public-chat

[rustic tundra]

lg better give us a 27 4k woled

[white pawn]

2018 is when the 2080 was released 😛

[civic fox]

mine is a 1080ti

[vapid smelt]

2018 is when i graduated high school

[white pawn]

i have two systems running 1070TIs from 2017 myself

[rustic tundra]

1080ti is from 2017

thats 8 years ago

[harsh quartz]

What the fuck does that sink want again?

[bitter harbor]

Try a gt 710. I believe they are still making them for some unknown reason.

[vapid smelt]

why not one machine running sli 1070tis

[civic fox]

yes it is but it works well for me

[rustic tundra]

i think my 4080s will do a few years

[white pawn]

cause they are both doing different things 🙂 and honestly, sli really was never as good as the hype

[bitter harbor]

4080s 👀

[vapid smelt]

wonder if any games made in 2024 supported dual gpus

[rustic tundra]

si

i am a 4k gamer

[white pawn]

id be surprised, hardly any games ever supported it

[rustic tundra]

with dlss

[strong kettle]

mines in a box 💀

im using my 2060 super instead rn

[vapid smelt]

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_SLI

[bitter harbor]

And that eye tracking so you will always stare at the camera

[white pawn]

depending on the price, i will either end up with one of the Arc cards that has been leaked with 24GB of Ram or a 5000 series card, just so i don't have to upgrade it for a few years due to ram limitations

[obsidian oracle]

uh oh

time to trick gpu scores by running 4x sli

[white pawn]

so, 220ish games out of the thousands released 😛

i think the biggest detriment to SLI was the fact that the games had to be made to be compatible, the drivers didn't just take care of it themselves and present like a single card to the game

if that had been the case, i think SLI would have been a LOT more mainstream and popular

[vapid smelt]

Apex Legends supports sli? wtf

[white pawn]

i saw that LOL

[full fossil]

GTX 1080Ti

[white pawn]

F1 2020 also does

[graceful burrow]

source engine, there was probably already code to build off for it

[white pawn]

GTA 5 does, which for some reason strikes me as hilarious

[graceful burrow]

not that it needs it kek

[south skiff]

Qould it be fine to move my boot drive with all my data from my old pc to a new one, I'm changing from amd gpu to nvidia, and amd cpu to intel so idk

[graceful burrow]

it's recommended to reinstall windows when changing platforms to avoid drivers attempting to load for hardware that isnt there, causing instabilities

[vapid smelt]

damn a handfull of 2021 games support sli

[white pawn]

it MIGHT be ok, but it would definitely be better to reinstall. you are WAY more likely to get a lotta crashes if you just pop the old install in the new system

[south skiff]

Would.it.be better to.move everything to the new drive, or use the old one as a second drive

[fossil frost]

likely built on engines that supported SLI much earlier than 2021, and the code just wasnt removed from the engine, so they support it by accident, rather than on purpose

[white pawn]

but, that very thing is why i recommend the OS+Programs on one drive data on a separate one, so you can reinstall and not lose anything 🙂 (I'm actually a fan of 3 drives in a system, OS and programs on a 256GB NVME, Games on a separate NVME and a spinning rust for data storage

[south skiff]

What

[white pawn]

i'd bet thats the case. the sheer amount of old code in things is incredible sometimes, when the base framework was reused from an earlier thing

[vapid smelt]

hmm i wonder if SLI 1080ti would work with fsr

[civic fox]

i mean FSR works for it but albeit FSR looks like crap

[vapid smelt]

google ai says sli no worki with fsr

[pallid falcon]

Google ai also said your not cute, but i can confirm that's a load of bullshit. So.. it's not always right :3

[vapid smelt]

bing AI says that your are hot is that a good source

[pallid falcon]

[harsh quartz]

https://youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY?si=jZI0K8OYDkE9potv

[vapid smelt]

you cant sue food

[stone cosmos]

real

[harsh quartz]

Man fuck them bees

(Please don’t actually)

[stone cosmos]

#LetTheBeesDie

[pallid falcon]

uhjj

What if I already did

[south skiff]

What cpu cooler fo you think would be good for a i5 13600kf?

[harsh quartz]

Especially you 👀

[stone cosmos]

[south skiff]

Will be put under load, no overclocking though

[viscid elm]

KNEW IT

[harsh quartz]

Tbf it was already announced

[viscid elm]

do you already have it or are on lga 1700?

[harsh quartz]

It’s just now in video form

[summer folio]

Am getting shorts about regular bee honey now

[viscid elm]

ye

[pallid falcon]

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MFvD4D/id-cooling-frozn-a620-pro-se-58-cfm-cpu-cooler-frozn-a620-pro-se https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hYxRsY/thermalright-peerless-assassin-120-se-6617-cfm-cpu-cooler-pa120-se-d3

[south skiff]

Are you asking if I have the cpu yet?

If so, no i do not

[stone cosmos]

so true

[south skiff]

But the mobo I've picked is lga1700

[viscid elm]

are you making a new pc?

[south skiff]

Yes

[viscid elm]

have you bought anything yet?

[south skiff]

No

[viscid elm]

if possible i would look at going am5

are you in the US?

[south skiff]

I just chose intel over am5

I'm not from US

[viscid elm]

what lead up to that?

[south skiff]

Cores

[viscid elm]

what do you do?

[potent cedar]

which country are you in

[south skiff]

The best am5 i could get for my budget had 6 cores, best intel has 14

I'm aus

[potent cedar]

those fourteen cores are not the same

[graceful burrow]

how many are real cores and how many are stinky cores though lol

[viscid elm]

e-waste cores

[south skiff]

From what I've researched the intel does better in what I'm using it for

[potent cedar]

6+8 lol
so better multithread but worse singlethread

[fringe lance]

i have 4 ecores and they run amazing

[south skiff]

Benchmarks

[viscid elm]

i5 has 6 cores that are used for the game when gaming

[potent cedar]

what are you using it for though

[viscid elm]

what website did you use?

[south skiff]

3d modelling

[viscid elm]

that is a bit more fair

[south skiff]

Yeah

[fringe lance]

but 4 extra for background

[potent cedar]

12700kf available ?

[viscid elm]

but 3D modeling tends to not be as havey on the cpu

[graceful burrow]

information to give at the very very beginning that would have avoided all of this:

[south skiff]

Apologies

[viscid elm]

what program and how advanced?

[south skiff]

Blender, some inventor autodesk. Been doing it for 3 and a half years maybe?

Blender that is

Actually both

[stone cosmos]

peak life too, they smash and then pass (onto the next realm)

[south skiff]

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/D8DzPJ
For reference here is my build at the moment. The cpu cooler was chosen by someone else

[stone cosmos]

genuinely can't think of a better existence lmao

[hybrid echo]

Bro

I took a break from this server came back to see this bs

[vital oak]

lian li a3 is cool

[stone cosmos]

you are very welcome

[south skiff]

Ikr

[pallid falcon]

Hm?

[vital oak]

i have one at my desk, i love it

[hybrid echo]

Yo what

[south skiff]

Sick

[hybrid echo]

I almost got banned from saying that

[south skiff]

Window kit or mesh side panel?

[vital oak]

i’ll probably be swapping it out for an early 2000s beige box though, whatever i can get my hands on

[bitter harbor]

We use in these parts

[vital oak]

mesh

[south skiff]

Ah

[stone cosmos]

nuh uh

[south skiff]

I'm considering glass side

[stone cosmos]

may the great kekw war begin

[strange elk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/754462889942974524.webp?size=48&name=kekyou

[stone cosmos]

[strange elk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1225438579627528265.webp?size=48&name=kekwait

[south skiff]

Do you guys think it's worth it to cool a i5 13600kf with an aio

[stone cosmos]

[civic fox]

lmao what the heck

[bitter geode]

I have an extra evga aio,but idk what to do with it. Decoration or sell

[graceful burrow]

if you just let it sit, it'll eventually become unusable on its own

so if you're alright with that go ham

[bitter geode]

I got no ideas with decoration with extra pc parts

[obsidian oracle]

just grind a few cpus down and sparkle their dust onto the gpu's back

without the backplate

gpu might die 0.5 seconds after you do that but it will look shinier than ever!

