old >>105772229

What’s a computer

How do I get motivated to keep learning to program/practicing individually? I'm a CS student and I seem to only be motivated when I have programming class on my schedule, but It's looking like I won't have one until next year in the spring.

I fear I'll forget everything I learned since I have not studied any programming since may .-.

>>105814135
Sounds like you don’t like CS so quit this oversaturated field while you can. You’re competing with half the planet and some of them actually program for fun so if you don’t enjoy it quit.

LMDE always breaks, or bugs appear, why? Why does nothing “secondary” work properly when it comes to Linux?

>>105814215
money
no one's gonna do a decent job for free

everytime I boot up my computer it always shows the startup logo on my other monitor, anyway I can make it so it displays on my main monitor?

>>105814268
swap the connectors around

>>105814215
>LMDE always breaks, or bugs appear, why?

>my car makes noises, why?

>>105814275
I did but it doesnt want to recognize my HDMI cable over my DP cable

>>105814154
my life would be turned upside down but thank you

How likely would it be that the future of computing is that there will be towers that house quantum computers owned by monopolistic corporations and we connect to them?

Corporations would lease out usage and the user (us) would just interface to it on a display and keyboard. The possibilities would be immense. A few examples would be Infinite FPS for gamers and the ability to solve equations and business problems in fractions of a second. So much more would be possible as well.

>>105813746 (OP)
Hello fellow anons
I am /beg/ in programming
I know basic syntax for C/C++

What next? I don't understand when people say program stuff. What? How?

What can I take up as a task which is kinda doable by myself? I don't want to just follow some tutorials and let it stay there as it is but learn things so I can do something by myself.

>>105814389
i'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, i'll tell you how i became the prince of a town called bel-air

If I'm using the latest Wi-Fi standard, then approximately how many Hatsune Mikus could be hiding in my Wi-Fi? Or how much room would she have for herself if alone? Would it be a tight fit or would there be lots of room?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySCouUP8AI

How much space or bandwidth would a Miku even require?
Is it okay to let her stay there or will my download speeds increase if she gets evicted?

>>105811710
only if the audio comes through the screen, tried removing all usb connected to it, thinking one of them causes noise, but nope

I have a 3080, and want to connect it to a display which uses two displayports input to create 1080p 480hz. Is this simple plug and play of two cables? Or is there some other type of magic necessary?

I'm trying to remember a batch image editing program.
you connected everything with nodes, it had a dark theme, it was good at working with filters like waifux2

Why do I keep getting this error when trying to upload to 4chan from Android? Have tried Chrome and Brave browsers and cleared caches, but problem still persists.

What's causing this? Any fixes?

Any way to contact 4chan developers/technical team?

>>105810673
Thanks!

>0 seeders
>almost 1mb/s download speed
what exactly causes this? sometimes i see it happen to the tune of 1-100kb/s on other torrents but never this much, and it's been happening on-and-off for a few weeks now.

>>105817097
a "seeder" is someone who has all of the data of the torrent. a "leecher" is someone who is does not have all of the data.
you can download from EITHER. so when you see progress with no seeders, it means you have less than another leecher (another because you being someone without all of the data, are also a leecher) and so are downloading from another leecher (or leechers)
there's no speed limit or difference between the two, though due to practical realities, i'm not surprised you see slow speeds in these cases

also note that you cannot complete a torrent in your case, at least, not usually. technically you can complete a torrent with only leechers, IF the combination of leechers have everything between themselves, but this is unlikely. look for the "availability" value, that will tell you what percentage you can reach given the current peer set

>>105817097
>>105817176
as for a tl;dr, you're downloading from someone who has data you don't, but not everything. the speed you get depends on their upload speed and your download speed.

>>105817176
>>105817188
ah right, thank you i completely forgot leechers also have data.
also, i never actually considered what availability meant since it's usually off at the side beyond the main window. i see now that the torrent seems to have downloaded as much as it will, since it's at 0.512.

>>105817232
yea, these are details you only really run into when faced with less popular torrents.
it's easy to assume that seeder = someone you download from and leecher = someone who downloads from seeders, but that's absolutely not how torrents work technically.
but yea, for "availability", that's the ratio of unique chunks that are held by the current peer list, or in other words, the max percentage you can get downloading the torrent. like if one leech has the first 20%, and another has the second 20%, then the availability is 0.4, or 40%. naturally this will eventually balance out to all 3 of you being at 40% since leechers can download/upload amongst themselves, but in the aforementioned scenario of completing a torrent with only leechers, imagine you have the first 50%, and someone with the second 50% shows up, now you can share between each other and both end up with 100%. it's an unrealistic scenario, but it's possible. in my experience, these kinds of torrents only finish if you have a seeder which only shows up sometimes. so they show up, anything they share goes to various leechers and the leechers share what they got until it's balanced again, and then you wait for the seeder to show up again.

Can a 720p file be better quality than a 1080p one? Different compression, bitrate,...

>>105817330
Yes The 1080p one is quite small for a 100min movie, especially when you consider that, due to its age, it probably has a lot noise.

>>105817330
yes

>>105817418
>>105817601
Thanks, gonna reevaluate my entire backlog.

>>105814135
I quite liked helping people online in discord and other places. Helps me to improve as well

>>105817330
>>105817418
>>105817601
Bigger question is why they do that. Why not make everything fullHD?
>>105817279
>>105817232
Then there's the connectivity issue: stop being firewalled and enable IPv6.

>>105814816
Here's one idea list.

>>105817768
>fullHD
That's just a marketing buzzword. Anyway: A lot of people just aren't bothered with quality. Your average YIFI is about that big in size, but there's always that one "A:10 V:10 10/10" comment on it.

Python, C, JS, html, css

do i need more? i wanna get a job in 3 months :^)

I've been stuck on this too much while I'm supposed to be the "project manager": my friends and I have to create a js/php web game in RESTful style. I don't understand If we are allowed or not to use the $_SESSION variable or I'm supposed to issue a token at each login. It's a small uni project not an enteprise application so maybe I should not care about the statelessness of this whole thing right?

>>105818133
just get the project done and go fuck girls, nobody cares about the state on a uni project

>>105814135
try making a game you think would be fun to make/play

>>105814427
Hard to say. On one hand it's not unlikely that eventually that shit will get cheap enough to trickle down into consumer hardware. On the other hand even now, there's a big push to make normies rely more and more on cloud stuff, because that gives you access to all their data.
And on the third hand some are using local processing as privacy marketing. Apple is interesting for example - all your files and photos go into iCloud, but also I think they're trying to make a bunch of the new AI processing work on-device to avoid sending it out. I think, I'm not sure, maybe they aren't lmao.

And right now it's really hard to say what will win out. If "you will own nothing" wins out, there may never be consumer quantum-capable devices not because of cost but because it's more profitable to not make them available and force everyone to connect to you remotely.
The slightly less cynical view is that there will always be a market for the slightly more technical and privacy-conscious people, and once the tech gets cheap enough, it'll be possible for companies to spring up that specialise in that niche (provided it's not literally banned by governments, which is possible but would be really quite dystopic).

>>105818310
I guess you're right

>>105817798
Thank you anon. This seems like a good list and guide even though I have made/written some of them unknowingly.

Does data being on a different drive from the OS affect loading speed at all?
For example loading pictures from E:\ when the computers boots from and has Windows installed on C:\. Assuming they are both the same type of drives and using the same buses.

>>105817989
The programming job market is utterly fucked. It's not just enough to know those languages, you'll also need at least two years of work experience in a prior programming job. You'll also need to know common frameworks and libraries used with those languages, have some completed projects in your portfolio to be able to prove it, and be able to solve coding puzzles to pass the technical interview.
And that's assuming your resume isn't just completely ignored, because programming jobs get thousands of applicants these days. You're several years too late.

>>105813957
I don't know

>>105813957
A computer is a person who solves math problems for a living. They don't exist anymore since they've been replaced by a different type of computer.

>>105819097
i know all of these stuff, i have projects that are above junior level, they just dont use the webslop frameworks

>>105813746 (OP)
i want to buy a power bank, and anker and ugreen seem to be the bigger options. is there any reason to pay a premium for anker?
i need to be able to charge my laptop, so 67w + charging is required right now. but how likely would my next laptop need 100w, or even more?

Why are the pics in wayback machine sometimes broken but if you try again another day they might work?

>>105813746 (OP)
What's the best internet search engine that respects my freedoms?
I usually use Startpage, it used to be good but today I got a location specific search result even though I have location settings turned off on my browser and no I didn't search anything local lately and have all my cookies and history delete after I close the window.

Is it safe to delete the system partition from a drive that has an unused Windows install?

Disk 1 is where my C: drive and current Windows installation is, and I plan on completely reformatting Disk 0 to be used solely for storage, though it has a Windows installation from an older PC. I'm pretty sure this system partition was in use only by that old PC but I would like some way to confirm it won't break shit on my current PC if I delete it.

