public-chat

[runic sierra]

My point is, charging $18k for a wheelchair is insane. Even after materials and work, and a cut of profits for whoever makes it, it shouldn't be anywhere close to $10k even.

[manic torrent]

that's AUD, so it's $11.7k USD

[runic sierra]

Still, nowhere close to that. It's absurd. I live in Tennesse now. Redneck engineering is EVERYWHERE here.

[sacred orchid]

im thinking the profits are hefty

[runic sierra]

Of course they are. It's for medical reasons. They know people need 'em and charge out the ass for everything. But my cynicism is due to America having absolutely terrible regulations and fees and practices when it comes to anything medical.

[uneven stirrup]

Is there any program that compares you pc to other pcs besides UBM?

[manic torrent]

yes

[uneven stirrup]

I used passmark but it compared it to a pc from 2019

[shut birch]

paying for ambulance is insane in america

[uneven stirrup]

Don’t get hurt…

[manic torrent]

or sick

[sacred orchid]

3dmark

[uneven stirrup]

Just say inside

[sacred orchid]

theres a free version

[obsidian oracle]

Inside

[uneven stirrup]

In side

[obsidian oracle]

Whos in

[manic torrent]

where you will never get sick, because you will magically be protected

[sacred orchid]

medicaid exists

[uneven stirrup]

If your 65

[obsidian oracle]

Lol

[sacred orchid]

thats medicare

[runic sierra]

Father was NYPD (New York Police Department) - He got cancer as a result of working ground zero back during 9/11. Exposed to debris and such. He got multiple myeloma. Effects your plasma cells in bone marrow. Basically his bones became brittle. He was literally walking with a cane one day and heard a pop. Went to move and just fell over. His femur just instantly snapped under his own weight (He didn't weigh much, cancer saw to that)

We called an Ambulance, took them 20 minutes to get to us while he was writhing in pain. Afterwards they hit us with an $7,000 bill. Luckily the 9/11 fund saw to that. But still. It's insane.

[uneven stirrup]

My bf dad died from cancer he told me his medical bills were insane and they went into massive debt

[shut birch]

where’s my brain, my brain doesn’t know these words 😦

[runic sierra]

Oh we would've been in insane debt if not for the 9/11 relief fund. His cancer medication alone cost just a bit over $10,000 per bottle, per month.

[obsidian oracle]

I think cancer is one of the diseases that cost a lot to get properly taken care of

[obsidian oracle]

Jfc

[uneven stirrup]

yeah like 250k-300k++

[runic sierra]

American healthcare system is a bloody joke. And an insulting one at that.

[shut birch]

who made american healthcare? president?

[obsidian oracle]

Just pull a linus and move to canada (ik he didnt move to there)

[obsidian oracle]

Least i can say is no

[manic torrent]

it was capitalism all along

[runic sierra]

They're probably foreign and honestly I don't expect other countries to teach them about American healthcare system. It's capitalism at its finest.

[sacred orchid]

what do u suggest instead

socialism?

[runic sierra]

Let's not get into politics on an LTT channel, lol

[obsidian oracle]

Monkey

[sage quiver]

Is this economic-system-chat?

[patent violet]

Has anyone managed to come up with a way to scan in an object easily for 3d printing on the cheap yet?

[sacred orchid]

🐵

[obsidian oracle]

SoonTM

[obsidian oracle]

Iphone if u alr own one ig

[manic torrent]

supply/demand curve chat

[sacred orchid]

ah yes high school economics

fun

[sage quiver]

Would likely need quite a bit of cleanup

[obsidian oracle]

Wdym

Oh yea sure

[sage quiver]

It’s not accurate enough

[obsidian oracle]

Its lotta rays

[patent violet]

yeah ar scanning isnt working out and I gave it a try for shits and giggles

[obsidian oracle]

And rough rays

[harsh quartz]

They said cheap. Not good. Also it’s gotten pretty decent with the lidar sensors

[patent violet]

Im trying to replicate hamster cage tubes

[obsidian oracle]

Not even good for overall size n shit?

[patent violet]

or well. some of the accessories

[manic torrent]

everytime I have seen it used/demoed, it's basically only useful for extremely complex shapes and/or size reference

[harsh quartz]

I know corridor crew has talked about it quite a lot but I’ve never used it myself

[patent violet]

With scanning with AR you get Low Accuracy and Medium Resolution

[obsidian oracle]

Yea, rip

Back to medieval times with rulers ig

[patent violet]

https://www.go3dpro.com/transcan-c-3d-scanner.html

Here we go

Def not cheap though

Still, with that accuracy, somewhat cheaper than I expected

[lilac bear]

just get a good job okay

skill issue

[dense quail]

Lmao stalker 2 runs like crap

Can't believe people are like "wow 80 fps that feels terrible with frame gen, that's great for stalker!"

It's been years since the first games, it shouldn't be like this. Why does it feel like every game that comes out now is just optimized terribly

Fingers crossed it gets better with updates

[manic torrent]

because a) rose colored history glasses and b) a lack of understanding of how game development works and what optimisation is.

[dense quail]

If a game comes out and it's not running decently on contemporary hardware it's badly optimized. There's no lack of understanding, it's just a fact.

[runic sierra]

Going down to about 40°f / 4-5° c tonight.
I shall heat my room with naught but my monitors and computer itself.

[dense quail]

Yikes

[runic sierra]

It's gonna be great. I love sleeping in the cold

[dense quail]

I'm actually mega disappointed in the game in general. Played about five hours so far and it's just not innovative outside of graphics

It just feels like a 15 year old game that looks really good.

But it'll get a pass because "I love muh stalker"

[runic sierra]

I think people have proven that even a game with pixelated or only "decent" graphics can still be good. It's about execution, story, gameplay, etc. I agree that too many game companies focus on graphics WAY too much. I'd rather time be spent having an optimized game that's fun.

[dense quail]

I'd just rather people weren't brain dead

"God I really dislike the current trend that games run like crap"

"That's your issue"

Oh, well fuck me I guess.

[manic torrent]

It's not a current trend

unless current is like 20 years

[runic sierra]

Yeah....if people with 4080's and 4090's, hell even 3080's and 3090's can't run a game smoothly? That's just sad. I know it was a meme for a while back in the day with "Can it run Crysis?" But c'mon..

[dense quail]

That's current in the grand scheme of things. I'm referring to games with a lot of money behind them that come out like this, broken AI, broken quests, shit performance

[manic torrent]

current in the grand scheme of computer games? yeah nah.

[dense quail]

Like this is cyberpunk bad levels of release but it gets a free pass because "but it's stalker, the first game was also like that"

[dense quail]

I'm not arguing the specifics of this, I'll concede it might not be a trend. I'm specifically just talking about this release for now and I'd rather have that conversation than this back and forth.

[manic torrent]

there we go, now you're being reasonable

[dense quail]

No need to be condescending, but then again I'm in the LTT discord

Reddit distilled

[runic sierra]

Personally I think it's these companies obsession with profits. Where's the passion projects? Where's the people wanting to make the game cause they love what they do? Because they want to express through their creativity?

Instead we get eye candy that runs poorly cause it'll generate sales cause how good it looks. It's released early cause they had a deadline to satisfy shareholders.

[manic torrent]

people come in here every day and say "omg all games are unoptimised and it's terrible"

[dense quail]

I mean that's the thing. People are talking about this like it's an indie release when they have Microsoft money behind them, I have no idea what brain worm has infected the stalker community

If CD project red got shit canned for it then GSC should too

[runic sierra]

Haven't played the new Stalker so can't attest to that. But it does feel like we get a lot of rushed projects. Cut content that can be repurposed to DLC or whatever.

[manic torrent]

The scale of a AAA game in 2024 makes it inherently difficult

[dense quail]

I saw someone actually say "4090, 60-70 fps on high-medium with frame gen at 4k" and people were like "that's so good

They posted gameplay and it was like watching a seizure in real time

[manic torrent]

You're talking about a project that had hundreds/thousands of people work on it, and cost 100M+

[dense quail]

But even my 100 plus on 1440p feels sluggish and disgusting

[runic sierra]

Assassins Creed. They had tons of funding and started to become like those awful sports games. Just pumping out sequel after sequel. Minor improvements each time.

[harsh quartz]

Because AAA industry practices leaves no room for chances. 2 guys making a game in their spare time can afford to make some weird off the wall shit

[manic torrent]

That doesn't mean it's ok for it to perform like shit, but it's critical context

[harsh quartz]

Good example is the RoR franchise, before and after the sellout

[dense quail]

This, the game industry is a beast that no longer cares for innovation. The amount of money that goes into this stuff needs some proof that it'll return the investment

[manic torrent]

you make two games, they cost 100M each to make, one nets you profit of 100M, the other one nets you 10M because it bombed... you're out of business.

[dense quail]

At this point I don't care. It's entirely possible that we see the death of a few giants fairly soon

I'm pretty sure Ubisoft has fucked themselves at this point

Didn't that star wars thing flop?