[bitter geode]

I got the cpus to do that

I have like 6, 5 5500

[obsidian oracle]

wth

trying to craft another cpu or what, go sell em

[bitter geode]

No one ever buys them and i put them up for like 60$

[obsidian oracle]

thats a lot

i see used 5600x for 79$ thats a lot a lot for 5500

just put it for like 5$ below the local market average and get rid of them quickly, its only gonna be an obsession overtime

[bitter geode]

I guess ill put em up for 40

I need moeny

[obsidian oracle]

40 works too if its close to their value near u

still gonna take good time to sell tho, thats for sure

[bitter geode]

I also got like 2 7600

I get all these things for like 10$ each

[obsidian oracle]

lol

[pallid falcon]

Why do you have that many

[obsidian oracle]

snacks

[pallid falcon]

Can I eat one

[bitter geode]

Got 6 for 20$

[obsidian oracle]

for the price of dead weight even, yummy

just delid and sell the ihs ezpz

[bitter geode]

Everything i buy i test and it all works

[obsidian oracle]

oh yeah those fuckers are the cpus with pins, its risky to buy even if you buy single one that was previously in use

ur lucky to have all working ig

[bitter geode]

I trust mt stuff

I did sell the 7800xt i got for 100$ for 400

[obsidian oracle]

damn

u should have enough money for an used 4090 by now

[bitter geode]

I like my current pc

[obsidian oracle]

atleast a very cursed one for like $1k with nasty coil whine

[pallid falcon]

Can I feed them to my protogen

[bitter geode]

No,but heres ram

[obsidian oracle]

they only digest ram

[pallid falcon]

Thank yoy

[obsidian oracle]

do not feed them cpu

they will shit it right out untouched

[south skiff]

Is buying an 11 dollar 128gb nvme as a boot and program drive worth it

[graceful burrow]

if you dont mind it failing earlier than other drives sure

[vapid smelt]

now the 1tb model is $99

[silk island]

no.

[dire hill]

My pc stuck on a loading screen for 10 mins

[white pawn]

MS trying to remove wordpad 😛

[south skiff]

Why are some people mean when people ask pc questions that seem easy to answer for one person, when the other person is just confused

Not in the this chat, a different pc youtuber discord

[graceful burrow]

Tired of answering the same questions over and over

People posting the same question to multiple channels

[south skiff]

I was asking questions about boot drives 😭

[graceful burrow]

Indignancy to learn is another reason

[white pawn]

some people just don't like it when other people are genuine is my thinking

like, they take you not knowing something as a weakness

[south skiff]

Legit

[weak night]

Seeing the article say catch-22 made me laugh.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241112-00/?p=110507

[south skiff]

They remind me of people who say the best choice of something is the super expensive option even when youve expressed your budget and there are definitely other options

[white pawn]

yeah, or the people who will jump on you cause you dared to point out a flaw in their favorite company/brand/game/whatever

[south skiff]

Broooo ong

[white pawn]

i have a rule, when my ignore/block list on a server gets above a certain number, i just give up on it. i went from 0 to leaving the server once cause i mentioned that in the Gears of War series the headshot mechanic was very RNG instead of actual skill 😛 like, i;m sorry, but if im hitting the same spot, why does it sometimes take 20 rounds, and others take 2 for the headshot?

[south skiff]

Lmao

[white pawn]

i got private messages of people spewing hate at me for like a month after i left the server even LOL

[south skiff]

A guy essentially called me a toddler when explaining an answer to my problem 😭😭

[south skiff]

Loll

[south skiff]

Guess what server

[graceful burrow]

Interserver drama is lame :/

[weak night]

Why does chat move so quickly?

[graceful burrow]

It just causes drama here which is uncool

[south skiff]

Mb, I'm just tryna make convo and have a laugh about people who are mean for no reason

[graceful burrow]

This chat is quite slow right now soo

[white pawn]

yikes, thats so bizarre, like, don;t answer if ya don't want to

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-chat-cat-fall-hello-chat-cat-gif-24961178

[graceful burrow]

I wish this gif didn't loop

[white pawn]

this chat moves SLOOOOW, and right now its almost glacial

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/goodbye-chat-cat-cat-rise-cat-jump-gif-790403686475706815

[white pawn]

yeah, it loses some of the effect cause of the loop, i agree

can't wait till this compile is complete, then i can fire up my Mister and see if my mods for the AO486 core work 🙂

[wispy marsh]

Apple is flawed but i like them

[harsh quartz]

Apple is flawed but I like some of their products

[south skiff]

Apple is flawed and i don't like any of their products

Actually scrap that

The old ipods and ipod touch

They're good

[noble gazelle]

TO LTT TEAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H4sScCB1cY

[graceful burrow]

bold of you assume any of them actively read chat or care lol
ltt dropped honey in 2022 and gave their reasons why

[white pawn]

when the Ipod came out, i had a Pocket Concert from Intel(it was a 128Mb MP3 player) so the first ipods were a step backwards 😛 pity intel shuttered the division that made those so quickly

[winged spire]

youre telling me when an organization actually VETS their sponsors these things dont happen?

who could have guessed

[south skiff]

Loll

Anyone know a good cheap argb and fan hub with at least 5 fan support?

[white pawn]

i should say, that while yes, the Ipod was 5gb, the requirement that in order to use it i had to buy a mac"cause that was the only way to get music on them" was insane. made that 400?(i think thats what it was?) bucks into more like 2 grand or so

[south skiff]

It needed a mac??

[white pawn]

Lian li has their fan linked thingies with the hub built in don't they? and i wanna say someone else has something like that, but i can't remember

saw em in passing in microcenter the other day

[white pawn]

yeah, it required a mac

[south skiff]

My dad had a ipod and I do not recall every having a mac

[south skiff]

Built into the case?

[white pawn]

if i recall they dropped that requirement really fast

[south skiff]

Ah I see

[white pawn]

built into the fans i wanna say

[south skiff]

Ohh

[white pawn]

found em, yeah, hub is built in https://lian-li.com/product/uni-fan-sl/

[white pawn]

so, they released the first ipod in 2001, by mid 2002 the mac requirement had been dropped.

[south skiff]

What if I choose different fans? Aren't those extremelyyyy expensive

[white pawn]

umm, 25ish bucks a piece it looks like, so actually not bad at all

i remember seeing some on the shelf that were like 54 a pop

of course, i remember when you could buy 6 good fans for 25 bucks 😛

[south skiff]

You can get 3 packs of like thermaltake fans for 25

Getting 6 of the lian li fans would cost more than my mobo

[white pawn]

yeah, but compared to the ones like noctua or be quiet even, are they any good?

[south skiff]

I have coolermaster ones in my current build and they're perfectly fine

[lyric sphinx]

Just go buy a 20 dollar box fan and make it your side cover

[white pawn]

i'm not a huge "My computer must be SILENT!!!!!" freak, but i also don;t want it sounds like a runway at an international airport 🙂

[south skiff]

11 dollars each

[south skiff]

You can't hear them really

[south skiff]

The lian lis are louder on the online specs lol

[white pawn]

my wife on the other hand has informed me that we need to replace her video card, because with the new fans she got with her computer upgrade, her video card is now loud enough she can hear it 😛

[south skiff]

Almost same rpm aswel

[white pawn]

i just knew they had their own RGB and hub built in 🙂

[south skiff]

Ik 🙂

[lyric sphinx]

Tell her to suck it up buttercup

[south skiff]

I don't rlly mind if they're a little loud, I'll be wearing headphones won't I? Lol

[fringe lance]

Wjat gpu?

[white pawn]

i think the last time i genuinely looked at anyting lian li, Antec was still basicallyt he king of cases

[south skiff]

Is it a ventus

?

[white pawn]

shes still running a 1660TI cause she refused to let me upgrade her when i bought my 3060 12gb

[south skiff]

What manufacturer

[lyric sphinx]

Man my antec sonada was awesome

Well she could use an upgrade but it's going to be louder

[white pawn]

oh, umm, ya know, i can't remember. it was a Windforce. whoever makes those

[fringe lance]

Get anything with 12 or more vram if your running 1440p

[south skiff]

Is that gigabyte?

[fringe lance]

Mine uses 12gb on ultra

[south skiff]

Yep

[white pawn]

i think so? LOL i really havent looked at it other than to yank it outta her old case and put it in the new one when i upgraded her processor mobo and ram

[vast bone]

apple is flawed but i like almost all of their products

[harsh quartz]

Almost all is wild

[south skiff]

60 hrz phones 💀

[white pawn]

to give you an idea, i bought us both one when they came out. so , however long that has been, these were day of release purchases

[vast bone]

i hate their tv box and the chonky mac thats it

[south skiff]

Why do people like Apple phones so much?

[harsh quartz]

Vision Pro?

[white pawn]

we are both currently running low response time 1080 120hz monitors.

