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Morons like you ruined /g/. This place is full of former /g/ refugees. You are NOT welcome. Election tourist scum like you killed /g/. You arr even less welcome on leftypol.
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>>29349
4chan is dead and will remain dead. The /g/ user brainworms will run their half-life eventually, and OP will be a splendid user to have around when that happens, and interesting to observe in the mean time.

Linux should have won but there was a hardware bug or two as a product of buying the cheapest possible (used and spec'd) laptop.

>>29353
>mfw a BIOS update fixes everything but the function keys.
>a beautifully setup musl gentoo system with custom keymap, ratpoison, nyxt, emacs, etc.
>sixteen times the ram, and a much better processor, probably better battery life too.
Still probably going to use my twelve year old MacBook.

>>28580
>its increasingly clear to me that canonical really don't care about the desktop experience
Debian cares even less. Switch to Pop, system76 sells laptops and workstations so they're deeply in touch with the desktop experience. Cosmic DE is what convinced me to finally stop changing window managers and ricing my shit because it met my needs. Comfy tiling with vim controls. It just works.

I have been using Fedora for 3 months and I have not encountered a single problem. I had to track down some printer drivers, but that is simply a proprietary software issue and not a distro specific one. Even then, getting the printer to work was seamless. Switching from Windows has been liberating.

My friend has some dogshit celeron laptops from 2020. What distro/DE copes best with e-waste laptops? Needs to be lightweight but also have good laptop integration.

>>29233
Glad to hear anon.

Anons, I need distro help. Been an Arch user for eight years now (wow, I feel old). But recently, I've become very busy so system maintenance has become something that I can't always do. I've gotten a few partial upgrade issues that ended up being deprecation issues with configs on other packages when fixing my system with a full upgrade. I've also had a bunch of AMDGPU-related constant kernel panics on the latest version a few months ago so I had to downgrade once the LTS kernel got those issues too, and downgrading is hard on Arch by design.
So basically, I'm questioning whether it's time for me to change which distribution I'm using. I'm not sure where to go though. Ideally, I'd like a distro that allows me to pick whether to install packages from a stable repository with security updates always and feature updates every month or two, or from a bleeding edge repository that pulls in whatever dependencies are needed. Bonus points if dependency hell is avoided and I can have a stable and latest version of the same package at once for libraries for example. I'd also need as few abstractions as possible, no distro-specific config BS, and configuration without frameworks. I should be able to configure my system only using the software's specific documentation instead of a random, distro-specific meta-config tool or whatever. Also would be nice if the repositories had optimized binaries for newer architectures or LTO or whatever.
Gentoo seemed appealing and like the answer, but as I said, maintenance is becoming a chore and constantly checking USE flags and manually versioning is something that I have experience with but found to be a big time sink.
Any help? [spoiler]Yet another distro help post, a thread got unbumped for this, joy[/spoiler]

>>29350
I should mention that Tumbleweed was my main candidate, but holy abstraction layers.

>lost 2 drives with movies and music with 15 years of content
I no longer care about files. I have ascended. My heart was shattered and i cannot feel

>>29334
At the same time?

>>29266
>>29302
Hey comrades, quick little update, that shit did not work. The drive literally shit itself as I tried to plug it back in…any time I try to plug it back in gives me an obnoxious clicking noise, completely undetectable. Pretty much means the disk drive is actively damaging itself and that my files are good as gone. This is actually incredibly sad because I had something which could be considered lost media, though I'm currently in talks with someone who still has the files from the old archive.org upload. Literally a greek dub by romanians who barely speak the language, shit's hilarious.
I'll just use my warranty and get a replacement, which will probably promptly shit itself too in 8 months. However now that I know this is a possibility with toshitba, I'll just start putting the really important files in DVDs. I'm that far gone when it comes to data hoarding.
Also don't ask why I'm using brazilian megaman pics, I just really like the artstyle, and admittedly the batshit insane writing has been uplifting in what's probably the worst month of my life. Not gonna bitch about it, but this would not hurt as bad if I didn't have actual problems going on. Shame too, the last five months were some of my happiest.
Just leaving this here since, yeah, I accidentally closed the tab before. Literally typing this as I'm redownloading FNV, it was my one comfort game lately.

>>29341
There are places that can fix disc drives. Just hope you don't have any illegal shit on them.

>>29342
The closest thing is all my pirated anime and vidya, though I sincerely doubt that'd get me in trouble since the content itself is not actually illegal, it's the act of downloading them (previously it was JUST uploading them, but greece is a shithole and recently made even viewing pirated content punishable by a hefty fine).
So yeah no that should still work, problem is that I don't have a thousand bucks to spend on it, plus I already gave the other guys the disk drive for a replacement, it's straight up broken as I said.

>>29316
https://www.whois.com/whois/unlimitedai.chat
Send them email if you want to ask. I think it's a company trying to get users fast, explains the many hits of chinese websites that essentially mirror their FAQ as well.

