/tech/ - Technology

>>27112
all proprietards are shit
but apple is a special class of shit that i avoid in every way. everything about it is so hostile to user freedom. the overpricing, the glossy screens that drive you mad reflecting everything in the back, the lack of usable connectors/ports, the locked down OS that barely allows any configuration, the calculator keys for the laptop keyboard, the incredibly short charger cables, the lock-in (hard to run dual boot linux on apple pcs).
just everything about it is so anti-user, and then you have their captive audience that literally overpaid for shit products in the 90s just so that their beloved company wouldn't go out of business.

>>27112
I got my first samsung 2 months ago and its not that much better than my moto g tbh. Motorola has a better side panel feature and gaming mode

>>27216
There are many good-quality Android devices but the only interfaces that can rival One UI are Sailfish OS and sxmo imho. And that's 'cause I haven't yet tried those.

>>27115
yes. we are aware that people that have no idea what they are buying are being taken advantage of by Apple. that is why people try so hard to tell them android phones are better.

android phones do more, and cost less. the average consumer that is a brain dead idiot that knows nothing about phones would be better off buying a $200 android that does indeed Just Work.

The best phone I ever had was a huawei P20 demonstrating that whatever the despotic chaebols of worst korea can force their subjects to do, the chinese can copy and make better everytime

>>29134
I personally wanna make a flipphone just to see how much is actually needed to do that. I wanna know if SIM cards are comically overengineered or comically simple, it's gotta be one or the other.

I think visiting meatspin dot com when I was 13 is partially responsible for my obsession with big-dicc tgirls.

>>29115
You had to press SO FUCKING HARD on those battery things to get a percentage readout, if the thing worked at all.

yeah i already do all this except i just dont have a phone at all

>>29136
God has a plan for all of us.

make it square and let it be plugged in 4 different ways that all work the same

>>28974
hexagon is bestagon

Triangle plug

If you're that worried just use Tor at this point.

just pay for mullvad or if you care enough use tor lol

I think I will just use X-VPN. I trust the chinese glowies more, than these "non-profit" VPNs on Fdroid.

calyx vpn is nice, it's hosted by a non-profit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyx_Institute#Funding

>>29049
But it is funded by George Soros

>>28915
I tried with several different browsers and all of them show the same error

The same error happens in fivem too and other platforms that are not even browsers

Only way to download stuff constantly without failing is using vpn

In the cellphone it works fine tho

>>28919
No, it's fine on my phone. Only in the desktop this shit happens

I thought it could be something related to my network adapter but if that was the case wouldn't downloads fail with vpn too???

>>28881
Could anyone help me?

>>28881
Could be windows+chrome+isp security overlapping and fucking each other, detecting each other as threats.

>>28922
Maybe try booting with an ubuntu live usb to discard any hardware related issues, if they don't fail under ubuntu, your windows installed is being fucked by some malware

That makes an uneasy feeling. What if a brain thinks. It is in a black box

>>28982
This ninininininyugha thinks grug was being ironic?

>>28988
Probably some bourgeosie women want to fuck ancient legendary direwolfs and wanted to turn that into reality

moron thread
the cherry on top being the random gore video

>>28977
Will this end with cyborgs?
It likely won't but a man can dream

Don't care, when I concern myself with security, I get convenience freeing myself from shit I didn't realize was inconveniencing me prior.

Sort of but it is good actually to keep doing wrong priority security research because it keeps microsoft employees like him awake at night

The attempting to frustrate glowuyghurs is fun in and of itself

the Mossad aren't fucking gods. If you think the glowies are Actual Gods, why do 50% of murders still go unsolved? Why didn't they find Bin Laden within a month after 9/11? Why are there still unknown suspects on the FBI's website? Seriously, why did October 7th happen? Are these failures all intentional choices by an omniscient enemy? Why? This is such a stupid and incurious way to understand state capacity for surveillance and what it means to have a state as your threat model. The NSA has truly awesome data collection capabilities, yes. But actually sorting through that data to find actionable intelligence is insanely hard.
>but they have AI to sort for them!
Go ahead. Turn on the AI analysis to identify every person who has ever expressed something conceivably threatening. Holy shit, it's *millions of alerts* again. Most of these will amount to nothing. There is a galaxy of difference between being a known high-priority target of the Mossad and the Mossad identifying you personally as a target before you've done anything. Even then, they only managed to stumble on Sinwar by accident. Let's say it's an in between scenario, and you're on a couple of elevated lists because you tripped a filter or went to a couple of infiltrated meetings. That still leaves their resources for intensive human led surveillance spread incredibly thin. Anyone suggesting that the feds are omnipotent gods is extremely psyopped, even with all their toys.

>>28930
I liked this game that even though everyone forgot about it.

>>28838
Not sure exactly what you are asking, but the ability to create ephemeral shells is something I use more or less daily. Here is a blog post that might make the concept clearer: https://www.futurile.net/2023/04/29/guix-shell-virtual-environments-containers/

You can install both guix and nix on other distros, so you can play around with this without distrohopping.

>>28840
Yeah, i don't really need something like this. The only place where i would use reproducable builds would be a minimal server setup and i'd rather just write a couple shell scripts for that.

>>28841
Ephemeral shells I use not so much for reproducibility as for convenience, similarly to how you use python virtualenvs to avoid cluttering your profile with python packages. Whether this makes any difference to you depends on the types of tasks you do.

>>28842
>Whether this makes any difference to you depends on the types of tasks you do.
It doesn't really. The environments of my desktop is polluted by things from under /usr/local and orphan files from multiple releases back and i don't see anything wrong with this. For the chroots and servers i work with it's either similar or control is tight enough that rolling my own is the most attractive of all options. Sorry, but i don't want guix to compile the jungle on my banana server.

Emacs is your best bet then

>>25869
Nah I just think they're neat looking. Reminds me of the cover art for Knife Man - AJJ.

The sound doohicky

Dougong Chinese brackets. No nails, just gravity. Flexible. Often seen in temples.