>>107437249
Which M.2 sizes has /g/ seen IRL?
I refuse to believe 2260 or 22110 actually exists

>>107437280
i've only seen 2230 and 2280

are all TVs smart tvs these days?

>>107437829
Yes, but the vast majority are way too underpowered to be useful. It's just that "smart" sells to cattle better than "regular", even if regular would be better.

>>107437895
Nah the smart part subsidizes hardware cost. The average cheap TV buying normigger just deals with the UI because they're that fucking ignorant / poor / oblivious.

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>>107437280
I've seen 2260 and up.
22110 is the enterprise/datacenter format for M.2. Not terribly relevant today as M.2 really wasn't fit for purpose to start with.
2260 is something you really only see in OEM PCs. Why 2260? No fucking clue because the handful of machines I've seen with those SSDs could take 2280

No major brand retail consumer SSD has been released in either size afaik. You pretty much only get 2280 and 2230, with 2230 only being popular because of the deck.
I do own a 22110 SSD. Was my first M.2 SSD

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Would there be anything wrong with using these SUPER cheap Hitachi or Seagate hard drives for a Sony PS2? Like will they fail very fast or something? Why are they so cheap?

>>107437280
I've seen 2260.
I understand that 22110 is an inevitability as GPU & CPU TDPs crept upwards over the years, and SSD's are the next in line for enbiggening for biggerer number = betterrer.

Frankly. An SSD shouldn't extend beyond 2230. And SATA is perfectly fine, just update the fucking standard.
That is, if we accept that optane is dead. If optane lives, BRING ON THE BIG BLACK CO-

>>107439123
Those are SAS, not compatible with SATA devices.

>>107439183
god dammit fuck

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>>107439123
>>107439183
>>107439211
okay what about this one any catch here

>>107439229
Just an old sata HDD
No real catch other then that.
Would try to find listings saying the HDD is healthy atleast

>>107439229
>okay what about this one any catch here
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SEAGATE
otherwise >>107439245
It's probably okay, pulled from a working system, without a scan. It'll store your 782GB of uncensored JAV rips you access once a month from a cold boot just fine.

>>107439256
shit i wasn't planning to use it for that but that's a good idea
maybe i should buy two of them

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is DeepSeek lying to me?

Maybe this is more a question for /p/ but what are some trustworthy services for digital photo restoration? I'm trying to get some family photos redone but there's a thousand options and apparently half of them are just using AI now.

>>107439323
No? Ram is a computer part

What are the reasons to use the following operating systems?
>FreeBSD
>Haiku
>ReactOS
>Illumos
>Redox
>Fuchsia
>Phantom OS

>>107420484
Anyone?

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Is this gruvbox shit still the best colorscheme or did I fall for a meme?

>>107441358
>best colorscheme
dude, aesthetics are personal preferences, there's no such thing as a best colorscheme. please don't let retards on /g/ tell you what colors to like, man

What's a good free PDF viewer with excellent security? I download and read ebooks from anywhere

I used to use Sumatra but just found out it wasn't even sandboxed and it got RCE in the past

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is 4chan kill?

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HELP
>friend needed help hooking up his first SSD (samsung evo 870) and transferring his OS and everything from his old WD HDD
>seems easy enough, ive never cloned anything but ive set up dozens of SSDs
>SSD shows up, everything works properly. time to move on to the cloning
>Try Macrium reflect, cloning failed, error 0 (0x8004230F)
>Try samsung magician instead, cloning stay at 0% and goes nowhere
Both are 1tb, both are set as GPT. I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out, tried swapping the sata cables, deleting partitions, etc.
Had him do CHKDSK and will try again tomorrow, but if that doesn't work i have no idea what else to do

>>107437895
They can play media off usb at least

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My old computer (from the DDR3 era) for my son for school refuses to show display even though the fans are spinning and there's some activity. Then a few days later it comes back to life fully functional but once it's shut down again, it won't turn on again. The fans (CPU, case) do spin, but it won't POST. The computer only decides to turn on a few days later, and I don't think I can repeat this. It's too random. One day it won't show display even with the computer showing that it's alive, then one day it decides to show display and run like normal.

What's going on?

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my keyboard is giving birth. what do?

>>107442633
wtf

>>107442633
I've always been paranoid about this happening but I've always convinced myself it never would. Thanks for giving me the motivation to clean my keyboard sooner rather than later.

If this is a mechanical keyboard, then get a keycap puller and pull all the keys off. Get a can of compressed air.
Take the keyboard outside and hold it over a trash can, holding it so it's hanging vertically longways, and spray it until all of the visible debris and maggots are out.
Then take paper towels, douse in alcohol, and scrub thoroughly. I recommend taking q-tips and maybe even spudgers to scrub and scrape hard to reach corners.

Or you can do what I'd do if it got this bad for some reason and throw the fucking thing away and buy a new one. God, that's horrible to look at.

>>107439103
> Why 2260?

To make it harder for you to upgrade and more likely that you'll pay the OEM

Bros where is the best place to get an AV from? I seem to have no problem getting games, movies, or software that isn't an AV.
Ordinarily I would just take the risk because it's my own computer and if it fucks up I know how to solve it. This isn't for me though.

>>107440362
I thought video games reached a new level, since people buy SSDs for them

>>107441116
curiosity and too much free time

>>107441358
For a colourscheme to be good it has to have decent contrast and readability. Solarized is unironically shit btw. Like the other anon said there's no "best" but there are shitty themes that make shit harder to read and see.
Gruvbox is among the very nice themes with well adjusted contrast and visual brightness across every colour. So yeah it's good to use if you like it.

Btw dark text on light background has better visual contrast and is easier to read, dark mode is just a cargo cult.

>>107442028
boot into live linux iso and do dd

Is there a way to hide the gay horizontal white line on the bottom of my Ipad's screen? I want to read manga with komga in a web browser but it won't go away even in fullscreen mode.

>>107442052
All TVs with USB could do that, they don't need to be "smart".

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>>107437829
Smart as in runs Android-TV or something of the sort?
The small ones likely aren't.
>>107443871
>>107442052
Although "smartness" is a vague definition.
>>107441732
PDF requires security??
>>107441116
BSD for licensing reasons and extra tinfoil.

>>107437280
same, I've only seen 2230, 2242 and 2280

>>107442028
>>107443490
Booting requires copying the boot entry too, assuming UEFI here because GPT
>inb4 someone arguing boot entries don't exist or some shit like that
There's two ways booting can happen when there's no entries:
-OS placed its loader at \\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi (Windows seems to do this)
-inside the vendor directory there's a CSV file that tells the firmware to recreate the entry (Debian Linux for example has this)

>>107444285
>PDF requires security??
PDF is a humongous file format that includes arcane scripting and user editing capabilities. If a PDF reader has any sort of bug in implementing this it can easily allow a maliciously crafted PDF file to trigger code execution in the host just from opening the file. There have been vast amounts of PDF exploits like this in the past

>>107444343
That's irrelevant because it sounds like that anon is trying to clone the entire drive, and it's failing for some reason, he hasn't even gotten to the booting from the new drive step and there's no indication he isn't cloning the boot entries for whatever reason

Booting into a live linux ISO off a USB is completely independent of the main drive's contents

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>>107444353
Isn't Macrium a live environment too?
>>107444349
Oh, right. Never thought of it.

>>107443227
SSDs are generally just faster than hard drives and they don't have seek times that vary.
Faster load times, texture streaming and whatnot, but still very slow for use as virtual memory (when you run out of physical ram)

>>107443227
What the fuck are you talking about? SSDs are also a computer part. When you buy an SSD or RAM, you put those into your computer, in the hopes that the computer will then be better/faster at playing your games.
What are you not understanding about the deepseek screenshot?

>>107444371
>Isn't Macrium a live environment too?
Is it linux? Can you run dd?
My advice was to try cloning with dd

I'm doing some research and saving money to get a new PC or laptop in about 6 months. I'm currently using a 2019 ASUS laptop with 8GB Ram and... it's struggling for its life.

