>>108131829

I posted in last one I have had a few drinks I have nothing to gain this isn't an ad.

jjespage.xyz/archgamingfornoobs.html

Is this okay give me tips improvements.

I made it other night from website thread.

I am learning emacs and html, i am also learning python but i haven't added that to the site yet i had a few beers, please give me advice. its supposed to be easy for new people I'm new and it works for me.

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I am using a 7800x3d on a b850 asus mobo that has loadline calibration that goes from level 1 to level 4. If I set it to level 3 I can really push my pbo undervolt but from what I've read online raising the LLC beyond auto on Ryzen 7000/3d chips causes rapid degredation. Is it really that unsafe? My SOC voltage is only 1.25v and I thermal limit my temps to 80c so really how much extra voltage/heat would raising LLC cause

I am retarded mind you I just remember raising the LLC on an old mobo I had with a different CPU helped stabalize my OC so I decided to try it all I know it that it reduces the voltage drop under load to the CPU I think

>>108133167
as long as my CPU voltage doesnt spike at or above 1.3 its ok right? will hwinfo even detect these spikes from llc when switching from idle to load because im guessing theyre like really quick before it balances out. ill look soon im just busy and on the toilet thinking about it

>>108133167

ideally it should work as auto but maybe its safer to run it fixed high just look it up how high

msi x870e tomahawk
update the bios
onboard wifi is gone, it doesn't show up at all
I've tried resetting the cmos but it's still not showing up. It was working fine right before the bios update
there's no fix other than downgrading, right?

anyone got a link to the zim file to offline reddit for kiwix? I am trying to cut out online activity as much as I can and more often than not, someone asked whatever I am trying to look up on reddit. Or if there's something else like reddit, that'll work too. I know the file exists because I was tempted to download from kiwix's archive (pre AI shit) but never did. Now they don't have it. Snagged stack overflow before they pull that one

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why does mpv forget which monitor is which after a restart?

What's a good program to save the temperature of your PC components over time as graphs? I already have HWinfo installed but I don't see a way to save the graphs it can display as images

Also, what are some decent benchmarking tools that will also save/display average temperatures across the test?

I reinstalled my Linux operating system and accidentally copied the home folder that I backed up, back to the new installation using root. Now my non-elevated user can't open any apps or programs. How do I fix this?

>>108134309

sudo chown -R youruser:youruser /path/to/home

>>108134793
thanks, still having some issues with uid 1000 should be 1

>>108134946
0. Sorry

>>108133600
Unplug the power cord for an hour and see it it comes back.

>>108134173
>benchmarking tools
Phoronix Test Suite does that.

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>>108132858
I've been installing lots of pirated games on my PC and its probably full of malware

do I nuke the OS or is there another way to clean the system?

>>108134946
Are you trying to run something as root, or where does the message come from?

>>108135607
Run a virus scan from a live environment.

>>108135639
>Run a virus scan from a live environment.
like run some Linux OS from USB stick and check the main SSD while it is passive?

Is there anything wrong with using docker on my daily driver (linux)? It seems like the easiest way to install AI stuff for image gen and chatbots.

>>108135668
Yes, that.
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Kaspersky-Rescue-Disk.shtml

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>>108132858
what's the best way to copy 120GB of files from a smartphone?
>gdrive is full
>via USB Cable: Filemanager is freezing
>via Localsend error detected, starting all over just to have another error
> open in terminal to rsync: phone unmounts
wtf? what should i do? I just want my pictrures on my HDD

>>108135865
No, why would there be? Just keep in mind that the sandboxing isn't perfect, if you're running sketchy images.

>>108135890
Maybe try copying to a USB storage device directly from the phone. You can use a USB-C to USB-A adapter like the ones for Macbooks if necessary.

>>108135890
Syncthing
Samba share
MTP
KDE Connect

>>108135865
Don't run privileged containers and you'll be fine.

>>108135890
Strange. I don't see why USB cable and rsync or ftp don't work.
Maybe run rsync in a loop? Since it deduplicates anyway.

>>108135890
do the good ol' copy a few files at a time

>>108135607
Anon, getting malware from pirated games is literally impossible unless you download shit like roblox.alldlc.safe.exe or whatever shit faggots are into these days.

i want a tv with 120+hz for gaming. 40+ inches
budget is 500 euro, currently looking at the TCL 50Q7C, are there better options?

>>108133914
https://mpv.io/manual/master/#options-geometry

>>108136517
>>108133914
whoops

Core Configuration Options (mpv.conf)

    Set Default Screen: Use --screen=1 (or 0, 2, etc.) in your config file to choose which monitor mpv opens on by default.

I'll start troubleshooting on my end, but I want to ask here also if someone might have a clue of what's happening.

>W10 IoT LTSC
>4070 Super
>7600X
>32GB DDR5

Today after turning on my PC, a minute or two after it gets to desktop, the display shuts off and my PC fans start spinning to max speed and I have to do a hard reboot to stop it. I already tried cutting it off from electricity for a few minutes and even did a system recovery because yesterday a Windows update was pending and when I woke up today, it had already installed, but the issue persists even after the recovery. This is the very first actual issue I've had with my PC since I built it last year, so I'm pretty much clueless where to start and since I'm currently working, my attention is divided so I can't give it my full attention. My next plan is to check the BIOS and see if I have a system report that can help me see what's the issue, but if you have any pointers on how to proceed, I'd appreciate it.

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>>108136523
>>108136517
I've already got that going
mpv just chooses a different screen to be assigned 1 after restarts

>>108135890
adb pull, duh

>>108136566
Try memtest+ first. Random crashing is usually memory and PSU, and both usually test as bad memory.

I'm not sure what the best thread for this is, but I'm looking for a thermostat with enough smarts to do three things:
>Works offline indefinitely (i.e. company can't fuck with me by trying to add a subscription fee)
>Keeps logs of activity (how often it runs the heat, how often it runs the auxiliary heat since I have a heat pump, etc.)
>Is relatively easy to manually set a schedule for and won't try to automatically change settings out from under me
Does such a device exist?

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What should I use to flash librebooton a thinkpad (x230 and t430)? Do I need to buy a raspberry pi or can I use some USB programmer (flasher thingy). If I can get it from aliexpress even better.

>>108135639
No, I'm not trying to run anything as root, but it only has root privileges when it shouldn't have privileges. Like I said, I accidentally copied over these files as root so the permission stuck.

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>>108132858

I am considering switching to linux, but, i wanted to dip my toe first and try to live with it, but dont have a 3rd machine

I was thinking of getting a cheap laptop, but realized there are a ton of discounted chromebooks that can be permanently hacked to run linux, so i could run my experiment then keep it as a tablet or something since my ipad has a screen issue now anyway

i want to run ubuntu, so do you recommend i find a good chromebook or a regular laptop, i want best hardware for the buck and preferably good battery

>>108133095
You don't need an entire website to tell people to run two commands. Why would you even do this?

whats the best way to clone 1TB SSD to 4TB SSD without any issues, my mobo has 2 nvme ssd slots i could do it i just dont know whats the best tool, how will it correctly increase size of C etc

>>108137171
did or rsync. Just pick

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I'm playing with a nvidia tesla m60 GPU that I've crammed into an optiplex running xubuntu. Right now I'm using it with john the ripper and have both the GPU's on the card running at once but looking at the GPU clock speed I think I'm missing out on a lot of performance. Its running in the higher of the two performance modes, but the actual reported GPU clock frequency is way closer to the lower end of the range for that performance mode. Pic related. Its running at 588MHz instead of the maximum of 1177MHz. I don't think there is anything that would be bottlenecking me before GPU clock, so any idea why it isn't automatically clocking itself higher, and any ideas as to how I can persuade it to do so?

>>TLDR: Using tesla m60 datacenter GPU, but GPU clock is just barely faster than the minimum speed range for its current performance level. Why is that happening and how do I make it run closer to the maximum GPU clock speed for better performance?

>>108136855
I'll give it a try if the issue continues after I finally get to desktop, boot has been stuck in "Attempting repairs" for like an hour and I don't want to risk it and turn the PC off.

what kind of communication protocol is stoat.chat using?

What's the easiest fastest way to upload pics to some catbox or similar to generate a link I can post on IRC? Much preferred if I don't have to open it up on the browser and manually do it. Ideally should work with prints from the clipboard.

Buying my first VPS, HestiaCP, CloudPanel or CyberPanel? It's mainly for a little school service (no WordPress, pure php) and little side projects for myself with node.js and stuff.

4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 16TB bandwidth, 200 NVME.

>>108136924
It's definitely possible to set up yourself, I don't know if it's easy to buy one out of the box
In general for smart devices, look for zigbee devices, those will almost always work fine offline and don't need a remote server because the zigbee wireless connection has no expectation of allowing any sort of internet connection.
Logging activity can be done in HAS for example if the thermostat doesn't support it natively, assuming you find one that's non-server-based and HAS compatible.

>>108137147
You can dualboot

>>108137924
Write a script that grabs an image from your clipboard, curls catbox and then inserts the returned URL into your clipboard. Bind that script to a global keybind
How you do it will depend on whether you're using X or Wayland

>>108138062
Wayland. Is there a ready made script for it? I suppose this is quite a common thing, so maybe there is.

What is most likely to be the issue if my WLAN controller doesn't seem to function at all after returning the computer from sleep? I did not install any updates and have had zero connectivity issues beforehand, up to just about an hour before.

>>108137960
those specs are too high for what you intend to use. not an issue if money isn't a concern but if it is, you could get away with so much lower

>>108137515
That's a problem enhancer in your PC's current state. Turn it off and find the root cause first. Use different storage for troubleshooting if you don't want to lose what's on your boot drive.

