tech-chat-1

[tidal geyser]

i died with 14th gen

[pulsar root]

Hmm ok so it’s just the price that’s holding back people from Intel

[frail sequoia]

How did you die

[cold skiff]

So did Epstein

[tidal geyser]

also the U9 285k is about as good as a 9950X in certain tasks or better

[cold skiff]

For like 2/3 the price see as Intel shit the bed and are giving their current CPUs away now

[dusty egret]

One of a few reasons. Amd's support for the same socket over long periods of time is another am4 is 10 years old and got new cpus last year. That and 13/14th gen instability issues ruined some reputation

[cold skiff]

Like back in the day and even now. I’d go AMD for that price performance. No reason why people shouldn’t go 285k

[cold skiff]

This is a recent thing. Ddr2/3 boards were a thing around 2010-12 but the CPU’s were poor. Then AMD gave some dribble of CPUs and got lucky with Ryzen

[pulsar root]

there was so much coverage about the 13th/14th gen cpus that I lowkey thought if you bought a i9 13900k your cpu was cooked or smth lol

[dusty egret]

Ah, I'm not as familiar with anything before 2018 as Im in my early 20s

[cold skiff]

Socket longevity is great. However that’s also because AMD were cheap af.

AM4 wasn’t built with this in mind. AM5 was.

[pulsar root]

Would be interesting to see (likely never happening) an M series chip becoming commercial

[cold skiff]

Aren’t they useless outside Apple software?

Like they’re fundamentally and architecturally built for it?

[dusty egret]

Id have to think so

[cold skiff]

Can Apple even get all the required instruction sets modern CPUs have due to AMD/Intel ownership and collab on them?

[dusty egret]

Unless apple were to partner with amd like Nvidia did with Intel I don't think so

And even then we have still yet to see how that Nvidia Intel partnership plays out

[cold skiff]

Like it runs great for apple stuff but iirc they’re outside the club and never getting in. They’d actually make a horrible consumer cpu for anything other than apple software

[frail sequoia]

These are the laptop options, im leaning more towards the packard cause big screen

[cold skiff]

For CPUs Nvidia are outside the club. Hence ARM development on CPU

Intel won’t be helping them on that front

Trying to be another CPU manufacturer in the same commercial space as AMD/Intel is literally impossible due to the sheer amount of technologies and patents they own between and share with each other

Unless there’s a major shift in a breakthrough technology that everyone needs from an external company to AMD/Intel; no one else is ever getting into that high powered, high performance area

[dusty egret]

Nvidia is the only company I could see being able to and they would have to buy out Intel for the x86 license, because I wouldn't see micron or tsmc doing it

Actually maybe Oracle but even then that would have to involve buying out Intel for x86

[cold skiff]

Then they’d also have to buy from AMD

They can’t get x64 and won’t succeed without that

It’s literally impossible to get in on the current market

[dusty egret]

Oh crap I forgot about that being owned by AMD

[cold skiff]

You’re never going to get the buy in

ARM was founded in 1985. They’re not allowed in the club. They actually had to emulate x86 themselves

[dusty egret]

Which makes me wonder what'll happen if Intel/AMD ever goes under

[cold skiff]

In today’s market it won’t be allowed to happen

It almost did 13ish years ago though

And it almost did 2 years ago come to think of it with Intel

[dusty egret]

Partially why I understand the USA's 10% ownership into Intel

[cold skiff]

AMD got themselves out of a hole. Intel had the US government prevent their bankruptcy

[cold skiff]

That’s for confidence. It allowed Intel to get external funding

Intel will eventually buy that 10% back at a cheaper price

Besides Intel isn’t valuable as a CPU manufacturer now. It’s valuable for fab plants.

[dusty egret]

Honestly unless Intel can compete in the Data center with amd and Nvidia on both the CPU and GPU side I think they'll struggle. But yeah like you said they're more useful for fabs right now

[cold skiff]

I’d love them to go from strength to strength on GPUs tbh

Like if I’m an Intel employee seeing dlss5 I would be in awe and fear for my job tbh

GPU division will be the first to go

[pulsar root]

How would an nvidia cpu naming scheme look like

[odd marsh]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-launches-vera-cpu-and-vera-rubin-platform-for-agentic-ai idk but one of them is named Vera

[dusty egret]

As much as I like the gaming industry seeing nvidias financial reports, I think Intel needs to really regain some of their strength in the commercial market ie businesses and data centers, because EPYC has started to eat away at XEON in recent years

[cold skiff]

Beautiful name is Vera. Very WW1

[odd marsh]

Vera Rubin is the name of the scientist, so I guess GPUs get the last name, CPUs get the first name

[cold skiff]

You know they got that strength from unfair practices right?

[mellow sonnet]

intel

[cold skiff]

Intel would be dead in the water a long time ago if they “played fair”

[dusty egret]

Nope wasnt aware of that

[cold skiff]

Like when AMD was dying earlier 2010s, their servers offered higher core counts iirc. The market was driven by Intel for servers to priced by core count. Lower core count servers = cheaper. They creamed the market. I’m not too familiar with it but an old pal in the industry gave me a crash course

Was a very shady time from what I’m told

There are people in here that could correct/explain it better but it’s very well known and perceived.. Intel fucked AMD in the server space.

And today’s market shift is basically karma

[long brook]

I was hearing that Vera was the CPU and Rubin was the GPU

[wispy thunder]

it's karma to want to be more successful?

you don't become successful by simply offering a better product unfortunately.

except the case of apple silicon, apparently.

[frail sequoia]

Guys what about this laptop, it has the old look I like with semi decent parts

[stark oxide]

which monitor should i get? budget is under 120 CAD
https://www.amazon.ca/MSI-G242L-E14-Adaptive-Synch-DisplayPort/dp/B0F2QWP39R
https://www.amazon.ca/EK241Y-Gbi-Frameless-Freesync-Ergonomic/dp/B0F79PCTVG

[frail sequoia]

You could get a crt

[stark oxide]

[wheat torrent]

new RTX gpus this autumn btw? q3?

[ivory mountain]

i doubt it

[wheat torrent]

They will have to do some crazy optimization If they plan to ship dlss 5.0 to current hardware

[agile topaz]

Not guaranteed to be accurate, yeah I think I agree hwinfo

Everything works as normal its just... tf are these sensing

[fallen sky]

I am so tired I almost tried plugging a phone charger into a stack of chocolate chip cookies

[agile topaz]

PSU is not flaming hot nor colder than room temp, just weird

[sharp ivy]

I wouldn't generally recommend "U" cpus, but it's fine for basic stuff

like youtube and web browsing and such

[wheat torrent]

Bhocolate bhip bookies

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/sterkte-macht-the-rock-rock-baywatch-gif-15665743241043580073

[fallen sky]

McDonald’s

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/clown-crying-gif-20491388

[woven kite]

Has anyone got a 4k monitor that they have rendered 1440p games at?

