Hello everyone, I have an old desktop PC sitting right there doing nothing. I'm trying to give it a reason to exist and evaluating the idea to install Windows 7 on it.So, can you use Windows 7 in these days? How much do you have to debloat it and uninstall things? And, more important, there's a way to not have it becoming a SECURITY NIGHTMARE?
>>107654472It's even worse when open source devs cite Microsoft's end of support as their excuse for not supporting Windows 7.
>>107669045This is lame as shit. Win32 has done everything you need for many versions now.Recently things dropped it over GetTempPath2(). The only difference between GetTempPath() and GetTempPath2() is if you are running as SYSTEM, aka fucking nobody because that is one level above Admin that normal programs can't run as without hacks. Gotta use the latest API though, can't be seen using OLD shit.
>>107668383tranny's rope too loose
>>107647565Windows hasn't changed much since Vista.
>>107669356Probably not, it's everything around it that's changed, that's why we updoot.
what is the least addictive social media?
>>107667573For you - none, you don't have social life.
>>107667606Imageboards are harder to get addicted to, but once you do, I also think they're way harder to let go of. Once you're browsing boards daily, you feel like you have to be there every day, in case something interesting happens.
>>1076675734chan. I can quit anytime I want
>>107668971And yet you're still here, curious.
>>107667606>>107668971If 4chan is social media, like this post and follow me.
and enjoy freedom
>>107670093Usecase for buying new hardware?
>>107670006>and enjoy freedomFreedom of what? To spend hours doing what could be done in minutes on Windows?
I didn't know Parabola was still around, that used to be shilled hard here like 10 years ago or whatever. I don't use /g/'s flavor of the month distros. Fedora Plasma is my comfy place.
>>107670006I'm waiting for hyperbola to release their BSD, it seems promising
>>107670069You could use NixOS without blobs and nonfree software by assigning variables related to that.
>tim apple gives you $1,000.000 to make a distro that ACTUALLY just works and can at least attempt to match macOSwhat do?
>>107659047get a million blowjobs from your mom
>>107659047>make a distro that ACTUALLY just worksimpossible> can at least attempt to match macOSdownload literally any distro
>>107659047elementary OS exists and seem to be the only one that has actual HIG and actual coherent designall the other DEs are made by people that have no clue and just do random shit
>>107659047Easy: make my distro support Mac hardware exclusively.
>>107659047>match macOSDon't need that, we have ai now.
I don't get it. Just let me click to run the installer. Fucking hippies
>>107667750this is because the linux foundation never bothered to make their own sanctioned distro with the blessing of linus torvalds.Notice how the BSDs don't have this issue?That is cause these distros aren't linux as an OS but seperate OSes all doing their own clown shoe thing that just so happen to have the linux kernel.The only saving grace to this hell hole will be steamOS since valve has pretty much already perfected package distribution unlike the zoo of most distros.Theres a reason linux games don't release as snap,flatpaks or debs.. it's cause steam has already solved tthe issue and those are imperfect solutions. Hell even libre applications that aren't games are on steam like krita and blender.At some point all linux apps will be steam apps. All because the macfag incharge of the linux foundation was too busy sucking corporate cock instead of helping fix linux.
>>107651731such a RETARDED idea that it's still in use to this day and is the only way to install software in 2025 without signing in to some kind of (((account)))>>107653305>Just bundle 10GB of dependencies with your app, bro!>>107656623Yeah, except when it doesn't work (which is most of the time) you get some retarded C/C++ compiler error because someone put -Werror into the build flags and then you have to go edit it.>>107665878unix and C are tightly interconnected because the inventor of Unix also invented C in order to write Unix.>>107655587Works until you need to set file associations or other things in the registry. To be fair about 60% of apps can be made portable (on Windows. not on Linux though lmao)>>107661098>Want to install a program>Linux tranny comes out of the woodwork and tells you to do unpaid repo janny work FOR FREElmao>>107656526Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107667750It's called a makefile, but yeah linux ecosystem is a total clusterfuck. Not that it really matters since the vast bulk of the systems are the same.
