To an extenion to this, I want to comment. I am a hacker, so art to me is very different. I like 32 bit machines, so like 1994 to about 2008. And the reason i like them is the capacity to do actual science and research with them. My problem as of recent with places online, however, is that many places want to do technology as fashion, not as a trade.

This reaches into many aspects. Code, hardware design, OS design, all over the place. Windows has code from ubuntu in it and is copying OSX's looks, theres a new phone or shitty thin laptop every week, the only thing that matters is battery life and internet speed to post a selfie, not the actual capability to use a computer, its honestly god damn disgusting. And the more that people try to destroy older tech, the more they are painting themselves into a corner with a computer that is built for looks, rather than actual functionality.

Sure, a pentium M is old, maybe a little slow, but firefox opens just as fast now as it did 15 years ago on my first laptop, I bet you could just.... write better code.... and oh wow its like its fucking modern. Its almost like the standards have rotted away and now you're just posing like a bird with its ass out in a tree.

Goooo fuck yaself if thats the case.

I can't stand places like Level1Techs or Linus Tech Tips forums. Reddit is even worse, and forget trying to use instagram or tik tok, those are just mental illnesses. I have found that receding for a while, calming down, and actually finding people who can appreciate what I do is working a lot better than trying to keep up in a race of views. I'd rather change the world than be an attention whore.

Anyone can take my example here and mirror it to almost anything I bet, this is a very common problem nowadays.

Didn't mean to step on your foot mate. Sry.

This goes for anything by the way. I think one of the hardest things for anyone, me especially, to get past and not fear is true faith in themselves.

Personally, I've always been jealous of people who can just barf creativity. Often they had situations growing up I wish I had had, and I can easily get stuck in that jealousy for a long time. EVEN IF that person gives advice and encourages me. Maybe not personally, but even so I am still thinking of tyler the creator.

At the same rate, Tyler kinda grew up the same as me, just in CA rather than MI. In a lot of ways, I recognize he's from a place that encourages his creativity, where I don't, but equally, I don't have a lot of the circumstances he does. So for each path to have gone where they did makes sense, and I can' really be angry about it either.

Just... what could be the thing that I do? Out of the literal endless list of my hobbies, what the hell do I even do?

I'm sure yall feel similar.

In case anyone else is doing OS installs, use this tool

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

You install it to a USB, and just drag and drop ISO's onto the USB. It lets you select from a list and boot whatever OS. Gunna try Kolibri, but doubt it'll rly work

Half made this thread because I am doing OS setups right now, and wanna talk to someone about it, and then the other part of me is like y u no tech forum. lol

So RN I am doing normal level setup for myself to start doing a bunch of production shit. As in, I will be making videos as a hobby, like I always wanted to, about whatever I want. But to get there I actually need my infrastructure to not be ass, and other than spending a bunch of money, I otherwise need to do research on things to work, or deal with what I have.

Yesterday I got my PC setup with a 4 core 8 thread xeon, a 1080, and an rx580. For a while I was running a mac pro 3,1 with 2 GPU's, but I managed to break off the internal SAS connector. I had each GPU slotted to a CPU, and each bank had 32GB of ram to use. That thing actually genuinely rips, but since I wanna stream some and game some, I can't really use it. Streaming it actually doesn't have a problem, but having the instruction sets to run games and not have SSE4 type media lag.... nah.

I tried to mod a Dell XE2 SFF PC to work, and that actually would have ben perfect power consumption wise having an i5 4570S. Its as powerful as my current xeon E5, with more instructions. However, it can only accept my R9 290 4GB. If it was an 8GB card I wouldn't care, but since its a 4GB and I need a lot of VRam for editing, I'll chill on not using the XE2. Bums me out, but I'll find a use for it.

Now all I need is my NAS running again! ;-;

At some point today, after some yard work, I wanna get KolibriOS running on.... something. I have a feeling it'll be off CD or FDD though, as USB setups and hard drive setups for it are absolutely baffling to me.

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A thread for tech sluts and computer nerds. Discuss? Yes.

