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Is there any way left to get Monero in Europe? Because of KYC laws, all exchanges have dropped the currency (to my knowledge). I only want 1 or 2 because of FOMO, but now I'm mining my own and thinking about shelling out a grand for a rig...

>>89674 Maybe you can get other crypto using KYC and then somehow convert to Monero without leaving a trace of your destination Monero wallet?

>>89674 See > >>89676 Plenty of no-KYC exchanges will trade monero for other coins. Just buy USD* or BTC, then non-KYC swap for monero. Also check this list to see if any fiat->monero swappers exist near you: https://kycnot.me/?currency-mode=or&currencies=xmr&currencies=fiat Seems like a few true fiat->crypto no KYC exchanges still exist that don't give a fuarrrk. Haven't tried any myself so let us know how it goes please.

>>88484 https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pdbrowser

>VPN router >minimal distro eggs : void or alpine >torsocks for every software that require internet >not running anything outside the package manager >Librebooted but modern laptop Is this schizo enough to avoid glowie aids? What about flatpak? Kinda relying on the router here but might have to look into using wireguard with iptables rules when i connect outside, i am trusting tor even less with all the arrests of node operators. My threat model is paranoia and wanting to own my computer.

Which SSD brands have the least firmware bullshit to deal with? Did Samsung and Sandisk really ship with firmware that killed the drives in a few months? Do any brands not require a Windows-only spyware app to install firmware updates?

>>89701 >Which SSD brands have the least firmware bullshit to deal with? pick any >Did Samsung and Sandisk really ship with firmware that killed the drives in a few months? idk >Do any brands not require a Windows-only spyware app to install firmware updates? intel? it doesn't matter. why updating firmware for a fuarrrking disk. all it does is write data, it doesn't need any firmware.

>>89701 >Which SSD brands have the least firmware bullshit to deal with? All of them have updatable firmware nowadays. So all brands have pretty much the same level of bs. I would rather get a HDD because their firmware is not updatable by the end-user (I think?). The UEFI firmware can be used to backdoor devices, so I would guess that the same threat applies to SSD disks as well. >Did Samsung and Sandisk really ship with firmware that killed the drives in a few months? Yes, certain models would die if you didn't update the firmware almost immediately. I recommend Samsung, Kingston or Crucial but I think they all require M$ Windows for updating the firmware. Sadly, I'm not aware of any SSD manufacturer who has firmware update tools that run on Linux. >>89691 >VPN router VPN router is good but only if you can trust the VPN provider, since they can just log everything. You could alternatively use QubesOS and route everything through Tor VM but the downsides are that you need more RAM (for multiple VMs), you need to learn the QubesOS workflow (relatively easy) and you need to be able to trust Xen. >torsocks for every software that require internet Some programs don't work well with it. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tor#Torsocks You may need to add it as proxy instead. >not running anything outside the package manager 3rd-party repos are usually bad. I would rather use Distrobox or Guix. >What about flatpak? It's not a true sandbox (just like snapd), see https://flatkill.org I suggest Podman.

So, if I'm getting it right, Tor has all the infrastructure it needs to be like I2P. >you can connect to tor through snowflake proxies >you can also host snowflake proxies on your computer (browser extension, docker container) and it's very easy to set up What if you did both? You are both routing other's traffic as well as your own through snowflake proxies. This sounds a lot like I2P, except your role is restricted to an entry node only.

Encrypted firmware files like these: exe.img.sec, exe.img.sec.vs, exe.img.sec.cs, exe.img.sec.cmac. CS and VS both contain 256 random hex digits. CMAC is 132 seemingly random bytes. SEC is "openssl enc'd data with salted password" according to the file util. RSA-1024 maybe? Am I completely hopeless here wanting to crack it?

I wanted to install coreboot but the macronix mx25l6406e bios chip in my x220 just seems unresponsive. I tried reading it using raspberrypi with flashrom and a t48 programmer with both minipro software and its proprietary windows software. Each time I got the same checksum mismatch error, expected 0xC22017, got 0xFFFFFF (unknown). There are no connection issues, because the same setup works with other laptops, namely t420 and asus x540l, though they both use winbond chips. My x220 boots up normally, so the macronix chip is not broken. Should I desolder the chip and then try to read it?

>>89677 currently taking a break and mining my own, but openmonero seems good.

>>89718 Consider your chip slightly damaged, I had the same problem but flashing still works flawlessly, even after a few dozen flashes done.

>>89720 I forced a readout and it gives random data. I also tried to force erase it but it gets stuck. I don't know what to do now. The chip is not corrupted or completely damaged though because i can still enter bios and boot to the os. I think the only way is to desolder it and then read, or get a new replacement one.

>>89703 >they can just log everything I somewhat trust mullvad. ISPs logs everything by default. I feel like they can do more harm being the same jurisdiction but the way data is shared these days i suppose nothing is truly safe if exposed. > You could alternatively use QubesOS You're right i could just add more ram and it should run fine. > you need to be able to trust Xen. yeah..i wanted to keep it minimal as to keep it easier to understand as i slowly learn more. Modern computer are so noisy. >Some programs don't work well with it Had that kind of issues before now that i think about it. Still not sure how i want to go with it, might have to get anther laptop and compartmentalize further. And if i need to use an account with modern requirement i might have to invest in a good residential proxy in addition to these measures. > I would rather use Distrobox or Guix I knew about Guix but not about Distrobox i'll give it a try thanks. >see https://flatkill.org He's right i used flatseal to mitigate that which meant i had to hunt for which directories each software would want to use or create. Still better than firejail i guess.

>>89703 Guix runs as fuarrrking root 24/7, if you trust something that gets updates once in a blue moon to have full control over your whole system then you don't deserve a computer Also, there's no 3rd party repo for Guix because anyone is able to add a package to Guix, retard. If devs can't add simple abstraction layers like PoLP then it's not worth using. >distrobox You quote the archwiki but didn't even bother to look at the one for distrobox From https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Distrobox#Security_implications >The main goal of Distrobox is not focused on sandboxing the containers from the host. Due to the tight integration nature of the project, complete isolation is not possible as containers running inside Distrobox will have full access to your home folder and application directories. And they're just being nice, containerization has nothing to do with security, ABSOLUTELY nothing. If anything, even with containerization it's downright harmful to mix the repos of 20 distributions with one. >podman Exact same thing as distrobox >>89691 Buy a thinkpad x230 and install heads. Write protect the flash chip. Put nail polish on the screws and take high resolution pictures to ensure signs of tampering. Do NOT use a HDD or SSD. They have DMA so a malicious firmware could do a lot of damage, use of USB is preferred since they do not have DMA. Completely remove the microphone, sound card, webcam and the WWAN card from the laptop. Remove the fan to prevent binary acoustic data transmission. Replace the default wifi card with a supported atheros card. Disable wifi when not in use, preferably by physically removing the card. Make your own independent Linux distro from scratch. Most Linux distros value convenience over security and will thus never have good security. Your only option is to make your own. Use musl instead of glibc, Libressl instead of openssl, sinit instead of systemd, oksh instead of bash, toybox instead of gnu coreutils to reduce attack surface. Enable as little kernel modules as possible. Use a hardened memory allocator. Apply strong SELinux and sandboxing policies. Restrict the root account heavily to make sure it never gets compromised. Disable JavaScript and CSS in your browser. Block all FAGMAN domains in your hosts file. Monitor all network requests. Do not use a phone. Never speak near anyone who owns a phone, they are always listening. Never use any non-corebooted technology made after 2006. Never leave your devices unattended. Tape triple layer aluminum foil all around your room as tempest shielding. Type really quietly as defense against audio keylogging. Use ecc ram to minimize rowhammer and rambleed. Encrypt everything multiple times with various different encryption implementations. Compile everything from source. Use hardened compilation flags. Always read through the source before installing something if possible. Only use the internet when absolutely necessary.

My phone broke over the weekend. It was a Pixel 5 running GrapheneOS, for however much good that did me looking back over its lifetime. I had it for three of four years, but I dropped the thing one time too many and it completely gave out. Now I need to find something new. Unfortunately I need to be able to call and text at the bare minimum; I'm a university student and need to be reachable, and that's setting aside the modern overreliance on SMS authentication and the like. I've been thinking about downgrading myself to a flip phone (whether that already ambiguous distinction would further fall under the category of "dumbphone" or "feature phone" I'm not sure). I really admire the aesthetics of those Japanese Keitai phones, but they've unfortunately been co-opted by the unstoppable hauntological force that is my generation's obsession with aping elements of the past whose underlying appeal they don't actually understand. Still, I want something that flips out to be as long as possible (and is ideally thin enough that doesn't look stupid). I don't want an ugly little screen on the backside of the top half, either, telling me the time or my battery percentage or some soykaf. If I need that information I can get it myself by flipping the damn phone open. As functionality goes, calling and texting is really it. I need something that would work in the continental United States, which I think means of 4G LTE connectivity or better, but if plain old 4G could work under some particular carrier I have no real qualms about switching, provided it's the best option given the criteria I've laid out here. An SD slot would be nice to have, but it's not strictly necessary. I would say the same of a full keyboard (it would make texting a lot easier, but I recognize that it could be unduly restrictive). My biggest issue is probably mapping. I have no sense of direction whatsoever; I could (and have) gotten lost traveling in a circle, straight line, and probably without moving at all, though in that case likely while I was tripping on something. Anyway, opinions on whether GPS/location services require biting the Internet connectivity/mobile OS/digital capability/potential to open a web browser or run an app bullet are also greatly appreciated. If they do, so be it. If not, does anyone know of a good standalone device I could use for navigation? Consider any solid MP3 player, or music player more generally, recommendations equally solicited--though I've been told the Creative MuVo is nonpareil, so it's a much less urgent issue than: What phone would be best for me, given my preferences? (Which I'm eager to further elaborate upon). Is navigation DOA? Do I have any recourse? Where on the dumb-smart spectrum should I fall here (preferably as close to the former endpoint as I can)? Thank you for your help! I wouldn't know anywhere else to ask this, though with the Internet in its current state, that's probably less a compliment than the fact that I wouldn't trust anywhere else to produce any valuable insight into this problem even if I would consider bringing my questions to them at all. Let's all love Lain :)

>>/tech/89673 Body too short, palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. Mom's spaghetti.

>>89673 Reposted below in its entirety, at the request of the first reply to my thread (>>/tech/89731). What phone should I buy? My phone broke over the weekend. It was a Pixel 5 running GrapheneOS, for however much good that did me looking back over its lifetime. I had it for three of four years, but I dropped the thing one time too many and it completely gave out. Now I need to find something new. Unfortunately I need to be able to call and text at the bare minimum; I'm a university student and need to be reachable, and that's setting aside the modern overreliance on SMS authentication and the like. I've been thinking about downgrading myself to a flip phone (whether that already ambiguous distinction would further fall under the category of "dumbphone" or "feature phone" I'm not sure). I really admire the aesthetics of those Japanese Keitai phones, but they've unfortunately been co-opted by the unstoppable hauntological force that is my generation's obsession with aping elements of the past whose underlying appeal they don't actually understand. Still, I want something that flips out to be as long as possible (and is ideally thin enough that doesn't look stupid). I don't want an ugly little screen on the backside of the top half, either, telling me the time or my battery percentage or some soykaf. If I need that information I can get it myself by flipping the damn phone open. As functionality goes, calling and texting is really it. I need something that would work in the continental United States, which I think means of 4G LTE connectivity or better, but if plain old 4G could work under some particular carrier I have no real qualms about switching, provided it's the best option given the criteria I've laid out here. An SD slot would be nice to have, but it's not strictly necessary. I would say the same of a full keyboard (it would make texting a lot easier, but I recognize that it could be unduly restrictive). My biggest issue is probably mapping. I have no sense of direction whatsoever; I could (and have) gotten lost traveling in a circle, straight line, and probably without moving at all, though in that case likely while I was tripping on something. Anyway, opinions on whether GPS/location services require biting the Internet connectivity/mobile OS/digital capability/potential to open a web browser or run an app bullet are also greatly appreciated. If they do, so be it. If not, does anyone know of a good standalone device I could use for navigation? Consider any solid MP3 player, or music player more generally, recommendations equally solicited--though I've been told the Creative MuVo is nonpareil, so it's a much less urgent issue than: What phone would be best for me, given my preferences? (Which I'm eager to further elaborate upon). Is navigation DOA? Do I have any recourse? Where on the dumb-smart spectrum should I fall here (preferably as close to the former endpoint as I can)? Thank you for your help! I wouldn't know anywhere else to ask this, though with the Internet in its current state, that's probably less a compliment than the fact that I wouldn't trust anywhere else to produce any valuable insight into this problem even if I would consider bringing my questions to them at all. Let's all love Lain :)

>What phone should I buy? None, be free.

