>>107070046
How do I earn 500 dollars sitting in my home? I know my way around webshit but no fuckers are hiring for remote freelance roles. They all want decades of experience with stupid technology.

>>107070046
>How do I earn 500 dollars sitting in my home?
Unironically make nsfw games. Half the subscribers are literally asleep at the wheel and give money to devs who haven't updated their games in months. Go on graphtreon right now and scroll through literally hundreds of nsfw game patreons that easily make hundreds from absolute slop.
>that's degenerate
>I'm too proud
>I don't have those skills etc etc
You don't like money enough then

>>107070172
No idea how I managed to reply to OP but this is obviously for you here >>107070449

I've got this 2TB NVME SSD in this new build that I'm working on (separate from the OS SSD)
Which would be a better use for it? Loading AI models in for Stable Diffusion (which I wanted 2TB for)
Or as a SSD steam drive? (Which I wanted a 4TB for but was planning on doing a 4TB sata SSD)
I've already bought the 2TB M2 NVME, but was wondering if I should just ditch it for Stable Diffusion for steam?
Because in my head, most games don't really need read and write once they're loaded in.
Or should I just use the 2TB for something else? Like an Adobe scratch disk?

>>107070480
Like this may sound confusing, let me explain how the rig is built up

1 TB M2 NVME MLC for OS (bought)
4 TB SATA TLC for Steam (not bought)
8 TB SATA HDD for general data (bought)
8 TB SATA HDD for seeding torrents (bought)

Then at the last second I decided to slap on

2 TB M2 NVME MLC for Stable Diffusion (bought)

But after doing some tests, I noticed that once the model loads on stable diffusion, not much drive activity happens at all. But I haven't actually done any Comfy UI yet with any of those like model switching half way methods and stuff. I'm mostly just asking is it still worth using the M2 NVME for LLM switching when I do get into learning Comfy UI?

I already have the 2TB NVME, so I'm just wonder if I should just buy a 2TB SATA SSD for AI and actually use the 2TB NVME for something else? Because I'd be a shame to have all this read and write speed for nothing.

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>> 107067690
It’s not 2FA because it’s not asking me to produce a code or login to the email, only to enter the email address. This is distinct to a 2fa requirement that you setup where you’d be asked for a code every login

It only asked me for the email because I flagged myself by visiting the site with a VPN. So it’s not actually. 2FA it’s a trust level challenge


My question is, is there a chance it decays over time

>>107070569
>It’s not 2FA because it’s not asking me to produce a code or login to the email
So it's exactly what I said and you're locked out because you didn't put TOTP on your account.
Getting an email to confirm your account is fucking 2FA btw, so yes you're 2FA locked because your account was low trust and you used a burner email. You lost the account, bad luck. Next time, put TOTP on your next account immediately and store all the credentials in a manager
>is there a chance it decays over time
Literally no one can possibly know that with any certainty unless they work at xitter and lurk here. Pozzed social media sites have arbitrary black box nonsense that changes all the time. Is it possible? Perhaps, but I would cut your losses and treat it as a lesson learned.

For anyone else this has already been replied to, don't waste your time 107067690

>>107070649
Thanks? Really bizarre that you’re getting frustrated tho. I’m just replying to you. It’s an honest question.

>>107070649
I’m not getting an email, it’s only asking to enter the email address. You keep ignoring / conflating this part because you’re falling over yourself to tell me im fucked. Which I very well might be, and now you’re telling people to ignore me and not clarify a possible decay window. Why? I legit don’t understand why you’re so frustrated after one reply literally 8 hours later. I went to bed and you’re this angry and still here. It’s insane.

>fail reading comprehension
>misconstrue/ ignore key material points of a post
>then demand no one else address the post
Legitimately wtf. Sqt “helpers” are mentally ill

is there a linux app ( preferably gtk ) that can be used in a same way smartphones galleries behave? i would like to see both images and videos in the same software and if the software can show folders that would be great

Why don't they make a railway system
similar to how elevators work?
Say tickets are one way with a set specific destination. Then:
1a. when you enter a train car, it sets your destination station as a stop
1b. if there is a passenger waiting at a station, it is set as a stop or if the car was idle it will go to that station
2. otherwise that station will be skipped
3. when the last passenger gets off a stop, the car will wait there
4. go back to step 1a/1b
At worst it will stop at every station in the longest duration from A to B, like current systems. At best the car will transport a passenger from A to B in the shortest possible time

>>107070731
>>107070740
>>107070760
There is no need to have a meltdown over a lost account, obviously you have never heard of time zones or keeping a tab open to check on a thread occasionally. The login process is asking you for an email to send an OTP to, which in effect, is 2FA.
So while you are not currently receiving an email, that is what would happen if you could recall and access the temp email you used to create that account. How would feel if you didn't have breakfast?

How can I tell if my laptop chassis is aluminum or plastic? On the laptop itself, on the stickers, it says the top cover is aluminum. But everywhere I look online it says it's fully plastic. It's a lower-range laptop, so I expected it to be fully plastic

I'm 34 with nothing going on in my life
How do I just learn about technology I always viewed it as scary

I have a 2 core shitty laptop is there any way to find use out of it

>>107070449
jew

I have 14TB of data I need to back up, whats the better choice here : onto a single 16TB hard drive or two 8TB hard drives?
I hear once you start using drives larger than 8TB you are introducing more chance of failure

>>107070504
I think you're way overthinking this, the bottom line is yes run that stuff on an NVMe. Especially if you're model switching, have multi-stage workflows and are loading large models a lot. The time saving over time would stack up to hours.
As far as how you want to organize the rest of your data, that's pretty much up to you. Just please avoid buying SATA SSDs in the year 2025 unless they're an outrageously good deal.

>>107071124
That's not an argument

How do you use ai

>>107071112
What do you want to know, and what do you want to do with your laptop?
>>107071052
Could poke it with a soldering gun (j/k)
Nah, but if it was fully aluminum there would be a pretty good risk that the motherboard could short out, so it's likely plastic.
>>107070824
Could install jellyfin and view all your media from a web browser I suppose

I downloaded Loud House season 1 and for all episodes the subtitles show up too early. The problem I have is that the subtitles are hardcoded into the .mkv so I unless I manually change it every time, for every episode, it won't be synced. I'm not doing it manually, is there a software or anything I can use to do it all for me?
I know of SubSync but that only works with an external text file for the subtitles

>>107071350
Idk I guess that I just wanna feel valuable to the world and also have stuff to relate to with others
I'm pretty isolated

>>107071368
Unless you're fixing computers or ripping and encoding movies for torrent sites, it's not very valuable to normal people, and even if you do, it's not very relatable. If you have an interest in computers, mess around a bit. It's scary even if you know what you're doing, but it's satisfying when you achieve whatever goal you set for yourself. I presume you're using windows? Which version? What hardware do you have? Some people can't even tell me that. Do you know how to update your bios and drivers? Have you played around with some different operating systems? That's a good rabbit hole that could keep you busy for week or two. Do you know what resolution your monitor is? Do you have a disc drive? Maybe copy some movies and learn about codecs. Dick around with makemkv and ffmpeg.

>>107071352
What media player are you using?

>>107071350
>if it was fully aluminum there would be a pretty good risk that the motherboard could short out
There are plenty of laptops with a unibody aluminum chassis, though? Also, on mine it says only the top cover is aluminum

>>107071486
Most cases in general are aluminum, but they have mounting screws that keep the motherboard away from the case itself, otherwise it would short it out. So I guess it's possible.

>>107071464
VLC
and I'd like to not use another program like ftmpreg because then the file would still be fucked up. I want something that can permanently fix the problem, not a bandaid

>>107071456
That's a good idea :o
I just want something in common with other trans people I guess

WHY DOES 4CHAN THINK I'M IN INCOGNITO MODE???
I'M NOT EVEN USING CHROME

>Uploading files in incognito mode is not allowed.
>The File field has been cleared.

WHY DOES 4CHAN DISALLOW INCOGNITO MODE IN THE FIRST PLACE????
FUCKING RETARDED PIECE OF SHIT DEVELOPERS, ISN'T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE AN ANONYMOUS IMAGEBOARD?????