>>107651707It's for programmers you dip
>>107651733kek, OP is ngmi
>download an image It crashes>verify captcha It crashesSo what was the point?
>>107668418I only updated my own copy of it so that it shows the instructions at the bottom (and removes the now useless "use the slider" and "then click next" parts of it so that it takes less space)
I enjoy KurobaEX. I don't have captcha because I have a 4chan Premium account.
Test
well it works
werks
it just makes sense
>>107667777Matlab and Fortran both use 1 based indexing, and they're rather popular. It's the logical way to do it, for math and science in particular. 0 based is an aberration and only existing due to implementation details.
>>107669460Yes, in your silly little language.
>>107667859>love it so muchYou are not allowed to love a language until you've used it. Odin is actually noticeably slower than C. It's roughly like Golang, when it comes to speed. If you are OK with this, why not just use Golang?
>>107668912I like javascript but the runtimes are hot garbage. node is slow for what it asks for but bun has memory leaks. quickjs has no ecosystem.
There is LuaJIT and also there is a language that looks a bit like Haskell and compiles to Lua. It's called MoonScript. I recommend checking it out if you don't like Lua's syntax
>employ Chinese people>they steal your tech and join your Chinese competitors
>>107669638They can’t, China is always at least month behind US at almost every technology. However they have massive manufacturing base that mogs the rest of the world. US can only do a single thing, and that is invest all of its money into RnD. So US spying or even both parties sharing all technology would just benefit China because they could build all the tech faster and cheaper.
>>107670339What good is RnD when you don't have to means to (mass) produce?
>>107670332Stock price is not revenue. Insisting that it is is like insisting that a landlord that owns a 1m house is making 1m a year renting it out.At least 20 years of profit and growth is priced into that 4t valuation. It's more like 50 years in the case of Nvidia right now
>>107670405It’s not. US fell for the RnD meme. Too busy researching fiction instead of just building nuclear power plants or making solar panels more durable like China. Just taking what already works and making it better.
>>107669906>>107669913God fucking damnit. I have jew fatigue
why did the kurobaex guy fuck up the entire app?
>>107665930no. the last one who worked on the app was the poster from the link.
>>107658491>Noit did though
Trying Kuroba Ex Beta rn, the captchas work fine and have apt descriotions but the search function for board is basically ctrl+f and not a filter like it used to be, sadge. That needs fixing, and my keyboard has like ⅓rd of a second of lag before it comes up in the search bar.
Honestly he's really based for coming back and working on it. A true hero.
Holy shit it works, it is a Christmas miracle.
>>107594789Don'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.
>>107665390could have a crack in the heat pipe and the heat exchanger fluid inside evaporated out
>>107670293Yes. From what I was able to gather, the bios is too old for fwupd. I need to update it first before I can use that command. I'm just gonna reinstall Linux after updating my bios on Windows. I've been at this for almost a week now, and I want to just be done with it.
>>107658035one smartphone, one P/T series, one touchscreen X series and one desktop.You don't need more
>>107670341>grubWrong payload for Windows, try edk2
Got a dope ass Thinkpad neoprene sleeve with a handle that hides away when not in use that looks almost like a briefcase for Xmas for my T14s. I'm so sorry anons. For years I made fun of you, calling them chinkpads, stinkpads, etc, thinking you were all retarded for buying what I thought were all obsolete e-waste trash but when my macbook air from 2013 started getting a bit long in the tooth (and really long in compile times for projects I'm developing) I went looking for a new laptop and saw the absurd fucking prices they want for intel macbooks that are only a couple years newer than mine with almost no hardware improvement, and the double retarded prices for most brand new machines I took a look at eBay and came across a seller that had an "A/B grade" T14S for $190 so I gave it a shot, figuring if it was a piece of trash I'm only out two bills. Within 10 minutes of it arriving at my door I had cloned my macbook air ssd with arch on it to the T14S ssd and booted up. I went from 15s compile times to... I shit you fucking not, 0.0248s ... I thought it had to be fucking up and not actually compiling, so I manually deleted every object file and the binary instead of relying on my makefile to clean compile, and compiled again. 0.0246s. no fucking way. I run the binary, stress test it to see if it crashes under extreme load or has some other unintended behavior because I still felt like that compile time couldn't be right, it had to be missing something... Nope. It was working perfectly. No segfault, no memory leaks, nada. The compile time was the real deal. Sorry for the blog post. The gist of it is, I'm a faggot doublenigger for doubting you guys all these years and being a stupid macfaggot and assuming that - based on the looks of Thinkpads alone - that all Thinkpads were extremely outdated core2quad era garbage and that there weren't any with modern specs. I was wrong. You guys were right.
