technology

[teal shale]

He thought it was something serious because the cat spilled water in it a few months ago

But when he went to a store to try and fix it it turned out that when he tried to install a MacOS update for the first time in 3 years, he fucked the download up because the internet connection was so unstable the Macbook just died

And even though it was easy to fix, he still had to pay them 50$ for them to fix it.

[valid acorn]

50 is better than paying 2k for an apple support

[subtle hawk]

[bleak owl]

Apple thief

[subtle hawk]

how do you fuck up a macOS install

[lunar patrol]

macbook run out of battery and crash in middle of install (?)

[subtle hawk]

it keeps a backup copy on a separate partition

of the installer

[tardy oak]

The real question is why are you doing a macOS update on battery

[bleak owl]

[tardy oak]

Though seriously, never do a plain in-place upgrade
always make a USB drive and install from there
then if something fucks up, you can reflash with ease

However, macOS installs are very easy
Even when you need dosdude's patcher

[subtle hawk]

@tardy oak do you even understand

what you're saying

macOS is not like windows or linux

it always lives on a separate partition on the main drive of the system

the installer at least

so when you wipe it you wipe only the working partition

[tardy oak]

Oh right didn't that start with catalina

[subtle hawk]

no

it's all the way back from Lion

[bleak owl]

[subtle hawk]

source code

[valid acorn]

nice easter egg, I guess???

[teal shale]

M E O W

[subtle hawk]

** source code **

[subtle hawk]

https://twitter.com/ni28_xp/status/1211528004418932736

ニケルxpは1/11,12HMJ両日H-9 (@ni28_xp)

ついに外付けSSD型の生体ストレージを開発することに成功しました。
小魚の脳を4個体分並列に接続し、128GBの大容量を実現しています。

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[tardy oak]

checks post date

[tardy oak]

Bullshit

https://www.tech-critter.com/japan-fish-brain-usb-drive/

But damn, I want it to be real soooooo baaaad…

[subtle hawk]

nice 404

[tardy oak]

Wtf

It was up a moment ago...

[subtle hawk]

[tardy oak]

no u

http://web.archive.org/web/20190723163928/https://www.tech-critter.com/japan-fish-brain-usb-drive/

I don't know what happened

[bleak owl]

[bleak owl]

Damn jayz

[pale sorrel]

Yea I remember that video that was sick

[subtle hawk]

Thoughts on WD Greens anyone?

[severe falcon]

uhh are the greens 5400 or 7200?

cuz i got the 7200 ones

or did you mean the ssd?

cuz i have yet to unlock the solid state tech tree

[severe falcon]

is it legal to crosspost from #461381136661217283 ?

[unkempt oxide]

Programming memes ?

[severe falcon]

big press x to doubt on the 4th one for the compiler

[unkempt oxide]

Yeah c++ tends to not tell you exactly... gets worse if you use templates

[pale sorrel]

[severe falcon]

i dont think ANY compiler tells you

input: 2 2
output: 2+2=3

compiler: this is fine

[unkempt oxide]

It tells you when you do syntax errors not really logical things

[severe falcon]

include stdlib
compiler: the standard library is BROKEN

those are the fun problems

[pale sorrel]

ive had a compiler tell me their was an error but when i ran the program that specific line of code did exactly what it was supposed to

[subtle hawk]

if the compiler doesn't tell you where the issue is

you've got a shit compiler

[severe falcon]

well no its if it tells you that the problem is with the library instead of your code, and then the actual problem was like a semicolon

both mingw and java have done that

[subtle hawk]

mingw
java

nuff said

[severe falcon]

then what do you use?

[subtle hawk]

gcc

not java

[severe falcon]

ah

true, i dont think my rpi has ever done that when i was using C

[subtle hawk]

that's why u use this

https://yamato.azur-lane.moe/media/32lbn.png

and install gcc on that

[mental coyote]

Eh. Sure you wanna go 'buntu?

[subtle hawk]

ubuntu WSL is the most stable one

[mental coyote]

Ah. Thought you meant baremetal linux installs.

Yea, I see yer point.

[subtle hawk]

using Java

[tame topaz]

@subtle hawk Heard Green SSDs are horrible. The A400 is good (what I'm personally using)

[bleak owl]

Doubt

[tame topaz]

@bleak owl well it kinda is. Using it as my boot drive rn

[bleak owl]

the a400 is the slowest ssd on the market

[tame topaz]

Green is slower

Heard many people complaining about it

And boi you probably haven't seen anything yet

@bleak owl Chinese SSDs

Very abundant here

[bleak owl]

u can get a sp ssd for the same price, and goes faster

[tame topaz]

SP?

Oh, Silicon Power.

Too bad they're kinda just outta stock everywhere

Kinda insisted on an M.2 SSD so I didn't have to mess with cables tho

Eh I probably won't see a difference regardless

[bleak owl]

[tame topaz]

I mean my OS already boots in mere seconds

That's all I need really

Also Win 7 dies in 2 weeks if you don't cough up money.

[subtle hawk]

if you're still running Win 7 then don't connect it to the internet

like XP

[vagrant holly]

you know when it's winter

and you have to choose between keeping your pc cool and warming yourself up

i don't like winter

[subtle hawk]

meh my radiator is on the opposite side of the room so we gucci

[vagrant holly]

oh that's smart

i'm still using air cooling tho

too much hustle for liquid cooling maintenance

[subtle hawk]

not for the pc lmao

[vagrant holly]

lmao

[subtle hawk]

for central heating

[vagrant holly]

and here i thougt you had some mad tubing that had a radiator on the other side of the room for your pc

[subtle hawk]

nah I'm not that kind of madlad

[vagrant holly]

was like "dam bro, yamato is wild"

[subtle hawk]

but I do have liquid cooling

[tame topaz]

@subtle hawk Question: should I take an AIO on deep as sale (as in half off) but only with 3 months of warranty?

