lot, so many of you helped me with the decision. ❤️

[desert night]

Very true but some Androids are actually pretty bad, samsung phones included, some of the cheaper models are pretty bad (and overpriced) in some countries

so they have a bad reputation for being laggy

[slim barn]

@desert night And some iPhones are bad.

[desert night]

And many people see it Android = Samsung, and if it was complicated to navigate or laggy then no more Android

[harsh quartz]

Some iPhones are heavily overpriced, but i wouldn’t say they’re bad

[manic torrent]

not really - they don't make non premium phones, which is part of the appeal

[desert night]

iPhones are really easy to tell if the phone is bad, if its a iphone 7 its from 2016, most people understand why its slow

if they end up with a iphone 7

but if you could pick, iphone 12 or Samsung (mid range something), and it doesn't have a good camera, or the screen is like cheap LCD bad quality, people might think that all Androids are like that

especially if we go a few years back, Samsung was really bad

[mighty lantern]

Also just wanted to ask.
I had two other options in my budget.
A rtx 3060 from gigabyte but with literally no reviews and it's 3.1 kg in weight.
A rx 6600m MSI Alpha 15 but only with 8gb ram and main issue was no MSI service center in my city.

Opted for the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 with rtx 3050ti as they have good service here.

Did I make the right choice?

[desert night]

Super bloated phones with 8GB internal memory on their low / mid range models, many people had bad Android expreinces like that and just stay on iPhone afterwards

[strong kettle]

Theres gonna be about android and Ios again

[gilded quest]

always is

[strong kettle]

Typical tech enthusiasts

[desert night]

If theres no known cooling problem its probably find

[gilded quest]

we are predictable

[desert night]

I had a MSI laptop it overhaeted so much it was not usable for gaming sessions

[mighty lantern]

According to the reviews apparently the IdeaPad has very good cooling.

[desert night]

underbuilt cooling inside

[strong kettle]

how is a 3060 the same weight as my 4080

[harsh quartz]

It’s a good argument to be had, it means that there’s competition in the market

[desert night]

Then its probably fine.

[mighty lantern]

No idea. The weight and well literally 0 reviews turned me off from the gigabyte. Plus I have no idea about their service.

[jaunty compass]

Fuck walled gardens

[desert night]

The difference between GPU models on laptops are smaller, cooling is more important, this is not like desktop computers, so a 3060 with bad cooling is way worse than a well cooled 3050 Ti laptop. (3050 ti performs better than a hot 3060 anyway)

[slim barn]

I'm not saying one is better than the other. Just saying that some have bad experiences with IPhones as well. Some don't like being restricted or tied to one manufacturer. Some do. There is no best overall. Just what's best for you.

[harsh quartz]

Also watt limits are important, a 60watt limited 3070 is gonna perform worse than an unlimited 3070

[mighty lantern]

I just hope I'll be able to play any game I want. I don't care if the settings need to be tuned down.

[desert night]

The iPhone, Galaxy S series, Pixel phones (and some other high end phones) have a smaller chance of giving you issues than other phones

[past egret]

fuck olive gardens, they salty as fuck

[harsh quartz]

Fazzolis is better

[mighty lantern]

Like heck for laptop screen I am fine going 900p if it's necessary.

[jaunty compass]

Do you not know what a walled garden is

[desert night]

Yeah

[desert night]

It should be fine however I recommend you get a monitor and keyboard/mouse

It doesn't really cost anything anyway

[harsh quartz]

A monitor definitely costs something

[desert night]

Atleast for home use, it doesn't make sense to sit at the laptop it self for too long

[harsh quartz]

And a good keyboard/mouse definitely cost a pretty penny too

[desert night]

Not in my country (Vietnam), here you can find 1080p 24 inch monitor for $30

[ancient ibex]

I'm somewhat confused, because according to wan show https://drive.google.com/@v1.23.4.zip should take you to https://v1.23.4.zip but in my testing that is not the case and this still takes you to google drive. So I don't see what the issue is with .zip domains.

[desert night]

And keyboard/mouse is maybe $30 for a decent set

[mighty lantern]

Yeah I did order keyboard and mouse and gamepad.
And I do have my old PC's monitor which is a 120hz 1080p IPS display.

[desert night]

Nice 😄

it will be a really good computer don't worry I think

[slim barn]

Why would they need a monitor, keyboard and mouse? Kinda negates the point of a gaming laptop.

[harsh quartz]

Docking, dual monitor, comfortable?

[desert night]

For home usage, and its inexpensive anyway and makes the experience a lot better

[mighty lantern]

Thank you I am really excited

[ancient ibex]

I used to carry a keyboard and mouse in my backpack with my laptop all the time.

[desert night]

you sit better too

[desert night]

It should be able to play pretty much any game at 1080p medium or even high settings

[harsh quartz]

I like my laptops screen/keyboard but I always keep a wireless mouse on me

[desert night]

its pretty powerful

[mighty lantern]

I play mostly Indie games. But I want to play two powerful games which are Elden Rings and Cyberpunk 2077.

[desert night]

It'll run them

[slim barn]

I get the mouse bit. Touchpads aren't really suitable for gaming.

[mighty lantern]

Can it go 60fps on Elden Rings with tuned settings?

[desert night]

Yeah

[mighty lantern]

That's all I'll need. And for Cyberpunk dlss helps ig.

[jaunty compass]

elden ring is easy to run

it just had shader cache issues on launch

[mighty lantern]

Ah alright

Aside from cyberpunk which would be some hard to run games?

[past egret]

star wars

[jaunty compass]

hard to run like demanding or hard to run like poorly optimized

because star wars jedi survivor falls in to the latter

[slim barn]

Best Star Wars game in 30 years though apparently. 😄

[jaunty compass]

afaik it has denuvo so i don't plan on buying it

[mighty lantern]

Not a star wars fan so it's fine.

