>>107680640Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specshttps://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How do I replace a screen on T60p?I can't find a replacement screen unless I pay like 500 quid for one for some reason which I'm not gonna do obviously.Is there a place for replacement parts in the UK that doesn't charge half a grand?Could I use a T60 screen on a T60p?Is it a straight forward job?
>>107839390I got one on eBay but that was years ago. Shipping would probably be horrendous. 14" or 15"?T60 screen will swap in just fine.
>>107836819no one huh
>>107836819Buy a new battery.
>>10783944315" I think but that's off the top of my head there is a T60 I can get I just didnt want to wast money on an incompatible part I'll probs get it because my thinkpad is just lying around getting dusty since I sat on it and broke the screen lo.
people are starting to forget that Windows actually was good a long time ago, it has been 13 long years
>>107820326>13 years since Windows was goodLook, I like 98 as much as the next guy but you have to admit that XP is simply better.
>>107820326For it's time. Good for it's time. Wouldn't be good now days though.
>>107825501strawmanthe kernel isn't what's wrong with 11, and the system isn't just the kernel
>>107821060As someone who started with Win 95, 7 was easily the best of the series. My personal soulful favorite was ME toughever.
>>107839260>the kernel isn't what's wrong with 11so name what's wrong then>and the system isn't just the kernelno shit retard, you are new to operating systems?
>ubuntu is the best distro>light mode is better than dark mode>cloud computing is good>systemd is good>GNOME is good>AI tech is goodno, I won't elaborate
>no>who cares>no>preference>preference>nowont elaborate either
>>107837173funnier than animeposters at least
literally contrarian bullshit
>>107835374you are partially correctno, I won't elaborate
>distros matteryup, you're all tech amateurs
>be me>wish i had a nice computer>resurrect ancient dell machine that i got for free>i7-920 oh my>computer is a massively shit>dont care lol still having a great time>look inside>standard atx motherboard, unused power cables>upgrades, gentlemen>trawl through about a million listings on ebay trying to find something cheap>second hand gtx960>gaming.wav>extremely pleased with myself>pc of theseus all the way up to an i7-6700k and rtx2070 over the next few years>always find the best dealsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107836442Once you have it all, you have nothing, back when I was a kid I used to be obsessed with computers and upgrading from one shitty GPU to another shitty GPU felt massive and adding more ram unlocked new possibilities, now that I have a pretty beefy PC, I don't feel like upgrading because it runs everything I want, I literally don't care about new hardware because it doesn't offer me anything, modern games are all shitty slop not worth playing, modern windows is a bloated clusterfuck made by jeets and modern hardware is a joke, an expensive joke thanks to AI, crypto and manchildren
>>107837899I got really into overclocking when I was a teenager because of this, I couldn't afford to upgrade so had to squeeze every last drop of performance out of what I had. Now I can just buy the fastest thing possible without really worrying which just results in the computing equivalent of anhedonia.
I hung wire in a tree to make an attenna today, and it brought me more sense of accomplishment than the last 7 years of corporate work
>>107839080Can confirm, setting up a mountain radio the other weekend made me feel like a rocket scientist
>>107836442>it has served me so faithfully>suddenly feel intense sense of loss>realise i had excised the soul from my pc completelyRight, many people don't realize just how important your monitor really is.Make sure to get a nice monitor, frens, cause it's the thing you're constantly gonna be looking at, probs for years.
https://litter.catbox.moe/amt1b1ufvco3mu5m.js
WTF? I CAN'T LOG IN TO MY GMAIL AND STEAM ACCOUNT NOW!
start using directory opus
>>107833276Well I can spray gold paint on a turd and it'll still look like a turd. So if it was possible to make it look non ugly, why aren't there any non ugly screenshots?
>>107838701because its all user preference retard, there are dozens of theme examples to start building around on their forums https://resource.dopus.com/c/themes/24I like the Neko one, picrel but I still use my own (im not posting screenshots)
>>107838762Cool
i think its unpopular because they're so shit at marketing itif you have never used it and you see some screenshots you just think "so what? 50 bucks for this?"this shit has a manual thats like 1000 pages and a billion scripts on the forum its the most autistic thing everthen you try to go back to explore and you realize how awful it is and you cannot live without opus
>>107839455It's one of those niche products that markets itself. Those who need / like it will have it already.
How come C# isn't more popular when it's basically Java but better? Is it because people distrust a language maintained by Microsoft, or does the JVM have non-obvious but crucial advantages over the CLR?
