tech-chat-1

[sour storm]

stuff like youtube videos and such do not work

or any audio for that matter..

[halcyon fox]

Minecraft on a MacBook pro can be an frames per second game though sheer willpower

[unique aspen]

very gaming

[tidal geyser]

what does fps stand for?

[halcyon fox]

Frames per second

[tidal geyser]

first person shooter

[halcyon fox]

Ok

Oops

[true stirrup]

How do you like the GoT game? I love Game of thrones and tried it on release but it just didn't sit with me

[tired bear]

Bled moment

[true stirrup]

Slovenia mentioned 🔥

[rose stream]

Now do it with performance mods and see if it can land on the moon or shoot into the stars. Lmao.

[tired bear]

no, bled is rigtfully albanian 🇦🇱

[trim schooner]

GPU or display?

[halcyon fox]

Lol real

[true stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/kenjou-cat-500x-soup-slurp-gif-2518396184030093114

[robust trail]

gaming

[tidal geyser]

take a screenshot and send it here

[tired bear]

you already asked, you are going through 5 stages of grief

[trim schooner]

gng im worried

[trim schooner]

it's still in the screenshot

wait lemme shower and send it rq

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-sousou-no-frieren-melancholy-sad-gloomy-gif-9814338658289439561

[trim schooner]

soo

[hallow jasper]

Probably GPU, but troubleshoot and don't guess.

[trim schooner]

GPU or display

[tired bear]

wait no, dont send a shower screenshot

[hallow jasper]

Troubleshoot, don't guess.

[trim schooner]

how can I make sure?

[tidal geyser]

how could it be the display if its on the screenshot

[steel umbra]

could be even the cable

[trim schooner]

what do I troubleshoot I'm like a beginner currently

[true stirrup]

Frieren is such a beautiful anime

[tidal geyser]

.

[trim schooner]

i can switch the DP cables and try

[trim schooner]

I see

[tidal geyser]

we know its either drivers or gpu cant be anything else

[trim schooner]

cuz like the monitor costs more than the GPU 💔

[trim schooner]

Idk how to reinstall my drivers

[tired bear]

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

[tidal geyser]

hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8z39tiEL0

[trim schooner]

Are there other drivers outside of the GPU ones I gotta install?

[hallow jasper]

What happens after DDU? What happens when you reseat the cable on both ends? What happens with a different cable? What happens with another display? What happens with that display using a different input? What happens with various outputs on the GPU? What happens with HDMI vs. DP (or vice versa)

[tidal geyser]

mate its a gpu issue

[hallow jasper]

Do some basics and you have your answer

[tidal geyser]

its in the screenshot so most of that is a waste

[steel umbra]

@tidal geyser wat da meaning of dis 😡

[tidal geyser]

but ok fine its for general people

[hallow jasper]

Educating the helpless

hopeless?

[tidal geyser]

yea it took me a few moments to realize after i sent it

[tidal geyser]

he said its on the screenshot

[trim schooner]

I can try to refund my GPU or trade it off for a 4080s

After troubleshooting

[rose stream]

I also just realized that's an old Intel Mac too.

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/caedrel-msi-2024-grief-stages-of-grief-gif-2398411530029644157

[steel umbra]

no i mean the ❌ it means disrespecc and that make me angery very

[trim schooner]

Also should I use display port or HDMI

[steel umbra]

/nuke 9999 sim

[tired bear]

bro its your gpu

[halcyon fox]

Mhm it's running quite well too which is good

[hallow jasper]

whichever supports your displays resolution, refresh rate and bit depth. Outside of that it doesn't matter.

[halcyon fox]

Isn't there slightly less latency on dp? Idk

[hallow jasper]

No

[wooden adder]

he took my offer which was weird they had it at like 140 so I lowballed lol at 70

[hallow jasper]

Its just a question of bandwidth

[halcyon fox]

The fact that dp has latches is nice though

[rose stream]

Probably doesn't matter which one you use then.

[steel umbra]

record when you receive the package 100%.

[tidal geyser]

they are 2 different protocols so its worth a try

[tired bear]

some like it, some hate its guts

[tidal geyser]

ah well screenshot

it can only be a gpu or driver issue

[halcyon fox]

Also what does it take to get the "regular" role?

[steel umbra]

i don’t like them personally after reconsideration

[tired bear]

be a regular

[tidal geyser]

#welcome message

[hallow jasper]

HDMI is treated as a second class citizen with PC's. Ask any of us that use HDMI displays as our primary but with DP secondary

[steel umbra]

if your something falls the dp will pull other things with it when latched

[tidal geyser]

i have broken like 4 HDMI cables

[fresh cipher]

Is their a specific chat to ask for tech help?

[tidal geyser]

yes

[pure trellis]

Interesting what people think about USBC users

[tidal geyser]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1027757333117415424

[halcyon fox]

Yeah that makes sense. Hdmi having basically nothing to hold it in gets super annoying when trying to be mobile though

[fresh cipher]

Thank you!

[halcyon fox]

Such as filmography

[steel umbra]

i have dps without latches

[tired bear]

what about it, if i could use it for my monitors i would

[halcyon fox]

That seems to defeat the purpose of both worlds

[pure trellis]

Oh

[hallow jasper]

are you sure thats the right word for that lol

[halcyon fox]

No

[hallow jasper]

lol

[halcyon fox]

I'm probably thinking cinematography

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[halcyon fox]

Bruh don't roast me too hard for not knowing everything lol

[steel umbra]

you don’t know everything? /s

[halcyon fox]

🙃

[fickle ivy]

Ooh nice!

[steel umbra]

btw i said it once but i’ll repeat so people don’t fall for it

[ebon marlin]

What is this seller info lmao

[steel umbra]

don’t buy thermal cameras that claim 240x240 ir resolution

[hexed tapir]

A fake account

[steel umbra]

they’re upscaled to 240x240 not actually remotely close to 240x240, usually 96x96 or 64x64

fake 240x240 vs real 256x192

[ebon marlin]

Gay camer

[steel umbra]

explodee die die die

[tired bear]

lol

[hexed tapir]

You can't fool us we know the left photo is a Rorschach test

[steel umbra]

what the hell is Rorschach test

[tired bear]

g13 photo

[steel umbra]

yeah just ignore upscaled resolutions it’s 100% not what you want on a thermal camera

[tired bear]

yea i know, i used to have a real flir

[tidal geyser]

tis why im gonna buy a camera that says its 256x192 as there is HIGH chance its actually real

[hexed tapir]

When you show people random blobs and see what shapes or things they make them out to be

[bronze summit]

in retrospect, idk why I modded my firefox to look like this

[tired bear]

no mod needed, just turn on high contrast mode in windows

[fringe prairie]

reminds me of zen browser

[steel umbra]

they all expect few look like either alive or oofed cheliceratas*

[robust trail]

hey I know that video card

[bronze summit]

We know you have one in your house Mark

[robust trail]

its a good card

[tired bear]

wanna trade it for 512gb of ram?

