general-chat

[nocturne flicker]

I don't really want a remaster tbh. It'll be done like the Oblivion remaster and a NV run with a ton of mods but also with UE5 graphics will be garbage performance wise

Like, modded NV can get pretty bad. Now add UE5 to it

15 fps average

Loading The Strip will cause infinite crashes

And when you finally get it loaded, it'll be stuck at 5fps because of the amount of random NPCs

[velvet summit]

a new coating of paint for fallout games aint going to make them better

it'll make them worse if that new coat of paint breaks support for the mods which makes the game fun in the first place

[tranquil pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/astro-bot-joker-persona-5-persona-playstation-gif-856926028533407719

[rancid juniper]

LMAO

[tranquil pebble]

unsurprising really

[rancid juniper]

I hope they are comfortable losing shares

[dusk knot]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[rancid juniper]

Next report: 0.30USD

[unreal trail]

Spacebaaaaalls

[tranquil pebble]

pokeballs

[lone mango]

Shorting ubi now

[rancid juniper]

fumo collector: The game

[echo thistle]

does anybody here use lightroom classic on a thin and light laptop? I want to get something that's good on battery life but doesn't compromise too heavily on editing performance, so I'm trying to find a baseline for a good experience

[velvet summit]

i wonder if lightroom classic is even gpu accelerated

[echo thistle]

I think it is for some ai features like denoise and lens blur

denoise is the only thing I use though

[lone mango]

Is lightroom really that demanding though

I use photoshop but still

I think really the only truly demanding stuff are like premiere or davinci resolve

[pliant berry]

I used to use lightroom classic, pretty much always used my m1 macbook

[echo thistle]

if m1 is good enough this should probably be fine

[pliant berry]

i still use today, works well enough. if you are doing batch ai denoise on like 100 images it might take a few minutes but other than that it's a good experience

[velvet summit]

damn i just blanked out for a good few minutes

[nocturne flicker]

Mmm. Maybe I should buy some so that when the inevitable buyout comes I can rake in the mones

[rancid juniper]

seems like a solid plan

[nocturne flicker]

Alright selling everything and going all in on Ubisoft

[rancid juniper]

[nocturne flicker]

(I won't be buying anything because OTC has trade fees on practically every brokerage)

Also they are French so that'd be an ADR and I don't wanna deal with ADRs

[bitter ridge]

The Reddit guy who put $700k into Intel at $31 should be gold rich now

[nocturne flicker]

Saved by excessive bailouts and industry propping

[lone mango]

What a gamble

[velvet summit]

only assuming they didnt either

1. killed themself
2. sold early

[lone mango]

Some cryptards did rope after the crypto flash crash a month or two ago

[velvet summit]

basically everyone in the tech space was roasting that guy when he mentioned it on reddit

unsurprising

honestly

[lone mango]

Well if there wasn't all of this money laundering going on then yeah it makes sense to clown him

But then the money laundering came in

HuangBucks

[velvet summit]

option 3: somebody put them on a hitlist to take their shares ong

[nocturne flicker]

He said he was going to hodl

[velvet summit]

he said he was going to hold and then deleted their reddit account

i dont think they've appeared again since then?

[nocturne flicker]

Probably doesn't want to deal with people being people

[bitter ridge]

You make a big bag like that you would also want to go off the radar

[lone mango]

tru...

@tranquil pebblethis is my gpu activity

~20% is discord and for whatever reason the igpu is very spiky

[elfin mural]

the internet can be vicious

if they catch you lacking they'll kick you down

[worn night]

what happened

oh wait the context

yeah true

[elfin mural]

i'm just commenting on the stuff above

ya

[dusk knot]

No..way.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/blessed-redditor-buys-rog-astral-rtx-5080-cancels-order-but-receives-gpu-anyway-amazon-tells-him-to-keep-gpu-and-usd1-850-refund

[worn night]

old newsss

maybe thats the strat

[dusk knot]

New to me

[elfin mural]

amazon and gpus don't sit well

[worn night]

buy it cancel it and hope to get lucky

[elfin mural]

amazon is so easy to trick

too easy

[worn night]

one time this happened to me

i bought an xbox 360 on ebay

a week passed no shipping update

few more days and I get a refund cause item not arrived

ONE MONTH LATER

[elfin mural]

lmao

[worn night]

it arrives

after a whole month

the packaging was horrible

beaten up, no bubble wrap

idk how tf the xbox survived but it worked

i cleaned it up put new paste and now its good as new

[acoustic palm]

hehehe

forza horizons 6

[dusk knot]

It's alright

[acoustic palm]

looks awesome

aftermarket cars 🤤

hehehe its so happy

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-prowler-meme-meme-transformers-megatron-gif-15499414367473604523

atp we playing real life simulators

[acoustic palm]

yeah i can own a dual turbod miata irl

❤️

thats within my realm of possibility

[lone mango]

forza moment

next thing is a v16 in a civic

idk how they gonna fit that but it just be like that with forza

[rancid juniper]

and i like that

GUNDAM IN FORZA

[lone mango]

I feel like playing gran turismo

It has been a while

[rancid juniper]

doggo

[elfin mural]

fh6??

damn

[sinful blade]

I’d like them to be remade in another engine. Not UE5. 4 sure.
But even in a new creation engine.

[elfin mural]

ue5 is the newest so it must be the best

rite?

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/lizard-meme-hoppers-gif-3427294982830013600

[nocturne flicker]

Meh, modern Creation Engine has its own drawbacks, especially since Bethesda would be as lazy as they possibly can be because we all know they despise the idea of going back to older games unless that game is Skyrim. Like how they half heartedly did a Fallout 4 anniversary update that broke a lot of stuff

[sinful blade]

Yeaaaaah

[lone mango]

I love the customization

I can literally do whatever I want

I can remap any shortcut

I just found out that I can put the computer to sleep with a shortcut which goes very very hard

Also battery charge limits can be configured out the box

[chrome mirage]

Put snow tires on my 86 and had the battery die at work. Guess I'm buying a new battery tomorrow.

[lone mango]

An exception is for asus laptops. I had to make a service to retain the charge limit setting but for other laptops its just fine

[lone mango]

[chrome mirage]

Batteries don't like -35C

[sour falcon]

WHERE ARE YOU

https://tenor.com/view/frozen-freezing-cold-shivering-glace-gif-5390133

I wear shorts in 7°F

-31°F is INSANE

[lone mango]

I think he in Vancouver if I remember correctly

[sour falcon]

Canada is scary

[random osprey]

as cool as it is, swear if im in my racing sim and it switchies me into a gundam that i have to pilot it with a steering wheel 🗿

[sour falcon]

RAHHH I HAVE A SIM TOO

[opaque sedge]

Shame onyou for not telling what game

https://tenor.com/view/monke-monkey-chimp-monkey-demands-for-food-monkey-asking-for-food-gif-7033637468494899599

[opaque sedge]

Guys 5070tis are now 1grand 💀

[remote geode]

i will cuddle my arc b580 to sleep and tell it that i love it

and whisper

never die on me

[chrome mirage]

I'm in Ontario but pretty close to Winnipeg

Felt like -47C with the wind when I was putting my winter tires on. My car jack and impact wrench were having a hard time with the cold.

