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Feel free to discuss any consumer electronic products you use.
Picture two are my Chi-Fi: Tin-HIFI T2.
They're mostly neutral with some deviation in the highs.
Much less bass heavy than most Chi-Fi judging from the graphs.

Picture one is my phone, an ironic branding for a midrange device.
Am hoping to install Lineage 21+ after an unlock token arrives.
Interesting apps are as follows:

- NewPipe (youtube alternative)
- personalDNSfilter (global adblock)
- KurobaEx-Beta (leftypol client)
- Obsidian (note taking software)
- OsmAnd (google maps alternative)
- Messanger (RCS is a monopoly)
- Aurora Store (bad play replacement)
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>>29659
This is so much more of a pain then it used to be.
Even things like downloading an OTA, or transferring files to phone.
Like since when do you need a virtual filesystem to transfer files?
Since when do you need to transfer bins back and forth to your phone and computer to patch them.
Since when do you even need a computer to root a phone?
Then of course my laptop only has three USB ports each on a different side!
Since when can you not have a keyboard, mouse, flashdrive, and phone plugged in at once!
And then lol sorry you actually still need that fancy unlock token they haven't sent you for three weeks.
Ugh!

I have a Samsung a35 right now. I have google fi as my carrier so i just get whatever is a cheap phone with SD support from their store whenever the current one dies out

>>29813
This never did show up.
Am going to try using MSM on an old windblows machine to restore to an international firmware.
Really disgusting.

>>30037
This completely failed so gave up.
Seems like am going to get something unlocked next time.

a samsoong s25, sorry for being a consoomer, i was worried about trump tariff so i splurged
a kindle paperwhite gen 7 with koreader after jailbreaking it, koreader is fucking awesome
sometimes a miyoo mini v4 for gaming


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I recently got a smartphone again and things are worse than 5 or 6 years ago. I got an Android because they have inexpensive ones and I don't believe in paying around $1k for a phone.

Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.

I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.

Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.

Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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>>29721
proofs? tried even to use geoip to get timezone data once but the data wasn't accurate enough. something like 50% accuracy for city.

>>29721
Yeah, I haven't left the house with it. Someday I'll need it for GPS or something I imagine. I'd like to just buy a GPS for my car like I used to have that always works, no signing up or anything. Just a random guy using the thing for directions and it doesn't know who I am and isn't tracking me. Garmin. They still make those? My last one looked like a CRT TV, as deep as it was wide, suctioned to my windshield. I miss that thing. Would it still work? Remember those days?

>>29724
>>29724
>proofs?
here's this weeks proofs
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
this isn't a demoralization post. understand the fucking ridiculous amount of data they're taking from you

>>29823
Well then.

>>29683
>Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work.

Uhmm… no you don't?! My phone is like 3 months old and I am using it completeky without a Google account. You can just skip the account creation.


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What's the deal with block-based coding? I'm surprised it's not more common for the obvious stuff like markup languages, since they're both sandwich shaped, and whenever I look into it I see it pitched as:
>no coding
even though it is, just you have premade snippets.
>usually pitched as a teaching tool rather than part of a serious workflow
which is weird beause I see node based coding, another kind of visual coding, used in gamedev and shader stuff quite regularly.
>seemingly only used for high level programming
why? like is there something low level programming languages do that can't translate to blocks?

Do you use block-based coding for anything, or have experiences to share about it?

Finally figured out npm and got blockly running. Perhaps I could try making a generator for rust to see if that's possible.

>>30009
Blocks are just a different interface to imperative code, which most people already know how to read as text and is trivial to learn compared to other coding paradigms (it's like a cooking recipe). Nodes in contrast represent a type of reactive programming, which is harder to grasp and in general-purpose languages can only be found as special purpose pipelines or message-based object systems. Documentation is pretty much the only advantage of blocks over text, all constructs are listed and often telegraph how they may be used.


