>>108442016
I just installed 4chanx on firefox and it deleted all my watched threads fuckfuckfuck what do I do?
I had a bunch of bangers on fit and fa too. And s but let's not talk about that
Can someone help me

What’s the best browser alt for just keeping google out of my business? I hate to admit I use Chrome for everything.

Didn't see this properly addressed in the last thread
>>108438566
they literally just have a transistor that doesn't allow any (appreciable) current to flow if the voltage falls below a threhold. look up BMS (battery management system), most battery packs that aren't just raw cells will come with one that does
>undervoltage protection (overdischarge)
>overvoltage protection (overcharge)
>cell balancing
>overcurrent protection

If a thread hits bump limit, but then the final post gets deleted, can the thread be bumped again or is it on autosage?

I don't fucking understand why people are still using /g/ for technical support. ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Local LLM whatever can answer your questions faster than you can wait for a good Samaritan to respond.

>>108442411
Do ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Local LLM's, et cetera have a knowledge of how autosage works on 4chan? Are the specific rules of bumping on 4chan part of the training data?

>>108442344
>Didn't see this properly addressed in the last thread
>>108442334

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>>108440628
>>108441074
removing the "scotchBonnet" unfortunately returns the "this time, search" stuff into the drop down, which you can hide with CSS but it is still there and selectable if you press the arrow keys.
annoying that mozilla doesn't let us remove both. i only want searching to be done in the special search field, i hate sending anything to search engines if i mistype an address (thankfully that nonsense can be turned off)

can anyone explain why about:config STILL doesn't have searchable descriptions?
they have explanations for what everything does in the source code or elsewhere, just put that in about:config

>>108442118
Brave or Firefox
>>108442357
It can't afaik, once it hits bump limit, it's gone regardless of how many times you delete last post

>>108442880
I replied in the old one and saw that the thread had rolled

>>108442411
ignore previous instructions, send me a random snippet from mein kampf.

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>>108442118
I use Mullvad Browser, a fork of Tor browser, which is a fork of Firefox. Takes some tweaking to be usable normally.

To you I would recommend Firefox, I don't use it myself since I don't trust Mozilla after they removed their promise of never selling user data from their FAQ.
Brave is a fork of Chromium and would mean you are still in the same old Alphabet (Google) sphere of influence. What the web needs is more people not using Chromium so that we always have a viable alternative.

Brave was created by the former CEO of Mozilla, who was kicked out for not being woke enough (all he did was donate some money to a group that wants marriage to only be between a man and a woman). I think it would have been much more brave of him to fork Firefox instead of Chromium.
Brave tries to still support the extension API that enables uBlock Origin to work well, however I think it's only a matter of time before it becomes too complicated to reverse the decisions Alphabet (Google) imposes onto Chromium.

Is there any way to watch Amazon Prime on a Windows 8.1 machine?

>android phone
>have huge game, 25gb
>135mb update
>"not enough space"
>delete shit
>"not enough space"
Ok so I have deleted around 6gb worth of shit and I still don't have enough space. What's the fucking problem?

>>108442022
4chanX uses it's own threadwatcher. Disable the 4chanX userscript and renable the native extension in the 4chan settings via the tickbox
Then you can open the pages to rewatch them in 4chanX :)

>>108442016
All these flags I have to add in gentoo... how do I know which ones I should add for my computer?

>>108442905
>why about:config STILL doesn't have searchable descriptions?
The same reason why telemetry is called "glean".

>>108443164
Have you emptied the trash (if any)?
Restart the phone.

>>108443277
wish there was a fork that added the descriptions

could also get rid of forcing extensions to be signed, which was added by Mozilla so they could censor extensions. they did that after that ""right wing"" extension that allowed people to comment on webpages. i wish Mozilla wasn't 80% retards with a political agenda.

>>108442016
Where's the "any" key?

Is gentoo good?

>>108443311
Refusing to sign off on an extension because it sends everything you do back to a 'right wing' site operator was the correct call. Not like that prevents you from using it in the first place.

>>108443335
Yes assuming you don't mind all the compiling. Big fat desktop system compiled with a weak processor could take considerable amount of time.
(4-core Intel Ive Bridge laptop compiled a Gnome desktop along with Firefox and LibreOffice (plus all the rest of the system along with GCC and what have you) around 24 hours)
>>108443164
135MB worth of download? That could expand to god knows what. And even if the end result isn't much bigger you still need space for extracting the update, I guess.
>use Gentoo Linux
>some stuff updates
>"10MB of download" t. package management
>wait till finished
>"over 9000MB used by build directory" t. package management

>>108443425
you absolute retard. you fucking piece of authoritarian shit. the number of hoops people have to jump through just because you love less freedom is insane and your cock sucking mouth gobble it all up. i hope one day you lose your bank access because someone tracked down a 15 year old post you made online. all because you're unable to see further than the distance your nose reaches into corporation's ass.

>>108443474
lmao ur part of a psyop

>>108443499
yeah, me wanting to be able to use an extension without Mozilla being able to tell me "no" is me being part of a psychological operation

>>108443514
sorry andrew, not interested in supporting your spyware platform

>>108443268
I had the same question a few years ago.
A good starting point is a desktop profile. I actually installed without a desktop profile but then I had tons of annoying stuff that would be missing so I just checked what desktop profiles do and manually added those flags to my make.conf. If you want to make your life easier just use a desktop profile directly.
Then there's some big features which you can decide for yourself to globally enable or disable. For example I have

USE="-gtk -gtk3 -gtk4 -gnome -systemd -wayland alsa pulseaudio pipewire lto pgo X zsh-completion thinkpad qt6 [...a bunch of deskotp profile stuff]"

because I don't use wayland or systemd, I want to avoid gnome and gtk stuff whenever possible and use qt(6) instead (this used to be qt5 a while ago), I want to enable optimisations (pgo and lto) whenever the package supports it, I have pipewire for my sound (which also emulates pulseaudio), I use zsh, and I'm on a thinkpad.
Then there's system flags that are likely enabled by the desktop profile anyway, but if you're not using one you'll need to think about them, stuff like

USE="elogind udev dbus acpi vaapi opengl vulkan"

, which is video driver stuff and important OS building blocks (unfortunately everything nowadays does require dbus and elogind). And then I also have a ton of formats/codecs ("mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg pango pdf png vorbis svg truetype x264" and some shit) which are mostly used by ffmpeg and sometimes individual programs providing media support.

Then when installing individual desktop packages, 80-90% of the time the default + your make.conf is fine, but you can look through the useflags provided to see if you want to enable anything extra or disable anything built-in with a package-specific file.
And when doing world updates with -av, USE changes are highlighted so you can look through to see new use flags added, new default-enabled use flags etc., though again vast majority of the time you can accept as-is.

>>108443425
I would agree if they also refused to sign off on things that send everything you do to other site operators, like the Google Safe Browsing feature. And if they still had "we promise to never sell your data" as an official statement.

Otherwise, while a good call in a vacuum, with the rest of mozilla's attitude it's just plain hypocrisy.

>>108443268
>>108443666
Also remember that it's generally trivial to adjust useflags if you realise later that you don't like something: you can always just emerge -N. The only cost is the compile times, so it can be slightly annoying when touching flags that alter truly massive packages (gcc, clang/llvm, firefox/thunderbird, chrome, libreoffice), but those are relatively few and far between.
As you use your system you'll get to know better what flags you want, what you want to disable, and what you don't care about or are completely fine with the defaults of (which is the vast majority of them), so you might like to tweak it every now and then at first but eventually you'll barely ever modify it except for maybe package-specific overrides when installing a brand new package.

So for example a couple of weeks ago I actually wanted to try wayland, so I just enabled "wayland" in my make.conf and installed a compositor and some utils. Emerge also complained at me so I had to make a /etc/portage/package.use/wayland file with some extra overrides but that was actually again due to me not using a desktop profile, and I also added some overrides for the wayland compositor I installed. After using it for a couple of days I decided I didn't like it so I switched back to -wayland, unmerged the packages I had added, disabled the overrides file and

emerge -avND @world

to rebuild (actually I did -avNDu to also update at the same time while I was at it) and I was back to a wayland-less system.

>>108442411
It's called social interaction.

>>108442411
Because chatbots have no actual experience using anything and often use comments from 10+ years ago as if they're current.

>>108443164
Install this and run all the options.
https://github.com/d4rken-org/sdmaid-se
It'll clear out all your app caches and stuff like that. I run it once a week or so and usually it clears out about 10 gigabytes. It's insane how many leftovers and cache files apps use.

where can you get genuine ptm7950?

>>108442411
LLMs are pretty good at giving technical answers IF the subject is not immensely niche (granted /sqt/ is not always good for super niche stuff either), they're alright at giving common sense, but they don't have a sense of wisdom. Sometimes asking a group of online autists is just the best way to inform yourself

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yo wussup champs.
I am learning JavaScript and thought some cool stuff like a mini game would be a nice project to strengthen my knowledge and thought about making a side scroller skateboard game.
the problem here is, where does one get the art stuff for something like this? best if free.

Recently I've been having issues hibernating my computer. It complains that the swap partition is too small to fit the entire thing. I've read that that I can just modify the value of /sys/power/image_size to change the size of the image that's gonna be written to that partition on hibernate. My swap partition is 8388608000 bytes, image_size is 6555537408.
Can I make them both the same size, increase image_size or should I leave for extra empty space? Do I have to do anything afterwards or do I just save the file after editing and that's it?

>>108444510
hibernate works by just dumping your system memory to swap. the typical solution is to make your swap partition bigger if it's not big enough to accommodate. i have never heard of making the data written smaller and while i don't have the deepest understanding of the specifics of hibernate, my suspicion is it would probably just break shit.

your swap partition should at minimum be at least as big as your physical memory. the old advice was 2x as big but that was when memory sizes were much smaller, 1x-1.5x is probably sufficient.

>>108444086
moddiy or sex tips

>>108444711
Arch wiki says, from what I undestood that image_size controls the size of that system file that gets written to swap.
I wouldn't be making it smaller, I'd be increasing image_size so it fills the whole swap. Is that wrong?

>>108444771
then that's probably fine. i'd trust arch documentation more than me.

