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Can I have free revenue plz 
nah one company that doesnt do this
I need mones for healthcare
valve
CSGO Loot boxes
it's annoying that i can only name one
The Costco guy
oh right, costco
Or the Arizona guy
1 dollar hotdogs
The three horsemen of the apocalypse, Costco guy, Arizona guy, Gabe Newell
costco is literally the oppisite of walmart
when walmart comes into town, its drivesaway competition until its left remaining. Costco actually has a proven track record of bringing local busoness in and improving their profits
costco's membership system ensures a revenue stream
so they have real money to do stuff
id easily pay $100 for a costco membership. they really shoudl increase it.
real, stable revenue stream
a membership isn't bad if it actually provides long term value
sadly all the other subscriptions are simply made to empty wallets
The mixed use apartment complex that Costco is attempting is very interesting too
costco should make a media content channel and compete with netflix and amazon
Licensing would kill it before it even starts xd
its nearly done here.
is that a strategy of living in a mall?
the convenience factor is real
they can easily get contracts with sony.
Literally building affordable apartments above a costco lol
ah
It then becomes just another service that only has one set of content lol
yeah you just walk downstairs and you can buy your groceries lmao
One of the dozen that doesn't help anything
dude, i wish costco foot court was open late.
imagine late night gamign with the bros, and instead of tacoebll raid, its costco hotdogs and pizza
or not even buy groceries sometimes as they have a lot of cheap food
their kirkland brnad alcohol is good
I'd imagine that would eat into their costs lol
costco has pretty limited hours as a grocery store
still a good idea to pretty much live above one
yea definitely
Costco committed Medicare fraud at one of their pharmacies and have misclassified delivery drivers as independent contractors

Anybody here try out mewgenics 
Nobody is clean
Costco needs to have standalone food court locations
hard to blame what happens at one location on the company :p
that would lose the entire purpose of the food court in their stores lol
To be fair they self reported. Still should never have happened to begin with
it drives more foot traffic into the store where the store makes money
just the food court is just throwing money away
isnt 80% of costco revenue from subscriptions?
costco is about cheap quality products, so i can imagine the apartments being affordable
They make so much money through memberships that it doesn't matter
Though they also did break the Controlled Substances act at one point iirc
ok wait, isnt that better
you'll never own the apartments i would imagine, but they would at least charge a somewhat fair rent
cause 80% of profit means it includes revenue
i heard itwas suppose to be an employee only place
lemme grab some actual numbers though
Filling incomplete prescriptions and filling prescriptions for stuff doctors weren't legally allowed to prescribe
actually probably a lot less than 80%
the number is probably 80% of the revenue from membership is pure profit
looks like membership fees would come out 65% of the net profit when considering it as pure profit
that's a lot of profit
but those are some real thin margins
I'm not the one that has the membership cards but are these clubs really worth it
and where does the food court come into play
the question is how much do you buy
in the SGA expenses
lemme read the thing and make sure though
i really cant stand behind the food court drives sales in store.
i rarely see any person walking inside the costco with food court items, if anything, a soda. its mostly an after shopping thing.
so id see it more as a supplimentary value
Because even the clubs can have high prices for things, so it would still be better to shop across multiple places
some things
" im going to costco for some toilet paper. i got get me that salad and diet coke on the way out "
It is always better to min max pricing on everything, just nobody got the time for that
itsl ike the same premsis of those times hwen mcdonalds use to ask if you want to supersize your combos.
I mean it's like ikea, the idea is that you will spend longer there if you decide to end up eating there
you go in looking fopr one price, you get upsold the others
the idea isn't you eat and you shop, the idea is you shop longer because you know you'll eat there after you shop
If you use it often enough, yes absolutely
ive never heard anythign good about ikea food.
