Could this be a replacement for Google?
>>107620714Duckduckgo is a fine alternative to google.I have not used google for the last 6 years or so. During this time Ive mostly used duckduckgo. Sometimes tried qwant, swisscows, brave, searx. Qwant is fine, but I dislike the UI and recently it started blocking my computer or network or something. It is not customizable through GET parameters (for if you use private mode) for saving settings.Swisscows was slow, and recently I think they switched to a pay to use model.Brave does have fine search results but I hate the UI and the AI summary. It does not support GET parameters.searx is very customizable and supports GET parameters. I dont use it is because it can be very slow.Then comes duckduckgo.>fast responsesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107627634>QwantQwant is not recommended by Privacy Guides, and has some issues.Concerns over Qwant privacy policy:https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#qwantFrench legal involvement:https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-enginePartnership with Huawei:https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_partners_with_qwant_will_offer_search_services_to_users_in_europe-news-42538.php
>>107620714for me it already is
Google continues to be the only search engine truly worth a damn. Though startpage (because it MOSTLY uses google results, still missing shit though) is good too. Yandex has its own indexing which can be useful in edge cases but is still subpar to Google in general, and it's ability to sort results is pitiful. DDG is especially terrible
When searches aren't just blatantly censored it's usually just worse than google. Occasionally their search system just has a fucking stroke and gives you nothing but porn even though your search could not be misconstrued as porn in any conceivable way.Being able to disable the useless AI shit is nice but that's the only thing going for it.
the ram price hikes make now sense, almost everyone I know is set on their ram, every technical person has enough ram for the next 2 decades.so who's actually buying them, because now even ddr4 is going up?and don't tell me it's AI companies because there's no way that would have as much impact as it did... seems fishy and very artificial.
>every technical personMeanwhile straggler normies are still buying new computers because Microsoft has them spooked into "upgrading" to Windows 11.
>>107628220>so who's actually buying them, because now even ddr4 is going up?data centers, scalpers
>>107628691ram is everywhere tho, at many companies I worked for we used to to shovel them out the door, there's enough for everyone even if it gets scalped
Why are so many people pretending to actually be Linux users?They try it out and call it better than Windows but next time they show their PCs they're always back on Windows.Why are Linux users fine with being grifted on?
>>107628392People who use Troonix are massive attention whoresNormal people will just use Windows since it just works
>>107628424Mint works better than any Winjeet build thoughbeit
>>107628392>Why are so many people pretending to actually be Linux users?Because it is the latest "hardcore" thing normalfags can pretend to be a part of>Why are Linux users fine with being grifted on?Because they don't watch any of this shit and could not give a fuckI personally hate it because the more normalfag that use Linux the worse it will get.
>>107628392This isn't made for Linux users, nigger.
>>107628392That guy had his system nuked by that Btrfs log tree corruption bug from a few months ago, so it's no wonder he went back to Windows if that was his very first experience with Linux.
Touch starved editionprevious: >>107600533 READ THE (temp)WIKI! & help by contributing:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Home_server/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/PFsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.>What software should I run?Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin/Emby/Plex to replace Netflix, Nextcloud to replace Googlel, Ampache/Navidrome to replace Spotify, the list goes on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.>Why should I have a home server?De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your tech skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I wouldn't make a server without kvm/ipmi funtionality. It's too comfy and has nothing to do with if you use ssh or not.
>>107623987No. I built my NAS years before I got into home servers and use it entirely for cold storage. The (12) disks are lucky to get 10 hours a year of use and letting them (and the fans) run 24/7 would be a hell of a waste.Knowing what I know now, rather than a jumble of 12 disks, I'd just buy 4 20TB drives a miniITX board and install it all in a 3d printed 10" rack mount case and run truenas as a VM on a forbidden router.Right now I've got a mini PC running home assistant OS that has addons for CCTV, torrents and a 4TB SSD samba share, and that covers all my basic needs.
>compress ratio 1.01x>compress ratio 1.01x>compress ratio 1.02x
Answer me these questions three, and revealed it shall how much of a retard I be:>How dumb of an idea would it be to try and cram a pair of enterprise m.2 drives (eg. Samsung PM9A3) into a 65W mini PC?>If I go with consumer SSDs instead, and interrogating them with nvme-cli reports a physical/logical block size of '512e', then (presuming this info will not be specified in the datasheet) is there any way to check what sector size the drives are actually using- without going through the rigmarole of remaking a storage pool to test the performance of 512b vs 4kb, etc.?>Unrelated to the above, if you have a server mobo with four memory slots that caps out at 256GB of RAM (if populated with 4x 64GB RDIMMs), but you only had enough cash to buy either 1x 64GB vs. 4x 32GB sticks, what would you do? Lock yourself in forever at 128GB, or hope RAM prices drop in future and that you'll be able to scrounge up three more of the relatively rare 2Rx4 DDR4 64GB modules you need?
