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Anonymous 01/25/2025 (Sat) 23:43:21 No. 1053 [Reply]

You know those programs with in-terminal GUIS (e.g alsamixer), how does that work?

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Anonymous 01/26/2025 (Sun) 00:05:38 No. 1054

Somehow.

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Anonymous 01/28/2025 (Tue) 13:52:05 No. 1055

>>1053 it's called TUI, in principle you can make one just using your terminal's protocol. there are libraries like pdcurses, termbox2, crossterm or ncurses that include utility functions and add a compatibility layer so you don't have to learn the different terminal protocols. and then there are higher level libraries that even come with widgets and multi-platform input handling like tuibox, libtickit*, libvaxis or ratatui* these last two don't depend on any curses emulator and use their own, significantly less bloated, stacks there is also imtui if you want a terminal backend for imgui *: c **: zig ***: rust

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Anonymous 01/29/2025 (Wed) 14:28:17 No. 1056

I think I dreamed about programming something like this in C Weird

Desktop thread Anonymous 07/24/2023 (Mon) 12:34:30 No. 79 [Reply] [Last]

How does your desktop look like /t/? How ricy is it?

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Anonymous 01/12/2025 (Sun) 19:27:06 No. 1036

>>1034 I enjoy his music, that's all. >>1035 seperate art from artist. I don't care about sewerslvt's personal opinions as long as they don't mix it into their music.

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Anonymous 01/12/2025 (Sun) 20:42:48 No. 1037

>>1035 >name you init system NOW blehhhhhh neverrrrr

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Anonymous 01/16/2025 (Thu) 23:33:14 No. 1049

>>1037 why?

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Anonymous 01/20/2025 (Mon) 01:53:40 No. 1050

i don't spend a lot of time ricing

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Anonymous 01/20/2025 (Mon) 01:56:17 No. 1051

syrno spotted

Rate my Rice! Anonymous 12/15/2024 (Sun) 05:55:49 No. 959 [Reply]

Finished my rice a while ago, but Syrno said I should post it and then stole my fastfetch config, so here we are! Dotfiles available upon request!

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Anonymous 12/16/2024 (Mon) 15:19:01 No. 966

How much time did it take to finish? Great rice btw.

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Anonymous 12/16/2024 (Mon) 16:39:14 No. 967

>>966 Ngl it only took me about a week after installing hyprland for the first time to get the bulk of it done. But tbf, i had been using kde for the better part of a year before switching.

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 04:35:35 No. 1004

hyperland is a waste of cpu usage and too much desktop effects

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 23:54:39 No. 1011

It has no soul tbh, very bland. looks like any other rice. 5/10

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Anonymous 01/07/2025 (Tue) 18:45:50 No. 1025

>>959 looks very well done very sleek too. though i am more a fan of skeuomorphism but hey, that is just me i guess

Your fortune: (YOU ARE BANNED)

Where do you discuss programming online? Anonymous 10/26/2023 (Thu) 22:00:01 No. 240 [Reply]

I just don't know what places are good anymore...

I used to be a regular on 4chan/g/ several years ago, but it's gone to shit so much that even I can't take it anymore and I haven't been able to figure out where else to discuss tech/programming online. Do you have any places where you go regularly? The only one that I use other than random subreddits for whichever topic is hackernews, but that place is just no fun at all

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 23:54:53 No. 1012

>interest lies in creating and inventing For some interest lies in killing time in a stimulating manner and communal admiration tagging along. >mathematician doing calculations I am pretty sure anybody employed as a "mathematician" is required to publish regularly.

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Anonymous 01/05/2025 (Sun) 21:12:52 No. 1017

>>1010 Not everyone's a shitty programmer, and I think you fail to realize that 99% of a time you can't get a library to do everything.

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Anonymous 01/05/2025 (Sun) 21:16:04 No. 1018

>>1007 >and it's being taken over by AI anyway. So hey! This is actually not even slightly true!!!!