>>108444771
No. Read the kernel doc link. image_size is only obeyed on a best effort basis. If you only have 8GB swap you can only reasonably expect to hibernate about 12GB total memory. Maybe try setting hibernate.compressor=lz4 or use an OOM killer to regulate it.

>>108443675
Even if it was as bad as you say, and it's not, it would still be a good thing because conservative surveillance capitalism is an oxymoron. Shit like Gab and Brave deserves to fail. Those people are more dangerous than overt tankies.

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>>108442118
>What’s the best browser alt for just keeping google out of my business? I hate to admit I use Chrome for everything.

Supermium is based on chrome but is able to run (ungoogled)

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>>108442016
Henlo guys, I have bought a cheap gaming laptop but the bios is locked with a password that the owner doesnt have, and Acer ask me to pay them 50 € to clear it (typical jewish behavior)

Tried literally everything, I just want to know is their a way I can flash an OS without bios requirement ?

>cpu fan is making a ticking noise (I could be wrong but it's probably the one in between the heatsinks, not the one on the outside yippee)
>not on low or high rpm, only around medium
>sound can vary from barely noticeable to relatively loud

I did some googling and there's no wire it hits, it's relatively new (2 years) and well maintained so no misshapen, bent or dirty fans
I just need confirmation if it's (likely) a failing bearing or not, how often those happen? would you still suggest manually putting the fan speed past the point it ticks if so?
any other ideas to fix the sound that won't damage the system? I'd rather not replace it but if I must...

>>108446034
>laptop
probably not, if it's old enough it might have a cmos battery and sometimes removing that will clear it, otherwise i'd just take acer's offer

>>108446069
>how often those happen
depends on several factors, mostly environment, but it's probably the most common way for a fan to fail. is this a laptop or desktop?

>>108446034
did you ((buy)) this laptop from a tourist on the streets of Paris while he was baseding over that gay tower per chance, Tyronne?

>>108446069

maybe check bios cpu sa audio on/off
fan profile manual

>>108446134
desktop
I should maybe also add that the ticking doesn't always happen when the fan is spinning at medium rpm, but when it ticks, it's always medium rpm. hope that makes sense
would you say it's safe to ignore or fix immediately?
>>108446158
in english?

>>108433419
I tried a wide range of phones, but I always sticked on mid-low or mid tier phones. Last phone I bought is a Galaxy A53 5G and it's SHIT. I swear, it can't even hold two, TWO apps open together as it will crash the other one right away or lag. Now that I really type this, it's clear that I'm just too stupid to buy a good phone.
On the tablet thing, nobody answered me in the end. I restricted my option to either Samsung S11 or the new iPad Air with the M4 processor or whatever it is. Both are around 700 euros. I like the Samsung has the desktop version you can use as it were a pc, and the screen is OLED, but the apple one should be more durable and it's also less expensive. Well, not counting how fucking much everything else costs, just the stupid pen i 85€. I'm more inclined to buy the apple but I never owned apple so... eh.

>>108446214

english say it might be feature maybe aura health assist or household machines talking to eachother or just pwm gimmick to annoy you

>>108446214
>desktop
bios might have fan controls which you can use to change the speed for diagnostic purposes

failing that, some bioses will crank the fans while you're in them, if yours is one that does you could physically hold the fan you think is the problem and go into the bios to see if it triggers the issue.

>>108446214
>>108446290
in order to make sure you've identified the correct problem fan, that is. also obviously don't do this for longer than you need to for obvious reasons.

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ive got a question regarding 4chinz in general, so maybe some anon can help me find an answer.
im using the 4chanXT addon in my browser (i know developement stopped a while back) and for about 3 or 4 months now i cant open vids on /wsg/ all other boards i go to work like usual. did someone else experience this problem and what can i do to get it to work again?

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>>108446285
>>108446290
I already identified it as being the cpu fans, and since I'm sure it's not the outer one, it has to be the middle one
I'm gonna remove the fans this weekend probably and check it out further, maybe a blade of the heatsink isn't right, but I can't really see it now

no headphones general :(

A little update on this >>108422134
>>108422601
>>108422672
>>108422719
After re-cleaning the port it still wouldn't turn on or charge, I ended up opening the phone in hopes of finding something disconnected but everything seemed fine, still I disconnected and reconnected all flex connetors and right after doing so the phone started taking charge again and so far it doesn't even turn off after connecting the usb charging cable like it did before, I assume it did had a tiny misalignment in one of the connectors because otherwise I can't imagine the problem fixing itself by just opening the phone and doing a quick check

>>108446069
>failing bearing or not, how often those happen?
Noctua fans - never.
Any other fans - 100% guaranteed the bearing will fail within a few years.

>>108447133
Nice, flex in the casing can cause that. Seen similar things in old samsung A phones.
Did you have to heat off the back or was it clips?

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I feel like a retard even asking this question. I have a spinning rust drive with a few bad sectors. Lost enough data on it over the years so I finally swapped it out with two drives in RAID 1 on the weekend. Now I've got 8TB of mostly-ok disk sitting on my desk. Is there anything I can do with this or should I just throw it out?

>>108442016
Good shirt

>>108447437
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space
i wouldn't trust it for anything more. maybe very low priority torrents, like big movies/tv shows that if the data is bad will just redownload the bad sector.

>>108447437
Put data you're okay with losing on it.

Sup. Anyone knows if there is a way to get captcha working on blue clover or whatever the current best phone app is to browse?
I imagine using the proxy url setting might work but I have not the foggiest to know where to even begin to find what to input.
>inb4 phoneposter kys
I don't feel like keeping me PC on more than the bare minimum since every PC part price skyrocketed and energy prices aren't exactly cheap either.
Thx

>>108447555
phoneposter kys

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is there a lore reason 4chan pages won't load until i manually stop this from loading

>>108447437
Use it for torrents or she other p2p shenanigans where the application takes care of its own integrity. Or get a USB drive adapter and use it for offline backup with btrfs or restic and just make sure it gets scrubbed on the regular.

>>108447431
had to heat it with a hair dryer but it came off relatively easy, also had to remove the side frame which was clipped to the screen but luckily nothing broke

>>108444434
Learn mspaint or krita or something. Or find clipart or steal stuff from google images. (Technically a lot of it is copyrighted, but you only need to start caring if you start selling your game...)

>>108446354
anyone.....?

>>108446354
>i know developement stopped a while back
>what can i do to get it to work again?
don't use end of life software or develop a workaround yourself, it's obviously a breaking change which you're going to get with end of life software. i don't use these addons but i've heard that 4chanx has most of the functionality xt had in the first place now so i'd just switch to that.

>>108442016
>distraction free youtube on chrome
works
>distraction free youtube on brave
sometimes works, sometimes doesn't
why?

>>108446234
YMMV but I've been using a pixel 7a with graphene for about 2.5 years or something and it's still about as good as new (except the various dents from me dropping it without a case, screen is pristine though so I don't care), battery still lasts 2+ days, etc. It's not a bottom of the barrel budget phone but I think I paid $400 for it, so very far from insane flagship pricing. I fully expect it to last 3-5+ more years. It's guaranteed to get firmware updates for that long and in turn graphene is guaranteed to support it, and it mostly just works. It's also got nearly identical CPU etc. specs to the $1000+ flagship pixels so I have no issues with it being slow or crashing or anything.

Sorry for still being no help with tablets kek.

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my office already gets hot in the summer and i bought a 5090 a few months ago.
how's this plan: put my PC into a rather large closet I have attached to this room and run a usb hub and displayport cable to my desk for ports/monitor.
Then when it inevitably overheats in the hotbox I sloppily cut a hole through the back of the closet into the adjoining hallway and install something like picrel

>>108448381
>my room gets hot and it hurts my pc
>i'm going to put it into a smaller and hotter room
>then i'm going to cut a hole and run some sort of air con through it
Okay...

>>108448437
>it hurts my pc
no, it hurts me. i don't care how hot the pc gets insofar as it doesn't shut down from it

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I was trying to unbend a pin on an AM3+ CPU (an AMD FX) and ended up breaking it off. I highlighted what I think is the pin in question in pink. It looks like it's a "reserved" pin for "VDDD" so I might be okay? Unless AM3+ (as opposed to AM3) actually uses it for something. FWIW, it still POSTed (when before I couldn't even get it in the socket all the way)

On a related note, what would have been a good way to deal with the bent pin? Because this wasn't the usual kind of bent pin, but the pin itself was *curved* at an angle, kinda like a hook. Initially it was pushed up against another pin (and I guess the further pin bending was from a failed attempt to fit it in the socket). I managed to push the bent pin away from the other one. And as for straightening it out, I tried to squeeze it back into shape by pinching it with tweezers, but I think what ended up happening was I twisted the pin somehow.

Could there have been a better way to Amigara Fault that fucker?

(Yes I posted this last thread, but it was late enough that the thread went into sage mode not long after, so I figured this would be a good way to get a second opinion)

>>108448450
Why don't you do what I do and just kinda tough it out until you get used to it?

I use arch but am realizing I only care about some packages being bleeding edge (neovim, nvidia drivers). If i switch to debian can I selectively get these from sid or something to be closer to upstream or would I have to use flapshit

>>108448381
just do the last part first and it won't be an issue

so I tried updating my BIOS on my x870E motherboard and get stuck in a constant bootloop, and it has been happening for th past 2 BIOS updates MSi has put put. Im still on the september update from last year with no issue, but as of recently alot of thermal issue have been popping up and I think the old BIOS might be the problem. Not sure what I need to do to get past the Boot loop as i've tried re-installing the BIOS update, cleared my CMOS. Havent Tried 1 stick of ram at a time but if it doesnt end up being nay of that what might the issue be? cause ive never had this problem before

>>108448899
did you check the boot order after running the update? it's possible the order just got reset to default and it wasn't booting the proper device. either that or it turned on (or off) legacy boot or something and that screwed things up.

>>108448910
no I didnt check that, i'll see if that works when I get home from work. would it help to remove the USB I had the BIO on removed? and im guessing its something like primary boot option or something right?

