What have you been working on lately? Need to get something off your chest? Or are you looking for tech support? This is the thread for you.
Technology thread pt. 2 :
Anonymous :
127 days ago :
No.8008
>>8053
>>8008 (OP)
boob
Not at all a techfriend, but I recently swapped from using a smartphone to a dumbphone (specifically a Nokia 2780 Flip). Honestly, has been a pretty positive change. Cut my retarded scrolling tendencies effectively and communication has not been very difficult.
Looking at the bitchat mesh chat that came out recently. Giving me BATMAN vibes, let's see if more normies will pick it up. Guess I'll have to go back to messing with the Linux Bluetooth stack again if I want to use it seriously.
Normies who look at this thread, please consider using something besides Discord! Do something interesting with the magic device in your pocket for once!
bitchat (.) free
Jackie boy even went out of his way to make an iOS app for you fucking retards (a very irritating process to go through in general, but especially worthless for anything open-source or nonprofit) so now you don't even have an excuse of technical skill.
>>8017
Looking at the bitchat mesh chat that came out recently. Giving me BATMAN vibes, let's see if more normies will pick it up. Guess I'll have to go back to messing with the Linux Bluetooth stack again if I want to use it seriously.
Normies who look at this thread, please consider using something besides Discord! Do something interesting with the magic device in your pocket for once!
bitchat (.) free
No one in my neck of the wood
I guess someone needs to be first.
Today, I re-flashed my Poker II, because it began malfunctioning and eventually stopped responding altogether. It led me to thinking about the possibility of flashing some custom firmware to make this thing hardware-coded Dvorak. I did the same thing with another keyboard but that ran an Arduino interface so that was leagues easier and more open. I wish I was more experienced with firmware hacking so I wouldn't have to dip into Windows each time to run whatever flashing software needed to do the job.
Admin confirmed cuck for hosting on Goyflare
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8053
>>8054
>>8053
I wish you the best in your endeavors, but to me this always sounds like the tech version of crash dieting, as in you'll be back on the drip soon enough.
>>8066>>8053 (me)
Anyway I've been curious on how to become more of a techie and expand my horizons, mostly because I found out about neocities and I think making a website for displaying writings would be an interesting endeavor. Anyone got tips and tricks.
>>8008 (OP)
boob
Not at all a techfriend, but I recently swapped from using a smartphone to a dumbphone (specifically a Nokia 2780 Flip). Honestly, has been a pretty positive change. Cut my retarded scrolling tendencies effectively and communication has not been very difficult.
>>8053
>>8008 (OP)
boob
Not at all a techfriend, but I recently swapped from using a smartphone to a dumbphone (specifically a Nokia 2780 Flip). Honestly, has been a pretty positive change. Cut my retarded scrolling tendencies effectively and communication has not been very difficult.
I wish you the best in your endeavors, but to me this always sounds like the tech version of crash dieting, as in you'll be back on the drip soon enough.
>8054
Lol, I think you're not wrong. Truthfully, I been using my laptop way more at home (but I also have been trying to write out grad school applications, which necessitate that use of my laptop). But I don't take my laptop to places like work, which means I basically have to just meditate or read a book (which is mostly what I've replaced scrolling with: about a quarter of the way through Moby Dick now). I think this experiment has already been successful in that degree, and I don't really think it will be an ultimate failure because I feel quite comfortable having the flip phone be my only option.
>>8061
>8054
Lol, I think you're not wrong. Truthfully, I been using my laptop way more at home (but I also have been trying to write out grad school applications, which necessitate that use of my laptop). But I don't take my laptop to places like work, which means I basically have to just meditate or read a book (which is mostly what I've replaced scrolling with: about a quarter of the way through Moby Dick now). I think this experiment has already been successful in that degree, and I don't really think it will be an ultimate failure because I feel quite comfortable having the flip phone be my only option.
>>8054>>8053
I wish you the best in your endeavors, but to me this always sounds like the tech version of crash dieting, as in you'll be back on the drip soon enough.
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8066
>>8067
>>8066
If you are techie enough to purchase and operate a VPS (it's not that hard) then you could try using a static site generator to build a blog or writing portfolio or whatever.
