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/t/ - Technology Codexx Board owner 04/25/2020 (Sat) 07:10:33 No. 2 [Reply]
Welcome to /tech/ - ∞chan's technology board. Please check the rules before you post: https://8chan.moe/t/rules.html Looking for hardware or software recommendations? Check out the InstallGentoo Wiki: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/ /tech/ is for the discussion of technology and related topics. /tech/ is NOT your personal tech support team or personal consumer review site. We have stickies for that. Keep those kinds of posts in there. For tech support, software recommendations, and other questions that don't warrant their own thread, please use the '/tech/ Questions and Support' sticky. For consumer advice, please use the consumer advice sticky located below. For tech support/issues with computers: https://startpage.com/ or https://ixquick.com (i.e., fucking Google it) https://stackexchange.com/

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/t/ech Questions and Support Anonymous 04/25/2020 (Sat) 07:16:43 No. 3 [Reply] [Last]
Bring all your hardware, software and other troubles here.
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>>24621 definitely an EM/EMI issue, not software. In your attachment it looks like the high-intensity white of the 'track package' is bleeding to the left. Most likely your vertical command lines are bleeding. Best case/Most hopeful scenario is a that the TFT's connection to the ground has gotten a bit resistive. E.g. a corroded contact or line, or some solder coming loose. (so that the command lines drain to eachother instead of to the ground) The hard job is pinpointing where, and if you do fix it there's no guarantee you've extended your tablet's lifetime much. Obviously the corrosion or broken contact or whatever came from something like prolonged humidity or steep thermal cycles, things that will slowly get worse as the tablet ages. Godspeed.
Can anyone quickly explain to the stupid old me why tf is there a magnet in my mouse? I only discovered it because it just attracted a piece of metal to it's corner next to mouse0.

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Consumer Advice Anonymous 04/25/2020 (Sat) 07:18:24 No. 4 [Reply] [Last]
Looking to buy something but aren't sure what to get? Ask here.
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>>24232 you ought to specify what you mean by webmail client since thunderbird definitely isn't one i guess you could use something like neomutt or emacs but honestly i can't stand them for multiple accounts
>>24232 Here is some advice that DON'T involve emacs. Webmail can get pwnd more easily than plain old SMTP+IMAP+desktop client. Just stick with that and don't complicate things for yourself.

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How can we get old web back? Anonymous 07/25/2025 (Fri) 12:23:27 No. 23735 [Reply]
Neocities has been lobotomized for the past 4 years or so... It went from genuine old web revival to radically left slop and "Kawaii" hyperpop mix of colors and visuals. 4Chan is not much better now as they aren't even letting me post. How do we get old web back?
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>>24543 Why even learn these days. Just ask Grok or ChatGPT to write it for you. > Please write an HTML webpage with some basic javascript for cool pointer features that has links for the following: >Google, CNN, NYC Craigslist, Weather Channel NYC Forecast, NYC Subway Map, and events for the parks around town (Central Park, Thompson Square, Battery Park, etc) >Make it look more like early 2000s websites <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>My Retro 2000s Links</title> <style>

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>>23735 Be the change you want to see in the world... make the old web yourself.
>>24571 >javascript OP asked for old web, not nu bloat

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Hydrus Network #12 Anonymous Board volunteer 09/24/2025 (Wed) 18:29:57 No. 24277 [Reply] [Last]
This is a thread for releases, bug reports, and other discussion for the hydrus network software. The hydrus network client is a file-management application written for Anon and other internet-fluent media nerds who have large file collections. It browses with tags instead of folders, a little like a booru on your desktop. If they wish, users can easily share tags anonymously through a public server. Everything is free, no ads, and privacy is the first concern. If you have 10,000+ files and cannot find anything, hydrus might help! I am the hydrus developer. I am continually working on the software and try to put out a new release every Wednesday by 8pm EST. Past hydrus imageboard discussion, and these generals as they hit the post limit, are being archived at >>>/hydrus/ . Hydrus is powerful, complicated, and messy. It is not for everyone. If you would like to learn more, please check out the extensive help and getting started guide here: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/
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>>24643 Ubuntu kinda sucks now. Try bazzite. Fedora is getting shitty too but right now that's kinda all of open source. >>24625 Dang. The Xorg vs wayland stuff is understandable. >>24645 https://x11libre.net/#about >big tech sabotaging improvements on x11 sounds about right. I'm glad to see these projects that side step sabotage.
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>>24646 >could you explain what the point/relevance of linking that was? Lurk moar newfag.
>>24645 >especially now that there's an XLibre/X11Libre project This is very promising. I'll keep an eye on it.

