>>108511917
Use Legacy Update to get XP as updated as it will ever be.

>>108511863
in my love dungeon

>>108501843
There may be reasons as to why we have so many alternatives to Photos out there, including re-enabling the classic Windows 7/Vista version.

>>108499063
Disable Tamper Protection before attempting to disable Defender Realtime Scanner in Group Policy or with registry edits. It will stay disabled forever that way. I don't remember if they tried making it harder to disable in an update, so best take care of this on a new IoT LTSC install without updating at any point before disabling Defender.

Is dual booting Linux and Windows worth it?

>>108513107
I mean you can do it if you want. Just make sure that Windows has fast boot/hibernation disabled.

>>108512763
I'm sorry you're losing everywhere. It's a tough world out there but we're making it better despite you.

>>108493020
why does /g/ like people who talk a lot and never get their hands dirty? is this board full of braindead retards?
this guy for example, he does cybersec stuff to real world scenarios and even shows how he does them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ

>>108512618
I think he's a mech engineer, so guess what...

>>108494205
But he's attacking you, dumbo.

>>108512782
I don't want to be a jewtuber shill, but the op guy takes apart and re-assembles most of the machines he films. Is that not getting his hands dirty?

How's the war going, miggers?

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*Come home SAAAAAAAARRRS

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>>108512919
Tell this to go home.

I'm currently researching Wine solutions for my music production software and workflow right now in preparation to move to Linux because of how much Microsoft has ticked me off.

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>>108512919
Whatever, troon.

>>108511846
8638 works for me.

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>>108510789
neither Qwen3.5-2B or Qwen3.5-4B are able to get this right even WITH reasoning turned on, Gemma4-E2B-IT got it right (answer is technically "This is a test") WITHOUT reasoning. If you're a native English speaker these models just feel way smarter than Qwen, trust me

>>108509242
Here you go bros, ONNX which is more than 2x faster than safetensors

My script (modified from an existing one) will caption images,

https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-ONNX/discussions/1

>>108512891
huh, I could not get it to caption sexual images

>>108513132

>>108513138
I'm using the official model from Google.

>>108502677
it is all the fucking same.

>>108502677
I think you should start with an easy distribution but don't get accustomed to the affordances it offers to make things easier. Always ask if there's a terminal-based way you can do X or configure Y, etc. If I'd started on SuSE and used yast for everything, I'd have never had the career I managed by going Slackware - RedHat - Mandrake - Debian. Last thing you want to do is start in Arch and have no fucking idea where to start. Try Fedora or openSUSE, but make a point of removing the training wheels.

Also Ubuntu is cancer. Specifically snaps are a kind of tumor.

>>108502677
two words: fedora workstation

>>108502723
>>108502819
This. Absolutely this. I learned my way with Slackware in 1999. I don't use it anymore, but it helped me greatly.
>>108502947
Better for what? I haven't tried Gentoo. I can recommend Void, which I'm currently using in my home server, if you want something a bit easier to install and keep updated.
I think you don't sneed a' hard 'distro to learn Linux, but something like Slackware certainly would help in grasping some concepts.

>>108502677
You should be thinking of what you want to accomplish on your machine instead of becoming an expert on fucking with it. The point of Linux is not to be difficult to use or master regardless of what 'power users' say. No one uses windows because it's harder to use. The Linux community is infested with elitists who do nothing productive with a computer. Keep using Ubuntu and be productive with it. If it can't do what you need it to, then consider another option.

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>>108510032
Read a dictionary, pablo. Words have meanings.

>>108506940
And dozens upon dozens of lazy devs hard-coded their colors.

There are custom themes for Win11 that dark theme Win32 UI, and Microsoft could do the same. But because of those lazy devs they don't want to open up to the liability of some corposlave having issues using software from 1997 they need to use in dark mode because whoever wrote it back then didn't give a shit about respecting the Win32 API so we're stuck in the decades old Windows bodge parade. Bring your own dark theme! (warranty void if used)

If Microsoft has ANY SENSE, they build on the success of the .NET/C# team.

Develop a WinForms successor that is cross platform, Windows/Mac/Linux. Exportable to the web as well kind of like Avalonia. Simple drag and drop style native UI design with the ability to tweak and refine in the code. Make this a part of the transition to native UI.

This shit would do numbers and wreck the current landscape. Everyone is dead fucking tired of working on front end sloppo for even the smallest apps and internal tools. The OG WinForms was a gateway drug for getting into C# itself because it was so easy and streamlined to work with for any kind of basic app.

>>108506940
Man I miss that. Wow Id forgotten.

>>108495627
>>108497038
>>108506922
There's no tic-toc rule. Everything after 7 was shit.

10 is often considered "good" simply because it's a better experience than 8/8.1, but still worse than 7 in every way other than better compatibility with modern hardware and software.
I'd argue even Vista is overall better than 10 and the only reason Vista is shat on is "poor" compatibility because people were trying to run it on their ancient XP toasters.
7 was the only Windows after XP that MS improved in all sectors: compatibility, performance, features and experience. Everything else after if drops the ball in at least two of those areas.

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>>108512120
Yup, not as pronounced as my version, but it seems to do an okay job of it.
Back in 2010-2012, when I decided to mock the Macintosh screenshots that were shared here on /g/, I don't think even KDE was adding drop shadows to their screenshots.
I love that 4chan allows PNG transparency like a bro, though. It just makes images pop right out of the thread.
>complicated
99% of it is a single imagemagick line. Everything else is fluff I have added and tweaked over 15 years. I also enjoy the portability of the drop shadow scripting wise. ezpz

>>108512726
Font name?

