>>108321921
I am retarded but I'm on a new system and Amazon won't accept any payments because it thinks I'm not me or something, and it keeps blaming my bank, not amazon, for the problem when I know it's amazon.

There's literally no help article or solution for this problem.

>>108322068
i think you need to re-enter your bank details on amazon

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do USB sound cards and audio interfaces do the same thing??

I wanna plug my headphones into my PC through USB because the AUX port of the motherboard and the case are full of static and don't work properly.

What should I buy?

i would like to get a cracked version of win11 although i've never installed an OS before. could someone guide me through the whole process or link some reading material on how to do it with links and whatnot? i'm kinda scared of doing that cause i've heard that u might brick your pc so if someone could bother sharing some info i'd also like to be told what to avoid or what i should back up in order to not ruin my pc.

>>108322203
A sound card is the right thing. Depending on how picky you are, a phone Type-C adapter may be sufficient – you lose the physical volume controls and separate mic port, but it's smaller and usually sounds just as good.

>>108322212
There is an entire >>>/g/fwt general dedicated to this and the stuff you're asking about is in its OP, you don't even need to read past the first post.

>>108322212
You don't crack it, you install a full legit version and use an activator to get it activated and then it looks as if it had a legit licence.
idk what version to pick though: home, enterprise, IoT or what, read the thread like the other anon said.
>i've heard that u might brick your pc
Someone trolled you, PCs don't get bricked like smartphones/tablets do. You can mess with installers all you like.
>>108322203
>do USB sound cards and audio interfaces do the same thing??
Yes, USB and PCIe for example are so called host interfaces, the actual audio chip is on top of all that.

using old hardware its hard to tell which part is malfunctioning

how do you make absolutelly sure that the CD/DVD drives are fine?
Some disk readers just refuse to work if the media is dirty or damaged in anyway (My polaroid external CD drive) while others try to read the disk regardless and then just make the PC hang

Also is it worth getting a external HDD case with eSata in 2026 ? I have some older PCs that were too early for USB 3 but support eSata. Ideally id want USB 3.0 too though, if theres anything that supports both, but i do have a docking station with usb 3.0 already.

>>108321921
I want to erase my boot (system) nvme ssd, everything else in my PC is just harddrives
I read that zeroing or shredding is bad for ssds what's the best option I can safely delete all data on it ? And do I need to use a live usb ? I got nvme cli but I am stuck on how to use it, from a live usb or within the system?

I was thinking I could just install another distro like Mint in it, I'm on Cachy OS right now, shouldnt that be enough ? I want to sell my ssd, so my data shouldnt be recoverable.

>>108322595
>CD/DVD drives
Old laser lens just become blurry, so even an unused drive will stop working at some point. The DVD lens in my buray writer failed like this.
On used drives, the laser diode slowly degrades.
To be sure you have to test them extensively. Optical media also comes in various qualities and stages of degradation.
>eSata in 2026
No. Your old computers will be fine with USB 2.0, you'll just have to wait a little bit longer for large transfers, which I doubt that you do often.

>>108322601
>nvme cli
>from a live usb
This.

>>108320753
I think maretta works for some sites

>>108322699
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/yvmd5r/msi_bios_has_a_secure_erase_feature_that_wipes/
Not a redditor but I found this as a result, what about this ? Like I said I want the ssd to still be usable, usually you dont format or sanitize boot ssds.

As for the live usb, I booted into cachy live but it didnt want to install nvme cli, i think ububtu has it by default let me try that one.

Whats the best sanitize command for speed and efficiency or should I just format it ? Isnt trim done weekly and the whole "pointer gone but file is still there" isnt actually a thing for ssds ??

>>108322699
I got ububtu live ready to execute
nvme sanitize /dev/nvme0n1 -a -2

Should be correct so far, maybe it will take a few hours. Nvme01 is the whole disk with p1 and 2 being the system partition and boot partition, should I execute this command and then immediately insteall ubuntu in the ssd to make sure I still have a bootloader or will it nit break anything ?

>>108322814
>maybe it will take a few hours
Seconds.
>to make sure I still have a bootloader
Doesn't matter, you don't need a bootloader on the NVMe to boot from USB.
The bootloader is a regular file, on your USB or DVD it is under /EFI/ubuntu/ or /EFI/boot/.

>>108322692
>On used drives, the laser diode slowly degrades.
yeah, ive read that DVD lenses degrade faster too
I have two LG drives and the DVD-only drive barely ever reads stuff, it has to be a mint condition DVD without a spec of anything, while the CD-DVD drive has more tolerance for some minor disk damage
>>108322692
>No. Your old computers will be fine with USB 2.0, you'll just have to wait a little bit longer for large transfers, which I doubt that you do often.
well i kinda wanted an external case anyway as i have some big old drives, so if i could get an external hdd case that has USB 3.0 and also eSata it would be nice, but i do understand usb 3.0 is way more versatile these days

i also do need a usb 3.0 cable for my docking station as i lost mine years ago and have been getting by with a usb 2 printer cable

test 123

I keep asking this question every now and then in /sqt/. Is there anything you can do to your headphones that lowers their bluetooth output range? Hardware-wise.

Cause all my cheaper (30-60 EUR range) headphones seem to lose the max distance of their output over time, and it can't be because of interference, because it's not like anything changes. I keep spraying them with anti-dust mutli surface cleaning sprays, could that damage them over time? It can't be software/driver related because it's the same on multiple devices.

>>108323412
No, not really.

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Youtubes age restrictions are out of control. How do you bypass this shit these days?

does chrome not support looking up bookmarks via their alias in the url bar? like i have to type portions of the url itself for it to populate? is this normal across browsers in general cuz this seems annoying, since i know the thing by its page name and can look it up but not by the url itself, and i know i'll forget it.

Is it possible to use MS Teams on a linux browser? I keep my laptop running windows just for this one reason as job interviews are mostly done remotely through teams.

I need to find a porn. I know what forum it was originally uploaded to and the filefox cc link is dead. The people on the forum are crusty old farts and will not help.
What technology can help me dig up a porn from like 2019-2023? All I have is a thumb nail and a title.

>>108323412
Probably battery voltage dropping over time and slowly reducing the sensitivity of the BT radio.

>>108324264
Yes.

>Printer claims to have "4800 x 2400 optimized dpi"
>Irfanview claims it's 600dpi, and actual prints under max dpi settings back this up when viewed under a magnifying glass
Am I missing something here?

>>108323412
>I keep spraying them with anti-dust mutli surface cleaning sprays
Why? How could this possibly prevent dust? Is it purely anti-static?

>>108324264
yes but the web version of teams is typically buggier than the desktop client. i would recommend installing the teams app on your phone as a fallback.

>>108324822
usually photocopy is like 100dpi, inkjet 165 or 360dpi, laserprinter 600dpi

Is freebsd still a meme?

>>108322601
Check your UEFI/BIOS for an option called secure erase or sanitize

>ordered an used laptop
>later on find an another one with a bit better CPU and good battery for like about hundred bucks more
I can send it back within a week no problem, but maybe I'm overreacting a bit. That laptop is HP omen and it seems to have good reviews online and it's specs should be good enough for older games and maybe even most of AAA on lower details
I will try to just cruise through meme economy for now, then maybe gift the thing to someone or whatever.

>>108322212
Aren't activation keys dirt cheap nowadays?

Why has the "AI apocalypse" still not happened? I haven't noticed a loss of programming jobs at all.

>>108325919
The guys at tech worker general seem to talk about lost jobs all the time

>>108325910
Not him, but they definitely are. For some reason, I got a free Windows 11 key from Kaufland in Germany (for "points" because I had nothing else to spend the "points" on and they were about to expire).

>>108325931
Can you use that to install windows 10?
I heard you can do with OEM stuff like in laptops.

>>108324394
Please help.

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>>108321921
How do i fix/avoid this shit, currently posting from my phone?

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>>108325400
Now it's a million dollar meme.

Uh... How do local servers work? So let's say I get a shit ton of Japanese ASMR wav files or download YouTube video Essays for me to play on my phone, do they work if I go to work or travel to another place? I am still barebones reading on home servers but I still don't understand if once connected they could keep connected until either the server crashes or my phone is turned off or if once the original network is lost it cannot be accessed

>>108326109
What do you even mean "local servers" in this context?