[harsh quartz]

Returnal can get pretty demanding, and atomic heart

[mighty lantern]

Smooth gameplay>graphics settings for me. I don't mind tuning stuff down.

[slim barn]

Jedi Academy FTW.

[gilded quest]

KOTOR

[harsh quartz]

Catan?

[gilded quest]

OG battlefront 2

[jaunty compass]

I got burned by re4 remake a few weeks back; i didn't notice it had denuvo when i bought it so when i tried to play it on my steam deck after a vacation that was like a week long It wouldn't launch

[harsh quartz]

“Denuvo doesn’t affect performance of modern games” they say

[jaunty compass]

well for one it does
and for 2, if you're not online for a while then try to launch the game it won't let you play

so that was very annoying; i would have refunded the game after that but i had already played a few hours at home before the trip

[harsh quartz]

The funniest part is, it doesn’t even work

[ancient ibex]

And in every instance that a game has had it removed people got better performance after the fact.

[harsh quartz]

What was that game that the developers ended up removing it themselves and agreed that drnuvo was dumb?

[slim barn]

And they wonder why people pirate. Maybe if they let you play what you've paid for?

[harsh quartz]

Shhhh, Nintendo will hear you

[ancient ibex]

Humankind

[jaunty compass]

it's to the point where i specifically go out of my way to not buy a game that has denuvo even if i would have bought it otherwise

[harsh quartz]

Actually I think it was RE villager was the one I hear about

[jaunty compass]

I didn't notice re4 remake had denuvo when i bought it

if i had noticed; I wouldn't have bought it

[harsh quartz]

It doesn’t affect my decision to buy the game but I agree it’s dumb

If I were a Linux user then I might feel different tho

[jaunty compass]

i run windows but that's not why it is a big deal for me

For me it matters a lot since where i live my internet isn't consistently up and there have been times where i've been without internet for like 2 months

[echo canopy]

Dont worry we already figured out how to bypass a few anticheats/DMR already

[jaunty compass]

steam doesn't have a time limit on playing games offline, but denuvo games specifically do

it's like a week or two before you need to reconnect to a server to play offline again

[harsh quartz]

I’ll absolutely root for y’all’s community to do stuff like that, but I personally don’t wanna daily drive it, I’m just lazy

[jaunty compass]

if they can stop me from playing a game i paid money for because my internet is down I'd rather just not support that dev or publisher at all

[echo canopy]

just stop playing games and touch grass

[harsh quartz]

Take the j away

[jaunty compass]

and it's not like i just pirate everything or something; I buy a lot of games

[harsh quartz]

Kek

[jaunty compass]

if you put invasive anticonsumer drm into your game you're a scumbag

it pisses me off how normalized always online shit has become

[slim barn]

377 non-steam games? 😉

[jaunty compass]

no actually; all of the ones on steam on my desktop i bought through steam or though humble bundle

[harsh quartz]

Those are actually all old ripped roms that he’s put on steam

[jaunty compass]

no that's my steam deck

[harsh quartz]

Why else would you buy a steam deck for

[jaunty compass]

a lot of metal gear rising

[echo canopy]

power efficient hardware

[harsh quartz]

I almost bought a steam deck for emulating but bought a laptop instead for school

[jaunty compass]

i played a ton of metal gear rising the first 2 months i had my deck and i have no idea why

[echo canopy]

i wish i could get a steam decks internals in a small cube

[jaunty compass]

the deck is an amazing emulation handheld it's great

[harsh quartz]

Just make a cube sized dock for it and never take it out

[slim barn]

@echo canopy What's stopping you?

[echo canopy]

Im not gonna create a new mainboard for the deck

[harsh quartz]

Why not dock it?

[slim barn]

Just create a case for the internals.

[echo canopy]

but the internals are too flat and wide, i want a compute sandwitch

[jaunty compass]

then make a rectangular case

smh

[harsh quartz]

So just make a mini ITX APU computer, with the same specs as the deck if you want it

[karmic cloak]

Which chanel is for question where to upgrade pc?

I mean what parts to upgrade?

[slim barn]

A valid and good way.

[harsh quartz]

That’s the point of standardized parts

[jaunty compass]

man the capcom humble bundle is kinda a lot if you want everything it's like $30

[slim barn]

Or a Firestick with Steam link app?

[echo canopy]

mini iTX would be several time larger then the main board in a 3D printed case or what i had in mind

[slim barn]

What about a Firestick or similar with the SteamLink app?

[harsh quartz]

Then get a Pi something, get a custom PCB made, it’s possible

[echo canopy]

Thats not very offline mobile and cringe.

[echo canopy]

Any PI cant compete with the deck. And im not smart enough to make a new motherboard
This is just some fantasy i have

[jaunty compass]

just get one of those gaming mini pcs on aliexpress that have a 1060 and i7 12700h

they're like $520 usd

or one of the 1650 ones that are cheaper

[echo canopy]

thats not a 10 watt TPD and not small enough

[slim barn]

If they don't consider a Firestick as mobile then I don't think that's going to work. 😄

[jaunty compass]

why does it need to be 10w

[echo canopy]

so we dont need to waste as much space cooling it and be power efficient?

[harsh quartz]

Well, no, but a pi can be used to stemslink like what he was saying

[jaunty compass]

then ig go model a custom case for a deck motherboard or something

[slim barn]

It's kinda like you keep moving the goalpoasts....

