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>>106368528
They are probably there so wireguard itself can toggle them when necessary right? I mean sure they can probably just stay in the interface and always be on since they should be routed through the default route but that's besides the point. My concern here is the feasibility of routinely fetching the 4chan IP and its services and then have the addresses added to the interface. I don't know how complex 4chan setup actually is

>>106368846
I was forced to use them because back then I was using my Android phone's internets and that particular Android system picked an arbitrary IP from the 192.168.42.0/24 or whatever the subnet was.
So the idea was I could keep using DHCP *and* make systemd-networkd do routes based on that arbitrary gateway address. In any case it adds more flexibility even if your router didn't change IPs all the time.

You know whomst we are.
>https://youtu.be/2m0XJpTm4vQ

captcha: REDACTED

>>106367427
100% CPU doesn't cause that. You're running out of memory or experiencing a driver fuckup. Do you have an OOM killer service?

back when i was younger, i heard trying to update your BIOS was a risky thing and that it could always fail and just leave your computer fucking bricked. now that i'm on newer technology though this is just a meme now right? like i've got a new motherboard, got a UPS, everything to keep from getting fucked by power outages

>>106368837 (OP)
9950x3d delid using a clothes iron was successful, was actually pretty fuckin trivial. just cut the glue with floss, put a dab of thermal paste on the IHS, stick it facedown onto the iron, wait like 15 seconds for the solder to melt, pick up the PCB and the IHS stays stuck to the iron. clean the solder off the dies with some sacrificial liquid metal and install

>>106369551
I mean, it can happen. It's not very likely though. A lot of consumer boards give you redundant BIOS chips or at least a socketed chip so it doesn't turn into a hot air station fix.

>>106369657
installed on a strix x870e-e, using thermal grizzly mycro pro direct die waterblock. kind of plain looking but S+ tier performing block

the red goop is TG-shield comformal coating to protect from board shorts just incase any liquid metal drips out

>>106369734
and assembled, I don't really like the cpu cooler aesthetics (or the ram led diffusers) but the temps are great. I wish monoblocks were still a thing, probably wouldn't be good for direct die even if they made them. big'ol slab of nickel plated copper just hits different

with a quick and dirty pbo oc the 9950x3d pulled 270w in cinebench with a max cpu temp of like 74c, 47k score. My previous liquid metal 5950x would have thermal shutdown before the run even ended. \

Also i'm getting 90+fps in modded assetto corsa highway servers in VR now up from like 55fps with the 5700x3d i was running before

>Want to filter an image by its MD5 value
>Doing it using the drop down menu on a post works as expected
>But when I save the photo and manually calculate the hash using *Get-FileHash* in Powershell, for example, I get a different hash value than the one listed in my filter
Why is that? Saving the image shouldn't modify the bits composing the image, or does it?

>>106369801
this 5950x/4080 iteration was peak aesthetics imo. I'm gonna get the new thermal grizzly am5/5090 waterblocks when they release.


as gay as it is i'll probably end up rebuying ram and getting corsair dominators eventually to replace these vengeances, the rgb on them sucks and everything looks pastel vs bright and clear colors on the dominators. I asked but microcenter wouldnt let me sub them into the bundle without losing the other discounts

>>106369801
that's a shit ton of fans for everything being on a water block. seems like overkill

sometimes i get microstutters every second or so when i plug something in or out of the back io. i guess its hw related. happened on different os. reboot wont help and its not just happening when i plug smth into a specific port. only thing that fixes it is a complete power of, dc everything. that fixes it even though everything is in the same port.
could there be something shorting? nothing shows up in any logs as well

How do I make a shim/passthrough dll in MinGW? Obviously if I try to name my function the same thing as the one it replaces it errors when compiling.

>>106369819
is the hash the md5? there's plenty of ways to calculate a hash

Does Teams automatically do OCR on images you send through it? I was searching something in the Teams search bar and saw an image with text I sent appear in the results.

>>106370438
Yes. I explicitly ask *Get-FileHash* to compute using MD5. It returns a hex string but upon converting it into base64, I find that it's a different value from the one that 4chanX computed. It seems that saving images modifies the content of them in but I don't know in what way. I don't change the image extensions or anything like that.

>>106369657
...I can't be the only one who sees a fucked up female face on the left (two eyes with make up applied, left eye half open, below is a mouth with sort of gritted metal teeth and lipstick on the upper lip).

I need to replace my drive. I've noticed it's starting to fail. I want to just move the whole thing over seamlessly to a new drive. Nothing else about my build is going to change. What's the best way to go about cloning it 1:1? I am really, really hoping to avoid having to download all my shit again, I also have SecureBoot enabled. I assume I should turn that off before I do this.

What the fuck is the difference between IEMs and earbuds?

>>106369819
First of all, make sure to download the original image by adding ?gknpsgng (any query string) to the url. Without it, 4chan will give you a slightly smaller image - it's not compressed, they just cut out a lot of metadata and such.
Then you need to convert the md5 hex value that you got from get-filehash to base64

>>106370910
That worked. Thanks.

>>106370871
IEMs specifically go inside the ear canal like an earplug, earbuds is a more generic term that can refer to a few different types like some that rest on the outside of the ear

>>106370871
Colloquially IEMs are earbuds with the rubber dildo tip that goes in your ear canal. It's a nonsense term.

>>106369551
sounds good, but is there anything a bios update would gain you ? If theres not, why bother with the risk ?
I mean you should do it at one point even if just for the knowledge but use an old pc or something expendable or if new, under warranty

>>106370509
probably, check the settings.
I know adobe does this.

>>106368837 (OP)
Summoning toshibaanon, how is the situation?

Is there a throwaway email service that's not blocked by sites and services that try to block throwaways? Specifically I need one that account creation at comick.io will accept.