>>107838989What do you mean by "ENTERPRISE status" and why does it matter?
Dotnet being proprietary and single platform prevented me from having the motivation to learn it. I only did that after they released and ported core. A language isn't useful to learn or write in if computers can't execute it.I imagine I'm not alone in this. C# has existed for a long time now but I think wider spread adoption was stunted by its closed begining. So they have a lot of catching up to do in that regard compared to other languages like Java.Which is kind of frustrating for me personally because I really like PowerShell and wish I had learned it sooner. Although the utility of it and what I appreciate today is only related to the modern versions so it wouldn't have mattered then, it only matters to me now. But that means for like a decade I put 0 thought into their entire ecosystem of tools, languages, libraries, etc. and contributed nothing to it myself. I imagine some other people have had the same kind of experience.
>>107839022>What do you mean by "ENTERPRISE status"Big corp backing.>and why does it matter?Less risk of a rug pull. Bean counter approved.
>>107834381The only times I see C# being used is in video games because of Unity
>>107838851async/await is better than gay "green" threads btw
Every idea I have has been done 5 times now. It doesn't help my only ideas are types of social media, and I'm ready to just give up because no one gives a fuck.Seriously though, is there any point in trying to become successful? I could just build stuff that makes me happy and I can feel proud of, instead of caring what others think and stress myself out with users.
>>107838014>Every idea I have has been done 5 times now.That means it's a good idea, as it has succeeded several times already.>It doesn't help my only ideas are types of social mediaSocial media has the chicken/egg problem. You need new users, but nobody is joining because the place is empty.>Seriously though, is there any point in trying to become successful?The system is rigged. You can work hard to become successful, and maybe you will be. Someone else can just go to the bank, get a pile of tax free income called a "loan" and just buy success.
>>107838014Is your idea to make some big multi million user application? Well of course it's going to be done to death. Big corpos have a monopoly on that sort of thing. Return to tradition with the old internet way of doing things, just make websites for things you like and for small communities you want to cultivate. Fuck mass appeal.
>>107838549I don't try to compete with big social media, but even a niche community is a PIA to moderate. Being a janny is a huge toll on mental health and anything I build must either be zero moderation effort or have an extremely high entry barrier to post. I already have some ideas but it's just so demotivating knowing a functional site won't get me a job/secure a good future because literally nobody gives a fuck! HR karens don't care what I learned and what I'm capable of
>>107838014If you want users, you'll have to target the audience of short form content. Under 1 minute, and jumping from one video to the next, minimal permanence with nothing being memorable, but the majority love it, so that seems to be the future.But if you don't want to moderate, then it'd be best to sell the tools and services of an opportunity, rather than deal with that headache yourself, assuming then that there are enough people with a vision out there to know what to do with your software tools.Regardless, finding success alone is near impossible, and working together with someone is a must.
>>107838169>degeneracyNah you just have bad taste.
With the current state of the PC market I’m thinking of buying Apple, I know the M4 is powerful but how is MacOS? I heard Tahoe is shite but haven’t looked too deep into it.
>>107839246Is that the highest end model? That's like 30% slower than the M4 max and I know the 395 is around the same. (The 470 is irrelevant because AMD is skipping the high end this gen, again, for whatever fucking reason.)Also snapdragon being almost competitive is surprising, too bad it's about to be eclipsed by M5 max and will also have zero software support outside of a dysfunctional windows port
>>107839246>>107839270>made by a literal cumguzzling applenigger kike that's been making fake benchmarks for decades that only test applejeet hardware accelerators while ignoring avx512 and every intel/amd optimizationtry again currynigger
>>107839276Okay, then you post benchmarks for this cpu.
>>107839315
>>107839362This doesn't have any of the cpus announced at CES, stupid faggot.
Good morning, it's Monday again, dear friends. It's time to make sure that the global chain of supply won't break, while babysitting the 10x "coders", who will ticket their c# and java code to our networking team.
>>107839255(You)>Make sure USA has enough big black dildos this quarter preeze chang. >Last year we had to send dem smaw chinese cocks and we lost money cause no one want to stick smaw chinese cock up their asshole.
>>107839288Bad for you.>>107839292Ok pooner. It looks like a she so it's not for you.>>107839296Sadly, it's a part of the critical supply chain.
is this the protogen thread?
>>107839466Yes
they must never know the real reason ram is getting so expensive
SAY HIS NAME
>>107838288High end thermals are more accessible than high grade NVG.
