public-chat

[dreamy rose]

certainly never been as cool as valve

[sudden bough]

searching for 4k japan nightwalk video download doesn't always get what you expect in a search result =/

valve is kinda neat. wish they made games though |:

[dreamy rose]

they've given us hardware though. decimated many of the arguments against daily driving linux.

[sudden bough]

k what is the word for a monitor rasing stand that sits on a desk. like the long board you can put stuff under not the arm

[dreamy rose]

base

[sudden bough]

its like the long wooden or plastic raisers

wtf are those things called

[polar fern]

Like a hutch?

Or

[sudden bough]

oh i cant paste images

i put it in off topic

[polar fern]

https://a.co/d/3EOorYH

[sudden bough]

YES

oh just desk shelf ❤️

[polar fern]

Hmm stand/riser

[sudden bough]

thanks

yeah idk i get weird results. why can't the internet just do what i want without me asking..

[polar fern]

Sometimes just knowing the terminology can be a mess

[sudden bough]

desk stand riser for desk

[polar fern]

Yes

[sudden bough]

engrish

[polar fern]

Words are hard

[sudden bough]

yes

i have a tv stand but its too high so i always have to look up slightly

[polar fern]

My tv is on my dresser

[sudden bough]

i used to do that

and an old chest for keyboard and mouse

[lone zodiac]

[polar fern]

Ahoy

[lone zodiac]

hows everyone today

[sudden bough]

sleepy

also how am i supposed to buy local or from different companies if they never have what i want in stock? amazon usually wins 😐

hate amazon all ya want but they got it

[lone zodiac]

yeah, it ends up being like that

[sudden bough]

yeah

it do be like that

[lone zodiac]

im currently looking at my desk and the sad instal of led lighting wondering how i could fix it. also trying to figure out how i could find/make a usb hub for it

[sudden bough]

idk id go with govee

[carmine merlin]

I cannot believe Linus has reached 14B subs

[lone zodiac]

i have i think it was lytworx strips on it atm

the sticky as given up and i look at how i set it up wondering if there was a better way to run it

[dreamy rose]

me neither. because its 14 million, not billion

[sudden bough]

double sided tape? command strips?

[sudden bough]

kek

[lone zodiac]

i think i need to order some but trying to figure out a better run

[sudden bough]

like on your desk not behind your monitor?

[lone zodiac]

led strips can be stuck to metal right?

[sudden bough]

led can be stuck anywhere 😐

[lone zodiac]

i only ask because touching the frame of the desk used to make noise in my headset

[sudden bough]

intersting

welp electricity flows around cables not through them so

[lone zodiac]

yeah always wondering if it was because it was stuck onto the metal frame

[old yacht]

probably had some weird grounding issue, so the case wasnt grounded and when you touched it it did

[sudden bough]

does your computer vibrate slightly and it is touching the desk?

[old yacht]

same when you just touch a mic cord or something makes that funny sound

[sudden bough]

or a cat

[vapid smelt]

or a ghost

[lone zodiac]

yeah, makes one hell of a noice though out the entire desk. but this was like a ground hum thing from the frame of my desk and the led strips.

[sudden bough]

could have a short in it

[old yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/jacksparrow-johnnydepp-pirate-spooky-magic-gif-11075885606474700306

[sudden bough]

they do burn out after a while

[lone zodiac]

who knows. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sudden bough]

lick it and see if you get a shock 😄

ultimate test

[lone zodiac]

I know my desk isnt live

Is the there a media channel in here? Somwhete i can share a photo

[sudden bough]

idk off topping maybe?

your headest could be picking up on the em noise from he LEDs it would be slight but you could in theory hear it. its always there and doubt the LEDs have any shielding

[vapid smelt]

any channel but this one

[dreamy rose]

everything not public chat

[lone zodiac]

#off-topic message

[dreamy rose]

doesn't really fit in off topic since its actually tech

[sudden bough]

eh its a catch all

[lone zodiac]

Yeah safer that way

At least for my first day in the server

[polar fern]

You’re good. No worries.

[sudden bough]

most people spam weird stuff in there

[vapid smelt]

we know

[sudden bough]

oh but yeah, command strips or double sticky tape

[vapid smelt]

<@&750150305383186585>

[sudden bough]

looks like a typical russian tank

[dreamy rose]

thats just tank. it'd be tank engine if it was the engine

[polar fern]

Water cooling tank

[lone zodiac]

I suspect this be the be the culprit
#off-topic message

[sudden bough]

also yes it is possble your metal desk is transferring the em signal of the leds to you then to your headphones.

[vapid smelt]

su-85

[lone zodiac]

Some 3m tape probably would fix that

[graceful burrow]

3m tape is not a replacement for solder

[lone zodiac]

Yeah i just noticed that dodgy solder job

[sudden bough]

leds are cheap made

[lone zodiac]

Belive it or not its a working connection, how i got no idea

[vapid smelt]

ppft who needs that

[graceful burrow]

thats thermally conductive

[cedar pebble]

Just use copper tape 😋

[graceful burrow]

it's not electrically conductive

just put a glob of solder on it lol

[vapid smelt]

fuck yourright

[cedar pebble]

Or be a real gamer and use z axis tape for bgas 🗿

[polar fern]

Just use an AM antenna /s

[lone zodiac]

i think the strip has that copper strip that is unbroken under the solder if i had to guess

[vapid smelt]

there we go

[sudden bough]

yeah that is how its powered

[sullen lodge]

bro said 😡

[vapid smelt]

[lone zodiac]

how do you all plan led runs?

[cedar pebble]

Custom boards because I hate myself 🙏

[lone zodiac]

hmm idk that sounds smarter then what i did lol

[full fossil]

This is the general chat, right?

[lone zodiac]

i think so

atleast thats what im using it as until im asked to move

[polar fern]

Yes

Definitely take a moment to look at the other channels, and if you want to post something and it fits better in that channel versus this one, that’s the place to put it. 👍

[vapid smelt]

no

[polar fern]

And if you’re not sure there’s always the moderators you can ask

[vapid smelt]

this is the bread chat

[polar fern]

🤣

[vapid smelt]

[lone zodiac]

honstly nto sure if i fit because im talking less tech and more desk haha

[polar fern]

It fine

If you’re going awry, people tend to let you know

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnfTg7EhDA

[polar fern]

Why is he trying to eat his fingers?

Not judging, just curious

[vapid smelt]

they are finger licking good

[lone zodiac]

can you do fun stuff with it or is it solid colours only?

[vapid smelt]

i turn off all rgb

[lone zodiac]

i perfer white tbh but having some idel effects would be nice

[jaunty olive]

isn't he doing those chef's kiss thing?

[vapid smelt]

that or he has tasty hands

[graceful burrow]

hope they come out clean

[lone zodiac]

good luck

[vapid smelt]

i can hook you up with healing oils since thats what utah moms are known for 😛

[fierce moth]

Bro why don't they just roll back the cancer update

Worst earth update imo

[polar fern]

@full fossil breh ❤️

[vapid smelt]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/intelligence/safety-scanner-download?view=o365-worldwide dont forget to scan your computer too

[low rain]

I have like a small fan that’s a little bigger than my phone that I might put in my candy drawer cause now I have chocolate in there that I don’t want to melt

[vapid smelt]

use a fridge

[low rain]

I feel like if I put it in the fridge my brother or someone is js gonna take my stuff

This is what it looks like rn

But I feel like it’ll get warm and melt the chocolate

[hot tide]

Hey does moving on windows copy the files first and then deletes it or during

Bc I was moving something last night and I didn't want to leave my PC all night so I stopped the moving

Are the files that I was moving and then canceled corrupted?