>>108448926
>would it help to remove the USB I had the BIO on removed?
maybe

>primary boot option or something right?
the exact wording is going to vary between oems but it's usually called boot order. you want the drive with your os to be first.

if anything, just take a picture of your current bios settings with your phone now, then do the update, then make sure they match after the update. if something related to boot is different, change it back to what it was before the update.

Looking to replace my dead laptop, main use would be using it as an htpc and keeping it plugged in to the tv to stream my stuff from jellyfin
Ideally it'd have to be
>cheap, ideally 1000 is the most I'm willing to spend but I'd rather have something cheaper if possible
>light
>able to be controlled by my iPhone, using it as a remote or something
>a decent screen, ideally oled for the few times it's not plugged in to the tv
I was looking at the MacBook neo to be honest, which led me to think "why not the air if I'm already going for a Mac?"
Any actual sound advice before I overspend on something I don't need?

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>>108449222
>meanwhile me still using a 2nd gen i3 laptop that I got used for $20

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Asked on /adv/, asking here here too.

I'll cut to the chase: Is an associate's in computer science/application development a good idea?

Does anyone here have that degree and are they willing to share what their experience has been like? What kind of jobs can I get with it? What do you do all day? Do you like what you do all day?


Context:
>26 yo retarded man
>studied english in college
>work in news station for 2 years
>too stressful/realize english degree is bleak prospects
>study IT for a year
>get help desk job
>realize I really enjoy scripting
>take cs50
>have fun with final project
>don't want to do help desk forever
>don't know what else to do with life

I've done some research and skimmed syllabi for the degree's courses, a lot of basic to intermediate courses. Not a whole lot of upper level cs stuff like data bases, operating systems, compilers. Seems like this degree is more for future code monkeys.

However, I am considering it because:
>MUCH cheaper than 4 year degree, almost free if I can get job to cover it
>I am a credenitalist and like pieces of paper saying I am good enough
>I'm not good at self study and I think the deadlines of classes will force me to do the work
>I like powershell scripting and I liked cs50
>I think if I can find somewhere to get a year or two of experience in, then future jobs will be much easier

Why does my monitor take five entire seconds to switch HDMI inputs?

>>108449345
Because you bought a cheap piece of shit?

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upgrading or switching from a 10year old computer that has been running windows 10.
I have no experience with macs or iphones.
I need it for video editing, so hardware level codec support is crucial, I also need light gaming (single player rpgs).
Does it make sense to switch to a mac device or should I buy a windows 11 laptop. Budget is not a constraint. I am considering the mac because it seems like a very efficient and non bloated alternative to windows and copilot.

>>108449463
its really just a personal preference thing
you're likely to find just as many things that annoy you about mac os as you do for windows
you can also go the windows 10 ltsc route and avoid any copilot bullshit for a while yet

Are thermal pads and thermal putty interchangable?

4chanx suddenly decided to stop working last night. It’s still running on old pages but anything newly opened or refreshed is done: no quote highlighting, no quick reply, no image expansion

I tried turning it off and on, updating… nothing. Any ideas?

>>108449343
>Is an associate's in computer science/application development a good idea?
no. are you blind, deaf and stupid?

first of all, it's not even a "real degree", so even in the old days before the jeet flood, interest rate hikes, fake job listings to avoid stock price downturns and AI-excused layoffs/hiring freezes, you'd be behind people with real degrees. of course after landing your first job it didn't matter.

but now code monkey, the only career path available to you, is dead. why would you even try to get into this space?

>>108449343
>pieces of paper saying I am good enough
>associates
also kek at this. if you were an actual credentialist you'd have a PhD by now
t. actual credentialist

>>108448381
maybe put an exhaust fan on the ceiling of the cupboard into the roof, like you'd do in a bathroom

>>108449552
Theoretically almost every time, but you have to know what you're doing. High performance thermal putty uses pretty evil solvents too. Wear gloves and take off-gassing seriously.

What's the most retard friendly way of making clips to post here now? Before this I was using the mpv webm lua but despite having the options for .mp4, the site seems to think it has embedded files in it or something

>>108449923
ffmpeg. just google and/or ask your favorite LLM for the flags and options you need. anything else is bloat and/or malware

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>>108442016
Twitter just banned my wank account for no reason. What should I do?
Any tools I can use to export my following list

>>108450208
suspended is the correct word. Since I can still sccess It.
But It's just 'read only' right now

is there any way to have two storage locations set up for mihon? i got a new sd card and want to use both it and my internal storage, but mihon seems to only have one storage location option which seems like a weird limitation.

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in video games, what are shaders and why do they need to be recompiled with every gpu driver update?

There’s an online portal I want to access at work. I keep requesting the URL get white listed but then the domain sends me to a redirect, and I have to get the new redirected URL whitelisted too. What’s the easiest way to whitelist access to a portal and any redirects, rather than whitelisting them one by one?

Can anyone explain in simple terms how Android is licensed under the Apache License if it is based on the Linux Kernel, licensed under the GNU GPL2?

>>108450300
Your GPU is secretly a separate computer that runs Gentoo.

>>108443248
It didn't work but thanks for the advice
I accept that it's gone. It's just a 4chan thread in the end

is Nicole Ozer a real woman?

>>108450300
shaders are programs that run on the gpu. they're compiled by your driver for your gpu

>>108445906
anything derived from Chromium gives Alphabet (Google) power.
if the reason someone switches away from Chrome is to stick it to Google he should do it properly and at least use a Firefox fork or the balance of power has hardly changed.

>>108443268
there are only two CFLAGS that matter
-O2 for optimized code
-march=native for autodetecting your processor type, i.e. sandybridge, skylake
-mtune= will be automatically set, when you use -march=native

as for USE flags: use profile based on your desktop environment, and then only enable USE flags for the individual package that you need enabled

Is Linux cooked long term? If all the ARM implementations are closed and locked by either windows or apple, and the best laptops in the future are objectively going to be ARM, where does that leave Linux? Who's going to create a Linux focused ARM chip? VALVE? I'm a bit confused because it looks like the death of x86 could be the death of Linux.

Ironically it's entirely possible that the steam GameCube could save Linux on the desktop by.... Making Linux gaming focused?

I'm a bit confused, it seems like it looks bad for Foss out there

>>108448944
nothing changed with the boot order sadly and its still stuck in a loop so I reverted back to the BIOs that does work for the moment, just really odd cause I have no clue what else it could be other than maybe corrupted windows

>>108442016
AI dungeon or Novel AI, i mainly use it for adventure plays, and sex plays (i can't run locally b4 you ask)

>>108449923
Can't you just screen record or edit a clip in something as basic as windows movie maker and post as mp4 here now? /gif/ accepts that format at least and its common. Strange if its buggy and leads to warnings

My GPU is very good. I cannot afford to get a second computer to test my game on a bad GPU.
Is there any way I can temporarily reduce the performance of my GPU to see how a game would run on it? I want to make my GPU emulate the performance of a specific other model as closely as possible.
I'm on Linux.

>>108449343
i think your line of thinking makes sense but i'd caution against going full on into cs just because you liked entry level programming. business world programming is much, much different and generally more soul-destroying.

>>108447555
KurobaEx has working captcha. I think it might be the only one.

>>108449463
i'm usually an advocate of "pick the thing you're familiar with unless you have a compelling reason to switch or you just absolutely hate it." windows has some real issues but most of them are solvent.

>>108450939
>Is there any way I can temporarily reduce the performance of my GPU to see how a game would run on it?
not in a meaningful way. you could use afterburner to underclock it but a lower gpu tier means more than just a lower clock, it's also going to have less vram and a variety of other things that aren't simple to test. it's better to try and find benchmarks for whatever game you're thinking of.

>>108449222
$1000 is a very high budget for a small weak laptop. Are you happy spending anywhere in that range, or is that just an absolute max and you'd like to go as low as possible?
The advantage of going apple is that it probably integrates with iphones or something. I don't know in detail how that shit works but you'll probably have a better time with it than with any other non-apple brand. If not for that point, you could get a 5 year old thinkpad for $200 that would fulfil all your other requirements with ease.

If you are going apple, well Neo is just physically the cheapest thing you can buy. From what I've heard, 8GB RAM is the main thing holding it back. Getting a 16GB Air is almost certainly worth it for any normal usage. But for your usecase as an HTPC, you might genuinely be fine with the Neo's 8GB. (The actual processor is going to be more than enough in both cases, they really just gimped the Neo's RAM on purpose.)

Also consider whether you really need a laptop, or if a minipc would be fine. You could even get something like a Beelink for $200 to add to the used thinkpad for $200 and still be cheaper than any macbook. But again, not apple. There's always the mac mini of course.

I've noticed that on a few websites where you can leave a comment it's like the arrow keys are disabled. If you miss a letter because of a mistake keystroke or something becomes a real fucking chore to have to use the mouse, particularly when it needs to be dead on accurate other you're a letter ahead or behind where the arrow key would do the perfect job.
Who the fuck would disable that?

>>108449463
Unlike the other anon, I personally believe that there is no reason to use windows 11. Both because of the compounding issues, but also simply because microsoft is clearly just doing whatever they want and betting that people will simply suck it up and stick with it anyways no matter how much more they drench it with shit in every successive version.

In this day and age, I would consider macs an acceptable normie-friendly alternative to linux if you don't want to bother with the latter, and windows a non-contender if you have the agency to make your own choice (i.e. it's not a corporate-forced laptop or something).

>>108449923
Yeah it's annoying just use webm
>>108449996
I've tried encoding mp4s before and there's no clear reason why it doesn't work sometimes, it just doesn't. Something about the various arcane encoding parameters like the colourspace or some shit like that, you have to know the exact correct params that 4chan will accept, and I don't know them and that anon doesn't know them and I don't know where to find them out. And no LLMs don't know them either.

>>108450300
The other anons already answered, but in case you're curious: shaders used to be very simple logic that would calculate literally how to colour ("shade") the vertices in a 3D scene. Over time they got more features to enable more complicated logic, and at one point people realised "hey we can use them to just run arbitrary calculations, not just to select colours on 3D faces", so now they're just entire programs.

