general-chat

[unreal trail]

[cedar compass]

[sinful blade]

Not worth if you’re poor

[gleaming sedge]

yea i see that, projector things are just for the really rich people

[dusky gale]

Found my iPhone 8s

[hollow barn]

What ROM is sompatible with the Doogee X5Max?

[dusky gale]

Chinaphone

[elfin mural]

none

[dusky gale]

SpywareOS

[elfin mural]

you can flash gsi images on em but they usually have issues

[hollow barn]

None? that sounds great, that is a opportunity to make my own ROM i guess

Well, i have already low hopes for that Phone

[gleaming sedge]

maybe ill pick up the 25 dollar rca projector for sale near me

[hollow barn]

gsi images?

[elfin mural]

oh the phone is pretty old

not even gonna support those

[hollow barn]

well, it is a gunny pig for me to somewhat have fun then

And maybe learning some ARMv7 Architecture.

[rancid juniper]

oh...

this is the longest i played a game

i didnt know that

LOL

[hollow barn]

Well, the phone has only one True usecase without modding, it is using it as a Monitor.

[elfin mural]

i have 500 hours in gta v

[gleaming sedge]

same

[hollow barn]

How do i see the Hours on my GTA V?

[elfin mural]

stopped playing tho

steam or epic?

[hollow barn]

none

of them

[elfin mural]

then you can't

[rancid juniper]

I haven't played V in a while

most if not all of my hours was singleplayer

just couldn't get myself to enjoy multiplayer

XD

[elfin mural]

i probably have 1000+ hours on roblox

[hollow barn]

okay

[elfin mural]

if it even comes to steam

[hollow barn]

Nope

i don't think so

well, anyways, i have...

Wait

I have GTA V on steam

[elfin mural]

i played that game since 2016

almost daily

im probably 10k hours lmaooo

[hollow barn]

But just recently i bought GTA V a Second time and on Epic Games i have it another time

But i only paid for 2 copies

[elfin mural]

that's how rockstar milked the game so dry

[hollow barn]

How do i have 3 Copies but paid only 2?

[hollow barn]

PS: no piracy was commited

brb

[weak cedar]

Versions or extra copies

I have 2 to 3 copies of a few games

[hollow barn]

Extra copy (different launcher)

[rancid juniper]

usually an extra copy from me is a free one

😂

[hollow barn]

I have the game 3x in each a different launcher, but i only paid the game in Steam and with a Physical Key on Rockstar Launcher

So how did i obtain the 3rd one?

[gleaming sedge]

3rd on epic? if so it was free for a bit and you might have claimed it

[hollow barn]

Yup

Brb fr now

[velvet summit]

stealing from your neighbour

https://youtu.be/17Rw1Lu_iWA

the slinky master

[mental yoke]

so what is newegg + and egg points

[elfin mural]

loyalty points sorta thing

used to apply discounts i guess

[mental yoke]

nice because the credit card, the bank it doesnt have cash back rewards

[elfin mural]

and special discounts

i mean newegg tends to have cheapest gpus somehow

and sometimes not on newegg, but on their ebay

[mental yoke]

that 5% instant cash back from amazon prime card (i didnt qualify for newegg card at the time ) made me decide to buy a gpu from amazon instead

i bought at a terrible price point and yr/quarter tho

[inner hollow]

Anyone have any ideas as to how I might fix someone's broken mouse trackpad? already uninstalled an reinstalled all relevant drivers and I'm still getting nothing

I'd rather not have to take this whole thing apart since that's kind of outside of the scope of what they're paying me to do here at the service desk but I can't figure out what else to do other than see if something got disconnected

[elfin mural]

Have you perhaps enabled the touchpad

[inner hollow]

The touchpad is enabled

[elfin mural]

welp

[inner hollow]

From what she said disenabling it and reenabling it fixed the issue for about a week

But that stopped working

[elfin mural]

It's probably a loose connection or a hardware issue

Like the trackpad itself is dead

[inner hollow]

Yeah that's what I suspect

The hardware guy is out and they ain't paying me enough to be taking apart a laptop rn

[elfin mural]

I'd tell the customer that the trackpad stopped working

[inner hollow]

Yeah thats what we did

She has a mouse to use and is going to come back when the hardware guy is back tomorrow morning

Hopefully if its a loose connection he can deal with it

These lenovos suck to work with on the hardware side

I'd really rather not take this thing apart myself

[hollow barn]

alright

[inner hollow]

Aye y'all see the good news net neutrality is back in action

[hollow barn]

Who thought that a Kebab "Store" could have done the evil of selling something healthy?

[elfin mural]

Nice

[hollow barn]

And i mean a Salad

[inner hollow]

What kind of a cursed kebab store is this

[inner hollow]

Criminal

[hollow barn]

Ikr, like if i go in there i more or less expect Meat based stuff...

Well, the dressing may make it less healthy

[inner hollow]

True

[hollow barn]

But still, it is still without meat

[inner hollow]

We don't have many kebab places here in freedomland

They exist but they're much less common

[hollow barn]

understandable

[inner hollow]

Man y'all english people's version of "Chinese food" makes me sick

[rancid juniper]

https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-allegedly-cheating-on-snapdragon-x-elite-benchmarks/#comments @elfin mural

[inner hollow]

I've seen it on the internet

What is going on with that

How was that allowed to happen

[pliant berry]

depends on area ofc, there are plenty of kebab places in nyc and the boroughs

[inner hollow]

I be in the midwest

There's one in my town

That's it

Its pretty good but they close at 3pm every day

[pliant berry]

desert town would have much less ye xD

[inner hollow]

If the guy just reopened in the middle of the night I would be there after bars on the regular

But no

[hollow barn]

Man, Should i use VA or TN on Gaming?

[elfin mural]

va

[inner hollow]

Yea

[elfin mural]

But ips ideally lol

[pliant berry]

not many people use tn anymore

[hollow barn]

Well, i used to have a TN panel monitor for gaming

[elfin mural]

tn might be fast but it's often

terrible

[hollow barn]

Before it just Sudoku'd itself

[pliant berry]

I should know. I still have a tn panel

[hollow barn]

Yes, i managed to somehow use a TN Panel to death

which was approx. 1.3 Years long (idk if the replacement was Damaged)

Like iiyama, get your poo together.

