tech-chat-1

[steel umbra]

if anything they include those features to have a greater markup

the scale at which apple can produce things will reduce the cost greatly to few dollars a feature if it’s not in cents

[hardy horizon]

no, they are pulling a mcdonalds
" we made less $$ BUT PLEASE DONT SUE ME i grew teh customer base by 20% and because of our lockeddown anti choice ecosystem, we are able to typoically extract and additional $5,000 over 10 years per customer"

[steel umbra]

well, if they have no contract they still make $$ on the base devices

but they do have contracts

you def don’t get the same price for ddr5 kits at repail per gb as apple does

[hardy horizon]

what are you saying?
a high performsance low latancy 128GB ddr5 kit is $2,500+ . apple charges you $ 900 for an extra 80GB. and its unified.

[steel umbra]

again you should compare laptop dimms to apple’s ram

[native path]

you think they're paying that price?

[steel umbra]

those go for 30% discount compared to desktop dimms

if not more

apple might secure a contract now for ram that’s 40% cheaper per gb than those desktop kits you buy at retail.

[hardy horizon]

the imac becoming a screen that sockets a mini into it? money.
price the screen $100 below the cheapest screen they have. imac price doubles for those that insist on that form factor. eleminate a product "because no one was buying it" while also doubling avg transaction.

[blissful forge]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1504152954729664512 can someone halp me with my crap pc

[native path]

how many people are actually willing to set this up over an AIO that just works

[native path]

#1027757333117415424

[hardy horizon]

yeah, same on windows laptops now. tho with apple you can subscribe to "get a modern one free if we cant fix it" via apple care

[steel umbra]

get a laptop with removable ram then

like 9/10 laptops have that from asus, msi, lenovo, etc.

[hardy horizon]

when your profit is $150 every cent counts. backlit requires bigger battery.

[steel umbra]

it’s mw worth of electricity

[native path]

the imac is still a small niche now, there's still a huge market for AIOs though, people genuinely do not want to tinker with computers and they just want it to turn on

[hardy horizon]

true, same reason some macbook pros get the ghetto as hell mac air keyboard.

[steel umbra]

your display eats massively more amount of electricity

[hardy horizon]

yes $150 vs their normal $500

[steel umbra]

you don’t realize but the bigger a single light source is the more efficient it is compared to trying to produce that exact intensity with thousands of mini leds

those few leds to make a backlit keyboard will consume few tens of mw maybe a hundred worth of electricity

[hardy horizon]

yeah they are an OEM competing on auction pricing with other OEM.
or idling factories while they hope there to be excess supply so they can have a chance buy at their contract price.

[timid oar]

How would I sell sticks of ram from my old pc?

[hardy horizon]

that is tho. 64GB sticks are expensive has hell rn

[odd marsh]

face book marketplace

[timid oar]

I have 32gb ddr4 of the g skill RGB ones and they haven’t sold

[hardy horizon]

no. but those are teh consumers options. one makes sense.

[steel umbra]

that is true but there’s a reason there’s a market that desolders sodimm ics and resolder them on dimms

[hardy horizon]

there is no setup... the store employee literally slots the mac mini in and turns a latch.

[native path]

so you want apple to sell this thick ass screen with a mac mini DIY'd in

wonder how many repairs that'll need

[hardy horizon]

no competive current gen chips that dont use intergrated

[hardy horizon]

yes on a device with too small a battery already.

[steel umbra]

make the display slightly less bright and quola

[hardy horizon]

yes. thats why mini led screens dont work in summer.

[steel umbra]

or make the battery slightly larger, i assume it would be under another oem sku part anyways

[hardy horizon]

price at $18-$20 per GB and put on facebook. they will be gone within a day.

[steel umbra]

ermmm isn’t that more than retail

[timid oar]

32gb for 640 would be diabolical dawg

I put it at 250 and it’s still not sold, been more than a day

[hardy horizon]

why woudl it be thick? mac mini would be in the stand.

[steel umbra]

patience

250 is “good” in todays market just wait

you undercut sodimm prices

so someone will def but it at some point, unless dram prices crash

[hardy horizon]

zero its apple. it will literally lock in via mechanisim. will use TB over properoity connection. costomer wont knwo unless they research.

[timid oar]

should I change it from local pickup only to shipping available

[hardy horizon]

cant. neo display is at the minimum quality apple allows on its products.

[steel umbra]

that’s up to you

[hardy horizon]

apple designs their own batteries.

[steel umbra]

it literally quals to turning the brightness down like 2-3%

[steel umbra]

yes

[hardy horizon]

let me check .it changes daily

[hardy horizon]

price them at $15 per GB. going rate ist $17-$25 per GB new.

[hardy horizon]

they are $600 rn for 32 GB 😭

[mint umbra]

The new Gemini stuff from the android show seems like privacy nightmare

[hardy horizon]

no, because then you have to increase the price to cover shipping.

[mint umbra]

Where it basicly has access to most things on ur phone

Seems a bit scary

[steel umbra]

there was never a point when it was $18 per gb, tops in the us and eu market (counting germany and france, slovakia only is $13 per gb for 4800mt/s, $15 for 5600mt/s and higher

[mint umbra]

For an ai to have so much acess to ur photos and such

[steel umbra]

cheapest kits available

[native path]

im crying bro you can just rnd whatever you want in your head

you got it ✌️

[steel umbra]

pcpartpicker lists some for $400

[hardy horizon]

its 500nits rn, the lowest apple allows on devices. gotta keep that apple experience, and convice customers to come but macbook airs next year, then back book pros the year after.
give them a shit screen and they wont spend more money with you .

[steel umbra]

anyways $15 per gb is too high realistically a 32gb kit will be sold at $300 used, $250 is reasonable or lil low

under $10/gb

[hardy horizon]

its $600 rn for 32 gb ddr5 7200. but yeah he has ddr4. great for him because every one wants "cheaper" so teh demand boosts his ddr4 value to right below ddr5.

[steel umbra]

oh ddr4

[steel umbra]

don’t get ddr5 7200 unless you’re looking for overclocking

many (but not all) 6000/6400mt/s kits are hynix

[hardy horizon]

you cant use google assistant routines (like notifying you when to leave based on traffic) unless you disable gemani... you cant even use the app. have to use web.

[steel umbra]

which will already yield you most of the oc potential (not all ofc)

yeah 250 is reasonable for ddr4, might be slightly too high

[hardy horizon]

imac buyers arent smart. great opptunity to maek money for people who atill think apples cant get viriuses via email and downloads.

[steel umbra]

but it should sell

[mint umbra]

Heard Linux users got malware from recent cemu update

And ppl told me Linux don't get viruses smh

[hardy horizon]

Probably too low. More money going into building data centers.

You know ... I gotta find out who actually writes these. I like their style.

"Imitating the dead for financial gain is nothing new, but what’s clear is that AI is making it easier — and harder to discern from the real thing than, say, a person in an Elvis jumpsuit singing in a casino.

Meanwhile, the public’s view on this use of AI leans heavily negative, with one survey finding that 51% of respondents said replicating the voice of a deceased actor or celebrity was “not acceptable.” Still, the number of AI deals that involve “bringing back” dead celebrities continues to grow every day, as do the profits."

[mint umbra]

Maybe it's time to try graphene OS

After all this new ai crap they addimg

Seems like AI will have access to everything

[odd marsh]

I'm like 80% sure this is just for Spotify's 20th anniversary

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-12/spotify-20-personal-music-retrospective/

[dusky compass]

Oh my

[drifting urchin]

Power supply dust! Don't breathe that.

[dusky compass]

Fire hazard

[jolly moth]

anyone have a reccomendation for a nice mouse? current mouse is a cooler master cm110 - its not that great but the click has remained crisp over the years and fits my hand nicely with little hand-mouse contact

my hand sweat/oil and cleaning it with iso over the years has made the surface ick, and they discontinued it, so need a new mouse - budget is 100usd, if its really nice ill go a bit over, but would really prefer under 100

[dusky compass]

For what use?

