🖥️-computers

[shadow tangle]

Where it's 220W

[tough estuary]

320

Also uses 15.8 GB vram

[shadow tangle]

Oh i just read it from here xD

[tough estuary]

That's vanilla mc

[vital galleon]

My 6600K never went above 4400MHz
I didn't want to raise voltages

My 7700K is currently achieving 4600 on 1.3

[misty briar]

Tonight's experience is a bit bomboclaat if you concede

Music time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwl1PmWg6l4

[tough estuary]

high vram

[vital galleon]

reject modernity

[nocturne basalt]

Cheese screen

[severe sable]

My compooper

[hollow tree]

The fake bell and carriage return sounds are funny and would get annoying instantly

[severe sable]

yeah won't lie i only used this channel for the 100mb limit

it's a demonstration of a typewriter sounds app

[tough estuary]

Ball knowledge

[primal turtle]

naw

[tough estuary]

oh yeah

[full quail]

I was given this laptop for free because it stopped working. It works now.

I am aware I need to clean it better

[tough estuary]

surprised it runs kde well

[full quail]

I mean, it is a gaming laptop

[tough estuary]

i guess

still trying to get laptop working

[full quail]

I own 70 laptops

That is not a joke

[tough estuary]

arch works but qubes is having issues

i think i need to use rufus to burn the iso

[full quail]

Every single wifi router in my house just decided to force reset itself to update while it was being used

[tough estuary]

qubes is so picky on if it works or not

[full quail]

i've never tried it

[tough estuary]

its really cool

its built for security

[full quail]

i do have a rare laptop that was supposed to be here 3 days ago but USPS decided to just keep it at one of their facilities for 3 days and it's now late

[tough estuary]

it also uses a lot of ram

[full quail]

even worse the facility is in driving distance

[tough estuary]

at idle dom0 was using 4.5GB ram

[full quail]

that's a lot

[tough estuary]

its all the vms

ive run out of ram on my 16GB laptop

[full quail]

my main has 32GB

[tough estuary]

and you need a decent cpu too

since everything is a vm

[full quail]

my main has an 11th gen i7

max spec for that laptop

[tough estuary]

as long as it can assign cores to all the vms it will rip

[full quail]

i'll see if i can get a super nice computer for it

[tough estuary]

all that matters is you have ram for it

you can run it on an old laptop

[full quail]

that ain't something anyone can get (says the person who has 2 sticks of DDR5 sitting around)

[tough estuary]

damn i need those for my homelab

[full quail]

i collect computers

i get them for free a lot as they were going to be e-wasted anyways

[tough estuary]

im gonna toss proxmox on it once its built

[full quail]

very nice

i do not have any servers new enough for that

best thing i have is a poweredge T110 with a xeon

and i don't even have the correct RAM for it

i do have some vintage servers too

i have a 3rd gen DL380

i do IT work as a hobby because i'm weird

[tough estuary]

time to reinstall qubes

hope rufus is the key

[full quail]

yeah good luck

rufus is a goated tool

[tough estuary]

lmao its not even booting

[full quail]

dang

did you try etcher?

[tough estuary]

so far ive tried iso image writer from flathub and rufus

[full quail]

maybe that will work

worst case we can try dd

[tough estuary]

also qubes is Xfce only

[vital galleon]

DD will only work on hybrid ISOs just so you know

[full quail]

i see

[vital galleon]

hybrid ISOs being ISOs with an MBR

[full quail]

i ment dd as in the linux tool

[vital galleon]

many modern distros like Linux Mint have hybrid ISOs but I'm not sure qubes have it

[vital galleon]

I know

I've used it many times

[full quail]

same

[vital galleon]

I often flash the ISO on the swap partition when I need to do smth
because GRUB is able to chainload ISOs even when on hard drives

and it means I don't have to repartition to do so

[full quail]

its almost 4 in the morning down here

i should sleep lol

[nocturne basalt]

i do unpaid support

[primal turtle]

i use ventoy iso bootloader 🙂

[strong swift]

Oh how special you are

[nocturne basalt]

Oh look, this guy also does unpaid support

[strong swift]

Oh how special you are

[nocturne basalt]

[vital galleon]

amateur

I use SysLinux

[hollow tree]

https://www.404media.co/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world/

[primal turtle]

deepfake shouldnt exist tbh

[misty briar]

:oh:

[tough estuary]

It's installing but only dom0 is present kol

None of the templates are there

[hollow tree]

what

[tough estuary]

dom0 is the virtual environment

[hollow tree]

Well you said

it is installing

With no context

[tough estuary]

It's not even adding network manager

[tough estuary]

QubesOS last night I was trying to install it

[hollow tree]

[tough estuary]

It's super picky with hard ware

[misty briar]

It begs the question, why do you even bother?

[tough estuary]

It's cool distro and it's secure

Lol

[thorn finch]

whats the uname -a on this?

[misty briar]

If being secure means not being usable I'd rather have a bit less security

[misty briar]

It probably won't run

[thorn finch]

secure as a potato, I like

[tough estuary]

dom0 might not have it but the other templates might

[thorn finch]

thats based on fedora? mh

[tough estuary]

Think its Debian

[thorn finch]

because of the 'fc41' I thought maybe.. aaand you're the dnfking

[tough estuary]

Don't remember

[thorn finch]

very fedora

[tough estuary]

Only time I've used fedora was a disposable qube lol

[thorn finch]

why use its package manager for your nick then :P

I remember reading about this qubesos last year or so and I found it interesting, never tried tho

[tough estuary]

It abbreviated main user to muser lol

[tough estuary]

Dnf means did not finish

In the racing world

[thorn finch]

oh

[tough estuary]

I'm just gonna follow their guide lol

Considering it's missing stuff the iso probably didn't burn right

[thorn finch]

whats iplinkbtw?..

[tough estuary]

Connect to wired network

[thorn finch]

I mean, why you post that picture

mh

[tough estuary]

It's funny that iplink isn't there

[thorn finch]

ip link is tho

[tough estuary]

Guess I need a space

[thorn finch]

I dont really know what I'm talking about tho, all my network stuff always just works ootb

and when it doesnt I used nmcli

its just..:

[vital galleon]

what does DNF even mean on fedora
does it mean Do Not Fiddle with ?

[tough estuary]

There's not templates anyways

[thorn finch]

I have no idea but I saw people call it 'did not finish' because its apparently not the fastest package manager ..

