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Since Windows 10 is reaching its End of Life, what's the best Linux distro to use? I was thinking of Linux Mint possibly but I want to see if any Hikarins had any better suggestions

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>>1742 The point is being able to pick and choose options at compile time instead of being forced to use a binary that has a bunch of crap you don't need bundled in or options you do need not bundled in. By compiling from source you can avoid tons of dependencies or access things people claim are "deprecated". For example, many applications still support building with gtk2 just fine which allows you to avoid all the stuff wrong with modern gtk/gnome. By excluding a lot of things you can have a much faster, secure and easier to maintain system. Things like Arch Linux aren't really minimal. They're just as bloated as something like modern Ubuntu. With Gentoo in particular now there is no reason to avoid it. The vast majority of ebuilds only take a few seconds or maybe 1-2 minutes to build from source. Portage now supports binaries as well if you want them. But you don't need portage to build from source of course. Learning how to use make is very useful no matter what OS you're using. It means you can grab source code as soon as it is released and run it. Or you can grab old stuff people no longer offer builds for and run it. Building from source offers you true freedom. When you use binaries you're a consumer and forced to use whatever you're given. Most people offering binaries do not have your best interests in mind. I'll give you a good example; Lately everyone has been pushing things like wayland and pipewire hard. Both consume a ton of resources. They say you need pipewire for the pulseaudio support because a lot of things like Firefox dropped support for pure ALSA. If you build from source you get the option to build for sndio instead. A much better and stable sound server that consumes almost no resources at idle. Even when it's using resources it doesn't use hardly any. It can run on any hardware from the 1980s and newer. It has much better mixing options than Pulseaudio/pipewire. It is actually documented. It lets you do anything you want like route sound to multiple devices, over a network or do stuff like let application A use the left speaker and application B have the right speaker. It's the best sound server going. Everything has support for it but it's usually not built into binaries on most distros. So you have to build from source to get it enabled. Unless you use OpenBSD. Even FreeBSD requires building ports from source most of the time to use it. Even though Firefox supports it out of the box and it would be much better than what they're doing now (forcing user to install pulseaudio running on top of OSS their native sound server). Maintaining a system on something like Gentoo with tons of things disabled by default like dbus, polkit, pipewire, systemd etc. is not hard. Once you've configured everything it continues to just work forever. You can avoid 99% of the issues with modern Linux by changing some USE flags. Of course this is possible on any distro provided you're willing to manually set compile time options for everything. But it's easier to just use portage or a BSD+ports tree. Even with all that stuff disabled every modern application and games work. In fact, they usually work better. Which proves that this crap being a requirement is a huge lie.

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>>1745 Also concerning Gentoo: It becomes much easier to maintain multiple systems after you've initially configured USE flags. There is nothing requiring you to build from source on a really old slow machine or use someone else's binaries. Most people using Gentoo end up setting up a local build server. Usually their fast PC or home server. Your local build server compiles packages for all your machines. Then those machines (your laptop, your TV set-top device, your old 1998 600Mhz Intel CPU PC, your little ARM system on a chip) can all fetch packages from your local server. Keeping them up to date usually much faster than they would using some mainstream distro that relies on someone else building the packages. You can even build generic packages that work everywhere or have them optimized for each and every system based on their CPU flags. You're building your own distro in other words. Which is why Gentoo is called a "meta distro" by some people. Now the Gentoo project isn't perfect. It has been taken over like most everything else. But thanks to Portage's USE flags you don't have to follow what mainstream Gentoo repos ship by default. Gentoo has a user repo called GURU which is basically like Arch's AUR. Except the packages are much higher quality and better tested. There are tons of pre-made overlays there if you want to do something like replace OpenRC+systemd shims/systemd with something like s6 or runit. There are overlays for doing things like pro-audio/video editing and most everything else you can think of. With Gentoo it's still possible to run a full blown desktop environment using nothing but gtk2+qt applications which are built from modern application source code. You will find that ability no where else. Any distro shipping pre-built binaries and even Gentoo's default config will force you on to gtk3/gtk4 tool kits. With Gentoo you don't even have to run something like udev. You can still run a static /dev without losing the ability to use your hardware and storage devices. The only difference from a udev system is you have to build in support for your input devices manually and manually mount things like usb thumb drives and external HDDs. Which isn't a big deal it's just running "mount". This is also much more secure than the default in every other distro. Since no one can plug-in something like a usb thumb drive into your computer and access it automatically. They can't plug-in devices like key loggers either because they will not work. The system will not mount or use anything automatically. You can also replace udev with something else like mdev if you really want that type of functionality. Impossible to get root through an exploit through systemd+polkit+PAM as well if it isn't on the system. Impossible to get it through sudo too if you don't have it installed. You can use doas instead if you really want that ability or simply use su+switching tty when root is needed. By having a unique system built from source code you avoid 99% of exploits automatically even if you don't understand the underlying code. Your configuration is so unique that no one will write an exploit for it. They'd have to manually access the system somehow then spend a lot of time crafting an exploit for it. Chicken and egg problem for them. Also there is an actual tangible gain in speed on most systems if you build for your CPU's abilities instead of using generic binary. Sometimes it isn't just speed either it's use of resources like RAM. Since if you've excluded half of the crap it claims it needs but really doesn't you don't have that shit in RAM. Nor do you have it spawning daemons and such.

