>>5540 https://concrete.style/ If you are lazy and need quick decent looking css.

>>5540 I've found a new way to access nitter.net(it has an expired cert with HSTS enabled, so normal browsers won't connect) go to https://www.site-shot.com/ and paste the nitter link to view a screenshot of the site. It's decent enough to perform basic searches

>>5567 >>5567 The nitter breakdown points to the larger trend, internet will be full of walled gardens. Musk is not wrong, AI crawlers keep exploiting open resources without generating any monetary value in return. https://nitter.holo-mix.com/ Here is another instance that is less used.

If I understand correctly, most smartwatches still need a connection to internet and an account to share data. So if I want a smartwatch without needing it connect with account. I need health sensors that can continuously monitor my heart rate, blood oxygen etc. There is gadgetbridge but the devices it supports are kind of shit and still need an account, location, bluetooth on etc. Casio watches have a good app on Fdroid, but mostly no health sensors.

cross platform chat may come whataspp, signal, telegram

>>5586 Kind of kills the point of using Signal. Luckily seems opt in for now

>>5586 Sounds awkward. Would rather not use it but people will force its use

>>5602 Its opt in. But I can see how relatives, parents and others will force it. Annoying and cringe.

https://youtu.be/oaIs1wkQqIo Lot of news on 3d printed footwear. A good 3D printer sounds like a good investment for this actually. I never got around to buying one because I cannot imagine what I would build to justify in the investment cost.

>>5540 can someone suggest me an online journal where i can maintain private entries. all the ones i came across had one or more of these drawbacks -no image support -not free -only works with an app -not mobile friendly

>>5623 it might be worth it to self host such stuff. it will take a bit of time and money to setup, but you won't have to worry about someone breaching the privacy of your personal notes. here are some resources to get started: https://www.monicahq.com/ https://vibrato.app/ https://github.com/usememos/memos https://github.com/zadam/trilium https://github.com/PhiTux/DailyTxT https://logseq.com/ some non-selfhosted options if you can't spare the time/money for learning how to host your own journals: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki https://www.bookstackapp.com/ https://www.tiddlywiki.com https://getgrav.org/ https://joplinapp.org Hope this helps!

>>5624 überbased list. Have used Joplin and Logseq a lot. Can recommend them both heavily. Trillium is also decent.

https://www.overleaf.com Maybe >>5623 you can use this Though I prefer self hosted myself.

>>5624 >>5631 thanks yaaro

https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-24-2-delivers-advanced-features-and-global-accessibility/ Libre office has come a long way. There is an app to view it on Android too. using Sync thing and a local documents folder, one can have their documents cross platform and synced securely.

>>5605 What will happen is schools colleges workplacws will force its use like all niggers do and you will be forced to join

>>5540 https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-RE https://github.com/Diazole/dumper https://github.com/imrsaleh/widevineKeys-GUI widevine cracking tools

https://www.opindia.com/2024/02/rajasthan-youth-arrested-for-selling-4500-gb-govt-military-date-on-dark-web/ Hope GOI hires him

>>5540 https://swarajyamag.com/technology/what-is-beckn-protocol-the-technology-poised-to-redefine-e-commerce

>>5540 Where to store illegal shit? By illegal, I mean cp-tier illegal.

>>5844 Offline air gapped storage Vera crypt to encrypt it

>>5844 up your ass, glowie

>>5848 bad place, this is the first place they check

I wanted to learn about how OS are written and also I wanted to learn about assembly. Does anyone here have anything helpful regarding it.

>>5633 Libreoffice is shit, just torrent cracked MS office. I have 2016 one

>>5914 Depends on what you want to do. It works well for me even for advanced stuff. MS stuff on the other hand is not backwards compatible with its own old releases. I am forced to use MS by my IT team, who are a bunch of retards honestly.

>>5913 start reading ostep book https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

>>5540 5 years later, finally my cheap ass got a new keyboard. This time mechanical not membrane. While the sound is nice and the feedback is fun, for others in the room it is very annoying. Still, good to have functioning keys after a long time. I should stop being a cheap fuck honestly.

The pop keyboard doesn't have good linux support. I got it working more or less well, but then it solved less problems than it created. So I gave it to my gf. Back to using a 7 year old keyboard that keeps skipping keys. Got a new TV as well. That is connected to another very old laptop, with ports that are loose and keep disconnecting. With tech, one just needs to keep upgrading. There is no stopping.

>>6032 >The pop keyboard doesn't have good linux support. how tf does a keyboard not support an OS also just buy a 10$ membrane office keyboard, A4Tech or Logitech.

>>6038 I learnd to type in typewriter training. So my actuation force is very high. Additionally, I type a lot. Membrane keyboards are not accurate. The key caps break, the sensors mis register keys etc. My use case is orders of magnitude higher. I know lot of mechanical keyboard fags are Youtubers who sell aesthetics etc. But there is a reason that people deep in the knowledge work industry, use very heavy duty mechanical keyboards. Its not about aesthetic. > how tf does a keyboard not support an OS You would be surprised. More importantly, logitech as been going anti Linux for a while. The most sensible option right now is MX keys mini for me. But I will wait a while. There are many good chinkshit manufacturer's. If I find the right one, id rather trust that with my money.

>>6038 Typing on a memrane keyboard. It did not even last me 100,000 keystrokes. Key ghosting , missed keystrokes etc. Very annoying to type.

>>6047 Ah I see, My brother used to break membrane keyboards every 3 months to the point I got annoyed and bought him a mechanical one, which lasted 2 years (and stopped using it because of unrelated reasons)

>>6054 I see computer shops and wagies in govt offices use worn out 6-10yo membranes just fine, and they do a fuckton of typing The keys become mushy and unpleasant but I have rarely seen one fail

>>5540 I swallowed the normiepill. Logged into all social media with Google acc and real credentials. Using what is convenient for me instead of what is good for my privacy. Didn't go autistic with debloating and/or Custom ROMs Using Windows on my laptop and PC with minimal amounts of debloating and all the goyslop apps. Feels good.

>>6068 Enjoy the brainrot. Enjoy the botnet using your hardware and your bandwidth to spy on you. >>6067 Like I said, firstly I type in several different orders of magnitude more. Secondly, the accuracy matters a lot to me. You see so many mistakes even in professionally written stuff for example Newspapers, it is disgusting. I need to find a solution soon. This is very annoying to work with.

>>6068 >Using what is convenient for me instead of what is good for my privacy. Thats the thing They aren't mutually exclusive, in fact going autistic is probably more convenient Want to transfer something from phone to pc? MTP is utter shit for anything more than a few photos. Say you don't have a cable. you can upload the file to Google drive and download it on your PC. Provided you have fast internet to download all the heavy JavaScript on the web page and your file goes to Google server and back (think of it logistically not in terms of privacy) alternative? Turn on your hotspot (or maybe your devices are connected to the same network) use simpleHTTPserver, render a simple web page, click on the file you want and download it as fast as your chipsets + routers allow. Using newpipe or vanced is an arguably better experience as compared to using the official YouTube app. point is whatever is harmful to your privacy is also so bloated and heavy it makes more sense to use something else which happens to offer more privacy

>>6071 >Enjoy the brainrot. Enjoy the botnet using your hardware and your bandwidth to spy on you. I had to resort to using a very old phone I had lying around, it had a very bad battery you could literally see it draining in front of your eyes as you used it, like 1% every min or so but that was the foreground and the display. If I put it to standby It would stay at about the same battery level all day long. I don't remember if this was with a sim card or without (probably with one) but the reason was that I had put Lineage on it. There were zero background power leeches It really made me think how many things these instruments do without our knowledge and how many of these are malicious

I am not a python fan. But today for a new project, I asked someone who uses it more for advice. He just googled something. Copied some code from somewhere, loaded tons of libraries to do simple functions, then wrote a slow as fuck script. I hate working with him. He uses random libraries that are then no longer maintained and someone else has to clean up his mess. I hate this way of working. He gets done something fast in the short term. In the long term, the work costs us a lot of time. Sadly, this blue collar way of working is becoming the norm and I find myself isolated. On the other hand, my own work hardly requires much effort from my end, maintainace of my code is next to nothing while he spends his day stuck to his computer.

>>6074 I cannot comment on what normiedom is. I haven't logged into google it has been years. I use thinks like Newpipe/Bluejay/codium/calibre/vim etc. To me the functionality is more than fine. I can download stuff for offline viewing use etc. Not having access to Instagram and other such wastes of bandwidth is a feature of my life, not a limitation. I have seen what people use it for. I still use cables to transfer stuff. I still listen to music using wired headphones and IEM's. >>6075 My battery life doubled since degoogling. I know a lot of things that people do with data and misuse it, it is truly scary. But yeah. To each his own. If ignorance brings someone happiness then so be it. I like control of my tech and I like being deliberate with its use. That is important to me. More so than looking at buttcheeks and Instagram and engaging in useless social signalling.

>>6078 >loaded tons of libraries to do simple functions that's my impression of how things are done in Python there are libraries for everything and there is lots of documentation probably very useful to get things done quickly most of the logic is implemented already all you have to do is import libraries and call functions because whatever you want to do, there is a function for that. because the logic is implemented already, it's easy to become a script kiddie because that's one of the ways to use python - look up the documentation to learn the names of the functions and then call these functions. people forgo the first step and simply google what they want. makes sense sometimes - what's the point of reading documentation for 2 hours just to learn about 2 functions that you will probably never use again? most people have very slow reading speeds and do not like to read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MhVkKHYUAY >>6079 >having access to Instagram and other such wastes of bandwidth is a feature of my life, not a limitation. I have seen what people use it for. this i am tired of soycial media i got rid of instagram months ago don't go to 4chan anymore lately i've stopped listening to music too, it's tiresome. this is the only place i hang out in on the internet outside of study and reading.

