But you may find one of those adapters that allows you to use USBC with your current charging barrel jack

Those exist for ThinkPads and other devices from what I've seen

and then you can pipe the laptops usb-c to its own barrel jack for unlimited energyyyyy

In this discord we obey the laws of thermodynamics

!no!

everything would be so much easier if we didnt

why even bother with anything

just lay back and accept the inevitable heat death of the universe

Usbc standards are wack

Oculus is releasing a 5 feet long usbc cable that charges and sends data using Fibre optics

Cause there are no good USB c cables out there that long

USBC confuses me to no end

and USB4 using the same ports and having OPTIONAL thunderbolt support seems like it's just gonna make things lightly more confusing

So your laptop with USB4 might support egpu might not?

maybe it's your cord?

quantum entanglement dongles when

they directly connect to your pc

no need forwires

or wireless interference

thanks Elon musk very cool

what does he have to do with this?

He just seems like the kind of person to make boasts about future tech and I'm tired enough to think it was a funny joke

are you a trap

most likely

I buy gay shit from Ali yes but it doesn't seem technology related

like?

wifi dildos?

electric massage enemas?

Ali vibrators and toys are very low quality so I've stuck away from those after trying it once with some spare change

The charging ports break very quick and you're left with a low quality silicon that falls apart if looked at wrong

However the wigs are really really fucking cheap compared to local shops which is nice for that kinda stuff

There's chastity cages on Ali with electronic stimulation but that's like

I wouldn't put that near anybody's penis

not even yours?

If it wasn't chinesium maybe? Life's short

actually I'm gonna bring this to NSFW because I have a funny story about a dildo from Ali

when is USB4 coming out

Need that BANDWITH

just replace all HDMI and Displayport cables with USB4

and for those VR headsets too

Usb4 is very early I think the estimate was after 2020?

people are barely adopting USB 3.0

it'll take years before USB 4.0 is out

but it

will be a welcome addition

more data the better

What third world country do you live in where 3.0 isn't being adopted

i mean people might be waitting for the half-assed usb3.0 to upgrade into 4.0

as same shit just protocol and chips change

I'll have you know the official consumer names are "SuperSpeed USB" and "USB4"

because fuck making sense

@Matthew canada

we're on USB 3.1 right now

and USB 3.0 is not everywhere now

@Cad >SuperSpeed USB

?????

USB 3.2 apparently has a suggested consumer name of SuperSpeed USB

I like the work that the USB foundation is doing

but jesus they need to get better people to name their stuff

It begs the question of what USB4 is gonna be called when it's launched and they decide USB4 doesn't work

cat-6 usb <:turt:443131018950606878>

>40 GBPS capable USB4 ports is called USB4 Gen 3x2

??????

so there are USB4 ports not capable of 40 GBPS?

>USB 3.1 Gen 2, increased the lane speed to 10 Gbps. A second 10 Gbps lane was added in the USB 3.2 standard, which the USB-IF calls "USB 3.2 Gen 2×2." USB4 (which is not written as "USB 4.0") will reach speeds of 40 Gbps, doubling the speeds again.

gen 3x2 wtf

>"Once the specifications are released, there will be a new round of confusion," the source told TechRepublic. "It's going to be USB4, but you have to qualify what USB4 means, because there are different grades. USB4, by definition, has to be [at least] Gen 2×2, so it will give you 10 Gbps by 2, that's 20 Gbps. There's going to be USB4 Gen 3×2, which is 20 Gbps per lane. 20 by 2 will give you 40 Gbps."

????

all this naming

so you take the first digit multiplied by 10 in Gbps, unless it's gen 3x2, then go fuck urself

and they don't think of giving them names to dictate if they can do video and thunderbolt or not

like actual consumer features

"So I got this USB4 cable but it doesnt do video out and charge at the same time"

"oh it's a USB4 gen 2x2 cable and not the USB 4 Gen 3x2 cable which is video out capable"

cue the boondocks clip of Grandad in the Mac store

i'd say 99% of users don't care about the difference between 20 gbps and 40 gbps

they care about the other features

2x2 and 3x2 says nothing about the speeds either

<:thinkturt:498925089224654859>

I'm actually ok with this because it'll make it easier in the future

Once USB4 is common place all people gonna care about is the number, USB3.2 slower than 4????

