'No Stupid Questions' General -

[Dick Justice]

Then you probably don't care about not receiving tactile feedback from your board when one plays fps.

The most common and the entry level switches are Cherrys and Gaterons. They both have a similar naming convention:
Wanna feel a little bump when the key is activated? - browns (tactile)
Wanna feel no bump? - reds (linear)
Wanna feel a little bump and hear a loud noise? - blues (clicky)
There's a lot more to switches, but they always fall under tactile, linear, and clicky.

If you're not sure (which is reasonable) you can grab a hotswap board that allows you to just pull out and push in different switches (switches on its own are super cheap). If you're on a budget, I recommend Keychron keyboards as they are alright, wireless, and run for $80. If you're not, the GMMK is a nice starterboard, it's starts $110, has rgb LEDs, better build quality than keychron, and you can customize it a bit before you buy.

As far as blues go, is there some kind of label or other indicator of which blues won't wake the wife/kids/neighbours?

 

[1440p Curved Monitor]

As far as blues go, is there some kind of label or other indicator of which blues won't wake the wife/kids/neighbours?

That's a bit of an oxymoron. Clicky switches are supposed to be loud, so there isn't a lot with a softer click. Cherry Whites have a soft click apparently, but I think they're rather rare. Your best bet to reducing the noise would be to lube your switch and stabilizers, add o rings to keycaps, and place foam under the pcb. But those options are typically for modders or for those with custom boards.

 

[TheSkoomer]

I’m still kind of confused as to what the purpose of a home server would be.

SSH/SFTP
Torrent box.
DNS to blackhole ad domains.
TOR/I2P nodes.
HTTP/HTTPS server.
VOIP/SIP/XMPP/Mumble.
Unfortunately, one can't run a mainstream email server without a domain name. There are workarounds, but they are beyond the comprehension of normies.

 

[Mal0]

I did some digging and I'm thinking of using Mullvad VPN since I like their pricing and they have a bunch of different servers all over the place. I heard good things about them on other forums and they seem privacy minded. How is their speed? Ofc, if I wanted faster and cheaper internet I would use the VPNS youtubers shill like Surfshark or Nord, but privacy is nice and I don't really trust products youtubers shill.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I did some digging and I'm thinking of using Mullvad VPN since I like their pricing and they have a bunch of different servers all over the place. I heard good things about them on other forums and they seem privacy minded. How is their speed? Ofc, if I wanted faster and cheaper internet I would use the VPNS youtubers shill like Surfshark or Nord, but privacy is nice and I don't really trust products youtubers shill.

They're fast in my experience, I've got a 250mbit/s connection and I've rarely felt that their servers was the obvious or painful bottleneck when downloading something. Results may vary on that end but for surfing and streaming I can't tell the difference between it being on and off.

 

[Least Concern]

I want to sperg about NFTs because there's a lot of ignorance going around about them recently.

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token ("fungible" means "replaceable" or in this case something like "counterfeit-able"). At least in the cases getting press attention, it is a way to establish ownership over something, particularly when that "something" can be easily copied, like a video, an image, or even an idea. The "token" exists on a blockchain and can be exchanged amongst users like a Bitcoin, but it retains a unique identifier. If it helps, think of United States $1 bills and how each of them has a serial number.

Now also imagine that forgery of those dollar bills is impossible, but also the dollar might not necessarily be worth a dollar, whatever a "dollar" actually means. But imagine that we can associate each one of those dollar bills - slips of paper with ID numbers printed on them, really - and associate them with objects. This bill is associated with a certain car, but this bill is associated with a certain Lego brick - the values are quite different, but each serves the same purpose of being an easily-exchangeable "token" representing an item of value. And by having ownership of that token, you have ownership over the item it is associated with. So maybe your car gets stolen. The police retrieve it, but the guy who stole it is saying the car belongs to him. But since you have the token representing the car, the police know it actually belongs to you. A month later, you decide to sell the car, so you trade the token representing the car to someone else in exchange for something else - ownership of the car now belongs to the person you gave the token to.

Now consider the case of the Charlie Bit My Finger video. Far more than cars, video files are easily copied and exchanged nowadays, so it would be hard for someone to assert ownership rights over that video. But now an NFT exists which represents that video, and that token is not easily copied or (hacking incidents aside) stolen, so we can be assured that whoever holds that NFT in their cryptocurrency wallet also holds ownership over that video, whatever that means to them and however they may wish to assert it.

