Tell us your sins anons.

sin = everything that keeps you away from God

>>105828421 (OP)
I visited the dark web once

>>105828461
That was very humble.

>>105828421 (OP)
I bought bambu

>>105828421 (OP)
i seednt

i suck at coding and can never complete any of my personal projects but i pretend im an expert here

I didn't pay for WinRAR

>>105828421 (OP)
I have a lot of communications devices, but I have no one to communicate with

i have spoken ill of xfce, i feel bad since then since their users are nice and xfce is arguably better than any other main de.

I used to like systemd

>>105828421 (OP)
I've been reusing my password for decades at this point. Never had any issue.

>>105828421 (OP)
I install systemd on Devuan.

>>105828567
We forgive you anon, not like we ever held a grudge anyway.

>>105828650
whoa, may god forgive you anon.

I used to like wayland.

>>105828421 (OP)
I can't for the life of me make a GPU passthrough work.

i have shared lossy pngs and fragmented jpgs before.

i install KDE on GNOME OS

I'm creating a tool to improve gooning on hentai websites.

I was on Linux for the longest time.

I switched back to Windows. I feel like a better user having learnt how powerful the terminal is and CLI programs. The layout also makes a lot more sense even though it's a little bit different than the UNIX file hierarchy.

I'm just tired of trying to fix small issues on Linux desktop, on both stable and rolling distros.

I still prefer puts/print/writeln/console.log() to a debugger, it just werks.

I did bad things I do not want to elaborate here.

>>105828421 (OP)
I'm dating an escort and she is sucking my wallet dry.

I could have neen filthy rich and mentally healthy if I dumped her but I am ugly and she is hot and I am scared.

>>105829364
not a sin

I have TERRIBLE opsec on my home network (no VLANs, no SSL, reverse proxy that may or may not be configurred correctly)

It's an ongoing project to fix it all

>>105829734
alright dumass question why does home network security matter? all my neighbors are retarded with computers i dont see them fuckin with anything

>>105829734
Holy shit you've had this image saved for a while

>>105829846
This is my oldest one from using this stupid site for so long

>>105829824
I want to work in cyber security, or at least get better at it. I feel like having a VPS that's just reverse proxied to my home is a bad idea without having more security in place. I just set up SSO and groups for accessing my service a few days ago, so putting up VLANs and SSL for my LAN services is just part of the list I guess

>>105829734
I'm running all of my docker containers as root, I run everything as root, ALWAYS
I have 6 symbol password
I have 1 single 8TB HDD, no backups
I'm trying to fix it for 6 months but I'm so lazy I can't even just update my password... typing this message too much more effort than changing password btw

>>105829941
Actually I did the same. I'm on babby's first server still and I made a TON of containers root.

I hope you at least get your backups settled, anon! Data loss is no joke

>>105829865
Fair enough. Always a good idea to secure your shit

>>105828567
happens:
>shittalk xfce
>actually switch to the rat, using my previous wm (dwm) in place of xfwm
>functional desktop environment ontop of the keybinds and behaviour that I'm used to on my wm
kino

The only reason I don't switch to linux is because I have artifacts on Plasma wayland and I want HDR to work on nvidia

>>105828421 (OP)
my other laptop runs on debian

>>105829846
2018 isn't that long ago-
>7 years ago

>>105829865
anon did you author this blog by any chance
https://sites.google.com/view/autononymous/works/return-0/thread-2

>>105830388
>been of 4chan longer than I haven't been on 4chan

>>105828421 (OP)
I'm lazy.

>>105828421 (OP)
tech kikes refused to hire me, so I reverted to Windows 7 from troonix and became a blue collar.

>>105828421 (OP)
One time I unironically rm -rf ~/ . Meant to press the up arrow key for shell completion but accidentally pressed enter. I did Ctrl + C before it became too bad but I lost a good chunk of content in my home folder. From there on I started just using a terminal file manager.

>>105828421 (OP)
I think that micro-problem-solving created an addictive feedback loop that is not good for me.

am I getting better at solving micro problem? yes

is it improving my life? i'm starting to think the answer is no

Occasionally, I'll find a solution to a bug that's been nagging us in the backlog for ages but it ends up being so absolutely hideous that I decide it is better to embrace the existing limitations than to ruin the pretty code.
Sometimes, I knowingly allow edge cases to slip in even though I am aware of them when implementing the functionality, for similar reasons to the above.

