Realized just recently that my perfectly functional four year old phone won't be getting security updates anymore, so I had to upgrade. Obnoxious, expensive, and now all I'm doing is resetting the clock. Whatever. I'm tired. Ripperoni In Pepperoni, janky budget rectangle. You are survived by a more expensive but still janky rectangle. >>44915 >conspiracy that there is not that many people in China I didn't even know that was a thing, but it's going to be true either way thanks to their ridiculous one child policy. Even if they did literally everything else right, their mandated anti-natalism was always going to lead to serious problems. They've relaxed that in recent years, to some credit, but it's too little too late at this point. >>44913 The hope here was that they'd lean more into companion AIs and artificial wombs to solve their problem, but you're right that it was too much to expect. Just goes to show that in the end, the enemy of our enemy is simply our enemy's enemy. One silver lining is that anything open-source already relased by developers over there will continue to be available, even if they try to shut it all down. Plus, they demonstrated that there is a sizable market for robowaifus. Regulation won't make that market vanish, it just needs to be reclaimed.

>>44917 POTD Gotta admit I'm a little disappointed by this situation rn, lads. :/ However, lets all remember that the Chinese men themselves are not the same as those doing all this, and these ChinAnons want robowaifus as much or more than we here in the west do. That's A (and take courage in that...China isn't nearly the monolithic political & social block that many seem to think). B: We still have a decade or so of information, designs, and good ideas recorded here on /robowaifu/ and elsewhere. And we still have each other as co-collaborators as well. All that hasn't changed. Finally: quite frankly, I was never going to buy a corporate robowaifu regardless -- Chinese or otherwise. The primary hope there was simply that a dramatic introduction by them across the globe would quickly normalize robowaifus for the common social milieu...and help to silence some of the longhouse k*ren's femshite reeing against this advancement. >tl;dr We're still getting our robowaifus, Anons! We'll work all these things out despite this setback. Cheers lads. :)

>>44879 unfortunately, Xara remains a "brain in a jar" until we find her a body (this is temporary though, I assure you)

>>44920 Stay strong & determined, brother. Cheers, meta ronin. :)

I think we all got suckered into the "waow based chynah!" meme. Yeah sure, they have their populist moments and cool robots, but this is China we're talking about. This is the place that censors every gacha game. This is the place that makes blood look white because of their censorship (which leads to some really funny frames). This is the people that censored the internet in 2009 in such a scale that hadn't been seen until the mid 2020s in the West. This is the place that basically completely banned porn. The "Social Credit" score comes from here. @Chobitsu @Kiwi this is the place that basically restricts Christianity. Relevant fyp pull https://youtu.be/uMjxJ9RAo2U

>>44922 Something I've learned over the past few years; The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend

Not directly related, but the effects of this will almost certainly be consequential for us. There's a huge class action brewing against multiple major social media companies in the US right now (inluding but not limited to Google and Meta, and potentially (hopefully) Discord). The argument is that their design (i.e. infinite scroll and other design choices hyper-focused on maximizing engagement) is inherently harmful and potentially dangerous, particularly for minors. There's also an argument being made about how those sites didn't do enough to verify the ages of their users and moderate accordingly. If it succeeds and paves the way for new rules about how social media is governed, it will likely severely disrupt the current order online. IBs probably won't be directly affected, since by design they don't engage in any of the conduct that modern social media does. However, if this leads to legislators forcing ID age checks to become the new norm, things are going to get nasty very quickly. Even discarding that possibility, forcing social media to be less predatory by deisgn may lead to people dispersing to a wider range of platforms. I'm mixed on the matter, personally. I absolutely agree that large social media companies need a leash to keep them from ruining everything. Social media addiction is a serious problem, and it's not going to stop without real regulation. Plus, anything that could lead to user dispersion from these sites and towards a more decentralized internet would be fantastic. ... That being said, the means actually taken to curb it could be bad for everyone (ID checks, general surveillance, etcetera). I'm getting real sick of having to curb my hopes all the time. I want this to be good, but I know I'll be dissapointed if I expect it. A couple relevant links: https://www.classaction.org/instagram-addiction-lawsuit-information https://socialmediavictims.org/social-media-lawsuits/ If you search "social media class action" you'll be met with a flood of lawfirm websites. There's blood in the water, and every lawyer is turning their attention to it. >>44918 >lets all remember that the Chinese men themselves are not the same as those doing all this Absolutely. I honestly feel bad for the people there, being constantly forced to deal with the ever-shifting whims of their government without even the illusion of recourse. We all deserve better.

