tech-chat-1

[tidal geyser]

i already told you

[plucky anvil]

idk they are intake tho

[rigid fjord]

normal vs reverse

if they're normal fans, aka regular blade, then they're all doing exhaust

[plucky anvil]

wtv way makes them intake without flipping them around

so prolly reverse

[rigid fjord]

reverse blade that would mean

[raw whale]

anybody know why GPU TWEAK III automatically overclocks GPU

it goes into OC mode without me even touching it

[thorn hill]

Hey guys, can you please rate my setup and give me improvements i can make?

[copper bronze]

What’s a goood budget aio for my 7 5800x?

[kindred halo]

Thermalright Aqua Elite

[rigid fjord]

https://vxtwitter.com/forloopcodes/status/2022898828828119085?s=46&t=DgPvBl-j_khAkN5Ljw6QPw another note in how to fuckup with microsoft

forloop (reze arc) (@forloopcodes)

microsoft just released a security patch that deletes your internet!!!

the dhcp client service is functionally dead because they forgot how dll exports work. the os literally telling you it has lost the will to live

the only way to save your pc from kb5077181 is to delete the catroot2 folder (unless you trust the 'pause updates' button)

kb5077181 is the most stable release yet, provided you never actually want to log in to your account again

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 15, 2026, 5:00 AM

[rigid fjord]

you don't need an aio for it, it's not an i9 12900k/13900k/14900k

[rigid fjord]

#1019713714968088586

[lapis talon]

Checked a couple shops and they said they don't have any bubble wrap 🥀🥀

[lapis furnace]

🔒 Message Hidden
-# Discord now requires ID verification in order to see certain messages.

[lapis talon]

Oh wow

"discord now requires ID verification to view certain messages"

[jaunty apex]

Windows users installing a local account

[jaunty apex]

I feel like I'm missing on so much

[lapis talon]

I refuse to give discord my ID lmao

[jaunty apex]

My life will never be the same now that markdown exists

[lapis talon]

First Roblox, now discord

[rigid fjord]

roblox only does it so they can allow predators

[lapis talon]

Discord only does it so that they can make more money 🥀🥀

[jaunty apex]

Was Roblox or VRChat first

[mortal mantle]

is this a copy trick

[lapis talon]

Vrchat requires ID too?

[rigid fjord]

<@&750150305383186585> sus message

[lapis talon]

All of this right after I get my first headset 🥀

[lapis talon]

Rauko

[jaunty apex]

You gotta pay for VRChat plus for the privelage to do it too

[lapis talon]

Exactly how should I pack the glass side panels in my suitecase

And which part/area of the suitcase should I keep them in

[lapis talon]

Whew

I'm too lazy to interact with people so chances of playing vrchat were low enough already

[mortal mantle]

also how do some regions still not have age verification

[lapis talon]

I don't have the social energy to talk to that many people

[lapis talon]

I'm surprised my region already got the verification requirement

[jaunty apex]

Resonite is safe, I don't really expect it to change since it's not a publicly traded company. Just a yellow dog mans

[lapis talon]

OH WAITTT

I'm in Thailand right now

Makes way more sense

[mortal mantle]

why does it make more sense

[shadow zealot]

11/10 nothing needed

[rigid fjord]

if wrapped in cloth, put it between clothes

[lapis talon]

At the middle of the suitcase?

And how many layers of clothes on each side

[rigid fjord]

yeah, the more padding the better

[thorn hill]

Thankyou man, appreciate you. But there’s always room for improvement

[lapis talon]

What is that tiny monitor

[rigid fjord]

a tablet

[lapis talon]

Bangladesh is one of the last countries to get updates

[lapis talon]

Oh wow

[lapis talon]

Forgot to reply

[thorn hill]

ipad pro 4th gen it came out in 2022 if you want the exact model

[lapis talon]

Won't more padding cause more pressure

[lapis talon]

Ooo noice

I had a second gen iPad air but motherboard died a few years ago

[buoyant bridge]

<\3 my apple pencil doesn't have pressure sensitivity

[lapis talon]

Haven't found a replacement motherboard yet

[thorn hill]

Thank you

[thorn hill]

oh really that sucks

[lapis talon]

Had a quick question, doesn't your neck hurt looking up when using the main monitor

[buoyant bridge]

I just got 2 iPad pros for free lol

The one on the charger I had to do a real iCloud bypass on since there's no jailbreak software ones for it

Which sucks because it's the 2nd Gen the one that works is a first gen cellular

[thorn hill]

are they the 2018 model ones

[buoyant bridge]

2017 and 2015

2018 has no home button

[thorn hill]

ahh right ok that’s still fire you got them for free tho

[jaunty apex]

Wtf

[buoyant bridge]

Aside from needing to be jail broken to download most apps the 2015 is VERY usable ool

[thorn hill]

yeah that’s my fault i forgot about that

[jaunty apex]

You're expected to swipe gesture iPads?

[buoyant bridge]

wdym wtf Idevice's almost all dropped the home button in 2017

[buoyant bridge]

I do even on ones with a physical home button

It's MUCH easier apples swipe gestures are great even one handed on a 13" tablet

[jaunty apex]

Weird.

[rigid fjord]

depends on how much padding there is

[jaunty apex]

I know the gestures are easier on a phone but on an iPad just seems too big

[buoyant bridge]

why you only need to do like a half inch long swipe for it to pick up

[jaunty apex]

Fair I suppose

[buoyant bridge]

They don't have to go to specific points on the pro max iPhones and iPads

Just a specific distance

[jaunty apex]

Gotcha

[buoyant bridge]

The only exception is notification center afaik

[jaunty apex]

And yea I haven't used an iPhone since SE 2016. I feel old knowing iPhone X is EOL now

[buoyant bridge]

This device is EOL for years now and it's fine tbh

you just need troller so it'll let you download apps properly now

[jaunty apex]

Used to want one solely because it was the most powerful checkm8 exploitable device

[buoyant bridge]

checkra1n can go up to like the 14

[jaunty apex]

.. Was

Apparently

[buoyant bridge]

I just jailbroke a iOS 17 device with it too so

Rootless jailbreak too unlike checkm8 which is rootful

[jaunty apex]

Didn't realize they were even developing checkra1n, their website still says ios 12 lmao. 2023 was their last github release

oh checkm8 is apparently new

[buoyant bridge]

bouta jailbreak this iOS 16 tablet with it

palera1n

[shadow shale]

I need help choosing a pc case

[jaunty apex]

That's right. Used that on my SE when I updated it to ios 15

Stayed on 13.3 for the longest time. IOS 16 or 17 was out by the time I did. Tbf I also switched to a pixel 4 in that time

[buoyant bridge]

Common AMD L

[shadow zealot]

i mean yea but i havent upgraded mine in like 6 or something years

[thorn hill]

Yeah, if it works for you and what you need it for thats all you need.

[shadow zealot]

i5 6200u and 940mx

only thing expensive is the ram 32gb ddr4 2133

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/morning-coffee-dog-upset-tired-miserable-pancakes-breakfast-morning-coffee-dog-breakfast-gif-10404960598384380057

[shadow zealot]

?

[supple lynx]

is this a good deal

[south arrow]

Not bad, not great

Purchasable if in the market

[shadow zealot]

did yall see the corsair ram scam problem?

[south arrow]

Also my cat said "meooooow... brrrraaaaanh"

[shadow zealot]

they changed the packaging

[south arrow]

Thought id share xD

[shadow zealot]

its transparent now

[south arrow]

Are they not to spec or smth? Can't say ive seen it

[rigid fjord]

some kits being sold at 1k+

[shadow zealot]

flex was not required bro

[quartz goblet]

It was a big john machine joke bruh

[south arrow]

Brutalsss

[tidal geyser]

yea i am

[shadow zealot]

can someone tell me why my speaker makes this noise when i wiggle the charger in my laptop

[nova barn]

Is it odd I keep jumping from wanting to switch to Linux or not since I do game too

[shadow zealot]

if u have good specs the not reqiured

if ur using old hardware then yeah sure

[nova barn]

It a 5600x and 5070 with 32 gig of ram it some of things window do

[shadow zealot]

then i would say its not needed to switch

but if u want all the performance out of it then u could switch

[native flame]

I just got a new screen : 2560 x 1440 pixels - 0.4 ms (MPRT) - 16/9 - Panel IPS - 100 Hz - DisplayPort/HDMI

W?

