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

>>107789501
instead of "decent" which varies from person to person, why not give us a max price range you're looking to spend

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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.

>>107789602
Not for 2-4 years.
t. I consulted the Oracle

>>107789538
I could spend 800USD all in, no snapdragon pls

>>107789734
what 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

>>107789761
that 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
>>107789734
newer 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

>>107789797
idk 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?

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>>107789602
look left

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>>107787764
>>107788664
Also, 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?

>>107790289
Just 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 to
You 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?

>>107790658
I mean if you're this schizo about it, why even bother asking here and not just do it?

>>107790049
There'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

>>107790658
No, 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).

>>107790677
Despite 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 filesystem
I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

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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

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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?

>>107791642
https://github.com/ujjwalkarn/Machine-Learning-Tutorials#readme
https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning#readme

Pick a programming language you like, and learn some machine learning tools with it
however 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.

>>107793661
Yes. Display and video recording.

>>107789501
thinkpad 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.

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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?

>>107793929
bet u can probably rip it apart and find a uart somewhere to make it a hacky janky stanky usb thangy

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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?

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>>107789452
Is there any good linux distro for a normalfag windows user? Is the true option just to dual boot linux off a external drive?

>>107794551
Debian, Fedora, and Linux Mint

>>107794551
Mint 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.

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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 arguments
by 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

>>107789452
redpill me about EMP bombs
what 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?

>>107795556
There'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.

>>107795832
It'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.

>>107789452
Would 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?

>>107789620
I think it can be used with home assistant to control it & control other home assistant stuff

>>107795473
I 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 too

however, 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 8
Well 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.

>>107789452
windows game bar has been either
a not showing any statistics at all
b showing every statistic barring fps
tried restarting it but its wonky like that

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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

>>107797855
Works 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

>>107798809
Sounds like it's a cheap drive, and that's a warranty counter not the point where it locks read-only.

>>107798856
then 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?

>>107793222
DownThemAll, wget

>>107791123
If 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.

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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"

>>107789452
I 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

>>107799083
should be fine

>>107790082
Real 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.

>>107791058
qB 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.

>>107794551
Kubuntu will work.

>>107794428
Photo 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.

>>107795832
I'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.

>>107799114
krashing and snaps, somehow you picked the worst distro, impressive

>>107794551
People 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+

>>107796378
Any hub will work as long as it has enough ports. Or two hubs. No need for it to be powered.

>>107798809
>>107799005
Probably has many years left to live.
Keep backups of important data, don't just rely on magic numbers to keep your data safe.

>>107799104
You'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
>krashing
None, my last uptime was 22 days.
>snaps
Actually good.

>>107799054
So 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?

>>107799401
it should work. maybe create a sym link to your_shit

>>107799005
Spare space and unrecoverable errors are your real problem indicators
>is it pointless because they can just one day ACK on you with no signs
This is also true

>>107799104
You 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.

>>107800538
could 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.

>>107801020
Yes, 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

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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?

>>107801165
Because 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?

>>107801236
All 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.

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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.

>>107801350
link him a few anti-ai lectures about how they are synthetic generators, and finance demands high accuracy, and AI has an accuracy problem.

>>107801236
Are you already using Arkenfox?

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>>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 me
LMAO

>>107802270
sounds like a hdmi kvm

>>107791763
I would hope I'd be the one helping development, not training it.

>>107791781
I'll look into these. Thank you!

>>107801350
If 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.

>>107799378
No, 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.

>>107802515
Okay thanks.

>>107799401
1. Yes
2. Unlikely

>>107799690
I 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.

>>107802570
Thank you.

>>107789452
kek I had the very same experience today..
I got some html markup for a website from figma from anima ai.
it is a fucking mess so I asked claude to clean it up.

it took his entire context to even read it and then it created something very very broken.

ai is a such fucking joke.

>>107801131
Can you live without a laptop? Will the desktop be more powerful and future-proof?
If so, go ahead, sounds like a good deal.

>>107801350
>it makes porn and gives bad advice
So, just like an accountant...

>>107789780
should be able to copy directly from apfs to ntfs using linux, a livecd should do, just need to install apfs-fuse. alternatively you could do it over a network, but that may be slower if you only have gigabit adapters

>>107802983
I dont know much about fuse but I've heard rw is risky? Livecd does seem like the way though you're right. Main thing I'm worried about is file names getting fucked, but idk if there's a way I can script how it would handle that

Why does every single browser fucking suck now?

