How do we fix KDE? I used to donate 100 bucks every December but stopped after Nate started working directly under Valve and de-prioritizing anything Valve doesn't need.
>>107682548>How do we fix KDEworks on my machine
>>107682563grim.>>107683501im glad i finnaly left kde, it was a difficult decision but it had to be made. too many problems.>>107688602this.
>>107683501>Plasma 6 has been a total disasterI love Plasma 6.I swear you guys are just making things up.
>>107688745>>107688752>>107688754>>107689739>>107690598Krashes
>the best argument against KDE is a reddit screenshot grim. might donate to them again purely out of spite for footniggers
If you don't save any games, movies, and photos, what do you fill your 500 GB storage with?
>>107683422data about (You) and (((them))).
>>107683422books.node js development.have you ever tried to do node install?500gb is roughly 3 or 4 installs.
>>107685094kek
>>107683422OS and OS updates.
My disk is filled with hdf files containing publicly available satellite data.
I am currently in possession of a Dell Precision 5550 my school gave me and didn't ask for back; this happened 1.5-2 years ago so I forgot I even had it. I would like to use this as a personal laptop to replace my old desktop; however, the BIOS is locked, and it is running heavily restricted Windows, making it practically just a web browser.I have already read a fair bit about how this is difficult but all info regarding actually unlocking it doesn't work--any advice? Is there a reliable way to do this without having to do anything to the BIOS chips? I am fairly technical but currently do not have access to the required tools for soldering/chip flashing. I do not have a USB-C flashdrive, but since I can't even open BIOS boot order due to admin lock, I doubt it would work.Laptop model: Dell Precision 5550Bios Version: 1.22.0BIOS Mode: UEFICPU: i7-10750HGPU: Quadro T2000 (Max-Q Design)RAM: 32GiBShould this be unfeasible/too painful, I am thinking of buying a ThinkPad P53 as an alternative.I can provide more specifics if need be.
>>107684663Wait, Debian is signed to work with the default Microsoft keys that are preloaded? Seems to me you could have that boot until it's to something you have control of and then kexec something else if you really want to.
>>107689440>>>107684663>Wait, Debian is signed to work with the default Microsoft keys that are preloaded? Seems to me you could have that boot until it's to something you have control of and then kexec something else if you really want to.Technically, yes, Debian's shim is signed with Microsoft's 3rd-party UEFI key, meaning it *can* boot under Secure Boot--but only if the firmware still has the Microsoft 3rd-party key "enrolled", which I doubt is the case here since this is specifically locked down.
>>107689303>I am currently using 11GiB ram and 16 GiB swapYou should be arrested for abusing your SSD like that.
>>107690181>>I am currently using 11GiB ram and 16 GiB swap>You should be arrested for abusing your SSD like that.That SSD is written to more in an hour than mine's entire lifespan...
>crtl + f "jamal" 1/3 matches>ctrl + f "tyrone" 1/3 matchesMy work here is done!
Oh my God why is this piece of shit so slow and useless I just want you sort a folder with 10k files by date created and it's already loading for 40 minutes, the same task literally takes 2 seconds on Linux WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING
>>107684736Unironically try changing the view to "details" mode and then sort by date. Is it faster then?There's something retarded with how windows handles image thumbnails when sorting. It's VERY bad.
>>107684736Images? It's loading metadata for every single one, because the date sort column for image folders that's visible default is "date" and not "date modified". Change folder type or add that column. Or WinSetView and never deal with that again.If not images then idk lol
>>107684736>Oh my God why is this piece of shit so slow and uselessSkill issue
>>107684736same on win 10
>>107684736Win10 has the same problemIt's the file previews which fuck it up.Also make sure the folder is not designated to contain videos or specific files, must be general.But 10k is a massive workload to sort.You'd have to split that into more folders.
>Only fucking GNOME supports real fractional scaling on a 4k screen>Is also one of the worst DEsWhat is this bullshit?
