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Meta-Thread: >>190
'Useful programs'
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications

'Wikis'
4/g/ Wiki
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/
8/tech/ Wiki
https://wiki.cloveros.ga/Main_Page (link dead)
Linux distro wikis (can apply to all distros)
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

'Tech article sites (need to add more)'
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ [ onion: http://digdeep4orxw6psc33yxa2dgmuycj74zi6334xhxjlgppw6odvkzkiad.onion/ ]
https://spyware.neocities.org/ [ onion: http://spywaredrcdg5krvjnukp3vbdwiqcv3zwbrcg6qh27kiwecm4qyfphid.onion/ ]
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Thread dedicated to Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
(but are worth asking)

Before asking a question here, please search the web first or put in effort towards answering your own question. If you put in effort but you still can't find the solution, feel free to ask here.

If you are looking around for useful applications/programs, see >>531
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>>19661
It seems to be one of the cases where searing on jewtube is genuinely a good starting point, because you might fight a faggot who is not too annoying explaining a project or an other and also showing that it actually works.
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>>19661
A Tomoko Car?
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Do you think banana PI BPI-R4 Pro will get openwrt support?
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>>19664
I mean, if it already runs Linux and you are dedicated enough, you could compile the kernel yourself and just build openwrt on top of that, but the real imageboard special is to just fuck around with OpenBSD, so I'm more interested in that:
https://openbsdrouterguide.net/
Although that doesn't seem to be here:
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
why is every fucking tech thing whiteoids come up with gay shit. webp. web. p. who the fuck thinks having web in the name is a selling point. may as well call it gayp.

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I've been toying with vibe-coding up some different really crappy locally-hosted-only websites to make offline versions of what I frequently visit online. The idea is that the entire internet is basically dead, full of bots, and doesn't let me find what I want anymore. So, if everything online is full of bots, I might as well go full Chobits mode and make my own local internet of bots to interact with.
The idea is dead simple. It all works by just using AI bots to generate content at the click of a button instead of waiting for other humans to post on a real website. So, the "offline zzzchan" I'll post there, and then when I want to "refresh the page", I'll click a buttons to generate more posts on all the boards. For the moment, I've two buttons. One is a "Simple" button, which creates really spammy obviously bot replies, but because it's using Markov chains/db calls/state references it's really cheap to generate. The other is a "dedicated" button that fully calls ollama to generate text.
The blog works pretty well also. And the Youtube replacement is in the works--at the moment, I just have it generating video transcripts/svg screenshots.
It's all relative. Like, yes, it's not great, but the idea is compared to what? The bot-generated Youtube replacement trash is at least better than the real Youtube. I also surprisingly (probably sadly) find the fake offline version of zzzchan a lot more fun to hang out in than the real one. At least so far.
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>>19650
Yes, it is stupid, but it also exemplifies that generative models didn't start a new apocalypse, the demand for slop has always existed for various reasons. Previously it was supplied by human slop, it was only matter of time before someone figured out a way to do it at an industrial scale.
And, hey, some people genuinely love gulping down slop (see >>19618 (OP) ) so as much as some like to complain about "muh AI" I am now fully convinced that the creation of the Sloppatron 3000 was inevitable, the demand for it was simply too high to go unanswered.
>>19650
>claim 1000% productivity increase from all the emails nobody actually have read.
If your work consists of sending emails around that a literal bot could make, you do not have "productivity". You produce nothing. It's not even a job, it's jewish daycare.
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>>19650
>>19655
Jewish daycare is a pretty good alternate definition for a bullshit job.
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>>19625
Hm. Nah, not yet.
>>19636
Atm it isn't completely offline yet. I've a shitton of toggles for whether to allow SearX to go find stuff online, have ollama look for model updates, etc..
>Is this hard to install?
No, because you can bootstrap it. Once I got Qwen going by following the instructions on ollama's website, I just kept asking the Qwen model stuff like:
>How can I get you to be able to edit the system config files yourself?
And then once that was going, it was basically off to the races, as I could just ask the Qwen model to dl other models and configure things for me like "go get the obliterated versions going for me" or "figure out why you aren't working with my GPU card correctly", and then code up the pages and local webserver, install/run comfyUI, install/run SearX (I've gotten to the point now where I can redirect SearX to only search this "offline" web), make SearX work together with Qwen queries, and then once I had that, I could just ask it to figure out how to find the open models for image creator, radios, etc., etc..
The project has grown quite a bit, but I've done VERY little work the entire time and have basically acted as a top-level project executive as I let it churn away for a few days to set things up while I was away at work. I am basically very lazily AI slopping the whole thing together. After I did this, I've been having it use these modules to try to make games for me, and I'm playing with the idea of making an offline version of itch.io right now.
>What are the system requirements? 
I'm not sure what the actual reqs are, but atm I'm not running anything special--most of these parts came from PCs my workplace was throwing out. It's a Quadro M4000 and 48GB of RAM sticks.
>You have to run your own server to it, correct, but does it have to be a real imageboard's software or just look like it?
This is not a genius operation. I told it, "Put all the messages in a giant json file, and make something that displays it like a messageboard. Organize the json so which board/thread/timestamp/who posted can be identified, and then run a model to make replies to other posters/new threads, but mostly to me." I mean, a few more project description words that that, but that was the general idea, and then it just coded it up for me.
Listen, this is AI slop all the way.
>Why would you want literal fake news?
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>>19622
Pretty sure DeepSeek is open; both the model and weights. Ofc, while you still need ~US$100K server to run the full model, you can use the much smol'r ones on muh_vidya machine.