Now whether there should be an NFT for the Charlie Bit My Finger video or some of the other dumb things that have had NFTs created for them recently, or whether their NFTs should have been sold for the amounts they have been sold for, or whether the people who created the NFTs had the rights to do so are all incidental to the workings of NFTs themselves. If it helps, instead consider that the people who currently own the Mona Lisa create a Mona Lisa NFT for it. If and when they sell the Mona Lisa to someone else, they also transfer them the NFT. Now if someone else comes along and claims that they actually own the Mona Lisa, the issue can be settled by checking who currently possesses the NFT. It's cool, useful tech even if it's being used for dumb purposes.

One meme that's been going around lefty circles for a while is that NFTs are bad for the environment. Well, cryptocurrency mining itself is an inefficient task which literally wastes energy as part of its function (read this post also by me (and also tl;dr) to find out why), but the computational load and energy waste involved with that isn't really related to how much traffic is on the blockchain network. In other words, presuming the NFT is on the Etherium network, that network is still going to exist and have computers mining on it whether the Charlie NFT exists on it or not, and whether there's ten transactions in an hour or ten million, it doesn't have that big of a difference on how much power will be wasted while mining. So saying that creating and trading NFTs wastes energy is kind of like saying surfboarders are at fault for making the waves so high - the waves were going to be there regardless.

 

[Mal0]

I want to sperg about NFTs because there's a lot of ignorance going around about them recently.

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token ("fungible" means "replaceable" or in this case something like "counterfeit-able"). At least in the cases getting press attention, it is a way to establish ownership over something, particularly when that "something" can be easily copied, like a video, an image, or even an idea. The "token" exists on a blockchain and can be exchanged amongst users like a Bitcoin, but it retains a unique identifier. If it helps, think of United States $1 bills and how each of them has a serial number.

Now also imagine that forgery of those dollar bills is impossible, but also the dollar might not necessarily be worth a dollar, whatever a "dollar" actually means. But imagine that we can associate each one of those dollar bills - slips of paper with ID numbers printed on them, really - and associate them with objects. This bill is associated with a certain car, but this bill is associated with a certain Lego brick - the values are quite different, but each serves the same purpose of being an easily-exchangeable "token" representing an item of value. And by having ownership of that token, you have ownership over the item it is associated with. So maybe your car gets stolen. The police retrieve it, but the guy who stole it is saying the car belongs to him. But since you have the token representing the car, the police know it actually belongs to you. A month later, you decide to sell the car, so you trade the token representing the car to someone else in exchange for something else - ownership of the car now belongs to the person you gave the token to.

Now consider the case of the Charlie Bit My Finger video. Far more than cars, video files are easily copied and exchanged nowadays, so it would be hard for someone to assert ownership rights over that video. But now an NFT exists which represents that video, and that token is not easily copied or (hacking incidents aside) stolen, so we can be assured that whoever holds that NFT in their cryptocurrency wallet also holds ownership over that video, whatever that means to them and however they may wish to assert it.

Now whether there should be an NFT for the Charlie Bit My Finger video or some of the other dumb things that have had NFTs created for them recently, or whether their NFTs should have been sold for the amounts they have been sold for, or whether the people who created the NFTs had the rights to do so are all incidental to the workings of NFTs themselves. If it helps, instead consider that the people who currently own the Mona Lisa create a Mona Lisa NFT for it. If and when they sell the Mona Lisa to someone else, they also transfer them the NFT. Now if someone else comes along and claims that they actually own the Mona Lisa, the issue can be settled by checking who currently possesses the NFT. It's cool, useful tech even if it's being used for dumb purposes.

One meme that's been going around lefty circles for a while is that NFTs are bad for the environment. Well, cryptocurrency mining itself is an inefficient task which literally wastes energy as part of its function (read this post also by me (and also tl;dr) to find out why), but the computational load and energy waste involved with that isn't really related to how much traffic is on the blockchain network. In other words, presuming the NFT is on the Etherium network, that network is still going to exist and have computers mining on it whether the Charlie NFT exists on it or not, and whether there's ten transactions in an hour or ten million, it doesn't have that big of a difference on how much power will be wasted while mining. So saying that creating and trading NFTs wastes energy is kind of like saying surfboarders are at fault for making the waves so high - the waves were going to be there regardless.

