tech-chat-2

[green marsh]

but then again, this is just a very simple NAS so it powers on, copies over stuff from main server, then powers itself off. If i would lose data from main server, i have a copy. So it is just for safekeeping, an extra copy. I didn't need anything fancy from it, but it needs multiple hard drive support 😄

[devout ridge]

no idea

looks like a standard 4u chassis to me tho

[edgy laurel]

not quite sure what the difference is between that and the ZimaBoard, this website sucks https://www.zimaspace.com/image/products/page/zimaboard2/board-v-2.mp4

[slim solstice]

Does it have raid support?

[slim solstice]

Oh wow a extra pcie slot

[devout ridge]

afaik they’re extremely similar

[slim solstice]

And a sata port and what seems to be a displayport port

[green marsh]

yes, but i suspect they do mdraid for that ? didn't try, i just use the drives as JBOD

[devout ridge]

two sata ports!

[steel stream]

uh lemme get one sata port, and one more sata port

[slim solstice]

And a pcie port

And a metal case

And a big price increase

[odd sable]

daring today aren't we?

[slim solstice]

Add some some less ports also

[slim solstice]

I would try the toaster soon

[polar prawn]

i love that toaster

[odd sable]

i like the toaster

[edgy laurel]

thats a creative build ngl

[slim solstice]

Mutal agreement

[shell void]

@topaz veldt your favorite nvidia feature bro

rtx 5080 geforce now

[slim solstice]

By hdds do they mean the small ones

[slim solstice]

Sad news for us console users

[edgy laurel]

means whatever you want based on the enclosure you use/build

[polar prawn]

on the 9 hdd/ssd one yes

[slim solstice]

Ai generated. Really?

[polar prawn]

?

the photo?

[slim solstice]

Yes the pfp

[shell void]

if you have decent latency to a server then a virtual 5080 is probably a better experience than a local ps5

[pure garnet]

have you tried gfn on the cellular internet

[shell void]

naw ive never tried gfn

[polar prawn]

ohh yeah someone made them for all of our teammates in a mobile game we play (golf blitz)

[slim solstice]

I have used xbox cloud gaming and ngl the load times are so good but they just don't come to india cuz there afraid of our high population

[shell void]

i assume it wont work well with my extra 20ms of latency and only 20Mbps upload

[pure garnet]

back when gfn was in invite only beta i used to use it for csgo

90% of the time it worked great

the other 10% i’d disconnect and have to play at 1024x768 30fps for the rest of the game on my laptop

[odd sable]

that explains a lot

[slim solstice]

I can use it with a free vpn so why not try

[pure garnet]

it was awesome when i didn’t have a real computer

[odd sable]

oh, not you

[odd sable]

potato system, what are you supposted to be able to run with that?

[shell void]

idk man it struggles to run my games

[sick yacht]

absolute lunacy that the 1060, my first GPU, saw the end of game ready drivers at the same time as my 6800XT, my most recent GPU

[odd sable]

you should upgrade to a Matrox G200e

[sick yacht]

guess i'm going back to team green once the AI bubble pops

[slim solstice]

I hope you don't see my specs

[pure garnet]

if i get the 4k monitor is my text gonna break too

[shell void]

idk wym

[pure garnet]

your hwinfo looks like win 98 to me on my phone

[edgy laurel]

what

[green marsh]

anyway, i used NVMe as boot device on Z77 and Z87 boards which had no native NVMe support. I think i had to enable UEFI storage initialization on the Z87 board inside CSM (if i wanted to use CSM), but that was the only issue i ran into.
Ironically a H81 board with single x16 slot and three x1 slots had native NVMe boot support 😄

[shell void]

i used scaling at 1440p too so i dont even know what hwinfo looks like unscaled

[pure garnet]

the discord text looks fine it’s just hwinfo that’s weird

i’ll see if my zephyrus does it too in a bit

[shell void]

text looks a lot worse without scaling in 99% of apps, but rarely an app will be blurry or pixelated with scaling

[pure garnet]

the dual mode restocked so i’m heavily considering just ordering it

[pure garnet]

is this unscaled

[edgy laurel]

i wouldn't stand for blurry/pixalated text

and I don't get any, so thats good

[shell void]

same thats why i use scaling

it makes the text look a lot better in 99% of programs and windows itself

110ppi 100% is so pixelated

[pure garnet]

is windows still jank with diff res displays at scaling

i’ll have 1440p+4k if i get this

[shell void]

not really a ppi thing though tbf, text is still really obviously pixelated with 27" 2160p at 100%

[edgy laurel]

I don't see it, thankfully.

[edgy laurel]

I have the same

[shell void]

multi monitor is scuffed in general in windows even with equivalent monitors

[pure garnet]

do the windows change size in any weird comedic ways

or is it normal now

[shell void]

1440p 100% and 2160p 150% are close enough to where it shouldnt bother you

[edgy laurel]

I have never noticed anythin weird, it just works but i've had multi-monitors for 15 years

[pure garnet]

4k catgirls

[edgy laurel]

I require all the room

I paid for all these pixels, I want to stretch out and use them!

[shell void]

theyre getting 27" 2160p and have 27" 1440p monitors rn

27" 2160p with 150% scaling is the closest to matching 27" 1440p 100%

[edgy laurel]

27! no comment

[pure garnet]

i wanted 32 but i’ll just wait for oled

and deal with mixed sizes then

but the 20k hours gl83a is starting to not turn on reliably

[edgy laurel]

I wish my old 3008WFP had an hour counter that I could have seen

[shell void]

the thought of using two 32" monitors on a shelf desk makes me itch

[pure garnet]

nah i'll do 32+27

[green marsh]

27" 1440p, 32" 4k is the minimum size i would accept

[pure garnet]

oled side monitor is a literal death sentence

i leave 2 apps snapped like 80% of the time

then a youtube video the other 20%

[shell void]

i do that 95% of the time and ive been on oled for 3 years without issue xd

with all protective features disabled

[edgy laurel]

I don't think i'll ever be able to put videos on a side monitor. if i'm watching youtube i'm watching youtube, front and center

[pure garnet]

i can't imagine the display will not have the snap line burnt in if i leave it like that all day

[strange ginkgo]

still using 2 1080p 60hz LCD since forever

[edgy laurel]

it would

[pure garnet]

time to mess with the nvidia control panel

[shell void]

my AW3423DWF is now three years old and has no obvious issues

[edgy laurel]

I have a lot of real estate so I even move my floating windows around every so slightly once a week or whenver I think about it

[pure garnet]

4k 100% downsized to the 1440p panel is the worst text i've ever seen

[shell void]

yeah supersampled desktop looks so ass

[pure garnet]

well then

should i just reboot first

[shell void]

you can sign out instead of rebooting after changing scaling

but super sampling the desktop is always gonna look like shit

[pure garnet]

no i mean the settings app taking up my entire side monitor

i know the res changes look like trash

okay so windows just has to rescale it after

if i don't move it over fully then i get the comedic size

[slim solstice]

Is that hyper-v

[shell void]

meanwhile i use my real-estate like this most of the time

one or two apps

taskbar always visible

[pure garnet]

if i go 4k the 5070ti might have to work a little

[shell void]

you might even go over 50% utilization xd

[slim solstice]

That's crazy for 2025

[pure garnet]

looks like at 150% scaling everything just lines up how it should

[shell void]

🙏

[devout ridge]

i love 200% scaling for low poly games

[wraith steeple]

[brave panther]

i have taskbar only turned on on main display

it took a while to get used to it but i have come to apreciate extra space

[zenith fog]

[wraith steeple]

EVGA moment

[devout ridge]

that thing has some serious gooch film on it

[steel stream]

it can run minecraft at 8K

it's a beast!

