Anyone else having issues watching youtube videos?
My account seems to be banned from watching for some reason. If I log out, I can watch without issues, and youtube-dl with MPV also works fine, so it's not a real problem.
I am just curious if someone else was banned like this, and if so what the reason might be.

>>106675023
>youtube-dl with MPV
>what the reason might be

>>106675228
How would google know that I'm using MPV to watch their videos when I don't provide account credentials when using it?
I am using a dogshit ISP that gives me the same IPv4 address as the other users, so they really can't link my usage of youtube-dl with my account.

super retarded question incoming
>buy pre-paid sim card
>buy sim card reader
>plug it into my macbook
>send/receive sms to register for whatsapp, telegram, etc (services that require phone number verfication)
is this a thing? do macs even have software to send/receive sms with those adapters?
it's for privacy reasons (don't care about state level stuff, i just need to have a "clean" whatsapp account not linked in any way to my irl number and info)

>>106676300
Why not just get a burner android phone for that?

>>106676300
I don't know, but you can buy a dumbphone for $15 that can definitely send/receive SMS.
You can also buy temporary SMS numbers for somewhere between $0.10 and $0.50, but they work better for some services than others. For example I can reliably make google and discord accounts like that but I have never managed to make a telegram with those. It can still be worth a try but sometimes they have minimum deposit amounts so if it doesn't work you lose, like, $3 or something.

>>106676353
An android phone is way overkill

>>106676375
>you can buy a dumbphone for $15
i'd get one but they don't sell those where i live
i could get one online but i'd rather get it all in person
>>106676353
i'd like for everything to be contained on my computer if possible, it's easier to snap a sim card and throw it away than to fet rid of burner phones and whatever

>>106676417
If you don't care about state level stuff then buy one off amazon or unironically just buy an old phone off of ebay, just make sure it's unlocked because dumbphones used to be carrier locked a lot (and sometimes modern carriers have issues with unlocking a 20 year old handset, source, I've tried).

Can I use a Chinese Galaxy S24 Ultra (Samsung official, not a knockoff) in Canada without problems? If no, can the problems be solved permanently trivially?

Couldn't find a home network thread so I'll ask here.
What's the best 10 gigabit rj45 single port nic for around $100?
Could be either new or used

>>106676473
Anything with Intel x540 chipset.

>>106676300
A card reader has no modem, you won't send/receive shit.

Where is the /hsg/ thread....

>>106676531
Seems typical for /g/ to troll, I ended up going with aqc113

Why is hpg dead?

>>106676621
>muh trollz
Why do I even bother?
Enjoy never actually getting 10gb.

Is there a way to make the default text window in MS Paint larger?
When adding text in paint the window is too small by default, so I can't simply type something in and have it appear, and am instead forced to expand the window manually each time so that all the text is visible
I'd like it to be as tall as the text I'm inputting so I don't have to do so.

>>106676473
/hsg/ is good for home networking

>>106676763
It selects the height size off the height of the font already?
You can also click and drag to make a larger textbox

My 4chan is set to auto update but yet it doesn't update

Im using Brave on windows 11

Perhaps auto refresh is blocked somehow?

>>106677633
Probably have to allow scripts/fingerprinting.

>>106677713
where do i do that

>>106677837
The little shield that pops up next to the url bar

>>106677859
tnx ill try playing with the options

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it will never be enough right anons?
only the folder for memes/jokes/videos/books/rekt/politics etc without movies/anime/tv shows etc

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Is there any way to minimize the stuff below the green line more besides removing them completely from the Docks?

It takes up so much space

>>106678938
Settings > Appearance: Font size: 9 and classic density.
The classic style also has reduced padding if you wanna select that

>>106678938
>>106678938#
You can also disable dock toolbars and the source toolbar, as well as the status bar in View.
You can access all of these options with the context menu anyway

>>106679236
Thanks, I didn't think of that.
>classic
this is the classic style.
>>106679321
already mentioned I don't want to disable them, these are the two most used things for me.

>>106679444
>>106679321
I understand now what you meant by classic, I enabled that too now.

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Best online upscaler (for low res images)? Any downloadable ones that can be done through software, or at least aren't dependent on very specific graphics cards?

Why don't we, like ever, have any MacOS threads?
I'm the first on my team to get MBA M4 2025, I need more 'cli workarounds' and 'apps' to do basic crap to make it better.

>>106674909
Couple of dumb questions here:

1. How can you be sure that there is 0 data on a HDD/SSD after wiping it, is it possible that some programs, OS, any markers of sort, bits that still persist, get deleted, making sure no traces exist of any kind?

2. Same as 1. but for ROM memory.

3. Is there any hardware level unique identifiers that exist even if you were to implement you own ISA among other things?

Thanks in advance.

>>106679832
Hmm I don't think that's possible to verify every cell for ssd, the vendor's tools will give you the most control to erase, but not 'view'. for hdds it's still not very practical to 'verify' without special hardware for recovery, you just write it all with 0, add a few of those passes and its as best as you can get without destroying it.

>>106679823
Macos pisses me off to the point where I punch my k120 keyboard at work every 4 weeks.

Good luck.

t. Ubuntu chad

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>>106679946
It's more common than you think.

>>106679832
AFAIK HDDs shouldn't have any hidden capacity so if you write the entire size of the HDD, that's it, all of the old data should be overwritten. With SSDs you can't because of overprovisioning, and yes this is a known security issue with SSDs; but on the bright side it's even harder to access the data. If you're just selling your old laptop on ebay you can be pretty damn sure he won't be able to access it. If you think someone capable of desoldering the storage chips or re-soldering a custom controller is after you, then take a hammer to the SSD and buy a brand new one to put in the laptop

>>106679832
You can't, a drill, sometimes.

>>106680336
HDDs still have reallocated sectors, which could hold undesirable data. There's no guarantee they aren't using them internally before they're allocated either.

Just encrypt everything if there's even a chance you don't want it getting inspected by someone later.

>>106679823
Huh, are the /fag/ (friendly apple general) threads gone?

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You know how consoles that use discs require the game to be downloaded on the system first before playing because game resources are too hefty these days to read from disc in real time?

Is it the same for something like the switch? I'd imagine since the game data is on a chip, fetching the game data in real time is no longer an issue and the only thing you download/install is patch updates, not the game itself... ?

pic unrelated

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Why have they gotten worse over time?

>>106680677
the read speeds on those cartridges is fast enough to play games off them, however for other reasons you may still not have the entire game on a switch cartridge, for example the max size of one is 32GB, a dual layer blu-ray is 50gb. I saw some buzz about some switch 2 physical games just having a key, and you have to download the whole game from the internet still

>>106680697
money has to be made, it takes time to research interesting topics, other stuff has to be put out in the meantime.

>>106680697
everything has to do this. you have to ride the edge of what's allowed on the platform or the edge of decency/outrage. if you don't become an edgelord you don't get attention. you don't get attention you don't get clicks. you don't get clicks you don't get money.

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>>106676300
You need a "real modem-modem", that's usually an outdated 3G USB dongle. I've come across exactly ONE old 4G dongle that acted as a real modem instead of being an embedded computer. Annoyingly you can't figure this out by just looking at the USB dongle, they all look same. When plugged in it either appears as a modem or an USB-CDC-Ethernet device, the Ethernet device being a computer that's mimicking an Ethernet device for convenience as the end user doesn't need to set anything up. (assumed the dongle's internal OS is smart enough)
What goes for software, I used Linux with the basic modemmanager tool, it can read and send texts.

>>106680697
Any channel that routinely gets more than about 500k views is guaranteed to be engagement optimised slop, why are you even looking at this

I want to develop a game with sexy loli which isn't hentai. Since I definitely can't upload it in any big publisher platforms. Is there anywhere I can just upload it, even if it's free

i'm getting hard filtered by cmake's documentation. how do i get cmake to output the static libraries it generates to a specific directory?

so even after changing my CPU setting in the BIOS my 9800X3D is still hitting 48-50 C while idle, sometimes even 55. not sure what is up and I even dusted off my fans and radiator on my AIO. I was thinking about de-lidding and using liquid metal to see if tis worth it. I guess my question is if im overreacting or If I should go through with the liquid metal and keep using the IHS since direct die doesnt seem safe

Help me understand vpns. People say they're good for hiding where you are but others say they're not necessary and effectively useless. Which is it? The most I know is that you should find a lesser known yet reliable vpn that doesn't keep logs but how are you supposed to shop around for something like that?