tbh how good their food is doesn't matter that much, I'm just talking about store design and how the food court is about 90% of the way through the entire store
What about having two club memberships
theres only 2 people who benefit from a costco membeship. families and gym rats
maybe it's an asian thing but asian malls all have food courts and they're one of the reasons that make people shop there too
A lot of times those memberships will be helpful when buying in bulk
my friend swear by buying his protein in bulk from costco
If you use it often enough and actually make sure what you are buying is actually at a good price and if you actually need to buy in high enough quantities*
buying groceries then sit down to eat
You buying stuff for one person it'll be hard to make efficient use of club membership
I wouldn't be surprised if I make back my Costco membership in pizza alone
If you eat eggs frequently enough, the big containers of eggs at costco tends to be ~30% or so cheaper than comparable options at common grocery stores per egg for example
If you value the $10 pizza at more like $20
i really thing it is. cause in american, i dont see anyone claiming they need to go to a mall food court first. the rare reasons anyone goes before hand, it cinnabon, dairy queen and annes cookieso r wetzel pretzels
its usually " i wanan go get pants/outfit for the event " and then its " wre here, lets get somethign too "
Costco has a lot of items that are priced well when you buy in bulk, as is the purpose of the store, but if you're someone that lives alone and eats like an egg a day or less, the eggs will go bad before you finish it, therefore it's not going to be worth it
eggs last logner than 60 days
i think they last like 6 months before even starting to go bad in a fridge.
as someone who keeps his eggs on the counter? yea, anything after a month is usually bad
but when i make eggs, its 3x at least.
a lot of times, when it comes closer to lunch/dinner times, most people will start planning for that meal in advance, which usually means stop shopping early and then head somewhere else to get food, but that time would be spent shopping if people plan to eat at the food court there
tbh I find eggs don't consistently last 2 months
i feel liek this was true like, 20 years ago before online shopping took a chunk
Maybe they can last for that long before going bad, but eggs still get worse the longer they sit in a fridge
I mean that idea did come from the 20+ year old malls
costco just lived when those malls died
honestly, ive had eggs that last 4 months, and some that dont last a month. costcos good at consistentcy but sometimes you get unlucky
Older eggs in my experience start developing weird stringy bits when cooked
what metric are oyu measurign with if they last, but go bad?
ymmv but you can only really tell when you crack it open
most of my eggs are over medium so i never nmotice
Size has nothing to do with it?
and when i make them an omlette, its filled with so much mushrooms, cheese, meat and spinach, i cant even tell
over medium as in cooked on both sides until the inside isn't runny
Oh, you mean over medium as in cooked
over medium is a cookign style
I do find that older eggs tend to be more runny and the egg whites have a bit of a weirder texture
Eggs dry out when sitting due to how we damage the eggs when cleaning them
from like 3-4 weeks after first purchase
You stick them in a fridge long enough you'll start getting eggs with giant air pockets
with water?
We clean eggs with chemicals in the US
I'm assuming that's about how the eggs are washed on an industrial scale and that washes away some of the protective membrane
doesnt it get removed entirely
I mean it doesn't necessarily have to be harsh chemicals, it can be, but either way it washes away the layer of the protective membrane
essentially. we clean the eggs cause birdp oop and blood.
Pressurized water, soft chemicals, brushes and etc
Basically in order to prevent salmonella, we just clean every egg in such a harsh manner that we damage the shell enough to allow air and bacteria to penetrate the shell
upside of the yolk is a lot of nutrients, the downside of the yolk is that it is a lot of various nutrients that you may already be eating too much of
ever eat a over egg whole and it bust in your mouth? mmmmm
Air makes the air pocket expand and slowly evaporates moisture

doubt because a lot of the eggs we get are from brutal farms that yield eggs with less nutrition
like vitamins
I'm talking about Cholesterol lol
yea but then you jsut eat a bowl of cherrios
PEMDAS
you could eat 5 eggs daily and eat 0, and have more or less the same cholesterol
you can eat 5 eggs worth of egg whites and be fine
the bigger issue is other factors that make your liver produce more cholesterol
whos lying to you
your liver produces the majority of the cholesterol in your body
marinated soft boiled egg is where its at
my body produces a lot of sugar too. that doesnt mean drinking 0 sodas and 5 a day isnt the same.
