public-chat

[desert mirage]

Every GPU is a 1080p GPU now except for the 40 and 5090

If you want native res

[rough socket]

I play in 4K with a 3080 ti, 4070 S and 5080 (yes I have 3 desktop gaming PCs) and it just works well, not every game is the last uber known AAA game that runs badly

[coarse berry]

I dont play games in 4k personally. I purposely play at 1440p

[coarse berry]

4080 super and i can comfirm it pays well in 4k when i do

[hardy pilot]

can it display 1080p? it's a 1080p card too 🤷‍♀️

[frigid remnant]

the 5080 has enough vram

unless ur playing in like 8k or something

or the game is horribly optimised

[desert mirage]

IDTech disagrees

[desert mirage]

Yeah

[frigid remnant]

i disagree with IDTech

[coarse berry]

Bro i play crusader kings 3 and tower unite on a 4080s graphics do not mean anythin

modern games suck. I rather play skyrim than any slop today

[hot tartan]

missing out

[coarse berry]

unless its multiplayer,, i prollly wont play. bf6 was the last new game i played

[celest tangle]

I normally don't buy new games untill a few months to a year after release

norally the first steam sale unless its an indi game

[tranquil kettle]

depending on the game for me.

[dreamy thorn]

wanted to buy replacement rear tail lights for my new miata because they are a bit cooked, I found some LED ones with european road-worthiness certificates, I asked my inspection guy and he said that just because something has a certificate that says it's road legal it doesn't mean it is

[limber haven]

Are there any mods I can reach out to from the server?(I’m a mod from Newegg with a request)

[jagged linden]

whats currently the best thing to use to remote into a pc and use it or to turn it on then use parsec, is it a pi kvm, nano kvm? is there a better one?

[north escarp]

Can ping the role give them an ask usually one or so lurking

[peak sable]

anyone know where I can get a hmdi to dp 100hz capable cable for realtively cheap? I been searchign amazon and its been swing and miss

[north escarp]

Myte takem a few mins

[peak sable]

I need to drive 4k@100hz

[sage quiver]

Hey!
Feel free to DM me.

[timber lintel]

yo linus i shipped you luke and dan a package to linus media group a few months back have you recived it its a fanmail from me aka Ben34

[oak pier]

That would be something to email LMG

And pinging staff is ill-advised

[timber lintel]

have done multiple times 0 emails back i even called up luke all he said was uhhhh idk

[oak pier]

Also it's against Rule 8 to ping staff

[oak pier]

Welcome to trying to contact a multi-million dollar company

But breaking server rules is not how you circumvent it

[keen cedar]

Twin tryna send shit to a company that can buy whatever they want ✌️

[timber lintel]

im not breaking server rules it only says i cant @ ltt staff when it isnt lttstore support staff

[keen cedar]

Chud aah behavior

[oak pier]

So fun fact, LTTstore staff are still LTT staff

[timber lintel]

bro its called making something for them yourself 💀 ltt has had a great impact on the knowledge i know today about tech so its a thank you to them

[keen cedar]

I'm hating on company time let me have my fun

[hardy pilot]

Harassing them to get their attention isn’t a good thank you

[keen cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-true-what-a-nice-true-true-pizza-morgan-freeman-gif-9911910826150230625

Someone needs a nap

[hardy pilot]

Calling luke just about a package especially since his number isn’t public can be considered harassment, sending multiple emails while clearly getting ignored can be considered harassment so yes, it is

[keen cedar]

Who else up roughing out a forging of 7050 rn ✌️

[hardy pilot]

Yep, a big nap

[keen cedar]

Sleepy time

[hardy pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-cat-sleepy-head-cutie-kitten-nap-time-gif-15153727

[timber lintel]

DUMBASS my relatives know who he is its not harrassment im not fucking telling them ill fucking kick down their door and unsubscribe from them if they dont respond its called reminding someone and a form of consideration that is clearly over your head

[keen cedar]

🥀🥀🥀🥀

Get a LIFE twin

[hardy pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-sigh-gif-5895699729383201961

Yeah, doesn’t look like they know you that well

[timber lintel]

i swear blud probalby thinks saying the word hi in the wrong tone is harrassment at this point

[keen cedar]

Nah you're just a chud

They'll get to it

[timber lintel]

Trying to thank a company ≠ harassment. If that’s harassment, half the fan mail on Earth is a war crime.

[hardy pilot]

No…..

[hardy pilot]

Trying to much is harassment

[oak pier]

Breaking community guidelines is rarely looked on positively

[keen cedar]

Time to scroll reels on company time

[timber lintel]

wdym breaking community guidelines last time i checked your not a fucking employee and last time i checked your the one breakign guidelines by harrassing me trying to get a hold of someone in charged at lmg for a important reason arguing in the chat causes them issues time to get a dictionary and take a look at what harrassment means

[oak pier]

I never said you were harassing me or staff, but my interaction with you is far from harassment

[sage quiver]

Time to drop it, y'all

[oak pier]

Hiya Jawa, Understood

[sage quiver]

This conversation is nonproductive, and hurling insults around isn't helping that

[keen cedar]

😃

[oak pier]

where's that one guy who finds people's exact positions from random images

[plush grotto]

You smell like bananas.

[oak pier]

Jawa's a cookie, not banana bread

[sage quiver]

sshh I'm already hungry

[keen cedar]

Banana bread 🤤🤤

[plush grotto]

Banana bread with ham and cheese.

[keen cedar]

Yeah Ts uncalled for

[plush grotto]

Idk. Never had banana bread

[oak pier]

Absolutely not

[keen cedar]

It's sweet bread

With bananas, almost cake consistency

[plush grotto]

Bacon and sirup then

[keen cedar]

In a loaf

Ok that could be amazing

Bacon syrup and cream cheese

160k members and still dry as a natures valley crunchy granola bar

[plush grotto]

Out of 160k only the same 1000 people actually are active, then a random every now and then comes "hey i have this problem" or "is this a good build?"

[keen cedar]

Average tech server

Tech in the big 26

[oak pier]

That is indeed how big community servers work

[keen cedar]

We all moved to cheap marketplace shitboxes

[hot tartan]

speak for yourself

[harsh quartz]

who we calling "we"?

[keen cedar]

I'm larping

[plush grotto]

My shitboxes consists of 5700xt, 6800xt, 6959xt and 7900xtx, and 3700x, 5900x, 7600 and a 9800x3d.

[keen cedar]

I need to buy a Home Depot sized shopping cart

Off of marketplace

[oak pier]

just an FYI, there is no legal way to acquire the carts of a store like that

[plush grotto]

There is xD

[pliant karma]

Guess you can say accidental

[keen cedar]

And? Lmao no one cares even if it were

Its a guy that buys all the carts from closed stores

[rare hill]

hi

[plush grotto]

Just know where to buy and its fully legal

[jolly mist]

https://tenor.com/view/the-boys-homelander-the-deep-boys-angry-gif-17484443382225121615

no embeds?

[oak pier]

not for someone with no roles

[frigid frost]

gotta be floatplane member or add your discord to linus tech tips forum, doc

[ashen sedge]

Hi warriors!

[plush grotto]

https://youtu.be/lEBWZKXK6jI?is=n4ssjPAhEuN66QL8

[fossil frost]

are they dutch? they seem dutch

[plush grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/its-a-ver-strong-maybe-bohdi-tulsa-king-s1e9-its-very-likely-gif-27419032

[fossil frost]

gives me strong "links rechts" vibes https://youtu.be/U69eSZxi85A?si=ah74Q0YF8CzIs2z7&t=32

[plush grotto]

https://youtu.be/3PDI_JDdgGs?t=688&

Twas a fun weekend.

[fossil frost]

i do ironman races. and the organisers of the biggest races pay for certain groups of people to.. "be around"... at certain parts of the race... usually english, and dutch.. and usually at the top of a remote hill... ASA, the operator of the Tour de France are on record as saying "if you want a party atmosphere, you invite the english and the dutch"

passing through this stuff absolutely boosts your mood 😄

90 miles into 112 miles on the bike, just coming up to the top of a hill, and you can hear a bunch of drunk people dancing and singing to this, and they have been doing it non stop, for about 9 hours, and will continue to do it for another 9 😄

[plush grotto]

Only 71 days until I'm back at the holy grounds.

[fossil frost]

only 4 days for me until im going through a party like that... manchester marathon... most of the city will be a party for the morning 😄

[fossil frost]

how many of those days will you remember afterwards?

[plush grotto]

Uhh, yes

2025 I spent around 600€ on alcohol at the festival, and I brought about 120€ worth to the camp.

[fossil frost]

so, i should expect to see you on the news at some point around the 28th?

[plush grotto]

When I'm 100 flugels deep on day one probably

[fossil frost]

sounds fun

[tranquil kettle]

https://tenor.com/view/netherlands-dutch-flag-gif-7176313

[alpine gale]

Get yourself a role as per the instructions in #welcome 🙂

[winged spire]

Aerial photo of blue origin’s test building after the anomaly lmao

[fossil frost]

KiRaShi, you read Dungeon Crawler Carl?

[winged spire]

Literally punched a hole in the roof 💔

Look at all the debris in piles out front

[fossil frost]

"anomaly" as in "something blew up that shouldnt have" ?

[hardy pilot]

It’s not “normal” so yeah

[fossil frost]

rockets are supposed to blow up.. but in a very specific way

[winged spire]

Yes basically

[cerulean canopy]

ey you cant park there

[tardy terrace]

LMAO what happened

[faint crystal]

Tell me if this could work for my pcvr connection. Main router goes to a switch and switch goes to my gaming desktop that sits in my living room, and also from the switch goes to my acces point router which is my old router that sits in my room but dedicated for vr. Could this work for pc vr

[cerulean canopy]

rapid unscheduled disassembly

[tardy terrace]

An unspecified high-energy anomaly damaged a building during a routine test Thursday, April 9

high-energy anomaly

ok so xen is real

[winged spire]

(They do tank testing indoors because they’re dumb)

[tardy terrace]

LMAO so they overpressured a tank and it blew out the roof??

