why does win7 give me eyestrain but not win10?

>>108289258
You like the text AA in win 10 better.

>>108289278
is there a fix?

>>108289301
No

>>108289390
thank you for your time

>>108289301
there's an "adjust cleartype text" thing you can do that might help

>>108289301
>>108289486
cleartype is required for any oled panel because they use non traditional rgb layout. the alternative is forcing greyscale like mac does.

At least one website ends up clogging resources if I open too many tabs. Like, CPU, RAM and somehow even disk activity maxes out. Maybe it's because I'm running it on an older machine. Fine, whatever

But what really gets to me is that this sometimes causes the pagefile to bloat. But the real question is: why the fuck doesn't it go back down after the heavy stuff is over with or even after closing the browser? Okay, it gives *some* space back, but it's still nowhere near where I started

>>108289600
Windows will use as much pagefile as it wants unless you tell it not to. It's perfectly normal to see 1.5x the size of your ram in pagefile usage when you do stuff like shader compilation or a program memory leaks like emulators.

>>108289600
Windows moves stale but still claimed data to pagefile when it makes space for actively used data, but when the actively used data is freed windows does not move stale pagefile data back into ram.

How do you guys read really long threads on 4chan? For example on /vg/ you have threads with hundreds of posts, do you start from the top and make your way down or just scroll to the first comment that piques your interest?

>>108289860
Scroll to the bottom and only read those for most threads. Maybe read the OP if it's not a general.

>>108289860
I read everything
Sometimes the worst posts are at the bottom

>>108289301
Get an UHD monitor and stop doing AA.

>>108289860
Scroll to bottom and work my way up until I get bored

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I'm talking with my friends over discord and for the past couple months, they complain that they'll hear a sharp pitch screech from their end coming from my mic. It's a wired logitec headset like pic related and I was wondering if there is anything I can do in settings, be it on discord or my computer, to stop this from happening. I heard that Windows added an audio thingy that was enabled on default and has been causing issues. Could it be that? if so, how do I stop it? I want to make sure that it's my headset that's doing this before I spend good money on an expensive headset

>>108289958
Assuming you can hear it in the self test on Discord.
Flash a usb with Linux, boot off the usb, install Discord, do the self test. You do not need to install Linux on your computer at any point in this.
There you go, you have removed anything Windows from the equation. If you can still hear the screech, it's nothing to do with Windows.

Say I get a pendrive or something and I suspect it has some virus/malware on it. If I don't care about what else is in that drive, how do I safely reformat everything and delete all possible malware in it? Like, I gotta plug it in in order to format it, but plugging it in could be a hazard, so what do?

>>108289958
get a real noise cancelling mic. it doesn't even have to be fancy. xbox headset is basic and has excellent noise cancel.

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>>108289163
How am I supposed to learn to design? I have no idea what a business works like, what things should be in an inventory, etc. I have no idea how a business operates or what they have to consider. How am I supposed to learn that? Books on such topics end up being salesman jargon to impress corporate people.

>>108289946
this actually worked, thank you fren

>>108289860
top to bottom, skipping down to the more recent stuff or skimming a bit if the thread isn't all that interesting or if it's extremely long. for /sqt/ i just check in every few hours and look at the posts since i last checked.

does anyone know of any discord servers that have a 24/7 livestream channel within them? i need to do some video viewing troubleshooting

should I consider myself lucky if one of my HDDS is at 25k hours and has no reallocated sectors

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>>108290194
No one uses UML, it's only used in documentation that no one understands.
UML and clean code in general only exists to sell books

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How do I clean this shit without killing the motherboard?

>>108292162
Toothbrush, compressed air.

>>108290678
Most HDDs that stay working have 0 or <10. The oldest one I have that's still hooked up to the NAS has 43k power on hours and 0 errors.

>>108289163
Literally me.

>>108292759
you use a TV as monitor?

>>108292765
Yeah.

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>>108292162
unplug the battery (that's the most important part)
carefully remove the fans and cooler
clean cooler and fans with cleaning solution and repaste the gpu and cpu, then put the cooler back on

i did an acer nitro recently, temps went down by ~15C

>>108289982
do it with gparted from a linux livecd environment

>>108292162
>>108292793
oh, and don't remove the pink stuff under the cooler unless you have proper cooling pad replacements.

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Hi, how can I close idle/non-active ftp connections on Windows without using cPanel or any 3rd-party program?

My filezilla instance gives me the following error: "Response: 421 Bye! (Too many connections)" so I assume I should check for inactive ones.

>>108289860
Skim the thread, looking at some posts with images and posts with replies

>>108292897
idk about FileZilla but any sensible FTP client should have a max connections setting. Pirate servers usually restrict you to like one or two simultaneous connections. (one connection meaning you can't even browse while you download)
>>108290217
High DPI works universally, having shit font rendering on low res screens was usually a Linux pitfall.
>>108289982
Simply recreate the filesystem. As in what most people call a "format".