I want to get a 4k monitor for work, but because i also game on the same rig, i want to be able to set it to 1440p when gaming so that my frames dont tank but wondering if that is going to look trash or not

[fallen sky]

Dawg

$6 for 13 cookies

Can you beat that anywhere except Sam’s or Costco

No absolutely not

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/i-just-lost-my-dog-white-dog-dog-twerk-i-just-lost-my-dawg-gif-16773569997165192004

[frail sequoia]

It'd for YouTube, spotify, doing college work

Its also a win : win for me since I want and old laptop cause they look cool and that is old laptop look and feel, more modern parts and has a dvd drive and i think it has a 16:10 screen

[wheat torrent]

Depends whats the Pixel layout

Also 4k scales to 1080p pixel perfectly

[woven kite]

im up for any monitor suggestions, i just want 144hz thats all

[woven kite]

yeah but 1080p games dont look amazing

[wheat torrent]

4k doesn't scale perfectly to 1440p

[woven kite]

damn

would 4k make a huge performance difference on a 5080?

[wheat torrent]

Yes

[gentle kestrel]

just play games at dlss balanced or performance at 4k

[wheat torrent]

But you would be using dlss 1440p

[gentle kestrel]

1440p dlss quality is 960p render res, dlss perf at 4k is 1080p

[wheat torrent]

No

[woven kite]

i mean probably the most intensive game i play is marvel rivals or overwatch

[wheat torrent]

I meant dlss rendered at 1440p on his 4k monitor

[gentle kestrel]

that would be balanced roughly

[wheat torrent]

Whatever it might be

[gentle kestrel]

dropping to 1440p as the target res is just going to look like buns

[wheat torrent]

With dlss 4.5 you can use any resolution

[woven kite]

so u would say 1080p would be the target resolution?

[gentle kestrel]

no just run the games at 4k

[prime oriole]

no 4k is target. internal would be 1080p

[woven kite]

im on a ryzen 7 9800x3d 128gb ram and rtx 5080

[wheat torrent]

Why

[woven kite]

should have any issues with getting to 144hz right?

[gentle kestrel]

i have a 5070ti so like 10% slower than your card and everything runs fine

[woven kite]

on 4k?

[gentle kestrel]

yeah (still using dlss)

[wheat torrent]

You'll be fine

[gentle kestrel]

i use either balanced or perf depending on the title because i want a higher framerate

[wheat torrent]

5080 is a 4k gpu

[woven kite]

in fairness rivals is so badly optimised i get 200fps on my rig with 1440p monitor haha
running dlss performance and low quality

[woven kite]

oh cool

[gentle kestrel]

you're just cpu bound in rivals at that point

dlss performance at 1440p is 720p internal

[woven kite]

got a 9800x3d tho

[prime oriole]

it still has its limits

its not going to give infinite performance

[gentle kestrel]

i also have a 9800x3d, it still eventually can be a limiting factor

[woven kite]

true

any monitor you recommend?

And what rdp clients do you recommend? I need to rdp into windows machines on the regular and i wish to be able to specify it to be only on 2 monitors, and be able to have a seemless experience (as if i was just at the machine in person, kinda like rdp does)

Currently just using windows rdp client, but looking at switching to Linux

[gentle kestrel]

well whats your monitor budget

i like my xg27ugc but if you have oled money then go oled

[wheat torrent]

I use moonlight and Windows RDP

[woven kite]

i dont want oled as i leave monitor on all the time lol

[wheat torrent]

I don't think there is remote Desktop with multi monitor support

That would be quite bandwidth heavy

[woven kite]

i have it on windows with default rdp client

[gentle kestrel]

my display has 4k160hz and 1080p320hz modes

[wheat torrent]

RDP works differently

Other remote streaming clients send pixels

[woven kite]

i want to use rdp just need a good client to use it on linux

as the default rdp is not there on like it is on windows

[gentle kestrel]

if you're gonna do rdp on linux both gnome and plasma have built in stuff

[wheat torrent]

Mmm

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Only used moonlight

[woven kite]

I was looking at going with bazzite (although tbh i am waiting to see how others experience was)

[wheat torrent]

What are you looking to do?

[woven kite]

its so i can remote into other machines for work

[wheat torrent]

Take a look at moonlight I guess

[woven kite]

Looks like its for steam games

[wheat torrent]

Not only

[calm plaza]

in five years, your games natively will look like this

[wheat torrent]

Is fast/smooth enough to support games

[calm plaza]

people with physically powerful but poor driver support rx 6800 xt's

[wheat torrent]

I wouldn't be able to use RDP to do 3d modeling on remote

[woven kite]

interesting i might need to look into it

[wheat torrent]

Moonlight better for that task

I would assume same with video editing

[gentle kestrel]

bazzite mounts the entire system as read only by defualt so im not a fan of that for a desktop personally

[ivory mountain]

W skyrim

[wheat torrent]

On windows there is persec also

[woven kite]

oh interesting, i just want something that i can do software development on and game on (as well as remote into te other rigs)

[gentle kestrel]

cachy/fedora/something well supported gets my vote

[woven kite]

i tried cachy, i found it a bit nasty ngl

the wacky own browser, and still bit confused on the package manager stuff on cachy

[gentle kestrel]

what package manager are you used to? just use a distro with that

[wheat torrent]

Aur #1

[gentle kestrel]

picking a distro is really just picking something that matches your preferences out the box

because otherwise they're all basically the same software under the hood

[wheat torrent]

Distros are all same shit except you have different preinstalled stuff

What matters more is the Desktop Environment and package manager for average user

Though there are distros where they do some goofy shit

For me personally I would go for any stable arch based distro

[woven kite]

i just want the steam enviroment setup already so i can just play the games

[wheat torrent]

Maybe something like Artix or other so installation is fast

[gentle kestrel]

literally any distro can install steam in like 30 seconds

you just install the flatpak or system version and it'll be setup already

[woven kite]

and the like proton or whatever its called layer plus the nvidea drivers?

[ivory mountain]

Except arch where u gotta enable the fuckass repo part

[wheat torrent]

Any distro

[gentle kestrel]

flatpak

my other boot is arch with no multilib setup because im not doubling my package count just for steam

[wheat torrent]

pacman -Syu steam

[woven kite]

im planning on dual booting linux and windows, but i am going to try and avoid using windows as i am just getting sick of it pushing everything down my throat haha

[dusty egret]

I've just come to install ubuntu by default, that and I just like debian as its base its what im used to at this point

[gentle kestrel]

debian is too ancient for a desktop install imo

[wheat torrent]

Mint is recommended by a lot also

[gentle kestrel]

it's great for servers though

[woven kite]

I did that originally, and its what i was using when i was younger, but wanted something bit quicker

[wheat torrent]

Just flip a coin and choose one

[woven kite]

I have mint on my laptop as i just use that for watching videos lol

[woven kite]

4 installs so far 🤣 I just want something that i can make look nice, works nicely and has some customisation

[wheat torrent]

If you install grauda or nobara or some other gamer bullshit it doesn't mean it will just work faster and better than other distros

[wheat torrent]

That's not up to distros though

Desktop environment is separate thing

[dusty egret]

Honestly if one of the main games i play (7k+ hours) didnt require kernel level anti-cheat I would probably switch to ubuntu full time

[woven kite]

😮

[wheat torrent]

Use KDE Plasma and that's it

[obtuse yew]

Really particular and weird question but with no heatsink, is it normal for an x670 chipset die to be scaldingly hot in just a few seconds?