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Ever since I switched from systemd to sysvinit because of >>18176, I find myself questioning all these nerd turf wars I explicitly have ignored.
My normal daily setup:
- systemd
- X11 (gnome)
- Pulseaudio
- Vim
- Debian
Now I find myself wondering about OpenRC, Wayland, Alsa, emacs, LUKS, Trisquel, TailOS[, and GNU Hurd]. Which of these in your experiences have been worthwhile? What's the most privacy respecting setup?
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>>18445
> from what I hear
Nice rumor you idiot. 
>  they deliberately encourage API breakage
That claim is just stupid.
With GNUs flagship project emacs you can run elisp code that is more than 20 years old in the current version without issues.
>>18391
Can xlibre runs on linux version before 6.0 though? This is important question, please answer it
>>18445
>Apparently LLVM was originally intended to be integrated into GCC, but LLVM would provide a quasi-stable interface and hence was rejected. We all know the final result.

It was thrown out because it was a C++ implementation, lacking most of the GCC backends and many basic features and they wanted for GCC devs to throw out everything already implemented to re-implement it in llvm framework. It was simply not feasible for GCC devs even before you consider legal issues - apple wasn't ready to assign copyright to FSF at that point.
https://article.olduse.net/[email protected]
<Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT
>GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical
to Unix.  We will make all improvements that are convenient, based
on our experience with other operating systems.  In particular,
we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof
file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent
display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through
which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen.
Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.
We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol,
far superior to UUCP.  We may also have something compatible
with UUCP.
Imagine if they actually went ahead and wrote an X server in Lisp.
>>18456
Sleepy had nested spoilers back in 2020/2021, both ** and [spoiler] could be chained but support for the latter was removed at some point.

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Post about /tech/nological cancer that you've dealt with in the past.
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>>19558
Granted I don't like jews such as Brian Lunduke or Richard Stallman and I'm split about Brendan Eich.
Otherwise this seems like a list of good people.
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>>19633
Reading this post is like watching an Indian trying to call white people filthy.
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>>19639
mlecchas can't meme
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>>19639
I do use Linux and "Free Software" myself, but at least I can admit its faults.
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>>19658
The problem is that you do it so clumsily that one could be forgiven for thinking you had no real experience with it.

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Firefox 152 ships JpegXL for the first time ever in regular builds.
It's still behind a flag but that will probably change soon. (about:config image.jxl.enabled)
In Chrome too: chrome://flags/#enable-jxl-image-format

We won in the end and Google and their cocksuckers at Mozilla bent over when the PDF Association made JXL their standard.

How do we get imageboards to finally allow uploading .jxl?
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>>19628
Understandable, can't ship features without daddy's permission.
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>>19629
Yes. They could have shipped the C++ implementation years ago and it wouldn't have been any less secure than all the other ones which aren't written in Rust either.
Is the web finally going to abandon the abominable webp and move to jxl? I read that jxl is not only better at compression but also flexible enough to be losslessly converted back to "classic" jpg if needed. That would be great if true.
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>>19651
>to be losslessly converted back to "classic" jpg
I don't think this applies to any jxl file. You can upgrade jpeg to jxl and back without introducing recompression artifacts, but it won't be as efficient as creating jxl directly from the source. Still great if you want to compress your giant photo collection or something without losing quality.
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>>19652
>You can upgrade jpeg to jxl and back without introducing recompression artifacts
That's what I meant. The benefit here is that you get to use a modern format with good compression, while still having the ability to support older software.

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It'd odd how there doesn't seem to be a thread for them here, despite them being the most common technology in the world for many years now, that people can't seem to live without, it's a necessity nowadays.

What smartphones do you use, /tech/ anons?

