public-chat

[iron saddle]

Different kind of "fun" that I am related to in pattaya 🤣🤣

[half pewter]

Time to commit crime

[lilac bear]

at least many hours of content

[desert kettle]

hi

[full fossil]

fuwa fuwa

[half pewter]

Crime committed stole a water bottle from work

They won't let us have personal water bottles on the floor and expect us to pay for the ones in the break room

[lilac bear]

justified

[covert cradle]

oh, nvm I got bamboozled by a site just rehashing the original article using ai

[half pewter]

Also what s series would you recommend I do wanna ditch this a03 soon

[iron saddle]

Tulsa King

[sweet veldt]

Some Turkish guy tried to threaten me to pay him 450$, because he apparently had my passwords

but they were all wrong

[full fossil]

"Oh, thank you for reminding me of them!"

[sweet veldt]

I wanna learn how to ddos people who try to scam me

[lilac bear]

entirely depends on budget
I could easily just recommend the S24 Ultra

[half pewter]

800 or under

[full fossil]

16 Pro Max

[sweet veldt]

How do people even ddos?

[pallid falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/we-dont-do-that-here-black-panther-tchalla-bruce-gif-16558003

[sweet veldt]

I know

But it's just a general question

[lilac bear]

oh if you're good with refurbished
S23 Ultra on Swappa

[sweet veldt]

No harm meant

[pallid falcon]

[lilac bear]

otherwise it would be the price of a new regular S24

[half pewter]

I'll look around at my local radio shack ( owner always has a few refurbished phones)

[lilac bear]

good start

I'd stay away from the S22 series

S21 kinda getting outdated

[full fossil]

Buy 16 Pro Max

[half pewter]

Na

[full fossil]

Yes

[half pewter]

I will buy other apple products. But never one of their phones again. I don't like how I was treated when I took one in for repair

[fossil frost]

apple products... repair... very funny... 😄

[lilac bear]

it is typical Apple fashion to warrant whole new replacements than repair
but AppleCare+ subscription "solves" that problem as a form of insurance cost

[fossil frost]

its apples fake-premium nature... the devices are supposed to be considered premium/magic devices that are a blackbox on the inside that are more special than any other device... even though they are identical inside to any other device

the devices themselves, when they work, are fine for people who like those devices... but they arent magic like apple wants people to think they are

[lilac bear]

I mean that applies to a lot of tech companies

[fossil frost]

yeah of course, but we arent on about those, we are on about apple

[lilac bear]

but yeah part of it is marketing to disguise that they want to control more of their iPhone market, so third parties can't independently make parts

what happened with the lightning port

[half pewter]

I had a lifted charging pin. And figured hey I paid for a 2 year warranty so I took it into the store I bought it from. And I got cussed at for even asking them to repair it

[fossil frost]

"its so much better than usb"... no. its literally usb2 turned inside out

[lilac bear]

it was better than Micro B

but now we have C so it's obscure

[fossil frost]

people dont like microb because its popular to dislike microb, its not a good connector, but its also not the anus cancer people seem to want to decribe it as... its "just fine"

[lilac bear]

sounds like you use Windows 10

but yeah it was serviceable I guess

[half pewter]

I wonder if I could change the ports on my old phone to type c.

[fossil frost]

i use windows 11 and/or ubuntu 24.04, depending on what im doing 🙂

[lilac bear]

you can with a lot of micro soldering

[fossil frost]

no, probably not, not with how phones are packaged.. its theoretically possible, but not practically possible

i did it to my previous g502 before they actually switched to usb-c... and that had all the space in the world on the inside to do it... and that was still difficult to do

[half pewter]

I have a phone I kinda want to cause I use it for drawing.

[lilac bear]

gotta figure out what wire goes where and got 4 wires in a maze of 16 connections

[fossil frost]

you are likely to end up with a dead brick, or, at the very best... a phone's motherboard with a usb-c port soldered to it, that you cant get back into the phone enclosure to be a phone again

[lilac bear]

a lot of DBrand energy to just swear at customers

[half pewter]

I could always see if making a wireless charging adapter is easier then again

[fossil frost]

you can buy them, its either a usb-c or micro-b port, with a flexi-pcb cable and a QI ring with a sticker on it. they are about £8 on amazon or ebay

[half pewter]

My only concern is the micro b port is going bad

[fossil frost]

then you get a professional to replace the port with another micro-b port, but. its less likely to go bad with 1 connector permanently plugged in, than it is when you are constantly plugging and unplugging a connector

[manic torrent]

Micro b is nothing compared to micro HDMI

[fossil frost]

ive ruined 6 different ras-pi zero 2's because i tore off the micro-hdmi by accident

[manic torrent]

Mini HDMI is not much better

[half pewter]

I'll try just getting the adapter first cause who knows maybe it will plug in and be in just the right spot to work

[covert forum]

Hello there

[little blaze]

Yoo any good free vpn

[fossil frost]

no, they are free because they steal your data, or are a scam in some other way

[little blaze]

Hmm

[thorny tree]

Is lttstore.com down?

[shut lichen]

No

[full fossil]

yh i cant load it

[thorny tree]

Oh it is back

[obsidian oracle]

warp

[obsidian oracle]

he wanted a free vpn that works well, not a free vpn that doesnt sell your data

[fossil frost]

they said a "good free vpn"... "good" can mean a lot of things... and when people in general dont want their data stolen, "good" includes not stealing your data

[obsidian oracle]

good to most people meaning one that doesnt have a limit and one that doesnt have major speed decrease

and most people give 0 fucks about their random ass data being stolen, as they should

[fossil frost]

thats your opinion, i have mine

[obsidian oracle]

its not opinion, its stats

[fossil frost]

its your opinion

[obsidian oracle]

🦜

[little blaze]

Ty

[obsidian oracle]

nw

it doesnt have split tunneling btw, in case if u want that

[shut lichen]

Not really a vpn

[obsidian oracle]

it works for me as a vpn

[shut lichen]

Good for protecting yourself on a dodgy network or bypassing blocks, but doesn't do any of the things you'd commonly want a vpn for

[obsidian oracle]

it does tbh, changes ip

[shut lichen]

Missing the point entirely lol

[fossil frost]

changes your ip to an IP tied to cloudflare, and you have a cloudflare account, and cloudflare logs everything... EVERYTHING...

cloudflare know what you are doing, where you where when you did it, how long you were doing it for... and who you are

it was, now people use them to watch netflix from a different country

[shut lichen]

Warp has no authentication, it is not tied to your account.

[obsidian oracle]

nice

[fossil frost]

my business account is, i assumed all warp was

[shut lichen]

You're confusing zerotrust with regular warp

[fossil frost]

cloudflare still logs everything though, just introduces the extra step of law enforcement having to ask cloudflare for what ip was doing what at what time, and then having to go to the ISP that owns your IP address, who had that ip at that time...

[obsidian oracle]

nice

[fossil frost]

not being tied to an account doesnt change anything

[obsidian oracle]

exactly what i need, no law cares here if i pirate my own ship

[shut lichen]

You're vastly overestimating the knowledge and willpower of the average human

[fossil frost]

vpn and proxy are used almost synonymously by the general public these days

people want a button they can press, and thats it... they want to press that button and then be able to "be in Argentina"

"people" dont want to go filling in various scary looking settings in windows settings dialogs

they want a red button they can turn on and off

but they arent a red button that does all the work for you

and then undoes it all too

[woeful kayak]

damn gmk olivia.

[austere shale]

So in the wan show they were talking about the golf course/country club. And unironically im tempted to send it to my friend to see if his family wants to buy it since they already own one

[glass mural]

Simple just run multiple VPNs from different countries so the slow legal system buys you time

VPN1 says VPN2 was connected to them so they have to go to VPN2 and so on and so forth

[fossil frost]

a golf club only really makes sense to buy, by another golf club owner these days, since they already have the skills, staff, and clientele, to support the business model

[fossil frost]

that would be a thing, only if they werent all hosted on AWS, and all ran by about 3 different actual companies, wouldnt be a slowdown at all

[austere shale]

Yea and that’s why I sent it over to them, would be awesome if they did because then I have a reason to go and a place to stay

[glass mural]

So do all your illegal stuff on public WiFi networks?

Buy a burner laptop

[fossil frost]

my house backs onto a golf course, its where my middle son has golf lessons. and when the weather is horrible, it and the 2 other clubs owned by the same owner, are the only ones to remain open, because they are the only ones within 50 miles that have bothered to do the PGA level professional drainage

i go to the driving range every so often, but i suck hard at golf... so... im only really there when my son is there, and i get made fun of by my 9yo son and his teacher 😄

[obsidian oracle]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1226878738365419611.png?size=160&name=jinx+what+the+fuck+was+that

[obsidian oracle]

💀

more like, dont do illegal stuff

[glass mural]

Harness your inner Walter white and become a boss of the criminal underworld

[summer folio]

🚢

[austere shale]

Nuked

[smoky badge]

warship sunk

[viscid elm]

momo how long is he muted for?