>>8068
>>8053
>>8008 (OP)
boob
Not at all a techfriend, but I recently swapped from using a smartphone to a dumbphone (specifically a Nokia 2780 Flip). Honestly, has been a pretty positive change. Cut my retarded scrolling tendencies effectively and communication has not been very difficult.
(me)
Anyway I've been curious on how to become more of a techie and expand my horizons, mostly because I found out about neocities and I think making a website for displaying writings would be an interesting endeavor. Anyone got tips and tricks.
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8067
>>8068 >>8079
>>8067
Hmm, I would say the first hurdle is that I don't know what any of those words mean.
>>8068
>if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
A curiously circular statement, but ultimately true. I'll probably just see if I stick with learning 2 code an easy thing (neocities) and if I cannot do that, then I will accept that I am nothing but a wordcel for life.
>>8066
>>8053 (me)
Anyway I've been curious on how to become more of a techie and expand my horizons, mostly because I found out about neocities and I think making a website for displaying writings would be an interesting endeavor. Anyone got tips and tricks.
If you are techie enough to purchase and operate a VPS (it's not that hard) then you could try using a static site generator to build a blog or writing portfolio or whatever.
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8068
>>8069
>>8068
The difference in difficulty between neocities and self hosting on a vps is pretty small. Even smaller if you run on cloudflare pages or whatever.
>>8079>>8067
Hmm, I would say the first hurdle is that I don't know what any of those words mean.
>>8068
>if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
A curiously circular statement, but ultimately true. I'll probably just see if I stick with learning 2 code an easy thing (neocities) and if I cannot do that, then I will accept that I am nothing but a wordcel for life.
>>8080>>8079
I am quite sorry for my overly judgemental comment in >>8068 (I was weaned in the ruthlessly hyper-competitive /g/ sphere of technology discussion). You seem like a level-headed, curious, and intelligent person and I think you are a good candidate for learning technology. I am also, at my base, a wordcel, but my zealous dose of autism has led me into the technical path slowly and inadvertently. Technical concepts do not come easily or naturally to me at all, even after all these years. I am also an autodidact, which is fine for that initial boost of curiosity but eventually leads to diminishing returns as you progress in skill; only the truly talented can self-teach themselves into anything great. Otherwise you eventually find yourself filling gaps in knowledge and skill that would already been covered in any average computer science class. As it stands, my strengths lie in toying with operating system and networking setups, and I am still pitifully weak with programming in particular.
I expound on my personal progress not just to blather on autobiographically but to give you an example of someone that was, and is still, in a position similar to yourself, a neophyte and outsider in the tech realm, always having to take the hard path upwards. I think making a Neocities site is a great endeavor for a wide variety of people with a baseline of technical literacy and interest. Many millennials will credit Myspace (and Tumblr to a lesser extent) to introducing them to basic HTML and CSS design, and I think Neocities does the same for many zoomers. Please do post your progress and questions in this thread if (when!!) you decide to start with your page there.
>>8066
>>8053 (me)
Anyway I've been curious on how to become more of a techie and expand my horizons, mostly because I found out about neocities and I think making a website for displaying writings would be an interesting endeavor. Anyone got tips and tricks.
Why don't you start with something small like a Neocities site instead of jumping into self-hosting like retardautist >>8067>>8066
If you are techie enough to purchase and operate a VPS (it's not that hard) then you could try using a static site generator to build a blog or writing portfolio or whatever.
says -- if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8069
>>8073
>>8069
Tech autists always say "you can do it it's easy" but they have no idea how to gauge difficulty when it comes to normies
>>8068
The difference in difficulty between neocities and self hosting on a vps is pretty small. Even smaller if you run on cloudflare pages or whatever.
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8073
>>8074
>>8073
being on this website makes you ipso facto not a normie
>>8077>>8073
Not to be cringe but LLMs make any well-understood setup process completely trivial. "I can't set up a VPS" is like "I can't cook". Anyone who can follow instructions can do a median job.
Making a website with HTML and CSS: Requires some understanding of the technology and good taste to get something meaningful. You have to continuously iterate on your project.