Why does the h264 codec only go up to 1080 on youtube and are there any benefits to the other two i think av1 and vp9

>>108326126
Hmmm, that's what I don't get, so from my understanding its another computer running all the time but I also am reading about NAS, so uh... Any of those two? Just basically any home server (guess I called it wrong by saying Local Servers) just my own server to access my media, be it TV, PC or phone

>>108326205
H264 is only there for backward compatibility with very old devices
>benefits to av1
Yeah it saves them bandwidth

>>108322814
>nvme sanitize
>maybe it will take a few hours
minutes, at worst

>>108325193
So is "4800 x 2400 optimized dpi" just false advertising or is it referring to individual CMYK color dots (600 x 4 = 2400)?

>>108326051
>mfw it's real and not an edited joke
>>108181785

>>108322212
>>108325910
why would you ever pay for a gray market key? if you want to pirate it use mas, if you are affiliated with a business and need proper licensing gray market keys aren't it

>>108326109
>>108326315
it's just computer hardware that you're hosting instead of someone else. if the hardware crashes then obviously you would need to reboot it. if you want to access it outside your home network, you will need to set it up to do that. this is usually a bad idea for security purposes unless you really know what you're doing.

>>108324822
>4800 x 2400 dpi
That's meaningless. It's clearly not claiming to have 4800 dpi in one axis and 2400 dpi in another, both because having asymmetrical dpi would be deranged and also because those are insanely high dpi values. It's also clearly not claiming to have (4800 * 2400) = 11,520,000 dpi, because again that is nonsensically high.
So it sounds like some sort of resolution value, in pixel (or texel?) count, but DPI is literally resolution per unit length so just a length-less resolution value is meaningless for DPI.
I would have guessed that it could be claiming to print at 4800x2400 resolution on some standard paper size but no normal papers have a 2:1 aspect ratio, neither standard A-sizes nor american letters. Also at 600dpi that's 4 inches wide which is pretty tiny.

I have absolutely, completely zero clue what the fuck your printer could possibly mean by saying "4800 x 2400 optimized dpi".

>>108326578
Oh, 4 CMYK dots is a plausble explanation. But this doesn't explain what 4800 means here then.

>>108325882
What's the total price? 100 bucks more for a used laptop is quite a lot, assuming your current purchase was less than 500. A "bit" better CPU is probably not worth it. A good/newer battery may be important but check if/how you can swap it (also do you intend to use it unplugged often?).

>>108325919
There's always layoffs, though there have been regular layoffs for 2-3 years by now. The thing is it's not just jobs being cut, it's also hiring slowing down dramatically, especially for entry-level jobs.

The other thing also is that the "AI apocalypse" is mostly a prediction. Unironically late last year, with Opus 4.5 (and later Codex 5.2), was the first time AI started to be viable for mostly vibe-coding entire features with acceptable reliability, to the point where I can plausibly see it as a replacement for an inexperienced junior. It used to be just a tool to get stuff done faster, where you'd design the code, ask AI to fill in the gaps, and ask AI to do some simple boilerplatey stuff. Or you'd ask it to start writing a feature and read all its changes in real time and regularly interrupt it to guide it. Basically 2026 is the first year where if you tell AI to make some moderate change it can one-shot it end to end more often than not, and where it's actually viable to basically always give it a try and see if it works because this starts saving more time than it wastes when it doesn't quite work.

Before now, people were just extrapolating. And even now, people are still extrapolating with the hope (or fear) that it'll get even better. It's still not a replacement for a human programmer with some experience yet.

>>108326109
>>108326315
A local server, for the record, is something running on the exact same machine, i.e. you can access it without any external network connections.

Anyway, for a home server, depends on how you set it up. Making it securely accessible from outside your network is absolutely doable, but takes a bit more effort and hassle. IMO the most foolproof way is to tunnel into your home network using something like Wireguard and optinally Tailscale (and optionally Headscale).

What's the best way to go about uploading like 500 pdf docs into some AI bullshit so I can ask questions about it?

I've got Gemini Pro or whatever the fuck because of buying a Pixel but I have stayed far away from this AI shit since the beginning. Preferably something I can run on a local machine without it costing beaucoup bucks

>>108327030
zip them up

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>>108326683
>because having asymmetrical dpi would be deranged
>this doesn't explain what 4800 means here then
Well, this site visualizes "optimised dpi" like this, so maybe the idea is that it's doubling up the groups of CMYK dots for some reason
https://www.hpplotter.co.uk/blog/what-does-optimised-dpi-mean

>>108327115
Interesting. Sounds like it really is CMYK dpi, combined with this doubling gimmick.
Anyway CMYK dpi feels like a pretty useless metric regardless, just a way for the marketing to pump the stats number up as high as possible. For any given colour the printer can effectively resolve 600dpi, the fact that some colours need a combination of 4 dots to get the right final colour doesn't help you with the actual final print resolution, not unless the printer somehow has the capability to genuinely resolve 2400dpi independently but I highly, highly doubt that.

It's like monitor manufacturers who advertise "1ms response time" on literally every monitor in existence out there, just because every monitor will have SOME optimal combination of starting and target illumination that lets a pixel switch between the two at 1ms, never mind most other possible transitions taking like 30ms or whatever if the monitor's cheap and shitty.

How do you fully scrape and archive a website that looks like it hasn't added any new technical features since 2008? (There are still articles as recent as 2021 though, what I mean is that the layout and stuff is old-fashioned.)

>>108327761
wget

>>108327761
you right click and save-as. like what do you mean? scrape what? the entire page? literally right click save as. lmao.

>>108327761
Here's the specific command I'll often use:

wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links -w 2 --random-wait --domains example.com --no-parent example.com

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>>108321921
i switched from chrome to firefox recently
in firefox, when i open media like a video or music file in a browser tab to play it, if i pause it to change the volume, when unpaused there is a slight delay where for a split second it continues to play at its original 100% volume.
this didn't happen in chrome, it would just go right to the new volume level with no delay. is there any way i can replicate how chrome handled that? is there a setting in about:config that handles this?

>>108326694
>What's the total price?
The laptop I ordered is for about $450, so yeah, I could be adding about 1/4 of current price.
I think that other laptop had 8GB instead of 16 and while I already got 16GB sticks, extra spares won''t hurt, so eh. I'm going to wait another few years and buy a laptop with 5090 for pennies or something.

Just gotta check the keyboard because they had to replace two keys.
And gonna used it plugged in most of the time. I don't think it would last long unplugged when playing, but also battery is like 25 bucks, so it should be fine.

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HELLO

I've used Waterfox for years, but suddenly it keeps crashing if I have like 20 4chan tabs open. Used to be fine with 150+ tabs no issue...

SO

I thought I'd switch to Brave, but every time I try to 4chan post it says that posting from my IP range has been blocked???

can anyone shed light on a fix for either of these?

>>108327107
Does giving Gemini just a zip of all the pdf's work?

What caused /csg/ to get banned?

>>108328158
Turn off VPN and various blocking features in Brave. No idea which ones.

>>108328011
Sounds more like a bug than a setting.
>pause it to change the volume
Why would you pause the video for this?

>>108328105
>buy a laptop with 5090 for pennies
I wouldn't count on this. High end laptops have been very expensive for the past 6 years and this is even worse now with no new GPU models even planned
I expect used 5080/5090 laptops to be above $1000/$1500 in 5 years.

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I don't know if something is wrong on my side or if the internet in general is unstable?
So often lately i will browse a website only for it to break like 5 minutes in, with a 404 or 503 error or whatever.
I swear to god it keeps happening!!!
Also, lots of videos will fail to load with a "html5 error video not found"

I'm desperate
Am i unlucky?
Is it a provider/DNS problem?
Is everything built on sand bricks?

>>108329133
DNS wouldn't cause HTTP errors. 503 is a server error (crashed, unresponsive,...). 404 is just a document not being found.
When you get errors on a website, try the same URL from another device, if you have a phone then try broadband data instead of WiFi. But none of this will help with server errors.

>>108321921
Anyone have that website that listed different programs at different levels of "Spyware" and was basically written by one of those "give me 100% privacy or give me death" FOSS schizos?

Does dust build up on offshore AI slopcrunchers? Who cleans that up?

>>108329477
Probably very little, they must use dust filters and people don't normally roam around servers.
A server typically gets decommissioned before it needs cleaning.

How would I add a guest user account to either freeBSD or openBSD?
It would need to be a temporary amnesiac user system that simply resets to a preconfigured template when it logs in and has minimal access to the rest of system outside of /home/guest?
I want to either allow someone else access to this system or use it occasionally to either test configs or when I want to remove not leave a footprint behind.