[chrome mirage]

I was outside in a sweater with no gloves. My hands started bleeding when they thawed.

[opaque sedge]

What the hell

[weak cedar]

Apparently my local theater is getting the movie

[icy ore]

Interesting

I haven’t seen any trailers or anything for it, but is it based on the Iron Lung game?

[random osprey]

ye

[icy ore]

Ah neat

[obtuse pike]

is this even a steal?

[elfin mural]

it is

[obtuse pike]

panicking rn i’ll order it

[opaque sedge]

Guys no matter what i do when i try to connect my headset to my pc the mic doesn’t work at all

Jfc man… this is horrible

[icy ore]

Here we go again

[opaque sedge]

If amd can maintain these prices… they could gain a lot more market share

[sinful blade]

That challenger card on the bottom has maintained its price since I got it lmao

[opaque sedge]

Yeah amd could very well win smth in the next 6 months

But yk they’re gonna miss somehow

[sinful blade]

Best recent decision they made was making the 9060xt 16GB

Giving it some staying power against 5060ti

[velvet summit]

Cheating cases during practical and theory driving tests rose by nearly 50 per cent last year in England, Scotland and Wales, new figures show.

💀

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g30wwmnno

[elfin mural]

lol

insane

[craggy shoal]

I just know that you have an IQ below 70 if you need to cheat on a driving test

[boreal cosmos]

I crave 5090 and 8k tv plz gimmie omg

[acoustic palm]

Yes???

[velvet summit]

https://youtu.be/s_gEv17eqCU thats sick

i want this

https://youtu.be/wfRf-oV7acE waow

the quad recievers can cascade antennas

damn it also has pretty good automatic feedback reduction

[ashen swan]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-core-ultra-400-nova-lake-is-coming-at-end-of-2026

yay

i'm happy

[craggy shoal]

Please be good

I don't want AMD to become a monopoly

[ashen swan]

they are not trust

[velvet summit]

not a bad price tbh

[ashen swan]

I'm selling my 9070XT

[craggy shoal]

bruh what

[ashen swan]

Buy B580

save money

[craggy shoal]

Ah

[ashen swan]

cause

i don't really need a 9070XT tbh

[craggy shoal]

cause

[ashen swan]

i still have time to work it out lmao can't wait for
Ultra 5 445K 💀

Ultra 7 465K

Ultra 9 485K

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-confirms-intel-core-ultra-200k-plus-arrow-lake-refresh-bios-support-lands-in-late-january

og

so

we're getting them

[rancid juniper]

From driver to pilot

[rancid juniper]

Ghostwire tokyo

[robust night]

who here is gonna be trying out highguard?

[lone mango]

https://tenor.com/view/donald-duck-sleep-gif-12073235593935901891

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-the-rock-anime-sad-gif-27615865

Another day another penny

Which one do I believe for release date @grand wasp

[dusk knot]

[sinful blade]

A whole person

[robust night]

lmfao

I guess the one person will be me hhaha

looks fun

[bitter ridge]

I am busy with outer worlds so that I can play Outer worlds 2

[bitter ridge]

Jeff Keighley will be with you on day one

[pliant berry]

I just been getting into endfield

[dusk knot]

Hm

[elfin mural]

is that the new arknights

[proud jackal]

[rancid juniper]

yea

[pliant berry]

Ye

[opaque sedge]

Is that a gacha game

[rancid juniper]

yes

[opaque sedge]

Gacha slop?

[rancid juniper]

idk maybe

[dusk knot]

More waifu farming?

[rancid juniper]

perhaps

[dusk knot]

Time for some grass. Hahahaha

[opaque sedge]

Guys people in my area are preparing for the snowstorm like crazy

Apparently they’re expecting a power outage for 2-4 days

Me and my family didn’t prepare shit

Instead of preparing i went to microcenter yesterday and got a new case and came back home and just slept all evening

I’m cooked

We got no salt

[opaque sedge]

And we have an electric stove so if the power goes out…

[opaque sedge]

I JUST GOT MY 5080 MAN I’VE BARELY GOTTEN TO PLAY WITH IT

I DONT WANNA DIE JP

[dusk knot]

It is what it is

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-anguish-despair-gif-13915908866750092639

[dusk knot]

it's always important to have a go-bag and more than a weeks worth of non-perishables

And like 10 gallons of water

[royal crow]

are you in tx as well?

[opaque sedge]

Nope virginia

[royal crow]

ooof

[opaque sedge]

Uhhh is that worse

[royal crow]

wel it's getting down to 10° here

and sleeting

[opaque sedge]

Idk why i have been ignoring this shit all week bruh ignored it like i ignored upcoming price increases for gpus in December

[dusk knot]

):

[royal crow]

i'm taking the hens into thebathroom saturday night so they don't freeze to death

[opaque sedge]

Should i go grab one of those portable mini stoves just in case yall?

[dusk knot]

Sure

[royal crow]

nah

[dusk knot]

Do it

[royal crow]

not worth it, keep some wood dry for a fire tho

[opaque sedge]

I’m not scared of a little snow, i’m more scared abt a potential power outage

[dusk knot]

Oh

[opaque sedge]

Dont have drywood but worst case scenario i’ll chop down the trees and shrubs that are shared with other houses

[royal crow]

yea but those don't produce nearly enough heat over an area, so you'll still be cold, plus carbon monoxide becomes a danger

trust me this is speaking from experience of trying to warm my hands up in 15° wetaher while camping and failing

[opaque sedge]

Fuuug they’re expecting up to 15inches of snow

I really hope power doesn’t go out

[royal crow]

stock up on jackets and sleeping bags

i once survived the night in 15° weather wearing 3 pairs of pants, 3 socks, and 7 shirts/jackets

[nocturne flicker]

We were supposed to get a foot of snow. It has been reforcasted down to one inch at most and been replaced with rain and freezing rain that'll freeze overnight

Roads are going to be funni bumper cars

Can't wait

Good thing my 4WD is broken, for maximum drifting

[random osprey]

havent fully looked into it, but if their gacha system for endfield is the same as their mobile version, then itll be fine. played a lot of the mobile version and was able to do a 10-20 pull nearly every banner as a somewhat f2p player and they brought back banners a decent amount except for limited time collabs

[nocturne flicker]

Wait a minute I just counted them

[rancid juniper]

So better than umamusume I guess?