>>108292793
What is the worst that could happen if I do it from a live environment? Say I don't unplug my main drive from the MOBO, could that get fucked somehow?

>>108293050
data loss, i guess.
look up what 'mounting' means in the context of live linux and only mount the stick

>>108289163
What programs and drivers are required to play modern videogames (e.g. the latest Resident Evil) and why do they exist on some operating systems not others? E.g. why do BSDs have more trouble than Linux, aren't they both Unix based?

Is software development still a good career choice in 2026 and beyond?

>>108289860
sometimes i'll leave a post that blatantly says I skipped reading the thread when I go to give my shitty take on whatever bait question the OP asks or statement it posits. sometimes this results in an angry person who is deeply involved in the argument du jour calling me retarded for missing out on context i don't care about but that's also something i don't care about. i'm here to give shitty takes not read conversations between the autists that infest this site.

>>108292162
>How do I clean this shit without killing the motherboard?
There's an attachment for the vacuum cleaner. A gooseneck with a brush at the end. Set the vacuum cleaner to low. Or MacGyver it.

>>108293474
>aren't they both Unix based
BSDs are Unix derivatives, and they use an Open Source license (known as cuck licence).
GNU/Linux is not Unix, it uses the GNU Public License (so it is Free Software).
>why
Most people who write free (as in freedom) software write it primarily for GNU/Linux, and one of their motives is to ensure the success of Free Software so they release their software under the terms of the GPL. Now, GPL software runs on any OS, but the OS needs to be sufficiently advanced. Few people find the need to contribute to BSDs (cuck license being a major factor) so they aren't advanced at all in terms of OS/drivers.
When it comes to gaming, Wine (the Windows compatibility layer) uses many Linux features that simply aren't available on any Unix OS because nobody had bothered to implement them there, and this is before we even take into account the poor state of graphics drivers on BSDs.

>>108292162
canned air to start with (spray from a bit away so the accelerant doesn't get all over the components, it won't hurt them but it can leave a slight residue), then wipe down the non-conductive surfaces if you want. don't use a vacuum unless you have one designed for electronics, they can cause static discharge. when blowing out the fans, hold the fan in place with a spudger or other non-conductive item so that it doesn't move; if it moves too fast, it can generate current.

Q U E S T I O N
My situation so far: Gaming Rig, watercooled overclocked Intel-CPU (1700), rockstable, Nvidia4070, DDR4 RAM, all M2 and SSD. No TPM (Trusted Portal Module) for Win11. I know there are external TPMs for around $20 out there; but somehow I think about a new motherboard (DDR4) that gives me the opportunity to install Win11 on it. Basically re-use all parts, especially the DDR4 due to the price. Will mount a newer M.2 SSD for the next Win11 (maybe 12). Why is this the best idea that I ever had? Any (manufacturer-) experiences or recommendations?

>>108294212
I assume by 1700, you mean LGA1700. If you have an alder lake processor, you have the built-in firmware TPM. It's an option in your UEFI setup, just turn it on.

>>108290788
> no one uses UML
I concur. In fact, going beyond that, I realized flowcharting is bullshit for nontechnical managers. Real developers prefer pseudocode, algorithms, or expressions to express things.

What's a good music app? Can't deal with Mi Music's bullshit anymore.

>>108294299
musicolet

Just noticed that when I search on jewgle it doesn't offer suggestions and if I go on images and click one of them nothing happens. It doesn't bring up that sorta panel thing on the right with similar images under it.
How has this happened and how do I fix it bros?

>>108294299
transferring your own MP3s to your phone and using your phone's built in music player

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>>108289163
Just how bad are the backdoors on Intel ME and AMD PSP? It seems pretty compromising but also that the only solutions are Coreboot/Libreboot, both of which seem to be compatible with only very specific hardware.

Is this the case or am I really just concerned about a niche thing?

is codeberg down?

>>108295224
Idk i still see decent results but i did notice that clicking on some images won't show recommendations below them as often as before. Not all though.

>>108295547
yes for me

>>108296009
aww man, the one time in forever that I actually need it.

>>108295404
Coreboot, Libreboot and Canoeboot are all proprietary and non-free. There is only one open source and free one which is GNU Boot. If you don't use GNU Boot, then nothing matters because all those other ones have proprietary blobs anyway like UEFI and BIOS has.

Why do people talk to chatbots with long paragraphs of text? They work just as well with just keywords and shorthand instructions. Is it just a part of the facade?

>>108296088
thx anon

>>108295547
Down for me as well.

>>108292740
>43k hours
Dayum. For something that can spin 24/4 with a needle moving so close to it, these things sure are reliable.

>https://shows.acast.com/athleticomince
>press play on latest episode
>switch to another tab after a minute or so
>cpu temp goes fucking mental then shoots up to 70C

mind trying this on your rig?