[elfin mural]

My laptop has pretty good ips, well minus brightness, but for indoors use

270 nits is enough

Especially for matte displays

[hollow barn]

I as told used to have a IIYAMA TN Panel 144Hz 1440P Monitor (There is no such thing as 2K)

[pliant berry]

I should try using a camera monitor for pc

[hollow barn]

For the love of tech, maybe not...

idk how good they are.

[pliant berry]

well.. 5.2"

[hollow barn]

PS: i used to crank the screen brightness of my camera screen and i noticed that the image looked Quite distorted on Brightness

[hollow barn]

uh...

What are you implying?

[pliant berry]

yeah built in screens are often not the greatest

[hollow barn]

I had the hard way to find out

PS: yes, i know, i'm flexin my nitro basic

Which is a weak flex

[pliant berry]

I once had nitro

[elfin mural]

I have 1 year of nitro basic

[hollow barn]

Basic is 2.99€ on my end

[elfin mural]

Not a flex since it's a gift

[pliant berry]

and then I got poor so no more nitro

[hollow barn]

Dang, i only had a budged for 3.344 Months of Nitro basic

[velvet summit]

i am technically poor

[hollow barn]

And that is not thousand, it is 3 Months with a Decimal place

[velvet summit]

but i'm not paying for nitro monthly

[mighty hazel]

I once had nitro

(I got it for free)

[elfin mural]

idc if i have nitro or not

[velvet summit]

if i cancel my nitro i will still have nitro till next year

[hollow barn]

The first time i had it i got it as a gift.

[mighty hazel]

Same

[hollow barn]

well, Basic is neat ngl

[mighty hazel]

Someone had extra so they gave it 💀

[elfin mural]

nitro, full one is $5 here

[hollow barn]

But normal one is the way i would wanna go

[elfin mural]

but i don't need it

nor do i have money lmao

every buck counts

[velvet summit]

imagine not being able to send 500mb files frfr

[pliant berry]

discord is the new google drive

[hollow barn]

I actually would not use Discord as gDrive, but it would give some neat features ngl

[elfin mural]

I kinda want a nas

[velvet summit]

you could make one for cheap

[elfin mural]

But then I'd have to manage it

[hollow barn]

Damn, that video jumpscared me

[velvet summit]

get rickrolled

[hollow barn]

But not gonna lie the sounds is superb.

[hollow barn]

Jokes on you, i had the "Never gonna give you up" song as a ringtone in the past.

[velvet summit]

you were rickrolling yourself and everyone around you

[hollow barn]

i feel old

[elfin mural]

Instead of buying nitro I prefer spending on something wiser

Like ahem, art commissions

[hollow barn]

It wasn't really often that i got called.

[elfin mural]

Wait that's worse

[rigid seal]

crazy

[mighty hazel]

Art commissions?

[velvet summit]

give me your number frfr

[rigid seal]

sadly i live in fl

[hollow barn]

So i didn't really rickroll anyone (it is not anymore the ringtone atm)

[mental yoke]

guess the youtuber

[velvet summit]

nah it's better

[elfin mural]

Average comms I get are $30 and above

lmao

[hollow barn]

Reason for it not being my ringtone: I have a different phone than the phone i had that had it set up

[velvet summit]

it's technically worth less to you but artists are

[elfin mural]

ye

And they fuel my art addiction

[hollow barn]

But we still can be friends Igetmen343

[elfin mural]

Gives me dopamine

[mighty hazel]

Tbh most of them don’t realise but they can easily get money by making logos on fibre

Fivre

*fiver

[elfin mural]

They either don't like doing that

Or don't know

[velvet summit]

fiverr is undercutting central

[hollow barn]

i'm getting the Semolina Pudding!

[elfin mural]

There's already a metric ton of actual artists on fiverr

[velvet summit]

i have friends that complain about fiverr with people underpricing their work so badly that it affects them as well

[elfin mural]

yeah

Fiverr has that problem

Undervalued work

[hollow barn]

i got the Semolina Pudding

[mighty hazel]

Or just sell pc tweaks and optimisations

[elfin mural]

And AI artists taking $15 a pop is only making it worse

[mighty hazel]

Overclocking and tweaks 🗿

[elfin mural]

It only ignites this price war

[velvet summit]

i know someone who has been commissioned by multiple large corporations for making logos for them and only getting 2 figures because they undervalued their work that badly ☠️

[mighty hazel]

Ai art looks like crap ngl

[elfin mural]

Wow

[mighty hazel]

It’s just different art work meshed together it looks like throw up of different art 💀

[elfin mural]

I'm wordless

2 figures for big work

[velvet summit]

https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Nerissa_Ravencroft/Gallery?file=Nerissa_Ravencroft_Logo_by_Orihime.jpg this is the type of quality they do

oh

not that

the logo

[elfin mural]

LOL

[velvet summit]

this

[elfin mural]

damn

That's easily worth 10x more

[velvet summit]

i think she has raised her priced after me and her friend yelled at her to set the prices considerably higher lmao

[pliant berry]

for something like that I'd say you have to work on your pricing and who you sell to

[median kelp]

They have a lot of great deals like that for bundles. You can get a 14900K bundle for $600 I believe

[velvet summit]

she didnt even realize that she was undervaluing herself that much which was the problem

[rigid seal]

they need to make more stores fr

[median kelp]

It costs them about $50,000,000 to open a new store accounting for building, staffing, and initial inventory

[hollow barn]

My messages take a suspicious long time to send

On pc

[rigid seal]

the closest one to me is 100mi away from me😭

[rigid seal]

makes sense tho

[hollow barn]

What is mi?

[median kelp]

I just moved and now the nearest one is 40 mi instead of 11min

[rigid seal]

?

oh miles

[hollow barn]

Th is a mile?