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Tor Discussion Anonymous 06/15/2020 (Mon) 04:52:53 No. 449 [Reply] [Last]
So, what's so bad about Tor? >it's a honeypot Not really, I have done extensive research into this and the only people caught on it were dumb fucks who made OpSec mistakes. Plus, the only people championing this point are schizos who use VPN services or set up their own VPN, or even just use their plain ISP-given IP address, all of which are way riskier than using Tor. If you're concerned about onion links being honeypots, then set up your own. It's one of the easiest things in the world to do. >it's slow Fair enough. >a lot of sites block it Yeah, and a lot of sites are fags anyways, a lot of sites are also using ReCatapha and require phone verification and use Cloudflare or AWS. Sites have been against privacy for a long time and are banning VPNs too. >it's operated by sjws&trannies Literally everything is now, including VPN services and ISPs, there is no escape unless you want to fully disconnect from the internet and live in a cabin in the woods, which considering people are still using this site, I don't see happening. Also, the directors are known privacy-advocates. >firefox Firefox is rapidly becoming a shit browser for privacy, yes, Chromium is worse, "Ungoogled" Chromium is still Chrome garbage, same with Brave, alternative Firefox builds are usually outdated, and Opera is blatantly spyware. Meanwhile, Tor usually strips out all the tracking that Firefox tries to push in new releases. >relays and nodes operated by governments Which is more of a reason to get more people using Tor so more people can set up nodes and relays aside from government interference. Not opening this to start an argument or a bash on how bad Tor is or just to simply praise Tor, I want a discussion, because most points about Tor being bad for privacy are easily debunked and usually only used by schizos and I want to ensure my personal privacy.
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how does vpn ever go back to a person?
>>24594 Most VPN accounts are paid. Where there is payment there is a paper trail. Paying in BTC, Montero, or similar will help protect against this, but not perfectly. More dangerous though is the connection. Any IP connection starts from a point and ends at a point. This can be monitored and logged. The websites a VPN user visits can also be monitored. Even if the company says 'no logs', there is never a guarantee to that they are being truthful. Even if they are being truthful, a legal authority can issue warrants and require monitoring of traffic. Basically, any VPN network knows who you are, where you come from, and what sites you're visiting.
>>24612 The way to deal with this, of course, is to add a few hops so that no VPN provider has the complete view of... Oh wait, that's Tor.

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SoystemD and why you should (not) use it Anonymous 06/15/2025 (Sun) 09:55:36 No. 23385 [Reply]
Hello my gniggas. I've been into Linux for a while, and lots of people talk about SystemD, and especially why they don't like it. I've never been able to look up a cohesive answer as to how you come to this conclusion because I don't know enough about Linux. As I understand it any given unix-like distribution is composed of a bootloader, a kernel, an init system, the utilities, and the package manager. When it comes to SystemD, its approach is monolithic in nature and manages lots of things on its own. For others, all they do is run programs like an init system sounds like it's supposed to do. My question I suppose begins with where does the slack get picked up if not by SystemD? Daemons? Arch users end up trying Artix, but complain that some stuff didn't work, and that they're better off at that time using Arch. If you had this experience please post about why that happened. Assuming a world where everyone is on board with switching to a different init system, what has to change? Are too many programs dependent on SystemD for their services? Why is SystemD a poor choice compared to the competition, is it really so bad? Is SystemD a tool of Red Had embrace extend extinguish fuckery?
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>>23442 >It doesn't need timers while software like cron exists, an init system could just run cron. Probably a brainlet question but how would a package manager go about editing a shared crontab? Having a config file be edited by both users and the os seems inferior to how systemd is doing it. pacnew files are annoying
In the beginning was sysvinit, and sysvinit was with the system, and sysvinit was the system. The same was in the beggining with init. All things were started by init; and without init was not a thing started that was started. Init was in the system, and the system was made by init, and the system knew init not. - gnu 1:1,2,3,10. Now the kernel speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the init, giving heed to a deceiving system, and doctrines of daemons. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their operating system seared with a bsod; Forbidding to script, and commanding to abstain from posix, which kernel hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which init and know the truth. For every init of Kernel is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be recieved with thanksgiving. linux 4:1-4.