[wheat torrent]

Most distros support KDE

[gentle kestrel]

i mean yeah it uses power

why did you take the heatsink off?

they use like 14w that has to go somewhere

[woven kite]

Isn't there limited customisation on that?

[gentle kestrel]

kde is the most modular de

[dusty egret]

its linux you could command line anything

[gentle kestrel]

anything more than that and you're building a wm setup

[woven kite]

true

[wheat torrent]

Its the most modern and customizable DE

[obtuse yew]

lil repair project, I know that it should get warm but it is untouchable after about 10 seconds, and even with heatsink it still gets very hot in about a minute

[woven kite]

so what OS should i use?

[wheat torrent]

If you think it's not customizable enough then you didnt look well enough

[wheat torrent]

CachyOS

[woven kite]

whats the package manager for that one?

[wheat torrent]

Its based on arch so pacman

[obtuse yew]

The board is also completely unresponsive and gives a cpu and dram debug light upon booting, so I'm assuming the chipset shat itself

[wheat torrent]

And arch has AUR which is arguably the best community user repository

[woven kite]

"I use arch btw"

[wheat torrent]

I don't think there is an alternative as big for AUR

[silk sun]

https://item.jd.com/10208104174862.html?spmTag=YTAyNDAuYjAwMjQ5My5jMDAwMDQwMjcuMTIlMjNza3VfY2FyZA

is this is a good deal?

[woven kite]

Ill give cachy another go

what file system tho? as there were a few options

[wheat torrent]

Don't think it matters or you would see some crazy differences

Go with bftrfs or whatever

Or just go ext4

If you're not going to use its specific features deliberately it will make 0 difference for you

[dusty egret]

I like Ubuntu at this point, but I want to find a better gui for the file explorer cause i'm not the bigest fan of its file explorer

[wheat torrent]

Dolphin is pretty good no?

Does it work on GNOME?

[woven kite]

idk if its possible but can i set snapshots of my rig onto like another drive/the same drive so i can have the whole config saved once i set it up (excluding the games i download)

And what boot loader you recommend as i want to have linux and windows (but when i boot into windows i need secure boot enabled) i want to be able to pick the OS

[wheat torrent]

Idk about Bootloader

[wheat torrent]

Yes you can

Btrfrs has more advanced features like that than ext4

So go with btrfs

I do remember when I installed Linux I didn't have to do anything about bootloader

When I would load into my Linux distro it asked me to select right there where I want to boot including windows

[dusty egret]

Grub gotta love it

[gaunt spade]

anyony know why i might be getting crappy fps in cs2 with an ultra 9 185h

[gaunt spade]

cs2 cpu usage

[sharp ivy]

game engine?

[gaunt spade]

bruh

[sharp ivy]

what's your GPU

[gaunt spade]

source 2

[gaunt spade]

4060

[sharp ivy]

what do you define as crappy fps

CS2 likes to not use stuff fully

[gaunt spade]

150 and lower

dips to less than 100

[sharp ivy]

weird

[gaunt spade]

its on the full speed mode and its still stuck like thay

[sharp ivy]

it shouldn't be running that bad even at 1440

[gaunt spade]

goofy ass cpu

its a 4060 it cant run at 1440p low????

bs

and gpu was at 30-40% usage

[sharp ivy]

Eh?

[formal sonnet]

Just to confirm, is this laptop plugged into a sufficient charger?

[gaunt spade]

yes

it was running at full fan mode or whatever its called

[sharp ivy]

ye it's an H cpu

[gaunt spade]

4060 can do more than 150 on pc

thats bs even at 1440p

i get more than 150 with an rx 570

its the cpus weird behavior

[ebon marlin]

You dumb as hell kid

I work at a recycling center and we get packard bell laptops all the time those things are so slow and loud just trying to run Linux Mint

Which is a lighter OS than other distros

[sharp ivy]

that's not gonna be a good Win 10 laptop

it's not worth the 50 quid

[ebon marlin]

I've got a Lenovo X230 with Fedora i5 3rd gen 16gb ram and a Samsung 256gb ssd and it's still quite a slow machine

It can't even run discord on it

[sharp ivy]

My Core 2 Duo T6600 with 4gb DDR2 667mhz, Nvidia 8200M G and 120GB ssd with linux mint XFCE is actually pretty decent

I can watch youtube with discord open

so Idunno why yours is struggling with discord

[ebon marlin]

Btw if you want to know how stupid that kid is he's selling his Thinkpad T14 G3 for that

[sharp ivy]

heck I even got my laptop to run shell shockers at an inconsistent 25fps

[sharp ivy]

💀

[ebon marlin]

It's just slow

[sharp ivy]

what OS tho

it shouldn't be that slow

[ebon marlin]

Latest release of Fedora KDE

[sharp ivy]

what

[ebon marlin]

KDE Plasma or whatever they call it

[sharp ivy]

probably a driver thing then

I have many computers that are much slower

yet can do discord

[ebon marlin]

Everything has been updated

[sharp ivy]

try Mint XFCE

[ebon marlin]

I hate Mint

I already work enough with it at work

[sharp ivy]

being unable to open discord is crazy

[ebon marlin]

I can open

It's just it's slow

[sharp ivy]

weird

thermals?

[ebon marlin]

Thermals are fine

Eh doesn't really matter as it's just a browser computer I use for Tarkov wiki when I'm mid raid

Just wanted to use discord one-time to screenshare some SD card pictures I found from cameras since the X230 has a sd card slot

But even that failed since the microphone on this is fucked up

Might be a driver issue idk everythings been updated though

[gaunt spade]

are you smart

[ebon marlin]

No

I'm a larper

[gaunt spade]

i5 3rd gen not running discord

[gaunt spade]

do you know why my ultra 9 is behaving weirdly im not getting enough performance

[ebon marlin]

Intel

Hope this helps

[gaunt spade]

intel with its e cores

🥀🥀🥀🥀

only 6 dreadful p fores

rest e cores and lpe cores 🥀

wtf is this usage in cs2

[tranquil wharf]

too low? 🤔

[gaunt spade]

yes

[tranquil wharf]

sure you're not running at some framerate cap?

[gaunt spade]

nop

[ivory mountain]

Larp larp sahur

[ivory mountain]

Dapoets defending dlss 5 🥀

[gusty wagon]

Messy place

Messy person

[ebon marlin]

I cleaned up to take that pic

My table at work isn't any better

[ebon marlin]

Dlss5 looks interesting imo

Although it'll not be like previous DLSS versions i think

It might run worse instead of giving you performance

Not a fan of carter but his short showcase got me interested at it

https://vm.tnktok.com/ZNR9Lu71a/

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I think they still need more training on young white women for DLSS5

As Grace looks obviously AI

But Leon looks good

https://vm.tnktok.com/ZNR9LVcba/

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Half the stuff here just looks like they raised the brightness

[ivory mountain]

First dude reminds me of the big E

[ebon marlin]

Re9 way more enjoyable now with DLSS5

[clear canyon]

how the hell did it turn leon to epstien

[ebon marlin]

It's not real

[gaunt spade]

is rael

[strange atlas]

Keep getting blue screens + full freezes that doesnt let you do nothing anybody has any idea what could cause this

Temps are fine i can give any information needed

Screen messes up cant see it

like screen glitches

[ebon marlin]

It's doing good things to faces

[strange atlas]

so unfixable error nice

[ebon marlin]

Yeah mate fuck you too

Just installed Linux on to you fuck you blimey mate

It looks good just Grace looks odd

This is just a showcase of the first iteration

Will become better as time passes

[strange atlas]

why not play the actual game like its intended

[gaunt spade]

do i have no hope for this cpu

thanks

[ebon marlin]

It's not any different than downloading something like a HD texture mod for a game

[strange atlas]

since it doesnt let me see the code i dont know

[strange atlas]

yeah i dont do that

i dont even play remakes most of the times

[ebon marlin]

Alot of people do do that especially on older games

Fallout is most notorious for HD texture mods

[strange atlas]

for that i can agree but still when you use it it kinda loses the atmosphere that i like

let me check

[ebon marlin]

You can see from Nvidia's video how it made the atmosphere better

Made alot of smaller details look better

[rose stream]

It's making them unrecognizable, if that's what you consider a good thing.

