tech-chat-2

[merry stirrup]

oh also chat

[graceful fox]

Alr goodbye people gonna come back when i buy myself some HD560S and a Fifine Am8

[merry stirrup]

my next victim

[graceful fox]

Sick

[merry stirrup]

(im replacing the charging port on it)

[steel stream]

oh shit I have a die i need to sand down

[merry stirrup]

switch pcb so tiny

[merry stirrup]

oooh

[steel stream]

some old haswell xeon I think

[merry stirrup]

the charging port unfortunately is even smaller and made out of plastic so i failed putting the new one on before i even put flux on

(melted it trying to tin it)

[steel stream]

damn

[merry stirrup]

its ok theyre cheap enough but this is quite difficult

even getting the og one off was a task

[steel stream]

i have to desolder some tiny ICs soon I am not looking forward to it

[merry stirrup]

heatgun makes stuff like that mad easy

i wont hold you doing tthe ram chips on my d3 as practice took a whole maybe 3 or 5 minutes

and those r fat bga

[steel stream]

i only got an iron, i think

ill check for a gun in the lab though

[merry stirrup]

oofs

do you want a link to the soldering station i bought? its 70$

hot air and iron (its a mid iron, the heating element is built in but it works, just be careful)

[steel stream]

yeah doesn't hurt to check it out

[merry stirrup]

lemme find it

https://a.co/d/0g7Bu4l6

watched a couple videos on budget stations, a lotta people seemed to like the WEP stuff and this is i think their newest generation of what they typically make

seems pretty good tbh all issues i have are skill related

aint NO way its 750w tho

[steel stream]

oh dope its on sale too rn

[merry stirrup]

ooh not bad

[steel stream]

thanks boss

[merry stirrup]

yeah

then i just have generic stuff, china flux, leaded solder, crappy copper sponge for tip cleaning and so on

[steel stream]

nothing wrong with leaded stuff

[merry stirrup]

RMA 223 or something is the flux i have, idk if its great tho

[merry stirrup]

leaded solder is great for electronics repair cause of the low melting point

i dont think id have any luck if i was using unleaded tbh

not on like gpus or anything

[steel stream]

yuh

[merry stirrup]

i gotta do the joysticks on me moms xbox controller actually

[shell void]

leaded solder is great for inhalation

[edgy laurel]

odd build, but the poor guys 9960x apparently just up and died

[merry stirrup]

its very hard to hurt yourself soldering with lead as a hobbyist

most of the bad shit youd be breathing in is flux

mystery china chemical

[brisk jolt]

mustve been the logitech office keyboard curse

[edgy laurel]

all power connectors should be in that location

but we get concessions made for short cases

[shell void]

i love that silverstone aio

[edgy laurel]

dude I was just about to say that lol

the no frills industrial look is cool

sadly it just died on him while sitting in the BIOS https://linustechtips.com/topic/1633339-9960x-build-suddenly-died-while-idling-in-bios/

[steel stream]

my justification for this is I dont smoke crack, so everything else is ok

ill take the china chemical

[steel stream]

if only this was an Asrock board, we would have solved this already

[edgy laurel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/ahoklollmao-of-course

[steel stream]

holy balls its only 930

[edgy laurel]

just wait, come Sunday it'll be 10:30

and waking up Monday is going to suck ass

[steel stream]

the struggle is real

[edgy laurel]

spring forward my ass

[steel stream]

why cant we abolish daylight savings time

[wraith steeple]

Oh damn I forgot that DST is this week

[edgy laurel]

yeah, sorry to be the bearer of bad news

[fringe vigil]

https://klipy.com/gifs/pink-panther-chill

[brisk eagle]

a threadripper board with only 4 dimm slots
interesting

[merry stirrup]

fair enough i just solder by a window/ in path of direct air

[steel stream]

be a man

[brisk eagle]

wait where does it say the 9960x died

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/beaman-man-gif-20909944

[edgy laurel]

TRX50, there aren't many boards but most of them are only 4 DIMM slots. AFAIK, only the Gigabyte TRX50 AI TOP has 8-DIMM slots. Still only quad channel. Need WRX90 for 8-channel.

[random flame]

[shell void]

the ai top breaks amd's rules

gigabyte is a naughty boy for making that board

it's the only board that works with both threadripper in quad channel and threadripper pro in eight channel as far as i know

[edgy laurel]

Oh it will even work in 8-channel? well thats an odd one

Gigabyte said screw two chipsets, we're just going to make one board

[shell void]

idk why that isnt what everyone did by default

i guess you couldnt make cheaper boards like the gigabyte aero

but who is stressing about saving a couple hundred on a threadripper board

[edgy laurel]

lets be fair who is buying these boards in the first place

I'd love to see someone like Newegg's numbers on that

[shell void]

the ai top has subpar ratings because even the people who are buying these boards are unable to read the fucking manual

i know wendell likes the board but i havent seen anyone else use it

[brisk jolt]

in the modern era hardly anyone has basic reading ability now smh

[shell void]

end times upon us

[lethal topaz]

ladies and gentlemen i now have a test bench

its scuffed af lmao

[topaz veldt]

@shell void are there any WOLED 4K 240 Hz 32"

[edgy laurel]

the older style. michael would know but I don't think there are any of the latest W-OLED stuff in that size yet

[lethal topaz]

asus does have a trueblack glossy 4k 240 32in is that not woled?

[edgy laurel]

27", like the PG27UCWM exists. that sick clear back one

[topaz veldt]

im getting antsy for hardware guilty

Hmm 27" 4K could be cool

[edgy laurel]

they need to release this in 32" stat

[brisk jolt]

XG32UCWMG

[lethal topaz]

is that the new woled 540hz

i thought it was silver

[topaz veldt]

that is so sick

[edgy laurel]

4K 240Hz W-OLED tandem

[topaz veldt]

thats in 27" though?

thats out?

[edgy laurel]

oh, maybe not out yet

[topaz veldt]

Q2 2026, ok I shoudl wait

[edgy laurel]

Thats the 1440p version

[lethal topaz]

i just ordered that one like 4 hrs ago

i get it in 6 days

[edgy laurel]

Nice. So yeah, same latest gen Tandem W-OLED

[lethal topaz]

also anyone know what this issue is? on a spare gpu

[edgy laurel]

wait thats the one that does 720p @ 720Hz dual mode

[topaz veldt]

oh that weird thing

[edgy laurel]

lol.. that'll be fun

[lethal topaz]

its a 3070 i would love to give it to the media server

[topaz veldt]

bad vram

[lethal topaz]

like bad bad? or perhaps fixable?

[topaz veldt]

like desolder, reball, and reflow

[lethal topaz]

oh fuck

[edgy laurel]

so this is out.. why does it seems kinda lower end looking https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824281378

need michael stat

I get its a STRIX

but what else are you giving up

ah, not tandem

[lethal topaz]

cant wait to get this monitor

im frothing at the mouth

[lethal topaz]

could it possibly be pads have bad thermals

sorry my english is not englishing rn

[steel stream]

nah that glitching means a deeper issue

hardware related, not temps

[topaz veldt]

Funny anecdote - shipped RAM today, 7 lbs to TX

$121 to ship it ground w/ signature gets there Monday

$146 to ship it 2 day gets there tuesday

$175 to ship it 3 day and it gets there wednesday

so like

lol fuckin fedex

[patent shuttle]

7lb ram, bro got ddr32

[topaz veldt]

I do alright

[lethal topaz]

just ran furmarks memory test and it crashed at 70%. definitely seems to be a memory issue

[topaz veldt]

it is

[lethal topaz]

sometimes they go away on restart its quite weird

[brisk jolt]

which is why im hesitant to pull the trigger so fast

[cosmic gazelle]

why in the world would fedex be your first choice 😭

[turbid locust]

@pure garnet Val?