[tender glade]

Don’t feed the trolls how many times do I have to tell you this

Confidential info

[viscid elm]

dam

[fossil frost]

permanently. plz 🙂

[smoky badge]

waltuh

[austere shale]

If you’re muted will it tell you or is there like a shadow ban where they can talk just nobody sees it

[viscid elm]

its a mute

they can still read stuff but cant type shii

i have been accidentally muted by warship WAY too many times

[austere shale]

Surprisingly I’ve never been muted and I’ve jumped in on some edgy talks

[viscid elm]

i have not been muted that way

i got muted for doing stuff like helping people

like when a problem is complex and needs a 2 parts, if you send the other part to quickly warship no like

[austere shale]

Oh yea I’ve had plenty of messages deleted, just never muted muted

Usually for profanity, I swear a lot

[viscid elm]

well makes sense due to your job

[fossil frost]

ive found that some swear words i would expect to get deleted, dont get deleted... and some super tame ones, do get deleted

[austere shale]

Facts

[full fossil]

Seems like I missed out on an event

[smoky badge]

It was shit

[harsh quartz]

Same. I always miss it

[dreamy thorn]

time to clean the old desk

[viscid elm]

when was the last time you did a propper clean?

posters?

[split swift]

I like them

But yeah ur desk needs a tidy up lol

[dreamy thorn]

1 or two months?

gotelé?

[viscid elm]

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-convinced-not-convinced-unconvinced-skeptical-doubt-gif-11697472

[dreamy thorn]

lemme check

ye it was 2 months ago

[pallid falcon]

it looks clean already tho

[dreamy thorn]

Living room has also seen better days

[harsh quartz]

Oh boy, what an entertainment center

[gusty ravine]

Looks like a living room to me

[dreamy thorn]

More games than a ps5 tbh

[split swift]

Oh my

[harsh quartz]

?

[gusty ravine]

those are books

or at least some of them are

that's one cool LEGO McLaren though

[leaden fjord]

Alright everyone need some advice

Just got this https://www.humblebundle.com/software/linux-specialist-from-rookie-to-pro-software

Now I am wondering whcih order I should do them in anyone got any thoughts

[pallid falcon]

Today I learned Windows natively lets you apply a different wallpaper per display without any third party apps

[gusty ravine]

where was this my entire life

[pallid falcon]

the right click menu, apperently

[gusty ravine]

I'll have to update Windows 11 then

[pallid falcon]

it workd in my 10 vm

seems to not work to well tho

[gusty ravine]

it's probably a new thingy

[harsh quartz]

Yes, very handy

They made quite a few personalization changes in window 11 that are decent. Like the default backgrounds being that autorotating pictures that are pretty good actually

[gusty ravine]

whoa

[pallid falcon]

on my main pc it changes poer display and on my other its changing per desktop group.

thats very inconsistant.. both wind11

[harsh quartz]

Desktop group?

[harsh quartz]

Oh, never knew that’s what the button was for. Never used it, and I guess your the only person I’ve ever heard of using it

[pallid falcon]

:3

why is microsoft hiding this shit in a right click menu i only accidently opened

[harsh quartz]

That cat has seen some stuff

[harsh quartz]

Why did Microsoft remove options from the right click menu just to hide it behind an annoying extra menu? The world will never know

Also, windows 11, much easier to use after going back to the original context menu

[fossil frost]

i modified my ISO to not have to bother even doing that anymore, as well as a few other tweaks 😄

so when i do do my yearly reinstall, i dont have to bother to remember how to do all the little QOL tweaks i make

[pallid falcon]

im just so used to clicking "more options" right away 👴

[harsh quartz]

I don’t make enough changes to worry about this, but it makes sense

[harsh quartz]

I keep having to go back and forth between windows 8,10,11 systems so having 1 with a different context menu for no reason is really annoying :p

[pallid falcon]

the biggest thing I want is being able to set nightmode settings per display

[dreamy thorn]

No Lego McLaren, both are Peugeot's

[pallid falcon]

and even more, please put the seconds timer here again

[dreamy thorn]

It's a joke about how the ps5 has no games

[harsh quartz]

why?

[harsh quartz]

You can turn on seconds

However, I think you have to do it via control panel and not settings

It’s in a weird spot, I remember, but I have it enabled on my laptop

[pallid falcon]

i dont want it showing always only when you clicked the clock, like win10 did

[harsh quartz]

That’s very specific

Also why do you want different night mode settings per monitor

[pallid falcon]

What might look good on one monitor makes the others colors to dark

[gusty shadow]

It's over guys we ageing

oldest Reddit post is 20 years old

[fossil frost]

THIS is a Lego McLaren 😁

[hot tartan]

Formula E right

[fossil frost]

noope, its the mclaren formula 1 car that lego released a couple of years ago

[hot tartan]

Ok the better version sweet

Had to fact check myself, Formula E is one of the much smaller versions

[fossil frost]

this one, back when it was a LEGO IDEAS product, before they reduced the piece count and made it a mainstream product https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/mclaren-formula-1-race-car-42141

[hot tartan]

Yeah it’s pretty baller, excited for the formula 1 x Lego collection coming out in 2025

[fossil frost]

if you look in the very bottom left of the photo, you can see part of the OpenRC F1 car i printed in mclaren colours, its currently non-operational though, since i spun it out and smashed the entire back end to pieces 😄

in other news... ARM has cancelled Qualcomm's licence to produce ARM chips, including snapdragon chips: https://www.techspot.com/news/105256-shocking-move-arm-cancels-qualcomm-license-manufacture-snapdragon.html

[tired glade]

Lol

[strange elk]

Probably the order that its in

[hollow belfry]

as i know a lot of LTT viewers are on Ubiquity

FYI https://cybernews.com/security/high-risk-vulnerability-affecting-unifi-network-server/

[tired glade]

Oh, another one

Every year something bad pop up with Ubiquity

[vital oak]

none of them

[hollow belfry]

Security vulnerabilities are a way of life, as long as they get patched its all good
i dont think any company is bullet proof

[vital oak]

probably none of them

that is massive bullshit

dont buy a course for fucking linux lol

[solemn goblet]

Only two months until winter

[fossil frost]

yep, and the more popular/large of a company you are, the more of a big deal gets made of it

[hot tartan]

Baller lol

[daring sequoia]

linus best tech guy

no joke

[tired glade]

Joke what?

[leaden fjord]

There are quite a few and this is listed oldest to newest so that's why I was asking as it seems to have no knowledge to all the knowledge

[leaden fjord]

And why would that be? Honest question why paying dirt cheap for a training course that covers lots of topics in a strucured manor instead of just blindly guessing and using goolge with no real direction?

[void ocean]

can anyone help me safely overclock my gpu? i have rx 5500 8 gb

[fossil frost]

#overclocking

[void ocean]

i typed in that but noone replied

[fossil frost]

nobody is here waiting for somebody to ask a question so they can leap onto it and do their bidding... if you ask a question, you wait for an answer, IF somebody is available and wants to given an answer, they will

cross posting will just annoy people, and you are less likely to get an answer

[fossil frost]

things like this are usually dirt cheap for a reason

[dreamy thorn]

mine is a bootleg lego peugeot that I happened to have two of

so I made it into an f1 car

[fossil frost]

both look awesome

[dreamy thorn]

I think the best "lego" f1 car is the licensed CADA alfa romeo

[fossil frost]

when you say bootleg... is it one of those aliexpress "LEEEGOOO" sets? 😄

[dreamy thorn]

even has slicks

[dreamy thorn]

more or less yes

clean completed, before and after

[strange elk]

Probably I'd do essentials, begginers, command line, power user and go back from there. If I cared to actually study and not just break shit on my own because thats more fun to me. Just distrohopping at first and nowadays daily driving but depends on what you want I guess

[summer folio]

He had a PS3 in the bookshelf.

[strange elk]

Is that a fat? In an enclosed area?

Recipe for disaster

[harsh quartz]

Oh hell I didn’t even see that, I just meant the entertainment center as a whole

[dreamy thorn]

there's a wiiu next to it

that's even worse lol

[strange elk]

Why's that?

I'd hope you aren't running both at once

[leaden fjord]

It's through Humble Bundle which discounts things all the time

[dreamy thorn]

wiiu is veeeery loud and heavy and big

[strange elk]

Loud and big dont matter to the ps3. Plus it can do Wii and gamecube

[dreamy thorn]

its smaller than the fat ps3 but it's definitely very heavy

[leaden fjord]

Just trying to expand espically since some of the jobs now a days require certs and such to even apply

[night linden]

Guys, I've searched and searched, for years now. I cannot find a SINGLE guide on the internet that explains the advanced microphone settings for the Blue Yeti microphone.
At this point, should I just do my weeks of reading, research, and testing to make the first YouTube video explaining them?
Every video I've found online just says "turn these settings on" with no information on how to configure them and there are at least 20 different settings you can actually configure and there is no unofficial or official complete guide for them.

[dreamy thorn]

my school offered a cert called "linux essentials" for free but I rejected it because I'm not a big fan of certs as a concept

[strange elk]

Ah.. Choose whatever you wanna specialize in. Sec+ and Net+ are your best bets tbh.

