You'd do it with your smart phone. Have a vendor with w pub key as a qr code and you'd have someone scan it and then they authorize the app to send to it. I think the major exchanges have these sorts of things already.

The problem is verification is slow.

Ignoring the fact that crypto is highly violate and not at all usable as an actual medium of exchange for everyday goods because of that fact... Crypto transactions are just really slow. When you go to a store and use your credit card or debit card, those transactions are real-time, and were verified by some mainframe that's sole job is to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, from hundreds of thousands of banks and individual retailers, all while also providing suspicious transaction monitoring in that 3-5 second timeframe it takes for the card reader to say "Approved".

Blockchain transactions can take literal hours to verify, which for a vendor, you can understand would be completely unworkable. That's not to mention with cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, there are additional fees to merely have transactions be processed, which for low amount transactions could be equal to the initial purchase price itself. Suddenly a $1.29 pack of gum actually costs you $2 because of network fees -- scaled across any number of daily transactions...

These issues are why there are crypto exchanges -- cryptocurrency as a decentralized blockchain with third-party verification makes it incredibly useless in reality -- crypto exchanges act as a third-party with liquidity to side-step blockchain verification and instantly deposit the amount transacted into the wallet of other exchange members. And, naturally, on top of whatever transaction fees the cryptocurrency itself might impose, there are then also fees that the exchanges impose for their their services. Which, if you put any thought into for more than a few seconds, you will realize completely negates any of the supposed virtues of cryptocurrencies; Chain of trust? Nope, you're transacting between ephemeral virtual wallets. Decentralized ownership? Nope, all your funds exist with the pseudo-bank that is the exchange -- you do not control your wallet. Insulation from market volatility vis-a-vis the '08 financial crisis? Obviously, laughably not, crypto is extremely volatile and value is more or less directly tied to stock market performance.

If you want to use crypto for day-to-day usage, there are a million disincentives, and many more reasons to just use a debit card or credit card. To my knowledge, the only places that have seen any modicum of crypto uptake for daily usage, are countries that have such unstable currencies that the volatility of crypto isn't as bad in compariPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm stupid, so for other stupid people like me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale

>>2324
I forgot to mention one last big issue. I touched on it by describing cryptocurrencies volatility, but forgot to go into more detail. That being: convertibility. I think this comes as something of an oversight when discussing cryptocurrency, given it's nature, but when it comes to currencies and the acceptance of foreign currency for international exchanges there is ZERO question that you can reliably use a credit or debit card in any country or when making online purchases. Occasionally there are fees imposed, particularly with in-person transactions, or with ATM foreign currency exchanges, but often international purchases have no additional fees. Again, this may come as something of an oversight, but when it comes to the ability to use an ATM, even in other countries, it's a mostly painless process to get local physical currency. ATMs are extremely numerous, and especially at international travel destinations, and airports, physical foreign currency exchanges are also very common.

This comes in contrast to cryptocurrencies because the medium is the asset. Whether it's converting between USD and CNY, or CAD and JPY, or EUR and SEK, or CHF to WON, etc. there's very little volatility in exchanges rates because on-balance, currency exchange rates are determined by international trade expenditures and revenue, foreign currency reserves, and above-all exchange rate to the US Dollar as the world reserve currency. Generally speaking, the biggest source of volatility in exchange rates tends to be as a result of domestic inflation; ergo, if your country's currency has inflation, your currency will be weaker in relation to other currencies, and thus the price of foreign goods will become more expensive, however, if you have an export-oriented economy this devaluation can make the price of domestic goods artificially cheaper for foreign buyers. So, to give an example, if Brazil has high inflation, importing foreign goods may become more expensive, but for other countries the price of agricultural products out of Brazil, such as soy beans, will decrease relative to their previous price. In the long run, these trends are generally self-stabilizing absent dramatic economic intervention by governments so that prices and exchange rates remain relatively stable. This is largely why Neoliberal economists advocate for free tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2302
Yeah but now I just want to do it for fun

Well... If you do it, you should see if you can launch your scam coin on Coinbase somehow. Every now and then they do "learn and earn" things where, for completing simple quizzes about the coin, they'll give people some of that coin for free. Could give temporary liquidity and convince retards to buy it and then you can rug pull and cash out.

>>2304
>launch your scam coin on Coinbase
Exchanges are pay to play. It costs millions.

or at least a market cap of a million. the initial holders have to put in a lot of initial money to make it seem like a real hype coin.