>>107803349
while i've never touched apfs so i couldn't say how good apfs-fuse is, there's nothing technical about fuse which makes it unsafe for writing. moreover, you're not writing to the apfs volume, you're only reading from it. writing ntfs from ntfs-3g (also a fuse driver) is known to be safe enough™
as for filenames, it should be easy enough to write a script to find files with illegal characters (for dos/windows) and then you can figure out how you want to rename them. i'm pretty sure linux has no issue making illegal file names on ntfs, so you don't need to rename them beforehand. the limitation is with windows, not ntfs

>>107803349
>>107803437
actually there's a third option, run windows in a virtual machine with the ntfs drive(s) attached to it, then transfer the data over a virtual network, which can be emulated as something faster than gigabit

>>107803437
>i'm pretty sure linux has no issue making illegal file names on ntfs
yeah don't name anything C: or you'll have a hard time deleting it on windows

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Let's assume I don't give pajeet's poo about privacy and just want ease of use

What is the most user-friendly way to set up a dashcam that backs up accident/near accident video and audio without user intervention? Are the fleet package jockey surveillance systems available for consoomer use? (Like Netrodyne)

Budget would ideally be in the hundreds per unit, but if it can somehow be done without a subscription (sans data connection) we can talk about a thousand or two.

>>107799076
Useless. Buy a calibrator.

>>107799401
You are looking for DVD authoring software.

>>107801236
Brave seems to be good.

>>107801350
Tell your boss to go into the CEO's office and ask him if there is any new accounting processes they can implement.

>>107803475
another thing to consider is files that differ only by case, in linux and macos (though i think it's something you pick in macos), you can have something like "stuff" and "Stuff" in the same folder, which again i know ntfs can do, but windows will not like it

>>107800538
Probably secure-boot, fast-boot, or both

>>107803357
they're all just based off chromium, or there's also Firefox and Firefox gets fucked over by capitalist vultures and also google gimping performance of Firefox since they own the web
>>107802270
HDMI switch

>>107802233
4chanX since it has been updated to work.
Also search the archives for a captcha formatter userscript that puts them on the screen at the same time

>>107803357
Firefox just works

I have a asus rog zephyrus g15 ga503rm that does not display a picture at boot tried holding the power button, connecting another display, turning it on with a flash drive with the bios update nothing worked so far.
Any ideas to what i could do to fix it ?

>>107803357
Because web standards are designed by ad companies to take your freedom away.

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>>107789452
How do I deal with this bs?
I don't want to create a google account bros

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is this a dangerous bend for the 24 pin cable?

>>107805496
nah that's fine

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Does this KVM switch exist? Looking to be able to pass a basically infinite amount of pixels, I have 3 QHD 240hz screens.

>>107805549
I have a setup like this but it only has two monitors. it's actually pretty easy to do but the best way to about it is as follows

USB dock with 3 display ports (mine has two)
3 dp to your gaming PC
USB C switch for peripherals
USB to aux for your speakers

the only downside is you need to press the button on the USB switch but in my case the monitors switch over as soon as I plug in the one USB C cable into my laptop. you can get a green USB switch with a long as cable to mount to the desk

>>107789452
Shit. I just spent last night and this morning trying to get the nvidia drivers working on Fedora. Main issue was my ancient bios though. Its locked down bs that doesnt have much flexibility.

The dual boot process has been a pain in the ass. I am seriously considering just getting a second ssd to install fedora on and just swapping ssd's when I want to boot into windows.

>>107805595
>fedora
uhh I haven't used fedora in YEARS but did you enable to proprietary repo?

just install arch and use KDE plasma, shit just works

>>107805496
extremely dangerous, that bent cable will sneak into your room at night and put your hand in a bowl of warm water so you piss yourself

tread carefully

>>107805606
Yeah. Getting the drivers downloaded and installed was fairly straight forward. It was mainly some bullshit I was fighting the bios trying to get secure boot key imported. The bios on my board is horrendous. Its a commercial pc I bought years ago. I really want to build a new pc just to replace it.

I have used arch before but had some issues. I didn't try KDE with it though.

>>107805666
modern arch has a super easy install process so I'd suggest trying again. not sure about the bios issue specifically though

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my monitor arm keeps leaning (both pole and actual arm but the actual arm is even worse and stays that way even while holding the pole steady with my hands) and I can't figure out why or how to fix it
>inb4 monitor too heavy
it's just over 3 kg

can someone tell me why i should keep javascript disabled by default in my browser? i was trying it out based on a privacyguides recommended setting, but it seems pointless when 99% of the websites i've visited simply don't work with javascript off.

>>107789501

you probably know how to make a key but cannot drive

>>107805700
The idea is to block everything by default and only whitelist the sites you use, that way random ass sites you make visit but don't trust are unable to automatically run code.

