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[ionic abyss]

Shame on Linus for not waiting for thread ripper for the compensator

[vapid cypress]

Read reviews

Or watch

[arctic sun]

i did a lot... but i cant decide dawg

[ionic abyss]

Only 192gb of ran

Thread ripper supports more

[vapid cypress]

OK then what is the issue

Spin head or tails then

[arctic sun]

so they both have very similar reviews and im new to monitors, so idk how important viewing angles, contrast and black levels are for my preferences

[vapid cypress]

There has to be something you prefer more in terms of specs

[arctic sun]

wdym

[ionic abyss]

The compensator is not good enough

[vapid cypress]

Like if you are going to watch content like movies then black levels are important ect

[arctic sun]

i know but if there is a big difference, btw are viewing angles important?

samsung g7 has bad viewing angles

[vapid cypress]

Not really

Unless you are like running dual monitor set ups that like bend light in a certain way

[arctic sun]

thanks, and is 1000r curved too much? i never personally got a curved monitor so i dont know if its also great for productivity and watching content

[arctic sun]

nah i dont have that

[vapid cypress]

I guess it's more immersive

Covers more of your eye

[arctic sun]

ok thanks, one more question, is the LG 27" UltraGear QHD 240HZ even better than the two i listed in ur op?

[vapid cypress]

I don't really know because I'm not in the market for them

I'd say don't overthink

[harsh quartz]

20$ monitor is best monitor

[dusky jacinth]

Whoa, I just now realized all the channels have been rearranged.

[harsh quartz]

Bread chat is at the top and it’s the only important one 🙂

[slow fern]

So I was planning on buying a lot of few LG Gram laptops for basically reselling, the only catch for those laptops are that its bios locked, after searching around random forums, most of them just recommended pulling out the CMOS battery and just putting it back in but I doubt newer laptops have physical cmos batteries, but one solution that seemed to work for someone on an older generation of the LG gram was to just update the bios. Would that essentially work or do you guys think there would be other challenges to update the bios without the bios password already?

[sage quiver]

Felt the previous setup was a bit overwhelming, with most of the channels under a single category.

[dusky jacinth]

That's respectable then.

[indigo trellis]

i mean

your not wrong and its a respectable reason

but my dream was always to try out vr so yea

[vapid cypress]

[gilded quest]

L dream

HTC vive > meta quest

[stuck vapor]

Ok

[gilded quest]

[vapid cypress]

[gilded quest]

[indigo trellis]

isnt the meta quest 3 the best vr atm

regardless of price

[vapid cypress]

Ltt hasn't even done a review on it

[gilded quest]

It's only 90hz?

[vapid cypress]

I don't know the spe s

[magic dove]

Ah nice, a public chat

[gilded quest]

I might have different priorities but I'd want as high a refresh rate as possible

Personally, which I think means the Index would be my ideal VR Headset

[vapid cypress]

The quest 2 has 120hz it has 120hz for surr

[magic dove]

Yeah, don't feel it's worth upgrading from quest 2 quite yet

[gilded quest]

Oh 120Hz is in beta or something

[indigo trellis]

not yet

[gilded quest]

"experimental"

[vapid cypress]

Yeah probably

[indigo trellis]

cause the graphics changes hasent applied to most games

so technically upgrading from 2 to 3 is not worth it for now

[young moon]

Nah its 120hz

[gilded quest]

L search results

[young moon]

https://vr-compare.com/compare?h1=0q3goALzg&h2=0jLuwg808-j yum

[young moon]

Tbf that is written by AI

I cant drive straight lines

[gilded quest]

Faster than opening search results to find the actual specs

[young moon]

Eh its still AI which cant be that accurate

[gilded quest]

It's accurate enough

Technically the official spec was 90Hz at announcement

So I'd give it a pass

Only since 120hz was "experimental"

Cause not every publication lists 120hz

Lol

Quest 3 has as much ram as $1600 M3 MBP

[young moon]

Goddamn Discord im sick with a high fever I don’t wanna turn on my desktop

[gilded quest]

iOS L

[spice pine]

you can just open the desktop page in browser, should let you

[young moon]

Nah it detects its a phone

Even after using Duckduckgo’s desktop site access

[vapid cypress]

Desktop mode

[quiet mural]

If I sleep outside a microcenter for a whole week do you think I could get a pi 5

[vapid cypress]

You would die

[sudden bough]

can't you just order online and reserve it?

[gilded forge]

I mean ig door dash could help

[quiet mural]

No

[quiet mural]

U have to be there when they open

They are gone within 5 minutes of opening

[gilded forge]

RPi's sell out everywhere, no matter how old they are.

[quiet mural]

Then they end up on eBay for $200 a piece (which is low)

Should I just give the scalpers what they want

Someone as for $300+

[long briar]

No

[quiet mural]

Why not

[vapid cypress]

Just give the money to me

[long briar]

Check ur local marketplace

I'm seeing rpis for about MSRP here

wait wth I can get em for cheaper on amazon

[quiet mural]

Nobody has one

I already have the 4

I want the pi 5

[long briar]

have they fixed the type C port yet?

[quiet mural]

I have never had issues with jt

[long briar]

no it was just designed wrongg

power sink 😄

If you don't use one of those fancier 100w cables or whatever (needed emarker) then it was fine

But if you did then the charger will not send power

[upper agate]

Hello peeps

[gilded forge]

youtube casually adding useless features, whilst keeping the broken ones and removing the good ones.

[sage quiver]

Video response flashbacks

[ionic abyss]

why did keyboards start shrinking

[sudden bough]

people have smaller hands

[ionic abyss]

so everyone cant easily palm a basket ball?

why must it be so hard to find a 5 pin hotswappable keyboard with 6 or more dedicated macro keys and a milled aluminum housing and a magnetic wrist rest

media controls would also be nice

[median idol]

I love how someone made a clone hero chart of the ukulele apology video

[white pawn]

ha, try finding arisu format keyboards that are full sized. ok, you've found the two that exist. now, which one of those didn't decide to randomly move/delete keys just cause? yup, zero 😛

[median idol]

https://youtu.be/6jS4lANttx0?si=h-e0LFLxVXsfeoI4

[ionic abyss]

you speaking of alice keyboards?

[white pawn]

yeah, arisu/alice

[ionic abyss]

hmm a ergo keyboard

havent looked at those in years

[white pawn]

well, ergo is actually different 😛 it's humped in the middle. alice is flat, with mostly straight rows set in groups per angle, while arisu is a curved set of rows 😛

[ionic abyss]

here ya go https://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIBOARD-535BL-Ergonomic-Mechanical-Full-Size/dp/B0BLT24WQZ

[white pawn]

oh, arisu is also flat 😛 makes it nice and confusing

[bold brook]

absolutely SHAMEFUL apple releasing that laptop with 8 GB of RAM in 2023

and calling it "pro", lmao

[chrome vector]

[white pawn]

yeah, totally straight rows, so thats in the ergo category 😛 it's kinda amazing how many entrants there are and how many fall short of what you would actually want(those straight rows are actualy kinda a pain)

[ionic abyss]

well if you want full del key functions i doubt there are other options

[white pawn]

It's apple, did you expect them to actually put something out that doesn't require a massive amount of spin and marketing/cult buy in to sell? 🙂

[ionic abyss]

does anyone actualy buy the tech unlimited warranty from amazon?

