cringe
Advertisement
by Minoa » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:32 am
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Shanghai industrial complex wrote:Windows update is mandatory, of course.Microsoft has even put out a patch to fix a bug where users can refuse to update.Every day, people ask how to disable automatic update of win10
Windows nullified every performance gain on PCs with useless bloat. And now they are eating up internet traffic bandwidth updating crap like Edge that people don't even use. Why do Microsoft hate us?
by Cekoviu » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:58 am
Minoa wrote:An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:
Windows nullified every performance gain on PCs with useless bloat. And now they are eating up internet traffic bandwidth updating crap like Edge that people don't even use. Why do Microsoft hate us?
It is among the things that says a lot about me using NTLite to bring all the bloat under control, but the trouble with the bloat has been around since Windows 98, when they bundled and integrated Internet Explorer. It could not be disabled until Windows 7, I think.
by Cisairse » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:42 pm
by Cekoviu » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:55 pm
by Cisairse » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:56 pm
Cekoviu wrote:Cisairse wrote:Hey man, I want a system that just works.
I am honestly considering Gentoo for my upcoming media pc project though.
fwiw my main laptop runs only gentoo and after a few days of simple configuration it "just works" significantly better than any operating system i've tried previously on it (debian and briefly windows). it has issues with the internal bluetooth adapter but that's the kernel, not gentoo, so i blame torvalds
if you use it for the media pc, watch out, you'll fall in love with it and be compelled to install it on everything. i was originally just going to put it on a very old compaq laptop because slackware wasn't working on it. only a week later i was installing gentoo over debian on my desktop and laptop!
by Cekoviu » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:17 pm
Cisairse wrote:Cekoviu wrote:fwiw my main laptop runs only gentoo and after a few days of simple configuration it "just works" significantly better than any operating system i've tried previously on it (debian and briefly windows). it has issues with the internal bluetooth adapter but that's the kernel, not gentoo, so i blame torvalds
if you use it for the media pc, watch out, you'll fall in love with it and be compelled to install it on everything. i was originally just going to put it on a very old compaq laptop because slackware wasn't working on it. only a week later i was installing gentoo over debian on my desktop and laptop!
Oh I mean
Debian is absolutely horrible
I left it for arch circa 2010
I plan on using Gentoo for my media pc because I want to compile a super stripped down kernel and while I COULD do that using Arch it's much easier with gentoo
Arch's package management system is still unbeatable though
by Cisairse » Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:03 pm
Cekoviu wrote:Cisairse wrote:Oh I mean
Debian is absolutely horrible
I left it for arch circa 2010
I plan on using Gentoo for my media pc because I want to compile a super stripped down kernel and while I COULD do that using Arch it's much easier with gentoo
Arch's package management system is still unbeatable though
what do you have against debian, just curious? i still consider it one of my top 3 distros, along with slackware and obviously gentoo. it has one of the most robust package repositories and typically works well straight out of the box, plus the choice to use a rock-solid stable distribution or a standard rolling-release one is nice.
makes sense, unironically LFS might work to make a very stripped down system as well, if you want to put in the time
i've worked a bit with pacman and i found it acceptable, but not much better than apt if at all. i far prefer portage, its custom repository selection mechanism, the clarity of its output, and its configurability for virtually any use case are all completely unbeatable.
by Cekoviu » Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:20 pm
Cisairse wrote:Cekoviu wrote:what do you have against debian, just curious? i still consider it one of my top 3 distros, along with slackware and obviously gentoo. it has one of the most robust package repositories and typically works well straight out of the box, plus the choice to use a rock-solid stable distribution or a standard rolling-release one is nice.
makes sense, unironically LFS might work to make a very stripped down system as well, if you want to put in the time
i've worked a bit with pacman and i found it acceptable, but not much better than apt if at all. i far prefer portage, its custom repository selection mechanism, the clarity of its output, and its configurability for virtually any use case are all completely unbeatable.