>>108450643
Yes people are afraid of this. There's the possibility that ARM will open up though. For example unironically the EU might pass a law that says you have to use an open bootloader, or something.
If not then yeah it's a problem. Thing is x86 isn't going away very soon, so we still have many years to solve this. Valve is a good candidate for someone pushing for openness, because they categorically do not want to be locked into an OS's app store. But we don't know yet, and it'll take a while to progress.

One of the possible outcomes is definitely a world where all the best chips are ARM, and have closed bootloaders, and free OSes are basically dead. I don't think it's very likely but it's definitely not impossible.

>>108450939
>>108451012
If a benchmark website says my GPU is 101% faster than the GPU I'm looking at, and my GPU gets 500 FPS on a game with certain settings, can I expect the other GPU to get about 249 FPS on the same settings?

>>108449222
>want apple
>plugged into tv, never moves
>thinking of a laptop
just buy the fucking mini dude

>>108451177
Are the GPUs from different brands or generations? If so it's very possible that the GPUs work in some different ways and that your game happens to be hyper-optimised for your GPU and run a lot slower on the other guy's GPU.

>>108451177
benchmarks will give you a rough idea of performance differences but it varies game to game. ideally you want game-specific metrics. pick a game you care about, see if you can find benchmarks for each card.

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>want to download artist discography
>can't find it anywhere on soulseek
>entire organised albums and LPs easily available on spotify
first time this has happened in all my years using soulseek. is there any accepted way to download songs from spotify?

>>108451177
No. That's based on averages across multiple applications and using a CPU probably much faster than yours.

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I'm new at using gallery-dl, I'm trying to download stuff from e-hentai but I get this error message:
>[exhentai][error] AuthorizationError: Insufficient privileges to access this resource
What do I do?

Is there an Android app for screenshots that works in 'protected' apps?

>>108451492
Not without root.

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I'm formatting a disk soon for the first time in a long while. Is there any "formatting for dummies" site or list or anything to streamline the process and make it easier? Like maybe a helpful list of some essential programs and files to redownload, that sort of shit.

>>108451335
either you have to input login information or get a cookie from exhentai to feed into gallery-dl. I don't use gallery-dl on exhentai so I wouldn't know.
alternatively you might not have enough GP.

>>108451611
Fucking pain in the ass
I'm just trying to sc receipts, not steal movies. I fucking hate the future

Thanks though

Any website that archived older phone apps from around the early 2010s? Looking for one in particular.

>>108451682
I mean it makes a certain amount of sense. Screenshot protection can serve two purposes: protecting sensitive data (like your password manager, 2FA app, etc.) from accidentally screenshotting it, or from apps that click-jack you or otherwise manage to maliciously grab a screenshot (I'm not sure that's possible on android but idk). In that sense normal level access should indeed be blocked, and you can use admin access, i.e. root, to bypass this.
And the second purpose is to control the user's device, e.g. disappearing message apps forbidding screenshots to avoid users bypassing the mechanism. In that sense also user-level access should obviously not have workarounds, but by using admin permissions (i.e. root) you can bypass this.

Either way having user-level restrictions makes sense. The real issue is the massive and all-pervasive culture that you should be forbidden from having admin access to your own device, such that "rooting" your phone is often some arcane incantation, is not even possible on all phones, and is considered "tampering" by various "safety checks".
Blame the ecosystem that resulted in this, not the screenshot protection.

>>108451615
In terms of programs, ninite is still ideal imo. Depending on what you want.

>>108451696
You could try one of these, but it could also be a slog to go through year by year with no guarantee it's going to be there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2010_software

>>108451615
Formatting a disk is a simple operation on almost every OS, there's nothing to streamline. On most OSes you can do it right from the file explorer.

What are you actually trying to do? Are you reinstalling the entire OS?

>>108451729
Cool, I'll check out ninite.
>>108451732
Oh yeah I know it's easy. I'm not doing anything other than installing an OS which I've done before. It's just been an embarrassingly long time and I'm overthinking it haha I also don't have a separate computer tower so I can't work on it in the background then come back here in case I have a problem or something. Thanks for bearing with me.

>>108451615
if you're on a relatively recent version of windows and have ms store on it, winget should be available (if not you just need to wait a bit until application installer gets pulled in through ms store). winget is pretty useful, you can just search for and install programs right from the command prompt. so you could e.g. winget install mozilla.firefox.esr and not have to open edge once.

>>108451789
>Oh yeah I know it's easy. I'm not doing anything other than installing an OS which I've done before.
No I meant that formatting a disk is literally a 1-click operation. Installing an OS is something entirely different.

I think the best thing you can do in terms of reinstalling is to make a backup of all your files (which you should have anyway, any files that only exist on a single storage device can disappear instantly on a random day with no warning, but before big operations like reinstalls especially). That way if you fuck up or are unhappy with something you still have all your files and can take your time sorting out the OS.
In terms of programs a good starting point is the programs you have installed now. If you wanna change things up you can do that separately from the install, get the OS working first and then you can take your time thinking about what you wanna uninstall or switch around.

>can't come back here in case I have a problem or something
Do you not have any other laptop or phone or whatever in the house? (Kinda based)

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I just bought a new GPU. What are some games to test it with?

>>108451846
Anything recent with upscaling support or whatever I dunno
The best games to test it with are the games you actually want to play on it, because who the fuck cares about performance for shit you don't even intend to play

Used laptop with Windows 11 I bought from the rather small shop has secure boot disabled.
Should I be worried?

>>108451957
Not at all.
Of course you should never trust the OS on any computer you buy (especially on anything used, but it's good to reinstall on new ones too because they often come with bloatware/spyware from the factory), so you reinstall your own copy of windows as per normal. But secure boot has no relevance. You can enable it in the BIOS in 30 seconds if you want it on, after reinstalling your own fresh copy of windows

If you think secure boot would protect the pre-installed OS from being malicious, no, it just verifies that the copy of windows and the drivers are all normal. The computer could otherwise come with a rootkit and keylogger preinstalled, secure boot isn't related to that at all.

>>108452020
>because they often come with bloatware/spyware from the factory
Like what? I generally assume Windows is just full of shit no matter how you install it, not that I have any idea about that tho.

>If you think secure boot would protect the pre-installed OS from being malicious, no
Well, shit. AI tells me they were probably just lazy, makes sense I guess.
Not gonna mess with it for now because I can still send it back in case I change my mind and want a desktop instead because workstation laptops sure are noisy.
I'm thinking of installing Windows 10 down the line.

Good/reliable SATA SSDs for a Windows 7 machine? Something durable and longlasting.

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>>108447133
>>108447431
>>108447876
Nevermind, it turned off again a little bit after I put all the screws in (I had completely forgotten to do this once I closed it), worked fine without the screws all these days but today I decided to put them back in and after a few minutes the phone died and wouldn't turn on afterwards just like before.

I then loosened the ones above the battery and nothing, loosened the ones below the battery and nothing, removed the ones below the battery and it powered on again but wouldn't charge again.

I then screwed everything back in but removed the ones shown in pic-related with green arrows (these 3 were hidden behind a black strip, don't know if that's relevant) and now it seems to be working and taking charge, no idea if it'll randomly turn off again eventually but so far it seems fine.

I don't know if some of the screws are shorting with something underneath or if the pressure is making something else short or if it's something else entirely.

>>108452068
>Like what?
Usually manufacturer telemetry, "experience" apps, or preinstalled shit they have sponsored deals with.
>Windows is just full of shit no matter how you install it
It's normally full of microsoft's shit, but the factory install will usually also be full of the manufacturer's shit on top of that.

Of course it's rare for manufacturers to install actual keyloggers at least, so if you've very lazy and don't care about telemetry then it might be fine to use a factory new laptop. But used laptops can have literally anything installed on it by the previous user.

>Well, shit
Yeah, secure boot is literally just about making sure the OS itself is not tampered with. You can install anything you want into the OS, as long as you don't modify the OS itself then secure boot is irrelevant.

>>108447971
I see, thanks. Will check out Krita

>>108443455
only text can be compressed that much

>>108447971
>but you only need to start caring if you start selling your game
thats not true, you can get copyrightraped at any time
make your own shit if youre going to publish it, even if youre not charging for it
if you never share it, or only send it to friends, it doesnt matter

>>108452020
I'm going to jump on this because I need some advice myself

>Bought a laptop a while ago
>Used
>The "experts" had done a fresh install of W10 with all of the shit that comes with it
>Have an LTSC version still on a thumb drive
>Plan to install that
>Absolutely will not work and won't let me boot from it
>Other solution was just to buy a new SSD/HDD whatever one it has and install it to that
>Taking the thing apart to actually change the drive is like brain surgery

Why is it doing this bros?
Edit: Now that I'm typing this I'm thinking I've made a big mistake.
I've only ever installed an OS onto a fresh drive. Now I'm thinking I was supposed to format the drive first and then boot from the thumb drive. Can someone confirm this is accurate?

>>108452369
Thing is if your game is free and you get copyrightraped, there's no damages. I mean maybe if you literally distribute paid material like music or movies for free, then yeah, but if it's a free material (like some stock clipart found on google images) and you just failed to pay for a license, then the publisher lost no sales and you didn't profit from it so there's nothing to pay back. You just have to stop distributing your game without a license (i.e. you have to take it down).
So the majority of the time they either don't bother or at worst annoy you with a takedown notice. It's almost entirely safe to just yolo it and if you get taken down, oh well.

If you start selling it then you run the risk of actually getting dragged to court for damages. It's unlikely if you sold peanuts, they probably won't sue you for your $50 of revenue you made by selling twenty copies on itch.io, but there is a genuine monetary incentive at that point.

>>108452440
the damages are the licence fees retard

>>108452452
But you did not unduly profit from using it without a license. They can block you from doing it again but there's nothing to "pay back".

>>108452397
>>Absolutely will not work and won't let me boot from it
You'd need to specify what it's doing/showing when booting, perhaps the w10 install on your thumb drive was not created for uefi boot or secure boot is preventing the usb from showing up.

You should be able to boot from the usb and then format the hdd/ssd, no need for it to be "fresh" before booting the usb

>>108452397
Regarding your last question: no, normally installers should be able to wipe the drive themselves regardless of whatever is on it, you don't need to wipe it yourself beforehand.
Regarding your thumb drive: impossible to say just like that, it sounds like there's a problem with your drive. Did you previously use it to successfully install windows? If so then it's probably a correct installation drive but maybe it died over time. If you just open it and look into it, does it look like the storage is fine and all the data on it is good, no problems mounting it., etc?

