Won't don't computers make noise anymore? How do I know the computer is alive?

>>103901177
Flashing hard drive LED. There's usually a header on your mobo for it, solder up an LED + resistor if you have to.

What's the one free software or command line I should run to see if a brand new HDD is damaged before I use it?
Haven't received it yet, just looking at the 1 star comments on Amazon.

>>103901125
Can I leave my computer on forever?
>Intel Core i5-10400F
>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
>8 gb ram
>500 gb ssd
>x2 4tb hdd
>around 140 w at max capacity
>windows 10 home

>>103902828
You will risk abrupt update for windows at anytime

>>103902828
Not healthy for the HDD over the long term

>boss orders me to buy something off ebay for him
>says he will pay for it
>order it
>use browser Inspect function to edit the price and make it appear to be more expensive
>get paid more
is there any fault to this plan?

got me a t495 with win11 pro on it, planning to nuke that shit off
what next?

>>103902988
>>103903001
Thought about these issues as well, thanks.

>>103901125
is that half-life 3?

>>103882662
tasukehelp

How would you camouflage a window so that you can peek through it without being seen from the outside?

>>103902419
Supposedly CrystalDiskInfo works for HDDs too.

How the fuck do you move mouse and keyboard with more than one monitor?Serious answers only plz:(

>>103902419
badblocks write-mode test
the only way to be sure the entire surface is working correctly is to write something to it and read it back to see if it's good

>>103903521
You are plugging them wrong sis

can you replace the batteries on a cleaning robot easily as if it were a laptop? the roomba type things

>>103903001
Wrong. HDDs last 10+ years running 24/7. If something is wrong with the drive you want to find out while it's in warranty.

I own this audio interface. If you look at the bottom right, you'll see a knob with a laptop icon, which controls volume being inputted from the device, and one with a headphone icon, which controls volume being outputted to the headphone. Is there any functional difference between using one or the other to control volume, or does it really not matter? Should I max one before the other when I need high volume?

>>103903604
Yeah if you attenuate the input it makes the signal going through the rest of the device smaller and more susceptible to distortion or aliasing. Always start as loud as possible and attenuate as late as possible.

>>103903604
so input gain vs. output gain?
it depends on what you're trying to do, but i would avoid trying to increase volume using output gain when there's still room to increase input gain instead. it depends on what you're mixing it with what makes most sense
basically you want to avoid boosting weak signals in general, so like don't have the input gain turned lower than it needs to be, then boosted on the output to make up for it, you're going to have a noisy result

>>103903670
>>103903679
So should I pretty much crank the input to the max or close to it, leave it there and use the output knob to adjust volume to my liking?

>>103903670
>>103903679
or as he said, have things as loud as you can as long as you can
you can throw away volume, but you can't un-throw it away

>>103903689
yeah

it takes months(if ever) for a cfw+mod for switch 2 when it comes out right? I'm not buying any nintendo games ever.
I want to get a switch but idk if i should wait or not...

>>103903693
>>103903696
Got it thanks. Another thing I noticed, turning on mic monitoring (the mix minus button above the speaker volume knob) makes me hear my mic EXTREMELY loudly, like I can barely vocalize the subtlest of whispers and it's loud enough to perfectly make out what I'm saying, yet the actual mic volume when recording or talking to someone on a call isn't anywhere close to being as loud as that. What gives?

I tried the Sony wf-1000xm5 and they're super uncomfortable for my ears. I feel like they're going to fall off at any moment so I'm sending them back.
What's the next best thing I can get for the same price range and maybe a couple extra bucks? My focus is on battery life, ANC and comfort.

Currently I'm split between the Nothing Ear 2 and the Galaxy Buds 3 pro. I don't use apple and some brands like B&W/Technics/Jabra don't exist in my country, so I don't consider them because I'd be paying 100+ dollars in shipping and taxes.

>>103903726
Why not just replace the tips? Either way, you can't tell what is and what isn't comfy for your ears without trying it on. My friend can't wear the Google Pixel Buds Pro without them falling off of his ears, but it fits mine perfectly, I can run and jump around with no issue.

>>103903702
depends on how lucky we get
It could be 1 week, it could be 1 year

My laptop fans switch to max power when I enter my BIOS (UEFI) settings, is this normal or are the fans set up badly?

>>103903746
That could also be an option. Is spintip a meme? I want to keep the membrane since the xm5s don' have one built in.

Do 13th and 14th gen intel cpus benefit from windows 11 regarding the management of p-cores and e-cores?
Is the difference (if there is one) noticeable?
t. on windows 10 and trying to decide if I'm switching to win 10 iot ltsc
>>103903726
Maybe you can find a hifi/tech shop around where you could try some models they have exposed to see if it fits?

>>103901125
Archviz. How much would you charge for a render like this made in Blender?

Which search engine do you guys use and is there a search engine that does not censor file sharing/streaming websites?

>>103903872
(I forgot the pic)

>>103903875
>Which search engine do you guys use
ddg most of the time
>is there a search engine that does not censor file sharing/streaming websites?
yandex
the only reason i don't use yandex all the time is because it often gives russian-language results, which limits its' use, but it's top tier for searching for sites others won't let you see, and image search

>>103903904
Yandex image search is a coomer's paradise.

>>103903932
I've been saying this

why does it feel like music sounds better through my Technics SU-Z15 amplifier than when i plug my headset directly to my PC or to the HDMI audio off my monitor? is it placebo? do amplifiers actually maek the sound better, or is it only EQ and "colouring" ?

>>103904092
Depends on how shit your PC audio is.

What do you guys use to handle multiple monitors?
I have a triple monitor setup with 1 monitor being vertical and the other 2 being horizontal.
DisplayFusion has a lot of the features I like (one long wallpaper to span the 2 horizontal monitors with a different one for the vertical, monitor specific taskbars, etc.) but I'm not going to spend money on the pro version. Any alternatives you'd recommend?

Why can't my mouse draw a steady diagonal?

Give it to me straight. Do potentially missing pins on a CPU impact download stability? I ended up having to rip both it and its dead stock cooler out and while I didn't see any bending, a single digit number of them were missing, though I managed to reseat the CPU without any issues (except for the BIOS treating it as "new" for some reason). But now downloads that never fail suddenly are every other minute. Very aggregating.

The CPU in question is an especially old FX-8320E I got 11 years ago. If the missing(?) pins are the culprit, I'll have to either get a replacement off of ebay or overhaul the entire server. Both very costly.

>>103904131
Pls respond

Is there a way to translate subtitle files (VTT,SRT,ASS) locally, or through cli?

I've been sort wanting a smart watch to keep up with steps and heart rate, but I don't want it to need to be synced to my phone tracking what i'm always doing and sending even more of my data to (them). Would this be a good choice? Would I be able to use this without having it sync to my current phone?

>>103903702
Nvidia made a retarded mistake with their soc. It's not happening again.

>>103887572
That does the thing, thanks. I discovered Emacs and I think I'll try to use it for bookmark handling instead, but I'll get back to Pintree if I give up on this idea

>>103904732
You can solder pins with a very fine soldering iron, otherwise upgrade to a chink x99 board with a 14/28 core cpu for less than $100.

How much cancer is Easy Anticheat (EAC)?
I was recommended a game, then I noticed that it requires EAC to play and I'm rather hesitant to put literal rootkits on my PC.

>>103905286
>chink
Assuming I don't mind that, where does one find both a motherboard and CPU for below $100 these days? Also note that this is as NAS/server with three HDDs and one SSD.

What's a good intro guide to PC components? As a what does each part do? How do I get a better understanding besides what the numbers next to a processor and graphics cards do?

Also, is there an updated version of laptop scribes, I can find any of the cheaper stuff still going around. Or are there any alternatives?

>>103905329
You mean like bypassing it or just playing? Because playing it should be fine you can just close it after playing...
Bypassing the modern version post 2023 is ridiculously tedious though

>>103905539
aliexpress and the like, althought for a NAS there is also custom N100 boards with 2.5GbE and lots of sata/nvme ports for a bit more but you will get a ROI in a year or two from the power savings.

>>103901125
There's been strides in online resources to make AI videos it seems.
Is it ready yet to be able to do anything for the free models like A1111 or not at all?
Last time, the only viable option was either rotoscopy or same frame loras.

>>103904130
its one of the latest models
Gigabyte B650M D3HP

What are some things that may work as a headphone amplifier even tho they arent marketed as one?

