tech-chat-1

[rigid fjord]

you'd be better off with a 9070xt instead tbh

[tulip sparrow]

Since the 50 super series si basically dead and Nvidia is ramping DOWN production of the GPUS that most people would even want to purchase

@rigid fjord VR mods require an extra 1-2GB of VRAM usage ontop of what games use and I want to be able to future proof that for newer games

hence llooking at 20gb of the stuff with 18gb the miniun

BUT with the RAM shortage now hopefully Devs will be FORCED to actually optimize their games

[grizzled frost]

Haha! never

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah who are we kidding LOL

Optimization went out the window YEARS ago at this point

[rigid fjord]

ah, that sucks but you gotta do what ya gotta do

[chrome ether]

im only upgrading my gpu because i want to jump to 1440p or 4k

[latent gull]

Oh yeah I forgot that was a thing

[chrome ether]

i can run my games just not smoothly or quickly enough

[tulip sparrow]

My 3070 Ti is falling flat on its face at times thanks to that 8GB of VRAM onboard

[chrome ether]

shouldve been 12 minimum

[tulip sparrow]

yeah

BUT NGREEDIA didn't want to

Waiting for that STUPID AI bubble to burst and for them to TRY crawling back to us Gamers

[rigid fjord]

tbf, beam.ng can be more cpu heavy in the way it uses cores on a cpu

[empty quartz]

What cpu do you have

[rigid fjord]

they're running a 3700x currently

[empty quartz]

Theres the issue

Beam likes speedy cores

[rigid fjord]

not fully the issue

[empty quartz]

True

[rigid fjord]

speedy yes, it's also more cores

[empty quartz]

Plus beam runs better on novideo

[empty quartz]

Cores only if you’re using the ai cars

Speaking of that

Im tempted to try beam on my workstation

18c36t xeon

Im especially curious because i have a 2080ti, arc b580, and 256gb of ram

[rigid fjord]

considering the "traffic" will be ai cars, yeah, it's going to also use more of the cores

[rigid fjord]

it'll definitely like this for sure, especially with the ram capacity

[rose stream]

That bubble is a black hole btw. If everything goes south, they might still choose not to look to the consumer market regardless because the losses (if any sustained on their part) might either not be theirs specifically or if they do sustain any, it will be too great for us to bail them out of.

[rose stream]

And now optimization, the one thing that wasn't seen as an incentive anymore, has been seeing an uptick in as of late thanks to all this nonsense.

The logic for triple A studios not optimizing was because better hardware was optional on our part, even if the cost was steep. Now that it technically isn't for everyone at large, this no longer works as an excuse if they want to profit off of anything they create.

[tulip sparrow]

Do you not own phones?

Then theres the idiot CEO about Borderlands 4

[shy marsh]

Hi . a question . is this good or should I return ?

already done with BHT test which uses badblock and also it returned pass with 0 on all errors

[formal sonnet]

If this is a brand new drive and data integrity is important to you, I recommend using HD Tune or HD Sentinel to perform a full write / read rest of every sector on the entire drive before putting it into production.

[void bronze]

make sure you drive it

ba dm tss

[shy marsh]

I dont have docking station for it . but it is "newly" bought .

[queen trout]

Guys i currently have a ryzen 5 3600 but im getting a 5800x i have and gigabyte b550 eagle wifi do i need to update bios my bios is currently on f1

[void bronze]

Yes

updated before you put in the new cpu

[queen trout]

But can i install the new cpu and then update

[void bronze]

just update it before

[tidal citrus]

Is this ptm application fine? Its ny first time and I kinda messed up with the exacto knife cutting it to shape. I did mark with a sharpie pen for where to cut but the exacto knife just didnt cut straight so thats why theres a gap to fill. Google says PTM is fine to fill gaps even if i cut it inaccurately

[kindred halo]

ARGH, if only I had the money for a downpayment on this -w-

[void bronze]

5050

[kindred halo]

More than enough for my needs

[frigid blade]

Seems pricey

1080p

[kindred halo]

Its 13700HX counterpart was 1K previously

This just went on market

[ebon marlin]

I recommend looking for used laptops

[kindred halo]

Cannot

I don't have the immediate budget for this; Planning to finance it (if it's still there in February)

[hidden hill]

anyone know if theres any plugin or something that can make my games folder look nicer and feel more like a library?

or am i stuck with this

[ebon marlin]

Why not use Steam

[hidden hill]

i do, but these games are from multiple locations

also its really easy to launch something from a folder on my desktop like this

[rigid fjord]

you should be able to remove the arrows on shortcut links

[hidden hill]

oh yeah that would definitely make it look nicer

[gloomy vortex]

What’s a better keyboard Keychron Q5 HE QMK or steelseries apex pro tkl?

[quasi moat]

I’m not crying you’re crying

Siri play kids by mgmt

[ionic peak]

that one time where you play mc localy with your bro at his home

[quasi moat]

I used to bring my yu gi oh cards to my big brothers friends lan parties

[ebon marlin]

You add non steam games to steam and launch them like Steam games

[quasi moat]

I had the sleeve and all

[drowsy heart]

Playbite

Nite

[ebon marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-bro-sure-nick-fuentes-njf-nicholas-j-fuentes-gif-8996782605629735174

[south arrow]

Back when a match wasn't play 20 cards in 1 turn

[winter lance]

I just respawned from a evening nap my god was that good

[hidden hill]

ill check this out

[twilit horizon]

https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuliquidcoolers/MYSTIQUE-360-5th-Gen-Liquid-Cooler-with-LCD-1851-1700-AM5/2024/18059.shtml

Is this AIO good for a 9800x3d?

[rigid fjord]

found a way to do this

[rigid fjord]

a decent air cooler would be enough, otherwise grab a thermalright frozen notte

[devout bramble]

Do y’all jnow any fixes to my games freezing? On apex Fortnite but not terraria or siege. I updated my nvidia drivers. I cleared the dx11 cache I tried xmp off.

[twilit horizon]

I'm not sure if there are frozen notte in my area, would a frozen pro or mjolnir work?

[rigid fjord]

For Shortcut Arrows (Windows 10/11)

This changes the standard overlay arrow to nothing or a blank space. 
Open Registry Editor: Press Win + R, type regedit, and hit Enter.
Navigate: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.
Create Shell Icons Key: Right-click Explorer, select New > Key, and name it Shell Icons.
Create String Value: Inside Shell Icons, right-click an empty space, select New > String Value, and name it 29.
Set Value Data: Double-click 29, and enter %windir%\System32\imageres.dll,197 in the Value data field.
Restart Explorer: Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), find Windows Explorer, right-click, and select Restart. 

[rigid fjord]

they would yes

[hidden hill]

ty for this!

not even just for that folder because i really dislike those icons in the corners lol

[rigid fjord]

optionally if you don't want to touch the registry, winaerotweaker will do this for you also

[proven mirage]

making ai count to 1 million

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-am-gif-26618962

[proven mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/pluh-cat-gif-6523844653566890765

[charred hare]

https://youtube.com/shorts/_DQ4Rg709QY?si=hwAkJjgKjuA5wO5B

[plain cypress]

We live in the stupidest timeline

[proven mirage]

I have free time to waste

it reached 52k!

[formal prism]

8kHz would be some surpremely slow RAM. Even the OG DDR started at 100MHz lol

[brave brook]

Go ? It seems this is a french thing ?

