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Whelp, I need a new laptop 2016-11-22 16:42:50 Post No.57633454
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Whelp, I need a new laptop
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hey /g/ please help me decide on a new notebook.
Currently I still have a Dell Latitude 6420 and while it is still plenty of fast for productivity, I love the keyboard, I love the super convenient docking station, but it weighs a ton. Like an actual ton (2,4kg or 5.3 lbs). Also it can't even run League of Legends.
Now I will have to go on business trips twice a year for a couple months and I will be staying in a hotel room in a questionable country, so I will be taking the laptop with me pretty much all the time and would really like to play some Rocket League and occasionally League of Legends in the evenings.
I'm sure a GTX 960M will be plenty so I figured I'd go with Dell XPS 15 (9550), since I could also get the thunderbolt dock and have a very similar experience to my aging Latitude.
Originally I liked the Asus Zenbook (UX501), but I don't think I'd like the glossy screen.
But now with the advent of desktop GPUs in notebooks, I could even play demanding games on something like the Asus RoG Strix GL502.
TL:DR: is it wasteful to get a 960m, when you could have a desktop 1060 instead? Asus GL502, Asus UX501 or Dell XPS 15? Which would you get and why?
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I hate that this one looks so much like gaming garbage.
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come on, some input please? I've been here forever giving useful advice and I get that it's not your favorite topic, but I can't decide.
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HOLl-EEEE SHIT HELP ME! PLZ 2016-11-22 16:41:22 Post No.57633443
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HOLl-EEEE SHIT HELP ME! PLZ
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2016-11-22 16:41:22
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So I'm a landlord right?
Just allowed for a Sysadmin to sublet one my rooms
Now get this, I use a VPN but don't really turn it on because all the IPs are usually blocked on here.
Is there anything else I should be worried about?
She looks like a sniffer! >.<
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what
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>>57633443
>he has herpes
>wears a shirt claiming a virus protection program can't protect you
love it.
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https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/11/21/calling-all-gilmore-girls-fans-binge-more-and-watch-in-4k-with-microsoft-edge/#wMMy31cIOqZj4S5Q.97
>Requires
>Intel 7th generation CPU (Kaby Lake)
>Microsoft Edge browser
>4K display
Seems like bullshit, if you have a 6700k and GTX 1080, no 4k netflix for you. You MUST have a kabylake CPU.
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>4k meme
or you could just pirate it
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>>57633437
yes
they're asking for piracy
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>>57633437
Sure but most people pay for netflix anyway, would be nice if I could watch 4k content with my GTX 1080 and 6700k since I dont plan on upgrading anytime soon.
Now im forced to pirate.
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Why do people worship this fatass?
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You will only know once you install gentoo
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>>57633335
Because in the IT area, freedom wise, he is the man.
How do you not get this, OP? Do you live under a rock?
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/g/ programmers' opinion on the best way to learn? 2016-11-22 16:29:20 Post No.57633290
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/g/ programmers' opinion on the best way to learn?
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2016-11-22 16:29:20
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Does /g/ agree that this is the only proper way to learn programming? I quote a post from stackexchange:
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accepted
I usually prescribe the same sequence for anyone who wants to learn programming. It's very theoretical, but it lays a good foundation. It should take three or four months of fulltime study, but programming isn't something you learn overnight.
>If you can't get through this sequence, you're not going to be able to program, so you might as well give up now.
>Code, by Charles Petzold.
>The C Programming Language, K&R
>The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson and Sussman.
The full post is here: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/96504/how-can-i-teach-a-bright-person-with-no-programming-experience-how-to-program
Is this really the best or the only way to learn?
Right now I'm learning C# directly, making small projects, basically learning by "trial and error"... but I'm thinking to stop it and follow this guy's advice.
Thoughts?
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>>57633290
>Does /g/ agree that this is the only proper way to learn programming?
No.
I oppose any statement claiming that there's only 1 true way for anything
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>>57633366
OK but what do you think about the value of going through those 3 books?
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>>57633290
>C#
DONOTDOTHIS
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Thinkpad X220 or T420? 2016-11-22 16:22:36 Post No.57633218
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Thinkpad X220 or T420? 2016-11-22 16:22:36 Post No.57633218
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I'm gonna get a thinkpad and I'm wondering if i should get the X220 or the T420. Which one would be the most bang for my buck?
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Used T420 off ebay. So cheap
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>>57633218
x220 for god tier battery life and portability, you can use m sata drive and standard hdd or ssd. Look for IPS screens only
t420 it's not bigger but makes up for a really nice/cheap desktop replacement and you can have two hdds. Also check on the screens. Both cases avoid TN panels like the fucking plague.
Both machines let you use eGPU if you need/want to.
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>>57633390
Not op but what is considered a decent price range for T420 with i5 and 1600x900 screen on ebay?
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my mousepad keeps getting kinda sweaty after awhile in the palm rest area, any way to circumvent this?
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longer sleeve shirts
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Go to the gym, you'll sweat less
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>>57633207
live in a hot place, just not possible, was thinking of using sweatbands for the wrist
>>57633228
I already go, a little
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>gentoo handbook
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wtf i hate gentoo now!!!
time to install solus
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What's the problem.