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What level of tech does this look like to you? It’s 300 servers with over 100K SIM cards connected to a network.
Could regular criminals set this up or is this a state level operation?

>>106674909
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but is there a way to import twitter subscriptions; I was using a foss app that didn't require an account so I have a json full of people that I "followed", I want to import this to an actual account.

I really want to play new silent hill but my gpu does not run any dx12 game now for some reason, despite claiming compatibility on the box. I have a r9 390. I think mobo is z97-c . My question is there any gpu I can purchase that will allow me to play my spooky Japanese game or do I need a whole new rig now?

>>106682174

not being rasist or anything looks like jew or sand nigger community project likely legit and all

>>106681583
Itch.io, github

also Little Witch Nobeta is on Steam

>>106682044
a VPN can mask your IP address, it doesn't make you anonymous because more than your IP address can be used to identify you.

>>106681973
>9800X3D is still hitting 48-50 C while idle
You bought the most powerful gaming CPU on the market. Not the most efficient. The stacked components are going to create more heat. My 7700X is currently hovering around 47C browsing the internet. And that's a basic bitch processor with one layer of silicon.

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Should I buy pic rel to use until I get internet at my house and to practice code on?
Or should I just get something stronger?

>>106682787
something stronger, buy something that at least charges with USB-C, that should be plenty modern

Any real reason to get pixel pro buds vs the base option? Would only use for gym

>>106682804
Thanks anon.

>>106682787

look at text model number nearly says is emergency messaging device has noisy fan and no power

maybe visit automarket pick laptop and lift it to the conveyer belt

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>>106682548
>R9 390
>DX12
It looks like the R 290/390 support DX12, but not the full feature set. I'm literally checking forum posts from a decade ago for this, because that's how old your card is. It might be time to upgrade. For example, the RX 5700 listed as the minimum requirement is 72% faster than your card according to TechPowerUp.

>>106682548
>>106682895
Forgot to add a link to the TPU performance testing for the game. Remember that you can drop settings to increase framerates from here. But it should give you a good idea where the newer cards stand. If you have PCIe 3.0x16 you shouldn't suffer too much even with a newer card. Ignoring the likely bottleneck from your processor.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/silent-hill-f-performance-benchmark/5.html

>>106682918
Fuck, I need to sleep.
...even with a newer *x16* card. If it's only x8 then you'll start to run into issues with a newer card that expects more bandwidth per channel. And again, your CPU is probably going to shit itself inside out trying to run the game. But no harm in trying.

>>106674909
Hello. I am on a gen 1 t14s thinkpad. Some time ago i tried updating my drivers.
After finishing the installation, neither my trachpoint nor the three buttons above my trackpad were working. When installing the trackpoint drivers listed on lenovo's website, i get an error message telling me that the trackpoint on my computer is unknown.
Does anyone know how i can get everything to work again?

Can't believe we still got no /hpg/....

>>106680051
>necromancer hand
yup, job checks out

So, in HandBrake, if I want to add another argument in the "advanced options" box, it should look like this:

1.- rc-lookahead=30
2.- rc-lookahead=30:keyint=120

Right?

>>106679946
You can't simply use a normal keyboard and mouse with MacOS, anon. Especially for the mouse it is highly advised you either use their own Magic Mouse or even better the Magic Trackpad, along with a fully remapped keyboard (or an official MacOS keyboard).
Otherwise, extremely poor and frustrating experience. This is why I absolutely hated my Mac Mini but now absolutely love my Macbook Air. I was just doing it wrong.

What's a good calendar application for windows? I want something to give me a little pop up reminder 5 minutes before a specified time weekly, ideally something with time zones.

>>106682732
>tags: cute, funny, anime, souls-lkke
uoh

Did something change about youtube today? I feel like it's missing stuff but I don't know if is just me.

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>>106683798
They've been messing with it for quite some time

>>106682044
It's very simple, when you connect to something on the internet the data physically has to go there, which means every infrastructure operator along the way can see at the very minimum that this IP is transferring data to that IP (and sometimes extra data on top, like the website domain, depending on various reasons).
Of particular interest is your ISP, because you pay them money for the internet connection and they have your name and physical address. So for them it becomes "this guy whose full legal details I know, is connecting to these IPs".

A VPN connection is a way to "tunnel" traffic in the sense that all anyone can see is that you're connecting to the VPN IP address. Inside the encrypted data of the connection are the details of your actual end connection, so the VPN server decrypts that and then forwards them as normal traffic, but then all everyone can see is that the VPN server is connecting to that IP address. Naturally, since the VPN both accepts your traffic and then forwards it to the end connection, now the VPN is the one that can see both your real IP and the destination IP.

So effectively using a VPN switches out your point of trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. If the provider is not trustworthy, this can be useless or worse; e.g. if you live in a random eastern european country and use a small ISP there's high chances it doesn't care about anything, but then say you start using NordVPN, suddenly you're directly piping your traffic to a US entity that makes all of it freely available to the US government and who knows what.
But in other cases it can be useful. For example, in my country ISPs are legally required to keep logs for many months, while I can buy a VPN in another country that has no such requirement.
And a very important point is that you may be able to pay for VPNs anonymously, thus they will have none of your legal details, making it much harder for them to link "this IP connected to that IP" to any real person.

>>106683395
I don't know about good but I use the one built into thunderbird

My previous android phone has a flaky/loose usb-c port that needs to be in a specific position to charge it. However I havent been able to transfer data from it to my pc even when its charging. Is the port at fault? And if so whats a good tool to transfer data/files wirelessly? Syncthing?

>>106674909
I'm installing Windows 10 IoT LTSC Enterprise 2021 on a Lenovo laptop. When it's done installing I have no WiFi, no brightness control, no touchpad. Is it a driver issue? because i can't even connect to the internet, and no I don't have a LAN port

Have you ever been asked a question before?

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>>106674909
my 4chan catalog goes into an error after few min idle (pic)
>something something memory
I've got 32gb RAM
browser is brave

wat do?

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This computer had two times where it froze(one time loading a local model, other time during playing vidya) and when I rebooted the boot sector was irreparably damaged and I had to reinstall Windows. Coukd this be a hardware fault? What's most likely, RAM? SSD? Or was it just bad luck? What's the most likely thing at fault here (inb4 user)

>>106684860
Could be the disk, or some sort of malware

>>106684765
Probably, yeah

>>106684549
Sounds like you need to enable data transfer on the phone after it's connected, and presuming the cord supports data transfer, it should work

>>106684549
Syncthing is good, though it's intended for two-way syncing, but if you want to keep a live-updating "copy of your phone" folder on your PC then it will work great. If you just wanted a one-time transfer to get some data out, I'd just use ftp, there are apps on fdroid for running an ftp server (or you can probably even use termux I'm not sure).

>>106683081
When in doubt, toss a linux distro on it

>>106684765
definitely, happened to me a lot when installing on normie machines
networking drivers on an USB stick and go ham

>>106684860
could be a lot of things
isolate and test software first
hardware-wise, could be a bad or dying CPU memory controller, RAM, storage, mobo chipset and even the fucking PSU

Could a "powered off" PC still be able to recieve remote signals or execute instructions?
Could it draw current and have hardware still partly work executing instructions and so on for malicious purposes?
Can an OS/program/image/file "scar" a HDD/SSD/ROM with traces of data?
What's the best wiki/site/resource list for everything regarding software? From pentesting, reverse engineering, hardware exploits to just about anything else noteworthy.

>>106685452
>powered off
If the PC is physically connected to power, yes. This has genuine usecases for enterprise hardware management, if you're a corporation IT department and you own a ton of PCs it's genuinely useful to be able to turn them on or off remotely for example.