Sugarp?
what
because it can still be runny on the inside
Your body doesn't produce sugar 
thats not the same thing
i love these but the hard white isnt as appealign as the soft floppy whites
I mean that's why its gotta be the marinated kind
the egg white chunks get too boring otherwise
hmmm i get where yo ucoming from, but i prefer soft eggs.
hmmm but i do love me some deviled eggs
you know the kind of eggs you get with ramen?
with bacon and fresh dill
those but homemade and whole
I see them as a soft egg lol
mirin, soy sauce, tiny bit of brown sugar.
yep, that's all it takes, although I didn't use any brown sugar
but yeah the biggest factor affecting blood cholesterol is actually if you sugarmaxx or not
if you eat more cholesterol then your liver just produces less and if you eat less then it makes more
ive actually had a ramen shop around here who added chili garlic to their marinated egg recipe
I mean, I also use some other seasoning that aren't usually in the recipe, stuff like star anise, but the base is the same lol
was pretty good, but i think it was a waste of use
i completely forgot about ramen stuff
ive used ginger, but not anise
can always add stuff for different flavor
fresh ginger marinated eggs omfg
i have never had real ramen
also the mythical bay leaf that goes in everything
and black sesame paste? mmmm
idk I don't think I'll ever have real ramen if I don't go to Japan
can only assume the ramen I've had here aren't representative of what they actually taste like
flavors inevitably change to fit a palate and fit whatever ingredients are available
@proud jackal lizard
ok this is a serious topic and need an answer asap!
so i used to have this and it was in my kart until the price starting going high
of course i need to find a very low one and stumble across this but are they the same and is this one that cost 249.99 worth it for 2026? please i need an honest answer and if you know the best one that is ddr5 but low then let me know
3980 bucks is wild
no need to say that i already did it and i blame openai for this
actually.....it's something to do about the ddr5, cause i was told that ddr4 is not good (for what i heard from) so yeah and plus i don't know the best one
all ram is made the same to an extent
do you want rgb?
i can find a good kit for a price that isn't totally absurd
i see anyway i found this and not sure if it good and not sure what rgb is but yes and if you know the best kit that is ddr5 hit me now
the platform you are buying into only works with ddr5, so i'm gonna look at ddr5
oh boy where do i begin....... before that is it for games or the parts?
wait here it is and jokes on that this bad boy is am5
yeah, it is AM5
good to know and do you any kit thats ddr5 that is.....ya know......not expenive as this? (again i blame openai)
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With a coupon applied, it goes down to 359
Seems to be as low as a rgb 32gb kit is gonna get rn
hm.....look promising? and is this the best for 2026?
Well, it's the cheapest I could find with rgb and 32gb capacity so far
i see and can't blame you there
6000 mhz is also a good speed for AM5 cpus
gotcha thanks, i'll get this instead and i know i said this like two times but......i still friggin blame openai for this.......
Have you decided on a cpu and a cooler for it yet?
"It" being the cpu. You do need something to keep it cool
ngl whoever told me that ddr5 wasn't really an upgrade from ddr4 is a liar
don't worry i already found it which is this
i get way more fps dips using ddr4
That'll probably work well enough
ye
foxy can i ask for advice
sure
its not about laptops but desktop upgrade
i'll try my best
okay let me just show you this rq
sorry these will be in buildcores because i cant be bothered to transfer all these builds to pcpp rn
so
this is basically the cheaper build i made with the 9070xt and ddr5
but i felt like i could upgrade this and when i did, the price went up substantially but im still trying to figure out if it will be worth it
so i thought maybe i could replace the 9070 in that build with a 5080 and leave it as is
it would more expensive, quite
about 2600$ if i did a 5080
big jump
you can save some cash by not going for a pcie gen 5 ssd
the difference in load times is minimal once you have a pcie gen 3 drive
but i also upgraded the entire build in another build instead of just the gpu
but it comes out to a lot more
nearly 2x the amount of the original idea
like what
lemme browse for an ssd real quick
this would be a huge investment in a pc
i'd expect to never have issues low fps again ideally
