>>107550362
Most certainly none of the above. The best programmer, you'll never have heard of him. You are looking at salesmen.

>>107550362
2 of them spend 20 millions of them dollaridoos in useless stuff such as giving 12 free games every december, remastering a game no one cares about and showing their new shit game on TGA.
The other one wastes billions of someone else's money trying to improve technology.

I made my choice.

>>107550362
Me

>>107550362
AI

Ken Thompson.

>>107550430
Which flavor to install? I want to give it shot as a desktop OS running on old laptop.

>>107551510
>laptop
As a rule of thumb, install OpenBSD. If it doesn't meet your expectations, consider NetBSD or FreeBSD; the former is a last resort, depending on your laptop's architecture. The latter no longer supports i686.
I run Free on my laptop for ZFS. Battery life is better on Open. Both are easier to use than Net.

>>107552078
Why BSD isn't called GNU/BSD? I thought Stallman basically owns everything because he is the sole developer of GNU Operating System.

>>107550430
Didn't you catch the memo? You can't have BSD threads on this board without constant spam by ganootards.
>winslop, aislop, consoomerslop threads exist unimpeded

>>107551847
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>107551007
i thought AI needs a lot of ram.
how am I going to use my lappy if Windows will be using 50% of avail ram at start up plus AI now.
what % will be avail. to everything else

>>107551073
This will be the funniest and most based outcome ever, but you just know they will push you to a cloud based environment full of bloat and AI shit that you will have zero control over it

>>107552176
Sure, smartass. They aren't just going to let their products get worse. Customers would complain.

>>107552214
>i thought
First of all, bad. Stop doing that. Just use AI for that and believe whatever it tells you.

But also, you're missing the bigger picture - companies don't care about AI on the edge (on your computer anymore). It's better for them, in every way, when you just send your data to their AI datacenter, under the terms of some EULA that says "We value your privacy; we sell everything you do to our 3210821602 partners with zero restrictions on what they can do with it, fuck you".
So guess what. That's what they're all doing now. Why give you privacy.

>>107549735
WindowsToGo

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I updooted my system from LTSB to LTSC 2021, and it says Enterprise LTSC. So it's the non-IoT version.
Is there a difference between this version and IoT in practice?

>>107550725
>Is there a difference between this version and IoT in practice?
Non-IoT LTSC security updates ends in 2027
IoT LTSC security updates ends in 2032

Simplest and best way to switch to IoT LTSC is to use MAS to activate your install with HWID
HWID is the best activation method and since it's only available on IoT, MAS will automatically convert your install to IoT at the same time

new build with 9900x3d/9070xt
if all i really care about is gaming, does it make sense to go enterprise iot ltsc over just normal enterprise?

>>107547655
I could stay on 10 LTSC for a while longer.
Before anything else I can't imagine having to use Windows without 7 taskbar tweaker, the default is just too annoying and the program doesn't work with the new taskbar in 11.

>>107550253
Zoomies really have no idea how quickly tech moved in the 90s,

>> The Internet will be to women in the ’90s what the vibrator was to women in the ’70s. It’s going to have that power. – Lisa Palac, 1994

https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/early-90s/brief-but-biting-quotes/

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>>107550253
its going to be glasses and eventually contacts before the end of the 2020's

>>107551739
Lotta gems here btw

>> We techies should be more honest about what computers can do and what they cannot do, or else we are setting ourselves up for a big pie in the face. – Clifford Stoll, 1995

>> Just as the development of the Interstate Highway System led to the creation of McDonald’s hamburgers, Holiday Inn and a thousand other new commercial developments that would have been impossible without the Interstate Highway System, in the same way we will see the emergence of information services on a nationwide basis that will be extremely profitable and nearly ubiquitous. – Al Gore, 1993

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>>107550253
This is from the 70's

>>107551180
How is % of exports an indicator of leading performance? It just means that they aren't producing/exporting much else.
India is the largest exporter of generic medicine. Does that mean that they're ahead than the rest of the world in pharmacy?

>>107549479
That's nice but can they kill the brown flood?

Not happening.

>>107549479
Will this or blaming foreigners finally fix their shit economy, shit currency and the demographic crisis?