>>108289163
I am on Cachy OS, I formatted and shredded a non system drive "D" or sda and then zeroed it with dd , did a system update, now stuck in emergency mode.

Although the KDE partition manager did say 'changing fstab' I doubt the one thing has to do with the other and this is just the first time I got a fucked arch uodate by chance, at least i hope so

How do I unfuck myself, I was gonna get a live usb and chroot into my system, should I do sudo pacman -Syu again there ? Or rollback with snapper ? I cant remember what was preinstalled with Cachy, I got btrfs and can distinctly remember that there was something about that

>>108296550
Tried it, my 9900x3d sits at basically idle. 38C while running for 4 mins.
Are you running on some horribly cheap or ancient processor?
Pretty sure basically anything modern won't break a sweat.

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Hey fa/g/ets. Just came to ask if (based on your experiences) things will click for me the more I learn about C++. I've been tech illiterate. I know a little bit more now but more questions come, and confusions that don't point to clear questions as I go on. I've only been learning the tiniest bit so far but I haven't been able to apply everything I've learned and so far it's just
>what werks
>what doesn't
Taking notes helps. Based on this limited information, I'm not too retarded for it right? I'm still powering through no matter what. I don't think I'm too dumb, even if my gears aren't spinning at 130MPH. I'm not gay btw.

>>108296607
which browser?

>>108296618
I know this is a little nebulous, I'm just expecting that someone experienced will just kinda know what I mean.

>>108296635
Firefox, but just for you I just tried Chromium as well.
Same thing, 38C basically no load.

>>108296671
this might be a linux thing then.

>>108296695
I'm on Debian Sid.

>>108296618
Sysadmin/IT shit, no. General programming knowledge, yes.

>>108290678

its normal only in early 2000s drives died under 20k hours

>>108296709
Are there good resources for learning the former 2 without a formal education or is a formal education the way to go?

>>108296752
You can always just learn by doing.
Learn some networking by replacing your current router with a mini PC running opnSense and some APs. Segment your network so that you have privileged devices, guest/internet only, and IoT garbage.
Install Arch on a spare computer. Why Arch? Because it's very batteries not included, and forces you to learn. You could do LFS, but that might be a bit much.
Self host some things like maybe a wiki, nexcloud, or an email server. I would recommend doing this in the cloud though. The kind of VPS you'd use for this sort of thing should be around 10€ or less a month.
Setup a site to site with sensible firewall rules between the private network your VPS instances are on and your privileged net.
Setup a VPN, probably WG, server at home or in the cloud, so that you can access stuff you don't want to expose on the internet away from home.
If you do all of that, you'll probably know more than someone who just takes some classes and gets a CompTIA A+
You can always circle back and grab some certs after you have the knowledge already.

>>108295404
>Just how bad are the backdoors on Intel ME and AMD PSP?
they exist for remote device management and imaging. if you consider their intended use case, you should be able to understand the sort of attack surface you're talking about.

with that said, unless you are a very high value target or a cog in a very high value enterprise or government outfit, it's unlikely you're going to encounter an attack that leverages ME etc. NAT would protect you unless someone's on your network at home and nobody's sitting around at starbucks trying to leverage ME zero days against random nobodies in the area (other than maybe to test for a more targeted to attack), it's too much effort, there are easier attacks to pull off.

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I have some steam games installed on a secondary drive. If I do a fresh os install on my main drive, could I still play the games on the secondary drive, or do I have to install them again?

>>108296618
>I've been tech illiterate.
tech literacy doesn't come from learning programming. programming comes from learning programming. you'll still be clueless about how to operate a computer, you'll just know how to make programs. t. i work in IT and have in the past worked with clueless code monkeys who can't navigate basic shit in windows.

that's not to say you shouldn't learn C++ but if your goal is to attain tech literacy, you are better off doing the following:
1. study the functionality of the systems you will actually be using. learn where the most common things are. if you see things you don't know about, open them up, explore them, search them on google, try to understand what they're there for.
2. learn how to phrase things for search engines (less relevant now with llms but still useful). nobody ever just knows the answer to everything up front, step one of figuring anything out is always research.
3. learn the general procedure for solving problems (try the easy common fixes first like rebooting, if those fail try to isolate what is causing the problem by figuring out what is working and what isn't -- if you can't connect to the internet, can you connect on another device? can you tether to your phone? can you connect via wifi instead of wired or vice versa?)

if you want to STUDY something, look up an a+ video series on youtube, the actual value of these sorts of exams is debatable but the information in the videos will at least introduce you to the most common basic computer shit.

What is the best ad free video player for phones on android?

I use MX player but the ads that play when you pause your video have gotten to be outright disruptive

>>108295547
oh thank god, it's back up.

>>108296828
>>108297144
Thank you very much. Sound like very good pointers.

What's the best online chatbot for roleplaying?

