/lounge/ - Lounge

>>112353
I'm planning to buy a whole new puter since mine is older than much the Internet's age demographics, so to indirectly answer your question: irrelevant as it's destined for the dustbin once my new one is up and running whenever I've accrued maybe $1000 in fun money. There's no way this thing is going to last until DDR6 finally drops (latest news is it's "sometime by 2028 maybe but probably not" when not long ago it was "sometime by 2026..." and I need SOMETHING to tide me over so I can "future-proof" a new beast machine that'll last me another dozen years like this one has.

>>112573
if all you play is minecraft why would you need a new $1k computer
prices for DDR4/DDR5 RAM and SSDs are so horrendous now, makes little sense not to just upgrade what you have

>>112574
Because a nearly 500 mod modpack plus Distant Horizons and shaders would strain even 64gb RAM as far as my pitiful attempt at research has revealed. Plus I built this PC in 2014 and the only thing I've had to replace so far is the PSU, I'm lucky it can run Minecraft with nearly 500 mods WITHOUT Distant Horizons and shaders at only about 16-24 chunk view. tl;dr: into the trash it goes as soon as I can scrounge up what I presume is a very conservative $1000. I have little idea what an "expensive" PC looks like anymore in 2026 dollars especially compared to 2014 dollars, and $1000 feels cheap for a gaming rig for something as hideously optimized as Minecraft plus half a thousand kludgy mods plus occasional video editing that doesn't make me wait 10 minutes to encode a 30 second clip once or twice a month. Maybe also experiment with virtual machines with exotic operating systems like Haiku, *BSD, OpenIndiana, TempleOS, and Plan 9 from Bell Labs for funsies without having to make them my daily driver nor risk fucking everything up with partitioning.

>>112583
there's this, but again today's RAM and SSD prices are rip-offs

this guy says he runs it just fine on i7-4770k, 16GB RAM and RTX 3070 Ti
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1k4qpph/distant_horizons_just_hits_different/

i'll assume you have i7-4770k, 16GB DDR3 RAM and GTX 980

you'd be better off just upgrading to 32GB (4x8GB) of DDR3-1600 RAM ($80 on ebay) and an RTX 3050 8GB ($240 new)

I want to reformat w10 but theres a ton of hoops to jump through it seems to get the ltsc version wihout paying for a license.

>>113128
same as it has ever been since vista
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/discussion-windows-10-enterprise-iot-enterprise-n-ltsc-2021.84509/
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
https://rufus.ie/en/

heads up that on newer laptops e.g. 2025 lenovos where lenovo claims that the specific model supports specifically w10 ltsc iot the actual drivers like wifi, bluetooth may only exist for win11 and on win10 they may only sort of work (e.g. having to manually install them and then downgrade wifi version in mediatek driver settings)

win11 on a wagie 16g i5 laptop with the webshit resource hog ui and corporate shitware running in the background is like being lobotomized, its slow and you can open like 4 google edge chrome tabs until it starts unloading them. native file manager loads in like a webpage.

your choice of future is faggle macos or autistic linox

macos is gradually enshittified with electron.js and liquid ass ui redesign by directionless product owners and a mediocre laptop is 2000$ starting

lonox open sores ui is the last bastion of platform native gui because it's clone of 1998 commercial software stagnated in 2003. everything else textfile based, better be ready to write everything down and learn what a git, $PAGER, POSIX compatible shell and a display server is.

>>113152
i don't know where the peecee ees going. hoarding 2010-2023 hardware that still 100% works with w10 may not be a bad idea.

>>113153
i mentioned laptops but in general i meant to make a point that w10 hardware compatibility is on it's way out.

xp was arguably the optimal os on 4 gig ram more than 15 years ago and faggle tries to pass 8 gig laptops as usable with the 2026 software

i can navigate the hardware compatibility lottery for gaanoo lonex (basically intel wifi and no nvidia) and use it for my use cases but i can barely recommend a pc to buy for anyone else

>this 500$ ebay thinkpad with w11 will feel slower than your old w10 thinkpad that was chewed up by your deceased wive's horde of cats and dogs

>or you can buy an ebay macbookpro for 800-1000 (fyi its "good" if it works then it works, but i have seen power, wifi, gpu, battery hardware failures on like 5 of them in my life within last 10 years, never seen on the poverty pc models. also not that pet friendly in terms of durability)
>oh you are also not that familiar with them and think those are weird ok..

>>113154
>i mentioned laptops but in general i meant to make a point that w10 hardware compatibility is on it's way out.
Not like you need new hardware, and it's not like laptops are top-of-the-line.

