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Desktop thread Anonymous 07/24/2023 (Mon) 12:34:30 No. 79 [Reply] [Last]
How does your desktop look like /t/? How ricy is it?
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>>1367 dwm loser on i3wm games work well and alt tabbing is a joke, because it actually provides a superior way to switch between windows
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>>1359 I have so little respect for EndeavorOS users. It's just arch for newbs and script kiddies
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>>1369 people have to start somewhere, besides, somebody had to make arch usable
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>>1366 Just as you said, most desktop apps aren't meant to be viewed in an aspect ration that's too different from 16:9, so a lot of them look weird in a tiling WM
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>>1371 check out i3wm's stacked and tabbed layouts, they're amazing. I almost exclusively use tabbed and it rocks

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mp3 player Anonymous 09/08/2024 (Sun) 09:34:25 No. 742 [Reply] [Last]
I want to buy an mp3 player but I don't know which one is the best, so I'm asking you to help me choose one, please. I found this: https://www.amazon.fr/AGPTEK-Bluetooth-Enregistreur-Supporter-T%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone/dp/B0CKV9HDP2/ but I don't know if its true or false. xhat do you think of it?
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>>1351 why u angry?
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>>1357 you tell me
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>>1358 angry because nobody is fondling you rn
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>>1360 i fondle myself 3 times a day wanna me fondle you as well?
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>>1361 please fondle meeeeee I can fondle you too

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Drust0!uezEqy.DqQ 12/09/2023 (Sat) 14:21:34 No. 317 [Reply]
inspired by: https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/73638.html Let's make our own webring Hikari3! How to participate? Post the following: * Link to your homepage * 240x60 .gif banner for your webpage Each anon will can then advertise other anon's sites on their homepage with their banner and a clickable link! I will also keep a directory of everyone's link on my site: https://unreadable.info (picrelated is the banner btw)
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>>1294 I don't have anything interesting to post on it though, other than pirated ebooks.
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>>1295 make a site dedicated to teaching people about torrenting or something. just something bro. make a neocities.
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i am making a personal site on neocities as a project to learn html and css, but i do not knopw very much at all and it is far from complete. maybe when it's closer to completion i'd consider adding it to a webring.
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I've followed the LC ring threads for yeaaars but never posted any site I made because they're all smart nerds posting blogs about the same tech stuff I don't understand plus thats kind of their theme. if more h3 sites are posted I might join too, since people here are less intimidating but I also buy new domains every year when I think of something new, so maybe I wait
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>>1305 just post, nobody else will

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Mechanical Keyboards Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 19:33:45 No. 1171 [Reply]
Discuss mechanical keyboards Topre = endgame edition
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>>1341 I know there's some SGI boards that use their own protocol or whatever but mine's a 9500829 that just uses PS/2, I don't actually have anything to plug it into, though... My PC motherboard doesn't have a PS/2 port sadly, I convert my vintage keyboards to USB with Pro Micros or get custom PCBs made for them. The Model M is a good board, enjoy it! I assume you meant to say rubber dome (Quiet Touch) instead of membrane because all Model Ms use a membrane for sensing, even the buckling spring ones. I own a few Model Ms myself, but I prefer my Model Fs since the springs are a bit lighter and the bottom-out is firmer. I actually "cushionless modded" one of my Ms and I think it feels much nicer, though I wouldn't recommend it for most people since it took ages and there's a possibility of breaking stuff, also changes the sound a lot which you may not like.
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>>1342 oh ok so that's why they fried. personally i use a cheap ps/2 to usb converter for now because i suck ass at soldering btw a couple of years have passed since i researched into it before buying (forgot all the terminologies) but yes i was talking about later variants using rubber dome >though I wouldn't recommend it for most people since it took ages and there's a possibility of breaking stuff, also changes the sound a lot which you may not like. yeah just for the rarity of these things where i live (not US) i'm even scared to just clean it up. by the way, do you know if the springs eventually break and if there's a way to change them (how?)
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>>1344 I don't live in the US either, so I know how it is, it took me a while to build up the collection I have. Those who search long and hard enough are rewarded... No, buckling springs don't go bad on their own as long as you don't mess with them, and Yes, there is a way to replace them using a toothpick or something I believe, you don't need to if they all work fine though so don't worry about it. What you *might* have to worry about is that the Model M keyboard assembly is held together using melted plastic rivets that eventually break off over time and cause the keyboard to not feel/sound good anymore or even not function properly. This can be remedied by replacing the rivets that break off with screws and washers as illustrated in pic related. Your Model M might be in good enough condition that it doesn't need it, though. Give it a gentle shake to hear if there are any small plastic parts rattling around inside, that would likely be broken-off rivets.
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>>1345 thank you, saved! i'm going to look it up this summer when i have to clean it a little ヽ(・∀・)ノ
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>>1346 Here's the hardware you need for it, M2x8 Self-Tapping Screws (Countersunk) and M2.5 or M3 Washers (6mm or 7mm Outer Diameter), you will need 60 of both to fully screw mod a fullsize Model M, but I recommend only replacing rivets that have broken off and leaving those that are still intact alone. Make sure you have a 5.5mm nut driver to actually open your Model M up, as well. Screw mod isn't to be confused with bolt mod, which is an older mod that accomplishes the same thing, but is more intensive and finicky.