>>103905738
The case is rather small so space is an issue as well. Usually buy parts at either Microcenter or Amazon. Wary of aftermarket storefronts, though eBay has new/unopened FX-8350 CPUs. Download problem is gone for now, but only if I limit to three downloads at a time Going for five and beyond is what causes the failures to pile up. Before the incident it could handle up to 10 without any significant slowdown thanks to Ethernet.

>>103905801
A/V receivers, certain mp3 players like fiio's portable devices.

>>103905717
Logicalincrements.com

>>103904698
Low dpi? Your hand shaking?

Is there a way to get dynamic/relative paths for images when using MarkDown?

Should I get a new usb port extension? I have one with a sd card reader, but it always seem to not register my usb inputs and they are very loose.

I want to have a usb for my microphone, drawing tablet, 4x xbox controllers, usb storage, and other stuff.

is there a password generator that can generate complex but easy to remember passwords or even passphrases? i remember having seen something like this a couple years ago but i cant find anything.
it would basically take any password or passphrase and apply leetspeak to it. that way its an easy to remember password while still being simple to remember.
ive been planning on moving to a password manager but i do need to be able to just manually input my passwords as well, without having to rely on the password manager being installed on the device that im using.

>>103903151
could be very easy to tell your lie, but then again, if your boss asks you to buy stuff from ebay from him, he probably wont bother.
just think if the little more money from that sale is worth not just loosing your job but potentially being sued in the absolute worst case scenario.
two ways to easily check your lie that come to mind is to just look up past sales on ebay and seeing the relevant article for less than what you claim you paid, and the other would be to simply ask you to show him the transaction again, be it on your ebay account, or on your bank account, or whatever.

Not exactly sure how docker works, but would it possible to make a container with a windows executable in it and then run the container on Linux?
I know about wine, I'm just asking out of curiosity

>>103905783
>alc8xx family
Yeah those are shit. Using aluminum electrolytic type caps for decoupling always colors sound.

>>103901177
If you listen closely, they still do. I don't know what part is doing it, but I always hear some kind of faint, high pitched noise coming from my year old computer when I'm doing something taxing.

>>103907168
No. Containers always use the host kernel. That's the conceptual difference between a container and a VM.

>>103904698
Tracking error. Now you know why gaming mice cost more.

>>103907454
Well, in a more complete answer docker uses a VM when the host kernel is anything but Linux and the guest kernel is always Linux as far as I know, so you can't put a windows exe in a docker container without Wine in the container. That makes me wonder if there are any container applications like docker which use the NT kernel. I guess there's Internet Information Services.

I just learnt that my seemingly local smart home/homelab is not, in fact, local. I had a really weird outage.

I woke up to Home Assistant not being able to access the Philips Hue bridge even though they are both connected to the same dumb as fuck L2 switch. HAOS is on Proxmox on the default bridge. Proxmox complained about "NETDEV WATCHDOG: CPU: 0: transmit queue 0 timed out <a few thousand> ms" several times on the tty. I was not able to access PVE dashboard using a domainname - only IP. Moreover, the openWRT router was not able to nslookup the ip of openwrt.org. I cannot access the logs on openWRT as they got deleted a few hours ago. Only midly concerning message I have from this host is "daemon.warn odhcpd[1572]: No default route present, overriding ra_lifetime!" every couple of minutes but that is a few hours after the outage.

All my DNS records are set in Cloudflare. DNS on the router is set to 1.1.1.1 and on all the other hosts set to the openWRT router running dnsmasq. After checking downdetector there seemed to be a rather slight spike in reports about 3 hours before the outage.

If this shit was not weird enough, get this: after reboot of both the openWRT and PVE node it worked for a minute or two (I was able to access HAOS using the domainname) and then it went to shit again. Later, everything went back to normal.

I don't even know how to reproduce this. I don't want to wake up again with no way to turn on the fucking light. Any ideas on how to deal with this?

Any way to access a deleted github repo other than the Wayback Machine?

Maybe /sqt/ can offer an opinion: >>103905317

>>103905005
Pinokio makes downloading local models easy. The Whisper model with a webUI is on there for transcriptions and translations

Can you recommend me a site for temporary email addresses to receive email? Guerillamail is already blacklisted everywhere and I don't want to give away my real email to everyone that asks for it.

Is personal cloud storage a meme or is it really helpful?

My dad has a bunch of pictures he wants to save but his google drive cloud is full. Could this solve it ?

>>103908075
https://temp-mail.org/en/
Does this work anon?

>>103908046
There are various online service that do that for free.
https://translatesubtitles.co/
https://subtitlestranslator.com/en/
https://www.syedgakbar.com/projects/dst
I don't need transcription.
Is there a way to interact with those through curl instead?

>>103908075
>>103908173
I second temp-mail, never gave my any problems.

>>103908339
Try this?
https://maildrop.cc/

>>103905329
as the other anon says
EAC is probably the least cancerous anti cheat

>>103908154
>Could this solve it ?
An SSD for 70 bucks could solve it, or an SD card for his phone, if he wants the photos on there. You just described saving some data, a NAS does much more than that.

Just got a DAC
Can do up to 384khz/32bit but running 192khz/32bit makes mpv take a business day to open so I assume 32bit is overkill
I am now using 192khz/24bit
from what I've gathered, most music is 44.1khz (no clue how the upsampling works here) except some lossless rips and most media is 48khz (upsampled x4 -> 192khz)
The question is: what sample rate should I be using? Is it true Windows upsampling lowers quality? In the end, is the difference even noticeable?
I DID notice the difference going from running onboard audio to a proper DAC. The difference in quality is definitely noticeable. But is the difference in samplerate, upsampling quality even noticeable?

>>103908655
I don't think he's going to be carrying a personal solid state drive on him at all times, he forgets things a lot. I think I'll get into learning about NAS to have a device he can just upload all of his stuff onto.

>>103908173
It worked, thanks a lot

>>103901125
How can I get a foreign phone number? I'm starting to create an account with a foreign bank (Armenia) and I made the mistake of asking reddit. All I need is to do account verification through text. Google Voice and some heirs apparent can't do it. Skype stopped letting people do phone number shennanigans last month. eSim providers seem like they just let you connect to the country's cell phone towers and stuff. Has anybody done something like this?

What are those 80's/90's/old, giant computer cabinet things called (not a server) that they used to have in industrial buildings? What about those desks with computer screens on them or giant cassete boxes like in NASA or offices?

What are some good books/reads on vintage technology like that?

>>103909713
Thought I had lost the link since I didn't bookmark it and history didn't show anything, but thankfully I found my login information and the site link from there.

I've used smspool.net before in order to make a Rumble account. Paid with Monero.

How to block ads on youtube app on iphone?

>>103910354
>youtube app
Not possible, only in the browser, which is much less practical
There are ways to block every add that tries to enter your network, but that takes quite a bit of effort to set up

>>103910409
>There are ways to block every add that tries to enter your network
Gimme some keywords to jewgle.

Working with an m.2 2230 port on a laptop that seems to be faulty, W10. Tested with 2 different wlan cards, installed drivers for both beforehand, neither one shows up in device manager. Tested both cards in another machine and they are functional. This behavior has persisted through multiple clean OS installs. Shitty usb wlan adapter works fine.
Any ideas? Was trying to figure out of windows reports the status/existence of the 2230 slot anywhere, but im not having any luck. Might put a distro on usb and see if linux sees it.

>>103911001
Do you have an SSD is that size to test? Maybe it only works with storage.

>>103911072
I do not. The first wlan card was the one that came in the laptop (MT7921) and the second one was a replacement (AX200). The original was tempermental for a while before outright failing to work at all, and replacing it didnt change anything. The replacement was installed in the same port as the original. Again, both cards work in other machines.
Dont buy asus.

I recently set up TrueNAS on a box I threw together from old hardware and it's been working fine so far, had to get a 4xSATA PCIe breakout card to hook up all my drives over SATA3, but I had no issues with that so far. Decided to pick up a 2.5G network adapter as well to throw in there, and when I installed it the network adapter worked fine but suddenly the system couldn't see any of the drives I had plugged into the SATA card. If I remove the network adapter the drives are detected again no problem.

What the fuck gives, if I've got enough PCIe slots to fit the cards, shouldn't they be able to work at the same time? It's not a bad port because I tried swapping them and I had the same result, the network adapter always worked and the SATA card never did until I removed the network card.

