>>107655260Don'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.
>>107692975You paid literally what it's worth.
>>107696968this is definitely the x series, my guess would be x210.
>>107692497I press the copilot key and all it does is opening the search bar.Did I miss anything?
>>107697072You got an extra key to setup on Linux. Emacs would love it.
>>107680780basuman... I kneel
Why is this so comfy /g/?
>saves the linux desktop
>>107698418What could possibly be the benefit of having to search multiple places when you could have one that queries them all at once and lets you pick the source
>>107698452I mean in a dream world, every software would be packaged in one repo, but I'm a hardcore flatpak faggot and I go flatpak first, if my app isn't available, I'll go for my package manager.>archie chanyou can just use your paru/yay :3Linux Mint already displays Fatpaks and deb package manager software in one store, just like ubuntu, fedora etc.
>>107698489Yes, that's what I'd want, for bazaar to be a universal software browser and then there would be a button that says download from arch repo that pops out a terminal with the command to install it pre typed
>>107698510sounds good, baby
>>107698320Actually this is false, plain lie for most apps.Seems like a disingenous website.Sorry chud but KDE+flatpak discover IS the future of linux.No more fragmentation
I was gonna buy an HP omnibook with a snapdragon processor but I googled to see if it worked with my rollo label printer. It doesn't.
>>107690646>are we still avoiding ARM processorsThe only usable ARM computers are macs, since applel went all into it, but at the same time they dropped the ball with thousands of vidya, software and drivers that'll never get ported, same shit when they dropped 32 bit support.
>>107690646Are you planning on using Windows on it? If so, do you want to run much software other than what it came with?Yes? Then it's crap garbage avoid like the plague.Are you going to install Linux? Are there drivers available for the hardware? Are you willing to build software from source when a precompiled binary isn't available?Then it's much more viable, and should get you more battery life per weight and amount of performance.
>>107697328Even linux support for these chips isn't great. I was interested in the qualcomm laptops, but qualcomm's lack of support for linux made me lose interest. I am so tired of arm hardware with poor vendor support.
(((they))) want us to move to ARM for the locked bootloaders
>>107690646Snapdragon has been great for me, I've been dailying mine for about 16 months now. People like >>107697328 will meme that software doesn't work because they haven't actually used one recently. Nearly everything "just werks" without any special config. The only limitations I've found involve software that's legacy and/or niche, such as an ECU tool for a 20 year old car and the firmware updater for Innoasis MP3 players.For a laptop, ARM gives you both battery life and thermals (the fans almost never spin up). In the rare occasion I need to do something ARM can't handle, such as the Innoasis firmware updater, I just use my desktop. If you need to run a lot of oddball software and it's your only computer, ARM probably isn't for you. But if you're doing fairly regular things or have other computers (like most of /g/ presumably), ARM is ideal for a mobile device.
Are there any good alternatives to DuckDuckGo that don't suck ass?
Kagi
All of them suck expect Brave which uses its own index. The discussion feature where it gives you forum posts when you search for a topic is neat and would be better if it wasn't 90% reddit threads
>>107696717Qwant is ok
>>107698474>QwantQwant is not recommended by Privacy Guides, and has some issues.Concerns over Qwant privacy policy:https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#qwantFrench legal involvement:https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-enginePartnership with Huawei:https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_partners_with_qwant_will_offer_search_services_to_users_in_europe-news-42538.php
>>107698474Crap, just like the rest:>Set language: pt>Set region: pt>Try searching: brazilian crap everywhere
/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.Previous threads: >>107679732 & >>107668478►News>(12/26) MiniMax-M2.1 released: https://minimax.io/news/minimax-m21>(12/22) GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability: https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7>(12/17) Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model Audio: https://ai.meta.com/samaudio>(12/16) MiMo-V2-Flash 309B-A15B released: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-flash>(12/16) GLM4V vision encoder support merged: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/18042>(12/15) llama.cpp automation for memory allocation: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/18049►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinksComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
glm sure loves writing out the entire response 3 times in the thinking first
Why aren't you having children? AI is automating parenting for you.>run an agentic vision LLM on a phone and detect if the kids are slacking>the LLM will use TTS to tell the kids to not slack
>>107698357Kill yourself, petrafag.