>>6085 On my wall there is a saying framed "What seems like the long path in the short term Is often the shortest path in long term" It was told to me by a scientists, whose achievements are 120 times that of the a very talented engineer. I don't blame people who code like this. Companies pay people for it, so there is an incentive. Why do more work when you can get paid for less ? But it does create bad habits for companies and for people. Code that needs constant mommying ensures that someone has a job, but for the end user it is annoying to have to upgrade every x amount of time In more essential fields with critical stuff is required, like the rocket example you shared in the YouTube video, it is normal to use stuff written 20 years ago. The guy who wrote it still gets paid but doesn't need to come to the office. The stuff they write can run on a potato in milli seconds if not faster, does one thing well and that is it, is written so it plays well with other scripts and programs etc. That approach is dying. Newer managers even on critical projects want to use online IDE's and a coder never gets to work bare metal, let alone actually touch the machine he is working with. > this is the only place i hang out in on the internet outside of study and reading. Same. I toy'd with the idea of using Bharatchan as well. But I am already overwhelmed. Modernity is sensory overload. I use headphones to block the non stop sounds on the outside. Music for me is a way to return to the familiar, though I would fully understand letting it go. My previous job had a new boss, who was the new type of manager. My job was assured, but the work had started to mean nothing to me. So I left it. What I do now is equally meaningless, but I don't have to attend meetings. I get paid slightly less, but I have way more freedom. I am not required to be vaxxed or sign diversity inclusion contracts

>>6074 >Want to transfer something from phone to pc? LocalSend I didn't go full normie retard, I just prefer the most convenient solution over actual privacy concerns. So I'll use NewPipe and LocalSend instead of Youtube App and/or other file sharing apps. But at the same time I won't use social media sites using a browser with adblocking because it's not conveinent.

>>6087 Playing the devil's advocate, I understand the mentality that goes behind spaghetti coding. Coding something wuick and dirty has several advantages. 1. You can get a prototype extremely quickly, thus adding value to people asap with your software. 2. You can figure out which ideas were good and which ideas were bad, and adjust your software in the next rewrite accordingly. 3. You can understand the flaws in your software's architecture, and can better architect your code in the next rewrite. I used to try and get everything "correct" the first time, but then I started to realize that unless you have 10 years of dev experience it's an impossible task, I treat early hackjob prototypes as "drafts", writing programs, in many ways, is similar to writing novels. You have to get your core concepts and ideas in line in the draft, make it wuick and dirty, identify which features stick and which don't, then come up with a 2nd draft/rewrite which is 300x better than the og draft which addresses almost all of the first one's flaws

>>6092 > use social media <The great French scholar of propaganda and technology, Jacques Ellul, wrote years ago that propaganda “is not the touch of a magic wand. It is based on slow constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition.” picrel

>>6092 I hope that social media bullshit porn is worth it. >>6093 That is how you think it will go between 0.1 to 1.0 In reality, you make version 0.1 fast. Bullshit tasks get added, your pay is not enough, other features are added etc. As long as a developer gets paid, who should care honestly.

Firefox is a shitty, janky browser with extremely poor syncing capability and platform integration. Feels nice to return to Chrome.

>>5540 Help a fellow anon pick a mobo out for an i5 14400 Mobo - (am confused here) 1. MSI Pro Z790-S/A Wifi 2. ASUS Prime B760-Plus 3. MSI MAG B760 Tomahawk 4. GIGABYTE Z690 UD AX DDR5 ATX Motherboard 5. GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS ELITE ATX Motherboard 6. Asus TUF GAMING B760-PLUS WIFI DDR5 ATX Motherboard

>>6125 Do you need the newest WiFi standard and lightning ? Then 1. Personally - DDR5 and PCIe5 . MSI MAG B760 Tomahawk Has sensible connectors and features. But idk what price you will get it for and other connections you need like coolant pump (liquid cooling is not worth the effort imo).

>>6125 You should blog your build

Renewal is coming soon for my domain name. I am wondering if its worth keeping my domain or not. I barely use my email id and don't write much on the website either. I do enjoy writing, but I can easily just submit to an online journal/news website.

https://youtu.be/t2bVItkJE_c?si=V3dUFaYOwzhHY2nK Thoughts?

>>6154 He missed important points. Pi's consume very low power. So a solar panel, cheap power bank can easily power a Rasberry pi and you have dedicated computation for something. Thinkpads are robust, powerful and repairable. But they are not power efficient. If you pay for electricity, then this is a big loss. Esp if you want to run projects 24/7.

>>6134 Heard from multiple people that Z series intel mobos all have good components, while B series can be hit or miss Asus is universally dogshit, Asrock has dogshit UEFI, have decided on the MSI Pro Z790-S/A

>>6135 So far the primary components are an i5 14600K CPU, the MSI mobo and an Intel A770 GPU (I won't game on it much) I'm still a month or two away from buying it, would probably cost near 2lakhs I'll blog about the experience when I buy and assemble it

>>6172 The motherboard has a ton of features that you won't be using, that was my logic. Other than that, sounds like a good machine. Desktop level components usually have quality, especially MSI. Choose a good power supply and cooling fan. Those are way more important than anything else.

>>6173 > 2 Lakhs for basic PC I know these basic PC's are capable of a lot. A mini system now can power a computation model that 10 years ago needed a mainframe. But still, I really want GOI's initiative to manufacture chips in India so we can get these cheaper.

>>6173 Nice PC What's your use case though if not gayming? If you are doing a lot of development work why not think about a workstation

>>6181 Some light programming (compiling stuff) VFX, Video/Photo Editing I plan on learning some freelancing skills and try to earn some part-time money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBv_hvvbBg Game looks good actually.

https://bxt.rs/blog/just-how-much-faster-are-the-gnome-46-terminals/ I am not a huge GNOME fan. In an ideal world, I would setup Hyperland or something. But, I do like the ability to install stock distro and DE and get to work, where GNOME is just good enough. With this though, GNOME fix's one of its biggest complaints for me.

>>5540 bodybuilding.com's legendary misc. was shut down a couple of weeks ago, but appears to have come back now. it is a goldmine of early internet posts, and during its peak, it was probably as influential as 4chan and produced some of the most well known memes of the time, which were credited to reddit/4chan

>>5540 may be offtopic, but I'm dumping a few lists of epic gamer words here: snow roach- whitoid cockroach https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/225335/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20180310013550/http://www.rsdb.org/ https://github.com/chucknorris-io/swear-words/blob/master/en https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words https://data.world/wordlists/dirty-naughty-obscene-and-otherwise-bad-words-in-english https://data.world/natereed/banned-words-list https://github.com/surge-ai/profanity https://data.world/wordlists https://github.com/dariusk/wordfilter/blob/master/lib/badwords.json https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_swear_words http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary https://www.banbuilder.com/ https://www.purgomalum.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pejorative_terms_for_women https://old.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/fbrd6x/a_list_of_every_racial_slur/

>>6422 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics check offensive/outdated

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x Lot of problems with the paper but still, the point stands.

Where to get ddr3 ram sticks for cheap? im sure there are a lot of them floating around as companies get rid of their "old" computers but not sure where to get them from I need 3x 8GB sticks >buy new I need those for a machine which nobody uses for months. Want to pinch as many paisaa as I can Would of ssh'd into said machine but it is behind like 4 layers of NAT before the packet even sees a public IP. Is there a way to do this regardless?

>>5540 https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ a rabbithole of very interesting and concerning data

>>6435 Slick dick ending the gold standard. Tbf, '71 is when the impact of the Great Society started being felt as well. You could write a whole series of books on why the USA started declining in the 60s and 70s.

>>6433 Depending in where your live there are local refurbished stores that guy them in bulk and sell them for cheap

dropped my phone and cracked its screen a few weeks ago i put sticky tape on it, it works. Looks very shabby, don't care for the time being but still keeping an eye out Tried looking at new phones but didn't like any. "Budget phones" back then were 10-12k now "entry level" phones are 20k min First off i keep dropping my phone fairly often so there's no guarantee i won't repeat it Second I just don't like Android, or the "candy bar" form factor (see above - those phones are too big). I'm not a chhapri faggot who watches web series on his phone. I don't need a 6.5 inch screen. Third, It's not like the new phone is going to add much functionality, it's not going to do anything my current phone cannot. Can't make myself spend any money on those pieces of shit >Buy apple bro I don't like them either but I could get by with a used iPhone SE (1st gen - small and handy, yes it's locked down too but physically it's better) Or there is this phone for 3k rupees with Android and a physical keyboard. Doesn't come with play store, idk but every review I've seen the guy doesn't use the keyboard ONE TIME. Not once. Either those mouthbreathers are too dumb to use anything but a touchscreen, or the keyboard is actually not utilised properly and can only do simple typing. Anyone got an alternative? I need whatsapp, a full html web browser (this is where kaios f fails), 4g at least, and it should actually work and not be a big huge marketing gimmick

>>6532 Get a used small android, older smaller model Or something like https://www.amazon.in/cat-S22-Flip-Touchscreen-Resistant/dp/B0BTTQGVVW/

>>5540 https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-10-holds-70-03-market-share-while-Windows-11-continues-to-decline.833344.0.html

>>6535 read about this yesterday. Who exactly is downgrading? I think it's like losing water weight when trying to cut. its probably only long term windows 10 users who tried windows 11 for some time, didn't like it and reverted right back to windows 10 - it lost market share that was not actually its own. I did the same thing with windows 7 and 8 - upgraded it, and then downgraded. There could be those who buy new systems shipping with 11 and then install windows 10, or maybe sysadmins? who do it. Anyway its just a few years, then they will deprecate 10 and everyone will embrace 11, perhaps a better version with fixed up bugs. Everyone is used to this hy now. It was the same with windows 7 except those 3 percent who I suspect might be dual booting. >>6533 >older, smaller Phones started getting unreasonably big in like 2016-17 so a reasonably sized phone is going to be 7 years old running Oreo. Actually I like Oreo but people keep deprecating support for things every now and again. As of now you need at least Oreo for a lot of apps and packages, they will raise the bar soon >cat phone did some research has some caveats but overall seems quite compelling. doesn't look like it has warranty. Warranty would be useless anyway because to fix those caveats you need root access and system partition and this and that.

Very weird Cannot access github or 8chan and several other websites from my laptop at all. Don't want to post from phone. Using this just to check where the issue is

>>6540 https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel

testing

>>6541 Thanks for sharing this. Though my problem was different, but this is very good. There is lot of censorship and it is only going to get worst.

good opsec is not optional https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/ >>6538 Lot of people who go from 10 to 11 , realize that it is a mistake and downgrade manually. Others have Win 11 disabled due to lack of TPM module. Many more are pissed off with the ads. I can only hope this sends more users the linux way and linux devs get more funding. Windows doesn't offer much more. > Dual booting Dual booting what though ? The increase is in share of Win 10. Dual booting 10 and 11 both seems pointless. > Deprecating Windows Whats the point ? MS patches are dog shit. MS security is horst shit. Win 11 is bloatware, so why not stay with a comfy OS instead ?

>>6538 I found myself a niche phone, that is on the smaller side and is still 6.0 inches. My current DAP is an old Xperia XZ1C (picrel) that is 4.7'' and is super comfy to use. The phone scenario is absolutely useless. Functionality is down. Prices are up. Maintenance costs are higher than ever for end user, with no increase in functionality. I have used the CAT phone, it is not perfect, but ticks all the box's that you want. If I can get it rooted then I would also buy one. But I am not in need of a new phone for a few years now.

