tech-chat-1

[knotty bolt]

Love it

[bold kindle]

i dont think i've ever internally complained about color, it's either shit blacks, bleed, and today i got 2 more complaints wich is 1440p pixels being visible, and the VA motion blurr.

[deep musk]

(gosh that makes me want to die)

[empty quartz]

Got this watch today

[bold kindle]

considdering 1440p pixels only being 50% wider then 2160 ones, i wonder if i'd still see the grass-pixels there too. maybe we do need 8k, maybe we need 8k and for it only to use the 8k locally where it is needed, for grass and details 😄

[median warren]

Now just find a GPU that can run it

[hexed tapir]

Wait are yeee a ginger

[median warren]

5090 barely manages 4k

[hexed tapir]

rtx blackwell *6000

[median warren]

I don't know how that performs

But consumer gpu wise anyway

[deep musk]

it doesn't exist yet

[median warren]

Ah right

[hexed tapir]

Sorry 6000

[bold kindle]

can use DLSS, never seeing a pixel ever again is tempting. i'll never use FG, but i think i might preffer 120hz 4k then 240hz 1440.

[median warren]

Honestly, 99 FPS, I'm guessing average, to me anyway is not that impressive, we're in 2026 and they have literal trillions, do better Nvidia

[median warren]

Now for the ultimate test, black myth Wukong

When I see average FPS of 90 at 4k, max settings, no dlss then I'll be impressed

[bold kindle]

is Nvidia's nest gen on a new process and architecture? could be that being the missing link. 5000 seems they just made all the dies bigger.

[median warren]

Even with dlss, you're not reaching 60fps on 8k with a 5090

Obviously game specific

[tender relic]

Dont know how i feel about buying ram on ebay

Its £60 cheaper than other retailers but feels sketchy

[tough mauve]

Afternoon gents. Im hoping I might find some suggestions here. Does anyone know of any good solutions to prevent app installation on android devices that would still allow in app purchases? I've tried the Google family link but it doesn't seem to be able to differentiate.

[south arrow]

Test expo/xmp on occt should be fine

If it has errors send her back for the ebay money back garuntee

[swift moss]

4th pad must have been for good luck

[bold kindle]

how ''bad'' is gaming at 1440p on a 4k monitor? relative to 1440 on 1440.

[deep musk]

fine

[bold kindle]

not worse?

[empty quartz]

Partially

[empty quartz]

What size monitor

[bold kindle]

either 27'' or 32'', im not sure yet. but i really want to have a 4k monitor, and to play at 1440 most of the time, but if 1440 looks much better on 1440 native, then i might leave that idea.

[empty quartz]

You wont notice a difference

[bold kindle]

so the question is, is access to the 4k worth +300 😄

decisions, decisions.

[mint trout]

I prefer 1440

[wispy thunder]

4k is a huge difference at 27"

[bold kindle]

the question isn't just 4k vs 1440, it's gaming at 1440 on either.

because 4k halves the performance, relative to 1440, it's unrealistic to play at 4k native, without crazy upscaling.

[wispy thunder]

4k on 27" makes a huge difference in scenic RPGs like genshin

[kind linden]

I've been curious for quite some time regarding hdmi and display port cables, I've done a lot of research, but for cables longer than 1 meter - I'm having a hard time finding ones that seem like a good way to go. What's your suggestion on higher end display cables longer than 1 meter?

[snow mauve]

i now have ipa working in my environment woot 😄

[snow mauve]

what about 32:9 on a 49 inch?

[bold kindle]

i assume the reason GPU's also went up in price recently, was because they use Vram right, and vram also went up in price.

[grizzled frost]

correct

[bold kindle]

i just did not think of that

[grizzled frost]

also increased demand for time on the manufacturing line for GPU dies

any machines making consumer GPUs is a machine not making AI gpus

[latent gull]

Also nvidia

[bold kindle]

oh no

ai coming for all our parts, stop generating AI * * * *

discord can you let me type 4 asterisks please (fixed it)

[tired bear]

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/210298617-Markdown-Text-101-Chat-Formatting-Bold-Italic-Underline

[bold kindle]

i want the runescape chat system

rainbow text, rainbow waves

[deep musk]

rainbows :3

[cerulean estuary]

Should I bother using a managed switch for a home network?

[deep musk]

if you want to have fun, yeah, otherwise, no

[cerulean estuary]

What do mean?

[deep musk]

If you like using a managed switch, go for it but if you don't especially love to use them, don't bother

[tired bear]

[bold kindle]

no fucking way

[tidal geyser]

what

[valid canyon]

It’s whatever but probably not. In reality it doesn’t really matter

[deep musk]

you've never installed afterburner before?

[tired bear]

kill

[south arrow]

You can uncheck Norton lol

[tired bear]

you can uncheck msi afterburner too

norton only install

[bold kindle]

several times, but not in many months, maybe a few years.

actually maybe several years, i have used amd or IGPU for a long time now

[bold kindle]

but many newbs will not, and now MSI is downloading malware onto peoples PC, the worst kind of selling out, on a product that HAS THEIR NAME ON IT

afterburner was already making msi loads of money in cheap or free advertisement.

[median warren]

i feel like many newbs wont have heard of msi afterburner

[bold kindle]

and browny-points, in particular, but no more 😄

[balmy tapir]

i mean idk if norton is malware persay, but it does suck

[bold kindle]

as far as i have learned the last month, shitty free antivirus might as well be malware, since it seems to falsely flag content, and conflict with windows defender.

[tired bear]

which they pocketed instead of paying the only dev that is working on it

[bold kindle]

im no expert, im just preaching the gospel

it can probably never be quantified, but i bet you afterburner has earned MSI 100 times it's development cost, in brownie-points, brand image, and advertisement.

[north hill]

current FINAL desktop specs

[bold kindle]

and that is brownie points in the eyes of people that usually spend a lot of money too.

[balmy tapir]

software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.
definitions are still important, we can't just call every shitty software malware.

while norton and most other AV bloatware do suck and just cause problems, they aren't designed to be malware

[bold kindle]

disrupt <----

it's doing what the program was designed to do

and it's disrupting, to windows defender, to the user through false flags.

slowing down PC

[frigid blade]

What’s the Epstein file section

[north hill]

future upgrades

extra HDDs i don't have yet

[frigid blade]

IoT Enterprise LTSC is peak

Great choice

[north hill]

bare bones and doesn't have Copilot

[frigid blade]

Yah it’s my daily

I also use it for my older hardware so that they can at least run windows 11

[north hill]

i'd love to use Windows 10, but Nvidia Game Ready driver support ends this year :/

[empty quartz]

Just converted some money to usd, and this this feels like the toy money you get in games like monopoly

[north hill]

i wonder which one will get retired at the end of this laptop's life...

gee...

[frigid blade]

Meh

[empty quartz]

Its funny how americans typically call canadian bills monopoly money as their cash is literally made of paper

[frigid blade]

No it’s not

[north hill]

she's cooked, lads

[empty quartz]

Does it rip like paper?

[frigid blade]

3/4 is cotton

[frigid blade]

No

[north hill]

yalls money made of old Tim Horton cups

ours is McDonalds Big-Mac wrappers

[empty quartz]

Tf you on about

Our bills arent even close to paper

[north hill]

i'm appropriating everyone

because i find it FUNNY

[empty quartz]

Canadian bills are made of a polymer

Far more durable than us bills

[north hill]

yeah, Tim Horton cups

[empty quartz]

Tim horton cups arent even made of polymer

[north hill]

polystyrene

aka: napalm (if you try hard enough)

[empty quartz]

Nope

[deep musk]

nope, they are made of cardboard

[north hill]

ew, paper... (we do the same thing)

[empty quartz]

You americans are fucking weird tbh

[north hill]

just me, man

me and ONLY me

[empty quartz]

All americans are

[north hill]

how many times have you kicked the ass of the British?

[snow mauve]

lol

[empty quartz]

None, because we burned down the white house

[north hill]

we still whooped your ass back in 1812

AND the 1770s

[empty quartz]

Tf you mean, do they still teach that it was a stalemate in america?