[nocturne flicker]

I've stumbled my way into $1545 of silver in just 40 percenters because I was just trying to fill a silly book and silver exploded

[random osprey]

never played so idk

[rancid juniper]

I grew tired of gacha games in general it's just a complete waste of time. The plot gets way too thick 😭

Looking at genshin's plotline

Boring as heck

[opaque sedge]

Where do i get sleeping bags from 💀

[nocturne flicker]

I don't even think I filled the book

I'll never fill that thing

[opaque sedge]

Deez nuts gonna fill yo mouth

[rancid juniper]

[royal crow]

Cabelas,bass pro, Walmart, rei, Costco, maybe target

[nocturne flicker]

I'm gonna fill something with a boot in a minute

[rancid juniper]

Bro is about to feel weary's wrath

[nocturne flicker]

I can't even do a collection of Franklin half dollars because they are worth $37 a coin not including speculation craze

https://tenor.com/view/dillom-rage-dog-angry-dog-gif-17954176246139200797

And they are going to be melted like crazy because people are going to try and cash in on the silver price bubble

That's it

My hobby is dead

I'm going to go to the store, buy my employee discounted ham and cry myself to sleep tonight

[atomic field]

Hiii i have a question, how can I order a New Egg PC from a foreign country that isn't listed on the website? I'm from Colombia, and I've never ordered anything this big online before, i'll be completely grateful!

[nocturne flicker]

Newegg only ships to specific countries

https://kb.newegg.com/knowledge-base/international-shipping/

Unfortunately, Colombia is not one of the countries listed, so I am unsure if you can order from Newegg

[rancid juniper]

You might try eBay instead

[atomic field]

Oh yeah thank you so much

I found the pc in ebay

[lethal jasper]

is there a way to use a gpu slot for airflow

like a fan or something

[dusk knot]

Never heard of that before

Depends on the case?

[lethal jasper]

five, billion, decibells

[dusk knot]

Interesting

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/500-ciggarettes-gif-11805300176740010737

[dusk knot]

Orville season 3 please

😭

[lethal jasper]

peak just dropped (twice)

[dusk knot]

I watched both. As much as I dislike how Disney has handled SW, the trailer for Maul looks really good. Though I tend not to trust trailers from Lucasfilms anymore. But Invincible is going to be great, hopefully better animation.

[opaque sedge]

Oh how naive we were back then

F these board partners man

[nocturne flicker]

Ain't just the board partners. The entire chain is rotten

[icy ore]

https://youtu.be/dMQ4vWT-ej0?si=rCXeeXAhjZ9uWVrM

Bro what

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/first-time-meme-first-time-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-gif-24656975

Pretty standard for modern indie horror

I'm surprised the trailer didn't go for friendly children's cartoon intro that slowly becomes demented

[opaque sedge]

Yup ngreedia’s past tactics man… they were just plain dirty

Rats in arc raiders dont even come remotely close to how disgusting their tactics were

[unreal trail]

Why do people act like they cant get water in a snowstorm? There's this magical device everybody can get water from called a faucet

[velvet summit]

💀

who acts like that

the bigger problem is electricity

snowstorms can cause powerlines to fail

mainly from trees falling on it

[lethal jasper]

just melt the snow smh

[lone mango]

Walmart near me got completely emptied last night

Americans are npcs

[lethal jasper]

scalpers or something?

or just normal people

[velvet summit]

of what
water bottles?

or emptied like robbed?

or emptied by people panic stockpiling food and shit?

[lone mango]

Everything

[velvet summit]

🧐

[lone mango]

Shit got cleared out bruh

They had to make a post

Literally gonna be sunny the entire next week

Gonna be like one day of bad precipitation

[velvet summit]

How do you empty a whole ass walmart

[unreal trail]

walmart ceo got paid bro

because people panic buying

[lone mango]

Only with the power of american consumption is this possible

[velvet summit]

💀

As someone who worked in a warehouse
Rip the warehouse workers lmao

Or maybe this is a good thing since they might just take the whole skid
But the in that case rip the store stockers

Because they gotta put all that shit back on the shelf lmao

[unreal trail]

people talking about being broke and the gov says "I dont think you're as broke as you say" and they seed a few inches of snow and people drain the bank account panic buying lol

[velvet summit]

you worded that like the government summoned a few inches of snow lol

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-rage-gif-10830679775609780103

[nocturne flicker]

It is an actual concern in places that rely on well water, but anybody living near that Walmart more likely than not have water from a utility

Even then, when you are concerned about losing water while running on well water, you'd probably prep by just filling a stopped up tub with water and filling some bottles lying around like a normal person

And by the time your pipes have frozen solid, you'll probably have bigger issues than frozen pipes to deal with

[velvet summit]

i saw this gif the second the video i was watching had "you eat a salad everyday?"

actual timing

[nocturne flicker]

Target parot I mured so people killed so many Frenchmen you need a salad every

Let me tell you, after growing up with a well, the first time I had water during a power outage was a surprise

[icy ore]

[velvet summit]

honestly anybody with a well needs either backup power and a spare well pump in case one fails, or a manual well pump

[nocturne flicker]

We made do without it

The wonders of modern society means that even if the running water stops running, you'll still probably have something to drink lying around in the form of soda, juice from concentrate and or bottled tea

Our biggest concern was that the sump pump stopped

And the basement flooded

[velvet summit]

not in my household at least
though we use city water so we don't have unreliability of water on that side of things

we don't have soda most of the time, juice is only whenever it goes on sale, and we drink tea by brewing it and not from bottles

[nocturne flicker]

Well this is America, where some people literally only drink soda so...

[velvet summit]

💀

which is honestly crazy to me

i've met one person online that insists on only drinking flavoured water

sweetened

[dusk knot]

Say goodbye to teeth

[lethal jasper]

reasonable crashout

[velvet summit]

they were the reason why i found out about a skittles drink mix

[lethal jasper]

a what

[nocturne flicker]

They make everything a drink mix now

[velvet summit]

they said they loved it

i tried it when my cousin bought a box when it was like 50% off for some reason and goddamn it was so damn sugary

[velvet summit]

my reaction honestly

[lethal jasper]

I have no idea what a drink mix even is

Or i do but haven’t heard this specific term

[velvet summit]

it's powder that you mix with water to make a "drink"

hot chocolate powder for example is a drink mix

[nocturne flicker]

Powder or condensed liquid you add to water to turn it into juice of some sort

[lethal jasper]

Okay

But why skittles

[velvet summit]

because they are rotmaxxing idk

[nocturne flicker]

Fruit flavor drinks are popular for drink mixes

[lethal jasper]

If i wanted to suffer i could just drink water with a 20% citric acid concentration

[misty sparrow]

anything can be a drink mix if you try hard enough

[velvet summit]

i'll turn you into a drink mix

[misty sparrow]

south park already did it

[lethal jasper]

Pizza drink mix

[velvet summit]

i do not want a pizza smoothie

[nocturne flicker]

If you freeze dry pizza and grind the result in a food processor

[lethal jasper]

Neither do i

[lethal jasper]

I don’t work for nasa for a reason

[velvet summit]

i have a friend that jokes so much about dipping pizza in milk that i dont even know if she's joking or being unironic

[nocturne flicker]