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Alternatives to Discord Anonymous 10/10/2025 (Fri) 12:56:27 No. 24369 [Reply]
Since everyone hates discord let's share some alternatives. Of course discord compresses many functions and as such you'd need to use differente apps. For one on one chats, I think XMPP is cool but I have yet to convince my friends to use it. Matrix and telegram are too close to discord imho For short-term group chats, I have self-hosted mumble a couple times and it's pretty fun. There's also jitsi for giving you the rare screensharing. I haven't used much IRC because I don't like sitting on the computer. For long-term group chats of course there's forums and imageboards. Do you know any others?
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>>24555 but XMPP already has a GUI, unless you want to recreate servers, but again I think that's a terrible idea
>>24555 it's not putting a text chat together with voice and video that's the hard part, there are plenty of alternatives that already do this the problem is in trying to integrate all the other stupid quirky shit discord has into one of those other applications that has prevented anything from actually competing against it discord continues to provide a "free" as in free beer platform that draws users in, an api that lets users write channel bots which I guess is versatile otherwise nobody would give a shit, a persistent chat log for all fhe "FOMO" fags (which as far as I can tell never expires), then you have the media embedding, and shit I guess you pay for like badges and custom emotes or whatever the fuck it's just little insignificant shit that keeps fags hookd on discord because it's eye candy
>>24453 i could kiss you for this got any more resources?

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Why the fuck are people still using Windows? Anonymous 05/05/2025 (Mon) 18:43:25 No. 22308 [Reply] [Last]
Microsoft has been giving people every reason to abandon Windows since they first announced Recall. And now it's real. >proprietary AI >stores 50 fucking gigabytes of unfiltered screenshots, taken seconds apart >only on shitty snapdragon laptops, for now They've been shouting from the rooftops for over a YEAR that they intend to track your every move, but there are still countless millions of normie midwits using it, and still enough "learned" users for Windows generals to exist on /g/. It blows my mind. Anyone who knows Microsoft's history with user privacy and consent, and understands how much money they have in AI, knows exactly how this story will go. >Recall will be brought to gaming PCs because no one wants a snapdragon >Microsoft will quietly update the EULA to let them access the screenshots >pause to gauge public outrage

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Pirating games is too hard on linux
We did it linux bros, we reached 3%
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>>24586 funnily the combined list doesn't even count the steamdeck. but you can see it compared to other distros on the linux only page. I'm not entirely certain why they've done this. I feel like it'd be a lot closer to 4% if they actually did count steamdecks.

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Click (bot) farms Anonymous 10/21/2025 (Tue) 16:00:08 No. 24490 [Reply]
>You're from pakistan >No, you post this from india What are bot farms and how do they even work? Had their influence been studied?
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>>24528 >>24527 >>24525 >>24524 Thx for explaining brother.
>>24530 F the modern internet.
I used to run around 30 phones, mostly automated, check them a few times a day. Made 20-30 bucks a day at school. It took awhile to build up to that and then it started to not be worth it so I quit out as the phones died, usually battery bloat from always being plugged in. Surprised I didn't burn my house down.