[jolly moth]

daily, design 3d modeling, gaming

[dusky compass]

What kind of games you play?

[jolly moth]

I dont neccessarily want a mouse for gaming but a mouse with a good polling rate would be good

[hardy horizon]

crazy how apple is cheaper than dell right now 0.0.
$7,000 for apple. $8,500 for dell

[mint umbra]

At this point just rename Android to Gemini OS

[jolly moth]

lot of click heavy mouse heavy stuff - atm, the stuff that isnt sim gear has been: lethal company, stick fight, geodash, windrose, arma reforger, and other building games which often involve a lot of click placement

[hardy horizon]

they need to add all of teh google assistant features to Gemani

[mint umbra]

Cuz android just filled with ai slop now

With Android 17

[hardy horizon]

death hazard opening a PSU

[dusky compass]

From my research in gaming mouses. if you want a decent mouse for a good price VXE R1 Pro is the choice. It’s like 40 euros

Very light

Very configurable

Bluetooth, wired and dongle

[jolly moth]

my criteria for a mouse really is, the less my skin touches it without being uncomfortable the better (less cleaning off from my sweaty hands), polling and delay good (compared to an office mouse), light, quality clicks on side buttons and main buttons, easy to clean scroll wheel, thumb not rubbing along mousepad

[hardy horizon]

logitech has never steered me wrong. best? no. but dependable.

[jolly moth]

ive always had reliability issues with logitech :/

[hardy horizon]

tho i liked their Omron switches. so keep taht in mind lol

[hardy horizon]

with what ?

[dusky compass]

VXE R1 pro has a simple design no creases or stuff like that. It’s made of plastic but it’s to make it very light. I can’t complain I love it.

[jolly moth]

within 2 weeks of owning this keyboard (g512) a whole bunch of LED's died and more have been losing 1-3 of their colors over time - my brother has the same kb, his did the same, he got it replaced and the replacement does it
year 2 and the left alt key is broke and isnt fixed with a replacement switch - pulled apart and see nothing wrong with the board

ive had logitech headphones that, for the price have had terrible audio quality, been flimsy, and had one side fail within a year or less

ive had other logi stuff these are just the ones that piss me off the most

I dont trust this brand 🤷‍♀️

[dusky compass]

Logitech makes a lot of stuff

[frigid blade]

I’ve had my $5 razer keyboard for a year and nothing wrong with it still

[jolly moth]

is the click sharp and solid or a bit mushy

[dusky compass]

It’s very solid

Satisfying click

[jolly moth]

how are the side buttons?

[dusky compass]

I don’t use them but they seem fine

[hardy horizon]

my g310 get beat to hell in the front of my LTT bag (breaking its flop forward it does now.). cheap AA battery is over a year old.
i do have a mech where the keycaps like to come off. but that's probably from rough handling in shipping and storage when we moved.
my illuminated keyboard is from 2009.
idk where my headset is, (probably storage) but it was still alive and kicking. out lived my Razer naga gen 1 and gen 2. only swapped because i was given a turtle beach and liked the independant hard controls for game and chat volume.
Razer Naga gen 1 is STILL my most comfortable mouse. gen 2 feels contorted... too bad BOTH had sensors start to go bad at month 13 (right after warranty)

[prime oriole]

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[hardy horizon]

i have the g610 keyboard. i think all excpet the "illuminated keyboard" are g line

[jolly moth]

yk I see stuff that ik will bother me, like the inset in the main buttons (this mouse has flat buttons) - but I feel like thats learned comfort not an ergonomic problem

its going on the list of possible next mice

[hardy horizon]

soo "appology" for being a jerk to your customers when your market share is under 10%?

srry spell check is being dumb today

[jolly moth]

Sorry about the hand oil - I need to get a toothpick and some isopropyl in there again
Current mouse

[restive plinth]

How is that 8500

[prime oriole]

They wanted to maximise sales for RDNA4 first. They're a business so it makes sense. They don't get my business but some dopes still buy their dGPUs. Gotta make sure to get FOMO'ers on it before giving to everyone else

[hardy horizon]

the dell

[dusky compass]

inset?

[restive plinth]

IS*
Intelligence System

Android needs the microsoft treatment

[dusky compass]

Marketing buzzwords

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FixupX · May 14, 2026, 12:47 PM

[dusky compass]

You mean indentation?

[jolly moth]

thats the word yes

current mouse has that a little bit and it annoys me on this one too

[dusky compass]

It’s the first time I’ve noticed it has one. Doesn’t feel like there is one tbh

[crude osprey]

utorrent has a more basic UI so it’s better for quick scans when doing other tasks

[hardy horizon]

some upcoming global food shortage cause by no fertalizer for crops.
you have to go and buy the ssd upgrades and ram because dell eont let you option them. add it all togetehr and its $8,500.

[dusky compass]

I feel like the lighting makes it bigger than it actually is

I

[jolly moth]

mm that has a lot of travel

[dusky compass]

Not really the switches hit sooner

[jolly moth]

aight lemme watch a review ill get back 2 u

[dusky compass]

K

[hardy horizon]

i like my mice to slam the base before the switch bottoms out lol

[dusky compass]

It does slam the base if you press on it hard

[jolly moth]

i like my mice to have a medium force to click and no travel before or after actuation

[jolly moth]

only movement should be moving the switch

[hardy horizon]

I cannot find 4TB of portable ssd for $300 :/ i cant even fine a bare m.2 for that

[hardy horizon]

do you like reds too?

wait was it orange with the bump click?

arent reds just linear?

[jolly moth]

keyboard switches?

I like linear - tactile could be nice but not for how I want my keyboards

[hardy horizon]

yes. i think it was orange with the bump and the loud click.

[jolly moth]

blue is generally bump and loud click

brown is bump and quiet or nill audible click

[hardy horizon]

no it was blue

and then razers custom ones

then the Logitech ormon ones where the boogie lux ones.

[jolly moth]

leobog reapers best switches :>

[dusky compass]

I like blue switches

[hardy horizon]

i also adored the logitech keycaps

[dusky compass]

The louder the better

[jolly moth]

i would prolly like the tactility butmy kb sounding like a mouse icks me out

and with a gasket mount with foam linear sounds better and feels good on bottom out - hence getting new kb with exactly that

[hardy horizon]

thsi bad boy. ROmer-G gen1

[jolly moth]

absolutely not

[hardy horizon]

why lol

[jolly moth]

this is what im waiting on to arrive - will be disabling rgb

[hardy horizon]

i actually relly liked the keycaps they way they made sure i was centered on the key

[hardy horizon]

oled or e-ink?

[plain cypress]

Unfortunately, Logitech usually uses shit leycaps

[jolly moth]

I dont have much issue with their keycaps, I do with the switches and overall build

[hardy horizon]

i actually liked them. it was liek $200 though so i ended up buying a 610 years later, i presume cherry switches.

[jolly moth]

better image

[hardy horizon]

anyone know if they are coming out with a full size?

[plain cypress]

My g pro tkl had keycaps paint scratching off and a half dozen broke off their stems in the keycaps

And no, I'm not particularly hard on it. I baby my stuff

I loved the board but the caps were super disappointing

[hardy horizon]

hmm my 610 caps are loose and sometimes come off when typing.

sooo i remember this video on release ... i am now realizing also just how long ago Vinny D left 😭

[restive plinth]

I mean
You could sell the existing ram that you have in that lap and it would shave off a lot of money

[hardy horizon]

true, looks liek used OEM is $200 on ebay.

[nova solstice]

So first of all, don't Panik haha. This drive is already dead and contains no valuable data.

But I want to know what this clicking is. Is it the read head on the platter? Wouldn't that be more scratchy and not so hammering? It could also be the read head moving but why does it increase when I shake the drive (yes ik, it's already dead so nothing to worry about)

[remote swallow]

just throw it at the wall at least entertain us

[mint trout]

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You found Pedro on a platter lol

[obtuse yew]

Does anyone know where you can buy a replacement 19 pin usb 3.0 header? preferably a 90 degree angled one?

