Is Tails compromised?
>>107690819>I'll start rebase at the last point PGP keys were on the sitewhat do you mean? what do they use if not PGP? SSH keys?
>>107690665>but never explain how or why.>>107690686Basically, that.Never lose sight of the fact it started as a US Navy SigInt project to provision plausible deniability. Giving someone else that sort of weapon isn't the sort of thing navies tend to like doing.Companies like Akamai Technologies operate a large percentage of the high speed nodes, giving them a unique insight complimented by a global sniffer network attached to backbones everywhere but north korea, and now china. Those telecoms backdoors being used for/by 'SaltTyphoon'? They're intended for Akamai.>>107691115>SSH keys?By which you mean x.509? PKCS-11?
Probably not
>>107690214>Is x compromised?you'll have to stress test it yourself if you catch my drift
>>107690214Yes, of course it is.If it was not, they would not let you just download it and use it to escape them.
can we go back to using RAM as an SSD?
>>107696995but my ram is free, I'm not using it anyway
>>107696958I mean the backup power that keeps the DRAM on, you can see the battery in OPs pic. Nothing would protect you from just a straight up power outage while in use, that's why UPS are critical. >flash memory without TRIM would wear out pretty quickly with constant writesTRIM has nothing to do with wear, please end this meme already. TRIM is discarding blocks before use so write speed doesn't suffer. Not to mention, even 20 years ago, internal controllers in things like SD and CF cards did a lot of functions already to keep the memory going good. Not as good as today, but still. Plus SLC and TLC was much more durable.
>>107696958>The i-ram was created for caches or fast databasesWhile not actually being very fast. As said, it's SATA 1.0 with no AHCI. An actual RAMdisk would make more sense at those sizes and speeds the i-RAM offers.
>>107697083I'm sure sata raid cards (PCI express) killed any possibility of improving those ram drive memes.
>>107694641Back in the day I had a IIgs with 8MB RAM, that was way more than you ever needed so I usually made a RAM drive and would install the OS to it and then boot from it and run the computer off that. It made everything lightning fast, it was all already loaded into RAM.
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Also while I'm here, as someone who has casually used Mint since ~2013-2014 (Mint 13 was my introduction to linux) and never seriously tried anything else, what actually IS the difference between ubuntu and Mint? All this time I thought it was basically just the desktop environments, but then I realized there's xubuntu that is just ubuntu with an xfce desktop environment, which is what I used on mint. So why is mind different?
>>107696820that's linux standard behavior
>>107696820Look into readahead(2)https://man.archlinux.org/man/readahead.2.enThere are some programs that can do this. Systemd used to but they removed it because nobody uses slow storage devices anymore.https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Readahead&direction=prev&oldid=263704
>>107696871Apparently there is this which restores the functionality that was dropped from Systemd:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-readaheadNo idea if it works though.
Hello everybody, Linux newbie here from this thread: >>107632798So, I have been using Debian, and now it has turned into my daily driver, that is, if I do not distribution hop again.I fixed my problem of not being able to use my audio shortcuts by using these:`pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +2%``pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -2%``pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle`So, Debian has been very good for me, and nothing has really changed. I have not had any problems. I have been able to do some light gaming by installing Sober Roblox using Flatpak + Flathub.Like last time, any tips or things I should know moving forward with having Debian as my daily driver?
Had Logitech G305 - developed doubleclicking in a yearSwitched to CoolerMaster MM712 - scroll wheel started scrolling in random directions in a year, on top of shitty wireless connectivity.And the funniest thing is that I used $5 store brand mice before and all of them lasted me much longer than that without issues.Is there a single reliable brand of wireless mice that work and I won't have to pay through the roof to get?
>>107696886Soldering iron n a 50 cent microswitch is all u need fren
>>107696955I've never soldered
>>107696955FWIW, every time a mouse has started double clicking on me I've gotten away with just taking the lid off the microswitch and squirting a bit of contact cleaner in there.
>>107696886Razer, unironically. https://www.reddit.com/r/MouseReview/comments/1c8zphw/updated_list_of_fully_optical_mice_optical/
>>107697048Level up.
Windows 11 could never have a fan base like XP.https://youtube.com/yLxP3V4veJk?si=_h0OewrGN7dvhew6
>>107689527the only problem of vista was the requirementsme just crashed, it didn't eat my ssds like windows 11 like to do
>>107696952>when is 11 getting good?IoT LTSC 2027Trust the plan
>>107689217windows 8.1 may be the fastest windows ever
>>107696939lmao imagine getting affected by imaginary problemshttps://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-windows-update-ssd-failures/
XP was the beginning of the decline. It didn't crash as much as 98, but just look at the shit they piled on the Start menu. That entire left column is testament to where their corporate brain was heading.
