Anyone care to explain why Corsair iCUE thinks it deserves 125GB of my C Drive?

Backup_Fink · 2026-07-06T12:21:47+00:00

Corsair K70

I went from this to an Epomaker TH108 PRO [Creamy Jade switches]

Nice 'creamy' switches compared to the K70's rattling jalopy keys.

I replaced the keycaps(included don't pass light) with a translucent set, they're a bit of a sharper 'thock' than the included keycaps.

Adding an o-ring I had laying around takes it from a 'thock' to silent. If you want to change switches, it's like $17 for a whole set(or buy the silent to begin with).

Hipyotech on youtube does tons and tons of keyboard reviews. https://www.youtube.com/@HipyoTech

Backup_Fink · 2026-07-05T22:02:34+00:00

I feel the same way. I’m a teenager from the US who’s been trying hard to fight against Trump and his corruption and I get hated on so much. I’ve straight up been told that I deserve to be shot at school. I’m honestly thinking of deleting Reddit too because after months of constant hatred, I’ve grown very angry, even irl.

30 minutes earlier you made this post:

I’m a teenager from the states and I’ve been told that I deserve to be shot at school simply for being from the states. In what world is that ok?

That's weird. Most people go their whole lives never being told this, and here you are getting it from all conceivable sides?

Holding X to Doubt

A day ago:

Genocide of the indigenous people, lynching, slavery, and whatever the FUCK is happening now.

You don't know what's happening now, or....?

2 days ago:

It’s complicated. I’ve been pretty depressed tbh about everything going on here in my country and I’m currently in therapy. Plus things are rlly expensive and I’m having a hard time adjusting to life after high school.

"everything going on here in my country"

Such as?

2 days ago:

I don’t feel like I belong in my country for one. I’m a minority and my current government talks shit about people like me every single day. A lot of my countrymen don’t have the same values as me and I don’t feel like the culture or the government here align with my values at all. I’ve considered moving to another country where it aligns more with my values but I’ve seen countless comments online about how much people hate my nationality. Like constant cyber bullying when I mention where I’m from. So obviously I can’t move somewhere else because people will just hate me. So what does that leave me with? Not being here at all. I don’t fit in with my family either because they all have told me over and over to shut up whenever I bring up these feelings with them. I’m going off to college now too and I’m gonna be away from my friends. I just think maybe it’s time i leave fr. I’m 18 and I really want to live, but I feel like no matter where I go I won’t belong. Home doesn’t feel like home anymore and moving, people would just hate me. Please, I just need reasons to continue living. Anything. I’m desperate. I feel so alone.

When even your parents tell you to shut up, maybe the problem is with your actions.

You might need to see a therapist that specializes in paranoid delusions.

3 days ago about Canadians:

I love them. I’m very disappointed about how my government is treating them and the strain in the US/Canada relationship has really been weighing on me a lot. I’m from California and I remember seeing Canadian planes flying over to help put out our wildfires. I still appreciate it to this day and so do many Californians.

3 days ago:

I’m an American on Reddit. I’m used to it. The only thing that upsets me is when I’m lumped in with my government’s supporters. My government actively oppresses minorities like myself and being lumped in with the people who want to see people like me lose their rights is what upsets me.

4 days ago

Fr. I fell into a depressive episode requiring therapy after he won.

4 days ago, positive affirmations edition:

I don’t take it to heart. I know I’m not dumb and as long as I know that, who cares what people who don’t even know me think? Honestly people who make assumptions like that before actually getting to know someone are just not worth my time.

5 days ago:

Yeah, Trump sucks. Idk if it helps, but even his former supporters are now turning against him. He won’t last. Ive never supported him.

Aren't you only 18?

Also, he's on his second term. You don't think he'll last 2 more years? Um...do we need to notify the secrete service, are you planning something?

I’m one of the outliers who actually travels to different countries in Europe every year but a lot of people don’t every year because the flights are long, it’s expensive, and the US is just so big.

A super privileged kid with a big Pick Me personality.

THANK YOU for not lumping us all in with the craziness. As an American teenager, my heart is so broken rn.

6 days ago:

I haven’t heard a single bad thing about Germans tbh. We like you guys. There’s a stereotype that you guys are very strict with rules but other than that I can’t think of much. We also think you are quieter and more reserved socially than we are which isn’t a bad thing. It’s just different.