[robust trail]

I have many rams

I have enough ram to buy a house

[tidal geyser]

the workstation you play around with is nuf for a house

[verbal marten]

So I've forgot my phones pattern lock I'm currently using the face id and fingerprint sensor to unlock my phone how to I reset the password without factory reseting my phone. Samsung S23.

[steel umbra]

like can you even tell what this is

the cam was so bad

[tidal geyser]

i do not think you can

also good luck when you restart your phone

[steel umbra]

the one to guess correctly gets $9999 expect you @tidal geyser you only get $1.50

even though i don’t rember what that pic is

[tidal geyser]

how cheap was it

[ivory mountain]

$9998

[verbal marten]

Thanks

[trim schooner]

hi I'm done with showering

I'm gonna troubleshoot

anyone able to voicechat?

[tidal geyser]

we are done

[trim schooner]

?

[tidal geyser]

90% chance its hardware

[trim schooner]

i could try to switch the cables and whatsoever

[tidal geyser]

if DDU the video that we cannot explain any better than what it shows fails there is no hope

[tidal geyser]

ITS ON THE SCREENSHOT

[trim schooner]

btw HDMI or display port? They both came with the monitor

[trim schooner]

a

[tidal geyser]

all the display cable does is send signals out

when taking a screenshot you take a picture of the display buffer or something on the gpu

[trim schooner]

ss

[tidal geyser]

now play a youtube video and do it

or a game

im hoping this issue is not that idiotic

[trim schooner]

this issue is like

specific for those dark videos with stars idk why

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-with-eyes-narrowed-down-while-looking-down-gif-2607830813386760406

im done i am so done

its the fucking video

its bit crushing or whtever

this is how dark shit is when compressed

[trim schooner]

u sure?

i mean it happens to some videos not just this one

but some not too

[steel umbra]

i don have capacity to know wat is going on but it all sounds stopid idk

[formal sonnet]

That looks like macroblocking in the video file itself. This is an unfortunate side effect of modern video compression.

[ivory mountain]

himmel was the goat

[lethal moth]

cat

[trim schooner]

any way to confirm that?

[tidal geyser]

use a different background 😐

[formal sonnet]

Sure. Playback multiple video files from different sources, including DVDs, Blurays, YouTube, Crunchyroll, Prime video, etc. if only certain ones do it, welp, there's your problem.

[trim schooner]

not a background

its a youtube video

[tidal geyser]

is this your first time on the internet

[trim schooner]

not really no

but it got me worried cuz its not just one video yk

[tidal geyser]

all videos have this but due to how youtube encodes things its way worse

[formal sonnet]

Honestly, character development throughout the entire series is the GOAT. The writers know what they're doing, and they're doing it really well.

[trim schooner]

so my gpu is fine

[tidal geyser]

what a distinguished gentleman

[formal sonnet]

If it's one video, then it's the video...

[ivory mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-crying-frieren-crying-tantrum-gif-2619676989829292397

[tidal geyser]

im tiered

[ivory mountain]

sleep

[tidal geyser]

i want to become a bot again

[trim schooner]

?
its not just one, usually more common with those starry night videos

[formal sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-frieren-beyond-the-journeys-end-beyond-the-journeys-end-sousou-no-frieren-whatever-gif-15299018556960818126

[tidal geyser]

if i click this it will all end and i will get to relax again

[tidal geyser]

wdUJIAFHIGAuywegfhoivhw

[formal sonnet]

The darker the video, the harder it is for modern compression to maintain quality.

[trim schooner]

also my monitor flickers like a really slight bit in brightness

[tidal geyser]

yes cheap monitors do that due to bad PWM circuits

my OLED does it too

[trim schooner]

my monitor costs 850 gng

[tidal geyser]

rip you got ripped off

[trim schooner]

son ts na oled 240hz

[rain ember]

is this worth buying

[trim schooner]

gng im i cooked

[ivory mountain]

1440?

[rain ember]

https://store.arduino.cc/collections/uno/products/uno-q-4gb

[trim schooner]

4k

[ivory mountain]

i was finna say

[tidal geyser]

yes

[formal sonnet]

What's the exact make and model of monitor? Might not be a "cheap monitor" problem per se, but some panel types do indeed flicker more than others during certain scenes.

[rain ember]

what is it " meant " for

[trim schooner]

AW3225QF

also the flickering only happens on grey/dark stuff

[tidal geyser]

its a pretty fun device with both a cpu strong enough to run linux but has the ease of use of a ardunio

[rain ember]

and could it be a good living room general use web browsing and media machine ( external ssd ofc)

[tidal geyser]

yes thats bad pwm circuit made that way

[tidal geyser]

no

[rain ember]

why not

[formal sonnet]

Ripperoni. Known issue, either by design or defect.
https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/alienware-desktops/aw3225qf-fadeflicker-issue-in-dark-scenes-when-using-sdr/66fdb9578087a67c1f6207db

[lethal moth]

gentlewoman

[mint umbra]

I have the same monitor and at times my screen flashes white

idk what reason is

[tidal geyser]

weak

[trim schooner]

fixable

?

[tidal geyser]

we have a person who might even be worth putting in industry affiliates, its just how they are

[rain ember]

it could load yt

[tidal geyser]

yea if you redesign it

[rain ember]

right

[trim schooner]

? wdym redesign

[tidal geyser]

https://youtu.be/bKWIQc1lpE0?t=285

it can do it kinda but it aint having a great time

[rain ember]

oh well seems fine

[cold skiff]

That baby is definitely called Keith

[hexed tapir]

Whom

[tidal geyser]

.

[magic parrot]

What is my life rn youtube crashed my phone and made it go in recovery mode "ios was like yup everythings fine" then stuck in a bootloop and was like ooo we can update your phone to fix it and you will keep your stuff, then it was like jk you have to restore

[tidal geyser]

from my understanding its meant to be more direct people who LMG has worked with

[magic parrot]

i was listening to a youtuber reviewing a car show in detroit LOL as background noise

[odd marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/lions-detroit-lions-detroit-dan-campbell-mcdc-gif-15972807300697271507

[empty quartz]

Chilling in my room working on a mac while blasting mick gordon

[rain ember]

Built-in 1750mAh Li-ion battery

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-cardputer-adv-version-esp32-s3

ill get that instead

[tidal geyser]

that one cant even do linux

[magic trout]

FreeRTOS best os trust

[hexed tapir]

Is it truly free

[hasty prairie]

what would be a solid 1080p 120hz build look like these days?
like a 3070 and like an i5-12600KF or something? DDR4 since I've got some old 16gb sticks lying around

[tidal geyser]

panther lake trust

[hasty prairie]

i mean do we have prices for panther lake yet

also i dont think it supports ddr4

[hexed tapir]

Fork out $320 for 32gb ddr5

[tidal geyser]

panther lake is mobile only

a like 40w mobile cpu doing 1080p 60+ in a lot of titles

its madness

cheapest should be around 1300$ so uh yea mad spensive

tbf 32GB ram and OLED i think that gets you

[stray portal]

yes thats nice

[hasty prairie]

i guess i could go for a b580 or equivilent too

[stray portal]

yess all intel build

soo epic

[hasty prairie]

yeah i just set that up for my brother in law

[tidal geyser]

b580 is about a 3060 ti in performance but got 50% more vram

[rain ember]

wa wa

[hasty prairie]

b580 + i5-14400f

[rain ember]

i dont need linux that bad

[tidal geyser]

xd

[stray portal]

ermm why is my document lagging

i tried to select everything and it crashed

[hexed tapir]

https://www.theverge.com/news/867647/microsoft-windows-11-january-2026-update-bugs-issues