>scar storage with traces of data
Depends. You can definitely hide some signature or watermark in genuine data. You can also hide it in "empty space". But there's no realistic way to physically mark the storage - in all cases, if you delete the data (as in properly overwrite it, not just delete the file), or overwrite that bit of empty space, it will be gone.
However I think there have been cases of malware exploiting drive firmware. I don't know if that was common or even a real thing (I read about it over a decade ago), but in theory, if someone did that, they could indeed hide whatever data they wanted, just by e.g. refusing to overwrite that sector. It'd also survive full OS wipes as long as you kept the same HDD. But again, there's no evidence that this is something even remotely realistic or doable today, unless you start with the assumption that the CIA is literally all-powerful but then all bets are off and they can probably log your keystrokes you with a hidden laser microphone located two buildings away anyway.

>>106675023

i did notice new channel while logged off

>>106684860

i have had my computer froze several times could be as far as sun burst or local model overwriting

>>106683193
Make one

>>106684806
I had weird tab crashes like that with bad RAM. Could be that, or something else. Maybe run Memtest off of a usb drive

Is there no AI filter software that scans my screen and hides things in real time? I wanna hide every zoomer and redditor

>>106685452

if you build one yourself and turn rear power switch off it is not doing anything

it does have 2032 battery so yes

>>106685681
>run Memtest off of a usb drive
why USB drive?

had no RAM issues in games so far

>>106686311
memtests need to be standalone

How do you know if someone is connected to your computer and snooping around? It seems you can hide it, so I'm always paranoid.

is win11 really as bad as people make it sound like? Reminds me of vista which really sucked for me. But win10 was in similar boat and worked for me just fine. But i fear win12 would just drop support for my CPU so maybe it's time to get into Linux. I can handle that but honestly i really wish windows didn't pushed those fucking ai things i don't need.

>>106686524
It's basically just windows 10. You can uninstall everything anyway if you want.
You still need to use regedit to turn off internet search in the start menu and disabling windows update timers like windows 10 tho

I am having a strange issue with my SSD. Sometimes, the PC stops detecting it completely, in which case I need to unplug it and plug it to a different slot on the motherboard and it works like a charm for long time again. Unplugging and plugging it to the same slot doesn't help, but picking a different slot does. I exchanged the SATA recently thinking it could be faulty, and it stopped the issue for months, but recently it started happening again. It doesn't seem like a faulty SSD behavior based on my previous experience with them, so what could be going on here? This is the only disk that is being affected, but the other two are a PCIE SSD and a HDD respectively. Is it just dying in a very bizarre way or could it be a different issue?

>>106686668
I forgot to add but all disk scans I ran on it came out clean, it appears to be perfectly healthy

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>>106683315
it's not the ergonomics that piss me off, it's the OS - Macos - itself. It angers me.

I just take it out on my k120 because it's less expensive to replace, and isn't my works property

does super high refresh matter if you cant actually get high FPS? apparently OLEDS still have sample and hold blur.

>>106687226
Yes because black frame insertion eliminates sample & hold blur as long as your screen is bright enough.

Is there no way around this on a Win 10 Home? I'm planning on switching to LTSC if I get forced to get Win 11.

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>>106687373
Oops, forgot image.

>>106687373
Nope, LTSC will let you restart without updating though

>>106687373
You can disable them: https://winaero.com/disable-update-and-restart-and-update-and-shut-down-in-windows-10/
While you're at it, disable windows update auto-restarts, wake timers, and notifications. Also the Internet start menu search and copilot too

>>106688399
You could disable windows update entirely, but I like to keep it on and update when I want

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How does YouTube know the pirated TV shows I watch? I assume it's through cookies, but how is this allowed? Is there a way to prevent this without severely hampering the normal user experience?

>>106688694
Why do you think that?

>>106688694
it's not that YT knows, but Google does
the internet is being more surveilled by the day than ever
you either go full schizo and properly defend against it or you get to go outside and touch some grass, it's a strict or, can't be both

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>>106674909
Two questions: how to disable picrel in Firefox 140esr? and how to disable the ugly scrolling animation when pressing page up/down.

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Idk if it's a stupid question but more like a noob question: I have downloaded 4chan xt and installed tampermonkey in my Chrome extensions. How do I make them work together?

>>106689511
what exactly do you mean by that? 4chanxt is a script which works thanks to tamper/violent monkey.

>>106689537
I mean that 4chan XT came as zip. In tampermonkey's Utilities tab I clicked File import (didn't have an "import" option in Zip weirdly enough), then double clicked the XT's zip file, then went to the Installed Usercripts tab and checked/enabled the two userscripts appearing.

But when I afterwards try to browse 4chan it still shows vanilla. What am I doing wrong?

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my internet just became DOGSHIT
this isn't even the first time this has happened
it's clearly external to my network
realistically what is the cause for this? throttling? ddos? some FAGGOT on the WAN running a botnet?

>>106689692
What does your router say? I'm assuming you didn't run that test on your router.
Some device on your network may be downloading something big, or the router's processor may be overheating, or it may just need a reboot.
If these don't help, try calling your provider.

>>106689537
>>106689681
Nevermind it also required permission to execute userscripts in Manage extensions.

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>>106689681
No idea what you're doing but you can install xt by going into its git page, clicking "greasy fork" and then clicking the install button in the next page.

>>106689506
What in picrel?

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>>106689739
i have never had to do that router side before, i had to look all this shit up
and of course the results are completely inaccurate to reality
thanks FOSS

>>106690081
I may be blind but that's not a speed test.
Anyway, you ran your initial test on some device (not your router), if that device is connected to the network via WiFi then the test is meaningless, network speed can only be tested on a wired network that has a faster data rate than your internet connection. Otherwise you're testing the WiFi, not the internet.

retard here. I have an 8 TB SATA desktop drive. I want to mirror it, or at least copy all the files over to a new, identical 8 TB SATA drive so I have a backup. the files are ~500 MB to ~1.5 GB each. I usually use a SATA USB bay to connect to the drive, and I have a 3.0 USB port on my laptop. what is the fastest way I can accomplish this? I can use either windows 10 or linux. I read copying the files first to an internal/external SSD, then to the new backup drive, would speed the process up, but how is it faster if Im doing a total of 2 transfers?

>>106690167
>how is it faster if Im doing a total of 2 transfers?
It's not faster. As for how, either rsync or robocopy will do the job

>>106685540
Thank you very much. What would you recommend as resources for some in-depth software, hardware engineering? It feels like I know everything and nothing at the same time, there are just a whole bunch of concepts out there like an ABI or reverse engineering which I didn't know about until yesterday and it's a shame theres really no huge list or wiki that has a broad picture on everything, I'm really curious whats out there.

>>106690167
what other anon said but you can also try freefilesync

>>106676577

assuming macbook has ethernet no modem needed for send/recieve

Is xorg or whatever it's called still viable or do I have to use wayland?

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>>106689506
>>106690002
This ugly button that allows you to select a search engine. I remember an anon shared a css snippet or something a while ago to hide it, but I cannot find it in the archives.
>>106691025
Depends on your hardware, and also desktop environment choice. Desktops such as Xfce or Cinnamon have experimental wayland support so ymmv, while more "modern" ones like KDE or Gnome default to it. Xorg just works, but you might have issues with VRR or multi-monitor setups.

>>106691141
Enable browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride in about:config to move those selections below

I have pictures organized into folders by date, but I want to organize them another way into different folders but I don't want to make duplicates because of the size. Is there a way to do this without using shortcuts?

Somebody asked me to download their twitter archive for them. I thought only a twitter user could download their own archive? Can other people actually do that? I don't use social media much.

I read about some third-party software that can do that sort of thing, should I look into that?

>>106691796
You are looking for TAGS. Too bad it's not a feature of any filesystem but some file/photo managers do that. And AFAIK applefags have it as an OS feature.

Do they still make small computers you can fit in your pocket?
>inb4 phones
I want something a little more functional and stable than an Android device.

>>106691796
Hydrus Network. It boasts a lot of networked features but it's all opt-in and takes some setup, and you can run it entirely offline. Very very powerful and useful for organizing a large photo library.