[white pawn]

i have

[ionic abyss]

what item was it for

[white pawn]

pretty nice, no questions asked when i needed to replace a Dac

[ionic abyss]

$16 per month

they better replace no questions

[white pawn]

well, i have a logiitech C3, DAC, monitors for my wife and myself, and a bunch of other tech

it doesnt really make sense unless you have quite a few items you want covered

[ionic abyss]

im annoyed linus hurried on the comensator build

should have waited for the new thread ripper

[bold brook]

i mean apple does make some incredible stuff, they just also do some evil shit and intentionally engage in some of the worst anti-consumer/anti-repair, planned obsolescence type bullshit

[white pawn]

mainly it's cause my 22 year old tends to break EVERYTHING she gets that's electronic 😛 just replacing her headphones had so far paid for that in full by itself LOL

[ionic abyss]

that perixx board isnt a bad one

i dont want ergo

[white pawn]

eh, it depends. I personally want function, then form, which is why I avoid apple like the plague, because they are ALL about form, and sometimes they get around to function

[bold brook]

BOSE used to have a really great repair/replacement warranty for their quietcomfort headphones, i had a pair of those which were iniitally rather costly, replaced fully no questions asked like 4 times over the span of a decade or so

i still have one of the original M1 macbook air laptops, that thing was an incredible value imho, still quite fast though it's starting to show its age

[white pawn]

LOL my daughter has been thru 5 headsets in the last 2 years 😛 Razer something or others, the nice wireless ones(she is ADDICTED to razer :P)

[whole swallow]

well there's half your problem

Razer has never been known for durability

[bold brook]

the razer stuff i have owned has been pretty high quality, they actually make some really good chairs

was shocked to find that out

[white pawn]

meanwhile, i have a turtle beach px24 headset that i preordered at gamestop that I only replace because the earcups got so hard over the years that they hurt on the side of my head 😛

[slate agate]

my razer mouse fell apart in less then a year

also software bloat

[bold brook]

yeah i havent had any of their mice, and i hate their software

[white pawn]

yeah, everything razer she owns falls apart in under a year

[bold brook]

i have one of those razer orbweaver things, the gaming pad

[white pawn]

but she still insists on razer everything possible 😛

[bold brook]

and a razer wolverine xbox controller

also have one of their razer kiyo cameras which is really good tbh

[white pawn]

LOL well, 90% of the problem is, she is just HARD on electronics 😛

[slate agate]

in razers case I think they are just subpar quality wise

[bold brook]

for a webcam it was among the best ones out there until some companies put out some models that match or beat it the last year or two

[ionic abyss]

i snack and drink at my computeer

[white pawn]

my wife has one of those, works really well for her

[ionic abyss]

so keyboard may randomly get a drink of what im drinking

[bold brook]

i am thinking of buying one of these though, this looks sweet - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPB1R3QR/ref=sbl_dpx_pc-accessories-webcams_B0BL3LQJZP_0?th=1

hmm whats up with discord not doing embeds properly lately

maybe servers have turned it off, idk

[white pawn]

don;t knock cheap cameras nowadays, i bought a 50 dollar lenovo 1080 jobby a while back on sale for like 35, and it's really close in image quality to my wifes razer kiyo

[ionic abyss]

so keytronic stopped making keyboards

[white pawn]

basically anything "windows hello" certified should be pretty good, scary enough

[bold brook]

yeah, cameras have come pretty far, if you're spending more than like 40-60 bucks nowadays you're probably getting something that's rather good - and then to get anything truly more noticable is going to be in another price range

iphones that are a few years old model are amazing as webcams/remote cams

[white pawn]

I've been looking at Keychron lately, they have a new alice one i like(Q13 pro), but they make a lot of other decent keyboards, including southpaw versions(TK on the left side)

[ionic abyss]

a shame to find keytronic doesnt make keyboards now

[bold brook]

i've built at least like 7 or 8 different multicam studios for various people using older refurbished iphones for some of the camera sources, it's great

keychron is great - highly recommended

[ionic abyss]

wonder if they will honor the keytronic lifetime keyboards warranty

[white pawn]

I still have an old Logitech ball camera thing from the 90s. how we ever thought those had good picture is beyond me 😛

[bold brook]

i've got a couple of different keychron boards, i love all of them

[ionic abyss]

i have 1 or 2 keytronic lifetime keyboards on older systems

[bold brook]

i got in a bit deep to the mechanical/custom keyboard hobby heh

[ionic abyss]

custom mechanical is rocket science

[white pawn]

the only thing stopping me right now is price and the Via/QMK issues with the Q13

[ionic abyss]

so much to pick from and to learn

[white pawn]

that and the fact that i seem to finally be getting used to this standarad layout keyboard i have right now

[bold brook]

if they haven't added via/qmk support to one of their models yet, they will i am sure

they've been slowly but surely refining their offerings

[white pawn]

(corsair k70 lux red with cherry reds)

it's a little louder than i'd like, but if i finally can get away from my addiction to the microsoft Natural Elite that i haven't typed regularly on for over 10 years, i may just switch to a low or ultra low profile switched standard layout mechanical

[bold brook]

join the clicky gang, you know you want to

kailh box jades/navy/pink

[white pawn]

nahh, had a Tandy 2500SX20 back in the day, keyboard was basically cherry blues. drove me nuts

[bold brook]

i used to use an actual, original IBM Model M keyboard for a couple of years

back in the earlier half of the 2000s

[white pawn]

im likin the reds i have, i have heard that i may like browns, but i type so hard my wifes coworkers have asked what the machine gun sound is in the background 😛

thats basically what the tandy 101 enhanced keyboard was a clone of 😛

[bold brook]

the sound definitely has a big role in what people pick, but, the overall feel is the most important thing to me as i am one of those people who blindly types without looking super fast, so it needs to be something where i can be sure that i hit the keys and not second guess myself

[white pawn]

i learned to type on a hammer style manual typewriter, and have never quite killed the habit of beating the everloving hell outta the keys when i get going fast(which i still feel like i can't do on a straight keybaord)

yeah, right now the minute i start not looking i fat finger the crap outta the keys on this thing

[ionic abyss]

i have a model m that came with my xt i got it june or july of 83
still works great the model m

the xt needs a new hdd

[bold brook]

oh yeah those things are tanks

[slate agate]

the older model m IBM keyboards had a real heft

if you needed to beat something to death with one you could have

[bold brook]

the one that i had was still going strong when i got rid of it, i used it heavily for like 4 or 5 years and then i sold it and made a significant profit off of it too

yeah it had a solid brass or some kind of metal plate on the bottom

built into the base of the keyboard

[slate agate]

the entire interior on the old ones is backed to a metal plate that fills the entire inside iirc

[white pawn]

The one in the back has the click keys 😛

[ionic abyss]

wonder were i can find a xt compatable hdd

[bold brook]

there's a company that took over the manufacturing of them and still does so to this day

[slate agate]

the newer ones went to plastic

[bold brook]

but they aren't the same anymore sadly

yeah, before the company who does them now started taking over the rights and manufacture, it'd been downgraded once or twice and then they got sold to the company lexmark

[white pawn]

XT-IDE project. my retro computers are all solid state now

[slate agate]

happened in the mid 90's even when they were still IBM branded/sold, they cost costs on them and they were more cheaply made then the very early 90's late 80's kind

[bold brook]

i've tried a few of the stuff the new company (unicomp) has put out, they are still good boards, i think that 98-99% of people would have trouble finding fault with them

[arctic sun]

im buying the Dell Alienware AW2723DF, great choice for a 1440p 240hz to use for gaming and watching videos, right?

[white pawn]

I have a Tandy 1000TX with a solid state drive in it. it's so fast comparatively its stupid

[white pawn]

really the only thing i check for is input lag anymore. dell makes gret monitors at times, other times, they are terrible, just like any other company. it's just a matter of really lookin into each one

[slate agate]

the oldest computer I still have is a Pentium 1 Unisys system. it's incredible small about the size of a large paper back or a smaller hardcover book

[white pawn]

those were really cool! and REALLY expensive if i remember 🙂

[slate agate]

unisys cwd5001

[white pawn]

my TX was built in march of 87. i have one computer thats older, but commodore 64s can bve argued to be a console since they were made to connect to a tv 😛

so i don't usually count it

[slate agate]

technically maxed out at 166mhz supported, but I played around with the jumpers on the motherboard and found an undocumented combination that gives the correct multiplier so a 200mhz pentium will work.

[white pawn]

(see what i mean about fat fingering when i type fast? :P)

[arctic sun]

for sure this alienware monitor has great response time according to the reviews at youtube. would you recommend me any other 240hz 1440p that might be even better than this one?