>>108512994
Terminus Medium 9pt
>>108496556

>>108513010
Thanks anon

>>108513025
You are most welcome.
On Devuan/Debian

apt install xfonts-terminus
apt install fonts-terminus-obt

Terminus is available for Windows as well.
https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/files/latest-windows.zip

>>108505954
Its still like that if you either don't connect it to the internet, use a launcher / ADB tweaks in Android, root Webos / Use adguard/pihole

I can't speak for Samsung's TV OS but I think that can be rooted as well

But yes the UIs are garbage and its because they need to show you ads and collect data to make any money on the TVs now as the hardware profit margain is razor razor thin

>>108505954
Just buy an oversized monitor instead of a TV or simply don't buy a TV at all

why is everyone on /g/ - Technology a luddite?

>>108505954
>Is it a controversial opinion on /g/ to say that I preferred when TVs didn't have their own OS frontend?
no.

>>108505954
It's not a controversial opinion I guess. Specially given that it's kinda like the epitome of rampant consumerism: What you get is shit by default, and when it gets shitty AND disfunctional because of a lack of support caused by the fact that your product gets "old" you are supposed to replace it by something else, despite the fact that it will still be able to display images just fine.
Software and a screen shouldn't be in the same package, and if it's done then the execution should be perfect, which is precisely the opposite of what is going on.
Personally I'm a jobless bum but when I get enough money to live on my own my idea is getting one of those non-smart comercial screens and hook it up to a PC built on an ITX case running linux configured to be a media center or something similar.

>>108511301
stuff that takes a gimp user like 5min and some googling takes them like one click with smoothing and antialiasing

>>108510463
how is this compared to simplewall

>>108512468
i have lines in my hosts files that block my pirated adobe products from phoning home

>>108510442
Or just use Krita.

>>108512901
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/105337432/#q105355923

>>108509069
Probably not if it's emulating a motherboard. I doubt these hacks were designed to infect Linux through wine.

>>108510689
Bro just emulate the DS games. Is HV really worth it to play a collection?

>>108510787
SB is genuine slop, Persona just sucks, SMTVV had a demo bypass since launch.

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>>108510689
did you even check

>>108505658
It's just few clicks on your bat files and a reboot. You don't make 70 bucks in that time. Probably not even 7.

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>>108511675
Rustcunts. Always rustcunts.

>>108511937
>>108512012

$ time yt-dlp --version
2026.03.17

real    0m0.236s
user    0m0.196s
sys    0m0.041s

>>108512544
It touches a shitton of files at startup, though.

$ time yt-dlp --version
2026.02.21

real    0m0.282s
user    0m0.255s
sys     0m0.027s

$ vmtouch -qe .local/lib
$ time yt-dlp --version
2026.02.21

real    0m1.414s
user    0m0.414s

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>>108511675
>quarter gig of javascript bloat + quarter gig of python bloat to download a youtube video
yt-dlp is written by hopeless idiots

if the majority of the computing is handled by ffmpeg there is basically no reason to not use python, or something else interpreted. python3 is on most linux distro by default so that isn't a deal breaker either. i would bet that more than 95% of the computing is done by ffmpeg when you download a video.

>>108506072
When I was checking it out it was simply an outdated chatbot, nothing special about it whatsoever. Perhaps it is something they hoped they can ship so that random people would jump on the hype train before realising limitations. Or maybe it was an attempt to shit that purely to enterprise environment. Idk, but it was very meh. One of the most meh and mid pieces of software so far. Which in case of Microslop is actually a huge compliment, but still. Far better tools exist.

>>108506072
I use it because work refuses to pay for Claude

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>>108506072
>How can you own the entire ecosystem and your own integrated tool still blows this hard

>>108506072
It seems like a discount chatgpt. I just disregard it.

>>108506072
Its for companies already locked into Microsoft. Has audit data if you already have Intune or Purview. I can't remember which. So you can see prompt and responses.
It also has a "work" mode that uses your tenant SharePoint and office shit as a makeshift "RAG" AI. I can only imagine how effective that can be. The places I've been were a SharePoint nightmare. So many versions and renames of files and none actually used offices built in versioning.

>>108509125
just make it a webpage

>>108509246
It would be easier to combat abuse if it were mobile only.

>>108509125

is this thread from year 2007? obviously they somehow blocked dataroute so you need to do preowed boobie trap thing

>>108509125
I have an idea for an iPhone virus
>when you try to delete a picture, it instead posts it to social media

>>108510985
Because plastic ball joints are peak planned obsolescence.

jews

>>108511119
Really...?
That's worrying

>>108511119
>t. never heard of powder coat grease
low iq

>>108512680
>that thing sucking up the dirt from the endite house?
>yeah, we put grease on it
genius

thoughts on fujitsu and toshiba?

>>108502845
Currently using a Moto G32 with LineageOS. All of the same benefits as the Redmi Note 10 Pro mentioned above, minus the AMOLED screen, but I only paid around €200 for it at the time.
As for more recent models, there's the Fairphone 6, but their hardware is less competitive for the price.

If Motorola ever adds the SoC of their upcoming GrapheneOS-certified flagship to their midrange models a few years later, those will be the true Thinkpads of smartphones.

>>108512179
Have you tried doing your government business inside a browser, or does your government strictly require an app?

>>108512179
not an issue for me, I don't have any government apps on my phone and my banking app works fine on custom roms

>>108512253
It's that one specific government app that GrapheneOS dev listed on his site.
It's tied to a phone with no browser alternative unfortunately