tech-chat-1

[mellow tangle]

67

[proper gull]

Still exists, just not on by default anymore

[ivory wave]

Can i still use this as my ssd cover even if the sticker got off the thermal paste a little

And on the right side a screw is missing so i can just put that in right

[empty quartz]

Take off the sticker

[distant steeple]

yeah just take the sticker off

[ivory wave]

Im just making sure its gonna cool it

Im grabbing the ssd later today

[left trellis]

is the p41 better than the 990 evo

[distant steeple]

it will

[uncut pine]

who here uses/is interested in ereaders? (beyond kindles) 👉👈

Idk why, but after i got my first kindle (3rd gen keyboard) i just kinda have a facination w kindles and have built up a collection of ereaders, and lowk have to talk myself from getting new ones haha

[distant steeple]

i only have kindles for ereaders

i had a 2nd gen keyboard, but the screen cracked after i threw it in a bag to go somewheres

[uncut pine]

thats fair, they rlly kinda monopolized the market, but like non-kindles lowkey slept on fr. I got a nook glowlight 4 for less than $80 (with a case) like a year or so ago and it has all the features of the regular paperwhite (dual light mode, usb-c, etc.) and has turn page buttons, and ofc you can side load books, which is what i do

Only downside to the Glowlight 4 is that it's not waterproof for some reason (they have previous models that are waterproof), and the battery can drain quick, at least compared to my kindle keyboard.

But even like kobos can be decent even though i haven't been able to try one, but they had color ereaders first b4 amazon

[hasty echo]

we have a day wiothough electronics in my religions so the kindle saves me (its technecally allowed)

[uncut pine]

I have a first gen, and ofc the 3rd gen (got a 4th gen non-touch too but) n saw a 2nd gen in a thrift store and had to hold myself back from getting it

[proper gull]

Thermal pad* and you're meant to remove the sticker before use

[hallow jasper]

you'd hope the word REMOVE spammed across it would get that across but these days..

[proper gull]

REMOVE

[kindred halo]

It's obviously the brand name!

Who's Trivio </3

[left dove]

nobody important tbh

a waste of space is all

[distant frigate]

More beautiful fall foliage photos

It’s really starting to pick up here

[sleek ibex]

As a resident of TC2, I'll say that that's basically Enthusiast Central and honestly... Computers in general are poor financial investments so why not have fun and own up to it. That's what I say

[left dove]

how is

how is this relevant to the topic of trivio

I mentioned tc2 because we all dealt with the nitwit before he moved to tc1

[sleek ibex]

Trivio raging about how much we spend on tech

[left dove]

ah gotcha

[sleek ibex]

Yeh anyways back to our regularly scheduled programs

Computers are dope

[clear torrent]

hi guys, will this fit in a normal m.2 slot?
because its keyed different

[left dove]

spending thousands on thinking sand and blinky lights do be very pleasing

[left dove]

b/m key, will work with nvme m.2

[clear torrent]

sweet

because im thinking like.... isnt the part after the small bit supposed to be longer and not have another little small bit

[distant steeple]

yeah id probably be fine

[ivory wave]

Its not my first time building a pc im just making sure i can still use it 😭

[thin plover]

yes, I forgot the correct naming but this version is slower than nvme

[clear torrent]

it was either this or one of those things that have like 6 sata ports on them and ik they are much slower

[raw totem]

someone recommend me a good 850w ATX modular power supply that costs around 100euros +- 10euros pls

[left dove]

corsair rm850e 2025

[raw totem]

thoughts on the Chieftec 850W Vega M Series PPG-850-C 80+ Gold

[left dove]

never heard of it

[tulip sparrow]

FINALLY!!! https://www.vice.com/en/article/nintendos-pokemon-patent-under-investigation-by-u-s-government/

[left dove]

YEAH fuck you nintendorks

[left dove]

could be shit, could be good, i dunno

[raw totem]

a tier list ranks it as B+

[distant frigate]

Got this one

[empty quartz]

@left dove i might be an idiot

[distant frigate]

42F as a high on Tuesday lol

[empty quartz]

Pressed the button on the coffee maker to start brewing coffee. I forgot to fill up the water, and i was confused why it wasnt brewing

[sweet igloo]

is there a chance of a human being over here having a crisis recovery toshiba portege z30c PT263E bios file?

i literally cant find a single working file on the internet that doesnt require a membership or account

[snow inlet]

CORSAIR iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX RGB Liquid CPU Cooler $119 or Artic 360 liquid freezer pro $109

[plain cypress]

https://youtu.be/zTHCPsM5ECw

[wet ember]

Are these both for CPU power? Gigabyte B850

[left dove]

You can use just the 8 pin

[plain cypress]

Did you RTFM

[wet ember]

Read the fucking manual? Idk where the manual is. I'm building the PC on the mobo box

[left dove]

hillsboro is wild dude, the rail line runs like every 5 minutes here

[plain cypress]

Google "[motherboard model number] manual"

[sweet igloo]

did you know about the internet perchance

[plain cypress]

Yeah they completed the MAX red line expansion last year and it's glorious
Or shit was that this year? I don't member

[left dove]

This is a nice area tbh

[plain cypress]

https://trimet.org/history/redline-extension.htm

[left dove]

Tons of trees

[plain cypress]

Really trimet, no embed?

Oh shit it just took forever

[left dove]

and there's like no tweakers here

[plain cypress]

That's suburbia/industrial for ya

[left dove]

I'm kinda falling in love with it

[plain cypress]

I'm taking the lack of response as a "no"

[sweet igloo]

true

anyways back to searching the entire internet for a single bios file

[plain cypress]

Have you tried asking random discord channels

That seems to be the usual around here

[sweet igloo]

i actually have for some reason

i also need an ml1220 battery because i love laptops that dont use cr2032

[wet ember]

Success. Mobo isn't DOA unlike last time. Just waiting for memory training

[sweet igloo]

gvhujiogjhikhvgbhjk'\

ty bro im definitely joining vip now to download a single file

[craggy cove]

god i fucking hate these types of forums

its the only place with the thing i need and the download is locked behind registering + replying + account older than 7 days or whatever the fuck

and next month my email and password are on haveibeenpwned.com

[sweet igloo]

ive been through like 15 forums and i just started keyboard smashing instead of shoving actual emails into that AND ALL OF THESE ARE FUCKING PAYMENT LOCKED

like bro let me download the bios file for a 2016 laptop i definitely need it sm

[hollow sorrel]

I have never returned an item to Amazon so fast in my life that mouse I bought sucks major ass

[craggy cove]

even better

3€ one time!
is what they greet me with most of the time

[hollow sorrel]

Every time I lifted it from my mouse mat it would move up and down rapidly

Is that standard for laser mice?

[craggy cove]

thats some ball mouse behavior idk

[sweet igloo]

in one of those forums the highest price was 2300 euros im not even lying

[craggy cove]

hell nah

and watch the download link be dead

[left dove]

dude this little glinet travel router is awesome as fuck

[hollow sorrel]

I did consider buying a trackball mouse

What is a good mouse to buy? Preferably vertical

[terse pewter]

arent mobos making sure u have both plugged in?

[left dove]

only if you're doing like

insane overclocking

[terse pewter]

i see

[mortal jackal]

yeah it's usually not necessary to plug both in

[left dove]

Even with a mild overclock, on almost all cpus nowadays you're not gonna fully saturate a single 8-pin cpu connector

like, you can plug in both if you really want to

[terse pewter]

yeah i wasnt that concerned on the actual power consumption, but rather the mobo doing checks on all cpu connectors being plugged in

but ig you could just get an adapter for that if this is the case

[left dove]

Ooh, yeah those connectors share the same v+ and gnd lines so the system will just go "do I have EPS power? based I do, continuing boot"

[terse pewter]

makes sense

[hardy horizon]

Hmm put the iPad away with 40% battery ... Wonder what happened, also peep the 670 nits of the 9i

Reviewers say 5 hr battery ... And this is on quiet setting

[edgy valve]

is the rtx 5060ti 16gb model worth the upgrade from my 3060 12gb?

