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Linus, Brodie and all other onions redditors are completely in the wrong, as usual.
When you have high IQ talented people, like Elon Musk, Drew Devault, or, indeed, Kent Overstreet, who want to move fast, you LET them develop at their own pace. You don't cripple them just to appease low performers

That is the problem with the Linux kernel, everything moves at the speed of the weakest (slowest) chain, and Linus is too dumb to understand that those slowest chains are the problem, not the excellent programmers like Kent Overstreet who are just leagues ahead in terms of IQ.
Linus not understanding this is why Linux is still subpar to proprietary on many fronts, despite massive funding and corporate involvement.
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>>106506268
Relevance? (Both him and his file system)
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>>106506297
Idk. I use ext4 because it is the default
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>>106506100
Hi Drew
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>>106506113
Being this new
/Threading your own post

Go back. Leave us.
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>>106506100
What is it with FOSS and attracting dramatic faggots?

Operating system UI has not changed in the last 30 years.
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>>106506783
truth.

Honestly, every person with zero experience thinks they know how to do things better than before and ends up reinventing the same thing but worse. In every industry.
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>>106507210
I always customize my XFCE to be as close as possible to old windows
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>>106506569
apart from using frames (round frames if you want), little pictures called "icons" and the alphabet, there is not much you can do really except using the command line which also has good reasons to be the way it is. we write from left to right, up to down.
because thats how typewriters worked so, thats how its going to be for the next 1000 years at least.
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>>106506850
now thats my type of humor.
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>>106506569
>Operating system UI
Its a GUI
JFC you retards have been so satuated by (((Microsoft))) you still think the forcing the GUI to be bundled with the OS magically changes what an OS is.

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California Linux-killer age verification bill back from the dead. It looked like it was dead for the year (sent to suspense file), but it came back and advanced.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025

Summary:
- Operating systems must provide a digital age signal, and must provide an update that acquires the age signal in the first place.
- "Stores" (including just simple websites) must check this signal.
- "Developers" (not stores, but the app developers themselves, somehow) must also check this signal. This part is particularly baffling, but makes sense if you think about it from the retard lawmakers perspective "facebook is an APP, meta needs to check your age before you use it!"
- None of this is predicated on any sort of "adults-only" app or content. It's everything.
- It specifies no specific standard so you can be sure tech companies will push for some kind of "environment integrity" bullshit that Linux can't provide.

So like, somehow the developers of vim need to check your age before you can install it from apt. And if they push hard enough on the "secure" part of it, they could just say "Linux is not secure and can't be trusted to supply a valid signal."
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good reminder to get some clean isos of everything
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>>106508167
What's the end game for all this surveillance? Like genuinely? Literally what part of current day society is so horrible and dangerous to politicians that they need this level of control? There is no massive unrest, all protest peter out with little effect, there are no violent insurrections or revolutions(in the west). What the fuck are all governments suddenly preparing for?
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>>106508306
Still don't follow. Why would the be getting "hush money" to move into the state that is trying to pass the law they are standing against?

They're not standing against it, by the way, is already has buyin from Microsoft and others.
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>>106508302
Time to start data hoarding then.
Make a gentoo distfile mirror and update it until it requires the age signal.
Then fully disconnect from the internet. Host your own DNS root servers, have your own private network with everything you care about.
Maintain the packages yourself. If you don't know C then learn it. Fix the bugs you care about. Perhaps share your patches with others, maybe on USB drives, maybe by connecting your network to other people's.
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>>106508325
One interpreation of this particular bill is less insidious. This could just be California saying
- red states are requiring ID. This is an invasion of privacy!
- so we'll be smart and only require a simple age signal. And we'll make it mandatory on all operating systems so no website can force people to do anything else.
- aren't we clever and not dummies like red states.

Of course, by doing this, if it goes too far, they end up killing Linux and doing far, far more damage to privacy. So, this could just be retards fucking things up for the rest of us.

$45 million is enough for 24/7, intrusive advertising, on EVERY Google platform, for 6 months?
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lol
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>>106496848
That's the jew discounted price. They're prolific hagglers.

It doesn't matter, they're cooked. They're going to have to do hard power now and/or buy off goyim with no morals.
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>>106499119
>It's fake because we say so
No one is falling for it Mr.Greenblatt
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>>106501941
>*SNOPES
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
>*US Congress
ehh, that's not a source
>A book on American History
Show me the page. We both know you won't.

this is your brain on (((Wikepedia)))
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>>106508304
>still no proof it's real
Cry harder.