[median kelp]

100 mile = 160km

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-spiderman-meme-miles-morales-gif-6254393350946967855

miles

[rigid seal]

https://tenor.com/view/success-100-great-gif-16111463

[median kelp]

That's terrible yet still made me laugh

[hollow barn]

Like fr, metric makes more sense

[velvet summit]

im dying from how terrible it was

[hollow barn]

Success

[rigid seal]

the nearest microcenter from me is 160km happy now

[hollow barn]

No offense, but i'm German...

[hollow barn]

huh, i can rq look what the nearest Microcenter is on my Position.

th, Forbidden ID?

i can't access Microcenter it's site

Literally:

[rigid seal]

none taken

i js said miles cause i kinda live in the US

[hollow barn]

okay

Well, How can i access Microcenter it's site?

[rigid seal]

microcenter.com

[hollow barn]

HttpError: 403 Forbidden

[pliant berry]

germans are not allowed

[hollow barn]

How dare they?

i'm feeling quite offended now

[velvet summit]

i'm not even in the us and i can access it

[hollow barn]

Wait, everyone not in the US is Blocked?

VPN Time then i guess.

[rancid juniper]

OH YEA

[hollow barn]

What is Microcenter's problem with me?

[elfin mural]

idk it's probably ddos protection?

being overly cautious

[hollow barn]

ddos... I never visited the site

and i figuratively mean it

[elfin mural]

microcenter requires vpn to even access outside of the us

[sinful blade]

@dusk knot THEYVE SUNSET SUNSETTINGS

[hollow barn]

well, let's hope i get close enough to us

[sinful blade]

You can use old weapons tbat were sunset in the final shape

[hollow barn]

netherlands -.-

Why in all wolrds netherlands.

[rigid seal]

huh

[hollow barn]

idk why the VPN chose netherlands fr

[rigid seal]

probably the closest country ping to u

[sinful blade]

Destiny 2

[hollow barn]

okay, i can't just select us on the VPN screen

i somewhat had the site

[hollow barn]

ight, i got in via netherlands:

lmfao, they have ohio

but not Germany!?

i flipping hate ProtonVPN

[pliant berry]

hey it's a pretty nice service for being free

[hollow barn]

Nice?

It disconnets within 5 minutes

it's basically useless

[pliant berry]

I never had it disconnect

[elfin mural]

you're using p2p

[pliant berry]

unless they changed their licensing

[hollow barn]

The free plan is more of a "Hey buddy, Buy or no conection!"

[elfin mural]

Are you torrenting?

All free VPNs don't like it when you use p2p

[hollow barn]

i happen to have qBittorrent for Legal things

[elfin mural]

It's fair tho

[pliant berry]

and yeah p2p is pretty much never free

[dusk knot]

WHAT!??

[hollow barn]

Like i just wanna use the VPN and it just disconnects me just like that

[elfin mural]

I have been using proton and it never disconnected

[hollow barn]

rude

[tranquil pebble]

try clearing cookies and cache for the site

[hollow barn]

If i could give proton Negative stars, i would give it -10 stars

[elfin mural]

btw even used it to game

[pliant berry]

?

[tranquil pebble]

otherwise its possible the VPN you're using is simply banned from the site

[sinful blade]

All your old stuff

[elfin mural]

Cuz apparently a tdu2 online mod needed vpn set to japan lmao

[tranquil pebble]

VPNs are often used for stuff like fraud so

[sinful blade]

“We understand that many old Power limited items have been dismantled by this point, and we regret that we have no recovery mechanism for these. Going forward, we intend to reintroduce sources for most or all of these, updated to modern Destiny sandbox standards with added properties such as Origin Traits and buildcrafting perks (as we have started to do with the BRAVE arsenal in Destiny 2: Into the Light). “

[hollow barn]

While the VPN worked, the site (netherlands) worked

but no 5 minutes go on and i just get disconnected.

[pliant berry]

I think you are just misinterpreting how some of the features of vpns works

[elfin mural]

^

aw bad timing

[hollow barn]

it's a VPN, that is all

[elfin mural]

yes

[hollow barn]

So i assume that it works which it just does not

[elfin mural]

but you're also using p2p client while it's on

it detects that and cuts you off

[hollow barn]

qBittorrent uses the internet, and not p2p like skype

[elfin mural]

it's standard practice

torrenting is p2p

it uses internet yes, but to share a file thru torrent

you gotta have seeds

[hollow barn]

Well, i know that µTorrent uses P2P

[elfin mural]

aka users hosting the file

qbittorrent is anothet torrent, aka p2p client

it's no different

[hollow barn]

I give proton one last smoking chance

[pliant berry]

all torrenting clients are p2p

[elfin mural]

i'd say it's your misunderstanding

the vpn did its thing

[hollow barn]

Then they have to cope

[elfin mural]

worked like it should

well then all free vpn's wouldn't work

given that all of em restrict p2p

[hollow barn]

well, that is why ads are there

to give a free version

[elfin mural]

well im too tired to try explaining

[hollow barn]

tldr: if it is free, it should have some ads to still not make it a loose win situation.

not too many though

[craggy shoal]

this guy likes ads

[elfin mural]

you could just simply not torrent during the duration you're running a free vpn

[craggy shoal]

lol

[elfin mural]

and i hate ads, ads suck

[hollow barn]

No, it is more of a Incentive that this model is able to be done monetarily

[elfin mural]

if they're actually decent ads i'd be happy, but this is 2024 internet

ads are literally traps or scams these days

i'd rather have no ads than whatever mess ad companies are doing

[hollow barn]

What isn't a scam these days? (Coughs in taxes)

[elfin mural]

accepting modern ads is coping with the encrappening of the world

i use adblockers when possible

heck em all

[hollow barn]

Even with a VPN, Google knows my location

[craggy shoal]

If ads are scams, and if me as a normal user knows that these are scams, me as the user will scroll passed the ad. So what's the point in having ads anyways? (I know it's a way to make money. But that's not my point)

[elfin mural]

^

ads are useless filler that slows down loading

and eats up resources

[hollow barn]

Anyways, that was a mild rant of my sorts that they don't support p2p.