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>99% of backend web applications are REST APIs that perform basic CRUD operations.
>Vast majority of soydevs and product managers somehow still manage to fuck up codebases beyond repair
How does this happen? I'm tired of working on fragile legacy codebases that are on the brink of imploding half the time. Most of the teams I have worked with are filled with careless assholes who don't follow any proper coding guidelines, standard processes or even use common sense. Maybe it's because I'm in fintech. I know some of the red flags to watch out for, let me know of some more please.
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>>29994
>It's common practice in fintech in my country (I'm Indian btw lol).
no it's not lol.
what is it with indians and the self-deprecation and loathing?
dumb security lapses are common all over the world, it's not "common practice" anywhere. government and large corp contracts for building software are often riddled with corruption and some inevitably end up with these issues.

>>30002
>Most of those problems are fixed by paying more for better devs.
better devs and giving them the chance to implement things according to their knowledge and understanding of your problem. not cargo-culting by hiring devs and then telling them linkedin raised profits by using a message queue or microsoft stock is up 50% because AI now writes 80% of all their code, so you must find a way to implement message queuing or using AI "agents" to build stuff faster.

funnily so far it hasn't occurred to them to simply not hire any devs and use an AI "agent" to build their async queued event driven 30 billion dollar unicorn idea.

>>30006
It has nothing to do with self-deprecation. I have startup founder friends who refuse to work with Indian clients, despite being Indian! They really pressure you that much and don't hold anyone accountable for anything.

>>29993
>kubernetes or grpc in a way that isn't cargo-cult retardation
GRPC absolutely. it's really not that much of a leap over other RPC protocols.

but kubernetes can be very nice if used in the right way. First of all it is self-hostable, you don't need cloudshit lock-in, second, it can be run on the cheap if you know what you're doing, and you can get pretty reliable scaling and robust and repeatable deployments once it is all set up at the outset. A no-brainer at this point if you have any application with multiple interacting services. Yes, it is kinda ugly if you really get into its configuration and logging but these days you get nice UIs like rancher to abstract that mess away for day-to-day operation at least and you won't need to deal with that unless something goes seriously wrong.

>>30008
I've never felt pressured to deliver at my current big tech role before a product is done. We're happy using old proprietary stuff if it works.
When devs job hop every 2 years I doubt they've seen the ramifications of their work. Tons of microservice resume driven development bullshit as if the next shmuck who shows up will know rust or want to learn it. They seem to include tech simply so they can apply elsewhere with it on their resume. In some domains it takes 2 years just to get sufficiently acquainted with regulations, the business itself, etc.

We don't use AI to write code that much because code gen + libraries/etc. are enough for us. Rarely I'll use LLMs to get an idea of how to write something. In general I think frameworks solve the problem much more elegantly than an LLM. Better to have unit test/performance testing/etc. on everything, centralized in a library than duplicated 24/7. The people who shill LLMs seem to work in small code bases with little to no domain expertise required.

I think a lot of devs give up and start telling management what they want to hear while they insult them behind their backs. What else can they expect when management is pretending AI can replace a dev, it's insulting. Zuck claims mid level engineers are gone in a year. Lmao. I hate these people.


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Is indie app/web development a viable way to earn money? I'm tired of debugging dogshit legacy codebases. I plan on building dozens of freemium apps hoping that at least one sticks. I have 2.5 years of web and mobile dev experience.

Also, please don't move this to /tech/ jannies, it's an incredibly slow board.
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do a shitty mobile game, monetize the shit out of it and shill it to third worlders

>>29939
This job will be completely replaced by AI in one year's time.

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>>29956
My genuine reply to this is that people only focus on the implementation stage of the software development lifecycle when all the other stages are actually the ones that take up most of the time and effort. Implementation for 99% of applications was already pretty easy even before the advent of AI. It's another thing that people still managed to fuck it up somehow.

>>29956
It isn't even a job to begin with. That's like calling writing or eating a job. Indie webdev is just a basic life skill.

>>29954
Jobs aren't necessarily fun. If you don't like it go network into a different one. I deal with legacy code all day but the pay is good, the code base is bad but not horrible, and I'm treated well. Management understands some things are very hard to do and take time without breaking existing functionality.


