HANDSOME floppies!
>>107820975>>107820984Nice
>>107794874lol
>>107820975The grungy one looks cool
>>107812221Why can't machines look like this now?
someone post the 1.5 MB of feels gif
Were CRTs really that much better than the displays of today?>tfw Björk knows more about technology than /g/https://youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y
>>107825943Honestly 13 inch is pretty for your eyes.19-21 inch is good enough for a single person, 27-32 for 2-3 i guessI say that while having both type, and i can guarantee you that watching a movie on a smaller screen that flicker will give you headache meanwhile you are pain/eye strain free on an OLED ...
>>107825939CRT motion is dependent on the phosphor persistence TVYou can find consumer CRT TVs with 1ms persistence and also ones with 5ms persistence(roughly 200fps equivalent motion)Most PC CRT monitors from late 90s were 1ms(to combat burnin)Flicker was worse in lower refresh rates depending on how short the persistence was, so it was a trade-off between better motion and less flicker. But the public at large never was in the know about these things back then.
>>107826003>and i can guarantee you that watching a movie on a smaller screen that flicker will give you headacheNah, never was a problemI watched movies on a 50hz PAL 20 inch CRT when I was a kidWhen we used to see those blacks bars we used to say ''it's kino time'' Most people watched at a reasonable differenceBut many TV sets had slower phosphors(for example many NTSC tvs had 4ms phosphor and PAL TVs had 5ms phosphor) so the flicker wasn't that bad on thoseWhat I was getting at was there was a time when TV shows were filmed with standard 13-20 inch 4:3 CRTs in mindThat was a simple comfy experience which is now dead and unfortunately never coming back for those of us who have fond memories of those days Those days were over when you could no longer read the text on Dead Rising on CRTs because they made the text too small
>>107826003>>107826068*black bars*reasonable distance
>>107825321No but it is true that old games made use of the limitations to create effects that look cool on those screens but like like ass on LCD/OLED/etc or actually any high resolution CRT, e.g. Believable gradients via dithering, "alpha channel" via intermittent grid masking and many others.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
windows goyim were forced to upgrade to 11
>>107824336>usecaseAMD X3D and standard iGPU (7700X for example) cant handle anything more than basic output for trouble shootingIntel UHD 770 on 14th gen craps the bed on 4k videosSo you need a dedicated GPU if you just want to see 4k video or high fidelity 2k movies
>>107824286There's tons of rumors that the prices are going to get crypto-hype levels of retarded plus a lot of people going 1000 series -> 3000 series -> 5000 series.The amd cards are all like 100 bucks cheaper for the same or maarginally better raw computing power, but worse in every other regard, so people are still buying Nvidia unless they are broke.
unavailability rule?
>>107824286>Blackwellthat's mainly a data center/generative ai gpu, the same one that nvdia puts in gdx spark. that image seems to be from nvdia, so that last graph is probably a combination of all markets, whereas i'm, guessing the first one specifically refers to consumer grade hardware.
>>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.
I bought a T14s off BestBuy and tried to reinstall windows and found out I need an AstraZeneca work email to access the computer and install windows as I cannot do a offline install.Any solutions other than a refund or trying to get it unlisted with microsoft autopilot?
>>107825560Get hired at AstraZeneca maybe.
>>107825173if you care about these things, get a t14
>>107825712probably will even though I wanted to go as small as possibleand if I drop the touch screen I am not if the intel or amd model would be better (i5-1145G7 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U)
>>107826018gen 4 or below: amd, at least that's what I heardgen 5 or above could be differentI think the t14 is 3 cm wider than the x13, but it has a full-size keyboard, while the x13 has a smaller one. If you want to go small, why do you need an ethernet port anyway? at home/work you have a docking station and otherwise you can still use an adapter
>user interface cleaner and more usable than literally any modern linux distroGenuinely how is this possible?
>>107825372but what does fooly cooly mean?
>>107825428cooly that is fooly? a cool fool? i might as well get fooly cooly with haruko if thats what it means
i know for sure that >>107818491 wants to get all fooly cooly with me
>>107821330apparently zoomers consist solely of gen alphas now. why are millennials like this?
>>107822107bottom right of pic
Some I'm thinking of:>Monitor panels>Fiber optics>Radio receivers and transmitters>LEDs>Batteries>Plastic, glass, paper, rubber, silicon>Capacitors, transformers, switches>Solar panels>Shipping containers>Fertilizer>WaterIt would be pretty weird if in 2026 we got a new global supply chain issue huh
>>107824605good morning, no sorry silver is too late to buy in now, let's find the next best thing that will 10x
>>107824623>muh too lateyour brain operates too late if you're looking for quick pump and dump schemes where you offload your thinking onto othersjust say you're poor bro
>>107824643good morning, no sorry not buying your bags now
>>107824605>>107824623>>107824643>>107824674>there are zero good investments on the planetit must suck to have zero financial education
>>107824596food and housingthere is no need for poors to stink up the planet anymore
Why did /g/ stop being anti-systemd?