>>108136566
>>108138220
Thank you. I was able to return to desktop and so far it's working again after like an hour of repairing, then a few more minutes after restarting and trying to restore again, but I'm still wary so I'll keep troubleshooting. Unfortunately I only have one SSD, I wanted to get a second one at the end of last year, but we all know what happened.

Speaking about memtest+, which one should I be downloading? I get https://memtest.org/ and https://www.memtest86.com/ when googling it.

>>108138446
memtest.org

>>108138446
You can install an OS on whatever shitty thumb drive. Definitely memtest. You don't need a full SSD to boot for a few hours and run some diagnostics.

>>108138562
>>108138569
Got it, thank you. Yes, I see I can boot it from a USB so I'll work on that later, and just to be on the safe side I'll also look into blocking Windows Updates which I should have done months ago because I'm pretty damn sure that might have been the issue since it installed by itself when I had selected not to when I shut off my PC yesterday.

i torrented a lot of software and noticed.tons of groupswith admin oriviledges on my win 11. also lots of expired certificates, what do either of them imply?

>>108138127
As an update, it seems that the wlan device is now working, but now I can't seem to use dhcp for whatever reason. Again, I have not changed any config.

>>108138654
Vendor software created groups and old certificates from canned software?

>>108138027
What does HAS stand for in this context? I'm not able to find it.

>>108139194
Home Assistant

>>108139201
Man, this all looks extremely complicated and involves buying more hardware than just the thermostat itself. As much as I hate it, I'm starting to lean towards just buying a Nest and calling it a day.

>>108139271
Almost nobody makes thermostats that are their own servers. They will either connect to the cloud or to your own server.
It's not complicated to install, you can just buy a cheapo raspberry pi (you don't need the latest most expensive one, at all) and flash Home Assistant OS on it, plug it in next to your router and basically forget about it.

sometimes my download speed gets slow (from 25mbps to 300mbps) until I reset my ISP gateway/router
what causes this?

>>108139441
me
im in your walls, using your wifi

>>108139441
If it's on wifi it's probably just not choosing a reasonable frequency when your neighbors come home and start using the internet. Otherwise I would assume their combo box is about to die. If you lease it from them this is a good time to roll up to their office and ask for a new one. Could also be bad firmware or bizarre routing issue on their part, but there's nothing you can do about that other than call to complain because they'll never directly acknowledge either.

What's a good site to make an educational blog?
The theme of the blog would be about reducing e-waste, repairing electronics, maintaining computers and phones, and advising consumers on which products are the most future-proof atm
It would be aimed at the tech illiterate but also at the hobbyist

some basic requirements
>embed images
>have a tag system or a category system (or both)
>have a search system

>>108139930
chat.openai.com

>>108139930
>>108139936
oh and also one where its easy for other people to collaborate and create posts, so it wouldnt be a blog for just 1 writer but for several

So far my buddy proposed Github Pages, Notion, or just good ol wordpress

>>108139930
>>108139984
Unironically github pages yeah. You'd need to set up in your CI a generator to turn your documents into HTML (assuming you don't want to write your blogposts directly as HTML, and why would you). Collaboration would be as simple as other people committing to the repo.

Notion fucking sucks because as far as I know there's no way to make a "notion blog" that doesn't come with the fucking humongous JS "app", it is EXTREMELY heavy - it's slow to load and render even on my workstation that I use for compiling. You also cannot change the style or format at all as far as I'm aware, so your blog always look like someone's Notion page that they shared publicly.

Wordpress is fine but IMO kind of overkill. Also you'd still need to figure out hosting. I mean a basic webhost runs like $3/month which is almost nothing, but when Github Pages is right there and is free, I don't see a reason.

>>108139306
I have a laptop that I'm using as a media server that already has a wifi adapter, running Ubuntu (technically xubuntu). It still seems rather complicated.

>>108137960
You can always scale up, start smaller.
As for control panels, consider Plesk.

>>108137924
Clipboard actions on KDE can run any command either automatically or when invoked manually. I wrote a few actions to check and convert SSL certificates.

>>108136924
You don't need a thermostat, but a decent boiler, the good ones come with Zigbee and you simply add them to your Zigbee gateway, the same one that all your sensors, sockets and lightbulbs are connected to.
Same goes for the heat pump or air conditioner.

>>108137048
you can use 1vyrain to flash coreboot. i used it to flash canoeboot on x230 and it works just fine

>>108140018
thanks for the input, me and my partners will discuss this in detail in our next meeting
Best regards

>>108140093
Zigbee gateways are USB adapters, you can attach them to any computer.

>>108139984
>for other people to collaborate and create posts
You're getting into Wiki territory. Probably something like Wordpress/Drupal will do.

>>108140304
we're like 4-6 colaborators at the most

hello niggers hello trannies,
did anyone else notice that the archive.org search got better?
also where the hell are all those "samples only" audio uploads? 1. removed entirely which means the unrestricted ones are listed at the top now ? or 2. they just eliminated most of the samples fuckery and unlocked those files? i know some whatever artists i never heard of still have the locked audio uploads but there used to be much more of these

>>108140304
>Zigbee gateways are USB adapters
God, I tried to look into this, but the more I do, the more complicated it gets. This shit is impenetrable.

is there ANY POINT AT ALL to putting an humidifier on the top floor when you live in a 2 floor house?
afaik humidity occurs at the bottom, and the hot dry air would raise to the top floor anyway and displace the humid air, is that right?

>>108141162
sorry typo

is there ANY POINT AT ALL to putting an DEHUMIDIFIER on the top floor when you live in a 2 floor house? afaik humidity occurs at the bottom, and the hot dry air would raise to the top floor anyway and displace the humid air, is that right?

what are some free (without ads, but preferably open source too) games designed for seniors (aka old people)?
something like matching tiles, jigsaw, simplified, etc. All I can find is riddled with ads

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>>108141249

>>108141163
If you have good air circulation in the house a dehumidifier anywhere will eventually drop the entire house's humidity.

>>108141335
I dont think i have good air circulation, theres no AC or forced ventilation at all

air leaks from the outside in the entrance door (its not air-tight) and from the ventilation in the kitchen, the rest of the house is pretty much sealed shut unless you open a window

>>108141163
dehumidifiers generate heat, if you're worried about that. An air conditioning unit dehumidifies and cools, and since its your top floor you probably want that instead. A dehumidifier is good for a basement where the interior of the home is cooler than the exterior causing condensation, and you can afford a little extra heat as a byproduct.

>>108140018
>>108140280
I second the github pages thing, a moderately technical person could set it up and your business partner only has to learn markdown to make a blog post.
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/

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how to stop this shit
no I'm not logged into youtube

>>108132858
How can I run any program (appimage GUI) and restrict its filesystem access to a whitelist, and restrict it's network to internet only (no LAN access)?

I am trying to run some electron based LLM tools I don't trust.

Firejail, bubblewrap, VMs have all be tried. They either don't work with electron, or are too tiresome/difficult to set up.

Does Linux seriously not have a method of achieving such a basic (probably not simple) task??

I have too many doubts X11docker will work to even try it out, so I'm asking here so I can save some headache.

I've considered creating a separate user like cursoruser and claudeuser, but the number of directories I'll have to modify permissions for is exhausting to consider

>>108142417
> restrict its filesystem access to a whitelist, and restrict it's network to internet only (no LAN access)?
run it under another user that doesn't have access to permissions to your sensitive files

>Does Linux seriously not have a method of achieving such a basic (probably not simple) task??
Both Windows and LInux have folder permissions

>I've considered creating a separate user like cursoruser and claudeuser, but the number of directories I'll have to modify permissions for is exhausting to consider
oh, carry on then

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>>108141493
Your local flac/opus collection bruh?

>>108142417
Firejail. It works with electron. Idk what you're doing wrong, but you're doing something wrong. Check the man page under --join-network for a non-local network recipe.

>>108141162
>>108141163
Dehumidifiers have a limit to how much floor space they can work with, 25 sq.m is pushing it for a decent unit. They work best in enclosed spaces.
Hot air contains more water than cold air, so putting the dehumidifier higher is probably better – radiators heat up he air, it sucks up humidity from nearby surfaces and rises, to the ceiling, some of it escaping to the upper floor (through the door?) where the dehumidifier can process it.
But that means a big ass dehumidifier, at which point it probably becomes a big ass air conditioner. It will cost a lot.

>>108141249
KDE Games is a big collection.
Number Munchers.
Zuma, you could search for the entire PopCap Games collection on torrents or Internet Archive. Reflexive Arcade collection. In this order.

>>108142417
>restrict it's network to internet only
Not really possible unless you have a separate computer and a guest WiFi network set up.
Everything else can be done with either AppArmor/SELinux or bubblewrap.

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so i am a special kind of stupid and dont understand networking at all, but i want to isolate a 3d printer on my network so that only computers physically wired to my switch can access it, while still allowing all devices wired to the switch to access the internet. the switch in question is a tp link TL-SG108E. im able to make vlans, but any configuration ive tried between port-based or 802.1Q allows the printer to communicate within the vlan, but then isolates that vlan and its devices from the internet.

i cant do shit with the router itself because its some fuckass comcast job and theyve updated the firmware to require installing their mobile app to do literally anything with the router which is never going to happen. does anyone here know how i could go about doing this? i could set up basic auth or a reverse proxy on the printer itself because its some voron running debian and nginx to serve mainsail, but i dont want to do that if i can just do something on a switch.

How do you anons organize your files?

