redpill me on cryptocurrency /g/, is it profitable to mine cryptocurrency or is it just an overpriced meme
>>59233256
No it's not, but if you have nothing better to do it can be.
You're a few years too late to mine Bitcoin.
>>59233277
i was thinking along the lines of Litecoin and Ethereum
/g/ before Ryzen launch
>lol gayman
>only manchilds care about gaymen
>>> /v/
/g/ after Ryzen launch
>LEL RYZEN SUCKS FOR 1080P GAMING
>AMD BANKRUPT & FINISHED
>INTEL IS THE BEST
you fucking shilling hypocrites
AMD fanboys on /g/ before Ryzen launch
>RYZEN WILL BEAT INTEL IN EVERYTHING
>BEST GAMING CPU EVER
AMD fanboys on /g/ after Ryzen launch
>lol gayman
>only manchilds care about gaymen
>>> /v/
fify
>>59233244
I'm so sorry. I've disgraced myself and failed my civic duty to treat AMD fairly and with respect.
I'll go buy an RX 480 and commit suicide by inhaling fumes from my burning PCIe slot right away.
>>59233244
Here's the timeline
My bag carrying my asus laptop fell from my shoulder and when I took it out it later at college, it gave out a weird sound which eventually went away when I shook it a little. I bought it in September.
Now I could get it repaired but should I wipe it before handing it over to the people who repair it? Is it risky? I've downloaded a lot of memes and anime pictures from this site and it would be dangerous in the wrong hands right?
>>59233223
if you're that desperate justremove the disk before sending it in
>>59233223
>before sending it for repairs
>not repairing yourself
out, now
>>59233223
That's why you always use full-disk encryption.
This thread is for the discussion of anything regarding web browsers and search engines.
Let's see which web browser is the most popular on /g/ :
https://www.strawpoll.me/12460246
You can select multiple browsers.
If you selected "Other", be sure to tell us here which one you use.
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>>59049588
>>59233214
First for Opera
Also, anybody have that image of a quick rundown of the classification of these browsers.
>>59233214
cyberfox master race reporting in
pale meme, wetfox, ff niggerly can btfo
google chrome backup, appcontainer enabled for extra security
>>59233267
What's the difference between Cyberfox and Waterfox?
Is Cyberfox good on Linux?
why are normies using this discord thingy? it's like everyone decided overnight to use discord.
can't they just use free software? does it really always need to be proprietary malware?
Discord gave people what they wanted:
Gratis software to chat with their friends (voice and text) in superior audio quality compared to Skype without the need to setup or rent a server. It even has meme friendly features and chat commands. It became the 'app' the cool kids use.
>Why are they using things that just werks instead of spending time issuing open sores?
Discord is the Overwatch of VOIP programs. Keeps normies/retards at bay, so all you have to do to not deal with them is use a superior program.
>be it student at univ
>decide to join a workshop on ethical hacking
>pretty excited, learn using nmap, netcat, socket programming in C, using Wireshark, and simple JavaScript injections. Research on SQLinjections but can't learn anything from the limited time
>attend workshop, it's all about using metasploit
>join workshop on microcontrollers
>pretty excited, learn AVR ASM and C, plus 8052 ASM and C. Make lots of cool stuff, learn to use JHD162 LCD, ADC, UART and shit in both C and ASM (not much of a difference in concepts, just saying)
>workshop is only about programming Arduinos to blink LEDs and display your name on an LCD using their premade library
Why are tech related workshops in univs so shit? You cannot ever find a workshop that teaches anything above the absolute bare minimum. They don't reach anything that you can't learn yourself.
I feel so fucking ripped off when I pay for these
>>59233097
Workshops like that tend to be for non-CS/CE majors.
>>59233097
Seek out the seminars and workshops with the fewest participants.
They tend to be the most interesting.
My most fun workshop had 3 participants, plus the PhD researcher.
This allows you to go more in depth.