>>6566 >watch review of the CAT phone >it's a vlogger or something but there are no other options >guy types on the 2.5 inch touchscreen instead of using the big huge keypad in front of him >says it's an "advantage" that it's so "hard to type on" because then you can "digital detox" yourself AAAAAAAAARGH IM GOING INSANE ITS EITHER THAT OR THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS GONE CRAZY I found a similar guy on Amazon reviews saying that it's easy to type on the on screen keyboard despite him having "fat fingers" How old are these people? Have they never used a T9 keyboard? Am I the only one who is this autistic about it? I hate using this big a touchscreen, imagine using a touchscreen where your finger covers half the screen. It's no wonder the phone market is doing so well despite being so bad - the people eat it up. That said, I'm torn between the Jiophone and this. Android is inherently an operating system that is made for touchscreens, except perhaps TV (im surprised they didn't make the TV a big touch panel too. I'm convinced people would have bought a 70" touchscreen and waddle around from side to side to tap on the next Netflix series to watch. Would have reduced some weights at least though.) All apps are touchscreen, the keypad won't be useful for much and in the end you will have to use the touchscreen for full operation. As opposed to this the jiophone runs kaios which is I think designed for non touch devices from scratch. It's also much cheaper, I wouldn't care if I went through one of them a year. Then again it will be all locked down and now it will be Ambani who gets your data, the official kaios store isn't available on it. Nokia withdrew the only kaios phone they sold in India now they sell some weird s30 operating system which looks less functional than the old Nokia 6600. It's a shame because the Nokia 2660 flip looks sleek. Would have bought it hands down if it ran kaios despite the questionable reviews given to the OS.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/ >>6567 It is quiet easy to implement physical keyboard support in android and it works well mostly. Jiophone is locked down, so if you need minor tweaks, you cannot do it.

>>6567 The toughness of the CAT phone is a big plus for me. I hate taking care of phones like precious babies.

>>6567 Don't expect to run banking apps and the sort well on the CAT phone. It is an android phone with compromises. As long as you are ok with that, you will have no issues.

>>6569 >It is quiet easy to implement physical keyboard support in android and it works well mostly. Of course it is, keyboards and mice are plug and play on the OTG. Just that I don't know how many applications will actually use the keyboard. Is the interface well optimised at least? Does the d pad scroll and select? >>6571 Why not I switched back to stock ROM on my current phone because getting UPI to work on it was difficult and I didn't have that kind of time

>>6572 The basic functionality works well. Selection in general on touchscreen is poor, be it android, iOS etc. So the keyboard implementation is bad. In dumbphones, the selection feature doesn't work at all. > Why not Touch screen size issues. Most banking apps are not designed around small screens. I cannot comment specifically, don't have a UPI account. Does UPI work with microG spoofing ?

>>6578 > the selection feature doesn't work at all. What do you mean? On dumbphones you literally learn how many ticks in which direction to open your fav app. >Does UPI work with microG spoofing ? I don't know, I actually need to look up what microg spoofing is. But it will not run on rooted devices at all. I tried figuring out how it tests for the root but couldn't. One of the problems was I didn't know where to start. How would you go about "spying" on a process on android? to see what instructions it is running/has ran, perhaps writing the assembly instructions to a text file.

>>6565 >I can only hope this sends more users the linux way and linux devs get more funding I hope more people come to Linux so OEMs start writing drivers for it and software companies port more programs that way (not bibeo games but maybe productive programs like Photoshop and CAD programs.) thn again I wonder if corporate interference is good for Linux though. Things that fly under the radar stay comfy, the public eye is not good, just look at all the indiachans over the years. >Dual booting what though ? WIN7 and whatever Linux distro >Whats the point ? MS patches are dog shit. MS security is horst shit. Win 11 is bloatware, so why not stay with a comfy OS instead ? couldn't care less about updates from Microsoft or Jewgle. OTA updates were the worst thing to happen for the end user but a boon for clueless retards who get careless with their releases because they no longer have the constraints their predecessors had. I'm talking about software. >ads Microsoft has been trying so desparately to get Bing some market share and trying to become an ad company. Because so many people will gladly instal and use this bloatware, they are actually quite successful in this venture.

>>6585 I meant text selection when typing. Those features don't exist on dumbphones at all. But are implemented quiet badly on smartphones too. I don't really see much point in phones beyond a camera and Mp3 player. For everything else, it is useless. Even for these purposes, it is not good. You can still get the blackberry passport or Keyone in India, which are decent phones for your purposes. https://www.amazon.in/BlackBerry-BLACKBERRY-PASSPORT-Blackberry-Passport/dp/B00NET0PVI/

>>6586 Corporations already abuse the MIT licence and open source licence without really paying for it in return. In the cases that they do pay for it, they are doing it to control direction of the project. FOSS needs new kind of licence's to keep up and resist corporations. Having used commercial programs at work and FOSS too, their utility is strongly overrated imo. > Dual booting Win 7 and Linux Wine gets you there, without needing to reboot. Many other solutions too. The issue is, lot of hardware devices need software that only works on mac/windows, it is mostly to run these software or play Gaymes. > OTA updates Phone manufacturers use these to cripple peoples phones and make them dysfunctional, sluggish etc. Almost never do they add actual value. > Muh security updates Normies repeat these lines while using platforms that literally steal and sell their data. The irony. Talking tech with normies is absolutely useless. > Ads The business model for tech everywhere is selling ads and collecting and selling data. Making good hardware , almost no company wants to do this. Making good software, same here, almost no company wants to do this.

>>6585 The IKall A4 phone seems to be a Symbian OS phone. I thought Symbian was dead. ADB allows one to spy on ongoing processes in android. MicroG spoofs google services, how well depends on a persons config and purpose. Others other than me are more knowledgeable on this topic, I only know the basics. I find it pointless to waste time on a deep dive on android. Idk why Nokia doesn't sell its devices in India. I can see myself using the nokia's and using them to hotspot 4G to my laptop for typing on chat apps.

Indian Success Story: A Bengaluru Lab Is Churning Out High-Quality Mirrors For Giant Next-Generation Telescope https://swarajyamag.com/science/indian-success-story-a-bengaluru-lab-is-churning-out-high-quality-mirrors-for-giant-next-generation-telescope

>>6593 Companies like I KALL lie through their teeth, outright. I don't think anyone is selling Symbian licences, besides people like IKALL have neither the expertise nor the motivation to make any phone like that unless they manufacture models already made. They make knockoff designs and their target audience is working class people who are not very likely to notice the shortcomings in their phones and just want something that can make video calls back home and play bhojpuri autotune songs as loudly as possible (based). I used ADB, I used a program for printing some log to stdout. It was putting out an entire terminal window worth of messages every second, and unlocking the phone alone resulted in 3 windowfuls of messages, couldn't do shit with it. Not to say adb is bad or anything - just that I didn't know how the right tool. I find Android be quite interesting to poke my nose into, actually. While I hate the needlessly big phones and the horrible bloated roms and the stupid user interface, Android is very flexible and very functional. As I said before, you can't do anything productive with a phone, but it is a very useful general purpose device. Found out adb over TCP/ip today, I mean I knew about it already but I tried it today. use it with a program called scrcpy and you can mirror your screen on your computer, do everything adb can. >>6591 >I meant text selection when typing Oh. It's absolutely horrible. Selection on Android seems to follow no rules at all it's all a buggy mess. >Phone manufacturers use these to cripple peoples phones and make them dysfunctional, sluggish etc. Almost never do they add actual value. I downgraded to Android 11 from 12 and the pesky update app will pop up and switch tasks to take you to its own screen because it's soo important. They REALLY want me to install the update huh. Programs that like to prioritise themselves over what you are doing àr3 basically malware. I once installed Net Protector Antivirus (big blob of shitcode) on my computer, it would suddenly pop up for half a second, shift focus to itself and then disappear, when I was playing NFS. Focus would go to desktop and I would crash. Took me some time to figure out the culprit. Uninstalled it before the licence even expired (computer guy I bought the computer from gave it to me for free) Frustrating Baffling that they didn't think it's an issue. Probably out of business now because windows has its own antivirus.

>>6602 with this post I promise to stop whining about technology and Android and other assorted shit and only blogpost when I have something good to share

>>6566 The worst thing in this scenario is, funnily enough, the herds of brainless zoomers/consoomers who will poorshame you and defend the billion dollar corpo they fanboy. On an unrelated note, I regret my Xiaomeme purchase, NEVER AGAIN HOW DO THEY DESIGN AN OS SO FUCKING DOGSHIT.

>>6592 >Wine gets you there, without needing to reboot. Many other solutions too. The issue is, lot of hardware devices need software that only works on mac/windows, it is mostly to run these software or play Gaymes. 1. My printer software (not the drivers) doesn't work in linux, it is mandatory as printers are shit and i need to head clean/power clean etc my printer every month for it to stay in top shape. 2. I can't install Affinity Photo 2 on linux, PS CS6 works like dogshit on linux, esp. due to the fact that Wine's own filepicker is a dogshit pos which makes navigating dirs and selecting files extremely tedious, fucker has the default dir start at / instead of ~/ >inb4 just use GIMP/Krita memes, while Krita is good enough for most tasks with a better GUI and more functionality than GIMP, it's also slower than GIMP. And what makes both of them unusable for 99% of PS/AP users is the lack of a Quick Select tool. Seriously, if they managed to include this one (1) tool their marketshare would triple overnight and apart from the most hardcore/professional PS, everyone would use them exclusively. >need to edit a dog/cat out of a photo >select with quick select tool, selects perfectly >use refine edge to select the remaining fur >takes 5-10mins >meanwhile in Krita/GIMP you dick around with a selection brush or a pen tool for an hour for an objectively worse result. 3. MS Office <Latest>/365 >inb4 use old versions Office 2007 works okay-ish but is prone to crashing and has the wine filepicker issue making it unusable. Besides, it's ancient and has trouble opening newer files sometimes, also misses A FUCKTON of QoL features which save A FUCKTON of time. >inb4 use the web version you need a MS account, you need to store all your docs in onedrive, they can suspend your acc for wrongthink. >inb4 use Libre/OnlyOffice shitty MS Excel compatibility lacks features LibreOffice in particular has an EXTREMELY dogshit, arcane and confusing UI, although I do like some features of it not found in MSO. At this point, running Free/OpenBSD and Linux are the same thing to me, neither can do shit without wasting hours, even days of my life.

