ITT: Times you listened to /g/ and it actually turned out good/right

>>58672975
>listening to /g/
No thanks.

never
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>>58672975
Lubuntu is solid and breathed a couple more years of life into a shitty laptop

they said liquid cooling was no good

i get sub-60 degrees under load from a 6700k from an h100i

I bought a Thinkpad. I actually really like it.

install arch meme

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>>58672975
Arch linux is really nice.
I'm incredibly effective in vim.
Haskell is fun.
Wearing a dress really does help me code faster.

>>58673025
Never, I bought a Mac

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>>58672975
Thinkpad
Linux/BSD
Cockmail
...
About to fall for the SSD meme, wish me luck

>>58673058
Me too. x220 is tiny and portable, prefect for lugging around campus all day and didn't cost all that much.

>>58673156
It's 2017, I think the jury's out that SSDs are a good idea

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>>58672975

They said bitcoin was going to be worth alot.

Psht! Not listenting to /g/. Wait, what?! Fuuuuu.... could have been a millionaire.

>>58673025
But you're /g/

>>58672975
Bought a clip+ years back

Bought a memechanical keyboard

Ath-m50s

Bought a lepai LP-2020 chink amplifier years ago,
Still drives my speakers pretty well

>Sansa Clip +
>Mechanical Keyboard
>Moto G
>Arch Linux
>C
>Lisp

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>>58673100

>>58673048
That's because their moms said no to having water around the family PC.

>>58672975
I didn't kill myself. So far that has turned out pretty well.

>>58672975
'Fuck off to /v/' worked pretty well...

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>>58672975
Though it did take a moment to config to a comfy level.

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>>58672975
Linux, Thinkpads and /csg/. Had a lot of fun with the latter.

>>58676238
>>>58672975 (OP)

>I didn't kill myself. So far that has turned out pretty well.

Not shitposting from beyond the grave.

Install Gentoo

porta
pros

Thinkpad

>>58673100
Unironically all these desu senpai

>>58672975
g recommended xubuntu.
Seems good.

Gentoo
K&R
Thinkpad

>>58673897
I had 30 bitcoin from mining when it was a fraction of a penny... Hard drive crashed, next time I looked it was $1000+ and I found out there was no backup of my wallet.. Could have been my down payment on a house

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Memes I fell for that turned out great:

>ThinkPads (X60 & X61s)
>Void, Gentoo
>Weechat, URXVT, Emacs, zsh, rtorrent
>mpv, mpc + ncmpcpp
>i3 tiling wm
>Pale Moon, qutebrowser, uBlock & uMatrix
>Python, Ruby, JS and various frameworks :^)
>full disk encryption
>that glowing text theme for sublime
>private internet access
>tox (meh)
>cockmail
>private trackers

And probably more. Memes I'm about to fall for:

>Xiaomeme Redmi Note 3 Pro
>ThinkPad T420 + SSD
>headphone autism, might buy Xiaomi Pistons or w/e

Memes I fell for that didn't turn out great:

>Android without GAPPs

How do you guys do it. I can't live without GAPPs and so many things that rely on Google Play Services. I still run CM (or LineageOS I guess now) and I use Newpipe and a few things from F-Droid but I need muh GAPPs.

>rx 480 meme

Thank /g/

The only time I ever listened to /g/ was in buying a thinkpad W510 and later a X200.
Pretty good, the former was an insane 4 core, 8 thread beast with dedicated workstation GPU and 1080p display for £300 or something, literally the sexiest and coolest laptop I've owned. The latter a bog standard shittop that was £80 and took me though hard times fine.

I wish I still had a 510, it was fucking hotttt

>>58679170
If it only was a little easier to make GUI's for python..

>>58672975
>complain about router being too slow to handle 2000 torrents
> g recommends Pfsense
>get it
>best fucking thing ever


I feel like I jumped 15 years into the future in one single leap.

