tech-chat-2

[brisk jolt]

I’d just go bios and set fan profile to quiet, and go to PBO>advanced>Curve Optimiser and try All core negative at -20

[fleet marsh]

thats way past my ability to do LOL. but ill check into it. but those fans are $120 for 3 ? might as well buy a aio lol

[brisk jolt]

those 2 fans are simply the best

[wet seal]

amd doesnt even have fabs, they sold off global foundries decades ago

China better save us fr

smic 🙏

[wraith steeple]

Ehhhh that's wishful thinking I'm afraid to say

[empty apex]

Has anyone attempted to build one of the harbor freight mini icon box Bluetooth speaker conversions

[plain fog]

if my case has vents below, should I face the PSU fan down or up?

[supple summit]

hey y'all

so i've seen people put 12vhpwr connectors into 30 series fe cards, but is the newen and safer 12v-6x2 pin also compatible with those cards?

[spark hull]

GPU's are fake, they only exist at the microscale. That being said you can get a real PSU and theoretically, maybe, not really.

[edgy laurel]

No, only 3090Ti is compatible with 12VHPWR (12v2x6 is a GPU connector standard, there is no such things as 12VHWR and 12V2x6 cables, they're all the same)

[supple summit]

The connector is diffrent

[edgy laurel]

Can read about that here https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/diy-builder/power-supply-units/evolving-standards-12vhpwr-and-12v-2x6/?srsltid=AfmBOoqTeQ83WCDFPuSsdGmug9CV6n1y8NXnrKru2gSOPvrsmREgTKKf

[edgy laurel]

No, it is not.

[supple summit]

The plastic isnt

The internal metal connectors are

[edgy laurel]

GPU side, yes. The CABLE side is identical.

[supple summit]

Im not talking abt the wires bro

[edgy laurel]

Talking 12V2x6 vs. 12VHPWR here, not the weird intrim 12-pin only used on the 3090 and other FE cards of that generation

[supple summit]

In asking abt the connector

[edgy laurel]

(I owned a 3090 FE for 2 years)

and now a 4090

With custom cables for each

i've got a little experience

[supple summit]

But like the mini 12pin is electrically the same as 12vhpwr and 12v-2x6pin but the latter two have the extra 4 sens pins and support higher wattage

[edgy laurel]

modern 12vhwpr cables with the extra 4 sense pins will only work on 3090TiFE. other 3000 series cards with that 12-pin only (no sense pins) need to use the included adapter or have someone like Cablemod build you a cable

[supple summit]

The sense pins fall outside of the mini 12pin connector on the gpu

[supple summit]

Oh wait

I get u

The female connector is diffrent

The male isnt

(in between 12hpwr and 12v-2x6pin)

Aha

[edgy laurel]

alright maybe you can, i guess https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/102jam2/nvidia_30series_12pin_port_is_pin_compatible_with/

[supple summit]

So as long as there's physical room for the 4 sens pins to hang i could just plug a 12+4 pin into the 3080 mini 12pin

[edgy laurel]

12vhpwr 16-pin cable on 40-series cards: Yes

12vhpwr 16-pin cable on 30-series FE cards: Yes

Nvidia 12-pin cable on 30-series FE cards: Yes

Nvidia 12-pin cable on 40-series FE cards: No

[supple summit]

Found that already

But my question was just if the newer 12v-2x6pin was compatible but u now told me the male connector is just the same

So ty :)

[supple summit]

This is what u were talking abt here i assume

[supple summit]

Oh lol

Didnt see that yet

[edgy laurel]

yeah that was in the link i first sent

[supple summit]

Mhm

[edgy laurel]

was trying to say, there is no such thing as 12vhpwr and 12v2x6 cables

the only change there was at the GPU side

[supple summit]

Yeah i get that now c:

Idk if i sounded rude btw if so, sorry for that btw ✌️ :)

[edgy laurel]

Matrix modified into custom loop? yay/nay

[ripe needle]

That is the most beautiful build I've ever seen, bravo man bravo

My eye is tearing up

[edgy laurel]

Really don't like that case

the plastic grating on the bottom looks cheap

[ripe needle]

I think it looks great man

[edgy laurel]

anyway the neat part was the Matrix with the built in rad removed

[wraith steeple]

I've thought of going with that Distro originally for the rebuild for my father's rig..... But I'd rather not swap out rads since I have a 280 installed in his

[topaz veldt]

is fine - just severely bad value

[edgy laurel]

horrible value

[ripe needle]

Severely bad value meets infinite money

Guilty has infinite money on the low

[edgy laurel]

Chase if you haven't figured this out yet, thats not my PC

[ripe needle]

I thought it was your PC 😭

[edgy laurel]

I can see that

[ripe needle]

I'm truly a genius

[topaz veldt]

rofl

@ripe needle not everyone is rich

[wraith steeple]

I have some additional extenders. Offsets, and adapters incoming

[edgy laurel]

on one hand I like the short, beefy braided runs in conjuntion with the polished hard lines. that is a cool look

reminds me of automotive

[ripe needle]

I'm not rich either, I got my PC as a pre built from rent a center which I paid off over months of working, terrible value yes, but honestly it wouldn't be bad value compared to the prices now

[topaz veldt]

it looks nice not gonna lie

[frank zealot]

done that well? Definiately a yay

[ripe needle]

The prices sky rocketed before I had enough to pay it off

[wraith steeple]

Looks like LiquidHaus' kit

Let me find it

[edgy laurel]

which part?

[wraith steeple]

https://www.liquidhaus.com/products/blk
Yep! Bull's-eye

The far right for the CPU runs

[edgy laurel]

i see the part in question

that also looks.. nevermind

[topaz veldt]

Is that the MDPC sleeving?

[wraith steeple]

[edgy laurel]

ok, ok. clean

lighting on point

lian li fans?

[fringe vigil]

yoo

[topaz veldt]

wish I could find MDPC extra large in white

[devout ridge]

bro i go to leave the photogrammetry overnight, and it fails on the first step right after i went to bed

so the entire night it did nothing

[wraith steeple]

Yep TLs by the looks of it

[edgy laurel]

ok unifan SL infinity wireless

at least according to the pcpp

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/jMJfrH

[wraith steeple]

Ahhh okay NVM they are SL infinity Wireless

Man I hate when Lian Li has so many lines of fans that look identical to each other

[edgy laurel]

you nailed it

[wraith steeple]

I know my WCing stuff

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

[devout ridge]

*checks mutual servers* checks out

[edgy laurel]

if there is anything true in this world, thats it

[edgy laurel]

birds with arms are so damn funny

[wraith steeple]

Someone on a different server was shocked that I was able to identify their coolant just by looking at it

[devout ridge]

not your fault there's like 3 super common coolants

or was it one of the abhorrent colored ones

[wraith steeple]

Mayhems Pastel White

[edgy laurel]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Q2WEzAbuY/

[devout ridge]

okay that makes a lot of sense

[wraith steeple]

I was a huge Mayhems Zealot back then LMFAO

Though it's been a long time since I've last used them

I've been using other stuff like Aquacomputer DP Ultra (that stuff is fucking awesome, lasts forever) and Koolance 702 (and very rare occasions 705, but that's more of a last resort)

[devout ridge]

DP Ultra and Koolance are by far the two coolants i see most recommended

[wraith steeple]

Mayhems X1/XT1 is also noice (I used to be a shill for these) if I want something UV or use their interesting colours

[wraith steeple]

705 is a real PITA to clean given it has a higher Glycol level than most on the market. And it tends to be used for sub ambient cooling too

[devout ridge]

A good flush with tap then distilled should be more than enough to flush it right?

or just straight distilled if you can get distilled for cheap

[topaz veldt]

its like the go-to sleeving

[wraith steeple]

That's how I rinse my rads

[devout ridge]

you in the US or no

[topaz veldt]