[subtle hawk]

depends on what aio

[tame topaz]

ID-Cooling

[subtle hawk]

sounds iffy

[vagrant holly]

you kinda want as much warranty as you can get with AIOs especially

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

sometimes it can get very bad

[tame topaz]

Tom's Hardware did reviews of several of their stuff before.

Seems pretty decent for budget stuff.

[vagrant holly]

thing about reviews for stuff like this is that they hardly reflect end user experience

some do go in-depth but most don't tell you if it's gonna be working fine for more than a year

like sure, it has a low price, and sure it runs and cools just fine for the 1 or 2 days they need to test it to write a review, but what about an actual customer who's going to use it long term?

[tame topaz]

Hm true

[tardy oak]

Lmao, the imgur app crashed on my phone and I checked the logcat

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean java.lang.String.equalsIgnoreCase(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
   at com.imgur.mobile.creation.picker.ImagePickerPresenter$3.call(ImagePickerPresenter.java:3)

Somebody forgot to do "literal".equalsIgnoreCase (variable)

[bleak owl]

Just buy a air one if u don't have the urge for a liquid one

[tame topaz]

@vagrant holly https://youtu.be/HOE-JssEr5A

Well well well, talk about timing!

This is one of their AIOs that cools both the GPU and CPU

[vagrant holly]

you know how to take the shroud off of the gpu?

[tame topaz]

Nah, I'm not aiming for that one.

Just a dead simple 120 mil

[vagrant holly]

it's your call man

[tame topaz]

I mean hecc I want it for the looks more than anything

It's going cheaper than what I paid my air cooler for

[vagrant holly]

alright no, don't buy a water cooler for looks

if it goes to shit, your whole system is at risk, i mean AIOs hardly ever screw up THAT bad, but that 3 month warranty is pretty dodgy

don't get me wrong, it could be a hidden gem and me being paranoid, but i personally wouldn't go for it

[subtle hawk]

just go air tbh

[valid acorn]

water cooler is for risky gamers

[tardy oak]

also what is with Linus's voice

Did he finally reach puberty

[bleak owl]

no

[pale sorrel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/401438065689755649/662164644286169098/image0.jpg

gonna go on a limb and say screen = toast and needs replaced

[stone wave]

Hmm I might be missing a few parts to build a macro pad... not sure...

[subtle hawk]

what's that

[stone wave]

QMK Proton-C

i ordered the stuff around christmas but kinda forgot that christmas eve, christmas day, new years eve and new years are all federal holidays

bought a cheap pcb as a stand in until the BDN9 gets restocked https://keeb.io/products/bdn9-3x3-9-key-macropad-rotary-encoder-support

[subtle hawk]

oh so that's for keyboard crap

[stone wave]

[bleak owl]

Cursed pfp

Finally I was able to update windows 10 1909

[subtle hawk]

we're soon in 2003

[valid acorn]

amd ryzen 3 2200g
A friend of mine wants to know a good graphics card for a budget

[bleak owl]

Ehm

Rx570 Is a good option

@valid acorn

Or rx580 8gb is either a good option

[valid acorn]

domo

[bleak owl]

The 1650 is good too

[tardy oak]

RX580 is pretty good indeed, I have that one

Although I put mine with a Ryzen 5 3600 because CPU > GPU for me.

[bleak owl]

Why

[tardy oak]

I am a programmer

[severe falcon]

your name tho

[subtle hawk]

that's what all "programmers" say

I can guarantee that 95% of the time you don't need the full power of the CPU

[severe falcon]

unless there is no gpu

[bleak owl]

If u do programming u should go for the ryzen 7 3700x and no the ryzen 5 3600,and buy a random gpu

[subtle hawk]

Listen buddy

Real programmers require at least a 2080Ti and an i9 with 64 gb ddr4 on a dual socket mobo

Only the most elite programmers use this sort of build

/s because I know I'll need it

[bleak owl]

Ok Boomer

[severe falcon]

but im sure the all powerful yama has a 3080Ti with an i13 and 128 GB DDR5 ram

[subtle hawk]

shhhhh

they must not know

[tardy oak]

[subtle hawk]

i13?

ah yes, the cpu that strictly has to be water cooled

because it idles at 95C

[subtle hawk]

I also have nekos in the basement but nobody should know

[tardy oak]

[subtle hawk]

what about i15

[bleak owl]

A

4.1 nanometer cpu

[severe falcon]

i saw an i7 a few years ago that was marked water cooled only. the madlads at intel made it go 5.0 Ghz base

[tardy oak]

Meanwhile, a Ryzen 3 outspeeds it with lower temperatures, frequencies, and TDP

[bleak owl]

5ghz on Intel Is pretty normal

But is not very healthy for the cpu to keep it at 5ghz

[subtle hawk]

tell that to anyone but me

keeping that thing at 5.5 ezzzzzz

[bleak owl]

[tame topaz]

Fram Jan 14, Futuremark will be killing support for some benchmarks.

Namely: Cloud Gate, Ice Storm (all versions) 3DMark 11, PCMark 7 and Powermark.

[tame topaz]

I do love how we're slowly getting a narrative out of these benchmarks.

[vast sand]

@bleak owl1650 🚮

[bleak owl]

[vast sand]

1650 Super yes but normal 1650 sucks

Its too overpriced

[bleak owl]

Yea I meant the super one

[vast sand]

oh ok good

1650 sucks ass because with the same money you could get like a RX 570 or RX 480 which performs better

[bleak owl]

Yup

[vast sand]

I'm getting my hands on a RTX 2080 Super soon

[bleak owl]

Good for u

[subtle hawk]

Back in December 21, 2019, I went from a BOOK-OFF store and I bought this.

