In 10 days on January 1st, the Texas Law [SB2420] that requires an ID to download ANY apps onto your phone using the App/Play Stores, goes into effect.How do we bypass this, is it just over, should we all just switch to dumbPhones soon???...I know that theres F-Droid, and you can use the Aurora Store to bypass this (maybe), but some apps refuse to work unless you download them from the Play Store now, and I heard that sideloading will be disabled in 1-2 years, so it seems like its over.>tl;drOnce this law goes into effect, users located in Texas who download an app on the App/Play Stores, will be required to confirm whether they are 18 years or older, by showing their ID.
>>107614681doesn't sound very freedom does it?
>>107614681Remember, you voted for this!
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>>107614274i used an android one device which was basically aosp + some apps and it was bugged as shit, so being close to stock can still have problems
>>107614167I can find posts about poco and oneplus phones exploding too. Looks like cheap budget phones either are the most prone or it might be because more people use those than more expensive ones thus more reports
which one would you rather get?I could get the S24 for ~400€, the Pixel 9a for ~300€
>>107597628>tl;dr, I live in Texas and I don't want to show my ID to download apps, do I just switch over to F-Droid for all of my apps or what? (I'm sure using normal App APKs won't work soon unless you download them from the official store.)In 10 days on January 1st, the Texas Law [SB2420] that requires an ID to download ANY apps onto your phone using the App/Play Stores, goes into effect.How do we bypass this, is it just over, should we all just switch to dumbPhones soon???...I know that theres F-Droid, and you can use the Aurora Store to bypass this (maybe), but some apps refuse to work unless you download them from the Play Store now, and I heard that sideloading will be disabled in 1-2 years, so it seems like its over.
>>107614724doesn't sound very freedom does it?
>Hmm, what if I took technology that wa already in widespread usage, and made the same thing except you HAVE to give me your personal data to use it!people deserve to be enslaved because they want to be enslaved
>>107614152>8k60fps screenshare and you can't share audioSo just like on Discord?
>>107613889If it was exactly the same as the other thing and provided no benefits and only downsides, then it wouldn't have gotten adopted as much. In fact, a lot of shit products are popular because they have a large userbase and you can't really compete with the networking effect, so if people were willing to mass migrate from established products to Discord, then is it really that much worse?
>>107614114>there was nothing like discord in the consumer base before discordunderaged retard
>>107614513Not him but alright name your pre Discord, Discord-like program. You know something that has "servers" and in those servers channels where you can post images and videos and texts. And ofc with optional group chats, dms and such.
>>107614733Closest thing was Skype and Skype went down in flames just in time for everyone to jump ship to Dicksword"but teamspeak" only fucking nerds use TS
What's the best PC controller on the market right now? My wired Xbox controller from 2015 works fine but I wanna go wireless
360 pad is hard to beat especially in terms of value and very representative of the times when xbox and microsoft as a whole were a respected brand. Can't go wrong with this for any genre you like to play>>107613228easily breakable as I have come to find out twice unfortunately. I never even throw it away or abuse it in rage, it just fell down one day and stopped turning on since then. Apparently a very common thing as I have read with no fix apart from letting microshit repair this retarded piece of plastic. It just feels cheap too especially when you hold a dualsense in comparison.Dualsense is more expensive but you definitely get your moneys worth. It's amazing how sony isn't even trying to be consumer friendly and yet still moggs the living shit out of this boomer jeetware. The "console war" will be officially over with the next gen and bill gates overvalued vibe code company hopefully buried by the end of this decade.>>107613451not very fond of this pad specifically but 8bitdo is a S tier controller/arcade stick brand especially given the affordable price range>>107613400ds4 is great, unfortunately doesn't hold up very long so I wouldn't pay a lot of money for it
>>107613725Second this, went through 3 of the new xbox pads within a month of normal use and I'm somebody that typically keeps a controller for 5+ years. Microsoft did something but the controller has the durability of a 90s era madcatz controller.Will never buy that piece of shit again.
>>107613228>you need than thisSar, thank you for doing the needful. 200 rupees have deposited to your Microsoft employee account
>>107613522Correction it was a pro2Hopefully with the new layout it doesn't become a issue. The face buttons are slightly louder but not much different from the pro 2
>>107613160You should wait a few months for the steam controller then get that.
Dumb people are going to be dumb.I have an acquaintance who I've gotten into two AI arguments with. She's a firm anti AI person, despite never having used it. She tried to tell me how AI works, even though I've literally made machine learning programs before, and also tried to tell me that it's "SLAVE LABOR!" But in the same breath she also says "AI is just a word guesser."I kept trying to calmly explain to her how AI actually works, but she called me a "techno machine God worshipper". I left after that.Dumb people are going to be dumb.It's really too bad everyone has an equal voice on the internet. It gives these dumbasses way too much weight.
