public-chat

[grim belfry]

Yes I’ve had the updated UI for a long time

[void crag]

Hi

[hallow shale]

hi!

[full fossil]

is "wired.com" related to wirecutter(the one owned by ny times, not the pliers)?

or is it just a coincidence.

[grim belfry]

Coincidence

[tranquil yacht]

Has anyone here tried NewPipe?

If so, do you recommend it or would you recommend something else?

[strange elk]

grayjay

[tranquil yacht]

It's open source and privacy focused right?

[strange elk]

https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

They have their own license behind it, its not traditional Free open source software https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads

[tranquil yacht]

I figure

[strange elk]

Its source available but there are restrictions, mostly commercial ones.

Its a one time paid app I should've mentioned but effectively endless trial period. Still haven't paid since March.

[hearty plover]

Nvidia shareholders eating good

[tranquil yacht]

Mmmmmm... Well, at least it's privacy focused. I'm okay with this.

[strange elk]

Yeh. I mean personally Im fine with it even if others arent the most keen

[tranquil yacht]

WinRAR moment? 👀

[strange elk]

Nah. Its not intrusive like that lol

Also thats a limited time license anyway

And proprietary

despair~1

[tranquil yacht]

[strange elk]

Me when my friend pays for WinRAR knowing Peazip exists

[tranquil yacht]

I use Bandizip

[strange elk]

where source?

[tranquil yacht]

I might switch since that software has ads (yuck)

[strange elk]

This IS FOSS. https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip

[buoyant bronze]

guys i think ad block is pushing ads ???

[tranquil yacht]

Stupid Discord mobile

[strange elk]

which ad block lmao

[tranquil yacht]

Mmmmmm... Well, at least it's privacy focused. I'm okay with this.

[slow lake]

lmao me in .gg/linus thinking it's the official server😆, because it was very similair to this one and related to tech. (sorry if this is considered a shitpost)

[strange elk]

A lot of the stuff I use is self hosted, and trying to switch to stuff like that overall. I'm not too keen on data collection either. Louis Rossmann works with Futo and he's got strong values when it comes to ownership and privacy

[tranquil yacht]

Cursed samsung

[solemn axle]

Too modern ui, i prefer win 95 style icons in 7zip

[strange elk]

ok

functionally works pretty great tho

And again its FOSS so you can change the icons yourself

Apparently they have themes too.

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-themes.html

[modest beacon]

wechat i. 2024

[summer folio]

What's cursed?

You made a short-cut to Settings twice?

[tranquil yacht]

Look at gallery and clock

[summer folio]

Oh, the art is horrible I see

[summer folio]

Hmm

[tranquil yacht]

Yeah, still working on nuking Samsung's ####

[summer folio]

Twice the clocks & gallerys

[tranquil yacht]

ADB go brrrrrrrrr

I managed to nuke the play store as well

[summer folio]

Disable the apps not enuff?

[tranquil yacht]

Disable and they are still taking up space. Some can't even be disabled

Samsung Internet

https://tenor.com/view/triggered-changed-meme-gif-18419996

[summer folio]

I see. Don't have Samsung anylonger, my S6 Edge+ screen finally died. xP

[strange elk]

I need to find out what I can and can't drop. I want google off this phone but I can't block them entirely because my phone pings google for network checks.

[tranquil yacht]

Aw man :(

[tranquil yacht]

Yeah, watch out for the safetyNet thing

[strange elk]

And I just learned about split tunnelling so that's neat.

[tranquil yacht]

LineageOS for microG is the closest I found to completely removing Google while breaking the least amount of apps.

[strange elk]

Can't change the ROM.

Else I'd prob use graphene

[tranquil yacht]

You on Pixel?

[strange elk]

Ye

[tranquil yacht]

Yeah graphene is probably the best for ya. But IDK how it'll handle apps that require play service and device integrity.

[strange elk]

Meh.

If it needs play services I don't need it

[tranquil yacht]

Fair

Apps requiring play service and device integrity are BS.

Like sure security blah blah blah... But I'm sure there are better ways of doing it.

[strange elk]

Yeah for sure.

I just want to get to a point where Linux is the only OS I use.

[tranquil yacht]

Same

[strange elk]

At least as a daily driver. I can use the others ofc but I'd rather just own every aspect of my system that I can

[tranquil yacht]

The only thing holding me back are softwares I paid for that still doesn't have a Linux version.

At least GMS2 has a in beta Linux version

[strange elk]

There's one app I'd miss that I paid for. I use FOSS alternatives for most things.

[tranquil yacht]

Wondershare Filmora and Voicemod are the biggest offender.

Yes, I'm a small creator

Don't ask

[strange elk]

Wasn't gonna

[tranquil yacht]

Thanks

[full fossil]

i mean i feel like it’s your responsibility to see if the platform is supported or not lol

[tranquil yacht]

True

[strange elk]

Which they did

[tranquil yacht]

Only thing I can do is ask for my money back or encourage them to make a Linux version by throwing more money.

[topaz ridge]

If your workflow permits you can always boot back into windows when you need it

But yeah it would be nice if everything just worked

[strange elk]

Oh I thought those were on android too.

I meant Linux on Android

[tranquil yacht]

Oh... LMAO

[strange elk]

I already have windows isolated and I barely use it at all.

Just for VR and a couple other games

[tranquil yacht]

I still primary use Windows, but I am still planning to switch eventually.

[strange elk]

Its almost time I feel like

[topaz ridge]

At work I do basically everything in WSL lol

[tranquil yacht]

Switch to Linux now

[strange elk]

Currently Linux distros are transitioning to Wayland, Pipewire and Kernel 6

[topaz ridge]

Yeah I'm sure they'd be stoked about me installing Linux onto my corporate laptop

[tranquil yacht]

I heard they pretty good

[strange elk]

Mint 22 will be on this I believe

But currently running pipewire and kernel 6 on 21 anyway because of issues lmao

[topaz ridge]

Looking forward to better HDR support ✨

[strange elk]

Idk what I'm looking for in Wayland. I can't really utilize HDR. Or at least this monitor kinda sucks at it since its edge lit

[topaz ridge]

I've heard people talking about being excited for explicit sync for Nvidia but I just run Windows on my desktop PC

[tranquil yacht]

Kinda want Mint to based on Debian instead of Ubuntu

Well it is

Just IDK why it not the default

Does anyone know what different between Debian and Ubuntu based Mint or are the partially the same?

[strange elk]

LMDE

Its pretty new honestly. They are pretty much the same aside from just packages coming from upstream.

I use Ubuntu based partially because I didn't know of LMDE quite yet and I know it has great support overall.

I guess if you are used to debian it may be the better option but I do wonder about compatibility and performance

[buoyant bronze]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-—-block-ads-acros/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom this one

sorry i dissapeared there

oh wait nvm

[topaz ridge]

I'm pretty sure people usually recommend ublock origin

That's what I use but I don't use a chromium browser

[dusky jacinth]

Same, though I used uBlock in Firefox and any Chromium-based browser I may end up using.

[graceful burrow]

Also use ublock

[buoyant bronze]

so its not actually adblock

its a fucking google app

The old chrome desktop remote access app has turned into fucking adware

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/inomeogfingihgjfjlpeplalcfajhgai link to the extension btw

[strange elk]

I only use ublock origin. Everything else is kinda bad

ABP might be ok

[buoyant bronze]

i also use adblock ultimate at the same time with adblock

dude this shit is basically malware

its suggesting malware sites

i searched fortnite and it took a second then showed shit like soft sonic

[dusky jacinth]

I've tried Ghostery before, but it's not all that effective and conflicts with uBlock.