>>106371781
I mean your best bet is probably to just try different stuff since every site can use their own blocklist, though when in doubt it's easy enough to make a quick protonmail account. (Just note they might block signups from it if you don't link a backup email to it at least temporarily on proton's end)

>Buy external storage drive
>Comes with some installable software
I don't have to install it do I?

>>106372594
Nah, should be fine without it

>>106369551
I was trying to help my friend update his BIOS so he could update his PC to Windows 11 because battlefield requires it or some shit, and the motherboard bricked itself because his CMOS battery was dead or something.
A full day of troubleshooting later it was either 'jump pins on the actual bios chip' or 'buy new board' so he had to buy a new one.

oh fug just remembered /sqt/ exists. well any help is appreciated

>>>/wsr/153826

>>106373563
fuck my life i guess

>>>/wsr/1538261

>>106373576
just use whatever tools are available to you on your operating system, idk about windows.
I will say, though, that writing zeros doesn't always work because you don't have to actually write zeros if it's all zeros, your disk might just say "yeah all these, they're zero so don't bother actually writing that part" so it saves a ton on writes.
so writing zero probably not good enough.

>>106373576
kill yourself averi poster

When creating instances of a node in gdscript how do I actually make sure its variables and arrays are unique instead of pointers to the original?

>>106370837
dd

>>106373576
Encrypt the drive and lose the key when you're done with it. You can't zero the platters without actually overwriting every sector.

I asked this a few days ago but only got a reply that said "RDP" which doesn't seem to be a specific piece of software

What is the most lightweight (especially in terms of memory, for the computer "casting"/sending) remote dekstop software for me to access and interact with one computer from another?

It'd be on the same network/in the same room, so long distance latency and such isn't important

>>106374078
Usually a given OS/GUI only has one good RDP option, and it's built-in.

>>106374138
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1flj69u/can_someone_help_explain_the_microsoft_remote/lo3kjx5/ there's multiple remote desktop software options that Microsoft produces for windows, and the default bundled one, Remote Desktop Connection, is only supported on W11 pro rather then home, and I have home

>>106374578
>>106374138
Also the other ones this post mentions can only be installed via the Windows Store (and fuck that) and aren't intended for my use case apparently anyways

>>106374078
I used to just use VNC

>>106369551
Should be fine, just don't download bios betas; Latest stable version should be fine. Make sure it's from the manufacturer website and that it's for your specific model. The UPS sounds great. Typically speaking, I just avoid doing it at night or during rain/storms and I only really look for an update every couple of months

now that tachiyomi is kill what is the go to manga client for android in 2025?

I'm so fucking done with my mouse. I'm using a logitech g pro wireless, have had it for years and i like the mouse itself, but the stupid fucking software is so bad. It keeps losing connection, skipping, and just stops working altogether sometimes. I want a good wireless mouse that doesn't come with some bullshit horrible software, any recommendations?

>>106375090
Mihon

>>106369551
As long as you get the right BIOS it's not like it can randomly fail (assuming your computer is working properly, if it's unstable and it crashes then all bets are off). It can be dangerous with power outages though. If the PC is shut down while updating it can leave you with a corrupted BIOS and as such the PC will no longer work.

This can be solved by flashing the BIOS again. Some boards have options to allow this, like having a 2nd backup BIOS chip which doesn't get flashed at the same time or a USB flash feature which doesn't actually require the PC to be functional. If such options are not present you may need to flash the chip with some external flashing hardware, which most people won't have on hand.

>>106369657
I am curious, is this shit actually worth bothering with nowadays? I mean a 9950X3D doesn't have much OC headroom anyway, does it? How much do you really stand to gain in real-world use? Back in the day when I still bothered with major OC I could get over 50% higher clock on the CPU with enough cooling and the performance improvement was sizable from such a major clock boost, nowadays it seems like max clocks are mostly capped very close to what you get with stock boost on a decent cooler.

>>106373576
Hard to say about the sounds, I haven't used that particular model of HDD and they all make different noises. If it always makes the same noises and seems to work well then it's probably fine. Regarding the zeroing of the drive before use I suggest you curb your autism because that's literally a waste of time. That is seriously the best advice. If you actually want to overwrite the whole drive, then there's no shortcut to actually overwriting the whole drive. HDDs aren't particularly fast and a 8TB drive is going to take a long time. I don't know a program to do it in Windows off the top of my head, but you can probably just boot into Linux and dd random data to it if all else fails. I never used dban so I have no idea whether it works over USB, though I imagine it should since I don't see a good reason it wouldn't.

>>106375164
>I am curious, is this shit actually worth bothering with nowadays
There's no way it's worth it. ryzen processors aren't even inefficient like Intel so all that extra water cooling is pointless and probably just makes more pump noise

>>106368837 (OP)
Is it normal for a 7600X to hit 85c just downloading/installing steam games?

>>106368837 (OP)
I purchased EV2430-GY but none of the buttons seem to work. Is there some lock or what?

>>106375800
Figured it out, needed to hold SIGNAL + Power when it was off.

>>106375800
Read the manual and plug in the cable, Sometimes you do get a faulty or damaged product, make a complaint and return it reseller.

>>106375931
Is the joke that you don't need to know even half of this shit or

>>106374078
Unironically steam remote play just works
>>106374578
Who the fuck uses windows home

>>106375106
Average chink mice come with web-based software nowadays. Scyrox, Mchose, Gwolves, Wlmouse. For really cheap budget stuff, Attack Shark or VXE. I've also heard good things about Pulsar and Endgame Gear, they're not exactly chinks but I think they also use web-based software, do a bit of research.

Also the logitech software shouldn't affect the mouse's wireless connection or anything. Unlike razer, at least logitech's software, as garbage as it is, is still only used to rebind buttons and change settings and doesn't need to be installed otherwise. If your mouse isn't connecting properly that's a mouse issue.

also having 9950x3D, but dont dare to delid it.. works fine with noctua cooler.. about 55°C in games with PBO2 undervolting

Is it stupid to put all my trust into the score given by cpubenchmark dot net, and go off of that when comparing machines?