[winged spire]

Yeah pretty much

[tardy terrace]

Fuckin' bruhhhhh

[sage quiver]

I just assumed someone sneezed

[plush grotto]

Sorry, I farted

[frigid frost]

what tf is he saying?

[plush grotto]

Left right

[fossil frost]

Left, Right.. in dutch

and then every so often.. he says "to the left, to the right" 😄

or "jump"

the guy on stage is a comedian who performs the songs, the artist who makes them doesnt like to be on stage

[plush grotto]

Duh duh duh du duhduh duh duh duh duhduh

[frigid frost]

that i know from the titel, but like its dutch, normally i can understand dutch

its the perfect language for me

[plush grotto]

Netherlands is the perfect country for me. Hardstyle everywhere

[frigid frost]

take some cute german words and some english words, here dutch

[hardy pilot]

very understandable and based tbh

[fossil frost]

its a relationship that works for them tbh

[hardy pilot]

I hate stages, I would melt if I had to go on one

[fossil frost]

im ok speaking in front of smaller groups (10-20) any more than that, it starts to be too intimidating for me

[frigid frost]

dutch is such a cute language

power saving mode is spaarstand
apps in stand by are sluimerende apps

its literaly sleepy apps

[frigid frost]

but like duch is even funnier as german because half of it is german

but its like cuter words

[fossil frost]

i like that "timetable" is "fartplan"

because even though im 41... im still a child

[harsh quartz]

krankenwagen still makes me chuckle

[frigid frost]

why

[harsh quartz]

theyre doin what in that wagon?

[fossil frost]

theres also "Fart Kontrol"

[frigid frost]

"max fart"

[harsh quartz]

its just a monty python skit

[frigid frost]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-denmark-fart-kontrol-laugh-homer-simpson-stop-the-car-gif-20940449

imagine if they made jokes about that in a tv show

[tardy terrace]

are you fucking kidding me

[fossil frost]

tbh, not watched the simpsons since about season 18. i heard about fart kontrol on QI

[zenith cradle]

interesting settings. is scaling the same as upscaling like DLSS?

[winged spire]

Starship is now 1st 2nd and 3rd most powerful rocket ever made

Once again beat its own record

[midnight inlet]

https://youtu.be/Fsd_mWRkEuc

Oh wait

[midnight inlet]

And they made me feel short I'm 6'1

[tidal isle]

heyy guys

[graceful mortar]

Not really the norm, but maybe someone has an idea here :

my buddy is getting the same offer his last company gave him. (layoffs) but he had 6 years less experience when he was offered that rate. He likes to stay 8-10 years per company.
I felt that he should have seen raises to align with his increased responsibilities. espically when he became a lead and at 4 years in was training new hires that were making $9 per hour more than him....
any sources i can give him to help guide him?
https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/38060 [screenshots]

i know his spouse only grossing $36,000 (before expenses) is an issue. she is OBSESSED with her per hour... forgetting that it doesn't matter unless its EVERY HOUR. ( she drives her own car for the w-2 mobile groomer job she works for. they just put $8k engine in the 2012 Toyota van they have after it blew up from loss of coolant. they owe a total of $23k now on that van (0% intrest to her parents) van is worth $6k.)

[hardy pilot]

Damn, I thought this was a scam thing qwq

[graceful mortar]

he was equilvant of DCO level 4 if it was AWS

[graceful mortar]

wym?

[hardy pilot]

I thought it was a finance scam (before reading)

[graceful mortar]

oh lol

[sacred stone]

hi

heya

why are there no people on this server

[oak pier]

160 thousand people = no people?

[sacred stone]

hi

server rules are confused

[oak pier]

they’re some of the most straight forward rules imaginable

[winged spire]

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/2044576195153424597?s=20

R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts)

🚨#BREAKING: The FAA has announced that they will investigate an incident after two pilots were heard meowing and woofing on an emergency aviation frequency.

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X · Apr 16, 2026, 12:38 AM

[idle siren]

hi guys

[split swift]

there is many thousands

[split swift]

its pretty simple to me

[alpine gale]

What do you mean "no people on this server"?

[misty scarab]

Bruh someone today asked me why I had a Spanish name if I was white

Like has nobody heard of this place called "Spain"????

[rustic tundra]

americans

[pallid falcon]

Tell them super bruh

[midnight inlet]

I saw a Pakistani with blue eyes and pale at work today

Yes I asked him cuz of what language he was speaking

[vapid smelt]

@winged spire https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HGdR0MhKqb8?feature=share you jelly?

[winged spire]

saw that yeah lol

pretty cool they just got like some dude to do it

[vapid smelt]

is that a city in new mexico?

[sturdy bear]

hi 🥳

[vapid smelt]

we saw that

[sturdy bear]

lol

[winged spire]

I will be sitting through ALL 4 hours 40 minutes

[celest tangle]

how good is that movie I keep seeing everyone talk about it like its the best movie to come out in like 50 years.

[harsh quartz]

Charge your phone

[celest tangle]

tbf my phone lasts like 3 hours on 10% battery I charge my phone once every 3 days at most and thats if I am constantly on it

[vapid smelt]

we get it you text no bitches

[celest tangle]

you know as of like last week that would be true but I am meeting up with someone litteraly tomorrow lol

I just have a red magic 10 pro which has a massive battery

[dim agate]

https://x.com/pirat_nation/status/2044688243409428704?s=46&t=z20dYWFM0Q6bSJP7PSBWqA

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

Microsoft is rolling out mandatory age verification in Singapore and some people are locked and can’t play their own games

Xbox and Microsoft Store users must now verify their age to access 18+ rated games and apps, even ones they already own.

Verification options include

X · Apr 16, 2026, 8:04 AM

Noooooooooooo

(I truly don’t care)

[echo sluice]

who uses microsoft store / xbox on pc anyways

[hollow thistle]

Hey guys, I have an issue. My pc says i got 16gb ram installed even though its 16x2

Both of sticks are lit up so i dont understand why it says 16 instead of 32

It used to be displaying 32gb now only 16

any solutions? I also noticed my pc became slow i get drop frames when i open 2 tabs of the same app sometimes

[oak pier]

#1027757333117415424

[oblique zinc]

Hello dieflexin! I had the same problem at one point, a really long time ago. In total I have 8x2 (16GB RAM), but it showed 8GB. I simply re-slotted my RAM, and then it worked? Perhaps your RAM also has some dust on it and it fails to properly connect?

Don't forget to fully shut down your PC and unplug it, and wait like ~30 seconds for all power to be off in your PC completely. Never remove components while the PC is running. And before you touch your components, make sure to touch your case a bit so there's no "electricity/static" whatever that could fry your components.

I recommend watching a tutorial on installing RAM into your motherboard!

[hardy pilot]

Neeeeeeeeeeeddd https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DWYDTGBj6B_/?igsh=MTNsNG5hM2hkOWtjeA==

[oblique zinc]

Ugh same, but a dog one so I can wiggle it when I'm happy and have it cute instead of a tentacle

[hardy pilot]

Yeshshshshshsshhsshhshshs

[oblique zinc]

"pathetic dog boy"

[hardy pilot]

As a puppygirl myself, you aren’t pathetic at all

[hardy pilot]

It might be ai but also normal cgi, not 100% sure

[oblique zinc]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834377561802801152/1494018161983488132/no_sbox.gif

oh noo

[oak pier]

looks like normal "CGI"

[modest vapor]

[strange elk]

Lmao windows recall be like "'member that time you got hacked?"

Didnt even think about that lol

[winged spire]

Gleh fire 🔥

[rustic tundra]

humans couldve kept tails during evolution

but evolution said no

[oak pier]

we did keep our tails (kinda)

[winged spire]

Almost like they weren’t useful 🤔

[rustic tundra]

only the tailbone left

[winged spire]

Tf you need a tail for

[oak pier]

i want 4 arms

[winged spire]

Prehensile tails aren’t usually found on animals as big as humans

So it would probably just kinda suck

[winged spire]

Yeah that would be good

[oak pier]

only issue is that would require an absolutely massive chest

[rustic tundra]

tail stuff

[oak pier]

the moment cybernetics become available i'm becoming adam smasher

(i will be going cyberpsycho)

[winged spire]

Scooch, the arms up a little then the 2nd set at bellybutton height

[oak pier]

the amount of times where i wished i had more arms is incredible

having a second person to help you just ain't enough, i need more arms

[winged spire]

Idk yeah ig you’d have to extend your torso lol

[hardy pilot]

Wagging it

@winged spire like this:

[hexed pulsar]

is it worth going am5 for my 3080 or should i stay on lga 1700

i got ddr5

[hardy pilot]

What’s your cpu rn?

And which one would you get?

[strange elk]

If you're on 12th gen you can probably stay

[lament crystal]

Woo

(Works out to about £65 GBP)

[winged spire]

Brother where is my Linus coin

😭😭

[shut lichen]

Should've ordered before the first 10k sold

[oak pier]

i ordered before april 1st

[winged spire]

I ordered it at 9 am April first

You’re telling me they sold 10,000 of them by then?

