tech-chat-2

[young void]

In 5nails we trusts

[vestal granite]

i cant wait for the 6090 with 13.5GB GDDR5 VRAM

[steel stream]

I thought it was rather good for a video game adaptation

[potent wing]

youll get 6 gb and youll be happy

[vestal granite]

yes its very good, i like that its not just merch farming

[steel stream]

yeah it was pretty cool, I completely forgot about it so thanks for the reminder

[turbid locust]

I expect it to still be 32GB, just unironically $3000+ MSRP

[potent wing]

3000+ is low

[turbid locust]

$3000 MSRP, $7000 real shelf price

5090’s have been $3000 for like a year now

[potent wing]

10k scalper price

[vestal granite]

+30% on ebay so 13000

[potent wing]

+50% cause fuck you

[vestal granite]

and another +10% because its real hard to be a scalper you know

every time someone buys something they gotta go to the post office and have them scan a QR code

[steel stream]

the real backbones of america

[frank zealot]

@edgy laurel here's a case you don't see anymore:

[potent wing]

150 usd is wild

[whole coral]

Uhhh I think there’s a gas leak in the home

My mom immediately called the fire department when she smelt gas

We are out of the home now

[tranquil finch]

should i set these settings to high performance?

[steel stream]

nah for a PC it don't matter

[tranquil finch]

really? for gaming pc

[steel stream]

yeah

[tranquil finch]

why?

[frank zealot]

a little, but for a 20 year old piece of PC history? not especially

that was also a 220$ case back in the early 00's (looked it up online)

[steel stream]

granted you haven't done anything fucky in the bios or other programs, your PC will boost or turbo when it needs to

[tranquil finch]

when i set it to high performance, then it will boost even if i dont need it?

[steel stream]

yeah it just makes it a bit more power hungry afaik, I know I never touched those settings

[frank zealot]

OH MY GOD
Look at the disclaimer under the picture here:

I REMEMBER WHEN 500KB was a "slowdown"

[wise bear]

[young void]

When one gets gas installed, is there like a manual shutoff valve?

[wise bear]

yes

at several points

[young void]

Like water you can just go to the meter and turn it off*?

[wise bear]

if you smell gas call the fire dept

[young void]

That'd be my step 1 but if the fire crews already on the way just be ready to show them

[young void]

Better safe then sorry

[potent wing]

C02 detectors

BUY THEM

[wise bear]

do you mean

CO detectors

[potent wing]

same thing

[wise bear]

as in carbon monoxide

[young void]

Definitely I have like 4-5 around my house in each room and hallway

[wise bear]

no, its very much not the same thing lmao

[young void]

Insert compression toys here lol

[whole coral]

Ok so the gas meter didn’t detect anything

[young void]

Pew pew pew

[whole coral]

So that’s good

[wise bear]

carbon dioxide is what you exhale

carbon monoxide is the colorless, odorless, denser-than-air gas that your body doesn't get panicky over and can kill you

[whole coral]

Yeah. Don’t mess around with CO.

[wise bear]

There is a very large difference

[whole coral]

We have two CO detectors. In the bedrooms

We have one upstairs as well. Wall mounted

[wise bear]

better be mounted close to the floor

[whole coral]

Given that the gas furnace is 45 years old the risk of the heat exchanger cracking is there

[wise bear]

ja

[whole coral]

I did look inside of the heat exchanger and it looked like it’s in pretty good condition. Which is good

[teal orbit]

I think our CO detectors don't work

[wise bear]

Iiiii am very high

[fervent chasm]

chirp

[teal orbit]

Peyton is high on co

[turbid locust]

Had 10 patients come in for carbon monoxide poisoning a couple weeks ago. Don’t recommend.

It was a shitshow

[turbid locust]

Don’t run propane space heaters indoors.

[frank zealot]

I should call her

[wise bear]

or gas generators of any sorts indoors

[whole coral]

Heat exchanger is made out of cast iron

Probably why it’s held up so long

[fervent chasm]

I was trying to think of something to say

[frank zealot]

@edgy laurel @topaz veldt
5 Minute Crafts goes into Network Cable Management:
https://youtu.be/NlQ2IT9iWYQ

[fervent chasm]

wow no volume adjustment in the embed

[frank zealot]

I fucking HATE this

[fervent chasm]

thats loud af

[young void]

Gibs bag of doritoes

[frank zealot]

go fullscreen and you can

[wise bear]

omg but do you have jerky or gummy worms

[fervent chasm]

thats dumb

[young void]

Jerky would be the move rn no lies

[wise bear]

right??

[fervent chasm]

i wish i liked jerky for some reason i just cant stand the taste

[wise bear]

I'd go to the local meat market but I am way too fucked up to ride the bike

[fervent chasm]

same with anything bbq flavored, i hate it

[frank zealot]

I pulled well north of 1000lbs of servers out of our racks today
And IDK how many hundreds and hundreds of feet of various cables and shit

[wise bear]

👀

[fervent chasm]

my gf has finals soon and shes busy flipping houses on a video game 🫠

im so glad i finished school, I did 2 years of college, no Uni for me

[wise bear]

sriracha chicken sounds really good right now

like with some pan-grilled corn

[fervent chasm]

Guys I think its ready, its time to move to audio capture

the video portion is done

actually it still doenst work over the internet, only lan and localhost

but thats an issue for future me

[wise bear]

Should I do like, mashed potatoes with said chicken and corn or should I do more vegge

[young void]

Thats alright varying flavors not for everyone ❤️

[young void]

Lmao send halppp

[fervent chasm]

over LAN

[frank zealot]

holy shit, part of me wants to message this clown:

"GET FUCKED SCALPER"
@topaz veldt

[fervent chasm]

wtf, why is the recording broken

aha

Skip to 12 seconds, no clue why it lags so hard at first

its a double stream so theres sunshine+moonlight latency added on top

[young void]

heavy breathing thats alot of ram

[frank zealot]

but it sure as fuckin' hell ain't worth 4200 bucks

[young void]

Can fit so many solutions/synth neurons slaps hood

[frank zealot]

this summer that much RAM was... 400-600 bucks?

[fervent chasm]

yes, around there

[frank zealot]

remember: That's ECC DDR4, so like, that's old shizz

[young void]

Its rough out here xD

[fervent chasm]

I was look at some for an R940

256 you could maybe snag for $150

[frank zealot]

that's not unreasonable

validated sticks for 75/ea? Sure

[young void]

Sheeeesh

Oh snap and 1 sold today dang, crazys

[fervent chasm]

oh yah forgot to take photos of the broken ram

i really wonder what theyll sell for lol, 2x64 6400

once amazons refund goes through full ill put them up for auction

[arctic bronze]

A good amount

[fervent chasm]

theres a lot of dents, scratches, etc I think theres a transistor missing, whoever messed with this thing before me really went at it

[arctic bronze]

Oh 😬

[fervent chasm]

yah, DOA

this is the 2nd or 3rd time ive recieved DOA ram through amazon

though this time the seller was third party, but amazon shipping

[steel stream]

you can't stop me fed

[frank zealot]

anyone here good at FDM 3D Printing?

[turbid locust]

Depends on what you mean by good? lol

[frank zealot]

on prints, any surface that's above the supports? Comes out looking like shit.

Elegoo PLA
Neptune 4 Pro
Orca Slicer
Tree Supports (auto + an extra painted)
Top Z 0.25
Bottom Z 0.25
Support/Object XY 0.25
Support/Object first layer gap 0.25

I don't know what settings i've got wrong that're causing this to look so bad right there

[nocturne oasis]

What temp are you on??

[frank zealot]

PLA: 220 + 60 bed

wthout supports it prints awesome, but over supports holy shit

[tranquil finch]

Do you think guys that these cables is ok?

