>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107751130
I don't necessarily want an obsolete laptop, is there a decent new laptop to dual boot? I'd use windows for basically car scanning/flashing and linux for everything else, but I'd still use windows because fuck trusting car data connections further than you can throw the car itself. lightness is a great feature
>>107789501instead of "decent" which varies from person to person, why not give us a max price range you're looking to spend
When are we getting cheap ram again?
My kid got an amazon echo dot for kids as a gift. I don't have smartshit so it's pretty much useless: just plays iheartradio stations, tells jokes, and sometimes answers questions but it's really bad at this. Is there any way to turn this into something more useful? The concept of a chatbot + tts is good, but "Alexa" feels like 2010 technology.
>>107789602Not for 2-4 years.t. I consulted the Oracle
>>107789538I could spend 800USD all in, no snapdragon pls
>>107789734what about something like https://www.bestbuy.com/product/hp-pavilion-15-6-hd-touchscreen-laptop-intel-i5-1235u-32gb-ram-1tb-ssd-win-11-pro-silver/JJG2RT32JL
what is the least shit way to convert 10TB of APFS data to NTFS data? Been using a hackintosh for video editing and I'm just gonna switch to windows. Middle man exfat drive seems like a pain in the ass and would take forever
>>107789761that looks like it would be totally adequate, are HP hinges better than they were 5 years ago? I used to repair elderly people's laptops for a mom and pop shop and it was always the hinges on HPs
>>107789761>HP>>107789734newer commercial Thinkpads aren't as good as the enterprise ones but look into getting a Thinkpad E series, I think gen 2 goes for way under 800 bucks
>>107789797idk I use an old ARM laptop
I have a P8Z77-V LK, debian, realtek r8169. Just an old computer that I wanted to use as a mini server.I cannot get wake on lan to work for the life of me. No matter what the NIC doesn't receive power in even S3, let alone S5. PCI wake enabled, EUP disabled, fast boot disabled... Ethtool lists it capable for wol and I have it enabled. /proc/acpi/wakeup I set root port and NIC to enabled.d3cold switched to enabled for both too in linux. I think it's a firmware/hardware problem, but I'm not sure what to do or check. Just need the NIC to keep power on sleep at the bare minimum so I can wake on lan. Anything I should check/do?
>>107789602look left
>>107787764>>107788664Also, when dealing with an AIDS-infested drive, do I have to overwrite it with random data/zeroes, or is it sufficient to just write a new partition table and write new partitions?
>>107790289Just new partition table. Nothing has a reason to read past that unless you specifically tell it to.
>>107790344>Nothing has a reason to read past that unless you specifically tell it toYou mean like mounting a drive? I don't have to worry about the supposed trojan than Windows Defender found altering my files to hide within them, or hidden files?
>>107790658I mean if you're this schizo about it, why even bother asking here and not just do it?
>>107790049There's nothing hard about it, 10 hours is even too much
Is it normal that qbittorrent reaches about 120mb/s on my desktop, 50mb/s on my nas (same network as the desktio, 2gbps) and over 200mb/s on my seedbox? On Windows it writes to an ssd, on the nas on a mergerfs filesystem with 4x16tb seagate exos, on the seedbox not sure, I think it should be hdd too
>>107790658No, because that'll have a new partition record and a new filesystem. You'd have to go looking for stuff with something like photorec which specifically searches for lost data. Normal programs don't like to read uninitialized memory.
I had 32gb ddr4 now I have 16gb ddr5 did I fuck up? I haven't had issues besides one crash when playing marvel rivals during the shader update but that is a terrible game.I have an intel CPU so I can always get a ddr4 motherboard again. I would have got 32gb ddr5 but I didn't have the money and now it is worse. I use Linux my idle ram is like 1.5gb (gnome).
>>107790677Despite wanting assurance that my drives will be clean, I also don't want to go through the hassle of doing something that isn't entirely necessary. >>107791076>No, because that'll have a new partition record and a new filesystemI see. Thank you for clearing that up.