[shadow zealot]

yes

why 100hz

[sharp ivy]

why not

better than 60hz

My gaming monitor is 100hz

[shadow zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-bro-what-are-you-talking-about-bruh-wolf-of-wall-street-nose-pinch-gif-2883543456073544458

[native flame]

4th monitor so no need for more

[native flame]

oof

[shadow zealot]

4th whatthehelly

[native flame]

lmao

[shadow zealot]

i only use 2

[shadow zealot]

idek if u can call it a monitor its a old lenovo tab with a app to make it as my second screen

[native flame]

still better than nothing

[shadow zealot]

holy shit🔥🔥

[shadow zealot]

30hz

i have to pay for 60 or more

on that app

[tidal ice]

Current price of my laptop upgrade from last year daaamn

[shadow zealot]

thats why i only use it for spotify and yt

[native flame]

https://tenor.com/view/man-collapsing-tokyojns-drunk-man-gif-22361094

costed me 3K all included

[tidal ice]

I paid 1120 back then when prices were normal

[pine sandal]

Hi, my PC randomly doesn't boot. RGB devices are on (through the RGB controller), BOOT and CPU red lights on the mobo are on and, if it matters the motherboard RGB won't turn off even when shutting down the PC. Only when I completely turn off the PC using the PSU. Any help would be appreciated!

[shadow zealot]

WHOA my whole setup costs 40 table is 39

[native flame]

#1027757333117415424

[shadow zealot]

maybe the 12pin to the mobo

ig or a fried cpu

[shadow zealot]

what cpu are u using?

[pine sandal]

Yeah sorry I will make a post if It would be long here

[pine sandal]

Amd ryzen 7 7800x3d
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ChGrdb

[pine sandal]

Should I try re plugging it?

[shadow zealot]

yeah usually it fixes it

[pine sandal]

Didn't help

[nova barn]

There other reasons to switch then just performance

[rigid fjord]

you know you're worth more than that dude

[shadow zealot]

hmm

[tidal geyser]

probs could sell my sticks for more but cash now means i have cash now to use

[shadow zealot]

if i owned a pc i would have known u could try the tech support channel many others would know

[pine sandal]

Alr thanks for trying to help🙏

[steel umbra]

buying ram is overall not a good deal in this market

the one you have is acceptable currently

you may have buyer’s remorse in 2 years

[pine sandal]

#1472654358029144094

[rigid fjord]

i know that feeling, especially knowing that i can sell my ddr4's for ddr5 pricing

paid £63 for one kit and £70 for the other kit, and because crucial stopped producing ballistix's, they instantly doubled in value, and now due to ram pricing, they've tripled in value at a minimum

[alpine inlet]

anyone know know why my mouse cursor keeps randomly freezing? ive already unplugged and replugged it and updated drivers.

[rigid fjord]

a background process using more resources is possible to cause this

[alpine inlet]

i use crosshair x... but never had this problem until this week, ive been using it for like 2-3 years

yeah i just shut it down and now it isnt happening. thanks but is there a way I can fix it so where I can use crosshair x and play games or?

[smoky ravine]

hi guys, I bought a used ROG Strix RTX3060 Ti and the cooler and all its not in good condition, I would like to see if anyone knows where I could get a replacement. I plan to strip eveyrthing down to the motherboard and replacement the entire cooler and casing together. If anyone knows where I could get it would be nice haha

[empty quartz]

Ebay

[rigid fjord]

yup, quite literally ebay

[rigid fjord]

you need to look at what's running on your system

[empty quartz]

@rigid fjord fun fact, my headphones need a 2.5w amp to actually be driven properly

[raven spoke]

Powerful Chromebook

[shadow shale]

I just wanna know what Nothing is thinking 😭💀

[fringe prairie]

https://tenor.com/view/he-made-a-statement-gif-1710106434060897082

[rose stream]

https://tenor.com/view/confusion-visible-confusion-surprise-weird-gif-24393623

[shadow shale]

And it's available in blue pink black and white 😭

[median pilot]

yo how do i update my network driver on my motherboard

i didn’t know i could do that

[south arrow]

Using the exact motherboard website under drivers and tools hit show all then send a screenshot of the wifi driver options

Or ethernet if wanting to update that one*

[tidal geyser]

what the hell going on in here

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/goat-baby-cute-peek-a-boo-gif-13000154

[shadow shale]

https://tenor.com/view/i-don't-know-idk-idk-about-that-gif-7336250873949261946

[south arrow]

Ninja catttt 🥷

[tidal geyser]

still amazed im now a mod for one of the bigger distros on the steam survey

[south arrow]

His plans have been foileddd

[true stirrup]

Waiting for you to turn your head so she can strike

[buoyant bridge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1471250000276361347/1472659810909552641/PXL_20260215_182402279.jpg?ex=699360d3&is=69920f53&hm=5f1341c8bcb6d296edba1fdad2cb75e088b7cda9de18d624708e28544218d084&=&format=webp&width=971&height=1290

i think its halarious how unknown that this DOES work lol

(fake recipet)

[jaunty apex]

Doxxed

[buoyant bridge]

you can just email apple and theyll unlock it

[buoyant bridge]

thats bestbuy's address

[tidal geyser]

this too?

[sleek ibex]

How is that iPad Pro, Ms. Phillips?

[south arrow]

XD

Silly geese

[buoyant bridge]

oh no my legal name I use EVERYWHERE

😭

[tidal geyser]

some people do not want it everywhere

just ask anyone crying about the whole discord id thing

[buoyant bridge]

I really dont care if someone genuinely tries to dox me lol

[tidal geyser]

o well, worth it to at least say just in case

[buoyant bridge]

fair

[shadow shale]

Lmao

[buoyant bridge]

pretty sure I've leaked more about myself accidentally here

[rigid fjord]

oof, and my speakers are being driven by 3w amps as it is

[mint umbra]

well Im back on windows for now since my game was bugging out on deadlock for linux the other day

[true stirrup]

Deadlock works great on Linux for me

[mint umbra]

well I would tab out and would cause it to go to a smaller window and when I tab back in it wouldnt change back to full window size

[ivory acorn]

Does anyone use Google Home? I've recently tried setting it up but it doesn't seem to see a lot of the devices on my network.

[pine sandal]

#1472654358029144094 Any help?

[wintry coyote]

This server has everything except the one thing I need… a big boy

[gilded breach]

what in tarnation

[rigid fjord]

that's only saved for a BFG

[wintry coyote]

and why is that?