>>6606 I am not advocating for goyslop, but my time and patience is limited as I'm in uni now. The best choice rn is Windows IoT LTSC with Edge and Windows Defender/Security removed, and using simplewall to block every online bullshit at the OS level, what I do rn. It's not a silver bullet, but it works decently.

>>6602 This command might help. adb logcat -d <process_name> > Symbian I was told that Symbian was FOSS'd so I assume its true. Seems the foundation behind Symbian was dissolved. Android has been going bloatware for a long time now. Last version I liked was 9 because battery improvements and LDAC. Every version since, adds more bloat than functionality. I am using a stripped down ROM now and finally at peace. Don't care for upgrades, though they might eventually come. I don't play any games, I use the bare minimum, mostly audio player and an audio streaming app, even then googled android consumes over 4 GB of ram to send google all my data of what I jack off to. Lets see. >>6605 Xiaomi can make good phones, they just chose to ship the worst hardware to Bangladesh. > Shit OS Yep. Only way to use it is to switch ROMS. >>6606 A change from Windows to Mac would require a change not just of laptop but other hardware too, as much as they will tell you that is not true, it is. Same with Linux. Though printers are a different issue, less of OS and more of no companies making a good printer unless you get an expensive office printer. It is fine, you are not a scientist or someone needing HPC, you will be fine with Windows. Given the nature of your degree, the mouse click workflow, suits you better too. I have a work MS account with all the paid features, I just use Libre office. It works for me and I have to use Excel at a very high level. But each to his own. > My time You are in Uni man. You are not busy. Trust me, life will get much more hardcore, requiring much higher level of time management. Enjoy whatever you can of this time.

Need to login to MS cloud to access some useless work bullshit Your login has been blocked because too many attempts to login WTF, I never tried to login. Try to login alternatively. Doesn't work. MS AI has flagged my PC as risky. Talk to support, need a security, security code requires login. Login doesn't work. Support is useless as usual. Some underpaid 12th pass boy, who is trained not to be helpful. People actually pay for this bullshit is beyond me.

>>6620 Someone I know purchased a new entry level phone and it had an upgrade pending for Android 13 to be downloaded. The size? 4+ GB. My God, my Linux distro's ISO was less than half that size. I can't think of what OEMs are trying to pack that deserves that amount of size. Also, I dislike Google for removing features. They removes access to APIs that did things like toggling wifi on/off via Tasker[ can't do it now on latest versions of Android]. As someone said, Android is trying to become closer to iOS.

>>6565 Didn't Proton Mail reveal only the recovery email in that case? Either way, no provider is going to court just for the sake of one end user.

>>6626 No one is accusing proton. They only followed the law. Point is, using proton doesn't absolve one of good opsec.

>>6625 My issue is that these companies don't even add any value for all this resource consumption. The only way to win with big tech is not to use it at all

https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem The fact still stands that Signal is FOSS and it's code can be examined, which has been independently audited many many times.

>>6627 What do you think of Tutanota vis a vis Proton Mail? Lots of people recommend the latter but the former also has equally strong credentials.

>>6620 > >You are in Uni man. You are not busy. Trust me, life will get much more hardcore, requiring much higher level of time management. ik, I'm still starting the ratrace early with a goal of excelling at academia and making a good network of associates >Xiaomi can make good phones, they just chose to ship the worst hardware to Bangladesh. Hardware isn't the issue tbh, the build quality so far has been solid, and afaik they have manufacturing plants in BD now. >Same with Linux Not at all tbh, say I goto the market to buy a GPU, or a soundcard, a NIC, a nice camera with fancy face tracking etc features, or any other peripheral, and turns out they have botched support (e.g. RGB doesn't work, noise/echo cancellation doesn't work, I can't use the mobo and the frontpanel mic/speaker jacks as separate devices like I can on Windows with realtek audio, patches aren't mainlined so I need a custom kernel etc) I can curate my hardware choices when building a PC or buying a laptop, but I can't fucking give up a good deal on perfectly fine peripheral just because linux doesn't work with it. As for my last linux experience, the hardware of my laptop worked flawlessly, literally zero issues, and my printer COULD print, but the QoL shit like Head Cleaning etc require some janky OEM software that has a separate systemd service running a daemon that doesn't work properly outside of Ubuntu, they provide sources for it, but so far it fails to compile in both Arch and Fedora. Now sure, I could Head Clean or Powerwash via hardware buttons, but I much prefer the software approach. Linux has bullshit design decisions and inconsistencies that make it a shit desktop OS, vital things like udev/udisk, various systemd utilities, pipewire etc have either shitty or non-existent documentation, unless you join 10 different matrix/irc chats and talk with the devs directly you wouldn't know wtf to do, making apps for linux is a masochistic endeavour (I tried), compare that to Windows where MS docs are extremely detailed and of quality, the obscure/hidden apis also have decent unofficial documentation. I used Fedora for 1.5 years anon, I made and contributed to various FOSS projects, I know linux inside out. >It is fine, you are not a scientist or someone needing HPC Anon, desktop and HPC usecases are entirely different, HPC usecase doesn't need fucking sound, or smoothness of the UI, or ability to use the 12183 different peripherals in existence.

>>6657 >fails to compile kek I had this happen when I was 14 trying to haxx my neighbour wifi using Ubuntu but the driver wouldn't compile. Still made it work somehow and I have the handshake packet capture to this day

Winamp is going open source

>>5540 I do not get good/relevant search results on google/bing/duckduckgo anymore. To find high quality/technical/non sponsored advice, I have to append "reddit", "forum" or "hackernews" at the end of my query. I hate doing that since reddit is not great either, and can go down/authwall itself anytime given the recent API changes. Can I please get useful advice for better search results? quora used to be good like 10 years ago, forums have mostly died out, and most technical/high quality discussions have moved to unindexable, closed platforms like discord. I will go insane if I do not find a solution soon

>>6686 Brave AI

>>6686 It is over for search. It is literally useless. I hate when I have to use it.

>>6657 I know what you mean with regards to tech, my own preference is for dedicated hardware, that doesn't need additional software to work or fucking apps. > Fancy UI Get a mac. That is the only solution to this. Your FOSS guys who work for free, do not need any un necessary work on their heads. Besides, the point of linux is modularity. Hence the command based workflow over mouse clicks and smooth UI. I have often automated tasks like extracting images from pdf's, reducing the size and changing formats and using OCR to extract text, so my computer actually works for me while I sleep.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/microsoft-chatbot-assistant-pc https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free/ If yes, what will you use it for ? Are you worried about AI using your data to learn or leaking your private details and thoughts ? Will you protect your data from being used to train AI ?

>>6699 https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-windows-creepy-ai-move/ More details here.

>>6686 >Can I please get useful advice for better search results there is literally nothing we can do, most FOSS projects now have their docs and other discussions in discord/matrix etc phone custom ROM scene is now on Telegram, XDA is a barren wasteland nowadays and SEO garbage now pushes out any good results that are still left on old ancient forums and websites

>>6702 also, historical info on wikipedia is slowly being removed that does not fit ((their)) agenda, I have found many wiki pages on Bengal/Indian history altered/removed which went against the ZOG, or pointed at their roots.

>>6699 I intend on only using locally hostable AI instead of online-only AI as much as possible. >Are you worried about AI using your data to learn or leaking your private details and thoughts ? I am not worried, I am certain they will do that, and refrain from sharing any personal question. >Will you protect your data from being used to train AI ? How ? apart from keeping my pictures and files private there is nothing else to protect, my online activity, usage patterns and behaviors have already been datamined

>>6686 https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

>>6703 Wikipedia has been useless for a very long time for me now. Internet resources are mostly low quality. >>6705 They seem to be taking a direction of shoving AI , ads etc down your throat slowly. > How ? apart from keeping my pictures and files private there is nothing else to protect, my online activity, usage patterns and behaviours have already been data mined Let us imagine you create unique data sets, you write essays with original ideas or create new types of digital art, that you want to stay with you.

Start of something good https://swarajyamag.com/technology/innovation-at-the-edge-hardware-startup-from-surat-pioneers-the-reconfigurable-edge-computer-and-reshapes-computing-as-we-know-it

>>6745 We are so back. This is a very important milestone. In few years ill be paying a premium for Indian made laptops.

>>6705 You yourself are a datapoint. Every aspect of you can be reduced to data, commercialized and analyzed.

>>6748 I still don't see too much of a use case for open source AI's. They make lot of mistakes unless a human trains them, which makes them barely intelligent in my opinion. I can still see them replacing lot of jobs because most.people have idiot jobs.

>>6748 In the EU this is already the case and the implementation is taking time because Europeans are dumb. The fact that data is collected in India means this will also be the case there. Plans were there for BD as well, but are being stonewalled right now.

>>6749 >>6751 I stayed up installing and trying local LLM's. It can surprisingly run on my old aging laptop and not terribly either. Lets see if I find something useful to do with it.

>>6788 very cool yaara

>>5540 Thinking about building something along the lines of a shuddha hindi bot and dictionary, which recommends sanskritized words in place of persianized/arabicized words on forums/reddit/discord etc. It will be a massive undertaking though, as no such dataset is available online and it will be needed to be built from scratch. Maybe I can train the model on older hindi books

>>6819 über based. Just start. I will contribute what I can. In case, a Hindi word cannot be found, then use the Sanskrit term. I want to start a Hindutva thread too, with only Hindi writings for important topics and my translations. But It needs some work before I can do it.

>>6819 Is there a platform where we can make an online list ? word, meaning, शुद्ध हिन्दी शब्द long table or list Old bharatchan used to have such a bot. New one idk who the admin is (its kind of retarded though)

https://www.darpa.mil/program/semantic-forensics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21415/amd-unveils-ryzen-9000-cpus-for-desktop-zen-5-takes-center-stage-at-computex-2024 These look good.

>finally stop being kanjoos and decide to get the phone screen repaired >take to using an old samsung (2018) >it was replaced back then because lagged like nothing else and heated up like nothing else too >reset it, try to install lineage, brick it, revive it and put back the stock rom on it because I learned volte wouldn't work on anything but stock >still pretty slow and pretty hot >run a couple of debloaters on it and remove other useless samsung and jewgle apps >bootloop >reset and try again >Samsung keyboard keeps crashing >investigate and find that the keyboard depends on a package called emotify and they neglected any kind of error handling >enable emotify >disable animations >replace all default samsung apps with fossify apps >phone feels really snappy now then again there are no apps on it right now which take up background memory, like WhatsApp for instance. but still very usable aside from the cracked screen and the fact that the power button takes too long, like 2 seconds to wake up the screen. I'm keeping this phone with care and if my current phone kicks rhe bucket for some reason I'll replace the screen glass and call it my phone. It's 6 years old but the battery is still good. pm uninstall is the one good thing about Android.