[tulip sparrow]

facepalms https://www.destructoid.com/rockstar-blames-leaks-for-30-layoffs-but-the-gta-6-community-isnt-buying-it/

[hardy horizon]

Disabled dGPU .. still not 4-5 hrs 🫤

[distant frigate]

Lmao. 6G

[hardy horizon]

Anything else I can do? 😥

[tulip sparrow]

Drop the brightness and don't do anything heavy on it LOL

[hardy horizon]

It is dropped to 60 nits miinim is 20, but can't read it at 20 nits

[tulip sparrow]

Check if your web browser or whatever you are trying to do is eating up the CPU or GPU

I had to tweak my web broswer to get it to use the GPU for videos instead of being stuck in software renderin mode which hit the CPU hard

For example

[hardy horizon]

Whoops forgot the scale

Had to crank brightness to take the task manager picture... Notice how 600 nits isn't REALLY enough to overcome reflections even in a matte screen 😭😭😭

[tulip sparrow]

lol

Yeah something is hitting the CPU there

I assume battle network is downloading something in the background?

[hardy horizon]

i dont see it doing anything

i will say it took Lenovo a year to fix the "hybrid" switch in Vantage (aka disable dGPU on the fly)

[tulip sparrow]

Not anymore it seems like but something was if those last 4 threads are any indication

[hardy horizon]

i had just wake it up, so maybe

[tulip sparrow]

That would likely do it

Windows spiking the CPU as it wakes apps and other things up

[hardy horizon]

still says only 2 :/ seriously wondering how reviewers got 5 i have NEVER seen that even on fresh windows inatll

[hardy horizon]

if the power hard limit is 40w and i have 99.9wh should last 2 hours with cinebench no?

[tulip sparrow]

I have a Lenovo Yoga 7 with a Ryzen 7 8840HS 16GB of ram and a 1TB ssd running Linux myself personally

[hardy horizon]

like not EXACTLY 2 hrs, but should be close

[tulip sparrow]

and I certainly get multiple hours out of my system even with it charging to only 80% battery

[hardy horizon]

and that's an all core workload as shown in the screen shot #tech-chat-1 message

[hardy horizon]

im starting to think this has been a bad battery since day 1

[tulip sparrow]

Tried a reboot?

Also let the battery drain completely then recharge to max let drain again to empty then recharge to max to reset see if that helps

[hardy horizon]

even in hibernate with charging my s25 vis always on USB it will nuke 45% of the battery charging it from 5%-80% .... definitely don't have 50 wh in the s25 Ultra ....

[tulip sparrow]

If that doesn't work then yeah things point to a bad battery which does happen even on "new" devices if they have been sitting around in a warehouse for months/year+

[hardy horizon]

yeah ive done that too

[hardy horizon]

i don't dare, they like to bug where you cant turn off the dGPU, and they struggle to boot on quiet mode, that's why i use hibernate.

[tulip sparrow]

Particularlly if the battery was left sitting by itself in a warehouse for a long while before they threw it into a laptop

[hardy horizon]

cant reboot rn because in in a meeting, that's why i was upset the iPad killed itself 😭

[hardy horizon]

that what im thinking, the health report is likely wrong because that what Lenovo uses to determine if you are eligible for a battery replacement under warranty.

i had them build this mechine for me, custom order :/ its 1yr old

[tulip sparrow]

Doesn't mean the battery wasn't sitting longer thent hat in their warehouse before it got into your laptop

[hardy horizon]

only 114 charge cycles, i try to not to beat on teh battery

[tulip sparrow]

Charge cycles don't mattery honestly if the battery has been sitting to long its going to degrade easily without a single cycle LOL

[hardy horizon]

been 33 minutes .... fallen from 80% to 55%

[hardy horizon]

their internal tool claims 90.32/99.9 wh

[tulip sparrow]

Which is partly why its hard to find usable batteries for older devices such as mobile phones/tablets

AKA if they aren't making new ones the old ones go dead before being used and thus are worthless

[fringe prairie]

are you unable to disable dgpu in bios?

[tulip sparrow]

which is partly why I don't trust standard batteries you buy from a store don't know how long those have been hanging around and how bad they have degraded

[hardy horizon]

i swear she is CHUGGING battery

[fringe prairie]

ask in SAL tbh

[hardy horizon]

you can... if you wanna see it freak out. and lose the placement of everything in your desktop.

i also have windows Nerf mode on (energy saver)

dGPU is fully disabled rn did it via vantage and its gone from task manager and device manager. that fan also isn't spinning ( bad design TBH with a 130W sustainable CPU)

any ways this is why im looking for a new laptop for teh daily!

i have a Ultra Flip coming, probably wont like it even with Lunar Lake battery life and igpu (should eb stronger iGPU than 14900HX) .

looking for another model to try.

[swift moss]

jesus

carrying this torrent on my back tbh

[tulip sparrow]

An i9 isn't really ment for the longhaul LOL

[swift moss]

devil's lego to build in ltspice

[fringe prairie]

slim 7i ae or just wait for ptl

[hardy horizon]

i want to be able to LIGHT game socially on the go (like stupid low settings and resolution) so i don't have to DRIVE home to game for an hour mid day. needs DirectX 12_2 support. but i need a bright Screen, right now at 60 nits i cannot see the presenter. needs 600 to be useable TBH.

[hardy horizon]

need NOW sadly.

[hardy horizon]

9i is going to depot to fix the ribbon cables the techs ripped during their 3 repair attempts ... and teh Liquid metal. people said expect 3-4 months because of the number that had oxidation and Lenovo secret 220w sustained mode 💀💀 ruined them. and they only use "refurbished" motherboards. new ones are checks $3,400 ..... more than the entire device cost 🤣

[odd marsh]

tf are you making

[swift moss]

this is the NAD 317 class A amplifier power circuitry

just getting some inspiration for my design

[odd marsh]

ah got it

[swift moss]

1000W class A?

[odd marsh]

why not class D

[swift moss]

i wanna build out of raw transistors so it's simpler, sounds decent without relying on a microchip and you can simulate it in ltspice accurately which is good for me because I can't waste heaps of money in R&D

[odd marsh]

Neat, I just finished up layout and routing for a PCB for audio filtering

[swift moss]

ayy nice what audio does it filter lol

[odd marsh]

Just takes an input and splits it up into Bass, Mids, and Highs

[swift moss]

i have some lowpass schematics I made a while ago for my DAC

[swift moss]

oh that's rlly cool yeah

[swift moss]

watercooled amp?

[odd marsh]

Power output?

[swift moss]

is this "development" board?

[rigid fjord]

@left dove who woke and chose to provoke you into violence?

[swift moss]

probably a lot higher if i water cool it lol

[left dove]

wh

haha get warshipped

[swift moss]

ngl easyeda looks a little jank 😭 i get the easy library imports but honestly kicad worth the while to just download models

[rigid fjord]

fuck you warship

[hardy horizon]

messing around with the brightness 80% would be the lowest i would go, that's ~450 nits sustained. for basic readability. even at that level i have to constantly shift my head around to make a shadow to see what's on the screen. f

obviously for HDR media content consumption would want much higher in HDR... but that's indoors....

outdoors here in the desert it probably needs double that TBH on the Nits.

[odd marsh]

I suppose? This for the Audio Engineering club at my school. We've got two tower speakers with midranges and tweeters, and then a giant subwoofer with no receiver to power them, so we decided to "make" it ourselves. Just filtering an audio signal then sending it out to some cheap class D amplifiers we found

[swift moss]

oh so making like an internal active crossover

[odd marsh]

yeah

TI has a great filter design tool online which we used

[swift moss]

filterpro my king

that's where I design mine too (albeit offline and on 2010s software)

[odd marsh]

oh shit

seems cool

[swift moss]

very much more detailed

[hardy horizon]

anyone have teh Zenbook Duo? i like the concept, just wish it had a tablet mode for notetaking.