[subtle hawk]

https://twitter.com/MicrosoftStore/status/1213209274488442880

Microsoft Store (@MicrosoftStore)

@K0ZAKURAS Looks like you're a fan of BanG Dream and Idolmaster. Have you tried Love Live? https://t.co/Ety67utivA

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[quartz atlas]

anyone here buy shit from massdrop?

[bleak owl]

[vast sand]

What watercooler should I use

Im thinking of using this as my watercooler

Is it good?

[bleak owl]

Deepcool

With antileak

@vast sand

[vast sand]

lol

[bleak owl]

Lol???

[vagrant holly]

companies seem to do really well when it comes to PR on twitter

[severe falcon]

@subtle hawk im attempting to multiprocess in python, how much of a bad idea is this?

[subtle hawk]

🅱️ery

[severe falcon]

sweet

well i wouldve been fine with multithreading but python cant do that

[lunar patrol]

@quartz atlas used to buy shit from them way back

massdrop more like massive delays and shipping times

[quartz atlas]

right

so the estimated 1 week

is a lie

i have been waiting for my christmas present

its still in china

[subtle hawk]

@quartz atlas Don’t buy from assdrop lol

Save your money

And buy from subreddits

r/mechmarket if you’re into keyboards

etc

[severe falcon]

just make your own keyboard

[lunar patrol]

yeah i bought a planck keyboard from massdrop, ended up going 3 months into delays, 8 months total waiting

never again

[severe falcon]

hold on

8 months?

[lunar patrol]

this was about ~2.5 years ago

[severe falcon]

that longer than it takes to legally purchase a rifle suppressor in the US

[lunar patrol]

strange unit of comparison but okay

[severe falcon]

well its designed to take forever

the paperwork is about a week

then they wait 5 months

[subtle hawk]

your mistake was buying a planck

this post made by ibm model m 122 key battleship gang

[lunar patrol]

40% gang fight me

[subtle hawk]

in all seriousness I definitely can’t do the whole ergo thing

the smallest I’ll go is a TKL, maybe even 60% but I like having my fn row

[bleak owl]

Hello to that guy who called me at 4 am while I was sleeping

[subtle hawk]

Hello guy I accidentally called at 4 am their timezone while they were sleeping

[bleak owl]

For God sake the phone was silenced

Try banggood @quartz atlas

[vast sand]

Bruh

[subtle hawk]

tiny screen

[severe falcon]

he out here installing windows on a rpi

[subtle hawk]

I mean

I did plug my pc into a rpi screen once

[severe falcon]

like the 7" or the 3.5"?

[bleak owl]

i saw

koikatsu

what a perv

@vast sand

[subtle hawk]

That’s a cool wallpaper

Also everything about this screenshot screams 2009 idk

[bleak owl]

that koikatsu folder trigger me a lot

[vagrant holly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IbyHTm1rTk

LMAO

[stone wave]

Nah I think that's small even for 2009.
Cause I had both 1080p and 1680x1050 back then.

I only ever buy stuff from ||M||assDrop if that's the only place I can get something. I bought a flashlight, a keycap set and an office chair.

The former 2 were "by Massdrop" items and shipped within the week as they were in-stock. The latter was shipped directly from the company selling the item. So I've never had any issues thankfully.

That being said issues with Drop are not unheard of, hence why I steer clear from buying off of them where possible.

Some of the horror stories I've heard... if I went through that shit I'd walk over to their office (since I'm that close to them) and be like "yo, wtf?".

[bleak owl]

[vast sand]

@bleak owl lol

@subtle hawk thank, its from Roblox lol

[bleak owl]

Lol?

[severe falcon]

i swear when im not actively watching my script run, it messes up

[olive axle]

Me when I try to automate something

[vast sand]

[valid acorn]

good job, windows

[bleak owl]

System file problem i guess

[rocky quiver]

I just found the best chrome extension next to uBlock.. SponsorBlock https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone

also exists for firefox

[severe falcon]

now thats a bit overkill

[subtle hawk]

you have to be an actual asshole to skip sponsor spots

for you fav creators

[severe falcon]

like press the arrow key a few times if you really wanna skip it

[subtle hawk]

yeah

the content you watch isn't free you know

they also have to get something for their effort

[severe falcon]

and what are you gonna do when the entire video is sponsored?

[bleak owl]

Easy

Don't watch the video

[teal shale]

Ok quick question im still looking for some PSUs for my new PC

I was originally gonna buy this one because its the best one that stays in budget (the next ones available are 4 times the price of this one)

But I recently found this one

Is it epic or not epic

[severe falcon]

well it looks like the top one is not modular, the bottom is semi modular

[subtle hawk]

@teal shale thank yourself later

and get a fully modular power supply

also remember the 80+ rating doesn’t automatically make something better aside from determining power efficiency

maybe realistically unless you’re running a threadripper with two titan x’s in SLI 600w will be more than enough wiggle room for your build even for minor future upgrades down the line

tl;dr buy the gigabyte

[bleak owl]

?

Semi modular and modular there is just a bit difference not so big so i would go for the efficiency,the evga has 80 plus white and is weakest on on the list,that PSU is good only for cheap build,I dunno what platform is that gigabyte but I don't think gigabyte make shitty PSU,so yea go for the gigabyte,and there is no eBay?or computer shop?

[teal shale]

This is the computer shop

And theres nothing better unless I got way over my budget

[rocky quiver]

nah it's not an asshole move to auto-skip the ads

1. those ads are nearly always paid ahead of time for a fixed sum or per-view on the video
2. if you want to support a creator, become a channel member or join one their patreon or whatever else they set up, if they set anything up. That actually earns them money.
3. the way they're done is illegal. if you have an inline-ad like that, it needs to be clearly distinct (visually and audio-wise) from the rest of your video, or you need to declare the whole video as an ad. This is true for both the US and EU.
   The reason video creators illegally don't do that is because that turns off their ad revenue for the video.
   Also youtube requires you to do so as well:
   https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/154235?hl=en

[vast sand]

Is watercooling necessary?