[strange elk]

I just never got ads with uBo

Still have it for scripts and stuff but adguard blocks almost everything already now lol

[buoyant bronze]

yea gonna have to unistal this thing even tho its actually super helpful

man google know how to ruin a good thing

wait wtf

is my browser just fucked now

i tested it in incognito and it went away after disabling it

im so baffled it stopped appearing when i disabled it now its not even going away

ok i think i found the source now (???)

yea looks like it was remote desktop but some reason the problem went away when i disabled it

weird anyway was some plugin i used to download samples from utube

[strange elk]

Sounds like you have too many extensions lmao

[graceful burrow]

yeah lol

[wooden fable]

Now that we know Linus was in X files as an extra should the April fool's video this year be AI inserting young linus into random Canadian TV shows like smallville

[violet vine]

personally, I do cowsay

[stable birch]

Linus should build a trading PC for Roaring Kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1prSyyIco0

[ornate echo]

any Redfox users here? Has anyone heard anything? It appears they are just gone. All websites and domains are kapoof

[graceful burrow]

i dont think you realize how many companies use that name lol

[ornate echo]

AnyDVD

I assume they are gone, they had been having legal trouble for years and had to relocate to Belize since they dont enforce DRM or something like that there. Their software allowed you to backup your (ahem, legally owned) DVDs and blu-rays discs to iso or to encode to home servers like Plex or Emby. Was just a little taken aback at the sudden poof, no warning, no emails. Fingers crossed they arent gone forever.

[late forge]

Hi

[graceful burrow]

you relocated because you couldnt rip dvds?

you do know there are other programs that rip dvds right

[ornate echo]

i just bought a new license hence my concern

[peak patio]

hi

[fast parrot]

damn Microsoft is actually listening??????? I am genuinely so surprised

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

[strange elk]

Now if only they'd do that with bitlocker too

And ads.

And edge.

[solemn axle]

bitlocker isn't that bad

except the fact it sometimes fails to pick keys from tpm chip

but overall, it isn't bad, you can just store your recovery key taped on the laptop /s

[halcyon spoke]

greetings

[harsh quartz]

Bitlocker at least has a reason to exist

[merry idol]

Both of my Sabrent 1TB M.2's died within 3 years

I am so upset about this

One of them had important data on it, and the other was just a gaming one

[vernal quarry]

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5551
TLDR if you are on Nvidia update to the 555.99 driver asap

[harsh quartz]

Keep a backup

[gleaming forum]

Does anyone know what form factor this PC is? Trying to help someone, yet pretty hard when you're bad a math...

[gleaming forum]

13-29/50 in. X 13-64/79 in. X 3-67/77 in.

[ashen estuary]

this is not the right channel

[strange elk]

Ask different questions. How many ram slots? How many pcie slots? Biggest indicators. Mostly pcie.

[ionic abyss]

thats not possable for microsftn to listen

[gleaming forum]

Sorry

[full fossil]

what are these numbers bro 😭

[graceful burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-they-mean-random-numbers-gif-10654449

He already figured it out in a different chat

[gleaming forum]

Don't worry. Already figured it out

Yea I did

[graceful burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/psych-shawn-spencer-james-roday-stupid-good-im-skilled-gif-4217753

[full fossil]

well what is it

im curious

[gleaming forum]

He was specificing what case he already has, a mini ITX. But he actually wants a mid tower atx

It was miscommunication and my tism

[rich cypress]

what's y'all sleep time

[graceful burrow]

Nice try fed

[rich cypress]

😡

how are you in all of the chats

[graceful burrow]

I have the ability to click different channels
Insane I know

[silver sun]

162

[wispy pilot]

hi

[short quartz]

checolate

[wispy pilot]

hi can

idk

[last spruce]

Yo

Yo

[idle nymph]

Me and family is gonna visit Chicago and Washington this summer, anything worth a detour or anything I should visit when there ?

[stoic beacon]

You should take note of the areas not to visit there. For safety reasons.

[idle nymph]

I know Chicago can be a warzone, but any place we should specifically avoid (we first wanted to go to Detroit but can't have shit there)

[harsh quartz]

Chicago used to have something called city pass, don’t know if it’s still a thing, was a good way to see a bunch of museums and stuff if your into that

[idle nymph]

Duly noted, thanks

[tranquil yacht]

LawnChair launcher pretty neat

[solemn axle]

i use OLauncher (Clutter Free fork)

[tranquil yacht]

I tried the OLaincher. It's very clean, but I miss the widgets.

[sonic glade]

hi

[jaunty compass]

The PlayStation VR2 PC adapter comes out in August so I bought a psvr2 used before the market has a chance to react and increase the price lol

[graceful burrow]

rip

most of the things that make it potentially cool are not coming to pc

[jaunty compass]

It still has a really high resolution 120hz OLED display

And I'm sure people will come up with software mods to add the missing features eventually

[graceful burrow]

sure
that's its only draw lol

[jaunty compass]

Since I'm getting one used ahead of the curve price was also a draw for me too lol

I'll end up paying $360 after I buy the adapter since the adapter is $60 and I got the headset for $300

[graceful burrow]

that's not that bad for a headset so you got me there

i paid 400 for my rift s right before alyx came out

[jaunty compass]

Especially not for such a solid headset

I've heard the tracking on the psvr2 controllers is also quite good for inside out tracking

[graceful burrow]

i wish i could use my rift s more

no room :(

wouldnt mind replaying alyx, game is so goddamn good

[jaunty compass]

The psvr2 has a pretty damn high resolution too so I imagine screen door effect will be super minimal

[graceful burrow]

make sure your pc is up to the task

[jaunty compass]

It's like 2000x2040 per eye or something

[jaunty compass]

I have a 4080 I think I'll be fine

[graceful burrow]

what are you planning on playin

[jaunty compass]

Mostly RUMBLE and beat saber.
I do want to try out underdogs though I hear it's really good

And I need to play the third I expect you to die

[graceful burrow]

have you played alyx

[jaunty compass]

I planned on eventually getting a katwalk C2 and was going to save Half-Life Alyx and boneworks until then

[graceful burrow]

that's overkill imo but its your setup lol

[jaunty compass]

But I realized I don't really have the space for a katwalk c2 lol

[novel river]

Fortnite

[jaunty compass]

It is, but I really don't like stick based locomotion in VR

I want to walk there

[novel river]

So anybody like Razer?

[proud heart]

can anyone fly irl

[mortal kraken]

Yeah via a plane

[solemn axle]

when i'm in aeroplane mode

[jaunty compass]

My dad wants to buy one of these stupid motorized glider things

[novel river]

Its called Yeeting

[jaunty compass]

If he's irresponsible with his money then yes he can fly

[proud heart]

good

[tranquil yacht]

Hello everyone. This is a keyboard test.

Oops

[strange elk]

Olauncher enjoyer

[crystal flare]

https://youtu.be/aDMsGl_XxTk?si=lUQl_CG_RlEAedHZ

this is funny yet accurate.

[stoic beacon]

Oh hey, another OLauncher user. Nice! I like that one a lot

[strange elk]

Lmao

[opal thunder]

I myself have smart launcher. But I've heard good things about lawnchair.

What are some nice features that it has?

[tranquil yacht]

To be honest, it's an open source launcher made to mimic the pixel launcher. I'd say there's lots of customization features.

BTW, what alternative apps you guys use to replace Google/Apple/Samsung Pay/Wallet?

[sterile garden]

any ideas why cloudflare wont let me get my global key :) its just saying wrong password, even tough i reseted it 3 times

maybe its just cache, somehow

nope

im just stupid

used my icloud email(on cf), and was trying the gmail one lol

[opal thunder]

Only thing I dislike about pixel launcher and the only reason I'm not using the default is that you cannot remove the Google widget.

