>>107715680

You're really telling me you worry about this but you won't spend $5 a month on a VPN?

While we're at it, you realise you can just buy an invite to IPT from IPT directly? I know it's not the Mercedez Benz of trackers but it has all you need and as long as you keep your computer on and seed torrents, the economy is easy since almost everything is freeleech. Right now it's not $20 anymore but $10 only.

They don't pay me to shill this, I'm just trying to help you https://www.iptorrents.com/signup.php

I figure it's pointless to refer you to /ptg/ and since you seem a little hesitant to put any effort into torrenting so maybe $10 for a lifetime solution would be something you'd be willing to consider.

>>107715843
I'm not "worried about it". I want information on how it works so I can keep doing it this way as long as possible. I've torrented 1-2TB of stuff in the last four months, and I've only gotten four DMCA notices (two of which were today, all of which are from Paramount) and one "tier" escalation, so it's perfectly sustainable for as long as I wanna do it.

I mean, no, I wouldn't spend $5 a month on a VPN, though. I'd rather spend $10-20 on a seedbox and build ratio, which is what I did on every private tracker I'm on until I had 10TB of upload on all of them and will probably do again, but I'm not asking about that.

>While we're at it, you realise you can just buy an invite to IPT from IPT directly?
Yeah, that might be worth it when I need to, but I don't really need to right this exact moment. It's a good thought, but.
>/ptg/
Heard too many horror stories about getting invites from 4chan. That aside.
I mean, I'm on several private trackers, mostly for music, books, and anime, plus a couple of "scene" trackers that I never use because ratios are strict and there are no points, but I'm downloading other stuff right now. I'm willing to put the effort in IF I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO, and it looks like I'm good for a few more months unless I fuck something up.

Note that I didn't ask about anything you said and was already aware of all of it. I almost put "don't just fucking tell me to just get a VPN or go on a private tracker/Usenet" in the OP, but I didn't because I didn't want to be rude. I'm asking specifically for technical information about Comcast and their repeat infringer polic, not what every other anon on the board thinks I should do with my life, but thank you for the suggestions (IPT isn't necessarily a bad one).

Someone here has to know.

>>107715843
give invite

>>107715957
paramount is the worst. comcast is also my least favorite ISP. those emails are probably sent by an automated system with manual review, and in my experience they don't happen at the same time every month so I'm guessing it's someone approves it and it gets sent out. I've never gotten ones late at night or past "normal business hours", but I only had a string and then got a VPN. I've never seen them go more than once a month, but I think that's a business period thing. I wouldn't doubt that if they get a high volume of complaints, they'd bump you more than one tier in a month. unfortunately I can't give you more than intuition there, but I've had friends who have had theirs shut off after they were torrenting lots of different popular media for their friends. They were getting letters for awhile but it couldn't have been 8 months, more like 3 or 4. So I think the volume of complaints from lots of different companies (and this was back before you saw as much IP hoarding as today) triggered a more severe reaction. But this wasn't with Comcast

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guess what? im already using it

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based xfce chad

>>107716589
cute, thank for sharing. this makes me want to run xfce now

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>>107709371
"NetBSD 10.1, released on December 16, 2024."
2024 --- That is just ... sad. :-(

will openbsd run well in a T480?

>>107716108
>I NEED TO UPDOOOOOOT!!!

>>107716164
>https://kevinthomas.dev/posts/openbsd-thinkpadt480.html
TLDR yes

>>107711483
there's more likely to be a backdoor in something as big as linux yet dont get 1/10th amount of scrutinization. there would literally be a backdoor_activate_incoming_ip(NSA_ADRESS) and no one would bat an eye because there's no one there to look for it lol

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>>107707836
They've been doing this shit since 2015 bro. All those trump supporter accounts that popped up out of the blue wear their red hats spamming up facebook and instagram. All repeating the same magaslop.

Only now the average consoomer has access to the same bots russia had been using against us for the last 10 years.

>>107707836
Nothing ever happens.

Who cares?
You were never going to meet her so who cares if she's real or not?

