Graphene OS is one of the best when it comes to security on the mobile front, but the one thing that keeps fucking with my head is the simple fact that YOU CAN NOT EDIT NOR REMOVE THE GOOGLE LOGO ON FUCKING BOOT....no one has made any comments to confirm if there is a backdoor either on the chip-level... Like you know intelme exists....SO....it's possible that something similar exist or a zero-day exploit on the chip level. Any discussions around this is always:{bro don't worry about it}{bro if true then you got bigger problems} {bro its needed because its just is #trustme} {bro its actually proof that the device is even more secure...accept the google logo on a degoogled phone} Maybe I am retarded but can anyone even see the boot loader code ?
>>107595110Issue is the most insecure part of a smartphone is the GPU drivers because of their shit code, huge complexity and deep integration including direct memory and co-processor access for performance reasons. If Google wasn't retarded they would embrace Mesa but here we are allowing Qualcomm and ARM to write proprietary trash.
>>107595030He is
>>107595045Ultimately my friend all this tells me is that this is Intel me all over again but through google as low level firmware could be potentially operating below the operating system, and this can not be edited or removed....Intel said the same thing about its "s e c u r e b o o t process...."Another thing...I am surprised device spoofing isn't a feature yet. Applications can see on the backend you are a using device identifiers like the fact that you are using a "google pixel" >>107595030>>107595144no you got the wrong guy
>>107595045also don't confuse Secure Boot with Android Verified Boot and "unlocking" the bootloader.Secure Boot verifies the integrity of the bootloader and firmware partitions in the boot ROM. Also called the first stage "bootloader". A tiny piece of code for basic platform initialization built right into the SoC. More hardware will be initialized by the first second stage bootloader, which handles functionality similar to the BIOS/UEFI on PC. In fact, Qualcomm's first second stage bootloader, the XBL, implements UEFI. After that, the second second stage bootloader gets chainloaded. The fastboot. On Qualcomm chips it's an EFI application stored on the ABL partition. Fastboot will load the actual high level OS, usually Android. By default, fastboot verifies the integrity of the boot partitions storing the Linux kernel, device tree blobs and ramdisk, system, vendor and odm images. This is called Android Verified Boot. "Unlocking" the bootloader means you can use more fastboot commands like fastboot flash and fastboot boot. This allows you to disable or (on Pixels only) modify Android Verified Boot via the vbmeta partition. This will not get rid of Secure Boot. The only way to turn off Secure Boot is to desolder the SoC and get one that did not have its fuses blown yet.
>>107595773>of the boot partitions storing the Linux kernel, device tree blobs and ramdisk, system, vendor and odm imagesof the boot partitions storing the Linux kernel, device tree blobs and ramdisk and Android's system, vendor and odm images*
>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107518652
>>10759347618, it's an old Lubuntu install
I'm trying to figure out if my old Dell has PCI-E 3.0 or 2.0 speeds for its second x16 slot.Dell 9010 desktop. It has an i7-3770 and a Q77 motherboard.Dell's PDF for ithttps://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_electronics/esuprt_graphics_vdo_crds/dell-2gb-amd-w4100_User's%20Guide8_en-us.pdfPage 38 says it (the black slot labeled #1 on the diagram) is "wired as x4", but doesn't clearly state whether that is 3.0 or 2.0.Page 59 says "x16-slot bidirectional speed – 16 GB/s" which is 3.0, but doesn't say whether this applies to the x16 (wired as x4) slot beneath the primary one.Did Ivy Bridge boards usually support PCI-E 3.0 on secondary slots or did they only have one 3.0 slot with everything else being 2.0?I know a lot of modern boards only have one PCI-E 5.0 slot and everything else operates at 4.0 but not sure if the same applies to these older boards when 3.0 was the latest.
>>107594096Raspberry Pi 3 supports 1080p H264, Pi 4 supports 4K H265.>>107594681The size of individual files is unrelated to disk usage. The most common factor is sector/extent size, then metadata, then sparse files, then RAID, then snapshots and deduplication.In certain (very common) scenarios, disk usage can increase as you delete files or replace them with smaller ones.
>>107595408Makes sense, then. Check logs.Godspeed!
>>107595560if its for storage does it matter whether its 3x550 or 2x550
>>107502998Don'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.
>>107595364Those regular ideapads may be okay but do NOT buy any 2-in-1 models, they will break no matter how careful you are. I’d imagine thinkpad x carbon series would be good for you.
Wish there was an oled x12, really want to try creating a tablet mode hyprland rice.
