Your absolute worst tech opinion you'll defend to the death

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ur a faget

Vista was the pinnacle of desktop UIs.

iphones deserve to be as successful as they are because android was laggy and unstable trash for years before getting its shit together

iPhones are better than android phones

iPAQs should have blown up the way iphones did as they were superior devices for cheaper for years before the iphone came out.

but android wasn't the only phone OS, every company used to have their own. having a centralized OS through Google was a new concept. That's why Huawei has an OS on the backburner, I bet every other phone company does too.

CISC is bloat
CRTs are nice
Microkernels are gay
BSD > GPL

IoT is a mistake
FOSS is too idealistic and would never work for all software

All tech should be free.

I explicitly qualify all data member accesses and member function calls with "this->", because it's easier to see where an identifier is probably declared that way. Also tabs are the true way and spacefags are morons. "Hurr let's use 8x the bytes for indentation and remap the TAB key to create spaces!!!"

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Huawei has one on the back burner since they've been supporting Kylin Linux on arm devices (mainly ARM servers) for years now.

macos is comfy

>I explicitly qualify all data member accesses and member function calls with "this->", because it's easier to see where an identifier is probably declared that way.

same here. I don't know why everyone doesn't do this.

The Macbook Pro is actually an undervalued product

this is true though

Linux would die in no time if macOS or Windows became completely open source.

based
cringe
based

Windows 7 was the last white proprietary operarting system.

Open Source =/= Free Software

Drink bleach, shit for brains.

386 should have been the end of development. nobody needs anything more than 640x480, 256 colors, 4g ram, or dedicated video cards. i'm not being ironic, i think everything after the 386 (including 486+) was a mistake. i loathe the idea of improving hardware to compensate for developer/consumer stupidity. computers were meant for smartbois, not gaymers and basedbois. i regret ever reading aocp and i resent knuth for writing it. my hobby has become a barbed pillow.

Linux sucks

muh sekrit klub

There is no use to actually use GNU/Linux unless you install one of those free software foundation distribution.

There is no excuse for any laptop manufacturer to sacrifice form over function. ESPECIALLY if you're paying an arm and a leg.

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Terry is the smartest programmer that's ever lived.

Nobody should be allowed to live off streaming, patreon, YouTubing, gaming, Instagram or any other non-productive internet activity. The monetization of those services should be banned to encourage young people to study and be productive.

What would you consider productive internet activity? Just curious.

>no more porn

Selling goods and services that had some value added into them. For example, selling a videogame through Steam. Somebody worked to produce that game.

There is no shame in having pre ordered the librem 5.
You should reduce your exposure to microwave radiation where possible, that stuff does put thermal stress on your molecules.

gui > cli

exclusive clubs are always better off than inclusive clubs. inclusion kills literally everything. every video game series in history turns to shit the moment they try appealing to a wider audience. every trpg turns to shit when they become inclusive. every tv show turns to shit the moment they start forcing demographic inclusion. computers turned to shit when they tried appealing to a wider audience as well.
>dude your getting a dell!
do you remember this shit? i remember. it haunts me all day long as i work on a garbage codebase utilizing a garbage framework designed to make programming inclusive for indians.

>Only my definition of being productive is correct
>Culture creation isn't worthwhile

I have the opposite opinion. We should replace the entire workforce with robots so people can do whatever the fuck they want.

>Only my definition of being productive is correct
Yes.

>Culture creation isn't worthwhile
Some fuckface tittystreamer scamming 13 year olds for their daddy's credit card is not culture creation.

Blame corporations killing low skill labor. Fuck off Boomer

Shit tier bait

I do blame corporations.

>I can't counter your point so I'm just gonna call you a troll
k buddy

The vast majority of people who consider themselves to be interested in tech are straight up subhumans. Instead of actually considering what they really need and how things may change in the near future in a way that affects that they just mindlessly chase big numbers on paper and CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME in hopes that their copius consumption will help futureproof them, and in the event that their consumption doesn't futureproof them they just CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME more.

none of those anons you're talking to before, but simply put, you are a nobody. You have no say in where other people's money goes and what companies are allowed to exist/what they're allowed to profit from. If someone managed to make a living out of getting payments from Patreon and ads, good on them.
I could make the same argument as you and say that we shouldn't have any frivolous engineering jobs because they're a waste. I.e., we don't NEED cars that cost $3 million,even if they can reach 280MPH. The work those people are doing could be put elsewhere where we all benefit.

That's a commie way of thinking. Are you a commie?