>>107071580
Probably an extension or if you're using brave you have fingerprinting disabled.
>>107071556
Just be yourself, the only thing trans people have in common is the hrt
>>107071553
Try another torrent or web rip it from wco

>>107070172
get on the dole

>>107071609
I'M USING A MORE PRIVACY-FOCUSED BROWSER THAN BRAVE, WHY WOULD I NEED FINGERPRINTING ON THIS HERE SITE MEANT FOR ANONYMOUS POSTING?

I've been using 4chan for 20 years and things have never been this gay, the site is ran by a bunch of clowns.
I get that there's a bot problem but why the flying fuck would "incognito" mode be an issue? Their detection code sucks balls.

>Please wait a while before making a post
MOTHERFUCKERS

>>107071664
Hasn't been the same in a long while; You not allowing cache ether? Get with the times old man.

>>107071681
i'm allowing cookies, that should be the only fucking thing needed.
how do i check if "cache" is blocked? i assume you don't mean the cache of downloaded/viewed files

>>107071609
>Try another torrent
I got it from QxR, which is normally pretty good. nobody in the comments is complaining about it either which now makes me think it's on my end sadly
wco doesn't have subtitles

>>107071704
Uninstall VLC, reboot, install VLC, reboot, try the file(s) again.

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>>107071609
Fixed it, ServiceWorkers was disabled
about:config --> dom.serviceWorkers.enabled

4chan should fucking write what the problem is instead of just saying that I'm in incognito mode.

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In the market for a powerful new laptop, honest thoughts on the ProArt P16 (H7606)? does anyone use it.

>>107071724
nope, still seems the same. subtitles are too early
thanks but I'll just suffer I suppose

Why does 5080 sometimes perform worse than a 7900xtx?

>>107071704
Disable hardware decoding and try again.

>>107071580
your're probably using something that messes with cookies or referrers or something. the boards are on a different domain than the one you post from, so interfering with their communication can prevent you from being able to post

>>107071992
no javascript service workers are required for some reason >>107071756

the least 4chan could do is write a useful error message instead of some bullshit about incognito mode

>>107071870
One is a GPU, the other is an AI accelerator masquerading as a GPU.

>>107071904
disabling didn't work either, I also tried the other options but none of them helped

Is there a way to have 4chanx(t) automatically watch threads that match a certain pattern?

>>107072126
Probably a bad file then. I've never encountered a ripping group with zero defects.

>>107072179
>a bad file
for all files in that season, and nobody else complains? I'm more inclined to believe that it's something wrong with my pc/vlc/something else
also I checked season 2 and everything there seems fine

>>107072342
People very rarely bother to complain for TV series. By the time they get around to watching s4e22 they probably forgot where they even downloaded the show.

If it fails to parse in software mode ffmpeg, 99.99% it's a video file problem.

>>107063852
If they're actually hardcoded and you can't turn them off, then no
But it sounds like they're not and they're just in the .mkv container. You can separate them with something like mkvtoolnix, and then even add a new sub file and make a new mkv. Finding sub files shouldn't be too hard.
The other alternative is depending on how early they are, you could cut some of the intros from all the eps.

I'm not sure if there's a batch way to shift subtitles so they're delayed, maybe ask chatgpt

>>107072172
the native 4chan extension can do this
4chanx can too but I think I belong here with you because I can't figure out/remember how to

>>107072800
should be able to adjust subtitle track delay with mkvmerge, which can be scripted

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>>107072800
you can turn the subs off, I misused hard-coded (I honestly didn't really know what it meant)
>>107072905
thanks for all the suggestions but the problem with all these solutions is that I still have to do it manually for every episode (unless I cut the intro's but I checked, some have an intro and others don't, so that won't work either)

I just checked my streaming site I usually use (himovies.sx) and it works fine now. I tried the site a year or two ago and it was constantly buffering which is why I tried downloading it now, which also didn't really work :)
I'm watching it now, thanks everyone

Recommended voice recognition software?
Must be functional entirely offline, available for windows, and allow transcribing directly from microphone (other things optional).
I'd prefer if it has an option for CPU only, and not be too heavy on RAM (<1GB), but I can forego those if it's worth it.
I know people were excited about the Whisper models, but I have no idea what frontend to use or even if it's recommended anymore.

Is there a way to find what pages on archive.org contain an image it captured?
I'm searching for a deleted tweet by an image URL. One of the images was captured (I'm after the remaining missing ones), so I assume a page containing it or other metadata was captured as well, but I have no idea if there's a way to find it.

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Reposting from previous thread since it died before i got a definitive answer

are these good results for an old(2018) WD 1TB HDD? model is WD10EZEX if it matters
the health status only shows 1 pending sector, but im not even sure what it means.

Once formatted, is this still in good shape and fast enough to be used reliably for some side project or as a storage device?

Any way to get the halloween theme back? All of the online ones are outdated

What's the best guide to pirating games on linux?
Usually I just use steam but Wizardry Five ordeals is fucking 40 dollars.

>>107073082
https://files.catbox.moe/6a5vgx.css
spooky.715.css

>>107073217
step 1: obtain the game files (torrent,ddl,etc)
step 2: throw proton/wine at it
step 3: it either works or it doesnt

where am I fucking up?

https://rentry.org/hobhpxg2

I did this:

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I want to bitlock my D drive - can I still use my PC while it's encrypting or should I use a separate machine with it attached as an external drive? Took half a day to bitlock an EHD last time.

>>107073269
just paste your markdown without ```

>>107073333
thank you bro

>>107073069
Anyone?

>>107073069
>caution
drop it. it will vanish your data without noticing

I've been making a disk image of someone's powermac g5 using ddrescue on a lubuntu live usb. It was working fine for a few days then it locked up with the fans at full blast. After restarting and continuing for a day, it now freezes for half a second every second while trying to move the mouse. Is this powermac fucked? I shouldn't trust the disk image now should I? Is there any equivalent of memtest86 for powerpc?

>>107074065
Plus the average rate now wildly jumps between a few megabytes and 100 kb a second. It's a 2TB hard drive which is why it was taking so long to begin with.

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what do you use for a home router?
>t. fortinet fortigate 60f

So how does a VPN work? Like wireguard or something self-hosted like that? I understand what it does, but I don't understand how it does it.
>you're out and about
>connect to a certain address, on a certain port
>VPN picks up your connection
>now you're on your home LAN
>but you can still access the internet
So the connection comes in via the VPN, then goes out via your router to the wide web? Or does it only use the VPN to access stuff on your LAN and bypasses it when going out to the web? What's the deal with ports? If I can access the VPN from the net, why is it safer than opening your server to the internet without the VPN?

I wanted some custom highlighting on vscode, to parse a novel, but from what I've searched it's annoying as shit to do requiring some npm packages and extensions
is there no easy way to just tell vscode to highlight text between "" and italicize when it's between ** or bolden when it's between []?

>>107070046
how would a 5070 laptop do at 1440p hooked up to a monitor?

>>107073069
it's basically warning you that you should only put data there that you are OK to lose.
if someone forced me to use that drive i'd put temporary files on it, maybe game installations that you can just download from steam again when the thing die

>>107074579
Reasonably well, may sound like a jet engine as all gaming laptops do.

>>107074563
No, hence the extensions. Search for "regex highlight" and there're a few

>>107074563
>>107074701
if vscode is too complex it is probably possible to make a custom highlight in notepad++
or just use ai to format it

>>107069725
>>107073069
>1 pending sector
If just ONE pending sector it is probably fine
If you have not read alot of data from the drive this not a good sign.
It might move to uncorrectable or something but as long as nothing else happens you are fine.
If more are added, it's either old data succumbing to time (because you never scrubbed data) or a bad block.
You won't know till the block has been read/written to a few times likely.

If the number increases massively
>ddrescue

Do you want to roll the dice

>>107070840
Complexity and/or liability
>>107071133
Metadata is probably the greatest problem
ZFS or BTRFS should not have issues spanning 2 drives as one in that area though (still have the issue of losing 50%)

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i destroyed my Epson ET-2800 printer on accident by dropping pre-1982 pennies into it (although any penny will result in the same consequence i suppose). I tried to take the thing apart and i think i made the problems even worse
I already ordered an Epson ET-2980 (prints on both sides). Does this thing print those secret fbi investication microdots?

how do i torrent stuff safely
is it as simple as subscribing to a vpn service or do i have to be careful about something else

>>107075261
VPNs protect you from your isp spying on you and bitching at you to stop pirating stuff. Depending on where you live that might not even be an issue, it isn't for me. As far as safety goes it's just a matter of what you download, there's no hard rule for it.