>>107825214Pulseaudio was better than using only ALSA. But ever since pipewire was released I don't see any reason to stick to pulseaudio, other than if you are using a 5 year old stable distro, without it in the repos.Pipewire has it's own protocol, and supports both pulseaudio and jack sources. One feature I feature I can't live without is the way you can just connect audio inputs and outputs with programs like qjackctl.
Who cares about a fucking init system, like come on. I just use the easiest linux distro (Fedora) to watch anime, make stuff, do my job and run my gaymes inside a linux vm. I couldn't care less if Fedora used systemd, SysVinit, s6 etc.>insert the erotic games 2ch post dot jpeg
>>107825214i remember pulseaudio having issues. pipewire for me has had none.also linux had issues liek fuckin crazy before systemd. anti systemd posters are the arch linux fatso meme. i dont want to spend tens of hours a week configuring my distro i just want the shit to work
neets don't like it when things actually work and don't need manual tinkering because now they're lost and don't know what to do
>>107817360It works but it does too much. If systemd was just an init system + service manager, I'd probably use it. It's admittedly pretty good at that. But overall systemd is a big suite of software haphazardly thrown together in the same git repo for questionable reasons. Lots of components should really be totally separate programs and not tightly within the systemd monolith (inb4 someone says it has a gazillion binaries so of course it's modular).
>first worlders get a C&D letter for pirating moviesLMAOOO
>>107824662hehehehe
>>107825082Ain't gonna lie chief, the whole world is owned by satanic corporations. If you live somewhere where that is not the case, it's because it's a backwards shithole not worth the investment.
amerimutts and yuropoor BTFO. feels good not to live in a nanny state.
>>107825358You can be all cynical and bitter you want but no mutt I live in a country where our antitrust laws haven't yet been effictively erased by decades of anti-consumer lobbying, public outcry often results in tangible outcomes not just aggresive refusal from my government like in the US
I'd pay for a streaming service if it could bring me the same quality as what I'm torrenting, which is high bitrate high resolution shows. I don't particularly enjoy having to seed shit to inflate my ratio so I don't get kicked out of platform.
What are some good GTK themes? What do you use?
Theme GTK? Bro you're not supposed to do that. Adwaita is the best theme, you voted for this
>>107825763
>>107825763Default-dark.css
>>107825763Breeze-GTK
>>107825763arc-dark, came with the distro and it's good enough
that /g/ doesn't really know about but are a rabbit hole of soul worth checking out.for me , the Acorn Archimedes, the Grandfather of ARM and Risc, a real powerhouse of its day that nobody could afford ($8000 in todays money)what you got /g/?
Back in 1994 I saw one of these sons of bitches in a national TV studio where I was doing an internship. It was a huge deal for me as this was in bumfuck Eastern Europe a little while after my country kicked out the commie retards. Everyone and everything was poor as fuck so seeing one of these made my eyes water and made me feel like we're all gonna make it. The experience was surreal. The IT guys let me see a couple of demos, seeing IRIX do its thing live was the experience that single-handedly absolutely cemented my life's trajectory in dealing with IT, programming, sysadmin stuff. Fuck I'm old. Fuck I miss IRIX. Too bad the only thing truly close to what IRIX was back then is MacOS.
>>107824686what am I looking at here?
>>107824719A Silicon Graphics Indigo. They were true beasts in their time. They ran IRIX which was a SysV UNIX variant. They specialised in graphics and pioneered many technologies like IRIS GL which later became OpenGL. They were immensely expensive, which is why the experience was so surreal to me.
>>107824686>Too bad the only thing truly close to what IRIX was back then is MacOS.Have you ever looked at Haiku? I've always thought it seemed quite similar. macOS doesn't really have much in common with IRIX aside from being a commercial Unix(-like).
>>107825731I think they’re quite similar both functional, being proprietary Unix that is tightly coupled and suited for the hardware it runs in, but also philosophically with aesthetic coherence and the uses it’s made for. They’re both great at 3D art, scientific visualisation, development, media production etc. at least that’s my reasoning. That said irix was way more open and definitely assumed experienced admins instead of dumdum influencers and niggers which is why I think it’s a shame Mac is the only premium Unix available.
