will cut the wire

https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online

I've always treated proton as "fake privacy solution", but now when their CEO thinks that age verification is not a problem per-se, I feel like I should go for some other email provider
any suggestions for things that normiemail (gmail, outlook, etc) accept?

>>43205936
I'd say it's all email, the idea is to use it to hide from Google / amazon and so on collecting your email data not actual privacy. For that proton is okay. Tutanota also exists and works just fine.
Just remember: no one is going to court over your 5 bucks.
You should also be using email alias (simple login / anonaddy) since apparently no one can do security correctly so at least if your email gets breached it's easy to swap an alias out.

>>43205946
>simple login
isn't it's a proton project? kek

>>43205936
Just use an alternative email from your ISP, don't bother with"privacy oriented" email providers. If you want email privacy you should use PGP.

>>43205953
Kinda? Idk I know rh company is french but they use proton's data centers now. But you're right in the argument that they don't give you privacy.
My point with aliases is to make emails leaks (which will happen) easier to manage.
Like >>43205955 says if you want privacy with emails use PGP. And ultimately don't use emails at all. Email has never been and will never be private.

>>43205946
>For that proton is okay
it's faux-privacy policy prevents (You) frop using IMAP/POP3, lmao
>You should also be using email alias
I do it the hard way my regging a new email for every service I use
>>43205955
>Just use an alternative email from your ISP
>trusting ISP
>ever
shiggy
>If you want email privacy you should use PGP.
I know, I just want a service that doesn't nuke my account for making problematic remarks or similar bullshit

>>43205995
>I just want a service that doesn't nuke my account for making problematic remarks or similar bullshit
sadly this is quasi impossible, emails are not private at all. The only privacy emails can provide is whoever has them while at rest. That's it. And even with that if you send emails to a gmail or icloud address congrats your original email now is on google's or apple's servers too.
The only thing I see for you would be hosting your own email, but even that doesn't help unless you only send emails to fellow weirdoes that also host their own emails.
All in all, emails is not for debating best waifu.

>>43205927
I've used Windows for years without using Windows Update and Defender and I'm still keeping it that way.

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>>43205927
we are so back

>>43206247
>captcha
lmao

>>43206283
>paypig
LMFAO

>>43206374
>Passes cost $30 for 1 year or $60 for 3 years, which is about $1.67 per month—or less than a single 20oz bottle of soda.
how poor r u?

>>43206444
At least $30 richer than you, fag lmao

>>43206605
>$30
how fucking poor are you to think that I'd get the cheaper (and worse!) option?

>>43206918
>oink oink
Sorry, I don't speak paypig.

>>43206283
>>43206444
yea i only know like 2 people who use passes and it's out of absolute necessity

Anyone else use GrapheneOS?

>>43207120
>it's out of absolute necessity
skill issue with captchas?
>>43208081
they only support Pixels, so I'm on Lineage
hope their collab with Motorola results in something good

>>43208103
>skill issue with captchas?
nope, unreasonable bans
>GOS's collab with Motorola
it's very entreating, now i either choose to get my hopes up for a good camera or come back down to reality
i think i'd be getting it either way, unless the latest pixel running the latest GOS is genuinely better, kek

>>43208149
>unreasonable bans
fucking permabans or what?

>>43208168
No shit, yeah.

>>43208081
Yup, it just works.

>>43208523
>paying to post on a site that blocks you for a ban meant for someone else
I can hardly imagine anything more cuckish.

>>43208525
I've been daily driving it since December, just a few quirks I get bothered by but that's cause I'm running another home launcher on it instead of stock.
And my issue is, whenever I unlock the phone or swipe out of the app, or turn the phone on, it stays on my wallpaper for a few seconds before finally showing all of my apps
Again, probably the launcher I'm using.
Is everything stock for you? How many profiles?

>>43209251
Oh yeah that's a default launcher thing. I'm with launcher. Switching profiles isn't an issue either. I got a couple, mainly a main one and one for Google play services. Really no complaints.

>>43209269
*Lawnchair.

>>43209251
>>43209269
I set up a secondary profile for Play services, but honestly the best way to use it is to leave the main profile empty and then set up both a secondary profile for your normal usage and another one for Play services. This is because the main profile always has to be unlocked after boot since it hosts some key material for system files or whatever. Keeping your main activity on a secondary profile too lets you end the session and instantly put all your user data back to rest (encrypted) without needing to reboot your phone.

Someone left an empty server rack next to the trash containers. Now it's mine.

>>43210365
This, yeah.
And if you're lazy you can use shelter to get a work profile. If I remember correctly this de facto works like a secondary profile since graphene re-made work apps shutdown and not hibernate when it's locked.
Also comes with an easy way to share files and whatnot

>>43208103
>hope their collab with Motorola results in something good
They're only planning to release it on their 800+ bucks models, so not really.

>>43210501
Phones depreciate immensely fast and doesn't graphene demand 7 years of updates now? You'll be able to buy last year's model for like 300-400 bucks and get a minimum of 6 years of updates which, while not forever, is still plenty of time compared to the average lifecycle of modern phones.

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Switched to Debian with XFCE because I'm disheartened with the current state of things

>>43210535
But Debian is undergoing enshittification as well.

>>43210542
you're not wrong

>>43210550
I was on Debian XFCE myself for about 8 months, but I decided to go back to Windows 10 LTSC and just wait
I missed Paint.NET and ShareX.

>>43210365
Use case for profiles? Aren't google services already sandboxed? Also I assume this refers to "user profiles".
t. graphene user

>>43210569
Basically even if the google play services are sandboxed it doesn't mean that they don't send data to Google every time they can. So the idea is to have something that doesn't phone home at all. Same applies to other spooky apps.

>>43210569
Google services are sandboxed in the sense of running as a normal app. It can still run in the background as an app - not nearly as well as a system service, but it still can. If you give it location permissions (e.g. because you use google maps sometimes) it can then track your location, etc.
Apps in inactive profiles get hard shut down; when you switch away from a secondary profile it's basically logging out that user, completely killing all his apps, and closing his encrypted user data so the keys are no longer in memory, etc. etc.

Also, profiles are generally isolated and get different hardware IDs, user IDs etc., so to a certain degree Graphene claims they appear to be completely different devices to apps. I don't know how 100% thorough this is, but since Android apps are pretty locked down by design, it actually sounds plausible to me. Thus you can have separate profiles with separate Google Play services and have them mostly unlinked, e.g. if you use separate google profiles on each you can even separate some of your activity/apps entirely from google's point of view, and the only links they'd have would be circumstantial (e.g. from location data they'd guess that the "two devices" are probably used in the same home, but they wouldn't have an easy way to determine that it's literally the same phone and not e.g. two different family members or whatever).

>>43210562
Dang, I can't exactly relate to that since I haven't used windows on my desktop in forever. What are you waiting for exactly? Just better support for making Windows stuff work? I've never used Paint.NET either, is it really that good?

>>43210530
>300-400 bucks
My last phone was 150 lol

I'm not spending hundreds on a device that I hate and only use out of absolute necessity.

>>43210576
Thanks, sounds cool, maybe I'll give it a try. I don't have any way of checking if this extra isolation really works (outside just trusting it works), but I guess it can't hurt.
The main thing I'd be interested in is the play store. I try to minimize dependency on google stuff as much as possible to begin with, so I only really have play store, youtube and gmail installed, of which only store really needs to be an app. If I put it in a separate profile, will it be able to update apps that I use on another profile?

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>>43210589
>What are you waiting for exactly?
For how long will Win 10 be supported. I estimate around 2028-2029, 2030+ is very very optimistic. XP lasted for about 2 years after EoL, 7 after 3-4 years.
>Just better support for making Windows stuff work?
As far as games go, I am pretty content. Sometimes Linux even performs better than Windows when it comes to older games. I also like that I can have a virtual desktop, essentially giving me windowed mode where it wasn't a thing.
Paint.NET is really convenient for me. Something as simple as scaling turns out to be black magic on Linux. GIMP does it the best, but it's a hassle to click through something twice or thirce in order to view the option. Pinta has scaling, but it's not precise for me as it's only possible to scale pictures by holding shift, there are no corners or edges you can grab. KolourPaint would be perfect if it didn't randomly freeze or crash, I don't know what is the issue with this one.
ShareX is another thing I'm way too used to. Screenshots on Linux are fine, but ShareX has screen capture under Shift + Print Screen which allows me for quick screen capture. Linux doesn't have anything like this unless I manually enter the software like OBS or SimpleScreenRecorder and select the dimensions (also on Wayland there's nothing to record with apart from OBS which is absurd). Spectacle from KDE is the closest thing to ShareX, but it does not record audio, nor there are any plans to implement audio recording, and it immediately removes screenshots from your clipboard once the notification goes out. You have to be running this program all the time in order to keep the screenshot in your clipboard, or manually select it from the disk.
Archivers are Linux's really important problem that doesn't seem to get addressed anywhere. Basically all software is missing something as simple as drag n drop from the archive into the catalog. Ark on KDE has it, but it has issues with some archives, displaying them as corrupted even though xarchiver or PeaZip are able to run it. If I recall correctly the archiver on Linux Mint has drag n drop but it can't do all files at once, it requires you to
Yet another thing I do is backups. On Windows I use Macrium Reflect which gives me a GUI for copying partitions from disk to disk. It's also good that it has partition resizing, so you can copy contents from 1TB drive to 500GB one if your 1TB drive is 400GB full for example. To my knowledge there is no GUI for this on Linux, besides an utility called CloneZilla, but that doesn't appear to support big disk -> small disk copies, as I wasn't able to copy my 512GB SSD onto a 500GB one, so another absurd.
Credits due where its due. Bash is a great tool and I wish I had it on Windows instead of CMD and PowerShell. SSH is also way better than SMB.But that's it for the praises from me.