[ionic abyss]

you got a new fangled thing from 87 bah

[slate agate]

but damn does that thing run hot, it's super tiny psu creates like 95% of the heat. I wonder if a modern mini pico psu would work

[white pawn]

thats actually pretty nice, the 200mhz pentium mmx was a really nice processor back in the day

[white pawn]

hey, im also trhe original owner of an atari 2600 that was made in 1978 😛

[slate agate]

non mmx sadly, the motherboard is technically a socket 5 motherboard with a socket 7 socket, so it's an older pentium 1 chipset

[ionic abyss]

i have a vic20 a c64 a c128 and i also hava a atari

[white pawn]

probably, the only issue you may run into is connectors. come of those old ones died pretty thoroughly in the marketplace

[slate agate]

I imagine some of the later amd k6-2 or 3 cpus would work, but probably too hot in such a tiny space

[ionic abyss]

i have a functional intellivision with all add ons and a complete game library

i have atari with most of the games

[slate agate]

and I can't stick my voodoo 1 card in it, well I could but then i'd have no soundcard 😦 only 1 ISA/PCI shared slot

[white pawn]

its easier for me to say that i don;'t own a Magnavox Odyssey 2, Nintendo 64, or Playstaion 3 out of the gaming stuff over the last 50 years 😛

[slate agate]

so stuck being an onboard 2d dos gamer

[ionic abyss]

i have a nes with a complete domestic and import library

[slate agate]

maybe like starcraft 1 at most

[ionic abyss]

same for the snes

[white pawn]

so, load up the usb drivers for dos, use a usb sound card, and pop a video card in it 🙂

[ionic abyss]

i have a few hundred genisis games

[slate agate]

old pentium chipset, zero onboard usb

[ionic abyss]

i have about 300 ps1 games and atleast that many ps2 games

[white pawn]

hmm, that is a pickle, i forgot that usb wasn't around till later

[ionic abyss]

i forget what other systems i have but i have 10-20 more systems

i have a orginal pong system

[slate agate]

there's an EISA slot but the dimensions of the case would make it so I'd have to have the cover off if I wanted to try and use a card in that. I'm not sure if it's a standard EISA slot either. there's a proprietary ethernet network card that's normally plugged in it.

[bold brook]

yeah i just for the first time checked out emulation recently, lmao

but was super stoked to be able to play playstation 3 games on my pc

especially as there's no contemporary/modern NHL or hockey games released for PC

[white pawn]

@ionic abyss ahh, but do you have a 12x8 foot wall of electronics in your living room that's regularly being added to? 🙂

[slate agate]

I remember one of the first NES emulators and running that on dos

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=60153

[white pawn]

I am definitely not the person to talk to about sports games 😛 no interest at all LOL

[slate agate]

shows the interior of that unisys I have

[white pawn]

I have most of the Analogue consoles, and a Polymega for emulation, in addition to a bunch of Raspberry Pis doing various things for ease of use

[slate agate]

only saved my PS1, all my other systems I ended up selling off

[white pawn]

I'm way more into hardware emulation than software in most cases

[slate agate]

which I regret now

[white pawn]

I'm in the process of selling off a lot of my original hardware, it's getting to be a pain to keep it all maintained, and useable without massively modding the hell out of it, which is unnecessary cause of the Analogue consoles and the state of FPGA deveelopment for a lot of these older systems

[slate agate]

a convenience factor for sure, saving space as well

[white pawn]

for me it was always about playing the games, not having the hardware, so as i get older i realize id rather just be able to play on my giant ass TV than be stuck on even the large CRT that I own dealing with all the quirks of slowly dying hardware

[slate agate]

I still have a 19" crt monitor

[bold brook]

i still have a sega genesis with a bunch of games and controllers and stuff for it, apparently it's actually worth something, i thought it was just garbage

[slate agate]

great for older content designed for it, or games you don't need to be widescreen

[white pawn]

yeah, in that pic i posted, under the bigger TV is an Analogue Mini NT Noir, Super NT, and Mega SG. they are all running jailbreak firmware which gives access to quite a few corses for older consoles

[slate agate]

I bought an oled steamdeck primarily to be my emulation system

[white pawn]

yeah, genesis gear has kept it's value pretty decently, mostly because it doesnt need to be repaired often, if at all

[white pawn]

so far i have the Analogue Pocket for portable play 😛 haven't pulled the trigger on steamdeck or one of the alternates in the space yet

[bright pecan]

hello guys did you see the leaks on the RTX 5090 ? do you think any of it is legit

[slate agate]

pocket looks super nice but the cost is beyond me for what it is

[white pawn]

I haven't, but I'm waiting to see the price, if nvidia doesn;t come outta "we're all nucking futz here" land, I'll probably wait for the second gen intel card 😛

[bright pecan]

lmao - i am on the verge of buying the rtx 4090 and i am kinda worried

[white pawn]

with the jailbreak its a lot nicer. ya lose some of the fun to have features, but you get fully working cores for just about every console prior to the cd based ones on it

[slate agate]

if it was 1st gen GBA shaped I'd be more interested

hands tend to cramp on the regular gameboy smaller sized handhelds

[white pawn]

oh, that's not even a snowballs chance in hell for me LOL I'm currently using a 3060 12gb and since my monitors are 1080p I feel no rush to change it 😛

[white pawn]

I can understand that one. I am like the worst case scenario for portable game systems. I use them hen i have nothing else to do, but i was raised in an environment that taught "only boring people get bored" so i rarely end up pulling it out. when i do tho 🙂

and ya know, i'm usually the one driving, so i can;t play then, and i rarely wait long for anything because I'm not one of those "early is on time, on time is late" kinda people LOL

altho the steamdeck has me interested becaue i do travel to visit family over the holidays, and usualy take a console and monitor with me when i go

[thin fjord]

only boring people get bored
i like this phrase

[long briar]

well I'm bored

[molten drift]

I'm excited to finally watch back to the future later this week

[white pawn]

ooh, have you never seen it?

if so, that's lucky. i'd love to be able to watch it for the first time again

[white pawn]

it mostly just means that there's always something you can do to have fun, ya just have to be open to turning something into a game or whatever that normally isn't fun

[molten drift]

Never seen it before

[mental kayak]

anyone here use the apple magic mouse

[bold brook]

i used to use it for a pretty good while, but switched to a logitech mx master mouse instead

[mental kayak]

is it worth buying? I just use the trackpad and i'm pretty happy with using that but considering grabbing one

[vapid cypress]

No

[pliant karma]

apple magic mouse no

Just got the apple trackpad recently but that has been great on my setup

[thin fjord]

there are much better mice to be had

[bright plume]

How do I prevent my friend from buying a 4060 ti

He has a 5900x

[vapid smelt]

Show him benchmarks of 1440p and 4k gameplay

[bright plume]

👍

He won’t watch them

It’s Joever

[prime solstice]

Tell him it won’t be as much as a pain in the ass with the amd compared to the set up with nvidia (even though they’re equal)

[spice pine]

(it's the same process on AMD or Nvidia cards)

[bright plume]

He bought a 1080p monitor

Making all the wrong moves

😭

[full fossil]

We need linus to compensate on his d-

[spice pine]

dawg there’s children on this server

[full fossil]

That's fine?

[full fossil]

They are over 13 hopefully

[manic torrent]

no

[bright plume]

Yes

[full fossil]

Surely they are mature enough

[bright plume]

It’s just the 4060 is such a bad card

[full fossil]

1080p is fine with a gpu like the 4060ti

[molten drift]

I just had to look at the date I couldn't believe it was 2023 and I just heard closer by nine inch nails on the radio.

[bold brook]

honestly, not really. some people really love it, i have some friends who swear by it; one of them is the person who convinced me to grab one in the first place; i still have one of the little apple standalone trackpads as well (that you can just use on desktop) which is great, plus i use my logitech mouse and my ipad w/apple pencil as well for some things... the one thing where i did like the magic mouse a bit was for some video editing stuff, but i do a ton of that so ymmv

[bold brook]

why's that, good songs are timeless

[magic dove]

Thinking about getting a new phone for black friday

Should I go with a pixel 7 pro or a motorolla think phone?

[manic torrent]

I'm thinking about getting mental health for black friday

turns out it's really expensive

[magic dove]

Naa, just smoke weed

[wheat karma]

Is there a way I can make my IPS monitor look as good as my OLED TV?

