public-chat

[wary canyon]

Feel the need to implure anyone who's watching any CES coverage to please dramatically hype up the products that are made with actual consumers in mind. Mainly the actually good/cool ones, but even the meh ones if you can

[viscid elm]

Pantherlake

[wary canyon]

Hm?

[viscid elm]

Panther fell in lake

[wary canyon]

What intel doin?

[wary canyon]

Oh. Laptop stuff. Neat

Do they have anything for desktops tho?

[viscid elm]

Think this is vs 880 or 890m

[robust ice]

That’ll be at the End of the year

Maybe arrow lake refresh might come sooner

Since the next Intel gen won’t support lga 1851 which is disappointing

[viscid elm]

im gonna sell my desktop anyways

[glacial latch]

hi

[robust ice]

I’m already on am5 but if the competition keeps fumbling this hard it’s bad for all of us

[stiff wasp]

Lethal intoxication then

[viscid elm]

dies within 3min

[stiff wasp]

Maybe I should have waited after CES with buying laptop but ram prices goes up and up so didn’t want to risk it

[viscid elm]

au nau, no panther lake for you

[stiff wasp]

I bought an amd ryzen ai 7 350 so it will probably do a great work anyways

[viscid elm]

yup current gen igpus are still amazing but intels new stuff is on a whole new level if price is right

[stiff wasp]

if the price is right
Not in this economy but it will probably be cheaper for EU and Canadian than American

If trump still want to put tariffs on china etc

[viscid elm]

im expecting laptops with the b390 to be around 1k

if we see em for under 800$ im selling my gpu and buying it

well im selling my gpu anyways

what a pain

[stiff wasp]

So around 8000 nok

[stiff wasp]

Shipping is crazy expensive

[viscid elm]

well its from one side of the world to the other

[plucky pasture]

Hi

[calm swan]

god bless

amd fucked themselves. now would’ve been the perfect time to announce a new rdna4 based igpu or something

[viscid elm]

only rnda 3.5 for you

i do wonder what is going on at amd, while intel and nvidia has been working hard on MFG amd is just sitting there just coming out with a real frame gen model

[viscid elm]

considering the other side of the chart had like 30 fps games im gonna put some trust in this not even using frame gen

[calm swan]

they were saying something like 75% better performance than the 890m

i guess i’ll wait for jarrod, alex, or notebookcheck to review it

[viscid elm]

i swear i took a pic of it

[viscid elm]

77

[calm swan]

good lord

[viscid elm]

OMG vs 288v

[calm swan]

apparently they’re releasing another apu for handhelds later

[viscid elm]

igpu already beating the 890m with the new drivers

[viscid elm]

i think its 9xe or smn

or 10 but not the full fat one

ofc it happens just as i get a 30$ OLED laptop, i really do not wanna sell it for being my first OLED laptop but meh if the price is right on the new b390 igpu cpus why not

i hope it starts at 800 as it means the more premium laptops go around 1000

dam
starting
January 27, 2026

[oak pier]

boneless laptop

[rocky knot]

Wouldn't a bonless laptop just be like chips on the table?

Hecc I cant find the GIF i want

[cerulean canopy]

did hinge break?

[viscid elm]

the middle of it ye

[high yarrow]

Microsoft office renamed to microsoft copilot lol

[calm swan]

i don’t see why this is an issue

most people still refer to it as office 365 or office suite

even when ms renamed office to ms 365

[oak pier]

everyone i've met irl calls it just "ms office"

[calm swan]

yeah

[viscid elm]

look at his pfp

[calm swan]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-morgan-freeman-true-we-have-a-true-get-this-man-a-true-true-gif-8856917097123019081

[elfin jetty]

Man they really are just that desperate huh.

This is pathetic

[mint sandal]

Think I have a new dream car 🤤

[high yarrow]

i think it might have something to do with regulations on documents and regulations on data under control or givven to an llm and how hey can use it mine it , sell it ...

[mint sandal]

Need

[golden lily]

Going to uni in a year, whats a laptop recommendation that i can buy for cad and occasionally gaming

[oak pier]

a macbook and a gaming desktop

[golden lily]

Hmm that is a good point

[mint sandal]

Might be some good laptops on clearance soon with new season

[viscid elm]

could also wait and check out the new pantherlake laptops

[oak pier]

CAD would benefit from a DGPU tbf

[viscid elm]

xd i thought be meant cad as in the currency

[mint sandal]

Probably would work solid on clearance laptop i got once

[viscid elm]

ok yea some cad work can use cuda aka defo should get something with a nvidia gpu at least

but the kinda stuff i do does not need anything close to even a ok igpu

[golden lily]

Would a zephyrous g16 be a good pick

[oak pier]

Yeah one of the few times i would definitely suggest getting an NVIDIA GPU over AMD DGPU or integrated graphics

[viscid elm]

specs?

[mint sandal]

Laptop i picked up on clearance was a asus rog strix

[viscid elm]

also funny thing i got a zephyrous a year ago from a chap who was done with design school or something that used CAD stuff

[calm swan]

it’s fine if you can get some external warranty and if it’s not a 16gb model

[mint sandal]

Got a strix on clearance from Walmart for dirt cheap

[golden lily]

Yeah i recon i should wait for a sale too bc its expensive asf rn

[oak pier]

that model of laptop has minimum 32gb, with models that have 64gb

[viscid elm]

tbf you are also looking at zephyrouses

[calm swan]

they just announced their 2026 models so yeah there could be a sale

[viscid elm]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-heavy-funny-reaction-eating-gif-3110342836352015465

[barren sleet]

I think I may need a new mobo 😐

[mint sandal]

Had an i7, rtx 2070, 512nvme, and 16 gigs of ram for $200

[viscid elm]

pic of what you have done

[calm swan]

i’d keep an eye on BB outlet. saw a 2024 zg16 for $599 there lol

[viscid elm]

o wow das not a bad deal at all

[calm swan]

added it to my cart but it was sold out by the time i could get it

[golden lily]

Srsly??

[viscid elm]

i did better

[calm swan]

yeah

[mint sandal]

1599 msrp tho and was unopened

[barren sleet]

Check tech support, I’m honestly lost at this point

[calm swan]

forgot they increased base to 32gb for 2025

[mint sandal]

Yeah scored for $200

[viscid elm]

12700h and a 2.8k OLED for 30$

yus

[calm swan]

15” legion 5 is pretty good too if you don’t need a 5070ti or better

[mint sandal]

Probably going to buy a car soon

[elfin jetty]

If its suppresses you, its for good reason.

[golden lily]

Aight well im sure every uni kid cant afford a $4k laptop so i might settle for something abit cheaper haha

[viscid elm]

i lied its 2880 x 1800

[mint sandal]

Car I want is expensive

[viscid elm]

lets hope it does die

way smaller chance but never zero

that aint helping it

the HX cpus are just desktop cpus

just be SUPER careful

smallest drop under the cpu and its game over

watching gaming laptops being repaired is depressing

[calm swan]

i don’t think lenovo uses lm?

i repasted my zephyrus g15 2022 with thermalright heilos

[viscid elm]

das on all LM laptops

[mint sandal]

Need

[calm swan]

fun time. took like two hours

[viscid elm]

the shop has warranty

[oak pier]

i would swap any laptop to PTM if you're concerned about the LM leaking

[mint sandal]

Should would probably have insurance

[oak pier]

i'd source your own PTM, lots of mediocre PTM knockoffs

respectable temps for a laptop

yeah basically add 10c to your desktop temps, and you're at a comparable laptop temp

[viscid elm]

i think the hinge on my oled laptop died due to this

[oak pier]

HP laptop?

