>>107881902
I appreciate the input. I actually tried that first! I would rather a clean install. But in this unique case, I can't do a clean install. Without wasting your time with an explanation; basically that is impossible in this case. I must make a downgrade happen, hence being at the end of my rope, seeking advice from you folks.

>>107863143
Me, but win 7. Unkillable dinosaur.

>winget
I only recently learned of this feature and it's amazing. One of the main reasons I'd consider moving to Linux. How come Microslop is not spreading awareness of it?

Is there any cleaner way to create a bootable USB than Rufus in 2026?

If I wanted to incorporate Windows updates (KB5074109 specifically) into my ISO, how would I get the .cab file for it?

>>107884238
>Is there any cleaner way to create a bootable USB than Rufus
ventoy

>how would I get the .cab file for it?
scroll down and find the section for catalog:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-13-2026-kb5074109-os-builds-26200-7623-and-26100-7623-3ec427dd-6fc4-4c32-a471-83504dd081cb#id0enbd=catalog

>>107878080
i wonder what that little bump is

>>107878080
yeah I got 20 terabytes of junk to catch up on

>>107878321
Widespread protests against the government. Economy went to the shitter, Israel and the US humiliated them militarly and the government is a defacto shia theocracy (imagine a gerontocracy but muslim).

>>107878080
I have a standard dual band handheld , Uniden scanner (analog one) and SDR. I will probably need to invest in some decent inverter in case SHTF.

>>107878273
They can only jam in sporading conditions and only in specific areas. Keep the car moving and point it towards the other way and you get good signals again. But really that starlink blocking was only temporary, SpaceX restored the starlink back to ~80-90% success rate. The regime hit it hard during the first few hours and flooded the starlink channel bandwidth , then spacex opted for different tactics

>>107882377
>value of human labor
nonsensical phrase. What decreases is the necessary human labor for the purposes of present production requirements.
>How does the average person fare in this new world
This is not a private problem. Either new markets emerge that leverage the AI-assisted human labor force, or wages start decreasing and commodity circulation falters, which leads to a generalized economic crisis. In the second case it's not the average person that fares poorly, it's most people. This is like capitalism 101.

Ngl chatgpt kinda sucks now given how limited it is now and how expensive it is now. 2024 was better than it is now.

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>>107882377
It's not automation. It's much simpler. Supply and demand. There are too many people, so supply goes up. When supply is up, the price goes down.

Stop migration. Stop fighting "demographic crisis". (which is crisis for capitalists and a miracle for the people)

>>107884164
>There are too many people
Too many people for what?

>>107884196
AGI

>>107883467
Why do they need ROPs if raster is the past and RT is the future?

>>107883389
Cope you poor piece of shit. I bought a 5090 right before prices started going crazy. Now I’m set for at least half a decade.

>>107883492
>poor piece of shit.
Linus torvalds is infinitely more rich than you and doesn't buy bloated hardware that will need to be upgraded in 4 years time anyways

>>107883492
well you'll have to ask Nvidia
but it's a contributing factor why the massive gb202 isn't that useful for gamers

>>107883389
The 90 series is meant to be performance over efficiency what do you expect?

do you guys think trackers have a good incentive to leech? i feel like this is especially true for movie trackers because there are so many of them but a lot of torrents have more cross-seeder than genuine leecher seeding what they wanted to download. obviously cross-seeding is good for everyone but i feel like on a lot of trackers getting genuine upload is kind of hard. don‘t ask me what kind of system they should implement though i‘m just here to ask the question. but shouldn‘t trackers try compensating the low user count more by incentivizing leeching?

>>107882289
Spotify has this feature where you can seamlessly switch between devices listening to music and even control the playback from another device while listening to it.

>>107883963
>but shouldn‘t trackers try compensating the low user count more by incentivizing leeching?
What would be the benefit of doing that?
To put it in another way: Why is a low amount of leeching bad for the tracker?

