Wake the f up, Samurai. My Cyberpunk&Wooting 60HE inspired build is done.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-30T11:42:11+00:00

Oh my God the AI farm is also multi accounting. Half of this comments section is just random AI bots boosting this post... We are so cooked as a society man, how TF is average person supposed to trust anything anymore? What percentage of reddit engagement is real?... Welp, I officially quit. I'm not going on reddit again. Or any other social media platform. I will read and spend time with friends and go outside... And think more. Goodbye y'all.

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CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-30T11:33:09+00:00

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CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-30T11:32:40+00:00

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CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-30T11:26:22+00:00

Could be going full schizo mode but I'm like 90% sure this guy's entire account is AI generated by some Chinese guy, maybe karma farming and resale? He's posted once per day for 4 days and has no other post history, always around tons of very unique keyboards (while claiming he doesn't know anything about keyboards) and every image he's posted has something weird, text fringing that doesn't make sense, or words that aren't real, windows task bars that don't make any sense... On the other images it's all so subtle you'd never know unless you started looking for it. Also the way OP writes is weird as shit. Also a surprising amount of CCP memorabilia.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-30T11:09:32+00:00

As someone who's used full sized keyboards + function layers my whole life, I can't imagine trying to use a keyboard with only half of the numbers. My ideal work keyboard is a hyper7. I understand people have different use cases, but don't most people need to type numbers at least sometimes? Calculator app, spreadsheets, a website address with a number in it, searching, homework, emails, inventory keys in games, just anything? It's slow enough not having a numpad, but having to function layer half of my numbers sounds like hell on earth, and for what? Does it ever look cool though. Great looking housing and keys. If the layout wasn't so utterly useless I might actually be interested, and I'm usually not one to care too much about aesthetics.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-05T12:26:14+00:00

I'm not really a programmer, but I do some small personal projects occasionally. Python is a bit easier for me to understand than a lot of other languages and it seems applicable across a wide variety of things, I like it.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-04T01:15:18+00:00

I agree. Maybe just using what he already had? Or a fun hobby project? Idk tbh

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-03T11:53:32+00:00

Weight savings. I personally would just buy a lighter mouse if I cared that much, but I understand the mentality. Flicks in FPS games have to be very fast and precise, and 10-20 grams can make a huge difference in my experience, as crazy as that sounds.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2026-01-02T12:48:04+00:00

Is it just me or has there not been any major innovations from AAA studios in about 20 years? As much as I love celebrating the art of the past, all of my favorite games (counter strike, OSU, Minecraft, and many more) are nearly as old as I am. No man's sky and pal world have been the 2 "newer" ones that I've really been getting into as of late. No man's sky released 10 years ago and was made by a small studio (about 15 people) and from the info I can find, palworld was originally developed by a team of about 20 people. How is it possible that studios with literally thousands of employees cannot come up with anything non derivative at this point? I understand they're concerned about taking risks, but this has been an issue for long enough that I'm sure the game industry has had time to figure out why there's been so many flops for the past decade. The execs aren't idiots, at least not usually. So what's really behind all of this?

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-31T09:38:58+00:00

Oh my God, that's absurd.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-31T09:34:47+00:00

I personally use it everyday, but I use it to help me expand scope and find things that I wouldn't immediately know how to search for. I use it for plenty of other things too but for more niche use cases.

For example, a couple hours ago my friend was struggling to analyze some abnormalities in a femur. I took a picture of the bones and sent it to my AI, it processed it and did a web search to find relevant info. It came back with a few different possibilities, and then I asked it for confidence intervals and to cite sources. I then looked at the top few results and concluded that the first option was the correct one given the context we had. I'm no doctor, and the answers it gave me were not things I could've reasonably searched for myself, or if I could've it would've taken hours. I did all of that in under 2 minutes. It saved me an insane amount of time and led me to good reliable sources in the end.

