tech-chat-2

[turbid locust]

no sir I installed KDE last night

[topaz veldt]

alt+space

[pure garnet]

why is my debian install 220gb again

[gusty lichen]

bloat

[turbid locust]

CS2 works flawlessly on CachyOS so I will survive for at least 30 days

[topaz veldt]

because you prob never apt autoremove and have a zillion kernels

[pure garnet]

no it's a vm i just use for homework twice a week

last time the x11 error log was 200gb

[gusty lichen]

apt apt

[turbid locust]

this mf uses apt laugh at this man

[gusty lichen]

idk wahts apt

its the song thing

[turbid locust]

I wish discord blocking was a useful thing

[pure garnet]

the thinkcenter keeps it clean

[gusty lichen]

guys soon i will boot the linux

[pure garnet]

so i guess something with mate is just borked on that install

[gusty lichen]

what mate

[pure garnet]

google is free

[pure garnet]

you should be using apk

[gusty lichen]

i use sudo

[turbid locust]

pacman my goat

[pure garnet]

apk is still the fastest thing i've used

emerge is the slowest even without compiling

[topaz veldt]

ffs passwordless sudo jfc

[shell void]

i am the super user

[pure garnet]

it doesn't really bother me

my doas systems prompt me for every time i run doas

sudo asks like once in 5 commands

[steel stream]

i fear no man

[turbid locust]

I got absolutely flammed for asking how to make CachyOS not require a password in their server last night LMAO

[pure garnet]

is it not just this

[gusty lichen]

how to debloat a linux

[pure garnet]

https://google.com

[steel stream]

what if I use edge

[merry stirrup]

gotta use bing

[brisk jolt]

you gotta hop on internet explorer

[gusty lichen]

edge eating 24gb of ram is bad?

[steel stream]

no that's perfectly fine

[gusty lichen]

and 100% ssd

[steel stream]

yeah that's fine

[turbid locust]

naw

also this dude is like the lowest effort bait I’ve ever seen

[steel stream]

bait used to be believable

[merry stirrup]

just typing things

[pure garnet]

does cachy not set kde up the same as arch then

[steel stream]

just typing whatever comes to mind

I fear we might have one of those shakespeare typing monkeys here

[merry stirrup]

big booty floppers

[steel stream]

where

[merry stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-so-im-gif-18850787

[pure garnet]

because i have my walelt set up by default so it'd just work for me

[turbid locust]

Dunno

[steel stream]

grok is this true

[frail beacon]

If you consent to install things despite there being a big cancel button, then that's on you
But if the consent is being asked to install random useless stuff which is never going to be used by anyone in the world, then that is wrong

[steel stream]

what did you guys think of the Invincible S4 finale

[frail beacon]

sudo rm -rf ./

-> This is a joke. Please don't use this command

[frank zealot]

delete the desktop interface, run just command line

[brisk jolt]

@trim agate looks like im getting wireless backhaul anyway lmao

[young void]

"Due to high use pay for super grok or suffer"

[steel stream]

i thought super grok was called Mecha H1tler

[young void]

Same thing

[steel stream]

filter evading is my specialty

hi mods

[young void]

Keks xD

[teal orbit]

apk stresses me out because I'm pretty sure if your internet goes out during an upgrade then it fails and leaves the system half upgraded

Because it downloads and installs during the same stage

[trim agate]

What’s the solution now

[brisk jolt]

im getting another router to extend range

my room still has unstable wifi on mobile devices

[trim agate]

Open da door

[steel stream]

open da noor

https://tenor.com/view/noor-door-open-open-the-noor-old-guy-gif-27499300

[trim agate]

Or use 2.4ghz

[steel stream]

ok don't be rash

[brisk jolt]

the door isnt even the problem

[trim agate]

Let’s be rash and use 2.4ghz

[topaz veldt]

@low sorrel I thought I read that this expedition needed some like... damage points?

or is that only once the expedition opens?

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-exusiai-angel-confused-dizzy-gif-15630974669602071569

[light solar]

Yo guys
I found someone who would trade their iphone 12 for my s21
Should i go for it? Both used

[wise prairie]

Which is why its so funny that a relatively miniscule channel like GN and especially HUB is botching about that so much 💀 like you are not entitled to any free product

[neat mountain]

No
Why trade an s21 for an iPhone 12
S21 is better off

If it's an iPhone 13, it would be worth

[steel stream]

idk I probably wouldn't, trading a used device for a used device is useless, especially when your current device works well enough. It's just a risk that isn't worth it

[light solar]

Iphone 13s are usually more expensive

Like a lot a lot

[trim agate]

not worth it

[shell void]

no you’ll lose 120Hz

60Hz phones are worthless

[frank zealot]

but he really wants a 5+ year old iphone because reasons

[light solar]

Not really
Iphone 12 has quite the advantage because it has longer support and better camera quality even at night compared to my s21 that makes my face look like a water painting when i try to rec videos

[neat mountain]

No the s21 has better camera quality at night
IPhone 12 has some terrible blooming when bright objects are around at night

I would not recommend iPhone 12 if you're thinking thats better at night

[steel stream]

you're trading an old phone for an old phone, we have no idea the condition or quality of the iPhone 12, yippee you get a "better" camera, but it's at most like 5% better, it's not worth it. It seems like you just want someone to confirm your opinion

[frank zealot]

If I look on FB Marketplace right now:

I see iphone 13's in the mid-150ish range. That's a better buy than a 12.

[shell void]

there might be some base iphone 17 deals if you wait until the 18 drops this autumn

the base iphone 17 is a great phone

powerful and no 60Hz or lightning slop

[frank zealot]

I see some 14's/15's in the 200-300 range as well.

[light solar]

Lemme show you iphones in my area

[shell void]

i consider every base iphone before the 17 to be obsolete because they’re all 60Hz

i’d take a 13 pro over a base 16

[frank zealot]

some people don't care about that, honestly

[shell void]

i still have my 13pm and there’s 0 speed difference in daily programs

i tested it side by side with my 17pm out of curiosity

[trim agate]

17 is the first ibase phone that's made me consider buying a base version

[shell void]

the 120Hz on the 13pm matters a lot more than the newer chip in a 14-16 base model

[light solar]

I found an iphone 13 for 320$

But they are all above 300

[frank zealot]

usd?

[trim agate]

important features for me is 120hz and macro photography

[light solar]

My country currency is MAD

[shell void]

oh true you get all three rear cameras with a 13 pro too

it’s just a much better overall phone than even a base 16

[light solar]

You have to take a number from the right side to convert to usd

[frank zealot]

ohhh, morocco, your market's probably completely different

[light solar]

Iphone 17 pro max here are 1750 usd

[shell void]

brutal

[pure garnet]

bro it’s 76f in my room wtf

[shell void]

that’s not too bad

[trim agate]

mine's 1500 wtf

good thing i dont need a new phone anytime soon

[pure garnet]

i have nothing on

[light solar]

Yea well to an adult with a stable job its not

To a student however...

