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 No.50303[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

As the several traveling threads prove, there are plenty of wizards who are curious about the world. Here, we talk about our traveling wishes and interests in a more abstract and general sense. What countries have you visited? What were your experiences? What countries are you curious about visiting and why? Any particular place you'd avoid like the plague? It doesn't matter if your traveling ideas are realistic or not, just share what interests you.

I was personally always more intrested in the more obscure and mysterious places that you never see on TV, and how people live there. Some islands in the middle of nowhere, certain African countries with an unremarkable present but a cool history, the mountain villages of Tibet, stuff like that. I've travelled around Europe a bit and was shocked how big a difference in culture there is between countries so close by, in the countless details of culture, food, architecture, people's temperament, and so on. I'm hoping to save up enough for a trip to Asia and/or Africa. There's a lot to experience out there.
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>>68453
do you see colonial style houses or building in laos?

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>>68454
Yes, some. According to some podcast and YouTube videos I have listened to the French presence in Laos was not as intense as it was in Vietnam and Cambodia. You can still see the influence though.

 No.68469

>>68468
I saved your pic. I like everything telated to colonialism and the houses build in thoses colonies. they're comfy. did you get inside or it was a peivate property?

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>>68469
I think this one was turned into a restaurant/cafe type place.

Really interesting thing was the Vientiane Arc D’Triumph. The Lao made a Laotian version of the Arc D’Triumph to celebrate their recently won independence from France. The Americans gave them cement and money to build an airport but they decided to build the Arc instead.

It is like a weird mix of French Style architecture with Lao/SEA style statues.

 No.68471

>>68470
I see..thank you. if you have more coloial style buildings post them, I comlect them hehe


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 No.68063[Reply]

I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.68076

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Today I read about running processes and how go manipulate and visualize them in several ways. This is something you want to be good at in order to have a very good control of what your system is doing at all times. Listing processes with ps or top and the several ways to organize that information through -e, -o, uid, etc. The book also goes through renicing, killing and changing priorities for running processes.

I finished today with background and foreground processes and how to manage them, like using & for background and whatnot. Nothing complicated but it's something you want to have under your belt.

Next up is limiting processes with cgroups.

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Today I began with processes and cgroup. Now, there aren't any actual exercises about this part yet but the author thought it was worth mentioning in this chapter just so the reader is aware it exists. There's a lot of other stuff to go through before you start messing around with control groups. Still, very cool read. Then it was time for the exercises. I found it rather lenient, even if I did have to look up my history here and there to remember a couple of commands. Here's the first 3 exercises (out of 9) 1. List all processes running on your system, showing a full set of columns. Pipe that output to the less command so that you can page through the list of processes. 2. List all processes running on the system and sort those processes by the name of the user running each process. 3. List all processes running on the system and display the following columns of information: process ID, username, group name, virtual memory size, resident memory size, and the command.
As you can see it's just a way to see if you retained basic inputs. If you really want to dig in on the content, you'll need to be doing stuff on the side and googling the little details as you go, which is something I'm doing.

Chapter 7 is all about writing shell scripts, but first the author goes on about what is a shell script, why would you want one, executing and debugging shell scripts, shell variable and shell positional parameters. As you might expect, your first script is just echo sentences with parameters involved. There's also explanations about parameter expansion which is a fundamental step to have an useful script going. I stopped on programming constructs. We'll see how it goes from here, this was the most fun chapter so far.

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Today I didn't advance at all on the book because I spent all my time doing every bash script I could come up with that uses positional parameters. Also I'm working on a script that opens all my windows and applications automatically at startup. It's tricky to get it right but I have mostly figured it out at this point.

 No.68093

>>68063
Very cool thread. I am currently working through "The Unix Programming Environment" which I suspect is much older than your book but that's what I find so charming about it. Since gaming isn't all that important to me anymore, I'm probably going to switch to some Linux distro eventually, not just on my old cheapo office laptop. Vim, the terminal, all that stuff just feels really cool and satisfying to me.
Keep us posted wizzie!

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>>68093
Thanks, I stopped posting because it quickly became a blog instead of a thread people talk about the subject matter at hand. I'm still following the Linux Bible but for the past 2 days I've been struggling with setting up a network between a windows machine and a very old laptop computer with Tiny Linux Core in it. Managing to install TLC was a learning experience in itself since I went with a minimal install and had to add a lot of stuff manually.