I rinsse my rads in the shower

[fringe vigil]

[devout ridge]

Distilled is quite cheap in the almost all of the US as far as i can tell

but a lot less common and more expensive in most other countries

[topaz veldt]

Distilled water is like 99 cents a gallon

[edgy laurel]

yeah but there are varying degrees of quality with distilled, from what i understand

like the CVS brand vs. pharmacutical grade stuff

[devout ridge]

Distilled you get from the grocery store is plenty pure enough for water cooling use

[topaz veldt]

yeah

[devout ridge]

usually the highest quality stuff is labeled "Deionized" even though technically it's a synonym

[wraith steeple]

Mayhems was hard to buy at some point when Mick stepped down from ownership (I miss his old man rants on forums) also around the time XL5 became EOL

[edgy laurel]

yeah I mean, isn't it going to slowly become mineralized the moment you open it anyway, let alone run it through a metal loop

[devout ridge]

Deionized think lab use, distilled think home use

[devout ridge]

it will become slightly mineralized the moment you open it, and very mineralized when you flush stuff

but that's kind of the point, distilled water strips minerals from what it comes in contact with

[edgy laurel]

yeah thats what I figured

[devout ridge]

That's why it's ill advised to drink distilled water

it can make you more dehydrated

[wraith steeple]

For draining, I basically whenever the coolant is drained out of the res, I use DW to get rid of the remaining stuff

[devout ridge]

Distilled water is a really good solvent for anything water soluble, which almost anything you get buildup in a loop is

[frank zealot]

jesus lol:
I just looked, and it'd be cheaper for me to buy the complete Humble Bundle to get all the Civ6 Expansions than it'd be to buy the expansions alone. (like 50 bucks cheaper)

How TF are Civ6 expansions totaling 150 USD Retail?

[devout ridge]

I keep a few gallons on hand for making ice anyways (broken fridge ice machine so we use a countertop one)

often times we'll get it for 50c a gallon

[frank zealot]

Water is a bonkers good solvent

[devout ridge]

For like 90% of things

the other 10% it's a horrible solvent

[frank zealot]

yup

[devout ridge]

but that's kind of the case for most solvents, when used on the right material it's great, when used on the wrong material it's horrible

no such thing as a truly universal solvent

[frank zealot]

between Water and Alcohol? you can use them as solvents for something like 98 or 99% of substances

[devout ridge]

and that other 1-2%, you probably shouldn't be dissolving anyways

if water/alcohol doesn't work, maybe rethink what you're doing

[frank zealot]

or get goo gone

[devout ridge]

also great

[frank zealot]

for very very specific things

[devout ridge]

leaves a horrible residue in my experience though

so usually i'll use goo gone then some kind of alcohol

[frank zealot]

it also melts certain plastics

goo gone will fuuuuuuck up most LCDs

[devout ridge]

distilled water only for any kind of plastics

isopropyl will fuck up most plastics

especially acrylic tubing, keep isopropyl away from your watercooled PC

what happens for those that don't know

[wraith steeple]

Is that pic from WCE?

[devout ridge]

google

there's a command for a different image in WCE

[wraith steeple]

NoPETG/!PETG is a classic

[devout ridge]

most of the image commands are hilarious

they all seem mildly passive aggressive

especially the dualpump one

[wraith steeple]

Yep that is Wyn's setup

[devout ridge]

that's what happens when you get a little too enthusiastic about watercooling

[snow holly]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-came-mypants-gif-4764797

[devout ridge]

friendly reminder water pressure like this would rip the flesh off your bones

[snow holly]

I could take it

[devout ridge]

by the time you said the first syllable you'd be dead

[snow holly]

Put me in coach. I’m not no bitch

https://tenor.com/view/marvel-avengers-endgame-drax-drax-the-destroyer-gif-20680379

[devout ridge]

the line said right after that is the correct response

[frank zealot]

If I die in winter?

It will be because I was petting a Coyote or Bobcat. (Or several)

[devout ridge]

if not friend why friend shaped

[frank zealot]

exactly!

[civic reef]

This thing looks like a cat in an E-ATX form factor

Let me pet you goddammit

[merry stirrup]

been gaming gears of war

got a neat lil self hosted rom vault thing setup

[topaz veldt]

im tired

[fringe vigil]

[frank cypress]

new fractal north looking neat

but i like the og more

[hoary hatch]

I can't wait for Intel's next gen processors, codename "If not friend, why friend shaped?" Lake

[frank cypress]

ooooo what are you scanning?

👀

[topaz veldt]

that is wildly incorrect

[livid flame]

I can’t wait for the South range

[shell void]

it seems like a redundant release to me after the Epoch

[edgy laurel]

I was just saying this yesterday, they have too many cases that all fit the same style/size category

The new Pop, Epoch, Meshify and North if you squint are all kinda the same thing

though I haven't seen a "new" north yet

ah, so its just a blacked out North. even more similar to everything else

[hoary hatch]

Fractal is great at making a big black box

[cosmic gazelle]

elite cable management

there’s a whole ass wall plug in there lmao

[civic reef]

You can achieve most of the difference in this by just changing the front panel / mesh

These all look so samey 💔

[edgy laurel]

thats the point i was making

[civic reef]

Yeah I was just adding onto it

[merry stirrup]

good morning

[cosmic gazelle]

last chance to claim this 16gb stick of ram before i sell it to therapist flopper

[livid flame]

Weirdest ass looking console I’ve ever seen

[frank zealot]

do I post something mean? 😄

[young void]

[frank zealot]

(You're welcome to be irrationally angry about this)

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm going against my roots and liquidating the ram and ssd i'm not currently using even though i want to hoard

[indigo walrus]

No need for me to be irrationally angry; my disdain for this is completely rational. 🤣

[frank zealot]

if you aren't going to use it in the next year or two, you can turn a hella profit

[frank zealot]

keep telling yourself that 😉

[hoary hatch]

Is ddr4 selling for a decent profit on marketplace yet

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah realistically i was keeping it around for a minecraft server but in a year or two i'll be able to build a way better one with my real job money

so it's definitely better to sell now i think

[frank zealot]

well north of 100 bucks for 32gb

[cosmic gazelle]

marketplace in my area is horribly overpriced but on ebay cheap sticks are getting roughly $60/16gb and good sticks are getting more

[hoary hatch]

I need to catalog my ddr4

I have a bunch of 16gb kits I think

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm selling a random 8gb stick and i'm expecting to get about 25 for it

[hoary hatch]

"bunch"

Like 4 kits

[frank zealot]

which is crazy, since that should be worth like 10 at most

[hoary hatch]

I'll ballpark it as up to $250 of ddr4 on hand

None of it is good

So if the market gets very desperate I can sell

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm also selling a micron 2400 512gb ssd so we'll see what that gets

maybe 30-40 bucks? who even knows anymore

[frank zealot]

I've got a PILE of SATA SSDs at work I could sell off if I really wanted to

[cosmic gazelle]

i'd say on ebay nvme is more reliable to sell

but obv any nand is worth more these days

[frank zealot]

#tech-chat-1 message

[cosmic gazelle]

yeesh

yeah probably not gonna pull more than 30 bucks for it but 30 bucks is 30 bucks

[frank zealot]

a few at the front are 256, the ones at the rear are 1TB
Well over 50% of that are 480-512GB Drives

[cosmic gazelle]

at this point if someone's buying a 500gb ssd they just want the cheapest available

so a 128gb is practically the same thing

[pure garnet]

are $30 ebay sales even worth your time

because you’re paying shipping and a 10%? fee?

