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[tired glade]

U.S. House passes bill to stop Chinese companies from accessing export-controlled American AI chips using offshore rental loophole — Remote Access Security Access Act effectively extends export controls to the cloud

[plush jungle]

https://a.co/d/izj6MqN

any1 try this monitor

[tropic brook]

i am gonna make my new pc, i haven't had a good pc before. What games should i play ( spec: 5060 and a 5 5600x )

[empty swallow]

Hello

[oak pier]

games that you like

[oak cove]

I love this happymoji

[toxic hatch]

minesweeper maybe nice

[verbal iron]

Guys I can finally afford a 2026 priced 5090

[safe mesa]

try kingdom come deliverance (especially kcd2) a try if youre into medival type games, hollow knight/sliksong is one of the best ones ive played

[timber urchin]

hey i realy need some new ram now i found a 5600 cl40 xmp(i have amd) 32gn ffor 180€ is that a good price?

[viscid elm]

Better than nothing

[strange elk]

I had a dream. The steam controller is officially $49.99

[gilded quest]

I'm expecting more like $80

I'd love to be wrong

[strange elk]

NGL my next controller mightve been 8bitdo if they actually had any linux support

Forgot Aknes started selling adjustable tension sticks. Hadnt seen what they looked like till now

[gilded quest]

I tried an 8bitdo
It was fine. I'm not sure why it's so adored

Maybe just my personal ergonomic preferences, and ergo is highly subjective

I need to rewatch the LTT controller roundup

I think maybe it was gamesir? But there were a ton of options that sparked my interest

I just don't use a gamepad all that often

[celest tangle]

honestly xbox one and series controllers are just fine for me I am always at my pc so I always just use them corded not wireless so who cares if it even has batteries in it and the ergo is fine enough for how cheap they always are on black friday

I do use afirst gen 8bitdo light on some games mostly 2d platformers where I prefer the dpad on top insted of a thumbstick

[strange elk]

They are high quality products, and they are just one of the more well known/reputable 3rd party controller manufacturers. Especially for retro controllers, people like the D pads

Gamesir, Gulikit and Flydigi are also contenders

[strange elk]

I love dualsense, it's probably my favorite controller right now, unfortunately stock its kinda garbage because the sticks ended up drifting on me within a month. Replaced them with TMRs and I've used it so much the right trigger haptics are starting to fail

[celest tangle]

I have also liked powerA the few of them I have used I have a couple of usb gamecube contrllers I got for like $5 a piece I got on clearence

[strange elk]

PowerA is bottom of the barrel stuff usually IMO. GameStop little brother controllers (if I had one)

Could be wrong but that's how I see that brand

[celest tangle]

some of them aren't bad the gamecube contrllers I got mostly for emulation stuffs have lasted me like 9 years now I think

I got them right around the time the original nintendo switch came out

[verbal iron]

Dualsense edge

[celest tangle]

like they are cheap and light but surprisingly sturdy and don't have the worst button feel

[keen notch]

Damn, really random patterns?

[strange elk]

I probably wouldn't mind a series controller. I used xbox one controllers from since the console came out until I got the dualsense, think a few months to a year after release. First X B1 controller lasted till the thubstick plastic gave up and they got all loose. Second one (cyberpunk) drifted within a month and the silver stick rubber got brittle and fell off.

Steam might be the last first party I buy directly from. I'll just repair others if I want them. They break out of box anyway lol

[celest tangle]

from using different color plastics in the molding machine it honestly is easier than making sure all the plastic pellets are exactlt the same shade of green or yellow or trying to mix them untill they are

some of the hydrolic hoses we make at my work turn out like that for a hose or 2 after using a new box of rubber just not to nearly that same amount of contrast

[strange elk]

Actually Xbox trigger haptics don't work in linux so I wouldn't get one until then, since dualsense does.

[keen notch]

yeah, could be that + this is still visibly yellow and green

and these are the grounding connectors

[viscid elm]

ground

[verbal iron]

Guys is 5k for a 5090 worth it

[tired glade]

Yes, but no and maybe

[hard shard]

Hey! I am looking for people who are interested in cybersecurity, AI, IoT, cloud, and blockchain technology related videos.

[viscid elm]

aint that youtubes job?

[tired glade]

Blockchain in 2026,lol

[cloud imp]

guys pls roast me i use a rtx 4060 with an i5 14400f

16gb ddr5 single channel ram 5200mhz btw

although i am very great full for what i have

[tired glade]

Rip your memory expansion

[cloud imp]

well they didnt have double channel in store avialbe 8x2

i have 4 slots on my MB one is occupied

[tired glade]

You are fine

[cloud imp]

hmmm

what do u use ???

[exotic hearth]

say hi!

[verbal iron]

Pc parts picker says my PC will cost $9,994.33

[compact kayak]

my god why is windows now so so woeful 😭

even the calculator and snipping tool UI takes time to load up

[verbal iron]

Vibecoding

[compact kayak]

they had to vibecode a calculator, says it all

[compact kayak]

and I bet it still won't run the calculator any faster

[verbal iron]

Building a pc in 2026 < death

[hazy parrot]

Because now your expected to not have those in your installs by means of enterprise remote management tools

Expected in the sense of....not to combat slowness but to actually be the admin of your pc

[tepid sparrow]

Tracker junk

And UWP being ass

[compact kayak]

Think we all stopped being the admins of our PC's when MS started filling it full of data tracking slop

[hazy parrot]

Ngl windows and computer gui in general have always been like this. Ever since windows 7 computers gotten fast enough we artificially slow down the interface with animations and smooth scrolling.

Yeah the sudden spike of that just made people realize everything else bad about it

We would've been complacent for another decade if they didn't make such an offensive product to an end user

[compact kayak]

It was a fresh install this weekend as well. Did a bloat free ISO build, everything was great - one update (the one with the janky new start menu) and every utility app has a 1 second delay

Guessing its to do with replacing everything with Electron between the builds. Start menu doesnt bother me - removed that for FlowLauncher anyway

[hazy parrot]

Dude windows update, store install, even appx deployment services being disabled. Not even manual. Disabled.

Edge got back on my machine out of nowhere and took the browser default

[compact kayak]

I think the terminal is the only thing I actually like now in Windows

[hazy parrot]

Rounded corners was good change

[compact kayak]

maybe they should just go back to msdos

[hazy parrot]

Nah. This is just latestage maximize shareholder value result

Is Amazon doing any worse?

We just all shill Linux enough and then Unreal 6 comes out running faster on it

[compact kayak]

I put Bazzite on my laptop a couple of weeks back. So much nicer

[hazy parrot]

I say publicly that I like Linux but

[compact kayak]

I'd have it on my desktop if it wasnt for still needing to use Adobe for a few things

[hazy parrot]

Still boot 11 every day

[compact kayak]

if it wasnt for apps though would you?

[tranquil osprey]

I’m building a DDR3 APU rig.

[hazy parrot]

idk. I have a self control problem when given so much choice

Hyprland had me wasting so much of my shrinking free time

[carmine dew]

https://youtu.be/zw8abELffUM?si=F0L3UHO0YiAEf1b0

[hazy parrot]

I can't actually game when the OS can be a game

[compact kayak]

think that's probably the worst thing about Brexit, don't think in the UK we are covered by the EU niceties anymore - no option for me to uninstall (officially)

[hazy parrot]

I love that disclaimer at the end there.

[compact kayak]

I get that - but Im at the stage now where I just want something stable and Windows 11 is far from that right now

[oak pier]

what isn’t stable about win11?

[hazy parrot]

Ngl you break something enough times it's stable

Because you yourself become stable

With knowledge

[compact kayak]

Well stable on the UX front. I get hangs in different apps, freezes, taskbars that dissapear (though that seems to be finally fixed)

[oak pier]

literally never experienced any of that

[compact kayak]

Maybe on a single screen its fine - but I have a fair bit setup

[hazy parrot]

Oh you can easily break the shit out of gnome and kde anything really

When you are bad with self control

[oak pier]

sounds like you’ve misconfigured a multimonitor setup and are blaming it on windows

[compact kayak]

Erm no

[hazy parrot]

When you have a good recovery system in place catastrophic system failure is something you get back to working in 15 minutes

At that point you know where to not touch

[compact kayak]

always run multi-monitors. Just windows that has always been poor at it. Like why now does it not even have simple settings to stop switching things around if you turn a monitor off

and then it doesnt even honour scaling correctly between monitors when it switches.

panel on the right is 4k but only 24" so I run it at a higher scale. Turn another monitor off and it goes back to scale 1.0

[hazy parrot]

This is more of a graphics driver deal than windows. Removing a display quite essentially has the driver reset

And this is not unique to windows

[compact kayak]

bet on a mac it is nice and slick

[hazy parrot]

Linux can mitigate this with absurd ass window rules scripting

That windows can also do just not very popular to install korembi

[compact kayak]

😂

[hazy parrot]

Bro that's a glorified phone

Not a diss against phones btw

[compact kayak]

yeah though Im tempted sometimes

[hazy parrot]

Fr

[compact kayak]

Right now with hardware costs - the appeal of building my own machines is pretty dead

[hazy parrot]