>>106691025
I don't believe it will stop being viable any time soon. I still use a wayland-free system and nothing i want to use has become unavailable

>>106692242
does hydrus create a duplicate of every file but with a different filename?

>>106692348
Doesn't*

>>106692237
search for the brand GPD

>>106691025
Xorg X11 has been abandoned. XLibre is the currently maintained project

>>106691796
You don't need to make shortcuts or copies, use an image manager.
https://www.digikam.org/download/

How do I use my carrier locked iphone on iOS 18 as a hotspot?

Any good Security Cam app to turn an ole androidbphone into a cam with motion detection?
I got "security can cz" off the play store but its full of ads, otherwise perfect

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Are Cloudflare tunnels considered secure?

I want to control a web-app on my PC remotely and one of the solutions is using Cloudflare Zero Trust, but I'm concerned about:
1. Exposing this web-app to the web (of course, I'll setup password/login) as it controls part of my PC
2. Exposing myself to Cloudflare, do they even care what traffic goes through them? Are they able to see it? What about things like Passwords going through them?

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>>106694114

>>106692237
Look up SBC
I've got a raspberry pi setup for a dns server / ad blocker

>>106690167
Connect both to SATA, boot to a linux installer, open terminal, mount both sata devices, clone sda to sdb using dd

10 year old PSU started making a crackling noise when the PC is on, in guessing that means it's about to die?

svchost.exe has for some reason been idling around 10% GPU usage for me these last 4-5 days.
That has never been the case before.

Am I unironically crypto mined or something?
Windows Defender never noticed anything, not that I trust it. And I uploaded svchost.exe to virustotal and it didn't find anything out of the ordinary either.
So what's up with the GPU usage? Should I install norton or kaspersky or some shit or is it truly nothing?

>>106695033
Reboot into safe mode and see if it's still doing it. Run a full scan with malwarebytes

>>106695054
>malwarebytes
Isn't malwarebytes bloatware that's worse than even the windows defenders crap? Or am I thinking of mcafee or something?

>>106695088
Has always worked out for me. Could try a bootable anti-virus if you want to be more thorough

PixivUtil2 a shit due to stopping short of completely downloading many galleries. Damn thing is abandoned. How do I setup gallery-dl or a similar program to scrape Pixiv galleries?

>>106686512
Observe network traffic
There are enterprise systems for example meant for detecting suspicious or unusual traffic patterns
Realistically, there's no silver bullet to know for sure, but if you're not a personal target of the NSA and you're not running outdated software full of public exploits that chinese bot farms can automatically break into, you'll be fine

>>106691025
Xorg just works, I've heard of people having issues with multi-DPI or multi-refresh rates but personally I never encountered them. What xorg lacks is some modern features, like no HDR for example, I think VRR may or may not work, things like that. If you don't need those then xorg is perfectly fine.

>>106695033
I'm not a windows expert but my understanding is that svchost is only a container for system services, and every service runs under svchost.exe, while the binary itself I assume would just be the container itself. So it'd be like uploading systemd to virustotal to check if you have a virus daemon running.
>>106695088
Every single antivirus is horribly bloated, but malwarebytes is one of the decent ones that doesn't do too much that you don't ask it to. It only pesters you with pro upgrades occasionally and it's easy to just uninstall normally.
Mcafee is the one that's notoriously known for being impossible to uninstall, I've heard of avast being really bad too. Malwarebytes is fine.

Is there any hope for my thumb drive (SanDisk Ultra Flair Pendrive 128 GB)?
>been using it for 2 years
>experiment slow transfers last week
>eventually cancel them
>try to format it using right click but it stops being detected
>tried diskpart, format it and create new partition
>same issue
>same behavior in different computers

>>106695676
Probably not. Thumb drives are cheap and replaceable, and they use bottom of the barrel memory and controllers to achieve both of those objectives
(I hope you weren't storing irreplaceable non-backed up data on a thumb drive)

>>106695676
F
get a new one

>>106695697
>>106695698
I guessed it, time to get a new one.
>I hope you weren't storing irreplaceable non-backed up data on a thumb drive
Used it to play movies in the living room and that's it.
My main (and only) backup drive is a 15 years old external hdd though.

>>106695715
Yeah, a 128GB was slightly expensive a few years ago but by now even those are basically at disposable prices.
>My main (and only) backup drive is a 15 years old external hdd though.
Movies are often replaceable (if they're downloaded, or ripped from media you still have), but if they're not for any reason, do consider giving some thought to data safety.
Usually I preach that redundancy is better than reliability, and having two copies is always better than having a single copy on some "super expensive and reliable" storage. As, by the way, you experienced just now, one of your unreliable copies died so as long as your HDD doesn't keel over in the few days it takes you to order a new one, you'll lose nothing. But when both of your storage media are particularly prone to failure, the chance of getting unlucky with simultaneous failures may become non-negligible - give this some thought (assuming, again, you can't just re-download the movies).

>>106694845
Yeah you should replace that before it kills something.

>>106688694
Are you watching them on streaming sites? Searching them on [it]mdb? Do I really need to explain this?

Is a refurbished Dell Latitude 5400 with 1 year warranty (i5-8365U, 16GB, 512GB M.2) worth it for 166 euro? I have my own 1TB drive and would take out the one I get and sell it.

Is there public OF archiver? Which one do you use?

>>106696868
coomer dot st

>>106694190
As in, streaming it?
This post https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=30605
suggests that CamOn is the best android RTSP server. no idea if it's true but hey
You can then frigate (or firescrew?) to detect objects clientside

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>>106674909
Are there any consumer UPS backups that have two USB communication ports? I have a NAS and desktop PC next to each other, would like to get one both can communicate with for automated shutdowns.

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How long after switching to a new ISP should I wait before resuming torrenting? I don't want to spook them, wanna stay relatively under the radar (I keep speeds low anyway, not like I'm gonna be saturating my bandwidth 24/7).

having an issue with one of my monitors, it works fine until i let the screens turn off at idle. it will often not turn back on, and needs to be power cycled a few times to actually start displaying again. any idea what could be causing this ?

So there just aren't any 16:10 monitors? Am I supposed to just buy 16:9?

>>106698176
What OS? This happened when I got W11. Don't have a fix.

>>106698149
If your ISP cares then use a vpn
If it doesn't care then it doesn't

This varies so much worldwide, from countries where you get a letter from law enforcement if you even torrent once, to countries where you can do anything and your ISP won't blink even if it's getting desperate calls from US lawyers, only you can know how it is like where you live

>>106697328
either get one that is networked, or use some software that will broadcast power requests over your network

>>106698194
They do exist, but the market is a lot smaller meaning they tend to not have the latest cutting edge features and quality, and be priced higher since it's for niche enthusiasts rather than mass market appeal.
Genuine question though, what do those extra 100 or so pixels do? Why is 16:10 such a meme? I could understand it if there was a big demand for 3:2 or something from people who don't need widescreen for whatever reason, but 16:10 specifically feels like such a small difference yet apparently people treat it as a make or break thing.

>>106698257
I would love if 3:2 was more popular, but I doubt I'll ever see them on business class.

>>106698149
code?

>>106698257
> why 16:10
I gave up hope that there even was a 3:2 monitor. There's some Huawei 3:2 that's only available used for full price, and LG has a dualup monitor that's not available. 16:10 I had some hope something might exist. Those extra pixels matter, especially now that every app rolls its own ribbonlike interface + taskbars locked to the bottom.

before i throw my pc away
my pc has i7 7700k and rtx2080super
i installed linux, how can i improve my gaming performance with that distro?

There is a 3:2 28" BenQ.

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I was given a short ban from /v/ a couple of days ago. Yesterday I attempted to make a post to see if I was still banned, and I was given the "You are banned" prompt. I clicked at it, and I got this shit on my screen. I turned off browser extensions that might have posed an issue and that didn't work. I opened the link in a private browser, and then it worked and opened up, but it told me I wasn't banned. I didn't know if that was because my ban was board specific, but I knew bans had to do with your IP, so I then attempted to post on /v/ in a private browser and it worked. I assumed I happened to no longer be banned just at the time of me doing this. I still was having problems on my normal browser, so I cleared cookies, re-verfified my email, and it was working fine, until today. I tried to post again, and I'm told I'm banned again, and the same bullshit cloudflare thing comes up so I guess I can't see why I'm banned. I'm told once again in an in private browser I'm not banned.