>>105819790
Those location specific results could just be from your IP which all websites have access to unless you use a VPN. It would only be weird if you were using a VPN but it still knew where your real location was.

>>105819895
Didn't know that was a thing since literally every website always "asks" for location instead of just pulling the closest based on IP.
They claim that they do not do this however which is strange, unless their scraper just happened to find 3 location specific results in the top 5 of a particular search.

>>105819955
I've noticed it when using Duck Duck Go, without a VPN and location tracking off it still gives recommendations to wherever it locates my IP to be, which is usually in my city or a neighboring city - as accurate you can get with IP alone.
When I switch to Tor or a VPN it instead guesses from whatever country the exit server is in.

It's unfortunate you can't completely hide your location without a VPN but as long as they don't have my exact street address, that's good enough for me.

Got a spare elitebook 2570p with *gasp* 4 gigabytes of ram and a non local keyboard (french use azerty instead of qwerty)
Granted if i manage to install a windows OS on it, what would be a good asking price? Already bought the ram stick so it would boot but I’d rather avoid any more monetary investments into it.

>>105820032
Just tried with Tor and didn't realize that startpage started doing sponsored searches. The results were different so clearly "Privacy, Please!" is just a slogan.
I don't necesarilly care about my location data; I use an Android so my footprint is huge regardless. I just want a search engine to search for what I am typing into the search bar, not trying to cater it to me in anyway. Guessing that there isn't any real good options though. Miss me that 1998 Google.

>>105819062
If you are using a NVME for both, there is a difference, but it is not likely to be noticable (minus more storage space)
If you are using 2 SATA drives, especially HDDs there is a significant difference. Having a cache drive or alot of RAM will help on multiple loads of the same thing
>>HDD boot drive

You could also RAID it, if using HDDs and write speed isn't important, RAID 1 does a good job of offsetting the disadvantages of HDDs/SATA SSDs, gives you redundancy and makes managing files a little easier (1 "Drive" verses 2)
RAID 5 would give you more storage, but needs 3 drives, and random read/writes generally suck
RAID 0 is RAID 5, but needs only 2 drives and if a drive dies it takes everything with it (kindof)
>>105819867
I would make sure you are positively deleting an unused OS, but it should be without consequence otherwise
>>105817097
More trackers/Bigly BTs swarm merging might help

>>105820150
You probably won't be able to put Win11 on that but I would imagine some people would be willing to buy a Win10 LTSC IoT install (will get security updates til 2032). Keyboard layout is a non-issue for anyone who isn't a complete tech retard but you should probably clarify that and how to change it to any buyer.
I doubt it will sell for more than 200 USD at best, probably closer to 120 USD, but if you're good at haggling maybe you can get more.

My friend said to me I won’t be able to get good at coding if I’m not 1) autistic or 2) start in my early teens
Is this true be honest

>>105820457
thanks for the advice fren. didnt know about this win 10 edition.

>>105820549
They're not entirely wrong. Having autism is more important than starting early, there are plenty of people who learned to code in their late teens or adulthood (there was a time when the only place you could learn to code was at a university) but it takes either a natural affinity for the sort of logical/algorithmic thinking required for programming, a serious interest in how computers actually work, or the discipline to force yourself to learn.

which captcha solver is the current best?
I have one but it's wrong 90% of the time, by one letter or number.

Is most data on the Internet that's been accessible since the AI boom especially well-archived as a side effect of training data scraping? Like, if something got shut down after the "gold rush" started, someone probably has a copy of it somewhere?

>>105821109
your human brain should be pretty good at solving captchas unless you're blind and/or retarded

Recommended 2FA apps?
Never used on before, and am now required to. The help page recommended google authenticator, but I have my doubts.
Additionally, is the algorithm standardized? Can I just copy the QR code/key and use it again in another app/program if something goes horribly wrong?

Can MKV files contain malware?

Is scanning with Windows Defender and Malwarebytes enough to make sure a file is safe?

>>105821538
Only if the player you use has known exploits.
There have been cases of it in the past but it's extremely rare, and even more unlikely if your player is up to date.
Scanning doesn't guarantee safety but it doesn't hurt. IDK if it will catch anything but it might.

>>105813746 (OP)
anyone know how to fix this?

>>105821702
Are you using a script blocker?
You can usually bypass the cloudflare by just entering the url of the board you want to go e.g. 4chan.org/g or boards.4chan.org/g

>>105821713
Ah nevermind sorry it was 4chanx, the redirect to HTTPS is causing it i guess

>person asks question
>googled it
>"No not that."
>"I googled it"
>person, "oh right"

Why is research so fucking hard for normie retards?

How different is DDR4 memory compared to DDR5? I have 16GB of DDR5 and a friend of mine is offering me his 32GB of DDR4

>>105822091
All DDR5 comes with ECC capabilities. This doesn't mean it's registered ECC memory but it has ECC built in to the chips, this isn't infallible but should in theory make it at least somewhat more reliable.
For it to actually be qualified ECC it doesn't meet everything but there are ECC sticks that do, but previous versions of DDR were basically either reliable enough or risking it by not having any error correction built in. Now DDR5 is either so unreliable that it needs it, or they just added it for good measure to prevent some bitflips and preventing BSODs.

If you have 16GB DDR5 and your friend is giving you 32GB DDR4, you likely won't be able to use his DDR4 in your computer.
Why is he offering you 32GB DDR4?
They're physically keyed differently so it won't even fit, but there are some motherboards that can use both. You would have to figure this out whether you have such a board or not because most do not and it is very uncommon.

Are there any brands that actually respect their customers? quality and privacy wise, no matter the price

>>105819681
If the features are the same, I think ugreen is good enough.
The main issue with chinkshit powerbanks is usually just blatant lies on the specs. They'll say it's this many mAh but if you measure it it's actually a fraction of that. But ugreen is a somewhat reputable chink brand so if they did this, someone would realise and you'd hear about it in the reviews, and it'd both be really easy to return the item and also would dumpster ugreen's reputation. The "brands" to avoid are the complete no-name front companies that chinks create by the dozen to sell unbranded shit usually all from the same factory or two.

>how likely would my next laptop need 100w, or even more?
Only you can answer that, anon. Laptop power consumption has generally been pretty stable for quite a long time within the relative performance tiers, because it's mostly limited by the thermal design of the chassis. A thinner-style laptop is unlikely to draw more than 65W. A bulkier, 16''+ laptop with sizeable fan grates can probably draw 100W and cool that. A brick of a gaming laptop or a brick of a desktop-replacement workstation, that eschews portability almost entirely, can easily draw 160W or maybe even 200+W.

>>105819955
>Didn't know that was a thing since literally every website always "asks" for location instead of just pulling the closest based on IP.
Cause IP location is unreliable, in the best case it's going to be around the same town or city ish, in the worst case it's going to be some office of your ISP which is miles away in a completely different city. You can pretty reliably determine countries (though still not 100% I think, but close), semi-reliably determine general area within maybe 30-50 miles (but definitely not 100% of the time) and everything else is a crapshoot.

For advertising data collection OR for actual location-specific services ("show shops near you", navigation, etc.) you need actual location data. And even for things that don't, like e.g. shipping estimates on an international shop, you could probably use the IP's location accuracy-wise, but since there's no guarantee it's reliable you'll get some users seeing completely incorrect countries and being confused, so you still need a different method.

It does get used for some stuff, like automatically setting website language sometimes.

>>105820549
You need to have good logical thinking.
Go play nandgame. It's not supposed to be easy, but you should be able to solve every level (from first principles, pracitcally no prior knowledge required). You should be able to get the optimal solution on most of them, even if not all. And ideally you should find it a fun challenge rather than an utter chore that makes you wanna die.
It'll take a few hours over a weekend and give you a good idea of whether you're inclined towards logical thinking and problem-solving, or not at all.

>or start in my early teens
If you want to get a job that's ideal, the job market is pretty fucked right now. But you can still learn to program for yourself and for fun, and hey, if you get decent at it, it's not like it's impossible to find a job if you ever want to - you might get lucky. (Or maybe AI will get good enough to write giant programs from scratch within five years and programming will disappear as a job.)

>>105821159
Good question but not necessarily.
First of all, even if it is, it's probably behind five layers of proprietary silos; good luck ever getting your hands on it.
But secondly, there's also a non-zero chance it's just been pre-processed into raw text for AI training rather than actually archived as proper HTML. There's a lot that goes into website archiving to keep all the functionality intact, all the cross-linked resources like scripts, images, styling, internal links etc. Who the fuck knows what format the AI scrapers use to save it.

>>105821503
AndOTP I think is the one I used to use on my phone.
Nowadays I just use keepass for everything.
>inb4 noo it has ti be on your phone or else it's not a 2 factor
It's still a second factor because you need to have my keepass DB file, which is only stored on my laptop and desktop and phone. A keylogger that doesn't exfiltrate the file (or e.g. a shoulder surfer) still won't be able to log in. Literally same as when you log in to a 2FA website using your phone's browser, that doesn't eleminate the second factor.