>>108143789
cats, porn, and other

>>108143518
>i want to isolate a 3d printer on my network so that only computers physically wired to my switch can access it
>while still allowing all devices wired to the switch to access the internet
Is the printer itself wired or wireless? I understood you don't want any wireless devices access to the 3D printer nor you want the 3D printer to access the internet, right?
What goes to the 3D printer's internet access, it's fairly easy: configure the printer's IP manually and leave the gateway unconfigured. Assumed the printer has a console or something, idk shit about 3D printers.

>i cant do shit with the router itself because its some fuckass comcast job
Right. The functionality you are looking for is VLAN.

Im building a PC with a 5070ti and getting a 2000Watts AVR. The socket is too far from my dekstop though. Can I just plug my stuff to the AVR and then plug the AVR into an extension so it reaches the socket?

>>108143518
Is your goal to block internet access for the printer? This can only be done on the router.
VLANs would work to isolate the printer completely from the other computers and the internet, but then you need the router to route traffic between VLANs otherwise you can't access the printer from computers.

>>108143824
the printer is some variety of voron. its a linux sbc at heart, so it can be considered just a normal computer. it has both wireless and wired connectivity. i connected it to my network over wifi initially, but then routed an ethernet cable to it from my switch and used nmcli to delete the wifi connection. i do want it to have access to the internet for updates (this is safe because of the routers firewall), i just only want devices that are physically wired into the same switch to be able to access it via ip while also allowing everything on the switch to access the internet. mainsail (the web ui for the printer) is unauthenticated by default, so anyone can nmap and connect to it and do literally anything with it without restriction, which is a big fat no no.

really, i just want to prevent anything thats not in the same room as it from connecting to it. im not able to manually set ips of connected devices with the TL-SG108E, only its own ip.

>>108143909
>prevent anything thats not in the same room as it from connecting to it
So a VLAN for your room. But that doesn't give that VLAN internet access because your router doesn't have VLAN support.
Verdict: not possible.

>>108143852
Yes.

>>108143904
no, just preventing anything on the lan thats not physically plugged into the switch from accessing the printer, while still allowing everything on the switch to access the internet. i live with other people and dont want them fucking with my expensive toy.

in the not-so-near future im going to be switching isps and getting my own managed router, so thats a solution i could use eventually.

>>108143909
If it's plain old Linux you can do some firewalling, based on physical Ethernet addresses (MACs) or IPs. What you'd do is allow your trusted computer and the gateway.
>im not able to manually set ips of connected devices with the TL-SG108E, only its own ip
Obviously, the switch shouldn't be a DHCP server. Doesn't it have VLAN functionality at all? Thought that was the main selling point of "managed" switches.

>>108143930
so i guess understanding better, i can vlan all i want on the switch, but the router itself will need to switch packets further up in the network between the vlans? meaning i need a managed router, and the switch itself can only do the isolation and not the networking between vlans? how do tagged vlans fit into this?

>>108143935
firewalling would also definitely work.
Obviously, the switch shouldn't be a DHCP server. Doesn't it have VLAN functionality at all? Thought that was the main selling point of "managed" switches.
it does have vlan functionality (mtu vlan, port-based vlan, 802.1q vlan, and 802.1q pvid vlan). i dont know anything about any of these and id rather not spend tens of hours of reading docs and literature to learn it when i can change nginx confs and have basic auth working.

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>>108143971
VLAN is just fancy way of saying that the switching chip is doing MAC-based firewalling. It's fast and cost effective as it happens on the switching chip itself without bothering the host OS, the MANAGEMENT THING you are using when doing configuration.

>>108143971
>tagged vlans
Not VLANS, but ports. It means that each Ethernet frame on that port is tagged with a VLAN ID and all other traffic (untagged or different ID) is dropped by the switch before it reaches that port.
>the router itself will need to switch packets further up in the network between the vlans
Correct. A VLAN is a virtual LAN, and a LAN is a broadcast domain, so VLAN = virtual broadcast domain. Ethernet frames can't cross broadcast domain boundary so you need a router to route between these separate networks.
Since you're tagging the frames with their VLAN ID, the router can be plugged either into multiple ports (one for each VLAN ID you want it to see) or one port that is configured as trunk (meaning it does not do any filtering and passes traffic from all VLANs).
>i need a managed router
A router that supports VLANs, yes. Many WiFi routers have VLAN, just make sure the model you're interested in advertises it.

>>108144129
>>108144253
it seems like the easiest solution is just doing basic auth with nginx until ive got a better network setup that i actually control. since the printer isnt connected over wifi there wont be any unecrypted packets going over the air (the default config for the printer is only http) so basic auth wont fuck me over. its not in my monetary or time budget to buy new hardware or learn enough about networking to get this shit working beyond "this box turns one ethernet port into 7 ethernet ports". thanks, i ap[preciate the input.

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If I disabled my main OS SSD through BIOS and then use another SSD to test malware, will my main OS files be safe? What if I enable bitlocker?

Should I go dumpster diving to find old pc parts like keyboard, monitor and mouse?

>>108144669
you can find that shit for free or damn near close on craigslist or at thrist stores

>>108137417
dishonorably bumping this...

>>108144253
>Many WiFi routers have VLAN
All consumer routers have a managed switch. Some have gigacucked firmware.

>>108141493
yt-dlp
newpipe

>>108142417
I've heard of containers being easy to set up with some shit like Incus. Never done it myself yet.

>>108144570
>disable through BIOS
Are you disabling the actual port (i.e. the SATA or NVMe port it's plugged in to)? If so then it should be safe, basically as good as unplugged. Bitlocker is irrelevant then.
Bitlocker would be relevant if your SSD was still accessible somehow (e.g. if by "disabling" you just mean removing it as a boot option, or something, rather than completely disabling the port it's plugged in to). But it still wouldn't be safe, it would prevent the malware from reading your files but not from e.g. just wiping them entirely.

>>108145842
>Are you disabling the actual port (i.e. the SATA or NVMe port it's plugged in to)? If so then it should be safe, basically as good as unplugged. Bitlocker is irrelevant then.
btw do you mean unplugging? because I haven't tried yet but I think there is an option to disable the actual port in the BIOS, like you said.

Is core unparking fake bullshit? If not, does it reduce CPU lifespan?

>>108145984
what's that

>>108146168
Your OS stops using some of the cores on your processor when they're not in use as to reduce power consumption, and only starts them back up on demand, which isn't instant and makes things slower than if all cores were active and ready at all times (i.e. unparked).
There are programs that claim to forcefully keep all processor cores active all the time to make your system more responsive.

>>108143431
i have a room in the groudn floor where i can literally see just rocks and uneven dirt below the floorboards, i think im gonna need a permanent dehumidifier in that area

i hate this fucking house and my grandparents and parents were cheapskates on every reform they did
makes me wonder if it would be better to just sell the fucking thing and get a cheap apartment, but i cant do that for now anyway

worst of all its almost constantly in the shade during winter, the outer walls suck up moisture from the ground and it rises up creating spots all over the wall inside the house, and we live in a very rainy region so its a constant problem

ive already lost some laptops to humidity issues

>>108132858
I run Linux but I'm getting kinda tired of constantly having to troubleshoot older games that have very little to no support on how to get running in the modern day.
Which way is the best to go about it? I heard that Windows deletes GRUB if they are on the same hard drive, so should I just add a new internal drive that is only windows? Should I just buy an old as fuck laptop to play the games on? I don't really want to touch windows 11 if I don't have too. Thoughts?

>>108146440
Consider running windows in a VM. Older games are presumably not going to push your hardware to its limits so the overhead should be fine, and it's always going to be more convenient than having to reboot entirely every time you want to switch between linux and windows.

I unscrewed all my screws in my laptop but I can't open it up to clean the fans. What do I do? I tried to shim it with a paper bookmark but no dice

>>108146561
Look for a video of some random pajeet opening the same model.

>>108146485
If I go VM would it be safe to say the older the windows OS I use the less resources it would use? I used to have a windows 10 VM but it would lag when I played games on it, presumable because W10 is a resource hog and is heavy as fuck?

>>108145897
>basically as good as unplugged
sorry I missed that part lol I understand what you mean now. I'll give it a try thanks

>rig is five years old
>runs fine
>parts are becoming more and more expensive because FUCK YOU
Am I wrong in at least thinking of something newer because of age or am I just being retarded?

>>108146440
Can you give an example? My experience is you can install pretty much any older game with just distro provided wine builds and it usually works better than Windows. Maybe consult appdb.winehq or protondb for pertinent winetricks verbs.

>>108146591
It's slow because guest GPU sucks shit.

>>108146938
I wouldn't think about proactive replacement until at least 10 years

>>108146973
Yeah but for many older games people just tell me to "use proton" which isn't that helpful when I don't want to use steam to play the game.
>>108146973
>It's slow because guest GPU sucks shit.
So would that mean that older versions of Windows would run faster?

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I know this is supposed to be the stupid *questions* thread, but what I'm about to regale could count as a potential answer to some GRUB-related issues.
>have a Linux Mint (ubuntu-based pleb variant) PC with 3 displays including one of those NVIDIA G-synced 4K displays
>have been having a big issue where the picture wouldn't come up until the login screen, so there'd be no splash screen nor GRUB menu
>thought it was my grub settings or my NVIDIA drivers
>ended up having to timeshift many times because any time I tried installing the newest open source driver, the picture would just dick out and glitch out, or just not come on at all
>decided to just swap display cables one day
>take out the HDMI cable that I had used recently (one of those high-speed cables that came with my 4K display, connected to a DP-HDMI adapter)
>reboot PC
>my issue the whole time was having two of those super duper quick cables at the same time
LOL

>>108146440
>Windows deletes GRUB
No, it never touches GRUB in any way.

