tech-chat-1

[wheat torrent]

its in the PCB though

[junior merlin]

It's $20 cheaper than every other card

[wheat torrent]

it looks 200 cheaper than other cards though

https://tenor.com/view/druski-shrug-idk-iono-hands-up-gif-7122581203490458147

[steel umbra]

yes, dust

dust is disgusting wet

[wheat torrent]

im just sayin

my 4090 isnt any better

my shit bent

[latent pasture]

he got dat heel to half foot pehm dancing stance

[pale heath]

My 16 pro max dropped down to 99% after 260 cycles, is this bad or good

[bold olive]

watch the rtx 6090 be powered by an atx 24 pin

[steel umbra]

wat the dog did to his card

fins

[grizzled frost]

yes

[steel umbra]

amongus

[wheat torrent]

idk

it has all sort of bends

[steel umbra]

those find look bent like you shoved a screwdriver into them

the two

[wheat torrent]

it has more bends

like the god damn thing you connect to the case is all fucked up

you can see it

[steel umbra]

whar the dog did to carrt

[wheat torrent]

idk

it was cheap though

[steel umbra]

how $$$

[wheat torrent]

1500

[steel umbra]

ar ar ar dat no cheapo

[wheat torrent]

cheaper

[steel umbra]

mario disapprove

i mean luigi disapprove

[wheat torrent]

manglioni?

[steel umbra]

donki kong disapprove yes

[pale heath]

huh

[steel umbra]

@wheat torrent everyone disapproved your purchase, your fate ended up as seal of disapproval

[wheat torrent]

why

!?!?

[steel umbra]

i’m amd fanboy

[wheat torrent]

im cuda fan

[steel umbra]

i was tryna make uhh unserious comversation yes

your prchase wasn’t bad depending on the time when it was purchased

[wheat torrent]

few month ago

they usually go for 2k here

MY DISC C

aw hell nah

[steel umbra]

guess the game

[wheat torrent]

clash of royale

[steel umbra]

you!!! trollamongus

[wheat torrent]

was I close

[steel umbra]

-100%

tbh i always liked this clone game more than actual coc

you can rotate le 360 degrees

and yeah it wasn’t updated for many years so achieving max level doesn’t take like 15 years

@wheat torrent try your best to guese

[hexed sage]

Guys

YouTube might be cooked

I watched a YouTube short and gave me the option to "extend scene" and it lets you use generative ai to extend the scene

And upload it to YouTube

YouTube is pushing full AI 😭

It's over for YouTube as a platform this is insane

[steel umbra]

btw google removed the dedicated ai tab in chrome, atleast for me

[hexed sage]

No way 😭

[steel umbra]

yeah

[hexed sage]

This has gotten to be illegal

[stray holly]

Is this what it’s supposed to look like after proper thermal paste installing

[steel umbra]

yes

[stray holly]

Damn I opened this up for no reason

[steel umbra]

90% of surface is good enough

[stray holly]

Now I gotta reapply this shit

[steel umbra]

just put it back on it’s not like it matters that much

[stray holly]

I’m gonna put some more in the middle then

[hexed sage]

@steel umbra

It appears to only be certain videos

[steel umbra]

ck your s?

[hexed sage]

Check your six

War thunder saying

And the ai is honestly really good

[steel umbra]

why would anyone use that

[hexed sage]

Like I'm worried that a lot of videos I've seen is just ai

😭

[hexed sage]

Why are there ai channels?

[steel umbra]

people watch them for some reason

[hexed sage]

Exactly

Infinite content farm

YouTube just made it easier

[steel umbra]

like i only watched like one ai video and that was ai talking about escaping from a lab or something

like hypothetically

[hexed sage]

I think ai videos with human input are fine

Using it as a tool

Or as a source of learning about it is fine

[steel umbra]

gib good video using ai

and i change mind

[hexed sage]

It's in my drafts?

Idk what YouTube drafts are but sure

[steel umbra]

like seriously good video, a documentary entertaintment or something

[hexed sage]

Oh nah there is none

[steel umbra]

oh yeah i watched ai historical documentary and it was bs

like a 12 year old kid that’s involved in country balls would tell you less misinformation

[wheat torrent]

I dont relaly play mobile games

no idea

[steel umbra]

Plunder pirates

yarrrr 🤺

[wheat torrent]

what the helly

[steel umbra]

helly psus

[wheat torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/aww-hell-nahh-aww-hell-aww-hell-nahh-gif-9659330954843262630

[dusty dew]

found the issue

my laptop is overheating

[steel umbra]

seasoning

[dusty dew]

but weird, the paste isnt 6 months old

[wheat torrent]

wow

[sinful cobalt]

the paste u put is insufficient

the entire IHS and coldplate should be covered in paste

[dusty dew]

see temps @rigid fjord

note that 95 is in my usual game lobby

not playing

[sinful cobalt]

where are you getting 95 from

it literally shows 63

[dusty dew]

cpu, its a laptop, I exited the game when I saw 95 in the lobby

also the cpu thermal shutdowned during gameplay

I thought windows update err at first, but when I saw the 95 at lobby its a overheating issue

[dusty dew]

here( see red line and arrow)

[sinful cobalt]

go run an actual CPU stress test instead of jumping to conclusions from a game

[dusty dew]

its throttling badly, it used to be at 16k

and this is just single run

[sinful cobalt]

is ur fan audible

[dusty dew]

even with tabs open it would be 14k ish

[dusty dew]

yep

ramped up to max

[sinful cobalt]

if its repasted 6 months ago its one of 2 things: Not enough paste was applied
Or the mounting pressure came loose

aka u didnt screw the cooler in properly

[dusty dew]

or became loose while travelling, was able to use it properly until yesterday(travelled with laptop)

either way ill repaste, but have to find some sellers nearby

[sinful cobalt]

use PTM7950

[hexed sage]

Fortnite is turning into Roblox

Fortnite added a parental control setting that lets children buy items inside fortnite with vbucks that are made by other developers

As well as one for lootboxes

I'm glad I stopped playing that game 😭

CES 2026 looks insane

[tribal estuary]

How does the new GPU look

[robust trail]

It is

Nah.

[latent pasture]

this ces had 102% ai content with 2% margin of error

[glossy veldt]

👍

[robust trail]

On of the rtx pro 6000 Blackwell up there is chonk.

[glossy veldt]

it doesn't look thaaat chonky next to the absolutely monster of that rtx titan

[robust trail]

That Titan was my famous

[glossy veldt]

these three are definitely the best looking ones imo

[robust trail]

Favorite

[glossy veldt]

can't wait to work like i owe money to the mafia just to get one of those cards

[shut flicker]

Titan RTX is my second favorite, my first is the only Titan I still own which is the Titan V

[glossy veldt]

idk if i like the gold color

otherwise yummy card

[shut flicker]

I mostly have it as to my knowledge it's the fastest non raytracing card

Also because funny HBM2

[glossy veldt]

ray tracing that was like an impact for like months or so before the release of the 20 series and then vanished

maybe dlss was a cool thing?

[glossy veldt]

the funny

ill be happy for the next five years or so with my gddr6

[glossy veldt]

the powerhouse in all it's might

ignore the ticking time bomb

[glossy veldt]

that's my 1tb hdd from 2016 when i had an i3 4170

ssd is tucked back in there

i really need to clean that part

[shut flicker]

Really out of place seeing that A2000 there

[glossy veldt]

it was either the a2000 or a 3050 6gb

i took the rational choice

[shut flicker]

I mean I have a 3050 6GB, only because I needed a card with HDMI 2.1

For the computer that's behind my TV, have a 4K 120Hz OLED and I wanted to fully utilize that

[glossy veldt]

it was the same price and came with 4 mDP ports

it also outperformed Nvidia's 3040

and for 150? i took the deal

refurbished with warranty until april of this year, so far no issues since i got it almost a year ago

needs a thermal paste change sure but I'll do that after warranty expires

[wheat torrent]

why you left it hanging

[glossy veldt]

the mounting holes have a crack in them and I don't want it to spread the damage so i crammed it in-between the back panel and the chassis

[shut flicker]

Well there’s my main PC, pretty happy with how it is right now

[glossy veldt]

this is the reason i keep my wd blue

[glossy veldt]

sick

[glossy veldt]

the ram looks so silly and is that a capture card?