[tough estuary]

pacman is the best behind yay

[vital galleon]

I don't really care about speed rly
as long as it works I'm happy

and APT... well is very apt for this job

[tough estuary]

Only downside is you have to build yay

[thorn finch]

I dont care either, used apt, dnf, pacman and paru and I dont see much difference speedwise pay attention to the speed

[misty briar]

I don't care, it just needs to work

[tough estuary]

I now know why it's not working

I'm not getting to the setup screen

Bc nvidia

[shadow tangle]

So real

[tough estuary]

pacman update

[silk latch]

Das ist gut 👍🏽

[fossil spoke]

Bricks it

Who needs a package manager anyway

[primal turtle]

bro what
passive cooling mode

theres literally no wind from exhausts

[slate jasper]

Maybe turn off that nvidia whisper mode, whatever that is

Sounds like it'll run fans slower to stay quiet, while also limiting performance

[primal turtle]

it is performance limiting mode

[slate jasper]

But why

[primal turtle]

i just use either balanced or performance

[slate jasper]

Max performance

And crank thermal limit to max :)

[primal turtle]

yes turbo mode

and max fan

(7.2k rpm)

[slate jasper]

My laptop only has one 4.2k fan, though its a large fat one with a vapor chamber

[primal turtle]

the fans barely reach 3.5k when normal gaming

the unity just gave up first

[dawn hearth]

where do i get help

[primal turtle]

my old laptop have 2 fans 2 exhaust when only do 5.5k rpm

[slate jasper]

#📝-community-support or #❔-support

[primal turtle]

with really skinny heatpipes

because asus

[slate jasper]

Yeah asus does that lol

How hot does it get?

[primal turtle]

always thermal throttled

[slate jasper]

Ah

[primal turtle]

but for current one

only 62 deg max

[slate jasper]

This one only gets to like 68 on GPU and 83 on CPU

Kinda similar to my desktop

[primal turtle]

thats good

ish

[slate jasper]

CPU gets a bit hot sometimes

[primal turtle]

yep

[slate jasper]

But only starts throttling at 220w

It is overclocked though

[primal turtle]

waw

[slate jasper]

4.7 - 5.0
Had 5.1 for some time but it was kinda unstable

[primal turtle]

my 10700 on the desktop also keeps around 80 degrees
3.7ghz full load

[slate jasper]

But my laptop 13450HX is as fast as the 10700KF though lol

[primal turtle]

the 120mm aio just cant keep up

[slate jasper]

120?

[primal turtle]

yea

[slate jasper]

Damn

Yeah I have a 240

[primal turtle]

not a lot of space in my case

[slate jasper]

80C isn't bad tbh

Wait but 3.7?

Shouldn't it turbo to 4.7?

[primal turtle]

yep

on moderate load

it can turbo to 4.7

[slate jasper]

I just have mine locked to 5 at all times

[primal turtle]

linus is clearly bored

[nocturne basalt]

This loops nicely

Also, damn, he didn't look good before

I honestly forgot

[misty briar]

Music time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryv5vkPqHUk

@hollow tree idk if you used it as well so here you go

[hollow tree]

What

oh

I don't use browser extensions

[misty briar]

Boooooo

Not even an adblocker??????

[vital galleon]

I love when QEMM just messes up my system

loading DOS becomes impossible when QEMM is loaded

like, the drive activity LED lights up for two business days (which is unheard of for an SSD) before failing the reads
however it works completely fine everywhere else
just NOT with QEMM

but when (if ?) I'll get it working I'll finally have SoundBlaster emulation on my PC

holy shiiii what is that crappy Ethernet

takes five days to send one message

but ig QEMM is not working for the same reason EMM386 was breaking
UMA might be completely unuseable

at least QEMM detects 256MB while HIMEM only found 64MB

[hollow tree]

You already know all I need is the pihole?

[misty briar]

Oh right you actually use that

[misty briar]

Will the bubble pop?

I'm starting to doubt it

[hollow tree]

Well, it will, but now apparently as a side effect of the entire economy cratering

[misty briar]

Born just in time to witness the collapse of society

[hollow tree]

Should hurry up though I am impatient

[shadow tangle]

Prime time for the worst

[tough estuary]

I hate qubes why isn't it working

Worked last year

[north hedge]

Chat

Is this good

Or nah

It seems a lil too good to be true for me but idk

Dam this chat dead asl

[misty briar]

New 5080: €1320
New 64 GB of ram: €630
New 2TB SSD: €300
It's a decent price I guess

You basically get the rest of the system for free

[north hedge]

dam

i might go check it out in person if i get the chance

[minor shard]

old mobo died so i got a new one and a better cpu the ryzen 7 5800x, was wondering if anyones got it and knows how good it is ie under heavy load with mods, high pop servers etc etc

[kind laurel]

i "only" have an r7 5700x - It runs MP fine, up to 6-8 people

depending on map

after that it gets a bit laggy but its alright

[next pecan]

i have a 5800x3d, close to that cpus performance, a bit more powerful, i can get around 80fps on high population server (i am getting bottlenescked by the gpu tho)

[minor shard]

what gpu?

[next pecan]

i have a 4060

[minor shard]

same

considering selling it for a 4070 seems alot better but im not usre

[fluid eagle]

I'ma say to good to Be true

[primal turtle]

super

[solemn iris]

Is BeamNG optimised for a certain CPU or just get the most expensive thing you can afford?

[misty briar]

Get a lot of fast cores

[coarse adder]

and a huge cache

[solemn iris]

Hey Simple Planes 2 is now released YAY!
store.steampowered.com/app/2840470/SimplePlanes_2/

ui looks like roblox lol

I'm not really a fan of the rounded corners and disconnected asserts with modern ui, it makes it feel like the ui is infringing on space rather than asserting that it's entitled to the space.

[dusty crane]

5800x3d

[coarse adder]

R9 7900x3d = 128mb L3

actually any of the x3d chips have big caches, but the 7900x3d has the biggest l3 i've seen on any chip

[dusty crane]

Other than epyc or thread ripper

There’s CPUs with a gig of cache

[hollow tree]

Oh lord

https://youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI

[misty briar]

Benn Jordan making one banger aftet the other

[solemn iris]

lol that thing is more expensive than my entire build 💀

How about this. What amd cpu would you guys recommend for £70?

[dusty crane]

Wasn’t when I got it lol

Unless your build is a old office pc or like core 2 era

[solemn iris]

damn I missed the boat

[dusty crane]

Ryzen 3700x?

[solemn iris]

that looks reasonable

I hope the age of cpu's doesn't affect beamng too much

[dusty crane]

Should be good for beam

And the nice thing is there is a upgrade path

You run into some money you could get a 5700x3d or 5800x3d

[solemn iris]

I mostly want a better cpu that can handle more vehicles

[dusty crane]

Yea

8 cores and 16 thread should be plenty for most traffic scenarios

[solemn iris]

I'm on 6 cores and it struggles, I use a lot of traffic I think 10 and 5 parked.

beamng spawning mechanism isn't great either

[solemn iris]

another plane game got released
store.steampowered.com/app/2393730/Legendary_Pilots/

[coarse adder]

you mean i gotta move the driving rig out of the way and set up my HOTAS?

[dull sigil]

I'm so fscking pissed off rn

I fried my gawddamn ram

[wraith steppe]

And this is why i hate RGB

I only like RGB strips. RGB fans, RGB RAM etc is F no

[coarse adder]

any rgb i can't turn off completely is set to the darkest red i can make it.