>>108329331
I think it used to be https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers and https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/software
But now those don't exist anymore. Check archives?
There's https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers.xhtml which is formatted differently and has fewer details, since it's more of a discussion article than a systematic comparison, maybe you can look around the site if they have more stuff about software. Otherwise I'd say yeah check the archives for the first two URLs

what's the newest version of 4chan x? or should i be looking for a fork or patched version which fixes the captcha bug?

it is my understanding that PC games on DOS and windows were absolute dogshit, hard to install, were CPU speed dependant, etc, until finally DirectX and OpenGL came out in the late 90's, audio drivers became more standarized, and the golden age of PC games started

Is this a true assessment? im half-remembering things and dont even know the exact dates but i think thats the story

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>>108330361
>CPU speed dependant
Some very early DOS games were CPU speed dependant as they used CPU cycles to determine time, with later CPUs you had to use picrel for slowing them down.
>audio drivers became more standarized
All DOS games had to carry their own sound card support while Windows always had audio abstraction.
>hard to install
All DOS games were very easy to install, all you got is a directory of files.
>DirectX and OpenGL
That's 3D stuff and relevant for 3D games played with 3D accelerators.

>>108330426
>All DOS games had to carry their own sound card support while Windows always had audio abstraction.
so what you're saying is DOS games had to use their own audio driver of sorts instead of relying on the operating system? that must've sucked
Ive heard they also had to specifically build their games around the privative graphics API of each graphic accelerator brand like glide and such
>All DOS games were very easy to install, all you got is a directory of files.
still harder than playing games on a console, and i assume it was somewhat harder than installing games in winXP
YOu had to pick the correct graphics card, graphics mode, etc

>>108328158
You have to unlock the 4chan trackers or you can't post

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>>108330468
>so what you're saying is DOS games had to use their own audio driver of sorts instead of relying on the operating system? that must've sucked
Yes, DOS had no concept of audio so programs used the hardware directly.
>Ive heard they also had to specifically build their games around the privative graphics API of each graphic accelerator brand like glide and such
The one and only 3D accelerated DOS game I even know of is Carmageddon and it supported the Voodoo card. Have no idea how that worked exactly.
>still harder than playing games on a console, and i assume it was somewhat harder than installing games in winXP
Now you sound like a troll. Well yeah, sure, it's all harder than powering on a console. But essentially all you got was a directory at let's say C:\game, you entered it and ran game.exe. Everyone back then thought it was the simplest thing.

>>108330500
>. But essentially all you got was a directory at let's say C:\game, you entered it and ran game.exe. Everyone back then thought it was the simplest thing.
Some of the stuff I tried in DOSbox had installers that asked you for some stuff, im not that familiar but its harder than just clicking "next" a few times on a windows XP game, where even the installer would open up automatically after you put the CD in (huge risk vector for viruses autorunning)

Some are harder than others too, i havent tried that many but i only used them through files in a hard drive, i wonder how floppy drives worked or if there was difficulty involved with the floppies themselves

>>108324247
It does, did you remove bookmarks from site search in settings?

>>108329133
Do you other devices have the same issues?

>>108330704
>>108329182
My only other device is a phone i don't use to browse the web

>>108330268
the userscript from the website

>>108330714
Well why don't you try and see if you have issues on that too (when the mobile data is disabled of course)?

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can someone explain why I can't download certain things on Stacher?

been trying to get some kids media that's really been hard to find and it's on youtube but for some reason i can't download it? Stacher is up to date as far as i can tell.

And yes I have checked the log but don't understand what it want/can't do. will share that in follow up message.

I can't help but think I have some form of virus or spyware even though I've scanned with multiple programs and they all come back clean. Should I just bite the bullet and do a fresh windows install?

>>108331018
nvm i figured it out. turns out leaving it on 'highest quality video and audio' was fucking it up for some reason. Setting it to 'Best Quality video and audio in MP4 format' fixed it...who knew!

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asked this on another site but it was dead.

I recently downloaded voicebox since weights is dying this month so i can make VA stuff locally. My issue is , for some reason, it won't accept the models i have kept.

How do i resolve this? i have about 100+ models but can't use them for some reason on this, which is frustrating. Do i have to alter something of should i look elsewhere for this sort of software of voice stuff?

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>>108331194
here's one of the audio files for example, but when i click on Voicebox's import voice and search the files...

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>>108331211
...I get zilch. Is it not compatible for some reason? if/can i change the files to be compatible? I've never workeed with this format much before or this tech so it's all greek to me and i feel very lost trying to do this and their isn't much info/how to's out there when i search what to do.

>>108331050
You have paranoia
You can wipe but it probably won't put your mind at ease

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>>108331609
>You have paranoia

I miss when laptops use to be thick, now they're all flat.

>>108330667
nah it's still active, just checked

>>108331662
Meh it's fine IMO. If you want a desktop replacement you can always buy a thick gaming laptop. For carrying them anywhere thin is nice
It's only a problem when they're too thin to fit an RJ45 port

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Where can I learn the basics of Lean?

>>108330361
>it is my understanding that PC games on DOS and windows were absolute dogshit,
dos and windows are two different beasts
>hard to install,
same as it ever was
>were CPU speed dependant,
only the earliest of dos games were cpu speed dependent, back when pc cpus came in one speed and at the time platforms came and went so quickly few if any people could have imagined pc clones would become a thing and take over everything
>until finally DirectX and OpenGL came out in the late 90's
doesn't really help anything else in your post
>, audio drivers became more standarized,
windows provides a common interface for audio, dos games had to ship with drivers for each sound card the game supports, as dos doesn't know wtf sounds are

>>108330500
>The one and only 3D accelerated DOS game I even know of is Carmageddon and it supported the Voodoo card. Have no idea how that worked exactly.
there were several, GTA, Tomb Raider, Whiplash, etc. and they worked the same way sound cards did, by the game supporting the hardware directly

>>108330361
>>108332525
>only the earliest of dos games were cpu speed dependent
well, i should say for the most part, as with even many later "early win32" games, some developers, while aware of different cpu speeds, either didn't try to account for future cpus speeds, imagining their game wouldn't last long enough for it to matter, didn't imagine cpus would get as fast as they did as quickly as they did, or even if they imagined it, simply had no way to test such a thing (kinda hard to tell if you game breaks with 1GHz cpus when the fastest cpu on the market is 166MHz now isn't it?)

>>108332612
should also note this kind of problem isn't unique to that era, i bet there's still games made now which will shit themselves in some way when rendered at 2,000fps in the future. like lots of games made in the '00s struggle over 60 or 100 fps, especially due to physics/animation engines not being designed for it

Is all the AI shit about it replacing most of the white collar jobs in the future factual or just fear mongering? If it's the latter one, are there any careers that are same from it apart from just straight up manual labor.

>>108332817
Considering it's doing a really shitty job at the jobs it's replacing RIGHT NOW you can bet it's going to keep spreading further.
Corps just want excuses to replace people even if things like customer experience, reviews and support dips down to hell. Just look at Microslop shitting out the worst fucking updates ever to the most important OS that exists to date. People are mad and furious while soon maybe substantial amounts of them are even taking action to avoid Windows if they can. The response? More AI. More Copilot.

So if you don't even need an AI to do the job equally or better than a human, just cheaper, then why would it be limited to anything it can do really poorly?

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May I have some pointers for figuring out, and learning about tech jobs, so I can evaluate what I might be interested in, what pays well, where to begin, where to invest my time, and find out what to do?

>>108324099
How does it work? I'm not sure I've had an issue with it or not, but I know their algorithms are now terrible.

What part of my autistic privacy setup is causing the
>Posting from your IP range has been temporarily blocked due to abuse
Error?
I'm not on a VPN. I whitelisted 4chan cookies, enabled all scripts besides google analytics, I'm fucking bending the knee if we're being honest.

>>108333397
Ok disabling privacy badger and fixed it, I literally only have the google analytics script blocked.
If you're fucking my browser raw to catch bots, you better actually be catching bots.

>>108333054

industrial, light, magick

>>108333414
What are these?

>>108333410
Nope. I get one post occasionally and that's it. I don't get it.

Best Linux distro for Nvidia GPU support?

I have a raspberry pi 3 b and it's constantly complaining about low voltage. I'm using some random phone charger to power it.
Right now it is connected to a VGA screen (via HDMI adapter) and a keyboard. It also has a cooler connected to the 5V pins.
It is only connected to screen and keyboard while I set it all up, so after that it won't need to power those. Meaning it should have some extra juice. It works fine despite the little warning. Should I worry about this? Also is there any way to measure or check how much voltage it is getting so I can monitor it? It has raspian now for testing but it will use alpine linux once I setup usb booting, so I won't get the warning.