>>6846 I know options are not good, but this is still lot of time sunk into a phone. I do miss the old Samsungs. For me anything after S10e/S9/Note 9 is unsable mess from Samsung.

>>6846 This reminds me to make more use of my phone. It is degoogled android, so I can use it without much worries. It is just I don't know what to use my phone for outside of clicking pictures and audio. I mostly use laptop to post or my notes.

Tech is fun and exciting, this I get. But a lot of tech work is just solutions looking for a problem. I feel this way about a lot of AI solutions. I am looking forward to having my own home lab computer again. It will most probably have one of those new CPU combinations with an NPU. I look forward to downloading Llama or some other model for tiny home tasks. But it still feels like a solution in search of a problem and not the other way around.

>>6872 >but this is still lot of time sunk into a phone. I know, im retarded, this is the last thing I need to be wasting my time on. >It is just I don't know what to use my phone for outside of clicking pictures and audio. I mostly use laptop to post or my notes. Nothing. When Im on the computer I am doing something even if the something is just wasting time. When I am on my phone I am doing "nothing in particular". No I don't "doomscroll", I don't have any app installed to do it on. >>6891 > a lot of tech work is just solutions looking for a problem yes it feels like product advertisement on naaptol where they show people doing absurd shit, having such problems as no one in the real world has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA5otcoLT8w

>>6893 I know what you mean about your phone. Inspired by this post, I decided to connect my bluetooth keyboard to my phone and try posting. Typing with a keyboard is comfy. But changing language does not work on android. I need to touch the keyboard again and again. FOnt size is natrually small. With an swivel arm phone stand, I could actually keey the phone at fact level and use it better actually. But feels like lot of work honestly. I still enjoy a big memory card in my phone and using it as a portable hard drive of sorts, with all my music and video and notes on it. > Naaptol ad Ngl, this wrench looks pretty good. I don't work on my bike anymore though. But I know what you mean. There are lot of useless products out there.

>>5540 https://www.novabbs.com/common/grouplist.php web interface for usenet

any resource to deeply learn about linux?

>>6908 yeah, the source code and official documentation

>>6908 https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/ And as said >>6910, the man pages for each command are usually enough.

>>5624 >>5623 Obsidian/logseq with a cloud service of your choice. I am currently using the built in note app for Nextcloud and it is pretty good as well.

>>5540 some partially leaked source code of VMProtect, which is used with denuvo https://anonymfile.com/50D6B/vmpsrc.zip

>>6898 I put in time into my phone because it's the only kind of computer I have unrestricted access to all day. If I had access to a desktop or laptop computer any time I wanted, maybe I would not have cared so much. And in dire situations, your phone is your only friend, and I'd like to keep it working as expected. It's a compromise till you find a real computer, even if you want to do the lightest of work >Ngl, this wrench looks pretty good Don't think so, as far as I can see it just hooks on to two corners of whatever fastener you're trying to unscrew The wrench looks thin and is likely of cheap quality. By cheap quality, I mean it's not hardened enough, doesn't have enough stiffness. These things actually bend under load, and give way. Repeat this a few times and you have metal powder around the fastener, and then you will have stripped it off Socket/T-wrench is best, if I can't fit it in there then I try to use a ring spanner, and if I can't, I use an open ended wrench (have stripped off a few using these too) Changing your working tool isn't a lot of effort and is definitely less effort than whatever you will have to do if you strip a nut by using a bad tool lol

> it's the only kind of computer I have unrestricted access to all day. I hope you get your own laptop/Desktop and some privacy anon. It is a human right in my opinion. >>6978 > By cheap quality, I mean it's not hardened enough, doesn't have enough stiffness. Very good point. > Socket Its a pain to carry them. They weigh A LOT. I travel regularly. For now I have a compromise where my furniture and vehicle can be worked with a smaller toolkit.

>>5540 https://yacy.searchlab.eu/index.html a community-driven, p2p search engine it sucks at its current state, but has the potential to become decent if enough people start using and puttting effort into it

>>6988 Actually looks promising The decline of public torrenting and p2p makes me sad.

>>5540 a programmer's worst nightmare

YouTube's war on adblock means I will have to reduce my dependence on YouTube. I am invested somewhat in alternate platforms, but some channels only exist on YouTube. I don't use YouTube for information consumption or comfy watching. I know many people do. This is ultimately good though. YouTube is brain rot. Not as bad as TikTok but brain rot is brain rot.

>>5540 https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/windows_10_fixes.html one of the most useful websites out there, for winplebs

>>7043 I used.to download programs here and on filehippo ages ago

>>5540 https://prsindia.org/billtrack/the-telecommunication-bill-2023 This extremely privacy invasive law, which will give the government the right to spy on any citizen when it pleases, has been passed and will take effect from June 26,2024. There have been no protests from the citizens, and no one is talking about it online. I hate this anti-privacy nature of Indians(wHaT dO yOu hAvE To HidE brO?). But what can you expect from this joke of a country, which uses chinese cctvs on secret military complexes.

>>7048 Feels like Indians are sabotaging google from the inside lol. Simply based.

>>7045 People look at with suspicion when I tell them about the control govt has after IT act and telecommunication act. For some reason both right and left are busy in fighting over diversions govt. created, while both equally retard enough to ignor such big deals.

>>7054 Not so surprisingly Same shit happening in EU right now Question is how are they planning to do this ? Client side scan via big tech i.e. apple/android ?

>>7054 I read through it briefly, it seems bening. Your call records, internet history via ISP etc seem fair targets. I operate under the assumption that this already happens. Because it already happens (anyone who says otherwise is a fucking idiot). There is no mention of more advanced methods, the kind being employed in US/EU right now.

>>5540 https://lwn.net/Archives/ the best resource to learn about the linux kernel

>>5540 https://codeberg.org/sag/pancake-engine source code of the game engine used by selaco

>>7061 Thanks i will read about this someday

Forcing accounts Forcing one drive backups Treating the user like an idiot The age of windows is over. I will cheish my memories, from Win 95 to ME and then XP. 10 was the last version I used and 11 just made me quit hard. Killing explorer and other processes , renaming pwd files and calling myself a hackerman, reinstalling windows with cd's etc. Those were comfy times, the computer was my own with Windows. I could mould it to my use case. Outside of my office, where I am forced to use MS, I don't really use MS at all. Even in the office, there are rumours of the govt slowly switching to Linux with Gnome in coming years, which I welcome with open arms.

>>5540 https://www.reveddit.com/y/templeos_terry_davis/?showFilters=true&removal_status=all&keywords=temple great alternative to camas .unddit.com, to search for info on reddit(site-wide) and view removed content

>>7080 >from Win95 to ME and then XP how old are yuo sar

>>7085 >>7085 Older than people assume

>>5540 windows is garbage

>>5540 https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/

>>5540 https://pastebin.com/LfKA8fji useful stuff for winfags

>>5540 some alternative search engines: https://Wiby.me Search engine for websites containing minimal CSS and little or no JavaScript. https://metager.org/ It looks promising but it might be snake oil. https://www.mojeek.com/ Claims to be privacy oriented. Search results are mixed. https://searx.space/ Self hosted search engine. Choose one from the list or host your own. https://yacy.net/ Self hosted peer to peer search engine.

>>5540 https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/ Cool, but obscure X11 tools https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/ Cool, but obscure unix tools

https://cheapskatesguide.org/ The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet https://sizeof.cat/ cybersec, privacy, pentesting, etc https://unixsheikh.com/ UNIX and Linux related articles and tutorials, software development, internet, opinion pieces, etc.

>>5540 http://biglist.terraaeon.com/ webring of personal websites https://2.5admins.com/ Sysadmin related news, tips, etc. Lots of ZFS. https://coder.show/ https://www.theopiniondominion.org/ https://bsdnow.tv/ BSD related news and tips https://latenightlinux.com/ linux podcast https://undeadly.org/ OpenBSD news https://fedoramagazine.org/ all about Fedora https://klarasystems.com/articles useful FreeBSD and ZFS related articles https://developers.redhat.com/blog RHEL articles

>>5540 some more alternative search engines: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/main/misc/instances.txt https://search.sethforprivacy.com/ https://whoogle.lunar.icu/ https://metager.org/ https://presearch.com/ https://www.qwant.com/ https://swisscows.com/en http://searxspbitokayvkhzhsnljde7rqmn7rvoga6e4waeub3h7ug3nghoad.onion/ https://www.startpage.com/ https://search.brave.com/ paid+possible glowhole, but has glowing reviews(pun intended)- https://kagi.com/faq

>>7255 https://stract.com/

>set up windows 10 VM on an external hard drive >slow as shit for no reason >drive keeps seeking a lot for no reason >check task man >"windows modules installer worker" is has disk access of up to 20 MB/s I thought it would go away but this has been happening for like 4 days. I hate windblows and i hate glowie updates. It's always doing something stupid in the background and suddenly right click menus take 2 seconds to render. Should of installed tiny10.

These NVME SSD's are so fast. My program created a 4.4 gb file in under a second. I thought the command didn't run or the calculations didn't happen. But no, everything in under a second. Such mindfuck modern tech is.

>>5540 https://historum.com/tags/india excellent forum about history, with a lot of oldfags

Spilled tea on my laptop awhile ago, was fixed but the battery isn't capable of being charged, so it has to be plugged in constantly. Also has trouble powering up, with some issue of powerflow between the powersource and the motherboard. Now it's started randomly turning off. Think it's days are numbered. Does anyone have a decent, cheap computer for programming? Going abroad so I won't need gaming or anything really, more interested in writing and programming now.

>>7356 Budget ? Choice of is ? Size needs ?

>>7356 Motherboard dying mostly. Sad.

>>7360 Around 600 CAD, no size requirement. Windows preferably. >>7361 Yep, and the motherboard for my computer can be found nowhere. I'm hoping it lasts the next few months but I have a bad feeling it's going to get worse.

>>7362 http://amazon.ca/Lenovo-Thinkpad-1920x1080-Business-Thunderbolt/dp/B08T6J8MZK/

>>7364 How are Thinkpads generally? Also, is it worth trusting refurb products?

>>7381 Very repairable Their USB c port is.prone to breakage but otherwise very reliable. Keyboards are decent. Refurbished are good because repairs are easy and manuals easy to find.

>>7392 Literally what is the USB c supposed to be for? What is wrong with the full size USB ports

>>7402 Faster Stronger physically Carries more current Can support more monitors etc I have a single usb c cable setup. One cable plugged in and my monitor, keyboard, mouse, power, everything works. The issue is with the implementation in Chinkpads and Dells. You won't find this issue with Framework for example.