[frank vault]

Probably will still be worth more than new a few years ago as parts/repair on ebay lmao

[shadow tangle]

that looks like a Ram slot filler thing

[dull sigil]

I just drilled a bigger hold and it's now a Keychain

I'm flexing on dudes now

[frank vault]

lmao

[frank vault]

ultimate flex

[dull sigil]

My new kit was 320$

[frank vault]

holyyy

[dull sigil]

If only 100 more...

[fluid eagle]

i think or nearly evry ram has lifetime warranty atleast mine Patriot Viper Has An

[fluid eagle]

probably IN 5-10 years when investors they realise that if Ai Does Everything and that pepole gonna get dumber only then they gonna stop if they aint greedy

ram situation rn is pure shit

[vital galleon]

it's good for them if ppl get dumber

they will believe everything the big corps say

[misty briar]

A bit late in the answer

But it's OK

[fluid eagle]

yes if ppl are dumb then they can manipulate them easy

[vital galleon]

also now companies don't look for competence but creativity

competence is already fullfilled by AI but AI can't mimic human creativity

[fluid eagle]

yes Ai isint ai because it barely can create smthng new

[vital galleon]

yes it can
that's called hallucination
but here I'm talking making something from scratch with no inspiration
AI can't do because it must have reference images/text to generate new images/text

[fluid eagle]

yes i mean so

[vital galleon]

so AI can't come up with a new artstyle for instance

being an artist is likely going to be one ofthe last professions that will not be taken by AI

anything which involves crafting by hand too

prestige cars that are handmade will continue to exist

[dull sigil]

Well I have corsair vengeance lol

[crimson yew]

Thanks uhaul

[vital galleon]

that's a thing to post in r/softwaregore

[hollow tree]

this is SO U-Haul

Their website is as broken as their fucken trailers

[coarse adder]

i used to work at a place that rented u-haul trucks. you don't EVEN wanna know.

[hollow tree]

New toy arrived

Weighs nothing

The eink looks super awesome

Magnetic

Fits on the back of my pixel 10 pro

[hollow tree]

You know I had to get a flip cover and use a good sticker

[nocturne basalt]

How long until we get those displays for other electronics

Like, ik the refresh rate is not great
But for people who only text and call (take my grandma for example) this would be fine

[grim horizon]

its not shiny and attention grabbing so its bad (????)

[nocturne basalt]

Yeah, can't have a red notification dot to grab your attention if your screen cant display red

[shadow tangle]

https://youtu.be/aVUxxn53mBE?si=bDKsK0mTDI8msGqs

Like this?

[nocturne basalt]

That's funny, because i watched this
I forgot apparently

I forgor

[proven lava]

he forgor💀

[shadow tangle]

Or thus

Okay YouTube

https://youtu.be/4wf3ebnqzn0?si=-kDsCWvUun0gU2Y-

This i mean

I would just edit it but am too lazy

[nocturne basalt]

That one i haven't seen

[shadow tangle]

There are quite a handful of E-Ink smartphone

[nocturne basalt]

I wasnt aware. That's pretty neat

Im gonna look at that one later
I wonder how using it daily would be

[shadow tangle]

https://www.eink.com/showcase?cate=phone

[hollow tree]

@shadow tangle I'm already setting up to flash a custom firmware

I need to figure out how to make a good monochrome wallpaper

[crimson yew]

I know right, their website and app both suck ass

Incase anyone was wondering, that’s the email you get when you try to rent a trailer from a uhaul location that doesn’t exist anymore, but their website thinks it does

[hollow tree]

no way lmfao

[crimson yew]

Ask me how I know 😭

[hollow tree]

How do you know?

[crimson yew]

I don’t know

[hollow tree]

[crimson yew]

LOL, I tried to rent a uhaul and it told me to goto a location to pick it up, I get there and they are like “we don’t do uhauls anymore” with like 3 uhaul trailers outside

So I called uhaul and apparently that place stopped doing uhauls but never got the store unlisted, and they were in the process of moving them to another store

So eventually the uhaul regional dude came out and brought me a trailer xD

[hollow tree]

Like showing up here and asking to rent a pig

[crimson yew]

Lmao wtf

U haul got me fixed tho

[hollow tree]

Jesus

[crimson yew]

Jesus why

[hollow tree]

U-Haul is such a vibe

[crimson yew]

lol

[hollow tree]

I had a U-Haul 24 ft truck pulling a U-Haul trailer with a Subaru Impreza on it and BOTH tires delaminated at the same time at 60

[crimson yew]

Jesus wtf

That’s rough

[hollow tree]

It was ridiculous

[crimson yew]

Did you pay for the $8 insurance

[hollow tree]

I was on the side of the road for like 4 hours lmao

[hollow tree]

I did lmao

[crimson yew]

Lmao

I have no clue where to return this trailer though

[hollow tree]

Any U-Haul location

If they complain

Well

I'd point out the sign

[crimson yew]

Well no, it needs to be whatever is stated on my rental contract or they will charge me a shit ton in fees because it’s no longer “in town”

Good thing I never got a rental contract in my email

[hollow tree]

Send some broken DB strings in an email and they'll sort it out

[crimson yew]

Uhauls website still thinks I’m picking up a trailer at 5pm today so

[crimson yew]

Lmao right

I’ll call them tomorrow if I never get my rental contract

So stupid though

Maybe they will forget to charge the card on file

[hollow tree]

You don't sign, you don't owe a dime

I don't know what else to say

Free trailer

[crimson yew]

Lmao

[hollow tree]

Post it on Craigslist

Or ransom it back to U-Haul

If you ever want to see your crappy trailer again....

[crimson yew]

They said they had my drivers license photos on file, which they are supposed to destroy after 60 days so I kinda wonder about that too

I can’t wait for the uhaul data breach

[hollow tree]

Anyone is free to know what I schlepped and when

[hollow tree]

FOIA request on your FBI U-Haul file

[crimson yew]

Lmao

[hollow tree]

Damn this goes too hard

Gotta get BeamMP on this thing

[grim horizon]

even less fps on west coast

[misty briar]

When is too small, too small?

[vital galleon]

ig you can remote play

[solemn iris]

For everyone's sake just remote into a competent PC

[fossil spoke]

What this text is so uncomfortable to read

How to even write text like this

Hard to read

[primal turtle]

can you beam on intel compute stick

[tame cypress]

The heck is that?

[misty briar]

Why not

[tame cypress]

I meant What's a Intel compute stick

[vital galleon]

you know USB drives

well that's basically a computer in the same form factor

[misty briar]

Exactly what the name says
It's a mini pc (chromecast size) with an Intel cpu inside that connects via hdmi

[tame cypress]

Interesting

[graceful frost]

rate the setup

[misty briar]

Can't see shit / 10

[strong swift]

No fancy RGB
No overpriced setup
Looks relatable

/ 10

I like it

[graceful frost]

open your eyes then

[misty briar]

[graceful frost]

thanks!