>>107075261
what exactly do you fear? I think a lot about torrenting on VPN is because some providers like Comcast will hit you with a DMCA email if they detect torrent traffic, or throttle the connection otherwise. At least that used to be a thing, i torrented something recently without a VPN while using comcast for internet and nothing happened.

If you don't think you'll torrent more than 10gb of content per month, make a windscribe account. Its really fast and free. Other free options are softether vpn with public relay servers. Idk about non-free options, im jewish.

>>107075301
>>107075324
i'm mainly afraid of my ISP punishing me for torrenting

>>107075261
get a vpn provider. in the vpn app, make sure it restricts your torrenting program to only ever go through the vpn.
then in your torrent program, you can tell it which network to use and it should use your VPN's "network". So in two ways you are protected from it every trying to torrent outside of your VPN. That's it.
I used to torrent a lot of stuff without a VPN but I think AMC is one of the few companies that was always sending DMCA or w/e requests to my ISP and I didn't want to lose my internet over it.

>>107075383
if you're in the 14 eyes, you're gonna need a vpn
a vpn that can port forward is best but it's not required, just remember to set it up in the client itself and test it with the torrent ip leak ipleak.net to make sure it's working

Is it worth upgrading from a 4050 laptop to a 4070 or should I just wait and get a 50 series one?

>>107074535
For your first question, it depends if you are split-tunneling or not. If you are, only traffic destined for IPs inside your network is traversing the VPN and going into your network. Traffic destined for the Internet is routed directly without touching your VPN. If you’re not split-tunneling, all traffic traverses the VPN, hits your home router, and then is routed thru its default gateway. It’s all about what your device’s default route points to as the next hop.

As far as security, you generally do need to have whatever port wireguard, etc needs open inbound on your FW. Wireguard isn’t going to touch any traffic at all that isn’t properly encrypted and certificated. They’d have to be scanning for a WG handshake in particular to see any opening in a scan. If you’re autistic, you could also set up something like port knocking so it appears closed no matter what without the correct knock.

>>107075578
>Is it worth
depends on your budget and what you'll be using it for, care to elaborate?
also I'm assuming by 4070 you mean the laptop variant, not a dedicated gpu, otherwise you'll need a lot more parts

my opinion: don't buy the 4070 or 50 series (if we're talking laptop version). it's going to be such a minor upgrade that it won't matter. not only that but generational leaps are so small that it's better to wait multiple generations, so maybe start thinking about the 60 or 70 series

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what are my options for transferring data to this commodore? I have a datasette but no recorder or blank tapes, no other peripherals

>>107075785
yeah it would be a laptop. I just want more fps and better settings in bf6. I'm barely getting 60fps on low with dips into the 40s

>>107076029
well if I have to believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5qnv5rbAs then it would do what you want, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLI7V5WH9xY disproves that right away
I would suggest to watch some benchmark videos online, it's free :)
I only watched those two so that doesn't say much

my opinion: I highly doubt the first video is real. it's a modern game (so running like shit is a guarantee) and it's only a small upgrade since laptop gpu's in general are less advanced than dedicated gpu's. if you say 4050 on low gets 40-60 fps, then I don't believe a 4070 on ultra will get 70 fps. I imagine a 4070 on low/medium would get a solid baseline 70 fps, like the second video shows, which I think is more trustworthy

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For home use, is there any real reason to prefer a "NAS OS" like TrueNas or OpenMediaVault over a standard LTS linux release?
I'm thinking of converting an old PC into a home media server / network file server & potentially local cloud photo storage in the future.

TL;DR tips for flashdrive opsec
I bought a bunch of flash drives online. Before I plug them into my main machine, I want to completely wipe them so I don't have some spyware or cryptoware installed on my PC. I plan on running a live distro, check each flashdrive and formatting them. I'm just looking for some general tips on what to look for, what distro to use, etc... never done this before.

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Good trash mail service?

Not a temp mail, it needs to not expire.
Should not require a phone number to sign up, otherwise I wouldn't be asking.

a built in monitor kvm switch only works between two inputs right?
I need something that works for 1. laptop 2. pc 3. other monitor (for extension from other, different pc), recommendations?
or would the best idea be to constantly swap out the input cables between laptop and pc (easiest ones to swap) and keep the monitor one in forever?

https://www.newegg.com/abs-cyclone-aqua-gaming-desktop-geforce-rtx-5060-intel-core-i7-14700f-32gb-2x16gb-ddr5-1tb-pcie-ssd-ca14700f50603-black/p/N82E16883360913?Item=N82E16883360913&cm_sp=product-_-from-price-options
should I buy this and upgrade the gpu and psu down the road?

>>107070046
My W10 PC has started entering this "unresponsive" state where the only way to fix it is to cut the power to it. Here are the symptoms:

>OS doesn't directly show anything as unresponsive like you'd expect, everything looks normal
>Can't close any windows, pressing X just minimizes the program, the icon never leaves the taskbar
>Can't start any programs
>Task Manager doesn't update
>Start Menu opens and and closes but thats it
>Shutdown and Restart does not work but attempts to by entering the shutdown/restart screen but never actually does it
>Nothing on Ctrl-Alt-Del menu works
>If music is playing, it stops
>If a video is playing the video stops but the audio continues
>Was playing Old School Runescape recently when it did it, certain in-game sounds stopped working but I remained connected to the server and could see other players still moving around and I could still control my own character, nothing else on my PC would respond though.

This is some kind of memory problem isn't it? Like it seems nothing can be added or removed from memory and only things currently in memory can be accessed. I need to run memtest but I was just wondering if anyone else had any idea.

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I want to get rid of whatsapp for reasons. but I need it for normie stuff, like doctor appointments and shit.

Is possible to run like an emulated android and forward the messages to signal?

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>>107075872
you can build a cable and use the headphone jack on your phone to play audio tapes
I used to do that with a MSX

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i am still on windows 10
i dont want win 11
so i use this shit without updates since weeks now
someone on /v/ said there is extended update via github. is this true?

winuvha

How do I use the process picker in HWinfo to actually manually pick where the window the overlay/OSD shows up on?

I can't figure it out

Also, how do I use the RTSS OSD? I can't figure out how to enable it, and it seems to have more options then the normal OSD/overlay

if i have AMD antilag 2 turned off in my global AMD settings, and i haven't created or edited any per-game graphics profiles in the AMD control panel, will antilag 2 still work if i toggle it on inside a game's options menu?

>>107077134
Maybe it's trying to page something to/from disk, and the disk is having issues and hanging
Crystal disk info would be able to tell you if this is the case (or any other SMART data reader)
Could also be RAM though

>>107078109
There's always Win 11 IoT paired with a random activiation script on github

Do you keep domain names for projects that you might never finish? I mean, do you pay for renewal even though you might never use them?
Got like 10 that is for good projects, but I'm pretty sure I will not finish them

>>107078109
>someone on /v/ said there is extended update via github. is this true?
>>107075734
>>107078167
I don't know and just switched to Nvidia so I can't test it. But can't you just edit that game's profile in the Radeon software for whatever feature you want to use?

>>107076790
I would get a kvm with a remote. There's million different models on aliexpress, idk which ones are good, quality varies :P

recently delidded my 9800X3D and was wondering whats better for cooling, Direct die, Heatspreader, or stock IHS? been using the heatspreader but I get the same temps from when I didnt delid it

>>107078644
Logically it should be direct die with PTM42069 (or liquid metal if you want to ruin everything when you accidentally spray it all over the place). The AM5 IHS had to be thicker to allow for compatibility with AM4, which I'm told negatively affected cooling. How much, I haven't researched.