The banning was for a pretty lousy reason anyways, and probably a missunderstanding, but it was short, and I got the message that because of the short length I can't appeal it.

Sorry to yap, but is there a way I can deal with this? When I was first banned I didn't have that cloudflare problem, yet still I had all my browser extensions on so I don't know what the issue is.

>>106698536
I use 4chanx, if that matters, though I doubt it would.

>>106698536
Well, it works with a different browser I guess. Why not on firefox I don't know.

wireless mouse
keep on all times
vs
turn off when not using
life extension?

>>106698437
You didn't name the distro, you named a kernel

Is there a reasonable chance that laptops with the Ryzen AI 7 350 will go down in price in a few months?

>>106698718
The mouse should go into power saver mode after a while or something like that. At least, there should be an option for that - I know corsair has.
You could also get a wireless mouse with wireless charging. You can get wireless mice with entire mouse pads that charge too

>>106698837
Whenever the next gen hits I imagine

>>106698869
Then I guess not. Zen 6 is apparently coming out in 2027. Is it worth it to go for the newest gen, though?
I'm deciding between the Ryzen 7 8840HS and the Ryzen AI 7 350. Similar performance, just a generation apart.

>>106698857
thanks
>wireless mouse with wireless charging. You can get wireless mice with entire mouse pads that charge too
that's just a bit too much, I think a mouse that needs charging or batteries swapped out once in a while would be great, problem is I don't know how long it would last if I just let it on constantly even when asleep. I think I might have to get one with a power saver mode

>>106698974
Basically every mouse has a power saving mode. It's just that that feature can be more annoying on some than others.
I have a GXTrust wireless mouse for 20 euros, and I charge it once every few weeks. I never turn it off. Although, maybe I should when I go to sleep.

>>106698213
win10, just randomly started happening one day

>>106699034
good to know, thanks a lot

>>106698785
mint

what is the worst that can happen when you use TOR with java script enabled?
leaking your real IP?

>>106674909
I'm having the weirdest fucking issue.
Firefox refuses to load my addons for some reason.
I turned off my PC yesterday, turned it on today and I'm realizing that none of my addon icons were loaded in Firefox's interface.
My addons are all still installed and enabled, but I can't access any of them and they're not active, not even uBlock Origin.
I found an old paste explaining some modifications to an omni.ja file (https://rentry.org/disableaddonsigning) and I tried them out myself, but they didn't work.
I tried setting "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false and that didn't work either.
I tried to restart firefox multiple times and nothing works, my addons absolutely refuse to load.

How can I solve this without having to start a new profile from scratch? I don't have my addon configurations backed up ffs.

>>106699227
javascript gives enough info about your system to become uniquely identifiable

>>106699252
but how is this a security issue?
my traffic is still encrypted?
or is this about the timing attack?

Is there like a big wiki or something similar that goes over all of the different concepts in hardware, software with more niche, lesser known stuff in mind like ABI's, reverse engineering and so on? It feels impossible to "catch-up" and know whats out there.

>>106699225
Ah, just try to get the latest mesa you can I guess, probably from flatpak

I'm doing a .net and C# tutorial from 2017 to learn C#, I need C# for some language called SIMPL# made from C for a certain software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFJjpMFJvI

My issue is the tutorial tells me to install Visual Studio. I was under the impression that Visual Studio is outdated.

Does any C# bros know what the modern alternative is? I'm just doing a basic tutorial nothing fancy.

>>106699227
Javascript can't reveal IPS directly. HOWEVER what they could do is fetch to site, and that site could look get the IP from the packet header.

BUT I assume TOR works across the whole browser and not a single tab so that should be fine too.

Is going from 16GB DDR4 @ 3200 Mhz to 24GB LPDDR5x @ 7500Mhz a big upgrade? Certainly sounds like it

>>106699384
>but how is this a security issue?
It is only an issue for people that are trying to not be identified, if you are uniquely identified on Tor, it can be associated with your clearnet identity, and thus who you are can be deciphered
>my traffic is still encrypted?
Yes,
>or is this about the timing attack?
not necessarily

>>106696643
I look for them on Yandex.

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Really entry level question but I've been trying to get the SDL3 library to work with Visual Studio for days and I feel like I'm going fucking insane because every single installation tutorial suggests a DIFFERENT WAY of doing it, none of which seem to work.

I've decided to go back to following the official tutorial here
>https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/INTRO-visualstudio.md
But I end up getting thirteen unresolved external errors for some functions, despite being able to find those functions, being declared, in the project.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

>>106699493
Visual studio and Rider are the two main ones. Neither are outdated

>>106699785
Thanks for the reply. I just used VS Code and installed the .net SDK, then used the cli command

 dotnet new console 

Is there any advantage to using studio over just using vs code now that I've already started it in VS Code and am already familiar with VS Code?

I'm a complete C# noob btw. I come from Javascript, Typescript, and C++

>>106699548
The new ram is probably soldered to the board, unless it's in cam modules. For performance you 're better off looking at the cpu and gpu, but ye, it's faster with a decent cpu.

>>106699820
>The new ram is probably soldered to the board
Yeah, LPDDR is a laptop standard that's soldered on for better efficiency and performance. I definitely wouldn't go with a 16GB soldered RAM, but I think 24GB should be relatively future-proof, no? I'm not using anything that would need an obscene amount of RAM

>>106699815
Considering that VS is also the most popular windows ide for C++ too, it's not surprising.
VS is very good nowadays, I'd choose it over vs code. Perhaps just for the debugging experience.
Rider is also very good

What the fuck is tvchan? I keep seeing it popping up in search results but I can find nothing on Google.

>>106699848
If the rest of the system is fine then sure

>>106699908
Alright I'll consider learning it after I get to the SIMPL# stuff. I'm not sure if I'll be using VS or even VS CODE for that matter later once I get to SIMPL# so I'll put it on the side burner. I'm not sure how this Crestron stuff handles code

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>>106699920
Some altchan. Gogle got it

>>106698221
forgot to mention, of course i use a vpn, but i just mean in terms of amount of traffic and data. even if the isp can't see what the traffic is, for consistent traffic 24/7, they could reasonably assume that's what's going on. so i don't mean that they'd care about the content, but about just the amount of traffic. might violate 'fair use'.
so I'm thinking of waiting a while, and then starting slow, like very slow, and then slowly ramping up the speed caps. thoughts?
a brand new customer uploading encrypted traffic at 600 megabits per second 24/7, plus bursts of downloading at full bandwidth too, might be too suddenly noticeable.
>>106698340
no clue, but there should be enough clues on the cover

>>106674909
I can't get Streamlabs to record Audacity's audio, nor Camtasia's. Any idea why this is? I'm trying to chatgpt this shit or google it and I can't find anything on it. Everything just says, "Change the audio output" and I tried, and it's not working. Any idea why?

>>106698718
>>106698974
Basically every mouse that's NOT a gamer fps ultralight mouse will have a battery life measured in weeks.
The ultralight mice typically save like 10g of extra weight by having a comparatively minuscule battery. For example my 38g mouse needs recharging about once a week or so. But basically any modern mouse that's not targeting this particular magnet segment will just have a normal battery that lasts a month+.

>>106698907
If the performance is similar I don't think it matters. AFAIK the AI chips have a better TPU, ask yourself if you'll use that for anything (probably not unless you know you will).
The current gen is kinda cool because of the high end, it's nice to be able to get 16c/32t chips and apparently the iGPUs are also significantly more powerful. But for the midrange it barely matters.

>>106699384
Your traffic is always encrypted (unless you're visiting an http (NOT https) site, which is very very rare nowadays). Tor is if you want to be anonymised. If a website gets your unique fingerprint, then Tor is mostly useless; all it does is hide your visit from your ISP, but for that just get a VPN.

>>106699480
Not really. Pick something you want to know about and look up resources on that. "Hardware and software" is a scope that's both very wide and goes very deep, there's no single resource out there that will cover everything in detail.