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gentoo is cramping my ubuntu-designated workflow. never seen anything seamlessly substitute ubuntu-based distros for the devving they're used for

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You can always upgrade to a newer version of Windows.

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The only distro I recommend to beginners and will always recommend to beginners is Linux Mint, for a few reasons: 1. It's similar enough to Windows, at least the Cinnamon edition (XFCE edition I would say is closer to XP) 2. It's based on Ubuntu, which is by far the most famous distro out there. Ubuntu itself is also based on Debian, which is another very ubiquitous distro. That means that it will be very easy to find solutions for any kind of problem you might have, even if they aren't provided with Mint in mind. That's the beauty of Linux. 3. It comes with most things you will ever need out of the box, and getting new programs installed isn't difficult, because again, it's based on Ubuntu and Debian. The other thing I want every Linux beginner to understand is that Linux is not Windows, and trying to use Linux as if it were Windows is a losing bet. Linux will never be Windows. What it can be is approachable to beginners (Linux Mint fits that criteria). Just to give an example of what I mean, you will eventually have to learn how to use the terminal, which is actually a first-class citizen here, unlike on Windows. Learning how to use the Linux terminal is probably the single best thing you will ever learn when using this system, because it can be used anywhere, anytime, for any purpose. The terminal looks intimidating, but you can go through it step by step, learning a little bit each day when you can. Linux also rewards people who know the ins and outs of their system well, and learning the terminal is part of that. It's not something that is common on Windows, at least to my knowledge, but it is here. Of course you can try and use Linux without ever touching the terminal, and that might work just fine for you. But I still think it's important to learn, if you can set aside some time to look into it. A lot of times the easiest way, sometimes even the only way to fix a problem or get something done is through the terminal.


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Why do people use Chromium-based browsers and act like they don't use Google products? Is it really any different? skeptical

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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.


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How did some of you learn to code? My attention span is literally worse than a toddler

Your fortune: Bad Luck

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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.

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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

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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 happy2

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>>427 I was good at coding, but after a hiatus where I had to learn other stuff, I'm not good coding anymore. eww 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. sleep

Your fortune: Good Luck

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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


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Are you using an HDD or an SSD currently? I haven't upgraded to an SSD yet and I was wondering how common of an upgrade this was, because everyone I know has an SSD in their desktop except me cry

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

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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.

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>>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.


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Do you still use CRT monitors? I do

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>>1551 monitors usually have higher resolution and more importantly higher horizontal frequency. a late sony trinitron can go up to 1600x1200 90@Hz vertical @90Khz horizontal but can't go as low as let's say 320x240 @31Khz horizontal, which is what console usually had as resolution until 6th gen. horizontal frequency is also important for scan lines iirc, so that's why it's usually better to get a tv for consoles and a monitor for games that were on PC if you care about experiencing stuff the way it was. There's also a big difference between europe and US/JP, the former has the worst quality with most tvs being either composite (up to 480i) or SCART (up to 576i for some weird reason), the latter often had component (better colors, progressive output). So if you have an older console for example and you're in europe you likely played it with the worst quality. As for why this happened i have no clue but it's pretty dumb, i have to guess regulations.