Is lack of curiosity and responsibility combined with AI killing tech?
>>107683186Is this shitpost from LinkedIn? It is inundated with self-glorifying, humble-bragging between corporate drones. Boilerplate glow-ups and dick sucking. Companies themselves are guilty of every single point in this man's post: they take credit for other people's work, they are easily bored with technical discussions that have no corporate buzzwords, they are overly sensitive to criticism to the point of being petty and vindictive, they try to eliminate/offshore as many positions as possible and depress compensation, and they do not fucking care about their employees. I am not a zoomer, but I have no problem with zoomers taking advantage of this shitty system that rewards grifting and nepotism. This is just late stage capitalism: you reap what you sow. Why should anyone be loyal and hardworking for a parasitic corporation? Accelerate.
>>107690640do you want me to spam pics of yuros in dresses because there are tons of them>>107690635>yurotard is a conspiracytardevery time
>>107690702they seperated white men from latinxes also latinxes are whiter than yuros, troonyou're a lefty because you're a tranny who worships blacks
>>107683186this nigga is fr straight up be sayin dat ai is better than humans (at least gen z doesn't bend to their overlords unlike troonlennials and boomers) so if that's the case why wouldn't he just get ai to do all the job instead of seething on linkedinsurely if it was so good lack of motivated workers wouldn't be a problem if you can replace them with ai so easily... right?
It's literally pajeets
New version is out. Also, why was my previous thread deleted? This is a software-based application explicitly engineered for operation within the computational and telecommunications framework of a handheld mobile device, ok? It is therefore unambiguously situated within the broader domain of contemporary technological systems, infrastructures, and applied digital sciences, and as such relevant to /g/.
Testing
>>107694944>60 seconds before and after postingStop lying about being able to solve the captcha in 60 seconds. Nobody believes you.
by god it works
>>107695499seconding this request
Ok my turn to test
>Find an ancient SD card that was left unpowered for over 15 years>Still works>Still has every last bit of data on it, just like a decade and a half agoIs the whole "muh flash memory doesn't retain any data if left unpowered for a year+!" thing a retarded meme perpetuated by the spinning rust industry that we allowed ourselves to fall for? I get that it's an anecdotal sample size of one, but then again, all of my spinning rust HDDs failed after less than 10 years of use (also anecdotal, but makes me think).Kingston micro SD card btw.
Yeah same I found some SD cards last used in 2008 in a drawerTotally fine
>>107693006>"muh flash memory doesn't retain any data if left unpowered for a year+!"I'm pretty sure that if you buy a new SD card today and you leave it unpowered for like 6 months all the filles will be completely corrupted. Treasure your SD because the shit you can buy now is absolutely worthless.
>>107693006It was meme propagated by /g/
>>107693006i have never heard this. flash memory is non-volatile
>>107695689>>107696811a news story made the rounds this month or last month about it. it's not a thing from here.
someone's just connected to our password protected wifi, I've already changed the password but should I be concerned?
now's you chance to hack into their system and steal their porn.
I was gonna buy an HP omnibook with a snapdragon processor but I googled to see if it worked with my rollo label printer. It doesn't.
>>107693906That's the game theory optimal approach A gamble tho
>>107693906This. I lag one gen behind but buy used still in warranty MBAs. First bought a M1, currently using a M3.
Why would anyone every buy arm shit for work or personal computing? You're just fucking your future self. The ARM platform is a piece of shit that faggot engineers like
>>107693716from where? ebay fucking sucks and the only computers i buy there are overstock new shit or from retailers who actually use ebay like acer. amazon is way better for refurb shit
>>107696249The one with the broken flex cable was Bestbuy marketplace, straight from a refurbishing company.The other one with the Absolute persistence problem was bought from a legit store, equivalent of Micro Center you guys have in burgerland. Although it was refurbished by a 3rd party, not by the store itself.
Hey /g/, maybe you can help me here. What's the best gloves to prevent gamer gunk buildup? I recently changed from a 8 year old G610 keyboard to a G915 X keyboard simply due to it being easier to clean,as well as the G610 keycaps kept breaking, but mice? I don't trust myself disassembling them without breaking something. I've tried copper compression gloves but I absolutely hate the feeling of them when worn.>wash your handsI do. Maybe too much. I wash them any time I touch something slightly filthy, any time before I eat, any time I use the bathroom.
>>107692335You can also wipe the mouse
>>107693751Mousewheel. Wiping it down just cleans the outside.
>>107693896So how do you gonna use the mousewheel with a condom on the mouse?
>>107692335All I need is soapy water, a kitchen cloth and a toothpick. I clean my mouse around once a month and it's enough. The rubber that they use on mices is designed to fail because otherwise you would use one mouse for 20 years without buying new shit and that's not good when green arrow needs go up
>>107692335Invest in gamer gloves.