Ass cred will probably follow suit

I'm just so disappointed that this game after we were promised that we'd get to experience the zone without the shit performance and bugs is just like the original

[runic sierra]

And rightfully so. Deliver bad experiences with tons of funding cause some corporate overlord demanded it and it flops? I'd say "Good." and hope they'd learn their lesson. But it seems they never do. Just move onto the next project. Whatever's forecasted to make them the most money.

[dense quail]

I mean, they have to. I think it's why we're seeing an increase in pretty fun games super recently. People are finally voting with their wallets, probably since not many people have the money to spend on games now.

Hot take but we've gotten space marine 2 which is just pure distilled fun, helldiver's which is much the same and a really good COD this year, oh and diver dan.

It hasn't been a bad year for gaming but it has been a bad year for big giants. Didn't sony release a game that was shut down the same day? Or am I insane.

Maybe it was the first week.

[runic sierra]

It reminds me of Pizza Hut and McDonalds and places like that. Back in the day these places had such personality. Their locations had Spirit. I remember being little and LOVING these places cause they were so unique. Now they're all the same. White/Gray/Black corporate looking boxes. Cutting costs wherever, raising prices, cutting hours and crew. All in hopes to just make more money.

Feels like games have been going the same way. Corporatized. The spirit and what made them fun and unique stripped away to churn out whatever will sell quickly and make the most profit. Then it'll die and fade and that's that. Onto the next.

[manic torrent]

partly true, and partly rose colored history glasses. They were cutting things then, they're just better at it now

[dense quail]

I mean I'm not entirely against money being a drive to perform, that's just life. But a lot of these big AAA games just suck right now, it wasn't always like this btw. For a long time you could count on a few companies to make stuff that was at least fun

I remember assassins creed being a safe bet for generic fun

Hasn't been like that for awhile

[runic sierra]

I get trying to be more efficient. Cutting where necessary. But to the point it strips away what made it great in the first place?

[manic torrent]

that's literally how it works.

[dense quail]

It doesn't tho

[long briar]

That's what I said, Toyota has the ONLY cvt I don't hate

[manic torrent]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

[long briar]

Honda, Nissan, Chevy, you name it. They all suck,.

[dense quail]

McDonald's doesn't need to reel people in, it's McDonald's

[harsh quartz]

Oh no I know, but I just mean in the context, I was clarifying that it included Japanese ones too

[long briar]

oh for sure

[dense quail]

The problem with games in comparison is that the quality isn't consistent, I think it's just a bad comparison

[long briar]

actually though, I hate Nissans in general

[dense quail]

Preach

[long briar]

that includes their drivers

[dense quail]

I know a guy who drives one, he's a prick

[long briar]

People be driving altimas like GTRs

[runic sierra]

\

[long briar]

I think I've met ONE nissan driver that wasn't an ahole

[dense quail]

Eh times change

[dense quail]

You met one that was good at hiding it

[long briar]

lollll

[dense quail]

Same goes for Porsche drivers.

[long briar]

ok actually that changes

I'd say porsche drivers are 50/50

[dense quail]

Most pretentious people

[dense quail]

Fair

[long briar]

like they're either the coolest people you'll meet

or they're the most pretentious you'll meet

[runic sierra]

Sure, everyone and everything changes. We're supposed to. It's nature pretty much. But just like McDonalds lost its uniqueness, I feel games have been going the same way.

It's just saddening is all

[sage quiver]

Especially Linus

[long briar]

the top one doesn't work in Canada. You'd immediately freeze in the slide

[runic sierra]

We had some indoor slide/play areas

[lilac bear]

optimization is when you leave it up for optimization team to reduce poly on models

[long briar]

2009, 2015, 2023

They renovated from the old style to new in 2016

[polar fern]

Dude should just go back to unethical emerald mining https://www.techopedia.com/news/elon-musks-x-expands-lawsuit-targets-twitch-over-alleged-advertiser-boycott

[lilac bear]

he loves to sue any company over anything

[polar fern]

All dollars, no sense.

[lilac bear]

at least Nintendo is only protective of their IPs

Elon attacks

[sly sand]

How long dose Msi normally take to ship motherboards?

[polar fern]

Muskrat salty because free market rejects his hatecannon platform.

@sly sand directly or 3rd party?

[harsh quartz]

I’ve met plenty of them. They just drive frontiers and rogues, not altimas :)

[sly sand]

Directly

[long briar]

ironically the one altima driver I know who isn't an asshole is also a world class conductor

[runic sierra]

Like I remember half a car sitting through a "broken" wall. We had a gigantic blue shark biting through a wall. We had little burgers as chairs. It was unique, fun, completely separated itself from other places.

Now it feels like games have been doing away with all that. Sparkster? An opossum that fights robot and yellow wolves. Megaman with tech viruses that infect reploids or whatever. Psychonauts? Nuff said. They stood out at their times of release. They were unique and FUN.

[polar fern]

Depends on your location & their inventory & the logistics between the two

[long briar]

he's actually goated though

[harsh quartz]

Like, for a symphony? Or for electricity?

[long briar]

symphony lmao

[runic sierra]

I'm just ranting now. Edible starting to hit I think

[lilac bear]

eat more edibles, they aren't hitting strong enough

[grim belfry]

Basically no hardware vendors will actually directly ship to you. They usually just contract out their vendor.com webshop to one of their distributors

[polar fern]

@long briar Room temperature superconductor?

[runic sierra]

130mg later
👁️ 👄 👁️

[long briar]

I'm going through the streets of the city in 2009 using streetview.... it hits hard...

[runic sierra]

I'm not long for this world. I'm going to space soon.

[long briar]

2009 is debateably the most peaceful year I remember

[runic sierra]

I couldn't. I'd be overcome, lol

[long briar]

it's crazy that people born in 2009 can use discord too

[lilac bear]

the twin towers

[long briar]

that was 2001 not 2009

[runic sierra]

My mother used to work in the shopping area underneath it. My father worked ground zero after the attack (NYPD)

Hell, my aunt worked in the 2nd tower. Literally freaked out and ran for it when the 1st one was hit. (She survived)

Ok....edible is starting I think and I cannot be in a downer mood. I've got 130mg of feelgood in me. I think it's time to listen to some EDM, have a drink, and play in VR, lol

[sacred orchid]

REAL AF

[sacred orchid]

maximas are baste

[runic sierra]

Ok but....1985 Nissan interior.

[sacred orchid]

i was gonna send a clip but i probably shouldnt post driving clips 💀

dont want to pull a mkbhd

[harsh quartz]

This but in red instead

[runic sierra]

Modernize it with LED's. But get them so they can change colour.

Red would be BADASS for night drives.

But a nice amber orange would also be kinda sick

Ok....hair finally cooperating. NOW I go VR.

[upbeat tartan]

hi

[long briar]

my two speedos are both red/orange and it's sick

I do think this colour is best for night drives

[grim belfry]

In my car, everything is red by default, but you can set the ambient lighting on the doors and ceiling to white, but it doesn't change the colour of the speedo or the radio :(

[long briar]

the radio is kinda neutral on bmw

but the rav4 is also orange

[grim belfry]

Very annoying, because 90% of the time I think white would look nicer, but BMW decided fuck you, can't change to colour of all the lights

[languid flint]

Yo so my vibrator

Stopped working randomly any ideas

[long briar]

dead battery

[grim belfry]

Not the place, either

[long briar]

eh, sort of

I won't mention the use, just the electronics behind it

[languid flint]

No not that type of vibrator, uh MASSAGE

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEcjQLZd9p0

[grim belfry]

Massage gun

[long briar]

it's really just a motor of some kind + a battery and some sort of control board

[manic torrent]

I think that might be a VFD, so it wouldn't really work. Most speedos are also white lights behind a coloured dash cluster, so you can't really change them as such

source: customised the dash cluster for my car.

[long briar]

here's the deal, as far as my bmw goes, it's actually redish-orange lights behind a white cluster.

They absolutely could've done customizable colours

actually... it might be a colour filter behind the white to turn white lights into the colour...

[manic torrent]

I bet it is 🙂

[long briar]

not my picture but I lowkey wanna do the LCI retrofit

[grim belfry]

I think that looks way worse

[long briar]

I don't think one is worse than the other

[long briar]

but I'm keeping analogue just because it's nicer to look at in daylight

[full fossil]

Bought a new case.

My Spigen is getting loose so I might aswell invest into higher tier case.

Its a Caudabe Sheath black.

For my lovely iPhone 15 Pro Max

People say that it feels like sandpaper and that’s what I want, consider I game on my phone most of the time.

[gilded quest]

I used to love Spigen but tbh I've been disappointed in the last few cases I got

[full fossil]

I am running Spigen as we speak.

[gilded quest]

Me too

[full fossil]

The ones I like are unfortunately not that decent.