I would have expected the most popular laptop college students take would end up with absolutely nuts dev community

So many cool stuff and pretty interfaces the Mac people brew up. Not to mention the intermingling

[compact kayak]

also GPU's have peaked and just gone the software route, charging more for less

[hazy parrot]

Nah. It took years before we found out the best most efficient ways to have dead space 2 on the Xbox 360 still have the best lighting in gaming

We gotta let this new tech cook for consumers after the shareholders are done

Not saying it's a good thing. More like. We were locked on this course years and years ago

[compact kayak]

It wouldnt bother me if what I already had wasnt getting worse

[hazy parrot]

Worse in terms of being an enthusiast? Sure

[compact kayak]

Nah I mean in terms of performance - mostly because of the slop injected into every app going

[hazy parrot]

As a gamer. Unreal engine is finally correcting game development. Creative works can't succeed when they have 15 directors

We are gonna see some really good games and eventually they'll run really good too

[compact kayak]

Im a gamer but I dont take much notice, a lot of these companies are run by people who dont have much of a clue

[hazy parrot]

early adoption is never a smooth ride

[compact kayak]

but we're all early adopters now whether we like it or not, thats the problem

Like Windows - remember 10 (the last every version of windows!) Promised one update a year max that was it

Now its every couple of weeks, they roll out some update that borks something (or reinstalls edge 🤣)

[hazy parrot]

10 isn't any worse or better than 11. They both shipped the same service stacks in nearly tandem.

Outside of some marketable things 11 is essentially a skin

[compact kayak]

No I agree - thats why I moved to 11 pretty early (like the first week) I had to reformat anyway so was pointless sticking with 10

but early days in ten were fine

hell was even missing 8 this morning when I saw my new start menu. Was wishing I could get rid of the start button so I never had to see it again

[hazy parrot]

Idk how much of that was being complacent youth to jaded uncle today

Rose tinted glasses are nice to wear

Gave myself some serious malware the further I think back

[compact kayak]

nah Im not that bothered about things like that to be honest - 11 original start menu was fine, I barely use it - but then they had to inject categories into it or whatever else. This was stuff I literally built a custom iso for to avoid

[hazy parrot]

Now I strip defender out of my installs

[compact kayak]

defender that bad? I've never had a problem with it

(that I know of anyway)

[hazy parrot]

Oh you're talking about this latest build. You can actually make it a lot like the metro 10 start menu with favorites on top of an A-Z app list that's way better

[hazy parrot]

Nah. Quite the opposite

[compact kayak]

yeah but I had just spent a morning pinning some apps then the update came so I had pinned apps then categories. Its like just duplicating everything for the sake of it

I had it nice and clean, just a few apps, and the limited row at the bottom. It was fine

then they shove this underneath.

[hazy parrot]

I've stripped the start menu out of my workflow almost entirely. Task bar pins. And for niche stuff. Sordum EC Menu. Yup the same one from vista. Context menu entires

If you block bing search in the start menu search it's still very effective for finding programs

[compact kayak]

like seriously I rarely use it - I hit start and type and thats it. But when Im on the stylus its semi useful to have a few simple apps listed there. Not this big garbled mess

[harsh quartz]

whats with the massive banner

[hazy parrot]

Being adept with the keyboard to now having a stick as your HID must feel....like... regression

[compact kayak]

I work as a designer/artist so kind of necessity 😂

[hazy parrot]

Must been massive money

[hazy parrot]

Dudes about to push a tiling window manager for wacom tablets on the AUR

[compact kayak]

To finish my middle aged rant on the start menu. Also categories - theyre just predefined - why can I not edit them? That was the point of folders just to have what you actually use on there. Then they make a list of giant folders you never asked for and cant remove

[hazy parrot]

You can. The label for the first 2 things you put together is like

Well it's like "NewTextDocument.txt" a placeholder

When this start menu came out in canary builds this was the case

Ever mess with flow launcher?

[compact kayak]

yeah use it all the time now

[full fossil]

whats funny is they try showing something to the audience but you cant see it

[compact kayak]

just not very stylus friendly

[hazy parrot]

Is "right click" stylus friendly?

[full fossil]

anyways dont get razer theyre absolute crap and dbrand are 40 year olds acting like edgy 14 year olds from 2016

[compact kayak]

Im actually using StreamDecks VSD's as a mini start menu workaround

[hazy parrot]

Kinda heavy imo but I've seen worse

[harsh quartz]

dbrands great

[compact kayak]

flowlauncher is?

[full fossil]

cant stand them and their shitty skins

[hazy parrot]

Streamdeck VSD is server client right? Just one you use through localhost

[harsh quartz]

sucks for you ig

[hazy parrot]

Ecmenu is essentially a wrapper for regedit to make any kind of entry to the right click menu you can think of. Nilesoft Shell is similar. But text file only

[compact kayak]

So I have that on a stylus click on whatever screen Im on

though got a bit carried away with the monitor snap layouts

[hazy parrot]

Are these just window snapping shortcuts or can you modify the regions

[compact kayak]

only to a couple more presets. There are a few more plugins you can use as well that offer more - but that's just elgatos

[hazy parrot]

Back to the original question. I'm assuming these tiles are overlayed from some kinda host service. If the process tree isnt something like 8 threaded tasks under svhost it's fine

[compact kayak]

I used to use the powertoys workspaces and fancy zones but the UI for switching that again is just so slow

[hazy parrot]

I've tried multiple times to fork fancy zones out of powertoys

It can't be done

[compact kayak]

is display fusion any good these days?

[hazy parrot]

Extremely bloated. But functionally equivalent. That is to say. It has its quirks

[compact kayak]

Not used it for years - but had a steam license. Used to mess things up a bit

[hazy parrot]

They tried so hard to justify the price by adding more lines to the feature list

[compact kayak]

was looking at wm glaze yesterday as well - but not sure how well that would work with heavier apps like photoshop or blender

[hazy parrot]

But ended up making it worse as a result

Familiar. And

[compact kayak]

sounds familiar 🤣

[hazy parrot]

They're novelties. Really. Windows window managers. Too many things like UAC prompts. Confirmation windows, file picker and protected from it

[compact kayak]

yeah - I had stardocks fences on my last install as well - but pretty sure that messed something up when I uninstalled

[hazy parrot]

Personally? Autohotkey script that lets you move and resize windows from anywhere in the window

Dude.

Everything we say

[compact kayak]

yeah I was going to get around to autohotkey but I couldnt get used to the coding and gave up 🤣

[hazy parrot]

Neither can I. But it's easy enough to read it and tell Claude when it doesn't work and what you expect

Yeah yeah I know

[compact kayak]

Think when I last looked it was between major versions as well and was conflicted as to what one I should be learning

[hazy parrot]

Ahk 1 and 2 being so polarized is

Wacky. Idk. I'm surprised though that out of all the same vibes were hitting you haven't let AI write you scripts

We're too old for new tricks

[compact kayak]

Nah I'm too old and bitter for AI

Too many prompts already in this world

[hazy parrot]

Being old and bitter makes it even better .
Superuser automation now accessible

[hazy parrot]

Wow this is deep

[compact kayak]

super automation with a big price tag

[hazy parrot]

Not out of our pockets. At least if you don't count like....data center related power supply bill increases

[compact kayak]

Does me as an artist in many other ways

[hazy parrot]

I think the fact that artists. Humanity in general, created it? We're even more entitled to it

More than not.

It wouldn't exist without

I like to think I have a unique take on this...issue

[compact kayak]

My neighbour has a giant telly as well next door - am I entitled to that too?

[hazy parrot]

Did the data you passively contributed to the Internet over it's entire lifetime help them get a big tv?

[compact kayak]

difference between sharing and allowing the right to steal & repurpose

same as the music you have on a CD - you dont own it, or the software on your PC

when the boot was on the other foot what happened with napster, with pirate bay?

[hazy parrot]

All it takes is a the European union to say a TOS isn't consent. And each person has the right to withdraw their data to kill it outright

But it's not happening because it's not a product yet. For voters anyway

If it keeps being as it is. That's probably the best we can ask for

[compact kayak]

Well if its anything like edge uninstalls, will be pretty lightweight in what water it holds 🤣

[hazy parrot]

You right about that

[compact kayak]

besides that anyway - its the other cost I originally meant & what it's going to do with the PC in general

[hazy parrot]

It's really refreshing to have a analytical discussion. In a discord no less

Cheers to you

[hazy parrot]

Hm. Probably doomed.

[compact kayak]

and that's control. Cortana was just about the right level of interaction for me. It was just enough. Once everything is behind a paywall or AI agent its just another excuse to nag you constantly with notifications, or logins or authentication

Hardly Jarvis from Iron Man is it

[hazy parrot]

There will be a turning point where the investors will want their cheese but the inherit moral dilemma to that is gonna spark some real long court battles

[compact kayak]

Having to tell him I'm not a robot every morning by solving a puzzle or accepting 5 message every morning that are mostly adverts selling me another add on service

[hazy parrot]

But EU has been surprisingly gun ho and corps even more surprisingly find it more valuable to comply

[hazy parrot]

Ironic. How we spent 2 decades of captchas to lead to this

That's our product. We made that. You can't just sell it back to us

[compact kayak]

The EU will be behind until it is personally affected, same as the UK has been until Starmer threw a wobbly about Grok

the governments are all on the payroll anyway

[hazy parrot]

Yeah. I wouldn't expect it to be pretty leading up to.