>>89733 It's a difficult problem to solve and I don't know if there is any way your privacy requirements can be met with practical usability in mind but I personally use the combination of a cheap chinese phone for navigation and spyware apps and a grapheneos pixel for everything else.

>>89731 I'd just get a budget or midrange smartphone from Samsung or Motorola, and debloat it as much as I can, if I were you. It's all screwed up nowadays, it'll never be perfect, so we settle.

>>89731 only linux phones are worth buying. the pinephone pro is too slow (and discontinued), the librem 5 and pinephone are even slower, so there are no phones worth buying. this was a potential alternative but it died https://liberux.net/ get a dumb flip phone and some sort of x86 tablet

Are "microscratches" bullshit? How is 6-Mohs Gorilla glass going to get scratched just going in and out of my pocket? I'm not dumb enough to keep my keys in there.

>>89750 idk. I have wallet case so it's not an issue, but if you don't, buy a protective glass. If you're generous enough it'll take a few years before it accumulates too many scratches.

>>89733 I considered switching to a dumb phone. But the thing is that literally all dumb phones are actually running some version of Android. You can often get an entry-level smartphone for the same price. which is why I suggest getting a cheap smartphone with relatively good software update policy (recently Samsung has better than average update policy). I avoid using my smartphone because they are horrible to use (the screen is too small and there isn't a real keyboard). They are also filled with spyware and ads. >Is navigation DOA? Do I have any recourse? Your only options are to use a web browser or printed maps. You can print them yourself (I suggest OpenStreetMap).

>>89755 Samsung is 100% spyware, but it has no adds and updates are mandatory only for some of Samsung applications which you won't use anyway.

>>89756 I haven't had a Samsung phone in years, are they still filled with default bloatware soykaf apps?

>>89760 My mom got a new Samsung for Black Friday, TikTok was literally uninstallable.

>>89760 Depends on what you mean? Yes they preinstall a bunch of samsung specific software along with some google software but it literally couldn't be any less obtrusive short of nonexistence. Anyway it's still a mile ahead of my modern chinkphone experience.

>>89761 >TikTok was literally uninstallable based >>89764 >Anyway it's still a mile ahead of my modern chinkphone experience. Good, very good

With the Australian government implementing the new 'under 16s' social media ban which impacts every single person accessing the internet from Australia, requiring ID verification to even use google search etc, what is the bestest way to avoid any and all of it? Other than using third party vpn services or tor which is a given anyway. Have considered renting a vps in another country to run a vpn server as a more semi-permanent and reliable solution.

>>89786 This is more of a /sec/ question but set up anonymized DNS crypt and see if that works. BlahDNS has a couple of servers with a lot of good features >Have considered renting a vps in another country to run a vpn server as a more semi-permanent and reliable solution This isn't a more reliable solution at all. Having a one-server "VPN" (which is pretty much a proxy by that point) is just waiting for the connection to get reported and taken down. For the price and effort of setting up and obfuscating even one VPS you might as well pay 100 bucks a year to an existing VPN with multihop connections, all the proxies you want, and OBFS4/v2ray all ready to go. It really isn't worth doing yourself, I did for a few years because I wanted to be different and lost a bunch of money in the process.

>>89786 Aside from getting rid of the politicians and cutting off the NGOs and companies financing it such as Collective Shout which is the first thing that always should be tried, then meshnet and i2p mirrors of sites. It will be pushed in every country in the world so you will not be able to just circumvent long. Just a few years from now all forms of encrypted connections will be outlawed or heavily regulated and backdoored.

>>89788 > Having a one-server "VPN" (which is pretty much a proxy by that point) is just waiting for the connection to get reported and taken down. Who is gonna report it and why, who is gonna take it down? As far as I'm aware, using proxies or VPNs is not against Australian law at the moment. Some sites might block some VPNs on their side, that's just their preference and not something law requires. And they usually use publicly available IP ranges lists, which means popular VPN providers will be derezzed while DIY VPN hosted on a VPS not, unless you do something to get IP ban on certain website yourself.

>>89793 >Who is gonna report it and why Copyright trolls, copyright reasons. Or literally anyone looking at the traffic coming out the VPS and any reason they can think of to pick on you in particular. Having a single ingress and egress point is really bad for anonymity and privacy. >who is gonna take it down? Your provider, but only after forking over all your information >As far as I'm aware, using proxies or VPNs is not against Australian law at the moment Do you really want to wait around until that happens? >which means popular VPN providers will be derezzed while DIY VPN hosted on a VPS not, unless you do something to get IP ban on certain website yourself Several websites ban simply because your IP came from a hosting provider. If you find a loophole and it gets closed then you're fuarrrked for options. I'd say buy a pack of residential proxies if you're looking to ban evade, but as YTCracker says: "Proxies are like condoms use them once then switch up on 'em" Did you try the DNSCrypt thing yet? How did that go?

Is it worth getting a Macbook just for Asahi Linux?

>>89806 Macbook is only worth getting for their hardware if you're into that. Specifically MacBook Air series offer some of the best ratio of portability to quiet operation to performance. I'm not sure why would you get something as overpriced for Linux when you can run Linux on anything. Just pick one of the million distros that meets your demands.

>>89807 >hardware That's why I'm considering it, and Asahi is the only distro available for Macs. Asahi seems mostly done for M1 and M2 chips, although there are still some features/hardware that are not implemented. I wonder if everything that has been marked as working is solid or ... not so solid. And how the experience is as a whole. I'm also concerned about the future of the project since they have to do a lot of work maintaining forks because they are being blocked from upstreaming. The founder also resigned. >overpriced I can actually find an M2 Air for half the price of a (good) Lenovo or Zenbook. But that isn't so important if the project collapses in two years.

>>89808 I personally just stick with MacOS on my M1 Air, I only use it to watch videos while resting on a comfy sofa. That's also the reason I would only ever buy the smallest screen ones. I'm not planning to do anything with it for as long as it keeps working. If it goes broken one day I would see if there are cheaper laptops of similar build and formfactor with passive cooling, if no maybe buy a newer Air. Or maybe consider a tablet. Desktop laptop is where I would really be worried to choose proper thing. My next pick in this category would be the biggest screen I can get, because I'd still like more space even after turning off window decorations and making taskbar auto-hide, and passive cooling would never be viable since I want it to be capable of running local models. Regarding Linux I guess the only big concern for me is to pick AMD GPU over Nvidia. But I'm using RTX pretty fine rn, the issues with it were minimal so far.

hey i have been dealing with alot in recent years and have fallen out of touch with computers. i want to buy a fairly powerful laptop soon. i plan on putting Qubes onto it, simultaneously doing video editing, 3d rendering, CAD, compiling software, many other other resource-heavy tasks, datahoarding, and at all times having 410757864530 open tabs across 1989 different browsers. and of course, i want to avoid being ripped off. i want to get the best price per value. any suggestions for how i should go about this process?

>>89814 >video editing, 3d rendering sorry these are incompatible with virtualization, unless you have 34879 GPUs to pass through.

>>89816 I guess if you have integrated + discrete and are okay with running host FULLY on integrated, you can pass discrete through into a VM. But only into 1 VM, not sure how Qubes work, but most likely you will have to run everything GPU-related in the same single qube or whatever they call their VMs. I'm personally not okay with having host on integrated. Luckily, all Windows games and software I need run great without it.

>>89819 integrated cards (especially intel, amd isn't worse performance-wise, but amd igpus need to allocate memory statically, which removes it from ram, intel igpus allocate from ram dynamically which is much better) are fine for 99% of tasks plus playing older games on low settings. discrete gpus are basically bloat unless you know what you're doing plus all discrete gpus on laptops are nvidia which is top kek on linux

>>89820 The only issue I had with my RTX on Linux is OS didn't pick it by default for games in Steam and Lutris, I had to manually put this into ~/.config/environment.d/nvidia.conf: __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia And then make sure it works using glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" Otherwise I play mostly Windows-only games, use Windows-only game editors, use Blender in GPU/CUDA mode, etc.

Any usecase for an android tablet from ca. 2014? I wanted to cannibalise the screen, but I feel bad about breaking a functional tablet so I would rather reuse it fully if possible.

>>89822 Try to see whether Postmarket OS is available for your device. If so, then install it and turn your tablet into a small secondary screen. Or even better - turn it into a wireless control panel for something you have in your house. I'd personally repurpose it as a small 3D printer controller.

>>89806 I have seen some positive comments about Asahi but Torvalds seems completely disinterested in upstreaming Rust (hence the Asahi bits) in the kernel and stalling and wasting people's time. The project doesn't have a future with how upstream keeps rejecting them. Asahi Lina even got bullied off Freedesktop. It was a good wake up call for those who didn't realize yet that any commit that doesn't make money for Redhat or Google doesn't get merged into the kernel. If I were you I'd rather get one of those latest generation AMD laptops instead. It will have full Linux support from day one and the word on the street is that they focused on energy efficiency this generation. It's pretty good.

>>89823 For some reason, I always thought postmarketOS was a android. I don't have anything that would benefit from a separate control panel, but I'll try and see how useful it can be for generic computing stuff, as a smaller laptop. The CPU is anemic, but it should be useable since it can do SSL.

can a lainon give me the pill for how to delete an internet persona completely, or mostly.. i have issue with migrating my game acc's, and deleting all discord messages, i use the same mail for 6 year and back then i didn't know how to seperate personas and at some point my real and internet persona got mixed :^(

>can a lainon give me the pill for how to delete an internet persona completely, or mostly.. You cannot. Wipe what you can and drop the persona completely. The info that remain will be obsolete quicker than you might realize.

With the release of Lunar Lake, is Intel the only way to go for the battery- and thermal-conscious laptop buyer?

>>89842 Has there been a big improvement? I thought ARM moged anything x86 based.

Alright, for the mother of Lain for that is holy, please forgive me for this grave sin I am about to commit. Please talk me out of getting an iPad for uaniversity use. As of the last couple of months, I have been borrowing someone's iPad for college use to see what it was like after seeing all of my classmates using tablets. I discovered that I absolutely fell in love with it. Often times, my professors require me to take pictures of my written homework and submit it. However, the process of scanning my homework often takes about an hour, and it sometimes comes out illegible, and I'll have to re-write parts of it and scan it. However, with the iPad, this saves a considerable amount of time. I am simply able to draw in my homework and submit it. Likewise, I am able to paste in images and tables which makes certain assignments a breeze. I looked into Samsung tablets, but they're all jewgle, and they require me to make a gmail account which requires a phone number. However, I do not believe the iPad requires a phone number. I know that LineageOS is available for some Samsung tablets, but I am unsure of it given some of the security risks, and especially since I will be signing into school services where sensitive information is. I also like this more than the laptop I have since it is so small. It is also able to do everything else I want on it, too. It would also cut down on paper waste and make it easier to organize my work. I always keep my past assignments to review since a lot of the STEM stuff I am working on is cumulative. However, the papers I save take up space in my bedroom. Having all of my work digitally would make that no longer an issue. I have been using paper for all of my assignments during my time in college, and I have discovered that this is truly a game changer.

I got my parents old compaq presario sr5130nx. It doesn't turn on - I'd have to buy a new psu. I was going to maybe upgrade it a little and make a NAS or just play simple itch.io games on it. Do you think it's worth tinkering with or should I just donate it? Any suggestions on what to do with it? I'm new to computer repair and building.