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah, same as selling on marketplace

[frank zealot]

ebay? no.
FBM? Can be

[cosmic gazelle]

i'm not paying shipping lol

[frank zealot]

marketplace doesn't take 20% of your sale

[cosmic gazelle]

i would pay 10% to not have to deal with stupid flaky idiots constantly

and you just tack on $4.99 shipping for small items and it covers it

[frank zealot]

that's actually a reasonable take

[indigo walrus]

Thanks, I shall. The brain is unable to focus on the content when the design of something sucks. Tis why I don't really "see" advertisements not pay attention in work meetings. 🤷

[cosmic gazelle]

the way i see it, i'm taking roughly 30 minutes of packing and post office time in exchange for $60-80 in my bank account

for components i don't see myself using anytime soon

also marketplace is just trying to constantly screw you at all costs and just wants you to pay for their stupid ads

[frank zealot]

squints

[cosmic gazelle]

not a great deal but not a terrible one either

[frank zealot]

sadly that shitty RAM stick and 1TB is well over half the PC's value

B650 board, so nothing terrible.
That's actually pretty reasonable.

[edgy laurel]

@fervent chasm speaking of did that PC ever arrive

[frank zealot]

(Reasonable given the silicon-pocalypse today)

[fervent chasm]

Apparently comes soon

[edgy laurel]

that, or a brick

[fervent chasm]

The dimensions are right but the weight isn’t

It’s probably just the case

Unless it’s some super low weight case

The maybe

[edgy laurel]

what was this supposed to be again? I just remember 7800x3d

[cosmic gazelle]

what kind of country is that that you can ship a whole pc for free

[fervent chasm]

The seller pay shipping

It’s free for the buyer

[edgy laurel]

they're just including shipping in whatever they asked

[cosmic gazelle]

i know but here it would be like $300

to ship a whole full size pc

[frank zealot]

What exactly is a rare collector's hammer?

[fervent chasm]

It’s like $50 for a giant case

[edgy laurel]

and wasn't it like $600 for the whole thing?

[fervent chasm]

You add $30 and get like $2.5k shipping insurance

[fervent chasm]

$500

[frank zealot]

if he works somewhere with a shipping account, it gets a ton cheaper

[edgy laurel]

thats insane

[frank zealot]

the GPU Alone is worth that much

[fervent chasm]

Yah I did it for fun to see what I would get, I’ve never seen scammers actually ship

[edgy laurel]

if that arrives and is legit, you got the greatest deal of all time

[fervent chasm]

So it will be interesting, I’m betting it will just be the case since it matches the dimensions for the shipment

It’s too lightweight, 18.5 lbs

[frank zealot]

Guilty, do I want a Steamdeck?

[edgy laurel]

I dunno, I sure don't. good price though

[cosmic gazelle]

does fbm have any kind of protection if he sams you

[frank zealot]

FBM? Nope

[fervent chasm]

Buyer protection only for shipping

[edgy laurel]

yeah thats what I asked yesterday lol

[fervent chasm]

If you ship there’s buyer protection

[shell void]

it seems like literally every update that gets pushed to windows 24h2/25h2 breaks something

[fervent chasm]

I also paid with CC just in case I need to charge back

[frank zealot]

smartest choice

video the opening.

[pure garnet]

the people yearn to return to windows 1809

[fervent chasm]

Yah I have surveillance system but I’ll video on my phone too

[shell void]

theyve broken uhhh

[fervent chasm]

Supposed to come within 30 minutes

[shell void]

task manager, file explorer, the taskbar, nvidia gpus twice now

they broke hibernation in windows 23h2 with a security update and afaik that still isnt fixed

i love this future of vibecoded updates with hotfixes shortly after

[fervent chasm]

lol, apparently my delivery drivers name is Frank idk why they tell me that

[shell void]

bless up frank

[fervent chasm]

I wonder if I call him by his name if he’ll ask me how I know

[topaz veldt]

https://x.com/TheRustedGear/status/2019434087061287259?s=20

Rusted Gear (@TheRustedGear)

Last night, a Raider ran into the President of the U.S. on Stella Montis. 😂

🎥u/xamlax

▶ Play video

X · Feb 5, 2026, 3:33 PM

[fervent chasm]

I was hoping I’d get GPS tracking for the truck but oh well

[steel stream]

is the 500 pc coming today

[fervent chasm]

Within 20 minutes apparently

[frank zealot]

dude's at least not delusional about the value of what he has lol:

DDR1 SODIMM?
Don't see those often anymore

[cosmic gazelle]

that's kinda cool just as a collector's item

[pure garnet]

https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/a-cooler-for-life-celebrating-half-a-million-mounting-upgrade-kits

the funny cooler company put ltt on the blog post

[brisk jolt]

its time for me to pack it up i read that as “celebrating half a million upgrade kids”

to sleep i go

[pure garnet]

yeah it's wraps for you

more 6000 bins otw

[brisk jolt]

Nah im not buying anymore CPUs till next gen

[pure garnet]

give it a month

[brisk jolt]

Nah im done with zen+5% slop

only situation would be if a friend gets one

[steel stream]

i love brown fans

[turbid locust]

That’s what we all say

[brisk jolt]

Lets play hide and seek

I will hide and you will seek professional help

[turbid locust]

“I’m staying on raptorlake till zen 6”

Three Zen5X3D bins later I found one to daily.

[brisk jolt]

all that for 200 ram freq on gear 1 or the gear 2 equivalent

[turbid locust]

And the fastest gaming cpu on the planet

[brisk jolt]

And to only have a 8 core CPU

[fervent chasm]

it looks like they gave me the tracking info for something else lol

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-with-tongue-cat-smiling-gif-11949735780193730026

[woven adder]

What's the best place to live in America?

[brisk jolt]

Not-America

[turbid locust]

Chat this guy acts like I don’t have a 14900K and 265KF on standby

[steel stream]

Detroit Michigan

[brisk jolt]

But they arent part of the “fastest gaming CPU” family

[woven adder]

Why do you think it's the best place?

[turbid locust]

Yolo

[woven adder]

Why

[turbid locust]

As soon as I need a machine with more than 8 cores I’ll put one together

[steel stream]

condemned housing and liquor stores

[woven adder]

https://tenor.com/view/shannon-sharpe-undisputed-nope-funny-face-gif-536487951695337499

[steel stream]

atlanta georgia is a nice place to live too

or gary indiana

[hollow temple]

Beverly Hills

[steel stream]

meh

too violent and shitty looking

[hoary hatch]

Only if your name is Gary

[hollow temple]

Best place to live is where your income in that place will cover the cost of living of somewhere decent

Or your own house

[cosmic gazelle]

have you considered flint michigan

[brisk jolt]

Stop falling for the AMD propaganda

[cosmic gazelle]

or chicago

[wise bear]

have you considered ya motha

[brisk jolt]

im feeling hella depressed rn

I dont think anything’s gonna cheer me u-

n o v a l a k e

[turbid locust]

what do I need more than 8 cores for on a machine that games 99% of the time and watches YouTube the other 1%

[edgy laurel]

me, but more like 50/50

[turbid locust]

yeah I’m probably 80/20 but I was making a point lol

[edgy laurel]

I'll still remember when I realized the downside of going from 7900x to 7800x3d

niche, but in Handbrake

[steel stream]

I've been many times

[steel stream]

you need an ARL + arc dGPU system just for handbrake benching when you get bored

[brisk jolt]

tbh im down to get another 9800x3d but wont unless I can get a 5070 mini

[shell void]

“it- it’s- okay lisa i don’t really need more than 8 cores i promise” 🤓

[brisk jolt]

If the next R7 X3D zen 6 chip has 12 cores with a better IMC it’ll be interesting to swap to

Then again, its against NVL

[warm urchin]

Y’all wtf I just talked to someone who had an AI clone of their voice as a “voicemail assistant”

Absolutely uncanny experience

And it also took twice as long to leave a simple voicemail, technology is so over

[brisk jolt]