Or should I just slap an aftermarket air cooler

[rocky quiver]

the air cooler mostly does its job

[vast sand]

Probably would get a PC in the next 2 weeks

Still can't decide whether to get a RTX 2080S or a GTX 1080Ti

Don't know if the SGD$500 is worth the extra 9%~ performance

[rocky quiver]

wait a bit with the expensive cards until AMD's line starts, then hopefully the prices will drop again across the board

[vast sand]

I can't wait for another few months

I'm tired of my 💩 laptop

[rocky quiver]

ah laptop upgrade

[vast sand]

Smh GTX 765M

It doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for Crosswave

Most likely I would get a GTX 1080Ti

Since raytracing isnt that good rn

[rocky quiver]

I'll give it a shot on my HD615 laptop when it comes out.. had most games running there so far, even if they said it's way under requirements

[vast sand]

I run AL on Noxplayer at 30fps in battles

[rocky quiver]

Atelier Ryza surprisingly worked with stable 30fps 😄

@480p

[vast sand]

I think ima get the 1080ti, then wait till the 3000 series gets released

Then I'll upgrade to at 2080Ti

Hopefully by then the prices would fall

[rocky quiver]

take a look if maybe the AMD cards are enough for you, they're often better (price/performance) for everything that's not the top of the line

[vast sand]

The RX 5700XT costs more than a 2nd hand 1080Ti here

[rocky quiver]

RX580 goes for around $160 and is around 1060-1080 performance

non-TI

[vast sand]

I'm looking for high end tho

Gonna be playing games at 1440p

Looking for at least 100fps or higher

[rocky quiver]

oof ok

does your monitor even do that much?

[vast sand]

Idk

I haven't bough a montiro

[rocky quiver]

the high refresh rate monitors get expensive fast

[vast sand]

But would want preferbly a 24-27inch one at 120hz

Yeah

Especially if 1440p

If they're too expensive then I'll get 2x 1080p ones

So I wont have to keep Alt+Tab

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23553592

My current laptop benchmark

[bleak owl]

Raytracing is not good rn,well amd cards?

[rocky quiver]

AMD cards that also support ray tracing (on a separate chip.. raytracing already works for years on the same chip, killing your framerate) are supposed to come out later this year

[bleak owl]

I have 2070 super,haven't used raytracing once lul

[rocky quiver]

does anyone know if the ADB backup command with -all includes the bootloader?

I want to make a complete backup before rooting my phone

[teal shale]

With the PC im bulding imma get the RTX 2060 Super

Mainy because it will work perfectly with what im looking for

Which is 1080p Ultra 144hz

[stone wave]

TFW you actually need to use Linux to do something

[rocky quiver]

Linux is my daily driver at work

now that you can just do (ms-)office in the browser there's no point in devs staying on windows when they develop for linux or BSD servers anyways

imho

[subtle hawk]

https://www.eteknix.com/adata-xpg-unveil-a-10k-keyboard-at-ces-2020/

[bleak owl]

@vast sand the gigabyte PSU is good platform cwt gps

[vast sand]

yeah im getting a Gigabyte psu

[subtle hawk]

@stone wave Look up

Look at that abomination

[stone wave]

Linus did it for less
Out of cheap plastic

Kek

[vagrant holly]

imagine paying 10k for a keyboard and left ctrl is already tilted

[wind ravine]

hmm

my friend is trying to build a computer and it won't read his ssd card

he's just been able to activate the motherboard

idk how far it's been booted tho

[vagrant holly]

did he forget to connect the power to it?

[wary depot]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[vagrant holly]

is that real?

dam it is

[subtle hawk]

looking fresh

[vagrant holly]

so apparently it's supposed to be an integrated graphics card

rather than its own standalone card that you can buy

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058422/intel-dg1-discrete-gpu-graphics-card-announcement-ces-2020

[subtle hawk]

I think it's that system on a board thing

[vagrant holly]

i know it's the verge but they actually aren't that bad as a source of info except for that one goof last year

tbh, it just seems like the next "intel hd graphics" LMAO

the gpu you find in budget laptops and whatnot

[subtle hawk]

well it is the lowest SKU of the Xe stack

[wary depot]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[subtle hawk]

ye

and laptops

we know it runs destiny at atleast 60 FPS

[bleak owl]

[quartz atlas]

anyone knows what the part highlighted in yellow does?

this is the back

connects to MB via this pin

its kinda like tape cable

[subtle hawk]

@stone wave You want a TKL set of Holy Pandas?

[bleak owl]

I want holy pandas

Which holy panda?

[teal shale]

What a bruh moment

[stone wave]

im interested in box pink switches

if i do another build i may go with those

probably a 40% ortho just cause I've never tried one

[bleak owl]

[subtle hawk]

ortho

[teal shale]

So today I went to the store I was gonna buy the PC Components for the PC that #technology helped me set up

This absolute unit

They got a better PSU for sale which is good, that 600w wasn’t that good for the graphics card

But they dont have the processor or the monitor in stock, which means that now I have to wait until they get them in 2-3 weeks

[severe falcon]

we told you to go for the gigabyte PSU

[teal shale]

Yea but that was in other store

They got a better one on the same store so win/win

Now its time to play the longest possible waiting game

[bleak owl]

Wasn't gigabyte PSU?

[stone wave]

Yeah Apple, probably gonna hate it if I'm honest lmao.

But I don't plan on any more KB stuff for a while.

Gonna be moving later and I don't have a place yet so I can't really be ordering stuff.

[subtle hawk]

tbh... same

as far as the keyboard talk goes

There's this other Omnikey I've been eyeing that's basically in 9/10 condition but I'm probably better off without "yet another keyboard"

[stone wave]

oh protip you can't flash a QMK Proton C with Windows

or at least I couldn't

or anything else that has a STM32F303CCT6 and I think other ARM micro controller

with QMK Toolbox that is

So my recommendation if you build your own keyboard with a Pro Micro (or equivalent) stick with the Pro Micro or use the Elite-C unless you want to flash it using Linux.