🤔

[shut lichen]

If it hasn't been fulfilled yet, then yes

[hexed pulsar]

12400f

[mint sandal]

Man i hope my doctors appointment goes well

[hardy pilot]

Yeah you can upgrade but it’s not necessary tbh

[hexed pulsar]

I'm trying to get the most out of my GPU which is a 3080

[hardy pilot]

You’re probably alright rn, you could upgrade to a 12700k 🤷‍♀️ but I don’t think that going am5 is necessarily the best choice in your case

(I could be wrong tho)

[winged spire]

https://fxtwitter.com/nocatsnolife_m/status/2044467035145703759?s=46

No Cats No Life (@NoCatsNoLife_m)

He wants tiramisu. 🤤🤤🤤
︀︀
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[chilly egret]

Is bios fully updated? And is it a chip from "after they fixed he microcode issues" (even though fix patches still seem to randomly drop?)

[hexed pulsar]

Yes I got it already

[chilly egret]

What ram speed?

[hexed pulsar]

5800mhz limited by my CPU

[hexed pulsar]

@chilly egret let me know.

[strange elk]

Where I stand here is idk if its worth upgrading to am5 or just waiting for next platform but I lean in the latter, 12th gen itself is still plenty fine for most things

[dense blade]

Borgoir

200g (roughly half a pound) beef patty, gouda cheese, lettuce and bacon

Bbq sauce and chili mayo

And the patty is seasoned with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, onion powder and a pinch of allspice

[urban thistle]

I’m going to have to reinstall the Forza horizon 3 developer build again. I almost forgot I made this

[rough socket]

Looks good but no need to convert to freedom unit

[elfin jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-the-boys-yummers-gif-730693117818784194

[dense blade]

Some Americans barely know their own units so how could they understand grams

A friendly reminder that one third pounders flopped in the big USA due to people thinking they were smaller than quarter pounders

[rough socket]

Well for their defense using non decimal fractions to measure things is incredibly astoundingly stupid that it's understandable they'd struggle with it

[dense blade]

Counterpoint, it's their own fault. Pounds are normally measured in fractions rather than decimals (which is really dumb, but what can you expect)

But also, you don't have to be all that smart to understand that a third is bigger than a quarter

[rough socket]

But it's fine with the USA decline we'll soon stop hearing about pounds, oz, yards, amount of eagles to fly a plane etc

[dense blade]

Precisely

World will heal soon

[slender lark]

i think usa should switch to normal units

but the leader isnt very smart so it wont happen

[dense blade]

BING BING BING BING BING BING

Hopefully someone will get that reference

Albeit it's almost a decade old, but you never know

[faint crystal]

Aren't their rocket soon to be nuclear power

[iron bane]

what leader? the supreme leader?

[winged spire]

No?

[plush grotto]

Nuclear propulsion so far only works in zero gravity.

[faint crystal]

Oh

[rough socket]

Nuclear propulsion needs something to propel, nuclear reaction itself doesn't produce anything that is thrustable

You need to convert the energy to electricity or some other things then do something with it, which is why it's not really that interesting

[winged spire]

Nuclear propulsion is EXTREMELY interesting, but starship isn’t using it

[slow glacier]

game on roblox boy

[rough socket]

They use heat to propel stuff like hydrogen?

[winged spire]

Yes

Or you could use nuclear electric propulsion

[rough socket]

Ion thruster?

[winged spire]

Yes

[sacred crow]

Good morning

[sacred crow]

the UK still relies on them

despite people thinking the UK is a metric country it’s still mostly imperial

[winged spire]

Who tf wants to live in the UK though

[sacred crow]

people who want free healthcare?

[winged spire]

Easily worst country in Europe and it’s not close

[sacred crow]

well it’s not but okay

[winged spire]

Absolutely is

[sacred crow]

go to any post soviet country and it has a high chance of being worse

[winged spire]

I’ve been to several

[sacred crow]

i’d rather live in the UK than one of those

[hot tartan]

are you shit talking Lithuania rn

[winged spire]

Lithuania is very nice

[sacred crow]

i didn’t specify any country in general, just that the post soviet ones do have a high chance of being more dangerous

[hot tartan]

I've been many times, love it there

[sacred crow]

poland and lithuania are exceptions

[hot tartan]

Although I've forgotten how to speak the language

[winged spire]

Poland is also very nice

[sacred crow]

yeah poland pulled itself out of a rough area and its a lot better now

[winged spire]

Excluding “recent” events, Ukraine was very nice, many parts are still

[rough socket]

Well the kings for social stuff like that is France, we literally have some form of universal minimum income without having to work

[sacred crow]

apparently my ukrainian friend says all they do there is smoke drugs and it’s been like that since before the war lol

at least in his city

[rough socket]

Pretty sure this is true almost everywhere for some subset of the population

[sacred crow]

yeah but france is knee deep in its 8th rebellion so

joking

[rough socket]

Oh well, like always lmao

[hot tartan]

that's just what people do everywhere lol

[sacred crow]

yeah i don’t think the country has EVER not had conflict

[sacred crow]

not really

[rough socket]

Would be funny to check popularity of leaders of different countries over decades, i am almost sure we will be at the top of "always dislike their leaders"

[sacred crow]

probably the uk up there too

we haven’t liked a prime minister since pre 1960s i don’t think

[rough socket]

Right now our administration is sub 20% approval

[sacred crow]

that’s insane

[rough socket]

It's in our blood to always rant I think lmao

[sacred crow]

at that point just go full anarchist and don’t have a goverment

[sacred crow]

yall fell off after the normans

the normans were great under William and Richard

fuck William Rufus though

[rough socket]

You are all just descendants of French

[sacred crow]

i’m actually not, i’m viking descendant lol

i do live in a viking town though so

[rough socket]

I'm looking at stats, coming back to 1980, we never had a president that stayed above 50% popularity over the course of their term

[sacred crow]

insane

[rough socket]

I guess that's because we are always grumpy like that that we have so many social stuff going on

[graceful mortar]

can someone mental check me here
" Like am i missing something?
is it to be expected to go from entry level no experience, to 6 years experience and training experience.... with no change in comp (pay cut by 40% due to inflation) "

[rough socket]

Like fully free healthcare, fully free schools and even college and even we can be paid to go to college etc

[rough socket]

What's "comp"? Compensation? Like salary?

[graceful mortar]

yes

hourly but yes

[rough socket]

And what do you mean pay cut by 40%?

[graceful mortar]

same pay as 2020

cumulative inflation is listed at 40%

[rough socket]

OK yeah

Well where I live you would have had some increase forced by the gov on the company but that would not be enough

After 6 years of xp the best way to increase wage is to just change company
Which is why, in France at least, people in IT don't stay more than 2 years on average in the same company

Then as for the inflation, I can assure you that absolutely no company in the world increased the salary of their employees by 40% lmao

[chilly egret]

Thats why company loyalty doesnt exist (overall broad broad generalization here) as a culture much any more. Spend 2 years at first, interview at another, for higher pay.

[rough socket]

Right now I'm closing on 5 years xp and I just resigned from my current job yesterday

And I've stayed this long due to specific reasons making it extremely profitable to stay there (salary doubled in those 5 years) , otherwise I would have gone sooner

[hearty spear]

sure, but going under 50% is very different than going under 30%

If your own party backs you, you'll stay well over 40%

You can only go under 30 if you've lost a good portion of your own party

[graceful mortar]

if you use teh old calculation (one that DOESN'T ask homeowners how much THEY would be willing to pay to rent their current home) its 60% inflation :/
[CPI calculation moved from a cost-of-goods focus to a cost-of-living basket in ~1978]

[rough socket]

In France rent are controlled and can't increase a lot each year

[graceful mortar]

no such thing here sadly. case in point corporate McDonalds location. Dec 2021 was starting at $24/hr and paying night shift $28.

they now start at $16/hr (basically min wage)

[rough socket]

Just come to France 😉

We may hate everything but a recent poll said that 87% of the people are happy with their life

[graceful mortar]

After 6 years of xp the best way to increase wage is to just change company
well it was forced via layoff. this is the offer he is entertaining at a new company.

[rough socket]

In France you also can't just layoff people easily lmao

I see a pattern 🫡

But what you said is that by changing company he didn't increase his salary? Yeah that's not great

What is he working in?

[winged spire]

Too many French in France

[graceful mortar]

well yeah, you negoiate it into you yearly wage review. if they don't at least match inflation (ideally with another +5% on top), you ask what responsibilities they are reducing.
Their prices are keeping pace or exceeding inflation. why wouldn't your comp? espically considering with your additional experience generating more value every year.
(i know i know companies 300% profits didnt happen because of fair practaces [see nursing shortage post covid when they werent compensated for OT, and offerd 2%])

[rough socket]

[winged spire]

If we nuked Paris like 400-1000 times France would be nice

Rest of France is nice, Paris just gotta go

[rough socket]

Don't worry most French agree 🫡

[winged spire]

Does France have nukes

Could fix that real quick

Honestly same goes for the UK and London

[graceful mortar]

"those 🤬 bois don't get hired, they 🤬 their resume up and now they are getting passed over for ppl who who will stay long enough for the company to start making money" - his statement

[rough socket]

Third or 4th nuke power in the world and we plan (recent plan) on increasing it to cover for all our EU friends with them 🫡

We could probably send one or two to Paris yeah

[graceful mortar]

3 years in a row "management says teh team isnt getting a raise this year" and the TRAINING new hires that make an INSANE 25% more than the trainer.... but "oracle is teh highest pay and i cant afford to commute an hour to work" (Chandler to Avondale/Goodyear/Buckeye)

[graceful mortar]

nice, we double every 10 year. rents and home prices.

[winged spire]

My landlord sent out rent increases in January lmao

Landlords are put into the Landlord machine feet first

[chilly egret]

Yea, companies don't give loyal employees the support needed so move on to somewhere willing to pay more....? Companies have created the system where loyalty doesn't pay....

[graceful mortar]

was level 3 Data Center Technician. (but had lvl 4 responsibilities (lead/ supervisor responsibilities) fully qualified for lvl 4. final interview was scheduled for friday teh week teh layoff was excututed.