>>113157
sure, but in the most practical sense a newer laptop means less worn out battery and usually better power efficiency too (we are in the optimistic space age where laptops can go for 8h+)

a 2025 lenovo from ebay would be used only for maybe a year mostly plugged in so it's battery like 80%+ still good

getting oem batteries may require contacting oem dealer through some specialized support channel you may need to ask some computer sales service center wagie and they can still just ignore you after you provide your service ids and ask for 1 battery pls

amazon aliexpress yourlocalconsumerretailer batteries with hi res oem logo and print are all fakes

>>113159
but a w10 compat desktop pc probably can be dragged out for next 10-15 years unless they suddenly bring in some government mandated remote attestation goyware

>>113128
installing iot ltsc 2021 is the easy part, the annoying part is all the stuff you'll need to do after
e.g. installing all drivers (chipset, gpu, audio, etc.), activating with massgravel script on github, installing Microsoft Store with wsreset -i, disabling telemetry with ShutUp10 and gpedit.msc, tweaking and disabling other shit with chris titus's WinUtil, restoring Windows Photo Viewer (or installing something else like IrfanView, ImageGlass, Honeyview, nomacs, Minimal Image Viewer or whatever), installing WebpCodecSetup.exe from Google, etc.

For anyone still retarded enough to put up with the spyware known as Windows:
https://github.com/Korben00/no-gdid

>>113162
there are two issues with how people are reporting the story.
1. the FBI already had the hacker's laptops seized. they checked the GDIDs found in the laptops and asked microsoft to confirm them to add evidence to their case, not to locate the guy or whatever.
2. GDID can be an issue beyond just being an internal ID if you're dumb enough to make a Microsoft account instead of a local account because it can link your GDID to other online activities that link you to the Microsoft account. this young hacker was retarded and careless about basic opsec, read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921753

that said if you are going to be doing ransomware while in a US-extraditable country, you'd at least be using whonix, qubes-whonix or tails, not windows 11 with a microsoft account and microsoft edge, and not snapchat, apple and facebook accounts on your iphone. also it would help not to post photos of yourself on social media with bling and cash bragging about being a hacker, see page 11 (or 15 of the PDF) of https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl?inline

>>113164
Even on my computer running enterprise edition with little to no Microsoft account interactivity (Steam routinely shits errors at me when launching many games on it) and none signed in, the audit script returned positive that the listed services were active despite not appearing on the services panel itself (probably some more regedit bullshittery necessary to display them like all the other crap Wangblows likes to hide behind regedit nowadays). Of course, the specific case was in large part user error, but it still does not hurt to sniff out as much spyware shit as possible. Again, using Windows in the first place is disrespectful to one's privacy.

>>113162
I'm getting more interested in a multi-pc setup as I transition away from Winblows

>>113166
Go bum a menthol from a crackhead, tobacconigger

My computer is freezing and just going ape shit lmao
F*CK MICROSOFT
F*CK ACER
smheh

>>113616
Windows 11 is unusable on just 16GB of RAM, you need 24GB minimum. Swap out one of your 8GB DDR5-4800 PC5-38400 SODIMM sticks with a 16GB. Look on youtube for how to upgrade RAM on your Acer Nitro model.

>>113617
I think I discovered the real culprit, though I will still likely install Linux or Windows 10 on this thing for once and for all before the end of the year at this rate-it's not like this has been the only thing that's gone wrong with Windows 11 throughout my ownership of this device.

There's apparently a "legitimate" anti-virus software out there that entrenches itself in the fine-fine print of other software applications and embeds itself into your system. It's called "Reason Endpoint Security" and I'll note that the way it made its way onto my computer is not only very much not reasonable (I'm usually very cautious about the installation step for any software so I imagine it had to have been tabbed and buried as well as something possibly could be to have gotten past me), it has also been unreasonably hard to uninstall.

The typical surface level method you would uninstall anything else with isn't working so I'm going to have to look further into it apparently.

>>113618
>I will still likely install Linux or Windows 10
I don't think you're patient/tech-savvy enough to do all this bs >>113161 and it won't save that much RAM. Also linux/proton still doesn't support many games so that's a no-go. Regardless of the ReasonLabs malware, I'd still upgrade the RAM and sell the old stick on ebay or FB. 90% RAM usage is the hard limit on Windows and starts swapping entirely to SSD (as virtual memory) at that point, but it'll already start swapping before that when you're nearing it (not all memory block allocations requested by applications can neatly fit into the small remaining slice).

>>113619
As juvenile as it is the games thing is really the main issue with Linux for now, any non-game software I'd erstwhile used on Windows has an open source competitor I can tolerate-or even prefer in some instances. Given the great majority of my computing is done on Linux these days I'd survive, though admittedly the whole "you need to know an esoteric command line statement or you'll be locked out of your computer and need to wipe it every 4 months" is very tiresome and I now have a backlog of 3 machines that are afflicted in this way. LOL

Most of what I'd prefer to play is thankfully supported by Proton with the exception of like, Starcraft 1-2 and some oddball big league stuff like that.

