I’ve been running Linux Mint for over four years and was happy with it until the recent drama, especially the AI security scan fiasco. It really shook my trust in the maintainers.I started looking for alternatives, but after testing hundreds of distros, none of them met my expectations for stability and reliability. I began to accept that my system would just break from time to time until I found a thread recommending Windows Seven as a rock-solid alternative.After researching, it turns out this version is still surprisingly usable. It’s stable, reliable, and with extended updates plus a good firewall, security isn’t a major issue.Has anyone else tried this? How did it go for you? Personally, I haven’t run into a single problem so far.
>>107671508>poop os>uninstall itself when installing anything
>>107671498What, should I run a 60 foot cat5 instead anon?
>>107671521cat6a but yeah
>>107671511Seems to be working just fine for me anon!
>>107671527Eh, I’ll pass on that, the card worked fine under ubuntu. Probably just gonna reinstall it since install have the usb
I thought Europe is on the decline and can't make anything good?
>>107668690Europe doesn't need to follow US patents or use US tech infrastructure.
>>107668641it's just another german-like country, like austria, so no need to think too deeply about it
>most people haven't heard of HollandGrim
>>107668549>>107668662Europe, including EU, is mostly stagnating or having slow growth in comparison to Asia and Americas that are doing better in comparison. That doesn't mean that EU/Europe is currently a worse place to live in or currently worse than those places, EU's GDP is still larger than China's and will be for a couple of years, and second only to US, and won't fall from the third place for 50+ years if ever. Most of anti-EU posts are from either russians butthurt that EU is so pro-ukraine understandably, or from schizos who think EU is the one responsible for mass migration in Europe, when in reality UK left the EU and has recieved many more migrants, and if we go by skin color UK has way more darker skinned and black migrants than for example Germany that's the heart of EU. Russia is also just barely 80% white/slavic, and accepts like 1M migrants each year and has the third largest migrant population on the planet. EU is overall a benefit and good for Europe, and while they sometimes fuck up like with the encryption thing, they also make good changes too like with EEA privacy protection laws straight up making Windows much better for EU citizens. Also it's the funniest thing ever to see white nationalists in US try to make fun of Europe, when the reason for their wealth is exclusively only because they accept immigrants and their white population is 40yo average and dropping by 1% every 3 years, and is already sub 50% in young adult territory.
>>107668706Designing the chips you build, protecting you from being a Russian or Chinese colony by the end of the week, funding your welfare state.Basically, all the reasons you call the U.S. "daddy".
wtf
>>107670633It's kinda mind-blowing how, for many years, and except for Microsoft and a handful of equally retarded retards, most companies were able to understand that having good programmers was better than hiring some shit durgasoft dev for 1/50th the price, because having a product that actually worked was in their best interest.And now, all those companies who resisted ruining their products are slowly deciding that they all are happy with an ai literally worse than those cheap programmers they didn't want. Like, <very cheap and bad> wasn't worth it, but <even cheaper and worse> is suddenly a great deal.I didn't expect society collapsing because there would be a point where every company would be speedrunning getting worse than windows 11, but here we are.
>>107670633hackernews fellas will love this bait.
>>107670039Based Rob Pike. We don't deserve him.
>>107670039Holy based TCD
>>107671342The comments atm are great. Hackernews are slowly noooooooooticing.
frontend: https://sillytavern.pro
Updated LMArena Scripthttps://gofile.io/d/94LSkjIncluded a zip package since not everyone has the LMArenaBridge. If you already have the bridge, all you need is the README and script files.Nonfaggot-gatekept versionhttps://files.catbox.moe/001xyg.zip
>>107671241based
>>107671241BAAAAAAAAAAAASED!!!
>>107671241HOLY BUH BUH BUH BASED UNC
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Switching to Linux for gaming seems to be the popular thing these days and Steam is the choice for it. Whereas on Windows using GOG I can actually own my game and keep a copy of it, I'm not leasing it if the platform decides to just take shit back. Windows has better software support and freedom.