[strange atlas]

smaller details doesnt make the atmosphere itself

[ebon marlin]

Everything in the showcase is recognizable

[rose stream]

Okay, what game is it even?

[ebon marlin]

Grace looks just odd that's the only thing but that's to be expected from the first iteration

[ebon marlin]

It shows multiple games in the showcase

Resident Evil Requiem and Hogwarts Legacy

[strange atlas]

legacy was ass

[ebon marlin]

Only people who I've seen say that Legacy is a bad game is from blue haired people on twitter

Everyone who has played the game has said it's a good game

[strange atlas]

Legacy isnt a bad game legacys ai enchancing thing is the oen its bad

[ebon marlin]

I don't like Nvidia

But I do like their tech

Only reason why I switched from AMD to Nvidia

[rose stream]

I'm actually just indifferent to the HP franchise in general.
And also still to this day refuse to touch TwatteX.

[strange atlas]

oh god

how am i gonna find this shit

[ebon marlin]

Wonder if this is fixable without replacing the whole keyboard

[strange atlas]

i think sometimes reinstalling windows might be not a bad thing

[ebon marlin]

Yummy a 512gb Samsung nvme for me to steal at work from a new laptop

[ebon marlin]

Table tennis out of everything

Unbelievable tomfoolery

[formal sonnet]

Depends. If the (usually white) switch portion of the key and key itself are intact, it's usually just a matter of re-installing the switch, then the key on top of the switch. Lots of little, brittle plastic bits though. Easy to break.

[strange atlas]

i dont have windows update enabled

i dont want lag spikes thanks

[ebon marlin]

Yeah hope any of the prongs that hold the switch are fine

Not prongs idk what they are

[rose stream]

And this is why I'm going to avoid going with 11 when I end up rebuilding my system.

[formal sonnet]

I mean, Linux is getting pretty damn good at doing everything most people need these days. 👍

[jaunty apex]

Same. Then its patch tuesday

[ebon marlin]

I run a linux server and everything I've got runs linux except my main computer and it'll stay like that

[strange atlas]

i havent reinstalled windows 11 since it came out

i gotta do it asap cause its so much buggy

and having so many problems to even run a single service

[rose stream]

I think the only concern I will have to end up dealing with is not being able to be the backup for my parents whenever they need a system to run something their current stuff can't.

Namely TurboTax, even if technically it's possible to just use the web version... Which I have some minor concerns about.

[ebon marlin]

I'm still running the day 1 public beta installation

[formal sonnet]

Wealthsimple SimpleTax is love; is life. ❤️ And it's 110% free. Alternatively, there's also https://www.bettertax.ca from the same original creators of SimpleTax, also completely free. 🤷 There's no point in paying to file taxes today.

[ivory mountain]

Larp larp sahur

[strange atlas]

I cant backup anyways on main computer using 4 tbs of storage and on (not currently working ) nas 20tbs and all is full to the bin

[ivory mountain]

Wrong reply fuckass discord my fault void

[jaunty apex]

I mean I guess I am larping as someone who actually wants to reinstall windows.

[ivory mountain]

Meant to reply to catto

[strange atlas]

Is windows ever gonna rebuilt the whole system or something

[rose stream]

Mmmm I dunno if I can convince my parents on that honestly.

[strange atlas]

stopped looking to be honest it doesnt say what the actual problem and gotta check it one by one on google

Actually i cant agree with this too much cause i used 98 xp vista and 7 cause then there was hardware issues so you couldnt tell apart and was making you go crazy

[quick wyvern]

Hi I'm first time using live wallpaper thing so I wonder .... does the desktop wallpaper still consuming GPU when i opening something else like .... covering the whole wallpaper?

[strange atlas]

probably gonna do that but gotta find 4 tb of storage to backup first

[quick wyvern]

like technically it doesn't redering the wallpaper anymore write when my windows UI open in full screen

or like google doc covering my whole PC screen .... my desktop wallpaper doesn't consume GPU anymore right?

for CPU, I get it, it still running in the background, but mostly doesn't consume much since is just watching a video on the wallpaper ... but how much GPU?

[ebon marlin]

I have a pretty good beefy mid tier computer and having those kinda stuff run in the background decreased my performance a shitton

7800x3d 5070

[quick wyvern]

wait .... what? having live wallpaper running .... decrease PC performance?

did I ..... read correctly? like how?

[ebon marlin]

Well yeah it's quite obvious

You're running a program to play a video in the background

[quick wyvern]

oh oh nvm i read it wrongly my bad XD

sorry English is not my 1st language sorry

i read descrease as in improving sorry

[ebon marlin]

English is my 3rd language that's just skill issue

[quick wyvern]

ok so ...man, is there a way make wallpaper stationary when open something else in fullscreen?

or is there an wallpaper app ..... performance-friendly?

[ebon marlin]

Yeah and I had that enabled on my system and it still tanked performance by quite alot

Not really they all eat performance

[quick wyvern]

weird .... even it become a stationary PNG still consuming? 🤔

[ebon marlin]

Yes because it's still a running process

[quick wyvern]

hmm alright

[ebon marlin]

It's also running checks to see if you're running a game

Wallpaper engine has a setting to pause itself when a game is running to save system resources but didn't do much for me

[formal sonnet]

If you just set a static background image using the Windows 11 Settings app, it won't consume much of anything. If you're running a third party app that changes the composition of the desktop... what @ebon marlin said. Resources.

[quick wyvern]

that's sux .... was planning to make a fancy desktop then realize cost GPU performance ...

[quick wyvern]

ya .... windows doesn't have their own live wallpaper feature right?

[formal sonnet]

Even if they did. It. Would. Consume. Resources. This is like asking if there's a better way to prevent your battery dying in your car when you've deliberately installed 400 dashcams. You're sucking battery power. It's going to die.

[ebon marlin]

Just have a good png background

[hearty mirage]

Nvidia mods in their subreddit are in ABSOLUTE damage control

[quick wyvern]

what a bummer .... alright guess I give up this fancy feature then, thx!