/spdt/ - Software Packaging and Distribution Thread - "I Actually Finished Something" Edition Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 17:12:40 No. 17969 [Reply]
Thought this might be an interesting topic I don't read as much about on here. >installers >uninstallers >onefiles >code signing >CI/CD bullshit To kick things off, any opinions on NSIS vs InnoSetup vs WiX? Especially for integrating with Github Actions. Last time I actually needed to make an installer was pre-9/11 for a VisualBasic thing so I'm a BIT out of the loop, but I used NSIS at the time just because I liked WinAmp. WiX looks like a fucking RABBIT HOLE and overkill for what I need, so for the moment I'm going with InnoSetup unless there's some reason not to?
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I just want to say this thread topic has great potential and you guys are under qualified to contribute
this topic is so annoying that I always go to great length that my whole application compiles to a single executable in the end
>>17969 The laziest install is always the "lmao just unzip wherever and run." It's simple, popular, and effective. Other than that NSIS is still very popular and going strong. InstallShield is popular if you want to be oldschool as shit and still looks very enterprise-y, but it practically reads "proprietary software" so it's a bit suspect if you're putting it on an open source project. InnoSetup is fine too, to be honest. Most of the time there is no real reason to give a shit what installation method you use as long as it works but you can do some dope software installers if you want to go back to shit like Westwood's game installers where the installation procedure itself was like a long-winded introduction to the game. Most of those installers are fully custom installers you make yourself though.

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Monero As the Internet's Currency Anonymous 04/18/2021 (Sun) 01:27:33 No. 3581 [Reply] [Last]
There's many cryptocurrencies out there. But out of the many cryptocoins out there only one stands out, Monero. It's safe, secure, private, and anonymous and there has yet to be a government agency that can crack its code. It's also not handled by banks, payment processors, and credit card companies that may blacklist you for bullshit reasons. The promising technology of atomic swapping will also render crypto exchanges to be not needed as this will counter government regulations of asset exchanges. Also this cryptocurrency is the easier to mine compared to Bitcoin. So do you think Monero will see more widespread use in the future? Give your thoughts.
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>>19065 >>19069 you dont understand. the tiny inflation enables faster transactions https://monero.stackexchange.com/a/13452 >It’s also extremely important to make it clear that Monero’s supply is pre-defined, verified and enforced via consensus, and entirely predictable, just like Bitcoin’s – you can know the inflation rate and totaly supply at any point in the future without doubts. This tail emission enables two key features in Monero > A lower bound of network security forever (miners will always be able to rely on 0.6XMR per block, no matter the fee market) A dynamic block size (Monero’s blocks can grow/shrink to adapt to short-term increases in usage, with a penalty to mining rewards during these times).
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>>4166 trocador is another option
>>3581 Is Monero quantum-resistant?

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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account Anonymous 10/08/2025 (Wed) 00:12:25 No. 24351 [Reply]
>Microsoft is cracking down on bypass methods that let Windows 11 installs use a local account, and avoid an internet requirement during the setup process. In a new Windows 11 test build released today, Microsoft says it’s removing known workarounds for creating local accounts as they can apparently cause issues during the setup process. >“We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE),” says Amanda Langowski, the lead for the Windows Insider Program. “While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use.” >The changes mean Windows 11 users will need to complete the OOBE screens with an internet connection and Microsoft account in future versions of the OS. >Microsoft already removed the “bypassnro” workaround earlier this year, and today’s changes also disable the “start ms-cxh:localonly” command that Windows 11 users discovered after Microsoft’s previous changes. Using this command now resets the OOBE process and it fails to bypass the Microsoft account requirement. https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
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I was a win 7 holdout, had a ton of issues with windows 10, drives going missing, ethernet drivers going missing, random 6 hour updates on a 16 core computer with nvme. Defaulting my web browser randomly, constantly nagging me, putting gay flags in the taskbar, constantly spinning up hard drives, constantly revving up the cpu when idle for no reason. Silently deletes piracy software and if you don't notice and revert through the virus center before removing the drive it's gone forever. Every update you might find it has uploaded your entire home drive into the cloud, unencrypted. Oh you want to debloat your computer with a 3rd party software...hehee, well now you have to reinstall, and your gonna need to provide a phone number and make an account. It's literally unusable, I spent less time learning linux. After 5 years I don't have any of those issues anymore and it helped me learn actual computer stuff. What I mean is I learned things like docker instead of spending my time fighting any of the issues listed above. It's not fruitlesss either, even if i never used docker again it's more useful to me than some gay ass trick to get past microsofts bullshit that will be reverted in the next update anyway. That's just pure frustration for no reason.
>>24533 You might have turned indexing off in the drive setting on 10, I did, but it would still spin up the drives every half hour or so despite not being accessed for anything. I'm guessing they removed the ability to turn indexing off in win 11?
>>24533 Mate, get rid of that shit. At some point it's going to try to use SecureBoot to make it impossible for you to boot anything other than Windows on your machine. I'm not joking. It actually does that. Win11 is a fucking virus.