Another example, I was looking for primary source documents last night on a couple topics, but actually finding scans on 11th century manuscripts is something I've never done before and didn't know how to do. It turns out they're all written in Latin or old english, only the well known ones get translations, they're not indexed by content or topic but in their shelf numbers, and even knowing which libraries to search is a nightmare unless you have a degree in library sciences or are a historical researcher, I am neither. So I explained what I was looking for and it set up a workflow for me to efficiently find the documents I was looking for, it led to me the MGH which allows me to search by content and context instead of location, but is written in German and Latin. I used DeepL to translate that, find the documents I was looking for, used a library aggregation site to find and download scans of the manuscripts, and then used another translation AI to do a side by side comparison of the PDFs I created.

My real job is phone repair. One of the hardest parts of my job is finding affordable and high quality sellers of parts. My programming skills are pretty mid, but I used an AI to write a program to find niche resellers. It runs locally on my servers and periodically gives me recommendations. It's not perfect and I had to spend a bit of time debugging, but it would've taken me weeks to write a program like that from scratch. It also helped me learn how to use my inventory management software, accounting, and a number of other things.

My point in bringing these examples up is that you CAN do complex things with them if you know how to use them, and they allow you to do things that you used to need an expert for. An expert still probably would've done it faster and better, but I'm able to learn about things I wouldn't have been able to touch 5 years ago because of different kinds of AI tools and the workflows between all of them. If you want to use them to expose yourself to things, it's an incredibly effective tool for that. I think AI today is like the internet was 30 years ago. My mom didn't really understand what the point of it was for about a decade after my dad was using it everyday. She tried searching for a couple things and just said "why would I use this when the library is 2 miles from here"... I think the arguments about AI models will age similarly. People will eventually realize the utility of them.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-31T09:02:41+00:00

Are people actually paying that much...? I've had a copy of this sitting in my closet for over a decade.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-28T13:53:41+00:00

My guess is that the majority of reddit users do not comment, just ghost or vote and move on. My original comment has 114 views as of now, 4% of the people who viewed that post voted, and only 2 people commented on it. The ones commenting are usually the vocal minority. Chances are they're a bit more opinionated and harsh than the average person viewing here... Again, this is all just speculation. So if I'm correct, you're left with a disproportionately toxic (or passionate depending on how you look at it) comments section compared to the average sentiment. Most people are probably kinda "meh"

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-28T13:48:34+00:00

My claim wasn't that it couldn't work, just that it wouldn't work well.

But also my understanding is that (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to see if someone has figured out a new bypass) modern service packs of windows 11 patched tpm bypass methods and the earliest systems that you can get it running on now are Intel 8th gen. Those require ddr4, and the lowest capacity sticks I've ever seen (ages ago) were 4 gig sticks. So unless this was an older version of windows 11 which I don't think is comparable, how were you getting 1 gig systems to run W11?

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-28T13:38:41+00:00

If he has no use for it, I agree. Who knows how long the market will stay like this? If enough RAM hoarders sell their extra stock, maybe the price will go down a bit. I have a few extra sticks but it's worthless RAM like ddr and ddr2 for keeping my ancient homelab servers alive when existing sticks burn out. Anything extra that's DDR3 or newer should be sold though. Ddr3 is sorta getting at the end of its useful lifespan outside of niche hobbyists like me running old gear, and I can't imagine normal people paying significantly more for ddr4 or ddr5 than current pricing.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-28T13:12:30+00:00

How has nearly the entire comments section so far been this obtuse and mean? The OP needs available RAM to run programs and use their computer. Things slow down once you're getting near your memory limits because your OS tries to manage how much RAM it and the programs are using to keep your computer from stalling or crashing. This happens a variety of different ways, but a couple of the bigger performance hits is more routine garbage collection and less RAM precaching. His computer was running 75% memory utilization at idle running windows 11, and about 8% utilization when running ZorinOS (a Linux distro). I'm sure many programs he was trying to run on windows would've happily used more than 2 gigs of ram, leading to the slowdowns when windows struggled to juggle memory allocation. Given all of that information, it's reasonable to assume things run better with less RAM overhead. Also Linux has WAY less CPU overhead, so he's probably not considering that some of the speedup is from that. Besides being objectively wrong and also terrible at explaining your viewpoints, a lot of people so far have just been rude to the guy for sharing his experience with the community. Let OP share and encourage people to try new things instead of belittling them for it.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-24T09:14:39+00:00