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>>43210683
DE's are a complete mess, GNOME devs insisting on killing off anything GTK based that isn't GNOME. Not sure what the future holds for XFCE once GTK3 goes out of support. Cinnamon has bugs like not remembering keyboard and mouse speed settings. Multi monitor setups and power management is also weird. I remember that when I used my laptop in a dock, I had switched off the built in display and set the external monitor as the primary display. When undocked, the laptop display was blank. What I had to do first was to change the primary display back to the laptop or else it wouldn't display anything even though the external screen was unplugged.
Good philosophy, but horrible execution in the end. Linux has a lot of utilities that work great in CLI, but that's still about it. The past decade seems to have focused way too much on making games playable, while neglecting other functions. I can get stuff done more conveniently even on Windows XP than on any modern Linux distro, as I always feel like I'm forced to do compromises and do things different from what I used to do, just because no one bothered to implement something that's been on Windows 20 years ago.

>copy files on the usb drive
>after it's done click unmount
>unmounted
>unplug
>plug in
>drive empty

>>43210687
Enter the terminal and type sync before unmounting your drives.

>>43210687
linux ?

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>>43210683
Just wait for the Windows 11 K2 update and we will be able to move on AMIRITE

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>>43210725
Maybe it will be genuinely good. If not, whatever, I still get more shit done on unsupported Wangblows than Linux.

>>43210683
I’ve used sharex too and found it very convenient, but I’ve ended up finding a replacement that allows for the quick select screen and screenshot functionality, I’m not 100% sure if you can set up auto uploads or have it automatically cache images into folders by month but it does have image editing tools after you’ve taken the screenshot too. It’s called KSnip and can be downloaded quickly from the package manager.
Only huge problem I’ve run into is weird font scaling with proton, I can’t get SFM to fix its font scaling even with dpi or resolution changes and installing missing fonts in protontricks, and adobe animate doesn’t work nicely with wine (so I run it with windows 10 in virtualbox but I really regret not getting the LSTC ISO)
That and some games don’t play well with proton, I’ve gotten pretty bad lag spikes and latency with a indie WWI game so I haven’t played it much.

>>43210735
>font scaling
Oh yeah, I have issues with fonts in general regardless of distro. For some reason the smoothing is all wrong on some websites and I can see artifacts around the font's edge.

>>43210683
>Paint.net
I agree there, it's insane that there's no quick and easy paint-like replacement on Linux. Krita and Gimp are all well and good but sometimes I don't want to boot up bootleg photoshop just for cropping or resizing an image quickly or scribbling a red circle and arrow pointing towards it with a pencil tool.

>ShareX
It's a very convenient all-in-one solution on windows but I'm pretty sure you should be able to get the same thing on linux with just a bit of tweaking and combining things manually. For screenshotting there's tons of tools, I use maim; OBS has global shortcuts too, though I don't remember off the top of my head if it lets you dynamically drag a selection to set the recording dimensions.
Wayland sucks that much is true.

>archivers
>backups
Really the main issue on linux is that GUIs are always a secondary feature. Archiving tools are perfectly comprehensive and support every reasonable and unreasonable archival format; backups have tons of options/solutions, you can easily have automated backups, you can set up btrfs snapshotting for snapshot backups of a live in-use system, you can set up automatic booting from backups, you can backup to remote systems over ssh or web or any protocol that you please, you can have distributed backups, incremental backup policies, etc. etc.
But all of that requires fucking about with config files to set the policy you want and usually invoking them on the command line, GUIs are few and far between and I'm not surprised to hear you are missing features when trying a GUI-only approach.

>DEs
Basically the same issue as GUIs, yeah. I have my setup and it works for me but it is absolutely true that the vast majority of the time, either of windows or macos will probably be more stable, more polished and more intuitive for a normal user than a linux DE.

> I always feel like I'm forced to [...] do things different from what I used to do,
Here's where I disagree though, using a different OS will always involve doing some things differently. Switching to macOS, or from mac to Windows, would be no different, and some things would be different and some workflows would have to change.
Having to compromise on functionality is unfortunate, but having to learn a different way to do things is normal when switching your entire OS.

>The past decade seems to have focused way too much on making games playable, while neglecting other functions.
You are very likely correct. I do hope the future improves here. There's a push towards immutable distros and generally better update management, which should solve a lot of "I don't know computers and my linux randomly broke, help!" issues. DEs are still fucking shit, unfortunately, but now that games are working well and once updating and system stability are widely working well, one can hope that maybe the GUI experience will be properly fixed next. At least GNOME might get dethroned and KDE might actually get improved thanks to Valve and copycats.

>>43210365
>>43210569
this. I have 3 profiles, the default one, secondary (google play services), and a finance profile
the main profile has FOSS apps and no GP services, just stuff from Accresent, FDroid and Obtanium, mostly for when I don't need any GP services. @nd profile is the one I live in, all my apps, social media, games, slop, everything , "opsec" apps, etc. Third profile is where my banking/sending money apps are, just to feel safe. Though about moving my work stuff on there too but It's not as important to me
>>43210424
I thought the implementation of profiles was a result of the usage of Shelter? I can see the appeal though, one click away into accessing your apps, but there's still a higher risk of whatever's in there being accessed compared to say a dedicated profile.
There's also the stock feature of private apps, you can private apps in a separate row that will appear in your app drawer and you have to unlock it by tying in your passcode or fingerprint, I used to do this with my work apps but the notifications wouldn't work unless I kept it open, and at that point, well, there is no point in keeping them there

EVERYONE DITCH YOU DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT AND SUCK LESS!

>>43210610
>If I put it in a separate profile, will it be able to update apps that I use on another profile?
Unfortunately not. The main/owner profile is special in that it can install its apps "into" any other profile, but other profiles can't install or update apps in any other profile (neither the owner nor other secondary profiles).
So any profile where you need an app from the play store, you have to install google play. Or, you can use aurora store to download apps without the play store app and without a google account (if the app is just available on the play store, but doesn't need play services running to function).

>>43210825
>I live in the google play profile
Odd, my primary profile is FOSS only and I only open the google play profile when specifically needing some app from the play store, e.g. uber for a trip or something

How do I degoogle reliance on big tech? Any modern frontends to get a better experience than big tech?

>>43210837
What are you trying to do
Big tech loves to sell you everything integrated so you get invested in the "ecosystem" and don't want to leave. Degoogling usually involves taking every piece that you use and finding an alternative for it individually

>>43210849
Maybe alternative to Spotify, alternative to Reddit besides Redlib and Lemmy, social media alternatives and ways to de-enshittify stuff or find open replacements that are resistant to enshitiffication.

>>43210873
>alternative to spotify
depends on what you're looking for
foobar2k for windows and Deadbeef for linux
Sidify to rip your spotify albums with metadata and cover art off of Spotify (Spotify might send you a mean email but they do nothing)
If you want live music, look into internet radio stations, ones that aren't shit will have no advertisements, just about every radio station has a internet radio link nowadays, and there's some good /mlp/ ones that run 24/7.
>alternative to retardit
don't you faggots already have the link that leads to the old non-retarded version of the site? Just use it in the web browser.
>social media alternatives
quit them all, fuck social media, if you need to stay in touch with friends, then use matrix, teamspeak, telegram, PGP encrypted email, etc.
>ways to de-enshittify stuff
swap to another service, stop trying to find bypasses for already shit platforms just to get them to run, in the grand scheme of things it gives those companies fuel to kvetch about things like ((age verification)) [actually identity verification] being bypassed.
>resistant to enshittification
anything that can be easily forked, edited, and is open source, if they roll out garbage, you can physically roll-back to a previous version, or you can begin removing the new commit changes that caused the enshittification.