[jaunty compass]

figure it out yourself if you don't like the solutions other people are offering

[harsh quartz]

There are ways to make a custom PCB, you could always just do that

[velvet marsh]

What about these @echo canopy

[jaunty compass]

if i were in the market for a gaming mini pc i'd just get one with a 2060 off of aliexpress honestly, since they're not that expensive for the size

[echo canopy]

Im not, you're not getting what im saying. I want this but the steam decks internals
https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2008/spacecube.jpg

[echo canopy]

This, This but smaller

Anyways, this is some pipe dream

[harsh quartz]

Aight now that’s a fantasy trip, cause that’s tiny

[jaunty compass]

go design it yourself if you want it bro

[slim barn]

Plenty of good, feasible suggestions for you here.

[harsh quartz]

The steam deck does still require SOME cooling, anything smaller than that won’t have any cooling at all

[jaunty compass]

this is the steam deck's motherboard, it's a lot smaller than the deck itself

[echo canopy]

Why tf are you attacking me about it? All i mentioned was a fantasy i had and i said several times i wasn't gonna do it

[jaunty compass]

most of the space inside of the deck is taken up by the battery and the controls

why are you construing this as an attack

[remote raft]

anyone know any good uncensored ai models for samsung ?

[graceful burrow]

for samsung

[echo canopy]

Prob not the best server to ask that in

[harsh quartz]

Also, the ally would be a much better base for this due to better processing power and a smaller form factor

[graceful burrow]

Homie what lmao

Go find your ai smut somewhere else

[echo canopy]

the point was to be power efficient and the ally isnt

[jaunty compass]

the rog ally motherboard is significantly larger

[remote raft]

like a samsung device

[velvet marsh]

There is one that size, but it has a celeron in it

[jaunty compass]

so no, it would be a worse option actually

[harsh quartz]

If it’s gonna be plugged in all the time then why does power efficient matter?

[graceful burrow]

No

[jaunty compass]

this is the motherboard of the rog ally

[harsh quartz]

Oh, stranger considering the substantially smaller form factor I assumed the main board would be similar if not smaller

[echo canopy]

Because we can.

[dapper ravine]

I reset bios and I got sent to Diagnosing your PC, should I let it sit there?

[graceful burrow]

What else would you do

[remote raft]

anyone else ?

[jaunty compass]

nope; the rog ally mainboard is a lot larger; but valve sacrificed compact size to make the deck more comfortable, have more features (like the trackpads), and more repairable

[graceful burrow]

<@&750150305383186585> asking for ai smut

[dapper ravine]

I had it sit at it for an hour and nothing happened, first startup in months

So I reset bios, and it’s back to it.

[harsh quartz]

Probably why the ally can put out a lot better performance at higher powers I would assume

[jaunty compass]

the deck motherboard is quite compact compared to the deck itself so if you were turning it in to a mini pc you could make it quite smaller

[remote raft]

off yourself you fucking piece of trash

[dapper ravine]

How long should I let it sit at diagnosing your pc?

[slim barn]

Why are you askinng mods for ai smut? Is that a service they provide?

[harsh quartz]

Ooooo this one’s spicy

[graceful burrow]

That's up to them tbh

[jaunty compass]

the size of the motherboard doesn't really have much to do with that, that's more that it's a higher power target soc with more cooling

and it's also a newer architecture than the deck

[harsh quartz]

Yeah but a larger board allows for more components and more space for cooling

[jaunty compass]

a larger board actively decreases the space left for cooling, though

[echo canopy]

You could beef up the VRMs more on a larger board yeah but at this power target range thats not a huge impact

[harsh quartz]

Also why does this look like a photo from a 90s textbook?

[jaunty compass]

because it's a low res ifixit photo

[harsh quartz]

Kek

[echo canopy]

because thats when they stooped making good visualizations

[graceful burrow]

Look at it and then read the message below it as if it were the photo caption

[harsh quartz]

That actually looks like what was written in the textbook in the high school

[elfin jetty]

[tough spruce]

Power delivery is going to be difficult thoigh

[jaunty compass]

the deck has a 15w soc

[tough spruce]

Unless valve releases something similar to framework

[jaunty compass]

for some reason i don't think that power delivery is a huge problem

[tough spruce]

And how are you going to deliver the battery voltage to the board

[harsh quartz]

Na, the community will figure that out

[tough spruce]

Over a proprietary ribbon connector

[harsh quartz]

Wire

[jaunty compass]

[graceful burrow]

Game gear >

[harsh quartz]

Ds>>

[jaunty compass]

i liked the lynx better ever since i saw someone put a gamecube portable in to a lynx case

i grew up on the gba SP anyway so

[harsh quartz]

I grew up on the gba advance sp :p

[tepid bolt]

Still can't believe Asus thought it was fine to also have a 40wh battery on a device that can draw twice as much power.

[jaunty compass]

the rog ally feels really rushed tbh

[harsh quartz]

Tbf, it was

[jaunty compass]

a lot of stuff about it feels rushed when i look at it
like, it still looks like a prototype device

[harsh quartz]

There was what, like 2 weeks between announcement and launch?

That’s extremely fast for a device like that

[tepid bolt]

It's just weird... at lower wattages the steam deck outperforms it anyway so you have to crank up the power for it to be worthwhile.

And at that point your battery life just dies

[harsh quartz]

It’s why I just went with a laptop instead

Although I would still love to get my hands on a winmax 2 for mobile emulation

[jaunty compass]

The ally definitely feels like there was a bunch of pressure to rush into market

It definitely looks and from what I've seen, feels like a first gen product

[harsh quartz]

And, it is

[dapper ravine]

First startup, I let it sit at diagnosing your PC for an hour, nothing…

So I reset bios and I got spiny circle for 30 mins, so I hit Flex Key, and it’s back to diagnosing your PC. How long should I wait before I try something else, and what should I try?