>trying to back up all my shit
>one of the things I'm relying on is a 4TB hard drive to put half my shit on while I set up a pair of bigger drives for mirrored backup
>even shucked, it's down to 10 MB/s write speed at best
>every other HDD I've used in this PC has managed at least 120 MB/s transfer
Is it just fucked? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

>USB 2.0 wireless dongle on the fritz lately
>Anons tell me it's probably infeterrence from USB 3.0 ports, I should buy a powered hub
Why would interference have gotten worse lately? Nothing else has changed, it's been working fine for years
Any powered hub recommendations? All I need is something cheap that puts the wireless doodad away from my computer I guess

Any way to use Whatsapp without getting a smartphone? I know they have a desktop app but apparently you still need to scan QR codes and give them a phone number

>>107079453
Oh, and would the situation be improved from just plugging the wifi dongle into a USB 2.0 port on my PC

Why do some games tie the framerate of the renderer to the physics simulation? As in why do some developers like Valve have it so that the Havok physics engine can run at its own fixed tickrate and the game can render at an arbitrary framerate whereas a developer such as Bethesda have it so that the physics are tied to the framerate and going over a set framerate causes the physics to bug out. Is it just easier to do the latter?

>>107070046
My motherboard doesn't allow wake on lan after full power outage so i thought about doing this
but this shit is genuinely too expensive for a piece of plastic

>>107077134
AM4? MSI board? If so it's possibly TPM.
>t. MSI enjoyer

>>107078644
>delidded my 9800X3D
Why though? Please tell me you were already using the largest possible cooler and tried some tuning before you delidded. That's basically where ALL the thermal gains are since Zen 2. Zen 4 was a joke delidded with stock power profile, not sure about Zen 5.

>>107079185
>AM5 IHS had to be thicker to allow for compatibility with AM4
>negatively affected cooling
Decently, like 5C cooler or more, if it had less Z thickness. However, you can make substantial thermal gains by just tuning the power profile, ultimately the default power profiles are retarded and exist purely to eke out marketing numbers on graphs.

>>107079606
Guh? Set it to power on AC? Or do you absolutely need toggle-ability for that system?

>>107071202
The only reason I'm going for more sata is because the motherboard I have only has 1 M2 slot. The second M2 slot is through a PCI-E card. Because I don't have that multi lane switching thing or whatever, I can only do 1 M2 per PCI-E card
My other lanes are used up by USB cards with dedicated controllers for 8 MyBooks. So with no more space left for another PCI-E M2 card, I'm just doing sata SSD for Steam. I figure it's good enough.

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My G603 has started acting up (it stutters randomly when connected with the dongle, works fine over Bluetooth) and I may have to replace it.
If I can get a new dongle that's also an option, but in any case what's a good wireless mouse in the 50-60 EUR range?
Ideally with a good sensor and dual connection with a receiver and Bluetooth.

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I don't what happened but an account I have where I follow nsfw artists started acting strange.
>Everytime I get in the timeline just shows me like 5-14 posts just doesn't load more
>Sometimes if I keep swiping down it loads a couple more posts but it doesn't keep going like in my other accounts
>Sometimes when I change accounts and go back it loads completely different posts
>When I leave it at the bottom of the timeline I wait a bit and swipe down and it loads more of the timeline but again it completely stops
Is there a way to fix it? Is it just a thing that happens if you just access an account every once in a while and don't use it much other than to just bookmark shit or like stuff?
I was thinking of starting a new one and delete this one, is old and don't really use it for anything else, but ffs I don't want to lose all the bookmarks I have there's so much good shit in them. I'm looking to see if anyone has experience anything similar or if there's a solution to this.

>>107044178
Thank you again, brother

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I'm trying to import my Opera speed dials and bookmarks from my old Kindle Fire 5th Generation to my PC. I've made a full data backup of Opera using Titanium and have the same version of Opera running on Bluestacks on my PC. How to I get the data into the PC app?
Note: syncing does not work (I can no longer sign in my version is too old) and I can not upgrade to a newer version on my Kindle. Please help me :)

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I have an Acer monitor (pic related) that broke on me a year ago after a little under 2 years of use. The backlight comes on but nothing else comes up, not even the OSD. Just now I thought maybe I could send it to a local repair shop and see if it can get fixed instead of just letting it collect more dust, and the guy said that it's going to cost 70 bucks to get it working again. The monitor itself was 400 bucks when I got it.

Should I go for it? Or is it just going to break again in a couple of months?

>>107079600
If your game has a ton of scripting then it's easier to do the latter. Valve can change/reset the scripting between FPS level loads while Bethesda needs to always keep it relevant in memory for their Radiant AI and other RPG features.

>>107079457
I used to do it with BlueStacks wich is absolute shitware but would properly emulate Whatsapp. It doesn't work anymore since recent WA updates.

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>>107079910
Tried clearing browser history?

>adobe products are pay by subscription
how does this complicate piracy and where might i pirate photoshop, illustrator, premiere, and after effects?

>>107080325
Unless it's great specs just get a new display. Brand New 1440p 180hz 27" IPS is like $160-180 from KTC.

>>107080688
Also adding try clear browser shader cache. If you use chromium browsers it's hidden inside your profile folder not your GPU folder.

>>107080701
GIMP, Kdenlive

>>107080701
When people pirate adobe they mean the older versions. Your favorite torrent place.

>>107080701
You either stick to CS6 or risk pirating a newer version.
The newer versions won't get updates, no AI generative fill etc, and at any point you may get an error that the program is not activated.
Just install Affinity, they went completely free with the new version.

>>107080688
>>107080702
I notice it happening on the phone first so that kinda tells me is the account that has the problem not the browser, maybe I liked to many stuff or bookmark to many stuff? Or there was an interaction that set off something by the AI by my account?

Trying to make a thin client out of a pos minipc I have. Is there a "thin client" os out there where it has nothing but remote viewers, supporting drivers and software, and nothing else? Or do I HAVE to install a viewer on a standard os?

>>107080772
Maybe it's just a shit website

>>107080772
Like other anon said it's a shit site. They have to fix it on their end not yours.

>>107080798
>>107080827
I mean shit or not the problem is idk what it is, if it's like a flag is it gonna run out with time? or is ti gonna stay in there for ever? It brings to mind how some nsfw artists accounts get flagged and some just completely make a new account and start posting there instead of the previous one and there one day (idk how they know this) they say 'oh my account is back guys I'm gonna use it again' so idk what to think or expect.

>>107080781
The only thing that fits this title is Linux.
You want a headless OS. It has the drivers and everything minus the client elements like GUI. You load everything from command line.

>>107080702
I already got one of those to replace it for the past year. Guess what I'm really asking if its a good idea to spend the 70 dollars to fix it, I do kinda miss the long ass screen.

>>107080906
Those artists should use a better website if it's happening across multiple devices.

>>107080932
It's up to you but I don't think it's worth it if you already have another display.

>>107080781
maybe try thinstation
https://www.thinstation.org/

ex applefag here with a new windows laptop inbound. Is anti-virus a meme?

>>107081476
yeah, just use common sense
if you only browse popular sites with adblock then it's a no-brainer
if you're downloading games from really sketchy sites it's pretty risky
most viruses are still the type where you need to fight windows defender to even run it

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>>107076740
Anybody know an email service that won't require a phone number and is not temporary?

>>107081538
probably depends on the country, but I'm still making some google accounts without phone number, protonmail is even easier

Over the years I have fallen into using my web browser as a launcher for huge services (social media, yt, streaming services, 4chan). It seems like the way things are going and with google sabotaging the discoverability of websites on the open web that it's time to go back to bookmarking and visiting sites directly. Back in the day there used to be sites that served as indexes to other sites with huge lists of links for any given topic. Is that still a thing in 2025? How can I still use the web effectively while moving away from the matrix of algorithm driven "services?"

>>107081658
Proton Mail is worthless, you need a phone number to receive e-mails they detect to be for example "sign up mails". They hide this fact until you actually need to use the account you got.
For many years Proton Mail used to be good but these days they are completely unreliable.

GMail is worthless, they will randomly block you if you log in from a "suspicious IP" or require phone verification even if you never gave them a phone number.

xmail.net was good but have closed registrations and are shutting down next year.
Big services like Hotmail/AOL/mail.com/Yahoo is worthless (needs phone number).
I wouldn't be asking anon for help if it was that simple.

Is it ok if I use a secondary drive in my computer to use programs or will it have less perfomance?

