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Thoughts?

>>108925710
I require context

>>108925710
>>108925737
https://www.reddit.com/r/Malwarebytes/comments/1tq02gc/malwarebytes_detected_malware/

>>108925795
Well why do you not trust Mieke when he tells you not to worry about it

>>108925840
cant trust reddit

Why does youtube work faster and more snappy when im logged out? It also doesn't do the "experiencing issues" thing either but it does when in logged in.

>>108925884
Crack dealer hooks the free guy up. The guy who already paid (with their data) is on the back burner.

Should I update my bios in my laptop? I googled it and the bios is from 2021 apparently. I'm afraid updating it will break it. There is a bio update for it from December 2025.

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>>108925884

cute flying kot

i have a problem with win10 i hope anons can help with, cause i'm at my fucking wits end here

i use the computer normally, everything works normally. after some time(hours? a day or two?) the thumbnails in explorer stop working. they will not show no matter what i do until i restart the PC completely. NOTHING i found on internet worked, channging explorer options, deleting thumbnail cache, nuking programs, nothing.
if anyone had this problem and fixed it, please speak up.

Are the c++ error messages worse than the c error messages?

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Where do you get mascots now that the booru is dead?

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Google is telling me I should "put a coin under the drive" to prop it up while at the same time "transferring heat away".

Is this real or fake and gay AI generated shit-advice?

And how the fuck does CrystalnachtDiskInfo show me "100% good" when I recently raped my drive by performing a 20% full format / random noise filling, and a year ago a 100% one, and also my drive has 2.3 million teeny tiny files on it (because I saved every 4chan thread I ever posted in starting in 2011, across various drives)?

Shouldn't it be at 90% tops?

>>108927774
For anything in the STL? Yes.

>>108925574
As someone who is regarded with maths, and only cares about websites looking sexy as fuck, Do I just learn Javascript if so is it hard, if so do I learn through Codeacademy like a normie or through boot.dev

Why do people on /g/ make fun of me every time I mention that I use brtfs?

>>108927774
Worse in terms of being less comprehensible. Especially due to internal naming of classes and other constructs in standard library implementations since they follow a standardized form. Good luck with parsing tracebacks spanning multiple pages of unreadable gibberish.

>>108927920
It's slower than ext4 so unless you use the extra features of brtfs people might not like it. The features it has are great tho

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>>108927798
Just search for pngs in a search engine

Does it matter that much if a high performance desktop pc with good fans stands on the floor as opposed to slightly above or on the desk?

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>>108925574
Excuse my newfaggotry but how do anons post here with a VPN? I've been posting for years but I only started caring recently about privacy.

Additionally, does anyone know of a program that disables or closes a program (in this case my VPN) when a specific program is opened?
Thanks anons

>>108928102
If it's on the carpet, put it on a plank or something so the psu fan isn't pointing down at it. It's fine otherwise.
It's actually better to be on the floor since you will hear the fan noise less. Even the most silent of fans at the lowest of RPMs will be audible when they're right by you.

>>108927829
just buy a cheap case fan and place it in the case to blow on the hdds

>>108928221
It's an external SSD that i have in the back of my d*cking station on the back of the table.

>>108925574
How to get past 90wpm?

>>108928023
I use snapshots and reflinks all the time.
How much slower than ext4 is it? I never noticed myself

>>108928293
I was going to cheekily post a Cortez Peters video, but it seems like (((they))) scrubbed almost all his videos. Just practice more.

>>108928152
Not using a carpet, would that be fine? The fans and pc is really quiet compared to the one i had before so that's nice. Almost soothing.

Found an old file container that I think is TrueCrypt, I know the pass is less than 10 characters but can't remember it. How do I brute force mounting it? I'm pretty sure of the first 3 characters so that only makes the length at most 7 chars so should not take too long since I also know it only has English alphabet characters.

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I'm trying to download a facebook album with gallery-dl but I can't. So far I can only get one image instead of the whole album. Any help?

>>108927829

looking at name it looks like solid state device anon

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Is it safe download the gofile files from tickzoo.com?

>>108927870
just ask chatgpt to make you a sexy website

>>108930313
idk but update your browser and wash your hands after

>>108925574
>ballon.gf
Me on my way to fuck your Mom.

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>>108925574
I don't understand how GPU pass through works with a hypervisor. If I were to install something like Qubes, would it be possible to pass the GPU through to one of the VMs and have the VM use it for gaming and stuff? Like the program the VM is running will display on the screen but will utilize the passed GPU? With the little I have found on this, people say you would have to dedicate a monitor to it with the physical port directly from the GPU. I know that with laptops that have discrete GPUs you can reserve the GPU use for specific programs. Why can't it operate that way?

>>108930412
afaik at a basic level device passthrough is just the host saying, ok this piece of the computer is owned by the VM, and giving it direct access (and giving up its own access)
GPU passthrough is just giving the VM direct access to that PCIe port, and then the VM does anything it wants while the host effectively gives up that PCIe port entirely

on laptops it's different because it's the same OS managing both GPUs and shit. so it has more control and can do stuff like use both at once selectively (not that different from a desktop that has both a real GPU and an i-GPU)

>>108930412
>I don't understand how GPU pass through works with a hypervisor
You don't really need to
>would it be possible to pass the GPU through to one of the VMs and have the VM use it for gaming and stuff?
Yes
>you would have to dedicate a monitor to it with the physical port directly from the GPU
Yes
>Why can't it operate that way?
I wouldn't know how to properly word it but I'll try.
You're oversimplifying memory allocation and how an operating system works.
By using your example, laptops that have a dedicated GPU essentially work in tandem and the OS and the processor can "assign" process to it (of course more is involved).
However, a VM is not just a simple process, is a complete operating system. That being said, one of the main purposes of the hypervisor is to prevent that a VM is able to access the regions of memory of the host that are NOT allocated to it, and this is important because PCI devices require to access memory. So, PCI passthrough essentially maps everything that the PCI device needs to operate so that the VM can make use of it

>>108924562
Mind posting it with levels down, anon?