[hollow sorrel]

I so want to get a galaxy z flip 7. I know the folding mechanism is totally pointless and it's exorbitantly expensive but it's so cool

[rigid fjord]

because it's a Big Fucking Gun

[normal tusk]

this server has BFGPU not BFG

[hollow sorrel]

Like I can think of so many reasons not to get that phone and I still want it

[rigid fjord]

only 1 relevant reason to not get it, samsung

[hollow sorrel]

I have a Samsung phone rn

It's not that bad I think

Then again I've had it 2 years now so

I feel like a z fold has more reason to buy, since it has a bigger screen

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.androidauthority.com/trump-phone-origin-canelo-liberty-mobile-3640986/

[fringe prairie]

yes it makes more sense than the flip

i’d like the trifold ngl

[empty quartz]

My speaker amp alone pulls more than 100x that just sitting there 😭

350W

[rigid fjord]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D4YTC1CL this is quite literally what i'm using to run my front, rear, sub and center speakers @empty quartz

[empty quartz]

My little tv setup has a 600w (im assuming 600w rms) speaker amplifier

[rigid fjord]

the speakers i'm using is from a logitech home theater setup

[empty quartz]

Sweet

I wanna get some new woofers for my technics speakers

[rigid fjord]

yeah, decent little speakers, got annoyed with the main unit itself cutting out ever 8 hours with it's auto power off, so figured out a way to have good sound minus it turning off

[empty quartz]

If i had the space + sound proofing, i’d go surround

5.1 tho, not 7.1

I’d also need a new amp and smaller speakers

[rigid fjord]

you can still do it with a small space tbh dude

[empty quartz]

My main speakers are really big

And its a pain to aim them properly

[rigid fjord]

fair enough, you could look into some slimmer speaker stacks, though yeah the fronts you want them to be small

though you could look up some older home theatre systems and nab the speakers from them

just a matter of hooking it up to your own amp and equalizer if you do that

@empty quartz after a while on google, found the exact one i am using

worst part, what's below the blue line is just absolute waste that's removable and does nothing

[hollow sorrel]

I did it, I bought a z flip 7

[empty rampart]

I assume those are the rear speakers?

So goes well behind the couch

[rigid fjord]

yeah, they are, but you can wall mount them also

if it was an echo box instead for that bottom section they would be useful but sadly they're not

[glacial cliff]

the best part of reading that, was finding out they finally pivoted away from "made in america" to amade for america" because they couldn't keep lying that america had the capability to fab high end smartphones.

[tired bear]

https://tenor.com/view/king-of-the-hill-dale-gribble-pocket-sand-pocket-sand-gif-3699662

[hollow sorrel]

Keep it closed, problem solved

[tired bear]

have fun with that

[empty quartz]

Don’t press your fingernails on the glass

[hollow sorrel]

I don't plan to

Who does that anyway

[empty quartz]

Ngl

Foldable’s suck, theres nothing that can convince me otherwise

[fringe prairie]

the flip sucks

[empty quartz]

Low bar

[fringe prairie]

trifold is useful

[empty quartz]

I kinda understand the trifold, but at that point; just get a tablet

[tired bear]

plastic soft screen
very dentabe and scratchable

[empty rampart]

I wouldnt call free speaker stands useless, they often come with nothing

[empty quartz]

They’re not free though

[tired bear]

i would rather have really small bezzle in between two glass screens

[empty quartz]

Thats why i want the lg g8x

Its a much cooler than the z-fold

[fringe prairie]

i personally like the idea of just having a singular pocketable device that can do both. issue is the trifolds are $2800 lol so yeah might as well get a high end phone + ipad

[empty rampart]

Do they come in the box included or are they a paid addon?

[fringe prairie]

also i dont think the trifold has spen support(?)

[empty quartz]

In box

[tired bear]

that is just a phone in a special case

[empty quartz]

Still cooler than the z-fold

[empty rampart]

Then they are nice to have, no need to pay extra for the stands like with many companies

[tired bear]

surface duo looks interesting

[mint umbra]

I plan on getting the fold 8 when it comes out

my only issue with fold 7 is battery is a bit to small and leaks say fold 8 will get a decent battery bump

[astral spade]

anyone got reccomendations for super thin and lightweight usbc cables i can use for my headphones to my pc? trying to use my normally wireless headphones for gaming (cause its all i have and i dont wanna drop cash on another set) but most usbc cables i have are just way too bulky or heavy to use, it feels weird. so im looking for one thats got the profile more of a regular thin aux cable, but does power and audio, just enough for my headphones. (also preferably long-ish, 2m)

[tired bear]

apple one is relativly thin

[eager mason]

I have a WD My Passport 25E1 it doesn't make any other sounds its extremely quite
And i did a quick drive test with checking smart status and it's all green
But I recently noticed that it makes a single click sound every 10min ish
I want to know is my drive dying? if it is how long does it have?

[empty kelp]

Whats the best way to email a recyclying center that I want to take this out (this was one of the images they posted)

[neon vapor]

What

[rigid fjord]

unless it acts as an echobox, yes it's absolutely useless and could have just been a pole all the way up to the speaker box itself

[formal sonnet]

That photo looks like one from their website - it's just an example of what kind of recycling they handle. If you're looking to get your hands on recycled parts, just ask via the contact form or email on their website?

[gleaming rose]

our garage isn't working right and we got quoted $1200 to install a new one. thoughts?

I think that's absurd

[tired bear]

Surely you mean garage door opener

[gleaming rose]

yes

[formal sonnet]

$1200 for a whole garage is an absolute steal. $1200 for a garage door opener (meaning, the motor + chain drive assembly + usually woefully insecure wireless remote) is highway robbery for what those components are worth.

[gleaming rose]

it ended up being $900 installed today, that's also what I thought but whatever because he's already installing it. my mom's decision

I would have just done it myself with a friend

[frigid blade]

$900 seems like a lot still

I guess labor costs will be most of the jacked up pricing

[gleaming rose]

it's a Chamberlain Advanced series

so about $250ish I would say

but again, same day installation

[stray portal]

im now on

arch (btw)

endeavouros is so nice i love it

[formal sonnet]

Ah, it's a extortion Chamberlain product. This explains everything.

[gleaming rose]

hey I didn't do any of the negotiations

if I had involvement it would've been way lower

[tulip sparrow]

Never had this happen unless I have set it up to do so aka on the TV so I can rest in bed and play

I have had BIOS/UEFI open on the secondary monitor tho

Been using a multimonitor setup for at least a couple of decades now

As far back as Windows XP lol

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ hmm

[worthy niche]

Is the latency normal? Using ethernet

[worthy niche]

This is NOT a minecraft mod

[gleaming rose]

well he did install it in an hour like he said
not saying that makes it worth it but it was certainly impressive

I guess he's done it a krillion times

or maybe not I don't even know if this guy actually works for a company

I think it's sketchy personally, but I was too busy playing deadlock so I couldn't help my mom decide whether to call him or not

[tulip sparrow]

? Who said anything about a minecraft mod?

[worthy niche]

Ars Technica is a minecraft mod, got confused lol

[tulip sparrow]

The site has been around for a very long time

[worthy niche]

Yeah, but I'm dumb

You underestimate my stupidity

[gleaming rose]

they're honest and they rectified their mistake

[latent gull]

They also recommitted to not publishing AI content, which is very commendable

[gleaming rose]

I will be paying more attention to ars technica now
I knew about them but seeing them reject AI is big to me

[latent gull]

Honestly yeah, if I have to read anyone it’ll probably be them

I’m glad to see the start of a shift away from AI in multiple industry segments

[tulip sparrow]

While others seem to want to go all in in ai (looking at your stupid people dming on here to get "Work" by using ai to creat art)

[gleaming rose]

well @formal sonnet the guy was nice, he actually installed it in less than an hour with new sensors and a new clicker on the wall

it was also on a sunday night with about 3 hours notice that we wanted the job done before it got done

[desert fulcrum]

hey all, any tips on how I should approach high PC temps?

[gleaming rose]

repaste

[desert fulcrum]

i'm not gaming, just listening to music and web browsing, and my Ryzen 7 5800x keeps hitting like 70C

fair

i'll give it a shot, thx

[gleaming rose]

clean dust out and repaste

[desert fulcrum]

just built the PC so no dust or anything really

[gleaming rose]

oh that's bad, did you apply thermal paste? is there even a cooler on it?

[desert fulcrum]

yeah, a healthy amount of Arctic MX4

Thermalright Phantom Spirit as my cooler

[gleaming rose]

70C is incredibly abnormal, I would definitely check your thermal paste

[desert fulcrum]

will reapply and try again

[agile narwhal]

I’m having issues while playing games, my fps is dropping periodically and hitching. I have a 5090…checked my drivers and they’re up to date. Anyone know why I’m having this issue?

[bitter crater]

check temps with hwinfo and try setting power management mode to prefer maximum performance (in nvidia control panel, under manage 3d settings)

[left trellis]

idle?