Setting up a VPS: Ask chatgpt how to do it, follow directions for 30 minutes, never think about it again.
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8074
>>8075
>>8074
Obviously, the context is tech vs. non-tech, and if making a Neocities page sounds like an exciting challenge, you're a normie in that regard. What a banal reddit-tier gotcha reply
>>8076>>8074
By the way I know it's you, admin. I'm the only asshole who posts on here so this might as well be a fucking IRC room with us two for all it matters. I deserve a pint from you for holding this place up on my shoulders with shitposts.
>>8074
>>8073
being on this website makes you ipso facto not a normie
By the way I know it's you, admin. I'm the only asshole who posts on here so this might as well be a fucking IRC room with us two for all it matters. I deserve a pint from you for holding this place up on my shoulders with shitposts.
>>8073
>>8069
Tech autists always say "you can do it it's easy" but they have no idea how to gauge difficulty when it comes to normies
Not to be cringe but LLMs make any well-understood setup process completely trivial. "I can't set up a VPS" is like "I can't cook". Anyone who can follow instructions can do a median job.
Making a website with HTML and CSS: Requires some understanding of the technology and good taste to get something meaningful. You have to continuously iterate on your project.
Setting up a VPS: Ask chatgpt how to do it, follow directions for 30 minutes, never think about it again.
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8079
>>8080
>>8079
I am quite sorry for my overly judgemental comment in >>8068 (I was weaned in the ruthlessly hyper-competitive /g/ sphere of technology discussion). You seem like a level-headed, curious, and intelligent person and I think you are a good candidate for learning technology. I am also, at my base, a wordcel, but my zealous dose of autism has led me into the technical path slowly and inadvertently. Technical concepts do not come easily or naturally to me at all, even after all these years. I am also an autodidact, which is fine for that initial boost of curiosity but eventually leads to diminishing returns as you progress in skill; only the truly talented can self-teach themselves into anything great. Otherwise you eventually find yourself filling gaps in knowledge and skill that would already been covered in any average computer science class. As it stands, my strengths lie in toying with operating system and networking setups, and I am still pitifully weak with programming in particular.
I expound on my personal progress not just to blather on autobiographically but to give you an example of someone that was, and is still, in a position similar to yourself, a neophyte and outsider in the tech realm, always having to take the hard path upwards. I think making a Neocities site is a great endeavor for a wide variety of people with a baseline of technical literacy and interest. Many millennials will credit Myspace (and Tumblr to a lesser extent) to introducing them to basic HTML and CSS design, and I think Neocities does the same for many zoomers. Please do post your progress and questions in this thread if (when!!) you decide to start with your page there.
>>8067
>>8066
If you are techie enough to purchase and operate a VPS (it's not that hard) then you could try using a static site generator to build a blog or writing portfolio or whatever.
Hmm, I would say the first hurdle is that I don't know what any of those words mean.
>>8068
>if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
A curiously circular statement, but ultimately true. I'll probably just see if I stick with learning 2 code an easy thing (neocities) and if I cannot do that, then I will accept that I am nothing but a wordcel for life.
>>8079
>>8067
Hmm, I would say the first hurdle is that I don't know what any of those words mean.
>>8068
>if you were capable of autodidaction you would have done so already
A curiously circular statement, but ultimately true. I'll probably just see if I stick with learning 2 code an easy thing (neocities) and if I cannot do that, then I will accept that I am nothing but a wordcel for life.
I am quite sorry for my overly judgemental comment in >>8068 (I was weaned in the ruthlessly hyper-competitive /g/ sphere of technology discussion). You seem like a level-headed, curious, and intelligent person and I think you are a good candidate for learning technology. I am also, at my base, a wordcel, but my zealous dose of autism has led me into the technical path slowly and inadvertently. Technical concepts do not come easily or naturally to me at all, even after all these years. I am also an autodidact, which is fine for that initial boost of curiosity but eventually leads to diminishing returns as you progress in skill; only the truly talented can self-teach themselves into anything great. Otherwise you eventually find yourself filling gaps in knowledge and skill that would already been covered in any average computer science class. As it stands, my strengths lie in toying with operating system and networking setups, and I am still pitifully weak with programming in particular.
