tech-chat-1

[exotic cape]

1000w is only $150

[mint umbra]

I just looking for GPU that produces less heat cuz my room is a sauna in the summer

[sinful cobalt]

your only real options without any performance cost is a 5070ti

[mint umbra]

Was looking at 5070 and just dropping back down to 1440p

[sinful cobalt]

why

even with a 5070 just slap dlss 4.5 performance at 4k

[mint umbra]

I doubt on higher end titles I would get great fps

[sinful cobalt]

DLSS performance pretty much closes the gap to the XTX doing nativr

[mint umbra]

Currently with xtz I get like 70 fps on harder to run titles

I'd rather not depend on dlss

I'd rather just use res my GPU can Handel native

[sinful cobalt]

Yeah we have the good tech- Lets not use it

[native path]

I’m off work.

[rigid fjord]

it's damocles....what you expect

[mint umbra]

Rather buy it for 1440p where it would last longer

1440p GPU would last longer

[sinful cobalt]

logic -100

[native path]

HEAVY +1 on this

[mint umbra]

Than at 4k

[sinful cobalt]

DLSS 4K performance literally has an internal render of 1080p

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1055103856465428532/1489108393493921843/image0.gif

[mint umbra]

I just don't think 4k is worth it

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/sparxie-honkai-starrail-honkai-sparkle-spank-gif-6638160262656647081

[mint umbra]

Would rather just get higher fps on 1440p

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/sight-anime-girl-vegetables-annoyed-gif-15446051

[mint umbra]

240hz monitor and never gets close to it

Seems like a waste

[sinful cobalt]

I undervolt and use DLSS performance +FG to get 226

[mint umbra]

I don't like fg

Don't like the latency

[gaunt spade]

fg is good

[sinful cobalt]

its really not there with good base framerate unless you’re doing x3 or x4

[gaunt spade]

depends on the game and fps

[mint umbra]

I tried it on mhw and felt awful

[sinful cobalt]

XTX and mhw moment

[mint umbra]

So I'm good on framegen

Tried it on ghost of Tsushima and it turn cut scenes black screen

I've just had to many issues with it

So don't bother using it

[sinful cobalt]

if thats on the XTX its a different story from nvidia

[mint umbra]

When I was buying GPU a couple of years ago everyone in there mother told me to buy this GPU

Now mfs saying it's shit

[sinful cobalt]

lolololol the xtx really aged like ice out in the hot summer

[mint umbra]

What a waste of 1k

[grizzled frost]

for the low low price of your first born child

[mint umbra]

Isn't that same case for Samsung fold

Folds in general just expensive

[native path]

Apple child.

[mint umbra]

Was told nivida not worth it

But the opposite seems to be true

[sinful cobalt]

i tried the 9070xt for a while and its a good card for minesweeper

this gen really just exposed what side ages better

[mint umbra]

Well I'm kinda stuck with this card

[grizzled frost]

yes but it’s more fun to make fun of apple’s prices

[native path]

And to make fun of a Damocles take

[mint umbra]

Cuz GPU prices too expensive

To get a different one

So I'm stuck with card till prices come down

Which could be years

[native path]

The 7900xtx isn’t a bad card why are you saying you’re stuck with it

[sinful cobalt]

because apparently it produces too much heat and he isnt willing to use features to make up for the raw performance diff lol

[mint umbra]

Worse than nivida counter parts

Framegen doesn't make it produce less heat

[native path]

Comparison is the thief of joy

[sinful cobalt]

8gb vram

[mint umbra]

Bro it's 100w on ideal

[native path]

I thought all you do is game and browse the web

[mint umbra]

I do

[native path]

Why do you care about this now instead of doing your research before buying it

[mint umbra]

Cuz I'm getting cooked alive when gaming

[exotic cape]

TO BE FAIR it is a very hot card, and there is a few watts pumping through it.

[mint umbra]

From the heat it produces

[native path]

Get a big ass fan

Move it to a different room

[exotic cape]

My bedroom is very often towards 32c when I play games.

[mint umbra]

Oh yes a fan to blow the hot air around

[sinful cobalt]

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/280329/asus-rtx5090-32768-251013

[mint umbra]

A fan ain't doing nothing but blow hot air

[native path]

Don’t suck in the hot air???

Open a window and start using your brain

[mint umbra]

I do have a window open in the summer it don't make a difference mate

[native path]

Maybe use a fan to suck in the air

AI has turned your brain to jelly

[mint umbra]

When it's 25+ degrees

[native path]

It’s 30 degrees right now and I’m perfectly fine

Stop whining about your situation and enjoy your computer

[mint umbra]

Just cuz ur used to hot weather doesn't mean every one is

[native path]

Or cry about it in another server

[native path]

Oh suddenly you care about how other people feel

Was the “when it’s 25+ degrees” supposed to move me

[mint umbra]

I never said it was all I was saying was opening a window won't make a difference if it's already hot outside

[native path]

So what makes you think having a card producing less heat would do

It’s already hot anyways and it’ll stay hot unless you get that AC you were blabbering about

[mint umbra]

To not make it 10 degrees hotter than it is outside

[native path]

So how about suck in the air that is 10 degrees colder than it is inside

[mint umbra]

My fans don't suck air

[native path]

Then it’s not a fan

[mint umbra]

They just blow air

[native path]

Where does the air come from

What do you think “intake” and “exhaust” with PC fans mean

[mint umbra]

Either way fans don't make enough a difference

[native path]

AI jelly brain

[green shell]

You wont stay frosty for too long there

[mint umbra]

I hardly even use ai but ok buddy

[native path]

I make everything around me frosty.

[native path]

Yeah AI uses you instead

[green shell]

[mint umbra]

I've tried blowing the hot air out of the room hardly made a difference

[native path]

BLOW THE COLD AIR IN

[mint umbra]

And room to small to fit more than one fan

[native path]

I know a thing or two about making things frosty

[mint umbra]

Fan can't go next to window

No room for it

[native path]

Or if you want to go even further, get tips from @green shell

[mint umbra]

Windows are behind my monitors

[green shell]

Its 38c here in my city

[native path]

Not so icy now is it

[mint umbra]

Couldn't put a fan there if I wanted to

[green shell]

I make everything around me icy

[native path]

So how did you try to blow the hot air out

[native path]

Why’s it 38 degrees then? It used to be 40C here and I brought it down to 30

[green shell]

I am not even sure if you both talking about case fans or ceiling fans

[mint umbra]

Blow it out the room into the hallway

[leaden zenith]

What's the difference between a rx 470 and 480 is it worth it to pay more

[native path]

So there’s a hallway now

[green shell]

Valid point
Seems like I am not as efficient as you

[mint umbra]

Yes my room connects to a hallway

[humble scroll]

what do we think of this

[native path]

How about suck the colder air in from the hallway into your room

[green shell]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[green shell]

Just get an AC

Cool the air in the room
Ez

[native path]

With it folded open it kinda resembles an iPad Mini Pro

[humble scroll]

I mean I’m excited for Apple to make a foldable, usually they perfect gimmicks lol

[humble scroll]

I’d imagine it would have a small Dynamic Island for Face ID. I made this to show the scale

[mint umbra]

They are just using Samsung screens would really say they perfect it lmao

[green shell]

This doesmt look like apple
More like Google pixel

[mint umbra]

Like Samsung will be using same screens

[humble scroll]

I believe they used a different camera design on the final version I used an old 3d model. Let me see if I have it

[humble scroll]

Samsungs quality without their crappy software and processors, perfect

[mint umbra]

Crappy processors ???