[cold skiff]

wtf is on that ram. A plastic cover to protect it from the rain?

[glossy veldt]

its horizontal

[shut flicker]

Yeah that's a capture card

[shut flicker]

No all of that is just the VRMs

[cold skiff]

Oh lol fair play. That’s weird but fine tbh

[glossy veldt]

I've got one single crucial 8gb

with one side being fully green pcb...

[junior merlin]

If you guys think your storage is bad...

I've got a 500GB hard drive that's from 2006

[glossy veldt]

cute

I'd say my worst storage is either the IDE 50gb on my compaq presario from 2004-2002

or the hdd in my everio camcorder

[cold skiff]

I think my oldest confirmed working is a 128gb. I do have smaller but I haven’t tested them since removing in the early 00s.

[shut flicker]

It's normal for most newer Threadripper boards

[junior merlin]

You don't understand

This drive is in my main rig

[cold skiff]

I thought TR had 8 slots always

[junior merlin]

SOMEHOW she's still barely kicking

Since Windows... XP? Vista?

[cold skiff]

One day I will look back on my old data. And my hopefully my Pokemon ROM saves from 2001

[brave brook]

first person where i seen those ASUS 4x M.2 x16 cards

[cold skiff]

That HDD had ME on it lol

[shut flicker]

Depends, TRX50 is 4 slots while WRX90 is 8 slots

[brave brook]

(i mean i got one too, but by now it is in storage)

[glossy veldt]

Oh. God.

[midnight rampart]

How do I mount the 2nd harddisk?

[cold skiff]

You don’t

[junior merlin]

Glue

[glossy veldt]

should i buy this?

[midnight rampart]

Wth

[shut flicker]

I've had that card for a while at this point

[brave brook]

if you mean the big silver thing, then that is a x16 to 4x m.2 SSD adapter

[midnight rampart]

So what do I do?

[cold skiff]

I’ve got a hanging sata drive because I’m too lazy to screw it in

[junior merlin]

And now that I need storage 2TB is $100

[cold skiff]

You just leave it hanging or well, place it nicely somewhere

[glossy veldt]

oh thank you I didn't know what it was at first glance

[shut flicker]

Ever since I got my WRX80 Sage I've had that thing. Used to have two actually but I got rid of one as I didn't need it anymore

It's loaded up with four 1TB 980 Pros in Raid 0

[brave brook]

https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/accessories/hyper-m-2-x16-gen-4-card/ or gen 5

(certainly not gen 3, because that has SSDs in different direction)

[glossy veldt]

diabolical

[glossy veldt]

woah

[shut flicker]

Gen 5 card is black and has a PCIE connector

[brave brook]

nevermind, gen 5 is black https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/accessories/hyper-m-2-x16-gen5-card/

[cold skiff]

I can’t wait for 3D motherboards

Someone needs to split a PCB for mass storage

[brave brook]

keep in mind, these are mostly useless for normal desktop motherboard. If you put these in main slot, then you don't have an x16 or x8 electrical slot for your GPU (with very rare exceptions).
And if you don't put them in the x16 electrical slot, you might as well not bought them, as these use lanes from the slot and bifurcation settings in the computer BIOS

[brave brook]

that's called U.2/U.3 interface

[glossy veldt]

what... in the fuck are these?

excelstor?

@junior merlin you should know about these defunct hdd manufacturers right

[brave brook]

Excelstor is mos likely just a rebrand. Hitachi was bought by Western Digital

[junior merlin]

Hitachi still makes stuff

Why are you buying IDE?

[brave brook]

and Excelstor -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExcelStor_Technology

[junior merlin]

$40 for IDE is insane

[brave brook]

pretty much remains of Conner went to china 🙂

[brave brook]

buy a SATA to IDE adapter

[brave brook]

then plug in a small SSD ideally, or worst case scenario, a spinning hard drive

[glossy veldt]

oh it's not 40 dollars

[junior merlin]

I've got one even better, if it's for retro tech

Get CompactFlash

[glossy veldt]

I'm looking at old hardware on fb marketplace

[junior merlin]

CF uses the IDE protocol, meaning it can run natively on DOS systems.

[brave brook]

(i still gone one 160GB IDE hard drive saved from a computer i once gave to dad)

[glossy veldt]

you know that might be a good idea for my ancient compaq

[glossy veldt]

need this for my IDE laptop

[junior merlin]

COMPACT. FLASH.

Adapters are a couple bucks

You can transfer the drive between PCs easily

[glossy veldt]

goober

[glossy veldt]

fine fine I'll get a compact flash

im beyond broke as of today

[junior merlin]

https://youtu.be/VWfTgga7rmA?si=00l92nzILCWDEpM7

[glossy veldt]

today i saw someone selling 8gb of ram for 14 us dollars equivalent and i cant afford it

some hp ddr4 dimm

[junior merlin]

Then dont buy the older stuff

[glossy veldt]

i have a tendency to spend my money ysee

december i bought myself some screwdriver kits and things for my motorcycle like spray paint for the rusting chassis on my restored from the trash chinacub 110cc and chain lubricant for that and my cbf250

could have gotten ram if my allowance wasn't like 80 usd

[glossy veldt]

i might need something bigger than 4gb

[junior merlin]

They go up to 128GB

You can get a 64GB for like, $35USD

[glossy veldt]

i just saw a 64gb one go for like 60 usd online

yeah compact flash is not a choice for me

usb to ide isn't a bad idea after all

💔💔💔

[midnight rampart]

What is the error mark? Can someone help

[tidal geyser]

bitlocker

[midnight rampart]

oh okay

[dusty dew]

came back with ctg-9, now doing proof stress test

[dusty dew]

yeah its back up

[queen trout]

Ram prices are on sale

[brave brook]

more like 'we have none in stock, none coming soon, placeholder price, but if you are stupid enough to pay it in advance, we will keep your money till you cancel the order + 14 days, thanks for the interest on that money'

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-sad-water-disappointed-gif-3288661263568768157

[limpid dune]

okay uhh holy shit, putting PTM7950 on my 4080 Super fixed EVERYTHING

hotspot went from 109C at 320W to 80C at 352W, avg doesn't get above 69 now (nice) and it's quiet as hell now. I just casually got 3rd on 3DMark and I'm not even running LN2 or anything

I mean 109C hotspot obviously means that the OEM thermal paste was misapplied or something, but hey

[tidal geyser]

ye

[pure trellis]

https://videocardz.com/newz/origin-code-presents-vortex-ddr5-memory-triple-fan-cooler

[tidal geyser]

the future of intel looks cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydfKE1dffo

[tidal geyser]

wtf

39.8% on top of what

[pure trellis]

Anything to sell product

[royal knot]

when compared to the dollar store 80mm fans

[pure trellis]

It's also 8000 memory, cooling is kinda pointless

[tidal geyser]

so annoying to have to wait until the end of the month before pantherlake laptops come

my lcd display on the x1 has so much burn in i can see the last owner used it A LOT in 2023

and moved the windows search box thing to the left

[gaunt spade]

ah yes fan for ram wich no one can buy

[kindred halo]

B770 not announced, irrelevant

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-panther-lick-big-cat-gif-16937992

igpu with the claimed power of a 4050 is something

[gaunt spade]

https://tenor.com/view/cinemagraph-water-lake-flying-gif-10207305371898764955

[kindred halo]

Wait what

[tidal geyser]

b390

[kindred halo]

Okay relevant again

[gaunt spade]

8060s still better

[tidal geyser]

no shit but it uses like 2-3x the power

[gaunt spade]

true true

[tidal geyser]

and the cheapest laptop with it in it is like 4k$

[gaunt spade]

and intel propably cheaper

[gaunt spade]

??????????????

