Lets hope it saves my dads decade plus old pc cuz win 10 on this piece of shit was like walking thru molasses
>>107807468For this distro, it quite literally is just plug and play. Buy an SSD and install MX Linux. I don’t know why, but Linux Mint Xfce felt slow compared to MX Linux, and I have a Celeron processor for that computer. Maybe a systemd thing
>upgrade to 8GB of RAM>throw in a SSD>LubuntuEven then it will be terrible to use desu
I have Arch with i3 as my window manager, doing fine as a collegefag with 8gb's of RAM (DDR4). I also have a used Acer (Aspire 3) that wouldn't even boot properly with Windows, you had to reboot the damn thing like 3 times before it would start normally. After I got Arch on it, it would crash sometimes and I didn't know why. Checked the logs and found nothing. Then one day a firmware update for the AMD processor and integrated graphics came and the crashing stopped.Try to find another stick of DDR3 if you can. I also had XFCE in the beginning, but switched to i3 because I liked how it would split the screen into 2 equal windows automatically. This shit by itself is so useful for me.Try i3, maybe you'll like it. Or if you're on Wayland, get Sway or whatever other tiling window manager. I have no need for fancy animations so I'm sticking with i3.Be aware that i3 does require some tinkering, but their site has good documentation. In essence, you will just have to edit the i3 configuration file if you want to use it.Best of luck and don't remove your installation medium until the OS is installed.
>>107812326Right still can't makeup for the little l2 cache
>>107806190Use an SSD. Fastest speedup you can do.
>>107680640Don'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.
>>107812119werks on my machineI don't know what you expect from 10+ years computer, but I sometimes play CSS, minecraft,roblox on hd4000 and don't experience any issue.
>>107810630>what happened to the art of frugalfagging?I'm using my P14s Gen 5 Thinkpad as a gaming laptop.
>>107811364Well done so far. That IC is most certainly a load switch... basically a dual n-channel mosfet (you can easily tell by the pinout too). You can dig out a spec sheet for it by searching for "G2898 pdf". The thing is, almost all load switches that have identical 14 pin TDFN pinout would work here so you can mix & match them and just substitute it with what you have on hand. I'm pretty sure I've even replaced one with a DFN-10/12 package since most pins are not used.You can easily find one on Mouser/Digikey/ebay/Aliexpress. Pic related.So, what's wrong? Look at pin 13 & 14 in magenta. You say it has 0V. So it's not passing any power to the LCD from green pins on the left side.Now, if I was working on it, I'd immediately check the CPU/PCH. Why? Because there's super-high chance that the cable sent 12V to the CPU. That easily could have damaged CPU's eDP. I've seen it happen so many times. The CPU might be partially working. Don't know for sure.So replace the IC and see if it works. If it doesn't, CPU's dead. You can use it for spare parts I guess.Regarding your NumPad not working: There is no fix for this. Even if the connector is identical, EC is not programmed to handle it. Also, T14 most probably lacks the traces for the numpad matrix too.
>>107813495>fps countYou're an idiot if you thought gaming is the same as using GPU for hardware video accelerated decoding.
Modern stinkpads lmao
>>107812746this, only because its available in every program ever and consistency matters the most to me
>>107813069post it
I'm a gruvbox npc
>>107807920:colo koehler
>>107807920Everything is plain white font. Colors are too distracting.
Good grief. Seriously? No one knows about middle click to paste?
>>107783487wtf it works smooth for me. it feels sorta like adjusting your car throttle not steering a boat
>>107775829It's okay if it is actually a 3 button mouse, which are rare these days. Most of them either have the third button by pressing the left and right buttons together, or have the button under the scroll wheel, both of which can sometimes lead to accidental pastes.
>>107810797unless i'm typing or playing a game, my left hand is honestly quite rarely rested on my keyboard
>>10781194299% of people don't use linux and/or don't middle-click unintentionally. also 99% of statistics are made-up, you sure as shit didn't ask a single other soul their opinion
>>107812153idk what this webm is supposed to convey, but to me it comes off an an unsatisfying version of the dreamcast boot animation
What are you cool kids working on?Previous: >>107756119
>>107812689Software enshittified so hard that people search for panaceas everywhere rather than learning how to program.Retards do async for speed so that means Python async and Javascript async is le fast. Instead of, you know, using a language that isn't filtered by a for loop.