I think for NVL im very certain Ill be getting a U7 bllc with a z990i and hopefully able to find a great AIO

because the atmos 2 so far ive heard has poor QC related to leakage and poor CS

[turbid locust]

Zen 6 will be more interesting

[merry stirrup]

[turbid locust]

I’ll probably day 1 the cheapest SKU just to play with

[turbid locust]

I’ll play with NVL too if good boards aren’t $800

[fringe vigil]

[fervent chasm]

ok, I think they actually shipped it out but to the wrong fucking house

I have footage from my camera that captures the Fedex truck come up near my home on the street but it goes to the houses away from me

[brave panther]

joined 2026
ah yes

[fervent chasm]

it matches the delivery timestamp exactly

so i still have a little hope that it could be real

[cosmic gazelle]

@merry stirrup this random OEM-pulled ram stick is CJR lmao

[brave panther]

hmm should i get these two mining motherboards (with cpu and ram) for 20$

doesent specify which cpu or how much ram tho

[merry stirrup]

use a bunch of cdie in my server

[brave panther]

maybe i would be able to flash coffetime bios and run 8th gen on em

[merry stirrup]

or 9th

[granite dirge]

which is better game to get saints row reboot, or just cause 4

[cosmic gazelle]

and the other random stick is b die lol

at least that’s what ai says

[merry stirrup]

nice find

find another stick of it

[cosmic gazelle]

do you think it’ll matter to say the die in the ebay listing or do people not really give a shit since its 8gb 😂

[shell void]

you know you won’t be able to resist 52 cores

i’ll be posting R23 scores of 100K+ in here

[turbid locust]

I definitely could lmao

[civic reef]

Honestly feels very stupid that I am buying an X570 board but pairing it with literal converted laptop RAM for the first month

If only a 2x8 kit was still $50 💔

[hollow temple]

I need to get working on my setup and move things around to compete with some of the people in https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1019713714968088586

[edgy laurel]

@steel stream https://consequence.net/2026/02/ian-mckellen-gandalf-lord-of-the-rings-gollum/

👀

[steel stream]

Huge W, and the fact that Andy Serkis is directing is awesome

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-super-pushed-back-rtx-60-mass-production-could-move-to-2028

[fringe vigil]

tf

a new lotr movie since when

[livid flame]

RTX 60 series probably offering 4gb vram

[strange ginkgo]

I don't have much hope that it will be good

[edgy laurel]

since May 2024

[fringe vigil]

f golum

i wanna see serach for smaugs brother or some shit

[fervent chasm]

bruh this is so annoying

its shipped somewhere in my city i just dont know where

and i cant get the address unless I know the street

[topaz veldt]

shit... gonna need more 5090s

Bro how they gonna delay my 6090s wtffff

I can't play like this for another TWO YEARS

[edgy laurel]

wat

[fervent chasm]

Yah they got the city correct just not the house lol

i have no clue anymore where it is im just gonna open a claim with fb

[edgy laurel]

this keeps getting sketchier

[fervent chasm]

most likely some kinda scam but yah

i think ive had this happen before on ebay

[strange ginkgo]

ah yeah they take a shipping number that send roughly to the same location and claim that it's shipped
i've heard of that scam tactic before

[livid flame]

Good news is my 7800xt gonna be good for atleast another 2 years or more

[topaz veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-monk-chinese-gif-14151463252839413923

[pure garnet]

define getting, it was an obvious scam from the start

[edgy laurel]

I wanted to believe

[fervent chasm]

i think they might just send an empty box to a random house

because the box measurements matched the case

well not empty since it weighed 18.5lbs

rocks or sand

[strange ginkgo]

nah they didn't send anything they just took an existing tracking number someone else send and pretended they send something

[fervent chasm]

ah

well it matches the pc size almost perfectly lol

i had something similar with eBay with a 14900ks

this was a few years back

[topaz veldt]

Guilty remember that time I bought a 12700K for like $127

[fervent chasm]

im so glad i have front door camera

[edgy laurel]

ages ago

[pure garnet]

i got close

[steel stream]

miserable

[topaz veldt]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-confirms-internal-reviews-after-multiple-reports-of-dead-ryzen-9000-cpus

[edgy laurel]

whoa

speak of the devil

[topaz veldt]

LOL WTF ad is this

[wheat void]

asrock taichi 2.0 electric boogaloo

[edgy laurel]

nothing interesting here but still, we were just talking about this

[livid flame]

[steel stream]

oh ive seen this too

[livid flame]

That like $1200 for that pc used 3600/2070

[fervent chasm]

i found this too

[civic reef]

https://tenor.com/view/kingpin-kingpin-clicking-pen-clicking-pen-spider-verse-into-the-spider-verse-gif-5180708998338482135

[fervent chasm]

this one has a seller profile and joined in 2007

[civic reef]

Three months of saving left........

[fervent chasm]

$250 trade instead of $500 for a GPU that sells for $900 used on eBay

🤔

[edgy laurel]

why dont you get your money back for the last scam first lmao

[fervent chasm]

waiting on PayPal/FB

They have to give the seller a chance to respond

[cosmic gazelle]

could straight up sell this back on ebay for a profit lol

[pure garnet]

i don’t do ebay

[cosmic gazelle]

it’s the strat fr

[pure garnet]

i just sell my ewaste to @merry stirrup

[cosmic gazelle]

people overpay for stuff so the fee balances itself out

case in point

[edgy laurel]

the $500 5800x3D's selling all week

[pure garnet]

honestly at this point all i have left i’d want to sell are 3 motherboards

[strange ginkgo]

hardware prices are just depressing these days

[cosmic gazelle]

i had an ultra 7 265 / 4060 ti system i sold to a buddy but i feel like i could have made more parting it out atp

holy moly 😭😭😭

now that’s a deal if i’ve ever seen one

[edgy laurel]

what appears to be a pink smudge on the box along the bottom edge of the card is confusing me

[frank zealot]

paint on the box in a very odd spot

[cosmic gazelle]

i don’t understand how these people are real dude

like how did you arrive at that price

like, it’s not even a GOOD 1050 ti for that matter

[merry stirrup]

love this guy

[cosmic gazelle]

looks like single 16gb sticks of 3200mhz ddr4 are selling for 70-80 rn

that’s a sad reality

[merry stirrup]

damn so i have

320$ in my server

not bad

not as much as my d5 computer but

[pure garnet]

i only own one stick of ddr4

no clue what ic it is, but also no hardware to use it on

[merry stirrup]

should’ve put it in the box

[pure garnet]

[cosmic gazelle]

they’re scheduled

put the die in the title because i am a grifter

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup what is

[merry stirrup]

known

*unknown

bad in sailing

oh my god

[topaz veldt]

I am going to have to break it to my family tonight that we won't be getting a 6090 for plex next year

[lethal topaz]

6090 for plex lol what

you and your closest 50 family members??

[cosmic gazelle]

this may be unreliable info but gemini says those are rebranded ICs that are likely CJR but possibly something else

[topaz veldt]

yes

[cosmic gazelle]

would be more epic if it was called 6969 am i right

[topaz veldt]

we've been using this for a bit, but sometimes it takes like 3 - 4 secs for playback to start so I was looking to get the 6090 to improve on that

[steel stream]

I think your son might be incredibly distraught over this

[cosmic gazelle]

this is nuts

[lethal topaz]

my 1060 3gb is crying in poor

[pure garnet]

are you in the us

[steel stream]

no

azerbaijan

[pure garnet]

jorj land

[steel stream]

you think they grow on trees there?