I will say though that if you really want to learn a bit of everything and are completely lost on where to start, I think a decent strategy would be starting from the bottom: learn how CPUs work, what assembly is and what goes into executing instructions; learn (at least at a high level) how compilers work; learn, in some detail, OS design and the major components of an OS - there's lots of fascinating stuff there. From this point you should have a decent idea of what makes your computer tick and can pick any specific topic to drill down into.
ABIs, for example, are a concept you'll encounter when delving into how compilers are implemented in practice, and it makes sense once you know how CPUs actually execute assembly: ABIs are the thing bridging the gap here when one program (or even unit in a program) calls a function from another program.
Reverse engineering is a wide field in itself but once you know what a compiler is and what it does, the concept of what reverse engineering is should become obvious, even if learning HOW to reverse engineer is a whole skill in itself that you could spend a long, long time studying and practicing.

>>106700312
They don't give a shit. They can't tell the difference between torrenting, streaming, and schizo logging camera footage off-site. Nor do they care. It's not worth their time to play with peoples' VPN unless the government says they have to.

Do you guys update the drivers of your Modem?

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When I was a kid I assumed that jobs would be super scary. I thought that if you screwed up once, or if someone didn't like the cut of your jib, you'd be canned just like that. Then I worked at a govt. contractor for the past maybe six years, and I've seen that at least at this company it's almost impossible to fire someone. There is a rigorous process that is supposedly designed to protect the company from lawsuits. Basically, massive amounts of paper trail and documentation must be done. The person must be given feedback multiple times. Because of this, it's more common to simply throw someone over the fence and make him someone else's problem. The one story I heard where someone was actually fired on the spot was because they made a joke at the expense of a mean, fat, incompetent woman whose title has "expert" in it, and she told HR, and they were out by the end of the day. But senior devs who don't know programming ABCs can be at this company for years without so much as a PIP.

Anyway, my question is: how common is this sort of thing? Do most companies allow bad devs to hang around for years, or is my employer just especially stupid?

>>106700312
Ah, interesting, yeah. If you've got a large seedbox and will actually be uploading at 600Mb/s, that might raise some eyebrows.
However I think, in most circumstances, you're worrying about the wrong thing: they don't hate free money, so they generally only go after torrenting violations if there's a clear reason to do so, and if you've given no indication then it seems quite unlikely to me that any ISP will bother jumping to conclusions. However, what they might actually do instead is tell you that they suspect you need a business connection because consistently uploading this much violates their usage expectations from a residential connection. A business plan will obviously normally cost noticeably more than a residential one.
I can't give you an answer on the risk of this. Naively, I would imagine that they might not care whether you're new or old when you do this, but maybe they will in fact apply some loyalty goodwill if you wait a while before uploading this much. Also if it happens, you should pretty much always have the option of saying "oh sorry, I'll watch my usage then" and just cutting down and staying on the normal residential plan, but obviously if you can avoid them telling you to slow down in the first place it'll be better so I don't know.

>>106700609
It depends heavily on the country. For example in the US it's common for employment to have short notice periods and no conditions on ending it, and for employers to have no legal duty other than "no discrimination", so you can be fired at any time just because your boss woke up in a bad mood that day. At least in theory; the thing is in practice, what allows people (who are actually productive and decent employees) to actually keep stable employment is the fact that hiring costs a lot of money, and if you don't have a candidate lined up then being one dev short costs money, and if a boss just fires a good worker randomly because he feels like it then the company will generally not be happy at the amount of money he just wasted. However, sometimes management is just made up of shitty people who cover each others' asses and you can in fact get fired for no reason - it's just not really the norm, since it's still objectively not good for business.
If you are a poorly performing employee, then again assuming a competent business with competent managers, even in the US again because hiring costs money and no employee at all is usually still worse than a mediocre employee, you usually really want to be sure that the employee is bad enough to be worth the effort to replace, and sometimes it can be cheaper and easier to see if you can fix their performance somehow by managing them better. Or, if it's a generally good employee who screws up once, it's almost always cheaper and easier and better for everyone involved to keep them onboard and assume they will continue to be a mostly good employee (and ideally learn from their mistake(s) if relevant) than to, again, have no employee and a lot of costs hiring.

Now in Europe for example, on top of all this you commonly also have employee protection laws that say you can't fire someone for no reason; you need some documented performance issue for example. This means it's even more expensive to do so.

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GSMarena shows my phone only supports USB 2.0 but USBtreeview shows the max speed as being 3.0
what gives?

thoughts on my tracker list?

http://p4p.arenabg.com:1337/announce
http://tracker.mywaifu.best:6969/announce
https://tracker.madtia.cc/announce
https://tracker.yemekyedim.com:443/announce
udp://evan.im:6969/announce
udp://explodie.org:6969/announce
udp://martin-gebhardt.eu:25/announce
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tr4ck3r.duckdns.org:6969/announce
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce
udp://ttk2.nbaonlineservice.com:6969/announce
udp://wepzone.net:6969/announce

>>106700609
Some companies are worse than others, but this is the general direction everyone has moved since the (((financialiazation))) of the economy in the 80s.

>>106700705
In practice "no discrimination" means you can't just fire anyone. American companies will always manufacture a performance excuse for termination if they don't have specific cause. Even if it just means give someone a job they know they can't do and fire them when they inevitably fuck it up.

How much space should I leave free for my SSD? Do I have to at all?

>>106700766
Better than mine; I just type fake trackers to my torrents because idk what I'm doing

Is there any way to find the source for a large amount of files quickly? I'm finally sorting my 4chan folder and I have way too many images of anime tits I don't recognize saved.

>>106700595
By this logic, they can't tell what you're streaming or downloading, right? I'm not that anon by the way. I just remember years ago that someone said that if you're going to look at anything sketchy or illegal, you need to be on a VPN or, at best, Tor. When I torrent movies or series younger than 5 years on the bay or nya or whatever, I normally don't bother. If it's anime, I don't waste my time on my VPN cause I realized that they dont know or care about it.

If it's FOX/Disney/WB, they keep an eye on that shit like a hawk. Ever since I got a torrent, I've not had any issues at all. I used to get that shit in the mail all the time. I use places like watching cartoons and Kaido all the time. I've never had an issue with them getting shit in the mail. I assume the only reason that torrents get noticed is that a lawyer is sitting at a desk, paying attention to IP addresses. I doubt if it's the legal team waiting on a program and shit, and has a Google doc that just needs to be changed ever so slightly.

ASUS router with merlin firmware.
Is it normal that I can connect to the WG server on the router (with the generated config) from outside the network WITHOUT having to enable port forward and whatnot?

>>106682918
Thank you for responding anon

>>106701260
You don't have to forward any ports because it's on the router. As far as the internet is concerned the router is the endpoint for all port forwarded connections.

>>106700934
You don't have to. Make sure to enable TRIM in your OS.

>>106701260
Port forwarding has no role here, just the normal firewall.
So all is good.

>>106701238
In the US streaming services are responsible for infringement not the viewers.

>>106701407
>>106701416
I see, thanks. Thought you'd need to mess with ports too in this case so was kinda concerned about security and whatnot.

do i get 250/250 or 500/500, going to 500 is just 12$ more a year, i live alone

>>106701662
250/250

Adobe Privacy for mac?

>>106701422
So they likely have a legal depo some where doing all that shit then I take it

>>106701894
There are straight criminal hosting companies. Try figuring out who owns your stateside VPN exit node if you wanna laugh.

is there a website like simpcity but for movies ?

>>106674909
Why do people still use Windows 11, when mainstream Linux distros like Ubuntu and Mint don't have any of the bloated stupid bullshit 11 is known for?

>>106702275
because it takes less than 2 hours to debloat and configure an OS, you use it for years, a few initial setup hours are nothing. Everyone says stuff will automatically get turned back on, but I've been using W11 for 2 years now, and none of the bloat magically came back

>>106702275
because everything works and it looks good
linux command line is good but that's all, everything else sucks

Could anyone recommend me a good laptop stand I can carry on my backpack?
I have a 17.3 inch laptop, and would like a stand that doesn't wobble like most do.