[rough socket]

Yeah I've heard that lots of American believe it's impossible to control rent and that it would destroy the rent market and in the end makes things harder for low income people

Which is absurd to me, because we have exactly that, for years, we even have 20 (or 30%?) of new places to live that have to be "hlm" (habitation with low rent and home price for people with low income)

And it just work

[worn shard]

Guys I've realized that I'm genuinely addicted to methylphenidate and caffeine

how to fix chat

[graceful mortar]

they are only required to give 60 days here on a 12 month lease (well if over 10%) . however if you try and move within 60 days from application, you rent is 20% over base. at 30 days its 40% over base. ...... basically you have to anticipate an increase and plan it at least 4 months out to get "base rate".

[graceful mortar]

but now they are refucing to hire those that did, at least that is what he has been told for data centers.

[graceful mortar]

it nas nothing to do with that.... its because over half net worth is tied up in teh house.

[rough socket]

How much?

[graceful mortar]

We also had price fixing via real page

pursuing lawsuits against major landlords and software company RealPage for alleged rent price-fixing, claiming algorithms inflated rents in Phoenix and Tucson by over 30%.

which affected the WHOLE market, both housing prices, and rents.

[rough socket]

What I mean is that landlords can't increase by more than 3% the rent and they can't even always do it and even when they can it's subject to other conditions

[winged spire]

No?

They can absolutely increase it more than 3%

[chilly egret]

This seems like a conversation with moving goal posts and a 3rd party not present in the conversation.

On average the earning of someone who changes jobs every 2-3 years earns 50-60%. 2-3 years generally isn't viewed as job hopping. 6 months (or less) to a Year are the job hoppers.

There's a ton of factors around it and it should be done as a calculated decision - especially current market conditions "Data centers" seem to be having a lil bit of an issue right now....

[rough socket]

In my country, France

[winged spire]

Oh

[rough socket]

How does it work when someone can't pay rent?

Do you guys have it paid by the gov?

Or is it "yeah good luck"?

Also do you guys have places with rent that can't be above a certain amount and that are only available for people with low income?

And say you stop paying rent, will the police come to get you out of the house?

[chilly egret]

Eh, I'd say overall its more subsidized than rent control, but really state by state, city by city issue.

Evictions have to go through the court system.

[rough socket]

And are there gov help to pay the rent?

[chilly egret]

Some subsidized, but long wait lists and varies greatly. Social service net in the US isn't like Europe.

[rough socket]

When I was a kid my parents where too poor to pay the rent and still have enough money left, so it was paid by the gov

Now I'm earning quite well my life and I'm happy to pay the taxes even though they are quite high

[sacred crow]

as long as my pay is high and i don’t have to pay for medical bills, id pay high rent

[chilly egret]

I would rather my taxes go to social service net.... Unfortunately we can't choose where they go. (As someone with a chronic disease I'd love for my taxes to go to the freakin healthcare system)

[sacred crow]

i have no idea where our benefits go

[rough socket]

At some point my dad couldn't continue to work (old man, construction worker, knees, back destroyed) and so all our income was from the gov with the "AAH" which gives money to disabled people, we really struggled a lot but the gov helped us

I also had the possibility to go to a college entirely freely, and even have some basic income and even a flat for students paid by the gov to study

Now I bought a house at 25 and I do have a great salary, great wife and life

So I'm really happy to live in France, if it was in the USA I would probably have literally died from hunger

[sacred crow]

yeah america is fucked

it’s worse than the UK now and that’s saying a lot

[chilly egret]

Have an upcoming operation, Got 2 quotes -
A - I take out cash and pay right now, invoice is closed out as paid and final. $1500
B - The pisspoor insurance copay - $2000 < with potential other bills.

[rough socket]

I had to have a spinal cord surgery few years ago, I paid a whopping... 0€, literally 0€

[hardy pilot]

Alrighty so telling people that you hope they didn't use lasers while blasting beam of lights on a building for people eye's safety makes me a fucking karen

[sacred crow]

lucky as hell

my mother can’t afford it at all

[rough socket]

Born in a first world country

Not like the us :/

[chilly egret]

https://tenor.com/view/lucky-napoleon-dynamite-gif-13359139

[sacred crow]

america is second world

[chilly egret]

(not the surgery, that sucks)

[sacred crow]

the illusion of first world while people live in a third world state of life

[rough socket]

Lol

[sacred crow]

i’d rather die than live in the US

[rough socket]

Yeah that's insane

[sacred crow]

only actually half decent state id live in is KS

since no one lives there

i’m sick of this ai bullshit

i’m now at the point where my actual daily computer is a 20 year old offline machine

[tardy terrace]

cry harder man idk

Just because a cpu has an NPU doesn't mean its running ai

[sacred crow]

i haven’t a clue what this is

[tardy terrace]

It's litearlly ai generating code in visual studio

[sacred crow]

i never said anything about npus?

[tardy terrace]

I'm just tired of "i hate ai blah blah blah"

[sacred crow]

i totally understand but

i only really researched into this AI stuff like a week ago

[rough socket]

There are so many things people who only lived in America can't even start to comprehend how bad they have it it's honestly insane

Like job security, we literally almost can't get laid off, if you get one of those "cdi" contracts you are set for life except if you do something insane like beating a coworker or idk

[sacred crow]

i genuinely might consider moving to france

it’s super close to me as well so is it worth it?

[hardy pilot]

Fuck I hate humans

[rough socket]

France has it's own problems too, and I don't know where you live, but usually in EU we already have it way better

[tardy terrace]

There are hundreds of goods and bads for AI

its how you choose to use it

I use it like a tool, not as a yes-and machine because I'm lonely

[sacred crow]

i’ve only seen the bads in college of how it’s almost like a corruption

half my college friends depend and rely on it to do anything

[tardy terrace]

because people rely on it too much to do everything for them

when we should be using it like an addon to help break things down we don't understand

so we can actually learn from it

[sacred crow]

true

[graceful mortar]

Wild, in Dec 2021 I was seeing 40% increases posted on renewals. Many of my high school friends didn't qualify anymore for 2 bedrooms they were in. (Requiring $10,000 per month gross) And a few sadly ended up living with their family in their cars.

[rough socket]

We were relying on Google before to do anything

My main problem with Ai is how it is centralizing knowledge in one single too managed by mega corps

[sacred crow]

i only used it to break down constants in C

[tardy terrace]

so.. just like what google did?

[sacred crow]

but even then it seems to just regurgitate things i found in 5 minutes

[rough socket]

That's absolutely insane

I don't even know of one person living in its car in France

[sacred crow]

i mean it’s nice that we do have it i suppose

[tardy terrace]

Programming is something i just can't speak so ai helps me with my fringe cases of needing specific software to do very specific, unique-to-my-setup things

[frigid goblet]

Does anyone have iems recommendations? For gaming

[sacred crow]

ah i see

at least you are a responsible person

[tardy terrace]

I have it make a bunch of explanitory comments for blocks of code so I can more or less read it like chunks

[sacred crow]

fair enough

[tardy terrace]

I learn weird

[graceful mortar]

Oh, I was just relating his statements.

I told him to jump 18 months ago. But he couldn't because it would require a $4,000 per year pay cut to get in. After 6 months it would pay $40,000 more per year (written agreement)

But he couldn't afford the cut.

[sacred crow]

you don’t; for everyone learns their own way

don’t ever say how you learn is weird if it works for you

[rough socket]

Yes but technically Google was only a door to the knowledge whereas AI tools are the knowledge itself

With a search engine you search for something and you end up on multiple websites

With Ai you stay on the same tool and thus same company

It's way more centralized

[tardy terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/kuiil-have-spoken-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-15566834

[tardy terrace]

literally read that line in that characters voice lmao

[slender iron]

Chat my keyboard just died

[tardy terrace]

your argument is weird because like, wikipedia also exists. it's a central tank of knowledge..

[sacred crow]

why what happened?

[tardy terrace]

stay on the same tool

uh no it's literally searching the internet too if it's built to

[slender iron]

Had few random disconnects today and now it just doesn't work

[graceful mortar]

You go homeless, which is illegal and could come with fines and a criminal record. (Depends on judge)

[rough socket]

It has centralized servers but it is community managed which makes a huge difference

[tardy terrace]

WOW JUST LIKE GOOGLE.

[sacred crow]

I’ve tried to speak more coherently and in a way sophisticated lately

i feel it helps me actually convey a message better

[rough socket]

??????

What???? It's criminal to be poor???

[rough socket]

Google is community managed?

[sacred crow]

Maybe the battery is flat. How long have you owned it?

[tardy terrace]

You know exactly what I'm correlating to

[rough socket]

I don't

[tardy terrace]

ai does the same shit as google, but with a human-friendly response

like I deadass do not understand your argument

[rough socket]

Yes technically it does, difference is that it is more centralized, if you don't see how it is how it is

[slender iron]

It's a hand me down from my brother but around an yr old and it's wired

[graceful mortar]

Kinda like NYC has rent control. But
#1 it raises prices because NO ONE will build because negative ROI.
#2 the profits come from no maintenance. And things like a single toilet/ shower for a floor with 40 apartments.

[sacred crow]

i see. Have you tried to replace the cable? The cable itself may have been worn

[tardy terrace]

ok but wqikipedia exists

there is always a "central pool of knowledge"

[rough socket]

Knowledge comes from the Ai itself

Google is a door to knowledge that is elsewhere

And Google was already too much of a monopoly, centralized and too important, but with Ai it can become worse on that

[sacred crow]

If your wired keyboard does allow such.

