I legitimately can not discern the difference between 128kbps audio and anything higher bitrate. For years I've seen anons argue about 320kbps, FLAC, WAV, and so forth. But honest to God, the difference to my ears is near imperceptible. I listen to headphones for 8+ hours every day, and even I can't tell the difference. Sure my equipment is not top-tier, but I doubt that explains it.For my favorite music, I can just about tell the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps. Like if I really try hard. But anything above that.. forget it. I really feel people are lying when they claim they are able to hear nuances beyond 320kbps. I believe higher than 320kbps is hardcore placebo-tier and people who hoard FLACs are raping their limited storage capacity for no reason.What do you think? Is the audiophile culture plagued by lying cocksuckers, or do some people have golden ears?
>>107677878It depends a lot on content. With most music I've tried I also couldn't readily tell a difference between 320kbps MP3 and FLAC, but with the eig.wv sample I found on hydrogenaudio it was quite easy once I raised the volume sufficiently:https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,49601.0.htmlhttps://files.catbox.moe/srh7pa.zip (contains the original and the 320kbps MP3 encode I made and used for testing)Though the codec used is another important variable, more modern codecs like AAC and Opus fare a lot better on this sample than ancient MP3. Even different encoder implementations can behave differently, e.g. the native ffmpeg AAC encoder is a lot worse than the AAC encoders by Apple and Fraunhofer.There's also generation loss, meaning if you convert multiple times the losses stack up, so if you want to convert to, let's say 96kbps Opus, it's better to feed the Opus encoder the original FLAC than an already lossy MP3.
>>107682237There's almost no difference between a $10 Apple dongle and a $1000 shitbrick
>flac troll threadI can't discern the difference between a painting and a reproduction, but if I was going to go to great length to collect paintings, I would want the originals, not reproductions. That's the point of FLAC, nothing else. If you cannot understand this analogy then you are fucking retarded.
>>107679872>FLAC>3:18>AAC>4:17Those are clearly different versions of the song. You have to be very careful about this when making codec comparisons, it's meaningless if the lossy version was made from a different version of the song that sounded different to begin with.Here's an AAC made by directly encoding your FLAC with qaac (TVBR 63, ~128 kbps): https://files.catbox.moe/h1ilz1.m4a
>>107677878128kbps MP3 encoded with a modern version of LAME is actually pretty good for some genres of music. If you listen to simple singer-songwriter stuff it's probably fine. It's only when you have a lot of high frequency content, e.g. cymbals, that the difference is obvious.
Sexy Present EditionWhere is the usual baker? Subedition>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/69zbxh4hComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107683889Download torrents with your account, add them to your client paused, then edit the tracker URL changing your passkey to theirs.>I got banned for this on what.cd
>>107684268I have both. I seed anyway. I wish to do maximum damage to copyright holders. Seeding is no longer about ratio or user clsss for me because I am on all the trackers.
>>107681595Realistically probably hdb. Really annoying to start out because they make you get approval for your uploads, and they have fewer encode slots / don't let you upload dog poo
>>107682325I only watch older movies on a CRT :) looks way better, even if you have some stupid 65 inch oled
crt good sir us indians all have crt sir
How do they have so many packages? Do they compromise on security?
>>107679937No, guix is. But that isn't to say guix is relevant now. It's just that if things had gone right from the start, guix would've been great.
>>107679937First of all, I like Nix and GUIX. I use both in desktop and server but this >easy to understand>easy to make packages >easy to manage,
>>107681825Guix isn't perfect by all means. But a default installation with GNOME works and doesn't get in the way of day to day activities.How they got GNOME 40+ working on shepherd is quite an accomplishment.
>>107680226why is Nix evaluation still so slow? why are flakes still not stable? sounds like this "high quality software" wasn't actually made by them, but they merely hijacked it, and it's stalled since.
>>107684012>they merely hijacked it, and it's stalled since.This is objectively true and can be proven with the commit log. Basically all of the good parts of nix came directly from Anduril employees. Hopefully Anduril releases there own distribution so all the normal people that care about quality can move to that.