[trim agate]

think he was referring to this

[shell void]

yeah thats not too bad

i’ve seen as high as 96F in my room with nothing on

[light solar]

I got my s21 for about 150 usd

[neat mountain]

Why Fahrenheit please use Celsius or kelvin😭
Thats 24c which is not bad

[steel stream]

bro kelvin? no one is describing their room temp in kelvin

[neat mountain]

My room is 34 C rn😭😭

[light solar]

[pure garnet]

just do (X-32)*5/9 to put it in c i guess

[light solar]

Damn lol

[steel stream]

Um yeah my room temp rn is 297.6 K rn 🤓

[neat mountain]

24.4 c nice

[light solar]

Boy

[neat mountain]

Lol use night mode

[pure garnet]

is this gonna be a daily thing

[neat mountain]

What do you mean video doesn't work

[shell void]

what does kelvin the ice tree have to do with this bro? he’s just chillin

[neat mountain]

Pg to night mode and take a video

[steel stream]

just go get the iPhone 12 and stop asking about it

[trim agate]

+1 +1 +1

[neat mountain]

Ig he's already made his mind to buy it

Just buy it

[trim agate]

if you're going to ask a question but you've already made up your mind and just argue against our reasons

[light solar]

Debating

[neat mountain]

Don't ask us

[trim agate]

just fucking do it

[pure garnet]

when i too leave my phone in the table the viewfinder is black

[shell void]

nobody brags harder about having an iphone than the guy who has a 5-10 year old shattered base model

[trim agate]

just airdrop it to me bro

[light solar]

Anyways

[trim agate]

wdym your charger is different? isn't this the normal phone charger

[light solar]

Its good to finally see apple changing the iphone design

[trim agate]

im gonna miss lightning when i get a new phone

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet the turd i’ll be comparing against the 550 ti today

“nanya” ram chips presumably standing for “the speed is nanya business”

[light solar]

Its been the same since 11 to idk i dont remember

[pure garnet]

brother they change it like every 2 years wtf are we talking about

[trim agate]

sure it's shit and sucks at transferring data, but it has a satisfying click

[shell void]

i think imma downsize from silver 17 pro max to purple 18 pro

[pure garnet]

that cherry looks appealing

i may also go 17 pro -> 18 pro

[trim agate]

how deep is the purple?

purple happens to be my favourite color

[smoky orbit]

3 meters deep

[trim agate]

ok

[trim agate]

oh thats not really purple purple

[light solar]

Beware of them they run this town

Doesnt look purple to me

[steel stream]

camera button lives another year 🙏

[smoky orbit]

looks more maroon than purple

[light solar]

I really like the blue one

[steel stream]

the purple/cherry one looks great

[trim agate]

please come back

[light solar]

I like the red color iphones a lot

[trim agate]

but my next phone will probably be a white/silver

[neat mountain]

Tbh what my xiaomi 11 lite ne from 2021 can do at night
Its not that bright outside and this is 1080p, and a very chaotic region. This phone has the worst night vision from 2021

[trim agate]

i'm on a black 14 pro

[steel stream]

im on natural titanium 16 pro

[light solar]

I heard ios 26 is still unstable

[trim agate]

you heard wrong

[cosmic gazelle]

did they announce the 18s this early or is it just a leak

[neat mountain]

No not anymorr

[strange ginkgo]

i pretty much have a powerbank that running android and have to charge it weekly

[light solar]

Thats great

[shell void]

just a rumor

[trim agate]

im assuming leak i havent actually googled anything yet

oh rumor

[shell void]

i’ve never tried to learn how to use it

[neat mountain]

The leaker for the iphone 18 seems pretty accurate.
I think apple has filed a lawsuit against someone claiming to have leaked a design
I think this time it's a real leak.. Take a look at the report on google

[shell void]

well leaks are rumors 99% of the time so tomato potato

[trim agate]

my next upgrade will probably be the whatever's going on in 2028

[steel stream]

it's not a terrible experience, but most people are way faster with the normal controls

[pure garnet]

it's a leak from someone reputable

[shell void]

i’m still curious about the iPhold

[trim agate]

6 years with a phone seems like a good time period

[neat mountain]

Apple is the company that's rarely files a lawsuit against rumors or leakers..
This time I might be real

[shell void]

the rumored design seems fat and ugly but i’ll have to check it out IRL

the galaxy fold 7 is the most impressive phone that i’ve ever personally held but i don’t want a scamsung

[steel stream]

i didn't know the iPhone 18s was rumored

[pure garnet]

yeah the fold is nice

then i saw the price and lost interest

[brisk jolt]

im on a piss 14p

[neat mountain]

Fold is nice but I think oppos fold is the best implementation

[trim agate]

piss?

[shell void]

the experience of a 17pm is literally identical don’t feel any fomo

[neat mountain]

Currently*
Cuz small crease much more dursble

[shell void]

there is literally ZERO difference in boot time or app launch time between my 13pm and 17pm

[brisk jolt]

as in my 14p is piss color

[trim agate]

reasons why i havent upgraded lol

[shell void]

i basically just got a camera upgrade and a fresh battery and screen

[pure garnet]

i only really upgraded to change sizes

[neat mountain]

Base 17 is currently the best deal

[trim agate]

i used to immediately tell what phone is what just by either feeling it or looking at it, now (aside from colors and the 17 pro hump) i can't tell

[pure garnet]

i like the smaller pro more than the max since i don’t watch youtube on my phone much

[trim agate]

unless im like actively looking for it

[steel stream]

i went from 14p -> 16p as I wanted usb-c

[shell void]

i watch a lot of youtube but i think the standard pro would have fine battery life

[trim agate]

i wanna try dailying a pm

[shell void]

i’ve never drained my 17pm to 0 and i get ~4 hours of outdoor max brightness time per day

[steel stream]

I can't see myself going for the bigger sizes tbh

[pure garnet]

base 17 would’ve been fine for me but going pro max to base model feels bad so i got the pro

[brisk jolt]

i only see myself getting the pro just for the vc lmao

[trim agate]

vc?

[shell void]

i have an indent callous thing on my left pinkie from resting my 17pm on it

it’s genuinely too big unless you have blue collar man hands

[pure garnet]

didn’t you have a 13 pro max

[steel stream]

yeah I ain't got those

[shell void]

yeah

[brisk jolt]

vapor chamber

[pure garnet]

seems like oleds make soft hands

[trim agate]

💀

[muted matrix]

lol

all you apple schmucks

[steel stream]

you got soft hands brother

[shell void]

i have hard feet brother

[trim agate]

im an apple shill until it comes to headphones i rock the xm4s

[muted matrix]

soft hands, brother? or a soft hands brother? 😄

[steel stream]

I used to

[trim agate]

fuck the airpods max

[shell void]

okay steven i won’t 👍

[steel stream]

I no longer work outdoors barefoot so my feet have fixed themselves

[pure garnet]

you’ve had smite open for over a day you are the only schmuck here

[muted matrix]

what wrong with smite?

[trim agate]

youve just been SMITED!

[muted matrix]

i'm a busy guy i only play smite and pubg now

[trim agate]

well is it smit

[muted matrix]

hald of it is idle

[brisk jolt]

so he just admitted to having invalid opinions

[trim agate]

busy and 38 hours doesn't go well together

[muted matrix]

well the game is dying

[brisk jolt]

[muted matrix]

yea like i said almost all idle 😄

yea i just went in and i was litreally disconnected, so steam reporting not accurate

[pure garnet]

it’s crazy how his tantrum saved perception on the cpu

because nobody cared about the reviews beyond who got one

[muted matrix]

but i do have over 9k hours in pubg 😄

[shell void]

xd

i wonder if AMD will have the Ryzen AI 9 595X3D2 available on day one or if it’ll launch in late 2028

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/angelina-gilberta-arknights-endfield-cute-gif-10287523737689143680

[trim agate]

anyone else got this problem where they want to buy all the new tech but you don't have the money for the new tech

[shell void]

AMD will definitely be using the 580X3D / 595X naming scheme to be +100 over intel nova lake

[brisk jolt]

you forgot how they’ll use the entire alphabet whilst doing so

[shell void]

Ryzen AI Max+ 595X3D2 Dual Special Edition

[neat mountain]

I still prefer Intel naming schemes over amds

The name that's shows up in task manager*

It gives quite a lot of info

Also wth is dell doing
Wtf is dell professional plus laotop
Dell pro plus
Like wt

Why do this
Latitude
Inspiron
Xps

These are such nice names

[shell void]

they cut that dell pro/max shit out this year because it was stupid

that was a one time thing in 2025 and their sales suffered

[steel stream]

the tech giants yearn to have greater recognition

[neat mountain]

Yeah cause they expected to simplify it, but they made it much more complicated
The series names itself signify wht purpose it's for
Latitude: work
Inspiron causal and home
Xps: professional, top of the line
Vostro: small business and personal usd

[frail beacon]

Honestly, it was good they abandoned XPS for a year. Because now it feels like it has come back stronger and better than ever before and it feels good to have Windows laptops that actually feel premium.