[ebon marlin]

I've got mine which I made myself with Kaito nendoroid in Kamurocho from Yakuza

Need to update it to something new though

Probably something same as my laptop

@formal sonnet do you know what could be an issue with my Dell laptop
It refuses to boot to Linux Mint I've got Legacy boot stuff enabled, fast boot disabled and secure boot also disabled

"no boot device found" even though I just installed Linux Mint on it via USB and even bios sees the SSD

[formal sonnet]

Could be your boot USB, could be an obscure BIOS setting, could be a potato in the matrix weasels.

[ebon marlin]

No USB attached since Linux Mint is already installed on the drive

Like Linux Mint is already installed on the drive it just refuses to boot to it

[formal sonnet]

Try making a bootable Live Linux Mint USB, then installing it onto the same SSD. If it works and boots on subsequent restarts, welp, you'll have found your problem. 😉

[timid mural]

I hope YouTube won’t bitch at me for this

[bronze summit]

I have a stupid question

[hearty mirage]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[bronze summit]

Should I do a dual monitor setup?

I am getting a new 27 incher and idk if I should put my 25 inch to bed or use them both

[timid mural]

@formal sonnet for context, YouTube will fully upload the file and as soon as it finishes processing, it would say “processing failed”.

[formal sonnet]

Yes. Dual monitor is love; is life. ❤️

[ebon marlin]

I got banned in Nvidia's server for once asking should I get a 7900 GRE or a 4070

[bronze summit]

I'll give it a try I'm really excited for my new setup Kirashi

[hearty mirage]

I plan to do triple monitor for my simracing

[ebon marlin]

Oh wait no it was a 6950xt

That's all I asked and got banned from that

[bronze summit]

I'm getting the Teevolution Terra Mouse

[timid mural]

Which also doesn’t make sense that I was able to upload this 240GB to YouTube with no issues.

[ebon marlin]

I already said before I don't like Nvidia

Learn to read perhaps

Damn what was Intel cooking up back then why is i7-7600U a dual core cpu

[hearty mirage]

I'm glad I got my 7800 XT

Got it for like 800 CAD off of Memory Express

[ebon marlin]

I was kinda forced to go for Nvidia since I own an OLED monitor

But it was a good deal 430€

2 5070's

I've never said anything about Nvidia software

And that too I don't like

Literally yesterday I got a bsod from signing into the Nvidia App

Coffee are you a child since no person thinks like this other than a child

Genuinely what is wrong with you

[formal sonnet]

You can like X while hating Y... For example, Starlink. The guy behind it? Ew, gross, disgusting capitalist man-child. 🤮 The tech? Yeah, it kinda rocks for people who have no other viable option to get high-speed internet access.

[ebon marlin]

I dislike Nvidia but I wouldn't be able to take advantage of my OLED monitor properly without Nvidia

AMD still has frequent issues regarding HDR

[midnight wind]

So you like pancakes

[ebon marlin]

On my 2 6950xt's and 3 6800xt's HDR was quite literally unusable

Instead of HDR working it just turned everything grey

[gaunt spade]

just turn on dlls 5

[ebon marlin]

Is it out publicly

[gaunt spade]

fuh nah

i dont think 4.5 is even out

[ebon marlin]

Been out for ages now

[gaunt spade]

?

[ebon marlin]

Been using it on Tarkov for a month or 2 now

Maybe not 2 months

[gaunt spade]

beta?

[ebon marlin]

Official

No beta or alpha

4.5 has been out for a long time now

[gaunt spade]

wait i mean framegen

[ebon marlin]

Framegen 4x on Resident Evil 9 looks shit but on Cyberpunk 4x looks good with no smearing or anything

[ebon marlin]

They really need to work out framegen properly before releasing higher framegen models

[ebon marlin]

And it's not I had a bad base framerate on Re9 my base framerate was 60 or 75fps can't remember which

I own 2 copies of it

Barely have played Re9 though

Been mostly just playing Tarkov lately

Re9 hasn't really been that interesting for me

I still need to play through Re6 with my girlfriend

We already played through Re5 together

My favorite is probably Re2 still

Re3 was also pretty good imo could've been better though if they didn't remove content from the remake

Yummy rgb corsair psu

Nah

I hate tank controls

Nah

Remake is objectively better

The camera angle stuff too

Those hold 0 value to me

Yes I'm a fake fan because i don't care about secret costumes

You're so right

Fake fan

I care about the gameplay I like Resident Evil because it's gameplay is good anf fun

[gaunt spade]

which one is the best one

[ebon marlin]

Somewhat I usually read through all the files I get

[ebon marlin]

Re2R and Re4R imo

Re5 is amazing too

[gaunt spade]

what about new ones

[ebon marlin]

Re9 hasn't really peaked my interest

Every game has different lore ur asking a broad question

[gaunt spade]

ive only played 7 and 8

[ebon marlin]

Umbrella

I don't really remember much about Resident Evil stories last time I played them was few years ago

Last time I played Resident Evil was few years ago

I don't remember that sorta stuff it's not important stuff for me to remember

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nerd-actually-um-8OYnFrez06yQt9zJFW

[ebon marlin]

Yeah I'm a fake fan because I don't remember what happened in a game I last played few years ago

Your logic is flawless

Resident Evil's lore is good but not good enough for me to remember it perfectly for multiple years

You're very childish coffee

[gaunt spade]

which one is the longest game

[ebon marlin]

Damn didn't realise it took me this long to 100% re4 lol

[gaunt spade]

isnt 7 also the worst

[ebon marlin]

You mean 6?

As Re7 is what revived Resident Evil from bankruptcy

[gaunt spade]

yea typo

[ebon marlin]

Re6 does fall in the same category as Re5 in terms of how good it is

[gaunt spade]

ive only beaten 7 a few times and 8 once

[ebon marlin]

If you play it alone it's going to be buttcheeks but when you play it together with someone it's lots of fun

Eh buttcheeks might be wrong wording since buttcheeks is a good thing

[gaunt spade]

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

[ebon marlin]

Now you're being the fake fan

Resident Evil 5 and 6 were a massive success

Opposite of flopped

Re5 was literally Capcoms highest selling Resident Evil game

Until Re4 Remake overtook it

?? Holy fake fan

Re5 was a massive success in sales

Their best selling games before Remakes

Also Re5 is a great game

One of my favorites personally

[gaunt spade]

whats the most similar to 7-8 cuz i like those

[ebon marlin]

Resident Evil 9

7 and 8 are unique no other Resident Evil is like it

Re9 is a mix of Re7-8 and Re4

When you play as Grace it's like Re7-8 and when you play as Leon it's like Re4

This is literally a massive self report holy lmao

[gaunt spade]

52 dollhairs

[ebon marlin]

Re6 might not be the best gameplay wise but Re5 definitely is

[glossy veldt]

anyone saw this a couple of dyas ago

[ebon marlin]

Also another massive self report

Pal is just a larper

[gaunt spade]

did u get scammed

[glossy veldt]

and you @lethal bay

[lethal bay]

wat

[glossy veldt]

guess who got the cheapest 8gbs of ddr4 of 2026

[ebon marlin]

Me

[glossy veldt]

me!!