jeetdows chrome just devours more and more RAM the longer your computer is on
>>107670496werks on my machine
>>107670513I shouldn't have bought amd
Do you think it was limited to smart stuff? Nuh uh!FX-991CW>somewhat faster integrals>4 tone LCD (wow!)but>almost all functions buried inside a clunky menu>alpha key for 3rd level functions? Multi operator syntax? you don't need those >what you DO need is 2 stupid up-down arrows that don't quite do same thing except sometimes they do>Slide cover is too durable, have this new cover where you have to literally pry it instead>btw were discontinuing 991EX for this ;-)>inb4 just use your computerthat's like saying "just use your phone" when you have a nice, physical keyboard. A dedicated calculator with its tactile feedback and being purpose built have its advantages.
>>107667522I have basically the same one. Bought it around 2004 for university and I'm still using it. I bought the same model number this year for my daughter and it fucking sucks. The calculator is somehow twice as light and feels very cheap. Also the keys are very cheap and weirdly placed.
>>107667264ES series my belovedFun fact, the ES ROM has an exploit in it that allows you to crash it (webm related), corrupt the RAM, or even soft-upgrade lesser models to the 991ES.Last I checked the chip datasheet had leaked and people managed to extract the ROM, so it can be emulated and bootlegged fairly easily.
>>107669556Steps to repeat for anyone interested:>shift + 0 shift ) 1 ) =>fraction button as much as possible (at least 8 times), move cursor to the bottom>1 x^ =>AC up AC left, left twice and delete the 1>fraction of 1/1, =>ABS 5 times, SQRT until it crashesGetting the "r" into the input field is the bug. For whatever reason it isn't handled properly, and whatever you place before it changes the nature of the corruption.Soft upgrading takes at least an extra minute of fiddly inputs, normally not worth it and cba to explain.A version of this works on some ES PLUS models, but the procedure is different.
>>107669631Based calculator autist.
fuck off Drew
I instaled a gtx 1050 ti from a old pc to my new one but the driver version is 32.0.15.8180, like tf with this, i tried to download the drivers from nvidia app, manually, I used DDU, deleted the drivers with device manager ( ithink that is the name of the app in english) and idk what to do, when i download it says ''instaled'' but it stays at 32.0.15.8180 version, when I install it with the app it says i download the newest version '' 580.97 - WHQL (or some shitl ike that) '' but it stays at 32.0.15.8180, and my other option to use as graphics are integrated amd ryzen 5 3400 and its like 3 or 2 times worse than the 1050 ti, i need to play deep rock galactic in like 30% resolution and with all to low, just i need answers to thsi problem, im not an usual 4chan user but idk i think it will be funny to search help here
i dont understand anything you type.
>>107670147Yes.
the 10 series ended support for about a year now. so no more new drivers for it
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>>107663393Amazon desk. not bad, had it for 3 years now and moved it across the country with no real damage. https://a.co/d/8F6INVJ
>>107659455>>107651354Liking the music/audio stuff in here. very cool
>>107663836Mesh wifi system. its as easy as buying an Orbi and some satellites.
>>107663596>has a mac>can't even afford a mousepad
>>107663333What is that thermometer thingy ma fren? Looks pretty nice
Programming for the mere mortal is just you reaching your goals with the power to control the tools at your disposal to not work against you.
>>107670303konakona!