>>106375931
Isn't thunderbolt a protocol? Most laptops nowadays use USB-C for thunderbolt connections

>>106375106
>keeps losing connection, skipping, and just stops working altogether
That's a sign of interference, usually caused by things attached to your computer, but sometimes by other devices in your home. Operating the microwave oven is a frequent cause of interference.
To test this, connect the mouse receiver to a phone or tablet, grab the mousepad, and go outside to test it. If you're in an apartment, the stairs are usually furthest away from interference sources.
Also, try connecting the receiver directly to your computer with no hubs in between and see if this improves the situation.

not sure if on topic but i want to make an exit bag, I want to know about better strategies.

long story short
>start work
>coworkers start rumors i'm a pedo, gay, special needs, abuse women etc.
>get doxxed, threatened, ostracised, develop trauma, panic attacks, can't think and brain hurts
>get fired when i report to HR
>get lawyer as this is bullshit
>get gangstalked, i think by workplace who suspect fraud
>get sent to hospital, on meds, in psychward
>friends and family don't believe me
>places like the gym, regulars avoid me, and the new people just record me, hurl insults and other things, i suspect my workplace got them to harass me.

It's been months and i'm still being stalked and harassed, they will never leave me alone.
I need out.
I heard the exit bag is good, i was going to jump on a highway but i didn't know if i'll live and they'll send me back to the ward.

>>106377092
Move places

>>106369972
Not that guy, but the more fans/rads you have, the slower you can run them. However, I would probably use thinner radiators if I were planning on running the fans at low speeds at all times.

>>106368837 (OP)
guys? i need to verify something for school
the questionare is trough a link in a browser and the page says i need to turn on camera to proceed

i DON'T HAVE a physical camera
is there any way to trick the site to think that i have camera that is turned on? i don't think there's anyone behind looking lmao
if there's no way i will have to try this on my phone but i don't want to show my face if i can bypass it

Why is there a slight 'lag' when I type in photoshop? The delay is kinda annoying. Is it because of my RAM being 16GB?

>>106376858
Yes. Real life workloads vary a lot and synthetic benchmarks can never give a 100% accurate comparison. If you compare several metrics and several independent benchmarks it can give you an order-of-magnitude comparison, though.

>>106377209
Anon it's your school, I get having good opsec but IRL school and work are some of the few places where showing your face is pretty normal
>i DON'T HAVE a physical camera
Take it up with the school desu, it's their problem

>is there any way to trick the site to think that i have camera that is turned on?
You can definitely create a virtual camera device and stream some video into it. I'm not sure how but I know it's possible, so look it up or something.

>>106377389
>create a virtual camera device
thanks

Any recs for an ad-free budget/expense tracker app?
Like, I just want one where I can setup a monthly budget/wallet then remove from it and track...
No actual money movement. Just tracking.
>why not your bank
Still handle cash a lot

There was a really good simple one but I can't find it anymore.

>>106377350
It's almost certainly just because photoshop is not optimised for responsive text editing
When you type in a new letter, it has to do all the work of "rendering" it in your chosen font, with your chosen colours and effects etc. Now to some degree this is what all text editors do, but normal font rendering is quite heavily optimised because it happens absolutely everywhere. Photoshop's text rendering obviously doesn't reuse any normal OS facilities for this because photoshop has its own controls over how the text is displayed that wouldn't be compatible with normal UI rendering, and unlike something like MS Word, it's also not a central feature of the program. So my guess is that the pipeline to go from "this text object has these letters" to "here are the resulting pixels on the canvas" is simply inherently laggy.

So practically speaking you might be able to improve this with a better CPU and/or GPU (I don't know which one photoshop uses to render, and it's probably a mixture at best if not just primarily CPU).

>Is it because of my RAM being 16GB?
This would only matter if you were seeing close to full RAM usage, and also if you were then I'd expect absolutely everything on your computer to be laggy. If you have free space left in your RAM, it means that you aren't running out.

>>106377466
I know of some accounting software, e.g. beancounter. But if you want
>No actual money movement. Just tracking.
it might be too featureful and complicated for the simple usecase you want, so I'm not sure.

That said it also sounds like you can just do it with a trivial spreadsheet. Or even a calculator and a text file.
>put your budget number as budget.txt
>when taking out money, open budget.txt, subtract the amount you took out, save the new value
>you are now tracking the remaining money in your budget

>>106377475
I think photoshop uses CPU. I have a Ryzen 7 5800x.
But yeah, you're right about the RAM usage. Everything else runs smoothly. Photoshop just seems to suck ass.

>>106377209
>>106377389
ok i have differeant problem now lol
i used my phone (crap phone) to log in to that site but now it wants my signature
and it doesn't accept my signature when i write it on the phone
so my question is is there a simple way to set my phone up as camera trough usb? just so site detects i have one, they alredy have my signature

>>106377466
Libre math

>>106377750
Consider looking into setting up a virtual camera device that streams e.g. a static picture of yourself in front of your computer (take picture with phone, transfer to PC)
Or once again complain to the school's IT/tech support

>>106377828
>Or once again complain to the school's IT/tech support
this is one time veryfication for a course cause the school wants to be modern
i found some camo studio app hopefully it wont steal my porn collection

>>106377877
>this is one time veryfication for a course cause the school wants to be modern
Non-sequitur, how the fuck is this related
You still get to complain to support
>hello I don't own a webcam, the only camera I have is on my phone but it's always rejecting my signature, please fix your shitty systems so I can start on the course I paid for
And then it's IT's job to figure it out and you don't need to worry or jump through hoops

Just got a Daikin AC installed. My first "smart" device.
It comes with a ONECTA cloud app. Anyone else use it? Is it reliable, or should I download some community made service instead?