Anonymous 07/19/2023 (Wed) 20:23:42 No. 48 [Reply] [Last]
What was your first Linux distro? Over a decade ago, on my shitty vista laptop, I flashed Gentoo on to it, because people said it was best to start with in a chatroom I was in... I ended up figuring it out somehow though.
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>>1330 which distro do you use now
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>>49 I'm on mint right now
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>>1331 Alpine Linux
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My first one was Mint, now I use Void. (1337 get)
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A get deserving to be taken by a voidfag

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Anonymous 05/13/2025 (Tue) 01:52:34 No. 1317 [Reply]
how do you find people to program with?
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>>1319 If you've never had a cs job it's ok to just say that
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>>1320 I have not D: Are you more productive programming with others? Doubt it.
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>>1321 100%. If you're not, you're just doing it wrong or thinking about it the wrong way
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>>1317 If it's work, you just work with people and that's it. Personal projects? You will likely make all of them by yourself, mostly because it's not easy to have visibility on the internet just like that. You can try to contribute to already-existing open-source projects, but it's much easier idea-wise and motivation-wise to work on your own stuff rather than learning someone else's codebase and then figure out and idea of what could be changed that you can implement.
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>>1326 About >figuring out what you could implement The probably best way is to use the software and find out why it's garbage (because it always is)

Anonymous 07/07/2023 (Fri) 08:16:18 No. 2 [Reply]
What kind of projects are you working/worked on /t/? Or if you're not working on something, do you have any ideas you'd like to work on? Share your progress or showcase your works
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>>77 how does it work?
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im currently replying on my most recent project, a school laptop running whatever distros of linux i feel like gonna rice the hell out of it and have people pay me to do the same to theirs (already made 20 bucks )
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>>2 a webserver in Lua. just finished writing a little extension for it so it can chroot and drop privileges. pic not related
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i'm currently working on a wiki software! in php of course I plan for very basic features, simple markdown parser.
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I've written a few personal projects over the years, but this time I'll write a nice Linux tool. It will be a CLI program that can handle battery charge thresholds, laptop backlight brightness and CPU min frequency, max frequency, governor and turbo toggles. This will be easy due to the fact that hardware is interpreted as files on Linux, so it's easy to modify these values

Anonymous 04/09/2024 (Tue) 01:30:38 No. 492 [Reply]
What's your text editor of choice? Vim for me
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>>1290 muerte it really is hard to find a decent ide/code editor that is lightweight and graphical, or one that is TUI but not vim-like, the options are basically narrowed down to geany, kate, micro and maybe some other editor i don't know about
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>>1307 I never figured geany out
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>>1310 I was very confused at first but things become simpler when you ignore the functionalities related to projects and project files when trying to load a whole project directory or import it. If you enable the file-browser plugin and just manually open source files from your explorer, it becomes much simpler/flexible/universal, etc. That's how I use geany and it's very nice that way
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>>492 pure vim with no extensions
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>>492 VSCodium for most stuff, neovim for quick stuff or for ricing. Ricing in VSCodium just feels wrong.

