/tech/ - Technology

>>17779
You at the normie that thinks only kids pirate.

>>17769
>That's what the end user wants - a smug programmer telling them that the computer just werx for them.
not a programmer, i literally grew up on windows xp and 7 but i switched to linux because 10 was shit and 11 is supposedly even worse. i'm about as computer literate as every other zoomie
>just works
is not an expression of my smug elitism but rather an apt description for the linux user experience in 2022
>(it does not, in fact, work for them.)
it literally does. try any distro that markets itself towards normies, like ubuntu, mint, manjaro etc. literally all of them will run without issue, and will usually run faster than windows on most hardware. windows 10 somehow managed to take up 4.8gb of my ram idle, while endeavour os with xfce4 takes only 1gb, although i'm pretty sure it took 800mb by default. i don't know anyone who would rather buy an expensive updated version of a laptop than stick with the one they already own because the os isn't an unoptimized pile of shit
here's a list of the things most people need from a computer:
>web browser
>multimedia player
>gayming
>office software
linux does all of these things well
it's not a more practical system just because of the monopoly and support for software that only professionals need
you can literally not mess with anything if you don't want to
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>>17780
not what i'm getting at, but it's more fun to keep you out of the loop.

>>17781
Look, you're going down the wrong avenue. We can sit here and litigate about whether it's better to learn scripting and fix some UI element because the guy who wrote the DE was a cunt and didn't just give you a menu option, or whether it's better to install a dodgy start menu replacement on Windows, but it doesn't count for much in the big picture.
The very fact that one has to switch to gnu/linux means it doesn't work for them. We can sit here and litigate the details of individual software choice all day, it's still not going to shift marketshares a single percentage point. Realistically, there are 3 options: You go full communist and smash Microsoft (my option), you try and make linux actually competitive in the market (arguably the Ubuntu option), or you can give up and admit that you're content with most people using Windows so long as you get to feel cool for using AmigaOS. Microsoft's dominance of the industry is a function of monopoly-capitalism, not a function of insufficient evangelism on the part of gnu/linux users. One would expect that this would come intuitively to anyone on /leftypol/, yet you'd half suspect that /tech/ was transplanted directly from /g/.

you might not mock people for their OS choices or sit feeling smugly superior to them, but others ITT clearly do. (because, as i'd never tire of pointing out, this kind of argument isn't really about the merits of computer systems, it's about ingroups and outgroups, friends and enemies, yada yada yada. not up to writing that part yet.)

>>17776
>i countered that the network effect behind windows is so strong that it usually more-than-overcomes the disadvantage windows faces in being closed source when it comes to resolving practical problems
this looks dangerously close to turning an is into an ought
>If you want the end of proprietary software, what you need to do is wield the power of the state, the power of class rule, and restructure it all away
that is necessary but not sufficient. you also need agitation. I'm not seeing many CPC-funded free software projects for example, at least not in the English-speaking parts of the Internet. perhaps there are Mandarin-language projects that I have missed, but I'd at least expect more participation in the FOSS community than we see
>muh software veganism
stupidest argument I've heard so far today. vegans concern themselves with the feelings of objects

>>17783
While you can say MacOS uses like their UI you can't say the same for Windows. The average Windows user was fine with Aero in 7 (if not they put in a customized desktop) then Microsoft shoehorned Metro (that nobody likes) into the desktop and server editions of Windows because Microsoft had a stupid plan to take on Android.
Linux is not harder for normies to use then Windows. The issue is normies can walk into Best Buy and pickup a computer with MacOS or Windows on it but not Linux. So far nobody is complaining about the SteamDeck running Arch so if normies could just get a Linux machine pre-built from the big manufactures they would put up with its oddities.

Don't you have a broken print spooler to fix windowsfag? Technology is a major PITA in most people's life either way and just because you enjoy clobbering 18GiB of your HDD and 4GiB of your RAM with telemetry and floaty GUIs, it doesn't mean we do.

Math is cool though even if I can't do it well

simping is bad

women love my M2 MBP

>>17583
also turn on airplane mode except for the occasional update, the background internet services will drain your battery

>>17583
that's coo, i still want to deamazon it since i don't trust them with my data

>>17585
cool*

>>17579
>can the new kindle be jailbroken?
There are a lot of kindle jailbreak instructions out there, so without knowing your exact model and firmware version, i would say: probably yes.

>>17592
I would also say if your kindle is not currently jailbreakable, it's a good idea to just put it on airplane mode all the time and wait to see if a new jailbreak comes out. I did this after missing a jailbreak and my kindle updating itself to a newer version, and now I can jailbreak since there's a new one out and it hasn't updated since.

>>16828
did you post this from /ghostypol/?
you're already dead my guy

>>16761
what is a radio operator and what skin damage do you speak of?


i have experienced heat of the eyes, it's nasty
you have to put cucumber and drink cold stuff to get it out of the body

bump

autist hypochondriac thread!

Is op a german microwave hater?

