browsing through this board completely blows me away. It amazes me how knowledgeable almost all of you are. I know more than the average person when it comes to electronics, but you guys completely shit on me in comparison. I would like to know how you first learned all this stuff. Is there some book I'm missing out on our something? (Bonus points if you recommend a good book, I like books)
Thanks /b/. I'm long winded, I know.
>>51976794
I learned spending my days perusing the Gentoomans library.
>thanks /b/
Personally I've always been interested in technology, ever since my mom brought home one of those gateway cow computers when I was a small boy.
I don't know shit, but I blend in bretty good while Linux faggots that wasted their entire existence spit out worthless command lines that make them look l33t.
>>51976794
kappa 123
>>51976794I iz l33t haxor fug u
Lulz
>>51976833
Thanks for pointing out the error, sorry I am just extremely tired.
>it amazes how knowledgeable almost all of you are
believe me, when you actually learn and know some things, this whole board suddenly is full of retards
>>51976794
Well if you already find something, in this case technology, interesting enough, you'll probably end up seeking out information about it on your own. It's how I became the 1337 haxxor, and so can you.
>Thanks /b/
i have made a huge mistake.
>>51976794
literally start fucking around and breaking shit, then fix it.
Literally
>>51976929
This and only this.
>>51976794
>It amazes me how knowledgeable almost all of you are
>>51976794
>It amazes me how knowledgeable almost all of you are.
>>51976835
Anti command line? Btfo
>>51976794
I know this might be cliche, but I've always had a strong desire to know, I never really knew why, it began with astronomy with me, I used to spend weeks upon weeks reading wikipedia pages, NASA pages, and generally being very knowledgeable about everything space, including all the types of star death, and their details. I stopped when I realized that it's rather hard for me to practice my hobby practically, any telescope worth its mint was so fucking damn holy-fuck-shit-son expensive, and as a kid I didn't have nowhere that much cash, so I slowly stopped. Then I began studying nuclear physics, including all them dank bombs, all of the dankest isotopes, but when I tried again to practice it practically, the most I could do is get a geiger counter and go looking around for anything radioactive to take home, which seemed boring considering that everything interesting that could be done was illegal to posses/create.
So I got into electronics, here, practically applying and practicing my knowledge was easy, constant; consistent, so I quickly stuck with it. Electronics and components are readily available everywhere around us, computers cost a few dollars now, and it had a shit ton of practical knowledge, I began with high voltage, finding it the most fascinating, I created transformers, circuits, tesla coils, multipliers, etc, then I slowly got into computing, which introduced me to my current hobby, microcontrollers, IoT, task automation and smart devices. Which any amount of practicing with, will make you realize that Linux is necessary, so from there I got into the Linux community, I began appreciating the UNIX way and getting into it myself, and gradually, after having solved many issues myself, and mastering the terminal, I became another self-proclaimed GNU/Linux guru. I gradually became more and more of a purist, I lurked /g/, advocated freedom, and after staying in here for a long while, I realized that /g/ is actually just a bunch of (cont)
>>51977099
really, really, really dumb people, or a big group of circle-jerking trolls, but I have reasons not to believe the latter, since it'd be very hard to keep all the users of /g/ coordinated in such an elaborate display of stupidity. Only a handful (read: 1%) actually know what they're talking about, and this is the story of my degradation, how I went from useful scientific and engineering topics to wasting my time with such a dumb community, I've been trying to get back into engineering and microcontrollers, but /g/ and GNU/Linux are too much of a time-sink, and I constantly find myself not having time, and not being interested because /g/ has too much of a pull towards it. I considered myself to have been constantly improving throughout my life as I practiced my hobbies, but it feels as if I've suddenly dropped into a steep low.
If you intend to do anything useful with your life, this is not the place, get out while you can. Save yourself, because once you're deep into here, you're here forever.
>>51977099
Your childhood sounds very similar to mine. I would always go through different interests, learning everything I could possibly about them until I would get bored and move on to the next. Computers and technology have really stuck with me though, and it always will.
>>51976794
Wikipedia
no joke
Almost everyone discussing PC parts is stupid here.
They think you neeed 860 for two modern nVidia GPUs and PC build ehen even 700 would do
>>51977167
Wikipedia is a great learning resource.