3090 TI, 64 GB ram, 2 TB of SSD 980 Pro, i910850k

[chrome vector]

100x zoom

[harsh quartz]

Wait till a steam deck 2 comes out and then we’ll have a race

[tepid bolt]

Valve already said steam deck 2 won't be any faster than the current one

[harsh quartz]

I’m pretty sure I got hit with this in dodgeball

[jaunty compass]

All I play is 2d indies and emulation on mine so that's not an issue for me

[tepid bolt]

Steam deck 2 will have much better battery life and a better display, that's what valve said.

[harsh quartz]

Perfectly happy with that

For like what he said, emulation primarily

[jaunty compass]

I've been considering getting the deckHD display mod when it releases

A 1200p display for older games and media would be nice

[harsh quartz]

Ya know, the decks main thing is that it’s cheap, but it does start to add up

Better storage, controllers, display, dock, eventually you might as well get a laptop

[jovial meteor]

Does anyone have any issues trying to log into Nvidia? Its telling me to confirm login by clicking on email link which I'm not getting...tried multiple times even added Nvidia as a safe sender in my email

[tepid bolt]

I got a dock, 256gb nvme and 512gb ssd for less than $100

[jaunty compass]

A laptop isn't as small or as comfortable

If I wanted to game on my laptop I would, since my laptop is faster

[tepid bolt]

The form factor is great

It's way more portable than any laptop

[harsh quartz]

Yeah, but there’s also the winmax

[round trellis]

why do people not choose 6600m laptops which are generally cheaper than most rtx 3050 laptops?

[tepid bolt]

Because they're not as common

[round trellis]

6600m has 8 fucking gb vram

[harsh quartz]

Because it’s not in most laptops and the ones that they are in are very problematic laptops

[round trellis]

msi Bravo 15?

[tepid bolt]

It's literally just a desktop rx 6600 put in a laptop

[harsh quartz]

Like the asus rog g14, it has a Radeon version but it has a lot of issues

[round trellis]

unlike nvidia yes

[round trellis]

yeah the amd advantage edition of msi

[harsh quartz]

?

[round trellis]

it has r7 5800h and 6600m

[harsh quartz]

A lot of them have major issues that make using those full fat GPUs difficult

[round trellis]

msi Bravo 15 amd advantage edition

[round trellis]

so they are usually badly optimised?

[harsh quartz]

I got a friend in class with a g14 that has an AMD gpu in it and he can’t play most things without struggling with the gpu

[round trellis]

i mean a 8gb vram amd card cant even compete with a 4gb vram card (3050)
got beat in most games with dlss balanced

thats why there are 3050ti laptops with the same price as fucking 3060 laptops

one of my dumb friends bought the legion 5 1650 model for 900 usd 💀

now he's playing valorant with 200 fps 💀

[jaunty compass]

Is that good I don't play Valorant

[tepid bolt]

No

Valorant is easier to run than CSGO

[echo canopy]

i mean a 8gb vram amd card cant even compete with a 4gb vram card (3050)
lol

You know how bad dlss balanced looks at 1080? Are you also comparing with FSR2?

[forest valve]

DLSS performance looks fine to me

[manic torrent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8dexRPxeRs&t=13m37s <- this was the first computer we had at home.

[jaunty compass]

Afaik dlss2 and FSR2 perform the same but DLSS has marginally better image quality

[echo canopy]

bicbuic scaling

[jaunty compass]

So they're definitely not talking about DLSS vs fsr

[echo canopy]

Depends on game to game. Either or can have worse ghosting or oversharpening

[jaunty compass]

I use fsr because I have a 6600 XT and modern games are rough on 8 gigs of vram at 1440p

[echo canopy]

FSR 2.1 did fix a lot of ghosting 2.0 did tho

[round trellis]

dlss is way better for fps boost than fsr.

[echo canopy]

it depends

[round trellis]

dlss 3 > fsr 2.1
fsr 2.1 = dlss 2

[jaunty compass]

DLSS3 lol

Fake frames go brrrr

[echo canopy]

DLSS3 is a fucking meme and will be for the forseable future

[round trellis]

and? they are stil frames.

[echo canopy]

with twice the input lag and are blurry as shit in motion

[manic torrent]

all frames are fake

[round trellis]

exactly

[jaunty compass]

I think I'd rather have real frames without a ton of input latency

[echo canopy]

Interpolation artifacts give me borderline headaches lol

[last solstice]

everything is so slow man

I wana like fast forward

[summer folio]

If you install 32-bit Windows 10, will Microsoft stop trying to force-upgrade you to Windows 11 since there is no 32-bit w11?

[manic torrent]

if strawman, then why red herring?

CHECKMATE

[wary summit]

The APU can play things well

[timber bone]

Does anyone here run Spacedesk?

[wary summit]

no

[near granite]

Hey guys! I can't install video drivers. I just can't log in to my Jeffreys Experience account. I don't receive a confirmation email. What to do?
pls help
i tried log in on another account
but nothing

[wary summit]

wtf is Jeffreys Expereice?

[wary summit]

what gpu, and also #1027757333117415424

[near granite]

Geforce expierence

[graceful burrow]

#1027757333117415424

[near granite]

T9

[wary summit]

L

[graceful burrow]

L

[wary summit]

imagine needing an account to download drivers

[graceful burrow]

TRUE

[clever palm]

imagine needing drivers that aren't installed with your kernel

[modest copper]

Imagine needing drivers

[harsh quartz]

Yes but if they pay for the whole GPU then they should be able to use the whole GPU, otherwise you might as well big an Nicosia

The problem is that they can’t use the dGPU very well

[modest copper]

Geforce T9?

What's that

[harsh quartz]

Also imagine using GeForce experience

[wary summit]

why so?