>>106377905
see if there's a way to control it with Home Assistant

otherwise
>is it reliable?
most apps can be expected to at least work
basically all apps are also pretty much guaranteed to datamine you. if you're installing any sort of "cloud app" this will always happen. if you want to avoid this the only way is to do some research beforehand to make sure the device is compatible with open source alternative control options (or get lucky after purchase)

This makes me wonder whether it's possible there could be a legal case behind this, for things like big utilities (like AC) which require an app that comes with its own T&Cs.
>product is advertised with a bunch of features
>purchasing and installing the product does not require agreeing to any T&Cs
>once installed, the only way to access the majority of the features is through the app which requires agreeing to invasive T&Cs and signing off on the manufacturer collecting and selling all your data
>if, at this point, you don't agree, you're left with a device installed in your home that you cannot use in the way it was advertised
For something like a smart TV you can just return it, but for an AC unit you've already paid the installation costs, and presumably ripping it out will cost even more. Obviously most people just shrug and accept it but I wonder if there's any legal ground for recouping the costs from the manufacturer for this.

I bet there's probably some devices, or they may make some in the future, where you don't even have basic control or any remote at all and an app is required for the unit to be functional at all, meaning if you disagree with the app's terms the unit is literally dead weight.

If I use internet over power adapters (building roughly 20-25 years old) how badly will the speed be affected if multiple people are using it at once? Will having 3 people using it at the same time cut the max speed to a third?

Is it worth using or should I fork out significantly more to get actual ethernet wiring put in?

>>106378122
The reason why you probably don't see that is those companies depend on a network of local dealers / installers and they don't want to jerk those guys around. Like I've sold / installed a small number of smart pool pumps, and that would be the most expensive penny Hayward ever pinched if some cantankerous old investment banker decided he's going to drag me into small claims for cost + fees because the shit doesn't work without a spyware app.

>>106378427
Do you mean running multiple pairs of these adapters on the same electric wiring? If so that does sound iffy, I've never tried it but it just sounds like it might not work. That said these adapters are cheap so I'd say give it a try, worst case you spent an extra $20 and can probably return and refund it anyway.
If you just mean plugging a switch into the adapter and having multiple devices connected to it (through a single powerline connection) then that's going to be absolutely fine. The max speed will be shared among everyone, just as it would be if it was a normal ethernet wire.

One thing to keep in mind is that like I said powerline is not a paragon of clean connection. It's fantastic as a quick patch for when you don't want to run wiring, and it's perfectly serviceable, but it's still a hacky way to connect. I wouldn't be very happy with powerline as a permanent solution long-term. But you can certainly start with it to get a connection right away, and then run proper wiring later when you get the opportunity, money and time if you care

>>106378427
It's a hub architecture like wifi, so you share the same bandwidth opportunistically.

>>106378590
I dunno, in big cities there's usually enough competing installers around the area that someone who decides to sue one of them will still have a lot of choice for future works, and also is it really always the contractor who tells the customer what device to use? Especially for some shit like a smart device, do people not pick the device themselves before asking someone to install it?

>some cantankerous old investment banker
To be fair boomers are always first in line to gleefully accept any kind of spyware, because "it works for them" and since they didn't grow up in the age of mass surveillance they don't seem to care. (Or maybe it's the fact that they're in the sunset of their lives that makes them indifferent to shit like that.)

How long should I leave a printhead to dry after cleaning/unclogging it with distilled water? It's been about 15 hours and looks dry but I don't want it to short my printer

I just want a couple good usb-c cables to do everything. I hate having a drawer full of random cables and i dont know which ones do fast charging or data or will work with my controller ect.
If they comply with the thunderbolt standard i should be fine right? They should all be able to do everything if they have the lightning bolt on them?

>>106375600
Depends on the download speed and compression algorithm, but it still seems a bit high.
Do games run at the expected performance?

>>106376868
Thunderbolt 1 and 2 used a Mini DisplayPort connector.

>>106377466
Skrooge, KMyMoney.

>>106378960
Because specification committees hate consumers, I don't think thunderbolt specifies power delivery requirements, only data transfer rates and some auxilliary capabilities like the daisy chaining feature. So, no.
In practice
>charging
You should buy cables advertising proper power delivery. "Fast charging" i.e. 20-30W for a phone is going to be extremely widely supported, it's laptop charging (100-200+W) which is less common. Not expensive mind you, just needs to be explicitly advertised.
>or data
The standard says "get fucked", but in practice I think most cables advertise the speeds they can handle and most cables can handle high USB 3.2 speeds (10Gb/s or 20Gb/s). Obviously thunderbolt/USB4 cables can handle 40Gb/s, that's at least one specification that isn't a complete shitshow.
>or will work with my controller
AFAIK any USB-C cable should be compatible with any port and controller, the connection will just use the lowest common denominator.

I'm looking for an all in one solution. My gear includes...
>headphones of various sizes
>bookshelf speakers (passive) quite large, 8ohm
>subwoofer (active/powered) ten inch
What I want
>DAC
>amplification for the bookshelves
>sub level output unamplified

What do I buy, cheaper is better. I currently have an smsl m6 that can work as a DAC but I wouldn't mind something in a single unit.

>>106378628
>in big cities there's usually enough competing installers around
Because there's more business, but it's also a lot more capital intensive to break into a big city market, and a lot of those businesses are multi-generational. If anything pissing those guys off is worse.
>do people not pick the device themselves before asking someone to install it?
For things like central air or pool pumps, no. Most people don't know the class of device they need and the installer has to give them options. If the installer gets burned on your smart products, you're not selling any.
>To be fair boomers are always first in line to gleefully accept any kind of spyware
High net worth individuals aren't average boomers.

The only way I see that particular scam working is if the mfg does their own install and service. I'm 100% positive it's why Musk had Solar City set up to do that.

https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

why does dark mode switch not work there
I click it but it goes back to light mode after refreshing the page always

I'm trying to install Lubuntu on picrel (GB-BXBT-2807).