>>89858 Other lainons have already mentioned PostmarketOS in this thread. Have you looked into it at all? IMO if you mitigate your usage of it and keep it as a college device it's a good compromise. Just promise yourself if you start using it for dumb crap like doomscrolling or if you start wasting so much time it outweights its benefits you'll get rid of it. >>89859 Where would you donate it? Unless it's going to someone who likes to tinker with computers I'd look into scrapping it for a couple bucks just so it doesn't end up in the trash given how normal people don't tend to use hardware that old. I would use it for a NAS just for the experience of it. Maybe use it as a router with pfsense and an ethernet expansion card.

>>89858 Don't be a schizo a buy an iPad. Do not modify anything about it. Use it as is and enjoy the time you saved - you can now use it for something useful.

>>89858 If you want an ipad and can get it without a financial burden, then go for it. I would, though, ask you to reconsider your attitude towards paper. Writing and keeping all clean and organized is not only an important thing to build character, but actually helps you learn the material better. I'm talking from both my personal experience as a student and my teaching practice, but AFAIR you can also find studies on the topic proving the point.

>>89858 I prefer physical paper, because I find I retain information better that way. Ipads and other tablet-things can be useful for the purpose you mention. My advice is twofold: - before you buy, ask EVERY family member and friend you know if they have one they will sell. tons of people have one lying around that they bought for "hype" and never use and will give you for free if you ask nicely - if you can't find one of those, please buy a cheap used one paying 10$ for an ipad is alright paying new price is very sad

>>89860 I've decided to keep the compaq. I bought a new psu. Do any lains have suggestions for learning about computer hardware parts generally? More specifically, I want to learn how to determine when a PCs ram, processor, graphics card, etc is adequate and when I should upgrade.

>>89872 >learn when a PCs components are adequate and when to upgrade When I'm building a PC for someone or helping them choose one I always ask them to find their most intense programs, usually either by going to steam's hardware recommendations for their games or the equivalent for their chosen program's like davinci resolve. Then I do a bit of research on what's a little better than their recommendation and build around that. Basically it depends on your workload. I would just throw a basic linux ISO on your compaq and find some benchmark software. After that just use it idly for web browsing and some more intensive tasks like see what the most recent console it can emulate is. Did you re-paste the CPU? Side question to lainons do you still consider 8GB of RAM enough to do your everyday tasks?

>>89880 Thanks lain! Your answer makes sense. If I keep this as a simple browsing/linux OS tester, probably the most intensive program I will use is gimp. So I'll work around that. I have not re-pasted the cpu... did not know that was a thing I had to do. But I'm looking that up now! So much to learn!!!

>>89860 I have not looked into PostmarketOS, but I'll check it out. Do you have any specific recommended tablet models? I have no interest in doing anything entertainment related on the iPad other than perhaps watch movies. Generally, I keep my hardware for my school/work life and personal life compartmentalized, so there should be no issues with doomscrolling or consuming. >>89863 I am aware of both of these items. I know that writing things down on paper is better, scientifically, for retention compared to typing it down. How does the iPad factor into something like this, since it is kind of like writing on a surface? I have no issues with penmanship or organizing myself -- the issue is sheerly getting the paper onto the computer to be submitted. It would be one thing if I were directly turning the paper into the professor (In my entire time in college, I had only one professor that did that.) >>89869 I asked quite a few family members and even asked people at university. I saw no used iPad floating around. I asked a family member about it, and they said that they did not recommend used iPads because the battery life got worse along with some other things. They maybe only recommended a generation back. (They are not the consumerist type and prefer to buy most things used when possible to save money.) I did look online for used prices, but it seemed that there was not a significant difference in price. As of Black Friday, 274$ does not seem too bad for the cheapest model new.

>>89883 https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices This has a list of all tablets PostmarketOS works with. I'm linking it because I don't have any specific recommendations. Anything I need to do can be done via a laptop save for taking photos which even then sometimes I just use a cheap 1080p USB webcam for. I would make a list of what I want a tablet for that anything can do and then a second list of things I could do specifically wtih an iPad assuming they have some quality of life things or things specific to apple products like an app your school uses. It sounds like you just want to use a touchscreen for notes and pasting images but idk if that's it. You might want to grab a thinkpad x200T or x230T and put linux on it. Those are touchscreen laptops where the screen rotates 180 degrees and lays over the keyboard so it can be a tablet. It's chunky but you have the secondhand market in case you need a part down the line and the easy resale value if you get tired of it because it's a thinkpad. It looks like the x230t is compatible with coreboot as well if that's up your alley. You could also shove a mini pci-e to sd card adapter in this thing and use it for a spare NAS. store commonly used files on the SSD and rarely needed files on the sd card(s). I use a dual microSD to mini pci-e adapter for music and haven't ran into issues after doing that for a few years. The versatility of a laptop over a tablet is a lot better.

>>89844 >ARM It's cool to only charge your laptop every two days, but not needed practically. 14+ hours of real-world usage on an x86 chipset where everything actually works is a good tradeoff.

>>89885 Here is what I want >draw and write in color >copy and paste images easy >possible uni app integration to submit assignments easily >built-in document scanning >a way to quickly share files with other students. I took a look at some of the more recent tablets on PostMarketOS's page, but none of them really struck a cord with me. I looked up the used prices of some of the more recent devices that interested me, and they were not that significantly far from the iPad's cost. I tried looking up the x200t and x230t, but it didn't look like there were any options, at all, on Ebay. The single options I saw were 300$+. Also, don't older-style like ThinkPads like that have meme-tax nowadays thanks to jewtubers like Luke Smith memeing the soykaf out of them? I recall they were good and affordable options years ago. Then, after they got popular, it seems like their price skyrocketed.

>>89887 I guess it's just a bad time for those models secondhand right now I got one a couple years ago for I wanna say ~$140 and after a bit over a year replaced the motherboard for another $30-50. There's a few old options like the x41 but I wouldn't trust anything that needs a 32 bit OS to have app integration assuming your uni doesn't have web versions of what you're looking for. Do you need a document scanned or just a photo of it cropped to look nice? That seems to be the hiccup in finding an easy solution from a few quick searches. I don't know of any good linux programs that scan a document from a photo off-hand. Otherwise I could recommend laptops from the early 2000's and you would just put something basic like tiny core or any random 32 bit OS you could gut the default DE out of and replace with something lightweight like DWM or plasma. I think if you have to go the iPad route it's not a bad choice considering how you treat your devices. I'll agree with your earlier post about older models having issues because Apple has been caught purposefully slowing down older models to create incentives for people to upgrade.

>>89889 140$ isn't too bad. I need to scan images into a document to be submitted. Right now, on my phone, I am using OpenScan, which works alright. It crashes a lot, however, when the document gets too big. The rest of the scanner options are on the jewgle playstore which I refuse to use. What kind of GNU/Linux note-taking software, intended for writing (as in stylus-use) use, would be available that works on 32-bit?

>>89894 I'm just looking up lists of linux paint programs and then searching their names in the package search for arch linux 32. Pinta looks like it has layers and basic tools. https://www.archlinux32.org/packages/?sort=&q=pinta&bugs=&del=&uses_upstream=&uses_modification= https://www.pinta-project.com/ Arch Linux 32 also supports a few programs for scanning docs but I don't know if they're just interfaces with scanners or have the function to scan a document from an image. You'll have to figure that out yourself. But if boot times and a chunky laptop tablet don't bother you I can't see why it isn't possible to use something this old assuming the software fits your needs.

>>89894 I use xournalpp. I don't see why it would require 64bits.

Anyone librebooted a t60 recently? The instruction on the libreboot website and the ones on the luke smith's video are different and: >NOTE: force_I_want_a_brick is not scary. Do not be scared! i honestly can't tell if Leah is trolling here. Furthermore i can't find out if my display is compatible it's not mentioned on libreboot.org anymore only that it has to be an intel motherboard which mine is.

>>89908 >not mentioned on libreboot.org anymore have you tried checking archive sites for older versions of the site? Honestly I would check their IRC. When I had a question last year I got an answer within a couple hours.

how do i install vichan with docker lol im too retarded desu also speaking of docker when i build a compose image thing 99% it fails and i get an error code one

>>89911 holy soykaf dude no offense meant but you need to see a fuarrrking therapist, not run another imageboard. please fix your own head before you embark on the journey of ruining others'

>89909 >have you tried checking archive sites for older versions of the site? It says mine would work here: >https://web.archive.org/web/20200923081524/https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/#supported-t60-list But it was listed as not working a few years back. Which add to the confusion as the live website says to download the Libreboot 20160907 utils archive (my LCD panel wasn't supported circa 2017). >Honestly I would check their IRC I think i will yes.

>>89913 NO i just wanna dick around in vichan im learning php so i can maybe get a job

>>89913 >>89915 Gentlemen, gentlemen. I have a solution to settle this. You each post an image of the other and the funniest one is crowned victorious and earns .02 laintokens to invest in their social credit scores.

>>89916 no one can top me also why is nobody helping i mean it doesnt have to use docker i got a amp setup on my system its just local testing

>>89900 >>89902 xournalpp looks closer to what I want. I appreciate the help. I am further looking into the X41. However, it does not look like there are a lot of options on sale where at least all of the components are working. It looks like a lot of them are for parts -- I mean, I do not mind having to put together a system, but I'd think that the shipping costs would start to add up. Likewise, are batteries for these machines even available that can still hold a charge? Or will I have to use it by power? I am looking up battery prices since a lot of these machines on eBay are missing batteries, and they look to be damn near the cost of the machine itself. When I tried to factor in the cost of the machine and the components, it starts to add up. Also, are 32-bit machines even able to connect to the internet? Are there security risks for choosing to use a 32-bit machine in 2025? The only option I saw where I wouldn't have to buy a significant amount of components or that was not "for parts" didn't even ship to the US.

i have a wifi USB adapter, it doesn't work on my Debian netinst ISO, is there another method (besides Ethernet) to give my pc WIFI?

>>89930 yeah there is you can connect your phone through usb and use it as a dongle https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Android_tethering have fun using linux

>>89931 thank you! do i need another package? or is it out of the box?

>>89932 Install NetworkManager and it should just work but make sure to run only 1 network management daemon at the same time. You need to disable Connman, dhcpcd, wpa_supplicant, etc. (if you have them enabled).

>>89858 This problem has been solved for over fifty years. If you want to avoid using an iPad, get a filing cabinet (free) and a decent scanner that has TWAIN (20 bucks), then write legibly. Your post acts like this is a hard thing to do or some form of secret knowledge; just put in the work if it means that much to you this isn't difficult.

>>89932 pretty sure it is out of the box, refer to arch wiki page i linked, i used it for friend's linux install too (cuz they had a similar issue like you) >>89933 isnt networkmanager the default in debian (not used it since long)

>>89932 networkmanager is the box

>>89957 >isnt networkmanager the default in debian (not used it since long) It isn't, but DEs pull it as a dependency.

I already own both of those things, lainon, but that's not the point. I have well-organized filing cabinets for my school stuff, already. But that doesn't detract that the paper adds more soykaf to be there to take up space. I also own a scanner, too, but it's still fuarrrking adds extra soykaf to the process. Neither are objectively difficult: just tedious and takes up time. >20$ Where are you getting that figure from? The lowest I am seeing is 104$.

I need an airgapped portable device. My options seem to be: android phone: >doesn't look like a bomb at airport security >doesn't look out of place in public >doesn't raise eyebrows >easy to use >might not support the apps I need >software is harder to examine for backdoors >unclear if I can remove the cellular, wifi, bluetooth and nfc modems, cameras, microphones and speakers and can still boot the device portable raspberry pi with touchscreen (powered by portable powerbank): >natively supports every piece of software that I need >easy to vet the software >far less likely to have backdoors >might need an external keyboard >unclear if I can physically remove the wifi and bluetooth modems and keep the device in a functional state >looks like a bomb at airport security >looks out of place in public Any suggestions?

>>90015 How about a PostmarketOS tablet? >doesn't look like a bomb at airport security >doesn't look out of place in public >doesn't raise eyebrows >easy to use >no cellular/nfc >supports most Linux programs >easy to vet the software >less awkward to type on >proprietary firmware >might be hard to install >unclear if I can physically remove the wifi and bluetooth modems and keep the device in a functional state

My 3Dprinter filament broke inside the tube while I was trying to replace it... Is there any way to safely extract it without damaging the tube or having to replace the entire nozzle?