I have the exact same Laptop

[harsh quartz]

Idk, if I knew then I would help them fix it, but it stutters and freezes when it’s playing stuff that shouldn’t make it freeze, I think it has to do with that laptop not having a dedicate mux switch

[modest copper]

Idek what's going on

[harsh quartz]

Mood most of the time

[modest copper]

All I know is my mouse decided to not connect to it's receiver anymore so I gotta use bt 😤

[harsh quartz]

Kek

[modest copper]

Speaking of which, any recommendations on a new one?

[harsh quartz]

G502 is always a good choice

[graceful burrow]

Banger

[harsh quartz]

Got everyone in my class hooked on the thing

Although the wireless one is a bit pricey

[modest copper]

I've been using a corsair katar pro wireless with 0 issues until today, just refuses to connect to it's receiver

It shows up in windows and the mouse works on bt, just not to it's own usb

[harsh quartz]

Sometimes stuff just fails, is what it is

[graceful burrow]

Worth it

Zero lag
Month long battery with 45 minute charge time

[modest copper]

Idc about price, I'd rather pay a little extra to have something nicer

[graceful burrow]

If that tbh

[harsh quartz]

Definitely for a laptop, but I stick with the cheaper wired one for my desktop

I’m a Stan for Logitech peripherals

[modest copper]

It was working when I left home to visit my mom for a couple days, used it on bt with my laptop and got back home to it refusing to connect back to my desktop

[harsh quartz]

Does it have a Bluetooth that you need to disable for it to reconnect to your receiver?

Or maybe force it to disconnect from the laptop BT and see if it would reconnect then?

[modest copper]

It has a 3 point switch, either wireless 2.4ghz or bt, not both

[gilded quest]

corsair wireless mice have a habit of unpairing themselves from their receiver from time to time
99% of the time you can redo the pairing in icue settings

[modest copper]

Damn I gotta open icue

[gilded quest]

sorry but yeah

plug in the dongle
go to dongle settings
and initiate receiver pairing

[modest copper]

My rgb is gonna go haywire

[gilded quest]

😭

[graceful burrow]

How come nobodies peripheral software is good
It's all shit
All of it, from every fucking company

[harsh quartz]

There a Corsair guide on how to repair it, have you tried that?

[harsh quartz]

Logitechs peripherals are at least good enough to where you don’t need to software except for rgb

[gilded quest]

icue has gotten worse

[harsh quartz]

Icue is fucking horrendous

[gilded quest]

(i used to work on icue)

[harsh quartz]

Same with msi control center

[modest copper]

Yeah there's supposed to be a way to put the mouse into pairing mode but idk if the receiver automatically pairs or if I have to make it

[graceful burrow]

It's good because I can just set my mouse how I like it and save it to the mouses memory

[gilded quest]

if you start receiver pairing in icue it should walk you through it

[harsh quartz]

Cool, but you probably weren’t the one making the overall decisions were you?

[gilded quest]

no i was in QA

[harsh quartz]

Yeah, and then you don’t need to open it again

[modest copper]

I gotta reinstall icue, I forgot I uninstalled it

[harsh quartz]

Ngl, the quality wasn’t great but i solely blame Corsair for it, whoever makes the final decisions on the software team

[fiery skiff]

my pc randomly shut off after making a pop sound. my cpu light is on and my monitor is getting no display, anyone know what could have happened?

[modest copper]

Power supply probably died

[harsh quartz]

Just pray it didn’t take anything with it

[modest copper]

^

What psu do you have?

[harsh quartz]

Did*

[fiery skiff]

the worst one imaginable so it's probably is my issue

[modest copper]

Oof

[fiery skiff]

but could a dead psu still cause all RGB to turn on?

[modest copper]

If it still has the 5v rail on then yea

[harsh quartz]

^^

[fiery skiff]

alright

[modest copper]

But the pc runs on the 12v rail

[graceful burrow]

Better hope the psu protection worked

[harsh quartz]

Do you have access to a PSU checker?

[fiery skiff]

unfortunately not, should I take it to a local shop?

[modest copper]

If you're not comfortable with tearing it apart yourself then I don't see why not

But they might try to upcharge out the ass depending on where you take it

[graceful burrow]

How old is it and where did you buy it from

[fiery skiff]

A week old from Amazon

[harsh quartz]

:0

[graceful burrow]

Return it

[harsh quartz]

Warranty that shit

[fiery skiff]

what if it fried my mobo though

[graceful burrow]

But rma it through the manufacturer
Not through amazon

That's why you do it through the manufacturer

[modest copper]

Did you buy it all seperate or as a prebuilt?

[fiery skiff]

I built it myself

[harsh quartz]

Does Amazon sell full prebuilts?

[modest copper]

Yea

[fiery skiff]

they do I think

[harsh quartz]

Huh, didn’t know that

[modest copper]

As you can imagine, they're not great

[fiery skiff]

is it even worth trying to return this basically worthless psu?

[modest copper]

What brand and model psu did you get?

[harsh quartz]

Well, yeah, I assumed it’s done through third party people who just sell on Amazon

[fiery skiff]

apevia spirit 600w I had to make budget cuts somewhere

[harsh quartz]

That’s why you don’t fly spirit

[modest copper]

As ltt said multiple times, don't cheap out on power supplies lol

[graceful burrow]

Bro why would you budget cut the most important part

[modest copper]

First thing I upgraded mine with was a NZXT 750w 80+ gold

[fiery skiff]

should I take it to a local best buy, I know it will be expensive but at least they have extra parts to troubleshoot

[harsh quartz]

Corsair is probably the cheapest psu I would go with, or maybe evga

[modest copper]

Best buy sells corsair psus, I don't think they're bad

[fiery skiff]

I probably will get evga if it is the psu

[modest copper]

Evga is good too

[harsh quartz]

Everyone forgot about evga after they left the gpu market

[fiery skiff]

do yall want me to send a pic of the PC and maybe you can tell me if anything looks blown?