LLMs Hallucinate and make random shit up all of the time, if you try to ask one to write anything that's not in python (which nobody actually uses because it's terrible) or anything more complex than a leetcode problem (which most things are), it's going to spit out a bunch of random nonsense that it has no knowledge of. TLDR; 9/10 times, you have to spend more time debugging the AI code than you would have to spend if you just wrote it yourself

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Anonymous 01/05/2025 (Sun) 21:17:38 No. 1019

>>1018 >LMs Hallucinate and make random shit up all of the time did you ever try to make it write for embed that is not some mainstream arduino shit. it doesn't hallucinate, it fucking creeps me out. you ask it to help you do shit and it *translates your words into code, LITERALLY*. fucking nightmare.

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Anonymous 01/06/2025 (Mon) 01:34:17 No. 1020

>>1019 >Something for embedded It can't do that. >Oh but actually I am a stupid electrical engineer monkey so it can assert pin 13 and- Make it read the docs for serial COMmunication and write a driver to read and write, it won't.

Why use tmux?? Anonymous 11/09/2024 (Sat) 16:14:12 No. 914 [Reply]

Why should I use tmux over the tiling and tabbing features of my window manager or those already built into many terminals?

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Anonymous 12/20/2024 (Fri) 16:43:05 No. 983

I do nothing at all, the screen just randomly goes blank. It only happens once in a while though

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Anonymous 12/28/2024 (Sat) 19:48:10 No. 997

>>914 There exist much better alternatives, such as [Alt]+[F*], gpm, dvtm and abduco.

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Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 13:32:32 No. 1000

>>981 it's significantly better now but a few years ago just launching minecraft on nvidia was enough for me

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Anonymous 01/03/2025 (Fri) 01:36:09 No. 1001

>>997 abduco is nice, I use a4[1] instead of dvtm because it's lighter and I find the UI a it more pleasing. Also, it actually seems to handle text wrapping better than dvtm. [1] https://github.com/rpmohn/a4

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 04:32:53 No. 1003

i don't use tmux as i am a gnu screen loser but some pros are - using it on a vps. i just reattach the screen instance and all of my work is still there. - have one terminal window over several - i like to do work in the tty as less power usage and distractions - screen + emacs -nw is a nice combo - i use xterm

Battlestations Thread Anonymous 01/07/2024 (Sun) 00:00:07 No. 350 [Reply]

Post your own battlestation here! I got a new speakers and a subwoofer since three days ago!

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Anonymous 11/06/2024 (Wed) 08:33:50 No. 910

>>908 I have seen quite a few setups with "media" monitor above - how useful is it? Doesn't your neck hurt?

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Anonymous 11/06/2024 (Wed) 17:57:00 No. 911

>>910 There's a decent bit of space behind me so I just roll my chair back if I want to watch anything on it but honestly I mostly just put my music player up there, or some effects stuff for music production. It's pretty useless and probably not what I'll do when I move house soon. Also behind me is the obligatory ikea glass display case that every figure collector on the planet has, and one time while drunk I rolled my chair back way too enthusiastically and crashed right into it. By some miracle I managed to not shatter any of the panels but it was loud as fuck.

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Anonymous 11/09/2024 (Sat) 17:16:07 No. 917

taken with my 3ds

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Anonymous 11/09/2024 (Sat) 22:09:16 No. 919

>>917 what's that jar anon

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Anonymous 12/26/2024 (Thu) 10:09:01 No. 995

Sweet love /bst/ threads. Here is mine, if you visit /bst/ on 4chan then you most likely seen my setup. >>350 what is that big box below the desk? Subwoofer or a bar fridge? >>479 Mint Based >>714 seems pretty cozy(even if i despise circumcised kbs) >>908 what kind of monitor stand you use? I am considering stacking both my monitors like that. I use my right monitor for youtube and i think it would be decent fit there

Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 22:32:51 No. 898 [Reply]

While reinstalling my system I accidentally tarballed /srv/http outside of chroot, then deleted my old data, now have to rewrite the website i was working on from zero

Your fortune: (YOU ARE BANNED)

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Anonymous 11/04/2024 (Mon) 08:13:35 No. 899

I once unpacked an entire system outside of chroot, rewriting my current one and breaking everything.