[bleak owl]

[subtle hawk]

RIP Windows 7.
https://youtu.be/Ok5AdqxW6-w

[vast sand]

Rip

[valid acorn]

It past the decade, so there is an achievement

[bleak owl]

[lunar patrol]

🇫

[tall creek]

Im going to build a new pc, anyone have any recommendations for Full Tower Case

[subtle hawk]

Try this one. @tall creek
https://pcpartpicker.com

[bleak owl]

@tall creek fractal design meshify c

[bleak owl]

Or phanteks p400a

[tall creek]

Apparently the fractal one is pretty good

[bleak owl]

Yup

Meshed front

[teal shale]

sorry for bad english

Where were you when windows 7 died

I was on Windows 10. Chilling

Then I see Windows notification

[severe falcon]

im still on win7 until this weekend

[teal shale]

“Windows 7 is kil”

“No”

[lunar patrol]

imagine still being on windows in 2020

this post brought to you by linux gang

[severe falcon]

imma get linux on my next build

wait

can i use my steam games HDD if i switch to linux, where i dont have to redownload the games?

[lunar patrol]

can't say bc i don't play games much anymore but almost certainly no

[severe falcon]

hmm i shall consult the elder wizard

@subtle hawk if im gonna switch from windows to linux, is it possible to keep my hard drive full of steam games? i have terrible internet so i would like to not have to download terabytes of games

[lunar patrol]

quote from a friend that i'm helping build a pc

[severe falcon]

bruh

i have a friend who is an idiot when it comes to technology, and even he knows what some of the parts of a comp are

[obtuse dawn]

Disk clone, round 2...

Hopefully this time it works, I had a lot of fun because the first attempt the source drive was somehow 32MB larger than the destination drive.

[lyric island]

Turned my old laptop into a third monitor so I can play my gacha games more efficiently

Literally my only reason to do this

[subtle hawk]

r/techsupportgore

good god... someone get this person a third monitor

[lyric island]

it cost me $30 man

you haven't seen the beauty that is the backside of the monitor

[unkempt oxide]

[vagrant holly]

won't lie that's kind of neat

[bleak owl]

Cables

[vagrant holly]

i just like the jerry rigged look lmao

[bleak owl]

Someone has a sshd?

[subtle hawk]

why would u buy one of those

[bleak owl]

Is it worth to buy a sshd instead of the normal hdd?

[lyric island]

sshds are just hard drives with bigger dedicated caches

wouldn't be using sshds as archive drives since the cache won't be used

@vagrant holly used one of my LG monitor stands (i have desk mounted monitors instead), a door hinge for some basic swivel and a bunch of random screws yes

[severe falcon]

@subtle hawk yo i have a linux question

[subtle hawk]

[severe falcon]

ah

anyway, if im switching from windows to linux, and i have a HDD full of steam games, can i just use that once i get steam on the new OS? or will i have to download them all again?

[subtle hawk]

you can

but you won't be able to run them

not to mention most of them are windows only

[severe falcon]

ah so i would have to redownload

1.2+ terabytes of games to install on terrible internet

[bleak owl]

ok i dont get it btw

[lunar patrol]

late but sshd's are bad memes in 2020 bc SSDs are so cheap nowadays + if you need big storage normal HDDs work fine in 99% of use cases

[subtle hawk]

i'm surprised people actually use sshds at the consumer level

i always thought it was either one or the other

[lunar patrol]

they were relevant maybe back when it was $2-3/GB for an SSD but it makes no sense anymore for sure

[subtle hawk]

https://twitter.com/memecrashes/status/1216016564719439872

A meme page to check every time MatLab crashes (@memecrashes)

https://t.co/UzXvQ6Glv0

Retweets

5161

Likes

20658

Twitter

[bleak owl]

Oh ok thanks

[wary depot]

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[wary depot]

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[severe falcon]

@subtle hawk confirm/deny that nimi-sensei and shaw-bot are the same person
ive never seen them in the same room together

[subtle hawk]

you wish

[severe falcon]

oh so are they both like custom made? i assume since you are lead admin, that shaw is also your child

[vagrant holly]

petition to make Shaw type everything without spaces

[quartz atlas]

anyone know wtf is this?

nvm i figured it out

[stone wave]

Speaking of Shaw I still need one more of the Specialist chips to promote him but I'm down to 4

[bleak owl]

Epic games

[vast sand]

Anyone can reccomend me a good sound system for a PC setup?

[subtle hawk]

Are you anal about audio codecs

Do you care about having a sound card

[vast sand]

Not really anal about it

[subtle hawk]

oh aight

budget?

[vast sand]

150USD

[subtle hawk]

Also private sound (headphones, etc) or speakers

[vast sand]

Speakers

Preferbly 2 Tweeters or a single soundbar

Gotta get dem bass boosted ahegao

[stone wave]

I run a pair of Micca RB42, those are like exactly $150 before sales tax.
https://www.amazon.com/Micca-RB42-Reference-Bookshelf-Speaker/dp/B07JC416LG/

They're passive speakers though so you'll need an amp.
Also some way to hook them up to your computer, I just use an external DAC/Amp combo the SMSL AD-18.

But if you don't have an amp and can't justify buying one I'd say go with the $99 Edifier speakers on Amazon. They're powered so you don't need an amp.

https://www.amazon.com/Edifier-R1280T-Powered-Bookshelf-Speakers/dp/B016P9HJIA

[quartz atlas]

@vast sand $150 usd is really low budget for a sound setup

At that price point I rather you get a good pair of open back headphones on sale

Is it for the desktop you're building?