I first tried installing W10 and it went fast and nice, without any kind of setbacks.Then I tried installing Lubuntu (selecting the "erase disk and install" option) and it crashes during installation, saying:

> The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=ubuntu --force

returned error code 1

I'm guessing that it's having a problem with the bootloader kek. How do I fix this? First time installing Lubuntu btw.

Is there a program that uses a rectangle packing algorithm to fit a bunch of image files onto one big image or PDF page?

>>106379508
It probably tries to install GRUB on /dev/sda which is somehow your write-protected live USB

>>106379525
How so? I double-checked that I'm selecting the hard drive as the partition to install Lubuntu.

>>106379299
I'm confused now, are you talking about the end user (who got a spyware utility installed) pissing off the installer contractor, or the device manufacturer pissing off the contractor by making it spyware and having the end user bitch after it's installed?
Because if I, as an end user currently living in a big city, call up some random AC guy to install an AC and then it turns out they shoved in some smart crap without making me read the app and service terms first, and I sue them or whatever, the only thing I'll have to worry about is if they sabotage my house (e.g. if hypothetically a court orders them to come and take it off for free and they're pissed so they fuck up something hard to find that will screw me over but will be impossible to prove). Otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about in terms of pissing off a contractor. Next time I'll just call in a different, unrelated firm, maybe even from an entirely different part of the city.
I also don't know what you mean by "scam" in this context (who's scamming whom?).

>High net worth individuals aren't average boomers.
Fair.

>>106379172
>Thunderbolt 1 and 2
I said nowadays

>>106379518
rectpack2d does this

>>106379172
>used a Mini DisplayPort connector
So still not a "thunderbolt" connector

>>106379571
>"thunderbolt" connector
No such thing

>>106379584
My point exactly.

>pc lags
>task manager doesn't show anything
>on restart I get the 'any other people using this pc will lose their work' message
is this some remote access trojan?

>>106368837 (OP)
Is there a difference in sending reddit a request when you're viewing something a post vs downloading a high resolution image? I thought all images were already downloaded upon loading a page, and that's it's just a matter of moving it from your temp files to your downloads

Does the same apply for videos?

>>106379563
>rectpack2d
Looks like that's just a library. Are there any full-fledged programs that simply take a bunch of images and try to fit them all together, or should I just make one myself using those libraries?

>>106379645
That is an excellent question that I don't know the answer to. And to be honest I don't know if you'll get an answer in /sqt/ (though you can always wait and see if another anon chimes in)
If I were you at this point I'd just do some searches, maybe see if anyone's built a frontend for that library specifically, and if not get an LLM to write you a thin wrapper around it (which should be pretty simple, as literally all you need to do is sort out the input/output to the algorithm, e.g. parse a list of input files, pass the data to the library call and save the results, or something like that)

>>106379550
Idk but I specifically encountered the problem I mentioned years ago
Try switching TTYs (CTRL+LALT+F1-6) and see if there's some useful info there. Same key combo but F7 to return to GUI

>>106379632
So there's two things here: first, the page might be serving a downscaled version of the image.
Second, and I'm not completely sure about this, but I think browsers explicitly re-download images and stuff that you "save", and they do this basically so that websites get more control over the requests they serve. Which sounds shitty yes. I read this some time ago and in my experience almost any time you save something, you get a download progress bar, so it matches my empirical experience too.

>>106379220
The Cambridge Audio One+ has those exact features, plus Bluetooth.
You can probably get it very cheap used, or something similar.

Stuck in Airbnb hell that I can't escape and the owners are being pernicious. How can I cause damage in kind?

Getting laptop for school. Want a thinkpad for engineering school. are the s (slim) series much worse than the regualr ones?

Maybe a noob question, I recently got my first "gaming" mouse (Logitech g703)

It has a DPI button on the top of it- is there any way to make that DPI button behave like a normal button that I can bind other things to? Like the thumb buttons. I can disable it with the Logitech software but I can't bind it to anything in the games I play.

I have a PC that dual boots Windows and Linux Mint, and I'm on the latter trying to play games from the Steam folder of the former (in Program Files (x86)), but whenever I click "Play" it goes to "Cancel" and "Stop" then immediately reverts back to "Play" without even opening a window. I should note that the Windows partition is of course NTFS and I can read, write, and execute files from it on Mint just fine. How can I fix this?

When you send grok a chat and then delete it immediately after, does it still get sent in for deep learning/training and/or looked at by the engineers?

>>106380045
Follow up Question is 8GB Vram much worse than 12 GB Vram?

>>106380045
For old thinkpads, they're pretty shit
For modern thinkpads this is no longer true at all, they're just different models
For example, the T14 is a slightly thicker plastic chassis, while the T14s is a thinner aluminium chassis. There are minute differences in cooling capability but these also vary between generations and amd vs. intel models, and the specs are otherwise identical. And to make it even more confusing, in the P-series, the P14s uses the same plastic chassis as the T14 (for example, that's how it fits an RJ45 jack) and there does not exist a "P14".

The exact differences will depend on the model and generation you're looking at.

>>106380218
It's 33% worse. Are you going to be running stuff that requires a lot of VRAM? You need to figure that out, nobody can tell what your workload is going to be.

>>106380275
It's for engineering school. so I could spend every alst dollar i have on the ebtter one but is it really necessary. Alternatively I could get a Legion pro 5 for cheaper but look like a tool.

Can you connect 2 different PC to a single NAS?