I use Photoshop, Premiere, Blender for work so I need more power. But I often only find "gaming" setups, with fancy lights, they have good specs, but are quite expensive as well. A couple of years ago I bought an overpriced "gaming chair" and felt stupid for it, in reality I was looking for an "ergonomic chair".

I guess my question is: are there any differences between a powerful working pc from a powerful gaming pc or are they interchangeable? So far I've been trying to avoid fancy setups because I feel they are bloated and have a "rad gaming tax" included in the price.

>>107443853
You could try another browser that has the flag to hide it enabled.

On the system level you have to use guided access: https://www.lifewire.com/remove-grey-bar-at-bottom-of-iphone-5180596

>>107444503
Gaming PCs will prioritise GPU power, RGB lights, and have some gaming tax. They will deprioritise quality and longevity.
The best alternative for your usecase in theory are business workstation laptops. They prioritise CPU+GPU power but usually with slightly weaker GPUs than gaming, longevity and quality to some degree, but have a business price tax that's usually even bigger than the "gaming tax". For your usage it'd be perfect but they might honestly be even more expensive than gaming laptops.

I think if I were you I'd look very seriously at used business laptops. An example would be the thinkpad P-series line. Find a top line workstation model with a decent GPU and see what prices are like for 2-5 year old machines; it'll likely be a lot more powerful than your ASUS shitbox and might be quite affordable.

>Download a large torrent
>Scroll wheel instantly starts jumping around like a spastic on acid
>Happens after running certain programs which I assume are "resource intensive" too
>Rebooting makes no difference
>Seemingly nothing makes any difference except having to wait days or weeks for it to decide to stop

This is such bullshit and it feels like I'm the only person in the world it happens to. Didn't have this problem with W7.

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>>107437280

>>107444588
Thanks friend, that makes sense.

>>107444619
running hdd as your system drive where you download torrents?

>>107444778
Nope my torrents download to my D: drive.

>>107444793
but is it a separate drive or just a partition of same physical drive?

>>107444826
Oh it's a separate drive.

>>107444848
might be something wrong with it then. ever tried installing os on different drive? or maybe just swapping data ribbon? sskh0

>>107444862
My OS used to be on my HDD, but I switched to a SSD a few years ago now and just use the HDD for storage. I had the same problem then too though.
There's no pattern to is what annoys me. Sometimes it happens when an update is due or after an update, sometimes changing the USB port it's in fixes it and sometimes it doesn't, sometimes downloading through a bitclient will cause it and sometimes it doesn't, sometimes running a program will cause it and sometimes it won't. It happens with every mouse too so I know it isn't a hardware issue. Seriously drives me insane.
Weirdly the one place it never seems to happen is in game even when it's happening in browser, a program, notepad etc.

>>107444406
video game niggas are buying SSDs for their consoles

>>107445058
>>107444406
>>107444389
>>>/v/727601030

Is there anything stopping me using a DVI to SCART/composite cable to have a CRT TV running as a second monitor for retro games if I don't have space for a CRT monitor?

>>107445058
consoles are just locked down computers, especially modern ones
upgrading an SSD in your console is the exact same thing as upgrading the SSD in your computer. and the only reason you can't upgrade the RAM in the console is because the solder it in and don't make it changeable to consumers, they easily could if they wanted to

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Should I buy SSD's and HDD's now before the prices sky rocket?
Even fucking QLC SSD's are going up

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What is this worthless pile of shit good for?

All I wanted was something like DxWind better, something that creates VIRTUAL DISPLAYS THAT DISPLAY applications as if they were a real display, except it's just a window on your actual display. But instead this cunt just creates a fake and gay invisible display that I cannot see... WHAT IS THAT GOOD FOR? None of the "haha this is so easy, check this tutorial out" worthless shit instructions by the fat neckbeard who made this garbage ever display anything on any of the """""virtual displays""""" it produces.

Oh yes definitely the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear virtual display is some fictitious waste of memory that is displaying nothing, but I can """"stream"""" my penis onto it, and then display it on my server's client so they can look without me knowing they're looking.

>>107445973
And the error message is just a bonus, happened when I pressed print screen because I had the audacity to record the VDD control window after I uninstalled the driver.

Imagine if someone actually created "DxWnd(but it works)".

>>107445869
Nah just be patient. RAM jumped up in price a bit and everyone started screeching about how it's over so started to panic buy and prices were jacked up to ludicrous levels in order to capitalise on that. Now retailers are trying their luck with other components. Bubbles happen because consumers allow them to. Don't buy just because you think prices will go up, because that's why prices go up.

what case/mobo/cpu combo should i go for a proxmox jellyfin/nas+ other stuff media server ?

>>107441429
I don't buy into the bluepilled "equality of the colorschemes" bullshit.
One of them is the best.
>>107443480
I know the traditional dark on light must be better but I'm gonna be honest. I've been using dark mode for probably 10 years at least and I don't think I want to switch.
I'm sure I would get used to it eventually but black on white makes me think of writing term papers while white on black makes me think about code and computers

Why is HDMI so popular when it's just DVI that needs more power and inferior to DP in every way?

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>>107445869
Market chasing is the absolute worst instinct. Especially for something that only goes down in price on a 10 year time frame. Simplest explanation is the cartels are cutting production ahead of an economic downturn like they did in 2008, and they're going to reap all that VC money AI still has.

>>107446039
>light on dark
Yeah fair, if it helps you focus then that's more important than minor readability metrics

>One of them is the best
No, colours are subjective. Like I said there's some metrics like contrast and percieved luminance (some colours look brighter, both due to a combination of how our eyes work and also how LCD displays actually display colours making some of them physically brighter), and so some colour themes are actively shit by making things less readable. As long as you use a good theme that doesn't have terrible contrast or terribly bright/dark looking colours, it's subjective.
Maybe there's some way to quantify the psychology of colours, like I dunno, functions should be red because it's an angry colour or some shit (pulling this random example out of my ass). But if so then nobody has bothered spending any amount of time studying this yet. Also your actual highlighting scheme in the editor is going to be way more important - the colourscheme just defines the colour palette available, then your editor decides which parts of the code to highlight and how.

Here's an autistic blog to give you food for though: https://blog.simn.me/posts/2023/syntax-highlighting/
I don't do this myself btw and I think it goes too far. It's true that some themes over-highlight everything way too much though. The annoying part is that customizing this usually requires editing the highlighting definitions for your editor and often for your specific language as well which is annoying. Up to you whether you want to go down that rabbit hole.

So as far as the psychology of individual colours go, IMO getting the highlight groups dialed in just right so that just enough information is colour-coded but not too much to ensure it stands out, is a lot more important than picking gruvbox vs. selenized vs. whatever the fuck, as long as it looks good to your eyes.

I have a little usb desktop fan that's caked with dust. What's the easiest way to clean it? I'm soaking the front piece but I don't want to damage the main body. I tried a blower with a brush attachment but the dirt is pretty stuck.

>>107446884
Isopropyl alcohol, water and a little bit of dish soap in a spray bottle, then use a stiff paintbrush or q-tips. If that doesn't shift it just use the alcohol on it's own without any water.

>>107446165
>Maybe there's some way to quantify the psychology of colours (...) But if so then nobody has bothered spending any amount of time studying this yet.

That's color theory, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of books on that, for all tastes. From Goethe to modern eye tracking tech for advertising.

Most attempts are just too simplistic though, you'll hear things like "blue is ordered and clean", "red and yellow makes you hungry" and it checks out but only insofar as we are fed the same information and live through the same concept, sharing the same society. Some of it is bullshit, some of it is true, some of it is bullshit made true because people insisted it was so and it became a staple. So, for example, you may think your restaurant needs a yellow logo and your insurance firm should go for a blue logo, it makes sense, but then all of your competition thought the same thing, so in order to stand out, you ought to do the opposite, so people know it's "not just your ordinary restaurant".

There are plenty of ways to approach it, you can go for a more artistic/poetic point of view, business and marketing, readability and inclusion and so on. There are also several standards and metrics for web development and UI.