[odd marsh]

yeah the online tool gave us 6th order 3 stage filters, but I chose Chebyshev instead of Butterworth

[swift moss]

use inverse chebyshev then they are a little nicer imo if you aren't butterworthing

stops that awful peak in exchange for some higher frequency noise

[hardy horizon]

should i consider snapdragon? or is that still like apple just with extra steps? do we have snapdragon gaming?

[odd marsh]

I wanted to prioritize fall off

[swift moss]

atp im sure it wont matter hobbyist designs dont really matter that much

[rigid fjord]

discord didn't scroll and saw that someone tried to provoke you

[swift moss]

filterpro crashing whattt

no way

[odd marsh]

I decided this was good enough with gain, and the falloff is pretty decent

[left dove]

trivio? yeah dude got yeeted

[swift moss]

ok here u are i managed to open a sample

[swift moss]

ye where'd you get that graph?

[odd marsh]

LTSpice

freq sweep

[swift moss]

oh i see yeah

[swift moss]

i build mine in ltspice and they show weird readings lol

[odd marsh]

did you know you can simulate with wave files in LTspice?

[swift moss]

gramps

[swift moss]

oh wait really, would be useful for testing performance of my class a

[odd marsh]

yeah and you can output to a wave file too

[swift moss]

really shoddy results with this one

dw about the L it's a little corrupted

[odd marsh]

yeah I tried to stay away from inductors as much as possible lol

[hardy horizon]

whats teh key combo to reset graphics?

[swift moss]

good luck finding >2.7mH inductors lol

[rigid fjord]

this looks like a low pass filter

[swift moss]

indeed it is, a passive one at that

i made it because active was too expensive at the order I wanted it at lol

[rigid fjord]

built one for amateur radio tbh

[swift moss]

lol

[odd marsh]

ok yeah here is the spice

[swift moss]

oh i see

yeah i can design electronics quite decently now, I have no clue how to use spice properly lol

[odd marsh]

LTspice is so awesome man

[hardy horizon]

win-shift-ctrl-B

[swift moss]

it feels so jank to use compared to kicad thoooo

keybinds are ass and it feels primitive ash

[exotic swan]

Anyone still using win 10 here

[rigid fjord]

wait til you do a high pass filter, then do some band filters dude

[hardy horizon]

other than teh TUF A14, anyone know of a 14-class notebook with dual M.2?

[swift moss]

i just need to do every kind of filter lol
LC and low pass are something every dac and power stage needs

[odd marsh]

I mean yeah it's older, but kicad is more PCB no?

I just use LTspice and Altium

[brave brook]

back in time when things had schematics provided with them. Like the ZX Spectrum clone with floppy drive from my country 😄

[swift moss]

kicad is eeschema and PcbNew

[swift moss]

i love when manufacturuer has schematics and fault codes ughhh how I wish this would come back

[odd marsh]

I was using KiCad for a bit and then one of my profs told me to just use Altium lol

[swift moss]

i mean yeah I own altium but imo doesn't feel as snappy lol

and i'm familiar with kicad 🤷

even got it installed lol

[odd marsh]

yeah Altium is just industry standard so using that, but KiCad did feel better lol

Altium keybinds don't make a whole lot of sense to me

[swift moss]

you get used to whatever you use ig

kicad has good spice integration apparently but i have no clue how to use that

ngspice or smthn

[odd marsh]

altiums spice integration is aight

[rigid fjord]

simple one using an inductor

[wheat torrent]

if all 3d companies did such cool banners

[swift moss]

shit acc makes me inspired to create

[wheat torrent]

like what the hell is this

[swift moss]

lollll

[swift moss]

100mH broooo lmfao

[rigid fjord]

even simpler one using a risitor and capacitor

[tired bear]

I use multisim for spice

[odd marsh]

yeah but'll sound like crap

[wheat torrent]

time to design some bullshit I guess! lets go!

[swift moss]

yeah i heard of that one

[rigid fjord]

it might but it's worth it to start and practice with

[swift moss]

ltspice best community and crazy good backend just a HORRIBLE frontend

[swift moss]

as the audiophiles say, gives it some "soul"

[tired bear]

It ran like crap on school computers but at home it was always good

[swift moss]

is it NI lol

[odd marsh]

I can confirm doing first order bandpass filters you do not want to use them lol

[tired bear]

Yes ni multisim

[swift moss]

i see yeah i had some of their software earlier

NI LabView

[rigid fjord]

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/alternating-current/chpt-8/band-pass-filters/
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/alternating-current/chpt-8/band-stop-filters/
basic circuits for 2 types of band pass filters

[swift moss]

i could design the circuit in altium for the shits and giggles i haven't actually done anything srs in it

also altium no linux support and i work on linux sometimes

[rigid fjord]

i believe this will work via wine in linux dude

[swift moss]

😭

no thanks lol

no way we cheating with voltage regs too

tbf i am using 337 and 317 for my power lines for my dac and opamp

[rigid fjord]

i mean the program dude, not so much the predone circuit

[swift moss]

yea yea ik i'm just nitpicking

[rigid fjord]

has a fair few circuit templates anyone can play with

[median heart]

Why has my email started doing this? Has it been hacked ive tried my password it says its wrong and its connected to some random phone number

[swift moss]

-_- what

[swift moss]

that's a lot of drives

[left dove]

you got hacked brosky

your msft account is comprimised, go change your password and 2fa stuff

[median heart]

The emails literally only been up since november 2nd and it started doing this on the 3rd

[median heart]

Whats msft

[left dove]

microsoft.

[median heart]

Oh great

[left dove]

so go change your shit

[median heart]

This emails on my onedrive and my steam but those are the only two things i have

[median heart]

How sure are you its hacked and how do yk

[left dove]

and with your email account they can take everything else

[rigid fjord]

nah, tis only a few

[left dove]

GO CHANGE.

YOUR INFO.

[swift moss]

😭

[median heart]

Okay okay its tryna make me sign in for my microsoft onedrive but i cant cus the passwords wrong

[left dove]

a random phone n umber being tied to your account is a surefire sign of a comprimised account

[median heart]

Okay idk how random it is but it ends in 60 and nobody i knows ends in 60 sooo

Okay ill change

How tf do i change my email for steam

[left dove]

that's a question for google

[median heart]

Ik im thinking out loud lol

[scenic hill]

https://discordapp.com/channels/375436620578684930/1436088218079461436 anyone who can help would be great

[regal marlin]

What does everyone think about ordering some parts before others

[median heart]

Bro what should i doo i cant change my email for onedrive cus it needs me to sign in to an account i dont have access to

And it says my files wont sync to the cloud if i dont change it

But i cant change it

[serene python]

i think my computer is struggling

[gleaming rose]

ahhh just lubed my 3d printer for the first time in 2 years

it sounds so much less miserable now

[rigid fjord]

what lube did you use?

[gleaming rose]

WD-40 dry lube

iirc it's pretty much ptfe lube that displaces dirt too

by the way plain wd-40 is a lubricant and you can say what you want but it is

[rigid fjord]

ah, so not lithium or copper grease instead then for lube

[wooden canyon]

would a 4 pin ARGB cable work on a 3 pin fan hub?