>>107595385good luck
>>107595364Thinkpad t14 g2
>>107595595Thanks
What can I do with these old laptops that I have?These are mostly e-waste sitting around and collecting dust (Shitty old 32-bit CPU, DDR2 RAM in megabytes capacity, dead batteries)
>>107591535Retro gamers will buy them up
>>107591535Keep the most powerful one and throw/sell the others.
>>107591535preserve them to make kikes and updooters seethe.
>>107595728this.we must preserve the future for local computing and white children.
put netbsd on them and use them as servers
This is not a drill, it's finally confirmed that China has a working EUV prototype since early 2025, it's just undergoing testing and verification right now, expected to enter large scale production by 2028-2030. >In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance, Reuters has learned. Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor.>The availability of parts from older ASML machines on secondary markets has allowed China to build a domestic prototype, with the government setting a goal of producing working chips on the prototype by 2028, according to the two people.But those close to the project say a more realistic target is 2030, which is still years earlier than the decade that analysts believed it would take China to match the West on chips.>The breakthrough marks the culmination of a six-year government initiative to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, one of President Xi Jinping's highest priorities. While China's semiconductor goals have been public, the Shenzhen EUV project has been conducted in secret, according to the people.https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
>>107595279they have quantum computing also
>>107581648China is MSM fodder to invent bullshit headlines for NPCs to gawk at.
>>107590377it means he hates brownoids, as we all do
>>107595672But he is one?
>>107594394what? i don't play genshin impact, i jerk off to the porn
>What phone has X and Y feature?Don't ask, use these!https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphoneshttps://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&s=queryGood Resources:>Reviewshttps://www.gsmarena.comhttps://www.phonearena.comhttps://www.notebookcheck.net>Frequency Checkershttps://www.frequencycheck.comhttps://kimovil.com/en/frequency-checkerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I bought the phone you guys have said not to buy I hope it's good or I'm going to kill myself
>>107594015>Apparently silicon-carbon batteries will have shorter lifespans than traditional lithium-ion batteries They definitely do. I see phones with over 5000mah who has this new battery tech and they lose 1% battery health each month on average. It's about twice as fast at degrading as current li-ion batteries
>consumer statistics show that less than 10% of users care about thinness or AI shit, while the vast majority want bigger batteries>thinness and AI shit is the single most important shit to manufacturers and they will our right sacrifice battery life to make it happen>Manufacturers then act surprised that their thin, shit battery life, AI focused phones are huge flopsI don't understand this logic
>>107595331If they give us big batteries they know we wont upgrade as often. Now they gave us the new battery tech which provides much bigger batteries but degrades faster than ever before. If they make the perfect phone nobody will upgrade for years
>>107587405I'm thinking about it, but my budget's low at the moment.>>107588137I got it a few months ago as a gift from my sister, I'd feel bad to replace it... also, no money to replace it now.>>107592492My use case's pretty basic and I've never had this issue with other smartphones before though.
Qt has really caught my eye, though I'm only *learning C++*Is Qt worth learning? And is the Qt Creator a good IDE for developing in C++ in general, or do the projects usually orient around Qt and QML because you are using their ide which is for that?
>>107591284>Not necessarily expecting to deep dive and fully even grasp C++at least you're keeping your expectations reasonable>Life is too long to know C++ well. – Erik Naggum>I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet. – Erik Naggum
>>107590595>>107590595>Full of non standard C++ extensions that now compete with actual C++ features like lambdas.What part of Qt competes with lambdas? In my experience everything in Qt works really well with lambdas. There are other areas where the framework doesn't play as nicely with modern C++ concepts (like move semantics) but overall it works fine.
>>107591525I also find it very tedious. I can't get his smug german voice out of my head as I read it. Feels like I'm being patronized, in german
>Qt>instead of just using a namespace qt:: they decided to prefix all their classes with Q but keep everything in the global namespace >this is considered acceptable in sepplesland
>>107590569
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/29/vivaldi-says-no-to-ai-features/https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/If you're tired of "AI" niggotry shovelware in your browser, maybe it's time to make the switch.
>>107595118Meant for >>107595017
>>107594929>a chink is involved somehowOpera ownership is intentionally a clusterfuck so that it is truely independant and unfucked with. Do some more reasearch first.Whereas little pipsqueak Vilvadi is just waiting to be easily taken over to moment its founders lose control.NEXT REASON PLEASE. I SERIOUSLY WANT TO KNOW A GOOD REASON
>>107595039I use arch and I want these featuresin a way it's like an adblocker but for predatory website designslop, I want an agentic interface that will give me pure access to pure information and I don't care about "diversity of the web", I want to say that I want a cord extender, and I want to get it in 2 days, and I don't care about your webshit, popups, promotions, ads and other bloat
>>107594513>If you're tired of "AI" niggotry shovelware in your browser, maybe it's time to make the switch.Vivaldi is Chromium, Chromium has AI flags in it pre-baked.