Yall are allowed to hate me for this, but I was never good at writing research papers. Since ChatGPT came out, I've actually had a lot easier time connecting thoughts together to write things like video scripts.

With the recent Unity3D circus balloon, it super reminded me of way back when WatchDogs came out, and it was legit false advertising, and was NEVER updated to look like the prelaunch footage. CyberPunk2077, same deal, with fanmods to bugfix. Skyrim FFS. None of this shit is new, but makiung all the ideas in my brain untangle is really hard.

ChatGPT is really good for this.

I REALLY like this staggered setup. I know the deck is a modern meme, but I have mad respect for the old school stuff, Kryptonics started in the 70's.

I want this shape, 2 inches wider, all wood or bamboo. I love the staggered setup. I can do downhill type street slides on flat because of it.

The only sketchy part is why you aren't riding it

Theres other things you should honestly learn before you ollie, mostly they have to do with balance. Tail / Nose plant on a curb, slappy grinds, Braille Skateboarding has a shit load of lessons that are way better than anything else I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/@brailleskateboarding/playlists

This guy also explains how your muscles work doing diff tricks. I watched his video, I did an ollie in 2 tries, about a foot off the ground. I just need to do a workout routine to get my back muscles stronger.

I also posted a thread saying we should have a short from low resolution video section so I can post skate parts XD

Went for a short ride last night to readjust my trucks. Can't decide if the bushings are correctly set up or not. The back of my board USED to turn faster..... but now its staying even. I actually want the back a little looser so I can use the sweep from the wheels to do some annoying flips. I wonder what other bushings there are to try out, I only have thunder and Bones.

I like to skateboard. Specifically, its sketchy because the boards I feel comfortable with have staggered truck sizes, and a tear drop shape. ATM I ride a clone penny board, and I hope my deck upgrade matches the shape, at least, as close as possible.

Why is this sketchy? My rear truck turns farther than my front truck.

What do you guys ride?

I want to counter this a little bit. I have a habit of OVER preparing and waiting too long to start doing. If you are working on getting tools for something, make sure you know you have to start DOING that thing. Otherwise you will sit in the mud and spin your tires.

Actually one other thing.

If you can find a way to get through even the worst of days while still doing whatever the hell it is you want to be doing otherwise, say skateboarding or drawing, just find every bubble of time you have, and just, practice lines, or kicking your tail up. If you only have 30 seconds to draw on reciept paper at work, scribble. Don't go in prepared and expect to blast through something. If you are at a slow part of life, don't expect to be running immediately. You might just be tired and need to walk for a while.

When they first came out they specifically did stuff only musicians would care for. They still do things, but they are completely underground. Unless you literally live local to them and go to their basement shows, you won't know what they're doing till they drop an album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdA0mW-9jRs&pp=ygUKY2xvd24gY29yZQ%3D%3D

Keep up

Haddo

I'm some random fuck that mostly used this site to hide my drawings when I was a kid. I didn't want to show my family because I thought anime was sort of embarrassing, and I was kinda looking int..... well less family friends ly things. 12 year old kid + internet = mong

After I was done on NG in middle / high school I went and looked for a home forum. I tried using FB, people whined I posted too much. I tried some other places, got BS, ended up at TekSyndicate, and tried my best to stay there as long as I possibly could. So long that the original group split, one of the guys stole the business from the other when they were being stupid, and now the site, Level1Techs, is a corporate shit hole that only cares about the products that they pout out, and their facebook posts that they are too lazy to log in to facebook to use.

Our forum WAS known at one point for making Intel put SRIOV on consumer boards, which even made some NVME shit easier to do for X99. You could log in and see someone building suitecase computers, Halo Warthogs, Beekeeping, it was amazing. Post split, everyone I cared about left and I remained trying to show them why people were leaving. They were even trying to figure out why people were leaving and posting less at one point! There were months where it was me, one of the mods, and the owner posting, and everyone was in the "Lounge" Chat room.

Ultimately what I really wanted out of that place was Newgrounds. And well, now I am here. Again. On the same account I had in school.

Instead of being stuck somewhere trying to keep up with actual computer scientists, I'll just do my projects wherever I can post them, and wherever they will help people. L1T can be a dead hole.