[ebon marlin]

I steal ram from work

So it's free

[glossy veldt]

i paid 14 bucks for 8gb of crucial 2666

[ebon marlin]

I paid 0 for like almost 100gb worth of ram

[glossy veldt]

thats cool

[gaunt spade]

slow

[glossy veldt]

oh not to worry

its the fastest my i3 can support

[ebon marlin]

Also couple years ago I got like 5-6 2x16gb kits of ddr4 3600mhzcl18 and 2 kits of 2x32gb 3600c18 for free from temu

[glossy veldt]

im so happy

i mean i got dumped yesterday but look

14 dollar ram

[ebon marlin]

But slow ddr4 isn't really that expensive I see same ram for around the same price here

[gaunt spade]

ive won but at what cost

[ebon marlin]

Yeah

[glossy veldt]

oh i'm from Argentina the fact you possibly don't know anything about it

tells a lot probably

[ebon marlin]

Yeah I don't know much about shitholes personally

[glossy veldt]

it is a shithole you can't define it better

import taxes would rip my head off

[ebon marlin]

Finland is the place to be

[glossy veldt]

i love the people i really do but it's so expensive to get shit around and there's a clear disparity between provinces

i say the cheapest i've seen ram go for is... 50 dollars equivalent or something

my allowance is only 100ish usd monthly

[ebon marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/uma-musume-meep-low-cortisol-dance-chibi-gif-17107758709618840273

[glossy veldt]

id need to spend my entire allowance on just 8gb of ram

also

i can proudly say i have matching ram sticks

maxed my cpu's supported ram speed

and have a matching gpu with enoughish power for it

[ebon marlin]

Probably not the smartest idea to buy stuff brand new that are in a shortage

[glossy veldt]

definitely not the smartest

definitely got something cheaper than pre-shortage

[glossy veldt]

it does feel like that but oh well

i can enjoy my beautiful 16 gigabytes of ram

[gaunt spade]

16gb 🥀

[ebon marlin]

Who do you think I am lol

Although he is pretty goated

Has some good things and some bad things

But can't really talk about politics here

[gaunt spade]

🥀🥀🥀

[ebon marlin]

Working at a recycling center I find the most interesting stuff

Why is there a flash drive by a fashion brand

[gaunt spade]

plug

old man

[ebon marlin]

Damn thought it was some cheap AliExpress flash drive

Although I'm pretty sure it's USB2 though

Yeah pins don't look like anything from 1996

[gaunt spade]

only in america

[ebon marlin]

It uses flat pins like this

[topaz shale]

hello

[ebon marlin]

USB 2.0

Usb 2.0 came out in 2000

Gonna check what it has

[gaunt spade]

usb 4 out?

[ebon marlin]

Usb4 has been a thing for many years

[proper gull]

They're not even in america

[ebon marlin]

It's a 4gb flash drive with just a docx file

Useless can't even use it as a boot drive or anything

[iron glen]

cout fit an iso in there

[ebon marlin]

linux mint definitely but already got it on other drives at work

[iron glen]

the humble LFS or whats it called

[iron glen]

idk how it works actually idk if you need a boot drive for it

[gaunt spade]

big enough

[iron glen]

knee slapper

idk, toasty 6C for me

[proper gull]

USB flash drives weren't even a thing unlike like 99 and not widespread until the 2000s

[ebon marlin]

Yeah thanks mate we'll do so much with this hard drive thank you for donating this to our recycling center

[proper gull]

You've clearly not spent enough time on the internet if you're worried about that

[iron glen]

could make it into a speaker

i have a video 1 sec

[gaunt spade]

so tuff

[quasi field]

My mom is recommending this pc to her friends kid… is this PC ok?

[ebon marlin]

Is this ragebait

That's not worth more than 300 at best

[iron glen]

the humble RAM prices

[plush wren]

6500xt in the big 26

[ebon marlin]

Ddr4 is not that expensive

[iron glen]

oh
i figured everythings trough the roof

[proper gull]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-wheeze-gif-14488819

[ebon marlin]

If you look on the used market you can find 8gb sticks for 10-20 bucks

[topaz shale]

this pc was 500$ on black friday

[plush wren]

Yea but I dont think cyberpower is gonna be buying used ram

[mellow sonnet]

fancy case but specs out of a 2020 low end

[proper gull]

Not even a fancy case it just looks fancy

[iron glen]

hows it hanging G

[plush wren]

5$ keyboard and muose with it

[plush wren]

im good wbu

[ebon marlin]

Iirc cyberpowrr allows you to buy prebuilts without ram

[topaz shale]

genuinely a terrible deal even today

[quasi field]

A 1tb ssd cost around $200

[ebon marlin]

Many others do this

[ebon marlin]

Nah around 100 bucks

[iron glen]

was sick, getting better
trying to catch up on whatevers going on at school

[sour remnant]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[plush wren]

oh yea im sick as well lol

[topaz shale]

this pc is so egregiously priced that my discount on it is about 30%

[iron glen]

i think everyone is rn
i have like 4 different substitutes for today

[plush wren]

this is a even better deal

[topaz shale]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-tuf-t500-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i5-13420h-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-8gb-1tb-ssd-eclipse-gray/JJGGLHC49R/sku/6613428?sb_share_source=PDP&ref=app_pdp&loc=pdp_page

@quasi field

[iron glen]

for a second i thought this was one of those xeno devices or wtv the fortnite kids are drooling over

[topaz shale]

this may not be the best deal but its a lot better lmao

[quasi field]

I think Dlss 5 is awesome! I love when games look more AI generated. I think it makes it feel more real! Since companies won’t need to hire game designers anymore games are gonna look more ai generated anyway… ||/s||

[sour remnant]

[ebon marlin]

Ou jea laptop parts

[sour remnant]

Gotta be ragebait

[topaz shale]

oh fuck this is one of those?

[proper gull]

You missed the very obvious sarcasm

[sour remnant]

[sour remnant]

^

[ebon marlin]

Yea i5-13420h

[iron glen]

lovely

[topaz shale]

your dns may be configured wrong

or restrictive, not necessarily wrong

[iron glen]

idk i figured its smth smth politics smth smth and thats why

[ebon marlin]

I can access it noobs

[topaz shale]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-rog-g700-gaming-desktop-intel-core-ultra-5-225f-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-8gb-1tb-ssd-black/JJGGLH353R/sku/6613425?sb_share_source=PDP&ref=app_pdp&loc=pdp_page

oh check this one out, real cpu this time lol

[iron glen]

..the case looks good ig?

[topaz shale]

999 rn lowkey a good deal

[ebon marlin]

Way better deal

[plush wren]

wtf why are the ports on the front panel

[topaz shale]

thats on me i didnt realize the tuf cases had laptop chips

[quasi field]

Would you rather have a RTX 5060ti 8gb or a 9060XT 16gb

[topaz shale]

probably 9060xt just cause of the vram

otherwise 5060ti

[fallen sky]

Hai chat

[ebon marlin]

I last played resident evil 2 few years ago

I'm not going to remember such details

[stray portal]

Minecraft

[plush wren]

gui scaling is set to the max i guess

[topaz shale]

why is your f3 so large

[stray portal]

its on auto

minecraft doesnt like laptops i think

[topaz shale]

just set your gui scale to 3

[stray portal]

thats what i have on my desktop

But on laptop anything under 5 is too small

[topaz shale]

i love how i can see everything about your minecraft instance and pc on f3

its toe tickling

[stray portal]

😨

[topaz shale]

cachyos?

