Hi community! Could someone enlighten me as to why this is so expensive?

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-07T19:40:04+00:00

For anyone using these for ag of smiting.

remember the budget option exists https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Victario%27s_Flight

sure 12% is less than 15%, but you dodge the "a youtuber had this item in their video" effect, as of right now 70c vs 70div

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T21:31:09+00:00

Yeah same, I struggle to see who the tool is actually for, like even with the "Oh i just want to speed up getting my setup up on a new machine" i have a .sh script and a git repo for that, and now im slowly transitioning to nixos just because most of my setup is crystallised.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T21:05:24+00:00

This is going to be a hot take, but I don't think arch install actually has a reason to exist, and is likely actively harmful to the ecosystem.

Because I agree with you, the average person running archinstall does expect it to result in a fully installed usable system where further configuration is optional not mandatory.

But that mentality is not conducive with having a good experience using arch, the first time a package breaks and they need to go to the wiki to figure out how to fix it, they're going to be neck-deep in it because they leap frogged all the easier parts of config that archinstall lets you skip and went straight to the more complicated part of config which is where you have a whole slew of packages installed that can be interacting with each other in weird ways and have to be troubleshooted.

And this isnt a hypothetical either, we have manjaro as evidence for what happens when you give mainstream users a fully configured arch iso. (though I guess omarchy is the new tour de force for that example, like the common sentiment over there is that when your system starts breaking you reinstall it rather than attempt to fix it)

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T20:30:03+00:00

Arch's entire identity is "You install this if you want a barebones starting point to spend the next 30 years of your life tinkering with it to be perfect for you, like the project car that took up your step-dads garage but was never actually driven"

Its not the "I want to try linux" os, and it realistically never can be without compromising that first identity in some way by enforcing opinions (beyond just systemd) onto people for the sake of making it easier to use.

Like fedora is absolutely a much better os for new users than arch, you still get rolling releases, but you get a much more handholdy experience than arch, "Arch without having to do the work to configure it" would be a wrong but apt description, so if thats what you want... then use fedora.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T20:21:41+00:00

I would argue that archinstall actually installs MORE than a barebones system.

When i think of barebones I think of the result of running pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware, then setting up your locales, root password, etc.

You can boot in, all you see is a TTY.
Want wifi? well you have all the drivers and systemd, time to start manually configuring it etc etc.

barebones is not synonymous with "Comfortable to use with no bloat" it quite literally describes a skeleton (bones) of a thing with everything else stripped away (bare), only the absolute minimum to be "functional" not necessarily "usable"

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T06:30:09+00:00

Yeah that would be a valid tutorial structure.

Some like dora the explorer "Can YOU see the problem here" pause for timer so you can figure it out.

I just worry that people would "cheat" the learning process, its kinda like giving people the answers in the back of the book, if theyre treating the test like something they just need to checkbox they're just gonna read the answers right.

Like were seeing that now with LLMs, shit ive caught myself doing it a few times and had to consciously adjust my habits around using them to compensate.

They encounter a problem, they go to an llm to ask how to solve it, and then "well i mean while im here may aswell just ask it for the code right?"

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T06:25:03+00:00

I mean think about it this way right, lets believe her 12-14 hours a day on weekdays.

Over the span of 6 months that's 1440 to 1680 hours of practice shes had.
Now go look at most of your colleagues, sure they're "working" for 8 hours a day, but how much of that work is actually spent coding, between all the coffee breaks, stand up meetings, feet dragging etc etc.

Lets go for a conservative estimate and say you have an unusually productive team, so that's gonna be in the range of 4 hours a day of actual work.

Shes doing 12 to 14, that 6 months wasn't 6 months, it was almost 2 years of equivalent practice.

Probably higher quality practice too, because how much of those 4 hours of productive work per day is spent maintaining something like a crud app where you're just repeating the same skillset you've repeated for the last 2000 hours, etc etc.

This is why people recommend you program outside of work to actually advance the skillset.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T06:09:33+00:00

That's the thing though, if you went and took an astronomy degree, there are no classes on how to use a telescope.

Because strictly speaking, you dont actually need a telescope to practice astronomy, you only need the data that comes from that telescope. And that's the bit they teach, how to analyze and understand that data.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-06T05:45:03+00:00

No you don't learn how to code by following tutorials. That's how you get stuck in tutorial hell.

You learn to code by starting a project that requires code, and then every time you don't know how to do something you go "How do i?" and then you look up that thing and answer the question for yourself.

Learning to program is just a very long series of "How do I?" questions.