[lethal topaz]

ill be getting a 3070 for the media server soon though

its partially broken but im hoping its only the display output

[steel stream]

why a 3070

[lethal topaz]

free

and its partially broken

[steel stream]

ok free.99 is good

[lethal topaz]

im a budget focused man

[pure garnet]

5090 is a great budget option

[lethal topaz]

if you knew how much i spent on hdds you might suggest a 5090

[steel stream]

i was gonna say arc a380 but it's hard to beat the 3070

[lethal topaz]

i would love to use an arc card

however a 3070 for free is W

[fringe vigil]

Bros pfp

[lethal topaz]

whos

[fringe vigil]

Yours

[lethal topaz]

its good right

thanks

[fringe vigil]

Yeahh

[devout ridge]

testing it with my room rn, later it will be my theater

[lethal topaz]

your room will be your theatre?

[devout ridge]

no, later i’m doing a 3d scan of my theater

for now it’s a 3d scan of my room

[lethal topaz]

oh cool

[devout ridge]

as a test to make sure the way i’m doing it will work

[lethal topaz]

is it for speaker optimization?

[devout ridge]

easier to setup augment 3d in the light board with an accurate model

[frank cypress]

oh cool

what're you using to photoscan it?

i've only tried uh

agisoft

but photogammetry do be pretty interesting

[next ginkgo]

wdym partially broken?

[lethal topaz]

displays green lines after a bit of time gaming

[next ginkgo]

oh that's cooked vram

on any output?

[lethal topaz]

i think so

should still be good for a server though right?

[next ginkgo]

get a heatsink and thermal putty on the vram and pray it hasn't been too damaged

[lethal topaz]

im not using display output just the compute

[next ginkgo]

server needs reliability, it's worth a shot esp as a transcoding card but I can't guarantee it

vram is important still

[lethal topaz]

well i dont have it yet so gotta wait a bit before i can start testing

but thanks for the info

guess i should make a test bench

[limber void]

https://tenor.com/view/south-park-bell-gif-27646997

[edgy laurel]

crickets

so anyway, tough day at the office Elijah? 😉

[fervent chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/bosnov-67-bosnov-67-67-meme-gif-16727368109953357722

[limber void]

Its literal hell /s

[fringe vigil]

welcome

[hollow temple]

Worst part of working for LTT would be cost of living in that area

[wraith steeple]

Elijah TC2 sighting

[edgy laurel]

he's just a dude

[fringe vigil]

you know him

[hoary hatch]

Staff in tech chat 2
It's so over

[fringe vigil]

havent seen you around these parts pal

[edgy laurel]

we know you don't since you don't actually watch LTT

[hardy locust]

yo does annyone know if there's a way to get windows keys for free i just redownloaded windows on my pc and it asks me to put a key

[hoary hatch]

Bruh

[wraith steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/south-park-funny-we-dont-take-your-type-gif-14806320

[fringe vigil]

https://klipy.com/gifs/south-park-funny-1

[hoary hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-we-don't-really-do-that-here-the-umbrella-academy-we-don't-do-this-here-i'm-sorry-gif-9160426102501522917

[arctic bronze]

Sign into your Microsoft account in settings and the Microsoft store

[hardy locust]

thanks

[edgy laurel]

Not going to talk about it beyond this link. Against the rules. https://youtu.be/yJkRd9py5mA?t=448

[hoary hatch]

Imagine a large cemetery

[arctic bronze]

Your Microsoft account should have ur license connected to it

[hardy locust]

i actualy do but idk why it still asks me

[arctic bronze]

Have you tried troubleshooting?

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/there-is-no-war-in-ba-sing-se-avatar-the-last-airbender-atla-no-war-there-is-no-war-gif-15884087966518847999

[hoary hatch]

I lost my physical license keys smh

[wraith steeple]

Now, Skeeter. They ain't hurting no buddy

[arctic bronze]

Imagine

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i lost all of my physical windows 10 licenses too

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-gif-3425669563334334864

[topaz veldt]

Sirs great news!

[fervent chasm]

I don’t think I’ve used a real windows key in a decade

[topaz veldt]

I just received news that my patio permit has been approved!

[cosmic gazelle]

shhhh you’re breaking the 4th wall

[hardy locust]

https://tenor.com/view/asgore-run-over-triki-troy-deltarune-gif-17995477417765303444

[fringe vigil]

challenge for me, watch at least 1 ltt video

[topaz veldt]

bro is literally in LTT discord

[cosmic gazelle]

i USED to watch LTT videos when they were what bringus makes now

now they’re kinda just “we spent money on stuff that looks kinda cool but doesn’t really do anything”

20 times in a row

[fringe vigil]

ifykyk

[indigo walrus]

You got a permit for those guns that patio?
https://tenor.com/view/guns-thuglife-what-gif-4403722

[edgy laurel]

Bjork??

[cosmic gazelle]

like i feel like “the incident” was the beginning of the end tbh

i will not continue because idk how easy it is to get banned lol

[edgy laurel]

no idea what you're on about

[turbid locust]

hard R incident

[edgy laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/luke-lafr-wan-show-linus-tech-tips-ltt-wtf-gif-gif-27693908

[cosmic gazelle]

i saw this live lmao priceless

luke sitting there trying to save face

[edgy laurel]

wasn't even an incident

[fervent chasm]

Very costly misunderstanding if not cleared up

[limber void]

youre done buddy, ive been watching everything

[cosmic gazelle]

that is obviously not what i’m referring to lol

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/home-alone-family-rushing-crazy-gif-10560703

[fervent chasm]

Then you’d know which rules don’t apply in tc2

[cosmic gazelle]

(all of them)

[limber void]

dont make me ping mods

I will be a tattle tale

[fervent chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/i-be-profen-gif-9435864923799777590

[limber void]

@ mod

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-spider-man-web-of-shadows-depressed-sad-gif-16524395

[indigo walrus]

"That's all fine and dandy, but right now I'm looking for a patsy mod!"
... .... ...
"HELLO!"

[turbid locust]

we’re not afraid of those guys, we summon those guys

[cosmic gazelle]

mac do i go pick this up rn

[turbid locust]

def real

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-18212100

what an interesting discord bug

[turbid locust]

discord not be slop challenge

also charge your phone ffs

[gloomy stream]

uhhhh this is still over 3 KB how do game devs get images of any quality to fit under 1 KB?

[frank zealot]

welp, I'm SOL

[cosmic gazelle]

i’m at the gym brah

[turbid locust]

at the gym on discord

larping exercise is crazy

[frank zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-ouch-gif-17938465

[topaz veldt]

"Hey baby, yeah.... its 40 lbs... but I have a mpower board."

[frank zealot]

isn't the bar alone 40 or 45? lol

[fringe vigil]

Snitch elijah

[cosmic gazelle]

hmm

how to prove i’m not larping without showing face or my full name on openpowerlifting

[fringe vigil]

Bro you larp?

[turbid locust]

this is the way

[gloomy stream]

I wanna larp as a JPEG under 1KB that still looks like an intentional image

[topaz veldt]

I came here with an agenda

[cosmic gazelle]

we can like ewaste too 😘

[steel stream]

if youre on discord while at the gym you're not benching enough

[turbid locust]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-april-2026-release-for-dlss-dynamic-multi-frame-generation-and-6x-mode FIRE

[steel stream]

not bench don't care

[cosmic gazelle]

did 280lb for sets of 3 today

[fringe vigil]

I want to larp as Jason Duvall in gta 6

[steel stream]

where's the proof

[gloomy stream]

Can't you do that for 15 seconds with Google's ai model thing?