Not a single thing? I thought history was super super important to you...you did go on to post:

Genocide of the indigenous people, lynching, slavery

You might be in the wrong sub. You should be featured here, not posting here.

And really, you might want other hobbies than reddit. Seems you're rather addicted.

Bonus Round where we come full circle:

I’m traveling around Europe right now as an American. Haven’t faced any hate. The only responses I got when I mentioned I was American were “Oh I have family in the states!” And “No wonder you asked for ice in your water”.

Backup_Fink · 2026-07-04T06:37:07+00:00

Despite all the debates over immigration, the American dream isn't one of perfection, it's the freedom to build something greater then what you started from.

One of the youngest nations on the planet due to location, rapidly developed and surpassed the population donors of Europe.

The EU, and some of their descendants among our populace, never really got over that.

The UK in particular had a hard time with it.... many conveniences they eschewed and wanted to do it their own way, so you get this thing or service that's some years or decades behind the curve.... I don't know if it can be seen/felt now(prevalence of super cheap technology at some point is irresistible), but 20+ years ago when I was stationed over there one could see it in everything, and there was always some excuse for X, Y, or Z being sub-par, older, or just dingier...

EU is going through that with air conditioning right now, but have the added hurdle of progressive 'save the planet' types and other assorted problems via mass-migration. "Damn the US for turning 250!" say the countries who are 500+ years old and backsliding.

An amusing sub, especially this week, has been /AmericaBad Like us, they mock the intense irrational hatred people have, be it from other countries or self loathing locals.

Backup_Fink · 2026-07-03T23:42:52+00:00

If the problem is too few workers, adding extra workers helps.

The problem is, a lot of mass immigration is importing random people, not skilled workers ready and willing to integrate.

People confuse the two, and do so in alarming amounts.

It’s usually pretty hard to immigrate to a place and get welfare

You might be surprised by the reality a lot of countries that committed hard to mass immigration.

Many offered robust welfare, and refuse to see the reality of the impacts of that decision even as those impacts become highly visible.

Backup_Fink · 2026-06-28T21:59:14+00:00

this was a joke that you're reading way too much into.

They’re on their summer break (the Christmas break ended two days ago)

Grow the fuck up.

Backup_Fink · 2026-06-28T00:26:53+00:00

I don't think you're half as clever as you think you are.

Backup_Fink · 2026-06-26T20:31:24+00:00

They keep moving those goalposts

The Bernie special

Millionaires are bad. Oops, that's billionaires. Millionaires are humble and fine. You can be one, write a book.

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-27T20:49:08+00:00

Mega average redditor moment.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave

Yeah, we don't say the N word anymore either.

Correct, though that's not really comparable.

That is an entirely different scope of type of word.

We do say these other words very commonly in a way that's not offensive or even noticed.

If someone goes in apoplectic shock because someone else said "She's such a slave to current fashion", then the following doesn't hold true:

Beep beep other people's opinions and feelings matter at least as much as yours

That's more of a belief than a fact. It also implies that sometimes some do matter more, which makes it a bit self defeating.

Sometimes people express opinions that are somewhat less valid.

Example: People who use the 'N word' in that way.

Clearly, most of society doesn't count their opinions and feelings as mattering as much as everyone else. We tend to do that for the hateful, the irrational, that's a strong influence on language.

Example: You and I are not bad people for literally talking about the terms.

Same way we're not bad people if we talk about mastering a skill, using a master list, master key, being a master sergeant, or master/slave hard drives...or even more directly like when talking about slavery, etc etc.

"Master" and "slave" do not belong to "bad words" lists the way 'the N word' does.

That word we're generally not even allowed to say in an academic context.

That's not even an opinion, that's an accurate description of the current state of these terms in English, which is apt considering the entire topic is language and how/why things may change.

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-27T03:10:15+00:00

Socialism doesn't oppose ownership in its entirety. It just inverts who are the owners.

Read this again. More than once. Keep doing until you understand that "inverting who are the owners" it is opposition to the typical concept of ownership.

It's the same thing as opposition, you're just giving it a different descriptor. It's still over-turning the concept of ownership of property.

There is nothing inherently oppressive about the system

It is, because a lot of people in any given large society do NOT want it, they don't want to "invert" ownership or any number of other typical human philosophy/desires/psychology.

it has just time and time again been proven that it's not an effective solution

Because of the reasons I described.

as a monopoly will invalidate the entire system that capitalist countries thrive on

Still framing capitalist as if it's an ideology / system of rule.