[vast bone]

it's cool, it has a bad price tag

[unreal turtle]

hi

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-17846010580840355600

[sage quiver]

and very little content

[vast bone]

i like the dystopian look

[white pawn]

do you remember the absolute shitfit everyone had about the windows 8 start menu? Apple has not significantly changed the user experience on their phones since they released the first one, unless they were dragged kicking and screaming into making the changes

[vast bone]

and the very very comfy strap

oculus and vive should learn from apple

[sage quiver]

Gesture navigation has entered the chat

[graceful burrow]

why
oculus is doing fine lol

htc is likely building deckard for valve

[vast bone]

they have the worst straps

[sage quiver]

The Apple strap sucks

[graceful burrow]

eh, mine's fine

[sage quiver]

Some sleep apnea machine company made a better one I hear

Which makes a lot of sense lol

[white pawn]

oh, i wasn't talking about that crap, i was literally only speaking to the start menu, that suddenly everyone "Did everything in" but you couldn't actually get them to tell you what "everything" was

[sage quiver]

I was just talking about Apple

[white pawn]

the gesture based crap needed to never be put anywhere near a desktp pc

[harsh quartz]

And a crack down the middle

[white pawn]

ooh, i thought you were talking about the windows 8 gesture crap MS foisted on everyone LOL

[vast bone]

isn't that HTC's dream and ambition in life?

[strange elk]

Oculus straps are the worst

[sage quiver]

Haha those were interesting times

[vast bone]

yes, someone that agrees with me

[harsh quartz]

I can’t believe htc is still surviving

[strange elk]

I mean the rift S one was fine but it wasnt durable at all, and still wasnt that balanced

[sage quiver]

I had an original Surface Pro.. piece of crap

[harsh quartz]

I had a more recent surface pro for work. It was also a piece of crap.

[white pawn]

I love how they were all "Everyone will have touch screens in the near future!" and there we were in 2024, and when i bought my laptop i couldn't find a single one with a discreet GPU that had a touch screen

[vast bone]

i had an htc phone, i have the htc vive (the first one)

[sage quiver]

They took how many years to adopt USB-C?

[strange elk]

Im using an OG vive strap on my quest 2 rn lmao

[sage quiver]

sUrFaCe CoNnEcToR

[vast bone]

vive strap is honestly mediocre

[white pawn]

i have a 6, my wife ha a 7, the really odd thing is, hers has a fastrer processor, but worse graphics than mine, ms was really strange about em

[vast bone]

it's better than the oculus tho

[sage quiver]

The surface is an identity crisis

[strange elk]

Its the best Ive used so far. Not worried about it breaking and leagues comfier than the default quest strap. I have the DAS but its not as comfortable to me, especially lying down

[white pawn]

have you seen the new ones? they are ALL ARM systems

[vast bone]

apparently the surface pro 7 is vastly different than the surface pro 7+ one came out in 2018 the other in 2021

[sage quiver]

They started that way too, no? Surface RT.

[white pawn]

yeah, you'd have thought they would learn not to put all their eggs in one basket

[sage quiver]

ARM windows machines make sense now with the strides MS and Qualcomm have made. But tablet laptops are still dumb.

[graceful burrow]

if only microsoft truly cared

[sage quiver]

Ha, the OG ran a tegra

[harsh quartz]

If they’re gonna have the keyboard be detachable, just make it a little bit heavier to put some fuckin IO in it

[alpine gale]

Oh but they do care... about money. Pools of money. Like all publicly traded companies. 🤣

[harsh quartz]

But the surface keyboard is a keyboard. That’s it. It has like 1 thing of IO. It’s abysmal

[white pawn]

that is my biggest problem with them. even for work purposes they are severely lacking in IO. of course, that can be said for just about any companies "Thinnest and lightest" obssession lines

[sage quiver]

One of them had a GPU in the keyboard, right? Or am I confusing it with something else.

The surface book I think?

Which is not the surface laptop

[graceful burrow]

they really should work on windows for arm then lmao

[white pawn]

yeah, the surface book

[harsh quartz]

I think that was a different one? They might’ve tried that. And there’s the new Lenovo one that has a full different Linux computer in the keyboard, which is dumb

[strange elk]

The Apple method

[white pawn]

talka bout a schizophrenic device

[graceful burrow]

i truly think arm is the future but the software is not there

[sage quiver]

MacBooks have solid IO now tbh

[strange elk]

iPads are more what I was referencing

[sage quiver]

Although my controversial opinion is that I’d rather have another USB-C port instead of MagSafe or the SD slot

HDMI has come in handy a few times tho

[harsh quartz]

Dedicated sd slot instead of another usbc is wild

[sage quiver]

People were begging for it

[white pawn]

i still have quite a few things that use USB A

[strange elk]

But on iPHONES damnit

[white pawn]

i admit im on the side of laptops should have an SD card reader

[harsh quartz]

I just don’t get that. You’re likely gonna have a dock anyway, and most docks have sd card readers. Just use that.

[sage quiver]

People begged for MagSafe too and I hardly see anyone using it

[strange elk]

At least "studio" oriented ones, like macbooks.

[sage quiver]

Since we all bought docks for the previous gen lol

[white pawn]

i think i have known 3 people with docks in 30 years of it, and all of them were back in the 90s

[bitter harbor]

I have a thinkpad and it is a cut above. Full size Ethernet, usb a, thunderbolt 4, hdmi and an sd card slot and that is off the top of my head.

[white pawn]

oh, i think thats one thing apple is absolutely on the nose about. magsafe means my dog/cat/klid can't grab the cable and break the connector off in the port

[strange elk]

Magsafe was more in demand when we had no better options, like USB C

[sage quiver]

You’re the target user then, I suppose :P

[white pawn]

my lenovo is pretty simila, 2 usb C, a USB A, HDMI and full size ethernet and an SD slot

[harsh quartz]

I count USBc hubs as docks

[white pawn]

oh, i personally have never had a cable broken off in the port. but i have probably fixed a couple hundred or so devices for people who have

[graceful burrow]

mac's transition to arm was very elegant

[sage quiver]

I don’t love USB-C either. I think it’s a mechanically dubious port, not to mention the total mess the standard is electrically. But it’s far and away better than just about every other USB connector. I just wish it had a latch.

[graceful burrow]

i want an m1 so bad

[manic torrent]

You absoluytely do not need ethernet on a laptop. That is a stupid port to put in a laptop in 2025

[bitter harbor]

On that thought, you never realize how often it is easier to use a track point as opposed to a trackpad until you have it

[white pawn]

the amount of times i have had to solder on new jacks for usc ports and power plugs, i could have made it a career

[harsh quartz]

It’s locked down anyways, a little more restriction isn’t gonna be noticed

[white pawn]

this is very true

[strange elk]

My dualsense usb c port is finally wearing out. Even had strain relief for much of the time.

[graceful burrow]

i wouldnt use it for anything wacky

[sage quiver]

I love my ARM MacBook. I’ve never owned a laptop that’s felt so fresh this far into owning it.

[bitter harbor]

You don’t know crap WiFi and that is all I’ll say.

[graceful burrow]

battery still crazy good?

[white pawn]

it needs a latch, and about 2mm more thicknes so it isn't so fragile

[manic torrent]

I do, it's a stupid port on a laptop.

[vapid smelt]

but its so old now it came out in 2020

[graceful burrow]

how much power does that chip even use

[harsh quartz]

It’s not like going from Linux or windows, where your supposed to have like 100% compatibility

[sage quiver]

You know it.

Though I have an M1 Max

[graceful burrow]

THIRTY-NINE WATTS FULL TILT?

[manic torrent]

If a laptop needs wired ethernet, you should be using a dock.

[white pawn]

yup, magsafe doesn't kill the plugs or the ports. it's seriously a genius idea

[sage quiver]

Which means giant battery but more consumption

[graceful burrow]

😩

[harsh quartz]

If Apple can do that with 1 arm wait till they find out most people have 2

[strange elk]

Fair but I need the cable to transmit data in this case

[graceful burrow]

the performance you get outta those measley watts is insane tbh

even for an m1

lightbulbs used to take more power

now those too take fuck all

[sage quiver]

If M1 had launched with 16GB base, it would’ve been endgame for home use. Easy 10+ years of service.

[harsh quartz]

Still do if you’re a dungeon dweller and like to use incandescent like some people. (Me)

[strange elk]

Its clearly not perfect but USB C is my favorite connector in general now.

[sage quiver]

Now that the new Mac minis start at 16GB though 👀

[white pawn]

if i setup a wifi network, one of the first things i do is disable wireless admin. use a cable or you can't get access. such a simple security measure, but very powerful

[strange elk]

Hmm..

[white pawn]

and of course, my favorite spot to sit and play games on my laptop happens to be right around 160 feet from the back wall of my house, which puts it 3 walls+one full brick wall and 190ish feet from my router

[manic torrent]

what?