An alternative to browsing sites you don't trust is to open up a VM/Sandbox and run the browser in that, that way if an exploit happened you would have a layer of protection, this doesn't eliminate any of the tracking disabling javascript would. If you're reading privacyguides the assumption is you already made the personal choice to prioritize privacy

>>107805694
have you tightened the desk clamp and the bolts on the joints?

>>107805692
How has your experience been with Arch when it comes to stability? The main reason I went the fedora route was that this was going to be my daily driver and I did not want it breaking or having to constantly fiddle with things. I need to be able to use it daily without issues. I wanted something that would offer a little bit of stability and I don't really have need for everything to be bleeding edge. Fedora seemed like a good middle ground for that.

So far, its been good. My issues have really been related to my shit HP bios and dual booting process with Windows.

>>107805694
you need a better monitror arm
also wash your fucking hands everything you've touched is covered in shit. look at the light switch, at the screws on the back of your PC case, your xbox controller. this is disgusting

>>107805773
yes.
I even overtightened some of them and cannot even take them off
including the bolt at the vesa mount itself so I can't even take the monitor off to easily make adjustments now, I have to keep it propped up on something.

>>107805789
>you need a better monitror arm
why do I need a better monitor arm when this one is already rated for 10x the weight of my monitor and works fine for everyone else?
>also wash your fucking hands everything you've touched is covered in shit
it's mostly dust + the camera and the bright light that makes it look much worse than it is in reality.
>at the screws on the back of your PC case
literally just rusted
>your xbox controller
it's perfectly clean and i have no idea how you could even tell otherwise when it's barely in the picture
the only thing that really is quite dirty is the lamp + speaker which are both things I just don't give a shit about because they're half broken and will replace them soon.
also if you won't help can you just shut the fuck up, thanks.

>>107805785
ironically because everything is up to date there's less system instability for me at least. I don't think I've had a single issue related to stuff being "unstable" in the year or two my systems been installed.

that said I am going to do a reinstall onto a larger SSD soon.

actually the only issue I've had with arch is the retarded cache not clearing automatically

>>107805772
i understand the idea, but in practice i just can't use random ass sites because they don't load at all without js. i was expecting to whitelist the sites i use regularly and to put up with broken elements on other sites, but for the most part sites just don't load at all
i guess i'll keep it on for a while longer and see how many random sites i'm actually visiting over time. it's at least been a useful exercise to see how many sites completely rely on javashit

>>107805804
>>107805840
>bolts tightened all the way
>rated for 10x the weight of my monitor
>still sagging
you've been sold a piece of chinesium junk unfortunately. monoprice has some cheap ones that aren't total garbage

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>>107805840
this is disgustang. wash your hands sometimes anon. You could also get this thing spic and span in about 30 seconds with a q tip and rubbing alcohol.

>>107805923
learn how to read sometimes anon.

>>107805849
That sounds great but how much of that is on you not being retarded? Im somewhat of a linux noob and am not sure I wouldn't fuck something up. I guess I could do the same with Fedora, but Arch seems to be a little more hands on and is only going to do what you tell it to do.

Thats probably a good way to learn, but I just need to avoid this system going down for a day or two while I figure out how to fix something.

>>107805894
>monoprice has some cheap ones that aren't total garbage
first of all, i'm in the eu.
second, the "cheap ones that aren't total garbage" I see listed there are literally the same exact design as mine and every other arm at this price, and it is also some variant of the rebranded chinkshit that's sold by 100 different brands exactly like mine is (the arctic z2 basic for example is exactly identical as this one: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=16246), i wonder why...)
do you seriously think the brand name that's printed on the box is going to make it sturdier or something?

>>107803437
>>107803453
ty anon

>>107806056
i've never had a monoprice mount that failed on me. learn to weld if you don't want to buy a new one

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>>107805544
thanks
>>107805637
well, at least you're being reassuring

>>107806038
arch has an installer now so it's fine

just boot the iso and type archinstall. imo install the full version of plasma (plasma-meta).

I guess it's naiive of me to say I'm a noob but I'm not exactly a power user. at most I know how to operate a terminal

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>>107805549
No, and that monitor setup is retarded to begin with, reconsider your life choices.

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>>107805595
Try Kubuntu, or regular Gnome Ubuntu. No futzing with drivers or codecs or whatnot, just works.

>>107805804
Put your monitor back on its stand, that arm is rubbish but you also overextended it in that pic.
And wash your hands you ogre.