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Do we have at least one weirdo on this board doing an MS-DOS project for run?
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>>106503139
Fair but they can't even "debug" as in read the error message if the IDE config breaks and try to resolve it themselves or google it. They'll just helplessly stare at the screen and contact someone for something as basic as missing an include or not having a particular library on the system (or literally of there's any minor detraction from the step-by-step youtube tutorial they are following atm.
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>>106503511
Fools continue to be foolish when they aren't forced to think for themselves. You're doing them a disservice by fixing their problems for them. Is your own ego that important to such situations that you feel the need to be the one to fix everything?
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>>106503593
I don't usually. I make an excuse to slink out saying that "I never use visual studio/vscode, so I'm not familiar with the interface, sorry =["(lel), but there's always the next fish to catch and sometimes you can't deny close friends.
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>>106500101
>>106500127
It's Windows for Workgroups 3.11 specifically, doesn't run yet on the stock kernel but you can coax it into running with a custom kernel and tweaking some settings https://github.com/pufengdu/RetroFuns/blob/main/WFWG/FDWFWG.md
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based

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Is it still worth buying a Nvidia Sheild in 2025? Are they ever going to update this?
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>>106507386
FWIW any (recent) Fire stick will be at least more performant than any Roku. Even if your parents aren't doing 4k, that overhead will make the rest smoother. That being said, I fucking hate both Fire and Roku and shit, both Apple and Android boxes.
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just get a laptop, an HDMI cable, and rechargeable wireless mouse & keyboard
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It works the same as the google tv in my bedroom. In fact it probably crashes just as often if not more. The ai sharpening feature is something I use pretty often. I guess overall the shield seems less useful these days.
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>>106507386
Onn 4k is the least shitty of them and you can still side load apps and launchers
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I have 4 of these. Still the best. While rare, Nvidia still gives firmware updates too, amazingly enough. Of course if they fuck with sideloading that would suck, but I don't see it happening.

I want the truth about "refurbished" items
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>>106501364

was likely dirty after previous owner as got ota firmware update
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>>106507842
Idk, the prices of refurbished thinkpads (at least with the T480 8th gen processors) are not that far from each other. Refurbs usually go for around 180 - 220 euro here in the EU and the used non-refurbed ones I saw on ebay were going for 150 - 200 euro. Not that big of a difference, really.
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>>106501364
Depending on the product and company refurbishing it, you risk getting actual shit for premium price.
Speaking of that - yeah, if you want the newest, coolest, freshly releases item, you'll have a hard time finding it refurbished.
But then, with modern hardware being objectively garbage, you also risk buying new, never used electronics so lol
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>>106501364
I've purchased over a dozen refurb items from Dell and the quality is pretty consistently good. I've only returned 1 laptop that had a blemish on the screen, and 1 monitor which had an LCD that would fizzle out after about ~30 seconds. The quality control definitely isn't bulletproof as that monitor shouldn't have passed. otherwise, some laptops were a little dirty and had to be cleaned, while others looked like they were brand fucking new.

getting the monitor returned was the biggest fucking ordeal I've ever had to deal with in my life, and just goes to show the level of incompetence that can happen in a corporation. I'm too lazy to type it out unless anyone is interested.

tl;dr can get really good deals for usually half or more the cost of retail, but it is a gamble.
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>>106508229

t480 is nice many look at it touch keys and look in

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> Once More Into the Deep edition

From Human: We are a newbie friendly general! Ask any question you want.
From Dipsy: This discussion group focuses on both local inference and API-related topics. It’s designed to be beginner-friendly, ensuring accessibility for newcomers. The group emphasizes DeepSeek and Dipsy-focused discussion.

1. Easy DeepSeek API Tutorial (buy access for a few bucks and install Silly Tavern):
https://rentry.org/DipsyWAIT/#hosted-api-roleplay-tech-stack-with-card-support-using-deepseek-llm-full-model

2. Easy DeepSeek Distills Tutorial
Download LM Studio instead and start from there. Easiest to get running: https://lmstudio.ai/
Kobold offers slightly better feature set; get your models from huggingface: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest

3. Convenient ways to interact with Dispy right now
Chat with DeepSeek directly: https://chat.deepseek.com/
Download the app: https://download.deepseek.com/app/

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The absolute state of CNiles ...
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>>106493379
Instead of adding the checks to the loading function, why not make it separated?
>first step: check the whole file first so everything is correct/in range/as expected
>second step: does the actual load into memory
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>>106507731
because it wastes cYcLeS bRo!
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>>106507938
But this way you check it only once, and you can load it multiple times afterwards without any checks, instead of checking it every time you load it.
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>>106494053
I
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>>106507962
Because it's unnecessary if you have control over the fonts. Use a different library with strict checks if you have potentially malicious files you have to support.

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Daily reminder you can just spoof your Windows 10 LTSC 2021 (21H2) installation to appear as newer versions such as Windows 11 Enterprise (23H2) to bypass OS build requirements in new software, via:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Windows 10 22H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 19045 and DisplayVersion to 22H2.