>>108930412
>>108930489
by the way, you can do passthrough on a laptop as well, I've done it and it's nuts

>>108930464
>>108930489
> So, PCI passthrough essentially maps everything that the PCI device needs to operate so that the VM can make use of it

I understand this is over my head so I am just trying to follow along. My point of confusion comes in where Qubes can display the programs from the VM on its desktop. Anything graphically going on there is being done entirely by the CPU with no GPU available to the VM, not even the integrated one in the processor. All rendering is being done in software. If I were to pass the secondary GPU to the VM, that GPU would now be included in the hardware available to the VM. Why can it not use that hardware to render things the way that it can purely in software like it was doing without the GPU and just display it without the monitor? When I have used cloud based desktops with GPUs available to them I was able to fully utilize* that hardware and accelerate the desktop but I certainly didn't have a monitor directly connected to it. How can the cloud desktop use the GPU to accelerate the desktop without having to output to a monitor like people have claimed is necessary in the scenario I described? Is it that something like IOMMU is necessary for this?

>>108930506
> by the way, you can do passthrough on a laptop as well, I've done it and it's nuts

Like passthrough to a VM and have it take over the screen or just render programs from the VM on the screen?

>>108930412
Typically your host OS uses any device it can. When passing thru some PCIe-device you tell your host OS to stop using it with the regular drivers and use a special VM-pass-thru driver instead.
>>108927321
Does the update provide any essential bug fixes? One shouldn't updoot BIOSes just for the lulz.

>>108930576
Let's see
> How can the cloud desktop use the GPU to accelerate the desktop without having to output to a monitor like people have claimed is necessary in the scenario I described?
I don't really know what feature your cloud provider uses but it seems that it is using a virtualized GPU, which is what you might be thinking and is different than passthrough even though it provides acceleration, with this setup the hypervisor creates a "virtual GPU" so the VM doesn't see your actual GPU but the virtual one, and, the hypervisor will use your actual GPU's features to accelerate it, rendering the VM content in your actual screen without needing an external monitor. This is usable for normal desktop but falls short at running 3D intensive process like games and the like, plus it isn't always compliant with DX/GL that games mandate. Passthrough is considerably faster, near native I can say
>Is it that something like IOMMU is necessary for this?
IOMMU is not needed

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How the fuck I can pass this shit?

Won't even let me log in -- "press and hold" unending loop

>>108925574
What hapoened to the keryboard general?

What's a good audio equalizer to use to just have running in the background for all tasks?

What’s the best vpn if money isn’t really an issue lads

>>108931507
The best VPNs charge in time. Usefulness is inversely proportionate to accessibility.

>>108931507
proton vpn is well regarded
>>108931506
what system? easy effects if pipewire
>>108931014
died, give it a bit
>>108929021
>How do I brute force mounting it?
python script, if you know it though, it can take up to about a month to crack a 7 character password on consumer hardware
>>108927798
holy fuck they actually took down booru. jfc

>>108930804
try installing good boy regular chrome with no extensions

>>108931559
>what system? easy effects if pipewire
w-windows

>>108931573
sorry i dont know windows global eq options. i remember it eq'ing really weird when i used digital equalisers, so maybe a physical one?

>>108857299
doubt anyone cares but I figured out the problem
it was my glasses

>>108931632
lmao nice

>>108931632
Do ypu have a solution though?

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I put vo=gpu-next into my MPV config because it's needed to make HDR work, but now the seekbar is all white.... how fix

>>108931831
yeah I have another pair of normal glasses. the one I had on has transition lenses but apparently after 10 years it has a permanent piss filter on it and I just never noticed.

>>108931559
>python script
running on the CPU? isn't there a GPU solution?

>>108932559
yeah, hashcat

>>108932644
ah, you wrote >>108931323 ?
is there a windows tutorial for hashcat that you recommend? i will of course search on my own but maybe you know a good one

>>108932654
I told you to use python originally, as that's what I know from password cracking (it's easy to write the script) but I also know of hashcat which will of course be faster. I use Linux sorry, which I think you would benefit from because of raw performance gains

Do you shut the computer down at night or put it in sleep mode? The latter seems more convenient and efficient, does it impact long term performance or anything like that?

>>108932722
purely preference based

>>108932722
It depends on your drivers/bios. Not all of them respond well to sleep. End up with crashed computer or reduced performance. Xbox 360 used to have a buggy sleep mode that killed consoles.

>>108932661
i'll try using hashcat, thank you!
>Linux sorry, which I think you would benefit from because of raw performance gains
if it runs on the GPU would there really be any measurable difference in performance depending on OS?

on hashcat's homepage it says
>World's first and only in-kernel rule engine
any idea what that means? sounds like the want kernel access (like anti-cheat engines), which i wonder why it is necessary

what's the fastest way to learn a project with a technology I haven't worked with?

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Anyone who is smart with tech confirm that every PC with 7zip is at risk and not just new installs of it?