[gleaming rose]

I just used what I had on hand

[frigid blade]

no

[gleaming rose]

it's not like it matters much as long as it cleans and lubricates

I almost used my gun lube

[lost lance]

my friend spilt water on his gpu whats the odds this survived

[wooden canyon]

I need a SM4P male to 3 pin argb and I cannot find it anywhere

[shadow goblet]

whats with the prices and supply on amazon de for pc parts. checked now and either the part is 100e more expensive or theres just not part at all

[mellow tangle]

50 / 60, just let it dry for a couple days

[frigid blade]

that does not look like water

[mellow tangle]

the kum card

[frigid blade]

is that dust or

[rigid fjord]

cable wise if extending out, it can, but if it's connected to led's that's not argb then no it don't work so well

[lost lance]

my friend split a water cup on his pc and that gpu took the brute of it

[mellow tangle]

just let it dry

i spilt milk all over my old pc one time

smelled bad

[frigid blade]

without the led, does the voltage difference not matter?

[wooden canyon]

I’m trying to connect my RGB fan to my fan hub but it’s a 4 pin SM4P female and my fan hub is a 3 pin 3 ARGB. So it wouldn’t work?

[rigid fjord]

not if it's a straight cable for extending

[rigid fjord]

then it no work for you, as the fan is rgb and not argb

[cosmic stratus]

Dear god, why is dell repair genuinely ass

[wooden canyon]

I can’t find the cable that I need for it. Do you think you could find it?

I can find a SM3P to 3 pin argb not but SM4P to 3 pin argb

[median heart]

I marvel at my own stupidity, my email has 2 s’s at the end and i was tryna sign in with 1

Some poor fellas wondering why his email got 300 sign in request

[rigid fjord]

also straight cables tend to be female to female, and you're basically using a header for duponts to change it into a male 3 or 4 pin instead

[left dove]

oh my goodness

[median heart]

Atleast its sorted ig

But i was stressing for nothn

[left dove]

[rigid fjord]

because the sm4p is for rgb in a 12v setup, making it no beuno for argb setup

[wooden canyon]

So then what do I do?

[rigid fjord]

get argb fans instead or live without rgb

[wooden canyon]

😔

[rigid fjord]

common rgb and argb extension cables be like @frigid blade

[azure topaz]

switch it

[wet ember]

Good news. My new PC works. Bad news. My bootable drive doesn't work

So now I'm attempting to make a new bootable drive using my Mac which is taking forever

[grim moon]

Isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush. Scrub away where the water landed and let dry for a while. A couple days at least

[scenic hill]

For anyone wondering, dont get a rog xbox ally

theyre shite

[topaz shale]

yeah a windows handheld who would have guessed

[fringe prairie]

put leenux on it

probably fixes half of your issues

[topaz shale]

theres an OS called bazzite that is optimized for ally, check it out

since steamos isnt public yet

https://bazzite.gg/

[grim moon]

Bazzite is great

[craggy cove]

you can drive them from a good motherboard so yeah why not

[quasi junco]

Hi everyone,

Every time I load up BeamNG it decides to put itself into efficiency mode. This also happens when I change maps. Every time I turn it off it always seems to turn back on. It makes the game stutter on more intensive maps until I turn it off. How do I keep it off for good so I don’t have to keep going to task manager to do it?

[hallow jasper]

just about anything will combine well with those.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/loxjie-d30-review-dac-headphone-amp.27361/

Conclusions
It is clear that the Loxjie D30 has benefited from tight loop of measure and refine to produce a DAC with top notch performance. I like the built-in power supply to reduce desk clutter. As I noted, I wish for some improvement in user interface. Headphone amplifier has very clean output but not a lot of drive so best to use it with efficient headphones.

I am going to recommend the Loxjie D30.

[craggy cove]

how bad would it be if i put those 2 fans at the top as an intake (theyre gonna be on an aio too)

the two bottom onees

[rigid fjord]

not great tbh, the top you'd want as exhaust

[craggy cove]

well im asking cause i have an aio with no fans

why would it be worse? more dust?

[quasi junco]

Someone help please

[trail canyon]

Dude MemoryExpress is so goated. I've been trying to get my hands on the elusive FLP02 (because it's so darn sexy) and I've been contacting various sellers. Literally all major distributors told me to kick rocks and that they don't know anything. MemoryExpress was the only Canadian retailer I contacted who just straight up told me that they're struggling with supplier interest due to Tariffs and import costs out weighing the cost benefit of selling the case. So at this point, who knows when or if we'll ever even get it.

[craggy cove]

holy shit that's sexy

i wonder what it would look like if it was pure white

or maybe that would destroy the aesthetic

[trail canyon]

Nah it's gotta have that tint of beige for the authenticity

[craggy cove]

true

[trail canyon]

I'm sure you could go to town with a rattle can if you were so inclined though

[rigid fjord]

old beige box case, with the og turbo button

[craggy cove]

a cool old case with good looking internals

man why were we stupid 15 years ago

we couldnt figure out psu shrouds or something

[trail canyon]

Yeah it's a fully featured modern case inside. Turbo button instead of turboing CPU instead maxes output on fans which is such a chef's kiss nice touch

[agile stag]

whats unsexy is modern cases that advertise having 5.25 bays but then only put one(ONE ISNT ENOUGH GRRR)

[craggy cove]

do you mean fractal

[craggy cove]

make a fan knob/dial...

make it free too

[rigid fjord]

we could but also, the psu was used as part of the cooling in the older cases

[trail canyon]

Where else will I put my LED control fan, and cigarette lighter

[agile stag]

^this

its like uh you just lose with only one you have to pick one accessory grrrr go die

i want at least two for each disk in a basic cloning setup and then maybe an extra one or two on top of that

but i also want tempered glass

[trail canyon]

I think there are XL cases from 2007-2012ish that would fit that use case with multiple bays. The problem is you're stuck with the questionable aesthetics of the time. Also probably acrylic instead of glass

[swift stream]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/935989994735169546/1104658503114702918/IMG_0765.gif?ex=690e3ca6&is=690ceb26&hm=e6ed833953c55c331e3cb2b585d6ccf4b90919232f46d3b97b2067fedcd68385&

[craggy cove]

was there a fan/mesh shortage

[agile stag]

yeah they make some ok ones and some less ok ones but then acrylic is intolerable id rather have solid or glass but if its gonna be my main pc i want glass

theres a few cases that do that but i want more options still

[rigid fjord]

nope, the psu was at the top of the case on all the older cases

[trail canyon]

Hmmm. Guess you'll need to wait until 2035 when 2010 cases are the hot retro item

[agile stag]

i feel like top psu is fine but then your pc does become topheavier

bottom does do good though

[rigid fjord]

when you go OG with a build @craggy cove

[trail canyon]

Yeah acting as a extra vent cooling the air as it went out. Imagine trying to vent out of a 1000w PSU now without melting your PC

[craggy cove]

oh also i guess the parts were stupidly easy to cool too

[rigid fjord]

the more fun one

[trail canyon]

That angled front panel is sex

[craggy cove]

i have a sempron build without the case but idk what to do with it

case is still being used by a family member!

nice and yellowish

[trail canyon]

Recycle family member, acquire case

[rigid fjord]

i had this design but in a taller case that could have been used for a server, you could sit on it and play games and such

[craggy cove]

i tried booting from it when it was still a complete system, but it shut down/crashed (can't remember) at the xp login screen

dead ram or dead psu idk, didnt bother

[craggy cove]

honestly cooler to see it being used

[nova creek]

Anyone know why on my legion 5i in avowed the game runs fine on high settings but lowering them I would expect a big boost in performance but it don’t really change anything, lowered them all to low and changed resolution from 1600p to 1080p and turned off ray tracing, the thing that confused me is my you utilisation went down to about 50% or less and the cpu is only about 18% so don’t seem like a cpu bottleneck

[craggy cove]

fps cap maybe?

is it stuck at 60/144/240/whatever

[nova creek]

No. Was testing without any upscaling or frame gen and it was about 56-68 or something

Both the same when high or low. Maybe slight increase with all those lower settings. But I would have thought it would max out fps or reach the utilisation max in either cpu or gpu