Has anyone here ever upgraded their aircon control panel before? I just want to make it controllable from my phone, it doesn't have IR for some stupid fucking reason so I can't use my smart things hub
Since AI seems to be taking over, I've thought about trying to teach myself some of the development in it since I never a class for it in college. How should I go about it? Find out what book the AI class used? And should I look into the book the machine learning class used?
>>107791642https://github.com/ujjwalkarn/Machine-Learning-Tutorials#readmehttps://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning#readmePick a programming language you like, and learn some machine learning tools with ithowever if you want to learn more about using AI then try learning llama.cpp, or the getting started section inside of >>>/lmg/You will not be making your own chatGPT from scratch without tons of money, you can tune and tweak a preexisting model however
If I want to scrape all the images from a site what's the best way to do it?
Any Android music players that has the feature of excluding tracks from shuffle all other than mucke?
What's the trick to compressing HEVC, HDR, 10-bit phone videos using FFmpeg? The output isn't carrying over the HDR and is more yellow than the input using basic arguments.
>>107793661Yes. Display and video recording.
>>107789501thinkpad e14 g4 cost 320€ in europe. You can spent more of course but you don't get much out of it not at the moment. I have a g3 its pretty good zero fan noise but it gets warm in summer. Decent battery life and survived a fall face down from 5m with minimal damage.
I lost the dongle for my keyboard and apparently it's useless now.What are my options? What's a good couch keyboard with a touchpad, actually is there any other option besides the Logitech K400 worth considering?
>>107793929bet u can probably rip it apart and find a uart somewhere to make it a hacky janky stanky usb thangy
are these good? I just want to use my camera as a webcam. it's not going to mess me up if I have to use guardian browser for a proctored exam is it?
Does anyone know if the Samsung Galaxy tab a11+ supports the AVF linux terminal (debian VM) thing that android 16 introduced?
>>107789452Is there any good linux distro for a normalfag windows user? Is the true option just to dual boot linux off a external drive?
>>107794551Debian, Fedora, and Linux Mint
>>107794551Mint has been pretty good to me. I'm not interested enough in Linux/GNU yet to learn the command line, and I've been almost able to do everything I needed through the GUI. The only time I had to use the CLI was when I was installing software not found on the Software Manager application. Couple quirks:>HDR not supported out of the box>new GPU support (IE 50 series and 90 series) can be hit or miss. I haven't used it personally, but Bazzite seems to be commonly recommended.
What's a good non-Israeli own VPN? Is Mullvad still the go to?Used PIA for a while but apparently they might have sold out.Ideally I would like one that accepts gift cards as payments, but one that doesn't have issues with pre-paid debit gift cards would work too.
>>107793652>basic argumentsby default I believe most encoders will select an 8bit pixel format, so shot in the dark but perhaps you have to manually select a 10bit one
>>107789452redpill me about EMP bombswhat do they actually do?do they just blow fuses of electronic/electric devices and then just replacing the fuse fixes the problem?or do they fuck it up beyond reasonable repair?
I know it's a really shitty moment to buy a laptop but I really need it so here I am. I'm based in Italy and have to choose between the following:>Lenovo 82XQ00NGIX IDEAPAD SLIM 3, cpu AMD Ryzen 5 7520U RAM 16 GB LPDDR5 SSD 512 GB, 15,6'' FHD, for 449 €;>HP 15-FC0080NL Ryzen 7 5825U RAM 16 GB DDR4 SSD 512 GB NVME, 15,6 '' FHD, fore the price of 499 €.I think the HP one is better because of the Ryzen 7 and the NVME SSD, but I'm not good at choosing this kind of stuff, anybody can help me choose?
These captchas make it impossible for me to post. The effort is too great.I would think nano banana can solve them for me, am I wrong on that?
>>107795556There's no such thing as an EMP bomb. The only way we know how to make EMP of any notable size is nuclear explosions. The media keeps this confused on purpose.EMP is a radio pulse. With our current technology it's limited long wave because short wave dies off so close to the nuclear explosion it's academic. So you need to be attached to a conductor large enough to pick up long wave to be effected. Conductor picks up charge, goes to high voltage, anything attached goes zap.
>>107795832It's the HP as far as processor, and it's not even close. 8 cores vs 4 and Zen 3 vs Zen 2(in spite of the 7520u numbering implying a newer gen).The only thing that might be better about the Lenovo is that it's a Navi IGPU instead of Vega 8.
