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Combat Pretzel posted:What? If you're trying to hook up with somebody at a bar, don't tell them the thermal capacity of your sweet custom water loop. For some reason it never works.
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Charles Leclerc posted:If you're trying to hook up with somebody at a bar, don't tell them the thermal capacity of your sweet custom water loop. For some reason it never works. The bars you are going to must be boring my dude.
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Hey baby I’m not saying I’m hot but my nickname is Zen 4.
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Charles Leclerc posted:If you're trying to hook up with somebody at a bar, don't tell them the thermal capacity of your sweet custom water loop. For some reason it never works. I mean this is a great way to pick up engineering students.
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Oct 8, 2022 15:40
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:The bars you are going to must be boring my dude. Probably doesn't help that I can't shut up about the near zero backforce ratchet on my sweet LTTstore.com screwdriver either.
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Oct 8, 2022 16:13
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Charles Leclerc posted:I know it's supreme dork poo poo to build your own PC and a meme that you get roped into a lifetime of support, but I am so far beyond the point of no return when it comes to building a PC with a friend over a couple of beers purely to save them from the hellscape of lovely system integrators. The whole get roped into lifetime support thing is always so weird to me. I'm gonna help my friends out with free tech support whether it's a DIY PC I helped them build or a fuckin' Dell, because they're my friends. That's what friends do. If you have friends and aren't willing to help them out with an afternoon of your time, and vice versa, those aren't friends. They're acquaintances.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:33
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Klyith posted:The whole get roped into lifetime support thing is always so weird to me. I'm gonna help my friends out with free tech support whether it's a DIY PC I helped them build or a fuckin' Dell, because they're my friends. That's what friends do. If you have friends and aren't willing to help them out with an afternoon of your time, and vice versa, those aren't friends. They're acquaintances. One that's expected to not only know the solution to every problem but drop everything in order to help them as if they filed a ticket in a ticketing system where "Critical" means something because it hasn't been abused and applied liberally to everything. If you're lucky enough to have friends who don't treat you like that, that's great - but I find it hard to believe you don't have family like that. EDIT: Another variant of it is the people who'll expect all of the above, but treat you as if they're doing you a favour because "you know all this, it's so easy for you".
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Oct 8, 2022 18:41
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:The issue isn't that they shouldn't get help, the issue is that some people (especially family, but also some friends) think they have a professional 24/7 on-call line Spot on. My elderly relatives are great to do nice things for, the younger ones are a pain in the rear end to do anything nice for.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:48
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Reminds me of a coworker, that had me drive to his place to find an important file he misplaced. I suggested to participate in some computer basics course, or DIY it using the internet/Youtube. "No time for that sort of stuff" was the reply. A month later he was bragging about downloading movies via Torrent. Time for that was apparently there. At least he learned file system basics with that. But still.
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My parents got a macbook with applecare after years of me being the support for windows pcs and then they didn’t need my help anymore and I kind of missed it  They really liked the applecare and they could call it anytime instead of waiting to call me after work. Plus I wasn’t very familiar with mac stuff.
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Oct 8, 2022 18:53
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:The issue isn't that they shouldn't get help, the issue is that some people (especially family, but also some friends) think they have a professional 24/7 on-call line There's this cool word that helps in these situations: "no". Possibly with some extra words after it to soothe the feelings of the person you are saying it to. I do have friends who are apt to ask for too much -- not in computer poo poo but other areas of life. If you don't set some boundaries, they don't know that they're overstepping them. You have to communicate that they're asking too much before you can expect them to ask less. And if they are lovely about it  OTOH I also have friends who I will always give the "critical" tag in the ticketing system of my life, because I know they'd do -- or have done -- the same for me. I know you'd had major health problems, so you may have a lot of past favors you feel the need to repay. A real friend should understand "yes, but I'm busy now so not until this weekend" even if they've done a lot for you. Cancer and a broken PC aren't the same. If they don't get that, gently caress 'em.
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Exactly. Be a bit of a dick about it when they ask for too much, and they’ll back off and only ask for really important poo poo.
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I think we all know interpersonal relationships aren't prescriptive, but sometimes it's just easier to not do things for people you just know are going to be a pain in the rear end and do them for the people you know will generally be good. I tend to think that after a single bad experience we mostly have that poo poo figured out for future reference.
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Klyith posted:There's this cool word that helps in these situations: "no". Possibly with some extra words after it to soothe the feelings of the person you are saying it to. That seems to have taught most of the people I've helped over the years that they don't have to rely on me, but can do things themselves. I've got people who I still help with things, sure - but I've had almost no real help after the diagnosis (my mom, who's about the only person I still do a bit of PC support for), so all the help I've been given to people over the years feels like it's been taken for granted and not even noticed.
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from my very limited experience, building computers by and for people who has zero or little willingness to learn troubleshooting is just asking for trouble
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I'll always love these dumb Alex-made cooling rig videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MozKrDoS1Dc 40000 for a 7950x in Cinebench 
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Cross-Section posted:I'll always love these dumb Alex-made cooling rig videos Back-to-back bangers from Alex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blU_2wIMT4U
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Oct 10, 2022 01:45
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IDK why people keep pretending those Noctua fans are still "the best fan" when Phanteks has had a superior fan for like a year now, and plenty of other fans are also competitive to superior depending on what exactly your goals are. Odd to me.