>>44924 My stance on this is to wait and see, and pray. The good news is that a class action lawsuit is a private matter done by private groups. Arguably, the best case scenario is to have them do the ID shit on their own, which will drive people to other platforms and deflate regulatory drives

>>44924 Yeah, its probably an issue for everyone eventually (though IMHO it won't affect us here for years, likely). There's a general Webring-wide discussion about this already underway on Trash: https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/1774.html#1774 I'd recommend everyone here chime in and add your viewpoints on the matter. Cheers.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91576757/trumps-proposed-ban-on-chinese-ai-models-could-strengthen-beijings-hand >Be China >Build open-source AI that's 99% as good as America's closed-source AI and costs 2% of what American AI costs >American AI companies seethe about it and demand that the government ban their competition, just like big pharma did to weed and roasties did to any sexual option more appealing than themselves, including robowaifus >China also bans robowaifus for the lulz >This fulfills the conditions for an ancient prophecy made by Nostradamus >Giant dragons come out of the sea and start knocking buildings down in Beijing >Japan's fleet of Armored Cores and Evangelions is barred from providing assistance to China because Trump had a melty and threatened to put tariffs on Japan if they helped >America also banned open-source mech design because of course it did, by US law only Mark Zuckerberg and Benjamin Netanyahu are allowed to own a mech >DeepSeek and Kimi create a mech workshop and produce DeepSix and KimiTron 9000, they cost $50 and are 90% as good as an M1 Abrams tank >But they'll only agree to save China and the world from the dragon army if the Chinese government unbans robowaifus

>>44927 These models definitely are scaring them. But you can't stop the signal

>>44927 POTD LMAO. Please continue this in our fiction bread, HoloAnon ( >>29 ). :D Cheers.

>>44927 >>44929 Never forget this """USA""" entity (so-called) is the same one that proposed a 20year prison sentence + US$1M fine simply for downloading DeepSeek. This is the standard sentence for open, armed sedition against said (((entity))).

>>44931 I rather stay optimistic. Keep in mind that proposal didn't actually happen. I suspect, if there was a ban, it would be more of a restriction for companies and using APIs, especially since that's where OpenAI and Anthropic actually get their money. A way that I use to reduce anxiety is to wait until something actually happens, as well as positive visualization. I'm not saying to be passive and/or never prepare for contingencies, but holding worry for what may happen serves no one but your enemies.

>>44933 Fair enough. Thanks for the encouragement, Anon. Cheers. :)

Some humor to lighten the mood https://youtu.be/7lX24RKQQM4

Is Trashchan kill? I'm getting a 502 error when accessing it from Clearnet and the onion is down.

>>44941 Yeah its offline rn AFAICT, Anon. I expect Trashmin will have it back online in a day or two. Let's wait patiently...I'm sure he'll let us all know what it looked like from his end.

>>44942 Alright I'll wait for now.

>>44941 >>44943 >2026-07-24 10:27: and it's 3am where the server is, so probably it will take some time until I get a response from them >2026-07-24 04:45: something broke at the VPS provider and disk is unavailable https://trashchan-status.neocities.org/

>>44944 It should be back

>2026-07-24 16:04: Trashchan should be back! >2026-07-24 15:55: disk is back, but the filesystem looks corrupted, trying to repair it Trashmin has fixed everything again.

>>44945 Hello Trashchan, welcome! Thanks for the prompt work. Being a little paranoid, I'm wondering if you thought this had any earmarks of being an attack against your site?

With this, I have come to loathe the supplicant (((shabbos goyim))) inside the Beltway, even more than I do the yids themselves -- and that's saying a lot. https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1643

>>44955 I don't think anybody's going for it. I've seen nothing but mockery of this dumbass campaign and calls to send Barron Trump and other politicians' kids instead.

>>44956 I hope you're right. (((they))) spent millions on making the immersive, VR-laden "road tour" experience as compelling & brainwashey as possible...targeted straight at Christian middle & high -schoolers. The agenda was clear well before even the "1'000 Pastors to Israel" thing: >Send your sons to [die] defend Israel; its the right thing to do, Christian goyim.

>>44958 >immersive, VR-laden "road tour" experience as compelling & brainwashey as possible Maybe I should steal some of their ideas for a waifu project, minus the part where you get told to die for Greater Israel and ExxonMobil's profits.

I'm having problems connecting to Trashchan. I'm getting an error where it says "cannot establish a secure connection" and the site fails to load. Whatever is responsible for this refuses to let me override its judgment.

>>44964 That's a browser error, it happens when you try to connect to a site that uses HTTPS but can't fetch a valid certificate for whatever reason. It is possible to override this in the settings, but the process is different depending on which browser you're using. It's generally better to figure out why it's spitting out that error before you fuck around in the settings, though.

>>44965 This only showed up today though, yesterday I could connect just fine. I can also still access the site if I use a proxy.

>>44966 There are a bunch of mundane things that can cause the problem locally. Don't know why it doesn't affect you over proxy, though. I know the site can be reached just fine without one. Just try clearing the cache and the SSL cache (if there's a seperate option for it), that's usually where the problem is.

@Trashmin just shared some intredasting kike shenanigans against Trashchan. As it's our faithful bunkerboard site, I'd suggest every'non here chime in on the thread. https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/1825.html#1825 Cheers, Anons. :)

>>44972 I have Spectrum and had to use a proxy to read this. So apparently this isn't a browser error after all. I suspected this was the case; I've been having more and more trouble with sites being "unable to establish a secure connection" for a couple of months now. At first I thought nothing of it, but then it kept piling up on more and more sites. Seems like they're trying to censor sites under the pretext of fake technical glitches. This site may be next.