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FixupX · May 13, 2026, 8:31 PM

[true stirrup]

AliExpress

[rose sorrel]

Hello yall

Sould I get 17 pro max now or wait till 18 comes out

[terse pewter]

you should wait for 19 pro

maybe 20

[grizzled frost]

your choice

[ionic ember]

https://ebay.us/m/noPrBB
https://ebay.us/m/kHT5XG

[obtuse yew]

It is all good now, I found the exact kind I am looking for on ali for under 2 dollars

[agile tangle]

do you recommend to buy macbook neo

[grizzled frost]

If it suits your needs and fits in your budget, yes

[worn willow]

ow to fix failin keyboard

because te keys arent pressin

but tey fix for a while sometimes

[grizzled frost]

Depends

[worn willow]

on wat

[grizzled frost]

on what exactly is broken

[worn willow]

idk tey sometimes work sometimes tey dont

[tall jetty]

em hhave a question

what are your guys thoughts on up grading from a pentium G6405 to something else on the same socket

[exotic flint]

Hello!

[tall jetty]

like i really need a heavy lifting

[kindred halo]

LGA 1200, right?

[kindred halo]

What sort of heavy lifting

[tall jetty]

mainly more of stuff that is really focused on the cpu side of things

so i was looking at the prices

[exotic flint]

What keyboard do you prefer for gaming and work? I've been using the Corsair K57 Wireless.

[tall jetty]

they are like 220

[kindred halo]

For?

[tall jetty]

11700k

[kindred halo]

Also tbh LGA 1200 isn't in a great spot

Still so overpriced

[tall jetty]

yeah

[kindred halo]

My advice is to sell the board and CPU

Get LGA 1700

[tall jetty]

thoughts on am5

[kindred halo]

B760 = realm of ~$80-120
13400F = realm of ~$150
(USD)

[kindred halo]

If you can afford it, sure ig

I suggested LGA 1700 because you can use your current RAM

[tall jetty]

i do have 2 sticks of ddr5 lying around

its 2x8

[kindred halo]

Speed, CL, and capacity?

[tall jetty]

bought it a while ago

[kindred halo]

CL & speed?

[rain lily]

how’s this looking

[kindred halo]

Also, again, you kinda need your budget to fit AM5

[tall jetty]

lemme check

[tall jetty]

could go up till 450

[kindred halo]

A B650 or such is.. ~$100-130

[plain cypress]

I use a keychron Q6 with gateron black liners

I have a K57 wireless (2 actually), and while the RGB is very bright, the membrane switches do not bring joy to type on

[kindred halo]

Oh you can comfortably get a pretty nice board & CPU then

[tall jetty]

but i do have alot of ddr4 sticks with me though like 64gigs worth of

[kindred halo]

Do you need capacity or speed

[tall jetty]

if i change the proccessor i could fit all 64 in there

[tall jetty]

actually capacity would be better

[kindred halo]

Also you didn't specify
What programs are you using

I know, CPU intensive, but specify

[tall jetty]

its Cepheus

[kindred halo]

Then stick to something like LGA 1700, or AM4

[tall jetty]

its a private by the work place

that why i didnt specify

shit uses alot of ram and cpu

poor optimisation

[kindred halo]

Yeah fair enough

Okay errr, yeah, check LGA 1700 or AM4

[tall jetty]

hich one is less expensive

[kindred halo]

5700x, 12-14400, 12-14600, 12-14700, that sort

[tall jetty]

and more value

[rose sorrel]

Have 14 pro max now

[tall jetty]

idk abt the current market

i do have a micro center near by should i hit em up

its like only a few minutes

[grizzled frost]

that means almost nothing, get to disassembling and see what's wrong with it

[worn willow]

or i can try just refunding it with the store because its defective and annoying

[grizzled frost]

okay

[fickle ivy]

How decent of a laptop can I get for like $250

[fringe prairie]

honestly a good device. no reason to upgrade unless you want usb-c

[fickle ivy]

I kinda want something with 10th+ gen i5 or higher with an SSD

[fringe prairie]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/267662704504?
you can get stuff like this

[fickle ivy]

$315 with no shipping here

[vital gyro]

Thinkpad X1

[fringe prairie]

where are you

canada?

[grizzled frost]

"like this"

[fickle ivy]

Yes

[fringe prairie]

should say CAD :)

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/267639407723?
this maybe

or if you can find t14 g2 or elitebook 835/845/850/865

[rough salmon]

u know for steam machine, is it just plug and play like steam deck

[grizzled frost]

Yes, it's essentially just a desktop steamdeck

[rough salmon]

ayeeee

like x4 more powerful too

[crimson temple]

for used macbooks whats the most trusted place to buy them from?

or should i just buy new

[rough salmon]

i use amazon for refurbished

[fringe prairie]

apple.com

[rough salmon]

whats ur budget

and what u wanting to do on it

[crimson temple]

1300 usd

[odd marsh]

apple has their own refurbished store

[fringe prairie]

costco is probably the second best place to buy from

[crimson temple]

cant find the specs that i want there

there was good deal for 512 gb space but i need 1tb

ik apple refurbs are basically new

[rough salmon]

ya

i think apple refurbished are basically returned yeah

?

[crimson temple]

maybe i should wait and see if they list any 1tb ones

[crimson temple]

yes they replace the battery and other parts if necessary

u get 1 year warranty too

[rough salmon]

yh ui looked on apple website, they dont have any for ur budget rn

these are the only cheapest rn on refurbished

[crimson temple]

oh i was talking aboui macbook pro

[crimson temple]

thats uk site diff stocks

the cheapest is this but 512gb space

super sad

HOLD UP they listed a 1tb one for 1400

[empty quartz]

Imacs suck for value

@crimson temple whats the main use of the device going to be?

Im the resident apple guy

[iron glen]

Wsg ace

[empty quartz]

Woke up 10 minutes ago

Its 12:17pm for me

[iron glen]

Boolin is that you?

[pulsar root]

1tb 16gb?

[nimble burrow]

Looking at laptops. What do you folks think of the hp omen transcend 14?

[mint umbra]

Why isn't there more ppl outraged about ai Google is adding to Android which seems like a privacy nightmare with things they announced

[grizzled frost]

They likely just don't know

[glacial hound]

Ferrari branded LCD.

[sharp ivy]

Very noice

[formal sonnet]

Eh, machine learning is everywhere now. I just disable it if I don't intend to use it. 🤷

[mint umbra]

If you can disable it

[obtuse yew]

Man

[median warren]

be my friend:

buy pc from me
all works fine
use up 1tb of space in 1 week
dont know why
find out modded gta 5 takes up 450gb of space
doesnt make sense
realises installed gta 5 legacy 3 fucking times
remove 2 extras
-260gb

[proper gull]

What the fuck kind of mods were they running

Full (very poorly made) map replacements?

[carmine light]

almost as bad as microsoft flight simulator mods for taking up loads of storage

[proper gull]

many mod makers just don't understand modelling for games

[raw coral]

How can I solve for excessive background ram usage without doing a fresh windows install

[plain cypress]

Simplest thing would be to audit your startup apps/processes and disable the ones that you don't need

[raw coral]

I dont have that many

[plain cypress]

Okay second question that I should have asked first
What exactly are you considering to be excessive background memory usage

[raw coral]

on a fresh boot around 30%, but normal usage 40-50%

even after closing applications like chrome

32gb of ram so around 9gb being used to make up 30%

[obtuse yew]

Bit of a painstaking process but I got it

[raw coral]

I must have some sort of leak because if i keep my computer on for a couple days the usage rises, and ive had a couple instances where all of a sudden its 100% and everything is lagging bad, task manager doesnt show what is using it all either

[obtuse yew]

That is standard for windows, if there are more usable resources, it will consume more resources to speed things up

As for the "memory leak" just don't leave your pc on for several days

[plain cypress]

Yeah my experience is windows will use available ram

Idk, you paid for the memory, you should use all the memory

[raw coral]

I dont mind it normally, just a pain when all of a sudden I boot a game and now my usage is 99% and im getting frame drops

[nimble burrow]

I have a m1 macbook air. Going to get a new laptop. what should i do with this m1 macbook air?