[lone zodiac]

Any tips for planing an led run on a desk? just cant figure out the best way to do this on the fredde deks

[crude jasper]

Pretty funny that transit gets upset over people having minor rule violations then proceeds to do it themselves

[vapid smelt]

[wispy marsh]

Once windows check the target system has the files it'll delete the original

Alternatively use rsync or robocopy

[dreamy rose]

windows is painfully crap with doing anything

[manic torrent]

KVM manager progress.

[graceful burrow]

Why two uart

[manic torrent]

Two KVMs with RS232 comms

[graceful burrow]

I see

[manic torrent]

The others are button pushers. So I'm integrating with buttons on the controls

[graceful burrow]

I need to get a few of those prototyping boards they already woulda come in handy for me

I've got a project just sittin in a breadboard waiting for a part to come in lol

[manic torrent]

I have many.... Things.

But this will mean I can control the input, and all three screens on my setup from home assistant

[graceful burrow]

Damn you just got a pi 4 sittin around

Last I heard those were rare

[manic torrent]

I bought it for a project but the screen arrived, had a stuck red pixel, so I sent it back, and I never ordered a new one.

[graceful burrow]

Do you have a 3d printer?

[manic torrent]

I did, but I harvested it for parts

[graceful burrow]

Fair
I have an ender 3 ready to be harvested cause the aluminum extrusion is absolutely fucked it would need a whole new frame

At that point I just buy a new ender 3 they're very cheap

[fierce moth]

My ender 3 v3 se is working great for me

[graceful burrow]

3d printing is rad

[fierce moth]

Never had to manually level it once

The cr touch is a blessing

[manic torrent]

I have a touch leveller, a brand new unused hot end, a gyro sensor, a runout sensor, a new unused control board....

[graceful burrow]

I've got 3 good stepper motors to use in a project

That's all I really care to salvage I won't lie

Hotplate could be used for a makeshift sock warmer I guess
Nothin like a pair of warm socks when you get out of the shower in winter

[lapis solstice]

Kernel virtual machine?

[graceful burrow]

Keyboard video mouse

[manic torrent]

Yeah what aldonist said. I have a bunch of screens and systems to switch

[fierce moth]

I gotta make a diy local online ac controller

[graceful burrow]

Assassin's creed controller

[fierce moth]

Nah air con

[graceful burrow]

Why do you need to make that are the regular controls not working

[fierce moth]

Purely out of lazyness

[fierce moth]

And that

What shit u using?

[fierce moth]

Nice

[undone snow]

someone please have a gander at my tech support post ✌️

[dreamy rose]

no :3

[full fossil]

Barbecue=rock music?

[sick coral]

upgrading from the 3080 to the 4070 today :)

[dreamy rose]

isnt that a downgrade?

[full fossil]

That’s not how maths works

[manic torrent]

Uhhhhh

[dreamy rose]

no. you see. the 4070 is a worse card than the 3080

[full fossil]

That’s doesn’t make sense lol

[dreamy rose]

how does it not? because its newer? please tell me you're making a joke here

[full fossil]

I haven’t really played attention to the 4070

So idk.

[sick coral]

its slightly worse, but i think that tradeoff is worth it if i get to use stuff like dlss3

[full fossil]

Ohm

[dusty rune]

and if you care about energy consumption

[sick coral]

and especially with how much more efficient the card is

my psu will thank me

[manic torrent]

Given the price of a 4070

I'd rather stick needles in my ears.

[sick coral]

i have the 1000w zalman teramax running alongside a ryzen 7 5800x3d, my psu wont be used for its full capasity for a long tine now

[manic torrent]

I have a 3080ti, so a 4070 would be a bigger downgrade

[sick coral]

price isnt an issue for me, my dad bought the gpu for me

[manic torrent]

I am the dad :/

[sick coral]

dextero says the rtx 3080 is only 0.89% faster than the 4070, that is a hit im willing to take if that means i can use dlss3

[dusty rune]

do u not care about ur dad

[manic torrent]

If I was choosing between them, certainly. But not if I was "upgrading"

[crude jasper]

DLSS3 is literally just frame gen

[sick coral]

i do really care about him

[crude jasper]

That's it; There is no advantage.

Frame generation makes the picture look worse and adds latency

[sick coral]

he literally bought it out of the blue

like i didnt ask him

[crude jasper]

It's fine that you have a 4070, I'm just saying it's not worth buying over a 4070 if you had the choice of a 3080

Which you did not, he bought it out of the blue

[sick coral]

he wanted me to have a better gpu so that my sister could have the 3080

[dreamy rose]

well then give her the 4070

[fierce moth]

Damn it, I'm still waiting for the pi 5

The anticipation is insane

[crude jasper]

What models are they

[dreamy rose]

you should be buying into better native performance. not the promise of Frame genertrion and upscaling technology

[crude jasper]

It's only frame gen

[sick coral]

i mean look at this

[crude jasper]

What models are they respectively

[sick coral]

it really isnt that big of a hit

[crude jasper]

Just to compare coolers

And power target

[sick coral]

it says theyre FE

[crude jasper]

No, Yours

[sick coral]

MSI RTX 4070 VENTUS 2X E 12G OC

[crude jasper]

3080?

[sick coral]

MSI RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G

[unkempt widget]

yes, the MSI RTX 4070 VENTUS 2X E 12G OC is a 3080

oh i misunderstood nvm

[crude jasper]

The 4070 is better

Lol

It's weird that chat collectively agreed you had a 12gb card with no info

[dreamy rose]

10gb 3080s. didn't even realise they were a thing

[carmine stirrup]

We're easily swayed

[crude jasper]

Are you serious?

[sick coral]

yeah but it isnt when you consider the fact its going into an sff build

[crude jasper]

It draws less power...

Yes it is

This chat really makes no sense to me sometimes

[dreamy rose]

yes. because i don't pay much attention to Nvidia. i do not need to

[crude jasper]

yike

[unkempt widget]

also they're smaller

[crude jasper]

What?

[unkempt widget]

4070s

cooler designs are smaller

[crude jasper]

Duh

[unkempt widget]

(because they draw less power)

[sick coral]

yeah now i wont have to worry about my psu cables bending my gpu

[dreamy rose]

the only reason 7900XTXes are so huge is because the AIBs resue 4090 coolers

[sick coral]

also ill be able to put expansion cards

[unkempt widget]

wait but

how tf do psu cables bend gpus

[crude jasper]

That's just not true

[sick coral]

nr200 case layout

[unkempt widget]

ig the cables would be too far bent

[crude jasper]

7900XTX on the bottom

4090s on middle and top

Look pretty similar to me... All don't fit in the case

[sick coral]

drawing with a mouse is very hard

[sick coral]

the rog one should

theres a window in the front to put gpus in

[crude jasper]

None of those GPUs pictured will fit in the case pictured

The ROG one is the largest, why would you think that?

[sick coral]

its triple slot

[crude jasper]

What?

[sick coral]

when you pop out the front if the case theres a thing that looks like this

[crude jasper]

I'm talking about the case pictured in my picture; not yours.

[sick coral]

is the case in the pic not the nr200?

[crude jasper]

No?

a NR200 is not a mid tower

[sick coral]

my fault then ig

[manic torrent]

Ok that makes some sense

[jaunty olive]

what is he doing with that screw driver

genuinely don't know

[sick coral]

it just arrived lmao

[manic torrent]

Bridging the pins to turn on the pc

[jaunty olive]

ohh thanks

[sick coral]

my poor little sister... she'll be getting an rtx 3080 with a 9900k but only 1 stick of ram...

[sudden bough]

I fell asleep. Govee does multi color and can sync either screens

[crystal willow]

Why does the server keep hiding the channels?

