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IRC: #/tpg/ on irc.rizon.net
Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (e.g. Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).
New to /tpg/ or looking for purchasing advice? (hint: use the advice request template, it makes life easier)
http://pastebin.com/JiXZ2f0t
Used ThinkPad buyers guide:
http://ktgee.net/tpg
xsauc buyers guide:
http://www.dankpads.com
EPP discount for new ThinkPads (USA & Canada only, usually 15%+ off):
http://pastebin.com/JVwVGVTW
Helpful links and resources (Wiki, lookup tools and wallpapers):
http://pastebin.com/DYjEnVq1
If you're looking for purchase advice, READ THE BUYERS GUIDE FIRST. Then post, stating budget and requirements (e.g. size and performance).
Don't buy anything OTHER THAN T, X AND W/P SERIES if you want the Real ThinkPad Experience™
Recommended models:
T420 - 14", normal size
X220 - 12.5", ultraportable
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Why ThinkPad? (also applies to other business laptops)
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap.
>Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet.
>Great durability: chassis uses a magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels.
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models.
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop.
>Easy to repair, upgrade and maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model. Spare parts are easy and cheap to obtain.
>The best trackpoint (that red thing in the middle of the keyboard). Great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad.
>Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support.
2nd for T60/T61 Frankenpad.
The closest thing you can get to a real ThinkPad that's still usable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m74otZqd2Y
daily reminder that Windows 10 runs smoothly on the x220.
Whats the best anti virus for a laptop? Most cost 60 with similarities but i dont know which to get
>>59625175
was gonna say source the semen demon but i just image searched it and found it
malwarebytes anti-malware. free edition is fine. laptop makes no difference.
Windows Defender is all you need
Common Sense 2018 Professional
I type 100+ words a minute but I follow my own technique. Mistakes are rare but I do several at a time when it happens. Is there any hope for me to learn typing where I use the correct finger for each key or can I not unlearn what I do now?
>correct finger for each key
Not a thing
Can you do it? Yes, easily.
Will you do it? Probably not.
>>59624591
You can, but it will be a lot more difficult to re-train your brain than it would have been to just learn correctly in the first place.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware
>To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums.
>Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular because John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform "unauthorized" repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty and quite possibly an existential threat to their livelihood if their tractor breaks at an inopportune time.
>The nightmare scenario, and a fear I heard expressed over and over again in talking with farmers, is that John Deere could remotely shut down a tractor and there wouldn't be anything a farmer could do about it.
>A license agreement John Deere required farmers to sign in October forbids nearly all repair and modification to farming equipment, and prevents farmers from suing for "crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment … arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software." The agreement applies to anyone who turns the key or otherwise uses a John Deere tractor with embedded software. It means that only John Deere dealerships and "authorized" repair shops can work on newer tractors.
>Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.org, a trade organization fighting for right-to-repair legislation, noted that "some of our members have repeatedly attempted to buy the diagnostics that are referenced [from John Deere] and been rebuffed."
We already had this thread.
>be farmer
>harvesting crops
>tractor breaks down
>cant repair because of non-free firmware
botnet wants all of us to starve
why do tractors have computers? what's wrong with analog tractors?
"no"
>Encryption so safe that not even the intended recipient can decrypt it.
>>59622273
There's more to encryption than using it for communication.
In /csg/, we discuss the cheap shit you see on Gearbest, Taobao, AliExpress, Banggood, eBay and similar sites.
>IRC channel
https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=/csg/
#/csg/ on rizon
>Discord link
https://discord.gg/zP789wR
>Chink Shit Randomiser
http://chinkshit.xyz/random/
>Chink Shit Wiki
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Chink_shit_general
>Chink Shit Infographic v1.4
https://my.mixtape.moe/aijpuk.jpg
>Chink Shit Infographic "Eiaosi's a Shit Edition"
http://chinkshit.xyz/infographic.pdf
>News
• AliExpress 7th Anniversary Sale is now live, be on the look out for pricedrops and flash sales.