[edgy laurel]

I bet thats true

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/grr-cute-puppy-gif-13113577

[green marsh]

@topaz veldt time to start selling your server modules /s

[celest sapphire]

Will this work?

[brave panther]

seesh

[green marsh]

i literally bought 4 of those for 80GBP + 8GBP shipping in March

now it is at price of "not worth upgrading my X99 system" 😄

it will stay at 48GB i guess

[celest sapphire]

Help

Please, why people ignore me

[devout ridge]

you waited all of 7 minutes in a rather inactive chat

and yes it will function

[uncut kettle]

guys i failed'

[devout ridge]

don’t spam

[pure garnet]

ddr5 doesn’t work in ddr4 boards

either swap the ram or swap the cpu/board

[celest sapphire]

Mainboard MSI B650M GAMING WIFI DDR5

What about this one?

[devout ridge]

you’ll need an am5 cpu

[pure garnet]

ram works in that but your cpu won’t

[edgy laurel]

then you need a CPU that isn't 2 generations old

[celest sapphire]

If i go this one, which CPU I should go?

[pure garnet]

7400f and higher

[devout ridge]

the one you can afford

[pure garnet]

no 8000 apus

[celest sapphire]

I want cheap but good cpu

Any idea?

[pure garnet]

7400f/7500f

[uncut kettle]

my life

doesnt mean anything

[celest sapphire]

@pure garnet @devout ridge if

I want a cpu good for playing, render, livestream

[celest sapphire]

Which one I should go

[pallid marsh]

7500f

[celest sapphire]

Still 7400/7500?

[edgy laurel]

if you can afford both, the better one

obviously

[devout ridge]

7400f/7500f

[celest sapphire]

Not intel? Interesting

[devout ridge]

doesn’t work in your motherboard of choice

[edgy laurel]

you asked about an AMD B650 board

[celest sapphire]

Ahhh

[edgy laurel]

but in general in 2025 for normal users AMD makes more sense in more cases

[celest sapphire]

So amd?

Sorry my English is not that good

[edgy laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/can-you-hear-me-bear-grylls-you-vs-wild-out-cold-listen-hello-gif-23429826

yes, the AMD suggestions given already are fine

if you can afford better, there are options but all you said was "budget" so

[pure garnet]

i don’t think arrow lake is cheap enough in row markets to recommend it

[celest sapphire]

hmmm

[pallid marsh]

Is that bear Grylls calling in a helicopter to take him to his hotel?

[edgy laurel]

absolutely

[narrow vault]

Intel were on to something with Lunar Lake (mobile)

[edgy laurel]

oh here we go

[narrow vault]

If they could keep that arch, but allow a secondary memory controller for upgradeable (x)DIMM, that'd be the cake

[celest sapphire]

7600 is not that difference with 7500 right?

[lucid vault]

I’m building my first computer and my motherboard (asrock B850m-X WiFi r2.0) didnt appear to come with a screw to screw in my ssd. I’m not really sure what to do.

[edgy laurel]

these listings look so sketchy, ignoring that I can't understand half of it

[pure garnet]

couple % clocks is the only difference

[edgy laurel]

if it was new in box, it did. probably a very tiny baggy. if you can't find it, you buy one.

[celest sapphire]

I see

[vestal granite]

or its already screwed into the motherboard's m.2 standoff

[devout ridge]

occasionally they’re preinstalled

yeah lol

pepe and I are on the same wavelength

[edgy laurel]

well tag the poor guy

[uncut kettle]

guys

[vestal granite]

no i dont want to HELP people i just want to be RIGHT

[uncut kettle]

i...i

...fff-

[vestal granite]

it may already be screwed into your motherboard

[edgy laurel]

well we'll never know now will we!

[lucid vault]

Well crap, these were the only bags what were in the box

[lethal topaz]

tc 1 and 2 on the daily

[edgy laurel]

see above

[uncut kettle]

guys....

[narrow vault]

Screw it in with the antenna. Be ight.

[pallid marsh]

Keep your mobo bios up to date, asrock has been having some problems killing cpus

[pure garnet]

brother just type a question instead of spamming guys

[lethal topaz]

bruh its a self lock

[lucid vault]

k thanks

[lethal topaz]

the plastic nub rotates over the end of the ssd

[devout ridge]

you push the m.2 onto it and turn the black thing

[edgy laurel]

If you're going to say something, say something. You keep just dropping random words with no substance and cross posting them in multiple chats.

[devout ridge]

yet another example of RTFM

[vestal granite]

no not an example of rtfm

[uncut kettle]

i failed 😭

[devout ridge]

the manual would explain the m.2 retainment mechanism

[lucid vault]

Thanks you and badger, building for the first time is a little stressful. Tysm

[edgy laurel]

k

[vestal granite]

you got this its0slimey_

[devout ridge]

happy to help, feel to free to ask any other questions

[lucid vault]

👍

[uncut kettle]

guys....

[lethal topaz]

all good dont sweat it. tbh i still prefer the screws

[uncut kettle]

lmao i'll stop

[vestal granite]

i just use kapton tape to install m.2s

[edgy laurel]

<@&750150305383186585> this guy is just spamming multiple chats with nothing messages.

[devout ridge]

you monster

[vestal granite]

not monster - scientist.

[lethal topaz]

you secure your drives?

[devout ridge]

Monster.

[lethal topaz]

i let the wiggle about

they wish to be free

[devout ridge]

HDDs get secured, so do M.2, sata/U.2 can cope

[vestal granite]

well the kapton tape loses its stickyness overtime so if i shake a PC too much it might fall out

[lucid vault]

ssd is in!

[uncut kettle]

^

[vestal granite]

oh yeah 2.5" ssds i just let those flop around

[devout ridge]

2.5” ssds don’t care anyways

[edgy laurel]

no

[devout ridge]

they’re happy flapping about

[lethal topaz]

nah i actually secure my drives unfortunately. forgive me i lied

[vestal granite]

i use those to prop up the corner of a monitor stand cause the stand is uneven

[edgy laurel]

thank you whoever shut them up

[lethal topaz]

what in the world are those sticks doing

[edgy laurel]

alan keys, and holding the rubber bands supporting the HDD

[lethal topaz]

oh my god

[devout ridge]

now if only they would respond to the nsfw ping for him

[green marsh]

friend was making this a decade and half ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJb0tdGSJIo

[celest sapphire]

@edgy laurel @devout ridge @pure garnet hi, should I go 8500G?