>>107447103
I meant specifically for programming. Should variables be "clean" or "hungry", "hot" or "cold"? Should functions? Should operators be hotter or colder than the operands, should declarations be a happy or a formal colour?

Can i get access to google's database by typing "hack google.com" in the command prompt?

>>107442633
Collect the baby keyboards in a large container and feed them until they grow to the desired size.

>>107447210
This only works if you wear long striped socks and have a plush shark next to you.

>>107442579
Check connections?
>>107442719
>special tools
Just use a knife

>>107445718
Pls respond ߹𖥦߹

>>107441238
Come on, I can't be the only guy here who wants a synced calendar but doesn't want to use Google/Microsoft/Apple or some CalDAV server

>>107445973
Nobody wants to run Windowed applications on Windowed. Only Steam's OS supports Windowed game modes for games.

>>107448551
What's wrong with DAV?

>>107448957
I don't want to worry about keeping a central server on. I just want a file that can P2P sync between devices using SyncThing and can be read and written to by applications on those devices, like how Obsidian keeps notes as markdown files.

I have a yahoo email account that recently got hacked (unfortunately no 2FA).
How is that possible? My password was changed a few months ago and I never click on any links.I'm very caferul and don't interact with anyone.
The email was on a list of compromised emails from crypto exchanges (my passwords are never the same).

Can anyone help?

>>107446095
Because consoles and TVs defaulted to it for a long time. DP is indeed superior but even today normie TVs don't always have a DP port and consoles often don't have DP output, so it's basically only used between computers and monitors.
What makes matters worse is that DP is technically superior but in practice they almost always do the same job identically, except for niche usecases. Like for 4k 120Hz gaming, DP was the only option for a while, but for 99% of usecases for 99% of people - including ones using PCs - it did not matter one bit which one they used. As a result HDMI's network effect of sorts gives it staying power, it's still the normie connector and so even computers and computer monitors generally come with HDMI compatibility just to make sure it's compatible with everything.

So tl;dr, everything has HDMI, not everything has DP, so normies and people who don't care continue using HDMI for everything and so everything continues adding HDMI ports to make sure it's compatible with everything else and not just the subset of things that also happens to have a DP port. PC autists that need the highest framerates use DP but they influence the market by almost zero.

>>107446095
Jewish tug-of-war. Output devices don't pay licensing fees for DisplayPort and displays don't pay fees for HDMI.

>>107449843
Wait, displays pay fee for DP? I thought it was royalty-free

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>>107442633
KILL IT WITH FIRE

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>>107444349
>PDF is a humongous file format that includes arcane scripting and user editing capabilities.
Do EPUB's have that problem too or are they safe? Only recently learned they are a thing after downloading some Manga from Nyaa.

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>>107445869
Depends, how many Niggabytes of RAM do you currently have? It's it's STILL 8 4x4 then yeah but if your rocking at least 16gbs or 32gbs of dedotated DDR5 WAM then you'll be fine.

>>107450733
Epubs are much much simpler, it's just an xml file with some hyperlinking capabilities and basic styling (CSS I think). It's almost not comparable

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>>107450873
Well EPUB's are my homies now, fuck PDF's.

>>107450337
If you're a VESA member or making video cards it is. It's PC gang vs home theater gang trying to Jew each other for pennies on the device and making everyone buy multiple $30 cables.

>>107450733
name of this sexy sexy boy?

What are people using these days for anime watching on their machine? MPC-HC with the CCCP pack?

Do you need a user account to search gifs on Tenor? I try searching but it doesn't work.

>>107437249
I just pooped and the water slashed up into my butthole. Why does Poseidon tongue fuck my ass? Is there technology to prevent this?

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>>107437249
So I open a thread in /gif/ and I'm immediately hit with this shit trying to open any fucking webm
latest chrome with 4chanxt extension
all preloading shit disabled
webms will still open fine on my phone on the same network at the same time
why the fuck is this happening, about to lose my shit

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What happened to /gedg/?

>>107442028
i just cloned my hdd to a samsung 870 1 tb with macrium (free v8) as it happens. the first thing is chkdsk is for checking file integrity so no point on an empty disk or one being formatted.

Check crystaldiskinfo and if its an old version of 870 (stamped on the disk w/ date) they have a high rate of fault/failing drives.

nvm i looked up the error code its vss related so you probably dont have vss running. live cloners use vss to copy files without going boot mode or interrupting the os. either turn it on and then do macrium or do it from boot media. should also check aforementioned disk stuff anyway tho

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My brother is building a house and asked me how this could be achieved. Basically there is the main Internet Router in the house and then he needs 1 or more Wireless Amplifiers and 1 Ethernet Exit port to connect his Desktop Gaming PC.

1. Which cables are used in this case?
2. Is the Router to Amplifier Scenario possible/reasonable here or are there better solutions?

PS: The House is pretty big, hence the need for 1 or more amplifiers.

How is AI still a thing when it just steals anything and everything without paying? I would have expected a major company to have bankrupted a company like OpenAI by now. Why hasn't that happened?

is there a permissions gui manager for windows that isnt shit i tried acl studio and it didnt work except oddly for my registry files

>>107452345
didnt disney or someone start suing them already? ai is just a scam all the rich have bandwagoned on once theyre done making money theyll carve it up

What has happened with the internet in the last 10 to 20 years?

Everything has become shit to use, or maybe I am becoming too old.
I feel like early 2000s very piss easy to get anything done.

Right now I spent a fucking hour to find a download manager, but they were all removed from GOOGLE Chrome store.
Okay, I run Ungoogled Chromium anyways, certainly there is an easy package to download somewhere where you simply load the extension and be done with it?

Nope
Also many sites got nuked here in Europe like fitgirl repacks.

Back then I would just use edonkey/emule, get a crack from a site and run the shit, easy.
Now most links are dead, lead to nowhere or are just malicious.

Rummaging through old files on my PC and I found an .sqlite file. Skimming through it, it seems to be a MediaWiki backup of some sort.

Now I'm looking to see if I can "restore" this backup. I can get a local server running with base MediaWiki, though it might not be the same version. Now what?

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I want to buy a big 16 TB WD Red Pro HDD for me to save all files of my old hard drives (I have like five or six of them) into one big HDD, so that I can use the files in a more convenient matter and use this big HDD as a big autistic library of my life to see and play all of the old games/music/films that I've torrented over the past decade, anything else that I should know?, do you anons recommend to me anything else for me to buy or do before I buy the HDD?, useful to mention that I shall be using this HDD every single day for 12 hours per day.

>>107453323
Yeah. Buy two or three and put them in RAID.

>>107453339
Sadly I am unable to buy multiple of them anon, they are outrageously expensive in my latrine american shithole, only one is already an absurd price, and I have been waiting to buy it for the entire fucking year, realistically speaking, a >>107453339
RAID will only become financially possible for me in 2027 at minimum

>>107452473
https://1337x.to/
https://online-fix.me/
https://fmhy.net/
jdownloader2
yt-dlp
gallery-dl
>>107452765
ask ai to guide you through

>>107437249
Best gaming laptop in terms of build quality? Is it still lenovo legion?
I just want a fucking 2000s ThinkPad with modern specs. I hate the stupid slim laptops with 0 ports and the battery is sealed inside

>>107437280
I have only seen 1 motherboard that is supposed to be compatible with 22110

>>107437249
What's a good way to self-teach CS fundamentals as someone who already has an EE degree? I already know a ton of "algorithms" in the sense that I've done courses and implemented plenty of algorithms for numerical analysis, non-linear programming and machine learning, but I know basically nothing about software engineering/progamming fundamentals.

Are there any good recommendations for learning about CS fundamentals that don't assume I need my hand held with for-loops, function definitions and f-string manipulation?

Is yt-dlp still the best video downloader?

How do you use it? (I don't know github and it's not a simple installer)

>>107453771
Yes.
Read the github.

>>107437280
2280 for my main rig.
2242 for my thinkpad t540p. Yes, I overpaid for it.

Is $150USD for a used Switch a good price? It has all the other accessories included.
I just want to soft mod it.