>>43210873
>alternative to spotify
Almost always just downloading songs yourself. There's no alternative to "massive global repository of songs and an algorithm that automatically queues recommendations for you"; but if you know what you want to listen to you can just download it and play it locally.
You can also host your own music servers and listen to your music across multiple devices, if you want to (though to start with just downloading like 50GB of music onto your phone, depending on how much storage you have, is probably plenty for most people as a first step to de-spotify).

>alternatives to reddit
Well, social media exists where the users post their shit, so the stuff people have posted on reddit will only ever be on reddit. You can find different frontends to access it to avoid using the official website (I don't remember them off the top of my head).
Same for other social media. The usual twitter alternative is mastodon but basically you kinda have to use whatever your friends/connections use.

>and ways to de-enshittify stuff or find open replacements that are resistant to enshitiffication
Everything can be enshittified, especially when it comes to websites/social media/"communities". Usually the benefit of open stuff is that there can be forks to avoid the enshittification, or you can migrate to another instance, or whatever. But if the average people making up some "community" enshittify it then being open or closed won't matter.

Most of the value of degoogling comes from not using apps or services from bit tech; for websites, not much you can do other than obviously avoid installing any apps for something your browser can do

>>43210712
HAHAHAHAHA

>just use the console before removing a fucking usb stick

THIS IS SO MUCH WHAT LINUX IS LIKE LMFAO

>>43210833
yea, i use social media a lot to text normie friends, and to be blunt, i am a bit of a doom scroller. to be fair it gives me millions of ideas
maybe that's just zoomer cope, i used to try and use FOSS apps on this profile too but I got really into nostalgia and I replaced the stock apps in this profile with skeumorphic ones that are definitely not FOSS kek
that is the beauty of graphene
i can be retarded in bliss

>>43210902
>i use social media a lot to text normie friends,
Yeah not much you can do there unless you manage to convince your friends to also not be retarded and get off the botnet data harvester media
>to be fair it gives me millions of ideas
I mean, do you act on any of them? Nothing to be "fair" about if you're just doomscrolling and not doing anything else with your life, ideas are infinite and free, it's the doing that's expensive

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>>43210813
Thank you for your answer, it's hard to see an actual comprehensive response. /g/ is doomed.

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>43210900
I know this is bait but I'll bite
Enjoy your default file search/indexing in file explorer taking hours to find files in a couple of directories, lord forbid 10+ minutes if in one folder unless you use third party tools because windows can't figure out their shit.
Both OS's have their upsides and downsides, but windows past 10's release just has gotten noticeably slower and worse overall, especially with shit like bitlocker that'll ransom you out of your data if you can't find your keys for it (ignoring microsoft's already retarded account log-in procedure that can just be bypassed if you use a non-outlook email)
Point is, both systems have their grievances, and having to copy paste a command into the terminal is less grievous then worrying that bitlocker will lock your computer, that microsoft will release a update that breaks a shit ton of software, or that you'll always have to give your microsoft account (lord forbid you have none) to access new(er) windows OS installations even if you paid for them, unless you want to spend hours in the registry fixing things.

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>>43210911
>unless you manage to convince your friends to also not be retarded
>gifrel
>do you act on any of them?
yea actually, mostly for music though, sometimes the stupidest video will have the best song for a sample, or a refresh of the homepage gives me new music to discover, on art side of things tho...
maybe i do need to get up from my ass on that hand, and actually putting the music out there too/art

>>43210882
>Deadbeef
Did they add any sort of functional library browser yet? I fear my distro will stop providing i386 runtime at some point which will break some of my foobar plugins that only have 32 bit builds kek

>>43210930
Could you tell me more about bitlocker? I don't use disk encryption. I'm 10 LTSC user.

>>43210930
Dude, we're talking about removing an USB stick here. A FUCKING USB STICK. And you bring up encryption. Removing an USB stick without losing data is something that should've worked without a hitch TWENTY years ago. Linux is just a joke.

And Windows isn't shit, the kernel is actually a million times better than the Linux kernel. It's just all the shitware that's stacked on top of it (especially Windows Store apps) and especially the fact you're the product and not the customer when you're using Windows that's the problem. If Windows actually had some legit competition and wasn't run by a shitty Big Tech company it would beat Linux in literally every facet of computing.

>>43210712
Unmount should sync the fs before unmounting, normally. Something's going very wrong if you unmount a drive and all the writes are missing.

>>43211040
Normally the "unmount" operation handles this, and on windows you have to right click -> eject in exactly the same way, just a different coat of paint.

You don't have to manually sync filesystems unless you're doing something very specific (like writing to raw block devices).

>>43211142
>and on windows you have to right click -> eject in exactly the same way
No, Windows actually turns on immediate flushing to disk when it's removable. Way better behavior than Linux's "oops you forgot to unmount! well you don't mind the lost data right?"

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>>43210685
>when I used my laptop in a dock, I had switched off the built in display and set the external monitor as the primary display. When undocked, the laptop display was blank. What I had to do first was to change the primary display back to the laptop or else it wouldn't display anything even though the external screen was unplugged.

>>43211025
NTA, but by and large bitlocker just works as a disk encryption tool (which may or may not have a backdoor).
The only issue with it is that 99.9% of it is obfuscated behind group policies and Microsoft's autistic account requirements (that can be bypassed / not used, else they wouldn't be selling anything to Enterprise customers).
But if you want you can absolutely use it the same way as LUKS with a tpm key + a password so your drive only decrypts on the machine it's from (tpm) ane the key can't be sniffed by probing the tpm's bus (password). You'd have to use your backup key to decrypt it somewhere else. So basically like LUKS + systemd cryptenroll.

>>43212339
I wanted to use FDE with TPM for my next Linux install and bear with using systemd but then I heard about the age verification bullshit and now I can't with good conscience use systemd ever again.

>>43212732
Then I guess clevis should work for tpm backed encryption but i don't think you'd be able to use a password with that. Last time I used clevis it was pretty rough compared to systemd's one command thing.
Maybe someone out there got an openrc or runit script for it or something.

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>>43212732
"Age verification" in systemd is the biggest fucking nothingburger virtue signalling campaign ever. I mean don't get me wrong I'm all for normies hating systemd now but it's just such a completely random thing to get hung up on now, purely because the concept is politically relevant and has been in the news cycles. Why not the absorption and EEE of projects like udev? Why not the massive bloat expansion past the init system, in unaudited raw C? Why not shit like systemd-networkd, and its amazing design decision to hardcode google DNS as a fallback server should the user have the gall to configure "no resolvers" in his config? Why not systemd-logind becoming a defacto dependency for seat management in most distros? Or why not the hard dependency coupling with GNOME, when an """"init system"""" and a DE have no business having a direct dependency? Why not shit like systemd-homed of having it try to worm its way into full administration of all your usage, after having taken over the low-level system management?

But no, an extra field present in a "JSON database" is apparently the reason normies are abandoning it now. A JSON database which had no reason to exist, but apparently the init system replacing everything including /etc/passwd is completely fine, as long as there's no "date of birth" field. Apparently fields like "real name" and "email address" and "location" are completely fine in an init system's user database, as long as there's no "date of birth" field.

Yes I'm mad, because apparently people have decided for years that sucking poettering and redhat cock is fine because it has "features" so it's a good idea to make it the default on nearly every distro and have it underpin the overwhelming majority of every system management aspect of linux systems everywhere. And now that it's the default in every major distro and is the defacto standard when using Linux in any kind of professional capacity, suddenly people have realised that it has overstepped and they don't like one feature systemd added. Fuck you, I hope distro devs and sysadmins everywhere choke on poettering's tiny german systemd-cockd and are locked out from using computers forever unless they biometrically verify themselves in a government database, while I'll be sitting here on an "obscure" distro with runit or whatever because obscure hobbyist distros and chud forks have been the only usable options for YEARS by now while all these fat fucking retards were gargling systemd, and now suddenly they're surprised and annoyed that CIA redhat-ware apparently does not have their best interests in mind.

Fuck.

>>43212912
>Why not
Because age verification is where I draw the line, simple.

>>43212912
>systemd-cockd
Made me chuckle. I agree with most of what you said, but you have to understand this was never a user issue, because all the things you mentioned have been established through corruption and treachery, not users saying "Oh wow this is so much better!" In fact, listening to users is the LAST thing these big guys have done, purposefully.

Green filly should be happy

>>43212923
There is no "age verification" in systemd any more than there is real name verification, retard. That's the point, all it did is add one more meaningless field to the giant pile of meaningless bloat.