Today I worked on making the windows machine share the internet connection through the network since the laptop in question has proprietary software for its wireless card and I still didn't manage to make the darn thing work. I installed the firmware but it just doesn't work yet. So far I broke my internet twice by messing up with TCP/IPv4 configs. Oh well it's all in the learning curve I suppose. Just now I finally managed to access the internet with the laptop. That sweet sweet 64 bytes when pinging from 8.8.8.8 finally went through. 4 Packages transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packets lost, just what you want to see in there.

Anyways, now I have internet on Linux I can finally focus on making the wireless card work. Once that's done I'll focus on the Linux Bible again with a little bit more understanding of the system under my belt.


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 No.63302[Reply]

i have been doing a quiz every day

https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/en/vgp/3636
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 No.64673

>>64668
Most of them are in the most barren depressing wastelands you could possibly imagine. They got driven off their ancestral homes in the east to shit land that wasn't taken and then they've been given benefits so they can live in shitty trailers. Any sacred site they have is likely something created since they were driven off their original land. They didn't even have horses before Europeans brought them to the continent so the image of Indians riding on horses people have is actually a culture that was developed after we started fucking with them and drove them off the good land.

 No.64675

>>64673
they had horses all throughout the americas before the european settlers arrived. at least you can find cave paintings and little statuettes and woven twig things of horses, dudes on the horses, etc.

 No.64676

Better to die with honor from English Puritans than to be Mestizoized into the bottom of a racial pyramid by decadent debauched papist Conquistadors.

 No.68082

I wanna learn the countries and islands in the Pacific Ocean.

 No.68089

>>63392
>>63393
I'm European and I got 49% in 4:10


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 No.64175[Reply]

anyone do this?

i burn discs, title them and then put them back on the spindle, so they stay in good condition

external hdds/sdd don't last very long
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 No.64660



dvd-rs are more durable than cd-rs, and bd-rs are more durable than both dvd-rs and cd-rs

i have been using cheap bd-rs for years now, and i haven't seen a single scratch on any of them. To scratch a bluray you have to basically do it intentionally(with a nail) or you have to drop the disc on cement or something

 No.66295

how do i archive an entire website and not just a page?

 No.66298

>>66295
Theres lots of guides, but if you look for a cracked version of "offline explorer" on https://1337x.to/ that's like the paid for user friendly version. Otherwise you're looking at httrack.com or some WARC archival tools, or some stuff. Looking on reddit will bring up people who archive lots of sites talking about tools.

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>>64175
Some newer pc machines don't even have an optical drive. Heck even PS5 Pro has the optical blueray drive as "optional"

 No.68085

>>66295
Wget. You can use a command like
wget -r –page-requisites –html-extension –convert-links https://example.com


 No.58261[Reply]

Just watched a Shawn Keller interview last night, and I have to say, he's quite possibly one of the most wizardly animators alive today.
>60+ year old virgin
>A man that has no need for *o*en, only making cartoons
>He can pump out a completed professional 11 minute cartoon in under a month, something an entire studio takes 10 months to make
>Dude's been around the oldschool comic fetish/furfag communities before even usenet existed, got fucked over by furries he was kind enough to help out, but still forgives them, like a wizardly furry Jesus
The interview's still up on YouTube, and they're going to be doing another one today at 3:25pm EST. It'll be streamed here cytu(dot)be(slash)r(slash)mlp-con2
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 No.61590

>>58261
This guy was a professional Disney animator but i'm wondering where you're getting this 60+ year old virgin stuff from? yes i know this post was made a year ago.

 No.61597

>>61590
It's baseless projection.

 No.62921

>>61590
https://youtu.be/t8PFSdV8qVo?t=1104
18:24

 No.64479

amiga 500 wiz

 No.68081

Why?