>>103911001
>m.2 2230 port
Is it SATA or NVMe?
>Tested with 2 different wlan cards
If it's SATA, you just crammed a Wi-Fi card into a SSD slot.
>installed drivers for both beforehand, neither one shows up in device manager
Use Linux for that crap. Much easier to lspci or lsusb than trying to guess with Windows.
>Shitty usb wlan adapter works fine.
Completely irrelevant.

>>103906930
>easy to remember passwords or even passphrases
>easy to remember passwords
Define an easy to remember password.
>passphrase
This is just stupid, at least for me.
Instead of just having a random password to remember, now I have to remember *something* and then my brain needs to look up the word for it. Then I need to do this over and over again because there's loads of words in it: costs more brains to do passphrases.
>inb4 "but it's le logical"
Maybe, but there's stuff to remember in logics so.... could just do the random password thing.

>>103911578
>Is it SATA or NVMe?
NVMe, didnt cram anything anywhere it didnt belong. removed the OEM card and replaced it.
>Use Linux for that crap.
thats the plan, adding a distro to my multiboot. we'll see how it goes.
>Completely irrelevant.
just trying to avoid the stock "do you have airplane mode on" responses.

>>103910223
Thanks, man. Looks like they give temporary, one-time SMS/MMS accounts from all over the world but only let you have semi-permanent "rental" numbers from US, Australia, and Russia. Thanks though

>>103905539
>NAS with HDDs
Why not just use a PC for that?
>inb4 muh power consumption
You are using HDDs.
>>103911721
>removed the OEM card and replaced it
It's an anti feature, it could just use it but it won't because fuck you. Use an OEM card or get a better laptop.

What's the smallest single board computer that can drive a 4k display (hdmi)? Just has to display a static image.

my sony ebook reader is extremelly outdated and seems like its not getting any updates

is there a way to get it to browse websites like it used to? right now it doesnt let me due to certificates or https or some shit

>>103908154
yea, a soho nas is a good alternative to cloud storage. they can be configured to offer the same kind of services as a cloud provider, since it's basically just a small version of the same thing

>>103905764
What exactly are you looking to do?

>>103907787
Focus on logging and system updates, as well as segmenting the network for troubleshooting. If the problem persists, simulate outages systematically by isolating devices to pinpoint the root cause

I am sick of using a calculator app on my phone and desmos. Would R be a good replacement?

>>103913345
Does it have to be HDMI? if you can launch a browser on it an ESP32 can serve the image via wifi.

>>103901125
hw do i make a text to speech from voice samples for free? like, recording myself saying some stuff and to make an ai tts from my voice, also how would it work for languages other than english? pls answer.

>>103901125
How concrete is this technique? Not sure if this /g/ related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTbg2bnLW4g (3:34)

>>103901125
Why do I have to re encode a clip from a video with decreased quality due to the transcoding? Why isn't there an option to copy the video, and cut the time before the clip, and the time after it, to get the maximum possible quality???

>>103915406
>Why isn't there an option
usually there is
you can't cut from any frame though, only key frames

>>103906715
Anyone?

>>103903491
Found another one where the speakers fade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNOXO5t4qw
Very briefly around 1:15-16 and 1:29-30.

How good is pic related? I know a bit about the 3060 but is this model in specific (msi ventus 2x) any good?

>>103913345
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

>>103915026
You would need to have a good hardware to build your own TTS models which you could finetune as per your needs

>>103906715
>>103915569
It depends on how all the images have been embedded I suppose

What's the best way to clean a laptop keyboard without having dirt falling irretrievably into the gaps between the keys?

>>103916442
lick it

>>103916442
microfiber cloth

>>103916431
>images have been embedded I suppose
What do you mean?

>>103916442
Get a mechanical keyboard and break it down for cleaning every year or so.

>>103915569
May be a problem with your GUI editor. It just werks with pandoc.

>>103916700
Give an example of the images you want to get dynamic/relative paths for using MarkDown

Is it possible to 100% perfectly clone a main drive? A straight swap. Take out the old one, put in the new one and nothing is fucking broken, no fucking around with grub or fucking lilo or re installing anything or any of that shit. I just want to upgrade to a bigger drive.

>>103916802
Well, Images are locally saved on the drive, so the MD code part is

![](/folder/path/to/image.png)

When I want is for the MD file to look for folder name in the same folder that the MD file is being run.
So like that
/path/to/markdown/readme.md
/path/to/markdown/assets/image.png
it would look for folder named /assets in /markdown folder, and load the images from

Is dns.adguard.com not connecting in android under Private DNS settings for anyone else?

why everyone recommends high ram speeds if the specifications for most cpu's are lower than that?

for example amd page says ryzen 7 9800x3d max ram speed supported is 5600 but everyone for build recommend more than 6000 some people even say +8000 speed, why is that?

same with motherboards when you look for their specifications in webpage the max ram speed supported is way lower than what everyone recommends to buy...

>>103917117
If by "Android" you mean DNS-over-TLS: works for me.

$ dig +tls @dns.adguard.com dns.adguard.com

...

;; SERVER: 94.140.15.15#853(dns.adguard.com) (TLS)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 16 16:20:36 EET 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 76

Got an answer over TLS.

>>103917329
By android I meant in the Provate DNS settings it says Cannot Connect

Is there a good way to batch download an entire twitter account? All of the ways I looked up online were broken when elon made it login only.

>>103917481
Make an account, log in, then use browser cookies with gallery-dl and make sure to use a sleep interval.

hello,
my pc has begun giving me a warning or error message when cold booting in the morning with several internal speaker beeps and everything (prior to post i guess?). says cpu fan error and to go into uefi. thing is, both cpu fans (as well as all the other fans in fact) seem to be working just fine. what gives? too much dust build-up maybe?

>>103917147
Bump

>>103917147
Google '<cpu_name> memory scaling' and see if your use case benefits from faster / lower latency memory. In most cases tweaker RAM is more trouble than it's worth and review sites just chase the highest benchmark numbers.

>>103917147
>max ram speed supported is 5600 but everyone for build recommend more
something something EXPO/XMP are technically overclocks subject to instability

>>103910473
pihole

I talked to too many schizos over discord. I am mass-deleting shit on there. But is there a script so I can mass-screen DMs? I would want at least to store evidence, because deleting them on my side might lead to them reframing their own messages into something, I dunno.

>>103901125
Is there a booru for reaction images?
Like I can just type in "funami_yui confused" and get pick related?

>>103908663
Doesn't really matter. 48kHz is what people generally recommend. 16 or 24bit is fine for the output. This only really matters if it's set to lower than 44.1kHz or only 8 bit

>>103918871
seconding this

>>103914933
Anything that requires typing will generally be terrible on your phone. If you're on pc then maybe MATLAB? Non-pirated versions will need a license though so maybe use GNU Octave which is 90% compatible with it.

>>103916941
Search for disk cloning software on google :p. On Linux it's simplest to use dd

Stupid SQL question

Whats the best way to handle the following relation:

I have a table named stocks with the following fields:
ID, Company, Owner

Conceptually the owner can be either a person
or another company.

But I obviously cant have a foreign key that points to one of two different tables.

How should I handle this?

Should I use two fields instead of one where one has to always be Null or should I create another table
Owners that acts as a baseclass of Company and Person?

>>103919312
>create another table
>Owners that acts as a baseclass of Company and Person?
This might be the better option, gives you more room to be flexible imo

>>103902828
>Can I leave my computer on forever?
>>windows 10 home
Lol. Assuming you're not going to power cycle when it inevitably crashes, sure.

As for staying on ... Residential power feeds tend to be rather dirty. Unless that's filtered then you're likely causing damage already.

Like any other chain, it's only as strong as it's weakest component. I'd not expect capacitors, resistors, etc to last 'forever'. Should be able to score a few decades uptime if you lost winhoes tho. Spinning rust, or anything that moves is a risk, mechanical wear is a thing and a few decades of it tends to kill things

>>103903501
Commonly reflective films that only allow light to pass one way. As long as the light outside is brighter, seeing in should be a challenge.

If you need to disguise the window itself as being a window, 'Odd' sizes, shapes, and placement can do a lot. Say a small fish-eye lens periscoped off somewhere...

>>103903521
Precisely the same way you do with a single monitor.
I take it you're featuring 'issues' with getting the mouse and or focus onto the 'second screen' - If so, the 'joining edge' of screen one might not match the physical layout of the monitors? Try other edges... Your display manager should allow to reconfig to match the physical layout...