[north hill]

count it what you will, but we 100% won the first time

[empty quartz]

So why is quebec a part of canada?

[north hill]

something about a pig iirc

wait, wrong side

[frigid blade]

That was an island

[deep musk]

hey there, don't kick the bee's nest

[empty quartz]

[bold kindle]

this monitor has absolutely awful motion blurr, game-ruiningly bad, stay away.

[deep musk]

we tried many times to go away

[empty quartz]

Thats never happening

[frigid blade]

Canadian imperialism

[empty quartz]

Quebec would fail as its own country

[deep musk]

grrrrr

[deep musk]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-dog-noises-gif-19499861

[empty quartz]

Y’all barely have an economy

[frigid blade]

Canada barely has an economy

[north hill]

...so Canada?

proved yourself right!

[empty quartz]

At least canada isnt 1 argument away from collapse

[deep musk]

ooof

[frigid blade]

I was thinking you’d say something about healthcare

And I was just gonna reply that my healthcare here is free

[deep musk]

it is here too btw

[frigid blade]

I think you missed why I said it

[deep musk]

woops, dummy me

[frigid blade]

Because that’s one of the more used arguments as to why the US is bad, because of healthcare costs

That being said I’m just lucky, there’s definitely an issue with the costs here

I mean the non life threatening surgery my mother got would’ve cost $150k without insurance, it’s pretty crazy

[empty quartz]

My argument is; fair wages, education, and stupidity

[frigid blade]

What about the education tho

[empty quartz]

America has a horrible education system

[frigid blade]

Which part, I can agree on everything before college and uni

[south arrow]

It be like that sometimes

[empty quartz]

Your college and uni is absurd in price

[frigid blade]

FAFSA covered my entire college education, it would also cover my university years

[south arrow]

Never use the first story of a two story outhouse

[frigid blade]

That’s the perks of being poor ig

[frigid blade]

Most of which you don’t pay especially if you’re from the state

There’s so much financial aid awarded

[south arrow]

I would've had my first two years paid for through fafsa but took a diffrent route

[frigid blade]

Lots of chances to get a higher education for free or low cost if you care

[tranquil wharf]

if most people don't pay it how the hell do so many people have a lot of student loans

[empty quartz]

Arent college and uni the same?

[frigid blade]

Community College vs University

CC usually just your Associates

[south arrow]

Yes no

[frigid blade]

And then you go to Uni for anything more

[empty quartz]

Thats fucking weird

[tranquil wharf]

what is an associates, I only know of bachelor's, master's, and doctor's

[balmy tapir]

colleges typically don't have grad schools

[balmy tapir]

2 year degree

[south arrow]

2,4, 6-9

[empty quartz]

Nice

[snow mauve]

anybody ever had any issues with their job resisting parental leave as a father?

[south arrow]

I never went but hear good things lol

[snow mauve]

are all corporations required to do 12 weeks?

[frigid blade]

My community college was awesome, I took it entirely from home at my pc

[empty quartz]

I still need to go back to school

[south arrow]

Most of my jobs only gave me that first few days then back to work, and just off not paid or nothing

[frigid blade]

I finished in a year what should’ve been 2 because I took college credited classes in high school

[south arrow]

I saw nvidia offering AI courses but its alot to learn

[empty quartz]

So the american equivalent of canadian grade 12 courses

[frigid blade]

I know nothing about Canadian education

Do they teach about the ww2 atrocities, or was that ww1

[tranquil wharf]

the joke was probably that americans learn in university what canadians learn in high school

[empty quartz]

That was like grade 10

[latent gull]

brother some people are learning in college what i learned in elementary school

[snow mauve]

well supposedly we get 12 weeks. when my daughter was born in 2017 my mgr basically said look i know you have the entitlement but i can't lose you that long with such a small team...i never really rocked the boat because he was otherwise a great mgr. my current mgr suggested opening an HR ticket to see if i could do anything

[latent gull]

Legitamitely i was in my senior year in high school with a kid who had a less than 4th grade reading level

[snow mauve]

backpay would be nice....lol

[frigid blade]

Popcorn

[empty quartz]

Fun fact 1/3 of americans are illiterate

[latent gull]

okay, these stats are usually misleading, but yes, they do exist

[frigid blade]

10% less than that

[latent gull]

and no child left behind really messed them up

[empty quartz]

Still not great

[frigid blade]

Yah it did, I graduated with a 1.7 gpa after failing 4 classes in high school lol

[snow mauve]

fax

[frigid blade]

Yah it’s not

[snow mauve]

i was the last generation before no child left behind...i actually was taught how to properly learn

[frigid blade]

It’s 3% off of the UK rate tho

[tranquil wharf]

I wonder what definition of literacy is used for that

[latent gull]

its kinda misleading IIRC

[snow mauve]

teach the test, pump out straight D kids into the world and let them 'figure it out' didnt pan out well

[frigid blade]

Every country uses its own way of calculating, I think there’s a normalized score somewhere that takes into account the differences

[empty quartz]

Iirc its below grade 7 literacy

[snow mauve]

i've said it before, overhaul education, remove every fkin government incentive, and make us like japanese schools, 6th graders are doing trig

[tranquil wharf]

it's extremely misleading because today's grade 7 literacy would have been considered pretty advanced historically

[empty quartz]

Quite a few Americans would still be in grade 6

[tranquil wharf]

so if you compare those numbers to historical literacy rates, they make no sense whatsoever

[snow mauve]

the whole supposed itinerary of what kids can learn is bs, we are much more capable and other countries show it. there is an INTENTIONAL effort to dumb down America.

when i was in 3rd grade i was in gifted program, they actually had a program. i wasn't a whiz kid i guess, i was just smarter than the average bloke. now a days its hard to find that and so kida don't get the proper education. we homeschooled all of our kids off and on over the years, 2 are still homeschooled but as they are getting older its harder for us

reality is, homeschool has much better preparation for the job market and likely multi skilled, but may be lacking int he social aspect

[latent gull]

oh, sorry about the depression, unless you were one of the lucky ones that actually did somethng with it :P

[tranquil wharf]

that's the thing. the actual school subjects you can learn from anywhere, at any time. the "social aspect" you will never get again after school

[snow mauve]

lol well after 2 more years my parents pulled me out, so i did homeschool 6-9 grade, went back to 10th to do wrestling, went to register for 11 they said '9th didnt count as homeschool' and told me i'd have to redo all high school, so i would be a 21 year old graduate. i told them to politely fk off, dropped, got GED and started a year of college under my belt at 16, then joined army year after. so i was kinda whirlwind

[snow mauve]

here's one of those videos that almost brings me to tears cause it was just 'different' lol https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CUfwcIVq6H0

When i was in high school we actually had a bigger gang issue with Tongans and Mexicans vs black/white, but overall wasn't really violent disrespectful sht show like now.

bring back spanking kids in school

[sharp ivy]

he just typin stuff

[empty quartz]

Car

[hexed tapir]

KITTEN

[frigid blade]

https://tenor.com/view/caseoh-cat-kitty-case-oh-caseoh-kitty-gif-10158875947500614550

[snow mauve]

as gaylord focker once said "i'm more of a dog lover"

[clear canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/arn-anderson-cody-rhodes-stop-talking-shut-up-gif-23302684

[snow mauve]

lol its a real quote, you didnt see meet the parents?

[iron parcel]

Is psu soft quiet humming noise normal?

First time I heard it because I got an aio and it's really quiet

Not that much fan noise anymore

[balmy tapir]

probably coil whine

[south arrow]

Happens

[balmy tapir]

i think its a non issue, but i could be wrong

[south arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/greg-outside-circle-of-trust-meet-the-fockers-ben-stiller-note-gif-9991414

[vast otter]

Everyone that uses more than one monitor NEEDS to watch this.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6jKOcInct7s?si=SmHWQT2SF0Fu4o2I

[candid acorn]

Update on the monitors so I figured out it wasn’t an issue with anything I had there is a button on the monitor that for some reason makes it have black bars and I accidentally pressed it and the monitor went full screen at 4k 275hz it’s the stupidities thing but I’m so ducking glad I fixed it and ima return those hdmi cables I spent 60$ on 😂

Ty to all the help tho🙏🙏

[formal sonnet]

Oh wow. I've heard of ASUS ProArt monitors (for example) having built-in on screen guides for artwork / photography purposes, but nothing like built-in letter / pillar boxing. Good thing you found the feature and can return the cables!