Doing all of them (or most for that matter) is just gonna be a waste of time

[night linden]

I envy you, while I'd never do that myself cause I want a job, I envy you.

[leaden fjord]

I'm not either and perfer experience instead but just figured since it was discounted might not hurt to have some structured learning that does include hands on as well

[dreamy thorn]

I did have a few jobs, but I haven't held one in ages, due to health issues

almost got hired at a AA studio but there was a bit of a problem with the layoffs

[night linden]

Indeed, Arch Linux is not good for one's mental health

[strange elk]

Better than instagram or twitter

[dreamy thorn]

last job I had was at a racing simulation company, got fired for calling the boss a bad word

[night linden]

"a bad word" 🤣

[dreamy thorn]

spanish equivalent of a very australian word for a female organ

(filter won't let me post the word lol)

[strange elk]

UwU

[dreamy thorn]

to be fair he was one

[night linden]

yeah that's why I'm laughing, I saw it get deleted

[dreamy thorn]

on a related note, I parked next to an electric car yesterday
it's big

[night linden]

I honestly don't get cars anymore these days.

[dreamy thorn]

inside me there are two wolves:

[night linden]

Like I'm about to make a hot take but

[dreamy thorn]

the kind of cars I like aren't made anymore, and the old ones that exist are getting baned where I live (including mine) so it's sad for me

[night linden]

I think the Tesla robo taxi is exactly what america needs

[dreamy thorn]

I live in europe

[harsh quartz]

Oh FUCK no

[night linden]

wait wait, let me explain

[dreamy thorn]

I am not sure how i'll be able to continue driving my car after it gets banned, but I sure as hell will try

[night linden]

So first we all know electric cars are boring right?
they're for people who don't like to drive

so if someone's willing to buy an electric car, they probably don't even want to be driving

[surreal kernel]

"i want a vehicle where i dont have to drive and can just chill out"
A functional public transportation system:

[night linden]

so why not just get them off the road, don't have them drive, have an AI do it instead

[dreamy thorn]

we have that where I live, it's not that good

[night linden]

well, that's why I specify america, where we;re all a bit special in the head

[harsh quartz]

Because AI is fuckin terrible

[dreamy thorn]

I wouldn't mind if my mr2 wasn't getting banned due to EVs

[surreal kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-car-crash-gif-9388562661726532947

[night linden]

well ideally if we can make it good
I'd like the only people in control of their car on the road, to be people who enjoy driving, and are paying attention

Instead of these people who constantly complain about driving, hate it, don't pay attention, sit at green lights for 6 seconds, and all the other stuff that they do.

So even if it's a hot take, I genuinely think the tesla robotaxi is the PERFECT electric car

cause if you're buying an electric car, you're not driving cause you enjoy it

[harsh quartz]

You do realize we already have taxis right? This doesn’t actually fix anything. It just takes out the taxi driver and replaces it with a horrible piece of technology

[harsh quartz]

Also this is a terrible take

[night linden]

yeah but taxis are super expensive and uses more energy

[dreamy thorn]

every single time I mention normal cars there begins a shitstorm about public transport, this server is wild 😭

[harsh quartz]

It’s not even hot it’s just wrong

[harsh quartz]

And a Tesla taxi will be cheaper or use less energy?

[night linden]

I mean, it's not an objective take, but I think I'm mostly correct

[harsh quartz]

I’d say your not

[night linden]

yes because a real taxi has to drive to you, and then to your destination, a car is usually always with you

and electric cars are just generally better at being more efficient

[harsh quartz]

So your not even talking about robo taxis your just talking about autopilot. Which is also terrible

[dreamy thorn]

are you aware electric taxis exist

[night linden]

I mean i've been holding this one in my head for a while, I had to let it out eventually

[harsh quartz]

Tell that to the grid

[solemn goblet]

My family doesn’t have an electric car yet

[night linden]

I'm talking about the car that will have no steering wheel

[solemn goblet]

Plus our house isn’t setup for an EV yet.

[harsh quartz]

You’re talking about autopilot.

[dreamy thorn]

let's stop talking about boring EVs and enjoy this picture of my little eco efficient frog

[solemn goblet]

We would have to add like a 40 amp plug to the circuit breaker

20-40 amps

[jovial oar]

I got a 2002 Lancia Y.

[night linden]

As a LTT viewer, and a stereotypical gamer. Your car needs more RGB, or just B, either works
but it looks amazing

[jovial oar]

Looks silly

[dreamy thorn]

not legal where i live

can't even do any mods to it

[night linden]

since when are lights illegal? 😭

[jovial oar]

Yes

[night linden]

what country is this, let me never move there

[dreamy thorn]

underglow is illegal if it's connected, even if it's not turned on

if that's what you meant

[night linden]

That's an odd rule... but alright.

[jovial oar]

He asked what country?

[dreamy thorn]

Spain

[jovial oar]

Oh.

[night linden]

Okay, never moving to spain

thank you for improving my life

[dreamy thorn]

literally any modification you can think of likely is illegal unfortunately, even braindead ones like a different air filter

[night linden]

what about a better air filter?

[harsh quartz]

A robotaxi system would only work for people that already take taxis. And having everyone using autopilot is just a bad idea for a very long time. And a mass influx of EVs would overwhelm most grids in the US, which would cause reactivation of fossil fuel power plants to keep up with demand.

[dreamy thorn]

also illegal

[jovial oar]

stupid

[dreamy thorn]

I was threatened during inspection due to having a different intake filter in my older car

[jovial oar]

What the

[dreamy thorn]

even the fangs are technically illegal

[harsh quartz]

Threaten back

[dreamy thorn]

it's one of those things where technically you can do mods if you are rich, but it's basically as good as banned

[jovial oar]

Bribing?

[dreamy thorn]

nop, even if you pass inspection doesn't mean it's legal

[harsh quartz]

Any law with a fine is only a law for the poor

[night linden]

Well I'm saying not to use the taxi part, just use it purely as a car you don't drive, one that drives you. and I agree with the AI being an issue, but it's all theoretical for the future, I know it wouldn't be good in the current moment. I also think there are certainly solutions we can come up for the power grid issue, like promoting more nuclear power plants instead of giving them a bad rep over them having nuclear in the name. At the end of the day it's just boiling water.

[dreamy thorn]

nah not even a fine, it can be seized

I would like to swap to a more modern engine one day due to some issues with the stock engine that may manifest in the future
but I learned that I wouldn't even get the legal benefits of having a more modern powerplant to bypass old car bans, so I am no longer considering it

[jovial oar]

True

[night linden]

did they open it up and check? How do they know what filter your car came with?

[dreamy thorn]

it's the type of filter, my old car had a cone-style filter when the original one was a normal square air filter

[harsh quartz]

Saying that promoting nuclear would fix a lot of things is incredibly different to things actually being fixed. I understand the ideas behind all this but at the end of the day, look at America, and tell me it’s actually possible :p

[dreamy thorn]

the filter on the top right was what they complained about

I luckily no longer have this car

I now drive a car with the engine at the rear 🐸

[night linden]

Can I really not have a dream in the country where some dude is recognized for his "I have a dream speech" ? 😭

[harsh quartz]

May I remind you, that man got shot

[night linden]

Uhhhhh... I guess you're right.

[harsh quartz]

[night linden]

you know I'm really starting to wonder something.

[night linden]

Are the engines in cars sideways?

Like I've never once realized it, but I'm starting to think they are

[dreamy thorn]

that's how they are in most cars these days, transversal vs longitudinal

for packaging reasons

specially with modern cars that have so many complex parts in them, they need the spaceç

[night linden]

I mean it makes sense why so the front isn't super long

It just feels wrong realizing my whole life I thought they weren't sideways

but now that I think about it, they're all sideways

[dreamy thorn]

it makes more sense in cars that use transaxles actually

[night linden]

every hood I've opened, the engine was sideways

[night linden]

can i get a reminder of what that is

[dreamy thorn]

when the transmission is in the same axle as the engine

instead of having a driveshaft from the front to the back

[night linden]

so FWD?

[dreamy thorn]

not necessarily

my car has the engine at the rear and it uses a transaxle

literally the same transmission you'd find on a FWD corolla lol

[night linden]

so when the engine is opposite to the FWD or RWD

I honestly thought it was the craziest thing I'd ever seen when I first learned there was a spinny rod at the bottom of cars

crazy how I thought it was just magic when I was a child 😂

[dreamy thorn]

some RWD cars do this weird thing where they put the transmission at the rear of the car after the shaft

for weight distribution

[night linden]

I mean. Is there any disadvantage? There shouldn't be, other than possibly more stress on the shaft

and maybe less room in the rear

[dreamy thorn]

not really, other than complexity

and also making manual linkages harder if it's a long manual car

[timber jay]

has every one heard about the orcs must die deathtrap technical test? you can sign up for it on there discord server. i cant wait for the game to come out next year. if you are interested in games like dungeon defender then you should like it. its a tower defense type game mixed with action elements and its going to incorporate rougue lite element to it as well and it will be up to 4 player multiplayer. sorry if this is not the best place to post this im just really excited about the game and i cant wait to try the game out.