>>5540 >GET https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE gets a jewtube channel as an RSS feed, straight from jewgle, without relying on scraping/APIs.

>>5540 https://dangerzone.rocks/ https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone >Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

https://targettalk.org/viewforum.php forum for all things shooting has a lot of olympians and world record holders

https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ https://udm14.com/ https://github.com/Aran404/SpotAPI https://github.com/fourjr/discord-cli https://nextjs-forum.com/post/1254005974901981275 https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone https://github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock https://danaepp.com/category/api-hacking-techniques https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github random interesting links

Overnight lot of CEO's and tech people have left Europe after Telegram CEO's arrest. I don't think these exits will make news, but as these people change their companies registrations, it will hurt an already weakened EU. Not that EU has any strength in the tech market. But this will further weaken a weak continent.

DeDRM not working in Calibre. Fucking Amazon DRM is such a pain. I bought the fucking book. Now let me fucking pirate it.

>>5540 https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-MatePad-11-5-S-PaperMatte-review-Are-paper-like-displays-the-future-of-tablets.885908.0.html This.or the TCL next paper can be a good boox alt in India

https://illuminate.google.com/home I hate google with a passion, but this is a very helpful idea. I do something similar but this just combines all those steps into one.

https://github.com/Haskell-Things/ImplicitCAD One of the things I hate is, I am forced to do the hardwork with my mouse. Yes, there are commands. Most of them are mind fuck.

>>7904 I hope someone makes an open source version of this. I'll listen to white papers podcasts instead of Hawk Tuah.

>>7938 Had to google this. LOOOOL. Seriously though, I hope so too. Audio has become my main source of consumption ,though for my 2nd read, I still use pdf's/epubs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y Video about how SS7 (Signalling System 7) can be, and is, regularly compromised so random people can track any other random people or even VIPs. They have left out a lot of details about the exact nature of the attack, perhaps on purpose. I will have to read the SS7 documentation and a bunch of other documents too. This has caught my interest. >>7404 Oh I have never seen this but it sounds useful. It's like dock maybe, but without the expensive shit. what other hardware do you need? i don't think monitors have USB C input just yet. >>7283 I found whatever executable that controls windows update n system32 and replaced it with an executable which just returns zero. Windows thinks it is broken, I believe i fixed it

>>8123 I use picrel. Monitors have usb C inputs now. Expensive ones even have docks and power supply built in, so one cable to connect to your monitor and you have everything. I connect the following to my dock (picrel) Ethernet Usb A dongle for mouse and keyboard External hard drive Input power Monitor Audio interface So 1 cable plugged in and my laptop has access to my peripherals. > Linus Vertasium video Govts use this means of attack. At this point, text messages and calls are all recorded in all big countries and many small too. this is usually the method used. Using the sms , apps like Signal and Telegram can also be hijacked in specific cases.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002 I am annoyed since I use this to get pics from phone to laptop. Any alternatives that anons use ?

>>8146 adb pull

>>5540 My phone dies randomly these days. I think it's the battery but I can't be sure, it does this even at 80%+. Sometimes I think it might be because of overheating but there are counterexamples too. Can I use logcat to see why it powers off? Or any other tool. I was taking a backup yesterday and did logcat, and there were some battery related errors showing up on the log Phone is 3 years old now (exactly 3 years old this October... I'm being schizo but I wonder if some hidden switch tripped when it completed 3 years of service)

>>8153 Check the battery health using those battery health apps. 3 year old batteries dying is not uncommon.

Now that the FOSS movement has chosen geopolitical sides, I think its high time the BRICS fraction should just fork Linux and start making our own Kernels and OS's. China is already doing it and honestly not doing a bad job.

>>8153 Got my phone repaired, apparently it was not the battery but just an IC that failed and drew too much current. I asked the guy how he diagnosed it. He had an entire lab there - with microscopes, power supplies and shit. He told me he checks everything before replacing parts blindly. and he checked this ic with his power supply. Somehow it really hurt my ego. I always thought of these guys as incompetent but this guy was really good at what he did and I am not good at anything. I just do random things that feel good to do, in order to feel smart. Some people are has beens, I am a "could be". I "could be" a great XYZ if i just tried. I really need to pick up something and learn to do it well, and do good projects with it instead of doing useless random shit. Literally the one thing I could describe myself as being good at, is reading documentation, and not even that good now because of my short attention span. And also I am never going to open up another electronic item after this unless I know really well what I am doing. I am responsible for killing off a laptop, a TV and a monitor all of which broke down but I decided to open them up and screwing them up all the way. (I feel really bad for the laptop. It had sentimental values)

>>8263 You are aiming too high. A repair guy, has only basics, the rest he has to figure out hands on. He gets paid to do this. Not only is it fun, but his livelihood depends on it. He has his soul in the game. These guys don't need to be smart. In most cases they are not either. But they have feedback. They try things and know immediately if they did it right or wrong. > I am a could be What project you choose and how you structure it, determines your success more than your intelligence. You have to weigh the risks and design projects so your loss is small. This includes opening electronics.. Good thing about things like laptops is, they can be repaired easily. Even if you screw up power supplies or motherboards, in most cases they can be repaired, unless you get Apple or Microsoft. > Short attention span That is a serious issue.

>>8267 >What project you choose and how you structure it, determines your success more than your intelligence Absolutely. Smartness and intelligence is close to a myth when you are not in middle school anymore. It helps but what matters the most is how hard you can work >That is a serious issue. It's why self paced courses are never-getting-completed courses

>>8205 I keep telling anyone who will listen to my babble - we need to move away from America in our computing. No shame in forking off a Linux kernel (embedded) or the entire OS (for bigger computers). Unfortunately we don't have enough good programmers who will find the time from the 70 hour work week. So if such a thing does come into existence it's going to be a government undertaking by cdac or something and you can imagine how that will turn out.

>>8297 I hope there is a big tech ban soon. From Adani to our diplomats, all got spied on using big tech. People still keep using FAANG. The whole tech market of USA was born of defence patents from DARPA. India needs to do the same. Get gifted scientists, given them 5 year grants to go nuts and work on what they want. Then use that for defense first then open the patent and tech. Before that happens though, we need basic dignity for every Indian. Sad but true.

>>5540 https://msfn.org/board/topic/184661-free-vpn-tools-to-fight-internet-censorship/

>>8380 Long time no post. I expected list to be cringe, but this is superb. Thanks.

>>7175 >>6686 >>6988 https://4get.ca/ https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get self hostable proxy search engine

>>8380 This post is financed by sources that seek to control the internet. Not all tools are garbage, but many share data with governments and ISP's. A lot of high level pirates got caught using these. As a general point, most if not all, free VPN plugins are garbage and harvest and share your data.

>>5540 https://git.tsps-express.xyz/notcrisp/PUBLIC/src/branch/main/RemuxGuide.md https://docs.tdarr.io/blog/how-to-remux-or-change-a-file-container-using-ffmpeg https://rentry.org/bingremuxin REMUXing guides

>>5540 https://github.com/DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-docker/blob/master/free_cloud_hosting_VPS/readme.md a few methods to snag a free VPS

https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/e2edead:5 Obv but important

Cracked my phone screen... Again I wish I'd bought the caterpillar s22 back when germanon recommended it when it was 8k. Now it is 13k

>>8587 > mah 3 digits of ram and gorillion megapixel camera Not aimed at you but a simple general point If your phone cannot survive daily life, all these specifications are pointless. I have seen people lose a lakh worth of iPhone with very simple accidents.

>>8590 It's less painful if you lose like 11k phone than a 1 lakh phone. But then again, it's the data within the device that holds value.

>>8591 11k is a lot of money to many people and the loss while not the same, still hits right in the feels. Did you try a repair shop ? What did the repair guy say ? I still use a phone with an SD card and all data is backed up. It is a solid 1 tb card, so my phone is a portable hard drive of sorts. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343417/motorola-moto-g-power-2025-ip69

Got android on TV First time using YouTube style feed Even with no google account Go into 2 hour brain rot pointless YouTube shorts session Disconnected the TV from internet and only using it with HDMI now.

I give up, I stop trying to get out of selling my soul to the smartphone, the government (UPI), and jewgle. >decide to use a gsm only dumb phone for a while >day 1, need to fuel up the bike >try paying by card >fails >try 3x times more >fails >keep as collateral my phone and ride to an ATM, somehow withdraws >other bank ATM so some charges idk >ride back to petrol pump, give him cash >ride back home, look at dumbphone >The POS terminal showed the transaction to have failed but I got debited every time >wait for refund >only one transaction is refunded >doesn't come after ,48 hours >ride to petrol pump they check their end of day slips, they let me see it, none of my transactions are recorded there, tell me to approach bank >decide to wait more >refund never comes Wish I'd approached bank but i barely have the energy, so I lost 600 rupees to my own faggotry >decide to buy 4g keypad phone with UPI >upi thing doesn't work >the phone is weak and slow, "cloud apps" which ran YouTube and YouTube music among others runs on a remote server and relays objects back to phone >return it Good thing it was returnable. Otherwise, a fool and his money would have parted yet again. There are no phones of the kind I look for, and selling your soul is now mandatory if you wish to participate in soyciety (don't want to do this either, but have to).

>>8649 Be a lab pig and try if any UPI works on custom roms. Gpay used to work but then I switched to my new phone and kept it vanilla cuz of banking apps, which don't work if phone is rooted (even though mine technically wasn't as mi allows custom roms without root idk)

>>8598 Smart TV's are biggest source of Spyware. Look into louis rossmann's video on smart tv's.

>>8658 Probably part of the reason why they are so cheap these days, yes the prices of TVs has been dropping for some time now but a 32 inch smart TV is ~7k now when a dumb tv of the same size used to cost twice that at least I dislike the spyware and i dislike how the company who sells it gets more control over the hardware than i do, same gripe i have with smart phones. >>8657 I tried, i could not get it to work. I gave up halfway. It involved too many workarounds and an update to the app will make it stop working sometime in the future, possibly at a bad time.