[tidal geyser]

try finding one

[gaunt spade]

it was like 2k+ when i last looked

it was a while ago but i didnt think it would go upto 4k

[tidal geyser]

in my country its 4.5k

[kindred halo]

8060s?

[tidal geyser]

ofc

ok yea no i think i might be a bit high, it should be possible to get them for like 3k in the US

[kindred halo]

Okay this is the first time I am hearing of RX 8000M

.. Why're they built on Navi 💔

[tidal geyser]

i hate search engines, its so hard to search up prices for these random things when not in the country you want the prices for

[kindred halo]

Oh wait they're just that generation
RDNA 3.5.............

[tidal geyser]

they do not have access to good upscaling or frame gen

people liked intels MFG so good a lot of them had a hard time noticing it was even on

and some did not even think it was on

[gaunt spade]

its integrated

[tidal geyser]

after watching the deep dive video about what intel has managed to do i really just wanna feel it for myself

intel claims to be at a point where fps is not the way to measure a games performance

[gaunt spade]

dosent the b390 support mfg now too

[tidal geyser]

das why they are saying it in the talks about it

they rather wanna measure performance in perceived smoothness, quality and input lag.

[pure trellis]

But but the shinning

[tidal geyser]

i really wanna see the performance of a maxed out b390

[pure trellis]

Instagram data base again composed

[gaunt spade]

didnt they compare 4x mfg to amd last gen apu with 2x fg

[pure trellis]

Lol

[tidal geyser]

considering in the interview they said they were not doing that i feel like they were not doing that

i think the slide you are referring to is the one with multiple values

[pure trellis]

New DroneHunter targets FPV drones with short-range kinetic interception system. Interesting things were shown at CES

[brave brook]

so they went back in time 15+ years ?

[pure trellis]

Yep

[brave brook]

to be fair, corsair still sells these

[pure trellis]

Oh, yes,only water cooler ram

[tidal geyser]

im searching for it but can you send me the picture of it

[brave brook]

i seen worse ideas

[gaunt spade]

i saw on gn channel gimme a sec

[brave brook]

we haven't even got CUDIMMs and now we are at next type already ?

[tidal geyser]

pretty clear what is mfg there

also that is the 890m right

[gaunt spade]

yea its not the 8060s

[brave brook]

ah, CQDIMM is quad rank CUDIMM

[gaunt spade]

its one of the 800 series

[pure trellis]

Oh,no

Review will be interesting

[pure trellis]

Oh, against 370

[tidal geyser]

if amd cant modernize let then well leave em

[gaunt spade]

yea hx 370 has 890m

[tidal geyser]

there anint many laptops with igpus better than that

[pure trellis]

I mean,890m is what, almost 1.5 years old at this point

[gaunt spade]

amd innovation is slow

[tidal geyser]

and amd has nothing cheaper to show for it

rdna 3.5 is so dumb

[gaunt spade]

wich one is 3.5

[tidal geyser]

i really really wanna see the benchmarks vs a 8060s laptop

[gaunt spade]

800 series?

[tidal geyser]

8000s stuff

[gaunt spade]

so 8060s

oh and 8050

forgot about dat one

[tidal geyser]

ok yea 800 is also rdna 3.5

[gaunt spade]

i like 8060s but not 800 series

[tidal geyser]

it is

[gaunt spade]

arent the 600 700 800 series all very close to each other

[tidal geyser]

8000s are true APUs while 800 and such are igpus

[gaunt spade]

mhm

[tidal geyser]

its funny even intels last gen stuff mostly beat the 890m

well now is due to intels drivers becoming so many times better

[pure trellis]

8060 for handhold and 890 for laptops, right?

[tidal geyser]

no

both for whatever

there is no lock on it

[gaunt spade]

8060 on handheld is shitty tho

cuz external battery

[tidal geyser]

eh not really '

[tidal geyser]

wat

i do not understand what you mean

if you mean that neo 5 i think it was called the battery is meant to be attached but it comes with a cable so you can put it on a table or smn or just plug the entire thing straight into the wall and have no battery

[gaunt spade]

idk wich one the neo 5 is i only know the gpd 5 and the new onexplayer i think on ces rn but yeah its still worse then a traditional one with the battery inside

[tidal geyser]

well that is kinda the issue with amds rdna 3.5, battery life SUCKS

well eh not that bad but its not good

i think the devices with it in it claim like 10hrs of battery life and such

amd has reached a point where their stagnation can go no longer

[pure trellis]

Let's me guess,10 hours on screen time

[tidal geyser]

no no the laptop is off so bad is it

[pure trellis]

I mean, waiting for zen6 at this point,if AMD will care for 2026

[tidal geyser]

huh

[pure trellis]

M1 still the best battery life

[tidal geyser]

i think it might just be what he has tested

[gaunt spade]

are there any laptops with more then 100w batteries?

[brave brook]

and most likely support for it getting axed by Apple in 2027 or 2028

[pure trellis]

Thanks Apple

[tidal geyser]

pure video playback and i would imagine probs local only getting 12hrs on a 70wh battery

[pure trellis]

Technically there was desktop 3950x

[brave brook]

100W is a legal limit in US, so usually no

[tidal geyser]

not allowed to be on a plane if a single battery is 100wh

[pure trellis]

Oh, battery

[tidal geyser]

but you are allowed to do 4 99.9wh batteries if they are easily able to be taken out and such

[brave brook]

Under 100 Wh (Most Devices, Power Banks, Spares): Allowed in carry-on bags; spares (power banks, chargers) prohibited in checked bags.
101–160 Wh (Larger Spares/Batteries): Up to two spares allowed per person in carry-on bags, but requires airline approval, per the FAA.
Over 160 Wh: Forbidden on passenger aircraft.

[gaunt spade]

yea thats why i asked

or is there a mod maybe

[tidal geyser]

mod?

[gaunt spade]

is it even possible theoreticly to put a 200w battery inside

[pure trellis]

You bouncing from law at that point

[gaunt spade]

yea like custom battery for people who dont need it on planes

[tidal geyser]

i was right its just local playback aka nobody is really gonna be doing that

[brave brook]

again, no one makes such because TSA doesn't allow it in US, thus everyone designs it with that in mind

[gaunt spade]

not on plane

[tidal geyser]

probs also h264 or smn

[pure trellis]

Also, you can just plug the laptop into the wall

[azure topaz]

skulll

[tidal geyser]

but then all that heat goes straight into your lap

trying to game on a ferry with a 200w laptop is not fun

[cosmic idol]

skull

[pure trellis]

Plugging in UPS counts?

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/panther-luna-waaah-puma-black-panther-scared-gif-1510541925154317590

[tidal geyser]

UPS is like 6wh

[azure topaz]

its time for the percolator

[tidal geyser]

you excited for panther lake

[gaunt spade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368511087139618830/1416186775680057397/togif-1.gif

[azure topaz]

couldnt give a damn about mobile

[dusty dew]

@sinful cobalt fixed with new paste

[tidal geyser]

what if you were allowed to tune it somehow

[dusty dew]

was 95 pre paste

[pure trellis]

But but it is the biggest CES news

[azure topaz]

mobile is inferior

i simply would just not like to play games on the go

[tidal geyser]

i dono i like being able to go outside

[azure topaz]

yeah i go outside and enjoy the fact i am outside

[tidal geyser]

i wanna game on top of a mountain

[pure trellis]

Phones

[tidal geyser]

smol

[azure topaz]

i like my desktop

[tidal geyser]

im gonna sell my desktop

my ram alone might cost as much as a pantherlake laptop

[azure topaz]

6$

[tidal geyser]

the expected pricing for the cheapest thing with a 12xe chip is like 1300$

[gaunt spade]

too expensive

[tidal geyser]

and that has mostly metal body and oled display

[azure topaz]

and is a laptop

too small

gotta bring a buncha extra shit

[tidal geyser]

what

the whole point of a laptop is not needing to do that

[azure topaz]

mouse, controller, charger

[pure trellis]

Ultra 3 laptop won't be a thing?