ez

it would have been less confusing with shit like having the first digit be the speed and second digit being the functions

>phasing out the type A connector

welcome to the "we have way too many people around this meeting table" decisions

<:blobsweats:427568683003412505> <:blobsweats:427568683003412505> <:blobsweats:427568683003412505>

as somebody who worked selling phones when USBC was new this shit is a nightmare peope face every day

well Type C connector is better than type A in every way

I had to **do my job** and explain to people what they were buying it was awful

expect type A can take much more abuse

and you can fit in more type C ports in the place type A used to be

true

nevermind i meant Type B

Does type C get loose like Type A does?

oh

my brain flipped the cables

Shit

Type A is the one used on PC's, B for mobile devices, and C is "All in one" new one right

Type A is misc devices type B is heavy duty stuff and C is all in one

oh type b was printers and shit

I still have an RN4X, does the type C Port get loose on new devices like micro eventually did

Thunderbolt 3—upon which USB4 is based—supports PCIe 3.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 signaling, making it capable of driving 4K monitors at 60Hz, as well as external desktop-class GPUs that can be used to bolster the graphical capabilities of notebook PCs and small form factor devices like the Mac Mini. USB4 will also inherit the ability to deliver up to 100W of power.

pretty cool

in the future you could just buy an EGPU and plug it into a laptop using USB4

currently EGPUs work but they need more bandwith

External GPU's is actually pretty cool, I'd rather dock a laptop then use one of those hilarious desktop part laptops

oh definitely

External GPUs will be far more common when we get USB4 around standardized

so it's not too expensive for manufacturers to implement it

Now speaking of naming fuck GPU's who decided laptop GPU's have the exact same names as desktop GPU's and there's secretly 2/3 different product lines with the same name like the RTX 2069 something Max Q, Super, TI, and Max P

at least here you can get return/money back if product is not as advertised .. dropping that Max Q from advert is quite big nono

as its 30% performance hit :D

USB 1 and 2 were easy

Then other shit got added and everyone lost track, even the bastards that came up with the names lost track

"type C is the reversable plug"

But not every type C is created equal

And some will be usb3 and others wont

Fuck that

the scare of frying devices when power delivery was new

reeeeeeee

USB 1 and 2 were not easy

they didn't become retarded overnight

USB 1 was renamed to low speed when 1.1 came out, which was full speed

then usb 2 came and they called that high speed

USB 3 at least had the blue color suggestion, I remember USB 1 & 2 having no discernable difference

then they started making ports red for high power

and now we have red 10gbit ports too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bwifBk6ZE

that looks sick

Too bad it's fagshit for faggots

there's also yellow and red usb ports that dictate always-on

Oh the always on ports are neat when you get them on thinkpads

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14925/intel-cascade-lakex-for-hedt-18-cores-for-under-1000

intel slashing prices with largeish cleaver as AMD brings competition

quite nice for everybody

and still overpriced compared to amd what is kind of fun

tldr : The 10 core cpu now is down to $600 from $990

:---DD

It doesn't matter how low they drop prices, because you should always Just Wait ™ for next product

I am gonna buy a Radeon 590 from sapphire

<:woah:333623269674713098>

First I wanted to get an xt 5700.
But I can't reason that price

Vega it up

56 is at decent prices

It just doesn't make any sense for someone, if I can use the rest of the money to buy more ram, more HDD and more ssd

@Tervy I heard they are coilwhine central

Are they really good?

vegas are quite decent cards even if creator oriented (hbm2 memory) but they but games tru their paces nicely

and i have heard the coilwhine issues if people have had "not so good" powersupplies

tho i havent researched it so cant say anything for sure

aka shitty or daisychained PCIE cables from powersupply

but yeah i would need to research way more to comment on it really

Not knowing anything has never stopped you before, tervboy, why stop now

~

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20891534/microsoft-surface-earbuds-buds-true-wireless-features-price-release-date

what an awful design

⚪

they look huge

Microsoft was never all that good with product design

I got a 580 8gb from hardwareswap coming in, $100 shipped. Im adverse to amd cards after buying a 7970 and then a 280X which was apperently a 7970 refresh, they use so much power and spit out so much heat

Luckily this gpu is for a friend

For that price I'd rather get the Sony's

Except for the Zune and intelimouse @Tribit

Too true

Both Zunes

Zune HD > Zune Gen 2 > Zune Big ol brown brick

I had a Zune 4 and it was fuckin' choice

I still have my HD

Still works

Saved all the rare apps and games to it

rare apps?