[dreamy rose]

theres a little arrow next to the groups that points up or down

[wispy marsh]

Right or down, usually

Right = hiding submenu items
Down = showing submenu items

In discord there's a special option called "hide muted channels" which hides a channel if all of the messages in that channel are marked as read

[dreamy rose]

ah right

[dreamy rose]

and if you just muted the channel in general. like i have with the forum shit

[wispy marsh]

^

[dull tapir]

anyone tried gamesir t4 kaleid controller

wonder how is it

[narrow creek]

hi

[dreamy rose]

that just looks like the afterglow XB1 Controller i picked up in 2016.

but as a Series controller

[dull tapir]

it has hall effect sticks, mechanical buttons, rear buttons

for 40 eur

looking for xbox shaped controller that is smaller with hall effect sticks, rear buttons, hybrid shaped sticks

i hear people like gamesir controllers but some are also quite bad

[harsh quartz]

Get an n64 controller

[dull tapir]

why

[harsh quartz]

Good

[dull tapir]

nah

atm i only have dualsense but will return it

looking for xbox shaped with hall effect, rear buttons, hybrid sticks not concave

[harsh quartz]

N64

[lone zodiac]

all good, Might look into them then. what about breathing or a chase? Was giving them a quick look and it may be a pain to find em in aus

[crystal willow]

Oh i thought they hide channels that are full

[stoic osprey]

is there a channel to ask about peripherals ?

[dreamy rose]

the fuck is a full channel?

[dreamy rose]

#peripherals

[crystal willow]

Like with alot of people

so it gets disturbuted evenly

The arduino server does that

[wind pulsar]

No, just about keyboards

[stoic osprey]

Ah didn't even see that, thanks, and what about monitors or is that a just ask here type thing?

[dreamy rose]

having a lot of people doesn't make it full. you're making stuff up in your mind.

[wind pulsar]

Just ask in tech-chat ┐(´д｀)┌

[crystal willow]

Ill have my tea and see

[dreamy rose]

i guess its a here or tech chat thing

[stoic osprey]

okay thanks

[silk island]

https://www.wired.com/story/ipod-modders/

that is so cool

(I actually ordered a 7th gen classic)

[dreamy rose]

its basically a given considering some idiot made them extremely popular and expensive. an idiot we love watching.

[lone zodiac]

i still use my mini

[slate agate]

and silly, I briefly looked into doing it with an old ipod. the cost of replacing the battery, screen and storage in it was obscene. could buy a brand new really decent DAP and still have money left over instead

and it would sound much better then whatever old DAC the ipod was using as it was a decade old

[lone zodiac]

what is it they are actually doing

[slate agate]

replacing the screens often, the batteries and the storage which usually involves a custom pcb so they can take sd cards internally

and the case more often then not because they are usually dinged/scratched up to hell

all in you probably end up spending more then what the ipod cost new at the time

[dull tapir]

how would n64 be comfortable or useful in any kind

for pc

[dreamy rose]

Emulation

[lone zodiac]

what strip you recommend?

[dreamy rose]

you get two of em you can hold em like Wii nunchucks so you have good controls in perfect dark

[harsh quartz]

You dare insult the n64 controller? You sir are not a gamer

[tender glade]

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-nintendo64-n64-nintendo64controller-n64controller-gif-23679764

[harsh quartz]

Who needs a dpad? Xbox gamers don’t seem to care about it

[dull tapir]

why only n64

[dusty rune]

the dpad on the latest xbox controllers is so good

[dull tapir]

too clicky

for platformers

if you use one controller you obviously want to get one that is most suited for everything

[sudden bough]

What ever is cheapest or the one that has the features you want. They are all different

[sudden bough]

Kinky

[wispy marsh]

wb to ltt

[wispy marsh]

Please no

[sudden bough]

Project Silica… idk if I want my data to last 10k years…

[winged oyster]

i got discord running on windows xp

on a thinkpad t42

New Moon browser

too bad ican't post a photo of this

[sudden bough]

Camera

Also I’m starting to think a 32” tv on a desk is a bit too biggu

[pearl dawn]

No

I'm gonna get a 50 inch to work

[sudden bough]

I think it’s too close

Posted in #off-topic

[prime solstice]

You are speaking facts

[mortal raptor]

is anyone of you guys aware of GeniusBar podcast? , i really feel like if they somehow got hold of Linus as a guest, it's gonna be an awesome episode

[prime solstice]

No

[mortal raptor]

Yes?

[sudden bough]

Meh

[sand pumice]

I have HyperX Cloud Alpha - Gaming Headset and the aux cord is broken can I use any aux cord to replace it

[sudden bough]

Ugh my innoview portable monitor refuses to cooperate in portrait mode

Yay I fixed it. Had to push a specific button…. I do NOT recommend the innoview monitors

It’s nice to have teams in vertical mode. Outlook eh

[novel ridge]

Yes any 4 pole 3.5-3.5 will WORK but it may not yaknow have features I think the standard one has a volume/ mute no?

[sand pumice]

I just can’t find any that fit in the headset because they have small hole#I don’t care about ect features since I use on pc

[sudden bough]

Heh

I swear tourbox looks like a busy box for adults

[acoustic igloo]

My laptop is fixed

:)

[graceful burrow]

:)

[tepid jasper]

no

[tardy ibex]

it finally worked out between me and my love interest I've been pursuing for over a year and it happened just after I built my first desktop PC (small form factor, rtx 4080, ryzen 9 7950x3D)

it is actually true, cool computers attract women

[tepid jasper]

statistical outlier

[tardy ibex]

women are also impressed at how fast I can type on my keyboard

[tepid jasper]

how fast?

[manic edge]

lies.

[tardy ibex]

let me do a test

[tepid jasper]

30s monkeytype

[tardy ibex]

score: 565 CPM (that is 113 WPM)

[polar fern]

Is this good pricing for 16-18-18 ddr4 3200 mhz ram? https://www.newegg.com/kingston-32gb/p/N82E16820242751?item=9SIA12KJK67492

[tardy ibex]

on typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/

let me do it on monkeytype

120 WPM on monkeytype

did a bit better

[atomic mortar]

bread

[polar fern]

I don’t really type that often

[sudden bough]

yeah i used to type super well but over the years its not as much a thing anymore. especially with auto type on a phone

[tardy ibex]

i hate typing on a phone

[sudden bough]

dictate

[lapis solstice]

Bro's a lucky dawg, or he got that computer rizz

[polar fern]

Purchased:

[zealous current]

I'm just throwing a little high five around the forum, from little Denmark

[lapis solstice]

Embed fail

[graceful burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/high-five-fail-missed-high-five-high-five-fail-dumb-and-dumber-gif-13380714

I got u homie

[zealous current]

how i got just a text lool

[graceful burrow]

You don't have embed permissions in this channel

[lapis solstice]

You need permission

[zealous current]

ohhhh

sorry just danish🥸

[polar fern]

Do you have a bridge?

[zealous current]

homeland

[slim copper]

[graceful burrow]

[zealous current]

Naa, I'm so old that I should consider becoming a vegan, I've heard it's supposed to be healthy

[lapis solstice]

Moderation, eat and drink in moderation

Unless the stuff is really toxic

[zealous current]

after all, my ancestors, so-called Vikings, must be turning in their graves,

Well, I'm slow at google translate, sorry

[lapis solstice]

Didn't know you were using it, no problem anyway

[lapis solstice]

Is Dutch breakfast just bread and some chocolate sprinkles?

[zealous current]

@lapis solstice 🍻 oh don`t know im Danish

[brazen relic]

https://fixupx.com/shitpost_2077/status/1719814066640662943

[zealous current]

loooooooooooooooooool

have a great night my gaming kids are screaming like birds for food

[eager notch]

BREAD ROLL

[stray apex]

What the fuck
Backerkit wont take my payment and somehow it also clears all my browser cookies

How does that even happen

[sudden bough]

their payment server is having issues?

they dont accept your card?