[edgy laurel]

oof, didn't see that

[vestal granite]

that is too far and also really cool now i want to do that for something

[devout ridge]

you were told not to go 8000 series

[edgy laurel]

#tech-chat-2 message

[celest sapphire]

I did?

[celest sapphire]

AHHHHH

[devout ridge]

what number does “8500G” start with

[celest sapphire]

Oki my baddd

[edgy laurel]

7000/9000

[uncut kettle]

im stilll here

[devout ridge]

you’re good, just go 7500f and call it a day

[uncut kettle]

i shut myself

[lethal topaz]

i did find this dope case for my NAS at a thrift store

[devout ridge]

what gpu are you going for again? i’m too lazy to scroll

[uncut kettle]

ryzen 4070

[green marsh]

it's ok, but Fractal Define R2-R6 or Nanoxia Deep Silence 1-6 would be better

[celest sapphire]

Here

[lethal topaz]

i think its pretty good considering i didnt pay for it

[devout ridge]

i doubt you’ll see any benefit beyond the 7500f on the B580

Pretty good pairing for most games at 1080p medium/high

[green marsh]

i mean

[uncut kettle]

guys i slep
bye ❤️

[lethal topaz]

that is pretty nice

[celest sapphire]

What about 1k4?

[celest sapphire]

Peak

[devout ridge]

I don’t know what you mean by that

[celest sapphire]

1440

[devout ridge]

Medium would be fine for most games

[celest sapphire]

2k

[green marsh]

Fractal Define R6 and Define 7 allows up to 11 hard drives, but you need to buy extra cages

[devout ridge]

High for simplistic games

[celest sapphire]

I see

[lethal topaz]

all that space for drives and one sata ssd attached

[devout ridge]

Might need to reduce below medium on some more demanding games

[celest sapphire]

Can my build play Albion Online with full graphics?

[devout ridge]

Most likely, yeah

[green marsh]

i just took the first random picture from internet LOL

[lethal topaz]

im pretty sure if i pass 10 hdds im gonna be considering a rack style case anyway

[celest sapphire]

I see, thanks you

[devout ridge]

Never played the game personally, but it looks quite lightweight

[devout ridge]

also no ram lol

[lethal topaz]

womp

[green marsh]

Define 7 XL would like a word (16 hard drives)

[lethal topaz]

cable management is speaking to you and your ears are closed

[green marsh]

not my PC

[lethal topaz]

bruh

[uncut kettle]

guys i back

[vestal granite]

eventually there are so many cables that cable management is silly

[lethal topaz]

true

[vestal granite]

its like your brain you dont want that cable managed cause then itd look weird

[lethal topaz]

also pcie and sata ports on modular power supplys are the same right? they have the same pin layout

[green marsh]

depends on the PSU, but usually no

[vestal granite]

i am reluctant to say yes

therefore i must say no

[lethal topaz]

hmm

its a rm750 im using

if that helps

[devout ridge]

usually they go to different ports

they do on most corsair PSU’s i’ve ever used

[green marsh]

Superflower had universal plugs for a while

[devout ridge]

truly disgusting

[lethal topaz]

interesting

[green marsh]

better picture

[uncut kettle]

i am happy

happiness is contageous

[vestal granite]

they are not the same pin layout on your psu

[lethal topaz]

this vexes me

[green marsh]

actually seems like they still do, these are some 3kW from 2025

[uncut kettle]

i slep again

bye guys

[vestal granite]

goodbye

[lethal topaz]

is this a modern pic because i do not see the 12 pin

the nvidia connector

[vestal granite]

you give corsair rm750 name i google this name if it is a specific year model then this must be specified else my googling will not work to help

[edgy laurel]

thats not the latest one

[lethal topaz]

oh probably cause its the rm750e

[devout ridge]

there is no 12+4pin on that connector- bro

[devout ridge]

boom you answered your own question

[vestal granite]

this it?

still not same pin layout

[lethal topaz]

yeah that fella

welp i guess the psu may be one of the first upgrades

[celest sapphire]

Guys, if i use 2 monitor will it eat a lot W?

[vestal granite]

depends on the monitors

and what you call a lot of watts

[edgy laurel]

monitors use power. more monitors use more power.

[lethal topaz]

not really, i measured the power draw of my secondary monitors and in most cases its 30-90w per monitor

[vestal granite]

what the fuck

[edgy laurel]

what is going on

[lethal topaz]

terrorizing tc2

[celest sapphire]

[vestal granite]

ok i had to check mine with a killawatt mine are each pullin about 20-40w

[green marsh]

my CCFL 30": display i used a decade ago was using 150W peak 😄

[vestal granite]

well thats different thats mercury warnings monitors

[edgy laurel]

I was just about to say, my old 30" 3008WFP was a space heater

then again in a bright scene my current C2 is around about 100W

[lethal topaz]

my oled monitor is obviously higher draw

[green marsh]

sorry, only 110W, still

[vestal granite]

ive got one at 30W, one at 19W, and one at 3.3W

[edgy laurel]

163W typical

[lethal topaz]

now to really save power switch all your monitors to e-ink

[edgy laurel]

don't be jerry

[vestal granite]

dont be a jerry

[edgy laurel]

❤️ jerry

[lethal topaz]

who is jerry

[edgy laurel]

someone else I poke fun at for saying nonsensical things

[vestal granite]

jerry is a person and i dont exactly understand what being a jerry means

[green marsh]

this was the one i did remember - but sadly anandtech is gone, so this is the best quality of the picture i can find

[celest sapphire]

upgrade to 850w gold

[lethal topaz]

i say nonsensical things because i think they are funny things to say

[edgy laurel]

usually they make so little sense I don't know how to respond

[devout ridge]

i say nonsensical things that i have chosen to do in past

[lethal topaz]

do you own a pc?

[edgy laurel]

no. no one here owns a pc

[lethal topaz]

thanks

[devout ridge]

no i don’t own a pc

i own several PCs

[lethal topaz]

so you own the collective of several pcs, but you do not individually own any one of them?