>>17684
no, join fbi.gov instead

>>17569
i just use adblock if i want privacy i just use tor

>>17574
In uBlock Origin, if you enable "I am an advanced user" in the dashboard settings, you get dynamic filtering which is basically what uMatrix does (they were both developed by the same person before he merged uMatrix's features into uBlock Origin and stopped developing the former)

>>17577
This only applies to scripts though. Blocking iframes in umatrix lets you open them separately and I often disable images, media and css when I'm on a slow network link.

Depends, if I want to mess with advertisers I use Adnauseam and Trackmenot, if I have a need for speed I use ublock origin.

It's hilarious how people who claim to be software "engineers" will disregard all evidence proving how fast and efficient Java is and will keep claiming that it is a resource hog just because they had bad experiences with Eclipse.

>>17646
God, python and ruby have their use, but I really dislike command line programs that you can feel run slow. I remember playing around with vagrant and homebrew, and it's such a joke that running –version feels so slow.

>>17647
>Tons of linux distros (RHEL + clones, Ubuntu, Suse/opensuse) are owned by corpos and those make up the majority of distros anyway
This is one of the causes behind the adoption of systemd and other freedesktop sponsored abominations. Notice RH is also involved in Java development.
But there is no reason to focus on the particular corporations, because this is only a symptom of the huge amount of labor required to maintain OpenJDK.

>Redefining TRU(tm) open source as made by hobbyists and not foundations is wrong
You wouldn't want to live of the scraps Microsoft publishes on their Github. These corpos publish their code because some people fix their bugs for free. They retain authority over their project and no personal or community-driven effort would have any hope of forking their codebases, that consist of decades of cruft. You may observe the Palemoon fork of Firefox, to see how code complexity or simply inane standards can consign open-source software to the realm of large organizations with many developers at hand. In the case of Oracle this is unanimously bad.

>>17648
The licensing incident is a good example of how Oracle still tries to preserve their ownership of Java.
IIRC the memory access pattern of the Oracle JVM makes it perform particularly slow on ARM (relevant papers are paywalled), hence the Dalvik VM uses registers instead of a stack-based architecture.

>>17649
I still have bad experiences with IntelliJ indexing and the like and having to tune GC just for editing. Java is fast, if you tune it right and let it warm up, but it still has to start the JVM and warm up.

alot of the slowness of java is really just spring being shit and overuse of reflection. Other nu-java ee frameworks like microprofile, micronaut and quarkus are supposed to be better.

>>17153
This topic has been beaten to death several times on /tech/ alone, let alone other parts of the internet/chaniverse. I'll leave this copypasta here which basically explains the whole thing.

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Vichan: the software that just won’t die

Why vichan hasn’t been replaced and probably never will

Vichan and Vichan derivatives such as lainchan have long been the standard of imageboards in the “alt chan” universe. Briefly, Lynxchan looked poised to take over as the imageboard standard, but it’s reliance on mongodb left it vulnerable to data corruption and unreliability issues.

Any semi-competant coder can create an imageboard with 80%+ feature parity with vichan within a few weeks or even days. So why, after all this time, has no imageboard managed to take over from vichan?

Wordpress is blogging software written in PHP, from the dark ages when PHP was a terribly designed language. Like vichan, wordpress is a structureless, poorly written, outdated, spaghettified oldphp-based piece of shit. Yet, it persists. There are countless plugins, themes, and tutorials created for it, which enable countless nontechnical small business owners to create good looking websites with prebuilt themes. The very ease of use corresponds with it being hell to maintain and write plugins for. Ironically this self-induced difficulty has created a whole ecosystem of plugin and theme developers, selling overbloated plugins that perform functionality that could really be done in a few lines of code, mindlessly installed by nontechnical bloggers. Even conservatively, around 30%+ of all websites use wordpress, including major corporations like airlines, banks, and media conglomerates. The fact is, there is a self fufilling prophecy, where a software’s popularity can meme itself into existence. Wordpress is the Kim Kardashian of cms software: popular for being popular, despite an utter lack of any other redeeming qualities. And vichan is essentially the wordpress of imageboard software.

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>>17602
just to follow up, I've been straight up TOLD by the people who run leftypol that even if I wrote a replacement chan today, they wouldn't switch to it.

Unless you have some alternative userbase which is willing to adopt brand new software, there's no point.

>>17602
The technical aspect and the sociological "userbase" aspect are completely independent of each other. Most "normal" people don't give a shit about features, all they know is that you can post and that's it.

>>17603
Did they say why they wouldn't change?

>>17653
basically they're focused on improving leftypol's VIchan variant and its functionality and rewriting it would be too much work, plus they wanted to do it in scala if it were done at all.

>>17052
yes. and i still hate every windows book reader
i dunno how to enable android sideloading

win 11 was a scam

>>17098
you can install linux readers on windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

>>16623
You mean these?

>>17651
oh nvm
I (ironically) read it wrong

Just use DJVU bro

>>17302
Get an aluminum case for extra CLANG CLANG CLANG.

I was thinking of going mechanical because I write a lot and thinking of getting this one, any good?
https://www.keychron.uk/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-uk-iso-layout?variant=41479113605290

I got browns

>>17303
yeah, but why stop there. I want to get a full-on resonance chamber too. Perhaps with a tuning forks in it.

>>17610
with a few*