tech-chat-1

[buoyant bridge]

lightning to lightning plug

[steel umbra]

aany psu news

[hexed tapir]

Ai took them

[buoyant bridge]

Whatever apple engineer made it so lightning devices can tell genuine and 3rd party cables apart and made it so most 3rd party cables will fail restores should go to hell

I can't believe I had to go buy a $18 cable to restore this fucking thing

[steel umbra]

it's so power is delivered safely 🤓

but og apple cables still burn on the contacts

[fickle ivy]

I love it when my entire laptop crashes because I tried to close a program

Now to wait the half hour for it to restart and log into windows

[proper gull]

Half an hour? You need to put that thing on the e-waste pile it belongs on

[jaunty apex]

Or don't use windows. Sounds more like an HDD issue though

[fickle ivy]

If I had another PC to use

[proper gull]

My old aspire 3680 didn't even take that long to start

[fickle ivy]

I love my 15 generation old bottom of the barrel cpu and shit HDD

[jaunty apex]

Called it

[fickle ivy]

This things only like 9 years old

8

[bright oyster]

8700k still mashing it

[fickle ivy]

7100u

[bright oyster]

They have to create conspiracies like blocking some minor tpm version in cod because this old cpu works too well

Fkn j's

[frail sequoia]

Right I finally picked the laptop I’m gonna buy when I sell the thinkpad e14 gen 3

[bright oyster]

Oof the odd versions back then

[fickle ivy]

It's got an m.2 slot and I've got an m.2 SSD somewhere but my mom lost it and doesn't know where she put it

[bright oyster]

gens* not versions

[frail sequoia]

The quadro is unknown as of rn but should be good enough and the compaq comes with its docking station too

[fickle ivy]

I at least can run some games on minimum graphics 720p at like 30fps and insane stutters

[frail sequoia]

Current setup

[jaunty apex]

7400u doesn't sound that bad ngl

[frail sequoia]

(Auto clicker on to keep it from turning off since I’ve got steam apps installing in the background)

[frail sequoia]

This an Intel laptop cpu?

[jaunty apex]

Yes

[frail sequoia]

it has intel uhd 620 iirc

[jaunty apex]

I had an n3050 as a daily driver from 2015 to 2019

[frail sequoia]

My thinkpad I’m selling has a ryzen 5 5500u and my e-system 3082 has an intel celeron m 380

[bright oyster]

Where is numpard, pgup, pgdn, home, end, del, ins, scroll lock, print screen, etc ,etc?

The future ate it?

[livid fern]

Currently, no. The ones that i have are classified and i can't talk about these.

[bright oyster]

I hate it when the future eats things

The future is ge

Let me just try to swap my GP... oh wait i have a fkn SoC with biometrics sent to pentagon

It probes me at night to check temperature

😋

Ok I'm getting carried away

[frail sequoia]

It’s a shitty 60% that is no good when I’m on blender but I make it work

It’s shite tho, I need a 100%

[magic pike]

Mining rig 🗣️

[frail sequoia]

How can a pc mine?
Don’t you need to go into coal mines n shit to mine stuff?

[magic pike]

They are

They're deep down in Chilean mines

[frail sequoia]

Do your getting coal for free heating in your house or for grilling stuff?

That’s good

[rigid fjord]

tbf, that ryzen 5 uses a zen2 architecture so it's going to have less performance agaisnt that i5

[rigid fjord]

so a shit rig then

[hexed tapir]

I really need to get amds naming wheel

[rigid fjord]

you do, dude, you really do

[hexed tapir]

I see 7••• and assume oh it's only last gen

[rigid fjord]

but basically if it has 20 in it, it's zen2 architecture, 30 or 35 it's zen 3 architecture, and 40 or 45 it's zen 4 architecture

[rigid fjord]

it's way worse than 5000 series mobile tbh

5300,5500,5700 = zen2 architecture, 5600,5800,5900/5950 = zen 3 architecture

[magic pike]

Lol its just ewaste mining until I get rid of it

[hexed tapir]

Which is dumb because the desktop 4000 was also zen 2 why bring it into 5000 amd

[rigid fjord]

with 7000 series amd mobile it can get even more confusing on 7#35

[magic pike]

What's a zen🗣️

[rigid fjord]

4000 series is zen2 refresh tbh, it's where zen2 went backwards

[magic pike]

I remember when I got less gaming performance from a 2920X than a 4200G

[copper bronze]

Should I rather get a ryzen 7 5800x and a cpu fan ( combined with sapphire pulse 9060 xt16gb) or the 5600x combined with the asus prime version ( it comes out to the same price)

[rigid fjord]

5800x + 9060xt 16gb if it's the same price tbh

[steel umbra]

amd ran out of names for low l3 cache skus so they did 4000 series 🤣

[rigid fjord]

4000 series is as much an embarrasment for amd as 11th gen is for intel, and the gtx1630 for nvidia

[mortal venture]

I'm trying to clean a keyboard

that hasn't been cleaned in 30 years

[ionic atlas]

model m? 😛

[mortal venture]

BenQ 6511-VA

maybe little less than 30 years but still

[bright oyster]

Fire lake is right

[magic pike]

I got a few on clearance I remember

They were really cheap

[vast otter]

Moist

[magic pike]

It was like 60 bux ea

[dull willow]

any one know here i can proper ones for like this,

[magic pike]

Huh

That seems propper

[dull willow]

so it wont go bad after a while, sorry i just have never bought anything from ali express

its not like temu stuff?

[magic pike]

No

[rigid fjord]

if this is about 4000 series, then no 60 isn't a bargain when you could get 3000 series instead for the same price point and was better performance over 4000 series

[magic pike]

No i got GTX 1630's for 60 bux on clearance

I talked to the retailer they sold like 2 in 6 months

[rigid fjord]

should have gotten rx6400/6500xt instead

[magic pike]

I just bought them to sell them on marketplaces

I sold them for 110 ish

[dull willow]

also when im making my enclosure ill use ABS, but also for performance should i add a fan? ill be using a WD SN530 (512gb)

[magic pike]

Probably fine without but won't hurt with a fan

[dull willow]

will it be better? as in performance wise as i might use it as storage for video with iphone 15 pro

[magic pike]

Probably not

[dull willow]

ah i see

[plucky lodge]

RE games, are only games i saw taking all my Vram , i never encourted any game taking all 16gb , any game u know do same? "ofc modded shit like Minecraft doesnt count"

[dull willow]

4k ;)

[magic pike]

Probably limited by the usb anyway, 10Gbps will give you 1.25GBps

[rigid fjord]

shouldn't need anything more than a heatsink at best

[rigid fjord]

run a game in ultimate /maxed out settings at 4k res

[magic pike]

Doom

[rigid fjord]

that'll nuke 16gb vram easily

[magic pike]

Now what about my 48gb 3090

How do I fill it up

[plucky lodge]

even 1080p same shit

dont think its about reso

[magic pike]

More res=more vram

In same task

[rigid fjord]

resolution heavily affects it

4k = 16gb+ vram needed

[ivory mountain]

$1 per week HELL YEAH 🔥

[plucky lodge]

but it only went 1gb down from 4k to 1080p?

[rigid fjord]

1080p/1440p = 8-16gb vram

[rigid fjord]

1920x1200 isn't 1080p

[plucky lodge]

here u go 800x600

still 13gb usage

[magic pike]

It earned me $50 last month and drew 1.7mwh/1700kwh, and that's with 80+ platinum psu's at 65% load

[rigid fjord]

what game?