[stray portal]

Im too lazy to install the curseforge app so i use the ftb app flatpak since it supports curseforge mods and such

[stray portal]

Yes

[plush wren]

[topaz shale]

i think modrinth has native linux support

should try that, heard its a better launcher too

[stray portal]

Yeah its better but has some stinky stuff in it

Also a lot of modpacks and mods that i use are only on curseforge for some reason

[topaz shale]

why you playing on 1.21.8 tho?

1.21.11 is so optimized its not even funny anymore

[gaunt spade]

why vsync

[topaz shale]

like minecraft runs AMAZING on any system now

i can play with iris shaders on ultra and get 120fps

[stray portal]

well ive had this instance for a long time and until recently 1.21.11 didnt have the stuff i wanted, but i think it might be time to update

[ebon marlin]

Vulkan version?

Or is it not out yet

[stray portal]

Vulkan stuff comes out around summer 2026

[ebon marlin]

Ay caramba

[stray portal]

And by end of 2026 it will fully replace opengl

[topaz shale]

oh is vulkan with the baby animals update

[ebon marlin]

Even in older versions?

[stray portal]

I dont think so

[ebon marlin]

I don't understand the outrage then

[topaz shale]

oh so it will be with whatevers announced at mc live

[ebon marlin]

People who run stuff that don't even support vulkan can't even run newer versions

[stray portal]

Some people think it will end modding but it wont, sodium dev ported it to vulkan in 3 hours

Iris shaders is dead (dev confirmed it) but pretty much all the iris devs are working on something new

[ebon marlin]

Yeah lmao and especially in this era with AI models like Claude it's shouldn't be that difficult at all

[topaz shale]

minecraft modding scene has been around as long as the game has

i doubt an update would kill it

[stray portal]

60hz laptop screen and i dont want to make it run at max power

Cuz then it might end battery life

[plush wren]

just limit the framerate

[stray portal]

Wouldnt it be the same

[gaunt spade]

plug in

[plush wren]

ig but like i'd rather play on 80 fps than 60

[stray portal]

I can get smooth 60fps on power savings mode i dont need more

[gaunt spade]

no 120hz?

[stray portal]

no

[gaunt spade]

🥀

[stray portal]

Its a laptop

[gaunt spade]

ok and?

[stray portal]

On my Computer i have 165hz 🤑 🤑 🤑

[gaunt spade]

laptops habe 120hz

[plush wren]

ok and

[ebon marlin]

What do people think we will do with 6 defibrillators at a recycling center

[gaunt spade]

?

i said that in general

[abstract wigeon]

are they working

[cold skiff]

See if they can shock each other

[ebon marlin]

Idk

Threw them out

We can't sell stuff here where the safety liability would fall on us

How do you expect me to test a defib? Will you come die so i can revive you

Potentially revive you

These things

Why is the pic upside down brah

Loop earplugs

[gaunt spade]

goofy

[ebon marlin]

Pal bought em just to donate it to js instead of returning them

[gaunt spade]

i cant find the pal gif

[gaunt spade]

im the biggest bird

[fickle ivy]

Oml meta is intentionally making the quest 2 experience worse to make people buy quest 3s

[ebon marlin]

How so

[gaunt spade]

when does 4 come out

[ebon marlin]

Tomorrow mate

[fickle ivy]

Everything's just gotten worse

Nothing 'just works' anymore

[ebon marlin]

Sounds like you should reinstall the Quest2's OS

[fickle ivy]

I'll have to do 2-3 restarts just to get it to open the menu properly, let alone if I wanna do quest link I have to restart my computer multiple times, restart the headset multiple times, it usually takes 30 minutes just to get quest link to work, and then it immediately crashes if I try to open the link menu

[fickle ivy]

Already have

[ebon marlin]

Gay

[fickle ivy]

Twice I think now

I blame the lizard man

[ebon marlin]

gay

[fickle ivy]

At least I don't have one with the shitty meta branding

[ebon marlin]

Grown ass man saying that

[fickle ivy]

Who?

[ebon marlin]

Coffee

[fickle ivy]

Omg this fucking headset

[gaunt spade]

old man too

[ebon marlin]

Very old

[gaunt spade]

is the quest 2 90hz atleast

or 72

[fickle ivy]

I left it on the charger, fully powered off, turn it on today after taking it off the charger, 6% battery

[fickle ivy]

I think 120hz

[gaunt spade]

hmm

i remember performance was crap tho on roblox

[fickle ivy]

I don't notice a difference on anything past 60 ngl, not like any games are running 120fps on that thing anyways

[fickle ivy]

YEAHP

Exactly what I was just thinking

[gaunt spade]

ive had a few 2s and once a 3

[fickle ivy]

Im very very interested in the steam frame when it comes out

From what I understand it's a standalone with PCVR capability?

Ofc not the performance but access to steam PCVR titles

[gaunt spade]

idk but it aint comin soon

[fickle ivy]

Not like I'm gonna be able to afford it any time soon

$12 to my name 🥲

And I'm about to get $300 and immediately blow it on a new camera lens

[ebon marlin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1040415733374533675/1460573072380661791/togif.gif

[fickle ivy]

I have this piece of shit plugged into a 20 watt charger, minimum brightness, no apps or games open, still managing to lose ~1% of power every minute 🫩

[gaunt spade]

no battery pack?

[fickle ivy]

I accidentally broke the cord

[ebon marlin]

Quest 2 supports upto 15w charging

[gaunt spade]

what 😭

[ebon marlin]

Have y'all seen this

[gaunt spade]

cat

[fickle ivy]

I snapped the usb-c connecter off

[gaunt spade]

how

[ebon marlin]

He's stupid and fat

[fickle ivy]

I was using it and it got snagged on something

[gaunt spade]

sad

[ebon marlin]

It's just the breed

[gaunt spade]

not fixeable?

[ebon marlin]

He's a scottish fold

[fickle ivy]

Probably not, I threw it out anyways

[gaunt spade]

🥀

[fickle ivy]

It was just a short usb-c to c, I'll find a replacement eventually

[ebon marlin]

You're gay

I have a girlfriend

[glacial cliff]

looking for the ltt vid where he works on upgrading kids' 3d print farm setup but i can't find it

anyone got a link / remember the name?

[gaunt spade]

the new one?

[gaunt spade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8lvHkL1FqY

[glacial cliff]

that was indeed the one i was looking for

i'd seen those printers a lot accross numerous youtubers and wanted to look more into them 😄

[frigid blade]

https://youtu.be/ctiZSRa3_2s?si=VUyjpE8ZpKgM1HLt

I didn’t think he would cover the ram crisis

[sinful cobalt]

ram

[cold skiff]

I think this is gonna be my new favourite meme. Louis Theroux reacting Hstikkytokky getting offended by being compared to Bonnie blue

[ebon marlin]

Who is vro

[coarse grotto]

im havving a weird issue here , google tells me my password is wrong, i havent changed that password since 2024, both firefox password manager and lastpass have the password for it , neither work.. if i type it manually also no go, (i have a recovery phonenumber set but that simcard is broken atm so if google would send a whatsapp message instead of a regular one id be saved and use that). but since all 3 of my entry methods cant be havving a typo day and the system where im still logged in tells me that the password indeed did not get changed ...