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-gonna-give-you-any-context-keemstar-i-wont-give-you-a-back-story-no-context-required-i-wont-let-you-know-the-details-gif-21882754

[hexed tapir]

Context bad

[tidal geyser]

ESP32 cant run windows coopa trooopa

[hexed tapir]

Just as bad as Microsoft updates

[tidal geyser]

ESP32 can hardly run a display

[hexed tapir]

I should've read the context

[tidal geyser]

xd

cat context.txt

[stray portal]

eh

these issues are exagerated to get views

these issues almost never happen to normal everyday people

[tidal geyser]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1467777966846115912/1467778027789357078/WTH.gif

[stray portal]

who is this

[tidal geyser]

i have seen enough people here and even fkn prusa man switching to linux

[tidal geyser]

guy in here a few days ago

iv seen this happen 3 times and heard of 2 others

[stray portal]

A few bad apples

[tidal geyser]

a few?

[hexed tapir]

The enterprise version has bugs that didn't let you power off or remote into

[tidal geyser]

there is a reason why every semi big tech youtuber is trying out linux

[stray portal]

Altho its kinda true, some months ago my windows would act really weird on browsers and browser based apps

[tidal geyser]

aint that the whole point of IoT LTSC to remote into

[stray portal]

Like part of the app would freeze and tear if i left it there for too long

Like software level, idek how that happens

[stray portal]

yeah that sucks

[hexed tapir]

I feel like it is

[mint umbra]

Man I want a foldable phone but they so expensive

like 3k cad

[tidal geyser]

IoT can have 2 RDP connections at the same time

[hexed tapir]

Why do you want a fragile phone?

[tidal geyser]

plastic screen

[stray portal]

Linux is good, its very good but some things are iffy

[mint umbra]

the fold 7 isnt fragile

saw jerry rig video and the hindges held up

[hexed tapir]

If your finger nail can damage the screen I count it as fragile

[stray portal]

For example gaming, with proton and everything now if u want to game on linux you are forced to use steam

a single platform with no other options isnt great

[tidal geyser]

scratches at level 1

[mint umbra]

I dont really care about scratches

[tidal geyser]

wha??

[mint umbra]

like my current phone has hella scratches

[tidal geyser]

mate heroic you can play GOG and epic games

[stray portal]

what if theres wind and it blows little sand and dust in your screen snd destroys it

[mint umbra]

you clean it out lmao

[tidal geyser]

muh epic games

[hexed tapir]

I basically replace my glass screen protector every year because I hate scratches

[stray portal]

Doesnt that use proton

[tidal geyser]

yes

[mint umbra]

ive never replaced my screen unless its was actually shattered

screens to too expensive to replace over scratches

[hexed tapir]

Imagine being such a bad game launcher you need to bait people in with free games smh

[mint umbra]

oh the screen protector

[tidal geyser]

have you ever had a plastic screen?

[mint umbra]

glass screen protectors make my phone finger scan not work on my phone

so I dont use them

[tidal geyser]

i did not say screen protector

[hexed tapir]

Yes

[mint umbra]

no

[fringe prairie]

that just sounds like a skill issue ngl

[tidal geyser]

think there are also 2 types, the harder kind like on coopas thing vs foldables

[mint umbra]

well I would just use the inner screen for like reading comics and stuff

[fringe prairie]

buy an ipad mini or something

[stray portal]

So then useless

[mint umbra]

cant fit a ipad mini in ur pocket

[stray portal]

in your pocket theres stuff

[hexed tapir]

Buy ar glasses

[stray portal]

It gets into your phone and its over

[tidal geyser]

get bigger pockets

[mint umbra]

what kind of things do you think aI have in my pockets

all I have is keys wallet and phone

[tidal geyser]

foldables are also really funny due to the aspect ratio

[fringe prairie]

except the trifold which actually makes sense

[steel umbra]

you can remove the launcher

[mint umbra]

the trifold looks like crap

[tidal geyser]

xd about to say

[mint umbra]

the trifold failed the bend test

from samsung

and started smoking

[hexed tapir]

I want to play foldy bird

[fringe prairie]

JRE?

[stray portal]

Yeah erm

Keys will ruin it

[fringe prairie]

that dudes a tank. you would probably have to use a decent amount of force to actually break the thing

[tidal geyser]

try not doing that

[steel umbra]

@hexed tapir -EpicPortal
it works for 98% games, no need to run the epic launcher whatsoever

[fringe prairie]

i remember he bent the ipad pro or something. i’ve never seen anybody with a bent ipad pro lol

[tidal geyser]

i know some friends who got angry over not being able to sit on their phones anymore due to them becoming so thin

[mint umbra]

I mean if you sit on by accident phone is dead

[fringe prairie]

i mean if you weigh a shit ton sure

[steel umbra]

steam doesn’t have equivalent of -EpicPortal unless the game is a straight up exe

[tidal geyser]

nono they put it in their back pocket

[tidal geyser]

tf is epic portal

[mint umbra]

would rather just get the regular z fold

[hexed tapir]

Never heard of epic portal

[stray portal]

I wanna switch to linux and theme it like windows 98 but im stuck on windows due to some game support

[steel umbra]

a thing that bypasses the launcher

it’s official method btw

no violations of tos

[stray portal]

Dual booting is bad and theres no point

[mint umbra]

It would just be more convient to read comics off my phone that pulling out my 11" tablet every time

[steel umbra]

no surprise it’s not a known feature

you cannot even complain about the launcher anymore unless they remove -EpicPortal

you can just do that and stick your games to steam

[tidal geyser]

you still need to download the games somehow?

[steel umbra]

is that an issue

[tidal geyser]

well ye

[mortal venture]

Smol

[steel umbra]

why

[rigid sky]

What's up with discord

does it think im young or what

[hexed tapir]

I do to

[rigid sky]

bruh

[mint umbra]

ive downloaded cachyos but still havent installed it lmao

would I need seperate install for like discord and stuff on linux

drive

[tidal geyser]

it does that for everyone

[tidal geyser]

wat

discord has a native linux client

[rigid sky]

i have babyface and im not showing them my id im ooked

[mint umbra]

like can I share the same discord install for both drives

[tidal geyser]

why not just install a 500MB app again?