[bleak shard]

Is WD Blue 1tb HDD used, power up time 214 days, 100% health and performance. For around 11 USD, 10 EUR

[ripe marsh]

Is it possible to find the pcie slot spacing on a motherboard easily?

[south arrow]

A bit more rn unfortunately around 20-30ish

[frigid blade]

god i fucking hate microsoft so much lol

[south arrow]

Or fortunately if youre selling keks

[frigid blade]

i can pass through my NPU to the VM, but no software can see it even though windows does

[snow mauve]

a used wd blue...not bad power up time but i think that's the bottom tier of their drives right

$11 i'd say buy it but not critical 😄

[frigid blade]

I cant install drivers in the VM because Microsoft handles the device ID but the driver installer cant match the ID with the one its supposed to so it wont install drivers

I cant change the device ID because windows/microsoft handles it somehow that I cant touch

[south arrow]

Blue and black are my goto. I want to say green is their lower tier but not 100% certain

[snow mauve]

they missing purple. i have a bunch of wd purple surveillance drives for constant 24/7 video

[frail sequoia]

Do you guys think using a cracked version of fl studio until I can afford the £200 it costs for the producer edition is a good idea

[gleaming rose]

do it, just don't download a virus

nobody really cares tbh

[frail sequoia]

I already have 2 versions of the cracked one, one kn my pc and one i just spent 2 hours trying to get on my laptop since my old one doesn't work anymore

[gleaming rose]

ball out

[frail sequoia]

Hmmmmmmmm

https://tenor.com/view/dexter-gif-1878760417600646737

How did they know

[versed ingot]

anyone who knows what timings affect latency the most? im running CL17 at 3400mhz, im using 1.3V rn but 1.35V gives CL16

[grizzled frost]

primary timings affect it the most, then secondary, then tertiary, etc

[stuck condor]

Hey guys I have an asus laptop opened up. I’m trying to located the display ribbon cable, any pointers?

[versed ingot]

is the 0.6ns differnece worth it for increasing from 1.3V to .35?

[grizzled frost]

depends on the dies

[versed ingot]

as i said CL16 works perfectly fine at 1.35V but im not sure if i should use it

[versed ingot]

under

[silent marten]

Can anyone please support me
I want to build a pc but the prices here in India are too high. Some parts are even unavailable. Can anyone help me by delivering those parts? I will pay everything including delivery. For example the Intel arc b580 (thats what I want) is always more than $400. The new intel core ultra 5 250k plus is not available here. Anyone please help me

[stuck condor]

Is it the square box i marked up?

I believe my laptop has the ribbon cable loosened up because I don’t see a display

[narrow rain]

My CPU fan is completely stuck to my pc I try heating it up with hairdryer for almost 10 minutes now but it still completely stuck anyone have other method to remove it?

[native path]

Pull

[narrow rain]

I try but I don't wanna pull CPU out of socket

[native path]

Try to twist

[narrow rain]

THANK YOU!!!

[native path]

🎉

[narrow rain]

God I been trying it for hours

[brave sonnet]

Is this a good cpu for my gaming pc y’all, I want to play gta 6

[solar moat]

nice

[snow mauve]

oof what is that like 1997

[clear canyon]

BRUH

crazy that 1997 was pentium 2

[snow mauve]

remember the old dual pentium pros that sounded like an f16 taking off

one of my first jobs was a little hardware store by an army base, so guys would come in buying extremely overpowered desktops for like, secretaries just so they dont lose the budget next year

[versed ingot]

not sure

[versed ingot]

this is too good leave some for the rest of us!

[fallow yacht]

sup nerds

[swift moss]

unholy BOM 😩

40 100pF capacitors that are like 2 bucks each lol

i designed 1 half 1 year ago and 1 half now lol

[north hill]

almost done

[teal sphinx]

how much is a used s24 worth

[formal sonnet]

Around ~$500 CAD to $700 CAD ish, give or take, depending on condition.

[rugged sand]

This is impossible right?

[ionic atlas]

Great day so far. Outlook on phone is broken too. Had to restart the phone because even if killing app it would be black.

Quality software

[formal sonnet]

Easy fix: just fully close the app, clear the app's cache, then re-launch the app. Oh wait - can't clear cache on iOS...

[green shell]

[gusty obsidian]

anyone know why i dont get great fps in most games i have a ryzen 7 5700g rtx 3070ti with 16gb of ram i know i could use more ram but anything else i can look into

[clear canyon]

5700g sucks for gaming ngl, a 5600x is better

but what games

[gusty obsidian]

can i still upgrade to that even with the am4 socket everyone i talk to tells me i gotta upgrade everything to am5

[sinful cobalt]

energy

[clear canyon]

you can get an x3d chip that will still do great now days

[gusty obsidian]

in cs i get like 140 fps on low settings 4.3 i was playing a beta last night i understand beta not great for profomace but going from 90fps to 9 fps in some spots is kinda wild

[sinful cobalt]

i dont think fps wise any no am4 non x3d chip surpassed the 5600 noticeable

[clear canyon]

yeah its ur cpu

[wispy thunder]

Queen Elizabeth 2 was known to have used tech at least a little bit later on. It's totally plausible that teams was involved in her death.

[gusty obsidian]

is that worth the upgrade will it be a noticeable difference

[clear canyon]

yes if the price isnt absurd

[gusty obsidian]

what is a good price range atm

and ur saying the 5600x is what i should get

[clear canyon]

no, I said a 5600x is better at gaming than a 5700g

[gusty obsidian]

what cpu should i go too

[clear canyon]

im lookin at amazon and they apear to not be a thing anymore new

[sinful cobalt]

5700x3d

[solar moat]

or cheapest Vermeer cpu

[solar moat]

if its not crazy price

[sinful cobalt]

9950x3d2

[gusty obsidian]

455$ crazy?

[solar moat]

VERY

when a $200 cpus somke it

[solar moat]

i dont like it

[sinful cobalt]

9995WX

[gusty obsidian]

amazon got the 9950x for 955

[solar moat]

saddly not good cpu for my workload

[sinful cobalt]

4790k haswell is all you need

[rigid fjord]

5600x/5700x3d/5800x3d

[solar moat]

what do you think i am running right now

[sinful cobalt]

you’re running on the floor

[rigid fjord]

quantum cpu's definitely are out your price range then dude

[solar moat]

so they cost more then $200000

[rigid fjord]

yup, cheapest one is something like 450k, and you have to constantly cool it with ln2

[solar moat]

give me a nice lathe at that point maybe runs msdos on it

[rigid fjord]

if it goes above something like -240c in temps, the cpu dies

[solar moat]

it dose not die but it just spits out random numbers since heat adds loads of noise

and then you need to spend days letting it cool down again

[hexed tapir]

dont forget the 5500x3d and 5600x3d

[solar moat]

give me 5600x over 5500x3d

[hexed tapir]

why downgrade a cpu

[solar moat]

?

5600x > 5500x3d

[solar moat]

yes the 5500x3d has 3x the L3 but the core clocks are just so low/it runs hot/is locked like all the other first gen x3d
offen the 5600x is faster becose L3 cant allways make up for 5500x3d being 800mhz lower clocck

[solar moat]

testing with slow ram to make the x3d look better

[solar moat]

ass timings

[hexed tapir]

ah your a troll ok

[solar moat]

trrds is not set to 4

[abstract wolf]

Hello guys, I have been using my RTX 4090 for LLM and after few weeks usage my I had artifacts and crashes happening. Windows event viewer tells 14th and 15th errors from nvidia driver as it's reported. What troubleshooting do you suggest for me to go through? I have already performed DDU change of drivers several versions.