I just got a Samsung Galaxy A25 as a birthday gift from my sister, it's the 1st time I've used one with 8GB RAM and a 120Hz refresh rate and I have to say, I thought people were dramatic over refresh rates for no reason, that it wasn't a big deal, but damn! I love just how smooth it is now, can't see myself going back to a 60Hz or even 90Hz screen after this one. It's also got a headphone jack and micro SD slot, rare today.
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>>19605
Nowadays phones are good enough to last for more than a decade, they are way stronger than a lot of old PCs and sometimes even modern ones.
Realistically, for office work, anything well designed with 4-8GB of a RAM and a dual core can use some kind of Office, send mails, make video calls, etc. Enough for 90% of the boring stuff we've been doing since last decade. Hardware wise I could still use my old Samsung Galaxies and iPhones, even without Spotify or Netflix you can listen to mp3 and watch mp4.

The problems to fix to make an "immortal" phone are the batteries, screens and OS.
Batteries always have a shorter lifecycle than the rest of the device and screens and sometimes go fat.
And screens are the default way to input and output anything, even if docking a dead phone you need to check some stuff on the screen and touch it.
OS to sideload stuff and remove the corpo trash that locks you.

I really wished some Chinese crazy company that make these crazy gadgets would create a phone with no boot restrictions, a magnetic interchangeable screen, removable battery and USB video output, all with open patents. It's sad that we have this tech but it's never implemented together.
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I use a Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS but I've really come to resent it. I usually keep it in Airplane mode with no SIM card. The second you connect it to a network it's just nothing but countless annoyances designed to waste your time and patience. It drives me crazy to use the internet on it.
Whe should make a new version of the internet where phones can host small personalized websites on a decentralized peer to peer network
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>>19640
Niggers hate this, because it's the truth, but each centralized tracking device (smart phone) should be a de-centralized anti-nigger counter-talmudic device.
>>19640
I'm starting to feel like a shill, but you can do that with reticulum already.

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Lately I've been interested in looking for a final solution to the imageboard problem, deplatforming and relying on centralized authorities for hosting. P2P through TOR seems like the most logical path forward. But the software would also need to be accessible, easily installed and understood by just about anyone, and easily secure/private by default.

Retroshare seemed like a decent choice, but unfortunately its forum function is significantly lacking in features. I haven't investigate too much into zeronet either but from what I recall that was a very bloated piece of software and I'm looking for something that's light and simple. Then there's BitChan (>>507) which fits most of the bill but contrasted with Retroshare is not simple to setup.

I know there is essentially nothing else out there so this thread isn't necessarily asking to be spoonfed some unknown piece of software that went under the radar of anons. But I think the concept of P2P imageboards should be further explored even though the failure of zeronet soured a lot of peoples perspective on the concept. Imageboards are so simple by nature I feel this shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Retroshare comes close but as I understand it you can't really moderate the forums that you create. Plus the media integration is basically non-existent, though media is a lesser concern. But having everything routed through tor and being able to mail, message, and ha
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>>16993
ljs died when karenfag left
>>17964
>>18002
What in the everloving fuck are you retards saying?
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>>16052
>>14496
>>14494
Isn't this just centralization? In a decentralization thread?
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>>14501
On top of that, it is perfectly possible to embed images (and other files) into usenet files, so you could even make an imageboard that has a usenet server as its backed, and a frontend that looks like any other imageboard. You'd still need a permanent IP so that people can connect to it, but people could just run their own instances and share netnews via NNTPS. Or you could tunnel them via whatever fancy darknet solution you prefer. There's an example of a forum that is just a frontend for a usenet server:
https://news.povray.org/groups/
https://www.povray.org/resources/
>The POV-Ray Newsgroups are the best place to get help from other users, find discussion about POV-Ray and much more. These newsgroups are hosted on our own server and as they are not connected to Usenet they do not suffer from spam and similar problems. 
>You may either access the newsgroups with any standard newsreader at news://news.povray.org/ or use our web view at http://news.povray.org/. For the web view you need to enable cookies in your browser, and in order 
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>>16993
I thought every cybersecurity expert in the world would've taught everyone by now how giving yourself your identity on the internet is a bad idea. We have to learn this shit again?

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Today is Windows XP's 20th birthday. Say something nice about it.
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Uh. Congrats on not being as bad as Linux or later Windows, I guess?
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>>19553
>tablet
It's crazy how the iPad might just be the most common "computer" out there.
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>>19584
What's a computer?
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>>19588
>Ignorance boldly showing off as if is a good thing the ad
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>>19588
All jokes aside... tablets have come a long way. If your use case is basic then they're essentially an even more portable laptop.

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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.
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>>16190
The answer is the same no matter what Mint edition you use.
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>>2273 (OP) 
>It's 2026
Is this fixed?
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>>19549
No, It's still 2026.
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>>19554
Oh no... well, my life will suck in 2027 too anyways, so who cares?
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>>19585
You should care considering there's only 9 years left until the organization takes over the world.

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