[night linden]

I still am so excited for whenever I can buy my first manual transmission car.

Planning to get one in like 2-4 years

But I'm still debating on whether I should actually learn how to drive it in a class, or just wing it out the dealership after practicing in the parking lot

[gusty ravine]

oooooo

[gusty ravine]

oh okay

[austere shale]

Cable linkages

[austere shale]

Thank god I don’t have to deal with any of this. I don’t even have to do emissions testing since I tell them the vehicle is kept in a place that doesn’t require it

[dreamy thorn]

the worst part is, my car has insanely low emissions

but it will still get caught in the upcoming car bans because they aredoing them by age

[austere shale]

That’s how I got away with deleting all the emissions junk on my newer diesel Jetta. Just ran a straight 3 inch pipe all the way back and I can blow all the black smoke I want

[dreamy thorn]

I wouldn't do that myself but

new cars are too complicated

[austere shale]

Yea, basically my emissions stuff went bad, and the delete kit cost less than getting all new emissions stuff

Then I sold my bad emissions stuff to a scrap yard and got like 75% of the cost of the delete back

[fossil frost]

Not road legal in the UK that. Would get seen blowing smoke and immediately get reported

[austere shale]

Yea I thankfully live in the states

[fossil frost]

I retuned my engine though. More fuel economy at the same time as more bhp and more torque. Ford make their engines super lazy from the factory

[midnight hollow]

whats worse, the rgb lights tax or the white component tax

[austere shale]

I also hate a lot of what the UK government is doing with the ULEZ stuff. I follow a bunch of instagram pages where people just go cut them down with a saw

Which I fully endorse 100%

[fossil frost]

RGB. Because you can add RGB to a non RGB build, you can't add white to it

[fossil frost]

That's not ulez stuff, that's speed cameras in built up areas where dangerous driving has killed a bunch of kids.

The one that keeps getting reported nationally is 10 minutes away from my house. 2 more kids have been put in hospital since it was like cut down a few weeks ago

But ignorant people think that driving at 100mph in a built up area with schools right near by, is worth killing kids for

So they keep cutting the camera down

[summer folio]

in Sweden we have congestion tax.
The cameras scans all vehicles using the motorways inside of & threw Stockholm
& at the end of the month you get a bill for using the road

[heady flicker]

what the fuck

[summer folio]

extra, you already pay a road tax for owning a vehicle, based on how much carbon the motor produces

[grim belfry]

It’s just a toll

[summer folio]

gotcha

[austere shale]

A poor tax, all it is. Plain and simple

[fossil frost]

Ulez is only charged against commercial vehicles too, not private vehicles. And it's taxi drivers lying about that to try and get people on their side by whatever slimy means they can, that makes people think it's all cars

[grim belfry]

That’s what all tax is :)

[austere shale]

I been saying that for too long

[summer folio]

Still, 13$ per day, just to drive a car in STockholm lol

[austere shale]

Is that converted to real money?

[summer folio]

135 SEK

[grim belfry]

Wait until you hear about some of our tolls here in Australia

[fossil frost]

Usd isn't real money. Hasn't been for a long time

[grim belfry]

Except the money doesn’t go to the government, it goes to a mega corp

[tired glade]

It is still most use one,so what make it not real?

The gold standard or something?

[summer folio]

I usually convert to USD, just because my muscle memory knows where the $ symbol is (Alt Gr+T on Svorak A5)

[tired glade]

Lol

[fossil frost]

It's a bunch of made up numbers in banks and doesn't actually exist. And there isn't enough of those made up numbers to cover all the other made up numbers that everyone owes everyone else.

It's not limited to just the usd. The euro and GBP and most other currency is the same

[tired glade]

So, solution is?

[grim belfry]

$41 USD/day for the average motorist in Sydney and Melbourne

[fossil frost]

None of it is real

[tired glade]

Does it matter?

[grim belfry]

$434AUD per week in tolls according to Drive.com.au

[fossil frost]

I'm just pointing out that "real money" isn't really a thing anymore

[tired glade]

That's a lot

[austere shale]

I would start burning things down

[tired glade]

Money never was real thing,in general

[austere shale]

I would go full killdozer

[fossil frost]

Driving is a privilege, not a right

[tired glade]

They really need to make new killzone

[grim belfry]

Meanwhile you can have unlimited travel on public transit in Sydney for $50AUD/week(assuming you’re paying an adult fare and not going to the Airport)

[austere shale]

But it is a necessity

[fossil frost]

Travel is a necessity, driving is not

[austere shale]

That’s a valid argument, but at least here in the US I don’t know a single person who doesn’t live at least a 20 minute drive from work

[grim belfry]

Yikes

And I thought it was bad here

[tired glade]

Lol,30€ is monthly here

[austere shale]

My old commute use to be 50 minutes each way

[grim belfry]

Our cities and politics are still very car centric :(

[heady flicker]

30 euro monthly is pretty good

[tired glade]

Sounds like not enough founds in public transport

[fossil frost]

And a half decent public transport system would mean they all still get to go to work 20 minutes away, in 20 minutes, if not faster, because there would be less traffic. So in fact, driving is a hindrance rather than an advantage. Very few people NEED to drive, many people choose to drive out of convenience

[tired glade]

People still complaining it is too much

[heady flicker]

$2.00-$2.25 USD per trip here

[grim belfry]

That’s not the entirety of the problem

[austere shale]

And yk what, If everybody banded together and got electric bikes that could do a decent speed I’d love it, my commute is 20 miles. 100% doable by a good electric bike. But then when everybody starts doing that the government steps in to create some new tax or law and gets their pound of flesh anyways

[austere shale]

The issue in the US is it’s not all big cities, there’s a lot of space in between them, and even then. The place I work at is considered a town (small population) there wouldn’t even really be public transportation to come out here from the city

[fossil frost]

Electric scooters have slotted into that niche in the UK. Cheap enough with a decent enough range, even if limited to 18mph. Most commutes are less than 10 miles on regular roads

[meager umbra]

How is everyone doing?

[austere shale]

100% we have the rentable ones like bird here in my city, I love them (not for their intended purpose I just ride around for fun) but I see the appeal

Short in city commutes is what I have a Honda grom for, little 125cc

[tired glade]

It's raining again

[fossil frost]

Yep. Richard's short name is banned now

[hot tartan]

: (

[fossil frost]

It never used to be. Must be a new addition to warship

[austere shale]

It’s only a matter of time until the government steps in to create a tax. Not necessarily on the riders themselves but they’ll create a tax that affects the companies who own the scooters, who will then pass it down to the users

If it already hasn’t happened idk

[fossil frost]

Most people unrestrict them and they max out at 25. Police pretend to be bothered about it, but as long as you aren't making a point about being a Richard with it, nobody cares if you are doing 25 instead of 18

[austere shale]

Oh yea I’ve seen some crazy like 3000w ones that’ll do 60mph

[fossil frost]

People buy their own from Halfords (national car/bike shop)

[heady flicker]

didn't bird file for bankruptcy

[fossil frost]

Most that most places will sell here is a 500w motor, because it's still classed as a toy for children at that point, because of some dumb law 😁

[austere shale]

I don’t mean to sound super pessimistic but even if people buy their own then the government will just make them get it registered (with a tax) if they wanna ride it on the road

[heady flicker]

at one point you could buy the company for $1M

[fossil frost]

Once they go over 500w,, they become super expensive because they become classed as a light motor vehicle

[austere shale]

The government says jump, we say how high. The government sees how high we jump, and they raise the bar a little more every time

[fossil frost]

So everyone buys the adult sized 500w and accepts 25mph

[austere shale]

I’m sure there’s people who’ve figured out how to put it in a special limited mode if they get stopped by the police so it doesn’t seem like it can go faster than it actually can

That’s what I would do at least

Take a page from Volkswagen when they cheated emissions, take a reading from the wheel speed sensors and if they don’t match up close enough electronically limit it to only do 25

Obviously that doesn’t help you if the cop saw you going faster but, it can help you if you get randomly stopped

[harsh quartz]

So is the biological name 😦

[fossil frost]

Police only pretended to care as long as you aren't being aggressive on it

[austere shale]

Fair enough, more or less how cops are here with stuff

[harsh quartz]

There’s a dude on YouTube who has an unlocked one and cops have asked him before, he tells the truth and they just kinda don’t do anything :p

[full fossil]

my cpu product page says 3200MT/s, does this mean my ram is limited to 1600mhz clock

[tired glade]

They really need to write all 3 numbers on package

[fossil frost]

And personally, when I was in an office, it was only 7 miles away, and it was quicker for me to put a change of clothes in a backpack and run to the office and back home, than it was to drive to the office

[austere shale]

That’s totally fair and I wish more stuff was like that. But I literally couldn’t afford to live close to where I work. On the contrary any jobs I could get in the city wouldn’t be enough to pay the bills

[fossil frost]

The correct answer is "I don't know" because they have no way to check without taking it off you without a warrant or suspicion. And, if they do take it and it is unrestricted, you didn't lie. If you say no, that's just made your life much worse