[pure garnet]

i am currently occupied

[turbid locust]

wack

[topaz veldt]

Because when you sell $6K+ of RAM to a buyer they use their shipping account

[shell void]

only the XG32UCWMG which uses a last gen panel like your LG G4

we probably won’t be able to get the new 4K tandem w-oled monitors until Autumn because Asus delays american releases by multiple months

the PG27UCWM that you talked about with Spark will be exciting if you want a 27”

[topaz veldt]

I dunno if I want 27" though

I guess I will wait

[brisk jolt]

maybe ill wait for tandem TBH

[shell void]

there’s a 32” 4K tandem panel too but that’s also a summer-autumn release

november is tv and monitor season in america

i might get a 65” LG G6 in November but we shall see if i chicken out later

[brisk jolt]

By asus?

if the 32GX870B is glossy Ill take it

Matte…. Ill see

[shell void]

they haven’t announced their version but they will undoubtedly have one

they sell the most oled monitors of any brand, and people are excited about their glossy w-oleds

[turbid locust]

this dudes complaining in the party gamemode in val

how sad lmao

[shell void]

snowball fight gets serious

[turbid locust]

like it's a gamemode where the map gets cut in half and everyones agent is random every round

and you're complaining about being body shot

[pure garnet]

@turbid locust if you still going im free

[turbid locust]

Nah I’m off sorry lol. Realized that one game I played I was really tired

[pure garnet]

that’s fair no worries

[turbid locust]

Work beat my ass this week lol

[topaz veldt]

I feel dat

[dire wind]

Guys, help me understand how big is the jump from my original monitor (1600 x 900p - 20") to a 4K - 27" monitor which will arrive tomorrow, will I be able to see any big difference?

[drifting latch]

big and small

[edgy laurel]

1600x900 in 2026? your hair is going to light on fire

[dire wind]

I got this monitor from AOC since 2014, it has been a decade since I have it. My dad gave to me when I was being introduced to computers.

[edgy laurel]

you were nearly 20 years behind. yeah.. you'll notice

[dire wind]

Oh

[edgy laurel]

4K is a big ask if you're a gamer, however. Hopefully you've got the grunt to drive it

[indigo walrus]

You'll notice. 4K at 27" is a lot of pixels per inch. It's also a lot of pixels to drive if gaming, depending on the game. Also, if you use certain applications, DPI scaling is (still) garbage on Windows.

[dire wind]

Well, I don't game a lot. I spend most of my time watching stuff. I got a RX 7600 8gb.

[edgy laurel]

man, i'd like to see a 1600x900 and 3840x2160 monitor next to eachother. the windows desktop alone is going to look wildly different lol

[dire wind]

By the way I don't go over 60 fps on games, I have never experience those high fps so I personally don't really care when playing fortnite or any other game since this was my only monitor since 10 years ago.

[dire wind]

I will post a photo once it arrive here if I remember

[edgy laurel]

If you were only able to achieve 60fps at 1600x900 with a 7600, at the same settings I'd expect to be in the 20's at 4K. Considerable adjustments will need to be made to quality settings + employing FSR

rough estimate, but just be prepared

Yeah, heavy FSR usage.

[dire wind]

Well, the good thing when you can only achieve a maximum fps of sixty, it means I have more headroom to increase the graphics settings to the maximum. Can I downscale the resolution in game to 1080p? Would that be bad?

[edgy laurel]

These days its preferred to utilize upscaling, especially in a situation like you'll be in. FSR

[devout ridge]

Upscaling is incredibly common nowadays

[edgy laurel]

What do you mean by "you can only achieve a maximum fps of sixty"

[dire wind]

yeah, that's one solution

[devout ridge]

The best solution

[dire wind]

Because my monitor can go up to sixty hz

[low sorrel]

||DU DU DU DU VERSTAPPEN IS IN THE WALL DU DU DU DU||

@brisk jolt

[devout ridge]

That would be an incredibly important piece of information that would have been nice to know earlier

[edgy laurel]

Ah. Ok thats not really how that works but yeah if you want to limit games to 60, thats fine too. You could render 600fps on a 60hz monitor if you had the horsepower to do so

[dire wind]

my new 4k monitor can also only go to sixty since it hasn't been an issue for me

[devout ridge]

i love rendering potato games at 4000fps

[edgy laurel]

Refresh rate is never an issue if you've only known one thing. Higher than 60 is just better once you've experienced it.

[dire wind]

I think in game fps is relative, i like the experience of playing the game. But, I can admit that a higher refresh rate would help if necessary

[devout ridge]

"in game fps is relative" huh?

[edgy laurel]

Things can be a like or want, and not just a need, you know 😉

[pure garnet]

save your energy

[edgy laurel]

But its not important. If the display you got is 4k60, there isn't much to be done.

[devout ridge]

overclock your monitor and get a whopping 62hz

(panel dies after 2 months) /hj

[dire wind]

i think so, i think your in game experience is directly influence by physiological factors which can go beyond just more fps. But, i might be tremendously incorrect and if i am i would like to be corrected

[devout ridge]

"physiological facts" I am so very confused by what you're trying to get at

Are you just saying different kinds of games have varying benefits due to FPS?

[edgy laurel]

well this certainly took a turn

[pure garnet]

one of my 60hz laptops actually did a completely ghost free 90hz overclock

[dire wind]

i am not very good at explaining concepts, but what i meant was that i think we are more influenced by how we look things than what are we actually using to play and experience the game

[pure garnet]

pretty sure it was a just a 144hz panel artificially blocked to 60 but i ran it at 90 and was happy

[edgy laurel]

yeah I mean, anything beyond 60 is a wild jump in usability.

[low sorrel]

i got my xv275k to run at 200hz

[pure garnet]

a 60hz display updates roughly every 17ms, going to 144 is closer to 7ms

[indigo walrus]

If I understand what you're getting at, what you really mean is different people play different games for different aspects of the gameplay. For example, if I'm attempting to join an eSports league for Forknife (eww), I might value performance / FPS more than how "good" the game looks. If this is what you were trying to say, there is no "correct" answer because everyone's reason for playing X game is for ABC different purposes.

[pure garnet]

the jump from 60 -> 144 is huge and easily perceived but it does diminish in value as you go up in hz

[edgy laurel]

Hell the PG348Q I used for many years is 100Hz and its like a light switch being flipped when you enable it

[pure garnet]

my monitor has a 4k160hz mode and a 1080p320hz mode and half the time i don’t bother to use 320hz in shooter games

[dire wind]

well, that's a interesting fact. But, i don't think our brain can spot the difference and we can gain some advantage because of a few milliseconds in here and there. But, i am just a random guy in the internet who does not understand not even of 1% of what you guys know, but i am trying :).

[pure garnet]

you definitely can if you go look at it but if you’re happy with your monitor you’re happy

[edgy laurel]

Have you owned or used a PC monitor over 60Hz for any length of time?

[dire wind]

yeah, that was pretty much what i was trying to say. thanks for helping me out

[dire wind]

no, i only have use my aoc monitor that I told you before since 2014

[edgy laurel]

Ok then, that pretty much settles it. Its difficult to express to someone the impact something can have if they've never experienced it. One day you'll hook up something over 60Hz and do something as simple as drag a windows across the desktop and your eyes will probably explode when you realize what you've been missing (as it did for all of us) 😉

But, that doesn't change anything right now so just enjoy what you have.