>>107800178Seething midwit
>>107806170reminds me of 2010s ios prank apps lol
>>107800078Am I missing something?
>>107814045try not using recursionis cache even big enough?also aren't you recomputing each time dot product would i32::MIN check assembly
>Not sure what private trackers are all about?A private tracker is an invite-only torrent website. Each member shares common goals: collecting, preserving and discussing media.>Have a question?- FAQ https://archive.is/UVQkn- WIKI https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers- NEWFAG PYRAMID https://inviteroute.github.io/graph or https://inviteroute.github.io/sheet/- STUDY https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F379FE0CB50DF502F0075119FD3E060- SPREADSHEET https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/- TEN CURRY COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/dBbdE73M- TEN NEON COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/Ud2pGYaE- RED SPAMMER'S BIBLE https://rentry.org/69zbxh4h- #ptg is on irc.sageru.org but it's pretty deadUse >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107813981I can't afford equipment and media for all my interests
>>107814544As I said, I'm not the OP, and I wasn't trying to "defend" him, I was trying to explain what I understood from his text screenshot.My opinion on this topic is different. I grab good encodes, but usually I am still aware of the space, and always try to compromise. >t. not an Indian, just a poorfag in a Eastern European country.
Use case for HDBangladesh if I'm white and already on PTP/BTN/ATH?
>>107814596Me too. I hear anons talking about their 12tb and 8tb hard drives, and think - even the rich pirate now? so what's the point? If you're that rich, buy a Bluray, or the original VHS tape, you can surely afford it.
>>107814609If I'm sharing to public trackers rather than putting something into my personal archive sometimes I make compromises when needed. When you have 8 seasons of a TV show in 1080p from bluray people are going to start to bitch. So I might give them scene encodes instead of the best p2p encodes. It's still better than what they would get paying for a streaming service and better than the usual slop you find on public trackers.
So I made the terrible mistake of studying to become a backend dev late in my life (I am 29 turning 30). I am currently working at my first internetship which is this webapp startup which basically is a wrapper for different AI models.It fucking sucks, everything sucks. Not a single person writes their own code, everything is AI generated. No unit tests, no integration tests, just pure vibes and let people manually test code flow. The CEO and Product Owner talks about shipping constantly but I feel like we are no where close.MongoDB fucking sucks as well, holy hell I hate it so much. Give me MySQL or something similar. Is this what software dev is like now? I can't expect anything else from now on?
>>107813659>startup>vibecoding>webapp>AiYeah, your company is going bankrupt in 3... 2... 1...
>>107813794I think you should pick database depening on what you are actually trying to do. Our webapp quite nicely maps to relational databases due to accounts having this or that. Right now, to my knowledge, deleting an account means that you also have to delete every single thing associated with that account via code in the service layer, and if you don't you will have things staying around in your database that shouldnt exist.A SQL database would fix that problem very easily.
I did my internship in a company like this too, turning 28 this year. Thankfully (?) I got a job in financial tech at a large bank group. Unless that is shit too. Just work on your own projects on company time and try to get a better place
>>107813849>deleting anything everdata is king
>>107813980you should have been deleted when your dad forgot to pull out of your whore mother
Samsung alludes to the idea that products will need to be repriced, which very likely affects the Galaxy S series. The most recent reports suggest the Galaxy S26 series will be slightly more expensive.
>>107813982no ty, I only buy pixel
I wouldn't mind having to pay $1900 for a single 8 GB stick of DDR5 if it means South Korea gets nuked off of the face of the Earth.
Imagining and upscaling images is faster than constructing them.
>>107813831But there is extra latency, Nvidia has even a tool to measure PCL.They try to hide it with saying DLSS scaling will benefit the lantecy more then FG will increase it, but it's still bullshit and FG and even native is still higher latency then just DLSS upscaling. >>107813851Lossless Scaling is even worse in every way, even their upscaling had DLSS/FSR FG levels of latency increase. Absolutely useless outside of 1% niche use cases (i.e. Intel iGPU and running a game with hardcoded res and framerate on a modern display).
>>107813851>For context, I play on a 5120x1440 screen with 240 Hz, so I'm the target audience that needs these fake frames to max out their screen.You'd probably have a better experience just using VRR at whatever FPS it runs without FG.