[tall sandal]

I have a question

In sponsored reviews of laptops, is there better thermals and all? Or anything. Like less defects.

I have seen this guy, a laptop reviewer not sponsored once got a defective ROG Strix, ran 10-15 hotter than the rest due to a horrific manufacturing defect.

But I feel like this never happens in sponsored reviews, they get send a golden sample

[ebon marlin]

It just sounds like Asus quality

[tall sandal]

This sucks honestly. There should be better quality control for such an expensive product

[tall sandal]

Is there a problem with it

The reviewer received a defective Product

[rigid fjord]

never go by reviews sponsored by the brand

[tall sandal]

Yea exactly, that’s what I am trying to confirm

I had a suspicion that it’s a golden unit they get

[ebon marlin]

It just sounds like average Asus product quality

https://tenor.com/view/hmmmmmmm-hmmmmmm-hmmmm-hm-hmm-gif-2339932555530048784

[tall sandal]

Man is ASUS quality bad?

[ebon marlin]

Always has been

[tall sandal]

Hp Omen is bad

[ebon marlin]

Customer support equally as bad

[tall sandal]

Has bad build quality

[ebon marlin]

RMA service probably one of the worst there is

[tall sandal]

a few years back, I got a Lenovo legion

[ebon marlin]

You rarely hear a brand destroying other persons stuff to deny an RMA but Asus is full of it

[tall sandal]

it was very defective, it has horrific thermal throttling and it wasn’t happening in other units

I did a stress test on day one, I just returned the laptop the same day, it was the worst thing I had ever seen.

[ebon marlin]

Every brand has its share of bad apples

[tall sandal]

It was the worst throttling ever, if I remember above 60%.

[tall sandal]

I got so unlucky

[ebon marlin]

Although Asus it's like 90% of it's products are bad apples

[tall sandal]

Never ever will get a legion

Permanently lost trust

Or anything from Lenovo, my dad thinks same too.

[tall sandal]

But HP is bad too, the omen has horrible build quality.

Jarrods tech video it creaks

and the hinges feel loose

[ebon marlin]

Unfortunately Lenovo is like the gold standard in laptops

HP is known to be shit

[tall sandal]

They run hot doe, the 7i especially

[ebon marlin]

Depends on use case

[tall sandal]

Don’t buy bro

Please.

[ebon marlin]

Didn't you say you had a defective unit?

[tall sandal]

The quality control is horrible

How could a unit like that passed QA with over 60% throttling

[ebon marlin]

Lenovo Legion 5 is solid even comes with OLED screens

[tall sandal]

I’ve never seen that on a laptop ever

A few years back Lenovo legion 5

I got a faulty unit

I’m impressed how did that even happen

[ebon marlin]

By your logic every Lenovo unit is a faulty unit

Your logic is clealy flawless

[tall sandal]

Yes but it’s scary to get another Lenovo product

[ebon marlin]

Like I said every brand has its share of bad apples that slip through the cracks

[tall sandal]

Plus my parents wouldn’t even let me after what happened

My dad said no, absolutely not.

[ebon marlin]

Yeah man it's so scary to buy a good product I think I'm going to die of a heart attack cause im so scared

Third worlders are funny

[rigid fjord]

then there's gigabyte who just blames the consumer for any issues gigabyte causes themself, including faulty products from the get go

[tall sandal]

As I mentioned by parents wouldn’t let me. I did suggest it was a faulty unit and new models have good thermals, but they wouldn’t listen

[ebon marlin]

Yummy

[tall sandal]

that’s how my dad is man

nothing we can do abt that

[rigid fjord]

depending on use, either legion 5's or thinkpad's

[ebon marlin]

Eh education isn't good in third world countries so can't blame em

[ebon marlin]

Thinkpads aren't really made for gaming

[tall sandal]

He doesn’t understand this stuff as well

[ebon marlin]

Moreso for casual/office usecase

[tall sandal]

Asus ROG is good doe

[ebon marlin]

Although newer ones good igpus can do lighter gaming

[ebon marlin]

Asus is dogshit

[tall sandal]

It’s very premium and really good thermals if you don’t get a defect with the Liquid Metal

[ebon marlin]

Asus and premium in the same sentence

[tall sandal]

if there was no defects ever, like you cold snap your fingers and no defects ever. It would be good

The problem is it may have a higher defect rate idk

[ebon marlin]

You have a very peculiar way of thinking

[tall sandal]

Hp is worse

[ebon marlin]

I like that

[tall sandal]

But what do you think about HP

Genuinely the build quality sucks

[ebon marlin]

HP here in Finland is known as "Halpaa Paskaa" which translates to "Cheap shit"

[tall sandal]

Fr

[ebon marlin]

That is my opinion on HP

[tall sandal]

Same, it’s bad.

It’s got good thermals at least, on the omen 16 but that’s it

[ebon marlin]

Holy battery degrade

15 cycles destroyed 5000mwh

Dayum

[tall sandal]

Lmao what laptop is this

It looks old

[ebon marlin]

Dell Latitude 5280

It's fairly old i7 7th gen

I work at a recycling center and I work in the tech department

[tall sandal]

What’s your daily driver

[ebon marlin]

Lowkey i just be digging in my butt the whole day and steal 1tb of ssd storage and 16-32gb of ram daily

[ebon marlin]

An older Lenovo laptop although I don't use it since I don't need it

[tall sandal]

You have a desktop

[rough salmon]

is the 4090 good in 2026 and can it do ray tracing

[ebon marlin]

Don't need one

[tall sandal]

You talk a lot about tech but don’t have high end specs

Hmmm, very active here

[ebon marlin]

This is my work place

[tall sandal]

I see

[ebon marlin]

I don't need high end tech at my work

[tall sandal]

What about personal life

[ebon marlin]

I don't need anything other than just flash drives containing windows and Linux

[tall sandal]

Your own desktop and laptop

What about gaming

[ebon marlin]

Only god mid tier stuff since I don't need the best

7800x3d and 5070 is enough for me

[tall sandal]

That’s high end

That’s honestly an amazing setup, wish I would have that

[ebon marlin]

That's mid tier

[tall sandal]

And a desktop so I could stop worrying about these Damm thermals bro

[ebon marlin]

Cost me 1k for this

[tall sandal]

https://youtu.be/3a0tfxPaenw?si=kKoaMtYbpRKxhr8x

https://youtu.be/7enkvRnfhs0?si=lDgPz3z1vwx97clb

[ebon marlin]

Got an OLED monitor as my main although will probably upgrade to a new one soon or later

[tall sandal]

These run hot, it’s a Powerful CPU in a laptop

ASUS TUF A16, sent videos

[ebon marlin]

I mostly just collect phones though

[tall sandal]

Abnormal for a desktop

[sinful cobalt]

thats a hotbox that didnt have fans and using a LP cooler

[ebon marlin]

Do have other stuff though like a Lenovo Legion Go, Steam Deck, Lenovo Loq 15IAX9E, Dell Precision 7560 etc etc many more

[tall sandal]

These are mine, laptop temps. Turbo mode

[robust forum]

Fake Frames 4 vs Fake Frames 5

[tall sandal]

ADIA64 also I’ve done

[tall sandal]

@cobalt wave these are mine