They are using Snapdragon chops

[green shell]

Oneui is nice tho
Dunno about its processor

[humble scroll]

here’s the case models that were recently shown

[humble scroll]

Exactly 🤔

[mint umbra]

How are the Samsung processors crappy

[green shell]

Shown where and what iPhone is this for

[mint umbra]

How are they crappy exactly

[humble scroll]

My s22 ultra was an oven that lagged on the Home Screen

[native path]

@humble scroll Don’t worry Damocles is just a bad take engine

[humble scroll]

I may buy for Foreflight. I think that’s my favorite use case

[humble scroll]

I could tell lol

[green shell]

I thiught people hated Samsung cause of exynos processor

[humble scroll]

Snapdragon has slightly improved in the past couple years, exynos hasn’t lol

[mint umbra]

That's was prob when they were using Exynos processors

Snapdragon chips are great

[native path]

I got off my work shift and this guy is still on with his crap takes 💔

[humble scroll]

Had a snapdragon 8 in my s22 ultra

[native path]

Can’t wait for his school day to start, we’ll be free

[mint umbra]

I don't have school

[humble scroll]

I found my first laptop

[mint umbra]

I haven't been in school in 10 years

[green shell]

Thats one tiny TouchPad

[humble scroll]

That’s one thing I don’t miss from the XP era 🙂

[green shell]

Also whats that thingy below arrow keys?

[humble scroll]

Fingerprint scanner iirc

[native path]

You’re pushing 30 with these takes?

[green shell]

Interesting
How old is this laptop?

[native path]

@sinful cobalt the story gets more interesting

[humble scroll]

I want to say 2001-2 or so. I’d have to look into it. It shipped with XP so I know its from that era.

It was a hand-me-down so I don’t remember exactly

[green shell]

Laptop older than me

[humble scroll]

older than me as well, I think I had this until 2012or 2013

[native path]

Dankpods mentioned

[humble scroll]

Pretty sure 7 was out and I was still on XP

Nearly 5lbs 😭

[green shell]

Thats not nearly 5 pounds

[humble scroll]

3oz from 5lbs

[green shell]

Wouldve been nearly 5lbs if it was >4.5

[humble scroll]

4lb 13oz

16oz is a pound

[green shell]

Idk i dont speak that language

[humble scroll]

it is about 4.7-8 lbs

[native path]

1.6kg is close to 2kg

[humble scroll]

in European that’s 2.2 kilos

[native path]

That’s the same difference between 4.1lb and 5lb

[green shell]

[native path]

4.1lb is 1.8kg

[pulsar gate]

likely unlikely, but has anybody ordered sth from china to bulgaria that went through yunexpress? want to see the tracking history that other people have had

[green shell]

Thats as heavy as my 2024 Lenovo laptop

[humble scroll]

My MacBook is only like 3lbs.

my MacBook is about as thick as the lid

[exotic cape]

I miss the 1 ton laptops.

[native path]

I want my McDonald’s

[exotic cape]

And with replaceable batteries

[exotic cape]

You my dear, can fuck off. Now I'm hungry

[native path]

Just ordered myself a double quarter pounder and a Coke sorry

[exotic cape]

Bottle, can, line or cup?

[native path]

Large cup

[exotic cape]

American large or European large?

[grizzled frost]

did you not hear the double quarter pounder? clearly a murican

[native path]

I don’t know, 890ml

[exotic cape]

Huh

[native path]

Singapore sir

[stark flicker]

Europeans know better than McDonald's

[grizzled frost]

murican at heart

[native path]

I am American yes

[grizzled frost]

obviously

[green shell]

https://tenor.com/view/ni-howdy-cowboy-chinese-cowboy-gif-12159787654959581119

[exotic cape]

My condolences.

[grizzled frost]

hey, americans aren’t that bad (we are)

[native path]

?

Don’t worry I’m giving up my passport

[grizzled frost]

you have the displeasure of americanship

[stark flicker]

You just like being manipulated by rich people but you aren't that bad, just a bit oversized usually

[native path]

Not for long

[grizzled frost]

i’m actually undersized cause my adhd meds fuck up my appetite

turns out not eating the entire day is not healthy

vyvanse ftw

[exotic cape]

Congratulations!

[stark flicker]

That's another American thing to take adhd meds everyday lol

[exotic cape]

Uh, wat

[grizzled frost]

my bad that i want a normally functioning brain

[native path]

Yeah I don’t take meds

[exotic cape]

So taking meds for a condition is American now?

[stark flicker]

Not saying you shouldn't , just that it's an American thing

[native path]

I do have adhd tho

[exotic cape]

Same

[stark flicker]

There are stats showing that a LOT of Americans take adhd meds and that it's way more than other countries

I am by no mean saying anything on if it's good or bad, just that it is an american thing

[exotic cape]

So does that mean because I take ADHD meds everyday I'm American?
Then I don't want to take my meds anymore.

[stark flicker]

The only thing I'm saying is bad in America is the food

[sleek ibex]

"You can take the man out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the man"

[exotic cape]

And the people, and the country. And, and, and.

[stark flicker]

Anddddd

[exotic cape]

And

[stark flicker]

Well Ryan gosling is American so America is great

Oh he is Canadian

Nevermind America = bad don't change my mind

[sleek ibex]

Him being Azeri is more lore accurate

[stark flicker]

What is that

[exotic cape]

Time for pizza

[gloomy sleet]

my £40 laptop arrived!!!!

surprisingly good specs (7200u 8gb ram 256gb nvme 1080p 60hz screen)

[ornate harbor]

The nvme makes like 15£ alone

[grizzled frost]

that's actually really usable

[gloomy sleet]

yeah

[grizzled frost]

are you using it as a laptop, or a server

[gloomy sleet]

i’m installing windows 11 on it

[gloomy sleet]

for work as a laptop

[glacial cliff]

if i want to replace my boot drive is there any way to easily copy the entire image on one drive to another and not go through reinstalling windows and all my apps and everything?

[grizzled frost]

you can clone the drive

[glacial cliff]

how do i do that

[grizzled frost]

there's a couple software choices

[glacial cliff]

such as?

[cold skiff]

Google “how to clone drive”

And Google “hard drive cloning software”

It’s amazing how a search engine will help if you ask it

[grizzled frost]

"how to clone a boot drive" is exactly how i figured it out, so its how you should figure it out as well

[glacial cliff]

i will if i can't find useful help, but i prefer to not wade through 10 pages of sponsored ads, ai slop, listicles, and junk to find a diamond in the ruff.

[cold skiff]

Well… that’s your problem. If you don’t want to do the work, you won’t get the result.

[glacial cliff]

will try that then

[grizzled frost]

a fresh install would be preferable though

[glacial cliff]

it's not about not wantign to do the work, i jsut said i would do it if i had to.........

[grizzled frost]

a cloned install can be wonky sometimes

[proper gull]

And the cars

[glacial cliff]

its about wanting to work smarter not harder and google is trash in 2026.

[cold skiff]

Ironically most things you need a guide for, you can just type “YouTube” at the end and find a video on it

And by the time we have spoke about this, you could have done the work already 🤷🏼‍♂️

[grizzled frost]

like 90% of the time when someone asks a question here, i go and google their question then give them the answer

[glacial cliff]

i hate video guides for something i can read a written guide for. i am not an auditory learner at all i end up having to re watch shit like 12 times, and then forgetting what was said 10 seconds later

[grizzled frost]

YES I love a good written guide

[cold skiff]

There’s captions on videos too

[grizzled frost]

Written guide with screenshots is so much better than video guides

[cold skiff]

All I hear is a lot of complaining gwen, no doing anything about it

[glacial cliff]

that are also ai genned trash and suck at getting niche terms and product names right and rarely are 1:1

not exactly something i'd rely on to format the boot drive of my primary pc....

[cold skiff]

It’s not a big task

[glacial cliff]

no it was askign a question and "i cant help you" is a plentysufficient answer

[grizzled frost]

There's not a lot of risk involved, worst case you can always fall back to the original drive

[glacial cliff]

you dont need to call me lazy becuase i asked a damn question

[stark flicker]

Well just target forums for answer that will not be filled with ads and Ai generated content

[glacial cliff]

"sorry i can't answer that", "cheers thanks" convo over

[grizzled frost]

While i agree with you thaldy, you are being a bit condescending

[stark flicker]

@glacial cliff my advice, that is not forcefully something you'll see with a short Google search, is don't clone

[grizzled frost]

Yeah a fresh install is ideal

[proper gull]

Never clone a boot drive

[grizzled frost]

A bit of a headache to reinstall all your apps and whatnot, but vastly preferable from a stability and reliability standpoint

[glacial cliff]

eyo look i got 3 peopel telling me not to do it that i wouldn't have gotten if i hadnt asked first and just googled it

thanks three people, i aprpeciate your feedback i'll deal with the headache of a clean install

value-add from not googling: priceless

[proper gull]

unless you're a data recovery person cloning a cooked drive during the recovery process, to then take the data off of it for the customer

[grizzled frost]

Oh yeah, "how should i approach this problem" is always best answered by a real person

Google doesn't have all the relevant context to answer properly

[glacial cliff]

nah i was jus tryina not install windows a 4th time in < a week

[grizzled frost]

Why are you installing windows so much?