>>107789452Would I need a powered USB hub to connect my (8) external hard drives if they have their own power supply? Or would an unpowered hub be just fine?
>>107789620I think it can be used with home assistant to control it & control other home assistant stuff>>107795473I use mullvad. There's an extension for firefox that lets you select a specific proxy locations for each website so you won't have to swap vpn locations constantly toohowever, they don't support split tunneling blacklist mode in the client program, only whitelist. Although, you can always connect to them using wireguard instead of their program
>>107796215>Navi IGPU instead of Vega 8Well it's not like I'm going to play with this machine. Maybe I'll install some old game like pharaoh or diablo II to kill time, but nothing new.
>>107789452windows game bar has been either a not showing any statistics at allb showing every statistic barring fpstried restarting it but its wonky like that
what the fuck happened to my beloved 4chan on firefox? it's only like this on the catalog, with or without extentions and even in troubleshoot mode, it's working fine on other browsers
>>107797855Works on my machine. Try making a new profile and see if it goes away.
How well is my SSD doing if it's written 110TB and has a lifespan of 84% remaining
>>107798809Sounds like it's a cheap drive, and that's a warranty counter not the point where it locks read-only.
>>107798856then what's the best way to know ssd health? or is it pointless because they can just one day ACK on you with no signs?
>>107793222DownThemAll, wget>>107791123If you ever run out of RAM, you'll know it – on Linux typically the mouse freezes and then the system locks up completely.Adding a swap file helps a bit.But yes, you fucked up, phones have that much RAM nowadays.
how do i find a website that has a color profile (icc) for an LG 32GS95UE-B, using KDE so I can specify the profile, wondering if there's one better than "Built-in"
>>107789452I ordered a non-gaming laptop with iGPU and got CSODIMM 6400 MT/s without really thinking about it, that's not going to negatively impact anything right? Processor is an intel ultra7 255h
>>107799083should be fine
>>107790082Real ram price per gb staying the same effectively means computing becomes much more expensive to keep up with because you will need more gigabytes as time goes on. It is natural for the price/gb to continually decrease. A leveling out of the real price per gb is almost as bad as an increase. Misleading way to use a graph to try to prove a point.
>>107791058qB I/O can be tweaked, but it requires time and a good understanding of the bottleneck.You can use `fio` on each device with a random-rw test to see what the storage is actually capable of.Don't forget that torrent speeds depend on your peers more than anything.>>107794551Kubuntu will work.
>>107794428Photo cameras rarely have clean HDMI output, usually it contains interface elements and is ow resolution.On my Nikon I had to flash third party firmware to get clean video out.>>107795832I'd go with the HP, the Ideapads I worked with were rubbish in terms of build quality. Not that HPs are much better in this price range, but still.
>>107799114krashing and snaps, somehow you picked the worst distro, impressive>>107794551People seem to like bazzite and nobara. I would probably point you towards mint, but I dislike atomic distros and shitty DEs like KDE or GNOME 3+
>>107796378Any hub will work as long as it has enough ports. Or two hubs. No need for it to be powered.>>107798809>>107799005Probably has many years left to live.Keep backups of important data, don't just rely on magic numbers to keep your data safe.>>107799104You're not wrong but a very important factor is what you do on the computer. My mom is still using a 4GB laptop from 2009 for doing her job and web browsing (4-5 tabs max), it works well and she's content with it.
>>107799188>krashingNone, my last uptime was 22 days.>snapsActually good.
>>107799054So you think I should go back to 32gb ddr4? I still have it I will need a new mobo for my new CPU but I have some stuff I can sell.
i have some pirate dvds with the video_ts folder structure, menu and everything, ripped as "data" dvd with nero 7.1. will dvd players play them?2. if i don't have the "video_ts" folder added directly in the root, but path is smth like "my_shit_video_dvd\video_ts" could a dvd player play it?(never owned a dvd player bcz this is what happens when u have poor parents. technology changed and dvd players became useless already when i could afford one myself)
I wanna use the plus "trick" with gmail for another Playstation network account. Ideally turn example@gmail.com into e.xample+kurt@googlemail.com or sth like that. I know of all the pros, but could there be additional cons? I know some sites block the plus symbol, but is Sony likely to start doing that? Could I run into issues with verification?