[compact kayak]

which leads me back to being tempted by Linux 🤣

[hazy parrot]

But it's either that or we actually go full cyperpunk 2077 culture

I'm putting all my money on the minute modern games abandon directx

[compact kayak]

Maybe this IS finally the year of Linux

[hazy parrot]

Linux is gonna tsunami the consumerspace

[compact kayak]

The SteamDeck sold me on it

[hazy parrot]

"The peoples OS" is foundational to its existence and culture. Just a matter of time really

[compact kayak]

Also just to go back on it but AI is actually making the simple 💩 worse. I mean samsungs first AI update for OneUI - autocorrect has gone completely nuts, barely works half the time, then throws up random weird suggestions

[hazy parrot]

Yup. I def don't use it these pilot-but-hamfisted integrations

[compact kayak]

Figma's AI won't allow you to type hyphens in variable names because it's AI autocorrect just overrides it. I spend more time having to find workaround for most of the stuff it's needlessly added

[hazy parrot]

There's a big misunderstanding of what LLMs are designed to do

We all want them to be gAI

like in the movies

[compact kayak]

Like Skynet

[hazy parrot]

nah

An LLM prime directive is to gas you up

[echo sluice]

why would i download a separate os that is made for other os users

[hazy parrot]

Tell you what you wanna hear

[compact kayak]

though that was another argument I had this morning actually - someone justifying it for the movie industry because cutting costs would allow them to make much better movies

[hazy parrot]

Compliance is at its foundation

That anthropic simulation story was stupid

[compact kayak]

these are the people that spent $25 million on removing Henry Cavills moustache.

[hazy parrot]

They say that until after maybe 2 or 3 movies then realize we ran out of training data to make something novel

Creatives arnt gonna die out

They're gonna be rich when the world needs em the most ...after they go homeless

Speedbumps are just uncomfortable for a moment

[compact kayak]

The creatives have done so without this though - like compare $25 million on Henry Cavills moustache vs any one scene in Nolans Batman films

[hazy parrot]

The more I think about this the more sense it makes

[compact kayak]

difference was it was a director that new what he wanted from the start - didnt need a silly reshoot on a scene that noone cared about

[maiden flare]

What do yall think of either of these tables?

[hazy parrot]

If all I had was $70 I'm buying a standing desk frame on FB marketplace and put a butcher board over it

[maiden flare]

💔 Fair enough

[hazy parrot]

$700 table

[compact kayak]

or even Dredd, that was an amazing movie on a low budget. Even Cameron with the first Terminator film. That was true creativity

[hazy parrot]

The reboot was low budget?

Like the most recent one?

[compact kayak]

Dredd?

[hazy parrot]

Judge dredd

2012 I think

[compact kayak]

$45 million

[hazy parrot]

When I say blade runner what year do you think of

[compact kayak]

20 more than a moustache

dunno, 80 was it, 81?

or the era it was set in 🤣

[hazy parrot]

I doubt we share the same generation my friend so

[compact kayak]

have we passed it already, damn

[hazy parrot]

I was getting lost in the culturally relevant stuff a bit

[compact kayak]

I'm 42 I think

lost count a while back

[hazy parrot]

My brain immediately went to "oh half that"

Then uh more like. 10

[obsidian lark]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/etesYOost6I
I was hving fun playing this game untill i encountered this.. even the villina goblin cannot compete

[hazy parrot]

I'll probably play this game when it goes for a few bucks

Love cinematic single player games but have no nostalgia for Harry Potter

[compact kayak]

yeah I missed that boat

[hazy parrot]

I pretended to float on it a few times

[dawn pivot]

was free on epic games during Christmas and new year

If you’re referring to Hogwarts legacy

[compact kayak]

Think I've been enjoying indie games more than anything for a while. My internet speeds cant cope with the 40GB daily patches anymore

[hazy parrot]

Which means steam isn't far behind from a few bucks

[hazy parrot]

What defines indie is blurring very quickly

[dawn pivot]

It was a few bucks during that time

[harsh quartz]

most triple aaas have been worth avoiding this year, the only real "big" game i enjoyed was E33, if you dont count that as an indie

hades 2 annd silksong were gems

abyssus too

[compact kayak]

true, maybe I'll just rephrase that to anything pre 2020 that takes up 2GB or less

[hazy parrot]

Indie used to be defined by scope.

Now it seems like budget is only indicator

[harsh quartz]

and even then its mixed

cause hades 2 had a massive buget IIRC

[hazy parrot]

Devolver by chance?

I could've just googled but I'm mobile

[compact kayak]

well it was more defined by the studio. I used to work on a fair few indie games, all shoestring budgets

passion projects - think Kickstarter ruined a lot of it

[harsh quartz]

?

[hazy parrot]

Eh. They ruined theme park mmo at worst

[compact kayak]

Spawned a lot of self proclaimed developers selling products they had no intention of finishing

[hazy parrot]

You can get all your crowdfunding by just releasing your game broken. Yeah the PR sucks but hey they probably don't do that till right before missing anyone's paycheck

[compact kayak]

Worked on one of them, the lead dev had never written a line of code in his life 🤣

[hazy parrot]

I would want a creative director to not be handling backend logic

Unless this is like single digit body team

[compact kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjn_aPPPcow&t=275s

[hazy parrot]

Have you seen a recent synopsis on Ken Levine? (Bioshock)

[harsh quartz]

i liked his stuff, whats up with him?

[compact kayak]

He wasnt a creative director, he was just an opportunist, everything was geared around the Kickstarter

[harsh quartz]

im still waiting for judas

[hazy parrot]

Tldr as irrational games grew he shouldered too many roles and failed as a leader

[harsh quartz]

makes sense, the scale of bioshock infinite was just way larger than the previous games, and was basically an entirely different game

[compact kayak]

still havent finished one of them 🤣

[hazy parrot]

A creative can't be a creative as a manager

[harsh quartz]

bioshock 1 is the best, 2 refines the gameplay but worse story IMO. Infinite is a fine standalone game but is not a bioshock game

[hazy parrot]

Infinite lost that sorta...horror tension

[harsh quartz]

im hopeful for judas but reserved

[hazy parrot]

Hard to describe what makes Bioshock tense but

You get what I mean

[harsh quartz]

what made bioshock was rapture, and they left out rapture

[compact kayak]

Yeah but he had no plan past the kickstarter - just a list of features, no plan to actually develop any of them. It was a hungry target audience. Everything was geared around just getting a tech demo together with my UI and some of the sculptors models. We all disagreed with going to kickstarter because there was actually no game. Half his team left, he completely reset and shipped a 1.0 alpha and nothing after it.

[hazy parrot]

I remember it being whimsical the entire time

And an ending that made no sense

[winged olive]

I couldnt agree more. One of my fav games

[hazy parrot]

Like a Victorian era poem

[harsh quartz]

it was, it was "what if rapture was in the sky instead of underwater" and instead of the lack of social morality creating rules, it was basically just "what if racism never ended?" and i didnt like it

its fine standalone, but its not a bioshock

[compact kayak]

it was all a bit too deep for me to digest

[hazy parrot]

So internal dispute led to a fallout so had to fulfill his duty to a product and shelled out he could?

[harsh quartz]

yeah, it was underwater, its gonne be deep :P

[hazy parrot]

I remember Bioshock differently. I remember it feeling like a morbid idealism vs outcome

The intro ride thru rapture with the neon light.

It's like looking at urban city from the skyline
Beautiful.

But once you get on the street holy shit fentanyl addicts

[compact kayak]

the dispute was that we didnt think we should be taking any kickstarter money until we had at least some sort of game to showcase other than just assets. Thats a lot of faith to put in one person. He had no dev team afterwards so just contracted it out to someone else to create the alpha. Anyway turned out afterward he had also been involved with a guy who had done the same with another game in the dino genre.

Then he quit the scene completely and resurfaced running an e-sports team a couple of years later 🤣

[hazy parrot]

So what at first was good faith out of a dire situation led to...greed?

[dusky jacinth]

No waaaayyy. Zorin?
And here I thought it was just gonna be Mint again or Pop! out of all the Ubuntu spins that got the rest of the Windows defectors.

That is honestly really impressive though. Great on them!

[compact kayak]

Hah no idea, I've barely touched Linux. Installed Bazzite on my latop out of curiosity myself though a few weeks back

[dusky jacinth]

How's that been so far?

[compact kayak]

Loved it, just wish there wasnt an app-gap otherwise I'd have it on my desktop as well

[hazy parrot]

Wake me up when directx12 is at parity

[compact kayak]

we all went into it in good faith - we thought he actually intended on making a game, but only when you work with someone and things start getting shady do you start to question it

[harsh quartz]

Yeah that’s kinda the point of it

[hazy parrot]

The way you worded it was hard to relate to

[compact kayak]

More than a nod to the intro to Half Life with that

[dusky jacinth]

Well that's good to know. I almost went with it for my homelab rig (which my dad uses for everyday usecases), though instead I just went with Solus. So far, his transition to using Linux at home, Windows at work was actually pretty smooth.