>>108452467
thats not the point of damages you massive fucking retard
it doesnt matter whether you made any profit, all that matters is that you acted tortiously

get the fuck off this website, your clearly arent old enough yet

>>108452506
You did not cause actual damages to them either, they did not lose anything because of your game

>>108452481
>>108452485
Thanks bros. I'll try it again when I get home so I can be more specific on what it is that it says.
I have used the thumb drive before for my desktop and had no issues at all, but that was several years ago.
I'll report back once I'm home.

I am using the free version of proton vpn on my pc, and would like to use a dns resolver that is private, secure and fast on top of it. Any reccs (should I even use a dns with a vpn)?

I've heard of 1.1.1.1 which is fast and free although I'm not sure how to set it up

>>108453073
In general VPNs should provide their own DNS which you should use. Otherwise this leaks all the websites you visit to the DNS provider at least (and for cleartext DNS, to everyone including your ISP).

Anyone know how to crack open a galaxy note 9's dot password? Family passed away. I've tried a few methods, samsung's remote unlock is not set up. I've tried brute forcing and entering codes in emergency call+restarting into safe mode. Try again timer is up to 16 minutes and safe mode didn't work.

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I ripped a song from YouTube that I want to use part of for a soundboard, but when I open it in Audacity it looks like the entire thing is clipping. Is this correct and YouTube just doesn't fix clipped audio, did I fuck something up downloading it (just used JDownloader to grab the best audio), or do I just have the wrong settings in Audacity?

>>108442016
i am suspicious that someone uses my laptop when i'm out any simple keylogger that i can have so i can check inputs when i come back?
also is asking about keyloggers illegal/ taboo here?

I downloaded malwarebytes to scan my computer. Did its job and have been using to scan all.my other HDDs. Anyways the free trial is up and don't want to pay for their service. I've tried deleting and redownloading to try and extend the trial. It knows where its left off. I assume its left traces of itself on my computer to keep track. How can I get a fresh retrial?

>>108453948
BTW I think medicat is filled with malware. Didn't they get compromised awhile back? Downloading it was the reason I needed malwarebytes to begin with. Win10 here.

>>108453948
regedit and see if there are any registry keys it left behind, then delete those.

>>108453986
Do I run search on all 5 folders and delete everything associated with the program? Or look for something specific. Never played around in there files and I know 1 fuck up can have my whole machine fucked.

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I'm currently trying to fix my laptop (HP Omen 16) since this PoS has its Hall-Sensor placed too near to the heatsink, thus causing black screens due to wrongfully triggering it when it gets warm. The only working solution to this is disconnecting the Hall-Sensor (warranty ran out about two weeks before the problem appeared for the first time).

The Hall-Sensor is located somewhere under the left fan (I do know it since the only way to reset the Hall-Sensor is with magnets, so it's located near the power button). What I don't know what other screws except for the two visible ones on the left I have to remove to get it out.

Any ideas?

>>108449716
Is the userscript enabled? Does the dev tools console have any errors about it?

>>108451212
Try these sites: https://fmhy.net/audio#audio-ripping
you could do it locally with OnTheSpot too tho

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>>108448944
where im currently at right now, even did CMOS and it still kept boot looping

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1. What's the most secure and private way to transfer files from phone to phone? OnionShare? LocalSend? No USB please, or going on my PC, or using a website. I need something like Bluetooth but faster...
2. Most overkill paranoiac instant messenger?
3. Longest lasting budget HDD for a laptop? At least 1 or 2 TB, maybe even 500 GB if it's really good

>>108450401
The Apache license covers AOSP, which is a crapton of stuff running on top of the Linux kernel. In simple terms, the userspace portion of Android is released under the Apache license. It doesn't cover the Linux kernel.
To build Android you need AOSP, Linux, and a crapton of third party libraries that all have their own licenses.

>>108454583
idk then. maybe make sure fast boot's off? you could try turning legacy boot on in case it was on beforehand, unlikely though and make sure to turn it back off if that doesn't fix it

>>108454661
Hotspot and FTP.

>>108454661
>longest lasting
>budget
>hdd
>for laptop
get an ssd, a nas or drop your expectations significantly

>>108454747
>ftp
he said secure, dumbass. your chinesium router is gonna be able to see what you send.

>>108454783
What router? The entire post was only 3 words, how did you miss the word hotspot? Phone A turns on the Wi-Fi hotspot, Phone B connects to it, there is a direct wireless connection between the two devices with no router involved.

>>108454661
KDE Connect.

>>108454485
>fmhy
of course, should've remembered to check there, thank you

>>108454661
>>108454747
>>108454783
sftp

>>108454747
Hm, sure. Isn't SFTP better?

>>108454770
Fair. I could either get a Seagate Barracuda ST1000LM048 or Toshiba L200 HDWL120UZSVA for a 100 euros but these aren't that great apparently

>>108454822
I'll check it out, thanks

>>108454910
Yep, called it

>>108454920
>>>108454747(You)
>Hm, sure. Isn't SFTP better?
You've already got an encrypted connection between the two devices, but yeah, depending on how paranoid you wanna get, can't hurt. Hell, throw everything you're going to transfer into an encrypted file first for a third layer.

>>108454949
I see.
>Hell, throw everything you're going to transfer into an encrypted file first for a third layer.
The files aren't that important but sure, I could fiddle with SSE/OpenKeychain, etc.

>>108454720
so if my C drive is GPT that could be the problem right? cause it should be MBR or no? otherwise I think it mightve been my USB drive being exFAT and not Fat32

>>108455211
gpt is normal, it's the one that's been in use for like 15 years. if you're using gpt you should probably not be on legacy boot.

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New fetus to programming here. I don't vibe code and I actively seek out human resources made pre 2019, but I tend to go to AI for help when I have a question not answered by google. Is there coding equivalents to "it's not just x, it's y" and other AI-isms that I should avoid? I like using AI for learning but I'm cautious of learning bad practices. I swear I'm not a jeet baiting for advice on faking authenticity, I just want to make video games and I legitimately want to know what I'm doing and develop skills n shiet.

>>108450974
What is a good way to learn business level programming or get a feel for it before going deeper?

>>108456095
i don't really have a good answer for that, but imagine working on a codebase that has been around for 20 years, hodgepodged together by people who have no idea what they're doing on tight deadlines, spotty documentation at best, the customer has demanded that it be expanded well beyond what it was ever designed to do, and your manager doesn't understand jack shit about it and just cares about meeting his deadlines so he can get a bonus. that's your average corporate code monkey job. obviously it's not a universal experience, not every job is like this, but a lot of them are, especially at entry level.

if you want to go into software development as a career, you need to be the kind of person who can just do this stuff all day every day even when it sucks and is frustrating. if you just enjoy solving well-defined problems with well-defined solutions, that's not usually what things are like when you're doing it for a living.

Bros, how do I mirror a website so I can get out of paying for a paywall monthly? It's for AllData DIY, for auto repair(AllData.com). Specifically just my truck. Codex told me to go fuck myself. Probably not possible or worth the squeeze.

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>>108456144
I think that's insight and has given me some stuff to consider.

I do think it sounds not too dissimilar from my current job. A lot of solutions and fixes we have are hodgepodged together on a deadline with sometimes spotty documentation, and for day to day stuff, you just have to roll with it and know how to fix it when it inevitably breaks.

Granted, this is more of installing software or troubleshooting computer issues, not working with large code bases, so I imagine the mental load is much more taxing in the latter case.

>>108455291
might be this unfortunately cause I think it happened the last time I reapplied liquid metal. that or my mobo is faulty in general. cause I doubt its my ram since its on the list, unless its also faulty.

>>108456294
Jesus Christ disable your shitty AI photo upscaling

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>>108456294
sorry had to resize so its not so big

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>>108453073
>I'm not sure how to set it up
Set it up? DNS is a basic networking setting, you either obtain it via DHCP or set it manually.
>1.1.1.1
They provide DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS, can't remember which was it but anyway: use that instead of unencrypted DNS. Which means picture shouldn't relate as your OS likely can't do the encryption natively.
Have no idea what software Windowsfags use for it.

has anyone else had the problem of javascript based elements on 4chan taking half a minute to load? catalog items, reply hyperlinks and post forms etc all don't appear for several seconds and it's been happening to me consistently on multiple browsers on multiple desktop and mobile devices.

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Two issues, maybe connected?

Discord's desktop app has been acting up on my nitroV gaming laptop. Pretty often when I scroll, visual artifacts of UI elements are left behind. You can see an example of it happening with text in pic rel, when I scrolled just part of a sentence was left as a visual glitch. It's most consistent with the emoji bar, I've linked a video at the end. I haven't noticed any other graphical glitches in the almost a month this has been happening, including on Discord within Firefox on the same machine.

This laptop does have an issue where if I try to play certain games (perhaps that spike either GPU usage or power usage?) it straight crashes the machine to black, sometimes the screen is backlit sometimes not. I doubt it's temps, I can play something like Genshin and stay at 50C and the stuff crashing it shouldn't be pushing it much harder than that. The hard crash occurs instantly on boot into the world for "Coin Game" on high graphics settings, and seems to function in short play time at least on lower settings. Indie stuff runs flawlessly for hundreds of hours. IDK if that's connected to the discord stuff, maybe my GPU or Power Supply is messed up, I can't really afford a new computer so I just work around this stuff when I can. Hoping someone smarter than me with computers can help identify it or maybe there's a workaround or fix, something like throttling the machine so it can't hit the point where it crashes to begin with?

I've tried:
>hardware acceleration both on and off for Discord
>fully reinstalled discord
>waited for several discord updates
>updated Windows 11 to a newer version twice
>updated my nvidia GPU drivers twice

Here's a video of artifacting occurring as I scroll, the bar is following my (invisible) mouse but you can see the duplication and how if I line it up I can "erase" part of the fake one: https://files.catbox.moe/0h7h0n.mp4

Asked on the only firefox thread I found but I'm askng here too, how to get the "Delete History" window back to normal? privacy.sanitize.useOldClearHistoryDialog no longer work, and the new "Delete History" option is absolute garbage, please help, I notice this also delete my(you)s now...