I'm trying to find development related videos but it is only showing me shorts after a few scrolls.
/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbotsAru Edition>NewsGoogle releases Gemini 3 Flash https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flashOpenAI releases GPT-5.2 https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2Deepseek releases V3.2 https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5Google releases Gemini 3 Pro https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3Additional info: https://aicg.neocities.org/info.html>FrontendsSillyTavern: https://docs.sillytavern.appComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107684620i slipped my own 'update' into the repo, glad to see it's working ;) also, thanks for the data
>>107684620over SEVEN critical vulnerabilities...
>>10768465911 actually, but who's counting?
>>107684605Deset 'r'
>>107684625>>107684646Genuinely glad for you two, I hope it never happens to anyone else as well. Sometimes that's just the way things are.>>107684659>>107684671It shouldn't be this bad though also is there a way to roll back an update?
what do you call this genre of homosexual AI musing?The key is never having any projects or problems solved by AI to back up this display of homosexual retarded delusions of grandeur.
>>107684313and I am suggesting people in the AI industry are obviously going to DICKSUCK the FUCK out of AI and write these disgusting gay essays about how the world has been irreversibly changed by AI even though nobody's lives has actually changed
>>107684178>DUUUUUDE [BULLSHIT BINGO]
>>107684366Stay asleep mate.
>>107684178wtf is with ai cogsuckers and sounding like they've got 50 ai-enabled dildos up their ass powered by microsoft's most recent "agentic" os.
>>107684179I hate jeets ai posting. And jeets in general.
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):wiki.alpinelinux.orgwiki.debian.orgwiki.archlinux.orghttps://wiki.gentoo.org>Which distro should I choose?gnu.org/distros/free-distros.htmlnosystemd.org>What are some cool programs?suckless.orgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107684500Is your home directory the only thing on the LUKS volume? If not, it's unrelated to OPs question.
>>107680344have not tried but puppylinux and knoppix
>>107684521sorry, also no I just created a separate partition for private stuff and keep all my files there and just keep a backup for dotfiles, I thought this was a good idea
>>107684369ext4 / fscrypt / homedrelevant top-level wiki article https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Data-at-rest_encryption
>>107684478>>107684491>>107684657sweet thanks guys ima look in to these>>107684500isn't that for whole disk encryption? I just wanna encrypt my home dir
Soldered Nixies editionPrevious: >>107647244 >Keyboard recommendation template:https://pastebin.com/n220xk9V>Find vendorshttps://www.alexotos.com/keyboard-vendor-list // Up-to-date list of reputable vendors with brief descriptionshttps://keycaplendar.firebaseapp.com // Tracker for current and upcoming keycap group buys>This keyboard stuff is so expensive!https://aliexpress.com (or Taobao if you know how)>Learn about MX-type switches ("mechanical keyboard switches")Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107681160Fave87 or Nova PCB?
>>107683583Either is fine. Fave is the default for F1s and Nova gets you RGB so that's up to you too. The meta is Galatea/Hineybush soldered with half-plate Alu V1.1 anyway, so if you're hotswapping no need to worry about making decisions between PCBs.
Baion
GOAT
>>107684216Show us the other one with the CRP caps on it. Looks like a gasket mount but not a Geon one, idk which board it is.
Previous /sdg/ thread : >>107653059>Beginner UIEasyDiffusion: https://easydiffusion.github.ioSwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI>Advanced UIComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUIForge Classic: https://github.com/Haoming02/sd-webui-forge-classicStability Matrix: https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix>Z-Image Turbohttps://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/z_imagehttps://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbohttps://huggingface.co/jayn7/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUFComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107684090but what happens when the sources are all re-written and the truth is expunged? especially stuff for medicine, physics/mathematics, history, stuff that matters? we already know that procedural generation is confidently incorrect, so when people start using it to fill in information and it starts to push out the time-tested information, what are we going to do afterwards? try to keep an encyclopedia from 2019 to reference? look at youtube. it only shows x amount of videos in search and then defaults to what it predicts the viewers wants to see. google is playing to the highest bidder. i mean how is someone going to find out what is a safe dosage of ibuprofen or symptoms of strep in children if we can't trust anything anymore?
