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The more mailing lists and forum discussions I read on the issue, the more I want to run XLibre out of pure spite for how insufferable Wayland et al. shills are. Just reading the MX Linux discussions has me seething. How happy I am to see these filthy niggers eat crow now that some pretty large projects like FreeBSD have given it firsthand support. All things considered FreeBSD desktop support is in a good enough state right now that it might be worth giving a spin, but man, is it hard to get off of Hyprchud.
 
Slav Power said:
There is a reason why I utterly despise Electron based shitware. I live by with having Betterbird as a separate program just because there isn't a good alternative for it and I don't like Vivaldi's mail features all that much, but it's still a smart idea to have your mail client in your web browser. Web based mail frontends like Gmail or Protonmail are commonplace, so why not put an e-mail client into the browser itself?
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JavaScript programmers fucking piss me off, it's pretty obvious that they are talentless hacks that can't actually code anything worthwhile so why are companies still using them to write shitty insecure code that slow down computers for no reason? I despise JavaScript in general, it needs to be replaced with something better and less bloated.
 
Bahnhader said:
JavaScript programmers fucking piss me off, it's pretty obvious that they are talentless hacks that can't actually code anything worthwhile so why are companies still using them to write shitty insecure code that slow down computers for no reason? I despise JavaScript in general, it needs to be replaced with something better and less bloated.
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All gains in computer hardware have been totally annihilated by jeetcoded TypeScript Electron webapps (and similar) that consume 8 gigabytes of memory just to do a simple task that could be done a million other ways.

The browser itself is effectively an operating system at this point.

The RAM "shortage" is an attempt to move computing to a subscription based service. You won't have your own desktop anymore. You'll have a thin client that connects to a virtual desktop that you'll pay $40 a month for with various add-ons that you can pay more monthly for. It's just around the corner and you are retarded if you don't see what is going on. The same thing happened with software itself.
 
Sometimes I wonder what kind of performance WINE/Proton would get if somebody implemented the leaked Windows XP source code to it. I know that would never officially happen because there would be lawsuits up the ass but somebody must've done it at least once, right? Would programs (especially XP-era programs) work better or would it be worse, even?
888Flux said:
The RAM "shortage" is an attempt to move computing to a subscription based service. You won't have your own desktop anymore. You'll have a thin client that connects to a virtual desktop that you'll pay $40 a month for with various add-ons that you can pay more monthly for. It's just around the corner and you are retarded if you don't see what is going on. The same thing happened with software itself.
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It's already kind of a thing with Chromebooks tbh
 
Bahnhader said:
why are companies still using them to write shitty insecure code that slow down computers for no reason?
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You can hire a bunch of Pajeets for pennies to do the same thing, as far as the accountants are concerned.
888Flux said:
The RAM "shortage" is an attempt to move computing to a subscription based service. You won't have your own desktop anymore. You'll have a thin client that connects to a virtual desktop that you'll pay $40 a month for with various add-ons that you can pay more monthly for. It's just around the corner and you are retarded if you don't see what is going on. The same thing happened with software itself.
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You could've made the same conspiracy theory about the GPU shortages during the crypto boom, yet here we are.
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Again, it makes zero sense when you consider the greatest evil, Microsoft, is betting on selling you hardware capable of running local AI with locally installed Windows. These aren't Chromebooks 2.0, the entire business model is based on selling capable hardware with local software. "Just around the corner" my ass, same shit was being said over other "big issues", like Secure Boot or smartphones, yet here we fucking are, still able to own powerful hardware and install any software we want on it despite what /g/ schizos have been predicting. Or, you know, why is Windows still in a free infinite trial when Microsoft wants to force you to pay a monthly subscription for it and nothing here changed since 2015? Care to elaborate how that plays into your theory?

But please, keep on making up conspiracy theories about how this time around Microsoft will force you to use thin clients and you won't own your computer. As far as I'm aware they're still betting on Copilot+ PC and still essentially offer Windows as a local installation for free which make this entire doomsday theory null and void. Pretty sure you can install Linux on those like on any other laptop, because that's what they fucking are, and I doubt that Microsoft's plans aren't affected by this shortage. Apple also doesn't seem to be backing out of offering standalone powerful hardware either.

As for the RAM shortage itself, it's real, Sam Altman is buying up everything for his Stargate project leaving nothing for any other industry since he knows the bubble is about to burst so he has to materialize all those stock numbers as fast as possible. Even Samsung won't sell it's memory chips to other Samsung divisions because that's hard this Jewish faggot is scamming everyone.