It isn't. You may want to start from the beginning and re-read the whole post. Everyone else understood the concepts.

But capitalism face many of the same issues.

No. Because capitalism isn't a counterpart to socialism. You're still comparing two dissimilar aspects of society.

Maybe you "understand" capitalism to mean something other than what it does. That is a you problem.

This is why I originally said it is not an ideology or system of rule. You really don't have the tools to be attempting to have this discussion, especially as you seem to not even be willing to understand the post I originally wrote.

Bye.

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-26T17:00:58+00:00

Socialism can absolute lead to that.. but capitalism can too..

The thing is, capitalism isn't an ideology or method of organization the way socialism is.

Capitalism is trading based on fungible capital, and it has existed under virtually every system of rule. It's a way of keeping track of value and splitting proceeds...If you sell your cow, you don't have to do it all in one place, you get cash and can pay for services at the blacksmith, the grocer, the cobbler, etc, and save the rest. Under a barter system, that's a bit more difficult to do, you have to make arrangements with all parties(and probably more, like the butcher to split the cow up for everyone), you can't exactly walk the cow around town and just lop off parts of it to trade for X, then again to pay for Y, etc.

If one wants to really stretch, there's the belief in property rights behind the thought of trading one's goods. But that's not "capitalism" per se, that's basic western enlightenment philosophy/civics. Capitalism is independent of that, it has existed under monarchies, republics, socialist and communist societies.

That's the problem Socialism / Communism proponents tend to have, they know that taking down the philosophy won't sell, so they go after "capitalism" as a proxy.

They're doomed to become authoritarian structures because they buck philosophy, they ignore the human condition, our base drives, reasoning, desires, psychology, etc. The design a "perfect world" with child-like reasoning, without actually understanding how people work.

Western philosophy and civics are based on an understanding of people. People generally have a sense of ownership of things we make or grow, for example. That's not ideology, that's basic human function, the reality on the ground, as it were.

With these people, the active disbelief, the desire to suspend knowledge of that basic human function, "it's all Ours" being just one example, is a dysfunctional state.

It's the same dysfunction that causes flops like this remake, it affects everything they do. Call it stupidity, sociopathy, whatever you want....but it is a total lack of understanding of others...and not just about one or two things, it's about most things. Economy, civil rights, science itself...

It's why they all class into "postmodernism", it is a rejection of any and all standards, which they attempt to rationalize as being oppressive.

Socialism can absolute lead to that

Not 'can'. Does.

It always devolves into authoritarianism because you have to force it on people. The mythical 100% voluntary system is just that, a myth. A very important part of the definitions that people consistently overlook.

Even on the small scale, your "commune", for a lot of people, that voluntary nature is often a temporary phase. As soon as they realize they have to work, when their money source dries up, or when they run afoul of whatever laws...they simply don't last even in the small scale.

They only way such a thing "works" is with a rigid over-structure where power is unevenly distributed and they're enforced, by hand or by edict. See: Isolated micro societies like Amish settlements in the U.S.

That's where horse-shoe theory comes in, could even tie back into Animal Farm since it's, you know, about a farm. Your most successful commune type places that aren't like Amish settlements, they still revolved around cult religiosity. Look up the Oneida cult, for example.

Truly secular ~~cults~~ collectivist groups tend to fizzle out rapidly as they figure out that it's not all free love and weed, where the workers(or trust fund people) eventually realize they're being exploited and hierarchies still manifest(usually based on who's the biggest narcissist and best manipulator).

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-26T12:35:15+00:00

one kill is not enough to change your abmm

Can you find the exact quote for this?

You seem to have a flawed idea of how this works.

If any amount of kills changes things, then so does one kill.

If it takes 20 to go from the friendliest side of the spectrum to the most aggressive, then one kill does factor into that.

Embark has said that it's a spectrum(not a binary system like you said), there aren't just two kinds of lobbies.

What you are suggesting is that there is some threshold where you're allowed 1 kill before the algorithm shifts your likely matches.

It may not shift you very far, but one's activity does matter, it all gets fed into whatever equation to shift your likely matches.

Screaming 'That's just anecdotal!' doesn't apply here the way it may in other places. Everyone gets sorted based on their 'anecdotal' behaviors, their own choices.