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>>1551 tv is a monitor + software and/or hardware to watch porn monitor is monitor - it displays shit. though modern monitors do have some fancy ass shitware iirc annoyed >>1554 interesting point. good thing i don't buy tvs huhhappy

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yea i do check it

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>>1756 Good shit >hi candy ass! angry2

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


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I've been wanting to switch from pidgin to a different irc capable client, preferably an open source one but not necessary. Which ones do you guys use?

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>>1260 i use Hexchat with the Monokai theme. works well enough for me.

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>>1260 betterbird gets irc working well

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>>1260 halloy is comfy imho

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>>1623 eww 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

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Windows: mIRC with NoNameScript Linux: kVIRC or BitchX


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Modern consumer-grade laptops tend to have durability issues, while business-class laptops tend to be highly durable but refurbished ones are a few generations behind. There's also smaller companies like Tuxedo, Slimbook, System76, etc that seem to make durable laptops as well. At this point, is there any mainstream consumer-grade laptop that is actually durable, or are we now limited to business and Linux laptops?

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>>1397 I didnt elaborate I meant to compare business laptop durability and repairability with slimbook's since usually we get refurbished business laptops when we want one of that type

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>>1291 I'm personally a fan of my Dell Latitude 5420. I paid 400 USD for 512GB of NVME Storage, Fingerprint reader, 16GB Ram, built-in wifi, pretty good repairability, plus a fuckton of I/O

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>>1399 That's the great thing about business laptops like the latitudes and the thinkpads it's very nice

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I've been using the Slimbook since it arrived in tuesday and I can conclude that the battery bypass feature is not placebo. The idea is that, once the charge limit is reached, the charging goes straight to the hardware and bypasses the battery to save its lifespan. After intense use of this laptop since tuesday + gaming, the battery cycle count is still at 0!!! I wonder any mainstream brand does this

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>>1291 Punched and spilled stuff on my mid 2010s ASUS and it's still working great.


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hello, I have a hifiwalker H2 and I tried to rockbox my thing but I failed and I don't understand the step. it's too confusing for me. can someone help me please. my hifiwalker h2 version is v2 cry

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please someone help me

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Halo, I have the same model as you but I installed Rockbox on it forever ago, which means I can't remember the specifics of what I did to get it working. I know I got it at a time when the Rockbox website didn't officially support the version of the HiFi Walker H2 that I had, but I got a bootloader for the AIGO Eros QK (same model and firmware version) and it worked with some very minor issues that magically sorted themselves out after a few days. The only problem I've noticed since installing it is that the AIGO Eros firmware replaced the HiFi Walker firmware, but since I only ever boot into Rockbox idc. https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AIGOErosQK#Hosted_Port_Installation_40Manual_41 looks like the page I got the upt from. Hopefull this helps at least a little bit happy2

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>>1721 thanks, I also have trouble with themes


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Hey Hikarichanners! This thread is for people to discuss rigs and help with building rigs, and I need help pls. vengence The only experience I had with building a compooter was watching a friend of mine build my last one, which didn't go so smoothly, so I want to just do it myself. I'll take any advice given to me, especially since I will want to use Linux (It's mainly for privacy concerns, and my building hatred for Microsoft, but I would also like to use it for gaming and probably video editing in the future). These are the components I found through PC part picker that were recommended to me from the monitor I chose. I mainly picked AMD components as people say that AMD is more compatible with Linux, also AMD parts are cheaper, and it helps fit my budget of around £1500 - £2000... https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Gnwmt3 COMPONENTS CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM Cooler Motherboard - MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard Memory - Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory Storage - Kingston KC600 1.024 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage 2 - Seagate ST4000DX001 4 TB 3.5" 5900 RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive GPU – AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card Power supply - MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Optical Drive - Asus BW-16D1HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer Case Fan - Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.black.swap 60.09 CFM 120 mm Fan x2 Monitor - Acer Acer Nitro XV272U W2bmiiprx 27.0" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor PERIPHERALS/ACCESSORIES Keyboard - Logitech G PRO RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard Mouse – Logitech G403 HERO Wired Optical Mouse Headphones - Logitech G PRO Headset Main problem I have right now is picking out the case. I couldn't find one I liked from PC part picker, so I searched around for one and found this... CiT Classic Micro ATX PC Case and 500w PSU, Budget Friendly Office PC case | Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BFH98R2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?smid=A1ENGI3QDWM2UF&psc=1 It has USB and optical drive slots at the front which I wanted for my case, but unfortunately I don't think it will be able to fit all the components I found. I wouldn't mind downgrading so it can all fit in, as long it can run games at the monitors specs on medium settings, or just changing the PC case completely. But the maximum dimensions I can take for a PC case are 25cm w, 48cm l, 52cm h.