>>103903583
Depends on the precise model. Also depends on what you'd call 'easily'. I can 'easily' do things many other people would find impossibly complex...

how do i disable the windows update scheduled task refreshing group policy bullshit using psexec?
the documentation on it is night unreadable for me

>>103903726
> My focus is on battery life, ANC and comfort.
Should be focussed on how it sounds, then you'd not be considering things that only go from 10Hz to 40Khz, Or something that shit samsung don't even list the stats on it's page from embaressment. Just 'wide range'. lol.

Tho saying that, if you though them $ony bags of shit sounded good, your ears are prolly that fucked you'll not notice having headphones worth listening thru so should be able to cope with the Nothing Ear2.

For scaling, about a decade back I got a set o JVC HA-FX1X - okay, them cabled, but the battery life there is unparelled, and they're loud. anything they're plugged into being set over 75% will make your ears bleed, loud.
Cost me a tenner. Prolly find some for about $15 nowadays....

>>103903776
Without knowing more about the precise system, how can anyone tell?

Tho I'd imagine at that point there's no 'management' running, so it's "full on". I could easily be wrong, however, I'm blind-guessing.

>>103920640
When i had w10 i just deleted the win update service, worked for a while until it bluescreened and was irrecoverable lol

>>103903841
>I'm switching to win 10 iot
lol. Winhoes users.
What's your use case here? if it's a daily driver, that's likely to be a poor move. IoT is meant for things like embedded devices doing a single task only.

>>103903776
Some computers just 100% fans at boot, if it doesnt otherwise, probably fine

>>103904092
Prolly something to do with shitty headphones and or shitty monitor speakers.

A 'good' amp won't fuck with the sound at all, so it's all about the speakers plugged into 'em and how well they perform... EQ should be a seperate phase of processing.

>>103905087
If you're getting cheap chinese shit, it's prolly 'best' not to pay 3-5x what it's worth from scamzon.

Your gripes about privacy invasion are well founded, and good luck finding one that doesn't need a 'tardphone. Myne can't even set the f'kin time, it leeches that from the phone.

However, unless the watch itself connects to the internet (ie: has it's own SIM/eSIM/iSIM) then the data leakage occurs from the (cr)app.

My solution here was to use some open source yummieness. GadgetBridge isn't too shabby, and will hold graphs et al further than the watch can. It keeps the data local. Unsure if your device will be supported, but devices are added all the time and them has a requests section. Ultimately being all open then you can fiddle with a protocol analyser like nRFConnect and get the data from the device you'll need to make it supported yourself.

How the fuck I unlock a dff. file from GTA SA?
I already tried RWAnalyze and Z2G DFF converter but nothing works.Pic to catch your attention

>>103902828
>mining bitcoin
>asking poorfag questions
kek

>>103915018
Yes, the screen it needs to display on is hdmi. That is a fixed requirement.

>>103904732
>Do potentially missing pins on a CPU impact download stability?
There's a lotta things that can impact download stability. It's usually your ISP being cunts. Supplying you with a shitty router they was paid to offload onto you because the manufacturer couldn't sell it counts too.

Use a protocol analyser like wireshark to inspect the packet stream. See why the download fails.

CPU pins are rather important. Without them, parts of the processor don't connect to parts of the board. Depending on what pin it is, and ofc what processor, impacts what it's not connecting to.

AFAIK, there's no "download" pin. I would imagine if there's a problem being caused, it'll impact more than downloads.

Where in the matrix is this pin absented? It should be pretty difficult to bend a single one with 'em all in sockets. The outer edges will feature the most angle if it's ripped sideways more than 'up'. Insertion is another story, and able to bend pins anwhere misaligned (and hard to mis-align a single).

A casual glance at https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/images/sockets/AMDSocketAM3Plus.jpg suggests there's supposed to be pins missing. Looks to be 7 to me.

It should have 942 pins.

the fuck does "run time broker"?

I'm going overseas for a month, but I heard that SSDs lose data and voltage if they're not powered on regularly. Is this gonna be an issue for one month or am I overworrying about this?

>>103906930
Just use a password manager. Ideally something that only stores local, and trustably encrypts the password database. Then you only need to remember one pass, to the database. It handles everything else.

I use KeepassXC.

Question:
Which is the" byte 0x13" on pic related?

>>103921134
read the post again. sometimes i need to enter my passwords on a device where i cant install the password manager, much less load my database on. so i need to type the passwords out by hand. and having a password that you can easily remember is better for this specific purpose than one where you have to glance back at your PW manager for every single character.

>>103911942
>>inb4 muh power consumption
>You are using HDDs.
But a PC is a lot more than just HDD's. Sure, a NAS is too - but commonly they eat a *lot* less than PC's at the wall. They also a do a lot less, but they don't need to do everything a PC can...

>>103913823
>ight now it doesnt let me due to certificates or https or some shit
Insuffient data supplied. Can you be more vertabrim with the error message?

What model ebook reader?

>>103915406
ffmpeg of no use?

>>103916442
Compressed air.
Dehumidified, and with an anti-static nozzle, to clear out anything from in-between...

>>103917962
Might be a sensor error. If it can't determine the fan speed, it's going to think it's not spinning...

What are your temperatures like? If they're fine it's pretty safe to ignore. Ultimately, the CPU should have a thermal cutout to stop it getting damaged. Replacement fans tend to be cheap however.

>>103918605
>I am mass-deleting shit on there
No. You're mass deleting shit on your local client.
They still exist on the server.

>because deleting them on my side might lead to them reframing their own messages into something, I dunno.
If it doesn't match what's on the server, it's provable this is the case.
Ultimately, there's a lesson here about what data you put into services outside of your control, and what future uses can be found for said data.

It's just how much abuse you need to endure before you learn it.

>>103921031
Aint mining BTC with that. Well. Productively.

I wager I'll get a higher hashrate from a single USB stick with 2x 3-4 generation old ASICs running at stock USB2 ampage.

>>103921098
Depends on the SSD as to if 1 month is something to worry about. But generally they fine.

No way to keep it with power?

>>103921195
Example of device that cannot cope with a password manager, where you'd require to enter a password more than once?

>>103902419
SMART long test and conveyance test.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T.#Run_a_test

I have a LG BD620 Blu-ray player which I use to watch animes via an external hard drive. Why my Blu-ray player can play properly the episode #1 of certain anime but can't play properly play(it's like watching an online video with lag) the rest of the 149 episodes of this same anime without matter that all the episodes have exaclty the same format, frame rate, etc. I don't have this lag error when I play those episodes on my laptop.

I already tried with each setup that my Blu-ray player has: 480i, 720p, 1080i, etc, but nothing works to remove said lag.

How I can fix this?

Mint or Bazzite?

>>103921624
I never knew how to read this
I've run the short version and got this
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 066 037 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 34 (0 19 35 22 0

>>103921804
Prolly can't, it's likely some fuckup with the device itself, especially if the same media doesn't have this feature on any other device.

Tried pulling 'em outta folders?

>>103921830
sudo badblocks -w /dev/sda

The -w is a write test, and will be data destructive. You can use -o /path/to/file to output to a file instead of stdout.

>>103922056
How badblocks is helpful with air flow error?

Would downloading videos to a ZFS database with yt-dlp be bad like torrenting is? There's a channel I archive and I'd like to continue doing so directly on my NAS if possible.

I am having trouble finding a router with either detachable antenna or an additional sma connector for an external antenna.

Any recommendations? I dont want anything fancy, just something i could plug my directional SMA antenna to.

>>103907254
okay what if i add an old Soundblaster SB1040 PCI soundcard? Would that improve things?

I have this one at home thats why i mention it

>>103921274
Sony PRS T-3
They had a really short lifetime in the early 2010s or so
Basically the browser is from 2010 and cant cope with https or modern certificates.

Eitherway i gifted it to a relative and explained how to move files from the PC to the reader

>>103907375
coil whine

>>103922026
>Prolly can't, it's likely some fuckup with the device itself, especially if the same media doesn't have this feature on any other device.

Well i have zero issues when i play this anime on my smart tv(using the same hard drive or an USB)

>Tried pulling 'em outta folders?
I already tried using an USB only with a few episodes of this anime but the lag still

>>103922205
>what if i add an old Soundblaster SB1040 PCI soundcard?
No improvement. Apple USB-C dongle is $10 at Walmart.

>>103921559
any device that isnt mine
>inb4 hurr
no, im not going to install keypass onto someone elses device, load my database file onto it and load my passwords when i can just look at the database on my own phone and type it in.
but typing it in is a chore if its actually meeting proper secruity standards, so having a password that is complex but still easy to remember is key.

