Previous Thread:https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43205927Discuss:>Work on any pony and/or tech related projects (You) are working on or learnt about recently.>Post (You)r pony themed technology (desktops/rices, papes, new devices, software ponies)>What software and technology do (You) use? (Email, Git, OSes, Messaging, Monero, etc...)
how's your PC holding up? still ready to bridge the time into the 2030s?
>>43334804sure, I'll keep using Windows 10 LTSC
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>>43334804Buying new ram from russian ebay sellers. going strong.
>>43334801Slowly making the switch to linux. I need to get some beefier ram for my StinkPad so I can play minecraft even harder
>>43334816see you back in a few months
>>43334818Back where?
>>43334804I'm not buying anything until prices become normal again, that's for sure. People on tech sites crying "b-but it's going to stay like this till end 2027 at the least!!!" I don't care, then I'll wait till 2028. Or 2029, or however long it takes. I'm not a fucking cuck paying more than double because of some Jew made up bubble shit. My PC can last me for years anyway, it's high end enough for anything I could throw at it.
>>43335486Anon, prices will never go down. These new high ones will just become the new normal. See gpu prices. Those started to climb 10 years ago.
>>43334804I bought my gaming laptop last year for $2700
>>43334804It's holding surpriisngly well. Bought used in early 2018, a 3rd gen Optiplex. I upgraded it from i3 to i5 in 2019 and it's been my daily driver since. I don't have any reasons to upgrade. I was trying to find some, but the only thing that I'd like would be AV1 encoding, but support for that is scarce and high end only. I understand that it's not for everyone, but if all you do is shitpost online and play games from 15+ years ago, then you don't need anything newer than a i5-2500 which is still rather impressive to me, as previously computer components aged way worse, and for example a 2005 Intel Pentium was pretty much trash by 2015.
>>43335680GPUs crashed back down 5 years ago.There is zero reason to buy new PC parts unless you're a dumb RGB gaymer kid. Progress in PC hardware halted about 10 years ago. The last upgrade that made any real world difference was NVMe storage.
>>43334804Got a sweet DevOps gig, where I get the replaced hardware that are supposed to be going to the trash. 64 gb ecc ram set having a single fault, so they all get replaced and fall into my pocket.
Half-pony related because I just want to show off what I wasted my time on:https://vcl.yerf.org/A frontend for my image archive downloader (found at https://iwiftp.yerf.org/(fandom)/Art/Image archives/ )https://space.yerf.org/Social site, mix of myspace/spacehey, inkbunny, and some other sites.Just fun projects.
>>43335781Yeah the people who complained on the tech websites I was talking about are the kind of people so hopelessly materialistic they NEED to buy a new toy every few months even when the performance improvement is negligible. For CPUs it's even hilariously pointless. I remember when the Pentium 75 came out, it was a 50% performance improvement in about one year over the Pentium 50. Then around the time of the Pentium 4, people were salivating over a 3.4 GHz model over a 3.2 GHz model, literally a trifling 6% speedup. Then Prescott came and Intel kept tricking people by doubling the L2 cache, but actually increasing its latency so it performed exactly the same as a 1 MB Northwood did. After that came (((CPU bugs))) and upgrading started becoming completely pointless. I just turn off all (((protection))) in the kernel slowing down the system for zero real-world reasons. No, I don't care that some virus that doesn't actually exist might be able to snoop on some memory I'm using from another application and lower my CPU's performance 25% for that.
>>43335801Are you familiar with hydrus network? Maybe you could contribute?