>is the algorithm standardized?
For anything just calling for an "authenticator app", yes. The usual algorithm is called TOTP. Another semi-popular one is U2F (sometimes called FIDO U2F in full), which is the one used for hardware 2-factor devices like yubikeys, where you don't type in anything but need to have the key plugged in. Anyway that's not relevant for you, what you have is TOTP.
Some websites refuse to use the standard algorithm and require their own proprietary app. Steam is one of those, some banks do this. It's fucking retarded if you ask me. But anything that says "install an authenticator" rather than "install our specific app" is standardised.

>>105822281
You probably have to look at really small, local, privately-owned ones. Ideally in a market that's easy money, so someone can start a business just for the love of it and genuinely focus on making good shit rather than profits.

Other than this, it's almost impossible. Even people who want to make good stuff for their customers, eventually come up on the reality that profits matter a lot. You gotta think about runway, you gotta think about cashflow, what do the investors think about what you're doing? When is the next round? Think of how much more you'll be able to build if you manage to grow your revenue according to schedule!

There are small brands that try to use "we respect our customers and genuinely try to build good products" as their marketing point, but the thing is, they only do that insofar as it can be proven that they do and hence used for marketing and fuel good reviews. If there's ever anything they can get away with that they calculate probably won't impact their reputation too much but will raise profits, they'll do it.

is it just me or the youtube seek bar is ever so slightly taller?

Can lightbulbs tan you?

>>105822660
if they emit sufficient quantities of UV light, sure. you can even get lights specifically meant for tanning

>have a tiny usb desk fan (not picrel but similar) with a physical switch on the back
>powered inconsistently, speed sometimes fluctuates
>thought it was the passive USB extension I used, but even directly connected it seems to be the same
>but whenever I try to turn it off and start to flip the switch, like 5% of the way to OFF it actually goes full blast
Does this make any sense, or am I hallucinating? Can I make it work properly?

>>105822430
>five layers of proprietary silos
Don't people also download their own datasets for local stuff though?
>there's also a non-zero chance it's just been pre-processed into raw text for AI training rather than actually archived as proper HTML
I'm mainly talking about media, like images, audio, and video. And that's usually the kind of stuff that's a blind spot for regular web archiving services like the Wayback Machine because of how much space it takes up.

>>105813746 (OP)
Does apple do client side scanning on their devices?

Is there any possible way for me to have a private browsing session still retain my non-private session's cookies? For example, if I'm signed into a website on my regular browser, then open a private session and I want to still be signed into that website.

>>105823164
probably a shitty switch that's not making full contact in the normal position

>>105823357
I've had to resolder it after it broke once, so then maybe it's my fault actually. Should try that again. Thanks.

>>105822342
thanks that makes alot of sense. guess i'll look for a deal on the 737

What resources can I use to get a headstart on data structures before my upcoming semester?

There is 61.01gb/64gbs on my phone taken up.

Where the hell is all gbs going? I went into the internal storage but can only access a little under 5 gbs of it. Is this a root thing?

Is there any program that can access it all?

before all of this tanks and any interaction on the web worth having becomes impossible (already is kind of the case)

WHAT ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS of OS and system programming/networking worth digging extra deep into to stay based and off the grid (i.e. info spooks are happy zoomers dont know)

suggest books too, both old (classics) and up to date ones that will serve me well a decade from now. I know how to program well enough but only starting to get into the linux and systems programming deeply

networking especially, and is cryptography is even worth learning ? I have a background in physics if that matters at all

I'm trying to get into retro computing to some capacity, and I have a specific desire for one in terms of wanting one for medical record keeping. So I'm thinking maybe I should look for a DOS machine and get some CLI spreadsheet or like try and find some specific use case medical charting program dumps somewhere that I can burn to blank floppies. I dunno.

I'm also considering just picking up a Mac Classic? They kind of cheap and just fucking everywhere, and a compact AIO seems like a good solution. I don't mind a GUI, I don't specifically need something with a CLI...just would like some kind of easy foray into retro computing that I could actually use for documentation autism.

So I'm having a weird issue where my phone is not allowing me to log in to my Microsoft account for my email. It keeps saying I'm entering the wrong password, even though when I enter the same password on my desktop, it works.

what causes this?

I can't remember wich IA i used to create images a year ago. I just know it gave me 4 images per prompt, it was one of the famous ones and you could make like 10 or 15 per day. Pic related is one of them. Does the filename ring a bell for someone?

>>105823345
You could get an extension that lets you manage cookies, and just copy-paste the cookie from the normal session into a private session.
A roundabout solution but it should work.

>>105824270
usually an unsupported file format, corrupted file, or the file hash is blocked

How do I add a delay in Hitomi-Downloader so I don't get error 429? There's nowhere in the settings unlike WFDownloader.

>>105823609
just look up linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees, and hash tables and familiarize yourself with them. you'll probably also be working with sorting algorithms so know the basics like bubble sort/selection sort/insertion sort and maybe merge sort and quick sort.
understand pointers is a requirement when it comes to data structures and knowing recursion helps a lot.

What are good sites for buying gaming PCs and gaming laptops on a budget? I'm too stupid and lazy to build a PC, I just want to find a good deal since my computer's on it's last legs.

>>105824333
>4 images per prompt
bing's shit?

>>105813957
https://ia801507.us.archive.org/24/items/TheCartoonGuideToComputerScience/LarryGonick-CartoonBookOnComputers.pdf

Do I have a means of fixing my micro SD card or is it fucked?
mount: /mnt/usb1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
here's dmesg --level err
[1941061.846323] EXT4-fs (sdd1): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
[1941061.847324] EXT4-fs (sdd1): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
[1941061.848271] EXT4-fs (sdd1): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
[1941061.851460] exFAT-fs (sdd1): invalid boot record signature
[1941061.851462] exFAT-fs (sdd1): failed to read boot sector
[1941061.851463] exFAT-fs (sdd1): failed to recognize exfat type

Would it be possible to fix or rewrite the partition table and leave the files intact?
Not sure what I can do with fdisk to narrow down the problem or solve it
Command (m for help): v
No errors detected.
Remaining 33 unallocated 512-byte sectors.

>>105824703
And how can I know if reformatting the card will fix the problem?

>>105824640
I checked that. But it was different (they maybe changed the design in those months) and it didn't have saved the images i made back in the day.

>>105824423
Thanks. Turns out it was a WebP saved as PNG.

>>105823164
probably poor contact on the switch like he said, i've seen enough old computer repair videos to say to get some contact cleaner spray, seems to work pretty well

>>105823213
>Don't people also download their own datasets for local stuff though?
In nowhere near the same quantities or same thoroughness as the proprietary, commercial stuff.
>media, like images, audio and video
Actually I don't know about these. It absolutely takes up an insane amount of space - videos especially; and I don't know how thorough the multimodal AIs are right now. Maybe?
Definitely not from hobbyist local dataset curators, though.

>>105823732
There is no real forbidden knowledge like that. You learn OS design or networking if you want to build a hobby OS or hobby network stack (or if you want to get hired actually working on some niche commercial OS or something). It's complicated, it's fun (depending on the person), but it doesn't reveal any grand secrets.

You might want to learn about how tracking on the web works, including fingerprinting, tracking pixels, side-channel tracking, timing attacks and traffic analysis (especially to deanonymise VPNs/tor), etc. That's not really OS design or networking though, that's either web design or infosec. Oh, learn about differential privacy.

>is cryptography is even worth learning ?
Define worth. There's nothing wrong with learning it, and IMO it's really fun. Though it's unlikely you'll be the one to uncover some secret CIA backdoor in a cryptographic library or algorithm, if your sole motivation is to make spooks unhappy. Try out the cryptopals challenges to start with.

>>105824270
Did you try to post a jpeg you just pulled off google image search? Happens to me too. I want to say it's happened with images I pulled straight from the source too, but not sure.

If you're on MacOS, its built in image conversion will fix the image for upload. Though it's no answer to your question, and still stands that the original image has some kind of corruption. I've noticed when an image is like, this, it's displayed with a generic image icon instead of a thumbnail.

I got a new 8TB m.2 SSD for my PC and wanted to clone my current SSD to it. How would I go about doing that?

i want to be more secure


>used windows defender
>malwarebytes full scan
>no remote access
>no weird start up stuff in taskmanager
>no weird processes in taskmanager
>no hardware keyloggers or weird hardware in my pc
>no weird devices on local network
>use tinywall
>keep windows up to date
>use mulvad


what else can i do?
how do i confirm that there's nothing else?
is kaspersky better than malwarebytes?

>>105825679
>ublock
>noscript
>pihole

>>105813746 (OP)
ikamusume
beach
home...