[plucky lodge]

resident evil 2 , even an old title

[ivory mountain]

50 whole dollars

[plucky lodge]

im pretty all resident evil games same vram demands

[magic pike]

I can go to the bank and buy 50 $1 bills with that

[ivory mountain]

or hear me out

2 $25 bills

fuck the bait didnt work maybe next time.....

[magic pike]

Or 0.5 $100 bills

[mortal venture]

depends

but most of ali stuff is better

[rigid fjord]

temu stuff is ali stuff

[mortal venture]

basically the same

but I prefer AliExpress

[plucky lodge]

ali better offers more products

[plucky lodge]

is it legit tho? 48bg ?

[rigid fjord]

it would involve a vbios and memory mod for it to work

[gaunt spade]

should i get a 20gb 3080

[hexed tapir]

Nah we need 20-24

[gaunt spade]

faaaaaahhhh

[plain cypress]

Hold up
Is the extreme preset actually called unobtanium

[hexed tapir]

Believe so

[plain cypress]

Brilliant

[glossy patio]

Now this is the best Valentine's Day gift ever 🥰 https://x.com/ZergGirrl/status/2022719344166515020?s=20

kathy (@ZergGirrl)

He got me RAM as my Valentine’s Day gift 🌹
I have everything I need to finally build my new computer!

X · Feb 14, 2026, 5:07 PM

[gaunt spade]

you have to put a code or text in steam to get unobtainium settings

[hexed tapir]

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora features a hidden, ultra-demanding PC graphics preset named "Unobtanium," which can be unlocked by adding -unlockmaxsettings to the game's launch arguments. It is designed for future hardware, often requiring high-end GPUs like the RTX 4080/4090 to run properly. - Google ai

[gaunt spade]

theres no unobtanium normally

[gaunt spade]

yep

[hexed tapir]

He didn't even get her good ram its cl 36 not 30

[gaunt spade]

they might be in france its fucked there

[pale flint]

expensive gift

[glossy patio]

But it was worth putting a down payment to make his girl happy 🥰

[pale flint]

hmmmmmmm

ok

[fringe stream]

where would i be able to get a windows 11 key without paying the aggresse price

[buoyant bridge]

I guess bypassing iCloud is possible

[tropic egret]

Do you want to resort to piracy

[buoyant bridge]

I do not recommend what I did here and this wouldn't even work with the A15 and later

[pale flint]

piracy

[buoyant bridge]

yes but we can't tell you where, shoo shoo go away

[warm anvil]

use the normal iso and do a little searching for a terminal script i cant link here

[buoyant bridge]

BAD

you're not allowed to promote piracy grrr

[warm anvil]

i didnt say where

[warm anvil]

not telling them to use it just saying it exists

[buoyant bridge]

I'm doing some advanced ass mossad shit to iPads rn

[plain cypress]

If you can't figure out how to do it without asking discord, you deserve to pay money for windows

[buoyant bridge]

I have 26 iPad pros which are iCloud locked non cellular models and 29 with dead nands

soooo I'm taking the S/N and MAC from the dead nand ones and writing it on the iCloud locked ones after purposefully corrupting the FW

And then restoring them which removes the iCloud lock

this is the ONLY real way to remove a iCloud lock lmfao

[plucky lodge]

thats very demanding game , is this the highest game outthere?

[fringe stream]

i mean idm, i got mine off of some website that i cant remember but i bud of mine needs one

[left trellis]

evga stopped making card before the 50 series was released actually

[pale flint]

search for it

[steel umbra]

40*

they had 40 series prototypes

[plucky lodge]

this game Indiana jhones 20gb vram usage=

[steel umbra]

50 series were pretty dead iirc for evga

[pale flint]

bet you will find servers that will actually tell you how to do it

[plucky lodge]

gotta be higehst one

[plain cypress]

"not a 4090 😉"

[odd marsh]

MFG just eats VRAM

[steel umbra]

you reminded me of the not noctua fans

[odd marsh]

but yes that game ate VRAM, but it looked good as fuck so who cares

[steel umbra]

i have this cooler btw they go for around 10 bucz

it doesn’t have the most dense and high quality finstack but it’s not too far from something like deepcool ak400

[left trellis]

thats still before the 50 series tho

[steel umbra]

the fan is maybe better than the ag400 has

but no pwm control

on the cheapo model, the more expensive are not worth it

[steel umbra]

aqaqaqaqaq

[plain cypress]

i think I could read a book through the gaps in that fin stack

[lapis talon]

Anyone have any recommendations on transporting a pc case on a flight?

[grizzled frost]

pelican

[junior merlin]

You don't have to remind me. I have an assortment of EVGA cards

[hexed tapir]

https://www.harborfreight.com/5800-weatherproof-protective-rolling-carry-on-case-x-large-64819.html

Also uninstall your GPU and have it in a electronics anti static bag

[south arrow]

Also lick it for luck

[buoyant bridge]

Who would win, apple or a twinkpad

[mint umbra]

nintedo just dmcaed like every switch emulator

[south arrow]

It be like that sometimes

[grizzled frost]

In other news, the grass is green, and the sky is blue

[mint umbra]

yeah

[south arrow]

[sinful cobalt]

And he stuffed scissors into an electrical socket

[steel umbra]

I've seen worse

main this is that it has 4 heatpipes

[solemn condor]

what do i do if theres no display fans work and rgb in a pc i just changed something in bios

[steel umbra]

Reset cmos

[solemn condor]

how do i do tjst

[steel umbra]

Pull out the cmos battery by pressing on the latch by for example toothpick

if your cmos battery is not attached by latch but by wires then unplug it

if it's hidden then it's under a vrm heatsink or your gpu

many modern motherboards feature 2 pins that you can bridge so you don't have to pull out the cmos

[solemn condor]

um

what do i do now

[solemn condor]

?

[lapis talon]

No like I'm going to buy just a case and take it back to my home country

I'm scared that the glass will shatter

[sinful cobalt]

put all ur clothes into the case

and surround the case with also more clothes

its simple logistics

[lapis talon]

Bangladesh customs will still manage to break it 😭

[sinful cobalt]

get a bigger box and put the case box in it and also stuff it

[lapis talon]

This is the S2, I need the X2

[lapis talon]

They throw the luggage around

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/trampoline-jumping-fall-pfsf1968-gif-17603498

[sinful cobalt]

i dont see how thats gonna properly penetrate a double layered stuffed box

just keep the case in what they originally came in as thats quite good itself

and put it in a bigger box and stuff it with more foam/clothes

[lapis talon]

I've got to check if they have a bigger box at the shop

It's like $200 USD for this so if it breaks, I'm cooked

[lapis talon]

Do I put the box as checked luggage?

[sinful cobalt]

idk

[pale flint]

they dont let you put butteries in checked luggage anymore

my handbag is gonna weigt more than 6-7kg allowed

[steel umbra]

discord will use persona

persona: you waive your right to join a class action lawsuit

[steel umbra]

oh well discord does as well

[empty quartz]

@steel umbra i have an idea

If i had the money, hear me out; i get one of those asus x299 sage boards, and a bunch of these

6 to be exact (id need one slot for video card)

[steel umbra]

ar ar ar ra

a cpu card

[cold skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/power-carlton-i-can-feel-the-power-gif-13504693

[empty quartz]

You just lost the game

[steel umbra]

noooooo

bro i’m a bandit and you’re a lame acer in R6

you can’t do anything ajajaja

[cold skiff]

What is a lame acer

[empty quartz]

Last time i played, i was a kapkan main

[empty quartz]

I dont remember the offense operators names ngl

[steel umbra]

thorn is now worth 2 kapkans

[cold skiff]

Oh lol. R6 still has op names?