I expound on my personal progress not just to blather on autobiographically but to give you an example of someone that was, and is still, in a position similar to yourself, a neophyte and outsider in the tech realm, always having to take the hard path upwards. I think making a Neocities site is a great endeavor for a wide variety of people with a baseline of technical literacy and interest. Many millennials will credit Myspace (and Tumblr to a lesser extent) to introducing them to basic HTML and CSS design, and I think Neocities does the same for many zoomers. Please do post your progress and questions in this thread if (when!!) you decide to start with your page there.
I've been vibecoding an android widget lol. Hoping to get it done this weekend, it pulls a couple numbers from my budget app (they have their API exposed) and do a projection so I can track my spending with little effort. Just need to change some classes and it should update correctly now. Using LLMs for this was really nice as I have no interest in learning the intricacies of kotlin and Android app development.
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8082
>>8083 >>8084
>>8082
I'd say router security and compromised routers are more pressing than whether you have an http port exposed, but I wouldn't say that you "shouldn't worry much" about security. Public port scanning is still intense. Buy a cheap VPS and check the logs if you don't believe me.
I want to upgrade to a VPS from my seed box, so I could do more fun things with my own server. But I don't trust myself to have proper security on it
>>8081
I've been vibecoding an android widget lol. Hoping to get it done this weekend, it pulls a couple numbers from my budget app (they have their API exposed) and do a projection so I can track my spending with little effort. Just need to change some classes and it should update correctly now. Using LLMs for this was really nice as I have no interest in learning the intricacies of kotlin and Android app development.
Android dev is hell, glad you’re having fun
>>8082I want to upgrade to a VPS from my seed box, so I could do more fun things with my own server. But I don't trust myself to have proper security on it
You can self host pretty much anything in your own home unless you’re trying to make money. That said, you shouldn’t worry about security that much. Just don’t use php
>>8082
I want to upgrade to a VPS from my seed box, so I could do more fun things with my own server. But I don't trust myself to have proper security on it
I'd say router security and compromised routers are more pressing than whether you have an http port exposed, but I wouldn't say that you "shouldn't worry much" about security. Public port scanning is still intense. Buy a cheap VPS and check the logs if you don't believe me.
Poor guy got straight up existential.
>And so now I have to ask myself, did I ever even teach anybody how to fish? Maybe I didn't. Maybe I just gave a bunch of people fishes, and when they run out of those fish, they're just going to starve to death. Maybe that's what I did. And... that possibility, that's honestly probably why this is so triggering to me I guess.
Anonymous :
104 days ago :
No.8179
>>8193
>>8179
I upgraded my PC a year ago to its maximum capacity, and I'm grateful to not have paid cucked prices for components, especially memory. AI is ruining everything, and I can't imagine being in the pc-building hobby and staring at a $500 price tag on a pair of memory sticks that were, just last year, a fraction of that.
Not having loaded up on RAM a few years ago is going to kill me more than not having continued to mine Litecoin in 2012. Hope you tards are ready for the RAMocalypse
Anonymous :
103 days ago :
No.8193
>>8205
>>8193
Gonna be a lot of people learning about swap and paging memory in the coming two years till the market corrects.
>>8179
Not having loaded up on RAM a few years ago is going to kill me more than not having continued to mine Litecoin in 2012. Hope you tards are ready for the RAMocalypse
I upgraded my PC a year ago to its maximum capacity, and I'm grateful to not have paid cucked prices for components, especially memory. AI is ruining everything, and I can't imagine being in the pc-building hobby and staring at a $500 price tag on a pair of memory sticks that were, just last year, a fraction of that.
>>8193
>>8179
I upgraded my PC a year ago to its maximum capacity, and I'm grateful to not have paid cucked prices for components, especially memory. AI is ruining everything, and I can't imagine being in the pc-building hobby and staring at a $500 price tag on a pair of memory sticks that were, just last year, a fraction of that.
Gonna be a lot of people learning about swap and paging memory in the coming two years till the market corrects.