[sterile garden]

i used it for about a year before i got my iphone, its pretty simmilar to ios

[opal thunder]

Although the backup feature of smart launcher is very nice when swapping roms

[tranquil yacht]

No Google widgets in LawnChair

You can even hide the search bar.

[opal thunder]

I use a widget for Firefox so it was omega annoying seeing 2, very nice to know lawnchair is free from that bs.

[opal thunder]

Meh

[tranquil yacht]

I managed to remove 20 GB of bloat from my Samsung and still not done.

[opal thunder]

I sent it in the wrong order

[sterile garden]

huh? it didnt look like this to me, you changed it a lot, i had it basically default

[opal thunder]

Oh yeah, for sure.

Default looks similar to iOS

But I think that's meh

[tranquil yacht]

I don't want to use PayPal, but I might have to.

[opal thunder]

I use davx for photo backups.

[tranquil yacht]

Uhhhhh

[narrow vine]

im glad that gcses are almost over]

[opal thunder]

Wallet though is pretty much irreplaceable

[tranquil yacht]

:[

PayPal it is I guess.

[opal thunder]

Immich and davx for backups if you want to move your photos off of Google if you have a pixel.

And MicroG can replace play services for some things

[tranquil yacht]

I'm on Samsung.

[opal thunder]

You can just sideload apks instead of using the play/Samsung store

But that is very annoying.

[tranquil yacht]

LOL, I already uninstalled the Samsung and play store.

Using F-Droid and Aurora

[opal thunder]

Ah that's right.

Aurora exists.

Open source W.

[opal thunder]

You can still do that though if you're feeling extra.

[tranquil yacht]

Fossify

[polar fern]

Breh. Folders.

[opal thunder]

Real

[tranquil yacht]

microG is appealing, I'll see if I can get it installed.

[opal thunder]

Might need to root if you haven't.

[tranquil yacht]

LawnChair has folders, I just don't use it.

[tranquil yacht]

Well poop :(

Because my phone does not support root.

I think

[opal thunder]

Samsung moment.

They lock their shit down hard for hardware from what I've heard. I wouldn't be surprised if soft was a pain in the ass too.

[opal thunder]

What model do you have.

[tranquil yacht]

Samsung A53 5G

Software all on the latest version.

[opal thunder]

From a quick google I see a few videos pop up.

So it probably is possible.

[tranquil yacht]

Please send?

[opal thunder]

Sent in DMS.

[tranquil yacht]

Aight

[opal thunder]

Unsure if the bot will nuke me for sending a yt link

[summer folio]

PM* you mean

Private message

[opal thunder]

What ever this platform calls it

[summer folio]

It's called PM in vBulletin forum, so it's forever PM.

Because we are "direct messaging" each other now too also, surely

Hence PM/Private Messaging makes sense as a name for separate communication

[opal thunder]

Ofc

[strange elk]

Except not so private that the company doesn't know what you're saying.

[opal thunder]

😆

I love it when they read my messages to their ai.

Like a bedtime story, yk?

Pan de sal is my life blood rn.

Haven't eaten anything and have waited at the passport office for like 4 hours.

Thank god the T&T is right around the corner.

[dawn cedar]

Should I go get McDonald's rn

It's 1am but I'm craving it

[strange elk]

salted bread?

HonestReaction

[dawn cedar]

salted bread?

[smoky badge]

Hmmm

Yes

[dawn cedar]

it closes in like 30 mins

[smoky badge]

Do it

[marble pilot]

AAA WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM ME

[marble pilot]

bible app spotted

[tranquil yacht]

😎 👍

[marble pilot]

[dawn cedar]

Omw

Nom nom

[wraith spruce]

guys help do i get the steam deck or the rog ally x

[dawn cedar]

Ally

[summer folio]

Hence why everybody understands what 7 PM means

7 PM = 7 Private Messages

[opal thunder]

Real

[topaz ridge]

Steam deck is probably better if you want it to just work but if you want the best performance, maybe the rog

The steam deck is pretty nice and is very energy efficient and well optimized and stuff

[wraith spruce]

the steam deck does look appealing for that reason

im only going to be using it for gaming and the games i play arent very demanding

[summer folio]

Can you uninstall steam from it tho? I prefere to own my games, not borrow.

[topaz ridge]

You can, but if you don't want steam maybe it's not the right device for you

[wraith spruce]

what's wrong with "borrowing"?

the only issue i can think of is if steam removes a game you paid for from your library, and how often is that happening?

[modest beacon]

you dont own the game you paid for

[marble pilot]

pls adopt me linus

[mighty ingot]

Hi

[delicate lintel]

yo

[normal anvil]

@tidal salmon

[tranquil yacht]

Well this is awkward... I accidentally lost all my phone numbers after removing the contact provider.

I thought they we saved to the SIM card.

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

Oh wait... They're still there.

[brittle sundial]

Hi

[rotund widget]

👋🏻

[full fossil]

duckduckgo has not one, but two ducks. google has none. i rest my case

[summer folio]

[magic raft]

github css injection https://github.com/xmdb

people with epilepsy please be warned about using github, some are using it to spam triggering gifs

[marble pilot]

hold up what that's so cool

is that a bug?

[magic raft]

yeas

[marble pilot]

they better patch that... or people are gonna start abusing that

[magic raft]

they already have

[marble pilot]

oh no

[magic raft]

on public issues there are gifs that pop up flashing white and black with discord URLs

[marble pilot]

wow

[magic raft]

they take over the whole page

[marble pilot]

here's a screenshot because I feel like sending one (edge because everything else opens the github app)

[marble pilot]

@magic raft also nice 1 minute of assembly (that's more than I have)

[magic raft]

i literally have no idea how that happened but it did

[marble pilot]

lol

[frail steeple]

hi

[spice sand]

Bumped into my shelf’s of games really hard and somehow they didn’t fall

The only thing holding the side up that I bumped into is a screw lol. Had one screw and a dream

[candid vessel]

hi

[last spruce]

My dopamine receptors are absolutely fried

[main cedar]

.

[last spruce]

Wonder when kay finna unban me fr

Nit that bad

They salty cuz i took all their aura

🤷‍♂️

[winged oxide]

hi

[summer folio]

Windows XP so good, I love it

lets all switch back

[grim belfry]

Come see a tablet PC

[summer folio]

Pre SP2

[grim belfry]

Extra stable

[dull granite]

samsung phones are the definition of late stage capitalism

[grim belfry]

Of all things to choose to demonstrate your point - Samsung phones?

[vapid smelt]

bread is good

[strange elk]

Lmao

[dull granite]

i dunno who thought adding tags to search box saying stuff like "#Security #EyeComfort #Advanced #Performance" to the fuckin settings app 😭😭😭😭

also every time i update they lock you inside a screen with "upgrade your phone now! press continue to UPGRADE (download apps from thier apps store) now!" with a very small "remind me later" button

also they are giving you option which apps you DONT want to install? and some can't be un-chosen because fuck you

[grim belfry]

Skill issue

[dull granite]

kiss

[strange elk]

Yeah. Definitely a fairphone

[grim belfry]

This is going to make someone mad

But an iPhone would never do that

[strange elk]

Ehh

They are pretty incessent with update nagging

And almost nothing is backward compatible

[fresh sorrel]

Fairphone keeps sounding worse the more I hear about it wild

[vapid smelt]

hippies cant make phone

[fresh sorrel]

I don’t really get the point of it tbh. Like yeah it’s repairable and crap but are you really planning on your phone being that damaged, I feel like the lifespan is about the same as a flagship or even cheaper ones at this point

Ig “eco friendliness”

[grim belfry]

Just by a used flagship.