>>108333775
>some random phone charger to power it.
That'd probably do it. I had the same problem and fixed it by plugging the cable that came with it directly into the wall socket.

am i the only autist that cuts tiny bits of paper to stick to flash drives and "tag" what they have ? how the hell do you keep track otherwise

>>108334082
I got a used one, it came with no cables.
I'm using it as is for now, seems to work fine. I'll get a proper power supply later.
Have you manage to get your to boot from usb?

Why the fuck does Spotify drain so much battery on Android (OnePlus 13)? I'll typically use SBC on my earbuds at 160kbps and stream via wireless data (mind you, I'm subscribed to Premium so I've downloaded the playlists I listen to the most) and it'll drain like 20% in an hour for some reason. I figured maybe it's streaming them regardless if I have them downloaded or not, so I turned on offline mode and yet the issue remains. One odd thing I also noticed is that streaming music to my car stereo via Bluetooth (AAC) for about an hour drains maybe 5%-8% of my battery which doesn't make sense. What the hell's going on here?

Also, posted this in /spg/ but got no replies so now I'm here.

>>108333684
They're all the same, theres no distro where magically nvidia supports linux, nvidia just doesnt collaborate

if you're a newbie use a *buntu based distro for a very easy way to install the closed source nvidia driver, which will perform better than the open source stuff but still not quite on windows level afaik.
Both the official and the open source driver work perfectly anyway, just with reduced performance compared to windows drivers

>>108334191
Probably running telemetry, ad services and ad preloading (even if you have premium), etc
Get a third party spotify client, or a 3rd party youtube music client, theres a bunch on F-Droid for the latter for sure

>>108334167
>I got a used one, it came with no cables.
>I'm using it as is for now, seems to work fine. I'll get a proper power supply later.
If you say so. For the record, the specific charger I'm using is a CanaKit model DCAR-052A5, but anything that outputs 5 volts and 2.5 amps should work.
>Have you manage to get your to boot from usb?
Haven't bothered. Despite some headaches with application compatibility (some of which can be remediated with Docker), Raspbian just werks for what I use it for.

>>108334254
This thing should output 5V and 3.1A but as phone chargers are made for phones, I assume it has some controller limiting power output that the pi cannot interact with.
And I want to use this for server storage. I could boot off the SD and have the storage attached but it'd save me one SD card to put it all on the HDD.

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>>108321921
I already posted this on the smart phone thread, please excuse my desperation
How do I get around a locked carrier phone? It's not stolen or anything, it my stupid iPhone that's already paid off. I fucked an installment plan and now I have two carrier locked phones and a bill for 1200 I can't pay.
Any suggestions?

>>108334274
there's no clear right answer to this. if the phone and/or its os is old enough, you might be able to jailbreak it and use third party tools to unlock it. you might be able to dig deep online and find leaked carrier tools to unlock it, i'd have no idea where to look but someone else might know. you can roll the dice on sending it to "someone" who can unlock it for you (the non-scam ones are usually employees at carriers looking to make a bit of side cash). failing any of those, your only remaining option is to work with the carrier.

you could also just resell it and make it someone else's problem.

>>108334274
>>108334670
also a lot of tools that purport to unlock your phone are just malware

>>108334138
you should buy a label maker, they're not very expensive and it's a cleaner solution to what you're trying to do

>>108334274
the only people that can unlock iphones are the carriers themselves. with android you have to root them.

>>108334670
I'd really prefer to just use it, my only other option is a pixel 4. Sounds like I'm SOL for now though, I appreciate the thorough answer
Was really hoping jailbreaking would help but it's an iPhone14 so it doesn't sound like i can do anything. Maybe I'll luck out and come across a sly employee

>>108334696
They all look like malware desu

>>108334716
Ah dang, the Galaxy fold I have is broken. Otherwise I'd try it

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Why don't many urls start with www anymore?

>>108335328
it was never necessary and these days it's completely vestigial, the better question is why it was ever used to begin with (tl;dr to distinguish from competing web implementations)

>>108330538
>Some of the stuff I tried in DOSbox had installers that asked you for some stuff
They copy the files then ran the settings program that sets the sound card support among other things. You could skip the installer part and just copy the whole thing over to the hard drive, usually.
>i wonder how floppy drives worked or if there was difficulty involved with the floppies themselves
Floppies act the same as a hard drive, no difference.
>>108332542
Totally forgot Tomb Raider lmao
>>108335346
>why it was ever used to begin with
It made the address stand out more and it told everyone "hey, this is an interwebs address".

>>108330361
It's a chronologically true statement, but I don't think one had anything to do with the other. The console golden age also started around the same time. Broadband adoption and original GeForce were what really made the PC a first rate platform.
>until finally DirectX and OpenGL came out in the late 90's, audio drivers became more standarized
Not really because they would just use [S]VGA, GLIDE, and SB16/OPL as the standard interfaces. Abstract drivers improved vendor competition not so much ease of use or compatibility.

>>108334196
Do you think Pop_OS! for my daily driver and Windows on another SSD running in a VM with GPU acceleration could work?

>>108335580
nta but if you set up a dual boot you'll probably just end up using windows most of the time, actually rebooting into the other os means closing out of everything you were working on and waiting for the system to come back up and start over again, it's enough of a mental barrier that over time you just end up not bothering

>>108335593
That's why I want to run Windows in a VM so I can use both, preferably Linux for most things and Windows for proprietary software and some games. I heard you can get near native speeds with GPU passthrough using QEMU/KVM and virt-manager.

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>>108321921
I need a USB-Charger / PSU that will not stop power delivery to connected devices when a new device is connected or removed.

Does something like that even exist?

>>108327030

number is not that high to read yourself

>>108335769
That kinda defeats the point of a PSU.

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>>108333775
The keyboard and mouse don't matter. I would remove the fan, it uses much more power. Same with WiFi, don't use it. A good USB cable often makes the most difference.
My Pi3B has always been without a fan and still does its job.
>any way to measure or check how much voltage it is getting
With pic related, although you'll need an adapter for MicroUSB.
You need to test the power entering the Pi, not the power entering your USB cable, since a bad cable can sink *a lot* of power.
Here's a good resource on how to monitor power thresholds from the Pi itself: https://gist.github.com/Paraphraser/17fb6320d0e896c6446fb886e1207c7e

>>108334138
I had four flash drives, gave two of them away and the remaining two are used regularly so I just know what is on them (not that much).

>>108334167
>>108334082
Raspberries never came with cables of any kind.
Various kits can combine a Pi with some extra stuff.

>>108335346
>it was never necessary
That's a bit revisionist. example.com is a domain, it doesn't tell you anything about the services available for that domain.
And a domain is not a host (the hint is in the name), if that's your idea.

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>>108335769
No, something like that doesn't exist for USB. The solution I arrived at is just buying a bunch of pic related. Always works, always delivers enough power for any exotic device.

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how do you get over limerence?

>>108336569
I had limerence towards this girl from Mexico I met on Discord (I'm from Europe)
I had like 2 periods where our chats kind of got paused and then I thought my limerence stopped, but as soon as we started chatting again I got back into limerence mode
Ultimately I think the strat that worked for me was realizing that she's lazy and not that bright and that she also poops, instead of being this perfect idealized girl I made her out to be in my head. And then I just started to be more honest (not about my limerence, but just about everything, my opinions etc.) and I found incompatibilities and I got an ick and blocked her

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>>108321921
How do I reinforce or find a replacement for this outer headband piece for AKG K240? Mine has 2 weak spots in it where it's kinda snapped. All replacements are out of stock from what I can find. I've tried taping a bent piece of clothes hanger to it to help support the weak spots but it only sorta helps.

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Why would a game stutter if you have Vsync on in the game and a VRR monitor with no fps cap whatsoever? Is it because the fps is constantly climbing out of the VRR range (even if it appears vsync is capping the fps, which I know it's not) and vsync is engaging and disengaging? It seems when I use an ingame fps limiter set to 160, all the stutter goes away.