[steel stream]

cool and all but where is reflex 2

[fringe vigil]

Nah have to go Miami for the larp

[cosmic gazelle]

150kg @steel stream

[gloomy stream]

Oh I see I see

[turbid locust]

Real af

[pure garnet]

@merry stirrup no way

[shell void]

both total nothingburgers to us 144Hz users

[turbid locust]

tell that to borderlands 4

[shell void]

you gonna interpolate from 30fps to 180fps?

you can’t even do a 180 in a game without a massive stutter if your base rendered framerate isn’t at least around 60

so the most we can viably use is 3x if you’re pushing it

[topaz veldt]

@turbid locust im just a bamf

[turbid locust]

ong

[turbid locust]

🖕

[shell void]

i’m asking fr

i like framegen but only 2x or 3x are viable on our low refresh displays

[fervent chasm]

not the single channel

$825 they want for this

[topaz veldt]

this is funny

[shell void]

i was hoping that dynamic framegen would allow for fractional scaling

but it just switches between 2x/3x/4x/5x/6x

[turbid locust]

on Jesus

[fervent chasm]

.5 of a frame?

[frank zealot]

is that 4400 DDR4 or 5?

[fervent chasm]

according to mobo specs has to be 4

is 4400MT/s fast for ddr4?

[nova trout]

yes

[fervent chasm]

Well, Windows says MHz which I doubt

[steel stream]

clearly AI generated

come on buddy at least have some self respect

(good shit though, very impressive)

[cosmic gazelle]

i found a new stretch mark on my lat in the locker room lol

that’s fun

[nova trout]

single stick

💀

[brave panther]

yea this is MT/S

[turbid locust]

not to flex but

[brave panther]

for me it also displays it in MT/s

[nova trout]

that's a latop

[turbid locust]

no it’s not

[fervent chasm]

mini pc?

[turbid locust]

no

[fervent chasm]

tf is it

[brave panther]

someone got an adapter

[turbid locust]

nope

[indigo walrus]

https://www.techpowerup.com/322246/microsoft-is-switching-from-mhz-to-mt-s-in-task-manager-for-measuring-ram-speeds

[fervent chasm]

yah ik it shows wrong

[turbid locust]

kids don’t know about AIOs nowadays?

[nova trout]

man am i glad i took the free windows 11 upgrade offer

[fervent chasm]

keyboard pc

[turbid locust]

literally no

[frank zealot]

one of the fastest D4 sticks on the market

[fervent chasm]

last time i used an aio was an apple computer

[pure garnet]

mac you’re making us feel old

[nova trout]

https://tenor.com/view/inside-out-what-is-it-woman-what-gif-14236508

[turbid locust]

mfs don’t know about all in ones

[brave panther]

i do but i supress this knowlege

[indigo walrus]

Same. It's been nice to ride out my Windows Pro licenses (7 Pro for desktop, 8.1 Pro for laptop) for 30+ years combined now. Last time I did the math on the cost of 2x Windows Pro licenses it worked out to $0.25 CAD per month.

[brave panther]

it just makes no sense

[turbid locust]

you’re just mad my computer is in my monitor

[frank zealot]

mf's don't know about putting these pieces of shit on:

[brave panther]

im not mad, i am worried

[turbid locust]

my work pc is cracked dw abt it

[brave panther]

my work laptop shows up as quad channel

[cosmic gazelle]

my work laptop shows up as “row of chips” rather than there even being fake soldered dimms

[cosmic gazelle]

what cpu?

[nova trout]

lmaoooooooo same!
i was on cheap dell desktop that had windows 7 license,
got offered win10 in late 2015 early 2016, i took the free offer "glad i did"
and in 2023, i switched to win11 also
so almost 11 years of riding out free windows upgrades + multiple devices, just login with my microsoft account and it auto activates
so around 10 devices over 10 years and many reinstalls, now that's a lot of saving!

[brave panther]

ah yes "saving"

who is rebuying an license when reinstalling

[fervent chasm]

whos buying license in the first place

[cosmic gazelle]

there are some actually pretty decent xeon mobile chips that will do quad channel

[brave panther]

i got it on my e5 account

[nova trout]

it seems like you missed the multiple devices part

[brave panther]

this is just alder lake i5

[nova trout]

and the upgrade part, had i not upgraded i'd have to buy

[nova trout]

well either buy direct from microslop for 100$+ or the sus keys online "don't recommend"

[fervent chasm]

or use something that rhymes with ass rave

[nova trout]

conspiracy theory: " microsoft causes unactivated windows installs to go corrupt on purpose"

[indigo walrus]

Lots of people don't understand how licensing works. Some even think you need to buy a new license every time you reinstall Windows even on the same computer. 🙁

[brave panther]

just pay 57$ per month

[nova trout]

ye no i didn't say that, sorry if i implied that,
i meant over 10 different devices which activated with just account login "microsoft support told me that shouldn't work they don't know how it worked"
and the next windows upgrade in total there is saving

[indigo walrus]

All good. My message wasn't directed at you. It was directed at Microsoft for not making the licensing part of Windows as clear as day. If you know how Retail licensing works, you know it's tied to your Microsoft account, thus follows you around.

[nova trout]

scam

[brave panther]

microsoft licesing is field of science all by itself

to understand it you must have like 4 phds

[nova trout]

why does this need to be 57$ a month

[turbid locust]

Microsoft licensing is a PowerShell command

[indigo walrus]

Can confirm. Same for most large company's software licensing. It's hilarious when I hear a company say "oh, we need to talk to our licensing department" just to determine what license a business needs. If you've made your licensing so convoluted that you can't easily tell people what to buy, you have failed.

[brave panther]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-money-giveittome-mr-krabs-spongebob-gif-4184913

[indigo walrus]

Because it's way more than just Windows and Office licensing. E3/E5 licensing includes a crapton of IT Management / Sysadmin functionality that businesses can use, instead of buying a bunch of separate products. For home users, it's overkill, but that's not the target market for E3/E5 licensing at all...

[nova trout]

if you'd like you can explain

[cosmic gazelle]

i know it’s against the rules but it’s remarkable no one’s said the quiet part out loud yet

[brave panther]

i mean we pay milion+ to microslop yearly

[nova trout]

microslop makes a lot of green from our data

[brave panther]

thousands of e3,f3, f1 licenses and couple e5

[nova trout]

does linus pay the 57$ fee

[brave panther]

have fun exploring https://m365maps.com/matrix.htm

[cosmic gazelle]

honestly wish they would release a new line of mobile xeons, these ones were so good at the time

[indigo walrus]

Who knows? Maybe they're fully invested in the M365 ecosystem. Maybe they're still using a mix of M365, Google Suite, and other 3rd party IT management tools / systems duck taped together. This is (unfortunately) quite common in the industry. On one hand, buying into ONE ecosystem looks simpler on paper, but on the other hand... it never is simpler because there is no ONE ecosystem that "does it all" or does it all well.

[nova trout]

preach

[brave panther]

could i do my job with free and open source OS and tools: yes
am i allowed to: no

[nova trout]

thank you champ
second, what in the mazefest is this

[indigo walrus]

For example, I'd love to cancel Dropbox in favor of a Google One or M365 subscription, but Google Drive desktop client is hot garbage on Windows, Microsoft's OneDrive "Photos" feature pales in comparison to Google Photos, and neither office a native linux client. Hence, I remain tied to Dropbox (with the free 15GB tier of Google Photos) until something else meets my needs better than what Dropbox does currently.

[nova trout]

i noticed but what i don't get is how such large companies fail at simple products sometimes

[fervent chasm]

Dropbox is a failing business

[nova trout]

gmail is a lot better than hotmail just UI wise and ease of use and in organization
but how come microslop doesn't care to improve it

[brave panther]

even worse is one drive on iphone
doesent sync if you dont open one drive, most likey due to apple pushing their icloud subscriptions so they kneecapped all other services

[frank zealot]

have you heard of Tresorit?