>>90042 Can't you remove the tube from the heating element? Remove the tube, turn the heater on to soften the filament if it is stuck, then remove the filament.

>>90042 or you can just keep squeezing the thing out. A lot of the times for me it didn't even impact printing quality. Just nest the snapped end nicely in the tube and keep it pushing

>>89673 Wanting SMTP access to university issued Office365 email account through neomutt. The API requires an application ID to issue an API key. These can be reversed engineered from the binaries of email clients. I think Mozilla published theirs. Does anyone know where one could find such?

>>90042 Had luck with pushing the it out with a metal wire and pulling it out with needle nose.

Should I adopt passkeys? >software passkeys Bitwarden is convenient but I won't be able to tell if they ever serve me poisoned javascript in web vault (you can't set or change your Bitwarden master key without web vault). Any process that can tamper with the Bitwarden extension could steal my passkeys too. >hardware passkeys Yubikeys seem solid but I won't be able to tell whether if my hardware was tampered with in transit or not. >cookie stealers Makes passkey protection moot. >What is your threat model? My threat model is protecting my accounts with passkey protection against any possible attack. They are advertised as the panacea of online account security so I am expecting them to be as such.

>>89908 Just wanted to say that i did in the end install it. I followed Luke Smith's video and encountered some minor trouble where my Devuan install refused to boot back and so had to do the second flash on a Trisquel live boot. It was a bit reckless but i figured at worst i'd follow the unbricking tutorial and flash externally. As far as i can tell everything works fine except for a bug where Grub stalls when i execute "ls", seem to be related to the cd/dvd player.

Is the desktop portal not working properly for firefox based browsers anymore? Tried to set it to use the native file picker for my system (Qt), it even worked for a day or two but now I'm stuck with the the hideous GTK3 file picker.

y does everything have a store now (snap) when thats just a package manager but faggy y is there a store in a store (kde store inside snap store app inside ubuntu inside apt) y do webdevs think a link should be clickable when u click 1000 pixels 2 the right of it? y do they tihnk thats a thing??? y do ppl who wanna suck kens dick think its type notation syntax is a thing?

>>90184 You managed to do it?? I gave up on it thinking the only option for me was GTK3. The idea I got out of it is that it's not meant to be changed...

>>90192 > y does everything have a store now (snap) when thats just a package manager but faggy I have no idea. People just like the UIs. How can someone be smart enough to be a maintainer but dumb enough to think Snap is a good idea? > y is there a store in a store (kde store inside snap store app inside ubuntu inside apt) Don't even acknowledge it. > y do webdevs think a link should be clickable when u click 1000 pixels 2 the right of it? y do they tihnk thats a thing??? Because it's good design, mkay??? What if your grandma was trying to click that link, huh? Don't mess with my <a> tags No idea who ken or its type notation are

>>89816 >>89819 >>89820 so if i'm understanding all of you, the graphics card can only be used by one system at a time i.e. can't split between multiple VMs, right? so if i wanna do graphics-intensive stuff, i'd need to either do some configuration so that i have one vm that has my graphics card attached to it and only it, and that this configuration process might be complex, or i should have a separate OS that i boot into when i need to do graphics-intensive tasks. have i understood everyone well?

I can't seem to find any good ROMs for kyocera DuraXE flip phones. Is there something like Graphene for flipphones? I know they are the hardest to secure but I really like mine

>>90211 Yeah you were able to do it for years through changing widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker in about:config to 1, but it doesn't work anymore. >>90218 Seconded, been looking into getting one of those phones but am concerned with the lack of ROMs.

>>89673 I want to learn. To code to do anything. Since I'm like 20 and have no actual life prospects, what's the best way to get into it? So that I can then convert my skills into a career or something in like two to 3 years.

>>90241 use github copilot and least rust. then bang a tranny and you're in

>>90241 Unless you're particularly interested in one subject (seems you aren't, or you would already be studying it), just enroll in university in whatever field interests you. You won't get anywhere on your own without extreme motivation.

>>90241 Also, I wouldn't recomend anyone get into the field at this point. There used to be a time you could get a good job by just knowing how to code, but now every job is filled by a Indian using AI and there's an infinite amount of them that will work for almost nothing. Companies don't care about quality and governments don't care about doing anything to fix the problem.

>>90241 Not trying to be rude, but seems like you don't really want to code. You like the idea of being able to code. And first you should check whether this is really worth it for you. 1. Pick any basic project that seem to interest you: to make a site, a game, an app, whatever. 2. Find any free course that claims to teach you that. 3. Do a portion of it daily, even if 15 minutes, no skipping unless some real emergency. 4. Complete the course, draft a new idea, which is kinda the same, but somewhat more fun for you. 5. Start making it daily, use only documentation and forums for troubleshooting. Don't ever open the course you've completed, that would make for a bad habit. 6. Finish the idea. You should be able to show that result to a stranger and he should be able to understand what it is without explanation. That means it's somewhat complete. This should take you at least a month, probably two. By the time you've been programming daily for quite a while. You might take a small break and think it out. If you feel like it's more of a chore, than you should probably find something other than programming. It's not worth it. If you enjoy it to a degree, you should keep on going. You might want to change the project at this point (not earlier) and either repeat the process or go straight to the DIY part. Or just make something bigger and better. Repeat until you know what you really want.

>>90241 If you want to learn to program a videogame and are willing to learn alongside me I'm planning on starting a project. Drop your e-mail and I'll follow up with you.

I'm being offered a phone that got bent and then got bent back into position, for a big discount. It seems to be fine. If it was going to stop working, it would have already stopped working, right?

>>90346 it may be promiscuous but if you don't mind then go ahead

>>90385 >it may be promiscuous ...am I the ESL or are you the ESL?

>>90346 Did the battery got replaced after the phone got bent? >>90241 >I want to learn. To code to do anything. Learn Python first because it's easy and it's widely used. I recommend the free MOOC at https://www.mooc.fi/en/courses/

what the hell is Rust? why do the big tech groups want to switch to it? could it ever replace C?

>>90409 Rust is substantially harder to write than C++. Also wtf does this "tranny" nonsense have to do with anything? Stupid post. >>90408 >what the hell is rust There is a wonderful website called duckduckgo.com that you can use to find information. >why do the big tech groups want to switch to it If the past twenty years of security research have taught us anything, its that every large C/C++ program is riddled with bugs. One of the main features of the rust compiler is that you have to intentionally turn off some of its features to write many types of bug. This is obviously desirable. However, because the rust foundation is run by fools, the language has been in a state of flux for years now, and the rust fans trying to push it everywhere are very annoying. Its a shame that this language is so politicized, because I really like it on the technical/ergonomic merits.

I was using an open source note app called Quilpad and accidentally pasted the source code of a webpage into a note and after clicked "paste as plain text" in the my bad reflexive attempt at trying to stop it knowing that might cause issues. This caused the app to freeze so I closed it out. I cleared the cache in case it caused corrupted data mid save and open and it is froze, close again and force quit and still same issue it is frozen whenever I open it where it does not even load up my saved notes. I tried to look for the data folder in the Android folder to see if I could just find the offending corrupted note file to delete if it is it's own file or otherwise modify if it is a single file but do not see the app data folder location which I am not sure where it was stored to begin with. I tried updating the app and that did not change anything. I had a few important notes there. How likely is it my notes are fine or easily recoverable? I constantly am shadow derezzed then full derezzed from github whenever I try to make an account so I can not even report this to the developers to ask them.

>>90417 I heard something to the effect that Rust was developed by the people who did Firefox? Are those not some reputable folks?

How much does it actually matter if you use an Nvidia graphics card with wayland vs xorg

>>90431 Really not that much, all the "hurr durr NVIDIA(TM) on Wayland always crashes" memes are really outdated, you probably won't notice a difference but do keep in mind that Xorg is (obviously) more stable with NVIDIA or just ditch proprietary hardware as a whole

>>90408 >what the hell is Rust? By itself Rust is an interesting attempt at guard railing reference handling, theoretically benefiting work with complex structures or multiple developers working on the same systems code, eliminating most NPEs. It's got many ways to do the same thing and especially aspies really seem to like it due to the way it's structured. In practice however it struggles with long compile times, sometimes the use of "unsafe" is needed if you want to do any crazy pointer magic which defeats the whole purpose of the borrow checker. And some people seem to believe that simply using Rust will make the code resilient to all bugs. But my greatest annoyance is how it's shoehorned everywhere. And it looks like just a good excuse to take authorship away from battle tested c code written by predominantly white men by gender confused activists. Possibly even a ploy by tech giants to enshitify the FOSS space. But then again didn't some guy on linkedin whose name sounds like gayland (you really can't make this soykaf up) say they wanted to replace all their windows code with Rust? In that case it might just be a cargo cult (lel). In short, promising tool but surrounded by tons of drama which is why any discussion about it will sadly but inevitably be a dumpster fire. >>90417 >duckduckstartpageecosias "rust" >it's the process of steel decaying by process of oxidation >intredesting >>90440 Thoughts on xlibre?

Is there a hard relationship between processor level (like i7 vs i9) and power use/battery life, or does it just throttle when not needed?

>>90453 Should at least disable Turbo Boost when on battery. On Windows you can set max processor state to 99% for battery mode which disables turbo boost, I'm not sure if Linux has any way to do so (to disable turbo boost or power limit the CPU in general specifically when on battery) beyond some fancy script.

I need to find the "physical" /dev/sdX location of my FUSE-mounted USB device, which is mounted in /mount/user/ automatically. Any ideas where I should look? df and mount have not been helpful so far.

>>90485 lsblk Or gparted (added this only so i would reach post size minimum)

>>89727 > Buy a thinkpad x230 and install heads. Write protect the flash chip. Put nail polish on the screws and take high resolution pictures to ensure signs of tampering. Do NOT use a HDD or SSD. They have DMA so a malicious firmware could do a lot of damage, use of USB is preferred since they do not have DMA. Completely remove the microphone, sound card, webcam and the WWAN card from the laptop. Remove the fan to prevent binary acoustic data transmission. Replace the default wifi card with a supported atheros card. Disable wifi when not in use, preferably by physically removing the card. Make your own independent Linux distro from scratch. Most Linux distros value convenience over security and will thus never have good security. Your only option is to make your own. Use musl instead of glibc, Libressl instead of openssl, sinit instead of systemd, oksh instead of bash, toybox instead of gnu coreutils to reduce attack surface. Enable as little kernel modules as possible. Use a hardened memory allocator. Apply strong SELinux and sandboxing policies. Restrict the root account heavily to make sure it never gets compromised. Disable JavaScript and CSS in your browser. Block all FAGMAN domains in your hosts file. Monitor all network requests. Do not use a phone. Never speak near anyone who owns a phone, they are always listening. Never use any non-corebooted technology made after 2006. Never leave your devices unattended. Tape triple layer aluminum foil all around your room as tempest shielding. Type really quietly as defense against audio keylogging. Use ecc ram to minimize rowhammer and rambleed. Encrypt everything multiple times with various different encryption implementations. Compile everything from source. Use hardened compilation flags. Always read through the source before installing something if possible. Only use the internet when absolutely necessary. >X230 Pretty risky if you ask me. X200/T400 are the last models I’d comfortably type quietly on.

>>90500 Thanks for the suggestions, but neither of them was able to list my device. I'm getting the feeling that FUSE hides this information in some unusual way.

>>90505 >mount shows all mounted dirs, even fuse ones iirc. if it doesn't, i don't know what else. it's been so long since i last used the /mount/user stuff.

>>90484 Interesting. I would have thought all that stuff was built directly into the firmware and managed automatically. I assume the situation is similar for AMD chips?

>>90401 Good question - the phone was bent right down the middle and no parts have been replaced. Do you think there's a risk of the battery getting spicey?

Does anyone know any good AI news aggregator? Simon willison became a massive shiill for anthropic over the last few months and I don't want to read his blog anymore.

OK so I want to bite the bullet and build myself a PC. For everyday use,coding and some gaming. What are some good resources? I never did this and live in the EU, my only experiences are shoehorning components in soykafty towers and laptops

>>90545 Did you check the RAM prices? RAM these days costs more than GPU + CPU taken together, maybe + motherboard even. You should have built you PC half a year earlier. Now you just wait (for several years perhaps) until RAM prices climb down.