>>108932857
AI
>hello claude 4.8 xtra-high, I want to understand this project, but I have not worked with this technology before

It's so unfair how much more work you have to do in Computer Science compared to any other degree. I'll spend 4 hours on a programming issue and that's just the tip of the iceberg, while in business or economics you would get a whole paper written in that time. Then you also need a github portfolio to get a job on top of the hours you already spend on college projects. There are no portfolios in business, economics or even architecture or any form of engineering. And the pay as an SWE is barely different than these other fields. Like bankers make more than SWE.

>>108932876
There will be a range of vulnerable versions: the bug leading to the vulnerability will have been introduced at some point, and will have been fixed in a very recent release (or in the very near future). All installs within the vulnerable range will be at risk.
In practice sometimes vulnerabilities are discovered fast and then it's "if you haven't updated/installed it in the last 3-4 months you're safe". With a headline like this, though, it makes it sound like it's a very old issue that probably affects the vast majority of versions in use. To fix you'd need to see which version has fixed the issue and update at least to that version asap.

>>108932915
I’m unsure what versions are or are not affected. This is the first time hearing of it and I’ve not gone to 7zips website -if they have one - to see when it was last updated.
My 7 zip install is like 6 years old.

>>108932931
>I’m unsure what versions are or are not affected.
Nobody is until they actually look it up and find that information somewhere. Have you done that yet?
>and I’ve not gone to 7zips website -if they have one - to see when it was last updated
This information was thankfully provided to you in your own link, so that at least is known.

>My 7 zip install is like 6 years old.
It may or may not be safe, 7zip itself is quite old software so it's entirely possible the bug is older than that still. Note that a 6 year old version may also have other bugs with more or less serious vulnerabilities that have long since been fixed - normally 7zip doesn't have a history of major issues like this, but 6 years is a long time.

>>108932966
I’m at work and saw this popup online but I’ve not checked.
Article does say that updating to latest should fix the issue.

>>108925574
Why is LXDE better than LXQT?

>>108932876

lempev ziv markov compression is builtin feature in new windows but old 7zip were told to be good

>>108930607
>Does the update provide any essential bug fixes? One shouldn't updoot BIOSes just for the lulz.
Apparently it has some security issue that was fixed with a bios update in 2023 I think. Its a lenovo laptop. Someone else told me that updating straight from the 2021 bios to the 2025 bios is dangerous and could break my laptop and that lenovo requires you to update to a lower bios first. like id have to update to the 2022 version then the 2023 version then the 2024 version. I dunno if he was right but thats what he seemed to imply.

How accurate are those new sign-in locations supposed to be? Whenever I sign into Steam for example it places me good 100km away from where I actually am, I remember google saying a very different location to mine at the very bottom of the search page too. The locations are always within the country and I don't use proxies or VPNs

What do you think is the best way to stay updated with an artist's latest work online?
You follow them on social media and it's always the same shit
>follow me on Twitter for samples
>Patreon for paid stuff
>DeviantArt for something spicy
>Pixiv for NSFW
>Newgrounds for animations
and on and on

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>>108930495
idk, looks weird

>>108931573
Everyone seems to use Equalizer APO with Peace GUI.
Also, check out if there's autoeq profile your headphones or speakers to make them sound flatter (if you want that): autoeq.app

>>108933875
There is no such thing as a universal art aggregator.
In theory boorus can kind of work this way but it requires absolutely everyone to be highly involved in reuploading everything onto boorus. As far as I'm aware the only two places that have come kinda close to this are exhentai and the brony boorus, but even those do not provide actual 100% coverage, there's always artists missing for some reason or another or un-uploaded stuff that everybody has missed, etc.
If your artist is not drawing hentai or MLP then you're shit out of luck, nothing else comes even close.

>>108932722
I only shut down every month or so :P

>>108933666
100km is very close IMO. ISPs hand out public databases for their IP blocks and your block is placed where ever the 100km away is, it's not like every IP is individually located. It would be a gigantic task for the ISP and any typical private customer don't have a static IP to begin with.
(and no, even if you had the same IP for 20 years doesn't technically make it static unless the infrastructure is built like that (actual real deal 100% guaranteed static IPs are for business customers))
>>108933488
>some security issue that was fixed with a bios update
Then it makes sense to update.
>Someone else told me that updating straight from the 2021 bios to the 2025 bios is dangerous
See what their website tells. There's usually a warning if that's the case.

simple way to check out potentially unsafe links in a sandbox?
I know most links cant directly fuck you over anymore like its 2005 but I still wanna be sure

Why does my router say I have a dynamic IP address but it never actually changes and I have the same IP now that I had several months ago despite the router restarting many times over that period?

>>108934190
Static means your account is allocated a specific IP and you are pretty much given a guarantee that it won't change
Dynamic means that they have a system to automatically allocate IPs in whatever way they prefer. It's possible (and not uncommon) that the system has a cache that lives for a while and keeps allocating the same IP to your router every time. Maybe if you turn off your router for like a day it would change, or maybe if you buy a different router or override the MAC address or something it could change.
It's still not static simply because there is no IP that your ISP has explicitly told you is yours. They could reallocate it at any time, or change their internal setup at any time to make it reallocate a lot more often, etc.

>>108932910
Idk, it's still easier than mathematics and some of the other sciences

>>108933104
isn't LXDE mostly unmaintained?

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>>108934190
When the IP is acquired via DHCP it's called dynamic. The thing here to understand is the dynamic between the router's MAC and the ISP's DHCP servers.