Bought a T23 in 2006 for cheap and I loved it.

>>58672975
Erm....Hitler did nothing wrong?

>>58672975
I brought a business class laptop, slapped an SSD and second SSD bay in it. Best £150 I've spent in a while.

>Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro are a solid set of cans

Can confirm. First time I actually spent decent money. Would recommend

Hormones

>>58674357
>me on the left

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Took advice on an A8-7600 APU build. Now I'm able to play BF4 on medium 720p settings and get 50-60 FPS. It only cost me $250.

>>58673162
>lugging around campus all day
not with that battery life you don't

Bought Sennheiser HD 380.
Installed GNU/Linux.
Bought T420.
Paid attention when we learned C.
Forsook the path of nonfree software.

Reading the thread I realized there is more.
>mpv
>ffmpeg
>ncmpcpp + mpd
>using the terminal in general instead of clicky GUI programs
>i3
>ssh
>cyanogenmod (RIP) without GAPPS
>f-droid
>clover

>>58679170
>GAPPS
What sort of stuff would you miss? Don't say Whatsapp.

>>58679951
>A8-7600

My person of African descent. I bought one for my first compact build. So far it has been breddy gud.

I didn't listen to g on installing manjaro but i did install i3 after using xfce for a year and it was good.

>>58680017
Guilty on many of those. I3 is pretty comfy. Cm nased roms or any stock without gapps really. Fdroid and clover are installs too. Kek

Thinkpad

>>58672975
Thinkpad
ssd
linux
vim
programming

>>58672975
>install Linux Ubuntu
>it's shit

>buy Chink tablet
>it's shit

>buy Chink earphones
>they're shit

>install 16gb ram
>don't need it for anything

>get mech keyboard
>it's just noisy and provides no real benefit

>try dual monitor setup
>it's horrible

Thanks for all the advice /g/ you were very helpful

No one give the poster above me (you)s

>>58680093
>>A8-7600
>My person of African descent. I bought one for my first compact build. So far it has been breddy gud.
Yeah it's pretty underatted. Though I plan to slap in an Rx 460 later on. Heard you might be able to OC this thing through base too so might do that as well.

>>58672975
Thinkpad x220
Dell XPS 13
Mechanical keyboard, had three in the last five years.
Ublock & Umatrix

I already was on Debian but I've learned quite a few things here.

Arch Linux
MPV
Anime
Mechanical Keyboard
Headphone Guide
SICP
Vim
C

/g/ has unironically made my life better.

>when they said to use linux
>when they said to install arch linux
>When they said that eventually after installing arch linux I would go back to debian/ubuntu

>>58679963
>battery life
This. Do not listen to neets and weebs. Do not fall for the x220/x230 meme. I did for a whole year. Even with a new battery I was getting dismal run time. My life was spent either close to an outlet or looking for one. I did get a newer Thinkpad Yoga and it's been pretty good though. Thinkpads are good, just not the old shit they seem to recommend here.

Always thought Laptops are a steaming pile of crap.
Lifestyle changed and so I needed one...

Fell for the Thinkpad X230 meme. Outstanding price/performance and really solid.

About to fall for ultrawide qhd meme worth $600. Wish me luck.

/g/ brought the fact that most major carriers had rolled out IPv6 to my attention. I enjoyed learning about it and rolling it out on my home network, then at my company's network, which impressed the partners and got us some good sales credibility.

>installed Linux
>now have a better understanding of file systems

>>58672975
>GNU/Linux
>Functional programming
Biggest 2 I can think of.

>storage HDD fucked up
>I was unable to read ANYTHING from it
>"throw dead HDDs in the freezer" was the hottest meme back then on /g/
>why the fuck not
>managed to save almost 60GB porn from it later

my dick thanks /g/ every week for this

>>58679170
>>Android without GAPPs
Try MicroG.

>>58674357
That image is at least 9 years old. I have been here too long.