>>105831571
everybody gets one. i did it once because i thought rbash would stop it for some god forsaken reason

My password is password123

>>105831571
Protip, add this to your bash aliases:
alias rm='rm -I'
Doesn't give an annoying prompt when just deleting a single file, but prompts when asked to delete a large number of files.

>>105831571
I ran a hex version in 2018 and nuked a completed project I hadn't backed up. Still haven't recreated the project.

Even though I've got a strong interest in low level stuff like disassembly, reverse engineering etc. I don't code at all.

I use a free VPN service (RiseupVPN with the OpenVPN converter script). Everyone says you shouldn't trust a free VPN service, but it's free and they don't have my payment information. I honestly trust them more than the other payed ones just because they seem more grassroots and not as purposefully pushed down everyone throats like Mullvad.

>>105831571
Yesterweek I used httrack to download a website. Too bad I was too lazy to type out /home/user/documents/websites/ and instead wrote ~/documents/websites, which created a folder called ~ in my current working directory. Then I proceeded to rm -rf ~ because I wanted to get rid of that folder. I guess I learned to make backups in time the hard way.

>>105828421 (OP)
I work 2 jobs. I don't need the second one really. I just use the money to fund my addiction to escorts. I am a software engineer earning £54k and a toilet scrubber for minimum wage on weekends.

I used to like Rust.

usecase for confessing?

>>105828635
sweet Jesus

i pay for 4chan because i kept getting the worst CAPTCHAs and Id get the CAPTCHA like 30x per day. so annoying.

>>105828421 (OP)
using malloc in c++

>>105828421 (OP)
I'm in the stand-up atm but I'm on /g/ than paying attention

>>105828421 (OP)
When I was eight, I wanted to mod Minecraft so bad. Even though my laptop ran Minecraft 1.8 at like 1 frame per minute since it was a hunk of shit with 4GB of RAM and a dual-core Celeron (that cost $500! Like seriously what shitbag Best Buy employee sold my grandparents this piece of shit?). So here's what I did. I just started looking up "how to mod Minecraft" and similar on Google, wound up on some weird websites and on weird scam YouTube videos. Ended up downloading a bunch of jar files for mods and other random crap, didn't really know how to install it so I just double clicked on it all and hoped it worked like OptiFine. It didn't and Explorer wouldn't open anymore. Computer got completely infected with every kind of virus you'd expect to see on a kid's laptop minus the desktop strippers, my grandparents were stumped when I showed them the state of it. My grandmother treats every electronic like a car, so she had me turn it off, let it sit for like ten seconds, turn it on, try to log in, only for nothing to show up because one of the viruses was blocking Explorer for launching. Did that about three times. Failed every time. Got my grandfather involved but he's a Mac guy, got us much further but still couldn't help much even if he was able to use Google for help. Turned out by the grace of God that this machine had system restore set up and had a restore point I could use. It just came from the factory with this enabled. We eventually found this after hours and the machine was fine in the end. I had an irrational fear of MediaFire and adf.ly for YEARS after this and still get kind of a weird feeling whenever I download something from MediaFire even a decade later.

>>105829824
https://youtu.be/6uSVVCmOH5w
This is what no network security looks like. May be Windows XP but this can still happen to your computers with no security.

>>105828421 (OP)
I had sex with a married man. On his wedding day. At his wedding. Please forgive me father.

>>105828547
>i suck at coding and can never complete any of my personal projects but i pretend im an expert here
All of us.

>>105828421 (OP)
I nuked my Gentoo system and installed Windows 10 LTSC.

>>105828421 (OP)
I switched to windows 11 solely for its rounded corners. If I could I'd also use windows recall.

>>105835471
>professional youtuber fakes scenario for clicks
Youtube isn't real anon.

>>105835866
Gay

>>105836108
Try it yourself if you're confident it's fake and gay.

>>105830614
i passed that point in 2020, the next milestone is being on 4chan longer than some anons have been alive (i.e 18+ years. i have also passed that)

>>105828421 (OP)
I nucked my Fedora KDE setup and moved back to W10 LTSC (kinda sucks but it something im just used to nowadays)

>>105829846
it took me 20 years to realize the timestamps are epochs

>>105828421 (OP)
I killed my parents 486.
Mind you, this was when Pentium 4 was already available and they weren't fucking upgrading.

