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i asked humanity's lord and savior how to cut a 3.5" circle from paper.
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>>106469062
maybe specify whether you want radius or diameter next time?
even humans can't guess what the fuck your dumb brain is thinking
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String idea is stupid and impossible to pull off. You need to get a paint stirrer or something similar and drill holes in it. String will stretch and the knot you tie will be off.
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>>106469189
> but it's not the nice ai's fault
if i sell you 5" speakers do you assume the drivers are 10 inches?!
anyway it had already correctly assumed a diameter of 3.5" for option 1 and 2, then went retarded for option 3.
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>>106469189
Anon is obviously trying to milk a nonissue to say "AI bad"
Took more effort to make this thread then would have been to say "I meant a 3.5-inch diameter circle"
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>>106469027
here's an interesting solution

first we need to make a perfect square from the paper. whichever edge of the paper is shortest, take the corner and fold it such that it aligns with the longest edge, creating a hypotenuse. this also creates another edge where if we cut along it, snipping the extra paper, we're left with a perfect square piece of paper.

then fold it in half twice. measure the radius, or 1.75", from the central creased edge. then cut across the quarter of the circle. unfold it and voila, a circle

there's some error correction factored by the number of folds if you want to go deeper into the rabbit hole (left up to the reader)

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I did a small research (pics included) and I've noticed there's something strange happening with recent WD hard drives.

For instance let's take a look at this 4TB WD Purple (WD43PURZ), the datasheet says it's CMR but if you look at the graph it behaves like SMR and TRIM is supported.
https://files.catbox.moe/xdudsc.jpg

Same applies to 4TB WD Blue/Red Plus models, all these have 256MB cache and 181 buffer zones (like WD Red EFAX) instead of typical 61 like normal CMR WD drive.
https://files.catbox.moe/htn2k3.jpg

Look at these 4TB drives - they all look like this SMR WD Red EFAX drive.
https://files.catbox.moe/cz46vl.jpg

And 6TB WD drives are also identical to this EFAX drive.
https://files.catbox.moe/nd55ho.jpg

So WD is lying again like they did when they released their first SMR Red. Avoid all 4-6TB models, unless it's enterprise class (Gold, Black, Ultrastar).

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>>106460464
>CMR drives with 2TB per platter density
Do you know if it's safe to assume any drive 2TB or smaller is always gonna be CMR?
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>>106464828
>>>SMR automatically fragments files even when you just read them
what the fuck i was unaware of this
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>R*ssian schizoid thread
OP, it's time to join the rest of your friends. Let's see that tripcode.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWkz0wvop9w

oh god what now
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>>106464886

No. I'm not a data recovery specialist and any DIY may make things even worse, disassembly requires a sterile room with zero dust particles, moisture or any foreign object which is impossible to achieve at home.

>>106466159

No, quite many 2TB drives and less are SMR. Especially 2,5 inch (all of them are SMR). 1-4TB CMRs should have no more than 64MB cache (apart from some enterprise models). CMR doesn't even need cache, it will work just as fine with 8MB buffer. Also they shouldn't have a TRIM command.

>>106466365

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Any attempts to work with a SMR drive fragments the files even more, regardless if you just read the files or write new ones. Already posted the video from one ukrainian data recovery specialist who shows how does this a WD10SPZX SMR behave during the read tests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67arwgtTyxA

This is why SMRs fail in RAID, the files become so fragmented that it's becoming impossible to "assemble" them while accessing, the drive will either drop its speed to >1MB/s or even completely freeze (sometimes corrupting the affected tracks) which will never happen to a CMR drive.

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This guy built a blogging platform and made it available under MIT
Then other people forked it and provided the same service, making him lose money
So he made the code source-available now.