freaking sitting at 60 fps with frequent 30 fps drops in minecraft with a 6750xt
been optimizing it for like an hour
or two
not to mention the peripherals cost
which would probably be another 1000$
so maybe 4.5k for the entire setup
either way im probably going to upgrade my setup, im using basically lost and found stuff to hobble a setup together rn
gifted items
looks like the ssd is actually pretty nicely priced
the prices are all high across other choices
are you running games at 1440p
i could save some money on some other brands but i dont want to save like 20 bucks and buy from a random company
im gonna use my 1080p monitor as a side monitor probably
and buy a 1440p monitor
hmm
if money is not a problem, yeah. 5080
im just worried that i will buy a 9070xt and suffer from fps drops on gpu intense games
and mods
i think that's a cpu issue, or it's minecraft being minecraft
it never exactly runs right
on the laptop you recommended me, lets say heavily modded + ultra shaderpack minecraft is like
maybe 60 fps
with a 5070ti card
and it still suffers sometimes
that 5070ti is like behind a 5060ti desktop
but also my 6750xt is overclocked and undervolted
9070xt is a lot more potent than 5070ti laptop
i see
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seus ptgi gets like 120 fps at 1440p
oh thats my exact model
bsl is not exactly a heavy shader to run
and yet im suffering on a more refined custom settings and optimised hardware
my 4050 laptop can handle it fine
well a laptop is power limited on its cpu
last i checked
which handicaps the cpu perf
let me open msi and benchmark it rq
9800x3d should let minecraft use as much cpu power as it'll ever need
this is the best it has performed at all btw
and i've optimized BSL and my minecraft, and retuned my cpu, vram, and gpu
im using process lasso too
i can increase my mhz
my temps are fine
actually im running complimentary
let me run bsl
i didnt show cpu usage but it usually tops out at 54%
thats the highest ive seen it go
are you sure you're running on the dgpu on the laptop?
hm
when it comes to the 5070ti, it does have some issues as well
you should be getting like way more perf
but i havent optimized it at all
more than double
thats what im saying
i just went into the jvm arguements and set my minimum ram usage to 2gb and max to 7gb
are your chunks maxed out?
yes
honestly nothing really impacts my fps
it just sucks
in general
no matter what settings i change
hmm
it will still be like this even with 2 chunks
after doing this it improved but its still not good
idk what's wrong with your minecraft experience honestly
it being consistently trash on all systems
This is the default ULTRA preset for BSL
super bad stuttering, no more than 50 fps
about 75% usage peak for both CPU and GPU
hmm
i have an idea
i dont think it's going to help much but im gonna set my minimum gpu mhz to 2700
oh god i was wrong
that was like an insane performance boost
maybe im cpu bottlenecking then
let me run iteration T
that will really be a test
on ultra on iteration T which is the heaviest shader i know, i get 30-60 fps with a lot of stuttering
BSL ULTRA is 60-90
i think
nvm it looks like im sitting at 60 fps, for some reason it isnt going above that, just rarely it spikes over 60 and returns back to it
and then i have like fps spikes where i lose 30 fps but the stuttering is pretty tame
I increased my power limit to my gpu and it helped a ton too
I'm getting pissed off with Linux. I can't find a way to unlock my cards full power limit. Also the power limit seems to switch between 350W and 402W when I restart my PC.
@tropic relic this belongs in #building-and-recc-chat btw
wwhats wwith that filename
average online downloader service
probably a hash of some kind appended to it, or multiple hashes?
its funny if ai didnt take ram and lets say something else did.
people would be making videos of that
or if nothing was
there was be something else they complain about
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Well the RAM thing is legitimately a serious problem
eh
i get that
but its just funny
if it wasnt ai
they would blame crypto
if it wasnt crypto they would blame game servers
or professionals would blame gamers
but I hate how 95% of videos use some form of ai now
its sad
the thing about crypto though, is that it barely requires any ram
that wasnt the point
AI requires many gigs of ram to load models
like basically every other application asides from like scientific simulations require basically no ram in comparison to what AI needs
salt in a microwave?