[polar fern]

Sounds sus

[wispy marsh]

I have Bionic's worst nightmare

[eternal hearth]

common scam. they are actually planning on stealing your intestines

[whole lake]

Hear me out, thermal paste water cooling

All you need is a pump that’s powerful enough

[sage quiver]

Sounds loud.

[stray apex]

Okay, but how does that lead it to clearing my browser cookies

I haven’t worked with a payment processor before but I’m pretty sure that’s not normal behavior

[whole lake]

High torque electric motor maybe? Those are fairly quiet

[sage quiver]

now you got more stuff to cool

[night heron]

water isnt really the bottleneck in cooling

[south knot]

who has some time to help me find a new monitor

[whole lake]

Hold on if you lower air pressure you can reach a point of equilibrium between the 3 states of water and they can coexist

What if you did that in a water cooling loop

[karmic flame]

You wouldnt be able to get it threw a radiator. It would be too restrictive and would get clogged. Maybe using a vehicle size radiator. Still would not be able to move it fast enough to dissipate heat.

[whole lake]

Wait could Liquid Metal work?

Assuming you use materials that aren’t eaten away by it

[graceful burrow]

wouldnt be able to get it through the pump

[hot tartan]

There’s a reason we still use water dude

[whole lake]

Magnets maybe?

[graceful burrow]

that's literally the issue with using liquid metal

it's metal
motors create magnetic fields

it'll just stick to the motor

[sage quiver]

but but langley

ltt did concrete and it worked!

https://youtu.be/VeT1LFVdUV0 damnit why'd they have to update the title

[graceful burrow]

but but but langley
ltt cooled a cpu with mustard liquid metal through an aio pump is fine

[whole lake]

I swear there is some way to create a magnetic field that pushes outward

[graceful burrow]

that is not how physics work.

[karmic flame]

in theory it would work great. I dont know what material wouldnt wear down extremely fast tho.
@graceful burrow im sure a pump could be found to move it. *no regular pump would *
also if any leeks anywhere.. the hardware is toast.

All in all it would work great. Practical use tho NO. No pump or lines or blocks will last long enough

[graceful burrow]

you'd have to offsite the pump kek

[whole lake]

Copper

[karmic flame]

um no, copper is super soft

[whole lake]

Right… there’s got to be something out there that would work

[karmic flame]

Maybe Titanium

[hot tartan]

Yes there is, but it’s just so impractical dude

[gilded forge]

in what goddamn world-

[whole lake]

It’s not meant to be a practical idea, this is just theoretical

Practicality be dammed

[karmic flame]

Yea if money was no object "it could be done" but you would need like Elon, type money

and in theory it should be extremely good. However there are easier less expensive alternatives when it comes to exotic cooling that would give you better cooling at a fraction of the cost such as chillers

[median idol]

Got some bulk Koolance 705 on the way. Originally wanted Aquacomputer Double Protect Ultra or 702 but the 705 was what was in stock

Also fancy squirt tube

[stoic beacon]

Always a fun day when the software team gets called in to help fix the secretary and office staff PCs.

[whole lake]

What tool is that?

[stoic beacon]

DupeGuru

They were frustrated that they were "losing changes" when it synced. When in reality, there's about 200+ different variations of documents that they've all been updating

[whole lake]

Omfg

That sounds like hell

[stoic beacon]

I asked for an example, and they opened up a document, made some edits to it, closed it, proceeded to open a completely different folder with a document with almost the exact same name, and then freak out when the edits weren't there anymore.

[stoic beacon]

It's about to be...this is why I like to stay out of it, but better to fix this now than have to fix it 10 years from now

[whole lake]

Do you guys not have an IT team or something

[old yacht]

Dam didnt know they made Switch 0.5 already

[prime solstice]

I found one of those once on Amazon but it was only a famiclone but it had all of those buttons on them

[gilded forge]

I actally have this model. that's how I knew what it was lmao

[prime solstice]

Yeah imagine how many parents bought it for their kids thinking it was a real switch

[gilded forge]

probably not very many actually. it's an Android based emulation machine. you can't mistake it for a switch, nowhere on the page does it say it has switch capability. plus, it's more of a Vita than a Switch, it has the same panel that the Vita used.

[prime solstice]

Wait I got confused with Ali express

[harsh quartz]

That’s what the switch lite is

[stoic beacon]

We... Forget that there's staff outside of the main team sometimes just because we're always handling the computers. Nowhere near large enough to have a dedicated team for that

[fierce moth]

Man I wouldnt mind a next gen ds

It's the only way we're gonna get solid previous gen compatibility without outright remaking the game

[prime solstice]

I got a next gen ds it’s called the 3ds (sarcasm btw)

[fierce moth]

😱

But fr

[prime solstice]

Ik I would like one

One that can play doom 2016

[fierce moth]

Tomodachi life 2 is an importance

[prime solstice]

Wait

[prime solstice]

Have you ever played tomodatchi life 1 aka tomodatchi collection

For the Nintendo ds

[fierce moth]

No

[prime solstice]

It’s cool cause you can make mii’s on a ds

[dreamy rose]

alright i have an Amiga 500 now,
hey where's my new girl?

[wise pumice]

i am him

[lapis solstice]

You are him

[graceful burrow]

He is him

[prime solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/leatylrs-friends-gif-24277614

you have an amiga

[sage quiver]

https://www.lttstore.com/products/breadsaurus-t-shirt

[graceful burrow]

Everyone with the bread role should get one

Fo free

[slow fern]

would it be recommendable to buy a macbook pro 2019 with core i9 + 32gb ram + 1tb ssd for 500$ but the catch being that the seller told it freezes while installing macos in macos recovery

[dreamy rose]

wish i actually did tbh.

[prime solstice]

ah same here

[vocal raft]

i wouldnt personally

[slow fern]

What if it was like 300$

[vocal raft]

not sure about others but if your going to get a mac ideally get one of the new arm chips

[dusty rune]

go m1/m2 if you want a macbook

[slow fern]

I tried looking into them but most of the ones in my budget are like icloud locked

[dreamy rose]

if you throw Windows or linux on it maybe it'd be an alright buy

[vocal raft]

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

[dusty rune]

or just use macos

[dusty rune]

because its a perfectly usable operating system

[slow fern]

And windows doesn’t run on the apple m chips

[dreamy rose]

nobody should use MacOS

[dusty rune]

ok grandpa

[vocal raft]

false

[dreamy rose]

cap

[vocal raft]

how so

[slow fern]

Macos is pretty good for productivity

[dreamy rose]

you ever looked at it?

[slow fern]

And battery life

[vocal raft]

yes ive used it b4

and i hackintoshed its a fine os

[dreamy rose]

and so is linux.

[slow fern]

Linux is not good for productivity though

Or not as good

[dreamy rose]

it is though.

[dusty rune]

depends what productivity

[vocal raft]

plus mac has apple specific apps and is a good work machine (my friend who primarily uses windows, but has a mac for work says so)

[dusty rune]

productivity is a very wide spectrum

[prime solstice]

I use it for when I do school work

[vocal raft]

it depends i think linux can be, as you can choose your desktop environment and only have things you want

but then some apps you may need might not be on linux meaning less productive

[dreamy rose]

you have better options than Adobe anyway, just in general.

[dusty rune]

productivity isnt just adobe btw

[dreamy rose]

Adobe is the biggest and one of the dumbest arguments against linux

[dusty rune]

ehhh

[dreamy rose]

you have all kinds of free open source alternatives that don't make you sell organs to use.

[manic torrent]

All of which work flawlessly and don't require changes in training or business process.

