/tech/ - Technology

What's the point of Omarchy in the first place?

It's another Arch-based distro, okay, but what's the use-case? People who need a solid battle-tested Linux environment either use Debian or Fedora based distros, and there is CachyOS if you want a more user-friendly Arch distro for gaming.
If you take, on the opposite side of the political spectrum, two projects like Rust (woke) and Urbit (chud), they have a purpose beyond the political baggage they carry, it's not just "I'm a Haskell-inspired programming language but woke/chud UwU pls adopt me".

I don't see the point of Omarchy. Distro-hopping is fun at first, but then things eventually break over time and in the end, most of us just want a solid computing environment to do our own shit with, like messing with GCC and Emacs or what have you. I'm not aware of any technical merit this project has over the existing infrastructure, unlike for example, Nix or Guix (which I don't use, but find interesting from afar).
For people who bitched a lot about how woke PR people pushed code of conducts onto open-source projects last decade, they seem to be as useless as them, just on the opposite side of the spectrum.

>>34526
>In a speech to Alibaba employees, Ma defended the industry's '996' work schedule, which refers to the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday, six days a week.
>"I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing," he said in remarks posted on the company's WeChat account.
>"Many companies and many people don't have the opportunity to work 996," Ma said. "If you don't work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996?"
Here is your communism, bro. Jack Ma moved to Japan after this, because the CPC weren't taking his remarks on breaking labor laws too kindly.

>>34578
Got the impression it was ricing "lets build it with LLM".
The technology - taken from elsewhere - isn't evil.
Biggest two risks, beyond the sign, of just this are:

1. Users stop thinking. (guaranteed)
   
2. Users are sold (out). (quite likely)
   

We can peal back the spectacle to look at the material.
Taking things just as they are is more direct, if subtler.
Everyone being able to make their own software is good.
Am probably going to rededicate the day to software methods.

>>34579
Pretty funny considering China has capital controls.

>>34579
then why is a chinese corporation funding a fascist distro?

Gentoo can do it better

Rust has been impossible to avoid for a while now.
Mesa pulls it as a dependency.
So does every modern browser except like cog.
(If even that counts as a "modern browser")
I completely gave up avoiding it on my main machine.

For my personal projects I never saw the utility of uv.
Guess it fits the category of "rewrite it in Rust." projects.
But there was a time when I would have used it anyway.

Also might have learned my lesson from the recent Deno acquisition.
e.g. wouldn't write with MongoDB today.
Even though I'd like a JSON "ODM" with no translation layer.
Ideally written in javascript…

>Sudo apt upgrade on kubuntu system
<kde all broken

ubuntu is by far and large the fucking worst distro I ever had to touch, they deserve to go bankrupt

>>34418
Fixed, guilty party was chromium, removed it and everything works again https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565132857

Am I wrong in wondering how the fuck a glaring bug like this gets pushed through? How did they not notice this? Is this because they just don't even bother anymore with snap?

Learned zswap and cgroups with memory caps can make even 4G "usable". You make a cgroup, can contain both torbrowser and firefox, then OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs once you've exceeded your threshold e.g. max 2560M swap.max 0 restoring balance. Sounds bad, and it sort of is, but it's better than the machine freezing or slowing down, even with this NVME.

An old tutorial is available here, have to change a bunch of stuff to get it to work with cgroup v2:
https://gist.github.com/hrishikeshrt/dab05d42fc60144909cdbde2cc3f4d2c