>>108333054
Get into HVAC instead, there's always demand, pays well and you can find places with fewer retards than dumb construction/pluming/etc., and won't be replaced by AI

>>108334274
Aren't they legally required to unlock it if you phone them? Maybe it has to be after the initial contract or something

>>108335346
It was to distinguish from other services, like ftp, mail, etc. You'd use an ftp client to connect to ftp.example.com and a web browser to connect to www.example.com, simple as.
These days though web is the default service by a huge margin, and alternate protocols are "special", with the vast majority of domains not even having any alternate protocols available. Except mail but this often overloads the main domain, or is auto-configured by mail clients so the user never has to care about the subdomain.
So having the domain serve the website by default and then having alternate subdomains for other services/protocols is the way it's done when needed (if anything I most often see this with git.example.com, not ftp or mail or anything else anymore really).

>>108329108
>I wouldn't count on this.
Fair enough but I believe i will be able to get something better in few years.
Anyway. Any good guide on testing the thing? I want to make sure I won't have issues with it(besides having to "downgrade" to Windows 10).
And a guide on underclocking/volting would be nice, too. I don't want it to accidentally overheat during long periods of work.

>>108336569
Sit down and write (or mentally list out) her flaws and reasons it wouldn't work
Unironically, just thinking through arguments for something can help you convince yourself of that thing very often

>>108335346
>it was never necessary
this is incorrect. i remember many cases where websites would not load unless you wrote "www." before the domain. this hasn't been the case for a long time, but early on this was not a given.
these days "the web" and "the internet" are for most normal people practically synonymous, but technically speaking they are not. the internet is much older than the web.

Is there anyway to bypass the 10k favorites limit on danbooru?

>>108335346
>why it was ever used to begin with
i suppose i don't know exactly where using subdomains to distinguish services comes from, but suffice to say it's much older than the web
"www.example.com" means "the web service of example.com", as opposed to something like ftp.example.com, or mail.example.com, etc.
these days the web is so popular that most people don't understand the difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com", so nearly every web service is configured to serve websites from the domain itself, as that is simply what most users expect now.
as for why they're separate to begin with, like the web, ftp, email and all that are on different ports, so why not serve them all from "example.com", well it's probably because they were on different servers. these days you'd probably have one main server acting as a reverse proxy for other services, but early on it made more sense to keep them entirely separate. i couldn't say for sure since i'm not quite that old, i remember having to type in "www." for websites to work, but that's about it. i was young then

I have been using librewolf on pc and ironfox on phone I recently started using helium on pc as librewolf is a bit overkill and I am thinking of using something else on my phone as ironfox is pretty slow and sometimes decides it just doesn't want to work.

Is firefox with ublock good enough? are there any other extensions for privacy you reccomend? I have not used default firefox in a long time

>>108337094
>i remember many cases where websites would not load unless you wrote "www." before the domain.
It sounds like a configuration issue on the website's part (I'd guess bad DNS?), not some fundamental requirement for "www"

>>108337388
i'm talking about the late '90s here.
i'm also not talking about any kind of technical requirement, it was just the standard. the web as a normalfag thing was still kinda new, so they kept with the more technically correct www.-- convention. it was only later when it got really popular but normal people were only using the internet for the web that "www." started to seem superfluous

>>108337420
Well yes, but the original question was "why did URLs start with www" and the anon's reply was "it was never necessary", meaning it wasn't necessary for URLs to start with www. It is absolutely true that they did, and that if someone set up their website to only be accessible over the www subdomain (as I'm sure many did) then you'd have to use the www... URL to access it. But it was not "necessary" for websites to use www in URLs, it was just something they chose to do by convention.

The point being that nothing changed about the internet technically, websites just used to be set up this way and now they're not anymore.

Is there a way to create a Javascript bookmarklet that automatically downloads all expanded images in a 4chan thread? I have something already, and it's only clicking on the download button next to the expanded images, but it brings up a "Save as" dialog for every individual file. I know I can just modify that in the browser's settings, but I like to keep that for normal downloads. Is there a workaround?

Or does the 4chan X extension already have this and I never noticed?

>>108337360
>Is firefox with ublock good enough?
yes, but also try zen browser

>>108337451
I have spent 0 time looking into this so I might be wrong, but I fully expect that there's no way for javascript on the page (which is just what a bookmarklet is) to force-download files to your computer when your browser is set to ask on downloads.
Since a bookmarklet just executes some JS on the page's context the same way you would do in the browser console, and the same way the page could do itself, this would mean that websites could randomly shove stuff into your Downloads folder or whatever even when you explicitly disabled it.

You might need an extension for it, which has explicit access to browser APIs and can do stuff normal webpages can't. (Or a userscript, which runs through a userscript extension like Violentmonkey and therefore can also make use of this ability to do stuff that webpages can't.)
No idea if 4chanx can do it, maybe it can

Do upscalers in mpv rape your GPU?
ive been using this upscaler pretty much all the time and my gpu usage is between 80-90% while watching, should i stop it or at least use the less aggressive option?
https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

>>108337465
I was thinking for my phone, probs just gonna use firefox and ublock ty tho. I'm sticking with helium on desktop for the time being it is great so far super fast and looks cool as well.

>>108337443
yes, nothing i know of changed technically to "allow" for sites to stop using www.-, i'm sure some sites even early on made using www.- optional, like if a website was all they served.
though "it was never necessary" isn't really an answer to "why did urls start with www", really it's not an answer to anything besides "is www.- necessary for anything technically speaking"

>>108337513
expensive AI/NN ones like that can absolutely rape your gpu, yes

>>108335769
There's a reddit thread :^) https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1c0ljdm/datapoints_welcome_list_of_usbc_gan_chargers_that/

>>108336569
Remove contact and wait, takes a couple years to mostly reduce, similar to breakup

>>108337547
I think it's a fine answer. If someone doesn't know how the internet works or what DNS is etc., and they just notice that all websites used to start with www and now they don't, they might wonder what changed. "Nothing changed fundamentally, people just used to make their websites this way and then stopped" is a fair answer.
For example websites still start with "http://" (or https://) and that's actually fundamentally necessary because the protocol has to be specified. If someone asked why URLs used to always have http and now most people just write "domain.com", the answer would be very different: in this case it's still just as necessary, but web browsers just automatically add it by default, so you don't have to type it in.

When I was a kid I thought http and www were both magic strings that websites had to have. So I think explaining that www is not actually necessary is a valid and useful answer to someone who doesn't know that. Even back in the 90s there was nothing preventing someone from dropping www, or using "web.domain.com" or "nigger.domain.com" instead of www or anything else, and to someone who doesn't know much about how the internet works this might be very non-obvious.

>>108337656
sure it's a fine answer if you make up a new question and make up a new answer for said new question.
"why did they use it" is not the same as "is it necessary"
>For example websites still start with "http://" (or https://) and that's actually fundamentally necessary because the protocol has to be specified.
this, while not the same thing, has similarities. nobody types http(s):// as their browser assumes it for them. even when i started using the internet this was not something i ever remember typing in myself, i'd be very surprised if any dedicated web browser required it, as while www.- was conventional, http:// was technical. web browsers "spoke" http and http:// was how to describe "speaking" http to a server, so as you say, this hasn't gone anywhere.

Which AMD GPU is actually good?

>>108336654
The part is AKG 2040M02100 and seems to be available from https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/198139-akg-2040m02100-outer-headband-for-k240-and-k240-mkii
The part goes all the way around to the cups on each side and requires to soldering

I'm just wondering if you could steal the frame from a pair of Samson SR850. They're a clone and are pretty cheap, though they supposedly sound very similar to the akg k240s anyway.

>>108337741
>if you make up a question
The question was >>108335328
>Why don't many urls start with www anymore?
To which my points all apply.

>web browsers "spoke" http and http:// was how to describe "speaking" http to a server
To be fair even back then they frequently also "spoke" ftp. Nowadays they also "speak" https. Of course https is handled automatically and almost nobody uses ftp nowadays.
>this was not something i ever remember typing in myself,
I don't remember typing it either but I definitely remember URLs showin in various places, like advertisements etc., would often include it. Like a van saying "contact us at http://www.localbuilders.com" for example. Nowadays you just don't see http or https mentioned almost anywhere, the same van would just say "visit localbuilders.com".

>>108337842
The current gen is all decent, just depends on your price point and their price point relative to other GPUs. Ask /pcbg/ for up to date buying advice maybe, also mention which continent/country you live in because availability and prices vary.

The previous gen has the 7900XTX which has the best raster of any AMD card, since the new gen didn't get a top tier flagship. IIRC it has weaker raytracing cores and I don't remember if it got FSR4 support (I think it did but it might have more overhead on it than on the newer cards with dedicated hardware for it). If you primarily play raster-based games, e.g. indies, older games, etc. then 7900XTX is by far the best AMD card. If you want to play the newest AAA games with upscaling and raytracing then the 9070XT for example has basically identical raytracing performance despite being smaller, using less power, and potentially cheaper? But again prices vary wildly and so does availability so it's impossible to say for sure nowadays.