I want to separate my programs and have AI oriented programs into a separated drive (secondary drive connected with sata, not an external drive)

>>107082434
Depends on what you are doing, is it an SSD or a hard drive?
Sata is slower than nvme, but most of the time you won't notice the difference.

>>107082706
Its an ssd

>>107082755
You'll be fine, AI stuff has such a big bottleneck on the GPU your drives wont really matter.

>>107072948
>with all these solutions is that I still have to do it manually
nah you wouldn't with theses suggestions >>107072800, you can batch edit stuff with things like ffmpeg and you could prob ask chatgpt to even write the script for you.

Alternatively just find alternate subs, you can find them in packs so you don't even have to do it one by one

>>107078220
Yeah I was expecting it to be my SSD since it's old as shit but I've checked it before and theres no errors.

>>107079662
>AM4? MSI board? If so it's possibly TPM.
Yep. What makes you expect it's TPM? I guess I'll try disabling it in the mean time. It only does it maybe once every 2 weeks so I won't really know if that was it for a while.

If Intel is just outright disabling AVX-512 on their desktop CPUs, then what's the point of having it waste unused die space, that could be used for more P-cores?

Redpill me on Stremio + debrid. Seems almost too good to be true.

test

Any recommendations for wireless phone charger?

I have a VPS up and running with a hostname and a physical server at home. Can i somehow get a CLI on my homeserver through the VPS without having a static ip for my home network?

>>107084305
Works pretty well, sometimes it stops but it's always fixed itself eventually for me. Only significant downside for me is that you don't seed the shit you watch, but you might not care.

>>107078404
>But can't you just edit that game's profile in the Radeon software for whatever feature you want to use?
i guess but i don't like using those

Trying to figure out if there is a way to reset/restart a USB connected camera setup in several conference rooms without always having to physically unplug it.

The computers connected to the cameras have every setting I can find set to allow camera permission to practically everything, the selective USB settings are disabled, the camera is on a separately powered extension cable, even. But there is seemingly no solution other than physically unplugging and reattaching the USB on a daily basis.

Is there really no better way to get these dumb cameras to work? If I don't unplug them, they will literally show up with that generic no camera available image on Windows 11 (when opening the default camera app). This is all coming from a fresh restart, so nothing else should be hogging the camera.

I don't want to post this in /pcbg/ because I'll probably get shit on. But I'm retarded and don't trust myself to build a PC myself.
Any recommendations for where to buy a pre-built PC?

>>107084803
does disabling/enabling them in device manager do anything?

how can i get a russian instagram account or vpn, just need to check if something is region locked or truly gone forever...

>>107081476
>Is anti-virus a meme?
Just use Windows Defender. It's all you need and will be on by default.

>>107085100
If I'm remembering correctly, it didn't do anything, unfortunately.

I'm under the assumption that part of the problem is using an extension cable for the USB cameras as a whole, but, unfortunately, it's a necessity as were positioning those cameras a bit far out of the way from their expected seating (on top of a conference room TV at the end of the room vs just on top of a computer monitor in an office).

i have an mpv question
>press l
>show-text ${ab-loop-a}
>no milliseconds
why? i need the milliseconds for a script

>>107070046
looking for benchmarks for 5060 and 5070 laptops on battlefield 6

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why does transferring files between 2 PCs on the same network always slows down after a short while?
it's not a big deal when the files are small(7-8GB in pic related), but when i see larger files start at max speed and supposedly be done in 1-2 minutes, seeing them drop to the slowest speed and suddenly taking 10+ minutes, that sucks

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>>107084559
I recommend staying away from them. I have a couple good ones and still prefer cable due to the difficulty of aligning the coils correctly. Unaligned coils charge slowly and heat up.

>>107085273
At home I use a ZigBee USB adapter (pic) which is controlled by Home Assistant and is scheduled to cut the USB power for 3 seconds at midnight. This way my kid's bedside lamp turns off in case he fell asleep with it on.
The same idea would work with a camera.

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>>107085565
Are you saturating the RAM and/or SLC cache of the target drive? Actually, I should ask if this is a SSD. If it's a HDD then it's going to fill the RAM buffer much faster since it will inevitably be smaller.
Pic related. Even fast SSDs will slow down massively once their various caches are filled.

>>107084568
Run OpenVPN server on the VPS. Run VPN client on your home server. Now you can connect from the VPS (and any other VPN client) to your home server's VPN IP.

>>107085092
It's not that difficult to build a PC. Prebuilt ones are not good value.
There are countless videos with every step, and /pcbg/ can help you pick the right parts for your budget.

we know C is the ultimate language, and Python is simply the best wrapper for it,
but Why don't we have /lwcg/, language war containment general?
we occasionally write 1k loc to savor the supreme essence of that languages, and we or they are not doing daily programming.

i was taking an online quiz and here is the question with possible answers. what the fuck is the answer?

When would a “merge conflict” arise?

Select only one


- When changes are made to the same line of the same file on different branches of a repository.

- When two different files are saved to the same repository with incompatible programming languages.

- When there is an error in a line of code that will cause additional errors when merged with the rest of the application.

- When two contributors push the exact same file with the exact same code at the exact same time.


i got it wrong and it didnt even tell me what the correct answer is supposed to be- in my mind there is no correct answer here but i chose the last option because i feel like whoever pushed last could cause a merge conflict i guess if they try to then merge it? im so fucking confused

I heard of some things recently and I just wanted someone to confirm if my understanding is correct, please correct me if I'm wrong anywhere here.
>Some AM5 motherboards are damaging CPUs due to voltage regulation and power delivery issues
>It's mostly ASRock motherboards doing this, with some cases of this happening on ASUS motherboards
>It's mostly B850 motherboards doing this, with B650 motherboards being generally less problematic
>It's mostly (or possibly only) R9 9XXX series CPUs that are being damaged
>BIOS updates on affected motherboards have reduced the rate at which CPUs are being damaged

>>107085722
the target drive is an SSD yes, and the pc has 16GB RAm

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I just realized that music CDs I had for a while are sounding scratchy at points and I don't know how to deal.

>>107085827
Some AMD mobos set soc voltage too high. This happens on Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, etc.
It can happen to any AMD CPU but X3D is more affected because they have tighter voltage tolerances due to the extra cache.
BIOS updates have been trying to reduce the soc and other misc voltages by default but some still give really high results depending on what RAM you pair it with it's often seen with kits that need high SOC voltage to begin with like 1:1 ratio mode (6000cl30).

>>107085902
Should I be concerned about my pairing of CPU, motherboard, and memory?
>Ryzen 7 7700X
>Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX V2
>Silicon Power DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) Zenith 6000MHz

>>107085947
No just make sure your BIOS is up to date. They just released a new AGESA last month. Almost every decent Mobo supports BIOS flashback so you can install it before you put in the CPU.

>>107085815
First one is correct. When two different branches (the source and destination of the merge) modify the same file, you have a conflict.

>>107085987
I've just been paranoid as fuck lately. I've spent a couple days trying to figure out PC parts to buy for a new build because my current computer is dying, and I'm just so afraid of fucking up and building an expensive brick. The more research I do the more problems I discover. I just want to feel secure in my decisions and not be paranoid for the next multiple years about my computer shitting itself.

>>107085829
Someone else can probably speak to this, but I'm not sure Windows uses the system RAM as part of the buffer for a network drive transfer. So you could still be limited by the drive's internal cache. And that drive might not have it's own DRAM anyway. It also depends if it's TLC or QLC in some cases. Here's a SATA sequential transfer chart for comparison since you might not be using M.2. But it still could be some kind of network issue as well.
>>107085947
Update the BIOS.

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>>107086027
forgot image

>>107085882
rip to wav +cue with eac ASAP

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>>107086019
Welcome to computers. You gonna be troubleshooting hardware or software every so often. It even happens to people that buy prebuilts.

>>107086102
1) I don't know what EAC is
2) I actually did rip this disc back when I first got it with ImgBurn and with, I think, Windows Media Player. Though I'll be getting another CD soon and I'm worried it would have the same thing.

What if it's actually something with the DVD drive itself? I reripped the disc through Windows Media player and it somehow the crackling persisted through that rip.

I also reripped it through ImgBurn and that made a bin/cue combo. I don't know how that sounds because I don't know what can play that.

should I buy a used laptop off ebay?