[split fulcrum]

I did not know this was a thing on spotify

[fossil frost]

businesses want stuff that "just works", and stuff that is taught in school/college/university, and those things are rarely the FOSS versions of popular things. because nobody uses them, so why would you teach them, so because nobody teaches them, nobody uses them (nobody here, doesnt mean everyone, it means the vast majority). its a cycle, a cycle that cant and wont change

lost time, is lost money, and any time lost on people pissing around with stuff that "might be 1% better, if we spend 100s of hours retraining everyone", is worth far more than the saving they make on not paying for licences, especially when the licences are a cost of doing business and are written off on the tax bill

[spice pine]

yeah, FOSS stuff rarely has the enterprise level support they need, so most business steer clear because it's actually more expensive to keep someone on staff to fix those issues than it is to just pay the company directly for a license that comes with support

[fossil frost]

im waiting for someone to list the 3 or 4 rare exceptions to the rule now to try and disprove what you said 😄 ("but FOSS-PROJECT-X does have enterprise support"... yep... well done, you found the exception to the rule)

[echo canopy]

Foss user facing applications. A lot of library’s for paid for programs however use foss libraries and foss software is used a lot in backends.

[fossil frost]

yep, zlib is used almost everywhere, and given that the CRT are re-implemented for each compiler on each platform, i would say that zlib is probably the most used complete-library on the planet

[manic torrent]

Ironically a lot of FOSS has enterprise support.... But basically all of it is tech based, not for users.

[echo canopy]

Zlib and libjpeg-turbo

[fossil frost]

im pretty sure zlib is baked into some uefi bios's too, for various reasons

[echo canopy]

the fuck

[manic torrent]

Yeah seems plausible

[echo canopy]

Oh also it’s 2023 and all gpus pretty much have hardware jpeg decoders yet we still do it on cpu. I understand why but it’s kinda ironic

[dreamy rose]

oh yeah. video dropped on this exact topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUFXUA9R48

[dusky jacinth]

Linux can be anything you need it to be.
It's just down to whether you can stand to change over to something you're not used to.
It's not that it's not ready or can fully do anything already done in Mac OS and Windows, it's just that you'd have to be willing to make the concession to learn to work something else.
That's what really stops people from using Linux or saying it's "not good for productivity". If you're used to having everything else, why would you give up what you already work with?

[fossil frost]

its 2023 and png is effectively a bmp.zip and people still think of it as a magical format that is jpeg but lossless

[dusky jacinth]

I just watched this too and the argument given makes sense.

[echo canopy]

Can we at least use lossless webp ffs

[dreamy rose]

Microsoft says no

[dusky jacinth]

I would if even most programs, commercial or open source could actually work with them properly, let alone platforms like Discord supporting them.

[indigo plume]

Might try out the Haworth fern chair since the Herman miller chairs I didn't find comfortable

[sage quiver]

store all images in base64

[indigo plume]

Embody gave me lower back pain and the aeron gave me thigh pain

[low rain]

Two people at my table were talking to eachother and my teacher was talking but I was like zoned the fuck out and then I realized the teacher was yelling at me n my table mate but I was so confused so cause she was telling me to stop talking

[fossil frost]

and show them on a webpage with data:image/jpeg;base64 ? 😄

[echo canopy]

Google themselves released a windows plugin that adds webp support for anything that uses the window api for image decoding

[fossil frost]

the 1 thing that stops me from using webp is that no matter what plugin, what app i install, whatever association i set up... chrome keeps steeling back the file association to webp

[graceful burrow]

Webp is Hella annoying when you need the file as a png

[dusky jacinth]

[dreamy rose]

shouldn't need to be

[graceful burrow]

I've never once needed a webp format suxz

[manic torrent]

I have a friend who manages a client that uses a fleet of Linux machines to do video editing. It can absolutely be done

[fossil frost]

ohh, and the 2nd thing... right click on any image, jpg, png, gif, anything... in chrome and try to save it out... lets you save it as any other format. do the same with a webp image... chrome will only let you save it as webp

[vapid smelt]

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

[dusky jacinth]

Yep. We already got the software just for that and even Adobe and the like have been releasing web apps that can be used there too.

[echo canopy]

Wow google biasing their own image format that’s wild

[graceful burrow]

That's the problem
It's really fuckin annoying

[balmy anchor]

Anyone seen news that wd is splitting hdd and ssd divisions so essencialy sandisk will be back on its name

[dusky jacinth]

Wow...
Welp, this is amongst the many reasons why I stopped using Chrome altogether.

[echo canopy]

Never needed to convert a webp but can do that in like 10 seconds with ffmpeg

[dreamy rose]

and its only really an issue cause of microsoft. cant view a WEBP through standard photo viewer cause of Microsoft's imcompetent ass being unble to make anything but the Xbox good.

[echo canopy]

Even the Xbox is shit it runs windows.

[graceful burrow]

I sure didn't ask

[dreamy rose]

it doesn't shit itself on you and complete an update then fail it.

[echo canopy]

I just don’t use windows photo viewer on windows I use image glass

[dusky jacinth]

Oh that ain't something that makes it bad. Lmao.
The embedded Windows variants seem to work better than desktop and phone variants ironically.

[echo canopy]

Yeah instead their official recharge battery packs literally don’t fucking work since the launch of the original Xbox one

[dusky jacinth]

Well that's a hardware problem then.

[echo canopy]

It’s software, sometimes if you’re lucky a controller update will make it work

[dusky jacinth]

... Okay, now that's something I am unfamilar with.

[dreamy rose]

its almost as if the Xbox side is competent

thats unmicrosoft like

[echo canopy]

Probably because it’s locked down and easy to test.

[dreamy rose]

Windows is locked down. not as much as Mac but its still locked down

[echo canopy]

also use lossless webp

[echo canopy]

Neither are locked down and you can do whatever the fuck you want. Mac OS just makes it harder and on windows a update can brick your pc with heavy modification

Windows insider bricked itself cause I had wallpaper engine installed

[dreamy rose]

windows updates will either fail on you for no reason or brick your shit, OR add some bullshit like pinning MSN to your taskbar or force edge on you

[sudden bough]

Yes. My laptop died and had to be rest cause of an update

It’s a surface book 2

[dreamy rose]

they got fucking sued fopr this shit in the 90s

[stoic beacon]

I thought we were talking about Windows in an Enterprise setting though? None of these things are true for that version of windows, especially with an IT team controlling them.

[echo canopy]

Never had update fail on me in my years of windows besides being in windows insider program

[dreamy rose]

we are just talkign windows in general

[echo canopy]

Michalsoft bimbos

[spice pine]

https://tenor.com/view/blinking-guy-blinks-eyes-blinking-meme-surprised-drew-scanlon-gif-21139379

[echo canopy]

If windows does not add native jpegXL support by the end of the year I will firebomb my Minecraft village

[dreamy rose]

well lucky you. windows wouldn't finish the fucking update for me so i left it. its sitting there barely being touched

[vapid cypress]

Guys it's time to sing Christmas songs

[dreamy rose]

no its fucking not. don't be a corpo

[vapid cypress]

It's Christmas season guys

[echo canopy]

She’s defrosted, it’s too late bionic

[vapid cypress]

I'm already infected

[dreamy rose]

true.

[echo canopy]

https://youtu.be/1giQVuoTAFM?si=psuV_WIEQRTJUkmg

She’s even become self aware

I predict by 2040 all I want for Christmas is you will be played 24/7 on all radio channels

[vapid cypress]

😭It's over

[dreamy rose]

if every corpo is eager to celebrate Christmas so early then give me 50% off for the rest of the year then

[vapid cypress]

I hate those up to 40% off and it's like that one item that Noone buys

Clearly it's true but fuck you

[dreamy rose]

i don't want 1 dollar chocolates i want 50 cent choclates.

[fierce moth]

Shit she's defrosting

[dreamy rose]

just for november and december. 90 dollar PC case? 45.

900 dollar graphics card? 450.

