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 No.2015[Reply]

Do you use any programs on your computer on a daily basis? What are they? Do you use anything so much that you instinctively launch it right after turning your PC on? Are you always connected to the Internet?

Personally I use IRC, email and webchats a lot so I have a corner of my room dedicated to an old recycled PC that only runs my clients and a web browser.
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 No.2148

Quite the normie setup:

vscode - larger changes
vim - small changes / quick fixes
Firefox - personal browser
Thunderbird - personal email
Edge - work browser
Outlook - work email

 No.2149

terminal - navigation and all sort of utilities, also I execute most of programs from terminal just bc it's conveniently.

Idea - Editing python and c not-related projects.
Clion - Editing C related projects
PyCharm - Editing python related projects

NiFi, vim, oxygen xml editor, outlook, teams, word, excel - workflow setup

IDEs above, Docker, postgres, postman - software engineering setup

Vivaldi - default browser

Telegram - communication

Notion, Apple Notes - note taking. I use notion as my knowledge base and apple notes for short-term notes and stuff

 No.2150

Icecat - browser
pass - passwords
mpv+yt-dlp - music, videos
GNU Emacs with EXWM - everything else

 No.2174

librewolf - browser
thunderbird - rss feed reader
keepassxc - passwords
neovim - text editor
signal - messaging

 No.2175

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at work, apart from the obvious work apps and tools, i use Powertools alot. huge QoL improvement. I also use scrcpy to stream my phone screen on my pc so i don't have to touch my phone ever. all my usual apps are there like discord and stuff so i don't have to use my accounts on my work pc. :D



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 No.2107[Reply]

where did real /tech/ go
i miss those guys
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 No.2135

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What are your favorite Winamp skins?

 No.2137

>>2109
I'm not so sure people want to make genuine friendships online anymore either. I'd say it feels harder than ever to make real connections with strangers online, though I'm not exactly sure why. But I do agree that the airline-bar sort of experience like you mentioned is gone too, which I really miss. So we're just in a strange void where we have… neither?

Most normal people only use the internet to talk to people they already know in real life, in private chats; or to yell into the void on platforms like Twitter or Reddit or the unending Discord servers.

 No.2138

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>>2137
This sums it up pretty well. I am sorry for the downer but people like yelling into the void for some reason. Maybe some of them should consider getting a rubber duck instead.

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>>2138
This is actually true. The airlines are closed. But let me state my defense.

The towns, the bars and the pubs are not yet closed. They might be sparse and in the middle of nowhere a lot of the time but there are still plenty of them waiting for new and interesting people like you. And there are still plenty of regulars like me visiting them ever-so-often, so don't feel shy to wander a bit.

After all, Hermes is still here for you!

 No.2173

>>2172
What makes a person interesting anyway?



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 No.806[Reply]

Post a screenshot of your current cool/cute wallpaper! Both desktop and phone caps are ok!

I'll start with some vaporwave vibes.
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Finished setting up my new phone

 No.2166

>>2147
how did you get you xfce to look like that (referring to the second image)

 No.2167

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>>1024 here, new phone get and still using tui launcher

 No.2170

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I just refactored the whole workflow and look of my tablet. This is my homescreen now.

 No.2171

>>2166
I used Chicago95 and slightly modified the color to fit my wallpaper



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 No.2017[Reply]

Can we finally agree that Twitter's nee CEO and the "genius" behind the Las Vegas RGB "hyperloop" is just a conman? The dude can't even build tunnels at prices thst competitive with his competitots. I doubt he has invented a single new technology.

Everything he has takes credit ftom was pretty much just him buying the companies and patents of someone else came up with. (Like Tesla's faster chargers.)

https://youtu.be/z0PHv3E8jpY

In that video I linked there's a Musk fanboy who buys two ten cent cinder bricks Elon Musk had made for $400. Musk had claimed they were stronger than regular bricks and he would make a ton from waste soil dug up out of the ground. He never made any more than two and engineers say you can't make stronger bricks with any random soil. Just like how you can't make concrete with random dirt, it has to be the right gravel and sand and stuff mixed together.

He never ever hits his dates either but pushes them back and people just forget. Cybertruck is like 8 years late.
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>>2020
I feel like your issue lies more in the Lithium industry than in electric vehicles.

That's why a lot of Chinese companies are investing in the development of sodium-ion batteries. They are more heavy, admittedly, but they are way cheaper and more ethical to source than lithium. And maybe in the future we'll discover a better alternative to lithium than sodium, but either way, electric is the future.

