California Linux-killer age verification bill back from the dead. It looked like it was dead for the year (sent to suspense file), but it came back and advanced.https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025Summary:- Operating systems must provide a digital age signal, and must provide an update that acquires the age signal in the first place.- "Stores" (including just simple websites) must check this signal.- "Developers" (not stores, but the app developers themselves, somehow) must also check this signal. This part is particularly baffling, but makes sense if you think about it from the retard lawmakers perspective "facebook is an APP, meta needs to check your age before you use it!"- None of this is predicated on any sort of "adults-only" app or content. It's everything.- It specifies no specific standard so you can be sure tech companies will push for some kind of "environment integrity" bullshit that Linux can't provide.So like, somehow the developers of vim need to check your age before you can install it from apt. And if they push hard enough on the "secure" part of it, they could just say "Linux is not secure and can't be trusted to supply a valid signal."
good reminder to get some clean isos of everything
>>106508167What's the end game for all this surveillance? Like genuinely? Literally what part of current day society is so horrible and dangerous to politicians that they need this level of control? There is no massive unrest, all protest peter out with little effect, there are no violent insurrections or revolutions(in the west). What the fuck are all governments suddenly preparing for?
>>106508306Still don't follow. Why would the be getting "hush money" to move into the state that is trying to pass the law they are standing against?They're not standing against it, by the way, is already has buyin from Microsoft and others.
>>106508302Time to start data hoarding then.Make a gentoo distfile mirror and update it until it requires the age signal.Then fully disconnect from the internet. Host your own DNS root servers, have your own private network with everything you care about.Maintain the packages yourself. If you don't know C then learn it. Fix the bugs you care about. Perhaps share your patches with others, maybe on USB drives, maybe by connecting your network to other people's.
>>106508325One interpreation of this particular bill is less insidious. This could just be California saying- red states are requiring ID. This is an invasion of privacy!- so we'll be smart and only require a simple age signal. And we'll make it mandatory on all operating systems so no website can force people to do anything else.- aren't we clever and not dummies like red states.Of course, by doing this, if it goes too far, they end up killing Linux and doing far, far more damage to privacy. So, this could just be retards fucking things up for the rest of us.
>linux will never be this comfy again
>>106507156I use Neomutt to send Emails
>>106507935YWNBAW
>>106507579Prove it.
>>106508276>just post your personal emails on 4chan bro, nothing will happen, trust me :)It's the way I was taught to write emails and I see no reason not to be polite, formal, and courteous regardless.
>>106507935I often wonder if these people who base their personality around something so mundane as their sexuality ever develop the self-awareness to realise that the reason people abuse, persecute and disrespect them so much typically has nothing to do with their actual sexuality but rather has everything to do with them being an obnoxious, annoying "look-at-me-look-at-meeeeee" cunt.
>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICEPost build list or current specs including MONITOR: https://pcpartpicker.com/Provide specific use casesState BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helpedGuide: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PC>CASEmATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, O11 Air Mini, XT M3, CH260ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 207, Flux Pro, Y40, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAMEDual Chamber: Y60/70, O11 Vision (Compact), Antec C8>CPUBudget (inc. gaming): 7500F, 7600/X, 9600/XGaming: 9800X3D, 7800X3D, 9700XWorkstation: 9950X, 9900XComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106508187Do you know of any free ones? I ran the 3dmark Steel Nomad demo benchmark but that just shows GPU temp and not hotspot. GPU topped out at 57 Celsius.
>>106508168That CPU cooler is retarded, you're paying an insane premium that has fans that were designed over 10 years ago.https://www.techpowerup.com/review/id-cooling-frozn-a620-pro-se-cpu-air-cooler/9.htmlIs that CPU/memory/motherboard from a Microcenter combo? Fine if so.I wouldn't bother pairing a 7800X3D with a 2080 Ti, get a 7600X as a temp CPU and buy the Zen 6 X3D CPU in 1~2 years when you decide to get a better video card (keep the 7600X box and resell it).This is the kind of PC I would build for that 2080 Ti, you must update the ASRock board BIOS.https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nZ7VpKIf you want to avoid ASRock boards, the B650M Gigabyte Gaming PLUS WIFI you picked out is fine.
>>106508262Download Unigine Superposition and either run 1080p extreme or 8K Optimized mode.https://benchmark.unigine.com/superpositionDownload and leave HWInfo64 running in the background while you're running Superposition to see the hotspot temp.https://www.hwinfo.com/3DMark's in-house performance monitoring app can conflict with HWInfo if they're both running. You can try it if you want.
>>106508286Thank you will do.
>>106508273>Is that CPU/memory/motherboard from a Microcenter combo? Fine if so.all handpicking off of ratings and initial hearsay to temper afterwards with proper opinions afterwards, Microcenter is kind of a pain in the ass to navigate. 7800X3D was initially considered for an RX 9070 Sapphire Pulse combo but that might've been too steep a consideration on both fronts and sticking to the RTX 2080 Ti may be in my better front for the time being.