>>107690422>Anime background>Having an opinion taken seriously on anything
>>107690422It doesn't support _real_ fractional scaling. What it does is that it renders things at an integer scaling and then downscales the window as a texture, making it blurry as shit. It's implemented like this because gnome devs are also gtk devs so they are fucking retarded and didn't implement fractional scaling in gtk (intentionally). Qt supports fractional scaling properly, including on x11 (and all other operating systems/display servers that it can run on).
>>107690458KDEChad wins again/thread
>>107690458why does kde look like shit on my screen but gnome looks fantastic?
>>107690833its a benq mobiuz btwhttps://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/gaming/ex271u.html
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>>107690537buy those gaming headphones anon enjoy the bass and the explosions and shit
>>107690537It's nice for movies too.
>>107690556I don't like gaming headphones though, they're the worst of both worlds. They have both shit mics, shit audio and are unilaterally built like shit and I don't really play any games that benefit from high base anyway. I was just curious if there is a point at which audio is good enough for all sorts of media you would enjoy outside of music like >>107690573
Why yes I do use squiglink to EQ headphones to sound like other headphones
>>107690537everything sounds bettersurely you do use sound anon
How do we stop AI slop from increasing the price of RAM?
It's bizarre that Americans are okay with footing the bill for this buildout that's mostly going to be used by a bunch of bored thirdies to flood the internet with slop.
>>107690752perfect goyim, we can do literally whatever we want now and the only thing that will change is people thinking its because of "AI" lmao
>>107690758Americans are livid but have 0 say about how American taxes are spent.
Windows 11 could never have a fan base like XP.https://youtube.com/yLxP3V4veJk?si=_h0OewrGN7dvhew6
>>107690083It all depends what the faulty hardware is doing. Firing spurious IRQs, DMAing to the wrong place, or talking over another device on the bus (pre PCIe of course since that's point to point) are almost certain to cause a crash. Simply going into unexpected states can confuse the driver, which may trigger a panic because hardware is not behaving as it should.SATA disconnecting is specifically handled by Linux, as part of SATA hot plug. Even if the board or port don't support hot plug, it will support hot unplug. It just might not recognize it without a reboot if it connects again.You should really want a RAM stick dying to cause a panic, not a reboot. A panic might give some clue why it crashed, a hard reboot usually leaves no traces, but of course the lower RAM count isn't hard to notice. Though if the panic handler tries to write to the dead stick, it'll cause an exception inside the final exception handler, and on x86 that triggers a reset.
>>107690298
>>107690316>You should really want a RAM stick dying to cause a panic, not a reboot.maybei remember it was a reboot but i might be wrongi remember i couldnt find my last session in dmesg logs so maybe thats why i assumed?it could also be that the stick died before ive turned my PC on and then after ive loaded with only 4 Gb of RAM OOM killer just fucking wasted everything on sight or something but that would be a very weird thing to happen
>>107690366It most likely just triggered faults inside of interrupt handlers repeatedly until the CPU reset.
XP looked and felt like it was made for grandmas.Interesting to read ITT that there was criticism for it way back, because I only ever read people creaming over how good it was.Gods, so many things were ugly before like 2006 (winamp, web forums, consumer electronics).
Fellow software engineers, what's your plan for the next 5-10 years?I wasn't worried until Sonnet & Opus 4.5 but it genuinely one shots everything I give it. We went from doing 30 story points (team of 4) to 60 per sprint after the release. The writing is on the wall, software engineering will be the first white collar job to be automated.What do we do afterwards?
>>107690658A bunch of rich lolcows are NOT going to create AGI. I'm sorry to dissapoint any Jeets or out of touch rich people in the thread on that one.
>>107690673Of course.You have nothing to worry about.
>>107678544>consultantnot a real job. You are going to DIE in that STUPID costume.
>>107678494I dropped out of my Comp Sci bachelors in my Junior and enrolled at my local community college for the electrician course.
>>107678657That explains why most of the web looks like generic shit with AI bot content
Will 2026 finally be the year of the RISC desktop?
>>107676454No. 2026 will be the year of not having RAM but no devs being willing to make their garbage apps use less RAM.
>>107689456They did the same thing with PPC -> standard Intel chips zoomzoom.
