/tech/ - Technology

>>>/4chan/

>>544112

Is there something wrong with migrating? How did you find this board anon?

>>544119

You should go to >>>/g/, /tech/ is the aspie honeypot board. Nobody posts any interesting shit outside the same 3 approved topics (tinfoil, josh, /pol/) here because you always always get some retard screaming at you for not using the sticky. This board is dead.

>>544134

Thanks for the tip, friend.

>>544134

>500+ active users

>50+ PPH

>Dead board

I'd rather come here than have Hirojewki sell my data.

>>544111

If your computer isn't an old thinkpad that you found in a dumpster and installed libreboot on than you're not welcome here.

>>544134

Pretty shit description of this board but it seemed much more lively here a few months ago.

>>544134

>Distro thread

install gentoo

>Is Windows X safer than Windows Y?

No.

>Browser threads

install GNU IceCat

>I spent three days making Win7 secure, but I can't really prove it.

Be sure to post threads like these, otherwise you'll be called an autist by self-conscious /tech/ies.

>>544139

>sell my data

What data, lmao

>>544201

Oh, you forgot a few

>what distro is the best?

>Windows X, amirite?

>Everything I do is great, everything you do sucks. Thoughts?

>I spent three days making sure Windows 7 is botnet, but I can't really prove it.

PS: the answer to all of these is guaranteed replies.

Now we have a feature full list :^)

>>544159

That's because the amount of users coming to 8chan was higher. I can remember a year or two ago there was much more diverse discussion, information security was commonly talked about here. Still, distro threads, browser threads, etc while shit, I rather have than what /g/ talks about: phones and why linux sucks because it lacks muh games and whatever else proprietary software they use over there.

>>544343

>That's because the amount of users coming to 8chan was higher

Non-mainstream boards were kind of dead already back then, it's just people who keep coming out of habit realizing that it's just a waste of time and leaving, while mainstream boards like /pol/ or /tech/ turn into self-sufficient circlejerks.

/tech/ specifically is a magnet for "problem glasses" kind of people, just the nerd type, not the SJW type, who essentially drive everyone else away. These people can't program and are in general /tech/nologically illiterate, but they like to complain how "mainstream X thing is bad, everyone using it is stupid, and since I'm not using X and using Y instead, I am a superior human being". Then it turns out that Y thing is used by 10% of people, so it's kind of mainstream too in the grand scheme of things, so they switch to Z instead, which is used by 1%. Z is also complete shit but it's okay because they don't have any responsibilities and do have to be productive with it anyway.

>>544453

That seems like an awful lot of projecting anon.

Tech people always like to bicker about pointless details, it's almost a needed skill to be any good at dealing with machines, so that's just an accepted thing, if Usenet was full of that shit you know it's not going away.

I'll give you that this board isn't what old-/g/ used to be, I just wondered where to find a good-tier tech community and couldn't help but realize that this is the least shitty alternative.

/g/ is full of dumb consumerist fucks who can't into the most basic of things.

Lainchan has good threads once in a while but is slow and is way past the circlejerk event horizon.

/tech/ is full of /pol/, doesn't have any regular good threads but at least there are some people who know their shit in here, and i don't have to wait for a post once in a blue moon like in /lam/

Too bad we lost our board culture and people are just angry all the time. Why can't we be more like /tg/ is anyone's guess...

>>544488

>Tech people always like to bicker about pointless details

>X is meme

>X is botnet

>X is honeypot

>X is bloated

>X is bad because SJWs/Jews

>X is autism

>X is pleb-tier

>X is harmful

>Y > X

And at best in an "argument" like those you get an anecdotal reference or two. This isn't bickering about pointless details, this is low quality baits and shitposting.

>>544504

>X is botnet

they are right most of the time they say it

>>544488

maybe we should move to

https://penumbra.network/

or

https://nullpo.moe/

>but couldn't get over how consumerist it was. Is it different here

It's literally the opposite, consumerists are shunned.

>>544506

If you call everything botnet then you will be correct some of the time.

>>544506

Rarely, and they don't even know what a botnet is supposed to be. It has become a vague term that encompasses proprietary software, malware, adware, spyware and most software that communicates with the Internet in some way.

I've been browsing /g/ for over a year and it is really getting infested with normies, and it got to a point where they can retaliate when defending their gayming laptops, hating on Linux because of no gaymes, chrome, windows 10, etc...

Here you make a thread about how good W10 is and you get only saged replies saying that you're a fucking idiot

>>544652

This.

The "how do I fix Windows 10 botnet" and similar /b/-tier threads are ignored here. /g/ had some alright tripfriends, but they either stop posting or (hopefully) moved on to places like here.

>>544509

Deader and more of a circlejerk than lain.

I feel fragmentation is part of why /tech/ is going to shit.

At this point i'm just waiting for the next BBS-like subculture, imageboards had a good run but they are done.

>>544536

If you retard your vocabulary to memetic newspeak nigger-grunts like "botnet" then yes, it'll be right most of the time, simply due to the fact that it's hard to miss a target when one word is used for a million different things.

Chicken chicken chicken.

Well it is different here but you should definitely an hero.

>>545165

>Lets use their services, sign away our privacy and expand their userbase, that'll show them!

>>544251

Also

http://pastebin.com/8bfsk6jP

>>544134

>>544134

>honeypot board

Honeypot for what, you fucking retard? Did your apple thread get deleted and now you're buttmad because you can't circlejerk about how apple is "fighting the fbi" in the crusade for internet justice?

Shill your board elsewhere

>>544111

It's different here, certainly.

>>545165

die in fier pls

>>544134

>Nobody posts any interesting shit outside the same 3 approved topics (tinfoil, josh, /pol/)

Almost true, you forgot the browser and distro threads.

But to be fair, there are some other okey threads, about programming or interesting pieces of software.

>>545165

>TR8-T0R.png

Also social networks are normalfag shit, don't compare that to mighty BBS and Usenet.

>>544111

Get ready for the same thing except we feel superior.

>>544553

Botnet is collection of networked zombie computers.

>>545718

I have no proof, but it seems obvious to me that fortune's /g/ and /v/ are full of viral marketers.