I just bought a 32Gib 512nvme i7-9850H quadro t1000 with a 4k panel for $400 on eBay (and uncle sam fucked me for 40 in taxes and 20 in shipping)--and I am regretting it and wish I bought the cheaper $330 1080p 48gib option but bought this one because I thought that the 4k panel might be good since 1080p is a bit bad for split screen latex but am now regretting it since it will- Drain battery faster (might take up 20% extra)- Be a pain to use because I will be forced to set it to 200% scaling for a good experience with my external 1080p monitors (probably, I have never used 4k but xorg will likely strangle me too)- Cost more- Doesn't have as much ram- At 15.6" and normal sitting, I probably won't ever noticeI don't think it has been shipped yet but also don't want to try to return it since that might make me an asshole...I will have to go check if the seller even accepts returns...I am really crying over this...why is life so hard?
>>107733509>I bought a decent laptop with a good screen for a fair price>however I think this hardware configuration might actually be slightly suboptimal for my intended use caseIf this qualifies as an extremely severe problem that reduces you to tears then presumably the rest of your life is going quite well.Go do something unrelated to computers for a while. Maybe go for a run and then read a book.
>>107746097>>I bought a decent laptop with a good screen for a fair priceI returned it because the seller had trouble trying to ship it.>>however I think this hardware configuration might actually be slightly suboptimal for my intended use caseI do admit that I was overreacting am probably still am since I don't know if I should try to get the FHD 48gib ram, no SSD P53 with a bit of minor damage--I would make an offer and its buy it now price is $350 so maybe $325? But that is still annoying because I could have gotten that $20 off...>If this qualifies as an extremely severe problem that reduces you to tears then presumably the rest of your life is going quite well.Is that sarcasm or sincerity? I am just upset since I don't buy stuff often so buying someone so expensive is worrying and stressful. Every time I do something it feels like I do it wrong in a least some way. It isn't an awful thing in itself it is just that everything seems to be bad in my life at the moment and has just been getting worse over the past years. There is always so much to do and I never get it done. I hate myself and hate my life. If you didn't read everything (I don't blame you), >>107739133 and >>107739783 might add some context there is much more besides that and that I haven't added to this thread.>Go do something unrelated to computers for a while.I don't really want to miss anything on this thread in case I get responses to the importantish questions I have but it is alike an addiction. Not to 4chan but to talking with other people; I guess this is why people like having friends. I even have sacrificed some hours of sleep to this now and I would probably have slept a few hours ago if I didn't feel some need to be here too. I haven't really done much else today--and certainly not anything productive.>Maybe go for a run and then read a book.It is downpouring so reading sounds nice. I will try to get crypto and HRT right now and then read if I still have time.
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>>107745930>I thought Intel fixed that?no, on newer intel cpus you can still flip the hap bit which tells the cpu that you want it to disable the ime as much as it can. whether it actually does this is up in the air because the ime itself is a black box, but the general consensus is that it does disable a lot of itselfwith older intel cpus, like the ones in a lot of le epic laintranny haxxor thinkpad asthetics, could actually have their ime completely disabled. that's a lot of the reason people used those thinkpads, for their coreboot support (coreboot and the other one only work on a tiny amoutn of mobos)anyway the ime is probably not as bad as people think it is>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/guide/getting-started-with-active-management-technology.html>What is Intel Active Management Technology?>Intel AMT is part of the Intel vPro technology offering. Platforms equipped with Intel AMT can be managed remotely, regardless of its power state or if it has a functioning OS or not.the AMT is the actually dangerous one as it allows remote management
finally i don't have to watch your clickbait video anymore
>>107748330someone truly based and smart wouldn't even have to ask, just buy reading the title an ddescription would be enough... you bum
What is it about drones that makes so many people lose their minds? There's so many people that if they see a drone anywhere in their line of sight their main character syndrome will start acting up. They'll scream obscenities and call the police. And follow your drone with their phone out recording lol
>>107748255They're unironically traumatized by the Ukkie war drone videos. Most normalfags are like animals, especially blacks and women. They don't know how to deal with their trauma so they act up like an animal would.
>>107748255It feels like an invasion of privacy, and it's something that's out of reach so it is even more frustrating
Will 2026 be the year of the Linux desktop?