Artifacts were black rectangles. Crash keeps OS up for at least 20 seconds before restart

I am currently downclocking and seeing if downlock stabilizes gpu which worked for stress test already. Can it be PSU or connector instead of GPU?

[hexed tapir]

#1027757333117415424

[rigid fjord]

5600x3d was limited to microcenter only so finding one is a nightmare, the 5500x3d is barely better than a 5600x tbh

[hexed tapir]

hey 15% is more then nothing

[drowsy remnant]

^

i went with the 5700x3d at the time. got a good deal too

[hexed tapir]

same i got it for $170 for prime day

[drowsy remnant]

only thing i semi regret getting was my rx 7800 xt but at same time. rx 9070 xt were going for 900 here so maybe paying 500 for the rx 7800 xt wasn't too bad

[cold skiff]

Why do you regret the 7800xt

[hexed tapir]

no fsr4 xD

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-amd-fsr2-radeon-upscaling-gif-14361789650951144310

[drowsy remnant]

i mean its a fantastic card with some issues with driver timeouts here and there on windows

but seeing amd pull fsr4 after i bought it kinda sucks ass lol

[cold skiff]

If you don’t use rt, better raster than a 4070. Undervolted once level of 4070s. Bargain for £100 lower than Nvidia equivalents

[drowsy remnant]

not like i used it i love 1080p gamin! natively'

[cold skiff]

Just use that upscaler thingy that can inject fsr4 for it. What’s that app called I forget

[drowsy remnant]

i mean if re9 and the dark ages has teached me anything baked in RT > patched on RT

[cold skiff]

Optiscaler or something like that

[hexed tapir]

ducky

[drowsy remnant]

re9 ran buttery smooth with RT

[cold skiff]

I don’t play enough SP games requiring fsr to remember the name

Yeah it’s Optiscaler. It can do fsr4 for you on rdna3. Sucks you need another app to do it but yeah

[drowsy remnant]

beside cyberpunk which looks amazing without RT i dont see the need with RT much

[sinful cobalt]

“7 minutes. 7 minutes is all I can spare to play with you before I driver timeout.”

[drowsy remnant]

wasn't fsr4 leaked?

[cold skiff]

That’s where people got the INT8 files from to do it I believe

[drowsy remnant]

hey dont curse me now i JUST did a windows reinstallation as a last resort

[hexed tapir]

amd posted it on accident

[drowsy remnant]

"accident"

[cold skiff]

There was driver timeouts on rdna3 with the version before latest iirc. I never saw any but was in the patch notes

[drowsy remnant]

its 7000 series driver wise been weird

anything past 25.9.1

[sinful cobalt]

yeah which amd conincidentally somehow leaked and optiscaler went ham with it

[cold skiff]

Mines fine but again I don’t often play anything that really stresses it

[drowsy remnant]

just been unstableish

[drowsy remnant]

minecraft somehow made my driver timeout lol

[sinful cobalt]

hey minesweeper at 720p 720hz is pretty intensive

[drowsy remnant]

and it wasn't anything insane

[cold skiff]

Minecraft only does that if undervolt.

Only game I can’t undervolt with this card oddly

[drowsy remnant]

interesting

[cold skiff]

It’s not a big deal for me though

[drowsy remnant]

what you undervolt to?

[cold skiff]

I main osrs. My kids play Roblox, Minecraft and Fortnite

[drowsy remnant]

i keep mine at 1100 to be safe

[cold skiff]

The odd heavier game but I’m not fussed

[drowsy remnant]

i never want to touch fortnite after they added AI slop

[sinful cobalt]

-110 is bonkers LOL

[cold skiff]

Uh… I think default is 1050 and my most stable undervolt is 980. This pulse doesn’t undervolt well but I didn’t expect it to

Memory I can only go an extra 100mhz stable

But it gives me like +8c so lol no

[sinful cobalt]

my 9070xt did -60 and 2800 mem stable across every title iirc

or was it -80 i dont remember

[drowsy remnant]

oops typo

[cold skiff]

I’m not at pc so forget the mem clock, just know stable was +100. Technically +113 as it likes to ignore 13 on this card for some reason

[drowsy remnant]

pretty much what i went. oddily amd likes to boost clos above the configured max freq

[cold skiff]

Yeah bonus is you don’t have to fuck about with that

Just smash it high and let it do its thing

What model?

[drowsy remnant]

powercolor hellhound

[obsidian urchin]

Are ram prices still bad?

[drowsy remnant]

vram im not touching. just causes issues for me

[sinful cobalt]

i disliked using amd adrenaline ngl

[cold skiff]

Better cooler than mine so would hope you’d get more out of it

Adrenaline is fine it’s just the resetting of profiles that’s annoying

[sinful cobalt]

yes

[drowsy remnant]

yeah go back into hybernation and wait 6 months

[drowsy remnant]

ive seen people outright ditch adrenaline cause it caues driver timeouts

[hexed tapir]

untill 32gb of ddr5 reaches $90 again its bad

[drowsy remnant]

i know nvidia has its issues too but thats just funny lol

[sinful cobalt]

50% chance to open
doesnt save your GPU profile everytime you do a shutdown
and driver timeouts galore
FPS cap ocassionally deciding to do sepukku

[drowsy remnant]

i rather have it 50% chance of opening than driver crash icl

[sinful cobalt]

i remember twice logging into windows the drivers said “ay captain im gonna permanently jump into the sea”

[cold skiff]

Damn Setsuna that sucks. Mine just changes to default profile every driver update.

Or when I had timeouts on Minecraft because of undervolt but that was easy fix

[sinful cobalt]

also idk why but I cannot get the colour profile I want for my monitor on AMD

[cold skiff]

Ah yes I have an issue with 1 game and colour profiles actually

[sinful cobalt]

The laptop looks fine configured with AMD but I could never properly change the color settings to what I like

on desktop 9070xt

[cold skiff]

But that’s because it’s a shell inside the app itself. Runelite for OSRS. I have to change global and can’t set inside the app itself. Manually added to adrenaline as it doesn’t recognise it as a game

[sinful cobalt]

like either the colours look dead or the whites is just too flashing so like

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

also the FSR video upscaler was ABSOLUTE buns especially in dark scenes

[cold skiff]

Like the vivid mode is awesome for osrs… I just don’t want it in the whole damn screen

[drowsy remnant]

is using fsr/dlss even worth at 1080p??

[cold skiff]

It used to work

[drowsy remnant]

gen curiously

[sinful cobalt]

it looked like 100% all shimmering

[cold skiff]

Probably 720 or 960

[sinful cobalt]

only DLAA

upscaling to 1080p is sad unless the game and gpu just both say no

[cold skiff]

Hogwarts legacy did upscaling from 960 to 1080 automatically when I launched that. Was like lols bad. Native no issues

Playing that game on the missus ps4 is whack, the upscaling is horrible

[drowsy remnant]

i got it free on epic and have yet to touch it

[cold skiff]

Same, played a few hours

[sinful cobalt]

i like my DLSS and VSR like I dont wanna sound like an nvidia shill but really I gave AMD a try in the space and it was underwhelming for me

[drowsy remnant]

ive rebought games due fact they were on sale on steam despite having them on epic for free xd

[cold skiff]

Oh wait legacy on the ps4 is a native 900p lol

Looked horrific in 4k terrible gpu settings as you’d expect

[drowsy remnant]

dlss5 looking promising

[sinful cobalt]

im a DLSS 4.5 shill

[drowsy remnant]

fair enough

i need like some ubscure underdog to create gpus icl

[sinful cobalt]

DLSS 4.5 (Preset M) Performance at 4K is simply lovely

I also use FG to hit 240 FPS

[drowsy remnant]

im bit on and off on framegen icl

[cold skiff]

We have one. Technically 2.