[spice pine]

You can, but it’ll cost about $800 or so

[magic dove]

Makes sense to just buy an oled monitor

[wheat karma]

I mean I don’t want an OLED as my monitor! The reason I don’t use my C2 OLED is because of burn in

OLED is dangerous

They last for a few hours at best before burning in

[spice pine]

that’s just. blatantly untrue at best

[wheat karma]

I mean RTINGs tested that burn in happened in just under 2000. As a professional simmer that plays sims 4 for 8-10 hours a day… it’ll burn in fast

[molten drift]

Closer is not a song you hear on the radio

[pliant karma]

you'd have to go ham to get burn in lol at least for me I have rotating wallpapers to prevent that

no desktop icons

[manic torrent]

hahahahahhayhahahahhaha I am literally using an oled to talk to you right now and have been for ... like a year?

[spice pine]

It’s not like they make OLED monitors or anything

[manic torrent]

Don't get me wrong, burn in is real, but "omg it burns in instantly" is also stupid

[pliant karma]

god the space bar rattle is killing me

when I am off after tomorrow I'll spend time to open up my keyboard. Sucker requires a full disassemble to even get access to the stabs

[manic torrent]

a decent IPS monitor looks similar enough to OLED - when displaying colours. It absolutely cannot match the contrast or blacks

I have two 27" IPS monitors either side of my OLED

[gilded quest]

In short; no.

[spice pine]

In long; noooooooooooo.

[thick agate]

why do you cross post?

why do you cross post?

[summer nova]

There’s ways to make an ips monitor look as good as an oled?

[gilded quest]

Mini led backlighting with many thousands of dimming zones will get you close

[spice pine]

Yep, it's called buying an OLED monitor

[summer nova]

Ok, so exactly what I thought you can’t

[wheat karma]

Is it just me or are Samsung TVs pure crap? Just saw a Samsung next to an LG next to a Sony… and I’m no expert, but Samsung color profiles look so fake and inaccurate out of the box

[sudden bough]

Samsung makes the tvs. LG typically buys Samsung tvs and repacks them.

It’s probably different type of tv or the settings are different

I found that out at Micro Center

[full fossil]

I stick with Sony myself, always bought Sony electronics. Since the early Hi8 camcorders

I miss those bulky camcorders 😦

lol

[sage quiver]

Both Samsung and LG make their own panels. It's possible there may be some trading around at the low end, but this info is incorrect otherwise.

[sudden bough]

I was told wrong then

[sage quiver]

Is it possible they were referring to a 3rd vendor?

Like TCL or similar

[sudden bough]

We were talking about monitors

[idle nymph]

Wanna see something horrid for some kb people ?

[sudden bough]

Idk. I was comparing Samsung and lg

Maybe they were just wrong

[gilded quest]

Yeah I was gonna say I doubt their TV divisions are buying panels from the competition

[long briar]

LG does not make TN panels, so if any monitor or tv uses a TN panel then it's from a diff vendor

[gilded quest]

For monitors, different story

[sage quiver]

I do also know that LG supplies some large OLED panels to Samsung, but that's only a small number of SKUs

[gilded quest]

For Samsung monitors?

[sage quiver]

Large TVs

[gilded quest]

Samsung has non QD OLED TV's?

[sage quiver]

WOLED

[gilded quest]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Sony?

[white pawn]

I have an LG C3, its gorgeous, and replaced my samsung that hard quite a few different issues from day one 😛

[gilded quest]

I haven't followed TVs the last year so maybe Samsung did start buying LG panels

[sage quiver]

It's recent news

[gilded quest]

But afaik their first, at least consumer, OLED TV's were the in house panels

[sage quiver]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/samsung-to-buy-oled-panels-from-lg/

[sudden bough]

😮

[gilded quest]

Oh yeah they do for 2023

Either 1) low confidence in QD OLED
2) low yields for the in house panels still

LG certainly has a production advantage for TV sized OLED panels

[sage quiver]

Probably yields

83" S90C is likely an LG panel

https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/oled-tvs/83-class-s90c-oled-4k-smart-tv-2023-qn83s90caexza/ If you notice, the word "quantum" disappears when you select the 83" variant

[gilded quest]

Samsung website is so awful

Why can't every manufacturer have an ark.intel.com clone

[sage quiver]

That'd be a dream.

[fossil frost]

expensive to build, and more expensive to maintain

[gilded quest]

:(

[restive lion]

They've got no incentive to have a decent site

[gilded quest]

One more reason why Intel is the best

[prime solstice]

my steam wont connect to my internet no matter what i do

[fossil frost]

ark.intel.com started as an internal tool, and then became the public facing tool... it exists because its a required business tool for intel, if intel didn't NEED it, i guarantee you that it wouldn't exist out of the goodness of their heart

[sour orchid]

I think it's down atm

[prime solstice]

ah no wonder why i cant play elder scrolls

[sour orchid]

Yeah it was showing 0 online on steam at all for a moment so I think they're having an issue

[prime solstice]

yeah

[fierce moth]

That moment when I have two bosses and one of them is good but the other one is shit

[white pawn]

omg that would be wonderful! 🙂

[winter kestrel]

Is the HP Omen 45l 3070 i9 12th gen good right

[white pawn]

this is actually very true, it was an internal site when i worked there(i didn't really do anything cool)

[winter kestrel]

I got a opinion last night and im debating

[soft swan]

how much?

usually prebuilts are pretty bad value but eh

[pliant karma]

send

[idle nymph]

You're lucky I'm sure I'm still awake,here you go

[pliant karma]

👀

[idle nymph]

Some friend hate me cause they hear it while playing lol

[pliant karma]

the ping, the rattle

[idle nymph]

M'y keyboard is loud asf

[white pawn]

mechanical keyboards are easy to be heard over chat. its when people think you are using a mechanical as you type on your microsoft natural elite(membrane keyboard) and ask you to get quieter switches that you know you may have a typing problem LOL

[idle nymph]

I love my keyboard

[pliant karma]

I thought there would be foam dampening on mines which there technically between the plate and pcb but it's literally suspended on gasket mounts hehe

all metal case isn't too bad, I'm use to the plastic cases and making them thocky

[idle nymph]

Lol yeah

[idle nymph]

It's all metal and I love it

Easy to clean,bit too ez,took out all the lube from the stabiliser cause I didn't know what that was lol

[pliant karma]

lol

[idle nymph]

Imma go to sleep

I hope the keyboard enjoyer won't see this

[fierce moth]

Not box jade's?
The loudest clicky switch on the market

[idle nymph]

Cherry Mx red

[pliant karma]

and box navy 🙂 hehe those are comparible too

[velvet root]

i just got some of those vim keycaps for my new model m

I'm going to put led dimming stickers on it next weekend because i don't want to get surprise lasik by hitting num lock

[iron orbit]

Guys, free popular FPS shooter that is easy to run? I saw Counter-Strike 2 was updated/released. I dusted off my old desktop that I have a 750 Ti SC, bought a 512GB SSD, bypassed Windows 11 checks, only to come and find it's not compatible. Instead of bothering with that would like something that the onboard graphics to this SFF PC with a Intel HD 630 can run.

[sudden bough]

Fortnite!

[gleaming harbor]

you have the same gpu as me

[graceful burrow]

Counterstrike 1.6
You're very limited here

[wispy marsh]

Hello ltt

[dreamy rose]

750Ti not compatable? thats nonsense i can run CS2 on my GT 540M.

its the same die as the GT 730.

well one varient anyway

unless the CPU is 2 thread or the RAM is too slow or too little i don't see why it wouldn't run

[ionic abyss]

the gt series sucks

[dreamy rose]

granted when i ran CS2 it had to go down to 720P with FSR down to the minimum render res.

only got about 20-30 FPS. but it still ran and played.

[night heron]

get yourself some good hardware like this bionic

[ionic abyss]

id rather use intergraded graphics than a gt seeries card

[night heron]

a real processor

[dreamy rose]

have you got any money to donate then?