[dire wind]

hmm... i have seen some videos from LTT of similar high refresh rate monitors. i personally think that is something that i am more not really interested than to actually have or not experience it

[turbid locust]

PS4 refresh rate is not for me

[dire wind]

is it bad?

[topaz veldt]

60 hz

[brisk jolt]

i beg of LG to make a glossy vers

[topaz veldt]

I was chatting in another discord about picking up another 321URX and a dude says he likes his Samsung G8 better

Aren't those matte??

[edgy laurel]

yep

[drifting latch]

i have g6, solid

[topaz veldt]

how does someone prefer that? They said they had a 321URX

Thats just insane talk to me

[turbid locust]

I need 42” 16:9 8K 240Hz OLED

[edgy laurel]

I'm sure you can understand, you thought the same for a while until we forced it out of you 🤣

[edgy laurel]

I think i'd settle for that at 6k, or even 5K

[turbid locust]

will never come to TVs

[edgy laurel]

yeah but also the 8K TV space isn't that healthy

[turbid locust]

yeahhh

[edgy laurel]

it was never to begin with but feels even less so now

[turbid locust]

They’re available they just start at like 65” lol

[edgy laurel]

I think they realized it was kinda pointless until broadcast caught up

or any media at all

[turbid locust]

I just want more PPI

[edgy laurel]

for sure

[turbid locust]

Additional refresh rate would be cool too but not a dealbreaker

[edgy laurel]

😅

[turbid locust]

no problem

[edgy laurel]

DSC chips screaming

[turbid locust]

but yeah there’s just not going to be 5K 16:9 displays big enough for me to want

Smaller monitors would just look stupid on my giant desk lol

[spiral quarry]

lol how big would your ideal monitor be👀

[turbid locust]

42”

[spiral quarry]

ah pretty much equal to me

[turbid locust]

I could probably cope with 36-38”

[edgy laurel]

Mac you need a 48 for those flanking 27"s

[spiral quarry]

So use to rocking a 32in so at this point anything under that amount is just me coping for a short time period.

[turbid locust]

You guys talked me out of the 48” lol

[edgy laurel]

yeah.. well

[turbid locust]

I would’ve regretted the 48” fs

42” is almost too much

[edgy laurel]

just think of what could be

[turbid locust]

I mean I could technically “downgrade” my side monitors to 24” for the same effect

[edgy laurel]

24" 1440p

pretty rare

[turbid locust]

yeahhhhh I was just thinking that

I would almost be willing to do 1080p sides

[topaz veldt]

no dude, G8, its a matte oled... like dafuq

[turbid locust]

like I lowkey don’t give a fuck

[topaz veldt]

G9 at least has a different ratio that makes it cool

[brisk jolt]

conclusion: they are insane

[lethal topaz]

i have a g8 without a matte coating

[turbid locust]

Thermaltake P3 is based

[edgy laurel]

you sure about that

[lethal topaz]

yees

[edgy laurel]

which exact model

[lethal topaz]

i can grab it rq

[normal trout]

help my keyboard is so fucked i cant type anything on the bottom row

[edgy laurel]

#1027757333117415424

[lethal topaz]

"SAMSUNG 34"" Odyssey G85SB Series QD-OLED Ultra WQHD Curved Gaming Monitor, 175Hz, 0.03ms, DisplayHDR True Black 400, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, Advanced Game Streaming, LS34BG850SNXZA, 2023"

[dire wind]

I was talking in here before about me migrating from my 900p (a decade old) monitor to a 4k monitor and I was reflecting into what you guys were saying about that. And is crazy to think that you think that something is good enough like for me watching youtube on my 900p monitor it looks crispy and sharp with a lot of color in it, it looks really good to me. But, then something better comes around and then you blow your mind thinking: Hold on, was that thing that i was using for more than a decade old and i thought that was good image quality. That's pretty funny to think about all of that, probably you guys have experience something similar before

[turbid locust]

Yes that’s the exact same thing as we were talking about with refresh rates

[dire wind]

the price in my home country now 💀

[lethal topaz]

@edgy laurel

you can see reflections

[edgy laurel]

Thats pretty early on, that is certainly not something they're doing anymore

Now you have to buy Asus to get a Samsung Display QD-OLED in glossy

[dire wind]

why in the world oled monitors so damn expensive

[turbid locust]

they’re as affordable as they’ve ever been

[dire wind]

hmmm... it depends where you live at

[lethal topaz]

yeah lol glad i got it glossy. i didnt even really pay for this monitor so even better

[dire wind]

they should make it much more affordable, imagine buying a 4k 240hz oled monitor for under 100 dollars, that´ll be insane

[lethal topaz]

i love dreaming too

[turbid locust]

I can’t tell if you’re disconnected from reality or 13

[edgy laurel]

He's just a little far behind is all. Moved to 1600x900 in 2014.

[dire wind]

im just too postive

[edgy laurel]

Meanwhile I moved to 2560x1600 in 2010

[dire wind]

im a decade behind technology

[turbid locust]

I was on a 1080p TV with an Xbox 360 in 2010

I was also 7

[edgy laurel]

throwback to those few weeks of Iwo Jima in 2042

[turbid locust]

I need to play some BF6 again

[edgy laurel]

i have these phases where I just don't feel like playing anything. i think i'm in that now. it comes and goes

[turbid locust]

Same

[dire wind]

this is what i want to see in the future guys

if we put a man in the moon, why we can't make this thing damn cheap?

[turbid locust]

I can’t tell if you’re genuinely asking or being sarcastic

[dire wind]

is actually a legit question

[turbid locust]

manufacturing things costs money

[fervent chasm]

do you know how much that cost

[dire wind]

yeah, but we must have a solution to make it cheaper

[dire wind]

hmm no

[fervent chasm]

$25.8 billion

[dire wind]

what

[fervent chasm]

not adjusted for inflation

[turbid locust]

So like that’s the entire point of a business right

they’re already doing it as cheap as they possibly can

[dire wind]

youre refering to the investiment to develop the technology right?

[fervent chasm]

everything

[dire wind]

lets make it more cheaper then

[turbid locust]

It will be with time

[dire wind]

alr

[turbid locust]

OLEDs are much cheaper now than they were 5 years ago

[dire wind]

sure

like computers were in the past

this blows my mind

[turbid locust]

It’s uh.. economics

[dire wind]

so proud of our species

imagine if we are not alone in the universe and there is a guy from another galatic civilization complaning about the same thing right now lol

[turbid locust]

I suppose that depends on several factors based on your personal beliefs

[fervent chasm]

i think hamburgers and fries work well together

[pure garnet]

i think drinking honey mustard is optimal

[fervent chasm]

i dont like honey anything

[turbid locust]

I got dared to drink a packet of ranch in middle school and like… it wasn’t bad

like… would do again for $1

[fervent chasm]

because ranch is good

i like ranch with just lettuce

well, lettuce with just ranch

[topaz veldt]

I dared a nephew to eat an entire thing of "buffalo chicken dip" - like... a pound or more of it. I was like "Give you $10 to eat that whole thing" and he goes "$5"

[turbid locust]

LMAO

[turbid locust]

bro likes salad

[dire wind]

salad is underrated

[fervent chasm]

That’s not a salad that’s lettuce with ranch

Get it right

[turbid locust]

salad

[fervent chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/salad-gif-2134678440787632101

[topaz veldt]

salad destroys my stomach but i like it

[turbid locust]

I like salad cause it lets me larp as a healthy eater

[green marsh]

so a healthy food with calorie bomb

(ranch is very high in calories)

[brisk jolt]

me when I eat any vegetable

helth

[turbid locust]

fr fr

[green marsh]

it is mostly about how much you eat and not what you eat. Yes, it helps to eat healthier food for other factors, but for weight control, it is mostly the amount (calorie intake)

[turbid locust]

yeah I’m about to like get on that

counting calories seems miserable tho

[green marsh]

1 week till my 1 year anniversary of my weight loss journey. Went from 98kg to current 82kg in 1 year (177cm height)

[turbid locust]

98kg is my goal weight LMAO

[green marsh]

but maybe you are 20cm taller ?