[pure garnet]

we all use leapfrog learning tablets

[devout ridge]

i don’t own a singular pc, but i do own multiple pcs

[lethal topaz]

this is what was expected of you iroh

[devout ridge]

i have a pretty nice rack if i do say so myself

[lethal topaz]

oh yeah woo yeah is that a ubiquiti dream machine

[devout ridge]

aggregation switch

[lethal topaz]

oh

[devout ridge]

dream machine is in the network closet

[pallid marsh]

Nice book mountain

[lethal topaz]

i hope to achieve your status someday soon

[devout ridge]

a bunch of children’s books since my mother’s a teacher

[lethal topaz]

you will own everything and be happy

[devout ridge]

i have a better collection of books

i kinda like jjk

[lethal topaz]

good taste

i was nanami for halloween

[pallid marsh]

I was me

[lethal topaz]

what series is that character from

[pallid marsh]

Why are you holding part of a cow 🐄

[lethal topaz]

because i made the cow

[pallid marsh]

The USA earth series

[lethal topaz]

i bet some people hate on the solo leveling collection

i lowkey actually like the story

[devout ridge]

nanami from jjk

[devout ridge]

the story is like nonexistent at first

still is nonexistent in the show, but is a lot better in the manhwa

[lethal topaz]

we are about to get the last good season of solo leveling before it is awful

or i guess the only good season?

assuming a1 doesnt go under

[wraith steeple]

Haven't gotten the time to get into SL

[lethal topaz]

get into something better instead

[wraith steeple]

Honestly after some searching it wouldn't be something I would be invested in anyway

[lethal topaz]

its just aura farming but its effective aura farming

[celest sapphire]

@devout ridge @pure garnet hi

My bf want me use Xiaomi 34in QWHD 180hz

But it cost around 6-7 millions vnd

Should I buy it?

[pallid marsh]

What currency is vnd

[celest sapphire]

Vietnam dong

[pure garnet]

i have no clue what that monitor is but the price isn’t awful

[fervent elm]

34" 1440p is kinda ass though

[edgy laurel]

loved mine

assuming 3440x1440

common res for 34"

[pure garnet]

i had one as well

m34wq

[edgy laurel]

well I still have it, i guess.. on my desk lol

just connected to a different rig

[pure garnet]

it’s in my closet

[topaz veldt]

Oh I have 🙂

@edgy laurel opinion - top mount LF3 Pro, Noctua fans, push or pull? Intake or exhaust?

[edgy laurel]

classic push exhaust, assuming O11 style

[topaz veldt]

Fractal North XL

[edgy laurel]

still

[topaz veldt]

I am doing 3x NF-A14 G2s intake front

top mount 360 Pro, push exhaust?

[lucid vault]

Unsure what side placement of my cpu cooler I should do or if it matters

Cause it seems a little tight next to the ram

[pure garnet]

it doesn’t matter just don’t make it go opposite the path of air in your case

[edgy laurel]

unless its bending the DIMM it'll be fine. You can always move the fan to the other side

[pure garnet]

or lift the fan a bit

[lucid vault]

thanks

[pure garnet]

you can have the clip up more fins higher without an issue

[edgy laurel]

what is it with new people taking pictures of components in unnatural orientations lol

messes with my head for a second

[pure garnet]

i made the mistake of telling someone to rotate a part 90 degrees over vc

[edgy laurel]

and don't say anything about inverted ATX!

[pure garnet]

they picked up the board and like flipped it so the pcb was sideways

instead of just turning the board

[edgy laurel]

lol

[indigo walrus]

Inverted ATX only exists in Australia anyway...

[edgy laurel]

You joke my an old Lian Li I and @green marsh had was like that

those old Lian Li's evoke sharp edges and cutting up your hands looking at them

but truth was they were really well built and few sharp edges

[pallid marsh]

https://youtu.be/dy-wFixuRVU?si=8JukeAb80OCWDw2P ltt should try this think of all the overtime the employees will get

[pure garnet]

this is basically the layout my oem desktop had

inverted board but psu was up top

[edgy laurel]

its such a funky layout. the PSU and case itself exhaust out the front, which is normally sealed

[edgy laurel]

which is why I cut a hole in mine

repping that G.Skill metal sticker

[lethal topaz]

cooling is too hard. thats why i dont have a case

[celest sapphire]

@edgy laurel @pure garnet hi

Someone told me should get 7600 instead 7500f

She told me don't get F

[edgy laurel]

then get that

you said you wanted cheap like 2 hours ago

[celest sapphire]

[edgy laurel]

7600 is a little better, and a little more expensive

won't make much of a real world difference however

[pallid marsh]

7600 has integrated graphics the 7500f lacks it

[low sorrel]

isn't that like 20% more expensive

[edgy laurel]

But I don't like takin part in these situations where you ask one group, get an answer, then have to defend yourself when you go ask some other group

[celest sapphire]

Oh I ask in other group about 4h ago

They just replied me

[edgy laurel]

7400f < 7500f < 7600 < 7600x < 7600x3D. Those are your 6-core Ryzen 7000 chips

[low sorrel]

oh cool won't play it but cool

[edgy laurel]

couldn't they have just called it Breakthrough Small

[low sorrel]

i mean theres bots in it

would be kinda confusing no

[celest sapphire]

Thanks

[celest sapphire]

Thanks

[green marsh]

start selling your RAM now and you can afford more noctuas /s 😄

having said that, i still feel weird realizing i have 656GB total RAM, when counting all computers/laptops 😄

[lucid vault]

That’s a lot of ram

[lethal topaz]

if you ever want to sell any of it lmk i am looking for ddr4

[green marsh]

and many computers. nowhere near the amount 5nail5 has 😄

[lucid vault]

I have 32!

[lethal topaz]

actively running or e waste thats not yet realized

[brave panther]

when will you buy a rack?

[lethal topaz]

i wish the pcs i had were smaller

[green marsh]

actively running is:
64GB 9950x (desktop)
128GB 5700G (server)
64GB i5-8500B (mac mini, for Linux experiments)
16GB Macbook Pro (on the go, or if i need to do Mac stuff)
16GB mini PC as my router
16GB Z77 ITX as HTPC
16GB Z77 ITX as backup NAS
32GB 3700X PC at mom's place

"eWaste"
64GB 3900x
128GB X99 system 1
48GB X99 system 2
64GB 2950x
16GB Haswell (i actually forgot about this one)

[lethal topaz]

i need to go through them to see whats worth keeping and not honestly

[lethal topaz]

thats actually so sick

[green marsh]

i mean something i use once in a while, or runs in background i count as actively using. For example mom's PC is used like a total of 3-4 weeks a year

[brave panther]

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1olpwhx/my_285_ram_is_now_almost_1600/
people are noticing

[lethal topaz]

i agree, it still has its designated purpose

[green marsh]

the Mac Mini is halfway between the active and ewaste, but meh, once in a while is good enough

[lethal topaz]

my shelf of computers have pcs i have not even opened yet. a lot of it is legit ewaste but ill probably save the motherboards and such

[green marsh]

i just meant that the 20 GBP 32GB ECC RAM i bought is $80 now. And 5nail5 has whole storage box of them

but then that second X99 system in ewaste category doesn't have to have 128GB DDR4 ECC RAM

[lethal topaz]

maybe i should buy some with my employee discount then before it gets too bad

[brave panther]

i can give you a swap

[green marsh]

the sad part is all the DDR3 i have in storage. 4x4GB DDR3-1333, 2x2GB DDR3-1600, a random 8GB DDR3 module etc

but with china 8GB modules being 10 euros, there is no point in using any of these

[lethal topaz]

how do you aquire this much ram

[brave panther]

ram uhm
finds a way

[green marsh]

years

[brave panther]

seconds

[lethal topaz]

prank em john

[brave panther]

i dont have a system that can utilise it tho

[green marsh]

yeah, that is $50-$80 a piece now. Time to sell them on ebay

[topaz veldt]

Annoyed - one other pack of 2x NF-A14 G2s didn't come yet

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/go-on-gollum-my-precious-gif-10877364535161632621

[topaz veldt]

So third 140mm in the front and that rear 120 should be a 140

[green marsh]

last week sales

[lethal topaz]

homies got a small fortune in ram alone

[topaz veldt]

The prob is they are saying "or best offer" Parandroid

[brave panther]

this has caught my eye
i can utilise my ram in it and just buy 8 cpus for 10-20 each

[topaz veldt]

DIMM prices are up but no one is paying $85/DIMM for 32GB 2Rx4

[green marsh]

some are cheaper, but...