Any actual age verification is going to happen in userspace and will be completely unaffected by systemd. If it didn't add that field to its userdb now, then whenever an actual verification program became mandatory, it'd be integrated into pacakge managers in the next best most convenient way.
If they actually build software that requires your ID and creates some verification, and also add a feature to package managers and shit like that which requires that verification, the problem of passing that info around will be the most trivial problem to solve. And for that matter the "date of birth" field with zero validation would not provide any help here either.

Did you even know that the userdb is a freeform JSON and almost all fields are optional? If and when age verification is needed, any extra fields to hold the cryptographic tokens issued to you by Israel will be added with almost zero effort. And until then, "date of birth" can be filled with whatever garbage data you want OR be left completely blank, like almost all other fields in the userdb, and provides zero "verification".

That's my point, there's no age verification in systemd, it's purely virtue signalling that "oh age verification laws bad therefore I am angry at systemd now". There is no technical issue to be angry over, this change is completely meaningless and even harmless as it provides zero value to any actual verification.

>>43212930
True but nevertheless users are still using debian, arch and derivatives as the most popular distros by far. There is nothing stopping people from using devuan, void, or whatever. Especially when shit like arch is not even company-sponsored but a project just built by some random guys.
And the outrage over this """"age verification"""" is also coming from users.

>>43212912
Honestly this. Systemd just is not good by no stretch of the imagination.
>Systems networkd
Ah yes, the worst way to do networking next to netplan or whatever the fuck that cloud init having, yaml configuring, dns forgetting, routing not doing, interface hardcoding, shit being piece of crap

>>43212954
>There is no "age verification" in systemd any more than there is real name verification
Yet.

>>43212987
Reposting this from the last thread for good measure: tboteproject.com/systemdfindings/ I encourage everyone who has not yet read this to read this report.

>>43212987
And when there will be, it will be completely unrelated to this utterly unverifiable, freeform and optional "date of birth" field.
This shit is not even a slippery slope because it is so completely orthogonal to what would be required for actual verification or anything invasive in general.

>>43212991
If there's any real data here surely they could have found a way to present it without a giant blog of painful to read chatgpt-speak pasted directly from the LLM output with no human editing

>>43212998
Oh, I see. You're one of those people. Enjoy your age verification OS by yourself then. Not responding any further to you.

Angry thread here.

>>43213138
I'm not really angry, just a little disheartened that everything seems to be going to shit. I miss computing in the 90s.

Why does Xitter require both WebGL AND canvas data to look at a fucking picture now? Fuck you Elon.

>>43213428
Probably browser fingerprinting.

>>43213530
Most likely. Well I don't care enough to unblock it.

>>43213428
why any social media that should show up images and text takes 30mb of code to run while a simple site like 4ch could just do it in a few kb of code.

>>43214482
The client side webstack has become a monster.

>>43214482
>>43214759
Infinite loading and content targeting I guess?
Here, everyone sees the same page.
On the social media, every user has it's own flux of messages. So that makes the code more complex I guess.

>>43215205
>So that makes the code more complex I guess.
On the server, yes, but on the client this has no effect.

>>43215386
You still have to manage all the dynamic loading/release of resources.
If you watch a video and scroll, the page will unload it eventually.
You also have to call asynchronously the comments and messages.
And most important of all, you have to build a user profile to show it the best ad possible.
So, yeah, it adds complexity both server and client side.

>>43215399
>all the dynamic loading
4chan has dynamic thread refresh. I guess it doesn't have dynamic unloading but it's not that hard to just delete elements from the DOM.

It's literally just a billion layers of abstraction out of laziness.

>>43215410
>delete elements from the DOM
Does that actually free up memory if you don't close the tab?

>>43215490
That depends on the browser but there's nothing a website can do beyond that if the browser is shit
All these frameworks are just automating DOM editing by adding five layers of abstractions for the webdev monkeys to use, in the end all the browser is doing is rendering the HTML and running the javascript, and managing its memory accordingly

>>43215410
4chan dynamic loading is nothing compared to, say, tiktok or instagram. It's just a very simple "wait x seconds, and complete what's missing from this mostly static page"

>Lazyness
This. Or incompetence too.
And sometimes, just sometimes, impossible deadlines.

>>43215490
Technically, you can free up memory in json, so you should be able to as the browser to free up the memory.
What the browser do afterwards, that's an other story.

For some reason all Windows 10 computers can't connect to my home network, both wired and wireless. Wi-Fi networks show up, but upon connecting there's no access, same on Ethernet.
Works fine as it did on Android though. I'm currently downloading Linux Mint to see if I'll encounter the same issue.

>>43216741
That's really strange indeed, network is supposed to be quite universal.

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>>43217562

>>43215502
>there's nothing a website can do beyond that if the browser is shit
But they're all shit

>>43210372
That reminds me, I live close to a few datacenters. I gotta see if I can get anywhere near their trash.

anyone used an upscaler like anime 4k or esrgan on the show? Whats the best release?

i will create an army of vibe coded marebots

>>43217562
she canonically has hotter older sisters
and ugly younger sisters
question is, which windows mare would be the hottest then?
xp or 95

>>43220269
I'm loyal to 2k-tan.

>>43220269
3.1 has to be a filly who will drain your cock dry

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>>43220269
Leave this grandmare alone!

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I need to get some Distro pony stickers for my laptop they're all so freakin cute

>>43221816
If you have a color printer you can get A4 paper that's got adhesive and then you just need to cut them out.

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Finally got off my ass and ported the Chrysalis cursor set I use over to Linux. Three months was far too long to have gone without her.
I'm mildly annoyed by how many different cursors X/GTK has. Had to make a score of symlinks, since the cursor set only had 15 .ani files to work with. Seems I may have to make some more still.

>>43212732
>FDE with TPM sans system-d
Wanted to do this back when I first moved over to Artix. Even went so far as to get a discrete TPM module, idea being that I could maybe yoink it out if I was away for an extended period of time.
I'd like to revisit the idea at some point. Wouldn't mind getting a UKI set up as well, since apparently there's now an AUR package that provides system-d's EFIstub.
Also thinking of switching init. Started with s6, but I'm looking towards either OpenRC or Dinit as an easier option.

>>43221856
>cursor set
lets see it
>>43220818
>fuggen on win95mare
>tries to grab/pull on her air
>starts disappearing and waving in your hands
vaporwave when you fuck
life would just be vaporwave with her that'd be kinda peak

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>>43221816
Have a wallpaper too then.

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>>43222394
Here you go anon
https://www.deviantart.com/sullindir/art/Queen-Chrysalis-Cursor-Set-328648816

>>43221826
I don't, how is the quality? I didn't know you can get printable sticky A4s. I'll try to ask in local photocopy shop whether they can use my paper, or try it on grandparents printer
>>43222896
>1280x800
Almost bought T410 with that resolution by mistake
Thankfully the wallpaper doesn't seem hard to remake

i have a one or two harddrives/ssd's lying around. can i make them into jellyfish hosts? I dont think they're suitable for any NAS type business

>>43223141
>Almost bought T410 with that resolution by mistake
In a lot of instances the lower resolution panels provided better colors and latency. I used to have a couple of Latitudes from that time period and 800p and 1200p panels were good where as 900p panels were always washed out and had unequal backlight, the lower portion always brighter. This was the case on three laptops so it's not just a single unit's case.
1280x800 is way better than 1366x768 despite everything. It's the best on 12" displays though.
Fujitsu Lifebooks from that era still provided 1280x800 screens for their 12" laptops, P701 and P702 which were targetted at businesses, though they're leagues below ThinkPad or Latitude, or even EliteBook maybe. Serviceability was horrible on these, as the keyboard cable is very strict and short, and the keyboard itself is also held by dual layer tape or some sort of glue. It doesn't help that in order to replace the thermal paste you need to disassemble the entire laptop and pull out the motherboard. Dell E6230 is a way better machine in that regard since the only tricky component there is the CMOS battery.
But I got to admire Fujitsu for using the same battery across all laptops of that era, you could fit the same battery from 12" 13" 14" and 15" laptops.

>>43223733
>In a lot of instances the lower resolution panels provided better colors and latency.
I think if your only choices are "HD (not Full HD!!) resolution on a 14'' laptop" or "bad colours and backlighting" then you really need to look for an aftermarket compatible display replacement if it's going to be a daily use laptop. Using a low resolution display above 12'' is really just awful.
Personally if either I was in poverty or it was an occasional burner laptop I couldn't be bothered to mod, I'd still pick the full-HD display with the worse backlight and colors.

Though, thinkpad TN displays from that era are pretty damn terrible, so if there's no IPS panel version then I think you're going to be suffering regardless.

>>43223625
Absolutely that'll work fine.

