public-chat

[polar fern]

If it was negligent then possible fines & lawsuits

[eager notch]

No one was hurt but economically it's really terrible because since there is no gas, basically every restaurant is closed

[polar fern]

critical infrastructure accidents leading to outages are more common than most people realise.

Yeah that sucks

Did they declare a disaster in the affected county(s)? If so, they may be able to get money to offset the closure losses

[eager notch]

Here's what a friend said when he encountered a utility employee

[eager notch]

As far as I know my city didn't but the city 10 miles west of us did

[polar fern]

Yeah we don’t want another Merrimack Valley

[eager notch]

Im guessing it's not really at the scale of putting 150,000 people in a 50 mile radius all that often though

[polar fern]

Got to close those valves

Yeah

Smaller scale outages are extremely common. Usually there are addressed the same day.

[clever cape]

Now can I get bread?

[polar fern]

I have talked to a few regional electric utility contractors and they are saying they are preparing to expand some switchyards to accommodate emergency grid power backup and dedicated interchanges, with black start sources, like wind, turbines, and solar farms.

it’s too bad they can’t do the same for gas networks

[spice pine]

negative

[polar fern]

Would be prohibitively expensive to have a bunch of storage tanks and pumps sitting there on standby

[eager notch]

You had to be here to get it

[clever cape]

😦

[polar fern]

You had to be there and be part of the wall of bread pushing the ridiculousness out

[clever cape]

🍞

/nick

[polar fern]

At one point as soon as new people joined talking about the nonsense, people would reply with multiple pictures of bread

[clever cape]

😦

[eager notch]

Well, if ya switch off power then it's just off, if ya switch off gas, you still have a huge amount of flammable gas to deal with

[polar fern]

That too

[manic torrent]

well, what does switch off mean. And the problem is often the air in the system AFTER the break.

[polar fern]

However, a local pump station could hypothetically have backup storage tanks so operations that rely on the gas could wind down instead of a hard shutoff. It would be kind of expensive though to maintain all of that properly out in the open.

[clever cape]

I WILL HAVE BREAD

[polar fern]

Did you know that you can bake bread at home?

[manic torrent]

No, I didn't know that, please, tell me more.

[eager notch]

Shut all the valves

[clever cape]

minimum you need is flour and water

You can actually let your bread ferment naturally instead of adding yeast. its a lot slower, but it works!

Oh and mold is an issue

[eager notch]

Can confirm, after a few weeks of keeping a starter alive, I give up

[clever cape]

;D

[eager notch]

You probably like subway or some shit

[clever cape]

Sorry I interrupted the gas. it was getting a little stinky in here. Please continue to flatulate in here. (Wait natural gas? OOOOHHHHHHHH)

[eager notch]

Im mostly annoyed I can't have a hot shower

[clever cape]

Wait when did I put that there?

[polar fern]

Fun fact, it’s called natural gas because originally we used coal gas and stored it in big things called gasometers.

[eager notch]

Something something Tom Scott something something

[clever cape]

Interesting. Was the gas collected by doing incomplete burns of coal? kinda like wood gas?

[polar fern]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas

[clever cape]

yup. 🙂

[polar fern]

Bleh Tom Scott

[manic torrent]

Perfection.

[sudden bough]

i contribute to climate change daily 😐

[polar fern]

Not a fan

[sudden bough]

i dunno what i'm looking at

[clever cape]

Is that an AC unit with a duct to your face?

[sudden bough]

its like one of those mess photos that has no real dicernable item

[polar fern]

The biggest contributors to climate change are actually oil and gas exploration and extraction as well as petrochemical refineries

[sudden bough]

i toot alot 😐

[manic torrent]

sure is! it's very temporary, but it's very effective

[eager notch]

https://youtu.be/SopJr0yHt-w?si=qOmskH2l1ww-Z_69

[clever cape]

Humans are the worst thing to happen to Earth.

[manic torrent]

Every person should watch technology connections and tom scott

[polar fern]

Leaky gas pipes are far more egregious in terms of climate change than your flatulence or whatnot

[sudden bough]

oh

well that is what people call me

[clever cape]

"Leaky gas pipe"?

[eager notch]

No this is a fan

[clever cape]

why are the blades textured?

[sudden bough]

for her pleasure

[polar fern]

Humans as an animal don’t really contribute directly to the atmospheric gas mixture

[eager notch]

What about cow farts?

[spice pine]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-rock-gif-21708339

[manic torrent]

.... no shit, nobody fucking said that

[polar fern]

Our industrial actives on the other hand….

[clever cape]

Fairly insignificant.

According to other users, I am wrong. I don't think looking it up is worth my time, therefore I have clowned myself. Please feel free to add a clown.

[polar fern]

Hmm methane is worse than co2 by a country mile

[manic torrent]

... unless you take into account how fucking stupid american beef is, what with the fucking corn and feedlots

[spice pine]

this bradley character feels like they may be too young to use discord

[manic torrent]

Globally, cows and other livestock animals are responsible for about 40 percent of methane emissions

Cows and other farm animals produce about 14% of human-induced climate emissions

TLDR: Bradley is completely wrong.

[spice pine]

https://tenor.com/view/shocker-shocked-futurama-im-shocked-gif-5296191

[polar fern]

Some parts of our bodies are years younger than others due to cellular replacement

[clever cape]

Ok. I'm wrong.

[manic torrent]

yes, this is totally relevant, what the fuck are you on about you absolute cooked unit

[polar fern]

Leaky gas pipes are the biggest nonpoint source of methane

[polar fern]

Moo

Rest in pieces hrh lizzy

[eager notch]

I took her eyeballs

[polar fern]

I gotta go Julia. We’ve got cows!

[clever cape]

#public-chat message

Leave a clown

[manic torrent]

I award you one learn-and-earn award, for admitting you are wrong and doing a learn. Congratulations!

[spice pine]

and just like that Bradley's more mature than half the trolls in tc1 and tc2

[manic torrent]

(Although.... TECHNICALLY cow burps are actually worse than the farts, but hey)

[eager notch]

Steak is delicious though

[polar fern]

Sigh

I guess it’s true, you can really only give people so many chances

[green forge]

latest Steam Deck video from LTT. perhaps the OLED's pixel is physically bigger than an LCD's one, and gives off an impression of higher resolution?

[sudden bough]

I eat impossible meat

[polar fern]

That’s just fancy tofu

[sudden bough]

I like fancy tofu

[polar fern]

@green forge pixel density and pitch don’t work like that

You would want smaller pixels with less gap between them

[green forge]

i meant the gap between pixels was smaller, but still same resolution

but i might be wrong yeah

[polar fern]

Narrow pixel pitch & same size pixel\count = smaller screen per same resolution

Pixels per square inch

[green forge]

wait so, say on a laptop screen, what's preventing the pixels from being physically larger than they currently are to leave a smaller gap between pixels, while keeping the same pixel density?

[polar fern]

Larger pixels means fewer per inch

You want smaller pixels with less space between them

[sudden bough]

you have to starve pixels to keep them small

[polar fern]

Erm

Let’s not

If two screens have the same number of pixels, but one screen has larger pixels and a wider pixel pitch the physical screen will be slightly larger

[wispy marsh]

Fat google = big pixels

[polar fern]

Even if the pixel pitch is the same and the pixels are larger on one screen, the one with the larger pixels will look worse

[green forge]

no no, i mean as in bigger pixels, but packed more densely than smaller, less dense pixels, to have the same amount of pixels, but more densely packed, and as such, less of a gap in between them which /should/ make them less visible

[polar fern]

Yeah, I’m not sure that’s really an issue with modern displays actually

If you go back 10 or 15 years, you will see displays that have that issue

[green forge]

yeah that's fair

[polar fern]

Typically, the smaller the screen, the smaller the pixel pitch, which is a good thing

That’s why small screens used to be incredibly expensive

LCD displays used to be very terrible. Huge strides have been made even in the last five years.

[indigo plume]

Didn't think we would get a updated steam deck so soon

[vocal raft]

fyi; i'd ask around amd just make sure these are good for example in #audio-tech

but i presume you've already done that anyways imma go now cya

[graceful burrow]

That doesn't even fit

[polar fern]

Maybe to you, it doesn’t, but then again it’s for my entertainment, not yours

And Bob earlier said that gas mains are made out of plastic. Like wat.

[dreamy rose]

ELEMENT OF SUPRISE!

[sudden bough]

dog sat on my arm

[full fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-cutting-bread-loaf-of-bread-gif-17833991680278090295

[fresh fjord]

So I figured out what's the issue. I just can't figure out how to fix it

Going to have to restart my PC to try to get it to show up again though

[sudden bough]

what

oh ok so it is possible to download videos on youtube. you just have to have premium and downloads enabled by the channel :c

[graceful burrow]

Or use an external Downloader

[sudden bough]

like what?