[turbid locust]

Yeah that’s just a symptom of supports unfortunately

You can play with top Z and whatnot to mitigate but yeah

[frank zealot]

it's your PC. Do you think they look okay?

[nocturne oasis]

Try using grid supports

Or turn down the speed on those sections

[tranquil finch]

Well, its hard to cable manage this cooler somehow, the wires are connected to each other.

[tranquil finch]

Or is actually safe to have this wire, close like this to the cpu?

[frank zealot]

why not run the cables through the cable management hole and behind the board?

[pure garnet]

i’m pretty sure i’ve stuffed fan wires right next to the cpu every time i install an air cooler

never had an issue doing that

[tranquil finch]

Because its impossible, look on the video https://youtu.be/fG_r0xiVDcI?si=r4MbCza6NZFCncht

[frank zealot]

wow, that's dumb. stuff the wires under the heatsink, it'll be fine

[tranquil finch]

Even this wire is ok?

Isnt it to near to the cpu?

[frank zealot]

it's under the cold plate

those wires are rated for at least 500 degrees

your heatsink isn't going to be over 80

[tranquil finch]

Ok thanks, i will keep the wires like that then.

[turbid locust]

My main goal is to blow up

[proven cairn]

It’s gonna explode

[young void]

@wise bear they took her again and this time got a diffrent judge so they could circumvent the prior this suckss

[wise bear]

What the fuck??

[young void]

I have court tomorrow at the juvenile court now instead of the curcuit

This is crazy I cant believe it my wife's just balling and have to pick up my other daughter now and try to explain to her why her sisters gone. Words cant even explain

She made it 1 day back at school buncha monsters man

[wise bear]

thats so fucking stupid

not only are they fucking you over they're also causing your child so much fucking stress

like where does she even stay

[young void]

She's been having a hard time, and no clue wherever they decide i guess I dont even know. I called my lawyer but he must be busy. I cant even think rn only pain

[frank zealot]

@turbid locust this print is 0.5mm below the max height of the N4 Pro:

[heavy mantle]

Are you okay worm?

[young void]

Not really fams, but i hope you're doing good

[heavy mantle]

Hope your situation improves asap

[young void]

Me to ya know

[heavy mantle]

I mean resonantly last friday i got into a car accident tho it was a bunch of teens that rear ended us while being drink and ran away once the police arrived, they forget and left all of there licenses and everything, only one left as he was drunk af, this might be the fastest insurance have ever worked with us lmao

But really worm if ya need anyone to talk to im always here🫶

[mild sandal]

Does amd have some easy oc software like xtu?

[heavy mantle]

Why do it thru software just do it in the bios

[mild sandal]

If there's a toggle that gives me more fps without having to experiment in my bios why wouldn't I?

[dapper junco]

Well ryzen master?

Also what you describe is basically turn on PBO in bios

[heavy mantle]

Not rlly experimenting, look up your mobo online and how to “dummy oc “and yeah simple performance boost

[thick frost]

well

just work things

[mild sandal]

Sick

[whole lake]

I shall be adding Ubuntu and fedora alongside my Win11 25h2 (primary OS)... but I have 32gigs of RAM... is swap partition required in my case?

[pallid marsh]

[oak vector]

I just woke up and it’s already 100f
Amazing

[pallid marsh]

i just woke up and its alerady 5:30pm

[oak vector]

[turbid locust]

Ryzen Master exists but I cannot recommend it

At best it does… basically nothing on the “auto oc” thing. Otherwise you can enable and adjust PBO but… yeah

I usually recommend people not use it considering when Zen+ or Zen 2 released, RM was sending way too much voltage at chips lol

[hoary hatch]

Wtf

[topaz veldt]

that depends

[pallid marsh]

its very normal to sleep for 15 hours when you have a cute kitty snuggling with you

[oak vector]

bios ftw
I hate dealing with rm and it doesn’t even wanna work for me

I adjust settings, hit apply, nada.
So I just use the bios and it’s fine

[fervent chasm]

wow capturing mouse is super annoying for streams

[crimson widget]

this is true

[turbid locust]

Literally a checkbox in OBS

[edgy laurel]

lol Mac trust me you outta the loop 😆

[hoary hatch]

Oh Google is trying to tempt me with 40% off pixels

[fervent chasm]

im writing my own encoding / streaming app

i might just pass the mouse position and let the client draw it

[turbid locust]

Apparently

[fervent chasm]

Streaming Desktop to Browser

not that easy sadly

1st to the 12th basically this month was no frame output on the browser lol

only the last few days ive had a lot of progress

[random flame]

Speaking of Google (and I know it was just his name mentioned, buuuut) and the maker of Macs (Apple), surprised it took this long for someone talk about this subject... Even if everyone already knew the whole deal anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoW8oRXXH0

[hoary hatch]

Blackberry was for olds and windows phone didn't have apps

[fervent chasm]

rn im trying to shorten the code a bit

it was at 1.4k lines earlier today

down to 800

im not used to having to worry about memory leaks this much either

[random flame]

Symbian also made little sense.

[hoary hatch]

I am too young for symbian

Was that palm?

[random flame]

PalmOS was fine for a time, but once Android and iOS was out, turning it into WebOS happened and while it was good... You just can't win against two other giants.

[random flame]

Nokia

[hoary hatch]

Like a smartOS or was it just the name for their feature phone os

[random flame]

Smartphone OS

[hoary hatch]

Ah

The only smartphone OS I've used is android

[topaz veldt]

long day

[random flame]

Then... Microsoft bought Nokia out to try and penetrate the phone manufacturing market, bringing the final nail to Symbian's coffin and had them us Windows Mobile instead.

[fervent chasm]

I was complaining before about how annoying DXGI is that it determines what a "new" frame is itself, when my game is running 300fps and my monitors refresh rate is 144Hz but it only wants to say the display is only outputting 70-80 new frames per second, but at least now it automatically stops sending frames on static content

[hoary hatch]

Began with android 2.1(?) eclair on the HTC droid incredible

Yeah it was 2.1

[fervent chasm]

So if im looking at text, and nothing is moving around, FPS is literally 0 but it picks up instantly when I move, saves a bit on bandwidth

[hoary hatch]

Man I remember being so jazzed for the gingerbread update

Then disappointed I never got ice cream sandwich on it

[turbid locust]

feel that

[topaz veldt]

I am addicted to this beverly hills cheese youtube channel

[hoary hatch]

I love the bev hills cheesemongers

I want to go spend obscene amounts of money of weird cheeses

[topaz veldt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LAJMW5ulP40

this guy

[hoary hatch]

Yeah he's great

Such a good channel

[topaz veldt]

I fell asleep to it last night lol

[hoary hatch]

I've never used a Nokia unfortunately

[random flame]

And as for WebOS, HP bought out Palm and tried to continue it, then gave up and let LG have it while making an open-fork with Palm's following community known as LuneOS.

LuneOS however is discontinued and LG not even once used WebOS for their phones, only their smart appliances.

[hoary hatch]

LG
HTC
HTC
Samsung
HTC (pixel)
Essential
Samsung
Google
Google
Google
Google

[pallid marsh]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/firefox-is-becoming-an-ai-browser-and-the-internet-is-not-at-all-happy-about-it/ LETS FUCKING GO

[random flame]

Already saw that and the general response to it too.

[pallid marsh]

"In mitigation, Enzor-DeMeo also says that the AI element in Firefox will be optional. "

[random flame]

Mozilla is definitely at risk now with potentially losing the crowd and having all the forks take them up instead.

[pallid marsh]

wonder what team will get better company support the AI side or the non ai side

[potent wing]

neither

[random flame]

It'll be complicated, since it sounds like another certain third-party's "recommendation" to add it in the first place and the team probably has no real choice with how to comply or allow themselves to go under.