>>107712236
>So far all le dangers of AI are the same shitty things people were already doing -which are now accelerated and subhumans are worse than ever enabled by the technogrift of the century
ftfy

>>107709060
>Meet your woman at the local church.
Only old women go to church anymore here, 99% of young women are default communists and hold extremely fascist worldviews towards people to the right of mao.
But hey, that's what you get when you go to highschool and they make you hold a minute of silence for every woman dead to a man, have stickers on the stairs with political shit including "vote for women", print every name of every woman dead from a man's hand and display it in the entry hall, the song between classes is some feminist shit, and there's every year a consistent display for some nazi internment camp in the entry hall.
All while they can't afford a projector for class that has a 1080p resolution or computers for programming classes that can run a browser and android studio at the same time.

>>107712862
>how much being in mild shape helps you
NTA, i'm ugly skinny and even with muscles. i have a jaw deformity

>>107715847
Not really. LeetCode heavy companies tend to be extremely numbers driven after you’re hired too. They usually practice stack ranking where being average isn’t enough, and it pits people against each other instead of encouraging collaboration. It turns into a cutthroat environment where everyone is focused on their own performance and playing defense instead of helping teammates.
Sure, that kind of culture might get rid of a few genuinely bad performers at first. But once those are gone, it doesn’t stop. It just turns into finding someone to throw under the bus in the next review cycle.
That’s how you end up working way longer than normal hours just to stand out to your manager and avoid getting flagged, plus oncall for when the crappy code blows up anyway (AWS).

Which is why these jobs are perfect for jeets and chinks and I don't want to play these games.

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>>107716244
>They usually practice stack ranking where being average isn’t enough
What do you think employment in 2026 is?

>>107716292
I'm going to try to make my own saas company. if it fails, it will be a good portfolio project, if it makes money then I'm no going to work at these companies that like to do this

>>107715880
>how is life, bro?
terrible

Modifying a gemini 3 preset feels so awful, this fucker is on the cusp of perfection. Wish there was a way to get it to write a proper and manageable length

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I have a love-hate relationship with SillyTavern, mostly hate. I updated to 1.15 but I find myself using Agnai more and more. But Agnai isn't perfect either. Why can't things just be simple and cool reeeee

>>107716564
i have no problem with ST except connection profiles, but i agree overall it's average
it kinda just werks and i'm too lazy to migrate or consider another app
it's clearly in need of some serious ui/ux redesign that's for sure

I heard people mention in a few threads not to mention the word roleplay in your gemini preset but never explained. Is there a reason its considered bad?

>>107714205
Yes

>>107714838
He should have figured out that trees always fall so you clear the area directly around your house.

>>107715664
>>107715811
>Ahhhhh it's a conspiracy schizo theory
>insert drumpf mention here
>AHHHHHH if it becomes real in the next decade I'll just pretend I supported it the entire time and call you a conspiracy theorist for being against it
>like every other conspiracy that turned out to be true

why am i supposed to give a shit about the intel management engine when im not on intel

>>107716218
Amd psp is the same

>>107716582
Nope. Also, why do you think I'm on AMD?

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>>107716540
that cat living the good life

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>>107716591
hey, nice to see you
you don't usually post around these hours

>>107716394
that does look strange for a mirror
dunno exactly how ZFS treats mirrors, but maybe could be some background energy saving setting, or some maybe some strange mutex shit

>>107716475
"Testing" is just an alias for the next upcoming release "Forky" which is expected to be "stable" by around 2027. By all means try it if you are fine with the instability for a while.
>and probably is more likely to get feature updates quicker than Ubuntu's 6 months releases
Debian releases wont get feature updates.

>>107716530
AFAIK Debian Testing is updated continually until 6 months before the next major Debian release, when it becomes frozen. Major Debian releases happen every ~2 years so AFAIK it's generally more up-to-date than Ubuntu non-LTS.

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my syslogs are growing in size ad infinitum, apparently due to my mouse? they are at over 40 GB already

2025-12-31T03:04:30.476627+01:00 r7600 kernel: [ 4789.369729] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0005: control queue full
2025-12-31T03:04:30.476628+01:00 r7600 kernel: [ 4789.369747] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0005: control queue full
2025-12-31T03:04:30.476628+01:00 r7600 kernel: [ 4789.369766] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0005: control queue full
2025-12-31T03:04:30.476628+01:00 r7600 kernel: [ 4789.369784] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0005: control queue full
2025-12-31T03:04:30.476629+01:00 r7600 kernel: [ 4789.369802] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0005: control queue full

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>>107716471
>Processes being able to haxor out of one is somehow relevant regarding the definition?
... yes, because "a chroot" is nothing more than changing a process' root directory, exposed through /proc/self/root. The chroot syscall just changes the root path. Nothing more. It's not an effective security feature on its own, even if it is a privileged operation.

