I know NOTHING about speakers, but I do need a set for my desk area.I tried doing a cursory bit of research, but the speakers community seems rather convoluted and autistic and susceptible to snake oil.What speakers do you have? Do you recommend them? What features should I care about if I 'just' want to listen to 'music'? Do I need stands? Right now I'm looking at the Ai41, as my budget is like $300.
>>106506757Whatdy'aget?
>>106507551LP-UNF
>>106507575>LP-UNFI, as a random stranger on an anonymous board that lives just below the anus of the internet digestive system, think you'll be satisfied with them.
Finally a speaker thread. My speaker purchases over the years...>shitty desktop spheres>z709 Logitech 2.1>DIY Overnight sensations I built>Free Paradigm Studio 20's I got from a friendI've been chasing clarity and am considering another DIY (I'm a decent carpenter). Any thoughts on 2 way vs. 2.5way vs 3 way? Recommended kits? These will be for a dedicated music primary then home theatre space. Options I'm leaning on right now >Chevalier 3 way https://www.speakerdesignworks.com/chevalier>Anthology II 3 way https://www.speakerdesignworks.com/anthology-ii>Ara 2 wayhttps://sbacoustics.com/product/ara/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106508407that's a lot of money. I feel the diminishing returns aren't worth it?
Why do people think 8k will actually be a thing? Don’t they understand the concept of bandwidth and ppi?
>>106507040Shut the fuck up
>>106506981>people said this about 1080pI'm sure there was one contrarian retard.The difference just from the resolution was immediately obvious up to 1080p-ish, 4k is kind of situational but is in general great on large screen, 8k vs 4k there's basically 0 gained 99.9% of the time. You'd be better off spending the money on literally anything else.>I am looking at an 8k screen as I type this, the improvements are easy to see.Improvements you're noticing probably aren't from the resolution.
>>106506556>Movies are more expensive than everSure, I never said anything about overall production costs, but the camera, recording media, and distribution are much cheaper using digital as are the associated secondary costs for things like editing.It also makes it easier, as I said, to implement CGI... because there are less colors and the resolution is lower than on older film stock.No need to be rude, you didn't even undermine any of my points.>>106506514I don't pretend to be an expert on composition. I know/do the technical stuff and understand cost drivers in that realm. If you're implying it's easier to put a digital camera on a boom and move it around in weird ways for filming--I tried to say that but did a bad job apparently. Smaller, lighter cameras are easier to do all sorts of things that are very expensive and difficult to do with film cameras.
>>106507040NTSC and PAL were always a product of the system of distribution--multiplexed analog cable--which no longer exists. Everything is digital.The other major difference is NTSC/PAL were designed for CRTs which could make lower resolution look much better.
>>106505496>Don’t they understand the concept of bandwidth and ppi?No, they do not.Bigger number better is all the average person cares about.
What techniques for getting free computer parts and gizmos work in current year?
From something of an hour debating:>Kaecilius is right>Strange became fascist in his fear of Dormammu>the ancient one is not actually dead>we can share infinity from one universe to the next>public records allow for concentrated debateThe one arguing a public park ever closing is "an insult" makes more sense in the procedural context: any dissatisfaction with your spending of time should construe in the direction of slaveship. Schopenhauer should attend, this is a debate of agesSeeing this thread, you feel more like rats to me. Scurrying around for parts which would have seen themselves lost in time>public cache with blockchain memories
>>106502688Seek and you will find.
>>106501683My local Bunnings has an ewaste bin, you can find computers, stereos, etc. in that but you'll have to sacrifice your dignity. Recycling depots often have an ewaste bin as well, but you'll probably get in trouble stealing from them.If your area has hard rubbish collection days, go out on a drive/bicycle with a cargo rack and you might find an old PC someone's dumped, too.Craigslist/marketplace sometimes has free shit too, or near enough - $10 for a working computer is a better deal than $0 for one that doesn't.
>>106506833>doesn't repair his robot gf himself
>>106508662If you have the spare parts laying around, $0 PC becomes the better option.
>>106508701I only see Asian (Chinese), where's the Asian (Indian)?
>SEARCH WARRANT SEARCH WARRANT GIVE ME YOUR COMPUTER'S PASSWORD NOWwell?
>>106508635>if they didnt use a writeblockerok so they used a writeblockerthey win.
