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feeling that right now. so much I want to learn; electrical engineering, using linux efficiently, programming. so little time.

trying to get tor installed on arch right now, i2p was a breeze but this is proving to be a pain in the ass.

no, i'm pretty good at everything

>>17152
It's always been the opposite for me. Tor is easy, but i2p is a pain in the ass.

Honestly... based on most of the stuff people post here, you're probably in good company. I think a some of the users sound savvy, but probably aren't as adept as they seem. There's plenty of noobs here (me included)

Plus, if you've messed with Linux and know how to replace your computer parts, I'd say you're already fairly tech inclined. You're already ahead of the average Joe.

thanks

>>17121
> A lot of you guys are pretty cool.
Don't go to the wired tomorrow.

Very generous, but posting 5.3MB of image data to convey 24 bytes of relevant data?

>>17137
So it can't be read by robots.
It was taken at 15.9, such high resolution amazes me. 5312x2988.

I don't like Domain.com.

I had an account there for registration and DNS and I had the actual hosting elsewhere. Their DNS system was pretty limited as you couldn't use zone files but at the time I wasn't doing anything complex so it was good enough.

Their webinterface for managing the site changed just about every year and gradually became more and more loaded with scripts to "enhance functionality". The interface also had a large focus on users that did their hosting at domain.com, and if you didn't you would get a lot of suggestions and offers for upgrading your account.

In one of the yearly bills they actually tried to charge me for a "unix account" which had hosting and cost two or three times as much as I had been paying up until then. I went through support and all seemed fine for one or maybe two years.

Now, they send emails every year stating that you need to renew your domain if you're not on automatic renewal. I was on automatic renewal, but I would still log in every year to see if everything was fine. One year though it seemed like I couldn't remember my password, so after two more warning emails I went through the password recovery option only to be denied with a message saying the account was not recognised.

Domain.com's support system is nice because you need an account to use it. If you don't have an account they seem to recommend live chat. Live chat wasn't working. I got an email one or two days later basically stating that I had been trying to use their chat system while it had crashed. That at least gave me a support email address for help.

Support told me that my account did not exist. It did have records of my transactions, but for example the billing ID and such were all unknown. My account just didn't exist.

I had to send copies of legal documents for them to confirm my identity, yet still they couldn't reinstate my account. They could transfer the domains to an account of my choosing though! Except you couldn't make an account without purchasing anything.
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>>17134
It still exists, It's just hidden now.
https://lainchan.org/tech/

>>17136
Why?
Also: rms.sexy

>>17140
The main discussion on this is over here: >>>/q/7143

>>16667
Go to the bridge and take pics. We should have a lainanons go to spooky places thread.

Friendly reminder to all the other lains here partaking in spooky fun: I'm doing bi-weekly triple feature streams for October and there are still four (possibly two more unannounced one's coming up: Sci-fi horror and lesbian vampires) streams to catch: >>15627

>>16673
This is by far one of the best and most terrifying books I've ever read. Thomas Ligotti is a genius.

>>16673
Thanks for this, I've read a lot of Ligotti but I haven't read this one yet.

>>16682
Will do, this seems like a cool idea, maybe incorperate some urbex into the possible thread.

Sp00ky

>>16705
That'd be great!
>>16706
Just talked with the guy; says he can get fiber installed within 3-9 months. I'll probably badger him about it. We could make a deposit and hold it until Dec 1 and sort things out on our end; I just don't want to waste all yalls money.

Would anybody still be interested?

>>16708
Yeah, I would be interested. I hang out on the IRC under the username qzo. It would be interesting to see how many people would be down. Do you want to start a Tox group or something?

>>16709
D5CD19DB6A823E44066172E7AD747BC41367668AB6DFB672715B5FCBBCCE2716E93BE63EF5EB

or you could drop by ##cyberia on freenode

If I had not just got a perminate jop for the first time in 5 or so years, I would. but money takes presidence. also,there are probaly old nuke silos that could be purchased for cheaper and whats more cyb than that?

id so be into this if I didnt live on west coast, heading off to college next year. unfortunately heading off to college on west coast still, not quite ready to move more than a state away.

Moved to >>>/art/2317.

>>16301
agree. wish i could find one

>>16491
>>13813
>two other overchan users
Schway as fuarrrk!

whenever I want to talk about real stuff i come here.

anything like video games, dumb fun, etc. i just go to 4chan. its kind of like having that one friend you just keep around for laughs and to have a bit of fun. and lainchan is that real friend you can talk about anything with.

>>16480
what the fuarrrk is gay neets. I just been there I dont understand it at all.. is it basically just pure irony and brewing soykaf only?

I like werchan a.k.a. guhnoo.org. I'd like to see it get more users though.

>>16610
ok thanks

>>16596
like >>16597 said, we don't talk about SEL that much even though this chan is based on SEL
>>16602
check out these threads
https://lainchan.org/w/res/3150.html

https://lainchan.org/w/res/4197.html

>>16604
got spooked by the audio on that tbh

>>16602

He didn't really do much cyberpunk or sci-fi (aside from maybe Paprika, sort of), but anything by Satoshi Kon is worth your while. Try Perfect Blue if you're looking for something psychological, or Paranoia Agent if you're looking more something more philosophical. Both are creepy as hell.

If you're looking for hardcore based-on-real-science sci-fi, Planetes is god-tier. It's absolutely nothing like Lain in tone, though. Garbage collectors in space, with actual realistic orbital mechanics. It's like "Kerbal Space Program the TV Show".

There's surprisingly little good cyberpunk anime out there. Most of it is actually "generic action show with some unrealistic Hollywood-esque hacking scenes". Ghost in the Shell SAC, on a good day, is probably as close as you'll come to classic "high-tech low-life" cyberpunk. (On a bad day it's incomprehensible political drama and/or CSI Neo-Tokyo, but the good outweighs the bad.)