tech-chat-2

[hoary hatch]

I mean, literally Walmart tablet what do you expect

[livid flame]

Kirashi does the same on my desktop tbh.

I think the biggest problem is signal interference with them

[warped mountain]

to completly change your entire eco system?? yeah, chose iPad or Macbook

[hoary hatch]

You need to expand that list

[livid flame]

Again though I’ve had the same on other headsets like jabba

You don’t actually need a fkn Apple Watch though

[topaz veldt]

You literally just added the most expensive SKU lol... gtfo

[pallid marsh]

I just wanted to clean and lube the mouse wheel and not replace the perfectly fine skates 😭

[pure garnet]

bro please

[warped mountain]

they arent cheap tho. like $599 for their top model... sad

[warped mountain]

no i added what real ppl buy at apple. you put it on payments

[livid flame]

Yeah I wanted to replace a broken wheel. Thought I’d clean it first. Had the same issue. Had to replace skates. Then a week later the wheel died again. It’s terrible design

[gentle gale]

ah i see the problem

[pure garnet]

99% people don’t buy the 2tb phone and tablet lol

[gentle gale]

you’re overpaying for the iphone

[warped mountain]

you chose which m5 you want mack book or teh ipad.

[gentle gale]

and getting an aw ultra

[topaz veldt]

Dude stop, please

[gentle gale]

also m4 ipad pro is… the same thing

but cheaper now

[pallid marsh]

Samsung Fold 7 1tb (max spec) is $2419 , $419 more expensive then a 2tb pro max

[pure garnet]

and cellular/nano texture combo

[livid flame]

If he doesn’t have a 9950x3d and 5090 he can’t justify all top SKUs

[topaz veldt]

no one buys 2TB iphones lol

[pure garnet]

insane how my base model macbook pro just works

[livid flame]

I didn’t even know a 2tb phone existed

[pure garnet]

and my base storage 15pm too

[gentle gale]

for people who want to store prores raw video locally

[pure garnet]

my apple watch is pretty old though, i’m on a series 4 still

[gentle gale]

instead of buying a 2tb ssd + enclosure

[slim pebble]

8 hours later and still laptops?!

[warped mountain]

depends, do you want to pay $30 per month for cloud storage? then you can get the small storage options, but your cell service is gonna be a huge factor in your day to day then.

[indigo walrus]

That's right. They subsidize them, then proudly boast how they got the top model "for free" to all their friends and family... without telling anyone that they're paying $120 / month (or more) for this "free" phone...

[topaz veldt]

Not only that, but $2500+ model MBP 14s and 2TB iphones coming to like $8000+ total

[livid flame]

I mean he is getting a MacBook and iPad also. Why the 2tb phone

[topaz veldt]

I know a lot of people with big salaries and not one of them has a 2TB iphone lol

[pure garnet]

i pay $2.99 a month for what boils down to my sisters plan

[warped mountain]

battery life, and you are an Apple owner. remember you are elite club now, better than everyone else. you gotta flex that you have enough free times to enjoy hikes while your cleaning lady tidies up and your nanny cooks dinner and watches the kids.

[livid flame]

I know someone on £500k a year and the bloke buys dirt cheap coffee

[gentle gale]

or just usb c enclosure + 2tb ssd for half the price

what could you possibly need 2tb in a phone for

[livid flame]

Not because he’s cheap.. but because he likes it

[pure garnet]

i just don’t have the “i need 1.5tb of stuff i won’t open available at all times ” mentality

[slim pebble]

I don’t have a phone that big. I bought whatever was cheap on the pro max

[livid flame]

Ask him to buy that phone and he’d tell ya to F off

[topaz veldt]

I know people with $300k+ salaries that drive $300k cars, they don't have 2TB iphones lol

2TB phone is meme

[pure garnet]

the highest spec phone i’ve bought is like 1 tier storage upgrade back when they were 16gb base

[gentle gale]

same with my 15p i just bought the cheapest option

[livid flame]

It’s funny. One of the richest people I know, it’s genuinely not flash af

[warped mountain]

but as your ONLY computer? you dont think the m4 slow speed will be an issue?

[pure garnet]

oh wait no i had the 128gb 12 as well, so still 1 tier up though

[livid flame]

Yet my next door neighbour on say £50k is flash af

[topaz veldt]

Even the flashiest people I know won't buy a 2TB phone

[pallid marsh]

Well if they are smart enough to get a big salary I would assume they are smart enough not to spend $800 on 2tb of storage

[livid flame]

You’d think that

[pure garnet]

2tb on the phone to do nothing with

[topaz veldt]

I mean they buy Maseratis and McLarens they're not that smart

[hoary hatch]

I should take a shot for each laptop he buys

[livid flame]

Remember high salary doesn’t always mean smart with goods or money

[gentle gale]

well no because ipados won’t be taking advantage of the m5 🤷‍♂️

[pure garnet]

you wouldn’t have a liver

[topaz veldt]

High salary and big toys.... and no 2TB iphones lol

[warped mountain]

well ya for when you are lounging by your pool while everyone is at work. remember teh theme is "just works" with no thought necessary.

[gentle gale]

it won’t take advantage of m4 either lol

[livid flame]

Tbfh mclarens are a good investment

[pure garnet]

why would i have a tablet at the pool

[pallid marsh]

But those could go up in value unlike a smartphone

[topaz veldt]

nah

[pure garnet]

car? good investment? is this crack chat 2?

[warped mountain]

i always buy top storage spec, cloud storage is too slow to find things quickly, and the search feature SUCKS.

[livid flame]

An ICE super car in 30 years time will be worth mega money

[slim pebble]

I just need a big screen because I’m unc with bad eyes.

[pallid marsh]

We have 5g now

[topaz veldt]

You don't even have PCIe 5.0

[hoary hatch]

I have no problem with 2tb phone existing but most people should just get the 256gb

[livid flame]

6g is on its way. Giving you cancer instantly as opposed to the slow cancer burn from 5g

[pure garnet]

you wouldn’t need 2tb of phone storage if you didn’t only watch placebo quality ripped movies

[livid flame]

Tbh I think it’s to cover his corn addiction

[warped mountain]

thats not apple like. remember ultra VIP bougiee vibes, bad 🤬 vibes, always back stage passes and first class flights vibes.

[hoary hatch]

Some people want 15 years of photo library locally stored

[livid flame]

Are you okay?

[livid flame]

You’re not very Kool right now Kordell

[warped mountain]

well the cart is one of teh other. i mean i guess you could get both the MBP and Ipad. probally cheaper than 8TB MBP storage upgrade TBH.

[topaz veldt]

Apple vibes

[indigo walrus]

I wish I had 5G where I primarily used my mobile devices. Sadly, camping in the woods isn't good for 5G so...

[livid flame]

If I want to see a tree like that I have to go to Scotland

Well the cheapest way

[warped mountain]

One of my 4 Google accounts.

[livid flame]

Probably also more dangerous than getting on a plane to where you live

[topaz veldt]

This was my pad for a week

[livid flame]

That’s nice

[topaz veldt]

$1000/night... still no 2TB iphone

[livid flame]

They’ve British’d that up for you

[topaz veldt]

?

[warped mountain]

all the 4k videos you are gonna take with " the best camera" and pics of kids and everything. i know people who take 20-50 pictures of their kids a day.

[pure garnet]

might need a few more hours at work for the phone then

[topaz veldt]

How do we take this dude seriously

[livid flame]

I stopped a long time ago

[pure garnet]

a real rich person buys an insane amount of storage on a product with a 3-4 year shelf life

[topaz veldt]

I want to store so much data on my phone that when I lose it or its stolen I cry for 4 months

because cloud is slow

[warped mountain]

It's not a meme, I've actually been meaning to pull my Google drive down so I can stop paying monthly.

[livid flame]

He hasn’t even told us how much storage his current phone has

(128gb probably lol)

[slim pebble]

I just carry around some old chopped looking phone until it stops working for some reason.

[pure garnet]

if i didn’t get the max i’d have ponied up for 256gb

but any more than that is waste to me

[warped mountain]

my man spittin bars here

[livid flame]

@warped mountain how much storage on ya current phone buddy, guy?

[topaz veldt]

Dude.... 1TB of google space? My phone plan comes with 2TB free. I feel like 1TB google users aren't buying 2TB iPhones

😂

[livid flame]

lol this guy just pure rage baiting you all

[topaz veldt]

He's just finding another topic to waste peoples time over

[livid flame]

When he said 8k to change it all I didn’t think 1.5k would be a one, watch, charger and earphones. Thats when I stopped taking him seriously

[topaz veldt]

The reality is if its $8500 to "change ecosystems" because you're so entranched in whatever, you don't change. That's stupid.

[livid flame]

It makes me appreciate being somewhat poor.