[fresh sorrel]

I was taking an online economics class, and the prof said smth about how companies say that environmental sustainability goals are a reason to like, invest in a company. And a bunch of crap about Microsoft and Apple doing environmental stuff. But he said how “companies aren’t successful because they’re environmental they’re environmental because they’re successful”

[chrome bison]

hi all

[drifting pumice]

hi

[atomic vessel]

hi chat

[vapid smelt]

who is chat

[graceful burrow]

Chat is this dude real

[atomic vessel]

chat is the the voices inside my head

[atomic vessel]

fr lol

'it's repairable'
yeah that's the only advantage it has over some midrange samsung phone

[modest beacon]

is teak more durable than mahogany?

[vapid smelt]

you are a ceo of a wood company i think you should already know this

[modest beacon]

[neon mesa]

Neither

The answer is eco friendly wood veneer

[vast sigil]

how is there group not ot

whats the difference between this group and ot?

[red breach]

Being “repairable and crap” is the entire point. I don’t know how to explain to you that it’s probably a good idea if someone other than the people who made it can fix your device but like

[fresh sorrel]

Nono im definitely all for repairability. I just feel that at the price point, the device itself doesn’t warrant it to begin with

[red breach]

It’s not just first owner stuff, it’s the fact that you can easily and cheaply swap the battery at any point in its life. Hand me down, etc it can have a whole new life without “authorization” you know?

[neon mesa]

Personally i think fairphone is a bit too many compromises.
I want phones to be at least repairable by third party tech however (cough apple being annoying to fix cough)

And for them to provide parts

[red breach]

It’s not just annoying it’s an intentionally evil process that’s been getting worse not better

[fresh sorrel]

The sacrifices made for the sake of convenience make the phone have less of a lifespan compared to brands that are more established and frankly cheaper

[neon mesa]

I don't get how it's intentionally evil when fairphone's style of phone manufacturing clearly has drawbacks

If it's like apple serializing parts sure that's evil

[red breach]

Then you aren’t informed to the levels Apple stops repair

[red breach]

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Let the user know? Fine. All for it. Screw the device up in weird, random ways?

[fresh sorrel]

Yeah no Apple goes too far for the sake of protection and crap, fairphone imo just isn’t a good answer for it

[red breach]

(Ie change the screen - and the Face ID stops working. Doesn’t even connect through the screen they’re not a unit in any way

[neon mesa]

I'm not calling for apple style locked down phones lmao

[red breach]

I’m just saying if you’re saying you “don’t get how it’s intentionally evil” you’re just not informed.

[fresh sorrel]

The fairphone 3 and the iPhone 11 came out at the same year, which is more usable now, a used iPhone 11 or a fully repaired fairphone 3

[neon mesa]

I don't see how it's intentionally evil because current style of phones are clearly a necessity.
There's a reason fairphone is shit outside of being able to easily replace parts

[red breach]

If that used iPhone 11 has a cracked back glass? That’s a 2+ hour full housing swap

[neon mesa]

Making slim phones in general isn't

[red breach]

For no fucking reason 😭

[neon mesa]

Apple style lock down however is

[red breach]

That’s just nonsense

Samsung et al figured out you use a removable adhesive on the back. Like the front

[fresh sorrel]

You can still use a phone with a cracked back glass just saying but, yes if it had a cracked screen or something that impacted usability then sure

[red breach]

Apple slathered theirs with cement until this generation 🤦🏻

[fresh sorrel]

It’s legit just a price to performance issue, not a repairability one

[neon mesa]

I want a phone to be used as a phone
Repairable enough to not be a pain when it does break.
Fairphone is shit at its job being a phone... You know... The main purpose of a phone is to be a phone.

[red breach]

So you have to replace the whole frame. Ie rebuild the whole phone in a new housing

[median idol]

https://tenor.com/view/thriller-michael-jackson-eating-popcorn-watching-gif-5577709

[vapid smelt]

cracked back glass looses its water resistance

[fresh sorrel]

Yeah but you can still USE it

[red breach]

It’s not “shit” though. Most of the planet uses a phone with worse specs than fair phone

[fresh sorrel]

Not for 799£

[neon mesa]

Those phoens are also appropriately priced

[fresh sorrel]

Or 699

[neon mesa]

Fairphone is flagship price for samsung M series experience

[red breach]

That was the outgoing 4

It’s… fine

[median idol]

Can we just like

[neon mesa]

That's a crap chip set lmao
$300 phones nowadays come with faster chip

[red breach]

The 5 adds 90HZ OLED more modern SOC

[neon mesa]

Way faster chips

[median idol]

Go back to fucking flip phones

[red breach]

And none of that matters to most people

[neon mesa]

90hz oled isn't special

[fresh sorrel]

The s21 came out the same year with better specs and the same price range

[neon mesa]

120hz oled is like... A given... For fairphone kind of prices

[red breach]

Ever wonder why Toyotas still sell when Hyundais offer way more “specs” for the price?

Because people understand a value premium for a repairable, more economically durable device

[fresh sorrel]

Dave. Listen, as a genuine question

[tranquil yacht]

Gave it a try. I love it.

[fresh sorrel]

Name something good about the fairphone BESIDES the repairability

[neon mesa]

I don't want a phone to be like iphones either

[red breach]

Name something good about water besides that it hydrates you

[fresh sorrel]

Cleaning

Rain

[red breach]

If you intentionally ignore the whole point

[neon mesa]

I want it to be repairable enough for when it happens

[red breach]

Of course the product is bad

[neon mesa]

Fairphone approach is like expecting your phone to break every 3 months

If that's your phone life expectancy then sure

[red breach]

I worked at ubreakifix from 2017-2020

That’s more common than you’d think lol

[neon mesa]

But for most normal people whose phone last at least 2 year it's not worth sacrificing everything that makes a phone a phone

[fresh sorrel]

If you survey a specific part of the population you’re gonna get specific answers

[neon mesa]

Even at Samsung's outrageous screen prices it'll still be more economical than a fairphone, and you get a wayyy better chipset

[red breach]

Even once is enough.

[neon mesa]

Ooooh let me sacrifice everything that makes a phone good for something that happens once every 2 years for slightly cheaper repair

[red breach]

And this is a very involved repair that involves heat and glue and shit

[fresh sorrel]

Or just buy a used phone for cheap every few years

THATS enviornmental

[red breach]

Where do you think those used phones come from

[fresh sorrel]

People who upgrade and people who got robbed

[red breach]

And do you honestly think that will still be an option given devices shortening their useful lives through anti repair tactics

[fresh sorrel]

Yes??

[neon mesa]

We're not advocating for anti repair

[red breach]

Right you’re just children who “don’t get it” when

[neon mesa]

Fairphone is simply too far extreme of a measure

[red breach]

Clearly you do - it’s just not important enough to you

[fresh sorrel]

Bro how many phones do you think people break on average

[red breach]

Like I said. I worked at a phone repair shop. A LOT of

[fresh sorrel]

Apples been anti repair for years and you can still get hundreds used on eBay??

[modest beacon]

my friend flexed his m1 macbook air. thats like flexing an iphone xr nowadays

[neon mesa]

The 400 bucks A55 got way better specs, even if it breaks it'll still cost less than the 699 of a fairphone

[fresh sorrel]

Obviously you’re working at a repair shop you think everyone does

[neon mesa]

How many of those are returning customers every 3 months

Because if you work at a repair shop no shit you meet a lot of broken phones

[modest beacon]

i kinda wish A55 had telephoto lens just like the A72

[red breach]

And you’re missing the entire point where at least fair phone is making an effort to source their hardware ethically. Ie conflict cobalt

[red breach]

Genuinely 1 in 4 was a returning customer. Always the same service? No but…

[minor basin]

this soft of thing should be an industry-wide regulation rather than a selling point for one company's products

[vapid smelt]

but its good for kids to get work experience at a young age /s

[fresh sorrel]

Dude once again we are not anti repair we are anti shitty phone for expensive price

[neon mesa]

As i said, fairphone's approach is too much of a compromise.
And I'm not for apple's anti repair too.