[bitter harbor]

I am in college and at times, the WiFi is unworkable when I need to study so I have an Ethernet cable in my backpack

[white pawn]

so i have a REALLY long cable i buried in a conduit 🙂

[graceful burrow]

realistically if i wanted to do something with a computer im gonna be able to do something with a computer
if there's a way to do it someone's likely already found out and posted it on github, gitlab, or stackoverflow

[white pawn]

yup, gotta love when the wifi channels are oversaturated at someplace but you are getting GREAT speed cause you packed a cable 😛

[graceful burrow]

i can read complex instructions lol

i'm an above average user

and below average at being modest

[white pawn]

hey, we read instructions at all, makes us more than above average LOL

[strange elk]

Im an idiot and my attention span is tiny so I kinda just dive into stuff

Fix it as I go

sometimes get advice but more often than not I figure it out first

[manic torrent]

and having a dongle attached to that cable would be untenable!

[graceful burrow]

my ego is huge and im a flaunter

[manic torrent]

99.9999% of laptops are either never plugged into ethernet at all, or are plugged in to ethernet at a desk with a dock

[vast bone]

real except my dell it does both

[bitter harbor]

Then I am the .0001%

[manic torrent]

yes, that's my point

[vast bone]

oh wait we are....... we are nerds?

[bitter harbor]

Ok Thor

[manic torrent]

my point is that 8p8c ethernet has no business being on a laptop in 2025

[white pawn]

don't bother, if he doesn't agree with you, no matter what you say, you will be wrong in hardware bobs eye's. regardless of reality in fact. I blocked him for this very reason, but discord's idea of blocking appears to be "I blocked you so i have to do extra work to see your message, but you can see mine just fine"

[strange elk]

Telegrams is worse tbf

I can see you and you can see me but you cant dm

[vapid smelt]

are you Russian

[strange elk]

tf

lmao

[manic torrent]

I mean, I'm right, so ipso facto disagreeing with me is by definition, wrong.

[white pawn]

nahh, if ya block someone on discord, you can't see what they say unless you click a button to unhide their commments. meanwhile, nothing changes on their side

[vast bone]

hardwarebob never loses in arguments, he has some really special training

[manic torrent]

You are however, entirely correct about discords blocking system, it's a huge pile of garbage.

[strange elk]

Yeah I know. At least that way they cant bother you with pings anyway if so they decide to

Also I know who not to take seriously for the most part

[white pawn]

well, he lost the right to my attention a long time ago 🙂 personally, i prefer the blocking method of "I blocked you, so you disappear from my universe and can never interact with anything related to me again" but discord appears to take a much lighter stance on it 🙂

[vapid smelt]

kirashi smells bad

[white pawn]

oooh, 93% compiled! I'm so excited and impatient 🙂

[vast bone]

twitter is changing to be more like discord's approach to blocking

[vapid smelt]

we dont have twitter anymore

[strange elk]

enter minors on twitter because they cant read

[vast bone]

G

i hearby name Twitter/X G

[manic torrent]

Why do people hate on me because I am right almost all the time? It is a burden I must bear.

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/opinion-gif-20772593

[bitter harbor]

https://a.co/d/i8noDHR

[white pawn]

i quit using twitter the day my feed went from mostly tech related stuff to a bunch of anti prechristian and a certain national party from back in the day posts

[manic torrent]

The irony of deadnaming an elon service is hilarious

[alpine gale]

https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-fart-gif-12386137

[graceful burrow]

bob you need this hat

[strange elk]

Well Im learning nobody likes a know it all

[graceful burrow]

that's so fuckin good

[strange elk]

So theres at least that

[manic torrent]

I do

[manic torrent]

This is true, however the balance online is slightly different, because the context is different.

[vast bone]

me too it's showing me racism against my own race lol

[strange elk]

Ill at least give you part of that

[manic torrent]

what the fuck is prechristian

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/so-true-gif-24068595

[white pawn]

that's easily in my top 5 of favorite movies of all time

[sage quiver]

Based.

[white pawn]

OMG does anyone have a progress bar speed increaser? LOL this compile is killing me!

[sage quiver]

Where’s that one XKCD

[strange elk]

https://tenor.com/view/download-failed-download-failed-fairy-croker-gif-7744005

[sage quiver]

Or was it not an XKCD

[vapid smelt]

did you see it in theaters when it came out?

[fringe lance]

Get a faster cpu

[vast bone]

elderberries don't smell that bad tho

[graceful burrow]

turn your computer monitor sideways

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/life-hack-gif-26243651

[alpine gale]

They do... when they're made of skunk paste!

[foggy flame]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-it-have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again-telephone-on-call-gif-15495555

[bitter harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-embed-fail-embed-discord-embed-gif-embed-gif-21924703

[white pawn]

i wasn't born yet, unfortunately, but i did get to see it when they put it on at a theatre near me in 03

[strange elk]

gex

[foggy flame]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-hahah-nelson-simpsons-haha-laugh-gif-12400026

[bitter harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/embed-no-no-embed-megamind-megamind-meme-gif-25261934

[white pawn]

i think if i upgrade my CPU before i get my wife a new video card, waiting for a compile to finish will not be a worry of mine 🙂

[vast bone]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-epic-embed-success-epic-embed-win-epic-embed-gif-25367395

[white pawn]

and honestly, i don't think that there's anything that would significantly speed up this compile short of serious server hardware

i'm just all exited and nervous to see if the modification i made to an FPGA core will make it work better, since the last few i did noticeably improved the performance

[vapid smelt]

my cat is eating my Hawaiian rolls now

[south skiff]

https://www.centrecom.com.au/antec-argb-and-pwm-fan-controller?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAj9m7BhD1ARIsANsIIvCxf14tmoa3w2VoFp9StDaRN6u_72SlMyQPjm3rmfhVC0Ir-_W8oTkaAofQEALw_wcB

I can't find something like this on pc parts picker is it good?

[white pawn]

ooh, hawaiian rolls are soo good

[vapid smelt]

i got them on the discount rack 24 for $2.80

[vapid smelt]

it is on sale

[white pawn]

i have no need for a processor that expensive LOL

[queen abyss]

Hi, i am trying to sell a gaming pc on facebook but nobody wants it. I honestly just want to not lose money at this point. got any tips?

[vapid smelt]

part it out

[queen abyss]

?

wdym

[vapid smelt]

sell it by component not as a built pc

[queen abyss]

oh

ok

[graceful burrow]

got a nas already?

[queen abyss]

no

[graceful burrow]

you do now

[queen abyss]

here is the listing though

[vapid smelt]

dont send it

[queen abyss]

huh

[queen abyss]

ok?

[white pawn]

okiedoke, time for some little ceasars crazy bread and papa johns cheese sauce 😛

[vapid smelt]

i think its a crime to mix those

[white pawn]

you have obviously never tried it. i have yet to meet anyone who has that didn't like it(and many that thought it would be awful before they did)

and if you happen to be the first person i've talked to who tries it an doesn't like it, well, that make you pretty unique 🙂

[wary phoenix]

Is it bad I mostly use my ltt screwdriver as a fidget toy and pretending to do counter strike weapon animations?

[white pawn]

dunno, is it bad that i deliberately bought the stubby to use as a fidget toy with no intention of ever using it as a tool? 🙂

[vapid smelt]

why buy a $70 screwdriver if you dont screw often with it?

[wary phoenix]

It was a Christmas present :3

[white pawn]

that said, i have the og with a black shaft, andi use it every single day, either in tinkering with electronics or woodworking(i am NOT a fan of nails)

[wary phoenix]

lol

[vapid smelt]

nails are great you fuck up a swing and now you have a bent nail!

[wary phoenix]

Don’t get me wrong I do use mine and fairly often, weekly I’d say, but I mostly use it as a fidget lol

[white pawn]

my "retro" one is in the console of my car in case i need one when im not at my house 🙂

[white pawn]

hammers are loud 😛

if im gonna make noise, ill use a power tool

[manic torrent]

That is actually the primary use case

[wary phoenix]

W

[white pawn]

we have a neighbor who basically has everyone in the neighborhood totally sick of him. hes a retired dude in his 80s who regularly yells at people for making any noise past about 5pm because "It's too late for all that racket!"" but of course, you also shouldn't make any noise before about noon because "You're gonna wake up the wrong person one of these days!"

so i absolutely have learned to LOVE the particularly loud sound of my Shopsmith starting up 🙂

[fringe lance]

Dw you'll be his age sooner than you know and understand why he's upset when you get there yourself

[vapid smelt]

how dare you make noise before dinner time!

[white pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p3Z8HnIXj80 i did something akin to this the other day, he decided that because my dog, who was inside my house, barked when my wife opened the door while he was out walking, she needs "surgery to make her bark quiet"

[pliant karma]

dealing with that but someone in their 60s. Everyone too is sick of him. Once he threatened someone with a weapon but me seeing on camera had enough evidence to call police. Did not end well for him in that instance.