>>107806691
>wash your hands you ogre.
wow here we have like the fifth retard that cannot read and keeps blabbering about unrelated stuff
also thanks for having provided a different crop for that part of the image, very useful as the previous one was too low quality.
>you also overextended it in that pic.
it's like nobody in this thread even understand the concept of what a monitor arm is
this position is the regular resting position that it's supposed to be used at, and is literally how these are advertised everywhere.
how the fuck would I use it without it being "overextended" like this? the only other option would be to either have the last bit of the arm forwards (which means having the monitor like a meter away from the wall) or both pieces going different directions one after another which again, would look extremely stupid, be also very far from the wall, be in a configuration that i've never seen used anywhere ever, and still it would be off-axis relative to the pole.
plus i've already tried all of these things and of course it doesn't change anything.
they really should rename this thread from stupid questons to stupid answers btw, i was at least expecting the usual "try with a reinforcement plate" or something along these lines but no, "buy this same arm but of a different brand that's not even available in your country", "weld it", "clean your lamp", "wash your hands", "you're using it wrong", hilarious stuff.

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>>107805694
I have that exact monitor and monitor arm, and mine doesn't lean like that; if you've tightened everything the arm may just be defective

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>>107804939
Just act natural... casual

>Firefox 146
>Thumbnails not loading
Any fix to that?
Thanks

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>>107806897
>regular resting position that it's supposed to be used at
No, you dumbass, it's not. The arm segments need to form an angle that is at most 90 degrees.
You're not using the arm for it's intended purpose, that thing is for an open plan office environment where desks are very deep and there's no walls in the way of the arms.
Take the L and put the monitor back on it's stand, you aren't getting any benefit from the arm.
>cannot read
Improve your hygiene, worms must be wriggling through your brain if you can't see how retarded this whole situation is, you could have spent 3 minutes cleaning the switch instead of automatically replying to everyone with inane excuses.

>>107807238
>No, you dumbass, it's not. The arm segments need to form an angle that is at most 90 degrees.
ok, then explain to my why every single promotional picture of the monitor arm shows it that way, the manual also tells you to place it that way, 90% of reviews have pictures that show it that way, and nowhere does it say you cannot do that.
>You're not using the arm for it's intended purpose, that thing is for an open plan office environment where desks are very deep and there's no walls in the way of the arms.
it says it's for "your desk or gaming setup", nowhere does it mention it's for office use without a wall behind and again, most promo pictures show it with a wall behind it, used this exact way, so you need a source for your claims.
>Take the L and put the monitor back on it's stand, you aren't getting any benefit from the arm.
-looks cleaner
-helps cable routing
-allows me to have the monitor higher than what the stand allows
-allows me to bring the monitor closer to the wheelbase when i'm doing simracing without having to push the keyboard/mouse/whatever out of the way
-allows me to rotate the monitor enough to be viewed from my bed to watch kinos
-saves a lot of space underneath the monitor
yeah sure, it's completely pointless and I bought it because i'm stupid, and everyone else using a monitor arm is also stupid.
idk what the problem with retards in this bread is.
>cannot read
>improve your hygiene
hhhh thanks for confirming that you cannot read or something I guess? like what even was your point here.
>worms must be wriggling through your brain if you can't see how retarded this whole situation is
"the desk lamp which is broken and that I haven't touched/used in 6 months is a bit dirty and I don't want to clean it just to avoid retards on 4chins complaining about it" doesn't sound like an entirely retarded situation is, what's retarded is that so many strangers on the internet really care about the fact that my broken lamp is dirty more than i do.

>>107807238
(i actually have to give another (You) because i hit the text limit
>you could have spent 3 minutes cleaning the switch instead of automatically replying to everyone with inane excuses.
no, my thought process was "surely it's not like people really give that much of a shit if one of the 1000 things on my desk is slightly dirty, i'm just asking for help with this thing and i've seen much worse out there" but no, apparently I was wrong, and that's insane to me.
I just cannot comprehend what's the point of partecipating in this thread when all your help is... this.
also inane excuses? any excuse is acceptable to me because it's none of your fucking business how dirty my broken lamp is lol, serously, you have a problem, not me.

>>107806905
that is an option, although I think it's more of a problem with the desk itself
btw did yours happen to come with a spanner for the nut that attaches to the vesa bracket itself?

