/tech/ - Technology

>>12940
>> How do we even counteract something like that other than giving up on the internet entirely?
>Not sure, maybe isolated intranets that vet users or something. I think Tor/i2p/freenet may become the only kind of option soon.
Proof of concept lrgo7ejldbtabxk2cpqmi54ckiifrf7c6njkaknxlcbxos5kjbktbhad.onion

>>12940
What's stopping them from botting tor? Google was made by the gov practically.
Either way the internet looks grim right now with all the push for censorship yet nothing being done against bots.
>originally thought they were going to push id with bots
>instead they did the kids shit again

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>>12611 (OP) 
Yandex.com redirects me to dzen.ru. my ip isn't even Russian

>>16807
yandex was killed off some time ago by elites in power, there is no yandex.* domains anymore that are genuine. yandex itself moved to ya.ru

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thinking SSRI's cause school shootings is level 1000 braindeath

>>16499
Ok, I'm not gonna bother helping you.

>>16501
I don't want your nigger help. The only way you can "help" is by fixing the concept of email itself because the problem is with email, not with something incidental to me. It's not a coincidence that 99% of people log into google.com for their email instead of using an email client, and if they do use an email client then they'll immediately be greeted with a big fucking niggerlicious "sign in with gmail" button on it, because otherwise nobody would use that client.

This is exactly what's wrong with FOSStards, someone complains how fucking clumsy and confusing and unintuitive something is, and you think the solution is to put users through some kind of learning camp instead of making the fucking thing better.

>>14802
Due to sms being needed to sign up for entering sites I kinda agree with you. *entering insanity mode* It's so silly the powers that be think they're keeping people safe doing silly stuff like this. At the end of the day some serial killer is going to whipe his shoes off on some guy he had a gun on using his computer and all his information instead after it's literally impossible to be anonymous and just go to another guy's house in someone else's car. They can't stop that sort of activity but pretend some all seeing eye can when it can't actually see anything, just record and get there too late. Eventually some day in the futue the brown pill poster will be posting over some dead grandma/grandpa on his/her computer while giggling and bicycle away leaving their corpses to rot.
<oh god the Internet troll mob is here!! *looking through telescope* Close the shutters!!!! I CAN SEE THEM ILLEGALLY TRADING FILES FROM HERE
Slippery slope is slippery. They outnumber the pigs by far, criminals in general. They beg for more organized people iir rather than from afar. It's silly. And then they have to physically be there spying and we all know what happens to spies. 
>>16497
We'll return to monke after they finally make it 'impossible' to break the law anonymously. It  makes mobsters when you try that sort of thing a

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>>16502
Just use the google webmail, instead of bitching here that you're too stupid and lazy to RTFM for 2 minutes.

I was too retarded to figure out how to make squirrelmail work so I just went with Thunderbird.

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What beginner tools are needed for soldering besides a soldering iron, flux, and solder?

>>15637
Good pair of helping hands and/or vices
Tweezers, lots of them
Pliers
Microscope or eyeglasses if  eyes are not good
Ventilation
Depending on what you solder, hot air gun and heat shrink. In my experience, if you can use UV epoxy, it is much better
Soldering iron tips, lots of them of different sizes
A wire mesh ball to abusively clean tips
Sponge with water to quickly clean tip
Light source

>>15638
Missed: multimeter for connectivity check

>>13234
helpful post

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocard_(printed_circuit_board)
>Eurocard is an IEEE standard format for printed circuit board (PCB) cards that can be plugged together into a standard chassis which, in turn, can be mounted in a 19-inch rack. The chassis consists of a series of slotted card guides on the top and bottom, into which the cards are slid so they stand on end, like books on a shelf. At the spine of each card is one or more connectors which plug into mating connectors on a backplane that closes the rear of the chassis.
It is a physical format only, so you can use whatever connectors with whatever hardware you want, and 100mm version is pretty close to standard PCI Express card sizes. A 16x PCIe connector is also less than 100mm long, so you could design Eurocards with that connector. Maybe it would be even possible to design Eurocards and PCIe cards in tandem, as the main difference would be placing the connector either at the end or at the bottom. Still, what I am really thinking about is how 10" racks are getting popular: you could make a 10" 3U PCIe-Eurocard that could be used to house anything from a large variety of SBCs to gigantic RAM cards to ridiculous SSD farms. I could see it being a hit with certain hobbyists if you turn old systems into Eurocard SBCs, so that you could plug an Amig