[night heron]

nah get your bread up

[ionic abyss]

sorry man the doctors are taking all my cash

[strange star]

js start trapping and scamming

[night heron]

[strange star]

it works 100%

[dreamy rose]

well looks like i'm still stuck driving a hotbox.

it'd at least warm up my pizza if i could even have some

[night heron]

i felt cool with my 42k cinebench score for like 5 days until threadripper 7000 benchmarks came out

[graceful burrow]

You're paying them?
Lmao

[dreamy rose]

AMD does it again. destroys any hopes of the intel failthful

[strange star]

js donnt pay and whn you die your kids will pay for you

generational debt

[night heron]

threadrippers are actually decent processors unlike ryzen

too bad theyre exorbitantly overpriced

[dreamy rose]

tf you mean? Ryzens are good. especially when 8000G chips are gonna be out real soon

gigabyte let it slip that Q1 2024 was release date

[night heron]

glorified tablet processors

[fervent oracle]

is there any info on when or what this nas thing linus invested in might be coming out or anything about it?
im tired of synology not working and being so problematic

[winter kestrel]

2.1k but rn its 1.5

[velvet marsh]

It's so tempting

[night heron]

its haunting

i cant afford it personally so it wont happen but if i had a 6 figure salary then oh no man

id be thinking about it heavily

[dreamy rose]

not the 7940HS. far from it

[velvet marsh]

I mean my 10 gig nic on my board did die, so I need a new board lol

[night heron]

rip nic

[velvet marsh]

I have a pcie one so it'snot so bad

[night heron]

get yourself a mellanox 100gb nic

theyre surprisingly cheap

[velvet marsh]

I don't have anything else that's 100gig lol

[night heron]

yeah it becomes not so cheap the moment that you want to connect it to anything other than another pc with a second 100gb nic

switches $$$$

i might pick up a pair of intel x540s

[hot tartan]

Some of the cinebench scores I’ve seen are insane

[night heron]

very reasonable

[night heron]

did you see the 200,000 threadripper 7995wx on LN2 score

201,000+ actually

[graceful burrow]

Jesus

[dreamy rose]

AMD can sell a lot with stuff like this under their name, people just need to buy

[hot tartan]

Yeah someone sent the clip earlier, baffling shit

[night heron]

ridiculous stuff

[velvet marsh]

is that sfp+?

[night heron]

im hoping that jayztwocents will whip out the air conditioner, box fan radiator, dry ice, and ln2 to fuck around with the threadripper 7980x

those are my favorite videos of his

[night heron]

rj45

[velvet marsh]

I see it now

[night heron]

10gb intel sfp cards are called X520

[hot tartan]

Yes more videos messing with threadrippers please

[velvet marsh]

The 7995wx actually has more cores this time

My question now is $1000 worth it for 8 cores lol

[night heron]

are you looking at the 24 core

[velvet marsh]

That's what I have now

I also regret not going with the 3970x tho

[night heron]

oh you already have a threadripper system?

[velvet marsh]

yeah 3960x

[night heron]

i thought you were on a 14900k for some reason

[velvet marsh]

The platform AMD abandoned, lying bastards

they had 5000 threadripper done too, they just didn't release it

[night heron]

gotta have a new platform every generation so they can sell $1200 motherboards

[velvet marsh]

the thing was they specifically said they weren't gonna do that

[night heron]

lets not forget that the cheapest x299 motherboard was $200

now the entry price for hedt with either brand is $1,000

[velvet marsh]

My board was like $800?

[night heron]

[velvet marsh]

MSI Creator

[night heron]

aw yeah that board

i remembered it had the crystal shard looking design immediately

[velvet marsh]

that's the x399 version

I have the trx40 version

[night heron]

oh okay

they really toned down the design

[velvet marsh]

and gave the nvme aero card

[night heron]

ballin

[velvet marsh]

Also can't find 128gb fast ddr5

[night heron]

doesnt exist

[velvet marsh]

fastest I can find is 4800 in 4 slot ddr5

[night heron]

if youre looking for a balance of speed and capacity look at 2x48 kits

but youre a quad channel user so idk

[velvet marsh]

rdimm

[night heron]

oh are you actually parting out a ripper7000 system

[velvet marsh]

yeah lol

budgeting like 3.5k?

[night heron]

weird

all the reviewers were using 4x32GB 6400

provided by g.skill and amd

[velvet marsh]

Maybe not available yet?

[soft swan]

do you actually need one 😂

[night heron]

maybe

no 4x32 option on g.skill's page under Rdimms

[velvet marsh]

do you actually need that attitude? 😛

[soft swan]

was a joke my dude

[velvet marsh]

So was that

[soft swan]

its an enthusiast thing

[velvet marsh]

Always more power

[soft swan]

yah

[night heron]

cinebench is my favorite video game

[velvet marsh]

I also need a board that can support 7 ssds lol

[soft swan]

u should try saphire rapids

theyre like top top tier as well

[velvet marsh]

it's getting it's ass handed to it by TR

[soft swan]

really?

i thought intel xeons were best

[night heron]

7980x with PBO enabled on a liquid cooler is basically matching a xeon on LN2

i think anyway id have to doublecheck

[velvet marsh]

Also the 3475x is 4k lol

[soft swan]

people actually overclock new xeons??

[velvet marsh]

You can

[soft swan]

i mean at that point the budget ship has already sailed

[night heron]

bubzyz you need a 7980x

[velvet marsh]

Shh no I don't

[night heron]

its necessary

you need to throw it on a 480mm radiator too

and let it draw like 650w

[soft swan]

what is it even going with like ai card? or 4090

[velvet marsh]

I have a 3090 atm

[soft swan]

oh

4090 ofc then

[velvet marsh]

Might as well lol

[soft swan]

cant upgrade cpu but leave that "old" graphics card

[velvet marsh]

I can steal the one out of my wife's rig

[soft swan]

😆

[velvet marsh]

I just didn't want to block it lol so I kept my 3090

That's my first non evga gpu lol

[sudden bough]

;d

[fierce moth]

Man I'm lucky to upgrade to a 1070 tomorrow

Aud is a bitch

[glacial crane]

Is your laptop old and crappy? Download Chrome and make it snappy! Bye, bye Windows- O-O-O-O-K-K-K-K GOOGLE!

[jaunty compass]

Unsurprisingly bad take on the ps portal

[manic torrent]

I got two of these off aliexpress recently, but they were dual port ones. I didn't need dual port, but that's what I could get

[dreamy crag]

linus sucks

[crystal flare]

who hurt you?

[dreamy rose]

Streaming handhelds in general are just ass. cant see how anyone would think otherwise

[glacial crane]

shut up; linus is king

[waxen kestrel]

a

b

c

[opal thunder]

wtf is with the trolls

[waxen kestrel]

I agree Linus sucks

[opal thunder]

Is the server being raided?

[waxen kestrel]

hehe hehe

tf is @opal thunder

[harsh quartz]

whos?

[jaunty cairn]

Hello

[waxen kestrel]

go away

[waxen kestrel]

helloooo

[lilac bear]

buy RTX 4090

[crystal flare]

cries in poor

[fierce moth]

Wtf is happening

[jaunty cairn]

Idk

[opal thunder]

Cringe nation woke up idk

[crystal flare]

idk i'm just here for the ride

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/loona-hyunjin-bread-rain-meme-gif-19202684

[gleaming harbor]

pandesal

[crystal flare]

how do i post gifs?

[harsh quartz]

you dont

[crystal flare]

sourdough or brioche?

[harsh quartz]

pumpernickel

[lilac bear]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[harsh quartz]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/375436621450969089/1142312437769584710/embreadfail.gif

[harsh quartz]

wait, i thought you had bread roll?

[olive stump]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-lore-discord-bread-lore-breadlore-gif-3001606510777194372

[harsh quartz]

someone call matpat

[jaunty cairn]

Who's that

[night heron]

intel x540/550 gang

[gleaming harbor]

is 16gb on a usb in 2010 good i wonder

[night heron]

best rj45 nic

[crystal flare]

fireball and eggnog is the best combo

[lilac bear]

https://tenor.com/view/it-never-happened-jonathan-frakes-commander-riker-gif-952328961673970586

[harsh quartz]

for an alcoholic, maybe

normal people just put cinnamon in it

[crystal flare]

no just for the holidays.

