>>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.
>>107858250yeah, I meant the wwan slot. fine, no 2nd ssd I guess
can this run PS2 emulators or is there something better/cheaper?I mainly need a cheap windows laptop to run some windows software that doesn't exist on other platforms and isnt emulatable, but ps2 emulation would be nice.
>>107859421Not as-is, but if you upgrade it to a quad-core (for around 30€) it should be fine
>>107859421meddl loide!
What was the last great generation of thinkpads?My wife's X390 has way better keyboard/buttons than my X13 Gen2.
So is this the true endgame distro or what?
>>107856384I'm using it for more than a decade now.The only thing I'm missing is more optimized packages: x86_64_v3, LTO, PBO would be great.
>>107856384Define "Endgame"
the package manager is written in Rust.
>>107856384It's great. It has a ton of packages compared with Arch's official repository and it's easy to build things from source if needed. I don't need their community so it's not a problem. Services are also simple enough for LLMs to make for you from systemd service information. I've been on it for nearly a decade with almost zero issues. It's the "endgame" for me.>>107858742No it isn't
>>107856638>white communistsjust call them trannies, bro
How come my LED light bulb dies after turning on 50k times but the LED on a LAN port blinks 5 times per second for 30 years?
>>107855625>poltarddoesn't even mean anything anymoreeveryone hates trannies, EVERYONEit's universalthey're repugnant and disgusting
>>107855589It's not overdriven and it never gets hot.One of the big problems with LED bulbs is precisely that they are bulbs, the legacy form factor is unsuited for the technology. You should upgrade your lamps if possible - new ceiling lamps for LEDs have an opening above the bulb for ventilation.
>>107855589Manufacturer logic is driving LEDs 5x harder for an extra 10% light output, instead of just adding another few LEDs and running everything cool and efficient.There's no reason modern LED bulbs couldn't last decades other than greed.
>>107855899photons also don't experience distance.for a photon, there is no here nor there at all, its emission, existence, and absorption is exactly the same moment.and god is light.
>>107855653The COVID joke is really the cherry on top.
how AI loves to stroke your ego for no reason at all?>does X sometimes cause Y?AI:>You've just made a fundamental discovery
>>107856003yes and I hate that, it makes it even more unreliable
I would enjoy AI more if it called me a fucking retard when I ask it stupid questions
It talks like ideal NPC drone worker when speaking to its manager, because that's what it is designed to be.If you ever decide to get employed, remember, this is what managers like, and they will never like you.
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>>107856003>Great question!
They literally know everything from your>spending habits>internet history>where you go and what you do with your time>who are your close contacts>your fetishes and DesiresThey don't need to blackmail you with pizza they know your whole personality and what makes you tick. They know you more than you know yourself.Let's just hope they have mercy on us. They won anons and we lost they own us by balls.
>>107856899No they don't. I mean, they've collected the information that they could use to figure it out if you became a person of interest, but they don't just "know" anything. Do you have any idea how much information our intelligence apparatus has to process? They don't care about you, they don't know you exist, you are not a victim of anything. You weigh 400lb and have a large CP collection on your Arch Linux install, and as a result you are understandably paranoid.
>>107856899good. they know i never did anything wrong or illegal so I'm probably whitelisted even if someone plants something
>>107857622I have spilled milk for your sisters
>>107856938White people
>>107856899>>spending habitsFood and tobacco. >>internet historyYoutube, 4chan, Twitch. >>where you go and what you do with your timeI don't go anywhere. Haven't left my apartment in several months. >>who are your close contactsNo friends or family. Zero contacts. >>your fetishes and DesiresI like lesbian and solo women. Sometimes chubby milfs riding giant dildos. Now what?
Please stop enticing China with advanced technologies. They need to be able to domestically refine what they have if we are to have any cheap alternatives.
>>107859604That's my point. i'm simply calling for a total embargo on our machine tools, five axis cnc machines, anything to do with litho and microchips and other western magic. In about five years we'll have affordable things.
>>107859546H200 chip couldn't even run Minecraft. How would Xi play games on it?
>>107859622still considered magic to chinese semi industry
>>107859618Does China even buy w*stoid machine tools? Surely they just manufacture their own at this point.
>>107859664The West still collectively controls the tooling and processes, in other words they're the gatekeepers of the most bleeding edge tech (see Zeiss mirrors).
Since there is no good 4chan app on iOS, I decided to try and vibe code one using chatgpt. And boy did it deliver lolSpent couple of hours and now I have an app that can browse posts and download media (pretty much 99% of my use case).As an AI skeptic, I'm amazed ngl
>>107859724haven't heard about p.4chan.org before but the app performs better desu, much faster and better media vieweralso why only 2 rows for catalog?? same goes for chance, it's just retarded you can't configure that
>>107859807>also why only 2 rows for catalog?? same goes for chance, it's just retarded you can't configure thatyou can co figure it, the dev just has poor taste and can't come up with good defaults
>>107859202can it make posts?