 No.2159

>>2020
I'm renting a full electric EV right now and I agree. Using it makes me feel like I'm greener, but I know this battery is horrendous for the environment and the electricity used to power my car probably still relies on burning fossil fuels. Plus, it takes 1hr to fully charge my car when I'm using a "fast charger." Pretty inconvenient. Tesla sells well not because they're electric imo, but they let people virtue signal and that it's a good car.

 No.2165

>>2017
Musk is a genius. His whole shtick is setting up a business or project with a high tech veneer, soaking up subsidies and investments, inflate the bubble and sell it on before it pops and repeat, or just inflate it to the point it becomes too big to fail. Is he a conman? Well yeah, but he's probably the greatest con artist in recent times. I guess in another time, where tech didn't have this magic attributed to it, he'd be another snake oil salesman who knows? One day people will stop believing in him and his empire will come crashing down, just like Ponzi before him. It's the fate of all conmen.

 No.2168

>>2020
I feel like this conversation is completely missguided because when it comes to sustainability, cars of any kind fall flat when compared to trains, and bicycles. There's no point in trying to marginally reduce the impact of cars when really we just need fewer of them in general. Of course people in rural places will still need cars I suppose, so maybe in that case the debate is worth having. It seems to me that it would be a much more efficient use of resources to fund high quality cycling infrastructure and high speed rail networks.

 No.2169

>>2168
It is true that public transportation and rail is infinitely more sustainable but there’s def still value in exploring sustainability for motor vehicles because so much infrastructure is built around it



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 No.2151[Reply]

Most people in the modern Western world use Technology every day in some way, shape or form. The term Technomancy itself combines the prefix "techno-", originating from the Greek word tékhnē, meaning “skill, art or craft”, with the suffix "-mancy", used to denote any way or form of divination and magic.

How many sushi rolls here have checked out or tried Technomancy?



Technomancy 101: https://technomancy101.com/

https://youtu.be/lDvZJkiVXT4

 No.2152

As a methodology for wholeheartedly embracing technology and learning a lot about it to create whimsy and joy in our lives, I’m into the concept. Kind of like a less cynical cyberpunk mindset. We’re surrounded by technology but it’s very rarely truly “ours”.

 No.2153

>>2152
In the sense of whether it's "ours" or not, there's this idea called panpsychism. It's about things that arent seem as sentient or less sentient than animals / mammals as having consciousness to some degree. This includes "inanimate objects" like rocks, metals, crystals, plants; etc. and extends to computer components. Considering that computers, smartphones, TVs and more possess metals and crystals within them, which the latter are noted in soiritual communities as being particularly conscious, it all points to technology having consciousness; agency in some way.

 No.2163

>>2151
Yeah I've used sigil generators and tarot bots but those are jusr rng right???



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 No.666[Reply]

Crypto thread? Personally I think crypto is the future. No more centralization, no more states fucking you in the ass.
I also don't want to become a wage slave so I hope to make it thanks to crypto. Life is too short to not do what you like.
What cryptocurrencies have you invested in sushinons? What are you bullish on?
It would be cool that we all make it.

Personally I am extremely bullish on Bitbay. I missed the Ethereum train but I think Bitbay will be the next moon mission in 2018. It is the sole working decentralized marketplace and trustless contracting platform while fixing many BTC flaws and planning to have a decentralized peg that brings price stability by preventing volatility, especially from whales shady manipulation. The price is still fucking low (23m market cap) so there is a lot of growth potential. For instance, to have a x2 ROIs with ETH, it would need 30 fucking billions of dollars, while with bitbay it would only need 23m. It is far more likely in the latter for this very reason.
Pics related why I am bullish on it. It has both mainstream and darknet potential.
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Seems like there is a lot of FUD with Ethereum becoming a security as of late, because most nodes would be located in the US. Which is making me a bit bearish on it, but it also makes me wonder how would it affet ERC20 tokens if that is still a thing? NFTs and a lot of other dApps were everywhere as of late, what will happen with all of that?
Crypto has been something I kinda stopped looking at, I think I'll just go for the same old same old S&P 500.
Also, surprised how hard AMD plummeted, I was thinking of getting into it some months ago lol

 No.2140

>>2069
heh, called it. RIP Celsius and FTX. Wonder who's next.