[neat mountain]

I mean
For a new adopter, maybe not, but if you know the company and the devices this I'd the best one

[shell void]

panther lake is a rebirth for x86 laptops 🙏

[frail beacon]

https://fixupx.com/Geeky_Vaidy/status/2047219556301828319

This looks cool

Vaidyanathan S (@Geeky_Vaidy)

First look at an Intel Wild Cat Lake laptop in the wild. 2 Cougar Cove P + 4 Darkmont E cores 17 W PL1 and 35 W PL2 / 22 W PL1 Max / 11 W fanless
︀︀17 TOPS NPU
︀︀2 Xe cores
︀︀Thin and light design
︀︀Looks like a perfect laptop for the beach, innit 🌊🏖️

**💬 7 🔁 6 ❤️ 21 👁️ 2.7K **

FixupX · Apr 23, 2026, 7:42 AM

[neat mountain]

True
Finally

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-gif-22015334

[shell void]

i wouldn’t mind an 11W Wildcat laptop with no fans

if it was ~$600 like a macbook neo

[steel stream]

for what I do that would be great

11W wildcat with a 97Wh battery 🙏

[shell void]

holy meta

[gentle gale]

now if only laptop oems could make something like this

[frank zealot]

https://youtu.be/x26A28DoT-w?si=zjqWR0u0ZKyDxCf4
Macbook Neo vidya is up!

[steel stream]

it's been 500 years

[neat mountain]

I still think the China import bans make no sense
Xiaomi laptops are really nice.. Spying allegations? I mean isn't everything already spying people. Plus for most devices used for high security purposes are most likely devices ma ufactured withing the country...

[frail beacon]

We can see that this laptop has 16 GB of RAM, as reported in Task Manager, with 8.9 GB shared with the GPU. That's already more than the 8 GB the Neo offers, which is a real bottleneck as soon as you start to go beyond web browsing or media consumption. Of course, we're in a RAM shortage right now so this machine seems like an even more solid package overall, but keep in mind that it's not a real laptop with a price tag.

This won't be priced similar to the neo at all. The RAM itself probably costs more than that now lmao

It might get cheaper in a few months but right now I wouldn't compare it with the Neo

[shell void]

i was confused why wildcat lake existed at all when i first saw it in leaks a couple of years ago

but now with the neo success it makes sense

[neat mountain]

Xiaomi laptops with panther lake are really good now

[frank zealot]

It's been.....

One Week since you looked at me

[muted matrix]

lol

who would buy xiaomi

[pure garnet]

the neo at 499 is the value king

[gentle gale]

really the only laptop that looks interesting is the slim 5i. though it’ll probably cost way more than the neo

[neat mountain]

I mean
The value proposition is pretty good

[shell void]

my grandmother keeps buying $300 4gb celeron laptops from qvc every few years

[neat mountain]

The price is super affordable for great hardware

[steel stream]

gma knows ball

[muted matrix]

yea, same with huawei, i'd never have that chinese bloat on my network ever

[neat mountain]

It's like the MacBook side of windows

[pure garnet]

buying a laptop from qvc is elite status

[frank zealot]

jebus

[shell void]

i told her to buy a macbook neo

[neat mountain]

But not overpriced
Xiaomi laptops all have aluminiujm chassis as we

Which is very nice to see
Amazing displays

[muted matrix]

how much :d

[pure garnet]

my grandma uses a delidded 6700k

[muted matrix]

weird flex lol

[steel stream]

did she hit you with the "it's too expensive"

[shell void]

the message was conveyed through my father and i have no idea what she replied

she’s a retired millionaire, she’s just also a cheapskate

[steel stream]

ah, godspeed grandma

[neat mountain]

You built the pc for her or she did that 👀 ( that would be a cool grandma)

[pure garnet]

she had some dell haswell aio i didn’t feel like fixing

[neat mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/grandma-sari-gif-14510159

[pure garnet]

so i gave her the 6700k system

[neat mountain]

Nice

[pure garnet]

it runs firefox and nothing else

[slim pebble]

I thought the 16 pro max was 120, no?

[wise bear]

I am speed

[pure garnet]

13 pro onward are 120hz, base model are 60 until the 17

and all of the e models so far are 60hz

[slim pebble]

Got it, I haven’t had a standard model since I switched from android

[frail beacon]

Well she probably wouldn't get the student discount so yes

[steel stream]

nah it's super easy to get EDU discount, anyone can

you just buy from the EDU store that's it

[neat mountain]

This gonna take 5 mins to install 148gb

[frank zealot]

I just bought a 700$ one for work for testing some stuff out.

We'll get it in like 2 weeks lol

[wise bear]

its installing on the fly as it decompresses

[neat mountain]

Nice

[steel stream]

neo or iPhone?

[frail beacon]

Wow thats so fast
Im jealous fr

my msfs installation took a lot of time to install all the stuff

I had to keep it overnight

[wise bear]

because msfs cdns are trash

this is dcs

[frail beacon]

Yes but I also dont have a reliable fast internet connection

[frank zealot]

neo
work doesn't give anyone cell phones

[neat mountain]

Ah nah not worth it
Should have bought the base 17
Neo for hand feel, sure
Unless it's just work calls and messages and stuff, neo is fine

[muted matrix]

probably fairly rate limited

[frail beacon]

Well, my windows update download speed is also shit
they probably have no good servers nearby

[wise bear]

meanwhile im ripping back 2gb/s from european cdns

while in the west coast of america

kek. lol.

[muted matrix]

you may be running into last mile issue yeah. i would expect them to front load on akamai or azure

[wise bear]

they do front load on akamai

but they also use their cdns for the asobo data

er, world data

[muted matrix]

i work for one of those 2 companies so i'm well aware 😛

[neat mountain]

That's always shit
For everyone

[wise bear]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-sigh-gif-5895699729383201961

[frail beacon]

There's like a really good chance it's just my internet being shit
For MSFS, it's shit both here and in my home wifi (it's faster at home but still not as much as I would like it to be)

Windows update speed is so good back home but using my phone's 5G internet, it is really slow.

[frail beacon]

Nah its faster at my home wifi
It's probably just my internet

I'm using Mobile hotspot from my pixel phone, which is known to have not that good of a modem

[muted matrix]

https://giphy.com/gifs/the-simpsons-scared-homer-simpson-jUwpNzg9IcyrK

[neat mountain]

I downloaded Minecraft with tons of mods ( 5gb) in 10 s
Meanwhile the windows update that's 200mb takes like half an hour lol

[wise bear]

😂

[muted matrix]

well, there are a ton of different policies and other such things under the hood that can drive that. also if you're not a b2b partner you may simply be slower

[frail beacon]

Windows update also has a lot of settings that purposefully make it slow so that it does not prioritse the update over user requirements

That's why you wouldn't even notice a slow down on your network, but a few hours later Windows will hit you with a notification that you can restart if you need to install this update.

[muted matrix]

akamai uses something called GTM which is basically super charged anycast and routes to origins based on geo policies

also your isp could have crappier peering than others in regards to ms (that would suck though)

[frail beacon]

Quick question- Who manages the animation when I press the minimise button on Windows? Like can any developer disable that animation and make it happen in an instant without an animation (on a per-app basis)?