[analog widget]

how do i make it so that when i put in my password it automaticly sends me into my pc

[left trellis]

?

wdym

[clear canyon]

you type it in, its a password

adding auto login removes the entire point of a password

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-laptop-duh-gif-8033838636860661307

@analog widget

[formal sonnet]

To my knowledge, if you setup a PIN, typing the PIN will log you in without you needing to press ENTER or click the login / arrow button. If you have a Password (or passphrase), you must press ENTER or click the login / arrow button.

[clear canyon]

if windows even lets you, mine refuses

[plain cypress]

This is my understanding as well

But I just use a windows hello fingerprint reader

I would love for those to be built into cases

Nice power button fingerprint reader combo

[plush wren]

true

[plush wren]

are there any ones u could buy to diy it or something

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/he-made-a-statement-so-true-even-his-gang-praised-him-gif-2243820068148274968

[plain cypress]

Idk maybe
My guess is it wouldn't feel cohesive

I think diying it into a case wouldn't be a better experience than my currently USB dongle fingerprint reader plugged into a USB port next to my power button

[ripe flame]

am i crazy for thinking that a good va panel is better than ips

[clear canyon]

its just a preference

[ivory mountain]

No

[plain cypress]

VA and IPS both have a range of quality

[bitter crater]

didnt va have better colors, but worse ghosting? generally speaking

[plain cypress]

There are high end VA panels
There are low end IPS panels

[ripe flame]

ive had mine for a while and did all the settings on it
only has ghosting in extremely extremely dark situations
which is kinda silly when it looks much better in the dark than IPS

the black is so much better than whatever dark blueish kinda not really black ips do

[desert fulcrum]

yes

near idle

[clear canyon]

what is ur cooler

[desert fulcrum]

thermalright phantom spirit 120 se

just repasted and no diff

no plastic on the cooler

[clear canyon]

is pbo on?

or is it manually overclocked?

[quasi moat]

https://tenor.com/view/promise-gaurantee-true-detective-matthew-mcconaughey-hold-gif-16048839898980924709

[desert fulcrum]

in Ryzen Master OC mode is set to "Default"

otherwise I'm not sure, I haven't gone out of my way to overclock at all thats for sure

[clear canyon]

what about in ur bios

try resetting bios but setting your ram speeds back to normal

[buoyant bridge]

iPad dedicated to durability test by kitten

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/ai-chinese-cat-dancing-gif-5511841866443076101

[buoyant bridge]

Google messages on an iPad lol

[median pilot]

does anyone use vortex mod manager and is willing to help me with it?

[grizzled frost]

https://dontasktoask.com

[desert fulcrum]

done, disabled PBO in my bios entirely too
seems to have done it, temp is now hovering between 40-50 C in Ryzen Master

SignalRGB which controls my fans is consistetly reporting a higher temperature, but I believe Ryzen Master is right

Thanks!

[clear canyon]

yeah np

[grizzled frost]

question is, was the CPU throttling with PBO on?

[desert fulcrum]

PBO was set to "Default" in my BIOS

Max temp I recorded was 85C

not sure if it was throttling accordingly or not

[grizzled frost]

hwinfo64

[desert fulcrum]

not sure what i'd be looking for in here

[grizzled frost]

the ones labeled "Thermal Throttling"

[mint umbra]

well think I gave linux an honest shot

think its time to go back

to windows 11

[desert fulcrum]

looks like i'm good in that department. temps are now a avery steady 69 (nice) C when running the HWiNFO stress test, no thermal throttling there

[grizzled frost]

see if it's thermal throttling with PBO

[hearty olive]

also the 5800x is a furnace regardless from what i remember

but hwinfo stress test is not particularly intensive

unless i'm thinking of something else

[desert fulcrum]

No thermal throttling, but it's running 15% hotter, 80C now

[plain cypress]

Stack of gpus

[azure topaz]

how the corner of my room lookin fr

[plain cypress]

Lol

Packing rn

Well, barely packing

[plain cypress]

do we think it is necessary to remove gpus/tower coolers from my pcs for a ~2 mile journey

[azure topaz]

highway?

[plain cypress]

these are all spare/old gpus (or just the box that I threw a different gpu in)

[plain cypress]

not even

[azure topaz]

tower coolers no imo they have 4 points of contact (or at least 2 spread pretty decently) but gpus i would if so

[azure topaz]

then nah prolly not even worth it

lay em sideways call it good

[plain cypress]

i lied. 1.7 miles

[south arrow]

Most of the peeps that buy my builds just layem sideways ye, pillows around it for extra points

[left trellis]

floppa

i told u I was gonna come back a lil brazy with OC

I got #1 w my specs on steel nomad

[azure topaz]

dont care unless its filtered by gpu only

[hearty olive]

floppa when are you gonna start liquid helium ocing

stop makin us sit here and wait

[pearl thunder]

Out of curiosity, how good are these old server gpus to play games on? Would they be better than a 1070 or a 1080?

[tulip sparrow]

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p person from arstechnica who wrote the scott and ai piece that was redactied

Benj Edwards (@benjedwards.com)

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick)

I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below

arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

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Bluesky · Feb 15, 2026, 9:02 PM

[plucky lodge]

200 IQ

[hearty latch]

LMAO

[gaunt spade]

this meme is atleast 3 years old

[hearty olive]

these don’t have a display out because they’re hardware accelerators. you can only use them through a VM on a server rack

[rigid shale]

just noticed the kit i got for $100 a year ago is worth $500 now

i should resell like everyone else fs

[gaunt spade]

i believw you can use thwm somehow if you have integrated graphics

[glossy patio]

Pro-tip for those playing the Red Dead Redemption 1 PC port on a high refresh rate (120hz+) monitor: cap you refresh rate to 120hz. It's because for some reason, Rockstar devs paced the frame rate at 30fps intervals (30, 60, 90, 120, etc...), so if your FPS is anything outside of that, there would be massive lag and frametime stutter

[gaunt spade]

what about 240

[rigid shale]

why is the used market just flooded with vengeance lpx

[rigid shale]

is 240 divisible by 30

do a lil math

[tulip sparrow]

I have 4x8gb 3200mhz cl16 ddr4 lpx in my main desktop lol

[rigid shale]

it's all lpx

always lpx

and it's mid

[tulip sparrow]

all 4 sticks run at their advertised speeds of 3200mhz cl16 on my am4 board

[marsh relic]

hmm since my S23 ultra last updated, firefox will no longer play with the screen locked or if in the background... did the update change a firefox setting? im not sure what it would even be

[rigid shale]

my buddies have had longevity issues

[tulip sparrow]

So thy work perfectly for me

[rigid shale]

i usually stick with gskill they've never caused me problems but man is it way more rare on the used market

[tulip sparrow]

@marsh relic if you are talling about youtube google changed something to break background play on mobile

its not your phone or browser its stupid goole breaking things

[marsh relic]

yep youtube, so its google being motherfuckers and not something the update/firefox did?

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-background-play-broken-3636179/ indeed

[marsh relic]

fucking google

[tulip sparrow]

Revanced is honestly your best option

[marsh relic]

is that another browser?

[ivory mountain]

haterrr

[clear canyon]

they old, and not really

[tulip sparrow]

nope

it modifies the youtube app

[pale flint]

will try that out

[marsh relic]

looks like brave still works

ill check revanced

[azure topaz]

i mean no

steel nomad pretty weird and doesnt have any cpu test at all so

if ur filtering by cpu+gpu in a gpu only test youre getting skewed results

[frosty oriole]

My LPX kit performs much better and has significantly more overclocking headroom than my G.Skill kit.