[gaunt spade]

mouse and controller??

[azure topaz]

sometimes you got external storage or a dongle

[pure trellis]

Depends on a game

[gaunt spade]

dongle on stupid laptops

only 2 controller games iknow are fifa and rocket league

[azure topaz]

and then when you forget one thing its just a massive L

[pure trellis]

Fighting games are painful on keyboard

[tidal geyser]

aint all of these still the same issues as on desktops

[azure topaz]

other driving games

no because you dont leave your home with all the pieces of your desktop lol

[pure trellis]

Platfomers aren't great on keyboard too

[azure topaz]

you just leave shit at your desk and call it good

[tidal geyser]

cant you do that with a laptop too if you take it to and back from work

[azure topaz]

rather have a fast desktop along with thin and lite for the same price over a laptop

[gaunt spade]

thats called skill issue

[azure topaz]

im not gaming at work i could care less

[tidal geyser]

for me at least i do not play any games the b390 would have issues with

[azure topaz]

im just not a gaming on the go typa guy

[pure trellis]

Or have good server set up and remote connection on laptop

[tidal geyser]

i like being able to do work on the bus

and with the same thing lie in bed and watch movies

[pure trellis]

TV will be better for that

[tidal geyser]

and since i have such a small room the idle on my pc heats up my room like crazy

[gaunt spade]

its still only available at ces right

[tidal geyser]

until the end of the month

[pure trellis]

27,if I remember correctly

[tidal geyser]

yes

iv been playing with older way more basic igpus and they are fine but not that happy when i pair it with a 4k screen or something and most 3d stuff

[gaunt spade]

this is smart but alot of people cant do that like me cuz of light outtages and horrible interent

[tidal geyser]

iv been thinking about doing this but every time it just acts so funky

[pure trellis]

Oh, outages is an argument

[tidal geyser]

and you kinda need to be able to open ports

[pure trellis]

And software updates can make it worse

[azure topaz]

simply dont have issues

[pure trellis]

That's why mine on Linux and for older games

[tidal geyser]

but meh plan on slapping down a e-gpu

[pure trellis]

4head

[azure topaz]

maybe even 5 head

[tidal geyser]

might be smarter to get a e-gpu now and chillax with my 30$ 12700h laptop

[gaunt spade]

30$

[tidal geyser]

yea 2.8k oled

[pure trellis]

You forgot k

And a dot

[gaunt spade]

30 hundred

[azure topaz]

30 cents

[tidal geyser]

i just bought anoter laptop just to take its battery and put it into the oled

[gaunt spade]

30 rubles

[azure topaz]

63 zmb

[pure trellis]

Ireland recalls almost 13,000 passports over missing 'IRL' code . that's a news and a half

[gaunt spade]

0.000000001 cents

[tidal geyser]

i hate acer so much, first i thought there were some motherboard issues as i was unable to even see the drive in windows installer but linux worked just fine so and the VMD driver did not work but with the help of ai i found out ctrl+s unlocked more advanced stuff i disabled VMD and now its chillaxing in windows but i cant update the bios without a battery

this was the state i bought it in, if i was local would have been 15$ btw

all i did when i first got it was plug in the display plug in my charger and it worked

it has seen better days

[open flax]

Why do the verification code to set up Apple account isnt working? I chose the allow option and it should show a 6-digit code isnt it?

[tidal geyser]

i do not use apple anything so cant help

[gaunt spade]

this wouldve sold for 150$ minimum where ilive

in that state

even more propably

[tidal geyser]

here too but mister must have not known what he had on his hands

considering he is selling other laptops too

[gaunt spade]

did u buy any others

[tidal geyser]

i really wanted to do so but then looking over the other ones he had i kinda did not wanna bother as all of em are mising a lot of small things like batteries and chargers and ram

[lunar axle]

Yes it supposed to show up as a six digit code on ever device signed into the account

[tidal geyser]

he listed this one a few days ago for 50$
Laptop modell WA51SF, product code WA51SFQ.

[gaunt spade]

holy

[lunar axle]

You can find everything on marketplaces in the Nordic

[tidal geyser]

ja

here we go

[open flax]

It happens to be not working

[lunar axle]

Have a phone number registered?

[rigid fjord]

hmm, ptm 7950/thermalright helios time dude

[open flax]

Yes?

[pure trellis]

GameStop Is Reportedly Shutting Down Hundreds of US Stores as Its CEO Might Get $35 Billion ‘Long-Term’ Bonus so, GameStop story finally over

[lunar axle]

Try that instead

[compact narwhal]

guys i can't decide which gpu should i choose for an e-gpu setup, an rtx 3060 or an rx 6700 xt? i plan on playing at 1440p@144hz on an i7-1165g7 laptop w 16gb of lpddr4 2133mhz

or maybe y'all have any other recommendations at the same price point used with at least 12gb of vram

[frail sequoia]

I love old stuff and I cba paying £10 per month for Spotify premium

[ionic atlas]

GameStop still exist?

[frail sequoia]

You could go for a 3060ti

[compact narwhal]

yeah but 8gb

i don't think that pairs well with thunderbolt

[frail sequoia]

I thought you were using oculink mb

[compact narwhal]

yeah unfortunately i'm set on thunderbolt, my laptop only has one m.2 slot

[frail sequoia]

I would do 3060 @ 1080p but do 1440p for single player games like rdr, rdr2, hl, hl2 etc

If you have enough money for a 6750xt I would say get that

[compact narwhal]

thanks! do you know if the 6750 xt has better RT than the 6700?

i heard that the 6700's is notoriously "meh"

[sinful cobalt]

3060 for the DLSS 4 upscaling, bcs ur gonna be limited by TB

[compact narwhal]

thanks

[tidal geyser]

4060

ehhh ok maybe 4060 ti 16GB or smn

[compact narwhal]

i'd have to negotiate a lot but i think it might be doable

[frail sequoia]

The 6750xt is good but you would need to use fsr (you would need to use dlss if you got the 3060)

[tidal geyser]

my friend has 1440p and does not need to use any fsr?

[frail sequoia]

30 series isn’t getting that, only 50 series iirc

[tidal geyser]

what???

even the 2050 can do dlss 4.5

upscaling that is

[sinful cobalt]

i wanna know where he got his drugs from

[frail sequoia]

I forgot what the new dlss is called

[tidal geyser]

4.5

dlss 4.5 upscaling transformer v2

[frail sequoia]

No where I’m just mentally stupid

[tidal geyser]

but stuff before 4000 does not have the right stuff so performance sufferers

[frail sequoia]

Is it dlss5 that’s only in 50 series then?

[gaunt spade]

dlss 5 blud said 😭🙏

[tidal geyser]

dlss 5 aint a thing

frame gen is 4000 and up and MFG aka multi frame gen is 5000 and up

[ebon marlin]

Prolly mixed up with dlss 4.5

https://tenor.com/view/cat-axolotl-meme-ai-ai-slop-gif-320631449476692671

[tidal geyser]

catto you essited for panther in the lake?

[ebon marlin]

Looks very promising

https://tenor.com/view/gappy-jojo-jjba-jojo-dance-dance-gif-4469072048546647529

[tidal geyser]

yuh

[ebon marlin]

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2009716984070713361

Pubity (@pubity)

Micron is building a new plant in New York to keep up with exploding demand for AI RAM chips.

However, the plant will cost $100 billion to build, and it won't be fully complete until 2041.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 9, 2026, 8:00 PM

What is this tomfoolery

I will touch Micron

[tidal geyser]

well micron is a US company that makes ram in the US so like ofc they are gonna focus on ai when the US is the biggest maker of it

[unique olive]

Talk about thinking ahead

[tidal geyser]

2041 almost does not sound right

[unique olive]

2031 makes a lot more sense

That’s gonna be ancient tech by 2041

[tidal geyser]

looks like TSMC in taiwan is able to setup a new fab in around 2 years

[cosmic idol]

..lol

[unique olive]

Well bureaucracy slows down stuff in the us drastically

[sinful cobalt]

they paid gems to speed up the process

[tidal geyser]

does that say paid gems

[pure trellis]

Almost not, ending in February

[ionic atlas]

Here I live/sweden they closed all stores in like 2019-2020?