[neat mountain]

Yes
This can be disabled

Use windhawk
Mod: window animation customizer

[frail beacon]

on a per app basis?

No no I dont want to do disable it
I am noticing that one app does not have it but all others do

[neat mountain]

I think it's planned, not sure if it's ready yet
They're still under dev

[frail beacon]

Im pretty sure theres a setting inside windows itself to reduce the animations that does it

[wise bear]

holy shit 😂

[neat mountain]

514gb wtf
A whole drive for that

[wise bear]

naw i have 6tb of nvme

[frail beacon]

woah thats crazy
If I didnt have 2x512 GB SSD on my laptop, I would have installed a 1TB SSD and installed msfs for the entire drive

[neat mountain]

But still bro
You ate into 1/16th of your 6tb drive

[neat mountain]

Me on 239gb nvme ssd 😭😭😭 on my laptop

[wise bear]

I'm good on storage lmao

[neat mountain]

Laptop is old, I don't plan to add more storage since I plan to upgrade soon...

[frail beacon]

Close to 300 or 400 gb of my 1TB storage is flight simulator 😭

[frail beacon]

You could add 1tb SSD and then just install it to your new system whenever you get that

[muted matrix]

i still am committed to getting past the 1PB milestone in my lifetime 😄

at work, a pb is nothing, but home i'm still only a few hundo tb :/

[frail beacon]

You are the reason storage prices are skyrocketing frr

[muted matrix]

🙁

hey im frugal i buy when things are on sale

honestly, the sas ssd are what's the most $

and i have to upgrade WHOLE vdev if i do. so thats not gonna happen awhile

[neat mountain]

Not currently
My laptop has gen 3x4 nvme support
And the cooling for the nvme slot if terrible
Im at like 88% life in just 3 months on the existing drive

And this ssd gets to 80c very frequently and stays there due to how bad the cooling is

It's and older dell latitude 7490 with Intel core i5 8350U

I dint want to wear down a new drive like that

[frail beacon]

yeah those are bad at cooling unfortuantely

[civic reef]

Buy a thermal pad

[brisk jolt]

goddamn

[civic reef]

It won't help too much, but it may assist in atleast managing temps a little

[muted matrix]

i was shocked at how hot the older sata ssd got. i had like 6 all packed in a small space in my first server and ws surprised they all lived

[smoky orbit]

Or k5 pro

[brisk jolt]

lm it no balls

[civic reef]

Mmmmmaybe

[civic reef]

Liquid metal </3????????

[neat mountain]

It already has a copper heatsink on it 😭
And it's using ptm7950 to contact the drivd
The airflow is just nil in that region of my laptop and my ambient temp is 35c rn

[civic reef]

Wtf </3

Clean up the filters and fan

[neat mountain]

I did
The way it's designed, no air flows there.. It's just a vent to the elements.. If the ambient were cooler, this is not an issue at all

[civic reef]

Okay tbh my only "solution" is limiting it to 3x2

Less lanes, less power draw, less heat

[smoky orbit]

You can do that on a laptop?

[neat mountain]

The small vent on the right side is the ssd vent lol

[smoky orbit]

Is the copper bit actually touching the drive or not?

[neat mountain]

With ptm7950 thermal pad + copper heatsink, yes

Ive not made it touch the back cover tho, the reason is the battery is right beside the ssd

[civic reef]

Maybe, idk

[neat mountain]

The heat can damage the battery

[civic reef]

Okay, idea

Is the bottom of your laptop plastic or metal

[neat mountain]

Mag alloy , metal

[civic reef]

Turn your bottom cover into the heatsink

[civic reef]

Oh
Fair enough

[smoky orbit]

Just to make sure, have you checked after having installed the heat sink that it was making contact (sometimes it looks like it does but doesn’t) by removing said heat sink?

[neat mountain]

Here's the reason why I don't

[neat mountain]

Ive tried a ton of stuff.. There's nothing I can do especially with my ambient being so high

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1137161703000375339/1485343290046808224/1774201033685753519019558950129.png?ex=69eb0c7c&is=69e9bafc&hm=94b845b6b857f6d2a7dcacffeb78b786f7a8ab834eff55af512716286ae964d5&
This is my laptop with the ssd heatsink and some stickers taken off.. (img is from when I first replaced the 128gb ssd this device came with for a 239gb ssd)

The fan itself is just a joke atp

[merry stirrup]

GAMERS

[steel stream]

a motherboard for first person shooters

[pure garnet]

what board is that?

[fervent chasm]

taking the photo with the peel still on is a sin

[muted matrix]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AdpkljsgqWlXi

[shell void]

elijah you MUST do it

[merry stirrup]

Z890-E

[pure garnet]

i forgot that board existed because the hero is only like $50 more

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/zotac-3080-gif-18549684

[topaz veldt]

WORTAC

[merry stirrup]

yeah 😭

[civic reef]

The one for first person shooters

Also GOD I hope things stabilise for good after this war ends

I am getting payed amounts that will make an HDD RAID setup in 2026 (as secondary storage ofcourse) a reality

[civic reef]

Hiiiii :3

[smoky orbit]

Hewowowowowow

[civic reef]

Hruuu!!!!!!?

[smoky orbit]

Am goody, u?

[civic reef]

That's great to hear!!!! X3

What sort of new shenanigans have you been working on?

[smoky orbit]

Nothing yet, am just cutting apple tree branches (really repetitive and boring and the wind is extremely strong today)

[civic reef]

How strong of wind?

[smoky orbit]

I’d say around 40-50 kph (in place surrounded by trees)

[civic reef]

Oh my days that IS quite strong wind

If I was there I'd need lead shoes to stay on the ground

[smoky orbit]

Yeah I almost need some im like really light

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/xbox-ceo-reportedly-drops-microsoft-gaming-makes-xbox-the-companys-gaming-brand-again wow, seems like new CEO is doing good

[green marsh]

wondering if someone locally will even buy the old 960 from me 😄 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-strix-gtx-960-directcu-ii-oc-4-gb.b3240

[frail beacon]

There were a lot of people hating on her without even giving her a chance...

[green marsh]

(kinda funny seeing how mainstream only doubled the VRAM in a decade)

[devout ridge]

even i don't want that thing, only 2.6TFLOPS in FP32

[steel stream]

so far it's been going pretty good ngl

[green marsh]

"gamers" hate on ladies because it's "their area, no woman should intrude into that". You can see it in all the videos of bros losing their mind when a woman dares to speak in voice chat

[green marsh]

it has HDMI 2.0 and HEVC 8-bit and 10-bit decoding tho. still a capable media card

[frail beacon]

It had the double effect of racism and sexism

[devout ridge]

i care not for media, only FP32 performance

[green marsh]

btw that turboquant thing ? absolutely working like crazy for MoE models. With right settings and enough normal RAM, the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model which would normally do like 80t/s PP and 15t/s TG went to 400t/s PP and 40t/s TF on literally same hardware. And it only used sub-6GB VRAM, because rest was in the RAM, but still performed very well. My friend with 4070 Ti 12GB will going to love this news tomorrow.

