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#0...100 loop
#register = 0
#register += 1
#print number
## if register value !>100 jump
.data
.text
main:
li $t1, 0
#begin label countloop
countloop:
add $t1, $t1, 1
li $v0, 1
add $a0, $t1, 0
syscall
blt $t1, 100, countloop
#end 
li $v0, 10
syscall

I am learning mips assembly because PS2 games use this and it'd be useful for getting a deeper understanding of the console. Started small with a function that prints numbers from 1 to 100. nothing impressive but i eventually want to get further into this

I'm considering learning C/C++. Should be interesting… I want to contribute to some open source projects

A meatspace friend to talk your financial and time management decisions through.

Alternatively, give me all of your money and time and let me reallocate it to you.

I will sound a bit abrasive but you managed to fry a turd, especially if it's the e-waste 8 GB special.

I assume you tested the new board with the new drive (and an OS installation USB stick, the new drive is completely empty.) If not, do that. Otherwise I suspect it's exactly the battery or less likely the USB-C charger; 65 W PD chargers are 25 € cheap if you need a new one. Unplug the battery and repeat. The laptop will work with no battery while charging. Besides the drive, the RAM (unlikely, it wouldn't boot at all) and the motherboard there is not much else to it.

Part-wise: Ifixit sells brand new boards (of unknown specs) for $360. You can behave like a typical eBay user and easily flip it whole as "untested" for 350 €.

picrel ideapads are made from pure garbonium I havent seen a single one that doesn't look like this after 3 years

it's on the wikipedia page, so it must be true!?

Qt = cute
QT = cutie

The pronunciation of the capital probably matters but like all English, the rules are made up (and the points don't matter) and what you really use are context clues to understand people

>>2544
more likely they called it "cute" so it wouldn't get confused with QuickTime which is often abbreviated as QT and pronounced like "cutie"

>>2545
Yet again, the world must suffer horrific fates for Apple's walled garden… Lol

I'm not referring to software here, just general digital chatting my sweet QT3.1415

>>2546
roflmao

People still use Usenet?

>>2534
I believe in the approaching singularity, and I never stopped to question whether or not there was simply a wall. It's an interesting thought. I guess if there is a wall, we'll find out soon enough.

I hope somebody gives you a better answer. Good luck!

Are we not already at the point of diminishing returns? Don't get me wrong, AI tools are useful and are going to replace a lot of routine tasks, but it doesn't seem like it's on the path to becoming a "super-intelligence". If anything I'd say it's going to lead to a more uniform and consistent mediocrity.

we haven't reached the point where the intelligence can improve itself/fix itself when it errs. so no AGI still isn't an issue.
could improvements lead to a runaway process? i doubt it. computers don't do well when most/all of their resources are being used. an AI would have to rely on datacenter infrastructure, and high performance network infrastructure. I doubt anything massive enough to be considered AGI could move through the WAN like a worm could. it's too large. most loads are virtualized and tests could be performed to kill anything that thinks of breaking out of a container/VM. barring that there is a final solution

>>2538
What about distributing itself over a botnet? No one computer has to host it all.

Maybe I lack imagination but I don't think AI escape is going to be much of an issue in practice, even if we reach some level of AGI. We already have malware and the reason it doesn't overtake everything is because there are people working on both sides with the same tools. The same model that escapes and scans for vulnerabilities is going to be used in the very same way to plug the holes.

>>2539
>AI escape isn't an issue

Until 5 computers in the botnet holding key resources are unreachable for whatever reason. Botnets are specifically used for DDOS and other less sophisticated attacks because even if some are turned off, the mass of them is still dangerous. An AI is not an automated script, it needs all it's resources to act together, not to mention the Vram and high storage needs. whereas a botnet is designed to open a webpage and hold resources, which is possible on most computers. Very different design capabilities. Have you looked at the full size on open LLMs? They're gigantic. A real AGI would be probably a lot larger.

Also WAN transfer speeds are not fast. You better hope this proto-indo skynet doesn't get turned off before transfers happen lol

>>1003
The Wired will never die, sushi. I'm new here and I will always seek refuge in these cozy pockets of the web

I've been keeping an offline journal for a year or two, but a malleable webpage is more fun. Hugo and HTML alone give me an amazing palette of possibilities. I'm quite happy with how it looks currently, and writing for it already feels like a habit. That's why I'm sharing it now.

Snapshots of my days at:

https://eenoa.nekoweb.org/

I don't have a personal website anymore because its primary visitors by an enormous margin would be robots anyway.

https://lain.soy/

It's a real racket.

>>2504
i quite enjoy your journal sushi…

>>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.