Very nice and helped me learn about NFT's, but uh... where's the question?

 

[Least Concern]

Very nice and helped me learn about NFT's, but uh... where's the question?

No question. It was unprompted sperging and I felt this was the best thread for it, though lazily I didn't look very hard for a better one.

 

[Mal0]

No question. It was unprompted sperging and I felt this was the best thread for it, though lazily I didn't look very hard for a better one.

I'm pretty sure there's an NFT thread or Altcoin thread on the Bidness subforum incase you wanna sperg with people there.

Though it was informative so thanks, I never bothered into learning what NFT's were. Kinda cool tbh

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Can you use the Charlie Bit My Finger NFT id/tag to pull every version from youtube?

Or if you own the Mona Lisa NFT, can you do something funky with that?

edit: is it like a badge you can slam down in DMCA disputes and at that second there will no longer be a dispute because you own the hashtag?

 

[Least Concern]

Can you use the Charlie Bit My Finger NFT id/tag to pull every version from youtube?

Or if you own the Mona Lisa NFT, can you do something funky with that?

edit: is it like a badge you can slam down in DMCA disputes and at that second there will no longer be a dispute because you own the hashtag?

Presuming (as I did, though I lazily haven't actually checked that it's true) that full IP rights were transferred along with the token, then yes, the owner can now remove unauthorized copies of the video from YouTube if they so wish. I don't think something similar would work with the Mona Lisa since it's fallen into the public domain by now, but with more contemporary art I suppose you could limit where photographs of it could appear… maybe. IANA IP L.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Presuming (as I did, though I lazily haven't actually checked that it's true) that full IP rights were transferred along with the token, then yes, the owner can now remove unauthorized copies of the video from YouTube if they so wish. I don't think something similar would work with the Mona Lisa since it's fallen into the public domain by now, but with more contemporary art I suppose you could limit where photographs of it could appear… maybe. IANA IP L.

Would Youtube/google accept a NFT though, no questions asked? Youtube/google is just a stand-in for the establishment.

edit: who unequivocally accepts that you owns this as opposed to traditional rights and all that.

 

[Least Concern]

Would Youtube/google accept a NFT though, no questions asked? Youtube/google is just a stand-in for the establishment.

edit: who unequivocally accepts that you owns this as opposed to traditional rights and all that.

I don't know. Maybe the logical leap of "whoever can show evidence of possessing this digital token also has these intellectual property rights" is something that needs to be tried in court, and I don't know if it has yet. In theory it would basically be the same as having a paper contract stating as much.

 

[XYZpdq]

keyboard/mouse recommendations?

also for people who use programs like blender and maya is the cadmouse+spacemouse enterprise bundle worth the money? or should I stick with the pro and some gaming mouse?

I've gotten tons of mileage out of those cheap $3 gaming mice off ebay.

 

[GHTD]

Question for the freetards out there - so I've done a GPU passthrough to run those Windows games that refuse to work on Proton before, the only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to access the VM without hooking in a second input and switching to it manually on my monitor. Is there any way that I can avoid having to switch inputs and just be able to access the WIndows VM straight from the Linux desktop?

 

[Dick Justice]

I want to be able to run arbitrary programs including games on *nix with all networking attempts blocked. After a lot of searching firejail appears to be the solution but lots of fancy features like webGL and DXVK are disabled when run from firejail. Is it possible to configure firejail such that the application has system access as if it weren't sandboxed for everything EXCEPT networking?

I want to sperg about NFTs because there's a lot of ignorance going around about them recently.

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token ("fungible" means "replaceable" or in this case something like "counterfeit-able"). At least in the cases getting press attention, it is a way to establish ownership over something, particularly when that "something" can be easily copied, like a video, an image, or even an idea. The "token" exists on a blockchain and can be exchanged amongst users like a Bitcoin, but it retains a unique identifier. If it helps, think of United States $1 bills and how each of them has a serial number.