Tho he was trying to find a reason to switch to a 5090 (for simulator and AI coding) 😄

[devout ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/good-burger-some-of-these-gif-12933391

[green marsh]

TLDR: the new google AI memory thingy really works and helps low VRAM hardware to perform well for local AI 🙂

[devout ridge]

Oh cool

[steel stream]

https://videocardz.com/newz/repair-shop-discovers-early-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition-revision-with-faulty-chip-missing-from-newer-boards

[mild sentinel]

idk why but i feel like derb8uer might make something like this tbh

[devout ridge]

how would you heatsink conductive cables

[thick frost]

Water-cooled ram existed at one point, sure why not

[steel stream]

don't worry about that part

[devout ridge]

Water-cooled ram still exists

[mild sentinel]

dont worry , it will be fine

[frank zealot]

it wouldn't be ideal, but I could absolutely design something to make this work.

although, individual plastic coated wires would probably work best in this, compared to sleeved

[hoary hatch]

I'll pay $10

[smoky orbit]

@green marsh I’ll pay 10.01 (up to 15 max)

[hoary hatch]

Nooo I wanna sli it with my 960

[frank zealot]

My boss just messaged me, and I'm absolutely lost.
Can anyone tell me what it means?

[smoky orbit]

Alrighty then im gonna let you have it

[smoky orbit]

Restart the acorn’s growth cycle obviously, we’re in spring, gotta make them grow

[green marsh]

i would respond with:

?

[frank zealot]

Did 960's even have SLI Fingers?

[green marsh]

@topaz veldt lol https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem too little too late for many i think

[smoky orbit]

The 460 had them I don’t see why not

[civic reef]

Natural vitamin D!!!!!!!

[smoky orbit]

Yesh but I’m tired of getting swung around by the wind

[hoary hatch]

Sure do

I believe just 2-way sli

[civic reef]

Tie yourself to any gaming laptop from the '00s, they're heavy enough an anchor

[hoary hatch]

Maxwell was still an sli generation

[green marsh]

it even came with a cute cover for it

[hoary hatch]

Pascal it was cutoff at 1070 iirc? But even then Pascal just saw sli going away in popularity

[smoky orbit]

I might find one lying around at the recycling centre x3

[green marsh]

all pascals have it AFAIK ? 1080 Ti certainly does

[smoky orbit]

1080 does so it very probably does

Even the 2080 super have it (might be nvlink tho)

[green marsh]

nvlink

[civic reef]

Imagine finding a Qosmio OvO

[smoky orbit]

Would be a legendary pull ngl

[civic reef]

Weren't those things just unapologetically heavy?

[smoky orbit]

Yes but quite rare over here

[green marsh]

that postmortem of claude bugs... this happens when AI company thinks they can do all AI coding all the time

literally no testers there i suspect

[frank zealot]

1060's did not:

[hoary hatch]

1060/1050 forwent SLI fingers

[green marsh]

yeah, lowend did

[hoary hatch]

Which is what I said originally kek

The sli cutoff for Pascal was 1070

[frank zealot]

1070 did:

[hoary hatch]

Whereas, all of 900 series supported SLI

And I know nothing about cards before maxwell

[topaz veldt]

That's.... interesting though

[steel stream]

man seeing these PCBs is interesting

just a few gens ago, they were so bare

[hoary hatch]

Big PCB for a relatively small core

And 1070 was sub 200w?

[steel stream]

that too

[hoary hatch]

A mere 150W and 7B transistors

[steel stream]

pathetic

[frank zealot]

Holy shit

[steel stream]

that has seen some better days

[frank zealot]

Perhaps

[smoky orbit]

Who let the weird kid chew on the Ethernet cable?

[green marsh]

well it's not like 1080 Ti was bare

and modern GPUs are more like half the size, so that is why they are packed

[cosmic gazelle]

insert tech company here

[steel stream]

True, I also like to see how close the memory is on modern cards

[green marsh]

not like 5080 Suprim PCB is that packed either 😄

[steel stream]

you could tell me this was a 5060 and I would believe you

god damn

[cosmic gazelle]

fermi gt 630 pcb is packed af hoooo wee

[green marsh]

i mean it's a choice. ASUS did bigger on Astral

[hoary hatch]

packed af
Big empty PCB area

[steel stream]

damn, my view has really skewed from those FEs

[hoary hatch]

5090 fe is particularly dense

[cosmic gazelle]

this is the 550 ti, also very empty lol

[green marsh]

so is TUF

[cosmic gazelle]

also why was nvidia just a bunch of pathological rebranders in 2012

[steel stream]

this is the density I like to see

[cosmic gazelle]

half the 5 and 6 series cards are literally just 4 series

[hoary hatch]

Not as bad as amd

[cosmic gazelle]

i have a gt 630 that’s really just a gt 430 and a 550 ti that LITERALLY SAYS GTS 450 on da board bruh

[hoary hatch]

Lol

[cosmic gazelle]

like they weren’t even trying

[hoary hatch]

There was an AMD card rebadged like 4 times

[steel stream]

they were started in a denny's give them some slack

[smoky orbit]

(And the 7 series is partly the 6 series too)

[hoary hatch]

Polaris they at least threw out everything old

[cosmic gazelle]

saw them in concert a couple days ago but what’s that got to do with gpus

(it’s a joke i know what polaris means)

[brave panther]

water damage mmm

electrolysis from 50v poe

[devout ridge]

48v poe*

[vestal granite]

what is even the point of paying for streaming services if i cant watch them if im using my firefox based browser, linux, or a VPN

do i just pay for streaming services to justify pirating the same content i pay for

[steel stream]

yes

[vestal granite]

well that sucks

[smoky orbit]

You don’t need to pay to justify, you can just justify freely

[steel stream]

I have prime, but I just pirate anyways because ads pmo

[vestal granite]

no i already pay and i already pirate

[steel stream]

just cancel the subscription unless it's prime and you want fast shipping

[hoary hatch]

This isn't the north star

[steel stream]

wdym north star? It's clearly not an all terrain vehicle

[frank zealot]

yup that was on a PoE Device

[civic reef]

Which

[brave panther]

44–57 volts DC

and poe+ and ++ is 50.0–57.0 V

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet infinite efficiency glitch

[topaz veldt]

updogs

[wise bear]

wassup my bofa

[shell void]

[pure garnet]

usps is taking my 7700t on a journey

[split night]

So has someone new to Linux but am getting tired of Microsoft and Windows 11 are there any good Linux distros I can try has a beginner I use vs code for my projects and do school work which i am in school for computer science and i mainly game on steam and every once in a while I play on Xbox gamepass.

[pure garnet]

it has now gone to jacksonville florida instead of my local post office

if you game on gamepass aren’t you stuck with windows

[split night]

Well I dont use it that often and the game i was using it on i bought on steam anyways now

[pure garnet]

ubuntu/fedora/cachyos are what people typically recommend

i’d not worry about looking for anything gaming focused since steam runs on anything with flatpak

[split night]

I hear good things on bazzite is that any good

[pure garnet]

i don’t think a read only system is a suitable desktop operating system

it’s good for handhelds though

[topaz veldt]

just chillin out here with the spranklerz

[split night]

Also I have a lenovo legion go s I installed windows 11 on it but I hate it should should I put bazzite on it instead

[pure garnet]

if you wanted to install a cli text editor for example, you’d have to reboot for the changes to apply

[split night]

Or just use the normal steamOS it came it

[pure garnet]

i’d do bazzite handheld on on the legion and cachy on the desktop

if steamos works you can use that too yeah

[split night]

It came with steamOS on it i can use a recovery image to put it back on but I heard bazzite is better on them

[split night]

But i will try cachy on one of my other drives and keep windows 11 also

[pure garnet]

yeah that’s what i’d do

i have an arch install i use for school and then i reboot to windows to game

[split night]

So I should use windows to game on

[low sorrel]

Imagine if he sold

[pure garnet]

i play on windows because i don’t want to spend any time making linux work, if you want to use linux you can though

[split night]

Ah okay I understand thanks

[low sorrel]

Oh nooo he deleted his account when Intel went back up to break even

He definitely sold at the bottom

[low sorrel]

@brisk jolt look what I spotted in the wild

[devout ridge]

A tree!