[tidal geyser]

they had stores in Sweden?

[ionic atlas]

Well. They took over all EB Games, then replaced the workers and made the places worse

But yes

[pure trellis]

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/dev-creates-uefi-games-compendium-where-you-have-to-win-to-access-your-computer-10-month-project-will-shutdown-your-pc-if-you-lose

[tidal geyser]

here in Norway we only got elkjøp, power and not sure if we got any other big tech stores with a actual irl store.

i just buy most of my stuff from proshop or komplett

[ionic atlas]

Yeah the other ones is all online like Komplett/WEBHALLEN etc

[tidal geyser]

we do not have webhallen here

[ionic atlas]

It’s owned by komplett group so more less same

[tidal geyser]

but where i buy most is finn (blocket for you) but that aint excactly a store

[pure trellis]

EU Commission has ordered X to retain all Grok documents until end 2026, spokesperson says

https://ground.news/article/eu-commission-has-ordered-x-to-retain-all-grok-documents-until-end-2026-spokesperson-says?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

[ionic atlas]

Blocket usually for big things; cars; furniture etc. for games and stuff u get it on Tradera (pre-eBay owned)

[tidal geyser]

i use finn for everything

[pure trellis]

That's a lot of laptops

[tidal geyser]

look at this one

[dusty dew]

no money, wife literally ate almost all money, can only buy what I used last time on my tuf

[pure trellis]

Laptop tree

[tidal geyser]

and i got 3 more coming

[ionic atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/klarna-klarna-card-pay-your-way-gif-9614569784446821368

Pay later

[tidal geyser]

nau

do not turn into the US

[dusty dew]

pay with kidney

[tidal geyser]

tbf you do not have MASSIVE oil fund

[pure trellis]

Ok, but why not a credit card?!

[ionic atlas]

Klarna is huge here in Sweden. It’s normal. But the whole “credit score” we don’t really have; that’s weird

[ionic atlas]

People who can’t handle it; apparently the Ramsey guy said 8 out of 10 Americans can’t handle one

[pure trellis]

Credit limitation on account is credit score,but more protective

[tidal geyser]

here in Norway credit cards are just used as extra protection when buying things or something

dad said it but im never gonna touch one of em

[pure trellis]

Merica

[ionic atlas]

I use Klarna card when travel. (Virtual) VISA card thing. It’s both a convenience and works without the whole check in with your bank protections

[pure trellis]

I just use my credit or corporate card

[tidal geyser]

i really need me a job

[pure trellis]

You can do it, I believe in you

[ionic atlas]

Like if you go to China and try to use AliPay; get stuck at the bank verification for most normal cards as they all in Sweden use BankID app which outside of local apps is very finicky

[tidal geyser]

i do not believe in myself

[solemn pewter]

Credit card is great if you have a budget. Not great if you don't.

[ionic atlas]

So my corporate card gets stuck half the times

[pure trellis]

If you don't, you don't get it

[tidal geyser]

bankid works so well inside of the nordics

[pure trellis]

Or merica moment again?

[ionic atlas]

And if you travel; debit card very likely to get suspended automatically by the bank

Unless you’re in Netherlands they are all good with debit

[pure trellis]

You need verified your payment method when you applying for Chinese visa

[ionic atlas]

Not sure maybe

No need for travel visa anymore to China for us swedes tho.

[tidal geyser]

china 100% is going to become the new US for europe

[ionic atlas]

The car tech in China right now is kinda nuts

[tidal geyser]

yea know someone in aus that i think got themselves a byd

[atomic fog]

https://www.groffa.shop/products/asus-tuf-gaming-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-16gb-gddr6x-oc-indiana-jones-computer-amp-zubehör?utm_source=483&utm_medium=2693&uid=63722346&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23060298853&gclid=CjwKCAiAjojLBhAlEiwAcjhrDnMVTjjQ-XCp8COuDGBY0Orfwwc0cjIfEBZ9pP2Quhl4HWgU_KRPeBoCbbMQAvD_BwE

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/twintails-azumanga-daioh-osaka-chiyo-wings-gif-5106989688368465032

[atomic fog]

This is so real defo not a scam

[tidal geyser]

https://www.groffa.shop/products/asus-tuf-gaming-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-16gb-gddr6x-oc-indiana-jones-computer-amp-zubehör

[tidal geyser]

we no like de tracking

[ionic atlas]

We was in this model car for a week in China and it’s just next level. https://youtu.be/4jsJic1bzxo?si=PtsY0kFh2jZpLYs9

[atomic fog]

What

[tidal geyser]

look at my link

[atomic fog]

Ye ik im js too lazy to shorten it

[solemn pewter]

Your link needs nothing after the question mark.

[atomic fog]

Ik im js too lazy, its also not that deep

[ionic atlas]

Like the whole garage self driving and parking is so much better than Tesla’s.

[tidal geyser]

i do wonder how they got it working so well

[robust trail]

Heh. Yeah. Definitely get a credit card when you can. Make sure that the card maximum is some tiny amount of your income if you aren’t sure you’ll be able to completely pay it off every month. At least if you live in the us.

[atomic fog]

What do you think about this

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChsSEwiSldbd-oCSAxWDgoMHHbfOFqQYACICCAEQBBoCZWY&co=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAjojLBhAlEiwAcjhrDsM8NDWxcsBHf4zXNJGEcOiNUx3c0rto-tFXT94DbdLYhVgx48feiRoC_WkQAvD_BwE&ei=GkRiaarQOdLoi-gP0fLe0Qw&cid=CAASJeRoerI7JpS7AK0_5SaaEgKed0AHs6YWdgvKJKmk_SOQWjD43-4&cce=2&sig=AOD64_14qIJI3MDm_yhp0keaoGvLQDjFLQ&ctype=5&q=&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiqxdDd-oCSAxVS9AIHHVG5N8oQwg8oAHoECAcQDQ&adurl=

[tidal geyser]

mark did you do anything for dlss 4.5

[robust trail]

Don’t be that person who can’t pay it off immediately or at least within a very reasonable amount of time. Like 6 weeks. The only reason that cards have rewards is because of folks who carry a balance all the time and pay interest.

[solemn pewter]

Or get a secured card.

[robust trail]

Nah. I worked on GB300 station

[ionic atlas]

Multiple car brands collaborate and it’s a billion Chinese cars

[tidal geyser]

this beast?

[ionic atlas]

While in western, a lot of companies want to protect their self driving tech so they get much less data

[robust trail]

I have a secured credit card still 🙂

[solemn pewter]

Extremely based

[robust trail]

The new one doesn’t have a founders edition 🙁

[tidal geyser]

is that one just for show?

[ionic atlas]

So AVATR car uses Huawei self driving as an example. Imagine if Tesla self driving was on a Chevy

[robust trail]

No we made that and I want a chassis so bad.

[ionic atlas]

https://youtu.be/VuDSz06BT2g?si=UOrvVohk8hhIFiPt

[robust trail]

So I can hack a GB300 station into it

[tidal geyser]

ah

[robust trail]

775 GB of cohesive memory, 278 of that is HBM4 on the B300 package. 1.8TB chip to chip interconnect. I can run Kimi K2 1T on station.

OR I can play Factorio.

[tidal geyser]

o yea how is the gaming performance on it xd

[solemn pewter]

Impossible, you have a job

[robust trail]

“fine”. It is ARM and the video output comes from the BMC. Very slow resolution.

[robust trail]

I am on 14 days of PTO. I have a job but it currently involves not doing me job.

[tidal geyser]

working at nvidia right now has to be something

[robust trail]

Well… I worked the DGX Spark product, still do. Started on that… in April of last year. Then ramped up and am working Station. I’ve been full throttle since April of last year. Now that CES is over I can come up for air.

[tidal geyser]

are you able to talk about what you did with them?

