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Computers, instead of being used for intellectual amplification (with everyone having free universal access to a massive body of knowledge, learning about the world, other cultures, science... in short, making themselves better people), have turned into mass surveillance-enabling, corporate-endorsed advertising and entertainment devices, dumbing down everyone's span of attention with 24/7 small instant gratifications.
It didn't have to be like this.
I blame American "culture". Well, it's far-fetched to call it a culture. It's more like a continuous stream of corporate products and trends based on neuromarketing that appeal to the lowest and most basic of human instincts. That means that it's not just Americans that quickly adopt these new trends, people abroad do too.
For example, Japan has lost its unique feature-filled flip phones to iPhones. And as I said it doesn't only happen with technology: take music or cinema. Contemporary French or German music are closer to Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga than to their own music from a few decades ago.
Of course, people adopt it quickly and easily because it's designed to attract them. Blaming people for this is like blaming mice for being attracted to cheese. They can't help it, it's in their nature.
20 years ago, the internet was a place to explore and discover. A young kid could find fansites about their favorite cartoons, emulators for playing games, forums to discuss or just have fun with people from all around the world... nowadays if I let my child browse the internet from a small age he'd just end up addicted to social media and possibly with embarrassing content tied to his real name forever.
And the worst part is that the downward trend isn't stopping anytime soon, if anything it's accelerating. Adults are being effectively forced to use nonfree channels and forfeit their privacy in order to interact with governments, companies or the labor market.
We truly live in dark times.
>>54481023
The largest business opportunity in the past 50 years has been hijacked by people who want to make money, I would never have guessed it I am truly shocked.
>hijacked
you mean engendered it
>>54481023
The hacker revolution and ethic still burn as brightly now, more so even, as it did in the past.
The losers remain losers no matter what generation it is, they just have different toys to idle with.
I'm going to buy a Dell XPS 13 2015 edition, so the Broadwell one, not Skylake. Does anyone know how well Linux runs on it? Stuff like battery life and high DPI scaling.
The Archwiki wasn't that helpful, for example it reports no problems with the Skylake version which still has shit battery life thanks to nodrivers for the Skylake chipset, at least according to reddit.
No one cares, go kill yourself.
www.giyf.com
>>54481062
Ok, this time an answer from someone who isn't a moron, please.
>>54481135
No one cares, go kill yourself
Why is it so hard for an "international community of hundreds of avid volunteer programmers" to make something as good as the commercial alternative made by a team of 10 people?
1. Large open source projects have too much overhead attached to every single fucking decision. When a project it run commerically there are defined leaders and decision makers.
2. Often a large percentage of "contributors" contribute nothing or even have negative contributions as they break other peoples shit.
3. fuck it,im too lazy to continue
So why is it Linux is dominant in servers, an essential area for businesses and public services?
>>54483088
Because companies pay to have that shit done.
post em /g/
>>54480686
second pc
You ask I post
Roasting
What's wrong with Linux mint?
Unprofessional maintainers that do shit that in good-distro terms is called a "frankendebian"
>>54480029
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian
Note that Mint's solution to being a frankendebian is to just force you to reinstall from scratch after every major release
>>54480029
Nothing, it just werks.
The King Edition
Hello,
This thread is to consolidate graphics card and display technologies discussion to reduce unnecessary thread clutter on /g/. Let's also keep the shilling to a minimum, no-one fucking cares.
Direct any and all questions regarding Graphics Cards and Display Adapters here first, including purchase and sale questions:
Use >>>/g/gcg/
For non-related questions, link to find the stupid questions thread:
>>>/g/sqt
Support questions should be directed to >>>/wsr/, as per /g/'s sticky. Or just fucking Google it instead of shitposting.
Budget crown:
AMD RTG Radeon R9 380X
Performance crown:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
/GCG/'s Choice
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
> NEW PASTEBIN -----> http://pastebin.com/GKpypK28
Buyer Guides:
>GPU's
www.logicalincrements.com
www.pcpartpicker.com
>Monitors/Displays
https://pcmonitors.info
Logical Increments happily accepts suggestions, comments, and criticisms. Falco Paunch!