>>107697911I remember this being posted a while ago. Or some tweets. I don't know if it's still true or if it's the only thing they ship.https://blog.rwkv.com/p/rwkvcpp-shipping-to-half-a-billion
>>107698384Honestly I can see potential child-raising institutions 100 years from now to produce skilled citizens from the ground up (including manual laborers if they end up not that smart).
>Linus Torvalds uses fedora with gnome>Terry Davis uses ubuntu with unity>Richard Stallman hasn't never installed linux>meanwhile 4chan autists need ultra-personalized arch + windows managers and dual monitors to feel productiveexplain yourselves.
>>107694121No he fucking doesn't, retard. 4chin hasn't run on Linux servers for well over 20 years.
>>107697815Aww. Poor troon is butthurt that their heroes are all pathetic trash
>>107697815A man can build a hundred pieces of software, but eat his own foot fungus once and to the world that man isn't a software developer, he's a foot fungus eating jew faggot
ITT: troons calling others troons
>>1076897694chan linux ricers don't have jobs or if they do those jobs are nowhere as important as any of the dudes you just listed's jobs
>blows the fuck out of you're kernel level anti cheatthis is fucking hilarious. doesn't matter if apex, valorant, rust, cs2 faceit or any other league. any FPS is currently unplayable because kids run color/ML aimbots on their second pc and forward inputs to their gayming pc with this 40$ passthrough device. and all the jeet AC devs are too stupid to write an aimbot detection algo that doesn't result in 6 million false positive bans. (the valorant jeets literally used their RAT malware anticheat to check&ban players that stream a centered screen region which is smaller than 512x512 pixels).
>>107698297Nah, the future is simulated online gameplay. It'll just be you and AI bots larping as humans. The "modern audience" will eat it up as they'll never have to worry about being outplayed, or insulted, or misgendered ever again. The only thing online about online gameplay will be the telemetry they collect and the credit card transactions.
>>107698420>the future is matches against bots like in the early 2000sNot the worst fate.
>>107698284>you are a "pro" at a children's hobby.>You are a grown ass man, stop living in fantasy and get a real hobby.This. The cheaters deserve more respect than the normal players.
>>107698442The bots in early 2000s games would teabag you after they sniped you from across the map with wall hax. The AI bots of the future will intentionally die to you then start talking in voice chat about how good at the video game you are and the other AI bots will all agree that you're a super player.
>>107698460and then your ai bot gf will say that if you really love her you'll buy her the $50 dollar gay pride skin off the cash shop
With tech jobs becoming ever more scarce as AI keeps replacing human workers, is trades the better option now?
>>107697206i only hire unlicensed white drug addicts and alchoholics. if you hire a white boomer (jew) tradesman what happens is the white guy shakes your hand, pockets half the money, then hires mexicans to do the job. The boomer trade millionare will do your roof for 30,000. 20 DREAMERS will show up and leave nails all over your yard while charging you for plywood they take home to build another room for their family. but 3k and a few racist jokes will get you a top tier white tweaker who will work by himself and get the job done just as fast.
>>107695290Are Indians not Asians?
>>107698455>i only hire unlicensed white drug addicts and alchoholics.I know a few people irl who would fall into this category, and I would hire them for a job 100%.
Nope. I will still study IT and Cybersecurity. Fuck trades. I'm not interested in getting yelled at boomers all day and getting tinnitus from loud machinery, then coming home with a sore back to boot.
>>107698479Cybersecurity is probably the one IT field that will keep needing people, considering all the shit that keeps happening.
I have never owned an Apple product in my life. I would take one if it were given to me but yeah thatll never happen. Theres no fucking way Id buy one
i'm sorry, but am I not paying for 230V? why are you taking my money and giving me 217V?
>>107697992>i'm sorry, but am I not paying for 230V?you are not, no.
this is why (((they))) forced leds so they can scam you with brownouts and 99.9% of people do not notice
>>107697992My power is constantly at 245V because of all these solar farms around pushing power down the old ass wire.
you pay for units of energy thoughbeit (voltage x current)
>>107697992Wouldn't be a problem if you didn't need such a high voltage. werks for me.