[tulip sparrow]

https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/tree/main/docs do some reading before doing anything

[glossy patio]

Game's capped at 144fps max, so 120 would be your realistic target (although if it was fully uncapped, you would lock it at 240 since it's within the 30fps interval)

[buoyant bridge]

hello TC1

[halcyon fox]

I got AOSP Baklava built and installed on my tablet finally

It was quite the process

[pale flint]

wtf is tc1 even about

[ivory mountain]

larp

[ivory mountain]

hmmmm fedora

[clear canyon]

ur on linus

[ivory mountain]

nah just vm testing before i go back

[jaunty apex]

Grayjay

Not via play store

[ivory mountain]

like everyone should do instead of switching, nuking windows, and complaining

[clear canyon]

:(

[ivory mountain]

LXQt is so ass but it only uses 1.5gb of ram

[ornate wind]

how do i fix PCR7 binding not possible?

[clear canyon]

context?

[ornate wind]

PC shat itself
reset windows
bitlocker recovery key needed every boot up
turned off bitlocker to stop it and reset
settings evaporated and no longer have data encryption in windows setting

the bitlocker no longer pops up every startup but no encryption

[clear canyon]

so "PCR7 binding" means that bitlocker cant securely connect to TPM 2.0 correctly, did you disable secure boot?

[ornate wind]

ive checked secure boot - on
even tried turning it on and off again

[clear canyon]

did you mess with tpm settings?

[ornate wind]

is on asp fTPM, but not before

[clear canyon]

so is it still asking for that key?

[ornate wind]

no

[clear canyon]

so is there an issue now?

[ornate wind]

data encryption turned off and cant turn it on again

[clear canyon]

do you need bitlocker?

[ornate wind]

what cases is it required

would of thought it would be optimal to have it on

[clear canyon]

when you have sensitive data that needs to be protected, like if you had patient data in a clinic

its not needed for normal consumers

[ornate wind]

so im good?

[clear canyon]

yes

[ornate wind]

thanks

[clear canyon]

np

[ornate wind]

last question, i wiped my pc due to my drivers busting and making my game run like a MS powerpoint, what could have caused that?

[clear canyon]

well if ur drivers didnt work, thats ur issue

but windows also likes to kill itself

[ornate wind]

yea

[clear canyon]

I had to reset my main pc a couple months ago due to mine shitting the bed

its just random

[amber patrol]

Does anyone know of a DisplayPort 1.4 cable that's good, doesn't break and is actually DisplayPort 1.4 certified?

[wide crown]

Hey my laptop has a corrupted bios, if anyone would be willing to just execute a file from lenovo website just to extract the file so I can rename it from bios.fd to BHCrisis.bin

[raven hazel]

is 32gb enough ram or should i upgrade

[clear canyon]

for what

[lapis furnace]

Catto

[left trellis]

💔 😭

Ill be back again

[grizzled nova]

no

[vagrant pewter]

Hey guys. Can i use a 6pin pcie connector on a gpu that needs a 8pin, but only pulls 150w?
I have done it on a rx 570 before, but i want to get a 1070

[warm anvil]

the catto

[warm anvil]

yes buy a 2 pack 128gb of ram and give me the 32 gigs

[vagrant pewter]

Me another 32pls. Then you have 96

[ebon marlin]

I'm cattoing it

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2023276405291655613

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

Microsoft is growing frustrated with OpenAI and wants to distance itself if the company keeps frequently asking for money.

Mustafa Suleyman confirmed they are building their own frontier models at gigawatt scale for "true self-sufficiency."

The deep partnership with OpenAI continues for now, but heavy reliance on its frequent funding and compute requests is fading fast.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 16, 2026, 6:01 AM

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2023143185380417685

Swift+ (@swift_reviews)

🚨: A man was discovered with 90% of his brain mass missing, and yet he was living a perfectly normal life… doctors only realized something was off when they saw him still using a GPX Superlight.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 15, 2026, 9:11 PM

[ionic atlas]

Microsoft... it's monday, I'm trying to get some work done

[ornate harbor]

Hehe Microslop

[formal sonnet]

"You shall not get work done today!" -- Microslop, circa 2026

[jaunty apex]

Compiling?

No. Windows update.

[ornate harbor]

I can do 3 updates now

[jaunty apex]

I have 269 pending

Forgot to update before hopping off pc

[ornate harbor]

How

[ornate harbor]

How long

[jaunty apex]

Least 4 days i think

Arch

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/sudo-rm-rf-linux-bruh-chungus-poggers-gif-19024993

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/tyler1-screaming-scream-angry-anger-gif-20387881

[ionic atlas]

when i see this guy all i can think of his head is indented due to his headset

[ebon marlin]

Thinkpads overrated Fujitsu lifebooks are the genuine hidden gems

This fujitsu lifebook has an easily accessible removable dust filter

[ornate harbor]

Asus Vivobook

[ebon marlin]

Yuck

Never seen a battery this cooked b4 lmao

[valid edge]

I turn on my computer get the asus screen from my motherboard and then i get a black screen windows wont load and if i spam delete i get the windows troubleshoot menu but it just doesn't go into windows and i havent used the computer in a week or two

[red light]

i have a screenshot from gaming pc here

[topaz shale]

scam

@clear oasis sorry for ping

i cant ping mods for some reason

[abstract wigeon]

anyone used sunshine/moonlight with tailscaled? how is the quality/latency?

[cold skiff]

You and me both <@&750150305383186585>s just removed the option from the list when I highlight

Ohh it pinged

[mint rock]

lol

anyways 10 bucks for the ps5 take it or leave it

[cold skiff]

Social engineering at its finest. Normally it’s a link scam

[mint rock]

it's a classic

dunno why they would post it here though, anyone would see it's a scam 🤷‍♂️

[cold skiff]

You throw shit and see if it sticks

[mint rock]

true

but that was doomed to fail lmao

anyways good night

[rigid fjord]

https://vxtwitter.com/forloopcodes/status/2022898828828119085?s=46&t=DgPvBl-j_khAkN5Ljw6QPw @formal sonnet

forloop (reze arc) (@forloopcodes)

microsoft just released a security patch that deletes your internet!!!

the dhcp client service is functionally dead because they forgot how dll exports work. the os literally telling you it has lost the will to live

the only way to save your pc from kb5077181 is to delete the catroot2 folder (unless you trust the 'pause updates' button)

kb5077181 is the most stable release yet, provided you never actually want to log in to your account again

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 15, 2026, 5:00 AM

microslop "no internet for you" 2026

[steel umbra]

yeah hmmmmm nou i aint installing win 11

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/桐生戦兎-仮面ライダービルド-kamen-rider-build-kiryu-sento-sento-kiryu-gif-11157174352445916018

[ornate harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/batarong-yellow-triangle-yellow-triangle-dancing-dancing-triangle-gif-951168959120943408

(There is no actual reason for posting this gif i just think its funny)

[serene python]

microslop spyware-malware

[steel umbra]

i disabled windows updates via regedit

there are many ways you can do it

[valid canyon]

why.?

[steel umbra]

so they don’t break anything

i’m tired of auto updates breaking working things

[valid canyon]

don't install them right away and they won't

there's an option to disallow autoupdates

turning all updates off is not it

[steel umbra]

i can always install them manually

[valid canyon]

feels like a miscommunication

[steel umbra]

i lastly installed a major security patch update in Q3 2025 iirc

[valid canyon]

That is not very good

[steel umbra]

hey if i lose my folders because of microsoft that’ll be even worse

[valid canyon]

true that

[quasi moat]

“Hey. Yea but it could be worse. I could get shot in the back later”

[ebon marlin]

Nvidia app doesn't work on graphics cards that are Gtx 10 series and older but if you download just the driver only from their site the driver installation has an option to also download Nvidia App alongside the driver and you'll have Nvidia App function normally

[umbral fable]

chatgpt updates istg

they're causing me so many headaches at work recently

[stray portal]

Is this photo 10 years old

[south arrow]

Reeeee neeed cofffeeee

[valid canyon]

The video about the LTT cable

What's the point of showing people an Eye diagram?

