>$255 hoollly fuck are you guys fucking crazy????

>>1428 are you poor?

>>1429 yes i don't have $255 for junk that barely costs $100 these days. it's far more practical to save up to $600 and buy something decent and recent

Its a little off topic but I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 with 32GB of RAM and a 13th gen Intel i7 CPU and I'm loving it so far This is the first time I've ever used Windows on a laptop before without it being insanely laggy

>I always thought the type of person who would want a Librebooted Thinkpad would also be the type of person who would want to do it themselves I think some people want the benefits of it without having to actually do it themselves

>>38 understanding basic geometry in 2D and in 3D, (for example, equations of lines, linear interpolations between points) is very helpful if you are dealing with graphics or even just bare gui layouts For everything else, the way math works is that once someone has figured something out you can just copy the solution. It's highly unlikely that you ever get to work on something inovative so its quite useless. It's still a good idea to understand these things tough If I say that your algorithm takes quadratic time, you should immediately know what that means and why otherwise you will look like a dunce

The amount of math you need will vary depending on what "genre" of programming you're working in. Web development might not need more than basic arithmetic, but you should explore languages that specialize in scientific computation to see another world of computing. https://julialang.org/community/organizations/

Not a lot and for those areas where it is necessary you can learn it then since it's usually just a sub-part of what you'd get taught in school. (like matrices and calculus for 3D graphics or understanding the modular multiplicative inverse for RSA crypto) It's usually the theoretical college parts for academics that focus on the mathematics.

Many people think that math is the only form of logic or the purest one, but math is just one of many different ways to think logically. Computers and machines focus primarily on machine logic, iteration, electricity, etc. Programming is highly logical but it's not a branch of maths by itself. What to expect: If you do computer graphics, data analysis, LLM, etc, you will use a decent amount of maths, not because of programming itself but because of your field. If you don't work on a math-heavy field then you won't do much maths besides arithmetics, though something that sticks is the declarative mindset of maths. Computers are inherently procedural, but in functional programming you think in a declarative way. If you like that then that's alright and if you don't then that's alright too because there are plenty of traditional languages and machines themselves are not declarative.

>>38 none. you can learn math by programming in fact thats what most people end up doing.

sup does emacs support my sound card yet????

>>1135 show them a picture of the NVIDIA logo to make them scared of broken drivers

Once I have been gifted a laptop with an NVIDIA GPU, and I had to break it on their heads

TRUCK ATTACK

>>1378 Development branch is the testing branch, edge itself is just the rolling release repository. It's extremely stable, the only issue I ever had was gimp being recognised as updated when it was still on version 2, I just had to reinstall it to properly have version 3. Other than that I never had any problem

>>1353 thanks the 11 hours I get is after applying all those optimisations you suggested but as >>1355 Says, enabling amd_pstate driver did yeild better results by utilising the newer hardware powersaving features of my CPU . But I think this applies to my specific machine as opposed to something that would work with a ThinkPad . Using 'indicator cpufreq' to cap the max CPU clock to 500mhz while doing light tasks like reading PDFs also boosts the battery tremendously and make the laptop be comfy enough to used on the lap without getting 3rd degree burns I was basically trying to see if I can outlast MacBooks of my colleagues and not have to carry the 2 kilo brick of a charger ROGs come with

>2kilo charger Lol what I have 48w charger and it's super light. Another is 65w and it's barely a kilo.

>>1383 woaw

>>491 >>1354 Been nearly two years, damn. Here you are.

>>1396 slimbook site looks like shit. Frameworks' site is at least tolerable also why do you compare refurbished to brand new

>>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

>>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

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

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

>>1412 there is a crossboard quoting bug lol you probably don't have to change *that* much data by hand though, :(

and what's weird is that it's only on the overboard??? Do you guys handle quoting outside of your "Post" class or whatever similar? 0_0

>>1411 my password manager does it. I can write a shell script that wraps around any tool, processes a file and pads it for three fiddy (in Monero). it's not rocket science

>>1415 troll harder

>>1416 sure man, whatever

>>1358 angry because nobody is fondling you rn

>>1360 i fondle myself 3 times a day wanna me fondle you as well?

>>1361 please fondle meeeeee I can fondle you too

>>1134 did you rockbox your hifiwalker H2? how did you do that?

>>1134 bump how did you installed rockbox on the H2? please

>>1294 I don't have anything interesting to post on it though, other than pirated ebooks.

>>1295 make a site dedicated to teaching people about torrenting or something. just something bro. make a neocities.

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.

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

>>1305 just post, nobody else will

>>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.

>>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?)

>>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.

>>1345 thank you, saved! i'm going to look it up this summer when i have to clean it a little ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

>>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.

>>1330 which distro do you use now

>>49 I'm on mint right now

>>1331 Alpine Linux

My first one was Mint, now I use Void. (1337 get)

A get deserving to be taken by a voidfag