[graceful burrow]

I bet old friend Google knows a few if you know how to ask it

[sudden bough]

meh all the addons i found didn't work

[graceful burrow]

A browser extension isn't exactly what I'd call external

[pulsar violet]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-loaf-gif-26074269

How can we revive bread chat?

[polar fern]

@pulsar violet been a bit. How are ya?

[pulsar violet]

Good hbu

[polar fern]

Could be better could be worse ☺️

I am putting together my dessert

Going to have a sesame seed, brioche bun, with some whipped cream cheese that I’m gonna put a whole bunch of seasonings on that and make it kind of a savoury dessert then a bowl of unsweetened applesauce to round it off

Main entree was a chicken patty, but I didn’t use the bun so I’m using it now

I should try the cream cheese on the chicken patty next time I have it

[sudden bough]

Bing ai refuses to create a sexy loaf of bread

[slow fern]

Would you guys recommend getting a macbook pro m1 8GB/512GB SSD for 580 USD or Macbook Air M1 8GB/256GB SSD for 300 USD ( has some issue with the display connecter which i would have to fix )

[graceful burrow]

How confident are you in fixing it

[sudden bough]

get the non broken one

[slow fern]

Like 70%

It’s some mom that doesn’t know anything about the macbook, she just said her son said “ the display connector has some issue”

And tbh im just assuming its 8GB/256GB config cause the mom has no idea

From the pics, the screen doesn’t seem to be cracked

#tech-chat-1

I’ll send the pics there

[sudden bough]

:L

[full fossil]

either the rubbon connector is slightly unconnected or snapped

[slow fern]

Hmm if it snapped, would it be a hard fix?

[full fossil]

yes

it's flexible pcb

plastic which will melt

[sudden bough]

never buy something broken

[slow fern]

Could I just buy one from ifixt and replace it. Ifixit seems to have it for the model for 20$

#tech-chat-1

[full fossil]

one side of the ribbon cable is connected straight onto the screen

pretty sure

you'd have to change the screen

[sudden bough]

apple products are hard to fix

[slow fern]

Ah

[lilac bear]

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+downloader

[graceful burrow]

Bro solved the riddle

[slow fern]

Or just IDM or any other youtube video downloads on google

I love IDM cause it downloads everything like 4x the speed of chrome

[vapid smelt]

@slow fern what upgrades does KAT 2.0 have over KAT 1.0?

[dry umbra]

So, do we have any indicaitons on if there is going to be a RTX 4080 Ti?

[vapid smelt]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-4080-super-or-rtx-4080-ti-may-arrive-in-2024-within-rtx-4080-price-range

[hallow harness]

bred

[wispy marsh]

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/oled

[wispy marsh]

It goes through their proxy servers and sends them to you

One of the best implementation of scalable distributed systems that I really like

[manic torrent]

I'd rather buy a steamdeck

[wispy marsh]

Just so happens that it's releasing 16/11!

[vapid smelt]

the lcd or oled?

[manic torrent]

OLED, obviously

[vapid smelt]

im really mad i cant put the oled screen on my lcd steamdeck

[vapid cypress]

Skill issue

[whole swallow]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to try and snag one of the limited edition new Decks

[vapid cypress]

Durand is gonna make a skin of it

[vapid smelt]

Durand ?

[pliant karma]

[vapid smelt]

why would a city make a skin of it?

[vapid cypress]

It's where brand lives

Real

[vapid smelt]

what brand?

[vapid cypress]

Durand

AUTOCORRECT

Dbrand

Who the fuck is Durand and why is he in my autocorrect

[vapid smelt]

[vapid cypress]

It's real

[vapid smelt]

so when are we going to meet your new partner durand?

[vapid cypress]

He is not my BOYFRIEND

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-sure-john-cena-ru-sure-about-dat-gif-14258954

[vapid cypress]

The chances are 0% because I use discord

[vapid smelt]

idk you can meet allot of boys on discord

[vapid cypress]

NO

[vapid smelt]

@Durand

damn he is not in this discord

[fierce moth]

oh neato its 41c rn

[vapid smelt]

no its 35F

[idle nymph]

they made a loimited edition ?

[idle nymph]

not yet

[vapid smelt]

No they didnt make a loimited one

[fierce moth]

nah

[vapid smelt]

thats not terrible

[fierce moth]

bruh

my man is living on the sun

[vapid smelt]

41.66c with 34 days over 37.77c

southern utah got to 114F 45.55C this year

[vapid smelt]

hope you dont drive in black car with leather seats this summer

[fierce moth]

I'm not that dumb

[vapid smelt]

thats why i alway go in white candy vans not black ones they are cooler

[wispy marsh]

Hey press that little fire icon at the bottom

[vapid cypress]

We are at 5C

[wispy marsh]

Make it 90°F

[vapid smelt]

we? meaning you and Durand?

[vapid cypress]

Yes

Durand the city

And my cold cold body

[manic torrent]

Turns the heater thermostat on. Would do nothing. It's over the thermostat temp.

[balmy hamlet]

[wispy marsh]

Disable automation and press it again

[green kernel]

somehow watching deathnote improved my lieing skills

[vapid cypress]

I forgor discord gave me 2 weeks of free nitro

[manic torrent]

Huh? No, it's a thermostat. If you wanted to just run the heater I would have to change the code on the controller.

[balmy hamlet]

[wispy marsh]

Being with immature caretakers will greatly improve your lying skills

[wispy marsh]

Ooh it's just for measurement

[vapid smelt]

a heater seems pointless

[manic torrent]

No, the thermostat is in the controller. You tell it what temp you want and heat or off. It has a temp sensor, and a relay.

[manic torrent]

..... Lol get fuk.

Those are daytime maximum temperatures

[wispy marsh]

We have no need for a heater where I am, so I've never looked it up. This sounds interesting, you have HA controlling your hvac and heater via automation.

[manic torrent]

Yeah I'm not even home right now, kek

[vapid cypress]

Taste the sunnn

[fierce moth]

taste the rainbow

[median idol]

https://tenor.com/view/skittles-rainbow-intensifies-rainbow-candy-candies-gif-18958546

[idle nymph]

limited

i meant

[vapid cypress]

Durand and Loimited

New people every day

Smh

[haughty kayak]

is it worth upgrading my 5800x3d for a 7800x3d and a new MB with ddr5

[idle nymph]

honestly, wouldnt say so, 5800x3D is still a very good cpu, and you could wait some generation before swapping

[rancid pike]

Any UK peeps in here?

[wispy marsh]

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend

[junior forge]

what’s da matter

[vapid cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/holy-cow-holy-cow-gif-25938150

[fierce moth]

i wanna get a DS lite

cause i wanna bring a pokemon from my gba games to the latest gen just for lols

[vapid cypress]

[sudden bough]

Mordor

[vapid cypress]

They already have Christmas gifts and decorations in the stores

[wispy marsh]

Is WAN show up?

[lament crystal]

Why are youtube's ads so intrusive, jesus

And they wonder why people use adblockers

[vapid cypress]

If it's there it means it works

[sudden bough]

:c

[full fossil]

Hello

[cosmic copper]

last week's recording? Yeah. The youtube one goes up instantly, and the floatplane has only been taking an hour or two recently

last week's wan vod on floatplane only took an hour (show ended at 9:05 and vod was uploaded, according to #floatplane-releases, at 10:07)

[wispy marsh]

No, today's

[cosmic copper]

got another 9 hours at least for today's show
https://whenplane.com

[sudden bough]

How is Quinn (streamer) alive? Like he is always on

[plain garden]

Yo hey guys

[cold prism]

Hey yo

[magic pumice]

i made a soldering iron out of 9 volt batteries

[reef basin]

Hey quick hypothetical question, just want to figure out if I have a correct understanding of PCIe:

If I have a PCIe 4.0 x8 card (e.g. RTX 4060) and I put it in a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, will the card only use 8 of those PCIe 3.0 lanes even if the GPU would need all 16 lanes to achieve its maximum bandwidth?

I'm like 90% sure this is correct but online resources on this are unclear and contradictory.

[wispy marsh]

Pins on both sides have to lead somewhere

If x8 on the gpu is not used, gpu will use x8

If pcie slot can't use 4.0, gpu will use 3.0

[reef basin]

Okay, so yes then. Great, thanks for the explanation! :)

[solar flax]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1172579209630191707

[solemn bramble]

i had a blonde moment, I ended task manager via Task manager

[vapid cypress]

Task manager is a virus

[lethal charm]

Just want your guys' thoughts, if I have a r9 3900x rn, is it worth to upgrade to a 5950x or just save and wait for a bigger upgrade down the line?