I sometimes even mess with it and make sure it's updated and maintained so that if he needs it, it's ready to go for whatever he wants to do.

[compact kayak]

Yeah I was really surprised how well it went tbh. Laptop is cheap Medion thing I bought from Aldi like 4 years ago. No driver issues, everything just worked flawlessly.

[hazy parrot]

Okay let's be real here...games of ye olde times didn't have cinematic animators who can pan a camera nicely. Do all games with first person mute protagonist exposition- oh my God it is

[silver sun]

722

[hazy parrot]

Even master chief was mute protagonist till he got to the bridge...which is an on rails first person exposition-segment

[compact kayak]

Probably the hardest thing on Linux for a new user is just finding how to do the basics, like access cloud storage easily. Kind of why I decided to go the whole hog and drop my reliance on it. (Cloud Storage that is)

[dusky jacinth]

My dad just doesn't use cloud storage at all.

So I don't have to worry about that at least.

[compact kayak]

wise move. I used it mainly for some bits like hardware profiles, still going to have to keep it there until I get a NAS sorted out though

[hazy parrot]

Trying to install a desktop for the first time cause you don't have one by scrolling the wiki on your phone was pretty hard.

[dusky jacinth]

Now if this were my lil' brother, who the rig was originally built for before he decided to buy himself a new one mind you, well... He wouldn't even touch the thing.

[hazy parrot]

Not the desktop part the, manual analog copy pasting from small phone

[compact kayak]

yeah kinda put me off the idea of trying arch linux to start with

[hazy parrot]

Oh c'mon you literally use flow launcher

We love text configuration

[dusky jacinth]

What's funny is that he doesn't even use it or is even asked any Linux-related questions, and at mention of something lacking or only found on Windows, even if it doesn't involve him, he will insist that we get rid of my Solus install on the lab machine and just install Windows.

[compact kayak]

I use it to start programs, and search on everything - thats about it

[valid tapir]

Hi could anyone here give me advice on a monitor I have no clue what I’m doing I just bought my first pc

[dusky jacinth]

It's hilariously stupid and it's funnier when my dad disagrees and my mom's reaction is the same as mine towards my brother not even using it to begin with, so he has no say. Lmao.

[compact kayak]

it's faster than Windows 11's search and well - there is just less chance it might try to sell me something in between

depends on his generation I guess - my dad would probably prefer Linux, but he wouldnt know it wasnt Windows either

[hazy parrot]

What's the incentive structure

[compact kayak]

He did prefer LibreOffice to Office, so I'm mostly going by that too 🤣

[hazy parrot]

Does he know that the box can play Minecraft

[dusky jacinth]

Referring to me and my topic point or Digi and their topic point?

[hazy parrot]

You

[dusky jacinth]

Weeeeelllll it's mostly that any attempt to try establish one, my brother will almost immediately stick a figurative middle finger the size of Mount Olympus, made of durasteel, between him and the possible notion that he should even bother thinking about Linux in the slightest.

[hazy parrot]

How old?

[dusky jacinth]

Or 22. I forget, which is ironic of me. Lol.

[hazy parrot]

Otherwise tech literate?

Relatively

[dusky jacinth]

Illiterate... Yesn't?

Well, he's not an advanced user or a fully understands hardware, but he gets basics and he knows how to build a pc himself.

[compact kayak]

Get him a SteamDeck 👍

[hazy parrot]

Back to the toddler approach. They need to be aware of a benefit that they will like

[dusky jacinth]

Give him a manual though of his motherboard with the kind of diagrams they have (which admittedly Asrock has a lot of blanks and a lot of pages to go through to find stuff, basically lacking enough detail in the correct sections), and he will not be able to figure things out himself.

[hazy parrot]

Because you've been there to spoonfeed to the desired outcome every time till now yes?

[dusky jacinth]

Not really either.
This stuff would happen in the spur of a moment and to get details for troubleshooting and such, it took both of us to go searching or ask around for assistance.

[hazy parrot]

With a precedent set. Yeah it's not gonna happen

[compact kayak]

Sounds like he needs to learn the joys of having to carefully apply a jumper switch

[dusky jacinth]

Usually with mixed results.

He ends up more frustrated than he started as, and usually he wants to be able to handle as much of it himself where possible.

So he isn't being spoonfed and I... Can't really do that much in that sense to be able to make it so if that was even attempted.

I don't build and rebuild systems that often and my knowledge is either sparse for certain details or leans heavily into another area he's not in.

[compact kayak]

I dont think you have to build them that often to pick up whats needed. I used to do a build every 3 years, now its more like 5 or 6, with the costs now probably be going on for 8 with this one. You just need to invest time into it all when it comes around

[dusky jacinth]

And when it comes to something UNIX flavored...

I haven't touched that much into the area, mostly because I just don't have a reason to actively engage it all the time? So I don't really provide much either. I just do what I can with whatever I can scrounge up.

[compact kayak]

Though saying that last time I got a prebuild because it was covid, and the only way I could get a 3090 🤣

[dusky jacinth]

My dad even figured out LibreOffice Calc faster than I could and that's just because I generally don't even rely on office app suites anyway, so I don't really look that much into them right away.

[compact kayak]

Still had to spend a good couple of weeks speccing it all up though

[viscid elm]

im mostly just using libre stuff but having stuff on the cloud with word can be so nice too

[compact kayak]

I just use obsidian these days for most of anything I need to write. Hard to get out of markdown once you get used to it

I struggle with webapps a lot as well. Went from Notion to Obsidian and the speed differences really made me think twice about them, also being locked into proprietary formats for text (though doc obviously isn't as bad as a lot of them)

[jaunty compass]

We are so back, I got a really good deal on a legion go

[compact kayak]

Did they take the ram out of it? 😄

[viscid elm]

that skin looks pretty nice

[viscid elm]

soldered

[jaunty compass]

I paid $150 for the tablet with broken controllers then I spent another $50 on new controllers

[viscid elm]

wut only 50 for controllers

i probs would have spent like 15$ on whatever part was broken and a few hrs finding out they were too low quality then just buying new controllers

[jaunty compass]

The controllers it came with originally were super broken and beyond repair

The rails were fucked, so we're the sticks and triggers

I found a pair used in good condition with the printed grips for $55 for both so I just got those

[dawn pivot]

Fire

[cerulean silo]

hi i have a radeon rx7600xt gpu. and somehow i got now a 300mhz lock on it . i tried everythin. Pc reset,DDu,cabels,bouht a new power suppli. does anyone have a tip or recomedation.

[strong sorrel]

idk

[agile meadow]

I paid 5$ for a professional picture of the controller

[jaunty compass]

What?

[agile meadow]

Yes

[harsh quartz]

That’s insanely cheap for that device

[gilded slate]

i chose to upgrade my r5 5500 processor to an r7 5800xt

I wanted better frame-times, l3 cache, and decrease preformance loss while streaming

[harsh quartz]

Forgot they made the xt series

[gilded slate]

take a r7 5800x but you add 100mhz on base and max, then make it slightly more heat-efficient to compensate

it gives the same score on cinebench basically, but gaming its slightly better

[harsh quartz]

Oh I know what it is, I just forgot they made it cause it’s realistically a useless sku

[gilded slate]

am5 is way better price to preformance but if i wanted to get something like a 7600x i would of also had to spend 2-300$ on ramsticks and a new motherboard, although the ladder can be cheap sometimes

since amd is still selling the xt am4 cpus getting one was cheaper than a 5700/800x

yeah the market sucks

[nova tulip]

Hello, how is everyone doing?

[oak pier]

aaaaaaaaaaaah

[harsh quartz]

Sir this is a Wendy’s

[harsh quartz]

Please stop screaming in the restaurant

[pallid falcon]

No

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/the-summoning-bad-cat-hitting-broom-gif-10352523

[pallid falcon]

Ok but hear me out:
It is fun to scream in this restaurant

:)

[stark idol]

what is youtube doing

new 4x speed that requires premium

[austere shale]

Anybody know of any good wifi extenders that have 2 Ethernet ports for an input and an output? I have a cable ran across the house for gaming PC but stuff like the smart tv and my phone load slow over WiFi, so I wanna use the cable I have ran to “power” the extender and then use the pass through to use with gaming pc

And Amazon is doing its obligatory “buy this one! No buy THIS one!” game

[harsh quartz]

i believe a tplink deco mesh works like that, not 100% sure. and most routers have a setting where you can switch it from router mode to bridge mode

mesh systems are cool but pricey, most routers that have a WAN port and lan ports can be set to bridge mode, and the WAN port turns into an upsteam lan port

[austere shale]

So you’re saying just get another cheap router and run it in a bridge mode? Or am I misunderstanding

[harsh quartz]

alternately, instead of passing through the extender, theres always the option of a dummy switch, just hook the switch into the line youve run, then run one to an extender and one to your pc.