[elfin mural]

idc about being tracked myself, it's the crappy ads that i care

[hollow barn]

Proton can cook my Shiny behind

[elfin mural]

i won't say it again but

pay up or don't use em

ik it sounds sad but it is what it is

[hollow barn]

Yeah, that is what i do. i just uninstall because of that. (rant and thread over now, now let's discuss something else)

What games do you enjoy recently?

[craggy shoal]

I didn't like Helldivers at first but I've recently been enjoying it with my friend group

[hollow barn]

Sounds good 👍

[elfin mural]

I enjoy roblox

[hollow barn]

i've been thinking to return to Portal 2

[craggy shoal]

I unironically want to get into Roblox just for the car games

[pliant berry]

lmao

I remember playing all the car games on roblox

[craggy shoal]

Apparently they've gotten a lot better lol

[pliant berry]

btw what about helldivers makes it fun. still contemplating if I should get it

[craggy shoal]

Like I thought it was a triple A game when I first saw one of the games

[craggy shoal]

Friends. Super boring if you're alone

My personal experience, it's boring with a single friend. Better with three. It's amazing when you have four friends all in a squad destroying bots and bugs

[pliant berry]

yikes

I don't know if I have enough friends that would play longer than a week xD

[craggy shoal]

What makes it interesting though is that it's not just you and your friends fighting for a single planet, and JUST you and your friends. It's more like the whole world is attempting to liberate whole planets

Idk how to explain it

It's like y'all are fighting an actual war basically

[hollow barn]

the only game i recently somewhat was interrested on the game Roblox was the game Floating Point Zone

[craggy shoal]

Only this "actual war" is on a server and not in real life. And the whole world is fighting this war on Helldivers servers

[hollow barn]

and i only joined once

[pliant berry]

I have like 2 friends that are gacha game addicts and 1 that mostly only plays comp pvp games

[craggy shoal]

I recommend not getting Helldivers then

[pliant berry]

[craggy shoal]

Unless you don't mind squadding up with random people. But even then, good luck finding people with mics

[hollow barn]

Why with mics?

[craggy shoal]

It's fun listening to all the chaos

you should know

your name has "chaos" in it

[hollow barn]

Yeah

[pliant berry]

so many of the good games recently have been good games with friends

[craggy shoal]

That's just the market atm

[unreal trail]

[hollow barn]

Nevermind, It is AC Power

[craggy shoal]

this mf 💀

[hollow barn]

Where is "Chaos" in my name?

[craggy shoal]

bruh

[hollow barn]

ok jk

[craggy shoal]

lol

Guys I'm embarrassed

I ordered elbow guards for when I go mountain biking, thinking that they're knee guards

[hollow barn]

[craggy shoal]

I try putting them on and go "why are these so tight." I read the packaging and it says "elbow guards"

my dumb ass

[hollow barn]

well, now you got elbow guards

[craggy shoal]

I'll need them eventually anyways

[hollow barn]

sounds good

[craggy shoal]

I ordered knee guards and they should be arriving tomorrow. I hope they arrive because I have my first MTB'ing trip tomorrow lol

[hollow barn]

[velvet summit]

i dont hate ads in general, i hate intrusive ads

[hollow barn]

In what direction do they go? ||NSFW?||

[velvet summit]

it's not even about the content they're advertising

i just hate ads that fill your screen and are a pain to close (specifically mobile ads)

[hollow barn]

Oh those

[elfin mural]

I hate just intrusive ads

Full screen and terribly designed on purpose

[hollow barn]

Yeah, those are just not good. i agree on that

i think i should start going to sleep now

[craggy shoal]

I hate those popups on most websites that ask you to sign up for their mailing list while you're halfway through an article

[hollow barn]

despite it being 9PM if i interpreted it right.

[craggy shoal]

When I don't feel like being at my desk, I'll use YouTube on Safari on my iPad with adblockers instead of using the YouTube app so I can avoid having ads

[hollow barn]

it is 21:44 on my end

[craggy shoal]

2:44. Y'all are time travelers

[hollow barn]

I just use the YouTube app, i don't get ads

[cedar compass]

3:44

[sweet phoenix]

9:44

Is what that is

[hollow barn]

My time is still 21:45

[sweet phoenix]

21:44-12

So 9:44

[cedar compass]

24hours > 12hours

[hollow barn]

i misclicked the 4 as 2

[velvet summit]

15:46

[cedar compass]

Same

I love how americans getting confused by 24hours

[hollow barn]

i just don't wanna convert between the different time structures, but i have to

So that is why there is a very crude version i use that breaks down between 0:00 to 1:00

[craggy shoal]

how

[hollow barn]

https://tenor.com/bbQZj.gif

[craggy shoal]

Okay understandable. I barely wanted to mention my Safari "trick" lol

[cedar compass]

I still getting confused by 12:00 am and pm lol

[hollow barn]

Yes, i still may get hung up on the is it 12:20 AM or PM if it is in the night

Because the way i convert it in my head is so crude that i just take the 24 H system as the first pick

god no, my Windows needs to update.