[rigid fjord]

@craggy covewhere you can add fans to the front of the case, the plastic also acted as anti-sag/stabilizers for pcb's for like gpu's and sound cards

[craggy cove]

thing's as tall as my desk

[rigid fjord]

specifically can fit up to a 120mm fan here and still have a gpu not sag

[craggy cove]

old cases are anarchy

[rigid fjord]

notice the tweeter there?

that was the alternative to a piezo buzzer/speaker as you mobo speaker for fault finding with beep codes

@trail canyon

[stray portal]

goys should i get this

i dont see pixel 10 here it might be on sale but i think 9 pro xl is better than 10

[tired bear]

10 is not supported by graphene os anyway

[glossy veldt]

telefon 💔

[stray portal]

i dont wanna use graphene os i wanna use android

[tired bear]

graphene os is android

[glossy veldt]

i dont wanna eat meat i wanna eat steak ahh reply

[stray portal]

i dont like to custom rom

[glossy veldt]

i think thats an okey phone

[stray portal]

blud its another language

[glossy veldt]

but it sounds silly

[tired bear]

well you dont have to
but you could

[glossy veldt]

like saying picl

[azure topaz]

pickle

[stray portal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1408547069433610273/1434814761153073192/image0.gif

[topaz shale]

the lion does not concern himself with the cost of starting homelab

[glossy veldt]

is the pixel pro 9 only 37w charging

[tired bear]

the lion does not concern himself with homelab noise

[glossy veldt]

thats stupid slow for the big 25 even my cheap ass budget range oppo is 45w

[topaz shale]

the lion cares a little bit about his quality of sleep

[azure topaz]

or wattage

[glossy veldt]

the lion uses an x3550 m2 as his main computer

[tired bear]

or heat

[glossy veldt]

the rabbit uses some shitty last year amd ryzen 6969 and 8k monitor

[azure topaz]

or price

[glossy veldt]

stupidest distro i could find on my newest 11 yo government issued laptop

[tired bear]

wtf is that

looks like a toy

[glossy veldt]

a worse chromebook

[glossy veldt]

it was meant to be given to high school students of 2014

its actually pretty feature packed for it's useless ewaste existence

its got a built in tv tuner card

2 or 4 gb of ddr3

[tired bear]

maybe you could use it as SDR

[glossy veldt]

i mean its much better to just plug an antenna to any tv but for on the go DTV it would be neat

other than that it shits itself at doing anything else

[tired bear]

maybe you could build flightradar ads-b reciever with it

[glossy veldt]

you know what

that's not a bad idea

[azure topaz]

😭they could’ve spent so much better

[glossy veldt]

these were given for free in the millions

[azure topaz]

give me my tv tuner card

[glossy veldt]

the latest model is somewhat usable

[left dove]

funfact, those tv tuner chipsets are the same things that power little devices like SDRs!

[tired bear]

some goverment dumbass put tv tuner in required feature for bidding

[glossy veldt]

sob

[azure topaz]

standard dynamic range?

[left dove]

software defined radio

[tired bear]

software defined radio

[azure topaz]

what does this let me do

perhaps nothing

[tired bear]

monitor any 20mhz slice of radio

[left dove]

listen to radio signals from shortwave to 1~ghz

[azure topaz]

how important is this

[left dove]

you can even parallelize sdrs to get a fatter bandwidth

[glossy veldt]

you got two usbs one hdmi one sd an aux jack and an antenna port

whys my finger yellow in the second pic lmao

[tired bear]

you can download unencryped satelite data with it

[glossy veldt]

i know jackshit about radio anything

[azure topaz]

radio? i hardly know her

[craggy cove]

still have that thing in the yellow case

ngl i should buy one

but the small modern ones

i had one but the wires broke off

[wheat torrent]

gta 6 delayed 🙁

[wet ember]

am5 is already frustrating me with all these drivers i need to download for the windows install to work

[wheat torrent]

we will get am6 before gta 6

[craggy cove]

:workedonmypc:

[wet ember]

Installing windows on am5 is taking longer than I actually built my PC LOL

More time messing around with software than hardware

[ivory mountain]

user issue

[craggy cove]

happens

[wheat torrent]

ITS TIME TO BUY THE DIP!!!!!!!

[craggy cove]

my friend invested in to ethereum 2 werks ago

[exotic valley]

thats usually how it goes

[craggy cove]

worked out "great"

[exotic valley]

what's that

[craggy cove]

idk what the problem is

[wheat torrent]

rockstar

[craggy cove]

chipset drivers, lan drivers, audio drivers

like on every other system

[wheat torrent]

taketwo rockstar

[craggy cove]

oh damn lol

i wonder if the firing of 40 employees is related

[wheat torrent]

no

[craggy cove]

with the delay

[wheat torrent]

gta 6 being delayed until next year

is related to the stock drop

[craggy cove]

didnt mean the stock drop

[wet ember]

I asked ChatGPT (probably wrong) but it said the default Windows 11 installation doesn’t include AM5 NVMe drivers

And I didn’t know that

[left dove]

stock drop because gta 6 was delayed again lmao

[wheat torrent]

6000 employees

[craggy cove]

just check ur mobo page and see what it offers

[wheat torrent]

40 is nothin

[craggy cove]

never heard of am5 nvme drivers, guessing thats bundled with the chipset drivers?

[craggy cove]

for the whole company or gta 6?

[wheat torrent]

all rockstar studios are working on gta 6

from all across the world

[craggy cove]

uhhhh no lol

[wheat torrent]

wdym no

[craggy cove]

you have people working on rdr2 online, gta v online, future games (rdr3 maybe even?)

[wheat torrent]

they are not working on rdr3

[wheat torrent]

this doesnt change the fact that all 10 studios are working on gta 6

[craggy cove]

6000 eggs in one basket

[wheat torrent]

well its their biggest game

[craggy cove]

all the studios yes but not 6000 people

[wheat torrent]

over 1 billion dollars into it

[ocean axle]

got a source on that?

[left dove]

sauce pls

[craggy cove]

me too i just assumed youre correct

[wheat torrent]

okay so

rdr2 had all studios working on the game

and yall think that for gta 6 it wouldn't be the case? their biggest project? the one with most funding?

[craggy cove]

source: i assume

again, 6000 eggs in one basket

[ocean axle]

wikipedia has a line on this

but i dont see a source for that specific thing

[left dove]

well this is a predicament

I wanna order food but I don't know the address of my sister's house that I'm staying at

[ocean axle]

(as someone that works in AAA games, on a large team) i call bullshit on the entire company working on a single project at once

[left dove]

oh wait, gmaps

I'm smart I swear it

[ocean axle]

theres a point where coordination becomes a problem, 6000 people is well well past that point

[wheat torrent]

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/red-dead-redemption-2-narrative-interview-1202992401/

As the work on the game accelerated, the company began to realize that the process of working as a group of distinct studios wasn’t the best approach on so complex a game. So they began to become a single, massive entity essentially.

[ashen hearth]

Does a laptop with the third CPU justifies its price being +400 compared to the first one?