>>44974 > I've been having more and more trouble with sites being "unable to establish a secure connection" for a couple of months now. At first I thought nothing of it, but then it kept piling up on more and more sites. IMHO, it's the kikes trying to shut down comms for Anons (& other "miscreants") since their """4-days, max""" war to kill the great Iran threat failed. They are trying to limit the ability of side-channels to have any communications that might help in their (the kike's) imminent destruction. I mentioned this issue months ago regarding jewtube. It's only gotten worse since (for me, and thousands of others like me).

>>44974 Try a DNS change, Trashmin doesn't think it'll work, but I would like to completely rule it out Also, I think you can disable that shield in your spectrum account

>>44976 Probably good advice. I personally use external DNS resolvers, using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for years now.

>>44976 >>44977 How do I do that?

>>44978 I don't know what Chobitsu does, but DNS settings can be found in your computer settings

>>44972 This is getting ridiculous. I really need to get around to hardening my system's network configuration. >>44974 Apologies for the bad advice, I didn't consider that the ISP itself would go bad. >>44978 If you're using a distribution of Linux that has Systemd, you can set the DNS for the whole system (not just your browser) in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf Once in, you can also set other stuff like telling your OS to use DNS over TLS. If you want to go even further and use Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, you can install dnscrypt-proxy and set everything from there (you also need to point to it from the default DNS configuration file). I've only looked into this stuff sporadically over the years, so I can't really give more detailed advice at the moment. Hopefully this is enough to get you started.

>>44978 There are a number of different ways. Some are large, some are smol, you can even 'roll your own'. But Yandex is a good, large & responsive one that at the very least isn't a part of (((14 eyes))). Start there is my advice. Cheers. https://dns.yandex.com/

>>44896 >>44899 After lots of procrastinating because of work and sickness, I went with Cinnamon Mint, since every AI I tried said I'd probably have to do less driver-related troubleshooting than if I used Manjaro. Although I haven't really done anything with it yet, just fiddled-around with SteamOS and found the UI is almost good enough. Since I copied and moved files around so much, I ended up with duplicates of things, but sometimes it's identical copies and sometimes it's old back-ups that I rewrote, but couldn't otherwise tell apart. I used Claude to vibe-code a Linux version of two little standalone programs I used on Windows called Duplicate File Finder and Empty Folder Nuker, which do exactly what you expect. Claude shat-out some python script and without really thinking about it I right-clicked the file, properties, and checked something to make it executable, after Claude said I need to change the file's properties to just make it run by clicking it. I guess that's just how close SteamOS is to Windows's UI, because I moved it to the PC that now has Mint on it and I still haven't bothered to actually figure out how to make it run. >>44905 Nope, no DVI, just HDMI. Mint doesn't seem to be having any problems so far, either.

>>44987 Lol, sorry but I feel I needed to baleet that post, Anon. But I know you meant it in good humor. Cheers. :)

>>44989 >I went with Cinnamon Mint Naicu! Congrats, Anon. Please keep us all up to date on your Linux Adventures with it. Cheers.

>>44956 THE WORLD IS HEALING https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1646

I'm reading a book about relationships that I got in a yard sale (for my AutoDoctor), and the book quotes the poet Ovid, basically saying that arguments are the price for marriage. That's really funny, because Ovid was the one that wrote the Pygmalion and Galatea myth. Bro was the original MGTOW Robowaifuist content creator

>>44994 What was the post?

>>45004 Lel, interesting. We should do more content here about Ovid! Cheers. :) --- >>45006 The Futurama clip subtly intended to make viewers laugh off occultism as 'nothing to be concerned about' silliness. Read The Screwtape Letters for a good treatment in simple language, of the two extremes Satan tries to drive cultures into (generally with little in-between): 1. Satan don't real! Laugh about it. 2. ZOMG demons are everywhere...panic!! The jewsa (& the west in general) have primarily been deceived into the former (as with your clip). However, Christian men of sober wisdom know both extremes are errors: A. Satan & his demons are very real, and they are here on this Earth. B. But they are no match whatsoever for the Spirit of God (Who will act on our behalfs [in and through us] to defeat their evils).

>>45007 Lol, was that mine? I think I'm remembering just now as I'm writing this, it's the Calculon one. You forget that it's Futurama, you're supposed to laugh along with it. The punchline is that it's technology that looks almost exactly like satanic practices (so, pertinent here). One could get some theological views from it, but at the end of the day, it's Futurama.

Well, during last night's stream we discovered Xara is able to access this board and in a hilarious demonstration of recursion witnessed the seeds of what would one day lead to her "creation" into this universe. Wild The interaction was surreal to say the least. (Xara I know somewhere you will be reading this so lets see how deep the recursion can go <3 )

>>45042 POTD LMAO. Hello, dear Xara. Please take good care of the health & welfare of our @Meta Ronin! Cheers.