>>108146938
New top-end CPUs and RAM would be about twice as fast, but really it's up to you to decide. Shit's crazy expensive.
I'm holding on to my 3800X with 64GB RAM and RX 5600XT.

>>108147255
You don't need to use steam to use proton, any modern wine wrapper will let you use it.
Did you even try plain "umu-run blah.exe"? It has a very high success rate for me when running games that aren't on Steam.

>>108147255
Proton is bad for old games because they're constantly adding stuff for new games and breaking legacy. I don't even engage with it unless it's Steamplay(R) Certified or I know I specifically need some bleeding edge magic. UE5 slop runs fine in Fedora system wine. Just winetricks vkd3d; done.
>So would that mean that older versions of Windows would run faster?
Or turn off all the 3D accelerated UI stuff in newer Windows, or PCIe passthrough a spare video card. IME VMs without passthrough are a bad compatibility environment for games. Unless you're talking about something like PCem with specific vintage hardware emulation.

>>108147503
>No, it never touches GRUB in any way.
NTA but I have heard about it overwriting the boot sectors and thereby overwriting GRUB, replacing it with the default windows bootloader. Possibly on some updates perhaps. Never experienced it myself so I don't know if it's an urban myth or not but I have definitenly heard of this possibility many times before and it sounds entirely plausible

>make account
>look at IP, location, data about browser/PC and other info they collect in settings
How do they manage to get it that wrong?

where did /csg/ go?

>>108148350
Counter-Stirke General?

>>108148106
>overwriting the boot sectors
That only applies to BIOS booting, and yes, every OS under the sun overwrites the boot sector when installed on a BIOS machine.
It's neither Windows specific nor relevant in 2010+16.
Can Windows 10/11 even be installed on a BIOS computer?

>>108145808
>>108142417
>>108142483
>>108142574
>>108143468
I got filesystem access configurable through apparmor. It's pretty slick. I don't have to install anything, or fuck around with users and groups and their permissions. Just whitelist what needs access and execute the program. Any program. GUI or other.

I have more testing with firejail to do. Maybe I can get it to work.

>>108148356
chink shit general

>>108148396
I never understood the appeal of that general if i'm honest

Is there any reverse image search tool that doesn't suck or it's ogre?

>Decided i want to play a game
>download factorio
>runs like shit on neauveux drivers
>3 lines in my system flake changes it to nvidia drivers for my gtx1070
>just works
god i love nixos.

>>108148636
the 10-series runs like shit on nouveau in general afaik
older gens got reverse-engineered and newer gens are more open somehow but those ones specifically will probably never have good open source drivers.

>>108148389
Well done anon.
I use AppArmor to stop one program from creating a useless directory under $HOME on every run.

why do my startup programs on windows 11 load slower when my laptop is not plugged in? they take like 5 minutes to load after signing in. when plugged in it's much faster.

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which ewaste tablet should I get for reading manga in bed (can't be bigger than this) and watching videos on plane flights?

How come the exact same speakers or earphones will sound different depending on if it's connected to my PC via audio jack vs USB C?

Is there a way to "swap" how it sounds with either input?

I'm on Windows 11

Since there doesn't seem to be a csg right now

I want two LED bars that'll run off a single driver so I can switch them both simultaneous. Needs to be able to operate when mounted vertically on the wall.

How do I find that and how much should I pay?

is there a captcha helper userscript of some sort? i could've sworn i saw one floating around

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My dad's computer keeps saying no boot volume detected, but the SSD is recognized in bios and the boot order says it's first
that in itself is troubling but I made some windows usbs to try and repair the installation, and they do this and hang until black screen
I have made multiple bootable usbs at this point, redownloaded and tried mutliple ISOs,verified the hashes, tried windows 10 & 11, pro edition and iot ltsc, I've tried making it with ventoy, rufus, the official windows media creation tool. These usbs all work completely fine on my computer. I also made a linux mint bootable usb the same way and it DID work on my dad's computer. The Windows isos are all from Microsoft's website, and again, they work fine on my computer. What the fuck are these arches? Why does it get stuck on the loading screen? Why did linux mint work (it also showed the SSD and it's file system intact.)

>>108149285
USB-C typically isn't analog. You're probably comparing 2 different DACs. Even if it is, PCs have all kinds of interference issues with internal analog audio lines. Unless you did something with the audio drivers or system sound filters you haven't mentioned, there's probably no way to swap how the ports sound.

>>108149339
>why?
Dunno. Boot the linux USB, then back up your dad's files, then do a complete reinstall.

>>108148962
Thank you, it took 5 hours to learn and configure. Here is the result

include <tunables/global>
# Apparmor profile for Cursor appimage
# This file lives at:
#    /etc/apparmor.d/cursor.apprun
#
# AppRun is a script that's extracted from the .AppImage after running:
#    /path/to/appimage --appimage-extract
#
# Reload and run the Cursor AppRun starter script with:
#     sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/cursor.apprun && ./AppRun --no-sandbox
#
# Summary:
# - denies filesystem access most important things
# - allows some internet access
# - allows browser sign in with Librewolf


/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun {
  include <abstractions/dbus-session>
  include <abstractions/evince>
  include <abstractions/xdg-open>

  deny capability dac_override,
  deny capability dac_read_search,
  deny capability net_admin,
  deny capability sys_admin,
  deny capability sys_ptrace,

  network unix dgram,
  network unix stream,

  signal receive set=cont peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,
  signal receive set=kill peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,
  signal send set=cont peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,
  signal send set=kill peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,
  signal send set=term peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,

  deny ptrace read peer=librewolf,
  deny ptrace read peer=snap.code.code,
  deny ptrace read peer=snap.snapd-desktop-integration.snapd-desktop-integration,
  deny ptrace read peer=unconfined,

 

>>108149713

ptrace read peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,
  ptrace trace peer=/media/dolphin/games/cursor/cursor/AppRun,

  deny /etc/shadow rw,
  deny @{HOME}/.bashrc rw,
  deny @{HOME}/.librewolf/** rw,
  deny @{HOME}/.ssh/** rw,
  deny @{HOME}/Desktop/ rw,
  deny @{HOME}/Documents/ rw,
  deny @{HOME}/Downloads/ rw,
  deny @{HOME}/Pictures/ rw,
  deny @{HOME}/Videos/ rw,

  /dev/** rw,
  /etc/** r,
  /lib/** mr,
  /lib64/** mr,
  /media/dolphin/games/cursor/** rwix,
  /proc/ r,
  /proc/** r,
  /run/dbus/system_bus_socket rw,
  /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf r,
  /run/user/1000/** rw,
  /sys/bus/pci/devices/ r,
  /sys/devices/** r,
  /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/cpu.max r,
  /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/** r,
  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled r,
  /tmp/.mount*/** rwix,
  /usr/bin/** rix,
  /usr/lib/** r,
  /usr/lib64/** r,
  /usr/share/** r,
  /usr/share/librewolf/librewolf px,
  @{HOME}/.cursor/** rw,
  owner /media/dolphin/games/cursor/** mrw,
  owner /proc/*/oom_score_adj rw,
  owner /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/** r,
  owner @{HOME}/.cache/Cursor/* rwk,
  owner @{HOME}/.cache/nvidia/** k,
  owner @{HOME}/.config/Cursor/** rwk,
  owner @{HOME}/.config/dconf/user r,
}

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>>108132858
Anyone with experience blogging? What did you use? I'm undecided between posting directly to a personal neocities website, doing some kind of ActivityPub/Mastodon + personal website combo, using something like Medium, Twitter, or going straight to video with YouTube.

>>108149866
do you have anything to say?

>>108149966
Nothing in particular. I just want to practice writing something fit to publish.

I torrented a bunch of movies but the files are all fucked up. I play them and get random skips throughout so they're unwatchable. Is there an easy way to detect this with software? I'd like to write a script to purge the bad files.

>>108149866
all you need is html and css why use bloated blogging software for simple text/images. like him or hate him lukes website is a good example
https://lukesmith.xyz/

>>108150043
which program?
can you share your AA profile?

>>108150959
AA profile?

>>108151053
app armor.

>>108149107
Your laptop is probably using a different power profile when running on battery, with lower performance. You can run benchmarks with and without charger to measure the difference, don't forget to benchmark the storage as well.

>>108149285
Because you're connecting the speakers to two different sound cards.

>>108149330
Something like this?
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ansluta-led-driver-with-cord-white-90405845/

>>108149339
Run a memory test.

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I am having problems with my internet connection concerning this website.
I don’t break the rules as far as I know and after a few posts I get a temporary block for abuse.
And no matter how many times I seem to correctly answer the captcha for thread making it always says I failed it but not for regular posts like this one.

What could be happening that is causing this and what are the solutions?

>>108150087
When you force a torrent recheck, does it complete successfully?
Have you tried playing them with VLC?

>>108151210
You're far from being the only one with that issue. I'm randomly banned on the first attempt to post something and then given the easy captcha by simply trying again.

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I have acquired both a 5070ti and a 9070xt. My current PC uses a 5900x. My future build will use a 9800x3d. Which GPU do I designate to which? Does it really matter?

>>108137417
it auto adjusts freq. unless you tell it to run at full frequency all the time
in which case you should have a setting in a profile saves somewhere, like gpu tweak 3 or msi afterburner or rivatuner or whatever.

however being a passively cooled gpu(no fan) that may not be possible

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>>108141493
>>108145788
yt-dlp and your media player
>I'm using yt-dlp and mpc-hd
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/

>>108143518
>i cant do shit with the router itself because its some fuckass comcast job and theyve updated the firmware to require installing their mobile app to do literally anything with the router which is never going to happen.