>Potplayer
>MPC clsid2
>MPC BE

Which is the best for a modern W11 system? I'm used to MPC but read that it's getting outdated and uses LAV filters

are keyboards good at 2.4 GHZ or are they just as bad as they are on bluetooth? like would i be better off getting a USB extension cord?

>>107437280
I've seen 2260 plenty of times. If you've ever bought business class laptops from 2015 or so, there's a pretty good chance the original drive for that thing was a 512 gb m.2 2260 drive.

I've also seen 22110 drives in person, but it is pretty niche. They were sitting in one of those PCIEx8 slot m.2 bifurcation storage cards in a rack-mounted PC. I think 22110 drives are intended for cases where you need a ton of dram cache like video editing, live audio or audio production, some scientific computing tasks, basically anything with a ton of i/o

>>107453895
Depends. If you are just doing office tasks then it is fine. For gaming it's better to get wired or something that is tuned for speed.

>>107453938
alright ill get the extention cable then im going to be moving to recliner gaming soon

>>107453895
>are keyboards good at 2.4 GHZ or are they just as bad as they are on bluetooth?
Get a better Bluetooth card if you're having issues. Those USB nubs without antennas are the main cause of Bluetooth complaints.
>>107453949
>alright ill get the extention cable then im going to be moving to recliner gaming soon
It will take longer for the signals to move through a cable lazily snaking across your living room floor than it would for them to fly in a straight line to the antenna.

What's a good alternative to Windows Clipchamp?

I want to do basic image/video editing (rotate, crop, remove audio, size limits, convert webm/mp4) with a simple easy to use UI

>>107454028
pirating an editing suit

>>107439229
should be fine, keep in mind the ps2 network adapter is for IDE hdd's, but there are aftermarket ones that can take sata

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>>107453796
that's why you just get an adapter to use a 2230

>>107452319
The "amplifier" is called Access Point.
I have a feeling he's going to make the mistake of not wiring the house for Ethernet and hopes to rely on WiFi instead.

>>107452017
Diapers.

>>107453688
Legion *Pro*.

>>107453895
I am yet to find a 2.4 GHz keyboard which works at more than 2 m in a normal living room (and I have three).
Bluetooth works much better on the same keyboards in the same room.
On one of them, my palm completely blocks the 2.4GHz signal.

>>107452765
>>107453658
Silly me, I had to get the name of the database right. In this case, the filename of the existing file. Doy. Though I had to use 1.39.3 as the latest version threw some kind of error.

Even then, once I regenerated LocalSettings.php, the home page just shows an error

Fatal exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError

If it matters, the original .sqlite file is from April 2020.

>>107454301
The T540p is old enough that it doesn't take NVME m.2, only SATA m.2. These are rare because they're not produced anymore.
Now that I think about it, I guess I did pay the normal asking price for it, considering I got it new.

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What can I do with this old laptop?
I don't want more shit in my house and I want to upgrade to something newer.
Do I sell it? I mean does anyone buy these even?

>>107437249
I bought a 128gb microsd card and formatted it to fat32 (from ext4) on gparted. After copying things from another card to it, it suddenly stopped copying anything else. After formatting it again gparted now says the filesystem is unknown and although I can format it to ext4 it goes back to "unknown" after the process finishes. I keep getting this error when trying on Linux mint's disk manager
>Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Saw online I could wipe it (sudo dd if=/dev/zero/ of=/dev/sdb bs=8192) and make a new partition. After doing that it still runs into the same problem. now it shows on gparted and the disk manager but not my files. Where did I fuck up? Or is it the card's problem?

I can't see thumbnail previews of webm files but I can for mp4 files. Any fix?

>>107454749
Actually, some further digging gets me this error

Error 1: no such table: l10n_cache
Function: LCStoreDB::get
Query: SELECT lc_value FROM "l10n_cache" WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1

And sure enough, there is a blank file that ends in _l10n_cache.sqlite. I delete it, it comes back.

Does this mean I have to go even further back?

>>107454891
Run f3 on the card. Try a different card reader if possible, just to exclude it being the issue.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/en/man1/f3read.1.html

>>107454899
Operating system?

>>107437280
Pretty sure my Stinkpad T450s has two (2) 2242 slots in addition to its 2.5 inch drive bay.

>>107437829
Yes. The last time I was able to buy a dumb LCD TV in a store was 2016. Check pawn shops if you want a non-spy TV in current year.

>captcha: DANK4
>>107452319
Amplifier as in Wi-Fi access point?
You'd cable the house with normal Ethernet cable and attach any number of access points to this so called wired backbone.
>1 Ethernet Exit port
>Exit port
There's no such thing as "enter" or "exit" ports, it's just Ethernet going around.
>1
I'd do two cables, just because.
>>107444459
By "live" I meant it boots from an external (unused) drive. My bad.

>>107454947
Turns out all I had to do was recreate the table "manually".

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wic9h8c1wu7p94ge

Meanwhile, AI kept insisting that all I had to do was run a certain script even though it kept throwing the same error.

This is why I can't trust AI for anything big.

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>>107455018
Thanks a lot man. It is indeed damaged. Is there a way to salvage this?

>>107455506
not gonna lie, it's not looking good man. what''s your OS? check SMART status first, run sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb and/or try to rebuild partition table, sudo testdisk /dev/sdb. if SMART shows reallocated or pending sectors, the drive is dying

>>107455506
Nope, it's dead. Warranty replacement is the only thing that can help.

>>107455729
>SMART
It's an SD card.

>>107455744
ooooh shit...

>>107455506
yeah it's dead af

>>107455729
>>107455799
Man... Should've known something was up since they were selling at half price
>>107455744
Don't have a warranty. Thankfully they're cheap here I can just check for an actually legit store and get a new one. They're like 40 yuan. Thanks guys

>>107452017
german poop inspection toilets
the tradeoff is that your shit stink is unimpeded so you better shit fast before it wafts around everywhere

>>107455450
>By "live" I meant it boots from an external (unused) drive. My bad.
Yeah no you're correct that's what live means, my point was that I specifically asked anon to try dd, not just any live cloner

>>107453688
>I just want a fucking 2000s ThinkPad with modern specs. I hate the stupid slim laptops with 0 ports and the battery is sealed inside
Lenovo thinkpad P, then. Thinkpads were never gaming

>>107453726
https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/06/fantastic-learning-resources.html
The tl;dr is do projects and learn by doing. All advice out there generally boils down to "write it in a way that's easy to understand, and will be easy to modify, extend or swap out/rewrite later if needed". How to actually do this well mostly comes from experience

A CS degree will teach you a bunch of theoretical shit that's largely not super relevant to actual software development except for relatively niche cases. Look up big-O notation though, in one day of reading wikipedia pages or random blog posts you'll know all about it.

>>107453895
Reminder that bluetooth literally transmits over 2.4GHz so any "2.4GHz keyboard" needs to explicitly advertise wifi connectivity else you can't know wtf it's using

>>107455976
WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, microwaves, they all operate on 2.4 GHz.
Typically when some vendor says "2.4 GHz" without elaborating further it means some form of proprietary half-baked protocol that is incompatible with everything else.

>>107454770
Toss linux on it, donate it, recycle it, sell it for $40 plus shipping and let someone else deal with it.

>>107456186
Already has linux since the last supported OS is win7.
No one seem to buy it despite the hiking in the ram prices.

>>107456263
See if you can donate it then and write it off on your taxes if that's applicable.

Is Adobe Acrobat Read still a recommended PDF reader or is it corposlop now?

>>107456588
no. it never was.
pdfgear

>>107456595
>pdfgear
people are saying its sussy

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1lm1prp/beware_pdfgear_is_likely_spyware_malware_or_at/

>>107456625
It's only that guy and his claim that PDF X is the same as PDF gear.
More so if his other account used to follow r/Bbccuckolding

>>107456588
Try Sumatra PDF

>>107456650
The thread says it doesn't do edit/conversions locally either. It sends it to some server somewhere

>>107456699
That's pure lie, since it work offline.
Anyway, you're already using windows.

how do I stop html5 pages from hiding my mouse pointer?