[topaz veldt]

It makes me feel reasonable with 5 5090s

[livid flame]

Like not poor poor but just standard poor is fine for me

[warped mountain]

we are finished with that its M4 pro MBP 14 24GB/ 512GB ($1,800) im typing on it rn and a tablet.

finalists are:
Samsung s11 vs ipad pro 13 $550 vs $1,318 both 1k nits and able to do HDR very well with OLED screens! (figure stick to brands i know )

so i guess sober night for you?

[warped mountain]

they can full do so right now with final cut and what not.

[warped mountain]

becaus you are tanning watching your Netflix show that just got renewed this is teh apple owners vision board .. think Kardashians ... with less umm back shots.

[livid flame]

I’m done 😂

[topaz veldt]

If you are watching Netflix poolside you need to find Jesus

[livid flame]

I don’t advocate for Jesus but on this I do agree

Hard enough going in my kids Catholic school sometimes tbh

[topaz veldt]

whoever sent them there is intelligent

[livid flame]

I did

[topaz veldt]

well then

[livid flame]

It gives them good moral values even if they confuse the basics of science with religion

[topaz veldt]

they'll probably be enjoying friends and family at a pool, so its worth it

[livid flame]

The idea is they should hopefully turn out better than me

I’ve been very grumpy this morning tbh

[topaz veldt]

Look at my PFP

[pallid marsh]

Investing and waiting for the memory shortage to hit?

[topaz veldt]

I think GPUs are on the horizon

Whats tomorrow, Weds?

[warped mountain]

yes and throttled connection to google drive, and throttled cellular now that net neutrality isnt a thing anymore. maybe see 15mbps. can speed test at 445mbps.

I actually need to call T-Mobile to fix that. my plan explicitly is excluded from network deprioritization, and "high data user" tags by the network policy. (Hence why I refuse to upgrade my plan and I always BYOD.

[warped mountain]

wym?

[topaz veldt]

"I buy top tier storage"

[pallid marsh]

Damn 2800

[topaz veldt]

But notice there are no 5090 Masters now

Have been tracking them - they were everywhere and are gone now. Even MC.

[warped mountain]

its mostly 4k 60 videos and stuff. i think i only have 1-2 movies. i know i like my PPI to be around 570. good HDR is my new goal.

[pure garnet]

tablet

[topaz veldt]

I worry this dude doesn't like go outside and relax

[slim pebble]

SN8100 is the only thing “top tier” 🤣

[warped mountain]

ive never lost a device, or had one stolen.

[topaz veldt]

I've never been in a car accident but I wear my seatbelt and have insurance

SN8100 gang

[warped mountain]

#tech-chat-2 message

[pallid marsh]

Stealth ice?...

[topaz veldt]

Not stealth, just 5090 Master Ice

[warped mountain]

2TB plan
#tech-chat-2 message

[slim pebble]

Buys master ice. BLOCKS IT

[pallid marsh]

Now it's $3200 on Amazon lmao

[slim pebble]

Does it still count as “ice” if you just have the PCB? 😀

[topaz veldt]

I know man. I sniped like... the last one.

Going to be 4 5090 Ices

[warped mountain]

EXACTLY why i was hesitant on the MBP. i already have the $1,800 phone, the $400 smart watch, the cheap tablets are all over this place lol. the $350 earbuds

just want a bigger OLED than my phone. kinda gets tiring holding it 6 inches from your face to get teh full HDR experience.
i do REALLY liek teh IPad mini. but Apple wants it to get so stale it dies 🙁

[slim pebble]

Four boxes full of air coolers

[slim pebble]

No word on the TUF?

[topaz veldt]

Its been replaced - in the mail

[topaz veldt]

You don't need to replace every device you own. And you want a full HDR experience? Buy a fucking TV holy shit.

[pallid marsh]

Get AR glasses

[brisk jolt]

holy stacked wall

[warped mountain]

i dont have anything that has PCIe 5.0 lanes

[pallid marsh]

Like 1/5th of my bank account is in this photo

[topaz veldt]

So you're not buying top tier

[brisk jolt]

Cordell’s biggest enemy is himself

[topaz veldt]

lol yup

[warped mountain]

true. i tried cloud with this S25 ultra, got the 1TB phone in case it didnt work out, it really doesnt.

when i search for a picture in gallery by whats in it boom it appears. google drive i have to figure out the month then go though those 300 photos to find it, major pain.

[topaz veldt]

I have no such issue

my photos go back to 2002

[slim pebble]

What’d they bill you with? I got hit for $20 for a new socket and like $20 shipping

[warped mountain]

any 21 inch tv that can do that? maybe 27 inch?

side not i am always hustling and never home, so TV still doenst solve that.

[topaz veldt]

$0

[topaz veldt]

you're just always on the move and need all of the worlds finest most complex solutions

[pure garnet]

at this point you might need the cinema movie pass instead of a tv

[warped mountain]

TV wall, so yeah kinda limited.

[warped mountain]

I don't have any devices that can leverage it. This year are supposed to replace my HEDT but because of the theft we're replacing laptops.

X99 ➡️X399➡️ ???

[pallid marsh]

Legitimately get vr/AR glasses

[topaz veldt]

The theft that never happens and that's why you don't need cloud storage?

[warped mountain]

You can search "Ford" and Google photos will give you every single picture that has a Ford in it like local gallery can?

[topaz veldt]

Yes...

wow amazing wow

[warped mountain]

I mean everything's also been solved you got me a top tier NAS build coming.
We determined the MacBook Pro was the most bandwidth device which is what I actually needed for day today.

Now it's just to solve the media consumption issue, that the MacBook Pro can't do properly.

OLED HDR tablet. That's actually all we're talking about I don't know why we keep getting off track.

S11 vs iPad Pro 13. $550 vs $1,318.

• will be used as a secondary display for both my MacBook Pro and my 4090.

[warped mountain]

But like can't you not see through them so like if you're walking around out and about it would be like a problem right??

[indigo walrus]

While I can't speak to searching for "Ford" specifically, yes, in my experience, searching for things like "cake", "birthday", "cat", "ocean", "forest", etc. all return the results I'm looking for with acceptable accuracy. That said, I'm very close to testing out Immich in the near future. Just need to sort out my NAS setup.

[warped mountain]

It did Ford well, failed the photos from Deadhorse.

[topaz veldt]

What does this have anything to do with anything lol

https://tenor.com/view/arrested-development-netflix-arrested-development-gif-27340708

[warped mountain]

and yet... That's how long it took me to search for what it should have been able to find on its own..

[topaz veldt]

One time I cooked a ham for dinner and no one came to eat it so I threw it out

[warped mountain]

If it would have been local in my gallery, it would have pulled it up. Google photos hates locations for some reason. Everything I take is geotag...

[topaz veldt]

I have none of the problems you have. None of them.

[warped mountain]

That was the point though I mean you just saw that it took like 15-20 minutes for me to find some photos that should have taken about 30 seconds so I can get on and do other things.

[topaz veldt]

I didn't see anything I have no idea what you're doing over there

[indigo walrus]

My Google Photos doesn't have an issue searching for most locations? Sounds like geo location information might be missing from (or corrupted on?) some of your photos.

[warped mountain]

I mean I'm still furious that Google changed the maps timeline setting and when I got my new phone it deleted my entire history. FURIOUS!

[topaz veldt]

My wife and I use google photos with only 128GB phones and we have kids and like a million family members and I travel like 8 - 12 times a year and I can search anything.

[topaz veldt]

Its just like... turn your keyboard over. Try to type. He needs his to type.

[warped mountain]

I literally used to use Google timelines to find the date to then find the pictures. I lost nearly 10 years of timeline data....

[topaz veldt]

Ok

[warped mountain]

But yeah , s11 or iPad pro 💀 that was the discussion

[topaz veldt]

Neither will let you search for 3 letters and return your pictures from 28 years ago

[brisk jolt]

lmao

[warped mountain]

I don't need it to do that, what do you think is better for HDR

[topaz veldt]

@pallid marsh so like 2 days ago the 5090 TUF OC was $2899 at MC and came with a PSU:

now today:

I think GPUs are gonna go up in price soon

[pallid marsh]

Didn't you buy one before for like $2200?

[topaz veldt]

That was mac he got a 5090 TUF (non OC) for $1999

[pure garnet]

it was 2k flat yeah for all of 45 minutes

[topaz veldt]

The 5090 TUF OC never went below 2799 or 2899

[warped mountain]

Probably, they're likely about to lower the supply just cuz they don't want to pay the dram prices,

if you are going to pay more for the memory, might as well make sure it's a product that you can just up the price for because there's no other options.

[brisk jolt]

Cant wait to see the AMD boys on fire since AMD decided to give in first

[warped mountain]

So every single review, cuz I have done the research into this.