You can also look at ROCm support, which is AMD's compute solution; the 7900XTX definitely supports it but I don't remember about the 90xx series. Might make a difference if you want to run AI stuff. AMD is generally worse than Nvidia for this but it doesn't mean it's unusable by any means, but you do have to get a card that supports it.

tl;dr either a 7900XTX or a 9070xt for the best AMD has, or a cheaper 90## series card if you want something cheaper but this depends heavily on availability and prices.
Cheaper last gen cards (7900, 7800xt, etc.) are not really worth it anymore, unless you can find a very good deal used.

what's my opinion on the recent thing about llm reimplementations of copyleft code? has any big guy like stallman or license makers commented? is there going to be a gpl 4 that says fuck you robot bastard?

Im using WIndows 10 IoT Enterprise edition. I recently came to it from normal W10 cause Arctium App wasn't working. It appears that my Search App (the search bar) isn't working either. I suspect that a debloater software I used has come back to bite me.

Is there a way to "remove" debloater" features or reset them? I honestly cant remember what programs I downloaded to "fix" Windows 10. I do have all my downloads still in my folder, I just dont remember the names.

>>108337388
>configuration issue on the website's part (I'd guess bad DNS?)
It's not an "issue", it's fundamental to how the web works. And it has nothing to do with DNS.
You need to learn to distinguish marketing speak from technical stuff.
"Find the newest pets on pets.com!" Isn't technical speak, but marketing. pets.com is meaningless without a protocol, a path and a port. A retard can assume that the port is 80, a default path exists on this server, and the protocol is HTTP, but technology doesn't work on assumptions, it works on facts.
The retard will instinctively use a web browser to access pets.com, and the browser will fill in the missing information using some logic that mostly works, so the retard is mostly happy. But as soon as the (hypothetical) retard is faced with technical terms, he gets lost.
>protocol? host? path? port?! wtf, I just want to order tendies!

>>108337443
Most web servers nowadays are configured to redirect automatically to www or non-www, this is the only reason why it seems to always work.

>>108338176
We are talking about the actual domain here anon, not the protocol or port or path. If the guys at pets.com serve their website from pets.com, then that's the domain. If they serve it from www.pets.com then that's the domain. If they serve the website from ftp.mail.killallniggers.pets.com.exe.pets.com, then that's the domain, and it's entirely up to the webmaster who owns the "pets.com" second-level domain to decide what services to host on what subdomains.
And the services are going to be handled by DNS redirecting the user's request to the appropriate server. This could be a reverse proxy with a wildcard DNS record, or it could be separate DNS records for every subdomain. If again the webmaster configures www.pets.com to connect to the web server but doesn't configure this for pets.com, then just typing pets.com won't work. So it has everything to do with DNS.

>technology doesn't work on assumptions, it works on facts
And there are standard defaults which are facts, for example the http protocol defaults to port 80, the https protocol defaults to port 443, and when an explicit path is not provided it defaults to / , the root. These are not "assumptions". There is no reason to explicitly enter default values.
The web browser makes an assumption that the protocol is http(s) because it is a web browser and those are the web protocols.

If you want to be extremely pedantic you'd have to type the final period after the TLD, because "com" is not a fully canonical URL while "com." is. But the standard default is that the period at the end of the domain in a URL can be elided and all our systems are built with this in mind.

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>>108335769
>>108336543
If 5 volts is enough you could use something like picrel, simply hook up whatever types of connectors and there you go. Actually had one with a couple of USB-A females plus some other connectors.

>>108338128
depends on which debloater you used and how it fucked things up. some of them offer a way to restore things. see if you can find which one you used in your browser history. beyond that, check rsop to see if any relevant group policies are in place and run sfc /scannow for the hell of it in case it's just a bug.

>>108337991
You don't have copyright any more. LLM providers straight load everything off pirate sites and sell the results.

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My mother has this scanner. I think at some point it used to work but now when we connect it to her PC and try to scan a document the scanner doesn't see the PC and just fails.
I'm guessing it's a driver issue but I don't know scanners, she doesn't have an internet connection at her house though so I can't simply update them there. What drivers or whatever else do I need / from where? I can bring them to her place on a USB stick. Alternately, is the problem maybe something else? I need advice.

Is there any article or website that has a good explanation for L*, like some step-by-step examples?

Hypothetically speaking, if someone was thinking about downloading gigs upon gigs of porn for a potential porn ban, what would be the best way to do that?

Did 4chan remove a couple of those sketchy sites that were asking to be disabled in filters? I couldn't post for a couple of weeks because of them but now they're no longer asking to exclude them

>>108338599
typically you just go to hp's website and enter the model number and it'll link you the drivers. you can put them on a flash drive and install them on the pc. i'd recommend uninstalling the old drivers first.

>>108338978
if you're talking about best bang (heh) for your gb, i'd honestly recommend h-games. you can grab a bunch from sukebei and you'll usually get more mileage out of them than a video or pic that you might look at a few times tops before it gets stale. if text can do it for you, era games are also a good choice. you might also want to consider a local model that can run on your gpu if you're into erp, i don't know much about that since it's not my thing. either way, i would strongly advise you to consider reusability as a primary concern; what are you going to be able to come back to repeatedly?

>>108339030
or f95, idk why that slipped my mind

I built a new PC today and my monitor says "input not supported" through HDMI. I can only see the BIOS screen through a VGA connection. Would turning on CSM/Legacy solve this issue?

>>108337054
That’s what i insisted, but because there’s an open balance on the account and not the phone, they still won’t unlock it.
Bastards

>>108337045
Maybe I will. I'll consider it. Still, I would like to know more about IT jobs. I know there HAS to be some good resources that document the kinds of pays you get from various ones and try to parce what might be interesting to you based on a questionaire, with some kind of list.

There are tests online that I've done that are sorta like that but they weren't very good and gave only one result at the end. The entiredesigns of the sights were gay and not pragmatic as well, which told me a lot about them before I even got a result.

Even if they'll be taken over by AI, I would like to at least know a bit about them before I give up on it. I know there are many fields.

>>108339608
I partly want to know because I'm not really sure it's for me, even if I'm certain I'd find utility from learning those things. I don't know if I have the mind for it or not. I like systematizing and I know that's big in these kinds of things, but in the little bit I've learned so far (which to be fair, is astonishingly little) about say, C++, so much of it is a mystery and I don't grasp it, I can go through some motions but that's really the extent of it, and that bothers me on a deap level, for whatever reason. That could be a mindset problem. I might be predisposed to an interest in that sort of thing. When I was young in school a teacher once encouraged me to do it. Maybe I could despite being brain damaged. I'm just not sure. It's all cool stuff and outwardly interesting but when you get into any of it there are so many fields, so much complexity, that I'm immediately lost. I feel like I'm walking into a maze as complext as a microchip.

>>108339452
try updating the bios/uefi?

>>108339452
>Would turning on CSM/Legacy solve this issue?
csm/legacy is a boot option for booting devices using a master boot record instead of guid partition tables. i highly doubt it would have anything to do with your video output but it's not going to hurt anything to turn it on, although you should turn it back off if it doesn't help. like the other guy said, updating the system firmware is more likely to help, and if that doesn't fix it you're probably out of luck and should just reconnect vga in the off-case where you need to access the bios.

Is there any way to change which side button powers on a galaxy samsung s8 +? The typical one is broken, and there's another one the left side of the phone under the volume buttons that would be perfect, but I couldn't find anything in the settings.

>>108339674
>>108339715
I'm running an ASUS A520M with a 5600GT. I heard it needs a BIOS update to support this processor but the Megatrends screen showed that it's at BIOS version 3621 from 2025, while the latest version is 3636 from February 2026. I heard this 3636 BIOS is kinda dodgy compared to 3621 so I'm hesitant to flash the board with it.

>>108340011
there was probably a regression. i would just leave it alone and in the off situation where you need to access the bios just keep a vga cable connected (but keep input set to hdmi normally).

Can a partially rusty PS/2 keyboard plug kill a motherboard?

>>108340288
if rusted iron flakes chipped off and shorted two lines it's probably possible

>>108324394
post what you have on >>>/r/
and link

so I recently acquired a yamaha sound bar without a subwoofer, and maybe im doing it wrong or the cable is bad quality but I am using a SPDIF cable to connect it to my motherboard and its not showing up in my list of audio devices. not sure if I need to do something on my pc or I need a converter, but any help would be useful

how to download a video from twitter?