They make freeze drying machines and vaccum pumps for home use now

[dusk knot]

Ew

[lethal jasper]

Just use milk for the dough at that point

[nocturne flicker]

Mostly because the US has an insane segment of the population obsessed with preping for complete societal collapse

[lethal jasper]

We need to make a 4 in 1 freeze dryer, oven, air fryer and dehydrator

[velvet summit]

the more time goes on i think they are onto something

[lethal jasper]

Man’s dream

[velvet summit]

they might need it sooner than they thought

though it wont be a zombie apocalypse

though in a sense it is a zombie apocalypse

[nocturne flicker]

Complete societal collapse as in Zombies or nuclear Fallout world

With bunkers, generators, giant shelves filled with canned food

[lethal jasper]

Maybe freeze drier no but the other 3 can probably be done in a single machine without sacrificing ones performance

[velvet summit]

freeze dryer is a type of dehydrator

[nocturne flicker]

Yes

[velvet summit]

and actually all 4 can be easily made to work together

[lethal jasper]

Then i guess a 4 in 1 can work

[nocturne flicker]

It has to remove all liquid from the food

It also cooks the food

[lethal jasper]

I made beef jerky with my oven it was quite delicious

[velvet summit]

freeze dryer is a freezer + vacuum pump + heating elements
ovens are just heating elements + optional fan for convection
air fryers are basically ovens with a fan that blows harder than a convection oven
dehydrators are basically ovens at a very low temperature and a fan

[lethal jasper]

However an oven with dedicated dehydrator and air frier modes would be nice

[velvet summit]

freeze dryer is the only odd one out but could be made to work with all 3 other features

[lethal jasper]

So better temp control and a more powerful fan could make the 3 work well

[velvet summit]

there is one problem though
freeze drying food takes hours, even multiple days depending on what you're freeze drying
so unless you don't need your oven for day(s) at a time, you may want a dedicated freeze dryer

[velvet summit]

pretty much

[lethal jasper]

Don’t dehydrators have gaps to remove air moisture

[velvet summit]

ovens also have vents, air friers also need vents to get rid of moisture to crisp up the food

[nocturne flicker]

You don't want a freeze dryer anyways. It is actually an extremely wasteful machine

[lethal jasper]

What can we add to make it 4 in 1

[velvet summit]

oven vents are just for relieving pressure, while air fryers need the vent to remove the moisture from the chamber

[velvet summit]

we can take something from the bbq's handbook

rotissire option
or maybe a smoker

[nocturne flicker]

Tons of electricity, low quality results at low quantities, a lot of failed results and wastes time

[lethal jasper]

I put my oven on fan mode and use the tray handle thingy to keep the door slightly open

[nocturne flicker]

Also causes a lot of noise pollution

[lethal jasper]

Worked as a dehydrator

[lethal jasper]

Smoker would be nice

[velvet summit]

noise polution is mainly the fault of the vacuum pump, there are low noise ones but more expensive so they're less commonly used on the smaller freeze dryers used in homes

practically a whiteout outside rn damn

[nocturne flicker]

The pump will eventually burn out too

[velvet summit]

can barely see across the street from my window

[lethal jasper]

What is the use of a freeze dryer anyways

Crunchy candy or something

[velvet summit]

food preservation

moisture causes most food to spoil

[lethal jasper]

Oh yea ive seen people dry up ketchup and stuff

[velvet summit]

freeze dried food is generally shelf stable as long as done correctly

[nocturne flicker]

There isn't really a good one tbh. The food preservation can be achieved in other ways that are less expensive and gives better results

For normal people that is

[velvet summit]

i'm not saying it's the best method of food preservation

but its only practical purpose is food preservation basically
at least when used for food

there are some laboratory uses for it that i'm not exactly sure what they use it for but some labs would have a freeze dryer

[nocturne flicker]

Yeah, there are specific commercial and scientific uses

But the reason they make home machines are for the crazy folks trying to fill their bunkers with food and for the people who want to see weird things happen to food

[velvet summit]

probably some material science or like cell preservation or smth idk

[lethal jasper]

Doesnt canned food last for a while

[nocturne flicker]

Yes

[velvet summit]

maybe there's some material that needs a freeze dryer to be produced, i know that one of the oldest plastics we have, "bakelite" requires a pressure chamber to cure or else it becomes all puffy

so maybe there's something that requires a dry vacuum enviroment

[nocturne flicker]

Preppers go for large quantities of canned goods

[velvet summit]

canning as long as done well can store food for quite a long time

[dusk knot]

Anyone watching fallout season 2?

[nocturne flicker]

I bought cheese powder in a can because I bought a ton of brown rice and I was desperate to make it not taste like brown rice. It was in a big can and the entire Amazon listing review page consisted of 2 types of folks, preppers talking about how good it is at sitting on their shelves or people talking about mac and cheese

[velvet summit]

canned food is nice to stock up a little on (like maybe 3 cans at a time per person) as it's often cheaper than buying anything fresh, and also can be quickly prepared
and 3 cans is a small enough number to rotate through without eating a can every day or throwing out hundreds of cans for those preppers

canned food lasts a long time but not forever

[lethal jasper]

Five tons of spaghettio’s

Do those even taste good

[velvet summit]

so if somebody preps like 10000 cans of food, they'll probably want to use 27 cans a day to keep stock rotating

[nocturne flicker]

No

Spaghettio's are disgusting

[lethal jasper]

Noted

[nocturne flicker]

Imagine eating limp pasta rings in a super sweet ketchup sauce

[lethal jasper]

ketchup should never be super sweet let alone slightly sweet

[velvet summit]

all ketchup is sweetened

[nocturne flicker]

Most ketchup*

You can get unsweetened

[velvet summit]

or all american ketchup at least
if it isnt sweetened then it's just tomato paste basically

[lethal jasper]

And they upcharge for the one with less sugar 😭

[nocturne flicker]

Yes

Sadly

I rather enjoy no sugar added ketchup

More vinegar

[velvet summit]

i pretty much never consume ketchup nowadays

bbq sauce has tomato sauce in it already, i just have that on my burger and that counts as the ketchup for me lmao

[lethal jasper]

Sour ass heinz ketchup fr

[nocturne flicker]

If I don't have any no sugar added but I'm having fries or something, sometimes I'll add vinegar to the ketchup to balance it out more

Don't really eat fries that often though

[velvet summit]

i eat fries by themselves

i only use condiments if the fries are shit
or i just don't eat them honestly

if im eating fries, im eating good fries

[nocturne flicker]

If I'm eating fries at home, they are going to be just by themselves because frozen fries means extra lazy and cheap night

[dusk knot]

Hm

[lethal jasper]

Once i was going to make fries in the air fryer, put them in a box to defrost because i have some extra steps to make them crunchy. Went for like an hour and came back to see my brother eating the uncooked defrosted fries

[nocturne flicker]

I mean, it is safe to eat but that isn't pleasant or fun

[lethal jasper]

Did bro not think of why they were in a cold box or soggy or not in the air fryer basket

[nocturne flicker]

If you really want to you can just chomp on a potato raw and it'll be fine. If you don't eat anything green and you don't eat too much

[lethal jasper]

They were frozen so i assume slightly precooked but still 😭

[nocturne flicker]

Too much and you'll have intestinal cramps and stuff and green bits will actually poison you

[lethal jasper]

Guy got into university but cant figure out the fries are uncooked

[tranquil pebble]

you can also ingest poison and be fine if you don't eat too much

doesn't make it a good idea

[nocturne flicker]

Well yes, it is also called medicine when you do that

[tranquil pebble]

Not always... but often yeah

[misty sparrow]

or if you're following Princess Bride logic, ingest it in short quantities frequently over time to gain an immunity to it

[lethal jasper]

Ancient healing technique

Eating a kilo of green potatoes makes evil irish spirits leave your body alone at night or something

[nocturne flicker]

Yeah like the Romans and lead

Wait

[lethal jasper]

The lead pipes?