[glacial cliff]

but if needs must then watyevs

[stark flicker]

Probably people on the web would have said the same but yeah, I guess what the other guy would want is if you did a tiny bit of googling before

Like "so I saw this tool for cloning, would you recommend it?"

[grizzled frost]

You can clone a boot drive, but you're likely to encounter weird issues related to it

[proper gull]

Tbf if you did more than 5 seconds of searching on Google, you would find this question asked on Reddit and there'd definitely be a response telling you not to clone

[grizzled frost]

I think gwen understands that at this point, best not to beat a dead horse

[glacial cliff]

first time i tried to use atlas and it was being wonky (turns out it might have been the drive issues i ran into in 3rd attempt, but i didnt know that at the time, and assumed it was the 3rd party modifications to the registries)

then i tried doing much less with titus tech tool, and still had some issues, and couldn't even open my browser to try to fix it so said fk it and did it a third time and iddnt do anyhting

[proper gull]

Yes Mr pedantic. You can do the thing. We're saying don't do it, not can't do it

[glacial cliff]

and just will deal with the windows bullshit as it pops up

[stark flicker]

Well you are doing something wrong somewhere lmao

Also just install Linux like the chad you will be 🫡

[proper gull]

Don't use atlas either

[grizzled frost]

using the native win11 installer then disabling stuff after is your best bet for reliability

[glacial cliff]

my school required me to use a Microsoft Excel-specific addon specific to the school for tests, inside a 3rd party super custom browser that doesn't have a linux install option

can i do that on linux?

[glacial cliff]

yeah thats what i did the secodn instal but i fked up the ability to get to the internet somehow and jsut said fk it

[glacial cliff]

yes im not, i already wasnt this install

thats why i realzied my problems werent from the tweaks, but from the shitty drive

[stark flicker]

Without knowing the excel add-ons nor the custom browser I don't know
Worst case you can just use a vm for that, I don't think you'll spend 200h on this excel add on

[glacial cliff]

which thaldy did amaazing to help me solve the other night so i do appreciate his help

[glacial cliff]

it was 90% rhetorical, i already know the answer, i have ah andful of niche windows specific things that most folkd who i've had serious conversations with have recommended dual booting if i wanted to consider linux, and i don't have the patience to deal with that

[proper gull]

In this case tell the school to fuck themselves and to provide a laptop if they want you to run that over paranoid garbage

should be illegal to make any student or even employee install anything like that on their personal laptops

[glacial cliff]

i didn't even think of the word clone until someone here said it

[stark flicker]

At work i specifically tell people to go f themselves if they send me an excel or docx file

[grizzled frost]

If you try this you will likely be told to kick rocks

[rough oracle]

🙌 yayy

[glacial cliff]

"since you refuse to meet the technology requirements for enrollment, you've been disenrolled, have a nice day gwen!" would be the likely response.

when you go to a super niche self-paced 100% online school for your degree, you deal with the super niche school requirements, or you go to a different school. They mention the requirements to have a windows PC up front iirc

[proper gull]

That's a bit overkill

[glacial cliff]

i mean they aren't making you. you're paying for the priveledge to 😉

[glacial cliff]

jealous

[stark flicker]

I would go to a different school, and not just because I would be forced to use windows which I understand but because an excel add on a custom browser being requirements sounds so dumb and shitty that it would mean the school itself is shitty

Also schools are free in my country

[glacial cliff]

must be nice

unfortunately, i'm in USA, where i get to pay $5k every 6 months for hte privledge of beking fked over by the schools

[stark flicker]

Lol

[glacial cliff]

the excel stuff isn't the school-wide system, but is specific to my program. i'm in an accounting program, and excel is heavily used in the field. when i was in in-person classes, at University of Wisconsin, we also were required to have access to a laptop that could run excel for tests & homework

but they had computer labs you could use worst case scenario

[stray portal]

Thats a shitty school

Atp just give paper tests

[glacial cliff]

how do you give paper tests to remote online asynchronous students?

im able to test out of a class 24/7/365

[stray portal]

What kind of school is that

[deep musk]

Pffff flexing

-# you’re lucky af

[glacial cliff]

a remote online asychronous school

[rough oracle]

im flexing

[deep musk]

Yeah, but I’m happy, for you, that you had the luck of scoring a cable

[stray portal]

Failed school

[glacial cliff]

no?

[stray portal]

If they cant figure out how to give normal tests thats a failure

[glacial cliff]

we are indeed in the 21st century and schools are findign ways to give more students acess to education, through distance learning and asynchronous programs

[stray portal]

They shouldve just added a thing to monitor your screen and webcam while u take the tests on a website u dont need all of that

[glacial cliff]

those are innovations, not failures.....

[deep musk]

Not really, it’s useful for remote students, imagine you’re in the butt of nowhere?

[glacial cliff]

for the general tests in the school, that is all they do, i said that

[deep musk]

Nope, not giving them my web cam

[stray portal]

What makes this test special

[glacial cliff]

for my program, an accounting degree, where the ability to utilize formulaic statements in excel is part of the course content, they use an excel addon for testing

[stray portal]

🤔

So why do they need that extra stuff then

[deep musk]

I hate this so much that I don’t have it plugged in unless I use it (I’m way too often naked (in plain middle od my bedroom) in front of my pc for me to potentially allow someone to use my webcam without me knowing)

[stray portal]

Yeah well thats a different problem

[glacial cliff]

it's what loads the test content into excel for you

[stray portal]

I meant the stinky browser

[stray portal]

But web cam should be needed for school tests otherwise you can cheat very easily

[glacial cliff]

the browser is how they hook into your OS to check your running processes to see if you have any software thay screen records or otherwise flags as cheating, as well as monitors your desktop environment and gains access to your wbecam and mic

then, inside the special browser once you are in the test environment, they give you the excel code to load the test in excel

the reason excel is used, is because the tests look similar to this homework assignment from my in-person accountign classes https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14FX6r4VXWDWYBM6s8Fw2EO7zrLRJIY5h/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107398244092578747314&rtpof=true&sd=true

[stray portal]

Thats just spyware lol they can just record ur screen for weird stuff no need to spy your entire os

[glacial cliff]

you can have background processes running ,you could have started a screen recording software then joiend the test environment afterwards

its through a third party remote testing provider that does all of that

[stray portal]

So even worse then

[glacial cliff]

that's very typical in the us, for other tests as well. when i used pearson vue for remote testing for government stuff it had similar safeties built in

[stark flicker]

This is pure insanity

[stark flicker]

Bro just come to France

Free school for everyone except shitty private schools

[stray portal]

Yeah if someone goes that far only to cheat they will go even further

Trusting your school is easier than trusting third parties

[glacial cliff]

bruh, you get to pick:

1. privacy and security are important for you, and you maybe shouldnt go to a full remote online school for your degree, becuase they're gonna have some wild pc requirements to ensure the integrity of their program
2. you want the ease of use of a full online college, so you accept the bs privacy and security backdoors yo ugive them

like, yes its not ideal, but thats the sacrifice i make for the super flexible school program im in

life is about sacrificies and making decisions for what you're willing to do/not do in life

[stray portal]

The school is insane they dont need all that just to spy on you

[glacial cliff]

love to, you wanna get married so i can emmigrate? or is there an easy path to emmigrate otherwise? i hate the us

[glacial cliff]

then go to a different school?

thsi school worked for me. and i accepted the requirements of going here

[stray portal]

Ur one of those people that supports big companies arent you

[stark flicker]

I have no idea how immigration works, though I know it's not too hard especially if from the us

I have a few friends that are alone...