[red breach]

And it’s not a shitty phone!

[fresh sorrel]

It legit objectively is

[vapid smelt]

it has no headphone jack

[neon mesa]

I want the current style of phones
But for companies to provide said parts and without actively bricking parts.

[red breach]

Like objectively you value whizbang bullshit over the planet or human life I get it nbd

Oh the camera as 12 less MP

[neon mesa]

Woo 700 bucks for a chipset worse than a 300 bucks phone

[modest beacon]

upgradable phones doesnt make any sense

[minor basin]

The fairphone makes a huge number of compromises that a second hand phone for half its price doesn't.
If the whole point point is to be able to repair it, IMO you should just get good at repairing.

[fresh sorrel]

It’s outdated the year it releases

[red breach]

😭😭😭 oh no it’s got a plastic back my 1,000 phone has metal

[neon mesa]

Nobody's complaining about the plastic back here??

[modest beacon]

what phones still use metal

[red breach]

And none of that matters

[vapid smelt]

id rather have a plastic back over glass

[neon mesa]

My S20FE uses plastic lmao

[acoustic pond]

you know what does not make sense, a smartphone with a ethernet port

[red breach]

Chipset or camera like it’s just superficial crap

[modest beacon]

what do you mean lmao

[fresh sorrel]

That’s literally like the core parts of the device people want it for

[red breach]

Does it somehow not open the apps you need to use everyday?

[fresh sorrel]

(Not to mention the software issues btw)

[red breach]

Then it’s like objectively not worse for 99% of people

[modest beacon]

would you want it to be laggy?

[neon mesa]

Engine on a car is just superficial crap, just use a lawnmower engine

[modest beacon]

to the point its unusable

[red breach]

It’s not laggy it’s a 750G on the outgoing model it’s fine

[neon mesa]

750G is crap for 699

[fresh sorrel]

Dave genuinely this isn’t like a question I’m asking to be rude but ballpark how old are you

Just for context

[red breach]

Old enough to have been a manager of a repair shop in 2020. Probably old enough to be someone here’s Dad.

[grim belfry]

The only annoying thing about plastic backs are the bloody scratches

[fresh sorrel]

I’ve seen 18 year old managers of phone shops that’s not a lot to go off of

[modest beacon]

my phone has shitty camera and performance for its price but hey at least its upgradable

[neon mesa]

That's what a case is for

[red breach]

Eventually you just stop caring about like, specs. Holistically the fair phone is a fair… phone

Specs for specs sake, like, I mean I get it who’s gonna pick a smaller number

[grim belfry]

Absolutely not. Naked only

[modest beacon]

its not just about number

[red breach]

But really, the answer is if more people did - we’d be better off

[neon mesa]

A 750G level phone can be found for like... 300 bucks or less... That's 400 bucks difference, even breaking it 3 times will still cost less than a fairphone

[red breach]

And comes with dozens of hours of invisible human suffering free

[fresh sorrel]

Then that’s your prerogative. And, you’d be better off then buying a phone for like 100-200$ and god forbid you break it replacing it for cheaper than fairphone replacement parts.

[vapid smelt]

i always have a case so it dont matter for me

[fresh sorrel]

You REALLY think fairphone doesnt

[neon mesa]

Not the user's problem, we pay technicians for the fix.

[minor basin]

I think specs do matter when your aim is to prolong lifespan though. A fast phone today ends up being less slow in 5 years.

[modest beacon]

so true

[red breach]

I think the fairphone was designed and built by people who genuinely care about that kind of stuff. If you don’t, fine. But I do believe producing a fairphone will result in less toil than an iPhone or equivalent eastern market machine

[summer ember]

yo does this server have a place i can ask for help

[grim belfry]

#1027757333117415424

[red breach]

Specifically not #1027757333117415424

[summer ember]

thx

[fresh sorrel]

So ignoring chip factories, LCD manufacturers, etc where the labor is the same no matter who it ends up with

Like everything at this point goes back to SOME factory

[vapid smelt]

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/

[red breach]

So ignoring the fact that it’s pretty much all a choice which ones you use. Are you going to use Corning glass made in Corning, New York?

Cobalt from recyclers? Or from mines?

[fresh sorrel]

Name a chip factory in the US

[vapid smelt]

intel

[red breach]

Intel. Global foundries. IBM

Motorola, TSMC now

[neon mesa]

Cool buy fairphone if you care about those. Doesn't make it better as a phone

[red breach]

Uhh

[fresh sorrel]

Ok fair but yeah they still outsource their stuff

[modest beacon]

tsmc is a us comapny now????

[vapid smelt]

texas instruments

[acoustic pond]

would you say you have good...intel on this

[red breach]

Texas Instruments?

[gilded quest]

Frito lay

[red breach]

Oh, Micron

[acoustic pond]

eww microns

[fresh sorrel]

I think they’re building one, got some grant

[modest beacon]

ohhh

[gilded quest]

Intel, micron, glofo, Samsung, TSMC soon, Texas instruments, microchip

And those are just the big ones

[modest beacon]

samsung?

[red breach]

ON semiconductor uhhh

[vapid smelt]

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/company/ti-at-a-glance/manufacturing/sherman.html

[red breach]

Yeah there’s plenty of chips made in the US you’re a clown

[gilded quest]

Fuckin state university of new york

[acoustic pond]

dont forget Tostitos

[vapid smelt]

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/texas-instruments-build-11-billion-semiconductor-plant-utah/643046/ oh my state is getting a semiconductor plant from TI

[fresh sorrel]

Chill lmao I already said I was wrong about that one thing

[acoustic pond]

oh utah eh? you mormon?

[gilded quest]

Texas instruments
Utah
The fuck

[red breach]

Just admit the rest and we can move on with our lives

Fairphone is based

[acoustic pond]

would you say its.....fair

[gilded quest]

Fairphone is a cool concept but not a product for me
Even if it had full US carrier support

[fresh sorrel]

It’s not worth it xD

[vapid smelt]

if the fair phone was a bit cheaper and had a headphone jack i would consider it

[atomic vessel]

yeah it's a cool idea at most

[modest beacon]

why dont framework and fairphone just fuse or somehting

[fresh sorrel]

Yeah I’d be fine with it if it was cheaper, and maybe a bit better on the OS side

[modest beacon]

that would be cool

[acoustic pond]

honestly I cant remmeber the last time I used a headphone jack on my phone...

[atomic vessel]

framework is an actually usable device

[neon mesa]

The lack of headphone jack makes me distrust their moral mission.

Why?

[modest beacon]

i mean they both start with an F

[gilded quest]

Meh
I'd rather have less corporate consolidation

[modest beacon]

Fairwork

[fresh sorrel]

The corporate world just turned into agar.io at this point

[grim belfry]

Why does HP no longer make phones?
Exactly

[atomic vessel]

fairphone's too expensive at that price point (which is sure a premium for repairability but 699 euros?)

[minor basin]

I see fairphone products as statement pieces. I'd never recommend one to anyone, but it's the equivalent of Richard Stallman only using ancient laptops that have open source firmware.

[modest beacon]

why dont they make phones anymore?