[thorn pewter]

99% sure they ment mhz not hz

[sour remnant]

Typo

[brave brook]

Giga-octet instead of Gigabyte of Gibibyte 😄

[sour remnant]

Lowkey the B850 Aorus Elite WiFi7 is a beast of a motherboard

[formal prism]

No doubt, but it's still fun to nitpick memes

[rigid fjord]

if you're using win 11, there's even a command line to make the context menu better

[formal prism]

Also 8000MHz would be impossibly fast. DDR5's standardized cap is 4400MHz (8800MT/s) ;)

[rigid fjord]

not impossibly fast but marketing that 8000mhz is actually a 8000mt/s kit

[formal prism]

As an aspiring FPGA engineer I will die on the hill that people and marketing stop using MHz for transfer rates. It's just literally incorrect

[ornate harbor]

Valid

crashout

[cold skiff]

What if they marketed the kit as 3000mhz to you

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-do-not-mind-me-gif-19609647

[cold skiff]

Ddr5 ofc

[formal prism]

Why though? I'm fine with 6000 MT/s. They don't need to stop using bigger number, just use the correct unit.

[cold skiff]

I mean realistically shouldn’t they be doing it in MB/s to make more sense?

[formal prism]

That would also be valid and even make cross-generation (when interface width changes, which hasn't happened yet) comparisons easier for the laymen

[ebon marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-bro-sure-nick-fuentes-njf-nicholas-j-fuentes-gif-8996782605629735174

[ornate harbor]

Huh?

I dont get it

[cold skiff]

Explain MT/s to someone. Mind blowing, big number = good. Put it in MB/s, they get it.

[stray portal]

I have so many games in my steam library yet i have nothing to play...

[spring latch]

haCKINTOsh

[stray portal]

crackintosh how did u do this???

[spring latch]

hackintoshing

[stray portal]

What are your pc specs

[ornate harbor]

How many

[stray portal]

like a lot

[ornate harbor]

like how many

[stray portal]

Like 1 or more

[ornate harbor]

Do you have an exact number?

[stray portal]

*an

an exact number

[ornate harbor]

Thats what I said :]

[ornate harbor]

is it more then my steam library

[stray portal]

22 😪

Rookie numbers

[ornate harbor]

Ey getting money is hard

[stray portal]

Let me check how much i have

[ebon marlin]

That's so little lmao

[ornate harbor]

Games arent cheap

[ebon marlin]

Iirc I own like 497 games on Steam

Owning doesn't include free games

[ornate harbor]

And now how many years have you been here and how many have I been here

[ebon marlin]

Ah 492 games nvm

[ebon marlin]

I just recently turned 20

Owned my steam account for 4 years I think

[stray portal]

My current account has 5 years i think

[ornate harbor]

So that makes you 5 years older then me wich means you had 5 years more time then me and probably also a job that pays you money

[ebon marlin]

I barely play anything I have on Steam mostly just play Tarkov

[stray portal]

It began in 2021

[ebon marlin]

I don't have a job

[ornate harbor]

dawg

[stray portal]

I have older accounts which are lost media and they are from sooo long ago i dont even remember

[ornate harbor]

Then how did you manage to buy 492 games

[stray portal]

Jobs in the big 25 😭

[ebon marlin]

Money

[ornate harbor]

Im searching one rn

[stray portal]

Job job job

So sad

[ornate harbor]

Wdyn sad money doesnt grow on trees... i mean technically yes but also no

[ebon marlin]

I don't even play my games that much

Mostly just been playing Tarkov since 1.0 released

[ornate harbor]

Okay man what is that game right there

[ebon marlin]

Peak game to play during tarkov matching

[stray portal]

Steam gooner games 🙁🙁

[ornate harbor]

What is it about...?

[ornate harbor]

Ey im playing Stellar Blade

[ebon marlin]

Cookie clicker but instead of a cookie it's a butt

[ornate harbor]

[stray portal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1290669449510260889/1441091320549609482/togif.gif

[ornate harbor]

Huh

[stray portal]

mei mei gif sragon

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-finns-gifs-funny-goofy-gif-3941098364779365125

[ornate harbor]

What

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-do-not-mind-me-gif-19609647

[ebon marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/cigarette-jumpscare-kiryu-yakuza-caption-gif-1087455500199788681

[stray portal]

https://tenor.com/view/sister-mei-cat-gif-10590036499419006188

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/the-urge-resisting-the-urge-gregtech-diesel-gregtech-diesel-gif-15737733198850231497

[ebon marlin]

People still using this in the big 2025 💔

https://tenor.com/view/nick-fuentes-nicholas-j-fuentes-groyper-nickstorian-kms-gif-14130466904460467231

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/heart-locket-waffle-maker-waffle-heart-meme-gif-22347349

Waffle?

[rigid fjord]

actually no, they'll confuse it with the capacity it is

both of you, rule #4

[wheat torrent]

...

what type of games do you own

I used to buy games back in the day especially on sale I couldnt stop myself

then I realized I do not play games and I had to stop

[ebon marlin]

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561199074095580/?cc=eu&all_games#games

[wheat torrent]

I bought games like skyrim, elder scrolls online, ark, phantom pain, metro games and so on

[ebon marlin]

See for yourself

[wheat torrent]

and I don't think I have more than 3 hours in all of those games

[ebon marlin]

Out of all my games I haven't touched 316 of them

Less than 1hr of playtime 61 games

[wheat torrent]

how much hours in total played?

why did you buy them

[ebon marlin]

5711hrs

On all of my games combined

[wheat torrent]

I have half your hours in only a single game which is quite interseting

[ebon marlin]

I've got like 3.8k hours in a single game I don't own it on Steam

Escape from Tarkov

[wheat torrent]

that's crazy

[ebon marlin]

Recently was added to Steam but I'm not buying it again just to have it on Steam lmao

[wheat torrent]

I had EOD I bought it and I loved the game

then they banned me for fraud

[ebon marlin]

Damn lma8

What did you do

[wheat torrent]

no idea

nothin as far as im aware

if only customer support would exist for BSG

[digital tulip]

Rate my phone chat

[formal sonnet]

0/10 because it's technically not a phone in its current form.