[glacial cliff]

as such, i have to deal with it, and any time someone tells me "bruh jsut instil linux lulz" i cant, and thats perfectly fine and on me, i don't know why my life decisions are such a world ending issue for people

[glacial cliff]

no?

[stray portal]

Ur missing the point

[glacial cliff]

how did you go from "she wanted an easy self paced on her own time school program and accepted the requirements of such" to "lulz she's a corpo shill"?

[glacial cliff]

no youre missign the point, yes i udnerstand my school doesnt need this insane degree of access, i dont give a fuck, i wanted this school

[stray portal]

Just because those are the requirements doesnt mean theyre normal

[glacial cliff]

i accepted that when i forked over my money

[stray portal]

Ok

Still a horrible school for doing that

[glacial cliff]

they really are........ like this is a very normal thing in 3p test administration. https://www.proctoru.com/ https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/test-takers.html

welcome to remote distance learning

[rose stream]

Yeah, that does sound typical. It's even something I've attempted prepping for when taking online classes.

[stray portal]

Welcome to privacy hell

[glacial cliff]

i had to go to a pearson vue test center in person for a test for a government job application once lol

[stray portal]

Excuse for spying

[glacial cliff]

liek these are multi billion dollar companies

[rose stream]

Strangely, never had to do the same procedures you had to do though for cyber security certification classes.

[glacial cliff]

as i said, the excel stuff, is super specific to my program

[rose stream]

And it was through a university too.

[glacial cliff]

i'm in an accountign degree, and part of accounting, is being familair with how to make accounting worksheetsi n excel

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14FX6r4VXWDWYBM6s8Fw2EO7zrLRJIY5h/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107398244092578747314&rtpof=true&sd=true they look like this

so the tests, they provide an excel workbook with 80% of this already pre-gen'd and you just have to answer test questions about it

that bit is kind of janky, but i get why it's janky

[rose stream]

So basically industry standards they are prepping you to follow. That's pretty run-of-the-mill to me honestly.

[glacial cliff]

yep thank you, someone who doesn't think it's insane for me to have to put up with more crazyness for a super relaxed school

like what other school can i take 6 exams at 2 in the morning on new years eve to pass my semestrer?

[rose stream]

I mean, a few of my classmates and even my instructors were Linux users and yet we all still had to be on Windows computers and use Chrome browsers to do lab stuff and whatnot, so it doesn't sound outlandish to me.

[glacial cliff]

doing shit like this is why i have to use a hyper specific excel addon

[rose stream]

Most of the stuff I interacted with also wasn't entirely open source software either.

[rose stream]

Damn.

[glacial cliff]

mhm, so the school in general, outside my weird program extras, jusst requires a test observer provider custom browser caleld the GUardian Browser https://support.proctoru.com/hc/en-us/articles/9951434736525-What-to-Expect-on-Exam-Day

[glacial cliff]

half of those are formulaic references to other sheets in the workbook too

like, would you WANT to do this on a paper test, even if you *WERE in in person classes?

[rose stream]

Looks painful to do in writing so no thanks. Lol.

[glacial cliff]

idk, i loved that i got to go sit at a comptuer in the disability accomodation center for 3 hours with full access to excel and all its formulaic stuff and help articles inside of excel while mid-test

when i was in in person classes

i know i'm weird though, people always look at me funny when i pull out two separate different approved calculators for all my tests. one thats a standard scientific calculator, and ones thats a financial calculator with time value of money calculations

60k degrees awarded last year at my "shitty" school

almsot 200,000 enrolled students. very shitty school.

[peak swan]

I deadass killed 3 backlights from being lazy

[bold olive]

why am i typing without keycaps and instead outright click on the switches themselves

[warm hinge]

Damn that sucks

[fallow yacht]

sup nerds

[fickle ivy]

Tried the S26 privacy screen in person, it's laughably bad

Like cool concept, but putting it on a flagship is not it

[cold skiff]

Why is it not for a flagship? Do you not put your latest and greatest features on your best product?

[gusty wagon]

Given only the following to choose from, would you rather pick the iPhone Air with its caveats, or the S26 with its weird privacy pixels?

[restive plinth]

The privacy pixels feature can be turned off though right

[deep musk]

yep

[stray plinth]

i got my mouse in mid January and I've only just had to charge it for the first time

[burnt wyvern]

I got a xiaomi 15 for around 320 USD, is it worth it?

[unreal shoal]

Still psu shopping, but better choice than the previous?

[rigid fjord]

i really am glad that i don't have to deal with excel formula's for a while

[rigid fjord]

not at those prices, when you can get a 750w for $55 and a 850w for $65

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/power-supply/#m=7&sort=price&page=1

[plain cypress]

i want it

[stark flicker]

Buy it then

[warm hinge]

Go for it that's the laptop that I already have

[plain cypress]

yeah i don't need a new laptop

searching for justification to spend money but i really don't need it :/

[rigid fjord]

"tax write off" 😉

[plain cypress]

lmao i am a simple W-2 employee

[rigid fjord]

doesn't mean you can't use it as a tax write off though 😉

[plain cypress]

I don't actually think I can

i assume that would require itemized deduction and my itemized is far less than taking the standard

[dusky spindle]

does anyone know how to fix when windows doesnt let you open file explorer so then you need to do ctrl + shift + esc to bring up task manager and restart explorer?

[warm hinge]

I see but what kind of laptop you have anyway?

[rigid fjord]

did you use a debloat script?

[dusky spindle]

i did, i think i used chris titus script

[rigid fjord]

you fucked up with something, time to reinstall windows again

[plain cypress]

base spec m1 air
and a 2020 rog g14 (4900hs/2060)

[dusky spindle]

yayyyy! all my downloads go to the dumpster again!

actually i can just clone it on another drive and then transfer it back

[rigid fjord]

reasons why you keep everything separate from the OS drive

[rigid fjord]

and end up fucking up the system for a 3rd time

do not use any form of debloat script

[dusky spindle]

alrightt

[warm hinge]

Oh awesome man I have a MacBook Air M5 and a Razer Blade

I think your MacBook should still last long

[gaunt spade]

rich bomboclat millionaire

[plain cypress]

8/256 is extreme pain

Also the M1 does chug a big these days

But most importantly
13" screen is just too small

[gaunt spade]

js get bigger laptop

[plain cypress]

Likewise my G14 screen is also too small

[plain cypress]

Want one but also don't technically need one so I can't justify the spend

[gaunt spade]

scar 18 inch

[plain cypress]

Lmao

Thin and light 15-16"

Actually there's a good question if I simply have no real use for a personal laptop these days (outside of travel), or if I don't use my laptop because I find the small size annoying to use

[fickle ivy]

I love my data, 3650ms ping

1.5kb/s

It's up to 7600ms

[green shell]

Huh

How

[gritty panther]

just got myself a leverless arcade controller. there's a learning curve for sure but it's fun

[distant frigate]

That’s bad lmao

Meanwhile I’m getting 1,500 Mbps right now

[gritty panther]

pros in the chat; what do you use for up button. left or right thumb? google said either.

[rigid fjord]

anything under 15.6" definitely annoying laptop wise for me

[gritty panther]

im the opposite 😄 anything above 14" is annoying for me for a laptop

15.6" is too big. I want portability more when I have a laptop.