[harsh quartz]

Different channel

[modest copper]

I had a lower wattage evga one and the only things I swapped it out for was spaghetti wires and a rattly fan

[timid meadow]

Id watch out for getting a explody sku from places like best buy. Sometimes stuff like that slips through the cracks and sits on shelves, or a manager finds one in the back who doesnt know about a recall

[modest copper]

Yea true

[harsh quartz]

Evga definitely has quality parts, but everyone forgets them or sees them as cheap parts, but they’re fairly even with Corsair on PSUs

[fiery skiff]

brb I'm going to get a pic of the PC rn and please tell me if something is terriblly wrong and I'm just stupid

[modest copper]

Everyone makes mistakes lol

[harsh quartz]

You probably want to take this to a different channel too for better assistance

[fiery skiff]

alright go in tech chat one so I can send pic

[graceful burrow]

Let's see if it's even on the tier list

[fiery skiff]

it's not I checked

[graceful burrow]

And you still fucking bought it

Holy shit lmao

[fiery skiff]

yep.... it actually wasn't even in the listing that it was Spirit, I just assumed it was the apevia in c tier

at least I learned from my mistake

[modest copper]

You'll be very lucky if it didn't take anything with it

[fiery skiff]

well the good news is my motherboard still has lights and my gpu spins to life

[modest copper]

Newgrounds? Idk lol

Nothing really compares to yt

[timid meadow]

Download vids from your favorite channels as they release then just use vlc or something?

[modest copper]

Newgrounds has a LOT of content, but not the same as yt

[timid meadow]

No, no it doesnt ahahaha

[modest copper]

You don't need an account for newgrounds, it's all free

Newgrounds is a website

[timid meadow]

Downloading for offline use though youtube does. You asked about privacy, i suggested a solution that may not need an account at all unless the vid is age restricted

[modest copper]

Youtube is basically a monopoly for mobile entertainment that's not strictly tv or movies

[timid meadow]

Best app frontend is ReVanced imo

[graceful burrow]

Yes

[timid meadow]

So is any other solution that you are asking for.

[graceful burrow]

Oh no! Don't hurt the trillion dollar multinational megacorporation!!

[timid meadow]

You think their just gunna give you a "ye dont track me" option? Google? The biggest datahoard on the planet?

[graceful burrow]

Too bad

[timid meadow]

They still get tracked, just not visable to you. Search history stops partners and parents, not the people who see your internet, or the servers your accessing in this case

[graceful burrow]

This the internet

[modest copper]

Big brother is watching 👁️

[timid meadow]

All that does is obscure it from your isp. They could if they really wanted too. Whos your provider?

Your vpn provider

[modest copper]

Nothing is truly unhackable

[timid brook]

is ther a chat wair a staf can help me fix my nick name on this server ?

[modest copper]

If someone has the dedication, they can do it

[timid meadow]

Only one id trust is Mullvad

[fiery skiff]

oh no it was psu it just sparked, I took it out disconnected everything turned it on and ahhh

[timid meadow]

Dont use a free vpn. Free means you are the product

[modest copper]

Rip

[fiery skiff]

actually if it didn't fry anything it's a pretty lucky thing

I'd be way happier if my 30$ psu died and didn't take anything with it of value

[timid meadow]

Have they proven to you they dont log you in any way?

[tepid bolt]

There's far too little premium users to fund all the entire business

[graceful burrow]

by who

[tepid bolt]

Inb4 me

[fiery skiff]

👨‍💻

[graceful burrow]

there are people that trust those nigerian prince scam emails

[timid meadow]

Not by me. Im no expert tho 🤷

They walked out with nothing. Not even a usb

You tell me, can orbot or proton do that? Im sure one day ill get owned, but of all the options available, mullvad is the only one ive seen you can trust

[timid brook]

dus any one know if i can ither ping ore dm a staff/mod to get my name fixed ?

[timid meadow]

You can pay cash with mullvad if you want

They have like 20 different pay options im sure youll find something

[graceful burrow]

This is totally me when I'm trying to be private and secure

[clever palm]

Thank you, astroturfer

[timid meadow]

Ngl i use paypal most of the time but i do it knowing i can burn the account or open a new one in 2 seconds

[modest copper]

Speaking of paypal, I gotta remember to get in touch with their support

[timid brook]

i vairy sorry if im sounding rude but i wood vairy much aprecate some asistence

[timid meadow]

Just check their website

[clever palm]

@timid meadow Tell me something about Mullvad a salesperson wouldn't dare say.

[timid meadow]

That i dont actually care if you pay for it or not. Question was asked i answered.

[modest copper]

Ping a mod?

[timid brook]

so i can just ping them ?

[clever palm]

@timid meadow I hear the CEO is a pedo. Can you quote me and confirm? XD

would that cost you your job? XD

[timid meadow]

Put him in jail then? Not sure what your getting at. I get your attempting to be funny but like try harder bro.

[clever palm]

I have no idea, I just want Toaster to say it.

[timid brook]

<@&750150305383186585> im sorry to bother yall but i wood like to get my nick name fixed i was using non english cactors at one point and this server game me a werd nick name to try and corect that. hahever when i changed my discord name the nick name on the server remaned the same and i was wondering if i can get it fixed ?

[native crag]

They say never cheap out on a PSU. I'll add to that.... never cheap out on a quality keyboard.