>>107668566>get banned from gog>Can still use and play every game i downloaded>get banned from other platforms>cant even play the games already downloaded on my pcI pay gog for being able to backup my own games, not for being a perfect company
>>107671368>stop playing online shitI have never bought a game with a remote killswitch, yet more and more games adopt this release model. Looking the other way doesn't really address the problem.>that has nothing to do with owning itI feel like being able to keep what you buy does, in fact, have at least something to do with the concept of ownership. But maybe that's just me.
>>107671383>>get bannedthis never happens>Looking the other way doesn't really address the problem.yes it does
>>107668510this is so funny, I literally game on GNU/Linux and GOG seems like the only go to, as I don't want to have some garbage online only client to play my games, I just torrent gog version, launch setup and it just works>Windows has better software support and freedomGOG also offers Linux versions if they are available for certain games and with wine you need not worry about software support as every time you need to install some C++ or C# library, it will and it will be no problem. For absolute numbskulls there is shit like bottles, lutris and heroic game launcher, so you don't have to learn all the wine's commands and parameters
>>107668510On Windows you don't even own your computer, let alone anything on it.
I was thinking about this for some time, renewable is a joke, nuclear is too expensive, hydro isn't available everywhere and cause problems with downstream countries Oil and Gas as energy sources are>Scalable >Cheap and abundant >The price of a power station is dirt cheap>Less variables that can reduce the output >Tech can be improved to reduce pollution Other alternatives are just failing to meet one or most of these criteriaThe US current attempt to change Venezuela gov is a public declaration that alternatives have mostly failed and at best just reduced the need for gas and oil by small margins
>>107671386>>107671076also cont.>US current attemptThat's because the administration is, on the decree of the people, staffed with aristocrats who understandably take advantage of the situation>Less variablesAs compared to what? solar? have you ever been to a sunny part of the US?fossil in comparison has already shown itself to be unstable in a globalist context, europe 2022
new powerplants are gonna be hooked up directly to data centers with zero investment into improving the grid.household plebs and normal businesses will be stuck with germany-tier electricity prices and rolling blackouts (rich people will just buy home batteries) so ChatGPT 7 is 0.32% better on synthetic benchmarks.
>literal aircraft jet engines hooked up to generators belching out NOx at ground level.
>>107671076>I was thinkingGiving yourself too much credit there.
Just enjoy the ride
mornin' retards and alikeprev >>107602756
>>107666910>>107647336I messed something up, first time on github. Downloading the files zipped gets them uncorrupted but I'm figuring out a fix
unc:https://elfurro.s-ul.eu/desktops/3ITRmb7jfirst time trying to show my desktop with my multi-monitor setup, still getting used to it and trying to make good use of the space.
>>107667339I have 40" 3840x2160 display and it has 1:1 same size stuff like some old 20" 1920x1080 monitors people had no trouble using. I use 96 dpi and same font sizes that Windows 7 had (Liberation Sans/Serif/Mono). After using this for over 10 years, I might switch to three 42" to make it same size as 24" 1920x1080 so that I can have them further back.
>>107670407IceWM is so comfy
Merry Christmas!!!!! Editionprevious >>107576926links >>106889031
>>107671205>got an engineering degree?I am >>107671131 and yes, I do.
>>107671301>>107671205I think I should make clear that I am >>107671131 but not >>107661627
>>107671301>>107671307>>107671205and in terms of background, I'm a mechanical engineer who first tried to switch to computer science after learning that programming is fun. did my master's thesis and now finishing up a PhD at a robotics lab, but before that I worked in industrial controls for a bit (mix of freelance design gigs and actual employment) as well as a short stint as a backend dev during my MSc. quit that place to do my thesis at the robotics lab, but that was evidently a very poor decision.it's a mess and that mess was caused entirely by the fact that I couldn't find a job right after undergrad, maybe due to COVID but most likely because I am a ugly incel undeserving of happiness.