When is the AI bubble going to pop? This is taking too long.
>>107696032The fact that so many people think that there's a bubble about to pop means that there's actually no bubble at all, and the prices will just very slowly go down if at all.
>>107696614>Our tax dollars are being used to prop up this shit btwYou voted for it, so you shouldn't complain.
>>107696032Bubbles don't pop anymore. They're more like balloons, they go flying around the room making fart sounds until they run out of air.
need a nose? get a push pin.
>>107696236retard
> learn to code.
>>107697096>So I went CE and learned digital designYou would be ngmi if you started today.
>>107686422It's worse than that. They killed off all the real stone masons and iron workers and boiler makers and etc. during a couple world wars and replaced them with factory jobs which were more geared toward specialization. Now you have a guy who can run a machine tool but there's no way he could build a part for it if it breaks.
>>107685838>codemonkeys will be slaving away on construction sites in 5 years because their "skills" are no longer neededAHAHAHAHshould've gotten a real job faggots.
The people in charge of gas lighting the public into thinking it's because of AI and not pajeets should be executed by the state for treason.
>>107697139Yeah this all started many years ago. AI is accelerating it but it's due to the big companies hating American workers in particular.
What exactly is the point of libreboot?
>>107695983>her
>>107695906It's disappointing that Libreboot had chosen to make nonfree images, for the goal of supporting more hardware.The biggest danger to freedom is still the Intel Management Engine and it is not completely disabled on platforms with CPUs newer than Core 2. You'd have to trust Intel that the boot process doesnt do anything malicious.
>>107696255damn she doesnt pass at all on the photo on her homepage
>>107695983Absolutely retarded take. If you want classic Libreboot, then use Canoeboot. Modern Libreboot needed to evolve to include more devices. >>107696644It's a pragmatic choice. Fun fact, there is no way that devices like the X230 or T480 will ever, ever, ever, be able to run without some proprietary firmware. You people need to grow the fuck up and accept the reality of the situation on x86 CPUs.
>>107696983>It's a pragmatic choice.Exactly the same pragmatism that led to the arbitrary revision of the Debian Social Contract.>Fun fact, there is no way that devices like the X230 or T480 will ever, ever, ever, be able to run without some proprietary firmware. Which is why they don't get the FSF's RYF Certification. Why not take a look at something like the Talos II, which doesn't require any?The narrative that we simply *need* proprietary firmware is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The original PlayStation was built with hardware-backed DRM in mind from day 1, but thanks to the reverse engineering efforts by PCSX-Redux, it now has a fully libre bios replacement (which, as it so happens, has now been integrated into libreboot and canoeboot). Obviously modern configurations like those with Intel ME and AMD PSP will be much more difficult than a 90s game console, but that's all the more reason to take a hardline stance. I'm a little more hopeful about ARM devices in the medium-term than x86.
If it's good enough for Demis Hassabis then it's good enough for me.
>>107694977True, true, hardware is excellent. The M-series processors are as fast as the fastest CPUs from AMD. Built quality is unmatched. Screens, speakers are extremely good. The keyboard is acceptable, a bit low travel but tactile enough. At least they reverted back from the butterfly keyboard fiasco. Port selection could be better, but nothing that can't be solved with the right TB dongle. Software-wise, macOS is meh. It's getting slower, more bloated, and buggier with each release. Since Big Sur or Catalina, I don't think they have added ANYTHING genuinely useful, and they have taken away plenty, like being able to run 32-bit applications, which means a large amount of Steam games no longer work. All the containerization and security stuff gets on your nerves sometimes. You have to dance around the security tab all the time while installing apps and ask for permissions constantly. Maybe it's to save normies from shitware, but I wish there was a "relax, I know what I'm doing" setting that made it a bit less stringent.
>>107689049Today I found out that Steve Jobs died from AIDS.Likely because he wad affiliated with (satanic) secret socieites where homosexuality and psychedelics are prevalent and he either got, or faggoted other dudes (or bois who knoes) in the asshoel.Messed up brother. But kind of expected from the fsggot nigger whose globohomian corporation has a logo signifying the Fall of Man (at Eden)>https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_status_results,_2008
>>107694787The stinkpad needs to be compared to the stinkmac from the same year it was built.A 2026 version of a ThinkPad with the same quality of ThinkPads from back then would shame a 2026 released mac into oblivion
i think the appeal of macOS used to be that it was unix, but with first class user experience and proprietary support. also the glorious command key which is highely underrated macOS advantage.now it seems bloated, has spyware, more locked down, dumbed down, and the ecosystem is aggressive and subscription-based.i'd still use it before windows, but it's lost its appeal to me for desktop use because it doesn't leave you alone anymore.
>>107695679freetard fake news