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 No.63372[Reply]

>Local installation
Nvidia GPU: https://rentry.org/voldy | https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker
AMD GPUs: https://rentry.org/sd-nativeisekaitoo | https://rentry.org/sdamd | https://rentry.org/ayymd-stable-diffustion-v1_4-guide
CPU: https://rentry.org/cputard

>Installation in a cloud
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kw3egmSn-KgWsikYvOMjJkVDsPLjEMzl
Paperspace: https://rentry.org/865dy

>Online demos
txt2img: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion | https://beta.dreamstudio.ai | https://dezgo.com | (NSFW) https://pornpen.ai
img2img: https://dezgo.com/image2image | https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest
inpainting: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/stable-diffusion-inpainting | https://inpainter.vercel.app/paint
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>>64710
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=onmqbI5XPH8

Follow this tutorial closely and it should all be ok. I had problems a couple of things, but I think that's because I dick about with my computer settings too much. If you follow this one, make sure to download 3.10.6 python, because it doesn't work on newer or older versions, surprisingly. And when installing python, make sure to check the box for adding a path variable. If you get stuck on a step make a post here and I or someone else might be able to help get it started. It isn't brilliant with human figures and faces, but for actual artwork I can see why all the web artists are frightened.

I can't stop making loosely inspired Gerhard Richter seascapes at the moment.It even gets the canvas effect right.

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>>64711
do not ever use software that
-is not a self-contained binary
-does not have a simple one click installer
-requires techbro youtuber faggots to explain how to install and use the thing


get a gui for stable diffusion. i personally use 'NMKD' because it takes care of installing stable diffusion and getting all the bullshit it needs, it does it all for you. but any gui or frontend for sd is better than nothing

when you eventually learn enough about how to run and generate images, next you will want to experiment with different models. go to https://civitai.com/ to find stuff


unrelated but here is an inpainting demonstration using nmkd. you select the area you want to replace, see what generates. when it doesn't look right you crank down the image influence and let it go wild and basically RNG something aesthetic. when you get something good, you can raise the influence just enough so the image remains visually constant but there is enough variation to allow you to see any possible improvements. when you find something good, you use that as your new starting image and adjust the mask to fix any areas that aren't good. you do this repeatedly until the whole is something you are ok with. this is my process at least

 No.64719

>>64716
Never use software that
-isn't FLOSS
-you don[t hage to compile for yourself
-requiresmyou to type ~/configure make make install
-has less than 15 dependencies
-doesn't require specific versions of some dependencies
-you can install without having to modify the makefile
-takes less than a day to compile with 4 processors
-doesn't throw warnings throughout compilation
-doesn't require rust
-doesn't require dbus
-doesn't require systemd
-comes with proper documentation

 No.64723

>>64719
FLOSS is cool but i like the unlicense better, all the rest of that is actual aids hell

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 No.67621[Reply]

are you into dolls? seems a comfy hobby. I have none but if there's some of you who have them, can you share with us?
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>>67646
Is that a sex doll or just a big doll?
Anyway I thought about getting a dollfie-dream bjd for a very long time, collected pictures for months of parts, wigs, clothing and whatnot but in the end I just had to come to terms with the fact it's just too expensive for me. I thought about getting a cheaper brand like Parabox but it's not the same thing. My original idea was to make a Madotsuki out of dollfie-dream parts but that involves skills I don't have like sewing.

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>>67652
I think it's a sexdoll.also, sorry but I didn't get a word of what you said, I'm not an expert on dolls haha
>>67650
in the future, we'll have more realistic dolls

 No.67654

>>67621
>are you into dolls?

no, I have no interest in dolls and find this shit vaguely creepy.

 No.68039

>>67621
No is an expensive hobby. If I had the money I would buy a Suigintou doll tho

 No.68040

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Cloth dolls of a non-embarrassing nature are popping up


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 No.68029[Reply]

Do you have a driver's licence? If so, how did you managed to obtain it? In Eastern Europe, it's pretty hard to get one, a long and painful journey.

It took me almost 1.5 years (including the COVID shutdowns) to get one. I also had to wageslave to be able to pay for the training, it's not cheap around here.

My motivation was that I live in a remote, hilly part of a small town, right next to a forest and there is no public transportation here. I was hold hostage up here, totally isolated. Sound good, but I was totally dependant on my parents to get into the town. I couldn't just go to the groceries, that would be a 2+ hour journey.

It's my single greatest achievement and I'm pretty proud of it. Driving is very useful skill, and one that is realistic and obtainable for NEETs, wizards. A way to make yourself more independent from your parents, others.

What are your thoughts?


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 No.68030

I have a car, but I don't know how to drive it, I thought I would learn soon.