>You have no say in where other people's money goes
Government should have a say and does have a say. That's why some things are banned like gambling in some places, betting on dog fights, etc. Moral standards are good for society.

>If someone managed to make a living out of getting payments from Patreon and ads, good on them.
Banning such services would cause low skilled wages to plummet which would return manufacturing to Western countries without need for tariffs or trade wars. It would also encourage people to study real professions like engineering, maths, software development, hard sciences, etc... encouraging technological growth into more productive areas and strenghtening the industrial situation of countries. Industrial/manufacturing capacity is important for defense reasons. The internet/virtual and financial side of the economy has grown out of proportion and could be wiped overnight. Industry, in contrast, takes decades to destroy.

>I could make the same argument as you and say that we shouldn't have any frivolous engineering jobs because they're a waste. I.e., we don't NEED cars that cost $3 million,even if they can reach 280MPH.
We have speed limits, which discourage those cars from being bought. Are you in favour of scrapping speed limits? Let the people choose amirite. Individualism is good, extreme individualism is not. It's corrosive to society when everybody is just allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. There should be reasonable limits.

The extreme individualist meme of "let everybody live their life how they want user xD" needs to die. Being part of a society gives you rights and responsibilities.

>That's a commie way of thinking. Are you a commie?
Hyperbole. I could call you an AnCap using the same argument.

>Government should have a say
absolutely not. Taxes are an inevitability of course for a society to function, but other than that, the government has no right to tell me what I can spend my money on.
>That's why some things are banned like gambling in some places, betting on dog fights, etc. Moral standards are good for society.
Where I spend my money, and morals aren't connected. Dog fights are illegal straight up because of animal cruelty. Gambling has zones for it because no one wants a casino springing up in their suburbs AND it's so the government can get a cut. Why do you think they crack down on backroom poker and small time private casinos? If the government could find a way to get their cut from all the drug dealers, you could bet your bottom dollar they'd have dedicated "safe spaces" for dealers/users. Picking up heroin would be a quick shop stop.
>Extreme individualist needs to die.
No. Motherfuckers like you who think they know what's best for everyone do. I'll reiterate. You're a nobody. You don't matter and you've accomplished nothing to allude to your input having value. Why should, a free citizen just as you, be forced to operate within your arbitrary rules of what you consider OK and not OK? Who are you to decide? Who are you to try and force the government that we both pay taxes into to make me? I worry about me and mine while you worry about you and yours.

Living in a civilized society and not infringing on someone else's rights/choices don't have to be separate.

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>Government should have a say
t. proud cuck

>the government has no right to tell me what I can spend my money on.
It does, and does it regularly such as the examples I cited.

>Where I spend my money, and morals aren't connected.
Yes it is. Playing poker is legal. Playing for money (in some states at least) is not. That's government telling you it's immoral to bet and to make a living on betting.

>Dog fights are illegal straight up because of animal cruelty.
Oops, sounds like government dictating morality to me.

>I'll reiterate. You're a nobody.
You don't know me. To me, you are a nobody.

>Why should, a free citizen just as you, be forced to operate within your arbitrary rules of what you consider OK and not OK?
I don't intend to dictate anything to you. I believe in democracy. People should vote for these ideas and implement them. If they don't agree, well, sucks for me I guess. I am simply giving my opinion and you are being incredibly asshurt about it. This is no different than people arguing about abortion, or vegetarianism, or gun ownership, or whatever. Again, it's government meddling into the activities of its citizens, which is not necessarily bad.

>Who are you to try and force the government that we both pay taxes into to make me?
I'm not forcing anything, just giving my opinion and voting accordinly. Again, incredibly asshurt.

>Living in a civilized society and not infringing on someone else's rights/choices don't have to be separate.
The right to monetize a streaming channel is not on any Constitution, as far as I know. It is not a right anymore than gambling is a right, or owning an assault weapon.

>The right to monetize a streaming channel is not on any Constitution, as far as I know. It is not a right anymore than gambling is a right, or owning an assault weapon.
>Again, it's government meddling into the activities of its citizens, which is not necessarily bad.
Ah. you're one of those. No point in speaking further then.

>I can't counter your points so I'm just giving up
Go vent at your Twitch channel.

Forth is fantastic and everyone should learn it

OOP was a very expensive mistake and thought worm

linux mint and lubuntu are the only worth gnu/linux distros

fuck off nigger, manjaro/fedora for LIFE

it's just not worth it. People like you are so deeply set in your ways I'd be talking to a wall. Said wall is what you'll be lined up against and shot when the time comes. Whether it's the Communist utopia your dream of coming to fruition (you're just a useful idiot), or true patriots finally taking over putting you down as a traitor. Which you are.