I’ve been using my steam deck docked as my main computer since december. Havent really done anything unique with it yet. Previous computers I’m tweaking the start menu or changing wallpapers or assigning hot corners or messing with macOS’ dock or setting macro shortcuts. But this is I’ve left mostly stuck. I’m not scared of tinkering in linux I just… don’t care. What should I be doing to make steamos and or arch l>>108297588
inux the best it can be?

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>my 1TB 970 EVO Plus died
>send it into Samsung for repair since I'm still under warranty
>send me a replacement
>they send me a 2TB 990 EVO Plus
I'm not complaining, but what happened? Did they just upgrade me so I wouldn't complain/make me happy? I mean, I got double my storage back during a memory shortage, but it was not what i was expecting.

>>108298830
whatever center processed your request probably just didn't have that in stock and just tossed in whatever was handy. either that or it was just a mistake.

>>108298762
If it just werks you really don't want to fall down the tinkering rabbit hole.
I don't know how modified Steam's version of KDE is but when I used Kubuntu it had way too many options. I like XFCE for that reason.

Is there anyway I can make my mbp use it's fans more when doing intensive stuff without potentially using a program that could mess things up? Which of those fan control programs has least room for messing with things?

>>108296580
Use a live environment, see if you have an ESP (EFI System Partition) and a bootloader on it. You probably do, since otherwise you wouldn't reach emergency mode.
Then see if you have an initramfs file, usually it's under /boot/initrd.img.
Is there some error message when you're dropped into emergency mode?

>>108297407
VLC

>>108298762
Based, I do the same, but I dual-boot SteamOS and Kubuntu on it.

>>108289163
This is what the average home Windows/MacOS user is like in my mind.

>>108293474
Unix has been dead and gone for decades.
Linux OSes are *GNU* based. GNU has no drivers in it though, those are in the kernel which is explicitly what Linux is and BSD is not.

>>108297129
you'll just have to add the library on the second drive through the steam options, no reinstall needed, iirc.
if you want to make sure, use steams backup feature

Posting after wasting hours down rabbits holes.
What technology will help me find a specific porn from the PH purge that happened somewhere between 2019 and 2022?
I know the model's name but nothing comes up when you search it. And the original forum where here videos and thumbnails came from are all deadlinks from 2018.
Posting in that forum does not help and also for seemingly no reason the forums name cannot be mentioned on 4chan despite being cleaner albeit porn focused

>>108295351
>MP3s
lol
What do you think Mi Music is?

>>108300209
I know it's:
>Contains ads
>In-app purchases
when you could just do things the normal way:
>transfer your own MP3s to your phone
>use your phone's built in music player
I suggest that not out of ignorance, anon.

>>108300287
It's also the built in music player for the brand of chinkphone I own.
Not saying it isn't dogshit but you can turn the ads off in the settings and I haven't come across any in-app purchases.

>>108300359
>It's also the built in music player for the brand of chinkphone I own.
then that sounds like a You Problem that it's silly to think other people would be aware about

>>108293534
I don't see how it could be.

What's better for wiping a HDD: zeroing it with a tool such as dd or triggering the drive's FW to perform a secure erase?

>>108301340
hdds don't typically have secure erase, it's a feature of self-encrypting ssds

zeroing it isn't all that secure, although it's probably good enough for most basic situations. however, a lot of times zeroing the data leaves the data recoverable by more advanced tools.

i believe nsa recommendation is two-pass full random for hdds. you can do that with dban.

>>108301340
depends on your use-case.
if you want to sell or give away your hdd, just zeroing is fine, if you want to encrypt it, overwriting with pseudo-random data is enough (the idea being that any not-yet-used space is indistinguishable from used space as encrypted data looks the same as random data by nature). there's no evidence i've seen that makes more than one pass useful on anything resembling a modern drive. if you want to destroy/discard the drive, just physically destroy it, it's faster.

>>108301340
>HDD
>secure erase by firmware
What is this even? Does it imply the drive transparently encrypted the data and when asked to "secure erase", it throws the keys away?
>>108301370
But could a HDD "self-encrypt" also?

>>108301470
self-encrypting is a specific thing, not just an encrypted drive
https://cyberpedia.reasonlabs.com/EN/self-encrypting%20ssds.html

secure erase/sanitize are sata features but they're optional features that can be implemented however the vendor wants. it's just that with self-encrypting ssds, the typical way to implement it is just by changing the encryption constant, which also happens to be very secure. the function on hdds and standard ssds has no guarantee of actually being secure since vendors can do what they want (this is actually true with self-encrypting ones too, it's just trivially easy for them to do it the right way).