[craggy shoal]

Just update it

[cedar compass]

Yeah I used 24hours for my life till I came to US so I still think 24hours is easy

[hollow barn]

Like i still have that Because my mom expects me to still be able to use it 💀

[craggy shoal]

They don't even teach us how to use an analogue clock in school anymore

[hollow barn]

i would literally use one of these to comunicate instead:

than to use AM/PM

and yes, i have one of these

it is a great alarm clock (runs for at least 1 Week)

[craggy shoal]

I wear this watch despite barely know how to read it lol. I just think it looks good

My gf's mother in Vietnam got it for me lol

[hollow barn]

I have a Wrist watch too, but it just today fell apart

[craggy shoal]

:(

[hollow barn]

Bent metal

[craggy shoal]

I'm about to wear two watches tomorrow lol

The one in the picture while at work. And then my Apple Watch while mountain biking

[craggy shoal]

Oh that part

[hollow barn]

Yeah, i was about to take the backpack on my back

and then that happened

[craggy shoal]

That's just a spring. You could probably get a third-party chain or leather strap and repair with ease

[hollow barn]

i thought that is solid all the way 😂

[craggy shoal]

I barely knew what I was doing when I got the gold chain on my watch (originally came with leather). Easy to fix with some minor Googling tbh

Nah it's fixable

Still a good watch

[hollow barn]

might as well try

[craggy shoal]

Yeah and straps/chains are cheap too on Amazon

[hollow barn]

should hold a bit now

[craggy shoal]

The gold one I have on this watch rn was like $20

Yeah or you could just put it back on

[elfin mural]

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/nintendo-forces-garrys-mod-to-delete-20-years-of-content-garry-confirms-nintendo-is-behind-steam-workshop-purge

NoooOOOO

[hollow barn]

That is literally what i did

[elfin mural]

This is sadge

[craggy shoal]

ye

[hollow barn]

[elfin mural]

Ik nintendo has the rights to but damn

[hollow barn]

Why Nintendo?

[elfin mural]

Another mass exodus by nintendo

[hollow barn]

Why Do you do that to us Nintendo?

[craggy shoal]

Why even 💀

They don't own Valve like what

[elfin mural]

They're upset over mods using their IP

[hollow barn]

I think some props and objects are copyrighted material...

[elfin mural]

ye

[hollow barn]

okay, if it is mods, he isn't the first person to go to actually...

Right?

[elfin mural]

Huh?

[craggy shoal]

bruh

[hollow barn]

Is there something similar as the mod manager in Gmod?

Because i didn't see it yet...

[elfin mural]

It's only nintendo based mods that got wiped

[hollow barn]

to be fair: i didn't really play gmod

[elfin mural]

It's sad but ah well

The world goes on

[north crescent]

Not like Nintendo is losing money from gmod mods, unlike say game clones.

[hollow barn]

Yeah

[elfin mural]

It's just nintendo being nintendo

[hollow barn]

I don't think that nintendo is gonna target me

Despite using some resources.

[elfin mural]

They had 20 years to do that

Decided to do it now where it hurts

[north crescent]

Nintendo will find you and kill you.

[hollow barn]

Oh, then i will meet darkness earlier

[elfin mural]

Nitendo is sort of like

Ferrari in how they sue lmao

[hollow barn]

Like idk if i may show it

But it is on Itch.io

[elfin mural]

Modifying your car? How dare are you to RUIN our designs!

[hollow barn]

Yeah, Ferrari

btw, i mean i done that in the past:

Like i'm in hot water ig?

[elfin mural]

If it's free

Nintendo can't do nothing

[hollow barn]

it doesn't even have the same levels

[elfin mural]

But maybe demand you remove it if it's popular

That's the most they could do

[hollow barn]

i don't think that it get's to be popular

Ngl, i wanna dl the game now

for fun

Man, i forgot

i just got whatever songs of mario

Like it would end up in r/crappyoffbrands most likely

[shut tartan]

why do people even buy the rx 7600

[sinful blade]

Because they buy the rx 7600

[abstract pollen]

PRO B650M-A WIFI and ryzen 5 7600x should i buy them or wait next year and any help pls asap

[craggy shoal]

This guy needs to know as soon as possible guys. Somebody should help him

[dusk knot]

From the moment understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But am already saved, for the Machine is immortal..
...even in death serve the Omnissiah.

[tranquil pebble]

Microsoft just open sourced DOS 4.0. Versions 1.25 and 2.0 already were.

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0

[wooden marten]

amd drivers just dropped

[velvet summit]

meanwhile me

[wooden marten]

kill more automatons

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

[rough marlin]

For parts/Not working. PC will boot up with the card installed, and drivers install fine, but it keeps crashing at random times. Sometimes I have been able to play games with it, but it always crashes eventually. It looks clean and I don’t see any physical damage.
Is this a gamble to take?

70$ 5700 XT

[sweet phoenix]

There's a lot of different things that could be causing it

Could even not be the gpu

Worst case scenario you can't figure it out and resell it, but not sure what 5700xts with issues are going for

[rough marlin]

ehhh thats a lotta work tho at the same time 😭

might just be easier to find a good deal on a known working one

[sweet phoenix]

Yep

[rough marlin]

is that not a bad deal?

[sinful blade]

Its the cheapest on Mercari lmao

I’ll look for others

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135033732042?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HMixDyV4SZW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315315121128?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=klsfp54dtfy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[rough marlin]

are listings without pictures of the item trustworth?

[rough marlin]

is this a good deal?

I was just looking at that one :P

[sinful blade]

Seller has 250+ transactions. I’d say you’re safe. Maybe ask @sweet phoenix to double check.

[sweet phoenix]

Ye looks good

I'd try r/hardwareswap

Make a post looking for 1080, 1080 ti, 5700xt, 2060 super, 2070 super, and similarly performing cards for under a set amount

[sinful blade]

I always forget about Reddit

[sweet phoenix]

Or don't say what you want to spend idk

[sinful blade]

If you need a payment plan, use places like eBay
If you’ve got the money, use r/hardwareswap and Facebook marketplace.

[mighty hazel]

Tbh maybe don’t buy a pc rn if you can’t pay 100 bucks for a gpu in one go

Or whatever it costs

[rough marlin]

well the gpu is all I need so :P

[mighty hazel]

I mean Facebook market place got good deals

But u have to negotiate

[wary fjord]

🙂 sleep

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/FYjs7vsaSEw

[tranquil pebble]

someone needs to find a way to play bad apple with this noise

[icy ore]

[sinful blade]

I did not need to hear about anything Billie Eillish related today. I’ve been well off not hearing about her for years.