>>29317
what a stupid and irrelevant post. the whole thread you behave like a bot or a glowie. Man, this place is so rotten and dead…

>>29317
If you trust the thing, picrel is the answer it gives.

>>29319
Didn't realize what thread was replying in, sorry.
It's somewhat related to the comment from >>29239
>It's plausible this isn't exactly the "change you want to see in the world", (e.g. you want to see a continued advancement of the means of production etc.) but this is just a shifting of the goal post, and you're free to do as you please.
But it wasn't quoted.

>>29286
Found some more info on this project. Here are the system prompts: https://linux.do/t/topic/576697

>>28874
I don’t think you get how worthless your life is going to become under capitalism once the robots can make money and spend money as economic agents.

>>28873
Total, perhaps fatal, misunderstanding of Marx that would abhor him.

>>29058
techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/openai-exec-says-the-company-would-buy-googles-chrome-browser-if-offered-the-chance/
> OpenAI exec says the firm would buy Google’s Chrome browser if offered the chance
> An OpenAI exec said during Google’s antitrust trial this week that OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome browser if it were made available for sale.
> ChatGPT chief Nick Turley said in a court hearing on Tuesday that acquiring Chrome would allow OpenAI to “offer a really incredible experience” and “introduce users into what an AI-first [browser] looks like,” per Bloomberg.
> Turley had been called by the Justice Department to testify as part of a trial aimed at determining which business practices Google must modify after a judge ruled the company had monopolized the online search market. The Justice Department has asked that Google be forced to divest Chrome.
> OpenAI has reportedly considered working on a web browser to compete with Chrome. The company went so far as to hire ex-Google developers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, who worked on the original Chrome project, several months ago.
They are going to make Firefox popular again!

>>29343
ever since chrome first came out it set the standard for all other browsers. i fear if openai buy chrome and stuff full of ai shit we'll soon see every other browser developer follow like lemmings

>>29343
I have no idea why this a thing. I use firefox, opera, and chrome sometimes, but I don't really know what goes into just displaying webpages. I've found in the past that Firefox takes up insane amounts of memory and Chrome takes up insane amounts of CPU. Mostly I use firefox because I trust google the least.

>>29331
>Arm cpu laptop has a long battery
It could be even better if it were thicker tbh.

>>29331
if the 25% longer battery life actually matters to you, you're better of packing a spare

>>29336
>sorry boss I couldn't reply because I was swapping my battery
That test was also just watching videosloppa, which is sadly the most optimized use case these days. Real working time tends to be about 30% more draining. What's the point of a laptop that can't comfortably make it through a workday without getting plugged in?

>>29335
trvke

>>29337
my sun laptop boots really fast! thought you were gonna call me a boomer for not mentioning power banks

>>29147
>Why people jerk off everything that Apple shits out
apple invest a LOT in marketing for that

>>29254
You have enough storage at home to store all a youtube videos at home? Beside that, you would also need a recommending algorithm, so you can know, what to watch.

Ah, I love reading the comments on Youtube…

>>29256
Admittedly, it is not a very feasible strategy.
A better strategy would be having a list of all youtuber channel links in text, then visiting those channels with a crawler to determine new videos.

After stripping only the new ones, then potentially watching those ones, but furthermore using other video websites and doing the same for a customized feed.

>>29256
But of course having a recommending algorithm in there somewhere.

>>28993
like ncurses?

>>29122
React x ncurses

>>29124
ok that sounds shitty

>>22153
This is selection bias.

People open source things because they can't make a profit from them, because at least the attention is worth street cred.

You can't profit from making programmer tools, because programmers are already good at making tools for programmers, so you were never going to sell them anything. Thus all the programmer tools people make get open sourced in an attempt to salvage from street cred out of a non-monetizable project.

>>28704
Actually, synthetic data has been used for many years to improve AI. It's not an issue at all, it'll just make the AI even better.

>>28692
I work in data so I think I'm safe… hopefully

>>29193
Pretty sure synthetic data is leading to model collapse, probably why ChatGPT 4.5 underperformed despite being degrees of magnitude larger

>>29193
>>29262
Synthetic data has to be filtered for quality and novelty, otherwise it does lead to model collapse. It doesn't always result in that, though.

However, even if they don't lead to collapse, they hit the diminishing returns wall more quickly than original data.

>>28693
>Are people using Wikipedia now for viral marketing campaigns?
Always have been. Wikipedia mainly gets edited for SEO purposes. You may think you are reading information, but look at the citations. Those citations were put there by people trying to promote their work by having it linked to by Wikipedia and therefore juicing Google's search algorithm.

>>29312
Yeah thats stupid

>>29312
source?

>>29325
Here's the actual issue with the justification: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43170

>>29326
The entropy argument is that it doesn't substantially increase entropy on Linux and Mac, for compatibility issue. Estimates at an approximate 1.37bits of entropy.
inb4 more fed posting.