[cosmic gazelle]

they don’t care to improve any of their products

windows store has been the absolute bottom of the barrel worst app platform since its existence and they will never make it better

[nova trout]

google pays apple to set some of their services as default i know google maps 100% is one

[brave panther]

this is why they depricated it and moved to winget lol

[nova trout]

i said that because they do have competition like gmail

[frank zealot]

hotmail doesn't really make them money

[brave panther]

google maps is not default on ios

[nova trout]

in OS they can afford to not care i suppose

[frank zealot]

so they don't give a fuck about hotmail

[fervent chasm]

this is how i learned it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsrmGcbNLT0

watched it when it came out

this channel is really good

[nova trout]

ye i double checked " was speaking from a vague memory" it's the search engine on safari being google google pays them for it

but you know if you use the google search engine to look up location it will suggest google maps so there's that my memory was half baked

[indigo walrus]

Yes and no. I like some aspects of both, however, in Gmail I cannot fathom why pressing the DEL keyboard key does not, in fact, DELETE the email message I currently have open... Also, I cannot CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click to select multiple messages in the message list. On the other hand, Gmail's anti-spam is way better (in my experience) than Hotmail so... win some, lose some.

[digital plume]

i use proton because it isn't a pain in the as

[nova trout]

ye i notice things like that, some apps and services lack basic functions
it's as if they agree to divide the cool stuff not share

[frank zealot]

do you not have the checkboxes next to your emails in gmail?

[indigo walrus]

I sure do, but I like to click ANYWHERE on the message line. The more I have to move my mouse, the less efficient a service is. CTRL or SHIFT clicking outside of the Checkbox makes the message open in a new tab or new window - neither of these are behaviour I want, even though I understand this technically is native web browser behaviour.

[digital plume]

no hotmail i won't use a fingerprint, no google I won't buy one

[frank zealot]

ahhha

[frank zealot]

you're asking something that is inherently a conflict.

Since ctrl/shift click is meant to open in a new tab in browsers
vs
In the OS, it's select multiple

Regardless of which they offered? They'd piss off users.

[nova trout]

prediction: all these products and companies will one day consolidate into one entity. one day.

[indigo walrus]

Exactly - hence why Hotmail should provide users choice to turn off this feature, and Gmail should let users turn on the feature. Good design includes affordances, and yet, few software developers implement such affordances.

Then again, I realize I'm in the minority thinking like this. Most people don't think about how X could be better if only Y were possible, because most people allocate their time to other things in life.

[nova trout]

i support this motion

[frank zealot]

I mean, zoomers and alpha are losing the ability to use email in general, so...

[indigo walrus]

"What's a file system? I just open my document from the application's home screen." Also, this isn't limited to Gen Z folks... it's caused by never being forced to learn how to efficiently manage informational records.
https://archive.ph/GV2vX

[turbid locust]

[nova trout]

most people like to be directed, questioning things is not on the agenda

[frank zealot]

for a lot of younger people, if it's not an app sitting on their phone's home screen?

They can't figure it out

[brave panther]

As per my last email

[turbid locust]

I mean the absolute youngest youngest zoomers are 15-16

[frank zealot]

yup

[turbid locust]

you’re telling me current 16 year olds don’t know what email is lmao

[brave panther]

Email be like
Hi,
Fuck off, open a ticket
BR

[frank zealot]

most can, at least with some prodding

but a lot of sub-20 year olds are truly clueless about tech. They're as bad as actual boomers.

[indigo walrus]

Not until now. Looks like it more or less offers the same as Dropbox, albeit at a higher price for my needs. Not saying it's bad or anything, but there is also an inherent cost to switching providers. I also make extensive use of apps that directly integrate with Dropbox's API.

[shell void]

you need email to make accounts for almost everything so yeah younger people know how to use it

[frank zealot]

also encrypted which is a neat feature

[turbid locust]

I find this hard to believe

under like… 12? Maybe

[brave panther]

Have you looked into nextcloud and just self host it or have it on a vps

[turbid locust]

but that’s all alpha

[indigo walrus]

Files I store that need to be encrypted are encrypted using VeraCrypt before they touch a third party service.

[frank zealot]

fairy `nuff

[fringe vigil]

guys should i get some pancakes

[indigo walrus]

Yup. I've come to realize that working in the same industry as my hobby makes me less likely to want to screw with things in that industry when not being paid. Media hosting via Jellyfin? Absolutely. Self-hosting the digital filing cabinet (receipts, taxes, etc.) of my life? Pass. I'm happy to pay someone else to ensure "it just works" for now.

[turbid locust]

Main rig rebuild tonight. One shot. The whole thing.

[turbid locust]

zoomer this zoomer that

zoomers were never tech illiterate lmao

[fervent chasm]

you also have to realize that zoomers are still young and youre a nerd if youre in here

[digital plume]

this server is definitely for a niche group of people

and many who need help from the niche group of people

[turbid locust]

again the absolute youngest of the youngest zoomers are like 15

most zoomers are grown ass adults now lmao

[fervent chasm]

14-29

[turbid locust]

right so you’re telling me a current 14 year old that’s had to make an account for everything they’ve ever used online ever doesn’t know how to navigate electronics lmao

[fervent chasm]

they do tho

[turbid locust]

likely story

[fervent chasm]

youre generalizing the whole generation lol

theres tech illiterate and tech literate people

most wont learn more than they need to, IE sign up for social media

[digital plume]

blinding in one single statistics leads to views like this

[pure garnet]

easy swap

[turbid locust]

I don’t think you understand how mildly frustrating it is to build in an A3 lol

[turbid locust]

or just reading headlines

“Zoomers can’t read!!!!1!1!!”

[brave panther]

Yep i also understand that, nevertheless, nextcloud is available for purchase from their partners

[shell void]

pairing a direct die watercooled 9950x3d in a x870e apex with a zotac 5070 greatly amuses me

[digital plume]

growing up with everything resolved leads to the death of old traditions, it's happening that less people read paper because it's been made easier and more accessible, albeit it's a point of discussion

[devout ridge]

spent all their money and couldn’t afford a better gpu

[teal orbit]

"zoomers" is like using descriptive statistics on a bimodal distribution

[turbid locust]

probably a customer request. Madness builds PCs for folks.

the amount of 9800X3D 5070 “esports” builds I’ve seen online drives me nuts

[wraith steeple]

I remember he was in the holy church of mora discord at on point

[pure garnet]

have you seen that guy telling people to disable meltdown for fortnite

[turbid locust]

@sterile plover am I right? lol

[turbid locust]

YEAH LMAO

[digital plume]

what is, an eSports build?

[fringe vigil]

Hope I can finally complete it now

[digital plume]

that's horrible, you need to buy the original playstation and disc that comes with it

[fringe vigil]

Why

also I’m on pc

[digital plume]

because daddy corporation loses money

[fringe vigil]

Them mfs be selling the game for 50

[digital plume]

because it's unrealistic but whatever big CEO don't care

so abide by the rules because it attracts certain people

[turbid locust]

wait that might not be madness’ channel? would be crazy if not tho? maybe 2 channels

[digital plume]

wtf happened in public chat

[fringe vigil]

[wraith steeple]

Isn't he in Germany for work reasons?

[cosmic gazelle]

pretty fire

[turbid locust]

idk I have that channel off my list entirely

[wraith steeple]

I believe it is

[frank zealot]

"I'm gonna spend more on my CPU Cooling than I will on my whole-ass GPU!"

I would never do that.
I would 1000% get a good air cooler or AIO and then put the remainder of the loop money towards a 5080

[shell void]

if buddy just plays valorant and streams or makes videos then it's a totally valid config

but it amuses me nonetheless

[turbid locust]

Someone tried to justify a similar build to me on Twitter and we went back and forth lol

“The customer plays esports you would sacrifice X3D for better gpu? Never heard of esports”

and I’m like a 9700x will put you hundreds of fps in esports games with a better gpu. You might only play Fortnite today but what about a month from now when a popular AAA game drops or some shit lol.