>>43334804prolly? >blogpost tiemmy last upgrade was swapping in a 5700x3d to replace my previous am4 cpu (then of course they re release the 5800x3d, fuck) and I have 32gb of RAM. wisdom tells me I'd be stupid to try to upgrade the RAM to 64gb so I've been sitting tight wondering if I need a better video card than my 6750XT. All I play are generally indie, emulated, and older source engine titles. my backlog is large enough so keeping up with modern games is not really a priority, however I do want one of those 4k OLED monitors after having my OLED steam deck for a bit. I hear that the newest ones coming out have fixed issues with mura effects and the purplish blacks (tandem OLED? I'll have to check /g/ again). That and the resolution bump would be really nice for the animating and video editing I'm getting into, and as far as games are concerned I could just 2x upscale 1080p with gamescope for anything demanding.>t. Fedora KDE 43 because the 44 update keeps failing
>>43334804>tfw upgraded mine right before RAM price inflation
did anyone get the steam machine lel, or ended up NOT getting after the price revealim just going to keep the money and use it on mare fair
>>43338043I wanted to upgrade from 64 to 128 GB RAM before the retarded prices but I was too late (doesn't help that I need unbuffered ECC memory too). Still managed to score a 2 TB Samsung 9100 Pro and a 16 GB Radeon RX9060 XT before those became insane though, so I'm mostly set anyway.
>>43338628>from 64 to 128I've managed to upgrade from 8 to 24
>>43338715Welcome to the new decade, anon.
>>43338722New century, more like
>>43334806me too bud
anyway, whats a good suggestion for how much time to wait to upgrade my gpu? it runs my games fine except some are a bit more demanding and have more potential. i bought an rx 6600 as part of my new pc build back in 2024, and i learned recently that even back then it was borderline mid level, and nowadays is considered entry level. i had a 1660 before this and i thought it was a massive jump. am i missing out much with a lower end gpu or is it always best to just stick to what ive got until it doesnt work out anymore (and wherever gpu prices may be.
>>43339165>am i missing out much with a lower end gpuYes>is it always best to just stick to what ive got until it doesnt work out anymoreYes
>>43339165You don't really need a new GPU (or any dedicated GPU at all) unless you want to do AI or play horribly shitty "AAA" games. Just download some emulators and ROMz, or indie games, and you'll have a much better time without needing any high-end hardware.
>>43339378>AAA games >:(>AAA games, on old consoles :O
>>43339905>AAAs before>team consists of twelve American nerds>AAAAs now>teams are about 12.5℅ of India's population
>>43339378I wanted to experiment with local models but my gpu was nowhere near good enough, so I gave up. The one game I play where I wish I had improved performance with good graphics is BeamNG, since I typically average 40-60fps even with some reduced settings.
>>43339984Yeah. exactly this.
>>43340219Does it have 8 GB RAM? You can probably run SDXL on that, unless you want to use more advanced stuff like ControlNet or something, just use the --medvram switch. Or use ComfyUI, even better. Of course, since it's an AMD, you'll have more luck using Linux.
>>43334804Likely. I could sell some unused hardware from other DDR5 PCs but I don't need money right now that much, and it'd suck moonbutt's fun-sized posterior to buy the parts back later at higher prices for some new project. I hate that I HODL PC parts now.>>43335486Same, with an exception for server HDDs (should any fail), even though those went up 50% recently. We might live in interesting times if people get priced out of owning recent hardware for longer, since constraints bring new ideas.>>43335785Good deal, anon.>>43338410Friend was considering it, after seeing the prices he built his own from a mini PC with PCIe riser and a low profile dGPU. 4K claims were suspicious from the start but the final performance would be more palatable at, say, $700. I wonder why they didn't sell barebones models as well.>>43339165Are there games you'd like to play that don't run at quality settings and framerates you like? Try tinkering with upscaling. If that's no good either, then buy another GPU. It's just a toy, if you're already having fun then chances are you don't need more.
>>43338410>Steam Deck>Unrealiable WiFi connection due to first batch model having WiFi chip being cooked right under SSD>Steam Controller>Officially acknowledging that the pug is a fire starter, do nothing>Steam Machine$1050 broken e-waste imminent.
>>43334804I am afraid something will suddenly irreplaceably break, but otherwise PC has been running no problem since 2012.