>reddit screencap>reddit spacing>arguing about AIbot thread
>>107613519Those who claim LLMs are "not AI" are as retarded as the ones who say gravity is "just a theory"
>>107613519>unironically arguing with meat word guesserswaste of time
>>107613519
>>107613519>Dumb people are going to be dumb.>I have an acquaintance who I've gotten into two AI arguments with>I kept trying to calmly explain to her how AI actually works, but she called me a "techno machine God worshipper".>Dumb people are going to be dumb.You are the dumb person for ever spending your own time interacting with such a putrid creature.
Why is AI so useless at data processing? I ask it to do some fuzzy matching on two lists and give me the confidence score of how close the match is, and for about 5% of the data it ends up matching to the wrong item while giving a 100% confidence score, when there's a perfect match that it ignored. This sort of thing is one of the only real productive use cases I can imagine for AI, and it fails miserably at it.
>>107614531That’s actually insane
>>107613213lotta cope for pointing how next word prediction isnt' great at basic things anon
>>107614531It's really great you could do it. And, yes it's impressive if you have never coded (it's a very very very simple program tho). But if you were working in coding (and not a jeet or a useless codemonkey), you can take advantage of it too. I work in industrial automation and I'm very happy using LLMs in my workflow.
>>107614531they are shitting themselves, everyone uses AI and wonder where the axe will fall next. Their entire future pivots on how well they are able to leverage AI to be 10x more productive than the retard shmuck that can't use AI well
>>107614531You made a crappy front end. Why do you feel so proud? You ever run into the acronym WYSIWYG? Congratulations AI has almost caught up to Geocities.
I don't get why it's still so popular.
Only reason I switched away from XFCE to KDE is XFCE kept giving me screen tearing in games that aren't particularly graphicly intensive (notably Factorio). Yes I tried compton or pico or whatever its called now. KDE, dare I say it, just works.
>>107614308My 2015 Lenovo 20D9 seems old enough so hopefully I'm not going to miss out on any good improvements by going with LTS
>>107614231So what's wrong with Openbox?
>>107614381Nothing, I use it daily and it's been FEATURE COMPLETE and BUG FREE for over 15 years. To me personally it's PEAK GNU PLUS LINUX.
*squeak*
>Just get an OLED bro>The burn-in is a non-issue nowadays
>>107613455Do screensavers solve this?
>>107613411MiniLED monitors are starting to reach 2000+ local dimming zones.OLED will become obsolete before Microled replaces it.
>just werksI didn't say it but I know you thought of LCD
>>107613411What kind of nonsense, is going in with these panels. I refuse to believe this is legit burn in. The retention is too specific, you can almost read the text on some of those windows. I am convinced this retention is artificial, as in the hardware designed to reduce burn in, gets mis-calibrated and ends up doing the exact opposite of what its meant to.
>>107613411I don't get it, all of the windows 9x screensavers still work to this day, why don't people use themI have a version of the flying windows screensaver where I hex edited it to display the star wingding instead of the win3.1 wingding and I don't even own any OLEDs I just like having screensavers
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>>107614664yeah that's a good idea anyway, i'm just saying the driver from the AUR should be fine
>>107614670I had a similar thing happen with HLS playback. This fixed it for me:$ ffmpeg -hide_banner -video_size 1280x866 -framerate 30 -f x11grab -i :0.0+0,140 -f pulse -i default -vcodec libx264 -profile:v baseline -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=-1:720" -c:a aac -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/streamMy frames were black with like green bars at the top.
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loaderWhy the fuck is rEFInd mentioned in the boot loader section, when it's a boot manager explicitly WITHOUT a boot loader
>LubuntuIsn't this abandonware?
Is there a linux tool that can read standard output or standard error from running processes?For example if I run(while true; do echo nigger ; sleep 1; done) &This will print output to stdout, this output is read in the terminal, now if i disown the process and close the terminal, i lose access to this output even though the process is still running and printing to stdout. Surely there is some way to get logs from running daemons/processes, right?
Why is the pic washed out when I copy it (left) but when I take a screenshot its nice and juicy (right)?