[turbid locust]

uh like 8cm lmao

idk I don’t look the weight I am it’s weird lmao

but either way

[brisk jolt]

im like 86kg or smth

[turbid locust]

but yeah got some work to do

honestly for me I just need to be more active

[brisk jolt]

how much do you weigh

[turbid locust]

enough.

[brisk jolt]

Im like 180cm for height

[digital plume]

you know what

i weight 67 kg and it's not a joke

and im about 164-163cm so i might grow to 167cm

it'll be peak im telling you

[turbid locust]

I just remember how good I felt at 86kg it would be awesome to get back to that

[dire wind]

weight is relative, it depends where are you physically in the universe

[topaz veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/high-af-weed-high-gif-61824467826048805

[turbid locust]

fr lol

but yeah the plan is to subject myself to cardio daily

[dire wind]

do you guys think that the future of computers might be arm?

[turbid locust]

Already is

[brisk jolt]

i feel like a fatass

[turbid locust]

vibe

[brisk jolt]

theres way worse but still

[dire wind]

apple is ahead of everybody

[turbid locust]

I am quite the big boi rn

but again I don’t look like the weight I am it’s weird lmao

went to the doctor the other day and I was like

[brisk jolt]

I think if anything I just need to workout more

[turbid locust]

same

[brisk jolt]

either that i just try to slim down or smth

[turbid locust]

I just wanna feel better yk

[brisk jolt]

so far ive only been doing 5kms when I can but its not enough

[low sorrel]

kimi dropped a banana peel on track https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1rn2h69/lando_hits_a_merc_cooling_fan_left_on_track_and/

[topaz veldt]

jesus

[brisk jolt]

“Deploying spikestrip”

[green marsh]

spoilers guys. I ain't waking up at 6AM to watch quali 😄

[gloomy vault]

bullshit

no way

[arctic bronze]

bro lettuce is goated

[arctic bronze]

oh really? is it the sause you put in it like ranch or what ever you use?

iv also started to love to eat onions XD

idk why, use to hate them, now I want them on things like burgers, sandwiches, etc

[brisk jolt]

i am

[gloomy vault]

🙀

i going sim lim rn

im going to get my tax invoice one way or another

[brisk jolt]

do u not believe im 180

you highk still look like a sec 2 to me

[gloomy vault]

my perception of height isnt too amazing

[gloomy vault]

ya i can abuse student discounts

🤑

[brisk jolt]

icl simlim is now hella boring lol

[gloomy vault]

ya im gonna fucking cuss out the aneh ovr thr to get my receipt

[brisk jolt]

I think my next play is just to get a new table and clean my room entirely

Ill wait for tandem 4K240 32” oleds

which is closer to 2027

if i could grab it in november that’ll be optimal because 11.11 gives the best vouchers to abuse

[gloomy vault]

i might need to get a new cpu

my 13900K is dying

and the stupid bizgram wont give me my invoice

[brisk jolt]

buy a 9950x3d smh

[gloomy vault]

bro i need my money to farm fish

im not gonna ask my family for handouts

i mean, am i?

[brisk jolt]

doit no balls

[gloomy vault]

im already asking for a chunk of land their not using and a room in a house their not using so

[brisk jolt]

genuinely how have u exploded ur 13900K 3+ times

.

[gloomy vault]

0 clue

[brisk jolt]

did you not adjust the voltages?

[gloomy vault]

obviously i know why it died but still

[brisk jolt]

it died bcs you do stupid shit

[gloomy vault]

possibly

[brisk jolt]

you fed the turtle the wrong stuff

[gloomy vault]

14900KS when

[merry stirrup]

stupid shit being just leaving it at stock

they blow up the same amount they did before any fix rolled out because they fixed nothing and in fact made it worse

the cpus request over 1.5v at idle and in low load states. that’s not good for any modern cpu

especially the low load states part

people that utilize single core boost more often (games) on their 13th gen cpus are going to blow it up more than users who commonly did all core work

limit vid request and fix loadline

it’s like maybe 4 bios settings total

intel did this to address the instability and not so much so the cpus blowing themselves up bit

[brisk jolt]

“In light of obtaining a 14900KS we will be increasing the kill count from 4 to 500”

[merry stirrup]

hey man if it works it works

maybe intel will give him a 285K when the 14900KS also blows up

[gloomy vault]

im going to demand my receipt from the retailer right now

like im literally 10 mins away from the store

[merry stirrup]

“yeah guys update your bios and we’ll auto set svid scenario to worst case and load line to basically 1/1”

thank us later your cpu isn’t gonna blow up anymore

cpu is stable 300mv below stock vid

[brisk jolt]

lets hope that happens in like 2028 xd

he is not paying these absurd pricings for d5

[merry stirrup]

he’s on ddr4 and is worrying about a potential cpu upgrade lol

[gloomy vault]

im the most frugal guy you’ll ever see

[merry stirrup]

that’s real

that’s why you blow up intels cpus and force them to upgrade you under warranty

you may forever be 2-3 gens behind

[gloomy vault]

yea i WAS on a 13900K ddr4 system my shitty 13900k could only run 4000C16 H16C

[merry stirrup]

that’s totally fine

blame the cjr or board before the 13900k 😭

[gloomy vault]

my cjr is binned for 4400C20

[merry stirrup]

the board is not

[gloomy vault]

my old 13900K did 4200C16

[gloomy vault]

Z790-A D4

[merry stirrup]

cpus have different optimal ranges of voltages, the ones it uses auto may not work for your cpu and vice versa

[gloomy vault]

yea i tuned SA

[merry stirrup]

why are you forcing the tcl so low on CJR? 4200 c16 sounds way too aggressive

esp for a kit rated for 4400 c20

i mean if it’s stable it’s stable but i feel like that’s more your problem

[gloomy vault]

i mean it did run it stable

[merry stirrup]

fair enough

i’d blame the ram and board sooner than the best ddr4 imc in current existence though

[gloomy vault]

i mean i guess

brb though need 2 argue with the retailer

[merry stirrup]

idk if tx affects d4 but what about the IMC/MC voltage

[nova oyster]

Would selling a 12400f and 1660s build for like 350-400 be fair

[brisk jolt]

nvr bring me along i scold them knnccb nabei dllm and whatnot

[indigo walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/noted-safehouse-pepe-meme-gif-25110679

[gloomy vault]

chinese one reasonable

other one not so ask u to fuck off

[gloomy vault]

i about to start scolding alr omg

[brisk jolt]

thats why you shld ask me n bring me along 💀

i show them who has the balls-

[gloomy vault]

aneh steady

he make up one receipt for me

[brisk jolt]

tbh bizgram prices kinda asscheeks

only thing with them is they have big variety of like mobos

[gloomy vault]

they ok

boss sometimes give discount

they dun kpkb can edi

[vestal granite]

am i having a stroke or is this some kind of english creole british colonial amalgamation language