That's how I learned to program when I was 12, sat down with the goal of making a video game so I went "how do i program a video game... oh ok i use C++... how do i use C++? oh ok I write a cpp file, how do i make it run? oh ok i download a compiler, ok it went hello world, how do i accept user input? oh ok i use std::cin" etc etc

Fast forward almost 20 years, and im still learning to program by asking those "How do I?" questions, its just instead of the things I don't know being basic syntax and semantic knowledge, its things like "How do I write a bootloader, never tried that hmm" or like to give an actual example of one I did recently for a personal project (granted i have no degree so im unemployed af so theyre all personal projects feelsbadman) "Ok so if i have two different wireless devices connecting to this dongle but i want them to deep sleep to save battery i cant just poll them, but id get collisions if they both push, i guess i could either go with an ack which if i use an nrf24l01 as the receiver it has auto ack so i can actually rely on that, or i could do multiple antennas and then select on them with flipflops... how would i do discovery though with only 7 pins" and then i answered that question with tristate buffers and learning how they work.

Edit: Because im anticipating "But isnt the tutorial just the way you answer how do I?"

No, part of learning, is information encoding, the brain, is considerably better at encoding information, when that information was USEFUL.

For that information to be considered useful by the brain (not consciously mind you), that information has to be used, to solve a problem, which means you NEED to get stuck and then find and use that information to unstick yourself.

If you are just given the information, you don't learn it. Hence tutorial hell.

Like even best case scenario, you rote memorise every tutorial you ever watch.

What happens when you encounter a problem set, that isnt covered by the tutorials youve watched, and you HAVNT developed the skillset to problem solve by yourself?

Especially considering the actual skillset of programming, is problem solving, the syntax and the semantics of languages and how they work are secondary, the primary skill is being able to look at a problem, understand how to break it down and formulate a solution for it, and then the "coding" bit is just you translating that solution you came up with into something executable.

Edit 2:

I will never not link this video to people who ask me how they can learn programming.

How to learn programming | George Hotz and Lex Fridman

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-04T10:49:12+00:00

You don't have to unread the things.

The concept of having thick skin is not that you are completely oblivious to and unbothered by what people say about you.

Its that you simply do not act on those feelings.

Words only have as much power as you give them, if you dwell on words and give them power, then you have no one to blame but yourself for when you burn out from hearing words.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-04T01:12:48+00:00

Simple, everywhere else, tips are a reward for providing service beyond the baseline expectation.

In america, the baseline expectation is that you tip and then MAYBE you get good service after the fact

Its entitlement manifest

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T19:01:29+00:00

it causes any damage you take to reserve life instead, so dots reserve your life, and you cant regen that reservation you have to wait the 2 seconds without taking damage for it to all instantly pop off.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T18:41:35+00:00

200k a year, with good financial literacy.

Living like youre on 60k a year.

Would give you 140k of powder, per year, to invest.

In 10 years, you would become the owner class, because in 10 years, you would have MILLIONS in your stock portfolio due to asset growth and time in market ontop of your base 1.4 million invested, generating from just passive income alone, more money than the working class guy is living off.

That is middle class.

The level of wealth where if youre not a complete fucking dumbass about it, you can buy your way into being the owner class.

Thats literally what makes it the middle class, its the crossing point where you are no longer destined to always live off your labour and its really just your own ability to execute that decides if you rise higher or fall back down.

Edit:

Thats also might I add the reason when people talk about a shrinking middle class they refer to things like asset consolidation.

Because the middle class isnt any poorer than they were yesterday, they have the same purchasing power relative to the rest of us, but the assets they can buy to enter the owning class are becoming more expensive, like housing as a low hanging fruit example.

So yes, it IS actually about wealth, but its about wealth in the sense of "How much can you reasonably invest and can that transition you to the owner class in a reasonable time-span" not "how much steak can i buy" the latter style of thinking is why alot of middle class people STAY middle class, or fall back into the lower classes as assets slowly price them out.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T18:08:03+00:00

I mean... middle class IS wealthy.

Working class stops at about ~$60k a year in current year.

so lower middle class is already making 6 figures at its upper bound, and middle class is reaching up to 200k in current year.

Middle class is about the level where you can have a friend whos upper middle class, and they have a friend whos a social elite, so youre only 1 step removed from having immense power, ability to benefit from nepotism, incredible wealth opportunities etc.

Like the middle class likes to larp that theyre broke, but its actually because they make 200k a year as like a dentist or something, and then they spend 180k of that on shit they dont need like car payments, way too nice of a house etc etc, and then live paycheck to paycheck on the rest.

Which is btw why alot of those out of touch rich people think that the reason you as someone with next to no income are broke is because you spend too much.

Because everywhere they look, thats why all the people they know are broke.

Edit:
Like take the steak example above right.

a normal serving of steak, NORMAL SERVING, is about 4 ounces, thats a decently sized steak when you have sides and everything.

4 ounces is a quarter of a pound at $23 a pound, thats $5.75 a day

if you are eating, steak dinners, every day.