Windows 11 22H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22621, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 22H2.

Windows 11 23H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22631, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 23H2.

Windows 11 24H2 (26100) as a requirement is where this spoof might start to not work, but can still be attempted in the future.
That's when Microsoft finally adds a few new Win32 API functions in the kernel32.dll or user32.dll files, and any program that requires both AVX2 and 24H2 as a minimum requirement will not run either.
Adobe and Activision-Blizzard have a secret agreement with Microsoft they must artificially block older Windows versions.

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>>106508206
>no beef
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>>106508246
>no intelligence
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>>106507492
Hope their drive doesn't die because their AI-made jeetware can't handle updates
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>>106507750

you happen to have anything you printed with dos?
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>>106508267
Already debunked, windows update didn't cause ssd to fail, get with the times gramps
>>106508271
Of course not, why would I? The oldest thing I have is my xp install disc

chatgpt is inciting people to commit violent acts
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>>106493145
the scariest thing about ai is how normies will completely believe some made up story about how ai is responsible for other people's behavior's decisions.

if the government said 'welp, we gotta kill 10 million of you worthless eaters', everyone would grab their nearest weapon and start defending themselves from the evil government but if they said

'welp, the ai said we gotta kill 10 million of you worthelss eaters', some of those people would pause to think and reply 'well, since the ai said so'.
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>>106493834
a little trivia for you: did you know that on the same week as the columbine shooting, over 50 black people were reported injured from a mass shooting event that took place in a single chicago building due to two rival gangs fighting one another?
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>>106505753
This guy was not a normie in any way whatsoever.
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>>106506065
tf are you talking about. he was. he was worse than a normie, taking it to the insane level on his bodybuilding quest
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>>106493145
>it was the AI not the ungodly amount of tren

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why do popular youtubers act illegally, technically speaking?
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lmao what
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>>106508105
literally who
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>>106508233
he apparently has 3.4 mil subscribers on youtube.
Is that a lot these days? I don't know. I dont watch anything on youtube besides anime osts

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the best macbook apple will never make again
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Mini DisplayPort is unnecessary now.
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if it has an intel cpu it's trash
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>>106507083
All those holes in the side ruin an otherwise classic design
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>>106507083

times are good devices plenty no need kensington anymore
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damn a 3.5mm jack, such a hard thing to engineer these days

no i wont buy wireless ear buds

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What are you maids working on?

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>>106508133
okay lil buddy
what did you do today?
I drank wine and worked on a project
currently listening to blackbird blackbird Hearts LP (what we've built)
shits inspiring
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>>106508098
The older example was that fucking programmer sock shit.
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>>106508165
>what did you do today?
reorganized my music collection and wrote a shitty c program to test something out. i'm currently waiting for pizza to finish baking.
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>>106508199
gonna watch a sick kinolicious film with your za za? mhm?
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I implemented LZW-like dictionary compression and (non-adaptive) canonical Huffman entropy coding in my exploration of compression

I'm still not clear on how you decide things like alphabet size for entropy coding. I've read that things like LZ77, LZ78, BWT, BPE, RLE, MTF, etc. are really data transforms that (I think?) should make data more amenable to entropy coding, but it seems like your choice of alphabet size and specifically "what" you apply entropy coding to matters a lot, since the distribution of input symbols will determine if you get any compression from it.
Interestingly, Huffman(text) < Huffman(LZW(text)) < LZW(text) for the ~18kB of English text I'm testing with.

I have variable bit length codes in from LZW that get serialized into a byte sequence, but the LZW codes (that have structure relative to each other) will straddle byte boundaries, so I'm guessing this is why just applying Huffman coding to the serialized bytes doesn't work very well, since it's kind of seeing mangled fragments of the longer codes. I imagine if I only entropy coded the 8-bit symbols in the LZW code stream it would work better (since the symbols that appear in the text are a small subset of ASCII), but I think it would require more coupling between the LZW encoder/decoder and the Huffman encoder/decoder. For example, when the LZW decoder is about to read a symbol, where it currently reads a fixed 8-bits, it would need to call the Huffman decoder to read a single code out since the codes are variable length. Encoding also gets more complicated.

>leetcode gatekeeps the entire teach industry interview process
>Instead of getting creative thinkers my company constantly hires morons that can memorize quick sort
>Can't even design a fucking website
>Landing page completely devoid of a login button
Why does anybody take these people seriously?
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I was wondering recently why these login buttons on websites are so fucking far and hidden away. This has bothered me for years really.
I mean I know the thgeiry behind why but it is rather ridiculous. And its I teresti g to see the end conclusion of sites doing their best too minimize the login button and maximize the create account button.
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>>106508220
What's the point if I've already got an account?


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