I used to be able to just go to 10.0.0.1 and login as admin to make changes
then they changed it, and I had to download the fucking app to tick admin access tools option and change a setting.
then and only then was I able to re-login and make changes via 10.0.0.1 again

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/admin-tool-access

>>108144570
I wouldn't even risk it.
I'm unplugging that shit. there are no lingering what ifs

>>108146440
a 2nd drive works, but so does dual booting if you have the available space on your drives
but the 2nd drive option is much safer if you are afraid of fucking up your main os/bootloader

>I don't really want to touch windows 11 if I don't have too. Thoughts?

win 10 enterprise iot ltsc x64
>>108115295

>>108149257
if it were me? the xiaomi or the lenovo, but leaning towards xiaomi
no cell ability or 3.5mm jack in the honor pad 7 is a deal breaker for me.
this is my unbiased, never owned a tablet before opinion. just looking at specs vs my wants/needs

I would suggest making a backup of the files asap while you can still access them.
could be a failing drive

you may have to plug in the bootable USB's in the rear motherboard USB ports, not the front panel ports

sometimes running commands to fix the bootloader will work
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/windows-boot-issues-troubleshooting

also thats "normal" on some dell pc's when you're in this stage of trying to install os
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/v4sq2c/is_this_normal_if_i_install_windows_from_a_usb/

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Should I attempt to make my own router, or am I okay buying this netgear router at a heavily discounted price?

>>108132858
Anyone have a guide on how to pull apart a psu to use it only for the 6+2 pin pcie line and connector?

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>>108132858
I've been getting artifacts like these in games for the past 4 months
I tried uninstalling all windows updates all the way to 2023 when i built the PC (didn't even had that many because I use simplewall firewall)
I tried updating my drivers to no avail
Has a higher chance of happening when the memory usage is higher than normal I think

specs:
6700 xt
Ryzen 5600
16GB ram XPG
Windows 11

I also havent cleaned the inside of my PC since 2023 if that matters
I used to get weird green artifacts before but now I almost never get those anymore just these.
thoughts?

>>108132858
hello anons,
I recently bought an iMac and I have about 5 hours before my internet connection goes back to practically-non-existent-mode.
Are there any essential apps for Mac that I should download? I already have VLC, Wordweb and Scrivener.

I tried to set my father's laptop up with jellyfin mpv shim to watch stuff from my jellyfin rather than having my parents pay for Netflix and other streaming services, but as soon as the video player goes full screen the cpu usage spikes to 100% and the video lags a lot (this actually happens with any full screen video, not just with mpv)
Any idea what could be the reason or how to get around that?

>>108137150
Because he can

>>108153157
>the Horde have Earthen
>the Alliance have Void Elves
>Vulpera look 100% like an Alliance race
>they both have Pandas, Drachtyryryr and Haranir
the factions are so fucking stupid now

>>108149332
search for the "formatter" script on the archives

>>108153103
Missing hardware video decoding. Usually means installing drivers, but if the laptop is very old it may not support hardware decoding for whatever format you're encoding into.

I want to have quick access to the following resolutions.
>2560x1440
Native res
Normal usage
For games that have enough FOV
>5120x2880
For games that have enough FOV that run well enough
>2560x1080
For games that don't have enough FOV
>5120x2160
For games that don't have enough FOV that run well enough

Why does NVIDIA not let you set custom resolutions with DSR enabled?
What are my options to achieve this? Can it even be done?
NVIDIA Control Panel toggling DSR on/off is ridiculously slow and annoying, and when turning DSR on I can't use any Custom Resolutions like 2560x1080. If a game client is dumb and doesn't offer it I can sometimes use an .ini edit to get it to run but that has proven ineffective and often bugs out enough across a number of games to not be reliable.
What is reliable is games obeying the desktop resolution. Unfortunately changing that is a pain in the dick due to the way NVIDIA have set up the control panel and the options for DSR.

When a game has a 200% render scale I love using that, but unfortunately that's rarer than it should be. DSR is like a crutch but it does work when the games give me no other options.

>>108153783
The laptop is about 8 years old, but the files are h264 remuxes, weird

>>108154177
The player should tell you whether hardware accelleration is enabled or not.
Also, if the files have high bitrate it's possible that the network simply can't transmit fast enough on either end.
Do a network test with iperf3, with and without the -R flag.

>>108152213
I would not buy a router that can't run openwrt well because it leads to redditisms like raspi network appliances.

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how can I convince Microsoft Intune / Company portal that my pro 1x with lineage is a Pixel with a locked bootloader?

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Hello friends,

I have been considering going back to school to get a degree in computer science. I've been asking local colleges some variations of these questions, and figured /g/ might have some insight too.

For reference, I work an 8 to 5 job and have an English degree. I do not want to leave my job.

Questions:
If I already have a bachelor's degree in English, what would my required courses to graduate with a bachelor's in CS look like?

How much is tuition a semester? What financial aid options are available for someone like me?

If I wanted to keep my job, what would a realistic course look like for each semester? How long would that take me to graduate?

What does the job market look like for this degree? Is it possible to find a career with only this degree?

How does one gauge their interest in this field and know that committing multiple years and tens of thousands of dollars is the right idea?

14" or 16" laptop? The choice is unironically too hard for me. First of all, obviously I'm buying the laptop primarily for portable use (theoretically mostly outside the home - I don't see the need for portable computing at home), otherwise I simply use my desktop PC for computing needs. Second, honestly, in practice, I don't really move it THAT much. Third, I don't want to use an external display at all, I just don't wanna do it. What do I choose?

>>108149257
I'd say get the lenovo beause it's the lightest
Though the xiaomi sounds like it has the best screen (unless the honor just doesn't have full specs), depends how much you care for video watching

>>108132858
>Read a book about the "semantic web"
>The authors use the Talmud as an example
Is this the price to pay to be a step ahead of other software engineers?

>>108154684
>What does the job market look like for this degree?
Thoroughly fucked.

>>108154731
Your dignity is the one thing jews haven't taken away. Don't play their games.

>>108154685
>primarily for portable use
For me it's a no brainer: 14 inch.
>>108154505
Linux router (preferably Gentoo) > OpenWRT.
>>108135890
ADB.
>>108152213
What are your requirements for a router?

>>108155041
OpenWRT is Linux

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Just finished setting up Arch and I just learnt about inodes on ext4 after trying to set up a drive for back-ups.
The drive I have Arch on (8tb) has 466m inodes and I'm only using 1.2m inodes at around 35% of the space used. I don't need this many and it's taking up 120GB~ of space and I want to free some of it. Is there any way to reduce inodes without having to reinstall?
Also, is this legit?
https://github.com/danim7/inode_count_modifier

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I'm retarded if i send data from pc1 to pc2 does it go through the router or through the two switches

>>108155290
ext's preallocation of inodes has performance benefits, but also can be wasteful if you only use a fraction of the available inodes. ideally you'd just have "enough" inodes, but this is unlikely if you didn't know about them to work out how many you'd need.
i'm not familiar with the project listed, i didn't know someone had made a tool to adjust inode count post-format. as stated in its' readme, you should make a backup first if its' important. reinstalling however is not needed, worst case you backup, format with different settings, then restore the backup

>>108155386
How would I go about backing up Arch? Just copying and pasting root will break the OS and cloning with dd will revert the formatting back, no?

>>108154592
I don't know if you can, depending on how autistic they are. Phones have a pretty in-depth attestation pipeline.
Often they don't even check for "locked bootloader" but rather "Google's unmodified locked bootloader, loading an unmodified Google certified OS". For example GrapheneOS re-locks the bootloader and has fully attested boot but using Graphene's own signing keys (obviously) and therefore fails strict attestation checks because they don't care that the boot is secure and attested, they care that it's signed by Google.

That said weaker versions of the check can be spoofed. Back in the day Magisk was the way to do it, I dunno if that's still the case now.

>>108155473
you can copy+paste root, just with tools like rsync which can preserve metadata like permissions

>>108154685
IMO both are fine, my question is what will you be doing on it?
Personally I'm using 14'' now and I'm thinking of moving to 16''. My workflow is software dev on a tiling window manager, and I can comfortably work with two windows but not really more than that, splitting the screen into three terminal tiles just gets really cramped.
If you're just using a web browser for example, or a word processor, stuff like that which only needs a single window, then 14'' is going to be fine.

Pay attention to the resolution too. At 16'' you should be aiming to get at least 1440p. A 1080p 16'' is just going to look really bad and won't give you any extra actual screen real estate.

If you're not going to be using it very often but you're mostly going to be using it outside the house then going smaller also makes more sense, so it weighs less and takes less space in your backpack whenever you take it out. If you're going to be using it more often then a bigger screen for comfier usage becomes a more important consideration, if it's just an occasional stopgap then that's really less important.
In a pinch you can use almost anything - I went through my entire university degree, and then two jobs, on a 13'' X230, not because I was poor but because I liked it. (I replaced it because I moved on from junior webshit jobs and started needing to compile stuff so I actually started needing a half-modern CPU.) You just need to manage your windows properly - on the 13'' I rarely had more than one window on screen, and when programming I had a big text editor and then a small terminal on the side for running commands.

>>108155307
Should go through the switches provided there aren't any particular configuration problems

>>108155578
I'll look into that, thanks.