>>51977183
donr use it for politics or history tho
>>51977146
3rd. My father was the same and is now in his 50's working on his nth idea and crying himself to sleep for never *doing* anythingwith any of it
>>51976929
I can not agree more with this statement. The only reason I come on this board is to laugh at how retarded some of the posts are.
Every now and then you will find someone who does know there shit though.
Just so OP knows, I started learning about technology at a later point in my life than most (14) but have rapidly learnt things from then. If you don't have the motivation to self learn technology then I suggest going to university. Just getting assignments done will help you learn a lot if you try to get the best grade possible. You will also realize how much self learning you have to do to get it as a tutor will only show you some directions you could go but won't explain it unless you specifically ask for an explanation on a certain thing.
no one here knows shit, here are the following faggots youll find on this board:
>i know how to build a computer
congratulations, faggot, you can now do something an indian toddler can do
>i use leenux
wow, you can use an overly obtuse OS and achieve nothing of significance, enjoy spending 5000 hours tweaking it so you can watch shitty anime rips
>i support [product] [company]
shills aside, you have actual faggots here who support one company over another, and will defend their chosen company to the death like its their favourite football team, its pathetic, its like putting 2 jews in a boxing ring and getting upset when one of them gets hit
I just finished an hour long jerk with my wonderwave fleshlight and tons of lube. Fuck yeah it was good. To the video with this girl I got from my Naughty America account. Mindy Main. It's like jerking off to a 16 year old scene girl. My dick is still throbbing in pleasure. I laugh at you faggots you spend all day trying to get a girl, flirting, trying to entertain her, wasting your energy on that shit. You spend tons of time and money trying to make it seem like you have a social life so they think you're cool. You spend hours talking to her every day, wasted time. You have to put up with all that bullshit women spew, you have to keep her entertained, put up with her little games. I laugh at you. If I want a real bitch, I'll buy an escort. I've got a $50 for 15 minute deal with this model looking chick. About what you'd spend going out. No drama, no flirting, no game required ;) up front no bullshit. the way it should be.
I get up, go surfing in the morning for an hour. I then go home, take a shower, and go to work. I get to troll /g/ all day since my job fucking kicks ass, and I make $105,000 a year. I then get home and play Crysis/COD4/UT3 on my AMD QUAD CORE PC, with 4 gigs of RAM, and 2 8800 GTX video cards. On my 30" LCD Monitor. Then i go and watch some TV in HD on my 1080i 50" plasma TV, on my leather couch, and go back to the PC if i like. Or i can take my .50 cal Barrett rifle down to the range and feel like a badass.
Then i get home, jerk off, and go back to playing games. Drama Free, Freedom. perfect life. I hope you faggots enjoy your shitty ass minimum wage jobs, and spending all your free time and energy on some whore and getting social status. While I enjoy relaxing and being worry free. All so you can say "I have a life" and prove yourself to others.
>>51977545
my ideal
>>51976794
Muck around with stuff. Take things apart and put them back together again. If something's broken, try to fix it, repurpose it or cannibalise it for parts. Google for information on any step of the process you can't figure out for yourself.
>>51977515
this, for every actually knowledgeable person on /g/ there are 40 gamertards who think their mid-range prosumer internet appliance/gaming console is hot shit and 20 facebook tards who use the board as a personal blog to show off their latest handheld social media telescreens
absolutely disgusting
I installed gentoo.
Not even meming.
>>51977799
Holy shit.
>>51976835
>wasted their entire existence
It actually doesn't take long to learn "command lines" if you use a few commands every day.
You are probably just retarded.
I never had much experience because my family never really used them and public schools didn't really teach you anything other than typing and how to use proprietary office suites, so I was pretty dumb when it came to computers. Hell, I didn't even know how to download a file from the internet until I was 18. But I got a laptop and I hated being so inept at using it and little by little I came to understand more and more about how computers work, and over time, that understanding increased to where it is today. I'm won't say I'm knowledgable on computers as a whole, there are many things that I'd be unable to do without online resources but compared to the layman, I'm leaps and bounds ahead of them.