 No.68035

>>68029
>Do you have a driver's licence?
Yep.
>If so, how did you managed to obtain it?
My parents paid for two courses (I failed the exam after the first one). It was fairly difficult, but it's not rocket science either.
My first driving teacher was the cheapest one I could find and he was pretty shitty. Only after failing the exam I started to look for higher quality ones and that helped a lot. Who knew that not being screamed and shouted at helps with learning?
Anyway, unlike you OP, I was doing it in a big city and I think it helped me a lot; I wouldn't have an opportunity to learn in practice how to deal with huge, multi-lane roads or trams otherwise.
>In Eastern Europe, it's pretty hard to get one, a long and painful journey.
Yep, that's where I am from.
>My motivation was (…)
In my family I was the first person to learn how to drive. It helped us a lot, but at the same time my situation was an opposite to yours: my parents were depending on me to drive them around and that's really bothersome at times. Often there are situations when I'm waiting for hours for my mother because she had some shopping to do. Since she keeps promising me that she'll learn to drive herself but never actual does anything about it, it made me really resent her, from my POV she was blatantly lying and manipulating me for years. Rather than becoming more independent, I now am forced to stay closer to them, as they need my help.
>It's my single greatest achievement and I'm pretty proud of it.
Yeah, it's a good skill to have. Sometimes I regret getting it, but in the long it's a really good choice. Good for you, Anon. Have you went on any cool road trips lately?

 No.68036

>>68029
>Do you have a driver's licence?
Yes, for like 13 years or so.
>If so, how did you managed to obtain it?
I took the exam five times that year.
>In Eastern Europe, it's pretty hard to get one, a long and painful journey.
It is. All officers with whom I took the exams were arrested sometime later for bribery.
>I also had to wageslave to be able to pay for the training, it's not cheap around here.
The more you should be proud about it.
>My motivation was
I wasn't interested in driving in HS, but it is a skill that almost all employers demand. My parents offered to pay so I figured why not. Truth is I'm still shit even today, zero spatial awareness most of the time. I actually avoided to drive for a couple of years after I scratched the side mirror of the company car, never told them. Last year my mother got into car crash and had her licence suspended for six months. Then my father had his leg amputated so I was the only driver around. It was difficult.
>A way to make yourself more independent
This is what's all about. Freedom to go anywhere, anytime.
>(Pic related is not my car)
Nice. Suzukies are reliable.

>>68030
>I thought I would learn soon.
Do it! It is anxiety inducing at first, but when it clicks… purest feeling.

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 No.64286[Reply]

ITT we post pictures and discuss our love for parks.
When did you realize you loved parks?
What is your favorite thing about parks?
What is your first memory of a park?
What is your favorite memory of a park?
How often do you dream of parks?
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 No.67928

The some parks here a full of crackhead

 No.68018

>>67928
Don't blame the park.

 No.68019

The wind was good today at the park

 No.68022

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OP is a brown with a small amygdala which causes cute aggression which makes him get his panties in a twist over cute 2D g.rls (which are the last bastion of beauty compared to most modern "art").

 No.68023

>>68022
>>68022
SO much this


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 No.67861[Reply]

I've created a language years ago. I picked up words from english, german, latin and indo-european root words.
Here's some phrases:

" Bheheud ser, ek heer "
(tomorrow night, I'd be there)

" Nw Þonder "
(there's is a storm)

" Nw Þonder, ek ser bheud, sekzuheud "
(there's a storm today, I'll see you tomorrow)

" Ði mann sek ði deer "
(men and animals are different)

" Deer sek mann but Þey anwdeer und Þey mann ajwmann "
(animals aren't human but are living beings)

now here some words I've created so far:

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 No.67965

>>67962
have you ever created a language,haven't you?

 No.67972

>>67965
No, I have not, but I have some experience with constructed languages: esperanto, toki-pona, klingon.
That being said if you have some counterarguments more substantial than an ad hominem, then I'd be happy to read them and improve my understanding on this subject.

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>>67972
lmao I didin't mean to insult you, I just wanted to know if you ever had experience in creating a language

 No.67985

>>67915
I really enjoyed reading it and even used the key for the letters I did not recognize so to make sure I was pronouncing everything correctly in my head. It has a good flow.

 No.67987

>>67985
I'm glad you like it, thank you!


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