[mint umbra]

or is it not compatible with windows version

[steel umbra]

@hexed tapir @tidal geyser btw don’t expect it to work with heavy drm games

[hexed tapir]

Same I'm 25 and the lady at the store needed to id check me to buy cold medicine and was surprised when I told her my age

[rigid sky]

i mean i think I'll just do makeup that makes me look my age

[tidal geyser]

just install it again and login again

[mint umbra]

does cachyos have discovery store

[tidal geyser]

yes but use bazzar instead

[limpid ivy]

Lol I have yet to be IDed. I'm close to your age too but they always think I am closer to 28

[rigid sky]

when i was 15 ppl told me that i looked 17

i guess im stuck looking that age

[hexed tapir]

Clearly I have better genes that make me look youthful

[limpid ivy]

damn you coopa

[rigid sky]

dare i cop?

i need some headphones to wear in public

[tidal geyser]

those looks cheap

[fringe prairie]

i used to have those lol

the wire breaks so easily

[tidal geyser]

i think my sister had something like that and it broke

[rigid sky]

they are like the equivalent of just under 12 usd

[fringe prairie]

just get a decent pair of iems

for cheap

[rigid sky]

my earphones my mum got with her iphone 3GS broke recently

and now im stuck without music in public

[rigid sky]

no thanks

my budget is 50 pln

and they have to be wired because my mum was fearmongered into thinking wireless headphones are harmful and i dont wanna argue with her

[rain ember]

thats like £20

[rigid sky]

more like £10

[rain ember]

u aint getting shite

even worse

[rigid sky]

think i can afford anything

[rain ember]

no

[rigid sky]

if i had the time id just fix the ones that broke

[wooden adder]

I went and looked apparently the company is like 8 mins from my house 🤣 that's crazy because they have a decent bit of sales like 50k or so ill go to there business if so

[rigid sky]

i have 1 type c charger at home which i have to share with the whole family and it electrocutes ppl

im using a barely surviving laptop

[mortal venture]

I found another motherboard

[rigid sky]

hell yeah

can this even be considered a laptop atp tho?

[mortal venture]

maybe lap

[rigid sky]

that's what im saying

[rain ember]

keyboard and trackpad all in one

[rigid sky]

it overheats so much too

[mortal venture]

i wonder what's the cpu in this mobo

[vital yacht]

should i get a monitor with g sync or amd free sync?

[steel umbra]

turmoil when -epicportal

[agile pond]

I just had a BIIIG brain fart...

i have a HDD with 1TB of memory

and it had 2 partitions

[glacial cliff]

update in the "everything i owned was damaged by steam and water" saga.

i finished detailing another line item's worth of stuff

[agile pond]

one with 800gb and the other with 180 (beacuse of windows)

[mint umbra]

I read that a good portion of the chinese evs coming to canada are just gunna be teslas made in china...

[agile pond]

and i was like, the one with 800 was getting full so i made the one with 180gb smaller to 50,

[mint umbra]

so out out the 50k allowed in canada most of it will just be tesla lmao

[agile pond]

And as i was making my partition bigger

i did something and deleted all of the files

ALL OF THEM

all game, videos, memories

[fickle ivy]

Why are so many large/expensive telephoto lenses white instead of the usual black? Is it just branding, is it so that the sun doesn't heat them up as much because they have a lot more surface area?

[agile pond]

andi swear, if someone says, (skill issue)

[bold olive]

phenom

get a closer look for the model

[mortal venture]

4 core phenom

x4 9550

maybe I will do am2 build

[bold olive]

put a 1080ti in it and watch the cpu struggle 💀

[mortal venture]

i had a xeon e5430

with rx 6700XT

for fun

[bold olive]

hell yeah

[mortal venture]

tbh it was usable

I also have this

With i3 550

[steel umbra]

@tidal geyser @hexed tapir after trying to launch turmoil with epicportal for some reason language of the launcher changed to bulgarian or whatever despite it saying that’s it’s (system) english when i wanted to change it back lol

restart fixed it but it’s wild

[steel umbra]

be kind and pray

[steel umbra]

they’re not sold by sellers right, by retailer?

also they’re pretty meh even if real

[mortal venture]

now I'm thinking about building something with this parts and sell it

or just keep them

[steel umbra]

i’m considering them being fake because i’m used to buying from marketplace and retail like allegro

and my mom especially received fake sony iems

one fake and one that didn’t even exist under sony so even worse fake

[swift stream]

ngl asus' new ai rgb feature goes crazy

[steel umbra]

@tidal geyser @hexed tapir steam has -silent just like epic has -epicportal mb, steam has it too

[buoyant bridge]

Just got a pixel 9 pro and jfc I just realized how spoiled I was by having a rooted 7 pro

[honest bloom]

Nice

I got a 9a uhhhh 3 days ago

Was a big upgrade from my cracked 6

[buoyant bridge]

there was modules for the 7 pro to increase the charging wattage limit they don't exist for any other pixels and I have a brand new 9 pro, the 1-2 days new pixels won't fast charge for is reminding me how fucking nice having the increased charging limit was

[honest bloom]

Wait what?

[buoyant bridge]

I dropped a rotary hammer on my 7 pro and it broke the cell antennas off

[honest bloom]

You can increase the charging limit?

[buoyant bridge]

The 7 pro/fold could if rooted with Apatch yes

upto 150W on the 7 pro and 130W on the fold

[honest bloom]

What the

[steel umbra]

is it good for the battery though

[honest bloom]

Well now I want a pixel fold to go with my 9a

[buoyant bridge]

it destroys your battery health

[buoyant bridge]

Don't get the og fold they quite literally fall apart

[steel umbra]

btw i’ve had some high charging phones like 90w and their batteries seem to be degrading more than older device, ik correlation doesn’t mean causation buut

[honest bloom]

They're cheap though
450$ for one, new in box

[buoyant bridge]

My 7 pro did 2 years of 150W charging most of the time and it was on 35% battery health among other issues from the heat it causes

[honest bloom]

I'd expect that

My local thrift store

[buoyant bridge]

Like I'm psure my antennas wouldn't have broken if the glue wasn't constantly heating and cooling

[buoyant bridge]

I got my 9 pro new in box at the price a phone store pays

($350 for a 512GB)

[steel umbra]

i’m even caring more for newer devices than i used to like not letting the battery to 0 like i constantly did with my ipads

[honest bloom]

What

[steel umbra]

so i’d expect better battery lifespan

[buoyant bridge]

that's all a phone store pays for them from google

Whatever the previous gen pixel was is a huge profit margin

that's why phone stores stock more of the previous gen than the new gen

[steel umbra]

i want

give now

[buoyant bridge]

I invested in opening a phone store last year and the guy just told me whenever he ordered another set of pixels he would just get an extra one for me and only charge me the price he's paying

could have gotten a 9 pro XL 1TB for $580

[steel umbra]

i’d buy a brand new gen of pixel if tensor skus were better

[buoyant bridge]

I've never seen a pixel feel sluggish

[steel umbra]

like efficiency, and especially performance is lackluster

compared to competition ofc

[buoyant bridge]

I just buy pixels because they're stupidly durable though

[steel umbra]

i have 7a and it’s fine

[buoyant bridge]

my 7 pro got run over, thrown, dropped, tons of stuff dropped on it, and various other things most phones don't go through and it took a 80+ pound rotary hammer yanking it off my holster and then body slamming it into the ground to break the antenna (didn't crack the screen btw)

[steel umbra]

i’d prefer an underpowered snapdragon or mediatek though over tensor if that was somehow possible but i’ll keep dreamimg

[buoyant bridge]

I've genuinely never seen a phone that looks normal but will go through the shit pixels do