[steel umbra]

the traps trip in 1.3 seconds

[empty quartz]

Glaz

[steel umbra]

ubisoft cannot balance the game in a nutshell

[cold skiff]

I miss that game

[empty quartz]

Thats who i mained

[steel umbra]

i just do montagne

[empty quartz]

No

[steel umbra]

i troll the silvers

[empty quartz]

Its fun

[steel umbra]

they just can’t fight back when i approach them smack them and 1 shot in the hed

[cold skiff]

How old is it now like 10 years? Damn good for a competitive fps tbh

[empty quartz]

11

[steel umbra]

ubisoft’s last line of revenue supply

activision would already shut it down for cod warzone 4

i mean 5

they shutdown warzone 1 when it was more popular than 2

idk how you can be so good at ruining fun

if ubisoft is forcing it’s belief how their games should be played then idk what activion does

[cold skiff]

Yeah that was odd tbh

Just gotta get used to not owning our games

[steel umbra]

you’ll own nothing and be happy!

great first introduction we’re getting

[cold skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/roger-scott-wealthpress-stocks-roger-scott-wealthpress-wealthpress-roger-scott-gif-23073645

They deserve the loss of share price

[steel umbra]

negative share value xd

[cold skiff]

Ubisoft isn’t worth investing in given how low it is

[pale flint]

who tf invests in ubisoft

[cold skiff]

Like 7 games they’ve stopped developing this year already.

They’re dead

It’s only February

They’re hoping AC saves their company this year tbh

[steel umbra]

actually ubishit was profitable unlike something like roblox

roblox has literally nothing that investor should look for

no positive earning ever, low book value, unstable business model

[cold skiff]

Sounds like twitter

[pale flint]

people nowadays will probably buy a game, play it and sell it for cheaper that other people would buy and so on.
thats why companies made it that you dont own anything you buy

sharing is harder these days

[cold skiff]

Well digital downloading is kind of that. Valve really kicked that off. You even used to be able to request hard copies back in the day for free

I should have done that tbh

[pale flint]

welp

[steel umbra]

i mean their loss, it’s one of the reasons why people switch to indie

or alternatives

[cold skiff]

The Ubisoft platform kills their games tbh

[pale flint]

you could have a physical card or a code that allows you to "own" that game

but again

[steel umbra]

i stopped playing cod bc they took warzone 1

[pale flint]

people would use 1 copy to download that game on different compters

[steel umbra]

2 was horrendously bad they removed it in less than like two years

[pale flint]

not as many for them to be in loss

[cold skiff]

I played 2 at a lan party

I never understood the cod crowd back then when you had cs

[steel umbra]

they just maximize profits until it irreversible makes their players to switch

[pale flint]

ye

they dont have to do much when there exists people who invest in counter strike skins

[steel umbra]

you mean gamble

[pale flint]

and they call it "investment"

[steel umbra]

it’s not really an investment if you take it seriously

[pale flint]

people buy skins

and tell you that "it will sell for sams price or higher price"

[steel umbra]

if you buy it for the sake of the skin ye sure it’s investment but if you do it dor money it’s gamble

[pale flint]

gold is better alternative

[steel umbra]

you invest to look cool or be happy

[cold skiff]

I mean you can’t play with gold

[steel umbra]

naw gold is overpriced rn

[pale flint]

or maybe you just do what others say

[steel umbra]

buy like other materials goods

physical

gold’s ratio is way too high rn historically

[pale flint]

silver really picked up

[cold skiff]

Well unless we can harvest flyby meteors or people don’t want gold, it’s gonna keep rising in price

[pale flint]

it went up really quick

if you want to keep money in bank

[steel umbra]

you can’t use gold or expect it to rise without other essential materials

[pale flint]

might as well buy gold.

[steel umbra]

food is cheap rn

[sharp ivy]

invest in sprinkles

[steel umbra]

i would actually worry about fresh water running out

[cold skiff]

Well you can. When our whole financial system is based on the gold stored in the buildings of these nations who are compounded by billions or trillions of debt. It has to rise or the world collapses

[pale flint]

because in next 10 years 10k will not have as much worth as it does today but gold bought worth 10k today will definetly be worth more

[steel umbra]

ye gold mostly goes up but it has it’s big ups and downs

[cold skiff]

There’s a base level to stop the world collapsing. Then there’s value on top of that

[steel umbra]

i wouldn’t buy gold rn as it’s in the big up now and the ratios are just fucked

oil, food, most materials are way cheaper than gold used to be

[pale flint]

its a little fucked yes

[cold skiff]

Food is not cheaper

[pale flint]

but still i'd recommend buying

[steel umbra]

compared to gold it is

[sharp ivy]

maybe it's a "This currency (gold) is NEVER obsolete!" situation

[cold skiff]

Oh yeah however it’s gone up a lot

[pale flint]

it went down so quickly

[cold skiff]

Fresh ingredients in my sector, some gone up 40%

[sharp ivy]

Idunno I'm just spouting nonsense I needa eep

[steel umbra]

your gold is useless if nobody buys it or manufactures from or with it

[cold skiff]

African weather this year is fucked

Morocco hasn’t had rain for 7 years. The deserts now have grass for the first time in over 50 years

[steel umbra]

which will almost never happen but if gold would continue rising manufacturers would switch to alternatives or quit

even plating is not so cheap anymore

[pale flint]

my mom wants gold earrings

[cold skiff]

Morocco has had more rain than the UK has had last year. Crazy North African weather tbh

[steel umbra]

after a long time we already had normal weather in mid europe

[sharp ivy]

Is Pentium 4 a good currency

[pale flint]

yes

[steel umbra]

it has been very dry for last 5 years here

[cold skiff]

It is if you’re trading in 2004

[sharp ivy]

OK👍

My LGA 775 ones aren't worth much I don't think, but my socket 478 ones are

maybe

[steel umbra]

in 2024 iirc the forests here were almost yellow during the summer

like unusually discolored for sure

[sharp ivy]

acutally CRTs might be ideal currency

[steel umbra]

the drought was that bad

[sharp ivy]

they've gone up to like $400-$300

CAD

[steel umbra]

ibm keyboards

[sharp ivy]

ooh yes

[pale flint]

[sharp ivy]

I give this photo and now sleep

[steel umbra]

something like grain and cotton have been stagnant in prices for quite some years

[balmy tapir]

the pricing is so bad now

[cold skiff]

Grain has gone up in Europe as Russia fucked Ukrainian supply

I thought US grain would have too

Like there’s not a lot Europeans can import from Ukraine due to safety levels. However those not in the EU that do take their food stuff, that ‘special mission’ fucked them right over

[steel umbra]

worldwide grain is really cheap on avg though

like the grain is almost worthless to farm

all cost goes to processing it into flour

[cold skiff]

Just like dairy in the UK

[steel umbra]

like at some point farms will close and then there’ll be shortage of grain and yk

+100%

price

[steel umbra]

i’ve watched like uk grain farm and he not only had no profit but actually lost money

[edgy igloo]

why cant u add elgo 2k drive in games i like

in discord

[cold skiff]

US grain is a stupidly large market globally

[cold skiff]

Lots of stuff in the UK does. Many supermarkets prop up our farms aswell as the government ie. Taxpayers

In fresh produce now supermarkets and middleman suppliers like I work for are investing heavily in creating 24/7 supply to reduce this

We have a farm in the UK that exports 60% of its produce to Europe because of the cost of LED lighting

[steel umbra]

clarify that sounds hilarious

[steel umbra]

yeah the uk rn is sad place to farm grain rn especially as an individual farm owner

[cold skiff]

The lights from Thanet Earth are that bright they can be seen going like 5 miles out to sea. To the point I can see them from my house, it extends past the other end of my island. And my island is almost 3 miles long

It’s almost like light from it bends round

The strawberries we grow right now in my company are around £18 a kilo. It retails at £12 a kilo. No profit in it.

