What can I do with these old laptops that I have?These are mostly e-waste sitting around and collecting dust (Shitty old 32-bit CPU, DDR2 RAM in megabytes capacity, dead batteries)
>>107591535Retro gamers will buy them up
>>107591535Keep the most powerful one and throw/sell the others.
>>107591535preserve them to make kikes and updooters seethe.
>>107595728this.we must preserve the future for local computing and white children.
put netbsd on them and use them as servers
>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICE.Post build list or current specs including MONITOR: https://pcpartpicker.com/Provide specific use cases.State BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helped.Building guide: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Build_a_PC>CASEmATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, O11 Air Mini, XT M3, CH260ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 217, Flux Pro, Y40, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAMEDual Chamber: Y60/70, Vision (Compact), Antec C8AVOID: NXZT, 'Silent' cases, fanless cases, Corsair 6500>CPUBudget: 9600X, 7600X, 7500FGaming: AMD X3DComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hey folks,I've built a computer around pandemic time, and it's been with me with some upgrades since.I'm running a ROG Strix B450-E Gaming, with a Ryzen 7 5700x, Corsair mystery meat 32gb ram set and a 3090FE, I know, fucked up mix but don't shoot me.Recently, I've had some weird issues with the GPU falling off the bus under AI loads. It's a little hobby of mine and I don't have those issues when gaming, and I do run my 3090 through the paces. I've an 850w Seasonic supply so I don't think I'm hitting some power limit. I've recently tried running the GPU in the second PCIE slot and it runs fine there, reduced speed and all.Now, this leads me to think that the slot is going bad, and I'd like to replace it before it dies. I've an opportunity to snag a B550M Aorus Elite v1.3 as replacement for 50-ish bucks, though it's smaller than the full ATX board I'm running now. It's going into my full size Meshify C case, should I look for a full ATX or is it a good pick? Eyeing it for the supposedly good VRMs and reinforced GPU slot, and the fact it's cheap and I can get it now, is it worth it?
>>107595634I swore years ago the Green WDs were the slower rated HDDs. Then again I haven't bought any HDDs since 2020, so I'm on borrowed time
>>107595673You're correct, the WD Green HDDs were budget friendly 5900RPM drives intended for light/sporadic use.
>>107595532I guess one of the perks of being in the PC building scene since the mid 2000s.I got to see various eras of consumer PC overclocking and thus have a comfortable understanding of manually configuring settings for both CPU and memory. Back in those days if you fucked up you had to go onto a tech forum and hope someone knew the answer. These days you can usually just google whatever the issue is and either find a forum post detailing what you need, or get an AI that is feeding you the forum post (but formatted slightly differently).
>>107595647Forgot to mention that it happens both on Windows 10, 11 & Arch, with closed and open Nvidia drivers. Genuinely think it's the slot but I'd love anyone telling me if I am right or smoking crack. My suspicion is that the slot is bad since it doesn't happen when gaming and I've tried just about everything, including throttling the power limit, and it runs fine on the middle slot. So I think a newer chipset with a new board that has a reinforced PCIE slot for the stupid brick of a GPU will do the trick.
The dumbest plug design in the world, bar none.
>>107585947>ostensibly because it fits more securelyThe plugs were pulling out too easily, almost as bad as US plugs.
>>107593010At least that makes the design super robust and safe. That means even the cheapest plugs won't break off inside the hole (whis is exactly what happened to me the first time I visited a country that had non-recessed plugs)
>>107595106>why the fuck would you?less current to deliver same power
yuropoors die of "heat strokes" when there's a pleasant breeze outside lmao
>>107585119cant unplug it by yanking the cord from across the room like a cowboy
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>>107595645>Is that GNOME?yes, stock gnome no extensions. the trick is to just install the display manager gdm and compositer mutter, instead of the whole desktop environment.
>>107573386What's the VCS shortcut? Is there a native PC Port?
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>>107595709I would be interested in any posts regarding aliens/interdimensional beings and metaphysics
>>107595718KEKEKEKI am absolutely going to be writing about those things.
Happiness and Good Vibes! editionApplication advice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlqTVNtQd4Considering a side hustle?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K-Gr7VLCi8>Interviewinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0x3i4IloI>How to write a resumehttps://github.com/0xCyberY/CVE-T4PDF>Salary StuffComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107580426It's even less economical even for sheds and fences. Moving all that equipment is labor intensive.