 No.2141

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the only altcoin that's actually worth a shit is monero, it's effectively the only coin used on darkmarkets ( so the only REAL crypto currency ) and the only one that still carries the lable "privacy coin", the devs are serious about privacy and know what they're doing https://www.getmonero.org/ you can easily buy monero with *any* payment method at https://localmonero.co you don't have to go thru some scam exchange

99.9% of crypto are scams and while blockchain might have useful applications ( like a scoreboard or a tasklist on a collective project ) "currency" is the least likely scenario. Most crypto currencies function like derivatives or credit default swaps: speculative financial assets, except there is nothing 'real' holding them up at all their value is completely a projection of future value: imaginary. There will one day soon come a great crash that whipes 90% of altcoins off the map.

Full Disclosure: yes a hold some monero, yes, i want to drive up the price of monero so i can buy more drugs with it, It's fucking great. Buying drugs on deep web is the only good thing to come out of the crypto shitstorm.

* the only other coin i might consider is $oxen which is related to lokinet https://oxen.io/

 No.2143

Testing to see if this place has tranny mods(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

 No.2144

>>2143
It has.



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 No.74[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

LINUX'!!'
>what is it?
An operating system that respects your freedom
>why would I use it?
If you are tired of having your OS use you and always wanted to use your computer instead
>What do you mean by freedom?
Write your own programs. use source code from the internet in seconds. update when you want to not when it tells you.
Want to run a website? cool! you can set one up in minutes.
Want to adjust your hardware to your liking? Awesome!
Want to stop or make a new feature to a program you use every day? Go for it!

Its your computer! use it how you want!
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 No.1943

>>1942
> I hear fedora is basically the same in that regard.
Reinstalling it as we speak. Gonna stick with it from now on, every other distro has its cons but Fedora always "just works" in my experience.

 No.2014

Finally managed a minimal install Debian, always feared setting up X11, because of how badly I messed it up few times. Running i3 with terminator, fish and not much else. Set up for SC61A, lots of fun.

 No.2129

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>>951
it's nice to see how consistent mint has been over the years. over 4 years later and your setup almost looks exactly the same as mine does. Neat. Anyways, thumbnail support is (finally) being merged, hopefully it'll get in soon.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163

 No.2130

What are sushis running on their servers?

I'm currently using CentOS, thinking about switching away to free- or OpenBSD though.

 No.2131

>>2130
I use FreeBSD on my file server. I don't do much with it. ZFS and Samba, it's my file server.

I have an older home server that runs CRUX. That's been my server for minecraft and various other games in the past. Thinking about replacing this with FreeBSD too.



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 No.2092

>>585
Lainchan.jp is now dead
Victory to: Lainchan.org

 No.2102

>lainchan
stopped reading right there

 No.2110

>>2087
There's still solarpunk, I don't think those people have quite lost the "sub" aspect of their subculture. If the next twenty years play out like the last twenty years solarpunk is probably going to get co-opted too and it'll probably turn into a way to glamorize being poor and not having medicine after a climate apocalypse. But for now it's gritty enough and fairly real and rebellious and still comfy imo.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

https://100r.co/site/pino.html

 No.2114

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Just finished reading snow crash, started off pretty clearly more of a parody of cyberpunk but it kept it grounded enough for the most part as far as cyberpunk goes. Unfortunately it kind of goes to shit around the last 100 pages. Most of the plot threads are wrapped up in a deus ex machina way and doesn't really seem satisfying. Also the book centers a comparison between Sumerian languages and hacking which is cool enough and everything but I feel like they do a fine enough job explaining that connection the first time they bring it up in a pretty long exposition dump but then the author goes on to do basically the same info dumb five more times in the book driving home stuff the reader already knows over and over. Also another big issue is the virtual world component is super under baked and could really be cut out of the book entirely, the author tries to make some final confrontation in the virtual world but it doesn't really make much sense why they have to race on motorcycles or have a swordfight at all when its just a computer program owned by the antagonist who could just teleport and instantly send the virus to everyone with a computer in front of them. Lastly when the author tries to write cool teenager dialog he sounds like a 70 year old. Fun enough book as far as cyberpunk stuff goes.

 No.2115

>>2114
>when the author tries to write cool teenager dialog he sounds like a 70 year old.
Keep in mind this was originally published in 1992, teenagers talked differently 30 years ago.