>>107085741
Openvpn setup took half an hour and it just werks, thank you dude

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>>107085685
I actually have some variations of that. They match the attached image where you could down the times the device is supposed to power off. The thing is, it just doesn't seem to fix the issue though. Perhaps those don't work well by themselves, but it's been really hard to know for certain.

At least one, maybe two, of the conference rooms I've set up have no issue with the camera seemingly falling asleep, so that only adds to my confusion, as they are all set up the same: computer>USB 3.0 extension>second USB 3.0 extension (with a power supply) >USB cable that comes with the camera>camera.

The cables together equate to near 50~ feet in length, and I'm pretty sure that is part of the issue but, as you might expect, my work claims budget tightness to be the cause of not being able to make changes, and this I make due with what I have. In all fairness, the cameras function fairly well when they are on, but having to physically unplug them on a daily basis is a huge pain.

>>107085882
>>107086102
>>107086164
It just occurred to me that I still have a laptop with a DVD drive. If it's clean there, then I'll know it's the DVD drive. But that will have to wait until EAC's test (which still has an ETA of over an hour) is done

>>107085987
>>107086027
I checked, there's a BIOS update from september which is marked as a beta, and a BIOS update from july which is a main release. which should I get?

>>107071352
Use mkvtoolnix-gui to extract the sub to an mks file, use subsync to sync it, remux with mkvtoolnix-gui

>>107085741
>It's not that difficult to build a PC. Prebuilt ones are not good value.
I'm hoping to pay for the service of not having to do all the work. There's small things like cable management that I'm shit at, too. Please I just want to dump money and not worry about whether I fucked up the building process.

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>>107070046
Having a brain fart, what's a more elegant way to do this? I don't want to duplicate 2 loops to handle the special case of i = 1.

            for (int i = 1; i < 4; i++)
            {
                if (i == 1)
                {
                    for (j = skip; j < 9; j++)
                    {
                        for (int k = 0; k < channelsPerSlot; k++)
                        {                            
                            string csc = i.ToString() + "/" + j.ToString() + "/" + k.ToString();
                            table.Add((csc, channel));
                            channel++;
                        }

                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    for (j = 1; j < 9; j++)
                    {
                        for (int k = 0; k < channelsPerSlot; k++)
                        {
                            if (hwType == Hardware.PXI) continue;
                            string csc = i.ToString() + "/" + j.ToString() + "/" + k.ToString();
                            table.Add((csc, channel));
                            channel++;
                        }

                    }
                }
            }

>>107086724
use ternary, j = (i == 1 ? skip : 1)
or set the j before the forloop
if (i == 1) j = skip;
else j = 1;
for (; j < 9; j++)

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Is there some way to have one program read/write a file and give some other program read-only access while linking the file without it actually being there? I'm on Windows 7.
I have file A in folder A that is modified often by program A. I have file B in folder B that is modified occasionally by program B. File B is a clone of file A, and I have to keep reverting it to a previous state, or else program B will do weird shit I don't want it doing. What I'm wanting to know is if I could have program B read file A as if it were in folder B, without modifying it or reading anything else in folder A. Is this possible?
(It's SteamCMD and it keeps changing one of my three library folders to its own folder and downloading entire games there when I just want to update them)

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how do you guys re-learn languages faster?

I'm primarily backend working in Go and in my hobby time I'm working on a few projects and realized I forgot a lot of my JS knowledge despite it being a flagship language of mine when first starting that I stuck everywhere on my resume kek

Do you guys keep like a cheatsheet or something? Old notes tucked away in markdown? how do you remember?

>>107087028
i reference old projects. it sucks.

>>107086532
I'm honestly having trouble figuring out which AGESA version supposedly fixes the issue. It looks like it might be 1.2.0.3g, which is the September version.

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>>107086122
>bought a $3000 prebuilt two months ago
>push the limits on it, keeps great temperatures during stress tests
>install a second m.2 because I need the storage
>suddenly too much power draw under load because they haven't spent a cent more than they needed to
>can't hold shit on the 1tb ssd it came with, but replacing the PSU will void my 5 year warranty

>>107087207

if you have to cut so close to the edge , your eyes exceeded your budget and you should have built a system 1 tier lower that gives you some breathing room without breaking the bank.

as for this anon>>107086019
they idiot proofed this process a long time ago so as long as you know how to take basic caution and can use pcpartpicker to tease out any compatibility challenges and can follow instructions literally anywhere online - you should be fine

Second , if it scares you that much , just search up prebuilds other people have made using those specs and see if you can overlap and take what they use.

>>107087310
it was a pre-built in stock, not something where I selected the parts myself
I'd have sprung for a bigger power supply but it was at 30% off for the whole build, cheaper than buying the parts separately

>>107086515
Well EAC did detect some errors with the CD. On the other hand, I popped it in my laptop and played it there and it came out crystal clear despite using the same headphones, so either my laptop's audio system has better filtering or something's happened with the DVD drive on my desktop

Can I renew a 4chin pass that expired in 2023?

laptopscribes.com is long dead, what's an alternative review site for the US? no notebookcheck

Does anyone use 4chanx and has it been laggy for you lately when replying? Usually the bigger the thread gets (like generals) the worst the reply performance gets, is there any alternatives? Doesn't really seem like X is maintained much

>>107087708
4chanxt

>>107087729
Just installed it and getting the same problem when using the quick reply, probably on my end but not sure what could be causing it

>>107087734
Try a different browser or try disabling all your extensions except the ones you need for 4chanxt, maybe you can nail down what's causing it.

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>on firefox extended service release
>supposed to be frozen at a specific version level and only get security updates
>they keep pushing UI changes on this branch
It's dumbass tiny tweaks, fucking visual noise shit that's distracting and a fucking pain to track down whatever flag needs changed to disable it if it even can be. With the latest one the "audio playing in tab" icon makes the tab wider so, several seconds after audio stops, all of the tabs right of it slide left. I hate updates so goddamn much.

>>107087746
Worked fine on chrome, disabled every extension on firefox one by one and it turned out it was fucking bitwarden?

>>107087751
the forced little "we know what's best for you" changes in firefox is so gay, like dropping support for compact density even though so many people wanted it

btw Mozilla has removed their promise not to sell user data from the firefox FAQ so i would use a fork if I were you. i'm on Mullvad Browser myself (needs some tinkering to get working somewhat like a normal browser)

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>>107076740
I'm still looking for tips about a permanent free email service that don't want a telephone number.

>>107087207
>>107087385
So replace the SSDs with a single higher capacity drive or put a small power limit on your CPU or GPU.
>>107087751
Can you still use a policies.json file to stop updates? Haven't used FF in a while. Then you can choose when and whether to move to a new point release.

>>107088088
I've been using arkenfox. When I end up moving to a newer major version I'll see what their notes are.
>>107088148
In my case it's being updated from debian repo so I could just freeze it there. But security updates.

>>107087207
>>suddenly too much power draw under load because they haven't spent a cent more than they needed to
You might have fucked something or didn't plug in something back right
M.2 drives are a few watts max.
Very little chance the PSU was that close to the limit

>>107088182
>M.2 drives are a few watts max.
Some Gen 5 drives can cross the 10W barrier under load. But it's still a small amount of voltage compared to everything else in the system.

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What are good laptop brands, and ones to stay away from. I know everyone likes the thinkpads, but is ibm/lenovo the only brand that makes good laptops? Or would it be better money spent to buy a minipc since i already own a monitor, keyboard and mouse

>>107088417
Obviously I have my own biases so take these with a grain of salt,. On the "gaming" side of laptops, whatever your opinion on gaming laptops may be, Lenovo's Legion lineup is one of the good ones with decent build quality across the board and their stuff usually goes on heavy sales after a while. Asus in their Zephyrus lineup is also decent but also more expensive. Stay away from anything Dell. HP or Acer. Oh, and there's Framework too if you want to spend a fortune for muh repairability.

Should I go for normal windows 11 or iot ltsc version for gaming? I read that the iot ltsc version has optimization problems with some games. Is it actually a problem?

Anyone knows why I can't cast the screen of my Motorola Moto g30?

>>107088516
windows 10

>>107087751
>>107088164
Oh, apparently the ESR channel has had a major update from 115 to 140. I need to redo arkenfox.