[wheat torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/android-meme-low-quality-gif-25555296

[ebon marlin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1312993706701492256/1386913185172291666/da6de031-6b13-47e3-b051-ae01b5ad21dc.webp

[wheat torrent]

wtf

[ionic peak]

I have android

[wheat torrent]

same

[ebon marlin]

Noobs

[ionic peak]

i hate my one cameA

[ionic peak]

try A03

better than su24U

[ornate harbor]

Android > IOS personally

[ionic peak]

Linux> Android

[ornate harbor]

Android is Linux

[ionic peak]

ik

[ornate harbor]

Huh

[shell sail]

isnt android corpo linux tho

[ionic peak]

ikimel

[ivory mountain]

gah damn what games u got

[ornate harbor]

What

[ionic peak]

ik

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-think-thinking-hmm-gif-11570469479394618754

[ionic peak]

I know = ik

[ebon marlin]

#tech-chat-1 message

[ornate harbor]

how do i get that for my acc

[ebon marlin]

Steamdb

[ivory mountain]

i cant relate i all but like 4 games ☠️

[ebon marlin]

Only thing I've ever pirated is Sims 4 + dlcs for my girlfriend lmao

[formal sonnet]

?? https://steamdb.info/calculator/

[ivory mountain]

we all know why i bought this but i cant say it here

[ebon marlin]

Piracy is neat but I prefer owning my stuff

[ornate harbor]

Ey i play that game too

[ebon marlin]

Too bad the gameplay looks boring and story is very lacking

[ornate harbor]

https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561199510890403/?cc=eu

Stellar Blade is peak though

[ebon marlin]

Only thing that looks appealing from the game is the mc everything else is shite

[ornate harbor]

Why

[ivory mountain]

but jane doe

[ebon marlin]

Already explained above boring combat and a shit story

[ornate harbor]

Mod launcher

[ornate harbor]

Honestly story is good and combat is good too, but its a short game about 25h for the story

[ivory mountain]

nope just have to add a ~mods folder

[ornate harbor]

Hmmm

[ebon marlin]

You're 15 I don't think you have the mental capacity to tell whether a game has a good story or not

[ornate harbor]

Now age has nearly nothing to do with knowledge

I may not have played many games but i have watched many

[ebon marlin]

Knowledge isn't everything

[ornate harbor]

I never said that it is

[ebon marlin]

But usually the more you play the more experience you'll have to understand what's great and what's not great

Honestly I'd recommend something like Yakuza 0 phenomenal story and the game is life changing although the new directors cut version fucks up the game's story alot

[ornate harbor]

I have played Borderlands 2, Half Life 2, RDR2, Cyperpunk 2077, Detroit become human i know a bit about stories

[ebon marlin]

Pal played 4 games

[ornate harbor]

I played more games but that are good story games that i played

[ebon marlin]

Half life 2 is mostly just an environmental story game

[ornate harbor]

Still a good game

[ebon marlin]

Eh it's alright

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-half-life-3-hopium-hope-valve-gif-6767220579130906486

HL3?

[ebon marlin]

I've 100%'d HL2 it's an alright game

[ornate harbor]

pls valve

[ornate harbor]

Its one of the first games that i played on my first PC

Man that PC was shit

[ornate harbor]

my first GPU was GT6800GT 256MB

my 2nd a GT9600GT 512MB

my 3rd a A750 8GB

[ebon marlin]

Gpu is older than pal himself

[ornate harbor]

i still have it as deco on my desk

[sleek ibex]

Mine was an S3 Virge

[ornate harbor]

it was able to run roblox so it was fine at the time for me

[sleek ibex]

Then I later got an additional card, a 3DFX voodoo2 for some better 3D

[ornate harbor]

That thing is nearly double my age

[sleek ibex]

fuuuuuuuuck

[ornate harbor]

Huh

[sleek ibex]

[ornate harbor]

What

[sleek ibex]

Thanks for making my back pain shoot up

[ornate harbor]

Why

What did i do now

[sleek ibex]

My first computer is twice your age

[ornate harbor]

Dayum

[ebon marlin]

Buddypal hasn't even finished kindergarten

[ornate harbor]

Im learning electrical enegeering

Im searching for a JOB

Im making my LICENCE

[ebon marlin]

Pal thinks he can get a job in electrical engineering

[ornate harbor]

Why not

[ebon marlin]

Pal is getting replaced by H1B visa owners

[ornate harbor]

Im in 2nd year now

Why shouldnt i get a job in the field

[ebon marlin]

Cause it's cheaper to hire H1B visa owners or get electrical engineering done overseas

I also studied electrical engineering it's not really a career that you can get hired by

[ornate harbor]

Maybe thats like that in the US

But im not in the US

[ebon marlin]

I'm not in the US either

I live in Finland

[sleek ibex]

US here, it pays great... But good luck finding a job in that field

[ebon marlin]

Honestly I could live my whole life through unemployment benefits lmao

[ornate harbor]

I mean idk about you but my school literally has a page full of partners that search work, so that the students can get a job more easly

[ebon marlin]

It's like a little over 1k

[ebon marlin]

We had the same thing and that never really helped

[ornate harbor]

Helps on my school

[ebon marlin]

Hasn't helped anyone from my class that also graduated

Electrical engineering is one of the worst careers you can pick since you're competing with the entire continent of asia

[ivory mountain]

i can but im not a bum so im not going to resort to that

[ebon marlin]

Eh 1k+ a month from just digging in my butt sounds like a sweet deal

[ornate harbor]

Idk about you but i want to work locally and not in some mega cooperatiosn that have like 10k workers across all continets

[ebon marlin]

Electrical engineering isn't a career path that gets you employed by a mega corporation

Mega corporations hire overseas work since it's cheap and can get mass-produced stuff

[sleek ibex]

I mean that's the state of the job market in most developed countries, so I don't know what else to tell ya

[ebon marlin]

Electrical engineering at best will get you a place at a mom and pop repairstore if they are even hiring

[ornate harbor]

Not where i live

[ebon marlin]

Electrical engineering isn't a career that you can get hired by it's a career where you build a business out of it

But even then that requires a shitton of stuff to do that you don't do in school

[ebon marlin]

This is everywhere across all developed countries

Mate you're 15 I don't think you understand

[ornate harbor]

Now it can be good or bad that I plan to drop out next year and make a apprenticeship

[ebon marlin]

I used to be like you when I was 15 and chose to study electrical engineering

Thought I could get a good spot but it's impossible after you realise how useless it is

[sleek ibex]

Then there's software engineering jobs.... Though that field is oversaturated as fuck

[tired bear]

i have chosen my path wisely
become the internet wizard

[ornate harbor]

What does that mean

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/travolta-network-messy-network-where-cable-data-center-gif-13242014052849642896

bro raided the server room

[rigid fjord]

that only works if you stay a virgin til 40

[formal sonnet]

Software engineering jobs are straight up broken from the top down because manglement has no idea.

[sleek ibex]

Oh absolutely

[tired bear]

lots of fiber in our diet

[ornate harbor]

[sleek ibex]

And that is like what 90% of folks who are ECE graduates will end up landing in if they can even land a job in their field

[formal sonnet]

Reminds me of the Dell Optiplex Throne of Sysadmins.

[ebon marlin]

It's currently impossible to get a job in any tech related field lmao

[sleek ibex]

Though sadly some employers are real dickheads about it towards ECE majors and that's the good ending

[ornate harbor]

Could have done that at my school when they replaced all the PCs in the IT rooms

[sleek ibex]

[ebon marlin]

If you want easy and quick employment you have to resort to physical jobs

Construction is always in demand

[rigid fjord]

and most of those dells you can swap the psu's out for proper atx ones

[digital timber]

what would u guys rather go for? 5070TI or RX 9070 XT

[ebon marlin]

5070 Ti

[ornate harbor]

Im no expert but what I have heard Nvidia is changing to the AI side rn so i would take AMD

[formal sonnet]

5070 Ti, largely because I use NVENC regularly enough.

[orchid trellis]

Simple question. Samsung 9100 pro or sabrent rocket 4 plus? Looking for longevity and reliability.

[ebon marlin]

Samsung and reliability don't go well together

[digital timber]

Is that streaming stuff?