>>107620983Bump
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):wiki.archlinux.orgwiki.debian.orgwiki.alpinelinux.org>Which distro should I choose?KubuntuFedora KDEDebian>What are some cool programs?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>107627881>It's probably asking because you can.pacman is not smart enough to check hardware compatibility.
>>107628195Check out Distrobox. You can't just use pacman unless it's configured to only install into a chroot otherwise it will fuck with your system's packages.
>>107628403Which is why he said "If your card is new enough". The reason pacman is asking is because it's basically asking you to make a decision.
Is there any way to have Baldur's Gate EE on Wine to work without buying the native linux version? The native linux version on 1337x has no seeders
Done with Nobara after half a year of using it. Is Cachy a more sensible meme distro or am I just postponing my eventual move to vanilla fedora/arch?
Why is Hare losing maintainers? I thought it was supposed to be the next big thing ...
>>107627566>He's going to add a borrow checker as an afterthought?To be fair, he crated Hare because he's a C programmer who wanted C but with modern language features. He didn't prioritize memory safety while developing Hare, as the motivations for the language rested elsewhere. I agree that adding borrow checking to the language at a late stage is probably a mistake, but considering the direction of the industry, he pretty much has to make his language memory safe in order for people to want to use it for anything that is not just a hobby project.
>>107627574based
>>107626210>be Drew>some fag doesn't want to be associated with him anymore
>>107628027Who dat
>>107627191That's it, I'm going back to Vlang now.
I work at a hospital there are so many items that cost like 15k that do most simplest tasks. For example this pill counter which uses computer vision of some sort to count pills costs literally 2k to 10k.Can any anons tell me how they're getting away with such outsourcing price gouging
>>107617237>Government needs to be the only payer, put a gun to their head, and say>NO I'M NOT PAYING $15 FOR THE TYLENOLThat's literally what some European countries do. They set price ceilings with major pharma companies abroad for certain categories of drugs. If no pharmaceutical company wants to cater at or below those ceilings, then government gives free reign for domestic companies to reverse engineer equivalents and push them to market.This has resulted in pharmas forming cartels where particular expensive drug category A is only produced by company A at max price, whereas expensive drug category B is only produced by company B and ne'er shall the two meet. And since they're not agreeing on a price level for the same category of product, this legally isn't cartel pricing and cannot be fixed through legal means. ... yet, anyway. Something has been brewing at the EU level for this, for the past few years.
>>107619302that pill counter still needs a jeet operator, it's purpose isn't to replace human operators you're giving 3k tools to your 12 hour jeet
>>107616147It's because medical equipment needs to undergo a shitload of certifications to get approval to be sold as medical equipment. Just a handful of companies want to deal with that amount of retarded red tape, therefore it's just a handful of companies offering equipment like that. Therefore they don't sell at a price the equipment is worth but at a price they can get away with.
>>107616147i worked at a med device company that charged a few thousand dollars for a lipo battery that powered a surgical head lamp.
>>107616373maganiggers would be real mad if they knew how to read
Why doesn't MS get enough credit for DirectX?Every GPU innovation ever only exist because Microsoft kickstarted it through DirectX. Remember when GPU went from the separated Vertex and Pixel shaders paradigm to the unified shaders paradigm around 2006 ? That was because Microsoft rewrote their graphical API stack for WIndows Vista and the Xbox 360. NVidia and ATI only created GPUs that would work with the new API.DX12 on Windows PCs and Xbox is pretty kino.
They're worth a trillion dollars, they got all the credit.
>>107627457because it's a bad proprietary api. simple as that
>>107627847novody cares for your pedantry
>>107627457> Every GPU innovation ever only exist because Microsoft kickstarted it through DirectX.The GPU manufacturers have always told Microsoft what to put in DirectX, not the other way around.Every time Microsoft tried to get GPU manufacturers on board with something, it had failed. See what happened when they tried to standardize the swizzle layout for storing textures.
>>107628181>DirectX is cheap knockoff OpenGL.They were nowhere near similar until OpenGL 2.x copied Microsoft's pixel and vertex shader-based system.
>"Vivaldi says their roadmap to 2026 it is not AI"What is the deal with the Anti-AI derangement syndrome? I don't like to judge people, but the anti-AI seem to include an evenly distribution of furries, twitter "artists", people with funny hair color, and a poor understanding of economy.