>>108934190
your ISP ultimately controls how many IP addresses you can get. ask them if your connection is allowed dynamic IP addesses

>>108934190
>Why does my router say I have a dynamic IP address
That just means it was assigned via DHCP. Technically they can send a command to your router to tell it to change IPs, but that doesn't mean they will.

Cable ISPs like to assign IP addresses by router MAC. Which typically doesn't change unless you change it manually. They may change your IP as part of a network reorg, but it can stay the same for years. Others may have their own way of doing things; there's no special significance to it.

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>>108925574
https://github.com/nick-s-b/4chan-xt/releases

Are the various assets listed different releases (I ask as each one gives its own download prompt), and if so what are the difference among them? I would guess they are different releases are for different browsers and extensions, but I do see an explanation of it anywhere on the github. I am trying to determine which one I should download.

>>108934824
>Are the various assets listed different releases
No it's all the same 2.24.3 release, just in different formats. Normally you only need one.
>.tar.xz, .zip
Compressed archives, maybe packed extensions but it's not clear. Maybe firefox extensions?
>.meta.js, .min.meta.js
No idea honestly. One is minified for some reason.
>.min.user.js, .user.js,
I think these is for use as a userscript. One minified one not again, for some reason.
>.user.js.map
Sourcemap for debugging, you probably don't need this
>crx.zip
CRX is the chrome extension format

I'd use .min.user.js for violentmonkey or .crx as a chrome extension, dunno about the rest.

>>108933950
yeah that site is what triggered me asking

I'll probably have to replace a VGA cable, one of those that's connected directly to the board not one I can just take out easily, in few days does anyone have a guide or any advice on that? Does this belong here or over at /diy/?

>>108933950
I've Peace GUI now. Do you know if it takes those 'bass boost, terble boost, max gain, etc' profiles into its exported config? I just edited the 'bass boost' effect to match (config didn't update that part in another window).

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>>108925574
Sooo about MSI Afterburner.
My GPU is locked pretty tight, allegedly needing messing with BIOS via flashing to unlock it for undervolting/underpowering purposes and I'm not going to try doing that because I suck at everything IT.
But I discovered that I can lock frequency or voltage at certain level in curve editor. I have read that you're not supposed to do that outside testing, but monitoring shows that frequency(and thus, wattage) can fall below locked value if processing demand is lower.
That's literally the only thing I can do when it comes to controlling TDP. Is there any danger involved?

Probably asked a million times already, is the new triple captcha the new standard or is my IP fucked? Not using a vpn.
The fucking lines in a box and stacked arrows is too much to do every single post.

>>108932847
In this context, the "kernel" is the program that is executed by the GPU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader#Compute_kernels
The Hashcat program itself runs in user mode.
Rules are sequences of modifications to apply to words in word lists to generate password candidates as mentioned here https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack you do not need it for a mask attack (brute force) https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack

>>108935513
Fine for me, your cookies lost trust
I think they are really tightening the trust settings. A little while ago I lost all ability to phonepost, whether in the browser or kuroba, because I didn't use to do it very often so I didn't have good cookies. Apparently if you copy good desktop cookies into kuroba it works for other people (I can't be bothered though).
Thankfully my desktop cookies are of a good quality so I don't really have issues. However even then I've noticed that I get "V erification not required." a lot more seldom than before - it used to be that captchas were an occasional extra test and most posts would get "not required", nowadays I have to solve a captcha probably at least 50% of the time, so the "not required" has become an occasional pleasant surprise rather than the norm. Still, I only get a single captcha when I do.

>>108934321
>mostly
It works.

>>108935566
Other than importing good cookies, can I just keep at it and gain "trust"?

>>108935715
I have no idea. I don't know if anybody knows. I've seen people complain that their captchas are just fucked no matter how much they post, so maybe not. Who knows what the fuck hiro is doing.

Also I'm a fucking autist who makes easily a couple dozen posts per day, basically every single day, for years meaning definitely since the very start of this new system, and I pretty much never get banned or warned. And my IPs are not shared with any other shitposters, nor are my cookies obviously. And I'm still getting very regular (single) captchas, more than I used to even like I said, and it's not like it's getting better over time. Given their immense autism with trusted cookies and shit, their layer of cloudflare and then spur and MCP botnets, all to validate and trust a specific browser, one would imagine they'd be able to actually identify normal posters who aren't part of a proxy and don't spam or post bannable shit and deserve to have fewer captchas. Apparently they are either incompetent or simply do not care whatsoever about their users, so instead we get fingerprinting, tracking and anal probing, but then still have to fill out captchas on top of it because lmao.

>>108935752
>anal probing
hot

>>108925574
so i do have dell optiplex 9020 sff with i5 4590 255w psu and i put rx6400 inside but it gives no output and the bios does not see it, all it does is spin the fan and not sure if i am power limited or the gpu is fucked, apparently there are some bigger power limits on the pcie in the newer bios but i did try the older one and still nothing, the pcie is working with lower end gpus, the pcie on this motherboard gives 50w while the gpu uses up to 53 max, i've seen people using such combo with no issues other than having to change single bios setting but not in my case, what do?

>>108936416
also did minimal boot with 1 ram stick and pretty much everything removed, still nothing.

>>108935540
>Compute kernels are routines compiled for high throughput accelerators (such as graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs)
oh i see, that's good

>>108936416
>i5 4590
If your machine doesn't support UEFI, you're fucked for that GPU

Is it a bad idea to have an open port for torrenting if I'm not using a VPN?