Also yo isn't a 16gb stick of ram like a gorillion dollars rn? I may have to wait on ts in either case heh

>>113620
Can see a 16GB DDR5-4800 SODIMM for about $180 pre-tax
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#ff=ddr5_sodimm&Z=16384001&sort=price&page=1
Might be a bit cheaper on ebay, just be certain it's the correct one (1x16GB, SODIMM, DDR5, at least 4800MHz) and is returnable (best to do quick TestMem5 test).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=DDR5-4800+sodimm+16GB&LH_BIN=1

I'm not certain your current RAM speed is 4800 MHz, check Task Manager's Performance tab, there's a chance it may be 5200 or 5600 instead.
If it's higher, a lower stick would downclock both sticks to 4800 MHz. If so, I'd maybe spend the extra $40 for the 5600 MHz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Su2sObWTg (4800MHz vs 5200MHz game benchmarks)

RAM prices are not expected to drop until 2028 at the earliest by some predictions, but even that's not guaranteed. No one knows if/when the bubble will pop.

Please please tell me, that something (hardware and/or software) somewhere, operating system and everything else from web browsers to video editors, anywhere in the foul year of our lord >2020, THAT IS NOT EITHER OF THESE TWO EXTREMES THAT ARE STARTING TO MAKE ME SEE THE POINT OF ECOTERRORISM BEING LESS INSANE THAN ALL THE OTHER POLITICAL GIRLS:

1) Bloated kludgeware tire fire trashheaps slapped together (I am beyond fed up with linux and open sores freetardation in general) by either cringy trannies or cringy nadsee larpers but I can pick and choose my poison to try and carefully avoid both kinds of collectivist authoritarian "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" and "YOUR'E NOT A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" (both are equally gay, two sides of the same slacktivist coin, both of you blow your brains out since I'm sick of both of you blowing each other way outside your containment quarantine shitpits of purity spiraling echo chamber circle jerks, there is no escape from terminally online politislopsuckers) being shoved down my throat at every turn (which is getting more and more difficult to get away from in the digital world: as enshittification, the competency crisis, and the neo-bolshevik long march through the institutions infects every corner of everywhere (the world owes Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Paul an apology!); what happened to hobbyists being proud of their passions? what happened to "coupla dudes in a garage" gigageeks outclassing paid professionals like they consistently did in the 90's and 00's? if you're not getting paid, why waste hundreds of hours stringing the programming equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape patching together over-9000 lines of ChatGPT copy-pastes just to take a dump in the Web3 ocean of piss unless your whole mission is to be a trolly edgelord, what's the point? go get drunk and watch porn, at least then you're only killing your own brain cells and not mine, as well!)

2) Slightly less bloated, slightly less kludgy, only smouldering but not entirely on fire trashheaps vibe-coded by brown hands (so far... slightly less terrible, as even diversity-hires are somewhat smarter and less sociopathic than nose-ringed, birds-handing HR feminists and their beta male orbiting kalergi-mutt-knights), BUT it datamines the shit out of you and puts you on ten-thousand subscription services in financial-death-by-1000-cuts and there is no escaping the "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" shoveled straight into my sliced-open belly because that's apparently what the trillionare executives forced me to sign the dotted line for the privilege of being part of modern soyciety.

Are these our only choices anymore, short of going full Inuit or Amish? To just bend over and take it from even more soulless, autistic nerds than myself who're afraid of talking to girls and probably hate me for being a white male, or to instead bend over and take it from soulless, psychotic bankers and their herds of monkey-cattle useful idiots who all certainly hate me for daring to be born male and white? Do I seriously have to go crawling back to Microsoft? Do I seriously have to go full iPhag for a slightly different flavor of tofu? I can't fucking stand open sores anymore and I'm just about out of fucks for spyware and backdoored CPUs and so on. The baizuo effluent choking out all life in all corners of the 1st world seems inescapable if I'm to be part of any social structure that isn't some hunter-gatherer tribe in a remote jungle, savanna, or tiny island in the middle of the Pacific. They'd probably treat me better than commie normgroids anyway.

And if so, well, is there a relatively less shitty taste of steaming diarrhea bowls to suck down in order to be part of a modern world? Not quite ready to go live innacave innawoods onnamount just yet, though more and more it's sounding extremely tempting to go feed myself to the nearest bear to get away from ten-thousand dangerhair cults for the pleasure of a roof over my head that I didn't have to build by hand and food in front of me that I didn't have to kill and cook by a hand-made campfire.