[calm swan]

never had that issue with my zephyrus. has the same sort of raised keyboard deck thing

great

[oak pier]

oh sim, update on my macbook keyboard after the tea spill, seems the iso dissolved some kind of adhesive on the keys, so some of my keys are barely hanging on

they can slip and slide out of their little socket

i have apple care+ so when i have some disposable income i'll get it replaced

[viscid elm]

tbf the hinge is thin af

[oak pier]

i spilled an entire glass of sweet tea on the keyboard, so i'm just glad it still functions

[golden lily]

Lowk is uni even worth it haha

[viscid elm]

i think they dissolved the keys as they do not use adhesive there

[calm swan]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-gif-400062707846796155

[viscid elm]

my 30$ pc better :3

[golden lily]

What laptop is it?

[calm swan]

i wish it had a good ar coating

basically unusable outside lol

[mint sandal]

Man i hope this weekend goes good

[viscid elm]

im a glossy guy but modern ar coatings are pretty amazing

[golden lily]

Maybe i have to get the legion 7i to one uo this guy

[mint sandal]

Got a medical procedure this weekend so hope it goes smoothly

[stiff wasp]

What did you buy?

[mint sandal]

Yeah medical procedures on the neck can be a bitch

[viscid elm]

mostly this but some other stuff too

cant have this laptop looking like this forever

[mint sandal]

But bright side is ill be getting paid

[oak pier]

you can ask for some medication when you get there if you're nervous, when i've asked for my last couple operations the doctors were more than happy to help

[pale nymph]

What a pre-order 💀

[viscid elm]

ddr5 aint out yet

[mint sandal]

Nah not nervous just a little sore after 20 or so injections across the neck

[oak pier]

Anything in the neck is quite rough, lots and lots of nerves there

can also cause pain in random parts of the body if it interferes with those nerves

[calm swan]

the zamzung one is nice

[oak pier]

Best of luck, and wishing you a quick recovery Valk

[viscid elm]

some phone review i watched had a coating so good you could see the individual LEDs on one of em filming lights

[mint sandal]

Actually thing im getting is a nerve block test one more till im able to get radiofrequency nerve ablation

[calm swan]

probably samsung

[oak pier]

to be fair, high power LED lights don't usually have all that many LEDs

just need something to diminish the sheer volume of light being put off

[stiff wasp]

How did you manage to do that

[oak pier]

purchased like that

[viscid elm]

im 50/50 if the person snapped the laptop in 2 or the hinge just wore out

but there was some funky residue on it and the motherboard

[mint sandal]

Oppo probably has one

[viscid elm]

did not smell like anything but might be weed maybe i dono

ngl i kinda wanna smell some real weed just to know what it actually smells like

[mint sandal]

Ive got some

Has a fruity tropical smell

Some will straight up smell like skunk or earthy musky smell

[viscid elm]

yea pretty certain i know what weed smells like then

i refurbish computers and some of em well they have a certain smell and its always the same

first i thought it was cented candles or soemthing but now not so much

[mint sandal]

I had something that smelled like cinnamon toast crunch

Although that was a psychedelic

[hushed furnace]

2 hours of sot 🙏

[hollow scroll]

i just have so little interest in frame gen and monitors currently

[brazen drift]

Just did something that most probably did, instal Linux. Just installed Fedora Gnome on my spare laptop and it is nice.

[hollow scroll]

you seen jakes video?

[brazen drift]

That pushed me over.

[viscid elm]

i was pushed over to cachy due to wendells rec on GNs how they wanna setup linux testing

[bold echo]

Didn't Linus change offices like years ago?

[oak pier]

they moved to their current studio years ago

though they've added onto it several times, acquiring additional studios

[bold echo]

I mean didn't he move into labs building

[oak pier]

i want to say his office is still in the main building, but don't quote me on that

[bold echo]

because they filmed the last video in the old office

[bold echo]

nah that's fairly certain colton office now

[viscid elm]

movie?

[bold echo]

meant video

sorry

[hollow scroll]

i think they did a rearrangement a few months ago, was on fp

[bold echo]

they moved writing back in the main building? didn't knew it

[paper vigil]

I would use Linux but a lot of stuff doesn't work properly

[brazen drift]

That's kind of why I'm using a spare laptop to test it out.

[bold echo]

I really need to get a fp sub

[hollow scroll]

watching it again just seems alot of places just swapped offices hard to describe

good news though colton gets a proper office again

[shut lichen]

No he moved back to the main office

or has offices in both idek

There's an office in the main building with Vance's desk outside of it that Linus uses, that's what I know

There's a clip from why is wan late talking to Vance and not seeing Linus because of his new monitor being huge

[haughty bridge]

Guys don't so many of these back to back sponsored vids on the main LTT channel feel weird?
Instead of CES tech coverage it just feels like an advert feed.

[gilded quest]

CES week will be full of sponsored content

[covert cradle]

Pretty certain CES vids have always been like this. It just kinda makes sense given what CES is

[haughty bridge]

[rigid vessel]

so... are we not getting another LNL or what

RIP MoP platform?

[graceful matrix]

Moving?

[shut lichen]

Teams moving around the offices

[gilded quest]

It's expensive to be there; sponsored vids help

[graceful matrix]

Ah to bigger place?

[gilded quest]

And a lot of sponsored vids allow them to produce the videos before CES so they can be less overworked this week

[gilded quest]

Correct

Intel notes that the volatility in the memory market made lunar lake difficult

Also there were too many LNL SKUs

IMO they should have launched LNL at 32gb skus only

Maybe in the lower end 16gb skus

[gilded quest]

Apple can continue to do this because, well, apple, vertical integration here is nice

Qualcomm is doing it but like how successful are Qualcomm notebooks

[graceful matrix]

I dont have float plane

[gilded quest]

Also Qualcomm can afford to eat some margin

Intel cannot afford to lose margin

[junior wyvern]

God damn, why have they posted 3 videos in one day?? That's 2 too many imo

[viscid elm]

CES

[graceful matrix]

More info

[junior wyvern]

Oh ok, that's fair

[graceful matrix]

Many new stuff

[rigid vessel]

just saw PNL SKU lineup and i genuinely can't understand what they're thinking

wtf is an x9

why is different ending number means it's got different gpu

[viscid elm]

its better than amd at least

[rigid vessel]

at least with strix/krackan it's like higher number = better?

and here i am asking myself "why does 358 have a better gpu than a 366?"