[brave panther]

they are sold listings

[topaz veldt]

Yes "or best offer"

the best offer is not reflected in the closing price

[brave panther]

didnt know that

[topaz veldt]

The only ones that count are "buy it now"

or bids obv

Also take 13% off the price because thats what ebay eats from it

[lethal topaz]

26$ delivery on 1 32gb stick is criminal

[topaz veldt]

Market price baby

[green marsh]

still, if you look at the current listings, they are $80-$90 for "cheap ones"

[topaz veldt]

Listing means nothing unfortunately

[brave panther]

thats to paranoid's location and not what buyer paid

[topaz veldt]

For instance I had a listing for $1999 for a kit of RAM and it sold for like $980

[lethal topaz]

ah i see

[topaz veldt]

The other thing worth mentioning is when you see like 1 DIMM purchased that is usually a small business with a singular bad DIMM they are willing to pay whatever to get a matching PN#

look for lots of like 8 - 24 DIMMs, that gives a more reasonable "price" if they actually disclose the sale

most of the "lots" are "best offer" and you'll never really know, but I just sold 32GB 2400T 2Rx4s for like $30/ea a few weeks ago

That's up from about $23-24/ea

[green marsh]

still, you could sell all your RAM and then get a Framework AI mainboard with the 128GB LPDDR5x 😄

[topaz veldt]

I don't think you understand the game I am in lol

[livid pier]

Can anyone help me with a Minecraft issue? It is giving me the error code drowned. I’ve spent four hours trying to fix it. Please help.

[brave panther]

maybe even dgx spark

[topaz veldt]

My sons has been doing this also - it can' tlog in

[topaz veldt]

Both of these options have really, really shitty resale

So bad buys for my RAM hustle

[livid pier]

Thank

[brave panther]

ill be watching for used ones in few years

[lethal topaz]

sell ram now, buy it back when the ai bubble pops

the great transfer of wealth is upon us soon

[topaz veldt]

The bubble is gonna be a while, because the buys are actually a few years out already

[brave panther]

i want it poped

[devout ridge]

i need cheap ram again

[brave panther]

this looks so nice

[green marsh]

i mean my 4x32GB DDR4 ECC is "would like to so i can max out that system" and not "need" 😄

[topaz veldt]

I know it sucks but I am enjoying expensive RAM times

[inland wind]

And AI doesn’t really use RAM lol

In a classical sense of deployment at least

[inland wind]

Oh the nvidia supercomputer thing?

[lethal topaz]

i would like another 64gb in my truenas system

[topaz veldt]

I am looking at a lot of 144-200 32GB 2Rx4 2400T DIMMs

[inland wind]

What for

Tf you doing

[inland wind]

I mean, i didn’t look into the thing, I was hoping they did a TPU like structure

[topaz veldt]

Thats 256GB 2666 2Rx4

[wraith steeple]

[lethal topaz]

my cache is not nearly as taken up as yours lol

[inland wind]

Wha in gods name yall caching

[lethal topaz]

zfs, yo

[inland wind]

Insanity honestly

[topaz veldt]

whats insane is its 24 x 1.92TB SAS3 SSDs

[pure garnet]

what does this mean

[brisk eagle]

I limited my cache to 32 and saw 0 perf decrease

[brisk eagle]

OK that’s crazy

[wraith steeple]

TC1 has invaded

[fervent elm]

[wraith steeple]

That's what it means

[brisk eagle]

Which ssd is it?

[fervent elm]

One of them

[topaz veldt]

You prob don't have like 200TB of all flash tho

[brisk eagle]

No def not

[topaz veldt]

I use TrueNAS for block storage, not file share stuff

[lethal topaz]

im sorry you have 200tb of flash storage?

[topaz veldt]

Yeah

[lethal topaz]

that is so sick

[topaz veldt]

Its iSCSI out of TrueNAS, all flash, with 4 x 10 Gbp MPIO for now - I see like 3.0 GB/s rear/writes in VMs

[lethal topaz]

i am merely stepping into homelab, i only have 15tb after raid

[brisk eagle]

I have 12tb stripe 💔

[lethal topaz]

stripe is criminal

[topaz veldt]

2.8 GB/s reads, almost 4.0 GB/s writes

[topaz veldt]

DDR3 🙁

[devout ridge]

soon to be ddr4

[wraith steeple]

[topaz veldt]

Nice - each of my ESXi hosts is 576GB DDR4

[devout ridge]

i think it’s funny how everyone uses truenas

[lethal topaz]

i wish i could have spent more money on storage cause this pool is small af

[lethal topaz]

its goated

[topaz veldt]

nom nom nom

[brisk eagle]

I was on normal cli debian
Had a bunch of problems
Got recommended truenas

[topaz veldt]

No offense taken, loser

[lethal topaz]

what do you suggest we do with our lives?

[edgy laurel]

whoever that is is already blocked. must be a real winner

[devout ridge]

Yeah that ain’t what using truenas means mate, Goodbye

[wraith steeple]

Fuck all that Marriage shit, WCing and Retro eWaste Adventures is what keeps me going baby woooooooooo

[lethal topaz]

some people make more money than others. privatising your life and taking control of your data is quite good imo

[wraith steeple]

I have probably built some builds that predate them

[devout ridge]

you can build a NAS for quite cheap as well

[topaz veldt]

You're super good at whining

[lethal topaz]

im in it for 700 and i feel like i went a little crazy

[devout ridge]

you can make a half decent NAS with a couple terabytes for under 100usd

good enough for the average joe, though some of us want a bit more

[fringe vigil]

Sup

[brisk eagle]

Mine was only 250

[polar prawn]

i think it’s time for me to set up my own k8s cluster somewhere, i have some old hardware i can piece together

[edgy laurel]

I don't have anything to put on a NAS.

[lethal topaz]

i only spent as much as i did cause i had a weekend to reach my promotional amount on my credit card

[devout ridge]

My current machine was probably just shy of 1k, albeit it at different times

[lethal topaz]

i mainly have movies, tv shows, and my cloud photos on mine for now

[topaz veldt]

I want to live this way

[brave panther]

photos and videos that auto replicate to 3 2 1 best practice

[devout ridge]

linux ISOs…

[edgy laurel]

lotta work. google photos is fine for me

[lethal topaz]

fair

its cool af tho that i have my own local facial recognition in my photo library, running of a 1060 3gb

[brave panther]

sure, and say you do something google doesent like and it gets thanos snapped

[edgy laurel]

i acquire, watch and delete. no need to store

[edgy laurel]

That would suck, but no sense in worrying. Life goes on.