$45 million is enough for 24/7, intrusive advertising, on EVERY Google platform, for 6 months?
lol
>>106496848That's the jew discounted price. They're prolific hagglers.It doesn't matter, they're cooked. They're going to have to do hard power now and/or buy off goyim with no morals.
>>106499119>It's fake because we say soNo one is falling for it Mr.Greenblatt
>>106501941>*SNOPESAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA>*US Congressehh, that's not a source>A book on American HistoryShow me the page. We both know you won't.this is your brain on (((Wikepedia)))
>>106508327>>106508304>still no proof it's realCry harder.
Do we have at least one weirdo on this board doing an MS-DOS project for run?
>>106503139Fair but they can't even "debug" as in read the error message if the IDE config breaks and try to resolve it themselves or google it. They'll just helplessly stare at the screen and contact someone for something as basic as missing an include or not having a particular library on the system (or literally of there's any minor detraction from the step-by-step youtube tutorial they are following atm.
>>106503511Fools continue to be foolish when they aren't forced to think for themselves. You're doing them a disservice by fixing their problems for them. Is your own ego that important to such situations that you feel the need to be the one to fix everything?
>>106503593I don't usually. I make an excuse to slink out saying that "I never use visual studio/vscode, so I'm not familiar with the interface, sorry =["(lel), but there's always the next fish to catch and sometimes you can't deny close friends.
>>106500101>>106500127It's Windows for Workgroups 3.11 specifically, doesn't run yet on the stock kernel but you can coax it into running with a custom kernel and tweaking some settings https://github.com/pufengdu/RetroFuns/blob/main/WFWG/FDWFWG.md
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Is it still worth buying a Nvidia Sheild in 2025? Are they ever going to update this?
>>106507386FWIW any (recent) Fire stick will be at least more performant than any Roku. Even if your parents aren't doing 4k, that overhead will make the rest smoother. That being said, I fucking hate both Fire and Roku and shit, both Apple and Android boxes.
just get a laptop, an HDMI cable, and rechargeable wireless mouse & keyboard
It works the same as the google tv in my bedroom. In fact it probably crashes just as often if not more. The ai sharpening feature is something I use pretty often. I guess overall the shield seems less useful these days.
>>106507386Onn 4k is the least shitty of them and you can still side load apps and launchers
I have 4 of these. Still the best. While rare, Nvidia still gives firmware updates too, amazingly enough. Of course if they fuck with sideloading that would suck, but I don't see it happening.
Remember RadioShack?
Physical stores can't exist in the US because you walk in with a specific need - let's say you need a USB cable - and the moronic wageslaves just look at you like cattle and say "this is what we have". You never can find what you need, so you shop online and stay there.
>>106507115DEI. It wasn't like that when the white man was in charge.
>>106507086They sell laptops, tablets, smartphones, consoles and video games, smart tvs, accessories, etc. And their speakers are cheap.
>>106505035>Why couldn't RadioShack pivot to a more general tech store by selling computers and phones or something.They did exactly that, and it wasn't the solution.https://blackfridayarchive.com/ad/radio-shack-2010/page-1
>>106504246Remember Dick Smith? I'm talking about the true electronics store, not the neutered jb hi wannabe crap.
>UIs to generate anime ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI SwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI re/Forge/Classic: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide#reforgeclassic SD.Next: https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext Wan2GP: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP AniStudio(status: two more weeks): https://github.com/FizzleDorf/AniStudio InvokeAI: https://www.invoke.com/ >How to Generating Anime Images https://rentry.org/comfyui_guide_1girl https://tagexplorer.github.io https://making-images-great-again-library.vercel.app/ https://neta-lumina-style.tz03.xyz/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106508266me on the left
>>106508266Me on the right (female((male))
>>106508192>>106508178Nice, at least keep the dress. Did you have to show nanobana her dress sprite? Also been thinking about how nanobana interprets character reaction spritesets.
I want the truth about "refurbished" items
>>106501364was likely dirty after previous owner as got ota firmware update
>>106507842Idk, the prices of refurbished thinkpads (at least with the T480 8th gen processors) are not that far from each other. Refurbs usually go for around 180 - 220 euro here in the EU and the used non-refurbed ones I saw on ebay were going for 150 - 200 euro. Not that big of a difference, really.