[formal sonnet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVENC

[orchid trellis]

Well im trying to find an 8TB m.2 drive

[chrome ether]

damn i hate how i can only upgrade to a 3080 without breaking the bank

[digital timber]

I'm upgrading from a 3060 myself

gonna hit like crack

[stray portal]

roblox so peak

[orchid trellis]

Im waiting on AMDs next gen graphics cards.

[ebon marlin]

Lexar and WD are both the cheapest 8tb nvme's and also very good

[ebon marlin]

UDNA is very promising

[digital timber]

is there any time indication when those will release?

[orchid trellis]

No idea. I have a 7900xtx rn so its not too much of a concern for me

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/no-never-no-way-heck-no-eye-twitch-gif-8742845

[digital timber]

is there any reason u would pick it over the AMD one

[ornate harbor]

Would that even be compatible with my PC

[rigid fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/crystal-ball-crowley-david-tennant-good-omens-psychic-gif-3436909361193405344

[rigid fjord]

would need a hba to do so

[orchid trellis]

Only an m.2 drive will fit

[ornate harbor]

Whats that

[tired bear]

host bus adapter

[orchid trellis]

Im trying to find a drive for my laptop

[tired bear]

no, its straight pcie

[rigid fjord]

yesn't

[ornate harbor]

i got that in my closet i think

[tired bear]

its U.2

[ebon marlin]

for average users Nvidia would be better although I've got a 5070 myself but plan on switching back to AMD soon mostly as I'm an end user

[ornate harbor]

That good

[rigid fjord]

yes which is similar to sas but he can't do direct pcie to it with his consumer mobo

[tired bear]

yes you can lmao

[ebon marlin]

Waiting on UDNA to release before I switch gpus or b4 Nvidia becomes too unbearable for me

[digital timber]

fair enough, ty

[ebon marlin]

Nvidia is already very bothersome for me as I can't play lots of games without killing off my clipping software

[tired bear]

https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/pex4sff8639

[ebon marlin]

Damn that's a very empty pcb

[ornate harbor]

Would that work now or nah

[tired bear]

its just connectors wired together

no logic

[ebon marlin]

I know but it's interesting to see an empty pcb

[ornate harbor]

nah full PCbs are more interesting

[ebon marlin]

Full pcb's are already the norm

[ornate harbor]

You can buy empty ones too

[ebon marlin]

I know

[rigid fjord]

that isn't cursed enough for a full pcb

[ebon marlin]

I've made my own pcb board b4

[ebon marlin]

With traces aswell and got it working

[tired bear]

njah

[digital timber]

but if this is actually functional

it is kind of a work of art

[ornate harbor]

I have no idea what it is found it on google

[ionic peak]

Can I use my stealth cooler for the 5700x?

I also found a 5800x for 130vb

120*

[ornate harbor]

maybe

[rigid fjord]

it works, but it's from like the 70's/80's

[ebon marlin]

Pal found a 5800x for 130 vbucks

[ionic peak]

My 1600x doesnt get so hot

[ionic peak]

I found a 5800x for 120vb

[ebon marlin]

Your stealth cooler can handle a 5700x but not a 5800x

[rigid fjord]

yes but i'd put a better cooler instead on it, especially due to having to redo the paste anyways

[ornate harbor]

Maybe

[stray portal]

can i cool my 9950x3d passively

[rigid fjord]

the stealth barely handles a 3600x/5600x tbh

it's the spire that can handle a 5700x

[ionic peak]

Even the non x 5600

Idk I just get 5700x bc it's more reliable than the 5800x hot deal

[tired bear]

yes
will it be cheap?
no

[ornate harbor]

Theres a PC case for that

[ionic peak]

Space game work station

[ionic peak]

Washing drum

[ornate harbor]

I mean the case can cool your CPU and GPU passivly

[stray portal]

this is crazy

[ornate harbor]

Mine better

[rigid fjord]

nope

[ornate harbor]

yes

[ionic peak]

Satisfactory

[ornate harbor]

What

[ionic peak]

The work bench

[ornate harbor]

Huh

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-huh-m4rtin-huh-huh-meme-what-cat-gif-5834484041415217257

[ornate harbor]

Whats that

[ionic peak]

Fork bench

[ornate harbor]

Huh

[ionic peak]

Work bench

[ornate harbor]

Huuuuhhhh

[orchid trellis]

How do i run a windows 11 vm on linux?

[left dove]

lmao

[orchid trellis]

Never had to run a vm before so i dont know how to do it

[empty quartz]

Thanks discord

[orchid trellis]

Read your messages.

[empty quartz]

No

[elfin lantern]

i cry from 5090 zotac no small case

[ornate harbor]

How many servers are you in bro mine is nothing against that

[empty quartz]

Ive had this account for almost 9 years

Wait

No, almost 8 years

[stray portal]

sunc

for those new to the stream sunc means super unc

new meme 💯

[tired bear]

Mark all as read

Just like emails

[livid prawn]

just finished up with this:

figured i would share it here with how cursed it is

[ivory mountain]

goated

[foggy shore]

yo can sm1 help me with my spiltter problem

my spiltter mic isnt working

[jovial jasper]

i hate this, if theres no new notifications, go away

[fickle ivy]

Is $175 cad good for a nikon d3200 or should I spend another $55 and maybe get a nikon d3400

[ivory mountain]

i removed that whole menu lmao

[winter lance]

How profitable is it to compute rent gpus?

[fickle ivy]

Ight so I guess I'm stuck with Kijiji

[foggy marsh]

any ideas what can be causing crashes (not really crashes pc just freezes) on a intel b580? wasn't happening with nvidia card before...

[fickle ivy]

Drivers

[winter lantern]

Why didnt bro lie about your age

[fickle ivy]

I did

[winter lantern]

Crazy

[buoyant bridge]

yeah marketplace is 18+

cus you can sell guns n shit on there they have to verify your age in Canada

even though you can only sell guns there in 3 US states

[formal sonnet]

You cannot legally sell guns on Facebook Marketplace in Canada. Not saying people don't try, but doing so violates the Facebook Commerce Terms of Service for Canada.

[buoyant bridge]

"even though you can only sell guns there in 3 US states"

it's not an option in most of the US or any of Canada

Facebook would need to create a seperated version of market place though for Canada to not require age verification

The US, MX, CA all share a Facebook marketplace but CA and MX have some items like firearms hidden

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/kek-gif-20361267

[shy marsh]

Hi, Anyone had this smart values ? Should i be woried ? Thanks

[thorny saddle]

no idea

[pulsar root]

Is there a ctrl + shift + s version for recording your screen

[buoyant bridge]

This is an accurate depiction of the American Midwest

[south arrow]

If the drive works probably not, but always have backups

[formal sonnet]

Yes, it's called WIN + SHIFT + S -- it can capture screenshots and video.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b

[pulsar root]

oh ok thank you

i did not know it could do video as well lol

i was using win + g all this time, but its kinda clunky

[formal sonnet]

Yee it does both. Granted, it's not super sophisticated, so you may find other tools more useful, but it's good for a quick one-off screen recording.

[velvet robin]

Hi everyone I have a little question!

I'm looking for a 13" refurbished machine with 16GB of RAM (it's okay for me).
Thinkpad X13 i5-10210U: 240EUR
Thinkpad L390 i5-8265U: 160EUR

Is the i5-10210U vs i5-8265U gap noticeable under Linux? And more importantly, is the X series build quality worth the extra cash over the L series?

