If you want help:
>Assemble your parts list
https://pcpartpicker.com/
>State the budget for your build (and country if not the USA)
>List games/software you use often, as well as your monitor resolution + refresh rate
>Clarify your goal for build improvements: lower price or improved specs?
How to assemble a PC, select components & more (kind of outdated)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Build_a_PC
CPUs:
No i5 unless discounted
>G4560/G4600 - Budget builds (<$500)
>R5 1400 - Cheapest quad core you can get (Ryzen 3 soon)
>R5 1500x - Good but up to 1600 if you can
>R5 1600 - Best value for higher fps gaming / mixed usage; 1600x if you want higher stock clocks
>i7 7700k - Only for 144hz
>R7/Used Xeon/Threadripper - Compute/Multitask/VM/mixed use; Not for just gaming
GPUs:
Coin miners have driven price up and stock down, waiting to buy a GPU might be wiser
>Integrated CPU Graphics - Desktop stuff and very light games
>GTX 1050(Ti) - Lower end budget cards, drop settings on newer games, RX560 beaten by both
>RX570 - 1080p@60~hz maxed, running most maxed older games at 100~Hz
>RX580 and GTX1060 6GB - 1080p@80hz maxed, 1440p@60hz at lower settings; RX580 better in newer games
>GTX 1070 - 1080p@130hz /1440p@60hz at high
>GTX 1080 - 1080p@144hz / 1440p@60hz maxed, 4k@60hz in a few games; Probably the highest end card you need for 1080p/1440p
>GTX 1080Ti - 1440p@144hz and 4k@60hz maxed/high in many games
RAM:
>Check your Mobo QVL before buying any RAM
>Ryzen CPUs benefits a lot from high speed RAM
General:
ALWAYS LOOK AT PRODUCT REVIEWS!
Always consider an SSD. Try buying a large SSD for what you'd pay for your SSD+HDD combined, and add a HDD later
NVMe SSDs aren't for a faster OS boot, they're for productivity/scratch disk/VMs. NVMe and M.2 are not the same thing, M.2 is a form factor.
The Ryzen lineup comes with surprisingly good stock coolers. consider using them over any <$30 cooler.
>>61412812
Is it worth the extra $30 to get a modular gold power supply?
>>61422893
Depends on how heavily you use your computer (& at what load)
If you use it a real lot and do gaming stuff (so uses a lot of both CPU and GPU) so 2 - 3 hours a day at least then yeah definitely, very worth in the long run
Otherwise not so much, but getting a good/better PSU never really hurt anyone
>>61422836
I need a graphics card that is somewhat Ok that I can put in my dell optiplex 755 without exploding my PSU. What should I use. Pls repond.
best free video editor? avidemux is gay sometimes and can only cut on I frames
>>61422806
just torrent sony vegas like everyone else
>>61422806
http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/
https://www.shotcut.org/
blender is best but complicated
lwks.com
kdenlive
>tfw I finally realize that I mastered several programming languages, graduated from a top college with a major in CS, and am now working on a Phd in computational neuroscience all because I watched serial experiments lain as a kid and thought the aesthetic was cool
should I just end it?
Seems like a perfectly legitimate reason. At least you're doing something with your life.
>>61422729
only if that was true.
>>61422729
>tfw professional physicist because of the big bang theory
>Pixel-lets
enjoy your half hour battery
t. 720p X Compact
Perfection
>>61422707
I can blurrily upscale my shit too.
ITT: People in tech you hate most.
I begin.
>>61422696
that bitch got ALOT of accounts of mine stolen and if it werent for my paranoia she would have also had my entire bank account drained.
I hope this ho gets the shit beat out of her.
The pajeets ruining windows
>>61422115
vote
so far most of /g/ want them gone. Just unclear how to deal with them.
discussions should retain in the other thread, i'm just here to get a stronger userbase to participate. Feel free to bump every ~10 minutes.
>>61422638
It amazes me that you people keep pretending that this board has anywhere even close to the traffic that would make these generals become a problem. What the fuck is the problem with having threads dedicated to all kinds of issues about a subject instead of having 4579631289456710329847213984 threads asking the exact same fucking thing?
>>61422880
it's right there >>>/r/unixporn
>>61422638
why in the world would we not keep generals
Do programming books help a lot more than going through YouTube tutorials?
I'm learning C++ again so I can understand it my own way (the university materials are dogshit, honestly) I was wondering what books would /g/ recommend that would be good for a beginner to learn from, preferably with some exercises?
I've heard pic related was good but I'm unsure or would YouTube be > than books.
No shit it's better. More efficient. What do you do if you have to repeat some part of a video you didn't understand? Rewind and go over and over? Plus some pajeet might be teaching you and you won't even know it. Use videos to supplement a good book.
We used C++ Primer 5th edition by Lippman in uni. I see it highly recommended, and I thought it was a good book. Covers a lot of c++11 stuff.
>>61422575
>programming
>video tutorials
Please stop programming right now.
>>61422758
Thanks I'll look into that book. Sadly my lecturer didn't recommend jack shit for books so I've been forced since the beginning to find them.
Also did you have prior experience before using that book? Or complete beginner?
>>61422819
lol fuck off
What is the best way of converting lots of video to x265?
Does someone make a dedicated hardware encoder that does it faster/higher quality than a pc would?