I got a question. If I buy an LG C5, hook it up to my computer then download a 4k HDR rip of a movie, is it as simple as playing it on mpv on my tv and I'll get the best image, or do I have to tinker with HDR settings in whatever video player I use to get the correct image?

Anyone use komga for their doujins? I'm having trouble deciding how I should organize my files and whether or not I should set the library to be one-shots.

>>107451969
Working for me

>>107452030
If you open dev tools and go to networking, does it show a large amount of requests?

>>107453859
I've been using Potplayer and it's quite good

>>107453323
>>107453615
Compare the price to an actual cloud backup first.

recommended minimal foss texting apps?
i am getting pretty annoyed with the extraneous features in the default android one like ai remix button when you zoom in on a video and playing animations when someone heart-reacts (heart reacting isn't even part of the SMS standard so it shows up wrong on apple phones in the group text)

>>107456588
PDF is a clusterfuck format on purpose so people will keep buying Acrobat, and that means someone will always need Acrobat Reader sometimes. Sumatra / mupdf is a rational subset of PDF that's sufficient 99% of the time.

After 8 hours or so it seems like the remaining time of 58 hours on my chkdsk for a 3 TB partition may in fact be accurate.
Why is it like this?

>>107458465
Bad disk and/or bad power.

>>107458721
If the reason I'm doing it to begin with is my mobo making occasional gay culture beeps while I'm downloading steam updates, does that make it more likely it's disc? Or more likely it's PSU somehow?
And will it fix it when it's done repairing the other 86% of this partition? The boot partition was maybe 20 minutes if that.

>>107457707
>Working for me

What could be the issue then? Any thoughts?

>>107458976
Do you get an error code or something when you search?

>>107459004
No type the search, press enter and nothing happens, the webpage stays the same.

>>107458857
>will it fix
Possible, but probably not
You will probably want to check (and post) the SMART data after though

>>107454028
DaVinci. It's easier to use than it looks if all you want to do are simple edits.

I went to initialize and format a new SSD in Windows disk management, but when I went to do that, it told me the drive letter I selected is unavailable, and now disk management says it's formatting the drive but I have no idea if it's actually working fine now or not or if I need to cancel the format and start over and select a different drive letter

Not sure why the letter I selected was "unavailable" since I have no drives inserted with that letter to begin with

>>107459193
Good tip. See you Monday evening kek

>>107459023
That thing sounds like it's fucking up pretty good. I would cancel whatever you're doing with the drive and hook it up to another computer to get your data back. Then maybe figure out what's wrong with the PC. Power supply and memory are the two most frequent offenders.

>>107454770
Are you in the Uk? I'll give you 20 pounds for it

>>107459329
considering the US style keyboard i'd say he isn't in the UK

>>107458465
>>107458857
>>107459254
On second thought you may want to try recovering important data with ddrescue (if you don't have backups). Forcefully stopping chkdsk if needed
You just need a *nix ISO(mint/zorin/etc doesn't matter you will go straight into terminal (ctrl+alt+T)), a second computer, a >4gb USB, something to burn the media(their preferred method will be in installation instructions, you could also probably use fedora media writer, and some patience (you probably have that)
Then

sudo (packagemanager, apt for debian based (mint/ubuntu/etc) dnf for redhat based) install ddrescue
lsblk (to find devices)
ddrescue --ask (bad disk as /dev/sdXpZ or /dev/nvmeXnYpZ where pZ is partition OR file/path to take in) path/to/outfile.iso path/to/mapfile
You my want to add -r # to retry badblocks # of times

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>>107437249
speaking of SSDs i've got a problem thats genuinely confusing me.
>adata SU630 as the OS drive
>six years old, "ssd life left" says its at 46% left (which is know is just how much more writing the drive can do)
>"total bad block count" is at 5 million
>... but not a single tool says that anything is wrong.
>its also not rising at all, so the drive is seemingly stable
>"unused reserved block count" is at 4 thousand
>any source i can find says that it should be within the thousands range
>havent suffered any data loss, corruption, or actual problems on the drive
>all other values seem normal and healthy
>what do the SMART tools themselves say?
>crystal disk info says the drive is good with no errors.
>hard disk sentinel says the drive is good with no errors and is in "perfect condition"
>hdtune cant find any any bad blocks in an error scan
>even adata's own toolbox says its fine. and a full diagnostic scan gives nothing
am i just reading the value here wrong or should i genuinely be concerned and move to replace it?
should note that i did accidentally fill up the drive completely a few times in the past, could that have caused the value to get here?

what does it mean if processes keep overwhelming the cpu like even a solo mpv instance after closing the browser etc keeps eating up 300% cpu and causing everything to lag
is it a hardware thing really only dramatically started happening today

>>107459825
is the cpu overheating and throttling? are you out of ram and it's busy swapping? have you looked at logs?

>>107459825
crappy gpu drivers can do that.
>playing video in browser (using gpu video decoder)
>exit browser (supposed to stop gpu video decoder)
>100% cpu usage (browser failed to close the encoder and now its bugging out)

>>107459646
Might be an erroneous reading
SATA SSDs where a wild west of SMART data before NVMe somewhat standardized it so the raw data may not actually represent a number. The description of the entry might be entirely wrong to begin with.

Either way total bad blocks is typically the amount of bad blocks found in both production and use and is often included in smart but it doesn't mean anything bad. With SSDs you won't actually find bad blocks until the drive is basically dead. The drive manages finding and retiring bad blocks and making sure data is consistent.

If the drive seems fine, I would keep using it. Backup anything important but that's a given I hope.

>>107459646
smartmontools smartctl has the best SMART database for obscure shitbox drives like this. Windows builds are available.
>>six years old, "ssd life left" says its at 46% left (which is know is just how much more writing the drive can do)
This is actually a warranty counter not a hard limit. When the drive is about to die it'll start spending down its reserved blocks.

>>107460218
i'll assume it's just an error then, the drive is otherwise fine.
i'll keep a backup on hand just in case.
>Backup anything important but that's a given I hope.
of course

>>107459994
yeah it shut down twice from overheating just cleaned a chunk of dust from the fan vents it's still happening thought should i replace the fan or re-paste the cpu
>>107460021
for a while xorg was taking an awful lot of cpu too think i'm using nouveau

>>107460952
if it's still overheating you should repaste and take other steps to cool it down.

>>107459329
Poland. but I won't sell it to a brit.

With DRAM prices being set at hilarious prices what is the general plan for PC building and upgrading? I have a mid DDR4 system, if a part breaks I'm probably better replacing that and sticking with my AM4/DDR4 PC rather than going to AM5 and DDR5 right? Maybe the future is Amazon and Luna and streaming games if this continues.

>>107462344
Dude it's only $250 for 32GB DDR5. RAM is still cheap.

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am I retarded or is there anyway to do IVTC/3:2 pulldown during playback?
I have a 1080i remux of Golden Boy (as well as some old anime DVDs in 480i@29.97fps) and MPC-HC seemingly refuses to do IVTC to 23.97fps correctly. I've tried with the MPC Renderer, madVR, DXVA and software mode, nothing works, and I get tons of judder and these weird blended frames during any shot with lots of motion.
I have a properly IVTC'd 480p version of the same shows and I've done it myself before with avisynth, but that was like 20 years ago and my whole point in downloading remuxed videos is to avoid having to re-encode and lose bitrate in the first place.

>>107462344
I think PC building will be dead during 2026. Not even rare – dead.
A few OEMs may have medium-term supply contracts with component prices set in stone (Apple? Dell?) but the vast majority will be utterly fucked, just like car manufacturers were fucked in 2020 and were unable to build any cars.
We'll see garbage laptops going for $3000 and second hand PCs from 2018 selling for $1000+.

>>107453688
try a razer blade laptop

I live in a retard state that banned porn sites. I don't have any kind of VPN subscription, and I don't want to buy one just for porn. However, I know that malicious actors are absolutely targeting dumb schmucks who are looking for a free VPN for pornhub.

Are there any free VPNs that are safe/legit, or is there a better (free) way to view pornhub?