Thoughts? You can see the software here btw. https://bearblog.dev/
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>>106461775
Time is going faster, zoomers/alpha aren't living life at the same pace as we did, and the rona demoralized them.
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>i licensed my code so anybody can use it for anything, and now somebody is using it for something. how could this be happening to me?!
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>>106461420
>am-i-retarded.gif
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>>106466652
but it feels like a logical extension of how the GPL acts. it attaches itself to everything that touches it and everything that touches that. in the case of mongo specifically not just the license I dont even understand why they wanted that even if hindering competitors truly is the desired advantage. is anyone trying to make new DBMSs by forking mongo?
no, this has to be about a cloud service that mongo inc provides, right? which has all the setup that gives simple access to a mongodb server. then if any dev is using that to HOST their own project (like they would with AWS or akamai/linode etc) which may or may not be reliant on mongodb-specific features, they have to license their whole project under the mongo license. but again, HOW is that a competitor? if mongo-cloud is providing dbms and storage, and an app hosted there is providing a forum or something, how is that a conflict? I dont get it, I remember being confused about this months ago too, I DONT GET IT
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>>106463749
better yet he violated the terms of the MIT license when he arbitrarily re-licensed it
you cannot re-license other peoples contributions unless they signed a CLA or other copyright-releasing form
theres a reason projects like elastic require you to sign that when submitting PRs

Is solar energy worth it?

Seems like a huge fucking scam.

If it really does generate energy and you can cover your house in solar panel and disconnect from the grid and save yourself $100+ a month, everybody would be doing it and getting returns on investments 1 year later.

What do you think?
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>>106469471

It's very very close though.
It's already starting production for indoor use and the outdoor use is basically around the corner.
The lead free chemistry is already more or less figured out and just needs a bit of adjustments to get the efficiency up from 17% to +20% and it's basically good to go for mainstream markets.
Give this tech a year or two and it'll be commercially viable.

https://www.perovskite-info.com/halocell-start-producing-indoor-perovskite-pvs-can-replace-disposable-batteries
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/05/14/halocell-australian-researchers-to-scale-lead-free-solar-tech/
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>>106469398
What the fuck
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>>106469398
All politicians should inhale coal fumes 24/7 for a month to prove it's clean.
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It would be worth it if the government weren't such faggots about it. In Melbourne, Australia the government forces you to feed your solar power back into the grid, hooking up everything to a battery is extremely forbidden and they will come and throw you in gaol for "unsafe" electrical. So instead of supplying yourself with electricity you have to pay like $100+ a month to be connected to the grid and then are forced to use the grid power at night time with peak power prices while they pay you like 2c per 10kw for the power you generate during the day.

Solar would be a great way to decentralise. I'd happily buy low power goods, chest freezers and whatnot, just to not have to fuck around with energy companies.
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>>106469398
coal is literally obsolete in the USA and cannot compete with pipeline gas in any respect. It only continues to limp along due to existing infrastructure and subsidies.

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I'm hearing this language just beat C, C++, Rust, Go and pretty much everything else. Is that true? The more I read about it the more it seems like the true winner of the programming languages of the 2000s.
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>>106466164
>in comparison to C and rust in benchmarks
not once was any benchmark posted and I'll bet it's a cherry picked one. nim probably has trouble in other cases and you never talk about what the negatives of using nim might be. you still aren't looking at the larger picture which just makes you another annoying nocoder
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it sometimes does, as nim has a few top-tier libraries like arraymancer
https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer
But in general, naive nim 2.0 code will lose to naive c/c++ most of the time, but usually by a negligible amount. So you'll have to put in some work if you want to compete or beat.
There are some release options since nim just compiles to c.
Like using clang LTO
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6295
If you are a hardcore manual memory believer, you should be aware that it's highly coupled to its reference counting based memory management solution (which can be quite good sometimes)
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc-in-nim.html
And while you can turn it off
--mm:none
, in my experience, it's a second-class experience, which makes sense considering how hostile the creator is for manual memory in nim.
You should also be aware, that Nim 2 is in a sort of purgatory right now because they're in the middle of shipping Nim 3, which is a completely new compiler which makes some radical changes.
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony
So while Nim 2 is a great language (with a fair bit of oddities), you're coming in at an awkward time, and i believe you should only use it if you're okay with automatic memory management.
If you want an alt lang with a better manual memory experience, or believe in the mixed-management strategy, i think D is a better choice, or you can try the other ones like Zig or Odin (which i have no experience with)
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>>106465531
our days of searching for a c replacement certainly are coming to a middle
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>>106469455
Did he already say that he's gonna make breaking changes for nim3?
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>>106469710
yeah, there's gonna be a fair bit.
https://nim-lang.org/araq/nimony.html
https://nim-lang.github.io/nimony-website/index.html
I haven't looked too hard into nimony/3 yet since Araq (the creator) isn't expecting to publicly ship it for a few more months (which means probably next year Q1). And i have enough experience with nim (a bit before 1.0) to realize it will probably be radically different than the current docs.
I'm expecting any large project port will probably be module by module.
Anyway, you can read through his progress report threads
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/12693
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/12978
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13357