[strange atlas]

is this 16 pro max camera fake or what?

[cold skiff]

Probably

The bottom right looks like a sticker

But it’s a bad photo

[steel umbra]

are the lenses off color?

usually when they’re blue or purple tinted it’s a sign

[steel umbra]

or maybe it’s nicked

[thorn escarp]

plenty of emojis and fonts displayed on my phone dont show up on my windows 10 ltsc thingie

is there something i can do about it

[formal sonnet]

Yes, update your OS. (Support for newer Unicode Emoji versions requires a newer OS.)
https://blog.emojipedia.org/tag/microsoft-emoji-updates/

[hidden nymph]

my fastfetch fr

i do find it funny the codename for the OS even on US models is ColorOS

[viscid helm]

Youtube is failing me

[sinful cobalt]

why have an AI girlfriend when you can locally host a AI waifu

small price to pay

[steel umbra]

as long the sponsors pay youtube will let advertisements with scams and p### slide

i mean cmon, pay 1k and get 1k after a month every week? who approved that adv or do they not even check

i’m not sure how ads look rn but i suspect the issues haven’t been addressed

[pulsar root]

android phones are so dogshit now. i feel like the only worthwhile offerings are from oppo and oneplus. its incredible how lackluster samsung and google have been lately

[steel umbra]

i think oneplus did something dodgy recently as well

[pulsar root]

whats that

[steel umbra]

all android phones got dogshittier

you can hardly bootload your phones now

android has essentially transformed into ios

[thorn escarp]

LOL

[steel umbra]

you can’t bootload, you can’t disable ads on some androids (without tampering with prompts), you can’t sideload soon without google’s approval

aosp is not the same as it used to be

i’m not sure how much it is genuine security concern and compliance and how much it is just greed and bs

[pulsar root]

i believe theres still to be a way around sideloading

its been a while since i read about it

[steel umbra]

so there is on ios if you try hard enough

[pulsar root]

im very much ATP where like, if you are using a smartphone, you have no privacy. simple as. i would go down the rabbit hole of bearing the lackluster pixel phones in big 2026 just for graphene, but it seems like far more inconvenience for... what?

[steel umbra]

you don’t have to use graphene os

a lot of the patched custom roms are secure

[pulsar root]

im not saying i have to, im saying whats the point for privacy concerns vs just... not using a smartphone lol

android prob has NSA backdoors at kernel level 🤷‍♂️

[fathom hinge]

waht are we talking about

[steel umbra]

the thing is they began limiting how much you can customize android to a point where you need approval from google to download anything outside google, and install different os on your device

that’s what’s the most frustrating part

[brave brook]

there is a difference between sideload and sideload tho. What is being blocked is "download APK from internet with unknown signature". What is not being blocked is "enable developer tools, enable USB or wireless debugging, run apk install -r filename.apk from command line on PC

[steel umbra]

and also the baked in ads you can’t even toggle off anymore on something like hyperos

[pulsar root]

thank you, thats it

[steel umbra]

in the default cam app

[brave brook]

in other words, they are partially blocking the easy path which scammers were abusing, and they are leaving the relevant path.

[pulsar root]

yea if i cant easily install diff os, sideload anything, im going to ios. fbi surprisingly doesnt have backdoors in ios

[steel umbra]

they do

they all can hack both ios and android and struggle with graphene

[pulsar root]

depends

[steel umbra]

but grapehene gets the benefit of not being used much

so it’s not a target really

[pulsar root]

ive seen plenty of cases where the fbi cannot get access to iphones they physically have lol

to the point where they beg apple for it, and apple 🤷‍♂️

[steel umbra]

if it continues at this rate they’ll disable even that

[brave brook]

they can't disable that, that would break the developer system. plus that is not a viable attack path for most scammers

download & install with few scary prompts is doable. Asking for connecting to PC and go through around 6 steps plus downloading stuff on desktop, not really

[pulsar root]

for about 10 years now, i have a list of criteria that kept me with android that iphones didnt have. headphone jack, microsd card, usb-c charging, sideloading

im down to just sideloading, thats all i use android for. without it, im gone lol

[steel umbra]

you wouldn’t believe if i said 5 years ago that android is not going to allow you to use apks without google’s approval, everything is possible.

[pulsar root]

5 years ago was 2021, so yea i would lol

10 years ago? i wouldnt have

[steel umbra]

they could excuse it as so people don’t steal phone or something

i mean look how hard they make it to bootload your phone

you need an account and wait for few days or week only for it to get rejected or you to miss it in like one hour window frame

[brave brook]

that is actually down to manufacturers choice

[steel umbra]

all major ones are locking it

or heavy restricting it

like you cannot bootload at all on some phones

[brave brook]

again, it's up to the manufacturers. Pixels you literally just run two fastboot commands on command line

this is something you have to find out before you buy a phone, it's not something which google could force on others

[steel umbra]

my issue is the combination of google’s pressure and manufacturer greed

[brave brook]

and it is mostly a legal issue that they don't allow it

[steel umbra]

you create a piece of software for your phone and you cannot even run it on your phone without going through google

[brave brook]

again, you still can

[steel umbra]

until they patch those bypasses

they clearly don’t want you to do that

before it gave you like 5-10 second timer on most phones

now you don’t

[brave brook]

it's not a "hole". It is an intended mechanism for how software development works

[steel umbra]

you can’t download your own software from your website and run it unless it ran through google…

or someone else’s

[brave brook]

again, you can. You need to do it through Android developer tools and ADB, you can't do it on phone alone

[steel umbra]

exactly

wasn’t the flashing warning that it may give you malware enough?

[brave brook]

no, it wasn't. People were being scammed left and right in 3rd world countries

[steel umbra]

it just happens to be all the options have to go through google

[pulsar root]

honestly, whats that got to do with me tho

[brave brook]

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

[brave brook]

it happens everywhere tho, just more prevalent in those countries. Unfortunately common software like a phone OS needs to deal with stupid people too.

[steel umbra]

you can get scammed irl too…

if that warning doesn’t help you then idk

[valid fiber]

i hate this so much

[brave brook]

sure. But Google won't get in possible legal trouble if they scam you IRL. Meanawhile if they steal your money through remoting to your phone etc, Google might be in legal trouble.

[tawny sentinel]

I've bought a ROG Strix B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi II since my B550 Taichi was giving way too many problems.

The Audio driver from the official website is taking forever to install

[pulsar root]

when setting up do you want stupid mode>

[tawny sentinel]

Is there any issue related to it? It's been over 5 mins stuck for a barely 50mb driver

[steel umbra]

google won’t get in trouble as you downloaded the apk or software yourself

and they gave you a warning

[brave brook]

and everyone clicks no. Dude, these people put presure on the target and make them nervous etc. It's complicated

[steel umbra]

if they actually cared then there wouldn’t be so many scam ads on google and especially youtube

[pulsar root]

in your scenario, are these people setting up their phones with the scammer on the phone?

[brave brook]

youtube ads are compicated. Most of those come from as throwaway accounts which last only few hours. I literally had reports go "we can't do anything as the advertiser doesn't exist anymore"

[pulsar root]

or are you saying that instinctively people will always not enable stupid mode

[brave brook]

yup. they tell them to disable those protectionf eatures, download Rustdesk, give them the code, do stuff etc.