>>90547 I know, but i figure that it will just continue getting worse to be honest, I'm okay with getting DDR4 instead of DDR5, but even then. Anyway, somebody should start firebombing all these ai datacenters.

>>89673 what's the trick to making hexchat connect to the lainchan server I can't seem to get it to work. I know there's a key now but i had this problem before that and just got told to use erc which I cannot be bothered with and want something like hexchat.

>>90565 turns out restarting it is the "trick" xD

How can I kill everyone who tags femboys/futas/"traps" on gelbooru as yaoi, I just want to see ==MEN== , not 1:1 women who just happen to have a penis

I need to save something that I CAN NOT HAVE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE ON MY COMPUTER, but on what sites should I store it? My prerequisites are: 1. Must be able to post the file through Tor 2. Must be able to upload 6mb of data 3. Must be retrievable through a network downloader (preferably curl) while proxying through Tor 4. Must be on multiple sites (preferably at least 3) that aren't likely to all take down my file within a week. 5. Really preferable for the sites to not have any mandatory Javascript or signups for when I upload the file, if they require signups then they MUST allow me to signup via a "shady" e-mail, for example cock.li. Javascript or signups just for downloading it are forbidden. The file is going to be encrypted so if you think that it'll get taken down because of how shady that looks then please don't link it. The file is not vital for my security nor illegal, I'm only adding encryption as a safety measure. Thank you in advance. If you want to do me a big favor, I can send you my PGP so I can send you the encrypted file for you to post on a social media with a lot of traffic e.g Mastodon so it'll get buried down in all of the noise. Or perhaps a git repo that I can safely clone.

How do I get an unassuming cute email on a foregn mailer? I am looking for a small yet sturdy inbox or two to manage my future forum/bbs/chatroulette-and-similar sumbscriptions wiyhout going full /dev/

>>90548 >>90547 >>90545 Now that i think about it, it might turn out better if i buy a decent-enough laptop in the meanwhile

Is ecc ram as as good and necessary as Linus Torvalds says?

>>89673 I have this Dell Latitude XT with a HDD BIOS password I set on it several years ago and now can't remember. Is there a way to somehow sic John the Ripper on it during bootup? I've already tried bios-pw and I don't want to manually enter a million different things to use an old craptop

My cat got on my keyboard and basically printed all the possible commands on the terminal input, how the fuarrrk did she even do that? I know that you can print all the commands by pressing <tab> twice but I have no idea how'd she print the output without a mouse (I was in the TTY)

What's a good flash drive to buy? Feels impossible to trust anything anymore

Anyone have some nice polybar configs with pics they can send me ?

>>90584 If you're referring to a foreign mail provider look into Zoho mail. >>90577 Catbox maybe? >>90645 Seconded, bought some cheap lexar drives a few months ago and I'm already having issues.

I'm new to coding and have been learning basic Python, any advice (or resources) you'd give to a Python noob?

https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/89673.html

>>90669 This is not even a SQTTDTOT question, it's literally just a web search away.

>>90668 work through mooc.fi course (it's free) >>90645 it's better to buy external SSD or HDD. if you really need a flash drive, I suggest Kingston. >>90442 >Thoughts on xlibre? It's not worth it right now but it's interesting to see what it will become in a couple of years. there just isn't much point in upgrading to xlibre (yet) >>90453 i7 models are usually better for battery life. i5 is usually even better. >>90484 > I'm not sure if Linux has any way to do so (to disable turbo boost or power limit the CPU in general specifically when on battery) Yes, see * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Scaling_governors * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP TLP is the best and easiest solution.

what are some good warez sites for ebooks and music? ideally no js

i want to write programs in C, specially with raylib.h (simple games and useful software for myself). my problem is i get stuck with the logic and confused and lost when writing larger programs. i know the basics of C but i dont know how can i improve this aspect of developing complex-ish logic can anyone reccomend any tips or resources? it can be books or videos, anything he

>>90699 >raylib Oh hey, I contributed to that! Nice. >recomend any tips I know you likely do not wish to hear this but just keep practicing. You will eventually find it easier with time.

>>90703 >Oh hey, I contributed to that! Nice. thats so cool, i really like raylib. still contributing? >I know you likely do not wish to hear this but just keep practicing. You will eventually find it easier with time. im doing that, praticing even a tiny bit per day helps but sometimes i feel like the stupiest mf in the world. idk if thats a skill issue (might partly be to be honest) or lack of some fundamentals or theory idk

>>90699 >my problem is i get stuck with the logic and confused and lost when writing larger programs With "logic of larger programs", do actually you mean the architecture? How to go from a single-file-single-function fizzbuzz-project into something with actual structure and complexity? How to sanely organize the bits and pieces that actually do stuff, and to get them communicating in some coherent way? The industry doesn't know either, and keeps coming up with misguided paradigms. But they are absolutely worth a study. Look into object oriented programming (ignoring inheritance and a lot of other bullcrap), learn some design patterns, and consider some teachings of functional programming (no side effects and such). The architecting style I and many other skilled engineers have found the most effective is some weird amalgamation of this (which perhaps boils down to just modular data-driven programming - more buzzwords for you to do homework on). How this often looks like in practice in C is that each header file defines one "object" struct and the function prototypes that operate on that struct. There's really a million ways to structure any project, and when I was new I used to get decision paralysis over this. Well, turns out, even the most skilled engineer often doesn't know. Instead he just writes the thing, however messy at first, and just starts refactoring it into something sane and maintainable as the suitable architecture becomes clear. But this is probably only relevant to you after you get good enough comprehending the messes you create, which just takes practice as the other anon said.

>>90705 >I and many other skilled engineers are you a web dev

I'm using Linux and have succesfully installed a Virtual Machine on QEMU. I know this, because the VM loaded up and I was able to work in the VM. After I shutdown the machine and wanted to restart it with the 'virsh start' command, it says 'domain '{name}' started', but I can't see the VM anywhere. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to add an extra line or command?

>>90717 Can you see the actual qemu command line? Is it adding network device?

okay i need some help i have a iptables firewall set up to block all traffic except to and from my vpn my vpn is mullvad and i have dnsmasq setup with tor dns and i have my SSD fully encrypted except for /boot anything else i should do?

>>90720 >anything else i should do? get a job and stop wasting your time

>>90722 Thank you for proving yourself, and Lains as a whole, are simply a cheap clique that offer community, but bitch and snark blindly when ask questions in threads and boards dedicated to questions. It must be damn nice to be so insulated. >>90720 Some simple browser hardening is always a good idea. Look up "Hardening Firefox" and read up on things like network referer headers and first party isolation and especially dom events and rsa policies. The Tor Browser already has most of these fixed in the about:config but some touch ups aren't a bad idea. Other than that, no idea. You seem to know more than me.

>>90718 I am really new to actually programming my own computer. So it could very well be that I am not doing some basic steps to be expected of someone programming their own computer. For instance, you asked if added a netwerk device, but I don’t think I instructed the VM to have one, considering the command string I used. This is the command string I used to build the VM # virt-install --name=winxp-vm --vcpus=1 --memory=1024 –cdrom=/home/user/iso/winxp.iso --disk size=5 –os-variant=winxp I didn’t add one, did I? It doesn’t matter if the VM is off-line, because I just want to use to play some old video games. I found the instructions for building the VM here https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-and-manage-kvm-virtual-machines-from-cli (On the website there’s a ‘\’ between each specific instruction, but that didn’t work for some reason. After removing the \ between each specific instruction it did work) What I am expecting to happen when I run the ‘virsh start’ command, is a new screen to open with the VM running in it. Instead the only thing I see in the terminal is ‘winxp-vm started’ -- Perhaps this is important, but after running the VM for the first time, I accidentily closed the terminal screen (in which I entered those lines above) and didn’t save the VM. I don’t know if that could be the explanation for it. Also, since I didn’t do anything noteworthy in the VM, it’s no problem to build a new one.

>>90728 There's a small error in the syntax here in the post -cdrom=/home/user/iso/winxp.iso is --cdrom=/home/user/iso/winxp.iso I did use the last one for building the VM.

>>90729 Same goes for the os-variant (-os-variant vs --os-variant). I'll take care in providing the correct code-syntax in the future. pls dont rangeban me senpai mods

I I delete my discord messages and account, will someone be able to dig out the logs in a decade?

>>90731 No way to answer this as nobody here is likely to have insider information on >discord, but judging by past behaviors of megacorpos, yes

>>90720 Impossible to tell without a threat model, but your setup is better than what most people have. Your VPN provider is a single point of failure in your setup and you haven't mentioned anything about compartmentalization so you could fix those.

I am trying to perform a search for a hyphenated phrase (e.g., just-a-friend) where the hyphen is treated as a literal character, rather than a word separator. However the search engines I tried this in (DDG, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Brave) are consistently returning results for just_a_friend and just a friend. I used "just-a-friend" in quotation marks to force an exact match but the hyphen was still treated as a space. Tried +"just-a-friend" on Bing specifically, no change in behavior. I tried inurl:"just-a-friend", then intext:"just-a-friend" and then both together, no changes in behavior. I tried "just-a-friend" -just_a_friend, no changes in behavior. I tried "just-a-friend" -just -a -friend, no results popped up at all. I tried to find a solution to my problem online and even asked an AI for guidance, my results were unfruitful. Is there specific syntax, a specialized search engine (SymbolHound didn't ignore special characters, but it's now obsolete) or another to force a search engine to treat the hyphen as a required character and exclude results containing spaces or underscores in place of the hyphen?

>>90732 grim to think about

>>90742 Not really grim for most of us as we've learned better than to use dicksword a long time ago

>>90740 I tried +"just-a-friend" -just -a -friend, and got results for justafriend Try including more keywords in your query, search engines aren't full-text searches and ignore punctuation.

Boot.dev subscription 1 month: DA6HFVB5ZJ9BSX08S9JJGUI7 It's not for me, but it feels like a waste to let it expire. I know it's not a tech question, but maybe it helps someone with theirs lol

>>90761 I'm clueless to why people would rather be taught by regular grads who got into a prestigious tech position at a point in their life over actual PhD holders who push out amazing books. Or at least people who teach others about a project that they've made and/or heavily contributed to. I'll assume that they make it more engaging going off the gamified look of the site which is indeed appealing but I think there's more to learn from others. Just a rant, people can do whatever for all I care.

Is there any way to put backgrounds on folders (like pic related) in KDE Plasma?

>>90768 https://askubuntu.com/questions/879061/how-to-change-background-image-of-dolphin-file-browser-from-default-white-backgr It's a pain, try looking for other gui file managers that support this (I think Nautilus does) My question: Is it possible to get Kicksecure on Devuan? Some lain in the desktop thread claimed to have it, but it requires systemd, not sure how that works

>>90771 >kicksecure on devuan do you mean running kicksecure on a devuan machine? kvm can do that if you instead meant kicksecure that is based on devuan (w/o systemd) i guess you could just apply the patches the kicksecure people have applied to debian....

>>90776 Right, manual patches would take a while but might learn something in the process... think I had a mandela effect with someone having done it on devuan Thanks for answering

everything feels like an advertisement or derivative of an advertisement or an emanation of a memetic idea from an advertisement or a complex of sentiments or ideas arising from the manufactured or natural perception of an advertisement or an incidentally advertisement-like idea that came from the reaction to an advertisement. what the hell kind of society do i live in

Isn't Qubes dom0 base too old for a security oriented distro? They have recently updated dom0 to Fedora 41 according to the changelogs on their website, but the current Fedora is on version 43. Surely there were hundreds of CVEs patches between those two releases.

>>90744 >I tried +"just-a-friend" -just -a -friend, and got results for justafriend I wanted results for the hyphenated phrase "just-a-friend" specifically, so this didn't prove useful. >Try including more keywords in your query, search engines aren't full-text searches and ignore punctuation. This, along with navigating up to the 6th-7th page of Google, solved my problem. Thank you.

What can i do to get started with a meshtastic compatiable LoRa board? Any projects in the domain of openint, counter-surviallance?

are there any uncensored AI? i've been looking even on the darknet, and, nothing. i'm fuarrrking tired of stupid yankee AI with a broom stuck up their asses.