[nocturne flicker]

And utensils and the literal lead acetate they put in their wine as sweetener

Lead sweet salt, yum yum

[velvet summit]

fries are parcooked yes
actually they may even be fully cooked

especially like mcdonalds fries

mcdonalds fries get fried twice before freezing and getting shipped to the mcdonalds locations

bags of fries you get at the store are likely fried once or twice to be parcooked, and what you're really doing when you put them in the air fryer is to crisp up the skin

also you dont need to defrost the fries

[nocturne flicker]

Crisp the skin and reheat the starches in the potato

[velvet summit]

yeah that too

[nocturne flicker]

Because cold starches are like bricks in the stomach

[lethal jasper]

Just use sucralose are they stupid

[lethal jasper]

I haven’t eaten McDonalds in like s year

[nocturne flicker]

Good. Overpriced trash

[lethal jasper]

Kinda mid now. The nuggets and crunchies are good but no sweet potato fries or anything else that makes it worth it

[velvet summit]

you dont have to eat at mcdonalds to know this
hell, eating at mcdonalds won't make you know this either

[lethal jasper]

True

[nocturne flicker]

Come buy an 8 dollar hamburger with a 5 dollar medium fry while we pay our workers $12 an hour

Oh which there are three and they are over worked

[rancid juniper]

@nocturne flicker @tranquil pebble

[tranquil pebble]

Ubisoft is sending themselves to /dev/null

[lone mango]

I find it interesting how people are able to deal with so much crap before actually doing something

They should have done this a long time ago

[rancid juniper]

They got bills to pay so thats probably the main reason why they gotta stay

but theres ALWAYS a limit to it

and this is the result

[tranquil pebble]

Just tried a cappuccino flavored jelly bean, was amazing ngl

[proud jackal]

It's sold out already

[random osprey]

thats my asus monitor right?

[proud jackal]

Yes

[random osprey]

[proud jackal]

Gotta make sure @grand wasp is fed

[grand wasp]

whichever one is longer.

[nocturne flicker]

Must resist the joke

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/sponge-bob-gif-18523822

@nocturne flicker

[nocturne flicker]

I've stared at my gif results for minutes now

I can't

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-smash-lesbian-punch-wall-gif-4790446

[grand wasp]

BRUH

I THOUGHT YOU WERE FEEDING ME

NOT SLAMMING ME TO THE WALL

[proud jackal]

DOWN WITH THE ADMINS

THE MOD STRIKE BEGINS

[grand wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-mob-mad-angry-get-hi-him-gif-15559264817013259719

[worn night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKLTGaOND6Y

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/getitaga-video-gif-25762728

[worn night]

https://tenor.com/view/idfk-gif-3761179052566277881

[lone mango]

The mercedes headlight wipers

[velvet summit]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/PoutineCrimes/s/RTO1bu5Uyo this is possibly the least amount of fries I've ever seen in a poutine

[pliant berry]

the few times I got a poutine I could never finish them with how much they put

[velvet summit]

Better slightly too much than way too little

[proud jackal]

Ship it

[pliant berry]

yeah then I save it for later

[pliant berry]

david about to sneak a surprise in there for you

[grand wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/gillslawyer-cat-driving-gif-969605860353026195

^David shown driving @proud jackal's order to his house

[lone mango]

[stark otter]

My bios settings keep resetting anyone know what might be the issue

[pliant berry]

dead cmos battery perhaps?

[acoustic palm]

AHH

i really want a leg rest

[velvet summit]

chair

[acoustic palm]

under a table

[velvet summit]

stool

[acoustic palm]

idh any

[wise wigeon]

Man I hate how much of a paranoid person I am

[acoustic palm]

and am broke

[pliant berry]

mini chair

[rancid juniper]

gamer chair

[acoustic palm]

also needs to be kinda low

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/its-all-in-the-gaming-chair-gaming-chair-skill-issue-360-no-scope-no-scope-gif-10989045114822148150

[acoustic palm]

cardboard box with a blanket on it?

[velvet summit]

Ignore the wires

[rancid juniper]

nice chair?

[nocturne flicker]

I've got plenty of chairs but they don't game how to fix?

[velvet summit]

legrest chair

[pliant berry]

this looks like something out of a horror scene

[acoustic palm]

my chair is struggling

[velvet summit]

it's honestly the perfect height

[wise wigeon]

Got a new phone and since I’m a extra paranoid person I am like so anxious about anything regarding it

[nocturne flicker]

The murder weapon was the spray bottle

[velvet summit]

for my chair

[acoustic palm]

ive taken my phone in the ocean a few times on accident

[velvet summit]

honestly i feel like that spray bottle probably could kill somebody with how long i've had it sitting there with water in it

[wise wigeon]

Well I bought a new phone for the first time in 4 years

[velvet summit]

that water is like a year or 2 old at this point

[acoustic palm]

dang

[velvet summit]

just sitting there

[acoustic palm]

i get a new one each year

[pliant berry]

lmao

[velvet summit]

is this why you cant afford a chair

[nocturne flicker]

Why do you have a spray bottle filled with old water

[acoustic palm]

no theyre free

[velvet summit]

all your money is spent on phones

oh

[pliant berry]

you got me there 😆

[velvet summit]

because i havent moved it or gotten rid of it

originally it was used to spray some plants

[nocturne flicker]

Ah

[wise wigeon]

So I got the new base 17 and since it’s my first new phone with oled I just scared myself because I fell asleep apparently watching a YouTube short

[nocturne flicker]

I see

[acoustic palm]

dude

they wont burn in

😭

oleds are very safe now

[pliant berry]

don't the iphones go to sleep after like 30 seconds of not looking at it

[velvet summit]

you aint burning in from sleeping with yt shorts a few times

[acoustic palm]

yeah that too

[wise wigeon]

Well the reasonable side of me would agree because it was only around an hour to an hour and a half

[acoustic palm]

ive left my monitor on the same thing for like

50 hours once

legit nothing happened

[pliant berry]