[white pawn]

so i cut wood for about 5 hours straight. started out as a 4x8 sheet of splywood, ended up as basically really long chopsticks

in my back yard, about 10 feet from the fenceline. i pulled my shopsmith outta my shed so there was NO muffling

[white pawn]

yeah, i got him thrown in jail a few years back, he was throwing ground beef at my dogs with something in it

[vapid smelt]

and sawdust is not good for your longs so being outside is good

[white pawn]

turns out it was just cheapshit syrup, but the cops informed him that he was lucky they weren't showing up to a murder scene

[pliant karma]

oh and he was charged too recently, abusing emergency services for nonsense calls 🙂

[white pawn]

then they took him to jail 🙂 he was there 60 wonderful days

[white pawn]

yup, our neighborhood idiot has been cited for that too, i think twice this year

er, last year

happy new year folks! 🙂

[vapid smelt]

you should have left a note on his door complaining about his over grown yard on the 59th day

[white pawn]

oh, the city did that for him, it was awesome, they came in at around 40 days, mowed his lawn with this industrial mower that uses chains for blades(it tore shit UP!) and then charge him 200 bucks, and then, the day he got out, they showed up and did it again LOL

[vapid smelt]

[white pawn]

we all know all of the code enforcement folks by first name

they've been to our houses so many times now that i know of at least 3 other coupls who just invite them in for drinks and a snack and shoot the shit with em for an hour or so each time

our neighborhood is great in that there's no HOA, but, the first house was built in 58, and the last one in 67, so theres a split between the original owners that still live here (most of whom are related, cause the entire area was at one point a farm) and the people who have bought their way in. 2021 the buyers really outnumbered the originals

[vapid smelt]

HOAs make me cringe

[white pawn]

so i THINK there's 8 left, might be 9. all the rest of the like, 40 houses are people who bought in

[white pawn]

i was my one absolute requirement when we looked at houses to buy, no HOA

turns out, HOA homes are cheaper cause no one wants to live with an HOA

[pliant karma]

ohh damn you warship welp I got another word I cannot say haha

[white pawn]

LOL yeah, and the list is really strange of what gets warshipped

[pliant karma]

anyways yea the wife is really chill, just the husband being the problem.

Just how he is

[white pawn]

yeah, we have a set of 3 houses we call the "Cat Morons"

nothin wrong with cats, i don't personally want one, but to each their own

but these 3 dumbfucks will "rescue" 10-15 cats a year, and release them "to be free like the law allows"

in a neighborhood where nearly every other yard has at least one 60+ pound dog in it

animal control literally has a note up at the front desk of the local office that says to ignore any calls from our neighborhood regarding cats

[pliant karma]

We have 5 cats roaming but they're strays. Neutered and taken care of by everyone, keeps down the rat/mice infestation lol

[white pawn]

oh, we have a couple cats that ALL the dogs seem cool with. one of them like to sleep on my husky/aussie shepherd mix for some reason

[vapid smelt]

i feed the stray cats at my work in the warehouse area

[white pawn]

but most of em? the dogs just eat em or tear em apart when they get in the fences

aaand this is why people block you. there are millions of stray cats in china

so, some indication of humor BEFORE ya get called out would probably help in the future 🙂

[white pawn]

when i worked for Sharp-Nissin in their warehouse, we used to feed the cats. was the best part of the day hangin out with them. but we also made sure they were spayed/neutered and pitched in together to keep em up in flea and tick treatments as best as possible

[vapid smelt]

they run from me 😦 i feed them dry/wet food and the mice i catch at work

[white pawn]

nice 🙂

yeah, it can take a while to get their trust

our manager was fanatical about wanting to be able to pet every cat he saw LOL it was fairly hilarious

that was the job that made me never want to own a projector TV LOL and it wasn't for anything specifically about the TV, one just happened to fall on me, and at the time i was like "well i didn't like you anyway!" 🙂

umm, rear projection i should clarify

but, i went into IT after that, and it worked out really well

high value treats are the thing if you want em to come to you

[vapid smelt]

its been 2 months 😦 i even made them 2 cat houses in the field with plastic and microwave boxes

[white pawn]

there were a couple stray dogs out near one of the places i worked, i found the best thing was Nutter Butters 🙂 bacon works really well on cats

ya get the little baggies of bacon bits and give em little bits outta it

[vapid smelt]

i should drug them with cat nip

[white pawn]

LOL have you seen the videos online of the people who gave like 10 cats all the catnip they wanted for a day?

[vapid smelt]

that sounds hellish

[white pawn]

if ya ever wanna see a cat that is visibly processing the world in slow motion, that video is for you

[pliant karma]

catnip soup the cat drugs.

[white pawn]

it was like if they got cats to act the way all the old people think pot smokers behave

when i was a kid, we were told to not smoke pot cause it would kill our reflexes and make us slower than everyone else, and just lay around on the couch doing nothing all day cause everything would be too fast

its exactly what these cats looked like

apparently they went super hyper insane for like 3 hours, and then just went into zombie mode

[wary phoenix]

Planning on trying mixed reality headset I got for free on a pc with a 1050 that was free, recommend me some games lmaooo

[white pawn]

does it like put up a "screen" in your vision that the game would be on, or do you want actual MR games?

[wary phoenix]

MR games or steam VR games. Ig oculus two cause I’m fairly sure revive works but I have no idea lmao, would happily try it for science tho

[white pawn]

well, freeland VR is awesome if ya like MMOs, i can't remember if they have a free demo or not(i think they do tho)

also, Superhot is really fun in VR

[dusty dove]

im so pumped 😝

[white pawn]

whacha pumped about?

[dusty dove]

we're going to CES!

[white pawn]

niiiice!

Class, take out your sharpie markers and color me jealous, ok?

[dusty dove]

lol i waited a whole dam year for this shit.. since last year

[vapid smelt]

dam is for rivers damn is for swearing

[dusty dove]

and im paying a kidney for my room + board since im not being send by anyone

the price of the trip is more than my pc with 7900xt that i upgraded my pc earlier this year from

[white pawn]

Hi, and welcome to the Hoover Dam, on the right you'll see the dam thru the windows, on the left is the dam gift shop. don't forget to get all your dam photos before you leave! Have a wonderful Dam day!

yes, it's actually what the tour guide was supposed to say in the 80s to mid 90s(possibly later, but i never went back after the 90s)

also, don't ever be a tourguide as a summer job at a national landmark. IT customers are EASY comparatively

[dusty dove]

tour guide sounds fun

some people can't sit still for a desk job

[white pawn]

it was, for about 3 tours the first day(they lasted about 45 minutes and we got a break of 15 between)

[dusty dove]

that doesnt sound too bad

[white pawn]

i apparently had a great first shift, since no one complained my first 3 tours.

[vapid smelt]

did you ever go into the pill boxes/ gun look outs

[white pawn]

oh yeah, the job itself isn't bad, its the parents freaking out at you cause of the "dam" jokes, like you wrote em, or whatever elsde they could find to actually scream at you about

[white pawn]

there were two that we could go into that were open, but not to the public, and if i recall, there were 3 that were rotated among for the public to go into, but they got shut down later

[vapid smelt]

i bet the mad parents are from utah

[dusty dove]

it's always the parents

[white pawn]

oh, they were from everywhere

poor little johhny had just never head anything like that foul language in his life! (hear it in a super thick southern twang)

meanwhile, the kid is tossing off F-bombs every time the parents are more than 5 feet away

[dusty dove]

little johnny prob heard it long time ago on twitch or whatever youtube stream

Of course not when the parents are around

[white pawn]

the last day of the job i finally yelled at a bunch of parents that if their kids hadn't heard every single cussword i knew by the time they were in 3rd grade they were either deaf or had no friends. that went over about as well as you think 🙂

[wary phoenix]

Arigatou

[white pawn]

needless to say i was extremely politely, but VERY firmly escorted off the premises

[dusty dove]

internet is everywhere now especially ipad kids

if they seen elsa gate, they heard it lol

or whatever brainrot it is now skibi toilet

ah that my friend

Takes.. work

[wary phoenix]

I kinda hate the internet being wide spread, felt like I was some enlightened individual back when it was more of a secret club but now it’s just the norm

[white pawn]

doitashimashite

[dusty dove]

Neopets

GaiaOnline

[white pawn]

yeah, theres setting a good example, and keeping them from ever seeing reality tho 🙂

[dusty dove]

Runescape was a good 1 too

i guess throw 4chan in there too

[white pawn]

the sheer number of people i grew up with who basically had psychotic breaks when they were finally face to face with actual reality was crazy, and then i see what parents are doing now to their kids and holy crap

