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Daily computer programs Anonymous 04/24/22 (Sun) 11:07:39 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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Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 15:09:03 No.2491

>>2346
I use kdenlive on windows, but on linux I have to install qt and a billion kde depepndecies for it to work, so I just use Flowblade instead

Seisatsu !h/0s4cu6Oo 04/22/25 (Tue) 02:26:22 No.2492

Mostly using Windows lately because of my current laptop situation, I use KeepassXC for password management with a fuckoff long master password, and MPC-HC for playing video. For SSH to manage my servers I use a web app called Shellngn so that I can connect from places where I can't connect out through non-web ports (like at work).

That said I do have a Linux laptop I use sometimes but it is too old to even watch video. But some techy stuff is just better done with Linux.

Most things these days I actually do through my phone. Notable all-day apps are Feedly for news feeds, Opera browser, and Discord.

Anonymous 04/23/25 (Wed) 02:06:55 No.2494

Every day I check rss feeds with newsboat, I use my web browser librewolf to browse the web, I communicate with my friends using element and (unfortunately) discord. I would rather use a more lightweight matrix client than element, but the only 2 terminal based clients I know of both suck. Maybe time to switch to xmpp. I watch anime using MPV, browse my files with nnn, and listen to music with cmus. I also use vim to edit text, I've experimented with various text editors and always end up back at basic stock normal ass vim. Pretty bog standard boring stuff I think.

Anonymous 05/20/25 (Tue) 01:18:11 No.2513

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for those who like terminal browser, try chawan (https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan)!

It supports css, picture, gemini and gopher protocol.

:3

Anonymous 05/21/25 (Wed) 12:23:18 No.2514

>>2513
How does it fare against w3m/links/lynx/elinks? :0

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Anonymous 03/18/25 (Tue) 09:24:16 No.2443 [Reply]

How do you make your devices more connected? Are there any sushis with home media server set up? How would you make it, how does the usual use case look like? Do you have any uncommon devices or cool software to support your work, gaming or anime consumption?

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Anonymous 03/19/25 (Wed) 23:07:50 No.2449

>>2447
No problem sushi, glad to help :D

Anonymous 03/20/25 (Thu) 03:57:33 No.2450

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>>2446
I do this, but using my phone. All my devices are logged into Discord, so I can just send any files to my alt account and then download it from the text history from the other device.

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 00:55:32 No.2508

>>2443
>How do you make your devices more connected?
WireGuard, ssh, Jellyfin.
>How would you make it,
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/
>how does the usual use case look like?
the usual pattern is to buy a seedbox and run Jellyfin on it such that you can torrent a movie and directly stream from it.
>Do you have any uncommon devices or cool software to support your work, gaming or anime consumption?
I'm not sure about uncommon but I use a Steam Deck as a Jellyfin receiver, aside from it's regular duties.
>>2446
I always forget just how fast USB storage is.
>>2450
are you not concerned about your privacy?

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 20:52:31 No.2511

I had an HTPC with Plex in like 2014 and used it to watch anime from my couch. It was kind of a pain in the butt to get it displaying things right sometimes though, especially when it came to automatically getting thumbnails and titles.

Anonymous 05/19/25 (Mon) 06:35:02 No.2512

>How do you make your devices more connected?
Having my internet experience one way or another be completely contained in one or two server computers.

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Want an imageboard but I have no idea. Anonymous 12/09/20 (Wed) 18:59:05 No.1732 [Reply]

I wanna create an imageboard but I don't know how to use vichan and Tinyboard please help, I don't know anything about PHP nor java I'm lost and all I wanted is to create a parody imageboard that I and another guy found funny, plz help need a tool for idiots and normies like me.

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Anonymous 02/13/24 (Tue) 22:49:32 No.2248

>>2247
/lewd/ is still around, it's just hidden

Anonymous 02/24/24 (Sat) 20:20:52 No.2251

>>1732
If you're gonna make an imageboard, make sure you don't have ads and make sure you have a strong CSAM filter as well as racebait filter. For any soyjak party spammers or spammers in general, make a filter for that too.
Remembered that a Kiwi user told us a small powerlevel about how he used to run an obscure imageboard and despite it being so obscure and that he didn't shill it anywhere but his own site, CSAM ads/websites kept popping up (they dont have explicit images, just some simple drawings like silhouettes)
Imageboards especially dead ones have a very serious CSAM spam problem. I don't know who or what is doing this but I'll assume: Some form of web crawler/bot that detects imageboards and spams it, elaborate trolling groups on Discord or Telegram, or third worlders since in some of 3rd world countries don't decriminalize possession and distribution of it (including real and fictional)
Just some advice and theories about the whole problem with imageboards

Anonymous 03/01/24 (Fri) 12:40:28 No.2258

If you don't want CP spam just host a 2ch style textboard instead. Make it private and recruit a bunch of friends or people you trust to test it out.