• Anon's weed is suspected to be mint >>59617266 >>59617295 stem is still small >>59619989
• Anon loved the Zircons so much he ordered a third pair >>59617313 doesn't overpay like the previous anon's mom >>59617378
• Anon gets a gag in the mail >>59617367
• Anon's Yenona Studio Pros >>59617501 had its channels reversed but they do sound good>>59617580
• Anon got black switches instead of blue, the seller is now asking him to do things through paypal instead of aliexpress >>59617787
• Anon considers stepping on the gas >>59617783
• Anon gets his chink shit fix >>59617872
• Anon was impressed with these headlight bulbs >>59618151 >>59618237
• Anon shows off a Browning replica and Nomos replica watch >>59618775
• Anon does a excellent review on the Ausdom S07 >>59619201 >>59619222
• Anon shares his haul >>59619551
• Anon gets a Mi Max, promises to do a review >>59619986
• Keypad shield ends up disappointing this anon >>59620078 >>59620144
• Anon receives a NBA Jersey >>59620437
>>59620458 >>59620478 shares the sellers Yupoo gallery >>59620617
Previous thread >>59617161
I'm buying a phone for the first time from aliexpress (zuk z2 -> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Succ-Z2/32757932145.html?)
What should I know before buying it? Like chink vendor roms, custom taxes...
>>59621313
>More News
• Stop Asking about fucking prices
https://flashdeals.aliexpress.com/en?spm=a2g01.8290004.vc881b9.12.TOJsj3&nextTime=true
>>59621300
Makes sense, but xiaomi still called the Note 4 and Mi 4 "4"
hiro allows one thread per board dedicated to board improvement. This place would be improved by banning reddit frogposters
>>59620481
Less consumerism. More actual tech talk ... like advanced topics.
This board would be improved by removing /bsg/, mechanical keyboard generals and other breeding grounds for homosexuality.
>>59620496
>advanced topics
We only have entry level trash and troll threads and the board are slow.
If we only had advanced topics then the board would be dead.
I would like a board filled with people with knowledge and brains, but I don't know how we can get there from here.
is Unity the best game engine ever made?
No
Unreal
No, redengine is.
Unity is good for the majority of people who develop games at a company that can't afford to make their own state of the art engine.
>Headphone purchase advice
http://pastebin.com/fYZLW7Ub
Please put some effort into your requests and questions.
If you dislike a suggestion, explain why and try giving a better suggestion to whomever asked.
For sub-$50 headphones and IEMs, check out infographic in >>>/g/csg
>/g/ wiki headphone FAQ:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Headphones
Previous thread: >>59606876
Anime is schiit
>>59620300
Etymotic research:
Are the budget mc5 good enough or should i dish out a bit more for hf5
Does anyone own either?
You know what to do.
>Headphone purchase advice
http://pastebin.com/fYZLW7Ub
Please put some effort into your requests and questions.
If you dislike a suggestion, explain why and try giving a better suggestion to whomever asked.
For sub-$50 headphones and IEMs, check out infographic in >>>/g/csg
>/g/ wiki headphone FAQ:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Headphones
Previous thread : >>59606876
What's with the sennheiser veil meme? I've used basically ever legit brand of headphone (sennheiser, audio technica, beyerdynamic, etymotic, AKG) and, ignoring the cheapo budget crap, sennheisers have the best sound out of any of them
Finally a /hpg/ that doesn't suck
Thanks for the non-anime op!
>>59620535
Maybe there can be two HPGs, one for NEET anime autists who listen to anime music and shitpost, and one for normies with jobs
>Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life
SJWs strike again.