Says the Galaxy tab s11 and iPad Pro 13 are extremely similar for media consumption.

Raw horsepower no... but one of them literally has a desktop chip in it. But since it's only going to be for media consumption the horsepower is not going to really matter both should have plenty of power to decode the videos.

The s11 Ultra has the perfect aspect ratio for media consumption such as HDR movies but that size is going to be a bit of a problem to get in and out of the backpack and I'm genuinely scared I'm going to bend it in half.
Hence s11 instead.

[pallid marsh]

This amd fan boy was Lucky and got a 70xt for $610

[pure garnet]

ouch, i paid that for my 5070ti

[pallid marsh]

How that's a MSRP 750 card?!

[pallid marsh]

If we count my Amazon points it was like $470....

[warped mountain]

Finally some decent weather, should I wear my couch potato hoodie, or my labs zip up hoodie tomorrow?

What LTT shirt should I pair it with? I have some more hidden away but that should be all the colors I have.

I already wore the gray and red (my favorite NGL) this week.

[pallid marsh]

That's just slightly below room temperature no jacket needed

[warped mountain]

It's a smidge chilly lol it rained today. Remember 78F is normal air conditioned inside temperature here. And 112 is a normal summer day.

[pallid marsh]

It was 53f here in Utah and I was in shorts and a t shirt

[pallid marsh]

78f isn't ac temperature 68 is

Arizona should only build underground homes

[warped mountain]

Which LTT water bottle should I accessorize with? It will go with my LTT pro hat (yes I'm pissed it sun bleached 4 months in), and LTT backpack.

Somewhere around here I have my red and white water bottle and my Lambo edition. They're probably with my other two screwdrivers I haven't seen those in a minute either.

I did find my gold controller pin the other day and apparently I have immediately lost it cuz I have no idea where it's at now 💀😭

What's the best writing refill for the scribe driver?

[warped mountain]

You can TRY to get to 68 ... All you'll get is like 73 AND a $900 electric bill since your AC world literally never shut off
.. maybe for a couple hours at night.

[warped mountain]

Back when it was all plantations they had like cellers and stuff like that but we don't build basements here.

[pallid marsh]

Why not is the ground too hard or unstable?

[warped mountain]

Sand

[pallid marsh]

Bury the house in sand problem solved

[warped mountain]

So I really do need to replace these Galaxy buds3 pros. I liked my gen 1 Galaxy Bud pros. These buds3 digg in my ear on the grate. Not amazing for $250 AND you cannot buy the ear caps from Samsung they will not sell them to you.. so you're stuck paying $30 for a pair of ear caps from a third party on Amazon... And they are dog 💩

Damn it I forgot to ask the question 🤦.

Are the airpod pro any good for Android? I see a lot of people rolling around with the airpod max butt idk.

[warped mountain]

🥲

[indigo walrus]

This is entirely subjective. Personally, I actually like the EasyFLOW 9000 cartridges that came with the Scribedriver, but ... you can easily go down the rabbit hole of stationery supplies.

[warped mountain]

I was hoping to have a cartridge that would last longer but I think that might just be like a physical dimension thing. Debating on ordering another one so I can load it with Blue.

[indigo walrus]

Oh I guarantee you the cartridge it comes with isn't even half full.

[warped mountain]

Really? Why

[indigo walrus]

Same reason most included printer ink cartridges aren't full: capitalism.

[indigo walrus]

I bought a 2 pack of the BLACK EasyFLOW 9000 cartridges shown in your screenshot for when the included one runs out of ink in my Scribedriver.

[warped mountain]

Oh I just remembered I totally have WAN hoodie V2. And stashed away I have THE v1 hoodie 😁. (The one Dennis modeled with the gloves back when it was distributed by NCIX)

Still pissed my OG "Linus Tech Tips" shirt got shredded in the wash.

[pallid marsh]

I got the airpod pros 2nd gen the other day and it paired to my pixel just fine and I was able to do the jester tap things just fine

[warped mountain]

Good I know lion is complains that they only sound good when you use them with Apple products and that they intentionally nerf Android. Like for instance the Galaxy can do UHQ 96kHz mode. Obviously apple won't let you do that, even if it's supported

Does anyone else always get asked what's "LIT"? When they wear the merch?

[indigo walrus]

No, but I have been asked "where did you get that cool hoodie?" in relation to the ShortCircuit Hoodie.

[uncut kettle]

@brittle trellis hi

[pallid marsh]

And that's when you say store.gamersnexus.net

[warped mountain]

they LOVE teh Floatplane shirt! soo many complements from people who don't know. teh hat and bag get people who "know".

shoudl have tyruste my instinct and bought 2. ive worn it twice since i got it, i want it to stay pretty lol.

man i want o experience that "just works" apple magic ... but damn idk. that s11 price is 🔥

[brisk jolt]

I penalise you with a 30 minute yapfest

https://tenor.com/view/anby-anby-zzz-thousand-yard-stare-zenless-zone-zero-zenless-gif-9790322211717742469

[indigo walrus]

Yee. Same with all my Critical Role merch. People don't know what it is, but they sure ask about it.

[pallid marsh]

Or bad dragon merch

[warped mountain]

hold the phones.... does this mean i can do local pickup at the DISCOUNTED price??? oh and i can use my samsung points before teh expire for once. (only good for a year)

has anyone ever done this?

[indigo walrus]

Um what? What is "Best Buy Surprise"?... Do you like, show up, say "I'm here for my tablet", and then end up being given an Air Fryer instead?

[warped mountain]

its a town, chosen because its not where i live

[lethal topaz]

lol

[warped mountain]

im low key shook if i can literally get 30% off a current gen item AND drive to pick it up after work!

[indigo walrus]

Surprise... is the name... of a town? Now who's the bloke who thought that was a good idea. 🤣

[lethal topaz]

nah hes saying he inspect elemented it

for anonymity

[warped mountain]

Suprise ... its all old people ...

[lethal topaz]

wait del webb? ive been there

[warped mountain]

they built a TON

[lethal topaz]

i see i misread

[warped mountain]

so did Fulton Homes. i went to school with thier son. VERY wealthy family.

[low sorrel]

Kirashi we have towns called hope and Spuzzum we can't be talking

[warped mountain]

lol

SPUZZUM

we have Bagdad. yes

[low sorrel]

One might say that Spuzzum 40km north of hope's name is... Beyond Hope.

[low sorrel]

it's also 69km south of lytton also known as kumsheen

what are these names man

[warped mountain]

its a "company town" owned by a copper company, i think teh other one is Morenci to teh south .

[fading sierra]

Hey fellas, a question. I'm thinking of getting a 9070 XT for christmas to put into my AM4 system, but I'm worried about power draw. I'm running a 550W PSU (Corsair CX series to be precise), will that be enough? So far I've had zero power issues with my 6700XT and 5700X paired up

[warped mountain]

CX arent known fr being amazing TBH, are you OC?

[warped mountain]

nevermind, thats too close. get a new PSU.

[fading sierra]

No, not at all

Well my 6700 XT has a slight manufacturer OC but that's about it, I don't really overclock my stuff

[fading sierra]

I knew this moment would come

[warped mountain]

it says expect 360W from that GPU, that 5700X is 90 stock. leaves you with 100w. there are other things that consume powe in a computer other than GPU/CPU.

it will proably work, but idk how much risk you wanna take of random shutdowns from OCP on transitory

[brisk jolt]

undervolt the 9070xt, i had a -80mv -30% PL, 2800mhz memory on mine at 231w, within 5% of stock.

[fading sierra]

Huh, this might be a good idea

I dread having to redo all the PSU cables

But I wanna keep it safe

[low sorrel]

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[odd bison]

We have bots in server before gta 6

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[low sorrel]

Shit we've had bots in here since before GTA 5

[topaz veldt]

I'm a bot

[devout ridge]

snail actually runs an LLM in his home lab so he doesn't actually have to use discord to use discord

[topaz veldt]

It's true

[solemn heron]

Guys should i get the fractal pop air or the phanteks eclipse G400A?

[frank zealot]

Both are good cases.

Get the one you like more. Cases are very personal preference

[solemn heron]

one is 40euro more (phanteks)

[frank zealot]

Get the one you like most

[solemn heron]

alr

[lilac crater]

for my drivers do I update and install this aswell?

[edgy laurel]

whatever that software is, its unnecessary. if its a fresh install just grab the basics from the motherboards support page

[lilac crater]

So only the category of driver right?