[potent wing]

firefox dies and chrome wins by default /s

[fervent chasm]

Oof getting up to 40Mbps bitrate when theres a lot of trees and stuff

[oak vector]

Heya

[oak vector]

That’s my normal internet speed

[fervent chasm]

yah idk why its so high, was getting much lower yesterday

[oak vector]

My mobile hotspot is genuinely better than my home internet

my plan isn’t that awful
It’s just my fuckass modem is so bad
and it’s so unstable

[fervent chasm]

switching back to VBR kinda fixes it but now the bitrate is so low the quality goes to shit

yo this is actually starting to piss me off 😭

[turbid locust]

not being a hater but why do you feel the need to narrate your entire adventure here

[potent wing]

heaven forbid a man has hobbies

[fervent chasm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

except my version

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/annoyed-fuck-frustrated-gif-15331740

[fervent chasm]

Nah theres a few people here who when they are on, help a bit

And I like to post updates

this channel is dead anyway rn

[turbid locust]

I wonder why

[edgy laurel]

shh, i'm quietely following since yesterday and learning things

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-word-gif-711844034390741016

[wraith steeple]

I wonder how much DDR4 prices are affected by AI? I want to take advantage of the supply and demand (if applicable)

[potent wing]

i mean

[turbid locust]

bro I’m about to throw a frozen deep dish pizza in the oven and this shit says 45-50 mins wtaf

[potent wing]

people have to be using ai with ddr4

is not that old

[fervent chasm]

isnt that the normal amount of time?

[turbid locust]

bro a frozen pizza is like 12-15 mins

why tf is deep dish 3x

[potent wing]

....

deep dish

[merry stirrup]

how much thicker is a deep dish pizza than a traditional pizza

[turbid locust]

ITS COOKED

[merry stirrup]

how much more thermal mass in that bitch

[edgy laurel]

if i do frozen pizza its thing crust and like 12 minutes. thicker stuff is longer

[turbid locust]

how much thermal mass in ya momma

[merry stirrup]

2 sweet teas

[turbid locust]

anyways I have to commit to the bit I’m hungry

[potent wing]

unsweetened tea

[fervent chasm]

I think im gonna have to pay someone to figure this out for me, no matter what I set the CQ value to, my bitrate is peaking like 50Mbps

[pallid marsh]

it would be faster to get a pizza hut deep dish ordered to your house

[mild sandal]

i hate subscriptions.

[turbid locust]

this shit ain’t even a big pizza

literally like 10” diameter

45 min for fuckin what

[low sorrel]

TIL you don't need a usb stick to update bios and it works if you download the bios to your SSD

[edgy laurel]

no logic to force a limit? (i dunno what im doing just spitballing)

[low sorrel]

Real question how the fuck did I lose another USB stick

I bought it a month ago

[fervent chasm]

there is but its just ignoring it

[edgy laurel]

I'm just thinking about what i'm used to, OBS for example, you can configure everything you want in the encoder but there is still a bandwidth limiter in place

ahh

[fervent chasm]

its literally at 8Mbps

[fervent chasm]

And then I set it here

[potent wing]

those are words

[edgy laurel]

er, is that kbps?

[fervent chasm]

yes

[potent wing]

make them 5090 speeds

[topaz veldt]

I am still trying to understand why a dude thought to question scripting a solution against, assumingly, hundreds if not thousands of files

[fervent chasm]

I thought he said he didnt know how many files you had

[topaz veldt]

Why ever would you script something for like 5 files

[fervent chasm]

This is LTT discord man

[edgy laurel]

am I stupid or does that not work out to 8000kbps, not 8000000?

[topaz veldt]

Find me a single person here who A) scripts anything B) against 5 files

[fervent chasm]

well I have a function in a script that does that in the hyper-v powershell script I have

usually only snags like 5 files

[hoary hatch]

I've run powershell scripts on less than 5 files

[fervent chasm]

looking for driver files in system32

[topaz veldt]

finding 5 files vs targeting 5 files are different things

[edgy laurel]

just please don't start an argument

[fervent chasm]

someone whos bored then idk

[topaz veldt]

someone with nothing to contribute really

[turbid locust]

I need to like

[fervent chasm]

mb its in bits

[turbid locust]

learn to do that shit

[edgy laurel]

yeah, so 8Mbps = 8000Kbps, right?

[topaz veldt]

why bother just do it manually

[fervent chasm]

yur

[turbid locust]

scripting

[topaz veldt]

whats the cost/benefit

[edgy laurel]

so the 8000000 number was throwing me off

[fervent chasm]

ball knowledge

[turbid locust]

deez/nuts

[edgy laurel]

oh

just bits... ok nevermind..

just smacked me in the face

moving on

I asked if it was in Kbps and you said yes! so it was your fault I see 🙂

[fervent chasm]

Yah then I realized #tech-chat-2 message

but yah my fault mb

oh my god

I think im stupid

that disables the bit rate control when set to 0
i think

[edgy laurel]

doh

[steel stream]

How many files

[topaz veldt]

Not 5

Also the whole point of a script is to be able to re-use or continuously use

[fervent chasm]

Can you guys see a visible quality difference in these 2 photos?

[topaz veldt]

pasting screenshots into discord, which compresses, is a bad test

[fervent chasm]

damn that sucks

i need to get my CDN working again now that you mention that

[topaz veldt]

You run a CDN?

[fervent chasm]

at some point earlier this year I started a project but totally forgot about that

[fervent chasm]

i used it when I couldnt upload media to discord because of its size limits

and I was messing with 4k 60fps gifs, that was fun

[topaz veldt]

Do you mean you used a service?

[fervent chasm]

no, I built my own

with Python and Flask library

[topaz veldt]

you realize a CDN is like.... distributed

[fervent chasm]

yah, I had the first node 🤣

[topaz veldt]

Ok so you had a web server 😉

[fervent chasm]

yah but now that doesnt sound as good on my resume does it

(im just messing now dont yell at me)

[topaz veldt]

As someone who interviews people, "built my own CDN" won't make the cut because it doesn't really make sense inherently

[edgy laurel]

yeah this is all fun, no need to get on peoples case

[topaz veldt]

It would have been impressive if the person built a CDN, but they didn't lol

[turbid locust]

Where did my confrontational guilty go

[topaz veldt]

Its like saying you built a race league, but y ou were the only car

[young void]

I could be a snails janitor

Thats all i got xD

[topaz veldt]

I founded a national racing league

[fervent chasm]

would my streaming project sound good?

[topaz veldt]

I am the only car participating

[topaz veldt]

I am not really sure

[fervent chasm]

I belive it will be the first app thats open source to get you this quality and fps with such low latency to browser

if I get it working more than just the stream

[young void]

Numbaaa 1

[steel stream]

did the script end up working for you?

[topaz veldt]

yep

[steel stream]

sweet

[topaz veldt]

I need to get it into my workflow

[edgy laurel]

people spend so much time picking apart idiots that join here all day but when someone with half a brain and can actually speak knowledgeable about things shows up, I just don't see the point it only giving them a hard time. its lame, is all.

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/umm-wait-nathan-fillion-gif-4809231

[topaz veldt]

Sorry but its factually inaccurate to claim he built a CDN. I'd have been interested in that. That's not what he built.

If you're impressed by the claim then that's cool btu i won't apologize

[steel stream]

playing Gambit in the big 25

oh wrong person

Guilty that was for you

[fervent chasm]

I mean CDN you just find the lowest latency server hosting the file and use it instead of something across the world? doesnt sound that complex tbh

[topaz veldt]

Yeah companies have only made billions of dollars doing it, its probably simple

As someone who deals with global app presence when you said "I built a CDN" I was piqued. Then quickly let down.