[gloomy vault]

its english pro max

[cosmic mica]

hows a asrock 9060xt 16gb + 7600X paired w 32gb ddr5ram and 2tb sdd

[brittle trellis]

Are you having a stroke

[livid flame]

It’s no better or worse than 99.9% AM5 configs why

[gloomy vault]

its called being sarcastic

[livid flame]

Sarcasm is wasted on the intellectually challenged

[gloomy vault]

and do you think every country speaks “british” or “american” english

[livid flame]

It’s also wasted on the literal and figuratively high strung. So sarcasm in LTT is generally wasted

[gloomy vault]

of course after the course of multiple hundred years the local “english” is going to inherit other local languages into it

[livid flame]

Pigeon English is my favourite

As someone that used to manage a business account for a Nigerian, pigeon English is King

[gloomy vault]

so is speaking a strange new form of english that you cant comprehend because youre not in a certain country’s community grounds for you to accuse someone of having a stroke

[livid flame]

It’s enough English to get you what you want and just that fraction below what seems intelligible to make people think you’re a bit dumb

[gloomy vault]

absolute clown 🤡

[gloomy vault]

exactly its easier to communicate with someone using their local dialect or version of english moreover they’d like you better for doing so

[livid flame]

Honestly. We need to start speaking newspeak

[gloomy vault]

im gonna start speaking martian

[livid flame]

You can’t

Then you have to actually admit aliens exist

And I can’t figure out if trump isn’t that dumb to admit it or they just haven’t trusted him with it

I’m going with the latter tbh

[gloomy vault]

atlantian it is

[green marsh]

sometimes i wonder what the hell are brands thinking when they create a sub-brand

like i see ONIX Arc GPUs, and i am like WTF is that. Turns out it is Sapphire 🤷‍♂️

[livid flame]

It’s so it’s not associated with sapphire

It’s kind of like how consoles never state on their branding or advertising “powered by AMD”.

As let’s be honest… AMD has basically made the consoles for Sony and Microsoft and they’re just slapping their own OS and branding on it

[brisk jolt]

petition to just all become mambos

https://tenor.com/view/mambo-uma-musume-gif-13573514226392127213

[brisk jolt]

i bring u along give me discount for z990i NVL okcan

[gloomy vault]

bro ACJC basketball fucking sucks

they lost to the japanese

absolute disgrace

[brisk jolt]

L

my friend has jp students for an exchange program

[wraith steeple]

I just love how the new CRKD Les Paul controllers have the same problem with the frets connection from 18-19 years ago. The paper trick works every time

[gloomy vault]

ite?

[brisk jolt]

temasek poly

[gloomy vault]

ICA hitting quota

[green marsh]

at same time it evokes the feeling of nameless brands from Aliexpress/Amazon 😄

[gentle urchin]

The Perfect Controller

[edgy laurel]

yuck

[wraith steeple]

Yeah.......

I'm sorry the analog is a must have for me

Especially for racing games

If I'm playing NFS 1 - Porsche Unleashed, Test Drive Games, and Twisted Metal, that is a must have for me

[fringe vigil]

Memories

I used to have a yellow one of these that was worse

[wraith steeple]

Madcatz?

[fringe vigil]

Idk?

[wraith steeple]

This?

[fringe vigil]

Nawww wth

never seen that before, it was much yellow than that

It might have been ps1 secondary controller

[edgy laurel]

analog sticks or no?

[fringe vigil]

Yeahh I think it did

Yeah I used to have analog

Whatever the things called

Where you can rotate

[wraith steeple]

Ah it was probably one of those released in the early PS2 era if that's the case (though they would work with PS1 consoles too)

[void stump]

Speaking of controllers...any good hall effect controller recommendations?

[fringe vigil]

But I’m thinking it didn’t have the sticks

[edgy laurel]

8BitDo's whole lineup has something you need. Ultimate 2 Wireless being the top model with one better, TMR joysticks and hall effect triggers.

[fringe vigil]

That one didn’t

[void stump]

Ooh thanks I'll check them out!

[edgy laurel]

Their product range is.. large, as you'll see. We can probably help break down what is what if you get lost.

[fringe vigil]

Why’s specifically Hall effect

[edgy laurel]

why not?

presumably they just want something better than traditional potentiometers. So, you have Hall Effect and then TMR

jorj you and I both have Ultimate 2's with TMR sticks

[void stump]

I'm tired of the potentiometers and having to scrap my xbox and ps controller every few months 🙁

[edgy laurel]

think of TMR just like an evolution of HE, just a tad better (but in use, its the same)

[brisk eagle]

it’s crazy that this level of garbage is allowed to ship without any backlash
idk maybe controllers are just too difficult to make

[void stump]

Will check it out and see how lost I get XD

[edgy laurel]

primarily for PC use?

[void stump]

I know right! I got lucky with my current Xbox controller I guess. Lasted nearly two three years without drift and when the drift started...it was insane

[void stump]

Yes PC only

My Xbox has been collecting dust for a while now

[fringe vigil]

Fair enough

[edgy laurel]

Then yeah. I'd suggest either the Ultimate 2 Wireless (comes with the charging dock) or the Ultimate 2C Wireless (no dock)

[void stump]

Ooh yeah I was checking the same

[edgy laurel]

the docks are a nice have, tbh

instanly connects when you pick it up (and shuts off when you set it down) plus it keeps it charged

and the wireless dongle fits inside the dock

[void stump]

Oh my that sounds heavenly

[brisk jolt]

the ultimate 2 is so nice

[brisk jolt]

Im pretty sure shits lost :/

@low sorrel

[gentle loom]

PSU: RM750E 750w corsair making a weird sound when playing gta 5 running ray tracing

specs:

32gb ddr4 3200mhz ram EXPO enabled

rx 9070xt (undervolted)
ryzen 5 5600x (says overclocked on amd adrenaline and is stuck like that I can’t change it)
7 argb fans
b550 plus wifi II motherboard

here is the sound.

the sounds goes away when game is paused 🤔

[pure garnet]

that’s a fan

[gentle loom]

smh it’s so annoying

my pc is silent and all I hear is that annoying sound

[merry stirrup]

coil whine or a fan yeah

maybe a little bit of both

if it’s coil whine just

move the computer further away

if it’s fans just slow them down

if it’s both just move it further away

5head tactics with floppa

[pure garnet]

turn the game up

[gentle loom]

it’s a brand new psu I don’t get it

[pure garnet]

that doesn’t mean anything about why it needs air to function

[topaz veldt]

hmmm

[shell void]

you are itching feverishly to spend money xD

[pure garnet]

5nail needs a z890 ocf for his 270k plus

[topaz veldt]

I am. But also I am out of RJ45 ports in my house so I have my garage port and a couple others unplugged at the switch so its annoying when I plug shit in I have to like "What can I do without" it

[shell void]

okay that's unacceptable bro you need more ports

[topaz veldt]

I know dude

I have oodles for SFP+ and SFP28, but I ran a 24 port 2.5 Gbps out

[shell void]

youre the architect so youll know better than me which switch(s) you should pick, but yeah having to replug things regularly due to lack of ports is crazy business

[cosmic gazelle]

I’m actually kinda shocked by the state of switch emulation

rx 580 4790k system plays acnh at like 20% usage on both cpu and gpu

[shell void]

yeh pretty much anything nintendo is super easy to emulate

assuming it doesnt have special input commands like how some wii U games told you to blow on the gamepad microphone

[edgy laurel]

back in like 2017 i played through BoTW at 3440x1440@60hz locked, with upgraded textures.