[grizzled frost]

give it to me

20usd + shipping

[limber nacelle]

you have that right

if a model isn't deforming, and the edge does not contribute to the silhouette, then it should be culled

of course, polygons are relatively cheap today, so it may make sense to use it over opacity in certain scenarios

gien that opacity is actually a relatively expensive effect to my understanding (something to do with needing multiple passes to get the effect)

you'd be suprised at how dense modern characters are, i believe a modern hero level charracter is something like.... half a million tris, from what i hear

i watched the ghost of yotei talk on gnomon a few weeks back and this is how dense one of Atsu's outfits is

I believe this one?

i follow a subreddit called topology gore and you see crazy shit lol

[fallow yacht]

sup nerds

[limber nacelle]

actually this kinda depends

if you want to do material breakup via vertex painting for env, then you need even-ish density so

even that rule isn't steadfast

[tired bear]

topology be like: this cup is clearly a doghnut

[median warren]

no idea 😂

[median warren]

it was insane

[empty quartz]

Facebook marketplace is sometimes funnier than instagram or reddit

@median warren this thing has the slowest ddr5 ive ever seen and this person wants 2200 cad for it

[median warren]

did u mean to ping me

[empty quartz]

Yes

[median warren]

bargain i say

oh yeah my friends neighbour gave us a free stick of ddr4 ram today

[empty quartz]

Its 4400mt/s

[median warren]

😭

[empty quartz]

And its a 3060, the only way thats worth 2200 cad is if the gpu is like 1 of 1

[median warren]

yeaaaaah, some just dont know the worth

[empty quartz]

They think “oh i paid 3000 cad for this, it must still be worth 2200”

[deep musk]

that's really fucking expensive

[empty quartz]

Yeah, some of the “people” here are idiots

[deep musk]

especially for a proprietary mobo psu and case

[deep musk]

I don't think a collector would pay that much for it unless it's a really early prototype

[median warren]

yes ofc

thats how pc's work

in 10 years time, i will sell my 4080 super for 1 grand, trust me

[deep musk]

@median warren and @empty quartz ngl, this makes it evn worse

[median warren]

some poor bastard will buy it

[deep musk]

yeah... qwq

[deep musk]

nerd

Meanwhile me:

[median warren]

1080

[deep musk]

Yep (two more guess (or remember (cause I probably already told people about them x3))

[median warren]

hate trying to perfect timing

[dusky axle]

I need help. I can’t figur out why WiFi is doing this. This is a fresh install of 11

This thing is killing me trying to get it to work

WiFi and bt drivers installed. Even uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing

Not even the WiFi settings will stay open

[steel umbra]

make a post in #1027757333117415424 as well

[shy arch]

Uhh for starters try devmgmt.msc and restarting the wifi card

Off the top of my head

[marble pagoda]

can i get some help?

[native path]

Are you going to explain what you need help with or do you just need help with nothing

[marble pagoda]

i have a computer that im buildign, its not showing anything on screen

iv cleared the cmos, tried all the ram slots, and all its doing is power cycling

[native path]

Check if all your cables are plugged in all the way

[marble pagoda]

un plugged them and fully re plugged them atleast 5 times

[native path]

What’s your cpu

Well more importantly, does ur cpu have integrated graphics

[marble pagoda]

ryzen 5 2600

[frigid blade]

Oh you know what I’ve always wanted a cpu wafer

[marble pagoda]

no

[native path]

You’ve reseated your gpu yeah?

[marble pagoda]

yes

[native path]

Try with just 1 ram stick

[marble pagoda]

ill try it again

[native path]

Are there any debug codes from your motherboard

[marble pagoda]

holy crap it worked

reboot and select proper boot device it says

what do i do now

[native path]

Dang

[native path]

Before that - swap the ram sticks and try again

[marble pagoda]

its working

[native path]

With 1 stick in or 2?

[marble pagoda]

1

[frigid blade]

Might be a faulty stick

[native path]

Yeah turn the pc off and switch the stick to the other one

You’re gonna want to find out if you have a faulty ram stick

[frigid blade]

Or the slot

[marble pagoda]

im gonna set up windows first

[native path]

Ok you do you

[grizzled frost]

Try Ram stick 1 in Slot a2, then stick 1 in b2, then stick 2 in a2, then stick 2 in b2

[frigid blade]

Literally why do people do this

[native path]

I think he tried that

He said something about switching slots or something

[frigid blade]

Sometimes it annoys me

[grizzled frost]

they just want to see progress

even if it's a net negative

[native path]

I’ve learnt to just not bother anymore

[native path]

It’s so annoying LOL

[native path]

Their first message

[frigid blade]

Yall saw preorders got leaked for GTA 6?

Bestbuy sent out emails early for commission stuff to creators

[grizzled frost]

old news

[native path]

🐌

[frigid blade]

Didn’t it happen today?

[native path]

Yesterday or the day before

[frigid blade]

22 hours ago

Close enough

[native path]

A different generation

[frigid blade]

I watched my buddy play subnautica 2

It’s not bad but the 4070 Ti can’t get over 60 fps at 1440p without fg (high settings DLSS DLAA)

[grizzled frost]

it's an EA game with absolutely phenomenal graphics

[native path]

I can’t wait for the day i upgrade my gpu

[frigid blade]

Well it might just be like the first one where it was super bad and they optimized it over time

[native path]

CAP

[grizzled frost]

It's an EA game, that is exactly what is going to happen

[native path]

Oh

[frigid blade]

They do that? I don’t really play EA games so idrk

[native path]

Is the xbox gamepass thing with nitro any good?

[grizzled frost]

Early Access, not EA GAmes

[frigid blade]

Oh

Lol whoops

[grizzled frost]

Yes, that is the whole idea of an early access game

[frigid blade]

I was assuming EA Games

[grizzled frost]

It literally says that in massive letters when you open steam lol

[frigid blade]

I wasn’t watching that part he thought he was streaming but he wasnt

I love discord watching a 720p stream at 30FPS on a 1440p display

And not letting me go full screen with the stream either

[grizzled frost]

the steam homepage when you launch it

[frigid blade]

Who looks at that

I just go to my library and play overwatch

[grizzled frost]

that explains a lot

[frigid blade]

Or hearts of iron 4

I love HOI4

https://tenor.com/view/hoi4-hearts-of-iron-4-looksmax-sigma-sigma-face-gif-232308269668432623

[grizzled frost]

That explains even more

[frigid blade]

What does it explain lol

[grizzled frost]

A lot

[frigid blade]

https://tenor.com/view/hearts-of-iron-hearts-of-iron-iv-hoi-hearts-of-iron-4-hoi4-gif-14684883426167911687

https://tenor.com/view/iroh-my-beloved-beloved-heart-avatar-the-last-airbender-gif-27121731

I love gifs

[ionic ember]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-parenti-yellow-lecture-communism-marxism-leninism-gif-22512456

me too

[sinful cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/femme-soule-pukey-goddess-shot-trick-drunken-goddess-reflux-gif-12181851530391189499

[sharp ivy]

@deep musk YOOO

fully working $15CAD Dell laptop just dropped

[light quail]

what's in that

[deep musk]

Zaaaaaammmmnnnnn

[sharp ivy]

it's even charging 💀

[sharp ivy]

specs or files?

[light quail]

I meant hardware yes

[deep musk]

That’s really sick, why would anyone “throw away” such a beautiful piece

[sharp ivy]

Intel centrino something and 120GB HDD

lemme see

[upper fossil]

What would be a reason for my cpu to idle at 40c and jump to 60c when the screen turns black when I’m away for a few mins?