>>107463610
Cloudflare Warp or whatever they're calling it now might work

>>107463802
Unfortunately not. While it apparently hides my actual IP from whatever website I interact with, it replaces it with "a Cloudflare IP that consistently and accurately represents your approximate location". So, pornhub still gives me the page saying I need to talk to my representatives about how dumb their laws are.

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>>107463894
guess you'll have to stop beating it to 3dpd

>>107461044
like what piss on it?

How do I make a linux laptop run with the lid closed? running fedora gnome
>/etc/systemd/logind.conf
>HandleLidSwitch=ignore
doesn't work. tranny software

can someone explain to me like I'm a total retard why certain image files are fucked up on pale moon? for example I will see a broken link to lemonparty.com/11111.png but it won't display, and if I try to save the file and open it it says it's corrupt and can't be opened. if I copy the link into faggotfux though it will show the image, and if I try to download it the default filename will be 11111.avif. I'm assuming that pale moon is failing to display the file because the actual extension isn't what the hyperlink says it is. why would you even upload a .webp file but name it .jpg?

>>107462574
you can do it with vapoursynth (similar to avisynth) which mpv has native support for

>>107464261
I don't know if that's the correct configuration but did you restart the daemon after making changes?

is https://bgp.he.net/ timing out for you?

>>107464625
thanks I'll give it a shot

>>107464904
restarted laptop and it doesn't work

>>107465308
from the documentation:
>A different application may disable logind's handling of system power and sleep keys and the lid switch by taking a low-level inhibitor lock ("handle-power-key", "handle-suspend-key", "handle-hibernate-key", "handle-lid-switch", "handle-reboot-key"). This is most commonly used by graphical desktop environments to take over suspend and hibernation handling, and to use their own configuration mechanisms. If a low-level inhibitor lock is taken, logind will not take any action when that key or switch is triggered and the Handle*= settings are irrelevant, except for HandleSecureAttentionKey=, which is always handled since its addition in v257.

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My old man is dead set on getting a smart TV for Christmas. I know they're all basically spyware but which brands are the least? Or at least easy to tweak settings/play with DNS to stop most of it.

>>107465082
No.

>>107465536
LG, don't connect it to the Internet.

>>107464261
You need to configure that in GNOME, not systemd.

>>107459646
>"total bad block count" is at 5 million
Try `smartctl` instead.

>>107466219
He's 100% gonna want to connect to youtube and shit so not an option.

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what kind of workflow/model should i get to generate anime girls on a 1660ti 6gb, and 16gb ram? it doesn't have to be fast or high res, it just has to work. i had a a1111 setup but i updated it and now i run out of memory no matter what i do.

>>107437829
pretty much, however i just didn't connect mine to the internet so it can't do anything
>>107466247
then get him a nuc or whatever, just don't connect it to the internet no matter what
smart tvs literally screenshot the entire screen every second and send it to the parent company

>>107437249
Monitor lights are pure retardation, right?
-You DON'T want glare on your monitor.
-You don't want to illuminate pixels. It's utterly useless with LEDs as the light comes from the pixels themselves. From what I understand on LCDs it could somewhat change the perceived color for you.
-Most bezels are black and will absorb most of the light anyway.
Seriously if you need light on your desk, shine light at your desk and not onto your monitor.
How have ads rotted everyone's brain?

>>107466219
>No.
thanks

>>107465082
>literally downforeveryoneorjustme.com
At least you found the right thread.

Can someone with a discord acc post the SREP config from this plebbit thread pls?
https://old.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegion/comments/1o4m9cr/neues_bios_update_kwcn51ww_gen8_ger%C3%A4te/
Seriously fuck these faggots posting shit in discord.

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>>107443227
kek
Your computer uses multiple forms of memory.

>registers or caches
Firstly, you have registers or caches (normally in the CPU nowadays) that hold information about to be processed in the processor (other parts of the CPU like cores).

>RAM
RAM is volatile. It is only used when the machine is running and when the machine is turned off, it loses it's contents nearly immediately. Anything not on the registers and caches is sent to RAM.

>SSDs and HDDs (secondary storage)
SSDs and HDDs are non-volatile (well kinda...) secondary storage in that they store memory when the machine is switched off (but if you keep it off for like several years, it will lose data too unless you turn the machine back on). So your saved data and shit like that is normally there, not in RAM. Though SSDs and HDDs can also be used like RAM, holding caches of information temporarily. This is slow even on SSDs though. And it wears them out.

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>Bought PS5 a while ago
>It does vid related maybe once a week
>Turn it off, then on again and all's well for another week.
>Alternatively, push through and it eventually turns into migraine inducing eye rape, the sound gets distant and tinny and it freezes so badly you have to literally pull the plug.

Any ideas? I am but a lowly wrench monkey.

>>107445058
That's because consoles sometimes store more than just long term required information (your save data) on it's hard drive and because an SSD can read both save and swap data much much faster than a HDD. But you don't replace RAM with SSDs normally. Technically, it might be possible though, but SSDs don't last.

Maybe AI companies should be forced to use more hard drives instead of RAM though to allow personal computer users access to cheaper RAM. But then SSDs and HDDs would skyrocket in price. I'd take an increase in RAM cost over an increase in SSD/HDD cost any day because they just don't last.

>>107445991
>Nah just be patient.
Wrong, I was patient for GPUs, then RAM, I'm not gonna fuck around with HDDs and SSDs because we're in a toilet paper situation because of monopolies.

>>107446099
Covid toilet paper disagrees. If you need something in the short term for a disposable purpose, you have no choice but to buy now. By the time prices have settled, you will need another new computer most likely.

>>107467799
try replacing the cables

if it's still fucked then a repair shop is your only option

>>107458013
Expensive and no privacy and it might just "vanish". Don't use cloud for personal usage storage. Cloud is a meme. Especially now that AI use in cloud storage might just randomly delete your shit like that Google AI did the other day.

>>107454770
Oh fuck this took me back to High School.

>>107467851
>cables
Shit, never thought of that. My TV and cable are a little on the older side at 8 years, so maybe the new console's output is being bottlenecked...
Thanks anon, I'll pick up a new hdmi cable

>>107443227
ssd's aren't a replacement for ram
computers use a tiered memory architecture. while both ssd's and ram are forms of memory, they have very different characteristics so aren't used for the same thing.
in a typical computer, your cpu's first form of memory are the registers, they're tiny, built into the cpu chip itself, and run at the full speed of the cpu, they store what the cpu is doing at any moment in time. beyond that you have L1/L2 (level 1/2) cache, which is also inside the cpu, which are bigger and slower than registers, this is used to store stuff the cpu is about to use or has very recently used. then there's L3 cache, which is bigger and slower again, and sometimes is on a separate chip to the cpu, but still on the cpu package.
then outside of the cpu, the next thing it uses is main ram. this is far slower than registers/cache but also far larger, as far as the cpu is concerned this is bulk storage.
none of the mentioned memory is persistent, they all require power to keep their contents (again for a typical computer, there are types of ram which are persistent, but not something you see in a home computer).
beyond that (ssd's/hdd's/usb drives/etc) is far slower and far larger still. but the gap is so large that programs can't be reasonably run even out of a fast ssd directly. when you open a program, it is loaded from the ssd into main ram where it can then be accessed much faster. all having a faster ssd does for you is improve loading times, you still need enough main ram to hold what you're currently running.
virtual memory blurs things a bit, but it's almost always better to avoid it if you can, only in specific scenarios one would consider using a large amount of it

tl;dr, people buy ram to run larger programs, and they buy a fast ssd to load them into ram faster

I am looking to do drawing and some light amount of stupidity in coding for unity
am I looking at a 10 inch android tablet or windows?
Im not seeing where a pocket gpd is going to be worth more than a full size laptop at 10 inches

>>107467885
>8 year old HDMI leads

kek, definitely start there, as per >>107467851, it's probably causing the HDMI chip in your PS5 to overheat some, which would also cause the sound distortions you mentioned as sound info is also processed through that chip if you're just using the TV speakers.

And while I don't know how it can cause the PS5 to freeze, I can confidently say it eliminates the TV at least.