Anonymous 03/01/24 (Fri) 17:56:05 No.2259

>>2258
Honestly not needed, just do not host vichan or anything too close to the default interface. The spammers get easily confused and deterred.

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 14:54:17 No.2510

If you are that "idiot" and do not mind there are several higher mods over you, try endchan.net, you can create a board at there without any cost.

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Anonymous 06/21/16 (Tue) 01:57:15 No.26 [Reply]

Has anyone seen/used the Pyra yet?

It looks comfy but it is pricy.

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Anonymous 07/17/16 (Sun) 12:51:47 No.70

>>26
Looks awesome but the price point isn't the greatest and realistically I know I wouldn't use it enough to justify buying it. Still interested to see how it is when it actually comes out though, the pandora was pretty good.
>>38
That would make a pretty fun project.

Anonymous 08/01/16 (Mon) 07:15:45 No.101

Why not hack together your own for much much less?

Anonymous 11/16/18 (Fri) 02:12:36 No.1248

>>27
Pocket chip died :(
You can't officially buy it anymore

Anonymous 02/22/22 (Tue) 21:59:34 No.2010

>>1248
yeah but you can still unofficially buy it

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 01:01:23 No.2509

>>26
takes me back but no but I use a GPD MicroPC now. I love it.

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Anonymous 06/02/19 (Sun) 09:28:36 No.1343 [Reply]

What are sushis working on right now? Any cool topics in computer science I should know more about?

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Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 03:16:40 No.2493

>>2365
I think working on a project that solves a problem you have is fun, and really good if you want to learn something.
For example, I didn't like the offerings of color pickers, so I decided to make my own.
Even if you have a problem that's already solved by some software… solve it again, but your way.

Anonymous 04/23/25 (Wed) 22:22:00 No.2495

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I keep finding a reason to incorporate DAGs into my projects, don't quite know why.

Anonymous 04/24/25 (Thu) 12:49:38 No.2496

Interesting topics to look into right now: AI Alignment and Mechanistic Interpretability.

Mechanistic interpretability is trying to reverse engineer trained neural networks into a theory of how they do what they do.

Anonymous 04/25/25 (Fri) 08:32:45 No.2497

>>2365
I would say that for CTF stuff, it's good to practice on pico until you feel like the problems are too easy for you. Other than that, you can practice doing many of the contests, which should provide some more experience with harder tasks. In addition to being able to figure out how to do things, I think experience also helps you figure out how to do things more quickly.

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 00:45:18 No.2507

>>1343
>What are sushis working on right now?
I've decided to finally learn how to use C GTK.
>>1345
the only thing that is useful for a job is being so good at something that nobody else around you has any idea what you're saying. 1. everyone will ask you to help them. 2. everyone will ask you to teach them. so just pick anything that people need know and know it better than the back of your hand.

Wiki Nerd General Anonymous 09/14/18 (Fri) 03:44:12 No.1161 [Reply]

Any wiki needs out there? I just set up a MediaWiki instance and I’m having a lot of fun. I will post a link if anyone is interested in sand boxing around.

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Anonymous 04/29/19 (Mon) 17:08:41 No.1336

i remember this thing called tiddlywiki that was very simple to use

link: https://tiddlywiki.com/

Anonymous 06/02/19 (Sun) 09:27:13 No.1342

Mediawiki is a great piece of software. It introduced me to server hosting.

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 04:10:38 No.2501

>>1161
I've been using Miraheze Wiki for my projects.

Anonymous 05/11/25 (Sun) 10:11:37 No.2502

what kind of things do you post on your wiki OP (or others)? i keep my own personal notes in obsidian so i am curious the utility of wiki hosting for most people.

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 00:40:09 No.2506

>>1333
I think if you open a space for people to publish information about a topic then people will find things to write about a topic. planning for creativity is neither fun nor conducive to the creative mind.

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Personal Websites Anonymous 03/31/18 (Sat) 22:10:16 No.846 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I was thinking it would be nice if we had a thread for sharing our own websites/homepages. Woah, here's one now! Show me your netspace sushi!

Here's mine. It's a complete mess, but I like it. It's kind of new well, technically it's existed for a little while, but I only started working on it recently, so it's missing a lot of things, and there are a few links that 404. Though it's hosted on neocities, it's only slighty Lain themed.
https://birdcom.neocities.org/

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Anonymous 12/19/24 (Thu) 16:30:08 No.2419

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https://maerk.xyz/

You'll enjoy my website if you like Japanese arcade machines, square photos, and 2D blonde girls with big boobs.

Anonymous 12/23/24 (Mon) 23:23:41 No.2420

>>2419
I enjoyed!

Anonymous 01/06/25 (Mon) 23:16:22 No.2428

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>>1003
The Wired will never die, sushi. I'm new here and I will always seek refuge in these cozy pockets of the web

Anonymous 05/17/25 (Sat) 17:05:56 No.2504

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I've been keeping an offline journal for a year or two, but a malleable webpage is more fun. Hugo and HTML alone give me an amazing palette of possibilities. I'm quite happy with how it looks currently, and writing for it already feels like a habit. That's why I'm sharing it now.

