Why do you care about the number of packages and memory usage so much? Do you guys do anything else than screenfetch on your virtual machines and play video games on Windows 10? Every damn Arch user seems to have ~800 packages installed and use the lightest WM available and once they see a picture of someone else having +1000 packages or using an actual DE they lose their shit because Xfce uses 50MB more RAM than their dumb masochist WM. It's 2017 and you have at least 8GB of RAM, who the fuck cares about ~50MB.
>>62322681
>Why do you care about the number of packages and memory usage so much?
I don't
>Do you guys do anything else than screenfetch on your virtual machines and play video games on Windows 10?
I spend most of may day in programming. Gaming is a shitty, unproductive distraction. Also, I don't use windows since 2013
>Every damn Arch user seems to have ~800 packages installed and use the lightest WM available and once they see a picture of someone else having +1000 packages or using an actual DE they lose their shit because Xfce uses 50MB more RAM than their dumb masochist WM. It's 2017 and you have at least 8GB of RAM, who the fuck cares about ~50MB.
What they don't realize is that if you have a working WM, a panel, a session manager and a file manager you already have a DE. DE is everything you want it to be.
>>62322681
Go to hell WinFag.
>>62322815
>What they don't realize is that if you have a working WM, a panel, a session manager and a file manager you already have a DE. DE is everything you want it to be.
Everyone keeps saying this but every time I try to switch to a WM, configuring my complicated audio/video setup is pain and I'm also lacking accessibility features like easy keyboard configuration. I need to plug & unplug a shit ton of displays and audio devices (inputs & outputs) on a daily basis and a fully-featured DE makes this much easier.
>bought computer case for $200 last summer then moved to another country for work
>move back home
>see new compute case that looks better and would match guts with temper glass to show
What do? Spend another $150 or just use the old one? The current one I have is FT02 by Silverstone.
>>62322469
>Spending over $50 on a case
>>62322469
kill yourself
1st world problem
Specs > looks
Help me pick a DNS.
>OpenDNS
>Google DNS
>NTT (based Nippon?)
Babby who just discovered what DNS is here. Default ISP one is shit, I can't even load my own website. Probably spying and/or censorship been going on all this time too. Namebench says the abovementioned 3 are the best for me, all 40-50% faster. Which should I choose and why?
>>62322335
http://www.orsn.org/en/tech/pubdns/
you're welcome
>>62322335
>Namebench
unmaintained and largely irrelevant in the current year. You won't notice 0.00002 ms lags and moreover DNS requests are cached no matter your underlying OS and setup. What matters from a client perspective is just that your DNS won't be either filtered or snooped on.
Your own unbound resolver configured to query root DNS servers.
Just watched this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ&index=1&list=FLbt8HQLdqMdy2tKsIE64NkA
And I was wondering what potential uses could hidden instructions have for security of data? Could you syphon data out of your cpu cache to the internet, right?
>>62322223
Yeah, but there is more to that than just NSA spying. There are hundreds of undocumented features and I don't think you need that many for surveillance, which makes me wonder: What are those for exactly?
>>62322223
>22223
so close
>>62322278
Maybe it's just hardware crust. Remaints of a prototype? They don't have to be all malicious, come could be just useless due to human error.
What went so wrong?
>when some people can't tell the difference of a hyperlink and formatted text
>even obscure japanese websites you got off of google maps are more aesthetically pleasing than google
sad
>tfw spent the whole day shitposting on 4chan instead of doing something productive tech related
>tfw you could have mastered several languages by now
>>62322183
>tfw beginner in programming trying to make k&r exercises for a week, still didnt got past the first chapter yet
it looks like a tutorial, but it expects me to count characters and shit inside a string using its retarded pointers
>>62322267
>Each row is 36 months = 3 years
so what are the columns
Do you use a VPN?
I use my work's VPN when I work from home
for private use, no, I don't
I use ProtonVPN's free VPN, because why not?
Yes
(for piracy, but almost all website including 4chan Netflix and Crunchyroll block VPN access, encouraging me to pirate even more)
When did you realize that Linux is for tryhard babies and is simply useless for desktops?
>>62322177
When I got 100 shekels in the mail to write an article about how bad it is
been using it for years, couldnt imagine using anything else.
10sec desktop boot time. so productive with a tiled window manager. love the command line with scripting/aliases.
i feel nauseous using windows when the less tech inclined need help installing something.
has programming penguin ever been more btfo besides this infamous incident?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABM8RTVYaVw
Are you using one? This is a dedicated thread where you can shill for yours as best you can.
Currently: Opera (free vpn, fastest adblocking w/ picrel, aak works out of the box too)
Previous memes I've fallen for:
ungoogled-chromium - still using it for sensitive stuff
Vivaldi - very nice customization in the spirit of old opera, but very slow (nodejs app) and buggy as fuck
Yandex - kinda vanilla chrome clone, literal russian botnet, neat looking ui, of particular note is dnscrypt (which points to some russian botnet by default tho)
Brave - slow, ugly theme, the only thing going for it is that it is semi-opensource (is there an unbranded version somewhere?)