[brave lava]

My rule of thumb. Upgrade to something brand new, that way you're at the maximum waiting period for the next version. Waiting for something bigger and better will never end. If your current rig is performing to your needs don't bother spending more.

[crystal willow]

"Is task manager a virus"

[ionic abyss]

no

[vernal pilot]

is bread a virus

[ionic abyss]

no clue

i hate shopping for new products

[sudden bough]

so shop for old ones

[ionic abyss]

if i could buy my current keyboard new i would

[soft python]

Hey folks. I thought I remembered a fairly recent price comparison video for some systems (kinda like the anual holiday buyer's guide), but I can't seem to find it now. Am I going crazy? 😅

[sudden bough]

you mean the secret shopper videos?

[soft python]

No, I thought there was one that had a list of "this is pretty much what we would build at pricepoint X"

[polar fern]

Um

[pure olive]

https://tenor.com/view/bronya-honkai-star-rail-gif-23177147

[polar fern]

Warship, go home, you’re drunk

[full fossil]

what even is the point of the tubular tower? is it to mark a mine

[balmy anchor]

Letss gooo

Finally

[polar fern]

$69 Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model RFBB14-32C16K2/32 g

Worth the price?

@full fossil antenna mount usually.

There’s at the top of a tall building

[sonic spruce]

Good luck getting down

[polar fern]

You just lower yourself down on the rope

[cosmic copper]

Maybe a crane? But I’ve never seen a crane with cylindrical supports so

[eternal hearth]

you can locate your base cause you mined and couldnt find your way back

[sick berry]

not a crane, likely an aircraft hazard beacon pole, maybe to be used for mounting service antennas

[cosmic copper]

Ah that would make sense

[sick berry]

it is the pole on this building. looks to have some sort of wind turbine up there. Other than that likely just aesthetic reasons

[polar fern]

Yeah, that’s called architecture

[sudden bough]

that is an antenna tower

probably for cellular

[sick berry]

Primary function aesthetic

antenna came secondary for sure

given the building was built before they had a reasonable need for antenna towers everywhere

[sudden bough]

radio before cell

[sick berry]

I rescind that statement, apparently the original building was demolished and this one was re-built in its place started in 2014, so it would indeed be a cell tower

[sudden bough]

that isn't a fancy antenna

it isn't even an antenna. they mount those to the pole. its a pretty standard pole. you see em everywhere

[thin mesa]

DisplayPort to AV, is it possible?

[sick berry]

that mast is a few feet wide internal diameter near the middle, they could (and probably did) easily get cell equipment in there and wired up, the whole tower has power after all, so it is more than likely a cell mast

[sudden bough]

that is what i said

[sick berry]

"it isn't even an antenna. they mount those to the pole."

no you didnt

[sudden bough]

it is just a pole

the entire thing is just something to mount to

[sick berry]

I never suggested otherwise?

[sudden bough]

/clear

[sick berry]

maybe in this message? but even then its a bit of a stretch

[sick berry]

direct? no, with the power of magic and someone putting the effort to make a converter for it, absolutely, anything is possible

[thin mesa]

nah like fr my family is about to throw out a crt and i'm wondering if i can hook it up to my laptop

it's got vga too

[polar fern]

You know, buildings have an artistic aspect to them, at least some of them do

Calling something pointless, means you missed the point

Having a spire or finial on the top of a building can change its entire look both from the air and from the ground

[velvet marsh]

you're gonna need some sort of converter, due to the crt only accepting an analog input and all your outputs on the laptop being digital

[polar fern]

Even if it’s just aesthetic, it doesn’t matter

You think that whole entire upper area with the emblem on it has actual floors in it. No, it doesn’t that’s where the window washing equipment is stored.

[hearty spear]

it's probably a crappy old CRT, not many were really good ones.
Getting a HDMI or DP to VGA Adapter is sub-10 bucks on amazon tho, so if you wanna mess around, it's pretty simple

[thin mesa]

i'm talking about the laptop 😭

[hearty spear]

needs an active adapter, since one's digital and one's analog

[hearty spear]

unless it's a really old laptop, it won't have VGA

[hearty spear]

yes you are, they don't do buyers guides

[soft python]

Sure they do. Here's the 2022 one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHv_bJ7mog
They've been doing them since 2012 or so

[fossil pewter]

Heyo! Is Wan Show today? I've been scratching my head with when is ≈5pm pacific in Cambodia...

Ohh and now that I think of it, I'm not sure what's your today either... Mine's Saturday 11th

[graceful burrow]

got a few hours before it would start

4-5 hours

[gleaming compass]

Has the Wan show gotten good again? I like Luke Lafreniere but the other guy that usually appears gets annoying. :P

[graceful burrow]

no clue i stopped watching ltt a year ago
that annoying dude is in every video

[dense canyon]

guys, any of you live near the las vegas sphere?

[raven grove]

Does anyone? I thought F1 removed everyone

[cosmic copper]

https://whenplane.com can help with the timezone confusion 😄

[zealous flare]

Cities Skylines II the new Crysis?

[full fossil]

I got -1.5 and -1.75 on the eye exam

[night heron]

i think that's identical to mine

[full fossil]

okay

[dull tapir]

is it just me or are older hitman games much better than new ones in design and story

lack of variety and customization of weapons it has all taken very modern narrative driven design

[velvet marsh]

I got -5.0

[tardy ibex]

anyone knows a good adblocker?

prepared to even pay if it's good enough for youtube

[dull tapir]

why pay for ad blocker when you can pay for premium

ublock works fine for me

[tardy ibex]

because I don't like what youtube is doing

why would I watch ads on demonetized videos

[full fossil]

my mom

[dull tapir]

ignore ethics and follow cheapest way

[tardy ibex]

ok

google is ignoring ethics when it comes to my privacy

[dull tapir]

what is wrong with ublock

[tardy ibex]

I will try ublock

[dull tapir]

they are following laws

ethics are subjective

i think ublock is most effective ad blocker

been using it for years

[tardy ibex]

me too

[dull tapir]

if ad blocker is being paid for

is probably a scam unless they just accept donations

[tardy ibex]

Yeah I get it but 2 adblocks failed me already

adguard and adblock plus

[dull tapir]

they usually fail when youtube updates its algorithm but soon after ublock adapts

and blocks it again

[tranquil knoll]

yo anyone here can help me rq

with smt about psu takes like 5 sec

[ionic abyss]

i swear gaming keyboards just became more plain

[full fossil]

use adblock(classic) for every other website and there's a youtube adblock that works it just plays the ad in less than a second

I'll send you the link for the working youtube adblock when I get home

I think it's called friendly adblock

[lime mortar]

[ionic abyss]

i just saw the major flaw in this https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Mechanical-Anti-Ghosting-Pre-Programmed-Passthrough/dp/B09DWCDL8X/ref=sr_1_6?crid=13O7FK4ZPHGQ9&keywords=rosewill+keyboard+mechanical&qid=1699652000&sprefix=rosewill+ke%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-6

id need a set of new keycaps right out of the box

wth was rosewill thinking

those keycaps on the numpad would be worthless

[graceful burrow]

they're an ultra-budget brand
they dont, they just make it cheap

[tardy ibex]

thanks

[full fossil]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-adblock-by-friend/ehfcoplbhoohillcmlophcfghpeilfjc

on your regular adblock you have to allow ads on youtube because this one will remove the youtube popup warning

[fossil frost]

if you are using ublock origin, use this in your "my filters" https://pastebin.com/raw/XVApjrqY

then "purge all caches" and "update now" in "filter lists"

[tardy ibex]

hell yeah

just added

[fossil frost]

you may need to ctrl+f5 for a full refresh on youtube if you have already hit your daily limit, but, it works fine

[sudden bough]

Vivaldi blocks ads by default

[ionic abyss]

what will we do if google some how decides youtube will only work with the offical chrome browser

they could claim its to stop ad blockers

[sudden bough]

they’ll never do that

[ionic abyss]

and that is the road we are on

they could do it

in the name of their bottom line

[sudden bough]

They won’t because of their bottom line it would hurt them

Yeah, probably be an antitrust lawsuit and the European Union would have their ass

It would also mean a lot of people wouldn’t watch it anymore

[ionic abyss]

the eu is not happy now

the ad blocker mess is just the start

unless some one stands up and says enough

[sudden bough]

It doesn’t matter they’re digging their own grave, TikTok, and Instagram are taking over some of the market now

[ionic abyss]

youtube isnt going to die anytime soon but it also wont make profits either

[sudden bough]

Nope they have to change how they do things to be profitable

They’ve been free too long

[ionic abyss]

forcing users to turn of ad blockers or pay isnt the right way

[sudden bough]

And the ads are so aggressively intrusive that everyone uses odd block so they can actually watch YouTube

[ionic abyss]

i joke about making the offical chrome browser the only allowed browser

but i doubt it hasnt occoured to a exec

[full fossil]

anti trust

[full fossil]

friendly youtube adblock actually works forever cause it just speeds up the ad you can barely see it instead of youtube saying "you have 3 more trys before lockdown🤓"

[ionic abyss]

i can joke because they aint to far from it

[fossil frost]

antitrust would come crashing down on them like an acme anvil on wile e coyote

[gleaming harbor]

does gta5 self radio plays flac files or mp3 only

[sudden bough]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=does+gta5+self+radio+plays+flac+files+or+mp3+only&t=iphone&ia=web

[merry gull]

im not so sure my arduino should look like burnt toast

[cosmic copper]

does it taste like burnt toast too?