>>107807360
>>107807381
not reading all that but
1. The switch is beyond regular filth and is by far the most interesting thing in your post.
2. You got good advice (get a better monitor arm, try adjusting yours so it’s 90 degrees) right away
now quit spamming the thread and burying other people’s stupid questions

>>107807420
mine did not, it was a pain in the ass to get on
but because the weight of the monitor is pushing down on the tab, I don't think it needs to be super tight, it's just to prevent the plate from sliding if you try to tilt the monitor upward I think

>>107807450
>things you post here are supposed to be interesting
...???
>you got good advice
no i didn't? you must be yet another retard that cannot read, jesus christ
>get a better monitor arm
the one that was raccomended is literally the same as mine but dropshipped by a different brand, which doesn't even exist in my country, plus there's no evidence that the monitor arm itself is the problem when it works fine for everyone else (including the other anon that reported that his works fine), that other anon suggsted it might be defective which is has an higher probability of being true.
>adjusting yours so it’s 90 degrees
I already said I tried that and it didn't work, plus there's no fucking way i'm using the monitor a centimeter from my face and using it differently than it's supposed to as a solution
I have no idea how retarded you must be for this to qualify as "good advice".
>quit spamming the thread
you must be ragebaiting at this point, a dozen retards (including you) complain about something completely unrelated (the fucking lightswitch being dirty) and i'm the one that's spamming the thread?
all i'm doing is literally asking a question and replying to some of that "advice", what the fuck am i supposed to do diffently? go back in time and clean the lightswitch? again, this is one of the most absurd things i've ever experienced here.

>>107807499
so did you just use your hand?
because i didn't, since the manual didn't explain in any way how the fuck that was supposed to be done I decided to check wether the small allen key could fit there to tighten it
and it did... but I guess now it's stripped or something and I can't take it out anymore, so I can't easily remove the monitor from the mount itself to do adjustments without supporting it with something.
>but because the weight of the monitor is pushing down on the tab, I don't think it needs to be super tight
nta but it is supposed to be rotatable 360 degrees so... what if you put it upside down or portrait? it clearly needs to be tightened I think...
the pictures for mine do contain a spanner that would fix this problem for me, but it wasn't present in the box and the manual doesn't list it as a piece that it's supposed to come with it, they probably decided in the end to make us suffer and save a cent per unit on that.

>>107807574
I used a small pair of pliers to tighten it as best I could, but because the metal is so soft it started to deform so I couldn't tighten it completely
For me I do not rotate it (just leave in landscape), it would probably be OK to rotate it to portrait because the side rails would push against the plate
But you would need to be careful when adjusting it left/right, and you definitely would not be able to flip it 180 degrees

>>107801131
>would it be retarded to buy a framework desktop
Yes

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is this possible to disable whole selection of the text in url bar on firefox when i click it?

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Fucking great, now what? Am I going to have to dig through the registry to remove it from there?

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i made a thing to make the captcha less annoying to solve

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How do I get friends in my 30s, online if possible, who can intellectually challange me?
Almost all of the people I've met in my life had a npc tier stupidity which blocks any interaction between us.

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>>107789452
What email service do people use these days. I have a hotmail address thats over 24 years old, but MS are being gay with their service lately so I think Ill switch.
>inb4 self hosting

>>107807616
yeah I guess i'll just keep attempting to do adjustments without taking it off, that's probably not where the issue is anyway as it worked fine initially.
I just want to thank you for trying to help and providing info, unlike the other retards here.

>>107808294
>he didn't get firstnamelastname@gmail.com
you missed the boat anon, stick with hotmail at this point

>>107807941
wow cool! please open source it so they make next one even more annoying to solve.

Why do people assume programming when you mention you study CS? That's such a small part of it.

I am unable to choose any other search engine for Brave Browser. I wanted to use DuckDuckGo but I am unable to use anything but Brave search, nor do I have any option to change it. I am on Windows 10 and I don't have this problem on Linux Mint.

>>107808903
Because nobody outside of CS knows that.

Why are web browsers so difficult to develop?
From what I understand, there's only really Chromium, Firefox, and Safari.
Ladybird has been in development for years already and isn't expected to be stable until after 2028. Why does it take so long?

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>>107809572
because google keeps pushing new shit into the standard in order to keep competitors out

>>107808575
it doesn't auto solve them, just makes it click instead of slider

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>>107789452
My first computer was a Compaq Deskpro 2000, second-hand from my cousin. There was a splash screen image when you boot and shut down the PC. The images were 3D renders of South Park characters with text. Reading "you can now shut down" or around those lines.

I'm searching for these images. Anybody remember them?

>>107808903
It's the only thing it's used for in practice. Unless you go into academia and become a schizo professor publishing papers on modal logic or some shit that nobody ever reads. It's that or programming
Technically data science is also a thing but it's still half programmers, half mathfags and half grifters

>>107809572
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
>I used wget to download all 1,217 of the W3C specifications which have been published at the time of writing1, of which web browsers need to implement a substantial subset in order to provide a modern web experience. I ran a word count on all of these specifications. How complex would you guess the web is?
>The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications.
>I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.