>>107689639The specific context here is not that it was done. But rather the performance. Rosetta is noted for its performance. This performance derives from hardware support. Microsoft cannot replicate Rosetta because of this.
>>107687500Qualcomm made something of the sort though it isn't as efficient. And even so, Rosetta itself is only so good. Code still runs considerably slower through it.
>>107689903It was always noted for its performance. Their 68k translation layer was so good they took 10 years to fully drop it. This is an area where Apple has demonstrated excellence since before your junkhead was born.
Any version of Windows since 1995 has been more polished, production-ready and user-friendly than any Linux distro ever made. That's obvious to anybody who has installed both of them on the same machine.Are Linux users just lying about their distros being a better experience than a Windows installation?
>>107680393that's literally all gnome issues. install a real DE like KDE
>>107689626>install a real DE like KDEstill buggyBoth KDE and GNOME are going to get BTFO by Google's Linux desktop OS next year.
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>>107690185I'm beginning to think you actually believe this.
>>107681413>No, no it doesn't, you just haven't used it long enough or did enough with your PC to notice. Give it time friend, you'll be doing something important and it'll shit itself in confusion. You'll either go back to Windows or buy a Mac mini.I've used both Windows and Linux for about 15 years now, give or take. I can honestly say that my Windows 11 box (no, 10 LTSC is not an option for me) gives me more trouble than my Linux machines by orders of magnitude. In the Windows 7 years this would be a laughable thought, but Microsoft made it a reality, and we have no reason to believe that things will not get much, much worse with Windows 12+.Windows "just werks" if all you do is play Steam games, but I don't even need Windows for that anymore.
Why doesnt brave take security seriously?
This is what brave would look like if it were a person
lol
i dont see the problem
I don't understand the problem here, Anon.
Libraries > Tinder Edition.Previous Thread: >>107647202>Links:>DALL-E 3https://www.bing.com/images/createhttps://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator>4ohttps://chatgpt.com/https://sora.chatgpt.comhttps://copilot.microsoft.com/>Imagen 4 and Nano Banana (Pro)https://gemini.google.com/apphttps://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fxhttps://labs.google/fx/tools/whiskComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107688377No way it actually works as a jailbreak
If MS decides to randomly cut off access to DALL-E 3 it will effectively be a lost model.
>>107690688Well, at least for a while, it would probably remain available via the dedicated bot on ChatGPT and API. Not sure about the quality of the former, though.
Why are minutes and texts still listed in phone service when everything is data?Why are cellphone networks still a thing and not handled through wireless internet?Why are smartphones still using a different operating system than desktop computers?
probably because the government has the game in a chokehold and likes the current funnel thru which everything passes is them, so they can pass it off to our #1 ally, for strategic reasons, probably
>>107689573No doubt Google and Apple like the existing arrangement too; 30% cut of all revenue through their "Marketplaces" which are monopolies for Android and iOS. Pretty sure this is what Microsoft was trying to replicate on the desktop with Windows 11. I don't think it's possible to setup a new Android or iOS smartphone without a making a Google/Apple account in the process.
>>107689398I own a cell tower, wanna try ?
>>107689834nah thats okay, thanks though
>>107689364>Why are minutes and texts still listed in phone service when everything is data?Because not everything is "data". Not all phones support VoLTE or Vo5g for example.>Why are cellphone networks still a thing and not handled through wireless internet?I don't know how you think this works but your wireless internet (if it ain't Wi-Fi) is using the cellphone network. And should you refer to the non-ip part, then again, not all devices support doing everything over ip. Legacy shit is also the reason a lot of networks still have 2g or something like that running.>Why are smartphones still using a different operating system than desktop computers?Because the operating systems are well adapted for their specific use case and trying to expand one onto another domain entirely is virtually impossible as the "synergy effects" are not sufficient to offset the plethora of downsides this entails.Think of the catastrophe that was the windows phone. The best we can do nowadays is have android pretend it's a desktop os with a mouse and keyboard, but it's just not enough.
>you can sideload apps to this minimal device>you cannot delete themguess that's the mud in mudita