minecraft
they should try uranium salts next
even that is barely anything
minecraft you're still limited by single core performance, more than ram
they did, but most things still rely on the main thread
mfw minecraft servers work best on consumer grade hardware because of that
I run a minecraft server off of a 9800x3d
you could get around the single core thing by splitting the world into different sections (not minecraft chunks) for multiple servers to handle at the same time, but that has its own issues with synchronization
it works well with skyblock servers though
alternatively, minigame servers like hypixel has a bunch of different game worlds (and alot of custom code) to support the large playerbase, to effectively spread the load between many servers
yep
i used to to the same thing
did it for gamdias
3 creative servers 1 survival
i do wonder if microsoft would ever make a well performing vanilla minecraft server
probably not lmao
they're as likely to fix minecraft java as they are to get windows off the NT kernel
Eventually, the NT kernel might become unmaintainable
which would at the least need a major rewrite
windows 128: still on the nt kernel frfr
especially if they are putting vibe code into it
they gonna vibe code the nt2 kernel
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Hopefully more transparent elements in Windows 12
i vibecoded my entire life
Minecraft just cannot run well on win
Honestly even less can be used
I was running and playing on older 6 cores and even with my 9600x
ill use my rpi
depends on the amount of users
9800x3d is good at running Minecraft because of the strong single thread
I run a massive modpack on it
if your server is popping then you'll need a better cpu
it is not
I have a large random collection of mods over the year and it’s at like 140
i ran a mc server for a friend group for a few months on a i5 like 6th gen or smth 💀 it handled like 4 people fine (after preloading a bunch of chunks) but with 6 people, it had a fair bit of performance issues lmao
I have typically 3 people on there, sometimes 4 but have the server view distance high
We have planes and fly around fast
I have 12 chunk distance on my server
That’s a lot of chunk generation
Do you use bobby
what's that?
Lets you render further than the server view distance
no but I'll look into it
30 chunks lmao
Not anymore though
I don’t think my laptop can do that
You can also put c2me on the server to make it use more threads when generating
I like running at around 200 fps so I keep view distance to sane levels
Yeah I keep them more minimal
My .11 build has less than 100 mods total
in my case this would almost certainly just instantly crash the server from conflicts with mods lol
Think like 80
I have tectonic and use planes so I wanna see far
Do you use zink? You can get a performance increase
C2me can be tricky sometimes, but there are so many versions that there must be one that works
With a NeoForge server with 500 mods? lol
Also the reason I use my laptop is because I want to keep the server up all the time
No I don't know what that is
Its a gallium mesa driver that translates opengl calls into vulkan
Even with the overhead there is a decent increase
lol
Just install it like any other package?
I think for me it’s like 10%
I should install linux
I think it is already there. I never did anything and yet it just works on prism launched
Minecraft on Linux is very fast. It’s a 30% gain over windows, and using zink can add more if your system can deal with the overhead
oh I see, just need environment var set
Zink in my experience is also more stable than opengl
9800x3d and 96 GB of RAM should deal with the overhead
Yeah it’s cpu overhead and you’ll be fine
im good. I dont really play minecraft anymore
All good
only reason and 1 game is why i havent sswtiched
Just if you do it’s like turning down the resolution, that’s how much you gain
I run at 2560x1440 resolution
Yeah the gains are like as if you are running 1080p on windows and getting the same frame rate
tfw the storage space costs close to what the game does
30% is the hit going from 1080-1440
lol lemme get the numbers
i have a bot for that
If you play destiny 2 over the course of years and don’t fall considerably behind it can cost more
Dude
Wtf
missing some dlc cause steam apis dont list all
What game is that?????
Train sim world 6
Brother who is buying this
NOBODY IS
most people buy what you need
thats the damn point of the amount of dlc
train sim classic you wowuld only buy what you want
you dont need everything

Oh omay
Like train sim world 6 you dont either but i like it
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theres one even worse
When fornite 2? Almost 9 years
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would a 5070 paired with a 7800x3d be a bottle neck
I don’t use it enough
1 don’t worry about bottlenecks at all
2 yeah it’d be fine, but you could get a worse cpu + better gpu in that
You can't sit there and tell me exactly nobody has spent 15k+ on train dlc
There is at least one person
Somewhere
Who was dumb enough to spend 15k
nobody normal
is that better
nobody that actually wants to play the game
Hmmmmm
im currently running a 13900k and 5070 but my motherboards pcie slot got shorted by thermal grizzlies kryosheet so im looking to move to amd just waiting on for my paycheck to get deposited lol
eBay or fbmp
i didnt realize a small piece of thermal grizzlies kyosheet got stuck in the pcie slot and i went to power on my system ran normal but its forced to x8
despite not having any gen 5 ssd in the gen 5 nvme slot 
do u think i should buy a contact frame for am5 cpus?