>>107810470
desu if I was president I would make
a new operating system that just werks with no ads or bullshit
a new web browser that just werks with no ads or bullshit
no NSA backdoors etc whole thing is open source
pros:
>job program for unemployed tech workers
>make life better for business
>make life better for gaymers
>we could all finally forget about Linux
>solidifies america as the best country in case anyone doubted it
>also I would hang bill gates but only after my OS pushes microsoft into bankruptcy
>also drone strikes on scam call centers in foreign countries ( we declare war on scammers )
cons:
>could get hacked, no matter how hard we try someone could still find an exploit maybe
>i would be assassinated by big tech

>>107810470
thanks for the link
that's pretty crazy and it's probably not too far-fetched to think that one day it all might just be chromium shit

>>107810470
Weaponized complexity is endemic in computers pretty much all the way down, and normalfags will always jump to throw another layer on top of shit that already doesn't work so it half works for their purposes.

>>107810470
Grim, guess i'll just be using firefox forever if ladybird doesn't work out

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>you are on your private desktop
>family member comes over
>hey anon, can I just look something up real quick?
What do you do in this situation? Particularly if you don't want them seeing your browser history or stumbling onto your folders of 'questionable' images?

>tell them to fuck off
>go ahead, you don't care what they think
>have a guest account prepared for this kind of scenario. However there is that slight knowing in their eyes as they wait and see you fumbling to log out of your account.

best tablet I can use for playing Team fight tactics with no lag? cause I've tried some of the cheaper chinese ones and wasted money to find out they dont last very long or have good processing power

Any recommended document scanner that's gentle with old photos?

>>107811186
a flatbed

>>107810873
tab s9, they're cheap and snapdragon

>>107810710
"look something up" implies they have to use the browser so just fire up a private or incognito window?

>>107810710
New browser profile or incognito window.

>>107807874
Yes

>>107807874
device manager first then if that fails, go to registry comparing device id in devmgmt

I need an 8TB HDD to store a 6TB music torrent. Which HDD should I get?

>>107811674
>>107811703
>oops sorry I closed the browser by accident anon XD (yes this happens a lot with tech-illiterates)
>here let me just open it again *opens non-incognito*
Also "look something up" was just an example. They may want to use your computer for any small task like printing something which means ruffling around your folders because they are retarded and don't remember how to reach their file

Windows does this weird thing where I open a folder, all the files disappear for a second one by one, then come back, what the hell is this?
>>107810710
>ew bro what is this?
It's my fucking pornography you bitch, that I use to jerk off to
That's what you say, it's your PC

Does /g/ not have a mouse/mice thread?

>>107810195
>It's the only thing it's used for in practice
No? Cybersecurity, hardware engineering, network administrator, there's so much

why does 4chan not load on my firefox browser? I have no issues loading the site on chrome. I flushed all cookies/settings etc and it still just gets stuck in loading whenever I try. anyone know why?

I need a tablet to use on my commute for the sole purpose of grinding input with yomitan and ankiconnect
Any suggestions?

>>107808236
Get smart colleagues by getting hired by a smart company
Or hang around in places where smart people hang out, like niche advanced maths forums or something

>>107811262
FE or regular?

>>107812125
>Cybersecurity
Usually this just makes you a process monkey and you don't need any CS for it, unless you're one of the few people actually doing interesting things. And even then you barely need the contents of an actual CS degree for this.
>network administrator
So IT monkey, also basically unrelated to a CS degree
>hardware engineering
Okay this one is true. But it's also very niche, there's probably 100 or 1000 programmers for every hardware engineer.
I also feel like this has strong overlap with EE, and so is less associated with CS.

>>107810710
I don't have porn on my phone, and if they want to talk about Jews they can go right ahead

>>107810710
>>you are on your private desktop
>>family member comes over
>>hey anon, can I just look something up real quick?
Does this even happen anymore? Sounds like something that would be a genuine problem maybe 10-15 years ago. Nowadays when would this family member not have a smartphone in their pocket or maybe even an ipad ready to grab?

>>107812111
Not usually, no. Sometimes they pop up but pretty rarely.

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>>107793929
Update, I bought the K400, it's alright but I still prefer the Microsoft keyboard, hopefully the dongle will resurface at some point.

>>107811747
Amazing... At this point Bluetooth works better in Linux.

>>107811817
Yeah removing it from device manager didn't help either. I switched to a different Bluetooth radio and now I can't re-pair the DualSense controller.

>>107808294
I self host on a VPS, has worked surprisingly well.

>>107809935
You will not find it, and not only because search engines are useless nowadays.
Your cousin probably manually replaced the image that came with Windows 95/98, and the source image is probably something that he got from a friend and not from the Internet.