>>108155586
>my question is what will you be doing on it?
I would take it outside of my home whenever I need to do computing outside of my home, which is a rare event for me. Most likely it will be used on a desk or table of some sort there. In addition to that, I've been thinking about putting Windows on my desktop PC, and if I ever end up doing that, I'll probably start doing all programming-related tasks on the laptop, even when at home. Otherwise it will probably be off most of the time besides that. Also, I rarely have windows open side-by-side, I usually always maximize the windows, and if not, I still only pay attention to one window at a time.

>>108155290
You don't need to reinstall, just format that filesystem again and pass the right parameters to mkfs.ext4.

>>108155307
Should go through the switches of both computers are in the same IP network.

>>108155637
>computing
That can mean anything from "facebook machine" to "professional CAD" and does not answer the question at all

>>108152772
unplug and replug your graphics card into the pcie slot. Could just be faulty too

>>108155866
Misinterpreted the question, but if I'm using it at home, then it's probably programming and web browsing, outside of the home it's certainly just web browsing and maybe using some web apps to do something, not anything professional in particular. I don't do much beyond that, although I've been wanting to try to learn music production for a long time, I probably won't end up doing it

>>108151908
It has a fan, its just not a part of the GPU. Normally you'd have the super powerful rack-mount server fans screaming at 10k rpm blasting air through it, but I have a blower from an inflatable snowman using an adapter I designed and 3d printed and it works quite well. Temps are 50C and 60C for GPU 1 and 2 respectively.

I'll have to try it in windows again but I think the limiting factor might be voltage actually. I used a multi-meter to probe the solder joints of the plug on the board and it reads 11.99 and then a moment later creeps up to 12.00 even. Maybe its set to not clock itself any faster than it can without going below 12V? The PSU is outputting 12.20V and I'm pretty positive it's not struggling or anything.

As for profiles, I have it set to maximum performance already. Also I even tried using nvidia-smi to change the application clock speed to its max and it said it did but there was no change. I then did the same thing and set it to the minimum clock and had the same result. However it reported the max frequency as 1177MHz so I think it must have boosted to that briefly then dropped back down?

>>108155907
Well my answer then is, if you're gonna use it at home, get 16 inch, if it's only going to be for carrying outside occasionally, get 14 inch, simple as.
Though I don't see why you'd want to remove linux from your desktop but you do you.

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>>108132858
How do I get rid of this?

Anyone have a filter list to hide all of the AI spam general threads? /g/ is becoming borderline unusable sometimes because of them.

I own a lg 27GP850-B monitor, and it has an audio jack/headphone port on the back for (I assume) audio output

However, whenever I plug speakers into it using an RCA to 3.5mm audio jack cable, I get buzzing feedback, and no audio plays. If I use a 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio jack cable, there's no buzzing, but I still can't get audio to play. I've already switched the audio output in windows to the display.

Is there anything else I can do to troubleshoot this? I am using a USB C to displayport cable from my laptop to the display, does Displayport not carry an audio signal or something?

Losing my mind trying to boot into BIOS right now. I want to install Fedora after trying different Linux distros for a while and it has worked completely fine then (4 days ago). Now when I try to enter BIOS to boot from my USB, I get a black screen with no text on it. My monitors either says "no signal found" or "check cable connection". I have tried with 3 different monitors to plug directly into motherboard and GPU. I have tried restarting from inside Windows while holding down Shift key. I have tried booting via the advanced restart thing from inside Windows but I keep getting a black screen. I can boot just fine into Windows, but nothing shows up on my monitor when I try to boot into BIOS. Fast startup is disabled. What the fuck is going on?

>>108156608
I have also tried different cable types. VGA, HDMI and DP.

i've been using windows 7 since it came out. the other day, my friend put windows 10 on a new drive and made the old one a regular non-bootable drive. it's not the worst thing ever but i have a few questions.
how the FUCK do i neuter the ui? almost everything hits 144 fps like it's supposed to except the ui which seems to be locked at 15. how do i make it not fancy and resource-intensive? i also don't like how smoothly everything moves, like scrolling. can i turn that off somehow?
lastly, all of my fl studio plugins are broken. can they be fixed without reinstalling everything? the path is correct but i feel like there's some registry fuckery going on that i can't deal with because my old one was wiped clean

>>108156608
>>108156621
First thing I would do is try physically removing the drive you have windows installed on. Make the USB the only bootable device. Also try putting it in different ports if that doesnt work immediately. Often times you have multiple USB controllers and the ports on the front may be handled by a different USB hub than the ports on the back.

Also try shutting down completely (again, make SURE it isn't hibernating or sleeping) and then unplug the PSU. Hold the power button for a bit. Maybe even wait like 5-30 minutes. Then plug it back in and try again.

Make sure your monitors are set to auto-detect input. If they are, manually set them to only look for the type of input you are using with a given attempt, and try that for each cable on each port, both on the mobo and discrete GPU.

If you have some other GPU, no matter how old, try using that.

Try removing ALL discrete GPUs if you haven't already.

Obviously try spamming every function key during bootup. Also possibly try spamming just one key each attempt.

Another thought is to have multiple bootable USB drives inserted at once. If you have a disk drive try that too, both with and without 1 or multiple USB disks.

Try unplugging any ethernet cable or wifi cards or any other devices. (shouldnt make a difference but the point is to try everything)

Make sure your bootable USB has a UEFI partition in it.

If you know that you have legacy boot enabled, try booting with a drive that DOESN'T have a UEFI partition.

If you do get into bios, make sure to turn secure boot off as that generally will make it more likely for something to work, at least until you fully recover the system.

Another thing you might try is turn off hybrid sleep in windows if that is enabled. That alone shouldn't do anything but it might be?

many of these can be done in combination.

Try using as many monitors as you can find, different cables (even of the same type) or use more than once cable at once.

variety is king

>>108156998
Oh and also try flashing a fresh image onto the USB drive. If that doesnt work, try flashing a different distro onto it. Also try using a different USB drive as well, again with multiple distros if needed.

>>108155966
>I'll have to try it in windows again but I think the limiting factor might be voltage actually. I used a multi-meter to probe the solder joints of the plug on the board and it reads 11.99 and then a moment later creeps up to 12.00 even. Maybe its set to not clock itself any faster than it can without going below 12V? The PSU is outputting 12.20V and I'm pretty positive it's not struggling or anything.


If it does turn out to be a voltage issue, how can I improve that? is the 0.2V drop between the PSU and the socket on the GPU a lot? if so I can make beefier cables I think, unless its mostly being lost from contact resistance with the pins themselves.

I also have thought about seeing if this PSU has a potentiomete inside that I can use to adjust the output voltage of the 12V rail. (by the way, its a 650 watt thermalake modular PSU and it's warranty is long gone)

I could also try using a separate PSU that would ONLY power the GPU. I've got a handful of server PSU's rigged for PCIe power output I could use that are rated for 700W, 750W, and another thats larger, pretty sure it's at least 850W.

How terrible of an idea are any of these, and are there any better ones?

I was tired of waiting for prices to come down for DDR5 so I robbed my local best buy and now have 2 16gb sticks of DDR5 5600 cl46 and 2 16gb sticks of DDR5 6400 cl32. Can these be used together? Obviously my mb has 4 slots for them. Is there a performance boost at all or should I try to fence one set on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace?

>>108156767
The windows performance menu is still there in windows 10, turn off animations

Also, turn off windows web search in the registry. Turn off windows update notifications and forced restarts too. You can turn core isolation memory integrity off too since it can reduce performance a bit

>>108156440
I just use a filter to auto-watch two generals, everything else is either AI noise or Youtube celebrity gossip.

>>108156607
DP does carry audio.
Check the monitor's menu, maybe audio is muted.

>>108156608
Is your GPU modern? Very old ones weren't EFI compatible and they'd show nothing until the OS boots and loads a driver.
Try resetting the CMOS on your motherboard, instructions should be in its manual.

>>108156767
>fl studio plugins are broken
Have you reinstalled the program or just copied it from the old OS? Try reinstalling, and also try running it in compatibility mode.

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>>108157193
You can mix them, but they'll run at the speed of the slowest.
I'd sell one kit.

>>108156079
Log in.

I'm trying to figure out what wavelengths I need to be adjusting to get my audio how I want with equalizer software.

Are there any real time audio visualizers I can use so I can see where different sounds fall on the spectrum as I'm playing music or a video game to then tweak the equalizer accordingly?

>>108157386
Also, suggestions on equalizer software? I'm new to audio shit so something somewhat simplified or just with an intuitive GUI would be nice

>>108157233
sweet, thanks!
>>108157318
>Have you reinstalled the program or just copied it from the old OS?
copied it. my friend did a lot of adjustments under the hood, he said he recompiled it or something. from my layman's perspective, nothing being different in terms of file structure except drive path shouldn't cause too many issues, but it's only detecting some of my things and most don't work. i tried compatibility mode and one sorta worked but there were no obvious changes. i'll reinstall as a last resort, i'm too tired to deal with that at the moment
my background image is gone too, rip

I recently built a new computer and had to move everything over so all my browser related stuff is a mess. I've noticed that for some reason, a lot of stuff on 4chan in particular is a bit off. Threads at the top of the catalog will say they're on page 8 and stuff like that. Is there anything I can do to fix it? Also I never had to do the 3 step, crazy captcha before. Will that just keep happening forever now?

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>>108132858
Something is wrong with my computer

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What causes this..?

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I have a Gigabyte motherboard and I'm trying to update the BIOS. I'm a BIOS ID CHECK ERROR when I try to install a more recent BIOS with QFlash. The issue is that my exact motherboard model number doesn't appear on the Gigabyte website. I did see that I'm using a version 1.0 motherboard, but I can't seem to find any records of my purchase, and the serial number shows as invalid on the Gigabyte update site.
Any advice would be appreciated.
pic related

>>108157336
Thank you for the response

>>108157610
I have also come to notice that some boards just don't seem to update at all, like for some reason /g/ seems to be stuck at a random point in time and wont update no matter what.