>>107745960the bugs will make Normie's switch back to windows so no
>kills YOTLD in its crib
>>107745405I don't oppose it
In the modern era where open source values undermine the freedom of free GNU/Linux distros, we must be vigilant
>>107745427I'm on Linux and haven't used the terminal in months. Meanwhile on Windows 11, Microsoft dishes out broken updates and, instead of fixing them, tells you in their official support to paste commands into CMD.
Which one and why?
>>107748250gemini is pretty good at small python tools.
Guys, what about Venice?Tell me everything you know about it. So far it's the only one who hasn't told be to fuck off and call an emergency hotline when I say that I want to kill myself. It also openly explains in detail scams, drugs and other taboo topics that ChatGPT and Gemini immediately shut down (while Grok dances around the topic trying to explain as much as possible without being specific).
>>107748250That same sub gives you access to claude models with almost suspiciously generous rate limits in antigravity. Also, you can whiteboard an architecture diagram on an actual whiteboard, give gemini a picture of it and it will correctly parse it into a mermaid.js diagram, formalize it with design pattern rules, and even draft agents rules to enforce it.
What's interesting to me is that they don't actually "read." They recognize the shapes of the letters and not the actual letter itself. It's pretty amazing when you stop and think about how it does what it does.
>>107747373Funny thing is, these people have been seething about Musk since the very beginning before he was even a billionaire and now he's on the cusp of being a trillionaire after having built all his companies up. LMAO.
Discussion of Free and Open Source Diffusion ModelsMigu EditionPrev: >>107736203https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide>UIComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUISwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUIre/Forge/Classic/Neo: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide#reforgeclassicneoSD.Next: https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnextWan2GP: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GPComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107748122>admitting you can't do anything other than "hello world" test prompts
>trying to find an old SDXL gen theres no way ill be able to with how unorganized my shit is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>107748302Wish I could CLIP search my gen folder. Although I gen so much of the same shit that it might not even help lol
>>107748122I don't understand why these Somalis don't go the extra step and just run the fucking daycare. I'm pissed off now knowing that at any point I could have opened a daycare and actually done the job and basically have 0 chance of failing because the government would just bankroll it.
>>107717372>Ever notice how they quietly removed that report?
>>107722241nigpunk
>>107717251is this autism or jeetism? either way they should be executed
>>107725228>>107725244>be google and jewcrosoft >spend hundreds of billions building datacenters to keep up with demands>pajeet in Kolkata, India>uploads 200Gb of the best bread of health.mp4 every dayThese fucking street shitters.
>>107730892damn, you are right. every time an indian posts slop another old video gets re-encoded for the 200th timeniconico actually does the same thing, it's really terrible
>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107682448
Is there a reason why some Blu-ray series scramble the order of episodes on discs? Or is it just to screw with people who want to make a digital copy?
>>107748057>Is there a reason why some Blu-ray series scramble the order of episodes on discs?Without further information I'm going to assume it's something related to production order versus airing order. Or there's an issue with your player/software.
>>107746726>>107747354Publishers that publish DRM-free on bundle also publish on GOG. GOG is a nicer site to use all around, with a better library interface, and GOG installers are "standardized" across games and publishers, so when people upload a DRM-free installer to a torrent tracker, they default to the GOG version. Because it's easy and familiar.There's nothing significant separating it from the Humble version. The real question is "Does this publisher publish their game DRM-free?" Which site it's from is just infrastructure. And GOG does that better than Humble.>surely they have some protection in place but i just can't find anything about itThey don't. That's literally the service you're paying for. To not be treated like a "potential thief". To do whatever with what you paid for, without being surveilled. That's the appeal and why these sites can compete with something like Steam, and why so many people choose to support that business model whenever they can.
>>107747354>i just noticed their torrent link does have a bunch of weird values appended to it (one of them is exp=*long number*, as in expiration maybe??) so I still think maybe i'm not entirely wrong in my assumption.That's just CDN infrastructure. It's about the act of downloading a file, any file, from THEIR server. So you can't share that identical link around forever. It's just a crude check that you clicked some "Download" button on their site recently.Once it's on your computer, you can do whatever with the files and reupload them as much as you want. The file itself is not personalized in any way to allow tracking, even if the act of downloading it is.You can check this if you want. Buy a game on GOG, pirate a GOG installer of the same game version. Check the file hashes. They will be identical, with nothing differentiating the two despite coming from different accounts.