[viscid elm]

instead of wasting the extra power and price on a igpu it might not need due to having a Dgpu

[gilded quest]

Gonna be honest; naming doesn't matter anymore

Sorry bud but sku naming has been fucked since 2020

The product itself is important

[left summit]

Huh. HP using an old chassis in 2026

[gilded quest]

X = high performance cringe Taiwanese silicon

Non-X = low power incredibly based IFS 3 silicon

[viscid elm]

16:9 screen on a laptop is sad

eh ok not that bad

[gilded quest]

I am ready for dGPU to die

[viscid elm]

me too

[gilded quest]

On most laptops*

[viscid elm]

i hate how you just cant get a well built laptop with a good dgpu for a ok price

[gilded quest]

If a company wants to create a desktop replacement or workstation laptop, fine
But I want to see sub $1000 gaming laptops that use a high performance APU like the handhelds

Although ram BS might make that north of $1000

[viscid elm]

the main issue is the kinda ram it needs

9600MT in a 8GB package i think it was

[gilded quest]

One nice thing about LNL is it forced the minimum ram to 16gb

Afaik these new apus can be paired with 8gb minimum

Maybe depends on the sku

The Core ultra X only support LP DDR which is nice

[frigid needle]

Question someone here might know. So I have a Pokemon Violet and Sapphire Switch Dock. My switch was taken but not the dock and looking into getting just the console, it isn’t worth it for me to just get that, might as well get a new console. I told my friend, who is a big Pokemon and Switch fan, he could have it. I looked online and saw it was selling for way more than I expected. Like 40-80? Then I noticed, all docks are. Why are Switch docks so expensive? Is it the whole third-party dock issue?

[zealous barn]

https://youtu.be/_QDthx_WjwE?si=E459u-8lOLORiJLk

[hardy hearth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiB2NnXgPU i bet he dont know about samsung https://www.samsung.com/nl/monitors/gaming/odyssey-neo-g9-g95nc-57-inch-240hz-curved-dual-uhd-ls57cg952nuxen/

worlds only 8k 1000r curved

_>

its even bigger than "so big" and it takes 2 seconds to walk arround it instead 1

lol

[dawn pivot]

Dang

How much

[hollow scroll]

Thry like moving everyone's office or desk every so often, they used to make a main channel video, I started with ltt with whole room water cooling I loved the first moving vlogs

[covert cradle]

7680 x 2160 is not 8k. It's dual 4k. 8k would be double the pixels at 7680 x 4320. The monitor in that review is 6144 x 2560

[fossil frost]

yep... 🙂 4k is supposed to be the same as 4 1080 panels, and 8k is supposed to be 4 4k panels

[winged spire]

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This is cool

[gilded quest]

8K UHD means something :)
(7680*4320)

[covert cradle]

Okay? What does that have to do with a 7680 x 2160 monitor marketed as "dual UHD"?

[fossil frost]

tbh, knowing marketing people, im surprised that when they went from 4k UHD to 8k, they didnt change the label on the end to XHD or something stupid like that, like they did when they went from FHD to UHD

[fossil frost]

2UHD would be a better name, but dual uhd is also good

[gilded quest]

Nothing I just like discussing Ks

[trail echo]

is it better to have 32gb of ddr4 with slighty slower speeds or 16gb of ddr4 with faster speeds

[gilded quest]

Actually that should be marketed as half 8k for the least confusing naming

[fossil frost]

impossible to say without knowing how much ram you need and what you are doing with your system

[trail echo]

i do minecraft with 100s of mods and some video editing

[fossil frost]

still doesnt tell me if you have seen your computer, when running 16gb of ram, hit 100% ram usage periodically

[trail echo]

it has been close

[fossil frost]

define "close"

are we talking about it being 15.9gb usage, or 14gb usage.. because one of those is close, the other isnt

[trail echo]

14.9 i think

[fossil frost]

do you already have the other 16 gb of ram?

[trail echo]

its being delivered soon

[fossil frost]

and how much slower is "slower"? what are the 2 different speeds

[trail echo]

wait nvm

my current ram speed is slow

[urban dirge]

well i sent a ticket to see if it goes anywhere, i doubt it will though.

[fossil frost]

so your new ram is both faster, and higher capacity? assuming your motherboard supports it, no reason not to use it

[winged spire]

Worst looking gpu ever made just dropped

This thing is UGLY

[gilded quest]

I am glad gigabyte did that
Because now I can say nice things about MSI ventus

[winged spire]

Hideous

[urban thistle]

The design might age well in the future like the Lamborghini Veneno

Stupid design for 2013 but looking back on it from today’s eyes, it doesn’t look bad

[fossil frost]

its a stupid design for anyone other than Lamborghini.. Lamborghini have always gone all out crazy with their designs

FYI, Lamborghini was originally founded out of spite

Lamborghini cars that is

[urban thistle]

Yes i know

[dusky jacinth]

It honestly looked somewhat cool when I first saw it, and even now I'm still not tired of it either.

Lambo's design house is pretty good at making aggressive designs that don't age poorly at least.

[winged spire]

My car designs are still better 😈

Lambo doors are insanely hard to make lol

Pivoting up like that

[mystic tundra]

for some reason i like it

[winged spire]

It gets like 500 miles per gallon

[mystic tundra]

ventus have been okay for the longer time now ngl

[gilded quest]

It's still ugly
Or was still ugly until gigabyte released that thing

[mystic tundra]

looks better than strix 4070-4090 imo

[gilded quest]

Not a big fan of 40 series strix, but those are a bit better than the ventus

The new ventus black solves most of the aesthetic issues though

[broken schooner]

rizz

[primal karma]

https://tenor.com/view/everybody-hates-chris-everybody-hates-chris-meme-everybody-hates-chris-tv-show-everybody-hates-chris-boombox-boombox-gif-9984813089547523217

[long briar]

Asphalt 8 😔

[barren sleet]

Howdy

[smoky sundial]

was linus hostage during his ai frames vid?

[hexed pulsar]

New upgrade

Mmmm got that rt

[smoky sundial]

nice what card

made my 5050 draw 100 watts my mistake

lol arch linux open source nvidia removed power limits

[viscid elm]

did you not say 200

[smoky sundial]

it keeps changing every reboot according to nvidia-smi

and that was nova not 590

[hexed pulsar]

Rtx 3060 12gb

[smoky sundial]

im re installing 580 again now

[smoky sundial]

nice good card

[hexed pulsar]

5.1.4 on a inverter

My other photos are still sending hold on

5.1.4 soundbar in the car anyone???

[noble gazelle]

Austen video bomed ZipTieTech

[silver sun]

715

[viscid elm]

interesting motherboard

[feral cargo]

Howdy so I erm basically last night smthn very strange happened related to my iPhone and Spotify is there like a channel in this server that I send a image about what happened cause I am very confused

[smoky sundial]

#1027757333117415424

ig

[viscid elm]

im confused too

[dusky jacinth]

Where do people keep finding those psychedelic wallpapers, man? Don't really want one, but those actually look quality.

[viscid elm]

take psychedelics and draw

[dusky jacinth]

I could, but it's just not my kind of style really.

And for the literal part of it, naww. This ain't now 60s-70s band sitch where I'm on a grind and in need of weirder ideas. Lmao.