[lilac crater]

Not a fresh install it’s btw just the software for my bio’s but it also has those unnecessary softwares yeah

[edgy laurel]

I'm not sure what that means. If you need drivers, just use the motherboards support page

[pure garnet]

you know how every bios injects that stupid auto driver installer by default? he’s using that

[edgy laurel]

I suppose if you're really attached to that software, you can continue with what you have selected but for the future, you don't need that gigabyte software to manage drivers

[pure garnet]

i wouldn’t grab half the drives from the gigabyte page anyway

[edgy laurel]

its some gigashit stuff

[pure garnet]

chipset is bound to be outdated and so is the realtek nics

[edgy laurel]

weirdly, the Asrock page always had a newer version of the chipset driver than what i could get from AMD's page

[pure garnet]

the msi one is from the 19th century last i looked

[edgy laurel]

at least back when I care about updating such things

[topaz veldt]

I need that HDR experience

[proven saddle]

Good afternoon everyone

[edgy laurel]

5nail

i'm going to post a picture of a vehicle. look at it squinting and tell me the first brand that pops into your head

[pure garnet]

it’s all the about the nits

[lilac crater]

Wait do you not mean this auto driver?

So their website is the only thing I use here?

[edgy laurel]

you can use that crappy gigabyte software if you want, but its not necessary

[topaz veldt]

Ok

[lilac crater]

So I could just uninstall that?

[edgy laurel]

I would. I don't know anyone besides beginners who actually use that stuff

[lilac crater]

Well I kinda am a beginner so that would make sense no?😭

[lilac crater]

I did understand about the softwares on why I don’t install that but it say’s driver why do I not install those aswell? Not trying to be annoying rather trying to learn

[lilac crater]

And also how would I update my bios then? I think when I boot up my pc right

[solemn heron]

Hi, im currently bulding a 9070XT 9700X build and i am on track to spend rougly 1700 euro (not including peripherals). Am I doing good (price wise)?

[edgy laurel]

If you are missing drivers, you can get them from your boards support page. Otherwise Windows Update will handle most things.

[lilac crater]

Nope not missing anything tbh

[edgy laurel]

You update the BIOS like all of us do, by putting it on a USB stick and using the BIOS update utility in the BIOS, or through flashback while the PC is off

[topaz veldt]

its obv a Macan

or Cayenne

[pure garnet]

https://fixvx.com/noctua_at/status/1991099443522032065

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[wraith steeple]

[topaz veldt]

yep akn shared yesterday

[lilac crater]

Ah yeah flashback is what I ment when I said booting up the pc and then updating it

[topaz veldt]

Imagine a white NH-D15 G2

[lilac crater]

Thnx

[topaz veldt]

Whoa weird

well that's interesting

Aka "we came up with a thing that didn't do anything and it costs too much so now its just one"

[hoary hatch]

I don't actually drink liquor anyways...

[pure garnet]

wasn’t the whole point of the concave that the cpu had to be bent anyway

and 1851 has the reduce load ilm to stop it from bending

[topaz veldt]

they told us that the concavity shaved off temps

that was why LBC was recommended for AM5

also wow

$179 up from $149

[leaden dawn]

Its like they saw Davids video and decided to say fuck it, more money

Welp so much for buying one of those, I'm going for a $30 cooler instead again

[odd sable]

Seems to me it's more a "turns out offset matters more for am5 than LBC does, and Intels chips aren't quite as potato so they don't need HBC anymore"
Still weird they'd do it for such a short period of product launches though

[shell void]

i thought hbc and lbc were silly the moment that they released

[topaz veldt]

But it was offset and concavity, and they made a big deal about it

[topaz veldt]

Same

[odd sable]

Oh what?

[shell void]

generally people that buy noctua intend to continue using the cooler for a long time with multiple CPUs so it doesn’t make sense to warp the coldplate to improve temps by 3c on a particular IHS style

[odd sable]

I agree from a people are dumb standpoint alone

[shell void]

especially if you can improve temps by offset mounting or washers or a different ILM anyway

[topaz veldt]

The NH-D15 G2s do an 11mm offset on AM5 and LBC recommended, now its like "nah don't worry about it"

[odd sable]

wack

[steel stream]

yeah I can't imagine many PC builders are buying G2's to begin with, then buying a specialized version of that

[shell void]

it seemed like a desperate shot in the dark from noctua to claw ahead of thermalright by 3c when nobody actually cares about that

if they did then they’d be using direct die watercooling

[pure garnet]

i would’ve got one if it fit in my case

[oak vector]

I got green name now yippee

[steel stream]

I mean I've got one, I just think this particular discord chat might be biased against the will of the people

[pure garnet]

i’ve had 3 thermalright coolers and none of them have wowed me

the last one i own at least has properly machined mounting hardware though

my spirit evo didn’t

[frank zealot]

Most air coolers won't wow. They're a stack of aluminum fins on heat pipes.
I mean, what do you expect as a "wow" factor?

[oak vector]

Honestly I feel like most people who buy a thermalright cooler are probably just wanting something that does the job lmao

[topaz veldt]

the one thing people fail to mention on TR coolers is yeah they are good for the money, but the fans are anus

[steel stream]

poop brown color 😻

[topaz veldt]

@slim pebble it was Rust. https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

[pure garnet]

my sprit evo’s mounting hardware was obnoxious to install and it was still fairly loud

[frank zealot]

yeah the fans are crap, but rule of thumb: I'll tell people to use it, and if the fans start acting up at all? Just pitch it and get something better for sub-10 bucks

[oak vector]

Idk I have an assassin 120se
Nothing special. Just some fins and a fan
But it works so I don’t care

[pure garnet]

so anything above that pretty much

i find the p12 pros annoying too and the internet loves those generally

[oak vector]

There isn’t anything stopping me from just like
Putting a noctua fan on my thermalright heat sink right?

[pure garnet]

aside from that being cursed no

[frank zealot]

"This one fan cost as much as the entire cooler!"

[steel stream]

nah

[oak vector]

literally lmfao

Actually it may even cost more

[pure garnet]

if noctua changes off secufirm i’d probably lose some interest but

being able to plop my cooler down on basically any of my mounting hardware is a nice perk

[steel stream]

surely they would never right

[pure garnet]

dunno

but like my grandma’s u12a was a cheap ebay purchase because it didn’t come with mounting hardware and i had some already

[topaz veldt]

no doubt but even brand new the fans don't sound good - like... most are fine... but I bought that PA120 Evo or whatever... the fans on that have a really shitty noise quality

[pure garnet]

thermalright launching like 40 models a year is another thing i don’t get

[frank zealot]

I've got a thermalright dual tower 140... something sitting next to me and it's plenty quiet

stock fans et all

[topaz veldt]

Sure, but I have like... I dunno... 12 TR coolers? And the fan noise varies greatly unit to unit

[frank zealot]

I could see that

i've only messed with 5 (I think)

[topaz veldt]

The heatsink itself is fine, the fans are kinda ass

it works... they're OK, but yeah unit to unit is weird

[frank zealot]

yup, but that's why I consider the fans on them as disposable. Getting a dual tower cooler for 35-40 bucks is crazy cheap

As long as it's fine when installed? you're good.
If you replace the fans after a year or two, meh.

[topaz veldt]

These are brand new

[frank zealot]

yeah if it's new and bad, RMA

[topaz veldt]

so I don't want to pay $42 on a cooler and have to put $30 fans on it

otherwise I'd just buy a $70 cooler

I don't care enough to RMA but its something I have noticed

[shell void]

one of the arctic p12 pros on the bottom of my case was death wobbling yesterday

[topaz veldt]

it also seems to be on units that have exposed bearings

[shell void]

i smacked the back of the motor and it stopped

[topaz veldt]

yup! Checkt his out...

[shell void]

optimal percussive maintenance

[turbid locust]

And you tried to get me to buy one of these mfs

[frank zealot]

percussive maintenance FTW

[shell void]

it’s always a possibility when you’re running like 15 $5 fans

a lil smack and we’re back in business

[pure garnet]

i linked a p12 pro 5 pack and a pa120 to my wife and i probably wouldn’t buy either again for myself

[wraith steeple]

When are these T30-140s going to drop already?

[shell void]

if i was to buy expensive fans i would get some lian li because i like their rgb control system

[topaz veldt]

the P12 Pros are "ok" but the P14 PWM PSTs .... all woblling or clicking

[frank zealot]

never

[steel stream]

RGB bad

[turbid locust]

Not gonna lie man, I bought some Pure Wings 3’s on a whim one day and they’re good asf

[shell void]

oddly none of my p14s have ever had problems in the 4 years or so i used them

it’s always 120mm ones that do

[turbid locust]

Besides the P12s on my LF3, I’m on Pure Wings 3’s

Barely audible on max rpm

[shell void]

wait i lied ONE p14 wobbled and again i smacked it

one out of like 20 in 4 years

[frank zealot]

I had 5x P14 PWMs in my PC for several years and zero issues

[steel stream]

Barely audible on max?