*thanks in advance

[fickle ivy]

Ight so sideloading ain't allowed now

Might as well switch to iOS atp

[shy marsh]

I guess ill check with truenas directly

since ussually it alert if there is critical on the drive

[stable beacon]

i'm trying to install an nvme modded bios on my asus sabertooth x79 and when i try to update it i get this

is there a way to bypass this

[gloomy pebble]

Anybody had bad experience with adata ram?

[thorn python]

how close is too close for a lava lamp to a gaming monitor would yall say

[buoyant bridge]

did you mod the bios yourself?

you'll need to sign it yourself and then generate a MOK and load it on the board before it'll accept it

I think asus boards also need a security setting disabled on top of that

[stable beacon]

no i pulled it from some web forum

there appears to be several versions but this is the latest weirdly enough several from 2025

i didn't think there would be that many people still using x79

i didn't even know x79 existed until my cousin gave me his pc i knew x99 and x299 but that was it

i heard something about dummy msoa but that's about it

i found it but idk what to do with it

[formal sonnet]

Is the monitor on fire yet? If no, the lava lamp is not close enough.

[barren mulch]

how and why am i getting 17-25 fps on average in metro 2033 redux?! i have a ryzen 5 2600, rx580 and 32gb of ddr4

[stable beacon]

this is the closest i've gotten to doing this i just need any way possible to enable nvme on my bios

theoretically it's physically in the system there just was never support added until haswell

[empty quartz]

Ratio

Yes, thats steamos on a macbook

[barren mulch]

i run exodus at 145 fps on average aswell

[buoyant bridge]

Custom built x79 no but pre built x79 was insanely good value for cheap used PCs till recently

Prior to 10th gen Intel IPC didn't improve much so a $150-$200 pre built that just needs a GPU and SSD and had a 6 or 8 core CPU was a pretty good value especially since most x79 systems had okay power supplies

[livid prawn]

W

[buoyant bridge]

I'm shocked nobody's made drop in monitor conversions for the iMac 5K

It's probably the most common aio to convert into a monitor but there's no simple ways to do it that work well

you can either have complex but works well or simple but woris badly

Small tech startup I need business partners Now

[stable beacon]

hopefully using the flashback button will work it seems easier and it's blinking like it should

only one way to know i'll just have to wait

[empty quartz]

Android propaganda i will never fall for: >=100mp on a tiny sensor

[marsh burrow]

real

[empty quartz]

Dont get me wrong, theres plenty of great android devices

But samsungs “200mp” sensor in the s24u is not even close to the 48 in my 16 pro max

[marsh burrow]

noo i understand!!

[empty quartz]

It did get compressed when sending it, but even before, it still looked like ass

[marsh burrow]

top one looks better ngl

[formal sonnet]

This isn't unique to Android... in general, more MP != better photos. The sensor, lens, and amount of light play a huge role in photography.

[marsh burrow]

thats fair

[empty quartz]

1st image is my 16pm

[empty quartz]

Even then

The 48 in my 16 pro max having better image quality than an s24u

[plain cypress]

9:1 and 16:1 binning says otherwise

Most of the time they all output 12mp images

[empty quartz]

The only difference between the 2 photos was the phones themselves

[formal sonnet]

And all the software processing that both phones do. That's one thing that irks me with phones - most don't let you completely shut off their software processing.

[empty quartz]

I did shoot in raw for both

[stable beacon]

the bios button has been blinking really slowly for about 10-20 minutes how long does it usually take to update

[plain cypress]

I'd say 5 minutes

[buoyant bridge]

I see red Romex ..

[thorny ingot]

can somone slide a psu list thingy?

[grizzled frost]

google

[buoyant bridge]

^

oh yeah Iroh have you seen how shit store bought furniture is nowadays?

[grizzled frost]

yes

[buoyant bridge]

my grandma had me put some of those cubby storage things together for her and I had to fill in basically every pre drilled hole because they pre drilled MDF for some reason??

why would you even predrill MDF it makes no sense😭

[carmine yew]

Because flat pack

And then assembly needs no power tools

[buoyant bridge]

It's MDF you don't need power tools to stick screws in anyways

[carmine yew]

Also, why waste your time filling holes?

[buoyant bridge]

The screws didn't have anything to bite in most of the holes because it's MDF

they usually won't predrill MDF since it compresses when you screw into it and fills the air pockets as the screw makes its way in so the screw has something to grab

[carmine yew]

You were doing something wrong. That stuff typically assembles easily

I've assembled plenty

[buoyant bridge]

Actually I think it might have been MFC

[carmine yew]

And yes they always pre drill mdf

[buoyant bridge]

the screws would literally just push in I didn't even need to screw them in with how the factory holes where drilled

[carmine yew]

Idk. I've never had that problem

[buoyant bridge]

I'd say it was just poorly manufactured but the thing is I put together 8 sets which all had at least 10 screw holes where the screw couldn't bite anything

[carmine yew]

Dunno

[proper gull]

I've waited for our IKEA to open for this exact reason

Now when I stop being broke I'll buy some stuff to redo my room

[carmine yew]

And some meatballs

Meatballs are important

[south arrow]

[opal pier]

hello bro my brothers pc js said automatic reapri thing and i cant even use the mouse or keyboard and whenever i restart it goes to the automatic repair idek

[carmine yew]

That's not a good sign

[opal pier]

i know i have no idea why it started happening

Whenever i restart ig just goes to the same thing

[carmine yew]

It's either windows is effed, or the drive is effed

[opal pier]

what does effed mean

[carmine yew]

Fucked

[opal pier]

Bc the keyboard and mouse just isnt moving i trued multiple

[carmine yew]

In bios?

[opal pier]

no its stuck at the blue screen

that one

[carmine yew]

Right I know

Does the kb/m work in bios

[opal pier]

how would i get to bios from here

its like f11 or smth right

[sleek remnant]

repluggin wont help?

[carmine yew]

Turn it off and back on

[carmine yew]

Doubtful

[opal pier]

just tried it but since my mouse uisnt working i pressed the button on the pc instead

[true drift]

this gives me bad memories

[south arrow]

[carmine yew]

Did you get into the bios after reboot

[true drift]

i wish linux was more mainstream on desktops 😔

[carmine yew]

Don't care

[true drift]

?

[opal pier]

ok i got into bios just know but it seems that the mouse and keyboard are disabled

[carmine yew]

Huh?

[sleek remnant]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-versus-vs-alien-monster-vs-alien-gif-16037253809360562033

[carmine yew]

If they're disabled how did you get into the bios

[opal pier]

so i got to the bios and my keyboard is working to move around in bios but just not my mouse

[fickle ivy]

Okay so I got a offer of $175 for a nikon d3200 that I can tomorrow, I also saw a d3400 for $275 and want to make an offer for $225, if I don't get the d3200 tomorrow I can't get it, do I get the d3200 or wait for the seller of the d3400 to respond

I want a good starter camera for getting into photography

[carmine yew]

Try a different usb port

[opal pier]

i tried all of them just now and im not sure why the mouse just isnt working but im able to move around bios using the keyboard at least so

[carmine yew]

So it's probably either windows

Or the drive

[stark kiln]

I remember I had a nightmare where a scary spooky creature stalked me at shower and my bed

[stark kiln]

So what I did is simple

[stark kiln]

I flipped the bastard off, I guess it got mad and tried to break the window but failed

[carmine yew]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-dancing-skeletons-boo-cartoon-gif-18326832313355216882

[stark kiln]

I'll try to lucid dream tonight

(mostly cause I played GTA 4 the entire day today and wanna meet Niko)

[opal pier]

okok thank you!