>>58672975
zero

>buy the Mixza shark microSD, it's great /csg/
formatted capacity below normal for its size, got 3 GB more with a 64 GB Sandisk than with a 64 GB Mixza

>buy a DAC /hpg/
sounds worse than my mobo, I prefer having highs and lows, thank you very much, if I want a lack of both, I just listen to my 30 year old vinyl records

>buy a memechanical keyboard /mkg/
sounds like shit, feels like shit, maybe I shouldn't have bought one with switches the color of shit, so this one is on me

>buy stew dee oh monitors /bst/
Most boring sound I've ever fucking heard. I want soft, silky highs and dynamic, lively bass, not almost shrieking, unpleasant, overcomplicated highs and nearly non-existent complexity, intensity and dynamism in the low range!


I'll never listen to any of your "advice" ever again!

>>58672975
Never happened. This forum isn't total shit, but it has too low a number of people that know what they're talking about.

The misinformation here is often insane.

I'm guessing most people here are tech enthusiasts in so far as that they keep track of cool consumer tech and know how to jazz up their home screens on their phones. These same users totally swamp all conversations about browser, OS and net security and calls secure stuff 'botnets' while peddling broken half-baked software 'made by /g/'.

umatrix. I can't believe I was using noscript with its shit interface and donation nag screens for so long.

>>58672975
>i3
now I'm pissed when I don't have tiling or see people's shitty floating windows in desktop threads

I fell for the ssd meme, just like a lot of people here

really good meme

I bought a mouse mat after seeing someone in a BST thread with one and love it.

I don't know if that counts.

>>58672975
Instole gen2

>>58672975

Hasn't happened yet...

I GOT A RX 480

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>>58672975
mpv, at first I was skeptical but it turned out good, is a nice video player with nice keybindings

ODROID C2, my god this is magic! Consumerism really pay off with this. Is fucking fast and now hosts my server. Do try this anon, do try.

>>58680017
>Reading the thread I realized there is more.
Me too, but I'll just let other people mention them.

Okay, SSD's are fast, I know that because I bought an eMMC for my odroid c2.

Time to buy an SSD for all my computers I guess.

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>>58672975
>SSD in laptops
Moving parts are the ones that break...or thecord every 12 months if you have Apple

>Thinkpad T420
Best solution for Netflix+Porn family members

>AZN QT 3.14
Slant-eyes make all the best stuff

>RX 480 8gb
Future-proof for Steam casuals

>Steam casuals
AZN_QT_314.anal()

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>>58673048
Meet my 212 EVO

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>macbook
>windows 10
>over 16gb of ram
>ssd
>sennheisers
>sublime text
>Python

I am the anti meme

>>58680208
Linux and chink hardware is one thing, but 16gb of ram, a nice keyboard, and some nice monitors? Just sounds like some nice hardware to me.

8gb is fine fore now, though in a year or two it will start to really bottle neck enthusiasts. You won't have to replace your ram for ages.

Mech Keybaords are about the feel, they feel different and most people find them much nicer to type on, if you got one that was too noisy for you it's completely your fault.

Also if you can't find uses for multiple monitors you're just plain pants on head retarded. My mother uses two monitors and she just recently discovered you can resize windows within many programs.

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>>58672975
>thinkpad x220
>bvckup
>arch
>weechat, zsh, urxvt
>mpv, mpc + ncmpcpp
>i3
>cockmail for trash
>teknik

shit that I already knew but aligns with all these fa/g/gots
>xubuntu
>ssh
>f-droid
>mech keyboards
>ublock
>ssds everywhere

It's not hard to check new shit from time to time and fine useful crap around the huge mounds of shit that get posted daily.

>>58672975
that time I didn't buy an AMD graphics card

>>58673048
How'd you mount the radiator? What's your case and fan config? I'm using an S340 Elite and I have the H100i set as my front intake and I'm getting 80° under load and 100° with a burn test. Teach me wise one.