[pure garnet]

do you argue with people in the youtube comments or something

[lethal topaz]

just use kodi at that point tho

[pure garnet]

it’s gotta be hard to get banned from google

[devout ridge]

I acquire, then never watch

i’ve seen one of the movies at least 15 times, the rest never

[brave panther]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked

[lethal topaz]

this is the true way

do you guys use plex, jellyfin, emby, or something else?

[devout ridge]

Plex

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/book-of-boba-fett-the-mandalorian-this-is-the-way-the-book-of-boba-fett-mandalorian-gif-24825263

[brisk eagle]

Well google did lose a lot of personal data stored in their cloud

https://www.techspot.com/news/103207-google-reveals-how-blank-parameter-mistake-erased-135.html

[devout ridge]

just happened to be what i started using first, haven’t had an issue so i don’t bother moving to a free solution

[lethal topaz]

plex has features i wish i had on emby

[indigo walrus]

Jellyfin over here. Though when possible, I just end up copying files to local storage to play with MPV.net

In my experience, absolutely nothing beats local storage, only because nobody has figured out how to guarantee 100% network uptime... yet. 🤷

[brisk eagle]

I use jellyfin

[lethal topaz]

my bandwidth is good enough to where i dont have to worry about video playback

[lucid vault]

I’m plugging my cables into the power supply, gpu, and motherboard and am so stressed

[lethal topaz]

dont mess it up its gonna cost you a lot of money ||/s||

[inland wind]

Easy. Just pay for an expensive ass commercial datacenter spot (we have 30+ independent network links!)

[indigo walrus]

I wish it were that simple. My home, workplace, and cellular provider can't guarantee 100% uptime so... 🤷 (To be clear, I recognize 100% uptime is not technically achievable - I'm just sick of everything these days being designed to function "perfectly" in a vacuum... and seemingly never tested in the real world.)

[inland wind]

Fucking losers

[brave panther]

no no no
build small datacenters in 10+ locations with 2 uplinks each and sdwan site to site

[lethal topaz]

at least if my isp goes out i have my local connection i can stay on

[inland wind]

Ah yes, how I like setting up a tier 3 in 10 locations

[green marsh]

just this last week we had AWS go down twice and Azure also at least once

[inland wind]

Again, fucking losers

[lethal topaz]

this is why you need to homelab

whats in between /s and /srs

[inland wind]

99.9998 uptime babyyyyyy

[lucid vault]

do you happen to know a video or something I can watch where I can’t mess it up? The ltt build guide doesn’t really explain where they all go

[green marsh]

that is why i have computers with over 650GB of RAM

[lethal topaz]

i was messing with you. its legos

[inland wind]

2N+1 babyyyyyyy

[brave panther]

speaking of that
last week i found that one of my isp's equipment on their side isnt on ups at all
electricians were working on transformer station and we lost connectity immidiently, luckly we have 2 isp's so no big deal

[lethal topaz]

more ram than a lot of laptops have storage

actually insane

[edgy laurel]

just pick another. there are hundreds and one is bound to cover the cable you're concerned with. Random first hit on youtube https://youtu.be/Mho0M1Ns0Rw

[inland wind]

If I were you I would also be worried that they only have one substation

[lucid vault]

Aight

[inland wind]

That’s some fucked up shit for a network provider

[lethal topaz]

my two isp options are wireless fiber and cox (cocks)

wireless fiber is kinda goated tho i have 6 ping and good speeds

[inland wind]

Wireless what

[lethal topaz]

fiber

[inland wind]

Elaborate

[lethal topaz]

satellite style dish on my roof pointing at an anchor

[brave panther]

we have like 5 hv transmission lines feeding us but providers equipment is in another country for reasons i cannot disclose

[inland wind]

Ayyyyy military peops!

[edgy laurel]

how can it be fiber if its delivered wirelessly

[inland wind]

Love yall

[brave panther]

non military, non govermental

[indigo walrus]

Depends. If this "transformer station" were powering network equipment along the plant (between the hubsite / CO and customer), then it's quite common to only have one power source. An ISP cannot reasonably demand the local power company provide 2 power feeds to every single piece of their equipment in the field... thus they really should be using a UPS to provide back-up power to every piece of their equipment.

[lethal topaz]

the infastructure is fiber and not copper

and my speeds are symmetrical

[inland wind]

I was going for a trafic exchange point but yeah a switch without a UPS makes sense

I’d have to say it’s sadly a common practice

[inland wind]

I’m intrigued

[indigo walrus]

So... what you actually have is likely a Fiber-backed WISP system? (Point to Point wireless.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epQco070Lvs
Kind of like what Alex does to provide wireless point to point internet to some clients over in the UK.

[lethal topaz]

yes that is correct

[inland wind]

So that is not fiber

You quite probably don’t need fiber at all

[brave panther]

maybe even using licensed bands

[lethal topaz]

there was an ltt video on installing a similar setup too i believe, i think it was for linus parents?

[indigo walrus]

Righto, so not Fiber then. But still can be very good if the WISP provider knows what they're doing, which it sounds like they do if you're getting symmetrical speeds and really low latency.

[inland wind]

An entire stack of sensors died at work recently

Been a shit week, we had to remount like 10 of them

[lethal topaz]

yeah honestly this isp is legit, and a lot cheaper than cocks communications

[indigo walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-moe-szyslak-bribe-chief-wiggum-money-gif-545386935428631853

[inland wind]

Fingers hurt dude

It’s also gonna be an antifreeze season soon. Diesels might blow up

[brave panther]

even then most of the energy used isnt electricity, its gas

[inland wind]

They better not though

[inland wind]

Oil?

Natural resources company?

[brave panther]

nope

[inland wind]

Well shit

A hint?

[brave panther]

you have probably used our product without a second of doubt

https://tenor.com/view/yes-sneaking-escape-tom-gif-13397979

[inland wind]

Might be like a DNS server operator

Or something big trafic wise

That would explain the weird shit

[brave panther]

non IT company

[inland wind]

Or a bigger trafic exchange point/network segment

[inland wind]

NOT a hint!!!!!!

I do not think at all!

[lethal topaz]

it is a product and not a service?