[merry gull]

actually yes

burnt carbon

[cosmic copper]

ah, you might have had it in the oven for a bit too long then

[fossil frost]

what was it doing shortly before it looked and tasted like toast?

[merry gull]

that burnt thing looked like the worlds first lightbulb then it burnt out

it drew so much power from my PC that it killed my host USB controller

[fossil frost]

what was plugged in downstream of the arduino? it didnt pull too much on its own, something was asking it to pull too much

ie. lights, other input/output

[merry gull]

just your average joe i2c LCD

[fossil frost]

was the LCD working fine? or were you diagnosing an issue with the LCD?

[merry gull]

LCD is perfectly fine at 3.3 and 5v

[fossil frost]

but was it working? did you have an image on screen? or were you just setting it up?

[merry gull]

there was a 16 character sentence on the top row, but the arduino wasnt gonna let me - im starting to think the arduino was DOA

i seriously uploaded a simple script then it started smoking the absolute shit out of my room

[fossil frost]

im just checking what was on screen at the time, or whatever else was plugged in because previously, i accidentally reversed the polarity on a hall effect sensor without a protective diode, and it immediately pulled far too much current and burned out the arduino and the hall effect sensor, and i got the "usb over current" warning in windows

[merry gull]

it was a "Hello0World00000" which I had defined lol

[fossil frost]

i didnt even have any code on it, just plugged it in wrong 😄

[merry gull]

oof

thats even worse cuz that could have been prevented had you double checked it xd

[fossil frost]

could have been prevented with a protected diode

*protective

[cosmic copper]

ive been thinking about picking up an arduino is rpi or something similar and using it to detect the temperature outside and in my garage, and only turn on the garage fan when its cooler outside than in the garage

[manic torrent]

Get an esp32 or 8266, use esphome with home assistant.

Esphome is all yaml, no need for code, ezpz

You absolutely don't need a fucking pi to be a thermostat.

[cosmic copper]

I know nothing about it, thought it would be interesting to mess with. Did literally no research about it yet, just an idea. I of course will do more research before I actually do it 😄

[graceful burrow]

But all my picos!

[sudden bough]

I use a Wemo smart plug that I put a box fan on and when it gets to a certain temperature outside it turns on

[steep girder]

Why is it that in ontario at least disability benefit basically stops if somebody on it gets a job

[indigo plume]

Soo does steam deck have burn in protection

[sudden bough]

Ask your representative

[indigo plume]

For old version

[sudden bough]

Idk

[indigo plume]

OLED*

[sudden bough]

Idk

[steep girder]

So like guy with epilepsy takes part time or full time job and the money helps treatment through drugs or some therapy

[sudden bough]

This is a tech chat. Ask your representative @steep girder

We ain’t gonna know

[steep girder]

But in governments eyes when he gets a job its like he's no longer epileptic. You dont need help if you make less than literally just rent downtown toronto let alone electric/water and forget food. Youre on your own bud

[cosmic copper]

Apparently it’s very similar or the same as the switch screen, and that is fairly well documented to not be very bad

[steep girder]

Well tech-wise this same government is some of the farthest behind id ever seen

[sudden bough]

I have a surface book 2 and it has burn in :/

[steep girder]

For instance transferring to and from on uni credits the one and only officially recognized portal is php code spaghettied on by Intern just graduated maybe since like 2003. Not exaggerating.

[sudden bough]

I DK if I’ll ever get a laptop again I don’t really need one

[steep girder]

They only go to one company with contract which i heard gets figures in millions for single contract sprint by like one php sweatshop dev. I was one of them.

The first thing i did with french string table file was corrupt it bc i didnt realize it was like iso1256 or windows 16969 whatever

[gilded quest]

Sounds like a candidate for a long term support Chromebook

[indigo plume]

I fear my Asus monitor is going to get burn in

Cuz alot of games I play have static ui elements

[cosmic copper]

that probably has a very different screen than the deck oled
https://youtu.be/uCVXqoVi6RE?t=232

[indigo plume]

I got the Asus 240 Hz oled

[manic torrent]

I do it all the time, and esphome is what I have found to be the perfect intersection of flexibility, cost, and ease of use 🙂

[indigo plume]

And fear in a couple of years I'll get burn in

Hope in future they can fix burn in issue

With OLEDs

[cosmic copper]

thanks for the suggestion. Ill try to write it down somewhere so when I actually start researching this in a few months ill have a starting point 😄

[steep girder]

No editor even assumes a file is ever opened with that encoding. Literally php code itself from 2003. Then they tack things on to what looks like attempted mvc for neither what makes sense mechanically or the abstract use objectively

[urban radish]

Everyone’s getting too excited

They never said gta 6, they said the next gta instalment

They pulled this shit with the trilogy definative edition

[steep girder]

Data store is mysql bare with tables row being entity itself obv. Entity even for just school and program is like 1:69.5 relationship of program to school with collection of programs not available + program list elsewhere that schools reference multiple times. Then the client being ONCAT has their db specialist tell us to change it because census Canada needs the data arranged as tables that they can rip directly into however gov represents their statistics

Security is meh but no session pretty sure. Just username, pass hashed without salt I think. MD5 is used. No 2fa

[cosmic copper]

If you're comfortable trying it yourself, then there are many build guides online (from ltt and others)
its not super hard as long as you arent literally smashing things together randomly

Otherwise, maybe see if theres someone from a local tech, or a friend or something that can do it for you (theyll probably want to be paid, unless youre good friends with them)

about the bios, thats something that would basically just be luck. If you get unlucky and it doesnt work out of the box (and your motherboard doesnt have a feature that lets you flash without a cpu) then you might just have to see if someone you know near you has a compatable cpu you can borrow 😄

[steep girder]

Feds in canada did that too until recently. They got hacked as soon as 2k covid program every month rolled out. I called it literally a week in advance lol

So they were literally waiting already keyboard and glock out with dismounted girl and mount /proc

[sudden bough]

Oh it does

[steep girder]

So tldr tech-wise you probably shouldnt be surprised that guys who hand out benefit for group of people within which likely a vast majority subset actually needs assistance financially due to some disability up until the moment they god forbid help themselves a bit... they turn out to be the same group of people without 2fa on site where literally your government id as profile does all of their gov-related affairs

So like taxes. Guy logs in and changes address to diff province to get mailed check on their behalf for 2000 per month. Then they get in trouble for underpaying taxes or some sht. Unemplyment cuts off. Sorry.

[dreamy rose]

build it. follow the LTT guide and you shouldn't be able to mess it up that bad

[dreamy rose]

yeah GTA 6 was leaked. doesn't make THIS the trailer.

[sudden bough]

Building a pc is stupid easy compared to how it used to be

[shy hearth]

It’s legos now

[low rain]

For some reason all of my dads college books are on my. Bookshelf

[dreamy rose]

useful for a PC stand when your floor is carpet

[sudden bough]

I was lazy and just bought one lol

[steep girder]

Oh yeah also CRA portal closes from 3am to like 7. It's a government site therefore it wont work full hours like their emplyees lmfao

[sudden bough]

Man I need something to raise my computer monitor a few inches I don’t want a full raiser

Just need two blocks or something idk

Oh wait feet replacement

[low rain]

One of my friends has his monitor on like 6 books stacked up

[sudden bough]

Yeah I just need books

To the library!

[manic torrent]

Ream of paper

[sudden bough]

That’s expensive

Kinda wish I had a 3d printer now lol

[low rain]

Me personally I highlight so much shit but my dad just highlights the main things wtf 😭

[sudden bough]

Depends on how hard you touch it

[manic torrent]

If 8 AUD is expensive then you're too poor for computers

You can hold it and wave it around, kek

[graceful burrow]

I've tossed boards before

They're fairly robust unless you mess up the socket pins

[sudden bough]

Lick it

[manic torrent]

You are fine.