[glossy veldt]

i dunno

hope it helps

[upper fossil]

Wondering if I might have some shit running in the BG that hides itself

[sharp ivy]

Core 2 Duo T7250, 3GB RAM

[native path]

Look through task manager and look for anything you don’t recognise or taking up a bunch of resources for no good reason

[glossy veldt]

powerful 3gb ram

[upper fossil]

cpu is at 1% usage then the temp suddenly drops to 40c when I wake the screen

[sharp ivy]

indeed

only using 1.2GB running win 10

[glossy veldt]

Windows 10 can run on low ram

but i HATE how it uses 6gb idle on an 8gb system

[frigid blade]

It will reduce its own usage when other processes need it

[glossy veldt]

yeah i still hate windows because i dunno

[frigid blade]

People see 70% ram usage and think it is bad

[glossy veldt]

for the fun of it

[frigid blade]

Any ram that’s unused is pointless, might as well let the system use it to increase QoL like faster loading times

[glossy veldt]

should i clean it

[native path]

Sensor not working right when it sleeps? I dunno

[native path]

Just hating to hate

[glossy veldt]

ya

[sharp ivy]

yes I shall do some gaming

[steel umbra]

any recs on a phone under $400/400 euros with a silicon battery that's 7200mah or higher, a good soc such as dimensity 9300,9400/e,9500/s or sd 8/s g4, elite/ g2 elite, etc. expect poco x8 pro max

[glossy veldt]

who thought it'd be a good idea to cool 65w with this little shite?

[tired swift]

I mean it seems sufficient for 65W

What were your temps?

[timid oar]

I need someone’s help asap. My gpu is stuck doing this, am I cooked

[solar moat]

yes

[lean field]

I found a reddit thread for the problem you might be having. tldr it seems like you'd just need to reinstall gpu drivers and Aorus engine
link to that thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/comments/jxe3jn/aorus_3070_master_lcd_stuck_on_this_screen_can/

anyone know of any good foss backup software? i'm testing out restic but it seems that it creates a full file path of the data to be restored instead of just restoring data to its final destination like to my Users folder for example

[limpid dune]

ngl, people usually just take disk images using dd. I do that with my laptop, I just take a partition image and I zip it, so I can restore the partition later if I need to. And if I'm feeling fancy, I can restore the entire drive from scratch

[limpid dune]

Huh, I kinda thought it would be almost-solid blower in there... like most blower cards

[restive plinth]

Do a system scan first just to rule out malware

It also could be background scans, updates, indexing, etc but I'm not sure if it causes a jump to 60 degrees.

[steel umbra]

it's interesting that even non dram manufacturers of ddr5 sticks profit massively such as adata

the gap between what they pay for the ics and what they charge you for complete kits must be huge

like it's not just hynix, samsung, micron and cxmt squeezing money out of customers

[shadow hedge]

guys, this might sound a bit silly, but i tried some mobile games on microsoft store which crash randomly, otherwise my pc is fine in everything, i even removed my ram oc, nothing seem to be fixing it, i have tried both gemini and chatgpt for solution, i like some mobile games so wanted to try them even though it's cringe for a gaming pc

[restive plinth]

Have you tried google play games for desktop?

[shadow hedge]

wouldn't that require bluestacks or something? im on w10

[boreal elbow]

Pc doesn't post monitor will light up but doesn't go further and cpu debug light is on.

After swapping cpu cpu turned off but we still get to the same point on monitor and now the vga debug light is on swapped gpu no change.

Do u think it's the mobo?

[shrewd timber]

How's this for Specs?

Pretty old though

[shadow hedge]

yeah something wrong with ms store, works fine with google play games

[sharp cargo]

I’m looking for a oled monitor and wanna know if this is a good price or if there’s better for this price

[lunar axle]

Seems like a good price depending on taxes

[ornate geyser]

Should I get contact frames if I have am5

[sinful cobalt]

no

[ornate geyser]

Ok thanks

[shadow hedge]

play games hardly shows any major game

[stray portal]

Usb stick

[grave kayak]

How signifigant is this wattage difference between the chips to their performances against eachother?

The ai 9 hx and ultra x9 on the framework pro 13

I know the intel chip is already better but i dont think the comparison sites im using factor their max wattages in

[restive plinth]

Nope it works without any additional software

[restive plinth]

It doesn't have everything but a lot of games do exist in that

I'm not sure why ms store is not working for you. Try restarting or updating your system

[bold olive]

very accurate images

[steel umbra]

my give give

[steel umbra]

pcle

did he use some light free model to generate that

[steel umbra]

zly server

[brave brook]

sorry, wrong window

[steel umbra]

np

[brave brook]

context loss when i am switching between claude code, email, teams and discord 😄

[brave brook]

btw it's hilarious how horrible our state IT infrastructure is. Got the pension prediction document, i had missing years. Sent a question through form, few days later someone answered: "We looked up your records, we have the records in our system, some of the data you were missing weren't in the other system which generated the reports and online information". But of course they calculated the pension prediction based on those not complete data 😄
So they sent me that i got 22.6 years for pension. After the fix, that will go up to 25, then they will have to add another 3 years of middle school (28) and then 2 years of civil service (instead of military)... that's 30 years counted for pension already, with 20 more remaining till pension.

And then they will have no money to pay the pensions when i retire 😄

@woven wigeon what, too many years already, or confused by our pension system ? 😄

[woven wigeon]

not our i mean your

im over here in europe

[merry nest]

Optiscaler-spoofed DLSS on an AMD outputting XESS gives better results than native FSR 3 are we serious right now

on pragmata

it has less aliasing that native res

[brave brook]

it's not that complicated. Pension from state system is "number of years that count for pension" x average modified income ratio x current pension point value.
"number of years" is literally for how many years you paid pension, plus some extra years if you served in mandatory military service or replacement civil service (1-2 years) and then if you were in school after mandatory school years, then those years count too (but only years before 2004).

average modified income ratio - your yearly brutto salary is compared to the national average brutto salary and you get a multiplier about how much more you paid in the system. Modified, because values under 80% of national average are boosted upwards by 20%, and values above 125% of national average are decreased downwards. And if your salary is above 300% of national average, then values above that do not count.

current pension point - literally an euro value of each point.

So if you worked 40 years in your life, your salary was ~2.36x the national averege which gets dropped to 2.0 multiplier and you go to pension this year, then you get 40 x 2 x 19.7633 = 1581 euro pension

so having more years obviously improves the final pension, and of course having higher salary through your life does improve the pension as well

(well, there are more complications, but no point in getting in the extra pension systems one can have)

[steel umbra]

oof

[brave brook]

They literally said this in Slovak (posting it here in English so people don't get mad 😄 ):

I have looked up the pension insurance period with your current employer in the internal systems of the Social Insurance Company. This means that I will report this currently unregistered period to the relevant department and within a few days it will be credited to your electronic insurance account and will be displayed correctly. Therefore, it is not necessary to submit any documents from your side regarding this period.

[steel umbra]

welp, probably not the worst thing i’ve seen with my country

i constantly see in new that how our food is regulated but it’s not really, i constantly find larvae in stuff where they shouldn’t be, light metals in cereal, rotten fruit from inside, rotten from outside and retailer claims unmatched freshness like where are the inspectors to give them fines??

fake cheddar, gouda from poland

[worn willow]

gpu being 85 deegres why

[steel umbra]

retailers claim fruit and vegetables come from a country X when the boxes say country Y

[brave brook]

they are fining people for missing accented characters on the receipt and then they claim the receipt was missing interpunction /s

[steel umbra]

oh i heard that from my mom, not sure if it’s true

[brave brook]

https://www.topky.sk/cl/10/9395117/Kauza-langose-nabera-na-obratkach--Advokatka-zverejnila-oficialne-dokumenty--Pani-daniari--TOTO-nejako-nesedi

[steel umbra]

but one of our politicans suggested to ban english / american words to they don’t displace slovak ones lul

good luck with that

also i believe our perceived corruption indexes increased quite a bit recently

i wonder why

[worn willow]

why my gpu 88 deegres cecius

[brave brook]

i think the guy who is buying my 3900X/X570/32GB RAM parts will also take my lame RX580 4GB, yet another item gone from the things i have sitting around unused

[shadow zealot]

helloo

what do yall think abt elitebooks

[teal sphinx]

why da fuck did the price of 14400f rise by 50% compared to june last year

[shadow zealot]

woah

[hushed frigate]

lol i just found out that either one of my ram slots or ram sticks is dead

should i keep using the 3 working ones or go down to 2

[sinful cobalt]

because its working

[worn willow]

its laptop

[sinful cobalt]

you have ur answer

[hushed frigate]

anyone have a clue what i do about this

im assuming i need to use only 2 for dual channel but like its gonna be so annoying to be back at 16gb 💔

[worn willow]

can i disable te gpu to

[torn sequoia]

looking for help with my 3080 rog strix gpu
-only middle fan is spinning
-side fans work for a few seconds during POST
-can control middle fan, can't control side fans (in asus gpu tweak iii)

[sinful cobalt]

did you try fan control yet?

the app*

[torn sequoia]

trying it right now, was just recommended that by gemini

new to it, what exactly am i looking to do there?