Now also imagine that forgery of those dollar bills is impossible, but also the dollar might not necessarily be worth a dollar, whatever a "dollar" actually means. But imagine that we can associate each one of those dollar bills - slips of paper with ID numbers printed on them, really - and associate them with objects. This bill is associated with a certain car, but this bill is associated with a certain Lego brick - the values are quite different, but each serves the same purpose of being an easily-exchangeable "token" representing an item of value. And by having ownership of that token, you have ownership over the item it is associated with. So maybe your car gets stolen. The police retrieve it, but the guy who stole it is saying the car belongs to him. But since you have the token representing the car, the police know it actually belongs to you. A month later, you decide to sell the car, so you trade the token representing the car to someone else in exchange for something else - ownership of the car now belongs to the person you gave the token to.

Now consider the case of the Charlie Bit My Finger video. Far more than cars, video files are easily copied and exchanged nowadays, so it would be hard for someone to assert ownership rights over that video. But now an NFT exists which represents that video, and that token is not easily copied or (hacking incidents aside) stolen, so we can be assured that whoever holds that NFT in their cryptocurrency wallet also holds ownership over that video, whatever that means to them and however they may wish to assert it.

Now whether there should be an NFT for the Charlie Bit My Finger video or some of the other dumb things that have had NFTs created for them recently, or whether their NFTs should have been sold for the amounts they have been sold for, or whether the people who created the NFTs had the rights to do so are all incidental to the workings of NFTs themselves. If it helps, instead consider that the people who currently own the Mona Lisa create a Mona Lisa NFT for it. If and when they sell the Mona Lisa to someone else, they also transfer them the NFT. Now if someone else comes along and claims that they actually own the Mona Lisa, the issue can be settled by checking who currently possesses the NFT. It's cool, useful tech even if it's being used for dumb purposes.

One meme that's been going around lefty circles for a while is that NFTs are bad for the environment. Well, cryptocurrency mining itself is an inefficient task which literally wastes energy as part of its function (read this post also by me (and also tl;dr) to find out why), but the computational load and energy waste involved with that isn't really related to how much traffic is on the blockchain network. In other words, presuming the NFT is on the Etherium network, that network is still going to exist and have computers mining on it whether the Charlie NFT exists on it or not, and whether there's ten transactions in an hour or ten million, it doesn't have that big of a difference on how much power will be wasted while mining. So saying that creating and trading NFTs wastes energy is kind of like saying surfboarders are at fault for making the waves so high - the waves were going to be there regardless.

You conveniently ignore the fact that this is digital and therefore a "you wouldn't download a car" and not a "you wouldn't steal a car" situation, as you purport. Because the marginal cost on all digital """"""""goods""""""""" is basically 0, unless you've developed a complex software ecosystem without which your digital car doesn't work then it's trivial to create duplicates of the commodity in question. If it's your virtual car, say for a game, and someone wants to duplicate your car they need to reverse engineer the game and potentially also the client-server auth mechanism. In this case, your explanation holds. In the case of a stupid yt video? All someone has to do is open obs and do a recording of their display. You could argue that this is creating an inferior duplicate and therefore a counterfeit copy, and that's a reasonable interpretation, but in the overwhelming majority of cases it doesn't matter. You've just created a duplicate outside of NFT ecosystem cancer for no cost, and now that duplicate can be trivially duplicated infinitely.

Question for the freetards out there - so I've done a GPU passthrough to run those Windows games that refuse to work on Proton before, the only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to access the VM without hooking in a second input and switching to it manually on my monitor. Is there any way that I can avoid having to switch inputs and just be able to access the WIndows VM straight from the Linux desktop?

What do you mean by "input"? Are you saying a single display is connected to multiple physical hosts and you're switching between them?

 

[Madre Muerte]

Are there any modern laptops with good io and a dvd drive?

 

[JimiHendrix]

I accidentally deleted some .ahk scripts that I need. I can not replace them and I can not make new ones. I need these ones. I do not know how I deleted them but they are gone.

I am currently trying to use Recuva to get them back, if anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know. If I can not recover these files I will need to work around their loss since they can not be replaced.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Is there such a thing as an app that can detect nearby cell phones? I feel like this shouldn't be that difficult, but I can't find one. In order to work, a phone would have to broadcast... what, an IMEI and some unique ID on the SIM at a very minimum? I'm not sure if it would broadcast that on all available bands, but, shirley at least some of them.

So is there a way to know if someone has a cell phone near by, and perhaps also listing such properties?

 

[Kikkoman]

Anyone know whats going on with cock.li? Webmail 504s and i cannot add accounts to my usual mail client. Its not that important but i'd like access to my mail.