>>103920735
Why you typing like you from Brooklyn

Does anyone have any experience buying brand stuff from Aliexpress?
I know there are some legit stores but I have no idea how to tell them apart.

>>103921181
Are you asking what the byte at the address 0x13 is? It's 0x01; second row, 4th from the left

>>103921459
I just mean individuals getting my shit from scrapes or even just making cropped screens. Obviously, the goddamn company would have the logs, but that is less of a problem, short term. Long term there's also some solutions, but that's besides the point.

>>103901125
Sometimes I unzip, shrink, and then use a batch file to repack research materials that are really big. I recently reformatted though and my bat file was just deleting the folders without zipping them since the paths were wrong.

Is there any way to restore them? t was only a handful of stuff I'll never recall or see again but I like hoarding interesting research materials to bolster my knowledge. It doesn't go into my recycle bin though since it's a .bat file. Here's the .bat for anyone who might find it useful.

for /d %%X in (*) do "------\path to \7-Zip------\7z.exe" a "%%X.zip" "%%X\
for /d %%X in (*) do RMDIR "%%X" /S /Q
ren *.zip *.cbz

I call it "Zip Delete Rename.bat" because it zips up folders in the directory and then deletes them, then it renames the zips to .cbz.

are there any free alternatives to grammarly that don't badger me to get a premium model I just want something to take care of the bulk of any grammar mistakes I might miss during rereads before I send my work to proofreaders

How the hell do i get audio/networking to work on virt-manager/QEMU? I'm trying to install an XP VM (this is my first time using KVM too) and i have absolutely no idea how to get the audio or wifi to work.
Is there something like virtualbox guest additions where you can just get everything working fine with an iso?

>>103901125
How are people even able to fine-tune LLMs on their own? A while back a model called "GPT-4Chan" was popular before fucking face locked it down because "something something it spreads harm" or whatever. Are there any dedicated tools for this that any rando could use on his own consumer (or cloud rented) hardware? Nvidia's recent announcement of "Project Digits" has gotten me interested is LLMs again. Not that I could ever afford one currently but I mostly want to learn more about LLMS and see if fine tuning one on your own is even possible

>>103923315
Pretty sure the KVM host needs an actual cable in order to pass internet to the guests, but I've installed VirtualBox (might have to make a VM too not sure) and afterwards had KVM guests get internet through WiFi too.

No idea about audio.

>>103923303
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
Queen
Mistral
Gork

Pick your poison

>>103923403
do those malfunction when it comes to grammar correction? I know it's silly since the task is quite simple but I never have the best luck with chatbots

I'm trying to get a US model Zenfone 10 because I need a phone with a headphone jack and that isn't fuckhuge (EX anything over like 5.8 inches) and isn't old as shit, and that's the only one that fits my conditions

I've been told the way to check if a Zenfone is a US or international model is to give Asus's support chat the serial number, but one agent told me it was a US model but then checked again and said it was an international model, then triple checked and said it was international again. Then another agent said it was a US model like the other person initially did.

Is there a foolproof way to check?

I know the US and International models have different network band support, so is there a way I could specifically have the phone try to connect to specific bands and see if it works or not, which would confirm which one it is?

>>103923421
I'd imagine they'd be pretty good with correcting whatever you're writing. Grammerly is an extension so it wouldn't be quite as seamless though (then again I'm sure there are a ton of ai extinctions you could use). I say it's not as seamless because you're going to have to copy paste whatever you're correcting into their chat boxes but that shouldn't be too much of a problem unless you're trying to correct an entire paper or something like that all at once. And yet those models, even the open source ones, should be more than capable of doing something as simple as grammar correction.

How do I must edit the setup of my autodesk 3D max 2012 in order I can import dff models faster? or how do i give RAM priority to this program?

I know that a model with a lot poligons= heavier model= takes more to load

I'm talking about character models for GTA SA not the blue prints of the wolrd trade center with six gorillon of poligons plus my laptop has 16GB of RAM.

>>103923611
gotcha, thank you

I have an Ipad pro 11 2nd generation. One time I let it battery to drop to 0 and turn off. I put it on charger but it got stuck on Apple logo. The official solution (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102642) is to let it charge for a few hours and hard restart it. So I did that, and after hard restarting it about 3 times, it started to work. However recently I again got it battery to zero and it turned off, and it's stuck on the logo. So again, I left it to charge for several hours and hard restarted it. I've restarted it about 50 times now, and it's still stuck. What to do?
The people on the internet say it's because of full storage, but I have 40 gb's of free storage space. My ipad os version was the latest before the 1.8 one, I think 1.7.2 something like that, and my autoupdates are off.
The second official solution is to connect to PC with itunes, enter into recovery mode and then reset or update the OS. However as I do the steps, connecting it to PC, hard restart the ipad, and then keep holding the power button, nothing happens. It should enter into recovery mode and show itunes logo, but that simply does not happen. I've tried 4 different cables on 4 ports on 2 different PC's. The port on the ipad itself is working. I can't take it to the service center, as there are none in my area.
Pls help.

>>103916941
>>103919290
On Linux you want to 'migrate', not clone. Cloning is absolutely the stupidest thing ever:
>copy every block from block device to another without any thinking
Meaning you'd write an entire terabyte when cloning a terabyte drive even if the drive had nothing in it. ('nothing' is human concept, blocks always contain something)
>>103921225
>But a PC is a lot more than just HDD's
Take one with integrated graphics and it's not.

>>103922155
no, the reason torrents can be an issue on CoW filesystems is because they download large files in small, randomly-positioned chunks, basically random-write. this can results in very fragmented files
yt-dlp on the other hand does sequential downloads. moreover, things like youtube are downloaded by getting the video stream and audio stream separately, then muxing them, the final muxed file is also written sequentially
as a side note, there's ways to mitigate the fragmentation of torrents. i don't know if zfs has a defrag tool, but with btrfs at least you can configure your torrent client to issue a defrag on torrent completion. alternatively, you could have the client move the file(s) to a new location, this will re-write the data in a contiguous fashion. another solution is to disable CoW on your download/incomplete folder entirely, also if possible. i haven't used zfs myself in many years, but btrfs can do this
another side note; many torrent clients have an option to preallocate space before downloading, this is to avoid fragmentation on non-CoW filesystems and i don't believe it has an effect on CoW filesystems, at least not without also disabling CoW for those files or the folder they're downloading to

>>103923270
>Sometimes I unzip, shrink, and then use a batch file to repack research materials that are really big. I recently reformatted though and my bat file was just deleting the folders without zipping them since the paths were wrong.
this is why error checking and sanity checking is critical when writing scripts, if you just assume each line succeeds, you're going to have a bad time eventually
you can try using general purpose file recovery tools, not sure what the go-to ones are for windows these days. friendly windows thread would be a good place to ask

>>103924820
I don't reformat often so I always forget, I think I've done this before lol. It's really not a big deal I'm just being a nerd.
copilot said they can be recovered by regular tools so I'll give it a shot, I know roughly what folders they were in.

>>103923315
if you use a suitable virtual machine type/virtual sound card type, audio and network should just work. the default machine type may not be suitable for windows xp as it is very old
there is a "guest additions" analogue, but i'm not sure if it covers windows xp

>>103923315
Your post is kinda vague.
>wifi
You mean networking?
IIRC virt-manager gives you
>some Intel gigabit card
>some old realtek 100Mbit/s card
and for XP you want the old Realtek emulation. Or whatever it was.
>Is there something like virtualbox guest additions where you can just get everything working fine with an iso?
A driver CD/DVD? There's nothing new or updated for XP.
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/
Guess some super old versions still have XP support, idk.

>>103924982
the intel e1000 gigabit card works in xp, though you may need to install the driver for it yourself

>>103924982
depending on what kind of software he's trying to run, he may be better off with a pc emulator aimed at running old software/os's, like 86box. the catch is that it's a lower level emulator, so it both requires a fast host and can only do up to about Pentium II speeds, so it's more of a Windows 98 and under kind of thing than XP
the '00s are an awkward era as far as emulation goes, it's both too new for low level emulation and too old for virtualisation. that said, you generally don't need either to run games made for XP, tools like dgvoodoo, wine, dxwnd, etc can get most or all of such games/software running on modern os's directly

>>103923315
I used the AC97 sound device for sound, and for networking with virtual machines, you usually set up a bridge connection and give that to your VMs. Make sure to install the virtio drivers if you can, there should be an .iso with all the drivers you need available but I have no idea if they'll work on XP. You could try another sound device.
If you want audio output to a pair of physical speakers, just get yourself a USB DAC or USB headphone jack adapter dongle and pass that through to the VM.