>>90899 Just download a model off huggingface and run it yourself

>>90900 off my 2GB CPU? right.

>>90901 Venice.ai but their model lack and are small. Better solution would be to a run top-tier uncensored model for $0.1-0.2 per hour by renting GPU (4090 or TPU) online using vast.ai for example. They accept crypto.

>>90899 There is a small version of Deepseek you can run yourself I guess is uncensored or could be easily. Needs 24gb of VRAM and 128gb of DDR5 ram.

When setting up an Vivian+lainchan imageboard, what are some of the basic methods to prevent spam and cp? Fail2ban is a given, but what else?

>>90918 disable url and fileposting. just a mini textboard (cute)

where is the IRC? i need somewhere to inform the internet about my feelings

>>90891 >howie question

>>90918 please don't waste money and resources setting up yet another imageboard that no one will use and that will be shut down in two years

>>90962 >>90918 nah fuarrrk that, do it because it's fun, that's the whole point

>>90963 that's what everyone who does this says. Then they spin up a clonechan running some ib software they got online, don't secure anything, have CP spammed on their websites by brazilian teenagers, get spooked, then delete their soykaf and are forgotten about

>>90963 Go do it brother, I also want to host an imageboard that me and 3 bots will use! As far as I know, to prevent spam you could at least use Anubis or something of the likes. For illegal material, i believe Microsoft and Google have services to prevent that open to everyone. As for people spamming, I can't think of much. A rate limiter and max file size could do it.

Any good site for pirating fonts? I'm looking for a particular Japanese paid font.

>>91010 your-favorite-redlib-instance/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/software/#wiki_.1F4D1_.279C_fonts I've also seen some huge font collections on Nyaa. Maybe check those out if you haven't already.

>>90921 Good idea to be honest >>90962 I will do whatever the fuarrrk I want thank you >>90963 This guy gets it

>>89673 How do I start a cryptocurrency?

What do I need to learn to write viruses and computer worms as a hobby? I'm an absolute beginner and want to get myself to a level where I can create simple worms and viruses I can toy around with in a controlled environment. How do I do this?

>>91067 Learn how to run virtual environments in different virtual machines, such as qemu, vmware and etc. Also learn about operating systems and administration, security and file access mechanisms, plus the usual basic computer programming stuff, how the cpu works, networking models, multi threading and whatever else you think would be useful.

>>91065 mine basic coin like pi at first

>>90660 >>90645 Smartbuy is not too bad, didnt have an issue yet Transcend is also ok

Do I need to use a vpn while torreting? whats a free one I can use to torrent? I don't wanna pay to steal. even if its only for two files.

>>91079 It depends on how likely the files you are downloading are to get you in trouble. Without a VPN, anyone can see your IP in relation with the files you download, and law enforcement can trivially find your home address from an IP and a timestamp. If you think torrenting on a bare IP is too dangerous (I personally wouldn't worry about copyright infringement for only a few files), you can use i2p that is meant for this exact usecase, or Tor. Not all torrents are accessible on i2p, but you can ask on irc or postman. People will tell you not to torrent on Tor because muh strain on the network, but it's ok if you don't seed.

I'm building a program, and one feature requires basic image recognition - if someone uploads an image, I want to be able to get a simple summary of it - "A cat jumping at a bird", "a female pornography model", "a book on a desk", that level of basic is enough. The problem is that this must be able to run on a super cheap server: no GPU, preferably under 1GB RAM, low storage space (preferably less than a couple of GB, but can go higher if necessary). Any recommendations?

>>91086 Hmm what's the safest way for a tech illiterate noob to torrent with i2p or tor?

>>91087 I no longer need an answer: - I did come across Darknet ImageNet project but the model doesn't have enough coverage for this program's purpose - free requests to huggingface programs are enough as this program is only run a couple of times a day

>>91091 Do not torrent over tor. >First, i2p is for *sharing* it uses garlic route. >Second, most torrents will leak your ip adress even on tor.

>will Oh yeah? How about working http://tululoo.com but only +-/ and still expects all modern feature of a game???

>>91102 Can you explainthe leak? How does the leak happen?

>>91102 Torrenting is a "peer-to-peer" (p2p) technology which means you are directly connecting to other people's to share files. When you join a swarm (the group of people uploading and downloading a specific file) your torrent client must share your ip adress so that other people's know where to send the packets. And, >Anyone else in that same swarm can see a list of all connected IP Adresses. >Features like Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and Peer Exchange (PEX) help you find more peers but also broadcast your IP further across the network.

>flood >Will Can't even post

>>90717 >>90718 >>90728 I think I figured this out. The problem is no network connectivity. It's an 'autist' machine, with no connection to anything outside itself. Looking for how to fix the 'no network connectivity' error, brought me to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291898 You need to set firewall_backend=iptables in /etc/libvirt/network.conf I haven't figured out how to do this yet, since it involves chrooting in artix and updating the libvirtd. Also i have to reboot the vm. I've made of a cluttered mess of this install, so i'll start over again with a fresh install.

>>91111 That doesn't make sense. How can the client broadcast your IP? It doesn't even see it if you're behind a NAT.

What sort of speed up can be expected by compiling software myself (manually, or by using Gentoo) over using pre-compiled packages? I read that Debian packages for x86_64 are compiled with SEE2, but my computer supports AVX2. I'm mostly interested in making my computer more reactive, since I feel like many UIs are sluggish.

>>91163 Sluggish UI could mean the dev wrote it wrong, or you're using a computer from pre-2010, or memory is swapped to an HDD. Since AVX2 came out after 2010, either the dev wrote it wrong, or you're swapping.

>>91167 I guess many devs write wrong then, but that wasn't my question.

>>91163 UIs are slow because modern devs are retarded. https://youtube.com/watch?v=L41oIvre9K0

How do I securely wipe an old android phone? Is there a way to do it without physically destroying it? When I look it up all the results just say to factory reset it but does that actually wipe the data in a way that is not recoverable. With hard drives I always just write random data over it.

>>91194 What I would do is 1. Factory reset 2. Fill the storage with random data 3. Factory reset a second time There are probably better ways, but this should make sure nothing sensitive remains on the phone.

I have a simple home 'lab' that I installed xcp-ng on, and then xo community edition on. Now I want to run containers using docker. Is it best to make a vm with a minimal debian install, and then docker engine on that? Or is there a better way?

would running a verizon locked android smart phone exclusively over TOR be a secure way of using the thing? I'm just using it to receive bitcoin

>>89673 >HDD spindowns are they worth it or not? >On one hand, electricity prices will be going up even more in the near future so it would be nice to keep costs down >On the other hand, I heard this causes drives to wear and tear much quicker and are getting more expensive to replace Obviously, you also need to factor in what you are using your server for (seeding 24/7 vs only using it when you need it). I'm also thinking ZFS might not like spindowns due to frequent data integrity checks? Any of you lainons have any insights into this?

Hi, I can't open lainchan from my home network, I only can access it via VPN, maybe someone can help. here's a thread about it: https://www.linux.org/threads/traceroute-stops-at-globalsecurelayer-com.63625/

I like https://submatrix.net it's a tech focused link aggregator with proximity so after liking and disliking a bunch of stuff it will estimate what else you will like. Good community as well.

Looking for browser extensions to improve YouTube. I know sponsorblock exists to crowdsource when segments begin/end and autoskips them but is there anything that lets you make rules per channel? Would rather write in a config file "If X channel skip first 20 seconds" rather than input the times and segment title into sponsorblock cause I mainly watch smaller channels. Any other extension recommendations welcome. Other than sponsorblock I use unhook to remove bloat from the webpage. Shorts, recommended videos, etc.

>>91330 anyone please? I can't open lainchan without a VPN

>>91367 It's hard to say for sure without more details. It could be dns issues. Does https://107.161.19.243/ or https://[2604:180:1:c59::2c97]/ load (ignore the bad cert warning)? It could be ISP filtering, in which case your only recourses are angry letters or proxies.

>>91368 The IP addresses don't load for me. I tried several different DNS servers (google, cloudfare) without success. did your read through the linux.org thread? also thanks for your reply lainon

>>91369 I hadn't, now I did. I can only assume your IP is in a blocklist for a reason or another. It might be worth it to check that nothing in your network is participating in a botnet. The "goliath" hostname is unrelated to you, as I get it too. Here is my traceroute if you're interested: > traceroute 107.161.19.243 traceroute to 107.161.19.243 (107.161.19.243), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 _gateway (X.X.X.X) 2.318 ms 2.603 ms 2.499 ms 2 * * * 3 X.X.X.X (X.X.X.X) 6.442 ms 6.642 ms 7.259 ms 4 * * * 5 po3.par-thpa2-cr4.globalsecurelayer.com (206.148.26.58) 6.868 ms 6.392 ms 6.680 ms 6 goliath-volumetric-in.globalsecurelayer.com (206.148.27.228) 6.617 ms 5.383 ms 5.387 ms 7 10.200.0.0 (10.200.0.0) 5.629 ms 6.192 ms 6.731 ms 8 * * * (no more replies, 107.161.19.243 ignores pings) > traceroute 2604:180:1:c59::2c97 traceroute to 2604:180:1:c59::2c97 (2604:180:1:c59::2c97), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets 1 X::X (X::X) 2.169 ms 2.452 ms 2.385 ms 2 X::X (X::X) 3.784 ms 4.080 ms 4.022 ms 3 X::X (X::X) 4.371 ms 4.313 ms 4.584 ms 4 * X::X (X::X) 5.386 ms 5.670 ms 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 be9080.rcr81.par05.atlas.cogentco.com (2001:550:0:1000::9a36:390d) 9.233 ms 9.140 ms 8.706 ms 8 2001:978:3::56 (2001:978:3::56) 4.938 ms 15.274 ms 5.299 ms 9 2001:668:0:2:ffff:0:5995:8236 (2001:668:0:2:ffff:0:5995:8236) 142.609 ms 137.899 ms 138.307 ms 10 2001:668:0:3:ffff:0:adcd:304e (2001:668:0:3:ffff:0:adcd:304e) 138.058 ms 138.127 ms 137.596 ms 11 2604:180:1:c59::2c97 (2604:180:1:c59::2c97) 141.653 ms 141.166 ms 140.949 ms For the record, trying to connect to https with the IPv4 address times out today. Connecting with http works, but redirects to https://www.lainchan.org/ (which my system then connects to using IPv6 by default, I don't want to mess with that right now). Funny open ports on the IPv4 host though.

>>91370 >I hadn't, now I did. I can only assume your IP is in a blocklist for a reason or another. It might be worth it to check that nothing in your network is participating in a botnet. hmm, what can i do about it? there's not a single page that gives me that problems like lainchan. I haven't had any sings that i am part of a botnet

>>91091 Don't torrent through Tor because it's too slow. >>91369 It can't be DNS issue if the IP address doesn't work. I think your ISP might be IP blocking the site or there is a problem with your router. I suggest that you reset it to factory defaults and configure it again.

hello loveable anons. new to linux. am observing the ongoing systemd soykafshow. was gonna try debian, now looking at other options. but the question is, are there anything else about linux that i need to keep watch other than systemd? anything else that has possibilities of getting fuarrrked in the future? thanks in advance.

>>91439 I am personally not worried much. I use #!++, if systemd ever becomes a problem I will just switch my base repos to Devuan. Any garbage which depends on systemd is not worth using period. The problem is corpo dick sucking for gibs. Even the Linux kernel is guilty of this. As long as you are looking at software that is using a GNU license then there will always be some contrarian turbo autist willing to dump his virgin years into a freedom respecting fork. Unless the jews can get an entire generation laid then this will remain a certainty.

I am hekkin old and not keeping track of this local AI scene. I was thinking about building a PC just to run models on and then I thought about GPU bridging. Can I buy two cheaper AMD GPUs and connect them with a crossfire cable to run a large model?

>>91439 Not really, there is the wayland debacle but it's honestly an irrelevant slapfight in comparison to what's happening with systemD.

What's a good portable Linux with persistence for a USB stick? Search recommend mxlinux but have anyone actually tried it? It's a ass - it looks like ass, by default it launches a software updater which eated the entire ram and simply froze the computer and I had to hard reset, questionable software choices by default and incredibly bloated. Is actually the best that 2026 can offer?