[low sorrel]

Yes

[smoky orbit]

a very skinny tree, it's really thin qwq

[late atlas]

oh my godf

thats a fucking honda nsx

holy shit

that car is like $100,00+

ive only seen a few at big car meets, i love them so much

[low sorrel]

I just saw it on the street lol

[late atlas]

back in the day it was made to compete with the supercars of the time, at a lower price

[low sorrel]

Was like is that what I think it is

[late atlas]

but today its just an absolute legend

[low sorrel]

Low key if I saw a Ferrari 348 i wouldn't even pay attention

[low sorrel]

Would be like ooo a Ferrari and walk past

[late atlas]

they aint cheap

[low sorrel]

I also saw one the ten total LFAs a while back

[late atlas]

god damn

[low sorrel]

.

[late atlas]

those are worth millions now

lucky

£1.2 mill

[low sorrel]

I was like my brothers gonna be a while guess I'll walk around for a b-

HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN LFA

[late atlas]

honestly itd be worth doing a heist over

[topaz veldt]

My neighbor has a white lfa

[teal orbit]

Dang

[shell void]

don’t expose me

[topaz veldt]

weird

2 years $129, 3 years $55

[low sorrel]

Buy it from him

[floral spear]

I love saying fuck you to every single Google employees

Its the Google Cloud Convention in my area and I get to curse at employees there

[topaz veldt]

😐

bought em like 2013

[brisk jolt]

peg

[smoky orbit]

<@&750150305383186585> scam

[late atlas]

I couldn't ping them for some reason, no matter how hard I tried

[smoky orbit]

just type @ then "mod" dc is bugged and you can't really choose the role when you try to ping it

[late atlas]

Yeah I did but just wouldn't come up wait

Whatever

[brisk jolt]

wc guys

[cosmic gazelle]

damn

did an oc on the ddr3 gt 630 and

it turns out 30% uplift of 0 is still 0

[gilded plaza]

Getting all of this set up securely with proper autorecovery plus working domains both on local network and through VPN sure was painful

And in the end it still requires hard setting a DNS server either on router or client

:(

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/elf-will-ferrell-shout-excited-happy-gif-3570641

[crude quail]

#tech-chat-1 can anyone help? :(

[sharp heart]

so close yet so far 💔

[low sorrel]

@pallid marsh Explain this

So we have 4 cars

my mom crashed her car

the audi broke down

and my sister got crashed into while driving the bmw

and I almost tboned someone who ran a red today

all within like 2 weeks

[pallid marsh]

you are all a certain race

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-eyebrow-flipped-horizontally-gif-24025048

[low sorrel]

Hey my sister's crash wasn't her fault she got hit by a 50 year old white lady in her jaguar

[low sorrel]

So like @wise bear's age

[pallid marsh]

they are both a certain gender /s

[hoary hatch]

kinda want to preorder assassins creed remake tbh

[steel stream]

when does it come out

[hoary hatch]

july

so like im not gonna preorder shit but damn ass ass in creed remake is gonna be lit

[steel stream]

wait, they made kirkland nike dunks at some point

[hoary hatch]

I think the only game I have preordered was Destiny 2

[low sorrel]

ok I just watched the video

[steel stream]

sheeeeeitttt

[low sorrel]

it's 100% the jaguars fault

[steel stream]

jaguar driver probably has more money so it is now your fault

[low sorrel]

literally she was driving straight and she turned into the rear wheel

[steel stream]

https://tenor.com/view/pedro-pascal-gif-22055472

[low sorrel]

also im pretty sure theres suspension damage lol

they wheels got some camber

[low sorrel]

isn't that game free?

[hoary hatch]

it wasn't when it launched

[steel stream]

it is now

it was 60 when it launched

[hoary hatch]

even then it took several years to change to F2P and the expansions still cost money

[steel stream]

yup

rip D2

[hoary hatch]

dumbass thinking I would/could preorder a free game

[steel stream]

that's called wishlisting

[hoary hatch]

come on jerry, get your head in the game

[steel stream]

lock tf in

[hoary hatch]

https://klipy.com/gifs/moist-moistcritikal-1--k01KPYKAV21JCMTAZKN710EW51S

me locking tf in

[steel stream]

fun fact, moistcritical was a huge fan of D2 as well

I need to get another pair of Sennheisers, I love music on these HD6XX compared to my Hifimans

[hoary hatch]

good news

HD6XX is dead
(not actually good news)

[steel stream]

I get that internship money this summer so Im looking at a pair of (used) 660S2

[low sorrel]

oh it's back

sennheiser sells it now

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/kimi-antonelli-george-russell-mercedes-f1-kevvyinho-gif-5743567642411239244

[turbid locust]

Lmao I think this fuckass H16M can do 8000 after all

or I got two identical H16M kits and one can do 8000 and the other maxes at 6800

Guess I gotta test both

yeah this “new” kit boots 7800 (probably 8000 fine) but does not boot under like 150ns tRFC so it’s definitely H16M

[brisk jolt]

i need to test this adata kit ive got laying around that I dont even know if its A or M

fukass adata xpg 6kc30 kit

[turbid locust]

Do you even know if it’s Hynix or not lmao

[brisk jolt]

it should be hynix

[vagrant cargo]

Watching a video on corsair s new frame 4000 and the amount of custom front panels and stuff they offer to order is neat

Wish more companies did that with cases

[turbid locust]

How old is it

[brisk jolt]

Got it in late 2024

[turbid locust]

Could deadass be Samsung

[brisk jolt]

actually i think it leaks to Jan 2025

[vagrant cargo]

It has a fully frosted custom front panel where its wood but 3d , and then a frosted front pc panel, im curious does their other cases have this?

[turbid locust]

I’m like 90% sure Samsung has an ic now that does 6000c30 as of like 2024

[brisk jolt]

on its marketing its only marketing to like “up to 8k” dont know how true that is

[turbid locust]

pulled the other kit from my NAS, lets see if it'll boot the same thing

so far my favorite linux experience is the arbitrary input lag it'll randomly add to OBS

also yeah bro this old kit boots 8000 lol

So i just never actually tried this kit in a non shit board

oops

could probably run 8000 with 4 sticks on a decent 2dpc board

@edgy laurel You're on the X670E Taichi right?

[edgy laurel]

ya

[turbid locust]

If you ever decide to upgrade or swap boards for whatever reason, lmk

[edgy laurel]

Will do. Won't be till whatever socket is next though

[turbid locust]

🫡

For context it's one of the only AM5 boards with 8 SATA ports and I'm intending for my home server to just be AM5. HEDT solutions, even old ones, arent worth the money

also 2.5Gb LAN built in is nice too

[brisk jolt]

im still stuck between a z890i nova or a z890 aorus for my homeserver lol

[spiral quarry]

Lol this came across my feed today @pseudo bane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiRvh_HYq8c

[brisk jolt]

also i have no idea why theres not a single 250K in Singapore

[turbid locust]

you know, Intel might not be a bad callout for a consumer home server

but iirc @topaz veldt told me linux is still a little weird with P and E cores?

[brisk jolt]

so far im only considering it for media since it has igpu AV1

[turbid locust]

I mean I was thinking for quicksync for encoding but this machine will also likely have two whole ass gpus in it so im sure one of em could handle it LOL

theres way more LGA1700 boards with 8 sata ports than there are AM5 or LGA1851

[brisk jolt]

i dont have any HDDs, im slapping 2 2tb ssds inside first

im sure the Z890I nova will be great but the aorus master is more of a flex

[turbid locust]

I have two 4TB NAS HDDs atm and plan to buy more eventually

[brisk jolt]

I might not have the space for multiple HDDs if I place it where I want lol

[turbid locust]

LMAOOOO

[brisk jolt]

💀

[turbid locust]

ok it makes way more sense why I thought my H16M couldnt do over 6800 way back in 2022

[brisk jolt]

I think
Z890 AM is def the way

I just need to get measurements if it fits now

[topaz veldt]

nah modern kernel like 5.12+ or something handles P and E fine. VMware ESXi does not.