Anonymous :
46 days ago :
No.8377
>>8380
>>8377
It's the last outpost/rump state of a remote setup, which no one has had time to go and fix yet. Even though probably nothing will happen if I update and reboot, I can't afford to gamble.
>>8381>>8377
Sorry for not answering the fucking question, lol. It's a laptop actually.
>>8376
Is htop admonishing or praising me
Is this a server or your desktop?
A very niche linguistics/computing post:
Norwegian developer delineates Nynorsk from Bokmål with a mountain emoji next to it. Unicode solves what premillennial statecraft couldn't!
Anonymous :
34 days ago :
No.8418
>>8438
>>8418
But in all seriousness if you’re looking for a laptop that can handle significant workloads you should just buy an M-series MacBook. M2 or above. Doesn’t even really matter which one
anyone here work in research? I'm about to enter grad school and came a small amount of money recently. I want to get a decent computing setup/workstation going and want to know what works for other people.
Anonymous :
33 days ago :
No.8421
>>8435
>>8421
Someone's got a chip on their shoulder, did you miss breakfast today buddy?
A chromebook? Are you fucking retarded? I work in LiDAR remote sensing. My datasets are 60gb on average. Even if I was a social science moron, your answer would still be retarded.
>>8437>>8421
He’ll need at least 2 gigs of ram to open up Jupyter Notebooks
Ivory tower heads are so cute, 'work in research' the average homelab scraper neet is a better researcher than you'll ever be, and he probably has wider access to academic articles than you do too.
Anyway, what do you need help with? Buy any computer or something it's all the same in 2026. You can probably do your work on a Chromebook and an external drive if you're not a STEMcel running local models or whatnot.
Anonymous :
33 days ago :
No.8426
>>8428
>>8426
Like I mentioned, it depends what field of "research" anon is going into. I've seen what goes on in so-called 'soft sciences'. A Dell with some memory for a hundred open tabs in Chrome at maximum. The university apparatus should be handling cloud storage. Life is not that complicated nowadays.
>Chromebook
Come on now
Anonymous :
33 days ago :
No.8428
>>8432
>>8428
Half of social sciences works on confidential files. A chromebook is not the right tool for that.
>>8426
>Chromebook
Come on now
Like I mentioned, it depends what field of "research" anon is going into. I've seen what goes on in so-called 'soft sciences'. A Dell with some memory for a hundred open tabs in Chrome at maximum. The university apparatus should be handling cloud storage. Life is not that complicated nowadays.
>>8428
>>8426
Like I mentioned, it depends what field of "research" anon is going into. I've seen what goes on in so-called 'soft sciences'. A Dell with some memory for a hundred open tabs in Chrome at maximum. The university apparatus should be handling cloud storage. Life is not that complicated nowadays.
Half of social sciences works on confidential files. A chromebook is not the right tool for that.
>>8421
Ivory tower heads are so cute, 'work in research' the average homelab scraper neet is a better researcher than you'll ever be, and he probably has wider access to academic articles than you do too.
Anyway, what do you need help with? Buy any computer or something it's all the same in 2026. You can probably do your work on a Chromebook and an external drive if you're not a STEMcel running local models or whatnot.
Someone's got a chip on their shoulder, did you miss breakfast today buddy?
A chromebook? Are you fucking retarded? I work in LiDAR remote sensing. My datasets are 60gb on average. Even if I was a social science moron, your answer would still be retarded.
I should have been more specific in my original question. Open to suggestions from STEM research anons (other than that one guy)
>>8421
Ivory tower heads are so cute, 'work in research' the average homelab scraper neet is a better researcher than you'll ever be, and he probably has wider access to academic articles than you do too.
Anyway, what do you need help with? Buy any computer or something it's all the same in 2026. You can probably do your work on a Chromebook and an external drive if you're not a STEMcel running local models or whatnot.
He’ll need at least 2 gigs of ram to open up Jupyter Notebooks
>>8418
anyone here work in research? I'm about to enter grad school and came a small amount of money recently. I want to get a decent computing setup/workstation going and want to know what works for other people.
But in all seriousness if you’re looking for a laptop that can handle significant workloads you should just buy an M-series MacBook. M2 or above. Doesn’t even really matter which one