Browsers not based on chromium or perhaps firefox codebases don't qualify as those can't run the basic extensions one needs to view modern webshit
>>62322482
qutebrowser, for a longer while now.
not even shilling, if you like highly configurable keyboard driven software, it will be right up your alley.
>>62322711
See
>Browsers not based on chromium or perhaps firefox codebases don't qualify as those can't run the basic extensions one needs to view modern webshit
That's the second league of qtwebkit/webkitgtk non-browsers. I quite fancied Otter browser (clone of old opera feel). Note that this group is *very* huge (there are about 20 active projects), as those canned layout engines are fairly easy to use and self-contained. The problem is simply that html layout engine and rudimentary js doesn't a browser make.
If you care only about keybindings, there's always vimium/vimperator for modern browsers. The link-key-anchor mode is especially useful rather than awkwardly trying to point trackpad there.
Palemoon- has most of muh extensions and didn't fucking drop ALSA support out of laziness
Qutebrowser- good browser with potential, wouldn't use it as a daily right now
Brave- decent on Android, shit on desktop
Give me a reason why Windows is better than Linux.
Hint: You can't.
>>62322146
My time isn't worthless.
>>62322146
It has better software compatibility coming from third parties because they was trained in school how to develop with MS only technologies, coupled with a relatively low marketshare they just will say that supporting linux is not worthy. Also most people learns Windows as if it were the way a computer should be used, so people is basically indoctrinated into using it from a young age. On top of that MS has deals with institutions and tries to be as incompatible as possible to make harder others to compete...
Otherwise honestly the cons of windows outweighs its good points, honestly the only reason why i would ever use windows over linux is if my work depends on a windows-only software. Otherwise i always prioritize multi-platform software.
>>62322179
>My time isn't worthless.
elaborate so we can discuss your reasons. Honestly for me linux has been practically maintenance-free compared to windows.
Why was this game so fucking good? The character felt so relatable and i genuinly got angry or happy or pumped up at certain parts of the game
>>62322101
go back to /v/ faggot
>>62322101
Kill alt-rightists is always satisfying.
>>62322127
the game teaches you that a nazi world is good
>moon base within 14 years of victory
So I just purchased pic related because I was entirely out of storage for my piracy. Previously I had a 2tb external for movies and a 3tb for tv. Do I combine everything onto this one? Between my computer storage and the old hard drives it'll pretty much fill this already.
I wanted to keep the 3tb hard drive around for spillover but it makes my autism go crazy that it wouldn't be together. It wasn't so bad before because the split was much more even between movies and t.v.
Am I overthinking this? How would you split it if you did?
>>62321631
>external hard drive
fuck off back to /b/ you stupid normie
>>62321649
I travel quite a bit so it just makes sense to go external. Plus I take them to my friends' houses.
>>62321631
Start deleting stuff you hated or downloaded >5 years ago and never watched.
School is starting in a few days and with a new school year comes a new attempt of creating a bearable setup on my laptop.
Last year I learned the hard way that Arch might not be the most suitable environment to use when you need shit to 'just work'.
I want something stable with most of the basics like wifi and bluetooth and audio preconfigured. Debian based would be cool, Still trying to find something as comfy as the AUR for quick and ez package management and installing.
Can anyone recommend me some distros?
>>62321609
>crying about Arch not being stable
>using the AUR
every fucking time
>>62321659
It's not that Arch isnt stable enough for me.
It's that you have to install everything, which is fine for wifi and pulse n shit, but when I'm at school and I need a vpn real quick I don't feel like researching the topic for 2 hours until I finally get it to work. That shit is fine on my desktop but cant have that at school
>>62321721
VPNs aren't something you just install, you need to connect to some server, which requires you to choose one which will take more time than installing the client software.
Okay smartasses.
See this fridge?
I think it's releasing some sort of emps i shit you not and i need your help.
I recently moved to the college dorms and since i don't have a laptop i took my PC with me.
And it just so happened that my table is near this fridge and whenever it starts/ends cooling it fucks up with my pc and i lose sound/keyboard/mouse for like 5 seconds.
I noticed that when i moved my PC a bit further away, everything comes back to normal faster, right now it's around 2 seconds.
How do i fix without moving my table?
>>62321612
oops wrong pic.
here it is.
>>62321612
¿que?
>>62321612
Put that thing in a faraday cage
What are your feature wishes for Win 11?
It's gonna come eventually.
>>62321505
I thought Windows 10 was the last version, as Windows switched to a service instead of a product.
>>62321505
Consistent UI + an option to completely disable (((telemetry))).
>>62321516
Yeah, there won't be a Windows 11.