[stark kiln]

Not a skeleton it's like a pale thing with popping eyes and a very big mouth

A creep cause why the fuck was it watching me in the bathroom

[swift stream]

is this still good enough for it to post

[stable beacon]

it's been over an hour and it's still flashing

do you think i might brick it if i try to run it

[carmine yew]

Try it out

[swift stream]

either wrong format or your bios chip is completely corrupted

same thing happened with me and just decided to get a new mobo bc i was due for a aesthetic upgrade

[buoyant bridge]

Have you considered the mouse might not work

electronics can and do randomly die have you tried it on another PC

[sleek remnant]

[buoyant bridge]

That's a lot of CPUs

[distant frigate]

https://x.com/popbase/status/2002248849113436523?s=46

Pop Base (@PopBase)

35 years ago today, the world's first website was launched.

X · Dec 20, 2025, 5:25 AM

[swift stream]

if worst comes to worst you have a broken bios chip and requires RMA to be fixed

[distant frigate]

As of late 2025 there are over 1.4 Billion websites

[sleek remnant]

im just converting corupted world to world

[buoyant bridge]

There should be more I think

[distant frigate]

Only 300 Million is active

[buoyant bridge]

I think more people should host blogs and stuff on their own website

I think more people should have a website for fun

And web programming should be more available

I think we should teach high schoolers LaTeX, HTML, CSS, and maybe JS as electives

(my high school actually did have HTML as an elective as part of computer programming but that was also in 1999-2002)

Teens should be taught to create with technology like children are taught to create with art

[plain fern]

Does the ajazz ak820 have rapid trigger?

[modest rose]

I got a new pc of Facebook having issues getting windows 11 installed and im brand new to pcs anyone able yo help lol?

[plain cypress]

Idk, I've never used flashback before
I always update via the UEFI

[buoyant bridge]

What's the issue

[modest rose]

If im being honest I have no clue I start it input info and end up here

[buoyant bridge]

is TPM and secure boot on?

what CPU does it use?

[stark kiln]

Yk what's funny

My new PCS HDD loads shit up quicker than my laptops SSD

[modest rose]

I think so like I said this is legitimately my first pc with no prior experience

[buoyant bridge]

Is secure boot on?

this PC should meet all the requirements

[modest rose]

This is what i get when I look for it lol

[vale lotus]

Higher refresh rate higher resolution with lcd or lower resolution refresh rate but oled laptop

[modest rose]

Huh

[grizzled frost]

depends

[vale lotus]

On what?

[grizzled frost]

the exact laptop model and your personal preferences

also the exact resolutions and refresh rates

can't give you any kind of reccomendation based on a vibe comparison

[vale lotus]

The first is 14 and second is 15.3

[grizzled frost]

cool, that gives me almost zero additional information

[vale lotus]

It's the Lenovo slim 7i

[modest rose]

Mind if I dm you?

[buoyant bridge]

ig

[grizzled frost]

Dont do DMs, use #1027757333117415424

[vale lotus]

Here is some specs of them

I don't mind 14 inch screen maybe 15.3 would be fine but somehow I used a big cause only one I had 17.3 for a while

[fringe prairie]

check if your region has the 2.8k oled option on the 14”

canada and usa don’t get it but others do

[vale lotus]

Okay

Oh I'm in us and that is weird

[fringe prairie]

then nvm

[grizzled frost]

Not every model is available in every country

[vale lotus]

🥀

Probably makes sense but I don't currently know why it would if it does

[grizzled frost]

what do you plan on doing on the laptop?

[grizzled frost]

likely a complication related to the US tariffs

[vale lotus]

I've been planning on medium gaming but with price limits and personal wants I've been looking to get something more lighter game focused and something more expensive later on

[grizzled frost]

what on earth does "medium gaming" mean

provide actual examples of games

[fringe prairie]

nah

they just never brought it over

even before the tariffs came into effect

[vale lotus]

Most likely something like destiny 2 maybe borderlands and maybe F1 25

[grizzled frost]

guess they just didn't care enough about the US market to bother

[vale lotus]

That might not exactly be medium gaming

[grizzled frost]

which borderlands, there's like 5

[vale lotus]

4

[fringe prairie]

so you want a laptop with a dgpu is what you’re saying

[modest rose]

Tried couldn't figure it out I am not tech savvy at all

[vale lotus]

Well I think I will just get a more powerful laptop later on because of limits currently

[grizzled frost]

plus most of those aren't super FPS dependent (minus destiny 2), so get the OLED for the HDR imo

[fringe prairie]

could just get a legion under $1000

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/lenovo-legion-5-gen-10-15-inch-amd/83m0cto1wwus2

has oled high refresh rate

but you lose the crazy 20hr battery life lunar lake offers

[vale lotus]

Oof

I keep forgetting how they describe soldered ram

[mild onyx]

LPDDRx?

[south arrow]

[vale lotus]

Idk i always forget how to tell if its soldered or upgradeable based on what the letters are in the ram type

[mild onyx]

SODIMM would imply there's physical sticks of RAM

[vale lotus]

Cool

[junior valve]

beamng

[vale lotus]

Upgradeable ram for the linked laptop but it's only 16gb I would rather have 32gb

[mild onyx]

even if SODIMM is less of a "stick" than regular DIMM is

[vale lotus]

Wdym?

[mild onyx]

it's shorter

still a stick, just a shorter stick

[vale lotus]

Didn't know that

[vale lotus]

Is there something like that with a 32gb option

[fringe prairie]

yeah but it’s $1200

[mild onyx]

also rather amusingly i found a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver with dual PowerPC CPUs and 1.25 GB of RAM

[fringe prairie]

you could just upgrade the ram later on

[mild onyx]

it has very...interesting specs

[flat cliff]

Not sure I ever got a straight answer. Just like going from the 5 to the 6 going to the pixel 10 is worse for emulation? Not that they are gaming powered benchmark phones or anything but since I run GrapheneOS and am stuck with the pixel line if phones? Or is the 10 not as bad if not better for emulation?

[vale lotus]

Never heard of a power mac

[vale lotus]

True but wouldn't know where to start to get reliable ram for a laptop like that

[mild onyx]

claims to have 1.25 GB of RAM and a 60 GB HDD

[fringe prairie]

literally anything works

[mild onyx]

mind you this is a Mac from early-mid 2001

[fringe prairie]

i use a shitty corsair kit just fine on my laptop

aim for 5600 lowest cl

[steel umbra]

aim for cheapest kit ngl

[fringe prairie]

yeah just cheapest kit atp

[mild onyx]

yeah, especially with...you know

[steel umbra]

or don’t aim at all because all of them cost a kidney

[vale lotus]

Yeah I really hope that ends soon for other people and one day potentially owning a repair shop 🙏

[mild onyx]

anyway this system is really interesting

GeForce4 MX GPU, two 512 MB DIMMs, one 256 GB (so about 1.25 GB of RAM)

[formal sonnet]

Yes - literally the exact same model, but configured with more memory. No idea why the SKU that's on sale on Lenovo's website won't let you increase the RAM, but the other SKU does...
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bundleId=83M0CTO1WWUS1

Otherwise, you can always upgrade the RAM later since it's just SODIMM modules.