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>Feel horny and wanna talk to people on /soc/
>Send friend request to someone using their username
>Discord suddenly asks for me to verify my identity
>Requires me to put in my phone number
>Do that
>My other actual discord account is no longer attached to my phone number
>Ok
>Re-enter my phone number into my actual discord account
>Then log into throwaway /soc/ account
>"Please verify your account"
What is going on? What is the solution to this?

>>108937771
Doesn't change your risk profile any. Everyone on the swarm can see what you download whether or not you have a port open.

what's the best place / guide / forum to learn about torrenting and piracy? creating torrents etc.

>>108938149
basic
>make a torrent
>seed
advanced
>google top public trackers
>add a handful to your torrent
ascended master
>make an account on your favorite torrent site
>post accurate description and pics

>>108937906
go outside and talk to real people

two-parter question here
i'm curious about setting one of these up in the modern day, i am vaguely aware of cell2jack but this requires a cellphone and uses it over bluetooth which i'm not a huge fan of, although i suppose it could kind of work. i think a voip number unlisted would be a little better. anyone have any suggestions or knowledge about such a thing.

also let's say i have a big house, i want to have one of these in the kitchen, and one in my office which is far away. is there a way to use them as a sort of offline network / line. so say i can't really call out or anything, but i could still call the phones in other rooms of the house?

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What's a good desktop distro for an appalling laptop with an n4000 CPU and 8GB RAM? This thing can barely run a single Firefox window with a 720p video.

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>>108938381
forgot picrel because im retarded

>>108925574
Why the fuck is it so hard to find a wired computer mouse that isn't made out of plastic, aluminum, something that has aluminum as an alloy (like the magnesium alloy mice)?

>>108938566
Because plastic and aluminum are cheap to manufacture and durable. How would magnesium be an improvement?

>>108938588
Magnesium is lighter than Aluminum so the mouse would be lighter, the problem is that pure Magnesium isn't as moldable so they usually use a Magnesium alloy to mold the shell, and almost always they will use Magnesium alloy cut with aluminum because its cheaper.
Also Aluminum and plastic over time give off micro-plastics and atomic aluminum partials which the skin absorbs. I don't need to tell you that microplastics are bad for your health, but you might not know that aluminum is a neurotoxin.

>>108938734
just take your meds schizo

>>108932876
Very buzzfeed article. Did you recently use 7-zip to extract an entire sketchy Windows image (.img, .iso, .vhd)? If not just update 7-zip and don’t worry about it.

>>108938734
Why aren't you asking about a keyboard with no plastic/aluminum also then

What browser should I be using on Android

>>108927920

noatime ext4 be faster access

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Metadata

I'm reading about the new law in the EU about removable batteries and apparently it includes earbuds too. What do you think the main brands will do?, make them bigger so you can change the battery or keep them small but you will be able to change the battery in the official repair service?

>>108925884

maybe they gone too far integrating content

in summertime turning history off is temporary change

>>108927798

i dont run product range that need multiple mascots

I notice that if I have Twitter open for a few days without closing my browser, it tends to become increasingly unresponsive. However, this is just twitter, not the browser as a whole, usually

What sort of browsing data should I try clearing to "reset" this? It seems like a Private browsing window is unaffected/builds up it's own unresponsiveness separately from the non private windows, at least IIRC?

Also, how do I even clear the cache vs cookies seperately in Firefox for a specific site? If I go to clear browsing data I can clear cookies vs the cache separately, but it's for everything rather then a per site basis. And if I go to manage browsing data, I can clear both the cache and cookies for a specific site, but not just one vs the other

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For a credit card, is the PIN code stored in the card, or on the card's servers?

Are blue yeti mics still good or are there better alternatives now?

>>108939101

offline card does not need pin?

>>108938819
i use brave and it works pretty well, no complaints

>>108939137

mics appear to be endorsed business anon

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>>108925574
I'm too stupid to know how to edit my 4chanX to change "pin watched threads to the top of the index" to make it pin them to the bottom instead.
Can someone teach me maybe?

Anyone know of anything thats like iCUE that i can make macros with but dont have to buy shit ass corsair peripherals with?

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>>108939101
It's in the card and that goes for all chip cards, including SIM and what have you.
>>108938381
You can hook up two rotary phones just like that and when you pulse it via the rotary thing or hit the hangup switch it rings intermittently on the other end as pulses go thru.
For a network of phones you need an automatic exchange and those can be totally mechanical. (which is nice because it'll work in the post-apocalyptic world)

>>108938739
>Scienc is schizo
Okay
>>108938763
Because those are actually much easier to find believe it or not.

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Not really sure how to word this for google but I have a wacky thing happening on linux. every day or 2 I have to restart x11 because some programs no longer open and when I do something like trying to open up a picture in discord in my browser it just doesnt open. If I restart x11 or my pc it all goes back to normal. It might be related to an issue I had last month that went away where sometimes when my monitors go to sleep and I turn them back on my desktop doesnt load but I can still see my cursor which would be fixed by restarting x11 or the computer.

>>108938149
Look for the private trackers general

>>108938819
Iceraven

what font are you anons using?

>>108940249
why TF are you using x11 in 2026 and not Wayland?

>>108938566
>>108938734
What you want is a carbon fiber mouse. You're in luck because they are actually not that uncommon anymore (still niche obviously but you have multiple to choose from).