[green shell]

Damn didnt know 8bitdo makes somethinf like this too
Interesting

[bold kindle]

why on earth does it take 1 hour for nvidia to analyse their own 5080

[gritty panther]

they've been out for a while. I was watching a street fighter 6 tournament the other day and saw everyone with leverless arcade controllers

they're not that expensive when I checked amazon. picked up one

[green shell]

I am guessing this is supposed to be used with both hands

[gritty panther]

I was expecting it to be a lot more expensive lel

[green shell]

I see

[gritty panther]

yep. apparently leverless has more accuracy comapred to the usual arcade stick. im a newb

[plain cypress]

IMO weight is a bigger factor for portability than dimensions

[inner veldt]

I have rog astral 5090 and its level sense is set to 0.30 degrees, it says Out-of-angle installation detected, should I worry about it? I use sag bracket also

[plain cypress]

At the very least all my bags can fit something like a 15" MBA or windows laptop equivalent

[gritty panther]

I feel like 15.6" and above gets annoying to carry around in a backpack

I noticed when I had 13-14" laptops. I used it all the time and I brought it out everywhere

it's a preference thing. no right or wrong answer

[plain cypress]

I really just want a more usable screen size when I (seldom) travel

[gritty panther]

some people don't mind and carry large laptops all the time. im not one of those people

[plain cypress]

Or a nice downstairs computer

I don't see a thin 15" laptop with tiny bezels as large

[gritty panther]

I like my 14" laptop with a 16:10 screen. small but huge at the same time because of cool aspect ratio

[plain cypress]

My reference for a large laptop is my old 1" thick gaming laptop

[gritty panther]

the extra vertical space is nice

[plain cypress]

It's entirely possible my eyes are aging quicker than my body

[gritty panther]

makes the laptop's screen feel a lot larger than it really is.

[plain cypress]

Oh yeah I'd never buy a 16:9 laptop again

[gaunt spade]

rich bomboblud

[plain cypress]

Actually the best laptop ratio is still belonging to surface devices

[gritty panther]

16:10 is goated for portable devices

handhelds, laptops etc.

I actually started with 16:10. im very used to it

my first lcd monitor was a 22" 1680x1050

I was stubborn and didnt want to change anything. next monitor I got was a 1920x1200 24" lol

I rocked 16:10 for years

[gritty panther]

looks good to me.

my 4090 had terrible sag too. gpu coolers are just too heavy these days. needed support for sure. poor pci-e slot

[inner veldt]

i use sag bracket but 0.3 deg is way too low i guess

[zinc cloud]

Morning yall, got a question for the gurus of tech i have a laptop i booted it up for the first time in about a month and it boot cycled twice then started up. went in did all the updates used the onboard software to ensure everything was in good shape battery passed ssd passed memory passed, once that was all done i set it to restart then it started to boot cycle again this time not posting at all now with a clunk sound when it shuts off. opened it and found the source of the clunk its the ssd so i took it out and connected it to my desktop and its showing its there and there are no issues sooooooo i have come here in my confusion hoping someone can tell me what i should try next

[distant frigate]

Lmao what

Cellmapper showing no N41 here when there clearly is

[hollow chasm]

Looks like someone's birthday present is gonna be "obsolete" lol

[plain cypress]

That power supply has me on edge

[hollow chasm]

?

[mortal mantle]

2070 Super is obsolete?

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-gulp-glup-gguh-yRTCATKJ5yIKmZK66Z

[hollow chasm]

Not really but it is starting to get old

[gaunt spade]

2070 super and absolete

crazy

[green shell]

Did they stop the production of rx6600 or something?

[gaunt spade]

yea?

[hollow chasm]

I would call gtx 700 and 900 actually obsolete I guess

[gaunt spade]

a while ago

[hollow chasm]

Past that it's still alright for light gaming

[green shell]

Thats sad

[gaunt spade]

they already stopped driver support

[green shell]

Thas even more sad

[gaunt spade]

amd

[hollow chasm]

Recently upgraded my PSU and GPU so I'm gifting those to my little brother for his birthday

I'll try to get my parents to buy him a new case

His CPU is gonna be the biggest bottleneck now
I think it's a ryzen 2500 or 2600?

[proven moth]

We might be back

[hollow chasm]

I might give him my old CPU too

I5 9600k

Or not
I used that CPU for my server and I kinda need the compute power

[green shell]

But do u have a compatible mobo

[hollow chasm]

Yeah it's my server at home basically
An i5 9600k, atx Mobo and 24gb of ddr4

I have a totally overkill PSU for it, the corsair sf600

Oh wait
I could've put my GPU in my server I guess

I mean not that I really need that tbh
And the power draw would be annoying

My server idles at 20W I believe
Idk how much higher it would be with the GPU but I'm guessing it wouldn't be small even when not actively used

[rigid fjord]

if he has that, then all he needs to go is a 5600x/5700x/5700x3d/5800x3d then as the cpu upgrade, giving him a 9600k means a complete mobo swap instead

[rigid fjord]

it technically already is

[hollow chasm]

I already have both Mobo and CPU

[ivory mountain]

i have that memory in my nightstand lol the gammix d10

[proven moth]

Send to me

[ivory mountain]

nuh uh

[hollow chasm]

I was thinking whether I should take my his old CPU and motherboard for myself and swap the one in my server

[proven moth]

I said please

[scarlet marlin]

do you guys think putting mint essential oil in your pc will cool it because of how mint cools things down

[green shell]

No

[ivory mountain]

stab your gpu die with a knife itll help

[scarlet marlin]

how

[green shell]

It wont heat up at all that way

[scarlet marlin]

I don't have a knife

[green shell]

Interesting

[rigid fjord]

with not much better a performance, and requiring a mobo swap if you planned on a cpu upgrade after that, vs only doing a single cpu for better performance

going to 9th gen would be going backwards

be worth keeping that 9600k for the server instead still

[snow mauve]

what up cleetus

[ionic atlas]

the “teams” experience. It’s Monday, why not break the close button so u can’t close useless button

They should had asked copilot how to code a close button lmao

[pulsar gate]

if i still have an issue with my ethernet on my pc not being 1gbps and instead being 100mbps despite it working with the same cable and same lan port on a laptop to give said laptop 1gbps, is my best option getting a pcie adapter to solve my issue? ive tried a bunch of stuff, made a tech support post and all and ive followed each thing exactly as told but issue persists

[snow mauve]

speaking of button, i saw a pretty diabolical phishing email that looked purposefully 'off', and then the 'report phishing' buttin included was where the exploit/bad redirect was lol

[fluid olive]

Is the i7 8700k good?

[latent pasture]

good enough

[deep musk]

what are you gonna use it for?

[fluid olive]

Esports titles and school

[latent pasture]

do u already have it or plan on buying one

[deep musk]

should be fine, not worth bying, but if you already have it, go for it

[fluid olive]

I already have it, not sure if i should upgrade or just wait

[clear canyon]

Its pretty weak now days

[fluid olive]

Im pairing it with a 3060 ti if that helps?

[latent pasture]

people get hung on on rtx 5090 on 1080p tests
when u go to gpu tiers less than that the difference is not that bad

[deep musk]

wait for the crisis to calm down if you want to upgrade, it should be fine while waiting

[latent pasture]

no 8700k but 9600k is 6c6t and 10600k is 6c12t very similar
idk what esports games u mean but in cs2 they get 300fps and 180fps lows

[deep musk]

especially for esports and school stuff (unless you need to make simulations or vms)

[fluid olive]

Ok

[pulsar gate]

what am i looking for primarily in a pcie adapter? And is the TX201 a good choice?

available at my local hardware store so itd be easy to get

i also dont know what prices are good/bad when it comes to these things

[brave brook]

you mean PCIe network card ? It's a realtek NIC, they work https://www.servethehome.com/tp-link-tx201-2-5gbe-adapter-realtek-rtl8125/

[clear canyon]

Not the best combo, ur gonna be cpu limited

[pulsar gate]

yes

its only about 19 euro though idk if thats too much/little for network cards

[brave brook]

expensive compared to aliexpress, but not sure saving few euros is worth the wait

you can get 10 gigabit realtek for 40-ish euros on aliexpress

but if you don't have 10 gigabit networking, then buying a network card is just a waste of money

[pulsar gate]

buying a 10 gigabit network card or do you mean at all?