>>105830614
I started coming here not long after /g/ became Technology.
I think that was after the first time 4chan died.

>>105828421 (OP)
I rank the appearance of girls on how similar they are to Jane from Peter Pan II.
>That isn't technology related.

>>105829941
>>105829957
I run my Dockers as root because you need to on a zfs system for some reason

>>105836860
Here's the oldest saved image I have available.
Good times.

i webscrape using regex

I fisted a horse once

>>105836803
lol how

I'm actively assisting in lowering tech workers wages to the point of it matching euro wages.

i just installed leenux.

>>105836803
i remember when they didn't have milliseconds and sometimes you'd get images swapped because they were posted the same second on two boards

>>105837248
Those were good times.

>>105828421 (OP)
I bought a pre-built with a 5080 in it because the math worked out to me paying $1100 for the 5080

>>105837267
(oh yeah, it turned out to be a PNY 5080 too)

>>105832112
>-I
>prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i, while still giving protection against most mistakes
oh, that's a great advice. thanks anon!

>>105837834
Put it in your root user's bashrc (or whatever shell sudo invokes) if you want to be safer

if >>105831571 ever happens to you, do this:
- immediately shutdown the computer. forcibly if possible, to avoid touching any other files
- download and boot a testdisk livecd or any distro and install testdisk
- run it against the affected partition(s)
- backup your files to another HDD/SD card or whatever

>>105828421 (OP)
I like to go on threads about Emacs, Lisp, Forth, BSD, Plan9, Prolog ect. and write long posts about how I use them even though I've never actually used any of them and never will >:)
>>105829083
me neither on my RX5700, I might try asking an AI but that feels like even more of a sin

>>105838111
as a newfag thanks a lot for this info

>>105838616
yw anon
feel free to post that elsewhere

I use Gentoo...
with systemd and systemd-boot

I once installed Ubuntu from a USB 1.1 drive in the year 2018. It took over a day to install to the system and it took me three days to recognize that this wasn’t normal.

>>105828421 (OP)
I have been answering /sqt/ using ChatGPT or a while

>>105828421 (OP)
I use technology solely to make money and have little interest in it in my personal life. I haven’t done real projects since I was a teenager.
All of my projects (for work, obviously) are AI spaghetti code I edited a bit and I take the credit I get anyway
I’m switching to a MacBook because I and I can’t take plugging in my laptop while watching a movie with my wife anymore. I have LLM stuff that would run better on different hardware but I don’t give a fuck and would rather pay money at this point.
Everyone thinks I’m an IT genius but my job is a literal retard containment zone where I am king retard.
I have worked two jobs at once and I left the US years ago. I intend to take as many jobs as possible and to sit and wait for the end. You don’t even need to pay US income taxes on US income if you live abroad (you get 100% of federal withholding back): I’m a complete leech on the system doing nothing of value.

>>105840564
dear god

>>105829436
you can get a real girlfriend for cheaper.

>>105828421 (OP)
I have a massive issue with my mouse cursor on Linux that I have tried to fix for literally 30+ hours and can't figure it out. And despite that I still reccomend Linux to everyone I know

>>105841422
I'm ugly

>>105829436
Lifehack. Go with seeking arrangements. Most are college girls and their net rates are significantly cheaper than pro escorts and the pussy is better.

I was stationed near college station for work and I had a literal 10/10 who would do ANYTHING for $200 / night. Unlimited sexual access per session.

Way cheaper than some BPD Eastern European escort or an actual Texas 5/10 girlfriend.

I ended it after 2 years of living there cause I had to move for work. I can say I have climbed and conquered Eros mountain in this lifetime. I could die tomorrow and know I fucked like a fucking porn star for 2 years of my life.

t. blog post

>>105841886
i'm scared of doing this. my confidence in socializing has been completely shot, and it'll be a lot of awkward silence. i'll be too scared to touch her, even if i know she's there for just that reason. it'd probably be easier if she only spoke english as a second language.

>>105841886
They're upping the membership fee and it's full of catfish and ugly cunts now all the hot girls went to of. Not worth it. Was ten years ago.