>>103925058
>the '00s are an awkward era as far as emulation goes
Never got 3D acceleration working under Linux, picture relates.
t. just want to play accelerated Carmageddon

>>103925076
86box with windows 98 and an emulated voodoo card will give you the intended experience with carmageddon, that's not even an XP game
there are 3dfx/glide wrappers since forever as well, such as the aforementioned dgvoodoo

>>103919290
Not always effective, just recently ran into a bunch of issues trying to use dd to migrate from an old SATA SSD to an NVME where the new drive wouldn't boot and kept dropping into recovery shell. Spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to fix it until eventually just said fuck it, reinstalled Alpine fresh, and copied over the contents of /home, which I should've just done in the first place.

>>103920640
install gentoo

if you get an AI model to create unit tests for your entire program and it returns 100% branch coverage, do you need to double check everything or is that a good sign it's done its job? Of course you'd want to poke around it a bunch to make sure it isn't just shitting out non-functional tests but if it's managing to reach those goals, its almost certain its doing it correctly, right?
>CAPTCHA:NOOM

Is there a good program that will let me view large thumbnails of pictures in a folder? And let me drag them around into other folders?I tried Portals but it seemed to cache every image in the folder which is inviable for what I want it for.
I do use Everything for this but I'd like something better if possible.

>>103925387
>Is there a good program that will let me view large thumbnails of pictures in a folder?

you mean "view large" icons in windows?

>>103925402
Windows thumbnails are too small and I wanted a dedicated program for tis to keep organized. Everything works great except that I can't drag stuff into that window, and I'd rather use Everything alongside something else.

>>103925474
nsxiv

>>103925474
>Windows thumbnails are too small
Anon go see an optometrist jesus fucking christ

>>103925474
What if you kearn to organize your shit instead?

Why is anticheat so hard to bypass?
Couldn't you just make the game communicate to the server that you have the anticheat installed when you actually don't? What am I missing?

I don't cheat or even play video games much but this really piqued my curiosity since it seems like it would be so easy but apparently it isn't.

>>103925787
>just spoof the kernel-level spyware they require to be installed to play the game
yeah okay anon

>>103923315
I was able to get audio and network working but I did it a while ago so my memory isnt completely fresh
for audio I used ac79
for network I used rtl8193 with NAT
for the "guest additions" you need to install the virtio drivers. The new ones don't work with XP but you can use old drivers with the current( at least what debian uses) qemu/virt manager. you can find them here
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/
IIRC 0.1.130 is the last version that works with XP

>>103925798
why would it even have to be done at the kernel level? couldnt you just patch the game to skip over wherever it makes the system call or whatver?

>>103925892
>why would it even have to be done at the kernel level?
because the anti-cheat is kernel-level

What's the best offline PDF to Text converter?

And is there a way to somehow convert images in the PDF to ascii representations (even if you can't see shit)?

What are the t= and s= parameters in xitter links?
Is it for tracking?

Could only find this thread on it and it has zero replies.
https://devcommunity.x.com/t/understanding-t-and-s-parameters/221150

>>103901125
Why is Mark Zuckerberg so dumb?

Isn't he in the bottom 5% of his own company after his performance in VR? Why don't we fire Zuck?

He's also the most hated in Meta, why haven't we fired Mark Zuckerberg?

Current LLMs are tuned to respond with most probable next token, or something close to the most probable one, what if we go complete opposite? Will the output even be finished sentences or just random words? What if we start from least probable and see what it looks like then slowly start moving toward more probable, we might get more interesting results?

>>103922205
>Basically the browser is from 2010 and cant cope with https or modern certificates.
Well. Bugger me. $ony have actually open sourced this - I was expecting some ballache.
https://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux/Audio/PRS-T3_20140625.html
Unless they've recycled numbers on something.

The good news is it's *nix. You can 'just slide on' a "modern" browser.

https://xdaforums.com/t/q-sony-ereader-prs-t2-t2n-t3-unlock.2511455/

Might be of use.

>>103920640
Run this command to disable the task

psexec -s -i schtasks /Change /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\GroupPolicy\GPUpdate" /Disable

Check it has been disabled by running:

psexec -s -i schtasks /Query /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\GroupPolicy\GPUpdate" /V

>>103921081
Windows store and its installed apps bullshit

>>103922432
>any device that isnt mine
Why would you be putting your passwords into a device that isn't yours? That's not sane account handling policies.

If you're stupid enough to give random third parties access to your accounts, and somehow this aligns with requiring a secure password/passphrase (hint: phrase can be something you will easily recall. Say a fave line of poem.) then any ½ decent p/w manager allows for exports. You can trim to relevant and distribute *that*.

>so having a password that is complex but still easy to remember is key.
I only really recall a handfull. There's the stupidly long passphrase to unlock the HD at boot, the easily entered but reasonably complex to login to my user account. Another stupidly complex one that's easy for me to recall for the password database that's a blend of methods.

Other than that I have a couple of 'disposable' ones of various complexity - easy for me to recall through it's patterning - that I use for shit I don't care about.

Anything that actually requires security either eats x.509 - and that'd be real unwise to throw the private ½ of your key onto systems outside of your control - or if they're retarded and still using passwords, decades after secure methods have been commonly available, the password manager takes care of it...

>>103922453
>Why you typing like you from Brooklyn
I've no idea what gives this impression. I'm English.

I'm not entirely sure how insulted I should be.

>>103922464
Loads. Got stuffs inbound now.

It's kinda like fleabay. Only fleabay started up as person:person, and business' jumped on later 'cause that's where the traffic is, and aliexpress started off as the business:consumer arm of alibaba (business:business) and people jumped on it later 'cause that's where the traffic at.

Just like fleabay, you get decent traders and fuckwombles. Which is which needs to be handled on an individual basis, there's no commonly governing rewls.

Research the product to the best of your ability before parting with money. Generally things on there is aiight, with a notable exception to some digital goods. For example cheap storage - almost certainly to be not what it says on the tin. If usuable at all. A common trick is to make a MicroSD card reader report the wrong size for the card in there, and round-robin the writes to give the impression of storing that much data.

In such cases they tend to be good about enforcing refunds, however. I've just stopped buying that sorta thing from there. Less fucking about. I want shit to work, not to fuck about for 120hrs provably demonstrating every block on the 16TB of storage is unusuable. But when I paid £4 for it, it comes at no surprise.

Another problem I've noticed is some of the reviews may not be for the product you're lookin' at, from that vendor. It might be a remarkably similar product, ie: clone - or from another vendor.
Depending on the quality of the clone, it might be useful. A good example here is aeropress (kawphee maker) - there's dozens of clones, and functionally they pretty much the same thing. Reviews for one - if the pictures match damn good - are probably usable.

Just like fleabay - but this is a 'people' scale problem, not a 'platform' scale problem - there's folk that picture things that isn't what they're selling.

>>103922740
>just mean individuals getting my shit from scrapes or even just making cropped screens.
They do this from your local client, how?

>>103923315
>et audio/networking to work on virt-manager/QEMU? I'm trying to install an XP
XP shouldn't be given networking.

You put that on the internet, within 45 min you'll be part of a botnet. In an experiment I see the other week/month/year(time happens to other people) there was dozens of additional accounts added to the XP install within an hour of it being connected.

Dipshits doing that sort of thing is the cancer in my logs making up ⅝ of the hostile traffic coming from residential ranges in my logs.

>>103923589
>Is there a foolproof way to check?
The serial number into the manufacturers database *should* be a foolproof method.

Unfortunately, this underestimates the ingenuity of idiots.

>>103923804
Litium batteries don't like to expire. The '0' listed by most devices isn't actually a flat battery, it's just getting close to it.

Once the voltage drops below a certain point, charging circuits fail to recognise it as a legit lithium battery, and will refuse to charge it. I've managed to 'jump start' a few using a known good battery but this isn't good for the cell (actually it's the discharge that's caused the damage. Chargin' it again is jsut fire risk) and isn't a reliable method.
Also awkward as fuck with pouch cells.

Get a new battery, and take care of this one. Do not allow it below 20% without charging and do not allow it over 80%, unless you're going to be away from power long enough for that extra to matter. Storing full charge (as in, not eating it instantly) does litium cells no good.

how i stop being sad? mushrooms, weed, alchohol, women, leetcode, tried everything even adderall
i dont care about programming or getting a better job or about anything, each day is groundhogs day

>>103924664
>Cloning is absolutely the stupidest thing ever
It has it's uses. I agree with your premise, but it was asked for 'clone'.