>>105825568
dd if=/dev/nvmeXXX of=/dev/nvmeYYY bs=8192M status=progress
parted
resize2fs

Adjust for your specific partition layout and FS

How can I find out the original capacity of a burned disk in windows? e.g. if this was a DVD-5 or DVD-9 or whatever. Explorer just says "0 bytes free of [amount burned to disk]" rather than what the disk capacity actually was.

>>105826275
If it's a RW disk (or RE for blu-ray, I think), i.e. multi-writeable, then it should have a standard capacity IIRC.

>>105817849
Resolutions are buzzwords? Why would they use anything less than fullHD?
>>105823680
Program caches.

>>105825240
>In nowhere near the same quantities or same thoroughness as the proprietary, commercial stuff.
>Definitely not from hobbyist local dataset curators, though.
I suppose that makes sense. At the very least, as opposed to the entire Internet, I imagine media from select image boards and social media profiles are backed up by hobbyists trying to gen similar stuff, namely artwork (much to the chagrin to their creators)?

>>105827061
Yes, that's quite possible.
The thing is there are two big issues with archival: firstly storage space and initial retrieval, but also and almost equally important, organisation and searchability. An "archive" consisting of thousands of people each having downloaded some art dump, some incomplete profile, etc. here and there, some of those people now unreachable, others autistically opposed to sharing, others happy to share but only if you track them down individually etc. - sure, that specific art is not "lost" but it's incredibly difficult to recover it. And you'll never know just how thorough, or not, the downloaders have been; some pieces of media could still easily be lost, out of carelesness, or "I didn't like those so I didn't save them", etc.

Also, I don't know if genAI massively changed the landscape here. There's always been some autistic serious about archiving things. Now there's a few more autists serious about fine-tuning on specific artist datasets. It's a quantitative change, not a qualitative one.

>>105827140
>but also and almost equally important, organisation and searchability
>sure, that specific art is not "lost" but it's incredibly difficult to recover it
Isn't there some level of metadata and text tagging required for a piece of media to be useful as training data? Not to mention plenty of places where AI hobbyists convene, where at least some of them would be willing to share select portions of their collections if asked?

>>105827275
My point is specifically that you'll have to search out all of those places and individually pester people for those datasets.
If you want a specific artist's deleted collection and wanna hunt around and see if anybody happens to have it saved, then yeah, sure, it can work. If you just wanna make sure art is archived in the abstract, as a whole corpus, then it really doesn't scale.
The fact that there's "plenty of places where AI hobbyists convene" just means you'll have tons of places to search. And a lot of those places might likely be private and/or small discord servers where some guy is just making a lora for his own amusement with a few friends.

Hey, I found two macbooks in the garbage. I have guest log in to use safari only, seems to be macbook air intel from 2017 or something.

Can I do something to use them by factory reseting?? Seems to want passwords in the recovery mode

I want to generate and modify pictures with AI.
Should i get a pc that can do this stuff locally or am i better off paying for some sort of subscription and do it online?

>>105827403
online
prepare for regret and disappointment though

>>105827415
>prepare for regret and disappointment though
This is why i was thinking about doing it online. In case i will upset with results i can just forget about it. I use my pc only to browse internet at this point in life.

Any recommended paid services for that kind of stuff?

I'm learning how to code internal cheats for a Source Engine game (not to ruin the fun for others, I'm just learning how to do it because I enjoy learning new stuff).
Is there any way to actually call a virtual function that is not part of an interface, and give it custom arguments?? How do I do that?? I can't really find explanations about this online

>>105815884
upscayl

>>105813746 (OP)
How do a get a search engine that doesn't show articles in search results. I hate articles. People or robots that make articles should have all computer privileges revoked immediately.

>>105813746 (OP)
Looking to buy a second monitor for graphics design/video editing/modelling&texturing...etc.
Size is 27" not any bigger preferably.

Any suggestions?

Heard a weird noise and checked Event viewer:
>An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR4 during a paging operation.
>Disk 3 has been surprise removed.
>The IO operation at logical block address 0x87b8c8b8 for Disk 3 (PDO name: \Device\0000007a) was retried.
How fucked am I?

>>105825290
thanks for the chipping in

>>105828241
Buy an oled, idk look up tftcentral recommendations for your desired size, prioritise decent colours since it's for graphics design

>>105827551
Is this the C++ sdk? Do you mean overriding a virtual member function? Or downcasting and calling the functions not available in the interface/abstract class?

>>105828540
>Is this the C++ sdk?
I am programming my own .dll file in C++ & then injecting it into the game process. But the function that I want to execute is in the Source 2013 SDK

>Do you mean overriding a virtual member function? Or downcasting and calling the functions not available in the interface/abstract class?
I mean just calling a function from the game's source code in my own .dll file & with my own arguments. The class that the function belongs to doesn't inherit from an interface so I'm not sure how to get it. (Srry I am a noob)

>>105828645
Why can't you just call the function normally with any arguments? What do you mean by custom arguments?

how do I disable the new youtube auto-mix "feature"?

>>105828732
>Why can't you just call the function normally
Because it's not in my cheat. How are you supposed to call something defined / declared in a different .dll file that you can't include.

>What do you mean by custom arguments?
Values that I define myself in my own code.

I would ask /pcbg/, but they have been extra useless as of recently. Can you recommend me some 27" IPS 1440p monitors?

To mention some that I've been seeing, I'm between the ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ3A, the Samsung Odyssey G5 and the Xiaomi G27QiUS, with the latter available for relatively cheap. I would also like to know if there's any meaningful difference between flat and curved monitors.

sometimes captcha breaks on firefox and refuses to update, i get the same image again and again
how do i fix this??? wtf is wrong with the fox

I'm trying to take ownership of my own life, I'm planning to get a job in tech, but I can't code from memory, I only follow tutorials and do everything with AI.

I did few projects, social media clone (threads + reddit + 4chan), canva clone and some html multiplayer game, now I'm going to do some dashboard because I know companies are looking for that

Can I get a job in tech with these skills?

>>105819681
no, I got a 10e power bank and the only problem with it is the usb port lifted off the board (easily fixed with a fine soldering iron)

>charging a laptop off a pocket battery bank
at that point I would just buy a replacement laptop battery and keep it charged. and why can't you just carry the actual charger? where are you working that doesn't have power outlets? even if you live in your car there are 12v rail to USB-C converters and every modern trukk straight up has ISO 120v power outlets hidden behind the bumpers for you to use the car like a gas generator.

>>105822342
>Laptop power consumption has generally been pretty stable for quite a long time
that is an incredibly wrong statement. at my workplace alone, using solely dells, even the OEM dell charages range from 65w to 135w. it's gotten dumb enough that we just issue power negotiation automagick docks for everybody and only properly mate up laptops to chargers for the WFH cucks

>>105829130
>even the OEM dell charages range from 65w to 135w
On similar models?

>>105829200
Yeah, our 5580s came with 65w and our 5590s had 135s. Either works in either machine. The docks are a split between D6000s and a model name I don't remember that's a little bigger, and the D6000 comes with either a 65 or a 135 depending on which chink packaged it that day, I guess.

Luckily their USB-C ones seem mostly standard, but are less than 135 IIRC so some laptops report "slow charge" under heavy load or just because they feel like it when on a naked charger instead of one of the big docks.

Chargers for the older pre-USB-C and pre-Dell_Supremacy laptops have voltages and max wattages all over the place. Even the very common 19v center rail positive was never an actual standard.

>>105828645
If you're a noob, Source is a bad place to start. Its code documentation is spotty at best, but it has amazingly good anticheat for its age.

Stop trying to cheat at Dino D-Day btw the party /v/an is rape enough without outright hacks

>>105829236
Well, obviously it's not going to be a stable rule, but it's a 16'' laptop (well, 15.6'') which is exactly the kind that I said could likely use around 100-ish W. That said they both seem to be specced with similar CPUs just of a newer generation so honestly I have no idea why that bumped the charger up, so fair enough.
>pre-USBC
Yeah it was a lot less standardised obviously, you still had the same general power envelopes but it didn't really matter since nothing was interchangeable anyway.

>>105828955
I suppose it's possible to access the other dll's functions since they're exported and there's a .lib. It'll probably be easier to just pass function pointers from the executable

>>105829100
>I'm planning to get a job in tech
lmfao good luck with that
I don't know if you heard the news or not about the state of the tech industry job market, but it's not looking good and it's not going to get better

>>105829100
AI is great for experienced developers shitting out code quickly, and it's great for learning if you ask it questions and use it as basically a (slightly autistic) buddy to look things up for you and bounce ideas off of, but it's absolutely terrible for learning by having it generate all your code.
Do with that as you will.

>>105829266
>Source is a bad place to start.
I have 2 years of experience with modding Source games.

>Stop trying to cheat at Dino D-Day
I'm not trying to cheat at that but thanks for the advice anyways.