>>108342460
the extension cat-catch works pretty well

I want to get a cheap TV to hang up on my wall that matches my main monitor screen. Needs to have low delay so that I can play vidya. Any suggestions?

Also: does anyone know anything about devices that can function as a keyboard that you can use while standing up? Like futuristic shit that would make it easy to type or use the mouse while I walk around the room. Maybe a steam controller? I want to be able to work at my PC from my bed or while I'm walking around the room basically.

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>Have 2023 TV
>Have 2005 5.1 AV receiver (HTIB shit)
>TV can't pass 5.1 PCM audio through optical output
>Receiver can't read/pass 4k video
>Too poor to replace speakers
What's the cheapest device to split/pass PCM audio over HDMI? Does such a device exist? Can I get it in one device, or could a series of splitter and downscaler work?
Amazon and Aliexpress only has stuff $60+
Do you suppose this could work? Lol, no reviews
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/seort/1JKX4PTMF61Q?selectedSellerId=102950927

>>108331965
b.ump

>>108342460
Jdownloader 2
You need to log into your twitter account withing JD2
Also works for lots of things like Youtube and one-click download hosts.
You can also paste a chan thread and it'll scrape all the images

>>108341743
Make sure you've got whatever relevant (probably Realtek) drivers installed. I was able to get SPDIF running on a cheap RCA cable, but it was really prone to interference. Even a shitty cable should at least be able to troubleshoot basic function. Apparently SPDIF devices have a handshake, so make sure your soundbar is actually powered on and the connectors are firmly inserted. Double-check your audio devices in windows don't have anything disabled

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>>108342653
>type
>work
There's ways to type while standing up but they fall squarely into two categories: either they're inefficient, good for occasional text but definitely not for work; or they're hyper-autistic and take literal months of practice to get reasonably fast at.
In the first category is basically touch screens, or a steam controller's trackpads. I think with some practice you can type pretty well using the trackpads to "aim" on letters. But like I said I wouldn't want to use it for work. Something like a portable phone keyboard that you use with your thumbs would also fall here.
In the second category is shit like https://decatxt.com/, or strapping a svalboard to your hand, or other exotic shit. Basically these would have higher theoretical max speed and much higher theoretical max comfort, rather than speedrunning RSI on a thumb keyboard or fighting with a touchscreen one, but are completely unlike a normal keyboard and would require learning a completely new typing skill from scratch.

In your bed you should really just grab a real normal keyboard. When walking around consider something like pic related, if not a laptop then unironically just hanging a harness with a keyboard or something.

>>108342752
>Jdownloader 2
Damn that still exists? I stopped using it over 10 years ago for some reason... I think I only used it because it had that "get new dynamic IP" script, back when I was downloading from the "you can download for 1 hour" websites.

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>>108322203
>What should I buy?
A good PSU and a isolated ground outlet.

Just buy a fancy USB DAC.

>>108322203
>apple dongle
$10 at burgermart. Good enough for 99% of cases if paired with moderate sensitivity headphones. Say 90dB/V +/-6
>moondrop dawn pro (2)
$40~50 on ali. Real volume control and more power -> less picky about headphones
>jds atom stack
$200 from the mfg. Obsessive emphasis on reliability, qc, and compatibility. No mic in.

Only real difference between PCIe and USB is USB has a latency penalty of about 10ms. Small benefit for DACs with optical input.

>>108321921
Anyone got any good IPTV providers? Everything is so fucking sketchy.

How do i make mpc-hc recognize japanese characters in .m3u files? it recognize them in flac and mp3 but not in m3u

>>108339856
No, there is no way.

>>108342702
It looks like the right thing. Are you sure your AV receiver supports multichannel audio over SPDIF?

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So is there any AI chatbot like Grok or ChatGPT or whatever but without the SJW guardrails? Like where I could ask it maybe unethical questions and it complies?

>>108345865
Any local setup.

>>108345865
Your best bet are local/open-weight models. I think sometimes they may have trained-in guardrails (e.g. a ton of training material along the lines of
>USER: teach me to build a nuclear bomb
>ASSISTANT: I can't do that for safety
so the model learns to respond the same way), but that is almost always easy to bypass.

The issue is that local models are always significantly dumber than the best cloud ones, like grok or chatgpt. If you want the best and most capable models, you can't use them for non-kosher things.

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>>108342702
>>108345409
>Are you sure your AV receiver supports multichannel audio over SPDIF?
It very much does, but only Dolby or DTS
Trying to get 5.1 Linear PCM via HDMI

Also, receiver only has ARC instead of eARC, which limits it to the same capabilities as optical, 2.0 PCM or 5.1 Dolby/DTS

Kind of a niche request that I don't know where else to ask. but does anyone know where I can find old encodes of full episodes of cartoons/anime like you would find on P2P back in the day? stuff in outdated formats like realmedia and AVI. I've found a handful of stuff from archive.org but it's mostly clips of hentai included on old distributed CDs with other porn and shit on them which I'm not really interested in.
Alternatively, if anyone happens to know of any channels with such stuff on YouTube, Dailymotion etc I'd be happy with that. As long as it's low definition, old rips

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>>108346932
>like you would find on P2P back in the day?
Have you tried searching those old P2P networks? Gnutella and various eDonkey servers are still up with old farts using them. (can Gnutella honestly ever die?)

>>108347255
>Have you tried searching those old P2P networks?
...I honestly didn't even consider it. I just kind of assumed that whole world was long gone. Guess it couldn't hurt to check. I used Morpheus back then.
>pic
kek

>>108337078
Well, nevermind. Laptop (HP Omen 15 btw.) throws a 90B error on startup, meaning fucky fan(s).
Wrote to the seller, but I think I will have to send it back. I couldn't even find the correct fan on the marketplace website, so I'm not going to bother trying to fix it.

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>>108335418
>Not really because they would just use [S]VGA, GLIDE, and SB16/OPL as the standard interfaces. Abstract drivers improved vendor competition not so much ease of use or compatibility.
i dont understand
could you dumb it down for me

Does anyone know where to get a 300w vbios for a radeon pro v620? My v620 came with a 16gb 250w vbios, and the only vbios I could find online, while 32gb, still only went up to 250w.

What's the cheapest device (in terms of up front price + power consumption) that lets me run a jellyfin client that supports syncplay (only works with web version afaik)?

>>108348433
Forgot to add, this is supposed to be connected to a television. Don't want to hook up a proper computer just to watch stuff in the living room.

>>108347537
The hardware interface or very low level library was the standard instead of some high level API dreamed up by non-manufacturers like Microsoft or Khronos. Lots of GPUs have bad OpenGL or DirectX, but none have bad Vulkan.

A high level API creates an abstract problem space which invites people to create different solutions, but all this really does is create more products, more jobs, and more dependency on the high level API provider.

>Installing drivers on PC after building and installing Windows
>Screen suddenly goes black
>Keyboard and mouse lights turn off
>Holding the power button doesn't shut off the PC, have to flip the PSU switch
>Problem persists after turning it back on
I'm losing my mind a little. I don't even get POST.

>>108348954
do you get fanspin?

>>108349009
Yes, the CPU fan spins, and the mobo lights come on. Moving the RAM stick around and clearing the CMOS battery didn't work.

>>108348822
high level means its more detached from the actual hardware i guess? and low level means it interacts with the hardware closer to its language o algo

>>108348954
did you check if the ram is well seated? try only leaving one ram stick on and see if hte problem persists
check if the PC at least beeps when you turn it on with no ram at all
if it doesnt, its probably the motherboard or cpu

>>108349047
sounds like it's failing in POST rather than failing to reach it. do you have a beep speaker or a POST card? either way try running it with a bare minimum of connected devices and components

>>108349088
I have no speaker for the mobo sadly. I have to get one. It might be the RAM stick acting up. It's rather old and been through more than one dead mobo.

>>108349281
i personally prefer the pcie post card to the beep speaker but they both ultimately get you the same info, it's just a numeric code's usually easier to look up. either way they're both about $5 usd so you could also just get both.

>>108349316
I'll take a look then, thanks.

When using my Windows 11 laptop after some use everything will slow to 1-5fps and even moving the mouse cursor is difficult. In the task manager nothing is being used up and my storage is fine. It goes away when I restart the PC and won't happen again until the next day, but I can't figure out the root cause.