[clear canyon]

I have a 10gig on all my servers and my main pc, its nice

[clear canyon]

Thats dirt cheap

[pulsar gate]

i think id rather get it sooner than later honestly and the price range of 17.5-19 euro is consistent with the other bulgarian hardware stores from what im seeing

[brave brook]

but if he has no 10gbe infrastructure, paying double makes no sense

[clear canyon]

Wdym, if he has 2.5gig connections, then its fine

[pulsar gate]

i have no clue what infrastructure i have, but i think that in of itself means i probably dont xd

[brave brook]

all i say is that same thing from ali is half the price 🙂 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007989370200.html

[clear canyon]

You can do a 2.5 card if ur buying it part by part for ur network upgrades

It will default to gigabit until you update the other ends

[brave brook]

but also double the price if he wants to buy a modern 10gbe card which can also do 2.5gbe

[clear canyon]

28 euro is pretty cheap

For a 10gig

[pulsar gate]

im buying a network adapter because my pc is being limited to 100mbps and ive exhausted every other means of trying to to get even 1gbps

[brave brook]

where did you see a modern 10gbe card ? I don't consider ConnectX-3, ConnectX-4 and X520/X540 as relevant choices for any modern computer

[brave brook]

1. you mean 100mbps inside your own home ?
2. have you replaced the cables ?
3. is the other end 1Gbe capable ?

[clear canyon]

Ur pc is hella old

[pulsar gate]

it isnt, but its having issues

[deep musk]

are you even paying your isp for higher than 100mbps?

[pulsar gate]

cables arent the issue, neither is the router ports

[clear canyon]

Ur cable is broken on one of its pairs

[pulsar gate]

yes, and previously my pc was able to reach higher

only the pc side is limited to 100mbps, my 9 year old laptop can get 1gbps

both via same cable and port

and ive tried 4-5 different cables

all with capabilities of getting 1gbps

[deep musk]

tried reinstalling windows? happened to me a couple of times, sometimes windows craps itself to the ground really hard

[pulsar gate]

dont believe so, but at the same time could that be the issue if previously (some point within the past couple months) my pc was capable of getting 1gbps? the only thing that changed inbetween is the router, but ive tested the router and i dont see how it could be the issue

[deep musk]

windows can be really weird and I have no idea why it has done that to me a couple of time

[pulsar gate]

ill try and do that, but if it doesnt solve the issue should i just go and buy the aforementioned adapter?

[deep musk]

probably

[pulsar gate]

okay thanks, god i cant stand windows regardless if it caused the issue or not

[empty quartz]

Mrrp

Yesterday i learned how important unlimited wifi is

[rigid fjord]

a pcie adapter would be absolutely useless here, you need to check both your router and nic settings

@pulsar gate on the pc, this is what you need to check

[empty quartz]

Imagine not having a 5gig ethernet port built in

[rigid fjord]

imagine not being able to agregate your nic's into a faster connection

[empty quartz]

I dont even use ethernet

[grizzled frost]

imagine not having quad 10g

[rigid fjord]

currently reads at 3Gbps, could turn it straight to 7.5Gbps

[rigid fjord]

to costly for me currently

[grizzled frost]

I only have it on my servers, not enough room in my case for another PCIe card

my PC is 2.5g and that's plenty

i don't even have a gigabit internet connection

[rigid fjord]

technically my pc is 3x 2.5gb

[grizzled frost]

yet, they're actually laying fiber in my neighborhood right now

[rigid fjord]

router and switch don't do 2.5gb

[grizzled frost]

i have UDM SE, so theoretically it can do 10g

[empty quartz]

🤨

[grizzled frost]

only 3.5g IPS routing though

[grizzled frost]

Yeah, like i can literally see AT&T laying fiber as we speak

[empty quartz]

Why are they shitting outside :(

[grizzled frost]

Laying fiber, not bricks

[empty quartz]

(Im aware)

[grizzled frost]

if you're gonna make a dumb joke, at least be correct

[empty quartz]

Never

[rigid fjord]

till the bricks are made from fibre

[grizzled frost]

Only issue is then the house would be glass, and i like throwing stones

[rigid fjord]

he's aiming for the dad jokes before being a dad

[grizzled frost]

dad jokes work cause you usually can't correct your father

[empty quartz]

Witnessed this at work yesterday

[rigid fjord]

tbf, i've seen glass bricks, they can be rugged at times

[unreal shoal]

Oh wow, didnt know how bad that psu actually was

[rocky marlin]

Pickup a 2017 MacBook Pro with an i7 and Radeon pro 560 and 1tb drive for $35

[iron glen]

didnt know they ship amphetamines in bricks

[rustic lynx]

Is Linux always this difficult 😭

I can't this shit is so annoying

Always some type of error

[grizzled frost]

yesn't

[iron glen]

depends

[brave brook]

the "got all the possible issues" Macbook 😄

[rustic lynx]

Also I tried to launch an app using wine and it was crashing then it was glitching when it fired up

Is lutris better?

[iron glen]

try it and see

[rustic lynx]

I'll kms faster

Probably will throw 50 errors

[ivory mountain]

i liked faugus launcher for my games

[iron glen]

boohoo i have to put in work and effort on this operating system i knew would take work and effort

[rustic lynx]

Oh yeah I heard about it. Is faugus for one distro or for everything?

[brave brook]

it got the staingate (delamination of display coating). It got flexgate (destruction of display cable). Dustgate, the sticky butterfly keyboard issues.
😄

[bold kindle]

is it time to go 4k?

[rustic lynx]

No

4k overkill. Well it depends

[ivory mountain]

https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher

[bold kindle]

but im seeing pixels, it's unacceptable

[ivory mountain]

this just looks like anti aliasing is off

[rustic lynx]

I actually tried to install it but it threw 50 errors so I just went with lutris

[iron glen]

it is yeah
its a pretty mid movie

[rustic lynx]

Launching apps with lutris is pretty easy

Sober makes me wanna kms tho

So many errors popping up

[iron glen]

what linux did you settle with?

[rustic lynx]

Nobara

[ivory mountain]

sober is a roblox client

[iron glen]

who?

[rustic lynx]

Yes I know

[ivory mountain]

nobara is an arch based distro iirc

[bold kindle]

its not, DLSS quality and 16x antiscopic thing

[rustic lynx]

... Nobara... The distro... The distro based on Fe smth

[bold kindle]

i tried dlaa too, didnt do anything

[iron glen]

fedora based

[rustic lynx]

It's not nononono

[ivory mountain]

i got it confused with something else whoops

[rustic lynx]

Fedora right forgot the name

[iron glen]

based on iron
gotcha

[bold kindle]

lol i turned sharpness from 100% to 0% 😄

[rustic lynx]

Also when I tried downloading apps like pronter face it showed me an error that I don't have or it couldn't find some XDG shit

[bold kindle]

this is so weird

[iron glen]

what game is this?
it looks really depressing

elden ring?

[rustic lynx]

Looks like oblivion or skyrim

[bold kindle]

POE2, extremely depressing game 😄

[rustic lynx]

Oh alr

[bold kindle]

path of exile

[iron glen]

ah

is it the one elon played?

[bold kindle]

everything is gross, apocalyptic, dead, and infected

[rustic lynx]

Do you guys think that I should keep on learning Linux or fuck it and stay with windows?

[bold kindle]

yes, elon's the master gamer of poe 😄

[rustic lynx]

I hate linux

[iron glen]

him and his low level 65 staff of balls or whatever its called

[abstract wigeon]

why

[rustic lynx]

The terminal and the amount of errors is making me crazy

[rustic lynx]

.

[iron glen]

it needs time and effort

[abstract wigeon]

explain

i use linux across all of my devices, what are your issues with it?

[iron glen]

they get many errors

[rustic lynx]

I spent 3 hours installing two apps, modrinth and sober, modrinth launched after 30 mins of shitting but sober doesn't want to launch for fuck

Pronter face doesn't want to launch

Only errors

Errors here, errors there

[iron glen]

i'd read them ngl
sometimes they're pretty useful for fixing whats broken

[abstract wigeon]

how bizare, both should be like 30 second jobs each... how did you do this?

sober i just downloaded and it worked immediately, same with modrinth

[rustic lynx]

I have no idea. I'm kinda new to linux

[pulsar gate]

I have checked that, ive tried setting it to highest and also to auto negotiation

[rustic lynx]

When I try to download it, it shows some XDG error

That it couldn't be opened or Shi idk

[abstract wigeon]

talk me through what you did, heres how i did both.
went to the sober website and ended up here, then copied this command into terminal and it downloaded, then it ran fine.

