>>1774

>>1774 this post gallaghed the everliving shit out of >>1775 and >>1776 GNARF

>>1752 "The beauty of Linux is that most distros are reskins of debian/ubuntu"

>>1779 Not what I said, and also false. The beauty of Linux is that distros have a lot more in common with each other than most people realize. I just happened to use Debian and Ubuntu as an example, because I was talking about Mint. I'm sure most things you learn in the Debian side of Linux could be applied in the Arch or Gentoo side of Linux, etc etc. It's all Linux anyway. >>1772 >But the way I see it is that with source-based distros you at least have a fighting chance so to speak, as long as you know what you are doing. With binary-based distros, if something breaks or doesn't work, you are pretty much cooked. What do you mean by "fighting chance"? It's not like there aren't workarounds for things in binary- based distros, and some break less often than others. I'd much rather have a system that is stable and somewhat hard to fix than a system that breaks often but is easy to fix. >Can I recommend Debian to a newcomer when I know that writing a .ebuild is significantly easier than writing a Debian package? Can I recommend either when I know that both these things are relatively complex technical tasks? Newcomers, and even some tech-savvy users don't write their own packages. In fact most people don't even need to do that. Why should that be considered? >I don't have experience running binaries made for Windows on Linux, but I have a vague idea of the whole stack being finicky, fragile and error prone - it has to be, because of how both X11 and Wayland work. It isn't. In my experience, at least on X11, a lot of things just work with vanilla Wine, and setting up Lutris or Heroic with GEProton, or even running stuff through Steam isn't complicated. Of course it's not perfect, but don't forget that you're trying to run a binary made for a whole different OS.

>>1795 >Newcomers, and even some tech-savvy users don't write their own packages. In fact most people don't even need to do that. Why should that be considered? That's what I was thinking. I've been a casual Linux user for years (I've used debian, arch, and fedora based distros) but I have never once written my own package nor have I needed to. Linux is quite easy for the casual user as long as they have a basic understanding of how computers work, and even then the new fancy immutable distros that use flatpaks are so easy my grandmother could figure it out.

Sadly hikarin I have no skillz in this area but best of luck to you!

this is how it looks

>>1786 i have been on the prowl for some good irc channels as well, i have found some good channels on i2p but non are alive per-se.

>>1773 Yeah, but not a good one. It only has a single M.2 slots for expandability, so you may want to look elsewhere. You might want to look into one of those ARM-based linux boxes, if you want a lot of M.2 slots in a small form factor though. I can't think of any off the top of my head though...

It would be much cheaper to just plug in a bunch of external HDDs to an old laptop and stuff it under your desk. That's your NAS. Not fancy, but it works.

>>1788 Very true. With new details coming out and more time to think about it I realized it wasn't a good choice. I'll keep looking into more options

yea i do check it

>>1756 Good shit >hi candy ass!

>>90 Nope, but I want one mostly for old anime and visual novels.

no because they're overpriced (either literally, or in the form of time spent scrounging and/or repairing) due to candy asss like everybody in this thread, and also because I heard that they rape your eyeballs with x-rays, and also because LCDs are superior due to being easier to carry around and wider that you can see more stuff at once and they're not even fragile I was throwing a giant ball around indoors one time and it hit my monitor full force and I was able to just remove the scratches with a pink eraser still fully operational

>>1756 could link that migu sticker site to lazy to search it up

>>1260 halloy is comfy imho

>>1623 in pidgin passwords are stored in an unencrypted txt file look it up . they are going to fix with the new rewrite of the app tho

Windows: mIRC with NoNameScript Linux: kVIRC or BitchX

>>1263 if your on windows you should use AdiIRC it has lot of cool customazsition options

https://tools.suckless.org/sic/

In the mesh radio world there is LXMF, which is built on the Reticulum Network Stack. The two apps you can use with it is Sideband for mobile and Meshchat for desktop (it comes with a NomadNet browser too - a pretty comfy web alternative built on LXMF). If you can't reach a destination, it will store the message on a procoolation node nearby or of your choosing then send it to the destination once it's available. Keep in mind every single packet on Reticulum is encrypted so node operators won't be able to read anything. Reticulum is way too autistic for normalfags right now, even more than TOR/I2P so I haven't tried it in the real world yet, though I want to set up my own LoRa node in my area and get my friends to set up their own, that way I don't have to use the internet at all.

>>1652 fuck wordfilter can't even say "prop0gation"

>>1653 it's spelled propagation retard

>>1783 propergaton

While they are still using google-made software, just being "not google chrome" is good enough. You can still be Chromium-based, but as long as you don't ride the meat of google, It's not the google browser. After all, the only real working alternative to either of the two is Ladybird. And we're still waiting on it... Unless you count Safari, and webkit-based browsers, of course.

>>1765 but it is kind of perpetuating the whole google ecosystem making you dependable of a multi million dollar scummy company

Depending on the language you choose, the official guides, documentation and "getting started" might be great to learn. Avoid using tutorials because those usually don't really teach you much other than following steps "now do this, now do that". In terms of practice, you can start with experimentations, exercises, etc, and once you feel comfortable enough you can start programming something that you can make use of. It doesn't have to be something incredible or gigantic regardless of your experience, you can make a project as simple as a small script or an application that does something that you need to be done. Don't worry about "reinventing the wheel" or making a program that already exists because you are making it your way and learning in the process.

i did those game-like courses when i got bored. like uh, codecademy or whatever. i put alot of my kiddie hours into that but i kinda forgot most of it anyway cuz i didnt use it afterwards. But i definitely was proficient in the few months i did do those courses

i learned python first, by making a dicksword bot. it acted as a foundation for lots of different feature ideas you have to learn how to implement, like parsing files, editing images, using apis etc

>>427 I was good at coding, but after a hiatus where I had to learn other stuff, I'm not good coding anymore. Now I just vibe code, because that's better than nothing and gets me to learn what I would have not encountered otherwise, especially if I force the LLM bot to explain wtf did he do.

The best way to learn is by coding. You want to do something and you hit you head against your desk until you achieve it

I have an SSD in both of my computers. You may as well upgrade, hikarin. It's a noticable improvement.

I think its very worth it, I have a t60 and upgraded it to an ssd, it took it from an old pc to basically on par with any of my newer computers.

>>1754 SSDs not only have faster read/write times (essentially quicker transfer speeds) but some games are now requiring them to load stuff quick enough. You may see an increase in performance and they have virtually zero moving parts (at least m.2's) so you don't have to worry about head crashes or moving parts failing/making noise.