/silicon/ - technology

>>1884
Actually no, it started out as fixes to SLS, not LFS.

i have linux on my thinkpads and on my lenovo thinkcentre, before windows 10 support ends i will find a suitable desktop distro that'll allow me to still play video games on my main PC.

Been away from the comfy systems a few years because of reasons, finally getting back into it. Trying to get OpenBSD working on my old laptop, but it's really bothersome. Any other computer has usually went fine without any trouble, but OpenBSD really hates this machine. Install is trouble free, but as soon as the system is booted up the fans spin up real fast and then it just powers off on its own. Tried booting into single user mode as well without X but still same issue. And since I only have like 10-20 seconds of time before it shuts down after booting up I have no time to investigate what's going on either. Still no luck after a second install with network plugged in so it got the fw_update done at install time either. At a bit of a loss.

Almost considering just trying to get some linux distro into it instead, but I am completely out of touch with the going ons and what's the good stuff nowadays.

Also a tip I gathered from this time around making install media from windows, the raspberry pi imager tool works fine for writing the .img to a USB drive. Win32 Disk Imager seems to only be downloadable from SourceForge which has a bad rep for malware stuff as far as I can tell.

I used to be an App Support guy for server apps written in C that ran on Linux. Was a fun gig and I learned a lot. Daily drive it on all of my machines. At my current gig I maintain all of our linux servers in addition to doing a lot of windows stuff (AD, RDS, etc). Wish I could get back to a pure Linux or Unix environment though, but all of my coworkers are clickmins and the job market is bad where I live.

For desktop stuff I use EndeavorOS. Is arch, but you don't have to spend a pile of time configuring your system. You can pick from a wide variety of DE or WMs, and it makes send defaults and includes very little. For server stuff I prefer Rocky Linux as RHEL's documentation is very good and I'm not an expert. For LCX/Docker or machines that are more 'single use appliance' than server I use Alpine as it's small and I dont have to harden it much. OPNsense or openWRT for firewalling and routing. Would like to start using BSD more though, particularly for pure web servers, storage boxes, and for networking stuff. Maybe one day when I have more time.

>>2520
Boot from a liveCD on that host so you can examine the logs. For ISOs I'm partial to Rufus. You toss it on a USB, and then drop your ISOs onto it. You then select which one you want to boot. There are a lot of LiveCDs built for specific tasks that are handy to have.

For Debian based systems PopOS is considered the good ez distro, Mint is still good. Ubuntu isn't well maintained these days. For Redhat based stuff everyone moved away from CentOS to Rocky Linux, as CentOS was moved upstream of RHEL. Arch is Arch. I like EndeavorOS for Arch based stuff. It's minimal but you don't have to build your own system. Nix is cool if you want to manage packages very very differently, although I can't be bothered to learn it personally.

>>2380
I ran one for a while. Supported Gopher and HTML, but after an initial influx of users no one was active and I lost interest in maintaining it.

also moar os-tan

I've been toying around with the idea of getting an arm-based laptop and trying Debian on it. I'm pretty familiar with Debian, but have only ever used linux on my desktop computer. I've heard there's some decent power draw concerns with linux on laptops (which laptops are already kind of bad with power in my experience), so it seems like a logical move to make, especially since I really only use a computer for basic web browsing (at the very most, watching videos, but that's a rare occurrence) and text editing (I love LibreOffice!). Could be fun!

Haruna

kuromi

Tourmaline

post host

>>2443
>How do you make your devices more connected?
WireGuard, ssh, Jellyfin.
>How would you make it,
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/
>how does the usual use case look like?
the usual pattern is to buy a seedbox and run Jellyfin on it such that you can torrent a movie and directly stream from it.
>Do you have any uncommon devices or cool software to support your work, gaming or anime consumption?
I'm not sure about uncommon but I use a Steam Deck as a Jellyfin receiver, aside from it's regular duties.
>>2446
I always forget just how fast USB storage is.
>>2450
are you not concerned about your privacy?

I had an HTPC with Plex in like 2014 and used it to watch anime from my couch. It was kind of a pain in the butt to get it displaying things right sometimes though, especially when it came to automatically getting thumbnails and titles.

>How do you make your devices more connected?
Having my internet experience one way or another be completely contained in one or two server computers.