So I found out Lainchan is being blocked somewhere along the line in my internet. Did anybody else experience this? If I use a VPN I can get to it just fine. Makes me think its DNS

>>91484 Welp, looks like it must be some sort of ISP level filtering. I'm guessing Lainchan's IP address got caught up in something stupid and now its being blocked by a lot of ISPs. I need to send an angry email to Frontier.

I have a wireless mouse & keyboard combo (logitech mk270) and it works fine, except when the keyboard moves the numpad 7 key gets input. I checked underneath the button and there's no water or anything.

whycome that sometimes you can't close cmd.exe or powershell with alt+f4? depends on how its launched or the os config or something

>>91465 depending on your needs and expertise, Alpine may be worth a shot. it's extremely lightweight, you start even more bare bones than with Arch, but it's usable once you set it up properly (that is assuming you don't need glibc, as it's musl only). if your machine has enough ram, there's an option to launch Alpine completely "diskless", as in you may unplug your flash drive and just go on, once you want to save something like new packages or configs you make a commit back to disk. I'd say it's as good as it gets, also saves your slow flash drive from constant read-writes. if that's not an option, well just install Arch on it like usual idk >>91484 >>91485 confirming from latvia, not DNS, since HTTP connection works and returns 301 redirect to HTTPS. I contacted my ISP and they fixed it in a day. I thought lainchan was still down this whole time lol. btw it opened fine on mobile network without any VPNs

Hi, I hope all of you are doing great! My question is: How can I become an 'above average' user of Linux/Unix-like systems? In the sense of being able to do more than just rudimentary stuff like writing trivial commands or updating my system packages. I'm aware that knowing Bash is a must, but I don't know if AWK is also an important tool for doing complex things. I was thinking about reading the Linux From Scratch book, but I don't know if it is way too advanced. I'm not a beginner, but I'm not an expert either. I'd say my level is 'mediocre.' I'm also interested in BSD-based distros. I'd like to practice how to maintain a web server. I have a long-term goal of creating my own distro, just for fun! Because I don't like to receive without giving something in return, I leave a couple of resources that may be interesting: https://www.yolinux.com/ https://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html (an online book on how the Linux kernel works internally) That and some ugly drawing I made, ha, ha. I hope everything goes well for all of you!

>>91548 >Linux from scratch Soykaf book Linux from Scratch will not teach you general unix-like system competence. Most of that book is just make and config copypasta. >I'm also interested in BSD-based distros. I'd like to practice how to maintain a web server >How can I become an 'above average' user of Linux/Unix-like systems Read the FreeBSD handbook and/or FAFO. The closest thing to an 'above average user' is a sysadmin. The FreeBSD handbook is a lot easier to get into than the unix and linux system administration handbook (also a good read). I am 99% sure this post is bait, but idgaf. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ https://github.com/ben-elbert/books/blob/master/unix-linux-system-administration-handbook-5th.pdf

>>91563 >I am 99% sure this post is bait, but idgaf. probably it is since nobody can be this retarded

First time poster here. Just wanted to know if you could help me out fixing my CD player. I try to play a CD,and it either says i didnt put anything there or reads it but doesnt play it. It worked nicely some months ago. Have you ever had a problem like this? Whats the best guide out there to fix this kind of thing? Model is LG-XA63-A1U

I got a Chinese soykafbook and want to know what distro I should put on it. I'm thinking Debian or Fedora. What is the Linux world looking like in 2026? I made the mistake of purchasing an MBP so I've been on macOS for a couple of years and I'm making the switch back. Is Debian 13 good? I've heard good things about the upcoming Fedora 44 release. Taking recommendations beyond just those two. The only caveat is that I value my time and I'm not particularly fond of Arch. If anyone is curious, the soykafbook in question is a CHUWI FreeBook. It has and Intel Twin Lake N150, 16GB LPDDR5, a 512 GB PCIe SSD, and 2K display. Why did I get it over a used ThinkPad? Mostly just because I'm bored and wanted to try something new, even if it is like kicking dead whales down the beach. If I don't like it I'll just drop a couple hundred bucks on a used ThinkPad anyways so not much harm done.

>>91573 I should also clarify - I don't give a soykaf about wayland or systemd, I just want something that works.

>>91573 arch has worked on every single machine ive installed it on first try (barring skill issues) >>91548 fafo. poke it till it breaks. fix it and do it again. make it do something goofy. it's yours to play with, take advantage of that.

>>91573 bunsenlabs is a debian fork thats the spiritual successor of crunchbang- it comes out the box with all the software, libraries, and repositories that you need and it is light on resources so it should run smoothly on whatever you throw it on. I highly recommend it, from 2011-2020 I distro-hopped probably once or twice a year-but since 2020 i've been consistently on bunsenlabs since as my main driver. if I need anything else I just flash it to a single purpose USB or SD card and use it as a live usb. For example if I need tails, kali, slax, tinycore, raspbian etc...

>>91577 >bunsenlabs I wasn't aware that crunchbang had a spiritual successor. I'll give it a look. Preconfigured and lightweight sound useful.

>>91572 You need to run it with the casing off. If the motor runs and moves the head then check if the laser needs replacing, otherwise it's the motor or drive band. These are such a simple technology, very straight forward to fix. The only trouble you are going to have is the soykafting plastic shell it comes in.

>>91579 you definitely should check it out and give it a solid chance because it will rock your world

Anyone know if a librebooted T60/X60 is blobless? I checked on their website and it says: "We do not have a single device that can be considered be “100% free”, and such absolutes are nearly impossible to reach." I'm not sure if that means literally every single blob down to the ME or what? But ask any LLM and it'll say that it is. Yes, I am aware of RISC-V and its efforts for free hardware, I too am waiting patient for the DC ROMA III laptop next month but before that, I want to know if the T60/X60 is possible? Anyways, pretty sure the DC ROMA III laptop has some proprietary hardware on it like the PSU since it uses the Framework 13 laptop build but that is a discussion for another time.

>>91565 The day before I made that question a friend was having a problem with his server and I was unable to help him, so I want to get better at this so I can help whoever needs help with setting up a Linux system. But apparently this board does not take kindly on these kind of questions. Even after I drew a little picture you're still a meanie *sob* *sob* >>91563 >I am 99% sure this post is bait, but idgaf. Why would it be? The paranoia of 4chan's userbase about believing that a post is bait or was created by a bot is one of the main reasons why I stopped visiting that site. Still, thank you very much for your answer, I genuinely appreciate that you took the time provide me some links. Thanks a lot! >>91575 If Linux systems have a soul, I probably have like 20 ghouls following me to curse my ass because of the anger they feel towards me for messing them up and abandoning them, which means I need formal theory so I mitigate my mistakes. Just today I almost screwed up a server because of a badly done timedatectl configuration because I'm stupid (maybe 565 is not wrong about that comment). Maybe I'll just install CRUX and see what it comes from it. Thank you for your answer!

Any series or film I want to watch I can find a magnet link somewhere, any music I want to download can be found on SS. What is the point of private trackers? Is it just to be part pf some secret club or are there genuine benifits?

>>91623 You're a little less likely to connect to a honeypot on a private tracker. Also many torrents are better seeded on private trackers.

>>91624 >>91604 >Youu're a little less likely to connect to a honeypot on a private tracker In 2026 the year of our lord, are people really getting v& for downloading movies? I suppose its the seeding of torrents that gets you in trouble.

>>91624 Also >Also many torrents are better seeded on private trackers. Maybe im just not into obscure enough madia because anything I want to download has plenty of seeders. Even if its just one or two, I start downloading before I leave for work and by the time I get home its finished. (Post discarded)

Any suggestion for home server setup? I selfhost some services at home server (basicaly nextcloud) and expose it to clearnet via tailscale funnel. All works perfectly for me. But its all rely on tailscale which is not cool. I need some backup solution for mesh network, no corporation related preferable. Wireguard + reverse proxy VPS? Or maybe lainon knows something better for this case?

>>91744 Call your ISP and ask to be given a dynamic IP address and removed from CGNAT; then sign up to a free dynamic dns service (you could also ask for a static IP but those usually cost extra) You could also host an onion service, then you don't have to port-forward and since only people you give out your .onion link to can access the server it's also less likely to get pwned. The slowness might be a dealbreaker tho I don't know much about mesh networks so I can't help you there. I've heard of reticulum and lora.

I'm trying to access Google drive folders on an android phone which doesn't have any gapps installed. Unfortunately web browsers can't access them anymore, and I need a way to download folders people sometimes link over the Internet

Are there any places where one can ask networking questions? And is there any book or learning resource to learn network troubleshooting/diagnostics? I've been fighting with various problems for months, but don't seem to get any better at solving them. So far the method has been reading similar stackoverflow posts, drawing diagrams, and explaining the problem to an LLM once I run out of motivation. Which isn't going well. >>91744 If you're behind CGNAT and need clearnet there's nothing but VPN+VPS afaik. If you have cable internet you might want to follow >>91817 >>91832 enable desktop mode for phone browser

was there a e-ink reader modding thread before? i'm sure of it but i can't find it. i need to buy one as a gift but i'd like one that has physical ports to put files into and does not require accounts or internet.

Bruh wtf is this soykaf ClientRects/DomRects fingerprinting? Is it true that ClientRects is essentially the new Digital ID for your web browser? I tested this and I was shocked too that essentially if you use Tor Browser on xyz computer then use Tails on xyz computer it is the same hash. But when you use tor browser on other computer its different. https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/work_items/21545 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/55204 https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-browser-getclientrects-fingerprinting/12158

>>91891 Tor is designed to be completely standardized such that things like fonts are going to be the same in every instance of tor. However some information, like screen resolution, has not been standardized. There have been some attempts at fixing this on the tor project (such as introducing fixed window sizes) but they're evidently not yet complete. Since getClientRects is a JavaScript function, tor's guideline not to enable JS applies here.

>>91894 Yo u missing the point dawg let me explain. Regular browsing requires javscript, not talking about this site and real sites know how to make their site work with html and css. I'm talking about the normal web. Most people say to use "browser profiles" or browser compartmentalization. The problem is all browsers share the same clientrect per device. Firefox -> Mullvad Browser -> Librewolf -> Tor Browser = Same ClientRect Brave -> Chromium -> Vivaldi -> Microsoft Edge = Same ClientRect So you have linux xyz installed and your using Librewolf then you use Tails on same device or external drive with TBB installed and you have same fingerprint since its the same device. I can't vouch for them yet but unless you are using VM's or a device computer for isolated tasks then you have already been got by CDN's like cloudflare that fingerprint you. The project that seems to propose something that seems like a vialble solution is HydraVeil which using bwrap to spoof each browser isolated namespace to give a unique fingerprint to each alias/activity. https://simplifiedprivacy.com/vpn-browser-tutorial/easy-to-use.html

>>91572 clean the laser lens or check if there is a way to adjust the laser strength >>91604 >If Linux systems have a soul, I probably have like 20 ghouls following me to curse they do they are called daemons >>91896 based I will look into that thanks for the share

Bruh this is the funniest github comment i have seen in awhile https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/issues/4182#issuecomment-4210761196 Could some make a thread where people post funny github comments either links or screenshots

>>91937 make one yourself u lazy fuarrrk or go plug ur PS/2 keyboard in and fry ur PC -> >>13359

>>89673 I've recently began using XMPP and the Gajim app on my computer. I created a groupchat (there's no one in it besides me) to paste some random texts, but i've been getting this encryption error. Anyone could help? In case you ask, I have Blind Trust enabled

whycome ctrl+u works (deletes entire line before cursor like in a shell) in firefox and other gtk flimsyware. does ctrk+K work in any? what other shell hotkeys are allowed? tried alt+d alt+w ctrl+w (whoops)

I need to replace my smartphone. Unfortunately, I can’t quit using them because of work. Ideally, I want a smartphone that can run an OS that’s FOSS, secure, and respects privacy. What OS should I be looking for and do they only work on certain models of smartphone?

>>91968 Graphene or Lineageos would work. If you work from home you could replace your smartphone with VoiP >do they only work on certain models of smartphone? You can check on their websites

>>91968 What do you need a smartphone for? >Phone calls / SMS Any dumb phone will work >Web / mail / other internet stuff while outside There are portable 4G/5G modems you can get for cheap to use with a laptop. >GApps It's over. /e/OS or other free Androids can help but it's a lot of effort to get any modicum of privacy and you'll still get spied on.