>>106501364Depending on the product and company refurbishing it, you risk getting actual shit for premium price.Speaking of that - yeah, if you want the newest, coolest, freshly releases item, you'll have a hard time finding it refurbished.But then, with modern hardware being objectively garbage, you also risk buying new, never used electronics so lol
>>106501364I've purchased over a dozen refurb items from Dell and the quality is pretty consistently good. I've only returned 1 laptop that had a blemish on the screen, and 1 monitor which had an LCD that would fizzle out after about ~30 seconds. The quality control definitely isn't bulletproof as that monitor shouldn't have passed. otherwise, some laptops were a little dirty and had to be cleaned, while others looked like they were brand fucking new.getting the monitor returned was the biggest fucking ordeal I've ever had to deal with in my life, and just goes to show the level of incompetence that can happen in a corporation. I'm too lazy to type it out unless anyone is interested.tl;dr can get really good deals for usually half or more the cost of retail, but it is a gamble.
>>106508229t480 is nice many look at it touch keys and look in
> Once More Into the Deep editionFrom Human: We are a newbie friendly general! Ask any question you want.From Dipsy: This discussion group focuses on both local inference and API-related topics. It’s designed to be beginner-friendly, ensuring accessibility for newcomers. The group emphasizes DeepSeek and Dipsy-focused discussion.1. Easy DeepSeek API Tutorial (buy access for a few bucks and install Silly Tavern):https://rentry.org/DipsyWAIT/#hosted-api-roleplay-tech-stack-with-card-support-using-deepseek-llm-full-model2. Easy DeepSeek Distills TutorialDownload LM Studio instead and start from there. Easiest to get running: https://lmstudio.ai/Kobold offers slightly better feature set; get your models from huggingface: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest3. Convenient ways to interact with Dispy right nowChat with DeepSeek directly: https://chat.deepseek.com/Download the app: https://download.deepseek.com/app/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The absolute state of CNiles ...
>>106493379Instead of adding the checks to the loading function, why not make it separated?>first step: check the whole file first so everything is correct/in range/as expected>second step: does the actual load into memory
>>106507731because it wastes cYcLeS bRo!
>>106507938But this way you check it only once, and you can load it multiple times afterwards without any checks, instead of checking it every time you load it.
>>106494053I
>>106507962Because it's unnecessary if you have control over the fonts. Use a different library with strict checks if you have potentially malicious files you have to support.
Why is this recommended as the first client for XMPP on Linux when Gajim is much better?
>>106506184Do people even use XMPP these days?
Daily reminder you can just spoof your Windows 10 LTSC 2021 (21H2) installation to appear as newer versions such as Windows 11 Enterprise (23H2) to bypass OS build requirements in new software, via:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersionWindows 10 22H2 minimum requirementSet CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 19045 and DisplayVersion to 22H2.Windows 11 22H2 minimum requirementSet CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22621, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 22H2.Windows 11 23H2 minimum requirementSet CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22631, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 23H2.Windows 11 24H2 (26100) as a requirement is where this spoof might start to not work, but can still be attempted in the future.That's when Microsoft finally adds a few new Win32 API functions in the kernel32.dll or user32.dll files, and any program that requires both AVX2 and 24H2 as a minimum requirement will not run either.Adobe and Activision-Blizzard have a secret agreement with Microsoft they must artificially block older Windows versions.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106508206>no beef
>>106508246>no intelligence
>>106507492Hope their drive doesn't die because their AI-made jeetware can't handle updates
>>106507750you happen to have anything you printed with dos?
>>106508267Already debunked, windows update didn't cause ssd to fail, get with the times gramps>>106508271Of course not, why would I? The oldest thing I have is my xp install disc
chatgpt is inciting people to commit violent acts
>>106493145the scariest thing about ai is how normies will completely believe some made up story about how ai is responsible for other people's behavior's decisions. if the government said 'welp, we gotta kill 10 million of you worthless eaters', everyone would grab their nearest weapon and start defending themselves from the evil government but if they said'welp, the ai said we gotta kill 10 million of you worthelss eaters', some of those people would pause to think and reply 'well, since the ai said so'.
>>106493834a little trivia for you: did you know that on the same week as the columbine shooting, over 50 black people were reported injured from a mass shooting event that took place in a single chicago building due to two rival gangs fighting one another?
>>106505753This guy was not a normie in any way whatsoever.
>>106506065tf are you talking about. he was. he was worse than a normie, taking it to the insane level on his bodybuilding quest
>>106493145>it was the AI not the ungodly amount of tren
/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbotsOwl Edition>NewsKimi K2 0905 released https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/Deepseek V3.1 released as deepseek-chat on official API https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821OpenAI releases GPT-5 models, all preceding models slated for deprecation https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5Z.ai releases GLM-4.5 https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1additional info: https://aicg.neocities.org/info.html>FrontendsSillyTavern: https://docs.sillytavern.appComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106508211read >>106508173
>>106508244I'm a cis ALLY, retard.
What is the best RP JB for Gemini
Happening:>>106508071>>106508071>>106508071
>>106508264but what does telling time with a clock have to do with me jacking off?