>>108301470
because of how ssd's work, where how they appear to the system as a flat span of logical sectors, but are actually stored in a much more complex way with things like wear-levelling, transparent reallocation of worn blocks, read-erase-write of said blocks as they're typically larger than logical sectors, etc, erasing as ssd at the logical level (i.e. overwriting all the sectors) may not necessarily destroy all the data on the actual flash chips entirely. to work around this, some ssd's can encrypt data on their own before the data hits flash, and secure erase can destroy the keys used so even blocks that can't be erased will only contain useless encrypted data with no key available to decrypt them

>>108301490
>sata
i meant ahci... i think, been a while since i read about this shit

>>108301340
Physically destroy the drive and don't forget to encrypt it before you load it up with loli feet pics next time.

Give it to me straight, did I fuck up by buying a Ryzen 7 7735HS, 16 GB DDR5-4800, 512 GB PCI 4.0x4 NVMe plastic laptop with kinda shitty cooling (one heat pipe, one fan) and presumably rather low TDP configuration because of it for ~625 USD instead of buying the new MacBook Neo?

>>108301697
Specs wise, no. Build quality is probably kind of shit, though. You likely would have been better off buying a Thinkpad T14 gen 4 used for similar money and performance.

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>>108294299
for me it's VLC

tip if you're using it: limit scanning to one folder e.g. /sdcard/Music not the whole system

>>108293740
Underrated posting!
>>108294212
>>108294234
Thx for your reply. When your mobo doesn't support the TPM at all, you simply don't have it in the BIOS. Only when you install a external TPM, it becomes available. I think I will look now for a cheap "new" DDR4-mobo. Sadly, I always thought there would be a Linux alternative for gaming by 2026.

>>108301769
What's the model of your mobo? I'd be very surprised if there's an LGA1700 mobo that doesn't support the fTMP, assuming it's not some weird low end chinese shit.

>>108301729
>used
I don't know, in my country for some unknown to me reason a lot of used laptop sellers want to meet the buyer personally, and most sellers of well known, but not super-popular brands/lines of laptops live in the capital, but I don't, so I can't meet them. Although perhaps I'm overstating how common that is, but it's not a rare thing it seems.

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>>108300209
>>108301740
ah i thought you was listening locally
I use PipePipe to listen to youtube but that has a lot of problems on its own like breaking every week. I never tried revanced, maybe it's the way...

>>108301812
>you was
were

>>108301787
Ah, I was thinking from a European perspective where you just buy it on ebay.

>>108289163
Thunderbird RSS filters don't work. What do?

>>108295351
There's a lot of phone models that come without a music player. Does Android Open Source Project still have it btw?
>>108301498
I know wear leveling and remapping of blocks and stuff like that.
>and secure erase can destroy the keys used so even blocks that can't be erased will only contain useless encrypted data with no key available to decrypt them
Yes. Was wondering if HDDs have that.

>>108301917
>Yes. Was wondering if HDDs have that.
some do, though i doubt any consumer drives have it
ssd's kinda need it, because if you encrypt at the logical layer, there's no way to be certain when or if erasing the keys logically will actually erase the block the keys are stored in physically. on hdd's logical and physical sectors are pretty much mapped 1:1 all the time except in cases of remapped sectors if they go bad (you're supposed to replace a hdd once it starts developing bad sectors as once it starts it tends to snowball soon after, unlike an ssd where it's blocks just have limited writes to begin with and just wear out slowly rather than unexpectedly fail)
that is, erasing keys on a hdd is sure to actually erase the keys, so you can just do it at a software/logical level

>>108289860
>threads with hundreds of posts, do you start from the top and make your way down
How else are you supposed to read threads?

>>108301740
I went with what >>108294392 advised for now. It works well enough barring the stray duplicate songs that I can't seem to be able to fix on some albums. Maybe I'll try VLC too but I have quite a few albums that need the art set manually so it's a hassle to go through this every time, thanks.
>>108301812
I was talking about local yeah, revanced works perfectly but the audio quality remains poor on yt even without the ads.

I'm on Windows 10. My ethernet connection keeps cutting off for a few seconds before reconnecting again on its own. I don't think the cable is damaged because this only started happening in the past few weeks.

>>108302669
rule things out, try another cable, try the cable on another computer, etc
just because it's a new problem doesn't mean the cable is fine, cables can become damaged even if they were not before

>>108302821
Ethernet goes down but Wi-Fi keeps running until it reconnects through the cable.

>>108302937
Not that anon, but your wifi staying up is not relevant to your ethernet issues.

>>108302967
he might not understand the difference between an ethernet connection and an internet connection.
yes, /g/ has become this normal these days

>>108302967
>>108302975
I'm just pointing out that it's not a problem with internet connection itself, but specifically what pertains the ethernet port.

>>108303002
that's fine, but your comment doesn't suggest an issue with your internet connection nor does mine suggest it either, even if your internet connection goes down, the ethernet connection wouldn't, they aren't correlated.
at best assuming the other end goes into the same soho box that provides your wifi, this means it's not that box resetting, but that would take longer than a few seconds, so i would not have considered that worth testing.
-- unless when you say your ethernet connection cuts off, you're specifically talking about just a lack of internet communication only and that the ethernet is still connected, like the ethernet icon in your notification tray doesn't show a disconnection, is that what you meant?