[gilded quest]

I think the competition in their price point has improved quite a bit

[full fossil]

The fit is getting loose and no magsafe for God knows why.

[sacred orchid]

you need to get one of those ultra thin cases

[full fossil]

Fuck no

[gilded quest]

I'm waiting for a Bellroy leather case to be delivered

[sacred orchid]

mines been chillin for like 4 years

[full fossil]

I want something minimalist and gives enough protection

So Caudabe it is.

[sacred orchid]

ive dropped this phone a few times not even a scratch

from a random chinese phone case

[full fossil]

Never dropped mine

[gilded quest]

iPhone users have too many case options

[full fossil]

Too many.

I wanted to try Aramid

If Benks got rid of their metal camera border thing I’d buy it

[gilded quest]

I've been using first party Google cases the last few years but I figured I'd give leather a shot this time

[full fossil]

But yeah. I’ll wait till this case arrives and do a simple comparison

[vast crescent]

Hello

[lilac bear]

Android has fallen

[vapid smelt]

cow killer!

[plush crag]

can someone help me rq.
whenever i plug my kbm, and headset into my mobo all of them become laggy and basically unusable, but i plugged my kbm onto my case and left my headset plugged into my mobo and everything runs js fine now

i don’t have the latest version of BIOS so could that be the issue?

[hearty spear]

Wired or wireless

[plush crag]

wired except my mouse

[vapid smelt]

buy a new pc

[plush crag]

lmfao

@vapid smelt u always hating on me since day 1

[vapid smelt]

i hate all people that dont know how to use the #1027757333117415424 channel

[manic torrent]

I just hate all people

[sour yacht]

it's alive!

first boot

now the scary time...

[vapid smelt]

2009 called they want their monitor back

[sour yacht]

lol. using it as a side monitor

but i need a new monitor. that's my priority rn.

thinking about PG27AQDP, then i can make my current main monitor the side monitor

[vapid smelt]

damn its 2011 no 09

[sour yacht]

my main is asus mg279q

was great on release 😄 one of the earlier 144hz qhd ips monitors

paid like $850 😄

[vapid smelt]

[sour yacht]

pff standoff layout is different from the old mobo :/ gotta rearrange it again.

[cobalt cave]

Hi

[pulsar violet]

been on github for the first time and ts is riddled with AI

[full fossil]

iPhone

[manic torrent]

What?

[pulsar violet]

ik github is a development platform but in the trending section it’s filled with it or when searching for stuff

idk i’m new to it

[manic torrent]

I know what GitHub is, I use it regularly

[pulsar violet]

no no i meant i don’t use it regularly

[chrome olive]

Can I connect one 8-pin connector to an RX 6700 XT?
That's the current config with my GTX 1080 afaik

[manic torrent]

I just don't know what you mean by "riddled with AI". I mean yeah lots of people are doing AI projects but eh

[manic torrent]

... If that's the plugs it has....

[chrome olive]

...that doesn't answer the question...

[manic torrent]

Yes, it does.

[chrome olive]

People online mention daisychaining two cables into one?

Do I need to do that?

[pulsar violet]

just been trying to find cool projects but almost half are AI is basically what i’m getting at in the explore section

[manic torrent]

I don't really "explore" GitHub I guess. I go there for specific projects, or to look for a specific thing to solve a specific problem, etc.

But what is a "cool" project anyway

[pulsar violet]

oh ok i just like to see cool projects that improve QOL like revert Win11 context menu to back to OG context menu, MIXXX DJ deck, all that i run each through VirusTotal though so i try to be as safe as possible with them if its sketch im not downloading

[chrome olive]

"RX 6700 XT draws power from 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin power connector"
"GTX 1080 draws power from 1x 8-pin power connector"
So it won't work with the existing config?

My PSU doesn't have space left for another cable,

plus I don't have spares.

[full fossil]

Tbh for me Github is just a graveyard for research code.

[manic torrent]

Ok, so you're not interested in code. You're looking for applications/etc for yourself.

[pulsar violet]

yes tbf

[chrome olive]

🫡 that image

[chrome olive]

Will it work but at a lower power level if I just use one connector, or will it not work at all?

[manic torrent]

Not at all

[pulsar violet]

ik it’s a development platform i’m not trying to complain just pointing out i see a lot of AI development there in trending and it’s like treading the ocean

[chrome olive]

Fair observation

I'm in the field and AI is everywhere

It's so annoying

[sharp leaf]

I was just saying Epic Games Store has Digital Deluxe Edition for $5

regularly $100

Need to fix your auto bot.

[full fossil]

LTT discord is also filled with people who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Should we complain about it?

Fuck no.

[sharp leaf]

Anyways have a good week ya’ll

[full fossil]

GitHub is a code sharing platform.

So all code goes, even AI.

[pulsar violet]

why are you so defensive i’m just saying that came to mind, i’m not holding a pit fork and torch and protesting

[chrome olive]

god he wasn't really complaining about it just making an observation

[chrome olive]

Exactly what is happening-

[pulsar violet]

i acknowledge what github is for but i felt like stating my observation from my pov

anyways away from that all

[chrome olive]

Don't worry about it, people here get way too defensive and condescending on places like this from my experience.

You ain't doing anything wrong

[pulsar violet]

just felt like bro was coming for my throat, i’m just trying to chill but i get where he is coming from if he’s really passionate about coding

[chrome olive]

You'll find that a lot on public servers, it sucks.

I work in the field and I'm not going ultra defensive on ppl with different interests-

[pulsar violet]

yea i get that, my main interest is exploring different utilities

[fierce moth]

i dont think 64gb was enough for this upgrade

[full fossil]

128gb rn

[fiery abyss]

How does h3vr eat that much ram

[fierce moth]

mods

[fiery abyss]

A bit overkill at that point, no?

[mortal kraken]

252MB/s, what, it's using the disk as memory or

[fierce moth]

i gotta have all the mods

[uneven stirrup]

Holy Molly under full workload the 9800x3d stays at 50-52°C

[fiery abyss]

you got a custom loop for it or?

[uneven stirrup]

Nah

Just an air cooler

[idle nymph]

cold

[fiery abyss]

goddamn

[uneven stirrup]

Not just cold… that’s crazy

AIR COOLED

[fiery abyss]

my 5600X goes to ~45C idle

what air cooler tho

[uneven stirrup]

Bro the i9-14900K idle be like….

[uneven stirrup]

Peerless assassin 120 $32

[idle nymph]

14900k at full power after summoning the darkest pit of hell in your room

[fiery abyss]

Okay yeah thats actually insane

not sure i believe you anymore

[uneven stirrup]

BRO… that cpu runs hotter than the sun

not really… but holy!

[fiery abyss]

My old AMD A8 was the same

though it didnt even need to do anything to basically burst into flames

[uneven stirrup]

But yeah I’ve been testing it in Cinnabench for about 20 minutes now… 52°C

[fiery abyss]

Yeah that is insane

[uneven stirrup]

Props to the 9800x3d you could probably run an Intel stock cooler on it

It only drew max 100ish watts too…

Meh little less let me check

Nevermind 135ish watts… maybe this cooler is just good,.. this isn’t even after the under volting…

[idle nymph]

here come the sun 🎵

[limber dagger]

I guess it's not something that's done in a day, anyway! take the time to make it great

[uneven stirrup]

Bro my laptop chip runs hotter than my desktop chip… my phone chip runs hotter than my desktop chip… that’s just wild

[fiery abyss]

laptops choke all the time and phones only have passive cooling so its kind of an unfair comparison

but yeah still crazy temps

[uneven stirrup]

Ok.. umm my showers run about 114°F or about 5°C less than it on full power

Maybe even after the undervolt it’ll run like 43°C

[pulsar violet]

Idk I'm on the fence nothings wrong with my pc but should I do a fresh windows install I dad one last year around the same time?

ofc data will be backed up

[uneven stirrup]

For my laptop I had to do a clean windows install and a clean bios install… clean drivers and everything… to get rid of a weird stutter in games I played

[pulsar violet]

I don't have any issue tbh just feels icky becuase of registry being filled with stuff thats been uninstalled, havent uninstalled much just yea

[vapid smelt]

dont kink shame laptops

[pulsar violet]

Coopa whats your opinion?

[fiery abyss]

whuh

[vapid smelt]

i do fresh installs every 1 to 2 years

[pulsar violet]

oh ok

will do it after cause don't feel like setting everything up again rn

[tulip river]

new flight sim is shi

shit

gigabit connection "your bandwidth is too low"

[manic torrent]

The bandwidth available for you to download whatever it needs is too low. WHY that is, could be any number of things.

[full fossil]

Eh Imma reset my MacBook it

[royal needle]

hi

pc nerds i need help

[vapid smelt]

why not buy the new m4 macbook?

[fiery abyss]

I just accidentally clicked dont save when i closed ue4

[full fossil]

I use SSH for most of my work so as long as the laptop runs smooth enough I don’t care

Will upgrade to M4 in the future.