[fierce moth]

Wdym woollies has a button to deploy the Christmas decorations

[vapid cypress]

Guys it's not about that one day of the year it's the season 😌

[dreamy rose]

yes. so we should be getting 50% off all season then.

[sudden bough]

Nah it’s about waiting to get crap you would normally but get for free

[vapid cypress]

All I want for Christmas is the steammmmm sale on November 21st

[dusky jacinth]

Well if you consider Team Xbox's history inside of Microsoft, they mostly found that it was best to work as independently as possible outside of instances like OS, software support, and such whenever it comes to "less popular projects at corporate level". Lmao.

[vapid cypress]

It should be international law,at this point

[fierce moth]

Nah we gotta have black Friday first

Or the battle of black Friday if you will

[vapid cypress]

The greed Friday

[sudden bough]

Don’t forget, Amazon prime day

[vapid cypress]

Insatiable greed day

[sudden bough]

Also, the after Halloween sale

Thanksgiving day sales

Then Black Friday

[fierce moth]

Cyber monday

[vapid cypress]

I'm not american boo

[sudden bough]

Yes, cyber Monday too

[stoic beacon]

*Buying knockoff/refurbished products sold as new products day

[sudden bough]

It’s more like cyber week now

[fierce moth]

I'm entirely focused on getting new earbuds

Cause my old ones died

[sudden bough]

They may get a new headset and a desk and maybe a monitor if I can’t decide if I want to use my TV as a monitor

[vapid cypress]

I think I'm done buying stuff for now I got everything I need from head to toe

Specifically tech

[sudden bough]

I do need a robot mop

[fierce moth]

I'm pretty much done with wearables

I have a galaxy watch 4

And that's all I need

[echo canopy]

Smart watches do be super convenient sometimes. I love my series 8

[sudden bough]

I never use my Apple Watch. What about a vr headset?

[vapid cypress]

I bought a tic watch 3 pro ultra in April this year

I also own a oculus quest 2

[granite tinsel]

i have a series 9 and it's finally gotten me to take fitness seriously again

[vapid cypress]

You don't need a fancy watch to exercise

[granite tinsel]

of course not, but it motivates me

[sudden bough]

Nope just the will to not be fat

[granite tinsel]

having a concrete set of goals tracked for you really helps

[vapid cypress]

I honestly like the feature that tracks cycling

The speeds and stuff the heart rate

Really cool

[granite tinsel]

would be great if i lived in a bike-friendly neighbourhood

[vapid cypress]

I'd rather cycle 50km than do a run

I hate running

[granite tinsel]

same but again bike-friendly neighbourhood 💀

[vapid cypress]

Car centric cities suck balls

[granite tinsel]

my city isn't entirely car-centric but i live in a goddamn suburb

one of the nimbiest suburbs in this city in fact

[velvet marsh]

My country is entirely car-centric

[vapid smelt]

we have a 60 mile long parkway that follows a river, i just took a 10 mile ride on it just 2 hours ago

[velvet marsh]

I miss the Rocky Mountains. living in the flat lands sucks 😦

[granite tinsel]

i live 15 minutes away from a very bike-friendly parkway! the problem is that to get there you have to go down a 20-degree steep 4-lane thoroughfare with no bike lanes at all where the cars regularly go above 50mph

[vapid cypress]

You miss being in fallout new Vegas smh

[vapid smelt]

its amazing looking out at the Rocky mountains during that fall and winter they are stunning

[velvet marsh]

Yeah I grew up in Colorado, loved it

[manic torrent]

I went to denver once, it seems like a place! I could see the mountains but didn't have time to fo there

[granite tinsel]

there's also a fantastic nature trail that i live 15 minutes from walking... except a landslide took out the exact right portion of it to force me to reach the trail from the next closest entry point, which is an entire hour walking uphill in a completely unbearable isolated suburb

[velvet marsh]

Grew up not too far from here

[granite tinsel]

if only i had image perms, then i'd share a pic of the mountains you can see from the top of that trail

[tender wyvern]

just tried prime for the first time and i gotta say its awful shit tasted like cough medicine how do people like this stuff? 💀

[polar fern]

Had to drop girlfriend off at ER. Waiting in car. Dunno how long it will be.

[manic torrent]

it will be a long time 😦

[granite tinsel]

anyway i do need to lose a lot of weight over the coming months and this apple watch has been doing a great job so far encouraging me to make progress towards that everyday

[sudden bough]

That sounds like a math problem

[sudden bough]

Marketing

[topaz crag]

True

[polar fern]

This location has good cell service

[topaz crag]

For an insane amount of rent and cost to buy a house you can move to Vancouver it is bike friendly.

[granite tinsel]

you fool, i live in vancouver 💀

[polar fern]

But do you really?

[granite tinsel]

north shore

[polar fern]

👍

[topaz crag]

…. Bruh then why do you say it’s not bike friendly?

Check arbutus

[granite tinsel]

the part of vancouver so car-dependent and isolated by its two bridges and one ferry that its economic development has been proven to be stifled by it in studies

[topaz crag]

Oh

[topaz crag]

True

[polar fern]

It is in parts, just like many NA cities

[topaz crag]

Love the rent and shanking do ya?

[granite tinsel]

thank fuck my parents bought our house with their life savings instead of renting 💀

[topaz crag]

Damn

I just got a good deal that’s why I live here.

[granite tinsel]

and i mean like damn near all their life savings

[topaz crag]

….

[granite tinsel]

yep 🗿

now i'm probably never gonna move into my own home unless i leave this city

[topaz crag]

Is rent like? 2k for one bedroom?

[granite tinsel]

unless i strike it big somewhere

[vapid cypress]

Man I can't wait to afford a home 🧍‍♂️

[sudden bough]

😐 i live in ohio

[granite tinsel]

ya

[vapid smelt]

yikes

[topaz crag]

[sudden bough]

yeah 😐

[topaz crag]

Potato.

[sudden bough]

More like Soy

[topaz crag]

….

[vapid cypress]

Soy Boy

[topaz crag]

Welp Idaho?

[sudden bough]

and opiods

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlxX0phpEOY

[velvet marsh]

Download isn’t bad. Upload is garbage tho lol

[topaz crag]

Sheesh I am scamming my lord.

[vapid cypress]

Aww hell naww

[granite tinsel]

good

[sudden bough]

$1600 for a 2 bedroom town home here. washer dryer hookup. open parkign though

[velvet marsh]

That's cell, so it probably fluctuates

[topaz crag]

Damn.

[sudden bough]

i complain cause its high 🙂

[granite tinsel]

on the canada line rn so i guess i got interrupted; only got 43.98 down and no up was measured

[granite tinsel]

fun fact! the average home price in west vancouver is 3 million dollars

[sudden bough]

WHAT

[granite tinsel]

the average

[vapid cypress]

So you are basically a millionaire

[sudden bough]

you can find a collapsing house here for $40k

[granite tinsel]

yes, with practically all our money locked up in just the house, which we will likely never use because we do not want to move out of this city

[velvet marsh]

is that on Cell?

[manic torrent]

lol no, 2ms? 0 jitter?

[velvet marsh]

I'm getting old, i cant read stuff that small

[granite tinsel]

i don't understand why anyone would want to live on the north shore

oh yes! i want to be stuck on the lions gate bridge or second narrows bridge for an hour every time i want to go to anywhere else in the city

[vapid cypress]

That's a lot considering my mom just bought herself an apartment that I lived in for my most childhood for like 12k and she is turning 50 next year

[granite tinsel]

what advantages do we have? easier access to the trails and mountains? big whoop, i'd rather not have to use a car to get anywhere in this stupid place

[vapid cypress]

And by bought I mean got a loan

[manic torrent]

yeah government here says nobody needs higher speed internet 🙂

[velvet marsh]

Lies lol

[granite tinsel]

if you live downtown you can just ride to waterfront, catch a seabus, and then ride a bus directly to grouse mountain

[velvet marsh]

I mean to be fair, I rarely get over 3 gig to most sites

[granite tinsel]

grouse mountain even has their own free shuttle buses you can catch at the vancouver convention centre

[vapid smelt]

at least i can flex my ping

[vapid cypress]

What are you downloading

[velvet marsh]

Video files typically

I work with raw video for editing

[granite tinsel]

if you live anywhere else in vancouver that's served by a skytrain you have about a 66% chance of having an easier time reaching grouse mountain than an actual west or north vancouverite

[dusky jacinth]

That's almost what it feels like here. Damn.