>>106380324
Yes, it's largely the point of a NAS.

should I add other multimedia filetypes?
3g2;3gp;3gp2;3gpp;ai;aiff;amv;ape;asf;avi;avif;bik;bmp;cb7;cbr;cbz;dds;divx;dpg;dv;dvr-ms;eps;epub;evo;exr;f4v;flac;flv;gif;hdmov;hdr;heic;heif;indd;jpg;k3g;m1v;m2t;m2ts;m2v;m4b;m4p;m4v;mk3d;mka;mkv;mov;mp2v;mp3;mp4;mp4v;mpc;mpe;mpeg;mpg;mpv2;mpv4;mqv;mts;mxf;nsv;odp;ods;odt;ofr;ofs;ogg;ogm;ogv;opus;png;psd;psxprj;px;qt;ram;rm;rmvb;skm;spx;swf;tak;tga;tif;tiff;tp;tpr;trp;ts;tta;vob;wav;webm;webp;wm;wmv;wv;xvid

no, remove some

>>106379508

maybe visit bios
disable secureboot
enable other os
enable legacyboot

these might have different names

>>106379518

gthumb might have had contact print

How the hell do i fix the fucked up looking text in firefox?

should I do that?

cat gpt-oss-120b-Q4_K_M-00001-of-00002.gguf gpt-oss-120b-Q4_K_M-00002-of-00002.gguf > gpt-oss-120b-Q4_K_M.gguf

>>106380377
For what?
Also, why no .jpeg?

>Install new ram stick
>HWINFO detects it but it actually isn’t working
The fuck?

>>106380610
thumbnails. the lack of .jpeg is a mistake. thank you for pointing out

>>106380593
Enable cleartype

>>106379858
I can't find them locally in leafland, what do you think about my current

>smsl m6 DAC --> Yamaha rx-v6

Vs an integrated setup like the Yamaha as501. My complaint for my current setup is that I have noise and a noticble decrease in audio quality on the current yamaha receiver I got for free compared to a previous shitty fiio Chinese amp I was using but didn't have a sub out for my current setup. Not sure it's worth spending $$$ on

>>106368837 (OP)
why do my android phones always have some fucked up exif orientation?

My old stock android phone has this issue, and my current GrapheneOS pixel has this issue too.

Fucking with the exit swiping has no effect.

my photos in Aves Libre (foss android photo app) don't display wrong, but they do when I upload them to 4chud.

Screenshots solve the issue. KurobaEx's Fix EXIF Orientation also solves this. Aside: I actually vibe codes an android app for this, copying kurobaExs code.

>>106380984
>By default, EXIF metadata is stripped for captured images and only includes the orientation. Stripping metadata for videos is planned but not supported yet. Orientation metadata isn't stripped since it's fully visible from how the image is displayed so it doesn't count as hidden metadata and is needed for proper display. You can toggle off stripping EXIF metadata in the More Settings menu opened from the settings dialog. Disabling metadata stripping will leave the timestamp, phone model, exposure configuration and other metadata. Location tagging is disabled by default and won't be stripped if you enable it.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#grapheneos-camera-app

Based on this, I don't think it's possible on GoS's camera app. Such a pity.

Oh well, I have my exif app handy.

Why is 4chang so fucking slow now? Is the UK government DDOSing or what?

>>106379508
Does regular Ubuntu work, as it uses a different installer? Also, you could try Kubuntu...

>>106380164
Obviously gets logged.

>>106380617
Try booting into memtest86.

>>106380766
>Yamaha as501
Doesn't seem to have USB input, otherwise... fine?
The One+ has optical in, analog, and USB, so it doesn't need the source device to have optical out.
The advantage of USB is that it provides some feedback to the host, in my case the Raspberry Pi (Kodi) automatically switches to USB output when I turn on the One+, this isn't possible with optical. Also, you can adjust the volume from the computer, no need to use the remote every time.
I think it's classified as a "micro system".
I used to have a Yamaha RX-V371 AV receiver and there was no noise or hissing, it worked fine over optical.

>>106381981
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/4chan-refuses-to-pay-uk-online-safety-act-fines-asks-trump-admin-to-intervene/

I started college today and my networking fundamentals professor was concerned because I was still using Windows 10. How do I explain that it's LTSC without sounding like a maniac?

In Audacious, how can I have a workflow that stops after every song (because I don't want automatic playback that surprises me, I want it to stop after the song I played), but, that also allows me to queue 2 or more songs so that they play and then stop. Basically play one song, or a queued' group, and stop. But without having to create new playlists every time?

>>106382637
you can't not sound like a maniac because you're using LTSC outside it's intended purpose anyway. just tell him to exploit a vulnerability against you and you'll update.

>>106382637
Rely on Copilot just a bit more, it is bloody convenient, more than anons, depending on the topic.

>>106382637

it is likely one of those colleges that host private internet did your professor ask more details

>>106368837 (OP)
i wanna write a program to translate gerber X2 to a custom g-code, problem is that gerber has both additive and substractive geometries, how should I approach this in a non-niggerlicious way

>>106382245
>Obviously gets logged.
But what happens with it? They claim it's removed after from their systems after 30 days, but I'm not sure if I believe that.

I'm paranoid the sharty hacked my PC. I was only lurking, but Malwarebytes was blocking an Outbound connection, which google then gave me ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR. It only does it sometimes though. I was the guy who commented in the other thread. It stopped doing it but started again today. What really worried me though is I opened up a private firefox tab a few minutes later, which then gave me another block, even though I didn't try and enter the site at that moment. Is Malwarebytes just giving a false positive? I just did a scan with it and hitmanpro and nothing showed up.

>>106380475
I already tried disabling secureboot to no avail. Maybe I should update the bios?

>>106382245
It came with an old version of Ubuntu installed, so I'm guessing yes it does work? At least a previous version.

>>106383325
also, the event details said trojan. It also did the same thing with soulseek though.