>>105829296
But they're not all exported right (only some)? Thank you very much I will look into the .lib stuff and function pointers

>>105822450
Thanks.
Did some looking and Aegis seems good, may go with that if I don't want to use google authenticator

>>105829408
>I'm not trying to cheat at that
sorry it was a joke and that is the dumbest (pure) source game i could think of that has more than 5 players.

If you have a laptop with Windows 11 on it, can you tell me
1. Price + how old it is
2. Do your fans go off when you open the settings app?
I'm trying to figure out how much of this is Windows's fault, and how much the fault of bad thermals in my laptop

Installed Adobe because I had to, immediately removed afterwards. This process still appears in task manager as a startup app. How can I remove this? Already deleted the files, but the entry remains.

Are lithium batteries 'dangerous'/'explosive' like lithium-ion batteries? Or are they relatively 'safe' like alkaline / zinc carbon / NiMH?

t. smoke alarm started chirping, need to replace the 9V battery. Deciding what type to get.

>>105829703
they're inherently dangerous conceptually but modern ones are fine and have relief valves and something as small as a 9v smoke alarm battery won't have enough material in it to be a problem. smoke alarms themselves are also incredibly low draw and generally receive mains power anyway, with the battery just being there for backup

>>105829703
On the safer side. Wouldn't worry about it in that form factor.
Most of the danger is from energy density, not the chemistry. Li-Ion/Li-Po are just unusually sensitive to being damaged/degraded, suddenly releasing the energy.

>>105829339
It’s not that terrible for learning as I analyze the code later myself that way I know what goes where

>>105829912
Writing code yourself is always far better for learning than just reading someone else's code. This is true for almost anything, e.g. solving a math problem is vastly more effective than just reading and understanding a solution.
For that matter
>It’s not that terrible for learning
You say this and yet you just admitted you can't actually remember how to write code.

I have a monitor that has shit HDR (HDR400). Should I set it to sRGB mode where no other settings can be changed, or try to calibrate it myself with some guide?

Started using Bluetooth for audio on PC.
Work fine but whenever cat jumps onto my desk and gets between me and the computer it starts skipping audio.
There is zero way it is the cat, right? Pet chips are on different frequency and surely a cat is not thick enough to block the signal. The headphones do not have any issue when connected to my phone or when cat is away.
It happens with different bluetooth devices. All drivers are updated to my knowledge.

>>105830313
it could be the cat. bluetooth is very low power and may literally be being blocked by the cat's body. also your cat may be staticy as fuck and causing interference, or simply the baleful energies of the cat might be causing the machine spirit of your bluetooth adapter to become distracted

>>105830313

>>105830313
Probably you're wincuck and your PC refuses to use whatever low bitrate codec the headset wants because you didn't paypig a special adapter.

>>105828409
>Buy an oled
>>105787070
>No oled if you want uniform colour accuracy.
Well what is it?

Thanks for the site though, it'll be very helpful

Got another m2 on neweggs sale the other week. Thinking of setting up my machine like this
>nvme1: arch
>nvme2: bootless, just media storage
>sata1: windows 10
I have a reason to keep windows and certainly want a bootable drive with one on it. Nvme1 and sata1 are both 1tb, the new m2 is 2tb.
Would I have reason to put my arch on the 2tb or is that better for general storage, and is there a reason not to have the windows on the ssd?

>>105830609
>>105830631
>>105830962
Thanks

>>105827495
not that anon. but ive used shakker for online stuff. eventually i just bought a pc and now i use comfyui

It's currently winter where i live and temps are low like 14ºC to 10ºC inside my room. My PSU fan is making a rattling noise and it only happens when it's cold like that. Should i be worried?
It's a Corsair CX 450W of like 5~6 yo.

>>105831618
Fans are replaceable. Maybe squirting some graphite powder in there might help.

Cold is good for the computer anyway.

I tried the Windows thread but might as well here too
How do I upgrade from 7 to 10

>>105831708
Cant you download an iso of win10 and upgrade your drive that way?

>>105831762
>>105831708
To be clear, I mean isnt there an upgrade option on the iso flash, not just a fresh install?

Is this good?

>>105831816
I just got it but havent tried it yet. Also curious of opinions

Is there a one-size-fits-all app like gallery-dl that also scrapes post text data and metadata, not just media?

I know there's ways to recover deleted archives, care to point me to a guide to do that?
Im looking for a important file ina very old pc and i might've deleted it back then

>>105832515
>
>
>>very old
>>deleted
in the odd chance you did 0 file operations, you might be able to recover it
Which if this is a computer in regular use after deletion, it is already gone

In the odd event that this is not the case
>SSD
Probably wouldn't bother IF it has not been plugged in, it is likely gone
>HDD
I think rescuezilla or recuva are things that can do this, but have limitations. I think fragmented files are going to be a problem if that is the case, with no metadata pointing to them
If you used 7z, rar, or maybe zip/few other formats you should at least be able to determine if files within are whole (and correct) by testing the archives, rar can even repair SOME missing data if you used recovery records

Some silent corruption is also possible, you might be able to fix it, but it will be annoying at the least

This assumes your disk works, if not cloning is your best bet, then go from there

>>105832761
oh it was used for a long time to plug to a tv and watch netflix after I moved to a new laptop, its a very old laptop with VISTA on it so yeah, Ill give it a try thanks

>>105832344
no unfortunately, images are contained in jpg, png, webp, and gifs, it is easy to point them out, for text posts they aren't in the same format on different websites

>>105833058
Makes sense, different JSON/XML/whatever methods for storing that kind of data in each site. But even if the data model differs between sites, all of those sites have "posts" in some shape or form, and each post must have some solitary "chunk" of all its data that the application would have to parse to get the media from. Why not just dump that raw data for each of them?

>>105829540
thinkbook 16 g7 arp
cpu = ryzen 7 7735hs
~1 year old
no, opening settings by itself does nothing regarding fans

>>105829811
>>105829911
thank you

>>105833247
>Why not just dump that raw data for each of them?
you mean like cURL?
https://curl.se/

>>105833247
>>105833058
>>105832344
>hi ghello sirs i would like to create bot for shitposting /xivg/ pls revert the necessary for my needful

>>105833411
I thought that was mainly for static stuff. Does it also work on sites where pagination is done through JavaScript and query parameters and stuff, which is a lot of the big ones nowadays?

>>105833485
>Does it also work on sites where pagination is done through JavaScript and query parameters and stuff, which is a lot of the big ones nowadays?
I doubt it, I don't use it

Those of you whose local e-waste recycling center allow you to buy/pick their stock, do you pay by the price of the item, or by the total weight of everything? I vaguely remember reading a comment about them selling scrape by weight, so that's why I imagine it's an option.

If it's not normally something they allow members of the public to do, how did you manage to convince them to allow you to do it? Offering up my ass is not an option.

Is it just a matter of calling them up or e-mailing them and saying "Hey, can I pls buy some of your wares o_0? K thx bye XD"

Anyone know approximately how much a modem costs to run per year? I know it depends on wattage and general power costs but I'm trying to cheapmaxx by turning it off at night, but so far my calculations mean that saves about $5-10 which is not worth it at all kek

Is there no 4chan app for iOS?

what AMD mobos still have a ps2 port?

>due to replace PC after seven years
>have heard of Intel fucking up their 13/14th generation CPUs that degrade over time
>15th gen Ultra 7 is a tad cheaper than a AMD 9700X over here

So, can Intel even be trusted still or should they be skipped? Never used an AMD CPU before, but I imagine they work fine. Also haven't been in the loop enough to know if the current CPU sockets used on either are due to get changed soon.

My pc is being a bitch and reboots under load when playing games (seemingly at random)

Psu is pic related, heard its a pile of shit.

I'm using a gtx980, my suspicion is the psu is causing the reboots because if the power draw, please tell I'm wrong

>>105835238
The PSU is sufficient for that card, it meets the minimum requirements. Just don't overclock the CPU or GPU.
If your GPU requires two power cables, then make sure you actually use two cables instead of using two connectors from the same cable.
Also, try disconnecting the front panel Reset button from the motherboard. On my computer, the button was bad and used to cause resets when gaming, fuck knows why. Disconnected it and never had a single reset since then.

>>105834770
What sort of modem, the ones you plug into a USB port with a SIM card?
Or do you mean some WiFi router?
If WiFi then it consumes quite a lot of power (compared to a plain modem), so depending on your electricity cost it may be worth turning it off overnight.
Don't expect to save more than a few $ per year. The main benefit of turning off a WiFi access point is to decrease the congestion on wireless bands, which mainly benefits your neighbors.

>>105833485
cURL does not interpret JS in any way.
Query parameters in URLs are obviously supported, but not if they are generated from JS code.

>>105831618
When it's cold, the fan rotates slower. Perhaps it resonates at that speed. Replace the fan.

