What's the best GIMP version? I know it's not anything recent as everything is fundamentally broken and buggy
>>107769420GIMP 2 is enough
>>107769586It's fine
>>107769420photopea makes it easier for me honestly, sad but true
>>107769676Doesn't make much of a difference since they are all shit but this is with Cubic(and whatever Krita uses, still shit)
>>107769799Actually now that I think about it, the NoHalo and LoHalo don't look half as bad as 3.0 Cubic, but I still prefer the original 2.8 Cubic by a long shot over blurry shit.
I have a damn fetish for smartphones. I WANT (don't buy) a new mobile phone almost every year. I wipe my current phone completely with a wet wipe every day. I clean up the trash, optimize it, and restart it, and I update the apps. I really want a realme gt 8 pro 12/256, but I think even 60% of its features would be useless to me...
>>107768975Well, I only ever obssess over it during the upozzing process when I opt out of everything on first boot while actively making sure all the bloat and spyslop is uninstalled, disabled, stopped and isolated, the firewall set up to block eveything and all the other privacy/optimization apps carefully tweaked and managed by droid-fy. After that, it's only about updoots, which at that point Android itself no longer has the capacity to perform on it's own.Basically my phone becomes a miniature troonix pc that cannot be hijacked by any of the parties involved in it's design.
>>107768975sound like the phone is your transference object and you might have som form of retrograde psychological condition. or maybe you're just a consumer drone, one or the other
sadly you're late to rooting & custom ROMs
>>107769183I think I'm greatly overestimating the importance of a smartphone as such.
I don't believe that there are people that can get excited over new phones or even tell two different phones apart. Every time I've bought a new phone it's been the same as my old one despite the old one getting discontinued every time.
>>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.
Do the P15 (gen 1/2) have any panel whitelists or can I just grab any panel I find on panelook that looks good (and is about the same width)?How big of an impact on the battery life would something like a "low power" innolux FHD panel have vs a 4k ips or oled panel? Are we talking a jump from like 5 watt consumption to 15 watt or less than that? The only real time I would use the built-in display would be when I'm on the go so *some* battery life consideration would be nice even though it's a workstation.Are HDR/10-bit panels just a meme or are they genuinely worth considering over a decent 8-bit? I don't care that I would have to switch to wayland for proper support.Do I wan't to consider a higher than 60 hz refresh rate at all? I don't really play vidya other than the occasional dorf fortress session.
>>107769712Because 1vyrain is a software-based exploit, it is restricted by the Intel Flash Descriptor (IFD) permissions. It cannot gain write access to the ME Region (Region 2); therefore, it cannot 'neuter' or remove the Intel ME firmware. While 1vyrain can toggle a 'soft disable' bit in the BIOS settings, the full ME firmware remains physically present on the SPI chip.
>>107761341Any suggestions to what I wrote in /pcbg/ (for some reason lol )?>>107760196>basically want a nice high ppi 15,6" (or more) display with good viewing angles, so 4K IPS, solid business build and Win11 compatibility without any shenanigans(even though gonna daily drive on Mint)>considering only used HP/Dell/Lenovo business machinesSomething like TP P52 or ZBook G6 looks most favorable for now, but maybe there are other good options I missed? Budget is $500-700 but obviously the lower, the better.
>>107769965>15 inch>4k/g/ still not understanding how the human eye works.
Recently got me a T14 Gen 2 (AMD) for the office to replace the old T450. What's the difference between the docking options on the Gen2 and do you guys think there's any point in getting the thunderbolt if I'm plugging a single monitor and a few usb dongles?
Que tu fais, /g/?Précédent: >>107730163
>>107766897>checked against the specWriting the spec precisely in enough is called programming.>code compiled/run and checked against the specAka. Test Driven Development
In Neutralino there is no 'windowMove' event type, I'm trying to save the app position either when the app window has been moved or when app quits (windowClose doesn't work here)
>>107767428>"the bloat is in the room with me"Are you sure that's not just you, sitting alone in your room?
No matter what kind of program I write, there is always a large amount of state in it, and it's accessed from everywhere in a "disorganized" way. You know the term "cross-cutting concerns"? The entire program consists of cross-cutting concerns as far as I'm concerned. Clearly it is good for efficiency, because whenever I try to extract parts of the program into their own modules I always find that it introduces redundant branching (as in the extracted procedure does some branching and computes a return value, and then calling procedure has to branch on the returned value again). However, I find it annoying that I am reimplementing common things again and again with slight task-specific variations. Is there any orthodox literature on program structure written by programmers, not by consulting and book salesmen?