>>106383325
It's been a while since I've heard it being talked about, but their site actively tries to dig through as much of your shit as possible, mainly through checking all the connected devices to your router

>>106383613
For what purpose? That site needs to be shut down

Why does 4chanX sometimes "desynchronize" in Firefox? Not even using Private Window or anything like that, but it seems after some time passes, the individual tabs I have open are not updating 4chanX's Thread Watcher globally. Like I scroll down in one thread - Thread Watcher in that thread's tab is updated for that thread - switch to another tab - the other tab's thread is still red/unread messages. Etc

>>106383806
Firefox has an annoyingly aggressive cache. If you turn off and on scripts you will sometimes (actually often) find that they are still running. This effects 4chanX too.
The dev tools doesn't seem to always clear the cache either, I end up having to restart firefox to clear it

How do I watch anime torrents? I once tried torrenting something, and instantly freaked out when the ISP told me "this is not allowed".

>>106384109
>annoyingly aggressive cache
Is that also why when I bookmark some link (doesn't matter if it's toolbar/menu/other) it doesn't load the favicon next to the bookmark? Although for me that only happens on Windows 11, my old Windows 10 Firefox loads the icon immediately. But then other devices sync it and I have to click it to appease my OCD.

Can someone check this scam site for me? A friend went here from a phishing attempted and they asked for their meta information. I'm wondering if they may have installed something or have something hidden being ran in the browser. I ran it in a tor browser. When I opened dev tools, it seemed to be constantly clearing the console, then the page "crashed" or auto closed. So it seems it has Dev Tools detection going on. Can use a more expert diagnosis.

I put into pastebin.

https://pastebin.com/gBXNbJ64

>Peste Noire in the D section
Any idea why this happens? It's fucked up both on Strawberry and on my Walkman. I've tried setting the artist and album artist tags to "Peste Noire," but it didn't do anything.

Why is my webm coming out like this? I made another one from another episode that looks alright.

>>106379553
>the device manufacturer pissing off the contractor by making it spyware and having the end user bitch after it's installed
This. The AC guy's bread & butter is service calls not installations. He's trying to set up a relationship with the customer where he gets paid to show up and do basically nothing 90% of the time.

>>106386301
I don't see a problem

>>106385867
use foobar2000. like genuinely use foobar2000. it's the only actual good music player

>>106386611
The video displays all red for me. Someone told me it's something with webmforretards and x265 encoding, so I just ran it through a different conversion tool to fix it.

>>106386654
i'm not that feller you're replying to but the webm works fine. It's 100% your display drivers or something. Have checked your browser settings? I have hardware accel on and am using the lastest flatpak firefox for linux with the most up to date packages for amd drivers and everything like that

>>106386668
>>106386654
looks fine

>>106386668
I mean, I'm not sure why the source material would display fine but a webm converted directly from it wouldn't be.
Maybe you are unfamiliar with this but when I pause something in my mpv player it does the exact same thing, but it's fine when the video is actually playing. Browser is just brave but I had similar issues when I used chrome as well. nvidia drivers aren't all the way up to date but this is an old problem and I've updated drivers a couple months ago and it didn't change it.
>>106386684
Here's what I see. prntscrn is also being a little fucky with the HDR, the whole image is also more washed out than my display actually looks.

>>106386734
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7406

idk how to help but reading this might help.

Should I install loonix or 11 on a shitty old computer which doesn't support 11?
I know there are workarounds but I'm schizo about microsoft breaking shit eventually

>>106377350
Photoshop calls out to lots of internet resources for fonts, so it could be that maybe.

RAM doesn't matter there. I have unlimited RAM, Photoshop is still slow for text.

>>106387421
As a shitty old laptop owner, I gotta say, I really enjoy Arch with lxqt. Feels a lot like windows xp did.

How can I change the notification icon of 4chan XT, the eye in the top right

I’ve been handed a project and I’m going to ‘own’ it, people will come to me for requests and I will be adding more data sources etc over the year. Problem is it’s coded like shit, I’ve been spending 2 weeks to even get it running on my machine.

Any high level advice? My gut says just rewrite from scratch but a lot of people online say stuff like keep old code and just write new stuff in your style and it will more gradually become better over time. Also I haven’t fully sat down and gone through it line by line, just been running blocks in broad strokes, is there value in wasting a week going through everything with a comb? I’m an economist not a programmer so not sure if there is some common wisdom about this.

>>106387421
Install Mint or Debian.

>>106387828
Xubuntu

which of these is my cpu's temperature

>>106387900
I'm guessing that it's current / average / high
So 56.8C would be my guess

>>106379508
Alright anons, since the bootloader keeps crashing, I'm thinking of two options:
1) Trying to install Lubuntu 20.04.5 and upgrading from there (What are the cons of doing this? Lots of leftovers on the drive? Can I clean that easily?)
2) Installing Ubuntu, then replacing the Ubuntu partition with Lubuntu, maintaining the EFI partition. What are my chances?

>15+yr old HDD starts failing
>mmm ok
>next obv upgrade seems nvme
>motherboard has 2 slots
>massive gpu blocking said slots
halp

>>106382637
Why can't you just say that? "It's LTSC, it's still supported and I'm still getting regular security updates."
Then install gentoo.

>>106388057
Pull out the GPU, put the nvme into a slot that isn't sharing the PCI, put the gpu back in

>>106382637
I was an avid LTSC user for years. I stopped using it when it did weird shit to my new PC (it would reset on boot then boot normally?). Also a myriad of other problems: No sound passed on HDMI (Guessing it's a driver issue, but had it with 2 separate computers). Also you don't have Store (You still can get shit like the WSL/WSL2, but it will be a little hassle).

>>106379508
Well. Lubuntu 20.04.5 installed correctly, not a single error.

So, what's my best bet?

> Installing the newest Lubuntu version over that 20.04.5 partition

or

> upgrading and updating Lubuntu 20.04.5 until it reaches version 24.04

Using a laptop to mount a share over wireless with SMB or SSHFS. Same shit on windows/linux.
I disconnect wireless, go cable to same network and the mount definition is unresponsive, sometimes freezing up the whole system. Have to reconnect wireless to unfuck it.
On linux, forcibly rebooting fucks up my BTRFS drive requiring a manual fix.
Both the laptop's and server's network adapters are statically defined on the router, all three on different IPs.
This is inconvenient because I have to manually unmount the share and remount everytime I move to and from my desk, like 2-3 times everyday I'm home for the last few years.
What could I be doing wrong? Is this how it's supposed to be? Do you do a similar thing and what is your experience.