[fervent chasm]

dw, once I finish this project I shall deliver the CDN

[topaz veldt]

I will wait anxiously

[pallid marsh]

50 512gb drives gone https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/boy-breaks-50-of-his-fathers-samsung-m-2-nvme-ssds-worth-nearly-usd4-000-25-600-gb-of-storage-ruined-by-ten-year-old-oblivious-to-global-nand-crisis

[fervent chasm]

i think this one is much cooler

[topaz veldt]

this is a weird story

[fringe vigil]

i guess ill plug my c5 oled in without any calibration

[fervent chasm]

are these not salvageable? it only looks like the chips are on one side?

[topaz veldt]

It seems more plausible that a company had a bunch of these OEM pm991a and wanted to render them useless

Like if I didn't want to pay for certified destruction that's how I would do it

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-mocking-joking-kidding-sarcasm-gif-5731274879454463322

[fringe vigil]

guilty aint helping

[turbid locust]

we beat them with a hammer when I was in IT. Like men. Back when men were men.

[topaz veldt]

lol

I'd snap them in half too if I had to do cryptographic erase on 50 NVMe devices lol

thats like 24 hours of fucking M.2 swapping

[turbid locust]

google is free

[oak vector]

no internet in the new house yet
And I have to wait 4 days until my bed and desk can be moved

[fringe vigil]

mf

[fervent chasm]

lol, I had the same issue when I moved into this home half a year ago, no internet for weeks

[steel stream]

warm 50, peak brightness high

[topaz veldt]

sunglasses

[edgy laurel]

only spent the last 3 years talking about this stuff jorj, youve picked up nothing?

[fervent chasm]

Pre-internet setup

pretty sick, I know

[topaz veldt]

why

[fervent chasm]

whats wrong with it

[topaz veldt]

its... sideways

[fervent chasm]

so

[turbid locust]

I was about to go “for those annoying adapters that cover two outlets” and then realized the orientation of the plugs lol

[topaz veldt]

boxes don't attach to stud that way

[steel stream]

load bearing outlet box

[fervent chasm]

lemme ask my dad hold on

[topaz veldt]

like

[pallid marsh]

dont worry only the hot side is on the top

[whole lake]

Soooo which should I install first 🤔

[fringe vigil]

mf you want me to get burn in

[topaz veldt]

lol in my garage I mount the receptacle "upside down" so if you drop anything along the wall it'll short to ground

[fervent chasm]

our boxes are square

[turbid locust]

every time I see someone with a Kali ISO I just see this

[edgy laurel]

what do I have to do with that jorj

[topaz veldt]

thats a rectangle dude

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-pc-meme-matrix-codes-gif-11310648121341593764

[fringe vigil]

so tell me how to calibrate what do i need to mess with or do

[topaz veldt]

Its been a while, but I think this is a rectangle

[whole lake]

That ain't me tho

[pallid marsh]

thats the smart why to do it all the hospital outlets are like that

[fervent chasm]

the box behind it is square, it can fit double

[steel stream]

warm 50
peak brightness high

[edgy laurel]

you were told above

[topaz veldt]

then the plate would be square

[fringe vigil]

ak?

[edgy laurel]

...

[fringe vigil]

where

[edgy laurel]

bro he just told you again

[fringe vigil]

that what i said

ak, but i thought he was trolling

also doesnt highest peak brightness cause burn in

[edgy laurel]

then there is Game Mode, HDMI Deep Color

[fringe vigil]

game mode naw

[steel stream]

you mf

[turbid locust]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/381193840159358976/1140410850209955970/fa7e8fcccfe6979501de65cad470c56450f394c0b2366a9c0ef2e37b31f53644_1.gif.gif

[pallid marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lXBppdxAnUM?feature=share its dumb but i want it a bullpup shotgun with a semi curved barrel

[oak vector]

Luckily it’ll be sorted tmr
I’m just more annoyed at the desk part lmao
I’d happily move my mattress over
But I still won’t have my pc
(Unless I set it up on the floor I guess)

[fervent chasm]

you can change the orientation however you want

[peak wind]

So... Would I buy a RX9060 XT Brand new or a RX 7080XT used, assuming both are under a similar price point?

[oak vector]

Hi jorj

[pallid marsh]

dont buy a fake 7080XT

[fringe vigil]

h

[peak wind]

How would I know?

[oak vector]

7080xt lmo

[peak wind]

Since I was buying it in Facebook Marketplace.

[pallid marsh]

because it would say 7080xt unlike the real 7800xt

[steel stream]

what are you saying

[peak wind]

Probably a kid

[steel stream]

it's jorj

[turbid locust]

I still don’t know if jorj is 14 or 45

[fringe vigil]

do you own a 4090 no

[turbid locust]

14

[steel stream]

14 and a half

[fervent chasm]

@topaz veldt its called an outlet mud ring https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-Gang-Square-Mud-Ring-52C13-50R-52C13-50R/202590473

[edgy laurel]

in the vault

[fervent chasm]

In our state youre not allowed to have the plastic boxes, has to all be steel conduit

Theres even dual ones like i said https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/b2f4a368-0091-4967-b600-21623245d92e/svn/covers-52c17-25r-fa_600.jpg

[fringe vigil]

whats funny about it

[turbid locust]

put a fork in it

[steel stream]

won't stop me from sticking a fork in there

[steel stream]

bastard

[turbid locust]

akn sybau

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/rhett-and-link-nerd-vs-geek-rap-battle-store-glasses-gif-17402325

[fervent chasm]

Apparently the reason they want the metal conduit and boxes is because then its all grounded since its connected to the fuse box

dont have to run ground wire

[turbid locust]

bread.

Guys my deep dish pizza is finally done

[whole lake]

Installing the first OS of my multi boot setup

[edgy laurel]

multi-booting on a laptop. godspeed

[whole lake]

Ikr

[edgy laurel]

all on a single drive?

[whole lake]

Affirmative

[young void]

Lmao this is a good one

[edgy laurel]

let us know when GRUB croaks and eats one of the installs

[whole lake]

Won't let that happen.

[edgy laurel]

🫡

[whole lake]

It's win11 + ubuntu + Fedora so idts there are any chances

Unlike manjaro that's fucks up the grub entries or fails to recognize stuff

[fervent chasm]

here its opposite

my dad said its because if you put the hot on the bottom, you cant see it as well and if it touches the box, I quote "kaboom" (because its metal)

[pure garnet]

nah it's usually the other way round

the windows install will eat grub if they share esps

[frank zealot]

It's in the wild!

[potent wing]

How good is intel arc nowadays

For the 8 people who bought them

[frank zealot]

Well the B50 is intended for workstations

[frank zealot]

Uhhhh... Intel is doing well with battlemage

[edgy laurel]

not familiar with that one

[low vector]

should i get a qhd 144hz monitor over a 240 fps fhd monitor for gaming? i’m stuck because feeling higher frame rates would help in competitive play but the resolution upgrade i’ve heard is very good

[edgy laurel]

but i don't really follow arc

[frank zealot]

Low profile 16gb workstation 70w

[potent wing]

So who’s ready for gpu crisis 2026

[turbid locust]

very ready

selling my 5090 for a down payment on a Supra

[potent wing]

I’ll sell my 4080

I’ll probably get Pennies

[frank zealot]

Part of me is tempted to get a 5080 right now and giving up on better

[young void]

Ive been offered 3 cars and not even there yet, who knows mac 🍀

[brisk jolt]

Which one

[potent wing]

eBay probably exploding rn

[brisk jolt]

The 2 JayZs or the BMW supra

[turbid locust]

MK5, fight me idgaf

[brisk jolt]

I’d also go mkv

[potent wing]

1080s and 2080s are back in the menu boys

[brisk jolt]

sorry but the MKIV looks like shit

[flat moth]

.