[dreamy rose]

you are way too scared man

[steep girder]

Unless its yoga bed of wood with 0 cushion... monitor position will be variable

Mounting on bed too

[zealous flare]

Is Cities Skyline 2 the new Crysis? https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/cities-skylines-2/22585

[steep girder]

Just be normal like everyone else and use laptop on bed until its 169c or usb/power ports get 90 deg wobble

[sudden bough]

Wut

It runs fine on my computer

[steep girder]

Power adapter works so long as you dont breathe on cable

[sudden bough]

Imma goto goodwill then maybe target and buy some sort of riser tomorrow

[steep girder]

Lol those laptops but in cases where battery degraded to no charge. Most cringe laptops id seen tbh

[sudden bough]

I have to get ready for my date with the cat

[dreamy rose]

my 12 year old laptop battery hasn't degraded to the point of 0 charge but it was basically nothing

[steep girder]

Btw i heard that hdmi is not meant to be hot plugged like usb

So that means commutator for like sound display combo isnt technically possible?

[dreamy rose]

well. i'm pretty sure eveyones done it.

[sudden bough]

Maybe I’ll just be normal and get a regular monitor and use the tv as a tv

[steep girder]

And hdmi ground issue or some sht on plug in and out is probably bad scenarios most of them

[gilded forge]

wut

[steep girder]

Oh well i heard wrong then

But it was more discussion about the physical port itself i recall

[manic torrent]

"I heard"

..... Where the fucking shit did you hear this? Old mate down the road? Fuck me, why are you repeating pure garbage.

[steep girder]

If thats even a thing. Hotplug detection tbh id be damned if i plugged in tv and it didnt work until i rebooted pc lol

[cosmic copper]

have you seen the way linus handles those things? As long as youre semi-careful youll be fine

[steep girder]

It was here. Idk yeah i didnt fulfill my due dilligence i guess my bad.

But i asked something about frying gpu hdmi out or something and i got a response mentioning how youre not really supposed to hot plug display anyways

And pretty sure even in these channels people complained how they actually fried something seemimgly after disconnecting/reconnecting DP or HDMI lol

[manic torrent]

That, while possible, is extremely uncommon and would generally result from doing stupid shit and/or severely out of spec or broken devices.

[steep girder]

Like usb youre meant to do it. Is there not even some designing that went into c type n sht physically to avoid probs w grounding?

[steep girder]

The only time i ever saw a spark in usb port is when 3.5 jack accidentally missed its intended target on front header lol. Instead it became wedged in like left channel short to ground lmao

Tbh thank god for whatever failsafe mobo had. Also same board i got the last unit in entire store of bd/dvd/cd. As always 'not open box or display model; nothing wrong with it'

[dreamy rose]

i've accidentally put a 3.5 Into a USB port many times but never got a spark from it.

[robust ledge]

always a first

[polar fern]

Susge

[sudden bough]

:L

[wispy marsh]

Is the wan show up?

It's 5pm

[gilded forge]

they're always late

don't expect them to start on time

ever

[indigo plume]

Need a new mouse

G502 isn't it

[sudden bough]

logitech MX

[fierce moth]

just booked a suit hire for graduation

[indigo plume]

I ain't a office worker

[sudden bough]

😐

[steep girder]

Wait isnt +5v basically ground if you short to data pins? Like ideally protection kicks in and the pin acts as ground idk

[fierce moth]

i'm gonna look like a complete rizzler

[sudden bough]

i use it for games

[indigo plume]

Most ppl don't

[steep girder]

Maybe spark from data pins is a good sign lol

[sudden bough]

idk then, i've never had a problem

[real sail]

Is the bread

[manic torrent]

Dude. What the fucking shit are you talking about

[sudden bough]

i blocked that dude cause they were ranting about politics

[full fossil]

lmfao what is going on

[prime solstice]

seems like the only game google still supports is blocked by sherrif dept

[stoic parrot]

Is the wan canceled today?

[alpine gale]

#the-wan-show

[graceful burrow]

looking at the channel list?
that'd be too easy now, come on

[sudden bough]

:L

[steep girder]

Shorting usb 3 header with 3.5mm stereo jack. But immediately i went to dev manager and it was still there.

Also worse yet same mobo sata somehow made taser noise. Also nothing broke. Lucky?

[ionic abyss]

https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-RGB-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B0898R8DTH

membrane or switch?

[lilac bear]

ah yes the thing known for being late is... late

[opal thunder]

fr

[pliant karma]

Membrane

[full fossil]

am I the only one who thought batman had pointy ears?

[lilac bear]

no, everyone knows

[shut lichen]

that's just Man

[full fossil]

oh wait shoot he does

I took the pictures from a tiktok slideshow and thought I was dumb

[pulsar violet]

I literally had to install bluestacks to make PS Parties work with my friends, like Microsoft had the Xbox app cause they own it but they should make the PS App an optional download option

[lilac bear]

Microsoft trying too hard to force people onto Game Pass

[graceful burrow]

how is that forcing people to game pass lmao
didnt even mention game pass

[pulsar violet]

Microsoft forces a lot of things

[graceful burrow]

dude's just talking about voice chats kek

[pulsar violet]

Edge, Microsoft Desktop accounts, and all that

its so stupid especially onedrive

[graceful burrow]

you use their OS, they can do whatever within the bounds of the law
and the law doesnt really give two shits

use linux if you dont wanna deal with microsoft bs

[neon mesa]

Edge is a necessary push

To somewhat break chrome's total dominance.
Even though edge is chromium

Though chromium itself is open source

Way too many people download chrome for the sake of chrome without clear reason why

Like a default macro script

[lilac bear]

because it used to be the only good browser for a while

excluding Firefox

Firefox just in their little corner

[neon mesa]

Edge isn't even being that annoying. The only problem is how hard it is to uninstall.
Though I don't see the reason to do that in the first place.

[opal thunder]

This

[graceful burrow]

there isnt a reason to uninstall
infact, there's more reason to leave it in than to uninstall it
other windows services use edge kek

[opal thunder]

Back when it first came out it was goated

[spiral swallow]

Hi y'all! Just got into the server!

[neon mesa]

Used to be.
Now people download chrome under directive 11A called "ooga booga chrome"

[lilac bear]

yeah but unlike Explorer
Chrome is still usable

[graceful burrow]

explorer was depreciated years ago dude

[lilac bear]

and initial launch Edge (before chromium) was also bad

[opal thunder]

lol

[neon mesa]

Did you miss the word now

[lilac bear]

it's in the context that Explorer used to be king before Chrome

[graceful burrow]

lmao

sure sure

[lilac bear]

at this point I am going to say AOL

[graceful burrow]

you can say whatever you want dude

[lilac bear]

America Online was such a cool browser

anyone remember it

[spiral swallow]

I use Brave as my main browser now.

[lilac bear]

still chromium

I think Edge mainly suffers from it's shitty launch and the reputation of Explorer
like it is decent now
but theres no like hype around it compared to Chrome

[sudden bough]

I use edge and Firefox

I don’t use Google search anymore

I use duck duck go and bing

Oh also safari for iOS

[quick fulcrum]

I accidentally forced my coworkers PC from 2008 that's running windows 10 to only be able to see 512MB of ram out of the 4GB and they had to deal with it for 2 days before i came back to work. Great times, great times. Just to open up the options to fix it, kid you not, took 30 minutes, lol

[stoic beacon]

To be fair, they're all technically Safari on Mac

Or iOS

[sudden bough]

What

[lilac bear]

doesn't Safari have a leg up on Chrome where it has video anti-aliasing

[stoic beacon]

They all effectively run Safari underneath the hood

[lilac bear]

lol what

[sudden bough]

What

[heady hound]

hello discord! is floatplane here? i am trying to remove my old creditcard, but nothingh appends when i press the remove button

[sudden bough]

I said I use safari for iOS

[heady hound]

can't unfortunately resubscribe 2 floatplane :((

[sudden bough]

I’m sure floatplane had a support line

[stoic beacon]

Definitely need to contact support for that, not discord

[heady hound]

unfortunately the support contact has not been able to help me so far, 😅

[sudden bough]

As in you talked to them and they can’t help you or you reached out and have t received a reply back in 5 min

Either way in the off chance a ltt staff member shows up in here there really isnt anyone can do for you

[heady hound]

my goal is to resubscribe to LTT floatplane grandfather tier. when i do it a red error box shows up for a millisecond

[lilac bear]

just ping Jake

IM KIDDING

[sudden bough]

Ok so contact support

[heady hound]

@sudden bough i will try again ^^

[sudden bough]

It’s probably off hours for them you have to wait till they are open

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, they'll get back to you on Monday.