>>107811951
Any 7200 RPM one that fits your budget. It's worth considering an SSD if you can justify the higher cost.

>>107812526
Open the developer toolbar an look for errors, it should stop loading after about 2 minutes and then error will be clearly logged.

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How to update gallery-dl?

Yesterday my laptop went wild, started shouting and binging then an number popped up to call which I did. A man answered and asked for access to my laptop to stop it -then did a lot of work which I was able to watch and showed me I had no firewall and he could put one in, they let me watch the screen continually, showing 16 hackers and cleaning it up for about three hours, then setting a secure firewall in place. My laptop has never worked better than these past 15 hours

>>107808294
custom domain on icloud is the best "privacy" I could muster that is also cheap. Being managed by apple means I don't get gatekept by the email mafia either

I have 3 SSD samsung 990 pro, I want to merge to have only 1 visible drive, do you think it's worth it or I'm just looking for more trouble?

>>107813216
Can't tell if schizophrenia, tech illiterate, or pasta from boomer Facebook

>>107810710
I have Chrome installed, just in case some sites don't work correctly on the browser I use regularly. I would just open that.
If it's anything other than searching the web I'd just tell them to fuck off.

>>107813550
IMO for a home user/desktop it's not worth it. The main downside is that your filesystem will be spread across all three drives so if you ever want to swap one out, move one, remove one etc. it's a hassle.
Also for SSDs, the closer they are to 100% full the worse the performance and the durability. So even the advantage of being able to use the drives very close to full by having large files/games spread out across two of them isn't worthwhile. I'd just use them as individual drives and spread out your games/files approximately evenly between them.

Cross-drive volumes mostly make sense in server-type architecture where you know for a fact you've built your server to spec and aren't gonna be changing it, and also if later you do want to change then you can wipe and reinstall everything (or just building/renting a different server also with little effort), and your persistent storage is somewhere else or on backups anyway.

>>107810710
Set up a temporary account without admin/root privileges

I upgraded the storage in my Steam Deck (64GB->512GB) using Clonezilla to save the system to a microSD. Swapped the drive, cloned it back, everything went fine. When I went to extend the partition size, /home already had the extra space.
Is this normal, or am I going to get fucked when I try using the space?

>>107813727
When you cloned the file system onto the new drice it already formatted it as a matter of procedure, there was just more space. There's no need to fuck with partitions at this point unless you want to

>>107813560
It could be all three.

>>107813550
It depends on how you merge them and whether the added convenience is worth the effort (to you) of managing this.
On Windows I would never bother.

>>107813742
I'm not used to things "just working", but I hope you're right.
Thanks.

>>107813859
I don't have a steamdeck but you can check and see if the entire filesystem is formatted correctly. I don't know if it uses NTFS or some derivative but check. If you're really unsure go ahead and create some dummy files, store them, and check their hash a few times after file changes. If they stay intact and uncorrupted then you are good. I think it's fine though.

>>107813931
>I don't know if it uses NTFS or some derivative
the steam deck is just plain ext4 as far as I'm aware

>>107808294
mxroute

>>107795868
i made this fork of 4chanx to make it less miserable.
takes me under 3 seconds to solve now that i dont have to fuck with a stupid slider: https://litter.catbox.moe/amt1b1ufvco3mu5m.js
legitimately a better captcha than what we have before, no idea why they went with a FUCKING SLIDER though.

>>107789452
least retarded way to clean a monitor? can't trust The Google anymore and every answer is conflicting

>>107814206
Depends on the monitor I imagine. Typically a microfiber cloth that's dampened with distilled water.

>>107813727
It will be fine, clonezilla has an option to expand filesystems when restoring, you should have unchecked it because it does proportional resizing, which is retarded.
But your data is safe and everything will work, don't worry.

>>107813931
>steamdeck
>NTFS
Ummm, no?

>>107814269
>you should have unchecked it
I thought I did, selecting "use table from image", that's why I was surprised.
Now that I look, the KDE Partition Manager says /home partition is "not properly aligned"

>>107813931
root is btrfs, var and home are ext4

>>107814156
found a standalone script to do that

>>107807941
source?

Folks passed me down a Chromebook they had lying around. Figured I'd re-image it with another OS, but I haven't touched a Chromebook before. What's a decent enough beginner-friendly OS I could slap onto it? I'm gonna be giving it back to my little sister after so she can use it.

>>107814642
Well, I think they have an ARM processor, so that limits your options, eh? How large is the internet disk?

Briar or Bitchat?
Briar has been the "primary" option for internetless communication for years at this point but people often bring up "bitchat" as if it were something completely new and revolutionary
from what I've seen it looks like a vibecoded mess. Is there anything that makes it better than Briar?