I've managed to burn in some lcds in the past

[wise wigeon]

But the paranoid freak in me has been looking at burn in articles for the last 30 minutes

[acoustic palm]

js stop worrying about it

[wise wigeon]

Oh I will eventually

[pliant berry]

on the phones I basically don't even see it as a concern. heck I still got the always on display on all day long

[wise wigeon]

It’s just I baby new expensive stuff

[pliant berry]

I can't say I've been doing the same with my new camera

[wise wigeon]

I was super OCD with screen protectors

I got the usual set I got but the first one came with the box covers in a Vaseline like substance

So I requested a replacement and that one didn’t adhere immediately with the install so the first install had a scraggly piece of lint in the middle of the screen in an otherwise perfect install

[acoustic palm]

im lowk too lazy to use a screen protector

[dense locust]

Put a screen protector on inside the bathroom with steam

[wise wigeon]

I did that

Mirrors were still steamed up on that first install

[acoustic palm]

wouldnt that trap moisture under the protector

[wise wigeon]

You steam the room and turn it off to let things condense a bit

[pliant berry]

i've been liking the screen protector i got for my phone this time around

[wise wigeon]

Anyway the secon install only adhered to the middle press line until I removed the install frame and manually pressed the glass down but by that point many small specs got under

Never really had that adhesive problem before

[velvet summit]

I don't think I've ever seen any phone get burn in
YouTube and such content keeps the screen on but only when it's playing so there's not much static content
And anything else is usually going to time out in a few minutes which also doesn't really matter much

Burn in mostly happens on TVs and PC monitors due to static content that stays on for hours

[wise wigeon]

Anyway told Amazon it was defective because well it was defective and I tried out the set of screen protectors with the new type of install mechanism

The ones where you pull out the plastic tab and it runs the statically charged film on the adhesive against your screen to pick up stuff as you pull it off

[wise wigeon]

Issue with non regular videos like shorts is that it just keeps repeating and it has static elements like the sub button or like and comments

Realistically I’m fine I’m just being a paranoid person

[velvet summit]

Looping content is way less likely to cause burn in
Or rather any noticeable burn in

[wise wigeon]

Well it would be the actual content burning in

It’s be the UI stuff

But yeah I’m just being paranoid

[velvet summit]

If you've seen old arcade CRTs, even when their displays are kept on basically 24/7, the only burn in they get are the static elements, and maybe some slight fuzz on the set paths of the game has that e.g. pacman, the path that the ghosts may go on

[wise wigeon]

I woke up from a nap about an hour ago at like 5:30

And I was trying to find my phone because it was a dark room to find it on a YouTube short

[acoustic palm]

wait

why were you watching shorts

😭

[wise wigeon]

Dunno exactly for how long but considering I send a discord message around 4:20 tops it was on that short for like an hour or so

[wise wigeon]

Eh I doomscrolling sometimes

[acoustic palm]

yt shorts is uh

yeah thats js bad

[wise wigeon]

Eh

[acoustic palm]

its not eh

its BAD

[wise wigeon]

Instagram is probably worse

[acoustic palm]

no

ive used both

instagram is def better

[lone mango]

Insta do have bussin gym bro recipes

[acoustic palm]

and you get funny comments

[lone mango]

Besides that I do hate all of it

[wise wigeon]

As for why not something else, I haven’t touched my instagram account in like 5 years

[lone mango]

[wise wigeon]

And I never even made a TikTok

[lone mango]

Mine is also inactive, might as well delete it

[pliant berry]

I say they're all bad

[wise wigeon]

Plus YouTube is my main media consumption

Shorts is built in there

Since I have to watch long sets of lectures sometimes I need a brain refresh and scroll a few shorts to break up the monotony

[lone mango]

I have shorts disabled with an extension called enhancer for youtube

[wise wigeon]

Honestly my paranoia scares me sometimes, only reason I don’t have a YouTube premium student plan rn is because I don’t wanna connect my school stuff to my online activity

[lone mango]

The shorts are very rotting

Idk how to describe that better

[acoustic palm]

shorts are bad

[lone mango]

Rot inducing

Rotten

[wise wigeon]

Hmm isn’t it tuned to the user?

[acoustic palm]

its tuned to get you addicted

[tranquil pebble]

the format is yes, but sometimes I see a good short... not often though

[acoustic palm]

and shorts have nothing good

[tranquil pebble]

usually its slop

[wise wigeon]

I mostly get like animal videos and some short form skits from channels I already watch

[acoustic palm]

my reels are so much better than my shorts

[lone mango]

It is but they also sprinkle rot in there to steer the algo and see what else catches you

I don't watch shorts and get clickbaity sexual thumbnails

I literally watch tech and privacy stuff

[tranquil pebble]

one thing that has me annoyed with YouTube rn though is it started recommending me SCP stuff in the Music app.. like WHY

[wise wigeon]

I do occasionally see the split screen attention grab stuff

[lone mango]

So I have it disabled via an extension

[acoustic palm]

i watch music videos, tech and apex on yt

[wise wigeon]

But it’s like sub 10% of the shorts I see

[lone mango]

Also the row of shorts comes up a lot, literally interrupting the long list of videos on the home page

[tranquil pebble]

I don't need a mix of relaxing music interrupted by some random guy explaining SCP-682 ffs

[lone mango]

They really tryna rot me

[wise wigeon]

I used to be a riskier person with my devices but since I’m in a grad program I try to keep security tight on my devices

So in a way iOS being pretty locked down helps a bit

[acoustic palm]

my next phone will not be an iphone

my parents put up insanely strict restrictions, and i want more freedom

[velvet summit]

I pretty much get no creepypasta on my feed anywhere

[wise wigeon]

Yeh but that’s your parents

[acoustic palm]

no no no

iphones suck

[tranquil pebble]

See I don't mind it in the normal YouTube app or website, but I don't want it in my music

[acoustic palm]

everything only half works, and you cant do much on em

[wise wigeon]

I use both concurrently

[acoustic palm]

and the specs arent great foir that price

[wise wigeon]

Ok now you’re just lying

In terms of silicon at least

[acoustic palm]

what did i lie about?

[velvet summit]

My yt music is vtuber/jpop and 70s/80s rock

[wise wigeon]

Apple silicon is just absurd

[tranquil pebble]

uh as much as I hate Apple, the iPhones generally work pretty well.