[gilded quest]

Austin Evans jump scare

[covert cradle]

finally got around to watching this. I want that monitor so bad. It would be so sick for fpga dev work. Could comfortably fit vivado hw manager/debug layout, vitis, kernel gdb, and the embedded linux terminal with probably room to spare for docnav and a browser

[drowsy bolt]

hey guyss

anyone know about any fish tank type cool pc tank casses \

ssmall or mid size

[covert cradle]

oh god damn, $2900. Fun to dream about ig lmao

[noble gazelle]

how much ya think this will be?
https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/proart/proart-rtx5090-o32g/

uses the FE pcb

[ivory bison]

where is my 24gb 5080

that is all i want

[viscid elm]

would never be a thing

5080 super on the other hand

anyhow i thought it was like 5070 ti super 24 and 5080 super 28GB or smn

[ivory bison]

i just want it to have more than 16gb of vram for 4k

[drowsy bolt]

[viscid elm]

nah you get texture compression

[split swift]

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-vs-sasuke-geraldleyva-art-frieren-looking-up-gif-15869668082529831477

[smoky sundial]

frieren niche

[viscid elm]

https://tenor.com/view/yukon-turn-her-staff-angrily-with-magic-around-it-gif-17480880493604527997

[smoky sundial]

i watched season 1

then got busy watching nurenburg as mr robot actor plays in it

[split swift]

Season 2 will drop this year

[smoky sundial]

nice

but ill be busy watching seasn 4 of invincible

[split swift]

Invincible is pretty boring to me

Season 1 was cool but after that i looked ahead and it was boring

[fervent jackal]

sup @smoky sundial

Ngl the LTT guys who split off recently are absolutely killing it with their own channels

jakkuh and zip tie tech

[smoky sundial]

not much just talking here alot nicer than cachy os server

[smoky sundial]

i mean

[fervent jackal]

Really enjoying the content from those two

[smoky sundial]

u dont understand the lore

[smoky sundial]

jakkuh especially i dont really like cars so ztt isnt for me

[fervent jackal]

Yeah honestly to be brutally honest I prefer jakkuh for multiple reasons, mainly I think he's just a better presenter

But both are doing good

[smoky sundial]

jakkuh also just is funny and he has a cat

cat should have its own channel

[fervent jackal]

Jakkuh is also daily driving CachyOS, which we love, and a follow up video coming in a month

[smoky sundial]

cachy os is a amazing distro just awful members and mods

well atleast to me anyway

[split swift]

I completely understand it, its boring

[smoky sundial]

ig its not ur cup of tea

[fervent jackal]

Yeah the Discord is kind of cancer at the moment, I certainly haven't been helping today in particular

[split swift]

I looked ahead up to the very end

[fervent jackal]

Been unable to snap out of satire troll mode

[smoky sundial]

just look at the reasons im getting muted for and blocked by mods for

[fervent jackal]

I'll keep an eye out. Anyway...

Can I ask what laptop you use if any?

[smoky sundial]

asus v16 core i5 210h and rtx 5050

amazing on cachy os and fedora

and it was fine on debian

[fervent jackal]

Nice. I use an M1 MacBook Air so kind of locked in in that department.

But on my desktop I use CachyOS of course.

[smoky sundial]

ashi linux?

or did the devs all give up

[spare star]

Just let a big one rip btw

[fervent jackal]

Honestly I think of my laptop a bit like a phone, and I have an iPhone. So reasonably happy with Apple ecosystem for my on-the-go needs.

Maybe one day I'll get the itch to take Linux on the road.

Maybe I'll go down the Framework route then, but not utterly sold on that tech.

[smoky sundial]

tbh i think mine is fine

for 99% of people

good battery good igpu good dgpu good cpu good trackpad

meh screen

[fervent jackal]

My next laptop will probably just be whatever the latest MacBook Pro is at the time. M1 MacBook Air was my first Mac computer and I'm very satisfied 5 years later.

And that's coming from Windows and Linux

I'm probably the exception rather than the rule in having that opinion

[viscid elm]

all i want is a igpu

[smoky sundial]

intel fan boy over there

i mean intel igpus are amazing now

[fervent jackal]

Weren't they flexing new igpus with fRaMeGeN at their recent announcement thingy?

I skimmed throuhg a GamersNexus video on it

[smoky sundial]

yeah

its still farily good plus xess is hard to tell

[fervent jackal]

I pretend to mock framegen but I have an RTX 5070 Ti and lowkey there's use cases where it's just chef's kiss

It works really well

I only crank it on a modest 2x or 3x max.

[smoky sundial]

i like framegen its just to far now tho

anyway i gtg sleep fr this time

[fervent jackal]

Also by the way what are the chances that I hop on the Linus Tech Tips Discord for the first time and it just so happens you who I was talking to in Cachy server is the only active person in general chat out of 160,000 people?

We are truly chronic discorders

I can see the two tech channels are clearly the main hubs of this server

[smoky sundial]

no i just am finding alternatives for cachy

as i dont think im gonna be there next week

[fervent jackal]

Is your pfp a reference to blazingly fast popular programming language Rust perchance? (I do catch niche references)

[smoky sundial]

yes

[smoky sundial]

because mods just hate me

[fervent jackal]

Nah all I'd say from experience is don't make a drama of it or fabricate some urgent outcome in your mind. It's not be all end all. Just lie low for a week or as long as you need, see how it goes.

As a CachyOS user you could really do with being in the heart of the community. Just step back and lurk a while is all.

Make your bottom line simply just being inactive in the server - not crashing and burning and getting banned.

[smoky sundial]

i am talking here for a reason yk im hoping all the mods forget the hate while i help in support forums

[fervent jackal]

Out of interest what did you do?

I've been in a foul shitposting mood today and had no warnings or anything.

[willow temple]

How much sense would it make for me to play god of war ragnarok without having played previous titles?

[fervent jackal]

I happen to be playing God of War right now and I get the impression the lore isn't that heavy here.

[smoky sundial]

some mods got mad at me for sending 4 wiki pages and telling someone to stop being lazy and research

[fervent jackal]

At least so far, 6.6 hours in.

[willow temple]

Sounds good thx

[fervent jackal]

I can't say for sure, but you should be alright imo.

It's not like playing The Last of Us 2 without playing 1

lmfaoo

Maybe skim the plot section on the wikipedia for God of War

[smoky sundial]

wanna see a funny screenshot

[fervent jackal]

Shoot

[smoky sundial]

mods just telling people to mute me and timing me out to " have a gaming session"

[fervent jackal]

What did you even do? I've been watching you in chat and you seem really neutral. I've been shitposting like crazy there and nothing's happened. Makes no sense.

Were you making any weird remarks that I didn't notice?

[smoky sundial]

i donate and u dont and no

[fervent jackal]

Or is there some history you have there that everyone but me knows?

[smoky sundial]

i cant tell anymore

[fervent jackal]

Well that's not nice to say to people.

Donating to FOSS is not to be used as a bragging right.

[smoky sundial]

they hate donators

for some reason i was liked before i donated

[fervent jackal]

I donated and have donator rank and I have no issues.

[smoky sundial]

hm

[pallid falcon]

What project

[smoky sundial]

cachy os

[fervent jackal]

I feel like maybe we should not use this server as the Switzerland for that CachyOS Discord drama.

[smoky sundial]

they are a really cool os just horrid moderation and community

[pallid falcon]

Oh

[smoky sundial]

real

[fervent jackal]

I got the impression moderation was quite relaxed.

[smoky sundial]

but they share like all the good cachy members

[fervent jackal]

So I'm not sure what you're doing to be honest.

[smoky sundial]

idk to lets just leave it ( the discussion)

[fervent jackal]

Agreed.

[pallid falcon]

Ive found most linux communities to be toxic to nee comers for not knowing everything right away and insult you never again

[harsh quartz]

still not as bad as matrix

[fervent jackal]

I GAGGED

i physically GAGGED

[smoky sundial]

i dont see a colour scheme where this is nice

[smoky sundial]

no they safe guard noobs to much u cant help them

[smoky sundial]

u cant send wiki pages

[fervent jackal]

I haven't had a similar experience

I've found all Linux communities I've been in to be quite accomodating, even when I was a beginner all those years ago.