Let me buy you a beer.

I have to agree.

Android is still kinda broken, specially Google apps. I can't fucking understand how a massive corporation manages to fuck up so hard sometimes, but at least Android phones can do more than being a facebook machine.

>It does, and does it regularly such as the examples I cited.
restriction and compulsion are very different things.
>That's government telling you it's immoral to bet and to make a living on betting
it's actually government creating a buffer against tax evasion. if betting were immoral in the eyes of government then government wouldn't run the lottery.
>Oops, sounds like government dictating morality to me.
learn to read.
>it's government meddling into the activities of its citizens, which is not necessarily bad.
this is true even when said about genocide. you're wasting bytes.
>I'm not forcing anything, just giving my opinion and voting accordinly.
this is funny. it's like you don't know what he's saying and you don't even know what you're saying either.
>The right to monetize a streaming channel is not on any Constitution
idiot, you don't understand what rights are, apparently. it's not a difficult concept. if you take your time i'm sure you'll figure it out.

you're an embarrassment, user.

>Said wall is what you'll be lined up against and shot when the time comes.
Nice edges kid. What happened to all your talk about rights? Now you are supporting the execution of dissidents for disagreeing with you,
Literally the snowflake generation.

>Whether it's the Communist utopia
Communism is the worst system ever devised by mankind. You sound much more like a communist or a fascist than I do here.

Actual statesmen that defeated communism and fascism (like Churchill or Eisenhower) would probably agree with me if they lived in the modern era, since they were socially conservative.

7 is just Vista but improved in every way, specially UI.

if you could truly rice windows or macos the number of linux users on this board would majorly dip

what stops people from copying/modifying an open source program?

You can rice MacOS and Windows, it's just much harder.

>Implying the vast majority of stuff you see in desktop threads aren't just various flavors of Linux in a VM, riced to hell on a windows based host

>restriction and compulsion are very different things.
Yes they are. Compulsion is forcing you to do something against your will. Restriction is preventing you to do something.

Limiting monetization of certain internet activities is a restriction, no different than restricting gambling. You'll still be allowed to stream, just not for money.

>it's actually government creating a buffer against tax evasion.
That's your opinion, not a fact.

>learn to read.
Not an argument. Dog fights are banned because society, represented by government, considers them so. Some sick fuck may agree with them. Regardless, it's government dictating morality.

>this is true even when said about genocide. you're wasting bytes.
Hyperbole again.

>idiot, you don't understand what rights are, apparently. it's not a difficult concept. if you take your time i'm sure you'll figure it out.
Not an argument.

my n word

YAML is better than JSON for configuration files.

the license.

so nothing then. I understand its an important ideological distinction but in reality it has no bearing without expensive and time consuming enforcement

Fanboys and shills have tainted my opinion of AMD to the point that I will probably never willingly buy anything they've shit out since the Phenom.

what's broken about gapps

this

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh FPBP

Linux is an OS

I have already had many little issues with things like Play Store, Gmail, Maps, etc. Mostly little bugs, but something that really didn't happen when I had an iPhone 5s. I would say that Google needs to beta test their apps more before releasing.

here's mine
form is worthless outside of its contributions to function

>i don't want to force you to do anything, i just want to restrict everything except the one thing i want you to do
clown
>That's your opinion, not a fact.
that's the government's opinion and official reason for banning off-site gambling.
>Not an argument.
yes it is, because you can't read. dog fighting is banned because it's wrong to harm animals for entertainment, not because people were gambling illegally. the ban on dog fighting has nothing to do with money, which is what you claimed in your earlier post when you said
>Government should have a say and does have a say [in where other people's money goes]. That's why some things are banned like gambling in some places, betting on dog fights, etc.
>Dog fights are banned because society, represented by government, considers them so. Some sick fuck may agree with them.
which is what the other user said and you disagreed with him.
>Regardless, it's government dictating morality.
nobody said government shouldn't dictate morality. you're the idiot who keeps conflating spending money with government restricting immoral behavior.
>Hyperbole again.
no, get a dictionary and look that word up. it's argumentum ad infinitum, not hyperbole.
>Not an argument.
the fact you don't understand what rights are is a good argument for why your talking about rights is stupid.

neck yourself, retard.

ironically, i feel the exact opposite
at work, we're full gsuite even though we have ios devices. google's ios ports of their apps seem pretty rock solid, the only issues i've come across are really minor. for example, ios chrome doesn't have support for google cloud print in newer versions for some reason.
on my personal moto g5s plus, google's stock apps seem pretty solid as well. the worst thing i've seen on android is my brother's samsung phone with half of the stock google apps swapped out for samsung's equivalent, and those seem pretty awful to me.