[turbid locust]

ngl I’d rather get a GR Corolla and use the money I saved to mod it

[frank zealot]

5080 for 1100.... hmmmm

[turbid locust]

not terrible

[pure garnet]

any reason not the 5070ti

[brisk jolt]

exactly

that inline 3 is already making like 300 horses or smth

[turbid locust]

mhm

[frank zealot]

More power is more power

[turbid locust]

and can make 400 somewhat easily

[pure garnet]

buncha diff models at msrp still

i mean fair, i just dunno if i'd pay the $350 for ~15% or so

[frank zealot]

I have about 900$ in newegg credits, so....

[turbid locust]

What are 5090s at rn

[brisk jolt]

the gr corolla/yaris are just sleek

[potent wing]

How many months you think

until shit hits the fan

[frank zealot]

We're going up, up, up! /KPop

[pure garnet]

oh

[turbid locust]

that song drives me insane

[pure garnet]

at like $200 real 5080 makes a lot more sense

[brisk jolt]

starting at $3300 USD

[frank zealot]

Or free 5070 ti

[brisk jolt]

before taxes btw

[turbid locust]

ok non stupid models now

[potent wing]

I’m having a stroke before taxes

[brisk jolt]

literally every other model is as good as DNF

[potent wing]

32 gb of vram is wild

[brisk jolt]

i mean here dude

[turbid locust]

oh lmao

[frank zealot]

This is the cheapest at newegg

[potent wing]

remember when this hobby was in the 100-900 range

for a decent computer*

[pallid marsh]

https://www.newegg.com/zotac-rtx-5090-arcticstorm-aio-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-liquid-cooler/p/N82E16814500630?item=N82E16814500630 2800

[frank zealot]

I was hoping to hold out for a 5080 Super 24gb....

NOPE

[potent wing]

How much are kidneys worth

[brisk jolt]

3k usd before taxes, this is after-taxed

[pure garnet]

if you're planning on keeping this card a really long while i'd probably get the 5080

[potent wing]

…..you know if AMD aren’t cooking up a new gpu now

[pure garnet]

just bc that bit of raster might keep it going

[frank zealot]

Or dlss4 extra oomph

[potent wing]

Temu and aliexpress GPUs are on the menu

[turbid locust]

Yikes

[potent wing]

1050 to or 1660 super ftw

[brisk jolt]

yeah every 5090 is back to 3k

basically everybody here got one at prime time

[frank zealot]

I'm seriously tempted by the 5080

[turbid locust]

5070Ti is arguably the best value card of this generation

[fickle narwhal]

Damn so I should just sell everything and make money off my pc

[brisk jolt]

you could flash the aorus master bios for 450w, thats rly the only benefit

[potent wing]

Buy it now and it’ll go up in price in shipping

[brisk jolt]

yk what

ill get another 5070ti

[turbid locust]

Could wait for Supers tho

[frank zealot]

Nvidia said they at least very delayed, if not canceled

[turbid locust]

oh lmao

[grim fulcrum]

debating also whether to sell off my 4070 ti super and buy a 5070 ti

[potent wing]

they haven’t cancelled the GT series

[fickle narwhal]

Supers is all about more vram so…

[grim fulcrum]

performance jump doesnt make sense but fuck nvidia

[brisk jolt]

supers arent till 2027

[frank zealot]

You think Nvidia is adding vram in this market?

[pallid marsh]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-is-reportedly-looking-to-cut-gaming-gpu-production-by-up-to-40-percent-in-2026-due-to-vram-supply-issues-but-its-not-as-bad-news-as-you-might-think-not-yet-at-least/

[turbid locust]

1080Ti is all anyone needs anyway

[brisk jolt]

also the probability of it being cancelled is like the percentage of germs that get eliminated by hand sanitizer

[potent wing]

“It’s not bad as you think”

[pallid marsh]

can't even play the new Indiana Jones on that

[fervent chasm]

we literally saw RAM chips double in price within a month, this is going to get much worse than it already is

[fickle narwhal]

If only games weren’t so badly optimized

[potent wing]

I’m still paying on my pc rofl

inb4 Linux usage goes up cause of gpu market bs

[turbid locust]

half the games people say this about aren’t even poorly optimized

[fickle narwhal]

Ark survival ascended

[potent wing]

Or Bethesda games

[brisk jolt]

“if only games werent so badly optimized”

-mainly plays clash royale

[fickle narwhal]

Need I say more

[turbid locust]

like yeah I would think games were poorly optimized 24/7 if I was on a 2060 Super too

[potent wing]

Anything can run if you aren’t afraid of medium graphics

[fickle narwhal]

I get 60 fps 120 with fake frames at 1440p

[turbid locust]

Anything but BL4

[hoary hatch]

I want whatever this guy is smoking

[brisk jolt]

“I think these games are poorly optimised”
-3060
-maxed out every graphic setting
-refuses DLSS4 even at quality

Extra:
-refuses to use FG to bruteforce

[frank zealot]

Remember when Nvidia couldn't make enough gpu's in any way so they said "fuckit! 12gb 2060!"

[potent wing]

When was the last time 980 to worth 500

That was worth*

[hoary hatch]

How are 2 broken 980ti worth $500 in 2025

[turbid locust]

In all fairness FG shouldn’t be a substitute for playable framerates

[brisk jolt]

We’re getting 60 series in 2028/2029 at this rate tbh

[turbid locust]

FG should be for folks that want to play above 120fps

[potent wing]

980 it was my first dream gpu

Ti*

[fickle narwhal]

So you have to have a good card to notice some games run like shit even though they look no better than another game that runs well

[edgy laurel]

me, right now in S2, its the only thing giving me playable framerates (and its doing a damn good job)

[brisk jolt]

“bro my gpu cant hit 120 fps in x game”
60 base fps

[hoary hatch]

I think 295x2 was my first dream gpu

[potent wing]

God early stalker 2 was so painful

[edgy laurel]

its not much better now. at least in a couple of settlements

[brisk jolt]

What game are you even talking about

[potent wing]

everything felt like I was on a launch model ps4

[strange ginkgo]

even after all these years raytracing is not worth the performance penalty

[potent wing]

I couldn’t even finish it rofl

[fickle narwhal]

Ark survival ascended

[turbid locust]

I literally refuse to play BL4 because I can’t maintain 90fps rendering at 1080p with a mix of Medium and High

[burnt socket]

guys should i continue servicing this laptop? i need to repaste it cuz it overheats

i5 10300H, 8GB DDR4, GTX 1650ti 4GB

[potent wing]

ark has always been shittly optimized

[burnt socket]

or is it bad in 2025

[brisk jolt]

yeah idk anyone who actually plays that

[arctic bronze]

If you use it, yes

[turbid locust]

I literally refunded the game cause I wasn’t able to reliably stay above 60fps on my XTX

[arctic bronze]

Its certainly not a strong laptop

[edgy laurel]

thats where I am right now. occasionally dipping below 90 on DLSS P with FG 2x

[potent wing]

though I cut the developers some slack cause of irl stuff

[turbid locust]

Yeah I’d rather just not play the game atp

[burnt socket]

it had a buldged battery that i removed, now its just a desktop in the form of a laptop

[edgy laurel]

but i'm also being stubborn and refusing to tick anything below Epic quality

[fickle narwhal]

I like the game run my own private server off a pc I have (running the server is just as fun as playing the game)

[burnt socket]

should i still service it with fresh thermal paste?