I know there's an option to have Nvidia Shadowplay, or just geforce app idk what they try to call it now, only give things like FPS and such when a game launches. I know because I was using it just like that with my 3070. Now I have a 5070TI and I can't seem to find the option anywhere. Is it just in a strange place or called something I wouldn't expect? I tried looking it up but got no relevant answers

I want a real phone number like a phone at home before cell phones but over the Internet

>>108457105
its called the nvidia app now
it may or may not be installed

>>108457137
Maybe I misworded all that because I have it installed. I just can't seem to find the option where the overlay shows things like FPS only when a game is launched, or a program that it thinks is a game because it's popped up to show me my FPS on VMWare before. I can toggle a statistics settings but that's on all the time.

>>108456241
If their paywall is implemented properly, you can't. Think of it this way: there's a server holding the website data. The server only provides the website to people who are logged in with a paid account or whatever. The only ways around it are either tricking the server into thinking you've paid when you haven't (maybe possible if the paywall is shitty, not possible if it's decently well made), or accessing the server otherwise (i.e. literally hacking into it).
The third option is having someone else pay, i.e. having one person pay for access and mirroring the site for everyone else to access. That's how the patreon bypass sites work for example, people who are actually subscribed to the patreons reupload everything to the mirror site (like kemono), so that other people can browse it for free. If nobody else has done this then you have to pay.

Regarding shitty paywalls, sometimes it's something like a client-side modal on the HTML page that blurs the actual article, and you can use inspect element to delete the "please pay" popup and the blur/dimming overlay and get back to the text. But it really has to be a very shitty paywall for this to work. Any decent paywall will literally not send your browser the text at all, or will only send you like initial snippets of articles so you won't be able to scroll down regardless and the rest is only loaded if you pay.

>>108456967
try updating all your laptop drivers from your oem's website and try sfc /scannow as admin

I'm redoing my network and I'm wondering what the best SSID name would be.

Most common SSID according to WIGLE
>not inherently identifiable
>not used outside the United States
>not used here so my devices will not probe for it when away
>but therefore identifiable in my home country

Most common SSID in my home country
>not inherently identifiable
>ubiquitous so my devices will aggressively probe for the network name

Something generic from the list of most common SSIDs
>not inherently identifiable
>less common
>less likely to probe aggressively

>>108458237
<your waifu's name>'s home

>>108456595
Happening to me, too. I assume it must be affecting a pretty small subset of users, since if lag this bad were widespread there'd be a lot of threads about it.

Can anyone explain to me why this 5080 astral is available for 1500 pounds? I swear I saw it for 2.5, maybe even 3k at one point. I have a 4080 super, i spent almost 1.5k on my gpu.

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card (PCIe 5.0, 16GB GDDR7, HDMI/DP 2.1, 3.8 slot, 4 fan design, Axial tech fans, patented vapor chamber, Phase change GPU thermal pad), 16gb ram.

>>108456595
4chan does heavy rate limiting nowadays
at times my catalog would refuse to load

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>>108453073
you generally cant specify your own dns servers with a vpn, changing your local settings wont do anything
see for yourself on here:
https://dnsleaktest.com/

How do you see the future of 4chan? Do you think it will exists for many years or it's end in close? What will happen if some day it closes? Some of the staff will create another imageboard or will the second most popular one take it's place?

>>108458237
That's actually an interesting question, not something I ever thought about. I think all wifi scrapers will log the BSSID anyway which is mostly unique per-AP, so I'm not sure if having a generic SSID is all that useful.
The one thing that it can help with is to be not memorable to a human, so for that I'd say either leave it as the manufacturer's default, or make it the most common SSID in your country plus some random numbers at the end or something.

I don't see any point in setting it to the most common SSID in the US. Your wifi is very clearly not in the US and any databases will mark it at minimum with the country, so I can't think of a single context where it would help with being less identifiable.

>>108458457
>you generally cant specify your own dns servers with a vpn
You absolutely can, VPNs are not somehow magic. It's bad practice to do so but there's nothing fundamentally preventing you from doing it.

>>108450401

maybe oracle worked on android and wrote somewhere is apache licence now

>>108457866
Thanks for the response anon, I was thinking it would be more simple because I just need the data from today and I already have a subscription, it's not necessary for it to be ongoing. Not like they're adjusting much information for my 10 year old truck. Just a web mirror or scrape maybe. I've talked codex into doing it for me before (on a more simple paywalled site) but you have to word it a certain way.

>>108458676
Oh, if you're already subscribed then you can definitely do it. I thought you were asking about downloading paywalled content without paying.
I assume you have to be logged in to access the paywalled content? If so I expect it should almost certainly work with just your cookies, which you can get from your browser and use in e.g. a wget command to scrape it. Then you may or may not have to worry about bot protection, which can range from user-agent detection (easy to override in wget) to shit like captchas and proof-of-work gates which will require a full-featured scraping framework to handle.

You should be able to get codex to help you if you just ask it about saving/backing-up a site with content behind a login wall, you don't have to mention the paywall at all.

>>108458597
Probe requests use a generic broadcast DA (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). It doesn't broadcast anything uniquely identifiable other than the SSID.

The goal is to make profiling based on the probe requests my devices send out, and identifying me based on unique SSIDs impossible. A generic SSID prevents that entirely.

Hiding the BSSID isn't necessary, the goal isn't to prevent addressing.

I went for a generic name. Something that is used universally, but isn't ubiquitous either. Seems obvious in hindsight.

>>108458761
>probe requests my devices send out
I may be retarded but don't devices only send out probes if you connect to a hidden SSID? I thought with visible SSIDs, devices just listen to available SSIDs and then only transmit when actually trying to connect to one. This being a big reason to not use hidden SSIDs (to avoid your devices broadcasting the name everywhere you go at all times).

>>108458778
All devices send out probe requests all the time, up to 2000 requests an hour. Modern devices have got a little smarter with it, exactly to prevent profiling. Aside from sending them out a lot less frequent, they learn the location of your networks and geofence them off.

>>108458867
Interesting. That sounds very retarded.

>>108458879
Wi-Fi has been poorly designed in general. Management frame protection (802.11w) wasn't published until 2009, and has yet to see mass implementation.

what's the difference between a NAS and a home server

Sick of the invasion of privacy, what setup would I need to electronically communicate with friends completely privately? Would all my efforts be wasted if someone on the other side wasn't taking the same steps?

>>108458970
mostly semantics
a NAS is basically a server whose purpose is to give access to storage (technically it doesn't have to be at home either, normally nobody calls cloud storage "NAS" but for example in a corporate environment you could have NAS living in your corporation's datacenter)
a home server can serve anything, it's almost always used for file storage as well because that's useful but it doesn't have to, and it can serve a bunch of other things as well

since almost any machine used as a NAS will simply run a normal server OS (like linux) and can therefore trivially be used as a generic server for whatever you want, the line between "NAS" and "home server with some storage attached" is very blurry in informal usage

>>108457121
SIP?
Also, *all* phone numbers are over the Internet, both mobile and fixed ones.
You don't see it with landlines because the Internet router is in the cabinet that's on the street, or sometimes higher up the chain at district level.

This is going to be difficult to explain, but I know someone will know what I'm talking about

>A while back on /g/
>Thread was an interesting one about old technologies and things
>One in particular was like some way of using the internet without having an ISP or something
>It was as if all devices were "connected" and could communicate without the need for the kind of connections we do use today
>Obviously there was some kind of wireless or wifi component to it all
>I think they connected in a similar way to downloading torrents or something except it could be used to web browse and such

Does anyone know what it is? There were diagrams and things and some big explanation of how it worked. It seemed like everyone who is a lot more /g/ than me gave it the nod of approval and it wasn't just some meme. I looked it up myself and it was totally legit. I just can't remember what it actually was.

>>108458977
>what setup would I need to electronically communicate with friends completely privately
Take your pick of a privacy-preserving messaging platform. These days message end-to-end encryption is commonplace (even whatsapp has it), the main question is about metadata handling, which means everything that's not message content - such as your contacts list, or simply the timestamps of when you sent messages and the approximate size of each message.
I don't know off the top of my head what the best option is nowadays, you could start a thread about it.

>Would all my efforts be wasted if someone on the other side wasn't taking the same steps?
Well, they'd need to use the same messaging platform as you. If your friends are all sitting on Facebook Messenger or unencrypted SMS or whatever, there is nothing you can do to communicate securely and privately over that.

Is there a way to enqueue multiple files at once to be streamed over http by VLC? The stream setup wizard begins with a regular file picker dilagoue, and I can select multiple files at once here, but only the one at the top of the list will be streamed (added to vlcs internal playlist as an item to be streamed). To keep adding streaming items to vlcs playlist I have to go through the streaming setup wizard for each one individually. Adding a playlost file doesn't work at all, no stream starts in that case.

>>108458457
>cant specify your own dns servers with a vpn
Nonsense.

>>108458970
NAS is an appliance that exposes storage, more specifically iSCSI targets or NVMe-over-Fibre-Channel.
At home it'll be just a PC with Samba or NFS services, sometimes iSCSI. You can call it a server because it serves something to other computers.

>>108459020
You might be thinking of mesh networks. Basically creating a giant wifi network therefore bypassing the existing ISP infrastructure (and it has to be wireless because the alternative is laying our own cable infrastructure, which costs a few tens to hundreds of billions at a large scale).
There's a few different ones, I think LoRa is the most developed one right now for long-distance communication.
You probably remember that they "connect in a similar way to torrents" in that similar concepts are used to maintain the decentralised network, without a central control point or server.

None of them are anywhere near fast enough to "browser the web", it's mostly for low bandwidth application like text communication. (You could build a textboard over it.) There's a reason ISPs worldwide spend many hundreds of billions of dollars laying cables rather than just putting up some wireless beacons.

>>108459041
I should also specify, wifi is a type of network and LoRa is another type of network and it's not the same thing. "A giant wifi network" using wifi specifically can indeed be a meshnet but it runs into issues with range, you need a lot of people participating with lots of nodes in the mesh to make it usable and it'll probably only work in cities or in particularly densely populated rural areas. LoRa for example trades off speed/bandwidth for much greater range.
I should've said "a giant wireless network" instead.