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Anyone have a 70% keyboard for cheap? No epomaker shit

>>3104
I like this guy, but I'm going to use a mechanical regardless of  meme health issues that only happen if you type for 4+hours a day for years. Just use short distance switches like reds and take breaks and if you can use a cherry or XDA keycaps.
just don't type like a retard all day everyday and don't use keyboards for playing games unless  it's an actual pc game and not console shit.

>>16119
Like boingoingoing

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>>16123
I bought a Kinesis mechnical ergo keyboard 25 years ago precisely because the cheapass keyboard I got with my PC started causing problems for me. I worked on the computer, so I was typing a whole lot... The nice thing is they had it on sale at the time for $200. That model isn't sold anymore, I guess the closest thing is Advantage2 which they're selling now for $350. I think they both have the same Cherry brown switches. One of my keys finally stopped working after all these years, so I'm gonna have to replace it (the switch). Otherwise the only other keyboards I found comfortable were those on the old IBM Thinkpads.

>>2993
Ergodox should actually sell trackballs that shape

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So i recently got myself a new keyboard. A keychron q6 wired version. Now i also got 2 sets of silent keycaps from it. These are said to be the most recommended silent keycaps. I ordered TTC Frozen Silent keycaps and Outemu Silent Lemon/Lime keycaps.
Here are my thoughts first on the keyboard and the original caps that came with. Its fine. I've only ever had 1 other keyboard so cant say much about it. Very loud to use but less louder than my previous keyboard. 
Now to the switch impressions.
First Outemu Lime/Lemon:
I was very disappointed to say the least. Sure its silent when you press down on the key but when you let go and it goes back up there is a noisy rebound/reverberation noise. Basically its fine when you press but noisy when key goes back up.
The TTC Silent Frozen on the other hand is good except the spacebar. This might simply be a keyboard problem in itself but the spacebar and backspace key does have loud reverberation when it comes back up. Everything else is dead silent. Im happy with it. Not happy with the outemu switches.

>>16265
All of those are valid to a extent but some of them they fall apart if you do them in public
>Gaming easy way for it to be swiped if you get distracted for half a second
>Watching random ugly women and crazy whores will flirt with you just for watching anime or worse call you a pedo
Phones are better for some of these things just simply because they are more concealed and bring less attention to you.

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>>16301
Fair points, but then again those are more for when you're outside, when it comes to leisure time at home the tablet comes out on top in my eyes, at least over the smartphone, though idealy you'd have both, an "ecossystem" as most would call it, it works good.

>>16293
Same. It depends on your use case really, a lot of people need proper computers for their works or hobbies, but a lot of people, thanks to how good mobile OS have gotten compared to before, they're enough for their use cases, which happens to be my case.

>>16302
Use case I can see, But I think it has more to do with preference sure you can connect a wireless mouse and keyboard to  a tablet but the experience won't be the same because of the OS.
>Used Windows for decades and Linux  for a few years
>some stuff is just easier 
Trying to read visual novels on a tablet sounds like a genuine pain even if the resolution and screen size might be good for it.

>>16303
The thing is, the experience doesn't have to be the same, of course it'll be an inferior computer to proper computers with a more advanced OS, but depending on what you use it for, those issues are either manageable or not even noticeable during one's use.

>>13130 (OP) 
>be me transferring music from tablet to phone
How? I've tried transferring files from one to the other with an USB-C hub and it never works for file transfers, only charging.

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>>9249
Picrelated

>>9251
based old samsung syncmaster 3:4s.  bought a bunch of them back in the day when you still had to worry about a dead pixel here or there, and from the nice white balance to the resolution they remained my favorites despite everybody going for yucky widescreens.  just dual them up for more betteration :D

>>9255
Actually, the one on the picture is 16:9 lol. But I have plenty of 4:3s. Just found a 1600:1200 high end IPS a few days ago. Great monitor. Downside is the high latency (not for gayming) and 80w power draw.