[shell void]

i just had a memory flashback to christmas 2012 where i was playing the brand new wii u mario game on our plasma tv in the living room

[edgy laurel]

UI was stretched but the game was good

and technically that was the WiiU version

[shell void]

such low level of detail and low resolution textures

i guess that's what they had to do in order to get a big world game running on a crappy console

[edgy laurel]

and yet miles better than the native switch version

[shell void]

i havent played through any zelda game

that might make me a fraud gamer

[brisk jolt]

I only watched BOTW gameplay tbh

[pure garnet]

running around 2077 never doing that story makes up for it

[brisk jolt]

holy thats like… 8-9 years ago

[shell void]

i have this for my gamecube

[brisk jolt]

you not a real one unless u scared of “Meet Hanako At Embers” burning into ur oled

[shell void]

like 40 hours of actually playing the story and 160 hours of free roaming

just the vanilla game too xd

[cosmic gazelle]

this was always the most accurate to emulate i remember

[cosmic gazelle]

yeah i’ve just had some experiences where to get certain switch games to emulate properly you had to really crank the accuracy settings so that even my main system struggled to hit 60fps

[merry stirrup]

what’s a computery thing i can make into a coaster that isn’t a hd disk

glue/epoxy 4 older cpus together?

[brisk jolt]

a dead fan

[merry stirrup]

i can do that with a working fan

but that’s slightly better than the hdd option as i find it too basic

[brisk jolt]

i take it back use a working 200mm fan and connect to the PC, so it cools ur drink 0c

[merry stirrup]

i’d need a long ass pwm cable 😭💀

ram oc my drink?

[brisk jolt]

yes

[merry stirrup]

idk if i could do something ram like for a coaster that would be cool

find me 2 unpopulated CAMM modules

[devout ridge]

HDD platters

[merry stirrup]

read the last part of that

i have a sata ssd that’s at 0% in the meantime

[pure garnet]

case

[merry stirrup]

i unironically use my t5810 as a table for the chair in my room

[shell void]

hotglue four green dimms together

[merry stirrup]

honestly what i’m thinking

that or somehow getting camm modules but muy expensivo

[brisk jolt]

I should repurpose the ||5090 box as a coaster||

[shell void]

just use a 5090 itself as a coaster, the big backplate will do well

oh i see there's a new steve documentary

[pure garnet]

disney movie length yap session

[brisk jolt]

gotta him them with the

[shell void]

i enjoy the steve documentaries

[brisk jolt]

sorry my time is now going into reading manhwas

[shell void]

the new steve pad design is awesome, but i dont want blue

[fringe vigil]

w

[shell void]

i cant wait to see 52 cores in the RTSS overlay, it'll be so amusing

[pure garnet]

1080p users can't even imagine

[shell void]

1080p users would probably need several columns of hwinfo sensors

[livid flame]

Another video of Steve complaining and spending loads of money on hotels and food? Count me in. Will look at it sometime this week.

[south shuttle]

i want

[sterile plover]

Yes it was a FN client build for Flickzy, possibly the best rated player in the world at some point
FN doesn't need any GPU power it's all about the CPU and ram

[turbid locust]

Noice lol

[sterile plover]

Sry late reply I accidentally stumbled on this mention

I see this tech chat is pretty chill with regular members
That's nice

[cosmic gazelle]

do pros play on performance mode or regular dx12?

9800x3d gets like 600fps on performance mode

[sterile plover]

Perf only. Dx12 runs smoother but they say input lag bad

[lunar comet]

Any bad news about the nvidia 595.71 driver?

[cosmic gazelle]

i wonder if a 9950x3d is perceptibly different on performance vs like, a 9700x when both probably maintain over 400 fps

but i guess a pro probably doesn’t care

[sterile plover]

X3D can do 1000+ xD

[cosmic gazelle]

ya makes sense

i only get 500 on a 3080 lol

gpu limited

[sterile plover]

Endgame is important. That's where you get in the 200s

[cosmic gazelle]

wild to consider x3d can do 1000 and my 5800x only did about 270 early game

[sterile plover]

[turbid locust]

Yep, good folk here for the most part. My channel list looks like this to give you an idea:

[lethal topaz]

bliss

[pure garnet]

overclocking fell off

[turbid locust]

ngl ur right lmao

[sterile plover]

fell off when me, fzr, soyo, dipa, salty left

there were some other guys I forget about but they were all awesome

[haughty monolith]

are the hoards of idiots still here time to time?

nvm wrong chat

[sterile plover]

[topaz veldt]

@edgy laurel

[cosmic gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/dom-toretto-dominic-dodge-charger-gif-27340985

[civic reef]

Chips
Why're you online whenever I am here specifically to talk about laptops

[cosmic gazelle]

I don’t have other social media atm so this is where I go to rot my brain

[arctic bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/impala-67-gif-2312528285129324454

[lyric citrus]

i came to ask if anyone else is still only getting stutters on valorant? i have unistalled my rx 9070 xt drivers installed again i have hardware accel off i have disabled ethernet nothing works it keeps doing stutters

[edgy laurel]

pretty much what @cosmic gazelle said

[civic reef]

Fair enough

[fringe vigil]

Chips

[edgy laurel]

I don't know what hardware accel or ethernet have to do with it, but i'm assuming you DDU'ed? Typically this kinda thing is due to other software installed on the system thats running when it shouldn't be. Clearing your startup items to the absolute bare minimum all the way through a fresh Windows install still to do

[lyric citrus]

DDU'ed?

[edgy laurel]

https://youtu.be/4fN6bgGJseU

[shell void]

the so warm outside this is wonderful

it’s in the frickin 60s

[lyric citrus]

the thing is its only happening on valorant so i dont think its a graphics card issue

cs runs smooth everything does but on val the stutters

[edgy laurel]

holy shit west ny

either way, its going to potentially be 70 here on monday/tuesday

wait wtf, calling for 78 on Tuesday

its 49 right now

[steel stream]

its goated

62 here

monday will be sunny and high of 67

and then on thursday we get snow

[edgy laurel]

weather is crazy

[steel stream]

damnnnn

finally got my Klipschs setup

$500 speakers for like a $150 tv

[pure garnet]

that does not look oled mr akn

[edgy laurel]

G5 for the roommates and that for you.

[steel stream]

it is not :(

[edgy laurel]

also did those klipsch's come with a remote?

[steel stream]

its what Jesus would have wanted

[steel stream]

yah, but they have arc in so its all good

[edgy laurel]

oh nice

[shell void]

they look good

[steel stream]

ive got too many remotes in my room

thank you michael sir

[shell void]

some time in the near future your 42" C4 will go there instead of that TCL

inshallah

[steel stream]

depends on rtings C6 42" review

[edgy laurel]

does he know

[shell void]

it's fine ive been subbed to rtings for like two years now

i can just share the info like always

[edgy laurel]

master of displays 🙇‍♂️

[steel stream]

i do know and its tragic

i tried to get display reviews for a buddy and was left crushed

[pure garnet]

whats the odds rtings lives 5 years with half the website shuttered

[wraith steeple]

Welcome to the superior Tech Chat

[cosmic gazelle]

big john machine spotted

[shell void]

oh they posted their first glossy tandem woled monitor review

pure black glossy

[steel stream]

beautiful

[steel stream]

ill be honest idk what that is

[shell void]

the Asus XG27AQWMG which is 1440p 280Hz

[pure garnet]

legacy res :\

[shell void]

the difference between that and a typical qd-oled is humorous

[pure garnet]

i need 32" 4k tandem oled

[shell void]

bubblegum pink screen

[pure garnet]

that will make final fantasy xiv playable

[shell void]