[potent wing]

don’t worry bl4 just needs 4 more patches

[arctic bronze]

That sucks, but if you use it, totally repaste it

[turbid locust]

If I can’t get decent performance in a game with the best gaming gpu on the market, fuck you.

[hoary hatch]

oh i forgot desktop discord has weird font

[burnt socket]

alr then it gets thermal paste

[brisk jolt]

and 80% off sale

[edgy laurel]

but, FG is doing fucking work and keeping things playable enough that I don't really think about when im' focusing on the game

[brisk jolt]

“fuck you randy”

[burnt socket]

not using it for gaming nor is it my main pc

[turbid locust]

I can just permanently feel FG in FPS games and it feels bad to me

[potent wing]

Just tell nvidia to remake the 1000 and 2000 series’s

[brisk jolt]

its time to dig up gddr5

[arctic bronze]

10th gen i3 is slow, you have the mobile version of it which is even slower

@burnt socket

[edgy laurel]

yeah, its kinda there but doesn't bother me in most of the games I play.

[burnt socket]

its an i5-10300H

[edgy laurel]

at least not enough to put me off of a game I want to be playing

[fickle narwhal]

Nah gimme 5090ti (6000 with 32gb)

[potent wing]

Hope you guys enjoyed 2020+ games

[brisk jolt]

flashing 800w vbios path traced 4K FG x4 is so optimal

[arctic bronze]

Why would they name an i5 with 3 bruh. Either way, its not super good lol

[brisk jolt]

5090ti is rtx pro 6000 btw

[arctic bronze]

But it works

[burnt socket]

for microsoft word/spotify/discord?

[arctic bronze]

Its ok

[potent wing]

Are people gonna start buying work station GPUs?

[turbid locust]

Best case scenario I lock my in game fps to 69 and let frame gen take me up to 138, and then it’s kind of ok but ugh

[burnt socket]

ok im dissasembling the laptop now

[potent wing]

Quadro series ftw

[fickle narwhal]

No it is not really 5090ti in this theoretical scenario would be for gaming so it would have the drivers and less ram cutting the price from 9k to 4-5k

[fringe vigil]

emi you played life is strnage

[potent wing]

No

[edgy laurel]

where are you locking it? NVApp takes total framerate in account for me. Like if I lock it to like 60 and hit that natively, enabling FG won't go past it

so I lock to 116 even with FG

[turbid locust]

In game

[brisk jolt]

aint nobody buying a 5090ti for x2 for 5% perf at best

[edgy laurel]

hmm, i've never encountered FG going past framerate limts

[burnt socket]

put aside having the ram shortages

[fickle narwhal]

6000 gets 10% without the drivers so…

[whole lake]

Now installing the 2nd os of my multi boot setup (also my fav distro)

[potent wing]

ain’t nobody buying 5090s or 5080s

[turbid locust]

I did it in 2077 once but it was awhile ago

[burnt socket]

i swear if its gonna cost a threaddripper pro

[haughty grove]

GF got me a gigabyte gaming X870 as my christmas gift.... wish me luck getting my hands on some ddr5 anytime soon yall 🙏

[brisk jolt]

2077 in game fps cap doesnt apply when fg is enabled iirc

[fickle narwhal]

It’s never happening so don’t worry

[turbid locust]

Wait @edgy laurel I’m completely misremembering. This was when I was playing with AFMF.

[burnt socket]

atleast gf selected the right motherboard 😔

[edgy laurel]

Ohhh

[turbid locust]

Literally the cheapest you can find atp

[haughty grove]

nah shes goated for that gift frfr .. she said her fathers gonna get me an hs02 pro

[burnt socket]

prebuilt companies cheat more than your gf
(they sent me a gigabyte b840m gaming)

[brisk jolt]

if it isnt a mpower at the very least its a trash gift frfr

optimal motherboard gift is a apex

[turbid locust]

hot take: most people would be COMPLETELY fine on a B840

[potent wing]

I should invest in dell motherboards

[burnt socket]

🧢

no pbo 😭

[haughty grove]

nahhh at least give me a b850

[brisk jolt]

oh no my 65w cpu is gonna explode the vrms

[fickle narwhal]

If it’s asrock maybe

[potent wing]

at least cpu prices won’t go up

right?

[burnt socket]

😭 😭

[haughty grove]

youre gonna jinx us

[haughty grove]

shh

[turbid locust]

Realistically what are you doing on a B850 that couldn’t be done on a B840

[potent wing]

Not using amd

[heavy mantle]

brag

[fickle narwhal]

Everything else is fucked why not that next

[haughty grove]

be cool 😎

[potent wing]

Not everyone uses amd

[turbid locust]

my point

[brisk jolt]

+10

[turbid locust]

literally nobody can name an actual reason lmao

[burnt socket]

guess how warm my vrms are idling rn

[heavy mantle]

higher number = better

obo

[brisk jolt]

35c

[burnt socket]

110 celcius on the cpu

[burnt socket]

its just a ryzen 5 7600 😭

[brisk jolt]

yeah thats normal

[steel stream]

how recently have you tried? It apparently got a nice perf boost recently

[haughty grove]

i mean cpu overclocking is a bit better? and some better faster usb ports would really be it. So if you stream gaming its probably a worth it upgrade?

[brisk jolt]

literally every pc part operates at like 60c normal

[turbid locust]

Literally after that update they said buffed performance

[steel stream]

ah ok just checking lol

[potent wing]

Or just unreal engine 5 is ass

[turbid locust]

❌

[haughty grove]

darn

[burnt socket]

money 🤑🤑

shit i forgot theres the cpu and gpu

[fickle narwhal]

Bought to yap about the superiority of sdr

[turbid locust]

see I said this for awhile and then… games started releasing on UE5 that run well lol

[turbid locust]

me when I make shit up in my head

[fickle narwhal]

Doubtful

[turbid locust]

you guys ever see some shit so stupid you dont know how to respond to it

[pallid marsh]

smh older b650 better

[burnt socket]

dear gigabyte,
please sponsor us a b650 please

[young void]

Everyyy single dayyy

[steel stream]

SDR? As in Standard Dynamic Range?

[fickle narwhal]

Single data rate the og ram

[steel stream]

oh both SDRs are garbage then

[pure garnet]

turning on pbo i thought

[fickle narwhal]

Yup

[turbid locust]

most don’t bother

people enable expo and then never touch bios again

[fickle narwhal]

Except when the cheap tv “supports” hdr then it looks great 😂

[steel stream]

I don't concern myself with such hardware

[fickle narwhal]

Just play console dude it seems like your thing

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/expedition-33-clair-obscure-monoco-gif-1894001316790732786

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/seriously-laugh-laughing-you-serious-jk-simmons-gif-6107729

[fickle narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/not-judging-the-rock-dwayne-johnson-its-okay-its-ok-gif-21187069

[minor herald]

but i want OC

[haughty grove]

oof just read about Nvidia cutting geforce production... we are cooked yall

[minor herald]

we been cooked for a bit now

[brave panther]

buy something else

[turbid locust]

obviously this server’s demographic doesn’t fall into “most people”

[haughty grove]

im in denial

[turbid locust]

obviously enthusiasts will want more/take advantage of additional features

[haughty grove]

i dont even use nvidia i * use radeon just.. worried for the future

[turbid locust]

outside of enthusiasts 99% of mfs would be completely fine on B840

[fickle narwhal]

B650 would be the better recommendation or b670

[steel stream]

just give people a 9700x, b840 and like a 5070 or equivalent card and golden

[turbid locust]

deadass

[indigo walrus]

Every single day.