[sinful cobalt]

see if you can control the other fans there

[torn sequoia]

okay, waiting for it to finish testing all my fans

[sinful cobalt]

if it still doesnt work I’d probably flash the gpu bios xd

[torn sequoia]

looks like control 2 is my middle fan, changed it to 0 and it stopped

side fans still won't spin regardless of both at 100%

and 750,000 rpm probably isn't right lol

[sinful cobalt]

time to try to flash vbios

[torn sequoia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xsEvdIrNGc

is this right?

[sinful cobalt]

yes

[bold olive]

https://tenor.com/view/turbine-fire-gif-27659126

[shrewd timber]

Yo my PS/2 won't recognise my Keyboard

The Keyboard and the ports look fine

Maybe its a wire that broke idk

[tall sandal]

Yo guys what do you think of this mobo?

[grizzled frost]

a good mobo

[tall sandal]

Yea I had gotten this one before, saw reviews of VRM thermal issues

Returned it and the B850 tomahawk max WiFi instead

Cuz my cpu is high end yk

[grizzled frost]

what cpu?

[tall sandal]

Hardware unboxed video shows similar b650 boards have significant issues with VRM thermals.

Ryzen 9 9900x

pc building shop said it’s not a good combo and I should get a better board tbh

[modern walrus]

i have the b850m version of this board and it's good, but I only have a 7800x3d which is a 80w CPU

[grizzled frost]

162w ppt, so not nothing

[frail sequoia]

Thats not a Nintendo switch 😭

[tall sandal]

I mean I’ve check hardware unboxed VRM thermals stay good even with highest end Ryzen 9

[grizzled frost]

if you believe hard enough, anything can be a nintendo switch

[modern walrus]

yeah, you can't go wrong with getting it

[grizzled frost]

80w in gaming, it can hit just above 100w in Multicore

[frail sequoia]

Yeah true, emulation plus obtaining the games in a way Nintendo doesn't like is peak

[median warren]

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-ferrum-lucid-intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-32gb-ddr5-32gb-nvidia-rtx-5090-fe-2tb-m2-ssd-win-11?utm_source=scanshot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3XS_NonFunded_PCOTM_2026_ScanshotCTATop&utm_content=A&SST=af60336b-d72e-4649-a07e-e48b7c55f4e7

5090 prebuilt for £3.7k

Dare I say exceptional value, considering 5090s are £3.2k here right now

Buying it on your own, just the 5090 and the ram would cost you 3.7k alone, actually insane tbh

[pallid temple]

Is there any difference between 180hz vs 200hz?

[native path]

not really no

[pallid temple]

So not worth like 20 euro xdv

[native path]

i wouldnt say so

[pallid temple]

Its hard to find a monitor bro
VA or Ips

[native path]

ips

[pallid temple]

Va has ghosting
Ips is bad in dark but i always play n the dark

[native path]

at the end of the day ips looks better

[pallid temple]

Aight thx bro

[bold olive]

YE-

[grizzled frost]

20hz

[bold olive]

oled will solve it, but i understand if you're concerned about price

[bold olive]

helpful

[grizzled frost]

Happy to help

[pallid temple]

Im just looking around 100 euro, can anyone help i live in netherlands? Cause there is ALOT of option

[native path]

but some oleds look bad in bright areas

[pallid temple]

And should i go like 27 or 24 ?

[native path]

personal preferance

[pallid temple]

I think 27

So i need to find 27 inch, ips around 200hz

[frail sequoia]

This looks good

[native path]

i remember when $1 per hz was good

[bold olive]

and there's no qled monitor

[pallid temple]

Are some brands better then others

[grizzled frost]

Look at specific models, not specific brands

[frail sequoia]

144hz 27" 1080p monitors are < £100 now

[bold olive]

or atleast theyre not common

[pallid temple]

200 bucks for my legion i have rn xd

[pallid temple]

Any recommendations?

[grizzled frost]

no clue

[long cradle]

Is it me, or have Intel stickers got smaller?

[frail sequoia]

Anything good

[native path]

remember when that 90hz sceptre monitor for 89.99 was good value

[grizzled frost]

100% have

[frail sequoia]

No clue, could I get the name of the case though please

Looks cool and has a 5.25" drive bay

[long cradle]

Antec VSK3000 Elite

[grizzled frost]

5.25 overrated

[frail sequoia]

Ty

[frail sequoia]

No it ain't, dvd drives are awesome to have

[grizzled frost]

That's what my plex library is for

[long cradle]

Blu-ray is incredibly useful for backup and archiving.

I have a pack of BD-R discs I use for data backup.

[frail sequoia]

I have alot of movies

[long cradle]

That's is nice!

[grizzled frost]

I need to rip all my DVDs to my NAS

[long cradle]

It is pretty awesome ye!
I recently upgraded to an i5-11400 hence the new sticker in the last photo.

[frail sequoia]

3.5" floppy drive spotted

Do you think a < 300mm 3 fan gpu would fit

[coarse minnow]

Hello everyone, my Friend has a Problem with his PC where he wants to enable Core Isolation. The Problem is the drivers that are incompatiable are not shown. Is there a way out?

[grizzled frost]

Solution, don't enable core isolation

[coarse minnow]

He wants to play a game, but the game is not allowing it without...

[grizzled frost]

what game requires it?

[coarse minnow]

The game is called Dark and Darker

[long cradle]

I'm sure it'll be fine.

[modern walrus]

Mine is only about 55watts in gaming and about 80 in multi cinebench never seen over 100watts. I have the NH-D15 G2 cooler, I don’t use PBO as the 7800x3d ain’t really an OC CPU

[long cradle]

It's a standard mATX case.

[grizzled frost]

That's why you aren't hitting 100w, you're kneecapping your CPU by not using PBO

when people say the 7800x3d isn't an OC chip, they mean there isn't much benefit to manual OC, there is a fair bit of gain to be had with PBO

[frail sequoia]

I have an matx mobo

[coarse minnow]

Is there a way?

[long cradle]

Then the case I have should be perfect for you.

[grizzled frost]

No idea, #1027757333117415424

[frail sequoia]

Is it this one?

[long cradle]

That's the VSK3000B. The one I have is the 3000 Elite.

Though the 3000B has an extra 5.25 bay.

[frail sequoia]

The obly kne is in England and I ain't going down to England and back to Scotland for a case

Over 6hr drive just to get there

[bold olive]

has to be 1440

1080 is noticably blocky

[long cradle]

Perhaps get the 3000B.

[grizzled frost]

we're talking about the extreme budget mate

[bold olive]

75hz

[long cradle]

https://www.antec.com/product/case/vsk3000elite
Antec still has it on their website, so I don't think it's discontinued.

[pallid temple]

https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1504812098876604496

can anyone help here with a monitor ive send some options

[long cradle]

It would be cool if they made a new revision of it though.

[long cradle]

Ah, that's a shame.
It's a really nice case.

[torn sequoia]

vbios flash didn't help either, damn

[frail sequoia]

Yeah

Do floppy drives still work on modern windows?

[grizzled frost]

You can use them, you just can't boot to/from them

also you'd likely need some sort of adapter or carrier card

Fun fact, that's why the boot drive defaults to "C:", A and B used to be dedicated for the floppy drives

[native path]

what was A

[grizzled frost]

Boot Floppy drive

B was a secondary Floppy drive, C was for harddrives when those first started to be a thing

[native path]

so the next one is E?