>>105837103
Mr Hands? You're supposed to be dead.

I have ubuntu as dual boot, but I never use it. I just update it every 6-12 months.

>>105828421 (OP)
Im paid almost $100,000 a year as a .NET developer and I never studied at university, have no formal programming education, and also have absolutely 0 prior experience with anything other than powershell I copied from reddit.
I used to be the guy they called when the printer ran out of toner.
I have remained undetected for almost 3 years and even recieved bonuses and pay rises since then.
I have become a master of deflection and manipulating others perception of my works importance and complexity.
For a while it was pure hell because I was waiting to get fired but now its just business as usual.
Its gotten to the point that Ive even convinced myself that Im just as good if not better than the ex microsoft devs I work with.

>>105842518
mr hands got fucked by the horse, I fucked the horse(mare). I've also sucked some horse dicks too. very enjoyable.

>>105842740
do you actually do the job though?

>>105842740
demoralization larp

>>105828421 (OP)
Not tech related but I really like TCOAL

I had to leave Linux because mu online collage class required Abode Pro

I think Coolsville SUCKS!!

>>105840564
go google "hd-media install" and have fun...

>>105842740
fake and gay

I have buyers remorse. I bought a 9070xt to replace my 3060 12gb. I have so few games that it matters for that I'm going to return it. It just wasn't the mindblow I thought it would be. I can actually play a few games that ran like shit I couldn't play before but I'm not interested in plaging them anyway. I also would like more of a vram upgrade than +4gb and I want cuda. I wanted to stop waiting but I'm just going to wait again until at least the 4070ti super so I get double the vram. The card works fine there just are no games I HAVE to play that my 3060 doesn't already run.

>>105845474
Oh and I had to drive 5 hours total to and from the microcenter

I keep looking up disgusting porn, even when I'm not horny, and I want to stop but keep talking myself into it.
I almost throw up after the post nut clarity the other day

:(

>>105845858
advice for younger kids:
realize this - at you age, if it takes more than few minuets, you are doing it wrong.

if you not done in under 5 minuets stop and tell yourself:
"i'm not that horny, i'm just fabbing because i don't have better / more important thing to do.

>>105828421 (OP)
I still haven't finished my website, it's been almost 3 years.

im using chatgpt to answer /sqt.

>>105828421 (OP)
I've been busting my ass on dumb C things. Like, why does array initialization like
uint32_t masks[] = { ['X'] = UINT32_C(0xFF0FF0FF), ...

work if char is permitted to be signed, as 'X' could then evaluate negative and this would be bad... Turns out "integer character constants" like 'X', which are "plain" char promoted to int that are part of the basic character sets (both source & execution) will always be nonnegative by C standard fiat.

Also in 2005, gcc finally admitted __GNUC__ may be set by toolchains other than gcc if they claim to speak a compatible GNU C dialect, and clang claims to be gcc 4.2 and tcc claims to be gcc 3.1. Not sure about icc, but will dig it up tomorrow.

I'm turning into the guy on Pawn Stars that knows everything about railroads or something, forgive me.

>>105845858
google ezpz method and listen to the audiobook

I use GNOME

Here is my confession:
I use Arch. I tell people I've installed it manually, but really I've only ever used the built in archinstall tool.

I use Arch with Gnome and I love it.

I'm a hacker. I have no degrees or certs, but managed to make a career off my knowledge (ie, sold out to corporations)
deeply inside though, I feel like I'm not that good and that I'm not testing things well. I just hope no one will find grave vulns in the stuff I audit. it's a good thing that most of the things I audit are completely irrelevant crap.

>>105828421 (OP)
I chased a problem for 2 months with a laptop freezing up when moved/flexed particular ways only to finally discover the RAM wasn't seated properly. I should have tried that in the first 10 minutes of troubleshooting.

>>105845858
who gives a shit? either give in or go to a doc and ask him to help you control your hormones or whatever.

I realized last weekend that the RAM on my living room machine was set to a much lower frequency than the hardware allows and it has been that way for months.

As much as I like the idea of Linux I dread having to actually use it on anything other than a server, but even then I use Open or FreeBSD.
I would take Windows or macOS over it any day of the week.

>>105845485
Microcenter in Dallas?