i have a contact frame on my 13900k just not sure if its needed for am5
it is not necessary
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They undercut nvidia but push their prices as high as possible, while still undercutting them. I was talking about this in tech news but it seems like radeon is fine with having their small market
They have always had a small market for the past decade, and looks like they just want to make high margins off of the people that stay in their niche
Looks good on paper
tired of it tbh
ok thanks @lone mango ya i always used contact frames for my intel cpus and just wasnt sure since i honestly never had a amd system
entire team at radeon has got to be revised
People still get them because of how the shape of the heatspreader is
It encourages paste to go over the edges
But this is just a cosmetic thing that nobody will see, not even the user, until you take off the cooler again
Its wild how much Ryzen and Eypc became a POWERHOUSE in the cpu market that I wished AMD radeon had that same leadership/vision
i mainly got them for intel due to the bending of the cpu over time
Their low taxes they paid are almost as much as the entire division
Just to show how bad it is
Actually thats not really fair
It looks like it
but 500 and 800 million are far from each other
Still though they are close in the grand scheme of things
honestly my next gpu might be intel if they lock in further
so far they're doing well in implementing the latest technologies for their second gen gpus and up
Almost nothing compared to NgreedAi's profits. Damn
It's the 30 billion more on data center that's the big difference. Gaming they're clearly behind but it's not that drastic of a difference.
Yeah
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Lmao. Me two
This is pretty interesting
if you ever decide to get a wheel, don't get a logitech one
they aren't worth the cost, unless you find one for a very steep discount
felix was correct, the gears are very noticable
(they do have a direct drive wheel but it's 1k)
how long have you been using that for
Not too long, its now just sitting next to a wall. I do use it just not often
is it smooth
I aint getting a wheel 
I'd say yea, the force feedback is great when tweaked correctly. One thing i dont like is the pedals
Sounds like a line i dont wanna cross ngl
wheel is fine, pedals are meh
Im not too heavy on sim racing so i guess it makes sense that i dont use it alot
https://www.reddit.com/r/simracing/s/Dlexm4V5UH gamesir is developing this tho
wheel makes racing sims much more accurate, and is basically a must have for those games
for racing arcade games, it's not needed though
^^^
can i also come here for help with making a mic sound better
game just came out lmao
but yeah i use a g920 i think that's the number and the gear drive is very noticable
you can feel every tooth in the gears
what do you think the issue with your current audio is
isnt that one of the popular ones
yes
it's basically the og "budget" ffb wheel, but it's... idk, i don't think i would recommend it, especially at full price
well its more about knowing what kind of software to use and if getting a certain mic is worth it, for example the Shure SM7B
even on sale i dont think it's worth it
i'll tell you for certain, the sm7b is not worth it
i mean, it's a good mic, but most people do not benefit from it
Minecraft 
the mic i have right now is a hyperx quadacast 2 with steelseries sonar settings
but idk if that would be the best software to use
rather than software, you should be treating your room with sound proofing and put carpet and some thick acoustic panels on the walls to reduce reverberations
if you have the budget, add another layer of drywall on top of your existing drywall, which would significantly improve the soundproofing of the room
mmm i see
thank you for that
do you have any reccomendations for sound proofing
i heard of acoustic panels before
it depends on how professional you want your audio to sound
if you're just doing calls and shit, then software would be fine, but if you're doing any professional audio work, you want to use as little noise reduction software as possible, as that affects the sound and quality of your audio
acoustic panels are more of an aesthetics thing, and they mostly don't do anything (especially those foam tiles)
on a budget, even just thick blankets or whatever hanging on the walls, and a carpet on the floor will do more than what acoustic panels would do
dang really
well eventually
i would want a room with professional setup
but for now software
i play trumpet and record
so sometime I will need it
if you want to record the trumpet as professionally as possible with no budget, you should rent an recording booth for like a day or 2 whenever you need to record, as they'll have treated the recording booth properly for the best audio, and would have a selection of mics to use for recording your trumpet
sm7b is not meant as an instrument microphone, so the case of it being not ideal for you has gotten much stronger lol
I’m abt to do smth crazy 
im glad I went here to ask first
For science
in terms of mics you should get for general use at home, you could either go for like a sm57 which is the industry standard, or the current more popular recommendation of the sE v7
clean your deck got damn 💀
Yeah some thick blankets are good
alrighty
what about software
Those thick tiles you hang or drill into the wall are also good
if you have a nvidia gpu, nvidia broadcast/studio is probably the best option
You can make your own with wood and some material inside
Then wrap it with some cloth
honestly not many good options on that end, amd's option isnt as good as nvidia's
Nvidia broadcast? For what?
in amd adrenaline, in "smart technology" , there's the amd noise supression feature there
Got dam?