[lucid vault]

My gpu has 3 female pci-slots, I put cables in all three. Just checking

[edgy laurel]

you are required to use them all

[lucid vault]

So all 3, got it thanks

Umm this is the third one

[inland wind]

Open a manual

Read if thoroughly

[lethal topaz]

standard 4+4 connector

or is that a 6+2, i cant tell from the angle

[lucid vault]

So right now I’m pretty sure I just leave it hanging

[lucid vault]

6+2

[lethal topaz]

you fill the entire plug

[surreal night]

inflation these days is crazy

[lethal topaz]

do not leave it hanging when its not a 6 pin

[lucid vault]

So should I unplug one of them to then plug in the one that has the two outputs

[pure garnet]

no it’s just a cable with a pigtail

just let it hang

[lucid vault]

oh ok

[pure garnet]

it’s “better” to use the 3 separate cables but it realistically don’t matter a ton

if you had a low tdp card the pigtail is fine to use both ends

[brave panther]

low tdp card would have 3 of 8 pins

[lucid vault]

I’m pretty sure I got it, first time building, pretty clueless, am here asking for help because if I didn’t I’d be a lot more lost than I am now

[brave panther]

375w potential

[pure garnet]

yeah which is why i said to not use the pigtail

[brave panther]

wait no, 525w

[pure garnet]

but it doesn’t really matter unless they’re on a 3090 or something

[brave panther]

75+3x150

[pure garnet]

considering it’s a dual slot prime it’s not doing 525w

[brave panther]

maybe not but it doesnt hurt

i have connected dual 8 pin eps to my motherboard just cuz i had extra cable

[pure garnet]

need to feed those 24 vrms for your 90w cpu

[brave panther]

65w

[young void]

If its got it doesnt hurt

My newer msi x870 also has an extra 8 pin slot at the bottom of the motherboard for pcie i think dont quote me

[wraith steeple]

[brave panther]

vrms are very good on it

[topaz veldt]

Gosh the NF-A14x25 G2 are so good

[pure garnet]

yeah every msi board has it even though it’s useless

[brave panther]

one more

[pure garnet]

you can get an matx board with supplemental power when it has… 2 slots

[young void]

Of forsures just a neat to have type deal

[wraith steeple]

I miss when there were motherboards that have daring colours other than the usual boring ones you see

[pure garnet]

hey asrock sold me the banana board

[brave panther]

one of the reasons i bought it
also it was cheap

[pure garnet]

i remember there’s a period for awhlle when the z690 sonic was a cheap motherboard people bought

[wraith steeple]

I remember when ECS was purple, Gigabyte had Blue (still do but seem to be on enterprise boards now), and MSI had red

[edgy laurel]

suspiciously little floppa today

[pure garnet]

maybe his oc crashed

my 4k monitor will be here tuesday

[pallid marsh]

His ram oc must have killed him

[edgy laurel]

he's distraught

[wraith steeple]

Let us send condolences

[edgy laurel]

he was sick yesterday

[pallid marsh]

Too much candy

[brave panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKZeEmu6UA
i likey when i first saw it with this card, even tho card itself was not released to public ever

[edgy laurel]

I absolutely love that weird thing

just for existing

[pure garnet]

i will never complain about the ocf skin for asrock uefi again

you win the worst uefi skin award

[devout ridge]

for a 55in tv would yall go miniled or OLED

TV for media streaming, no gaming

[pure garnet]

qm7k is the one reddit likes for cheap

otherwise i’d go oled i think

48 inch b5 oled should still be 530 if that size is okay

[pallid marsh]

I went 65" mini led and love it

[edgy laurel]

ya, hisense has some nice deals on good models. that being one of them

[wraith steeple]

This board I would argue started off the whole black PCB mobos we see now

[devout ridge]

I’d honestly have to compare irl, so i may go to a best buy near me to compare sizing

[wraith steeple]

[pure garnet]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lg-48-class-b5-series-oled-ai-4k-uhd-smart-webos-tv-2025/JJ8VPZTK9F/sku/6635292

here’s the link if you go

[devout ridge]

mini led still has the inky blacks of OLED right?

[edgy laurel]

nearly in some cases

[devout ridge]

In a near complete darkness environment

(blackout curtains)

[edgy laurel]

much more dependent on how well they do with the backlight zones

[pallid marsh]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/tcl-98-class-qm7k-series-4k-uhd-hdr-qd-mini-led-smart-tv-with-google-tv-2025/J36QYTQ59L

[devout ridge]

Specifically with the QM7K

[edgy laurel]

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/compare/lg-b5-oled-vs-tcl-qm7k/88603/88608

plenty of pictures

[devout ridge]

Perfect, thank you

[pure garnet]

wow the tcl gets bright

[young void]

@merry stirrup feel better soons also lots of sleeps

[devout ridge]

the shear darkness of the WOLED is hard to give up

[edgy laurel]

it is nice

[devout ridge]

That image happens to be a great scenario for local dimming

[edgy laurel]

yeah hisense has that shit figured out for miniled, its damn good

[devout ridge]

ouch, >2x the price for WOLED

yeah miniled it is!

[pallid marsh]

I'm a happy camper with my TCL qm8 mini led tv no regrets

It's so god damn bright

[devout ridge]

It’s my bedroom TV combined with a proper 4.1 surround sound setup (no center channel)

[pure garnet]

the 48 inch is the only one on sale rn

so yeah for 55 miniled the move

[devout ridge]

So that 55in QM7K should be quite nice

[brave panther]

How many zones it has?

[pallid marsh]

Mine is too I got 65" it's a bit big

[devout ridge]

I have a pretty small room, so 55” is already pushing it

it’s about the upper limit of what can be reasonably fit

[pallid marsh]

2880

[pure garnet]

65? how big is your bedroom

[pallid marsh]

Pretty small

[edgy laurel]

TCL and Hisense have figured out how to support both DV and HDR10+

meanwhile Scamsung and LG are at eachothers throats

[pure garnet]

i thought lg did both

[edgy laurel]

no HDR10+

[pure garnet]

oh interesting

[edgy laurel]

and no DV with samsung

[pure garnet]

so my cheap tcl has better hdr support than jorj’s c5

[edgy laurel]

well i dunno about your TCL lol

[pure garnet]

vs his c5 mind you

[edgy laurel]

but the QM8K does at least

[pure garnet]

mine has dv, i’d assume it does hdr10+

[edgy laurel]

maybe

[pure garnet]

i’ve never heard of hlg

[edgy laurel]

just another HDR format, more used for TV broadcasts and I think Youtube uses it

[pallid marsh]

Yeah my TCL qm8 has all the things too

[granite dirge]

anyone have a recommendation for a laptop for video/ photo editing/ school thats cheaper than a 2025 macbook air, 13inch, trying to tell my family friend , not to buy a mac for their 10th grader

[edgy laurel]

they should buy a Macbook Air

[pure garnet]

i honestly cant think of anything better for photo editing yeah

if it’s for just homework used thinkpad is the play

[pallid marsh]

I think it's like 12 feet by 10

[pure garnet]

but if they’re seriously photo editing the m chips are crazy good

[edgy laurel]

damn, thats a lot of TV for that room lol

[pallid marsh]

It really is

[rich idol]

I think i found a new job for my old 1080 Ti, encoding on a NAS for jellyfin

[pallid marsh]

But it was on sale and I had a employee discount

[pure garnet]

do you not have an intel igpu?

[rich idol]

i don't have an intel cpu

[pure garnet]

oh rip

[indigo walrus]

Good luck finding a 13" laptop with a built-in full size SD card slot these days. (If you're doing photo / video work, it's extremely hard for me to recommend a device without a high-speed SD card slot.)