Now I’m just

I don’t want to exist

[tranquil pebble]

another server started talking about burgers now im hungry lol

[velvet summit]

now im curious

[sinful blade]

Report back when you hate yourself for looking

[velvet summit]

idk if i want to look

[sinful blade]

[rancid juniper]

engine heating up

[sinful blade]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156151670395?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Gygo_Sd2TEq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

This ain’t bad

[dusk knot]

Cruel

[sinful blade]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395321434956?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=f0mu0vpER3C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
This would be nice to resell

[sweet phoenix]

Nice

The ssd is disappointing

[sinful blade]

Yeah, I saw it

It’s v small for what that pc is

[sweet phoenix]

Single fan aio

I figure $60 cpu, $140 gpu, $170 for the rest isn't bad

[sinful blade]

For this?

Or the 1080ti

[sweet phoenix]

1080 ti

[sinful blade]

You could squeeze $200 out of it

Easily

I see 1080tis selling on eBay for $250+ still

List it on Mercari and you can get $230-270 probably

Case would probably just be trashed
Doesn’t look to great for anything other than beginner systems

I trust this case more than it

[dusk knot]

Nice case.

[tranquil pebble]

This is what I'm going with for my next case
https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-xl-dark-tempered-glass/dark-tempered-glass/

[velvet summit]

swaus

[tranquil pebble]

This can accomodate pretty much ANY motherboard you'd care to throw into it lol.

[dusk knot]

Illegal street activity

[sinful blade]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395363813060?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=mpk5gc5-ttm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[rancid juniper]

na this is definitely leagle

[sinful blade]

It’s the DIYpc blue and white case

Fiancés pc is housed in that

[modern imp]

Wait what WHY

[rancid juniper]

blower but better price

[dusk knot]

Cheep

[modern imp]

That's still not worth $200

[rancid juniper]

😂

[modern imp]

Full N23 is usually faster in modern games

[tranquil pebble]

I feel like tech stuff on ebay has been overpriced lately

[modern imp]

And consumes less than half the power

[modern imp]

Me when I got a 3060ti for $145

[rancid juniper]

☠️

[modern imp]

Mining card and miner wanted it gone

[rancid juniper]

miner lost them profits frfr

lol

[modern imp]

Best part is the 3060ti is literally one of the most reliable ampere cards

Besides the one hynix gddr6 batch that dies on them

But if you mined on it...

It would have died already

[rancid juniper]

👀

[modern imp]

I mean it's 14gbps g6

Not hot at all

[sweet phoenix]

Ye my 3060 ti from Dec 2020 which I mined on for a year and a half is going strong

[rancid juniper]

512bit gddr7x

card gonna melt

[modern imp]

Also had the most sane power limits for any 30 series card

[sweet phoenix]

Si

[rancid juniper]

i love low powered gpus

[sweet phoenix]

Mine needs new pad and paste but I really just don't trust myself

I'm so god damn clumsy

[rancid juniper]

kinda wish rdna 3 had insane power efficiency

[modern imp]

It was one of the few ampere gpus that had a ppw advantage over rdna2

[modern imp]

I mean at insanely high power targets it does

[sweet phoenix]

It also needs at least one fan replacement

[rancid juniper]

me looking at the RTX 4070

thing does not sip over 200

[modern imp]

The main problem is it's extremely leaky unless you get it cold

[sweet phoenix]

I'm probably replacing my gpu sometime before June next year

[modern imp]

It will clock at nearly 3.5ghz under 550w if you get it cold enough

For N31

[dusk knot]

Neir Automata on sale. Buy?

[rancid juniper]

yes

[dusk knot]

Buy

[rancid juniper]

biy

bye

[dusk knot]

Bye, Felicia

Banned

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/emoji-gif-24664106

[gleaming sedge]

Any place yall suggest to find recipes? I'm going to be house sitting for almost a month and would like to eat a bit better than normally do while there but with working cooking can be a pain

[dusk knot]

First ban in months

[rancid juniper]

how to cook?

[gleaming sedge]

I know how to I just normally don't since it takes most of the day, so with working I need something that wouldn't take all day

[rancid juniper]

i see, ask chatgpt for recipe

👍

[tranquil pebble]

must be going well then... some servers have to ban like every few minutes

and official gmod server has been raided by trolls recently

[sinful blade]

Because people are stupid and desperate

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256328653166?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=IRmaz8lvTnG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=rej26bxrr_g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Seller is sending pics in the morning

I think pc companies should do PC prebuilt mystery boxes. Like, you could get a 7950x3d+4090, or a i3300+gt 670

[dusk knot]

It's been very quiet recently. I'm hardly moderating now..maybe we'll have to phase out the mod role 😂

[tranquil pebble]

the second you do that there will be a sudden need for it again lol

[dusk knot]

Jk..the last ban for me was about a month ago

It was singular

[dusk knot]

Precisely

[sinful blade]

@dusk knot would you gamble for this

[dusk knot]

Looks dated. But at least returns are accepted

[sinful blade]

I was talking about the mystery box thing

[dusk knot]

I think I would if PayPal is being used

Which I think eBay does on default

I haven't used eBay in such a long time

[dusk knot]

Yes

[sinful blade]

I would too

[young matrix]

Hell no

[pseudo raven]

PC gamba

[sinful blade]

It would be fun

Just $100

Would either get the best pc in the market, or complete garbage

[lament saffron]

1

[rough marlin]

actually I just realized how much would my i7 8650u even be bottlenecking a 5700xt

[sweet phoenix]

are you using an egpu enclosure?

[median kelp]

That's literally just gambling

My power supply seems to have died. What's the 24 pins to short to test the PSU?

[gentle canyon]

can someone help me in #peripherals-and-displays idk anything about keyboards lol

[worn wave]

going strong
Mine needs new pad and paste
hmm

[sweet phoenix]

thats usual wear tho

any gpu used for 4 years will

[worn wave]

I feel like 4 years is pretty short for that but idk

I do think the 3060ti is a great card though

[sweet phoenix]

i mean

its not overheating

[worn wave]

oh so just like minor temp increase?

[sweet phoenix]

my room just gets hot even with a pl and underclock on it

it used to be fine and run under like 65c under heavy loads

[worn wave]

new pads and paste won't change your room temp, I promise haha

[median kelp]

My motherboard legit is suddenly dead and I don't understand it. It was working fine last night. Won't power on at all. PSU still works.