[wheat torrent]

Rob Nelson

[ocean axle]

that doesnt necessarily mean everyone was working on RDR2 at once

[wheat torrent]

brother

I said all studios

my point of them having 6000 employees and them firing 40 was just to make the point that 40 employees is nothing for them

you also have to consider that they probably use contractors that are not "employees" so on top of that the number is perhaps even higher

of how many people worked on the game

[nova creek]

Need some help with this one, so I turned off core isolation and not my cpu temps are at least 100 degrees

[ocean axle]

yea, just because all studios work on it, doesnt mean all the ICs at said studios are working on specifically RDR2 at once, likely its just how the project segregation was done changed.
using talent from across the company makes perfect sense to do, a project does not need the same number of or skill of people in every discipline at every stage of its development

[wheat torrent]

you think they would fire 40 persons and this would lead to the game being delayed for 6 months and have such affect on the stock

[nova creek]

Turning back on didn’t fix it

[ocean axle]

it is highly likely that GTA6 and RDR2 were being developed at the same time, and now likely RDR3 is in some stage of development too

[wheat torrent]

pre production is differnet

[ocean axle]

oh, fuck no, 40 people out of 6000 is nothing. unless those people were bus factors

[wheat torrent]

they broke the NDA

[craggy cove]

or they wanted to unionize :)

[ocean axle]

i dont mean pre-prod, theres many stages, pre-prod is one of them, but the general point that different skills are not needed equally at all times makes distributing them from across the company to projects as-needed (one big studio, making multiple games) can absolutely make more sense than separating it off per studio

[wheat torrent]

yeah sure

agreed, they are also going to remake max payne

[left dove]

Nice

[ocean axle]

also, this isn't completely out my ass, the team im on is doing this exact thing

some people work on one game, some another, and the distribution isn't a perfect split, its on an project need basis

[empty quartz]

I really hope i dont regret it, but im lending my bf my 17” macbook pro

[ocean axle]

and you never see it again

[proper gull]

the rage engine needed a lot of work, we saw some of the results of this in red dead redemption 2 and will see even more of it in gta6

[empty quartz]

(Its still funny how that 17” mbp has smaller bezels than my 2016 mbp 13”)

My 17” mbp is from 2010

[ocean axle]

a lot of that work for GTA6, was likely done while RDR2 was in development too

[wheat torrent]

I think at the scale of gta 6 I think it's at such scale that developers are probably replaceable without much to change for the general direction of the game

[ocean axle]

massive engine changes are generally one of the earlier things to happen

[empty quartz]

My boyfriend*

[ocean axle]

and those people were likely rolled off RDR2 to work on GTA6 a long long time ago

[proper gull]

That's what I was saying

[empty quartz]

If he loses it, im holding him accountable

[left dove]

we all know what bf means lmao

[empty quartz]

Some people refer to bf as best friend

[left dove]

nnnot that I've seen

[ocean axle]

they aren't, not as a blanket rule

[left dove]

I've seen bff, never just "bf"

[ocean axle]

some people are bus factors, those people cannot be replaced, not without a potentially large effect on the project

[empty quartz]

Either way, i hope he takes care of it, because i restored that thing by hand

[craggy cove]

loaned some headphones once, got that shit back in 2 pieces

[empty quartz]

Still needs a bit of some persuasion of the aluminum chassis to look like it isnt dented, but its my baby

[craggy cove]

they were good ones too :( or at least looked cool

[wheat torrent]

perchance

[empty quartz]

It was my first ever macbook

[wheat torrent]

I just can't imagine developers that got busted for trying to make a discord union and leaking files to be bus factors

I cannot see it

[empty quartz]

Ive had it for like 4-5 years

[ocean axle]

highly unlikely, but thats not what you said

your statement was general, toward the entire team

[empty quartz]

@ocean axle i found that 17” in a electronics recycling dumpster

[ocean axle]

there absolutely are bus factors there, people that cannot be lost

they aren't part of that 40, but they do exist

[wheat torrent]

sure

would it make sense as a business decision to fire such people?

[ocean axle]

never

thats literally what a bus factor is, by definition

key and irreplaceable

[wheat torrent]

with such high amount of developers working on the game the chances of firing 40 developers for a union delaying the game is absurd to me

[ocean axle]

at no point have i said anything to suggest that it would

[wheat torrent]

I confused you with http

anyways I digress

I really hoped for a trailer

seems like we wont have any for a few more months

I don't think they would say the game needs more work then release a trailer soon after

[upper fossil]

Hey, is this fixable?

It looks like it just needs to be popped back in place though I’m not sure

[grizzled frost]

should be fully functional as is

[jaunty apex]

Yea just bend it back. Just not too far

[upper fossil]

It’s just that I’m going to be selling the pc and want to report on all the possible defects etc.

[jaunty apex]

You're already doing a better job than many other sellers I think

[upper fossil]

trying to push it with fingers and it hurts lmao

[grizzled frost]

pliers and a little bit of force

[wheat torrent]

gulp

[grizzled frost]

what is the point of this

[grizzled frost]

definitely a serial adapter

[wheat torrent]

in cases where you don't want to plug in and out on the host device

• it extends the port in cases you need it

[wheat torrent]

in this case he could use it to plug that lil adapter so he will never have to plug anything in the broken port itself and damage it further

[quick stag]

Kids new lesson: don’t try to repair a pc power supply on your own (one of my friends tried to repair his pc power supply and while soldering on a new capacitor the capacitor blew up and now he doesn’t have eyebrows anymore)

[grizzled frost]

Never open a PSU

[plush wren]

why can the capacitator explode out of nowhere

[grizzled frost]

cap feeding into another cap

or bridging things he shouldn’t

[quick stag]

Other capacitors probably still had a charge in them and then fed their power into the cap = kaboom

[plush wren]

that causes one to explode

[quick stag]

Capacitors take time to discharge

[wheat torrent]

capacitors look like bombs

[quick stag]

Generally a few hours, sometimes a day

[quick stag]

they are (sometimes)

[grizzled frost]

big voltage cap into little voltage cap

[plush wren]

i see

[grizzled frost]

or a shitty cap

[wheat torrent]

they look like barrels from games that you shoot to explode

[quick stag]

or both

[valid canyon]

That’s like EXTREMELY generally. Generally caps discharge in seconds

[quick stag]

Meh I was more talking about huge capacitors

[valid canyon]

Round 30-40 seconds

[plush wren]

i charged one upto 3v and it kept going down slowly so i just put a screwdriver over the pins

[wheat torrent]

my grandfather used to have this kind of old ass motor sharpening stone grinder thing

[valid canyon]

And you’re asking why a component you short circuited exploded?

[wheat torrent]

and he would start it with a big ass capacitor

not sure how it worked but it worked

[plush wren]

yea

[wheat torrent]

idk if it was a capacitor also

it was just a big white cylinder

[left trellis]

So I edit quite a bit, and have a 7900xt, someone offered their 4070 ti as a trade, would it be worth for premiere and after effects, performance in games would be liek 10% worse but idrk

[quick stag]

Ever repaired an old <‘05 amp?

those things keep charge for like a day

[wheat torrent]

I wouldn't

[quick stag]

terrifying things

[valid canyon]

I’ve got a big ass cap on HVAC that was safe to do maintenance around after 40 seconds. I would recommend gloves though lol

[valid canyon]

Agrée!

[left trellis]

Think I could get a better trade?

[valid canyon]

Those are fine

Won’t kill you

[quick stag]

uhm

What’s under the green board will

[valid canyon]

Well, transformer is generally fine too if you don’t poke too much

[quick stag]

also these capacitors don’t lose charge easily

[valid canyon]

Have to admit that’s an old ass transformer

[quick stag]

They have nothing to really bleed to

So it takes hours or days

[quick stag]

80-90’s roughly

[valid canyon]

Got this bitch at work

Bigass thang

[pulsar root]

How to check brands of my pc parts on the desktop? I want to check cost of my build

[quick stag]

Hell naw 🙏

[valid canyon]

Hell yeah bbgirl we be connectin’

White collar job too lol

[quick stag]

Hell yeah we’re burning our eyebrows and our face off after we wire this capacitor up wrong

hell yeahhhh

[valid canyon]

I am paid good money to not fuck it up

[quick stag]

i recently set a servo on fire after giving it a bit too much juice in comp science

absolutely lovely

[valid canyon]

I’ve recently got yelled at because I refused to not stop an AC because of that thing

And the temps went up

[quick stag]

lol

[valid canyon]

It do be like that

[quick stag]

also this sound is just fine for a record player right

Just fineeeee

[valid canyon]

It works?