Idk how to make a shitcoin, but that sounds very similar to crash gambling

>>2292
I don't have enough accounts to need more than one page, but I know which accounts are newer which means they're further down on the page. If you have a lot of passwords you can also just get a password booklet that's alphabetically sorted if you need it.

used to store all my passwords alphabetically in my phone notes, now I use keypass

maybe a collection of cut-up index cards

You'd have to write down each password twice in case you lost your wallet.

>>2284
That's probably at the core of why everyone wants 2FA these days. People have a limited capacity for good password creation so all the long-term ones are strong but used for a bunch of accounts and all the short-term ones are super weak shit at the top of any brute force list.

I need a laptop like that

>These are also decade-plus-year old panels and CCFL. Their already low brightness and kuso color is much more degraded years later.
I've got some nearly 2 decade old Dell CCFL IPS LCDs. Love them and they work great. Their only issue is there's some small flakes of dust that have managed to get between the LCD and CCFL backlight, but it's only visible on completely white backgrounds. That and early IPS panels have some minor image retention when you leave a high contrast static image up for a white, but it goes away after a few minutes of changing screens. Mostly just an issue I notice when leaving stuff like Discord open and images are on the screen for a while.

Lovely 4:3 monitor, not a stinky 5:4. Still holds up at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz. They make for excellent side monitors.

I really wish some random boutique Chinese monitor manufacturer would make new OLED 4:3 monitors. I don't wanna have to use 16:9 monitors vertically, and 16:9 is way too wide for side monitors unless you're like a sim racer or turbo FPS gamer dork or something.

>>2111
Hm, square monitors do make more sense when it comes to the side monitor. I really like my ultrawide, though. I have two of them on an L-shaped desk and it seems to work decent enough, although it feels wasteful because it hurts my neck to actually use the far side of the side one. Square screens would feel more like a natural extension, so maybe I could look into that next time in a few years...

i have few eizo monitors....

>>2111
I have been hunting down one of these Dell 2007fp monitors for a while now. I really like the aspect ratio, but have only been able to come across 19" square monitors, no larger.

There are tons available online for ludicrous prices, but I really can't justify spending any more than $30 for a decade year old monitor, especially when I've gotten every other monitor I own for free.

Did some googling and it turns out some assholes on YouTube branded it a "retro gaming" monitor (despite its considerable video delay), which likely jacked up the prices. As was the case with kuso tube televisions that were being dumped at the curb only a decade ago, but at least those don't have awful delay.

>>2242
>skeletons
have you tried upgrading to power liches?

>>2242
>>2243
Get on my level dorkmisers, I’m behind an army of death knights

just use tor and you’re good

>>2236
>Haunted photos
I think this is genuinely the first time in my life I'm going to say something like this, but why didn't they translate it as "cursed images"? It's one of the rare cases where that kind of localization would've made sense.

>>2238
thinkin bout using monero more, is it best to move between multiple wallets just to make sure your tracks are covered

>>2174
i mean in general its recommended to use rolling release distro if plan to game heavily on linux
>the problem with my linux machine is im on linux mint debian edition... FOUR.... so my wine version is 7.17
consider using https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty
>>2175
i am thinking about trying out debian sid for desktop usage as debian itself is quite flexible, i dislike systemd but apparently you can switch out the init on no x netinstall? its tempting

>>2175
I've also had the same Ubuntu Mint install for 4 years without breaking too and everything is relatively up to date. I did upgrade it once, it went fine and I haven't bothered to do it again even though there's a newer Mint version and a newer kernel too, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to upgrade until I have to since I'm still getting security updates. Most distros that aren't niche are pretty good and stable. Anon should just use whatever they want.

i saw the lain exhibit but i couldn't find two of the hidden clues. i guess ill just watch a yt vid on it

>>2240
It's a mystery exhibit?

>>2241
:3

>>2228
And how is this related to /jp/ instead of /win/ you offtopic shitstirring nigger?

>>2230
Oh the thread moved before I realized it lol

>>2230
Calling me a nigger, but you can't read

>>2232
Again this isn't /jp/ related at all and you pulling out bullshit doesn't make it /jp/.
Stupid dumb shitstirring scum

>>2229
Who graduated this week?

>>2205
why the hate? typing like a retard? have some kindness i need help

meeeeeeep tehe :3

>>2211
The meeper!