[acoustic palm]

the specs are not great for the PRICE

[proud jackal]

Label created

[acoustic palm]

not in my experience

most of my phones have half the things halfway broken

[tranquil pebble]

I can agree that they suck for the price though

[velvet summit]

Oh and Vocaloid

[wise wigeon]

Nah brother you ain’t competing with a chips or m chips with your average snapdragon or god forbid a Meditek soc

[acoustic palm]

https://klipy.com/gifs/teto-kasane-13

[acoustic palm]

OMG

LISTEN TO ME

FOR THE PRICE

[tranquil pebble]

Never had any issues in terms of defects or malfunctioning but I object to some of Apple's app store policies

[acoustic palm]

PRICEE

$$$$$$

[pliant berry]

tbh after having used a few androids recently. most of them don't really feel that freeing

[velvet summit]

https://tenor.com/view/birdbrain-teto-kasane-teto-jamiep-bop-gif-6775635206677407132

[proud jackal]

@pliant berry

[pliant berry]

especially the samsungs

[wise wigeon]

Brother you can get a m chips iPad for sub 500

[acoustic palm]

i mean software side

[proud jackal]

[acoustic palm]

with little ram and storage? 😭

[pliant berry]

I know I saw earlier

[tranquil pebble]

That aspect has diminished over time. However AFAIK, gecko browser engine is still not allowed on iOS

[wise wigeon]

And the iPhone 16e despite by gripes with its cuts has the iPhone 16 soc for $600

[icy ore]

What was it like $700?

[proud jackal]

[pliant berry]

yeah I feel like the apple software is slowly becoming somewhat more open and a lot of the androids are slowly getting more locked down

[wise wigeon]

We don’t even need to drag the google tensor soc through the mud

[proud jackal]

Look it up

[pliant berry]

but if you find the right one

[wise wigeon]

Google already shot tensor in the foot

[acoustic palm]

id much rather an honor WIN than a 16e lmao

[icy ore]

Oh even worse than I thought

[acoustic palm]

jeez

[wise wigeon]

I mean I rather not an iPhone 16e either when things like the op 15 exist but one plus is not the flagship killers they used to be in terms of price

[velvet summit]

Excuse me?

[wise wigeon]

For a 2k monitor?

Eh?

[icy ore]

https://tenor.com/view/hasbulla-gif-12654501364171447161

[acoustic palm]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/287040275857 if im getting a new phone with my own money i want this

[cursive oasis]

if im paying more than a $1,000 for a monitor, it better be 4k minimum

[wise wigeon]

Brother it better be a 240hz oled 4k monitor for 1k

[velvet summit]

I ain't ever spending over 1k on a PC monitor

I'll only go above for a tv or projector

[wise wigeon]

Would you spend 1k on an apply display stand

[velvet summit]

💀

[acoustic palm]

how do ppl use up the storage on their phones

[velvet summit]

Apps

[acoustic palm]

i have like wayyyy too many things and only 65gb used

[pliant berry]

photos

[wise wigeon]

That was genuinely so damn funny when it announced

[acoustic palm]

i have a lot of those

[wise wigeon]

I mean my previous daily driver was a base iPhone 11

Thing only had 64gb

[acoustic palm]

damn

yeah but id totally get a WIN phone for my next

[velvet summit]

I'm struggling over here

[wise wigeon]

Base 17 gets 256 now

Which is beautiful

[acoustic palm]

but my parents would never let me get a new phone under their roof so i gotta wait till college

[wise wigeon]

Base 17 about to be the iPhone 11 of its generation

[velvet summit]

I have alot of utility apps on my phone e.g. bubble level, network scanning tools, etc.

[tranquil pebble]

I need to find a way to make an LLM talk to itself on my PC. For the funnies.

[acoustic palm]

800$ base for a phone

[wise wigeon]

Finally getting high refresh on the base model with a storage upgrade is nice

[velvet summit]

Shoutout to ubiquiti for making the wifiman app

Honestly kinda goated

[acoustic palm]

"apple isnt expensive"

[wise wigeon]

Uh that’s just normal starting price for any flagships

[acoustic palm]

200$ markup on 256gb of phone

[acoustic palm]

its not the flagship?

[wise wigeon]

I think the pixel 10 is actually 900

Flagship series

[tranquil pebble]

that's cheaper than Samsunk atp

[acoustic palm]

this is the flagship.

[acoustic palm]

yeah thats just... not how you use the word flagship

[tranquil pebble]

ok that's more like Apple

[nocturne flicker]

Reject current gen phones, return to previous gen phones bought on ebay from sketchy third parties

[wise wigeon]

Which is pretty in line with the Samsung and pixel prices

[acoustic palm]

those also suck

buy used phones

❤️

[velvet summit]

Samsung and Google aren't the only android phones

They're only notable because they're big companies

[tranquil pebble]

my OnePlus has served me well

[wise wigeon]

They aren’t but they are the most popular ones that have comparable support

[velvet summit]

Though Samsung's a series phones are pretty good for the price

[acoustic palm]

also

[wise wigeon]

I had a one plus 7

[acoustic palm]

apple phones do NOT work at all with any water on the screen

it sucks

[tranquil pebble]

not all of them were lmao

[wise wigeon]

Good phone

One plus 15 looks nice

[tranquil pebble]

Last A series Samsung I saw had specs too weak to run its own OS and was slower than a dead snail

[wise wigeon]

A line is a vast series of phones that go from 100 dollars to like 600

[tranquil pebble]

that's why I said not all are good

[wise wigeon]

But yeah in terms of base model apple did good this year

[acoustic palm]

only 800$ for the 17

[tranquil pebble]

tbf if you pay $100 for a smartphone, it's not reasonable to expect a speed demon

but the one I saw was so awful you would have had to PAY me to use it

[wise wigeon]

That’s been like base model price for the bigger companies for like 10 years

[acoustic palm]

and?

a worse thing doesnt make a bad thing good

[tranquil pebble]

unfortunately this is one of the tactics employed by marketing

a lot

[acoustic palm]

yup

[wise wigeon]

I mean are there better deals out there? Yeah

[acoustic palm]

so that makes the worse deals... bad deals

[wise wigeon]

From personal experience I like the quality I get from these brands

[acoustic palm]

iphones really arent all that

[tranquil pebble]

all a consumer can really do is just find what offers are the best among the options... sometimes all of them are bad

[acoustic palm]

17 pro had a LOT of issues

[lone mango]

They call 1440p 2k sometimes, is it actually 1440p

[remote geode]

I buy used xd

[lone mango]

or 1080

[tranquil pebble]

wasnt there a scandal with iPhone 16 too?