[harsh quartz]

if its one that has a bridge mode, taht should work. Or the dummy switch, either should work

[austere shale]

Okay, I’ll have to do some digging then. I feel like a dummy switch and a cheap $30 router would probably be the cheapest option

[winged spire]

e\

nasa is starting an official starfleet academy? lol

[austere spoke]

does anyone know how to enable notifications for pings only in telegram ios

[alpine gale]

https://telegram.org/faq#notification-problems

[alpine gale]

https://bugs.telegram.org/c/44

[harsh quartz]

if you do that, just make sure its not one in routing mode, 2 routers on the same network would be worse than having just the 1

[austere shale]

Even if I have the same SSID and password so the phones and tv think it’s just one?

Because that’s all that would even be on wifi, anything meaningful is hardwired

[harsh quartz]

thatd probably work so long as its not in routing mode, 2 routers together can cause fuckery even if you name them the same

[distant wren]

https://tenor.com/view/think-about-it-use-your-brain-use-the-brain-think-brain-gif-17677779115818009596

Just open 2 tabs and select twice 2x speed

[austere shale]

I found the “archer a6” that has an AP mode

And it’s like $40 on Amazon right now

And it’s by TP-link, if I get the gigabit version I could just plug directly into that I assume instead of having to get a switch

[harsh quartz]

can try it, if it doesnt work, theres always the return option

[winged spire]

big things are happening in the 3d printing space

[oak pier]

oh fuck yeah

[iron summit]

exactly what ive been looking for

[bitter kelp]

Will I bottle neck running 5070ti with a amd 3700x

[oak pier]

depends

[bitter kelp]

I'm running it for gaming

[umbral jackal]

Bottlenecks are entirely relative
What games?
What resolution?

For example, with AAA games at 4K, the 5070 Ti is more likely to be the bottleneck, whereas at 1080p, the 3700X is more likely to hold back the 5070 Ti
Some games are more GPU intensive, while others more CPU intensive, like Cyberpunk vs Cities Skylines II

If you're aiming for high framerate at 1080p, then your 3700X will probably be the bottleneck most of the time
Bottlenecks will always exist. If they didn't, we'd be getting infinite FPS at any settings
Something will always limit you, but the limiting factor will change per use-case

[karmic wedge]

istg

"Grab a bargain!" mfers when they list their used goods for more than retail price

[velvet marsh]

Paying 1.98 for fuel is so nice 😊

[cyan prism]

the amount of times I've seen that typa thing is devious

[restive lion]

That sounds horrendous

[karmic wedge]

per litre or per gallon?

[velvet marsh]

Gallon

USD

So like 50c per litre ish

[karmic wedge]

so we're NZ$2.50/L

[winged olive]

What Kind of Mouse does everyone use?
Regular Bottom Optical?
Thumb Trackball?
Finger Control Trackball?

[tropic brook]

$150 for 5600x +b450m mono and cooler

Good deal?

[oak pier]

99.99% of people use regular bottom optical

[winged olive]

I guess I want to talk to the .01% then lol The open minded people

[pallid falcon]

Chat

Upgrade my computers ram from 32 to 64gb

Or

Taco bell?

[oak pier]

upgrade ram, then befriend a guy at taco bell for free taco bell

[golden nymph]

That's a wild price difference

[cyan prism]

LeBron

[ivory bison]

not unless you are streaming 4k, editing 4k, running chess engines. your computer really doesn’t need above 24gb.

chess engines is the big hitter.

[harsh quartz]

Anyone who gives you Taco Bell is not a friend

[cyan prism]

best friend in fact

[harsh quartz]

Worst enemy

[cyan prism]

not to me, I love Taco Bell

[broken umbra]

What about chick fa la?

[cyan prism]

eh

not a big fan

[broken umbra]

I also like McDonalds but that’s embarrassing for me 😂

[cyan prism]

how lol?

[harsh quartz]

Chik fil a is the only decent one of these 3

[broken umbra]

I thought still going to McDonald’s in your 20’s was a stretch but what do I know, lol

[cyan prism]

no one's gonna shame you for some nuggets, or whatever ya get lol

I still go occasionaly

[split swift]

its food, if ppl judge you for eating fast food, that shows more about themselves rather than you

[broken umbra]

That is true and never thought about it that way, I’m an introvert who plays video games all day 😂

Arc raiders is my current one I’m hooked on but not that good at, lmao

[cyan prism]

is it good or what? I've heard about it alot but never looked online about it, maybe I'm just not in the loop anymore lmao

[broken umbra]

It’s a fun game if you have a few friends to play with, since I don’t know a lot of people I play solo and it’s still fun

There’s a flute in the game and you can play it, so whenever I see another player I just play it and I don’t get shot 😂

[cyan prism]

LOL

I'll look into it more tomorrow, but for now I'll stick with Counter-Strike

only game that makes me mad as eff and makes me happy at the same time lol 😆

[broken umbra]

I tried counter strike a long time ago but when I can’t see down the gun sight like in cod it throws me off

And I learned from cod I suck at shooting games

[cyan prism]

it throws me off when I can

I really just don't play any other shooter

[feral island]

I see so many jokes about Taco Bell, what even is it lol, if a food chain had that much complaints in denmark it would be shut down immediately

[cyan prism]

another on my mind would be pubg, but dunno the last time I played it

[feral island]

Look into warthunder, it very good

[cyan prism]

I've heard of it, I'll see

[broken umbra]

That reminds me of the first few times I played fortnight, never got into it but one time I ran into someone and started dancing for no reason. Then I got killed by that person. lmao

[tribal sun]

Can someone explain to me what the actual genuine fuck usps is doing with my package (ram) rn. I live like 6 min away from Detroit yet this shit just cycled through 2-3 states that are far as fuck from here and never stayed in detroit????

[feral island]

It is fun, but very grindy

[feral island]

Repost much?

[tribal sun]

Wrong chat.

[feral island]

Aoeh

[cyan prism]

I played fortnite alot during 2020-2023, I played during season 3 and didn't play much there. kind of a "hmm, what's this?" when I did

then I took a long break to play other games, cuz fortnite was f'n boring for me
first day back I got shit on. sad.

[broken umbra]

And since in Arc Raiders killing other players is optional, I prefer not to

[tribal sun]

Only play fortnite with friends and to buy cool skins. Like the bleach stuff that just came out some weeks ago

[cyan prism]

people say Taco Bell gives you diarrhea or whatever, digestive problems 'n such, but I haven't experienced any of that ever when eating it. maybe for other people it does but what do I know? lol

[tribal sun]

Other than that, I touch the game once in a bluemoon if its ever to play by myself

[feral island]

Ah yes Fortnite ,the game kinda grew up with
I played from 2017 (launch day) to september 2022 when i lost my account when i tried to sell it...... For the second time

[tribal sun]

Its just a meme

[feral island]

Digestive problems mf i got all kinds of issues id be immune to that shit

[cyan prism]

ya, I know, I wonder where it originated from though

[tribal sun]

Probably some spicy meal they sold

[feral island]

Post-orthostatic tachycardia syndrome would do that to ya

[cyan prism]

probably lol

[broken umbra]

How did the name The Fish come from?

[cyan prism]

I ate so much goddamn taco bell and never had any of those issues lol

[feral island]

Nickname i got from the military

During basic training i fell in a pond during a Exercise

[cyan prism]

lol

[broken umbra]

Is this in real life? Or in a video game? My apologies for asking

[feral island]

Ive had other names on discord in the past.
Vanguard (still is the discord username)
Haedron
Juno
Zeloiol

Many others, probs over a hundred diff ones, but for the past 5 years Ive either had the username Vanguard, Juno or whatever101

[feral island]

Real life, i serve in the Danish Home Guard, its like the national Guard for you American people.

Volunteer defense force

[broken umbra]

Mad respect, I can’t imagine doing that

[cyan prism]

same

[feral island]

I wanted to serve in regular forces but they dont want autistic idiots like me, (i read too much Military History and would definitely overwhelm any Seargent with useless information about the cod war

But instead i volunteered in the home Guard, which i hope to keep doing

[broken umbra]

Don’t feel bad about being autistic, I am as well with a tablespoon of dyslexia

[feral island]

Ive got a whole smorgasboard of health issues, but i choose to serve anyways. I wanna be doing something atleast since im on what is called Kontanthjælp (soon to be førtidspensionist)
And im only 19.

It is what it is, got bad genes that made me have shitty heart

[broken umbra]

Well, I bet you have a hell of a drive. How did The Fish discover Linus Tech Tips?

I’ve been watching them for years now

[broken umbra]

I’m sorry to hear about that

[feral island]

Have you seen how long Ive been in this discord lol, Ive been watching them since i was like 10.

[broken umbra]

I wanted to be an editor for their channel in 2023, not so much now but I like there content

[feral island]

Damn

[cyan prism]

good content

[broken umbra]

I actually submitted my application but they said no twice, broke my heart a little but it’s not important

I love technology as well

[cyan prism]

technology is fun

until it decides to break on you for no reason

[broken umbra]

Yea, those pesky 1’s and 0’s gotta get them in the right order

Have ya tried Linux? @cyan prism

[hazy prairie]

I use arch btw

[cyan prism]

tried to install 2 distros, both were a bust, and because (probably) of my own stupidity

[hazy prairie]

Which ones?