>>107837778christ that looks gay as fuck. nice MP5 tho.
>>107837778Sick Combine soldier cosplay
>>107837691latent homosexual using gay overpriced mask...
>>107833295Diabetes
Who was this designed for?
THE BOGDANOFFS ARE STILL ALIVE
>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107789452
>>107838576You can with 4chanX, does this work? /^$/;file:only;boards:4:vgAlternatively, you could do it via a ublock origin filter to blur them in only that thread, something like that
/^$/;file:only;boards:4:vg
>>107838576He added a message this time so it won't work anyway :P
How the FUCK do I keep qbittorrent from using so much RAM? I have 6 total torrents and only 3 are seeding, but after several days of leaving it unattended memory usage is up to almost 4GB. I tried both libtorrent v1 and v2, both seem to have this issue. I'm running it in a container thoughbeit, can/should I just hard limit the RAM/swap available to the container so I can just stop caring anymore?
>>107838822If the same program shows a fluctuating free space then your OS or some program is creating files (or deleting them). It's normal.>>107839439How are you checking memory usage? Post screenshot.
Why so the maknainter of slackware too retarded to just add flatpak in with the distro install?
Why do so many people on /g/ dislike Cloudflare?
>>107838368literal botnet>>107838385нeт>>107839361>>107839323sad cringe
>>107838368>>107838408I immediately knew from reading the OP you were going to pull out this kind of tard rhetoric"Just use another service if you don't like it, you don't have to use cloudflare :)))"Those of us complaining about cloudflare aren't running internet services, we're mad because cloudflare is widespread on the websites we are using and visiting ourselves.
>>107838542>half of the internetThose are mostly meme services that you should have alternatives to anyway >but muh local government / municipal web services! Should have done your research before you voted
>>107839406>I immediately knew from reading the OP you were going to pull out this kind of tard rhetoricThose aren't the same people>we're mad because cloudflare is widespread on the websites we are using and visiting ourselvesWhy?
>>107838368>MITM half of the internet>requires you to run proprietary JavaScript to identify you>blocks vpns>single point of failureWhat is not to like?
I'm trying to recover data from a Windows 98 PC, and I would like to back up the hard drive (which appears to be failing). I can still read data intermittently, and it sounds like it keeps doing repetitive seeking before it gives me data read errors and general drive read failures. The computer doesn't even detect the drive half the time, and it won't boot from that drive at all.I would like to try and boot from a Linux recovery distro and see what I can do, namely clone the failing drive before doing anything else, but the optical drive doesn't appear to be plug-and-play (I can't boot off of it because the optical drive only works after drivers are already loaded), and I couldn't get a USB stick to work, so it seems like the only option left is to boot from a 1.44MB floppy disk and get the computer to clone the hard drive itself. I've added another drive, and that one works flawlessly, so it seems only the master drive is bad.It's actually harder to get a straight answer on which linux distros you can boot from a floppy disk than I would've thought. It doesn't even matter if it has to be an old version, people are saying the wrong version number is capable of doing so (like with RIPLinuX, so I don't know which ridiculous version to use), and I'd prefer one centered on data recovery anyway.It's a "Proteva Pro Series" PC, I guess. (Not pictured.) It doesn't sound very distinct, but apparently they thought it was distinct enough to brand it that way.
>>107838276>ddrescueThis is the correct response. You need to use ddrescue to clone this drive as fully as possible to new media. Only then can you start thinking about repairing the filesystem or using something like testdisk to scan for known filetypes. I've used ddrescue multiple times to pull data from storage that was failing. So many other tools assume your storage is healthy & will crash the moment your SATA/USB/etc link drops out. ddrescue just picks up from the log file & keeps copying.
>>107838366You keep grinding at a failing drive you're going to kill it for good.Get the IDE-USB adapter OR find a computer that has IDE + SATA or whatever OR try installing an OS to another drive on that 1999 computer.Meanwhile chill (the drive, as in put it in a ziploc bag in the freezer) until you're ready to do the data rescue, sometimes that works on drives from that era.
>>107839265Everything on and about the computer says 1998, but I'm doing it right now, I just need to add more RAM cause I guess "65"MB isn't enough for Clonezilla. I'm also adding a soundcard and seeing what I can do with salvage parts.Some idiot who was in here before me put the CPU fan connector on the chassis fan output.
>>107838240Take it out and image it externally.
>>107838299>What if I don't have another computer that can interface with IDE drives,There are literally adapters out there for that purpose, anon.