>>107594752Nobody is afraid of it, you fucking retard. AI fucking sucks because the faggots in charge of it are fucking deluded twats with little to no grasp on reality. They use sites like Reddit to train their AI, ffs.
>XP and 7 are very insecure, upgrade now!!!>how exactly>extremely unsafe anyone could hack you>could you show me, perhaps on a vm how you hack a Windows7 box?>they are very very insecure you literally go online and you get riddled with malware>could you elaborate? maybe give me a link so i could click on and test your theory?>well, actually, if you download an exe and you run it as Administrator, you get infected very badly!>can't you do this on any OS? >s-shut up! shut up and upgrade because i say so okayHow come every online discussion about WindowsXP and 7 inevitably degenerates into this?
>>107591100Wait, are you the esl turdskin who keeps claiming to be English whenever people call out your esl drivel
>>107591074>Well, you see, over time people find holes and these holes are not getting fixed.Irrelevant, since you are unreachable by most attackers by default, therefore your operating system doesn't really matter.>Sure. Plug it into the internet and start counting.You trannies keep repeating the same thing for more than a decade at this point and so far nothing ever happened to me. Its almost as if you were all just fear-mongering faggots who know nothing about computers.>Granted, Eric turned off the firewall Ah yes, the all-known strategy that linux trannies and tech bros use to drive people away from better software. Simple lies.>Because some of us have to deal with the mess you make tranny
>>107591100>>107591121>Bro there's viruses, you just can't see them.>Bro you have covid, which is super dangerous, but you don't have any symptoms (still need to get the vaxxxx though)lmao kys retards. viruses always have an effect. whether they use your cpu to mine xmr or your network to do ddos shit.>inb4 THEY PATCHED TASK MANAGER SO YOU CANT TELLcpu usage comes with increased fan noise and network activity comes with extra blinking lights on the router.you people are literally getting scared over things that aren't there and then you use your overactive imagination to gaslight people into thinking there's magic viruses that you can't detectyou might as well just go to some african village preaching about how there's ghosts and they need to do shaman rituals to drive them away. maybe you'd get more acceptance there.
>>107590694Why are there discussions about XP and 7 at all? There is literally no valid reason to use either unless you have a computer which has this crap installed from like 2007 or something. I have a Windows 7 laptop and I still use it to rip CDs because it's my only computer with a CD drive, but if I was actually going to use that computer for something (not happening, it's too weak for anything beside ripping CDs) I'd install another OS.
>>107591551>And you too can continue to be a problem for everybody else for a low, low price of...Yeah I plan on doing just that. I'm not taking the digital vaccine, suckstart a shotgun nigger you don't get to tell me what I can and can't do with my own computer.
I got permabanned from Reddit right before I could get my evil plan going. It was never gonna happen...I was manic when I came up with it and it was just way too ambitious. But the idea was sound.It involves using an actual botchecker script that I wrote. I would make an account like BOT_CHECKER_BOT or something, and I would use the account on people I thought were bots. I would post a link to the github so people knew the script was legit.Except it isn't legit when I use it. When I plug in your username into the code, your bot score goes up over 100, meaning you are almost CERTAINLY a bot.It was my manic plan for revenge on reddit after getting accused of being a bot over and over and over and over again. I'm autistic, so sometimes I sound like ChatGPT.I just wanted to gaslight redditors, that's all. And I was gonna gaslight them GOOD. I also had plans for a MENTAL_HEALTH_BOT, which diagnoses you with a mental illness based on your comment history. The plan was to identify any user's comments that mentioned contemplating suicide and then post a link to the mental health crisis hotline. It would also post links to 24/7 drug counseling hotlines if their comment history made any mention of substance abuseI swear to fucking god, NO ONE hates redditors more than I do.
>>107593120someone already did this
Reddit mentioned!
>>107593120
Indian thread
Reddit is the cancer of internet. I don’t know what’s worse than pretending to be slme kind of champions of free speech while operating in completely opposite way. The whole operating principle of reddit is based on creating giant echo chambers and preventing any meaningful discussion.
>tfw fell for the 48GiB RAM meme
>>107595164So you're telling me...it's possible that there will be a influx of neets selling bussy just to pay off outdated rigs?
Bought this much ram to play with local models. Now I don't want to play with them anymore and most of this ram stays basically unused.