>>107769872>there is always a large amount of state in it, and it's accessed from everywhere in a "disorganized" wayOOP solves this>Is there any orthodox literature on program structure written by programmers, not by consulting and book salesmen?don't know any, but if there are, i would not expect them to be good. programmers are quite bad at writing books"consultants" like Uncle Bob can oversell good points, but if you apply them with some forethought and not blindly and everywhere, they generally work way more often than not
This is it. The end of personal computing, the end of gaming gpus.: No more rtx 6000, no more dedicated gpus, Nvidia will completely exit the consumer market. Told you that this was going to happen, one way or another. A single data enter dedicated to GAY-I brings more revenue than 100.000 individual consumers who buy GAYMER cards. Better scoop up a top of the line gpu now, while stocks last. There won't be any new cards coming, and yeah that applies to rtx 5000 super too.
>>107769607>since you are too poor to buy new GPUs, we will just sell you more fake frames
HOLY FUCK !$%^^!*&@#*$%!%^&@%^&!%*HOSTING 3B DROP PARTY IN FALADOR WORLD 12
>>107769882DOA
>>107765029You don't even know what he's intending to play. You're a tool.
>>107765962You made me check on Nietzsche and you're right: slave mentality implies resentment. Keep on Buddhing Buddha.
Is it absolutely necessary to smash the mass storage device's hardware to pieces to make the data on it unrecoverable? I knew about /dev/zero and /dev/urandom, which, from what I understand, would be the equivalent of a C program that, via syscall write, would write a binary file, either all 0s or random, that would occupy the "free" space (i.e., the space not marked in the index table) until the disk is full. Once it's full, the file is deleted from the index table. In theory, it should work like this, at least for mechanical mass storage devices... For NVMe and SSDs, I know they talk about trim, but I don't know if it's actually a real thing... In any case, why are both methods fallacious in preventing data recovery? On paper, it seems to make sense.
>>107769094All modern storage devices are independent computers running proprietary firmware. You have no clue what they're really doing and they're free to ignore any drive erasing commands or make additional copies of data in the spare disc space. Even full disc encryption isn't a perfect defense because the drive can log access patterns that could leak information. Mechanical destruction is simple and reliable.
>>107769413and FUN!
>>107769148zeroed, sure. randomized highly unlikely.the best they could get from that cache file is a filetree of names, not the data within it.unless hdd's secretly all have futuristic invisible chips in it which would be manufactured by china.
>>107769094Lol> writing the drive with random ones and zeroes 10x never truly erases the drive! Mossad or the Chinese could recover it? More like> CAN ANYONE RECOVER THIS FAILED DRIVE! I'LL PAY ANYTHING > sorry mate that's impossible
>>107769220>small filesYou mean two sectors, a.k.a. 1024 bytes.
kek
>>107769252Still 2, unless Copilot gets it's own in the next update.
>>107766518At this point just get rid of every program in Windows and replace it all with an AI toolbar
>>107769402Got something just for you.
>>107766711>go on 4chan>see twitter>go on twitter>see 4chan
>use Linux>Need to Google commands to change what I want>Use windows >Need to ask ai how to get to the menu thats buried 16 layers deep to change what I want >Use macOS >Forced to do it the way tim cooke wants
>the year is 2004
>>107765654for poorfags on /g/ it's 2026 also
>>107769813well for many of we got what we could get. i remember a period where i had the option of decent quality 174MiB vga xvid dvd rips of anime, or 35MiB qvga rmvb rips. obviously the former look much better, even on dial up even 35MiB took some time to download, so i downloaded the rmvb's for most shows
>>107769771idk what you expected, sata is brand new!
>>107769944I guess that makes sense. I was downloading rips of games back in the dialup days. Not many sites had the entire isos for DL, so you basically had to download everything separately.>music addon>speech addon>cinematics addonIt would take an entire Saturday afternoon just to get the base gamerip without any of the media parts.
>>107769964yea, i remember game rips as well. i kinda wish that was still a thing, since games even today have the bulk of their size in media and unnecessarily-high-res textures. really with things like steam there's no technical reason why this can't just be an official option, like a choice between low/high res video assets, other languages, and whether you want to download the "ultra" quality textures etc, since we all know only a small number of players actually use those. but they still treat things like everyone has infinite bandwidth and storage space. maybe i do today, but a lot of people don't.
New year edition!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 deviceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Did anybody bought these ALLSOME drill presses? This one is pretty cheap for $160 and the specs seem ok. I mostly need it for ocassionaly drilling into aluminium and brass with 2-4mm bits.
>>107769510be warned that the low speeds on those do not mean increased torque, in fact it will mean even less torque (pwm speed controller, lower duty cycle). there is a parkside (lidl, kompernas, made in germany i think) version of those things and they suck ass compared to the version pulleys. the version with pulleys is also much cheaper, i belive its something like $80, or at least was 2 years ago
I got a 150 dollar voucher on aliexpress that I can waste. What's something I didn't know I need?