[turbid locust]

mhm

[pure garnet]

i’m on 5 a12x25’s and 2 silent wing pro 4 140mms

[topaz veldt]

I could not figure out easily where the clicking was coming from so everything was removed lol

[steel stream]

interesting

[topaz veldt]

Not the most economic way to troubleshoot but I was tired of it

[steel stream]

like barely audible through headphones or barely audible at all

[shell void]

that’s the one that i straight up yanked the motor out of the frame on video because it was annoying me

and then popped it back in and it was fine

[steel stream]

See I fuck with this heavy

[topaz veldt]

dude its so good

[steel stream]

sadly I only fit like 6 noctua fans in my North I think

[topaz veldt]

how

I am thinking of push pull on that AIO

[steel stream]

3 front intake, two 140mms up top, then a 120mm exhaust in the rear

shit was cramped as hell

[topaz veldt]

oh on air, eyah

[steel stream]

oh yeah air with the G2

[topaz veldt]

yup yup

[steel stream]

the top fans and G2 were pretty tough

[topaz veldt]

Is yours an XL

[steel stream]

nah

[topaz veldt]

ah see I did go over to XLs

[steel stream]

I could do push pull pretty easily in the Pro Art

[topaz veldt]

well yeah you can also can tomatoes in a Pro Art

[shell void]

i did push pull rad for a couple of years but never again

[topaz veldt]

need a fucking permit to put that up

[shell void]

it doesn’t really help and it’s annoying to install

just push

[steel stream]

I had to convince the local board to let me run it, I don't ever want to go to city hall ever again. Bureaucratic nightmare

the real question is if I get rid of my AIO and run a chromax G2 in my ProArt hmm

[wise bear]

gummornin'

[shell void]

the real question is will there be a z890 apex encore with the refresh early next year

perhaps with a RTL8127 10Gb nic? MONEY

[proven cairn]

Hey gng

[steel stream]

upgrade to NVL after like a half year 🗣️ 🔥

[edgy laurel]

the physical wiring?

i haven't had either in hand but corsair link looks to give it a run for its money

[proven cairn]

Not possible they are the bestest fans ever

[shell void]

naw the wireless

you don’t run any rgb cables, you just plug a wireless controller into a usb port which communicates with all of the fans

you can plug into an internal usb port and then shove the controller in your psu shroud

out of sight and super easy

[edgy laurel]

oh true

[edgy laurel]

i dunno it looked like a Kia

it is a Cayenne EV and its gross

[spark tundra]

Hey so i just bought a $30 laptop off my friend so I could macro in Roblox 24/7
the laptop doesn't handle the game very well and I was thinking of getting operating systems such as tiny OS or Atlas OS
I would like to know which operating system gets the best performance (doesn't have to be the 2 I specified)

[edgy laurel]

no words

[topaz veldt]

Yeah i can see that - it is gross. Did Porsche hire a BMW designer?

@edgy laurel the Type 5 12vhpwr is hilarious

[edgy laurel]

Even smaller?

[topaz veldt]

its just so weird seeing Type 5 to 12vhpwr, its tiny af

[edgy laurel]

i'm pretty sure my SF750 is still Type 4

[fringe vigil]

hey buddy

[edgy laurel]

hey jorj, hows your now working 4090 treating you

[topaz veldt]

chapstick for scale

[fringe vigil]

Good buddy

Finally have my gou back

[edgy laurel]

hol up

there we go

wait still no

[fringe vigil]

Gpu

[edgy laurel]

So no more crashing?

[shell void]

windows 10 iot enterprise ltsc 21h2 with VBS features disabled

debloated ISOs are fud

[fringe vigil]

Def not

Working perfectly

[spark tundra]

im sorry can you clarify i didnt understand what you said

[wise bear]

google what he said

[spark tundra]

i googled it but dosent say how to install

[hoary hatch]

Nvidia replaced it?

[edgy laurel]

they never had it. he just wasn't using it because he didn't have a power cable

[hoary hatch]

I thought it was a melted connector

[wise bear]

a mildly melted connector, yes

I think nvidia sent him new cables or an adapter

[hoary hatch]

Okay now what is mildly vs melted

[spark tundra]

does that give good performance?

[wise bear]

you should get your $30 back and get a better used laptop

[spark tundra]

oh

what about if i change from 4gb ram to 8 gb

[wise bear]

so you wanna spend more money into a shitty laptop

[spark tundra]

ig

[wise bear]

get your money back and buy something better lmao

[spark tundra]

he said no refunds

so yeah#

[wise bear]

then your friend is shit

you literally spent $30 on ewaste

Let this be a lesson in life

[spark tundra]

ok

[pure garnet]

bigger question is how badly did you get scammed that roblox can’t run

i used to play that on library pcs growing up lol

[wise bear]

its probably a win7 era laptop

[edgy laurel]

probably better than that TC1 person who is continually telling us about their WinXP thinkpad

and how their mom is upset they brought it to school

and we know too much

[shell void]

it’s not going to meaningfully change anything

[wise bear]

that kid is going places (probably special ed)

[shell void]

maybe 10% at absolute most compared to a windows 11 home install, more realistically like 5%

which won’t take you from struggling to play the game to easily running it

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel did you see this one from last night? #tech-chat-2 message

[pure garnet]

shutting off hvci is probably the only
performance tweak worth doing

[edgy laurel]

dear lord i'm not clicking any of those

guy is detached from reality

[topaz veldt]

Its amazing

Living in an RV but trying to posture that going with a MBP is going to trigger $7000+ spending

[wise bear]

I'm so glad I went to bed before this dipwad started trying to act big with an expensive shopping cart

[topaz veldt]

He linked to 2TB iPhone lol

It was wild

[edgy laurel]

needs it so he can transfer files to and from it

[topaz veldt]

4 GB/s

[wise bear]

I hate him so much

[edgy laurel]

he seems enthusiastic about transferring files

[topaz veldt]

ha yes

avid file transferer

[proven cairn]

That’s horrible 💔

[hot pagoda]

Atp it's not even Apple's fault man
Man's got got

[topaz veldt]

The best part is one minute he was ademantly against MacOS because it can't unzip files (his words) - the next he's buying a $2,000 MBP and all

[wise bear]

Dude I was in special ed from third grade to 10th. I'm allowed.

[proven cairn]

I know

[shell void]

yeah that’s the only tweak that i’ve seen be able to cause a repeatably measurable difference, and it’s not much

[edgy laurel]

meanwhile, what he was actually trying to do is combine a multi-part RAR archive, iirc

[whole coral]

lol I think I was special ed from second grade to 12th grade

[wise bear]

special ed made me hate most school administrators

[topaz veldt]

yeah

but also... why

[wise bear]

"ma'am your child is actually kinda stupid because they don't want to do homework"

[proven cairn]

Trvth nvke

[edgy laurel]

piracy

[topaz veldt]

Oh we got onto needing 2TB of phone space or something because he can search his local gallery for whiles while Google Photos cannot be searched

[edgy laurel]

on sketch-ass old school sites

[random flame]

Dang, what weird story did I miss now?

[wise bear]

when it's been shown & studied that homework does nothing for retention of information

[proven cairn]

Not true

[wise bear]

you're literally like 14 you have no stance in this

[proven cairn]

You’re just salty you got sent to special ed for not doing homework

[whole coral]

Fun having ADHD. Think I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 4

[random flame]

I think I skimped on my homework and that didn't affect my grades anyway or how much I learned.

[wise bear]

That's not at all why I was sent to special ed you presumptuous worm

[random flame]

Then it became at least one thing I didn't miss after becoming home schooled.

[proven cairn]

Lol

[whole coral]

Who wants to learn about something you’re not interested in? You know like

Studies show that you remember stuff better when you like it

[proven cairn]

Trvth nvke

[wise bear]

WOW its almost like people with developmental disabilities learn in different ways who knew?? /s

[proven cairn]

The /s was unnecessary

[hoary hatch]

https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-claims-90-game-compatibility-and-50-faster-gaming-than-intel-core-ultra-2-series-for-adreno-x2-gpu

I'll believe it when I see it

[wise bear]

hence why I did so well in anything mechanical and skipped most of math & earth science

[hot pagoda]

Dumbest shit I read all day
There are various types of special ed schools and learning disabilities (and ADHD for some reason) are one of the types; there's some who specialize in different things such as special ed for kids with speech impediments or just a school that caters generally disabled people better

[proven cairn]

Holy paragraph

[hoary hatch]

Why is Kaz back in the first place

[proven cairn]

Didn’t order a yappuccino

[hot pagoda]

Shit, two verses are a paragraph already, you sure you don't need special ed?

[proven cairn]

A paragraph on discord is different from irl

[wise bear]

this channel didn't order a pissant and yet here you are still.