>>107671301>>107671307>>107671337my mistake, i've been drinking so i accidentally assumed that you were both the same anonyou're right in that your background is a shitshow and it's definitely holding you back, though you should still have enough experience to get you in somewhere if you do enough resume spinning and AI tailoring for each job you apply to.from a quick, lazy glance at hiring.cafe, it sounds like you'd be able to snag a junior robotics engineer job somewhere, since the split software/mechanical background + computer vision experience matches what they're typically looking for. however, this is out of my field of expertise so i may be wrong if you're super desperate, take the FE exam, get your EIT, and work as a slave at an MEP firm till you get your PE. it'll suck but im sure you can manage it
>>107671422I'm not american>what they're typically looking for [in junior robotics engineers]are new grads from top unis (and jeets) not old retards like me. And ideally they want people with experience in the EXACT specific niche they are looking to fill.I've already given up on finding a technical job by now. Just coming here to rant. Just need to do my last few months, get the participation trophy and go on unemployment while I pick up an electrician cert. Or maybe honestly just anhero at this point, not like there's anything left to look forward to in life.It's just immensely frustrating that there are so many things I can do and many of them very well, but in the end none of it was enough to even get a basic bitch corporate slave job.
Boxing Day EditionDiscussion of Free and Open Source Text-to-Image/Video ModelsPrev: >>107668194https://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.
>>107671145comfyui is a mess and got popular by a chance. poothon has to go if we want to get through the ram crisis. just my two cents, efficiency is going to be important again in the future, we can no longer shove ram in everything and port every program to electron.
>>107671467>poothonqrd
>>107671467Au contraire, this is the opportunity we have been waiting for, local genning should be reserved to for the wealthy ram owners like us while the plebs have to pay extra for censored cloud gen, if you can't afford ram you don't belong here
>>107671467kys trani
>>107671450wow it works
>employ Chinese people>they steal your tech and join your Chinese competitors
>>107670339What good is RnD when you don't have to means to (mass) produce?
>>107670332Stock price is not revenue. Insisting that it is is like insisting that a landlord that owns a 1m house is making 1m a year renting it out.At least 20 years of profit and growth is priced into that 4t valuation. It's more like 50 years in the case of Nvidia right now
>>107670405It’s not. US fell for the RnD meme. Too busy researching fiction instead of just building nuclear power plants or making solar panels more durable like China. Just taking what already works and making it better.
>>107669906>>107669913God fucking damnit. I have jew fatigue
>>107670339what the hell is a month behind what if your last 6month crap just turned out to be nothing it happens even for years
soju editionprevious: >>107602013READ THE (temp)WIKI! & help by contributing:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/PFsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.>What software should I run?Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Emby/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, Ampache/Navidrome to replace Spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.>Why should I have a home server?De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your tech skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107669513whats a good way to mirror a website?rightclick and save as html?is there a self hosted thing i could use?
>>107668511i do it manually every couple of weeks, there are hardly any updates since it's debian and i virtualize most things
>>107669489they get sued a lot but they also seem to be weirdly resilient. if you feel comfortable doing it there's no real downside to uploading there>>107670991depends on the website. the archive sites seem to just save the page as an html but that's not so useful if you want to archive the entire website. maybe there's a spider (ie what search engines use) like tool you can use?
Anyone run Solaris with REAL ZFS on their NAS?
Anyone one running sunshine/moonlight server?I have this weird problem.I have sunshine server running on my main machine (installed from the github repo) and it's on wayland.I have moonlight client installed from flatpak on another machine and it's running on X11.I can connect to the server, but I just get black screen, I tried using different client so I use moonlight on my android phone and it could connect just fine.So what's the problem? I can't see any error messages in the logs to even start solving it.The problem started after the latest kernel and mesa update.Could it be hardware related?
Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.Useful links>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?>>>/g/iemg>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?>>>/g/spg/>I want to buy some sort of emulation device>>>/vr/hhg/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107669296no coins. they are an app only exclusive
>cashback site is offering a whopping 26% cashback on AliExpress here in BingBongland + 7 off 15 on top>But they are unreliable with paying out and I've just had a previous similar purchase from months ago suddenly get declined and not pay out>reliable cashback site only has 12% todaywhat do
>>107667394why are all reviews from brazil?thanks for the review, i rememeber looking at getting into astronomy years ago but i was taken back by the price of good a good telescope and how hard it is to learn but maybe i'll have another look
>>107667109Yes, but they are not rock climbers (those small ones where it actually is a real challenge). They have a binary power delivery, meaning you can choose from one of 3 speeds and then it's either on or off. If you want to have a toy to use for a tactile feel over rough terrain you'll want to pay more and get something better. But they will drive over smaller obstacles.>>107668137The only pics I have were from before I packaged them for christmas, not from when they played with them, but here you go:https://aliexpress.com/item/1005009330325173.htmlfor the puzzle. It has loose enough tolerances that it isn't frustrating for the child.https://aliexpress.com/item/1005009269604128.htmlfor the wooden stacking animals. It's definitely worth the money.They look pretty much 1:1 the way they do in the listing. For the second the plastic box is a bit fragile, but that's not important to me. They have lacquer on them, so if the child is young and likely to put everything in their mouth still, I'd be a bit hesitant with these, not because they smell bad or give me any reason to doubt them, but chinese lacquer and a newborn seem like a risky combination. For a raw (non lacquered other than the wheels) gift last christmas I gifted the youngest (not quite 1 at the time) this wooden dino, which was nice natural soft wood:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
chang finally sent the thermal camera i bought on the 5th... shit man, alibaba is tedious compared with aliexpress>>107671379i mean you can always give them a good lacker coat that you can trust
I think I may have figured out how to fraudently pass off AVIF images as video inside a WEBM container.ffmpeg -i 1.avif -c:v copy 1.webm & ffmpeg -i 2.avif -c:v copy 2.webmffmpeg -i 3.avif -c:v copy 3.webm & ffmpeg -i 4.avif -c:v copy 4.webm & ffmpeg -i 5.avif -c:v copy 5.webm(echo file '1.webm' & echo file '2.webm' & echo file '3.webm' & echo file '4.webm' & echo file '5.webm') > filelist.txtffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i filelist.txt -c copy 12345.webm5 pack of AVIF images (125 KB): https://files.catbox.moe/ei4qf6.zipthose 5 AVIF images converted to a fraudulent (but playable) WEBM (124 KB): https://files.catbox.moe/5r19yu.webmThere's 1 problem though, I have no idea how to reverse this process.
Your autism made an invalid video file. Try exporting PNG images named 1.png 2.png 3.png to an AV1 webm first. Something likeffmpeg -framerate 1 %d.png -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 30 -g 1 -pix_fmt yuv420p autism.webmAnd thenffmpeg -i autism.webm -c copy %d.avif
>>107669839>the stream is bitexact identical to an av1 keyframeHoly shit, that was the clue. You're a god damned genius. I figured out the other part, apparently image2 expects PNG/JPG, a proper image format but if you switch it on before the output it'll export AV1 video data anyway lol.ffmpeg -skip_frame nokey -i in.webm -c copy -f image2 %d.avifhttps://files.catbox.moe/77pw8j.zip
Bad news, the colors don't match and CICP has now changed. However the good news is SSIM = 1 so the raw YUV data is in fact lossless here.ffmpeg ignored CICP...
>>107669807Some guy ong /g/ used to post optimized jpgs/pngs as "webps" that were 1 frame webms.
>>107669807Aren't they just separate streams with start time metadata if it's concat? Also why would you do this it's guaranteed to be broken maybe everywhere, just because your bloated everything exe called a browser can do it does not mean a site will accept it
>Implying the new puzzle Captcha isn't fun
>>107669763>enable firefox dns over https>pick cloudflare>captcha doesn't require verification 99% of the time
>>107669763I actually find it easier than the previous version that drew mashed-up letters and ran it through an "add noise" filter 20 times.People who can't count and/or follow simple instructions (that is, bots) are probably having a hard time of it, though.
>>107669763...captcha?
>paying to shitpostlollmao
>>107669773works on my machine
AIncels BTFO!https://x.com/ProtOfMantle/status/2004240611046777272https://noaiedits.quadvision.eu/
Bet be used ai to code this site
>>107669209>terminally online losers with a long overdue reality check moan and whine about shit no one cares aboutget a job
>>107669289>people hate AI shit>2025 GOTY is vibe-coded, ue5 slop.okay
>>107670134fa/g/s are just mega contranians, if some faggot on xitter hates something then they NEED to defend it like there's no tomorrow, they'd call you a tranny for not liking Elon the jew stool even doe he troons his offsprings out
>>107669209shouldn't it be possible to prompt inject using hidden data in the image?