>aluminium partials which the skin absorbs
Source on this being an issue on skin contact for solid aluminium? I know aluminium cookware for example is not ideal because you're heating it, and then eating the contents. Or aluminium deodorant which is microparticles. But is there actually any measurable absorption from just holding an aluminium alloy mouse?
It's like how lead water pipes are bad for you but leaded solder is basically negligible since you're not eating or drinking it. Or asbestos kills you if inhaled but it's fine to have an already-constructed asbestos wall or insulation as long as you don't touch it.

>>108928353
It doesn't matter for desktop use. It does matter for shit that is I/O bound, like databases or some types of Rust compilation

>>108940307
is it that important to switch? I came back to linux a few months ago after not using it for about a decade and I had the impression that wayland was more new and experimental but maybe I'll have to actually use it.

>>108939721
Not sure what iCUE does but for macros have you tried Autohotkey

>>108940307
Not him but I tried wayland recently and shit just didn't work. Motherfucking chromium had the bottom of its window cut off, and I looked it up and apparently it's a known issue on wayland where the dimensions of the screen are not correctly communicated to Chromium so since I had my taskbar on top, the top of the window was moved down but it didn't know it, and still rendered fullscreen dimensions.

I'm not here to tinker-tranny some experimental early alpha software. If motherfucking Chrome doesn't work out of the box on Wayland then it's not ready for general use yet.

>>108940278
In the terminal? Iosevka

>>108940319
I think a lot of the x11 devs went left x11 to advance wayland development

>>108940319
not really, unless you want to use kde or gnome, where it's required or will be very soon

>>108940364
I dont plan on using either since I've been a fan of xfce.

>>108940383
i still use x11 (openbox), you don't need to switch to wayland any time soon if you don't care to

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>Trying to create GitHub account
>Get to their human verification thing (pic related)
>Struggling to get past it
I get that CAPTCHAs are outdated, but holy shit this is fucking absurd. Is this normal? Jesus Christ.

>>108938353
nice

>>108925574
Anyone know of a way to make explorer always interpret searches as if surrounded by wildcards? e.g. foo searches for *foo*

How do I compile my program for x86-64 macOS, particularly such that it at least runs on the last Intel MacBook, if I don't have an Intel Mac? Can I do it in a macOS VM from Linux or something?

>>108940574
you can run macos in a vm from linux with a little effort, then you should be able to run xcode or whatever macos uses to build stuff with

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>>108925574
Trying to learn Node.js here.
Can someone please tell me what the fuck a "Promise" even is, how the fuck does it work and how it is supposed to be used?
I've desperately trying to wrap my head around it for several hours now, and I swear to God, I've NEVER EVER encountered anything more excruciatingly overconvoluted than this horrendous abomination in my entire life, not just in the field of programming, but in general (and I've had to do with stuff like quantum mechanics).
Please tell me I won't have to use it much, or that there are equally valid replacements for Node.js.

>>108940325
I would rather not learn compsci to make a single fucking macro

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>>108941204

>>108941484
>burger analogy

>>108941526
that's gemma4 for you

Any Macfags here? I'm trying to find an app that opens zip/7z/rar archives like 7zip does in Windows. I tried peazip and it doesn't work, it just flashes the window for a half second and vanishes, even when I open the archive from terminal. Keka just auto-extracts the entire archive which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Any of you guys have recommendations on e readers, or know what the various brands are like? I want to get one but have massive choice paralysis. I just want something in black and white with a big screen to read manga

>>108928150
You can't post here with a VPN unless you have a pass.

Most VPNs these days have what is called split tunneling, which omits programs you select from using the VPN.

>>108941204
JS Promise is just syntactic sugar for callbacks but made native, understand how to reimplement Promise using callbacks and you understand Promise.

>>108938819
I use firefox. The profile tab syncing and whatnot is way better than chromium browsers for some reason

>>108939519
Hi ho, I think the code is:

      //old code to sort things to the top.
      /*Index.sortOnTop(function(obj) {
        return obj.isOnTop || Conf['Pin Watched Threads'] && ThreadWatcher.isWatchedRaw(obj.boardID, obj.threadID);
      });*/

      //This was separated out as I think it is related to the top:yes|no setting in filters - and we still want to pin top filters to the top :)
      Index.sortOnTop(function(obj) {
        return obj.isOnTop;
      });
      //But sort the watched threads to the bottom - aka, anchor them
      Index.sortOnTop(function(obj) {
        return Conf['Pin Watched Threads'] && !ThreadWatcher.isWatchedRaw(obj.boardID, obj.threadID);
      });

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>>108941242
There's even a scratch-like gui editor for it at cloudahk.com tho lol

>>108941817
That still looks like to much effort

>>108940407
Never seen that one before daaamn

>>108928150
4chins uses only a couple of IPs so crafting a manual route for those was peanuts, on Linux at least.
>pecific program
My solution was cruder than that, it wasn't program related, it involved routing tables so ANY program wanting to connect 4chan IPs bypassed the VPN route.
And this is all highly OS specific, I used systemd-networkd's capabilities for those routes.

who the FUCK asked for this "Modern Standby" shit on modern laptops? I assume it's not just Lenovo Thinkpads

>hibernate P15V - happy
>get T14 gen 5 - no option to turn off screen, have to do some regedit shit which may or may not be harmful, and then use a powershell script to turn the screen off
>get an X1 thinkpad - IT LITERALLY FUCKING WAKES UP AT 4 FUCKING AM ON ITS OWN FOR NO REASON - or at 3:30 PM again for no reason, no peripheral device got moved, it just does it because it wants to

This is peak enshitification. Change my mind.