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>>43222970
may I inquire how one can convert a cursor set to linux?

>>43222970
>login to download
Mind dropping an actual link to the cursors?

>>43223955
Personally I'd just recommend going for T450-T470, they had 1080p IPS displays as a common option and people don't really want them since they're too modern but also too old since they're 2c4t. I get 10 hours of battery life on my T470

Do you think the AI scrap bots will stop or at least slow down once the bubble pops? Or will every tiny website be permanently DDOSed forever?

>>43224101
Why not T480? IIRC it's the last modern option to still have unsoldered RAM and so you get a newer CPU and generally newer machine than any of T450/470. Going older doesn't help with anything like me_cleaner as far as I'm aware, you're already in modern territory.
If you find a T490 listing with a good amount of RAM I'd even get that, soldered RAM is only a bad thing if you're stuck with a bottom spec corporate model configured to 8GB or something (so don't buy those).

>>43224119
Price and what you're going to use it for. I don't need the laptop to be almighty and powerful as a desktop, so for me these undervolted processors are a better option. I managed to get a T460 with 16GB RAM and 256GB Intel SSD for 70€. T480 is likely double the price.
Another thing is that T480 are also a common option, so the ones on the used market are after 5+ users if not more, so that the laptop looks like an old whore, where as slightly older ThinkPads are mostly ignored by the cult following this brand has.

>>43224123
>I don't need the laptop to be almighty and powerful as a desktop
And you won't get that, don't worry, desktops for many years now are 8c/16t or more at minimum. Modern laptops literally from the current year are also commonly at 8c/16t and low-power mobile processors are still obviously not competing with desktops. The decade old 2c/4t models are under no danger of being usable for high-performance tasks.
>price
Probably not double. At a quick glance on my local ebay (bongland, so it's often different to US or EU markets), T460 definitely has cheaper listings but also comes with way less RAM. A £60 laptop with 8GB, plus £15 for a RAM upgrade, and it's cheaper than £100 for a T480 that comes with 16GB but not dramatically so. Still if you're penny pinching that's understandable.

>Another thing is that T480 are also a common option, so the ones on the used market are after 5+ users if not more, so that the laptop looks like an old whore
You know what that's a fair argument though. The performance difference is not dramatic but picking the less popular model makes sense.

>>43224139
not sure what desktops are like nowadays, I bought Optiplex 7020 with i5 4th gen in 2018 and I still get things done on it lol

>>43224143
And the T480 from 2018 is still going to be weaker than a decent desktop from 2018, when people refer to "desktop performance" they generally don't mean budget office prebuilds from walmart

>>43216741
Both my computers have the same problem. I can connect to home wifi, but DHCP doesn't work, and if DHCP services are started prior to connecting, I can't even connect. Connecting to mobile hotspot works fine though. Phone can connect just fine.

>>43224149
I still haven't fixed it and also it persists on Linux, so it's not a Windows issue. I did reset my router to factory settings a few times and after the third time it worked for a day before shitting itself again. Which brand do you have? I have a ZTE router, but I will get a D-Link tomorrow to see if it also has the same issue.

>>43224158
TP-Link Archer C6. Both 'puters have linux on them, win7 also doesn't want to work. Restarting the router worked, but only for <24hrs.

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>>43224040
https://github.com/quantum5/win2xcur
Here's the tool I used. Went with the pip install, since the one on the AUR is out of date.
According to the dev, these ones were cursed.
>>43224053
Apologies anon, I forget just how cucked DA is when logged out. Here you go.
https://files.catbox.moe/qvk1zm.zip

>>43224219
Thanks anon. Long live the hive

>>43224158
Maybe the DHCP server shitting the bed massively? Or maybe DNS? It's always DNS.
If nothing helps have you looked at flashing openwrt on the thing?
>>43224177
You should definitely try openwrt out. It works pretty great on archer routers last I checked.

>>43224109
Since it's probably super easy to make money with it, just like email spam where just one sale over a billion emails offsets the costs of the operation, it's probably not going to slow down unless it becomes illegal. Problem is, making it illegal would have way too far-reaching effects that I'd prefer pooliticians not touch this one (I'd prefer them not touching anything related to the internet at all, really).

>>43224177
>Restarting the router worked, but only for <24hrs
When this happens it usually means your router gets overloaded somehow. The best advice is sadly often to just get a less shitty router, or to build your own (very cheap and somewhat fun).

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>>43224634
>thinking that making something illegal will make it disappear

>>43224795
Well, no, of course it won't, but do you have any other idea? Technologically we have no way to combat it without switching protocols. Unless you want to put every website behind Cuckflare.

>>43225018
>Cuckflare
there are other (much freer) solutions

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>>43225031
Anything you like in particular? I was actually thinking about writing my thesis about AI scraper protections. I know Anubis exists but that requires client side javascript.

I was hoping I could achieve something usable with just server side access pattern heuristics. And in ideal case also optionally poison the identified crawlers. However I'm not sure if it's viable to even try to pursue this way.

>>43225071
>Anything you like in particular?
Tartarus lmao

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>sudden block of an IP address range due to alleged parasprites
>mysteriously fine when posting via browser
Riiiiight.

>>43217562
Attaching a slightly less common Arch pone.
>>43220818
>anon advertises his "plug'n'play" skills
>she BSoDs on the spot
How will you recover her? What if she forgot to save her work, and the three fingered salute will cause a data loss?
>>43223625
With Jellyfin you'll probably do sequential reads of movies/TV shows with bitrate lower than 15 Mbps, any HDD will be fine.
>>43225071
Does bap's performance scale better with higher frequency or larger L3 cache?

>>43225071
>Anubis
If I ever get to setting up my own site I'm going with that, just because the mascot makes normalfags seethe.

>>43223733
>>43223955
I was looking for laptop to take traveling. I just edit text so higher refresh rate or nice colors weren't very important

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>>43225114
>higher frequency or larger L3 cache?
Whatever she decides to go with, just make sure her Ryzen has enough RAM

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>>43205927
Does anyone want to give me advice for a pump that can handle a car radiator? I bought a copper one because I'm a penny pinching poorfag to make a gryphon blush. my blocks and the radiator are all under 150 dollars so far. but I need a pump now, I hear d5 is necissary but I have no idea what to get. the cheaper and more reliable the better but I know thats an uphill battle.

What does the best board on the site have to say?

>>43210725
Given the production board for gayman windows is full of ai slop overloards I doubt that. That said, it's not like the debloating team will disappear overnight so we can count on even better playbooks going forward. still, is there even a reason to update from early revios? I cant think of one. every time I update my pc, and i left one using vanilla bloatware wangdos just to keep tabs on how stable or shit it is with all of my UI patches, its had loads of problems.

>>43210930
>search
Every troonix retard should be forced to use everything.exe at least once before complaining about windows search.

>>43212912
are you actually retarded enough to think if you said this to anyone who wasnt against system D before that they would know what any of that means? or are you just brain poisoned from arguing with glow in the dark cointelpro retards who absolutely and "mysteriously" know all the excuses for how theyre fucking with you when any normalgroid would respond with "huh?" "what?" "Iunno man, I dont get that stuff, I just want to X"

>>43225931
Are you building a custom loop? You can get an AIO for $100 that will have top tier performance in all cooling benchmarks, so I don't get how you say you're a penny pinching poorfag while building a custom loop in the first place

>>43225952
yes. I have a 4090 to cool and anyway I am trying to make my room cooler not make the fans quieter, though that will be its own benefit eventually. the plate that fits on my gpu and case is finally on sale for 60 dollars instead of 280

>>43226115
>I'm a penny pinching poorfag
>I'm liquid cooling my RTX 4090
Pop off king

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>>43226122
>Pop off king
This seems to be the reaction I get everywhere I go. how fiscally irresponsible are people that they cant save for something they like? I literally work at amazon, what is largely regarded as essentially slavery to most people. when i bought a 4090, they where literally only 1600, even so, I had to get one on credit.

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>>43226149
1 fps, <144p if anyone is curious

>>43226136
I think it's less so that they cannot physically afford it and more that they don't treat enough of their physical cash as disposable income. A lot of people would consider getting credit to buy a gaming GPU to be itself highly fiscally irresponsible.
Personally I make low six figures and I still wouldn't spend $1600 on a GPU, I got myself a 7900XTX and I considered it really splurging. The rest goes mostly into savings, emergency funds, etc. Within a few years I might be looking to buy a house with cash, if my current career keeps up.

Ironically when you're a wagie, saving can be near impossible regardless of what you do so just spending your entire income might put you not even that much worse off in the end than if you tried to be super frugal and responsible, so it can actually make sense to live more extravagantly than someone trying to save up.

>>43226150
How long did it take to encode?