[turbid locust]

ah lol

[topaz veldt]

they may have fixed it but I dunno

straight up have to disable E cores

My wife went down to our place in FL today to check on it and couldn't get the door to lock

I just paid a maintenance guy $85 to replace AA batteries in a smart lock 😐

[brisk jolt]

[turbid locust]

Ok, I’ll give it to the 2dpc goblins. This does look kinda cool.

[pure garnet]

i picked up my original gpw to see if i could use on my trip, 80g is not the move anymore boys

ordered a new scroll wheel pcb off aliexpress to fix my superlight 2

[turbid locust]

I can still cope with a G305 if i absolutely had to

[pure garnet]

i think it's a mix of no glass skates + weight + micro usb

it was $8 + like what, $10? for new ptfe feet to fix the superlight 2

[brisk jolt]

mf be moving boulders

[pure garnet]

superlight 2 with huano blue shell pink dots should do me well

[turbid locust]

guys i might go back to windows LMAO

just took like 5 whole minutes to figure out how to install Balena Etcher

had to install another package manager lmao

approximately 20 hours it took me to consider going back to windows lol

I think I will leave the linux shenanigans to the home lab

Honestly the main thing isn’t even using the OS it’s the fact that VRR does not work correctly and I still have mild gamma flicker

[cosmic gazelle]

mac i’m sure you already said but im lazy

what distro are you on

[turbid locust]

CachyOS

It’s a completely fine distro worked out of the box for gaming via Steam just fine

I just can’t live without my hyper specific VRR config lmao

Once you’ve experienced pure Gsync + Reflex butter you can’t go back

[cosmic gazelle]

oh i was gonna tell you to use cachyos

well windows time lol

[turbid locust]

Yeah I mean this could be perfectly valid for many folks

I just personally am not willing to compromise

[cosmic gazelle]

i put cachyos with budgie on a chromebook and it’s fantastic for the hardware class it’s in

like shockingly good

[brisk jolt]

@turbid locust does VSR work on linux?

[turbid locust]

didnt get that far, and I dont even use VSR on windows lmao

[brisk jolt]

bruh

[turbid locust]

stg nothing just works on this god damn OS

[edgy laurel]

lol, just for its relic-tier 8 sata ports

[young void]

Whatcha flashing?

Or trying to

[turbid locust]

windows

[brisk jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/attempt-there-was-an-attempt-rainbow-star-space-gif-15526647

[young void]

You have a seperate windows drive or just creating a fresh install from a windows image?

[turbid locust]

I installed linux approximately 21 hours ago and regret it

[young void]

If cloning disk genius may work, if creating a new install myte as well just snag a usb and instalation tool

Pop the key in and go to town (well change boot order but im sure thats a given <3)

[young void]

It be like that sometimes xD

[turbid locust]

I ended up using Pi Imager to write it to the USB and it’s genuinely the slowest thing on the planet

Fully expecting it to just not work too

[young void]

Beleenas great for linux isos never tried windows, and if pi imager works ya know cant mock it 🍀

[cosmic gazelle]

is running rufus through wine not genuinely a better option here

[pure garnet]

just use dd?

[turbid locust]

I think it would deadass be faster to swap motherboards on my testbench, boot to some random ass windows drive I have laying around, and fucking manually install Rufus and do it

[turbid locust]

saying this shit like I know wtf it is

[cosmic gazelle]

i swear running rufus through wine can’t possibly be that hard

i’ve never tried it tho

[pure garnet]

why the hell would you setup wine for rufus

[young void]

Im unsure, but I believe in mac

[turbid locust]

It’s been going for like 15 mins and it’s at 13%

[pure garnet]

if the pi flasher is a wrapper for dd that won’t be bootable

apparently windows uses some weird partition layout

[turbid locust]

finna end it all

[cosmic gazelle]

was just gonna send this lol

[turbid locust]

no its fuck trying to do anything in linux

[cosmic gazelle]

do you like

not have a laptop or anything

[turbid locust]

the fact that people willingly daily this shit is insane

[young void]

I just joke ive had 0 issues with windows

Since the pinball days

And when I did it was my fault for doing the bay and limewire

[turbid locust]

ive said it once and ill say it again, Linux is great if you dont value your time AT ALL

[young void]

Sketchy gaming websites, childhood days

[pure garnet]

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng

[young void]

Its great if you have your pc serving 1 or 2 prime functions, and the distro you choose determines those features

[pure garnet]

yay works on cachy

then you can use this to go back to the homeland

[young void]

https://tenor.com/view/escape-gif-5626784

[cosmic gazelle]

lemme tell ya

[pure garnet]

im currently seeing how bad a 4050 mobile will be

since that's all im gonna have for a week

[cosmic gazelle]

installing minecraft on a copy of windows 10 iot ltsc was SUCH a pain in the ass

[turbid locust]

thank god I looked over I was deadass swapping SSDs on the test bench

[cosmic gazelle]

@pure garnet fermi based ddr3 gt 630 runs cs2 at 800x600 at about 35fps when overclocked as far as it’ll go before artifacting

found that out today because i was bored

[turbid locust]

https://tenor.com/view/freak-tweak-tweaker-tweaking-freak-out-gif-16108345590627731463

[pure garnet]

whats the line above it

[turbid locust]

it was mad at me for using sudo

[young void]

Think your some kinda super user ed boiii

[turbid locust]

so like everything else that makes me put sudo and throws an error asking me if im mentally disabled for not using it

this gets mad at me for using it

[young void]

Keks ❤️

[turbid locust]

sick

[pure garnet]

everything from the aur is built locally so you don't run compilers as root for security reasons (it's still stupid im just explaining it bc im tired)

[turbid locust]

FUCK. Linus Torvalds.

oh great screenshot Linux cool dude

[young void]

Jokes aside the kernels a finicky place, where the light doesnt touch. You must never go there simba

[pure garnet]

mac open konsole

sudo woeusb then hit tab to autocomplete and find the gui one

it's dumb but home stretch

[turbid locust]

im doing it on the test bench fuck this god forsaken dogshit ass OS that requires you to be on E to use

[pure garnet]

hey im not on e yet

[young void]

Im just here for moral support

Doing great

https://tenor.com/view/power-through-you-can-do-it-just-keep-going-hang-in-there-motivational-gif-14691880

[turbid locust]

random NVMe I had laying around has windows 10 on it thank fucking god

[young void]

Having both is always handy

[turbid locust]

hold on let me restart OBS on linux because it decided to have 500ms input delay again

[cosmic gazelle]

this made me laugh so hard

[turbid locust]

oh wow look guys i installed the recommended tool AND IT JUST FUCKING WORKS

This is the dumbest shit I’ve done in awhile.

You know, I think I could go my entire life without hearing Dracula by Tame Impala or any remix of it ever again

[limber void]

I probably will near middle to late summer

[turbid locust]

never been more excited to see some stock image ass wallpaper in my life

[pure garnet]

mac got ptsd now

[turbid locust]

It’s just not a good desktop experience for any actual desktop use

Server? Send it. Custom home “Steam big picture-like” console? For sure.

Using it as a computer desktop is just super ass

[pure garnet]

what if i told you i basically daily it

[wraith steeple]

[turbid locust]

I would call you a masochist

[pure garnet]

just a different way of thinking

i have about a decade of experience with desktop linux

[wraith steeple]

Oh?