Like there is actually 0 life

[worn wave]

checked all your cables n stuff?

reseat ram etc

[sweet phoenix]

i mean gpu temp is the only thing that's changed since it's started outputing so much heat

[worn wave]

only thing affecting heat output is gonna be the wattage its pulling

[median kelp]

Wouldn't it still boot on with debug led and fan spin?

There is literally 0 life at all. Like it's not receiving power

[worn wave]

if motherboard or cpu power cable is unplugged, I don't think it'll turn on. I could be wrong though

same with ram not being seated all the way

[median kelp]

I'll reseat the ram and the cables to see

Still no life. I reseated CPU power cables, ram, and motherboard power cable

Whenever I've troubleshot issues with any PC in the past, it's at least had fanspin if the PSU was good, or a debug led.

Tried removing my 4090. Still doesn't boot

[worn wave]

psu died maybe?

[median kelp]

It's definitely alive

It spins my drives to life when I short pins 4 and 5 on the motherboard 24 pin power

It even makes my 4090 glow

[worn wave]

gotcha

[median kelp]

It's a really good enermax unit

My motherboard is a MSI z790 p wifi ddr5

[worn wave]

I dunno what the next steps would be. Last thing I could think of would be to try 1 ram stick at a time? or diff ram slots

beyond that you'll need to get help from someone else, sorry

[median kelp]

I'm trying to reseat my CPU even though it was in a contact frame previously

[quick lintel]

If i want to return something what are the limitations? like if i installed a component can i uninstall it and return it?

[worn wave]

depends where/who you bought it from

[quick lintel]

in canada from newegg

[worn wave]

typically within 30 days you can return, I'd refer to the site for more info

[quick lintel]

ok thanks

[median kelp]

Yeah my motherboard is completely dead I think. Still no power even after reseating everything

[rough marlin]

Yes I am

Sorry ab just replying

[elfin mural]

no, that'd ask for lawsuits lmao

[rough marlin]

Companies would make sure you still spend 5000 dollars for the PC loot box on the off chance you get the 4090 build

Even if you don't

[elfin mural]

Even then they'd just get sued to oblivion

[rough marlin]

I just installed a music vst and now my PC is blue screen looping lol

I can't even boot into safe mode 💀

[elfin mural]

oop

That's sadge

[rough marlin]

System restore point goes crazy

Though it's kinda old but oh well

[rough marlin]

@elfin mural I feel like you'd know?

[elfin mural]

yeah well

it's a huge bottleneck lol

[rough marlin]

Damn 💀

Am I even gonna see much improvement from my 570 then? 😭

[elfin mural]

You still will

lol

Just mind the fps if it goes too high

Wouldn't want stuttering cuz cpu can't keep up

Can always cap fps

In game if possible, or rtss if not

[wary fjord]

msi and amd beef? xD @elfin mural

[elfin mural]

oops

well whatever they did it probably wasn't good

[inner hollow]

Does someone

Wanna do a big act of charity

[wary fjord]

maybe msi will take evga trone xD nvidia exclusive

xD

[inner hollow]

I wouldn’t e beg for pizza if I wasn’t desperate

I’m so drunk and I’m so hungry

And I’m so broke

[wary fjord]

cool

[inner hollow]

Can you find it in your heart

To be generous

I will love you forever and ever if you do

[wary fjord]

your theraphy session ended sir.. how you wanted to pay? cashapp or paypal.

xD

[inner hollow]

And that’s a big Mike guarantee ™️

Save me tomie

Ur my only hope

[wary fjord]

go to sleep if you are drunk lol xD

[wary fjord]

u should bought food

liquior is expensive

[chrome mirage]

I was bored so I ran a Carfax on my civic and the results weren't good.

[random osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/car-fox-carfax-scroll-value-gif-16825586

[chrome mirage]

One of the insurance claims had over $10000 worth of damage

Every panel has been repaired multiple times

There's tons of damage that was never reported. The car had its engine replaced at one point because the previous owner got water in the intake and destroyed it but that didn't show up.

[rough marlin]

does the monitor arm one buys really matter at all?

I assume not

[weak cedar]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-cpu-dispensing-vending-machine-game-spotted-in-japan-one-user-got-a-core-i7-8700-for-dollar3

[tranquil pebble]

Japan and their vending machines lol

[elfin mural]

a 5 core 8700

6th core apparently wasn't stable

[tranquil pebble]

cursed CPUs go brr

[tranquil pebble]

a Core i6

[elfin mural]

lmao

i6 8600

[tranquil pebble]

Intel has made a 5 core CPU before though

something like 1 p core + 4 e cores

[dusky gale]

1 p cofe sounds like ass

[tranquil pebble]

it would be

[elfin mural]

usable enough

[unreal trail]

[craggy shoal]

I put sriracha to bless the Irish food I had for dinner last night

Idek if it's Irish food but it had sausage, potatoes, and some veggies. Seems Irish to me

It was plain without sriracha

Anyways good morning everybody

[rough marlin]

is it cheaper to buy a cheap external hdd or just convert my existing one to it

looks cheaper to just buy one

lol

these are no name brands tho

[rough marlin]

mornin

[hoary zodiac]

Depends

3.5" or 2.5"

Usually 2.5" enclosures are pretty cheap

But with 3.5" drives you'll need to power it externally

And enclosures are generally more expensive

[rough marlin]

3.5"

is what I have

[velvet summit]

It is often cheaper to buy a external HDD but they're often white label hdds

And usually are made a bit cheaper

Some egpus have a 3.5" drive slot though

[rough marlin]

is that the technical name for offbrand/non name brand? 😭

[velvet summit]

Well

Technically?

[elfin mural]

not really

more like oem drives

[velvet summit]

It's like a company like WD or Seagate making a drive but not for their own product lines

[elfin mural]

drives not for sale to the public

but sold to be used in devices

laptops, etc

[velvet summit]

E.g.

[rough marlin]

ah I see?