[rustic lynx]

I clicked install ..

[iron glen]

rookie mistake

[rustic lynx]

I also tried it with terminal

[rustic lynx]

Didn't work

Error 256 when trying to launch in terminal,

[latent gull]

i almost had to do this a few years back cause i needed a male serial connector in less than 24 hours and couldnt find one anywhere. luckily a friend had one i could borrow

[rustic lynx]

Ran for like 2 seconds and crashed

[abstract wigeon]

launch, or download?

[rustic lynx]

Launch

[abstract wigeon]

what i did, downloaded it via flatpak install... then it just appeared in my app list, like on windows, and i clicked it and it ran.

[north hill]

alright... MONITOR TIME!!!
is the Dell SE2426HG (240Hz) a good main monitor and the Dell P2219H a good secondary?

[rustic lynx]

I installed it thru lutris but it crashes. It just can't launch

I did the flatpak install stuff

[iron glen]

i think i spent like 5min downloading sober because i couldn't figure out how to copy stuff on arch

[abstract wigeon]

first question is do you need a secondary monitor

[north hill]

yes

[ivory mountain]

who doesnt

[abstract wigeon]

? how to copy stuff on arch?
ctrl+c ctrl+v

[rustic lynx]

Wait let me switch to Linux rq and show you @abstract wigeon

[abstract wigeon]

go for it, ill try my best

[iron glen]

it didn't work for me for whatever reason
i had to use altGR + c/v

[rocky marlin]

Ay yall, since Mac isn’t supporting the 2017 MacBook Pro should I just install Linux?

[abstract wigeon]

i have never used lutris

[grizzled frost]

yes

[abstract wigeon]

perhaps your keyboard was setup wrong

[iron glen]

probably

[rustic lynx]

Launched modrinth in like 5 minutes with it

[restive plinth]

Depends on if you are spending hours troubleshooting linux compared to what you used to do on windows

[rustic lynx]

You use fedora?

[iron glen]

iirc they use arch

[abstract wigeon]

arch, but i cant imagine its too different

[rocky marlin]

Literally picked this thing up today for $35, has the Radeon pro 560 with the i7 and a 1tb hdd, unfortunately no more updates but would it work good with fedora Linux?

[abstract wigeon]

flatpaks are agnostic

[rustic lynx]

I'll take pictures of my screen cuz I don't have discord on that drive installed yet. Sorry bout that

[restive plinth]

I have a 64gb secondary partition for experimenting with linux. But I find myself trying to fix things more than actually using it so windows is still my main OS

[abstract wigeon]

sure

[iron glen]

i did use the whatchamacallit install script so maybe that messed it up a little

[north hill]

...was there a second question?

[rustic lynx]

Launched sober thru lutris

Wait it's uploading

[iron glen]

no

[rustic lynx]

@abstract wigeon

[abstract wigeon]

possibily, ive never used archinstall

[rustic lynx]

Oh wait

I found the issue to the sober thing

Didn't install sober x86_64/master

Whatever it means

Let me switch the language to English on the pc

[abstract wigeon]

sounds like sober itself was missing

[rustic lynx]

Well... I thought I installed it lol

[verbal prawn]

Btw

[iron glen]

good one

[rustic lynx]

So like... What do I do?

[iron glen]

i can say "i used arch btw"
thats even cooler cz im an arch linux veteran /j

[rustic lynx]

Install sober yes but I'm too tired to research

My head Hurts from Linux

[iron glen]

have some water

[rustic lynx]

Yes give me

[abstract wigeon]

i have no experience with this launcher, for me installing and running flatpak was easy..

sorry

[rustic lynx]

Oh alr

[iron glen]

don't have any

[restive plinth]

Do you have an actual use case for Linux?

[rustic lynx]

Just experimenting with new systems for fun

[abstract wigeon]

avoiding windows probably

[rustic lynx]

It's not fun at all

[abstract wigeon]

thats how i started

[rustic lynx]

This too

[iron glen]

they wanted a spicier experience

something with a little more kick than bland ol windows

[restive plinth]

Use whichever is comfortable and just works fine

If you're troubleshooting issues half the time, then...

[iron glen]

and now its come to bite them in the hiney i feel like

[fringe prairie]

larping

[iron glen]

lol

[fringe prairie]

ah fuck it’s blocked 😭

[rustic lynx]

when I went to install sober again it showed that I have it ?!?

[abstract wigeon]

try running it not from that launcher

[iron glen]

..yeah

[rustic lynx]

Okay

[restive plinth]

Good luck

[iron glen]

(they already installed it earlier)

[rustic lynx]

I tried to launch it thru Terminal and it shows that I don't have sober x86_64/master

[abstract wigeon]

cant you just click the app

[restive plinth]

No I meant good luck to fix the issues
I've gone through a lot of issues on linux and gave up in the end. I still dual boot it though because I want to be familiar with various distros and desktop environments.

[iron glen]

pretty sure you have the same search feature as in windows

[rustic lynx]

I did and okay it works LMAO

[iron glen]

fair

[rustic lynx]

Why didn't it work thru terminal

Or lutris

[abstract wigeon]

overcomplicating things

see app - click app

linux just works

[rustic lynx]

I'm not gonna use lutris no more then

[abstract wigeon]

also for minecraft, have you heard of prism launcher? its very very easy to install and works as good and better than modrinth

[cosmic marsh]

nah you just cant set it up mate

add the game yourself with no proton or wine

thru the app

[rustic lynx]

Hell naw

[restive plinth]

I wish things were easier on linux. It would be really helpful for beginners

[rustic lynx]

I prefer liquid bounce and modrinth

[cosmic marsh]

yeah im using pinecone

[rustic lynx]

I don't like prism it's just not my type

[iron glen]

there are user friendly distros
like linux mint i think

[abstract wigeon]

even though it has modrinth support?

[rustic lynx]

Fedora isn't user friendly? Did I get lied to

[narrow rain]

I wanna reapply thermal paste should I disassemble the motherboard form the case or can I just remove the fan while the motherboard is inside the case?

[iron glen]

and the flip side of that is idk
user unfriendly distros ig, like arch or something

[rustic lynx]

Nah I js prefer modrinth

[iron glen]

dude idfk 🥀

[abstract wigeon]

nobora is friendly, mint is super duper friendly

[cosmic marsh]

cachyos too, its built on arch but the wiki is very well explained, you have a live iso with a simple setup and everything works out of the box

[abstract wigeon]

cachyOS is also great for beginners

[rustic lynx]

Uh.. okay

[restive plinth]

It's still not friendly for installing stuff. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've never had a consistent experience

[restive plinth]

It is
Fedora is also Good

[cosmic marsh]

just the fan

[abstract wigeon]

i have had some issues with modrinth in the past, nothing game breaking but things like importing and exporting files can have issues, I belive the flatpak is the way you install it

[cosmic marsh]

then clean the thermal paste from both the fan and cpu, you can also remove the cpu to make it easier

[rustic lynx]

Also how do I install apps through the terminal? How do I know what to paste into the terminal?

[cosmic marsh]

which distro do you have

[iron glen]

i think mint is supposed to aswell? idk it didn't work too well for me so i switched to arch cz idk honestly, looking back it was not the best choice but it worked better. probably because i had people who used arch that i could ask help from

[rustic lynx]

Nothing was wrong with modrinth on windows. Idk about Linux never tried it on linux

[narrow rain]

Thanks you!!!

[rustic lynx]

Nobara

[cosmic marsh]

np

[rustic lynx]

I'll try modrinth and see if I have any problems

If I have I maybe will switch to prism

[cosmic marsh]

sudo dnf install (app name here)
sudo flatpak install (app name here)

[rustic lynx]

Okay..