Drivers:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
>>54479735
first
>>54479735
>recommending cards that aren't even out yet
AMD4LYF
Post the commit message of your most recent commit.
GO
I don't use Github because they support SJW faggotry and are backed by the Jewry.
>>54479136
You think git is github? Get the fuck out
>>54479100vo_opengl: add optional hook points
These are "sequence points" where the image could be rendered out to an
FBO, hooked, and re-loaded if any such hook exists. This is perfect for
things like the current user shaders system, as well as optional effects
like unsharp masking.
Note that since we have to pick *some* FBO to store the optionally
hooked texture, we just store it in an array indexed by an increasing
counter. Since we only ever store as many as MAX_TEXTURE_HOOKS + all
internal hook points entries, this is guaranteed to be enough space.
This commit also removes some of the now unused FBOs.
Why do you use Arch, anon? Isn't it prone to breaking? How does it compare to Debian in regards to stability and software availability? Why should GNU/Linux users install it over Ubuntu?
Repost background image only?
But yes arch is love arch is life
>>54478925
There is literally no reason.
it's better unless you're running a server
Ever since the latest cumulative Windows 10 update, the start menu takes like 2 seconds to open up. This is clearly some botnet shit sending statistics to Microsoft's servers about how I use my start menu.
Recommend a less cucked OS please (preferably Linux and not Gentoo)
>>54477909
Fedora
>>54477919
Will look into this. Need to be able to run Wine or some translation layer for Ableton as I do a lot of work in audio. Is there any alternatives to lightroom in Linux?
>>54477909
Get classic shell or buy a proper PC.
Home screen thread?
Home screen thread.
Running Nova and custom KLWP theme.
>>54477880
Holy kek what is that between chat and chrome
made this a few days ago, still needs a clock and stuff but im thinking about a way to make it not ugly when i do
>>54478044
Oh that's my 4chan shortcut
guts thread
No IDE edition
>>54477804
>No IDE edition
Hallelujah Hallelujah, praise the lord.
>>54477832
the drive died so I was forced to replace it.
I also got some NZXT Braided LEDs, but I can't be bothered to take a pic with them on
not to be confused with Stupid Answers Thread
two of my standoffs aren't in 100%, but the mobo isn't touching the case. would this still prevent it from booting?
I have a few.
1. There is a router that has usb port on it and you can practiaclly make a NAS out of a pendrive. Is it possible the make a live usb linux drive, make it as NAS and boot a few comps connected through ethernet with it?
Can I just install like 4 pcs at one time with one drive through network?
2. If the network part of the mobo is completely fucked, how can a usb to ethernet adapter would work? What would be the MAC if the card is seriously utterly fucked?
3. Normal mobos usually only have 1 ethernet port. Can you just setup a server on it and use it as dhcp and other shit using the ethernet as an input(from the ISP) and a usb to ethernet adapter as the output to a router?
What is the best method for creating a database/back-end for a website and implementing it? Security-wise? Speed-wise? Like a user account for example with sensitive information.
I've seen it done with Java-XML, JS-HTML-PHP-SQL, etc etc.
What languages should I be using to write my back-end and why? I know Java and I've done the JS-PHP-SQL route before. I want to know which one experienced webdevs recommend and why.
Best girl edition
Old thread: >>54463676
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Hello /g/,
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We at the Linux Foundation heard you and we agree that it is time to change the Linux logo (Tux).
Please help us design a new one. The best submission from this thread (and if necessary, subsequent ones) will be chosen as the new Linux logo.
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>>54476419
its shit
>>54476419
Not sure I like the ice-cream without the ice-cream cone.
What flavor is it?
>Download fresh new torrents
>STALLED
>STALLED
>STALLED
>seeds even showing up at said torrents
>STALLED
Fuck your opensores meme. Is utorrent 2.2.1 still save?
>>54476287
>is utorrent 2.2.1 still safe?
No, CVEtorrent isn't safe.
>>54476287
I love this stalled meme, too bad it never happens to me.
>>54476287
Try Deluge.
![IMG_1332[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/SwjEWaL.jpg "IMG 1332[1]")