Maybe
Sore is doping to get a better score, sad
I'm going to get a Sodastream and put milk in it
These features reduce the quality of the audio
Thats gonna end badly man
also another tip to get the least amount of external noise is to use as little gain as possible, and have the sound source (trumpet in this case) closer to the mic so the signal is louder
though i'm not entirely sure what spl the quadcast distorts at, so you want to experiment with that a bit
or maybe coffee
yes i mentioned that to them, i've told them that acoustic treatment is the best method and software is only good for calls and such
though it costs money
And apply fades in case there is some noise in between, before and after
Coffee could work, i def wouldn’t try carbonating anything with protein and fats in it
Yes
my recommendation for them was for any serious audio recordings to just rent a recording booth for a day or 2 for that if they dont have the budget to treat their room properly
ill keep that in mind, thanks.
Stimulants are one of the two primary forms of PEDs
I would rather spend that on some diy solution
local studios are pretty cheap
they get alot more expensive if you got an audio engineer doing your levels for you, but you'll probably be able to do it yourself
Jkjk
Curtain rack and blankets and diy panels
hardest part of treating the room is honestly the ceiling
most annoying part to do but one of the most important
Also just having stuff in there like a sofa, chair, bed or whatever
Sound proof the sofa
my living room asides from the background noise is surprisingly decent acoustically ngl
there's just so much shit around and a carpet that there's basically no reverberations even if i yell
on god
Extra cushioning
technically you could use a sofa as sound deadening
hang a sofa on the ceiling ong
Instructions unclear my face is now superglued to the sofa
Help
Help
I am suffocating
Cursed idea: paper sporks
The guy that just took X-rays of my shoulder watches that pea
Lmao wth 
Why?
That's nuts
Ikr
Gif spam frfrfr
becasue hes nuts
Do u mean nuts as in nuts in the head or that he’s a peanut kind of nuts 
rip

i forgot to extend the audio delete date on the rhel vms
auto*
my brain autocorrected 💀
My brain autoincorrects
Who here’s a burger connoisseur 
Every day, the great nut teaches us something new...
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Can you all fact check this
i've been to none of them
Quality of ingredients has nothing to do with a good burger
It is a burger
You can make it with the trashiest ground beef
You season it properly, dress it properly and cook it properly and it'll still be good
https://youtube.com/shorts/d1ejai5SWA0?si=3W51_0F9hMsoGIqV this nut is too damn funny lol 
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If i buy discord I have change i wanna make
- Client mods will be fully supported, option to report them is still up, but it just renames the reporter to "snitch"
Why am I seeing peanuts everywhere
I’ve heard it’s the skibidi toilet equivalent of older people
- NSFW content will be removed and the poster warned by discord itself(using a really good image reco bot). This will be to remove a need for age verification

But like
How much server beefiness you’d need
To run a bot
That scans millions of images a day
Discord already does that
oh
It just doesn't delete anything
Discord AI
Oh also under my leadership, discord will actually do things about bad servers
Uses your posts for AI
Nah just an image recognition matrix, nothing more
No tracking
Submitting suggestion to Discord
Dear John Discord, I recommend you begin using user messages to train AI. That'll be $10000000 dollars please.
John discord invented discord when he wanted a repeat of Skype's downfall
Jack Skype just couldn't cope
Lmao
Oh speaking of client mods
Everyone should use them
They're great
I personally use vencord and kettu
BetterDiscord is good too
Vencord is a bit more stable tho
Begin? Tbh they've probably already started lol
AFAIK they're not the only ones suing
heh?
more are in on this i see
The amount of disruption tariffs have cause with how they were implemented is unreal
including disruption to the importing of fumos
Hell, I've seen pics showing trades between US states getting tariffed sometimes
The current gen cards also barely got to settle to their msrp prices thanks to them and now thx to datacenter demand that was shortlived
like right now buying stuff online in the US is riskier than it should be
What the heck is a fumo
plushies, originally of Touhou characters
They're mostly known for the way their eyes look
There are whole communities around these.