>>106508661if they used a writeblocker then the hash of your encrypted drive and their cloned drive better match
>>106507809Nigger the wipe takes 3 seconds. It's not zeroing the whole device dumbass, it zeroes the keystore which is tiny. Good luck interrupting a process which takes 3 seconds in total (and the data is already inaccessible the instant it writes the first zero bit to the keystore, but with every bit zeroed the effort required to recover the decryption key becomes exponentially harder)
>>106507638this seems retarded outside of being used when immediately detainedyou have to assume that feds will snapshot your storage even when encrypted so wiping does fuck allif anything, they could probably charge you for this using some bullshit like "obstructing justice"
>>106508672>it zeroes the keystore which is tinyw-what?? oh god... chief is gonna be pissed...
>>106504486>>106505304>>106505315>>106505337>>106505349>>106505364>>106505409Nvm I asked Gemini to fill me in on the dramahttps://g.co/gemini/share/b372e7ef7179
try killing yourself, dumb retard
what'd i miss
>>106505510Personal Attacks and Threats: The entire exchange is characterized by extreme insults and threats. MikeeUSA is called a "schizo," "faggot," and "paedophile". In return, he repeatedly threatens to kill his opponents.
>>106506162Kino
finally a good fucking use for ai, thanks gemini, now i'm up to speed on the latest mikeKINO
Come home, white man.
>>106504472MX Master is a good mouse for about 2 years. After that the buttons will start fucking up. I replaced my buttons with silent switches, I believe Kailh but I'm not sure. But a few months after that the rubber coating is starting to degrade. It's not that terrible but I think I have another 6-12 months left until I have to replace the entire mouse.
>>106504438>You will never be a man, Karen.enjoy your tendinitis
>>106506938why do meds and iranians have a visible massive blue vein on the hand?
>>106508553i thought only whites had visible veins but pol told me most italians in america are southern and that they got blacked by mudslime bantus
>>106503956it's having little mousey babies.
Am I the only one who thinks artificial intelligence will never "go rogue"
but they didand now everything is pre-castrated
>>106508092That wasn't a rogue AI it was a chat bot repeating syntaxes it heard
>>106507999It's too stupid to go rogue in the sense of it turning "evil". The real threat comes from it being stupid and undiscerning combined with brainless Pajeet/Chink coding that could result in a Paperclip Maximiser situation.
>>106507999>Am I the only one who thinks artificial intelligence will never "go rogue"yes
>>106508507>That wasn't [...] AI it was a chat bothow is that different from the "AI" that exists today?
Is starlink mobile worth it? Internet service is often unvailable in my city. Also in the road out of my city. And I need to work and communicate with my relatives. Is it always up?
>>106508349My one time using starlink was during a 7-hour international flight, and my impression was extremely positive. Every other satellite internet I had experienced up until then had huge latency and low bandwidth. This felt like a standard home internet line
>>106508349>Is it always up?No, nothing is. Last outage was last monthhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/starlink-outage-spacex-launch-satellites-musk.htmlhttps://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-traces-starlink-outage-to-network-upgrade
>>106508349Sure. I use starlink works pretty well but not the mobile. During the day I usually get 250mbps and at night right now around 300-400mbps+. I've seen it reach up to 600mbps during non peak hours like 10pm to midnight. IDK how much the mobile costs I pay $120You could probably use calyx 5G hotspot for $40 a month and I used that before when traveling, but its only 30-40mbps rural and 150mbps+ in the city but they never throttle you and don't give a shit about torrenting so thats nice I guess. Check a map to see if you got coverage.My parents pay $80 a month in the midwest for their weimerican internet and they get to have fiber 400mbps in my hometown of 15k people so fiber has advanced in the midwest.American internet is notoriously expensive especially in REALLY rural dirt road type farm places or unincorporated land. On the east coast and west coast, especially in mountainous regions. If you live offgrid or are going in the mountains of utah, idaho or 30 miles down some random highway etc forget it, just get starlink.
>>106508390Yup, here's one I took with my xperia.
>>106508390>photographersNot my problem
You have to spend at least $400 editionPrevious: >>106426310>Keyboard recommendation template:https://pastebin.com/n220xk9V>Find vendorshttps://www.alexotos.com/keyboard-vendor-list // Up-to-date list of reputable vendors with brief descriptionshttps://keycaplendar.firebaseapp.com // Tracker for current and upcoming keycap group buys>This keyboard stuff is so expensive!https://aliexpress.com (or Taobao if you know how)>Learn about Cherry MX switchesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106474824wouldn't take one for free personally.