[winged spire]

Curved infinity mirror kinda fire

Wonder how tight of a bend you could do

[pallid falcon]

That was my entire experience.. I just sticked with it on my servers but thsts it

[fervent jackal]

Has to be AI generated

[winged spire]

What

[harsh quartz]

just so confidently incorrect

[fervent jackal]

Lmao

[dusky jacinth]

Naww, that's real.

[fervent jackal]

I don't know I just got a whiff for some reason

[winged spire]

At worst it could have been a render but like 🤨

[smoky sundial]

( its ai)

[dusky jacinth]

And how would you even know?

[winged spire]

How do yall think product photos got made pre 2019 🥀

[smoky sundial]

ai slop detector from ebay

[fervent jackal]

Certain tells, but I can get things wrong

[smoky sundial]

pictures

[winged spire]

And renders

It’s not a choice beteeen ai and real

[dusky jacinth]

Renders, sculpts, and concept art.

[winged spire]

Yep

[harsh quartz]

CG-AI

[harsh quartz]

this gpu is actually made of clay

[winged spire]

This is gonna sound weird but like

Why does my entire neighborhood smell like onions

Bruh

[fervent jackal]

When I'm trying to identify something as AI slop I just zoom in on smaller details and ask myself if they make sense, I zoomed in on some details on that and clearly came to the wrong conclusion thinking quickly.

[harsh quartz]

sounds like you smell like onions

[winged spire]

Nah it’s outside

[smoky sundial]

gn

[winged spire]

I can smell it when the wind blows

[pallid falcon]

Because we're making burgers without you

[smoky sundial]

that dr*gs

[pallid falcon]

[smoky sundial]

not onions

[fervent jackal]

I've been on Linux desktop for many years now. 6 or 7 years maybe.

I started with Pop!_OS I think when that was in early stages

Then quickly moved to Fedora when I realised it was garbage

And spent many years on Fedora. Recently switched to Arch based

That's my life story

[pallid falcon]

First linux os I used was Ubuntu

[winged spire]

sad I missed CES this year

one of the coolest things I did last year \

[shut lichen]

You got things very wrong. AI would never get any of the details in this image right, especially the infinity mirror effect

[fervent jackal]

The concept of a "beginner Linux distro" is propaganda and the hivemind always recommends bullshit. Do not download Linux Mint on a machine you built in 2025. Start with something like Fedora with a modern DE running under Wayland with modern drivers and kernel.

[oak pier]

ubuntu FTW

[fervent jackal]

Yeah the more I think about it the more I realise you're right about that

[fervent jackal]

If you want to revive a laptop from 2009 with minimal effort by all means go Mint but I don't understand why people recommend it to people with modern recently build gaming rigs who want to dabble in Linux. You're just asking for a bad time.

[winged spire]

yeah AI isnt great at infinity mirrors

its close

[fervent jackal]

it's basically a hivemind at this point. People recommend Mint without even truly considering the practicality of that, because they've seen other people always recommend it by default

[oak pier]

to be fair, infinity mirrors are hard

[winged spire]

yeah

[oak pier]

even some humans suck at comprehending it, let alone ai

[harsh quartz]

yeah but it got some other stuff wrong. Like the PCIe is on the wrong side

[fervent jackal]

3.5 pcie lanes consuming ahh gpu

[oak pier]

also there's two power notches instead of a power notch and a locking notch

[harsh quartz]

and something feels weird about the side with the fan but i cant put my finger on it

[fervent jackal]

also it invented 6 different display cable technologies

impressive

Actually the more I look at this GPU the more is wrong with it

[harsh quartz]

na only 5, one of those is probably firewire

[fervent jackal]

It's like something Gigabyte would design

😂

[winged spire]

yeah further prompts are just making it worse

lol

[harsh quartz]

oh its probably that i cant see anything behind the fan

[winged spire]

real authentic 5090 here

[fervent jackal]

Your CPU cooler and heat sink and ram must be MIROSCOPIC to fit this in with the orientation where the fans face TOWARDS the CPU

😭

[gritty jackal]

Hi

[harsh quartz]

yeah it gets the fan but cant really get any details inside/behind the blades of the fan

[fervent jackal]

hiya

[plucky copper]

Check rgb cable

[gritty jackal]

I made a website called glitchrealm.ca

idk if someone wants to visit it

[harsh quartz]

what are you talking about

[plucky copper]

check the discombobulator

[fervent jackal]

ip yoinker

[gritty jackal]

no I swear

here I will tkae a ss

[fervent jackal]

realises my nordvpn is on alrgighjt

ill bite

[fervent jackal]

Wow your website is sick.

is it vibecoded? i wont judge regardless

[gritty jackal]

no some people think but its not

[harsh quartz]

dudes got chatgpt and google AI bookmarked, i have a feelin

[gritty jackal]

does it look vibecoded???

[gritty jackal]

becuase I like to test them

[fervent jackal]

sorry I didn't mean to insult I just get.... vibes

from certain stuff

[gritty jackal]

yeah but just curios does it look vibe coded

[gritty jackal]

I test vibe coding but never realase them just when I am bored lol

[fervent jackal]

If this isn't vibecoded this is awesome

[gritty jackal]

Its not I swear

[gritty jackal]

Thanks been working on it for 2 yrs now

[fervent jackal]

I'll admit I only checked it quite briefly and briefly checked the gameplay but it looks sick

[gritty jackal]

only good game I would say is reality sim

[fervent jackal]

Yeah this is the one I checked out

[gritty jackal]

but working on improving others

[fervent jackal]

I think

rip

[gritty jackal]

u can sya what u want but I have worked on it for 2 yrs

[fervent jackal]

I feel really bad about making vibecoding allegations to people who might genuinely have worked on something from scratch. Don't blame confused people like us, blame the mere existence of AI for threatening human creativity in such a way

I guess. idk. this is already too deep and philosophical for me.

Out of interest what is your definitive proof?

[gritty jackal]

yeah

becuase netlify is free

no its just netlify is free and I don't really have the budget

Whats wrong with Netlify???

I just use it since its free

<a> is a HTML link tag. Makes it so u can click on text and images clickable and sends you to a URL using href.

[fervent jackal]

I just asked ChatGPT if it thinks the website is vibecoded

"My honest verdict

Yes — it almost certainly used AI as a co-pilot.
No — it doesn’t look like “AI did everything and the human didn’t understand it.”

His final conclusion after a bunch of waffle based on the simple prompt:

https://glitchrealm.ca/ Does this website look like it has been vibecoded with AI?

[gritty jackal]

The one part that was vibecoded was the credits animation screen since idk how to it but learning

[fervent jackal]

This is latest and greatest ChatGPT model by the way, not the weak shit.

[tidal moss]

hello!

[gritty jackal]

Hi

[fervent jackal]

I'm built different

@flint fossil Also loving your pfp by the way

Peak

You know your shit.

Dr who reboot peaked when it started with eccleston

[gritty jackal]

@flint fossil Just curios whats wrong with netlify

huh netlify can't make sites unless its new

my plan is like 4 yrs old

[fervent jackal]

Most based Doctor, also based guy irl.

[gritty jackal]

since when can u make a site with netlify

[fervent jackal]

To be fair every web hosting/website development site has jumped on the "AI powered" bandwagon including Netify.

So it doesn't really narrow it down much.