>>2211
Niggah~

OP is Kusunoki Yua! ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ

It IS really impressive, but it's all over my head.
Doesn't surprise me too much, though, as everyone wants to add every feature to everything instead of specializing.

Javascript was a mistake

>>2189
>Browsers are practically mini operating systems
Chromebooks are a thing for a reason.

>>2192
Data harvesting and Google walled garden?
It's true you only need a browser if you're just gonna watch youtube and use social media though which is what most people do. Same reason why more and more children only have a tablet or a phone and no computer which is pretty sad on their behalf. They have a much harder time entering the workplace.

>>2193
Smartphones/tablets are less locked-down and harvest way less data than the average school/work computer.

>>2070
I'm still around just been very busy. I'm not to the point yet where I want to invest in infrastructure because it would sit unused for many months before things would be ready to go live. I also refactored this entire project again recently so I started from scratch sometime last month. But it was for the best because bending Portage to my will was getting old really fast and I was going to have to write a ton of code to make it do the things I want.

What I've ended up landing on in Guix package manager. Which does everything Portage did sans global USE flags. But those don't matter because you can write reproducible package definitions using Scheme. So it's just a matter of modifying each package to compile in or exclude what we want in the base system. I've been spending the last several weeks porting over my work from Gentoo/portage and finally got a booting system a couple of days ago that replicated most of the base config.

While you wait I highly suggest going through the guix documentation and maybe setting up a test system yourself. Since if you have a working Guix system switching over will be a simple process. You'll just have to clone one text file and rebuild your system with a simple command.

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/index.html

The docs are _really really_ good. The downside of this is they're so good you won't get many copy/paste snippets from google searches when you run into problems. Since you're expected to RTFM and the GNU guys only communicate and work together through the mailing lists. They're old school like that. That said I've not had any trouble myself switching over. I find it better than Nix because what is called home-manager and flakes in Nix actually works in Guix and the docs are much better. If you want Nix for whatever reason you can still have it by installing it under your ~ directory. Same goes for Flatpak and Docker and all that kind of stuff.

Another downside is the Guix people don't support non-libre software at all. Meaning driver support in the default installer for things like common wifi chips and GPUs isn't there. But it's a simple matter of changing a couple of lines in your system config to pull in the usual kernel from non-gnu channels. If yoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2125
Funny, I was following along and I was thinking about metioning that I wouldn't be interested unless it supported things I now consider basic features like being declarative+reproducible*, and rollback/atomic upgrades, but I didn't want to try to force you to adopt whatever my own preferences are. I use NixOS right now, but I was thinking of switching to Guix anyway because I prefer Lisp. I already use emacs, so Guix+emacs+a Lisp window manager and most of my system would have nice to look at easily modifiable code. NixOS works very well but the language is gross and I find it confusing to write at times. The real benefit of Nix and NixOS is the huge number of packages and all of the pre-existing configs that have been posted all over the internet for anything you can imagine. The tradeoff is that writing your own packages kind of sucks. I have a few extra PCs, some of which run NixOS and some of which run debian, so I'm sure I could find something to install this on.

>>2135
You should switch to Guix. If you want access to Nix packages you can have it anyway inside of your home folder. The reason you should switch to Guix boils down to;
-1) Home management actually works
-2) Channels actually works
-3) The language is much better

The only real draw back isn't really a draw back. It's the same issue with every GNU project: The hostility towards anything non-libre keeping away 95% of the population. Since almost no one's computer is supported by the kernel Guix ships with unless it's already 10+ years old. If you have any kind of modern GPU you're shit out of luck unless you know what you're doing and pull-in the non-gnu channels. Which are maintained by third party channels and not allowed to be discussed at all on the main mailing list.

Another issue is for whatever reason the GNU mirrors have been really really slow lately. Can't figure out why considering how much money they're getting through donations. But sometimes their website just simply refuses to load for hours at a time.

Upside is the documentation is very good. So even though there isn't an existing config for you to pull-in you should have little trouble making your own.

Someone is going to take Guix and the non-GNU channels. Put them together and make a lot of money attracting a large user base over the next few years. Since it has already solved all the issues with NixOS at a fundamental level. Mostly because it had the benefit of being developed after Nix using a proper language.