[velvet summit]

I happened to take a photo yesterday

[rough marlin]

ohh I get it

A proper company making a product for a sub-company/diff lesser know company

[velvet summit]

Not a sub company

[elfin mural]

it's any company that buys the drives

[velvet summit]

Just a company that isn't making that product and is outsourcing it

[rough marlin]

or, yeah

😭

[velvet summit]

The drive in the photo was from a Lenovo uhh

What was their cheaper line that wasn't ThinkPad again

Ideapad

[rough marlin]

yeah that

I couldn't think of it either

though I knew, lol

[velvet summit]

Lmao

I had no idea

[elfin mural]

lol

[velvet summit]

Replaced it with a crucial SSD and installed Ubuntu on it so now the laptop is as good as new

(still quite dusty)

Also upgrading the ram was like $25cad so waiting for that to be delivered

[rough marlin]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091FS79T8

assuming this is fine

[velvet summit]

And changing the battery was like $50 cad so doing that as well

Not much of a fan of 2.5" HDDs ngl

[rough marlin]

fair

[craggy shoal]

I hate hard drives

[velvet summit]

They drive a hard bargain

[rancid juniper]

damn wtf, so it was true?

[elfin mural]

yes lol

the article i posted last night also showed this tweet

[inner hollow]

Honestly I’m pretty surprised Nintendo didn’t do this years ago

[rough marlin]

atp bro they are about to start going after lets players 💀

[elfin mural]

eh

seeing as they didn't

that wouldn't happen

going after videos would be instant loss of a case

[velvet summit]

Legally speaking, any game company can, but let's play content is usually fine

[elfin mural]

ya

[velvet summit]

Like, square enix is fine with people uploading gameplay to YouTube
But they have stipulations that say that you're not allowed to use their music or such outside of gameplay

So technically the people who are using the nier OST or whatever in their videos is against SE content guidelines

Though they don't seem to enforce it as much

[mortal grail]

Isn't the game like 30 billion years old by now

[unreal trail]

https://tenor.com/view/i-forgor-i-forgot-forgor-forgot-gif-22695246

[rancid juniper]

yea lol

[rancid juniper]

guess they were dealing other DMCA's before this one

[young matrix]

Bruh wtf

[velvet summit]

You're 30 billion years old by now

[rancid juniper]

classic nintendo, never change 👌

[young matrix]

Im declaring war on japan nintendo

[rancid juniper]

😂

[unreal trail]

the whole industry is wreck

not just Nintendo

[rancid juniper]

^^^

[unreal trail]

Western localization studios are trying to godmode every piece of content in the game industry

we have literal government funded orgs being "advisor firms" for telling game stuios what's ok and what's not, artificially constructing the collective mind of entertainment

[rancid juniper]

ever since gaming got big, most buisness oriented people like shareholders had to step in because they knew how much cash it will generate

the gaming industry is bigger than movies and even music at this point

[unreal trail]

yeah

huge cultural influence, except we aren't free to decide our own culture. It's being manufactured.

[mortal grail]

Wow I didn't need a reminder thx

Smh

[unreal trail]

np

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/2007-was-5months-months-2007was5months-ago-gif-26534748

Bruh

Discord

[rancid juniper]

3 homelanders

[unreal trail]

lol

[icy ore]

[wary fjord]

https://rog.asus.com/mice-mouse-pads/mice/ambidextrous/rog-harpe-ace-aim-lab-edition-model/

this thing does 0.9 latency not bad

https://atompalm.com/

this mouse however do 0.1 ms god damn

but its quite pricy 100 buckss

[mortal grail]

Wth is "bio-based nylon"

You mean "polymer"?

Asus

[elfin mural]

marketing

[mortal grail]

Have you heard the word "polymer" before asus

"It's like carpet but solid! "

[unreal trail]

wut

[real locust]

revolutionary

[velvet summit]

they made an aimlab mouse lmao

where kovaak mouse

oh

i saw that muse dash had an update and i clicked it and then i noticed how long this achievement name was

[proud jackal]

[sinful blade]

Go fly

[wary fjord]

this is cod map right?

xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv7urPH_Hwc
ai cover is so scary xD

why is this so accurate xD

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/eRnonn7EhEc

https://youtu.be/XMWJ8tfeS50

[wary fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9ep22YmlM

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/0dPHRxvs3KY

[rancid juniper]

more nintendo switch rumors or something: https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=215852

the switch 2 launching second half of this year is an eyebrow raise

extra info

[wary fjord]

can they just use the damn ryzen xD

hahaha

[rancid juniper]

no, they want the handheld to be as efficient as possible

so the arm approach was needed

[wary fjord]

what u mean ryzen can do 5-10w whats tdp of switch

[rancid juniper]

4w

probably goes up to 7

[wary fjord]

they should use snapdragon one too

that go brrr too

xD

[rancid juniper]

na they probably sticking to nvidia maybe due a contract idk

[wary fjord]

google says switch eats 7-18w

[rancid juniper]

18w is wild

maybe when its docked thats fine

[rancid juniper]

L tegra

[craggy shoal]

wow what an amazing "offer"

[rancid juniper]

goated offer, buy it

[wary fjord]

beat this

45 bucks

per year

i wonder if i can gift this

[craggy shoal]

America being expensive for no reason

[wary fjord]

or i sell it as 99

[craggy shoal]

(realistically probably because of business taxes that Discord has to pay)

[wary fjord]

even tho i only pay 45

xD

[dusk knot]

OLED!!!

[rancid juniper]

yes oled

[dusk knot]

I was correct

[rancid juniper]

i mean, having an oled handheld is gonna look nice

switch oled sold well

[wary fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONs7kTlqGw4

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

❤️ ❤️ @idle nexus

look

[worn wave]

Nah its because america is rich. Base price is $10 a month and it gets dropped for places with Les strong economies

[craggy shoal]

bruh

wish they could just give me some money for a house. but nah that's understandably complicated due to a bunch of controversial reasons that I shouldn't mention here (I mean this genuinely btw)

[elfin mural]

Sharp lcd is nice tho