[graceful burrow]

we saw why that was true in this channel like, an hour ago

[native crag]

Magic smoke is expensive

[full fossil]

Much like a genie you can't get the smoke back in

[native crag]

I've had the large capacitor in the PSU blow once. Sounded like a very loud firecracker. In fact, it unrolled like one too

Scared the piss out of me

[summer folio]

Maybe you forgot to lubricate it

[native crag]

We don't need to hear of your fantasies

[summer folio]

The CEO of Mullvad VPN Jan Jonsson have not been in any court cases. Everything is public information in Sweden.

[sage quiver]

Done :)

[timid brook]

thank u vairy much

[rich mauve]

Who here plays honkai impact

[graceful burrow]

thankfully not i

one of the mods plays other games by them

[young root]

well i tried windows on my steam deck and its absolutely the worst experience i've had on a device, i think ever.

[timid meadow]

Shhhh youll summon Bionic

[young root]

well no i used a 4 year old android phone that couldn't load its own browser

it's literally not designed for touch and that's for a reason lmao

i reaaalllyyy want game pass on my deck but if i have to make that many sacrifices fuck it i'll stick to🤢🤢🤢 linux 🤢🤢🤢

[graceful burrow]

you can gamepass stream on steamos

[young root]

that's a horrible experience

[graceful burrow]

true

[timid meadow]

You could consider swapping the deck for something that runs windows. Dont Aya products come with win10 or 11?

[young root]

i also own 6 gaming pcs along with a laptop so that's a lame use case

[graceful burrow]

with much higher pricetags and worse performance ye

[timid meadow]

Fair

[young root]

i'm not spending a band on a fucking laptop without a keyboard lmao

[graceful burrow]

you already did

[young root]

the steam deck was cheap so i grabbed it

[timid meadow]

Moonlight is a solid experience as long as it keeps working

[young root]

400$ is 600 less than 1000

[graceful burrow]

prove it

[young root]

but i will be getting the rog ally lmao

[graceful burrow]

that performs worse with worse battery life lol

[young root]

and putting steam os on it

[graceful burrow]

steamos wont work on it
holoiso will

[young root]

i thought it was better?

[graceful burrow]

no lmao
good job proving marketing works tho

[young root]

well fuck aldonist you've changed my mind

[graceful burrow]

i didnt do anything

[young root]

i was really hoping the battery was better at least, 2 hours on red dead 2 is hella lame

[graceful burrow]

i dont even fucking exist

[young root]

fuuuuuuck 😩

when i go to micro center to build another pc for a customer im getting a 1tb ssd for my deck

2tb of games is a lot for a mobile device, although i do really wish it was 2280

[graceful burrow]

make sure it's a one sided ssd

[young root]

it's one of those inland ones made for deck

[graceful burrow]

ones with both sides of the ssd pcb populated with memory have fitment issues

[young root]

the cost of 1tb 2230 is the cost of 2tb 2280

soooo lame

[sage pagoda]

What steam says: "unable to sync"
What they actually mean: "lol we're lazy"

[gilded quest]

the servers needed a union mandated break

[young root]

the xbox app servers are on break 24/7

[tepid bolt]

And don't forget the lack of touchpad

Completely kills desktop mode usage

[stray apex]

steamdeck desktop mode is shit anyways

painful without a mouse at least

[stray apex]

the ally is better in terms of raw performance, although the battery is literally the same and it draws more power

[tough spruce]

Well no shit

It lacks a dedicated keyboard. May aswell give up on a desktop environment at that point

[stray apex]

yeah, some people seem to be totally okay using the steamdeck with trackpads only, supposedly

in my experience it's terrible

you're much better off just using the touchscreen

[tough spruce]

I mean if you didn’t need a keyboard todo… anything. It’s actually not that bad if you make a custom control scheme

Mapping clicks to bumpers actually makes it very very usable

[stray apex]

they're just too small for me

[tough spruce]

personal preference. I like high sens things so in the end I’m ok ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[stray apex]

yeah, I mean, they're totally useable, especially since again you have a touchscreen

[tough spruce]

Only thing stopping a desk from being my actual desktop machine and just streaming my windows pc is that I might get a Mac todo that instead

[stray apex]

but there's no keyboard
and the on screen keyboard is pretty meh

the screen is also just too small for a good experience imo, but regardless
the touchpads don't really solve the issue of desktop environments not being built for handhelds

[tough spruce]

Solve… no

Make it tolerable, yes

Like a mobility van won’t solve a handicapped persons mobility issues

But it solves one of the biggest ones

[stray apex]

I mean, windows is pretty usable with a touchscreen these days

[gilded quest]

I love the decks touchpads

[stray apex]

I never used them

[gilded quest]

Civ

[stray apex]

I guess I just really hate the lack of feedback on thumb devices

[gilded quest]

Eh, the touchpads have decent haptics

[tough spruce]

Steam deck with apple haptics

[stray apex]

couldn't use the steam controller because they replaced the joysticks with touchpads

[gilded quest]

The steam controller is undeniably worse than the steam deck controller

[full fossil]

I do not watch Linus Tech Tips.

[tough spruce]

This is one thing I wish I could do. I like the physical layout of the deck way more then a Xbox controller. I wish I could set my deck to a “dumb controller” mode and just plug it in over usb

[gilded quest]

@ mod
Spreading hate messages 😭

[full fossil]

hello guys! are any of you guys extremists? I am also a extremist and I would love to meet other extremists! 😜

[stray apex]

I mean, you can get a steam controller off ebay or something if your'e super into touchpads

[gilded quest]

It's too late to deal with this shit

[timid meadow]

Wouldnt be the first. Theres at least 1 blue name in here that doesnt watch much/at all either

[tough spruce]

It’s not the touchpad. It’s just having my hands further apart

[stray apex]

no, but I've played war thunder before

[tough spruce]

And having large(r) hands it’s a lot nicer to hold

[gilded quest]

Steam deck is a better console

[stray apex]

Steam deck is the second best modern handheld console

[gilded quest]

Although, if windows gets Xbox quick resume or whatever, I think it would help the Ally a lot

[tough spruce]

Wouldn’t help it’s shit tier battery

[gilded quest]

Well

[stray apex]

Yeah, apparently Microsoft is giving handheld licenses away?