>>107859832thanks anon, maybe the problem is me after all, I'll spare some time to figure out the cluster fuck of a settings page and maybe come up with something usable
>>107859859nah, I doubt I would be able to vibe code it, maybe will try later. For now it's just reading 4chan, viewing and downloading media, that's pretty all I need
You DID buy a 50 series GPU before the massive price hikes, right anon?
>>107857816I'm not a gaymer, so no.
>>107859106Yeah but why? I have 30 years worth of games. This 200 FPS 8K shit is brain dead. Muh marvel movie snorefest game with the lootbox that makes you a full homosexual or something?I can't help but feel 99% of the people that DO use them are sad sacks trying to grift onn youtube and think they need to overedit video in 4K because somehow they will get likes and subscibes if people can see their zits more easily and becaus ethey are retarded and are basically tech illiterates they just buy thing that is expensive becaus eother retards on youtube said so.I fucking hate IT work now but I actually had a recuiter call me last week truing to hardsell me some cunty contract and you know what it was? Some 1000+ staffed company that wanted to get rid of office 365 and go back to office 2010 via RDS becaus etheir CEO had thrown a rage fit and fired their admin because all their excel and SQL garbage had stopped working again. Its not just the consumer end that is fucking pointless in the last decade you know.
>>107859049>>107859078>i don't enjoy modern games therefore no one else can eitherYou say you don't care about playing new games on high settings and I'm happy for you but pretending that you don't understand why other people would just makes you look like an idiot. If you're content playing 10 year old games and have no use for high end hardware then that's fine but writing multiple novels of pure seethe in this thread over the choices other people make is bizarre.I'm sorry you've lost the ability to find enjoyment in new things.
>>107857816I bought a 5060 ti 16gb for a PC that I'm building, going from having to work with a 1060 ti to that feels like a dream
>>107859169guess you won't be playing Cunnymata then, anon. Or maybe you'll watch a playthrough on Youtube?
Frutiger Aero
>>107847634>things must be named the moment they pop into existence or else they're made up. do NOT, and I mean DO NOT EVER name something retroactively
>>107857595Np m8, somebody once shared them with me, and now I share them with you. Enjoy.
Home...
>>107857966I dub thee homosexual
>>107857934He's right. Even a lot of OEM PCs were struggling with Vista's Aero effects. Vista had several others issues too so good chunk of people stayed in XP.
>I pay 20 dollars a month to generate thumbnail imagesIs this guy alright in the head or just straight up lying to cover up his ERP addiction?
>>107858389it would cost way more to commission an artist to make themthat said, of course he's gooning to AI but he can't just say that out loud
post this shit again, clearly we didn't saw and understood the value of this amazing topic from the first time
>>107858389Are OpenAI really that insolvent to the point they're cheating their paying customers by giving them images that are half-way through their generation steps?What the fuck are those glaring artefacts?
If you want a tablet and also want to draw, should you get an iPad or a Samsung tablet?
>>107829270>subscription shitno thanks, procreate is fine and a 1 time purchase. I own CSP on PC too and its unusable for illustration.
>>107854713I used apple when I was younger but I could barely do anything with it. It felt like having permanent child locks in place. I can actually download whatever I want on android, so I'm never going back to apple. Of course google's gonna be stupid and try to ruin APKs, but I have a feeling people will find a way to get around that soon enough. And even if not, android still has more freedom in that you can download mp3s/flacs without having to do a 20 step process to get itunes to recognize it first.
>>107828973Does anyone know of any Android tablet that still comes with Android Auto enabled? Apparently Samsung stopped support for it.A tablet data plan is just $15/mo and I always like keeping a tablet in my car. How else am I going to watch top gear compilations on YouTube while driving on the interstate AND have some helpful navigation on my car's screen?
there is no equivalent to macsmacs have:>soldered SSD/RAM/WLANdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when pajeetOS runs out of RAM it swapfile rapes the SSD to death within 3 yearsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when the SSD dies it bricks your entire currybook because the EFI is stored on thesoldered SSD to save $0.05 on a dedicated chipdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>components serial numbered and tied to the motherboard to prevent repair and replacement (including battery)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>riveted keyboard that requires total destruction of the chassis to replacedoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>flexgate cables that are so brittle they crack from opening your screen past 90 degrees more than 2 dozen timesdoesnt exist on 99% of PCsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107858359Can't you do that with just your car's tablet?
Why is globohomo pushing this to be industry standard so hard? What's hidden in it
>>107859519>>despite everything, still has memory bugs and is therefore worthlessYeah, and modern medicine is also worthless because luckily one day some fentnigger will run you over after passing out in his car while speeding, thank God the doctor will be able to save the nigger but not you.
>>107859158>spending 25% less time in code review,aka no one understands it
>>107859092>Why is globohomo pushing this to be industry standard so hard? What's hidden in itThey were pushing C and C++ to replace everything. Rust came from the programmers themselves. C and C++ are like eating shit. Rust is like eating a steak. They'll never go back to C or C++ after that.