>>107884093
well, low leech = low upload for seeders and thus less buffer to download more

>>107884171
That's what Bonus Points and Freeleech are for

>>107877115
>dead video
NOVIDYA Bumpgate...
At least they did release revised chips unlike AMD's dogshit, but only cause they got fucking sued.
>>107880522
>This was a big issue because nforce 3 boards were VERY popular and allowed you to use very powerful hardware for the time.
Yeah maybe with 939 but that was really supposed to be on NF4 and 754 was limited to some mediocre singlecores with single channel RAM.
Asrock made an NF3 board with a fucking AM3 socket.
Novidya just refused to ship an AGP GART driver for it, or even GPU drivers for Vista for some time. Fuck em.
>>107879407
They were shipping dual core PCs with 1GB back then. 1GB is a bare fucking minimum for NT 6 anything. RAM was rather expensive still at that point in time. By 2009, the same money would get you 4GB.
>>107879445
It was half to do with XP era software being retardedly written and half to do with the feature itself being turned the fuck up too far.

>>107873382
I came here to say this

>>107883059
that pc was about $600 iirc, 2009 was a good time. laptops were super expensive and getting a then-4 year old thinkpad for $150 was a good deal.

>>107880236
>2007
>1gb of ram
only millionaires had this

>>107884123
Oh look, another retarded zoomer who doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.
I spent about 2 grand on a desktop system in 2007, and that thing had 4 gigs of RAM.

>>107880771
Look at all that sperging out, hey man at least I'm not perpetually on /g/ obsessing over what OS someone runs.

>>107880865
You REALLY should take your meds

>>107879454
>things that never happened
You're mentally ill to the highest degree and only cope through projection.

>>107881305
Take your hormones.

>>107849856
Pajeetsoft shill squad. They only want you to remember the current curry/cloud slop. They don't want you realising that your computer could open a folder instantly 20 years ago.

>>107883321
That souNNNNNNNNds a lot like my NNNNNNNNNN key so I uNNNNNNNNNderstaNNNNNNNNd.

>>107883418
dddddiiggggerrrrrrrrrsssssss

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>>107883627
Makes me imagine Kevin Rose wearing a Burger King crown!

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still trying to figure out exactly what i'm going for at this rate, especially with understanding a fresh win11 install after my old win10 computer finally shit the bed, but at least i can finally play my damn steam library

>>107880170
>>107882522
>Looked up what suits and those head things cost just out of curiosity and it's like $5k for a basic furry head. Full suits are like $30k.

How much does it cost to produce a full suit and how much time does it take?

>>107883620
I put in anywhere between $1500 to $3500 in materials depending on the quality, complexity and how tech-heavy it is.
A basic suit is just like a halloween costume essentially, but a full build can have everything from built in fans, water supply (a bladder system), motorised eyes/mouth/ears, speakers, sound effects etc.
Time wise it's anything from a couple weeks for the most basic to 3-4 months for the serious ones. And price matches that. The most expensive one I made and sold went for $11 800 plus shipping.
But pricing depends on the creator. Everyone has their own sources for materials and so on.

And I often have 2-3 suits in the making at the same time since a lot of the basic crafting is the same.

>>107883821
>>107880170
$11800-3500 (materials) = $8300 profit
$8300/(5 days per week x 4 weeks per month x 3 months to make = 60 days) = $138.34 per day, roughly
$138.34/8hrs per day = $17.30 per hour, roughly.
>I make more money on a single fursuit than I made working my old office job 8-10 hours per day for a month.
$8300 profit from above/20 work days a month = $415 per day
$415/8 hours = $51.88 per hour.
I would have stayed with the office.

>>107884036
>$17:30 per hour
That's a dream in my country.

>>107884036
Impressive autism.
Doesn't change the fact that I earn a lot more from making suits than I did working my old office job. Several times more.
>>107884130
This. I made $5:72/hour at my last job. Which is pretty average in my region.