Occam's razor and all that. Your theory is as plausible as some crackhead on the street yelling that aliens sucked up all the RAM chips.
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Sometimes I wonder what kind of performance WINE/Proton would get if somebody implemented the leaked Windows XP source code to it.
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Probably none, Wine/Proton already do really well with that era of software, and if we're talking about gaming, the biggest gains are from using Vulkan, where translating DX to Vulkan via DXVK or VKD3D reduces the CPU overhead, giving more performance. Same goes for Windows, DirectX is the real performance bottleneck and Vulkan cuts through it all.
 
888Flux said:
The RAM "shortage" is an attempt to move computing to a subscription based service. You won't have your own desktop anymore. You'll have a thin client that connects to a virtual desktop that you'll pay $40 a month for with various add-ons that you can pay more monthly for. It's just around the corner and you are retarded if you don't see what is going on. The same thing happened with software itself.
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I believe it to an extent, but the extended amount of jewery that has to take place for it to happen. SaaS happened over the course of a decade or so, this happened in what is almost an instant. I think it's a series of unfortunate events and investments. All big tech companies putting their money's worth in AI, continually needing to get bigger, pre-investing into DRAM chips, DRAM manufacturers ceasing production to focus on said demand in big tech. For it to be a conspiracy or oligarchy, tens if not hundreds of companies would need to conspire to have it happen, all of them telling nothing's wrong. I see it as doubtful, but plausible. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am saying Occam's Razor. I do believe that companies want to go forward into a subscription based service only tech world, but not that they're all conspiring together to do so.
 
888Flux said:
did "AI" not exist for the past three years or what.
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yeah. in the open source thread. I was saying, I don't think AI can entirely account for this price hike. There are definitely other factors at place. The AI boom definitely played into it. But this huge of an increase, it's definitely not solely because of AI. There are definitely a lot of compounding factors that need to happen for this kind of price increase.
 
888Flux said:
did "AI" not exist for the past three years or what.
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What didn't exist for those prior years was a massive ramping up of datacentre expansion. Within the last six months, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Google, alongside OpenAI and a few other players, not to mention Chinese companies, all started buying up every last GPU and NPU they can get their hands on, in order to build out huge datacentres dedicated entirely to training and provisioning machine learning agents. There's only so much capacity in the world to build the ram and processor cores used on those GPUs and most of it is now dedicated to feeding that particular market. Expanding chip production takes time and a shit-ton of money, which manufacturers may not want to risk if they're anticipating a bubble collapse within the next few years; they'd be left with excess capacity and no demand.

On the upside (for us), when the whole thing inevitably does pop, prices are going to collapse as well. The real issue is how long it might take and how much it will distort the market in the meantime. If it's a few more months, we'll just get a glut of RAM and graphics cards. More than a year, the whole market is going to be screwy for a generation.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
yeah. in the open source thread. I was saying, I don't think AI can entirely account for this price hike. There are definitely other factors at place. The AI boom definitely played into it. But this huge of an increase, it's definitely not solely because of AI. There are definitely a lot of compounding factors that need to happen for this kind of price increase.
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I would blame more corporate monopolies and the US goverment's crass manipulation of the economy since the AI trend. The fact that there are circular transactions between hardware manufacturers like Nvidia, AMD, Samsung etc and OpenAI. The memory producers are a huge cartel, they colluded to fix the prices since DDR1 era.
 
analrapist said:
I want to burn a WAV/CUE combo.
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Bash: 
cdrecord -text -driveropts=burnfree -pad cuefile=whatever.cue

Ol' cdrecord to the rescue. Defaults to 24x, CDs claim rated for 52x, but I ain't pushin.
 
fastfetch is all you need. Available on multiple platforms, and fixes the biggest issue of neofetch which is the data fetch speed, as the name implies.
analrapist said:
Defaults to 24x, CDs claim rated for 52x, but I ain't pushin.
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Generally it's advised to record/rip CD's at lower speeds as higher speeds tend to cause read/write errors. It's something you'll find when you decide to do some archiving for Redump for example. Though a good chunk of tools for CD/DVD/BD ripping, like Alcohol 120%, Media Preservation Frontend, MakeMKV and the BD ODD flashing tool are Windows only. Sometimes it's best to have a system that you can double boot on, or even have a Windows install but keeping the system offline for those kinds of specific tasks that uses software that relies on WinNT specific elements.
 
Akerman said:
This just makes me wish Konqueror was still viable..

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File browser, web browser and document viewer all in one package.
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Not to mention an archive manager for all compression formats, because of the beauty of KIO, having a terminal panel on demand, being a first rate FTP/SFTP client (when modern web browsers can't even browse FTP)...
 
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