[lilac bear]

WAN show is live

[steep girder]

I ||am forced to|| use safari on ios

(or other browsers finally but without plugins because against tos)

[sudden bough]

There is a support form on the website

For floatplane

One detailed message would be sufficient

[dusky jacinth]

True. Chromium was a similar browser engine to Safari for a while, probably even still is somewhat today.

[gilded quest]

All browsers in iOS are somewhat Safari

[sudden bough]

I was just saying I use safari for iOS

Firefox and edge on pc

[graceful burrow]

yes

same rendering engine

[gilded quest]

PlayStation browser also uses webkit I think

[manic torrent]

like.. personal PC ? or work

[dreamy rose]

*if you want a decent desktop in general

[graceful burrow]

shut up i dont adhere to your elitist fanboyism, dont try to twist what i say to fit your shit agenda

[dreamy rose]

there is no Fanboying. just facts

[quick fulcrum]

work

[graceful burrow]

didnt you get muted last time you turned into an elitist

[manic torrent]

wtf piece of bullshit ass shit has 4gb

[graceful burrow]

peace and quiet

[manic torrent]

.... turned? 😉

[graceful burrow]

you're right my bad

once an elitist always an elitist

[dreamy rose]

there isn't any eletisim. only facts

[graceful burrow]

at least spell it right man

stop trying to shove linux down peoples throats

[dreamy rose]

who cares?

[graceful burrow]

[quick fulcrum]

it's an unconventional PC that corporate doesn't know about because our store is unique and has a department no other stores have, so it's not managed/upgraded/etc. by corproate and they bought one in 2008 and just.....never upgraded it. I have sinced put 8GB of ram, a quad core CPU, and an SSD, for their work, it works like a charm

[dreamy rose]

doesn't matter when you make bullshit up

[manic torrent]

ah ok, weird

[graceful burrow]

you're projecting hard man

[dreamy rose]

the Linux desktop is better. its a fact. live with it

[graceful burrow]

better is subjective inherently
learn the words
live with it

[manic torrent]

so why don't I use linux on the desktop?

[graceful burrow]

woah! you mean to tell me?! that something thats good for one person??? isnt necessarily good for another??!?

WOAH MAMA

[dreamy rose]

you can cope harder when you realise its true.

[graceful burrow]

i daily linux bud

[shut lichen]

huh? why would this be MS's responsibility...
if sony wanted a PS app for windows, they'd make it themselves.
sony doesn't give two shits about anyone other than the people buying their consoles

[dreamy rose]

and you shouldn't be entertaining Microsofts bullshit about "WIndows being the only good desktop" because its far from decent

[quick fulcrum]

I would never use linux, not in its current state of any linux version that is out there. It doesn't suit me or my needs to their fullest. Therefore, it's not a better desktop, for me. For many others, i'm certain it is. But there quite literally is not a "This OS is perfect for every single person on the planet, therefore it's better by fact" OS out there.

[graceful burrow]

stop strawmanning, i never once said that

[manic torrent]

not even person - I mean, When I'm at my desk I do also have a screen from linux visible/usable all the time and I'm using linux to perform functions at my desktop

[dreamy rose]

you damn well act like it

[graceful burrow]

i act like i let people choose what to use rather than shove my one true purpose down their throat

[pulsar violet]

Ik im blaming sony, sorry if it came off the other way

[dreamy rose]

okay well thats you choosing to live off of being the product then.

[pulsar violet]

i just started talking about microsoft being pushy

[quick fulcrum]

That's me choosing to what works for me, and not what works for you. Not everyone has your needs/desires, if you can't deal with that, that's no ones issues but your own

[shut lichen]

the only thing MS is really pushy about is Edge

[dreamy rose]

nah. MS wants to push gamepass. and hard.

[graceful burrow]

how
never once gotten a popup about it lmao

"theyre pushing it hard by not showing it to people!"

[dusky jacinth]

They're pushy about a bunch of things, but at least if we really want to, we can tune them out no matter what they try or use things the way they never intended. Lol.

[pulsar violet]

Microsoft Local accounts, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft onedrive needing the registry to be changed for things like pictures and downloads folder for saved location

[dreamy rose]

you seen how they were talking about "Gamepass needs to be here for Xbox to survive" in their Acti/Blizz buyout? plus the fact GOLD is being rebranded INTO gamepass?

[shut lichen]

the only "push" with gamepass at all has been the free 3 months you can easily get

[graceful burrow]

what's that got to do with windows vs linux
stay on track bud

this aint about xbox here

i know you get distracted easily its okay but lets get back to it

[dreamy rose]

they are absolutely pushing Gamepass hard. and you absolutely know it

[pulsar violet]

Opened settings rn

[manic torrent]

linux on the desktop is the only way to be free. If you use windows on the desktop, you are a pawn of the deep state, and weak of will.

[graceful burrow]

i dont
i never see it, never interact with it

[shut lichen]

account can be converted back to local once setup is done
never once had copilot even suggested to me, don't even use onedrive, it was never pushed to me either
yes there's that thing in the settings, but it's just a box.... you don't actually have to sign in to do anything

[graceful burrow]

come on bss lets get back on track enough whinging about xbox, with how much you talk about them you'd think you really love them

[dusky jacinth]

Uuuhhh their buyout doesn't equivalate to an exclusivity that prevents devs under Activision-Blizzard from developing for any other platform they want though, so that's not exactly the case.

[graceful burrow]

they live rent free in your head, after all

[quick fulcrum]

can you show examples on windows where they are? The only thing i've been pushed on, to my recollection, on windows 10, in the last couple of years, is windows 11, fairly majorly, at least relatively to anything else, and edge. But if you got proof they are pushing it on windows and i, or we, are just not seeing it, by all means, i am interested to see

[manic torrent]

It's ABSOLUTELY not because BSS is so povo he is forced to use e-waste class hardware, and as a result has to run linux, because modern windows isn't supported.

[dusky jacinth]

I don't either. I just don't give a damn about GamePass because it serves me no purpose.

[graceful burrow]

[dreamy rose]

i never mentioned anything about the actual Acti/Blizz buyout. i just mentioned thats WHEN the topic and quote was brought up

[graceful burrow]

too true

bro cant stay on topic to save his life 💀

come on, its fun slapping down delusions

[dreamy rose]

they don't HAVE to have it always pop up on the desktop to be pushing it hard.

[graceful burrow]

then how are they pushing it

[dusky jacinth]

Yeah, you went off onto a point that goes elsewhere.

[pulsar violet]

You can defend microsoft all you want, its just really bad with their pushyness sometimes

[quick fulcrum]

but...that's the topic at hand.

[dreamy rose]

again. they want it to be as big as nextflix for Xbox to survive.

[left viper]

i tried inflating to my car tire to 100 psi (percent) and it violently exploded in my face... did i miss a recall notice or something???

[graceful burrow]

sure
can you answer the question, we all want the answer

[manic torrent]

if only microsoft could ever be as big as netflix.

[graceful burrow]

multiple people are asking for the answer

[dreamy rose]

the topic is them pushing their services as hard as they can

[graceful burrow]

and you named gamepass
and cant give a single example

[quick fulcrum]

no, it's not, the topic is windows/microsoft pushing stuff via windows

[shut lichen]

I'm not defending them I'm just saying that saying they're pushing everything hard is just wrong

[merry gull]

I hate it when printers say the ink is low - I took the cartridge out and squeezed the hell out of the sponge inside of it to make sure it was full

[manic torrent]

man I don't know if microsoft will ever achieve that

[pulsar violet]

@shut lichen Found the post

https://superuser.com/questions/1727288/stopping-forced-use-of-onedrive-for-windows-11-desktop

check it out

[dreamy rose]

they cant just outright make a fullscreen popup saying "BUY GAMEPASS NOW" thats prety much gonna screw you over more than help

[graceful burrow]

they got a lot of catching up to do

[graceful burrow]

but can you tell us what they are doing

[dusky jacinth]

[manic torrent]

Shove 800bil down the couch, problem solved

[dreamy rose]

in Gamepass user count. obviously

[dusky jacinth]

Which is... How many people using it exactly?

[dreamy rose]

already told you. you weren't reading clearly

[graceful burrow]

well, could you link it? ive read every post and you did not

you seem pretty confident about it

[shut lichen]

must be a regional or OEM thing. never had that happen at all

[pulsar violet]

it was awful

[graceful burrow]

i await the link

[pulsar violet]

and im not that keen on installing linux just hate what microsoft did there, dont shove things in my face if i have ur os installed

[dusky jacinth]

My brother deals with OneDrive being stupid too.