[brazen night]

can i post some linux concerns in #1027757333117415424 ? im about to switch from win 11 to linux (either linux mint or popOS) in my legion 5i

[fresh sorrel]

I imagine it like the Intel GPUs like yeah this isn’t great as a product but I want to buy it to support the idea they’re going with

[red breach]

Ok so there was this guy Leo Apotheker

[fresh sorrel]

I want LG to make more phones :((

[red breach]

And he thought it was a great idea for HP to uh, stop their Palm acquisition after they already paid for the company. Billions.

[vapid smelt]

intel gpus is pretty good no ngl my brother has the arc a770

[fresh sorrel]

They’ve gotten better with driver updates for sure

[atomic vessel]

i legitimately wanna try out intel battlemage once it comes out

[fresh sorrel]

Esp at the price, intel is big enough to produce them

[minor basin]

Yeahh it just ends up feeling way more extreme. I'd consider an intel gpu because the sacrifice feels smaller than with a fairphone.

[red breach]

They introduced the HP touchpad to compete with iPad - it failed. Then they announced the Pre 3 and cancelled it before launch. Thousands lost their jobs and so did Leo 😭

[fresh sorrel]

I feel like it would be a better comparison if they were priced at like 4080 prices

[red breach]

So Palm WebOS got sold to Lg with a covenant they could never use it with phones. So they use it to this day as the OS for their smart TVs

[fresh sorrel]

But since they’re cheaper it’s fine, same as the phone

[modest beacon]

can samsung start another printer industry even if hp bought the right to it?

[minor basin]

exactly

[red breach]

All depends on the terms of sale. Generally there’s an exclusive period of a few years when you sell a book of business that way

[modest beacon]

ohhhhhh

[fresh sorrel]

Depends on the contract but yeah theoretically

[grim belfry]

Samsung already makes printers

[atomic vessel]

sure why not
i don't think they'll do it but

[modest beacon]

but it was boufht by hp

[atomic vessel]

samsung buys hp OEM printers and slap samsung logo + software on them

[modest beacon]

u thiught it was the other way around

[red breach]

But who tf cares about printers

[gilded quest]

I use arc

[modest beacon]

i care. printer inks have gotten so expensive lately

[grim belfry]

Laser or continuous ink

[red breach]

Get a brother laser if you’re good with black and white. Like $100

[fresh sorrel]

Yeah printers still useful in many cases

[red breach]

And the $20 generic toners last thousands of pages

[gilded quest]

Battlemage is gonna be TSMC
I'd bet pricing has to increase next gen, but I'd also think Intel would basically be selling at cost

I wanna get a laser printer at this point

[fresh sorrel]

Fuck regular printers I’m just attaching a pen to my 3d printer

[atomic vessel]

laser printers are nice

[gilded quest]

But I have a perfectly fine inkjet that still has black ink

I should probably try some 3rd party color ink soon

[fresh sorrel]

I love how 3d printers are becoming more reliable than 2d printers

[modest beacon]

ikr???

[atomic vessel]

stuff printed on laser printers just feel really nice
i can use yellow sharpies without ink getting all over em

[red breach]

It all depends, some printers play fine with generic and others don’t

[gilded quest]

I mean

[modest beacon]

like why cant i use 3rd party inks

[red breach]

My canon works great with refilled but not the HP we had before

[gilded quest]

My inkjet has been flawless the last 6 years I've had it

[fresh sorrel]

Need your HP subscription!!

[modest beacon]

why do i need internet to print

[atomic vessel]

corporate needs you buying their ink and not someone else's

[gilded quest]

Although I've probably used it as a scanner more than a printer the last few years

[modest beacon]

hate them for it

[fresh sorrel]

Printers are a luxury not a right guys

[atomic vessel]

yeah fr

[gilded quest]

Well don't buy hp

Get Epson or Canon or something

[atomic vessel]

printers should be a human right tbh

[modest beacon]

you dont own the things you purchase

[fresh sorrel]

I mean you don’t unless the printers a bitch

[modest beacon]

you will own nothing and you will be happy

[grim belfry]

If you want genuine ink, HP instant ink isn't a horrible deal

[modest beacon]

fair

[pale shell]

what is ansible

[atomic vessel]

audiobook i think

[gilded quest]

Ink subscription is dumb for consumers

[fresh sorrel]

Controlled chaos

I think that’s the thing where you can set up automations to set up machines and stuff

[fresh sorrel]

That’s audible

[atomic vessel]

ah yeah always get confused between the two

[fresh sorrel]

You don’t really need it unless your provisioning or re-flashing a bunch of computers

Or you’re bored

[grim belfry]

If you want genuine ink, and use a lot of ink per page, it's not a bad deal. But that isn't most people

[atomic vessel]

unless you're in an office setting or something yeah

if you're printing hundreds of pages per day then an ink subscription's actually pretty nice i suppose

[grim belfry]

In a SO/HO it's not the best since you're printing the majority text. In that case a proper printer lease would be better

[modest beacon]

va mini led or ips mini led?

[atomic vessel]

ah yeah single offices would be better off without subscriptions

[grim belfry]

Less than 30c a page (AUD), full colour, it ends up cheaper than printing at a library or similar. And your monthly allowance rolls over

[modest beacon]

they shoud make usb a subscription

[grim belfry]

https://google.com/drive

[modest beacon]

1tb/day data transfer for $5

[full fossil]

Hello gentlemens

[gilded quest]

how many of those people would fall under some sort of self-employed/small business umbrella tho

[grim belfry]

Not many, a laser printer is more suited to an office setting rather than an inkjet

[chrome bison]

hey everyone is anyone studying for iT certifications ?

[faint rose]

Man, that shortcircuit video about the fake leather case. You can easily take Alex's quote out of context. "And you'd have to kill animals for it, so that's a plus"

[terse arch]

can i send my budget part list

[cunning falcon]

i think i've solved my issue with any browser with anything playing causing my games and computer to lag

all of the extensions

not sure which ones i just removed them all and now im running perfect

minus u block origin

[median cradle]

hi

[sweet ingot]

93C at peak is normal for laptop right? (75-80 on average)

[severe gate]

Sounds about right

[languid flower]

Hello

[slim shadow]

helloo everyone i'm glad to be here, and wish this community make me more linuxian than i am rn

[wary moon]

hi

[manic torrent]

easiest way to do that is just start using it and doing stuff with it

[manic torrent]

I was having an issue with facebook marketplace being unusably slow... was adblock

lol wow - no, other people can't see your sharepoint list, you should use pcpartpicker

[grim belfry]

<@&750150305383186585> Delete that link

[sonic glen]

I need help fast I'm at a garage sale and here's a GeForce 7800 for 5€ I currently have a GeForce 750 GTX ti in my system is it worth buying/ upgrading or is it worse ??

[languid flower]

Lmao me too

[brave scarab]

7800 is 9 years older than the 750ti, so it would be a huge downgrade

[minor basin]

but the number is bigger

[brave scarab]

Would be nice

[wispy marsh]

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/

[grim belfry]

You could say Microsoft had a Recall...

I know, I'm hilarious

[tidal minnow]

I dont recall asking

[wild vine]

how rare is the 4gb vram mx 150 ideapad 330?