[edgy laurel]

@turbid locust dipping to the 30's without FG, DLSS Performance

[turbid locust]

No thank you lmao

[steel stream]

9600x would even be fine, but I just don't like 6 cores

[turbid locust]

Zen 6 minimum 8 cores surely

[strange ginkgo]

I'm not sure if PC gaming has a future with prices like this.
so many the people that are young now simply won't be able to afford to start this hobby

[turbid locust]

It’s not PC hardware doomsday ffs

[haughty grove]

feels like it 😭

[strange ginkgo]

it's bad enough to keep people from getting into this hobby

[steel stream]

can't have high points without low points

[turbid locust]

So were GPUs like 4 years ago

[potent wing]

They eventually got better

[steel stream]

[potent wing]

People are afraid of less then high graphic settings

[steel stream]

I am afraid of gaming at a res less than 4K tbh

[brave panther]

you are delusional if you think that
look at arc raiders, you dont need latest hardware to play, an old office pc upgraded with a old gpu runs it just fine

[turbid locust]

also afraid of their pc not looking like flashing unicorn barf

[turbid locust]

Type shit

[potent wing]

Inb4 nvidia pauses gpu production entirely for a year

[steel stream]

you don't understand, I needed the rainbow RGB mirror fans for my first build

[turbid locust]

“It doesn’t matter that I bought a 5060Ti, I NEEDED $400 in LEDs”

[steel stream]

I needed the $300 fishbowl case for it too

[edgy laurel]

w/ FG. This is also worst case scenario. Rostok is bad

[edgy laurel]

(though in person its much smoother, I can't get anything to actually record the generated frames)

[steel stream]

idk if it's the discord compression or smth,. but the textures in this game always just look like they are they moving slightly

[steel stream]

we still don't have a way to capture generated frames?

[haughty grove]

Seems like everyone feels like they need the absolute most decked out RGB strobe gaming pc with record breaking performance when in reality they just need wall colors that aren't beige

[edgy laurel]

i'm seeing that playing it back in a discord windows too, but if you open it full res it doesn't do that

[potent wing]

So who’s ready for people to scounge out 200-900 series GPUs to sell or use

[edgy laurel]

I think we're supposed to but i've had on and off luck with it. its a pain in the ass, tbh

[turbid locust]

or just buy high performance parts and shove them into a black box like an adult

[brave panther]

external capture card

[edgy laurel]

I don't wanna record that badly

[strange ginkgo]

old office PC's are not something that gets people exited for PC's as a hobby i wouldn't use my money to buy one as a teenager today

[edgy laurel]

but also capturing 4K120 w/ HDR and maintaining VRR is such a pain in the ass (with a hardware capture card)

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/brat-bratty-im-a-brat-sylvester-looney-tunes-gif-3928891736900302178

[potent wing]

Dude I used to play gta 5 on a GT 710

[haughty grove]

man ill turn a cardboard box into my case if it works well enough

[steel stream]

they can't understand our struggles 😢

[edgy laurel]

it must be so easy to be a 1440p SDR gamer 🙈

[potent wing]

this is our payback for having good gpus easily avaible

available*

[steel stream]

ignorance is bliss

I joined this server and somehow I now have a G5 in my living room

[burnt socket]

that's some crusty paste, cpu went 90 degrees while launching Nvidia app 😭

[potent wing]

at least it had paste

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/under-new-management-more-like-under-new-management-megamind-megamind-meme-jokez-da-joke-gif-19867663

[shell void]

honestly bare minimum

[edgy laurel]

I came home today to something I've never experiecned before. My G502x was stone dead.

[potent wing]

i love my g pro wireless :D

[low vector]

if i like to play stretched resolution on some games and like to play competitive games, should i go for a 240hz FHD rather then a 144 QHD, ive heard being on 1080p resolutions look worse on a qhd

[edgy laurel]

Typically there is a lot of leeway once it starts blinking and I plug it in and we're fine. Fired up OMM after plugging it in and sure enough, 0%.

[edgy laurel]

stretched res in the big 2025. ew

[steel stream]

honestly I want brighter HDR

but I think it's because I sit too far away from the TV

[edgy laurel]

if all you care about is fragging and not a high quality display experience, yeah, 2010 spec 1080p i guess

gross.. but you do you

[pallid marsh]

time to sell your lg oled for a new mini led tv?

[low vector]

i havent tried out a qhd yet so im not aware of the differences in between them just aware of the fact qhd is more visually appealing

[steel stream]

hell nah

i still love the G5

plus I give up blacks, contrast and viewing angles

[edgy laurel]

its just a lot more pixels

[low vector]

ive been playing on 144 fhd for so long without a thought to upgrade my monitor and its the one area im not really knowledged in

[edgy laurel]

join modern times with a display res and tech from this century

1440p 240Hz OLED's are down around $400

[steel stream]

I recommend the LG C5 42"

[brave panther]

i am waiting for 8k screen with foviated rendering

[steel stream]

that would be hella funky

[edgy laurel]

foviated rendering on a display not 1" from your eyeballs would be.. interesting

[steel stream]

not to mention the logistics

[low vector]

yeah oled's have been looking hella cool to me recently and then i looked at the pricing and i wasnt suprised tbh

[brave panther]

yes, there are eye tracking cameras for screens already but no one has written soft to do foviated rendering yet

imagine this with foviated rendering being better than new gpu

[livid flame]

Then there’s me downgrading my 1440p 165hz to a 1080p 180hz

[edgy laurel]

honestly a monstrous step up from what you have now

[steel stream]

https://youtu.be/SA_Ngg6hasw anotha one

[edgy laurel]

oop, will have to try

[steel stream]

https://youtu.be/hCuT_GXagz0 and here's just a neat one

[turbid locust]

It’s funny cause stretched does literally nothing in most FPS games nowadays. Literally placebo.

[livid flame]

Depends on the game engine really

And how stretched

[pallid marsh]

the only complaints i have with this monitor is the stand sucks and the peel broke on me but i fixed both problems

[livid flame]

If you’re playing 720 wide or below on cs2 on 1080p+ on CS2 it has benefits

[turbid locust]

CS2 is like one of the last games it does anything in

I know Valorant players that swear by stretched and… it’s literally just the UI

The UI gets stretched that’s it

[livid flame]

People do it in pubg, they’re shaving a little bit off. I found it had too big a detail trade off

[turbid locust]

still mostly placebo though lmao

[livid flame]

The Vietnamese and Thai national team started that one off. It’s good for really close up battles tbh

[turbid locust]

stretched doesn’t make you aim better

if you’re missing in native you’re missing in stretched lol

[livid flame]

It’s the mouse movement that generally helps.

Source in particular, has some funky things with mouse movement on various settings

[turbid locust]

source has always been scuffed

[livid flame]

It’s great

[turbid locust]

but literally 99.99% of the reason CS pro players play stretched is because they literally started on 4:3 monitors

[livid flame]

Without Half-life and that fucked up little modified quake 2 engine games would be so different

Well 4:3 gives you that additionally too screen space

It gives more vertical than it takes away horizontal so I do understand that one completely for preference

[steel stream]

I wanna see a CS pro play on my C4 and see what happens

[turbid locust]

Explodes

[livid flame]

A lot of cs pros play with 4k and 1024/720 stretched now

[steel stream]

probably

[turbid locust]

Riot is banning custom resolution stretched in pro play for some reason

[livid flame]

Riot is being riot

[turbid locust]

well, because you have to create the custom resolution in nvidias control panel so

outside software type stuff

Resolutions available in the game are still fine

[livid flame]

More cheating in a riot game than COD

[turbid locust]

you gotta be schizophrenic to believe that

[livid flame]

Honestly though hats off to cs pros switching to 4k with low res. It’s fucking horrible

I genuinely had a hard time on a 1440p monitor using 1080p. In part because of the mouse movement issue and because some games I just couldn’t get right enough to not kill my eyes

[turbid locust]

Stretched is just a meme

[pallid marsh]

do any pro cs players use 1440p 500hz qd oleds?