[steel umbra]

that’s victus for you

[buoyant bridge]

That's light work for a phone that a contractor owns

[steel umbra]

also pretty sure the rounded edges of the pixel help

[buoyant bridge]

getting run over with a 8700 pound vehicle was probably the worst thing that happened to it

[steel umbra]

nowadays the bricks we have, thicc titanium/aluminum/steel with sharp edges

and if you know about physics sharp edges bad

[winter lantern]

my last phone broke like this

like 3000lbs tho

[rigid fjord]

og nokia's be laughing at it

[buoyant bridge]

unironcially I seen the same truck run over a 3330

the truck won

glass bricks will handle that specific type of damage better because thinner

[steel umbra]

if you have seen that guy forcefully disassemble that nokia he also won

[rigid fjord]

bet you could clip it back together and still dial a number on it

[steel umbra]

but if you used the phone as a hammer and smack it with someone yeah

you would see stars

[buoyant bridge]

This could rather easily do that

[buoyant bridge]

it was literally shattered into a million peices

like all the plastics where shattered

[steel umbra]

he destroyed the nokia with bare hands

[buoyant bridge]

And the battery blew up a few minutes later, well looked like a fire cracker

[steel umbra]

like actually into pieces

[buoyant bridge]

yup

[mint umbra]

What option do I pick

[tidal geyser]

yes

[buoyant bridge]

Realistically a phone without a case probably would fair getting run over better than one with a case because of how physics work

[tidal geyser]

well enter

[buoyant bridge]

case = thicker = tire depresses less

[rigid fjord]

depends on the case

[steel umbra]

the second you have quartz on the concrete ground your glass back will be dead

[mint umbra]

It's not working

[steel umbra]

and quartz is everywhere

[buoyant bridge]

the whole reason glass bricks survive getting run over by larger vehicles is the tires will just depress around the device and not actually put a ton of weight on it

[steel umbra]

yee but quartz

[mint umbra]

I hit enter and nothing happens

[steel umbra]

quartz brings the absolute havoc to glass

[rigid fjord]

which can happen with the older all metal type bolt over cases for certain phones

[steel umbra]

when you drop your phone and you have scratches it’s usually quartz

[rigid fjord]

so does silica tbh

[tidal geyser]

is secureboot off?

[mint umbra]

Uhh idk

[tidal geyser]

that is a no

[mint umbra]

Is that in bios

[tidal geyser]

yes

im going to sleep now

[steel umbra]

if you look around you’ll find quartz beside almost every road in rocks or shards (atleast in slovakia)
lol even the roads are composed of quartz
also quartz crystals are tiny bit harder than silica

and you know when something is tiny bit harder than something

[sharp cave]

anyone know a good way to transfer a 425gb folder over the internet

[steel umbra]

and also stable/not so brittle

it likes to really scratch the other thing that’s even only slightly softer

[buoyant bridge]

This is why I have a camera lens protector now

[steel umbra]

just beware you may have quartz in your pockets

boo boo

[buoyant bridge]

I work with concrete sometimes

I do actually have quartz in my pockets

If you drill a hole in something assume everything in your pocket will be exposed to it

[steel umbra]

rip glass

time for sapphire screens

[stray cedar]

is hwinfo like the craziest stress testever? or did i just break my laptop? I used the hwinfo cpu and gpu stress test, and for the first time my laptop reached 96 degrees in its maximum cooling mode. I dont think this is normal because the max ive pushed it to before is like 84-85 degrees. thoughts?

[mint umbra]

So I can't have secureboot with catchy os

[cerulean dawn]

can anyone help me out? im getting stable 280-380 fps in cs2 and recently ive been getting fps drops to where the game freezes for half a second and the system ms spikes from like 5 to 100

[ivory mountain]

hwinfo isnt even a benchmark

unless it has some brand new benchmark included

[stray cedar]

sorry i meant stress test

[steel umbra]

correct

[steel umbra]

if it loads everything at once it’s expected

under boiling point is fine with a margin of 3 degrees

around 95-97 is imo fine

or significant throttling

[stray cedar]

i see thanks, i did notice that it would freeze everything at once and then kinda recover

[steel umbra]

if it’s like 100 hmmm your laptop may need a repaste

unless it’s poorly cooled laptop

[steel umbra]

if it doesn’t throw errors or bsod it’s expected

[topaz copper]

Secure boot off ?

Did you make the drive with Ventoy?

[cerulean dawn]

anybody wanna help me out?

[mint umbra]

Made drive with Rufus

[cerulean dawn]

i kept having this issue even after updating to w11

[worn basalt]

wanted to ask if I should get the MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX or GIGABYTE B450M GAMING, they're both the same price to me but what could be better in your guys' opinion?

[sinful cobalt]

the one with more usb ports

[mint umbra]

Can I turn secure boot back on after install

Cuz having to turn secure boot on and off would be a pain

[topaz copper]

Yes but it takes some effort there is a guide on WIKI

[mint umbra]

Everytime switch os

[topaz copper]

Same as if you plan to Dual Boot you will want to read guides

https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/secure_boot_setup/

[mint umbra]

Well I'm installing now

[worn basalt]

MSI it is...

[topaz copper]

Process depends on boot loader

[mint umbra]

Was grub

[topaz copper]

ah

Well theres instructions for a few of em

The Wiki should cover it

[mint umbra]

Ok

That will be a tmw angle lmao

Got to work soon

[topaz copper]

Its definitely something you will want to take some care in doing but if you can follow a guide shouldnt be to bad a introduction to Linux

[mint umbra]

I don't see the SSD I installed Linux on in boot menu

[topaz copper]

?

[mint umbra]

Idk I went to bios to change boot priority and only see windows ssd as boot option

[topaz copper]

Well you would need to boot via Grub

Normally its linux First

Then Windows

[mint umbra]

Well when I restarted after install it just booted into windows

[fickle ivy]

Why does my lens go out the same amount at 18mm and 55mm (I don't know much about cameras yet)

[cerulean dawn]

guys when ppl benchmark stuff how do they get so much more fps than i get when i run the same components?

theres like 100 fps difference and their on a higher res

[empty quartz]

2 1/2 years later

2nd image was a bit higher than 1080p

1st image is now, and its 1440p

2nd image is 2048x1152

[mint umbra]

Yeah this Linux dual boot didn't work

Welp I tried

[summer sparrow]

I am wondering if anyone has experience in ordering Chinese or others modded GPUs that have more RAM?

[carmine yew]

You must have something configured wrong if the swing is that big

[carmine yew]

You need a lot of trust

Cuz you ain't getting a warranty

[mint umbra]

Yeah screw this Linux bs tried installing it like 3 Times

Doesn't show up on bootloader

So can't even boot into it after install lmao

[grizzled nova]

whatre you installing

[mint umbra]

Catchyos

[grizzled nova]

how big is your efi partition

[mint umbra]

It's separate drive

[grizzled nova]

so youre installing cachy on a blank new drive

[mint umbra]

Yep

And doesn't show up

Only windows and the boot usb

[grizzled nova]

the installer exits with no problems?