[steel umbra]

no they’re just greedy and don’t hire people to properly filter ads instead they rely on algorithms

[brave brook]

or if you mean "enable stupdi mode", everyone thinks they are experts

[pulsar root]

thats gods will atp brother

[steel umbra]

again if they cared they would solve the issues that are the most risky first

but the way they do things all points out to corporate greed

[pulsar root]

we shouldnt be catering entire operating system usability to grandmas and morons who cant understand not to trust the foreign man on the phone

thats a problem for the people in their lives

[steel umbra]

i’m pretty sure our generations will be more resistant to these types of scams

you will hear it at least few times in school

[pulsar root]

education is the best form of anti-scam lol

[brave brook]

'80-'10 yes. Post '10, nope, even more susceptible

[steel umbra]

kids aren’t that stupid even with the brain rot stuff

they just do brain rot instead of tv

the older gen always like to call the new gens stupid

the new gen may be not prepared for the next gen scam though

[brave brook]

all the tiktok challenge victims say otherwise. Plus there was a news few days ago "Gen-Z has become the first generation ever to score lower than the generation before it" on IQ tests

[pulsar root]

new gen doesnt understand how the tech works, can barely operate it, but i think still has the critical thinking skills and knowledge not to trust random ass ppl lol

[brave brook]

those born between 1997 and the early 2010s, shows noticeable cognitive decline compared to the previous generation. This is particularly true when it comes to attention span, memory, reading skills, numeracy, problem-solving and overall IQ.

[pulsar root]

IQ tests are a brain damaged form of intelligence measurement anyway

[steel umbra]

yet they still can hack into nasa

[tranquil wharf]

who is "they" in this case

[steel umbra]

there was a teen that hacked into nasa and bunch of other companies

there r videos about it on youtube

[tranquil wharf]

what do the abilities of one single person have to do with anything

[pulsar root]

theres always been "new generation is STUPIDER than the old generation" articles lol

will always b, just people wanting to entrench a sense of superiority

hard to take em seriously

same old generations brain that are genuinely melting from lead poisoning

[steel umbra]

well that was just example, i agree that education in the west is sort of stagnating but i don’t think it’s devolving yet

we are just getting outperformed by the smarter

in the east like china

[pulsar root]

thats systematic and arguably intentional

dumb people vote conservative, so red states pull funding for education. less education = less you question

[steel umbra]

also nowadays the less life capable people tend to do well as well unlike in the past

that could be correlated to the increase of the cognitive and skillo issues

[tranquil wharf]

depends on which country

and how far past you are comparing against

[steel umbra]

if you wasn’t capable of working few decades ago and you had no proper family support you’d be pretty ded

[tranquil wharf]

in some countries, the median income household can afford much less today than they could 50 years ago

[brave brook]

Right being red is so confusing for an European

[pulsar root]

LOL but the term conservative is universal!

[steel umbra]

i think the generalizations of red and blue are stupid

i prefer my own scale

less corrupt and more corrupt

and brainbonked and less brainbonked

[pulsar root]

if you are still applying that to the political parties red and blue represent in the us, you'd still be incorrect

and thats not even trying to be centrist LMFAO

[tranquil wharf]

for an european, there being "2 sides" is already confusing because we're used to having many parties with various different stances on different topics

[steel umbra]

no i just apply them to who i see literally steal

[hollow jungle]

Got a new Tandem OLED monitor

[pulsar root]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-the-professional-norman-stansfield-every-one-every-thing-ryuko-gif-25654661

[tranquil wharf]

isn't the whole point of tandem oled more brightness. I don't think photos are useful in showing other people how bright a display is

[steel umbra]

like idc what the progressives do in my country

they just steal less and that’s all i want

like cmon how can you steal from a fucking hospital and build apartments that were meant for the retired for your own people

they built them extra luxorious ofc

[pulsar root]

ill happily steal from a hospital

[brave brook]

Anyway, need to research those usb4 nvme boxes and see, if any of them go full speed with TB3

[pulsar root]

hospitals in the US are majority for profit lol

i believe every hospital should be government run

[steel umbra]

man they broke their own laws “buy cheapest model of” they bought the most expensive mri machines from unknown company

they claimed repairs in hospitals that never happened

instead they pocketed

[humble scroll]

the camera upgrade from my 15 pro max was crazy genuinely

[steel umbra]

and overpriced military equipment

[pulsar root]

i once tried to contest a hospital bill and they told me "you chose the most expensive hospital in the state, what did you expect"

https://tenor.com/vTEe4VnLGjN.gif

[tranquil wharf]

didn't you know? when you're unconcious in an ambulance, you are supposed to telepathically communicate that you don't want them to take you to an expensive hospital even if it's the nearest. smh

[steel umbra]

they are literally applying laws as we are speaking that make known mafians to get released sooner from prison

[valid fiber]

feature like microsd slot and battery capacity are far more valueable to me than a higher camera resolution in a phone

[steel umbra]

and they are pursuing those who recorded doing the wrongdoings instead of the people that did the wrongdoings

[steel umbra]

i have that video of a guy running out of ambulance with a broken leg after finding out how much it’ll cost baked in my memory 🤣

[valid fiber]

sounds like you live in the us

[pulsar root]

what made you guess? 😔 🔫

[steel umbra]

how so

[pulsar root]

im surprised people upgrade phones every 2-3 years. im on year 4 of my s22 and its ok. battery life is ass, i gotta charge it by hour 6 of my day lol. also overheats, has burn in. but it still makes calls...

[humble scroll]

Just overall, the noise is so much lower, the selfie camera is probably the biggest change, 48mp on the telephoto is great to have

[formal sonnet]

I generally upgrade phones every 4-7 years. 🤷 Had my Note 3 for 5 years, and my OnePlus 5T for 7 years.

[pulsar root]

48mp telephoto is nuts

[valid fiber]

battery life is ok for me and i doubt it will ever be a problem

33000mAh

[pulsar root]

yea thats extremely healthy. ive only been super dissatisfied with my s22 cause its genuinely a flawed phone. if i had a grand to upgrade, id do it rn but

[steel umbra]

i aim for 3 years w budget phones as the battery does tend to get bad

[pulsar root]

android market is also just dogshit rn lol

[brave brook]

I upgrade when OS updates stop. Which is why I like the new EU reg mandating 5 years minimum

[pulsar root]

security u mean

[pulsar root]

i dare you to fly to the US and let TSA take a peek at that

[tranquil wharf]

I've been pretty satisfied with my S22, but need to switch because I want to use grapheneos

[pulsar root]

exonsys?

[tranquil wharf]

european model so yea probably

[pulsar root]

or whatever the EU processor is

exynos!

[valid fiber]

to be honest why would i want to go to the us right now?

[pulsar root]

thats why your s22 is fine. not as powerful as snapdragon gen 1, but it also doesnt OVERHEAT

[pulsar root]

you showed it yourself, free molestations

[red light]

perfect keyboard lol

[brave brook]

Starting June 20, 2025, the EU mandates that smartphone manufacturers provide at least 5 years of operating system and security updates, along with 7 years of spare parts availability for new devices.

[steel umbra]

i’ll upgrade once silicon batteries get fully developed

[pulsar root]

thats crazy, iirc here in the US its just security updates

[steel umbra]

lol spare parts

[valid fiber]

it's above the 100Wh limit that airlines usually allow.
btw when was the last time you used an airplane?