What about Nvidia app? I heard that it can't be downloaded on linux

It crashed on me when I launched it through wine

[cosmic marsh]

i have tried mint but people are saying its also pretty straight foward for installing and using it

[cosmic marsh]

nvidia is a bad bad boy when it comes to linux

cuz they dont wanna release open source drivers

[restive plinth]

Is it a laptop or a desktop btw

[rustic lynx]

Desktop

[iron glen]

installing it very straight forward
you run the ISO, theres a big disk icon called "mint installler" or something, you run that and it holds your hand troughout the entire install process

[cosmic marsh]

and u dont need the app

[rustic lynx]

Linux will update the drivers to the newest ones or what

[cosmic marsh]

cool

[abstract wigeon]

exactly why i switched to amd this gen

[iron glen]

no i dont think so

[restive plinth]

Okay linux is not a bad choice then. For laptop, I get better battery life on windows than on linux, probably due to issues with Nvidia.

[cosmic marsh]

updating nobara also updates drivers

[rustic lynx]

Okay

Could you get Linux on old MacBooks with intel? Since you could get windows

[fringe prairie]

you can just use envycontrol to disable the nvidia gpu 🤷‍♂️

[cosmic marsh]

for my poor laptop with 4 gigs of ram and a celeron linux absolutely saved it from being a big paperweight

[fringe prairie]

but yeah for me linux battery life was worse than windows

even with dgpu disabled

[restive plinth]

Oh wait yeah I did that. But even then the battery life was worse

[restive plinth]

Yep. I get like 4 to 5 hours on linux. Maybe 6?
But on windows for a similar usage I get 10-11

[bold kindle]

POE goes blurry when i move, is that a game issue or a monitor issue? could it be motion blurr? i can't find that setting

[restive plinth]

I installed chrome OS flex on this desktop I had at home. These lightweight OSs are really useful

[bold kindle]

or it loses a lot of detail and color, when i move

[cosmic marsh]

which distro are you using

[ivory mountain]

prism mentioned

[bold kindle]

instantly pops back when i stop moving

[ivory mountain]

how do u prefer an app that fucks the UI with ads and constant "server hosting" prompts

to each their own i guess

[fringe prairie]

you use adguard and never see it again

[ivory mountain]

ur missing the point

[restive plinth]

That has been the case on all distros I've tried
Cachy, pop os, ubuntu, zorin and some others. I'm now running garuda.

I haven't tried mint on this yet and now I'm too lazy to remove garuda

[cosmic marsh]

wierd

it prolly becuase windows has better driver integration and what not

[fringe prairie]

i just use good old windows on my laptop now

[restive plinth]

Good chance
My friend is a huge fan of linux, but he's also using windows almost exclusively now because of better battery life

[restive plinth]

That's still my main partition. It's working good so I'm not messing with that

[iron glen]

i think i prefer having linux on a secondary drive/laptop
i want to have fun on my main rig and not have to spend 20min setting stuff up to play geometry dash or smth

[fringe prairie]

exactly

[iron glen]

respect to people who daily drive headaches like arch or smth

like successfully daily drive them

[restive plinth]

If windows brought back WSA it would be even better

[iron glen]

wsa?
winged sword insignia?

[restive plinth]

Windows subsystem for Android

[ivory mountain]

wsa got discontinued years ago i hate them for itttt

i loved wsa

[restive plinth]

Yeah they need to bring it back. Natively, and not the Amazon store bs

Wsl is such a huge success. Wsa would also be if they made it better and more integrated into the OS

[drowsy heart]

Could yall help me with a bulid in #1106613567966429224

[iron glen]

no
theres nothing in there

[bold kindle]

my samsung display was the thing that was doing the blurr effect when moving.... is there some dumb inbuilt feature?

my ancient asus had no issue

[iron glen]

motion blur

[bold kindle]

can't find it in OSD

OSM? the menu

[iron glen]

osd?

[bold kindle]

on screen thing

[iron glen]

motion blur is usually only in game

[bold kindle]

like i said, it's the monitor, i tried on another and the issue was gone

and there is no motion blurr option in this game anyway

[iron glen]

uhh

idk then

[bold kindle]

now i can't wait for the OLED.

[brave brook]

what do you mean. Their current drivers are open source. They solved that by moving important stuff to firmware, but hey, it's open source now

well, the kernel part is open source, that is 🙂

[iron glen]

close enough

[bold kindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP4pw3Vaus ok so VA panels have built in motion blurr? 😄

not even at the software level, the hardware can't do anything else

[daring lava]

I'm reinstalling my system back to factory and formatting all my drive (long story short someone remote accessed my PC and want to start clean)

I have a Gen 3 Sabrent 2TB Rocket and a Gen 4 Sabrent 1TB Rocket

Which would be best to use as my C drive and which would be best to use for my video editing, games, raw footage etc

[tired bear]

yes, i avoid them

i rather have ips bleed than motion blur

[deep musk]

managed to finally find the good pinout of my psu's modular cable and make the cable correctly, but I found out that I need to fit 2 double ground cable in addition

[tired bear]

fyi this is same connector used as eps12v , just cut and rewire

[deep musk]

I'm trying to make this cable cause the psu is too old to have these cables in stock

[dusty torrent]

I bought a VA panel without knowing it once, worst decision ever and I would never do that again to myself

they are only good for content viewing and even then they still present the same motion issues

[knotty bolt]

Replace my 1080p 24 inch 200hz to 27 inch 1440p 240hz oled?

[deep musk]

I managed yo make mine with said eps connector, but I used a premade, dell t3600 vga power cable as a base to make things easier (I know what I'm doing, don't worry)

[dusty torrent]

depends, can your current rig handle 1440p?

[knotty bolt]

5070 ti oc ryzen 7 9850x3d

Should be enough

[dusty torrent]

oh dude 100% just get the 1440p panel

[knotty bolt]

Alright!

[dusty torrent]

it's going to be much better than any 1080p panel unless that 1080p panel is a binned IPS with extreme refresh rate or an oled as well

[deep musk]

this one

[dusty torrent]

what model btw just curious

also 1440p would be a better in general for that setup and have way less of a bottleneck

[knotty bolt]

Msi mag 271qpx x24 e2, Its on sale atm

Its just a simple one

[deep musk]

so I'm going to this ^ from this: @tired bear

[knotty bolt]

Only thing is i got 3x 1080p ips 24 inch on my desk 27 inch is gonna look weird as heck i think

[dusty torrent]

that's an amazing screen you will definitely not regret buying that

[dusty torrent]

I have a single 27 and two 24's I made it work

[knotty bolt]

How?!

I thing im gonna get sick of those 24 inches

[dusty torrent]

27 inches is the perfect monitor size imo

anyone can fight me on that I don't care

[knotty bolt]

Yh but my desk doesnt fit 3x 27 inch

[dusty torrent]

you really care about screens matching that much? to me a second and even a third monitor is for secondary content and I don't care if they are different sizes

[tired bear]

i have one triple 32 inch 4k screen user lol

[bold kindle]

after experiencing this first han i 100% agree, i would not accept this kinda monitor for free (as a main monitor).
Obviously this thing can be a second monitor, i dont care about the scrolling blurr anywhere near as much as i care about the ingame motion blurr.

[knotty bolt]

Yh but i like the astetic now

[dusty torrent]

I guess so

[tired bear]

i once used a iiyama monitor, it was ips but color on it suuuccckeeddd

[dusty torrent]

some people just like that I guess, I personally have a really mismatched setup but it works for what I do

I can game and be productive still

but monitors don't match lol

[tired bear]

r/tvtoohigh

[knotty bolt]

Bro how else am i supposed to mount it😂?

[dusty torrent]

what would that tv even be used for lol

[knotty bolt]

Behind my monitors?

[dusty torrent]

that high up

unless it's a bedroom setup

[knotty bolt]

Watching vids

[tired bear]

use tv as monitor

[dusty torrent]

then it would make sense

[knotty bolt]

Yep

[dusty torrent]

ok that makes total sense then

very practical

[knotty bolt]

Its an LG G4 55 inch