>2026>I'm still using OpenBSD>I'm still running Gentoo without systemd, polkit, PAM, dbus, wayland and a whole host of other cancer disabled at compile time>I'm still using USENET and XDCC for my piracy needs and will never sign up for "private" tracker>I'm still disabling bluetooth on every device I have that came with it>I'm still using my own servers to proxy instead of "VPN providers">my website still runs on dedicated server I own and control with NetBSD installed behind OpenBSD router>my car is still a 1974 model with a carburetor and no ECU>my LAN is still wired and I own all hardware including the ONT and cable modem>no wireless devices on my LAN and no WAP in my home>I still don't own a cell phone and I never will>I still have a real POTS landline>I still own and use multiple pre-ME/PSP CPUs>I still refuse to use GNU's libc on bare metal>I still refuse to use social media or any of these spook services LARPing as being more secure than shit like discordComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107849758>I'm still using my own servers to proxy instead of "VPN providers"Understandable, but are you the only one using those proxy servers (and the associated ips?) The point of VPNs to me is not to change your ip, but to find a shit crap cheap/frwe vpn which has too many users to deanonymize my traffic on the target server's end, without direct access to the VPN provider's logs which you subsequently protect against with different methods or chaining VPN hoping that atleast one party in the chain has the integrity to not keep logs.I also just let randos on the internet connect to my network and use it as a proxy to further dilute my own activities, which is just piracy.
Why do you do all that but still post here? There's plenty of good altchans, albeit with far fewer posters.
Vertical video is the norm now. All video is vertical now. People actively wish horizontal videos were vertical. They yearn for vertical video even when they're not circumstantially limited to it. A kid asked me to hold his phone and film him doing a trick at a skate park last week and when I held it in landscape mode he stopped me, took the phone, changed it to portrait and continued. Ten years ago vertical video was considered digital AIDS. It was to be avoided at all cost. Now it's the golden standard.
>>107849427The progression of technology does not always make things better. 15 years ago people were passing the time by watching movies and TV shows that had to be produced and greenlit by people whose jobs were to gamble on what audiences would want to see most. There was no other way to make a film or television broadcast. Maybe there was public access television but it was never the best material available meaning it never did well. All in all, film and television was heavily gatekept by tastemakers. Even the absolute trash that got produced back then was better than what most people waste time on now, because now there's YouTube. Anyone can upload anything to YouTube at any time for any reason from anywhere. Meaning you no longer need the permission of middlemen to reach your audience. You just make shit and put it out. Thing is, audiences aren't very discerning so the bar for quality is clipping through the bottom of Hell. Some of the most viewed videos on YouTube right now are nonsensical AI generated slop. Millions of people who would've been watching maybe Jackass 15 years ago are now spending their time watching videos wherein a robotic voice narrates a script clearly generated by ChatGPT that is full of inaccuracies and outright lies, and that's just normal now. The technology has improved but the standards have fallen as a result. It's only going to get worse.
>>107848840>not beating the shit out of the faggot after changing mode on your phonei'm still calling out every faggot and if people send me portait mode stuff i say i cant watch it, send landscape or gtfo>>107849435>>107849446kys faggot
>>107848840imagine you go to the cinema and the cinema screen is vertical
>>107849814It already exists and it's beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXAYR-ZtbH4DLSS 4.5 btfo FSR4
>>107849499This one is fake pixels
>>107848260>Both blurry shit>>107848494>Both fucking suck but ngl FSR looks way better. DSL looks like a blurry shit smear>>107848506>Why would you even want AI upscaled slop>>107848833>Both sides look like absolute shit>>107848976>both look like utter dogshit to meComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107849850You are brown. And that's hilarious.
>>107849850Can you or anyone post a DLSS quality mode comparison? I am fully convinced it will still look blurry
>>107849005OP is a Jeet shilling for Ngreedia.
Elon says his plan is to have humanity exploring space and meet alien civilizationsis this technologically achievable?
>>107847329>exploring space and meet alien civilizations<with rocketsThe richest man in the world being mentally retarded says it all about humanity really.