TRUE

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-adds-arc-pro-b70-to-official-website-launch-may-be-close

[shell void]

i wonder what these will cost

i assume itll have to be less than radeon

[steel stream]

id assume around 800

surely they dont price it above b60 dual

[shell void]

the arc pro b60 is $660 and radeon 9700 is $1350 so idk maybe $1000

[steel stream]

yeah thats fair too

[cosmic gazelle]

big john is this stupid song that doesn’t even sound good but it has very high highs and very low lows so audiophile setups started using it to demonstrate. internet users then started making fun of audiophile setups by calling them big john machines because their owners don’t ever listen to actual music on them

[edgy laurel]

I have never once heard that reference

[shell void]

ive seen those memes on tiktok, im pretty sure it's a geoff castellucci cover of whatever song that is

[steel stream]

https://youtu.be/fdBBM_d3jlc

[steel stream]

yup

[wraith steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/southpark-eyepatch-que-gif-7526801

[edgy laurel]

I hate people

[steel stream]

his voice does in fact go low

[shell void]

right before i woke up i had a dream that i cut my own hair and i hated the result, and i thought it was real

when i woke up i was feeling up my hair XD

[edgy laurel]

thats called a nightmare

[cosmic gazelle]

he has a very impressive voice, it’s just a stupid song lmao

[steel stream]

the only good haircut you can give yourself is a buzz

[shell void]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xSme56La1_0

goofy lookin speakers

who is the customer for these?

[steel stream]

are they meant to look like a belly button

[steel stream]

has to be some 1 of 1 stuff right

[shell void]

they call it the Hypersphere

[edgy laurel]

i don't even understand the meme. many of the people i've watched with insane setups like that are super music nerds. Like this guy. that basically room of vinyl and he seems to know something about everything in there https://youtu.be/4b2IOOhJmxw?si=f60zVejjddXgQ_oS

i don't have the attention span to sit in a room and just listen to music

no screen, just speakers

[shell void]

i think i remember you posting this years ago, it's a very pretty listening room

[steel stream]

these all look insane

[edgy laurel]

oh wait, it literally is a room full of vinyl

[edgy laurel]

oh, well RIP

someone got a bargain

[civic reef]

Oh er to the thing I actually wanted to discuss before I forgot

[steel stream]

damn

[civic reef]

Will I have any real issues or obstacles running 1151 V1 H-SKUs for daily driving? (YouTube, discord, etc)

[steel stream]

i wonder what he did for acoustic treatment

[civic reef]

The sort of stuff you'll see on P50s and P51s

MAYBE a P52 if I can manage to afford it (though that's coffee lake)

[shell void]

i think most people wouldnt actually want their room to be properly treated and dead

a lot of the magic of speakers is how they interact with the room to make a sound stage

[civic reef]

-Some light Source™ or Mojang® gaming on the quadro discrete too occasionally, but mostly just daily driving

[edgy laurel]

The speaker explains that the design of the room itself helps with sound, noting that there are virtually no parallel surfaces and the ceiling was patterned after a concert hall in Osaka, Japan, with five different angular changes to break up the sound and give good dispersion (5:17 - 5:36).

Additionally, the video states that a company called Acoustics First performed ETF measurements on the room after it was closed in. Based on these measurements, Owens Corning produced sound panels that are placed around the perimeter of the room (7:37 - 7:57).

so I've never done this but I used the gemini button under the video

and just asked if room treatment was discussed at all

AI is like this thing we hate until it does something neat

[steel stream]

neat, i like how it gives time stamps too

[green marsh]

i wish multi-GPU LLM would make sense for home user, but nope, the AMD motherboards/mini PCs 395 with 128GB LPDDR5x make any GPU based system pointless for most home use. I mean four B60's would cost s much as single 395+128GB RAM system; and you still need the base system for B60 capable of running 4 GPUs 🤷‍♂️

[green marsh]

i use google ai all the time for questions i would have otherwise dig through lot of documentation for. If it gives me the right help/hint, cool; if not, i lost maybe 30 seconds and back to what i would do before anyway

[edgy laurel]

consolidating information, especially if you can point it towards something specific, is one of my favorite use cases

already familiar with a topic and don't have to worry too much about hallucinations, its best case scenario

at work, we have a team working on dumping the operations manual for a huge tandem voice switch into an LLM that'll only have access to that

[green marsh]

or pointers towards tools. Like i asked it how to make multiple images from single PDF...

also often LLM is better translator tool than google translate

and ironically, local vision LLMs are sadly superior to most OCR tools

[edgy laurel]

oh yeah, I bet OCR stuff took a nosedive. hopefully they saw what was happening and pivoted quickly

[topaz veldt]

@shell void I had to

like I was forced

[green marsh]

still shaking my head about how easy is to make LLM applicatiosn tho, some frameworks really dumbed down the interfacing to absolute minimum #tech-chat-1 message 😄

[shell void]

how’d u get this already

[topaz veldt]

drove to MC

[shell void]

does microcenter have a ubiquiti section

o cool

[topaz veldt]

yeah they have a decent selection

[edgy laurel]

did not know that

[low sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kluoZ9RhmVo

the timing on picking pop os lol

[shell void]

are those all 10Gb 90W ports? cool beans

[merry stirrup]

625$ 😭

[edgy laurel]

oh no, is this linux nerds losing their minds pt. 2?

[low sorrel]

yes

[cosmic gazelle]

legitimately not the most insane deal i’ve ever seen

[shell void]

i wouldnt even give you 625 newzealand dollars for this

[merry stirrup]

or zmb bro

[steel stream]

too funny

[low sorrel]

You know what's funny about this

You know how everyone was like why aren't you using bazzite

He swapped to bazzite and is STILL HAVING ISSUES

[edgy laurel]

honestly no, i didn't actually watch the WAN show segment or the video today

i really don't care, I just think the linux evangelists being pissed is funny

[shell void]

idk why people use bazzite or cachy or popos or ubuntu or mint instead of just using arch

[edgy laurel]

less things that need to be typed in

or configured

[shell void]

fruitless time saving if you end up struggling to get anything to work in the end

[edgy laurel]

I ran a single command put together by the cachy team and it setup gaming with steam and proton all in one go. was super impressive

[edgy laurel]

but as a lot of people are saying, the people that want to switch to linux for gaming want to game, not setup linux for gaming

vanilla arch is a horrible prospect for such people

this 1000%

[pure garnet]

aside from linus’ picking methodology i thought the video was okay tbh

at the same time him picking pop is still representative of someone’s experience

[shell void]

joe schmo should just use windows 11 instead of begging for someone to enshittify linux for him

[edgy laurel]

if their experience is better, is that enshittifying?