>>107880977
>SDDM (moved over to LightDM for the greeter)
lightdm + slick-greeter looks better IMO
>Plasma
>On Gentoo
Jesus, I'm not that insane to compile all those Qt apps, but then again I accidentally recompiled gcc on my first gentoo install because I messed with some use flags. Also are you going to use X11 or Wayland for Plasma?
Anyway, good luck anon.

>>107880977
>able to get to the login screen
Is your user in the input group? One time, I forgot, and couldn't get past the DM's login screen until I fixed it. Autologin still worked fine tho.

Damn bro. Only took me like 10 minutes to setup Arch with 'archinstall'.

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>>107882729
Demoralization thread.

>>107882755
Fpbp

>>107882755
>being pragmatic means you don't have morals
thank you for weighing in, sharty

>>107883831
>using chatgpt instead of gemini or claude
ngmi

>>107883968
Claude is complete ass for general purpose questions. Anthropic's sole focus has been coding, and they have been leapfrogged by everyone on everything else.
Gemini is great but it doesn't yet have memory on the free tier

haha

>>107883831
Conversations can be private from ads but openai can still use them to give you targeted ads

>>107883831
I'm deleting all my conversations as we speak

The "magic" has worn off, investors are getting cold feet and want to see results.
So now they're frantically trying to drag it out at least past the mid-terms.

>>107883383
it's over. no more two more weeks. AI will be forgotten. nothing ever happens

It's a fucking marketing ploy. Stop biting the bait from these retarded overpaid marketers.

>>107883383
>we'll make agi from a next word predictor script that crawls a very big array of arrays
>like really really super big tho
>also i cant do it unless you give me 99 heptillian dollars
Imagine believing this.

>>107883383
Don't listen to le ycoombinator parasites and "rationalist" bugmen

>>107883738
I can understand that. I still dual boot for gaming and find myself using w10 IoT LTSC / enjoying it most of the time. I do think gnome's workflow is amazing and unmatched in the PC space for my personal work, but Linux is barely ready for desktop. I'd say it's best function currently is what it already is for most that aren't using it as a server- a steam deck type thing or a hobby. I mainly use Linux but that's a preference of enjoying tinkering and hating Microsoft.

>>107880620
I've used Pop for years and have never had an issue. It's solid despite what the distro warriors and windows skills here say.
Your steam saves are cloud based. For games that use local saves you should back them up on a thumb drive.
Once you install you'll not need to do much at all to start gaming again.
One thing you'll want to install is ProtonQT to get older versions of Proton for games that need it.
Otherwise, as I said, it's a solid plug and play distro.

>>107883771
Sounds nice, gonna move to pop tonight. Cosmic looks interesting

>>107880620
stay with mint, distrohopping is for idiots

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>>107883700
>says "you're removing essential packages"
>accepts
>removes essential packages

Well, no shit, sherlock.

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love my g502 proteus core. no issues with it at all. love hyperscroll.
bought a superlight when it came out for more portable use. piece of shit started doubleclicking after a year of minimal use. $150 fuckin mouse. finally swapped the switches out and now it feels awesome.

and then don't get me started on their keyboards.
i barely use the arrow keys and they're the most worn keys on the keyboard...wtf
i don't think i can go back to logitech. cost doesn't match the quality. hyperscroll is so useful though. shame they have it patented.

>>107855340
I wish there was a WIDE, WIDE, WIDE, WIDE AS FUCK mouse. Hate the little skinny shits.

Currently using a G600. It's alright.

>>107882878
my local net cafe used those for over a decade up until 2013. playing counter-strike on their setup was mind blowing compared to home where at first i played with some garbage laser mouse and a 60hz flat panel compared to the viewsonic CRTS and IMOs in the internet cafe

>>107855401
>lighter race cars = better
depends *a lot*

>>107855340
I need tips on how to fix the rubber thumb padding. Mine is shredding itself up