Is Windows 11 or Mac Tahoe really all that bad compared to KDE Plasma 6, for example? Is it at all possible to go retraux with, I dunno, BeOS or OpenSolaris without being virus-bait using ancient abandonware and still sometimes watch a jewtube through invidious with it and maybe play nostalgiabait like Luanti and emulated PS2 titles every now and then?

Enshittification (online and off) and cringy culture wars (offline and on) are all so tiresome. Where did all the good developers go?

>>113817
>gigageeks outclassing paid professionals like they consistently did in the 90's and 00's

i am sure it is the best and the software applications were usually groundbreaking high tier with the scope of a Basic interpreter, single-tasking OS that somewhat extends BIOS, sending and receiving something over serial, log parser, offline personal organizer where you can save your phone numbers and todos, matrix multiplication and writing some bytes in a dedicated display buffer for those special color & sound fx, the list goes on

>>113821
and the code found in old codebases is usually really good

(((17.1 × 1024) / 1.5) / 60) / 60 ≈ 3.242666667 is how many h the macos InstallAssistant.pkg from cdn server is going to take to dl over my wifi to even begin installing, the base system only not the gigabytes of mandatory office applications. (usbc ethernet adapter not found in the install env)

it will almost certainly fail the dl multiple times during the day so it's basically like having a paid day off - exercise, sunshine, smiles, laughs, walks, good food, that's what it's all about, everything else can wait.

autistic linox would take me <30 min with custom all the custom configs & application software ready 2 go

but it really is about the journey, not the destination

>>113826
i know how fast it dls by looking at the traffic in the router (~1.5MB/s)
tim apple shows a still 60% loading bar in a gray rectangle and says it's going to be 11 hours. install log hidden away in some menu doesn't show any traffic information.

>>113886
Why does everyone do the pc+laptop combo

Is it just to make sure u have a portable work device?

ReactOS can run on just 64MB of RAM like Windows 98

>>114005
its a buggy driverless mess

lrn2tinycore

I did the heckin' Chris Titus win11 debloats and tweaks and it seemed to speed up my device noticably.

Wonder if this is their way of saying they're providing three letter agencies and Mossad access to users' chat history. I'd rather get spied by the chinks.

>>114217
It's their way of continuing the venture capital grift.

"OH THIS TECHNOLOGY IS SO POWERFUL AND AMAZING WE NEED TO HOLD IT BACK IN SOME NONDESCRIPT WAY JUST TO CONTAIN HOW AMAZING IT IS PLEASE DON'T INVEST TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND BE A PART OF THE NEXT TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIER IT'S DANGEROUS HOW INCREDIBLE THIS TECHNOLOGY IS EVEN THOUGH WE'RE LOSING FIVE HUNDRED BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS A YEAR AND CAUSING RAMPANT INFLATION IN THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SECTOR BY MELTING DOWN GRAPHICS CARDS AND RAM WITH NO SIGN OF STOPPING DON'T YOU WANT FREE UGLY ASS FLYERS FOR YOUR RETARDED BOOMER EVENTS? AAAAAAAAAAA"

>>114217
someone sed that the banal scare it's so u.s. government has the option on table to formally regulate it out of existence domestically as a concept so that they beneficiaries don't have to repay the money and play a seaside on glitched out nokia 32xx or 54xx 3gp 96p ai upscaled 4k 60fps interpolated 2005 youtube video before being escorted to private plane to unspecified place in REDACTED east through a dedicated talmud and book of mormon compliant (mandatory reading for the hr of cia ("goyim")) and scientology and adult mcaully caulkin wearing pajamas and kids watches and bracelets approved secret https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders/ tunnel (exit opens from inside in a special modern day walmart with symbolic freemason cheap beige synthetic stucco parking lot fence, wall and rooftop caps and ornaments, near mcdonalds (2 arches - twin towers coming down, dualism, opposites attracted, the great work, rebuilding the g*d)) transported to airport through truck that's masked as a cheeze dip delivery that smells like chesse because it's just the cheeze dip truck not cleaned by the mexican why did it took a leap through the airport the industrial zone is right there

>>114087
how many processes at idle?

>>114265
Chat GPT is dog shit.

>>114283
>dog shit
its clearly not dog shit, it doesnt even look or smell like dog shit

The AI companies are 100% coming together to beg for "regulation" as they're trying to entrench themselves into the tax code as a "public service" because their shit is never and will never be profitable. LOL

>>114327
>greentexting links so le gubmint cant track you

youre pathetic

>(PBUH)
>((())))

smiley youre pathetic

>>114398
this has never happened

>>114400
post your IQ test result already avid

>>114411
Very sad for a Japanese to fail in this way. A Japanese is a very pure spirit compared to a Goy. Japanese is the only race that is neither Jew , nor Goy