>>105834770
depends literally entirely on how much yours uses (i'm sure they vary a lot) and also how much your electricity costs (which also varies a lot)
i don't know how much power my modem uses, by my router is a thin client which idles around 6W, my electricity is 27c/kWh, so a year of constant 6W is 6/1000*365*24 = 52.56kWh, which costs 52.56*0.27 = $14.19. in places like the US i believe they have much cheaper power

>>105834770
>>105835776
and no, for most situations it's not worth the effort, unless you automate it. like imagine if you do it manually, you might be spending a minute going to switch it off then back on in the morning, plus maybe another minute waiting for it to start up to use, so say 2 minutes a day just attending to this, over a year you're spending 12 /hours/ just doing that, just to save about 8 hours per day of power usage, or 1/3rd, which would make that $14.19 instead $9.46. you're working 12 hours to save $4.73

I want this video and others from this creator but don't want to pay 15 per vid. Want to use it to tweak my colour settings. Best way to get it from patreon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jci_nhleoXA

>buy Brother printer
>install updates
>now see on the internet that even Brother starts to fuck with third party stuff
Well, shit. Is there a way to revert that update? Sure, I got an ink tank printer, but who knows what they might come up with.

I remember hearing that there was a simple utility to set a temperature limit on your CPU

What's the name of that?

>>105833485
>>105835769
"JS code" is just going to generate a URL to query the server with.
The only exception is if there's a websocket connection established; then curl probably can't do it. But I don't know any websites who use websockets for pagination.

So yes, curl can do it, you just have to figure out the right URL to actually query the data.

>>105835895
Is it on kemono? If not then idk. There's no hack or exploit to bypass the patreon paywall if you're asking.
IIRC it used to be possible to sign up and it'd only charge you at the end of the month, so you'd download everything then cancel your subscription. But I'm pretty sure they either added the option or even changed the default so you immediately get charged once upon signing up to prevent exactly this. So places like kemono su are the way to get it now

is it possible to run and use ms or google authentcator on emulators?

>>105836243
What for? They're just TOTP implementations. Use a TOTP generator made for desktop. (Keepass has one for example.)

>>105836337
just answer the question faggot

don't learn, build shits

how come some non native linux games run better on linux despite going trough a translation layer

>>105836407
Sure, it probably is then, but
>emulators
Good luck in general they all suck major balls. If you really insist then go ahead

>>105836478
Linux is faster than Windows for some things, and slower for others.
Some GPU drivers really are faster on Linux, and translation doesn't incur enough overhead to cancel that advantage.

>>105836337
it's because m$ forces mobile & intentionally not available on pc

>>105836630
Oh, is MS authenticator a proprietary protocol rather than TOTP? Is there no way to avoid using it?

>>105836574
>getting waxed by ubongo
jfc ranjeet, get it together

>>105833927
my local one it works more like a thrift shop and they arbitrarily assign prices. they do or don't let you browse based on how they're feeling that day.

>>105835238
If the PSU is as old as the GPU it's past time for replacement. Idk if that'll fix your poblem or not. It could be you have a GPU or motherboard that aged out or was damaged by the old PS.

I got a windows boot on this drive should I delete this unallocated part that probably stores the window boot

>>105835733
>>105835776
>>105835837
Yeah it was wifi and that was pretty much what I was thinking as well, that it doesn't seem worth. Thanks for the replies bros

>>105837314
actually working out the math, it makes me realise just how pointless those standby killer devices really were that i saw being advertised when i was younger. while sure, back then most devices didn't have modern switching power supplies so used a fair bit of power while "off", but not more than this router. i wonder if anybody saved enough power using them to even pay for the devices

>>105833927
Hey, speaking of e-recycling, where are the best places on average to recycle disposable batteries?

>>105837859
most recycling places like you take pop cans and beer bottles to will take them

>>105835769
>Query parameters in URLs are obviously supported, but not if they are generated from JS code.
Ah, I think I was thinking of wget
>>105836156
>So yes, curl can do it, you just have to figure out the right URL to actually query the data.
I guess that could work if the pagination paramters are simply numbers that go up (i.e. "/posts.xml?page=3"), but a lot of sites have an arbitrary "next" token somewhere within the data itself

>>105837287
It doesn't and you can't (as far as I know)

>>105837287
Leave it alone, that is probably for alignment.
There's nothing to delete, you can only move the first partition to the start of the drive and then expand it to the right. A pointless exercise.

>>105838026
>I guess that could work if the pagination paramters are simply numbers that go up (i.e. "/posts.xml?page=3"), but a lot of sites have an arbitrary "next" token somewhere within the data itself
You would need your own script to do this either way, and so you could make it scan the data for the next token. It'd just take a bit more effort.

>>105837905
Really? Well damn, thanks.
I've noticed plastic recycling doesn't seem to give a fuck about polypropylene and polyethylene plastics mixing in with the others, so it sounds like most all my recycling needs are one stop shop.

>>105838086
>You would need your own script to do this either way, and so you could make it scan the data for the next token. It'd just take a bit more effort.
I know, but why isn't there already a single app like gallery-dl full of scripts like that for each site out there?

>>105838094
in general this is a question you should actually just ask google. just plug "battery recycling" into google maps and you will probably get some reliable results.

>one stop shop
most municipalities dont give a fuck and just give it to a company that does its own sorting. also there's a lot of places now that just say "don't even sort your shit, you morons can't do it right" and might do sorting at a more centralized facility with dedicated workers. one of my uncles worked at such a place actually

even the local recycling place to me is a "one stop shop" and just accepts everything, but because workers painstakingly sort that shit into big triwalls to be shipped to god knows where (probably dumped in the ocean desu)

>>105838339
because you are the only one with your unique usecase of having to automate shitposting on /vg/

>>105837859
In the US check call2recycle.org. Most office supply, home improvement, and hardware stores take them.

Is this good?

>>105839476
no. buy an ad.

>>105832344
>>105838339
Many blogs still have RSS feeds auto-generated. This is and was the correct solution for automatically retrieving new posts, with standardised formatting that can be parsed by and read on any RSS viewer of your choice.

RSS is very seldom used nowadays because people largely don't seem to care. Surprisingly many sites, blogs etc. still have feeds, thankfully. But some aren't gonna have it, and its lack of popularity shows that people just don't scrape posts for some reason. This is also why some kind of "blogpost-dl" doesn't exist: there's already a solution, and it may be slowly dying but that's only because almost nobody is using it, so certainly nobody is going to make a completely new project to solve this.

>>105839691
Why would I buy an ad to ask a question

I want to set up a website from home. How do I make sure users don't know my IP address. What service do I have to buy? Cloudflare? VPS? VPN? AWS?

What's the most retard proof solution?(I'm kind of retarded)

>>105839954
what kind of website? like a blog?

>wanted to try a linux distro
>installed on the same drive as my windows 10 assuming I would easily be able to dualboot
>trying to load windows instead leads to the diagnostic tool saying its unusable
>had to reinstall windows on my other drive because the one it was previously installed on turned to ext4 when I installed my distro, probably why it couldn't load
:(
I feel sad like I lost something even though all my data is on external drives I can just plug in

I'm new to this: What program do you use to see FPS, temps and the sort while playing a game? Is it 3Dmark?

>>105836200
nah, unless it's under some other crazy name

>>105839954
Most retard proof solution is to buy a VPS and host the website there. $2-5 month can buy you web hosting, $10 month can buy you an actual VPS you can ssh into. Static sites can be hosted for free, e.g. on gitlab pages, if you just want a blog or something.

>>105840568
kemono uses the account names from patreon so rip.

>>105813746 (OP)
Why must porn verification be ID based? It seems like a massive privacy risk to send your personal information over the internet and having that associated with your most sensitive online activity that would preferably be conducted anonymously. Why not just mandate that all manufacturers of electronics must ask the user for their birthday and not show explicit websites or material unless they're older than 18? That seems like it would be a much safer way to accomplish the same result. Cheaper too.

>>105840635
because daddy musk, thiel, and trump all NEED to be able to cross-reference your ID, what sites it's been used on, and know what your taste in porn is so they can better market things to you specifically (or have you killed if you're into fapping to anything they consider politically disadvantageous)

anyone elses svptube 2 fucking up?

is it possible to partition and format a section of my primary drive?

>>105840993
yes

I got an old ASUS x551 as a bonus from my job. I already replaced the battery is there ANYTHING i can do about these specs?

>>105841269
I have something with an N2840 which I use as my t*rrent box. I just upgraded the RAM to 8GB and changed the HDD to SSD.

how do I configure thunderbird for cock.li?

>>105841389

Which (paid or free) online ai picture generator can alter uploaded pictures? I need something that won't change my face.

I got a 1 TB sd card A1 from Sandisk pic rel. But i'm scared to storage long term stuff inside it, is it an ignorant distress or are there actual risks?

How can I install arch on my old pc?