As long as you keep trying new things, you'll need to learn new things and your knowledge will increase. If all you do on your computer is browse and watch YIFY rips, you'll never be any smarter, but if you say to yourself, "Gee, this video quality is really poor, I wonder why?" and look it up, you'll already be miles ahead of where you were two minutes prior
>>51976974
yep
>>51977143
K I'll go jack it then, peace
>>51976974
So true
>>51977099
>>51977143
Not everyone is weak and neet like you to get manipulated by a fucking 4chan board full of dumb rich kids that talk only about APPS , phones and gaymes.
Install gentoo
>>51977167
this. donated $20 to wiki since I find it to be such an invaluable resource. I always encourage others to do the same
>>51977099
>>51977146
>>51977363
at 20 years I still find myself like this. Although it is costly at times to really indulge in my current interests I always find it worth the experience. Follow your dreams /g/, or you'll grow to regret it
>>51976794
it all began when i installed gentoo
had a shitty computer, wanted to play mechwarrior 3 on it.
basically asked jeeves and finally google lots of questions about how to make my computer faster.
belive it or not, theer was a sliver of time that 4chan has forgotten when /g/ was actually a decent source (right around the time just before vista came out) i think some of the people on the crack teams for bypassing WGA and shit were lurking/posting here a lot, which could be why the quality of the content was so high
there's a lot to cover between then and now, but let's just say that i've worked in IT and as a software dev, and finally now in InfoSec over the past 10 years.
i still browse just for kicks, but i wish the desktop threads, phone threads, homescreen threads, and brandwars would go away. they did'nt used to be like this. i remember when a desktop thread was just a bunch of tidus.jpg's
>how knowledgeable you all are
This board is full of retards who try to fit in, or people who don't want them.
>>51978916
>infosec job
Did you major CS?
>>51978970
yes, honors
>>51978969
oh the irony
>>51976794
Honestly it began for me at around 13 when I was trying to look at pr0ns on the internet.
Got a bucket load of viruses which I attempted to fix without alerting the parentals. Managed to do it, so I did it again and again... Then I got bored of that and started building them myself out of computers I found on scrap heaps
>>51976974
It's a shame they removed xorg.conf, otherwise that was my go-to advice for "bricking" your system so you'd be forced to learn how to fix it.
>>51978916
>basically asked jeeves
Damn...you just took me back 15yrs. Kek
Modding my psp taught me alot, doing the patapon savestate exploit and running halfbyte loader was too much fun. Flashing a cfw and fucking it up, bricking my lovely pearl psp. Then learning how flash memory works and attempting it again on generic black psp. Modding the OS resources to make a custom ui, making wallpapers to match. Taking games like rockband and creating song/note chart midis to play some of my favorite songs. This was just some of the shit i did when i was ~12 being a tinker really got me far
>>51976794
>browsing through this board completely blows me away. It amazes me how knowledgeable almost all of you are.
I'm fucking dying
OP if you're interested in anything than why not just search in or ask the biggest freaking library there is ... I'm mean it's right fucking in front of you right now
books well this library also knows where you can get books on the matter
>>51976867
Back to 2009 with you
>>51977545
This pasta feels like it was written in 2007
>>51976794
For me, it all happened when I received this letter. It really opened my eyes to the dangers of pirating. Since then, I have always tried to abide by the almost unspoken rules of computer electronics. Always give credit and never steal software.
>>51976794
What sort of stuff are you interested in?
If you are interested in hacking/penetration testing then this is a good place to start:
https://www.nostarch.com/pentesting
>>51976794
JUST B URSELF
FOLLOW YOURE DREAMS THATS WHAT I DO
>>51986527
laughing anon... funny shit.
>>51976929
truth
people really work hard at sounding smart on the internet and if you don't know anything it looks like they are geniuses.
>>51977099
>>51977143
you like to talk about yourself a lot, i suggest you find a hobby before you make yourself that hobby.
>>51986955
Trust me anon, I don't see many people here that appear to be geniuses. I see intelligence agencies and retards.
>>51976835
>zero scripting knowledge
>why am i still neet?
>>51977099
Jesus all that research and you never found out how to use line breaks, holy fuck
>>51984413
Thank you, this book looks like a very good read.
Lurk on /g/ a lot and finish building your first computer from scratch. That'll teach you the basics.