[tardy terrace]

you're just hating on the tool because you don't understand it

[rough socket]

But it is community managed

[slender iron]

Non detachable cable btw I tried different ports (which work becuz my mouse worked) also tried wiggling the cable if wiring issue but no

[tardy terrace]

ok and?? that has no relevance to this argument

[rough socket]

I haven't said I hate it, I said I don't like the fact it's centralized and managed by mega corps

[slender iron]

Redragon kumara K552W is dead now

[sacred crow]

Perhaps you could try a different keyboard temporarily? It may be the PC that has trouble with it.

[rough socket]

I'm OK with Wikipedia because it is community managed

I'm sort of ok but not really with Google because it doesn't hold knowledge

I'm not okay with normal social networks because they are centralized and owned by mega corps, I don't use them except discord

I'm okay with the concept of Ai but not with them being controlled by a mega corp and centralized on their servers

[sacred crow]

Isn’t Google arguably worse than some of these AI corporations?

[slender iron]

I have no other keyboards also the pc is just a week old and ports work

[tardy terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man2-spider-man-j-jonah-jameson-tobey-maguire-peter-parker-gif-26416399

[sacred crow]

I see. Perhaps it is a problem with the keyboard. What i do suggest however, is getting a wireless one as you can often just replace the cable if it does not work after a while.

[rough socket]

It's the concept, and yeah it is, there are known censorship and manipulations

But one can use something else than Google

It's still not great because you can't really bypass the search engine and self hosted options aren't great and rely on external services anyways

[slender iron]

Any recommendations under 4000 rupees (sorry for asking u to look online for me in advance)

[tardy terrace]

self-hosted LLMs rely on the hardware they're on, unless you give em RAG or internet search abilities. not external services.

external services would be like you using an API key for an exteranlly hosted LLM by someone else that you're just using an interface to type to

[sacred crow]

Honestly i don’t, as I am pretty poor myself, and I sadly don’t live in India. Despite that though they shouldn’t exceed too much for just a simple one.

[tardy terrace]

Big fuckin' difference

[slender iron]

so u got literally no recommendations at all

[graceful mortar]

IF you receive a legal eviction notice (highly structured process, typically ~45 days from the listed "GTFO date") the judge can order you removed at gunpoint. (Technically "escorted", but refusal to comply will result in weapons drawn)

An eviction will disqualify you from 7-10 years at most apartments. Will be listed on credit as well. Which will affect you ability to get a job.

[shell coral]

Howdy everyone!

[rough socket]

Yes it's great but to my knowledge you can't have an llm to the level of, say, Claude, with normal hardware

And even okayish llm require super expensive gpu anyway

[sacred crow]

Nope. I have a crappy chinese one i got for 10 pounds.

[graceful mortar]

Oh you mean government assistance. Yeah it's up to additional $3,500 per month in my state. The "poor person" only is required to pay 30% of their take home. The rest the state covers. (Typically $120 per month)

[rough socket]

Oh wow your life is fucked at this point

In France you usually can't really get physically evicted lmao

Sometimes yeah but it's complicated

[graceful mortar]

BUTT landlord are free to refuse section 8 vouchers. Because the state CAN and WILL withhold payment over disputes and there are more protections than for an off the street renter.

[tardy terrace]

yyyeah.. an llm requires lots of computational horsepower. We all kinda know that

comparing an ai ran on thousands of gpus to one ran on a lowly gamer gpu is wild

[restive lion]

up north things are stacked in the renters favour, which is great until theres an actual need to evict them

[graceful mortar]

Wait list is 4 years right now, and income needs to be 21,000 BEFIRE TAXES. Avg rent is over 1,500 for reference

[sacred crow]

If a 5090 is a lowly gamer gpu… how powerful can these things get….

[tardy terrace]

Hundreds of enterprise gpus

[restive lion]

i remember an old lady on the news who's downstairs tenant would shut off her hot water and/or power at random, and the police wouldnt do anything about it after she'd served eviction notice several times

[sacred crow]

How powerful is just one of those?

[tardy terrace]

depends on the device, workload, how it's optimized for the platform..

[rough socket]

Exactly, which is why it's not comparable a self hosted llm and those centralized ones, which is why it's a problem

We will become even more dependant of those megacorps

[sacred crow]

Oh i mean in pure power

I’m not good with GPUs

[rough socket]

This income is lower than our minimal wage in France

Like way lower

[graceful mortar]

you can via votes in USA. the issue is welll .... i did a study. to = the govt benifits for family of 4 (mom + 3 kids) you have to earn over $100,000 to BREAK EVEN.... sooo makes more sense quaiklity of life to chose to not work/ get fired....

[sacred crow]

Why don’t you just not use them if they’re so bad?

[tardy terrace]

ok so make you own datacenter to run just ai

[sacred crow]

WHAT.

[worn shard]

this is an example

[tardy terrace]

"I dont like ai because big corpo entity bad"

[tardy terrace]

yeah there's more powerful ones too

[sacred crow]

I don’t know how much my GPU costs, but it’s 2D accelerated only

[rough socket]

Omg how many times do I have to say I never said I don't like Ai?

[sacred crow]

well barely 3D acceleration

[slender iron]

Cheap

[rough socket]

I'm just saying I don't like the fact it's centralized

[tardy terrace]

Then.. have a coherent argument?

[tardy terrace]

Everything is centralized

just like your fucking brain matter

its fucking perspective

[rough socket]

Nop!

One example : Mastodon isn't

[sacred crow]

Then run your own decentralised LLM?

[rough socket]

You can not be a douche you know?

[tardy terrace]

lmao

[sacred crow]

That’s insane.

Hey i mean at least her kids are having a great time.

[rough socket]

That can be interesting I guess yes, but then again to get a useful llm we currently need way too expensive hardware for normal humans

Maybe in some years....

[sacred crow]

She has got a valid reason though, i will admit

[rough socket]

Well they can also not be that violent in the way they speak, I never ever started being agressive, just presenting calmly my opinion

[sacred crow]

I guess.

[graceful mortar]

here is teh summary...... i had NO IDEA the level of incentive. iu spoke with many recipents (if i saw EBT at the store i woudl approach) and many (~40%) said they were wantig to get off, but the numberrs never made sense.

[tardy terrace]

You'd get angry too when stupid people run the world

[sacred crow]

This hurts my mind.

[rough socket]

Also in IT something being "centralized" means something precise and objective, it's not subjective

Matrix and Mastodon are decentralized networks, it's great for censorship, transparency, community improvements, reducing enshitification etc etc

[tardy terrace]

ok where's your documented proof instead of hear-say

you do this SO OFTEN.

[sacred crow]

What does it even mean?

[tardy terrace]

ok but its not ai

[rough socket]

Well I do live in the same world as you and if you don't like those people you do know that with decentralized infrastructure you are avoiding their control?

[tardy terrace]

the dude literally just spurts nonsense to try and sound smart tbh

[sacred crow]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-i-see-think-thinking-pondering-gif-4994872

[tardy terrace]

Holy hell pick a lane my guy

[rough socket]

It is not, EXACTLY

Which is my main problem with it in its current form (besides self hosting bad llm)

[tardy terrace]

"bad llm"

ok so get better hardware??

like this boils down now to you just being upset that they have the horsepower to run incredibly verbose and complex models, and you don't

sorry that gpt 5 can't run on a phone from 2010

every model has limitations

[rough socket]

Stop being this much agressive please, it serves no purpose

You can't get hardware good enough to run stuff like Claude, it's also just unrealistic to pay thousands of dollars just to get an llm for most people

Which is a problem

[sacred crow]

Why do people expect AI can run on anything, when it’s literally being trained to act like the human brain, which in itself is the most powerful computer in existence?

[graceful mortar]

varies state to sate more are "right to work" : cannot be forced to join a union to secure employment)
and "at-will" employment: meaning no requirement to give reason for termination [most wont because that opens them to lawsuits] no required termination compensation, vacation days not required to be paid, nor sick time accrued. If terminated before vest on RSU, also not required to partially comp (RSU being a MAJOR part of compensation, often exceeding 40% of total comp)

[tardy terrace]

People hate what they don't understand

[rough socket]

Because you are kind of forced to use the centralized version

Centralized version that has their interest not aligned with yours

[sacred crow]

Ah.

[tardy terrace]

http://jobs.mchire.com

like what more do you want

[rough socket]

I said multiple times I don't hate it... Stop using this word

I also don't see why you are saying I don't understand it lmao

[tardy terrace]

you want fancy llm? spend the money

[rough socket]

Well at this point you are just insulting me I don't even understand why, I guess it's impossible to have a smart conversation

[sacred crow]

I’d love a small offline SLM that i can personally train to help me with coding, that doesn’t give me the answers.

I think that’s a good use for AI.

[graceful mortar]

no be living/ sleeping on the streets (public property) or parking lots (tresspassing)

[plain gale]

im sorry but with some pretty simple tricks its already possible to make pretty affordable and decent llms. the biggest improvement is just adding search as a tool. other ways are for example running multible smaller and letting them vote or have one that decides what the summary is. pewdiepie has some supprisingly good vids on this

[tardy terrace]

oh but pasted then it's reliant on other services, they also don't like that

https://tenor.com/view/intergalactic-intergalactic-quality-intergalactic-robert-downey-jr-robert-downey-jr-robert-downey-jr-eye-roll-gif-26804824

[rough socket]

I don't expect it to run on anything

I'm saying that the tool will become more and more essential

That it is centralized and managed by mega corps

That you can't really use a self hosted version, because most people won't know how and it also yes don't run on a smartphone and would cost multiple thousands

Which in turms means that something that could become essential to our life would be managed by mega corps not aligned with our interests

Which is, to me, problematic

I'm not saying I expect it to run on a smartphone, nor that I hate Ai, just saying that centralisation of a soon to be (maybe) essential tool is problematic

And yes Google is similar, but it was to a lesser degree and it was already problematic anyway

[graceful mortar]

yes. so much so that its ILLEGAL in my state to threaten eviction. you either file it, or you dont. you can mention it in the official renewal notice and lease contract.