>>108941242
>claude write me an AHK macro that does A, B and C
>this is "compsci"
To be fair this is all compsci majors are doing now so you're not that wrong. But nevertheless you have no reason not to do it yourself

>>108939849
>It's in the card and that goes for all chip cards, including SIM and what have you.
Is there any machine that could get the PIN code once the card is inserted?

>>108941204
Other languages call it Futures, if it helps looking it up.
I'd explain it but honestly the burger analogy is pretty good. It's just an object that you can hold while some operation is happening asynchronously in the background.

>>108941684
Most of the brands are near-equivalent. The main thing you have to decide is whether you want Android or not.
>pros of Android: you can install any app, that means you can run shit like syncthing, web browser of your choice, termux, etc.
>cons of Android: it's pretty big and bloated compared to a thin linux-based shell
I would lean towards a proper Android implementation just to have all the sync options I want rather than being locked into whatever the manufacturer decided to implement for syncing, but if you're fine with always copying books over USB and don't need anything else, it's not really necessary.

With that choice made, pick anything you like, they're all very similar. Boox, Kobo, Pocketbook are all good brands.

If you really have decision paralysis then buy a Boox Note Air, whatever's the latest model in B&W. Or buy a secondhand one for cheaper.

>>108942002
>"Modern Standby" shit on modern laptops?
It's a feature of modern CPUs. They've literally dropped support for the S3 deep sleep state and now "sleeping/standby" is just a special low-power mode while everything is still on.
Hibernating/suspend-to-disk should still work fine, though, since it doesn't depend on CPU support. I have no idea how modern windows works, but if you're having issues hibernating it's an OS problem, not a laptop problem.

>IT LITERALLY FUCKING WAKES UP AT 4 FUCKING AM ON ITS OWN FOR NO REASON
This is also going to be some sort of OS issue normally, but this one I've seen happen across all kinds of laptops and OSes for many, many years. I don't know why but spontaneously waking up from sleep is just something laptops do sometimes, and it's definitely not a new issue or an enshittification, it's always existed.
Some laptops I've owned did it and some didn't. My latest P14 Gen 4 (running linux) actually never does this, thankfully.

>>108942095
Normally I don't believe so, it's a challenge-response type protocol. The reader sends what the user entered to the card and the card replies either "ok" or "no". But the reader can't ask for the PIN from the card.

>>108942153
Well it is a Windows 11 on a work laptop, so I got no choice. It never ever happened on the old P15v. If I hibernated it, it stayed hibernated for all eternity.

>>108942583
I believe windows hibernates by default when you "shut down". They call it fast boot-up or something (it's an annoying feature because when you want to actually do a hard shutdown you have to jump through a bunch of hoops, which I know causes grief for dualbooters). Have you tried using that?

If that doesn't work like proper hibernation then I dunno rip, windows has been enshittifying itself for a long time now. Your choices are probably complain to work IT (until they either fix it or let you use another OS), or suck it up, or find another job where they let you choose your OS.

>>108942600
I'm using shutdown /h in cmd specifically. The real "Start" -> Power -> Shut down option would definitely close all my applications before it does whatever it is supposed to do, so doing that is moot.

>>108942625
Amazing OS
>disables shutdown button and makes it force hibernate instead, fucking you when you actually want to shutdown
>but force-closes all your programs before doing that, fucking you when you actually want to hibernate normally
Bravo microsoft

Yeah just complain to IT saying your laptop keeps waking up or whatever and sleep/hibernate aren't working
Also in general, when forced to use shit like this that you don't like, for your own sanity learn to think of it as a work tool and not your own problem. If it wakes up in the middle of the night and drains your battery, what's the issue? Does it prevent you from working in the morning, or inconvenience you and slow you down? Complain to your manager saying the computer is shit and preventing you from working. Is it just overheating and you're afraid for the laptop's health? Not your problem, if it dies the company will just give you a new one. Etc.

>>108941484
>>108941742
>>108942107
Understanding the concept is the least of the problems, the syntax is where the true horror begins.

>>108942684
JS syntax is babby shit and there's nothing complicated about it
The worst thing you might encounter are then-chains but even that is a lot easier to read than what is lovingly called "callback hell"

>>108941204
promises are one of the most used things in JS so just by writing JS you'll eventually learn them

I don't see a headphone thread up, so I guess I have to ask here.

I have a set of headphones that produce sound that is too loud. I want to plug them into my TV to use them there, but even if I turn the TV's volume down to the minimum of 1, the audio is still loud enough to be slightly painful and there's a slight static. What can I do to fix this behavior?

Buying new headphones is an option, I was already looking to do that for other unrelated reasons. But specifically what measurement should I be comparing to make sure the new headphones are quieter (and ideally the static goes away)?

This is probably a retarded question, but why does Windows scaling of 150% on a 1920x1200 15.3" display appear so cramped, with very low amount of workspace? 150% scaling at that resolution gives me a 1280x800 logical resolution, which in a 15.3" display is roughly 98 ppi, which is close to 96 ppi. I thought 96 ppi was the ideal ppi against which all UI is designed?

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What's supposed to be so good or beneficial about round touchpads?

>>108942959
Low sensitivity and high impedance is good for noisy sources. At least until you start seriously running up power requirements. Those Beyer 600 ohm headphones would actually be a good fit. Or get a cheap amp, run the TV at full volume into that, and use whatever headphones you want. Your existing ones probably want an amp with negative gain.