[harsh quartz]

Well even if you tell the truth, they can’t verify, and there’s not really anything they can do unless your being an ass

[austere shale]

They have little mini dynos that test the speed

[harsh quartz]

Some, definitely not all

[fossil frost]

It's against the law for it to be capable of going more than 18mph in the UK, doesn't matter if it ever has or not. If you say yes, they will take it, if you say I don't know, they will say ok and leave you alone

[harsh quartz]

And they realistically don’t want to, it’s a scooter/bike, just don’t be stupid and they don’t care

[austere shale]

That’s fair, depends on the cop and the day

[fossil frost]

That's mostly it though, don't draw attention to yourself and they won't even ask

[harsh quartz]

I don’t think there’s a federal law in the US, in fact I’m not even sure if it’s state legislation or city, but cops don’t usually know either

I see a dude on a one wheel here every morning, full biker gear and helmet but riding a one wheel down the sidewalks (when we have sidewalks) basically treating it like you would a bike

[fossil frost]

Except that a bike won't suddenly ride off on its own and kill people

[harsh quartz]

I don’t know if it’s a one wheel brand but it is one of those one wheeled things

[austere shale]

Those things are terrifying, I’ve ridden one. Enough to where I could comfortably go around a parking lot. But I would never buy one. I’d die

[harsh quartz]

I think it’d be cool if I lived in the city, but I’m out in the country, we have too many fuckin potholes

You hit one large pebble and off you go

[austere shale]

Yea, even living in the city I’d just get a scooter. Gimme an extra wheel

[harsh quartz]

Scooter would probably be the way I’d go too, if you could unlock it

[austere shale]

Yea, at least where I live I could buy one on Amazon that’ll do 60mph and have it delivered tomorrow

[harsh quartz]

Didn’t Louis rossman make his own and show people how to make one that had a custom controller?

[austere shale]

Oh I’m sure, it’s probably stupid easy

[harsh quartz]

Speaking of him he hasn’t posted recently. Curious

[fossil frost]

He made his own electric bike

[harsh quartz]

Maybe that was it, but it probably wouldn’t be too different from a scooter

[fossil frost]

He's taken a few weeks off posting to write a guide on fixing some device or devices

[harsh quartz]

Coolio. I watch him every once and a while but it’s one of my subscriptions that I’m at least used to se popping up

[fossil frost]

He custom made his own battery pack with off the shelf parts. Any of the cells die, they can be swapped out to refresh the battery

[fossil frost]

I find it funny/terrifying that he left new York 3 years ago now, and he's STILL having to fight with them about things that are NYs problem/fault

Begging is very much against the rules

[harsh quartz]

The letters being purposefully sent to the wrong address for 2 years was wild

[blissful sundial]

Oh 💀😵

I'll delete it :p

Sorry 😅

[fossil frost]

Issuing court orders against him because of their own fuck up too...

[austere shale]

That’s one thing I have no interest in messing with is big ass battery packs like that, very scary

[fossil frost]

I would very quickly set my house on fire

[harsh quartz]

Cover the house in sand

[austere shale]

It’s not even the fact that they catch fire, it’s that it goes from “perfectly fine” to “the complete polar opposite of fine” so fast

[fossil frost]

That's what I mean. I would turn round to get a tool, and then turn back to my house being on fire within seconds

[austere shale]

Exactly

[fossil frost]

I "fixed" the bedroom TV a few years ago. Knowing it was going to die again within weeks. My wife wouldn't leave it on if she left the room, and that was just me soldering some LEDs into a TV. But she's scared of everything all the time

Back light died, apparently was 12 LEDs in a grid. So I soldered a 250 led strip in there instead, into the same power supply 😁. Laid it out on a grid. Worked AMAZING, for about 2 weeks before the PSU melted

[deep solstice]

I am unfamiliar but "Linux for Beginners" seems like a solid starting point

[harsh quartz]

Tbf, she has a right to be scared with that one

[fossil frost]

It was one of those fixes designed to last until payday 😁

[full fossil]

best cooler for tr4 socket??

[fossil frost]

I could have replaced the PSU with an external PSU too, a more powerful one, but she was already going to have a heart attack, didn't want to push her over the edge

[gusty ravine]

ethanol alcohol loop /j

Actually, i might be onto something

How do I pay someone to do stuff for me

[fossil frost]

You ask them, and then give them money

[gusty ravine]

fair point

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/emeu-banana-animal-emu-gif-24020349

The death chicken walks through valley of death and fears nothing

[prime solstice]

Why does that look like Emmanuel

[fossil frost]

stupid llama

i only just realised that that reference is probably older than most people in here

[north wraith]

I’ve been out of loop for a bit and not following game news someone want to give me a quick tldr on all the crap happening with Ubisoft?

[fossil frost]

they thought they could live without steam on pc, and have found out that they cant, because their store sucks, and they need someone whos store doesnt suck

[north wraith]

Ok but what about the Star Wars stuff?

[fossil frost]

not 100% sure, but im pretty sure they got stripped of the licence because of some goings on

unless that was someone else

i think it was them though

[north wraith]

Ok sounds like a lot going on tbh

But they not having a good time

[harsh quartz]

Didn’t they just make a Star Wars game that came out like a couple weeks ago?

[fossil frost]

yep, and its been slammed for being terrible

[harsh quartz]

Yeah, it’s Ubisoft

[fossil frost]

no, its terrible even for them

[granite wraith]

I thought Disney opened up the star wars licensing rights so that anyone to partner with Lucasfilm Games can make them

[harsh quartz]

I don’t think that matters

[silver sun]

294

[tired glade]

Wait, weren't people defending outlaws?

[ionic parrot]

hello

[jovial oar]

Hi

[harsh quartz]

Most people I’ve seen talking about it said it was good for like the first 1-2 hours and then miserable

[tired glade]

Oh,this will be norm for all AAA releases now

[fossil frost]

tbh, only ubisoft games i play are assassins creed, and even then, they could literally release a dog turd stapled to a historically accurate representation of an ancient place, and i would still buy it, because history FTW

[harsh quartz]

skull and bones

Yo there like 10 cops cars, some ambulances, and a news crew surrounding the bank next door, wtf

[meager citrus]

hi guys, I have a question... are there some laptops with the new intel core ultra 5 236V (lunar lake)?

cuz there are some with the new inter core ultra 7 268V but they are expensive

[gilded quest]

https://tenor.com/view/monday-mood-tired-exhausted-cat-gif-4847657208210952571

[fossil frost]

go and pretend you are withdrawing some money, so you can see whats going on

[harsh quartz]

They’re gone now. No clue what happened

[patent violet]

Every time there is a robbery at a bank that happens

No matter where I am, when I pass a bank that was robbed it looks exactly like that

[harsh quartz]

You say that like bank robbery’s are common

[patent violet]

If there was an ambulance the robber got shot

[solemn goblet]

God damn my home is now valued at $508K lmao. It used to be like $200K in 2004

[patent violet]

They are more common than you are assuming

Now that doesn't mean that successful robberies are common

[summer folio]

Aah, the I bought a house when I was 0 years old people

[patent violet]

Probably 99% of the time they get away with nothing but a gunshot wound

[fossil frost]

depends where you live. very uncommon in the uk

[lilac bear]

I see it all the time in movies

[solemn goblet]

Tbf this home looks a lot better than it did in 2004.

[harsh quartz]

Pretty uncommon is most of the US too

[solemn goblet]

We did a major renovation 12 years ago. Re-did all of the living room and kitchen, hallway, bathroom and the bedrooms

It did cost us $150K but they did it really well.

12 years later and it’s holding up

[summer folio]

In Sweden, money used for upgrades are deductable from the sales taxx later on

[harsh quartz]

You don’t wanna hear about a a 20YO claiming they bought a house in 2004?

[fossil frost]

in the uk, you get taxed when you buy the house, you get taxed on the materials and labour when you renovate it, and you get taxed again when you sell it... im pretty sure they are about to introduce a tax on just thinking about it soon

[patent violet]

It depends what you mean by uncommon.
In the UK there's about 600-800 bank robberies a year up until 2020-21. In the US there was 1362 in 2023

[harsh quartz]

Gee, I wonder why there would be such a large difference

[patent violet]

In 2022 it was 1700

[solemn goblet]

I think my mom and me are gonna plan to replace/upgrade our old gas furnace heater that’s probably like 40 years old.

[summer folio]

You don't have to pay the sales taxx in Sweden, if you move into a new house within 2 years

[solemn goblet]

And then get a renovation for the mudroom

[fossil frost]

i dont really care.. i was one of those people who bought at the perfect time in 2008, and spend 11 years on a negative interest rate.. but bragging about it to a room full of random internet strangers would just come off as thirsty attention seeking, so i dont

[patent violet]

In 2021 there was 1964

[lilac bear]

in the USA you can't even start buying houses

[patent violet]

It's going down.

[patent violet]

I read that as murderroom

[harsh quartz]

There are 357 banks in the uk per Google. Theres about 250 in tn alone also per Google

[fossil frost]

so its your parents house, not your house...