>>43226136
How the hay did an Indian not replace you?
I’m really sick and tired of how shit the job market is, I don’t want to touch online “job boards” but going in-person to places and handing resumes just gets me weird looks from the manager or person behind the till/desk, and I never hear back from any of them.

>>43226168
I doubt it's for gayman. The guy probably got the 4090 to gen slop with, hence the poor money decisions.

>>43226176
around 10 minutes to encode, then converting into a gif took another 10.
I have a whole episode webm thats under a megabyte and still relatively watchable but its too long to upload here

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>>43226181
What do you think I'm some kind of programmer or HR?
the hiring culture at amazon is definitely getting worse year by year but its still quite deep into enshitification so if you are able bodied and dont mind working a shitty boring job its likely you can get hired without much fuss if you can pass a drug test.
>>43226184
mlp voice gen is amazing
>>43226168
I wouldnt get a high end gpu if it where not for pony ai related stuff. most of the games I enjoy most run fine on an internal APU. Most of the ones that don't hardly run better on this thing because theyre buggy un optimized garbage like owlcat games,
>The rest goes mostly into savings, emergency funds, etc. Within a few years I might be looking to buy a house with cash, if my current career keeps up.

buying a house would be great if I wanted to own property anywhere close to where I currently work but unfortunately that's not the case right now.
>
Ironically when you're a wagie, saving can be near impossible regardless of what you do so just spending your entire income might put you not even that much worse off in the end than if you tried to be super frugal and responsible, so it can actually make sense to live more extravagantly than someone trying to save up.
Ironically every dollar I spent on PC parts hasnt even depreciated and I would have been better off If I had bought even more. I missed out on a 2k ram upgrade for my platform that would have given me 1tb of ddr4 ram, That would have been nice to have but even back then I considered it too expensive just like you are describing and now I am eternally priced out with the same amount of ram costing around 6-8k now.

anyway do you have any pump recommendations?

>>43226192
You can upload it to pone.rs
AV1?

>>43226150
>1fps
Is it sped up? The gif runs at 2fps

>>43226193
>Ironically every dollar I spent on PC parts hasnt even depreciated and I would have been better off If I had bought even more.
That much is true, the PC parts economy is schizophrenic as fuck

>>43226193
are the said jobs in/out of city? I’ve never seen any listings on indeed or anything, I know it’s shoving crates and packages around all day but that’s about it. I have no form of transport outside of public transit so I’m already incredibly cucked job-wise.

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>>43226213
generally a city yes
to make you understand what poorfaggotry is like I first got this job without a car or indeed more than 1k to my name. no one helped me get this job either. I just showed up with my resume but they hardly looked at it because their way of doing things back then was drug test and try to break you. ontop of the hard work I had a 2 hour 1 way commute, for a total of 15 hour shifts including transportation. I used my paycheck to eventually get a car because it was unsustainable but basically it was 20 miles away by bike and I am not a fast rider nor one of those wierdos who dresses in a speedo onsie to ride. it was fall so i mostly wore a rain coat and boots.

In my opinion if you are poor the first thing anyone should do in your situation is get a fucking bicycle, bike lock, and rain coat. then apply to warehouses that need labor. you can of course try the food industry instead but I actually jumped ship from it because I was tired of the awful hours (almost none unless you want to work 2 jobs and let them kill you over who gets more)

>>43226223
Sucks to suck. Should've gotten bux like I did. Every day is a Sunday.

>>43226197
>AV1?
Yes.
And I uploaded it, here: https://u.pone.rs/sqedicps.mp4

I don't think it runs on the web player but it worked fine on the IINA player and I imagine something like MPV will open it fine.

I might try use H.264 or a more widely supported codec but I don't think anything in the video would be legible.

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>>43226283
heres a screenshot, whole thing is <1mb

>>43226283
Thanks.
AV1 encoding is really versatile when you have the hardware for it. Someone had made a 6MB episode of Evangelion in 360p with audio and to be honest it looks like a typical web upload that'd be over 100MB in H264.
https://u.pone.rs/nuepzwjc.webm

>>43226337
I have a bunch of episodes under 50mb for the >>43215537 thread. Its impressive how similar they look like compared to my 700mb+ Web-DLs
You only really notice any artefacts in motion.

>>43225114
>>sudden block of an IP address range due to alleged parasprites
>>mysteriously fine when posting via browser
>Riiiiight.
fake rangebans are given to bad IPs with fresh cookies

>>43226337
>Someone had made a 6MB episode of Evangelion in 360p with audio
oh is that the one that got uploaded to 4chan when anon(s) effectively silently hacked the site kek?

>>43225114
>988 KB PNG>sudden block of an IP address range due to alleged parasprites
>>mysteriously fine when posting via browser
Kuroba does this these days, you need to copy your desktop cookies into kuroba's settings

>>43226477
No, it's older than that, from 2023 or 2024 I think.

>>43226520
>he doesn't know
when 4chan was still on VP8 some /g/entoomen hacked the site to upload a compressed Eva episode with sound as VP9 or AV1
desuwa fucking surrendered and implemented VP9

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>>43226265
I'd rather work than make 1/3rd the money I do.
dven with ai a lot of stuff i want requires comissioning pony artists.

guess no one at tech sanctuary watercools anything. Sadness

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>>43226506
phone posting is NOT worth giving 4chud effective ID (phones are basically effective ID, if you dont believe me you are a retard. all my phoneless email accounts are permanently locked for no reason. all the ones I ever logged on with a phone one time are open).

>I made a throwaway just yesterday ponyim!
Different era with worse trackers on signup.

>>43226948
Did you log in to your emails on an app or in the browser? What browser?
Phones have "marketing IDs" that are typically freely given out to all installed apps, and I wouldn't be surprised if Chrome also made it accessible to websites. Otherwise a phone is no more ID-able than a normal browser, the main difference is that it's a lot harder to install an ultra-schizo browser with fingerprinting protection and shit, but if you're not using a schizo firefox config then it's basically the same.

>>43226977
it doesnt matter, it was before most versions where ported. even emails that had my real personal identifying information did not survive the purge. it was only the ones made semi recently and connected to a device like a phone which in turn is connected to a credit card that they remained open. modern 4chan and chrome are connected by recaptcha prism which has largely been phased out for cloudjew. it hasnt been free to make a throwaway for over a decade, though you can argue the right hand doesnt know what the left is doing, 4chan wouldnt be making us sign up for emails for any kind of good reason so I never will.

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do you like USBs, /pts/?

>>43226948
>>I made a throwaway just yesterday ponyim!
>Different era with worse trackers on signup.
I used to make throwaway outlooks and protons
now shitpost with cock.li kek

>>43228543
>Oink oink

>>43228547
skill issue

>>43228536
What the fuck, what are they fucking doing now

>>43227109
What the fuck are you talking about
>recaptcha
Yes true, but this is both on desktop and phones
>sign up for emails
Nobody does this

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>>43228583
they now label USBs based on their speed rather than their standard

>>43228627
Wasn't USB 1.0 also subclassed in Low Speed and Full Speed, which made people mistakenly think High Speed (USB 2.0) was a worse option to choose in the BIOS than Full Speed?

>>43228924
Yep
>Low Speed is USB 1.0 with 1.5 MBit/sec
>Full Speed is USB 1.0 with 12 MBit/sec
>Hi-Speed is USB 2.0 with 480 MBit/sec

>>43228971
And for reference,
>SuperSpeed is USB 3.0 with 5Gbit/sec
>SuperSpeedPlus is USB 3.1 with 10GBit/sec
>SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps is USB 3.2 with 20GBit/sec
>later "SuperSpeed" was dropped from naming
>oh and they retroactively changed the name of standards to match all new revisions
>multiple times

>>43228983
You mention that they retroactively changed the names of the standards but it really bears repeating how fucking retarded it is
>SuperSpeed is USB 3.0 with 5Gbit/sec
>SuperSpeedPlus is USB 3.1 with 10GBit/sec
Like, these are objectively wrong, these are all USB 3.2 with their respective speeds (as of the last time SuperSpeed was used)

I cannot fucking comprehend what was going through their minds when they made a CONSUMER standard, and after years of people learning to buy USB 3.0 cables with "fast" speed, they made USB 3.1 which is "faster" and then said that "fast" is also 3.1 now, and then did it again with 3.2. I really have to assume wilful malice here, like the USB standards committee being in cahoots with chang chong from aliexpress and deliberately colluding to let mr. chang sell shittier cables to normies for higher prices with confusing marketing.
Like the usual big tech fuckery doesn't even apply here because big tech manufacturers aren't even in the business of selling USB cables in a way that would make the confusion profitable. If anything being able to clearly say "look, my phone is faster than all these old ones" or "look, my proprietary branded hub is the fastest you can get right now, unambiguously" would have benefited google/apple/microsoft etc. a lot more. So it's literally just the standards guys doing a little trolling to fuck things up for absolutely everybody around for no reason whatsoever.
I fucking hate USB

>>43229045
it gets even better
>USB4 is explicitly "4", not "4.0"
>they later made USB4, version 2.0

After reading about this fuckery I read specs of my motherboard and it uses 3.1 naming scheme (3.0 is "3.1 Gen 1", 3.1 is "3.1 Gen 2"), while the board itself has saner 3.0 and 3.1 labeling

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>no audio streams allowed
https://files.catbox.moe/ctqdoj.webm

Fun little thing that I learnt that GRUB could do recently. A motif from This Day Aria felt appropriate.
It's louder in-person, though still quieter than the motherboard's built-in POST beep.