[vast sand]

Yeah

I'm just find a good speaker setup

No neccesary budget

But preferbly below 150USD

I dont mind spending like 800 for a soundbar lol

[bleak owl]

Just get some good headphones

[wary depot]

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[bleak owl]

F

[subtle hawk]

@wary depot are you sure they broke and not that the wireless environment is noisy

[wary depot]

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[subtle hawk]

cause I've had countless of people complaining about their wireless earbuds not working

only when I whip out the wireless spectrometer to find out that the 2.5GHz band is so noisy that they're jamming each other

[wary depot]

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[subtle hawk]

the left is usually the master one

you can try to return them but most likely the next pair will behave similarly

[wary depot]

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[olive axle]

Try disabling 2.4GHz?

How bad is that design tho?
If you go to office, Shopping center
Its going to be full of different wireless signals

[quartz atlas]

@vast sand why speakers tho. You wan blast music ah?

[wary depot]

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[vast sand]

@quartz atlas I dont really use headphones

[quartz atlas]

Even when gaming?

[vast sand]

I only use headphones when I playing FPS games or voice chatting

But even so very rarely

[quartz atlas]

[vast sand]

I usually play CSGO on my speaker

Lol

[quartz atlas]

How do hear footsteps

[vast sand]

I connect le Flip 4 to my laptop

No need hear footstep

[olive axle]

Okay you saved your self there
Imagine being one of those people who VC and have it on speakers.

[vast sand]

I too op

xD

[quartz atlas]

What about story games? Do you not immerse yourself in the environment?

[vast sand]

Nah

I dont play story games that much

[quartz atlas]

I see

[vast sand]

Yeah

[quartz atlas]

I've nothing to recommend for speakers tho sadly.

[vast sand]

Rip

[quartz atlas]

I use headphones almost exclusively

[vast sand]

o

I dont really like headphones tho tbh

[quartz atlas]

Uncomfortable?

[vast sand]

Yeah

[quartz atlas]

do you just not like the feeling? Or were your old headphones simply uncomfortable?

[vast sand]

Idk

I rarely use headphones tho

So probably the previous time I wore one was one that was 💩

My current 🥔 setup

[olive axle]

By speakers you mean Bluetooth? or actual speakers?

[vast sand]

Cmon when I get my PC

Actual one

The only reason why I have a bluetooth speaker is to bring to parties

Probably would sell it off soon

[quartz atlas]

Parties

At 16

Wow

[vast sand]

Yeah

Chalet lah

Then I watch my friend get wasted

Lol

I cannot drink smh

[quartz atlas]

Well, u shld test out some nice headphones. Most of them feel nice and snug honestly.

[vast sand]

What would you reccomend?

[quartz atlas]

Why cannot?

[vast sand]

Preferbly one with a built in mic

I dont like alcohol

lol

[quartz atlas]

Ouh.

[vast sand]

Taste damn weird

i rather drink my green tea

[quartz atlas]

Long Island tea

U wan headset a bit eh honestly

Cuz headset de bang for buck is shit

[vast sand]

I looking at Sennheiser ones

[olive axle]

Long Island is a smelle Neet

[vast sand]

I not really good with headphones and speakers

I only good with earpiece

[quartz atlas]

Unless you go for the very expensive sennheiser ones

[vast sand]

Nah

My father only paying for the PC and the Monitor

The rest I need buy

[quartz atlas]

Go get bfgd

$5000 monitor

[vast sand]

So the drawing tablet, the keyboard, the mouse, the speaker

Wtf

No

[quartz atlas]

HAHAHAHA

[vast sand]

I getting Prism+

[quartz atlas]

Yikes

Local brand

[vast sand]

Their monitor the shape nice tho

Not thicc af

The bezels

I getting 2 monitors

both 27inch 1440p

But 1 is 144hz and another is 75hz

[quartz atlas]

You anytime go past headphone shops, ask to try the hd600, or anything along that price range that they recommend. See if you like the feel anot.

[vast sand]

HD600?

[quartz atlas]

If you don't like then bobian

[vast sand]

o\

[quartz atlas]

Sennheiser hd600

[vast sand]

I just want smth nice to wear

And dont sound like shit

[olive axle]

Yeah Not going to lie Logitech PC speakers are sufficient
OR get KRK monitors

[quartz atlas]

For gaming preferably you want open back headphones, cuz the soundstage much more open. It feels like full surround sound.

[vast sand]

https://sg.carousell.com/p/moondrop-kxxs-iem-267534134?t-id=HgSGeAT16B_1579520193973&t-referrer_browse_type=search_results&t-referrer_request_id=tFnsyN4bR9KJvdHu&t-referrer_search_query=Moondrop KXXS&t-referrer_sort_by=popular

This IEM good tho

Idk why I talking about IEM

Lol

Initially wanted to buy but no money lmao

All go to Azur Lane

[quartz atlas]

As good as ie800 anot

Honestly right, if $ weren't an issue, I'd be getting the hd820 for myself

But fking ns

Fuck ns

[vast sand]

Ya

But soundstage not as good

This one the clarity fking op tho

SteelSeries Arctis Pro + GameDAC

^this good?

[quartz atlas]

Marginally worse honestly. But the details and everything else more than make up for it.

I never tried steelseries but heard good stuff. And isn't that like way out of your budget?

[vast sand]

Nah I no budget honestly

I can go as high as 1000 for a headset

[quartz atlas]

Bruh

[vast sand]

But I wanna save a bit for Azur Lane

Faking Yostar whacking us with 2 events

CNY then Polaris

[quartz atlas]

We dk about Polaris yet

[vast sand]

I mean gotta save a bit

I might get that

330

Has really good sound quality

What keyboard switches would you reccomend?

Browns?