>>107613334What's his @?
copied image is probably using different color profile
>>107614120what does that mean
why dont we just put windmills under the water?water is heavier than wind so it will make more electricity
>>107613790Exists. You can put a concrete tube down to the wave level and the shifting water level moves the air column inside the tube. Then you put a turbine in the tube that always spins the same way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay_LIMPET
>>107614503>solar panels literally dont work above like 80 degrees,Are you along about Celsius or are you delusional? > and wind mills cant work anywhere near what is considered storm level winds and regular 10 or 20 mphThey certainly can't work continuously when there are storm winds, but they do work a short while, then they break.When there are heavy gusts they keep on spinning and work as usual.By the way I think building solar and wind is both a type of destruction of resources and I believe it actually reduces the available energy globally, at least long term. Still you are delusional and your critique is not connected to reality.
>>107614503>solar panels literally dont work above like 80 degrees,bullshit, even my shitty my second hand crap works fine at 26ºC
>>107614503>solar panels literally dont work above like 80 degreesdon't exaggerate, it makes you look ridiculousa solar panel's efficiency decreases by around 0.4% for every 1°C above 25°C (77°F)that's a far cry from>literally dont work above like 80 degrees
>>107614115>Who put all of that spin there?Araki-sensei.
Previous: >>107572600niri is superior edition :3
>>107609900A man
Debian/GNOME chud checking in.
>>107613781That might be the finest non-default GNOME I've ever seen. ME very much LIKES.
>>107610386i've made like 3 ish grand playing cs2, it's good shit, cheaters need rapid fire nail guns to the eyeballs though, maybe a sledgehammer to each knee to follow it up for good measure>>107610713thanks for the link i had no idea you could even change them honestly, going to use it for my steamdeck to
>>107603559amazing desktop any config files?
What are they going to do when AI solve captcha better than humans?
>>107609030>when AI solve captcha better than humans?It already does
>>107609358Boards will be wiped with sharty spam in seconds, you retards don't remember why captchas were enabled in the first place, even in the far off time of 15 years ago, you have some very dedicated turbofags with a vendetta against the mods and userbase running scripts and flooding with botnet IPs, it has only gotten infinitely worse since then.
>>107614266Shut the fuck up with your captcha bullshit and your Shaty boogeyman. /pol/ is nothing but bots and the sharty are nothing but 3 retard russian codemonkeys and 100 brazilian children. Your *SMACK* fucking *SMACK* red herrings do not function on me *SMACK* I wasn't born yesterday you ugly fucking rapeape. My men will rape you Fritzl style now that I know where you live and the rest of 4chan then suck my own cock cause that's what you pathetic stay-at-home gen-Zers and gen-alpha deserve.I haven't seen a more pathetic bunch in my entire existence, you know where he lives, he's been torturing you for a decade and you do nothing about. So suck my dick and prepare for a new ruler.
I'm not sure, but maybe something involving a HWID or physical tokens could work. In short, things are going to get more closed off and private.The public internet is fading away.
>>107609030Hashchans
This is not a drill, it's finally confirmed that China has a working EUV prototype since early 2025, it's just undergoing testing and verification right now, expected to enter large scale production by 2028-2030. >In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance, Reuters has learned. Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor.>The availability of parts from older ASML machines on secondary markets has allowed China to build a domestic prototype, with the government setting a goal of producing working chips on the prototype by 2028, according to the two people.But those close to the project say a more realistic target is 2030, which is still years earlier than the decade that analysts believed it would take China to match the West on chips.>The breakthrough marks the culmination of a six-year government initiative to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, one of President Xi Jinping's highest priorities. While China's semiconductor goals have been public, the Shenzhen EUV project has been conducted in secret, according to the people.https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
>>107612461Isn't Nvidia's market domination mostly due to their CUDA moat and not necessarily their GPUs?
>>107611048i will never be japanese? lol was it the image?
>>107613278not in the way you think. you posted a screen from a super basic anime that even /v/ would know. I'm saying you're one of them, specifically the nintendo flavored ironic weeaboo anime game / jrpg loser. if you aren't please tell me
>>107581648Good, USA will have to pull it's head out of its ass now.
>>107583680bragg reflectors are nothing like bathroom mirrors
Absolutely no coding experience and it took me four hours to make a 4chan app for iOS just telling Gemini what i want, copy pasting where it told me to in Xcode, and having it change bits here and there that I don't like.>can download indiviual images/videos or the whole threads images to Files in a thread-specific folder>full mp4/webm support with audio>can favourite threads and come back to them>can switch between list and grid view for boardsIf I worked in coding I would be shitting myself right now
>>107614690>If I worked in coding I would be shitting myself right nowYou don't though.
>>107614690That's fucking awesome
>>107614690ice axes are to your left