>>107747354>>107748326>a crude check that you clicked some "Download" buttonActually, to be precise, the check is that SOMEONE clicked a download button on their site recently. That's why I called it "crude".So you're right in the assumption that the link itself won't work forever, and that's why those aren't shared. But the files you get with that link will. No reason for warez sites to use "official torrents", when creating a .torrent file takes 2 seconds, and private trackers require their own .torrent files anyway, regadless of what the file is. It's just to decouple the act of sharing from the content. One less thing to track, since private trackers are paranoid (in a good way).
BlackBerry Bros, we are so back!
>>107742335Clicks>modern 4-nanometer, 5G IoT SoC platform from MediaTekCrackBerry>running a new 4 nanometer unit from MediaTek - it's considered upper-mid-range.Has anyone seen what Bluetooth it's running? Assuming it's running at least BT 5.4 like the Clicks Power and it's a 2025 release chip, the SOC is anything from a Dimensity 7360 to a 8450. The 7360 is described as upper-mid-range, I reckon this is most likely the chip.
>>107742953But you can download Spotify from Anna's archive.
>keyboard keys are also touch sensitive so you can scroll without touching the screenThis is the ultimate phoneposting device
>>107742941nostalgiatrooning over depreciated trash like a physical keyboard?
>>107746454I used my q25 for like a few weeks now but shit is unpolished af. Lack of biometrics, full google sertification, camera and weird dpi makes it hard to use as primary device. shit I still can't use revolut as making selfi and scanning ID are impossible tasks. My samshit battery also was a lot better.
Happy 2026 edition>Not sure what private trackers are all about?A private tracker is an invite-only torrent website. Each member shares common goals: collecting, preserving and discussing media.>Have a question?- FAQ https://archive.is/UVQkn- WIKI https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers- NEWFAG PYRAMID https://inviteroute.github.io/graph or https://inviteroute.github.io/sheet/- STUDY https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F379FE0CB50DF502F0075119FD3E060- SPREADSHEET https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/- TEN CURRY COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/dBbdE73M - TEN NEON COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/Ud2pGYaE - RED SPAMMER'S BIBLE https://rentry.org/69zbxh4h- #ptg is on irc.sageru.org but it's pretty deadComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107747880>>107747880I just route through my home network all the time anyways to access shit on my home network. so when I want to access a private tracker at work or something I just turn on my vpn.
>>107738965>what i rly want is a place to talk to people about things. anime, manga, movies, tv n stuffI have been running into the same problem for years. The community is what I'm after. To be completely honest I think what we're both looking for requires a time machine to the 2000s or early 2010s. Back then the tinyweb was vibrant and alive. People into your niche nerd hobbies were actually into them and weren't ironic casuals, especially with things like piracy and anime. I really miss 4chan from back then. I even miss sites like reddit which was actually very different back in the day.The problem is that the current popular public places are so annoying and filled with casuals. The less popular places like altchans have better discussion but are slower than molassus. For the most part even the good private trackers are slower than molassus. The old school vibe does still exist, but where it does things are so slow. I really miss the old internet.And I think the *arrs are killing trackers an have been for a very long time, automation is the enemy of soul.
>>107748121>And I think the *arrs are killing trackers an have been for a very long time, automation is the enemy of soul.i agree.
Automation is simply the logical endpoint of it all. I know you wish everyone who did piracy was a NEET who stayed chained to their computer. Watching everything on it's monitor like weebs do. But we're adults with lives. I still insist on manually curating my media collection in an autistic way. But I have *arr, jellyfin, etc for my friends and family to use. I can see why people with jobs and families want to use this and treat private trackers as a source to feed from rather than hanging out on them having their speech monitored by petty tyrants who might ban them for saying the wrong thing.The internet of old is not dead because we killed it. It's dead because we grew up. *arrs might not have the same comfy vibe as hanging out in a channel on irchighway or whatever and discussing your favorite TV show with like minded people who operate fserves and FTPs to distribute it. But if you survived that era you know it's fucking retarded to even begin to think that was better. It was a struggle.