[dreamy rose]

i cant rememberr exact numbers, but they are a long ways off. i think it was aiming for something like, 50K or 100K or something out there.

[pulsar violet]

yea want to see the fix i had?

u have to make a local account though

[graceful burrow]

hey, still waiting for proof that you explained how and what xbox/microsoft is doing to "push gamepass HARD"

[dreamy rose]

uninstalling Onedrive?

[graceful burrow]

still waiting on that proof, boss

[dusky jacinth]

He wouldn't care and basically tell know, he doesn't want to get "technical" with anything to do with such.

[graceful burrow]

bro talked himself into a rutt and cant get himself out

[dusky jacinth]

That, and the only things he complains about is just OneDrive's dumb functionality problems with folders and such, whereas he uses it actively because he always seems to be running out of space on just about everything. Lmao.

[dreamy rose]

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

[graceful burrow]

nonono
you said you already said it
i want your previous proof
or are you a liar

you said i missed it

i want what i missed

[dreamy rose]

i've literally just repeated what was said in that video.

[graceful burrow]

that's not pushing gamepass

that's just behind the scenes business

pushing is advertising
and they're advertising it just fine kek

i want that previous proof

[dusky jacinth]

And from what I recall with watching that vid when it first came out, those behind the scenes looked more like GamePass was worse for wear. Lol.

[pulsar violet]

weird issue hard to explain but microsoft locks u out from changing away from onedrive in default folders (ie. downloads, pictures, documents, etc), you have to mess with registry and change file location there

common one as well

[graceful burrow]

ill wait for that previous proof, bss
until then, you're a liar, and a bad one at that

[dreamy rose]

it absolutely is. they mention EXPLICITLY how they were moving GOLD to Gamepass CORE for gamepass just being bigger. it being a year late in rebranding and all.

[graceful burrow]

again, not pushing
you mince terms so much lol
until you can learn what subjective means i think arguing with you is a completely lost cause

you're just an elitist fanboy

[dreamy rose]

well maybe its you that's the issue, because you literally just cant go and read back?

[pulsar violet]

the fedora tipping is real

[dusky jacinth]

Okay, but that doesn't answer the question of how they are "pushing it up into my face every frickin' moment I'm using my computer".

[graceful burrow]

you wrote it
you know where it is
link me

[dusky jacinth]

Which is what you said from the start.

[graceful burrow]

see you can tell what i want too!

[pulsar violet]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-cutting-bread-loaf-of-bread-gif-17833991680278090295

[dusky jacinth]

I knew that's all you kept asking for because it was the same question I was asking myself when he first said it.

[graceful burrow]

seems simple to answer if he's so confident about it

but it's like
a hundred messages ago lol

[dreamy rose]

i am talking about how it is being pushed IN GENERAL. not how they are pushing popups in your face. because they cant do that every hour of every day the thing is on. it is worse for publicity than it does good

they aren't THAT stupid

[graceful burrow]

nah you're moving goalposts

[dusky jacinth]

Well you didn't say that specifically till after the fact.

[dreamy rose]

its their other products they push real hard with unnecessary popups

[graceful burrow]

we're talking about gamepass, you brought it up

[dusky jacinth]

So you had us on the basis of "Window's practicality while dealing with unwanted bs."

[graceful burrow]

you changed the subject

we're just going with your topic, since you didnt want to go back to the original

[dusky jacinth]

Not "MS is just too invested right now in making their subscription service succeed like Netflix of the gaming world, over actually doing things with their OS that actually make sense for the end user".

[dreamy rose]

i never changed the subject from "they are pushing popups" i was always talking about how they were pushing Gamepass in absolutely any way they can.

[ornate minnow]

ima just send a mail

[shut lichen]

[graceful burrow]

noo
you changed it from windows vs linux to gamepass pushing bad
and when we asked for examples of pushing it in users faces you spent this entire time talking about stuff unrelated to it and moving goalposts

[dreamy rose]

oh boy, old style postage! you don't see that anymore

[pulsar violet]

this feels like a political debate of dodging questions

[dusky jacinth]

[graceful burrow]

i agree

[ornate minnow]

LOL alot of peeps still do

[graceful burrow]

he'll take any opportunity to leave the convo he knows he's beat

[shut lichen]

you see it every day when you don't live under a rock like you

[dusky jacinth]

Totally .

[dreamy rose]

what? people writing letters and posting coupons in the mail? no people don't do that Anymore!
EVERYONE is always online! there's totally nobody in the world without access to texting or Emails! according to every fucking corpo ever.

[graceful burrow]

still waiting on examples of microsoft pushing gamepass in peoples faces

[shut lichen]

you are so clueless, it's hilarious

[dusky jacinth]

Yeah, well not every corpo will tell us the truth for anything if they don't feel like we need to know either. Lol.

[pulsar violet]

yall talking about people pushing things infront of peoples faces... just take a good look at time square ny

[manic torrent]

... news just in, people market products to people that can afford them.

[dusky jacinth]

And for one thing, "snail mail" is still a common thing, living alongside email.

[dreamy rose]

and i never changed it after the fact. simple. you alreayd got your proof of MS pushing Gamepass. quit ignoring it and read up

[graceful burrow]

i got no proof
i got your "proof"
proof by twisted definition

not proof at all
just behind the scenes business
that's not pushing, that's not what that means
stop moving the goalpost and answer the question

[spice pine]

🍿 what did i walk into

[dusky jacinth]

We've been reading the whole conversation, the whole time.

[ornate minnow]

THERES alot of people who dont have access or dont have a stable access to the internet kek

[dreamy rose]

the only one whos clueless has to be you because i'm not dumb. i KNOW people don't always have internet. i don't. i'm at a fucking library for fuck sakes.

[shut lichen]

[graceful burrow]

and you're wasting your library time by being wrong in an argument
surely you got better things to do

[ornate minnow]

heres a quick google search LMAO

[dreamy rose]

well YOU don't have anything better to do, do you? why are you even on here if you do? go do something

[shut lichen]

we're watching wan show

[graceful burrow]

no, i dont actually kek
i got all night and all tomorrow free, i can spend my time however i want
i'm doing ai stuff right now

[shut lichen]

on our internet that we have at home

[dusky jacinth]

Bionic having a debate moment with us out of the blue, but it seems to be going beyond where we started so it's turned into an argument between him and the others now.

[shut lichen]

with the floatplane subscriptions we have

[graceful burrow]

avg bss moving goalposts and horribly misrepresenting word definitions and meanings

[dreamy rose]

ah yes. because literally showing you the fucking proof is "Changing the definition"

[graceful burrow]

you didnt show proof
calm down champ

no need to curse

go take a breather

[dreamy rose]

you are actually blind dude. you could literally SEE it. its a VIDEO you can HEAR it too.

[graceful burrow]

ye
watching rn
not telling me how ms is pushing gamepass in players faces

if you've got a timestamp i'd love it

im just tryna learn here man

but bad info is bad info

[harsh quartz]

been a while since ive seen a BSS argument

[dreamy rose]

literally the enite video is proof of them pushing gamepass, you're just trying to get an Ego boost here or some shit.

[quick fulcrum]

is this still going on? lol @dreamy rose you didn't show proof when was originally asked, as well, you butted into a conversation that had nothing to do with gamepass or how gamepass is being pushed, but a conversation about specifically what microsoft was pushing on windows via the desktop, etc.

So are you surprised by the reaction you are getting? you shouldn't be. You brought this up irrelivantly

[graceful burrow]

my ego doesnt need boosting its already the biggest in the room lol
i'm just tryna get you to answer the original question

[dusky jacinth]

I am at a loss for why I'm still looking at this downward spiral out of nowhere. Of all the things to be distracted by right now.

[graceful burrow]

if you dont want to just say so

[dreamy rose]

so you agree you are ignoring evidence just to get yourself hard or som shit like that?

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/toadkingstudios-angry-toaster-noises-dj-twisted-toaster-toast-hopping-mad-gif-19484461

[graceful burrow]

<@&750150305383186585> that's weird man, there are kids here

i'm here to talk about tech

[dreamy rose]

the only thing you are talkin is shit you only wanna hear. not things you actually NEED to hear in this conversation

[harsh quartz]

i dont understand how microsoft is.... sending popups for gamepass?

[quick fulcrum]

that's literally the problem dude, you forced your way into this conversation that wasn't being conversed lol

[graceful burrow]

they arent, that's the crux of my argument

[ionic abyss]

hmm

[harsh quartz]

yeah, im just... idk..