[fiery abyss]

I lost so much progress on this project

[full fossil]

And the server I SSH myself to would last me like 5-8 more years on my current workload

[pulsar violet]

would yall say virustotal is reliable? ik common sense is the the most reliable but just asking

[vapid smelt]

i just use windows built in stuff

[pulsar violet]

alr yea, I just use it to scan before executing a file

[tulip river]

all good on my end, server issues since launch

[fossil frost]

so, after committing multiple crimes in his video, rather than actually giving a shit... hes just deleted the the part of the video documenting his crimes saying "it added nothing to the video"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBe3tImmOI legal eagle and their comments on it 🙂

[uneven stirrup]

Womp womp

[tulip river]

damn they finally breaking adblock

nvm lmao

[uneven stirrup]

I hate activate windows watermark ngl

[grim belfry]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-home/dg7gmgf0krt0

[fossil frost]

activate windows then...

also... i like how PopOS say "no... its not just a reskinned ubuntu" and then go on to talk about the only changes they made was to not install default apps and change how it looks https://support.system76.com/articles/difference-between-pop-ubuntu/

[daring depot]

someone paste the gnu+linux copy pasta

[cloud tendon]

hey any recommendations for a car? yeah dude you should buy a Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail . Ooh you can't afford that? Oh well next time state a budget broke boy

[wispy marsh]

Fugo sashimi yum

[cloud tendon]

my budget was around $2500

[wispy marsh]

No electric car for you

Unless it's a Hot Wheels

[smoky badge]

🤮

[wispy marsh]

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

[tranquil jolt]

Can anyone help me with something related to discord ?The voice quality of voice recordings or messages here in discord android app is terrible & also in VCs. Is there any fix for these problems ? Please help

[summer folio]

Pretty high I would say

[obsidian oracle]

vc should have an option to make it higher quality if you have control of the channel

not sure about dms tho

this perhaps

[proud stump]

Huh

[viscid elm]

nice

[summer folio]

they just did

[tranquil jolt]

I mean in general, The voice messages also have terrible quality. If we neglect channels or groups.

[proud stump]

What's Google doing

[obsidian oracle]

that idk, didnt use

[tranquil jolt]

Alright. Thanks for your input

[obsidian oracle]

nw

[proud stump]

Just pre boil your water and freeze it for later

Lol

[meager shell]

https://tenor.com/view/awesome-funny-takgai-san-karakei-jouzu-no-takagi-san-karakei-jozu-no-takgi-san-gif-18318596

but how do you done that ?

[obsidian oracle]

rooting

rotting

[summer folio]

13:37 EU! 🇪🇺

[meager shell]

can confirm. thats true

[smoky badge]

Yes

[uneven stirrup]

Rate the setup?

[meager shell]

... heh. i would wonder how much if any of the LTT staff daily drives linux as their preferred os ?!
i know they had a linux challenge at one point, but that not turned out too good for them...

[meager shell]

i would say... 8.5 / 10
its good to look at.

[uneven stirrup]

I tried Linux for gaming it just wasn’t it… I would get weird graphical glitches or the game would randomly crash

[uneven stirrup]

Thanks!

[proud stump]

Nice

[meager shell]

most games for me run really good. but i have a weird bug in garuda, that my desktop randomly ates all my ram,
and i need to wait 10-20 seconds to go back to normal, only to a hour later it ates my ram again...

[proud stump]

No desk pad tho

[uneven stirrup]

Yummy memory leak

[uneven stirrup]

I wanted to buy one from LTT store dot com… but Black Friday

[proud stump]

Yhea ima get one eventually

My daily

[uneven stirrup]

So I actually had a mouse pad… but it “sucked ass” it would give me rashes on my hand from how sand papery it was

Literally nothing was just better

[proud stump]

I like my cheap five below one stitched edges soft top thick rubber bottom and machine washable

[meager shell]

yeah, but i rather deal with this, than:

• have ads on my desktop
• forced to update in every other day
• an ai screenshot my entire screen in every second
• and be more vulnerable to viruses...

also, since my distro is a rolling release distro, i just hope that one of the updates are gonna fix it.
if not, i just gonna use windows inside a virtual machine... i got used to customization way too much to
return to windows entirely.

[proud stump]

The Corsair one I had sucked

[proud stump]

Yep I like Linux to but I also like game pass

[uneven stirrup]

I had a hyper X mouse pad…

I spent $25 on it and it just feels bad

[obsidian oracle]

lets be real, 3 out of 4 is not real

[uneven stirrup]

Real

[proud stump]

Call me crazy but I like win 11 better than 10

More customizable

[obsidian oracle]

mkay

[meager shell]

wdym ? i might have over dramatized the cons of windows, but these are grounded in reality...

[obsidian oracle]

only the virus part can be real but thats just up to you and your downloading habits

[proud stump]

They are but I have nothing to hide on my gaming PC anyway

[uneven stirrup]

In my 5+ years of running windows and downloading random shit I have not gotten a virus

[full fossil]

On launch I could totally understand the hate around 11, but now its a pretty well put together OS imo

[obsidian oracle]

same

[proud stump]

Windows defender is the goat

[uneven stirrup]

Keep in mind that went through the 14 year old dumb ass me too… so… yeah

[obsidian oracle]

it cant help to anyone if you dont have common sense tho

[meager shell]

sure, but if you make a purchase online, and copilot activates the wrong time, your bank account can be recorded...

[uneven stirrup]

It’s really hard to get a virus… it’s very possible but if you don’t download from those sketch ass links you’ll be fine

[obsidian oracle]

its turned off as default.

[full fossil]

Though, without that rocky launch I wouldn't have finally tried Linux, so pros and cons I guess

[proud stump]

Linux is my daily driver outside gaming

Ubuntu to be exact

[obsidian oracle]

boobuntu

[uneven stirrup]

I did kill a laptop once tho… idk if it was because I downloaded something but I ran Minecraft shaders on it and it bricked it…

[obsidian oracle]

lmfao

[fossil frost]

if you are on a windows for ARM machine, and if its a specific type of windows for arm machine, and if your browser doesnt mask that field, which it should, then yes, it might be captured in a local only screenshot

[obsidian oracle]

most normal laptop behaviour

[proud stump]

I killed a poor hp with running Minecraft without thermal paste

[full fossil]

I got an old laptop from my moms work and put Mint on it, using it now its not half bad tbh

[meager shell]

how do you manage that ? 🙃
when i tried dual booting windows and linux, every windows update reset my linux settings...

[proud stump]

Two different pc

My main is a 6900k and a 980ti

[obsidian oracle]

lol

[proud stump]

Witch drivers are dodgy at best but what u gonna do

[meager shell]

wow... you are a rare people...
i only had an Asus Vivobook laptop for university, thats the computer where i test all distros.
if the distro looks stable, and i like the UI, i install the distro to my main pc,
where i usually encounter some bugs here and there...

[obsidian oracle]

gotta love people quitting conversations they started

been a common thing here

[uneven stirrup]

The specs were a GT-550M and Intel core i5-2430M dual core only 4gb of ram

I tried to use shaders on that poor thing… rip

[fossil frost]

its like throwing a box of wasps into a room full of people and just leaving 😄

[obsidian oracle]

truly

[proud stump]

I7 6th gen 8gigs also the fan had missing blades it's a miracle it lived as long as it did

[uneven stirrup]

I spent like 5 minutes trying to find the specs of the laptop I killed…

[obsidian oracle]

nah wasnt saying to you

referring to that guy shitting on windows with imaginary problems

[meager shell]

you can view my main pc here btw:
#1202941519384936508 message

[uneven stirrup]

Oop yeah

[obsidian oracle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/693228239736275028.webp?size=48&name=MCSenkoGaze

[full fossil]

Sometimes its crazy what things tech can handle and what completely destroys it lol

[obsidian oracle]

some people dont call it magic for no reason

[proud stump]

I don't like laptops everything I need to do on the go I can do on my phone everything else is desktop

I've had only 2 laptops in my life one was a Dell latitude with a gtx 660 and 2400 the other was that hp

[full fossil]

I'm stuck in the middle ground on that, a lot of things I'll do on my phone, but there are times where I'm like "man, I really wish I was on a desktop doing this rn" lol

[proud stump]

I rilly dislike everything about laptops there slower more expensive and have cheap components on them the keyboards are the worst offense and they have typically bad displays unless u spend 1000 plus

[fossil frost]

a desktop is just as shit unless you spend that much too

[proud stump]

I get it if u need it for collage but they ain't good

[full fossil]

That's always been the trade off with laptops. You get a mobile PC, but its not as feature rich as an actual static tower setup.

[proud stump]

5300g and a 6650xt was 700 total I can run circles around a 1000 dollar laptop

[fossil frost]

feels like your only experience with laptops, is with shit laptops

[meager shell]

i only use my phone as a mobile rooter, if i don't have wifi, i can rely on my mobile net,
plus if i need to confirm my purchase in my bank app...

other than these, i use my laptop for everything else.