[tardy terrace]

That you can't really use a self hosted version, because most people won't know how and it also yes don't run on a smartphone and would cost multiple thousands

"Hey google how can I get started on hosting my own LLM"

[plain gale]

i know this is sarcasm. but not really, duckduckgo search api is free but limited. brave has free 5$ per month credits. made my own mcp wrapper and its decent enough.

[tardy terrace]

Which in turms means that something that could become essential to our life would be managed by mega corps not aligned with our interests

So decentralize it. be the change you want to see.

[rough socket]

Interesting

I should take another look, though what I think still holds true (that it's a problem since most people won't self host)

[tardy terrace]

no I was being sassy

[tardy terrace]

"won't", or "don't know how"

[plain gale]

i think itll come with time and smaller models like gemma4's e4b etc

[tardy terrace]

you've said both now, which is it

[rough socket]

Wtf

You définition of poverty is arbitrary? Ours is "half the median income"

[rough socket]

I think so too yeah, there will always be a gap but they'll become good enough for normal use cases

[graceful mortar]

soo $1,255. min wage in the state is $15.15 and

In Arizona, able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) aged 18-54 must work or participate in qualifying work programs for at least 80 hours per month (approx. 20 hours/week) to maintain SNAP food assistance.

[rough socket]

Most people won't even know what it means to self host or even understand that it is problematic that their essential tool is managed by a corp

I mean you Americans can't comprehend that since all your lives are already managed by private corps, but us French have almost all our essential needs managed by the state that, in theory (luuuuulllzzzz), works for us and is managed by us (lulllzz... But that's another topic)

[tardy terrace]

Oh so now it's "americans are dumb"

[graceful mortar]

sooo you basically cant qualify for food stamps anymore. hence crazy SHRINK at store (theft) some walmarts have 25% shrink. now walmarts set prices to compensate for shrink (so 25% extra in store) . teh more theft, the more everyoen will pay. ( why it is cheaper to but virtually and pick up)

[tardy terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/moving-goalposts-goalposts-changing-requirements-gif-25214446

[sacred crow]

i’m done with this channel i’m losing brain cells.

[tardy terrace]

how can you make the argument that americans are ran by mega-corps when france is ran by the state, which essentially is a large corp

IN THE SAME POST

[graceful mortar]

lol, sure. she also proably has a mercades Benz, Fendi bag, and $600 sun glasses.

[rough socket]

A large corp that should in theory work towards our interest

... In theory

[sacred crow]

And her kids are in a good private school getting good education.

[tardy terrace]

so fucking overexaggerated

[graceful mortar]

yeah. i was thinking it would be teh same as $60-70K.

[sacred crow]

^ this

[tardy terrace]

like i swear its all he does

[graceful mortar]

explain.
this date is from the programs various websites.
using a mother with 4 kids who claims to not know who the father is as the recipient.

[sacred crow]

Low IQ individuals will often exaggerate their statement to appear smarter.

[tardy terrace]

Mmmmhm

[graceful mortar]

like i pulled all teh spreadsheets and everything. do you wnat links? (remeber this was right before the budget requiring work was passed)

[tardy terrace]

I want documented evidence not generated by you.

[sacred crow]

Quite honestly, who asked for your spreadsheets in the first place?

[north escarp]

[hardy pilot]

(it's almost a french cultural thing at this point qwq)

[tardy terrace]

kool isn't french lol

[hardy pilot]

really? damn he feels like one

[tardy terrace]

no the french dude is xenio

kool is american

[north escarp]

I find it more a people thing rather then a place

Some things just are

[hardy pilot]

I've met a bunch of bunch of french irl, and they are so intense in general (no hate, just the conclusion I came to)

[north escarp]

They're taught differences in formalitys from very young part of their grading is based on charachter or was anyways im a dinosaur

Moi francais, como ce di mushh

My french, is how do I say ugly

[hardy pilot]

Laid?

[graceful mortar]

been that way a while, just not getting bumped up in my state to compensate for covid inflation for sate programs.

min wage was raised to stop full time workers from qualifying (effectively the companies being subsidized by tax payers)
2016 min wage was $8.05 FPL was $11,880... so "full time" (at teh time anything over 25 at most companies) was full benefits

[sacred crow]

Just stop speaking

Please stop

[north escarp]

What was the arguement?

[sacred crow]

He’s spouting out random crap no one asked for about some family with benefits or something to act like he knows it all

Not a single person here knows what he is on about

[north escarp]

Well, I only i know a few things xD

Tech is good, and in hard times gotta just keep going

https://tenor.com/view/joe-dirt-david-spade-life-is-a-garden-dig-it-dig-it-gif-11950671

[neon mesa]

This seems straight forward and logical but doesn't really work once you look deeper

[north escarp]

If a person's struggling no matter their income they're struggling, happens. Such is our nature

[neon mesa]

In some countries the median income is actually very comfortable to live on and we can't count people slightly making less than that impoverished (and hence eligible for government welfare that they most probably don't need)

[tardy terrace]

I love how you rock the "simple dad" mentality, it's so fucking wholesome

[rough socket]

We usually have two

One is what I said, and rich is twice the median income

And the other is "bottom 10 % income" and "top 10%"

What matters is what we do with those yeah

[graceful mortar]

nope, daycare for those 4 kids would run $4,000 right now (assume back to back births). for a 4 year old and a 2 year old its $2,000 per month for reference (quote from 15 daycares last week. (they pay their workers $18/hr for reference.)

and "teaching daycare" is defined, but also not really. it doenst have a like test for the kids to prove they were actually learning anything.

[north escarp]

You ever seen "The pursuit of Happyness" or "Fun with ick and Jane" (gotta add a D its a Jim Carrey movie)

[sacred crow]

Nah, i’ll have a look later

is it on DVD?

[north escarp]

Solid watches, both should be on dvd ye

[graceful mortar]

nah, i interviewed 75 ppl. baby daddy avg was reported at $1k per month in exchange for mama not taking them to court. it s a whole alternative life style.
i excluded them from my report on teh basis of "bad actors". and OBVIOUSLY fraud.
thats why i chose a real world example. 1 mama, 4 kids, unknown dad.

[north escarp]

Or even something that leaves one helpless like Johnny Q. Good refrences to everyday struggles based on circumstances. But gotta take it day to day

[sacred crow]

For the final time shut the fuck up

[graceful mortar]

you give EBT card and pin. you get back $1 in cash for every $2 they spend.

[sacred crow]

Sounds good

also how do we alert mods in here?

[graceful mortar]

lol fine ill pull PDF for you later with links :/ pretty easy to find TBH

[graceful mortar]

lol ight 👍

[north escarp]

Just type @ Mod

[graceful mortar]

peyton did ... literally asked for sources

[north escarp]

But no space

[graceful mortar]

wym??? literally posting data for those outside USA to understand what i am referencing

[graceful mortar]

trolling isnt cool anymore.

[sacred crow]

<@&750150305383186585> Hello, just a complaint about @graceful mortar who keeps talking about some random controversial things like the amount of benefits people have, and spam replying to a user while not piping down when asked to by multiple people, i have no idea what this person is on about to be honest, sorry to ping!

I didn’t know who to ping so i just pinged the main mod role

[hardy pilot]

good thing to do

[graceful mortar]

you reached out to me, dont get it twisted lol

[rough socket]

I was the one asking and I thanks KoolCordell explaining me how some things work in the US

[sacred crow]

You literally came in here talking about this stuff while no one asked for it

[rough socket]

I did

[graceful mortar]

you may need to review the last hour of chat, you have missed some fundmental details.

[north escarp]

I saw some just wasn't sure the context

[graceful mortar]

also not sure why you feel like you get to choose what everyone talks about. just saying.

[hot tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/йокелемене-men-in-black-light-sunglasses-gif-15516530

[graceful mortar]

Peyton does like to challenge, maybe thats what got you confused?

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/mentopallonio-ballchinian-palle-mento-men-in-black-gif-19889913

[tardy terrace]

He's not wrong. I challenge and question just about everything

[winged spire]

@rough socket https://fxtwitter.com/catsareblessing/status/2044815583456186729?s=46

We don't deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing)

French Cat 🥖

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[rough socket]

What is this demon

[tardy terrace]

a sphynx cat

they are all very opinionated

like look at them they have a LITTLE SHIRT ON

I would offer that sweet baby some of my fish any day

[vital basalt]

I hate my 5950x

[hardy pilot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7csqEwRnzFU he's quite a good content creator

[winged spire]

French cat

[pseudo girder]

highly suspect my cheap but decent monitor, its trash for all expensive, not intensive purposes.... but yea, if i dont power the monitor on prior to boot i get a pcie video out error and when i attempt to power cycle my mobo enables cfm forcing me to reset it and then power cycle again... if i DONT 1. power the monitor on about 3 seconds before the pc or 2. power it on, wait for it to hang but not so long it errors out to cfm and then power back up and it works fine. like nothing happened.

but, i got rid of all my trash monitors before i got this one! soooo.... i cant test to see if its the monitor being slow to accept signal, or the gpu being testy with the monitor, or a mix of both.

3070 ti.... if its known to hang on boot and require multiple boots in a slightly defective case, or if the monitor is just abit slow on the uptake

im assuming its the way too nice of a panel for 80 dollars monitor im using is the culprit tho

its so jank aside from the panel

sooooooo i have an idea

its not a big deal, mildly infuriating for over a year... food for thought tho, since who knows honestly! i find it fun

[summer trellis]

Oh shit guys, my jets here. I couldn't believe how cheap it was

[pseudo girder]

jet from fallout, or you like, actually get a jetliner?