>>106703246
a used Late 2020 13" M1 Macbook Air

What's a good crossplatform language if I want to make software that works with both Windows/Linux, and Android/iOS?

>>106703497
Python, Kotlin, and Java

my computer is directly connected to the modem at home. when I turned my vpn on some time ago, for some reason it changed the location for everyone at home (so even my mom's phone has a different location)
I imagine somewhere the connection from the vpn back to home is changing everything, how can I set it up so that it doesn't affect anything else except for my pc?

I installed windows 10 in a laptop and everything works fine except the audio. It doesn't detect the integrated speakers. I don't know what drivers to use, nothing works.

I assume it must be an audio driver.

Laptop is: asus n55sf. Please help.

>>106703246
Those that don't wobble are heavy. Why do you need to carry it?

>>106703497
C++ with Qt.

>>106703708
surely you've tried the driver from the asus page already right

>>106699489
and how to do it?

>>106703497
Golang, except for Android/iOS you need more than just a language, you're better off making a webapp and using a WebView on those.

>>106703972
Not really because Im retarded and I can't navigate through that page. I don't remember if I installed it already but I'm willing to try again. Please help me.

I want to reliably backup my data i've got like 30TB of junk i've collected over a lifetime. i've just been dragging the important stuff over to like a 6tb external every now and then but i'd like to set up something proper. is a NAS or a DAS what i need to be looking into? I don't know anything about any of that, or raid.
help me get started researching my options.

>>106704360
>30TB of junk
At this level you have few options:
- LTO, you'll have to split one backup into several tapes
- big HDDs that you attach sequentially, just like tape
- cloud storage (Hetzner StorageBox, Backblaze)
>is a NAS or a DAS what i need to be looking into?
>or raid.
No, neither of these have anything to do with backups.

Why are so many portable laptops (lightweight, iGPU, 14 inch) build with OLED displays? Isn't that counterproductive? If you bring it around wherever, you can't control the ambient light around you, which would make the screen horrible to look at. It even specifically says "glossy OLED" on all of them

>>106704686 (me)
To specify, most of those laptops were from the Lenovo Ideapad or the Asus Vivobook series. There's an abundance of them

>>106704707
>Lenovo Ideapad or the Asus Vivobook
Trash. I have an OLED Vivobook and it is a horrible laptop with a gorgeous screen. You can't even begin to imagine how bad the laptop itself is.

>>106704686
OLED is much brighter. I agree that glossy is a mistake, but it would be wrong to put a 500 nit glossy OLED in the same basket with 250 nit glossy LCD shit.

>>106704910
>Trash
I've seen a few reviews praising it. What's bad about it?

>>106704924
Reviews praising the Vivobook?! Those would be paid. Nobody who ever touched one can say anything but "shit".
There is no quality control whatsoever, if it turns on and fits in the box then they sell it. The touchpad rattles, the USB ports are misaligned with the case holes so plugging anything in is difficult and risks breaking. There BIOS is barebones. The hinges break. There is no way to connect more than 1 (one) external display. Suspending is very slow and unreliable on Windows, sometimes it wakes up right after it's done suspending, or wakes up in your backpack.

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I got a laptop with 2 m2 slots to converge my Linux and Windows laptops into a single dual boot with one in each drive. What's the best way to make the OS's contents invisible to each other? Do I need encryption on each for it or is that overkill for that?

>>106701662
Those $12 will be pretty much entirely wasted money - I recently upgraded from about 100/50 to 500/500 and literally the only time I even remember that it's faster now is when downloading a new steam game like once in a blue moon.
On the other hand it's literally just $12 a year. As long as there's no strings attached (like jumping up in price after the first year, or something) then maybe being able to download steam games twice as fast could be worth the $12, so you can always just say fuck it and get it.

>>106703497
A web app will work literally everywhere (Electron on desktop, native web rendering on mobile with like Cordova or whatever, I'm not sure about iOS but I know it's possible) but it'll look like a fucking web app
Native apps will probably have issues with iOS, that's the part you need to research the most. If not for that, I'd say Kotlin

>>106705032
Depends what you mean by invisible. If each OS boots off of a different drive, the other drive will be considered an "external drive" and you can just not open it in either OS. On linux you can trivially just never mount it, on windows I'm not sure if it'll try to auto-mount all internal drives or not but windows doesn't natively support most filesystems you'll probably be using on it (like ext4) so it won't be able to.

So under normal circumstances neither OS should make any attempt to access it. However, if you don't trust the OS, either because microsoft or because you're gonna install a bunch of junk and games and proprietary shit on it for example and want to be absolutely sure that the drive is truly invisible and not just "it normally shouldn't access it", then encryption is the only way.
With one caveat, it's more "unreadable" than "invisible". For example, if you get ransomware on windows that tries to find, mount and encrypt every external drive, then it'll happily mount and encrypt your entire linux drive even if it can't read it at all due to being already encrypted. Or on linux if you do

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/[the windows drive]

, it will happily wipe the windows drive, encrypted or not.

There's no good way to make a drive truly invisible except by using virtual machines, and simply not providing access to the physical drive. For example you could run windows in a VM on top of linux, that way you can be (almost entirely) certain that no spyware, botnet game, virus or ransomware will be able to touch your linux drive at all. Or you could install a hypervisor and have both linux and windows as VMs, that way they can't touch each other's drives. But that's probably overkill unless you wanna have fun playing around with hypervisors and virtualization.

I've been downloading high quality movie files from transfer it and gofile without using a vpn. Is this a bad idea? I always read you shouldn't be torrenting without a vpn, but what about direct downloads? Is my isp aware of what I'm downloading?

>>106705165
>bad idea
Depends entirely on where you live
>is my ISP aware
No, not directly. They're aware you're visiting transferit and gofile, and the amount of data you're downloading, but not what you're actually doing there.
But your ISP is also not directly aware of what you torrent; rather, what happens is that goons from the media company join the torrent themselves and then make a list of all the peers seeding, then they can go to the ISP and start legal action based on the IP addresses they've collected. With a central website like this, if you were to get into trouble, it'd be if the media company sees the file hosted on the website and then initiates legal action against the website to give up logs of all the visitors who downloaded that file, and then go after you from there.

>>106705141
The point is to not to make the drives invisible per se, but more that I don't want one OS to even read what's on the other's drive, mainly because Windows will only be there by necessity and I don't trust whatever it can do to the Linux data as far as I can see it. As long as the OS can't see what data the other has, I'm happy with it.

>>106705165
Depends on where you live. In big countries like the US, Germany or France you can get in hot water pretty easily. I know by experience that in smaller ones isp's generally don't give a shit unless you're hammering the connection downloading and uploading 24/7

>>106705278
Yep then encryption is the way, encrypt your linux drive and you're good to do. (It's also good practice in general to always encrypt your drives, if ever your laptop is stolen or lost you don't want to also have to worry about your entire storage being accessible to the thieves now.)

You can also still consider virtualizing windows for even more safety if you want to bother with it.

What's the point of hosting a public tracker, really? Let's say I want to host a search engine for something somewhat uncommon in torrents, can't I just piggyback off a bigger public tracker and only deal with indexing? What's stopping anyone from uploading completely arbitrary unrelated shit?

>>106705309
Are there even that many public trackers which specialise in things? I've heard of this in private trackers, but that's because you have to upload everything with an account and they have hordes of no-life admins and powertripping jannies and your account with carefully built up upload reputation will get sanctioned or banned if you upload off-topic shit.
I'm not a particularly invested torrent enthusiast, so I may be missing some deeper context, but as far as I'm aware the point of public trackers is pretty much mostly to provide redundancy rather than curated searching or anything. If you just want to build a torrent search engine, then it's definitely easier to scrape existing trackers for it (and you don't need to run your own tracker at all, I think).

>>106705353
Hmm. I guess it's healthy for the network but there's already so many public trackers to announce on, right? If someone uploads off-topic shit to the index I can just delete that but nothing would really stop them from announcing on my tracker, no?