[livid flame]

Single player games are fine in 1440p, competitive games? Just nah. I had to get my 1080p back.

[livid flame]

Yes

[turbid locust]

I genuinely could not imagine using 1080p for gaming nowadays

[livid flame]

Only a few from what I’ve seen but probably more that haven’t said

Tbh it made a difference in mouse movement on Minecraft for my kid too downgrading but it’s not an important game for it imo

[turbid locust]

the worst gpu from 2 gens ago is getting hundreds of FPS in competitive FPS games at 1440p

why tf anyone would willingly play on 1080p is beyond my mortal realm of comprehension

[livid flame]

Well it’s not just about fps

[turbid locust]

I haven’t been on anything lower than 1440p in a LONG time and not even once have I ever considered the thought of a thought along the lines of “this would be better at 1080p” lmao

[livid flame]

Movement, perception and latency all factor

Tbh it’s way better for osrs for me because fixed classic mode is bigger on the screen

[turbid locust]

lol ok dude

[hoary hatch]

i figured out what was wrong with my printer (i hope)

[pallid marsh]

https://www.techpowerup.com/343849/philips-and-aoc-release-first-1000-hz-dual-mode-gaming-monitors i cant wait for CS pros to play at 720p to reach 1000hz

[livid flame]

But yeah single player were fine I just couldn’t do competitive fps. Switch back to 1080p and bang it all clicked. What I’m used to for almost 2 decades also

[turbid locust]

next levels of cope

[livid flame]

Some have played at 720p for years

[strange ginkgo]

I've never upgraded from 1080 so thats all i know and need 🤷‍♂️
and at least I'm getting stable fps in pretty much all games

[hoary hatch]

gaming at 1080p is fine i guess

its doing anything else that 1080p is ass

[livid flame]

I’d probably put a 1440/4k in budget for next build if I could and just give that one to my kid tbh. I’d keep the 1080

[turbid locust]

I’d be ok with a bicycle if I had never experienced a car before too

[livid flame]

This. I have 2 external monitors and a laptop monitor at 1080p at work and it’s still not enough

[turbid locust]

My testbench still has a 1080p monitor. That’s it.

[pallid marsh]

did you run out of cyan for your black and white prints?

[livid flame]

I’ve asked for just 1 4k monitor and been turned down 😭

[hoary hatch]

no, the poop chute was constipated

[fervent chasm]

whoever looked at 720p and thought "yah thats high definition" was a genius

[turbid locust]

I think I use 1080p at work but I don’t really have a choice. It’s a damn all in one.

[burnt socket]

its running smoother now

shoutout thermalright

[turbid locust]

I’d have to check. They did upgrade us recently. Might be 1440p now.

We’re on 14500’s now instead of 8th gen

[livid flame]

People at work use 1080p with 150% scaling 😭

[turbid locust]

Diabolical

[hoary hatch]

revoke their monitor privledges

[burnt socket]

im happy it runs cool now

[hoary hatch]

that being said, I have seen an upsetting amount of coworkers use their laptops at 1080 125-175% scaling

[livid flame]

We use a product that doesn’t work with scaling. It’s a shite product.. that ironically I’m helping them recreate for us.. I have to tell people to turn scaling off to use it. It’s painful. I’d never know otherwise

[turbid locust]

Work just mildly pisses me off cause I only get 2 displays

[topaz veldt]

None of this answers why it's sideways

[hoary hatch]

I actually blame microsoft
i think the windows default for 14" 1080p is 150%

[livid flame]

It is

It’s a disaster

[potent wing]

everything modern windows is a disaster

[hoary hatch]

i also had a coworker who had a clearly broken trackpad but never once thought "hmm, this shouldn't function so shit, I should ask IT to repair it"

[wraith steeple]

[livid flame]

Linux isn’t the saviour

[potent wing]

It is for the right people

[livid flame]

We do need an OS saviour though

That’s the problem, for the right people

[potent wing]

im pretty sure anyone could learn how to use linux

if they actually researched

[turbid locust]

the right people are less than 1% of end users

[livid flame]

Tf

Warshipped for saying sheath

[potent wing]

get warshipped

[wraith steeple]

Windows is a necessary evil

[livid flame]

Windows is basically the sheath of the OS world. It’s one size fits all.

[hoary hatch]

it is absurd

[wraith steeple]

We've been doing this song and dance since the days of Windows 9X

[livid flame]

9x

[strange ginkgo]

i miss the window 7 times where i could just hate linux and mac while praising windows
now i hate them all

[potent wing]

except old windows was ai coded

[hoary hatch]

i am comfortable with linux
work is only setup for windows
well, shit

[potent wing]

wasnt*

[livid flame]

Give me what ever OS works for the task and is user friendly

The user friendly point is Linux biggest downfall

Too many distros also

[turbid locust]

If you notice that the most proficient Linux users aren’t the ones that want to use it, it tells you all you need to know

[hoary hatch]

the computer I spend most of my time on has to be windows

[livid flame]

I remember the early 00s looking into Linux and fuck me, Debian? Red hat? Fedora? The fuck am I going to choose and why?

[hoary hatch]

then at home I frankly just want to relax and blow off steam; windows doesn't get in my way and is very very compatible with all the games and software I use so there is no reason to change

[livid flame]

Games don’t work? Aw shit. Could it be a dual boot for doing homework? Nah it just flat fucks around with boot loading windows also

[hoary hatch]

also mouse input feels like shit on linux (subjective)

[potent wing]

we need linux 2

[livid flame]

You mean MacOs? No one got time for that

[wraith steeple]

That's the problem,. Mint or Ubuntu is recommended for noobs for a reason. Though at that point that's a rabbit hole that isn't worth going in terms of which distro

[hoary hatch]

linux 2: electric boogaloo

[livid flame]

No Ubuntu when I discovered Linux.

I think Ubuntu got started around the time of HL2 release

When I was like 16 or 17

[turbid locust]

I tried to daily Linux not super long ago, and eventually got tired of spending more time trying to get things to work than actually doing said things.

[strange ginkgo]

in the xp and 7 era i had a very positive attitade towoards updates
now i just see them as evil invasions into my OS or software that wants to ruin something or go against my interests

[livid flame]

The open source community is hella great. They just can’t decide on 1 way forward.

[hoary hatch]

I ran pop os for a while in college and it was fine....except for when I wanted to play destiny or overwatch or battlefield....

[livid flame]

I mean I guess it’s ego to “mine is better” or “I can do it better”

[wraith steeple]

System76 fell off hard

[hoary hatch]

what happened to them

did they just give up

[turbid locust]

I daily drove Kubuntu on my school laptop in college and it was fine

[livid flame]

Web browsing and Microsoft word

[turbid locust]

until I needed to use literally any specific software for a class

[livid flame]

Linux would do well in school for many things. But only so much time to teach every child

[turbid locust]

then it was remote into desktop in dorm room time

[potent wing]

ubuntu would be fine for like

[wraith steeple]

IDEK if their new Comsic DE is avaliable now. It's been MIA/under work for like what?.... Three years at this point?

[potent wing]

most people who dont game

[hoary hatch]

i mean chromebooks would be fine for most people

[potent wing]

use ReactOS

[turbid locust]

if you do literally anything creative or game Linux is just miserable

[wraith steeple]

ReactOS

[young void]

I only use it for algo testing really

[wraith steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-obi-wan-now-thats-a-name-ive-not-heard-in-along-time-gif-11814407

[livid flame]

Chrome books are terrible

Imagine getting interested in computing then find out you have gimped yourself software and hardware wise