>>107799401it should work. maybe create a sym link to your_shit
>>107799005Spare space and unrecoverable errors are your real problem indicators>is it pointless because they can just one day ACK on you with no signsThis is also true
>>107799104You only need more and more RAM because the average consumer's RAM keeps going up as new buyers enter the market and hardware refreshes. If it stays the same or goes down, that's just one more metric devs have to spend time optimizing for.
I'm trying to run live Linux USB so I can fix something, but it keeps freezing up or hanging.Already tried different thumb drive, different USB port, different Linux distros, different laptop (works!), Ventoy and Rufus, so it's a problem with my Lenovo Legion. This is a new problem and I didn't have this problem at least a year ago when I installed Windows and Linux on two different NVMEs.
>>107800538could be RAM, I would test with a different stick if you have one, I doubt NVMe since live USB's can boot just fine even if there is no storage installed at all
I want to mirror my Android phone screen onto my smart TV. I can use the screen sharing feature, but it's very laggy. Is there a better option here? Would a male to male USB-C to HDMI cable work? This is for playing smartphone games on my big screen.
>>107801020Yes, the cable will probably work assuming you have a modern, decent phone.
would it be retarded to buy a framework desktop and sell my i7/4080m lenovo laptop? id end up pocketing almost $400 from the sale
In VR chat. When I try to change avatars, or change the settings, both of my controllers laser pointers activate. I can't scroll down the menu without having both pointers on it at once. How do I get it to where only one pointer shows up at a time that way I can control it with just one controller?
I kinda like Flutter, is there a reason we don't ditch HTML/CSS and do everything in Flutter?
>>107801165Because there are standards, and the web standards are HTML, CSS, JS, and (kind of) WebASM.Do you know what coffeescript is? Probably not because it's basically dead. Whatever flash in the pan new hotness you like can just compile down to standards, and we don't have more of a mess of browser incompatibility and competing standards.
Winbab here. For Win10, since Firefox has been going down the shitter, what are some recommended alternatives to Firefox? I've been hearing about LibreWolf but I've also heard some negatives about it.How about browsing the interwebs in Linux? Would that depend on what distro I end up using? What web browsing software do I go with on Linux?
>>107801236All of the same browsers as Windows? You could even run edge if you hate yourself.Ladybird seems interesting, but we'll see if it goes anywhere.
I work as in-house IT support in an accounting firm, making excel macros to automate manual stuff. The other day my boss told me to start taking a look into AI and see if there's anything I can learn and implement in the current processes. Where and what should I syart with? The only thing I know about AI is that it makes porn and gives bad advice.
>>107801350link him a few anti-ai lectures about how they are synthetic generators, and finance demands high accuracy, and AI has an accuracy problem.
>>107801236Are you already using Arkenfox?
>>107801165>>107801190
XT is over. What extension are you guys using now? I want something that makes captcha solving easier, also has a functions that automatically converts webp to jpg and reduces filesizes.
>have one HDMI port>have two devices >need some magical item that will plug one end into the monitor port but it has two ports on the other side to plug both devices into and I can switch between them Surely such a device exists right?
>>107801350>my boss wants me to work so he can replace meLMAO
>>107802270sounds like a hdmi kvm
>>107791763I would hope I'd be the one helping development, not training it.>>107791781I'll look into these. Thank you!
>>107801350If you don't spend a lot of time researching or doing stuff you could hand off to a junior Excel macro monkey, you probably don't have any use for AI tools beyond the thing embedded in Google search. You definitely don't want to start vibe coding taxes.
>>107799378No, what I mean is that it'll work fine, but depending on your computer use it could happen that you run out. May never happen, so no need to worry prematurely.Upgrade to 32 when you need it, not before.
>>107802515Okay thanks.
>>1077994011. Yes2. Unlikely>>107799690I doubt that'll happen. The + thing is sometimes used by people sharing one email account (flintstones+wilma@dinomail.com) and that'd break their PSN logins for no good reason.