[solemn goblet]

I don’t think anyone should buy a house now since the housing market is a disaster here

[harsh quartz]

He said he bought it the year he was born, it’s obviously not theirs

[fossil frost]

hes still talking about it like he thinks its his house, and not his parents house that he just happens to be allowed to live in

[lilac bear]

have you seen the tiktok videos showing Chinese children doing war exercises

[harsh quartz]

Yeah he’s stupid, it happens

[patent violet]

Something on my phone just put this in my screenshots

I have no idea what the hell could've done that

[tired glade]

Bots overworking 2 weeks before

[patent violet]

Oh lol the screenshot tool randomly activated over a news article and selected the picture

[fossil frost]

mods will see that out of context and immediate-ban, without reading

[harsh quartz]

Fine with me

[patent violet]

Fucking update changed my hotkeys. Damn it Samsung

[tired glade]

I think, that's Google

[lilac bear]

they missed: 😅
they missed: 😠

[solemn goblet]

Yeah. Guess I was misspelling

[summer folio]

I find it's hilarious you can't bet on the outcome of the US election in the US.
But you can bet on it in the EU.

[fossil frost]

they didnt miss, he moved, and was VERY lucky that he moved at the exact second he moved, otherwise he would be very much dead. politics aside, nobody deserves that... but... this is gonna be dangerously close to a political conversation and mods are gonna come in with hammers soon

[summer folio]

Someone did a 150 million bet the other day

[lilac bear]

the real reason behind brexit

[tired glade]

I mean, EU election is like 100 different events and at 2 of them never change

[patent violet]

That's a lot of money to put on a bet like that

[fossil frost]

you can bet on the outcome of uk elections, in the uk.. or any other election.. gambling is perfectly ok here and we dont seem to have the huge addiction problems with it that the USA suddenly got once they legalised sports betting

[summer folio]

I meant people in the EU can bet on US election

[lilac bear]

ohhhh

[tired glade]

There are gambling events for US election in US

[patent violet]

To be quiet honest, the United States had a gambling addiction problem before sports betting

[harsh quartz]

Fuckin draft kings is wild to me and I don’t understand how it’s widely accepted

[fossil frost]

this is the first page of 1 betting company on the US election 😄

[lilac bear]

oh yeah New Vegas

[fossil frost]

i can bet on all sorts of different outcomes like it was a sporting event

[tired glade]

Oh,ods not that high

[harsh quartz]

Damn yall really know more about the state outcomes than we do

[solemn goblet]

I hope to god Trump isn’t President again… I have many issues with him

[tired glade]

It's gambling,not really

[harsh quartz]

I know nothing about Pennsylvania or North Carolina

[summer folio]

"He must have insider information on what bet will win!!!1"

[fossil frost]

skybet are a HUGE company, their odds are well calculated, they gather all sorts of stats to produce odds, if they arent confident they are going to make money out of it, they wont give odds on it

[patent violet]

Some of those are usually matched some are not. Looks like they are intended to be parlay

[tired glade]

Oh, funny will be soon

[patent violet]

It's interesting choices for parlay combos

[lilac bear]

"the rigged the election! not for politics, but because of who I bet money on"

[fossil frost]

theres more... 😄

[patent violet]

Is it the whole point of rigging politics for money?

[patent violet]

What's the difference?

[tired glade]

This year election has many moving parts,it not even funny

Also,was there for UK elections?

[lilac bear]

too much thinking for me
I was just joking on the gambling thing

[summer folio]

[fossil frost]

yeah, all this sort of betting was right there for the recent elections in the uk, and previous elections too

[harsh quartz]

“100$ this head of lettuce will last longer than the PM”

[fossil frost]

most gambling in the uk is old men in their 60s betting 50p or £1 per bet, doing 4 or 5 bets on a saturday

[tired glade]

Someone made big bac on those elections

[fossil frost]

a newspaper ran the lettuce thing, but sky and others were offering odds on it

the lettuce did last longer than she did too

[harsh quartz]

And then the lettuce fuckin won

[fossil frost]

it didnt even start going brown

[normal cargo]

Lettuce 1 - truss - 0

[lilac bear]

what makes it even better is that apparently she was boasting about how easy it would be as PM

[normal cargo]

Yea all you do is cut taxes, innit ?

Oh wait what happened to the pound

[fossil frost]

no, we disguise tax rises as tax cuts.. but they are always rises

[fossil frost]

some eastern european leader called her "foreign policy barbie"

[harsh quartz]

…stamps

[normal cargo]

Was talking about Truss when she was on about deleting the top rate tax bracket and then watching the pound taking a nose dive

[fossil frost]

her and that clown of a chancellor caused problems that we are STILL trying to recover from now

[harsh quartz]

…she was in for a week

How much damage can you do in a week?

[lilac bear]

yes

[normal cargo]

60bn, apparently

[tired glade]

Yes

[harsh quartz]

Pffft 60bn is nothing

[normal cargo]

Only 3 of the trident nuclear programs that parts of the UK think is too expensive to find

[jaunty compass]

It's here

This server was $15,000 2 years ago

[hot tartan]

whats in it?

[tired glade]

This looks cheap for 15k

[jaunty compass]

That's because it was originally for crypto mining

[jaunty compass]

12 AMD/ASRock bc250s, each is roughly a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 6600 on a single board with 16 gigs of ram
It was $15,000 2 years ago, I bought it last week for $250

With free shipping

Since it's not profitable for mining anymore these things are basically worthless even though you can do some serious gaming on them

[tired glade]

1.1k for 6600 lol

[jaunty compass]

I ran this on just one of the nodes the other day

I bought one of the nodes a while back to tinker with

[tired glade]

That was GPU it was

[jaunty compass]

My bad it was 3 years ago when they were that much

It was the height of the mining boom and GPU shortage

[blissful sundial]

How to open ticket

[jaunty compass]

Each node is a PC so it's not just that much for a 6600, these were very profitable for mining when they came out

But mining is cringe and they aren't profitable anymore so they're dirt cheap

[summer folio]

how lol

[hot tartan]

What are you going to use it for?

[jaunty compass]

They are not profitable for mining anymore and the farms have a ton of them. Most people don't know about them, and game on them you have to use modded Linux drivers

No YouTubers have made a video on them yet that is relevant to normal people so they are still very under the radar

[summer folio]

oh, nice

[jaunty compass]

The moment a YouTuber makes a video on them I expect the price to go up 10 fold tbh

[summer folio]

Darn YouTubers, tanking the whole second hand used market lmao

[harsh quartz]

Minecraft server?

[harsh quartz]

So, do the nodes work in unison or is each just an independent computer system?

[smoky badge]

minecraft

[night linden]

So guys I'm back to announce that I discovered a new feature of my car

So this time, something near the hood starts rattling at very specifically 2000-2100 RPM

Don't know if it's under, over, or inside, but I think it's like the new audio patch

[jaunty compass]

Each is an independent computer but you can hook them together for cluster compute through the network Jack

[jaunty compass]

I was thinking of hooking it up like that to run a LAN party

[hot tartan]

that would be cool

[harsh quartz]

Single computer lan party, that’s pretty funny

[jaunty compass]

Not exactly a single computer, it's 12 computers

I was going to hook up 11 sets of peripherals and have one running the server

I wasn't going to do cluster compute for the Minecraft server those were two unrelated statements

[harsh quartz]

You know what I mean

[jaunty compass]

One box yeah

[harsh quartz]

It’s a single machine lan party

[jaunty compass]

It is extremely dense

[fossil frost]

well, that was fun... had to weigh my dogs... one of them (the smaller one) is fine with being picked up... the bigger one, HATES IT... flailing around like those ferrets you see on youtube

[lost stratus]

@wintry depot

hi

hello unkown man

[wintry depot]

Hello, my friend! How goes it?

[lost stratus]

👍

[vital oak]

paying money for nothing

it’s like buying a course for walking

you will figure it out yourself and it’s better that way

feels natural and is more fun than reading or watching a video on some bullshit

Yeah here’s how to type characters into a text box

[fossil frost]

exactly... theoretical knowledge is nothing compared to practical knowledge... actually DOING something, breaking it, and figuring out how you broke it and how to fix it, gets you to learn far faster than reading about something

[vital oak]

^^

also linux is easy regardless

[fossil frost]

it can be easy if you are practical, and dont panic and things going wrong, and accept that if you broke it, you can fix it

[vital oak]

yeah

[long briar]

usually*

[fossil frost]

good save 😄

[harsh quartz]

I didn’t know about MagSafe on the back of iPhones and lost a paper clip. It was stuck to the back of my iPhone. 🤡

[solemn goblet]

Idk why but I don’t use MagSafe much

I guess I don’t like it lol. Some people really do though

[pliant karma]

oh yea lol I had no clue it was on my iphone 12 too so was fun when I found out.

[long briar]

on MacBook or on phone?