GRUB_INIT_TUNE="660 349 4 349 2 349 2 349 2 349 2 370 2 415 2 440 4 415 4 0 2 294 2 294 2 330 2 349 2 349 2 349 2 370 2 415 3 370 1 370 2 349 2 311 6"

>>43229537
Bretty cool
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>>43229537
Nice, it plays on the buzzer I presume?
Very aesthetic build, the number of fans is an overkill tho. Makes me want to get a nicer case than my default black metal box.

>>43230577
>it plays on the buzzer I presume?
Yeah, it does. I like it when my computers emit a POST beep.
>Very aesthetic build
Thanks! One of these days I'll set up some proper lighting, but for now I think the slow rainbow cycle is fine.
>number of fans is an overkill
Maybe, maybe. Bottom and side are intakes, rear and top are exhausts, making the whole thing slightly positive pressure.
There's also two more slim fans hidden away behind the motherboard, giving some airflow over the hard drive cages.
>Makes me want to get a nicer case than my default black metal box.
Nothing wrong with a lil' magic black box, especially one that you can slap a dozen pony stickers on.

what's a good distro/desktop combo for a old laptop (T400)?

>>43231334
AntiX

>>43231376
Holy shit, forget I said that

>Proudly anti-fascist "antiX Magic" in an environment suitable for old and new computers.
What the fuck happened to this stuff??

>>43231378
>What the fuck happened to this stuff??
I'm pretty sure it was always like that
I was thinking of installing Lubuntu, but the absolute state of modern Ubuntu makes me think that it might be a mad idea
Hope 26.04 LTS isn't THAT bad

>>43231394
>I'm pretty sure it was always like that
Apparently. It was never this obnoxious about it when I last used it though. AntiX was meant to stand for "Antiques" not some political garbage (and they eschewed systemd which was also good). Yet another one to scratch off the list.

>>43231334
Debian XFCE, otherwise Windows 7.

Just had a file I could only remove with the command line and not Windows Explorer because the name was too long. This is on Windows 11. God is Windows a piece of shit.

>>43231334
Artix

>>43231394
>"Hope 26.04 LTS isn't THAT bad"
>check release notes
>uuitls and sudo-rs
FUCK NO
>>43231418
>Debian XFCE
might give it a shot
>Win7
literally unusable on the modern Internet
>>43231456
I don't like Arch-based distros

>>43231473
>I don't like Arch-based distros
Then Void, unironically
Ignore the BLM devs, the distro itself is really pretty good

>>43231473
>>Win7
>literally unusable on the modern Internet
How come? There's Supermium if you need Chrome or r3dfox if you need FireFox.
>>43231482
>the distro itself is really pretty good
Till you try updating it.

>>43231482
>Ignore the BLM devs
literally how? That's a rather major point of failure
the last thing I want is my repos getting fucked because devs decided to geoblock my country (or do something worse, like tham npm disk wipe that happened with Russians)
>>43231483
>How come? There's Supermium if you need Chrome or r3dfox if you need FireFox.
hacking browsers just to get them online doesn't sound like a good idea
might as well go for Pale Moon

>>43231493
What do you mean hacking? They're just forks, so is MalePoon.

>>43231497
>What do you mean hacking? They're just forks
I don't really care about Win7 to know what is and isn't a proper fork
>MalePoon
what's the point of forking Pale Moon into a different browser? Some old tech PM dropped for being shit?

>>43231483
>Till you try updating it.
No idea what you're talking about. I used Void for about 5-6 years (switched to Gentoo a couple of years ago) and it never once broke on update, not a single time. Whenever other people mention Void they always have the same experience.
Gentoo's pretty good but I've had to do manual work to convince portage to execute an update more than once by now. Void is unironically the most reliable distro I've ever seen or used.

>>43231493
>literally how? That's a rather major point of failure
In theory yes but they don't actually put anything into practice on their distro, or at least haven't yet in the decade+ of running it. The reality is that there are very, very few chud distros around, and Artix is the best of those. Almost every single other project is going to have tranny influence. Void devs just posted shit on twitter a few times so it became a meme.

>>43231509
>The reality is that there are very, very few chud distros around, and Artix is the best of those
I don't give a shit if distros are "chud" or not, I just don't want to trust political radicals with collectivistic tendencies to not kill my PC as "collateral damage" against their enemies

>>43231509
I'm talking about xbps-src, it kept constantly shitting itself

>>43231529
>I just don't want to trust political radicals
Exactly this.

I don't want a "chud" distro OR an "antifa" distro. I don't want no political shit AT ALL in my distro.

>>43228543
cock li is rejected anywhere that matters, you cant send email to someone with it 99% of the time and have it hit their mailbox, its shadowbanned. it cant be used to post here either.

>>43231549
chud distro is unpozzed. you can tell because there are none.

>>43232243
Works in the majority of cases in my experience, it's relatively rare I see it blocked on signup. The only people who don't receive my emails are ones using gmail and I usually tell them to fix their spamfilter, most people feel appropriately guilty and switch to a different email if they can or find another way to talk if needed.

>>43232319
gmail is a massive ammount of users and the majority of people i comission use it, likewise theres no way to fix it, google shadow bans it, it doesnt go to the spam mailbox. my only option was pozz or exit the commission base for the pony community entirely. though i suppose these days i could go to a con since i have more time, the majority of people would not be willing to change emails just for one autistic privacy autist.

>>43232243
>it cant be used to post here either.
My pass is on cockli

>>43232825
>muh pass
lmao, i will never pay for this website until they stop letting jeets and bots canvas it in dogshit. its not a matter of morality or cheapness. the product isnt good enough to justify money, its purely a punitive tax to participate in hostage communities.

>>43229537
dude i cant make this shit up i guess i can't use the fucking beeper on my x230t cause im running artix
something to do with systemd i think

>>43232341
Yeah ok if it's for a (commission) business then it's different, you do what you have to in order to retain customers and revenue.
In other contexts though I've found it's pretty effective.
>google shadow bans it, it doesnt go to the spam mailbox.
I know, it's still people's fault that their email filters out mine, and if they can't fix it (which they can't, I know) they should use a provider that lets them fix it. This argument works pretty well because when you tell people "yeah I definitely sent the email, it's getting filtered by google on your end" and then they try another email and it works, they usually recognise it's a problem on their end.

>>43232936
>im running artix
As am I. Is it possible that yours might be disabled from the BIOS? I'm not too familiar with thinkpads.

>>43232825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Y2zC-Ruz4

>>43232825
They'll take anything for a pass email. I used guerillamail (well-known anonymous/temporary email provider) back when I had a pass. If you're willing to shell out $20 then they can be pretty confident you're a real person and not a bot/spammer. But if you're not paying, they want an email from a provider who's know to do some level of verification on their end, basically as a way to outsource the anti-spam checks. Same principle as Pony Town requiring a social login instead of just letting you make an account.

>>43233486
>If you're willing to shell out $20 then they can be pretty confident you're a real person and not a bot/spammer.
I remember some platforms refusing cock.li even when I was a paying customer kek (VPS for crypto specifically)
>$20
it's $30/60 these days

reposting here because why the hell not
>>>/g/108792574
>any KDE6 themes that are >>>frutiger aero?
>Rounded, "pseudo 3D", that kind of old stuff

>>43233510
kys

>>43233521
fuck off, ebussy

>>43233524
you will never be a windows 7

>>43233532
I don't want win7 replica
I just want something that isn't flat

>>43233549
fruitnigger aero is the wrong path young man
vaporwave is the way to go forward

>>43233555
>vaporwave
it's le aesthetic about 80s, not computers (90s+)

>>43233565
retard

>>43233023
fuck man, i should've checked that before i installed/flashed seabios/coreboot/skulls
i have no BIOS menu, just a select drive to start menu
my cope is: no beeper announcing my presence to the neighborhood at 3 in the morning

horsefucker.club anon pay your certificate

>>43235501
It's not even hard to set Certbot up with automatic renewal..