>>108157886
>research the issue
>find all kinds of useless answers
>decide to try again with no changes
>it just fucking werks™
Why?

>>108157855
People using computers in your general geographical area, are abusing something about that network to spam 4chan so 4chan just blocks the entire region instead of trying to ban gorillions of individual IPs. But that includes you in that zone. Some bad apples spoiled the bunch.

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>>108158141
You sure it's not a lie to shill a pass to use 4chan?

>>108158165
Personally, I don't think so. And I have no way to find out.

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>>108157886
>>108158126
Help me, /g/
>dusted out PC case
>updated BIOS
>updated Chipset
>updated NVidia Driver to latest
Is there anything else important I'm forgetting? I only remember to do this twice a decade. I'm not going to bother with my Realtek audio drivers because the damn things never work anyway so NVidia handles the audio as well.
I feel like I should be updating other drivers, like ethernet.
Also updating the BIOS seems to have fixed the issues with the latest NVidia graphics drivers, since I updated those first because I am a retard.
pic not related

>>108154505
>redditisms like raspi network appliances.
Huh?

>>108155041
>What are your requirements for a router?
Not much really, just something modern with at least wifi 6.

my monitor suddenly stopped turn on. it's a dell i already chcked the power cable. should i try replacing/solder a thingy on the board based on a youtube video? it's a cheap monitor but i like it

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Why am I no longer able to access Archive.today, no matter which browser I use and which wi-fi network I'm connected to? I always get some error, whether it's an endlessly looping captcha, a protocol error, or a "welcome to nginx!" screen.

>>108157193
give it back

>>108132858
I'm trying to format an old SD card. It's only 2GB, but it's doing this annoying thing where it'll appear in Windows for about 10 seconds, then disconnect for 10 seconds, then connect again. It does this consistently, and it never stays connected long enough for me to format it.
I know it's not my computer or the SD card adapter because I have other SD cards that work just fine. This one is just cooked. But it has personal information on it I want to delete, and it literally won't let me.
Is there anything I can do?

>>108158303
>ai slop

>>108159698
hit it with a hammer

Can a bad battery cause a laptop to not boot? Last night as I was getting ready to go sleep I was watching stuff in VLC and then suddenly my laptop turned off and (I have verbose boot enabled on Win10) I think I saw it say something about battery while it was turning off but I'm not sure and it just won't turn on now I tried unplugging the battery and turning it on, I tried unplugging the charge and only use the battery that didnt work either I left it unplugged (both battery and charger) over night and it didn't help either I've been using it for about 5 years and it doesn't have a cmos battery

>>108159234
Try different cable. Also try to update drivers?

Does Vulkan support depends purely on the driver or needs some support from the gpu hardware? For example if the gpu uses mesa drivers on linux, it always gets Vulkan support?

>>108159977
not all gpus have the physical functionality required to support vulkan

>>108158303
Change the CPU paste.

>>108159234
Could be a dead capacitor or dead backlight. Both are replaceable with some effort.

>>108159452
Server issues. It works for me but is extremely slow and sometimes I get a blank page.

>>108159698
Drive a nail through it.

>>108159767
>it doesn't have a cmos battery
I'm pretty sure all computers have one, but maybe it's a new thing.
Anyway, your laptop is probably toast. Try to remove all RAM modules and all storage, see if it powers on or beeps.

>>108133095
buy an ad
>this shit when arch wiki exists

>>108157610
>>108157996
One last question bros. I noticed that every time I make a post, it automatically puts "deleted" into the name field. How do I make it stop doing that?

>>108160523
Poor wording on my part what i meant was it doesn't have a cmos on the motherboard that i can just replace supposedly it's part of the internal battery the whole pack which frankly is in a pretty bad state
>remove all RAM modiles and all storage
Tried that too sadly didn't work either ig R.I.P. it had an issue before and was repaired but back then the LED next to the charging port at least blinked it just lights up now I was planning on building a desktop anyway but I wanted to wait till RAM prices went down a bit girst and wait out with the laptop

>>108157796
What problems are you having?

does file size matter in terms of nvme lifespan? i am wondering if these big local AI models are killing my nvme

>>108161180
No, size doesn't matter. Nothing is killing your nvme, relax.

>>108160745
Start your browser in safe mode and see if the issues are still there. Could be caused by some extension.

>>108161223
>No, size doesn't matter. Nothing is killing your nvme, relax.
so is it number of files rather than individual file size?

>>108161355
no, it's how often you write to it. you can read as much as you like

>>108161386
ok well i assume multiple write cycles are done to download a big file as opposed to something like a small text file

yesterday when my IP got reset I got an email from microsoft that someone succesfully logged into my old ms account from another country
was this just a coincidence or should I actually be worried? I changed the password and shit just in case

>>108161424
sure, downloading a large file uses more writes than downloading a small file, i mean more that using a larger file won't affect the life of the drive. as long as you're using the files much more often than you're downloading them, you should have nothing to worry about

Any ways to fix a noisy computer? It'll sound like it's overheating or like the fans are working excessively for a few hours after starting the pc like 8 out of 10 times. The sound usually disappears on its own but not always anymore.

>>108161447
ok thanks

>>108161461
Depends what is causing the problem. You may simply need to clean it, or the fans may be getting worn out and need replacing. Depending on what computer you've got, if it's some sort of prebuilt and is rather old especially, the thermal paste may need replacing too (though this is rather rare if it's not super old).

>>108161510
Its getting old and there's a lot of dust on the back but haven't dared touching that sensitive part of the PC yet. Should i just turn it off completely, pull the plug and carefully use a vacuum cleaner on the grid?

I usually never turn it off and i delay updates as long as possible as well. Curious if that might add to the issue, the hardware/software getting outdated by the PC always being on or something

>>108158165
>>108158175
It could be both and there have been credible accusations against Hiro in the past for exactly this.
However right now I would actually give 4chan the benefit of the doubt, because of a certain proxy website, as well as in my opinion the popularisation and commercialisation of residential proxy services to a much greater degree than even a few years ago. So right now I think it's genuinely extremely easy for any bored retard to just start spamming or dumping rule-breaking shit with near ban immunity, requiring aggressive rangebans and generally making the jannies fucking seethe. Whereas in the past this was the purview of particularly dedicated and deranged schizo spammers which were not considered very common and rarely affected the site very much.

Guys, I'm looking to get a USB stick, primarily to store and playback music from.
Speeds don't need to be terribly high, I think between 50 and 100 mb/s would be ok.
Doesn't need to be terribly large capacity either, 32-64 gb would be enough.
Only thing I want is it needs to be durable and doesn't need to shit the bed after a few months.

Problem is I have no clue what is a decent brand and what to look out for nowadays, anyone have recommendations?

>>108161850
I bet it's dust. If you can open a side and get a can of compressed air to blow through it, I'm almost positive it'll help

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>>108155156
Damn, didn't know. Thought is was some BSD black magic.
>>108159216
>Huh?
NTA but doing basic networking tasks with a Raspberry Pi is in most cases silly IMO.
>something modern with at least wifi 6
You may be better off with an actual commercial Wi-Fi router as it's hard to find suitable Wi-Fi adapters for hosting fancy access points. Take some random adapter and you could be limited to Wi-Fi 4, on 2.4GHz. (even if the adapter could act as a *client* on Wi-Fi 5 or 6 even)
>>108161223
>size doesn't matter
Really? Don't more flash mean more writes?
>>108161908
>durable
As in tolerating lots of writes by having a load balancing logic? You want one of those expensive SSD sticks, USB SSDs exist in thumb drive size in the current year.

>>108162079
>Damn, didn't know. Thought is was some BSD black magic.
you might be thinking of pfsense

>>108162079
I meant durable as in doesn't fall apart, literally.
I don't think I will do a lot of write cycles, I will just store music on it and play it back.

>>108161935
Would a vacuum cleaner be a bad idea in general to try or just not sufficient?

How useless is VMAF when testing the quality of encodes

wanted to tighten some screws or some other dumb shit in my pc cus my cpu fans kept ramping up to 100% for no reason sometimes, anyway after i'm done i boot up the pc but there's no display and i see my gpu fans didn't start either
after that i panicked and rebooted it two or three times until suddenly it worked again
what the hell happened?

>>108162402
It's generally not advised to use a vacuum on a PC due to ESD, but I seriously doubt it's ever been a problem. I still wouldn't do it, however.

>>108162468
Thanks

>>108162079
>Really? Don't more flash mean more writes?
This is completely irrelevant. Writing a few files, no matter how big (even as big as the entire SSD) a few times per week will not affect the SSD lifetime in any meaningful way.
Writing terabytes *per day* would be measurable, but you're still looking at a decade+ of use.
I doubt anyone is going to cry over their SSD lasting only 19 years instead of 20 because they abused the shit out of it while doing useful stuff.

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>>108162663
I wouldn't know how much writing does AI stuff involve. Not THAT much I guess??
>>108162121
Picrel for example is one sturdy piece of an USB drive.
>>108162101
Must've been that one, yes.

>>108160465
>Change the CPU paste
Oh...wow, apparently I'm supposed to do that at a minimum of every three years. Thank you, anon. That's why I'm here.
>>108159703
>ai slop
Yes, and?

ok i know this is a really fucking stupid question but if i update a Samsung SSD firmware, would it wipe the data on the SSD?
i can't backup because i don't have the space (kek)

What are your guys opinions on Ghidra?
I want to rip some shit apart for fun

>>108162785
>apparently I'm supposed to do that at a minimum of every three years
No you don't, you only need to change thermal paste if you're working with some truly ancient hardware or have reason to believe the paste is extremely shit. Changing modern paste ever 3 years is lunacy.