>>9263
Though I'm aware 1600*1200 is not exactly low res anymore. 
Point is there are plenty of low res fuckers being thrown away and OP wouldn't have to bother with annoying scaling shit.

>>9249
Honestly, not the worst idea if you're having trouble seeing clearly and need everything to appear bigger. UI is bigger, it's cheaper (not just as a monitor, but also on the graphics card), and the finer detail of a high resolution probably isn't going to help your eyes anyway.

>>16183
So does LMDE. You answered the question wrong.

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>>2273 (OP) 
>tfw microsoft ruined windows with windows 8 because of fucking tablets of all things
>never recovered from it and made windows great again and they never will
>an android tablet is a better desktop experience than windows

It's crazy.

>>16244
it's crazy that an android has more consistent icons than even windows ios and even possibly linux unless there's a icon theme I'm missing out on where basically all the icons are the same.

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>>2273 (OP)  (OP) 
>Excuse me for the low quality thread, but
>WINDOWS 11 IS FUCKING WEBSHIT
>THE UI IS RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
>THE PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING INSIDE MICROSOFT EDGE
>Yes, I stole these screenshots from Twitter. News this fucking retarded does not deserve a good thread.
>The absolute fucking state of Microsoft.
Microsoft has been doing this for 3 decades now, kid. Internet Explorer 4 was fucking infamous for its unremovable Internet Explorer integration with the Windows shell (which was part of an anticompetitive practice to try to fuck over Netscape by forcibly bundling computer with Internet Explorer that they couldn't so much as deactivate). If you had fucking Windows 98 your Windows Explorer was hard integrated to basically run inside Internet Explorer. There's a reason why we always shat on Microsoft.

>>16190
The answer is the same no matter what Mint edition you use.

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>>13962
Thank you for your service, you contributed to the legend

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>>16053
>>16055
I don't think he cared that much about Linux tbh, as it wasn't as holy as Temple

>>16090
Im pretty sure updoot autism would've challenged his patience

>>16117
Agreed, I'm happy Ubuntu helped me got on the Linux train. With Canonical faggotry however, I quickly realized i needed to look for a better distro.

Funnily enough I rather enjoyed Unity and even installed it on later version where Canonical started to ditch it. At that time, the bloggers who got me into Linux in the first place had had enough because Unity was too big a change compared to Gnome 2.
I've seen many of them migrate to Mint and/or the MATE desktop.

>>13962
What a cool story, did he seriously take the time to lecture you in all 3?

>>13983
Evil faggot grifters who trolled and used him as a lolcow are responsible for his death, i forget the name of the guy that was most responsible specifically. Terry was probably one of the world's best  programmers, making an operating system alone as one person is such a huge behemoth task it's incredible how he managed to get all that done and still be mentally unwell. What a legend and an inspiration to programmers everywhere.

>>16127
>Evil faggot grifters who trolled and used him as a lolcow are responsible for his death
I might be mistaken, but I remember reading about how one of them was talking to his parents online while impersonating him in order to keep them from reaching out to him so that he could make him think that they didn't want to speak to him and that the resulting isolation might have contributed to his suicidal depression.

>>16124
CIA niggers holding him at Area 51

>>16212 (OP) 
There is already an AI thread.
To add on to your post:
Get the best uncensored models here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/DontPlanToEnd/UGI-Leaderboard
Hardware wise, get x99 and dirt cheap xeon, load it with ram and either modded 2080ti 22gb, or modded 4080(d) 48gb, load everything on a mining rig. You can buy everything from china.

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>>16182
I doubt most XP home computers were directly connected to the Internet like in the Win9x days. The later ones were often connected directly via a POTS dialup modem that got assigned one of their ISP's IP address, but by the time XP came out a lot of people had ADSL or cable modems with built-in LAN ports that did NAT, and you're not gonna scan all those non-routable 10.0.0.x or 192.168.1.x ranges from the Internet. You'll just scan the router instead.

>>16184
>I doubt most XP home computers were directly connected to the Internet like in the Win9x days.
They were. I literally IP range scanned the open internet back in the day and found tons of computers with open network shares and whatnot.