[mint umbra]

Yeah it just tells me to reboot

[sharp ivy]

are your drivers installed?

and check your thermals

[grizzled nova]

im ngl idk
thats strange

[sharp ivy]

Check your boot device's formatting

could be ntfs

in which case it won't work

[grizzled nova]

idk enough about desktop linux yet to be able to troubleshoot well

[sinful cobalt]

steroids

[sharp ivy]

eh

?

[mint umbra]

Had it in default btrfs

[sharp ivy]

ah

[mint umbra]

Well this is a tmw problem

Have work soon

[nimble burrow]

anyone know how to get faster at typing with a handheld keyboard

its similar to getting faster on a blackberry

[obtuse blade]

does anyone here use DisplayPort and multimeters?

[nimble burrow]

whats a multimeter?

[obtuse blade]

it measures electrical properties

[nimble burrow]

you mean the thing electroboom uses?

[obtuse blade]

that might be an oscilloscope

[nimble burrow]

he has 2 things

i think one of a multimeter

[nimble burrow]

and ones an oscilloscope

[nimble burrow]

i think electroboom broke his with his magicwand he made

[frigid topaz]

Chat did I secure a good deal? My buddy has offered me his rx6600 for 60 bucks and my rx 580

[nimble burrow]

if thats american dollars id say thats a 8/10 deal

[frigid topaz]

Euros

[nimble burrow]

if thats hong kong dollars that would be a 10/10 deal

[frigid topaz]

Most rx 6600 around over 150

[nimble burrow]

7/10

[frigid blade]

yo lets go, this guy is legit, $1650 for it I posted earlier today
had a talk with him hes not far, hes willing to drive to meet in the middle

[nimble burrow]

is the 6600 better than the 580? @frigid topaz

[frigid blade]

this is gonna be one of the best deals ive ever gotten on anything computer related
got full benchmarks and everything

[frigid topaz]

Yeah around 60%

[nimble burrow]

what currency?

[frigid blade]

USD

sells for like $2.5k if i part it out on eBay

or maybe a bit more if I sell it complete

[nimble burrow]

not bad. my pc ws 2500 cad after taxes and thats a pretty good deal i think (1833 usd)

[frigid blade]

whats it got?

[nimble burrow]

9700x 9070xt 32 gigs of ram

got it right when ram prices were going up but before they went up

[frigid blade]

prebuilt?

[nimble burrow]

ye

[frigid blade]

seems like a good deal but id have to see the prices, cant rn

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-aluminium-os-timeline-3637655/

[nimble burrow]

best buys currently selling it for 3200 cad lol (2347 usd)

[frigid blade]

thats a lot more

[crisp tartan]

hey guys

ive got a pc that is ryzen 5 3600 and 2060 super

what upgrades would u suggest (i want to stay in the am4 range)

[buoyant bridge]

The pixel overheating issues are vastly overblown

It was hitting 100F which is like nothing for a SOC when it was transferring data (over 200GB in 2 minutes fyi)

It's had time to cool now it's staying at room temp

the non XL pro definitely gets hotter and cools down slower thou

[dusky axle]

has anybody recently made a gmail account and is being asked to scan a qr code and send a text to verify you're legit?

[cerulean dawn]

how?

[cerulean dawn]

and i downloaded 1 nvidia driver that works the best for cs2 but that was some while ago

in nvidia app it says my 3060ti is at 76C

i did just play cs but thats gotta be high no? and i have it on in background

[cyan bay]

hi I found a 5070(base) and 9070xt for the same price is that good or bad?

[obtuse yew]

[buoyant bridge]

that happens when something about your device makes it look like you're mis-using email
they make you do it this way so you HAVE to use a real phone number to create the acc instead of verification service

[obtuse yew]

Depends on if the 5070 is high or if the 9070xt is low

[buoyant bridge]

I've seen it before fyi, company internet does it whenever anyone tries to create a personal Gmail on it

there's no way around it besides changing whatever identifier is making it do that
you MIGHT be able to get around it if you use chrome, Google has ways to fingerprint Firefox users much tighter and once they've decided they want a phone number they're gonna try really hard, chrome also provides more unique identifiers for the specific device

[cosmic stratus]

Im rich!

[buoyant bridge]

4 sticks and you ain't even got enough memory channels for allat

[obtuse yew]

Corsair gave me a dead ram stick a while back and I wish I rma'd it now 💔

[buoyant bridge]

Also if you're on something like Tor or a VPN there's a very very high chance you're gonna be forced to do that, it's being rolled out slowly for everybody to replace the old verify with sms text

if you're worried about giving Google your phone number they already have it somehow anyways and they'll end up associating that Gmail back to you regardless some day, don't use Gmail for privacy

[buoyant bridge]

might sell my reserve stock of DDR3 if AI starts getting on DDR3 too

I have like 24TBs of DDR3 in total just from the 8x16 kits I have 😭

[obtuse yew]

What could you have POSSIBLY needed that much for

[azure topaz]

wanna know whats not epic

[buoyant bridge]

I used to have like 30 servers that ran it?

[buoyant bridge]

I pull parts from old servers company and personal when they're decommissioned

[obtuse yew]

DAMN SON

[azure topaz]

look how unaligned lol

[buoyant bridge]

It's not home lab stuff

[cosmic stratus]

[azure topaz]

servers from work my beloved

[buoyant bridge]

lol yeah

[cosmic stratus]

You see nothing

[obtuse yew]

Real

[buoyant bridge]

company stuff is mixed in with my personal stuff atp because I own the company but also do all the IT rn

[azure topaz]

i hate hard drives so much man

[obtuse yew]

Gonna start a lil motherboard repair project and thanks to the us healthcare system throwing out thousands of optiplexes per week I have a basically infinite amount of boards to destroy for practice

[buoyant bridge]

HDDs r like the only thing I don't keep out of old servers lmfao

[azure topaz]

i keep bigger drives but i just meant cause theyre loud

[buoyant bridge]

Oh I throw out 6TB and lower drives nowadays

fact of the matter is anything I have running anywhere under 20TB at this point doesn't have much life left in it, and it's getting decommissioned because I don't have spare drives for that array and it's got warnings in the remaining drives

the one "functional" 6TB drive isn't even worth keeping since it's gonna end up failing too soon all of the drives from that array where likely out of the same few production batches

[obtuse yew]

Ram prices so bad that cudimms are reasonably priced

[red light]

https://youtu.be/MpRhnFQi0qI reminds of asphalt 8

[buoyant bridge]

this is why companies keep spare parts lmfao

[dusky axle]

i do actually have several so that would expalin it

[buoyant bridge]

any good IT team has spares for just about everything they need to replace cus of stuff like prices going up and no tolerance for down time

[grizzled frost]

any IT team with a good budget*

[obtuse yew]

48gb ddr5 8200mhz cl40 is suddenly justifiable at 774 dollars 😭

[grizzled frost]

mt/s*

[buoyant bridge]

the staff might be good but if they're not being allocated a proper budget they're not functioning as needed and should be expected

[grizzled frost]

Mhm

you can only be as good as your budget allows

[obtuse yew]

I'm aware of that but they are used interchangeably atp

[grizzled frost]

no

[buoyant bridge]

my buddy works on bank stuff and he showed me how much shit banks keep spare and its just

[buoyant bridge]

have you ever seen the ENTIRE production batch of hdds in one place?