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I'm having trouble using google, see I want to find a list of recommended rail shooter games, but rail shooters are often conflated with light gun games, but I don't want light gun games I want rail shooters, but searching "recommended rail shooter games -light gun" yields results that have both "rail shooter" and "light gun" in the results
What do?

>>107088780
Nothing. Modern google just ignores your attempts at constructing a search query with required and excluded terms to instead feed you what DAS ALORITM says the typical person would be looking for.

>>107088780
https://glitchwave.com/charts/top/game/all-time/g:rail%2dshooter,%2dlight%2dgun%2dshooter/
https://backloggd.com/search/lists/rail%20shooter/
These should help you on your search. The lists on backloggd might contain light gun shooters though.
The trick is knowing how to use google to get to a useful website, then search within that website rather than trying to do a granular search on google.

Looking for a new VPN
>fast and multiple servers
>allows simultaneous kill switch AND split tunneling
>30 day money back guarantee

Currently using ProtonVPN and it does the job but you have to choose between Kill Switch or Split Tunneling and I hate it

>>107079185
>ptm42069 with direct die
never heard of that method before but im willing to try it
>>107079662
stock with IHS and normal paste was hitting 55-60C under load and staying at 50 idle, I assumed it was my settings but after delidding I saw that it was the solder being crusty and old. mind you my 9800X3D was barely a year old, so when I initiallly applied liquid metal with the IHS and paste it was staying at 45 sometimes 43 idle. Right now I have the thermal grizzly heatspreader and its at like 48 idle most of the time its 50 idle on startup so idk whats wrong

>>107089157
Mullvad VPN. To my knowledge there is no 30 day money back guarantee though. I've been using Mullvad for about 5 years now and I love it, best VPN I've ever used.

I've recently found myself in Germany, and I'm using an old ass android phone for navigation (Android 9, downright decrepit), no Idea if this matters.
My problem is: The phone is obviously set to English, but good lord, the AI sat-nav voice seems to also be set to English and STRUGGLES with the German names of streets and such, to the point that quite often it is unintelligible when it tells me what street to look out for. Is there any way I can set the navigational voice to for places to German, without having to set the full app to German? Multiple times I found myself stopping and double checking what the fuck the phone just said. Which isn't exactly Ideal. And obviously I don't want to have to keep looking at it while I'm in traffic, because that's not safe either.

>>107083377
>What makes you expect it's TPM?
TPM is just plainly problematic on AM4, regardless of brand. But apparently it's especially problematic on some MSI boards. The audio issue was a dead give away that it's TPM, you probably have USB issues as well. I literally just discovered the MSI-specific problems the other day when I chanced upon discussion about it, but otherwise I've never personally had problems with two AM4 MSI boards because I'm schizo and disable TPM.
You should probably do a couple of Memtest86 passes on your RAM and do a two pass HCI Memtest, split like 85% of your total RAM capacity (after OS usage is considered) over your CPU threads per worker (window of HCI).

>>107089190
>most of the time its 50 idle on startup so idk whats wrong
Nothing is wrong, you probably haven't done ANY power optimization and I don't know what cooler you're using so I can't tell if that's an expected temp. Like I mentioned before, Zen 4 Ryzen 9's biggest and easiest thermal improvement comes from voltage caps not from delidding. While the 9800X3D isn't a crazy hot chip, the extra cache adds die density meaning it's warmer even with the flipped design.

>>107089476
using a Lian Li Hydroshift 2 AIO and its set to PWM(PERF) as opposed to a fixed RPM

>>107089509
>Lian Li Hydroshift 2 AIO
Alright that's a good start, that's certainly more than adequate for cooling.
So the only things left to take a look at are potential interfacing issues for that specific cooler and your power settings, which out of the box can even vary between the same brands boards in degrees of stupidity.

>>107089523
Mobo is msi x870 tomahawk pz and corsair 32GB 6400MT CL 32-39-39-102

>>107089523
>potential interfacing issues
>>107089509
Not exactly cold plate interfacing issues, but still
https://lian-li.com/hydroshift-ii-lcd-c-360-follow-up-notice/
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/cooling/lian-lis-new-hydroshift-aio-cooler-doesnt-work-properly-on-some-motherboards-but-it-will-send-you-a-replacement-part-if-you-cant-get-around-the-issue-in-the-bios/
You should set your pump settings to fixed higher % ones anyway, a lot of vague sounding settings are often poorly configured.

>>107089570
>x870
Since it's an X870 it could be running more excessive defaults. I have no idea about specifics on that SKU, but like I just showed above, please do a quick search, your answers may already be out there. Power optimization is a tedious thing to explain away, you should be able to find the info about settings you need to change.

Don't know where else I can ask this so hopefully someone can explain

I was watching a horror movie but my bluetooth headphones broke recently so I've been having to use my Dualsense controller (PS5) connected to my PC via cable and then wired earbuds plugged into the controller.

Can someone explain why while I was watching a movie, an explosion happened in the movie and my controller vibrated?
I literally almost shat myself because it was a horror movie and it was Halloween.

>>107089764
Not sure about PS5 controllers specifically but I know that PS3/4 have non-standard third-party interfacing (drivers/software) with Windows. Chances are it's more of a system wide thing rather than application specific, so it might have overlap with more generic volume peaks or metadata you experienced with that film. I'm guessing it was locally played?

one one of my browsers, anytime i try to make a thread the timer keeps restarting from 300 - no matter what,

is this some kind of weird shadowban? will clearing cookies fix it? never had it before

>>107086502
Do you have to unplug the camera only (take the USB cable out of the actual camera body), or do you unplug at an earlier point such as PC?
Test this if you haven't, because if unplugging only the camera doesn't fix it then the issue is with some other part of that chain.

>>107088417
I stay away from Acer, MSI, and Asus laptops.
All three due to abysmal build quality, but Acer and Asus also due to broken BIOS implementations.
On Acer Aspire, fans would not spin at all unless a special driver was installed, so the laptop would cook itself while you browsed the BIOS settings or during OS installation.
Asus because of https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive and countless other similar failures.

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I use pic related to my job
It uses geofencing to clock in and out.

Any way I can install a teamviewer like app on any android phone and then control the android phone through an iphone?

There appears to be an app called airdroid that supposedly does this but I need confirmation from someone who has used remote android control of some kind.

>>107071124
I'm sure he sees that as a compliment because it is. Jews are based AF. They kill muslims which want all of us dead.

>inb4 kids game
>inb4 buy android phone
How the fuck can I load into a Minecrap Pocket Edition world that I saved via jailbroken iPod touch and way back in the day. There are a lot of things just lost to time sitting on my external hrs collecting dust. PLX THKS(advanced)

>>107086502
>The cables together equate to near 50~ feet in length
USB 3.0 works best at 3 meters of continuous length, having that much length plus multiple links in the connection is diabolical. I vaguely skimmed over the rest of this issue, but I'm guessing that's the problem. Basically every link needs to be the best quality because you're really stretching the USB 3.0 standard.

>>107090353
Please repeat your request in English. You want some form of data relating to that game from an old iPod???

how can i mass download a patreon page?
all the video tutorials and project files without manually going item by item?

>>107079606
it's expensive because it's fancy and mechanical

you can rig a "smart home" light switch to short the wires that go to the button

can someone tell me why apps have no internet connection when vpn is on? android

Will we ever see multi-core CPUs with dedicated L3 cache for each core?

Is there a retard-proof tool to clone a drive partition, including boot sectors?

>>107091111
clonezilla

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How the flying fuck do I only archive *.txt and *.html files with 7zip's "Add to archive" GUI?

There's a "parameters" field but I can't any fucking information about what to put there, -i doesn't work. It doesn't appear to work with what you put in the command line?

>>107091335
you can't use -i argument in gui. most args are overriden by the gui.
if you want to keep using gui, then you can just search through the folder where the files you wanted to archive *.txt and *.html files in, select all necessary files types and then right click add to archive
if you MUST use args, then do it in cmd or terminal

>>107091577
oh man, why even have a parameters field if you can't use all the parameters. hard to believe 7zip is this shit when it's so widely used.
(naturally i have hundreds of folders/subfolders and thousands of files mixed together, if it was feasible to just click a couple of them manually i would have done that.)
it's just such a basic thing, should be added to the gui even without parameters. should also be able to restrict file size, like below 1 MiB for example. two very basic things that a lot of people surely would want, it's strange enough there's not a button in the GUI but i thought for sure it would at least be possible with the parameters.