>>91968 Btw, if you job actually requires a smartphone, it should be provided by your employer and only used for that purpose.

>>91968 A Google pixel 8 or higher with Graphene OS is what you're looking for. It supports sand-boxed google play services with an emphasis on security. You can make multiple profiles, each with their own settings, proxies, etc. For instance, you can create a personal profile and a work profile on the same device and notifications for any profiles running in the background will be forwarded to the active profile.

>>91976 I'm a contributing member of society and have sucessfully been using LineageOS on my Samsung s10e. No gapps, no issues so far. I even have whatsapp from aurora store and I turned off background activity or the battery would be drained in no time (new oem battery). Fdroid fulfills most of my needs. If it doesn't, it usually wasn't a real need packageName,versionCode,versionName com.amaze.filemanager,124,3.11.2 com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard,8175,1.13.8175 com.donnnno.arcticons,1540,14.7.1 com.mrsep.musicrecognizer,40,1.15.1 com.aurora.store,71,4.7.5 org.oxycblt.auxio,69,4.0.10 de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye,168,1.72.2 org.breezyweather,60200,6.2.0_freenet com.vayunmathur.games.chess,20260506,v2.4.4 com.bobek.compass,33,2.0.1 org.connectbot,11005000,1.10.5-oss at.bitfire.davdroid,405100003,4.5.10-ose com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.dutch_oss,6158,5.1.6158 com.fredhappyface.ewesticker,20250217,20250217 org.fdroid.fdroid,1023052,1.23.2 eu.faircode.email,2315,1.2315 org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid,1500120,150.0.1 org.fossify.calendar,20,1.10.3 org.fossify.paint,7,1.4.0 nz.eloque.foss_wallet,107,0.44.0 de.qwerty287.ftpclient,27,3.0.1 de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe,56,0.77 com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre,44200,4.4.2 fr.neamar.kiss,222,3.25.2 org.xbmc.kore,33,v3.1.0 org.documentfoundation.libreoffice,115,25.8.6.2 org.proninyaroslav.libretorrent,9000332,4.0.1 org.gateshipone.malp,42,1.3.2 is.xyz.mpv,46,2026-04-25-release com.nextcloud.client,330010090,33.1.0 it.niedermann.owncloud.notes,330010090,33.1.0 com.nfcarchiver.nfc_archiver,12,1.0.12 net.oblivion.wipe,44,1.0.5 dev.davidv.translator,162,0.5.1 org.onionshare.android.fdroid,262,0.2.3-beta net.sourceforge.opencamera,93,1.55 io.github.devhyper.openvideoeditor,7,1.1.3 app.organicmaps,26050804,2026.05.08-4-FDroid com.qfs.pagan,151,1.8.9 org.primftpd,70,8.1 com.retroarch,1597175267,1.22.2 com.atharok.screentime,9,1.3.3 org.thoughtcrime.securesms,168401,8.9.1 com.fmsys.snapdrop,45,2.3.1 com.nvllz.stepsy,20,1.6.2 com.termux,1002,0.118.3 org.torproject.torbrowser,2016159602,15.0.13 (140.10.2esr) org.forthecommunity.torrentsdigger,2103,1.2.1 net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid,2026040301,2026.04.03-fdroid org.polymorphicshade.tubular,1009,0.28.4 de.moekadu.tuner,49,9.1.1 org.videolan.vlc,13070106,3.7.1 eu.heili.wormhole,6643,1.1.8

>>91975 >>91977 >>91978 >>91992 I can never tell if FOSS types are ever giving me good advice or just trying to wage slave whatever project they are a fangirl for.

>>91996 Why do you ask, then? Retarded stupid dumbass idiot. What's >>91977 even supposed to be wage slaving? Socialism?

WHY DOES CTRL+S NOT WORK IN TOR BROWSER FOR OVER 15 YEARS DO YOU FAGGETS EVEN USE THE INTERNET PROPERLY half the time it fails and you get to press the retry button then it "works" (the saved pages are garbage regardless of when this bug happens) >inb4 wget/curl cloudflare prevents that since 2010 tho it would be much better now that i think of it ill just fix those with a quick bypass thx

>Sqreen Anyone heard of Sqreen the security application platform that Apple and others have used?

What are the risks of using someone else's Mullvad account code? I've got a friend, and I told 'em I didn't use VPN's because I didn't have any cryptocurrency, and they offered to let me use their account code if I needed it.

>>92013 It's no risk to either of you, it's just a randomly generated account number that's not tied to anything* so the only risk is that you can use (or even pay for) their VPN service. * With theoretical exception of 1) payment info and 2) friend's activity potentially being associated with you. For realistic outlook, see Mullvad's policy documents; respectively, the Privacy Policy and "How we handle government requests for user data" tl;dr it's not risky, it's also :5bux:, git gud Also, I would generally (in all other cases) and categorically never recommend that anyone use a "free VPN"; however, ProtonVPN offers a free one now (new to me at least). Country selection is limited, and also you can't so much select one as you can try to land on the one you want. Abuse free VPN as follows until exiting via desired country: 1. Connect 2. Click "change server" button 3. In settings, toggle Protocol between OpenVPN and Wireguard 4. goto 3

>>90764 I'm not saying this is the case here, but as a, uh, theoretical generality of sorts, I would expect some people to find "real-world" industry experience more appealing for their purposes (but, now that I think of it, I wouldn't expect there to be any overlap between the set of people who have opinions about this, and the set of people in the market for a boot camp subscription)

I'm trying to set the battery charge limit on my thinkpad x200 running debian but am getting a weird error. When I try to write to the file I get "write error: No such device". I had this setting set for years but it recently stopped working and charging to 100 and I'm not sure why. I don't remember if this is how I set it before. # ls /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/ alarmcharge_behaviourcharge_start_thresholddevice energy_now model_name present subsystem uevent capacitycharge_control_end_thresholdcharge_stop_thresholdenergy_full hwmon1 power serial_number technology voltage_min_design capacity_levelcharge_control_start_thresholdcycle_countenergy_full_design manufacturer power_now status type voltage_now # echo 85 >/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold bash: echo: write error: No such device

>>89673 Is it just me, or did Chicago 95 used to come with a bunch of different colorful themes? I remember using colored Windows 95 styled themes in XFCE. Currently Chicago 95 only comes with the default themes and there's a tool called Chicago 95 Plus that lets you install windows .theme files (which is a pain in the ass to find even on internet archive and never works for me because their python script gives endless errors despite fulfilling all python dependencies). Am I going crazy? Is this some sort of mandela effect?

IVE F*CKING SEEN IT ALL NOW not only do downloads get stuck forever not only do downloads go negative speed not only do the progress bars flip forward and backward not only were all those bugs there for 15 years (you just dont know if your bay n*gger with 100mbit) BUT IT DELETES THE FILES YOU DOWNLOADED 10 MINUTES AFTER so, you download a file it says failed then you press the restart button it downloads, its 300KB. open it in separate browser with internet access disabled in firewall. confirm page was saved properly then you look again 10 minutes later HTE HTML FILE IS NOW 0 BYTES

>>92027 For that matter, why does Firefox needs to redownload everything when you save a page? I also wish it would just save the DOM as it is, instead of downloading JS scripts that require an internet access. (if I want to download the raw files, wget is a better fit anyway)

Hey guys, are there any small LLMs that can act as boyfriends? Like below 20B

>>92028 I'm pretty sure ff has a way to save the html as-is, search for it

>>92030 go to a 4/g/ archive like https://arch.b4k.dev/g/ and look for the /lmg/ general for info on self hosting and current recommended models. although i wouldn't suggest it from personal experience, it's just going to make you more miserable.

What is the best general way of learning a linux command? Reading the man page? tldr? Do you just look it up and paste it and forget? Do you set aliases for certain very specific commands? Do you make notes on how to use them?

>>92036 you just use it, reading the manual when you need to know how to do something with it. until you don't need to read the manual each time anymore. >Do you make notes on how to use them? god no, you're not listening to a university lecture. you're using tools. the only thing i do is keeping a file with long commands for very specific things that i rarely use but might be useful, for example how to get a cert from a server with openssl.

>>92036 >best general way? asking for the impossible, depends on too many factors e.g. complexity, frequency, "ease of search", and accessibility >man page? just one of many possible sources for learning there's not one definitive best source for all cases sometimes the best option is to just read the source code >notes? write notes for specific use cases (e.g. for a project), not for the tool itself

How fuarrrked am I? I was trying to to view a PDF from a questionable source without actually downloading it. Really, I should've just made a new VM to open this file, but I was feeling lazy today because I'm tired. I tried to archive the PDF using a couple of websites, but it wouldn't go through for some reason. I was trying to get the direct link to the PDF so I could use an external source to extract the content of it. I know I ran the embedded file link through VirusTotal, and there were no hits. I was trying to view the direct link to the PDF, but I couldn't find it through the Network Monitor in Firefox because it was hidden behind DDOS protection. I think I was trying to do something like curl -I -H with the cookie I had from loading the main website (not the file) in my browser. But I wasn't able to get the direct link that way. Because I have automatic file saving disabled, I tried to hit the button so it would prompt to download, and I looked at the location, but it was just the main name of the website. Eventually, I created a new read-only folder and let Firefox prompt the download location and saved the file to that folder so the download would fail just so I could see where the link itself was downloading from. Absolutely nothing showed up in the Network Monitor, at all, and there were no traces of a failed download. This didn't happen for all files, because I just tried saving some basic webpages to that folder, and it clearly showed that the download failed, saving nothing in the process. I was able to get direct download links for those test downloads. Next, I decided to create a separate browser profile and try something new: I disabled the disk cache and memory cache and disabled service workers. I made sure to disable automatic downloads, but I don't think I looked carefully enough or got one of the settings mixed up here. I went to do the intentionally failed download again, but instead of prompting me for the location at all, it just automatically downloaded and opened the file in the Firefox PDF viewer. Quickly, I shut the tab, deleted the file, and deleted the separate profile. There are no strange processes, unusual outbound connections, new executable files that shouldn't be there, new files in home that shouldn't be there, new changes to shell configs, or new scheduled tasks. The safest bet would be to re-install, but it would be a giant pain in the ass. The schizo part of me wants to smash all of my hardware with a sledgehammer and take apart every electronic in my house with a screwdriver just to look for signs it has been tapped, and I feel paranoid trains of thoughts coming back that I haven't had in years - just a phantom feeling like someone's watching me, thinking about what they would be saying about my activities, as if it were narration.

>>92054 >The safest bet would be to re-install, but it would be a giant pain in the ass. Yes. >The schizo part of me wants to smash all of my hardware with a sledgehammer and take apart every electronic in my house with a screwdriver just to look for signs it has been tapped, and I feel paranoid trains of thoughts coming back that I haven't had in years Exactly. Reinstall it

>I made sure to disable automatic downloads, but I don't think I looked carefully enough or got one of the settings mixed up here. I went to do the intentionally failed download again, but instead of prompting me for the location at all, it just automatically downloaded and opened the file in the Firefox PDF viewer. Hold on, so... it was some document file? Reinstall this soykaf if you really feel trainful of thoughts, or even more radical, remove the hard disk drive away, grab a blank hard drive to install the new OS to "justify" the reinstallation. I wonder if you're simply a young chap so you don't understand the concept of them being too busy to handle little busters being little busters all over interwebz-9000 every time any of them downloads some 1945 schematic, though. P.S. >wants to smash all of my hardware with a sledgehammer and take apart every electronic in my house with a screwdriver just to look for signs it has been tapped Been there when I was a kid too. Drinking mugs of coffee tends to stimulate my sense including the amygdala which does this to me too. Had to cut down on listening to action music due to that.

>>92054 why don't you analyze the pdf for malicious code with something like pdf-parser instead? the damage is already done if something happened. there's guides on the internet.

>>89673 I have a .mkv video file with several audio tracks included. How can I delete all of them except for one? Also, is there any way to intrinsically shrink the size of the video (example: from 1200*800 to 900*600)?