>>107551736
>India is the largest exporter of generic medicine. Does that mean that they're ahead than the rest of the world in pharmacy?
If you define being good at pharmacy as being good at cost optimising medicine synthesis, then yes.

UUUUOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>107551454
>New mouse
>Already filling with gunk
It's so joever my man.
If you can return it depends on how long ago it was that you bought it as well as your local laws. But usually sellers will do whatever they can to make it not worth your time to return shit sadly.

>>107543519
guide anon, if you're listening.
Might this be worth adding to the guide?
Pretty much when I search on Google for "1.75x" or "2.25x" then actual companies that make good magnifiers show in the results. Where they properly spec 1.75x magnification or 3 diopter, 2.25x magnification or 5 diopter. Otherwise searching for "3x/5x/10x/20x magnifier" tends to show more of the junk products from China that are using "Ax magnifier" which is actually the diopter value in order to trick people.

>>107551700
Write up a section that can be copy pasted into the guide and tag NeoOP and he'll probably add it at some point (sometimes with a bit of a delay granted)

>>107536421
any recommendations for iPhone screen protectors on Ali?
are they about all the same or is there something to look for?

>>107552083
Well there's some special stuff like privacy screens that make it hard to see from the side, but if we're just talking generic cover to protect the screen you'll want to look for "9H Hardness" if it's not a known brand, that just means gorilla glass hardness. Also if it comes with a plastic alignment guard that's a nice addition, makes it much easier to place it right.
But honestly given how cheap they are and how long modern ones last (basically as long as your phone), get one from a known brand like baseus and be done with it. Many kits come with all you need (alignment brace, stickers to remove dust, alcohol wipe, alignment stickers, bubble removal card). If it's a kit of 3 or so that can also be nice, means you don't have to care if you break something or fuck up an application and you have spares for when it does fall badly on some stone ground.

There's also Hanukkah of Data, if you go- ugh, guys want something else to do.
https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/

>>107551639
will we be helping the elves save christmas

>>107551639
what the actual fuck, lmao

Would it have been better if it ended completely after last year, or are you happy to have this year's 12 problems?

>>107552190
I'm happy with this year's problems; it was the first year I've bothered to try. Found I could keep up reasonably well with the best (but fuck ILP) and established that I'm probably the most cracked programmer in my team, which is nice.
It was also fun to see all the people struggling with non-scripting languages or resorting to calling external libraries.

>>107552159
>>107552091
KOBO is EXPENSIVE

>>107552161
not particularly expensive

>>107552161
sure but idiot-proof file transfer
girlmath

Well before I fall for this Xteink X4 meme, why should I wait for a second hand Kobo instead?

>>107552302
The xteink OS is crap. You can't mount the xteink as a USB drive like the Kobo can. Kobo can run KOReader

>>107551938
Because you have enough RAM to spare.

>>107551966
probably gentoo if you mean as the receiver

>>107551938
because you're using kde plasma

>>107551330
afaik its for people who think arch isnt bleeding edge enough

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>>107551938

>>107537840
I have $3000. I don't need anything new right now.

>>107537840
A Samsung A07 and will deposit the rest.

>>107537840
nothing
but if I had to spend it, then electrostatic headphones

>>107547250
shut it richfag, nobody cares about your bloated arm toy.
Get back to me when it runs pfsense.

>>107551299
My Raspberry Pi has 4 GB RAM, and I have two of them.

>>107550915
>getting-your-mails-successfully-accepted perspective
yeah, that sucks. so many roadblocks to hosting email for cheap. makes ya think
>preventing-getting-hacked perspective
not really

>>107550625
you are definitely cringe.

How much would you guys pay for a 3990X and TX40 Asrock Creator board? There is a listing for 2k. Is that a bit much or no?

>>107552168
no idea, it's bout half the original price but I'd have a few issues using it as a server in the first place
>very high tdp on 3990x
>probably a likely overheating mess if you put those pci lanes to use

I'd say it's a bit much $

>>107552287
it also comes with a cooler master 360 aio. i think it would be interesting for virtualization. 64 cores are 64 cores.