[white pawn]

i remember when the search engines were basically useless, and the internet felt so much wilder, but there wer actually a lot less trolls 😛

but, i agree with The Woz that we shoulda stayed witht he BBS model of decentralized internet, instead of the silo model we have now

[dusty dove]

wait a minute though

Think about just a moment

Brainrot might actually help the kids in that generation

If tons of gen alpha are brainrot and can't read grade level, that means the kids who just did average (not ivy league or top tier) in school can have a better chance to get a good job

Problem right now is all entry level job wants 5yr experience because theres tons of available labor looking for good jobs

But if in the future, bunch of adults can't read/function, then it actually REWARDS the kids who did decently OK in school and now the job market are open for those people

[white pawn]

nahh, but teaching them that cuss words have no power beyond what you give them is a pretty important lesson that a lot of parents don;t seem to grasp themselves, let alone teach

[dusty dove]

because people are too lazy 2 parent them so they just stick a screen and call it a day instead of teaching them

root problem is: parents 2 lazy

[white pawn]

my kids learned by age 5 every single cussword

they were also taught that those were words grownups use when they can't think of anything else to say in its place

really removed the desire to use them when it was put to em that way

[dusty dove]

ya like starvation

[white pawn]

just like, we had a liquor cabinet. the kids were told those were grown up drinks, and if they really wanted to try them, the could ask once they were 10 years old. of course they did. we gave them each about one swallow of the most gut rot whiskey we could find. i have a son in the marines that apparently has about half his platoon not drinking, and a daughter who only wants to drink if it involves really expensive stuff mixed together 😛

[vapid smelt]

why not type to when you already spell too

[white pawn]

hey, i do that occasionally, spell things oddly when i have spelt them right before 😛 i feel pointed out! (ya know, cause it wasn't an attack :))

but yeah, if you take the novelty or "danger" out of things, a lot of the kid rebellion stuff just, doesn't happen

almost like if you treat them as small humans instead of mobile rocks that can't understand anything parenting is easier

[vapid smelt]

i just want consistency damnit

[white pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/princess-bride-disappointment-gif-10271982

[vapid smelt]

im already used to myself

[white pawn]

one of my favorite movies, and semi prophetic one at that

[bitter harbor]

Especially the part about a 6 fingered man

[white pawn]

i was thinking the part about how everyone will be wearing masks one day 😛

LOL the talk i was given was simple "do you want me to punch you in the mouth?" i said no. "Good, you know what that word means then. if you are with someone and they are not happily saying yes, assume they want to say no, and you will never have any problems"

considering at the time my dad could lift me off the ground with one arm, i listened 🙂

and turns out, it has been great advice!

[wet flame]

hi

[bitter harbor]

Jello

[vapid smelt]

what kind?!

[wet flame]

im in my english class and this is the most boring shit i have ever been in

[white pawn]

my dad has been ahead of his time my whole life. now if only i could get him to stop climbing trees in his neighborhood and cutting them down at age 82 😛

[white pawn]

ooh, you mean you don't enjoy learning the fairly useless skill of disassembling the language that you speak daily that you will mostly never use in real life?

[wet flame]

EIGHTY TWO?¿

[wet flame]

movie analysis is not a skill i need to be formally taught

[vapid smelt]

i think we have the same grandpa mine also cut down trees in his neighborhood and is in his 80s

[white pawn]

yeah, i got a phone call from him in august' ring ring "hey dad" Hey son, figured I'd call you and talk for a minute, since you would be the one who would know how to get 911 to my house from another state" "WTF dad, what happened?"

[wet flame]

oof

[white pawn]

"well. you knmow that tree in anderson's yard? the really tall one?" "yeah dad, did it fall over or somethinng?" no, i was up top, cutting down, when the branch i was standing on broke, i hit the ground pretty hard, so i wanted to call someone in case i need help, but i didn;t wanna do the whole ambulance thing if i don't need it"

[wet flame]

wtf

damn bro

[white pawn]

"Ok dad, seriously, how high were you when you fell?" "oh, 60 feet or so, i got the top 20 off the tree pretty easy, so, ya know. I did hit a couple branches on the way down, so right now my whole back is on fire, so i let's just talk a minute, how have ya been?"

so we talked for about 10 minutes, at which point he could feel everything again, and tell he wasn't hurt bad, so he was all "i'm gonna go back up and finish this" and hung up LOL

[wet flame]

WHAT

[white pawn]

and he did actually cut that tree down and two others that day

[wet flame]

bro is he okay

[white pawn]

yeah, he had a BIG bruise on his back, but thats it

looked like somoene beat him with a wall

[gilded wharf]

Bro fell off of a tree

[white pawn]

he told me in september he rides "around the neighborhood" one a BMX bicycle with a trailer to collect scrap metal

i found out later that the "neighborhood" is about 14 square miles

[bitter harbor]

Sorry not sorry

[white pawn]

oh god, no!

[vapid smelt]

hey thats not yummy orange jello!

[white pawn]

needless to say, i sincerely hope i have half the energy that man does when i'm 80 LOL

[wet flame]

whats up veryone

[bitter harbor]

Nothing just shown an abomination to culinary arts

[white pawn]

have you tried the trick where you imagine your teacher(professor?) dressed up as verious funny things?

[white pawn]

no joke, i am SOOO glad we are well past the era where those things showed up at parties

[vapid smelt]

only my hot ones

[white pawn]

oh, i just imagined them naked 😛

[wet flame]

teacher, and no im gonna try it next period

[white pawn]

this works for any boring science teacher. think of the mad scientist look with them waving their arms ridiculously overhead while screaming whatever they are saying at the top of their lungs

just don't laugh, cause you will mess yourself up if they want you to explain the joke 😛

[bitter harbor]

Retro party, here we come!

[white pawn]

oh god no. i recently went to a 20s themed party, the sheer amount of men in truly awful fake mafia outfits was amazing, and of course, every woman there was in a flapper dress and headband with a feather

oh, the men ALL had white fedoras 😛

so, black suit, white hat, ya know? right out of a movie

[bitter harbor]

Was there any alcohol for historical accuracy?

[white pawn]

there was, again, right out of a movie, women walking around with candy boxes, flip em over, there was alcohol underneath

[vapid smelt]

how many people got the clap at that party?

[bitter harbor]

I had a relative who made moonshine and was caught during prohibition. His friends broke him out of jail and he moved to a different county and he changed his name. Cartoon level shenanigans.

[wary phoenix]

Just fixed something for the first time with my ltt screwdriver and god damn that’s a rush

Fixed this piece of crap VR controller

[white pawn]

wow, thats cool

i ended up showing up in a period accurate outfit. (period accurate in cloth, cut, sewing style, and apparance)

i ended up winning the "who is best dressed" contest, because part of the contest was talking about how you sourced your outfit

i was one of 4 people there with handmade custom suits and handmade headwear

the other 3 were the ones who held the party

[vapid smelt]

mr money bags

[white pawn]

the realy cool thing was they held it at this old ass plantation style house, that was from the 1800s or so, but had actually been used as a speakeasy in the 20s

[bitter harbor]

Damm

[white pawn]

stuff like that becomes a LOT cheaper when you learn how to sew yourself, or in my case, you ahve a sister that actually runs a company teaching people to sew LOL

if i recall, the most expensive thing was the shoes, cause i had to custom order them from overseas. they were 200 bucks

the fabric was cheap, the fabric mens suits are made out of rally hasn't changed much in around 200ish years or so

one of the guys there was wearing this straight out of a cheeseball 80s mafia tv show level suit that he bought from a prop company and paid like 5 grand for 😛

[vapid smelt]

5grand back then?!

[white pawn]

well, the party was only a year ago

[vapid smelt]

ah

[white pawn]

but he definitely overpaid

the jacket was falling apart by the end of the night

[willow patrol]

Does the Spotify premium tab at the bottom go away when you have premium

[bitter harbor]

Idk. Don’t have premium

[white pawn]

me neither, i don't use spotify at all 😛

[bitter harbor]

I use yt music

[vapid smelt]

i use amazon music

[white pawn]

i use amazon music now, but before that i used sirius xm, cause one of the companies i worked for gave out free years of it like candy to employees. and before that it was pandora 😛

[alpine gale]

Which tab are you referring to? (I need a screenshot to confirm.)

[white pawn]

Kirashi for the win!

[vapid smelt]

i thought you would still be using cassettes from your childhood

[bitter harbor]

Spotify user spotted!

https://tenor.com/view/muppetwiki-muppet-wiki-muppet-muppets-kermit-gif-13282760728630259313

[white pawn]

never liked em much once CD's got popular. never had a CD or an MP3 get tangled up in my player and ruin it too

[alpine gale]

Can confirm. User since Fall 2008. Subscriber since Premium launched in Canada in 2014. Still buy CDs.