I'll be recovering from this for a while, as I dedicated a really lot of time to that site. I wrote lots of documentation, I wrote a lot of reviews, there was even a point where I had an influence on what linux media came onto a few channels, or I was part of the active crowd, either way. I can't take sole responsibility anyways. I hope @TomFulp allows for a few things to be added or can use my ideas. Seems like he and the others actually listen and consider things, I appreciate that shit.

lol my first instinct would be to get rid of ubuntu and run Void or Adelie so I have the lowest amount of resource bashing as I can possibly get. Are you running min spec for your VM and is the Host provided by the school?

You gotta install a HEN package first, but yeah

Anyone here wanna try out linux on a Wii, Switch, Wii U, or maybe 3DS? I have some things I am working on.

IDK where to see the mod list so thx XDDD

Sinc eRN I wanna play with consoles, I'll vibe on that, but I have other things going on.

IDK about that

I have projects I am working on and I don't really.... want to post anywhere but here frn? I'd like to share what I am doing.

Short list:

Linux on 3DS

Linux on Wii

PowerPC Dev Garbo

Do I just do a blog on my page? Seems kinda hidden

https://youtu.be/gb6AwBP8hsI

I just found this

You know what would be really cool is being able to start with a video and go into a 3D interactive thing

A long time ago teksyndicate.com was newgrounds for hackers. They since had a split, and basically the company was clout snatched out from under the owner by some fat corporate fuckwit who wants to be working at LTT and not at his company. I'm obviously very sour about this.

I posted there regularly, either short opinions as someone who was learning more and more about technology, or as someone who was working on a project / researching something. Gradually over time the forum changed from newgrounds to facebook, and I was desperately trying to get anyone to stay. Eventually, I was the last of the newgrounds type users, and they banned me.

What I have learned since is that they literally are a sinking ship, with the owner regularly appearing on other channels trying to steal users for the forum that he still cannot accept that he ruined. What I also learned is that my research is so god damn important, that its literally no wonder they didn't want me there, _they wouldn't be able to host the project if it actually took off_.

At this point, my technological stuff stays closze to home, and I don't really post anything anywhere. Part of me says that people straight up don't deserve my help and I can just fuck off to indonesia, but then other parts of me watch what is going on and seeing the current practices with how to code an app, the current things going on to make shit just plain harder.... Honestly, I'm kinda glad I have no where to post. Its some relief. Equally, it lets me ask "what is my platform?" At this point, I'll have small content releases on YT, I'll have a torrent network for everything else, and if people really need interim data, I'll have a real BBS they can connect to on a real phone line and they can get whatever the hell they want. If you want what I got, you gotta work.

I'm not saying thats at all what you should do, but recognizing what your platform is, where it is, and how it works, is very important. In many cases nowadays you kind of have to have guerilla tactics. I was on a TF2 server the other day and a dude kep posting comics and art he made with the spray tool, had a web link on the bottom in bright colors. Honestly you could probs make a thread on here asking where people see your comic working. No one person will have an answer for you, your answer kinda has to be democratic, at least, IMO. I also like to have complete control over my IP though.

I own Blame! but have never actually read it. Its a design book for me.

I don't watch skate videos to get ideas, no one has my board, so I gotta just kick it around for a while and figure out how it moves.

I could buy a dongle for my headphones on my phone, or I could just dub cassettes and literally give 0 fucks. Honestly I started doing this the other day and I vastly prefer it. I'm never buying dongles again.

Go do something else for a while. There is in fact such a thing as burnout, and burnout can in fact turn into hatred. Go do something else for a week, let some new information in, then try drawing. Doing anything in art without having other experiences to reach from in life is like trying to write a self biography about sitting in your room playing runescape for 20 years, its just.... eh.

Legit advice from me, go to your local Vans or Zumiez and buy a penny board. Its 50 for a small one, 60 for a large one. I have a large one that I just put my own trucks on, and when I am wound up at the end of the day, or just need to be not at home, I go skate. I highly advise this to everyone.