[vapid cypress]

As a European this is relatable

[vapid cypress]

Makes sense then

We can only buy a gigabit max internet

I lied it's 2

[velvet marsh]

5 is the fastest I have found in my area

and my ISP gave me a super nice router as well

[sudden bough]

oh ok so i thought about upgrading my network. geting a tp link router and the obam wifi point

[manic torrent]

I upgraded to a mikrotik RB5009 router and a 10gb switch

[velvet marsh]

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-axe300/

They provided this one

[sudden bough]

this https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Integrated-Lightening-Protection-TL-R605/dp/B08QTXNWZ1?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

is yummy

unless someone knows better

[fierce moth]

Ubiquiti edgerouter

I want that

[peak phoenix]

Skip ubiquiti...

Their software is not great and their hardware is not worth what they charge. They charge enterprise hardware prices and what you get isn't any better than something generic from say TP Link

[fierce moth]

Ubiquiti is pretty much the only group that does rackmountingt

[red breach]

Gimmick

[manic torrent]

Rackmount kit for my mikrotik

[peak phoenix]

mikrotik has much better stuff if you're trying to stay cheap.

Some of their stuff comes with rackmount ears too

IIRC my RB4011 did

[manic torrent]

My RB5009 doesn't come with them, but you can buy them

[red breach]

you know what else works great

a shelf

[manic torrent]

it doesn't though

I mean, a shelf is perfectly fine when you have one device and it's simple

[red breach]

ok but hear me out there's literally nothing a rack accomplishes for the average home that simply stacking and shoving in a cabinet won't accomplish for $0. If you're managing dozens upon dozens of jacks -- maybe I see it

[manic torrent]

100% agree the average home doesn't need one

[dreamy rose]

they'd likely break even or make a profit anyway

[peak phoenix]

Depending on the home, it can make cabling far simpler

I intend to add more POE devices so it's going to be useful to have a rack mount POE injector and patch panel someday.

[indigo plume]

Still searching for good chair for a tall person

[peak phoenix]

I bought a used Steelcase Leap V2 and like it.

I'm 6'4".

[indigo plume]

I find the seat cushion is a bit thin and bottoms out

[peak phoenix]

It is a bit thin

[red breach]

I'm pretty sure the meta is

[indigo plume]

So longer sessions my butt will start to hurt

[vapid smelt]

Racks are overrated

[red breach]

sit in a folding chair until your bank account has like, 5 zeroes, then buy a herman miller

[indigo plume]

I tried Herman miller chair don't fit me

[peak phoenix]

https://www.crandalloffice.com/shop/chairs/steelcase/462-leap-v1/steelcase-leap-chair-upholstery-new-seat-pad/

I think that's thre right cushion, double check it's for V1 or V2 (URL may be wrong) but their cushion is thicker. With their cushion I have no issues.

Herman miller chairs suck.

[indigo plume]

Embody hurts my lower back

[indigo plume]

Aeron plastics sides hurt my legs

[red breach]

really? I'm curious if you've tried, specifically, their L/XL chairs. I've found them to be extraordinarily accommodating in the business world - generally speaking, where people are tall

[vocal raft]

didnt mention adobe, in my mind i was thinking of some apps on mac that aint else were https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-N86piksd8 like quinn mentioned

i like adobe stuff tho tbf

[peak phoenix]

The mesh chair (I think that's the aeron?) frame was SO damn uncomfortable.

[indigo plume]

Yeah

The frame is awful

[peak phoenix]

The leap with the thicker cushion is the money....for me, anyway.

[red breach]

"you're sitting in it wrong" you're not supposed to rest on the frame lmfao

[peak phoenix]

I had the correct size for me. My legs would still be on the front section of the frame.

[indigo plume]

Sold in USA only for those ones

[red breach]

there's a reason why these chairs come fit to you. I really don't get how the peanut gallery here is like, universally, hating on what's genuinely regarded as the most comfortable chair in the world

[indigo plume]

No chair fits everybody mate

[peak phoenix]

I mean, if it fits you that is great. I'm saying that for me, their chairs are awful.

[indigo plume]

Seems they fit smaller folk

And don't have chairs for the big and tall market

[peak phoenix]

I was in the L or the XL I think. It wasn't the side to side I had issue with either.

[red breach]

and I'm just saying that like, that's definitely a departure. Honestly, before my interactions here today I had never come across someone saying the HM chairs were.... bad

[peak phoenix]

only problem with my leap v2 is that it creaks when I recline. No amount of lubricating the spring has fixed it.

[red breach]

I can't invalidate your experience - if a chair doesn't fit you right, it doesn't fit you right. I just am used to the corporate world where, like, idk it's like badmouthing EVGA or something here. HM fans just seem to be everywhere where someone else is footing the bill for your chair. maybe that has something to do with it?

[long bolt]

ok id like to bring to everyone attention a rtx 4060 has now been put int a optiplex https://www.reddit.com/r/SleepingOptiplex/comments/17mdel5/okay_no_more_jokes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[dreamy rose]

those are practically worthless anyway. they are stuck on MacOS

[indigo plume]

They are not great for ppl who aren't in the average height/weight range imo

They are great for ppl who do fit in those size ranges

[shadow furnace]

o

[shrewd surge]

Just watched the M3 video and I couldn't pay attention to anything other that the secret lab pillows being upside down,

[vapid smelt]

did you try flipping your screen?

[dreamy rose]

Apple is boring

[vapid smelt]

[dreamy rose]

like cmon just move to linux already.

[red breach]

the m3 isn't that hot but

you know there's plenty of things MacOS is... pretty damn slick for, yeah?

[indigo plume]

I don't think Linux is great for the average consumer

[red breach]

I'm not even saying it's better than any particular product. Just that, independently of it all, MacOS does some things very well. It's... really a comfortable working environment for the web - and that alone justifies it's market position

[dreamy rose]

do you say the same thing about Android?

[red breach]

but then you look at it's architecture - plugins for audio, core libraries like Cocoa and CoreImage that... genuinely make shitty little third party apps a pleasure to use. Even things like quicklook in the finder, you just press space while ANY file is selected and you get a preview of it. Movies play, images view, but like -- fucking 3D files like STLs or OBJs, you can interact with them without ever opening a god damn program like holy fuckin shit

[vapid smelt]

[red breach]

windows can't even figure out thumbnail previews of PSDs

[dusty rune]

gl making the average consumer learn how to sudo apt upgrade every few days when trying to install something

[indigo plume]

No but I think android is more consumer friendly

[dreamy rose]

that isn't a thing you do out of nesessity

[dusty rune]

i mean..

might need to do it at some point

[dreamy rose]

likely not.

[topaz crag]

I use their products but ever since they stopped live they suck

Love live presentations

[dreamy rose]

your regular sudo apt upgrade or sudo pacman -Syu, it normally comes from the App Stores.

Linux is thrown out there as this always hard to use bad for consumers operating system when its literally not. updates work (unlike windows)

and its not for any specific type of person its for everyone

[peak phoenix]

MacOS is unix so....

[dreamy rose]

it wouldn't be too hard a move, i know

[peak phoenix]

Sure it can, IIRC you can add the ability to create thumbnails if you add support for the filetype.