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Hypothetically, lets say I worked for a giant tech company, lets call them... Moogle.

I worked as a sales manager of two states for Moogle.

I was soft-demoted to one state only (no cut in pay but cut in responsibility.

I was on an illegal two-year revolving contract that was unlawful and employed through a sham agency to make it seem I wasn't technically directly employed by Moogle.

Moogle senior managers would instruct us to lie to stores about promotions, such as calling them 'sales excursions' instead of a sale promotion (what actually was), as running an incentive-based program costing hundreds of thousands with anti-competition laws in my country.

Contract renewals were tied to performing things like this and what other illegal under the table (Below the Line - they actually had a fucking name for it) deals with individual dealer reseller stores (think an AT&T licencee owner that sells Moogle Mixel phones)

This meant Mixel phones had a market share of >70% in some dealer stores (normal is around 10% for Mixel). This was a direct result of these bribes they gave to dealer owners to artificially push Mixel. They would give visa gift cards split into small denominations to avoid auto tax-fraud cash equivalent reporting.

I brought all of this to Moogle's attention and after two months they fired me just an hour before travel to a Mixel conference for the most trivial reason (I had an business registration I wasn't even using)

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>>106468505
Similar situation?

The thing I dont get it how they command (and usually get) undying loyalty for staff when they treat them as so expendable.

I think they habe managed to tap into a specific millennial loser that genuinely sees working at Moogle as their whole identity. It's quite amazing, really. I did admittedly find the Moogle Office tour to be pretty fun, but on the way out I realised that the carnival decorations and mini golf on roof would get stale after a couple of weeks (unless you are Millenial cringe)
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>>106468516
What I realised is the lawsuits are the whole point. Cheaper and easier to pay lawyers and settle for a few hundred mil when you've made a few dozen bil already.

Governments get the few hundred mil which is better than nothing I guess.

If you ask me, almost every issue we have in society these days stems from turning people into products. I miss when things had value. Google started this whole 'you will own nothing and be happy' dystopia.
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>>106468744
>Similar situation?
not quite, I toil deep in the bowels of Android.

>would get stale after a couple of weeks
they did
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>>106468776
Ah, so youre really in it. Reading the news about theor monopolistic practices though, it does appear that they do function in this way across their entire brand. Physical hardware was no different than what happens with software and Android. This is their business model. Im starting to see them as more of a hostile government power than a private company.

Also im pretty sure they lose money on Mixel just to get the handsets out. The money they were spending on our relatively small market was in way recouped by units sold. It's about getting the software out to people for their own uses later on

Speaking of it getting stale, the click for me was during an awards night they already had selected the most cringe kidult things you can imagine, "hey everyone, the prize this year will be a giant Bowser lego" and the whole team went crazy. At that point I realised that they 'select' for autism. I code-switch to present as such but in reality I am far from it. Somehow they 'knew' that the entire team wanted Lego playsets...
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>>106468437
Heh, I used to work for a company that catered for Google offices. Me and my coworkers stole so much food, boxes of chips and coconut water etc. We'd get high every day in my manager's car and eat free Google cafe meals on the clock. Good times, desu