[vale lotus]

$60 for extra 16gb has to be a steal

[fringe prairie]

it is

[flat cliff]

?

[vale lotus]

Man the charging brick 😭

Why do laptops always have the most ridiculous charging bricks

[fringe prairie]

just use a smaller one otg

[vale lotus]

Otg?

[fringe prairie]

on the go

[vale lotus]

True

It's not even really the size most of the time just the weird shape

[formal sonnet]

They don't? Mine is smaller than my phone in width + height, and only 2x as thick as my phone.

[vale lotus]

You got a big phone

But I'm sure it's also not the same laptop charger

[haughty compass]

Got a free laptop from a family friend cus the battery was bloated and caused it to stop working... Now when I boot it up it, it gets stuck on these 2 screens

[formal sonnet]

It's a Motorola Razr Plus 2024 with a case. Not very big. My laptop just doesn't need a honker power brick.

[vale lotus]

What's your laptop?

[formal sonnet]

That's the laptop trying to boot over the network. Usually happens if there's no internal storage drive detected.

[haughty compass]

Ah

[vale lotus]

Probably the cheapest part of a laptop to replace atp

[haughty compass]

Are latitude e7240 good for anything nowadays?

I was going to use it to test some stuff on Linux for the first time but besides that

[flat cliff]

?

[haughty compass]

Anything I could do besides running linux

[vale lotus]

Playing minesweeper ✌️🥀

[formal sonnet]

I mean, it could run Linux, otherwise no - it's 10 years old from 2014. It has done it's time and then some.

[vale lotus]

Cpu isn't even compatible with windows 11

[haughty compass]

Also question. If I want to run windows & Linux on it, is it possible to have both on the same drive?

Or just one or the other

[grizzled frost]

you can have both, by partitioning it

it can be a total pain in the ass though

[haughty compass]

Ah

[grizzled frost]

save yourself the trouble and use two separate drives

[vale lotus]

I'm checking battery life on the legion 5

[haughty compass]

Oke

Old battery for reference

[formal sonnet]

You can drain the 80-Wh battery in around one hour under load, but the runtimes are much better in the other scenarios. Our Wi-Fi test at 150 nits (60 % of the maximum SDR brightness) at 60 Hz runs for around 9.5 hours and still 6.5 hours at maximum brightness. Our video test even runs for 11.5 hours. A full recharge takes 95 minutes when the device is turned on (80 % after 52 minutes).
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-best-mainstream-gamer-in-2025-Lenovo-Legion-5-15-Laptop-Review.1047975.0.html#:~:text=search-,Battery Runtime,-You can drain

[vale lotus]

This doesn't seem very good

[fringe prairie]

it’s a gaming laptop

[formal sonnet]

It's a gaming laptop.

https://tenor.com/view/jinx-buy-me-a-soda-fiona-clara-mind-sync-wcth-jinx-gif-20752301

[fringe prairie]

ha jinx

[hexed sage]

anyone got a random game recommendation?

[vale lotus]

Lol and true

[fringe prairie]

anyways if you value battery life above everything you pretty much have 2 options

a lunar lake device like the slim 7i aura or a macbook

[vale lotus]

I was looking at slim 7i earlier someone tested at low brightness and got 26 hours out of it on a movie

[haughty compass]

I think the person I got this laptop from opened it up themselves cus it's obvious that the screws are not in the right places even though all of them are the same size 😭 😭

[fringe prairie]

you could also wait for intels panther lake stuff

massively better igpus

[vale lotus]

Haven't heard about that yet

[fringe prairie]

supposedly great battery life

[haughty compass]

There's 4 on the back that should have this circle pattern. But there's a black one. 2 silver ones, and just 1 circular one. And on the inside of the machine there are 3 more circular ones. One holding down the battery and 2 holdind down other things 😭 😭

[fringe prairie]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-panther-lake-technical-deep-dive/

[empty quartz]

Romex?

[vale lotus]

How long will it take for laptops with this to be available though

And for reviews to come out

[fringe prairie]

early next year

they’re debuting laptops with it at CES

[buoyant bridge]

Is the red wiring in the ceiling not Romex?

[empty quartz]

Wire is wire

[buoyant bridge]

As a basic laptop it's fine

[vale lotus]

Wish I could go to CES one year 😮‍💨

[buoyant bridge]

These are when no OS is installed and it tries network booting

[empty quartz]

Iirc you have to be invited

[buoyant bridge]

Interesting how?

[vale lotus]

🫩

[fringe prairie]

lenovo invited me dunno why

[haughty compass]

This is 2 sata ports right.

[vale lotus]

Dumbest thing ever

[fringe prairie]

maybe cuz i have a lenovo pro account

[fickle ivy]

Anyone here know much about cameras?

[empty quartz]

No

[haughty compass]

No?

[buoyant bridge]

Probably missing the drive

Most Dell latitudes came with ssds from like 2011 onwards

[haughty compass]

Ahh

[buoyant bridge]

Which kind?

[empty quartz]

Msata is closer to sata m.2

[haughty compass]

O

[fickle ivy]

DSLR

[buoyant bridge]

@haughty compass what model is that latitude

[empty quartz]

What type of dslr are you wanting

[mild onyx]

1.25 GB of DDR RAM
GeForce4 MX GPU
dual PowerPC processors
60 GB HDD (which according to the system utility is an IBM-DTLA-307060)
among other specs

pretty high end for early 2001

[fickle ivy]

I don't know really

[buoyant bridge]

Is it a powermac G5

[mild onyx]

G4 Quicksilver

[fickle ivy]

I'm tryna choose between a nikon d3200 or d3400

[buoyant bridge]

Oh that's a workstation PC

1.25 GB is probably very common for them

[empty quartz]

Do you have previous experience with photography? (Like dslr camera’s, not phones or point and shoots)

[buoyant bridge]

DDR RAM came in like what 512MB sticks at most? Dual CPUs would imply quad channels. powerPC also didn't care about mixed memory modes so they came with it fairly frequently

[vale lotus]

Would ddr5 5600 32gb 1tb ssd 8-12 cores cpu be a good minimum

For laptop

[fickle ivy]

A tiny bit

[fringe prairie]

well it depends on the laptop

[mild onyx]

i actually was curious to know what was special about it

[fringe prairie]

if it’s some shitter like an msi thin no

[buoyant bridge]

Nothing seems special about it

[mild onyx]

Well it turns out IBM-DTLA-307060 is one of the rarest drives to find in a Mac

[buoyant bridge]

seems like your average run of the mill G4 Macintosh

The PowerPC Macs never really had much special about them they where whatever you made of them based on a small assortment of hardware

[mild onyx]

for...various reasons

[buoyant bridge]

there's not weird stuff like some of them having different ports than ones of the same model like new ones do

[mild onyx]

many of them not good

[fickle ivy]

The main thing is the D3200 is $175 CAD while the D3400 is $250

[haughty compass]

E7240

[vale lotus]

Well yes but in general for doing things where you won't easily max out those components

[fringe prairie]

sure

if it’s not some power hungry shit or some shit laptop yeah it’s fine

[haughty compass]

Is it fine to buy used msata storage? New ones are like $30 while used is like $15 for 128gb

[sleek ibex]

I remember seeing those Power Mac G4 towers were new despite them being severely outdated by that point

[mild onyx]

yeah, um

[haughty compass]

Also if I don't have screw for the msata what do I do?