[fossil frost]

tbh, used private jets base price, are not expensive for somebody with a business the size of LMG. what is going to be expensive, is hangar fees, maintenance fees, air worthyness tests. and, because they wont be using it just in canada, they dont get to conform with just canada regulations, they need to comply with FAA regs too.. then they need to pay airport fees to take off, airport fees to land, parking fees while at the airport

it adds up fast

i wanted to get my light aircraft licence for a while, its not THAT MUCH more expensive than driving, and a 2 seater isnt much more expensive than a car.. its all the stuff above, that all adds up to be more than the rest of my household bills combined

and every seat-row you add, is the same as adding a 9 to availability, it each one costs as much as all the rest before it, put together

[graceful mortar]

brah

[fossil frost]

too many links too quickly

auto-flags as spam

[graceful mortar]

ok

[graceful mortar]

and for @tardy terrace (1/2)

here are teh sources you asked for. NOTE data in screen shot is at least 8 months old.

Daycare
https://des.az.gov/sites/default/files/dl/CCA-1227A.pdf
Housing assistance
https://www.phoenix.gov/content/dam/phoenix/housingsite/documents/section8/hcv_payment_standards_jan2025.pdf
(Note cities sometimes use various calculations for income limits. Typically 30% of take home (cash benifits), the rest is covered by the program)


cash assistance https://des.az.gov/ca


Utilities assistance
various some provider side, some state, some city. I actually used a real person’s data of this one

(2/2)

Food stamps
…. So you have to use USDA thrifty spend plan and MANUALLY calculate it based on their formula (you don’t just use the chart). 
https://des.az.gov/services/basic-needs/food/nutrition-assistance/faqs
Insurance
Healthcare.gov - one mom,4 kids (1,2,3,4)- remove subsidies- gold- no plans with % coverings
something like like this https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/#/plan/results/40702AZ0070010/details
NOTE since they would have $0 deductible as well. You should add $16,000 to the total benifits

THEN use Gross up calculator (ADP) to figure out how much to just break even. 
Add 25% because why the hell would you work for the SAME quality of life? (I don’t believe I did this)

also note SSI for kids would "unlock" the bypass any work requirement for the mother.

but yeah, i understand why it has become generational. and why getting off is so hard for those taht want to.

[harsh quartz]

ive thought about something like an utlralight before, we have a couple around here and theyre just used to field hop since we have so much agriculture, lots of empty fields between harvests

and AFAIK theres a lot less regulation on those below a certain height

only issues are agriculture aicraft and theres a military base nearly so have to watch our for that and the helicopters that fly from it

[fossil frost]

yeah, visual rules only, stay below a certain height and you are under "its your own fucking fault" rules if something goes wrong

[mystic tundra]

what’s your budget?
for gaming i recommend better spacial audio so headphones may be more suitable

[harsh quartz]

yeah, only thing that would concern me is rules about the military base and assosciated aircraft

the helimachopters and ospreys fly pretty low

[fossil frost]

the military base is in a very specific direction... you have several other directions where it ISNT 😄

[harsh quartz]

thats fair, however, we are between that base and the local airport, which has the maintenance facility for those military aircraft

its just something id have to look into and never have

[fossil frost]

and mostly, they will see you on radar, and radio you long before you infringe, and then yell at you long before you do something genuinely dangerous

"erm.. you are closing in on restricted airspace.. can you hear us " "yep, sorry, which way?" "turn 15 degrees west, you will miss us" "thanks" is usually how it would actually go

[harsh quartz]

"meow"

[hardy pilot]

looks like no

[hot tartan]

too fucking funny

[fossil frost]

"erm.. you are closing in on restricted airspace.. can you hear us " "meow" gets shot down and deserves it

[rough socket]

Was is true? When I saw it I thought it was a fake news

[harsh quartz]

apparently theres an FAA investigation about this

[hardy pilot]

I'm sorry?

[harsh quartz]

yeah, apparently there were a bumnch of pilots trying to piss off old head pilots

[fossil frost]

what would happen if this happened over an RAF air base in the UK

[hot tartan]

they did nothing wrong, just give them a slap on the wrist and move on

[graceful mortar]

final note: that report i acknowledged that $100 over limit can = $0 benefits (depends on which limit) and that we NEED a tapered system.

i also noted that it would make sense to have a separate government employment pool (the government worker benefits cost has been a hurdle) and that unit focuses on teaching trades, if you choose to not complete $0 benefits for 12 months, and jail time if you have kids. this would be a rehabilitation . it ALSO allows the state and city to have the ability to for instance fix the roads. a requirement was any company that receives a government contract (including any subcontractors hired by that company) must assist with the training, and the worker they train gets first pass at employment.

the immediate use would be pothole repairs. which aren't being done due to costs to tax payer (cheaper to pay for the suspension, wheels, and tires they damage as no on takes teh time to file a claim)

[harsh quartz]

i mean, it depends on the context and how extreme it was, but yeah for the most part it was harmless afaik

[hardy pilot]

saying "meow" doesn't makes you deserve to die

[fossil frost]

you have something wrong with your brain 🙂

jokes seem to go so far over your head that they crash into the ISS

[harsh quartz]

they never saidf you would die, they said you would get shot down, the dying is completely dependant on gravity

[hot tartan]

Yeah I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming that if these are trained pilots, they know when to have a little fun

[hardy pilot]

my brain is very first degree, so yes

[harsh quartz]

thats my assumption as well

[fossil frost]

theres also a lot of that interaction that didnt get released too..

[hardy pilot]

[fossil frost]

most of which would probably be the young pilots getting yelled at for being arseholes 🙂

[hot tartan]

ah

[slate obsidian]

Hii guys hope you have a great day/night

[harsh quartz]

from what i heard about it, it was just some younger pilots trying to piss off the more professional oldheads

and clearly working

[crystal flare]

i got my bipap machine and took a nap with it, my god i finally woke up feeling well rested!

[rough socket]

Well his pseudo is literally "door handle", I'm not so sure a door handle has a brain

[hardy pilot]

am a puppygirl, too

so

[hot tartan]

he's real af for that

[hardy pilot]

*her

[harsh quartz]

theres also that chinese military aircraft from 2015 that was meowing

[crystal flare]

i'm looking forward to cozy restful sleeps.

[hot tartan]

oh I never heard about this

[harsh quartz]

https://youtu.be/49bgnaY2nd8?si=ve5EP6xQpBkiJIr_

[crystal flare]

anybody here been to the PC Master Race Discord?

[hot tartan]

nope

[fossil frost]

PCMR people are usually a different 4 letter word... that also has a C in it

[hot tartan]

cool?

[fossil frost]

lets play wordle

c###

[frigid goblet]

Idk maybe 100-200€

[harsh quartz]

thats 5 letters... add a Y to the end of it

[hot tartan]

craw

crow

[mystic tundra]

can you buy a pair of headphones?

[fossil frost]

could also be 5 letters if you add S to the end of it 😄

[fossil frost]

both still c###

[hot tartan]

shit

[fossil frost]

###t

[mystic tundra]

cost

[crystal flare]

i know the word.

[hot tartan]

colt

[harsh quartz]

you leave and come back?

[fossil frost]

c##t

[hot tartan]

i was never good at wordle

[mystic tundra]

yes

[fossil frost]

i think you have used all 5 guesses now too

[hot tartan]

yeah I don't think I got it

[fossil frost]

come back tomorrow for 4 letter wordle

[harsh quartz]

yeah which means you have to tell us the word

cmon, what was it

[fossil frost]

its worth the warship

[harsh quartz]

kek

[fossil frost]

you will only see it for a fraction of a second

[mystic tundra]

couldn’t handle certain few people misrepresenting my arguments constantly and then saying that i use strawmans, when i did not

[harsh quartz]

damn, i was tring to print screen it but wasnt quick enough on the draw

but yeah from what ive seen of PCMR i tend to stay away from those opinions

[hot tartan]

I stick to here

i come here to discuss tech and play 4 letter wordle

[harsh quartz]

ive got a handful of chats that have tech rooms but this is the only dedicated "tech" server im in

[mystic tundra]

all of the servers have some value to some extent

and forums

[hot tartan]

I'll browse forums occasionally, but I just come here to discuss tech leaks, videocardz articles and so on

[harsh quartz]

also if i leave here i lose bread

[hot tartan]

yes

can't lose it

[harsh quartz]

gotta keep it just so new people never know the reason for it

[mystic tundra]

not sure but i think this server retains your roles

[hot tartan]

I've also already established a group of like-minded individuals here, who I can easily discuss topics I am interested in with, so it's nice

[harsh quartz]

ive seen people come back and not have their bread

[hot tartan]

nah not bread I think

you could probs ask a mod nicely for it back

[fossil frost]

to distract from the shutdown because of all allagations against LMG including the SA claims from 1 person?

[harsh quartz]

floatplane and forumn member probably stick cause theyre linked to external accounts

[hot tartan]

if you know them well enough

[harsh quartz]

mostly to annoy people who came in to start drama and we were just tired of the drama

[hot tartan]

uh quick, breadposting! 🍞

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-wallace-get-breaded-gif-20574655

[fossil frost]

the thing that bothered me about the SA claim was that it never went anywhere.. if a claim like that gets made, either, somebody who did it should get punished, or, if somebody made a false accusation, THEY should be punished

but it all just went dead

[hot tartan]

damn how fast did he throw that if the person just gets launched

[fossil frost]

but ill drop the topic now, before momo or kirashi drop me 😄

[harsh quartz]

i mean, it was from a person who no longer worked there. And the details werent super public AFAIK. they said there was a third party internal investigation, and a couple people left the company around the time. so maybe something did? but it was kept private so we just dont know

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/nichijou-minigun-comedy-anime-fuck-you-gif-14778256

[harsh quartz]

honestly the only thing that really bugged me about any of it was the waterblock thing, but that felt... off... from the company. Like nothing was said about it until after all this drama was already started, and the company was claiming lost time and stuff, but that wasnt an issue before it started?