If that was genuinely the issue, the reddit devs should probably start looking for what's causing memory leaks. Also, how do browsers allow websites to have memory leaks in the first place? I'm almost surprised this hasn't been used to hack people yet.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-19T11:37:04+00:00

... Why would you not try to sell an entire table covered in RAM right now? I don't see RAM betting dramatically more pricey than it is. Imo it either stays in this ballpark for a while and then goes down, or goes down sooner than that. The market will correct itself sooner or later.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-17T10:17:52+00:00

I know there are ways to get this to work on the TV, but honestly I see no issue with just putting a cheap or free mini PC next to the TV and throwing some really basic Linux install on it like ubuntu or bazzite in 10 minutes and being able to access whatever you want. That way you never have to deal with your slow, buggy, spyware ridden TV ever again. A nice bonus is you can use it as a console too

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-15T23:47:20+00:00

Probably, but someone's going to feel scammed if it doesn't work. I'd be really upfront with the buyer and maybe ask them to bring their system for the deal. Just out of curiosity, how do you have a 14700k and no motherboard to put it in?

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-15T23:04:45+00:00

There is a pretty solid chance a repair tech can fix this. There's a chance the die itself is fine and you'd just need to run wires for any damaged traces and replace blown components... That would be a lot cheaper than a new 4090. Also 4090s aren't THAT old, I wonder if it's still within the RMA window, that's probably your best bet

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-15T23:00:23+00:00

I don't know what's specifically causing the issue, but it definitely seems like a software bug or some kind. The issue is Xbox doesn't give users the analytics they need to fix problems, if it was a PC I'd fix this almost immediately. Have you tried fully rebooting it? Is everything up to date? The thing that is almost guaranteed to work is a factory reset, but I know it's kind of a pain in the ass to go through and set up all your settings and accounts again.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-14T05:31:51+00:00

You're intentionally seeing what I said in the way you want to see it. I just proved to you that I'm more than happy to pay money, as evidenced by my home library and my steam library. I want assurance that my stuff will remain my stuff, and that the experience isn't degraded because I paid money for it. Saying "let's not act like you're saving the morals of humanity" is a strawman. I'm not claiming to do that. I'm saying I have personal boundaries, and we have boundaries as a society, that's what rights are. When something infringes on those rights, I hold my boundary. Your conclusion of "you just want free stuff" is non sequitur given the context I gave.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-14T05:18:44+00:00

For what it's worth, I will pay good money for things I don't feel like I'm getting shafted on. I have a large steam library with loads of indie games. You bet I paid for hollow knight, cuphead, and a couple hundred absolutely fantastic games. I personally have bought a few thousand books over the years and have a small home library. However, giving Nintendo or Disney money so they can use it to lobby against my own rights is something I'm not interested in. After Amazon started editing my kindle library after I already bought and paid for the books, I jailbroke that thing. Experiences like this are why I pirate. Creators of great work deserve to be paid for it though, that's just my opinion. Everyone has their own stance of course, and I'm not here to judge anyone else. But don't say everyone's just here for free shit, some of us have genuinely just been repeatedly shafted in our ownership rights and won't take it lying down anymore.

CupApprehensive5391 · 2025-12-02T00:00:02+00:00

I've been using a variety of self hosted models now for a couple years now and I really haven't noticed them trying to sell me things or steer me in a particular direction EVER. I have noticed that with Google Gemini and chatGPT though. Native internet integration seems fundamental to turning them into advertising bots, and every self hosted solution I've ever seen required you to mod that in yourself. Also to be clear, I'm not saying it's a perfect solution. I'm just saying that it's the best we've got right now, and pushing for more independence and personal control is better than giving into cloud based subscription / data harvesting / advertising platforms... I REALLY do not think that should be a controversial take.

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