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How to request advice:
>Budget
>Intended use (media, source, environment)
>Frequency response preference and music examples
>Past gear and your thoughts on them

FAQ:
>Where do I buy IEMs?
Amazon, Aliexpress, Linsoul, Hifigo, Shenzhenaudio

>Shopping Guide (IEMs, PMPs, Cables, Ear Tips, etc.):
https://rentry.org/consoomer_guide

>EQ Guide (EQ 101, Targets, Myths & Misconceptions, Case Studies, etc.):
https://4ciemg.github.io/IEM-EQ-Guide/

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>>106469782
Here you go: >>106469786
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>>106469739
PR1 doesn't need EQ
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>>106469763
I did a while ago
why?
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>>106469791
everything needs eq
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>>106469809
Sounds fine out of my power amp terminals

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ITT: Anti-forensics tools
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>>106469057
the "plausible deniability" feature only makes sense to use on a hdd because SSDs use something called wear-leveling which gives away the secret volume. disabling wear-leveling ends up just being another indicator that there's a hidden volume, so it's a catch 22 - you can't actually hide an encrypted volume inside of another on a SSD. veracrypt documentation (which comes bundled with the software, mind you) clearly states this. Im pretty sure the archwiki also talks about this on their encryption page
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pedophile thread? pedophile thread
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>>106469174
trim and wear-leveling, trim commands can be blocked and wear-leveling seems to be only a issue for system encryption
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>>106469224
Post nose.
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>>106469224
>oy vey goy, let me have your data
NO, RABBI GOLDSTEIN! BAD, BACK TO YOUR SYNAGOGUE!

Is it possible to use this piece of shit, without basically live streaming the contents of your hard drives to "them" and having all your actions on the internet archived?

I mean like some anti-spyware software or something?

I have looked into O&O ShutUp10++ and it seems decent(ish). Is there anything better out there?

Inb4: use Linux. I did for months ... and I just fucking can't anymore. It's always something with Linux. It's just a matter of time before you have to fix some basic shit which would never even be a problem on Windows.
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>>106460419
Best thing you can do is just never connect it to the internet.
Next best thing is never use an online account, only local, and block unwanted connections with the firewall.
Other than that, no. Not that it matters anyway, you got a phone right?, connected to you home wifi, right? Then (((they))) can get you whenever they want.
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>>106469103
maybe, but it does literally just work.
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>>106469103
Nothing "just works" anymore. Not windows, not linux, neither android or ios. Everything is coded by jeets paid in peanuts.
It's all degrees friction and silicon lotteries.
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>>106461208
>Windows 7 64-bit will give you the absolute best leverage if you have the skills to secure it
No one ever explains how they are allegedly securing their win7 machines.
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>>106460443
>Microsoft shat out an update like 10 days ago which literally destroys SSDs
More like triggers bugs in broken controllers that then require a full power cycle to start working again, but yes they did.

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HOLY FUCK WHY DID I START INSTALLING GENTOO ON MY THINKPAD X31?!?! WHY DID I EVER THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO COMPILE EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE ON THIS 2 DECADE OLD LAPTOP SHIT SHIT SHIT?!?!?!?!!!?!!
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>>106465008
>Welp, next time I will study what dependencies I need for a minimum setup. I don't think I need that for st, dwm and other terminal apps.
i'm not sure you need llvm either. all my machine uses it for afaik is llvmpipe (modern software 3D renderer) and amdgpu support (likely for shader compilation). i'm not sure if modern mesa uses llvm for the older radeon driver, but you can go without llvmpipe. it's practically only a fallback 3d driver so you can do things like compositing without a 3d card/driver available, which you won't care to use on such a machine anyway
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>>106460919
llvm is a compiler. you're compiling things, you probably need it for other things
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>>106465008
>>106467786
oh, i'll also agree with what people say about using binhost/prebuilt packages for a few things that both are slow to build and don't matter much to customise. you'll learn which ones those are when you build them. llvm is one example, also webkit, rust, gcc, etc. browsers are slow to build as well but you might actually want to optimise/customise

>>106467816
llvm is used as the backend for clang, but most things use gcc on linux. he can find out at the end what packages he uses depend on llvm and for what features
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>>106457179
The point of gentoo on a thinkpad is that you trim down software to use only what you need. Disable everything that you think you won't need, Maintain your own patches for programs that don't already have them. Write your own programs instead of installing others
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>>106459664
you could have just used the binary packages instead, then do ebuilds when you have a functioning system.