>mint is shit with the slowest file manager known to man>zorinOS is guhnome based and slow as hell>debian is shit and none of the desktops are good>you got KDE, I guess, but theres no really a clean minimal distro besides kubuntu>kubuntu is garbage with snap infestation which makes it unusable.So what the fuck do I use in linux? Theres literally no optionsWhy cant someone make a simple XFCE based distro with bazaar with some theme linux xubuntu but based on debian
>>107825024>Cant use fedora it has no codecs and retarded flatpak repos that break on fresh installHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>107824868install windows 7reject the updoot rot culture
>>107825989install end of life software with critical vulnerabilities in themreject modernity
>>107824868op tyou are a fuckin dumbasstheres a distro you should try called LFN. its more along your experience and ability.
>>107825515Honestly kubuntu and ubuntu are not bad.Kubuntu has snaps but they arent installed by default in discover at least in the normal install of kubuntu and you can easily just use flathub with one click.Dont know about xubuntu or the other flavors but even so the ubuntu app store on the official ubuntu flavor is not that bad. It loads quite quickly and the app store is fast compared to guhnome shit software store. Snaps arent that bad firefox loads reasonably well on ubuntu 25.10 basically like a flatpak.Worst distro is probably fedora or arch I dont even think they have an option for nvidia drivers and the codecs are hard to install and shouldnt even be a thing to begin with.
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>>107821773try turning off the compositor, deb+xfce is the best.>>107821673nice, where did you take that picture? classical or modern?
>>107821773Speaking of x11, I heard they're making some new alternatives for x11 and Wayland. Some weird names I can't remember.
>>107821673This rice is an example of how sometimes less is more
>>107822705The statue is at the Met in NYC, the pier is just north of San Diego. I believe the statue is a classical, perhaps a restoration.
Made thing a bit more compactI really need to buy a higher res monitor
Microslop engages full Izaat mode>https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-denies-rebranding-office-apps-to-copilot/Microsoft denies rebranding Office apps to CopilotFor the past few days, there has been an uproar on social media from infuriated users claiming that Microsoft has rebranded its iconic Office apps to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This allegation stemmed from some people noticing certain wording on Microsoft's Office website, which led them to believe that this was a recent branding change. Microsoft has now categorically denied these claims of rebranding its popular Office apps.Basically, social media users, particularly on X (formerly Twitter), noticed that the Office website had the following marketing blurb: "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot."This led to massive backlash in online spheres, claiming that Microsoft is once again trying to shove Copilot down the throats of its customers by eliminating the iconic Office brand.In a statement to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft 365's Senior Director explained that this is not the case at all, and there has been no recent rebranding of the Office apps:We've not made any recent naming changes to our Office apps. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — the office apps within the Microsoft 365 suite productivity suite — remain unchanged. In November 2022, we renamed only the Office 'hub' app for web and mobile to the Microsoft 365 app. In January 2025, we updated it to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to reflect its role in bringing Copilot and Microsoft 365 productivity experiences together in one place.
>>107817124Doesn't "Office" get renamed every 5 years or so?
>>107817626>inflict waste pain inbreeding and suffering on others because it pleases the 4D hindu demons to reward you in the material life while collecting your soul in the immaterialSounds like a fun plot for a video game.
>>107824121you can travel to india and live the real experience
>>107817620Kek
>>107817124> microslop> gaslighting
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/elon-musk-s-grok-ai-blocked-in-indonesia-over-sexualized-contentGrok_ai_sisters not like this...
>>107822781> think of the childrenevery fucking time. this is how power is harnessed every time. they say it's about lewd content generation, but in reality it's about controlling the message and content people are allowed to see. wouldn't want you to have wrong think now would we?
>>107825847meanwhile your average goy will believe it and say it is okay
looking forward gork police bots deployed in america and occasionally massacring people because someone at xai made an oopsie
>>107824896Like this
>>107826023wtf, didn't know even oracle got together with ai
Let's be real here, x86 will be forgotten in 10 years.
Fex makes it obsolete.
give it 10-15 years and lets hope that arm machines will stay as open as they are right now (bootloader unlocking and shit). actually, give it another 30 years and riscv will be the hot new thing
>>107823946>x86 will be forgotten in 10 years.Said Andrew Tanenbaum in 1992. Here we are in 2026 still using it, albeit the 64 bit extension.Alternatives will probably come, maybe even from Chinese companies. Maybe cheap laptops will transition, as they already have started to. But I think desktops and workstations will continue to use some sort of x86 processors.
>>107823946> let's be realyou are retarded. x86 has been around for over 40 years. do you think there is a company out there that is a) going to rewrite all the microcode required to run anything and b) obsolete all software made from the last 40 years and c) even with emulation nobody is going to want to run the newfangled buggy shit because it's going to be a fucking mess. you don't understand how many bugs have been ironed out in the last 40 years. that is the only reason your computer is stable and not crashing every 20 minutes. good luck with your newfangled shit.
>>107823974>These things never happen as fast as people want.it literally fucking used to happen this fast just 20 years ago.