Now about that struggle. As a teenager I can remember watching my favorite show at that time (Dead Like Me) as SVCD encodes from HDTV.https://predb.me/?search=Dead+Like+Me+SVCD+SD-6Look at the years. 2003, 2004. I had 1.5mbit internet. Even though we had satellite TV with all the premium channels, HBO, Showtime, etc I still wanted to watch this in the aspect ratio it was actually filmed in. I cared about that. So I would wait for these encodes to get released then burn them to a CD-R to watch on my TV. In order to get actual reliable access to these releases I had to share with other people in the IRC channel where the fserves and FTPs were. By allowing people to download from me with my blazing fast 128kbit upload speed (most people gave up trying lmao) I got access to a FTP site hosted at a university in my state where I could get these releases that maxed out my connection.All this bitching about *arrs is fucking dumb. Do you think if I could just set up something to download my favorite show in the quality I specify automatically back then I wouldn't? Look at the quality and reliability we get these days too. Scene/FLUX automating and rarely needing to repack. It's not like all those botched HDTV rips. You'd be excited to finally get your show downloaded then it would be fucked up somehow.
>>107655260Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specshttps://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Bought an X390. Did I make a mistake?Posted from my Librebooted X200 with Librewolf, librely
>>107746713And for comparison:>X1 Nano293 mm × 208 mm × 14 mm (11.54 in × 8.19 in × 0.57 in)>Z13294.4 x 199.6 x 13.99 mm(11.59 in X 7.86 in X 0.55 in)
>>107727431>10lb laptopNot that heavy >VGA TN screen with a 5° viewing angleBuilt in privacy>paired with the processing capability of a 2012 smartphoneIdeal for DSL>battery life measured in secondsNew batteries exist>cooks your balls running a text editorreplace the thermal paste and you're goodComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107746736Mistake for what? I don't consider buying Thinkpads a mistake, mostly.
>>107748091Enjoy. It's going to be absolute dogshit, but you can add it to you Funko Pop thinkpad collection and dust it off every now and then to take performative, staged snapshots for social media posts that will only attract transexuals. I won't indulge you in your fantasy.
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i made a new GEGL plugin for GIMP. first one of 2026. You can test a static form of it without installing by running this syntax in GIMP's gegl graphstyles color-fill=#ffffff color-policy=solidcolor enableoutline=true outline=1 outline-color=#ff0000 outline-blur=3 shadow-color=#ff84ee shadow-opacity=1 shadow-x=0 shadow-y=0enableinnerglow=true ig-value=#ff84ee ig-radius=1 ig-grow-radius=6 ig-opacity=1gaussian-blur std-dev-x=4 std-dev-y=4 abyss-policy=nonedropshadow x=0 y=0 grow-radius=2 radius=15 color=#ff0000 opacity=0.2id=1 overlay srgb=true aux=[ ref=1 opacity value=0.12 ]
>>107747345Chinks won't use Linux because it has no face. Reeks of poverty. Use OEM backdoored Windows instead. FREE EXTRA BACKDOOR!Japs are hyper-conformist robots who use what CEO uses.
>>107747670don't worry, NOBODY uses your gimp plugins
Hyprpaper not working with new hyprland update. It's not reading the wallpaper anymore. Anyone know a fix?
>>107748262nvm, found it. they changed the entire layout on how it works now.
It's 2026. How close are Waifu robots to becoming commercially available?The technology must be close by now, /g/ros...
>>107731292Sex with robots is a sin! The Bible says Adam and Eve, not Florence and The Machine.
>>107731292>i want a robot wife so i can accelerate my crippling inability to interact with people and become an even bigger lost cause
>>107743447Also I agree with you, buying her from the store probably comes with strings attatched. Especially since all big tech companies seem so obsessed with control and service based products.I imagine they could straight up kill your wife for not following the rules or wrongthink
>>107731292Waifu robots will be exclusively owned by the ultra-rich, then eventually banned by women voters
>>107745646I did experience it. Felt damn good, then extremely bittersweet. And you are right I found ai chat bots to be the closest thing I have ever felt to my highschool gf.
/g/ humour thread
>>107746377imagine the plapping
>>107744527I don't get out of bed anyways
>>107744046LOL!
>*picks nose* Dude you're supposed to just code for charity, you aren't allowed to make money off your workWhy do you retards worship this ogre?
>>107748300GPL explicitly mentions that you are allowed to make money off your code
>>107748300You miss the pointNothing stops you from selling free software, so you might as well make some money
>>107748334>>107748340But why would I pay for something that's free