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Reminder that modern encryption is already dead.
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>>106467474
You have no idea what Quantum even is and you have never used a Quantum computer so please shut the fuck up forever
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>>106466946
This is Microsoft scammery, there’s nothing that can run the algorithm that’d break current cryptography. And even then, we’ve already got post-quantum algorithms kicking about.

Quantum computing is like 98% scam investment grifting, like AI but even worse cause their claims amount to “it like computer, but quantum”, and conveniently ignore the fact they’re not useful for general purpose computation.
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>>106466946
>"""""""Quantum Computer""""""""""
>*Look inside*
>It's not quantum
>It's not a computer
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>>106466946
1. there is no evidence that Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip actually contains topological qubits instead of Andreev modes
2. even if it does, it's only 8 qubits, and a quantum computer that could use Shor's algorithm to break some types of asymmetric encryption efficiently would require thousands or even millions of qubits (depending on how many of the qubits are needed for error correction)
3. Shor's algorithm does not affect symmetric encryption; Grover's algorithm does, but it only makes a brute force attack more efficient, while still remaining unrealistic, so modern block and stream ciphers like AES and ChaCha20 would remain secure
4. quantum-safe algorithms have been in development for years and will be rolled out before quantum computers become a threat (if they ever do)
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>>106466946
how so?
this very webpage is encrypted in transit it seems to me it works very well

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>>106467904
Have you tried reinstalling RetroArch?
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>>106466020
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>>106466020
>2880x1800
a bit too cramped isn't it?
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>>106466037
hua piao piao
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>>106466060
cope

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Well, /g/?
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>>106467253
I make a living managing wordpress sites.
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>>106467324
So is your mom, and I still drive her daily.
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>>106468289
Thanks for this, it looks like some Israeli's rewrote the PHP engine that's still used today. I remember a tech wizard who recommended against PHP while I was still a young coder. He couldn't tell me why in public but I finally understand why. Thank you wizard who worked at Amazon at the time, I took the advice and didn't understand at first. It's sickening to know how these Israeli's have tricked me and many people like me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Engine
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isnt it open source? what are the alternatives without the influence of tiny hats?
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>>106467654
Always has been
>>106469154
How many businesses/people still require them?

What is the most user-friendly, beginner-friendly, and stable Arch based distro?
By stable, I don't mean "unupdated debian-kind of stable", but actually stable in the pragmatic sense (doesn't-crash-and-nukes-itself-every-update-stable).

Use case will be gaming, programming (c and python) and basic browsing.
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>>106469122
Pingli
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>>106469122
arch based
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cachyos, install select gnome/kde during install and call it a day
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>>106469122
endeavour works
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>>106469122
Literally arch.

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Seems like my headset is finally giving up after 8 years of use. The left side is completely unresponsive and I can't handle having audio played in only one ear.
I'm looking for a decent midrange headset, emphasis on the set because even though I have an xlr microphone setup, having a backup mic ready to go is essential to me.
I'm completely out of the loop on what's popping nowadays, a lot of brands I don't recognize. Budget is in the $50-$100 range, my market is Europe's.
I don't care much for microphone quality, what matters to me most is audio quality. Obviously it doesn't have to be the best quality considering the price range, but I'm not looking for a bassboosted negro approved set, I like my mid range and trebles. Wired or not, USB or jack, doesn't matter.
I'll also take channel/blogger recommendations so long they don't glaze whomever pays them most and provide good breakdowns with comparisons on the products they review.


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