[white pawn]

also, cds were generally easier to carry in large quantities thanks to the Case Logic folders 😛 but as soon as it was affordable to do MP3s i jumped on that like a dog on a steak 🙂

[vapid smelt]

smh

[white pawn]

ya know, that should surprise me, but doesnt

that's a job i never had that i thought would be really cool to have

oh wow, that explains a lot actually

[short rock]

did you buy/consider buying the CarThing?

[alpine gale]

Have a CarThing sitting on my desk waiting for further hacking from the community as I type.

[short rock]

I remember there was that one guy on reddit who turned his car thing into a utility second monitor

like, spotify, media playing, timeline for work, etc

you can put your volume mixer on it if you do that

mini DJ action

[delicate lintel]

i dont have a rear exhaust fan and my type of fans only comes in a pack of three... I DONT HAVE SPACE FOR 2 MORE FANS

[alpine gale]

The community modifications are getting good. Still not the original functionality yet, but they're getting there slowly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKXvpjppsE

[short rock]

I believe I've seen that video too

the guy on reddit did the same thing but took it further

[glass mural]

Lost a bet I did speak like Yoda I must

[short rock]

unfortunate, you are

mimic you, I will

[alpine gale]

Meesa thinks yousa speakings likesa gooder Yoder.

[bitter harbor]

Back off Sith lord!

[white pawn]

Roger roger, make the bet pay the winner.

[glass mural]

Post DJUNGELSKOG I shall

[vapid smelt]

im so happy im not the sucker that bought the spotify car thing

[fierce thistle]

Same

[white pawn]

i never even knew it existed till i saw an article that they were about to brick em all

[vapid smelt]

same

[alpine gale]

I'm equally happy I acquired mine for the $30 firesale pricing. That said, bricking devices is still immoral.

[restive lion]

In my mind I have an image of you spinning the black ops 2 mystery box and the voice saying fire sale and landing on a car thing

[grim belfry]

They should’ve just left it to die

[white pawn]

yup, funny enough, that;s why i never bought Sonos. my dad had a Sonos stereo(was suppsoed to be Sonosplayer or something, but ended up being called model numbers when it released) in the early 2000s, and they bricked it eventually, basically saying buy a new one or stop using our stuff to all their customers

[grim belfry]

Stop updating it and when it stops working, too bad so sad

[short rock]

bricking anything is just a bad idea.

[alpine gale]

Heh-heh. Laughs in owning "Gen 2" Sonos products. At least Sonos tends to support their stuff for ~10 years. Still though... Bricking. Devices. Should. Be. Illegal.

[short rock]

next, we're gonna get apple carplay and android auto bricked in cars unless we pay a subscription fee

[white pawn]

wow, you literally lucked out with the only gen of their stuff they haven't pulled that on LOL

[full fossil]

Would it be funny if they put Apple Music there

[short rock]

already happening with ventilated car seats. who's stopping them?

[short rock]

someone's done that already

[white pawn]

i still have a car stereo with a USB port for pluggin in a usb stick full of MP3's, and i know how to install it 😛

[short rock]

my car doesn't have no media player

you want music? let's see how well you can sing

[white pawn]

the car that stereo is out of originally had a radio, no tape deck, nothin

when the car got totalled it was the only thing worth taking out of it LOL somehow it survived

[grim belfry]

Hmm I need to get a CarPlay head unit one day

[vapid smelt]

my car has a radio and cassete player

[alpine gale]

Same. Car stereo has [shitty] Bluetooth, AUX, CD, and AM/FM radio. You want music? Here, pick from a selection of songs already downloaded to my phone, plug your phone into the 3.5mm headphone jack (sike - your phone can't do that), or insert the CDs you definitely brought with you...

[white pawn]

so, they make tape adapters that if your phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack, oh, wait, nm, this is 2024

[vapid smelt]

i have that and the blue tooth to fm, my pixel 5a has a jack still

[white pawn]

nice 🙂 it is the one thing i wish my s24 ultra had

[short rock]

there exist those radio things; you can plug in your media and it'll boradcast it (with a very reduced range, so no one else can tune in) on a specific channel that you can tune your car radio to

[alpine gale]

Yes, those are called FM Transmitters where I'm at. Some work well, some are a crapshoot.

[short rock]

yeah. you can get a decent one for 10 bucks if you're smart about it

[grim belfry]

Please license your RF transmitters 🙂

[bitter harbor]

You’re no fun.

[white pawn]

yeah, i've had i think 4 total, only one of which worked well

[vapid smelt]

mine was 18

[short rock]

bro by reduced range I mean not even the back seat in a 7-seater can recieve the signal

[alpine gale]

You: "You got a permit for that FM Transmitter?
Them: "Yeah, I've got your permit right here."
https://tenor.com/view/-gif-3525072

[short rock]

how the hell do you think the police will know?

[white pawn]

i had that problem with the samsung earbuds. had to hold my phone directly centered between my ears in front of my face or one or both would lose connection

[grim belfry]

Unregulated devices like that are the worst, because good luck finding out the EIRP to see if you need to license it

[white pawn]

samsung replaced em, same thing with the new ones LOL after about 10 tries, including paying to upgrade to the gen 2s, i gave up and went back to my Shokz headset

[vapid smelt]

i like my shokz bone conduction headphones

[short rock]

that's strange. my oneplus buds work even when my phone is in my car in front of the store
I'm talking about FM transmitters with forced reduced range, so you don't annoy others

[white pawn]

yeah, was also a wirless thing 😛 tangentially related makes the adhd happy LOL

[short rock]

ahh understood

[short rock]

oh yeah those exist now

[vapid smelt]

i wear mine at work

[white pawn]

i have the origianl Openrun(they are AfterShokz Aeropex when i first bought them)

[short rock]

where do they sit? inside your mouth, around your ears?

[white pawn]

love em to death, and Shokz is a great company

[short rock]

i see

that kinda looks uncomfortable

[white pawn]

i had an issue with mine, they asked me to send em in, and they sent me back my originals along with a new one and said "thanks for supporting us from the start"

[vapid smelt]

they are very comfortable super, they are super light

[vapid smelt]

thats sweet!

[white pawn]

yeah, you forget you have em on, and they don't plug your ears so you can be listening to music and talking to people at the same time if you set the volume right

[white pawn]

yeah, the people i have interacted with there have all been really cool so far

[short rock]

transparency mode anyone?

[white pawn]

kinda 🙂 y eah

[short rock]

maybe don't try that next time buddy 🙏 if you want help you'll get it in #1027757333117415424

[white pawn]

hmm, i think that guy must have hit the "kick me, im a bot" button

[vapid smelt]

dont need to deal with the earwax of inears or the pain of losing just one bud

[white pawn]

yeah, and i figured out a great way to make sure i don't lose em ever( i sometimes put em around my neck) gramma glasses holders 🙂

if you take one and attach it on the band at the back of the shokz, you can have it looped around your neck and it will either hold them from falling off, or give you a good tug before letting go to let ya know they fell off

[white pawn]

wait, did that guy say anything other than whats up?

or, yo guys i guess

[bitter harbor]

I am still sorely tempted to press it just to see what happens.

[short rock]

"Hey guys"
"I got a new PC"
posts PC specs in one very long message

[white pawn]

oh wow

[short rock]

okey battery @ 6% time to go

[white pawn]

i have a screen in my house run by a Rpi that the screensaver is a huge red button that floats around. on the button it just says "Don't". if you push it(touchscreen) the button centers, looks lit up, and for 10 seconds the words "Please Do NOT Press This Button Again" circle the button. if you press it a second time the rpi fully wakes up and you end up at the dashboard 🙂

EVERYONE that sees it the first time presses the button. it's like some genetic compulsion in humanity i swear 🙂

[short rock]

I presume you're in america?

[white pawn]

United states, yeah

[short rock]

over here if something says "Don't push the button" only people who push the button are toddlers that are intrigued by buttons
but then again that's the designers fault for placing th button so low

[white pawn]

LOL yeah, i think part of it is i have a bunch of self made scifi "art" around the house, so it seems like more stuff that doesn't do much

i have a wall of blinky lights on industrial panels that when you use the keys on the board the light patterns change with each keypress but does nothing else, stuff like that

[manic torrent]

I demand to know why i should not push the button

[white pawn]

ok, i think i need brain bleach. youtube has done me wrong LOL

[grim belfry]

Shockz are a whole different game

They are super cool

[white pawn]

i use loops for sensory issues, and the fact that i can have music AND wear the loops is super awesome

[grim belfry]

Oooh

I love my loops

[alpine gale]

https://tenor.com/view/asdf-movie-pointless-button-gif-10923470608603577653

[grim belfry]

Great for when it’s not socially acceptable to wear AirPods

[white pawn]

i have a useless machine somewhere(they are machines that when you flip the switch a lever comes out and flips it back)

mine has a skeleton hand that flips the switch back

not exactly sure where it's at, a bunch of stuff got packed up so my cousin could use it all as props in this indie thing he's filming

hey, monty python is great!