>>107683990lelnon-saturated mineral oil diet.Looks like you're ready to make a 3D gen of him
>>107684129>especially stuff for medicine, physics/mathematics, history, stuff that matters?thats a little different because science stuff gets gate-kept by peer review and journal publications. not to say there isn't an increasing amount of AIslop there too but its comparatively far more rigorous that shitposting to the internet>try to keep an encyclopedia from 2019 to reference?think of what it took to put that encyclopedia together tho. an organization of people motivated to collect and curate truth. these sorts of people always exist, whether it be wiki editors or book researchers or whatever. and all people are capable of some degree of self-guided truth validation. truth will be the same as it ever was: an on-going and never ending curation> google is playing to the highest bidder.I mean, thats just a quality of how we've structured our society. thats what spawned all the mainstream media news slop we have today. "news you can trust!" and maybe it once was -- but fox news didn't turn to manufacturing reality because of AI. as 'truth' becomes more scarce, it increases in value. as something gains value, someone else will try to sell it. thats why I'm hopeful of a new age of skepticism. dont trust AI, dont trust google, dont trust newsmedia. learn to find and validate truth. I know it sounds blindly optimistic, but the people who don't have the capacity to redefine their relationship with truth were already being lied to before AI anyway
morning anons
>What phone has X and Y feature?Don't ask, use these!https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphoneshttps://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&s=queryGood Resources:>Reviewshttps://www.gsmarena.comhttps://www.phonearena.comhttps://www.notebookcheck.net>Frequency Checkershttps://www.frequencycheck.comhttps://kimovil.com/en/frequency-checkerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107682348>>107679790Posting fake articles and misinformation as usual it's crazy how low of an IQ you have.>>107679368G is dying thanks to trolls that post fake articles and are instigating flamewars. Like the baker of spg always picks a fake iPhone picture as the threads main image. >>107683683Not true at all global sales statistics prove why many places don't buy flagships due to poverty.>>107683791Only for people with good credit, if you have a phone that's still not paid off you gotta clear the remaining balance to trade it in. Many variables and it's not really free.
>>107683852>niggers can't afford food ergo food expensiveoutstanding logic
What are gaming phones for? I assumed all we have is subpar emulation and gacha hell, which I'm struggling to justify a powerful phone for.
>>107684075imagine being so unaware of what's going on in society and in the world. people are struggling to pay for groceries globally, you don't know what you're talking about. grocery stores here in the USA have to lock up expensive things like steaks, because people are stealing stuff. if some people can't afford food or rent, what makes you think that they can afford a $1,200+ smartphone? >>107684154plenty of people are running PC games even in 4k it's just more for a hobby realistically when you break it down because you might as well just get a more powerful laptop if you really want to do mobile gaming but I guess it's just like something people are into.
>>107683657usb-c thumb
I am currently in possession of a Dell Precision 5550 my school gave me and didn't ask for back; this happened 1.5-2 years ago so I forgot I even had it. I would like to use this as a personal laptop to replace my old desktop; however, the BIOS is locked, and it is running heavily restricted Windows, making it practically just a web browser.I have already read a fair bit about how this is difficult but all info regarding actually unlocking it doesn't work--any advice? Is there a reliable way to do this without having to do anything to the BIOS chips? I am fairly technical but currently do not have access to the required tools for soldering/chip flashing. I do not have a USB-C flashdrive, but since I can't even open BIOS boot order due to admin lock, I doubt it would work.Laptop model: Dell Precision 5550Bios Version: 1.22.0BIOS Mode: UEFICPU: i7-10750HGPU: Quadro T2000 (Max-Q Design)RAM: 32GiBShould this be unfeasible/too painful, I am thinking of buying a ThinkPad P53 as an alternative.I can provide more specifics if need be.