[fringe prairie]

mac mac’s power mac

[haughty compass]

Cus I don't see any in the laptop

But I'm assuming u should screw it down like an m.2

[mild onyx]

you could sell the drive itself for literally 100 dollars

not even including the rest of the mac

[fickle ivy]

These are all photos I took with my friends DSLR

[buoyant bridge]

Yeah drives just missing, you can get M.2 SATA adapters and a small M2 SSD for Msata cheaper than a Msata SSD nowadays

[fickle ivy]

And here's something with a phone (Galaxy S9)

[vale lotus]

What do we think

[tribal estuary]

STEAM IS DOWN

[vale lotus]

Wait revision

Noooooooooo

[plain cypress]

https://www.costco.com/p/-/hp-omnibook-5-16-touchscreen-laptop-intel-core-ultra-5-225u-2k-1920-x-1200-16gb-memory-1tb-ssd-windows-11-home/4000361876
just buy this

why no embed

[vale lotus]

Why am I getting a Costco link for a gaming laptop 😭✌️

[tribal estuary]

Lol

[plain cypress]

its not a gaming laptop smh

[vale lotus]

Well a laptop

[plain cypress]

but i can give you a costco link for gaming laptop if you want one

[vale lotus]

Maybe not from costco

[plain cypress]

i see word apple
just get a macbook air so ez

[plain cypress]

costco is my religion

[vale lotus]

🥀

It's a ehh on apple not very appealing to me at all

[fringe prairie]

best bq under $1000

is mba

[vale lotus]

I'm good ✌️

Legion 5i or slim 5 seems great to me

[fringe prairie]

would avoid the 5i if you want battery life

[plain cypress]

gaming laptops are cringe

[vale lotus]

Or well 7i

[plain cypress]

(i am sending this message from a ROG G14)

[fringe prairie]

avoid that too if you want battery life

[vale lotus]

🥀😔

How

[fringe prairie]

if you want half decent battery life under $1000 with good bq this is it

for gaming laptops

[vale lotus]

Under load it lasted less than an hour that as the person claimed

[fringe prairie]

will you be playing cyberpunk or running huge ass simulations on battery?

any laptop will have shit battery under heavy load

[vale lotus]

Probably not ngl

[stable beacon]

it's been working fine before i put it in and this is a board from 2012 mind you

in the end it did absolutely nothing it didn't break but it didn't update either

so basically i just wasted 2 hours looking at a light

[tribal estuary]

Steam is back up!

[fringe prairie]

then i wouldn’t worry too much on that number

realistically you’re looking at around 6-7 hours, which for a gaming laptop is pretty good

[vale lotus]

There is 2 listings on the website for the same exact laptop but one is 1.3k instead of about 1k after taxes for some reason

[ornate harbor]

Was it down?

[vale lotus]

Exact same thing btw except the more expensive version has more options for upgrades 🫩

Lenovo has to be tweaking

[shy arch]

hey i gotta check that out now

[formal sonnet]

Or perhaps they have a surplus of "Ships in 2 days" units that are ready to ship in a certain configuration. Though I would think they wouldn't let you configure anything if that were the case, so I find it a bit strange as well.

[vale lotus]

Yeah but with lenovo as big as it is I feel they should have more constantly available

I've been looking at like 3 different lenovo models and confused myself now

[shy arch]

which ones

[plain cypress]

RTX 5050 laptop GPU 😭

[shy arch]

bro it's $950

[plain cypress]

You can buy a 5070ti for less than that

[shy arch]

damn

DAMN it's only $360 cad here??!!!

[vale lotus]

It's a whole pc I need a laptop not desktop

[fringe prairie]

5060 version available for $950

[shy arch]

cad/usd diff?

[grizzled frost]

google

[pulsar obsidian]

Google assistant thinks im on a galaxy watch

[shy arch]

how tf did that even...

[pulsar obsidian]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1351193214144479334.png?quality=lossless&name=thunkin&size=48

[vale lotus]

How

[pulsar obsidian]

Very clearly not a galaxy watch

[grizzled frost]

google assistant saw "galaxy" and got confused

[vale lotus]

How $950

[pulsar obsidian]

Google ass"istant"

I may own the galaxy watch but that uses Gemini

Not google assistant

[vale lotus]

Nuh uh

[fringe prairie]

select 5060 and use EXTRAFIVE and LENOVOHOLIDAY5 at checkout

if you’re a student use id.me asw

[pulsar obsidian]

If this is USD

[vale lotus]

🤔

[pulsar obsidian]

I will cry

[vale lotus]

It is

[fringe prairie]

usd

[pulsar obsidian]

A 5060

[fringe prairie]

laptop

[pulsar obsidian]

For 950 USD

[vale lotus]

Yeah laptop btw

[pulsar obsidian]

Oh its a full laptop

[fringe prairie]

yes

[vale lotus]

Bro missed all the images and links

[pulsar obsidian]

Of course

8gb of vram is kinda lacking in 2025

I cant say shit because I'm on a 4gb card

However im grabbing a 16gb 9060xt on boxing day

[vale lotus]

It is yeah mine only has 6gb 1660 ti

Got it and other parts for a great deal

[pulsar obsidian]

I was too poor at black friday unfortunately

[vale lotus]

Sad

8gb is kinda low but 12gb and 16gb laptop gpu prices are horrible just like full on 5080 5090 desktop gpu prices

[pulsar obsidian]

And its only gonna get worse

[vale lotus]

Yeah 🥀

[pulsar obsidian]

Fuck you micron

And fuck you AI

[grizzled frost]

finally people realize just cause it has samsung in the name, doesn't mean its really the same company

[pulsar obsidian]

If you look at the samsung group chart its like 48388583 different companies

[grizzled frost]

Yep

[pulsar obsidian]

Samsung electronics does not control samsung semiconductors

[grizzled frost]

companies like samsung are more so a collection of many companies that just happen to be owned by the same group of people

[vale lotus]

Hmm 5060 and 1tb ssd lenovo legion 5 $992.74 with both codes after taxes

[pulsar obsidian]

Or in this case one family.

[grizzled frost]

Sometimes they act like a single company, but more often than not they function as a separate entities

[vale lotus]

Pretty much what food companies do too

They create different views for the consumers to have for business to be good on both sides

[grizzled frost]

Most companies in the world do this, it isn't unique to any one sector

[pulsar obsidian]

Fun fact samsung is more than 1/5 of the south Korean gdp

[vale lotus]

Wild

[pulsar obsidian]

The only bigger entity is the government of south korea

I can finally not deal with potato graphics with a 9060XT 16gb

[hexed sage]

guys pls help

[pulsar obsidian]

Yes how we help

[spring latch]

chuckles voxel game for chucklesOSv3

[grizzled frost]

alcohol, alcohol is always the answer

[hexed sage]

i need to choose a game to play

[grizzled frost]

get drunk, the choice will come to you in a feverdream

[hexed sage]

I wanna dump hundreds of hours into something

[pulsar obsidian]

I mean theres alot of options, what games are you into right now

[spring latch]

ill just get high on that nasal spray (/j thats not good!)