[drowsy remnant]

wait we got 2?!

ik intel but whos the other one lol

[sinful cobalt]

one is intel the other is from china

[drowsy remnant]

cause like it does give big fps boost if its stable but its fake :( not real

[drowsy remnant]

ah china lovely

[cold skiff]

Beefy power from China, wouldn’t expect it early on. However not great software (no surprise you’ve seen Intels great struggles and great understanding) with poor architecture on the hardware

[sinful cobalt]

I wouldnt use FG for multiplayer games where input latency matters or if you arent even getting 60 FPS stable

60>120 and 120>240 with FG introduces more motion fluidity

I dont find x3 or x4 MFG likeable

[drowsy remnant]

shame some games rely on dlss/fsr and framegen to get "stable fps

so my brain

just died

[latent pasture]

multi fg unironically needing even higher fps than 2x fg so the differences between each frame isnt bad

[sinful cobalt]

x3 and x4 just feel like shit even with 120 base

[drowsy remnant]

just x10 that shit trust

[kindred halo]

Tbh you could just nullify the need for MFG to a degree with DLSS

[native path]

Anyone know where to get a 5090 for $200? Not looking to download the gpu

[kindred halo]

-If you were getting 60 average on native, and 80 with DLSS quality or such, you'd be bumped up to 160 FPS rather than 120, which is close enough to most monitor refresh rates like 165 & 180

[sinful cobalt]

this is false, you lose some base FPS with FG

you may be getting 80 pre FG but with FG the base would be more like 70

[kindred halo]

Oh right, since you're doing frame generation, which is intensive

[sinful cobalt]

it gets worse the higher you go

https://tenor.com/view/sunna-zzz-zenless-zone-zero-random-kid-random-gif-3794911060374690695

[kindred halo]

Well errr
Yeah honestly, just try to lower settings if you want more than like 120ish FPS

Also, question
How's DLSS 4.5 looking? Did it get any updates / patches or such yet?

[drowsy remnant]

with ptm on it lol

[knotty bolt]

@dusty torrent i ordered my oled monitors!

[stark flicker]

@drowsy remnant you are from the USA?

[drowsy remnant]

nope

EU perso. but whats up?

[stark flicker]

Just asking

[solar moat]

hello

[cold skiff]

EU is a big place with many countries

Saying you’re from the EU is like saying you’re a piece of spicy chicken but not naming the spices

[sinful cobalt]

“11 herbs and spices of dryness”

[median warren]

Dryness?

I'd argue that EU has quite good spices and flavours

[rough salmon]

Moved out and now I get 10ms let’s go

[tall sandal]

does AMD laptop CPUs generate heat in a smaller area than intel?

im asking cuz On Jarrods Tech intel vs AMD laptop CPU comparasion AMD laptop always runs hotter despite it being the same exact laptop and cooling system.

[latent pasture]

they measure differently

[gusty wagon]

i think it's just heat density at different areas of the die

[latent pasture]

ignore the software reported temps and instead look at the thermal camera part

[gusty wagon]

intel typically has a monolithic die so the heat is a bit better well distributed below the IHS

[tall sandal]

But it means AMDs heat is on a smaller area which is more difficult to remove

[tall sandal]

He said in one intel felt hotter

[gusty wagon]

AMD on the other hand, use chiplets that have really intense heat output below the IHS where the chips are

[latent pasture]

most amd laptops are monolithic

[tall sandal]

this means more heat is leaving the CPU in intel, in AMD it cant escape as much since its in a smaller area?

[gusty wagon]

Both use soldered copper IHS though

[gusty wagon]

oh? that's interesting

[native path]

50 minutes left to my shift someone talk about networking problems they have

[tall sandal]

AMD another thing I noticed

[gusty wagon]

Does that usually belong to BGA or just laptop chips?

[tall sandal]

when gaming on AMD laptops on same wattages, ive seen in reviews temp is higher

is it sensor also? Tctl/Tdie

[latent pasture]

mostly laptop but they bring it over for desktop too
thats what the G series are across all gens

[gusty wagon]

hm? the G series are monolithic?

[latent pasture]

ye theyre not chiplet

[tall sandal]

is Tctl/Tdie hotspot?

[gusty wagon]

That's interesting, i thought it'd be like ryzen

like have the gpu core cluster as another chiplet

hmm

i don't think you'd have to worry much about temps unless you're going to put it in your bedsheets or in a very tight spot

[tall sandal]

nah Im asking cuz I saw in Jarrods tech

[latent pasture]

amd just straight up reports higher temps in software despite using less power and the reviewer using a thermal camera to actually see physical temps

not sure how that helps them but it is what it is

[gusty wagon]

there are regulations on how much the surface of the laptop must be (at the point of sale), so unless the airways are obstructed, you're generally fine

[gusty wagon]

Probably the heat density at that point too

[tall sandal]

Same power AMD runs hotter

[gusty wagon]

yeah definitly the heat density

[tall sandal]

he said intel runs hotter on the surface

this means heat isnt escaping as much in amd since its smaller area right?

same pattern comparing different CPUs, amd is running hotter, its a pattern

despite same cooling

[gusty wagon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

a laptop's a laptop

[tall sandal]

Jarrod always says this is not a fair comparsion since the sensors are located and measured differently

speaking of jarrod he hasnt uploaded in a while

[oblique hamlet]

need advice on a new laptop
preferably 16gb ram+
needs to be fast
wifi 5/6
ayleast 512gb
needs to handle 25 firefox tabs, intellij/ visual studio
under £650 used/new
long last battery

[gusty wagon]

Well

there's SuggestALaptop server

[tall sandal]

I can help with this

[native path]

Do u need a dedicated gpu?

[tall sandal]

battery is bad but it should be fine

Just you must replace thermal paste on a used laptop

cuz the thermals prob ass, cuz dried up

[sinful cobalt]

i should pair my shitbox laptop with the 5060ti restricted by tb4

[native path]

Nah macbook

[tall sandal]

@oblique hamlet yo I found a good deal

[oblique hamlet]

ehhh depends not really

[oblique hamlet]

upgradable ram?

[tall sandal]

Yes

[oblique hamlet]

nice

I'll look into it ty

[tall sandal]

Another one, condition is very good

But this is quite old, so the thermal paste needs to be replaced

[oblique hamlet]

ya

[native path]

Hate this laptop with my guts

[tall sandal]

why?

[oblique hamlet]

it's not very sleek

[tall sandal]

the conditon compared to others is very good

[oblique hamlet]

if ykwim

[tall sandal]

others I saw dents

[oblique hamlet]

not 'aesthetically pleasing'

[native path]

This one looks dope

[tall sandal]

its got one dent

[oblique hamlet]

https://amzn.eu/d/00gmWcDs

[oblique hamlet]

was looking at this

not amazing value with no dgpu

[tall sandal]

this has a dent on the lid

[oblique hamlet]

I've got a latitude 5320 rn

and it's got soldered ram

only 8gb and it's bottlenecked af

[sinful cobalt]

macbook can only bench cp for me

[oblique hamlet]

I was looking at the MacBook neo but it's not great considering it's only got 8gb ran

[sinful cobalt]

8gb ram is fine if you dont do much

[oblique hamlet]

I am a java dev

so I need minimum 16gb

[tall sandal]

@oblique hamlet INSANE deal

[oblique hamlet]

goat

[tall sandal]

condition looks insane

[oblique hamlet]

send link pls

[tall sandal]

yes

[oblique hamlet]

also I have an ipad

[tall sandal]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/318135648150?_skw=Asus+TUF&itmmeta=01KP5NKYZCY3VXS1FX63T4ESJB&hash=item4a125cbf96:g:304AAeSw4u1p2lcb&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAAwGfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xB25ed2xHcQdZ60P1wUcGBa4l8ddRM7LLWrUha0AVGeRtmqg1%2FZuR2nBtgQQzrmE0hbVkfljNJSgY8F0shgSNvY6Y4sKSTz8xA2Ns7w9PgS6WyCDDHl9fdqr%2B%2BirFzHu83autkRhfH%2B71TJcXyqONJnBvVjAjBKXTKkbMbYMY69H73VWHcnHOX%2BuBNwG5rrM7ATBMLGmkQvyWfS86UmV6TYEOwSy%2FV8IdH0DybrWCktAQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_Dvz7WxZw

[oblique hamlet]

i want to sell it

but my parents got it for me and for some reason they put engraving on it

what would you recommend i do

because its got my government name and school institution i go to on it

*used to

i really cant be arsed to do a whole housing replacement and risk breaking the screen

just to get some more monetary value out of it

[tall sandal]

now it is used

that means you do need to go to a repair shop and get thermal paste replaced

extra work

[oblique hamlet]

i can do that easily withouut a doubt

i build pcs for a side hobby

[polar kayak]

Does anyone know of any good CHEAP (£250ish) camcorders / cameras with large zoom? (Not digital)

[oblique hamlet]

look at used nikons

[polar kayak]

Alr

[tall sandal]

In my region there is a laptop brand new for like 650 pounds, but its got 8gb ram

you gotta upgrade, it has an rtx 4050 but cpu is weak

[oblique hamlet]

hmm

[high badger]

Anyone know why Floatplane is so buggy?

