PC Master Race

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Just wait until that one time you PC doesn't lock properly and you type your password into a group chat.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Awkward, but just change the pw ezpz

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I almost never wait for my pc to start up, thank god I can start it from anywhere with Wake on Lan

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

YESSS the middle one of my 3 mismatched monitors takes forever to start!

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I got the same problem and the middle one is a different resolution and because the others turn on first one of those is picked as main desktop and then the centre turns on and everything flashes as the main desktop is swapped around to the middle and I donno how but it will mess up game resolution setting when it lowers down to the side monitor res... It's such a pita that I'm in the habit now of turning the side monitors off and only turn them on when I'm ready to go

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[–] EpeeGnome@lemmy.fmhy.net 4 points 2 years ago

I wish Windows handled this more gracefully. I ran into one where the secondary monitor woke up first and it would cram all open windows and desktop items onto one screen every time it woke from sleep. Frustrated the user. Fix ended up being to swap the display port plugs. Hasn't been an issue since.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Similar to a problem I keep having...

Which is every time I go to use my computer every single window is squished into the upper left hand corner into a tiny square

If I minimize everything and then switch over to my computer, I can hover on the windows in the taskbar and they show the correct locations. But when any of them are unminimized they immediately squish to the upper left corner.

It's freaking annoying.

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[+] nargacu83@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Have you tried windows? It's similar to linux but it works, you'll get the hang of it real quick

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I tried installing windows. My house is less drafty, but my computer still doesn't work.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

it works

Lol

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

Is it a rolling distro or LTS? How many packages in the official repo? How easy is it to use? What desktop environment does it install by default? Does it package a recent Plasma? Oh and I'm assuming it's systemd right?

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[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

lemmy is not the correct place to promote windows

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Lemmy is the right place for sarcastic comments though.

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[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

too bad I'm terrible at catching sarcasm

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Is there any place to do that?

Who the fuck genuinely thinks Microsoft needs people to help promote their thoroughly entrenched OS? Might as well help promote eggs for breakfast.

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[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

i guess, apple consumers are too technologically impaired to promote linux to them, so i guess windows is a good start for them, if the next version of it won't be even more of a coprorative shit of an OS of course.

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[+] nargacu83@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Oh sure, unless they haven't bundled your drivers and then you lose days of pain. Some people value their time and having an OS that they don't need to configure everything for, buy specific hardware for, is good. There's a reason Linux is the default for the computers most people use.

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 3 points 2 years ago

Happens to me sometimes when my display freezes for some reason, making it unresponsive to any wake up signal my pc may send. After turning my display off/on, login in blindly and starting Xorg it works again. White LED (indicating no display signal) on my motherbord stays on though, and it's really bright which forces me to restart anyway

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[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

My experience has been that the more high-end my computer is, the slower it starts. At least for the BIOS, Windows has loaded very quickly since SSDs (Got my first one around 12 years ago).

Fancy motherboards, memory training, it's a bit sad that a 10 year old budget laptop can get to Windows quicker. Even though I don't really care about the extra seconds of course.

Hell, my new work laptop is a ThinkPad and Lenovo had issues with their BIOS for the entire year. Startup can take over a minute for that crap, despite being a $3000 machine.

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[–] mhz@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Laptops tend to have a minimized/limited uefi implementation that initializes and boot the bootloader faster.

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 18 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Wow, one of the OG old school meme AND used correctly.. Haven't seen one of these in a long time.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one [S] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I was there when they were written...

oh. maybe i'm old. brb applying for AARP

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago

I was there when 9gags actually have 9 posts per page.

We should carpool to the AARP.

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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I need to upgrade displays badly. Currently have 2x 21" dell 1080p panels that have been good workhorses but.... ugh. Getting old.

I really don't want to go 2x 4k, but multiple monitors are a must... not really liking curved displays, can anyone suggest decent, cheap, 1440p displays w/ hdr, decent refresh and color qual?

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[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was like you and didn’t like curved TVs… but I have ultra wide curved displays at home/work, and this use case is awesome! Every part of the screen is about the same distance from my eyes. A typical 34” (3440x1440) is about the same pixel count as 2.5 1080p displays, but with no bezels to split the screen… so it’s perfectly centered. With separate displays I need to center one and set one way off to the side, or center the bezel split and need to always turn my head one way or the other. Webcam is centered. Cable management is easier (one power, one signal). Brackets are less bulky. Desk is cleaner looking.

You’ll get a little less area than 2x 27” 1440p displays.

I don’t know how important HDR is to you. I’ve always had good luck with Dell ultrasharp longevity. They have a 34” for $350.

Dell Curved Gaming, 34 Inch Curved Monitor with 144Hz Refresh Rate, WQHD (3440 x 1440) Display, Black - S3422DWG https://a.co/d/hOrP5cv

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There's those gigabyte ones that hardware unboxed seems to like. Good price too.

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is the one I use: DELL S2721DGF

It's really good and pretty cheap for it's weight class. Only bad thing about it is it's HDR, its' really ugly. You can also look at other displays on the website I linked, rtings is very trustworthy

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https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Monitor-Display-Response-FreeSync/dp/B08JWCHR5N/ref=asc_df_B08JWCHR5N&mcid=b34085b632e03e78ab235d4806c47a22?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80401905752532&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001431258764&psc=1

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[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

100% recommended 1440p, anything over 100 refresh rate, definitely HDR, I am in love with my gigabyte monitor, I got an abnormally large size not sure which, but, something extremely close to this:

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[–] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I use a benq 4k color correct monitor. My laptop and ipad acts as a separate displays which usually is enough.

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[–] Grandsinge@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Recently picked up a pair of ASUS VG27AQ. I had to calibrate them with my x1 idisplay, but the end result was quite good.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I used to have this problem in my quest for a silent PC: make the loudest thing real quiet - say a passive watercooling rig with no fan and just a quiet aquarium pump, eliminating the CPU fan - and the next loudest becomes "unbearable", fix that one - special watercooled graphics card, connected to the passive watercooling circuit - and the next loudest one becomes "too noisy". Fix that one - new quiet power source with extra large slower and quieter fan and, you guessed it, it's the next loudest noise source that gets on your nerves (in this case, it was harddisks, as all this was many years ago).

Ultimatelly the solution was thinking "out of the box" (in more ways than one) - good quality noise reduction earphones.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

at that point i'd just put the pc in another room and run cables

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[–] idiocracy@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

it's funny because it's true

even my internet connection needs a couple more seconds to establish connect

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

As a projector user, I'm wondering why I spent so much effort to get Windows installed and formatted properly to use its ultra fast boot mode...

[–] ozzah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what's up with mine, but it takes like a full 20-30 seconds to get past POST and then another 3 seconds from there to fully boot windows.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Is yours a new AM5 socket based AMD system by any chance?

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[–] ozzah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, why?

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one [S] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I also have a zen4 cpu.

The 30 second boots are memory training. The motherboard is basically training itself on how the DDR5 memory modules respond on every signal wire and it can be inordinately slow depending in memory amount. For whatever reason, AMD DDR5 systems are slower at it than comparable Intel DDR5 systems.

Update your BIOS to the latest version then enabled "Memory Context Restore". The bios will then save the last training results and stop taking 30 seconds to start up.

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Time for new monitors, I guess