is it something intrinsic about usb-c that you can’t make usb-c hubs with additional usb-c ports on them
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you can, but those hubs are typically more expensive and the daughter ports may not have full functionality — like, the USB-C ports on my desktop if not my laptop as well are whole ass Thunderbolt ports, technically have more display bandwidth than my 4090’s DisplayPorts do, can draw like 100w from a charger — and the ones on a hub have to reimplement some subset of that functionality depending on how fancy the hub chipset is
I have one of these which is a truly ridiculous number of outputs for one port to drive: AD2010T4 Support Page | Kensington
I also made work pay for it because it was like $100
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Yeah they put USB-A ports on hubs mainly to avoid “over-promising”. If all you care about is the port shape and you’re happy with USB 3.0 data speeds and 5V/1A charging speed, then you can turn a USB-A port into a USB-C one with a cheap passive adapter.
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Oh that’s a nice dock…. If only they put in a proper ETH RJ45 port, 1Gbe is outdated for such a price-tag…
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honestly fair, even my mobo has 2.5GbE
I’m assuming 10GbE would’ve required another chipset in there
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I’m just mad that some of my USB-c cables only work if they’re oriented a certain way, I thought I had finally left that behind
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Short search later: If money is of no importance, though with a huge catch (requiring a PS2/PS3/PS4 type power-cable connector):
A bit cheaper, but limited in multi-monitor-setups, and still expensive…
MAJOR dealbreaker though:
No Linux?
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is this a good place to post this:
frame pacing on a second GPU with Windows VLC still seems broken on 24H2/25H2 after waiting over a year to jump (until 23H2 was finally unsupported). had to buy extra cables so that my Nvidia GPU would be driving my projector. very annoying to know this bug is functionally unfixable since it’s some insane interaction between recent revisions to the windows compositor and the display drivers and that most people will never notice it.
at least I got to fix this today too
no consumer appliances better mess with me for a while, I will weaponize my OCD with extreme prejudice
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why am I still on this shit then, did I turn off updates or something. god I fucking hate windows, I’m sick of all this shit.
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CachyOS runs pretty well ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
yeah not quite at jumping ship point on my desktop at least but my next windows install will def be ltsc
I don’t think desktop Linux ever has or will support running multiple displays from different vendors’ display drivers concurrently (and honestly I can’t blame them, Windows alone has supported this for 20 years and it obviously leads to weird edge cases) so that wouldn’t help me here other than by preventing me from doing it in the first place (which is arguably Linux’s best feature)
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I’m considering upgrading from my RTX 3060 to this, am I missing anything?
Rationale:
- My case is a Louqe Raw S1. It has no soundproofing so I want a fully silent card under normal operation. The case claims to fit 320mm cards and this ASUS one is 304mm
- I think I want 16GB VRAM and Nvidia GPGPU stuff for future-proofing. Skipping out on one of those to save like $100 doesn’t seem like a fantastic deal
- I could probably keep using my 3060 with increasing amounts of fussing with graphics settings before I start playing any 3d game. But midrange GPUs seem unlikely to get very much cheaper or better than this anytime soon
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My suspicion is that my processor is overheating on my main thinkpad. So I will check if the fan is working first, then do diagnostics on the processor, then consider reapplying thermal paste if necessary, before moving on to a couple other things and then if necessary giving up. But I am set up pretty well with my NixOS thinkpad now, and moved the storage drives from the problem one to this one without issue.
I have github repositories now
This is still an extreme paucity, basically a Hello World of github, and I’m told the website in particular is Not Professional, particularly in pursuit of security clearance positions. But any movement feels like good movement. Going to try installing the flatpak version of steam now since the native binary is something I can’t seem to get working.
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5070 Ti for only a $150 premium over a 9070 XT for the sensible 16G option seems right to me
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Fan is working, but inconsistently. Still need to check for cpu error, but right now this is looking like an OS issue with the fan, and possibly a KDE or specifically session manager issue. The fan doesn’t run on a lock screen. This matches the pattern of the computer crashing most consistently when I get on it in the morning after it’s been on and inactive all night. It also means changing OS might not do anything but risk breaking another laptop.
Edit: I feel like instead of actually resolving the intense spaghetti code complexity of dependency issues, NixOS might have just banished them all to Overlays, a single piece of programming semantics that can nonetheless be deployed in five different ways, none of which are documented with examples. This makes me somewhat unhappy. I would rather just have a package manager that fucks up sometimes. Check back in six months to see if I successfully beat my head against this enough to now love it like it’s my vicious old kung fu master in an early Jackie Chan film though.
You probably will get better deals on this caliber of GPU come next Black Friday and system requirements won’t be getting significantly higher until the next console gen is less hypothetical, so… I’m not sure this is future proofing as much as guaranteeing you better settings now.
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my wife wants a new laptop and was wondering if this was a decent deal:
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-omnibook-x-flip-16-inch-2-in-1-laptop-next-gen-ai-pc-b88cwav-1
her use case is basically 99% using browsing the internet and using photoshop (no gaming, video editing, etc, but she might try to get into 3d modelling). (for reference, her current laptop is over a decade old)
the specs seem passable to me, but i’m not sure how i feel about that intel gpu. also, neither of us like the “AI” nonsense, but it seems to be ubiquitous in newer models 
(any other recommendations at this price point (600 USD) would be nice too)
i’m not sure how i feel about that intel gpu
Intel Arc stuff is fine, Blender works great with it
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