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Hey /g/, just got off the phone with a guy about buying his Thinkpad T43 for 50 bucks. I've got a proper laptop I already use, this one is more for playing around with.
What am I in for? It's got 2 GB of RAM and a 1.68 GhZ processor. I'm thinking I'll try installing FreeBSD or Gentoo on it, maybe some old Windows variant if I can't find drivers.
Has anyone owned one of these? They look like solid machines. Anyone have any cool suggestions for what to do with it?
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>>57377021
dried semen
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>>57377062
No thank you, I already had lunch
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Install OpenBSD on it. FreeBSD is trash, not even its own developers use it.
Here's an openBSD dev conference.
https://imgur.com/a/DGwVI
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What is notebook/laptop that has the best keyboard and long battery life.
>inb4 apple
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Zeek
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>best keyboard and trackpad/trackpoint
>great battery life without cucked specs
Thinkpad
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>>57376989
>best keyboard
>long battery life
When this forced meme will die?
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If you have a bunch of images with the same semi-transparent watermark in the same position. You should be able to remove it right? So far I was able to extract the watermark into a layer, but cant figure out how to remove it from the original image.
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>>57376927
fucking crop it out retard
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It depends on the amount of transparency
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>>57376927
gaussian over all of them with some scriptfu
>neo /g manlets will defend this.
Goodbye Windows.
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>>57376904
Oh look, another "I'm too retarded to configure my OS" thread.
Fucking kill yourself, slit your wrists, I'll pay for the razors.
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l2windows you fucking moron
go install arch.
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>>57376922
>>57376930
>Pajeet got mad
Oh look I will need to edit obscure registry hex keys to fix blatant problems with my OS.
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Is it possible to create a cheap backup NAS?
Motherboards with 10 SATA 6 Gb/s ports cost +$150.
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>can afford 10 sata devices
>cant afford $200 mobo.
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dumb frogposter
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>>57376898
>possible to create a cheap backup NAS?
sure.
all you need is a hard drive and a raspberry pi
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Why don't you use Mozilla Thunderbird.
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I do..
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but i do anon
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>>57376833
But I do
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When and why did Windows Update truly become utter bullshit and is there any way I can keep my OS from being a weedy garden of bloatware?
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>>57376826
well it was always a hacked-together piece of shit, because windows in general is a hacked together piece of shit.
but it stopped being merely annoying and started becoming unacceptable when they released 10 and started pushing GWX and telemetry updates aggressively to everyone.
> is there any way I can keep my OS from being a weedy garden of bloatware?
install Gentoo.
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>>57376863
This, Windows update is a clear example of code monkey Indians in charge of update deployments.
The Windows 10 bullshit was the last straw for me.
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Why the fuck is Windows Update such an utter piece of shit? It literally takes 12 hours to apply a bunch of updates.
Linux, macOS and programming language package managers have all done it correctly. How fucking hard is it
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How do I keep programs running while my laptop is closed?
I have windows 10
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install gentoo
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There should be a setting in the Control Panel>Power Options to control it. You might need to go to advanced options though. The setting is something like "Remain active when lid is closed".
It's been forever since I owned a laptop with Windows installed though so I'm really rusty.
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>>57376820
Don't listen to this fucking moron. He's trying to get you to overheat your computer.
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https://www.wired.com/2016/11/watching-twitter-youtube-just-cleaned-comments/
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>>57376636
youtubes been dead since google took it over like 8 years ago.
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muh cyber bullying
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>>57377761
Youtube was never alive. It's always had a superior alternative.
Previously: Stage6
Currently: Vimeo
Youtube's quality was straight babby tier when Stage6 was around.
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Most Secure Windows Version 2016-11-04 01:06:44 Post No.57376605
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Most Secure Windows Version
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What version of Windows does /g/ recommend. For my personal machines I have stuck with Linux for the past 8 years. But I just bought a new Desktop to use for work and I have to use Windows for compatibility issues.
I am just wondering which version of Windows /g/ uses? My tinfoil hat has kept me from even trying 10. Anytime I needed Windows for anything I stuck with XP VM's until it was no longer supported. Since then I have been using 7.
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>>57376605
>What version of Windows does /g/ recommend.
7
>Most Secure Windows Version
botnet10 because you get treated like a retard and forced updates.
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>>57376605
7 is best Windows for sure. Just make sure you have good, common sense security practices.
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Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB
No Cortana or any of the other shit and Microsoft doesn't use your PC as a playground for its new features. Its still insecure by nature because its closed-source proprietary botnet.
Also, Microsoft back ported all their malware to Windows 7 and has root access to your PC via Windows Update, so there's no point pretending one version is more secure than the next. Your best bet is to get a hardware firewall and block all ports except 80, 443, and whatever else you use. Then block all Microsoft addresses, and use something like WSUS Offline for updates.
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just threw out all my razer gear because of their toxic tweets. fuck them
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>>57376533
>threw out.
Oy vey goy! You'd better throw everything in the trash and harm the environment because some Chinese American company shoa'd your mind!!
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>>57376533
>caring this much about what 12 year olds say online
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>>57376533
Secure my Digits?
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Hello /g/urus, is there any benefit to compiling software with -march=native or -O3? I'm looking into doing this with large programs when I install them on my T420 to see if I can squeeze out any performance, but some programs just won't accept it and fail on build if I specify them. Do any of you do this with any other systems? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks /g/.
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>-O3
>not -Ofast
pleb
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>>57376504
well either way, I can do that too. But do you think it offers any real benefit?
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>>57376526
Sure, it says fast, it makes things fast, like Sonic!
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youre looking at the typing machine god here. post your speed tests.
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>>57376393
>Less than 100 WPM
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>>57376393
75
and I have tired fingers atm
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>>57376393
I've gotten slow over the years.
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Anyone here using or working for a company that uses Archlinux in production servers?
Actually I use archlinux since 4 years now personally and never had one real issue.
The idea of having up to date important software like Postgres and Redis is really tempting while you don't have to upgrade the whole distro and fear for something to break. Since I have the database on the same server, the fear is much higher when doing a major upgrade every 6 or 12 months.
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I -Syuu a family pc once every year
I don't shit myself when doing so
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>>57376273
There does not exist a single company in the world that uses arch linux for anything productive. It's going to be debian most likely.
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>>57376945
what if I just want to use up-to-date packages, like Postgres 9.5 or 9.6, Redis > 3.0, Python 3.5. Debian and CentOS are too out of date to say the least.
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Mass Converting Video Files 2016-11-04 00:27:48 Post No.57376156
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Mass Converting Video Files
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Any programs out there that would allow me to convert a bunch of video files at once?
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bash + avconv
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bash + ffmpeg
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zsh + handbrake-cli