Both diagrams they showed are totally fine, neither indicates signal loss

the whole spiel about the signal integrity being crucial is weird to me

like, sure it is important, but it absolutely is not something to bother with. how much are you loosing on sending a couple more bytes?

2ms?

0.1ms?

the time is negligeable

[grizzled frost]

It's relevant for data rates, less so latency

Worse quality signal means you can't clock the cable as high, meaning less data throughput

[valid canyon]

I don't see how data throughput suffers with signal integrity

Transfer time does, sure. But the controller pumps in the same stream of data regardless

best case scenario, the data doesn't need to be resent

[grizzled frost]

The controller will test what bandwidth the cable can support, but as long as it can get the data through at the desired speed, you're right, the signal integrity largely doesn't matter

however if it's borderline in ideal circumstances, it can sometimes fail randomly

[valid canyon]

borderline to what? ECC is at large a client-side fix thing these days. Data sent is redundant anyways

Sure, there might be more data corruption than the client is able to recover, but even then, it's at large a non-existent problem

[grizzled frost]

If it's borderline to the eye of the diagram, you can lose packets if it varies slightly and enters the eye, if that happens enough, the controller will reduce the speed the cable operates at

With modern controllers there won't be data corruption, but it will force the controller to operate the cable at a reduced speed

[valid canyon]

which doesn't matter in a normal environment ever

and the eyes they show have a broad spread of signal samples too

[south arrow]

crawls off the couch to make coffee "grumble grumble grumble"

[valid canyon]

hello worm

[grizzled frost]

As long as the signal doesn't enter the eye at all, you're right, it doesn't matter, but i believe the issue LTT was seeing with certain sources was not every cable would be well outside that eye

It's not just whether or not it would be fine, but their confidence that it would be fine with every cable they receive

[valid canyon]

which feels like fighting windmills

[grizzled frost]

"fighting windmills"?

[edgy igloo]

Samsung 999 pro 2 tb is this cross section ok

[valid canyon]

it is largely a non-existent problem. a single bit not being in spec is not a large problem at all especially with the error correction

[edgy igloo]

Pls help I bought it for 2 dollars cause it has no heatsink I already used the the other port

[valid canyon]

they're solving the error rates with better materials, which is fine

but still, weird

[grizzled frost]

If it's intermittently losing bits in a testing environment, it's going to be a bigger issue in practice

[edgy igloo]

Ru telling me thsi

[grizzled frost]

standard use environments have a decent amount of EMI

[grizzled frost]

Nope, talking to Commander Fish

[valid canyon]

but then again, your cable is shielded, single flips are safe with error correction

[edgy igloo]

Pls help me

[valid canyon]

and error correction handles a pretty significant change in signal integrity

idk
I understand where they're coming from, I don't feel like it solves a major issue

although the way they put it, a premium high availability, low error, premium cable

[loud iris]

Hi all - i am curious if there is a way to auto-switch between default devices.
My default mic is usually my fifine, and it's a standalone, stationary microphone. since that is the case, whenever i move slightly in my room OR, for instance leave it, i am no longer heard. in such cases, i have my headset's microphone, which i would like to auto-switch to whenever i turn it on (that being whenever i flip it down; that is when it unmutes by itself). is there any way to do such a thing? thanks in advance :)

[valid canyon]

is a very good pitch for me. especially for like 15 bucks

[valid canyon]

there's definitely software that can autoswitch your inputs, when a specific input shows up

Can't really recall it though

[loud iris]

see that'd be so convenient when i feel hungry and gotta leave the call for like 30 mins to an hour to make food😒

[loud iris]

thats fine - i appreciate the help regardless!

[valid canyon]

https://rode.com/en-int/apps/unify try this maybe?

[loud iris]

will give it a go deffo

[valid canyon]

software type is automatic mic mixing I thing

[loud iris]

then again it says it is compatible with specific mics

ill give it a try and update if that may interest you

[ebon marlin]

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2023247930183004512

🍃 (@nikewrayy)

"imma charge my phone via the 3.5mm port"

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 16, 2026, 4:07 AM

[flint lantern]

How stupid of an idea is combining the R7 7800x3d with the RX 9060 XT?

[ebon marlin]

Wdym

[flint lantern]

Also, is it worth getting the R7 9700x over the R7 7800x3d? It's 70USD cheaper, so I'm not sure

[flint lantern]

Wouldn't the GPU be a significant bottleneck with that setup

[ebon marlin]

If you're playing games the X3D is the best choice

[ebon marlin]

No? 7800x3d could easily handle a 5090

[flint lantern]

Yes that's why I said the GPU would hold back the system

[ebon marlin]

It wouldn't?

[flint lantern]

It just feels like a weird combination

[loud iris]

myb im stupid but i dont see any way to make an auto-switch option on this software

[ebon marlin]

It's a regular combination

[flint lantern]

With that CPU I mostly see 9070 XTs minimum

[ebon marlin]

Yeah because you don't normally see expensive cpus paired with cheap gpus

[flint lantern]

Yeah that's like what I was talking about

Maybe it'd be smarter to downgrade the CPU and add some cash on top to get a 9070 XT

[ebon marlin]

Do you play in 1440p?

Or 4k

If so 9070xt is a solid choice

[flint lantern]

1440p

[ebon marlin]

I personally can't really recommend the 9060xt at all when you can find used 6800xt's for 250$-300$ and it also performs 15% better than the 9060xt

[flint lantern]

you can't find those deals in turkey

the second hand market is quite fucked up

[ebon marlin]

Mmm turkey sammich

[loud iris]

i love this comment

[river creek]

Hey guys, I was just wondering. This seems a bit low for my system. I'm running a Ryzen 7 5700x with a RX9070xt. Could it be that I need a new CPU ?

[cold skiff]

Ignore synthetic benchmarks

[ebon marlin]

How's ordering from outside of turkey like? How bad would you get taxed if you order something from EU?

[steel umbra]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009243829349.html? how much does this cost for ya guys

[flint lantern]

I do game but I do plan on using my PC for other stuff too obviously

[cold skiff]

They probably won’t let it in the country

[flint lantern]

70USD cheaper is tempting

[flint lantern]

Taxed extremely significantly, like unusably

[steel umbra]

it literally performs only bit below average

[ebon marlin]

As in?

[ebon marlin]

Ay caramba

[river creek]

Still, I'm thinking of dishing out on an DDR5 platform

[cold skiff]

Turkey are notorious for taxing and confiscating imports

[flint lantern]

Productivity/development

I did want the extra cores

[ebon marlin]

For productivity I'd recommend Nvidia

[cold skiff]

Ironically exporting from turkey is cheap as chips

[flint lantern]

I'm on Linux so

[flint lantern]

I'm mostly thinking about the CPU right now

[steel umbra]

which is stupid ngl

[cold skiff]

Go by real world benches

[river creek]

Would you guys go for Intel or Ryzen CPU's for productivity this gen ?

[cold skiff]

Depends how much you spend

[ebon marlin]

Depends what kind of productivity

Some productivity you benefit with an intel cpu and some productivity you benefit with an AMD cpu

[cold skiff]

Intel are losing money on arrow lake making it cheap as chips and tend to win in productivity. However if you can afford an9950x3d overall it comes out slightly ahead but as catto says, depends what you do

[flint lantern]

I did check some benchmarks and the difference between the 9700x and the 7800x3d in gaming doesn't seem to be that big

[river creek]

I don't really care about the price. Mostly Economic compute work for research, I need a big chunk of power, as I don't always want to borrow a compute cluster. I work a lot with Stata

[ebon marlin]

I was promised this 32gb of ddr4 from work 3000 years ago 🙏

[mellow sonnet]

cpu did 270w despite the pl1 and 2 limits being 253

[ebon marlin]

[flint lantern]

So any opinions? The 9700x is 60USD cheaper

[cold skiff]

Are you joking?