[crude blade]

Hey guys! After like, a year and a half of research and finally educating myself on PC building I think this is the build I'm gonna go with. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nqCwRV Any opinions on it/how to improve?

please dont recommend getting less storage im set on having more then i need

the only thing im not 100% on is getting the 5070ti over the 9070 xt, i kinda hate Nvidia but the performance difference for 50 bucks is hard to justify

[random gyro]

I would go with the 5070ti, more performance for only $50 more, and your getting GDDR7 vs GDDR6.

[frigid blade]

guys do I take this ```I’ll bother you again. What range salary would you need to pull you into a traveling network engineer role (and likely do school part time)? And perhaps any demands around tuition reimbursement for school

this is my second job offer this week, the only thing ive changed in my life was my new resume website

[daring crystal]

https://youtu.be/nc7MHEMcVVI?si=4Yxb_PhFD3202n4O

[frigid blade]

the anti-glare is crazy

[daring crystal]

Me want 720 hz

[shrewd ridge]

Hey chat, im a student for uni and im debating on either getting an Ipad/Ipad Air or a Macbook Air. Ill need it for school and replacing a very old degrading macbook that depletes charge INSANELY quick. Ill mostly need it for taking notes, browsing web and using ai like chatgpt, watching videos, and productivity stuff, no coding, no photo/video editing. If its better i may buy a 3rd party keyboard on amazon for the ipad. Recommend me the best, as I dont wanna go overkill, meaning buying something then realizing i dont need this much power, and saving every $

[gleaming rose]

"golly I wish there was a way I could waste a large sum of money in an instant"
the evil and deceptive 720hz monitor:

[gleaming rose]

if that's it get an iPad

[shrewd ridge]

should i buy a 3rd party stylus or keyboard tho?

[gleaming rose]

I'm an apple hater personally but I can't deny the iPads and MacBooks are best in class

[gleaming rose]

if you want, it's personal preferences
for the stylus I would go apple pencil

keyboard just do whatever

[stone echo]

any one know of a cheap E-atx case that would fit the JGINYUE X99-8D4/2.5G

[azure topaz]

my first question is why x99

[shrewd ridge]

shouild i go with the current Air with m3 chip or save money and get base ipad

[azure topaz]

i think there’s some montech cases that are cheap and support EATX

[daring crystal]

I hate everything but macos

I am a macos stan

[stone echo]

cause i got it for free from a friend with dule E5-2697V4 with cpu cooler and 96gb of ram ddr4 ecc

[wet ember]

new PC who dis 😎

[frigid blade]

need to upgrade the monitor

[sinful cobalt]

5070ti is gonna age better bcs of its featureset

[crude blade]

ugh i hate buying Nvidia lmao

[sinful cobalt]

as if amd isnt as shit

like sorry but heres the hard truth: corps gonna corp

[crude blade]

ofc but only one of them is worth like a quintillion dollars

[sinful cobalt]

for $50 diff just go 5070ti

Its like… 2nd most efficient GPU atm with the 50 series featureset

[slim frigate]

Some funky hardware I found in my piles of tech trash

[left trellis]

poor

[real quiver]

trying to use hardware acceleration in frigate was a mistake

[empty quartz]

Get the ipad air

Its like $800 cad, and has an m3 processor

[shrewd ridge]

Yeaa im also cad

Should i get the keyboard or pencil

Cuz i do like typing thats the thing, i type fast

[empty quartz]

Do you do art?

[shrewd ridge]

Nah

Just notes and browsing typing stuff

[dusk patio]

Overall looks fine,

• case is a weird choice I've never heard of, double check how many fans it includes, radiator clearance, etc
• the SSD has a heatsink but so does your motherboard (this shouldn't be an issue, but you'll have to pick one SSD heatsink to use)
• I would personally spend less on CPU cooling, AIO is kind of unnecessary. Or keep it for style points I guess
• the compatibility note is saying that the motherboard might need a BIOS flash before your CPU will work with it

[empty quartz]

Get a 3rd party keyboard

[shrewd ridge]

Do u use ipad air ace attorney?

[swift moss]

cement resistor omddd

[empty quartz]

Dont get the apple keyboard unless you’re fine with spending $380 before tax, or if you want to get it buy used

[grizzled frost]

cement the best high voltage resistor

[empty quartz]

No, 2017 ipad pro 10.5

First apple device with promotion

[swift moss]

yeah true i just need 10W though from lcsc and they have nothing also 600ppm wthhh (at 8ohm)

much better

[real quiver]

i just rebooted my nas and the whole world fell apart

[empty quartz]

@shrewd ridge basically, the ipad a16 or ipad air 13” are your best options

Only the 13” air is worth it

The 11” is hard to recommend

[shrewd ridge]

Why is 11 hard to recommend bro

[empty quartz]

Or an m3 macbook air

[empty quartz]

Same size and form factor as the a16, and with your use, you wouldn’t have any benefits getting the $500 cad ipad over the ipad air 11”

[shrewd ridge]

Facts

[empty quartz]

Plus i dont think you’d want your ipad running hot

[shrewd ridge]

Ipad a16 then ipad air 13 inch is like 500 extra

The ipad a16 is $469 cad

[real quiver]

oh my god a pihole just took down my whole truenas deployment

[carmine yew]

How

[real quiver]

it somehow blocked it from cloning the app repository from github

so nothing could update and when it tried to update it would just shutdown and never come back

it didn't literally take down the full deployment

but made it not function

[shrewd ridge]

@empty quartz broo idk now

Should i get the macbook

[cedar hollow]

miata = macbook is always the answer

unless you're gaming then get windows

[real quiver]

i am a d1 miata hater

[cedar hollow]

they're cheap to build into racecars

besides that i'd rather get a gr86 over one

[real quiver]

i'd rather continue buying german cars

[cedar hollow]

my man 🤝

[real quiver]

i love my e92

[cedar hollow]

my dream car is a specific spec e92

[shrewd ridge]

What about ipad

For school

[real quiver]

mine is a pretty good spec but the color is kind of boring

[cedar hollow]

E92 Coupe, fox red on alpine white, single hump, ZCP w/ 359Ms and EDC

can't find any clean ones though and ive been searching for a while now

[stiff prawn]

anyone here who can help me ipad dilemma ;-;

[real quiver]

all e92s are coupes btw

[cedar hollow]

i know

[real quiver]

mine is space gray metallic with a black interior

full idrive, m-sport, etc.

[cedar hollow]

do you have CIC

[real quiver]

slightly above stock power output

yes

[cedar hollow]

i also want an LCI

[real quiver]

2010

i had an e82 with the old idrive and that was painful

i like calling it the simon swipe idrive

[cedar hollow]

personally not a fan of the 1 series much, the way it looks mostly

[real quiver]

i miss mine so much

they drive so well

[cedar hollow]

they drive great yeah

a friend has a 128 with the 3stage manifold from an N53 and it does very well on the track

[real quiver]

my biggest complaint going from an e82 to an e92 is the brakes

128s are fantastic track cars

[cedar hollow]

they're well balanced but unfortunately open diff

[real quiver]

the only unfortunate part

and they don't have the 135 brakes

[cedar hollow]

fortunately can be fixed for semi cheap

tons of junked 135s these days

[real quiver]

not here

[cedar hollow]

pretty sure you can also swap 335 brakes onto them no?