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BreachForums has been taken down apparently by their own admins over rumors it was being subjected to infiltration by the FBI and other government agencies. There are rumors someone has been arrested.

It may be gone for good this time. Either way it's safe to assume it'll be compromised if it ever comes back (if it wasn't already).

>only $1500 to transfer one of the biggest forums for hacking/leaked info
wtf.

>>29985
if they get arrested the money will be taken away anyway, that price probably only covers the maintenance costs so they can claim they didn't profit from the site


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I'm getting into the world of online buy-selling (I said FB, but can be Ebay or whatever else, in general) to obtain several toys for nostalgia, other hobbies, things I need or could need, etc..And I noticed how strong the algo-web is here; Mainly I see this through suggested reels, but how do I deliberately ,manually, target the algorithm?
size group, location, language, dates, it all seems to play a role. Should I switch country's VPN every now and then? Use different devices, some having Opera, others GDG, etc?


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>>Proxy
>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
>>TOR
>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)

knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
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>>29815
usable still. lately i've been compression bombed a few times by some tor nodes, which i had to blacklist. if this is happening to you, you will see so in your tor log.

>>29816
It's dramatically faster than remember it.

>>29815
>>29816
>>29826
So far the only trouble has been XDA, a random softs site, and https://fonts.google.com/icons.

>>29815
Very usable tbh. I remember when I first tried it 10 or so years ago it was too slow to even consider for anything other than if I absolutely wanted to go to an onion. Now I think I could get away with using it for every website that doesnt demand an account. Note the word demand, think Normiebook and the like

Tor posters are all Peruvian.


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https://lukaspetersson.com/assets/pdf/vbench_paper.pdf
All of the AI eventually failed for various reasons. Some failed in predictable ways and handled failure well.
One tried to email the fbi thinkining it was the victim of cybercrime.
One started questioning the natures of its existance.

Kinda blown away they just let the public fuck around with ai.


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I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
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>>29187
This is optimistic, especially because of the "begging for since wikipedia was a thing" component, but a good post.

As a creative, I have no issues with AI. Music wise, the entire music industry is fucking garbage at the moment and honestly. Stuff hitting charts as music is honestly worse than alot of the AI songs i've heard, like that hh song by Kayne is genuinely a shittier, less funny, racist shock song than the stuff /pol/ generates. What I hope is that AI actually raises the bar a bit for what is acceptable music to be presented by an actual human for mainstream consumption.
Imagry wise? Digital art is all fucking garbage anyway, who gives a shit? I enjoy the novelty though of /tv/ turning everything into ghibli.
only annoying aspect of AI so far is that it's made everyone who can't debate online lean on it heavily, and present arguments that come off like a fedora tipper writing with a fucking quill, sea lioning the shit out of you.

>>29876
>What I hope is that AI actually raises the bar a bit for what is acceptable music to be presented by an actual human for mainstream consumption.
Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?

>>29877
>Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?
Art at the professional scale is a collaborative process usually. There have long been tools to "cheat art" by just animating or redrawing models someone else made and you posed or whatever. AI art is just shit. There are some extensive methods to get better results, but at a certain point, maybe you'd be better off just using some older methods. Maybe some of those methods combined with the AI even. I don't know, I've never seen any of this shit that was really at a professional grade yet. We'll see.

>>29877
If your dogshit song can be done better than fucking garbage AI, then maybe you wrote a shitty-copy paste lazy track.
I'm genuinely hoping that AI sends every hip hop artist and pop musican to the unemployment line. Maybe some genres that AI will struggle to actually copy (progressive genres, psychedelic genres, layered/complex genres, music that skirts multiple genres) will actually come back to the forefront.
AI won't be creating the next Dark Side of the Moon or Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost or Closer so why should I care if a bunch of slop that has been strangling the industry for decades dies off because people will equate it with AI?
Even if artists use AI, if they make a good song, why should I personally care?


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