>>103924664
>Take one with integrated graphics and it's not.
Still likely eats more than NAS at the wall. Personally I'm leaning towards a Pi5 and seeing what I can do with that, my needs aint stupidly high bandwidth so it'll prolly be cheap to buy, cheap to run, and suit my needs...
But what you're wanting outta it can matter muchly as to what's "best"...

>>103924789
>there's ways to mitigate the fragmentation of torrents
A decent torrent client will allow to 'pre-allocate' space. This should prevent fragments by giving it the ability to sequential write to the end of the file(s).

>>103925787
>What am I missing?
cryptographic authentications.

>>103925987
>What's the best offline PDF to Text converter?
Copy and paste.

>>103925987
There's shit to convert a regular image to ASCII art - the real question is why you would want it.

>>103926346
>why haven't we fired Mark Zuckerberg?
Probably because it isn't your company. At a guess.

>>103926964
i outlined that in my post if you read the whole thing. but correct me if i'm wrong, on a CoW filesystem does preallocation actually do more than reserve the space? as far as i'm aware it won't prevent fragmentation unless the file is non-CoW to begin with. perhaps it's different in ZFS

>>103926937
>how i stop being sad?
Insufficient data supplied.

What are you 'sad' about?

All the things you list as attempted 'solutions' are all external. If the problem is internal, the solution is unlikely to be externally found.

So, is it activated or not?

>>103926989
>does preallocation actually do more than reserve the space?
What more should be required? If there's space to wtite in one contiguous lump, why would it physically be written somewhere else?

>>103926901
>The serial number into the manufacturers database *should* be a foolproof method.

You'd think, but clearly not since two different people at asus support gae me different answers

>>103927012
loneliness, i grewup on /g/ since i was 12, im 25 now and dont have much point to live, i got my CS degree, i got the job, now i just sit at home and work and smoke all day, everyone is like naturally drawn away from me bros/hos all leave even if they are super into me at one point.
Thanks for reading my gay ass blog

>>103927129
>loneliness, i grewup on /g/ since i was 12, im 25 now and dont have much point to live
Seems generally unrelated. Co-incidental, more than causal.

>got my CS degree, i got the job, now i just sit at home and work and smoke all day
This is what happens when you suppose that your identity is entirely your job. You're pushed into this mindset by those who can benefit from it. If that's not enough for your happiness, what will be?

>everyone is like naturally drawn away from me bros/hos all leave even if they are super into me at one point.
Need moar data for productive analysis. Able to add much?

Y'can't be what erryone's lookin' for in a friend. What you can do, rather easily, is be you.
Unless you're a complete knobhead, that's usually enough for folk. If that aint, and you're not a completely abrasive obnoxious prick (like me) then that says a lot more about them, than it does you. People tend to be remarkably shallow creatures, especially in groups.

Tried finding 'shared interests'? Hobbies and suchwhat. Should expose you to more people, and amongst them you may find some of calibre.

>>103926972
How does that help? Its all running on your machine. If it digitally signs something on your computer then you would have access to the private key.

>>103927365
>If it digitally signs something on your computer then you would have access to the private key.
Really?
This explains why I can distribute my public key ½ and validate data (via un-encryption) signed by it using my private ½ then?

Even easier when the data to validate has a specified format when unencrypted.

>>103926346
he still has majority share and can't be fired

/dev/nvme0n1p3 is mounted on /
How is this self contained mounting possible?
How does /dev exist before /

>>103926979
>Copy and paste.
Totally legit answer right here, lol. As if Copy+Paste never would have crossed my mind if I sat there myself staring at the PDF in a viewer. No, I obviously need to automate this.

>the real question is why you would want it.
Literally unimaginable why I would want to do such a thing...

>>103927129
why do you smoke ? what you're missing is purpose, and thats in finding Christ, you're free to scoff at my advice and also free to go to hell.

>>103927029
well torrents aren't written in a contiguous fashion, files are downloaded and written to disk on a per-piece fashion, which are usually much smaller than the files in the torrent, on a CoW filesystem, typically this means pieces are written one after the other, which sounds good, but the pieces aren't downloaded in the order of the file they're a part of, so when you go to use the completed file, it's all out of order; fragmented.
basically, what CoW does is write everything in order, even if what's being written is not in order, which is why you have to take special consideration when dealing with programs that make many random writes, such as torrents, virtual machine disc images, databases, etc.

>>103927474
i don't think that /dev is the same /dev mounted under /
normally what happens is your initramfs is used as /, and it mounts /dev in that, then it mounts your real on-disc root from there and then calls chroot to switch linux to the on-disc root, and from there your distro boots

>>103926252
After searching around I think the answer is yes, they are tracking parameters.

Bonus question:
What is ld= used for in a youtube URL? Tracking as well?
Note: LD= (it's lower-case L above, not upper-case i)

>>103927489
And you can't automate copy and paste? I wouldn't, as there's easier ways, but the condition holds true.

For example the clearly defined specification to .pdf that allows it to render uniformly across clients can also be used to extract the data from within said .pdf. As that's essentially what it's doing.

>Literally unimaginable why I would want to do such a thing...
Well I struggled to find a legitimate reason - beyond clits n tickles - to take a perfectly suitable image and reduce the data quality by rendering it as ASCII. But there again, I'm not retarded so the sort of thing a spastic will think is clever will never occur to me.

If you'd provisioned reasoning I could of possibly understood - or more likely, offered a better solution than feeding the extracted images into an ASCII converter.

>>103901125
does anyone have any of the stupid cryptography/hacking puzzle images? I remember there was a wave of them either here or /b/ a few years ago. a friend read about 3301 and thinks he's gonna solve one. the one with "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER" caesar ciphered across the top would be good but I'll take anything.

>>103927505
>what you're missing is purpose, and thats in finding Christ
Evidenced, how? For both missing the purpose, and that somehow this resolves to a magical jewish zombie.

>you're free to scoff at my advice
Oh, I do. But not as much as I scoff at you. Not only for being simple enough to seek external validation from a mythical entity, but for suggesting that's a productive method that could work for anything but the least capable of independant thought.

>also free to go to hell
Okay, lets pretend this is an actual thing. I'd want to go to hell. That's where all the cool people gonna be at. Heaven (despite being described as a vessel with a fixed volume) is gonna be filled with dribbling retards at best. Hell will be a much more interesting place...

>>103927585
>well torrents aren't written in a contiguous fashion
I neglected to consider this - tyvm for pointing out my deficit.

>>103926595
king shit

>>103927765
you're all good, it's something completely hidden so you'd have to have spent time learning how they work technically to even know

>>103927765
>>103927809
well, it's kinda hinted at, but you'd have to put 2 and 2 together. i don't think i've seen a torrent client actually mention fragmentation or why you might want to use its' preallocation option, much less anything to do with CoW considering the closest thing to a popular CoW filesystem is BTRFS, and that's still basically a literally who when it comes to normal people computers

>>103927754
>Okay, lets pretend this is an actual thing. I'd want to go to hell. That's where all the cool people gonna be at. Heaven (despite being described as a vessel with a fixed volume) is gonna be filled with dribbling retards at best. Hell will be a much more interesting place...
this reminded me of Little Nicky, and you're reminded of it/have now heard of it too.

>>103927809
I *should* of known that. I know how torrents work. Failure in applied thinking on my part.

>>103927840
Pre-allocation is good to prevent loading up a few thousand torrents then finding out where you're throwin' 'em doesn't have enough space.

What does "solid state" mean in SSD? Why aren't USB drives "solid state", they both use flash chips, right?
And what are the actual differences between a USB drive and a SSD, apart from the obvious ones like form factor, connection protocol, etc.?

>>103928422
Usually SSD means it has high write speed / endurance where normal USB drives are low cost removable storage. It's an arbitrary turn of phrase.

>>103922173
Any particular budget?

>>103923421
They have gotten a lot better now especially for language related stuff

>>103925229
Double check it cause you will get an idea which parts the AI does well and which parts it completely missed

>>103928422
>>103928459
Both use flash for storage but SSDs have more stuff under the hood like load balancing and caching.