Whatever service he was hosting his project with will be "AI powered"

Yeah like I say fucking EVERY website says this bullshit

Now

[gritty jackal]

is it supposed to be in the projects I legit looked everywhere could not find it @flint fossil

[fervent jackal]

I'm trying to resonate concrete

[gritty jackal]

thats the last update

[dusky jacinth]

Mine was Fedora 6... Which I left rather quickly at the time (it was in my younger years) and fresh installed WinXP to that old system.
Then years later, I officially attempted to try Linux for real, so tried out Solus OS on 4.1, specifically the Plasma version when it first came out.

[fervent jackal]

Wow you’re old no offence.

[dusky jacinth]

I mean, I'm 31. When I first experienced seeing Fedora for the first time, it was on a handmedown laptop from my uncle, specifically an old Lifebook from the 90s, running an old Crusoe cpu.

And that was like... 2009 or so?

I was like 15-16 at the time or so.

[gritty jackal]

wdym @flint fossil

[dusky jacinth]

And then when I officially tried distro hopping, that was back around 2019-2020 or so.

[harsh quartz]

Yeah, old

[rain linden]

What’s the tool?

[sharp lynx]

Oooooo new WhaleLAN dates popping up has me excited lol

[gritty jackal]

Netlify if theres vibecoding tools

[dawn anchor]

my pc crashed and now my internet also crashed for some reason, it can access the local network but the internet is cooked

[fervent jackal]

My immediate inclination would be to check DNS

[dawn anchor]

i forgot how to reset it

the network itself is fine i just checked

[fervent jackal]

I genuinely can't remember how to change this on Windows. Just figure out how to go deeper into your settings for that connection and manually set your DNS server to 1.1.1.1 or something

I could be dead wrong but typically main bulk of these sort of issues is DHCP related with DNS assignment

[fervent jackal]

Ah hold on. Did it say "Ethernet 2" here before the crash?

[harsh quartz]

to clear dns its ipconfig /flushdns

[fervent jackal]

Nvm ignore me I think I just found a false lead

[dawn anchor]

yeah

i used my wifi dongle it's not letting me either

[fervent jackal]

I was thinking it had somehow defaulted to wrong adapter but you're on the right LAN anyway

Which again reinforces DNS issue theory

[harsh quartz]

i mean, checking your IP would probably be the best first step

[dawn anchor]

i just disconnected the wifi thing

so far nothing changed

[dawn anchor]

i ran it and it didn't solve the issue

[harsh quartz]

didnt figure it would. not sure why he immediatly went to dns reset

[dawn anchor]

how

[harsh quartz]

easiest way is ipconfig in a cmd

[harsh quartz]

no idea what that dns is. can you do ping google.com?

[dawn anchor]

it doesn't work

[harsh quartz]

can you ping 8.8.8.8

[dawn anchor]

it worked

[fervent jackal]

ok yeah

Looks like original theory is right. its dns

[harsh quartz]

aight dns is fucked. id recomend switching it from whatever that DNS domain is just to 8.8.8.8 or something

[dawn anchor]

i did it once before 4 years ago how do i do it again

[fervent jackal]

I tried recommending this at the very start but can't remember how to guide him to do this on Windows uhh... go to your wi-fi settings

and click the netwoerk youre conencted to and go as deep as you can into its settings for ipv4

until you see something saying dns

and manually overwrite it

with 1.1.1.1

[dawn anchor]

my motherboard doesn't have wifi the wifi dongle complicates the wifi menu a bit but it's not in rn

[fervent jackal]

Just screenshot along with us. Is it ethernet or wirelessly connected?

[harsh quartz]

control panel, network and internet, network sharing center, change adapter options, then whichever adapter right click and go to properties, click IPv4 and properties, choose manual DNS, then enter 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 or whatever dns addresses you like

[dawn anchor]

neither work but i primarily use ethernet

[fervent jackal]

I think modern Windows 11 Settings panel also has easier config for this iirc

[harsh quartz]

its shit

[harsh quartz]

control panel is just better

[fervent jackal]

swithc IPv4 on

and then bingo, you can change dns

[dawn anchor]

rip control panel 🥀

[harsh quartz]

its still there

[fervent jackal]

Are you able to switch the IPv4 one on? Because you're in the correct place I can assure you

[harsh quartz]

yeah you can do it there but control panel works better

just personal preference

[fervent jackal]

This should be way easier from what I can remember being on Windows

Control panel is more submenus iirc

[dawn anchor]

yeah

[dawn anchor]

but it's hidden like hell

[harsh quartz]

if it continues to work and control panel doesnt eventually overrite it, yes, its easier. however settings and control panel dont always agree, and when they disagree, control panel wins

[fervent jackal]

Yep then save, assuming it wasn't already 8.8.8.8, in which case we've got more problems

[harsh quartz]

no its just type control panel in the search bar

[dawn anchor]

they should've just updated control panel into the modern era

[dawn anchor]

but the search bar is guarded by the beast of bing!

[harsh quartz]

the fuck its not

[fervent jackal]

Honestly I thought modern Settings panel was decent

Maybe I was crazy

[dawn anchor]

i just ran 200 debloat and activation scripts

[fervent jackal]

Well then.... it's very possible this fucked something

[dawn anchor]

winaero tweaker banished copilot to the depths

[dawn anchor]

i ran then when i installed win11 3 months ago when support finally ended

[fervent jackal]

Oh lol

Did the DNS thing work?

[dawn anchor]

no 💀

[fervent jackal]

Yeah from what you showed, assuming you modified nothing, your DNS was already pointing in the right direction at 8.8.8.8 which should work since you were able to ping it in your terminal.

Maybe change it to 1.1.1.1 just in case

[dawn anchor]

i was able to ping 1.1.1.1 as well

[fervent jackal]

Right. Try setting that to your DNS just to rule out anything else

[dawn anchor]

didn't seem to work either

[fervent jackal]

Have you forced dhcp to reassign IP?

try uhhhh, 1 sec

ipconfig /release
followed by:
ipconfig /renew

if you get errors then its something sinister with driver/adaptor

[dawn anchor]

well since it crashed last time maybe i should've listened

it's still cooked though 💀

[fervent jackal]

You didn't restart it before asking for troubleshooting help?

[dawn anchor]

i did and it did... nothing.

also my original problem i thought was i got an error that killed my system

it took the internet along with it it seems

[fervent jackal]

netsh int ip reset
netsh winsock reset
ipconfig /flushdns

try these commands again then restart. resets network stack

[dawn anchor]

this is also the wifi adapter which is not being used right now

i am an admin, windows 💀

well now i'm system32

[harsh quartz]

right click cmd and run as admin

[dawn anchor]

my ltt water bottle attacked me earlier when i got out of my chair 💀

[fervent jackal]

I genuinely killed a person using my LTT water bottle

[dawn anchor]

what items did they drop

[dawn anchor]

i tried them all and restarted they didn't seem to work either

do you think unplugging the router would do something

although i'm connected to the wifi right now so

it's running just fine on my phone

[dawn anchor]

i reset the router, resatarted, and changed the physical ports, now i'm just waiting to see when it's active again

it's STILL broken

[harsh quartz]

i might suggest doing a full network reset

[dawn anchor]

i don't think it's working

especially after all those commands it still gives me nothing

[harsh quartz]

idk what to tell you bud, other than maybe switching your IP to a different one cause the 1.159 might be the problem but idk