[pure garnet]

x3d brain rot is quite amusing

[turbid locust]

it’s as if non X3D chips are incapable of launching games

[lethal topaz]

my 5800x3d putting in work tho

[wraith steeple]

Thermal Grizzly Mycro Die AM5 block
Bitspower DDR5 block
Alphacool Eisbecher 150 pump/res combo
Alphacool HPE45 or XT45 360
EK fittings
10/13 clear soft tubing

[lethal topaz]

dont mean my 5500 isnt gamable though

[pure garnet]

the brain rot isn’t around the chips sucking it’s around people overhyping their usefulness in 99% of cases

a 7600x+5070ti mogs a 9800x3d/5070 everyday of the week

[frank zealot]

... how, why?

How is there an investigation about olympic ski jumpers enhancing their hot dogs in order to jump further?

(No, this is not satire, this is actual reality)

[turbid locust]

I’m excited to experience this “20% uplift” in UE5 games the dude here that upgraded his 3080 system from a 5800x to a 9800X3D experienced apparently

[shell void]

if you literally only play overwatch 2 or valorant at 1080p then you really dont need anything better than a 5070, even a 5060Ti would probably be fine

i get like 20% gpu util at 4K with 1200fps in val

[steel stream]

what

is that a euphemism

[frank zealot]

you somehow read that right.

[turbid locust]

ok but why nerf yourself if you could have a better system overall with the same money

[frank zealot]

I don't think I can link the NYT Article without getting warshipped >.<

[shell void]

this hypothetical buddy doesnt care about overall

there are many people that quite literally only play one game, MAYBE two games for years at a time

[steel stream]

ah ok i see, i thought actual hot dogs at first and was HEELLA confused

[turbid locust]

I couldn’t sleep at night knowing my pc couldn’t path trace 2077

[pure garnet]

me fr

[steel stream]

the horrors

[pure garnet]

this is all i’ve launched this year

[frank zealot]

do I post a text image about it, or do I not risk the shenanigans

is elijah still watching?

[steel stream]

sometimes you gotta risk it for the biscuit

[frank zealot]

(Yes, actual real thing that's happening)

[wraith steeple]

NVM it's an XR7 360 (based Hardware Labs enjoyer)

[steel stream]

🐔 gate HAH

is it like some aerodynamics thing

[frank zealot]

I do not know

nor do I know how someone would have figured it out in the first place

I can't imagine that making that much aerodynamic difference? But.... sometimes physics is weird

[south shuttle]

why is this the first thing i see when i come to tc2

[indigo walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-what-the-fuck-the-fuck-is-this-wth-gif-17571836

[frank zealot]

because reality has lost touch with reality

[frank zealot]

I legitimately can't post the NYT article link, because it has the P-word

which i'm pretty sure is warshipped

[lethal topaz]

peenor??

[steel stream]

p*op

[south shuttle]

what’s the next thing? prohibiting atheletes from taking vitamins because it gives them 0.2% competitive advantage?

[frank zealot]

there are people who can't take certain prescriptions for that reason

[lethal topaz]

i thought they went off the spirit of the sport for anti doping and tech

does steroids violate the spirit of the sport? yeah absolutely. peenor enhancements? hmm

[south shuttle]

vitamin C should be banned then as well

especially magnesium, it’s good damn agaisnt cramps for some

[steel stream]

some dude on the World Anti-Doping agency just saw a guy in a skin tight ski suit, got jealous, and wanted to know their secrets. That is all

[south shuttle]

the minor wind shifts in air are much more significant than that

[cosmic gazelle]

lol clearly you guys haven’t competed in a wada regulated sport

[lethal topaz]

man apple products are quite good

[south shuttle]

or how perfect the track is

[cosmic gazelle]

they regulate stuff that could not, in any conceivable way, provide a single feasible form of competitive advantage

it’s just the way wada is

[lethal topaz]

ipad as second monitor makes so much sense

[cosmic gazelle]

please tell me that’s an m1 mba

[lethal topaz]

it is in fact

[frank zealot]

I'm fully aware they do.
It's just slightly hilarious when it comes to hot dog enhancement

[lethal topaz]

m1 mba and m1 ipad air

one has excellent battery life, one has terrible battery life

[edgy laurel]

just sitting down and seeing this with no context

[lethal topaz]

fire

[cosmic gazelle]

they even regulate the use of peptides that 1. provide no competitive advantage and 2. cannot even be tested for in the first place

[devout ridge]

i hate when i try and fix a problem for like 4-5 hours, then i just happen to find a reddit thread from 6 years ago with a person who had the same problem, and the solution is really simple

like i'm glad i finally got it to work, but also where was this thread 5 hours ago

[cosmic gazelle]

the cylinder must remain intact

[devout ridge]

The cylinder is attached to a large body and cannot be removed from it

[turbid locust]

under the 8 AI search results

[devout ridge]

8AI search results, and 40 entirely unrelated threads, and past 10 paid advertisement sites

[turbid locust]

Yep

[devout ridge]

all i wanted to do, was easily convert a video to a bunch of PNGs

like how hard is that? very if you have a large video file

found ffmpeg after a while, turns out it's super easy to use and works perfectly, seething but also glad it's over

[wraith steeple]

Or in some cases half the time, no replies

[edgy laurel]

ffmpeg is incredibly versatile

it can do a lot

[indigo walrus]

ffmpeg is love, is life. ❤️ Once you get the right commands to accomplish what you need, that is.

[devout ridge]

Very, but also i had no idea it even existed, because it's never mentioned in any of the threads i found with my searches

[pure garnet]

oh vlc can do this too

when you play back the video it just dumps the frames to a folder

[edgy laurel]

everything VLC can do is due to ffmpeg doing the heavy lifting under the hood

[devout ridge]

like i saw some commands that included "ffmpeg" but zero elaboration on what it was, let alone even an app, i assumed it was some command that many encode/decode videos, i didn't realize it was also a standalone application that i could use without dealing with the third party BS

[pure garnet]

ffmpeg is cool but their social media person is kinda annoying

[devout ridge]

i care not, it bloody worked, and i'm happy

now to see if the meshroom photogrammetry render will work now that my images are watermark free

the main problem is i had too many requirements, i needed it to handle large files, and output full quality

cause any degradation in quality or framerate means a worse final render in meshroom

Meshroom 2025 still fails to work at all for me, so i'm also using the older meshroom 2023

i might have aged a couple months in the span of a day, but so far it's working

[wheat void]

Sometimes you just wanna clip a video and don't want a full production suite

Little bit of ffmpeg and https://github.com/alfg/ffmpeg-commander

[edgy laurel]

just generates commands for you? Thats neat

i use lossless cut for trimming clips without reencoding

used to use avidmux but that wasn't playing nice with AV1 files

[devout ridge]

i literally only need to use the command
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf fps=60 out%d.png

Stupid simple, and just works

[wheat void]

That one's great too, love portable software. But for discord you're probably gonna wanna encode

[devout ridge]

Also super performant, because there's no overhead of a third party app

[edgy laurel]

Oh,i just shove full fat 4K AV1 files right in here lol

[devout ridge]

can we go back to the days where the goal was for things to just work

[wheat void]

The Rose tinted glasses feel nice to wear

[devout ridge]

i don't need it to look pretty, i just need it to work, and let me do what i need it to do

ffmpeg is the ultimate function first app, zero ui, not even some colors in the terminal

love it

[teal orbit]

ffmpeg is peak

[indigo walrus]

Certainly! Sign up for our "it just works" pricing model and we'll ensure our app works properly!
* it works properly on our machines in our closed vacuum test chamber / network, ticket closed.

[teal orbit]

Ffmpeg should have colors thoigh, it does for me

Not that it adds much

[wheat void]

tui for common options would be cool....

[pure garnet]

hey i mean the last part is why docker exists

[brisk jolt]

if a z990i costs batshit insane i wont be getting on launch lmao