Don't worry, people within the administration have already bought up a ton of refund rights from companies, so even in refunding tariffs with interest the admin gets to enrich themselves😊
Wait that wasn't the one I wanted to reply to
Oh well
lol
guys is it better to have 25 or 27 inch side vertical monitor also flat or curved ?
don't get curved unless it is also ultrawide
ultrawide vertical would be wild
and yeah dont do vertical ultrawise
who will get ultrawide vertical bro
if you want to do vertical you will want something with an adjustable stand like Acer Predators usually have
just gt a monitor arm
that works too
guys i asked this
as long as the monitor has the standard mount thing
25 or 27 and flat or curved
flat, idk size prob isnt that important
Nonchalant type of expression ngl
Finally, Nintendo is doing something that I would support
💯
The unexpected hero
The Onion is gonna go under with how crazy the world has gotten
show us
almost don't need parody when the whole world is doing it for you
The onion after seeing reality taking their jobs:
What if they end up becoming a legitimate source of journalism in the coming years 
that would be kinda funny ngl
The Onion could not come up with a headline like "Nintendo sues the United States"
I would not have expected this in a billion years
does 1080 or 2k monitor in vertical make a diff
lol
Portrait instead of landscape? It's still going to be higher resolution.
irony levels off the charts
Onion employees where they have to do actual journalism now
the oniony
could make gallons outta that
and actually excel at it
nah, this is truly an anomaly
South Park writers watching the world turn into South Park
Somebody messed with the timelines
Timelines reminds me
U guys remember stephen hawkin’s time traveler party 💀
so is it gonna be north park now?
Why not?
It doesn't sound profitable
so 1080 ?
Multiple lawsuits have already been filed for this type of stuff, they'll be doing a lot less work than if it was a unique lawsuit
It depends on the clarity you want, the monitor size like 24" vs 27", and how far away.
The tariffs have already been ruled illegal, the government is supposed to already be refunding the tariffs, this at best just forces them to do it slightly faster
I wish the corsair bar monitor thing was cheaper ngl
Until they come up with some other excuse to slow the refund process even more as they scramble to reinstate the tariffs that is
What are the chances of deepcool ever reviving in the US?
atleast we got thermalright
whys this on my fyp
if you send this one more time so help me i will call you a SPAMMER
Utz
I don't care for Utz
Tbh
They do the whole ultra thin chip thing and it is one of the worst ways of making chips
Wait or is that Wise?
I think it is Wise
Yeah, it is Wise I'm thinking of
Wise isn't very good for a lot of stuff.
I like their Fritos knockoff
Really greasy, overly salted trash
I think there was a miss vickies shortage once during covid 
Couldn’t find any in any store
Only found the small bags at subway
We don't even sell those. The first time I ever had them was during college in PA
The company was doing free samples in the food court so I yoinked a bunch
Ultra-rare Nintendo w
fr
Only w this decade in fact
I was not wrong when I said in 2020 that I felt like this decade was going to be cursed
I managed to completely evade Covid though at least
I didn't get covid during the lockdown
I got covid in like late 2023
Or maybe even 2024
I don't even remember anymore
It was at least a few months after the lockdown
Actually yeah I'm pretty sure it was 2024
Yeah
I can confirm that I haven't coughed in a long while
Also damn graveyard of a bunch of old active members
I’ve never gotten COVID or the Covid vaccine
I've gotten like 5 vaccine shots
Lucky
I got it 3 times
3 💀
Me tired
tfw your minecraft modpack equipment starts killing things so hard they die to death
Got my 26 Ultra early
I got my early
i got my
I got
got
Go
g
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My new controller is being delivered by usps… after two transits across the world 
Around the world around the world

I hope the joystick and trigger calibration isnt messed up

I should have ordered from amazon 
the controller has travelled more than you frfr
Technically it has traveled just as abt much as i have in terms of distance 
guys theres spots for display ports on this p104-100, could I solder one on and flash a 1080 vbios? would that work