[robust trail]

Yeah, they’re public.

[ionic atlas]

Better at valve

[tidal geyser]

well valve is very very differently set up

one of the only few companies to have a more flat hierarchy structure

[ionic atlas]

valve doesn’t need to make new products

[fresh veldt]

Steam 2

[ionic atlas]

Will be released with pc2

[robust trail]

NVIDIA is extremely flat until you get to JHH and a few executives.

[tidal geyser]

aaahhh

makes sense considering the amount of stuff nvidia is doing right now

[robust trail]

But for the most part it is totally flat. We all have a pay range but it is meaningless as far as “rank” goes.

[tidal geyser]

how are projects done at nvidia?

as i am seeing more and more things coming to linux

[ionic atlas]

If consumer; go backwards
If corporate; pay up

[robust trail]

Most projects are someone’s side project that turns into a full blown engineering effort.

[tidal geyser]

yea suspected as much

its pretty cool seeing the amount of things going on at the moment, from self driving cars to the little robot thing xd

[robust trail]

We… get direction and Zerg rush stuff. If there’s a really interesting effort and it could use the help? There could be thousands of people who drill it for a week or two… and then the product goes back to a handful of people.

[ionic atlas]

State of Nvidia; all departments on board in same direction

I do want that Max-Q card tho

[tidal geyser]

very cool

[robust trail]

These are all part of me responsibility 🙂 and yes, the Max-Q is my choice as well

[ionic atlas]

We use a lot of those A4000/A5000? Cards at work. Solid

Media servers

[robust trail]

The 3 weeks leading up to Spark launch I think I had.. 300 people doing nothing but working on the build.nvidia.com/spark cookbooks

A4000 SFF is my favorite card.

[sinful cobalt]

Listening to Mark is always interesting

[tidal geyser]

i just hear gpus and products that cost more than everything i own

[fresh veldt]

Nvidia

[robust trail]

I could work on GeForce but my background and experience wouldn’t really do much… I’d always fall back to what kind of hardcore enterprise work can I do

[ionic atlas]

Imagine using GPUs for gaming, a niche nowadays

[tidal geyser]

i just use mine for discord and youtube

[fresh veldt]

I use mine

[tidal geyser]

even i am starting to get tired of gaming stuff now a days, its so interesting what the enterpise world offers and what ai could really do going forward

there is so much hate on ai as a whole without seeing all of its parts

[ionic atlas]

The nice with the enterprise cards is that they solved the issue gaming couldn’t. Stack multiple

So each those workstation cards be 300W rated

[fresh veldt]

Ok

[tidal geyser]

would that not need server grade airflow?

[solemn pewter]

Given that the two categories of gamers are people who play the same game at 1080p 700 fps or people who play games on the switch, I'd rather the power be put towards something potentially useful

[tidal geyser]

trough the entier system

[ionic atlas]

We mostly use rack case but not really these days. Get some good fans. They aren’t as loud theee days

[robust trail]

Nah the Max-Q is a savage with a blower fan.

[tidal geyser]

mark seen panther lake?

[robust trail]

I wish we had a 5070 style as a choice but the blower style better fits OEM workstation chassis.

[dreamy robin]

hey guys im a fucking idiot. i want to make sure copilot is disabled on my pc. but im using a desktop. is copilot only on copilot plus laptop instead of desktop? keep in mind im a fucking dumbass

[robust trail]

I heard about it but didn’t dig into details

[tidal geyser]

intels new mobile generations

they are finally getting MFG

[pale flint]

copilot is everywhere

[tidal geyser]

and the igpu in it is meant to be around as good as a 4050m

[pale flint]

in windows

[robust trail]

Nice. I would like to see a high performance, low power, huge cache CPU from intel.

[fresh veldt]

do /delete copilot

[tidal geyser]

next gen desktop should be getting the massive cache

i wonder what that could do for graphics

[robust trail]

Gut check AMD and bring some competition back to the client CPU.

[solemn pewter]

If you're using Windows, copilot is there. If you're worried about recall specifically, disable it.

[ionic atlas]

Even in notepad

[tidal geyser]

amds best mobile cpu is stuck on rdna 3.5 so no fp8 i think it is it needs so no fsr 4 or redstone

[pale flint]

i only see copilot when i open edge

[tidal geyser]

while i think intel claimed to bring mfg to every arc gpu

[pale flint]

what

[robust trail]

AMD AI/ML is “fine”. I almost died when I heard they made a DGX Spark competitor.

[pale flint]

oh

didnt notice that

[robust trail]

Uh. A little late to the party folks.

[tidal geyser]

i do wonder if UDNA could solve a lot of AMDs bigger issues

[pale flint]

i am signed in

no wonder why it didnt ask me to

[dreamy robin]

is the resume setting recall?

[solemn pewter]

Recall is the screen recording thing.

[ionic atlas]

Like why would they ruin notepad when they could had done all of this with a new version of Wordpad

[robust trail]

NVIDIA AI Workbench. One year later - AMD AI Workbench. NVIDIA Inference Microservice. Two years later - AMD Inference Microservice. Maybe… do something novel and get your engineers thinking rather than copy paste.

[ionic atlas]

So I wrote my own notepad alternative now. Releasing soon.

[solemn pewter]

Because people use notepad.

[pale flint]

wow

[solemn pewter]

They aren't going to add data collection to a product nobody uses.

[ionic atlas]

It is and should be a plain text editor. I expect separate app for. Apple notes or word

[tidal geyser]

intel and nvidia are always the ones to make new tech, the only thing i can really think of in these modern days amd has done would be 3D cache

[solemn pewter]

That's not how profits are made.

[pale flint]

i wish notepad had option to enable picture pasting

[solemn pewter]

Then it wouldn't be a plain text editor.

[pale flint]

been in situation when i wanted to paste a ss

[tidal geyser]

aint word pad only really ment to make .txt stuff

[robust trail]

Yeah. It makes me a bit sad that AMD flails so hard trying to get a foothold in markets. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved my AMD products. It just seems the GPU side is like a TEMU clone of NVIDIA tech now.

[pale flint]

oh yeah

its .txt

another app perhaps?

[robust trail]

They’re lock-step in follow the leader rather than breaking new ground.

[solemn pewter]

Word processor of some sort

[pale flint]

but i like notepad thats why i wanted that option

[tidal geyser]

i really wonder what is going on when intel is somehow able to just come out each generation now with massive gains

[solemn pewter]

Why do you like notepad?

[ionic atlas]

. Rich text editor

[pale flint]

idk i just like it to keep notes

and write things down

[robust trail]

I hope they have massive gains. I actually like Intel products as much as I like AMD.

[solemn pewter]

Obsidian keeps notes and lets you add pictures. I'd look into that

[fresh veldt]

[tidal geyser]

like a massive amount of tech we use now a days was either made inside of intel or intel helped making it

[ionic atlas]

Obsidian is nice for my /docs for code

[pale flint]

this?

oh it syncs with phone and pc?

[solemn pewter]

We use it company wide for process documentation due to the insane search capability

[robust trail]

Intel stuff seems so polished and thought out, for the most part. AMD software is always… it’s like they measured once, cut once with a dull blade and then put a thick coat of paint on it to cover up imperfections.

Been like that for a very long time. Since before Ryzen.

[solemn pewter]

It's a markdown file. You can pay for sync, or you can use SyncThing to sync for free

[tidal geyser]

It's funny iv heard so many people having issues on current amd drivers while at launch it was pretty much mostly great

[pale flint]

alr thanks for suggesting i'll check it out

[robust trail]

That sucks. Everyone has some driver issues from time to time.

I love my 6970XT. It has lived in the box most of its life but I still love that card.

[solemn pewter]

The best way to avoid driver issues lol. Don't plug it in!

[tidal geyser]

its so hard to really rec something when it feels so unstable

even if mine has been fine

[robust trail]

I used it for a bit but the damn thing was actually really unstable. It would immediately crash whenever I put it under load. It may have 4 hours of actual game time under its belt and 15 hours of powered on time.