[flint lantern]

probably not

[cold skiff]

In gaming for days Minecraft it’s the same. You stick something that uses the cache, it can be 5-20%. For example cs2 and pubg are wildly better x3d than non x3d

[latent pasture]

whats ur income that that $60 out of ur presumably like $1500 build is important

[flint lantern]

i don't want to overpay for something I won't need

[cold skiff]

Unreal engine games love the x3d

I’ve always wondered if people without x3d get more micro stutter in UE5 tbh

[steel umbra]

oh wow you can buy 7500x3d for 200 buccs?

china strikes again

btw if anyone still wants cheapo ryzen cpu despite ram prices 7400f exists

also i have no idea what is amd doing with their naming schemes

[latent pasture]

what

that ones pretty logical, just lesser and lesser number

also why would 7400f help ram prices, its still ddr5

[steel umbra]

x400 used to be cutdown on L3 cache or with less cores

[cold skiff]

The x3d helps with lower ram speed

[ebon marlin]

Wasn't 7400F IHS secured with thermal paste

[steel umbra]

yes

[ebon marlin]

Leading to the cpu running 20C hotter

[steel umbra]

it doesn’t throttle, it’s reddit overexaggeration based on one post

we don’t even know if it’s not user error

mine don’t throttle

[latent pasture]

yeah lol

[steel umbra]

youtuber units also don’t throttle

[latent pasture]

its the waaah bad temps waah crowd still crying and fearmongering

even after like 5 years of am5 now

[cold skiff]

If you don’t have a 420mm AIO you’re gonna throttle a 50w chip

[steel umbra]

it’s a perfectly fine cpu

only concern is that the ihs is even higher than on other am5 cpus

due to how it’s attached

[latent pasture]

its not?

the difference is internal

[steel umbra]

it is

clip on coolers are hard to put on due to that

[ebon marlin]

Lower cpu temps = no stress = no cortisol

[steel umbra]

my unit is heightened by around 0.5-0.7mm

it’s not that significant but i had to loosen screws on the amd stock clips to put on certain clip on coolers

with something like 7700 tray i didn’t have to do that

[tidal geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-scratch-gif-26163158

[steel umbra]

oh yeah it is internal certainly

[wheat torrent]

very fluffy very soft, 9/10

[steel umbra]

when i disassemble the 7400f system i’ll show you @latent pasture remind me

if i forget

wrong pics

[steel umbra]

Muffin

[steel umbra]

yellow ocean snail

[kindred halo]

1440p monitors are surprisingly cheap, oh wow

175 for a 2560x1440p, 180Hz, IPS display from ASUS TuF

[steel umbra]

too much competition

[kindred halo]

130% (Alleged) sRGB

[ebon marlin]

Monitors and tvs are like the only thing tech related that get better and cheaper as time progresses

[kindred halo]

Fair

[ebon marlin]

New technologies come out and new cheaper ways to manufacture said product

[steel umbra]

in 5-10 years there may be stagnation or rise for a year

like what’s happening to dram

[ebon marlin]

Just buy used brah

[steel umbra]

lalalala

[ebon marlin]

I'm gonna put one of those corks up your ass

[steel umbra]

suspicious activity is happening over here

[austere vector]

should I try moltbot

[ebon marlin]

[austere vector]

is it unsafe

[kindred halo]

Explains how companies like Samsung can put 90Hz AMOLED displays on their budget phones

[steel umbra]

if you know how to read code then check

otherwise rely on 90% accurate antiviruses

[ebon marlin]

Samsung budget phones are also very overpriced

[steel umbra]

and if it’s well known then it’s mostly safe to say it’s fine

[latent pasture]

my $80 brand new phone has 90hz

[south arrow]

I kinda want to enable pbo eco mode 170 just to keep things icy and efficient. Buttttt them high scores keep me running toasty

[steel umbra]

tbh not impressive, xiaomi has more impressive budget spec phones

they put oled or amoled in their $100 phones

[south arrow]

[austere vector]

okay thanks

[ebon marlin]

Their budget phone is the same price as mid range phones from other brands

[latent pasture]

all the east/asian brands have impressive budget phone specs

its what they need to compete in the cheeps culture

[austere vector]

I have an insanely powerful machine but it’s windows to run it, any downside to not putting it right on the Apple ecosystem

[latent pasture]

u can get gaming phones at like $200 that have the processing power of what americans throw $1000 at

[steel umbra]

too much competition hehe xd

[latent pasture]

ok maybe 1k is an too much more lik $600-800

[steel umbra]

ace 5 racing, it’s a pure gaming phone with a 9400e

[ebon marlin]

For example Realme Gt 7T you can easily find it for around 200€ and it has very nice features and specs

https://m.gsmarena.com/realme_gt_7t_5g-13869.php

[steel umbra]

for $250 you get a cpu that samsung has equivalents for $1000

[ebon marlin]

Dimensity 8400 Max outperforms the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

[steel umbra]

but rest of the phone is kinda meh

[kindred halo]

Checked Samsung's $100...
720P PLS LCD, youch

Also, just in general

AMOLED screens with higher than 60Hz on budget phones is actually really great

[ebon marlin]

Samsung also uses their inhouse stuff so they can build their phones for cheaper aswell but the markup on them is insane

[kindred halo]

I am glad that atleast colour and general screen quality is improving in a consumer friendly manner

[ebon marlin]

Samsung is finally getting 10bit color displays in their phones lmao with the S26 Ultra

[steel umbra]

and it still only features quite old imx882

which is found in like poco f6 and f7

[ebon marlin]

My phone has the same exact chip the Realme GT 7

[steel umbra]

howe much you paid

[ebon marlin]

It's slightly behind the 8 Elite

[ebon marlin]

300€

For a global version

[steel umbra]

ajajajaja

[kindred halo]

They didn't have 10-Bit beforehand?

[steel umbra]

ok dat god

[ebon marlin]

Nope lmao

[kindred halo]

That's silly

[ebon marlin]

I have a Realme GT 7 Pro which I got for 350€ but it has a chinese rom

[steel umbra]

it’s not like it matters much on such a small display

[ebon marlin]

Still nice to have

[steel umbra]

they have really low pwm lol

like even $300 phones make laugh of samsung’s display pwm

[south arrow]

I usually just get a locked ultra version some few months after release for like half off

[ebon marlin]

My phone has 2160hz pwm

300€ phone btw while S25 Ultra has 480hz

[steel umbra]

samsung has like 480hz

[kindred halo]

Pwm?

[ebon marlin]

Pulse width modulation

[steel umbra]

your phone flickers instead of consistently displaying

really fast

[kindred halo]

Oh that

I didn't know pwm was the term

[ebon marlin]

Low pwm is known to cause headaches

480hz is considered low pwm

[steel umbra]

for sensitive ppl

[ebon marlin]

Still those people should be considered

Especially by a brand that massive

[steel umbra]

i guess they want to save battery?

and also cheap out

and then they put 999 bloatware into their phones

:samsnungsmys:

[ebon marlin]

My phone has 2160hz pwm and was also the first phone to pass 20 hours on Gsmarenas battery test

[steel umbra]

sicilkone bateryes

[ebon marlin]

Yumyum

[kindred halo]

Mine is allegedly 360Hz

[ebon marlin]

Oo they reviewed the Realme P4 Power finally

Gsmarenas first 10k mAh battery phone reviewed

[kindred halo]

Oh?

Why's it the first

[ebon marlin]

The first 10k mah phone they've reviewed

Might've phrased it wrong

[kindred halo]

Yeah I mean
Haven't there been other 10k mAh phones before

I understood you correctly

[ebon marlin]

Yeah but this is gsmarenas first review of a 10k mah phone

[serene python]

@rigid fjord i think i am done w the biggest part of the kb , have some miscellaneous stuff to improve/add and its ready

[ebon marlin]

They don't have any other reviews of other 10k mah phones

[kindred halo]

Odd that it took them this long, assuming they've been out for the better half of a year from what I am seeing

[serene python]

i am going with MX Browns/Purple and some nice PBT keys

[ebon marlin]

I've been waiting for one for some time now because I'm really curious on how those phones perform with such big batteries

[ebon marlin]

Alot of them are unfortunately china exclusive

Due to Europe's finnicky battery laws

[kindred halo]

Oh, makes sense

[kindred halo]

European or general aviation safety laws?