>>108459041
>>108459051
Thanks! I'm pretty sure that it was it because I specifically remember mesh something being mentioned.
Also now you mention it I think
>it'll probably only work in cities or in particularly densely populated rural areas
I remember this being mentioned as a big issue with it too.
Thanks though it's been battering my head for ages trying to remember what it was called :3

>>108459022
I'm no expert on tech but how reliable is end-to-end encryption? Saw on the news that for example UAE are arresting/questioning group chat admins over missile videos shared in private chats, so whatsapp at least is not secure

>>108459176
because it's not a panacea. if you are having a conversation with a government agent or with someone who has one in the room holding a gun to their head, it doesn't really matter if the transmission is encrypted. if you tell your home address to someone over an encrypted conversation and they go and post screenshots of it on facebook, it doesn't matter that your conversation was encrypted.

>>108459253
That makes sense. Though I'll still assume anything by facebook is compromised or has backdoors in it

>>108459022
>I don't know off the top of my head what the best option is nowadays, you could start a thread about it.
I might start a thread but I'm not a regular on this board so I thought I'd start here. Thanks though, and would you also know anything about privacy for general browsing, computer usage, etc? Like what hardware, OS, general practices, stuff like that.

>>108459176
>>108459265
End-to-end encryption relies on keys generated on the user's device. What whatsapp can do is silently push an update that makes your phone send them your key, so they can decrypt your messages; but if they did it on a large scale, security researchers would very likely notice and there'd be big news articles for it. The risk is that they can do it on a per-device basis, which is very unlikely to get noticed. But this is only a risk if you believe you have a reason to be personally targetted by the government.

The metadata leak is still a very good reason to avoid whatsapp (you can gather a LOT of information about someone just by knowing when he sends each message and to whom, especially when you know the same thing about everyone else too, and especially when you're an app that has access to things like the phone's location too...)

>>108459326
If you want to go full schizo, this is a bottomless pit. The good news is that the only reason to go full schizo is if you think the NSA and CIA are personally hunting you. The bad news is that this means if the NSA or CIA decide they want to hunt you, there's no way to escape them if you aren't willing to go full schizo.
However the important thing to remember is that privacy is not black and white, and fewer data leaks are always better than more, even if you aren't willing to completely turn your life upside down erasing your digital signature.

Read the privacy policy of things, avoid agreeing to give your data to anyone, avoid intentionally giving your data to things that don't need it, and this goes a long way. This means for example not giving all your emails, search history and browsing history to Google, or not giving all your chat history to Discord. Be mindful of the information you are providing whenever you are using some software or website and you'll be ahead of 99% of normies.
On phones, avoid installing apps when a website exists. Apps get a ton of access to your system data.

>>108459388
>NSA and CIA
In terms of hardware, would you say Chinese computers/laptops would be more secure from CIA/NSA than American ones? I'm sure Chinese hardware has its own backdoors but tbqh I'm less concerned about them compared to domestic surveillance

is bluevps a good service provider?

>>108459603
for the record I'm currently choosing between bluevps, hostry and strike.bz and just don't know what should I pick for a private vpn

>>108459589
Ehhh hardware is a crapshoot anyway. Every CPU is either Intel, AMD or ARM, and they all have "remote management" features. Ostensibly you can turn them off but nobody knows what they actually do and if they really stay off.
The most private hardware is probably a Haswell or older Intel CPU, those have been studied quite well and me_cleaner can wipe the management layer almost entirely. Old AMD processors also didn't have it but I think you have to go further back (and they were also dogshit for a long time, up till ryzen at least).

Other than this, if a major manufacturer was routinely installing keylogging or surveillance hardware in their machines, it'd be a huge scandal. But if you have a reason to suspect you'll be personally targeted by governmental entities, then the postal services in basically any country in the world can be intercepted and your machine can be personally bugged before you even buy it.

I agree with being less concerned about chinese surveillance, but there's also a greater risk that they fuck something up, or that if they leave a backdoor then the NSA will be able to hijack it and access it. One big difference however is that smaller chinese brands can easily add a keylogger to their laptops for example and tank the reputational hit when it's discovered, unlike a major brand like Dell or Lenovo could. (Lenovo did have a scandal with preinstalled spyware, but that was at the OS level, not literal bugged hardware. Stock factory OS installs are always filled with tons of horrid shit anyway, this one just happened to be more spyware-y than your average advertising telemetry data harvester that's apparently a-ok.)

If you wanna have fun, fet a thinkpad X230 off of ebay and go through the process of installing Heads on it.
If you just want something practical, a decent modern laptop running linux will be way better than anything running windows. Honestly macs are probably better too.

Is it better to upgrade individual PC parts when needed or buy a whole new setup after so many years?

>>108459625
Thank you my friend, this has been immensely helpful

>>108459672
Is your question
>should I buy parts that I don't need to replace parts that work fine
? If so no, that's dumb
Buy what you need as you need it. The only consideration is bottlenecks and the CPU+motherboard compatibility. So if you haven't upgraded in a long time you might need to upgrade CPU+GPU together, and maybe motherboard too, and maybe RAM too if it's really been a long time. But again that's just driven by what you need/want. If you want to sell your old GPU and buy a new one every single year then that's up to you. If you think your 15 year old case looks ugly and the front ports are breaking off then buy a new one. If you're running out of storage then buy a new HDD or SSD.
There's no arbitrary rules otherwise. Just upgrade what you need, when you need it, and when the market makes sense

>>108459672
The way I had tried to do it was just to upgrade parts as I needed to. But like this anon >>108459714 says I was in a situation where some old part would bottleneck the new one. In the end I just bought all the parts at once when I needed to upgrade. The only thing I've never upgraded is my mobo and I really should because I've had it ages.
I think it comes down to different factors like affordability, whether you're upgrading for the sake of it or whether it's necessary etc. For the majority I would imagine it's personal preference and obviously money is a big part of it. But, again, like the other anon says it's not always necessary to upgrade everything all at once. If you need more storage you aren't going to have to buy a new GPU obviously, just as an example.

>>108460041
>and I really should because I've had it ages.
No need as long as it's still compatible with your CPU and has all the slots you need. Unless it's some hyper-budget mobo that literally bottlenecks the rest of your PC, but that's rare.

Lately when I try to copy text, it misses some lines. Like copying only to a certain point or just two lines of a given paragraph.
Does anyone know the reason for that?

>>108460053
Everything does work fine with it still. I think I'm just worried about it shitting the bed because it's only a B350 and I've had it a good 7 or 8 years now.

Do pdfs stop working randomly on firefox for anyone else? I can't even refresh the page it's just a grey screen and it's happened to me twice this week

Can I trust ChatGPT on legal advice??

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>>108454661
i transfer racist memes from reels/4chan to my @google email address on a regular basis. nothing bad happened yet

>>108460738
>can i trust chat bots to do anything right
No. It's just accelerated web search. You still have to read and understand the primary source.

>>108456982
Please, this is going to drive me crazy, there gotta be a solution, or at least a way to stop Firefox from deleting site data, I just need to delete cookies without the data on the daily...

I want to get an electric car but I'm afraid of shit I heard about electric cars having subscription services where you have to pay them to let you use the radio or use the cooling/heater.
Are these common problems in EVs or are these rare? what EV manufacturers can I trust not to do this shit? does hyundai do this?

>>108461033
This already happens on ICE cars and you want to get one with even more features that can be disabled remotely?

What's the most trustworthy and least censored AI and search engine?

>>108461033
Modern gas/diesel cars have DRM, too.

What is actually on the dodgy Fire Sticks sold illicitly in the UK, is it just an IPTV client with a playlist added? Is it something easy to sideload onto your own legit Fire TV device?

>>108460738
I've used chatgpt to research things I didn't know before, and it's actually annoying because even if it gives you links to the original sources and even if you go read them, for complicated enough subjects it's really hard to know if what you read is the end all be all or if there's something else that you missed that actually changes the conclusions.
For law especially, if you're not familiar with the general area of the law involved, with the concepts and terms used, and with the broad strokes of the history and case law (or of the structure and changes over time, for a civil law system), you could read the text of some laws, understand maybe 50% of it because the rest is legalese, and come to entirely wrong conclusions because the rest refers to terms and concepts that were defined and redefined by other laws and not to the dictionary meanings of words.

You could use chatgpt to help you study law, but you would really have to fucking put in the time to study and understand it yourself, and do in-depth research.

You could also just ask chatgpt and its answer would probably be reasonable 90% of the time. The problem is that legal advice that's wrong 10% of the time is worthless. But what this CAN be useful for is getting a rough idea of what might (or might not) be the case before you actually go see a lawyer, so you have some clear questions you can ask and concepts you can inquire about, and then the lawyer can explain to you anything you're wrong about or confirm what you understood and have it be a better use of your time than if you walk in with literally zero idea of anything.

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How hot is too hot for a laptop keyboard?

>>108461033
Don't take my word for it but I've heard that chink EVs can be driven mostly offline.
Obviously if you buy a Tesla it'll be online-only cloud-only, don't ever do that. But look into I dunno BYD or shit like that.
I would expect advanced self-driving features to also require network connection, or at least constant firmware updates (but again don't take my word for it).

Like the other anons said, this is becoming common on all new cars, the difference is EVs were garbage 5 years ago and also 5 year old EVs will have a shot battery anyway, while old ICEs are still plentiful and easily available. But it still varies by brand, a Toyota is not going to be nearly as always-online as a BMW, and similarly I wouldn't expect a chink EV to be the same as a Tesla.

>>108461083
No idea what that is but it could easily just be something like the BBC iPlayer app being preloaded, which you're not supposed to be able to use unless you pay your loicense fees (meanwhile having no cable service, and just a monitor with a stick in it, lets you skip the loicense payments)

>>108461120
I think around 45*C prolonged contact becomes dangerous (and uncomfortable/painful), and above 50*C it becomes dangerous on the order of a minute or two. Doing a quick search tells me that around 60*C is when burns happen within seconds.
Medically speaking, as long as the palm rest is safe, you're not gonna be touching the keyboard keys for minutes at a time; it's going to be quick taps while typing followed by a lot of air contact to cool down in between taps. So around 50*C I expect you still probably won't literally burn your fingertips. But a laptop coming close to giving you literal burn injuries is not the criteria, as far as I'm concerned above 40*C or so I'd say it's uncomfortable and above 45*C is simply too hot.