[solemn goblet]

It’s so nice having like an actually good smartphone

I was stuck with an iPhone SE 2020 until 2023 when I upgraded to the iPhone 15 Pro

[long briar]

se2020 is fine tbh

[solemn goblet]

Nahhh. It’s pretty mid

[long briar]

I actually love that phone

[solemn goblet]

Battery life is bad. It just feels outdated

[long briar]

it's a great size, super comfortable to use

yea the battery is its only downside imo

[pliant karma]

same it's like the perfect phone for my grandparents ironically

[long briar]

When you get older you start to care less about the status of it and more of the functionality

I used to think I wanted a huge phone

Now I just want smth that fits any of my pockets (I daily a pixel 8 now)

[pliant karma]

and I got a couple of the 2nd/3rd gen SEs from terminated verizion contracts my moms work had.

[long briar]

this is coming from the 6.7" screens from OnePlus. 6.7 down to 6.2

[solemn goblet]

Honestly though the RAM and performance increase was nice

3 GB of RAM A13 Bionic to 8 GB of RAM A17 Pro

[long briar]

That's fair

do you game on your phone?

[solemn goblet]

Sometimes yes

[long briar]

I can only assume you're a teen

[solemn goblet]

I think another big upgrade to me was the display

OLED display is pretty good

[fervent star]

https://www.newegg.com/black-msi-titan-18-hx-a14vig-036us-gaming/p/2WC-000C-0HHE4?Item=9SIAFXNK879359

Linus should review this

[urban thistle]

that actually looks really good

[smoky badge]

https://youtu.be/mg79n_ndR68?si=RlupE5WIHVWbQEQy

[urban thistle]

Wait, is that new?

[smoky badge]

Yes

[urban thistle]

YIPPEE

[solemn goblet]

20,000 watts?

[smoky badge]

2 hours old

[urban thistle]

It’s Styropyro what do you expect?

[fossil frost]

ah hes back, and apparently feeling better... nice. will watch later

also, payday in the morning, means i can stop driving round on super illegal very worn out tyres

should probably stop having a heavy right foot, but... cant help it

[solemn goblet]

That just seems like an extreme amount of energy lol. I am not an expert in electricity though so.

[harsh quartz]

Y’all’s tires can be illegal?

[fossil frost]

for any normal person, it is a lot.. but for Styropyro, its quite weak

[full fossil]

studs

[fossil frost]

tyres.. yes... not the wheel... tyres... the rubber bit

[harsh quartz]

Yeah, the tires.

[fossil frost]

needs to have a minimum of 1.6mm of tread left on it... mine have less than that 😄

practically slick

[full fossil]

again also studs

[harsh quartz]

Damn they really make anything illegal over there huh

[full fossil]

how bad would slick tyres be in canadian winter?

[fossil frost]

challenging

[hot tartan]

Racing slicks

[fossil frost]

USA has a similar minimum requirement

[harsh quartz]

Who gonna check?

[fossil frost]

it gets checked at yearly MOT, car fails and can be impounded and crushed if you drive without an MOT. otherwise, nobody checks, its more that if you do get pulled over for something unrelated, its 6 penalty points on your licence, and a heavy fine

[lilac bear]

smooth tires are cursed

[full fossil]

tf a MOT

[harsh quartz]

No I meant who’s gonna check it here :p

[fossil frost]

its also, if your tyres are that smooth, and the weather even thinks of raining... we have corners on our roads... so when you try and drive around them, you die

[fossil frost]

road worthyness tests.. (Ministry of Transport Test)

[solemn goblet]

Imagine driving on black ice with smooth tires

[full fossil]

me with a class 5 GDL license this winter

[harsh quartz]

Would be the same as black ice with treaded tires

[solemn goblet]

True

Wouldn’t make any difference

[harsh quartz]

State inspections are the equivalent here, some states have them before you can get your car registration every year, some states don’t. If you live in a state that doesn’t, it’s free game >:)

[fossil frost]

was driving at night a few years ago, very few people on the road, someone else driving towards me, and suddenly, their car just started slowly rotating, while still moving towards me at the same speed... i tried to slow down and drive around them... nothing happened... just heading towards each other with nothing we could do

both cars just glide to a stop, about an inch away from each other... 😄

[harsh quartz]

Last big flood we had, I was going around a sharp blind curve, and I’m always cautious cause I know idiots takes it too fast and the water was across the road, sure enough, a bright pink lifted jeep comes around the corner way too fast, tries to swerve and the back end swings out, she ends up putting it in the ditch to avoid hitting me

Luckily, it was a lifted jeep, so it came back out of the ditch pretty easily

[fossil frost]

either way, their problem that they caused for themselves 😄

[harsh quartz]

100% but it’s also a really bad turn

[full fossil]

LTT fans are really dumb...

[harsh quartz]

Not as dumb as jeep driver’s

[full fossil]

We need this warning though

[harsh quartz]

Who tf is we?

We don’t, you might

[hot tartan]

Don't rope me into this

[tired glade]

That warning is for legal reasons

[harsh quartz]

That warning is specifically there for you

Warnings are for the dumbest viewer, not the average

[hot tartan]

My weekend plans are none of your concerns

[full fossil]

plz tell us

[harsh quartz]

Hey if you want lead balls, go ahead

[fossil frost]

been getting cell masts upgraded near me recently, they upgraded the local one from 4G+ to 5G... if im on 5G... zero bandwidth, if im on 4G or 4G+, all the bandwidth... but... if i walk about half a mile down the road, i get onto the next cell over... and the 5G on that one works fine...

[fossil frost]

mine are disconnected... so a little bit of lead or nails, is gonna be no problem anyway

[hot tartan]

The goal is tungsten balls, but gotta start somewhere

[harsh quartz]

This was us for like 6 months when they did our rollout, 5g could load fuck all but 4g lte+ was still great

[strange elk]

Death wobble doesnt help

[harsh quartz]

Micro-dosing to built immunity ey? Any chance you watch dimension 20

[hot tartan]

I do not

Never heard of it

[harsh quartz]

Damn

[fossil frost]

micro-dose your balls, with a hammer... small taps, working up to full hammer strikes... you will become immune to being hit in the balls with a hammer

[strange elk]

The overwhelming urge to inject molten lead into my veins

[harsh quartz]

Truly a masculine urge

[strange elk]

But I'm not a man

[harsh quartz]

And?

[long briar]

I'd know. It's bad.

[prime solstice]

Ah winter time when people decide it’s the perfect time to go fast on icy roads

[full fossil]

I have my road test next month actually

[prime solstice]

My birthday is next month

But hopefully you pass your road test

[full fossil]

if I pass in the winter I'll be such an amazing driver

[cursive hill]

quick question arch linux or windows

[long briar]

not even

[fossil frost]

depends what you are doing

[long briar]

people just straight up forget how to drive.

[cursive hill]

just for general use

[fossil frost]

same when it rains over here.. "ohh, its rained slightly... im gonna throw all of my knowledge in the glovebox and just let my dog drive"

[prime solstice]

Well in my town people speed up on icy roads and also don’t know how to drive

[harsh quartz]

Do you want to be able to use you computer or do you want to be able to troubleshoot your computer?

[fossil frost]

again, depends what you use it for, and depends what "general use" means to you

[harsh quartz]

“Oh shit it’s sprinkling lets drive 50mph on the interstate”

[cursive hill]

no its just a general question what people use

[long briar]

In the winter I wouldn't dare go out in anything less than an SUV here because I don't know where I might have to go. But my suv is a v6 rav4 that has a relatively short wheelbase.

I end up having to throttle out if my back tires slip

[fossil frost]

arch users are like vegans... they have to tell you that they are an insufferable bellend...

[harsh quartz]

They made v6 rav4s?

[prime solstice]

Usually if I am going for general purpose use Linux mint or Ubuntu if I want to rip my hair out because I did something wrong then stock arch Linux but otherwise I sometimes use manjaro or endeavour

[solemn goblet]

Driving in a blizzard sounds like fun!

[fossil frost]

driven in the worst of worst weather over here, even had a HUGE snow storm last year in the middle of nowhere... in a ford mondeo (think they are called the fusion in the USA)... no problem... as long as you have torque and know how to deal with those conditions, 4x4 is irrelevant

[harsh quartz]

I’ve got one of the 4cylinder rav4s, with the Camry engine, but it’s got their AWD system, so if any one of my tires starts spinning it’ll put more power to the other tires to get me unstuck

[summer folio]

in Sweden it's law to have spikes on your wheels 6 months of the year.

[harsh quartz]

That AWD has saved my ass a few times

[long briar]

uhm, long story short we play a game of "stick to a line on the road and see how long you can stay on it"

a 4 lane road might have three lanes

[harsh quartz]

Left, right, and confused?