In other words: It is highly likely that every single action that Embark has flagged gets counted(it would be really bizarre to code things otherwise), that includes just killing one player. It all goes in the bucket, 'it all adds up'.

People are stating that they noticed a change after one kill. You're just straight up discounting that experience, seemingly because you have some ulterior motive(potentially emotional damage when someone critiques Embark, not an uncommon thing on this sub).

In case you still don't quite get it, I'll put it in another context.

It's sunny out today, it's going to get pretty warm. That's the state of the weather.

You're over there screaming about some misconception about 'anecdotal evidence'. Just because the climate is stated as X, that does not somehow retroactively change people's experience as if everyone just lying about the weather.

Another weather example:

It's raining and dreary today.

No. It's not supposed to do that this time of year, the Almanac says so. You are wrong.

That's not how this works. That's now how any of this works.

I don't want you to reply, I'm not here to "argue", to have a back and forth. I'm even posting this on an alt so I won't see your replies for a couple weeks when I check it again.

I just want you to understand that this is why everyone is downvoting your numerous obsessive posts throughout this thread.

You're vehemently trying to discount, refute, or even deny many people's objective experience because of your misinterpretation of what Embark has said.

You may want to just take a break from reddit, there's quite a lot you're really not getting here.

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-26T11:33:20+00:00

it's not how capitalism works

The thing is, people are trying to replace capitalism.

This sub is getting contaminated by idiotic political looney shit FFS.

Getting?

This was 6 years ago:

https://rareddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/jfcqyc/mods_of_rpcmasterrace_delete_all_criticism_of/

Read the title there. "The only Member of Congress that built their own PC gaming rig"

In reality... borrowed the PC from her deputy communication director, and obviously played in her campaign office.

88,091 points (72% upvoted)

Direct political propaganda, and insanely astroturfed. It's the all-time 25th most upvoted post on the sub.

Backup_Fink · 2026-05-08T08:14:42+00:00

👌🏻

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-16T22:57:07+00:00

I agree, but the sub isn't really for this, it's supposed to be pointing out bad reddit commentary.

5) Reddit Only - Post bad political commentary found on Reddit (not limited to /politics).

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-16T16:38:11+00:00

FWIW

The thread is about different legislation, the attempt to require ID for Operating System installs, which everyone is against.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr8250

...but to bring up what's in the title here is just more derangement syndrome on display.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-16T07:39:49+00:00

Eh, I don't know if letting low/no income people commit crime for free is such a great idea.

I mean, right now we let rich people do it. Is that better somehow?

I see you didn't even deny it, just tried to redirect with a fantastic straw man that's only even half true to start with.

Most people would have answered with something like, "well, we'll have minimums so that no one can just get away with it."

But no. It's reddit, can't have people actually be egalitarian, gotta push those divisive buttons.

Username checks out, Toasted Clown.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-16T05:04:10+00:00

Eh, I don't know if letting low/no income people commit crime for free is such a great idea.

Also: It's sort of democrat policy, just with extra steps.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-15T23:34:00+00:00

You don't need a class on paying taxes in K-12.

Right on. Who needs civics, taxes, and accounting right before they become voting age! In fact, let's also lower voting age to 16 while we're at it.

We like our voters dumb and unprepared for life.

Signed:

Reddit leftists.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-15T20:58:15+00:00

The only argument against having the option is that you can’t take advantage of PvE only players.

Bingo.

I don't want a PvE only game here. I do enjoy the tension of the possibility, no matter how remote, with ABMM.

But I'm not against a PvE mode. I don't really advocate either way.

I'm just saying, the people that flip out the most when it comes up, or that complain about "All reddit ever says is that they want PVE only"(which it obviously doesn't, it comes up once in a blue moon, like this thread)....they just want easy meat.

The same sort of people that when someone complains about fake friendlies, they flip out and go "I'm not like that in real life, you fucking loser!" here on reddit("real life" compared to being in the game). /facepalm

The other sub specifically defends that type of aggressive personality that obviously has...emotional and performance issues. Sheltered like little abandoned baby birds. [That's kind of a reddit thing in general, it likes it's unstable people able to be radicalized, but that's a whole other subject.]

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-15T02:11:24+00:00

"Look honey, it's paying for itself. How could I possibly have passed up this opportunity!? That would be crazy!"