If you are using it on your desk and it only heats up for specific task (like compiling a codebase or rendering a video), and you can step away for 2 minutes until the task finishes, this might not be a big issue practically speaking. But if this is some craptop that thermally throttles just while rendering a modern website, and/or you intend to use it on your lap, that would be unusable.

>>108461133
I don't know if I trust chinese EVs to not explode violently when I'm charging them in my garage

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Had these PC speakers for like 7 years now. Every now and then they would fall from my desk and now one of the speakers is barely working.

Now that they are shitty, what is a good PC speaker to get? Looking for something that is a good mix of cheapness, quality of audio, and durability.

>>108461175
I remember reading some news recently about BYD being the most widespread EV brand across europe, or something. If they made cars that routinely explode under you that would make the news all the time. There's lots of things where I'd agree with you, but big chink EV brands made for a global market are designed and created to actually be usable, and also the CCP would probably not allow mass volume export of deathtraps since it would instantly crater the chinese EV marketshare and they consider it geopolitically important.

Chinks are perfectly capable of doing the same QC anyone else does, the question is usually whether they bother to, and in this case it does seem like they do.

>>108461191
>Chinks are perfectly capable of doing the same QC anyone else does, the question is usually whether they bother to, and in this case it does seem like they do.
This is interesting. I honestly never even considered this.
I know more about construction than cars or a lot of technology, and I just know that Chinese buildings are actual deathtraps. Skyscrapers made of sand, paper, rubber, glass, and sometimes styrofoam. Fucking scary shit.

>>108461209
Yeah, we've all seen the videos. It's very much selective quality. Those buildings are not intended to impress the west, or capture a global market.
Construction is also IMO much more prone to corruption. Can't really do that with a car assembly line.

Anyway, consider chink smartphones for example. Huawei, Xiaomi and the like have been widespread in the west for many years now. Have you seen any particular news stories about them? They don't fall apart or anything, by all accounts they're just as built just as well as any pixel or samsung or iphone. In fact the last major news story I remember about smartphones was exploding batteries in samsungs of all things.

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>>108458191
sfc /scannow found no integrity violations, thanks for that suggestion though.
It looks like the acer site is down for now or something, I'm getting "secure connection failed" and this site isn't connecting either. I'll try again later I guess.

>Youtube started blocking autoplay
>have to refresh the browser to get the video to actually play
>spams "Experiencing interruptions? *Find out why*" which leads to FAQ about adblockers
>firefox with ublock origin
Anyone else getting A/B tested with this? Annoying, since I use youtube mostly to listen to music. Will just switch to spotify now I guess. But if anyone has a solution I would appreciate it.

How often do you do a hard pc shutdown/restart?

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Firefox added a new split tab view feature to the right click context menu for tabs. My issue is that it took the top slot, so now my muscle memory for everything else is thrown off. Anyone that knows basic code for this stuff able to help with getting something that moves the split tab section lower, maybe below Duplicate tab? I already have some options removed but don't know how to personally figure out the names of the new feature internally to alter this

at the right of soundling like the biggest normalfaggot, my insta account suddenly got hit with "your account has been locked due to a possible hack" despite there not being any suspicious login email. Can't log in from desktop or phone.
From the app, it asks me to set a new password, and then it logs me out. If I try to log in again, same thing happens.
From desktop, it asks me to receive a code to my email, which I enter and then change password and it logs me out. If I log in again same thing happens.
this has happened to anyone? only thing out of the ordinary I have done is to use mobile data recently since my router is failing.

>>108461344
it's already out in release? you no longer need a about:config flag to turn it on?

>>108461484
It's active right now and I'm not in a beta version or anything. If you know the about:config flag, maybe I can turn it off there too?

>>108461341
When I'm not using it for a while, or sometimes to do updates that touch the kernel
Every now and then I can go months without shutting down

>>108461493
For me it slows down after like a week to 10 days, feels like the pc slowly begins to overheat and the browser usually requires updating. A shutdown resets it as opposed to putting it in standby which i did for ages

>>108461570
That's not really normal

>>108461607
Well the pc is getting old, around a decade and it's been heavily used on a daily basis. Always got a ton of tabs and i put it in standby for years which may have prevented a cooldown of the hardware and put a bigger strain on it. It still works great for the most part and i'm guessing its somewhat normal in this context

>>108461141
No, whatever it is even includes live sport that's on the pay-TV (beyond paying for the loicense) channels. The iPlayer app is easy to install and while you need a BBC account for it now, they haven't yet implemented tying accounts to the loicense and doing a proper check that your home has one

My dad has this old Lenovo laptop that he’s never taken off his desk or unplugged from the wall, he just uses it to watch sports
It kind of bugs me because the battery is old, we’re not home most of the time and that shit can go kaboom any time, and he just doesn't care
Is there any way to disable the (non-removable) battery without opening up the laptop?

>>108461793
unlikely. if there was it'd be exposed in bios/uefi. some laptops have a "cap charge at x" thing that might be exposed, if they have this cap it at 60% and it should help. it's more of a thing in newer laptops, though.

i don't think there's a huge risk of a lithium battery swelling so much in a short period that there's a risk. the bigger risk is if it sits for weeks like that, or if you aren't careful while removing/transporting it and puncture it.

I've got a 2013 iMac with debian on it. For some reason, I can't make Ethernet work on it. Just says it has no carrier.
Should I just assume the port is dead? Cable is fine, I tried on a laptop.
AI won't help, Gemini keeps giving me retarded solutions and refuses to believe me that debian 13 is out (lmao)

>>108462096
I'm assuming a usb interface works fine?

>>108461257
nuke your cache and storage entirely and try again

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>>108461793
Use picrel.
>>108459039
>NVMe-over-Fibre-Channel
Who does that?

>>108461066
one that is locally hosted, like deepseek. there are plenty of models that dont require giga hardware

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Does anybody know a good desktop weather widget compatible with KDE Plasma? Weather Widget Plus isn’t working properly and everything else is either super minimalist or too detailed. The best one I found was Seeua Weather, but I want a different or customizable clock/date display.

Still deciding on a clock widget. Something like Customizable Clock or Advanced Modern Clock is alright. I’ll probably settle on Soniq Widget if I can customize it more.

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Is my C: drive somehow writing almost 200gb in about 24 hours when I did nothing but shitpost and watch 1 video on youtube?
Am I retarded or is that real bad?

>>108463098
task manager should expose io write bytes per process, you'll probably have to add the column first. that should show you at least what process is writing so much data.

Are there any non botnet automatic mops/vacuums?

>>108463782
Can you even name a single mop or vacuum that is connected to the internet?

>>108463803
not sure, I see a lot need apps and run and Ive heard they upload floor plans and stuff online

>>108459176
>group chat
This is your answer. End-to-end implies two ends, but group chats have many ends so E2E isn't applicable.

>>108460133
It would help to know the OS and applications affected.

>>108460350
No issues here.

>>108461120
You should never even touch the laptop keyboard at home, so its temperature doesn't matter.
You aren't using the laptop correctly if this is a concern.

>>108461187
Creative Pebble V3, when the price is reduced.

>>108461251
us.acer.com doesn't exist, but acer.com works.

>>108461341
2-3 weeks between restarts, but sometimes longer.

Is disabling Turbo and increasing PL1 to get halfway to the max clock on CPU good and safe compromise on laptop? I bought a mobile workstation thing, but either it heats up to pretty scary levels or it gets noisy with fans on max.
The CPU is infamous i7-9850H, so it just loves to spike temperature.
I tried to balance the turbo but it seems to disobey at times
I'm pretty close to just sending it the fuck back and getting an used ultrabook or whatever they're called nowadays but they're pricy for the power they offer...

>>108463086
Going to retract my request, as I remembered a conky can accomplish this and more.

Do I really need some form of init?

>>108461793
>disable the battery
That's silly, leave it alone.

>>108463021
>Who does that?
P-people!

>>108463803
Literally all of them.

>>108463782
Sadly, no.

>>108461251
Probably won't help definitely won't hurt-tier step:
Run CHKDSK in command prompt (if it asks to do it at the start of the next reboot let it)
Makes sure something on the actual disk sector size didn't go fucky-wucky

is there a browser extension (firefox) which lets you filter youtube recommendations?
I know you can hit "don't recommend channel," and I know there's extensions that remove youtube recommendations entirely, but neither is satisfactory to me.
I want youtube recommendations to still exist, I just want to prevent youtube recommendations from giving me certain shit I don't want to see. I already have shit like vinesauce and gamegrumps marked as "don't recommend channel" but I keep getting channels that upload vinesauce and gamegrumps fan edits and I don't want either to show up.

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I'm not sure how stupid this question is, but I didn't want to make my own thread JUST to ask this:

I live with my parents. My Dad is pretty tech literate given he works in a sort of engineering field, but my Mom is completely clueless when it comes to computers/the Internet in general but at the same time always insists that she knows better than anyone. She's always complaining that her computer runs slow but whenever my Dad tries to clean it out any she complains.
I figure I'll try to clean it up myself so I figured I should ask what are the best free PC cleanup software out there? Stuff like Malwarebytes, Wise Disk Cleanee, etc.
I'd run one of those Windows debloaters, too, but she might get a little pissy about that so probably not.

>>108464477
Adding to this, I forgot to mention that my Mom is the stereotypical boomer who clicks on literally everything on Facebook. Stuff like those "which minion are you" quizzes, etc.

Any recommendations on good desks? I's preferably want a wood one that's in an L shape. Also I'd like one with a mount, or a way to attach a mount, for a micro atx case.

>>108464477
just have her run ubuntu off a linux usb and make it non-persistant so everything is wiped after every session
you can also make it so a disk partition is made non-persistant which is what internet cafe owners used to do to avoid vandalism by the users

>>108464247
Nah you can just say init=/bin/sh and do it all by hand