There are some questionable defaults in the default graphical installer though. Nothing but ext4 is supported by default unless you write a config file manually (and manually partition). It uses GDM as a log-in manager by default as well. Which is really slow for some reason and refuses to pick up my ~/.Xsession. Most likely because it's Gnome and Gnome is horrible. No KDE (yet) if you're into that. The Cookbook is outdated and wrong in several areas.
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>>2155
If you want to try on a system that doesn't support Linux-libre kernel (or want your GPU/networking to use the manufacture drivers). This is the best .iso/installer currently around; https://github.com/SystemCrafters/guix-installer/releases

Note that post-install you'll want to remove the pinned commits from channels.scm for the non-gnu channel before running Guix pull + system reconfigure to update.

Full instructions here: https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/

That should give you a system that boots. If you want file system other than ext4 I think the installer can handle that if you set-up partitions manually then return to the guided install. It'll generate a system.scm config for you based on what it finds. From there you'll need to drop back to another tty to finish installation because of the Non-GNU channels. It's pretty straight forward once you've gone through it one time.

The only other thing that's different from NixOS aside from the language used for config files is the lack of systemd init. Guix uses Shepard which is lisp-based as you've probably already guessed. I haven't found anything major that hasn't been ported over yet. I like it better than systemd (but that isn't saying much. Anything is better than systemd). It's a good init system and if you're familiar with lisp you shouldn't have any issues writing your own services should it come to that. Starting, stopping, restarting and all the usual stuff isn't hard and you can actually be sure things will start in the correct order. It isn't doing any voodoo behind your back.

You should limit what you install globally through the system.scm. You can use guix install for installing packages needed on a per-user basis inside your home folder. You can set-up temp. environments using guix shell to test packages before installing them for real. Read the docs for more information on all that stuff. If you're coming from NixOS a lot of it should already be familiar to you but it's more well though out in Guix land.

Most emacs popular emacs packages are maintained in the GNPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1922
steamos

they outsourced AI to humans through multiplayer battle royal games, and they're not coming back

the few games currently using LLMs that i can recall were implementing them for text, like AI dungeon and the like
training them for videogames in general is something i've only seen in experiments and they were often quite janky, either failing to act according to design expectations or subverting them via unexpected glitchy cheese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJlF-olKmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbPdEHEyEI
at this point the above examples are ancient history but i haven't heard much since then in this regard, it still seems hard to implement and/or not particularly fun to play against
>>2160
funny you say that, because the biggest battle royale today is full of bots and has had them since 2019
https://fortnite.fandom.com/wiki/Bots
on top of tons of regular npc mobs

>>2098
If your bed takes up 90% of your room, you either need a smaller bed or a bigger room. I'd barf if I saw that interior decorating too.

>>2119
But what if I spend 90% of my time in my room in bed?

>>2120
Do you want to spend the other 10% squeezed against the wall?

>>2119
My room is completely empty except for my bed. Bedrooms are for sleeping. I'd be fine with my room being 100% bed. I'm wasting all that room that could have been a bigger living room.

>>2122
But then where do you keep your glass of water and sex toys?

Backdoors, you say?
I avoid texting since I'm an old man that thinks phones should be phones and texting is better on computers.

My messages are encrypted fully in line with government recommendations and can only be accessed by me, US law enforcement agents, and people who are monitoring for CP.

Steam games I mean

>>2060
Regular Wine works just fine. https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/wine-stable Do note that Rosetta 2 can only accelerate 64-bit x86_64 and not 32-bit because the M3 has physical hardware corresponding to 64-bit memory model.

There is a proprietary thing called Crossover which can get around this with wine32on64 and the good news is there are open source builds of said binary should you need to play with your touhous. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987230 https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine

chu-toriaru in nihongo https://zenn.dev/okojyo21/articles/76f23cd8b45487

>>2062
Not a lot of games that go for 32bit nowadays. But Yeah, older titles like touhou or VNs it might be something to consider

Mac issue with safety... Downloading my application off of the web requires 100$ apple developer subscription.

I'll probably create a script that people can run to bypass it instead since you can use the terminal to disable code signing for this program

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>>2051

Bought the "13-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip - Midnight".
512GB SSD and 24GB of RAM. I checked my old laptop and stuff and it's like 200GB. So if I'll probably just store archived projects on cloud storage or something

>>2004
how much it cost?

>>2005
with tax and converting from local currency 1575.78 USD. So it's very expensive... if I weren't well off right now I'd gamble on something I can put linux onto

>>2006
expensive.....
will you post about how it works out for you? after some time with it

>>2007
yeah. For that price I'm hoping everything will just work