[dawn anchor]

what's .159 have to do with it

[hot tartan]

mark

[harsh quartz]

nothing, its just an IP, but its the same IP youve had the whole time

might be something with a duplicate IP

[hot tartan]

marky mark mark

[harsh quartz]

marki moo

[dawn anchor]

am i supposed to change the ip now

[hot tartan]

idk you tell me Mark

i have no idea what you are doing

I only saw your name

[dawn anchor]

you weren't following up then

[hot tartan]

I was not

[harsh quartz]

pcs fuckled. trying to unfuckle it

[dawn anchor]

that's not even my real name i just never changed it from the markiplier e meme

[hot tartan]

nice try Mark

[dawn anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-e-meme-lord-farquaad-gif-22506386

[hot tartan]

USB and Windows Install Media would go crazy rn

[harsh quartz]

can. probably something like 192.168.1.150 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8

its just a random shot in the dark

also are you on win11 pro?

cause idk what the fuck that dns suffix is, and i dont think home version has that

[dawn anchor]

i think it's home

[dawn anchor]

it's on manual, i mean my sony tv has subnet mask and gateway

[harsh quartz]

yeah, i mean everything will ahve subnet mask and gateway

[dawn anchor]

i can't get it to work on auto settings though

[harsh quartz]

thats their perogative

[hot tartan]

why are we talking about pierogis

[harsh quartz]

if the ip changes dont work, and dns hasnt worked, and network reset hasnt worked, idk what to tell you and im going hands off :P

[harsh quartz]

wait

its spelt prerogative??

where the fuck did the first r come from

[hot tartan]

oh I had no idea either I was just being a douchebag

[harsh quartz]

oh i just assumed you were saying i spelt it wrong

either way imma take the L, no chance i thought that word had a second r

[hot tartan]

yeah that's crazy

[dawn anchor]

i literally ran as admin why 😭

i'm just cooked now

[oak pier]

windows generally doesn’t let you kill critical tasks

[dawn anchor]

even with admin?

[oak pier]

yes

[dawn anchor]

what's critical about dns if it literally can't connect to the internet right now

[oak pier]

admin isn’t a “do whatever the hell you want” mode, it’s a “do anything within reason that you want, and some stuff that isn’t in reason”

[dawn anchor]

how do i do it then

[oak pier]

i wasn’t referring it actually being critical, it’s just labeled as such in windows

[oak pier]

that’s the funny thing, you don’t

[harsh quartz]

powershell

but also, dont

[oak pier]

i wasn’t gonna tell them how to fuck over their internet system

[harsh quartz]

oh their shits fucked already

[oak pier]

there’s zero reason to be halting your dns or dhcp services entirely

[harsh quartz]

its at the point where id recommend a reinstall, but also, if you really want to, powershell

[dawn anchor]

this reddit post is my last hope

https://www.reddit.com/r/Winsides/comments/1ihd2by/fix_windows_11_network_reset_not_working/

[dawn anchor]

reinstall windows???

i have ubuntu dual booted actually

[oak pier]

would almost certainly fix it, yeah

[harsh quartz]

if you cant get anything working its a last resort

[dawn anchor]

i just never use ubuntu

[oak pier]

reinstalling windows is the ultimate “did you try turning off it back on again” solution

[dawn anchor]

linux likes me better it looks like

this might as well be linux 💀

[tranquil yacht]

Real

[dawn anchor]

i got new drivers so

it still doesn't work 😭

[tranquil yacht]

Did this happen after a Windows update?

[dawn anchor]

oh it's still installing apparently

[dawn anchor]

no it happened after my CPU crashed apparently

[dawn anchor]

and it finished and a still nothing

[tranquil yacht]

Oh that's not something I've seen before.

Hope nothing got fried.

[dawn anchor]

yeah it just crashed

i've been at this for three hours 😭😭😭

[tranquil yacht]

Fatal Hardware Error

No $h!t it was fatal.

[dawn anchor]

i think that just means it caused a crash

restart and still nothing

[tranquil yacht]

I'm assuming you tried rebooting, SFC, and DISM already.

[dawn anchor]

no i haven't

just restarting a bunch of times

ubuntu linux can run the internet just fine

we've all been focusing on it being purely network related

time to try now i guess

[tranquil yacht]

"sfc /scannow"
"dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth"

[pastel marsh]

detrimental typo

[tranquil yacht]

Might not work, but worth a shot.

[dawn anchor]

i'm gonna sxam you

[pastel marsh]

NOOO

[dawn anchor]

hehehe

https://tenor.com/view/hehehe-gif-18542018

[tranquil yacht]

Why the ?

There's a typo in the dism command

[dawn anchor]

apparently it changed the time ahead by 8 hours 💀

[dawn anchor]

where

OH the ?

[tranquil yacht]

**/**Cleanup-Image

[dawn anchor]

what

i would assume all the dns stuff is likely unrelated then?

since ubuntu worked just fine

okay what next

[tranquil yacht]

Normally you would run "dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth", but since you have no internet, it might not work. DISM grabs stuff from Microsoft's servers to repair the OS.

[dawn anchor]

is a reinstall necessary then

in the meantime, emulator games i guess

[harsh quartz]

There’s an offline version that uses a store safe image

[tranquil yacht]

Try the command, if it fails or succeed, give your PC a reboot so that SFC can apply the changes. If your internet comes back, run the SFC and DISM commands to check and fix additional corruption's. Otherwise, I'd write it off as Windows being cooked.

[civic fox]

just got introduced to fiber optic, and uh this is the best thing ever literally. oh and its on wireless too.

[tranquil yacht]

Oui, speed of light

Next will be quantum entanglement internet

[civic fox]

this cost me 50 bucks, i can go to a gig for 75.

[tranquil yacht]

Lucky

[civic fox]

i guess thats what happens when your the only one with fiber optic in town. its nice to not have any congestion.

[tranquil yacht]

Fibre optics still too expensive to be worth it for me.

While flipping all my neighbours have it.

[civic fox]

most places still are, i guess it being new in this town makes it cheaper i think

[tranquil yacht]

It has gotten to the point where ISPs are begging my household to switch to fiber so that they can rip the copper out.

[dawn anchor]

it seems to be working

[civic fox]

lmfao

[dawn anchor]

wait shit speaking of old games, i have a box of 90s/00s games from my neighbor i bought from him for $10 3 years ago

[tranquil yacht]

Basically this meme

[civic fox]

yeah i agree.

[dawn anchor]

the problem with that is it's not where i live right now so i have to go out and retrieve them if i can even find them

all i have is a picture of all the game cases hidden somewhere

they're all stuck on my hard drive and i don't want to waste my time transferring them but this is what i mean

back when games didn't even have an option to keep them connected to the internet

meanwhile it seems to be stuck at 62.3%

[tranquil yacht]

It's doing the fetching thing.

Or it might he writing fixes.

[dawn anchor]

i'm cooked

[tranquil yacht]

OOF

[dawn anchor]

i need that internet

reinstall time??