>>107090670
Probably not unless they invent a new kind of memory. In the past the only time you saw L3 on a single core CPU is if they were compensating for the bus interface being way too slow, and that doesn't happen on-die.

>>107087005
You can do the file thing with symlinks and hardlinks, but not the readonly part. If the programs are run at different times you could dynamically add/remove the permission though.

On windows 10+ you have Controlled Folder Access to prevent specific programs from writing to specific directories

>>107090353
brother if you want help you should try being serious instead of coming off insecure that you're playing minecraft
no one cares that you're playing the block game in the first place

Do you know any free tool or website which adds subtitles (translated to other lanuages) to a video?

>>107084305
PT guys hate it when I mention it here, but its great, I’ve used it for a year now.
Get real-debrid subscription for less than 3 dollars per month, torbox is also getting good but they have less cache. Selfhost AIOStreams, it’s the only addon you need, add all the scraper addons you see in it so you have backups if one goes down, add the release group regex to filters so you have the best results first, and remove duplicated results from AIOStreams.

I want to install GrapheneOS but some apps are holding me back, namely banking apps
how shitty is the experience in GrapheneOS for installing banking apps? does installing the dependencies break the reason of using Graphene in the first place?

how is spotify charging money from an expired credit card of mine?

>>107093150
Ask your bank, if they're processing transactions with expired information then they're the ones at fault.

>>107089977
Are you deleting cookies like in private mode or something?

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I have a bunch of unused Panasonic AA Zinc Chloride batteries. Expiry 2027. However I looked at them and they all have this rusty-looking ring around the bottom. Is it leaking/corrosion? Or is it just the colour of the materials of the seal?
I have a few Kodaks too, also exp 2027. They don't have this, but they seem to be constructed differently.

It seems a shame to throw them out, and seems strange that every single one of them would be leaking/corroding before ever being used and 2 years before the expiry date. Especially because for Zinc batteries Panasonic are supposed to be the best, the most leak-proof. What do you think?

Here's a photo of the Panasonics, and 2 Kodaks on the right for comparison.

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/ck/ doesn't have a sqt and this is kinda tech related so asking here
With the Black Friday coming up, I'm thinking of buying a new air fryer to replace the busted one I've been using
Are those big "oven type" air fryers worth it, or better to stick with regular types?

>>107093718
The main advantage of an air fryer is that it's small, because it means it heats up very quickly and food cooks a bit differently in it. If you're getting a small oven you might as well just use your regular oven if it has convection because that's all an air fryer is, a different form factor for a convection oven.

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>>107092608
You made me search and maybe Whisper from OpenAI?
https://openai.com/index/whisper/
https://github.com/openai/whisper?tab=readme-ov-file#available-models-and-languages

Seems like ffmpeg now includes support for Whisper and it works offline.
https://ayosec.github.io/ffmpeg-filters-docs/8.0/Filters/Audio/whisper.html
If you want something more user-friendly maybe there's a better whisper build out there somewhere. Someone has probably made a online service out of it by now.

>>107093718
Yeah they work about the same. It just depends on the average size of the things you cook.

Expensive air fryers suck in general unless you go way up market for the multi-chamber models or the jap combo microwave units. If you're just looking at a $200 Ninja it's 100% worse than the $60 electromechanical job at Walmart. The computer just gets in the way.

should i be ashamed to use kubuntu?

>>107070046
Is Acer Nitro V15 with i9 and 4060 good for these?
>games
>video editing
>AIslop gen

I don't care about battery life

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Can anybody find a .webm with built-in subtitles?
WebM supports the WebVTT subtitle format but I can't for the life of me find an example. It must be embedded in the .webm file and not linked externally.

>>107093541
Throw that shit out. There's literally zero reason to use zinc batteries. They'll barf and ruin whatever gadget you put them in and then you'll be on the line for a new gadget instead of just batteries.

>>107094593
youtube videos are a good example, use yt-dlp to download as webm and see they have subs
but you can't post them here, 4chan strips the subs out

>>107094992
thanks for the tip but i just get "ERROR: Did not get any data blocks" when using --embed-subs so don't know if i can accomplish that

On android, is there a way to not have the virtual keyboard open when selecting a text field? If so, could it instead open with a gesture or physical key on the device?

>>107088417
A great thing about Thinkpads in America is that IBM will come out fast and fix your shit if something breaks.

>>107091823
Considering how bad 7zip is, I'm surprised it wasn't forked by more competent developers a decade ago.

>>107095449
The GUI is a xterm level clusterfuck. Nobody wants to deal with it.

I've been using yt-dlp for the first time to download a channel of 500ish videos. My IP got banned after 200ish videos. I tried again later and was able to download another batch. But then I get the sign-in error. If I then open the video in freetube it loads after giving me a warning I was banned. And then I can download it again via yt-dlp. Is it because freetube is using yt api and yt-dlp uses another method? Any advice on getting around this?

>>107090082
Unplugging the camera on either side fixes the issue, though it's more reliable when it's physically from the camera body itself (mounted on a monitor or on the ceiling).

>>107090466
Exactly. I'm not at all surprised it's happening due to the excessive length but this problem is something I've essentially inherited at my job.

Another note, when I was double checking the Device Manager and when the camera is "asleep," it's not visible at all. When it's reset, it appears under the camera section as you'd expect.

>>107096185
you should always use a vpn if you mass downloading. they are cheap

>>107094992
Hard-subs

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>>107094218
I use it too, it's fine.

>>107093541
No experience with Panasonic zinc, but plenty of experience with Kodak ones – throw them away, or use them in sacrificial devices.
I have a decorative night lamp where dubious batteries go to die, and it has been through many Kodak leaks, including alkaline ones.

I still dont understand the point of VPN's.

all I do with my PC is play games and shitpost. dont go on sketchy websites or even torrent

>>107089667
looked into it and submitted a request for that replacement cable as I tried the BIOS settings and no luck. if I wanted to try the Honeywell phase change pads is it just the 7950 or some other number?

>>107097195
if you're that much of a normie then you don't need one. your identity/internet activity/profile is attached to your isp. vpn is like a secret identity.

>>107097195
It's mostly for pirating. I pirated Anchorman without a VPN and I got a scare letter in the mail from the Comcast kikes, threatening legal action if I kept pirating. With a VPN they can't see your IP: they have departments of cronies whose job is to monitor popular torrents and collecting IPs of people who are connected to those torrents.

Besides that, websites can fingerprint you or sniff your cookies and datamine you, so they know that you went to 4chan when visiting instagram or etc. This is a blatant violation of privacy: a VPN helps hide your tracks online.

Finally, VPNs have usage as an SSL tunnel so no men in the middle can pry on your traffic. This is vital for things like telecommuting: you connect to your company's network securely, from anywhere, as if you were physically in the office.

Any advice on recovering deleted files?
What's the best software? Data Rescue o Recuva is a good solution? Any other professional solution?

>>107097357
Recuva is the best. Try not to install it to the same drive that you deleted the file from, because it is likely the like has been overwritten and permanently unrecoverable. Deep scans are better but take longer. There's a certain chance that your file is gone for good no matter what though.

>>107097272
>websites can fingerprint you or sniff your cookies and datamine you, so they know that you went to 4chan when visiting instagram or etc. This is a blatant violation of privacy: a VPN helps hide your tracks online
VPN is totally ineffective against client fingerprinting. They detect your hardware config and browser history with JavaScript primarily. Don't forget they're mostly tracking mobile clients which change IP several times a day.

>>107097272
speaking of torrenting.... if someone live streams for several hours could that make an ISP think that they are torrenting ?

I checked my monthly usage and its 2.5-3 TB of usage.

>>107097403
No. ISPs determine if you're torrenting literally from scraping the list of connected IPs, not from your traffic.

As a matter of fact as long as you are within reasonable usage they don't care what you do with your connection at all, it is the Hollywood studios that strongarm them into clamping down on pirates, but if it was up to them they'd be like "pirate all you want, buddy".