>>107814657
Damn this thing is more ass than I thought.

N4120 CPU @ 1.10GBz and 4GB of RAM.

>>107814737
Well, at least it's not ARM, eh? Might as well toss Mint or Xubuntu on it. Unless you want to fuck around with Arch or arch-based systems. Could give CatchyOS a try, just need to pick a DE that doesn't use a lot of RAM.

>>107814776
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. Only 2 FUCKING GB OF INTERNAL STORAGE?

Jesus christ.

>>107814802
Ha, yeah, that's their whole gimmick; Cloud computing. Then they hit you with a cloud storage subscription fee.

>>107814802
it's practically e-waste

>>107814578
>>107814639
link?

Alright, I want to buy a Lithium battery backup (UPS). The "real" ones from recognizable companies (APC, CyberPower, Eaton, etc) all run $1500+.

"GoldenMate", a chinese battery company that is decently well respected for their Lithium cells have within the last few years decided to jump into the consumer UPS market with their Lithium cells.

The only problem from the reviews i've seen is that their UPS's dont have any sort of windows software and basically just rely on windows seeing that there is a battery connected and essentially pretending it's a laptop battery.

Which WORKS, but is hardly ideal and isn't particularly robust in how it reports charge level or how long it has left before it dies. IE, it can go from ~40% charge to 5% charge in a few moments.

How retarded/hard would it be to write a basic bitch program to monitor things more closely (I'm assuming the USB connection to the UPS provides SOME battery statistics, and windows is ignoring 90% of them because it's retarded)?

Or should I just give up and live with a UPS that is basically a black box of magic that controls when my PC turns off arbitrarily when the power goes out?

>>107814802
puppy linux baby!

>>107815055
For the best experience most people use NUTS (Network UPS Tools), where the UPS is connected to a Linux box acting as a server that relays UPS information to other devices

There's a GitHub issue where they're working on GoldenMate support, it sounds like its supported via the generic HID model (which is what Windows is using to report battery state), and they're working on supporting more device-specific fields

>>107815174
Yeah reading through the issue thread and it looks like there isn't much more that it exposes to NUT, though it does seem to expose enough to set up a proper shutdown sequence.

I'll spend a few hours tinkering with it tonight to see if I can get it running on my windows desktop (linux tool, but it seems easy enough to build for windows).

I'd still trust a properly configured NUT setup over the basic windows power plan settings even if it doesn't expose live load readings, input/output voltages or similar deeper battery stats.

>>107815269
personally I just use a USB charger connected to a GPIO pin via an optocoupler

if the 5V drops out it means the power went out, and the computer shuts down after a minute

(obviously this doesn't account for how much battery the UPS actually has left, but my personal experience is that the more complex a system gets the more likely it is to fail)

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>>107815055
>UPS
What's the point in using expensive and explosive lithium cells over conventional lead acid batteries?

>>107815301
There is "GoldenChute" as well, but it requires soldering an Arduino board into the chassis of the UPS.

Ideally I want a full software solution that is "smart" enough to automatically begin on startup, restart the process if it ever crashes/freezes, and can monitor if the battery is plugged in or not, and then start a shutdown timer based on a power loss event. And also preferably have a backup that shuts down if the battery falls below 30% (even if it hasn't been on battery long enough according to the previous timer).


Reading through the NUT documentation and it seems like all of this should be doable, but might be a bitch to actually get setup.

As I said, I'll spend some time tinkering with NUT later tonight and see how painful it is to use in windows.


>>107815312
I live in an older part of the US that has frequent voltage droop. My previous lead-acid UPSs all died within 12-24 months due to frequently needing to swap over to battery for a few seconds or a handful of minutes while the incoming voltage is fairly low.
I'm tired of replacing my UPS batteries every year or two. So Instead of buying another $200-300 UPS with new batteries for $50-150 every year or two, I'm spending $400-500 once for a UPS that SHOULD last ~8-12 years without any need of new batteries in that time.

And lithium stands up to the voltage droop issues far better because lithium cells have 2000-3000 charge cycles compared to lead acid's 300-500 charges.

>>107815312
Oh yeah, the cells are also LiFePO4, which don't suffer from thermal runaway and fires like many traditional Lithium-Ion cells.
LiFePO4 cells can also do deep discharge (90% discharge with no significant capacity damage)
And their charge/discharge efficiency is 92-98% compared to lead-acid at ~85%.

Oh and they charge 10x faster so if you get several voltage droops in a 1-2 hour period your battery will have no issues bringing itself back up to 100% before the next voltage droop. Whereas a lead-acid cell will be unable to re-charge the cells in only the 10-20 minutes between voltage droop events.