>Mayo ClinicI keep seeing jobs posted but never a word back. Often not even rejections. Is it a fucking jeetmill? Are they actually hiring? Usually low requirements like 0 - 2 years, or 1+, and not a fucking word.
>>107593468because people want React! Not just css + html
>>107592829BS in chem engMS in CSsome experience with my first degree, zero with my ms. this was for an "internship" with the potential to become full time that starts...whenever. It's not a summer 12 week block sort of internship. i have a few good side projects, a portfolio website, and some other shit, but I can't get a nibble from anyone unfortunately. not having a cs internship is fucking me over I imagine.
>>107590866feels like a waste.
I guess it was inevitable. Next I suppose they'll rewrite it in Rust and festoon git-scm.org with the pride progress and Ukraine flags.
>>107576464>>107576407>rust le bad because internet influencers told me it was a troon language>no i have never done research on this on my own, but fag ecelebs told me this so it must be true
>>107576407You lost and are not welcome OP
>>107595640This is not a board for brainwashed retards. You should probably leave.
>>107595388Because there is no logical explanation that can be found. It is literally the result of a mass psychosis.
It's slacktivism. That's the best possible interpretation. Where people do utterly useless things like change their profile picture or put an emoji on their social media to virtue signal but don't actually do anything useful.Large organisations with that women and brown people that are useless in tech, also have a need to create "busy work" for them to feel useful and to try to justify their salary. There is absolutely zero business value in changing the default git branch from master to main. But by having a bunch of meetings and getting people to change it they can feel important and that they're doing something. Even if that task is a waste of time, it's something to pad the outlook calendar and complain about. Managers justify their budget and it's the productive people that have to do this "on their own time" as well in addition to having to carry the useless people.The more sinister reason is it's also a political move in a lot of cases. Bureaucrats that don't even know how to code can make a little power grab where they can tell the developers to change this or that. And the fact it's a useless change is actually by design. By making a change you know is useless you comply with something you know is bullshit and you do it out of obedience. Similar things happened in Maoist struggle sessions where they want the person to "confess" to things they know they didn't do as an act of submission and humiliation. In that case too they simply they will make up reasons to bring you in, it's about putting the person in their place and making them submit to the will of the party.Women and browns also love communism so there's that. A lot of overlap.
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/
>>107595279they have quantum computing also
>>107581648China is MSM fodder to invent bullshit headlines for NPCs to gawk at.
>>107590377it means he hates brownoids, as we all do
>>107595672But he is one?
>>107594394what? i don't play genshin impact, i jerk off to the porn
>What phone has X and Y feature?Don't ask, use these!https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphoneshttps://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&s=queryGood Resources:>Reviewshttps://www.gsmarena.comhttps://www.phonearena.comhttps://www.notebookcheck.net>Frequency Checkershttps://www.frequencycheck.comhttps://kimovil.com/en/frequency-checkerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I bought the phone you guys have said not to buy I hope it's good or I'm going to kill myself
>>107594015>Apparently silicon-carbon batteries will have shorter lifespans than traditional lithium-ion batteries They definitely do. I see phones with over 5000mah who has this new battery tech and they lose 1% battery health each month on average. It's about twice as fast at degrading as current li-ion batteries
>consumer statistics show that less than 10% of users care about thinness or AI shit, while the vast majority want bigger batteries>thinness and AI shit is the single most important shit to manufacturers and they will our right sacrifice battery life to make it happen>Manufacturers then act surprised that their thin, shit battery life, AI focused phones are huge flopsI don't understand this logic
>>107595331If they give us big batteries they know we wont upgrade as often. Now they gave us the new battery tech which provides much bigger batteries but degrades faster than ever before. If they make the perfect phone nobody will upgrade for years
>>107587405I'm thinking about it, but my budget's low at the moment.>>107588137I got it a few months ago as a gift from my sister, I'd feel bad to replace it... also, no money to replace it now.>>107592492My use case's pretty basic and I've never had this issue with other smartphones before though.
Qt has really caught my eye, though I'm only *learning C++*Is Qt worth learning? And is the Qt Creator a good IDE for developing in C++ in general, or do the projects usually orient around Qt and QML because you are using their ide which is for that?
>>107591284>Not necessarily expecting to deep dive and fully even grasp C++at least you're keeping your expectations reasonable>Life is too long to know C++ well. – Erik Naggum>I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet. – Erik Naggum
>>107590595>>107590595>Full of non standard C++ extensions that now compete with actual C++ features like lambdas.What part of Qt competes with lambdas? In my experience everything in Qt works really well with lambdas. There are other areas where the framework doesn't play as nicely with modern C++ concepts (like move semantics) but overall it works fine.