>>108303002
Nobody thought it was, I was assuming your link was going down on ethernet. If it was an internet issue hopefully you would have specified that you still could access your LAN.
Anyway, the suggestions in >>108302821 are what you should do.

>>108303093
Connection simply stops coming through the ethernet cable for a couple of seconds every now and then. Yes, the tray icon does show that it's not connected when that happens, before switching to wi-fi automatically (if wi-fi is enabled), and then becoming a wired connection again. Clearly it isn't on the router/ISP's side, and the cable I'm using isn't old enough to vote, so I suspected something wrong with how the drivers are handling ethernet connection.

What's a good app for >phonepoastin now that kuroba is kill?

>>108302669
try a different ethernet cable
try a different wall outlet and/or port on the router
try a different device on the original ethernet cable and outlet

>liberal podcast yass queening the repeal of section 230
Why do they think they would be spared while posting fuck ICE?

>captcha expired
What fresh hell is this?

>>108303699
are you really that slow?

non techy here was just wondering what's the difference between lowering the volume from ur volume knob for ur speakers, lowering the volume in windows and lowering the volume inside a video player lets say in youtube and lowering the volume in ur headphones. like i dont understand how u can have ur headphones at 100% and the player at 50% and windows at 25%. explain it to me like im retarded ** i am **

>>108303874
In your example, there are 3 layers where the gain on the audio signal is controlled.
There's the application level, like your youtube video playing in chrome or firefox or whatever. This happens inside of the application before it hits your OS sound system.
There's also your OS sound system. You can either adjust a global gain on the entire system or individual gain levels for application sinks and sources.
After that, there's your hardware. This could either be something as simple as a potentiometer on your headphones or something more complex like a multi channel mixer and amp. At the hardware level you usually need multiple physical connections to adjust separate gain levels.

>>108289163
Where's the best place to put my peepee to sexo my PC?

>>108303998
You don't want to sexo your PC. You want to sexo everyone's. This can be done by removing your power socket from the wall.

>>108303998
in your case? the 3.5mm headphone jack

>>108303998
rub on gpu backplate thats where the heat is

>>108304033
Good idea
>>108304035
Why do mean
>>108304036
Will do this

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>try to replace microUSB port from PCB
>remove port
>two of the pads come off with it

Question: How much of a fucking retard am I?

>>108304079
You're posting here, so yeah, you're 100% a retard

>>108304079
Follow the pcb traces to find places to solder wires to

>>108304097
He's a retard, you expect a retard to be able to do that?

I bought a used Asus TUF 3060ti and thought everything seemed fine, but when i booted up a demanding game it jumped to 85-86c immediately and was as loud as a jet engine, eventually it seemingly crashed too because my screen lost its signal.
Is this card bricked, could it be a software issue or could repasting save it?
Please help me, i've been through some very terrible events recently and need at least this to work out for me.

>>108303317
KurobaEx-Beta

>>108303874
You want the volume lowered at the last step, otherwise you lose quality.
Keep everything before that at 100%.

>>108304148
Does it run benchmarks fine?
Try a different OS, the issue could be related to your current OS or drivers.
There's a chance that the card is kill.

>>108304148
I just ran the heaven benchmark on my 3060ti and the fans ramped up to about 75% and the temps didn't get any higher than 75c and was stable and my ambient temp rn can't be any higher than 23c/74f. your card seems kill, Anon.

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>>108304917
To add to this, if your card just seemingly kept getting hotter and then shutoff, it could just be that the cooler/paste isn't on properly and the card is eventually reaching it's TjMax and then shutting off. Did you notice any visual artifacts or did it just shut off out of nowhere?

>>108304508
It's just W11 since i mainly use my PC for goyming and talking to friends.

>>108304955
There were no artifacts or anything, the game ran perfectly until the screens lost connection after a while of running the game (it happened as i opened the Nvidia App program on my 2nd screen, idk if that's related or a coincidence tho).

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long shot but is it possible to make this smaller as an animated webp and be lossless? (exactly the same pixels as the gif)
no matter what i try the webp gets a little heavier filesize.

>>108304148
it's possible the thermal paste dried out and it needs to be repasted. this isn't usually TOO hard to fix if that's the case.

>>108305049
No, because webp doesn't use indexed colors.

>>108305180
The lossless mode does if there are less than 256 colors in the image
No idea about if it'll be smaller though

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Why can't I get rid of Grammarly on my phone, a Samsung A235M?
No matter how many times I deactivate it, it returns. On Wattpad in particular, it makes the cursor jump all over the place.

>>108305412
I don't think the color cache is quite as efficient as indexed colors, especially since GIFs can scale from 1 to 8 bit color.