Treat yourself to a decent HDMI lead, BUT be ready for the possibility that it could just straight up be a faulty PS5 needing repair/replacement if still under warranty.

>>107453688
$500? precision 3580/3590. i have yet to see used laptop deals surpass the ada 500, perhaps there is confusion about the workstation cards? quality is good, theyre just a year or two old

There's not much to buy until $1500-2000 range, then its more workstations with the RTX 5500, pro 5000, etc. vram is king and they have all of it, seriously dont be buying a rtx 5070 with 8gb vram at this price because 'its new'

above $2500 you can start getting the XMP or alienware laptops in decent configurations, alienware has a shit history but they've put a lot of effort into making their boards not shit over the last 5 years

>>107467849
If you're asking if you should buy now, you don't need it now.
>By the time prices have settled, you will need another new computer most likely.
That would mean you never needed it.

>>107467885
>>107468435
cant stress enough to get a proper hdmi 2.1 cable. lots of fakes and crappy hdmi cables out there because its easy to rob normies of their money.

>>107466555
They are angled to avoid lighting the monitor directly, only the desk.

can i use a chromebook for virtualization?

>>107442028

you do no clone anything, with exception optical media, make clean install and copy data

>>107469234
Check models that support Chrome Flex OS as it has a built in linux vm.
Other OSs can be installed too

Is this a stupid question?

>>107453805
that's a good deal, but you need to check if it's hackable first. there's a site where you can put in the serial number to check. ask here
>>>/vg/548129449
you also will need a jig to enter the recovery environment from which you can launch the hack

>>107451968
mpv.io

Is there such a thing as a seedbox provider who also offers long term storage?
Every post I've seen online has people backing their stuff up to a different cloud storage provider but I would prefer just doing business with one company offering the whole package.
I don't need much space (sub 500GB would be more than enough).

>>107469827
I ended up getting MPC-BC, it's similar enough to MPC and seems to run okay-ish. I will check out this one, however.

Does Wine actually work well with Adobe products? To be honest that is the only thing holding me back on Windows

>>107469849
whatbox?
as long as you pay every month you can store whatever

>>107437280
I've seen 42 and 80. Did see a motherboard that supports 110

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>>107468435
>>107467885
I have had great success with Kenable cables over the years. They all have the CEC wire and support everything they state on the box.
$5-$10 buys you a great cable that will work for many years, don't overspend on bullshit cables.

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>>107437249
I'm getting autistic about pc fan noise
My CPU temps are constantly at like 90 degrees celsius so my cpu fan is at like full speed all the time. I may have installed the cooler wrong but that was a bitch to get installed so I'm not doing that again. Or is this just regular AMD behavior?
I set system fans to off unless system temp reaches >45 degrees celsius to keep it quieter
I guess this kills airflow or whatever but should be fine right?

DIFFICULT PHYSICS QUESTION (probably needs a degree in Thermodynamics specifically)

>leave my apartment for two days
>come back
>unlock the door
>apartment door is still stuck, won't open
There's no door handle on the outside, so it's supposed to just... open when I turn the key.

>I repeat it 5 times
>still nothing
>about to shit myself
>doesn't matter how much force I put on turning the key or pushing into the door
>I try one last thing - I pull the closed doors towards me with a tiny bit of strength as I turn the key
>now it opens

Explain this.

Do I have it correct that home servers are mostly for pi-hole and media piracy?

Will wireless networks ever catch up with wired connections in terms of speed?

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>>107469983
>Or is this just regular AMD behavior?
If it's a recent Ryzen then yes. They're designed to run that hot all the time under load. They'll idle in the mid 40's as well. But they will throttle themselves at 95C. However, you can go into your BIOS settings, or Ryzen Master, and set a lower wattage limit since the cores perf/watt drops off pretty hard the closer you get to that 95C limit.

1. Use BIOS or Ryzen Master to set a thermal/wattage limit (there's probably already a setting called "[degree/watt]+PBO") or similar in BIOS. It might let you do this without PBO if your primary concern is noise. 80-85C is probably a nice sweet spot, but search for your specific processor because the efficiency curves are different.
2. See if your motherboard has a fan curve adjustment in BIOS so you can slowly ramp the fan speed up as it reaches your new thermal/wattage limit.
3. Stress test for a few hours with something like Prime95 to make sure everything is stable.

Is python still the go to for scripting? Or is it all powershell now? I want to learn a new skill for next year.

>>107470311
>Will wireless networks ever catch up with wired connections in terms of speed?
Like...WiFi versus ethernet in a residential setting? It already has in practical terms since anything over 1Gbps is still far from the norm for wired NICs and most people use routers provided by their ISP, which get upgraded regularly.

Help guise!
All ai dictation tools I found need systemd, anything systemd free that works on the memes (pipewire+wayland)?

>>107470666
python
powershell is comfy and cross-platform but in practice, you'll only ever see or use it on windows
also checked

>>107470961
waystt seems good

>>107470311
No.

>>107470698
The only thing rarer than negotiated data rates >1Gb on WiFi is working duplex support.

Couple of stupid RE questions here:

Context: I have a highly multi-threaded, obfuscated, integrity checking program that seems to detect everything instantly, from as far as the system breakpoint, I'm using x32dbg and Scyllahide. All of the anti-debugging seems to happen during this initialization sequence of which:

1. INT3 TLS Callbacks that exist on invalid addresses and hijacked system DLL's, like drivers, etc. Some DLL's are dynamic some are not, they load and un-load as needed. For some reason some of them repeat a second time after an exception.

2. DR 0-7 registers can't be modified and are immediatelly set, DR2, DR3 is normal

3. SEH corruption and first chance access violations, I've fixed the corruption somewhat

Since static patching is out of the question, what can I do roughly for each? I don't think I even get to the main OEP, in summary the program flow (as of now is)

DR registers instantly spotted -> TLS Callbacks (7 total, some DLL's do 2) -> First chance exception -> same TLS Callbacks -> First chance exception -> Termination, only logs remain.

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Is it possible to analyze audio in lossless quality to determine how much bitrate is needed for it to "sound okay"?

ffmpeg has a way to encode visuals (video) by telling it a level of quality to achieve and it calculates required bitrate automatically, is there something similar for the audio stream? accepting any codec as answer as long as it is capable of doing this

Anyone know what "Sharpness" setting on these Samsung G6 monitors removes any extra post processing filters? 0 seems to apply a blur filter which I've heard is a thing on some Samsung monitors where setting below a certain point blurs while above a certain point applies edge enhancement and I want neither, it goes 0-20 with 10 being the default

>>107471533
In other words I'm looking for CRF for audio.
I guess it's impossible from searching a bit.

.

>>107471439
I'll contend that most wireless routers and phones/computers in use are *capable* of greater speeds than most wired connections in the home. Whether that happens or not is another question. And so few people even have gigabit internet connections or any sort of serious intranet needs it's all moot anyway.

>>107471701
>so few people even have gigabit internet connections or any sort
Really? So few people have wired devices in the same room as their router, provider installed MoCa adapters, or residential data cables? Everyone I know has at least 1 of 3.

>>107471872
It's worth remembering that we and the people we associate with are the weirdos.

>>107439229
For all you know--unless you can get the seller to confirm that SMART data--it might have 50k hours on it.

>>107446039
>>>107441429
>I don't buy into the bluepilled "equality of the colorschemes" bullshit.
>One of them is the best.
There are certainly objectively good and bad schemes, but beyond that, saying that a specific good color scheme is better than another good color scheme is absurd.

I hate Windows 11 so much it's unreal
>Backing up movies to HDD
>Everything was cherry for about 2 weeks up until this point
>Now makemkv starts up fine for a few minutes but it shits the bed a few minutes into the process
>Go to file explorer, clicking on the drive I was saving on says "A device which does not exist was specified."
>Click on any of my other 4 connected drives & get the same message
>Only bandaid fix I could figure out was restarting the PC
What's going on?