>>59233097
University is only useful to get the piece of paper that prevents your application from being trashed by HR. You should only bother attending classes on the day there are exams.
Never give the user what they want.
They don't know what they want.
That's why they're users, not developers.
realy makes me think
t. Microsoft
>>59233045
>>59233297
this, to be honest
So, what do you use your home server for, senpai?
Do you prefer low-power servers or full-blown racks?
>>59232935
Looks nice. Specs?
>>59232953@Thor:~$ screenfetch; df-h
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/dev/dm-2 12G 6.3G 5.7G 53% /
/dev/sdb1 226M 42M 181M 19% /boot
/dev/sda1 193G 146G 47G 76% /data2
/dev/mapper/data_crypt 917G 224G 694G 25% /data
/dev/mapper/backup_crypt 267G 17G 250G 7% /backup
There is also a 16GB SSD under the right HDD. Plus wifi card, 2xUSB 3.0 ports.
posting
What is the equivalent to this in terms of sound quality, huge storage, price and most importantly, battery life?
I've had mine for about 10 years now, and it has served me great, but it's starting to give out. Only half the HDD is able to read/write now, battery life has decreased significantly but other than that still plays tunes like noones business.
I could get another 120 Classic, but they're much more expensive since getting discontinued. So what should I be looking at for a good quality, long battery life portable music player?
>>59232906
Some Fiio shit
>>59232906
>bump for interest
Mine's been with me since high school, which was well over 15 years ago. Fucker's still ticking along pleasantly.
I had issues with it years back where it would randomly shut off, the entire HDD would wipe and I'd lose my music, the computer wouldn't recognise it and I had the battery issue too. That's probably cause by having shit music on there around that time, because I don't have any of these problems any more.
Keep seeding ratio cuck, edition.
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>>59232838
Cheating OP
>qbittorrent 3.3.11
whacc ass versioning
switching to deluge
I hate almost all software. It’s unnecessary and complicated at almost every layer. At best I can congratulate someone for quickly and simply solving a problem on top of the shit that they are given. The only software that I like is one that I can easily understand and solves my problems. The amount of complexity I’m willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved.
In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It’s a beautiful idea. This is not however what we interact with. The complexity was not contained. Instead I deal with DBus and /usr/lib and Boost and ioctls and SMF and signals and volatile variables and prototypal inheritance and C99FEATURES_ and dpkg and autoconf.
Those of us who build on top of these systems are adding to the complexity. Not only do you have to understand $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make your system work but now you have to understand $NODE_PATH too - there’s my little addition to the complexity you must now know! The users - the one who just want to see a webpage - don’t care. They don’t care how we organize /usr, they don’t care about zombie processes, they don’t care about bash tab completion, they don’t care if zlib is dynamically linked or statically linked to Node. There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed. We can flush boost and glib and autoconf down the toilet and never think of them again.
>>59232749
Stop using 4chan, it's software as well.
>>59232749
Sounds like apple would be just right for you.
>>59232894
Every Apple device is running a shitty Unix knock-off that is just as bas as Linux or FreeBSD. Every modern Unix is amateur garbage made of poo and duct tape.
So tell me, why in the world did laptop designers agree that touchpad below keyboard was in any way a good idea?
>>59232710
its not a good idea in anyway .. thats why nobody does it
its a niche meme product
>>59232710
>touchpad
I don't have this problem.
because your thumbs rest there and you don't have to move your hand 6 inches every timr you want to move the mouse
AMD's John Taylor had this to say:
"As we presented at Ryzen Tech Day, we are supporting 300+ developer kits with game development studios to optimize current and future game releases for the all-new Ryzen CPU. We are on track for 1000+ developer systems in 2017. For example, Bethesda at GDC yesterday announced its strategic relationship with AMD to optimize for Ryzen CPUs, primarily through Vulkan low-level API optimizations, for a new generation of games, DLC and VR experiences.