[quartz atlas]

Don't ask me about keyboards man

I never buy b4

At that price point I rather you get hd6xx and a cheap dac/amp

Imo hd6xx is the best you can get sub $400

[vast sand]

Okay

I may have found

The perfect sound system

But then

Its razer

Sennheiser HD6xx doesnt look that promising tho

Needs an external DAC if you really want to push the sound quality

[subtle hawk]

well I have a overkill 7.2 surround system

in the living room

[vast sand]

o

[quartz atlas]

Well ye, most good headphones will need a amp.

[subtle hawk]

if I use the HTPC to play some good games then it's just

[vast sand]

I dont want to spend 2000 on an amp

[quartz atlas]

Internals doesn't deliver enough power

What

U can spend like

$100

Why do you need a $2k one

[subtle hawk]

I was about to say 100$ for a good preamp

[vast sand]

What

there are cheap ones?

[subtle hawk]

ofc there are

[quartz atlas]

Of cuz.

[subtle hawk]

why wouldn't there be cheap ones

[quartz atlas]

You simply just need more power for the headphones, it's not that complicated or expensive.

U mainly want a amo

[subtle hawk]

@quartz atlas thinking of getting a yamaha mixer+DAC combo for my gaming pc

[quartz atlas]

Amp*

sounds overkill

[vast sand]

Best Earbuds For Gaming: 1More Triple Driver

[subtle hawk]

maybe

[vast sand]

Bruh

Now I regret selling my 1Mores

[subtle hawk]

I mean I already have half of the audio setup in XLR form

[quartz atlas]

Earbuds for gaming
Bruh wtf.

[vast sand]

xd

I would use earbuds

[quartz atlas]

There's no such thing as good earbuds for gaming.

[vast sand]

xd

e

[subtle hawk]

I mean

[quartz atlas]

Regardless of how good it claims to be, it simply cannot compare to headphones even a third of the price.

[subtle hawk]

I do sometimes have a pair of headphones and earbuds on when I work on both the laptop and the desktop

[quartz atlas]

Iems are strictly for music imo.

[vast sand]

Might get steelseries ones

Has pretty good soundstage

Also I realised that building my own PC is way cheaper

Its just that

How tf u install Win10

[quartz atlas]

For soundstage, nth can trump the hd6xx below $500. Trust me.

Erm

I can help with that

[vast sand]

I looking more one soundquality tho

Thats why I sold my 1Mores

It had godly soundstage for below 100

[quartz atlas]

And hd6xx has more quality than whatever gaming headset there is out there.

[vast sand]

But bad low and mid range

Idk

I have bad experiences with Sennheiser

[quartz atlas]

Nani why?

[vast sand]

Used their Momentum, was absolute 🚮

[quartz atlas]

Their qc, Cs, and warranty all top notch

Oh the wireless ones?

[vast sand]

For an IEM at least

No

The wired one

[quartz atlas]

[vast sand]

It had 0 soundstaging

[quartz atlas]

Not familiar with that line

[vast sand]

THe sound felt very fake

Also what AIO would you reccomend

Just for the extra flex

[subtle hawk]

flex

aio

bruh

if u wanna flex then u go custom loop

with a ass ton of RGB

wait

[vast sand]

ew rgb

[quartz atlas]

I doubt he can build a custom loop

[vast sand]

RGB the big gae

[subtle hawk]

that's my setup

ur big gae

[vast sand]

what

RGB hurts my eyes ngl

[subtle hawk]

RGB is lyf

[quartz atlas]

I agree

Rgb forevs

[vast sand]

My friend has a full RGB pc and it looks horrendous

I rather Black with white backlights

Looks more

[subtle hawk]

sec lemme find the pic

[vast sand]

C L E A N

[quartz atlas]

@vast sand is ur room always aircon?

[vast sand]

@quartz atlas No

Only at night

I on at around 10pm

Coz my room aircon fking scary

[subtle hawk]

THERE WE GO

[vast sand]

I on 25 degs somehow will blow out 16 deg cold air

[quartz atlas]

Ye then aio better choice

[vast sand]

Which one better tho

H80i?

[subtle hawk]

sounds like shit A/C

[vast sand]

H100i?

Nah probably some motherboard problem

[subtle hawk]

any one you choose will be based on the acetek design

so it really doesn't matter

[vast sand]

I also need to see whether it can fit into my case

Techware Nexus M

CPU : 3700x
MTB :ASROCK X570 PRO4
Ram :Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200mhz 2x8GB
SSD :Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB
HDD:Seagate Barracuda 1TB
PSU: Gigabyte G750H 750W 80+ Gold Modular Psu

+Corsair Hydro H60 Liquid 2018 Model
$1290

Good?

Reccomendation from my friend

Its without the GPU btw

[subtle hawk]

3700X
why when the 3600 is cheaper and is basically same perf
Adata SSD
spend the extra cash from the 3600 to upgrade to a Samsung NVMe SSD, you'll thank me for it
HDD
pretty generic, can probably get a 2-3 TB one for a couple bucks more

[vast sand]

3700x because I'm doing video editing

Would appreciate the extra cores

Adata is pretty good for the price here

[subtle hawk]

are you doing 4K or 8K footage?

[vast sand]

Samsung SSDs are expensive

1440p render

Not 4k

[subtle hawk]

then u don't need it

[vast sand]

e

[subtle hawk]

my dual core toaster laptop can do 1440p ez

[vast sand]

mmm

idk

Still would prefer the 3700x

Samsung Nvme SSDs are fking expensive here

Like twice the price of a normal Nvme SSD

Idk why

Then HDD

Would probably get like 5TB or amth

lol

[subtle hawk]

bcz they

1. have DRAM cache
2. have high quality Samsung controllers
3. have a big warranty

adata usually has shit controllers

or doesn't put DRAM

they'll feel snappier than a HDD

but nowhere close to a good SSD

[vast sand]

oh

[quartz atlas]

@vast sand i honestly would source the parts from amazon or Newegg

You save a shit ton of $

[vast sand]

I sourcing for Amazon

[quartz atlas]

Amazon us, not amazon sg BTW.