>>105839476
If you are 3 - 8yo, maybe

Would this be a substantial upgrade for a laptop
>from Ryzen 5 5625U to Ryzen 7 8840HS
>from 16GB DDR4 to 16GB DDR5
Or should I not bother? It's the same line as my current laptop, and costs about the same as my current laptop did when I bought it, which wasn't that long ago. So it seems like a good deal

>>105840111
>>105840606
A chan

>>105840635
Client side verification is never secure. It has to be server side. And the only way the server can verify your age is by using your ID.
How would you make an electronics device not show explicit material if the buyer is not older than 18? Never mind that most buyers are over 18 anyway, since the vast majority of kids get their devices from their parents.

>>105813746 (OP)
>>105816911
Why is 4chinz having intense lag these days?
The last 4 minutes I couldn't open this board because it was stagnant. It's been days since this zambian olympic swimming forum has been acting like this.
>Desktop btw

>>105841699
Yeah SD cards are not the best storage medium for reliability, you're not wrong.

>>105841949
CPU upgrade seems pretty decent. Ryzen did improve over this gen, and you're going from a midrange low-power chip to a closer to high-end chip high power budgets (for mobile, but still), so yeah that seems worth. IF you feel like you need more CPU, that is - if you're not doing anything particularly demanding then there's no reason to upgrade, the old CPU is plenty powerful.
The RAM upgrade probably won't be significant, but again, do you feel like you're running out of RAM? If so, try to cop 32GB.

>>105842022
>How would you make an electronics device not show explicit material if the buyer is not older than 18?
It's essentially just the same parental control mechanisms that have been baked into most major OSes for decades now except mandated that you actually use them. Porn websites become inaccessible and maybe image recognition could be used to blur out inappropriate stuff a la what Apple is doing with their child safety protections in iMessage and FaceTime.
>Never mind that most buyers are over 18 anyway, since the vast majority of kids get their devices from their parents.
I see this as a good thing because that way the parents would set the age for their children and not the children themselves.

>>105830313
>cat's fur has static electricity that intereferes with anon's bluetooth
LOL. It could be that. Those creatures rub their fur onto anything and if it's a scratching post, its owner's arm hair or a rug they could get ubercharged.
>>105830631
This is pretty much how it is. Cute ferret btw.
>>105831333
Put that cat in a faraday cage.

>>105842060
I don't necessarily feel that I need to upgrade my CPU. What mainly bothers me currently is that my fans get loud very easily, like when I play a non-demanding game, for example. I don't want to bother going with a dedicated GPU, since I don't play any AAA titles or the like. And I feel like a dedicated GPU might make the thermal performance even worse

>>105842076
>how would you mandate that a device accurately follows age controls?
>well the solution is easy you just mandage that the device must use age controls!
This doesn't answer the question.

>parents would set the age for their children
This just goes back to voluntary enforcement. Parental controls already exist. Maybe you could make the UI better, give parents an easier way to set "block all under-18 websites" on device setup, etc. But fundamentally, this is not that different from a "how old are you?" drop down box on the landing page for a porn site - the website has no way to know that the person accessing the website is ACTUALLY over 18.
And the entire reason ID verification is coming into play is because the law is changing to make it the website's responsibility to actually KNOW whether the user is over 18 or not. "I pinky promise I'm over 18" is no longer legally sufficient to show porn to that user - whether that pinky promise comes from a dropdown the user can set to whatever, or from a parental control service that maybe the parents didn't bother to set. (Or maybe the device is running an OS that doesn't have parental controls. Or maybe the kid is using some proxy service so the device's parental controls don't catch that it's a porn website. Or maybe the kid is browsing non-explicit heavy fetish art on deviantart or something, which isn't blocked because deviantart is ostensibly an art website and doesn't even allow nudity. Etc, etc.)

As to why the law is requiring this, data collection is as good a reason as any. But the point is that there's no on-device solution that can satisfy these new laws.

>>105842139
>OK but how does the device know for a fact that the user is the age they say they are?
I'm not really sure that matters much. I think the widespread implementation of client-side safeguards would be enough of a push to make a huge dent in the problem without draconian privacy violations and data harvesting practices. It would practically have the same impact without the downsides. Of course it could be easily circumvented, but so can ID verification. The point would be that at least in this scenario, there's something in the way.

>>105842220
Practically speaking, I think you might be overestimating modern parents. These are the people giving ipads to literal toddlers. I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of shaniquas and soccer mom karens will ignore anything like that anyway. So while I don't disagree with you in principle, if the idea behind the law is that "people are cheating age verification too easily, we need stricter measures that will work better to prevent kids accessing this" then better parental controls are very unlikely to be particularly effective.
Legally speaking, you're also gonna have issues because now you're having to legislate what different OSes do when accessing the internet, which historically has never been a thing up till now. Do you just make a super targeted resolution that affects Windows, Apple, Android and iOS? That's legislation that's brittle, if another OS ever becomes mainstream. (E.g. google might decide they're finally killing android and implementing Fuchsia or whatever, just to get around this.) Or do you try to add criteria somehow for minimum market share or userbase of the OS? What happens if one fine day Linux passes that threshold - does every distribution have to implement this now, or do you count distributions separately or something in which case you could have 50% of the market being on linux and the majority of that still being below the threshold due to the fragmentation. It's just really weird to regulate and enforce.
Or you don't make it legislation and just make it advisory or something but then it will probably have no effect.

>Of course it could be easily circumvented, but so can ID verification.
In theory, it should be pretty hard, if the verification is implemented properly (it may well not be).
Right now the only "circumvention" methods are a VPN to a location that doesn't have laws like these.

>>105842034
Feels bad man, i don't want to waste it, so i'll probably use it as a 2nd backup or something.

>>105842360
The main usecase of SD cards is for devices that need easily removable and transferrable storage, i.e. primarily cameras of all kinds, or when you need tiny form factor expandable storage - i.e. in phones.
That's why you don't really see 1TB cards all that often even these days, despite even SSDs being usually multi-TB and HDDs pushing 20+TB.

It's not like it'll die on you immediately. But you should probably have a copy of that data somewhere else - either backup the data on it, or use the SD card as backup for something else. It's just worse than most other modern storage types, is all.
The best usecase is probably to stick it into your phone and have a ton of space for shit like music, movies, and whatnot, assuming you have a use for that shit. Stuff that you won't care too much if the card dies, because you either have that stored somewhere else or it's easy to re-download.

does filezilla have anything to do with mozilla?

>>105842325
Hm. Maybe there could be a way to categorize websites using some sort of certificate? Dedicated porn sites get their own certificate (prescribed to them) that all devices capable of connecting to the internet must automatically blacklist for users under 18, idk. I just think that the reason parental controls are under-implemented is specifically because they're kind of optional and hidden away. I think maybe we're underestimating the average parent if anything; if you immediately prompt them to set up parental controls as part of the device setup process, especially in a way that feels smooth and unobtrusive, they'll use it.
I don't want kids seeing porn but I also just really, really do not like the idea of ID-based verification systems. One little data breach and you risk a massive wave of suicides or extortion attempts. Not to mention identity-harvesting phishing scams. It just feels like so much more of a dangerous solution. Oh well.

My OS partition is running short on, is there an easy way to increase its size without requiring a reinstall of windows?

>>105842608
>all devices capable of connecting to the internet must automatically blacklist for users under 18, idk.
And now you've added regulations that must affect every hobby OS, every linux install, etc. How do you enforce this? Even if linux distros ship with some "age verification" service, do you enforce in any way users being able to just disable it?
It makes sense on mainstream OSes only, but now you have to define what "mainstream" means. You also have to proactively categorise porn sites, because right now you could selectively enforce things and whenever you find a new site that doesn't have proper verification you have the option of fining it right away, because it's the site's responsibility to enforce this. Whereas you can't expect every OS developer to independently curate a perfect list. Will this block your child from accessing MLP boorus that host clop? Will this block your child from accessing some german's self-hosted dungeon porn blog?

ID based verification is absolutely horrible, I definitely agree, and nobody but the normiest of normies should even think about signing up to it. The real solution is proper parenting, it's always been the only way. You can't have the state take over parenting duties for every shitty family out there, it's just not feasible.

>I just think that the reason parental controls are under-implemented is specifically because they're kind of optional and hidden away. I think maybe we're underestimating the average parent if anything; if you immediately prompt them to set up parental controls as part of the device setup process, especially in a way that feels smooth and unobtrusive, they'll use it.
Maybe, perhaps. I don't think it would be a bad idea either way.
All I'm saying is that when a politician is trying to push through a "protect the kids!" bill, that isn't an idea that will make waves.

If I load a torrent but only set it to download half of the files and it finishes, do I appear on other torrent clients as a 100% seed or a leecher with only 50%?

>>105842702
Goddamn the future is lame and gay :/

>>105842718
The latter. You're not counted as a seeder in swarm stats unless you claim to have the complete torrent.