I used to steal computer parts from the computer store and various businesses when I was a child.

>>105845485
>Oh and I had to drive 5 hours total to and from the microcenter
Yikes. Mine is like 20 minutes one way depending how many illegal aliens are on the road.

A decade ago, I reverse-engineered a Windows 8 activator (it was built in C# so easy peasy) and added a simple function that took screenshot of your screen, stole your saved passwords in Firefox and Chrome, zipped all of this and emailed it to me. 100k people were affected. I didn't know what to do with the data so I deleted it.

>>105828421 (OP)
My first 'gaming computer' was a prebuilt I bought from Amazon. I used that thing for months and didn't even realize that I needed dedicated graphics. I remember worrying about CPU temps when I felt any heat at all (I wonder why LMAO, perma 24/7 CPU stresstest), and being disappointed that games weren't performing well.

>>105828421 (OP)
So i built a new computer and bent the pins on the motherboards USB 3.0 header and said "fuck it" and got a USB 3.0 to USB 2.0 adapter

>>105838111
>>>105828421 (OP) (OP)
I did scramble to use testdisk but it was my first time trying to recover data. Didn't know about the common procedure to turn off drive. Probably could have recovered more had I known more about data recovery. The damage wasn't too bad as I luckily stopped it moments after it started executing. The only directory where most of its files were deleted was the Downloads directory.
>>105832112
I did add this actually but I decided to get into terminal file managers. I practically don't even use traditional unix commands anymore.

>>105851534
I mispoke, kind og. you have to stop the filesystem from being overwritten, because the space dedicated to those files might be overwritten.
you could also mount the affected partition as read-only.

>>105849922
Kc

I have abandoned countless projects due to css.

>>105828421 (OP)
I still find Windows 10 far more useful for what I want to do and I can always do things through PowerShell if I want to feel like a true Incelux trannoid.

>>105828555
Who does?

>>105853578
>eol is october and my wfh wants me to upgrade to 11 for "security"

I never paid for windows 10 and just run a .bat that removes the watermark on startup. I wonder if they'll pay for a loisense and I can just dual boot that from a spare m.2 I have.

>>105849966
No you didn't

>>105828421 (OP)
I know that windows 10 is the best modern os but I still use arch because I fear on missing out. Every time I am doing something completely obscure like trying to use a vintage library I start panicking that I can't do it. Also I fear that I will, one day end up needing something windows cannot provide me. Also I fear thar my drives will fail on windows as they have in the past. I suppose I like Arch, it's completely isolated I have an offline repo on it with a lot of source files in case I need to rebuild something from scratch. I fear that the future may come faster than the past fades away.

>>105853635
EoL is in 2032. You still didn't install Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC? All info on how to do it properly (plus activation) is in the /friendly windows thread/.
I swear, some of you people are as weird as Windows 7 holdouts.

>>105829436
She's a business partner, not a girlfriend. Do not have any feelings for her. Dump that escort and regain your financial standing (plus self-respect, which you have NONE at this point - imagine falling in love with a typical heartless whore, just there for the cash).

>>105828547
>but i pretend im an expert here
we all do

>>105835079
>and a toilet scrubber for minimum wage on weekends.
It's always good to have a fallback job no matter how shitty

>>105841886
sounds based. I had the thought of moving next to a college and then doing nothing but fucking prime pussy for 2 years or so

>>105842740
>have no formal programming education
It's literally just information from books which you probably already absorbed in the meantime

>>105846461
I've skimmed how archinstall works but it doesn't look that much different from the average manual install. just more neatly organized

>>105849845
for me it's the same but for mac and windows instead

>>105828421 (OP)
I am both the cnile and the rust fag in language war threads. I just like watching the world burn.

>>105849765
retard much?

>>105828547
same man. but I'll just read some more documentation

>>105854112
Based

>>105853486
I wish people still played css. Go is ass.

>>105828421 (OP)
I can't fix the openbox segfault when opening any of the properties menus on openmandriva.

>>105840564
Not as bad, but I did something similar a few months ago but with a 2.0 drive and Mint. It was the only unused flash drive I had lying around at the time and I completely forgot that it was 2.0. It took about an hour to boot into a very laggy live environment and start the install, and the process itself took about 3 hours.