Oxide Games also provided a public statement today on the significant performance uplift observed when optimizing for the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 CPU design - optimizations not yet reflected in Ashes of the Singularity benchmarking. Creative Assembly, developers of the Total War series, made a similar statement today related to upcoming Ryzen optimizations.
CPU benchmarking deficits to the competition in certain games at 1080p resolution can be attributed to the development and optimization of the game uniquely to Intel platforms - until now. Even without optimizations in place, Ryzen delivers high, smooth frame rates on all "CPU-bound" games, as well as overall smooth frame rates and great experiences in GPU-bound gaming and VR. With developers taking advantage of Ryzen architecture and the extra cores and threads, we expect benchmarks to only get better, and enable Ryzen excel at next generation gaming experiences as well.
Game performance will be optimized for Ryzen and continue to improve from at-launch frame rate scores."
Two game developers also chimed in.
Oxide Games, creators of the Nitrous game engine that powers Ashes of the Singularity:
"Oxide games is incredibly excited with what we are seeing from the Ryzen CPU. Using our Nitrous game engine, we are working to scale our existing and future game title performance to take full advantage of Ryzen and its 8-core, 16-thread architecture, and the results thus far are impressive. These optimizations are not yet available for Ryzen benchmarking. However, expect updates soon to enhance the performance of games like Ashes of the Singularity on Ryzen CPUs, as well as our future game releases." - Brad Wardell, CEO Stardock and Oxide
And Creative Assembly, the creators of the Total War Series and, more recently, Halo Wars 2:
"Creative Assembly is committed to reviewing and optimizing its games on the all-new Ryzen CPU. While current third-party testing doesn't reflect this yet, our joint optimization program with AMD means that we are looking at options to deliver performance optimization updates in the future to provide better performance on Ryzen CPUs moving forward. "
>>59232604
"JUST WAIT" is AMD's official slogan
I wonder if their shill partner companies like Oxide optimize for 8 cores, or they force 8 cores, meaning if they are slower than doing what they do at the GPU level but make it so that it must use 99 cores so they make AMD look good.
I fail to see how Ryzen 1700/1800 is bad for gaming. We have seen 1080p review from Joker with ultra settings where Ryzen 3.9Ghz was on par with Intel's i7 7700K 5Ghz, using freaking GTX1080, but people said that top of the line GPU is bottlenecking, and it did... But it is exactly a real word example of what people would do. Hell, most of GTX1080 users will probably use higher resolution even where difference in FPS will be literally negligible. Some people will say "but muh future CPU bottleneck will arrive sooner with Ryzen if i purchase a much faster GPU than GTX1080, which wont bottleneck at 1080p anymore, because 720p test shows that the game logic is slower on AMD side!" Lets be real here. What are chances we get something THAT much faster than GTX1080 any time soon? What are chances that you will still play on 1080p resolution with that freaking new GPU? What are chances that AMD wont benefit in the future from so much coars and its new architecture compared to current Intel's lead in non-GPU bottlenecked situations? Pretty fucking slim. "Ryzen is bad for gaming" meme makes no sense to me.
>>59232558
All you need is one chart, this is an average of 14 games
It's truly horrible when you take price into account, a $240 Intel CPU beats a $500 Ryzen CPU
>>59232558
>overclocked 1700
>power consumption 150W higher
>still gets loses to the 7700k anyway
>in literally the only single benchmark so far where Ryzen doesn't get utterly crushed by Intel
Yeah it certainly isn't a bad cpu for gaming.
>AMDrones will defend this
Why did AMD decide to market Ryzen 7 towards the fucking gaming market when its real strength is in workstation/content creation workloads?
Cause the gaming market is bigger.
Because it's better to test your virgin silicon on a bunch of losers and not companies that can fuck you over with an army of lawyers
>>59232521
Because AMD are scam artists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7UBHjtCXhU&feature=youtu.be&t=1264