[tranquil yacht]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/910751962071441418/919983543503949914/pain.gif

[dawn anchor]

truly

[tranquil yacht]

Try rebooting as stated here #public-chat message

[dawn anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/linkin-park-in-the-end-linkin-park-in-the-end-music-chester-bennington-gif-26242393

i've gone 6 months without a single break from the internet i couldn't think it was even possible

[tranquil yacht]

Meanwhile... Dammit, hurry up. My sister wants to play Genshin now.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1435676889619370055/1458293459495551114/2026-01-06-21-57-25-480.jpg?ex=695f1d1e&is=695dcb9e&hm=4b90e7d87063b01e0e6e14d19dfba995c2f7cb5f99df0980b14de62ea6b8233a&

[dawn anchor]

i'm still cooked

[dawn anchor]

give her the ipad you'll be fine for another 2 weeks

it works just fine on my sister she hasn't stopped playing for the last 7 years

[tranquil yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-gumball-skip-to-the-end-gif-15453179

[dawn anchor]

reinstall time?

[tranquil yacht]

No, we blow up Microsoft (and Adobe). /j

[dawn anchor]

wait so i think if i do that i have to check which programs are on my c drive still i mostly have everything on my 1tb sata

[dawn anchor]

i looked outside the window staring into the adobe hq this morning and my face deepened with disgust

[tranquil yacht]

But yeah, I'd reinstall at this point. Tho I want to get second opinions from anyone else here.

[vapid smelt]

fun fact

[tranquil yacht]

No.... I'm going to be staying up till 3 AM for this stupid cr4p.

Fuuuuu-

[vapid smelt]

holy shit dude you cant say crap i mean cr4p in here! think of the children

[tranquil yacht]

At least I am staying hydrated.

If you don't hydrate, you'll die-drate.

[dawn anchor]

as far as i've seen the "keep files" thing is still going to destroy my apps

i can disconnect the other drives that's about all i can think of

[tranquil yacht]

Yeah, I won't trust it.

[dawn anchor]

time to open up my case again

[formal fern]

Or wake up in the middle of the night with a leg cramp lol

[harsh quartz]

this ignores all of the coastal border

[dawn anchor]

i spent too much time getting that m.2 ssd in and now i have to take it out

[tranquil yacht]

Keep files? More like eat files.

[tranquil yacht]

Perfect

[dawn anchor]

i unpowered all my sata drives

now they don't exist in windows anymore

half of these games are at least 50gb so idk why they're here

[tranquil yacht]

7 minutes and the download is going into overtime

[dawn anchor]

i tried opening steam and steam is also not on my c drive either

there's only 1 game on here

[tranquil yacht]

Suddenly I am reminded how cursed you can make a Linux file structure.

I remember one PC I set up has the bootloader on a HDD, the root directory on a SSD, and the home folder on another HDD.

I had to put the bootloader on the HDD because the PC BIOS won't pickup the SSD 💀

[vapid smelt]

2026 hdd?

[tranquil yacht]

It was an ancient Gateway PC so no SSD support in the BIOS.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/910751962071441418/919983543503949914/pain.gif

[dawn anchor]

the OS had a good 4 years of running 🥀

[calm swan]

@viscid elm b390 laptops start at $1300. BB already has an omnibook x listing on their website

[dawn anchor]

i need a 9070 xt now but i just burned 500 on a used lens last month

[calm swan]

no brainer when these things go on sale

[harsh quartz]

??

[dawn anchor]

speaking of which i might need a laptop again

[alpine gale]

Yeah.... how is it Windows 11 and 10? This smells like a heavily modified (read: corrupted) installation.

[dawn anchor]

i haven't used one other than work provided ones

[dawn anchor]

probably because i upgraded

[calm swan]

the new intel ones seem like the obvious choice this year

[dawn anchor]

i shell modded it to look like windows 7 once but i reversed most of the changes

[alpine gale]

Definitely time to reinstall then. Especially with whatever broke your network access.

[dawn anchor]

so far my installation has felt barren thanks to winaero tweaker vanquishing copilot

[dawn anchor]

yeah um i tried to back it up

i restarted explorer and it still hangs

[tranquil yacht]

heh heh windows heh heh

TBF, KDE Plasma does hangs sometimes.

[dawn anchor]

now it's stuck on "calculating" trying to copy program files x86

[tranquil yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/plasma-plasmashell-kde-crash-walter-white-gif-12106301733358938543

[tranquil yacht]

Oh no, I think it's panicking on files that needs elevated permissions

[dawn anchor]

i just allowed it

instead of showing 700mb it shows 10gb but it still hangs

when i open up the folder and select them all

[tranquil yacht]

10 GB copy

https://tenor.com/view/bellebows-tiktok-dog-funny-silly-gif-26293491

[dawn anchor]

i found the problematic folder was the asus one

the rest copy fine

this masterpiece must be saved before the ai robots take over

[exotic sierra]

Is esdeekid a industry plant?

Ive literally never heard of this guy but it's everyone's favorite musician randomly for some reason

[dawn anchor]

well i'm ready to go go now i just need to get the... oh wait...

i'll try to download it off my phone

[tranquil yacht]

Reject Windows embrace thigh high socks OS

[dawn anchor]

the only reason i have one of those is for a femboy cosplay meme thing i did for halloween

[tranquil yacht]

NGL, hats off for yoy having the balls to do it.

[dawn anchor]

yeah 💀

[pulsar hemlock]

4 vidyas in the last 24 hours

no complaints but damn that's a lot

[severe marsh]

anyone know of a good music matching provider, i was using the one included with Windows Media Player since it was rlly fuckin good, but its gone, so i need a new one

(fuckin Microsoft shut it down like a couple weeks ago)

[tranquil yacht]

I've been stuck with the same Halloween costume for 4 years.

[pulsar hemlock]

sureeeee, just for halloween ayy

[dawn anchor]

i'm a dumbass i have linux 💀💀

[severe marsh]

huuuh

[tranquil yacht]

All my family member's PCs are Linux.

[pulsar hemlock]

this confirms that it wasn't just for halloween

[dawn anchor]

not just i went to an anime event last month but it wasn't as big as i liked

the summer ones they host are huge though

[tranquil yacht]

Had my sister try it and immediately everyone in my family rejected Windows.

[alpine gale]

What do you mean by "music matching provider" in this context? Like, are you looking for something that uses microphones to listen to a song, then try to tell you what song it was?

[pulsar hemlock]

man, my phone is so slow at charging imma buy one of those fancy usb pd bricks

idfk why i haven't already, my phone supports it 😭

[stark idol]

2.5G net connection is a garbage standard right

[severe marsh]

no, im looking for something that takes local media files and applies the correct metadata

such as artist info etc

[tranquil yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/minayoecn-battery-battery-exploding-yass-grenade-battery-gif-gif-23923751

[severe marsh]

(Windows used to do this for me :( )

but Microsoft in their infinite wisdom shutdown the servers

[alpine gale]

Oh, I don't know of one that does this automatically, however, I use MP3tag to organize my local song library. You can select a batch of files and have it try to search online databases.

[severe marsh]

yeah that only works for media that has the right tags already applied, it doesnt work so well for media that doesnt

[tranquil yacht]

Eh? You mean 2.4 GHz?

[stark idol]

no
wired network connection 2500Mbps

[alpine gale]

Is there a reason why you don't tag media when you rip from CD's using something like ExactAudioCopy?

[serene snow]

@severe marsh If you know programming, maybe Shazam?

https://www.shazam.com/shazamkit

[tranquil yacht]

Ah

[dawn anchor]

you hail from a family of nerds, then?

[severe marsh]

uhh no its FAST ethernet thats the garbage one

[tranquil yacht]

Engineering nerds yah

[pulsar hemlock]

aint that like 100mb

[severe marsh]

yes lmaoo

[pulsar hemlock]

haha

[severe marsh]

its why i said its garbage