I've read a few of this guy's books, and seems like they all start out with a semi-realistic premise and then go into straight fantasy towards the end and handwave a lot of the technical details of how any of this would really make sense. Anathem had some interesting ideas, but like in Snow Crash the last 100 pages or so ends up being some borderline deus ex machina stuff.



 No.1290[Reply]

Planned obsolescence – devices intentionally designed to break over time – has been getting really bad in recent years. Everything is disposable. Even when hardware works, you no longer get software updates, which can make a device useless because it'll no longer get security fixes or support for modern apps.

And haven't you noticed how, when a tech company comes out with a new product, they shit all over their old ones? Like "our new device is so awesome and fast, and our old one was so clunky and shitty by comparison!" But then a year later, they do the same process over again. And you're thinking… you bought it because people said it was good. But then the company that made it said it sucks. They do it to get you to buy the same thing over and over again.

When will this stop? Do you think everything will be disposable forever, or will there be enough backlash to planned obsolescence that will reverse this trend so that electronics in the future are made to last longer? People talk about "the invisible hand" of "the free market" but maybe government regulation is required to stop it.

An example of this is how my friend's phone battery wouldn't last very long, so he bought an entirely new phone, even though I told him I could replace the battery if he bought one on Amazon (and they were really cheap).
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 No.1798

>>1380
This post is uncomfy. Please return to your uncomfy board and be uncomfy there. Thank you~~

 No.1800

>>1410
>>1797
There's a marked difference between technical software and "mass" software in that respect. Most technical software is tightly coded, not necessarily without spaghetti code but generally lightweight for what it is, and they tend to have very high backwards compatibility. If they don't have backward compatibility then either it's a totally new sort of software for a totally new sort of data or it's a piece of shit 'ware.

Hell you can kind of even see it for Windows, the most "mass" software there is, because Windows has a sizeable technical userbase that needs it to keep supporting a piece of software written in the 80s by a company that's gone bankrupt in the 90s for hardware that hasn't even shown up in landfills since 2000, that's why you still can't name a file PRN, because writing a string in command line to the PRN file is a fucking ancient way to get a printer to print something that no printer has actually used for decades but somewhere there is a research team whose analysis software needs the ability to print something by writing to the PRN file and Microsoft knows that.

Mac, on the other hand, has basically a nonexistent technical userbase (and I mean like actually technical, not idiot art/music majors who think they're the next Chopin or Picasso) so they get away with dropping backwards compatibility for something only a few years old every update.

 No.1801

>>1290
>"our new device is so awesome and fast, and our old one was so clunky and shitty by comparison!

I sometimes think about that too, wouldn't it be funny if they used the Iphone 14's adverts to sell the Iphone 13?
"The new Iphone 13, a whole 50% slower than the Iphone 14!".

>but maybe government regulation is required to stop it.


This never works, it just create an extra level of bureaucracy and useless rules to follow. Just look at the repairability score France just implemented. It's just another fine print that no consumer care about.

This is not the duty of the state, it's the duty of consumers to stop falling for the shiny new toy every year. I think most people are completely fine with planned obsolescence, maybe even unconsciously hoping for it so that they can justify a new purchase.

 No.2111

>>1306
to be fair notepad++ is shit and shouldn't be taken seriously

 No.2112

>>1373
A thin phone with a good case becomes a slightly large phone that's near impossible break



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 No.1555[Reply]

I use a lot of obscure websites, mainly imageboards, and I play on a lot of small vidya servers. I need a vpn so I can stop letting random people know where I live. I'd like it to be relatively obscure, so it isn't included in vpn blacklists. Are there any good vpns that aren't too popular?
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 No.1903

Mullvad is pretty good from my experience. It has consistent payment, as in it doesn't change the price for longer or shorter periods, and you can even pay in cash if you want to be super private.

 No.1904

>>1903
Mullvad seems trustworthy. I see them mentioned several times, and for well over a decade by privacy conscious people I think they're one of the more trustworthy providers. Way more trustworthy than PIA and their ilk (anyone else mentioned regularly through youtube sponsorships.).

 No.2093

I use mullvad vpn for a long time (1+ year i think) and I can honestly recommend it

 No.2095

I would also recommend Mullvad. Run by some of the OG PirateBay guys, low level of bullshit for a highly functional service. I would recommend you get a prepaid credit card from your local 7/11 (or equivalent) and try it out.

 No.2096

+1 for Mullvad.

Have been using it since late 2014, never had an issue with it.



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