>>107467849
>By the time prices have settled, you will need another new computer most likely.
What are people doing that they need new computers every so often? My e5-1620 with 14GiB of ECC ram with a 1TB SSD is running fine with 87 FF windows open and I have little reason to upgrade...except maybe for more ram since I am almost 16GiB deep in swap...

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switched from an ethernet cable to wifi as to not have a cable running across the apartment
idc about the lower speed but I'm sitting between the router and the computer so those wifi waves will be blasting through me 24/7
will this kill me long term?

>>107472250
The radio waves aren't moving through you. They're moving around you.

>>107472295
How do they go through walls then? They must be penetrating me.

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>>107472326
>How do they go through walls then?
Poorly.
By comparison, you are made of water. Water strongly attenuates 2.4GHz RF. But yes, if we're being pedantic there will be some penetration, but at such low power as to be meaningless.
Radio waves don't just move outward from a source in a straight line unimpeded by anything around them. In reality they're bouncing all over the place.

>>107472531
Cool!

I have this microphone (atrix brand my friend gave to me) and I've used it a couple times but it was super sensitive. Picking up my neighbors dog barking through a closed window stuff, and I was wondering do I need to install drivers or anything like that for the mic to work at its best?

>>107472295
>>107472531
is wifi being worse at going through water how they are able to spy on you and detect where you are?

>>107469984
Probably needs a bit of grease.

>>107470311
No, it's physically impossible.
There is one "air" that all wireless devices on a certain band compete for, taking turns to transmit or receive.

>>107470698
There is no such thing as transmitting 1Gbps of data over WiFi at home.

>>107470090
... and home automation, and storing your own pictures/media.

>>107470666
Python, since you can use it in lots of contexts.
I didn't run across many Python scripts, though, usually it's plain old Bash.

>>107473046
It could
But It's more like seeing if someone is moving or situated in a non-specific part of a home.
Without intimate knowledge of the floorplan and devices on the network you can't gleem much.

>>107473079
>There is no such thing as transmitting 1Gbps of data over WiFi at home
It's quite possible
I get 870-920Mbps on my phone with 160mhz channels at 6ghz. Even in the driveway which really surprised me.
With 320mhz you could double that, with MLO (5ghz+6ghz) you could almost double it again.

Realistic tho you'll get ~2.5gbps with a top end router and adapter in a "useful" situation
Not worth it at all tho.

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>>107472531
I have gigabytes of useless data embedded into my flesh.

>>107472171
Sounds like the HDD is dying. Check its SMART status.

>>107472250
You will be 0.0001 degrees warmer due to WiFi waves hitting you.

>>107473040
Can you decrease the gain in sound or your audio driver settings?

>>107466245
web searches say configure it in gnome tweaks, but there isn't an option in gnome tweaks

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>>107473040
It is working as designed.
You want a different polar pattern, which is a microphone construction detail.

>>107473238
>160MHz
This only works when you are very far from any other WiFi networks, otherwise it's very likely that the channels you use will overlap with a lot of crap.
The 6GHz bands make 160MHz somewhat possible outside cities. 320MHz is highly impractical.
But still, that "almost 1Gbit" is shared among all devices connected to the AP, it's a cumulative data rate, unlike wired where each computer gets its own 1/2.5/5/10 gigabits per second at distances many times longer than those of WiFi.

Where can I get free email accounts that will easily work with third-party email clients? Dont want to hassle with proton bridge or anything. Cockli's alright but I wouldn't do banking on there.

A torrent I'm interested in says it requires MPV debanding, but I use MPC-HC. I've had a brief look and can't see any sort of debanding setting, did I miss it or does it not exist?

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>>107474161
Can your machine run madVR renderer (options -> playback -> output -> Direct Show Video)? It has debanding under processing -> artifact removal.

>>107474311
I don't actually have that option, how odd. I just checked for updates and I'm using the latest stable version of MPC-HC. As for if my machine can run it, I have a 4070ti so I would expect so?

>>107474522
It's probably because I have MPC-HC as a part of K-Lite codec pack.

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Why is the xbox one chatpad so fucking expensive? They go used for 80-100usd.

I was looking for one and a xbone elite controller and the usb dongle for it to use on my windows pc as a remote but way too expensive

>>107474550
>consolefags pay $100 for a shitty keyboard

>>107474573
I don't own a console, but I am a firm believer in first party user input devices, I don't want some chink shit to wake up my pc at 4am and type in a bunch of keyboard commands to install a crypto miner and steal all my data.

>>107474545
Ah okay. Perhaps I'll download MPV and give it at try, or just find an alternate torrent.

is there a way to save a webpage exactly as it appears and is currently running? i am trying to save a copy of a page i am viewing in archive.org's wayback machine. it's contains an interactive demo with a 3D model. i've tried a variety of browser extensions for saving the page resources but I can't figure out how to use them to run the page locally.

>>107474814
singlepage browser extension. IDK if it will save complicated remote content like a 3d model.

>>107474824
yeah i tried it. it only saved like the page layout but not the demo itself. thanks though

>>107473657
It costs like <=$1 a month for any standard IMAP based paid email service.

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Is it a good idea to attach my monitor arms to a second, smaller, desk besides my main desk, to remove the small bit of vibration wobble when typing? I'm not in a position to just drill holes into the wall and using a wall mount, but I'd like to eliminate the bit of wobble I get when I'm typing a lot.

>>107475112
Use a normal stand and not leveraged arm.

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>stupid questions
>programming
how do my filters look?

>>107475184

Nah, the stand it comes with it more prone to wobble than my arm. If I nudge my monitor when attached to the stand, it's wobbling like jelly. If I nudge it when attached to the arm, it settles after a couple seconds.

I just want to eliminate the bit of wobble/vibration that there is.

>>107475025
Alright then, what are some of the most recommend paid IMAP options? I'd like to have around 5 mailboxes but don't want to spend $50/yr

>>107475405
Support the monitor from below with something.

my pc randomly restart mostly after 20+ hours of running, it's not overheating because it doesn't happen while gaming or doing something heavy it mostly happens while watching youtube or browsing, there's nothing in event viewer except saying
>The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first.

>>107461044
>>107459825
>>107459994
update: it fixed itself after 2 days of 80-90degC average the temps have gone down to max 70 on heavy use all it took was doing nothing

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>>107455899
Interesting. A significant portion of my lineage is German so I dont think the wafting would be an issue.

>>107471533
several audio formats have vbr modes

>>107473482
>But still, that "almost 1Gbit" is shared among all devices connected to the AP, it's a cumulative data rate, unlike wired where each computer gets its own 1/2.5/5/10 gigabits per second at distances many times longer than those of WiFi.
not only that but wifi is also half-duplex, so not only is that 1Gbit shared amongst all stations (wifi client devices) it's also shared between download and upload directions, unlike wired ethernet which for a 1Gbit link, can do 1Gbit down and up, so the actual total throughput is 2Gbit if you use both. also, wifi has a lot more overhead than ethernet, due to inherently less reliable nature of radio transmission, the signal spends a significant amount of that raw symbol rate advertised just on signal integrity, that is to say you'll never see 1Gbit/s of actual user data through a 1Gbit/s wifi link even in one direction

>>107474814
i use mozarchiver for page snapshots "as it currently appears". though anything that depends on after-the-fact server requests won't work
link to page? it's hard to say what's needed without knowing what it is. the fact it's on wayback machine suggests this should work though, since wayback machine also has the same limitations (i.e. pages that depend on a live server to work properly won't work properly)

>>107475112
you could, or perhaps brace your current desk so it's not so wobbly.
if i intentionally touch my monitor it'll wobble quite a lot, but it doesn't move while typing or anything because my desk is a solid built-in that doesn't move

Make new bread

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>>107437249
If I pirate files in Canada should I set my VPN to the closet US city or the closet Canadian city to avoid the pigs? I used to have to select an American city, but a closer VPN was added at a large Canadian city. It's not the city I live in. Am I making it easier or harder for law enforcement to catch me pirating files by using a Canadian VPN while in Canada? I use Transmission on Linux.

>>107475564
Leave the front panel reset button unplugged from the motherboard and see if the restarts happen again.
For me this was the issue, probably the button was faulty.

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