[fossil frost]

what about the ram, the motherboard, the case, power supply, screen, keyboard, mouse... was all that part of the 700?

[proud stump]

My latitude was a top model of its time

[proud stump]

With every peripheral. Monitors keyboards headsets I'm at a total of like 1300

[fossil frost]

then it cost more than the laptop... not less...

[proud stump]

And my displays are wayy better

[proud stump]

Yhea but that's if I include 2 monitors a desk and 2 keyboards witch are custom and a wireless mouse

If I totaled just the basics it would be under

[full fossil]

I've found Laptops in general to be more convenient than most other mobile tech that isn't a phone. Even tablets, but I see those as giant phones so a little biased there.

[fossil frost]

using your logic, i could say that my phone costs less than your pc, yet is far more powerful than it, because i didnt mention that its plugged into a computer with a 5950x, 64gb of ram and a 6750xt in it... you cant make comparisons unless you make a total and complete comparison.. a laptop gives you everything in 1 place. so you have to compare it to everything, not just a cpu and a gpu

[polar fern]

Hahahaha https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-prosecutors-propose-cure-search-monopoly-2024-11-20/

[proud stump]

Laptops are good if you actually need one like your a reporter/work on the go/your a student/your a scientist in the field otherwise its a overpriced hand warmer with a 16in display

[fossil frost]

all news outlets have taken "google MIGHT get told that they MIGHT have to sell chrome" and turned it into "GOOGLE BEING FORCED TO SELL CHROME TOMORROW!!!" and people are falling for it, because they cant read

[polar fern]

They gotta get rid of the search bar in android

[median idol]

Western Media doing Western Media things

[fossil frost]

again, no, its one of several proposed changes that the DoJ may ask for, same as selling chrome, same as allowing the deals with 3rd parties to push google as the default search engine... they are PROPOSED changes... that still has to go through many years of court dates... what was announced today is the DoJ saying "this is what we want to try and do"... please read things before you spread false information

[full fossil]

Ok, then what would be the alternative for someone like me who wants to use a desktop environment most of the time, but doesn't want to use things like an iPad or DeX

[proud stump]

Fine let's play your game my whole pc in my bio witch is a touch out of date was exactly 1400 dollars so with a laptop with simular specs plus an extra 1440p monitor so that's another 300usd then a mouse another 80 for gpro super light then mose pad 30 and headset 100 we are at 1500 and it's slower than mine and I didn't include a custom keyboard

[fossil frost]

ill correct the statement for you "i personally dont like laptops, but my use case isnt the only use case in the world, and everyone else is free to do what they want because what they do does not affect me at all"...

[fossil frost]

i honestly dont care.. you dont like laptops.. other people do... your opinion is irrelevant to them, they do what they choose to do, same as you do

[proud stump]

I've stated multiple time "I don't like laptops" I never said you had to agree with me

But why buy a less efficient machine for more because it's portable only for 90% of people to leave it on a desk every day

Is all im saying

[fossil frost]

just because thats how you would use it, doesnt mean thats how everyone would use it

[proud stump]

Name one time we're gaming on the go is better on a laptop than a steam deck

For the same price

[fossil frost]

did you know that computers can be used for more than just playing games?

[full fossil]

The same reason people buy an iPad, connect a keyboard and a mouse to it and call it a laptop, it just works for them.

[proud stump]

^
I

I'm talking gaming laptops it's a stupid trend for uninformed people to get sucked into just buy a cheap daily for normal tasks and use a desktop at home

[fossil frost]

you are only just adding "gaming", throughout this conversation, you said "laptop"

[median idol]

https://tenor.com/view/moving-goalposts-ps5-sony-pony-gif-21602444

[proud stump]

Every thing I said was in refrence to gaming

[fossil frost]

you always just said "laptops" not "gaming laptops"

[proud stump]

Why would a normal laptop have a gpu??

[fossil frost]

to display stuff on the screen

[proud stump]

You don't need a 3060 to load emails

[full fossil]

For the average user sure, but gaming laptops offer the power that many other fields of work use, I've met engineers who have Alienware laptops and just run the software for their job, because an XPS just won't cut it lol

[proud stump]

That's why I said scientists, researchers it's good for

[fossil frost]

either way, ill use a personal example, my kids live with me half of the week, and their mum the other half of the week, and spend some weekends with their grandparents... they have their own personal laptops (gaming laptops)... they bring them to my house, they bring them to their mums house, they bring them to their grandmas house... are you saying that im wrong, and i should instead, buy them both 3 desktop setups each, one at mine, one at their mums, one at their grandmas, so they can play their games, because, what they have now is worse than that?

[summer folio]

For the environments sake, it should be illegal to buy a new computer more often than every 10 years

[proud stump]

Fine if you move around as much but most people don't move every week

[fossil frost]

you are changing goal posts again, but again... you never said a 3060, you said "gpu", a GPU can exist as a dGPU or an iGPU, your machine needs one to display stuff..

[full fossil]

Sure, but outside of that you're intentionally ignoring a lot of nuance just to keep up your personal opinion of "laptop bad"

[fossil frost]

but thats not what you said.. you are adding more and more exceptions to your rule of "laptops are shit"

[median idol]

Let it die. It'll be out of its misery soon Enough

[manic torrent]

hahahahahahahahahahhahaa

[proud stump]

Brother gaming PC fucking gaming PC 1000 plus dollar hardware we aren't talking all laptops we aren't talking buying a 400 dollar laptop to do your work we talking using it to play Minecraft

[manic torrent]

I mean, I have a laptop, an egpu, and a gaming rig.

there's no need to be upset

[fossil frost]

you need to be specific then, because your original statement was "laptops are shit", then you changed that, then you used a bad comparison, then you doubled down and changed more rules, and then added exceptions, then dodged questions and added more exceptions and moved the goal posts again...

[manic torrent]

I have two battlestation type setups for myself in my house. One for mostly work, one for mostly not.

[fossil frost]

also, a $400/£400 laptop can play minecraft just fine

[full fossil]

Sorta? like I get what you're saying, but things happen and you need to get a new one maybe 4 years in because its just cheaper to do that than go through a repair process.

[obsidian oracle]

just like 40$ one can too, just the 1.7 version only

[proud stump]

I said I don't like laptops in reference to gaming I think it's fine if you need another for school buy day to day gaming it's not worth a massive price jump for a not worth while to me feature

[manic torrent]

I am very old and don't go to school my dude

[obsidian oracle]

lol

[steel marsh]

some people need laptops for work

[fossil frost]

no reference to gaming, just a generalisation about laptops as a general product....

[median idol]

Damn I wanted a $4K one to play Chip's Challenge, Hoover, and 3D Pinball Space Cadet in 8K with RTX

[obsidian oracle]

laptops go vroom, literally

[proud stump]

To repeat so you understand I Don't Like "gaming" laptops

[proud stump]

Any laptop is slow at gaming

[full fossil]

Is this a "I was only joking" moment?

[fossil frost]

incorrect

[obsidian oracle]

are you not able to do a simple google search?

[proud stump]

Unless u spend twice asmuch

[obsidian oracle]

these people man

atleast dont reverse out

[steel marsh]

can't fix stupid

[fossil frost]

my kids have £400 laptops... they run minecraft and OBS to stream to twitch at 1080@60, every night... my oldest also plays fortnite and EAFC24 while streaming too...

[proud stump]

Blud find a laptop that is 700 bucks with a ryzen 5600x a rx 6650xt and 32gigs ram 2tb of ssd for 1000 bucks then we talk

[smoky badge]

[manic torrent]

carry your desktop to the couch and do some emails, then we talk 😄

[fossil frost]

build me a PC that has a monitor, keyboard, mouse, case, psu, and that same spec for the same price, and then ill bother to look

[full fossil]

You gave two completely different price points wtf

[proud stump]

IPhone exists

[steel marsh]

try and watch a movie on your desktop on the sofa

[proud stump]

In my bio

So shut

[manic torrent]

lol, I love how you say iphone and not just phone.

[median idol]

https://tenor.com/view/perfect-popcorn-michael-jackson-gif-26271837

[steel marsh]

as ive said, can't fix stupid.

[proud stump]

Lol I don't even use ios

[manic torrent]

my laptop literally has a desktop 6600XT in an egpu

[proud stump]

How much

[fossil frost]

i like how everyone is telling them they are wrong, yet they are continuing to double down

[manic torrent]

I bought the egpu thing ages ago for $150 AUD

[full fossil]

I think at this point, it can be a quadruple down

[manic torrent]

It only required significant modification to fit the 6600XT 😄

[proud stump]

For the 5th fucking time I don't like laptops

I don't care what you think

I don't like them

[fossil frost]

which is fine, but the bullshit you spouted about them, isnt... you are deliberately spreading your own incorrect opinion about laptops as fact

[steel marsh]

i think random in gaming in hd also tested a mini pc that comes ex gpu dock with it

[manic torrent]

"portable computers are so stupid man, who would want to bring a computer somewhere else easily"

[median idol]

https://youtu.be/DGHcX0YTPKw?si=xbX3DkbMarVPjIEk
I need this in my life

[steel marsh]

it was beelink gti12 ultra with ex gpu doc

[proud stump]

Still waiting for that 1000 dollars ryzen 5600x rx 6650xt 32gig ram 2tb ssd

[steel marsh]

its a mini pc that plugs into a gpu

[manic torrent]

boom. Gaming.