>>107684261>take the hard drive out and install another os on it, then put it back in the computerThe BIOS is locked through so I can't disable secure boot; I need Linux to run of this for personal usage.
>>107684206Give it back, Jamal. You will be the reason they won't hand out free laptops in the future.
>>107684291Linux works just fine with Secure Boot.
Return that which thou hath unlawfully taken, DaKwantus
>>107684379>Linux works just fine with Secure Boot.I thought that was only true for Microsoft signed distros (i.e., RHEL, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), but that some distros like Arch, Void, and Gentoo won't boot?
>1 website goes down>can't install software
>>107684335>and?You can literally activate it locally and offline, for free.and?Maybe if I say and? and repeat the same thing over and over again I can pretend I don't understand why they brought it up.>security updates don't matter if you are not retarded.you are a lost cause, nothing I can say will convince you>you will literally have the mark on your desktop that this version is not activated and thats it.pic rel that shows over application windows and in-game is not barely noticeable you dumb fuck>said the linux troon who needs to enable 20 different hacks to get working sound and wifiread my previous response
>>107684559the pic in mention
>>107680356Depending on the board, some faggot will take it down and give you a warning for it even if the context wasn't their skin.I think the niggers on /g/ are okay with it though.
>>107684559>you are a lost cause,I love it how self-righteous you linux trannies are. As if you were more tech-literate just because you made your life harder by using inferior hobby OS.>pic relSeems like your pic rel failed, the same way you failed to become a real woman. And as I have already said, there are plenty of ways to activate it for free, offline.>read my previous responsetranny>>107684603>WHEEEZE, I HAVE A LITTLE MARK ON MY SCREEN BECAUSE I AM TOO LAZY TO ACTIVATE IT, NOW I HAVE TO SWITCH TO TROONIX AND CHOP MY DICK OF, REEE!!
>>107679714Centralised software distribution is the only thing that works well given resource constraints.Peer-to-Peer / decentralised software distribution doesn't scale when you're dealing with a repository multiple terrabytes in size.
how much slop is acceptable /g/?
>>107680782How hard is it spending every waking moment as a pitch black gorilla nigger?
Velocity has cost you each possibility of an afterlife
>>107680688> fat retard turns out to be undisciplined fat retardAmazing.
Am I cursed to only fix other people's broken code?Is this the punishment I get for not wanting to become a useless manager?
>>107684418>UK government bailing out the jeetsI want off this ride.
>dont use sync XHR , that's deprecated, have you even read MDN>what if want to do something while waiting.That's the dev's decision go use another website if you do not like it.
Yes actually, the harm you do lying here can erase your soul from each existence
>XHRI just add a <script> node and use JSONP with a callback. What are you gonna do, gonna cry?
>>107568585"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."--Edward Snowden>CyberpunkThe FAQ: https://sizeof.cat/post/cyberpunk-faq/What is /cyb/erpunk?: https://pastebin.com/pmn9vzWZHow do I into /cyb/erpunk?: https://pastebin.com/5tpNFQdsHuge list of cyberpunk media: https://sizeof.cat/post/cyberpunk/The cyberdeck: https://pastebin.com/7fE4BVBgCyberlife: https://jinteki.industries/files/cyberlife.7zBibliothek: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4m5hd2065hde8/Bibliothek>PrivacyTools: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
any projects that would benefit from running in a portable lab (like a raspberry pi on my backpack as I walk around the city)? What capabilities does mobility offer as opposed to just staying in my apartment?
>>107601582>OSINT Guide >need to buy some shit you have been spottedGame is over...
>>107678596SerenityOS has a lot of sub components you could focus on, or you could work on porting third party software to this platform, seehttps://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/PortsFor deeply low level stuff, there is gigatron.io where you can even rewrite the microcode.
Anyone got more clips from the future we have all deserved, loike this?https://www.deviantart.com/latexspacebabes/art/Welcome-To-The-Citadel-Home-Of-The-Space-Babes-1272923135
>>107682950What are the coolest projects for a wanna be hacker to focus on?