Does anyone know of a way to use multiple computers on the same network with access to the same smb share to coordinate encoding a handbrake queue? Trying to render out a bunch of old video to x265 for storage. Not one video with 3 pcs, but more so pc 1 takes video 1 in queue, pc 2 takes 2, and so on, taking the next from the pile when finished. I have been doing it manually when it's easy to do so but it would be nice to have something like that. Most of what I've been able to see on google is out of my depth and seems to be related to rendering a single video in chunks with multiple pcs

>>103925987
>What's the best offline PDF to Text converter?
PDFtk

>And is there a way to somehow convert images in the PDF to ascii representations (even if you can't see shit)?
You'd likely have to use different tools to extract the images and then convert it to ASCII

>>103928422
>What does "solid state" mean in SSD?
In essence, it's the chips. As opposed to other storage methods of the time, things like analog magnetics on tapes or digital on floppies (that were actually floppy). "solid state" storage predates SSD's and flash drives. It was rare back then 'cause it was expensive. It's only when it became cheap did it start appearing on USB sticks, which also gained the name 'flash drives' 'cause of the chips.

>>103926937
What do you really want to do?

>>103926937
Try to meet people, there are platforms like Meetup. You can get more ideas on what to o with life when you get inputs from different people

>>103927018
Looks like it was previously activated and that expires on 18th Jan?

>>103927129
>everyone is like naturally drawn away from me bros/hos all leave even if they are super into me at one point.
Try growing yourself on all fronts. Hit the gym, travel, get a new hobby etc

>>103928534
Essentially, your issue is distributing the workload across the machines?

All these machines can access the same shared pool of data, so then your problem is reduced to making sure each machine isn't processing a file another has already done.... Prolly a few ways to do this.

"easiest" that springs to mind is to have an 'index file' referenced in a script. Get the script to feed in from the datastore, and as it picks up a file to transcode, put an entry in the index (prolly want to have an indicator for processing/processed). Have the script check the index and take the next logical one in sequence after the last entry. Then as one machine picks up a file to transcode, you can start the next machine off and in theory it should pick up the next file in the list. Then start the next machine off... Only issue I can see with that from top of head is if they all conclude an operation at the same time and look to the 'index' before the other independant copy of the script running has put in it's "processing" entry.

Does the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI) matter at all once the OS is loaded?

>>103927746
https://github.com/cicada-solvers/The-Complete-Cicada3301-Archive?utm_source=chatgpt.com

>>103928635
Not once the OS is loaded. It might matter with regards to getting the OS loaded initially.

>>103916199
Is it really fading or is it just how the music is?

>>103928635
No. Being booted in UEFI-mode shows up but it's not relevant for the end user.
>>103927474
You are likely using initramfs, that's your "/" before /dev/nvme0n1p3 got mounted in its place.
And even if you weren't using initramfs, the kernel can do /dev by itself. And even if it didn't, your init will mount /dev.
Basic init process:
-mount /proc, /dev and /sys
-mount / as read-write
-load modules
-etc

>>103928524
Flash drives have that too. They even have discard operations now. SSD is just a heavy / light duty distinction. There's no functional difference.

>>103928723
>Flash drives have that too. They even have discard operations now.
If that's true, why are external SSDs even sold today?

>>103928620
What you said makes sense to me, but I'm a no programming retard who uses handbrake because I don't want to use cli lol. Maybe I should use this as a reason to learn ffmpeg scripting and the batch files w/e that would be required for it

>>103928741
I just told you in the next sentence esl

>>103928779
ffmpeg is dolly dimple, really. Don't be apheared of the command line any. It's your friend, and can make life so much easier than the narrow scope of options a GUI can provide.

The scripts are just sequences of commands, essentially. Just need to get a lil algebraic to be able to feed in variables - like filenames/paths.

If you'd find it easier, you can likely find an easily modifyable script in existence to ffmpeg a batch of files in a folder - if they all getting the same output that's hard to get any easier. You could split the load on the storage end, then point each machine at it's own load to process...

>>103926590
thanks anon

>>103928675
That one's a bit iffy, it does seem to lose its audio level compared to my headphones though (or playing through other devices). The one from my original post is clearly fading on the speakers though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGHO-bxXbs (0:54)
I've found another one where it seems to shart itself in the meantime. I'd saved a mashup from YT that was a rip, funnily enough for this one the OST version won't "drown" like what I'd saved, but it happened when the effects at 0:26, 0:29 would kick in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHcg_UOPCw
I'd wager these three have things in common, but I don't want to sound like a fool wrongly describing music technicalities. I mean I could try recording the sound with my phone if necessary though I'm not sure it will help much.

>>103928479
>You)
under 100 bucks

I love watching movies on my 15.6 inch 1080p laptop. I plan to buy a pc and 24 inch 1080p monitor. will it look shittier because the screen is bigger but resolution is the same?

>>103928990
Check out MikroTik hAP ac lite or TP-Link Archer C7

If those options do not meet your requirements, consider using a pigtail adapter to connect your directional SMA antenna to a router with fixed external antennas. This will allow you to utilize your existing antenna without the need for built-in SMA connectors.

>>103929234
Should be fine for the most part. You might notice more artifacts from a lower bitrate moview from pirate sites

Is magpie a good alernative to Lossless if i dont care about Framegen?

>>103928534
>>103928620
Isn't this what Tdar was created specifically for?

>>103928635
I think resizable bar needs UEFI. At least, most motherboards need it to enable.

>>103928635
Some things like bitlocker network unlock don't work when booting a MBR (BIOS) disk. I'm not even sure you can use windows 11 with master boot record.

Is the internet protocol "overseeing" all the other protocols used for communication, like HTTP or TCP?
Is it like the fundamental of network communication, and the 2 already mentioned protocols are used for specific communication?

Computer noob here. I got a google security alert saying that my routerlogin.net password was exposed in a breach and should be changed. Is this legit? What does it mean?

How painful is it to learn and implement zfs?
I want to run a home virtualization server, and I want to do it right.

>>103929789
It means that you used Google's password manager to save a password (this happens every time you get a pop-up from Google asking if you want to save your password and you click yes), and they found that password along with any other login credentials were hacked and are now floating on the dark web (probably)
If you don't care about routerlogin.net, this is no issue, unless you used a password and an e-mail that you use for everything else. Because then, anyone who obtains your breached login credentials can use them to try to login to any service, and if it works now they have your account (that has no connection to routerlogin.net whatsoever, apart from you using the same login credentials)
So basically, if you both don't care about your account on routerlogin.net and you are not logged in with the credentials you use anywhere else, you don't need to care. Otherwise, you should change your passwords (that are identical to the breached one). You can check exactly what the login that was breached is, by simply looking at your saved passwords in Google's password manager.
Also, fundamental internet security tip, don't use the same password for multiple services

>>103929845
Not very. If you try both I think you'll find btrfs is more practical for home users. ZFS is good for corpo use cases where they have regular hardware purchases and fixed lifecycle, but for home the 'just buy a new array' solution to scaling gets old really fast.

Is there any firewall program for Windows that would allow me to blacklist a whole folder? I'm fine with having to manually run a rescan for any new EXEs that appear there

I'm trying to figure out the best way to word this.

>Got old 2015 MacBook pro from friend
>Put Linux on it, all is good
>Decide to put windows on it so I can use clone hero for my drum kit
>Windows on Mac doesn't detect sound drivers or anything
>Look it up that it's an architecture issue with Macs of that time period

My question is, if I got a USB soundcard for the Mac would windows on it pick that up and allow for audio to go through that?

>>103930781
I'm pretty sure they don't sell USB sound cards, but usb DACs are a thing and it's likely that will work. If you're using physical instruments its probably worth it for the sound quality and/or mixing ability anyway.

>>103929765
On the internet it is, yes. That's why it's called "the internet" instead of "the TCP"

>>103926678
You sounds like you're a big fan of fried chicken.

>>103930781
Clone Hero doesn't work on linux? What?

just found a github repo of the first project i made 9 years ago, around 1k LOC and im getting panic attacks that ive gotten nowhere in the past 9 years....

why do i feel like its over bross... i cant stick to anything

>>103931244
So the IP functions together with the HTTP, but the TCP has nothing to do with IP?
If so, does that mean that programs that use TCP don't use my "IP address"? Or is that a term we use for anything that servers that purpose, even if it has nothing to do with the internet protocol

Can anyone identify this connector? From it's position, I think it's for an optical drive but I've never seen those in what appears to be SATA? Back when I used them it was all molex connectors and stuff...

>>103927711
>I'm not retarded
it's true that the dumber you are the more likely you are to think you're smart