>How do you make your devices more connected?
Tailscale is really nice for setting up a private vpn network between your devices using wireguard https://tailscale.com/. There is also headscale if you really want to be privacy minded https://headscale.net/stable/. They have clients for all desktop operating systems, android, ios, most TVs and docker sidecar containers so everything can be on your private network.

I use pi-hole to make my internet comfy. Other than jellyfin I also like Navidrome for music and Freshrss to subscribe to youtube channels and blogs. Gitea is nice if you are into programming and want a place to store your code.

I actually avoid as much connectivity as I possibly can. Whenever I'm doing a new install I try to disable any superfluous services, e.g. SSH and print server. I don't trust my abilities to make a good enough network/firewall setup so it's less worrisome that way.

Though I've been considering making a small mini network of my old unused machines just connected together with a switch, no actual huge big net access. Get a feel of what I'm missing out on with my way of operating without any security risk caused by me not knowing what I'm doing. And just have some fun.

Every day I check rss feeds with newsboat, I use my web browser librewolf to browse the web, I communicate with my friends using element and (unfortunately) discord. I would rather use a more lightweight matrix client than element, but the only 2 terminal based clients I know of both suck. Maybe time to switch to xmpp. I watch anime using MPV, browse my files with nnn, and listen to music with cmus. I also use vim to edit text, I've experimented with various text editors and always end up back at basic stock normal ass vim. Pretty bog standard boring stuff I think.

for those who like terminal browser, try chawan (https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan)!

It supports css, picture, gemini and gopher protocol.

:3

>>2513
How does it fare against w3m/links/lynx/elinks? :0

>>2494
>I would rather use a more lightweight matrix client than element, but the only 2 terminal based clients I know of both suck
have you tried nheko at all? it's probably the best graphical matrix client in terms of performance vs usability/features

https://nheko-reborn.github.io/

Just the fucking browser. I am too lazy to use anything else. I also hate the browser, but the whole ecosystem with programming is too burdensome for me to care about doing anything at all. I also don't like python which is arguably the path of least resistance for getting things done quickly.
I don't care too much about computers anymore, anyway.

>>2247
/lewd/ is still around, it's just hidden

>>1732
If you're gonna make an imageboard, make sure you don't have ads and make sure you have a strong CSAM filter as well as racebait filter. For any soyjak party spammers or spammers in general, make a filter for that too.
Remembered that a Kiwi user told us a small powerlevel about how he used to run an obscure imageboard and despite it being so obscure and that he didn't shill it anywhere but his own site, CSAM ads/websites kept popping up (they dont have explicit images, just some simple drawings like silhouettes)
Imageboards especially dead ones have a very serious CSAM spam problem. I don't know who or what is doing this but I'll assume: Some form of web crawler/bot that detects imageboards and spams it, elaborate trolling groups on Discord or Telegram, or third worlders since in some of 3rd world countries don't decriminalize possession and distribution of it (including real and fictional)
Just some advice and theories about the whole problem with imageboards

If you don't want CP spam just host a 2ch style textboard instead. Make it private and recruit a bunch of friends or people you trust to test it out.

>>2258
Honestly not needed, just do not host vichan or anything too close to the default interface. The spammers get easily confused and deterred.

If you are that "idiot" and do not mind there are several higher mods over you, try endchan.net, you can create a board at there without any cost.

>>2365
I think working on a project that solves a problem you have is fun, and really good if you want to learn something.
For example, I didn't like the offerings of color pickers, so I decided to make my own.
Even if you have a problem that's already solved by some software… solve it again, but your way.

I keep finding a reason to incorporate DAGs into my projects, don't quite know why.

Interesting topics to look into right now: AI Alignment and Mechanistic Interpretability.

Mechanistic interpretability is trying to reverse engineer trained neural networks into a theory of how they do what they do.

>>2365
I would say that for CTF stuff, it's good to practice on pico until you feel like the problems are too easy for you. Other than that, you can practice doing many of the contests, which should provide some more experience with harder tasks. In addition to being able to figure out how to do things, I think experience also helps you figure out how to do things more quickly.

>>1343
>What are sushis working on right now?
I've decided to finally learn how to use C GTK.
>>1345
the only thing that is useful for a job is being so good at something that nobody else around you has any idea what you're saying. 1. everyone will ask you to help them. 2. everyone will ask you to teach them. so just pick anything that people need know and know it better than the back of your hand.

i remember this thing called tiddlywiki that was very simple to use

link: https://tiddlywiki.com/

Mediawiki is a great piece of software. It introduced me to server hosting.