[vocal yoke]

That shit do not look right

You need my truck

[misty briar]

Blingmaster 1500

[vocal yoke]

Lol

I had freshly washed it

[crimson yew]

Why

[misty briar]

Slightly crusty mercury

[fluid eagle]

they have 5-10 year warranty for ddr5 and ddr 4 ram

[vital galleon]

I have lifetime warranty on my Patriot DDR3

[fluid eagle]

same i have too patriot ram ddr5 with lifetime warranty

[vital galleon]

I'm impatiently waiting for in two years or so cuz LGA1851 will become much more affordable and DDR5 too

so it'll be the perfect time to make my new build

[fluid eagle]

yeah but still i would go team red for cpu they offer cpu,s for same price with better equal perfomance Not Every Cpu but mostly

but if you like you can stay its mine opinion

[vital galleon]

currently LGA1700 is the best

because you can pair a 14700KF with DDR4

so you get a performance that is better than AM4 equivalent while not necessarily having to buy new RAM and still being able to upgrade to DDR5 without changing CPU

[hollow tree]

A custom OS goes hard

[hollow tree]

Dammmmmmn hit pieces from both Louis Rossman and Steve Gamers Nexus (and maybe more) on Bambu Lab today lmao

[shadow tangle]

What OS does it run on?

[hollow tree]

Now on what's called Crosspoint

[hollow tree]

https://www.readme.club/

(:

[shadow tangle]

Interesting

[dull sigil]

Mine never came with one unless I bought one from bestbuy

[dull sigil]

I'm full team red, amd for the win

Only thing I wouldn't mind is a team green gpu

[grizzled cave]

find the elephant in the room

[tough estuary]

what has a 1kW ppt limit lol

[grizzled cave]

Im running a ryzen 9 5900xt, it can't actually hit that, but I have power unrestricted so it says that

[tough estuary]

makes sense that level of current is in busbar/multiple parallel runs range

[grizzled cave]

Just ignore the soc number on the righg

[tough estuary]

how am i throttling when im no where near pwoer cap

[vocal yoke]

Holy shit did It drive ok?

[shadow tangle]

Imbalance of CCD temperature
And you have a sun as soc

[vital galleon]

I may have redone my setup

changed the desk

now my legs barely fit under but it's much more tidied up

[misty briar]

Computers

[crimson yew]

No issues, I’ve towed cars a hour on a flatbed trailer, and with a dolly I’ve towed 300 miles at a time

[crimson yew]

Velocità

[vital galleon]

His PC is secretly a Scintilla

[full quail]

i think my old tower had that CPU

[misty briar]

It's a laptop cpu

Who would put that in a tower

[vital galleon]

meanwhile the Framework Desktop has a laptop CPU

[misty briar]

It's not the cpu we were discussing about

[vital galleon]

I mean if the argument is "who would put a laptop CPU in a tower"...

[misty briar]

It clearly was not that

[vital galleon]

then what were you referring to when you said "that" in "Who would put that in a tower"

[misty briar]

Crazy how you can't read the context

[vital galleon]

I can but you said right before it's a laptop CPU therefore inferring that laptop CPUs can't exist in desktops

[misty briar]

You can't and you've proved it again

[vital galleon]

just because modern laptop CPUs all use BGA doesn't mean you could design or simply reuse a laptop mainboard on a SFF desktop

sure I get what you said, but generalizing to every laptop CPU is just wrong

[misty briar]

You're not getting what I said at all (as usual) and you've gone on a tangent (as usual)

[shadow tangle]

Imagine Pentium 2117u in tower form

mmmmm

[misty briar]

It wouldn't thermal throttle 🚬

[shadow tangle]

fr

[vital galleon]

yes I do, sure the CPU you were talking about never existed in a desktop unless you took a laptop's mobo and put it in a case

and I didn't go on a tangent that much, you were talking about laptop CPUs and I was as well

[rare otter]

☝️ 🤓

[misty briar]

Exactly

[misty briar]

Holy shit @hollow tree
3000+ planned slop farms

Look I genuinely think it's time for a reboot of the Nuremberg trials for the CEOs and politicians of the US 🚬

[misty briar]

Oh my god it's already reality

[vital galleon]

most wont even be able to open cuz there's not enough power plants

[coarse adder]

if only the scientifically illiterate weren't so afraid of the word "nuclear"

[vital galleon]

well then France is very literate

we run on 75% nuclear

cheapest electricity in the whole EU

[misty briar]

It's not that, those datacentres should not be built

[coarse adder]

i mean yeah that too

but i just like harping on outdated energy production shills

we need more solar and wind more than anything, cover every parking lot with panels

and a windmill on every industrial building roof

it's just a shame i'm in stupidland.

[hollow tree]

Meta is demonstrating they will simply defy court orders and lack of power plants with NATURAL GAS TURBINES

[vital galleon]

ewww fossile fuel

[hollow tree]

And

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/11/xai-46-gas-turbines-no-air-permits/

[vocal yoke]

Dense

[grizzled cave]

imbalance is caused because everything perfers cdd 0.'

[shadow tangle]

interesting

i thought it won't be that drastic

especially it's under the same IHS

[grizzled cave]

it spiked hard, and the cooler couldnt spool quick enough, spike only lasted like a minisecond

[hollow tree]

How long is a minisecond

[grizzled cave]

https://tenor.com/view/israel-spirirtually-israeli-star-brilliance-nothing-but-netanyahu-netanyahu-gif-5313104981450327480

mili bro

[daring bison]

What does the Prime Minister of my country have to do with this? lol

[grizzled cave]

🇮🇱

[shadow tangle]

minisecond

[upbeat relic]

hehe beammp is one of the few things that has my CPU sit at 77C and can push it to 85C at times XD

actually i lowered some CPU demanding settings and now it just sits at 70-75C The ryzen 9 7950x do be heating my room up for me XD

[tough estuary]

nice and cool

[tough estuary]

what air cooler?