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4chan lurkers read this Anonymous 04/28/2025 (Mon) 02:05:22 No. 21558 [Reply] [Last]
I know you're here, I know you want 8chan to be as fast as 4chan, but it can only be that fast if you say something, find an excuse to reply even if they reply isn't as great as what was here before, just do it, everyones feeling the same as you going "my post will be too shitty" just do it anon, make that post, so long as it's not modern 4chan tier it's good enough to drive discussion and move the conversation forward, it's up to us to make 8chan great
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>>21558 I just want old /tech/ to be resurrected. I cannot take anymore /g/ threads with faggots just making thinnely veiled advertisement threads for all the normal cattle to spam reply to. I can't do it anymore I stopped using 4chan for the past 6 months because of it and I don't even miss it because of how utterly shit it is.
just got here. seems neat.
>>22369 Yes, bitch. You're on /tech/. We're all over that OPEN SOURCE community ownership shit.

/iemg/ & /pmpg/ - In-Ear Monitor & Portable Music Player General Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 00:41:51 No. 17869 [Reply] [Last]
Renaissance Edition How to request advice: >Budget >Intended use (media, source, environment) >Frequency response preference and music examples >Past gear and your thoughts on them FAQ: >Where do I buy IEMs? Amazon, Aliexpress, Linsoul, Hifigo, Shenzhenaudio >Shopping Guide (IEMs, Cables, Ear Tips, etc.): https://rentry.org/consoomer_guide >EQ Guide (Measurements, Targets, Equalizer, etc.): https://4ciemg.github.io/IEM-EQ-Guide/

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>>24164 >Maybe tube amps aren't meant for such prolonged use? Not surprising, I've heard of tubes dying in a matter of months
>>24165 >have to spend a hundred bucks every 3 months on tubes >the rectifier itself costs another 200 Brother...
>got new tubes >issue got fixed >couple months later it comes back Can't believe I fell for the tube amp meme and especially for the chink tube amp meme. It hurts to admit that I should have gotten a Fiio K17 or some shit. Fuck this garbage dogshit xduoo TA-32.

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How do we fix modern lighting problem? Anonymous 10/15/2025 (Wed) 03:57:00 No. 24429 [Reply]
LED lights are the cause of obesity, sleep problems and disturbance of ecosystem in general. Since, they are cheap the Jews feeling obligated choose them over Sodium lights. What are your opinion on cheap and healthy alternative to LEDs?
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LED light really is just shittier overall. It's a huge increase in price to have an LED light even come close to the natural output of an incandescent while the output of the diodes gradually degrades from the moment they're being used, some losing up to 15% brightness within the first year of use, or the driving circuit failing from overheating meanwhile the diodes are fine, so you have to throw out the whole product for one flaw. From a "green" standpoint, they create far more pollution because of both the manufacturing of the electronics and "recycling" of them. Incandescent bulbs will always output the same amount of light until they burn out, the heat generated helps reduce heating costs in the winter for rooms actually being used, they are dirt cheap to manufacture because materials for them are dirt cheap, and they more easily recycled than e-waste bulbs, they don't even need fancy electronic control switches for dimming, a simple potentiometer is all you need, and if one burns out it's not a $15-$20 investment to get a single new bulb.
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They didn't even get the bulb right for so long, this is a flood lamp with a bulb shaped cap. Wasn't able to find 100w led regular bulbs for another 5 years. Obama didn't care bc his wife is just a dude with boob caps.
You can buy LED lights that emit like they're a 2700k light bulb.

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