[fossil frost]

its $1087, without the GPU and PSU being counted into it, so ill add another 400 for those, which is now almost $1500

[proud stump]

Who is going outside into nature on a walk and saying man I share wish I could sit in public at a coffee shop to play bo6 zombies

[fossil frost]

im waiting for the same thing from a desktop, yours costs $1500 in your bio

[manic torrent]

boom. Working from the hospital.

[steel marsh]

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-ex-docking-station beelink sells these plus you can use them with their mini pcs

[full fossil]

Idk why, but how you have the second monitor setup is kinda funny to me

[proud stump]

Here it is

[steel marsh]

it has a built in 600w psu

[steel marsh]

so you can do stuff like this

[manic torrent]

I was just testing it there, I wasn't actually using it

[proud stump]

There is my 1440p 200fps 1400 dollar rig

[fossil frost]

irrelevant... the $1100 price shown in PC part picker, isnt correct... because...

[fossil frost]

but you said it was $1000

[full fossil]

Just it being on a stick is what got me lol

[fossil frost]

goal posts moving again?

[polar fern]

@steel marsh ?

[steel marsh]

?

[proud stump]

I bought used and new parts that's specs only

[polar fern]

Wrong tag breh

[manic torrent]

yeah because it's a portable monitor that's mounted on an extendable monopod 😄

[steel marsh]

oh

[polar fern]

😎

[steel marsh]

i mean they have moved goal posts are out of the stadium at this point and into the parking lot

[fossil frost]

im pretty sure they are starting to interfere with different sports now 😄

[polar fern]

In any case, on mastodon, there was a good thread on the Google doj ruling

[proud stump]

You know what I think il move this conversation to my 24in side monitor bc I didn't spend 1000 bucks for a 16in display

[median idol]

Parking lot....? More like the interstate

[polar fern]

Trying to find it.

[full fossil]

I think we're down main street at this point

[steel marsh]

lol

ye

[fossil frost]

initial finding.. not ruling... nothing has been decided on yet, this is going to take 10s of years

[manic torrent]

I will leave this conversation on my 48" 4k screen because I'm not povo 😉

[proud stump]

I know a 48in was not in a 1400 dollar budget

[manic torrent]

hence "not povo"

this screen is the entire budget and more

[proud stump]

Yhea I'm the poor with a house huh

[polar fern]

@fossil frost sure. But the thread was incredibly insightful.

[steel marsh]

i have g7 i bought years ago

[polar fern]

Anyways, back to sleep

[steel marsh]

im just running that until it dies

[fossil frost]

if you find it, send it, would be interesting to read if theres somebody with meaningful commentary on it.. otherwise, ill wait fo legal eagle to do a video 😄

[full fossil]

16in display, $420 US at Walmart

Why'd that get a weed emote lmao

[manic torrent]

yeah but you'll never be truly happy like crawfishman, with his jank cobbled together 80s themed wood panel setup

[proud stump]

I got no issue with normal dailys to write emails and watch YouTube

[fossil frost]

$1500/£1500 laptop that would CRUSH the spec in that PC part picker list: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/asus-vivobook-s-16-s5606ma-15.6-laptop-intel-core-ultra-9-1-tb-ssd-black-10266743.html and thats just the first one i found

better screen too

[manic torrent]

"guys big monitor arm is ripping you off, I used an old book, and you can too!"

[proud stump]

Womp womp bro what color is your 7 cars

[full fossil]

Truly, I am not living in the future

[manic torrent]

white

[proud stump]

The hood of my car is worth more than your apartment

[manic torrent]

... I don't care

it doesn't make your PC any less jank

[viscid elm]

Ye

[full fossil]

"I wasted money on cars I never drive, checkmate random discord user!"

[proud stump]

My shit is clean as fuck you just don't like anything that isn't covered in acoustic panels and dark Grey paint

[manic torrent]

.... clean as fuck?

[fossil frost]

<@&750150305383186585> clearly just being a troll now

[proud stump]

Bro womp womp you got all but hurt bc I said I don't like your opinion

[manic torrent]

I mean you're genuinely a contenter for shitty battlestations

[full fossil]

All this just because he couldn't say he doesn't personally like laptops, but sees their use for other people. Had to make blanket statements and just double down like crazy

[proud stump]

Yhea share bucko just keep making those minimum payments

[manic torrent]

You have strong divorced energy

[proud stump]

I don't like gaming laptops

[median idol]

[fossil frost]

or a child, who is taking photos of his dads stuff, pretending to be an adult

[manic torrent]

yeah, basically the same thing 😄

[proud stump]

Happily married with 2 kids unlike @fossil frost

Divorced ass

[manic torrent]

I'd probably book in some couples counselling pre-emptively

[vapid moss]

you mustn't see too many apartments then

[fossil frost]

i have 3 kids... and im married... so yeah, its different in that i have more kids 🙂

[full fossil]

Now we got a mod clowning on him, this is great

[proud stump]

You said they live separately

[fossil frost]

@vapid moss , since you are here, could you have a word about the personal attacks ?

[viscid elm]

Tbh it might be a case on both sides

[proud stump]

You guys brought married status into this

[fossil frost]

i have 2 kids with my ex wife, and an extra one with my new wife... if you must know...

[manic torrent]

this might shock you but I don't live in an apartment

[fossil frost]

i said you were acting like a child

[manic torrent]

and ... I don't even live in the US

[summer folio]

I'm also divorced, divorced gang!

[manic torrent]

problem solvered

[median idol]

What a circus act

[full fossil]

Imagine going to a class in hopes that you can learn CUDA but in reality it doesn’t happen and now your final project is to do a technical (and code) comparison between PyTorch and CUDA

Eh time to get my old C knowledge some work ig.

[viscid elm]

Welp he is muted now

[full fossil]

Anyways, this has gotten kinda boring, y'all think google will sell? feel like they'll get their best lawyers to bury that idea

[manic torrent]

uhhhh, pytorch is an entirely different thing to CUDA

[summer folio]

Surely they will

[full fossil]

Yeah. The thing is, we’re trying to do a simple comparison of doing everything in CUDA vs PyTorch. A PhD Professor I am in contact asks for both and I was thinking, eh, what’s the difference?

[fossil frost]

i think they are an american company, and with the incoming government, there is no chance this is actually gonna happen with the sort of things that government wants to happen

[full fossil]

So I’ll just do some simple stuff

[fossil frost]

somebody at google will end up with a slightly lighter wallet, and this case will go away

[manic torrent]

ok, so you are comparing tasks that can be done using pytorch with doing the same thing in lower level CUDA directly

[full fossil]

Hes

[full fossil]

Exactly

[manic torrent]

I mean, isn't that just re-writing pytorch with extra steps

[full fossil]

And the level of difficulty/code required, also runtime speed and performance.

[full fossil]

If I did this my Professor will give me A+ so I can’t deny

[full fossil]

Bury it or sell? I think they'll bury it, no way they'll let Chrome go

[manic torrent]

ok bed time for idiots who stayed up too late

[full fossil]

Folding my shit rn

(Laundry)

[summer folio]

Maybe they can force Apple to seperate from their app store while their at it.
Give it to Epic instead

[full fossil]

While listening to a definitely manly song fr

[obsidian oracle]

[fossil frost]

that is also going to completely go away, Timmy C is friends with Donny T

[full fossil]

But yeah. The project is supposed to be me ANSWERING my own question with enough justification to do so, because I won’t do shit out of the blue.

