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i use TPB and utorrent, how retarded am i? quick tips for improvement? pls

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thoughts on the dell xps 13 9350? I plan to use it for school, a lot of programming with the use of VMs, and light vidya and general internet shit.

I like my current chinkpad x220 for school and programming, it works fine but with 4gb of ram it makes it difficult to work on large projects, and although portable the battery only lasts 4 hours. It's served it's purpose but now that I can afford a higher end laptop with a student discount I'm looking for something that will last for the next 5 years.

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TOP KEK. They finally sent it

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Is this enough thermal paste for a gaming rig?

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Shut the fuck up, you niggers. Do you honestly think you can see the difference between 273 fps and 267 fps? Are you all really this retarded?

The 1800X is a perfectly good gaming processor. It's a few frames behind the 7700, but at that frames, it doesn't matter anyway. Please don't be this retarded.

The 1800X is much better at other things that any computer user would do too - like encryption/decryption, compression/decompression, and so on. Like, orders of magnitude better.

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What went wrong?

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Dear Windows users of /g/,

Hello. This is not a troll post. It will look and read like one though.

If you cannot pull up a functional (read: UNIX) terminal on your operating system, it is a bad operating system. The command prompt is not a terminal. Powershell is not a terminal.

If you are sitting on your Windows computer and thinking that cmd.exe is anywhere at all near the same level as a UNIX terminal and you just haven't "gone deeper" yet, let me tell you that you have not "gone deeper" because there is no "deeper". If you were on a good operating system, with access to a good terminal, you might actually learn how to program or how computers work rather than just playing with your glorified gaming console.

There are programmers that use Windows, and there are methods of getting a decent terminal on the operating system (Cygwin, VM with GNU/Linux, ssh to a GNU/Linux server, etc). I am telling you now though, if you are of the mindset that Windows alone is the almighty power-user system, you are not correct and you really owe it to yourself to see the other side of the fence.

Ask anyone who programs: a UNIX terminal is clutch in so many ways. I find my Android phone to be a more useable environment for programming than an unconfigured Windows computer.

If you've tried GNU/Linux and backed down because things just kept "breaking", simply download the latest Ubuntu or CentOS and give it a go again. There is a learning curve, but you will come through enlightened.

And yes, I realize using words like enlightened makes this sound silly. It isn't though, it is very serious. Hopefully the comments aren't a shit show.

Sincerely,
OP

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what did they mean by this?

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What are you working on, /g/?

Old thread: >>59222230

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>macOS
Pros:
>special attention paid to UX engineering and design
>less buttons to click to perform common tasks
>UNIX based with full coreutils and proprietary software support
>comes with botnet stuff (Siri, Apple apps, iTunes) if you want to use it, can be disabled easily
>software developed for it feels more polished because of Apple's strict UI/UX guidelines
>Genius Bar support for free unless its a hardware issue
>a few games available
Cons:
>locked down so you can't really go against the grain with it
>restrictive hardware options
>no built in package manager (might also be a pro depending on your views)
>some parts feel childish on the surface, but still retain the advanced options beneath the surface

>Windows
Pros:
>25+ years of backwards compatibility
>largest software library available
>games
Cons:
>viruses
>malware
>hacking countermeasures standard in other OSes are either missing or gimped to death
>hardware is very much "you get what you pay for"
>professional support is spotty and subcontracted to death
>driver quality is random as fuck
>botnet can't be turned off easily

>Linux
Pros:
>free as in beer/freedom
>little to no botnet
>all OS level APIs are available to program with, so you get amazing software capabilities
Cons:
>only indie games
>GUI APIs differ dramatically depending on what DE you're using
>driver quality is up to whichever NEET is reverse engineering your hardware
>most software companies don't publish on it out of fear of piracy
>the userbase has the highest shitposting and cancer ratios of modern computing

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>All the men are using Macbooks and all the women are using Thinkpads

What do you think the reason for this is?

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Anyone else still have a 390?

I got this on launch day and I feel like I really should have waited for the 400 series to come out

At least driver updates have improved performance somewhat

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/g/, Is there a reason why I should not use Google?

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Why does Windows 10 UI look like something that a teenager threw up together in Powerpoint or Visio in 20 minutes? it looks downright childish.

What were they thinking???

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It's over.

>In regards to gaming ASUS in particular, and MSI to some extent. It explains why reviewers such as Joker, Crit, UFDiciple, and TechDeals had far better gaming performance.

>Golem.de in Germany had this to say in regards to their MSI motherboard.

https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...ndlich-zurueck-1703-125996-4.html&prev=search

>The MSI board was delivered with BIOS version 113, until last Friday a new one appeared.

>Version 117, which is still up-to-date, improved speed and stability. If we were still able to count on sporadic Bluescreens with the older UEFI, the board is currently stable. Much more important, however, is the drastically higher performance in games and the real pack with 7-Zip. The release notes include, among other things, a fixed problem with the memory act and its timing as well as the voltage.

>Compared to the original bios, the new UEFI increases the image rate in our game course between plus 4 and plus 26 percent, on the average even plus 17 percent!


https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/official-amd-ryzen-benchmarks-reviews-prices-and-discussion.2499879/page-121#post-38773304


Left to do
>fix SMT (Microsoft?)
>fix CCX utilization