[misty briar]

Between a micro and millisecond

[tough estuary]

i have the sk700 mach and it only hits 80 when i compile stuff

real yay update hours

[upbeat relic]

Kraken Elite 240 AIO I mean my CPU isnt throttling or anything its just hot with beamMP - could also be the like 40tabs i got open as well 🙃

meanwhile my gpu will sit at 46C in beammp servers XD

tbh when i move in July im gonna completly clean my PC including the rad - and repaste it again - i mean i did like 4 month ago might if im proeprly cleaning it all i might as well

[vocal yoke]

Nice

I dont have the elite

I wish I had gotten it tho

But can't beat the price of 50 usd

[tough estuary]

thats still high even for an air cooler

might need new paste lol

[shadow tangle]

could be a very slow or quiet fan profile

as long as it's not throttling and the fan isn't maxed out or set that way it's fine

[upbeat relic]

nop - pump is 100% all the time and fans are 100% once liquid temp reaches 30C

[vital galleon]

maybe you could try lowering pump speed a bit, a slower liquid will exchange more heat

or at least have more time to do so

[night belfry]

the heat exchange with the liquid layer is constant, you're right about the individual bits of water absorbing more heat, but that's an issue since you're making a temperature gradient (say, 30c inlet 40c outlet)

[night belfry]

that seems overkill but you do you :P

[vital galleon]

in what way is making a gradient worse

any heat exchanger causes gradients to form

[night belfry]

you're making a bigger one, aka in one scenario the difference is 3c across the actual cpu block vs say 10c

if you assumed a perfect gradient then that alone increases the avg temp in the cpu block cooling worse

the goal of liquid cooling is to move heat to a radiator, not have each bit of the water absorb more energy

[vital galleon]

I mean yes but you also cool your water better because it has more time to cool in the radiator

[night belfry]

eh, the amount of energy you move is the same (best-case) or lower if you run the pump slow

[vital galleon]

that best case is something you definitely want to aim for in all cases bc you'd wear the pump less

[tough estuary]

just put a compressor and ammonia and a evaporator and you will never overheat

[vital galleon]

which is another good point for running the pump slower

[tough estuary]

also nerd shit

[night belfry]

that is a legit reason, so just put it on a curve (if it's a pump that can handle running below 100%)

[tough estuary]

i feel like VFD pumps are standard

[vital galleon]

nah
make your house's water system become the radiator
intake water from the bottom of the water heater and exhaust it at the top
you'll heat your water for free

[tough estuary]

ammonia runs at -10C

[night belfry]

i've had a cheap AIO that made fun noises if you ran it around 70-80% dc-regulated :P

but idk i've had an nh-d15 for so long I haven't even thought about AIOs

[tough estuary]

or get a 600HP 1800 rpm pump

[vital galleon]

well if you run hot all the time you then run the pump at full speed all the time so putting on a curve would only have a point for idling

[vital galleon]

heating your house's water means you spend less on hot showers

[night belfry]

well yeah, don't pretend your cpu isn't idling a lot :P

even then a gaming load is less intense than a lot of all-core productivity loads

[tough estuary]

cpus draw 200W on the high end for ryzen? thats nothing for water

[vital galleon]

I've setup my computer to sleep after 15 minutes

[tough estuary]

my computer idles 24/7

lol

99.9% uptime

is what i try to keep

[night belfry]

i've just gotten an old PC as a server for those things you want uptime on

[vital galleon]

gaming load on my 7700K is using all my threads for sure
I could have gone 4.7GHz if my aircooler had let me

[night belfry]

still not as intense as something like video encoding or prime95

[vital galleon]

I have a Core2 PC I used for this reason

[tough estuary]

once i get more ram it will be moved to my other build

[vital galleon]

I quickly stopped running it 24/7 cuz in two days the room temp went up by 2°C even just idling

[tough estuary]

its kinda hungry, it uses around 60 watts at idle

never mesured it tho

[night belfry]

i've got a Haswell server and those things run pretty efficient for their age, 45w from the wall with 4 3.5" HDDs actively spinning, 80w at full load

[vital galleon]

BeamNG sure is intense
also I do video encoding on the GPU exclusively when I have the option to

and while OCCT/Prime 95 are intense, it's their job to stress the CPU

[tough estuary]

its funny beam isnt even the biggest cpu load i get

compiling stuff is

[night belfry]

me when aur updates

[proven lava]

me when

[tough estuary]

exactly

[vital galleon]

7zip is for me

[tough estuary]

yesterday i updated eden and cpu was spiked at 83 before settling to 75

[vital galleon]

lmao I assemble stuff using MASM 6.11 on my HP laptop

the Programmer's Workbench crashes cuz it can't handle the sheer speed of the computer

[tough estuary]

oh no ive got both an azahar and eden update

nvm its 40MB of source code

sometimes i run fur mark to heat my room and bananabench

[night belfry]

am i stupid or can you not send images here

[tough estuary]

yes you can

[night belfry]

seems like I can't, I know it was tied to a role previously

and I know I did reach it at one point but apparently I can't anymore ffs

also forgot frick and bullcrap are blocked still lmao

[tough estuary]

aur things

[vital galleon]

you don't have the media role indeed

guess it was removed to everyone after the hack

[night belfry]

it's insane that you even need it but whatever

[vital galleon]

you just need to level up to get it back

[vital galleon]

it's to stop the Mr Beast crypto scams that have been plaguing Discord for nearly a year now

since the hacked accounts had nearly never chatted ever (there was a time where linking your account to Discord was needed to play BeamMP), this media role solved the issue

[night belfry]

fair enough, but why not give it to the roles, or bulk-re-add it with the bot, ehh, whatever

or create a trap channel that bans you if you send anything in it precisely because the bots will

[tough estuary]

i think it was because of 3/28/2026

[vital galleon]

I said that

it was removed to everyone after the hack

[vital galleon]

ask this to the PMs it's not my job to do that

some Discord servers do this already for sure

[night belfry]

anyways, it's funny some people fall for the mrbeast scams

literally most obvious thing ever

[vital galleon]

there will always be someone dumb enough no matter how many prevention campaigns you do

[tough estuary]

gotta get those robox

[misty briar]

@hollow tree apc ups back at it again, it shut down the nvr that is connected to it and I have no way to remotely turn it on.
At this point this ups is becoming an ips (interrupting power supply)

I've procrastinated the rma for long enough

[hollow tree]

F

[shadow tangle]

yo @night belfry

[night belfry]

yoyoyo

[misty briar]

https://fixvx.com/i/status/2054181855742828598

Kenneth Dredd (@KennethDredd)

https://t.co/ljLbkhUE1b

QRT: TheStalwart
The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 12, 2026, 12:48 PM

https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DYQWMbjuDYM

Small image dump

[plush quest]

How does one go about updating msi drivers, I attempt to update them but I keep getting error codes that say another update is in progress but there isnt

[tough estuary]

for?

[crimson yew]

Customer states “Computer is slow”

Has the whole starter pack,
Mechanical HDD ✅
High uptime ✅
Old ass cpu ✅

[tough estuary]

and windows

[hot loom]

is it a haitch pea

[crimson yew]

Actually not a huge pile this time

It’s a toss she bah

So I’ll tell the customer, “yes we can put a solid state drive in it, but your computer won’t run windows 11 and should be replaced so that’s probably not a good idea”

called customer and they will be in to look at new computers

[vital galleon]

I need help genuinly

[proven lava]

#🔎-before-you-ask

[vital galleon]

Was wondering why my PC was using swap so much, now I know

The processes just replicate over and over for some unknown reason and just fill up RAM

Could those be vehicles threads?

cuz if yes I suspect this of having the same root cause as my vehicle duplication on login glitches where vehicles would just get spawned over and over and kill the performance

[jaunty trellis]

What did you do

[fossil spoke]

uhh bemp

[vital galleon]

go in a CareerMP server

[jaunty trellis]

Also now we know your name Jean

[vital galleon]

maybe ran into the same glitch that spawned tens of cars

[vital galleon]

do I care really ?