Snapshots of my days at:

https://eenoa.nekoweb.org/

Anonymous 05/18/25 (Sun) 00:35:17 No.2505

I don't have a personal website anymore because its primary visitors by an enormous margin would be robots anyway.

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Anonymous 10/07/17 (Sat) 19:52:15 No.655 [Reply]

what are some cool looking websites you guys frequent? the only one i could think of was systemspace.link and thats down unfortunately :(

pic unrelated

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Anonymous 10/24/17 (Tue) 18:16:49 No.685

>>684
never understood this site
wtf is it

Anonymous 10/24/17 (Tue) 21:00:09 No.689

>>685
just music and cool pictures. you could say it's
ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ

Anonymous 10/25/17 (Wed) 00:13:25 No.690

>>655
http://angusnicneven.com/
don't know why no one has posted this yet

Anonymous 10/25/17 (Wed) 10:29:13 No.694

Always good for those cyberpunk needs, http://jinteki.industries/index.html

Anonymous 05/09/25 (Fri) 03:49:05 No.2500

>>655
https://geminiquickst.art/

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Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 17:27:58 No.2480 [Reply]

Hostname ideas for a black PC that will be hosting some VMs? I was thinking of naming it after himeji castle.

Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 10:09:24 No.2483

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Haruna

Anonymous 05/07/25 (Wed) 17:29:28 No.2498

kuromi

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painful stories with computers Anonymous 03/25/25 (Tue) 01:54:22 No.2452 [Reply]

Around a week ago, I noticed that my charger was peeled off just by a tiny bit, so i decided to put some tape on it.

Today, i noticed a weird smell coming out of my computer, specifically, from the charger.

When i touch the part with tape on it, BOOM, foarkin SMOKE starts to come out of the darn thing.

Turns out that the heat from the computer, eventually melted the tape i'd put on the peeled part of my charger

I removed the tape, and well, the charger stopped working, and i can't buy a new one (Im poor as dirt) which at the same times means, that i can't use my computer

Please, sushis, share painful experiences like these so that we all can have a laugh

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Anonymous 03/29/25 (Sat) 21:59:26 No.2468

cleaned my dirty laptop with a damp paper towel
a drop went in a vent hole and i heard a hiss
wouldn't turn on anymore

Anonymous 03/31/25 (Mon) 10:41:11 No.2469

I tried to add some RAM to a friend’s laptop. After installing it, the machine would turn itself off because one of the cooling fans wasn’t working right. So I decided to open her back up and check. They were connected fine so I thought I’d disconnect and reconnect them to see if that would fix them, but I applied too much force and ended up ripping the cable, forcing me to replace the whole fan too.

Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 03:36:35 No.2476

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Bought 200$ in MOCA (Coax based Ethernet) for there to be a crimp in the wall. After buying weird rj45s I finally found a female connector, all in all I paid 350 or so dollars for gigabit in my room in the end

Help old people with computers for fun. I know this lady who's Parkinson's/arthritis/whatever was so advanced she couldn't double click the home button on the iPad fast enough. I recommended she buy an android at that point. Everyone I know recommends apple devices for their simplicity but they can do better in the accessibility department. Windows is probably the best with the key delay feature which helps when obasan wants to type on her Compaq like she's dialing a toll free nunber

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 14:18:47 No.2489

Back in the day I was the idiot buying the cheapest power supplies possible and I had two separate combustion incidents. One time the PSU itself just popped and filled my room with smoke. Second time a fan splitter cable set on fire with no apparent external cause – maybe unstable voltage from the power supply and/or a bad connection in the cable?
I know what I'm doing now and I haven't had any disasters since but I do live in fear of my graphics card's 12VHPWR connector blowing up.
Fake edit: actually there was something more recent – has anyone here NOT at some point bent CPU pins? RIP to my old Ryzen 3600. Always remember to heat the IHS before attempting heatsink removal.

Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 20:37:34 No.2490

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I had a laptop that I kept plugged in 24/7 for a couple years (before I knew this would destroy the battery). When I got a computer to replace it I realized that I had almost killed the battery, and it eventually died leaving it unable to boot.
I took out the battery which turned my laptop into a pseudo-desktop since it had to be plugged in in order to work.
On top of that, the boot process is something I'll never forget.

Step 1: turn on the laptop
Step 2: it says that the wattage is too low, so I press diagnose
Step 3: wait for it to get to the rainbow screen of test colors
Step 4: force power off
Step 5: turn on laptop again
Step 6: wattage error again, but press continue
Step 7: congratulations it booted.

If I didn't hit diagnose the cpu caps at 300Mhz, and if I didn't reboot during the repair process a loud beeping noise would happen which was annoying, I believe one time it also caused it to fail to boot.

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