/etc/cgroup/cgconfig.conf
```
group browsers {
perm {
task {
uid = jugaad;
gid = jugaad;
}
admin {
uid = jugaad;
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>>34518
>OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs
Reducing the number of processes firefox spawns will further reduce its total memory and cpu time. You would only need to turn off overcommitment, so jemalloc can deliver a proper out of memory condition. You could also tune the memory limits in about:config or experiment with LD_PRELOADing mimalloc and tcmalloc.

>>34523
>memory.swap.max = "0G";
This was causing freezing and crashing…
Guess I'll just have to tolerate a slow browser for now…
At least the window manager still works.

>turn off overcommitment
Done

>>34384
The suffering was never in the audio server. JACK on alsa plus realtime kernel was always amazing compared to windows. The moment you go for anything under wine whether it's plugins or DAW it's a bad time. The new pianoroll looks good in Ardour, but that wasn't there when I was shopping around for a DAW. I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.

https://www.discodsp.com/
Linux native but proprietary

It is amazing how the best softsynth in existence is free and Linux native/open source. You can do basically anything in it. I've actually been using it as basically a subtractive synth, and there are presets that emulate a bunch of historical synth sounds as well. Oh, and what's even more amazing is that the 2nd best softsynth in existence, Surge, is also free and Linux native. https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/manual/

>>34386
>I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.
Bitwig has one of those built in IIRC.

https://www.linuxmusic.rocks/
https://linuxsynths.com/
Couple of Linux plugin databases. Linuxsynths.com seems to have slightly out-of-date info.

https://www.zounoashi.com/#/game/karaage?card=square2

Put any image you want in a deep fryer

ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich das internet in zukunft überhaupt nutzen soll. also wenn wir davon ausgehen müssen, dass langfristig alle kleinen/alternativen foren/diskussionsräume sterben werden wegen gesetzen (kids act), KI und weiteren äähh… externalitäten, dann bleiben nur noch die großen, ultramanipulativen corpo plattformen. ok. ich benutze seit einiger zeit wieder xitter und mein "for you" feed besteht zum größten teil aus titten, schwänzen, muschis und ärschen. was ich ja mag, aber ich kann doch nicht permanent horny sein, wenn ich durch den feed scrolle?? ist das wirklich die zukunft?

>>34288
AI text detection has gotten much, much better. It's an arms race, but at the moment Pangram is so good at detecting AI text that if it flags something as AI it's basically certain that it is.

Somehow all of my search results turned to slopsites or silos.
Imagine you could only search blogs and universities.
If you needed to query a silo, you go to them directly.
https://wiby.me
https://marginalia-search.com/
https://kagi.com/smallweb
https://hister.org/

Recently queried for a fairly obscure topic: "no-mind" and found an interesting page.
Something documenting Chinese philosophy of mind, or lack there of.
The central idea as I read was that heart-mind, and dao fail to distinguish either:

1. a duality between reason and affect/
   
2. a duality between social and personal.
   

Plus there were some later innovations.
https://philosophy.hku.hk/ch/mind.htm

>>34490
Thanks for Marginalia anon, it's awesome for finding things like small blogs and solutions to niche problems

grundrisse the fragment on machines

>>34434
Shit like this is why ID verification for using social media or purchasing electronics is being pushed by the elites, yes it helps expand the surveillance state, at least the ways they're pushing to implement it, but for some it's also a sincere well-meaning attempt to fight back against the dead internet phenomenon.

>>34449
Funny how this website pushes the same thing. They do everything in their power to try and make posting anonymously here impossible for the same reasons as "le elite."

>>34451
>Funny how this website pushes the same thing.

leftypol? how exactly?

These farms existed for years before AI, but in the past they were mostly limited to shitholes like Russia or India. Now that copyright is dead and CFAA in the US is valid only if you're not doing anything related to AI - we're about to witness an explosion of these things.

Captcha evasion through services like 2captcha, phone proxies bought from some shady vendor without KYC laws… That's the thing about dead internet theory. It's not like it was just a theory prior to the invention of LLMs. Mass social media manipulation is something that has existed for nearly 13 years. AI just made it cheaper than sliced bread.

any of these people who take it upon themselves to try to become some kind of extremely-online micro-celebrity armchair journalist crusader constantly seeking conflict and controversy are fucking crazy, normal people who value their sense of self don't act that way and don't feel comfortable reinventing themselves as some kind of superhero character that completely eclipses their actual selves and turns them into some kind of one-dimensional entity rather than a human being.

>>28088
Looks like Every Single Tech company is going to copy Google's pixel 10a design which has an exploding battery and literally sell remote bombs to consumers which could detonate after bitcoin saturated consumers in China reveal their new remote killing system a purposefully made backdoor into the device to kill evil white men.

>>34357
We're SO back.

>>31338
>still talking about antifa clowns in 2026
Dude has a terminal case of boomer brain. Yes, I'm aware he's not literally a boomer.

>>28114
Lets not pretend that every H1B is some best of the best "we can't find someone of this caliber in the US" situation. There is a MASSIVE amount of outright fraud in many overseas tech sector "education" services where someone who just stumbles through a bootcamp is told to say they have 10 years of experience because its very difficult to verify; many in India for instance have "Oh yes, we'll be your reference and say you had a PhD from IIT and 15 years of engineering experience" and, while those applying to the biggest silicon valley companies may get caught, there's both A) a network of existing hires who help others. There was a major scandal a couple years back in Microsoft and another in Oracle I think B) the corporate vested interest not to look too hard because

The real benefit of the H1B is to pay less than a local, legal American AND have someone who is beholden to your company. They can't just work for a few months and then get a better offer elsewhere, their H1B is connected to the particular sponsoring company and if you revoke sponsorship, back they are supposed to go (or remain here illegally, which some do). This is why you see job offerings that have insane qualifications for a low to mid level position, so they can say that there's "nobody qualified here, better go to H1B" but that's not much different from getting illegals to work in agriculture because no American is going to accept $1 per bushel of lettuce picked etc.

So even when they are "educated professionals", they're often being paid a lot less than a local educated professional for the same job with the same ostensible work history. This is not not an issue of "failing to compete / we don't have the workers' any more than big ag can't hire Americans because "nobody wants to work everyone's lazy".

>>34439
Looks sick. Maybe next time.

i've always wanted a pinephone but i have to pay a hefty sum for importing it, the RAM drought also hit it pretty badly and 4GB is just not good enough for a "pro" model. maybe when the chinese flood the market with cheap ram in 2028

>>34439
usecase?

>>34483
Social media is meant to be a vehicle for talking to people, mainly friends, online. It's not supposed to be cathartic, it's not supposed to be how you get the news or get into arguements with strangers, and it's not meant to be the main way you learn about things like OP is trying to use it for. There's other web technologies for all of those things, you can't just rely on the attention span shredder machine to do it all.

>>34483
It's pretty obvious that anonymous online interaction is different than real life personal interaction so it's weird you ignore that just to post your meme phrase

It's called a passthrough mod. A pretty neat use of depth buffers.
>>34481
The reason why there's a boom of these is because they're not that complicated conceptually, not because AI is doing anything special that you couldn't do manually with a bit of knowledge on modding two or more games.

>>34486
This seems neat on a technical level but I can't imagine it being fun to play.

>>34487
Just seems designed for content slop basically, like everything else nowadays