[vital galleon]

Eetu

[jaunty trellis]

I mean I have posted my terminal before that has my name

[fossil spoke]

yeah wha

[vital galleon]

it's not like it was a very popular name in France

[jaunty trellis]

I know

[vital galleon]

you gain basically no info unless you had my surname

[foggy urchin]

look this is what you do, alt F4 turn the pc off, wait a few minutes, then it will be fine

[vital galleon]

nah

[fossil spoke]

turn cmptr off from psu

like pro

[vital galleon]

I just killed the process

it instantly stopped writing on the HDD

which instantly made the system more responsive

[jaunty trellis]

That’s a acpi state forgot which one

[vital galleon]

G2

[jaunty trellis]

It’s s something

[vital galleon]

or S6

[jaunty trellis]

Ah right

[vital galleon]

both are equal

if anyone needs this to help me here it is

[proven lava]

#🔎-before-you-ask

[vital galleon]

yes I'm running 0.38.4 but this has literally no incidence on the gameplay

[hollow tree]

That doesn't have certain crash fixes in it

[vital galleon]

It's not a crash though

Just BeamMP spawning much more vehicles than intended

[hollow tree]

Well, it might have been as many as intended

Because in career some players may have ~ 75 objects spawned

[plush wedge]

Im trying to play fh6 when it comes out but my graphics card will make it to where lowest settings will probably barely hit 60fps so should I just get the game and a new graphics card later or get the graphics card first

I currently have a Radeon 570 series and thinking of upgrading to a 306o ti

Or upgrading to the Radeon equivalent

I know the rest of my computer can handle both but I dont remember the power supply to know if thats good

[vital galleon]

If its only mission objects it shouldn't allocate a gigabyte or two for a concrete barrier

However if those are all identical detailed vehicles then it makes sense that there would be so many processes each using several gigabytes

Keep in mind that my computer can run missions fine, and if I can then I can perfectly connect to a server where someone is playing a mission

#💬-general-talk message
This happened when connecting as well and I had a less extreme version of the swap issue

[hollow tree]

Sure

[vital galleon]

It only froze my PC for 5 mins instead of basically indefinitely (I waited 20 minutes on today's freeze)

[chilly dawn]

anyone use netbird before?

[raw void]

Locking in....

[raw void]

How do I make this fit .....

[silver current]

What is it?

[fathom thistle]

So uh my pc is making a plastic x plastic sound when bootin should i worry?

[past hound]

na is fine

[primal turtle]

its ok

unlike my bike (or moped for westerners)

my laptop is running like a champ rn

[shadow tangle]

cub

[misty briar]

Music time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZOyDVo03g

[iron ermine]

@dusk lance@vital galleon

[dusk lance]

Nice

wait a sec

[dusk lance]

And I got an xtra one i bought yesterday

[dusk lance]

NICE

This my server

[dusk lance]

32gb ddr3, 1.5tb of JBOD NAS storage, 500gb hdd win10 💀 , and yeh

[vital galleon]

my setup

as of today

[dusk lance]

That's a but load of storage

[iron ermine]

3x3TB WD REDs
I have 3x8TB WD GOLDs in spare

[dusk lance]

Nice

I got none

[iron ermine]

My other PC has 1TB + 1TB

[dusk lance]

That's nice

[coarse adder]

love the random floating ethernet switch

[vital galleon]

I have 1TB + 500GB + 1TB

[dusk lance]

My main pc has
512gb nvme
2tb nvme

Sooo

[vital galleon]

it's been like that for years

[vital galleon]

do you like my 10:16 screen

22" of pure Discord

[coarse adder]

i once had a vertical screen in my home studio for displaying song lyrics

but i've never incorporated it into a standard setup, i've kinda wanted to try

this is what i got going on

[vital galleon]

I wish I had a VESA mount for my 16:9 screen
it would have been better for Discord

[misty briar]

Tech hoarder leave some for us smh

[hallow glen]

love it, i don't have the space to go triple ingame like yours tho

[iron ermine]

Bro tries to be slick with 3 terminals

[coarse adder]

ackshually... they're irc channel windows.

although right now i technically have 3 terminal windows open (3 bemp servers) lol

[iron ermine]

Why are 2 red lol

[coarse adder]

those are the irc channels

[iron ermine]

ah

I wanted to set up Synapse Matrix but it was so complicated

[tame cypress]

omg im so jealous

[shadow tangle]

@hollow tree ikr!

[hollow tree]

Waow

look at that heatpipe utilization

[slate jasper]

Dell

A Latitude with a dGPU huh

[misty briar]

:lookatthat:

[coarse adder]

ed bassmaster!

[shadow tangle]

It's a precision

With Quadro

Cuz it's so business

[slate jasper]

Eh, same thing

Just a bigger Latitude

Thinkpad P50 is business

[wild kindle]

https://youtu.be/T2K2Dksi40s

[solemn iris]

https://youtu.be/G9FGgwCQ22w

[shadow tangle]

Yeah mine do be a latitude chassis with Quadro

But the real business one do be this 7000 series

But bleh P50 is way too expensive for the spec, worse cooling, heavier

[slate jasper]

Cooling was amazing

Never had to change thermal paste or anything

[shadow tangle]

Yeah this thing can sustain 80W cpu boost

And i got it for 197 usd
i7-8850H
16GB
Quadro P600 4GB

[slate jasper]

Oh my P50 had the full fat HQ chip

6820HQ

And M2000M

Could run every game from its era at 1080p60 max settings lol

[shadow tangle]

Mine is not Q cuz it's 6c 12t lol

It's the full 8850H
Boosting max at 80W beating desktop R5 1600

At cinebench both multicore and single core

It's the gpu that letting it down badly at gaming

[vital galleon]

well imma overclock my monitors now ig

I got it to 61 Hz yet

holy crap X11 also allows me to upscale my monitor to 1440p ???

holy crap it is 1440p on a 1080p screen

fr the DVI cable is carrying 1440p and the screen is just saying alr lemme display that

noic

[shadow tangle]

1360x768 Display btw

[vital galleon]

I mean it doesn't serve much purpose other than being a poor man's DSR, but I originally wanted to overclock it

turns out it accepts 75Hz fine despite being rated for 60hz

[shadow tangle]

Mine maxed out at 77Hz from 60Hz

And it's a 2013 TV

Actually, 2013 Commercial Display
@brittle fox know what's up

[brittle fox]

Yo what's up

Commercial display gang

I use it as my TV now

Well barely even use it these days tbf

[shadow tangle]

Haha

Backlit Commercial Display Gang

[vital galleon]