Why do H264 encodes look fine but H265 or AV1 ones always have some sort of artifacts that are noticeable? Genuinely MPEG-2 was better despite the lower resolution.

>>43237280
Change Arch to Gentoo and it's a trvth nvke. Making friends (and also getting a relationship) will ALWAYS be harder than even the most difficult IT problem, for ANY skill level, because it is inherently unquantifiable and wholly dependent on outside factors (i.e. it is a VAPID goal rather than a SMART one). This can also not be fixed, so it's best to just ignore contact with other human beings entirely and just see anything that forms from such contact when it takes place as something that comes as it goes - if it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't. Fuck humans, this is why Equestria is superior to this rotten world.

>>43237280
>>43237360
I feel like Twi would be more of a Linux From Scratch kind of mare...

>>43237360
>>43237382
Equestria wouldn't have the licensing and commercial bullshit we have to deal with, with our software and hardware

>>43226149
>>43226283
h264 will be really awful at such compression levels.
Best results I had was with AV1 an Speex. Unfortunately, it's not well supported.
But Opus was close second anyway.

>>43226337
Nay, try the lib svt av1, it's most of the time faster than 1x on my old i5-4670K
Try:
ffmpeg -i "%input%" -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 35 -c:a libopus -b:a 64k -f webm "AV1_svtav1.webm"

>>43226477
>>43226527
I'm still pissed that we don't have audio.
Then I looked at the API json, and /mlp/ is eating good overall compared to other boards.
I didn't know if old hacks still work, it was years and years ago. But I might try latter..

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>>43236226
Because a lot of H265 or AV1 encodes are compressed from H264 source which results in quality loss
I agree with MPEG-2 looking better despite the lower resolution. I still keep movies on DVDs and rip them to MKV to store on my NAS. It's convenient because they work everywhere due to the older codec and the picture quality is great regardless of the display being an old TV or a 1080p flatscreen
Anything above 1080p is a scam in terms of quality and a lot of streaming media looks bad even in 4k due to bad codec settings.
Also this reminded me, when I struggled with PC games performance, I deliberately set my resolution not to 720p but to 960x540 as it's half the size of 1080p and it looked better than 1280x720p due to proper scaling.

>>43236226
Although I don't really want to contribute to 4chan any longer, I'll say that this is AFAIK probably because H.265 and later "advanced" codecs include a mandatory preprocessing filter that attempts to reduce noise, but in doing so also destroys a ton of original input information.

Otherwise I wouldn't know. CABAC or finer subpixel motion estimation and other such advanced features shouldn't be the cause for a loss in quality, unless you lower the bitrate far below a H.264 equivalent.

Perché mai modificare le mie cose che ho pagato 270 euro per metterci dei fottuti pony sopra

>>43238380
Even if you do the math and estimate the equivalent bitrate, it's advised to go above what you get because if you do it 1:1 you'll likely end up with some artifacts

>>43238175
>960x540
I sometimes use it because I'm a Vita islander and qHD is PS Vita's resolution lol

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>>43232993
$18.50 $23 25 GB x50 Optical BD-R Used Ridata BD-R 6X 25GB Blu-ray Media White Inkjet Hub Printable Disc, Pack of 50
$19.58 $470 24 TB 5 years Internal 3.5" HDD Used MDD (MDD24TSATA51272E) 24TB 7200RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5inch Internal Enterprise Hard Drive - 5 Years Warranty (Renewed)
so now that optical media is cheaper than sata hard drives again will you be dusting off the old BR players? the slot loading ones with liibre are now 600 dollars btw.

>>43239379
I still use DVDs for backups. Record them once, verify and store them, using only when needed.

>>43239379
I only back up onto M-Discs if it's optical.

Also
>Optical BD-R Used Ridata
>Used
Why the hell would you ever buy used optical media?

>>43236226
Usually because h264 encoding is well known, and people usually use the right balance of compression VS quality.
And for "newer" codecs, they just aim to maximum crush, leading to horrible quality.
Also, each codec have it's own optimisation, an usually, no one use them (like "anime content" for VP8-9-AV1)

>>43238175
>540p
That's mighty low

>>43238380
Usually, h265 and other adds back noise when decoding.

>be me
>want to extract a single image from a old computer
>we're talking "floppy drive" old
>three HDDs of unknown size (I don't fucking remember their size)
>can't properly boot the machine because its in purgatory after Win10 installation last boot took about a fucking hour of waiting
>and yet
>I have a SATA2USB adapter
should I just use that to clone all three drives to my laptop disk/SD memory card(s)/flash drive(s)?

>>43240667
>we're talking "floppy drive" old
Good idea, you'll have a copy of the drives on another drive hopefully further from either end of the bathtub curve. On Linux you can put such copies on loop device and they'll behave like normal drives, I suppose other systems can do this too.
>SATA2USB adapterpone
>bilingual
>certified S.M.A.R.T-ass
>spent a few years studying abroad in Thailand, learning SATA from native HDDpones
>still likes their whirr of spinning rust, with a touch of soft clicks and clacks, those make her feel relaxed
>a bit jealous of NVMe adapterpones, they can yap ones and zeroes so much faster than she does
>at least when she faints from too much data on her plate, it's not as embarrassing
>with NVMe being the new hotness she accepted she's no longer the show pony, but she knows you'll keep her in your toolkit forever, for cases like this one
btw, some of those chips can have their serial or model number changed while reflashing firmware. My NVMe adapter claims to be of booksmart pony variety, much to the delight of yours truly when the adapter doesn't quite work and a peek into dmesg is needed to check what went wrong.

>>43240667
You installed Windows 10 on fucking Pentiums?

>>43234654
>>43235500
What would (You) do to give AM3 CPU pone a good retirement?
>one last show at an extreme OC competition, with suspiciously many contestants being snowponies (wait, did she just take a sip of the liquid nitrogen?)
>special compute host for hoof-written Assembly leveraging x86 extensions that newfillies have dropped, such as 3DNow!
>suggest a less stress(test)ful job/hobby like hair stylist - her pins are decent for combing manes

>>43241015
>pins
Doesn't it use an LGA socket?

>>43240995
>You
Nope, it's my family member's decision-
he doesn't use his desktop much these days, I might later install Win7 with vxkex & stuff to get his "necessary" shitware working some LTS GNU/Linux distro with Xfce/Mate might also be an option

>>/g/108817057
>imagine this, but mares
I have the sudden urge to learn how to do initramfs init scripts...

>>43241349
oops, >>>/g/108817057

>>43241349
U won't do it

>>43240667
I would very carefully use external usb adapters to make an image of all the disks onto something new.
If as you said, linux is an option, you can mount the images (now on a modern, younger disk) as three separate points, so it's transparent for the user.
But, yeah, a backup of these old grandpa is almost imperative.
If you don't have much time, I would simply boot a linux via USB to copy your file. Booting should be (way) faster.
And you can do a disk image while you're at it, because if they "cherish" their computer like that, you bet they are going to call you in a month or two because they lost their data...

why can't we get "Mint" for Qt DEs? (KDE and LXQt)
I don't want to Lubuntu nor do I like packaging of LXQt in Great and Powerful Debian Trixie (2.1, barely supports Wayland)

>>43242318
they (he) barely uses the damn thing, I don't even remember when he last booted it. Old man just phonefags or (when he needs to, say, print something) boots up his old netbook on XP with necessary drivers that barely functioned on 7 (much less on 10 and Linux seriously, fuck HP)
Hell, last time I checked the thing couldn't even boot. Desktop workstation might've been decorative this whole time

>>43242466
Urg... HP and old folks...
My dad bought to my mom a "All-in-one" HP. It's the shitiest piece of crap you can find.
And for the price, he could have bought a decent laptop that would have performed way better...
And he doesn't want to sell it because "I paid it, now I will find a usage for it!"
He can just bite the bullet, and sell it for 200 bucks while it's still worth something...
Tl,Dr: I feel you.
Still, two things. One, do a backup, trust me, even if he never use it, he WILL come one day and say "I can't find this very important file (a .ppt with bad sexy jokes)" and will piss you to extract it. Make a backup while you can.
Two, there is a slim chance that, if you debloat the thing and make it run somewhat smoothly, he will use it again.
imho

>>43242478
>Urg... HP and old folks...
actually the current plan is to get one of those (or, at the very least, something that can both scan and print)
but yeah printer's usage can be described as
>if it can work it WILL work!

>Two, there is a slim chance that, if you debloat the thing and make it run somewhat smoothly, he will use it again.
I don't want to TMI but I don't think that he'll come back to being a desktopchad ever again