[real quiver]

335 brakes are very sad

i tried really hard to get another 135 after mine got t-boned but there were just none available

[cedar hollow]

finding a clean manual 135 is literally impossible

[real quiver]

now i have a 335 that makes a couple horsepower

[real quiver]

*finding a clean 135 is literally impossible

[cedar hollow]

hows that N54 treating you

[real quiver]

i specifically bought a 2010 for the n54

[shrewd ridge]

In my mid 20’s im dreaming of getting either a i4 m50 or amg cle 53

Or audi s5/rs5

[real quiver]

2011 is the year they switched (besides the 335is)

[cedar hollow]

my friends and i had a shitbox 335i we single turbo'd a long time ago

lemme find the clip

[shrewd ridge]

Hey 335i isnt poopbox

Thats a german made luxary-sport car

[real quiver]

They very much can be lol

[cedar hollow]

the manual swap was unironically the easiest part according to them

[shrewd ridge]

That looks fast vert.ea

[real quiver]

Here's a video of mine

[shrewd ridge]

This is mine

[swift moss]

ermmmmm hmmm seems like the input is changing it by 30mV not swaying it

[cedar hollow]

i find it amusing how they managed to make the N54 sound that good despite it being twin turbo

[shrewd ridge]

Bro r u in the prairies

[cedar hollow]

meanwhile every other twin turbo inline 6 BMW makes sounds like dogshit

[real quiver]

This isn't the fastest it has gone but it's the only picture I have

[real quiver]

Imagine twin turbo n54

[cedar hollow]

are you single?

[real quiver]

Of course

[cedar hollow]

single turbo*....

what kit are you using?

[shrewd ridge]

I used to have a civic type r 2017

[real quiver]

Speedtech top mount

[shrewd ridge]

That was prolly my fave car

[cedar hollow]

very nice

[real quiver]

6466 precision currently

[cedar hollow]

i think we used a docrace but it was so long ago i dont even remember

[broken palm]

do my 4 stick of ram mistake should be better now.. replacing my 7950x3d with 9950x3d in the morning

[cedar hollow]

that car blew a rod last i heard and is sitting in someones backyard afaik

[real quiver]

Also note what flavor pump the car is parked at

[cedar hollow]

corn

[shrewd ridge]

I got mag alloy wherls with agropoviv exhaust, tints carbon spoiler and new cold intake

[cedar hollow]

fk8s are good cars

ive only ever driven an FL5 though

the type R feels like the porsche of hot hatches

[real quiver]

I have a built motor (still open deck for now), port injection, twin disc xclutch, and 8.8 swap

[shrewd ridge]

Oh yeah for sure

Before i had the type r 2017

I had a gti

[cedar hollow]

out of curiosity what cc injectors are you using for port

[real quiver]

After I finish studding it I think I'm going to try and max my turbo and fuel system out

[real quiver]

750cc if I remember right

[cedar hollow]

hm

[real quiver]

Dual walbro 450s

It'll still get like 20mpg at cruise believe it or not

Unfortunately I did lift the head but it was kind of my fault

[stiff prawn]

imma just say ts

i was lf an ipad and the dilemma is betwen ipad air 13" 256 and the new m5 ipad pro 11 inch

the price diff between the two is just 100$ for me but the only problem that ive got is, i bought 50$ worth of accessories for the 13inch model ;-;

[shrewd ridge]

It was red and the exhaust was nice

[stiff prawn]

ill be using the ipad for med school, nothing crazy, maybe draw here and there and do other things but primarily will be using it for med school

[shrewd ridge]

With bronze alloys

[stiff prawn]

i know the ipad pro will be an overkill but the chip difference is of 2 generations and just a 100$ diff ;-;

[shrewd ridge]

Yea true @stiff prawn

Just return the accessories

Whyd u go ipad i stead of macbook air? Cuz im thinking of getting either

[stiff prawn]

theyre in perfect condition and amazon's a bitch in India and they only accept returns if the product is damaged/missing smth and such (Atleast for the products that i ordered)

[stiff prawn]

macbook wont be as helpful, atleast for me, as most of the post grad (usmle equivalent) softwares run on ipad/iphone and not on pc/laptops

[shrewd ridge]

Oh dang amazon india sucks hey

[stiff prawn]

they sure do

[random gyro]

sup peoples

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-is-delayed-again-until-november-2026

[solar moat]

since it takes RTX PRO A6000 +9950x3d to get 30fps or it looks ass

[random gyro]

i wish we could have the spec requirement now but

[solar moat]

no nomral pc can run at ok fps so they wating for next gen

[fossil mauve]

do i go 5070 or am5 ddr5

already have a 5600x

[random gyro]

console only atm

[jaunty apex]

creamed car

[random gyro]

ayo? 😭

[swift moss]

w gain

[wet ember]

I think I forgot to peel the plastic sticker off the cooler

There's no way my 9800x3d is running this warm in a freezing room with the AC blowing, 3 noctua fans as intake, and a large dual tower thermalright cooler

[smoky tapir]

I finally got a 5090, can confirm, its a monster. Nvidia may be slimey but no one can compare to them

[swift moss]

ah yes a uv of 9 at 1am

[wet ember]

Now you can run your local AI instead of using chat gpt

[smoky tapir]

I've actually considered that. the main reason why I got one is because I fear mongered myself into thinking AI would soon make powerful chips unavailable to consumers lol

[swift moss]

uv of 5 at midnight yesterday

[random jetty]

Gotta admit how much the basic mouse has changed since the 90s (first one is a ball mouse and second one is a new mouse)

[craggy rivet]

You mean not much?

[jaunty apex]

lol thought the same

Just got smaller

[craggy rivet]

Other than it getting smaller and not having an oscillator (because USB)

[gilded sparrow]

is 5060 ti froma rx6600 a worth it upgrade or should i wait another gen?

idk im starting to see my card not be able to run some games id like

but idk if i should wait

[weak sleet]

Is it worth investing in a nice pair or IEMs? I have some aeon closed x headphones now and they are great but lacking in bass. Was wondering if i should look at getting another pair of headphones for music or get some IEMs?

[pulsar root]

Do people use fitgirl to get games?

[cold skiff]

There is your answer.

If it doesn’t run games as you like, it’s time to upgrade

[wet ember]

does anyone know why steam is doing this?

[balmy tapir]

have you set up the drive to be a steam library in the settings?

[wet ember]

i think? idk

[balmy tapir]

ew is that spice ?!

[swift moss]

Indeed

[balmy tapir]

i hate my circuits course :(

lab is fun however

[cold skiff]

I had this issue.. but that was because I forgot to set a proper drive partition. Once I did that it was fine. Not sure why your steam does that

[wet ember]

mine's NTFS, healthy (basic data partition)

[balmy tapir]

can you like make a folder in file explorer?

[cold skiff]

Yeah I see that’s why I’m not sure why

[wet ember]

yeah

my screen dimmer makes screenshots dim sorry about that

[cold skiff]

Verify game cache of games on that drive already

[wet ember]

it's a completely empty drive

[cold skiff]

Oh fair enough

Clear the stream download cache

Downloads > clear download cache

In settings. Then restart steam and pc

[balmy tapir]

womp womp no game drive for you

i got no idea lol but it seems like steam doesnt properly see the drive

[wet ember]

oh that actually worked. didn't have to restart pc

[cold skiff]

That’s good news

[wet ember]

now i can finally use my new gaming pc

2 gigabit ethernet btw lol

[cold skiff]

But do you have 2gigabit internet?

Either way it won’t help you downloading GTA6 in November 2026 on a PS5 kek

[empty quartz]

Your cars might be faster, but im going much further

[cold skiff]

Who tf uses litres to talk about their fuel

[empty quartz]

Most non americans

[cold skiff]

I’m a non American

I don’t use litres

[empty quartz]

What country

[cold skiff]

The Kingdom that is United by States

[empty quartz]

So usa?

[cold skiff]

4 specifically

Surrounded by water

[empty quartz]

Oh, that shithole

[cold skiff]

What shithole you from?

[empty quartz]

Idk what shithole you’re from

[empty quartz]

Canada

[cold skiff]

Basically our transatlantic little cousins then

[empty quartz]

Uk?

[cold skiff]

Yeah

[empty quartz]

So the worst country