[hoary hatch]

Sounds like a name someone would give to a Yorkshire terrier

[proven cairn]

Holy nerve hitting

[hot pagoda]

Idfk, people were talking about if a table is teak or red oak and then I had to

[wise bear]

Anyways.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oeCxMxwh7wj1xESDld3BW?si=9a7f5ffa9f1644c5

[wraith steeple]

Can confirm with me having AuDHD. Depending on the school, I can speak from experience the services are sadly useless or inefficient 9 times out of 10.

[wise bear]

"just try harder"

[proven cairn]

McDonalds order?

[wise bear]

"kiddo you gotta do better otherwise you'll be a loser in life" yes this is a good thing to tell kids with adhd who will then hyperfocus on being a nobody in the future with no aspirations because you essentially just crushed a child's neurodivergent dreaming

[proven cairn]

Yap

[hot pagoda]

Idfk why they stuff ADHD/ADD kids in schools for kids with learning disabilities, it's dumb as hell

[wise bear]

atomic, shut the fuck up

[proven cairn]

No

[pure garnet]

or the famous “you’re just lazy”

[whole coral]

You know what I don’t like? ADHD medications

I stopped taking stimulants years ago

[wraith steeple]

And if you're like me that has both ASD and that..... Omega-fucken-lul

[wise bear]

I got this SO MUCH from the high school counselor even after he saw my performance in welding/machining/cad compared to my performance in fucking earth sciences

[wraith steeple]

[proven cairn]

Can i have them?

Wth is earth sciences lol

[wise bear]

"Wow you essentially aced your vocationals, but you're still classified as a lazy fuck because you can't grasp complex math or want to study igneous rocks"

[whole coral]

I lost weight because of stimulants. That was a side effect I did not like

[frank zealot]

There's this thing called the internet.

GO LOOK IT UP

[whole coral]

Also I crashed in the afternoon

[pure garnet]

yeah i always did well in english and history vs other subjects so i always got shit for it

[wraith steeple]

Opposite for me.

Math (or anything math related) were the only subjects I excelled in

[oak vector]

I’ve always done really well in physics and maths and engineering and cooking classes
But have always despised English ngl

[whole coral]

Same

English and History is boring to me

[proven cairn]

Can’t have a conversation in the big 25

[oak vector]

I just can’t sit there writing about some fuckass book I’m never going to read again
It’s pointless in my eyes

[frank zealot]

can, but we're not your personal google

[wise bear]

my middle school special ed teacher was dope though, man was a family-first-gen born in america from germany and was super into WWII model kits

[wraith steeple]

If you're a boater like me..... It's a miracle I even succeeded despite how rigged the system was

[hot pagoda]

"Why do you not want to study trees bruh are you lazy?"

[frank zealot]

he's not the Lorax

[wise bear]

Also why are we grading physical education like wtf is that

[hot pagoda]

They made us study what rings mean in different trees, I was throwing up

[oak vector]

idk I got special consideration cos I got kicked of home out at 16 🔥

[wise bear]

"your gait is sub-par. C-."

[whole coral]

Lmao. C-

[frank zealot]

we needed another way to shame chronically ill people

[proven cairn]

Lol

[whole coral]

The + and - is stupid imo

[oak vector]

“You ran too slow. F”

[proven cairn]

Trvth nvke

[pure garnet]

i did well in calc but not algebra

hated geometry

[wise bear]

It's almost like between my mom and the school they had me on so many medications that I just inflated like a fucking balloon from weight gain and then they wondered why my performance in PE was bad

[wraith steeple]

That's funny how that works. Calculus is easy (for me) but the thing about it is the Messy work involved

[hot pagoda]

Afaik most of the P.E grade is how hard you tried to participate, not necessarily how good you were

At least that's how it was for me

[wise bear]

US schools, kaz

[whole coral]

PE was fun

[frank zealot]

there was absolutely performance grading, at least ocne you got older here

[hot pagoda]

Went to school in the US too lol

[oak vector]

We have an actual list of tests we do and criteria to meet for certain amounts of points lmao

[wise bear]

"what do you mean you don't run as fast as the anorexic girl who's parents force her into doing running"

[whole coral]

Of course since I have sensory issues I could only wear one pair of clothing

I did get therapy and it helped me a lot. Now I can wear more different clothes

[wise bear]

dude my sensory issues with clothing was a nightmare for me growing up holy shit

[whole coral]

Yeahh. I have tactile oversensitivity

[hot pagoda]

That's dumb as shit lmao
My P.E was a B+ back then, not proud of it

[wise bear]

God forbid there was a tag on my shirt I'd go ballistic

[whole coral]

Oh god the tags

[wise bear]

side tags are the WORST

[whole coral]

Haircuts are not fun either

[hot pagoda]

I've been awake for like 2 and a half days too much to remember what that was, I'ma be real

[hoary hatch]

✂️

[whole coral]

When they touch the back of the neck omg it’s painful

[frank zealot]

I was tall and lanky AF growing up.

I still couldn't run for shit cuz... y'know... asthma

[whole coral]

Damn that’s tough

[wise bear]

I deadass haven't had my hair touched in 3 years because I was always forced to have a "boy cut"

[proven cairn]

Trvth nvke

[hoary hatch]

I think our PE grades were participation, but the health parts were actually graded

The gym teachers didn't really care if you ran the mile or walked it in an hour....just that you showed up

[whole coral]

Yeah. Same here

[hot pagoda]

Good mindset to have, ngl
People gotta somewhere when it comes to sports

And I hate and will always hate running
Biking is where it's at

[whole coral]

I did good when it came to fitness in 2022. Improved my plank from 30 seconds to 5 minutes

My pushups went from 20 to like 65

[wraith steeple]

Luckily marching band counted as PE in my area

[wise bear]

my middle school health/gym teacher was a health-nut volunteer firefighter who'd drink chlorophyl juice from a milk jug EVERY DAY and that shit-ass fuckstick of a man is what made me hate physical education.

[proven cairn]

Lol

[wise bear]

he was short, bald, and overweight

[hot pagoda]

I'm conflicted if I should respect the guy or ha- theeere we go

[wise bear]

and he was a condescending assfuck

[proven cairn]

So the chlorophyll juice didn’t work?

[wise bear]

"what do you mean you don't know x???"

[proven cairn]

My cool 40w charger is charging at 0w 🙁

[wise bear]

dont care

[proven cairn]

Ok

Don’t care that you don’t care

[whole coral]

Thank god the gym teachers I had were nice

[wraith steeple]

Didn't I mention that the meds made me develop a short term psychosis

[proven cairn]

Is everyone here autistic?

[hot pagoda]

Nah, I feel like they just don't like you buddy

[wise bear]

dumbasses in middle school tried controlling my anger issues with stimulants and they all wondered why I'd be more angry in the afternoon when I was forced to take my pills at lunch or get suspended

[proven cairn]

They can be autistic and not like me

[wraith steeple]

Everyone is a little pregnant

Trolololololol

[proven cairn]

Ok

[hot pagoda]

Pfft

[proven cairn]

So yes

[whole coral]

I took the stimulant in the morning which is pretty typical

I had no hunger until like 1-2 PM and then it came roaring back

[frank zealot]

The spectrum is a spectrum, and given the crowd here, I imagine most people on the server have at least a couple toes dipped into it

[wise bear]

my whole ass is dunked in that pool lmao

[hoary hatch]

My marching band was 7 people before my freshman year so they cancelled it my freshman year

[hot pagoda]

Having to stay awake for another 6 and a half hours with nothing to do because "Haha funni, let's finish work early" is borderline torture

[wise bear]

atomic do you have something against autism

[wraith steeple]

I was born submerged into that pool

[proven cairn]

[wraith steeple]

[whole coral]

I do not like being bored

[hoary hatch]

Then they tried to make it compulsory my junior (senior?) year. Assfucks

[whole coral]

Although sometimes being bored is good because then you can think deeply about life

[hot pagoda]

I remember when I was 12 and a certain meme went around school about dumpster diving in a paper dumpster I did what every kid does, jumped into the paper dumpster and screamed like ree kid while doing it

Good times, good times

[whole coral]

I think it took me until age 12 to be diagnosed with ASD

[wise bear]

hhhh my foot has fallen asleep and it's hit the stage of waking up where it tickle-hurts to move it at all

[wise bear]

dumbasses thought I was bipolar at first lmao

[whole coral]

Lmao

[wise bear]

like nah bitch I'm just like that

[wraith steeple]

That's something that's all too common

Being misdiagnosed with BPD

[hot pagoda]

Same today except it was my entire left leg

[whole coral]

Oh my god I hate that

Except it happens to my arm

[wise bear]

I cross my legs a lot because I'm a dainty bitch

my right foot falls asleep all the gd time because of it

[wraith steeple]

I got diagnosed not too long after moving to the west

[wise bear]

tbh the mental heathcare in the middle east & asia is.. not great.