[deft oriole]

Who knows, it's all just an theory

[crystal flare]

A GAME THEORY!!

[velvet marsh]

question, do you know why my aquantia nic would only get 1gb upload?

[deft oriole]

thanks

[jaunty compass]

when handhelds like the ayn odin lite exist, exclusively streaming handhelds have no purpose

[harsh quartz]

i mean, not particularly, if youve already invested in the playstation ecosystem and have no need for a PC, it might be a good idea

[jaunty compass]

it's $200 and has pretty decent specs and runs a full version of android. it can do everything the portal can and better

the portal literally just does 1 thing

remote play, it can't even use the cloud streaming

the portal is manufactured ewaste

[harsh quartz]

not particularly, now, the older one, the logitech thing, that was Ewaste

[jaunty compass]

the logitech gcloud is less ewaste than the portal

at least the gcloud can run android apps and use cloud streaming

the portal literally only does remote play

it can't even use a web browser to connect to public networks

[lilac bear]

cause it's literally just a PS5 accessory

[harsh quartz]

hte portal is a good solution to buying a seperate tv/controller

[jaunty compass]

I disagree

[crystal flare]

switch stan for life

[lilac bear]

not competing with the Deck or ASUS one

[jaunty compass]

you can't even connect it directly to the ps5 as a controller

[harsh quartz]

like they said on wan show, a good argument for it is "the kids have the TV, but i want to use my Playstation"

[jaunty compass]

so you always have to deal with streaming latency

[lilac bear]

bruhhhh

[jaunty compass]

you have to use remote play

[crystal flare]

i grew up on nintendo and i will love the pokemon and zelda series until the day i die.

[jaunty compass]

the portal is actually worthless

especially at the price

[harsh quartz]

just cause its got a few good games, not that many to be honest, doesnt make the switch good

[harsh quartz]

its worthless to you

[jaunty compass]

$200 is asking a lot for what the portal offers

when something like the ayn odin lite can do everything it can and more for the same price

[harsh quartz]

im not sure you understand the playstation community, its the equivalent of the apple community, they dont WANT a linux machine that can do a lot, they want a SIMPLE way to play playstation games remotely

[crystal flare]

playstation portal is just the new PSP.

[jaunty compass]

the psp had its own games

[crystal flare]

as far as i've seen.

[jaunty compass]

the portal wishes it could be a psp

it will never be a psp

[lilac bear]

PSP was a DSi fighter

[jaunty compass]

even the psp had a web browser

[lilac bear]

Portal is worse than PSP

[jaunty compass]

the portal doesn't have one

[harsh quartz]

this dudes tryna LTT ban speedrun any% huh?

[waxen kestrel]

ihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihi

go die

[lilac bear]

https://tenor.com/view/it-is-evolving-just-backwards-gif-21647112

[ionic abyss]

no spamming

[waxen kestrel]

i hopw u die

ZIP IT

[jaunty compass]

L

[waxen kestrel]

AGHH y u so mean

im 12

[lilac bear]

most sane Gamer Nexus fan

[ionic abyss]

i am being polite

[lilac bear]

https://tenor.com/view/wanda-reasonable-marvel-gif-25850287

[soft swan]

Ok

[ionic abyss]

@waxen kestrel not suprised

[prime solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/my-reaction-to-that-information-star-wars-woj-wojtaki-gif-26045801

[jaunty compass]

TOS?

you have to be 13 to use discord lol

[harsh quartz]

im not 100% sure on this whole "ugh why doesnt it have a web browser" thing, its not meant to be a portable computer, its a remote play station, thats ALL its advertised as

[ionic abyss]

id point you to the clearly labeled rules section

[jaunty compass]

I don't think you understand why that matters'

it matters because if you want to use the portal in a hotel or something to play remotely, you can't

[harsh quartz]

sucks for them ig

[jaunty compass]

it hinders the base functionality of the device to an incredible degree

[lilac bear]

it's as if the Deck was limited to your PC Steam on the same wifi

[harsh quartz]

different crowds, different prices, different hardware, not similar at all

[lilac bear]

I guess chalking it up to "stupid product for stupid people" makes sense

[harsh quartz]

yes, its a playstation add on for a playstation community, thats all it was ever gonna be

[ionic abyss]

umm

[jaunty compass]

pretty much

[harsh quartz]

but because handheld computers are such a rage right now people are comparing it to other handheld gaming devices, when it isnt one

[jaunty compass]

personally i think it was released to intentionally be bad

so sony can justify to shareholders that they aren't making a real portable

[lilac bear]

the Wii-U existed and failed

[harsh quartz]

but its not bad, its decent for what it is

[lilac bear]

why did Sony fail to copy that

[jaunty compass]

it's literally a worse wii u gamepad lol

the wii u gamepad had super low latency and was super impressive even though the res was pretty low

and that was in like 2012

[harsh quartz]

what makes it an inherently bad product?

[jaunty compass]

Bad execution of a pretty dumb idea

[dreamy rose]

if you've invested enough in the PS Ecosystem to warrant a PS Portal you've fucked up somewhere along the line

[harsh quartz]

what is an objective inherent flaw that makes it a bad product

[dreamy rose]

maybe say, INVESTING IN THE PS ECOSYSTEM. or something along those lines

[harsh quartz]

god FORBID someone enjoys their playstation?

[hot tartan]

I enjoy my PS5 : (

[ionic abyss]

we can enjoy a playstation???????

[dreamy rose]

PS is a Problem. Absolutely

[harsh quartz]

too bad, clearly your dumb for buying a playstation product and any accessories that go with it, sorry

[hot tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-7523306793289960933

[gilded quest]

I disagree.

I see this as something for parents to hand their kids so they can enjoy something on the big TV and the kid can play a game

[ionic abyss]

i never knew the playstation could be enjoyed

[harsh quartz]

or vice versa, the dad can play a game while the kid watches a cartoon

[jaunty compass]

if it were $100 i'd probably care a whole lot less

[gilded quest]

Sure
But I really see it for that kind of purpose

[jaunty compass]

or even $130

[harsh quartz]

do you own a playstation?

[dreamy rose]

they could do this with the tablet they ALREADY own and the controller they already down. its no need for a 200 dollars Controller-with-a-screen

[ionic abyss]

shoot $100 is nothing

$100 wont get a good keyboard

[dreamy rose]

even then i'd rather throw 100 dollars into cheap storage anyway

[jaunty compass]

$200 on a product that literally does 1 thing and doesn't even do it that well.....idk man

it does remote play worse than your phone or a cheap tablet will

[harsh quartz]

do you own a playstation?

[lilac bear]

cope

[jaunty compass]

it's a waste of sand and plastic

[gilded quest]

$200 is nothing to a lot of people, idk, it's not a product for most people and that's okay, I'm sure someone out there will be happy with it tho. Nobody forcing you to buy a portal

[harsh quartz]

yes no maybe?

[ionic abyss]

though $100 will stil get you a xbox series x from my local gooodwill

that is the tall rectangle one right

[harsh quartz]

if the answer is no you dont own a playstation, then clearly this is not aimed at you, playstation has a history of overpriced products and their fans are okay with that and willing to pay it.

[ionic abyss]

yes it is a series x

[jaunty compass]

Regardless of the answer it's a bad, poorly priced product

[ionic abyss]

i own a ps1/2/3/4 and looked at a ps5

[harsh quartz]

no, its just not for you

[jaunty compass]

It's not for anyone

[harsh quartz]

its clearly for some people

[dusky jacinth]

I don't care about the Portal much, since I knew it was gonna be like this, but I see it's merit.
To anyone else, it legit won't make any sense because all the other devices do more, but of course for something with a simple purpose... I get why it exists.
It's simply not for me, but I see why it exists.