[ionic abyss]

why are small keyboards popular

[graceful burrow]

i asked bss for an example and he said he already told me one
and then wont show me it, and posts irrelevant info
and then gets really really gross about it

[harsh quartz]

where the fuck are you seeing pop ups for gamepass? in the xbox app?

[dreamy rose]

and i've already said. they aren't throwing massive popups. i've said they are just in gerneal trying to throw EVERYTHING at gamepass.

[dusky jacinth]

I mean... They're compact.

[graceful burrow]

this is too cyclical lol

[quick fulcrum]

And that is LITERALLY what was being talked about.

There for what you are bringing up is irrelivant

[spice pine]

so like, what's the point of this? if they are or aren't throwing everything at gamepass, what is the end point of this argument

[ionic abyss]

im looking for a keyboard that will be moved when it up and dies space isnt a issue

[harsh quartz]

so your mad that a company, which is designed to make money, is advertising, for the thing that makes them money?

[graceful burrow]

they arent even advertising super aggressively lol

[dreamy rose]

and i SAID they are making any move they can to get Gamepass customers WITHOUT harming them in the end. and yet you are carrying on about what they AREN'T doing?

[ionic abyss]

i say kill the ads

[graceful burrow]

i never see a gamepass advertisement

[harsh quartz]

they give like free trials and do youtube ads but thats no differnt than literally any other fuckin subsciption service

[graceful burrow]

bro you seriously gotta calm down

[ionic abyss]

i am anti ads!!!

[dusky jacinth]

It sounds like trying to be right and calling everyone else's point of view on this topic BS, even though it wasn't their conversation to begin with and it was about Windows in general having some stupid things about it we hate yet deal with anyway.

[ionic abyss]

no more ads!

[harsh quartz]

BSS is just standing for bull shit steve or something at this point

[dusky jacinth]

At least that's what the conversation looked like from before when I first witnessed it.

[graceful burrow]

[spice pine]

i just... like. cmon it is just not this deep lmao

[ionic abyss]

down with advertisments!!

[harsh quartz]

but... companies arent ALLOWED to advertise

[dreamy rose]

its just Aldo being Aldo at this point. truying to inflate an ego or whatever he does. just wants to see "Me Right he wrong"

[ornate minnow]

GUYS

[harsh quartz]

GALS

[dusky jacinth]

That's... Not what we're seeing here.

[spice pine]

I see you stirring the pot more than anyone else here so maybe sit down and stop projecting

[ornate minnow]

you know whats up?
||Bread||

[quick fulcrum]

Quite literally this and only this: what is the point of your conversation/topic in the conversation that was there that caused this new argument? What it is that you so desperately needed to say and derail the conversation at hand for? If you've said it, then you're done.

[ornate minnow]

MOVE ON we talk about bread now

[dusky jacinth]

We're seeing you, Bionic, pretty much just explode over this.

[spice pine]

who cares about advertisements, you can ignore them

[graceful burrow]

my ego is irrelevant, i'd appreciate if you'd stop trying to
idk
make fun of me for having a big ego?
it's kinda sad
stay on topic and calm down man, it aint that deep lol

[jaunty compass]

I'm okay with ads as long as they're in reasonable amounts and aren't advertising things that are like
reprehensible

[harsh quartz]

pihole is wonderful

[jaunty compass]

which is why I always use adblock because youtube doesn't know how to not push ads that are reprehensible

[full fossil]

hi

[ornate minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-loaf-gif-26074269

[graceful burrow]

hi

[dreamy rose]

well you should listen to what people are saying in the first place. just a word of advice. basic listening skills

[dusky jacinth]

I prefer ads that are on the side or nearly unnoticeable, playing it like a billboard every other stop or exit.

[spice pine]

i pay for services that I use and if there are advertisements that impede my usage of something, I simply stop using it unless they provide an alternative to the advertising

[graceful burrow]

i have
you havent said anything relating to your initial argument, which is what i was on about
Was
i dont care anymore
you've gotten too aggressive and absurd to be taken seriously at this point, you're trying to attack me directly

[jaunty compass]

if youtube didn't lock vital features behind premium, i'd probably pay for premium

[dusky jacinth]

Aldo, Aldo, better idea.
Let's talk about ads like everyone else now.
This topic is irrelevant now to us all.

[jaunty compass]

I use revanced and adblock instead out of spite

[graceful burrow]

ye thats why i said was :)

[dreamy rose]

if you'd listened You wouldn't be doing this shit.

[dusky jacinth]

I use uBlock and so far have been fine.

[harsh quartz]

honestly the most annoying thing about premium is that they dont stop adveritisng premium WHILE IM PAYING FOR THE THING

[jaunty compass]

I also use ublock

[graceful burrow]

<@&750150305383186585> rule 2, i'm just getting harassed at this point

[dreamy rose]

the only harassment happening is you pinging the mods for everything. just saying

[graceful burrow]

i took a dried seed of one of those before
it was an experience

[jaunty compass]

my main issue with premium is that they lock playback without the screen being on behind it; ie you can't really use it in the car without premium

[ornate minnow]

@dreamy rose @graceful burrow Lets all take a step back

[spice pine]

... no, you're straight up pushing an argument everyone is trying to get you to drop lmao

[ornate minnow]

stop dont add to it

[harsh quartz]

i dont understand doing stuff like that, like what do you expect to happen?

[graceful burrow]

im not even arguing anymore lol
stop dragging me back into it, i dont want to talk to someone when they're like that

[jaunty compass]

if they allowed background playback without premium, i'd be fine with premium

[ornate minnow]

i know. just block em and move on once it feels it isnt anything. anything they say is just to provoke people
you did the right thing to ping mod when you feel like its harassment

[fierce moth]

Shut up, Nintendo ninjas are real

[spice pine]

Advertising is how these services maintain themselves, and when everyone decides to jump to blocking advertisements, it makes sense that a platform would say "hey, uhh, maybe pay for the services you're using one way or another"

[shut lichen]

if you listened, you wouldn't be doing this shit

[harsh quartz]

i pay for premium and it loves to tell me "you get to use this because you pay for premium" or "check out all these other features that you get because you pay for premium" and im just like, fuck off, im paying, i know what im getting, leave me alone

[ornate minnow]

just dont provoke them thats what they want

[dreamy rose]

but how are they gonna get the people to choose to BUY premium if they allow premium features for free?

[dusky jacinth]

Same...

[spice pine]

im going to bed, have fun with this circular logic with people picking arguements they wont learn from

[jaunty compass]

if they allowed background playback without premium, you'll be more likely to sit through ads

[graceful burrow]

i say come at me brah

[jaunty compass]

the Nintendo agent in question:

[dusky jacinth]

True, as much as I'd hate it.

[harsh quartz]

no, because your not watching an ad if its in the background, and part of their agreement with advertises is that theyre video ads so theyre expected to be watched

[dreamy rose]

also, background playback. as in it plays in the background? you get that for free anyway

[graceful burrow]

700gb of nintendo roms wahoo
yipee

[fierce moth]

Nintendo ninjas hired private investigators to stalk console hackers

[jaunty compass]

background playback as in the screen is off and your phone is locked

[graceful burrow]

not illegal to mod your switch

[jaunty compass]

unless you're in japan

[dusky jacinth]

For regular YT app, yeah.
Now for YT Music, definitely not. You need premium for that.

[harsh quartz]

hmm, thats quite the ISO file collection, be a shame if that were to be shared

weird that youve named them like that tho

[graceful burrow]

it would be
that's why i'm not going to

[dreamy rose]

cant you get that by using the browser instead of the App?

[fierce moth]

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-leak-reveals-extreme-measures-taken-to-track-hackers

[ornate minnow]

WAIT you cant use a music app to listen to music without paying?

[jaunty compass]

no idea I just use revanced

[fierce moth]

Mainly people that find the hacks

[jaunty compass]

yeah no they literally stalk modders

[ionic abyss]

umm so its not illegal to have moddified my switch to allow me to download everything from the offical store for free?

[dusky jacinth]

Yes... And no.

[spice pine]

That's a lot of words that did not get said

[dusky jacinth]

They make it complicated.

[jaunty compass]

this is how nintendo employees literally get shot

[graceful burrow]

all my stuff is nicely sorted

[jaunty compass]

if they tried that in the U.S. like actually

[dreamy rose]

removing all the ads and such for free is just a so much better option than paying

[ornate minnow]

das dumb. i use spotify so i never switched from that to yt music

[harsh quartz]

imagine not just having an offline collection of music like the bad ole days

[ornate minnow]

i got vinyls 😛