[oblique hamlet]

try a different browser idk

[high badger]

just lately for me its been very slow

[oblique hamlet]

ohh

[high badger]

its the same for everyone of my friends too

[oblique hamlet]

probably react cdns preformance or smth

[high badger]

god react is horrible

next.js is better (yes i know its based on react but its much more reliable in my experience)

[oblique hamlet]

vite >>

[high badger]

i mean atleast it isnt svelte

[oblique hamlet]

i like svelte with tauri apps

[high badger]

definetly not my internet lol

[oblique hamlet]

or like game launchers

[high badger]

well today i finally got rid of the last svelte app in our pipeline and its now next based

i consolidated 10 different apps into 1

[oblique hamlet]

my college’s internet btw

[native path]

I love having good internet

[rigid fjord]

new might be an issue, but a secondhand legion 5 or thinkpad is definitely possible

[high badger]

my colleges is about 300mbps down

[native path]

Is this wifi?

[oblique hamlet]

ya

at home i got 2gbps

lleme find a pic

this was when i first got an enterprise line to my house lol

[native path]

Looks like it’s just super congested

[native path]

Me 5gbps

[oblique hamlet]

no its because i got banned on the main net

[high badger]

my ISP allows you to pay 10 bucks for a static Ip on a residential line

[native path]

?

[oblique hamlet]

and im having to use the open network with a vpn

[native path]

Why’d you get banned

[oblique hamlet]

to bypass the login page

[oblique hamlet]

because i ddos school

[high badger]

Oh.

[oblique hamlet]

and i boasted about it

[native path]

I guess it’s not the school’s internet it’s your fault

[high badger]

You know that's incredibly illegal?

You can be arrested.

[native path]

Well yeah he knows but it’s done anyway

[oblique hamlet]

uhh yea

i only did it because a mutual friend was in a vc

[high badger]

dms

[oblique hamlet]

and he wanted someone to boot

[high badger]

Yes i do

[versed ferry]

This is mine currently, on wifi. Not going to wire my PC until later this year.

[sinful cobalt]

@native path

[native path]

Am I missing something

[sinful cobalt]

yeah free ice cream

[native path]

Oh

[cold skiff]

I’m guessing unbottled is a cafe

[tender relic]

pc parts are so much cheaper in the us than in the uk

its almost worth flying over picking everything up and flying back

[mortal mantle]

what is this BSOD

[cold skiff]

It’s really not. You add US taxes, it’s generally a very similar price.

Not worth a £1k return ticket

+additional weight cost

[cold skiff]

Google it

[sinful cobalt]

google.com

[fickle ivy]

I hate how fast Spotify cache fills up my storage

I'll clear it and then later that day it's already filled up all the storage on my phone

[craggy cove]

running out of phone storage in 2026 is crazy

[gaunt spade]

32gb phone

[craggy cove]

even the cheapest chinesium gets 128gb now

[gaunt spade]

bro has every song downloaded

[restive plinth]

A small picture or video is taking a lot of megabytes these days
Even 128GB doesn't feel like enough

[fickle ivy]

Oh cooollll, side loading is now banned in android

[craggy cove]

year old photos and videos go to the cloud

[fickle ivy]

It's only 128gb

[restive plinth]

Turn play protect off

[gaunt spade]

i still do it

[gaunt spade]

too little

[craggy cove]

idk i have 58.6/128gb used rn, but im not really a camera person so thats why

[fickle ivy]

Didn't work

[halcyon relic]

tons of IHS

[craggy cove]

i have this samsung s23 ultra with 512gb and i have no idea how one would fill that up

[restive plinth]

Turn off app scannning in play protect

[fickle ivy]

I did

[restive plinth]

after that it should work

[fickle ivy]

It doesnt

[gaunt spade]

im using 334/512

[craggy cove]

i recommend clicking that button

[fickle ivy]

I have

[gaunt spade]

instagram is taking 24gb

[craggy cove]

ouch

[median warren]

🔥

24gb of ram

[craggy cove]

i want a gaming phone but without the gaming

fast phone and ass camera

and it doesnt look stupid

[median warren]

This is a pretty good everyday phone, advertised as a gaming phone, has a good enough camera too

[craggy cove]

though tbh a camera is nice to have too

[median warren]

Nah tbh this one is good

[restive plinth]

90GB out of 128 GB 🙁

[median warren]

It has a pixel display at the back built in, it's a cool gimmick

[restive plinth]

I think it is implemented by the app developer. I am not sure about that. Sideloading works fine for me. It is a problem with that particular app probably

[craggy cove]

how do u fill this up

screenshots are satanic sry

[restive plinth]

You can save 401 MB also

[median warren]

8k video footage

[gaunt spade]

apparently instagram

[median warren]

Or if you're my mum, 37,000 images and videos taken in 1 year

[craggy cove]

sometimes u gotta clear the cache n stuff

[fickle ivy]

And Spotify

[craggy cove]

woah

[gaunt spade]

my spotify only takes up 3gb

[median warren]

She managed to fill up 1 tb of storage on her phone

[fickle ivy]

I should be banned from having a camera, bought a DSLR and took 6000 photos in about 4 months

[craggy cove]

i have more screenshots than photos

[gaunt spade]

pc emulation

[craggy cove]

never understood this tbh

[median warren]

Using it well

[craggy cove]

just live in the moment and take a picture if its special

[fickle ivy]

About 1/500 photos are good

My PFP is a decent photo I took

[median warren]

She has travels a lot and goes hiking and out with her friends, so she always takes pictures of the journey and the views

And she is a big sky fanatic

She has a Samsung s25 ultra, so she's always taken like 4k images and everything as well

[median warren]

Perfection takes a lot of practice

[restive plinth]

💀
My mom has like more than 5k pics on her phone. Since 99% of the stuff is not important, I just copy all of that to a hard disk on my PC when I go there

[fickle ivy]

Oh yeah I'm not allowed to post 3 photos at once

[fickle ivy]

Editing helps alot too

[median warren]

Need a Nas

[median warren]

Yeah editing is needed

[fickle ivy]

Sometimes very needed

Luckily I get a creative cloud pro subscription for one of my classes

[median warren]

How is that the same image

[restive plinth]

They're not that tech savvy so I'm just using the old school way. I am thinking about setting that up. Maybe when I go there for the summer break I will look into it.

[median warren]

If you get a ugreen Nas you don't need tech savvy family members, as you can download an app for it and just upload the pictures to it

Very easy, plug and play type of thing

[restive plinth]

This red colour truck reminded me of the stolen kitkats for a sec.

[median warren]

This you mean?