>>107847329>NASA plans to use starship for Artemis III>a manned mission to mars is actually within our grasp nowthe future is in our hands
>>107847384It's either traveling on a beam of light or nothing
>>107847329over 80% of oceans depths isn't explored in 21st century. what makes you think as if we are technologically developed enough to explore space?that guy is greatest con artist of our time.
>>107849540Orange rock bad. Do not go
for what purpose?
>>107843062are you afraid and shitting ur pants, Tim Crapple? are you afraid that zoomies want dumb phones now? are you afraid of the upcoming phone culture shift, Craig FEDerniggi?
>>107845482I miss my titan pocket fuckin shit
>>107843062I feel like this one is clearly a scam meant to capitalize on the Clicks Communicator hype. This product does not actually exist and never will.
>>107843062I use this brand! I am on their Jelly Star. Outdated android version (13) but I'm always behind because I don't live on my fucking phone. Well worth the $200 I spent on this pebble of a phone. I might check out this titan 2 just for a termux device
Are bone-conductive headphones any good? Being able to listen to stuff while having full hearing sounds pretty appealing
>>107848202Dumbass, its pretty obvious when people are wearing earbuds and are on the phone. Especially if the buds are white and ESPECIALLY if you have bone conduction earbuds that wrap around your head
>>107849257>earbuds that wrap around your headAhh yes. Natures way of identifying the douche bag. Mother Earth based like that.
>>107849029>you've never used any, why are you talking about them?I literally went to school and got a degree about this very subject lmao>if you use ear plugs or just shove your fingers over your ears the volume and bass increase significantlythis does not work. >>107849040I'm not that anon but he's asking what the point of using bone conduction headphones is if you're just gonna plug stuff into your ears anyway, which is a rather valid question. even if the 'plug your ears' method did work (it doesn't), why not just use traditional iems at that point?
>>107839058>Are bone-conductive headphones any good?You mean these?
military side yesconsumer side no
>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.
>>10784963616e is pretty small.
>>107843198>I miss the old captchas like you wouldn't believe, dude.I can do the new captcha a lot faster.I always get the old one wrong.
>>107842574I bought a color laser printer last month, wanker.
>>107830962For my next phone I might just get a dumbphone. Has to be 4G though because in my country they're turning off 3G and eventually 2G networks. Pic related seems to be one of the cheapest 4G phones in my country so I guess that would be fine.
>>107849643same size as my samsung aka. worst of both worlds>too small for comfy video watching, gaming, reading manga>too big to use onehanded at all times, finger can't reach top of the screen without "the shuffle" where it's easy to dropnever again, my next phone will either be 5.4 or 6.9 inches, so 6.9 inches because small phones aren't realI know it might seem weird to only want each of the extremes, but think about it, a 6.1 inch phone sucks as being portable and sucks at being a huge-battery-media-device. At least with an Ultra or Pro Max tier phone I can have all day battery and can watch videos really bigly.
>>107680640Don'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.
>>107761341My T430 is running low on storageshould I:>get an mSATA drive but it would probably be some weird chinese brand like Fanxiang because nobody else makes them anymore>get a new SSD and install it next to the old one using an ultrabay adapter>get a new SSD and just swap it in and try to clone everything over and then extend partitions
I have a budget of less than $300, what's the best laptop I can get?
>>107848762T14G2 AMD 32GB or T14G3 Intel
Bruh Lenovo delayed my order from mid January to mid April wtf is going on
>>107848762x220 or x200
I genuinely do not know what to think about AI. There are so many things about it that are cool. There are so many things about it that are shit. It clogs up my grandma’s feed with fake shit, it’s making the cost of electronics go up, it’s consuming resources at an unsustainable rate and so on. It’s given me some useful tools when it comes to writing, and gives me quick answers to questions among other things, but to me, all the negatives outweigh the positives. I’m not sure if it will even be able to advance much further beyond this point given the extreme consumption of resources it demands.What are some reasons why you support AI development? Give me some insight on why AI is a positive thing and why development should continue
>>107848080You'd be gut like a fish before you even got close enough. I've never met a single AI enthusiast who actually was capable of violence in any form.