>>106502849I think most of my Dvorak typos come from typing out of order. Especially with words that use the left index sequentially.
>>106476077lol fag
>>106505610the what
>>106508464He means thishttps://www.nordtheme.com/A good theme, by the way.
What are the current advancements in robotics?
>>106508523Only useful in automation and always will be. Androids are purely fiction and will remain that way forever.
>630mhz celeron>max 2gb of ram>7 inch 480p screen with beautiful bezels>small but serviceable keyboard and trackpadLet me guess, you need more?
>>106497506this right here. still have my zg5 with lmde. great for small tasks and emulation.
sony vaio p was a game changer
>>106497421I have one of these little guys and it's easily my favorite computer. Right now I have NetBSD running on it (I wanted OpenBSD but the wi-fi driver is GPL'd and nobody cares 15 years later) but before I was running Void Linux.The main issue I have with it is that I can't post here! Fucking Cloudflare's fucking stupid proof of work turnstile shits itself on anything below, like, 1.5 ghz. (I know because I've had this problem with Arm SBCs too.) Still runs a compiler and Emacs fine though, and you can even watch Youtube with yt-dl and mpv.
>>106507900I'm able to post on a 1.2ghz pentium m by minimizing the browser window while the cloudflare check is running. I wait several seconds and then it passes when I pull the window back up.
>>106498709tried Supermium worked for the most partCaptcha worked but I noticed (not sure if its a just me issue) the second I interacted with Bookmark bar, the ablilty to scroll would break.closing and re-opening will fix scroll until you interact with Bookmark bar again
Pros:>Strong sandboxing/isolation improves security.>Widely supported across major distros (especially Fedora, GNOME-based distros).>Uses Portals apps can request access to files, devices, etc. in a controlled way.>Good integration with desktop environments.>Flathub is a central, well-maintained app store with lots of apps.>Auto-updates supported.Cons:>Flatseal has the potential to change the permissions of other flatpaks at will. Essentially, a flatpak with the ability to change the permissions of other flatpaks. It is rendered to be "Potentially Unsafe" with "Arbitrary Permissions" with access to "User Data" subfolder flatpak/overrides, Can read and write all data in the directory" and "Arbitrary Permissions, Can acquire arbitrary permissions".>Larger disk space usage (apps bundle runtimes + libraries).>Slower startup compared to native apps (sandbox overhead).>Strong desktop focus not ideal for CLI/server software.>Relies heavily on Flathub (centralization concern).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106504972meds
>>106504845i used guix pack for the deck early on. was pretty nice but the repos are in a sorry state.
>>106506222Yeah, but since the migration to Codeberg, there's been a lot of improvement.
>>106498170>sandboxingYep Bubblewrap is actually good
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flatpak
Which one, /g/?
>>106504871Based chad. Enjoy coding freedom.If your instance is on the public internet you might want to also setup a scraper blocker. Everyone goes with Anubis nowadays but I actually prefer Go Away which is a fork of Anubis with many more features: https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away
>>106493537k
>>106500048Gigachad, is that you?!
>>106502543>>106504871>>106506432>Gitea>Forgejo>AnubisFaggots using bloated faggot golang software. It's just self-hosted github with all the bloat that comes with it. Issues, pull requests, wikis, and all of that retarded nonsense zoomer devs need to code.Cgit and mailing lists is all you need.https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
git init --barelet me guess.. you need more?
>tech job posting has fallen 50% in US since 2022its over timmies...
>>106508219Shhh stop noticing things, it's all Obam-- I mean Biden's fault. Ignore that every single corporation is frothing at the mouth to stop hiring Americans regardless of white or blue collar or industry and also stop ignoring every single corporation bending the knee to Israel.
>>106508234>government forces companies to overextend and hireHow, retard?
>>106508284keynesianism
Read the headline carefully.Tech job postings in America THAT have fallen more than 50%.It's a listicle of the types of jobs AI is replacing.What are those jobs? Without that information it's kind of a meaningless piece of writing.
>>106508196I don't get it, how is this surprising?you guys must be braindead if you don't understand why and if you really believe it's>muh AI>>106508234>>government forces companies to overextend and hire during covid to make job numbers look good under Bidenwhy do you faggots lie so much? the pandemic was great for tech companies, with all the free money Trump threw at them and the fact that everyone had to work from home.