I just hate cuz I cannot be sure it actually increased refresh rate

my eyes are too weak to see the difference between 60 and 75

[shadow tangle]

Mine just frame skipped at 75Hz and higher

So 60Hz is the best

[vital galleon]

my left screen works "fine" in 75Hz but the picture seems unstable slightly

sometimes it randomly shifts for one frame

[brittle fox]

I think i did actually try overclocking it but it didnt want to

I did end up sticking an OPS in the display to use as a home pc though

[shadow tangle]

Noice

I still use mine as my main display

The low desnity messy 1360x768 madness

[brittle fox]

I have a iiyama 3440x1440 144hz display as my main now

Looking to maybe upgrade my titan x soon too

FH6 keeps crashing, think its because nvidia are greedy and no longer supply driver updates

[shadow tangle]

I pretty much lose attention to my pc as soon as i got this laptop

[misty briar]

The brit has come back for the quarterly message

[brittle fox]

I was allowed back on the Internet

[vital galleon]

hai

[brittle fox]

Good evening

[hollow tree]

Alright if it isn't a bubble, it's because they put it into "drug dealer mode", where now that literally the entire world has a taste, and their marks have been identified, they're just gonna squeeze all the money out of those that will keep paying. "First hit is free" type beat

[tough estuary]

im helping the community out

[misty briar]

So it's a bubble that's never going to deflate, nice!
In uni 90% of the students I see use a paid plan so we're already fcked

[hollow tree]

:thoseguys:

[misty briar]

And they act all surprised when I tell them I use none of those services
Like what? They did not exist 3 years ago and yet people went on with their lives

[hollow tree]

Check out this computer

[misty briar]

How come the buttons are always a different colour?

[hollow tree]

They could be any color, 3d printer go brrrrrr

[misty briar]

Oh
So you 3d print the case as well

[hollow tree]

I did yes

[misty briar]

:thisguy:

[hollow tree]

:jim:

[hollow tree]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/05/17/former-microsoft-vp-says-microsoft-missed-the-ai-wave-like-the-internet-and-mobile-as-copilot-scales-back-in-windows-11/

compute shortages

Fucking prove it lmfao

[misty briar]

Compute shortages for who? For us, not for them :thisguy:

But I guess they can solve this by asking for more subsidies

[native plank]

What's a computer shortage? Too used to this market that it doesn't seem like a shortage, more like the norm.

[misty briar]

I've actually had to use it today and for Windows at least is as easy as drop the exe in the folder you want to share and execute

And it just works™

[thorn finch]

yep, its pretty neat

for linux is drop the .py somewhere and run python3 copyparty-sfx.py

[misty briar]

Marvelous piece of technology

[fossil spoke]

Bemp server on that

[solemn iris]

I think I'll stick with nextcloud

It's a very cool hobby project but I just can't think of a use case

[shadow tangle]

My uni paid for extra Gemini Pro thing

[night belfry]

It's geniunely a great tool, but most people completely misuse it, or use it way too much. Just look at people using the Pro/whatever models for completely basic shit that a calculator/Google/common sense can do.

It'll be interesting once the prices for the subscriptions match the actual cost of the compute

(and then you have the whole environmental issue, but I believe a large part of it is directly tied to the cost of compute being massively subsidized)

[vital galleon]

electricity would be much more environmentally friendly and much cheaper if the world wasn't so much antinuclear
most of the "radioactive waste" is just hazmat suits and such, while spent fissile fuel (which is the actual quite radioactive stuff) is a fraction of that
and the only thing such a power plant needs is massive amounts of water, but this is easily suppliable as long as you're near a river, you could even use water from the epuration plant.
and somehow there's more injuries/deaths related to technicians installing solar panels (because they fall off the roof primilarily) than people working on nuclear reactors
I could continue my rant on nuclear reactors for two more paragraphs but well y'all know we're the country using the most nuclear power so we're experts in the subject

[night belfry]

Of course, that's a different debate though. Ideally, you'd both have better sources and use less of it :P

[vital galleon]

we'd have transitioned to ARM/RISC V if energy consumption was of utmost importance

[night belfry]

Eh, you're forgetting other, bigger fish exist. Water heating, generally heating/cooling homes, transportation all consume an order of magnitude more than basically any small electronics

Most of the environmental impact of small electronics is production and recycling anyways

[vital galleon]

may as well heat homes with datacenters then

that's what the Romeo supercomputer does in my city

[night belfry]

I mean that's what cogeneration plants are doing already, no reason not to extend it to datacenters

Still less efficient than heat pumps, if you were to run the datacenter just for heating

[vital galleon]

if the datacenter must run 24/7 for services that are used by everyone, it certainly will not be used solely for heating

the only factor that I think is the reason why most datacenters don't heat homes is just a cost thing
you'd need infrastructure you don't necessarily have

[night belfry]

also you don't want datacenters close to homes in general

[vital galleon]

and I'm not sure a single city will be enough to cool a whole AI datacenter

[night belfry]

and the temperature of the heating water would also have to be quite low

[vital galleon]

yea the electricity wave is not really close to a sine wave near a datacenter

can't remember what that's called

but it kills electronics over time

[vital galleon]

50°C ?

[night belfry]

50c water is fairly warm for hardware and fairly cold for heating (plus losses in temp from transmission of the water), also wouldn't be usable as a hot water source but just for heating

[vital galleon]

I mean as a hot water source, there could simply be heat exchangers that take in hot water from the datacenter and cold water from the water tower

[night belfry]

aaaand now you have high losses and complicated infrastructure

[vital galleon]

what complicated infrastructure
like alr high losses, but the original goal was to cool down a datacenter anyways

[night belfry]

losses as in the water would be unusably cold for heating or as hot water

[vital galleon]

fair

[shadow tangle]

All those innovation to convert wasted heat to be reused lie in this question "Is this profitable for the corporate?"

[night belfry]

surely you wouldn't want to compromise on that! think of the shareholders

[shadow tangle]

Exactly

[vital galleon]

subscription-based hot water supply

[brittle fox]

Yup going for it, tempted to try running it as a secondary card for upscaling or frame generation tbf

[misty briar]

I despise it and treat as inferiors the people who rely on it 🚬

[slate jasper]

🖥️

[misty briar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TwGH1B5wA
LMAO, imagine getting scammed AND doxxed by your own president

[crimson yew]

No it’s okay

My trump phone is coming

It will be here any day now

https://tenor.com/view/lord-save-us-guy-praying-in-car-kpoptwt-stantwt-donald-trump-save-us-gif-15614229185854802474

[misty briar]

Just one more week bro, I swear it'll turn up

[crimson yew]

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[misty briar]

LMAO

[crimson yew]

Just one more week

Top 10 worst things to hear over the phone as tech support “I called the number and talked to Microsoft and they had me download something called ultra viewer”

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[misty briar]

Oh yeah

[crimson yew]

It’s okay I do like 5 virus cleanups a week but still bro how many people fall for that