Here I'm editing this. Warning, loud music.

https://youtu.be/kdA0mW-9jRs

This is a band I'm reallyt into right now. They're all jazz fusion and polyrythmic hypermetal, like yes oh my god. I just saww someone's video on what they think about the band, and I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about it.

CC exists solely because we will die someday. In a time where we know what space is, what its made of, and how ungodly small and inconsequential we are, at the end of the day, time either doesn't matter. or you are dying tomorrow. The question is, what are you going to do in your small space of time?

The band plays their albums in small confined spaces like a van or a portapotty, not just for the challenge, but as an artful recognition of how much we really don't matter. The drummer is from Knower, at least, everyone's pretty damn sure he is, and that band is known for gunning it when they're half sunk in quicksand. Got a full tank and 4x4, fuck it lets see if the transmission breaks kinda feeling.

Well, where one band is to go as far into the absurdity of america. one is to the absurdity of your own self worth and what you can do if you really just stop giving a shit.

Recently I was working for a gas station and it felt really good to be appreciated for something. But, corporations are literally my living hell, so I tried to quit a few times, eventually I had to make them fire me so I could get out of there and not feel guilty. I'm ATP skating, and I'm about to try doing ethernet runs for a company that only has night shift and does travel jobs. If I can roll down the road, skate, draw, hack shit, while on the job? Dope.

Imma be real with you, thats kind of a normal response. I don't know where to go with any of my shit either.

read my post below yours, many are just disenfranchised. Honestly, there needs to be a new platform made. Or, platforms need to adapt.

I wanted to make a comment after reading this.

I used to post a lot at the forum Level1Techs, which used to be known as Tek Syndicate. It was newgrounds but for hackers, basically. Eventually the guy who ran the servers decided to clout grab when the owner wasn't looking and trying to do something stupid, and used that to kick him out and take control of everything. Only, all he did was make it a corporate shit hole and completely killed the community that was there. Where it used to be hackers building Halo Warthogs and CRT TV AIO computers, now its "my homework is hard, help" or "Googleable GPU Driver Issue #387683763876"

Eventually they got tired of me and kicked me out. ATP I'm fine with that, but at the time I was really angry because they were continuously trashing what had been previously established. Now wendell is getting ~interviewed~ and is getting cameos on channels like.... LinusTechTips! A place he's said he wanted to be rather than TS previously if he didn't run his own business.

So instead, his solution was to take what wasn't LTT and mash it into as close to LTT as he could manage. All he ended up doing was making a github boys club though, ands anything that would have gotten views in threads previously either goes completely un-noticed, or one person from the boys club social lounge comes in and actually blows your post up. Like I'm not even kidding when I say getting views on that fprum is as fucking retarded as establishing a youtube channel these days.

Back when TS was around, I posted my hacking projects and my blobs of thought that couldn't really go on facebook on there, and hell sometimes I made such a big deal post that they made an episode. And that wasn't very damn common.

........

Actually I went to go find the video I was thinking of, and its completely gone. I don't think it was in the TS library, I think it was in the L1T library, and its just..... gone.

See back in the day TS was like NG, like I said. If someone in the community started a company and did something cool, they showcased it, if there was a letter someone sent that was cool, it got read live, eventually all of them did though. Posts were showcased when they were a big deal, etc. _People Mattered_

but as they drifted away, more or less only wanting raw output like a corporate studio, more than a forum for hackers, it just became an awful depressing experience. It was like the worse apple got in reparability the worse the forum got in usability. It weighed a lot, and eventually was just impossible to use as a creative person.

All in all, the lesson here is to recognize the environment you're in. I absolutely couldn't ask fulp for a documents page, so my Documentation and Hardware Research will go.... well.... somewhere. Probably Lemmy / Mast, IDK yet. But I still want recognition, literally of any kind. I have a lot of random skills that are hard to use for much except hacking stuff, so IDK what else to do. Theres just..... no where for me to go. Been like that for years. TBH, its like peoples interest for me wained as much as their interest in their old tech.

But, atp for me, I plainly have to figure out do I even want to anymore. I have more interest in my skateboard right now than honestly ever opening a laptop again. I'm just burned.... maybe singed is more appropriate.