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>>1722 pretty decent for the price, but even then id go for a 5800x3d, maybe look for one on facebook or something if youre in the UK, people throw those away now that they're upgrading to am5, the value you get is just too good

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>>1729 For an AM5 build would the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU be good enough?

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>>1732 the L3 cache size is just so insane for bideo games i cant imagine myself without my x3d chip, i think its worth the little extra $$, (if youre getting brand new) they're easy to find cheap

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Alright, so I think I've managed to narrow it down between two builds. The first one that I've already talked about that's on the lower end... https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/6gx3xg CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£36.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Motherboard: MSI PRO B550M-VC WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£110.09 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£90.00 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£109.69 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive (£106.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card ( @ Amazon UK) Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.99 Overclockers.co.uk) Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£89.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Optical Drive: Asus BW-16D1HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (£88.03 @ Amazon UK) Case Fan: Thermalright TL-C12C X3 66.17 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack (£18.07 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ3A 27.0" 2560 x 1440 180 Hz Monitor (£198.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Keyboard: HP HyperX Alloy Origins Core RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (£66.70 @ Amazon UK) Mouse: HP HyperX Pulsefire Surge Wired Optical Mouse (£42.98 @ Amazon UK) Headphones: HP HyperX Cloud II 7.1 Channel Headset (£53.79 @ Amazon UK) Total: £1,600.52 And this new one I've made, which uses most of the same parts, except for the CPU, Motherboard, Memory, and Video Card. This build is on the higher end... https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/kDwrKq CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£319.97 @ Amazon UK) CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£39.90 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX ATX AM5 Motherboard (£124.99 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£109.69 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive (£106.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Video Card: XFX Speedster SWFT 210 Core Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card (£429.98 @ Amazon UK) Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.99 Overclockers.co.uk) Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£89.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Optical Drive: Asus BW-16D1HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (£88.03 @ Amazon UK) Case Fan: Thermalright TL-C12C X3 66.17 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack (£18.07 @ Amazon UK) Monitor: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ3A 27.0" 2560 x 1440 180 Hz Monitor (£198.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Keyboard: HP HyperX Alloy Origins Core RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (£66.70 @ Amazon UK) Mouse: HP HyperX Pulsefire Surge Wired Optical Mouse (£42.98 @ Amazon UK) Headphones: HP HyperX Cloud II 7.1 Channel Headset (£53.79 @ Amazon UK) Total: £1,893.16 I would perhaps prefer to go with the cheaper build, but if what nonny here >>1733 is saying is true, then I'd probably rather shell out a bit more money. Also, AM5 type PC builds are more customisable, so if I wanted to change parts later on, it would be a worthwhile investment.

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>>1733 here! i love both builds!, imo, if you feel comfortable i cant stress this enough, check ebay or facebook for second hand barely used or new parts, people throw stuff away for insanely cheap! especially right now. if youre worried about money you might be able to pick up a part or two youre interested in that someones throwing away for pennies, only downside is that you may not get warranty, which can be a deal breaker for some. not to blog on but if i used my build for example, brand new would have cost me over 4k AUD, but i bought 3/4 of it off facebook either brand new or barely used and i only spent around 2.3, just food for thought


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Hello hikarichanners, this is a thread for RISC-V bare metal programming. Poast what you've done, what you're doing or what you wanna do! Get started: Intro to C (K&R): https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/books/C_Book_2nd.pdf Intro to RISC-V assembly: https://www.robertwinkler.com/projects/riscv_book/riscv_book.pdf Intro to barebones RISC-V programming with QEMU: https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-programming-risc-v/ References: RISC-V unprivileged ISA: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uviu1nH-tScFfgrovvFCrj7Omv8tFtkp/view?usp=drive_link RISC-V privileged ISA: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GeetSnT5wW3xNuAHI95-SI1gPGd5sJ_/view?usp=drive_link GNU ld documentation: https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~main/cs1300/doc/gnu/ld_3.html Feel free to share resources I haven't added oops Also, have fun!


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