[tidal geyser]

i feel like you should have warrantied it

[robust trail]

I only bought it to test the denoising stuff AMD “made”.

[solemn pewter]

That was the whole deal with people being angry at YouTubers for recommending AMD GPUs while using Nvidia themselves.

Most people know on the inside they have less driver issues. But nobody wants to be the first to build the userbase.

[robust trail]

Turned out to be the Microsoft Teams denoising model wrapped into the AMD GPU driver.

[tidal geyser]

its one of the reasons i love having built so many computers, i get to test everything

like computers i build with rx 5000 gpus i have not had issues myself but after some time the chap who bought it has driver issues

[robust trail]

I would and still recommend AMD cards to people. If you don’t want or need all the stuff that comes with CUDA… don’t pay for it by buying NVIDIA. As long as everyone is able to have a good time who cares what brand they use 🙂

[solemn pewter]

Same here. We have about 80 workstations where I work. Huge amounts of GPUs pass through them

[ionic atlas]

Same with ton of people who praise Linux but then use macOS for their daily ^ tho at least people like Linus installed Linux on his M2

[solemn pewter]

I don't care about the brand... I care about honesty. It makes my brain hurt to see such a large amount of people in here pointing people toward things without acknowledging the drawbacks.

It's one of the reasons I left the server two years ago or whenever it was. It's frustrating to watch people do that to each other

[robust trail]

This is me. Love Linux, don’t use it on my workstations lol

[tidal geyser]

i use linux and windows, on desktops yea no linux is a clear winner for a lot of things but on more advanced laptops the lines get blurred

[barren nebula]

I wanted to change my old fans on my computer since they became warped and sounded bad, but the old ones were 3pin fans 4x pieces. The old fans were connected by psu molex cables. New only only come with a 4pin, so i’m guessing i need somekind of fan hub to install these new ones?

[solemn pewter]

The framework is the first laptop I've owned that actually functions properly across the board with Linux... Probably because it was built for it.

All others had some issue.

[robust trail]

And I run MacOS for all of my work stuff. Just remote into a Linux host for everything

[ionic atlas]

Linux is great on custom workstations tho^ but yeah. My work involves all the three ones but more specialised on what they are good at

[robust trail]

It just… works without fuckery.

[tidal geyser]

like my x1 carbon has face recognition, fingerprint, cellular connection that all need manual configurations on any distro i have tried but i just do not wanna spend so much time and so many random commands to set it up and then keep maintaining it.

[solemn pewter]

Yeah... I hadn't tried it up until maybe two years ago. I felt like an idiot for ignoring it for windows .

[robust trail]

I’m not one for fuckery. Windows requires fuckery. Linux requires fuckery. macOS turns on and requires almost no fuckery.

Save for installing brew. That’s.. basically all of it.

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/i-dont-want-to-touch-that-chef-south-park-s1e6-death-gif-21526130

[ionic atlas]

Hence. My daily backpack is a mac+windows but everything we use at work like servers/iot/touch devices/heavy industrial etc. all Linux.

[solemn pewter]

And doing that just saves you a ton of time in the future anyway, and also... Just works.

[cosmic stratus]

Why is wifi 8 out already what the fuck😭

[tidal geyser]

its not

[cosmic stratus]

Asus???

[barren nebula]

very helpful :(

[tidal geyser]

prototype

wifi 8 spec is not out and still a ways out

[robust trail]

Yep. Roll macOS for your workstation and use that to ssh into everything else. My M2 studio is getting LONG in the tooth. Time for an upgrade.

[cosmic stratus]

We working on wifi 8 and im still on wifi 5

[robust trail]

It is starting to really, really chug.

[tidal geyser]

been wanting to try out mac for a while now as its not fun trying to rec something i myself have never used so right now looking for some apple silicon mac with a broken screen or something that i can repair for cheap and have a cheap mac

[ionic atlas]

Like if I’m doing ffmpeg; I’m def using the M4 Max instead of windows or Linux

Just kills it

[solemn pewter]

I wouldn't start with something that's broken... They are hard to fix and may frustrate you

Just get a used Air, and it'll blow your mind

[robust trail]

Perfect world - Apple opens up NVIDIA egpu with all the support. No dgpu onboard just egpu via TB.

[tidal geyser]

i dono, i tried replacing a PD chip on the old x1 board i had, think i could manage

[ionic atlas]

Nvidia with Metal would be a Apple Ti

[solemn pewter]

Holy crap, just not dealing with Windows pop-ups alone was a breath of fresh air

[red light]

These are tech stuff I've browsing but first one was 2012-2013 keyboard and then anitech wireless mouse 2013 and even beach mousepad (2007-2008) maybe

[ionic atlas]

Get some of that LTSC

[tidal geyser]

gonna touch it and it falls apart

[ionic atlas]

Only one we can use on windows media servers. Can’t trust the other windows versions

[solemn pewter]

As Mark said... No fuckery

Why waste time with that

I have a functioning laptop and operating system out of the box

[tidal geyser]

my desktop has been linux for like 4 months now and one of the big reasons was i just got a notification like play doom dark ages now with xbox game pass

[robust trail]

I love Linux. It is my long term lover but it is also my side piece.

Where macos is my main squeeze.

[ornate adder]

can someone please helpe me find an SSD to buy everything is so expensvie now im australia i currently ran out of storage for my games this is the current build im using :https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/s9Frtn

[tidal geyser]

cheapest ssd you can find

[ornate adder]

yeah

but like it might be slow bro idk

[tidal geyser]

for the most part if its a SSD its gonna be fine for games

[valid fiber]

what kind of speeds do you really need?

[solemn pewter]

Everything is Mac for me, except my framework which dual boots Linux and a lonely Windows install for the two programs I need that are Windows only

[solemn pewter]

We all used hdds for decades... You'll be fine

[ionic atlas]

I find the framework laptop to just feel and look cheap/outdated when you compare to the rest of the market

[solemn pewter]

It's not meant to look pretty.

[tidal geyser]

not meant to be thin

[ionic atlas]

I do love a good glossy display with nice bezels

[tidal geyser]

i really wanna see what Schenker or whatever that sub brand of XMGs laptop will look like

[robust trail]

I would love a framework laptop. I have too many laptop already 🙁

[kindred halo]

I am gonna have to settle for 45% NTSC

[robust trail]

I carry two MBP M4 16” lol one is work one is personal

[ionic atlas]

One of the main reason I got this dell precision years ago. 4K OLED on a 15” laptop in 2018-2019 ish? Hell yea

[red light]

any heard of ddr3?

[solemn pewter]

I have too many as well. It entertains my wife to no end, but they all suit different purposes

[ionic atlas]

But now looking to replace it

[kindred halo]

Legit the only options with 72% NTSC or 100% sRGB on these ThinkPads are either soldered, or too expensive for their other specs

[robust trail]

lol my back hates it. My
Backpack hates it more.

[tidal geyser]

soldered?

[kindred halo]

@tidal geyser Even if E16/E14
I am paying 800 USD for a laptop, atleast give me 72% NTSC

[solemn pewter]

Thinkpad, framework, and MacBook are all wonderful

But it sounds like you want something shinier

[kindred halo]

Soldered memory

[tidal geyser]

i dono i just buy used

[kindred halo]

I can't really

[tidal geyser]

30$

[ionic atlas]

Thinkpad look more polished than the framework by far nowadays like the P series

[kindred halo]

I don't have the immediate cash for used
Plus barely any options

[tidal geyser]

well you would not be able to buy new then tho right

[kindred halo]

Specs?

[robust trail]

I don’t think you can buy thinkpads anymore. I think you just ask and they give you one.