apt once uninstalled python when I ran apt upgrade
so when I rebooted my entire system was toast because obviously shit (such as gdm) can't run without python
immediately tossed debian in the bin, any system that uninstalls an obviously necessary package during a routine upgrade is trash-tier
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/llvm-common-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild U ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.19.2-r2 [1.19.2-r1]
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/vala-common-0.48.11 [0.48.9]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/clang-common-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/rust-bin-1.47.0 [1.46.0]
[ebuild U ] virtual/rust-1.47.0 [1.46.0]
[ebuild UD] dev-lua/luaexpat-1.3.0-r2 [1.3.3]
[ebuild r U ] dev-haskell/hxt-charproperties-9.4.0.0 [9.2.0.1]
[ebuild rR ] dev-haskell/hxt-regex-xmlschema-9.2.0.3
[ebuild rR ] dev-haskell/hxt-unicode-9.0.2.4
[ebuild r U ] dev-haskell/data-default-0.7.1.1 [0.5.3]
[ebuild rR ] dev-haskell/hxt-9.3.1.18
[ebuild rR ] app-text/pandoc-2.9.2.1
[ebuild rR ] dev-haskell/pandoc-citeproc-0.17.0.1
[ebuild U ] dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.1-r1 [5.15.1]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/curl-7.72.0-r1 [7.72.0]
[ebuild U ] dev-util/cmake-3.18.4 [3.18.3]
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/libomp-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/libcap-2.44 [2.43]
[ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0-r1 [0.5.0]
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/libinput-1.16.2 [1.16.1]
[ebuild U ] dev-python/pycairo-1.20.0 [1.19.1]
[ebuild U ] media-libs/dav1d-0.7.1 [0.7.0]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcpcd-9.3.1 [9.2.0]
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-3.9.0 [3.9.0_rc2]
[ebuild U ] media-libs/lilv-0.24.10 [0.24.8-r1]
[ebuild U ] app-text/iso-codes-4.5.0 [4.4]
[ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-5.3-r1 [5.2]
[ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.9.0 [5.4.66, 5.8.8, 5.8.12, 5.8.13]
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/vala-0.48.11 [0.48.9]
[ebuild U ] net-libs/libproxy-0.4.15-r2 [0.4.15-r1]
[ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.53.3-r1 [9.53.3]
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop-3.36.7 [3.36.5]
[ebuild U ] app-editors/visual-studio-code-1.50.0 [1.49.2]
[ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.10.34 [7.0.10.31]
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gegl-0.4.26 [0.4.24]
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/llvm-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.3.1 [78.3.0]
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/clang-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild NS ] sys-libs/compiler-rt-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild NS ] sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/clang-runtime-11.0.0 [10.0.1]
[ebuild U ] sys-auth/pambase-20201010 [20200917]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-8.4_p1-r1 [8.4_p1]
[ebuild U ] net-misc/networkmanager-1.26.2-r1 [1.26.2]
[ebuild U ] media-gfx/gimp-2.10.22 [2.10.20-r2]
[ebuild U ] net-im/zoom-5.3.472687.1012 [5.3.469451.0927]
The following packages are causing rebuilds:
(dev-haskell/data-default-0.7.1.1:0/0.7.1.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for:
(dev-haskell/pandoc-citeproc-0.17.0.1:0/0.17.0.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
(app-text/pandoc-2.9.2.1:0/2.9.2.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
(dev-haskell/hxt-charproperties-9.4.0.0:0/9.4.0.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for:
(dev-haskell/hxt-regex-xmlschema-9.2.0.3:0/9.2.0.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
(dev-haskell/hxt-9.3.1.18:0/9.3.1.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
(dev-haskell/hxt-unicode-9.0.2.4:0/9.0.2.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
by Saiwania » Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:17 am
by Cisairse » Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:06 pm
Saiwania wrote:The era of Adobe Flash has finally officially really ended, with it being truly dead in our browsers now and going forward. What with the plugin no longer working because of a hard stop coded into it by Adobe. It's full lifecycle was from January 1st 1996 until January 12th 2021. For 25 years, 11 days- it served people well for what it was. It will be missed by some but wasn't without its problems.