[wise wigeon]

Compared to when I was getting some of the budget or midrange phones from companies trying to be flagship killers

[acoustic palm]

i wouldnt doubt it

[remote geode]

I just got a JP Xperia 1 III for like, 180 USD

loving it so far

[wise wigeon]

Scandal for everything really

[acoustic palm]

i wanna buy an honor WIN phone, those things are insane

[wise wigeon]

Pixel fold exploded on Jerry rig this year

[tranquil pebble]

pretty sure iPhone 16 was advertised with a feature it never got or something

[wise wigeon]

Delayed Apple Intelligence

[acoustic palm]

you mean them porting chatgpt and calling it apple ai

[wise wigeon]

God I hope Gemini makes Siri usable

[tranquil pebble]

1. Gross they lied. 2. Even more gross that the feature they lied about is "AI"

[wise wigeon]

It was a normal apple refresh year

[acoustic palm]

yeah the Apple intel was SUPERRR delayed, and it isnt actually ai, or if it is its abs terrible

[wise wigeon]

The only real new thing was the camera button

[acoustic palm]

which is like

useless

[wise wigeon]

Made cases dumber

[acoustic palm]

also like

absurdly expensive to replace

and super unprotected

99% its a marketing scheme to get more ppl to repair their phones

[wise wigeon]

Thankfully most of the good case manufacturers figured out camera button covers that work for the 17 series

16 series cases were mostly cutouts aside from spine

Spigen

Unfortunately Ringke is still doing cutouts

I quite like the cut and fit of their cases otherwise

I use a ringke onyx in my s21

Man is it nice to have. Modern oled display now though

I can actually see my phone when walking in a brightly lit environment outside

[tranquil pebble]

so, how likely is it that ollama can beat it?

[acoustic palm]

what is that

[wise wigeon]

It’s just bad

[tranquil pebble]

a means of running LLMs on your own system

[wise wigeon]

Isn’t llama the open source one people use?

[tranquil pebble]

LLM but you have control over when and where it runs

[acoustic palm]

dang nice

[tranquil pebble]

ollama makes it easy to run llama and other models

[wise wigeon]

God I miss having a useful phone assistant

[tranquil pebble]

ollama is on github too

[wise wigeon]

Regular google assistant was a dream compared to Siri

I miss having a phone assistant that actually understands context

[velvet summit]

Apparently saying shit is fine but not if you say it with 2 other words of which are also in the phrase "piece of crap"

[acoustic palm]

my "hey siri" doesnt even work

[wise wigeon]

Probably have to redo your voice

[acoustic palm]

didnt work

[wise wigeon]

I genuinely just trigger Siri on both phones whispering Siri

[tranquil pebble]

Someone accidentally commanded my phone with Google Assistant once so I generally disable it entirely.

[velvet summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4Bqc6ZrPM

[wise wigeon]

Still better than Xbox haha

Or god forbid Alexa

[tranquil pebble]

the irony is that the thing they made my phone do is what I was going to make it do anyways

[velvet summit]

Xbox has a voice assistant?

[tranquil pebble]

I dont tend to hang around malicious people

[wise wigeon]

Oh the stories I hear about having to cancel weird orders from Alexa

[wise wigeon]

It used to turn on via voice for xbone

[tranquil pebble]

cringe

[velvet summit]

Ok Garmin
Video speichern

[wise wigeon]

You could say Xbox on in a call and it would trigger lol

[velvet summit]

💀

[tranquil pebble]

I remember early 2000s PCs waking from sleep from the slightest noises when they had a mic attached lmao

[velvet summit]

Which Xbox(s)?

[tranquil pebble]

and this startling people on occasion

[wise wigeon]

And apparently I hear that people still have issues with Alexa ordering stuff from stream or video audio

[velvet summit]

I don't remember this from the Xbox or xbox360

[wise wigeon]

Xbone

[velvet summit]

Oh

Too new fr

[acoustic palm]

mine didnt do that

[wise wigeon]

https://youtube.com/shorts/MiJd82MUgPA?si=0Z3liHsEb43lV2cl

Hehee

My god

You can still do it if someone has their Alexa connected to their Xbox

Kinda curious

Anybody in the chat ever report a fried 9800x3d?

[velvet summit]

i've never laid my eyes on a 9800x3d

[wise wigeon]

Sadge

I did my upgrade last year

Very good timing apparently

Probably paid a bit much for a 9070xt but Gish it’s better than ram prices now

[nocturne flicker]

Alright connecting you to the FBI

[wise wigeon]

9070xt prob the first gpu I haven’t bothered to underfoot in a while

Undervolt*

[acoustic palm]

i UV mine and got better performance

[nocturne flicker]

Steps on gpus kinda weird ngl

[wise wigeon]

I just don’t really like that it’s a curve offset

And with how volatile the parts market is just don’t wanna mess with it

[velvet summit]

undervolting can't kill the gpu, overvolting can

[nocturne flicker]

Underfooting it will though

[velvet summit]

real

[wise wigeon]

Only thing I really want out of it is better mem temps power consumption

[velvet summit]

stepping on your gpu will probably break it

[acoustic palm]

so then UV it

[wise wigeon]

It’s more of a I’m stable, I wanna just stay stable

[velvet summit]

gpu crashes wont corrupt your windows majority of the time

just run some stress tests overnight

[acoustic palm]

@rancid juniper did it, 260w draw and normal performance with lower temps

[wise wigeon]

I know it’s jus annoying though

Plus I’ve is super variable in stability between games

UV*

[velvet summit]

you dont have to get the most extreme undervolt

[wise wigeon]

Especially when it’s a curve offset and not a fully customized curve

[acoustic palm]

a customized curve would be worse honestly

unless youre going extreme

[wise wigeon]

Eh idk I just had a better time UVing nvidia gpus on afterburner

It wasn’t even a major offset on the xt

But wilds is also just a unstable game

[velvet summit]

it's called the silicon lottery for a reason

sometimes you just get a shit chip

other times you get a god tier chip

[wise wigeon]

Well it’s weird -60 worked on most games but wilds just runs like doodoo

And just makes things crash

[acoustic palm]

i was running -120mv stable lmao

[wise wigeon]

That doesn’t sound right

[sinful blade]

Isn’t wilds broken still

[acoustic palm]

it was

-120mv, +350mhz, +10% pl

[wise wigeon]

I’ve seen people “stable” in benchmarks and light games that immediately face problems with heavy hitters

[acoustic palm]

i tried benchmarks, light games and heavy games

[wise wigeon]

Gold chip then

[nocturne flicker]

I tried benches

I don't like them

[acoustic palm]

yeah

super good temps too

[wise wigeon]

Because I’ve seen people brag about -160

[acoustic palm]

well im also on a vgpu mount

[wise wigeon]

In benches and then they try any game and crash

People really don’t understand stable sometimes

[lone mango]

Probably only stable in one game

I was also doing -120 and then crashed after a bit

[velvet summit]

i love benches
as long as they are clean

[lone mango]

Then did 110 and 115

Then did 100, still crashed after a while

[velvet summit]

i can rest while waiting or looking at scenery

[lone mango]

So now I am on 90 and +100 core

[velvet summit]

obviously not as comfortable as my office chair but a chair is better than no chair

[acoustic palm]

hmmmmmmmm

anyone know stuff about chairs

[velvet summit]

i sit on one

[acoustic palm]

i need a cheap, comfy one with a built in leg rest

and adjustable height

[velvet summit]

i....

i dont think you can get all of those together

specifically the cheap part

[acoustic palm]

🙁

im broke

[wise wigeon]

Paranoia hit me again I just went on a light gray screen video to check for burn in lol

[velvet summit]

built one out of plywood frfr

[acoustic palm]

ugh

ill js find a carboard box and make my own legrest prolly