>>107591525I also find it very tedious. I can't get his smug german voice out of my head as I read it. Feels like I'm being patronized, in german
>Qt>instead of just using a namespace qt:: they decided to prefix all their classes with Q but keep everything in the global namespace >this is considered acceptable in sepplesland
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https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/29/vivaldi-says-no-to-ai-features/https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/If you're tired of "AI" niggotry shovelware in your browser, maybe it's time to make the switch.
>>107595118Meant for >>107595017
>>107594929>a chink is involved somehowOpera ownership is intentionally a clusterfuck so that it is truely independant and unfucked with. Do some more reasearch first.Whereas little pipsqueak Vilvadi is just waiting to be easily taken over to moment its founders lose control.NEXT REASON PLEASE. I SERIOUSLY WANT TO KNOW A GOOD REASON
>>107595039I use arch and I want these featuresin a way it's like an adblocker but for predatory website designslop, I want an agentic interface that will give me pure access to pure information and I don't care about "diversity of the web", I want to say that I want a cord extender, and I want to get it in 2 days, and I don't care about your webshit, popups, promotions, ads and other bloat
>>107594513>If you're tired of "AI" niggotry shovelware in your browser, maybe it's time to make the switch.Vivaldi is Chromium, Chromium has AI flags in it pre-baked.
>>107594752Nobody is afraid of it, you fucking retard. AI fucking sucks because the faggots in charge of it are fucking deluded twats with little to no grasp on reality. They use sites like Reddit to train their AI, ffs.
>XP and 7 are very insecure, upgrade now!!!>how exactly>extremely unsafe anyone could hack you>could you show me, perhaps on a vm how you hack a Windows7 box?>they are very very insecure you literally go online and you get riddled with malware>could you elaborate? maybe give me a link so i could click on and test your theory?>well, actually, if you download an exe and you run it as Administrator, you get infected very badly!>can't you do this on any OS? >s-shut up! shut up and upgrade because i say so okayHow come every online discussion about WindowsXP and 7 inevitably degenerates into this?
>>107591100Wait, are you the esl turdskin who keeps claiming to be English whenever people call out your esl drivel
>>107591074>Well, you see, over time people find holes and these holes are not getting fixed.Irrelevant, since you are unreachable by most attackers by default, therefore your operating system doesn't really matter.>Sure. Plug it into the internet and start counting.You trannies keep repeating the same thing for more than a decade at this point and so far nothing ever happened to me. Its almost as if you were all just fear-mongering faggots who know nothing about computers.>Granted, Eric turned off the firewall Ah yes, the all-known strategy that linux trannies and tech bros use to drive people away from better software. Simple lies.>Because some of us have to deal with the mess you make tranny
>>107591100>>107591121>Bro there's viruses, you just can't see them.>Bro you have covid, which is super dangerous, but you don't have any symptoms (still need to get the vaxxxx though)lmao kys retards. viruses always have an effect. whether they use your cpu to mine xmr or your network to do ddos shit.>inb4 THEY PATCHED TASK MANAGER SO YOU CANT TELLcpu usage comes with increased fan noise and network activity comes with extra blinking lights on the router.you people are literally getting scared over things that aren't there and then you use your overactive imagination to gaslight people into thinking there's magic viruses that you can't detectyou might as well just go to some african village preaching about how there's ghosts and they need to do shaman rituals to drive them away. maybe you'd get more acceptance there.
>>107590694Why are there discussions about XP and 7 at all? There is literally no valid reason to use either unless you have a computer which has this crap installed from like 2007 or something. I have a Windows 7 laptop and I still use it to rip CDs because it's my only computer with a CD drive, but if I was actually going to use that computer for something (not happening, it's too weak for anything beside ripping CDs) I'd install another OS.
>>107591551>And you too can continue to be a problem for everybody else for a low, low price of...Yeah I plan on doing just that. I'm not taking the digital vaccine, suckstart a shotgun nigger you don't get to tell me what I can and can't do with my own computer.