[fossil frost]

tbh, the REAL thing that pissed me off about all that is GN's involvement... steve smelled money, and jumped into a big pile of it

"sacrifice a friend, and the very reason my channel is the size it is for money? SOLD!"

[harsh quartz]

GN definitely started swinging a lot harder than they should have IMO

[hot tartan]

100%

[alpine gale]

😯

[hot tartan]

Snarky Steve gonna Snark

[alpine gale]

Spelled my name wrong...

https://tenor.com/view/paddling-gif-7623907

[harsh quartz]

ban

[north escarp]

Thousand years dungeonnnn

[hot tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/jail-right-to-jail-right-away-parks-and-recreation-parks-and-rec-gif-16177531

[fossil frost]

i dont know what you are talking about... 😄

[hot tartan]

the audit log does

[fossil frost]

logs burn

[alpine gale]

😯 edited a message to correct a mistake! 😅

[hot tartan]

pepperidge farm remembers

[fossil frost]

farms burn

[hot tartan]

I think the amish can rebuild those like an F1 pit crew

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-amish-building-build-explosion-gif-12259319577573268006

[fossil frost]

which pit crew? some are better than others (ferraris crew fucking suck most of the time)

[harsh quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/2021-nascar-nascar2021-2021nascar-2021nascar-cup-series-gif-26536841

[hot tartan]

probably Aston Martin

[hot tartan]

this is a real pit crew member

[harsh quartz]

so i musetve missed all of thise, but apparently F1 is alike a big thing now?

[fossil frost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLehbCYiJmE << real time

[hot tartan]

it's been doing decently well recently

F1 movie probably helped a ton

[fossil frost]

it takes longer than 1.8 seconds, to SAY 1.8 seconds...

[harsh quartz]

damn, now if they could just deliver my packages theyd be decent

[frigid goblet]

Wdym?

[fossil frost]

DHL are just the pit stop sponsor, red bull and their mechanics are some of the most well trained for those stops, out of any team

[harsh quartz]

something about they started allowing social media presence for the crews and specifically for the drivers and it blew up like overnight

[harsh quartz]

ik ik, i just hate dhl :P

[fossil frost]

it started with Drive to Survive, following the drivers as people, made people interested in the individuals, rather than just who was winning... turned every driver into a sponsorable commodity, injected a fuck ton of money into F1 and a fuck ton of interest

which lead to brad pit wanting to make the F1 movie. which did the same thing, all over again

[harsh quartz]

yeah, and now theyre turning las vegas into a course

[fossil frost]

driven on it for years now, its a good track too, for a street track

[hot tartan]

well they've had the Las Vegas street course for a while

[harsh quartz]

oh last i heard they still hadnt used it, im probably a bit behind, its not something i follow, which is why i was suprised to learn how big it had gotten

[fossil frost]

its always been huge, outside of the USA.. its recently gotten huge in the USA in the last 5-6 years

[hot tartan]

yeah it's doing really well in younger american audiences

[mystic tundra]

i left because there were ppl arguing with me about when i said that some people with or buying high end xx90 gpus do care about saving $100-200 on a psu, when i tried to provide evidence (like real world instances where someone buying a 5090 pc to assemble asks for help to cut costs) and clarify further, they falsely called me out for using strawmans, started attacking me instead of the argument, their arguments also were flawed and dismissed personal needs for gpu performance such as saying that buy a 5080 instead if you can’t afford a good psu, my original argument was that at this rate xx90 series will be built around two 12v-6x2s which many psus don’t have, requiring users to either buy a more expensive psu or additional adapters (which some don’t want because of a sleek build), in the end it was more of a slander show for what was essentially a valid concern from my side

but i hope the situation has cooled by now

[fossil frost]

woop.. just got the install date for my solar panels, batteries, and big fat inverter 😄

my whole house is about to be its own UPS, with free charging 😄

[hot tartan]

nice

[mystic tundra]

over ear headphones

[fossil frost]

my car will charge for free too 😄

[mystic tundra]

are they an option to you or you exclusively want iems

[mystic tundra]

they also told me to drop the argument off and take the L

[hot tartan]

now you just need solar panels on your car

[mystic tundra]

like… is there any better sentence than that when you want to argue with someone?

[hot tartan]

log off lil bro and take the L

[fossil frost]

my dad isnt an "eco person", and tbh, neither am i... but i showed him the cost of panels and batteries, vs the cost of mains electricity (in the uk)... and hes on the edge of buying the same install i have.. but.. he also has a motorhome, so hes considering testing it first by sticking 2x 400w panels on top of that and linking it into the battery system of the MH

[hot tartan]

yeah that'd actually be pretty nice I think

[fossil frost]

makes me want to unblock them (i cant remember why i blocked them the last time they were here, but they must have been a special type of moron for me to bother to block them)... but.. i blocked them for a reason... so, blocked they stay 🙂

[mystic tundra]

i guess when i was defending the reselling of pc components like buying them in region A and selling them in region B, i don’t do that myself

[fossil frost]

genuinely the worst feature of discord

[mystic tundra]

i suggested someone to buy off ram in his region and sell it in a different region because that particular guy had no money, big mistake from me, the whole server ate me alive

[frigid goblet]

No they are too uncomfortable

[mystic tundra]

which headphones did you own?
do you have strangely shaped ears?
are you more sensitive to pressure?

[frigid goblet]

Sweat/heat

I had xm4

[mystic tundra]

tried velour or breathable synthetic suede pads?

for me large, plush pads (ideally made from cotton) are probably the most comfortable

• lightweight headphones with looser clamping force

than iems

i don’t prefer the chamber iems make

[frigid goblet]

💔

[mystic tundra]

same with closed back headphones but it’s a lot less bad

[frigid goblet]

I also have eczema prone skin, so i would not risk it tbh

[mystic tundra]

i’m nitpicking though the feel isn’t that bad but when i have the choice i go for closed back headphones or the most preferable speakers

[mystic tundra]

i recommend checking #audio-tech and asking there

i know quite few iems but all of them are probably outdated

take anyone’s recommendation with a grain of salt as well, their rec might also be outdated by better options

[frigid goblet]

Alright thanks

[mystic tundra]

also beware everyone processes sound a little bit differently, even the shape of your ear makes a difference, so an iem that follows preference targets may not be the most suitable for you

most common preference targets are sort of the what an average user might find acceptable

i would play with EQ and find out what suits you the best

also remember frequency response isn’t everything, there are things like distortion, persistent resonances, etc.

FR won’t show you if a frequency drops off after few ms or few tens of ms

[harsh quartz]

And they’ve somehow made it worse with the “now you can just ignored them instead of blocking them” but it still doesn’t fix anything

[mystic tundra]

and if you install an extention it’s agaisnt ToS

[fossil frost]

i dont get the difference between ignore and block on discord, they seem to do the exact same thing

[mystic tundra]

also if you block someone, it hides your status

but when they open your profile after restarting discord it flicks the status for like half a second

[restive lion]

blocking has ways of alerting the other user

ignoring does not... its pretty silly

eg blocked users can't add reactions to your message, whereas ignored users can

[fossil frost]

so thats the only real difference?

[mystic tundra]

you can’t dm them mainly

[mystic tundra]

it can also flag you if too many users block and report you

[fossil frost]

i feel like i fucked up buying a 7.4kw EV cable.. when a 22kw cable costs the same, and is the same connector as 7.4.. but can be used on the public 22kw chargers...

amazon might be getting a return for refund 😄

[stiff wasp]

Do you have outlets at home that support 22?

[winged spire]

I wish we had those “bring your own cable” chargers

I’ve never seen one in the US

[fossil frost]

It's entirely random I've found

[stiff wasp]

Here it is dependent on how fast the charge is, slow chargers are bring our own but fast charge is not

I have even seen a place here having batteries to better support truck EV charging and newly installed are 400kw

[fossil frost]

7 and 22kw are random, tether Vs byo. 50kw and higher are ALL tether

The 50 and 100kw chargers at McDonald's are all cables. Supermarket 7 and 22, depends on the supermarket

[stiff wasp]

I haven’t seen that many 50, 7 and 22 are common in parking lots/garage and over 100 are petrol station etc

But ev charging in America seems quite under developed

[winged spire]

Correct

You would not and could not bring your own to a DCFC

[stiff wasp]

That would be dangerous I would guess

[winged spire]

The cables are water cooled

[fossil frost]

I could 100% see some idiot trying to plug a 7kw cable into a 100kw charger if it was possible. Then complaining to the charger company that it was their fault

[winged spire]

I had to use a 3rd party station for the first time ever last week lol

175kw charge point charger

Wouldn’t accept my tap and the app kept saying it was in use (it was not)

[silver sun]

808

[fossil frost]

I've got solar panels being installed in 3 weeks. I'm never paying to charge my car again 😁

[winged spire]

Had to call up the people and get them to remotely restart it

Then tap worked

[winged spire]

Never home charged before

Well, not regularly I guess

I can at my parents

[fossil frost]

Home charge is far more common in the UK it seems. It's THE way that people charge

[winged spire]

I live in an apartment

Can’t

[fossil frost]

Get a longer cable 😁

[winged spire]

Even offered to do 50/50 on the cost of a charger with my landlord

Feet first into the landlord machine

He didn’t want to, even if I would have left it when I moved out

[fossil frost]

Oh wait. USA can't do the same slow charging I get in the UK either can you? I can get 3kw from a socket in my house... So if I didn't want to buy a proper charger. I can still charge that way