[pure garnet]

i wouldn’t call linuses experience better

[edgy laurel]

in this case, vs. the same zero experience user trying to make vanilla arch do the same thing

[pure garnet]

linux is 90% corporate anyway so i don’t care who packages the distros

manjaro and popos are really the main 2 ones that break often though

[edgy laurel]

I dunno, i've screwed with with a bunch of distros over the years and cachy was by far and away the simplest, least terminal dependent one i've tried yet. At the desktop its one terminal command and setting a drop down menu in Steam and all the games just double click and launch

i was properly impressed

[pure garnet]

arch does what it wants to do well but cachy is better at making it accessible

[edgy laurel]

the wiki is really nice and the people on the discord were super helpful for the one question I had

i don't really like linux but my experience was pretty damn good

[pure garnet]

i don’t mind using it but i’m not switching to it until windows annoys me more than linux does

[edgy laurel]

yeah. though i feel like thats probably never going to happen (for me)

[pure garnet]

at the end of the day i just wanna get done with work and play games so whatever offers the least friction is what i want to daily

i have linux on my desktop but i only boot into that for schoolwork atm

[odd sable]

I crossed that a long time ago, for everything except gaming

[brave panther]

meanwhile i have been using cmd and powershell on windows at a exponential growth rate last 2 years

which is quite funny

[topaz veldt]

So this is fun

Except my desktop won't connect at 5 Gbps... so... deal with that another day

[shell void]

oh woah these glasses are cheaper than i expected

only $250 for 120Hz 1200nit micro-oled glasses with speakers on them too?

[brave panther]

soon

[brave panther]

tf is this

[vestal granite]

its a metamask

get it cause its like geometric like metamask wallet icon is geometric remember when people used metamask wallet

[shell void]

https://www.rayneo.com/products/rayneo-air-4-pro-ar-glasses

surprisingly cheap

[trim agate]

mines coming in a few days, just reached my country

[brave panther]

are you aware those use 17.4w at 10g?

[steel stream]

wait what

that seems crazy good

will have to look at that

[shell void]

thats what im sayin

$250 is cheap enough that i might just get them to frick around with on my phone

[brave panther]

slopinator

[steel stream]

yeah im not the biggest fan of smart glasses but for that price that is worth it to experience them

[brave panther]

needs tracking tho

[shell void]

ive never tried smart glasses so i have no idea

[steel stream]

same

ive only seen Riley review smart glasses

[brave panther]

wait wtf is this
how are they converting hdmi to usb c dp alt mode

[steel stream]

he reviewed some more minimalist ones which i liked a while back

1200nits right into the eyeballs has to be awesome

[pure garnet]

so like 8 cents a year

[brave panther]

what do you pay for kwh

this will use 153 kWh per year

but more importantly it will stop cpu from switching c states so more power will be consumed there too

[pure garnet]

like 8 cents

[topaz veldt]

I hate multi gig shit over ethernet cables

[pure garnet]

so $12.25 a year

i had 10g working between an x550 and an x540 fine but i don’t use either of those anymore

[cosmic gazelle]

@edgy laurel

[topaz veldt]

Sick, it works.

[shell void]

it's fine nowadays man the X540T is just a million years old

[topaz veldt]

its driver finicky

[shell void]

the Realtek 8127 is microscopic and like 1.5W

[topaz veldt]

and cable finicky

[shell void]

mashallah

whatchu doin with windows 23h2 tho

[topaz veldt]

transferring

Its from ISO repo, needed a big file to test

[shell void]

if it's maxed out 24 hours per day every single day for the entire year xD

and if it is then it's probably doing something important so the power cost is worth it

i dont like the X540T anyway because it's a bajillion years old

[topaz veldt]

no, even idle bud

I had a client years ago that did a cost analysis of replacing 10GbaseT switches, cables, and NICs across like 250 hosts and the power savings alone was nuts

[shell void]

oh i could definitely imagine it being silly at that scale

but with modern nics and passive switches for just a couple devices in a home it's negligible

i welcome the fiber future with open arms nevertheless

[pure garnet]

i remember when i was shopping for 10gb switches it was cheaper to buy an enterprise giant outdated switch then a passive one, then i saw it used like 600w

went with the passive one

found it https://www.ebay.com/itm/296148288621

[topaz veldt]

lol wtf

[fringe vigil]

Gaming channel ain’t a real place

[shell void]

my tplink passive switches havent had a single hiccup in their several years of continuous use

as one would hope

on an unrelated note i didnt realize how much of an improvement it is when i wear my glasses inside my vr headset

i might use this more often now that ive tried that xd

[topaz veldt]

Ok I take it back 5 Gbps is nice

[pure garnet]

i’m so blind i had to and that’s why i retuned my rift s

because it wasn’t comfortable and i wasn’t buying lenses for something i was only using for minecraft

[merry stirrup]

guess who is ill before my interview

[low sorrel]

@wise bear since when did DCS take 250gb to install

@merry stirrup youuuuuuuuuuu

[pure garnet]

i hope it goes well floppa

[merry stirrup]

sewer slide

[merry stirrup]

monday like 4:30 my time

[topaz veldt]

damn end of day interview?

[merry stirrup]

of my own choosing yeah

[topaz veldt]

argh

[merry stirrup]

gave me a couple times and i didn’t like any of them

[topaz veldt]

I won't even schedulel for that

[merry stirrup]

i’m going to assume they’re just gonna hire me and it’s a 30 minute interview

[topaz veldt]

because if you are meeting people from a team its 430 its like ffs lets get out of here

[merry stirrup]

yeah

[shell void]

youll interview me when im ready and damn well please, and not a minute sooner bub

[topaz veldt]

I only do interviews 9-12

[merry stirrup]

cocky? maybe but whatever

[topaz veldt]

otherwise my dudes are too entranched in goings on and its like "uhhh yeah so ok whatever"

[merry stirrup]

i meet with the owner, operations manager, and some other guy

[pure garnet]

bro walking in there “i showed you my proxmox when can i start”

[topaz veldt]

Proxmox? leave pls

[merry stirrup]

he actually gave me decent advice about the homelab stuff i won’t lie

told me that i should definitely put it on my resume especially cause i “manage” so many users

[topaz veldt]

yeah having homelab on resume is a good idea

[merry stirrup]

esp one shared with 10 other people

[topaz veldt]

that part doesn't matter much to me

[merry stirrup]

i am going to talk with my previous employer on monday as well a little before the interview

i should also be able to take their old storage server which is awesome

won’t have to blow $900 on a handful of high capacity drives

xeon gold something or other based

[trim agate]

the moment i added it to mine i immediately got accepted for an internship

[merry stirrup]

and a little half rack

and i think a pdu or two

[pure garnet]

what is putting homelab on the resume like

[merry stirrup]

that i am not sure of how to word properly

[topaz veldt]

you put it at the end of your resume under hobbies

[merry stirrup]

“manager of my own ai data center 🤓”

[pure garnet]

“purchases enterprise junk and burns 600w to host pirated movies”

[merry stirrup]

WOAH 600W

tf we packing in there

[topaz veldt]

i bet my storage box uses that lol

[trim agate]

i worded it as running local attack simulations and deploying a bunch of siems to learn from

[merry stirrup]

i think at idle i sit at like 50-65w with all my drives spinning and no gpu

[pure garnet]

1 switch

[topaz veldt]

[pure garnet]

the cisco i linked earlier runs at 800w and 85dba

[merry stirrup]

11 toaster ovens

[merry stirrup]

wowza that’s kinda nuts

guys i had to fix a friends pc yesterday

[stoic apex]

Fully setup now

[merry stirrup]

and i genuinely have never seen a computer in a worse/ more confusing state

so. there was 2 boards in the casw

2 fully complete boards

[stoic apex]

You haven't seen mine

[merry stirrup]

cooler and all

[stoic apex]

2?!

[stoic apex]

I take this back

[topaz veldt]

no it has 800W PSUs or similar, but 9k like that does not use 800W

[merry stirrup]

gpu was just floating around the case unplugged and getting banged up

drives all floating around and also unplugged

i genuinely think i’m going to smack this man

[edgy laurel]

is that supposed to be a computer. I see an android home screen from 2014

[stoic apex]

Do it

[trim agate]

at what point do they have some shame