[grizzled frost]

D, then E

But at the point in time i'm talking about, 3 drives was about the limit

Even just having 3 drive slots was insane

[native path]

unrelated but my instrument stand came in today and i’m very pleased with it

[frail sequoia]

I asked cause it means if I can save up to get a Sony mavica or not

[long cradle]

Yup, mine works without a problem.

[frail sequoia]

What the fuck

[restive plinth]

Yep but check for your specific device to make sure it does

[craggy cove]

my 7700xt will get fsr4 in july

[mild parrot]

The CyberDeck begins

[craggy cove]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-baby-crying-gas-him-up-gif-329091691219797925

[restive plinth]

Another fun fact
You can assign letters A and B to any drive you want by going to Disk Manager.
But some softwares might still refer to A and B as floppy drives so it might not work in many cases, especially for legacy softwares. I think the windows search also breaks in these drives since it is not properly indexed.

[frail sequoia]

W

What computer are you gonna use, raspberry pi, latte panda mu? Or is it a diff one

[long cradle]

CRT is getting more expensive than OLED lol!

[frail sequoia]

It won't let me add to basket

[long cradle]

That's weird.

[quasi heath]

is my first timer good to go? i have a 5600 a fractal design pop mini air a xfx rx 7600 a 1tb wd green 1tb nvme 16gb cl16 3000 mhz (2x8) a gigabyte B550M DS3H AC R2 motherboard and a deepCool PL800D 800W 80+ Bronze

[languid isle]

my last "upgrade" for awhile

[light quail]

hello I just wanted to show everyone my stick

[frail sequoia]

Intel compute sticks?

Stick*

[light quail]

that's right

I paid $50 for it and I use it to listen to the radio

[steel umbra]

I wonder why don't more manufacturers use springs to offload side pulls

this cable was a buck

when i pull it from a side the spring evenly distributes the load

[distant frigate]

YOOO

GoNetSpeed is right behind my house

[stark flicker]

A heatshrink / plastic sleeve acts exactly like a spring @steel umbra

It just doesn't look s cool

And spring can get stuck in things too

You don't see springs in professional highly resistant cable

[steel umbra]

heatshrink has different properties, it tends to kink a little ( a lot more compared to a spring)

[stark flicker]

Yeah well they don't put heatshrinks on cable put those plastic sleeves

[steel umbra]

plastic generally does kink, and almost all wrap materials do

[stark flicker]

it's better than metal springs, you will never see metal springs on concert xlr cables and those are made to last and see lots of abuse it's just for the cool factor

You think plastic sleeves are bad because you only ever had bad cables that's it

[stark flicker]

Metal springs can too

Metal springs work in the elastic domain but they can reach plastic deformation (plastic not in the petrol-made material but the concept of plasticity)
There is an elasticity limit

If you go past it the spring will "kink"

[merry marsh]

is oled monitor good for graphic design?

[stark flicker]

it's good for everything yes

[steel umbra]

yes but less when you regularly pull them at a 90 degree angle, they sort of bend in this quarter arc compared to plastic which bends less the further you go

[merry marsh]

what about burn in issue?

[stark flicker]

You are just making that up because you compare cheap and bad plastic cable to good ones with metal springs that's it

[steel umbra]

yeah it will permanently deform

[stark flicker]

It's a non issue and lcd can burn too

[steel umbra]

it’s literally the properly of almost all plastic cables, that’s why they have to put those support boots that goes out of the device

[stark flicker]

You are making that up

Those "supports boots" are plastic sleeves and do the same thing as metal springs

and they do it well when they are good

And bad when the cable is shit

Nothing to do with it being plastic or metallic

[light quail]

burn in has not been a meaningful problem for oleds for a few years

[steel umbra]

they’re thicker…

[stark flicker]

Yeah and probably way stronger lol

[light quail]

unless you're leaving your monitor on full brightess, only displaying one image the whole time, and leaving it on all day every day
it's fine

[steel umbra]

idk whenever i look at psu 230v cables, jacks, and some of my ugreen hubs i just see the boot or sleeve separate (only the tip) from the cable itself which creates a point where the cable bends more, it’s not significant but i mean it could be considered a future failure point

[stark flicker]

Yes and how many metallic spring cables have you owned ?

[steel umbra]

1

[stark flicker]

for how long ?

[steel umbra]

i was asking why they’re not more common

[steel umbra]

a better question would be how many times i used it

[stark flicker]

because they are not really better

It's just aesthetic

[steel umbra]

well def better than no reinforcement

[stark flicker]

It works as a strain relief yes, but it's not forcefully better than a plastic strain relief

[steel umbra]

no niche where they’d be better?

[stark flicker]

Yes there are however the one you have on your cable will never be better no

Because it's too weak and doesn't refrain a lot of movement

It does the job, but won't be better than a non-shitty plastic one

If you want it to be better then you need a big and long spring
Then you'll get the advantages (and drawbacks) of durability of metal vs plastic, such as metal handling sun light better over long long period of time

[steel umbra]

you could make it thicker though

[mortal mantle]

does Cachy hate me lol

(this is from the ISO shutting down)

should I just end task vmware-vmx here

[stark flicker]

Well you can also make thicker plastic strain relief

But at this point it's better to make "smarter" strain relief if it's that important, the whole construction of the cable has to be thought for it and on top of the spring/sleeve you can put stuff that reduce the bending etc

[pure trellis]

Looks like you are missing something

[light quail]

um..... uh...... pacman -Syu

[mortal mantle]

won't help anything here

(since this is literally the installer that froze on shutdown)

(better than a kernel panic which is what it did last time)

[light quail]

well. I'm out of ideas

[mortal mantle]

though how does the ISO freeze lol

[stark flicker]

those are non-blocking errors
The first is some cpu optimization that doesn't matter the second is saying that services that depends on the network will fail because the network is not online, however just after you get the network online so it's fine

oh if it's shutting down the it really doesn't matter

[mortal mantle]

why did it freeze lol

[stark flicker]

oh it's the installer

Then you can just not care lol

Once the installer wrote stuff to your drive's partitions then you could hard shutdown the machine it wouldn't really matter

[light quail]

just try booting and see what happens ig

[mortal mantle]

is this how Cachy shows up on Windows lol

[light quail]

that looks right

[mortal mantle]

how did this cursed setup even work

[stark flicker]

what's cursed

[light quail]

I don't think Windows knows what ext4 is by default

[stark flicker]

only microsoft way is to install wsl2 and mount it through wsl2

[light quail]

a 4 gig esp is a little big but whatever

[mortal mantle]

VM having a whole actual SSD mounted to it

[stark flicker]

Then in the explorer you'll see it inside the linux special directory

[stark flicker]

Oh yeah maybe

Why install in a vm and not directly in the ssd ?

Well directly in the ssd without a vm

[mortal mantle]

mostly to avoid a reboot

(that and I don't have a USB)

[light quail]

that's funny. the CachyOS website explicitly tells you not to use a vm

[restive plinth]

WSL2 is neat

Although I hope official support for ext4 is added inside Windows itself

[mortal mantle]

how much shit can that even break lol

[restive plinth]

New!  You can feel haptic feedback effects on compatible input devices when performing certain actions, such as aligning objects in PowerPoint, snapping or resizing windows.

This is cool. I would like the haptic stuff to be added to the lockscreen also (esp for controllers) so that the xbox mode feels better

[mortal mantle]

xbox mode was added?

on build 26200.8457

[restive plinth]

It's now available for everyone. But not everyone is going to see it right away because of the controlled feature roll out thing

[mortal mantle]

even on the correct build?

[distant zephyr]

i need some help on ram related stuff
i have 16gb ram and whenever i play rivals my ram usage increases upto 80-90% and game stutters but other games dont do that so i need help clearing random shi that are using my ram but i need help so i dont delete usefull stuff too

[restive plinth]

Only Insider Beta is getting complete access to all available features without any gradual roll out. So I think yes it will take time but make sure you are on the latest build, and maybe restart your PC if you haven't done that in a while.