>>108305049
>>108305460
I used the libwebp tool giftowebp and got it to 39838 bytes. So not a big saving but still

>>108305180
huh, i thought it did but had a separate palette for each frame even if all the palettes could be the same.

>>108305488
unfortunately gif2webp.exe doesn't guarantee "exactly the same pixels as the gif", it can be near-lossless at best

>>108305180
>>108305544
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_bitstream_specification

>color indexing image
>A one-dimensional image of colors that can be indexed using a small integer (up to 256 within WebP lossless).
looks like it supports palette (up to = can be less than 256). so the issue is probably as i thought that it stores several palettes for each frame

most gif animations turn out smaller when converted to lossless webp animations btw, i've only seen a couple that i can't get smaller than the original gif

>>108305544
Well the animdiff tool is saying they are identical so maybe not

>>108305580
maybe sometimes by luck they will be lossless, i'll investigate.
did you use

animdiff -raw_comparison -max_diff 0

?

>>108289163
hey /g/, how do i view an offline file from openstreetmap? i am thinking of something like kiwix-serve just for openstreetmap. Organic Maps sucks ass and I don't want to create a dedicated server with like 24gb ram
https://download.geofabrik.de/ has the files I want to display

>>108305488
>>108305580
>>108305621
gif2webp seems legit as far as I can tell, thanks anon!

>>108305621
Ye

I have an external hard drive from a laptop that I unplugged one too many times, resulting in failure and a beeping sound coming from whenever I plug it in. after smacking this bad boy around a bit it now makes a periodic clicking or scratching sound instead.
am I making progress or should I just throw it away?

>>108306256
if you care about the data and can still access it you should backup ASAP.
just because you can see the files in windows explorer and they have the correct size and date modified it doesn't mean that they aren't already corrupt.
so backup and throw away.

Can anyone tell me how useful is winslop?

These days I have learned more about why you sometimes have more or less puzzles in the captcha. It is some type of credit system where you get rewarded for some things like not getting banned, number of posts, disabling the ad blocker, etc. And if you delete the cookies you get 3 puzzles again because that credit gets reset.

I would be nice if all these things were explained somewhere in the website.

>>108306270
I don't remember having anything important on it, thankfully, it's just a shame to have wasted 320gb for doing something stupid. oh well, guess I'll just toss it.

As of late PC has had this habit of turning the fan on full blast for uncomfortable long, usually when I save several things at once but it will strike randomly too. When I put it to sleep too the fan spins up right at the last moment before it turns off.
It's a relatively standard dell desktop, and it's been doing this since about a week ago when the power went out but I did chkdsk and everything which came up fine so IDK why it's doing this now as it never used to.

>>108306474
If it's old, you might need new thermal paste.

>>108289163
How the fuck do I use Windows XP on Oracle Virtual Machine without raping my RAM to death.

I'm trying to find a splitter/switch device that lets me toggle between two displays for one device(PS5 console). I'm wanting to be able to switch between my high refresh rate monitor sitting at my desk and my big 42 inch dumb TV set so I can play my retarded normie shooters on the monitor and play whatever else on the TV in front of my bed because it's comfier. Would a device like that cause any issues with latency or refresh rate settings, or should I just skip the switcher idea and move the thing around depending on what game I'm playing

>>108289301
mactype

>>108306996
hdmi switch 4k 120hz 1 in 2 out gets a bunch of results on amazon for around 30€
Never used one myself. If you were on a desktop, I would say to just connect both and switch which one is disabled in your OS.

I am a brainlet and had a hard time making a Face(((Berg))) account in 2022. My family used Messenger as a communication method but by then it required FB. I made an account and couldn't get in, so I made another one and used that for Messenger but that phone bricked a week ago. My new phone will NOT allow me to log into the account I actually used, but the first one I made is perfectly fine. It keeps sending me the same code every time I get to the step before actually being able to reset my password. What the hell?

>>108306256
that's the drive head sticking which is a common failure/degradation mode in mechanical hard drives. it's technically fixable but for a drive that small it's absolutely not worth it. a 320 gb hdd is not a great loss even with drive prices how they are. secure erase anything important and then either dispose of it or use it as a scratch drive.

>>108306384
it's a convenience tool that aggregates a bunch of different changes together. it's as useful as you think the changes it's able to make are.

>>108306392
if you explain how a system like that works you're basically telling the people it's trying to block exactly how to get around it.

>>108306967
decrease the amount of ram dedicated to the vm

>>108306474
you could go into bios and look if there are any fan curves that might have become weird for whatever reason.
can also keep it off a while before going into bios, look at CPU temp if it seems high or starts to grow a lot even though it is only idling in bios

>>108306392
don't expect too much, 4chan doesn't even update the error message from "you have mistyped the captcha" even though there's no typing involved now.

and the "Post" button isn't disabled until you have gotten the "done" captcha message. human error causes people to press Post even though there is a "next" captcha, a mistake a bot would never do, so not disabling the Post button only punishes people and not bots.