>>106705302
>You can also still consider virtualizing windows for even more safety if you want to bother with it.
Rather not, VM gpu passthrough is still a bit hit or miss. But I'm thinking since I trust Linux more to not mess with the drives unless prompted to, I could just remove the windows drive entry from fstab and leave it unmounted by default. That should be good enough for what I want to do.

>>106705427
Pretty much yep. And LUKS on linux.
You could also use bitlocker or veracrypt on windows (not to protect against linux but, again, as good practice).

>>106705460
That's an idea too, but I'm not too worried about someone else stealing and seeing what's on the windows drive itself, it will only be there for software and games that don't play nice with Linux like MSTeams. The Linux drive is the main one and the one I want to keep protected, and the point is to stop any leakage from one into the other, so having LUKS and editing fstab should work well for this.

>>106705309
What's the point of hosting and anonymous image board, really? Some people want to lord over communities, it's real web dev experience, and you can probably get some donos.

>>106705390
>I guess it's healthy for the network but there's already so many public trackers to announce on, right?
Yeah as far as I'm aware, pretty much. You could whitelist torrent hashes if you really cared. But I just don't see the purpose.

>>106700593
Thank you insanely much, you've nailed what I was thinking. Best of luck!

>>106706345
nandgame.com

>>106705212
>>106705299
Damn, I live in Germany. Bad idea then.
Woulf it be safe with a vpn?

I want to clone a dying 1To HDD (not an OS drive), what's the safest way? Docking station or simple software, considering I have access to both linux and windows.

>>106706452
Probably yeah. Ideally make sure the VPN is outside five eyes. It's not bulletproof but the idea is to make it international enough so that it becomes too much trouble to serve warrants everywhere and have each country take them as legally valid, cooperate and give you the data you want.
Ideally also the VPN should not have your personal data (e.g. billing information - pay by cash if possible, or monero is good too for this).

In a perfect world a VPN would keep zero access logs which WOULD make it more or less bulletproof, but of course there's no way to prove that they do even if they say they do.

>>106706475
I've heard of ddrescue, I've never used it but I think it's supposed to be a bitwise cloner (like dd) but which can gracefully handle read errors and skip over bad blocks.

>>106704686
Because OLED is less bad than the backlight they can fit in most shitty laptop LCDs, and it's more power efficient. Same reason most phones are OLED.

>>106706789
>and it's more power efficient
I've seen reviews of laptops saying that the OLED screen is a power hog. But maybe it's because they tend to have absurd resolutions and a 1080p LCD is more efficient in that case, I'm not sure

>>106706931
With laptops compute always dominates power draw, but it's still a savings. Only putting out the exact amount of light you need is obviously way more efficient than putting out the most light you could ever need and selectively blocking it.

How to download this rapidly? Firefox and all Downloaders are giving me 3-4kbps at max. Please help.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/fe4cb8e623624d54eb23de3f4d676c43

>>106707953
Can some kind soul please help, asap.

>>106708042
protip, if a website says "join now join now for faster downloads!" they are rate limiting the slow alternative, there is no solution besides paying

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I have $61 of BTC but every time I go to buy a pass and pay with my coinbase account, it says I don't have any money.

I have a G305 that is (I thought) devouring batteries. Had to change them every week or so.

But this time I put another fresh battery in there and it's not working.

Is it a connection issue? I had a battery leak in there before. Cleaned it out and everything was fine but now this crap.

Any thoughts?

>>106708211
sometimes you can get around it somewhat using a download manager with multi segment downloading

>>106708276
Are you using alkaline batteries in 2025?

>>106708219
Try getting a USDC loan using your BTC as collateral.

>>106708294
maybe. the cheapest ones i can find at the local variety store

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Is it safe to connect a SATA SSD to a computer while it's running?

>>106708327
That's the idea but on the other hand why risk it.

>>106708327
I do it all the time with SSDs and HDDs, connect data first then power, never gave me a problem, so good luck

>>106708276
Might wanna open it and look at the battery connections and board. You can get replacement mouse skates if you need to remove them to open it

>>106708307
Nope that didnt work either. Idk what's going on this is the same way I did it last year

>>106708313
jesus christ get a set of rechargables already

Why the fuck does 2 factor authentication for FUCKING EVERYTHING exist? Want to log in to a proprietary work software? We'll email you a code or text you! Want to log in to Sonic app to buy a soda? 2fa. You have been logged out of this ancient google home app you haven't opened in 16 months, 2fa to reset your password.

Is this the illusion of secure bullshit?

>>106708467
You'll understand if I don't feel like spending $50 on good batteries if I think it's the mouse's fault.

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>>106705278
If all you want is for Windows to not be able read your Linux partitions, you shouldn't need to worry. Windows doesn't know the ext4 filesystem. But if you're extra paranoid, you can go for disk encryption or something.
I have a dual-boot setup currently. Linux on one drive, Windows on the other. Picrel is what the Linux partition looks like from WIndows's disk management utility (the 128GB partition). You can't do anything with it.

>>106708489
if it's like OTP bullshit just use keepassxc to manage it. yes, it's annoying.

>>106708489
>Is this the illusion of secure
it's not a illusion tho?
I know you're mad because 2fa is annoying but in the end it's more secure since you can't just reset pw without access to your email or phone number.
I know it sucks I lost my old gmail acc because I never activated 2fa and at one point google was like are you really the owner of this? maybe you're hacker get fucked.

>>106708498
you can get a dozen batteries and a charger for half that

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Is it possible to just buy the dongle for this guy? Is there some kind of universal dongle that will work with a wide range of components?

>>106708656
to know if it is possible you would need the model number, so the manual can be looked up, the manual will tell you if it is one of the types that can or cannot be reassigned

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>>106708656
I believe they used the same Unifying receiver for the past 15 years, so you can buy it separately and then pair with the mouse or keyboard.
https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/unifying-receiver-logitech

>>106708681
Khule thanks.

>>106703851
>Why do you need to carry it?
Because I plan on using it at work.

>>106708589
>it's not a illusion tho?
I guess the next logical question is if it is so secure, who the fuck wants some ultra secure login for business software that I use daily from the same IP, on the same machine, with the same login, and same password I have to enter weekly?

I deleted the Sonic app because resetting my password quarterly and doing 2fa authentication when my credit card already has fraud protection and all that hassle isn't worth the $1 I save on a cherry limeade. Who is all this security actually for?

Banking apps? Sure I get that
Medical stuff? Fine
porn accounts? fucking why?

>>106708770
>porn accounts?
You wouldn't like someone to see your search history and see what a dirty bastard you are now would you?

Is there a problem if I use programs and files in a secondary hhd hardrive?

Do they last?

>>106704999
Is it really that bad? I'm finding very mixed review online, it probably just depends on the specific model. The only collectively agreed upon bad thing was that the fans get loud at max load, but I mean, why wouldn't they? It's max load.
I found a decent-looking Vivobook S14, it has a full metal body. Also, people were saying that the plastic hinges were fragile, but I'm assuming that the full metal version doesn't have plastic hinges?

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I need something like https://duck.ai/ frens
talking with chat gpt without an account anywhere, you know any similiar sites that aren't super spyware in return? and preferably save history and aren't dumbed down totally. and don't have limits per day like duck.ai

>>106708770
>I guess the next logical question is if it is so secure, who the fuck wants some ultra secure login for business software
it's to recude support regarding people choosing weak ass passwords and then being surprised of being "hacked"
it doesn't matter how important the service is you're using.
when a password list is leaked this way you still have the email/phone factor which makes only having the passwords leaked not that bad.

Somehow the data on my external ssd is suddenly fucked. It's just a cheap chink 2tb thing from aliexpress so no big monetary loss but I had some pretty big files that are suddenly not there anymore. For some reason not everything is gone.
I did a chkdsk check which found a lot of damage and supposedly corrected it, but nothing has changed. I've also uninstalled the ssd from device manager and rebooted my pc, again no change.
I've heard that the latest w11 security update is messing with big files in external hard drives. Could that be the case here? CrystalDiskInfo is not even recognizing it. So what should I do next?

>>106708769
Leave it at work, then. No need to carry.
I can recommend something like this one, it comes with a spanner to adjust bolt tension depending on the weight of the laptop: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6SYBX61

what's a good chinkshit microphone