>Last week the Drupal community erupted in anger after its leader, Dries Buytaert, asked Larry Garfield, a prominent Drupal contributor and long-time member of the Drupal and PHP communities, "to leave the Drupal project." Buytaert claims he did this "because it came to my attention that he holds views that are in opposition with the values of the Drupal project." A huge furor has erupted in response -- not least because the reason clearly has much to do with Garfield's unconventional sex life. [Garfield is into BDSM, and is a member of the Gorean community, "a community who are interested in, and/or participate in, elaborate sexual subjugation fantasies, in which men are inherently superior to women."] Buytaert made his post (which is now offline) in response after Larry went public, outing himself to public opinion.
Fuck everything about this. PHP "community" is even worst than those leftist SJW communists at Rust.
>>59619781
4chan is powered by PHP
>>59619781
>degenerate sado kicked off team
Good.
Because the PHP community consists of about 30 users
>cmd pops up for a split second and disappears
>svchost.exe
>disk spins up for no reason
>printer starts making noises in middle of the night
(Hypothetically) sell me on either 7700k or Ryzen.
>>59611190
(literally) read reviews and kys you kissless virgin faggot.
Just wait for the 1600X. It'll have 6 cores and the best single-threaded performance AMD will offer this year.
>>59611190
extremely easy choice
are you a gaymen fag? get an i3 7350k and gtfo >>>/v/
will you use you pc for something that will use more than 8 threads? get the ryzen
This is the current state of web development.
https://github.com/verekia/js-stack-from-scratch/blob/master/tutorial/05-redux-immutable-fetch.md#redux
This is almost like those "enterprise java fizzbuzzes" that people used to make fun off, except nobody's laughing and this is all considered serious and well engineered code design.
How the fuck did this happen?
pajeets
>>59609146
what's your criticism, exactly?
This is a result of the web being a terrible platform to develop for. So you need a bunch of polyfill libraries to support legacy browers and enhancing the underpowered styling language and a "framework" to gloss over the details of the shitty way the browser renders it's layout.
plus a live reload server so you can save and see your results.
FAQ
>What is TempleOS?
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7yvaGN0ZU [Embed] [Embed] --TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, SparrowOS and LoseThos) is a biblical themed lightweight operating system created over the span of a decade by programmer Terry A. Davis.
>How did TempleOS start?
Development for TempleOS began in 2003 after Davis suffered from a series of manic episodes that left him briefly hospitalized for mental health issues.
Davis is a former atheist who believes that he can "talk with God" and that God told him the operating system he built was God's official temple. According to Davis TempleOS is of 'Divine' intellect due to the inspired nature of the code. According to Davis, God said to create the operating system with 640x480, 16 colors display and a single audio voice. The operating system was coded in a programming language developed by Davis in C/C++ called "HolyC". The OS runs a file system called "Red Sea".
>What can TempleOS do?
TempleOS deliberately has no network support. It runs 8-bit ASCII with graphics in source code and has a 2D and 3D graphics library, which run at 640x480 VGA with 16 colors. The OS contains numerous embedded biblical references including a program called AfterEgypt which allows users to "communicate with God" through an oracle.
USEFUL LINKS
Official website: http://templeos.org/
Download TempleOS: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/DownloadOS.html#l1
Blog: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/DailyBlog.html#l1
NOTABLE QUOTES FROM TERRY
>I wrote a fucken compiler. Linus has not finished his compiler yet and suffers humiliation from Stallman.
>Yeah, I killed a CIA nigger with my car in 1999. Score one for the good guys.
>My job is to hunt CIA niggers.
>Bill gates and the illuminati got a herd of nigger cattle
>I don't know why the liberals don't allow beastiality
>I liked the previous bird, I hated this bird
>God knows Perfect Justice
>>59606370
>mfw for months I assumed Terry was some /g/ approved YouTuber or something like that
>finally decide to watch one of his videos
>it's fucking garbage
>see other videos on the channel
>they're all the same
>this guy literally streams every day for many hours, coding in his retarded OS or watching retarded YT videos or reading retarded chat on his live stream
>>59606749
what in the name of god did you just say about terry?
>>59606370
I used to pity Terry, then I realize I was more like him than I thought