[hot pagoda]

Over here when people are tested they almost always somehow diagnose you with asperger's, even if you don't have it

[hot pagoda]

Oh here at least it's not because it's not only because it's "not great" but because mental care workers can charge the healthcare and don't have to pay back if they.. "accidentally" diagnose somebody with autism

[proven cairn]

Where are you from?

[wise bear]

I find it so, so funny that people who lived back in the 50's/60's thought that autism or mental disorders (in men) just didn't exist and only women could be psychotic

[hoary hatch]

I always suspected I had Asperger's but I never tried to get tested

[wise bear]

get tested tbh

[hoary hatch]

Why?

[wise bear]

why not?

[hoary hatch]

It won't change anything about my life if I do

[wraith steeple]

🇮🇶

[wise bear]

yeah but it might help you understand yourself better

[hot pagoda]

Yeah I see it the same way
I'd only do it if there's some kind of incentive

[proven cairn]

Cool

[hoary hatch]

It's not about incentive

If I was diagnosed it wouldn't change how I live my life or feel about myself or act, etc

It would just be a checked box on a piece of paper at this point

[whole coral]

God imagine living in an insane asylum in the 1900’s

[hot pagoda]

I'm aware, I'm saying that's why I would get tested personally

[whole coral]

They would just lock you up and the conditions would be not great

[hot pagoda]

Otherwise it's just a piece of paper saying you have a screw loose, didn't need the government to tell me that

[wise bear]

imagine liking bratwurst instead of dip in the 50's

[hoary hatch]

I'm fairly happy and content with life

[wise bear]

I'm happy & content in my house

not when I'm outside

some strangers are pretty cool tho

[whole coral]

Oh let me be outside

I do not like being stuck inside all day

[wise bear]

if I'm outside with absolutely nobody around me? bliss.

[whole coral]

True

Being outside in a snowstorm with nobody around = the best

[hoary hatch]

I'd rather be out in the public than have people in my house

[frank zealot]

that typo is hilarious

[wraith steeple]

Yeah also doesn't help that mental health isn't seen as a real thing in most of MENA

[proven cairn]

Typo?

[hoary hatch]

Oh fudge I didn't even notice

Content*

[wise bear]

"oh you're depressed? just find an opium den or something idk or think happy thoughts I'm barely trained lmao"

[hot pagoda]

They still do said practices insane asylums do, just in regular hospitals instead

My aunt after her stroke was just pumped full with random meds she didn't agree to, was diagnosed with bipolar because she freaked the fuck out when she was moved to a mental ward in the middle of the night without any prior notification and they then gave her meds to make her shut up until she decided to just release herself from hospital

[frank zealot]

nothing he typed is misspelled, but he totally typed a homophone that's a VERY different word

[leaden dawn]

Same. Doesn't help I don't have a comfortable chair

[whole coral]

Holy crap that’s scary

[hot pagoda]

I didn't even notice that lmfao

[hoary hatch]

Content********

[wise bear]

Nowadays it's called "behavioral health centers"

[frank zealot]

at least ice picks are no longer used in normal treatments in asylums?

[wise bear]

lobotomies are indeed globally banned

[wraith steeple]

As they should be

[hoary hatch]

There's a state asylum near Peyton

Driven past it on the way to the coast before

[wise bear]

like I wanna throttle the dude who came up with the procedure but I'm also happy at the same time it was done far in the past and we all learned that it's an insane practice to control someone's behavior

[whole coral]

Like how can you hate this

[hot pagoda]

Ye I feel that vibe
I still have an image from my school looking out the window when there was a snowstorm going on and everything was covered in fresh snow, god I love that shit

[wise bear]

I should've taken a pic on my ride last night- the fog was so dense there were little clouds of it like 5 feet above me it was so cool

[whole coral]

It is so fucking quiet during a snowstorm

I love it

[wise bear]

I like the periods of silence followed by a branch snapping from the snow load

[hoary hatch]

I wouldn't know what that's like :(

[random flame]

Yeah that definitely happened to me, and then many years later found out I might have only just been ADHD instead.

[whole coral]

Omg I did that one time

[leaden dawn]

Sad we had to "learn" that

[whole coral]

I was in school looking out the window at the parking lot and everything was covered in white

[wise bear]

I like how tc2 today has gone down such a curveball of topics and we're all just vibing and hating atomicsub together

[frank zealot]

I've driven past the Danvers State Asylum in MA before. Place is creepy AF.

[whole coral]

We had early dismissal

[hoary hatch]

I've been ADHD diagnosed and medicated since I was 6 or 7

[hot pagoda]

I remember when I first googled why it's so much quieter when snow is on the ground and the result I got was deadass "Because snow absorbs sound better idiot"; fair enough lmfao

[devout ridge]

snow traps air, prevents sound waves from propagating

[hoary hatch]

Oh really

TIL

[wise bear]

snow is quite literally ice foam

[devout ridge]

mhm

[hoary hatch]

I need to learn more about snow

[leaden dawn]

Meds made me worse. Maybe ADHD was better but I was a klepto on that stuff

[hot pagoda]

Ye, it's because snow is, relatively speaking, full of holes which trap the sound inside

[wise bear]

did you know there are over a dozen forms of ice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice

[devout ridge]

swap meds then

[whole coral]

Can hear the buzzing since I was near a substation lmao

[leaden dawn]

Probably because it's not necessarily ADHD but autism

[hot pagoda]

KEK

[hoary hatch]

I've still not experienced much real snow

[wraith steeple]

This is why I masked for so many years. Especially due to the horror stories you hear from the hospitals/institutions.

[whole coral]

Missing out

[wise bear]

it's so nice being almost 30 and just not masking at all anymore

[hot pagoda]

Considering people unironically debate what kind of tilt, posture and degree of pourage to use when pouring tea, I express zero surprise

[hoary hatch]

You should try an Arizona Christmas

65° and sunny

[wise bear]

idk I could vibe in that

[hot pagoda]

But it wouldn't even be tropical, it's just depressing desert

[whole coral]

Yeahhh I guess that isn’t bad

But still a snowy Christmas would easily beat that

I’ve had a couple of snowy christmases before

[hoary hatch]

Never had a white Christmas

[hoary hatch]

Excluding the people at Christmas

[hot pagoda]

Bruh

[random flame]

I've had a couple.

Plus a rainbow of shades, but that's probably not important in context. Lol.

[hoary hatch]

I worked last Christmas

[devout ridge]

every christmas is a white christmas for me, no snow though

[wraith steeple]

Yep tis why I don't miss being a kid one bit. I can spend money on my hobbies, live on my own, and be BassBone. Sure there is tons of stress involved but for me the pros outweigh the cons by a country mile

https://tenor.com/view/merica-bald-eagle-eagle-america-american-gif-2277187416326490184

[wise bear]

[whole coral]

December 24, 2021

Got like 1-2 inches of snow. Nothing spectacular but

[wise bear]

pls stain/seal your fence

[south shuttle]

90% is a confident claim for sure

[wise bear]

seriously its like nobody does maintenance on their fences

[whole coral]

Lol yeah the fences around here aren’t good

The back fence is good though. That has been replaced

[wise bear]

ok but you still gotta seal it every couple of years :(

[turbid locust]

Need to wash and seal my deck again

It’s a PITA ngl

[wise bear]

my porch needs a sanding and a staining

[wise bear]

Nowadays do you also feel like you've learned more with your time on the internet than some of your schoolyears?

[wraith steeple]

Absolutely

[whole coral]

A big yard project my mom and me will do next is expanding the patio

[wraith steeple]

[whole coral]

We are getting landscapers to double the size of the patio

[wise bear]

hell I learned osmotic homeostasis from hank green

[hot pagoda]

I just use one of these flat mops and am done with it

[whole coral]

Hank green!

[hot pagoda]

Though I've also seen my neighbor deadass use an indoor broom

[whole coral]

Awesome guy

[wise bear]

crashcourse ftw

man beat cancer now too

[turbid locust]

I have to pressure wash cause it’s old and not very flat

[hot pagoda]

Oh wtf lmao

[turbid locust]

I mean it’s “flat” but like the wood has grooves and whatnot

[wise bear]

also if your deck/fence is kinda moldy/stained use diluted pool bleach to kill the algae/fungus before staining/sealing

[hot pagoda]

Oh yeah mine too, it was fine when I brushed with the mop against the grain

[hot pagoda]

If there was algae or mold I'd probably just pressure wash and/or sand it down ngl

[pure garnet]

the one i took didn’t require us to simplify answers or anything so it was super chill

just apply the rules and give a practical answer

[whole coral]

Yeah

[wise bear]

nah because that wont kill the amount that's already buried itself in the wood

[whole coral]

My mom and me might pressure wash the fence and side of the house

There’s green growing on the side of the house so yeah we have to fix that

[wise bear]

north wall issues

[hot pagoda]

Ye that's fair

[wispy sequoia]

Is it normal that a corner of my monitor is hot? It's always been this way but I kinda cheaped out on a 1440p and wondering if it could be a future problem

[wise bear]

edge lit panel issues

its normal.