>Google now firing executives tasked with ensuring an adequate supply of memory products, while Microsoft executives are reportedly "storming out of meetings" as an all-out war breaks outhttps://wccftech.com/microsoft-execs-rage-and-google-resorts-to-firing-its-procurement-head-as-an-all-out-war-for-memory-products-breaks-out/
>>107697454Brother, in the absolute worst case scenario, Altman is going to leave the country in a gold-painted luxury airliner with his fellow rich while the citizens (who will be left holding the bag no matter what) eat each other alive.
>>107697483>What are you talking about?There are more consumer and consumer adjacent companies outside of Google/Microsoft/Apple/Meta/X that require memory, and require that the memory they purchase to be cheapWhat he has done could literally be the straw that breaks the camels back and brings the whole house of cards crashing down.> None of them performed missteps for themselves. They don't need to deal with the consequences so of course they don't care. They already have carte blanche from the government.Hard agree on this, however I'm more so pondering the ramifications adjacent to these idiots
>Somehow, magically a product that has always been made and never had shortage now can't be made and has a shortage simply because people continued to buy the product.Pretty impressive, they became more anti-consumer than Nintendo. When do "scalpers" start getting blamed for hawking hardened sand chips? What a genius business move to prioritize speculative AI buyers instead of existing customers. And what of DDR6 that allegedly rolls out next year? Do I have to preorder that shit now months in advance to even have a shot at getting it or will I simply have to make do with the ddr5 dip?
>>107698481>What a genius business move to prioritize speculative AI buyers instead of existing customersIt actually is. Say you’re Micron. Which sale would you rather make: John Normalfag wants a few chips for his gaming rig, or Shmuel Shekelgruber Melechyahudim wants your entire inventory at ten times the normal retail price?
>>107698502It is a short term gain that you're risking will be long term and all of it hinges on how the AI in question will answer Sam Altman's question on how he will pay back the money. Well I hope they get their money before the bagholders firesale it $200 per 16 gigs (maybe $150 on ebay) and they CAN'T sell that ram to anyone else.
The old fan is making a slight rattling noise on startup but it goes away after 5 min. It's spinning at 3000rpm to cool down Athlon x250 which gets hot very quickly during cpu spikes (it shuts itself down at 70C). I'd like to replace it but I can't find any 70mm fans. Is there any CPU fan model (with a heatsink or not) that would fit this old motherboard (released in 2009), if yes then which size should I choose?
>>107696387man I had this same CPU back in 2009.good times and the computer actually still works
>>107696558Ok, I'll see what I can do. This thing is working for almost 14 years nonstop, surprised it lasted so far. The CPU itself is very sensitive to near anything and tends to reach 100% often (browsing the modern web is near impossible), otherwise it's cool (26C when idle), probably it's too outdated.
>>107696630Yeah it seems to be durable (it survived many disasters from overheating to physical shocks) . I still like this motherboard due to its versatility. The CPU is perfectly fine for XP era games and programs which is why I still keep it.
>>107696387There are still a whole bunch of AM2+ compatible CPU coolers out there.> https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu-cooler/#c=270mm fans are rare, but a search machine can probs find some options.
>>107696387Lots of 70mm fans on Aliexpress
>/g/ hates android for not updating phones with useless features all while clocking the cpu down to 50%>/g/ praises apple for releasing bloated versions of their OS with the intent of rendering them useless all while not alerting the user/g/ is the worst board desu.
>>107698519No it's just the gayest. Every dude here wants my cock in their bussy.
>>107698519Now that smartphones are actively snitching to the cops, how do I denigger my phone?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJj-mjH-2Q
will gaussian splats replace VR180 video as the gold standard of porn?
>>107698153kek
>>107693091Made me kek
I would give anything to live in a society in which porn addicts are institutionalized and kept away from everyone else. Instead I live in hell.
>>107698312>I live in hell because I'm too attention-starved to ignore threads made by virgins
>>107692987Gaussian splats always look blurry to me. Which is weird I know, but I think the splats just suck at representing texture.