[hot tartan]

If it was made, it obviously has a place in the market

[jaunty compass]

The only people buying it are scalpers who are quickly realizing they won't get anything for it

[ionic abyss]

the ps portal looks dumb

[harsh quartz]

yeah, cause its not a need, you dont NEED a portal to use the playstation, its just a nice to have, so it cant really be scalped

[gilded quest]

If this existed for the PS3 12 years ago I would have been all over it

It doesn't have a point in my life today, but I get it

[jaunty compass]

It is dumb

[dusky jacinth]

Man, 12 years ago was a promise to use the PSP and/or Vita with the PS3 and PS4. Guess what never happened.

[gilded quest]

I think the only real negative thing I can say about it is it answers any questions about Sony making a future PSP/Vita

[jaunty compass]

No that was a thing you could do

I did it once with my vita

[dusky jacinth]

I mean, they made Xperia Plays and those have a strong place and reason to exist.

[jaunty compass]

It wasn't very good

No triggers is kinda a problem

[prime solstice]

its my favourite console

[jaunty compass]

They expected you to use the touchpads on the back which...didn't work super well

[gilded quest]

They did one iteration of that device in a time where phones moved very quickly and also got outdated/abandoned just as quick

[dreamy rose]

i was a fan of the PS Vita and seeing this touted as a "Sucessor" is slapping the people who actually liked the portable gaming aspects in the face with a log of shit. fuck sony has gone so far away from when they were fine

[dusky jacinth]

That still fits my point of "never happened" as in it never really caught on and is the most unheard of thing that was advertised as possible back then.

[gilded quest]

I never had the opportunity to use/own a PlayStation handheld, sadly

[jaunty compass]

The PSP was good and the vita was and is still great

[harsh quartz]

the majority of people that i know use playstatiosn regualrly are racing/sports games fans, and they will most likely not care if theres a little latency in those games 😛

[dusky jacinth]

Yeah, the first one (when Sony Ericcson was still a separate group) worked out great and is the first thing anyone remembers when mention the name.
Then they tried again and it was... Really just the current mainstream Xperias with some different spec choices and that was kinda forgettable.

[pliant karma]

Grand Turismo 7. I want to play but it's a playstation exclusive

[harsh quartz]

well, guess what, if you had a portal you would.... still not be able to play it....

[pliant karma]

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/inevitable-mad-uranium-isotopes-bruins-gif-14239863

[pliant karma]

My uncle hinted on getting me a racing wheel ironically for my birthday sooo we'll see if it does happen. Prob logitech but hey I can use that vs controller

[gleaming harbor]

i wonder if you can drift in the gt games

[harsh quartz]

ive never gotten the appeal of wheels/driving games, i grew up in car culture but just always kept cars and gaming seperate

[pliant karma]

sim racing adding itself to my list of expensive hobbies

[hot tartan]

I’m not a very good gt 7 driver, but I’m pretty sure you can

[harsh quartz]

i have enough of those

i never understood flight sim games either

[pliant karma]

if you understand it you understand it.

haven't done flight sim in a while so might hop it on it over break.

[dusky jacinth]

I'm kinda the same way too.
In fact, I just don't see a point in me owning a wheel if just using the controller with motion control set works just fine in my case and not adding to extra storage clutter for a very rarely played, limited use case.

[pliant karma]

737 landings are gonna be rough AF

well just have to force myself to adapt back to it

[harsh quartz]

idk, if i ever want an expensive flying hobby it will be actually trying to fly

[dreamy rose]

vita was basically perfect but they threw many dumb issues at it hat stopped it being wher it deserved to be

[jaunty compass]

Honestly what probably did the most harm to it singularly was the memory cards

I think that singular thing did the most harm to the Vita than any other individual thing

[dusky jacinth]

Agreed.

[jaunty compass]

Other than like
Pokemon existing and being on Nintendo devices

[ionic abyss]

ok if you dont have doom eternal its 59cents right now

[dreamy rose]

fucking absolutely. 200 dollars for 64GB. ridiculous

[jaunty compass]

Really?

It's $0.59?

[pliant karma]

at some point I do plan on getting a PPL so soon when I am more established

[ionic abyss]

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/doom-eternal-deluxe-edition---pc/202348.html

[harsh quartz]

its a stretch goal for me if my vision doesnt get too too bad, maybe in 10-15 years

it would be a fun way to spend weekends

[pliant karma]

yea vision is issue for me atm but it's been stable for 4 years.

supposed to get a stronger prescription cause he said I am driving more but I have yet to even bother getting new glasses

[harsh quartz]

i swear my night driving is getting worse or i have something wrong, but the doctor never says i do so idk

i got the big ole blooms around lights

[pliant karma]

yep I know that too well.

[ionic abyss]

steelseries apex 3 keyboard $6 when you pick up at gamestop

localy

[jaunty compass]

GameStop out here liquidating like they're going bankrupt

[harsh quartz]

probably just old stock that hasnt sold in years, gamestop isnt known for its PC games and accessories

[ionic abyss]

https://www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/keyboards/products/logitech-g-pro-league-of-legends-wired-mechanical-keyboard/300029.html

damn fine keyboard for the price

[crystal flare]

yet gamestop sells pc accessories.

[dusky jacinth]

Is what happens when you cave in late to the markets' habits.

[harsh quartz]

yeah, and spencers sells novelty mugs, but it isnt what its known for

[crystal flare]

infact thats how they were considered an essential business durring the pandemic.

if you could believe that.

[dusky jacinth]

Sorta.

[fierce moth]

That moment when your Australian

Eb games is a rip off over here

[white pawn]

dir

oops, wrong keyboard

[tough spruce]

When Logitech is being lame and just throwing a higher MSRP for their “sale”

Tsk tsk tsk

[somber pecan]

Not really PC related but looking recommended on good wireless earbuds under or around $100 or usally under or around that on sale

[zinc oracle]

Damn

[white pawn]

the important word in that sentence should be "was" 🙂

[low rain]

anyone want any of these

[full fossil]

what is that

i meant the white crap

[white pawn]

no no, "was" as in, past tense 😛

ahh, excellent

[pliant karma]

lol after my house was fumigated I saw a lot of dead wasp litering the floor. It was fantastic

the inspector said he was gonna remove them before tenting but was like just tent then alive and let them suffer a long agonizing death

feels nice to have a insect free house for a couple of weeks so I'll enjoy that

[white pawn]

one of the apartments i lived in was constantly having cockroach problems. like, we'd bug bomb with enough for a 4k sq ft house, and this little 700sq ft apartment would have em back the next week. turns out, the entire back wall of the apartment was literally a single layer of drywall between the apartment and a dirt hill, casue we were on the bottm backside of the building. the bugs would just go back there and hide out till it was clear again.

[sudden bough]

Oh my

Did you move?

[white pawn]

oh yeah

we didn't find out about the back wall till we were moving out tho :/

[sudden bough]

Nice

You can create a bug trap and it’s more effective than a bug bomb

Also if you pour used coffee and tea grinds around the doors and windows they will stay away

[white pawn]

our next place was better, but the people in the apartment to the side of us would yell "bless you" whenever we sneezed 😛 made getting a house a top priority 🙂

[sudden bough]

Ah I see

I’m moving to a new place in August. Too many children live here

[white pawn]

LOL

[sudden bough]

Also the complex next door has people that like to play loud music until 5am

[old yacht]

Burn the place down

💀

[sudden bough]

Apartment living is so lovely

Maui?

[white pawn]

definitely was not our experience. we have our own house now, and it's wonderful 🙂

[sudden bough]

I have had bug problems just people problems

[white pawn]

so far the only ltt clothes i have are the sweatpants, cause my wife is awesome 🙂 but i have a bit of gear from em

[sudden bough]

Pants

[white pawn]

we had people problems too, just not as bad as the bug problems in that first apartment

[sudden bough]

I want my own place but it’s almost impossible now

[white pawn]

Wan Sweatpants

[sudden bough]

WANPants

[white pawn]

yeah, we did get lucky

[sudden bough]

Same

[white pawn]

https://www.lttstore.com/products/wan-sweatpants?_pos=11&_fid=2e4296c4c&_ss=c note the name in the link, which is the name under the pic in the "pants" category listing 🙂

that's definitely a plan, the backpack is really nice! my neighbor has one and i am so jealous

mine is just a big black monolith 🙂

id take a pic but for some reason discord mobile only wants to post em as links, it's irritating.(and the pics my phone takes keep being too big for discord)

[polar pine]

It's TIME for Tech N-n-n-n-n-n-n-news

yugioh theme

[white pawn]

oh holy crap it took it. tada, my black beast of a pc

yeah, that wasn't just me? was like discord burped

oh no!

why you do this thing?

well, as usual, it didn't embed the pic 😛 but you can click on the link for a nice pic of mine

[manic torrent]

Beautiful

Still needs a bunch of work, but getting there.