[turbid locust]

I have functioning fullscreen windowed gsync in CS2 bro

holy shit

[spiral quarry]

lol mac you went back to windows

[turbid locust]

yeah

took me less than 24hrs to get frustrated enough to go back

[limber void]

probably 2 Intel B70s and a Xeon CPU of some sort

local AI time

[spiral quarry]

Described my CachyOs experience 24 hours in, thought about transitioning to it....didn't want to troubleshoot stuff so I nuked the entire os off that minidesktop.

[turbid locust]

I'm planning on running some local AI stuff soon as well. I will be using AM5 though. Anything with proper PCIE lanes nowdays is so expensive.

[spiral quarry]

Tinker on the side sure, main yea no I'm lazy at times.

[limber void]

depends Xeon is a decent balance you can get some used on Ebay for like 400 bucks with 88 lanes

[frail beacon]

"We are XBOX"

[spiral quarry]

Oh yea Mac ya wanna see some nighmare "server room patch panels"

[turbid locust]

Well, I havent looked much into the Xeon side of things, but my intention is to have one machine with proxmox hosting EVERYTHING, so I was concerned with cpu performance as well

[frail beacon]

Yeah that's why i've never been able to keep it as my main OS

Anyways joined the windows insider programme now 💀

[turbid locust]

Not sure how fast, or rather maybe slow? those older Xeon platforms are.

also used DDR4 is hilariously expensive rn

[limber void]

doesnt matter if you have enough Vram, cause then it wont need to offload to system memory

[turbid locust]

well the concern there is for everything else id be hosting as well

[cosmic gazelle]

just buy a 9995wx problem solved

[turbid locust]

agreed lol

my plan is dual 2080Ti 22GB on an AM5 board to start, will go from there

[low sorrel]

@turbid locust is this normal?

[turbid locust]

your 3060 is on its way out lol

I think steam is trippin

[low sorrel]

ah yes i've had that happen a few times

[pure garnet]

no that’s because it’s boosting above base clock

the way steam gets clock speed isn’t able to know

[gilded plaza]

So it begins, I hate writing manuals

Not because I hate writing, but because I hate formatting them and writing around that formatting

[low sorrel]

ummm

[turbid locust]

yikes

[turbid locust]

I would exit after that game and verify game files

or reinstall

[pure garnet]

you can try to verify files but i think you’re buying a gpu bro

[low sorrel]

idk the desktop seems fine

[turbid locust]

It's time for Jerry's 50 series arc

[gilded plaza]

You're missing the CS:Source textures... in CS2

(I'm joking, but funny joke)

[pure garnet]

2d mode and 3d mode aren’t the same

[turbid locust]

Jerry the 5060Ti is calling your name

[low sorrel]

I'll just buy biggies 4060ti

[brisk jolt]

happens when we all get 6090

And when we’re in another crisis

[turbid locust]

[low sorrel]

seems fine

actually weirdest bug ever

12 missing game files btw

[turbid locust]

sometimes this happens for me but it's always just been peoples pfps

[brisk jolt]

i shouldve gotten another egg

i cooked one to perfection now im regretting not doingnanother

[low sorrel]

cs2 shit game

we lost like 5 5v2s

[turbid locust]

im in a DM rn with deadass probably 10 AI weekly drop farming bots

[vestal granite]

skill issue

you should consider skill

[turbid locust]

got my weekly drop, yall know what time it is

it's time for me to spend $2.50 on a 3 cent skin

[low sorrel]

sell it

[vestal granite]

vice gloves

[low sorrel]

oh wait nevermind

i thought it was like the 10 dollar case

[low sorrel]

mac livestream case opening wen

[turbid locust]

this case? I can rn if u want

I just bought the key lol

[brisk jolt]

he opened his bank account balance after this

[vestal granite]

im still workin on the ole rankup to supreme in inferno and mirage, i keep getting fucking demons on the enemy team though and im not a demon im a calm and nice fellow so i dont got that in me like the demons do

[low sorrel]

SDGASDYGASGDAS the m4a4 neo noir i sold for 10 bucks is worth so much more now

'SHDAHJDASDJASHDASHKLDHLAS

[vestal granite]

yes

[low sorrel]

I sold it at the rock bottom

that's crazy

[vestal granite]

well played

[slim pebble]

Linux is a little weird still with frequency and cache cores on AMD too.

Best thing about Linux, if you hate your scheduler go compile a new different one and install it. If you have issues it’s your fault 😆

https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/sched-ext/

[merry stirrup]

kyoko just robbed me blind

[shell void]

you generally don't want a P+E CPU for a server, but the U9 285K was behaving in Linux before it was behaving in Windows

i run my 14900K as 8c16t

[pseudo bane]

people really yearn for the touchbar huh?

and apple got flamed for doing it

they haven't experience the joy of swipping that badboy to skip youtube ads

[green marsh]

only people who didn't use it. And designers, because it looks 'sleek'

the idea was not horrible, but they should have done it with physical keys, not touch bar

who remembers the best one

"display in every key" keyboard

[frail beacon]

Xbox mode on pc is so cool if you have a controller

[frail beacon]

Okay so the performance is indeed better compared to normal mode
Not by a lot, but the fps is now a lot more consistent than earlier

In MSFS, Especially in highly dense areas, earlier it used to stutter a bit. Now that's not happening. That's my initial observations. I'll need to test further to see if it makes a big difference or not

[lone thorn]

high guys just wondering i just bought a new window 11 laptop, what are the chances the trackpad and keyboard would be bricked if i did a full fresh install of windows? thank for any replies

[devout ridge]

near zero

[frail beacon]

Unless there's any hardware issue, zero

[civic reef]

One of my good neighbours got martyred

Atleast I talked to him a few days before the war happened, asked him how he is

[lone thorn]

there isn't any hardware issues, i just want remove all of the bloatware they have installed

[frail beacon]

you could just go to the apps section and uninstall the apps you don't need

[civic reef]

Miniscule chance

And you can do what Ricky said
Open the "remove programs" option

Search for it in the search bar

[frail beacon]

Remove any third party antivirus (if it exists) first. What other bloatware is pre installed that's not there in any fresh windows installation?

[lone thorn]

thank you for the replies guys

[trim agate]

like ricky said near zero, ive seen some missing drivers brick it but in my experience that's more user error than anything

[lone thorn]

thank you for the reply, just wondering what could might screw up on my end? because you said its more likely to be user error

[limpid tapir]

Who did you purchase the laptop from? Also which brand is it?

[frail beacon]

If you just stick to an untouched iso, you'll be fine

[lone thorn]

it's a lenovo yoga 7 2 in 1

[limpid tapir]

Ah lovely machine

I dont believe lenovo has a bloatware issue

[trim agate]

like going into device manager and just uninstalling everything

[limpid tapir]

The only thing I can imagine they preload is an antivirus

[trim agate]

it's actually pretty difficult to mess those drivers up

[limpid tapir]

Personally I wouldnt opt for a fresh windows install but rather just delete the needless apps

[trim agate]

yeah i mean unless you're willing to spend a couple hours for 0.5% of a cleaner install, it's not worth doing a fresh install

[limpid tapir]

Also the hassle that is re verifying your microsoft office key

[trim agate]

nah those usually are tied to the motherboard

[limpid tapir]

Just looked it up and yeah seems like its much easier to reactivate them nowadays

I remember having an office 2016 laptop that i just couldnt manage to get back

[lone thorn]

well i made my media creation tool directly from Microsoft media creation site and didn't mess with any files

[trim agate]

it should just work

[limpid tapir]

Tech just asking but is there a reason why you want to specifically reinstall windows?

Because this seems like a thing which has no real upside here

[lone thorn]

by the way everyone thank for the replies, its nice to talk to people

[limpid tapir]

Also check your warranty stuff too