They're reasoning for Chrome to be sold is surface level at best imo. Its like making microsoft sell windows because linux doesn't have a lot of market share. A lot of these competing browsers are Chrome under the hood and they still can't get people. Sounds like a problem for those browsers imo

[manic torrent]

any kind of corporate limits are gone. Shit gun be crazy

[full fossil]

I hear powershell has sudo now rofl

[distant maple]

Ltt at home:

[fossil frost]

yeah, has done for a while now, and before that, it had runas, which was effectively the same thing

[full fossil]

couldn't that confuse a system and lead to a vm escape ?

if both were running powershell

just a though

thought

[magic hazel]

yo

[full fossil]

oi

good morning

[obsidian oracle]

wut the heell

[idle nymph]

slam dunked

[idle nymph]

why are nice cars always owned by assholes

[fossil frost]

nice people own nice cars too, but they dont shove them into peoples faces to try and make a point that nobody asked them to make... arseholes just force them into your face

[full fossil]

bc hot girls are crazy

Wallpaper

[full fossil]

And why does assholes on the road always drive a Nissan Altima

Or some shit idk

why is that ford just sitting on the road

oh nvm

[summer folio]

Nisse kinda means gnome in swedish

So I just find it funny

[full fossil]

I wonder what kernel the tesla uses

Corn kernel

window nt perhaps

[idle nymph]

i dont get it

[idle nymph]

cause they paid a grand for it and dgaf about it

[full fossil]

same

Anyway im visiting TSMC’s museum tomorrow

[idle nymph]

meaning theyll drive like crazy

[full fossil]

Like a rental,

heh

[idle nymph]

nah

youre carefull with a rental or deposit is gone

a beater you got for cheap ?

go crazy

[full fossil]

wait so if i rent cars i get better credit bet

[idle nymph]

thats why you'll see most bad french drivers in a beat down clio or 306

[idle nymph]

what

[full fossil]

Peugeot

[idle nymph]

french power 🔥 break down after 60 000km

[full fossil]

The magnificent French build quality is when the door handles breaks off.

The English build quality is when the whole door falls off.

[idle nymph]

and the engine kill itself for some reason

[full fossil]

Nah it won’t because the engines are not made in the UK.

Or designed by the English

Like Noble. The engine is from Volvo and built by Yamaha

Or Lotus. The engine is from Toyota

That’s why the engine won’t kill itself. The rest will.

[fair estuary]

^

[full fossil]

TVR? The company is dead already.

Land Rover engines are made by Ford since 2012

Rolls Royce? BMW

[obsidian oracle]

meanwhile rolls royce making plane engines

or whatever their engine is called

[full fossil]

Rolls Royce aviation and the car is different.

[obsidian oracle]

it has same name, close enough

[full fossil]

They also make power units for focused laser weapon for the military

[obsidian oracle]

lol

[full fossil]

I should buy Rolls Royce for retirement

Not because of it being a luxury item. I want to support the creation of death laser. Powered by Rolls Royce.

[idle nymph]

Land rover :

or was it range rover ?

[full fossil]

Land Rover engines are made by ford since 2012

[idle nymph]

completely forgot which one is the unreliable one

[full fossil]

Land Rover is the brand Range Rover is the car name

[idle nymph]

oh

[fossil frost]

Modern Landrovers are just BMW SUV's... all their offroad ability has long since been thrown away.... now they are just used to drive through fences and murder children, and protect the people who drive them from prosecution. also if you see a white one.. its a drug dealer... 100%

[idle nymph]

ah fuck both of those

fat ass suvs who fucking suck

[full fossil]

Its a BMW SUV. Except the defender.

[idle nymph]

children eraser 9000

[fossil frost]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzy0e2kyro Pamela Hayden has retired from the simpsons.. (Milhouse, Rod, Todd and others)

[summer folio]

Why is american car drivers like this

"In Sweden, a total of 204 people were killed in reported traffic accidents in 2020. In terms of mortality rate, there were 20 road fatalities per million inhabitants"

[fossil frost]

i was on about the woman in the uk who drove through a school while on her phone and killed 2 girls https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy4w6lqp4lo but claimed that she had an epeleptic siezure, even though she had never had epelepsy before then, or since then, and has not had her driving licence taken off her, or gone to jail, or even paid a fine

[harsh quartz]

That’s all I think when I see these too

[fossil frost]

she just carelessly and wrecklessly killed 2 girls and injured 13 more... and shrugged it off

[summer folio]

Well, you should not be allowed to drive vehicles if you have epelepsia

[harsh quartz]

I actually never knew the brand name wasn’t just Range Rover.

[idle nymph]

i fucking hate big cars

[summer folio]

So, while Sweden has 20 deaths per 1 million capita
USA have have 129 deaths per 1 million capita, from cars

[fossil frost]

you cant, once diagnosed... you are required to have been on medication for it for 2 years, and to have not had a seizure for 2 years, before you are allowed to re-take your driving test... she never had epilepsy before that moment, and doesnt have it now... she had it just then, in that moment... apparently

[harsh quartz]

My grandmother, who scared me in a Toyota Avalon, has bought a Lexus SUV in recent years. It’s a 3 row car that can easily fit like 9 people. It’s just her in it 90% of the time. It’s fuckin massive and it scares the fuck outta me when she drives it

[idle nymph]

i fucking hate those so badly

please dont let yall grandparents buy suvs

[harsh quartz]

I like my small-midsize suvs, but the big ones are ridiculous

A midsize SUV realistically isn’t much bigger than a hatchback sedan, or a station wagon

[idle nymph]

its still higher usually

[harsh quartz]

I do like sitting higher :)

[idle nymph]

which is a pain in the ass when you drive and those fuckers turn on that high beam

[idle nymph]

mfs be casting blindness upon me

[idle nymph]

mhm

[harsh quartz]

I don’t turn on auto-brightness, I make sure I have my high beams well controlled, but I’m not the tallest one on the road and usually trucks flashbang me in the middle of the night

[idle nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[fossil frost]

the Prius and Insight are VERY VERY common Taxi's, so are driven much much more.. so even with these stats being based on a per 100,000... those cars are very over represented on the UK roads, and driven by people who think they have more of a right over the road, or path, or anywhere that is outside, than anyone else... and drive like it too... 3rd car that causes the most deaths... is not a taxi, and is the real #1 with people who are not taxi drivers...

[summer folio]

I usually angle my side mirrors to blind the person having their lights too high behind me, but that obviously doesn't work for oncoming traffic

Maybe have a mirror you can put in your windshield.

[harsh quartz]

Here it’s funny cause cop will absolutely grab you if you have your bright on

[idle nymph]

I CAST REFLECTION ahhhh move

[harsh quartz]

My grandmother (the one in the big fuckin SUV) got a ticket last year cause her “auto” lights didn’t turn off her high beams in time and a cop grabbed her. I just cannot have sympathy for that

[idle nymph]

my grandpa might drive an suv

but he barely use it, so overall its fine

[harsh quartz]

Small-midsize are fine. Yukons, tahoes, navigators, and whatever else the fuck off huge ones are named need to be illegal

Like rav4, crv, rogues, those are fine IMO

[idle nymph]

he drive a 3008

i still hate SUVs but its fine

[summer folio]

That's the thing, you're supposed to switch off high beams, before you blind the other person, not after the computer feels like detecting you're already actively blinding the other person lmao

[harsh quartz]

I’d say that’s a midsize, it’s fine. Same size as a rogue it looks like

[fossil frost]

but how are people supposed to compensate for having small... whatever... if they cant buy a massive car and endanger people?

[summer folio]

Doesn't Tesla have high beam on as standard btw?

[idle nymph]

small confidence ? they need to work on themselves /j

[harsh quartz]

Tesla should not be the bar of comparison

[idle nymph]

still fuck them SUVs

[summer folio]

Also, pretty sure they usually have the "normal" light angled too high

Also LED is effing blinding anyways

[idle nymph]

im scared

i have a driving elesson in 10 minutes

[harsh quartz]

Na, midsize ones are fine, so long as they have good vision and few blind spots. I drove a Nissan juke one time and the whole car was a blind spot

[idle nymph]

it has been snowing for the past 4 hour

[harsh quartz]

Snow :) Ice :(

[idle nymph]

at least its a fwd car ig

[fossil frost]

law in the uk is a max of 55W... but 55W of LED is FAR brigher than 55W of halogen...

law is about to get changed to lumens...

[harsh quartz]

Couldn’t be me (AWD)

[idle nymph]

i feel like that wouldnt help me at all 💀 im actually a dogshit driver

[harsh quartz]

I love Toyotas AWD system

[summer folio]

Since I'm blinded anyways when meeting LED cars
I sometimes just don't turn off my high beams

Atleast we are both blinded now & I can see alittle bit.

[idle nymph]

beam clash dragon ball move

[harsh quartz]

Driving lessons as a concept are wild to me

[idle nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/dragon-ball-zz-dbs-dbz-gif-23712958

[idle nymph]

how tf are you supposed to learn otherwise ?