[vast sand]

Ya

Ik

[quartz atlas]

Then when checking out use usd, not sgd. Amazon currency rates are shit.

[subtle hawk]

the only brands I would trust for SSDs are Samsung, Intel, Kingston, WD and Corsair (the PCIe Gen4 ones only)

[vast sand]

a

[quartz atlas]

Corsair makes ssd??

[subtle hawk]

and in quality they go in that order

[quartz atlas]

[subtle hawk]

ye they make PCIe Gen4 SSDs

[quartz atlas]

Nani the fuck.

[subtle hawk]

those with a giant heatsink on them

[quartz atlas]

Oh those

[vast sand]

Yeah okay might get a Samsung NVMe SSD instead

[subtle hawk]

this thing

[vast sand]

Found one 500GB for around 150

[quartz atlas]

Holy feck

$150 usd?

[vast sand]

Wow so clean

I would want to have a PC setup like that

Just black and white

RGB

Black and White

Okay pretty much got everything settle

Now just gotta wait

Till the day I get it

[subtle hawk]

white

looks gae af

[vast sand]

Nah

[bleak owl]

Yea

Very gae

[vast sand]

@quartz atlas I getting le OnePlus 7T Pro tmr btw

[bleak owl]

[vast sand]

Why tho

RGB is le big gae

RAInbow

xd

[subtle hawk]

ur big gae

[vast sand]

:(

[bleak owl]

Pink is better

[vast sand]

o

[subtle hawk]

RGB master race

[bleak owl]

Full pink

[vast sand]

Idk

I find RGB to be distracting

[subtle hawk]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t5fXz4dc9WA/maxresdefault.jpg

so like this?

[vast sand]

Wtf

Wow

Thats

[quartz atlas]

Nice luh new fone who dis time

[subtle hawk]

no

[bleak owl]

I don't see pc

[subtle hawk]

NO

@quartz atlas BAD

[quartz atlas]

[subtle hawk]

not the QVO ones

[bleak owl]

Buy a nvme lulz

[vast sand]

Tho those

Nvme

E

NVMe is da wae

[quartz atlas]

Whats wrong with qvo

[subtle hawk]

QLC flash chips

[bleak owl]

Expensive

[quartz atlas]

Bang for buck

[subtle hawk]

they're dirt cheap

but die faster than the rest

way faster

especially if you fill it more than half

[quartz atlas]

What's the write cycle on those?

[subtle hawk]

not much

[vast sand]

this is fking clean holy crap

[quartz atlas]

Isn't it rated for like 5pbs or some shit?

[bleak owl]

Very gay

[vast sand]

The ligthing is too mucht ho

Tbh

[bleak owl]

Gay keyboard

[vast sand]

Yes gay keyboard

but overall setup looks clean

[subtle hawk]

lighting is too much u say?

[vast sand]

RGB is like

Ricing ur car

Imo

[bleak owl]

How rgb is distracting?

[vast sand]

Idik

[bleak owl]

The girl on the left

[vast sand]

The way the lights flashes repeatedly

[bleak owl]

Very lewd vn

[subtle hawk]

I usually have 5 displays in front of me

[bleak owl]

Girl*

[vast sand]

Wow

[subtle hawk]

6 if u count the phone

[vast sand]

5 display

[bleak owl]

Why

U FBI ?

Watching cams?

[subtle hawk]

ye I'm big brother

[bleak owl]

[subtle hawk]

that VN is top quality

and she besto

[vast sand]

Lmao

[vast sand]

Use this as ur water cooler

[subtle hawk]

[vast sand]

Useless

[quartz atlas]

The 860 qvo is rated for 1.4pb

[bleak owl]

I put yasuo figure on the top of my case

+100 airflow

[vast sand]

Lmao

[quartz atlas]

Its fine tbh, I doubt ping will write so much data.

[vast sand]

Who knoes

[bleak owl]

Just get a nvme ssd

[vast sand]

I have a lot of sheet in my homework folder

lol

[quartz atlas]

1.4petabytes of homework

[subtle hawk]

my boot SSD has already 20 TB writes

and it's a 500 gig SSD

[quartz atlas]

I wonder how much writes mine has. Its a Kingston m.2 iirc.

[bleak owl]

Kingston is pretty slow

[subtle hawk]

the Intel SSD is probably hating me

keep using it as a scratch disk

[quartz atlas]

It's already ssd speed, I don't do data intensive tasks so why do I care if it 1% slower than another ssd?

[vast sand]

I just realised how slow HDDs are

[bleak owl]

I'm going to hurt ur eyes @vast sand

[quartz atlas]

Hdd slow as fuck boi

[vast sand]

100Mb/s

[subtle hawk]

just because it's holidays

https://yamato.azur-lane.moe/media/mm8kv.png

[vast sand]

Lol

e

[subtle hawk]

usually that number is above 1 TB constant

[bleak owl]

With rgb

[subtle hawk]

peak RGB culture

[vast sand]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/23882964

[quartz atlas]

When I build my desktop, I'd probably keep the traditional ssd boot drive plus hdd hard drive combo.

[vast sand]

That isnt too bad tho

[bleak owl]

[vast sand]

Thats still reasonable

Like if u mix 2 colours together is fine

[subtle hawk]

currently I have 3 SSDs and 2 HDDs in this system

[vast sand]

But if you have like 100 colours on constant rotation thats eye cancer

[quartz atlas]

Games don't run that much faster off ssd, I don't see the justification for the increased cost.

[subtle hawk]

2 M.2 (1 NVMe 1 SATA) and 1 SATA SSDs and 2 HDDs in RAID 0

[quartz atlas]

My system gon be full on rainbow strobe lights baby

[subtle hawk]

depends

[vast sand]

Epilepsy