[ebon marlin]

Maybe both

Usually chinese phones asian variants where they have bigger batteries for themselves and smaller batteries for global release

[serene python]

i am probably going to get this board assemble everything with the keys and keycaps and when i feel like it prop up a case on freecad and a plate for it

or i might just do the plate before

[kindred halo]

Atleast means that the closer markets don't lose out on features

Most evidently, the 10000 mAh battery

[rose stream]

Is at least glad the Phone (3a) so far doesn't suck outside one dumb function button.

[ebon marlin]

The Realme P4 Power seems to be india exclusive from what I'm looking at

[kindred halo]

Oh wait I just checked

[gaunt spade]

import

[kindred halo]

I WASN'T seeing things wrong when I thought the battery on my phone drained faster than my old phone when it was new

This thing (A16) is 5000mAH
My old Tecno Pova 2 is 7000mAh

[ebon marlin]

Nothing still doesn't provide replacement parts to businesses or consumers

Poop brand

[cold skiff]

What’s with the large dumb font?

[stoic nova]

theres a way to use these tastefully but man here not refined enough

goddamn I spend too much time on the internet

[twin grove]

So anyone else noticing some internet outages?

Both Twitter and Spotify are kinda borked for me right now

[shadow zealot]

yo yall i won against brave ai

it said high but unstable fps is better than low and stable fps

[rose stream]

I have yet to worry about this admittedly and doesn't justify as sucking as of yet for the brand from what I can tell, compared to others that intentionally made their stuff complex to the point there's no way to fix them at all.

[ebon marlin]

Nothing is currently the only phone that isn't fixable/repairable'

[rose stream]

And that's supposed to mean what exactly now?

[ebon marlin]

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/us-news/gen-z-the-first-generation-officially-dubbed-dumber-than-the-last/

why are we having pointless arguments with robots

[gleaming rose]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Arc-B390-12-Xe3-Panther-Lake-iGPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.1169503.0.html
overall looking good

[native pier]

any good pc prebuilds under £500?

[ebon marlin]

check ur local used market

[kindred halo]

You could convince ChatGPT that 1 + 1 = 3 if you yell at it enough

[kindred halo]

If all you're doing is working spreadsheets? Yes

If you're looking to game? Used market like Herr Gatto said

[rose stream]

Okay, now try arguing with the Redditors it's trained on and see if you win. Lmao!

[tidal geyser]

now a days thats like ram and ssd prices new

[kindred halo]

High unstable, depending on instability, is worse than just trying to get used to low, stable FPS

[gleaming rose]

FSR and other tools like it are so ridiculously dumb imo

[tidal geyser]

i think fsr is nice

[gleaming rose]

if only people would optimize their damn games

[kindred halo]

FSR & DLSS are good when they're not excuses for devs to make their games optimised worse

[tidal geyser]

there aint no big red button to just optimize a game, but as has been shown by arc raiders you can do good fps while looking good

[kindred halo]

If you want more FPS on your current settings, or turn a previously unoptimal high setting experience to something manageable, FSR & DLSS are nice

[tidal geyser]

i like upscaling for it to rather be a way to gain more performance or reduce power use

[gleaming rose]

i know there's no big red button, but an optimized game was the expectation up until hardware was powerful enough for developers to just throw whatever they want at it

games aren't as optimized as they should be anymore, have you seen some of the older games that run perfectly and look gorgeous?

[kindred halo]

Take pretty much every Battlefield game for example lol

Half Life 2 & most source games aswell, they're great looking for the time and will run on anything

[tulip sparrow]

sighs https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-ad-blocker-comments-turned-off-3641167/

[pulsar root]

Why are there different types of nvidia graphics cards like rtx 5070? (Msi, FE, etc) But we’ve only seen one style of the arc b580?

[kindred halo]

There's multiple versions of the B580

[gleaming rose]

multiple companies make b580s, this is just not true

[tulip sparrow]

That isn't the 338H is it?

[kindred halo]

But the FE is just more popular

[gleaming rose]

no, i believe the 368H

[tulip sparrow]

I assume its the BIG one

[gleaming rose]

it goes on the 358h, 368h and 388h

[pulsar root]

Yeah in the videos I’ve only really seen this model

[ripe flame]

probably less brand partners
nvidia has the most, amd doesn't have some but has others like sapphire
intel i dunno they're pretty new on the scene

[tulip sparrow]

Yup the one NOT going into "budget" laptops

[kindred halo]

The FE is the one most people buy, because it's usually the cheapest / nicest looking

[rigid fjord]

you'll want spots for in4007 diodes, either in smd form or through hole form

[serene python]

i do have them

[tulip sparrow]

$1300+ is NOT budget for a laptop LOL

[serene python]

i will solder them from the bottom side

[pulsar root]

Yeah tbh the FE design looks really good

It’s like clean

[tulip sparrow]

Budget is honestly sub $800

[pulsar root]

Even the nvidia FE cards look better than the other designs

[ebon marlin]

that's pretty expensive for budget

[kindred halo]

I'd say budget is 500 and below, for pre-chip surge prices

[rose stream]

Asrock, Acer, Gunnir, and some others, besides their own LE. So yeah, definitely not that many partners, or at least everyone is familiar with anyway.

[kindred halo]

Because 500 allows you the Lenovo IdeaPads

[rigid fjord]

on the same side or opposite side of the pcb?

[tulip sparrow]

$500-$800 includes YOGA line aka 2in1s

[kindred halo]

As low as 400 for 16GB, 12-14th gen models

[serene python]

bottom side

[kindred halo]

700 is also where ThinkPad Es start

[serene python]

switches will go on the front

[kindred halo]

Or 600 for the lower end ones

[tulip sparrow]

That price point includes the Ryzen 8000 series

[magic pike]

Wtf AliExpress lol

[tulip sparrow]

Like the 8840HS for example

[kindred halo]

Which are a godsend for budget ballers / gamers

[rigid fjord]

okies, i know for smaller matrixes it needs to have the diodes inline between a set of the switrches and the rp2040

[kindred halo]

You'll usually see the 8000 series on the Yogas though iirc

[tulip sparrow]

yeah I own one LOL

[kindred halo]

I don't think I've seen many AMD IdeaPads with 8000 series

[serene python]

yeah i do i but i meant the THT diodes will go on the back not the front

[tulip sparrow]

Like I said thYogs is in the $500-$800 range

[kindred halo]

Oh LOL
Guess that's an anecdote to add to it!!

[tulip sparrow]

Those are ram heatsinks/covers

[steel umbra]

forgot to say thanks i think

[tulip sparrow]

picked it up off best buy for $650

[ebon marlin]

gay

[steel umbra]

ure*

[tulip sparrow]

16gb of ram and a 1tb ssd

16"

[kindred halo]

Oooh, that's interesting
Which model specifically?

[kindred halo]

1TB too for 650??

You got one hell of a deal

[tulip sparrow]

Yeah

[kindred halo]

They're great laptops, but I wouldn't buy one tbh - Soldered memory is yucky
!!!!

[tulip sparrow]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lenovo-yoga-7-2-in-1-16-2k-touchscreen-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-8840hs-2023-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-arctic-gray/JJGSHX8YFG

[kindred halo]

One second

[tulip sparrow]

That one has 512 comapred to my 1tb lol

[kindred halo]

Listing says 2K, but also 1200p?

Which one do you have

[tulip sparrow]

1920x1200

[magic pike]

Yes but hyperx branded lol

[tulip sparrow]

Hence the 2K on the listing LOL

[kindred halo]

Is the extra 120p noticeable?

[tulip sparrow]

I don't make the rules Best Buy/Lenovo follow for this sort of thing

[magic pike]

More monitor height