[steel umbra]

i wonder how manufacturers will react to that

[pulsar root]

2011

[steel umbra]

7 years of spare parts

[pulsar root]

actually no, 2012. 2011 was celebrating 10 years

[steel umbra]

i hate manufacturers hopped on that thin as possible phone trend created by apple

[pulsar root]

i actually disagree

[steel umbra]

rounded is much better also for battery capacity not just comfort

[tranquil wharf]

I like thin phones but it's pointless if the camera part is twice as thick

[steel umbra]

rounded phones used to be flushed

[pulsar root]

this is the only time in smartphone history where processors have been efficient enough to not be handicapped by tiny batteries

[tranquil wharf]

wdym rounded

[pulsar root]

i am only talkign about the iphone air and the subsequent A series prcoessors

[steel umbra]

i’d prefer a mainstream rounded phone with 20000mah battery over 5000-7500mah sharp brick

[steel umbra]

look at first ifons

[serene python]

fly to the US?

[valid fiber]

welcome to my world

[serene python]

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

[brave brook]

Also those years count from end of sales of that model (based on when manufacturer delivers the last units, not end of retail sales), so add 1 year at least for every phone

[steel umbra]

i’ve held iphones and they’re incredibly uncomfy asf for me

unless in case

the cases tend to be also somewhat sharp 😨

[mint umbra]

going to usa for vacation next summer idk wonder if tsa is as bad as they say

[gaunt spade]

bomb x3

https://tenor.com/view/sigeon-pex-sigeon-pex-pigeon-meme-gif-13840440301749321997

[valid fiber]

and the one that took the picture

[gaunt spade]

4x

why 4

like mfg 4x?

[steel umbra]

tbh there is just something uncanny about slopes going up and breaking physics, it’s stuff you find in vivid dreams

[gaunt spade]

pigon

[valid fiber]

the first one because i needed a new phone. then 2 because they were just extremly cheap on ebay and the last one has a projector and the biggest phone battery in the world so how could i say no?

[gaunt spade]

projector is valid

how much was it

[valid fiber]

500€ on ebay

510 with shipping

[gaunt spade]

holy

thats alot of mone

[valid fiber]

and a lot of phone by weight

[gaunt spade]

how long does it last with the projector on

[valid fiber]

i mostly use it as flashlight

[tired bear]

that is one expensive flashlight

[valid fiber]

if tech is boring it's already a failure

phones used to innovate and evolve a lot but these days only a few brands do really try new stuff

the most innovation i see with apple and samsung is the price

[gaunt spade]

apple and samsung havent innovated in years

[valid fiber]

stuff like night vison or thermal camera's are far more interesting

[tired bear]

having termal camera on a phone is very usefull

i had it for a while

[valid fiber]

yup it sounds really usefull to me too

i was thinking about getting a usb-c version but they are likely all already enshittyfied and only work with special apps that turn into a subscription service after some time

it's not 2010 anymore where you buy stuff and it works

[sinful cobalt]

what do you want phones to innovate now

rn the most optimal phone is literally combining features from different brands

we all know thats not happening

[tranquil wharf]

people who want change for the sake of change are silly

[brave brook]

"new stuff evolves quickly, when it gets normal it has nowhere to improve" - that is a normal lifecycle of literally any technology ever

[sinful cobalt]

arguably the current iphone pro is like the overall best bcs it actually got a cooler now

“but-but-but redmagic and asus already have cooling!” yeah gaming phones arent popular in the overall picture and are hella overkill

[brave brook]

TVs gone from small black & white boxes to big color boxes, and then to flat boxes... and then going to full HD was "ok", 3D was ignored, 4k was "meh", 8k isso irrelevant they actually stoped making 8k TVs

home Computers gone from 8-bit barely functioning things to 16-bit and 32-bit computers, and then after-2010's we has gone into slow progress cycle, as with every tech

there is not much to innovate on a phone anymore

[valid fiber]

i see it as business people who are not willing to take risks because they don't think it's nessasary and people will buy their stuff anyway

[gaunt spade]

and samsung and apple arent doing that

[gaunt spade]

didnt asus stop making them

[brave brook]

ok, what would be an 'innovation' you would expect in phone. The big battery phone failed spectacularly. Projector etc features weren't really bought into either

[gaunt spade]

like this gen

[sinful cobalt]

all the companies have their own egos and patents preventing each other from doing so

[brave brook]

big battery boy being this guy

[gaunt spade]

slab

[valid fiber]

i have 4 phones with bigger batteries than this one

[gaunt spade]

than

[brave brook]

officially builtin bigger than 18000mAh batteries ?

[valid fiber]

4th was doing the picture

so yeah 2*21000 1*22000 1*33000 mAh

[gaunt spade]

iphone has 10 times less

[sinful cobalt]

you cant tell me this guy isnt also a amd glazer

“if AMD is so great why hasnt everybody bought AMD”

amd slander by amd jesus himself

the only thing nvidia users are left wondering “when” is reflex 2

[valid fiber]

expandable storage, more modular parts that can be exchanged, thermal camera there are many things that could make phones better but they often go angainst the anti consumer practises that these companies use to make people pay extra.

[brave brook]

expandable storage: doable via USB, not ideal, but oh well.
modular parts: didn't that thing fail to materialize despite google's money?
thermal camera: doable via USB again, plus god knows how big a patent minefield it is too.

[valid fiber]

multiple usb-c ports is also pretty high on my wishlist

don't tell me there is nothing to improve with phones anymore

[sinful cobalt]

what is there to improve with phones that you’ll actually use

[valid fiber]

so you are just going to ignore the things i just listed

[ivory mountain]

while I like AMD more than nvidia I think that it's unforgiveable that a card they released less than 3 years before the 9070xt, was $1000, and was 1 gen behind, doesnt get FSR 4

[sinful cobalt]

those arent things you’ll actually use except for expandable storage

[ivory mountain]

nothing I love my 16 pro max the battery is amazing

[sinful cobalt]

how many people are actually gonna want “modular parts” and use the thermal camera?

[ivory mountain]

every company needs to just focus on battery life, no idea why we keep putting high end chips inside of mobile devices for 0 reason instead of prioritizing battery on a device that we use daily

[valid fiber]

i would use a thermal camera! and i would 100% use multiple usb-c ports if they were available.
with just 2 ports i could already connect my headphones while charging my phone.
and i 100% want the external/swapable batteries back that phones already had in the past

[sinful cobalt]

objectively the 19 pro/pro max are the best phones for the average consumer

[sinful cobalt]

ur not thinking like a designer nor the average consumer

thermal cameras you’d be getting more dedicated stuff to do those tasks

[valid fiber]

i'm sure the blackberry CEO made the same arguments in some meetings

[sinful cobalt]

multiple USBC can be justified but all the companies would be stuffing “wireless charging” and waterproof shenanigans up ur butthole

[valid fiber]

usb-c can be waterproof. thats a long solved problem

[sinful cobalt]

dont get me wrong Im all down for these but ur not thinking with the right mindset

[sinful cobalt]

as long as theres holes to enter nothing is truly waterproof

[valid fiber]

anyway I'm spending my money on phones that do innovative things and not on apples "hey look our phones now come in a new never seen before shade of blue"

[valid fiber]

yeah but holes are not nessasary at all. rubber can seal the gaps and the electrical connections are solif copper or similar metals.
even speakers have waterproof membranes

[sinful cobalt]

apple’s not the type to go all in on something not proven

why’re we only just saying apple

different companies cater to different needs or wants

[valid fiber]

apple is just pretending to be luxury and is gaslighting customers about their hardware by changing bettry metrics from mAh to runtime where they can stretch the truth to whatever they want

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/zhuang-fangyi-zhuang-fangyi-dragon-dragon-girl-gif-17711825278584358889

[viscid helm]

Did you know this about Spotify?