[grizzled frost]

imagine they get a faulty batch

[buoyant bridge]

unlikely

if they did they'd notice before any data is stored there primarily and would have RMA'd everything

[grizzled frost]

only reason the risk exists at all is they have drives from primarily one batch

[buoyant bridge]

when you buy new enterprise drives in bulk your order is for every drive and they're from one batch usually so if one drive fails In RMA period you exchange the entire order

[calm estuary]

Your everywhere bro

X3

[buoyant bridge]

Didn't we meet here

[calm estuary]

No

Linux server lol

[buoyant bridge]

o lol

[grizzled frost]

his what?

[calm estuary]

[buoyant bridge]

a few of the IT consulting companies I've contracted out in the past have had some pretty cool people and told me about just how much spare shit they're keeping in stock for their contracted customers

[grizzled frost]

Oh 100%, i do similar for the tech department of the theater i volunteer with

[buoyant bridge]

imagine how much money worth in ram those companies have😭

[grizzled frost]

albeit at a small scale

[buoyant bridge]

some of the larger companies here can essentially replace every component in every server every contracted customer within the day because they have EVERY single part except maybe motherboards or backplanes and mounting brackets

[grizzled frost]

and charge 2x the price in rush fees

[buoyant bridge]

Yuuup

[grizzled frost]

swimming in profits if that ever happens

[buoyant bridge]

well if you have a contracted IT company instead of an inhouse one you've probably got reasons that server needs to be running to justify those costs

[wanton flume]

Are there actually computers out there that can’t run terraria in at least 30 frames 🥲

[grizzled frost]

better yet if they’re on your payroll instead of contracted out

[buoyant bridge]

plenty

[grizzled frost]

there are indeed 20+ year old machines, yeah

[wanton flume]

wow

I’ll be damned

[buoyant bridge]

I've got a few which probably couldn't which are in service rn

[grizzled frost]

what do you think happens to old computers? do you think they instantly vaporize when they become slow by modern standards?

[obtuse yew]

School chromebooks

[wanton flume]

💀 I guess that’s fair

[buoyant bridge]

The automatic pipe bender I have is a Windows 98 computer

[buoyant bridge]

Chromebook hardware is fine schools and companies just load them down with extensions

[grizzled frost]

there’s so pretty damn old machines still holding up critical infrastructure

to the dismay of everyone involved

there’s a small industry just for keeping old machines alive for that express reason

[obtuse yew]

Eh, schools also choose the absolute bottom of the barrel hardware

[buoyant bridge]

this is why random ass old computers are sometimes worth a fuck load of money

[grizzled frost]

mhm

[buoyant bridge]

And? Even the bottom of the barrel hardware nowadays is actually pretty good in a Chromebook, chromeOS is extremely light

[obtuse yew]

Even on ChromeOS a Celeron and 4gb of ram can only do so much

[buoyant bridge]

Chromebooks are actually stupidly good for what their main purpose is, bad IT teams just load them down with a bunch of redundant software

[buoyant bridge]

and? The point of Chromebooks is just get them in the hands of people as their first computer so that they are more inclined to buy Google products

you'd be surprised how many people buy 2 or 3 Chromebooks as their first personal computers because it's what they learned to use at their job or school

[buoyant bridge]

Celeron Chromebooks r a thing of the past, 4GB of ram is being phased out. New Chromebooks are actually pretty solid hardware, an N100 and 8GB of ram with a basic NVMe isn't nothing to write home about but it's also perfectly usable

[raven scroll]

Cooked my laptop so hard it takes a few seconds for anything I type to show up

[buoyant bridge]

Is it booting off a HDD?

[raven scroll]

No

I thought thinkpads are supposed to handle abuse

[buoyant bridge]

Physical abuse yes

being a dumbass with them software wise is like any other computer

[raven scroll]

Maybe a restart will fix all my problems

[buoyant bridge]

why r you even complaining about stuff if you haven't tried restarting 😭

[raven scroll]

Cuz

I had a lot of important shit open

[buoyant bridge]

save it?

you should be saving periodically anyways

[raven scroll]

Eh

[obtuse yew]

The ones my school gives use a mediatek kompanio

[raven scroll]

Some things aren’t worth saving but important enough to not be deleted

[buoyant bridge]

mediatek chips aren't bad either nowadays. The Chromebooks you're getting given at work or school might be as old as a decade though

the software updates thing is from date of mfg not date of design

there's definitely new mfg Chromebooks with decade old hardware floating around

[obtuse yew]

They really aren't but the applications that are basically spyware that my school installs completely weigh them down 💔

[raven scroll]

hey no way restarting somehwat fixed it

[buoyant bridge]

CDI was selling the EDUGear M4 from like 2014 to I think 2023

[raven scroll]

im such a genius

[buoyant bridge]

IT team moment

99% of the extensions they install can be setup to do the job of the 7 or 8 dif ones they end up installing

[obtuse yew]

We got hit with both securly AND goguardian :l

[buoyant bridge]

like Securly and GoGaurdian both do- speak of the devil

[obtuse yew]

😭

[buoyant bridge]

Anyways those 2 extensions can be configured in such a way you only need one or the other

but for whatever reason IT teams LOVE to install both

(it's usually because the teachers are familiar with GoGaurdian since it was made to be easy to migrate to while the IT team has formal training for Securly)

[obtuse yew]

I just bring a latitude 5520 with upgraded ram, works a whole lot better

There are laws against personal devices in my state but not a single teacher gives a shit

[buoyant bridge]

Ohio...

(idk if any other states have enacted actual laws but I do know Ohio did)

[obtuse yew]

Iowa

[buoyant bridge]

then again keep in mind school IT sucks because it's basically the training ground for people new to IT

school IT is literally the IT equivalent to public defenders

these are new freshly educated people with little to no experience

[obtuse yew]

Hmmm

Dyson zone absolute+ for 180 dollars

[fickle ivy]

Just checked the shutter count in my camera I bought used, it was 15000 when I bought it

[terse pelican]

Looking back from my purchases... Holy

[fickle ivy]

Which, given it is from 2016 is relatively low, only had it a month and have already taken 2500

[obtuse yew]

I got 32gb ddr5 for 60 dollars back in September 😭

[terse pelican]

It's $400 now lol

[obtuse yew]

The kit I got is up to 500 💔

[topaz shale]

i got 32gb ddr4 the other day for labor

in this economy? hell yeah

[terse pelican]

I also bought this gaming laptop from a friend who's moving to a different country, at like $550

That was last year

[vocal heart]

Hello friends, getting GPU hot spots of 114 C during benchmarking. Should i be concerned? 4070Ti

[steel umbra]

when they teach you what is north and south bridge but not what the modern equivalent of it is

[buoyant bridge]

LITTERALLY

[steel umbra]

and a notebook that has firewire on it still

like cool old tech and stuff, where is the showcase of a modern laptop netacad?

you should show first the relevant tech and only if you have time look at the outdated tech

[rain cypress]

hi chat

[steel umbra]

i guess they don’t have the resources

but then i look at their market cap and i have my doubts

cisco…

you’re telling me they have nobody interested to update their outdated essential courses

[gritty panther]

hmmf weeb. everything feels so expensive to me when it's in philippine peso lol

read above. Philippine peso

[teal sphinx]

Thermalright Assassin X 120R SE or Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE for Ryzen 5 3600

[gritty panther]

doesnt matter lel.