[harsh quartz]

With a family member in a parking lot. Or grow up driving a gokart

Or on back country roads on a Saturday morning :p

[fossil frost]

several of my friends grand parents were of the age where they were in the army in the 40s, and got their driving licence by being told to move some vehicle, and that was their qualification done 😄

[idle nymph]

sound like driving lessons are safer lol

they teach you basics then you finish learning driving with your parents

[summer folio]

I did, after many blockade of roundabout traffic, learn how to start old grandpas Volvo 850 car. Needed just the right amount of gas when releasing the clutch for the engine not to die

[fossil frost]

was literally "move that truck" "i dont have a driving licence sir" "move that truck and ill sort that out" moves truck "here is your licence"

[idle nymph]

when u get a learner

[harsh quartz]

We had a gokart growing up, and we would take it on developing backroads where cops never cared. I learned most road laws that way, but it did give me one habit that everyone tells me is really bad

[idle nymph]

fascinating

i know a guy who's examinator was drunk on the day of the exam, he had to do 4 right turns and got it

[idle nymph]

france 🇫🇷

[harsh quartz]

Yeah. My parents taught me basics in parking lots, then finished on country backroads. Then put me on the interstate to see if I’d panic :p

[fossil frost]

a friend of mine rolled the car during his test... he did not pass

[idle nymph]

that sound pretty unsafe damn

[idle nymph]

i couldnt roll a car if i tried to

[harsh quartz]

I’m a better driver than most the people around here :p

[summer folio]

I went to trucker gymnasium.
So when I had barely learned to start a manual clutch car.
I was behind the wheels of a semi-truck

[idle nymph]

french basics are actually crazy tho

[summer folio]

Almost flattened a teacher

[fossil frost]

he attempted a 90 degree left turn without slowing down, slid into the field next to the road, wheel dug into the ground and rolled the car over

[idle nymph]

what every driver say 🔥

[idle nymph]

funny, did he get out safe tho ?

[harsh quartz]

Yeah except actually cause the bar for the driving test here is so fuckin low

[idle nymph]

oh be right back gotta go, driving time

[summer folio]

Don't forget to check that all lights are working on the car before driving away

[harsh quartz]

Rolling a SUV is super easy

I can feel her wanting to roll when I take an interstate exit even a little too quick

[summer folio]

rolling a car, like pushing it instead of driving it?

[fossil frost]

both he and the examiner got out after they had got over the "wtf just happened".. my friend said the first thing the examiner said was "well mr [name]... i assume you are aware that is a fail"

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/car-spin-gif-10741554

[summer folio]

I usually manually move the car when changing parking lots.
You waste less gas when you push the car, instead of starting it.

[summer folio]

Oh, you meant tipping/flipping the car, how even?

[fossil frost]

i once drove almost all winter before realising both main front light bulbs had gone (hard to say when they went, but, didnt notice until my dad pointed it out one night when i was picking him up from the airport)... but it made me think back to all the times over that winter people flashed their lights at me, which after realising my lights were out... meant that my lights were not working 😄

[fossil frost]

he, as a 17 year old, thought he was a better driver than he was

he failed 2 more times after that, before passing on the 4th attempt

[summer folio]

Maybe it was the roads fault, too high speed limit.

[fossil frost]

30mph, with several signs saying "DANGEROUS CORNER", and all the other various road markings telling you to slow down or you might die

[summer folio]

Gotcha

[harsh quartz]

How do you just… Not realize you don’t have lights?

[summer folio]

I think maybe he had positional lights still working

Thats different bulbs

[fossil frost]

all the roads are fully lit up with street lights... even in the middle of the night, you rarely notice if they are on or off

[harsh quartz]

That makes more sense. I’m used to country driving, where if you don’t have headlights, you don’t see :p

[summer folio]

There is also fog lights

[harsh quartz]

Not even close to the same

[summer folio]

Not even sure how you turn those on ngl

[harsh quartz]

With the fog lamp switch?

[summer folio]

aint nobody got time to find that switch

[fossil frost]

current car has bulb sensors... so if a bulb does die.. i get a dashboard warning to tell me, so its harder to ignore them now 😄

[summer folio]

I'm bussy changing the radio station

[harsh quartz]

Deer are my sensors, if I can’t see that deer 100 feet out, time to replace the bulb :p

I actually had one jump in front of my last night, came within about 5 feet of my car, luckily I had slowed enough to brake and not hit it

[summer folio]

In Sweden the guidelines is you're supposed to do a safety controll before every use of the car

So check if every bulb is working etc.

[harsh quartz]

Yeah yeah, you technically supposed to here as well. No one has time for that

[fossil frost]

its the same in the uk.. you are SUPPOSED to do it, but nobody ever does it, other than that one time you HAVE To do it when taking your test

[gilded quest]

Oh that's nice

[summer folio]

Yet, when the cops stop me because 1 of my lights are out, I have always checked all lights are working before driving

Funny how that works out

[gilded quest]

How are you supposed to verify brake lights if you don't have anyone else with you

[harsh quartz]

The equipment here is to check your lights but also its how they test your car knowledge. If you don’t know how to put the hazards on, you haven’t had enough experience for a license

[harsh quartz]

Throw it in reverse, hope out?

[fossil frost]

have a wall behind you, press brake, look for light on wall

[gilded quest]

What if I live in the middle of a flat field with no walls

[summer folio]

You don't have the mandatory BrickTM with you when driving?!?

[gilded quest]

No I don't own a brick

[harsh quartz]

“Oh shit, wrong pedal”

[fossil frost]

press brake, exit the car and get to the back of the car, faster than the speed of light

[gilded quest]

Why haven't I thought of this

I just need to run faster

[summer folio]

Surely the handbrake should light up the break lights

[harsh quartz]

Why run when you could just leave your physical form instead?

[fossil frost]

handbrake and foot brake lights are different lights

[summer folio]

meh, flawd design

[harsh quartz]

Handbrake as in parking brake?

[summer folio]

yah, brake is brake

[fossil frost]

yeah

[idle nymph]

I'm back so uhh

[idle nymph]

Wrong day 💀

[harsh quartz]

Doesn’t have a light in mine. Other than the light on the dash reminding me to disengage it before driving off

[summer folio]

I usually get reminded a bit further down the road, "why is it going so slow"

[fossil frost]

technically mine is an "electronic parking brake".. so i dont have to ever take it off, i just start driving and it takes its self off... i have to put it back on... but it takes its self off

[idle nymph]

Driving is next Thursday not today

[fossil frost]

do donuts at the end, it will impress the examiner

[harsh quartz]

Nope hate that. Would not trust that.

[summer folio]

You drive automatic?

[idle nymph]

Bet

[fossil frost]

noope, manual, but it has an electronic brake.. with a button that i can press to turn it on, or off

[fossil frost]

its effectively a real hand brake, with a button connected to a motor that winds the cable on or off

[harsh quartz]

I drive automatic but still have a physical parking brake

[summer folio]

When I went to driving school. They teached, if your car dies on the railroad passage. You're supposed to put it in 1st gear & use the start motor to get it off the tracks

[harsh quartz]

Don’t care. Don’t like it. Don’t trust it. It’s like how I don’t want a push button prindle

[summer folio]

But when I owned an automatic, it didn't allow you to start the car on 1st gear.

[fossil frost]

we were taught "get out"... the train will survive hitting your car... you wont

[harsh quartz]

I was just taught don’t park on a railroad

[fossil frost]

i was taught that too, its more, if your car just happens to cut out on a crossing

[harsh quartz]

For an automatic to do that in an unrecoverable way would be such a wild fuckin set of circumstances

[fossil frost]

if the electrics go, you have no way of getting it out of drive and into neutral, or pulling the clutch... so any electrical failure would lock it up completely

automatics are (these days), manual cars, with a robot where the gear stick is supposed to be... and the robot does the work for you

[smoky badge]

L

[harsh quartz]

Brakes should still work, if you see yourself drifting. But still, you have to have the electrical system die, while drifting directly towards a railroad, on flat ground, and then stop exactly on the crossing

It’s a very niche scenario, especially since, around here at least, most RR crossings are raised, so I think it’d be very difficult to drift onto one

[stray violet]

hi

[hasty needle]

Reddit is down part 2

[fossil frost]

if its locked in gear though, makes no difference if the brakes are on or off

[summer folio]

Nooo, not reddit-sama!

[harsh quartz]

We got a call yesterday about computer not loading chrome correctly. It was loading a saved profile that was going to the Reddit disconnect screen cause they had made their homepage the Reddit homepage

[fossil frost]

disconnect everything, pack it into a box, and throw it away... they clearly cannot handle owning a computer

[harsh quartz]

This was an employee. At a company. They make their work computer profile this way.

[fossil frost]

my statement still stands

[harsh quartz]

Tbf I think it was a different user that had already been fired. And the person who inherited the computer never changed it

And that’s why they didn’t know what was happening. Was still really funny though

[fossil frost]

then they should also be fired for being that stupid

[harsh quartz]

These are medical professional, they can’t be asked to know how a basic computer function works

[idle nymph]

nowaday if you have a job you should know how a computer work

[red willow]

I need to contact a mod is there a place I can open a ticket

[harsh quartz]

You would think, but nope. Not even close

[harsh quartz]

<@&750150305383186585>

[red willow]

Thx

[idle nymph]

im saying we need to uhh

teach everyone who use computers how they work

[red willow]

Please dm me I believe I have a scammer in my DMs

[harsh quartz]

Computer literacy should 100% still be a class, now more than ever

[red willow]

Whose from this server

[idle nymph]

we have that in france

[sage quiver]

Hey! Feel free to shoot me a DM.

[mossy compass]

Definitely so