Anonymous 03/18/2024 (Mon) 02:36:30 No. 448 [Reply]
Recommendations for Windows laptops similar in appearance to the iBook G3 It seems like such a thing should exist with how the other computer makers love copying off of Apple, but I'm having a hard time finding any
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>>1077 Proton is a fork of Wine, but it has a few tweaks so it can run seamlessly with Steam. By my experience the best runners are Wine-GE/Proton-GE, if you haven't yet, I would recommend trying it out, although the creator is now working mostly on UMU Launcher, which is by their description on Github: > A unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam. By my understanding it let's you run proton without Steam, so now they don't need to have a Wine-GE and Proton-GE separated, and considering Wine-GE have not been update in more than a year now, and also the Bottles and Lutris creators are heavily involved in UMU, I can assume it's where most of the work is going to right now.
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>>1077 I don't believe anyone claimed it didn't
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Proton is gay and corporate, and I don't understand how to use it. With wine, it just werks. How do I even install your proton crap?
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>>1080 Proton is used on Steam. Corporate? Yes, but FOSS as well with so far no indication of anti-user or anti-freedom practices. Proton has a few neat patches on top of WINE such as fshack, fsync, DXVK and other compatibility patches. You can add games outside Steam as "non-steam games" to make use of Proton easily with them. Otherwise some launchers like Bottles and Lutris have Proton-GE support but you might not like the launchers for their technicalities or even their ideologies (Bottles Flatpak ideology)
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>>1313 There is also UMU Launcher now, which by my experience so far is the simplest way to use proton without Steam. https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

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#FediLain 名無し 04/27/2025 (Sun) 12:35:43 No. 1249 [Reply]
Are you (Lain) on the Fediverse? (ex: Mastodon)
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i was but i stopped hosting my instance a year ago. its just a massive circlejerk of do nothings.
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>>1249 No, I only used Lemmy for a bit, but the constant fracturing of instances banning eachother just makes the entire platform unusable. I called SystemD gay once too, and I got a ton of replies just saying "we don't do that here sweetie" and "we don't use that word like that here". Never again.
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>>1283 at first, lemmy was appealing to me for being a decentralized rival to reddit, but is it truly decentralized when all the big instances blacklist those instances that don't follow their extreme beliefs? lemmy users criticise reddit and redditors but they double down on everything that made reddit bad from a userbase perspective. doubling down on politics, moderation, censorship, etc i quickly left lemmy after that and never came back, and i dont even try mastodon because i know very well it's exactly the same thing but in twitter format
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>>1308 forgot to talk about the circlejerk. both lemmy and reddit have a horrible circlejerk, a good example that isn't politics (because that one is obvious and eternal) is exactly that systemd situation. i find it so unnatural and surreal that all these people collectively defend something that hates us such as systemd or freedesktop
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>>1309 corpos like redhat subsist on low iq people which is a common audience on reddit. they just hire a bunch of candy asss that spam arguments like "use whatever works, all software is good, software is just a tool" and since average reddit arch linux sucker doesn't have enough brain cells to parse through even such a trivial deception, they begin parroting the argument creating an avalanche. besides, arch linux was masterminded to have this superiority cult despite arch being a dumb and as-simple-as-possible piece of shit, so the avalanche is also reinforced by the idiots' belief they're somehow superior (in an ironic sense or not, it's the same thing effectively). it's basically unstoppable. the only way to make an OS that is resistant to such crowd manipulation is to openly telling them to btfo and ignoring their very existence. ironically this is what freedesktop does, but they act in bad faith and that makes all the difference.


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