[terse pelican]

PH Peso which is like 1 : 60

[gritty panther]

get the one that looks best for you

[teal sphinx]

🤔

i'll just get the cheaper assassin ig

[gritty panther]

smort

[teal sphinx]

how stupid are used fan?

[gritty panther]

Arctic and thermalright fans are so cheap

just buy those

[obtuse yew]

New fans are so cheap

[steel umbra]

just beware thermalright doesn’t have the best bearings

[gritty panther]

not surprised. they're so cheap lol

[steel umbra]

a lot of their models have very noisy bearings, noticable at low rpms

[ocean axle]

get yourself some arctic S12038-8K fans

[gritty panther]

thermalrght fans are like $2-3 each omg (when you get the bundles)

[obtuse yew]

Still prolly quieter than mine lmao

[teal sphinx]

🤔

[gritty panther]

I personally enjoy Arctic fans. I got noctua fans too for my AIO and I regret it

should've just gotten arctic fans too. felt like I wasted money

[teal sphinx]

what i mean my whole system was 300$

[ocean axle]

arctic S12038-8K best fans

[teal sphinx]

what are some cheap fans?

[steel umbra]

well, if they’re a12/a14x25s not 100% wasted money imo, but the other noctuas are meh

[teal sphinx]

no rgb, i hate rgb

also the fucking rgb on my ram cannot be turned off without the software

:(((

[sinful cobalt]

behold

[gritty panther]

a12x25's so they're pretty decent but hella expensive 🙁

[ocean axle]

id like to look at what the S12038-8K actually is

[steel umbra]

they have good bearings

[steel umbra]

especially the non chromax version

[gritty panther]

I have the chromax(black version)

[steel umbra]

for some reason the chromax version has weird slimy noise during start ups or when the fans is turning off

[ocean axle]

Static Pressure 37 mmH2O
Airflow 220 cfm | 370 m³/h

[steel umbra]

it’s extremely subtle

but it exists

[gritty panther]

I never heard that tbh

[obtuse yew]

Js chilling with my razer kunai fans

[steel umbra]

put your ear next to the fan and you may notice

i’ve had quite few pcs of chromaxes and non chromaxes

different batches

[ocean axle]

for comparison, an NF-A12x25 is rated at 2.34mmH2O and 60CFM

[steel umbra]

idk why chromax has that, maybe worse qc? idk

[teal sphinx]

also for some reason the same fan on my case have way different minimum fan speed according to the ASUS auto optimize

one 35% minimum, another are 75%

non pwm

[steel umbra]

220cfm ur going to be deaf hehe

the noctuas are nowadays good only in very specific rpms in terms of db/cooling

[ocean axle]

ill be fine

[steel umbra]

their noise profile is all that holds them from being low end

[ocean axle]

durability?

[steel umbra]

it’s neutral, no resonances, no notable bearings issues

[ocean axle]

i trust a noctua to keep spinning after years of 24/7 use, i dont for a lot of other fans

[steel umbra]

it almost sounds like white noise

[ocean axle]

ive had multiples of cheap fans fail, while a noctua in the same environment just keeps going

[teal sphinx]

what if i got Fractal Aspect 12 x 3 used for 7$ in total

or i should just go for new fan

[steel umbra]

i’ve never had an arctic fan fail on me

it still impresses me how can someone fail to make a long lasting fan

like ignoring noise

[swift stream]

be so real

[steel umbra]

how can you make a fan that fails right after warranty, doesn’t even spin

[ocean axle]

ive seen that kind of shit happen

but also, extremely dusty environments can be a problem

[steel umbra]

if your tear down a pwm fan you know, there is nothing advanced about it

[ocean axle]

and the answer is bearings

[gritty panther]

I bought P14 ARGB (3pack) one of the fan made funny noises. I emailed Arctic and they sent me a replacement right away

[ocean axle]

24/7 in a hot environment will cause issues for bearings

[gritty panther]

I put some oil on the "broken" fan. the one I use with my 3D printers. it fixed it 100% lol no more funny noises. yhay free fan

[ocean axle]

ball bearings can handle heat substantially better, so even noctuas fail in that regard

[steel umbra]

rip switching stages

[mint umbra]

Well Linux dual boot didn't work for me ...

[ocean axle]

and thats (part of) why servers (generally) use BB fans

[mint umbra]

Guess I'll be sticking to windows

[ocean axle]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-gif-482679129693869417

[steel umbra]

on average

very important note

[mint umbra]

My PC don't recognize the Linux drive

So can't boot from it

Ggs

[plain cypress]

Respectfully, how much troubleshooting did you do

[ocean axle]

inb4 none

[mint umbra]

Like a couple hours before I had to go to work

[plain cypress]

Did you install Linux after windows was installed

[mint umbra]

Used chat gpt

[mint umbra]

Yeah

[steel umbra]

hell nah

[plain cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/krill-gif-26227395

[ocean axle]

well theres your problem

[steel umbra]

chatgpt can’t do elementary math

[mint umbra]

Well couldn't find other ppl with my problem on Google

[ocean axle]

whats 9 + 10?

[mint umbra]

So chat gpt was only choice I had

[steel umbra]

21

[plain cypress]

@mint umbra should hang out with @daring crystal

[ocean axle]

skill issue

[mint umbra]

How am I supposed to find solution if I didn't find anything on Google

[ocean axle]

get better at googling

[teal sphinx]

what issue did you face

[mint umbra]

My system doesn't recognize the Linux drive after finishing my install

So couldn't boot from it

[crisp tartan]

Guys 3080ti or 4070ti? (Used)

[steel umbra]

lil over a year ago

[teal sphinx]

after you installed it on the drive, it doesn't show up in the boot menu?

how did you install it?

[mint umbra]

With usb and picked grub option for bootloader

[steel umbra]

@mint umbra do you still trust chatgeebeeetee

[plain cypress]

Nuke all the drives first

Then first install Linux

After install windows

[mint umbra]

I'm not nuking my windows

[plain cypress]

EZ

[ocean axle]

look at UEFI HDD BBS properties

[steel umbra]

nuke microsoft hq then

[ocean axle]

hey, there are a lot of innocent people there

use the knife missle to target the C-suite specifically

[mint umbra]

I have a secure boot turned off as well

[steel umbra]

guilty for letting the greed slide

collateral damage

[ocean axle]

if your choice is between having a job, and "making a stance against MSFT's greed", you're taking the job

may need a few, but i still recommend knife missle

[teal sphinx]

oh the same drive or different drive?

[mint umbra]

Different drive

[steel umbra]

i can’t let them escape

[ocean axle]

you do realize what the knife missle is, right?

[mint umbra]

Why couldn't shit just work man