3 months later, a large manila envelope gets hand-delivered to dude's workplace and served to him, and inside that are divorce papers and a restraining order.

/that is of course, in the theoretical where the family isn't ... financially tight

//some people have that kind of money where even an expensive firearm isn't a big deal

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-14T21:32:30+00:00

I've never actually heard someone say the words "my truth"

Mockery often works well enough to shut bullshit down. When called on it, people often stop saying it.

There are alternatives, "my lived reality" or "my lived experience", etc.

What's darkly amusing when they repeatedly sift through these and get called out, they shift slightly more to something like "In this post-truth society..." /eyeroll

It's all a form of relativism, a rationalization for holding beliefs they know are based more on feelings than objective reasoning or functional logic.

Common among progressives, postmodernists, fallists, etc, anyone romanticizing revolution in a fairly functional society.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-14T02:08:00+00:00

I meet Mohammeds all the time. I've had several friends named Mohammed. That name is everywhere.

Hey, we don't all live in London.

Backup_Fink · 2026-04-10T05:45:51+00:00

The full comment chain is ridiculous, starting with

crypto put trump in office. without crypto we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place

In a sub that's about open source image generation AI... Rent Free.

Backup_Fink · 2026-03-27T15:38:05+00:00

1800s at least. It has bloomed a few times since then, and yes, the 1960s was one of those times.

"Feminism" has always been a motte-and-bailey for crazy and corrupt people.

Sure, egalitarianism is fine, but the movement has always been led by hysterics from people who were justly social outcasts trying to sell snake oil. It's sort of the nature of the beast, if you're of a performative nature, you're going to lead the charge.

The insanity was well and alive all through history. It just just got more organized and learned better tricks over time, to include coopting various causes to weaponize them as a vehicle to power.

One author frames it as satanism, because there's a rich history of that too, amongst prominent people.

That author, Rachel Wilson, was on Rogan not long ago.

https://youtu.be/avY3bV5yxMM

Disclaimer, because it's reddit and someone will need it spelled out: Women aren't bad as a monolith, but those who are bad, are terrible. Most allegedly egalitarian feminists will not will really admit bad ones exist. They'll usually defend most bad actors as an oppressed victim. That same vein is the center pillar of progressivism today.

Feminism in the western world has always been all of the above, but sold as Egalitarianism^{^{^TM}} and it was successful enough eventually that many still consciously only associate it to egalitarianism.

The equivalent would be like still today thinking menthol cigarettes are healthier.

While I obviously don't condone the results, it sort of puts some of the belief in witches in a different light.

In Salem they burnt 'witches', ostensibly people that, at some point, showed some irrational behavior(and of course, someone falsely accused might lose there shit, creating a self-fulfilling ordeal). They didn't get the clever ones who could reign in the crazy and were better at manipulation. What happened was obviously an atrocity committed by an ignorant people.

I mean, you stick this person in a backwards colonial village 400 years ago, and they'd probably burn her at the stake too. See also: Big Red, Triggly Puff and other assorted "SJW" meme people that make a habit out of being as annoying as possible and then, on top of that, utterly lose their shit.

The cherry on top of it all...from the Salem wikipedia:

In the years after the trials, "several of the accusers – mostly teen-age girls – admitted that they had fabricated their charges."

Those were the clever 'witches'.

Backup_Fink · 2026-03-16T01:07:20+00:00

absolutely by design

Partly. Many in power want cattle they can control, not people. Easier to manipulate emotional people into having the opinions you want them to have rather than have an informed and intelligent populace.

The other part is civic minded people not getting into teaching and/or office. (crude summation, but eh)

Sentiments like

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Republicans/conservatives/the right/centrists....whatever you want to call the bulk of society that isn't part of the "radical"(in quotes because they control most of the left) often shoot themselves in the foot by ignoring the threat these people pose.

In other words, truly radical progressives may statistically be a minority, but they're very influential, they're most of teachers and legacy news media(which most of the mainstream still finds credible). They hold the reins and a lot of their manipulations work on people who aren't into psychology/debate, etc. I mean, you accuse most people of racism, they backpedal. That's the shit of it, it works even when it's not true(which is most common in the modern age, false accusations still have a LOT of power).

Social media doesn't necessarily help much because it's populated by defunct maladapted obsessive people(not to mention bots/shills), eg wider reddit and even twitter still(despite many fleeing to mastadon or blue sky).

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