[bold olive]

you deserve the right to not check for updates

[mortal mantle]

is 2 days a while

[restive plinth]

I would say so because I have seen the gradual roll out features enabled after a restart or a shutdown - boot up sequence takes place

[bold olive]

laptop cpu?

[mortal mantle]

nope

[bold olive]

not

i have a 7600 i should've known better

[light quail]

I dunno, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had anything to do with the problems you were having with the installer

[restive plinth]

You could also use vivetool to enable xbox mode btw but just use it to enable this particular mode and nothing else.

[light quail]

systemd is weird

[mortal mantle]

what ID's is it

[daring crystal]

https://us.shop.xreal.com/pages/rog-xreal-r1?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=R1Launch&_kx=52BvhrzwPBrBvJBjgd8xoFChzpMoKTY0gVqkNRKt44s.UacNcq

240hz is wild

[restive plinth]

Xbox mode Vivetool ID: 59765208

But try restarting first and see if that triggers the feature.

[drifting sedge]

guys does the clearance between my case and gpu matter that much? i wanna buy a case that has 320mm of clearance and my gpu is 319mm long, but idk if it will affect the airflow or if it doesnt matter much

[light quail]

I have Arch running on a crappy netbook from 2016 and reboot doesn't work. systemd hangs when it tries restarting

[bold olive]

that 1 millimeter better save you

[light quail]

systemd also whines about broken acpi stuff

[drifting sedge]

i hope it does

[mortal mantle]

oh?

[light quail]

no clue how to fix it because I can't figure out how to flash the bios

[tidal geyser]

what laptop

also you are not requiered to flash the bios to fix it

[restive plinth]

vivetool /enable /id:59765208

[light quail]

hp stream 14 from 10 years ago lol

[tidal geyser]

that should be pretty easy to update but for the most part acpi issues should not stop it from booting

[light quail]

it doesn't prevent it from booting.

[mortal mantle]

the fuck

it's already enabled

[bold olive]

sudo reboot now

[restive plinth]

restart and see

[mortal mantle]

could it actually not show up even if enabled

[bold olive]

sudo systemctl reboot

[restive plinth]

restart is needed iirc

[light quail]

it's just when I get to the tty login there's a bunch of acpi related error messages

it doesn't effect anything it's just annoying

[mortal mantle]

and if after a restart it still doesn't show up

[bold olive]

what wm do you have to suffocate the netbook (ik its irrelevant, just curious)

[light quail]

I'm using sway

it's surprisingly not that bad

[restive plinth]

If xbox app is updated and you are also on the latest build available, then it hopefully does enable after a restart.

[mortal mantle]

what version should the Xbox app be?

mine is this

[restive plinth]

Try restarting first
I don't think it enables without a restart

[light quail]

I'll post the fetch in a minute

[restive plinth]

Also, no idea about the specific version numbers. I have the insider versions of everything so it's probably a different number than yours

[bold olive]

in a minute

😭

does it really take that long

[light quail]

no I just need to get home first

it used to, when I was running antix

[light quail]

behold the power

[mortal mantle]

HP Stream?

[bold olive]

oh come on that's windows-

[light quail]

I ssh'd into it

discord will not run on that thing

[bold olive]

😭

[mortal mantle]

is it that slow?

[light quail]

here's a picture if you don't believe me

[bold olive]

that bezel

[bold olive]

bigger question: what can you do with it?

[light quail]

I don't know

[bold olive]

raspberry pi level laggy

[light quail]

I found it in the closet

[bold olive]

pi 3 model b

two minutes to load a webpage

[light quail]

there's an SD card slot in the side

[bold olive]

5 years to load a graphical window

[light quail]

I was thinking maybe I could turn it into a scuffed nas or something

[frigid blade]

it can runs windows 11

[bold olive]

1 bit per second

[bold olive]

limp windows 11

[light quail]

it couldn't run windows 10

[bold olive]

or crawl

[frigid blade]

it could

[light quail]

when I got it, that's what was installed on it

and it would hang on the login screen

[frigid blade]

try it on 11 IoT Ent

should be softer on it

[bold olive]

i have a feeling my credit card computer is faster than that laptop

[light quail]

it almost certainly is

[bold olive]

which is already hella slow

[agile tangle]

My friend just bought a razer viper v3 pro

ggs to him

[light quail]

fancy

[frigid blade]

thats a lot of money for just a mouse

[light quail]

oh yeah when I opened up vscode for the first time it took a literal 5 minutes

[mortal mantle]

and now that I can restart I found something
CachyOS does not want to boot

(my Z370-E Gaming just went straight back to Windows 11)

[glossy veldt]

max load and fan at 100% its at 74°c

[restive plinth]

Did you get the xbox mode btw

[mortal mantle]

nope

though I wonder why Cachy did not boot

[glossy veldt]

the blower module is held to the case with 3 torx screws i don't know if i prefer this design but it works

[mortal mantle]

could my Z370-E Gaming have rejected CachyOS's bootloader (limine)

[restive plinth]

F

Check if you have any updates pending and turn on the "get the latest features" toggle 🙏

[restive plinth]

I don't know why the feature flags option has not been added to this. I hope you get that soon. Xbox mode is actually cool

[mortal mantle]

is it actually that much better than this

[limber nacelle]

people still play PGR? i don't play or keep up with gachas but i thought that game died

[stray portal]

In theory yes because its built into windows so faster

[spring latch]

am I just lucky I have an architecture that undervolts very well

[shut escarp]

I’m having an issue with my aio it’s not spinning at all if anyone knows why that could be

[empty quartz]

Just remembered one time where i accidentally boiled copper

[steel umbra]

what were you doing to boil copper?

technically welding can also boil copper but it’s only tiny amounts

it also cools rapidly

or boil as of cleaning?

[restive plinth]

Yes
It turns off a lot of background services. It's not just a front end

You can use steam Full screen mode within the xbox mode also

Xbox mode auto opens xbox app when no other app is open. So if you open steam and then close xbox app, you'll be getting the xbox mode with steam Full screen experience mode.

But you have your steam library within xbox itself so it's not needed

[midnight rampart]

Should I be concerned with this temps?

[mortal mantle]

the hell how did I find a vendor bug that only happens on Windows

like this thing crashes on Windows but on Cachy it works

[south arrow]

In windows pcsx2 is the way

Duckstation for ps1

[mortal mantle]

is there a reason why Cachy could work and Windows does not

[south arrow]

Myte be a linux apk

Not familiar

[mortal mantle]

could it be a vendor bug with amdvlk64

[empty quartz]

No, boil as in i accidentally turned copper metal into a gas

[mortal mantle]

since Linux would be RADV

[south arrow]

You'd have to ask the iris community

Myte be as simple as a config file or smth

If its also windows compatible, usually git or the site you get it has instructions per os

[empty quartz]

Just adjust the fan curve

[mortal mantle]

this is what happens on Windows btw

Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFE40725626 (amdvlk64.dll) in iris.exe.13204.dmp: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000000.

AMD's Windows Vulkan driver just dies on a shader

[empty quartz]

He enjoys sitting on the couch watching tv with his hoomans

Hai brownie

[iron glen]

Can't tell if hes tired or unhappy with his situation

[iron glen]

Wsg

[empty quartz]

He is eepy

[empty quartz]

Just chilling

[midnight rampart]

its running at 100%

[empty quartz]

New thermal paste

[midnight rampart]

no thermal pads?

paste only is fine?

[empty quartz]

Very rare

[iron glen]

Same thing, no?

Pads are js easier to apply

[empty quartz]

Thermal pads last a long time

[empty quartz]

No

[iron glen]

Oh

[midnight rampart]

So I can paste it at home? Without any issues?

[empty quartz]

Thermal pads should not be used for gpu & cpu core cooling

[midnight rampart]

Or I need someone expert

[iron glen]

Oh i forgot im supposed to be a liquid metal supporter

[iron glen]

Do liquid metal it will go well
Trust me bro