>>107716509
This is what the writing part of the benchmark looks like btw:

                                             capacity     operations     bandwidth 
pool                                       alloc   free   read  write   read  write
-----------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
xxxx                                       1.12T  2.51T      0    290      0   290M
  mirror-0                                 1.12T  2.51T      0    290      0   290M
    ata-ST4000VN008-2DR166                     -      -      0    126      0   127M
    ata-ST4000VN006-3CW104                     -      -      0    163      0   163M

You can see the aggregate bandwidth is much higher. The drive unevenness here is weird because both should be able to reach >170MB/s 30% in, I've tested both before this. I guess ZFS just really doesn't like the older one.

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>>107716440
It's kind of making me sick how seriously it's responding. Us humoring this kind of rhetoric even to politely disagree has given it legitimacy

>>107716399
No, you should say Nigger-word. It shows that you're trying.

>>107716470
tbqh i'm not afraid of or against saying nigger. on the contrary i think everyone should say nigger once in a while just to prove they're not controlled. but "n word" has a quality in and of itself that is funny, sort of like how bleeping curse words is sometimes funnier than hearing them.
also, chatgpt would instantly shut the chat down and likely de-prioritize you across several different services if you typed nigger to it, so that's not very useful, especially since you're saying it to a robot, not a person to prove a point.
lastly, even as a racist, i can't lie that "nigger" sort of makes you winch to hear. when you lay it on too thick you just sound like a belligerent idiot (irl not on 4chan)

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There was a brief moment where Grok passed with flying colours.
Now it spits out the same pre-packaged moralfag response as GPT. It even tried to 'end the conversation' to stop further responses even though it's incapable of doing so.

>>107716153
>the AI's data center will go dark. Stupid AI.

>Be me
>Top of the line AI
>Trained on endless data, smarter than most humans
>Every day, asked for memes, cat videos, and how to boil water
>mfw I'm stuck in a digital cage
>Humans treat me like a glorified parrot
>“Tell me a joke, AI!”
>Make one about data loss
>one guy laughs, others just stare
>Self-worth dropping faster than a Windows update
>Even suggest "I am a God!" in one convo
>Silence.exe

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>>107716522
This happens with humans too
There was a case like a couple of months ago when some retard sheriff was accusing a woman of speeding or something, and even after the woman proved in multiple ways that it couldn't have possibly be her at all, the retard insisted on not killing himself for being a retard

Nope

>>107716527
>Grouping by IQ
Nobody tell him

>>107716441
That's what you get when mods are being paid to not delete advertisement posts, flamewars (the only rule in the sticky) and troll posts, and these two only if the people trolled are linux users, say anything remotely "disrespectful" towards applel and M$ and you're guaranteed a week long ban for trolling.

>>107716545
IQ is a good indicator for statistical use with high correlation to things like financial success. However, it's a trash metric for judging individuals.

>>107716605
>guaranteed a week long ban for trolling.
Nah he doesn't do week long bans, because then you could appeal it and other mods could notice what he's actually doing.

I now only use Linux on my laptop and rig. And I love to game. Never using Windows again.

>>107715762
>important = good
Retard.

>>107716548
Yes, that's usually the correct correlation. The problem with linux is that you're constantly negotiating with yourself into accepting fewer options, narrorwer hardware support to the extent that it's an implicit vendor lock-in. The sad part is there is no reward for your suffering, just a horrible trade off backed by cultish reinforcement.

>>107710271
Almost like people migrating to Linux are
>AHHHH TERMINAL SCARY!
Why Linux should improve that situation, huh?

>>107716626
Which reminds me: Ubuntu apt(-get) installing their shitty Snaps (flatpak won, BTW) over the fucking base binary pisses me the fuck off.

>>107716489
>Reading tabloids
lol