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>>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

Could a layperson modernize and create legally distinct legacy software using something like Claude or Deepseek? AI content generation like art, media and the written word are akin to single use plastic to me and I won't have anything to do with it-but I have less qualms about consorting with this technology in order to free human artists from reliance on subscription-based, AI-forward corporate software. I've spent over $10,000 over the past 3 years attempting to hire ever-confident programmers to accomplish this task, and I've gotten literally nothing in return; I just can't afford to make that kind of mistake again-especially when the programmers are going to be using AI at this point themselves anyway. LOL!

My goal would be to change the proper nouns (like feature names) and applicable math around just enough to make something like Macromedia Flash or an older Photoshop into something legally distinct that can be offered for free without fear of reprisal.

>>114411
whats your fixation on my IQ?

>>114424
>Could a layperson modernize and create legally distinct legacy software using something like Claude or Deepseek?
no.
>Claude or Deepseek
if you're going to pay for LLM APIs, stick with the latest "flash" model of deepseek or qwen. you'll lose a lot of money with any other option.
>My goal would be to change the proper nouns (like feature names) and applicable math around just enough to make something like Macromedia Flash or an older Photoshop into something legally distinct that can be offered for free without fear of reprisal.
idk what you're trying to offer. why wouldn't someone just pirate flash or photoshop?
>I've spent over $10,000 over the past 3 years attempting to hire ever-confident programmers to accomplish this task
should've spent that on vanguard information technology ETF (VGT) and fidelity blue chip growth ETF (FBCG) instead.

>>114432
>no
That's not what [LLM] told me. LOL
I trust you more though

>why
Ideally I would make them work on Linux without needing to go through some external conversion layer. Also these programs could be improved in their UI and other features. Default hotkey improvements and other more artist-specific quality of life improvements.

For example, Flash uses a clumsy "fan-style" onion skin that just shows the nearest frames on the timeline regardless of content. Krita by default and Pencil2D with a checkbox setting only expose frames with unique content. In animation you often work "outside-in" meaning your starting keyframes could technically be many frames apart. You can just draw them in proximity to one another and drag them down the timeline into place but that takes a little time that could otherwise easily be saved. Even very small efficiency improvements pay large dividends.

At the end of the day I think I just want Flash-Like vector brush drawing and "tweening" in a barebones, utilitarian form and some basic tools. Krita is already better than most commercial software when it comes to painting/rendering and even bitmap animation.

>>114456
try moho, toon boom harmony, grease pencil (blender), synfig studio

>yandex.com/search/?text=site%253Arutracker.org+moho
>yandex.com/search/?text=site%253Arutracker.org+toon+boom+harmony
>blender.org/features/story-artist
>synfig.org

>>114469
I own ToonBoom ($700? Something like that), Synfig is actually useless. Grease Pencil might be okay but I'm genuinely too retarded to know how to use 3D software. LMAO

>>114471
then why not learn how to use advanced onion skin in toon boom harmony

https://www.facebook.com/ToonBoomAnimation/videos/advanced-onion-skin-tool-in-toon-boom-harmony/261615155058129/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicL4i218Ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQeYJ7F0To
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xia_fnXkwlk

https://helpcentre.toonboom.com/hc/en-ca/articles/40980422804499-How-do-I-change-the-appearance-of-the-Onion-Skin
https://helpcentre.toonboom.com/hc/en-us/search?query=onion+skin

tahoma2d and opentoonz seem to have something similar too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2X40BgjWno

As I warned multiple times before, the police WILL arrest you and raid your home if you admit to anything illegal to an American AI chatbot.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html

>>114697
people retarded enough to admit illegal shit to AI chatbots deserve to be arrested

>>114697
When ChatGPT first came out I was asking it a bunch of stuff about my erectile dysfunction under an account under my real name. LOL

I have since deleted my account-especially since search engines are essentially all using it now anyway

Where can I get Adobe Flash CS6 for free without it installing keyloggers and bitcoin miners up my computers' asshole? I bought CS5 with petrodollars years ago and Adobe's greedy ass won't let me install it anymore, I figure if I'm forced to pirate it to make things right I might as well give myself a slight upgrade heh

What am I even asking, here? For my purposes I don't think there's a goddamn thing Adobe Flash CS6 does that Macromedia Flash doesn't do nearly as well. Its interface is a little clumsier, sure. Adobe has been a shit company from pretty much the beginning and their products aren't even worth pirating anymore. Admittedly I'm just butthurt because I actually paid big money for their shit 10 years ago and now I couldn't use it if I wanted to (but I really shouldn't).

>>114741
https://archive.org/download/flash-pro-12-ls-16_202509
download FlashPro_12_LS16.exe and amtlib-win.zip, disconnect internet, install FlashPro_12_LS16.exe as trial, open Flash Pro, click "Try", exit Flash Pro, can re-enable internet, then replace amtlib.dll in the installed folder with the amtlib.dll in amtlib-win.zip to crack it

>>114746
chatgpt ass post

>>114757
bbc NELicker post

>>114759
projection

Fucken ell LOL I just paid for this Avast Cleanup PC service thing, I didn't know if it was gonna charge me 2 dollies a month or 70 bucks right now and it did the 70...

AHH. And why does this shit cost anything? Fucken hell it just takes a few clicks to scoop up the data shit??? Fuckin Bill Gates is rippim me.

Maybe I'll do the cleanup then get a refund... Would be real nice.

>>114879
it's probly just rebranded
https://www.bleachbit.org/
https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit

but the above is not completely 'tard friendly and will wipe your browser profile and such if you just select everything