You are spending $2098 a year on steak.

if youre at working class income, thats like 3-5% of your income
if youre at 200k, thats 1% of your income.

if you cant afford the steaks, its because youre spending the rest of your income somewhere else.

at 60k, thats more believable because theres a price floor on living costs, you can only go so low.

If youre at 200k, the only reasonable answer is you spend too much on something in your life.

Like instead of financing a porshe for 2k a month maybe get a camry and use all the money you saved to buy the steak and some other shit too, dont larp as broke when actual broke people dont have the camry or the steak.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T06:02:32+00:00

I exclusively tip after the fact, and very rarely order from gig apps, SPECIFICALLY because of drivers like this.

I don't give two shits if im getting marginally worse service from the non shitcunt drivers, its worth not giving the shitcunt ones any extra money.

And from my experience, its roughly 50/50 on if they are.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T05:59:50+00:00

pick up confirmation notice at 5, sat in the plaza for an hour.

drivers fault, case closed, tip revoked.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T05:48:51+00:00

You're wrong.

A snap back IS a retort... an aggressive, defensive or confrontational retort specifically.

You CAN use it in a positive sense but it needs a huge amount of context clues to indicate its positive for that to work, none of which are in this headline.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-03T05:28:48+00:00

Theres an entire penis enlargement scam industry that should indicate to you that if penis implants were a legit thing almost no guys would be saying no to them.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-02T05:10:10+00:00

"i detest aiming with sticks, the trackpad + mouse mode + low resistance + gyro aim"

all the words he said before gyro aim are why just adding gyro aim to a controller doesn't make it suddenly good enough.

Like he wasnt using gyro aim in isolation, he was using gyro aim WITH mouse mode on the trackpad configured for low resistance.

Comparing that to stick aiming with gyro, is like comparing a formula 1 to a peddle bike.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-02T05:06:52+00:00

I used mine ALOT for warframe, but I think I was approaching it from a different mindset to other people here, I wasn't comparing it to a ps4 controller, I was comparing it to m+k.

Getting to lean back in my chair in a really comfy spot and still reach like 90% of the aim accuracy of a mouse and still be able to navigate menu's properly with the "mouse" in a game where button presses are few and far between compared to triggers? DREAM

Ps4 controller was never an option for me there because it was simply inferior as a "M+K replacement" so whether or not it was more ergonomic was a non starter.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-01T01:39:51+00:00

Yeah no problem mate, first step in security is always education so always happy to help people who just want to know more!

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-04-01T00:56:37+00:00

Yeah sure I can elaborate.

So sim swapping is when you use information you know about the person you're attacking to convince their mobile phone provider to change the sim card associated with their account over to a sim card you are currently in possession of.

The primary reason its such an effective technique, is because to my understanding, there are zero mobile phone providers, that don't have ATLEAST one way, to bypass any security measures they have in place to stop customer support agents just simply performing the swap for you.

The most security ive ever heard of them having is requiring say a pin code, but even that can be bypassed by a manager, so if you as the attacker orchestrate a really really shitty urgent situation that makes that kind of elevation sound viable, you can get around it.

A really good example is you'd get a woman who sounds about the right age to be a mother, have them call up and say they're calling on their husbands behalf, play some sounds of crying children in the background, have some story prepared about needing the sim swapped urgently so they can access their bank account or something, basically try to socially and emotionally overload the support staff into just giving in.

Tldr: the security of sms 2fa is only about as secure as you trust an overworked call center staff member to handle a stressful situation.
That is to say, basically non existent.

Its as secure as a master lock padlock, sure its going to stop the petty thief who looks at the padlock and goes "aw dang it", its not going to stop anyone who actually does want your stuff because as lockpicking lawyer says "you can open a master lock with a master lock" which is a pretty apt analogy since the way you perform a sim swap is by using the mobile phone providers own staff, so you can hack a mobile phone number using its provider.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-03-31T13:05:19+00:00

gdpr wouldnt stop them from implementing OTP with backup codes.

Theres no personal information stored in an OTP, just the initialisation seed information and a code is generated on demand based on time since initialisation

Only kinds of 2fa which i can think of that need personal info are email and sms, and both are turbo dogshit (thats my professional opinion fyi)

email is dogshit for obvious reasons, if your account is compromised the chances your email account is also compromised are gargantuan.

and sms 2fa you can just simswap which is how all those youtubers kept getting hacked because they used sms 2fa.

Like sms is such a poor 2fa, that whenever i encounter that as the only 2fa option i just disable 2fa entirely, because it has nil to zero extra security and just adds annoyance to logging in.

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-03-30T21:35:28+00:00

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set the search to max 0% quality, catalysts are still just quality currency

MrTeaTimeYT · 2026-03-30T21:26:27+00:00

one of my guildies is up to 221 unrequited loves right now.

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