[long briar]

I also sometimes don't know if I'm gonna drop down a curb

[fossil frost]

yeah, a 2 way 2 lane road here turns into a single lane, 2 way road, where you are all sharing the same lane 😄

[long briar]

yes

[long briar]

now you see, it's between a rav4 or an M240i.

yes the bmw is awd, no I'm not driving it out in a snowstorm

[harsh quartz]

I’m still confused how you have a v6 rav4. Must be older

[fossil frost]

whichever has the big fat torque-y diesel engine is the winner, no matter what the car is

[long briar]

2012

[harsh quartz]

Ahh

[long briar]

I don't have ground clearance to make up for my shit driving

I'm telling you I've actually driven off of curbs thinking they were exits before

granted I did that once but I'm not proud of it

[harsh quartz]

Honestly, who wasn’t

[long briar]

but I also now know I can also be stupid

[harsh quartz]

I thought that second picture was of REALLY big spikes and I was so confused

[vital oak]

do not be ran over

[summer folio]

& it's illegal to have spikes the other 6 months of the year.
So you have to change tires 2 times per year

[fossil frost]

on about that... when i first met my wife, we went for a weekend away in the country... heavy heavy heavy rainstorm started, everywhere flooded... there was 1 bit where i got to it and thought "i dont think i can make that" so started backing out of it to turn round... some tit in a bently decided to show everyone how large his... richard... was... drove through this "puddle", which ended up being about 3ft deep... flooded his gearbox, air intake, and engine... car fully locked up in the middle of it, in gear, couldnt move it at all... had to wait there, blocking a single lane country road... for 2 days

[long briar]

there's more of these in the city but I'm very familiar with this one. There's this parking curb that sticks out and becomes invisible in the snow. I've seen people just run over them full speed. (30kmh is really fast to go over one of these)

[vital oak]

oh that would piss me off

[harsh quartz]

I’ve led a lemming train of idiots down a flooded road and then back the other way before cause the flooded road sign had been moved. One of the lemmings was a cop in a Camaro

[fossil frost]

ive gone through places my mondeo really shouldnt have gone, but im aware of its limitations... this arse should really have known that if a mondeo cant make it, a bently, no matter which type.. isnt gonna make it

[long briar]

That's bold... and stupid

[harsh quartz]

Have you see all the teslas in these past couple hurricanes?

[solemn goblet]

The ones that catch fire in saltwater?

[fossil frost]

£200k car, likely completely written off, since a new engine and gearbox, and probably all new electrics too... would be more than the insurance would be willing to pay for

[fossil frost]

catching fire? or just completely dying the second the water gets above the wheel hub height?

[harsh quartz]

Just how many dumbasses have been truckin along through like 3 feet water acting like nothings wrong, as they’re the only ones on the roads :p

[fossil frost]

ive seen a few vehicles DESIGNED FOR being able to handle going through deep water, those resue type vehicles... struggling to get through some of the flood water over there... dont know why tesla owners think they arent going to get swept away

[harsh quartz]

It was really bad when everyone was trying to leave SC and east TN, before i40 got fucked

It was weird seeing east tn, especially Gatlinburg, get obliterated by a hurricane and the floods

[long briar]

yea I'm aware

we don't have floods here

we just have -40c cold snaps where cars parked outside don't start

[lilac bear]

because it's the apocalypse car that is super sci-fi and advanced

[fossil frost]

except for suburus 😄

[lilac bear]

and then silicone valley tech bros forget weather exists

[grim belfry]

SubUwUs

[long briar]

Not my picture but it's one of these

I've never had a engine light on it.

or any light for that matter actually

12 years going strong

it drinks gas though

13-14l/100km in the city

[lilac bear]

"the blinkers have never turned on"

[harsh quartz]

Mine keeps throwing tire lights at me because I keep hitting nails. Except the last time, it was 3 shards of metal.

[long briar]

16.8mpg

[harsh quartz]

Today I saw a fuel light for the first time :p

[long briar]

ok I meant like error lights

[fossil frost]

that was also the weekend where one road was partly flooded, and the farmers cow field that the water was running off... was leading to some very... brown... foamy water getting onto the road... about 1ft deep.. me... thinking "its just water"... forgetting what it really was (cow diarrhoea) just ploughed right through it... car smelled of cow poo for about 2 months

[long briar]

oh shit you're right I've seen the fuel light quite a bit

[long briar]

ha jokes on you I don't have tpms

I just make sure my tires aren't flat before I drive

and if it feels off I'll check with a gauge

(I have a full size spare in the back)

[harsh quartz]

I have a tpms but it won’t tell me how much pressure is in each one, idk what the fuck is with Japanese cars, but they will not tell you

[long briar]

lmao

my parents have a newer toyota that does have tpms but yea it just turns on when it drops below 30psi down from 35

[harsh quartz]

My model has a full 360camrra and all the sensor and gps and shit, but I can’t tell me how much pressure is in my tires

[fossil frost]

tpms on mine was standard... it telling you how much pressure was in each, was a £700 optional extra... or... it was changing a 1 to a 4 via an ODB2 connector

[summer folio]

Damn, how is it even possible to be nails & shards of metals outside?
In Sweden it's illegal to even throw gum outside.

[harsh quartz]

Yeah this, but mine turns on at about 25

[fossil frost]

i enabled about £5000 worth of extras on my car. which are just soft locks

[harsh quartz]

I DONT KNOW

[long briar]

wait that's actually hilarious

that's like rouing hacking his altima level funny

[harsh quartz]

I used to work at a factory and I could MAYBE understand the nails, but I haven’t worked there for years and i just keep hitting shit

[harsh quartz]

What car?

[fossil frost]

ohh, reverse sensors came as standard... camera... £1000 extra... but all the wiring is there whether i buy the £20 camera, for £1000 or not... so.. i chose to not, and then bought the exact same camera for £20 and fitted it and plugged it in myself. and then enabled it in the software via ODB2 😄

[fossil frost]

mondeo mk5 (fusion in the usa?)

[harsh quartz]

I think it’s a fusion

[long briar]

oh that too, my rav4 doesn't have a backup camera

[harsh quartz]

I will not buy fords

[long briar]

which made my reverse parking with mirrors really good

[harsh quartz]

Mines got the 360degree camera and the backup sensors and camera, also forward facing camera and sensors

[long briar]

wait even my m240i doesn't (it's a 2017)

[harsh quartz]

Also BSM and adaptive cruise control, all the bells and whistles. Except it won’t tell me how much fuckin air is in the tires

[long briar]

only ultrasonic and backup camera

[fossil frost]

adaptive cruise is gonna be my next mod.. i need to swap out a small board in the car, for an ever so slightly different small board that has a particular connector already soldered to it (because i cant be bothered to solder directly to the board)... and then enabling it is changing a 14 to a 15 i think

[harsh quartz]

My rav4 is a 2017 but I bought it used in 2020 I think, or 2021, I don’t remember

[harsh quartz]

It’s not as useful as you think, but it’s a nice to have every once and a while

[fossil frost]

motorway is about 5 minutes from my house, and i go to the lake district a lot to go cycling/racing.. so i spend a lot of time on the motorway at the weekends.. so make a lot of use of regular cruise... adaptive would mean i need to do even less

[long briar]

wdym not as useful

adaptive cruise is so nice to have

[fossil frost]

i may even be able to go for a short nap

[long briar]

my rav4 is legit 4 wheels an a nice strong engine

[harsh quartz]

I do a lot of interstate driving as well, and I thought it’d be nice at first, it’s really not super useful tho , I just use the normal cruiser control like 90% of the time

[harsh quartz]

Mines a nice strong Camry engine on a smart drivetrain with lots of bells and whistles :p

The AWD system is so fuckin nice

[long briar]

not a v6

[harsh quartz]

No, v4, but the AWD means I don’t need as much power

[long briar]

i4

[harsh quartz]

Whatever, 4 cylinder

[long briar]

I have "awd" with a locking... clutch pack.

(dear Toyota, why clutch pack)

[harsh quartz]

Idk what that means

[long briar]

tl;dr it's basically a very rudementary implementation of awd

it also disengages and becomes fwd after like 40kmh

[harsh quartz]

Ahh. Mines always on but usually only sends power to the front 2 wheels, can turn the backs ones if it thinks it needs to though. And I can lock the diff but I’ve never had to

I got stuck in a snow bank a couple years back when we had a blizzard come though, front 2 wheels got stuck and spun for about 1 second before the back wheels kicked in and got me out

[vapid smelt]

now this is a real car

[harsh quartz]

Why is it sitting so high

[vapid smelt]

ground clearance for off roading in the 4wd eagle 🦅

[vivid hearth]

Hey so am I crazy or is there a gradient on the timeline bar now?

[fossil frost]

yep, red to pink

[vivid hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/nacho-why-confused-jack-black-gif-8714598

[fossil frost]

becuase its more important to have a small gradient in the player, than it is to use the might of your AI division to completely stop spam/scam comments

[vivid hearth]

I thought I was out of it all day, it was happening on my work laptop and then now here at the battlestation.

[red ferry]

hi

[thin fjord]

how are you

[deep sedge]

apparently youtube changed their color palette
crazy, they added a gradient to the timeline!!!11!!

[jaunty compass]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1085024564305727498/1298783959349592134/VID_20241023_174849259.mp4?ex=671ad252&is=671980d2&hm=e5d53fe24d7bd30d439f0f6b5b46c65650bc12ed32b6f0a7f193f46059c0c578&

[urban thistle]

I’m gonna need $10

[jaunty compass]

what if i buy it just to take it from you