[valid fiber]

looks like a cool easter egg.
but I've never used spotify

[formal sonnet]

Yas. I was there when they rolled out THX1138.

[keen folio]

Rip to the guy that bid 251€ for packaging.

[gaunt spade]

☠️

bought thia case for 8$ what should i put inside

https://giphy.com/gifs/C51woXfgJdug

[viscid helm]

Clothes

[gaunt spade]

i think 2 shirts can fit

[bright oyster]

Guys nobody answered my question earlier

I snapped the plastic keying on mobo PWM fan header w flathead

Is it worth trying to epoxy it back on?

Or break the rest off?

OCD problem

[proper gull]

Just ignore it

[bright oyster]

🙁

[proper gull]

You will only damage it further trying to do either of those things

[bright oyster]

Yeah the risk factor is pretty bad

No guarantee the others will break off as perfectly straight as this one

Might chip into the actual connector or worse break off actual soldering

[gaunt spade]

should i put a 4070 in this

[hasty valley]

I'm back

I know there was much anticipation.

[valid fiber]

oh god thats thats really happening right now
i found it

[steel umbra]

bananas

[gaunt spade]

banana for scale

[steel umbra]

why do people sell gpu boxes and why people bid for them

[valid fiber]

they sell them so that people don't read carefully what they are bidding for and give them money

[indigo temple]

should i get smaller case? im currently using coolermaster master 5 pro and i have matx mobo?

[steel umbra]

btw if anyone remembers those amongus nuggets and people bidding thousands for them

[gaunt spade]

sus

[frail sequoia]

I’ve decided on what laptop I’m gonna buy after selling the thinkpad

[steel umbra]

it says verpackung in the title

[frail sequoia]

Either a hp compaq 8510w with its docking station, or a Sony vaio pcg-81212m

[summer quartz]

ive bought empty boxes in the past to make stuff complete.

[gaunt spade]

not for 200$ tho

[summer quartz]

ive paid 50 for a box once.

[valid fiber]

currently 251€ +8€ shipping

[summer quartz]

that box was 20 years old.

and reselling without box would make the price go down by 300

[valid fiber]

as long as you are aware what you are bidding for it's all fine
these guys are clearly not

[steel umbra]

what is it

[summer quartz]

yeah i agree frozen

scammers go down the sink

[steel umbra]

it saysss verpackung ;-; why no read

[summer quartz]

German hard

[valid fiber]

when you search for RTX 5070 TI and are not expecting this you might be one of the 10% people who miss it at that time
especially if the price is already beyong what it should be for a box

confirmation bias

[summer quartz]

if a deal is too good it usually is

200 for a 5070ti should ring bells

scammers shouldnt scam but people also need to use their brains

[hasty valley]

Answer my question!

All of you are avoiding the topic!

[steel umbra]

if the listing explicitly says just packaging it’s then the buyer’s fault

it’s in the title

[true stirrup]

I don't see a question

[hasty valley]

Bruh! Don't play games with me!

[steel umbra]

fake don’t trol md20m

[true stirrup]

Sry sry 😔

[steel umbra]

nuuu i made you sad

[summer quartz]

I think they wanna know the steps to make fettucine alfredo

[steel umbra]

@hasty valley die die die for making md20m sad

[hasty valley]

Lies

You have said one comment, and told 11 lies

[summer quartz]

this is your last question

[hasty valley]

Speculative

[steel umbra]

Speculation confirmed

caught 32k ultramegauhd

[summer quartz]

So, why hasnt anyone answered your question?

Does no one here know hwo to make fettucine alfredo? 😭

[hasty valley]

This is all propaganda. I have been framed.

[steel umbra]

you pour coffee into stale water

[summer quartz]

this is the worst insult ever used towards me as a person.

[hasty valley]

Hot Cheetos or Hot Doritos

[eternal cloak]

I don't know anybody who does tbf kek

[summer quartz]

neither

[hasty valley]

Fail

What chip then?

Theres only one answer.

[summer quartz]

i never had either, those are pretty darn american flavors

[hasty valley]

Ok what's your favorite crisps then?

[true stirrup]

Pringles

[hasty valley]

Petition to ban MD20M

[summer quartz]

chio kettle chips sweet paprika

[true stirrup]

Petition to force feed Trol some Pringles

[hasty valley]

Wtf is that

I need to ban everyone.

[hasty valley]

WHATTTT!!!!!

[steel umbra]

it’s wiser to ban yourself, it takes less time

[summer quartz]

worse than death wth

pringles are garbage

[hasty valley]

They hate me, cause they ain't me.

FACTS

BIG FACTS

[steel umbra]

yeah you love pringles

[hasty valley]

Wtf

The chat has turned against me.

Over comments about potato chips.

[stray portal]

City boy

[hasty valley]

I stand on my potato chip business.

[summer quartz]

cheetos arent potato chips

neither are doritos for that matter

[steel umbra]

false

[hasty valley]

Banned Bunny

[steel umbra]

no proof

[summer quartz]

could be worse. Pringles are barely potato. Its just dried up potato flakes with starch pressed with 2 drops of water.

[thorny saddle]

ok

[summer quartz]

corn-cheese pufff snack

[steel umbra]

this is gemini it has go be fake -63999%

[summer quartz]

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

in the opening. CORN-CHEESE PUFF.

[steel umbra]

potato chips

[summer quartz]

you know what, you go enjoy your pringles.

[hasty valley]

Ban Bunny for using logic.

[thorny saddle]

Ya'll see this Canadian curling cheat shit?

[hasty valley]

No room for that here.

[keen folio]

yep. hahaha

[steel umbra]

those are made from muffins

[keen folio]

poor guy buying 251€ packaging material haha

[summer quartz]

omg just like me

[thorny saddle]

This is kind of hilarious. Canada was caught cheating in Olympics curling... and rather than just be like yeah ok we broke the rule, oops... they're going back with "actually filming us that close at the start line is against the rules" LOL

[hasty valley]

Ban all tech

[summer quartz]

sounds like typical canadian rule thinking. Remember that the geneva convention mainly exists to nerf canadians.

[thorny saddle]

https://x.com/memechaotic/status/2022879791523991868?s=20

chaotic memes (@memechaotic)

Someone's definitely getting fired 🤣

X · Feb 15, 2026, 3:45 AM

[shadow zealot]

yall this good or what?

[thorny saddle]

irrelevant

[shadow zealot]

huh??

[thorny saddle]

its an irrelevant measurement

[summer quartz]

ugh i wanna build a new pc but this market is so dumb

[opaque silo]

agree

[thorny saddle]

if your device is 16GB, then 17TB of writes is horrible

[opaque silo]

ddr5 ram feels like an investment

[thorny saddle]

if your device is 8TB then 17TB of writes is nothing

[summer quartz]

i wonder if the market realizes that this funny joke is making people buy less electronics

[thorny saddle]

the market doesn't care

[shadow zealot]

16GB WHAT?

caps sorry

[summer quartz]

thats a statement with no further basis

[opaque silo]

we call it “ai”

[summer quartz]

ah the thing thats crashing right now

[summer quartz]

there is more in a system than just ram

[opaque silo]

threadrippers and 5090s right?

its js that they need TBs of ram

[opaque silo]

not yet

[thorny saddle]

I had a meeting with a vendor last week. They told a story of how they would sell memory to this big trading company. Millions of dollars a year in memory for expanding servers as needed. They ended up telling the customer they can no longer sell memory directly but can sell it inside their servers. So, customer bought $8M worth of servers just to receive them, remove the memory, and put it in their existing servers.