[pure garnet]

yeah nvenc works then

[rich idol]

if i'm using a GPU for encoding, does it really matter whether i get an AMD or intel cpu?

[edgy laurel]

no

well, thats a weird question since you said "get". If youhave "get" something, get intel

then no need to power and cool a 1080ti

[pallid marsh]

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/g15y3ll/a/refurbished-13-inch-macbook-air-apple-m2-chip-with-8‑core-cpu-and-8‑core-gpu-starlight $710

[rich idol]

was thinking of just getting a cheap 16-thread cpu, as for compression with handbrake, thread count matters apparently

[edgy laurel]

only if you're using software encoding

and if you're just using it for streaming video, you really wouldn't

a task a GPU can do much faster

[rich idol]

i see

[pure garnet]

if you’re buying a cpu get an intel one because you can use quicksync and it’ll be better than the 1080ti

[edgy laurel]

though handbrake is a bit weird in that it offloads a lot to the CPU even when using NVENC. if just using NVENC through jellfin the GPU handles it all

[pure garnet]

yeah my 9800x3d still got like 70% load on my nvenc stuff

[edgy laurel]

yeah that actually annoyed me a little when I sold my 7900x for a 7800x3d

handbrake doesn't support NVDEC

I dunno why they don't improve that

[pallid marsh]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/aoc-27-qd-oled-qhd-240hz-g-sync-compatible-003ms-gaming-monitor-black/JX9GSKP9H6 $400 qd OLED but best buy closes before I get off work

[devout ridge]

You can get a dongle for quite cheap

[rich idol]

So.. i shouldn't use my 1080 Ti at all?

[devout ridge]

Videography is carrying around lots of accessories and dongles anyways

[indigo walrus]

I don't consider a laptop that makes users carry a dongle [for a connector that would fit into the chassis if they so designed it] to be "professional" grade, but yes, you can do that.

[devout ridge]

It’s near impossible for a laptop to have every port for every kind of professional, so a laptop with high speed IO is more than sufficient

and 80Gbps of IO is more than sufficient

(dual TB4)

[pallid marsh]

framework but I guess they are just USB c adapters

[edgy laurel]

semantics at that point, given they're inboard of the body

my father recently picked up an M4 Air and damn is it nice

[pallid marsh]

What is he doing with a fancy m4 air

[edgy laurel]

just his work PC

[pallid marsh]

Ah not retired yet

[edgy laurel]

every 4-5 years he buys a new Mac, been doing it since the early 90's

[pallid marsh]

He bought stinky Intel macs

[edgy laurel]

a few of them

still has a 27" iMac on his desk with some i5 or i7

but i suspect that'll stop getting used because the Air smokes it

[shell void]

air would so be so frickin nice if it wasnt a 60Hz LCD

[edgy laurel]

in theory, yeah. using it though its so good looking

never really thought about it

[devout ridge]

I have an M3 air and it’s quite nice

i do some theatrical audio/lighting work on it and it serves me well

[edgy laurel]

he can't get over the battery life

his last laptop was an older 13-14" Intel MBP

[pallid marsh]

From a few hours to a few days of battery?

[edgy laurel]

something like that

[devout ridge]

If i don’t have class i can go like a week without charging my laptop

that m series silicon is just so damn efficient

it’s idle power draw is also almost 0

[pallid marsh]

Just sucks you can't plop in a m.2 drive

[devout ridge]

Yeah

i opted for a 256gb model and quite regret that

I’ll likely upgrade to a 1tb M5 in a few months

[pallid marsh]

256 shouldn't be an option minimum 512gb plz

[pure garnet]

i have a 128gb m1 air

it’s genuinely only enough for firefox and discord basically

[pallid marsh]

Wait they came that smoll

[pure garnet]

edu model, special order

7 gpu core 8gb ram 128gb storage

[pallid marsh]

How much did the os take?

[edgy laurel]

was it locked down by some sort of MDM?

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel I like that they added 1%L to overlay

[edgy laurel]

i noticed that recently, about time

its been in FrameView forever

[pure garnet]

no i bought it from a proper channel so it’s legally mine

just was originally bought by a school

[pure garnet]

think it’s like 30gb

[topaz veldt]

yeah kinda ridiculous

[lucid vault]

the jfp1 or whatever

idk where to put the screwdriver when i boot it for the first time

[devout ridge]

google

[merry stirrup]

hopeully im alive by monday

[young void]

It be like that the worst of it is just a few days but its gonna suckss, lots of water

[lucid vault]

i cant find this jawn

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/sick-cold-gross-sponge-bob-bleh-gif-5120908

[lucid vault]

ive ben looking for like 15 mins

[edgy laurel]

what motherboard

[lucid vault]

asrock b850m x wifi

[pure garnet]

bottom right presumably

[edgy laurel]

yep

[lucid vault]

im blind apparently its actually right there

tsk tsk tsk

[young void]

Happens

[edgy laurel]

But forget shorting them, just plug the power button in

in there anyway, might as well

[young void]

Would be best

[lucid vault]

like the one what comes with the case or smth

[edgy laurel]

yes lol. you know, the method used to turn on the PC normally

that button plugs in there

[pure garnet]

i've never bothered to test my stuff outside the case

i just put it together and hope it works

[edgy laurel]

same

[lucid vault]

gulp

[devout ridge]

locally streaming 4k blue ray quality video is just so damn nice

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel any experience with Sonos?

[edgy laurel]

nope

[topaz veldt]

damnit

I am looking at 2x 6.1 outdoor systems with these amps... the fact they have "wifi and wired ethernet" suggests I can stream right to them

but i want to make sure I don't need a separate streaming box

[heavy mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-and-take-my-money-gif-13250127

[topaz veldt]

Dude we got our patio design completed, the money is.... oof... but I am so pumped to do the audio

I am thinking of running 12/4, so 12 awg, 4 conductor speaker wire so if I want to rip some watts later with upgraded amps I can

Anyone here running Win11 25H2 or still on 24H2?

[edgy laurel]

the former

[topaz veldt]

Any issues overall?

I have 25H2 but I also have something going on with GPU

[edgy laurel]

nope. it wasn't a major update

[topaz veldt]

ok no big features?

[edgy laurel]

apparently some weird task manager duplication thing

but i'm sure that'll be patched

[topaz veldt]

Hmmm

[frank zealot]

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[wraith steeple]

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[rugged sail]

hi

[fringe vigil]

hi

[rugged sail]

how are you?

[fringe vigil]

good

[rugged sail]

cool

hey i need some feedback

can you help me with that?

[edgy laurel]

Hi. If you have a question, better to just ask it openly.

[rugged sail]

great!

thanks

i just developed an app that lets you store files of any size in telegram without storage limits and works perfectly

[edgy laurel]

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[rugged sail]

but i wanted to get some feedback from people who can possibly use it

[fringe vigil]

scam

[rugged sail]

I'd like to know if there are any interesting features you'd like me to add to the app

oh no its completely real