>>1161
I've been using Miraheze Wiki for my projects.

what kind of things do you post on your wiki OP (or others)? i keep my own personal notes in obsidian so i am curious the utility of wiki hosting for most people.

>>1333
I think if you open a space for people to publish information about a topic then people will find things to write about a topic. planning for creativity is neither fun nor conducive to the creative mind.

>>684
never understood this site
wtf is it

>>685
just music and cool pictures. you could say it's
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>>655
http://angusnicneven.com/
don't know why no one has posted this yet

Always good for those cyberpunk needs, http://jinteki.industries/index.html

cleaned my dirty laptop with a damp paper towel
a drop went in a vent hole and i heard a hiss
wouldn't turn on anymore

I tried to add some RAM to a friend’s laptop. After installing it, the machine would turn itself off because one of the cooling fans wasn’t working right. So I decided to open her back up and check. They were connected fine so I thought I’d disconnect and reconnect them to see if that would fix them, but I applied too much force and ended up ripping the cable, forcing me to replace the whole fan too.

Bought 200$ in MOCA (Coax based Ethernet) for there to be a crimp in the wall. After buying weird rj45s I finally found a female connector, all in all I paid 350 or so dollars for gigabit in my room in the end

Help old people with computers for fun. I know this lady who's Parkinson's/arthritis/whatever was so advanced she couldn't double click the home button on the iPad fast enough. I recommended she buy an android at that point. Everyone I know recommends apple devices for their simplicity but they can do better in the accessibility department. Windows is probably the best with the key delay feature which helps when obasan wants to type on her Compaq like she's dialing a toll free nunber

Back in the day I was the idiot buying the cheapest power supplies possible and I had two separate combustion incidents. One time the PSU itself just popped and filled my room with smoke. Second time a fan splitter cable set on fire with no apparent external cause – maybe unstable voltage from the power supply and/or a bad connection in the cable?
I know what I'm doing now and I haven't had any disasters since but I do live in fear of my graphics card's 12VHPWR connector blowing up.
Fake edit: actually there was something more recent – has anyone here NOT at some point bent CPU pins? RIP to my old Ryzen 3600. Always remember to heat the IHS before attempting heatsink removal.

I had a laptop that I kept plugged in 24/7 for a couple years (before I knew this would destroy the battery). When I got a computer to replace it I realized that I had almost killed the battery, and it eventually died leaving it unable to boot.
I took out the battery which turned my laptop into a pseudo-desktop since it had to be plugged in in order to work.
On top of that, the boot process is something I'll never forget.

Step 1: turn on the laptop
Step 2: it says that the wattage is too low, so I press diagnose
Step 3: wait for it to get to the rainbow screen of test colors
Step 4: force power off
Step 5: turn on laptop again
Step 6: wattage error again, but press continue
Step 7: congratulations it booted.

If I didn't hit diagnose the cpu caps at 300Mhz, and if I didn't reboot during the repair process a loud beeping noise would happen which was annoying, I believe one time it also caused it to fail to boot.

This inspired me to look into how ttfs work.

>>2474
Sure, but if you converted the bitmap to a ttf I think it would become curves when you scaled it, because the ttf information is fundamentally stored as curves rather than a bitmap. My guess is that OP's program converts the bitmap font to a ttf font that only retains the original bitmap at one font size; I think that would be the most reasonable way to do it. So it looks right as long as you use a specific font size with it. Thinking on it more it actually seems like a good solution to making old bitmap fonts more compatible with modern programs. The bitmap fonts were only ever intended to be used at a single font size anyways, so it doesn't really matter how they scale.

This is a pretty good description of how ttf works:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/ttch01

>>2470
Coincidental timing, sushi roll. I found these on accident recently:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
^ has otf and tons of multilang glyphs including CJK
Also check these out:
https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/
http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap/index.html

P.S. Sushigirl stop banning TOR nodes T_T

>>2475
The history of TrueType and early computer fonts is surprisingly involved and interesting, you can find interesting reading on that topic on the same domain you linked.

>>2477
Good find!

TOR nodes are not getting unbanned any time soon, too much abuse, sadly.

>>2477
Nice fonts sushi

I installed the GNU unifont and it looks graet

>>2477
you can use vpns !! if one doesn't work try another