>>43340945i've been unironically using my steam deck as my main pc ever since i got mine from the first batch, i got one as soon as it was announcedi just updated it after probably 2 years of daily use but no updates, yes i am a retardinitially it was cause this game i had on it didnt upload its saves to the cloud so i didnt want to lose my achievement progress, i eventually got done with the achievementthat solved all the issues i was having, but my only issue now is im sure the battery is absolutely fried>controller puck is a fire hazardi didnt hear of that actually, what kekthats crazy
>>43340522>Are there games you'd like to play that don't run at quality settings and framerates you like?its pretty much just BeamNG. even Forza Horizon 6 runs at 80fps at some of the highest settings.
>>43334804Built mine as RAM prices were starting to surge, so I'm set for the next decade.Temporary artix install is still going strong six months in, though I do want to reinstall it soon. Bunch of leftovers from a dozen different packages I've removed that I cba removing manually, plus there's a whole bunch of other stuff I wanna try out like FDE.Won't be doing that until after MF though.Also need to reinstall arch on my laptop so I can do FDE on there, too. Plus going back to stock configs would be nice.
>>43334804It will have to, just like it bridged to 2020s. At this point I'm not sure If I'll ever get anything newer than my DDR3 rig. Thank Celestia it's still usable
who else running grapheneOS?
>>43344213Here, it's been quite awesome.
>>43340972That took long. HDD just failed
>>43334806>>4333916110?
>>43344782larp
>>43344835we could play a game: anon posting most vintage OS that can still be used to join /mlp/con in "some" manner wins teh internetz
>>43344842the most you can probably manage is win 98 or 2k with kernelex as 4chan requires js
>>43344847I'd give a (You) to that.
>>43344450based, what ya running it on?
>>43345930Got me a 10xl. The alpha build worked even better than the stock os on launch.
https://store.kde.org/p/1002365Does anyone know where I can get pony icons like these or maybe these ones? All the links are dead. I'm trying out the Oxygen theme and these would go so well with it
>>43346742Just download them from the Deviantart page: https://www.deviantart.com/spikeslashrarity/art/All-icons-in-png-mac-and-ico-PC-formats-301491998
>>43346742https://www.deviantart.com/elalition/art/Pony-Desktop-Icons-260708316 too. Download is loginwalled and requires confirmed email, a temporary inbox worked for me though. Of course anon will need to assemble the iconpack themselves.This stuff should be archived somehow as regular occurrence.
>>43346766Here's a Catbox of the download so you don't have to create an account if you don't have one:https://files.catbox.moe/18xwfk.zip
hi mlpcon!
>>43346793a pony kde full icon pack would be so good
>>43346832what
>>43344782Based anon.But even my retarded ass is looking for updates.I mad a Win10LTSC disk and a linux mint one.Swapping from time to time to check program availability, compatibilityé and general feel.
>>43348119what thinkpad are you using, anon?
>>43347898/mlp/con had a "chat plays /mlp/" panelthis was one of the threads the collective managed to visit
>>43344835If I wanted to larp I'd be posting from Hannah Montana Linux or some shit. >>43348119I tried Mint and just don't care for it. Win7 is what I'm used to and I'm just gonna keep using it for general stuff. Though I do have some shitty laptops I've been wanting to tinker with for a while. What's a good lightweight Troonux distro?
>>43348561Basically any distro with the xfce desktop on it fucks.
>>43348561depends on how oldthe issue with leenix is that you have to use the most recent software that's available in the repo, meaning that even if the system is lightweight, the software isn't as it's made with more recent specs in mindI used Debian 13 XFCE on T400 with P8700 and it's okay-ish, but I'd still pick Win 7 over it just because of the programs I have on Windows like Paint.NETLinux desktop will continue to get heavier with forcing Wayland and discarding X11. GTK based DE's like XFCE will be screwed in the future unless they fork and maintain GTK on their own.
>>43347070Yeah, that would be pretty sweet
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