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>>57633144
>write acpi=on in boot options
you have hyperthreading
>write acpi=off in boot options
you dont have hyperthreading
>do not write either "acpi=on" or "acpi=off" in boot options
you still have hyperthreading
is this hard to comprehend or something?
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/ptg/ - Private Tracker General 2016-11-22 16:05:09 Post No.57633025
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/ptg/ - Private Tracker General
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2016-11-22 16:05:09
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Old thread: >>57627331
>New to /ptg/? Have an inquiry? Consult the wiki or the PDF before asking redundant questions
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers
http://a.pomf.cat/ameuju.pdf (outdated)
>"How do you get in X now that WCD is closed?"
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uflqB2YGAQjvfSue25j9ryGuxm1UylHEsOKaEqIi0KQ
>Various tracker IRCs and sites open for signup:
https://gist.github.com/RalphORama/0d77e77de3d53dd86e9565fdea4959b2
Use >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.
Know the following:
>staff occasionally read these generals and have posted here before, though most claims of being staff are false
>staff may pretend to be normal users asking for invites and when you invite them, they ban you for inviting strangers
>sneaky bastards will try to convince you that cheating can be evaded. It can't and you will be banned and everyone will laugh at you
>people claim to report emails and other personal info posted here to staff to get you banned.
>most of the invite offers here are people trolling you with false hope - begging for invites is a waste of time
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So is NoStream going to be the next WCD?
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>>57633076
For now at least
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THIS KILLS THE IPHONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B15nBZ7pjLs
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>>57632997
Why does this nigga sound like he's gargling a ballsack?
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>see the way he started off the video with edgy photo on iphone
>click unembed
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>>57632997
>This is pretty cool.
>Insane, but cool.
>>Insane
Don't think so.
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Why do they keep pushing their SSD performance into the extreme? Their new SSDs can do 3.1GB/s read and 2.2GB/s write, a lot faster in both read and write than the previously leading Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive. That's really overkill. Are they laying groundwork for something? They had to make their own custom controller for these SSDs too to achieve those speeds, which is why they may as well solder them simplifying manufacturing in because no one is making anything else compatible anyway. Why though, whats the point in these super fast SSD speeds?
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>>57632932
caching the ads on facebook requires faster storage
this is apples answer
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>>57632932
640k/s ought to be enough for everyone
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>>57632932
Computer hard drives have always been the bottleneck ( at least for me ). I am just now starting to get interested in the new NVMe Samsung 960. I have an 840 Pro that I have had for a couple years now, and that 1 part just makes my entire computer run so much smoother. I can't wait for a new build with a PCIx SSD.
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Is it truly possible to recover lost (deleted) Facebook/messenger messages out of phone? Is Gt recovery worth it?
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holy shit bump
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some nudes you haven't saved? yes you can recover messenger messages with it
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>>57634425
something like that. a bit more sentimental shit. but thanks for responding for there is so little info on that app and there is no telling if it's just chinese trying to bait me to buy it posting or who fucking knows who.
So why is gentoo or solus better than arch linux?
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Gentoo has USE flags. Solus has KevinNet.
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Gentoo is amazing. I can have multiple conflicting versions of packages, or 64 and 32 bit libraries at once. And it's all fine because the programs that depend on specific architectures or specific versions of programs are compiled from source, so portage just links them with the version it knows it depends on.
See https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/ and https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-03-28-true-multilib.html
If you've ever had to deal with dependency issues with packages you'll know why this is awesome.
Also being able to manually include (or exclude) certain features from any package or your kernel is extremely useful. For example, I was able to simply remove the SSL heartbeat extension and recompile my packages when the heartbleed vuln came out.
Did I even mention Portage?
>Portage works without any external repo.
>Portage supports using llvm icc etc to build with.
>Portage supports distcc.
>Portage supports slotting of dependencies.(multiple versions of python ruby gtk etc)
>Portage supports multiple kernels BSD Fedora debian etc.
>Portage can thread package installs and downloads
Meanwhile, with Arch
>overzealous autistic fan boys
>"you'll learn how Linux REALLY works!" When it's literally just configuring a package manager and letting scripts do the rest
>offers nothing that minimal net installs already offered for other distros don't
>muh bleeding edge packages!! when you can just install directly from the upstream source in any distro
>only reason to use it is the aur, which is full of broken and unmaintained packages and isn't monitored at all, most "packages" are just a bash script to download the package and it's install script from GitHub
>aur is far worse than Open Build Service, which actually lets you package binaries and programs for multiple distros
It's not the worst distro, but there's nothing it offers that makes it worth using over any other distros and it has the worst fucking user base.
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Gentoo is source based
Solus has Kevin
Why should i use it?
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>>57632707
Because the pinguino is cute
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>>57632724
Thats a good point, im switching to linux
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How else are you going to post sweet riced out pics of your screenfetch?
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Can we get a font thread going?
>What are you currently using?
What do you use it for?
>What do you want to try?
R8 and recommend for other anons
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put a book under your monitor to improve font rendering by 420% percent
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1/10, really hurts my eyes, and you're using windows (obvious because of the horrible rendering)
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>>57632644
How do you work on anything that looks like that disgusting rainbow soup?
You're like those kids in school who highlighted fucking EVERYTHING they wrote down in multiple colored markers.