I started using tomorrow instead of yot b and I can't figure out how to change the color in thread watcher for new replies as bold simply isn't enough. This is the only custom CSS I use for it(thread watcher)

#threadWatcher {
max-width: 500px!important;
}
#threadWatcher li {
border: none!important;
}

#watchList {
-moz-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
column-count: 2;
}

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What should I start reading up on and archiving for when shit hits the fan with regards to age verification and the eventual implementation of real-ID verification? It's obvious the former is an entry point for the latter. Considering a worst case scenario in which real-ID verification is required for literally anything, I want to be able to make use of P2P networks, and find like-minded communities there similar to ours, without having to make any compromise regarding privacy and inalienable freedoms.

I'm semi-familiar with GNU/Linux, but only in so far as following alongside the basic Arch installation articles as well as adjacent articles, such as those pertaining to encryption and basic system configuration. I am effectively a novice. Is my only recourse to go the route of LFS and compiling everything from source?

>https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704
>This bill would declare its provisions to be severable
How convenient lol.

What a shitshow.

>>108307575
never used thread watcher, test test

>>108307575
>>108307669
ok try this:

.hasNewReplies {
  color: yellow !important;
}

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>>108307689
that worked
I dont know what the fuck happened
>yellow
I was also trying to use hexcodes the whole time
thanks lol

>>108307617
>metaboric
kek

>>108304472
So in order to not lose quality should I lower the volume through the video player or my headphones/ speakers?

>>108307756
you can use hex codes, thought i'd simplify it

in both firefox and chromium you can rightclick stuff in your browser and "inspect" to modify css and figure stuff out easily. in firefox you can hold shift to get the real right click menu if the website blocks it, chromium doesn't have that handy feature

>>108307786
>headphones/ speakers
This.

>>108307786
Definitely not at the video player unless you're trying to balance multiple applications. You basically want to minimize positive gain at every level. The application and per source volume control in your OS can generally only do negative gain so you don't want to reduce those. Your headphones can likely only do negative gain as well via a simple potentiometer if they don't connect via USB. That makes the global OS volume control the best place to control volume since all of the other's can only do negative gain, and adding negative gain in other places will require more positive gain from your global OS volume.

>>108307815
To simplify this a bit, assuming my assumptions are correct about your headphones:
Application 100%
Global OS volume to adjust volume
Headphones 100%

>>108307617
i expect Tor nodes and websites will grow like a motherfucker if real IDs are required to do things online.
they're going to push "everything" onto Tor and eventually kids will start using it as well, having the inverse effect of protecting them (which was always just an excuse anyways to get adults to tie their real identity to activities and comments online).
if they actually get a foot in the door with this whole "think of the children" excuse surveillance and profiling will accelerate beyond what people expect. btw even if websites use "3rd parties" for verification most of them will probably use cloudflare, which means they will collect your identity. few know that cloudflare can read everything you do on almost 25% of all websites, https doesn't protect you. they see all posts and the content of them on 4chan, and can correlate it with what your browser wrote on other websites that also use cloudflare, and if your real identity passes through one of them all of them are compromised. 4chan uses cloudflare, even sites lite exhentai uses it. hope you clear cookies regularly, avoid logging in, and rotate between IPs a lot.
also cloudflare provides almost everything for free, meaning there's some other reason they want everything to pass through them. most important to remember is that https is NOT peer2peer when cloudflare is used, they see everything passing between you and the website.

>>108303874
analog vs digital volume control. i can't be bothered explaining it but digital volume degrading the audio quality is such a non issue and was always a meme to begin with

>>108304472
No longer maintained per issues and you cannot verify email in it so I can't post, gets flagged as spam

>>108307874
That shouldn't really be the concern. It's more about having the shitty opamp on the motherboard do as little amplification as possible by not adding negative gain where you can avoid it.

>>108307891
I don't think you read what I posted, and it wasn't a long reply to begin with.

>>108307914
>t retard who doesn't know what he's talking about

>>108307808
>>108307815
>>108307821
ty

>>108303874
ideally for the best quality all digital volume controls should be left at 100% or 0dB (no gain adjustment) and only at the speakers/amplifier should you apply gain (volume adjustment).
the reason being that digital volume adjustment is functionally the same as for example digital zoom with pictures, reducing the volume digitally effectively reduces the bitdepth of the audio, which lowers its' quality. though it's similar to zooming out a picture digitally where zooming out reduces the size (volume) of the picture, so it doesn't need as many bits anyway. the worst thing you can do is reduce the volume digitally, then amplify it back up afterwards (kind of like reducing the resolution of a picture then scaling it back up).
note that you may need to go to extremes to even hear a difference, and if you have a decent quality 24bit DAC, you'd have to really be trying to actually hurt the quality since 24bit gives so much headroom beyond what anybody can discern