[peak phoenix]

Sure, but at least with MacOS there's no distro war BS

There's a single source of decisions.

I like Linux and want it to be better but MacOS is better if only because of consistency.

[red breach]

it can but does it? no

https://imgur.com/a/zTSDiln

like, literally no

[peak phoenix]

PSD is a proprietary format. It's on Adobe to implement it.

[red breach]

hate to show you what macOS does, then

[rustic holly]

What you even on about?

What you blabbing about?

[red breach]

(hint, it shows PSD previews like any other image) https://imgur.com/a/r89wSSZ

[red breach]

you know, you could read like 3 lines of text. Do you really want me to spoon feed you?

[rustic holly]

Attitude.

[red breach]

no, you

[rustic holly]

I'm just seeing formats and someone sticking up for mac os.

[dreamy rose]

it comes with being open source, you get all kinds of tools made for different purpouses people don't agree with, make their own etc. some will want a mac like desktop others want good ones etc. same with the distro basses and everything else

[red breach]

there's your fuckin answer then, did you really have to ask twice?

[dreamy rose]

you may see it as a weakness but it is inface a strength because you have choice on what you run

[rustic holly]

🍞

[red breach]

dead meme

[rustic holly]

Idrc.

[peak phoenix]

I don't know who wrote the thumbnail generator or if Adobe supported the movie. I'm just saying that Windows can do it if the support is present. Generally Windows as of late has distanced itself from anything not owned by MSFT

[red breach]

you're not even bread-roll, role.

[red breach]

right, and I'm saying that MacOS, you know, does.

[rustic holly]

I've been busy tech supporting

[peak phoenix]

Sure, and welcome to why Linux is such a shit show. Linus has talked quite often about how awful Linux is with app packing as an example.

[rustic holly]

Yh but it also doesn't do a lot of other important things

[vapid smelt]

but why

[rustic holly]

Hell to myself idk.

[dreamy rose]

you don't have forced telemetry, its almost never opt out and you get to customise it to your liking.

[red breach]

clearly they're not super bright

[rustic holly]

... and you're arguing over formats.

[peak phoenix]

Like...look at how the move to LLVM16 breaks stuff

[dreamy rose]

the packaging is messy yes but its really not a big deal.

[rustic holly]

Windows is technically the middle ground tbh.

[manic torrent]

... because you're comparing A group of operating systems to a single one.

[peak phoenix]

I want an app. Can I download a single file and double click it to get that app, whether I'm on Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSUSE?

[manic torrent]

It's a stupid comparison, and the entire concept is ridiculous

[dreamy rose]

flatpak.

[rustic holly]

That analogy shows why Linux is confusing and also useless to new users.

[peak phoenix]

Which is less than ideal since you need to package every darn lib with your app. It's a start in a good direction, but it's not the end solution.

[manic torrent]

because there is no "linux"

[rustic holly]

Forums just contradict each other

[red breach]

you interjected yourself into something you're imagining is an argument

[manic torrent]

also - I don't disagree

[rustic holly]

Fine, a debate then.

[manic torrent]

also there are no new users to windows, more or less.

[peak phoenix]

Linux is the kernel grandma, stop calling everything Linux.

[rustic holly]

Well I'm certain that windows still has an expanding user base.

[red breach]

what you're actually referring to is GNU+Linux

[dreamy rose]

you get your first shared libs when you install your first app that needs them. then if its not there the app installs it.

[peak phoenix]

lol no

[red breach]

? everyone who works, has a job, uses windows. Despite what the pundits say, there's new ones of those, every day

[vapid smelt]

more and more school are going to chromebooks

[manic torrent]

Oh, so people wanting to try new things, so they download windows to try it?

[red breach]

"real" people don't download operating systems to "try new ones" for fun

[peak phoenix]

The market share of Windows as a percentage is dropping. Has been for a while.

[manic torrent]

so who is using linux?

[peak phoenix]

Mostly? Android users.

[red breach]

as the overall market grows. That's the definition of a "rising tide lifting all boats". A relatively smaller slice of a bigger pie is still bigger than a big slice of a small pie

[manic torrent]

yeah exactly, which is a fundamental problem of definitions

[red breach]

literally, nobody

[rustic holly]

I doubt we'll just stop using offline applications in the future and we'll fully go Web.

[manic torrent]

ehhhh, it's not nobody.

[red breach]

No, it's literally nobody. 3% if you're optimistic. Nobody, not real people.

[manic torrent]

3% of a bazillion is not nobody 🙂

[rustic holly]

I mean the only reason I stick up for windows these days it's that backwards compatibility

[red breach]

no, it literally is a rounding error

I'd hazard a guess to look at the neuro-atypical population, I would hazard a guess the number of people with a fixation on technology of some sort (AuDHD, etc) and Linux users.... well, have you ever seen a venn-diagram look like a perfect circle?

[manic torrent]

...... imagine understanding context

[rustic holly]

And also the extent of freedom you get in a way.

[vapid smelt]

3% of a trillion dollars is 0 monies

[red breach]

Yeah, exactly my point

[manic torrent]

what does this have to do with anything?

You're agreeing with me here, ironically.

[grand sapphire]

did someone mention no monies? (my bank account)

[rustic holly]

It's not as bounding as mac os but not as free as Linux to the point where you have to code your way around in some areas.

[manic torrent]

normal people don't use linux, as a rule, sure, yes. It's also not "nobody". It WAS nobody. it's now "not very many"

[rustic holly]

Wheres the market shifting anyways?

[red breach]

Like, you have to be meta passionate about your computer to mainline linux. Nobody is using linux to accomplish a real world goal on their desktop computer

they're doing it for amusement at best

[grand sapphire]

Had a customer ask why he, as someone who doesn't know how to use computers, should install linux onto his laptop.

[peak phoenix]

MacOS is growing

[rustic holly]

Idk I always just thought it was to "show off" how "cool they are that they made their lives harder than it needs to be"

[peak phoenix]

Linux is SLOWLY growing.

[rustic holly]

And yet they still don't have window snapping

[red breach]

consumer devices like iOS, Android

which yes, android is linux, chromeOS is linux, these things, they are linux

[rustic holly]

Yikes.

I don't want to live a life where I'm using my phone for everything

[peak phoenix]

I mean, welcome to MacOS UI. Apparently people don't care. And those who do can get Rectangle and such

[red breach]

but they're not "capital L" Linux, roll-your-own type beat shit that's in the crosshairs. If your OS' primary method of distribution is ISOs.... it's genuinely not a situation 95% of consumers will ever like, do. They're not installing a new OS on hardware that already has an OS. Just, no.

[rustic holly]

Idk I can't get used to mac os.

[peak phoenix]

There is some form of snapping in that you can split fullscreen apps too - same way that Windows 7 gave it.

[warped edge]

Pc keeps restarting and I’m getting the kernel power 41 error msg, any suggestions?

[vapid smelt]

if we count chromebooks is growing pretty wel

[rustic holly]

#1027757333117415424

[vapid smelt]

buy a new pc

[rustic holly]

Surely got to be a better solution than that?

[vapid smelt]

buy TWO pcs

[full fossil]

my cpu cooler is drooping from the heat. My cpu temp is almost 123*C

[gleaming harbor]

if we count the smart tvs does it count

[rustic holly]

Your computer should have shut off by now then?

[full fossil]

idk

[rustic holly]

Overheating

[full fossil]

i have a intel pentium and a gtx 160

[red breach]

kernel 41 just means "hey I *shut down unexpectedly". going to have to diagnose this yourself - could be bad software, bad hardware, heyo

[rustic holly]

That's impressive.

The fact that still runs.

[full fossil]

what do you mean

idk man

[rustic holly]

I do happen to have brick pcs around

[full fossil]

im saving up for an omen 45L

it looks sick