>>107616119>new thing is good
>>107616119Like most things it is made of people who know what is happening and why it is shit and should just fucking stop, but then the other 95% who are massive faggots that want the same thing but for entirely the wrong reasons.
>>107627529>drooling retard>all these linksTake some reading classes to improve your reading comprehension. I specifically said "I personally would consider smart". I do not care about some university professor's (who can be retard too) opinion or random journos writing their pieces.
>>107616216i was anti ai/rt/vr a decade ago when i tried it and saw it was all a useless scam bubble waiting to pop
stop noticing ai stop using aihave fun with your machine gods
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/>scrape the entire web>one guy scrapes them>sueyeah.
>Saar Papinever heard of itwhy should I care
>>107619337>scrape the web>sue everyone else who scrapes the webVery typical of big tech.
>>107627600SERP is a SEO term (search engines results page)basically used like this, >whats your serp position for that keyword? so theyre not only scraping google, theyre helping other people game google by tracking marketing positions
fuck google
>>107619376google are attempting to stifle competition. it's ok for google to scrape the internet for everyone's data but they are offended when anyone else scrapes their search engine>>107619475>licensed contentgoogle never paid me license fees when it scraped my site and added the urls into its search engine. i had to contact them to remove my shit. where's my money, kike?>>107619487lmao
I am making some autistic shit that may be interesting only to CS PHD autismos.
what is this board of 19 names and 5 colors blocks dissimenated in random places suppose to mean?
>>107628247>Googled chicuelas, but missed the s at the end>Gross troon shows up
20 names, my brain isn't trained to count the zero. lol
>>107628324I want to make chess, but like gnomoria.That grid is basically the relationship between the npcs.Green means they get along and are friendly, orange and red means they hate each other.I need to generate this because I will use this 2D grid to calculate how npcs interact.
This is game dev related. CS researchers aren't studying these kinds of problems.
>OLED TVs are most durable by far in terms all malfunctions>burn-in is solved and only occurs when you do it intentionally https://youtu.be/ot1gr-YypY4
>>107627200define "retarded"
>TVsWhat am I 40+ years old?
>>107625983>burn-in is solved and only occurs when you do it intentionally for TVs maybe but burn-in is still a major problem for computer monitors where you have plenty of static elements.
>>107625983>states "burn-in is not an issue unless you deliberately torture-test your TVs, like we did">the test in question had nothing to do with proving the statement, so I just have to take his word for it I guess?Pointless. Fair enough on the overall longevity though. On the other hand, I don't give a shit about TVs specifically.
>>107627244It is not
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>>107627026Probably a case of moving everything to jeet-friendly tech. Jeets are probably more comfortable with that than with a C++ taskbar.
>>107623210lol, blaming the least maga techbros and ignoring the most pro trump techbros (literally all the rest). Keep going, don't hurt your masters' feeling
Windows truly is the Linux of desktops
>entitely rewrite the taskbar>strip out 90% of the features>it's slower and looks worse than beforeHow did they accomplish it?
>>107628518>unironically simping for bill 'vaxmaster' gates
>friend is like>macOS > linux>gives a bunch of retarded normie shit reasons that have fucking nothing to do with technologywhat do?
>>107617634>>107620014>>107622120
>>107626446cope
>>107617634The small peanut butter cups are miles better than the big ones. They only sell the big ones in my country and I was super disappointed.
>friend
>unable to refute his pointsSo he was right?
Use native technologies to build software.Don't use web trash running on webview.Build proper GUI software.Web shit has only ONE purpose: cheap cross platform.Use, WinForms or WPF or WinUI on Windows. don't use webshitUse SwiftUI or whatever macos gotUse GTK or QT on linux.Don't turn off your brains and rely on the AI sloppa. it will often hit awall and start producing trash that is not meant to work without hacks to drop in your code.AI sloppa is only good for grunt work. the process of actually designing software is a creative process that no AI sloppa will ever be able to nail.It happens more often that you ask the AI sloppa to make a certain solution work. one that CAN'T work without resorting to bad hacks. you will have to think of a better way than ask the robot to smash the thing with the hammer.
>>107628468>Web shit has only ONE purpose: cheap cross platform.I want that though.
>>107628498then make a website. not a desktop program
>Don't turn off your brains and rely on the AI sloppa. it will often hit awall and start producing trashHad this problem today. Just started a cool personal project a couple days ago, used Claude Code to write boilerplate, but the boilerplate was really complicated and over-engineered so I just had it continue implementing stuff instead of bothering to figure it out myself. Wasted my entire weekly limit and $20 on extra usage. sigh...