>>108941943
>My solution was cruder than that, it wasn't program related, it involved routing tables so ANY program wanting to connect 4chan IPs bypassed the VPN route.
>And this is all highly OS specific, I used systemd-networkd's capabilities for those routes.
Thanks I'll keep that in mind for my eventual dual boot setup
>>108941701
>Most VPNs these days have what is called split tunneling, which omits programs you select from using the VPN.
Thanks I'll look into that, usually I just leave the VPN on for browsing but sometimes I forget it's on when I boot up multi

>>108934824
>releases are for different
releases and are
>I do see an explanation
do not see

>>108934867
Thank you for the insight. I knew I needed a .user.js since I am running Firefox with Greasemonkey, but didn't quite know what to make of the various options. At least now I know what most of this is and won't screw it up.

If another Anon knows what the meta and tar.xz files are that would be helpful.

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>>108943029
i've never used one, but i've seen many a worn touchpad.. and the wear patterns is always just a circular hotspot, so i don't imagine there'd be a downside to a circular touchpad

>>108943028
>I thought 96 ppi was the ideal ppi against which all UI is designed?
That's correct but ppi is "pixels per inch". It tells you the density of the display, not the amount of workspace you have.
>a 1280x800 logical resolution
This is why it feels cramped. You're probably used to 1920x1200, but your logical resolution is only 1200x800. That's a pretty low resolution, I can see why you think it's cramped.

For a laptop I'd just use 100% scaling. Things will look smaller but you will be able to use the full 1920x1200 logical resolution.

>>108943250
Rectangular touchpads have scrolling functions if you swipe up/down along the right edge of the touchpad, which would be missing if the touchpad is round.

>>108943415
Well once again, that's probably a retarded question, but isn't the single thing that determines whether the UI feels cramped or not is for what ppi the UI was designed for? So if all apps and Windows itself were designed around 96 ppi, then if the logical resolution is less than 96 ppi, the desktop will appear cramped, and if it's more than that, everything will appear small, but the desktop will be spacious. Yet my logical ppi is 98, and it's all cramped. Am I simply wrong about all of this, or is UI, in fact, not designed for 96 ppi at this point?

>>108943451
I'm not sure that's done anymore on new laptops, they do multiple finger gestures now for scrolling afaik, and circular touchpads probably have some other way of handling scrolling I'd imagine

>>108943463
Well depends what you mean by cramped. You said you "didn't have a lot of space". This is determined by physically how big your screen is.
By scaling to 150%, you are effectively zooming in. It's really quite simple, I think you're overthinking this by a lot and confusing yourself by thinking about the "standard ppi" and whatever. You have a screen of a certain size with a certain resolution. You changed your settings to "zoom in" so now your logical resolution is much lower. You can see a lot less stuff on your screen at once, because you zoomed in by 150%. Ergo it feels cramped. Does that make sense?

Now about standard ppi, again, that's "pixels per inch", and it means the UI assumes that drawing a line e.g. 96 pixels long will result in a line on your screen physically 1 inch long (if you took out a ruler and held it up to your screen).
Now do a basic calculation - at 96 ppi, a full HD screen that's 1920 pixels wide should be 20 inches wide, and 1200 pixels tall would mean 12.5 inches tall. A quick pythagoras calculation

sqrt(20^2 + 12.5^2)

shows this would be a 23.6 inch screen, i.e. approximately a 24 inch monitor.
Your laptop screen is only 15.3 inches. Its native resolution is still 1920x1200, and what this means is that it can display the exact same things as a full 24'' 96ppi 1080p monitor; it's just smaller, and everything it displays will be smaller. When the UI draws a 96 pixel line, it assumes it will be an inch long, but actually on your laptop screen it'll be shorter than an inch, because your laptop screen is a higher ppi (there are more pixels per inch).
When you scale to 150% and get logical 96ppi, the scale of things is the same as on the 24'' monitor, but you only have a small 15.3'' display, so it cuts off a lot of space you would've had on the 24'' monitor, and therefore feels cramped. It's like if you took the 1920x1200 monitor and cut off a big chunk from each side, leaving you with just 1280x800 pixels remaining.

>>108942959
>>108943153
Would this work? https://www.amazon.com/Inline-Control-3-5MM-Headphones-Black/dp/B008DJTB32

>>108943540
Ah, so having larger logical resolution at the same logical ppi (as some other display with lower logical resolution, but same logical ppi) does in fact make it more spacious, that's what I didn't realize.

>>108943623
Yeah, it's literally how many things you can display. The more pixels your screen has, the more things it can display. It is literally zooming in and out - if you zoom out as much as possible you can see the most things, if you zoom in then it becomes bigger but you can only see a small portion. This is literally how ppi and scaling works, no need to overthink it.

If you have a 4k display, you can display the equivalent of four 1080p desktops side by side. If you have a laptop with a 4k display and you do this, it'll just look very very small and be unusable, so you probably want to use scaling in that case, to "zoom in" a bit, sacrificing some of the logical pixel area in order to make things bigger. It's literally just zoom.

>>108941779
hell yeah worked first try, thanks anon
Seems like all you did was remove obj.isOnTop || ? I don't really understand why that anchored it but I'll take it lol. I'll dig through and see if I can make sense of it, I'm shit at js

>>108943653
But what does it mean that a UI is designed for 96 ppi then? You can have a 22.9" 1920x1080 monitor and a 65" 5438x3059 TV, both are roughly 96 ppi, but the same UI will feel totally different on both of these