[tidal minnow]

[wild vine]

💪💪

[modest beacon]

who made the claim thqt humans eyes can only perceive 24fps

[strange elk]

Probably someone british

[neat ivy]

hi

[sturdy moth]

hi

[gilded quest]

Pretty sure we can only see 1fps

[inland oracle]

since when could multiple devices connect to a bluetooth speaker am i out of the loop lol

i got a new bluetooth speaker and my pc and phone are connected to it at the same time

[gilded quest]

It's been around for a while now, but it'd say it's become much more common in the last 2 or so years

[gentle bronze]

Hello guys has anyone fixed an endless booting issue

Ive got it right now after struggling to build my pc and its really shit

[north schooner]

Howdy

[idle nymph]

An idiot

[left wing]

I'd be happy if someone could help me in tech support "Monitor won't get signal"

[ornate walrus]

not really gonna have to wait for someone sir

[kindred tangle]

is there any other safe sources to download windows ISO from? tried from microsoft but it will takes hours for some reason with 500mbps fibre internet :/

[grim belfry]

Only download Windows ISOs from the Microsoft website

[modest beacon]

i remember downloading windows iso using parallel

so i can use it with vmware

[grim belfry]

They use the Microsoft servers

[modest beacon]

oh

[kindred tangle]

tried another source, but speed got upto 300kb/s, so ye gonna have to stick to microsoft with 2mb/s :/

[modest beacon]

use idm or soemthint

if youre on windows

[grim belfry]

This powershell script also downloads windows from Microsoft’s servers if you want to try something else

[modest beacon]

i use idm and it fastens the download

but idk

[kindred tangle]

but it will be same results no? "The script basically performs the same operation as one might perform when visiting the following URL"

[grim belfry]

Yes

[kindred tangle]

that's fine i'll wait an hour or two

is microsoft server crippling my speeds here? i mean location of their server or what's happening

[grim belfry]

It depends, Microsoft does throttle speeds, however it’s also likely your connection could just be shitty

[kindred tangle]

i really don't think it's me

it's def microsoft

[grim belfry]

Speedtests are similar to the speeds that USB will advertise, they are choosing the server you have the best connection to, even though it may not be representative of real world conditions

[kindred tangle]

i kind a agree, my downloads according to speedtest will be spot on, but my uploads sucks ass. Remember one time i was uploading a video to youtube, never reached more than 200mbps according to task manager

[grim belfry]

ISPs will have agreements with data centres and other parties, which gives them cheaper access to their networks, however potentially not having great access to another part of the internet.
I’ve explained it badly lol

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/explainer-what-is-internet-peering/

But hey - Microsoft’s servers could just be having a bad day

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[graceful burrow]

Microsoft's servers are generally quite bad

[pliant karma]

lol I feel this one when downloading updates for MSFS2020. I got 130mb up and down, sim proceeds to download at 50 and only 50 for some odd reason

[graceful burrow]

Shit I think the fastest I've ever downloaded something from microsoft's servers was 13 megabytes/s

It happens

[stoic sparrow]

does anyone know about wallpaper engine

[glacial trout]

hi!

[covert cradle]

Agreed. On all the ISPs I've used, they're pretty consistently below half what Steam and cloudflare can reach.

Tangentially, I love "up to xxx Mbps". For my ISP, the only service that gets the "rated speed" is fast.com/Netflix. Because I definitely need the ability to run like 30 4k Netflix streams... Steam/cloudflare is already less than half that. Microsoft doesn't even reach a quarter of the rated speed lol.

[rich cypress]

why the fuck did i buy a fucking 200$ 60% keyboard i don't fw at all i press enter everytime by accident im gonna break this shit rn

[covert cradle]

Testing against one service rarely gives an accurate view of your network performance

Even though fast.com gives an extremely rosy picture of my network's performance, I still check it because it can be useful to make sure things aren't fucked up. If it's not getting above 90%, then I know either I fucked up something in my local net or there may be regional congestion.

Assuming you've got a sufficiently powerful CPU to decompress faster than the download, to me the best test is just Steam downloads. If you're not a gamer, then cloudflare speedtest is probably the most representative test.

[twin verge]

How to say you know nothing about airflow without saying you know nothing about airflow

There is also tempered glass front and back and space for 3 x 120mm rads

or 9 120mm fans

[vapid smelt]

Think of all the extra points of failure for every connection! *Meant to reply to the radiator

[twin verge]

Think of the poor GPU its either fighting the fans for air, getting blasted with hot air or trying to suck in a mass of turbulent air

[old topaz]

Is a i7 13700kf, asus dual Radeon rx 7600xt and a 240hz 32inch curved monitor for $450 a good deal

[wraith sonnet]

suspiciously good

[old topaz]

And then I can get the i9 12900KS for $120 he has 2 everything is brand new

@wraith sonnet he got the i7 for $100, i9 for $50, $200 for the gpu cuz of price errors

[wraith sonnet]

I would set up a meetup at a computer shop to see if it's legit?

[forest helm]

WHAT

[wraith sonnet]

any ways @vapid smelt I finally have RDP working with my chromebook

[forest helm]

How is it that cheap

[forest helm]

So the guy just catches price errors nd resells

fair plays

[silver sun]

163

[vapid smelt]

653

[old topaz]

@forest helm yes sir pc parts go crazy and tools

[forest helm]

Does he ship to uk?

[silver cairn]

anyone have any build advice? Should I wait for new video cards to come out?

[old topaz]

@forest helm I’m not sure but I’m buying everything else than the 4070ti he has cuz I’m to broke for that he said he wants $600

[upper ledge]

i have a question
i have a laptop i do scambaiting with
how do i
connect it with my main pc so i can use both at the same times
i want to use my laptop as if it was a vm my pc is too weak to handel a vm

[jade bluff]

I searched Linus Media Group and this was the 3th result

on Google

[upper ledge]

idc

[sweet jetty]

What? 💀

Where you gettin this bro

[smoky badge]

google

[craggy rose]

How can we be absolutely sure that a reflection of ourselves in a mirror is really us

[eternal hearth]

its not, its a mirrored image of you

[sweet jetty]

"Connect" like you want it as a display source or just keyboard and mouse?

[upper ledge]

as if it was a vm

[old topaz]

Yo any one need a pc check thi out

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FYNM2GW?tag=

@sweet jetty price errors

[sweet jetty]

Like use the laptop as the machine to get "scammed" in?

[upper ledge]

cant

[sweet jetty]

That's weird

[old topaz]

Did you see the price on that pc

[sweet jetty]

Dude describe it in detail 💀

[sweet jetty]

I did

[old topaz]

I might get some and put them up on Facebook

[covert cradle]

Even when you're looking at yourself directly, what your eyes are receiving is photons reflected off your skin. The mirror is just another reflection. Either way, what you're looking at is your past self even without accounting for the further delays in the brain.

[craggy rose]

I mean in a more psychological sense

Have you looked at yourself with your own eyes?

How do you know that you look like yourself?

[mortal kraken]

No actually, if you use your phone then the front camera actually does corrections and mirrors it right or whatever

But it can make you actually see yourself from a external person angle and not a mirror

[craggy rose]

It's the camera's perspective

[mortal kraken]

This reminds me of the time me and my brother would go back in forth asking "how do you feel being you" 🤣

[full fossil]

How do you know that your eyes are percieving the world "correctly"?

[craggy rose]

I don't

They aren't

[full fossil]

This all could be a simulation

[craggy rose]

And that's the point

[full fossil]

We're not really here

[craggy rose]

Lol

[craggy rose]

It most probably is

[harsh quartz]

Confirmation by touch, smell, and audio

[solemn axle]

our history, world and we are the process of development of the absolute spirit

and its goal is to realize itself through hypotheses, contradictions and syntheses

Hegel was a cool guy, as well as Kant

philosophers had a hobby of searching their christian god in a way of vivisecting them

[kindred tangle]

since when geoguesser became subscribtion game lol, can't do anything without paying

[solemn axle]

basically god in his perspective was the world and every part of it, fullmetal alchemist brotherhood type of shit

[alpine gale]

Please insert $5 to read the following content.
||Imagine: paywalled text in messaging platforms. Coming soon to a world near you!||

[strange elk]

Telegram has that already

Also twitch. And YouTube

[keen cedar]

anyone have any reccomendations for a digital scanner that actually opens up so i can use it for 2d cad drawings?