Here's to looking forward to whatever comes next. I'll be looking out for any emulators that can revive older .swf files that still exist, whilst moving onto the newer stuff in whatever forms it may take.
by An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:09 am
by The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:33 am
by Cisairse » Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:58 pm
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:What I want from an operating system is something like a Surgical Assistant who works unobtrusively in the background and quietly hands you what you need almost before you ask for it, what I get from Windows 10 is some cunt dressed as a clown standing too close to me waving their arms about and screaming in my face for attention.
by Saiwania » Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:30 pm
Cisairse wrote:Honestly it's crazy it took this long. It's been nearly eleven years since "Thoughts on Flash" was published. It's almost absurd that Flash lasted that long afterwards.
by Destyntine » Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:23 pm
Saiwania wrote:The era of Adobe Flash has finally officially really ended, with it being truly dead in our browsers now and going forward. What with the plugin no longer working because of a hard stop coded into it by Adobe. It's full lifecycle was from January 1st 1996 until January 12th 2021. For 25 years, 11 days- it served people well for what it was. It will be missed by some but wasn't without its problems.
Here's to looking forward to whatever comes next. I'll be looking out for any emulators that can revive older .swf files that still exist, whilst moving onto the newer stuff in whatever forms it may take.
by Cisairse » Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:45 pm
Destyntine wrote:Saiwania wrote:The era of Adobe Flash has finally officially really ended, with it being truly dead in our browsers now and going forward. What with the plugin no longer working because of a hard stop coded into it by Adobe. It's full lifecycle was from January 1st 1996 until January 12th 2021. For 25 years, 11 days- it served people well for what it was. It will be missed by some but wasn't without its problems.
Here's to looking forward to whatever comes next. I'll be looking out for any emulators that can revive older .swf files that still exist, whilst moving onto the newer stuff in whatever forms it may take.
I'm gonna miss flash, I literally grew up on flash games. Things are gonna be so much less memorable for students in the future... no more Coolmathgames.. (And lets be honest, the name they used for the site was genius, teachers never knew we would just play bloons tower defense and run 2 the entire period.)
I grew up on Kongregate and Animal Jam, sadness hits hard now that these memories can't be experienced by others.
by Minoa » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:09 pm
by Cisairse » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:41 pm
Minoa wrote:This thread because it is tech-related.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/face ... 021-10-28/
How long do you think Zuckerberg will uphold his promise to turn back on forced Facebook accounts from other services like Oculus, which was hit with a temporary sales suspension in Germany in September 2020 for that very reason (source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54014217)?
My prediction is that promise will not last long, because I imagine Facebook means so much to Zuckerberg that he would do anything to maximise the user base. But then again, every owner of a website wants a large user base. Facebook is doing the same, but in my opinion, very very unethically.
Unsurprisingly, a name change will do nothing to hide the growing public backlash over its market dominance and abuse.
by Minoa » Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:31 am
by The Second JELLIAN Republic » Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:24 pm
by Minoa » Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:29 pm
by Saiwania » Thu Dec 09, 2021 10:26 pm
by Cisairse » Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:59 am
Saiwania wrote:https://www.techradar.com/news/bitdefender-is-ending-its-free-antivirus
I've just received word that Bitdefender intends to discontinue the free version of their anti-virus/anti-malware software. What does this bode for the current/future state of anti-malware offerings that aren't commercial versions? I get that antivirus companies want/need money from somewhere, but usually its good enough to have a "freemium" model where their free software has limited capabilities but is "good enough" whilst their paid software has everything their free software doesn't.
Yes, Windows 10/11 has Windows Defender. But in my experience its usually not enough protection to keep your devices reasonably secure against new/current threats. Many people just aren't going to want to pay a subscription to protect their hardware or can't.
For those of you who do utilize third party anti-malware protection, what are your plans if you're using Bitdefender Free Edition and if you use something different- what do you all recommend so far as the "free" versions of antivirus software goes?
I used to use Comodo antivirus to give me protection, until their software became unsatisfactory. Then I used Bitdefender free edition, which was a pretty good "set it and forget it" solution up until now- now that it's going to be gone in 2022. Am looking for a replacement that has no subscription but still gives "good enough" protection but ideally has a low system footprint/impact so far as performance goes.
Some examples people could pick from now: Kaspersky Security Cloud Free, Avast Free Antivirus, AVG AntiVirus Free, Avira Free Security, Panda Free Antivirus, etc.
by Saiwania » Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:00 am
Cisairse wrote:Considering antivirus software is nearly exclusively the domain of MS Windows, I'm not particularly sad to see the field slowly dying off.
Advertisement
Users browsing this forum: No registered users
Advertisement