[opaque silo]

google search ai is being used because its being force fed to us

[summer quartz]

yo thats wack. But again, there is more than just ram in a system.

[thorny saddle]

so what

[summer quartz]

oh sorry my bad.

[opaque silo]

ram max size is still in GBs right?
ai companies need TBs of memory

[thorny saddle]

ok?

[opaque silo]

bro fr doesn’t care

[thorny saddle]

TBs of RAM

[opaque silo]

yeah that makes sense

[thorny saddle]

talking about memory in GBs is small thinking

my homelab has a TBs of RAM

[summer quartz]

most homelabs do not

[opaque silo]

so ur saying openai uses PBs of ram?

[thorny saddle]

Easily

[gleaming rose]

mine has like 64gb but it is DDR4

so it's at least not worthless

[opaque silo]

PBs of ddr5
no wonder ram prices are high lmfao

[thorny saddle]

This is a small server for me

[gleaming rose]

jfc

[summer quartz]

my homelab total has like 128GB ram total

[summer quartz]

I dont run into a homelab often with that amount of ram.

[thorny saddle]

one of many environments

the market doesn't care about desktop PCs lol

[summer quartz]

there is more than just desktop pc's lol

[thorny saddle]

Things to the tune of 16-128GB are nothing

[summer quartz]

okay if its nothing, why is it so expensive right now

[thorny saddle]

Its expensive because datacenters are sucking it up in the PBs

[summer quartz]

just print some more

printer goes brrrrrrr. 16-128GB is nothing anyway.

[tranquil wharf]

we just need OpenAI to go belly up and then samsung&hynix will suddenly need to sell ram again

[thorny saddle]

No manufacturer wants to build more production lines so that in 3-5 years when this fad is over they are stuck with surplus manufacturing

[tranquil wharf]

it being a bubble is ironically making the bubble worse

[summer quartz]

wasnt asus building production lines

[opaque silo]

false

[tranquil wharf]

for ddr? heavily doubt it

[bold olive]

tf are you running

[thorny saddle]

computers

[gaunt spade]

ah yes computa saience

[shadow zealot]

well prepared for gta 6

must be the wind

[gaunt spade]

☠️

[sleek ibex]

Falling in Love with Stockings

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-you-what-what-did-you-do-spongebob-meme-spongebob-squarepants-gif-19389913

[gleaming rose]

I'm prepared for GTA 6 I'm watching those piracy sites

[shadow zealot]

epic games be wilding

[shadow zealot]

can u dm me those websites so i can avoid them

[gleaming rose]

no

ion feel like it rn

[shadow zealot]

it was a joke bro

[gleaming rose]

mhm sure

[pale flint]

no

[shadow zealot]

too tuff

tf is epic games about

[steel umbra]

3 least controversial figures

[sleek ibex]

Orange Man, Vovka, and Rocket Man

[bold olive]

that plural

[shadow zealot]

i bet there are epstien island previews in that game

[thorny saddle]

are you ok

[nova solstice]

What are these for? I assumed you could mount the graphics card there but wouldn't that completely suffocate it?

[strange atlas]

No but they look weird

[lapis talon]

Can someone help me figure out if this case will fit inside my suitcase or not, 28" suitcase size (157cm total)

[rigid fjord]

well it gives you the height, width and depth

[brave brook]

yes and yes. Yes, it is for PCIe cards, and yes, it will suffocate the cards. These were the early designs of vertical PCIe slots

[steel umbra]

it goes under multiple aliases

[lapis talon]

Can't really measure that right now at my hotel

[steel umbra]

suffocation slot, expensive slot,

impractical slot

[rigid fjord]

vertical mounting, for your case it's only worth it if you're doing a custom loop

[rigid fjord]

custom loop only slot

[gleaming rose]

i want to buy and use an amber crt monitor

[rigid fjord]

the only time a vertical slot is worth it, is if it was done like hyte or lian li have done it

[rigid fjord]

that's going to be costly, though i do know a green crt cga is highly possible

[gleaming rose]

it would just be a dumb terminal

i could also get a color crt and just simulate the amber in software, wouldn't be the same but

[rigid fjord]

tbf, that's quite likely what an amber one is being done as to begin with

[gleaming rose]

nah you can buy dumb amber terminals

[pale flint]

17 eupees for ts is crazy

[rigid fjord]

rupees**

[pale flint]

thanks

and its 50%off

[plucky lodge]

eupees sounds better kek

[steel umbra]

eu pees

[rigid fjord]

at least it's not rubles

they're worth less than a rupee

[lapis talon]

Can I take the glass separately? If I wrap it around with clothes and place cardboard between the glass pieces in my suitcase, and ship the main case in its original box as checked luggage, will that be fine?

Someone tell me asap

Will buy the case tomorrow if the plan is solid. Flight is on the day after tmrw

[rigid fjord]

you could do, i'd wrap it in some bubble wrap also

[untold pulsar]

any idea what could be taking up so much space in disk c I have checked but nothing pops up

[rigid fjord]

shame about the nzxt cooler

[plucky anvil]

the vertical mount is screwed into some extra motherboard standoffs so it sticks out farther

[rigid fjord]

left over files from updates

[untold pulsar]

It was like 40 gbs free like 3 days ago

and no update has been performed since then

[plucky anvil]

why shame

[untold pulsar]

but anyway how do I delete those.

[rigid fjord]

you really need to check your temp files, and do cleanouts of both

[untold pulsar]

I have done disk cleanup

[copper bronze]

Is 200 eur difference reasonable between the 9060 xt and the 9070 xt

[rigid fjord]

pretty looking while overpaying for for an aio with an lcd in, and high failure rates

[plucky anvil]

that’s good, maybe i can get a new one soon

it’s too big

i just like nzxt’s like ui

i like how i have it displayed simply like that

i feel like other brands try to make them look gamery or wtv and it looks dumb

[rigid fjord]

thermalright would be what you'd want to look at instead

[plucky anvil]

alr

[rigid fjord]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6Rkqqs/ for example

[plucky anvil]

are there cases that have the pcie slots lower

like idk how to describe it

like i wanna vertical mount still but i need the gpu to be lower

i have the tiltable mount and i’d like to use it but the aio is to fat

[rigid fjord]

go for a full atx case then

[plucky anvil]

is that not what i have

so like the lian li o11 and not the compact

[rigid fjord]

tbh looks like a mid-atx case rather than a full atx

also looks like you're using an matx and not atx mobo

[plucky anvil]

it’s a atx mobo

[rigid fjord]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/b8MXsY/ another thermalright aio that's a fraction of nzxt cost while having better performance

[plucky anvil]

i like how nzxt is like minimalist

[livid prawn]

Sensor bar for my Wii fell off the TV while watching, thought this was funny

[rigid fjord]

it's really not, the thermalright grand vision is way more minimalist

[plucky anvil]

if i got rid of the bottom fans i could move the gpu down

and be able to tilt it

[rigid fjord]

removing this and moving the mobo up would be better

[plucky anvil]

it doesn’t move up

[rigid fjord]

also if the fans on the bottom are normal fans and not reverse flow fans, that would be what you change

[plucky anvil]

the lian li vision compact just has a big empty space there

so most people put a screen

[plucky anvil]

bottom and side r intake and back is exhaust

[rigid fjord]

are then normal fans?

[plucky anvil]

and the sides r push pull so the aio is behind those fans with another 3 fans behind the aio