[hot pagoda]

Cheap backlights do be like that

Shouldn't be a big issue though

[whole coral]

It seems like the substation here has an incident energy of 10.01 cal/cm^2

[wispy sequoia]

Does having brightness on like 80 degrade? The movie mode really makes the colors much better so I like to keep it on

[wise bear]

I have 22,400 hours on my 1440p secondary display and there's no led degredation yet, you'll probably be fine

jfc that's 2.5 years of being powered on

[wispy sequoia]

how do you even track that

[wise bear]

monitor osd info

[wispy sequoia]

didn't know that was a thing

[edgy laurel]

its not on all displays, but is on some

[wispy sequoia]

Actually lemme take a picture of something pretty funny

[fringe vigil]

I’m tired bro

[wispy sequoia]

nvm doesn't show up well in pictures. Basically the "HDR" in the osd just deep fries the screen

[fringe vigil]

Shakur 2

Honestly gaming at 4K ultra now is so good

I am hoping Nvidia will learn their lessons in making a good cable connector that can whit stand extreme heat and this time it’s better

[edgy laurel]

independent UI brightness is a good feature.

RenoDX offers it

[slim solstice]

I'm back

[wise bear]

i hate tc1

hrr look at me I have 2 cpus /j

[slim solstice]

Nice flex

Ok wtf how

It kinda looks like the intel CPUs are disabled

[pure garnet]

let’s use deductive reasoning here

[wise bear]

because this windows install went from the 10850k to the 9700x with no reinstall, so some driver packages still linger (harmless)

see, board device is logged but unavailable

[hoary hatch]

What the fuck kind of person does that

Always reinstall windows

[wise bear]

someone who knows what they're doing

[hoary hatch]

Who just moves an SSD from one platform to another 💀

[wise bear]

me :3

[slim solstice]

Someone who's too lazy to shift the programs files

[wise bear]

everything works fine I've had literally 0 issues

[vale cosmos]

moving ssds from system to system is ezpz

just have setup that has all the drivers you could need

[wise bear]

when you drop your boot device into a new platform windows sees that and goes "okay hol up I've got some generic platform drivers we can use lemme get those installed-"

it does that, the system boots, and then you install the current platform drivers.

[pure garnet]

unless the cpu does something weird with scheduling it really doesn’t matter

[wise bear]

like, windows isn't fuckin' stupid anymore you guys

[sharp heart]

[pure garnet]

the x3d chips use a special driver

[young void]

Since windows 10 release its been realll noicee

[pure garnet]

and the p/e stuff has apo, peyton has neither so it doesn’t matter

[vale cosmos]

well it is pretty stupid, but can atleast boot with hardware changes

[wise bear]

we have on-the-fly active driver swapping there is no reason why a platform swap with an active windows install would have issues

[hot pagoda]

It's real funny because most of the things Windows 10 is credited for came with Windows 8 :(

[slim pebble]

It’s vibe coded now…

[wise bear]

no, its not lmao

[hot pagoda]

What year is this, 2007?

[slim pebble]

The facts don’t care about feelings. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

[wise bear]

win8 was like the training grounds for all of the under-the-hood shit we have now

[vale cosmos]

you can use AI to code and not be vibe coding if youre actually competent

[wise bear]

^

[hot pagoda]

I still stand by the fact Windows 8 got too much shit for no reason

[wise bear]

dude I bought windows 8

[hot pagoda]

same

[vale cosmos]

vibe coding is specificly being stupid and just using whatever AI gives you with not actually reading it or understanding it 💀

[hot pagoda]

I for sure as fuck didn't buy Windows 11 when I put it on my Steam Deck though kek

[slim pebble]

I think people hated the tiles. That was my only complaint and they fixed it later adding a task bar

[vale cosmos]

ive gone from a windows 7 pro key to windows 11. that has been one nice thing microsoft did

[hot pagoda]

Yeah I don't have the boxes anymore, we had to throw them all out when we moved

I had several OG World of Warcraft boxes too

[slim pebble]

Arguably it explains why the last 25H2 update broke localhost FFS.

[wise bear]

never broke for me..

[hot pagoda]

Yk what fixed all problems I ever had with my old Nvidia system

Going back to AMD kek

[vale cosmos]

average windows experience tbh. just use linux where you can break localhost or your bootloader yourself ❤️

[slim pebble]

It kind of broke for everyone 😆. They fixed it though.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11-update-killed-localhost-support

[wise bear]

i bought a 5070ti and a laptop that has a 5070ti mobile

[wise bear]

no like, I run jellyfin daily and use localhost to watch and I never once had a blip from localhost breaking

[pure garnet]

linux users explaining how wasting 3 hours getting windows software is better than dealing with the slightest windows annoyance occasionally

[hot pagoda]

Yeah we tried to get FFXIV running on our old systems for the better part of a year, didn't work because of some stupid DirectX error we could never figure out
We just got a Steam Deck to replace the HTPC because as awesome as it was, it decided to slowly shit itself and die
Steam Deck tipped it's fucking fedora and everything just works

[pure garnet]

that is genuinely just a skill issue

i’ve reinstalled the game on probably a dozen fresh windows installs on a bunch of combinations of hardware and it’s opened every time

[hot pagoda]

Probably is and realistically it's probably because we had a shitty Windows install
But I like it a lot when I install things and it works without complaining, so I will still credit AMD and Valve for it

[pure garnet]

so basically because you broke it it sucks

[hot pagoda]

Yes

[wise bear]

good to see kaz hasnt changed

[hot pagoda]

Well I probably didn't break it, the Windows install is just years old

[wise bear]

DUDE how do people kill windows installs after several years, mine is like 4 years old with a platform swap with no issues like wtf

[hot pagoda]

I DON'T KNOW MAN

[slim pebble]

For me? It’s more about avoiding the forced ads, the telemetry, the spying, and the Copilot AI in every Windows program.

[hot pagoda]

I manage to break a lot of shit out of nowhere

[pure garnet]

i reinstalled because i swapped off x3d

otherwise it wouldn’t matter

[devout ridge]

pretty easy to disable all of the above, especially with a custom install

take an extra 5-10m when you install the OS and you're free of that bs forever

[wise bear]

is it just because i have 11 pro that I have like, no ads

[hot pagoda]

But ye, bias be like that
I've always had some type of issue when I had an nvidia system, AMD so far has never challenged my patience

[slim pebble]

Yeah I’m going to do a Microwin dual boot so I can play Battlefield 😆

[hot pagoda]

11 Pro should also have it, but I'm just in do not disturb mode 24/7

[pure garnet]

smoking that skill issue pack

[slim pebble]

Why haven’t you turned on ONEDRIVE! Click here and pay $1.99 a month for more ONEDRiVE space!

[hot pagoda]

You can disable the ads as well iirc

[hot pagoda]

kek

[devout ridge]

literally never seen that since i disabled it

[pure garnet]

boot up my no amd system
launch game from taskbar
mfw it works just like every other time

[hot pagoda]

Oh yeah I uninstalled Onedrive day one

[wise bear]

I leave onedrive on because having a second, free, cloud-based core backup is good for data protection

I also don't have onedrive ads so idk why you do, must be a skill issue

[hot pagoda]

Wasn't there a data limit?

[wise bear]

yeah 5gb but that's still plenty for documents and save files.

[pure garnet]

here's me running the game with an nvidia specific feature enabled too

[wise bear]

i pay google $10/mo for 2tb

[slim pebble]

Except for the exclamation point on your taskbar from “Windows Security”

Your files are not backed up! 😀

[pure garnet]

i just run this

[wise bear]

It's befuddling that people have such a stick up their ass about debloating windows when we're no longer on win8 or min/maxing hardware for skylake

[pure garnet]

if this is what we call ads are we being fr

[hot pagoda]

I just uninstall all the software that keeps starting on startup and that's about it

[devout ridge]

how well would the P1S with the AMS2 handle a print with rigid and flexible parts

i need a prop sword with a flexible edge

[wise bear]

multi material isn't an issue with the p series printers

[slim pebble]

It’s not hard, but you shouldn’t have to change registry keys to get copilot off your search bar

[devout ridge]

my main concern was the flexible filament

[wise bear]

you might have bonding issues if you don't do some little geometry edits at the seam

[wise bear]

never did that either because I actually use copilot

[pure garnet]

i didn't have to do that to get it off mine