>>107769544i am the first to suggest a normal press drill, and to buy a second hand actually but for his usecase, any press drill will be an overkill, he doesnt need low speeds at all, he is using tiny brill bits on easy materials>>107769510anon that one is ok for your usecase, you can even go cheaper, like this one if you never going to drill steel https://aliexpress.com/item/1005010542325114.htmlAnd if you have a good portable drill, and dont use that often you can go for a good drill press fixture https://aliexpress.com/item/1005010576305973.htmlThere are even shittier ones as low as 15 bucks, that can be decent with some work.Just one thing use drill bits for brass or adapt a set to brass (you just need to file a cheapo set , really easy check for some videos)
>>107761411>bing better than googleI'd have laughed 3 years ago, now I wouldn't be surprised
lol
>>107768482>trying to tell me it's 2027I can see through your lies.
slop me up bro
>>107768218we were tricked into letting the good womens go when we were young. getting woman later in life is basically impossible. they dont even go outside.
>>107767988Its actually 1995.
>>107767956blame the masons
words cannot begin to desccribe how fucking excited i ama year from now human society will likely be entirely unrecognizable from now, hell even three months from now could be pretty damn alien
>>107768362the constant anti-AI spam on /g/ confirmed what I always suspected: this isn't a place for people who like technology, it's a shithole where /v/ kids go for tech support and trannies go to groom them
>@grok, a child has been detected, do your thing. Either the singularity is pedo or it's just a big nothing burger like that time Elon was the number one gamer in the world. I am not even a moral fag but Elon is a clown.
>>107764610Singularity is pure fiction and the technophobe version of the rapture. They completely misread energy consumption for "growth".
>>107764610you have a trillion dollar you fucking snakeoil saleman, buy an ad
>>107769618Good.
How did AMD go from being the poor man's choice to dominating the CPU market?
>>107769958idk man it happened 35 years ago
>>107769958The competition killed itself, that's how, AMD is still shit, just better than the non existant competition.
I"m sorry but this is just fucking weird?What's the point in calling it all copilot? How do I differentiate this from the edge one and from the one you access via website?Why the fuck is Microsoft being so fucking deranged? I used to think the ballsmurr era was the worst era but this is something else.
>>107769857I've no idea why MS pesumes companies will willingly submit EVERY fucking document they produce to their all-encompassing artificial jeet truffle schnuffler.
>>107769478>.NET>XBox>Visual>XPthey never learn
>>107769453This is called desperation, nobody wants to use ai writing stuff and the few people that do are all using chatgpt or maybe deepseek, but they've put too much into this to back out now
>>107769898KekChecked over-dubs
>>107769907These things are just weird man.Major corporations could have saved millions if not billions in licensing fees over the years had they used FOSS instead of MS software.It's not even particularly better anymore at this point, except for maybe Excel and its complex mathematical functionalities.Maybe it's just a case of companies feeling embarrassed if word gets out that they're using free software rather than brand shit.Maybe using LibreOffice over MSoffice is to them what using an Android rather than an iPhone is to shallow girls. Maybe using FOSS gives investors the ick or something.
Private language edition How to request advice:>Budget>Intended use (media, source, environment)>Frequency response preference and music examples>Past gear and your thoughts on themFAQ:>Where do I buy IEMs?Amazon, Aliexpress, Linsoul, Hifigo, Shenzhenaudio>Shopping Guide (IEMs, PMPs, Cables, Ear Tips, etc.):https://rentry.org/consoomer_guideComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107769079eq is all you need, but I'll bite; what pos should I get?
is pic related still happening? it's the only IEM I'm waiting for
>>107769454none because we don't have pos
>>107767881show the phase difference in REW otherwise you're trippin
>>107769477yeah, cringe's been teasing this in events, it's just a matter of time
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):https://wiki.debian.orghttps://wiki.alpinelinux.orghttps://wiki.archlinux.orghttps://wiki.gentoo.org>Which distro should I choose?https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.htmlhttps://nosystemd.org>What are some cool programs?https://suckless.orgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107769828He was given a fuckton of Red Hat stock he's set for life.
>>107769903>>107769541Also, even Apple themselves use Linux for their servers now. If you follow mailing lists closely you'll occasionally see Apple employees pop-up to ask an answer questions. I call that winning in the end.iOS and macOS is the OS used for iToys and Linux is the system used to get shit done.
>>107769901Learning new OS via VM is always a good choice to get your feet wet
>>107769541Linus is a multimillionaire as it is. He was merely offered a job, not an equal stake in the company.
>load up a ventoy with distros>check out fedora workstation live>it actually has the features a workstation user would want setup out if the box even if it's totally different from windowsIf I'm actually going to be using this machine for nothing except 3D and office work then this actually seems tailored pretty well, I'm surprised.Seems like a Debian-based distro on a laptop and a Fedora distro on desktop might be a good conbo, don't know how heavy Fedora is though.