>>105842407
I wish i had a 1 TB sd card for my phone when they came with less than 4 GBs, nowadays they all have 32+, and i only use them for communication and music.
So i'm going to store old archives and files i got from old forums/torrents and stuff that i don't usually use, basically my digital hoard and a 2nd backup of more important stuff.
Interestingly, i remembered i have an old 2 GB sd card and went to check it. Surprisingly, it's working perfectly, no corruptions and it's writing and reading normally. But i'm still skeptical about a 1 TB sd card, since my SSD lasted longer than my HDD, which suddenly died.

>>105842718
>>105843082
It is a little more complicated as you tell other peers that YOU are complete, so they don't fling data at you
You will also probably have more connections (from seeds) as you are one of few peers

>>105836094
>>105836094
>>105836094
bumping this

It may have been MSI afterburner, if so I'm not seeing it in the program myself but I very well could just be overlooking it

>>105841855
The same way you install it on your new PC.
>old
Old as in boots in legacy BIOS mode only?
>>105840993
What's a "primary drive" and what's its significance regarding partitioning?
>partition
>section
Partition table is a blob of data at the very start of the drive. Partitioning means you modify that table.

>>105842517
no

>>105843869
that's good, do you know why that name was picked? filezilla? i know it's an old project

>>105843935
no idea, usually calling something a zilla, means it is a reference to godzilla, it is the big and powerful of something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-zilla

What would be more powerful, a 130w 3060 laptop GPU, or a 85w 4060 laptop GPU?

I don't know how long its been going on, but I just now noticed that my main monitor looks more washed out in color than my second one, and I don't know what I can do about this.

Is it possible to move MP3s onto an iPhone 14? I just wanna put my video game soundtrack albums on there.

>>105843945
thanks, guess mozilla and filezilla just had the same line of thinking in their name then

>>105843988
if you want to listen to them with the music app, I think you still have to use itunes, however if you use the files app, that is also able to play MP3's and you can even transfer over a network using SMB

>>105844019
>if you want to listen to them with the music app
I don't mind using the music app. I just assumed itunes wouldn't let you use any loose MP3 files from your PC.

>>105840446
mangohud is what i use

>>105843992
there was a number of things named like that back then, i also used a download accelerator called go!zilla in the late '90s/early '00s

>>105843967
Also, obviously, I know the same GPU in two different laptops can have different wattages/tdp and therefore performance, is that the case with two laptops with the same CPU as well?

>>105844100
I haven't done it since iOS15, I was able to add DRM free mp3's to my itunes library, some YT lectures I downloaded. Then itunes let me sync it with my phones music app

>>105844204
that screenshot feels familiar, wonder if i ever used that or if it was a different program.

Why is it that cheap chromebooks can hold 50 tabs at once for months and not slow down, but a dozen tabs at once on a browser on a normal pc will slow down significantly after a week or two, requiring a browser refresh? Is there a way to do the same refresh without needed to close all the tabs and reload them?

>>105844271
never heard of that

>>105844271
firefox (use a fork since mozilla is fucked up now) has about:memory with a "minimize memory usage" button, maybe that helps

Why doesn't AMD just give all of their CPUs X3D cache?
Why can't Intel also do the same?

>>105844440
>mozilla is fucked
what happened?

>>105844261
Tried it out, and surprisingly it works.

Is there any reason why I can't use gifs as wallpapers anymore? W11 btw.

>>105844582
They removed the "we'll never sell your data" section from their docs a while ago or something like that

>>105844778
>thing bad if used by idiot
If you use a Mozilla build of Firefox you're a retard to start with, and that's been the case for over 10 years at this point.

>>105844582
mozilla has rebranded as an LGB(i forgot the rest of the letters) activist group for feminist climate justice among other things.
and as >>105844778 said they also removed their promise to never sell user data on the faq. they have tried to cover up their tracks with clever wording since then but make no mistake: mozilla is now into spying and selling your data. some linux distros have already moved away from using firefox as the default browser.
mozilla is mostly doing this because they will lose 80% of their income this autumn when google can no longer pay them for using google as the default search engine.

here's Mozilla Festival from last year
https://archive.ph/OtZxF

here's them removing
>Does Firefox sell your personal data?
>Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
https://archive.is/5Pe2u

mozilla's new direction is fairly new so many people haven't realized that they have changed and it's tricky to show people since they've starting to cover their tracks with manipulative language

>>105844885
retarded cope
firefox sucks and chrome is the only relevant browser

>SI-PEX40057
https://www.sybausa.com/shop/it-products/sata-raid-controller-card/pci-e-pci-interface-sata-raid-controller-card/4-port-sata-iii-pci-e-2-0-x2-hyperduo-raid-card-si-pex40057/
>PCI-E 2.0 x2
I want to put some older drives in a server just using the card in JBOD. For HDDs that bench at around 150MB/s, this card shouldn't bottleneck them right?
Am I missing anything?

>>105844891
just you wait until people have no other options, you're going to see some serious shit

>>105844890
>LGB(i forgot the rest of the letters)
there aren't any other letters, those are the only non-straight sexual orientations, things like "T", "Q", "I" etc aren't sexual orientations

>>105844891
Imagine being so poor that 5% faster hardware is worth more than your privacy. Well adjusted humans use Safari and Firefox. Chrome is for children and spastics. Possibly office slaves if you work for an especially browncoded org.

>>105813746 (OP)
assuming im an australian who doesnt understand the difference between routers and modems, can i replace a Netcomm Nf10w with a TP-Link ARCHER AX1800, and is that a good idea?

>>105845030
No because it doesn't provide a modem. You could put the existing combo unit in passthrough mode if you're having trouble with the router part.

Modem is the thing that talks to the service provider's phone / cable line. If the modem is only a modem, it provides a single Ethernet connection for output. Router in the consumer context is the thing that takes one Ethernet connection for input and turns it into shared Wifi / Ethernet.

>>105844440
I'll wait until it gets bad, then see if a garbage collection makes it all faster, thanks

Best way to read manga/comic book on desktop?

>>105845196
lanraragi

>>105845196
CDisplayEx

Is iqdb getting ddos'd? Do they have a page where they post updates or status so I can know what's up with them? They've been getting hammered with hundreds of requests.

>>105844885
Which version is the most similar to firefox so all my addons and userchrome.css still work?

>>105845196
There is no proper digital consumption platform to consume manga or comics.
Every method is extremely high on copium, you sometimes get okay content (vector based) but a lot of it is shit scans or poorly rendered digital bitmap files that alias and artifact when viewed at non-native resolutions.

The most compatible setup for this is to have two 8K monitors side by side in portrait mode but that's expensive.

anons whats a good thing to remove adware? ive tried some antiviruses like bitdefender and malwarebytes but they can only detect cracked games, crypto wallets, my league of legends badge remover, and cheat engine
i figured getting this popup means my pc is a bit fucked

How well does flash storage do with uploading data? I want to have a drive that is going to be on for at least a few days at a time uploading stuff, but it will be on flash storage. Does this shorten the lifespan? I assume it does just because it keeps it busy and generates heat, but maybe it's little heat to begin with.

>>105840419
You chose to replace Windows and formatted it's partition.
Pay more attention to what the installer says.
Good thing your data is not lost.

>>105839954
Cloudflare is free for your needs, and that would be the simplest way.

>>105841269
>bonus from my job
>worth $0
Many such cases.

>>105841699
Just keep backups. Data is never safe otherwise.

>>105844580
The cache costs more to manufacture and it's particularly useful for gaming and some intense computation, neither of which are important for office use or media consumption.
So people who don't play the latest AAA $70 games can buy a cheaper CPU which still does everything they could possibly need.
Then there's business machines which are cost-sensitive since thei are ordered in the thousands.

Despite growing up playing video games and loving sci-fi and spending tons of time on PCs, I feel profoundly retarded in my lack of deeper understanding regarding computers.
It feels like there are so many unknowns that I never came across and so never learned. When I see people getting into debates and arguments over tech, I feel so uninformed, like I can't have any input.
All this to say, if I wanted to learn everything that can be known about computers, from hardware to firmware to software, where should I start?

If there's an option to change my monitor hz higher, is that legit or is it fakery somehow?
Is changing my hz higher the same as having a monitor of that hz?

>>105845977
>people getting into debates and arguments over tech
Most of the time these are losers obsessing over details, it's not something to strive for.
>learn everything that can be known about computers
This is a huge domain, knowing it all is simply beyond human abilities.
Knowing just the basics like how to assemble a PC and how to install Windows and Linux puts you *way* above 95% of the population in terms of computer knowledge.

>>105846004
What model do you have?

>>105845767
Don't worry about it.
Even crappy flash is rated for years of non-stop usage. Use the things you paid for and enjoy your life, don't obsess over preserving everything.

>>105844890
>google can no longer pay them
Been hearing this for at least 5 years.
Mozilla is beyond retarded, but you're also talking out of your ass.

Need a new mouse since my G502 is fairly worn out, wireless would also be nice, but not strictly needed.
The Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed decent for 45€? Or the Cherry M68 for 40€?

>>105843972
Gamma is different?

>>105846856
I got new switches, skates and a grip skin for my G502, works better than new.