>>107859799Some of us who aren't underage K&R babyducks also remember the shitshow that was writing and compiling C code before Stallman said enough is enough and wrote a proper C compiler.Yes, the same one whose team recently said enough is enough and rewrote it in C++. Now they're working on Rust frontend and guess what comes after that.
>>107859519Imagine living under a rock.
>upgrade to new 4k monitor>hdmi only>no more hdmi to vga adapter needed for gpu>nice>after a few weeks>monitor goes blank>refuses to wake from sleep>figure something wrong with computer>force shutdown>happens again>more force shutdowns>one time happened while i was watching something>come back to blank screen, but video is still playing>replug hdmi>screen comes backComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107855609There's no such thing as a 4k display with only HDMI. Why do you insist on lying on 4chan? What do you get out of it?
>>107857046>4k display with only HDMItelevisions
>>107855609anything that doesn't have DP or DP over USB-C is just asking for this exact thing to happen
>>107855677>niggerliciousi miss himbut yeah op is a cucked faggot
>>107857046Not op but xer probably bought a tv and used it as a monitor
What are you working on, /g/?Previous: >>107817026
>>107856855You have absolute copyright on every code you write. You can put it under any license you want.
>>107859541Not them, but couldn't writing something in a language that someone else has constructed be considered derivative work, and therefore be bound by the license of that language? Theoretically?
>>107859676Programming language is an abstract idea, you can't copyright it.You can copyright a compiler and you can for example make users sign an EULA, but that can only grant them some license to the code you feed into that compiler or limit who you can license the artifacts of compilation to, but if you just open random editor and write code for some language there is nothing the authors of language can do to limit what you can do with the code itself.
>>107859743>is an abstract ideaSo is every creative work, if you want to be reductive about it. Yet you can still copyright a novel or a song. I don't see those being any less abstract ideas than specific combinations of symbols, rules and grammars that make a programming language.
>>107859780https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%E2%80%93expression_distinction
>be me>working at local county government as software dev about a decade ago>we have a jeet working on the team as well for unknown reasons>the jeet leaves and I'm assigned with modernizing an application he wrote, and converting it from PHP to C#>app is for tracking how the county commissioners vote on approving/rejecting contracts, should only need to track if they're approved, denied, or still pending a decision>instead of just counting if two of the three county commissioners have voted to appprove, he created the most convoluted calculation system I have ever seen>a vote to approve is 1, a vote to reject is 4, abstaining from a vote is 13, being absent for a vote is 40>if you were paying attention, each number is the previous number times 3 plus 1>jeet does this because he can uniquely identify what each vote is even after turning them into numbers>almost brilliant in a retard savant way, he found a way to not have to learn what an enum is>the PHP code then has the most complicated spider web of ifs and else ifs I've ever seen, calculating if the contract is approved or not>I turn his 1000+ line of nonsense into 12 lines of C#>mfwShare your horror stories, bonus points if they involve jeets shitting out unmaintainable spaghetti code
>department has to fill out these Excel reports to track metric adjustments>these workbooks act as a data source for a metrics tracker dashboard>jeet manager decides to migrate from network directory to cloud storage for some reason>suddenly we have several jeets opening the Excel reports at the same time and uploading different versions>Ops flip the fuck out because metrics are a fucking mess>propose we either move back to a network directory or adopt SharePoint>"noo saar directory is deprecated you must think outside box for innovation" >wut>their brilliant solution is to have people announce on Slack when they're working on a report>now we have jeets opening Excel reports, creating spam on Slack every time they open a report AND overwriting reports because no one bothers to check if someone else is working on a given file>have no say on the matter because my org is jeeted all the way up>relegated to a small American team within a Indian organization within an American company
>>107834563>File: 1764036632466394.jpgWhat *does* employment get you in such a society? Hookers?
>>107859563Not that it makes it much better, but it's actually Angular. I think JavaScript frameworks are a necessary evil in web dev since they provide some barriers to keep retards caged in and less able to fuck shit up. To continue about that guy, for months I was fuming with his code and how it was bad, but the scrum master/full stack guy who was the one mostly delegating and keeping things on track hadn't yet experienced the horror. Eventually he started to be affected by it and understood my whining and they've made steps to try and get his code up to a higher standard. It's still not and I'm extra tough on his PRs, but it's better.
>>107798202im in an unclass lab, but it's cleared work where you need a TS and i actually have a jeet on my team believe it or not. he's about to get cut though because he wont shut the fuck up about AI and keeps playing on his phone when there's work to do. older guy, heavy accent, lived in india the whole first half of his life. they started talking about moving him off the team and he started rifling out his resume to random people who have no hiring say or any power whatsoever. keeps talking about connections he's making there. i'm his lead and i literally cant reign him in he's not manageable and he wont stop sperging. he has a chip on his shoulder about not being in a lead or architect position but there's no way he can communicate well enough to ever do that, especially in america.
>>107859434As a Millennial, I feel that Gen X, people 5 to 15 years older than me are the ones that really have the deepest understanding of the systems, actually.I agree that Zoomers grown on smartphones and apps have usually basically zero understanding of the whole system. Can be good juniors and be very good at developments with smaller scopes.