>>107595099i have 16GB DDR3, you cons000mer faaaaag
>>107595099>4770K, GTX 1070, 16GB DDR3Almost 12 years on this system now kek (except GPU) I'll just wait a little longer.
>>107595597change it to a fx8350 and that is me. and i swapped that bc my 1055 phenom was being incompatible with shit due the lack of avx, and i had a am3+ boards so...
I don't like these new captchasIt reminds me of every time I was rejected for a job because I wasn't fast enough to finish their annoying IQ tests.
>>107593890Should have made a webm/mp4 recording of itThough I have to admit mine have been pretty easy to solve
test
>>107590653stupid website*
Roundhouse kick hiroshimoot into the concrete
Testin
Time to find a new backup browser>Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI
>>107570619>IceCat>IceWeaselI am replying to you because you seem the only person ITT with a brain. I use Opera. The dipshits on >>107594513 can't give me a reason not to use Opera other than>a chink is involvedDo you have some reason not to user Opera?>captchaI like the new captcha as it requires an actual IQ above 80.
>>107595028>>107595206Doesn't unjewgled chrome have that?
>>107595300>Do you have some reason not to user Opera?
>>107595268Seriously, if they actually make this work and also provide a decent ad block, it is over for Firefox and most chromium derivative browsers.
you vill prompt ze ai
Karl Marx is:From each according to his abilityTo Each according to his need + the command for a centralized worker's state thats suppose to nationalize all industries and eventually collapse into a workers utopia. Lore of primitive communism -> slaverly -> feudalism -> capitalism -> state centralized sociallism -> communism being a linear path in history. Daily life is seen as an epic battle of good workers vs evil capitalist. Which gets "workers" and "capitalist" get searched and replaced with "gay" vs "straight" "black vs "white" "women" vs "patriarchy" "trans" vs "gender conforming" - the timeless epic battle gets readapted.FOSS is:Those with abilites make software for hobbies, personal gain, and passion. Those with needs get whats avalible but are not entitled to the able'ds laborNeeds are meet because the abled person's passion project coincidentatly helped others. here is no state agency commanding those with needs receive software it just happens through spontaneous order.+ advocacy for FOSS focuses heavily on digital decentralized and not being interdependent on big tech, no lore of an epic battle, utopia, or model that captures all of human history but there is an us vs them against big tech to be fair.Gay straight, trans, black, white just get along and develop cool software. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107592788Not communism, but socialism.>FOSS is:The programmers (workers) must control their software (means of production).Best argument otherwise would be that FOSS talks about licensing instead of ownership which weakens the statement.
>>107594889>65-70 million innocents dead by communist regimes, even if you exclude natural famines and nazi and tsar deathsWhat? But that is impossible
Marx and Proudhon both said "Property is theft" but they meant two different thingsMarx meant any wealth generated by labor that is not universally accessible to everyone; which includes a small buisness owner's occupied coffee shop. Marx thinks everyone has the mandated right to free coffee there, from haves to have nots)Proudhon, who coined [italics]property is theft[/italics] meant patents, absentee ownership, absentee landlordism, protectionism/cronyism, and wealth aquired outside of labor. Proudhon would have had no problem with the coffee shop even if it wasn't a worker co-op. He would insist the coffee shop owner temporarily own the place of buisness and not a land lord, though to disapoint AnCaps he would have drawn the line at owning more then one coffee shop. (occupancy and use)Marx wanted workers to seize the means of production with violence and build an all powerful GovernmentProudhon wanted to build an alternative system from the ground up where workers own their own means of production. Focusing on both markets and communal mutual aidMarx was fueled by his own epic novel story of us vs them that takes place throughout all of human history. That's why he keeps getting readapted because the epic story of good vs evil narrative gives simple minded people a sense of meaningProudhon was making a cold analysis of injustices of the ruling class spotting economic priveldge that Tucker and Spooner later disected and confronted. Many of his arguments live in today with libertarians critiquing crony capitalism and occupy wallstreet critiquing land lordism. Though they split into a left and a right when they should be unified as one coherrent ideology.FOSS uses voluntary contracts like the GPL3 anyone can enter or leave at any time, FOSS critiques the Government's patent mopoly and peacefully builds alternative systems, small buisness owners can power their companies with it. I wonder what side FOSS is really on?
Because its something thatd get a boost from that. Open source makes sacrifices under capitalism.
>>107592788The problem is, and what you're missing is, that people conflate the GPL with FOSS.
at some point you just gotta accept the fact that 99.9% of the modern net was designed with google chrome in mindi know firefox is great at privacy but when it comes to just general usability over the web, chrome has it beat
>>107595631Works on my machine.