[kindred tangle]

its crazy world we live in...

geoguesser used to be 100% free at the start no?

[solemn axle]

one day they will paywall chess

or release chess 2 and force chess 1 players to upgrade

like they did it with overwatch

[kindred tangle]

i understand that if you have a game or whatever hosted online, you need servers to keep it up and stuff.
Small subscribtion system wouldn't hurt, for some kind of perks or whatever.
But to paywall it completely, one day out of the blue, is wrong imo.

like that news website i can't remember the name, can't even access it without paying smh

[solemn axle]

tbh most news sites are such for me and the way i pay is by buying vpn

[kindred tangle]

how does vpn helps in your case?

[solemn axle]

without it sites just return 403

[kindred tangle]

oh i've read some stories about something like that, regionally locked content

[muted tusk]

yes

[small cobalt]

wasn't there supposed to be a give-away or something? I don't see entry information

[craggy rose]

I've used a couple Epson scanners and they performed quite well

[keen cedar]

Yeah I was looking at one

Just looking for something that I can set some parts on to make a reliable sketch for cad

[craggy rose]

Just buy the slimmer series, it's called perfection I think

[craggy rose]

Don't know about precision, only used them to scan sketches

[keen cedar]

I can scan a ruler along with it for scale

[craggy rose]

Big brain 🧠

[cobalt cloak]

Hi

[soft condor]

Hi

[gilded stratus]

Smart people i need your brains

Is there something that can go inbetween that can up the speed? (This is an old xbox one with thermal issues)

[tranquil yacht]

+40 GB -> 21 GB....

WTF Samsung...

Almozt 20 GB of bloat

[strange elk]

?

[leaden cave]

I don't know much about tech at all, there was some tiny cord that I need to buy to allow my headphones to have a working microphone and audio at the same time, what was it called?

[tranquil yacht]

Average Samsung bloatware

[leaden cave]

My friend told me but he's asleep atm but I'm trying to buy it on Amazon rn

[strange elk]

Splitter cable?

[leaden cave]

That might've been it I'll look it up

Yeah probably I'll buy it

[strange elk]

Sounds like you want something like that https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Splitter-Gold-Plated-2-Female-DuKabel/dp/B07FBBBWXW

Wait

[tranquil yacht]

Or it the other way round they looking for?

[strange elk]

Nah I had the wrong cable. Only had l/r channels, no mic

[tranquil yacht]

Oh

oops

[leaden cave]

Yeah I just bought this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQZ2023?psc=1&smid=A3C50V7RNSNBC0&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

[strange elk]

Oh yeah ok

My desktop would need that too

[solemn axle]

i used one but wired mic of one side to the speaker of the other and vise-versa to route the sound on another pc

[midnight pumice]

Might go snag a marketplace PC

It has
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Cooler: Asus ROG Ryujin III
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X670E-A
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000mhz
SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB
SSD: SK Hynix Platinum P41 2 TB
GPU: Asus ROG STRIX RTX 4090
Case: Lian Li O11 Vision
PUS: MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W
Fans: Lian Li UNI FAN SL V2 (8 fans)

For $3500 usd

Which is probably $700 or so cheaper than buying the parts

[strange elk]

Ehh

[left summit]

is $540 too much for some books?

[drifting yacht]

probably

what books?

[left summit]

Mangas and Light Novels

[drifting yacht]

your choice

do you think its worth it?

[gilded quest]

I paid this much for 1 college textbook

[muted tusk]

probably lasted 3 months too

[pliant karma]

Lol my friend was in an art class the prof made students spend 500$ on painting stuff when he was not legally allowed to make them as the cource was 0$, students complained. Dean reprimanded him for that.

[harsh quartz]

Sounds like it’s time for the open seas

[gilded quest]

Naw
6 months

[cedar pebble]

Save the environment

[gilded quest]

Only so much that can do
It was a bundle that included physical textbook, online homework access, lab procedure notebook, chem goggles, lab coat.

Even if I pirated the textbook and bought PPE elsewhere, I still would have had to buy the online homework access (~$80-$100) and the lab notebook (~$60) from the bookstore

[harsh quartz]

I think the most I spent on a book was the Tao te Ching for my philosophy class, and it’s only cause I wanted to keep it as a hard copy

[gilded quest]

Paying for online homework access was such a scam

Fuck you Pearson

[pliant karma]

and McGraw Hill

[gilded quest]

Wiley plus

[pliant karma]

used mcgraw hill twice for my astronomy lecture and math cource

[harsh quartz]

160 is better than 500

[pliant karma]

albeit the math cource I already knew everything so I was like weeks ahead of everyone in it. Prof didn't care that I did not attend class cause the lectures and homework were completely different and useless.

[gilded quest]

It would have been about $200 after PPE but yeah
Freshman year as an "in for a penny, in for a pound" mindset

I still have that reference book

[harsh quartz]

I think I still have my Tao te Ching

[pliant karma]

Although the one book I found worth purchasing was in my Cinematography class so hey that was a plus. Still use it as a reference today.

[gilded quest]

Fortunately later classes didn't require as much bullshit as freshman labs were

I was plenty happy to rent a textbook from Amazon for $15-$25 a semester since I preferred using a hard copy to an e-book

[whole perch]

hi!

[pliant karma]

oh what is worse is when the textbook can't be found easily online cause the prof teaching the class is the one who wrote the book

no going around that

[gilded quest]

Bruh

Didn't zlib get taken down

[pliant karma]

perhaps I never used it so no clue

[pliant karma]

fun part was she wrote the book for the entire english department. I dropped english once before cause of personal stuff near the end which sucked since I took an F. But the next time I took it I just reused the work I did previously since the assignments were the same just dif prof

Odviously I had to correct them but that was the simple part

[warm cloud]

can someone add collinchristian25 to the server

[near nymph]

👌

[craggy rose]

Tf is that title trying to say

Goffoo pross

Wt

[near nymph]

Coffee Press

It's made to hold an Aeropress that makes coffee

[craggy rose]

Woah

Almost got it

[craggy rose]

[runic cobalt]

fancy pants mcgee over here

[tranquil yacht]

What kinds of privacy-focused social networks have you guys heard of? So far I found MeWe, Mastodon, and PeerTube interesting.

[vapid smelt]

nintendo chat room

[buoyant girder]

You can search for anything ActivityPub/Fediverse related. Lemmy, Pleroma, are others that are descentralized. Nostr is also a descentralized network, but it's not part of the Fediverse.

[tranquil yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-music-enjoyment-dmca-gif-24795534

[nova ingot]

Digging through old magazines and found an icon of peak console gaming

[tranquil yacht]

Is there any perticuar one you recommend?

How about LBRY/Odysee?

[grim belfry]

Facebook

[misty igloo]

WBT7V-R03H0-R8DD4

[misty igloo]

@warm cloud heres your gift

[safe ravine]

A bot will eat that code immediately

[misty igloo]

someone take it please

[vapid smelt]

i took it a while ago

[warm cloud]

what is it

[misty igloo]

i dont care bro

[full fossil]

good morning guys

does anyone know how to restore this

its been like that since

[grim belfry]

You could try changing the lockscreen time format

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-change-lock-screen-clock-format-on-windows

[full fossil]

i did

[grim belfry]

If that doesn't work follow the guide in the comments of this post

[full fossil]

its like locked in that state

[grim belfry]

Oh, you can't unlock the computer

[full fossil]

yes