[restive plinth]

yes

[median warren]

Yeah that was funny as shit

[fickle ivy]

Wdym

[restive plinth]

Thats cool
How expensive is it

[median warren]

The difference is literally night and day, I don't believe that, that is the same image but just edited

[fickle ivy]

It is lol

[median warren]

Very but let me find it, I can't remember

https://nas-uk.ugreen.com/

They have different models, but this is one of their like high end ones

[fickle ivy]

Another edit of mine

[median warren]

Very good

@deep musk I see you

[restive plinth]

Yeah no way my parents are spending this much money for tech stuff lmao (or even less than half of this)

We have like a large TV, multiple hard disks, multiple monitors, gaming mouse, speakers, etc etc. We bought that when I was at home. Now that i'm in uni, all of these things are just lying around and no one's using it so they definitely won't be willing to spend this or even half of this 😭

[deep musk]

Expensive for a nas but nicey for non tech savvy

[deep musk]

https://tenor.com/view/dangoheart-dango-heart-minecraft-puppy-dog-gif-6758323516366007076

[gaunt spade]

son

[median warren]

Cheapest one is £140 for up to 64tb of storage, but yes understandable, they're very good Nas systems

But they also come at a premium cost

[restive plinth]

I have like some large HDDs and an i5 9th gen computer that is in the same Wifi network. Anything I do myself with these things?

[deep musk]

Not a dude

[median warren]

Since they come with an app both for pc and mobile, a user friendly interface, it's great for anyone who's feeling a bit lazy and has the cash

[deep musk]

Yep, you can make a pretty good little nas with that

[median warren]

That's good enough for a Nas

You can build one yourself

[median warren]

Daughter

[restive plinth]

okay that's nice
I need to do some more research on NAS
Can I keep it off and only turn it on when I want to backup my pictures?

[median warren]

I suppose so, but it most likely will also be efficient enough to keep it on 24/7

[deep musk]

Thanksies >////< (god you have no idea how this feels nicey as a trans gal qwq, my parents are supportive but they are way too slow (their words) to call me their daughter anytime soon)

[restive plinth]

We still get the occasional power cuts, and the UPS unit of that thing went out a year ago. So I am not that confident in keeping it on 24x7. I'm not sure how good that is for the HDDs

[deep musk]

It’s fine ish as long as they aren’t 10 000 rpm’s drives

[restive plinth]

Okay
I'll check all of that and decide
If I get to be at home for a few weeks, then I am definitely doing this

[elder quarry]

Power cuts or power surges?

Power surges or changes can damage your equipment wildly

[grizzled frost]

UPS's generally don't protect against surges, best case they just turn off if they detect a surge

[restive plinth]

power cuts occasionally
The voltage is not that constant as well tbh. It fluctuates a bit

[grizzled frost]

unless you have a line interactive unit, but those are far more expensive and far less common

[green shell]

Cuts

[elder quarry]

Assuming you have a bad power supply and no built in stuff (:

[elder quarry]

A few voltage should the PSU handle

[green shell]

Connect UPS to a surge protector power strip

[deep musk]

The psu should be the only one that gets affected in this case (if it’s a good unit)

[grizzled frost]

basically any UPS should also be a surge protector, so this is unnecessary

[restive plinth]

the UPS already has surge protector

[green shell]

Not unnecessary if there only one wall power point and I need power for wifi router and printer too

[deep musk]

Connect the power strip to another surge protected power strip (fire hazard please don’t do that)

[green shell]

[grizzled frost]

Best practice would be surge protector after the UPS

[restive plinth]

I have never used my PC at home without a UPS. I don't trust the power supply there enough to run it directly. But that system itself is now like 6 years old and we don't want to spend more on that. A NAS seems like a really good idea but I will need to do it when I am at home.

[grizzled frost]

Especially for large UPS's

Large UPSs suck back a lot of power when they charge up

[green shell]

Have a separate backup for other home appliances anyways which supplies power too to that surge protector during powercuts

[restive plinth]

As long as it keeps the even more costlier desktop safe

[grizzled frost]

That's not the concern, the concern is plugging that large power device into a power strip, that adds more impedance and thus more losses to heat

A UPS should always be plugged direct into the wall

[restive plinth]

I have a separate backup for the essential stuff like Fans, Lights, in certain sockets for charging phones, and also for WIFI

[grizzled frost]

Whole home backup with a critical load panel?

[green shell]

No idea what that is

Its a lead based battery

For lights and fans and other smol appliances

Same as ricky

[grizzled frost]

A critical load panel is a separate service panel for the most important circuits, usually the ones that will receive power with a whole home backup system

so instead of a backup battery powering the whole home, it only powers what you deem as a critical load

[green shell]

Hmm interesting

[grizzled frost]

Or do you just have a portable UPS that you plug your devices into manually

[green shell]

This thing

[grizzled frost]

I'm supremely jealous, i wish i had that

[restive plinth]

So for the PC, we have a UPS that is just for the CPU, monitors, speakers,
Then there's a separate unit to power just the critical stuff. The PC UPS is not connected to this unit. Both are independent

[green shell]

We call it inverter batteries

[restive plinth]

this thing right
this is for the critical circuits in the entire house

[green shell]

Yep

[grizzled frost]

Oh lol, not quite what i described

[restive plinth]

This for the PC

[green shell]

Yep

[restive plinth]

Now i am interested in knowing what you described

Because to me it sounded like the same thing 😭

[grizzled frost]

you know that backup thing Linus DIY'ed for his rack?

literally that, exactly that

[restive plinth]

Is it like a battery unit and a controller for it?

[grizzled frost]

Mhm

It'll automatically detect power outages and supplement with battery power

[restive plinth]

Then it's the same thing

[grizzled frost]

Think UPS, but for the circuits in your home

[green shell]

Inverter does the same

[grizzled frost]

What i'm talking about is integrated into your home wiring, it's not a separate unit

[restive plinth]

You're describing this
The red one is the battery
The other is the controller

[grizzled frost]

Accomplishes the same basic task, but in different ways

[green shell]

It is integrated to the home wiring tho

[deep musk]

Yeah, basically the battery equivalent of a generator

[restive plinth]

This is integrated to the wiring as well
We have a designated place in the house through which all the wiring for the critical circuits go through. This is placed in that circuit

[green shell]

Yes

[grizzled frost]

Ah then i misunderstood what yall have

Essentially yall have a slightly scaled down version of what i'm talking about

Usually you would have thousands of watts of capacity so you could run a half dozen circuits, but it's functionally identical

[green shell]

Its enough for an apartment flat

[grizzled frost]

Fair enough, whole home solutions are expensive

Far more than i would like to spend, so i just have UPS's throughout the house

[versed ferry]

gib copper

[restive plinth]

Ahh
This is enough to get you through the night with some fans incase there's a power cut the entire night. So you don't get bit by any mosquitoes or sweat your ass off

[grizzled frost]

We have a generator for long outages

[versed ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-flying-running-wheel-gif-26147083

I have hamster

[grizzled frost]

nah that's what powers the server rack

[haughty compass]

Gg I think my forza 5 save cooked 😔

[grizzled frost]

you should also have a local copy, no?

[restive plinth]

That's overkill for running 2 fans
So we just stick to this. Power cuts used to be really common. Over the past decade it has decreased significantly. But we will have the occasional ones

[versed ferry]

Do you not have it on your PC? That sucks if you can't get it back. Hopefully they can recover the data.

[haughty compass]

No it's on my old laptop that was reset. I haven't played on it since I last visited middle east like 2 years ago... So I think my save file was saved on a cloud server in the middle east that's is um kinda cooked now

[grizzled frost]

turns out when you bomb datacenters, bad things happen

Not to mention the loss of life

[versed ferry]

They were supposed to hit the AI ones, they missed.

[grizzled frost]

Not uncommon for datacenters to host more than a single application

colocation is pretty common

[haughty compass]

Every time I open forza 5 now I have to wait like 3 minutes to find a cloud save that doesn't exist anymore...

Only for it to fail and let me in

[gusty wagon]

?

[haughty compass]

With my current save I made a few days ago

[grizzled frost]

internet in the middle east is gonna struggle, since now many companies are gonna use lots of bandwidth to get their data out of there

[gusty wagon]

Just set your downstream dns to return something random

instant access

[grizzled frost]

welp, you got warshipped

[native path]

get warshipped!