>>107813880It's not like I haven't tried that. FG still feels much better to me.I can run like 80 FPS without FG and it looks choppy to the eyes. There's no tearing but I can tell it feels low-fps. Then with framegen I can get to 240 and it feels silky smooth. I don't notice an increase in latency, and the artifacts are minimal at best (only notice them when really looking for them).
>>107813880>>107813929Also, VRR causes flicker with the background lighting of the screen, which is a much bigger issue, that's why I never turn VRR on anymore even if I don't use framegen
>>107813945That's a monitor issue. There's even OLEDs that don't' flicker or flicker in very specific scenarios (like low FPS that swinging heavily) while doing VRR.
This is fucking crazy. Robbers and thieves all around, before it was corsair canceling the order and jacking up the price of the same pre-built by 800 usd, now they ask 500 usd extra for the supposedly ram that was in stock after the order is placed. What's next? Bring your own ram pre-builts?
Clown world..
>>107809584I don't know Canadian law, but usually handoff of a good marks the end of a sale, not the start. "Dispatched" is also ambiguous, there is no meaningful difference between hiring a courier to deliver a psckage to the consumer, and hiring a courier to move a package between two storagehouses you own, or even moving it yourself. In both cases you are still the owner of the thing until it's actually in posession of the buyer
>>107811406>see how much people are willing to pay?This is literally always the case, retard. They were not selling at cost before.
I never thought that I would say that but I really wish, China would get EUV ready and fill the consumer hardware supply gap that's been ripped open by ScamAI and co.
>>107809623Your mom maid 5000 euros sucking dick behind your local MacDonald.Hiroshima is a greedy Gook.
>You need 4+ Ghz cpu to emulate a 400mhz win98 This is bullshit
>>107813122It's meant for very old games / software that requires very accurate hardware emulation. You're not supposed to use it to re-create some late stage, high end Win98 build.
>>107813251>>107813258>>107813264VirtualBox (or Qemu/KVM or VMware) + SoftGPU can be decent for gaming. But I'd recommend >>107813334 / >>107813425 for older and anything newer just wrappers / patches and run native if possible.
>>107813411>This might be a stupid question but why do we even need cpu emulation when this omores guy can run win98 with AM5 cpu and voodoo (through PCI PCIe adapter but still)?That's the OS.all the hardware you have will then still need win98 drivers. good luck with that.
>>107813953We actually have drivers for most common and generic shit, like onboard audio and USB. Plus you can use old hardware, as anon mentioned, nothing stopping you from using PCIe to PCI bridges.
>>107813953Can emulate the hardware just fine assuming someone has went through the entire asspain of creating hardware input/output
Who's running their x201 from the SD card slot and keeps a collection of cards they swap?Also neofetch thread
>12gb vram for $150>24gb ecc vram for $400>Domestic smic 6nm>4060 performance It's literally over. No western tech control can stop China's progress anymore.
>>10781185260 series are literally the mainstream card in every region
>>107812826frand nvidia has added a shit ton of useless proprietary garbage to games to fuck with amd so you can't just make a good card
>>107811784>no driversLOL
>>107811852They made a 4060 equivalent because of picrel, to test ride it.America is 3rd world btw.
>>107811893>>107811913>>107811932And a happy Ching Chong to you as well my 鬼佬’s
We lost the ability to make controllers that don't break after 2 years due to joystick drift.
>>107813319>>107813337>>107813672>Something more akin to >>107813319 It had barely any travel.
>>107813722Probably more a hall effects problem if you use them on a computer with an adapter these days.
>>107813733>hall effectsOh right.
still have em lol
>>107813634the bumpers on any non-360 ones are garbage though, in including all the third party stuff
gas and oil sissies btfo
>did you know [thing which is heavily subsidized] is actually cheaper than [thing which is heavily taxed]?Shocking.
Nuclear is basically free energy but Big Oil in the West dont want to lose their trillion dollar industry.Renewables generate a lot of ewaste, like you have to replace solar panels each 5-10 years or so. It also occupies a lot more space then nuclear
>>107813545>big oil is heckin oppressed, actuallywhat terminal contrarianism does to a mf
>>107813632I'm not saying le heckin beeg oil is oppressed, I'm saying your cost analysis is fatally flawed.
>>107813429Price determines cost, read Ricardo.