[cyan prism]

Debian and Ubuntu, cuz I got them recommended to me

[broken umbra]

I personally use Fedora and it was my first distro. Only because I thought Mint looked bad, lmao

[cyan prism]

but oooohh shit was it a hassle just to get nothing working, sigh

[hazy prairie]

I personally dont like them, but with them being so widely used and such I could see how it's attractive to someone new to linux

I've been on arch since 2020 ish

[broken umbra]

What desktop environment do you prefer? I’m a sucker for KDE Plasma

Wayland

[hazy prairie]

Kde shill here as well

Wayland ofc

[cyan prism]

I have basically no knowledge and I tried to go headfirst into installing it
thought "hey I have a tutorial, I should be fine, right?"

[broken umbra]

And before anyone asks, yes I broke the boot loader once

[hazy prairie]

Tutorials can be alright, I always prefer written ones

[hazy prairie]

I've done that many times, most recently it was setting up secure boot, but I had to boot into windows once without a working grub install for school

[cyan prism]

I'm more of a visual learner, because if I have like a text document telling me what to do, my blind ass needs to go real close in otherwise I look like an old grandma without her reading glasses. lol

[hazy prairie]

Same here, but something about video tutorials just doesn't sit with me lol, written tutorials took some getting used to but I use arch (btw) and their wiki is a godsend lol

If you ever wanna give Linux a try again, you can try it inside a VM

[cyan prism]

do you use arch (btw)?

[hazy prairie]

I use arch btw

[cyan prism]

a classic

[hazy prairie]

I tried manjaro, was less stable/had more issues

So i stick with base arch (btw)

[cyan prism]

(btw)

[broken umbra]

I tried Arc on a VM and thought it was easy enough through a video tutorial. Then I tried to put it on a cheap laptop and apparently the video I was watching was about putting arch on a USB stick not the laptop, lol

[hazy prairie]

Only difference there should be mountpoints

/dev/nvme0n1 vs /dev/sda1 or whatever

[broken umbra]

Yea, without that arch install command idk what I would’ve done

[hazy prairie]

Only gripe with archinstall is iirc it forces a disk wipe, so i had to do mine manually to keep my windows install

[broken umbra]

Ah, I see

[hazy prairie]

I play valorant on my colleges esports team, otherwise it's just Linux for me

[cyan prism]

are you good at valorant

[hazy prairie]

Fuck no

[broken umbra]

Keeping file parity was what brought me back to windows and I want to use adobe software. But I have Linux on a 1TB ssd so it’s not going anywhere

[hazy prairie]

Im iron 2, which is the second worse rank or something like that

[cyan prism]

ever played CS

[hazy prairie]

Yes

Not ranked tho, my second match if ranked i ran into an aimbotter and Uninstalled cuz I liked valo more

[cyan prism]

yea you'll encounter lot's of cheaters

[hazy prairie]

And unranked cs doesn't have 5v5 iirc, at least i couldn't find it, and that was the only mode I really cared about

[nova tulip]

Hello, how is everyone doing?

[cyan prism]

yea Casual is capped at 20 players, which for my ass computer, it's like hell

[broken umbra]

This cheap laptop btw can’t be unplugged from power unless you want it dead

[hazy prairie]

I still have about 30 hours in cs from the occasional death match or arms race match, but I still hardly touch it

[cyan prism]

had that way too many times

[broken umbra]

I tried a lot of Linux distros on it

[cyan prism]

CS is a 50/50 on any day, it really depends

[hazy prairie]

Yeah I find 5v5 defuse fun, wish there was a unranked Playlist for it

[cyan prism]

play like shit one day, play like a god the next

[hazy prairie]

Thats me with valo, hit a sick ace + clutch defuse today, and tommorrow im probably gonna go like 0-20

[broken umbra]

I’m doing well thanks for asking, how about yourself?

[cyan prism]

use up all my luck for the month for a singular ace on cs, then go back to hitting nothing

[nova tulip]

I’m happy to hear that, I’m doing fine, thank you.

[hazy prairie]

Yep lol, im working on getting more consistent, I have about 700 hours in r6 siege so im hoping some of my skill there will carry over in terms of aiming and whatnot

[broken umbra]

Wow 700 hours? The only game I have that many hours in is GTA V

[cyan prism]

do you think my 800 hours on Geometry Dash will equal hitting heads in Valorant? 🤔 I think yes

[hazy prairie]

Yeah my school basically shut down during covid so I grinded alot then

[broken umbra]

800?!? That’s definitely up there

[hazy prairie]

Valo is a rhythm game, you just click when the head is in the right spot, simple :)

[cyan prism]

oh yea dude I was a fanatic. your ass could not stop me from hitting that play button

[hazy prairie]

What's the hardest gd level you've played and beaten?

[cyan prism]

dare I say retray?

I'm kidding. lol.

[broken umbra]

You must be a clicking god, lol

[cyan prism]

clicked so much my mouse double-clicks now, but I've been using it for years, was bound to.
I use a keyboard now to play, but I haven't actually played it in a while

[broken umbra]

I try those typing tests to see how fast you can type and I can’t even do 100 because I want everything to be spelled right

[cyan prism]

yea I want each of my words to be right, if they're not, then... kill the keyboard

[hazy prairie]

I do programming so I let LLMs do it for me so I dont really care about speed, just that it works

[broken umbra]

Something was crossed out, lol.

[cyan prism]

I wonder what it was

[hazy prairie]

I've tried LLMs for coding, they kinda suck tbh

Their decent at recognizing patterns, but 50% of the time what they suggest is the opposite of what I want

It's more of a hassle to fix it than to just do it right the first time

[cyan prism]

oh shit it's 11PM

uhh

[hazy prairie]

It's 2:30am ish for me

[broken umbra]

If I didn’t have autism and dyslexia I would’ve jumped on the coding bandwagon, but I just can’t spell with all that santax

1:21 for me

[cyan prism]

I would've slept at 10 but I forgot time

[hazy prairie]

I have the tism, and adhd, so programming is what I hyperfixate on

[broken umbra]

It was a pleasure talking with you @cyan prism, we should definitely hang out sometime soon

[hazy prairie]

Dyslexia could be tricky tho, im sure there's ways to mitigate it (like a different font or something)

[cyan prism]

same dude! I'm just tired AF and need sleep, byes to both of y'all!

👋

[broken umbra]

Yes there are fonts but for some things I don’t want the help, lol

[hazy prairie]

You see thats how I used to think

"I dont want help" etc etc

Then i took meds for the first time lol

I frame things that help a disability not as help, but as just leveling the playing field

[broken umbra]

I take fluoxetine, 60mg at the moment

[hazy prairie]

Anyways im tired and can feel myself starting to lose track of things

Goodnight ltt discord server

[broken umbra]

Good Night and thanks for taking the time to talk with me, I need to talk to more people. lol

[hazy prairie]

Join a sports league or something, digital communication is nice but it doesn't hold up to irl stuff lol

[vapid smelt]

a fellow fluoxetine user

[pallid falcon]

T.. Tenor api is shutting down

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-howard-confused-wtf-wtf-blink-shocked-gif-864361852039415172

[drowsy violet]

yo guys ts a good pc for gpu i have a used asus tuff 3080 withg 12 gb vram https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Hnyz8Q

[wraith mist]

The masses: waaaa steam machine cost too much

Also the massses: Anyway time to upgrade to a 1,200 dollar phone

[pliant leaf]

this is going to be a weird question but is anybody here fluent in excel

[fervent knot]

just bought a linus screwdriver does it come with linus bathwater? or is that an extra i have to pay more for

[idle parcel]

is 5060 worth buying for 270€?

[oak pier]

only comes with linus toe pics, sorry

[grizzled heath]

🦆

[quartz sinew]

🙏

[rough socket]

I can almost see them

[echo nymph]

I would really like to meet someone who buys an iron with a stream deck…

[harsh quartz]

It’s barely even food

[bitter yew]

Nah, I am Dutch, we have a lot of strict rules to and we have taco bell.

[feral island]

https://tenor.com/view/kekwtf-gif-18599263

[winged spire]

https://bocabola.store/password

Is he really making soda or what

[tired glade]

You lost me at expensive

Who is that, anyway

[gilded quest]

Presumably expensive for Elijah, relatively cheap for his followers

Although who would want to drink Elijah flavored soda 🤢

[tired glade]

I mean,are fruit extracts that expensive nowadays?

[gilded quest]

I think just launching a product is expensive

Unless you're 3D printing something and selling it on Etsy

[tired glade]

Hope it will be without sugar or it will be just another soft drink on market

[lone crater]

Anyone here can help me with a gopro, especially with the media mod

[void path]

Boca Cola

[plush grotto]

How expensive could it be to buy a batch of soda and label the cans.

[oak pier]

depends

[winged spire]

He should use the coke recipe

lol

[oak pier]

coca boca cola

[winged spire]

Do you think sugar free soda doesn’t exist?

[oak pier]

(coca referring to the coca leaf, not coca cola)

[plush grotto]

1,25-2,5 per can if you order between 500-5000 units.