I have also tested to see if it was windows defender scanning or updating but doing that manually doesn't replicate the issue.

>>108349700
You could perhaps try using latencymon when it is happening to see if it's caused by any specific process

Best AI to oneshot a simple file viewer utility?
Best UI kit to use?

>>108349870
Every UI toolkit already has one of these in their docs

>>108321921
is this the correct place to ask a stupid question?

>>108349880
It's not that simple, I want to create something to view PS4 pkg files internally

>>108321921
Why isn't there torrenting/ file sharing technology that stores potential seeds when nobody's around? Like if I keep seeding, I keep uploading copies of the file over and over for more people to download.

>>108349963
Upload to where?

>>108349934
There's already an app for that

>>108349970
Like a reserve thingy where other people could download the file. I just wish my idle seeding to nobody could actually do something, you know?

>>108350077
It costs money to have online storage though

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>>108349921

>>108350077
That would defeat the whole point of peer to peer as a centralised server containing copyrighted content would exist and would give the feds the legal right to raid.

>>108350077
Information can be copied for free, so if you upload it once to some "reserve thingy" then it'll be available for anyone to download from there, there's zero reason it'd be useful to upload copies "over and over" while idle seeding.
This "reserve thingy" is called a file host. They are usually not integrated with torrents, maybe they could be; I guess nobody thinks this is a useful usecase. But you can do this manually, upload the file to mega or somewhere.

Within torrents themselves, this "reserve" could be some other guy downloading your torrent and then seeing it. But that's exactly what you are doing too. YOU are the reserve thingy, as well as everyone else who is seeding the same torrent.
Some people run seedboxes that just download all kinds torrents even ones that they don't need, and then keep them available for as long as possible in case someone else wants them later, just acting as a server that seeds as much shit as possible.

Fundamentally the tradeoff of torrents vs. centralised hosts (like mega or catbox) is in a torrent you are depending on at least one guy continuing to make the file available; for some torrents, you could be that guy to someone else, but anyone can come along and also seed the same file. For centralised hosts, you are depending on the host keeping the file up and nobody else can help out, but generally you expect the host to be more reliable than a single random guy like yourself.
Sometimes torrents survive longer because a centralised host dies and takes down everything everyone every uploaded to them. Sometimes torrents die first if one is very niche and not a single person ends up seeding it anymore.

Ultimately to download a file from anywhere someone has to have it available for download, and when you're seeding you're doing just that, keeping it available. A "reserve thingy" would have to be another host willing to make it available, sometimes there is one, sometimes there's not.

Is there an easy way to slightly alter a bunch of images quickly?
Catbox is wonky and some images I uploaded back in September of last year don't work properly. I can't delete and reupload them either. Is there an easy way alter a bunch of images so that they are basically the same but catbox views it as a separate image?

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no phone general that I can see so I'm asking here: what's a decent, cheap Android phone? My requirements:
- audio jack
- SD card slot
- cheap (I don't need super duper hardware, it just needs to make calls and run Foobar 2000)
- GOOD screen
- non-chinese brand
- not too large (I don't want one of those 6-7 inch mini tablets, I prefer something compact)
- sturdy case, preferably non-glass back so it has less chances for showing damage.

If it is possible to open it up with just a screwdriver to do self repair, and it has an abundance of spare parts that's a giant bonus. I can get 10 years out of hardware that's repairable.

I previously had a nokia lumia 800 (it was so easily repairable I kept using it for almost ten years) and a samsung s7. the s7 still works, it's just broken in every direction and feels like the battery is inflated because the back isn't flat any longer. I like the S7 a lot, except for the glass garbage and that data transfer via USB barely fucking works. So I'd want something like the S7, just maybe sturdier.

I have no fucking clue about the phone market, I practically always got phones from my workplace or from family. Only reasons I even need Android is to test websites at work.

>>108350315
Add some garbage metadata, it should change the md5 which is what catbox looks for.

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do switches like this exist, but for Ethernet cables? I'd do a google search, but I hope you can see how it's tricky to pick the right keywords. I don't mean just a plain old network switch.

>>108350491
Just get a common switch

>>108350491
>but I hope you can see how it's tricky to pick the right keywords.
This general concept is called either a Y-cable or a splitter.
Ethernet is interesting because connecting multiple devices directly is designed to work fine. It's not very efficient because all traffic is broadcast traffic, but it will work. In the past there used to be "ethernet hubs" which were basically an N-way splitter letting you do this. Thing is proper switches are so cheap and so much better that there is no reason to use splitters/hubs anymore, since by actually routing the traffic they completely eliminate the broadcast spam.

If you specifically want a switcher with a button on it that can alternately enable one of two connections, I've never seen one, and also I'm really curious about your usecase. If you really want to nigger-rig one, an option might be a usb switch/kvm and some usb-to-ethernet adaptars. But really would a normal switch not work for you?

>>108350542
last time my ISP went down for a couple of hours (doesn't really happen that often, but it did this time) I had a USB-C Ethernet adapter lying around, plugged it into my phone, and found out that Android actually lets me do tethering with that, so the phone can act as a 5G modem and provide internet connectivity over Ethernet to the device on the other end. So I just plugged it straight into my PC and it worked. But then I couldn't access my actual LAN from the PC, obviously. I figured, I could probably plug this into the WAN port on my wireless router, but there's only one such port. So the use case for a switcher like that would be extreme laziness. I could set the cabling up once, and then if my ISP has an outage, I could just plug the Ethernet adapter into my phone and click the button on the switcher, so that the phone acts as the internet gateway for my home network.

>>108336316
>My Pi3B has always been without a fan and still does its job.
Are you sure that's OK? How long have you had yours like that?

>>108350326
who was this artist again? I forget

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>>108350491
>it exists
kek
https://www.amazon.com.be/-/en/Gigabit-Network-Key-Press-Splitter-Selector/dp/B0CF1Z5N27

>>108350887
magi/magi34/ac120

I have a 10TB WD EDGZ drive that has a dead board, can I do a board swap to get it to work? the drive is empty so theres nothing to recover on it.

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I'm trying to fix an old CRT TV for fun. It's a Sansui DTV2798. Audio only works on the front RCA jacks, no video. Then on the rear RCA jacks video works but no audio. It has some horizontal scanline distortion for ~10 minutes when I first turn it on and then it clears up. When I first got it there was constant, severe distortion for a half hour, then the image would flicker between black & white and color for a minute, and then would only have mild horizontal distortion sweeping down the image. I had to leave it sitting for a while cause life problems kept me from tinkering and now it's broken in a new way? Any advice besides throwing it out?

>>108350429
Thank you very much. Typing some junk in the properties did the trick.

I have 64 GB (2 x 32) of RAM but I think one of the sticks just died (computer crashes and freezes if it's inserted). I have two older 8 GB sticks. Is there any reason not to add these older sticks to get 48 GB if it works?

How do I make MKV icons show a video thumbnail instead of just a generic 321 icon? W10 LTSC

>>108351360
no but make sure you have them in the correct channels. match the colors.

>>108321921
can someone riddle me this?
>open web browser (cookies clear on shutdown)
>try to post
>IP rangeban message
>try to post again
>get "need to wait X seconds before making a post" error message (i.e. clearly someone else is posting on same IP)
don't tell me they fucking rangeban you for clearing cookies

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>>108321921
What's the best way to set up a burner phone number for Aliexpress? I'm not handing over my mobile just for cheap gunpla.

>>108351751
no idea but it could easily be tested, download a portable browser and use it for 4chan for a bit and see what happens

>>108351777
I've used SMSPool for that kind of thing in the past

>>108351360
>Is there any reason not to add these older sticks to get 48 GB if it works?
They'll run at the slowest speed/timings of any stick. But that might not matter for your use case. And check that they're in the right slots like anon said.

Is it better to have one large hard drive to store random shit on, or have it divided up on a bunch of smaller hard drives?

How would one go about scanning a book and turning it into a PDF using his phone camera and a computer?

>>108350651
>Are you sure that's OK?
Yes.
>How long have you had yours like that?
It has been running continuously since 2017 or 2018. Initially it was the WiFi router for my parents, now it's a VPN server and torrent box.
My Pi4B boards are also fanless and one of them has been in service since 2020, mostly for Kodi and Retropie.
The fan is optional, it allows the board to sustain high load for long periods without thermal throttling. If you don't load the board continuously, or don't mind the throttling, or can avoid it in other ways (CPU governor, undervolting) then there's no need for a fan.