Yeah after a while Microsoft shuttered their Zune store/marketplace

Taking down the Zune apps with it

There was a Audiosurf made exclusively for the Zune HD

oh, neat

That scroll pad was so nice

the UI was choice

It's almost a shame modern cellphones made having a dedicated MP3 player obsolete

Yeah I never got to try a Gen 2

HD is neat for its OLED screen

I owned a zune

https://www.amazon.com/Zune-120-Video-Player-Black/dp/B001EQ0HAW
what the hell this thing costs more than my old redmi note 4

Old hardware is expensive, go figure

@Windatica it's pretty ok. It using the polaris architechture which is much more power efficient.

its okay because its about to be winter

@foxhunt if you want one they're available on taobao

Brand new and affordable

Because nobody in China wants the things lol

not relly

why would I ?

I've seen the classic Zune brick for 70-80 bucks

@foxhunt well you could flip them for profit

meh

too much work

(thats probably what the amazon listing is doing already)

Yup

http://techrights.org/2019/04/26/drm-inside-linux/

ahh yes the good old "aaa lets point at fingers as someone is trying to kill linux instead finding/designing superior alternatives" ..imho those(mentioned (secureboot,hdcp,etc) features are implemented to survive and adapt for non-technical users

try saying to person who is searching to try linux "ohh you need to buy motherboard what does not have secureboot"

"oh you cant watch most of these films due linux" "oh and btw you cant connect to some sites at all due they contain DRM"

for linux its adapt or die specialy now that microsoft is taking their moves into linux with embrace, extend, and extinguish tactics again

I wanna get a Zune

and put a SSD inside

or SD card

I'm honestly contemplating buying one

Biggest mistakes of my life were selling my Sega dream cast and Microsoft zune

same

Zune HD
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=541186144839
Zune 2
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.20141001.1.29a64011FsgmIm
Zune 2 small 4-8gb
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.20141001.2.17505c07C5IGfP

@Zero Infinity i wish i knew where my dreamcast went, i let a friend borrow it and its has since gone missing

>tfw I got a ps2 slim from my cousin that way <:pepewot:589100642820161551>

remember when watching video on an mp3 player was a big thing?

good times

That's a shitty friend/situation @Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two

I sold my dream cast for cheap, because the buyer was really poor

i dont blame him for losing it, he was in a fucked up situation and got kicked out of the house he was living in (through no fault of his own) and it got lost in the chaos

Ha. We both lost out to dire straits 🤔

Anyway, hope both of our consoles live on

thats called an mp4 player

Yeah but then phones that could play the files came out

🙈 https://www.androidcentral.com/homeless-people-reportedly-targeted-googles-pixel-4-face-unlock-testing

Can't camp with the homeless to hide from killer AI drones now.

lmao

https://youtu.be/1cfKc8U4iwg

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14947/already-working-on-2nd-gen-amds-ryzen-microsoft-surface-edition-and-what-semicustom-means

My friends gayming laptop works fine on battery but playing gayms on charger it heats up like crazy and starts to thermal throttle. What gives? I told him to undervolt but he says it didn't help much. Cpu is okay temperature but gpu rises above 96 or something

He applies liquid metal too

Laptops got i7 7700hq and a 6GB gtx1060

most laptops will throttle on battery power to begin with

so maybe you're just not noticing it because of that

No its throttling on charger

yes, but it will limit power usage on battery only

so it will heat up less

and thus not thermal throttle

So any ideas?

turn on power saving mode?

it's working as intended

laptops are thermally throttling 9/10 times

they're designed that way

It doesnt

He tried it

Fps limit?

Tried but didn't work

I have no idea what it could be except maybe failing gpu

He reinstalled Wangblows and now is getting some gpu(most probably) crashes

Told him to install older driver and see

Slap him in the mouth for buying a gaymen laptop, for starters

Then show him the wonder of Fan Docks for laptops

Yeah I didn tell him to cool it externally

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NU5O9C/ref=emc_b_5_t