We are cooked

Also the classic “my computer is a little old and it’s getting slow, can you do a tune up?” Then the customer gets mad when they stop in and I tell them cleanups/tune ups aren’t really a thing anymore and you have a falling mechanical drive which I wouldant replace on this 2012 Toshiba so buy a new computer

Well, most people are understanding but still come on

I love the old people who are like “well my computer has worked for 15 years why would it just stop”

Okay rant over back to replacing a latitude 5520 keyboard aka the worst job ever

[misty briar]

But bro my 2009 EeePeeCee netbook with 1 GB of ram has always worked, I ask no, I DEMAND you fix it

[crimson yew]

Hello customer

It’s okay I suggest a refurbished dell latitude for $450 then they go buy a Walmart hp stream laptop and are back in a week asking me to help them because it’s slow

[misty briar]

Hello tech suprto, my hinges on my new heitch pee laptop have just snapped

[crimson yew]

Stop

That’s literally every other week

Why did the hinges snap this is just a giant 17” hp laptop built from recycled McDonald’s play places

Luckily most people understand not to buy consumer grade laptops after they stop in here

[misty briar]

Hlo tech sutrps, d'ya remember the disk you told me to change and I refused the job? Yeah it's broken and all my important data is on it with no backups, can you fix it yesterday?

[crimson yew]

Basically all we sell are dell latitudes and maybe one hp elite book for those customers that really really want hp for some reason

[crimson yew]

Your hired for the position of customer

I actually have one of those in rn

Old external drive not showing up

Hopefully it shows when I remove it from the caddy

That works every time about half the time

It’s okay once all the mechanical drives fail I’ll have to worry about 3 million adata ssds cooking themselves

[misty briar]

50-50 chance :yeah:

[crimson yew]

And putting those ssds in the freezer only helps like 1/4th the time

[crimson yew]

[crimson yew]

Another virus cleanup just came in

[misty briar]

Hole tceh sport, the CEO of AT&T called me and told me that I had to install a software to remotely remove a virus from the dns

[vital galleon]

meanwhile Intel ME
the hardware spyware

[misty briar]

OK.

[vital galleon]

well try to remove that one

[crimson yew]

✅ ✅ ✅

How much magic smoke should a hard drive have

#watdatmean

Little hot but the pc sees the 3tb drive as a 3gb drive

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[vital galleon]

the french expression "partir en fumée" (literally "to go away in the form of fumes") would be quite applicable here for the data

[crimson yew]

Lmao

Bad hard drives go in the freezer

[crimson yew]

Why does seagate lowkey make the worst hdds

I feel like nearly every hdd I see failing is a seagate

Maybe that’s bias because they were used in everything but still

5 year old seagate hdd will drop dead and then a 25 year old hitachi drive will come in with no issues

[vital galleon]

we have nearly only Seasalt HDDs in our house
is that an issue

thankfully the one in my PC only spins up for swapping nowadays, which is quite rare

[crimson yew]

lol

Bruh

What compels someone to walk in one minute before close

Not really ideal but that’s okay it was quick

[vital galleon]

tbf why cannot we normalize a last entry time in addition to the closing time

[coarse adder]

narcissism.

[night belfry]

is the buy-an-optiplex-and-stick-a-gpu-in-it strategy still valid?

(aka: do any decent 75w, no aux power, low profile gpus still exist?)

like honestly, I can't find anything reasonable besides the 3050 6gb/1650/rx 6400, all of which lowkey suck ass

[vital galleon]

Intel Arc maybe?

Dunno if they havee 75W models tho

[dusty crane]

Yea Intel be decent for the wattage

If you could get a cheap rx 7400 there’s that but likely very spency

[vital galleon]

It's not like they were the kings of iGPUs lmao

[dusty crane]

except they werent

[night belfry]

Hmm, that could work pretty well

[vital galleon]

Given that they were the main CPU manufacturer for a long time they made also the best on-chip iGPUs

[dusty crane]

even early amd igpus were on par or better

[night belfry]

weren't AMD's APUs almost always better in the graphics department

[dusty crane]

as soon as ryzen came out and they astarted using vega igpus it wasnt even a competiton

[vital galleon]

Well Intel is catching up

But fair

[dusty crane]

intels latest igpu be very close to amds best though which be neat

atleast from what ive seen

[vital galleon]

Very neat for laptops
Intel Core 300 series seems to be incredible

[night belfry]

i love that igpus are usable now tbh, you can finally game on some fairly power efficient and light laptops

[dusty crane]

ye

[night belfry]

thank god, core ultra series 1/2 was meh, and 12-14th gen was a dumpster fire

[vital galleon]

My Athlon 7120U cannot play BeamNG at an acceptable level but its somewhat playable

[night belfry]

it's a miracle that thing is even usable, those athlons are an absolute joke

[vital galleon]

Core series 200 refresh is good
So is LGA1700 outside of those voltage issues

[night belfry]

sorry, i meant laptops specifically, desktop cpus were good

[vital galleon]

I use Linux, Windows would have gobbled up half the fps

[dusty crane]

intel re releases old cpu architecture everyone is pissed amd re releases their greatest hit and everyones stoked lol

[dusty crane]

probably not true unless your cpu was maxxed ig lol

[vital galleon]

Meanwhile Nvidia re-release the 3060 and everyone is praising them

[night belfry]

windows is more ram heavy than anything, performance itself is otherwise fine

[vital galleon]

Both were maxxed with a single T series on WCUSA

[vital galleon]

I have 8GB including 1GB VRAM cuz UMA architecture

[night belfry]

i've got a 5650u in my laptop currently and it can play a lot of the stuff I throw at it, probably helps that I let it run at 40 watts sustained instead of the default 15w

[vital galleon]

The APU max wattage was 28W with OCCT

I tested

[night belfry]

wtf would that athlon even use 28 watts from

2 cores 2 threads 2 cus

[vital galleon]

15W from the CPU and the rest from the GPU

Tho I was measuring that at the battery level with my laptop forced in performance mode with the AC disconnected do it probably took the screen and other devices as well

[dusty crane]

Yea

Probably only using 12-15w at most

[vital galleon]

But the screen is 2.5W or sum so that gives 25W for the APU

[night belfry]

ah, i've gotten up to -60 watts on battery, which is a bit of a tough ask from a 54wh battery, actual cpu package power was about 45w

[vital galleon]

15W is the TDP for the CPU alone

[night belfry]

are you sure it's not package tdp? i've not seen a separate cpu and gpu tdp for a cpu with an igpu

[dusty crane]

That’s shared

[vital galleon]

My i3 330m laptop accomplishes around the same thing on idle 🥀

[vital galleon]

It does 5W idle at full brightness

If you do some calculus you'll realize you'll end up with some watts ending up nowhere

[dusty crane]

Should be able to punch it up some wattage

[dusty crane]

Fan

Power circuits

USB devices if ya got any

WiFi card

Drives

The ram