>The later ones were often connected directly via a POTS dialup modem that got assigned one of their ISP's IP address, but by the time XP came out a lot of people had ADSL or cable modems with built-in LAN ports that did NAT, and you're not gonna scan all those non-routable 10.0.0.x or 192.168.1.x ranges from the Internet. You'll just scan the router instead.
No, you're making a mistake here. First off, Windows Xp came out in 2001, when 56k modems were still the norm for internet connections. ISDN and DSL (let alone T1 internet) were expensive for people who had only just barely started using the internet. Second off, while DSL lines and the like did come with external modems, they were only external modems for the first several years. They weren't external router-modems like today. So there was no modem LAN. It just directly connected your PC to the internet. If you wanted a LAN you'd have to buy your own router and connect your modem to it, because they were separate devices (or you could buy an expensive router that had a built-in modem).

Early on routers weren't even part

>>16186
> No, you're making a mistake here. First off, Windows Xp came out in 2001, when 56k modems were still the norm for internet connections. ISDN and DSL (let
 alone T1 internet) were expensive for people who had only just barely started
 using the internet.
I was paying only $35/mo for ADSL in 2000, and cable modem was $50/mo. The ADSL needed a POTS phone line to function, but I already had one, and unlike dialup modem you could also use the voice landline phone at the same time. An dialup ISP would have been about $20/mo. So it's not like we're talking big money here, just $15 more per month, and no hassles with the phone line being busy like I had in the mid 90's, because I was constantly online. xD
Plus the speed difference was night and day...

>> First off, Windows Xp came out in 2001
That doesn't mean everyone jumped to install it. I know a bunch of people who stuck with Win98 for several more years, and only got XP when buying a newer computer or needing some new software that was for XP. Don't forget XP is one of the NT-based Windows and it needs more hardware resources. A lot of people would have need to upgrade their computer to run it. If they're poor like you're saying and can barely afford a 56K dialup modem account, then they don't have the money for a computer upgrade. I lived in an apartment building in 2006 where 

>>16187
>I was paying only $35/mo for ADSL in 2000, and cable modem was $50/mo. 
Yes, but the internet was still a new thing to most people and not everyone was down for monthly fees like that. Nowadays we all accept internet as an essential utility, but back there were plenty of average people who weren't paying for high speed internet.

>That doesn't mean everyone jumped to install it. I know a bunch of people who stuck with Win98 for several more years, and only got XP when buying a newer computer or needing some new software that was for XP. Don't forget XP is one of the NT-based Windows and it needs more hardware resources. A lot of people would have need to upgrade their computer to run it. If they're poor like you're saying and can barely afford a 56K dialup modem account, then they don't have the money for a computer upgrade. I lived in an apartment building in 2006 where some neighbors still had Windows ME. They had shitbox old PCs too.
Yes, but I'm talking about early Windows Xp connected to the internet.

>But they could download music from Napster (or whatever was common at the time) and chat online, so they were happy.
It was primarily Napster and then Gnutella/LimeWire or Morpheus. Also MP3 sites. Beyond that you still had the occasional FTP, BBSs, the alt.binary.sounds newsgroups, and XDCC bots on IRC, but at that point you are going down the warez rabbit hole.

>Also there's another reason people didn't all just run out to install XP: it doesn't run DOS programs (this was before DOSBox/emulators became common). A lot of people still had old software, including games they wanted to play. At least with Win9x it was possible.
Well, 32-bit Xp did run 16-bit DOS software, but it wasn't true DOS anymore and a lot of shit wasn't really working well. 64-bit Xp, on the other hand, flat-out had no support for that sort of thing and a big reason to run Xp was the 64-bit transition.

>My first ADSL modem didn't, because I was an early adopter. But I had a bunch of computers already and I setup one Linux box as a router, and had a hub connected to it (hubs were much cheaper than routers back then).
Dude, if you were setting up Linux boxes in 2000 you were part of a small minority of advanced computer users. The average person wasn't fucking around with that shit and was still a 1 PC household, maybe 2 (one for parents, one for kids) where they had to choose who has internet at the time. And yes, hubs were more the norm back then. They were very popular for LAN parties.

>>16187
>>16188
Access to ADSL, especially affordable ADSL, in 2000 really depended on where you live.