/tech/ - Technology

What OS, and was it custom built or prefab?

probably capacitor that got too much voltage or smthn

Probably the PSU, I had some die on me like that before.

sounds like a capacitor in the power supply blew up. it happens. buy a new PSU

Ereaders suck and computers are full of digital heroin.

>>21369
The same book can educate generation after generation if stored properly.
The programmed obsolescence of your shitty e reader will only let you use it for a decade or two, if the blue light doesn't fuck up your eyes and completely claim your very ability to read before that.

>>22054
Meanwhile people are still archiving 8-inch floppies that even today mostly hold their data.

>>22055
>mostly hold their data

wow impressive

>>22054
Just buy an ebook with e-paper. And pretty sure you wouldn't like to learn anthropology from a 100 year old book.

Try connecting to a usb stick through it

i think cheap usb hubs can have this problem but not power bricks

>>21512
You don't want checksums (they can be slow), you want CRC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check

>>21508
If you're really worried, just back up your folder. You can try time machine, or something for windows. Also sometimes the file system you use can be used to keep snapshots, like APFS, btrfs, not sure about windows.

With that, you don't have to worry about losing your data.

im learning to use linux

can i use Arc if i already get used to using MX-Linux ?

>>22035
Virtual Machines is a way to find out without having to commit.

>>22005
What is your budget? Start there.

Intel has been on 14nm process for the.last 6 generations. Latest intel processor is slower than their previous generation. "e-cores" are a meme.


AMD Ryzen is the way to go. You can get a used ryzen 5 3600 for cheap.

Also, will buying intel over AMD negatively impact Palestine?

unironically buy second hand, I know you don't trust them, but you can always flash both bootloader and OS to stay on the safe side.Off lease thinkpads are to die for.

>>22024
Boycott Intel products,
http://www.inminds.com/boycott-intel.html

>>21927
the boomer wojak meme literally started as "the 30-year-old boomer"

>>18146
Plenty of forums I lurked in the 2010s are ghost towns now

> The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then
No they didn’t, fuck off

>>21563
Have a look at the FestVox project (http://festvox.org/) or the carnival gui (https://carnival.sourceforge.net/).

>>21565
Thank you anon. I'll try these out and see if they are good enough for a product. :)
>>21564
I have no idea and don't really care. It would not be very useful if so.

>>21563
As far as TTS goes, elevenlabs is the platinum standard. Fantastic, ultra realistic (99% of the time anyway) voices. Has free and paid versions.

Capcut is free, has a web version, and automatically makes text to captions

>>21597
thansk! I did not have much luck before but i will try these too!
There is so much low quality content that utilizes TTS on youtube that still gets a lot of views, it is kind of insane.
Probably the market will be saturated soon but i think it seems a good idea to get in whilst can.

>>21563
TTS sounds horrible, use your voice. I hate the spongebob sounding one from TT especially

>>21860
>For buses and tram you have to download the app and scan some qr code while boarding
That's different than a plane ticket.

>>21860
I give them a 2e coin and say my destination

Some time ago I had to buy some computer parts, I looked online, put the thing I needed into the virtual "shopping cart", and when I tried to pay it asked me if I wanted to log in, register, or continue as a guest. I clicked to continue, filled in the billing stuff, paid by card… and then got an email that everything is in order and they thank me for buying there and oh by the way, they made an account for me, here's my password.

Why let me buy stuff without registration if buying automatically registers me?? If I knew it would do that I would have just bought the thing in person.

Amtrak anon?

>>21860
buses here let you put coins into a machine

>>21937
It can be tough to get people to switch to less harmful alternatives.

>>21939
’d like to interject for a moment…

…What you’re referring to as windows, is in fact, NSA/windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning NSA system made useful by the NSA corelibs, spyware and data collection system components comprising a full surveillance system.

Many computer users run a modified version of the NSA system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of the NSA data collection system which is widely used today is often called Windows, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NSA system, developed by the NSA.

There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows is the piece of trash: the program in the system that steals the system resources from the other programs that you run. This piece of crap is an essential part of an NSA system, but useless in practice; it can only function in the context of a complete NSA system. Windows is normally used in combination with the NSA surveillance system: the whole system is basically NSA with Windows added, or NSA/Windows. All the so-called Windows systems are really distributions of NSA/Windows!

>>21937
But there's no bait and switch, people were doing this precisely expecting this to force fbi.gov to take such measures. This is (albiet stupid) direct action working.
>>21939
Oh thank god linux won't have to deal with Agent Kochinskioids.

>>21939
>person whose entire life is dedicated to grifting through a computer acts like using linux is some high maintenance thing
LMAO'ing rn

>>21942
Kek

yeah, i just emulate stuff and use shaders for recreating the CRT look

Most retro collectors upgrade their old rigs with solid state devices that emulate harddrives and floppies. Yet they do like hot rodding these old rigs and making them sing as it is a fraction of the cost of getting impressive modern over clocked hardware and you can get massive gains.

as always nostalgia is really just pining for youth. as a boomer, OP would have been a grown-ass adult when these things first got on the scene. no wonder there's little nostalgia for shitty tech
and yeah there were some dope games. even on the PC, the DOS era was immensely creative. there was a lot of shit too of course, we only remember the good stuff
>>21936
amiga people are something special

>>21930
don't come calling the next time you need a game with it's original ost. plus computers still sound like vacuum cleaners at high stress.

>>21938
The biggest thing that changed was users were far less babied in the beginning. A bunch of users early on looked at how expensive word processors were and simply cloned Electric Pencil themselves thus why you have hundreds of cheap knock offs all very similar as users just programmed their own word processor so they didn't have to pay $100 for one then they turned around and put it on the market. Also why you had the dos war on the TRS-80 as instead of just dealing with TRS-Dos being shit the users base just wrote their own improved clone and again put it on the market. I mean back in the late 70s the idea of a computer that shipped without a programming language and machine code monitor packed in was unthinkable.