>>107848072Yeah in September 2025 quantum information scientist Scott Aaronson was given a function by an AI that worked.https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183
>>107848084Terrence Tao is getting sent multiple Erdos problems being entirely solved by them. They will never replace humans like people are saying. We could witness a Jevons Paradox though!
>>107844719if we were actively working towards the singularity then i’d have no qualms with these nuclear-level hardware prices but the tech’s still comparatively raw yet still shoved into damn near anything that could hold a charge. having said that i’ve been using chatgpt rather frequently since last year and its ability to automate and summarize a shit ton of data is not to be underestimated, i feel. let’s see how far it can go by 2030
>>107847635>favstian
Can't wait for homosexual anon to start spamming again editionPrevious: >>107763554>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.
there have to be better keys to put here
I bought a keyboard switch tester and I think I like what it calls cherry mx2a blue. Apart from switch is there any other shit that matters on a mk these days? I'm just using a logitech mx brown something which is okay.
>>107849684alt gr, fn, caps lock
And the troon% meltdown continues, it seems.His last post also made me realize, but quite a few of the schizo troons sitewide write that way, making shitty rhymes/song parodies that is. Must be autism, and not the good kind of autism.
I thought Lichicx was no more but it looks like Divinikey got a restock of the raw silents?https://divinikey.com/products/lichicx-raw-switchesI swear I remember them being sold out, and now they aren't.
Zoomer here. I heard from my teacher today that phones used to have a slot like the sim card one where you could put in those digital camera memory sd cards in it. Why did no one complain when this happened?
>>107849565>a horrible customer experience>you dont care about your reputation>brand perception
>>107849066my samsung galaxy can use the sim+sd card slot as sim+sim. useful for travelling, or adultery i guess.
>>107849066My dirt cheap chinese phone still has it.
>>107849565>because sd cards are unreliable pieces of shit>they will inevitably corrupt creating a horrible customer experienceI've purchased maybe 100 microsds in my life, and I've never had one fail. What are you guys doing with these things?
>>107849843>I've purchased maybe 100 microsds theres your answer, you retire them before they shit the bedits the sensible thing to do, but certainly not what the average consumer willbut ive had barely used cards nuke themselves, and they werent even from unreliable brands
kde devs can't even make a calculator right
>>107840949qalculate, the qt version.
>>107846982I see, thank you!
>>107837183>casio>overpricednow that's a poorfag post if I've ever seen one, holy shit
>>107832196dismal.reminds me off those tapemeasures from china with different scaling.
Just code your own calculator if you want it to be 100% correct, jesus, this is /g/ after all.
/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbotsMaybe The Real Treasure Was The Friends We Made Along The Way Edition>NewsZ․ai releases GLM-4.7 https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7Google 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>FrontendsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
cftf?
>>107849819anon... what is 'cftf'? i keep seeing this in both /vg/ and /g/
>>107849853it's an excuse to post something off topic while making it technically chatbots related
>>107849853>i keep seeing this in both /vg/ and /g/cftf?
>>107849853it means that you should lurk more
whats with all the negative sentiment on older windows versions?>don't use xp, look at this video, the minute he connects to the Internet he's already got a virus!!!!!!!that isn't even remotely true and in that video he clearly states that he turned off the firewall and purposefully opened up a backdoor to his computerive literally been using Windows 7 since its launch and my computer still works perfectly fine
This is a pic hat device I made using ai for a product/software I've branded around the name GHOST LAYERS I also have a GitHub but won't even try to post it becuz of spam or whatever but would anyone buy a LoRa capable pi hat if there was a code repo for the thing and config file on the repo? Cool little pi hat for comms u can develop stuff like chat apps which I have and am working on more. Mine uses a non public sync word which is legal and it's strictly rf not mesh right now so it communicates straight to the other radio not thru nodes or mesh networks. I've yet to encrypt it.Have a lan chat app which is cool I wanna redo it for wan but need more knowledge on servers and protocols.
>>107849818>I've yet to encrypt itI think it would be pretty cool if you could manually transfer keys via serial connection Does it just send messages in unencrypted plain text atm? What structure are the packets, like would a receiver be able to tell the difference between two different transmitters? Could it even pick up two at once? Do you set a specific band? What about frequency hopping?