[oak pier]

500-5000 is a wide range

[winged spire]

Massive range

[oak pier]

900% increase from min to max

[winged spire]

The real costs with beverages sales is logistics anyway

Shipping water is INSANELY expensive

[oak pier]

buying the soda is cheap, shipping the soda is expensive

all beverages are at least 99% water

[plush grotto]

Sometimes up to 0.5 per can

Then add storage to the costs as well

[winged spire]

Doesn’t help the cans are round

[oak pier]

idk, elijah seems pretty inclined to have random shit in his house

[winged spire]

Lots of dead space in pallets and boxes

[oak pier]

full offense elijah, tidy up your house

[winged spire]

It’s 9 am and the engineering building is out of energy drinks

?????

[oak pier]

the new cherry bomb alani is pretty good

[winged spire]

Yes

[oak pier]

no, the new cherry bomb

[winged spire]

Good as fuck

[oak pier]

limited edition flavor

[winged spire]

[oak pier]

unfortunately it's an IO at my store, but it's good asf

tastes like the cherry cola celsius with more cherry flavor

[plush grotto]

For 500 cans it recommends a $5 price tag, with a gross profit of $1,20 a can.

[winged spire]

They should make a 400mg version

[oak pier]

i don't think you legally can

remember what happened to panera?

[winged spire]

1984

[oak pier]

300 is the most i've ever seen

[oak pier]

IK RIGHT?

[winged spire]

That lemonade was good as fuck though

[oak pier]

it was unironically amazing

[winged spire]

they should do prescriptions then

Prescription energy drinks

[oak pier]

celsius went full send on their aquisition of alani, now alani drinks come in celsius shippers

shippers meaning those little cardboard displays for special items in stores

[oak pier]

one of my coworkers does caffeine pills

dudes a fucking sociopath though

it's like 200mg per pill, and he pops a couple at a time

[winged spire]

Bruh

[gilded quest]

It's the coke recipe but exclusively using the bella Delphine bathwater for water

[oak pier]

his heart is not okay

[oak pier]

It's belle delphine, get your degenerate idols right

[winged spire]

Is she even public anymore

[gilded quest]

What did I write

[winged spire]

I remember she disappeared, then came back for a month or 2 when she ran out of money

[oak pier]

bella delphine

[winged spire]

Then vanished again

[gilded quest]

Oh I see

Belle
Bella
Whatever 😂

[oak pier]

common left hand typing issue

[gilded quest]

Smh he's bought 2 keyboards with the stupid bathwater keycap

Actually he may have a third

[oak pier]

"i like collectors items!" sure buddy

[winged spire]

china is SLACKING!!!!!

need this tip for my nosecone CNCd

[harsh quartz]

I used to work with someone who did this and washed them down with an energy drink and she was actually one of the most unhinged people I’ve ever met, I think she ended up being found with crack or something, which really makes sense for that kind of person

Was also taking BC powders like candy

[grizzled eagle]

Is there anyone who can help me with my build i got trust issues with wich cables go where etc

[plush grotto]

Something like this.

[viscid elm]

cable hell

one fan is not even spinning on the top

[plush grotto]

Better?

[viscid elm]

120mm AIO 🤮

[viscid elm]

perfection

[plush grotto]

If side panel goes on its fine

[vale shoal]

Hi guys

[edgy compass]

Is all of Verizon down?

[stark idol]

No

[sacred drift]

hi!

[zealous nest]

hi hope ur day is good

[elfin jetty]

[split swift]

wtf

cable unmanagement

[plush grotto]

Cable management'nt

[split swift]

Cable manageme'nt

[oak pier]

crack is the single least surprising part of this story

[oak pier]

https://downdetector.com

[graceful matrix]

What muss i do to frezze a Battelstation post?

[crystal flare]

there's two things in this world that i want more than anything, one is to know what it's like to be normal, or rather not autistic, and two to be a wealthy ceo of my own tech company.

we'd manufacture everything, but CPUs. and the name of this company would be called ALX technologies! hell we'd even have our own Operating system made in linux!

And to Make the OS we'd hire former Apple and Microsoft Employees to make the definitive third pillar!

[tired glade]

I was about been health

[polar fern]

Watching the setup roast video

[old yacht]

Its just my desk that is messy, the rest of the house is fine thank you very much

[north escarp]

XD

[split swift]

man you're catching strays XD

[polar fern]

I actually have the same case as “Kyler G”

Fractal Focus G. Specifically got it because it has 2 external drive bays. one for my M disc drive and the other one for USB and card reader hub.

Lots of airflow too

[old yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/molorant-rich-ckaz-money-gif-22223824

its easy to punch up

for legal reasons im joking /s

[polar fern]

🤣

[split swift]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-mickey-haller-lincoln-lawyer-uh-huh-nods-gif-10689962718256178818

[polar fern]

I don’t think I ever thought I would see the same case I have in an LTT video.

At least I’m smart enough to know the circuit limit vs power draw. 😱

Princess bubblegum and Marcelline

I was trying to get an anime desk pad for my partner’s daughter, but too many of them would need pixelation, and it would not be age-appropriate.

[silver sun]

723

[polar fern]

Stupid sinus infection

[strange elk]

Looking at the lmg clips and I'm just seeing comments about the Razer banner ad lmao

[full fossil]

anyone know where i can buy cherry mx blue gaming keyboard online, everything is just bs i find (sweden)

[plush grotto]

Check MaxGaming. They usually have a large catalog of stuff.

[full fossil]

yeah done that, only found ducky keyboards and i've heard bad stuff about ducky, like double typing

[plush grotto]

Buy any keyboard you want and these.
https://www.maxgaming.se/sv/switchar/switch-set-cherry-mx-blue-rgb-35-pack

[full fossil]

🙏

0 in stock....

[plush grotto]

Faan. Hang on.

[plush grotto]

https://shop.cherry.de/cherry-mx-rgb-blue-switch-kit.html

@full fossil https://www.maxgaming.se/sv/switchar/ks9-blue-clicky-switch

[winged spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFq-fzn2vZ4

crew 11 undocking in 50 seconds

[plush grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/madagscar-penguins-kaboom-gif-9833865

[winged spire]

no

[plush grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/的9-gif-12565004940729182637

[winged spire]

now they spend 9 and a half hours in orbit strapped in that tiny ass capsule before reentering

[flat spear]

Seven 🤘

[plush grotto]

Uh oh, I farted

[crystal flare]

Who wants to roast my coffee beans?

[craggy jungle]

Could be worse, could be soyuz

Anyone know if LTT is taking submissions for funny desk setups rn?
I think I have a pretty good candidate

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6ZUshYbaOk i was told you guys would like some bird head

[plucky junco]

poob and fard

[slim island]

Anyone enjoying Verizon rn

[oak pier]

Sure bud

[fossil frost]

just watching the latest video, Elija's fixation on the anime girl has cemented my opinion that he is absolutely the sort of person who watches... "adult movies" in his living room, in the day, while his wife is home

[hot pier]

hello

[spiral zodiac]

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

[fossil frost]

NEWS AT 10! Drug dealer tells you that you should buy THEIR drugs...

[spiral zodiac]

yes but, what if they price you out of owning any hardware

cpu's costing 3 grand for entry level, 16gb of ram costing 1k, basic video card costing 3k

[fossil frost]

then you have no way to connect to their hardware

[spiral zodiac]

128gb ssd costing 2 grand

[fossil frost]

and somebody.. will fill that gap in the market.. thats how capitalism works

[spiral zodiac]

no, you rent the very minimal system, while paying for a subscription service for their cloud gaming pc

[fossil frost]

or you buy from a non-american company, which will still be selling hardware

[spiral zodiac]

only 50 dollars a month for the pc and 50 dollars for the cloud gaming

lol as if the gov would allow that, banning all foreign hardware imports in order to keep ai/cloud alive.

they lobby hard enough, thats what happens.

[fossil frost]

if by "the gov" , you mean the US government.. then the US government only controls what the US can do... and contrary to what many americans think.. the US is not the whole world

[old yacht]

you could also not make random fantasies in your head about people you may never meet but thats ok LMAO

[spiral zodiac]

well no, but all that hardware will still cost significant sums of money

[fossil frost]

tbh, its a comment i made a few times just to get a laugh out of you because i thought you were the type of person who would find that comment funny, and make a funnier comment back

[dusky jacinth]

Hoi Elijah~

[spiral zodiac]

even if you get it from somewhere outside of the main sources, it'll still be also bought up for AI applications

also, you think the EU wont do much the same to keep their own AI/cloud datacenters alive?

they need a continual source of income to keep buying more hardware for more compute

EU has their own AI race going

[old yacht]

its hard to tell when people are joking on the internet LMAO

[fossil frost]

EU hasnt gone anywhere near as hard on AI or Cloud as the US has, the EU could drop all of it and be fine

[old yacht]

cause the amount of p[eople who DO actually think im some degenerate because i play up a character on screen

is very funny to me

[spiral zodiac]

do you think the EU wants to leave their AI stuff up to musk, bezo's, and xi?