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Anonymous 11/20/2024 (Wed) 07:47:20 No. 939

Very unfortunate and i am sorry for your loss. here's to a speedy recovery of the progress on your website :3

Your fortune: Good Luck

what hypervisor should i use? Anonymous 10/16/2024 (Wed) 23:04:24 No. 856 [Reply]

i know of Xen, Bhyve (which is like a vmm but with a hypervisor too, but its kinda less capable), or KVM (i don't really like GNU/Linux but ill get over it eventually i guess, im in a love hate relationship rn because distro fragmentation kinda sucks a lot) Xen apparently may or may not work on my current hardware, unfortunately, and i also don't know if ill even benefit from it anyways, since i really don't have a problem with running a host, its 2024, i have enough computational resources for having a resource intense host i would also say NetBSD Virtual Machine Manager is an option but i can't run NetBSD on most of my hardware as a host, and nested virtualization is not really possible on FreeBSD Bhyve iirc, and id rather not do a QEMU/KVM setup just to run NetBSD, it would be really heavy and sluggish for the most part, but idrk

plan 9 also has a virtual machine system, but i don't really have a reason to start a 9fs grid since im broke af and can't buy a bunch of machines, so yeah, idk Hyper-V might be fine, im not opposed to Windows at all, but its gonna take a bit to learn how to use Windows. Solaris 11 is also an option but id rather not depend on having an Oracle account, even if its "free", however if its virtualization is actually good i might just use Solaris as my host, especially since it still supports SPARC (i plan on buying a SPARC machine)

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Anonymous 10/17/2024 (Thu) 02:51:26 No. 858

> what hypervisor should i use? I don't understand what you are trying to do with your hypervisor? I think in most cases, you should be fine with KVM though. I don't see why you would use anything else as it's (except for Xen and Hyper-V maybe) the most capable, stable and best-supported out of your list.

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Anonymous 10/17/2024 (Thu) 06:18:03 No. 859

Don't use them. You don't need them.

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Anonymous 11/18/2024 (Mon) 18:22:07 No. 938

There isn't a "good" hypervisor. Just know what works best for you. I recommend using VirtualBox, I personally use it. It's cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and it's free.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads If that's not interesting or useful for you, try using VMware or some other visualization computer software...

Anonymous 07/19/2023 (Wed) 20:23:42 No. 48 [Reply]

What was your first Linux distro? Over a decade ago, on my shitty vista laptop, I flashed Gentoo on to it, because people said it was best to start with in a chatroom I was in... I ended up figuring it out somehow though.

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Anonymous 03/14/2024 (Thu) 18:43:21 No. 437

I think it was Ubuntu or Kali idk, I've been using Linux for so long.

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Anonymous 03/15/2024 (Fri) 20:31:40 No. 440

>>331 >me breaking my system trying to fix a broken dependency for firefox

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Anonymous 11/09/2024 (Sat) 17:42:12 No. 918

My parents put me on Ubuntu to stop me from installing viruses and destroying my Windows XP installation

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Anonymous 11/09/2024 (Sat) 23:37:45 No. 920

>>918 awesome parenting

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Anonymous 11/13/2024 (Wed) 22:49:40 No. 926

it was Knoppix. year 2003. good times.

Vim Anonymous 07/08/2023 (Sat) 06:56:59 No. 16 [Reply]

How 2 exit it?? Is it malcious software?

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Anonymous 07/08/2023 (Sat) 13:38:27 No. 18

i unplug the computer

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Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 03:08:00 No. 880

Fear not, young lady! I am a wizard, and I shall help you. Press escape and type in this spell: ":wq" No need to thank me. I'm just doing my duty...

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Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 07:18:57 No. 881

It is cruel irony that I find vim the most comfy terminal based text editor. No other compares to it. But is so fucking complex and overloaded with features, that every time I need to correct my workflow it's major pain the ass.

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Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 11:22:12 No. 882

install gentoo

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Anonymous 11/07/2024 (Thu) 21:35:53 No. 912

>>881 vis may be of your interest: https://github.com/martanne/vis Haven't used it too much though

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