>>8649 Graphene got blacklisted by many banking appls. Murena OS is working for me with banking apps. I cannot say if UPI app will though, I don't use it. Last time I was in India, fucking ice cream place lady refused to accept cash ! If installing your own OS is hard, either pay someone to do it for you or simply accept a normie smartphone, disable normie apps etc. Working with cash will get tougher. But it is doable. >>8658 Yes they are. But it is impossible to get a non smart TV bigger than 32'' I disabled internet on the TV fully. >>8660 Yes it is. Data brokers pay a lot for that data. Well, took me time , but I got myself a phone which is fully degoogled and has a replaceable battery.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ My friend who is not exactly rich, tells me that it is bad that I pirate shows. A poor fag Indian defends a billion dollar companies (Netflix) profits, so I can pay for CIA propaganda. Pay only for what you want for. Pirate the rest, especially if its not Indian.

does anyone here own a t480? thinking of getting an i5 1080p model for my uni stuff, going for like 20k refurb right now

These days, a laptop is an important Possession. I got myself a Surface Pro 7 few years ago. The thoughts that went into buying it 1. Microsoft has good support (Wrong) 2. The hardware is well built (Right) 3. Touchscreen means I can draw and annotate and take handwritten notes (Wrong) 4. Since I don't use any heavy apps, heating won't be an issue (Wrong) 5. The whole setup should be less than 1200 grams (Right) I do travel a lot, so compact and light makes a huge difference. 8 gb ram is not really a limitation still. But my laptop heats a lot now, even in the cold winter. Anytime you choose a touch tablet device, battery life is halved unless you choose an arm processor. In summer or in India, the heat issue becomes a serious cripple. The touch and pen function works well enough, but combined with heating issues and lower batter life, its usability is limited at best. I would get a separate tablet for this or not use it at all. I will need a new laptop, though I will buy one end of this year. It will be a normal non touch screen this time, solid battery life and 32gb ram at least. Processor wise I am good with anything. 6-8 cores seem to be minimum even in mid range processors. An N100 is equal to an old i7 which is more than enough for my tasks. Browsers are the heaviest apps, a few tabs alone lead to heating. >>8721 Depends on your subject and preferred OS. The main issue with T480's is lack of SSD.

>>8722 doesn't t480 come with a sata ssd slot? the refurbished one I'm looking at comes with a 512 gig ssd, so I can ugrade later if the need arises. Is it a good choice otherwise? Im not planning on doing anything too intensive on it, maybe emulate old consoles but thats the extent of it

>>8723 Yeah Sata SSD is slower than NVMe but if you are not doing anything data intensive, you are good. Just put some thermal paste on the processor. The 8th gen intels are slow. You can get similar power in an N100 machine, but the keyboards and screens are inferior. T480 is the last machine to have a hot swappable battery too , so good choice.

https://www.tradeindia.com/products/framework-laptop-c7737140.html Seems they are available at a decent price. Not sure how trustworthy the company is though. But I would say it is a good alternative to many laptops in the same budget.

>>8726 34k, is that all stripped down? (no cpu, or anything else) I was thinking of getting a framework but the customs are way too much in this land

>>8730 Thinkpad is fine tbh . I wrote to these guys. These are refurbed laptops. Some of them will have hinge issues. RAM etc is all installed.

Had my statistics paper today, I think I've barely passed it

>>8760 wrong thread mb

>>8760 Put it on random thread, then discuss

Or maybe I am not invited to the new sites anymore. Either way, Tor seems pretty dead. Maybe clearnet is where the stuff has shifted.

>>8845 Not to the clearnet, anon. Everything shifted to telegram, whatsapp, facebook segragated and gated online communities, huge information blackholes.

>>8915 Telegram has been purely isolated since UK govt's efforts to control the strongest freedom weapons. No more public available channels, broken bots etc.

>>8919 My friend had a channel that he said died.

>>8919 >>8942 On telegram He was making money from it sharing copyrighted material

>>8943 I buy copyright stuff from telegram. How they handle it is make a private channel, letting in only those who paid. Forwarding, screenshotting is restricted. Guy still in business.

any of you fags use Graphane, lineage or iode or such. Do the UPI and stock trading apps run properly

>>9017 I was confused why you asked same question in stem thread. For me, UPI and banking didn't work. Idk bout trading app. This was few years ago, they may have found some loophole for them to work

>>9023 thanks, ill check it out i just ctrl+f 'tech;'

https://forum.dangerousthings.com/ Old forum full of interesting stuff.

https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/ The highest form of web art.

https://strudel.cc/ Live music coding, if you are into that.

what books can i read to familiarize myself about the whole tech thing. How to build, what is X etc. I used debugger and the foid thinks im a hackerman

>>9233 Thanks for the link. Interesating project indeed.

>>5540 HAPPENING HAPPENING 4DUCK HACKED Admins have pulled the plug for now. Compromised info includes janitorial email addresses. IP addresses tied to posts likely not leaked.

>>9244 -Likely- not leaked, but there is no reason they could not be leaked tomorrow. This is why you use VPNs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH_cZn39Tek

It seems that the 8chan administration is looking to rangeban Indian IPs. Just a heads up.

>>9246 Apart from the usual refugee crisis, there are probably like 4 Indian flags on the entire website.

Is there ANY effective way of using NoScript? Most websites do not work well with Javascript disabled. But I am irritated by random cookie pop ups and "PWEEEEEEAS SIGN IN TO GOOGLE" dialogue boxes on every website i load. My browser does not keep cookies or history so this is reset every time. They are especially annoying because they even focus keyboard input onto themselves, so if I am in the middle of typing something, you get the idea. And of course I do not want Facebook or Google scripts running on unrelated websites at all

>>9309 LOOOOL

>>9309 Beautiful. Anti tech proganda needs posters like these. अति आधारित अनोन जी

Anons. PLEASE STOP USING GMAIL for your troll accounts. You want to send CV and looks respectable, find. Host your own or use a reputable service. But stop giving USA your data.

https://youtu.be/sqm4-B07LsE learn Vim/Emacs bro's learn to let your thoughts down faster

Buying an SSD was pointless. Transferring my music library still happens at 28 mbps. These are HDD numbers even not impressive by HDD standards. Transferring 500 gb of music takes hours. This is so annoying. Should have just gotten a big HDD , would have come me half of this.

>>9381 I heard HDD's are better than SSD's for long term storage in a random data hoarder forum/site. I maybe misremembering

>>9396 Yes they are. I got an SSD because good deal, my preferred HDD company was having supply issues. Sandisk is shit. Seagate is shit. Western digital also started selling used enterprise disks as new. So I thought , why not try it. Got myself a T7 shield. It has some good uses but not worth it overall for long term backup. My main use case was making 1 TB backups with speed. But for random data, it is just slow. I will just build a RAID bay in future or get a desktop.

Why has been a price surge in external HDDs (at least in India) nowadays? They seem to be at the same price point as SSDs now save for a 1000-1500 rupee difference. I remember them being a lot cheper about 3-4 years ago.

>>9338 Yes i have seen idiots use it for their troll accounts But i think people are more aware now. Gmail has now become the de facto ruler of email accounts. Even if you do not want to, you will have to have a gmail account at one point when someone sends you a google form that you have to fill up or be deprived of something Proton will be blocked soon, although that doesn't mean much. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/block-proton-mail-karnataka-high-court-9974204/ I don't know how much better Yahoo is than gmail, and, for a fact, microsoft isn't going to be any better than gmail. That exhausts the 3 big ones. Proton is probaby the least bad one.

>>9397 Backups and storage calls for HDD unless you do it too often I mean, if you have a 1 TB hard drive and you buy an external 1TB for backups, the first time it is going to take you a few hours, but the next time you just write the changes, not the entire thing, right? As far as the speed of the ssd is concerned, could there be something wrong. I can't recall an exact number for the write speed, but if you can't even break HDD standards, there has to be something wrong somewhere. My desktop with a linux distro used to take some a minute+ to boot up on a 5400 rpm hard drive. SSD bought that down to 15 seconds. But i don't see the same kind of speed on laptops. They are still quite slow even with SSDs. Your case could be something to do with this, or a bottleneck at the USB, although I think you are smart enough to pinpoint these things. >>9405 Increase in demand and the issues with silicon, probably.

>>9411 For ordered data SSD's are great. I run some scientific computation programs on the SSD and the read write is insane. For random read write, they have no advantage on SSD's. I get under 3 seconds of cold boot including login screen with the SSD. With an HDD it is 5-6 seconds. > Issues with USB Possible, but it just seems like it is random data. Also encryption might be slowing it down. I did not think of the encryption issue at all. I have working space of 1 TB and total backup of 4 TB. Seperate drive for movies and shows. It makes sense to make a desktop and run few HDD's in RAID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTvblRXnzg Google Alpha evolve

https://youtu.be/GWlAKTDrWwY Skip tp 08:49 With google doing this, custom ROMs will not be able to as stable as they are now. My current phone should be fine for another 4 years, but unless there is FOSS version of android, I only see myself going away from it. It will be annoying, I will have to change my bank and move away from app based ecosystem, but it seems necessary now.

>>9517 This is a step in bad faith for sure, but in reality it doesn't hamper custom ROM development a lot. Do you know why? Because for most devices you don't have the manufacturers release the blobs (Binary Large Objects - driver binaries). Someone who is motivated enough unlocks his bootloader, gets root access, and pulls the blobs, and then posts them on the Internet. i am not sure about the way device trees work, but I think the process is similar. Eventually though they will make it so hard to build custom roms, no one will bother. Or they will find another way. This is why it was a bad move to give total control of our computing to a handful of corporations.

>click on link to youtube video >youtube loads the video + an entire playlist Tell me I'm not the only one who this has been happening to?

>>9521 YouTube has been weird for me as well. Clicking links does not lead to video but to a playlist. Not always what I want to watch. Recommendations and search are complete complete utter trash.

>>9520 This will make it tough to develop the proprietary blocks of the OS , such as location services with Jewgle.

PewDiepie's been pretty based lately A while back he posted a video praising how much smoother life is on Linux compared to Microsoft, and now he’s released another one on how to fully escape the Google ecosystem. With his reach, he might seriously pull millions away from both platforms.

>>9580 He also posted some good books. And working out. I am weirded out that a gayming bro is doing this.

>>9520 https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/graphene:6060

is there any extension that fools websites into thinking im not using adblock just want to read few newspages. or any extension that unlocks premium content. I remember there was once for it

>>9684 It's called Bypass Paywalls Clean

https://youtu.be/x22k3csfJCo Better notes system. Automating Rsync part is amazing.

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/technology/students-in-india-just-got-a-gemini-upgrade/ I have no doubt that India will progress economically, but Indians really underestimate how their data will be weaponized against them.

1. Do you use AI for personal or professional work ? 2. Do you use commercial AI services or run your own models locally ? 3. Do you think AI will take over your job ?

>>9731 1 no, not work, but i talk to ai chatbots often. 2 I don't run locally, but i will try to once i get some time 3 it's just a matter of time for me. I don't know wtf to do now.

>>9733 What do you talk to it about ?