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the brown makes it quieter but yeah the T30 is just better if you have the extra 5mm of clearance, and they need to hurry up and release the 140mm version so i can fill my case with them
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Oct 10, 2022 01:52
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embrace the poop brown I wish people put more interest in 180mm fans, the fractal torrent is a fantastic case but finding fans for it is a bit tricky
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K8.0 posted:IDK why people keep pretending those Noctua fans are still "the best fan" when Phanteks has had a superior fan for like a year now, and plenty of other fans are also competitive to superior depending on what exactly your goals are. Odd to me. Arctic makes some solid fans too, and they're like half the price of Noctua's.
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Romes128 posted:Arctic makes some solid fans too, and they're like half the price of Noctua's. Arctic's fans are solid yeah, but not on the same level as the noctua or phanteks fans being discussed.
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K8.0 posted:IDK why people keep pretending those Noctua fans are still "the best fan" when Phanteks has had a superior fan for like a year now, and plenty of other fans are also competitive to superior depending on what exactly your goals are. Odd to me. The brown makes your PC look more like a hi-fi cabinet from the 1970's, which is cool and rad
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Back-to-back bangers from Alex: Those fans are horrifyingly dangerous.  I'm glad they put a shroud over the fans after initial testing because that thing looks like it will shred your fingers and tear your hand off without a flinch.
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"We're cooling a PC in an incredibly stupid and ill-advised way" remains the best LTT content.
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I'm just watching the WAN show in background, the piece about Youtube's 4K premium poo poo, and they mention that Youtube was running an experiment by resetting people's playback settings to some lower resolution, checking to see how long it took to react, if at all. I had this poo poo happen to me frequently over a certain timespan, and it was pissing me off royally. I should have known it was one of their loving experiments. Let me opt out of this poo poo.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'm just watching the WAN show in background, the piece about Youtube's 4K premium poo poo, and they mention that Youtube was running an experiment by resetting people's playback settings to some lower resolution, checking to see how long it took to react, if at all. The same thing happened to me too! Another time I was also in a different "experiment" as well which broke the Transcript feature on Firefox (it worked in a private browsing tab and when logged out and I verified I was being delivered different JS bundles between logged in and not). In that case, after I used the "Send Feedback" option to report the bug they reverted me to the default player.
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lol corporations gaslighting their users
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I wonder if that breaks the browser plugin that is supposed to auto switch to max resolution, I have noticed that doesn’t work great lately. Man I wish there was a better option than youtube. I’m thinking about just setting up something to auto download my subscribed channels so I can play them locally. I don’t usually go outside my feed.
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always switching to the max resolution is probably counterproductive, in my experience browsers (well chromium, not sure about firefox) do a poor job of downscaling video and tend to produce a lot of aliasing
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Youtube also messed up or changed something with monetization a bit ago which led to a youtuber crossover I wasn't expecting to see on twitter.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'm just watching the WAN show in background, the piece about Youtube's 4K premium poo poo, and they mention that Youtube was running an experiment by resetting people's playback settings to some lower resolution, checking to see how long it took to react, if at all. Autoplay frequently turns itself back on for me, I assumed it was just the site being dumb. Now I'm wondering if that was also part of an experiment to boost play counts or something.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'm just watching the WAN show in background, the piece about Youtube's 4K premium poo poo, and they mention that Youtube was running an experiment by resetting people's playback settings to some lower resolution, checking to see how long it took to react, if at all. Oh poo poo is THAT what that was? It was driving me crazy how videos kept playing at low res until I manually turned them back up. I thought I was having weird connection issues and I did a lot of troubleshooting on my router. loving A/B testing is just corporate gaslighting.
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lol if youtube expects me to manually check the quality setting on their garbage tv app every time they pull that stunt
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Youtube doing lovely A/B testing to max ads is definitely a possibility, but also youtube can have real weird stuff happen from cookies & localstorage bugs. At one point a number of years ago I was having weird issues with settings getting reset and UI being broken. After investigating ublock, other extensions, and a bunch of other things, the problem turned out to be resolved by resetting youtube cookies & storage. Youtube caches a *lot* of data locally. So if you are having problems with autoplay or resolution reset I'd try that. Especially if it keeps happening. If they were A/Bing you they'd only do it once (what they want to see is how many people switch back vs how many don't notice).
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Tiny Timbs posted:Oh poo poo is THAT what that was? It was driving me crazy how videos kept playing at low res until I manually turned them back up. I thought I was having weird connection issues and I did a lot of troubleshooting on my router. they also made it harder to switch resolutions on their lovely android official app google loves their non evil passive-aggressive stealth capitalist poo poo
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SmartTube for Android tv is rad. Ad blocking and sponsorblock built in is so good
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Tiny Timbs posted:Oh poo poo is THAT what that was? It was driving me crazy how videos kept playing at low res until I manually turned them back up. I thought I was having weird connection issues and I did a lot of troubleshooting on my router. I was assuming they’d computed some sort of “movement figure” for the video and dumped resolution on stuff that’s just mostly static backgrounds, guy in front of a pc etc.
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