I got permabanned from Reddit right before I could get my evil plan going. It was never gonna happen...I was manic when I came up with it and it was just way too ambitious. But the idea was sound.It involves using an actual botchecker script that I wrote. I would make an account like BOT_CHECKER_BOT or something, and I would use the account on people I thought were bots. I would post a link to the github so people knew the script was legit.Except it isn't legit when I use it. When I plug in your username into the code, your bot score goes up over 100, meaning you are almost CERTAINLY a bot.It was my manic plan for revenge on reddit after getting accused of being a bot over and over and over and over again. I'm autistic, so sometimes I sound like ChatGPT.I just wanted to gaslight redditors, that's all. And I was gonna gaslight them GOOD. I also had plans for a MENTAL_HEALTH_BOT, which diagnoses you with a mental illness based on your comment history. The plan was to identify any user's comments that mentioned contemplating suicide and then post a link to the mental health crisis hotline. It would also post links to 24/7 drug counseling hotlines if their comment history made any mention of substance abuseI swear to fucking god, NO ONE hates redditors more than I do.
>>107593120someone already did this
Reddit mentioned!
>>107593120
Indian thread
Reddit is the cancer of internet. I don’t know what’s worse than pretending to be slme kind of champions of free speech while operating in completely opposite way. The whole operating principle of reddit is based on creating giant echo chambers and preventing any meaningful discussion.
Endgame editionHow 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.
>>107595220>timeSkill issue, ngmi
>>107595220pipewire on linux is pretty cool in this regard, I can set the system volume, and then each eq preset has a pre-gain, and its own volume slider. when the preset's volume slider is at max, then it's as loud as the system volume. that way I can have a very high output voltage, set the system volume to like 20%, and then I can use the whole eq presets volume slider from 0 to 100.
blud thinks he can EQ balanced cables >>107595220
>>107595329if you can help it, rely on analog volume control and only use digital attenuation to avoid clipping and have headroom.
>>107595646I avoid everything analog like the plague when it comes to audio. I set my active speakers' amp volume control to the lowest possible (so that it's still loud enough on 100% pc volume) for minimum noise. after that comes the system volume, and then the individual eq preset volume. I don't want to move my hands away from the keyboard to change volume.
>tfw fell for the 48GiB RAM meme
>>107595164So you're telling me...it's possible that there will be a influx of neets selling bussy just to pay off outdated rigs?
Bought this much ram to play with local models. Now I don't want to play with them anymore and most of this ram stays basically unused.
>>107595099i have 16GB DDR3, you cons000mer faaaaag
>>107595099>4770K, GTX 1070, 16GB DDR3Almost 12 years on this system now kek (except GPU) I'll just wait a little longer.
>>107595597change it to a fx8350 and that is me. and i swapped that bc my 1055 phenom was being incompatible with shit due the lack of avx, and i had a am3+ boards so...
>/g/ makes an 18th albumTheme: Outer Space MusicTitle: [Accepting suggestions]Deadline: 7th of January [revised from late December]>/g/ makes a 19th albumTheme: [Accepting suggestions]>Song submission rules/guidelinesUpload the file somewhere, preferably in a lossless format, and post the link here. If you want to update your track, make a new post.Include the song title in the post, and make it clear that your song is a submission for the album.Optionally you may include cover art for your track, but please confirm that the image in your post is the cover art or it won't be included. You may not use your real artist name.Songs that contain anything against YouTube's policies won't be uploaded on YT, but will still be added to the album.By default, tracks will be normalised to -14 LUFS (integrated loudness) in the release. You may specify a lower loudness for your track.Use of AI is banned. This includes AI generated stems, samples, and effects. "AI" includes all neural network-based models and not hard-coded automation/procedural generation. You are allowed to ask an LLM about music-related questions, but asking it to give you musical ideas (eg. generating a chord progression) is already a no-no.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
tone2 guy says oversampling is for cucks you need to produce at 96khz and if that uses too much cpu you need to switch daws
>>10759364648khz is all humans need
>>107589166>picit's just the phosphorous, actually
>>107593646>you need to do things this wayshit, if you're monitoring/playing guitar i'd say run at 192 just to not confuse yourself with the latency. Unless you have thousands of instruments only playing in treble, you're doing something live no one will ever hear you working in 48 or higher. And again even with live guitar it's not the sound people hear, it's the latency that confuses the guitarist. This is well beyond the difference between 260k mp3 and flac, noone who could hear the difference could stand to be around digital gear, because all the lower hanging fruits would rape his ear well before caring about you working in 48 or 96khz (especially since you'll just export it to 48 for any relevant streaming platform).
>>107593646literally who>plugin devplugins suck for anything nonlinear no matter what sample rate you useusing hardware as much as possible is the only solution if you actually care about qualitythere is lots of hardware that are the industry standard even today, there are some people who won't enter a studio if the studio doesn't have at least 6 1176's or a CL1B etc