[gilded quest]

I....mostly use my deck wired

[manic torrent]

wut?

[stray apex]

Hopefully they put a bit of work into the handheld ui

[gilded quest]

I use my Deck outside on my deck

Tis fantastic

[tepid bolt]

Ally has the same battery size as the deck but can use double the wattage so battery life goes out the window

[manic torrent]

..... it CAN use.

[tepid bolt]

Not to mention that at lower wattage the steam deck still beats the ally

[stray apex]

Do you have a source for that

[gilded quest]

Steam deck is better for most users

[manic torrent]

yes, but none of that makes it a shit tier battery

[stray apex]

At 15w I'm pretty sure the ally still wins
I don't think I've seen 5 or 10w for the ally

[gilded quest]

LTT review and digital foundry review both shower deck beating ally at sub 10W

[tepid bolt]

@gilded quest can you do it I don't have image perms

[gilded quest]

Uhhh

You want me to go screenshot the video?

[tepid bolt]

Ye

[gilded quest]

sigh where timestamp

[manic torrent]

The thing is - neither of them have good battery life when you're doing AAA gaming.

[stray apex]

Oh, LTT just didn't show benchmarks

[full fossil]

Hello

[stray apex]

Yeah, it seems like ally doesn't scale well to sub-15w

[sage pagoda]

I think Microsoft should stop making Xbox consoles, and just put all the games on PC

[gilded quest]

Cold take

[tepid bolt]

True but would you rather have 1 hour of gametime or 2 hours.

[stray apex]

You get the same game time at 15w

Which you will presumably be running in demanding titles

[sage pagoda]

What does cold take mean

[graceful burrow]

what is the opposite of a hot take

[manic torrent]

it's nowhere near that much difference

[sage pagoda]

I'm confuse

[graceful burrow]

in what way

[tepid bolt]

5w add up quick with such small batteries

[sage pagoda]

What exactly is a cold take? I forgot the definition of hot take

[tepid bolt]

Lukewarm take

[gilded quest]

Hot take would be unpopular or something.
Cold take is a good opinion I guess

[sage pagoda]

Luke wasn't warm, Anakin was.

[stray apex]

You're not running at 5w or 10w for a game where performance matters, though

Like, yeah, the steamdeck is better if you want to play Stardew valley on the go or something

[manic torrent]

I'm not saying the ally is omg amazing, but @tough spruce said it had shit tier batteries, which is a really stupid take.

[stray apex]

But if you want to play elden ring

[manic torrent]

It's a fundamental compromise of the platform.

[stray apex]

The battery size is literally the same and at 15w the ally is faster

[manic torrent]

Well, the form factor.

[sage pagoda]

When I first heard of elden ring I thought it was a Lord of the rings game

Then I actually saw gameplay footage

[near nymph]

Soo... I chucked my shoes into the washing machine... Fuck... I forgot I don't have a backup pair of shoes... Oops

[gilded quest]

I do wish the deck had a 120hz screen tho

[stray apex]

Kinda seems like they cheaped out hard on the screen
Understandable for the price

Kind of weird to put fancy etched glass onto such a shit panel though

[tepid bolt]

Steam deck 2 maybe

[gilded quest]

It is acceptable on a first gen product

I have the anti glare deck and it's pretty good

[tepid bolt]

Yeah the etched glass model sucks

It makes it easier to scratch too

[stray apex]

Never had issues with mine

Kept mine in the case though

[gilded quest]

I just don't scratch things

[tepid bolt]

I actually carry mine around

It completely replaced my laptop once I installed windows on it

[stray apex]

Do you not use a keyboard

[tepid bolt]

I do it's a slim one

I love how I can carry all of my accessories on the case of the steam deck

Only the keyboard and mouse have to go in my pocket

One time I took it to a friend's house and docked it into their tv

And used xbox controllers to play castle crashers

Well I used the integrated controller in the steam deck

[gilded quest]

It hasn't replaced my MacBook but it's effectively replaced my ROG g14

[tepid bolt]

I don't own any apple stuff

I just absolutely love the form factor

[stray apex]

if you game on the go a lot it probably makes sense

[tepid bolt]

The ally looks good too but it just lacks the little creature comforts that valve added

[stray apex]

I would rather die than play most games with a controller so it didn't work for me

[tepid bolt]

I only use mouse and keyboard for 1st person games

Otherwise always controller

[summer folio]

touchpad

[tepid bolt]

Yes

[blazing lily]

Touch pad for fps 💀

[mild jacinth]

ppl are crazy these days

"could you help me with something" unless you respond with what i do not care

[full fossil]

what minecraft settings were used in todays 100k pc video?

[vapid smelt]

i do not understand your message

[mild jacinth]

https://cdn.invaild.me/6s3Q7-fxM8.png

[timid meadow]

Hes saying dont just come in here and say "help me plz". Say what you need to say

[mild jacinth]

lol ignore most dms like this because its honestly most likely a scam or malware/token logger

[mild jacinth]

i mean in dms

[full fossil]

hey i need help, ima a Nigerian price and need your social security number and all your money cause

[indigo plume]

should I get tkl,75%,or 65%

for my next keyboard

[mild jacinth]

sorry i forgot it

and also my card declined so im broke

[full fossil]

i like tkl

[past egret]

tkl is all you really need

[full fossil]

i got the g915 and love sliding into my backpack but still having everything but the num pad

actually debating about getting an external number for when i gotta do accounting stuff, otherwise tkl is awesome