[vapid smelt]

while holding his Belle Delphine bath water keycaps

[fossil frost]

thats something that most people who watch youtube dont understand.. they get that on TV, a character is just that, a character.. they dont get that youtube is just.. different-tv

[old yacht]

I get the worst case of "Type casting" where someone like Robert Downey Jr will forever be iron man in any movie he plays. I am just a stupid/degenerate loser in REAL life LMAO

[winged spire]

Yeah, soyuz landings cause whiplash and spinal injuries lmao

[fossil frost]

RDJ managed to shake off "degenerate outcast".. maybe you can too 😛 😄

[gritty jackal]

Nah they have a vibecon now

[vapid smelt]

wtf

[gritty jackal]

lol

apple prcing aah

[uneven stirrup]

What’s USB-D?

[elfin jetty]

USB DEEZ NUTZ

goteem

[shut lichen]

It's a 128 piece kit... What are you on about?

[uneven stirrup]

$5.70 cad per piece

[elfin jetty]

https://www.datapro.net/news/usb-type-d-connector-unveiled.html

[dusky jacinth]

Well, the one's who can separate fiction from reality anyway.
There are some actors who we'd feel bad for, given how people treat them because of the characters they've had to play the role of.

[pallid falcon]

That's require them being big enough to see..

[elfin jetty]

Don't have any to begin with

[vapid smelt]

sorry to hear that 🙁

[elfin jetty]

Why sorry? nothin wrong with not having em

[vapid smelt]

you cant make real deez nutz jokes

[stark idol]

"and that the future will revolve around cloud computing scenarios, where you rent your compute from companies like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure."
well duh he owns amazon servers and wants people to move to them

"Is it really so far fetched to imagine that most people would most likely be "fine" with renting their full computing solutions from companies like Microsoft and Amazon? There's nothing wrong with it as an option, of course. But what if we end up not having a much of a choice in the coming years?"
this would require a lot of people to get a much faster internet connection

theres something different between having services hosted on the cloud and having the device that is supposed to render these services on the cloud

[abstract elbow]

wait wrong chat

[covert cradle]

maybe ISPs pocketing all those taxpayer dollars intended for network upgrades was actually a good thing after all. it hinders this business model /s

[stark idol]

25G home internet should be standard

With sub ms latency

[covert cradle]

25G-PON is a Nokia only non-standard mode, but yeah still lol.
The next standard after XGS-PON/G.9807 (10Gb symmetric) is HS-PON/G.9804 (50Gb down, 50/25/12.5Gb up). I'd be happy even with just XGS-PON

[gritty jackal]

oh never mind my bad

[boreal galleon]

just logged into siege for the first time in awhile and learned you cant set custom profile pictures anymore. I guess I am wide linus for life now

[cyan prism]

should be grateful

[boreal galleon]

if i wasnt happy, i would never have set it

[cyan prism]

true, we love wide linus

[fresh kestrel]

Let's destroy Hamas together

[alpine gale]

Sir / Ma'am, this is a Wendy's tech Discord... let's keep it on topic, please.

[fresh kestrel]

ok

sorry

[mild wren]

Hi

[pallid falcon]

mmmmmm 16+ site health alerts in the last 3 minutes

https://tenor.com/view/cloudflare-outage-error-hosting-gif-13253839571417858531

[nova tulip]

Hi, how are you?

[pulsar kiln]

Hmm, could this be the start of my prediction? We only 2 weeks in and already nvidia is saying screw the consumers

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nvidia-reportedly-cuts-back-on-16gb-gpus-shifts-focus-to-8gb-as-memory-shortages-cause-havoc/

[rustic tundra]

why screw? the 8gb ones arent a disaster

my prediction is that 60 series if it happens will feature half less vram than 50 series because they want us to shift towards dlss and frame gen allowing us to utilise less vram

6060 will be 6gb, 6070 will be 8gb, 6080 will be 8gb and 6090 will be 16gb

[kind vine]

its a shit prediction tbh

they’re gonna be using 3GB GDDR7 modules- if anything they might just choose to lower the bitbus for 60 and 60ti in return

[pulsar kiln]

You wait. Nvidia is gonna soon say there is no money in consumer products and go only to pro and enterprise market. This is only the start

They are a greedy MF company

They'll just say there are still 2 GPU companies for the consumer end providing products, we don't need this hassle.

You wanna game, buy geforce now. They don't need to sell anything to the public

[kind vine]

And when theres no bubble they still have us as a backup source to sell to.

We’re literally getting the cut-down chips that couldnt be viable as server ones

[exotic sierra]

True

[pulsar kiln]

But why bother when they can't meet demand of the enterprise market? They can just allocate more to the big money market and cut out the pennies.

They can just sell the garbage to China to make the USA government happy. Don't give China the top tier stuff.

[mild wren]

Good how are you?

[pulsar kiln]

I eat garbage from public garbage bins

[nova tulip]

I’m happy to hear that you’re good, I’m doing fine, thank you for asking.

[pulsar kiln]

Do you own Capibara?

[nova tulip]

Sadly, I don’t.

But I love them.

[pulsar kiln]

They are ridiculous rodents

[nova tulip]

Indeed, and very chill.

[pulsar kiln]

I take it you are Aussie or something then

[kind vine]

The chips we get are the ones that arent suitable for enterprise
And theres still multiple chains that are bottlenecking them from simply producing more.

If you give china the lower tier shit chances are they wont even buy into it

[pulsar kiln]

But that's why I say, they'll just give the trash to China instead. Headline for Trump. "Yeah we made a deal with China, we are giving them our garbage, these chips ate rejects and trash"

[nova tulip]

I’m from South America, where capybaras roam freely.

[kind vine]

They’re still buying the best that is allowed and smuggling the top tier ones lol

[pulsar kiln]

Ah yeah, cool. That works too

[kind vine]

https://tenor.com/view/wuthering-waves-abby-abraxas-capybara-namipon-gif-14046423765134361498

[nova tulip]

If I may ask, which video game is featured in this GIF?

[alpine gale]

You can tell from the GIF's URL that it's Wuthering Waves.

[nova tulip]

😮 Thanks for the tip, I’ll keep that in mind for the future.

I haven’t played Wuthering Waves, is it fun?

[kind vine]

i’d say it is yeah

I wasnt rly a big fan, only played the story

Had a friend that I least expected to play and he grinded the mcshit out of it

[nova tulip]

I like games with story mode, I will try it out.

[hallow dagger]

Hi guys I’m new to building pcs and after watching countless videos I decided to try it out but now I think i messed up i turned the pc on after putting everything together and the first boot was fine did not load into bios tho and now every time I try and restart the pc for updates it stays stuck on boot it’s a pretty budget build so don’t mind if you guys judge but I’ve got a
Msi b550m pro-vdh wifi
ryzen 5 5500
Thermalright frozen notte 240mm aio
TRIDENTZ RGB 32gb
WD black sn7100 1tb
Samsung 870 evo (found in my Dads old build)
Corsair cv650

[restive lion]

You'll have better luck in #1027757333117415424

[hallow dagger]

Appreciate it

[worldly plume]

PEAK

[spiral zodiac]

that heatsink is way overkill for that cpu lol

[drowsy pollen]

I’m currently running my MSI RTX 5080 Expert with PCIe Cables that came with the Corsair RM1000e (2023). The stock MSI 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR adapter cable that came with the gpu is too short for proper routing in my case. Therefore, right now its connected with 3 separate PCIe 8-pin from PSU going to the MSI 12V-2x6 adapter, which isn’t ideal.

I’m looking for a 12V-2x6 (PCIe 5.1) 600W cable thats compatible with my PSU and GPU.

Would appreciate any help or recommendations 🙏

[shut jewel]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-reportedly-says-rtx-5070-ti-is-no-longer-being-produced-rtx-5060-ti-16gb-to-follow

Lol. That card is gonna fly off the shelves by scalpers now

I noticed they didn't dare announce this at CES

[still yacht]

my favorite web sites

[strange elk]

Hardware isn't being sold anymore, parts are too expensive and the consoles aren't compelling enough.. Whatever will future devs do if they can't brute force their way to 60 fps

[tired glade]

Lol

[winged spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/spacex/status/2011719969944559988?s=46

SpaceX (@SpaceX)

Dragon’s four main parachutes have deployed

**💬 253 🔁 781 ❤️ 6.7K 👁️ 678.8K **

▶ Play video

FxTwitter · Jan 15, 2026, 8:39 AM

Splash

[tired glade]

Yeah, what mission was that?

[shut jewel]

Given technology is going backwards due to supply issues, probably have to go back to 2010 graphics

[strange elk]

Or at the very least rely less on lumen and other features like that. Idk what MH Wilds did but since PC wasn't their target, it was this gen console they kinda didn't get their own expectations met since only recently did it become the case ps5 users broke PS4 counts

[winged spire]

Crew 11 coming back from the ISS

[sage quiver]

They returned early because of a medical emergency, right?

[mint sandal]

Lol looks like jack doherty is fucked

[mental night]

@main musk

Hiii

[flat pivot]

is this good gpu to play cyberpunk at 4K?

[haughty summit]

is anyone here able to help me figure out how to plug in these fans 😔 ive done evrything else just idk how to do this

Idk which connectors go where

[graceful matrix]

Linus short tips

Idea for Youtube shorts

[strange elk]

No

[graceful matrix]

Linus should get the door wall back