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Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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>>31648
cute mouse

Is there some site with a bunch of html/css templates? No JS included.

Bonus points for simple, 90s-2000s looks. I don't want to use a generator but i don't want to start from scratch because it has been too long

So I'm still very happy with my t430 except for a major annoying thing which is the noise. I want to get a laptop with good gnu/linux support that's fairly quiet.

I was thinking about getting a refurbished x1 carbon, but i don't really know if that's a good idea, maybe I'm ready to pay a bit more for a decent machine but preferably cheap.

So should be quiet + good linux support + more powerfully then the t430.

>>31799
https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/ would be the obligatory reference.

Ok I'm finally going to have to learn how to torrent

I want to be able to use Adobe Premiere without having to pay the absurd price for it. Anons, help pls.


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How do I start enjoying programming again? I used to love to do that shit before I actually started working as one.
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>>32037
I used to be into that but I refuse to touch Windows now so there's less opportunities.

>>32027
Logistics is a lot more than amazon packages t. worked in bulk

>How do I start enjoying programming again?
There are so interesting things to write and deploy outside your working hours.
Just separate your working and hobby domains in your head.

Pick up a language you do not use in work.

>>32066
What are some of those interesting things?


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I created a sort of but not really 4chan type imageboard site.

Took me a while to make it, currently 0 users lol.

Check it out and maybe give me some feedback!

>Web3
>Crypto
>Gig work
Probably about 5 years late tbh

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>beige screen if JS is disabled

>>32042
needs more ai
make it agentic


 

I didn't want to post this in /tech/ instead of /leftypol/ because I feel like it will languish in obscurity here, but I found this guy interesting because he's clearly petty bourgeois, and has that kind of "middle class" 1st world outlook, but his language and thinking are approaching Marxism at certain points, and he even uses terms like 'means of production'. Nevertheless I think he vastly overstates the impact AI is going to have. I just found this video very interesting in terms of its perspective. It might be a really fascinating time capsule in 20 years.


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I’ve royally fucked up lefty tech comrades, i accidentally spilled water over the keyboard of my old macbook… and it powered off almost instantly.

Dried it off, unplugged it and it’s now sitting upside down next to a dehumidifier… is there any chance it’ll survive?

If not, can you guys recommend me and good laptops i could get second hand? (I need one for uni). Ideally one that can run some variation of linux (no clue how linux works but i don’t want to use windows and can’t afford another macbook)
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>>32002
Amerikkkans installing reverse osmosis filters, centrifugals and distillation plants so they can drink tap
water (that turns the freaking frogs gay)

IT JUST TURNED BACK ON!!!!

It’s a little slow though…

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Any advice on dealing with this? Don’t want to spend too much on repairs

>>32012
Battery is clearly charging, idk why it says that

Gonna unplug it anyway and leave it for a while

>>32012
Ah that means the battery is probs what got wet then. I'd say just keep it plugged in.


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What do you think about it? On its face it seems like a straightforward improvement over C/C++ and a good way to modernize development in their typical niches.
On the other hand there is this really weird cultish behavior around it that just makes me feel suspicious. "Let's rewrite everything in Rust", forcing it into existing software without a clear use case other than just "it's better", overstating the language's capabilities and robustness, very much a kind of "toxic positivity" around it as in the whole Linux Kernel shitshow earlier this year, and the fact that it's being pushed by corpos and the US government. It all feels very weird.
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https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies

>>31974
>Massive dependency chains (hello supply chain attacks)
>Painful and unergonomic C-ABI interop
these two don't compute. if you want c interop then you are most probably trying to link against system libraries, which implies an unknowable dependency tree. so you don't actually care about supply chain attacks

>>31995
System libraries have far more eyes on them than random crates, and are more difficult to compromise because the packages go through review on any sane distro. Downloading and linking a random C library exposes you to a single point of failure that is somewhat mitigated by using a tagged older release. A real world supply chain attack on a NPM/cargo style package manager can propagate itself automatically by stealing dev's credentials looking to infect the most widely deployed packages it can. When every little thing pulls in the latest releases of a dozen convenience libraries the risks and frustrations start to add up.

>>31993
tl;dr I trust system package maintainers more than random crate authors and you can't think for yourself trying to own me with linkspam written by evangelists less retarded than yourself

>>31976
Also forgot
>No standard
>One reference implementation

>>31993
I compiled typst and it pulled ~800 (!) dependencies, and they have implemented a lot of things from scratch
800 dep cli program vs 200 dep GUI program
I don't think it is comparable


 

even moreso than the lazy people who use AI for everything. Like if I write a medium length post, by hand, like I'm doing right now, there is a good chance that, even if I make a few typos here and there, someone will be so overwhelmed by it that they accuse it of Muh ChatGPT… it's becoming impossible to have conversations on the internet because if you're smarter than a person who spams short hostile sentences, you're assumed to be AI, or some kind of paid shill. What a race to the bottom that is!

There's definitely something to be said about AI and bots killing serious discourse on the internet.
Then again
<serious discourse
>on the internet
Some people might say pick one

The alternative webs like I2P would like to thank AI for shitting up the clearnet so badly that they see growth

>>31954
Discourse was already insufferable because you couldn't just express opinions without
>Source?
demanding every post online to be a university-level essay, to which the inevitable reaction is
>TL;DR
ChatGPT is just automating that process tbh, because everything it spits out is sourced-if-misinterpreted.

It's still mercifully easy to detect when a post is AI. these things were mostly trained by ESL somalis with dubious grasp of certain idioms. And ChatGPT still loves doing these ridiculous parting shots like "its not just X; it's Y"

>>31959
Nah it will flat-out make up sources all the time, the fact that it claims to have sources means nothing. The amount of work you have to do to fact-check them defeats the purpose of using them in the first place. It doesn't actually save you any time if you're at all concerned about accuracy. Only people using it are simultaneously lazy and don't care about the veracity of the content.

>>31988
They were mostly trained on reddit. If it sounds like a reddit post and it's not on reddit, it's very likely AI.


 

Linus built a PC with the other Linus.

I'm thinking about buying a new Linux-friendly laptop next year. What should I buy?

Also: current best distro?
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>current best distro?
The dulap image aka. gentoo linux circa 2017. In 2025 anything with a release schedule, a small base system that is easy to reason about and no hard dependencies on systemd.
>>31955
>retarded reactionary liberal
No, he's the type of erudite liberal bureaucract, who prevents the bourgeoisie from cannibalizing themselves.

>>31955
>arch

No. I tried arch once a few years back and if I remember correctly, their glibc was ancient and outdated iirc

>>31958
Youre not schizo enough

i decided arch is the best distro ever to exist after i updated an install that had not received a single update since 2022 and the only manual intervention required was demising the extra repo and moving the nvidia drivers to the upstream version. i dont care for schizo complaints about systemD.

You should buy a GNU Booted Thinkpad X200 or any other laptop compatible with GNU Boot, and replace the Wi-Fi card with an ath9k one. Any other laptop would contain nonfree blobs and should be avoided, otherwise you would be no different from a typical losedows user.

As for the GNU/Linux distribution, try to stick to a freedom-respecting one. I recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre for beginners, but Gentoo GNU/Linux-libre with 
ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -Artistic"
is a solid choice too. Don't listen to other meme answers, you should always seek your freedom first above all.


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heuristics - the science of training humans to behave more predictably until you believe that you can read their minds and predict the future.

ai is the final solution. people are encouraged to depend on ai for everything so that they atrophy their brains and lose the ability to think and act independently and then the ruling class will have prescient knowledge of everything we could ever say or do and they will feel like god and finally be able to coom


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