[tidal geyser]

12700h and 2.8k OLED

[solemn pewter]

If you aren't into repairability and you don't like Mac, Thinkpads are really nice

[kindred halo]

Store I am looking at does payment plans

[solemn pewter]

From most series too

[robust trail]

Lenovo will feed you hardware through a firehose if they like you

[solemn pewter]

X1, T, P, E

[ionic atlas]

The P14/P16 thinkpad has a OLED option but it’s some matte coating , so that was big bummer

[tidal geyser]

hmm thinkpads are pretty easy to repair, the new x1 is insane when it comes to that now

[kindred halo]

30% downpayment, up to 11 months with no interest, or 18 months with a one-time 14% interest rate at month 12

[ornate adder]

https://www.computeralliance.com.au/2tb-klevv-cras-c910-pcie-4.0-nvme-m.2-ssd?s=0 im gonna buy this ssd its the cheapest i could find do you guys approve

[tidal geyser]

c910 is fine

[ornate adder]

alr thanks

[tidal geyser]

it was a massive rec here not that long ago

[robust trail]

See if you can find someone who works at Lenovo.

[ornate adder]

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0812Y64G9?tag=pcppau-22&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 is it as good as the one i have rn im js curious

[tidal geyser]

should be better

[robust trail]

And then get them to either give you access to the employee store or buy you machine from it.

[ornate adder]

yay

[tacit star]

RDR2 is so beautiful, for some reason the gameplay runs smoother than the benchmark

I even use MSAA x2 (no TAA)

[robust trail]

They get like… 80% off a lot of stuff. Or they will just yeet you one.

[ionic atlas]

most of the company i work for use a thinkpad, a couple use a asus but most is thinkpad or mac

[solemn pewter]

The local university had that happen. When Dell went to crap, a Lenovo employee who graduated from there got them a deal, and they swapped out everything in a single break.

[tacit star]

MSAA x4 feels not as smooth tho

[tidal geyser]

even the intel guy i watched get interviewed used a x1 carbon

[solemn pewter]

It's extremely difficult to beat the longevity of those laptops. No one else has come close

[robust trail]

I sometimes get random ass boxes of Lenovo shit. Oh, here’s a PX workstation. Unsolicited. Wtf.

[ionic atlas]

i work for a LED wall/microLED display manufacturer/solutions provider. So for me, as I do factory testing of displays my self, I'm just damaged picky with displays.

like, the new LG OLED evo, it's shit coating

[robust trail]

Oh you don’t say

https://tenor.com/view/best-friends-step-brother-will-ferrell-gif-4030364

[solemn pewter]

Which is interesting... Thinkpads have great displays and keyboards, but it sounds like you like having ceiling lights reflected into your eyes haha

[ionic atlas]

yes, see my last day convo here. https://discordapp.com/channels/375436620578684930/381193783296917507/1459084785598074950

[solemn pewter]

The gloss screen is the only part I don't like about my MacBook

[robust trail]

@ionic atlas if you need gear, I can get you gear. We have a circle of friends.

[tidal geyser]

i love me a nice glossy display but in the classroom i cant see shit

[ionic atlas]

bad brightness + glossy = bad for lit environments

[robust trail]

Most of the time it is Dell friends and NVIDIa friends all trading gear with each other. Especially if you work in marketing.

We like displays.

[tidal geyser]

nah the display got like 400/500 nits but tbf the classroom lights are BRIGHT

[ionic atlas]

we have a department that focus just on LED lightning and yeah those are brights now, it's made to cover as much area and angles as possible to be lit

[robust trail]

I can only be so turned on.

[ionic atlas]

compared to a decade ago with LED

[tidal geyser]

yea its a 2020 4k ips display

[spark lichen]

whats up with linus saying to remove all drives that you dont want windows on when building a new pc? what does that do/prevent? i never did that with my old one

[tidal geyser]

it puts in a extra partition on the other drives

[ionic atlas]

our LED community spend a lot of time in the video enginerring discord. a lot of company reps there represented as well.

[solemn pewter]

Protects them from partitioning as well as not accidentally choosing the wrong one

[kindred halo]

@tidal geyser

How bad of a deal is an E16 G3 (w/ Ultra 7 255H, 16/512GB, 45% NTSC 1200p, 48Wh) for 888?

[tidal geyser]

xd i saw someone chose their HDD that 1TB of photos they did not back up

[spark lichen]

how detrimental is that? seems like a bit of a pain in the ass

[kindred halo]

Essentially 266.4 as a downpayment btw

[ionic atlas]

getting ripped off with that ram, demand 32gb :p

[tidal geyser]

it doesn ot really do much its just annoying to deal with some few times

[robust trail]

Well I can think of a few ways I we can work together. If you want to lol

[kindred halo]

Those are the options, I don't have much wiggle room

[spark lichen]

i see

[tacit star]

I've never heard this. Tho when I was installing my Windows 11, I formatted everything and deleted all partitions until I was left with only 3 options to choose an OS drive

[spark lichen]

arent you able to see what the drives IDs are when selecting a location to install?

[tidal geyser]

nop

[tacit star]

I've never installed Windows without my other drives

[robust trail]

Yes. I want that LED wall to run Earth2 on at GTC.

https://tenor.com/view/i-need-that-shit-need-that-thing-that-shit-give-it-to-me-insisting-gif-14361111

[ionic atlas]

we are actually starting to offering those screens to gamedevs, instead of projectors.

so will be interesting to see how it develops this year

[tacit star]

Disk 2 is my OS drive

[ionic atlas]

because so far, those screens been very popular for unreal/broadcasting/xr studio but.. they are good now to gaming too

[tacit star]

All reserved partitions are on disk 2 so I don't see a problem here

[robust trail]

lol I don’t want to game on it I want to show a real time simulation of Earth on it

And then game on it after

[tacit star]

I've always had my hardware reserved partition on the OS drive

[tidal geyser]

welp iv watched the ADS 3.2 video

and WOW

not many years until we might see a major amount of cars on the road being self driving maybe

[kindred halo]

Cheapest 32GB ThinkPad I could find on that site is a:

T14 G5 w/ a U7 155U, 32GB, 1TB, and a probably 45% NTSC screen (just says 1200p 400 nits, which has 45% NTSC and 100% sRGB variants)

Price? Nothing, just a cool little 1.4K USD

[solemn pewter]

A question of curiosity for you... Are you a magic mouse and magic trackpad fan? Always wondering when I'm going to meet a legitimate one who knows more about tech beyond the Apple store down the street

[coarse radish]

my keyboard and mouse keep on disconnecting all the damn time

[clear canyon]

Change usb ports

[coarse radish]

nothing else does this idk why its just those two

[tidal geyser]

upgrade the capacitors

[clear canyon]

Upgrade the money

[coarse radish]

i have multiple times its not the ports

[clear canyon]

Then set your pc to high performance

And if you're on wireless ones, change the batterys

[coarse radish]

theyre not wireless and what would setting my pc to high performance do its already overclocked

this isnt a problem ive had forever it started like a month or so ago

[clear canyon]

It would keep your usb ports always on

[coarse radish]

and its so damn annpying cause its not all the time but its often enough that its annoying

[clear canyon]

It has nothing to do with overclocking

[coarse radish]

no no no its not that they turn off and stay off, they go on off on off on off on off in short sequences

[clear canyon]

Then check your connections

[coarse radish]

my usb ports? I literally just told you that swapping does nothing

[clear canyon]

But turn high performance on in the power settings

[coarse radish]

my cables are fine,

[clear canyon]

No, check the connection, see if your mouse and keyboard is loose

See if the ports are dirty

If none of this fixes it, buy a new mouse and keyboard

[coarse radish]

where in the power settings

[clear canyon]

You can just look it up in settings

It should show in the "sleep" options too since its related

[coarse radish]

none of these are about usb ports

and the only one thats on is screen saver turning off 💀

[clear canyon]

Thats not the correct area

Thats just Microsoft bs

[clear canyon]

It wont specifically mention usb

[clear canyon]

That works too

Was trying Microsofts settings way but apparently its still dog shit

[ivory mountain]

chill 😭

[coarse radish]

i am chill sorry

[coarse radish]

how do i get here?

[queen spire]

Is there a way for me to keep HDR on but for my screenshots and videos not to be absolutely slaughtered by the sun?

[tidal geyser]

enable better support for HDR in snipping tool settings

[coarse radish]

this?