>>9734 Things that are too dumb to post about anywhere else. For example, yesterday I told chatgpt I "hate it when I run out of clean underwear". Stupid shit like that

It's so frustrating how hard it is to post on reddit. All subreddits have minimum karma and age requirements, and I dont think you can make accounts without email. Ik reddit is generally hated but sometimes it's the best/only place to ask

>>9737 reddit is gay and astroturfed to hell. Hilarious people blame indians for ruining reddit when its obvious every sub is filled with chinese and muslims.

>>9737 >>9739 In theory, Reddit holds lot of promise. Reviews and experiences of people who try rare tech, meaningful discussions etc. All open forums end up useless though and open forums imo all end the same. That said, Reddits owners also apply their political motivations which has made the platform retarded, like Facebook became a hotbed for boomers, Insta became the SFW Only fans etc. > people blame indians Weak and retarded. People who cannot influence their own governments, but blame hard working people trying to make a living. White racists are retarded and deserve their own extinction. They claim to be about merit and tradition, but when faced with Asians or Africans (not African Americans) they want protections. Yet they don't mind globalism when it benefits them.

>>9739 >Hilarious people blame indians for ruining reddit I don't think people do that. I haven't seen anyone do so. the indian subs on reddit seem to have formed their own bubble and their own memes, and don't really affect the rest of the website. The moderators, admins, and the most reddity users do a great job of making most of the mainstream subs miserable. They do not need to outsource these things to India. Just look at r/askreddit which in my opinion was the one mainstream subreddit that was worth lurking. Bunch of fun threads and replies you could learn from. Now? Since this term of the Orange man began? It's literally just "redditors of reddit, how do you feel about this thing which says orange man bad?" and a few other mundane questions on repeat ad infinitum. None of that is caused by Indians. All of it is caused by the moderators of the sub peddling their opinions. The thing with reddit is that it has basically taken over the entire Internet. Forums are dying or dead. If you need help with something specific, reddit is one of your best bets. It's the reason why when you search for something, reddit is one of the few useful results you get unless you count stackoverflow threads from 10 years ago. It's also going to attract useful people who do want to post answers to queries or are otherwise knowledgeable in some domain - because it's the only place for discussion now. Asking 4chan is a hit or miss. In my experience, it's usually a miss. >>9745 >but blame hard working people trying to make a living. they should blame their own governments and companies, who in search for cheap labour and more profit, turn to hiring people from overseas instead of people from their own countries. I'd be mad too if indian companies started hiring from for example the Philippines and other SEA countries while ignoring the unemployment situation in India, and the government supporting/not resisting such hiring. I read somewhere that the western IT companies are now indeed turning to these other, poorer/weaker currency nations because in the last few years, they also trained themselves to be codemonkeys instead of just being rice farmers or whatever.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Smartphones-could-become-far-more-powerful-compact-and-energy-efficient-thanks-to-major-breakthrough.1069592.0.html Will be a while before this is operational. But I cannot even imagine how I'd use a 55 GHz processor.

>>9751 Westerners do blame Indians for everything these days. The series of stunning chess wins for example have soured lot of westerner chess fans. Our only mistake is being docile and not bring more aggressive

>>9751 The math Olympiad has soured americunts. I for one am happy to see us progressing in core fields. But we have a very very long way to go.

Nuisance model - Introduce service for free - Introduce annoyance - pay to make annoyance go away Convenience model - sell laziness - Make user dependent - Increase price ## Actual services Email - Sell your data , used to sell you ads Cloud/File hosting etc - data mining - spy on you # not all services are bad. But the big ones are all horrible. I don't see how normies continue to justify their use of big tech. For work I can understand, at workplace employees have no option usually. The arguments usually are - UI is shit : So is your face faggot, I don't see you offing yourself. - Drivers : Unless you use bleeding edge tech, this doesn't apply - I like big tech convenience - These are people who cannot create folders or name files. I consider them consoomers. Long story short - Computers have become consumer devices if you use big tech. It has become so bad that there are no options for normies. None.

>>9770 I have a wireshark analyzer running, I find new trackers everyday.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108837-tea-app-designed-women-flag-men-behavior-hit.html some faggot made this app for women to add reviews about men in their area for "red flags" or "green flags" after he saw his mother struggle with "dating". Learning about the existence of this app ruined my entire week. BUT The government IDs and the real photos of the users of the app turned out to be stored on a database that was unintentionally left accessible to the general public. Not that it means anything, this will just cause another wave of "muh poor suffering women" :( victimization. If the women do feel insecure about this, they will feel insecure about the exact thing they were doing: hosting photos of people without their permission or knowledge, and talking about them, possibly revealing intimate details. Of course, they won't think of it that way, because they won't see past themselves. If you're thinking only xyz category of women use this, you should know that this quickly rose up to the list of most downloaded apps on the apple appstore. It never ceases to amaze me how westerners, and increasingly, everyone else too, treats "dating" as some sort of sport or hobby. Just like how some people treat going shopping as their hobby. >>9771 Everyone now knows about tracking and privacy and things, but few people know just how deep it goes. Not even me. The analyzer will probably help you realize the depth. >UI is shit : So is your face faggot, I don't see you offing yourself. KEK UI is shit is a valid argument but people apply it to "it looks old", not "it's a laggy electron wrapper designed to look like a touchscreen".

>>9773 I saw this app leak and 1. If you are not the kind to date for sport, then stay from such people and their lives. They are a different species and contact with them will be bad for you. 2. The chicks who did this, deserve exactly this. On the UI stiff and tech, will answer later. Need to gather my thoughts. But I think it is good that consumer tech is moving away from useful tech.

I have worked with all state of the art models available to the public and many that aren't. There are for sure jobs that will go away - Teachers - Doctors (some not all) - Support staff and marketing - Phone sex chat and call lines In most cases, AI just generates a summary of top search results. Sometimes this is excellent and solves your problem. In most cases, the answers are sloppy and need lot of work. I don't like working with unserious people who don't do their homework or lack basic competence. AI sounds like that. A coworker whose work you need to keep going over and it adds to your work.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191 I had written something of the sort but forgot to post it here. That said, are humans any better ? most humans to me, seem to just parrot things too without really knowing what it means.

My autism is back again, I am strongly considering learning Doom Emacs now. Vim is just fine tbh. Only thing I miss is built in image support, but that is a niche complaint.

Installing ubuntu is a breeze now. installed 24.04 LTS, done in like 45 mins at most. Check the box for "download third party drivers" and it will install proprietary nVidia drivers for you and make it so that it actually works - this process took me hours upon hours of frustration a few years ago, kernel would panic because X server would try to start up before the graphics driver had loaded, or something. I don't really remember. But this is better.

>>9864 It took Nvidia data getting leaked for Nvidia to fix its abysmall drivers. I am on Ubuntu too now. It is comfy. If not this then id either use Debian or Arch. But Arch is a pain and breaks easily with using latest and greatest hardware.

>>9841 This is too technical, and i am no longer in the habit of reading mathematical notation like this. but >In this paper, we critically examine the COT reasoning of LLMs through the lens of data distribution, revealing that the perceived structured reasoning capability largely arises from inductive biases shaped by in-distribution training data. We propose a controlled environment, DataA lchemy, allowing systematic probing of CoT reasoning along three crucial dimensions: task structure, reasoning length, and query format. Empirical findings consistently demonstrate that CoT reasoning effectively repro- duces reasoning patterns closely aligned with training distributions but suffers significant degradation when faced with distributional deviations. Such observations reveal the inherent brittleness and superficiality of current CoT reasoning capabilities. We provide insights that emphasize real-world implications for both practitioners and researchers. It's good to have some scientific tests to confirm this, but what the paper proposes is quite obvious if you ask me. Both in practice and analytically. ChatGPT doesn't know much about the plots of media and filmography. If you ask ChatGPT about old movies, or even popular video games, it will produce total and complete garbage. And then if you think about it, it's obvious that the model will perform badly on things it has not been trained on. Real world logic is too complicated to be extrapolated from existing data. I get it, CoT is an attempt to give intelligence to the AI, so it can be more than just a word prediction engine. Even so, we cannot expect it to know what it has never been told. AI is a machine/tool, and we shouldn't give it more credit than that. At least, for now. Someday, they will create a machine that is actually intelligent. For now, they're making a lot of money selling a machine they claim is "intelligent". >>9867 I don't think the drivers by themselves were bad. It was just hard to get them configured correctly. I used to run hashcat on my machine, noveau was bad. proprietary drivers bumped up the speed properly.

>>9868 > On the paper saying the obvious Birds learn to fly on their own. Researchers just watch them fly and write papers on how they fly. Similarly, Academia here is just documenting what exists in practice. The NVidia drivers were really really bad. Both in performance and configuration options. I tried AMD and it wasn't any better. Today the scenario is different. AMD drivers work well and therefore AMD cards are a decent option. but for more commercial applications, NVidia still slays. BUT. The costs ! A proper AI desktop will set me back 3k at the very least (2,70,000 Rs INR) for not even top of the line config.

>>9892 2 years until global rollout, and because this is about Google Play services, all devices which ever shipped with Google Play will have the same change if my understanding is correct. They blacklisted paytm during some IPL match and I had to install it, so I used an apk from another phone (Xender) and it simply refused to install. Just an annoying message saying "App not installed." Iirc it was because Google Play services, too. Play already controls what apps you can and cannot install. And the nooses are also slowly being tightened around the necks of the custom ROM people. Even if you and I still manage to keep a phone alive with sideloading enabled, who knows how many developers will sign up for that scheme. The smaller that number, the smaller the number of independent apps. It will ultimately hurt the developers and the consumer. No doubt this is Google's scheme to force more developers into their own ecosystem. Maybe they will also require platform fees later.

>>9932 https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/sep/03/sfc-qa-on-how-to-keep-your-sideloading/ Iode and others running microG are working well for me including Banking apps.

https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nokia-expands-defense-portfolio-with-two-advanced-tactical-communication-solutions New nokia dropped

Bhagwa iphone looks good. I can show my sanghiness with it in public.

i want a blackberry passport

>>9961 >>9961 I had one. Did not like it. Slow and buggy. But for emails it was perfect. Why the fuck does gen Z hate email

>email i dont genuinely know. Theres no reason for zukurburg to see your dick pics. A faster BB passport. Its like having maid-computer but better. Could put linux on it. Ubuntu-touch or something like that

https://cursed-lang.org/ >>9964 Unihertz Titan was available in India before but it isn't anymore. I would live something like this. Even if just for better typing. My laptop is already compact at 14, older one was 12. With age, smaller screes don't make to me, I need a monitor for anything beyond 1 window now. Still, for a phone a Blackberry form factor makes sense. Phones are so boring and not to mention spyware. It is very annoying.