I was considering getting one of these to do the job.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2017-Big-promotion-Core-i7-7500U-7th-Gen-Kaby-Lake-Mini-pc-Windows-10-TV-Box/32788377531.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.2.mMVLFP&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10152_10065_10151_10068_10130_10209_10192_10190_10301_10137_10303_10060_10155_438_10154_10056_10055_10054_10059_100031_10099_10103_10102_10052_10053_10142_10107_10050_10051_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10179_10182_10184_10078_10079_10210_10073_5360020_10189,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_2&btsid=0c471993-66f4-433a-bc4a-9b3e7daf4146&algo_expid=b044f799-c411-4831-8ac0-793c753f04d6-0&algo_pvid=b044f799-c411-4831-8ac0-793c753f04d6
While Kaby Lake processors can do hardware-based h.265 encoding now, it's not nearly as good quality wise as using x265 itself - even at the highest quality settings with Intel's QuickSync h.265 encoder you'll get results that pale in comparison to what x265 is capable of.
Sad but true, unfortunately, and even with a Kaby Lake CPU + x265 that means great quality encodes but a lot of time since x265 is basically the reference software encoder at this point.
Hardware-based encoding will just not match what x265 can accomplish for visual quality.
>>61422565
>While Kaby Lake processors can do hardware-based h.265 encoding now,
Nvidia and AMD GPUs can do it just fine for a longer while now too.
Quicksync improves with generations. It only got comparable results to x264 with the 4the generation. Basically expect to wait 3-4 years worth of products to get anything good hardware wise. Use x264 which for anything but sub-1mbps is still more useful than x265.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
Work gave me an iPhone.
6s
128gb
Verizon
4gb per month data limit
Can't root it because Citrix.
What should I do with it?
What must have apps do I need?
I've been finding using this thing very awkward. It's literally so my team can reach me.
First thing is to take off that stupid fucking condom. What's awkward about it? If you use it for text + phone + web browsing, it's great with top notch user experience. Autocorrect is miles ahead of Android. If you want to tinker or ssh into something, go use your Android phone.
>>61422434
>I've been finding using this thing very awkward.
why is that?
>>61422434
>rooting a iDevice
Please visit www.apple.com or search a nearby Apple store to get help from one of our Geniuses.
In case of 3rd party solutions we will abduct you to a black market where you will get your kidneys removed and your face stuck to some guys defecing organ pretending to be a centipede.
You have read our terms and agree to every command we tell you and you wil need to convert into a faggot*
*For selected regions it wil be preinstalled by your carrier, visit apple.com/selected for more information.
So I uninstalled Store using powershell because it was taking up memory but it still appears in my start menu and still works fine. Why didn't it get removed?
>>61422329
Install Gentoo
>>61422341
Fuck off
>>61422329
I removed Windows10 because ad popped up on grove music player. But I want to use Windows10 again, is there an ad free version of it without the registery tweaks which doesn't work anyway?
I dont even mind using Edge, I just hate the god damn internal ads. It is worst than what google has done with android.
Will real-time imageboards like chanpink be the end of sites like 4fun and 8fun?
>real time
Isn't it just an instant messaging/chatroom thing then? I mean, what's the point? Discord already exists, as does IRC.
>>61421735
Irc and discord don't have threads.
I guess it's like opening a new channel for each new thread.
>>61421707
IRC protocol with image display is all we need, MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
So a while back I decided the C++ project I'm working on should really be using fixed size integers. I settled for changing
>typedef unsigned uint
to
>typedef uint_fast32_t uint
I can't remember if that type actually guarantees a size of 32, but it didn't work with GCC regardless, uint was already typedefed and I couldn't find any way to change it.
What most people really want is i32 and u32, and this minor design flaw (imho) was enough to give me the itch we all get occasionally to find a replacement for C++.
So I'm reading through the Rust documentation and decided I'd enjoy posting my comments here and seeing what people have to say, since I don't have any programming friends.
> Cargo qua build system
THANK. FUCKING. GOD. Writing page long build scripts really is a waste of time.
> Cargo qua directory convention
Also seems pretty nifty, but I'm not completely sold yet.
> static linking by default
You can fuck right off with this one. That's some stupid shit right there.
> Bounds checking
At least in the basic documentation, it's not nearly clear enough how much of this is kept in the release executable, or how to control whether it's on or off. I like the idea, but defer judgement until I understand exactly what it's doing.
> scalar typenames
Once again: THANK.FUCKING.GOD.
> declaration syntax
Seems verbose. I prefer mutable default to constant default.
> Use of semicolon for expression vs. statement
I like it. Seems a tad clearer.
> Optional return keyword
Very obnoxious and hurts readability.
> Parens not needed around if condition
Awesome, less pointless typing.
> Macros end with !
This might be my favorite thing about the whole language. Macros are awesome for writing concise, DRY, code, but not marking them explicitly make creating refactoring tools harder, and hurts readability.
> == for equality comparison
WHY??? FUCKING WHY??? Am I the only one who still constantly writes "if x = y" on accident even after years of programming?
Shut the fuck up with your meme language for noobs.
>>61421592
Shitty argument. C++ has tons of cruft and flaws, and no one has made a better language yet.
If you aren't interested in that happening, then you're a noob who has never tried writing a complex enough piece of software to want compile time reflection or a variadic function.
It appears this board no longer has even remotely competent programmers, just faggot children whining about their gaming keyboards. What a shame.
Linux font rendering. Not even once.
>>61421475
That's worse than normal but yeah Linux font rendering is terrible in general. Most of the time the font barely even resembles the original design.
xubuntu doesn't have this problem
Is Chromium really better than Chrome?
better at what
>>61421258
nah
in terms of tracking and botnets, its a little bit better, but it doesnt really matter because it calls home anyway
youd be better off avoiding all google products
its a nightly build without tracking, thats it.
Stop hating me.
fuck off Lennart
>bug status
>closed
>tfw i actually like systemd, it makes managing my systems a bit easier than separate init scripts would, and it has never caused me any major trouble but i still shill against it on /g/ because im afraid of getting bullied
s-sorry buddy