[alpine gale]

Dry / British and Dark / Cabaret humor are the only kinds I enjoy these days.

[manic torrent]

play more stanley parable

[wary phoenix]

Windows mixed reality isn’t just not bad it’s actually like pretty good unironically. Like I was able to play beat saber and no complaints about tracking at all

And I’m used to index

[white pawn]

i was REALLY excited for the Hololens stuff, but MS went too stupid to be believed on yet another product and gave up on it

[wary phoenix]

Main issue is the head strap is utter ass and required me to tape the headset to my face to stop the blur

[white pawn]

my favorite is the sad ending 🙂

[wary phoenix]

Rip

[bitter harbor]

A hammer doesn’t have a point. Anvils too from the bottom side.

[manic torrent]

no, what is that?

wow that is incredible. I wonder what other things are on the internet

[quasi belfry]

Ok

[crystal pike]

goodmorning yall

Nothing better than starting the day with a queen song

[manic torrent]

I too like bicycles

[white pawn]

Hammer to Fall, or All dead, All Dead? 🙂

[crystal pike]

You both will consider me basic for saying this but its dont stop me now

[white pawn]

nahh, thats a good one too

[crystal pike]

I love it so much in the morning

It gets me going yk

[manic torrent]

nothing like freddy belting it out

[crystal pike]

I agree so much lol

[white pawn]

there's really in my opinion only one not good queen song(let's face it, they didn't have any bad ones)

[crystal pike]

Yeah thats true i gotta say

[crystal pike]

Lol, freddy always did it perfectly

[full fossil]

“I want to break free”

[fossil frost]

you should listen to marc martel, hes a VERY good singer, but, hes also a very good queen singer, looks a bit like freddy too, which helps give him freddies sound

[crystal pike]

Alright gunna download some songs and give it a listen

(I got like 19 gb left in my data plan)

the whole plan was 20gb and i already used like a gig

thank god i dont have windows installed on my laptop otherwise my data plan wouldve turned into a zero in a day

[white pawn]

i REALLY wanna engage with that, but i've currently been awake for 45 hours. so imma go try to sleep 😛

[weary wyvern]

what in the chess

[tribal summit]

hi all! 👋 actually my first discord server join ever 😅

[minor vale]

dude

is there anything wrong w my drive 💀

this thing is practically brand new and cant run anything

[viscid elm]

what motherboard do you have as that drive is running in sata 1

[nimble junco]

whats the difference

why are they on there twice

[minor vale]

let me check one second

"ASRock Z690 Pro RS ATX LGA1700"

there's its full government name

[nimble junco]

what ever happend to wan vpn

[viscid elm]

try to replug the HDD

or replace the cable

or move it to a different sata slot

[grim belfry]

[minor vale]

yeah i was just about to ask that

i mean if im replugging it might as well

[nimble junco]

the vpn that linus and luke talked about

let me see if I can find the clip

[grim belfry]

I don't think they ever said they were going to do that

Horrible business to get into

So much enablement of crime

[fossil frost]

was about to say, you open yourself up to SO MUCH liability, and, you make yourself a target too

[nimble junco]

https://youtu.be/SPWiCm5tT7Y?si=qWwt2_MBQyFUi3fg&t=796

[grim belfry]

I for one could never run a VPN company

[nimble junco]

I dont think many people could

[grim belfry]

I would hope not

[nimble junco]

it is hard to do

[grim belfry]

That's not the reason bud

Your service is bound to be used by horrible, horrible people

[nimble junco]

I worked with nord to get a server in my city and that took a while and its still not working

[nimble junco]

some people like to use netflix in other countries

[grim belfry]

Some people like distributing CSAM

[nimble junco]

I have nord for that and mulvad for everything else

[fossil frost]

building and running a VPN isnt hard, its really easy... what isnt easy is doing it at scale, and doing it securely

[nimble junco]

thats a small percentage

[nimble junco]

scale is really the big one

[grim belfry]

Yet you are still enabling it..

[nimble junco]

Im still shocked by how fast cloudflare expanded

[fossil frost]

only takes 1 of them, and for you to have known it was possible, and done nothing about it.. for you to land in serious legal trouble

[nimble junco]

you using your phone is enabling so many factors but you look a blind eye, society sucks.

[grim belfry]

And you can't know

You just have to assume that people are doing the worst

[grim belfry]

For some reason I have a feeling VPN providers aren't providing lawful inception 🙂

[fossil frost]

if you are ok with DIRECTLY enabling criminals to do some of the most horrific things... ie. your service is one of the only reasons they are able to do it... thats different to "your phone has a camera, so that enables it too"

[nimble junco]

you buy a phone and that encourages the explotation of labor from millions of people, but hey 45% of americans still want the latest iphone

[grim belfry]

No ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc

But this is completely different

[manic torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/arrested-development-season1-comedy-gob-ive-made-a-huge-mistake-gif-3450456

[nimble junco]

Im in like 98 by this point, gotta love discord

[fossil frost]

you think paying somebody cheap wages, in a country that already has cheap wages, is the same as making videos of somebody assaulting children, then distributing them to other people?

you may want to check your moral compas

exploitative labour practices are not good... but they are by no means equivalent to what VPNs enable people to do

[nimble junco]

but what Im saying is, you end up on the short end of the stick at the end of the day, either encouraging exploitive labour practices or hosting a vpn service for the majority of people who wont use it for something bad

This would be a very different conversation if you lived in a information suppressed country.

I love arguing on discord

[fossil frost]

and i cant be bothered to continue this conversation any longer 🙂

[nimble junco]

awwww

uh oh

[nimble junco]

must be nice having raid

[viscid elm]

it is

i get some nice speeds

[grim belfry]

You mean you don't run raid for bulk storage?

[viscid elm]

what is parity good for anyways

[nimble junco]

cloud, I plan too eventually

[viscid elm]

just rebuild everything from scratch when it dies

[grim belfry]

This is not "the cloud"

[nimble junco]

it uploaded to it tho

it kept active stuff on site then updated every 12 hours

[grim belfry]

So you're just using a single disk?

[nimble junco]

suprised it lasted as long as it did

[grim belfry]

Or is it raid0

[nimble junco]

rather than raid I just run the instances in seperate vms

so if one dies there is still 2 more copies

that drive was from like 2013

[viscid elm]

on other drives?

[nimble junco]

yep

[viscid elm]

that makes more sense but also whyyyyy

[nimble junco]

because proxmox lets me

[viscid elm]

sad

[fossil frost]

just because it lets you, it doesnt make it a good idea

[nimble junco]

in this case its a good solution

I run one at home and at work

[viscid elm]

truenas scale gets a bit annoyed if you do not have any parity

[viscid elm]

or get another disk and raid1

[nimble junco]

I mean I could

[viscid elm]

and should

[fossil frost]

and should

[viscid elm]

ok that was good

[nimble junco]

but I already have offsite backups

[grim belfry]

What are these people smoking

[nimble junco]

and I dont need mass storage cause it uploads to the cloud

[viscid elm]

use onsite backups

[viscid elm]

something very very strong

[fossil frost]

you know what. the multiple people telling you could set it up better and have fewer problems... ignore us.. we are wrong... you do it your way, but, when you do lose data, dont ask for help recovering it... do it your way, yourself

[nimble junco]

this follows 3 - 2 -1 Im gonna be fine

[viscid elm]

i can still lose another disk in my degraded pool and be good

[nimble junco]

I can lose 2 of these 3 sites and still have all my services up

[viscid elm]

but it does have to be in the other vdev

[nimble junco]

Yea I like truenas but ACL gets annoying

[manic torrent]

Yeah man way easier to chmod 777

[nimble junco]

😭 I mean technically yea....

just as safe too!

[manic torrent]

I run ZFS, raidz2 and have a big pile of containers that run all my workloads.

If a disk dies, I experience zero loss of service.

If I have a local fuckup, I can restore from snapshot, and if I have a catastrophic fuckup, restore from cloud storage.

If my server dies, I'd have to get some other parts, but meh, it's not exactly a HA setup.

[nimble junco]

idk the nice thing about this data is that I dont mind losing it

worst case its on the devices

[manic torrent]

Well then it's not lost, is it

[nimble junco]

yea true

but idk 2 offsite backups is good enough for me

[manic torrent]

Backups are useless unless you can restore them in a meaningful time

[nimble junco]

yup