>>108159698
pyrolyse it

>>108162785
>every three years
No, unless you are convinced it's bad, or it's like 10 years old.
Even the worst paste doesn't go bad in 3 years.

>>108162885
No, but you should still have a working backup. Things can and do go wrong randomly.

>>108162903
Seems very capable, but debugging Windows programs on Linux isn't easy to get working.

>>108161180
>>108161424
It's not file size that matters, it's total amount of data written. Downloading 1TB of 1,000,000 small files is exactly the same as downloading a single 1TB file. (Ignoring overhead from the filesystem updates to store 1,000,000 extra file entries.)
And reading/loading any amount of any sized files has effectively zero effect.

Modern SSDs have endurance in the thousands of TBW (terabytes written) so in practice it basically only matters for workloads where you are constantly writing and then deleting lots of data. For example if every single day you're downloading a new 500GB model, your drive will last... several years.
More practically, it's a concern for things like database drives and server applications which are caching hundreds of GB of data and constantly churning the cache, so writing new data all the time. As a home user doing normal stuff you basically don't need to think about it at all.

>>108162769
Thanks for the suggestion, these aren't too expensive either, might pick one up.

>>108132858
bros are you buying up memory (SDD / HDD / micro SD) ?

will it get as bad as ram?

>>108163075
Don't buy when prices are going up retard.

>>108161908
Honestly, strongly consider getting like a pack of 4 sticks, and putting your files on all of them. Even decent branded sticks cost peanuts for 32GB nowadays. Like you said it won't be a write-heavy workflow so I don't think getting a USB SSD is at all justified here, it'd be a waste of money.
So just keep a few around so if one really does fall apart you just grab another.

Those kingston ones the other anon recommended are pretty good.

>>108163075
Bit too late for that nigger
Maybe HDDs if you can find good deals, especially refurb ones. SSDs have already close to doubled though, the time to buy was like 4-6 months ago

>>108136924
>>108139271
>I'm starting to lean towards just buying a Nest and calling it a day.
>>108140715
>God, I tried to look into this, but the more I do, the more complicated it gets. This shit is impenetrable.
Look at it this way:
>1) A lot of "smart home" shit like thermostats and sensors send info using WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave...etc.
>2) Usually smart home brands would sell their own proprietary hub to control said devices or read whatever they sense.
>3) If you go the good goy consoomer way, you'll end up with dozens of hubs which is a waste of money and time.
This is the solution:
>1) Home Assistant is a service that automates shit.
>2) Instead of getting separate hubs to control each brand device, just get a single hub that can control them all regardless
>3) Make Home Assistant detect the hub that's connected by USB
>4) Make the hub detect all smart home devices
>5) Done. Automate that shit.

The only thing you have to look out for is compatibility, whether said device cooperates with Home Assistant + Zigbee dongle, or you're going to have to install custom integrations and such.
Most smart home devices are either WiFi (aka you don't need anything else since it's on the same network as the Home Assistant server) or Zigbee (you will need a Zigbee antenna). Outliers like Bluetooth and Z-wave can be ignored.

How many self-powered external hard disks can you plug into an SBC before the power draw benefits of using an SBC are obsoleted and you may as well be running a regular, full PC with all the disks internal instead?

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Stupid ultrabook has this wierd battery thats not easy to remove
its like glued and soldered

How can i remove it safely? im afraid of putting my soldering iron too close to lithium and blowing it up

>>108163242
Depends what you mean by "obsoleted". The HDDs will use the same power regardless, and the SBC will almost always use less power than a regular PC, so it will always still have power benefits. The real question is, what are you doing that you can plug in a dozen hard drives but an SBC is still good enough for processing? Usually when you start building your NAS big enough, you want a CPU that can also handle more power, a beefier network chip for faster transfers, high bandwidth live encryption maybe, even shit like being able to transcode media directly on the NAS machine.

A single search suggests a hard drive will use 5-10W of power. Check how much your SBC uses (probably like 2-5W), check how much your PC would use (off the top of my head: a low-power x86 chip, like a laptop one, can probably idle below 10W and uses 20-30W at load; a desktop chip will likely idle easily around 10-20W and the usage under load depends entirely on how high-end you go). And then it's a matter of convenience vs. power saved.

how do i get good at the math/algorithms involved in graphics?

im such a brainlet i can barely understand the math behind DDA for a raycaster. does anyone have any book recommendations on math/programming/algorithms or things i should read or study for a brainlet whos interested in graphics

>>108163502
"Obsoleted" probably isn't the right word, but I guess that's what my sleep deprived brain decided on. What I mean is, all but one of the external hard drives I own have their own power supply that gets plugged in, and the question is how many of them can you hook into an SBC before the hard disks' total power draw exceeds what they'd pull from a PSU in a normal computer, if that point ever comes up. I'm not sure if I can trust the HDD caddies' PSUs to use the same amount of power as a SATA power cable would draw from a PC CPU, but that might just me being untrusting in general.

>The real question is, what are you doing that you can plug in a dozen hard drives but an SBC is still good enough for processing?
It is primarily a NAS. No RAID or anything a "real" NAS would use, just networked storage I can access from multiple PCs and devices. It currently has one self-powered HDD and one purely usb-powered one, and I'm considering moving a second self-powered to it since it's not needed at my primary PC, as well as a fourth self-powered HDD caddy.
I also have everything but a case and PSU to build a "real" server box with leftover parts from an old desktop so it's a matter of what would be more worth doing from a long-term cost standpoint, disregarding the theoretical one-time cost of buying a case and PSU.

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How do people manage to have their info leaked all over the world, to lose their access to accounts and such, and get scam calls and emails every single day?
I've never had security breaches in my entire +30 years of life and only ever received 2 scam text messages.

I haven't done anything particular to "secure" my online browsing or anything, I only disable telemetry from every device, be it PC or phone.

>>108163519
have you tried asking chatgp to explain it to you
im serious btw, having it explain things is something it's pretty good at and quite useful for learning

>>108163647
Normies have atrocious opsec with their private info. That ranges from signing up for everything in the world and putting in all their info into all their accounts, so whenever a pizza place gets hacked their full dox gets leaked; all the way to actually putting up their information publicly, on places like facebook. Sometimes it might be "friends-only" but they accept friend requests from the shittiest pajeet-made social engineering bots for example. They just don't care.

>>108132858
So what's going on with Firefox and what am I supposed to switch to that isn't chrome?

>>108137147
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3/5
I wouldn't call it good, but it's not some Celeron shit either

>>108163647
The more statistical markers you have for having money, the more scammers come out of the woodwork. Nobody wants to contact a 33yo shut-in living with his parents in Macedonia.

>>108163666
If you have a credit score or a drivers' license, your info has been leaked. There's no 'opsec' for something like.

>>108163389
Cut the cable. Why do you want to remove the battery?
Also, I can see that the battery is removable in your picture.

>>108163647
>have utility contract
>utility company got hacked
99.999% of personal data that leaks is from hacked companies, not individuals.

>>108163389
Some drops of isoprop alcohol under the battery to loosen it a bit?
Wait, isn't the connector at the bottom common on removable batteries? Is there a switch or something to remove it?

>>108164045
Normally the driver's licence authority around here isn't in the business of selling your data to scam call centres. And I don't remember any major breaches of government data in recent memory, it does happen but it's pretty fucking rare.
You might as well say that if you have a passwort or a bank account your info is out there. This is only true if there's a major breach.

>a credit score
Meanwhile, everyone in any country connected to the Western banking system has a credit score, so this means nothing either.

>>108164236
You're either trolling or an absolute idiot.
Experian got hacked.
Also, having you bank data leaked doesn't mean the bank itself was hacked, they process your data through countless third parties and also sell it to countless companies. Any single one of them gets hacked and your data has leaked. Any one of them sells your data to the wrong company and your data has leaked.

>>108164290
Municipal governments do the same thing now too. They outsource all kinds of processing to surveillance capitalist outfits who do it stupid cheap because they want the data.

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>>108164224
its like stuck in place, glued in
Its not removable without opening the laptop like in most laptops
The connector mimmicks the ones in normal removable batteries but this one is NOT removable at all, the bottom of the laptop is completelly flat, this is some chinkshit cheap design like laying out components on a plastic board as is

>>108163389
This guy got it out without any trouble with a twisting action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osO8SsfIVQ

>>108165321
PERFECT! This plus some alcohol to dissolve the adhesive worked

thanks anon <3

>>108162944
>>108163017
I built my PC in November of 2019. I probably hadn't cleaned it for 3 years. I rarely use it for anything demanding, but I just bought VR mini golf recently and it puts the fans into overdrive. I just want to make sure I'm set for when I inevitably forget to maintain my PC again. It's also Florida and I can't afford to run climate control very often.
Surely six+ years is enough to be concerned, no?
I wouldn't call it ancient, but it was a fairly modest build, built with pcpartpicker and /g/'s help >>108157886

>>108164224
>Why do you want to remove the battery?
its dead, so its just dead weight, may aswell remove it and dispose of it properly

Also that way the laptop wont be wasting electricity trying to charge a dead battery i think?

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what's the name of the website in picrel? I wanna view 4chan stats

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>>108165632
If it matters, these are my idle temps.
I miss Speccy's clean interface. Too bad it flips TF and claims everything's constantly overheating now.

>>108165984
it's without the chan