The pine phone and laptop are going to be good choices

People can still pirate shit when its not open sourced, what difference does that even make?

because they can modify it and create new versions

>in reality it has no bearing without expensive and time consuming enforcement
it has huge implications
sure, random neckbeard's not going to care about the license, but random neckbeards aren't generally the people doing the bulk of the work. businesses generally do care about licenses. in some cases, they only care enough to try and mask that they're using e.g. copyleft software so they can get away with slapping a proprietary license on what they're putting out, but that's still caring. in other cases, it plays a huge role in their decision making process for what to use or write for.
there are businesses that don't care at all about licensing, but they're generally smaller businesses that think they can get away with it (and in many cases, they do get caught, and in case you weren't aware, the fsf does have lawyers and they do bring lawsuits occasionally). big corporations generally do licensing right because it's more costly to do it wrong and get caught.

>i don't want to force you to do anything, i just want to restrict everything except the one thing i want you to do
It wouldn't be me personally restricting it, but a democratically-elected government restricting it. Again, no different than government banning prostitution, or assault weapons, or gambling, etc. You may disagree, but it's not fascist nor communist if the people vote for it. It isn't infringing on any basic right.

>that's the government's opinion and official reason for banning off-site gambling.
Source?

>the ban on dog fighting has nothing to do with money
It is a case of government dictating morality.

>you're the idiot who keeps conflating spending money with government restricting immoral behavior.
But it is related. Another example is prostitution. It's legal to have sex, just not for money.

>no, get a dictionary and look that word up. it's argumentum ad infinitum, not hyperbole.
Rethorically, it is an hyperbole. Logically, it is an argumentum ad infinitum fallacy. If you want to argue semantics we can move to /lit/. Regardless, what you are doing is a cheap emotional tactic and not an argument.

>the fact you don't understand what rights are is a good argument for why your talking about rights is stupid.
Again, not an argument. Source me your definition of a right (are we talking about normative rights? Legal rights? Individual rights?) and we can actually have a debate.

I don't believe any rights would be infringed, since you'd still be allowed to stream, just not for money. Again, no different than internet gambling or prostitution being illegal.

>neck yourself, retard.
NO U

Compared to console gaming, PC gaming is worse for your wallet AND your freedom. Spending ten times as much money on a gaming PC does not mean you have tens times as much fun as playing a console. You're much better off quarantining you proprietary games on a $300 console and then running a libre Thinkpad for your computing needs.

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spread the thermal paste

There is literally, absolutely 0 reason to own a keyboard that costs over 3 dollars.

Objectively wrong.

i spent $600 including monitor on my pc in 2012 and it still plays the games i want it to play

2010 i mean

>cheap manufacturing in the west again

lay off the crack pipe buddy, youre spouting crazy shit

>monetized streaming channel

like tv?

Its okay to say nigger on Jow Forums

Thats just a known fact

I work as a pentester currently. Before I moved into security I was a Linux admin for a large multi datacenter environment (well over 2000 linux hosts).

Linux is horrendously insecure. Mostly because users are fucking morons and there are little to no safeguards built into the OS. I can say with near certainty that I can move to root on any linux machine I have shell for. The only thing that improves linux's security is the fact that it ships with very few services.

The FX processors weren't terrible

Only if it's free software, shit-for-brains. Open source, especially as corporations use it, literally only means you can view the source - no right to modification or distribution is implied. Google's fuchsia OS does exactly this - you are allowed to be the source code but you are not allowed to make any forks and modifications and distribute it.

thoughts on openbsd?

Considering how small the user base is compared to Linux, I'd say it fairs worse. There aren't nearly as many eyes on BSD as Linux.

Name the last BSD exclusive vuln that made headlines ?

To add on to this, if somebody made a product that was better than the open-source mainline and therefore gained widespread adoption, it would definitely be worth a company's time and money to remove it in any way possible. This removes pretty much all of the positive aspects of free software.

there are enough commonly used projects that rely on bsd that it gets examined
openbsd in particular generally comes hardened out of the box and you have to either fail to keep it updated or actively fuck it up to make it less secure, which is part of its selling point
i would argue that the reason bsd vulns don't make headlines is at least in part because there are far fewer of them, especially in openbsd in particular