[haughty compass]

Even if I disable cloud saves it doesn't fix it

[brave brook]

be positive, they at least had redudant copies. Unlike Amazon, whose datacenter backups were in other datacenters within the same region. So there is actual data loss there

[haughty compass]

I have to wait for it verify and fail

[restive plinth]

I would have been sad if it was like 50% RDR2 or something

[haughty compass]

True

[gusty wagon]

i don't think i mentioned in-game settings, i gave you a solution to circumvent this behaviour

[grizzled frost]

They at least had mostly redundant copies

[versed ferry]

One day, 15 years from now I'm going to buy a modern NVIDIA GPU cluster on a server parts site and run Crysis on that baby. Should be about the time Terminators stick a phased plasma rifle with a 40 watt range up our asses.

[haughty compass]

Mb I mean it's a steam setting to disable cloud backup

[green shell]

Xbox doesnt have a save file with them?
Sometimes I get syncing save thingy whenever I open fh5 or fh4

[gusty wagon]

no, just circumvent it

like set a REFUSED response on your local dns

or something, that might work

[brave brook]

also keep in mind we are in giant server hardware supply chain backlog... So even if they wanted, it might take months to rebuild server infrastructure there

[haughty compass]

If this requires me to change something on the wifi, I don't have access

[grizzled frost]

With the damage to the datacenter itself, we're talking years, not months

[haughty compass]

I'm at a dorm currently

[gusty wagon]

okay then the hosts file is your best friend

[brave brook]

i meant just the computer hardware side

[grizzled frost]

That's the quicker to replace side

[gusty wagon]

this probably works via a local vpn and is the safer alternative to hosts files
https://adguard.com/en/adguard-windows/overview.html

[grizzled frost]

if you get warshipped again you're likely to be muted lol

[haughty compass]

So what would happen with my save if it was eventually come back. Would it use my og save file from years back or the new one I've been playing on rn...

[haughty compass]

I'll try this

[grizzled frost]

it'll prompt you to pick one

[haughty compass]

Ah OK. Tysm for the help guys.

I'll try the VPN soon. I gotta study for now

[grizzled frost]

bear in mind, there's no guarantee you do get the save file back

[haughty compass]

Yeah I'm still trying to grasp this

I dont want to lose it but it's not like if I cry or something that my save will magically come back :/

It's just a matter of waiting and seeing what happens

Again, ty all Ima head out

[fickle ivy]

I love how Google just doesn't let you side load now

[brave brook]

false

[fickle ivy]

True

[brave brook]

you need to go through a process with 24 hour verification ONCE

and not sure if it is even enabled already

[fickle ivy]

Wdym

[brave brook]

that is the only sideload block they are adding. This screen you posted has nothing to do with sideloading, it has to do with SafetyNet (Integrity Check).

[elder quarry]

Isn’t it like you have to turn off your phone for a day

[brave brook]

no. You have to click through a window, wait 24 hours, reboot, confirm, done, you can sideload whatever you want. That is the new 'sideload block' people feared will kill sideloading

while it only makes you wait 1 day once, and then you can sideload as much as you want

[fickle ivy]

How

[elder quarry]

Are you able to use the phone during the 24 hours?

[brave brook]

yes. You just need to wait with sideload 24 hours

[elder quarry]

Bruh

No biggie

[elder quarry]

cool. By the way, does ADB require this too?

[brave brook]

this is SafetyNet (now called Play Integrity Check), where it is the app developers choice to enforce that it can be only installed from Play Store

[brave brook]

no, ADB is completely separate and unaffected

[elder quarry]

Well that’s great (::

[brave brook]

this new flow is aimed at combating phone scams where under the pretext of urgency they make you install a remote access tool and then they clean out your bank account. No scammer will wait 24 hours on phone with victim

[fickle ivy]

Man this is BS I should just be able to side load shit

[elder quarry]

Google had a good intention with this and I appreciate it

[fickle ivy]

Tried 2 different bypasses and neither worked

[elder quarry]

Use ADB

[restive plinth]

I dont think that is enabled now
Isnt that only from Android 17?

[brave brook]

the app developer decided that you can't. it's 1.5 year old thing https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-apps-to-block-sideloading-and-push-a-google-play-version/

[elder quarry]

And I’m sure someone smart made a script to disable it from ADB

[brave brook]

it will be all phones, later this year

[fickle ivy]

😒

[restive plinth]

Oh wait yeah I think this is being implemented using google play services

[fickle ivy]

So side loading isn't supported basically

Like just say that if googles gonna let that happen

[brave brook]

for specific apps which require you to install it from official channels

[grizzled frost]

New monitor arrives today!

[restive plinth]

Some developers get to decide if they want their app to work as a sideloaded one or not

[fickle ivy]

Which is stupid

[restive plinth]

It is stupid for any non-banking apps

[restive plinth]

There is a way to bypass this by uninstalling the updates of play store

The new advanced flow is good. I wish they would just drop this play protect scanning in favour of the advanced flow

[fickle ivy]

How do I do that

[restive plinth]

Settings -> Apps -> play store and then uninstall updates.
It might work

[fickle ivy]

I don't see that anywhere

[restive plinth]

press the menu option

[fickle ivy]

The app just straight up doesn't open now

[restive plinth]

lmao okay the developers have implemented a really strong anti-piracy measure

[fickle ivy]

It's a free app...

[restive plinth]

maybe for in-app purchases?

[fickle ivy]

Isn't android supposed to be the "open source" operating system where you can do what you want

[restive plinth]

You can still do whatever you want. It is the app developer that is restricting you from using their particular app from outside the play store -> which sucks

[deep musk]

It’s open source, where developers can do what they want with it, it’s always been more flexible for the user than iOS too

[sinful cobalt]

yippeee

[sand frigate]

Is there any news of a new tandem oled monitor thats 4K? Or gonabe released

[grizzled frost]

that is a great question... to ask google

[sand frigate]

Yeah it dont give me anything

[grizzled frost]

then the likely answer is no

[sand frigate]

I was thinking to buy this https://rog.asus.com/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-strix-oled-xg32ucwmg/ but if it is gona be released than i can wait

[fickle ivy]

Where do I do this

[brave brook]

nowhere yet. It is somethign they are adding later this year

[fickle ivy]

😒

[brave brook]

Starting in September 2026, Google is introducing a stricter, high-friction "[advanced flow]" for sideloading unverified Android apps to combat scams,

[gusty wagon]

... is this a good time to switch to android?

[brave brook]

that is up to you to decide

[cold skiff]

Need this on copy paste speed dial

[deep musk]

Graphene os

[gusty wagon]

Okay then I will get the iPhone 16 Plus

[cold skiff]

Good choice

[restive plinth]

I dont think that has anything to do with the advanced flow

And even within android, you need to choose which style OS you like
I love pixel OS for it's UI though

[gusty wagon]

If it means that android is going to be as wonderful as iOS is then maybe i'd like it more

[fickle ivy]

Yeah pixel OS is cool

Besides this, like istg just let me side load what I wand

[restive plinth]

Ah alright
With the new advanced flow, I think the security is going to be improved significantly. It still lets users like me to sideload while people that don't want to do that can keep it turned off

[gusty wagon]

flow

[restive plinth]

Right now, imo the best thing going on for Android is the material 3 expressive design, sideloading and long software support

It's like 7 years for my pixel

[sinful cobalt]

32gx870b

not the a-b btw

[mortal mantle]

what the fuck could this be

(considering P4G is normally like 400MB)

[elder quarry]

https://virustotal.com

Virustotal added dynamic analysis now (:

[raven scroll]

How to start overclocking gpu

[mortal mantle]

how sus

[raven scroll]

I tried it once and just used afterburner and played with the sliders until my pc crashed

[mortal mantle]

detected by nothing with a +3 community score

[elder quarry]

Keep in mind that this is in many cases wrong

[frigid garden]

does anyone know if Golfie.io is a legit place? 🙂

[raven scroll]

Gave me a few extra frames but was hella unstable so I just reset everything

[elder quarry]

Often