[white pawn]

I have a Rp project currently going on mine so its messy, but heres my desktop atm.

grr, stupid discord, embed the damn pictures, quit linking em

did it just restart on you?

[white pawn]

looks pretty good from here 🙂

[spice pine]

ayo, is that a 32in Samsung TV?

i had that exact one. it’s dogshit

[sudden bough]

:c

Amazon is encouraging me to buy a slingshot

[white pawn]

doooo eeeettttt!!!

ya know ya want to!

everyone else is doing it!

i ran outta peer pressure tactics 😛

[sudden bough]

10000 customers have this in their cart

[white pawn]

see? all the cool kids are doin it, don't ya wanna be cool?

i swear the only annoying thing aboutRPis is the time it takes to update the darn things

[manic torrent]

yeah it's good, but not perfect! 🙂 needs a lot of finessing. The speaker mount has some new bits coming, and I'm going to cover the monitor mount working, as well as move the monitors over to the right slightly. They will also come down a bit (limited currently by the speaker)

Also not shown is the disaster under the desk that needs to be hidden 🙂

[white pawn]

i spent actual multiple hours doing the cabvle management for my desk when i moved in here recently. i know the pain you're about to have

i was admittedly doing cable management for my wifes desk, mine and the cables to support netowrking and powerr to both since they are in the middleish of the room instead of the edges

[white pawn]

yup, I don't envy you the pain you are about to have 😛

[manic torrent]

That's an old picture - this is only the eleventy millionth time I've done it 🙂

[white pawn]

all i can say is, LOTS and LOTS of ltt cable ties 😛

[manic torrent]

Ah, here's one I took laid out so you can see it

[white pawn]

lemme see if i can get a good pic of trhe cables on our desks 😛 bit of crawling, one sec

[manic torrent]

There is .. uhh... I think 15? or more USB power ports

[white pawn]

Pardon the music, my wife is jammin 😛

oh sure, NOW it embeds it

her desk is more of a mess cause she has the power and networking links to the server rack going under hers, and of course, it's also a sit/stand converter so they need some play in em 😛

[pliant karma]

not bad yours is hella better then mines

pc in closet with cables running out

[white pawn]

the funny part is, my raspbery pi on the desk makes it look WAY messier from the back 😛

[pliant karma]

and a quad monitor setup so you know how hectit is+cables for my macbook docking station

[white pawn]

you can't see my Sarah Art Mat(what my wife calls the dino mat)

[pliant karma]

Actually it ain’t that bad once you look at it. Not the best but the best I could do with hiding my pc out of sight

[white pawn]

yeah, im runnin 3 atm, once its finished there will be 4, but two for my main rig, the two uppers will be for a Win98SE gaming machine and the 4th will be for a setup with various Rpi systems to be swappable

[white pawn]

yeah, thats not really that bad 🙂

[pliant karma]

old setup was a hell hole so this is better

[white pawn]

i hear ya on that

[manic torrent]

See, this is how I had it before. Properly cable managed

[white pawn]

my old setup was a home made standing only desk

Damn Bob, thats gorgeous!

[manic torrent]

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ey0ElrVMn8

[pliant karma]

I still got pics of bobs setup lol somewher in my archive

[manic torrent]

I change my setup more or less constantly

[white pawn]

i tend to want to set mine up and leave it till i have to build a new one

[manic torrent]

april 2020.

[white pawn]

Hence why my Tandy are sitting there still, ready to go 🙂

[icy rock]

if u trip its over

try converting ur pics to png

[white pawn]

well, usually no one goes where i went to take that video 🙂

[icy rock]

it will embed then

[white pawn]

ahh

youd think the discord app would do that automagically

[manic torrent]

.... May 2020

[icy rock]

is the top right one a security cam?

[manic torrent]

August 2020

[manic torrent]

yep

[icy rock]

projecter or big screen?

[polar pine]

Needs more monitors

[manic torrent]

October

[polar pine]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[white pawn]

i'm just not a monitor guy, but i can give you pics of our home server rack 😛

🙂

[manic torrent]

Man I change my setup more than some people change underwear

[white pawn]

man, i'd never get anything done changing it that much

[manic torrent]

When I moved it all. Oh man that was a day

and when I say day I mean... multiple

27" looks like a toy 😄

[white pawn]

LOL

my twin monitors are 27 inchers, i probably will one day go to 4k monitors(at least for the main one) but I doubt i'll go any bigger

[manic torrent]

Because I had to build this

[white pawn]

admittedly, the other space i have customized pretty well is my living room

The "door" those tvs are on is 12 feet wide by 8 feet tall

[manic torrent]

Meanwhile, this is best setup

[white pawn]

its a 2x6 frame with 2x4 studs so the cables can cross over studs as needed without being squished

[white pawn]

yeah, thats a pretty good setup 🙂

that door is on hinges on the left side, so it can swing out from the wall on casters

[manic torrent]

This one shows the crane, which has been redesigned and needs to be redone

[white pawn]

(its only 550 or so pounds)

you have a monitor crane?

[manic torrent]

PC crane

[white pawn]

oh

im lazy, my pc is on the ground 😛

[polar pine]

I need to grab a deep cleaner again for the floor. Surprisingly how dirty it gets in 6 months

[white pawn]

luckily we have hardwood floors throughout the house, so cleaning isn't too hard

and i have a robot vacuum that runs every day, cause well, two huskies. if we didn't, we'd be eyeballs deep in fur in a week LOL

[polar pine]

I should probably get one. We have 2 smaller dogs and a few birds

[white pawn]

i have to say, it seems like a pain to have to empty it every day, but I haven't manually vacuumed for more than 10 minutes in 3 years 😛

well, at a time

mostly it's just go around once every couple of weeks to get the few spots the robot can't get into

[dreamy rose]

the modern day everybody

[white pawn]

yeah, it's really nice. previously, i was having to spend about an hour vacuuming every day or we would get fur "drifts" everywhere

night folks

[wispy marsh]

Handsome boi

[fierce moth]

Jokes on you, my cats fur seems to get on every piece of clothing, especially when they're malting to their summer coat

[wispy marsh]

Sphinx cat

[dreamy rose]

but then there is no fluffy.

and then sometimes they look like a brain

[sudden bough]

Me IRL

[dreamy rose]

so you are an Angry brain?

[full fossil]

is the gigabyte g24F 2 good

[sudden bough]

I’m a wrinkly old cat

[dreamy rose]

i think you forgot that this was discord and not google

[full fossil]

mb

[viral sentinel]

Whatttt

[sudden bough]

What

[viral sentinel]

The filter does not like the word for people that like anthomorphic animals

Kinda wierd

[steep girder]

Ewww so I bought that new cocacola with the flavor "co-created with AI"

tastes like dreck

[sudden bough]

What

[steep girder]

Theres a coke limited time light blue bottle

"Y3000 flavor"

They formulated it with help of AI

[sudden bough]

Pass

[steep girder]

I should have known better ik

I was expecting crickets or whatever fruit taste like when you don't have fertilizer

[sudden bough]

Formulated with the help of a chat bot educated in weird internet sites

[steep girder]

Well no it's probably somehow trained to mix essences

Some way for taste tester feedback on some number of dimensions idmk

[sudden bough]

They probably just mixed some random stuff together and called it ai inspired

They bought too much of a few ingredients

[steep girder]

That's nothing Pepsi's reformulated "new taste" in the late mid 2000s they apparently used chemical interaction with stem cells to end up with it lol

It's been Y3000 a while now :(