Is YT-DLP broken again?
I cant download from Xhamster

So I don't know shit about shit but I want to make a NAS (I think). Basically a rack of large HDDs that are all clones of each other where I can just connect my computer, move over files to a folder and then it clones to all the other HDDs. Basically a big offline backup system.

Is this possible? Where should I start?

>>106386668
>>106386684
It looks red to me too

>>106388576
Raid 1?
This isn't really a proper backup though, that would be versioned copies in a separate location which is kept synced with backup software

>>106388655
Well, basically I just want something that can be a completely offline backup system and is as simple as plugging in and copying over a folder to the main drive.

>>106387813
It's ultimately a tradeoff against time spent. If you have infinite time then by all means rewrite it all. Most likely you don't though so start with what exists and identify the pieces that are giving you the most trouble and tackle them in based on how much time you're able to dedicate to pure refactoring work

Also tests. Especially when taking an old, rickety system and refactoring/reimplementing large parts of old functionality, it is EXTREMELY helpful to have a set of tests you can run that confirm the behaviour of the system remains correct. These don't have to be "unit tests" in the strictest sense, but basically when you're refactoring something, you need some way to test a bunch of inputs and have known correct outputs and use this to guarantee that the new, replaced version continues to provide the exact same outputs given the same inputs.

If the old system is coded like shit I bet it doesn't have anywhere near proper testing, so I'd say start with adding a bunch of tests covering as many edge cases as you can. If you want 100% compatibility with the existing system, you can probably autogenerate test cases by just generating randomised input, taking the output of the system as "correct" and saving that as a test case, you'll probably want some sort of fuzzing tools/framework for this.

Once you have a command that you can run and it tells you "yes the behaviour of the system is still correct" it gets so much easier to just rewrite huge chunks of it at will and you can just get an immediate guarantee that you didn't break anything and can just swap in your new code directly.

>>106388576
A NAS usually means something always-online, that you connect to over the network. Something that you just plug in occasionally to copy over a new backup is just that, a backup.
Note that direct copying is not backing up - if for example you save a new version of a file, a set of mirror copies will all be updated with the new version, whereas an actual backup will store the new version AND the old version and allow you to revert back. Same for if you e.g. delete a file or a bunch of files - a mirror will lose the files too but a backup will allow you to restore them.

For your case you probably want a backup stored on a RAID1 setup, I recommend btrfs. Basically: as a unit, your "rack of HDDs" will have versioned storage containing incremental versions of your saved files; every time you plug it into your computer, it will create a new version and save only the changes from the previous version. This will be a proper backup allowing you to go back in time as desired. Look into something like borgbackup or restic. (Or btrbk if your main storage is also btrfs, but I'm assuming not.)
Internally, the rack of HDDs will be set up to use btrfs RAID 1, meaning the data will be copied over all HDDs. This is purely for failure protection - if an HDD dies, you still have a copy of the data.
You can set up the number of mirror copies, which doesn't need to exactly match the number of HDDs btw, e.g. you can have 4 disks with 2 copies so disks A+B are mirrored on disks C+D, you get double the capacity but obviously a bit less failure tolerance.

If you want to be really safe, you should also have an offsite backup, i.e. a third copy of your data which you don't store at home - in case your house burns down or something. This could be a copy of your rack of HDDs but sitting at a friend's house, or it could be cloud storage (that you only upload encrypted backups to, of course).

>>106388699
Thanks anon, that's good advice. I never worked on something so big it needed this sort of monitoring before. As expected there are absolutely no tests while I can think of a few that shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

>>106386636
How does this fix anon's Walkman?

>>106387813
You need tests. There are different strategies, one is writing tests only for the stuff you are about to touch.
Another is to only write tests for the high level consumers of the libraries, so if a consumer breaks, you know that your recent change to the library is directly responsible without having to actually write unit tests for the library you're changing.
No matter the strategy, writing unit tests makes it extremely obvious where you need to refactor – if you're finding it very difficult to write tests for all the possible paths in a function, then it needs refactoring.
Pic related is good reading.

>>106389468
>No matter the strategy, writing unit tests makes it extremely obvious where you need to refactor – if you're finding it very difficult to write tests for all the possible paths in a function, then it needs refactoring.
I think unit tests SUCK and behaviour acceptance tests are much better
By all means unit test if there's some specific computation happening, but there's always a huge portion of code that's mostly glue code between various components and unit testing everything, mocking any other parts of pipelines etc. is usually more trouble than it's worth

>>106382404
So I sat down and read my Yamaha manual, apparently it has direct mode, which bypasses the circuitry and goes straight to the speakers, turns out I don't need an amp at all, my DAC to the receiver in direct mode fixed my noise issues

>>106389608
Great, I really liked that Yamaha receiver.

>>106389468
Nice, thanks, I found a pdf and will flick through it when I have time.

what's the point of secure boot?
>prevents attacker from inserting/using unsigned code during boot
how do you get unsigned code inserted during boot?
> tamper with the uefi boot files
which requires either root access or physical access to boot drive... which implies
>someone has root access, or
>someone has physical access

in either way, you've already been fucked, right? especially if you're signing your own boot images and your key lives on your system, then the secure boot is compromised. not to mention you're already fucked with root access anyway.
a physical attacker can simply reset the CMOS and your UEFI password and change the keys.

tl;dr is there any reason to sign your own kernel for secure boot? i'm thinking no. just lock your shit up, right?

>>106389915
>I will only accept perfect security or no security at all, nothing in between
Suit yourself. Also, every point you're trying to make is wrong, maybe read the specifications instead of coming up with your own ideas of how Secure Boot is designed and what it's for.

>>106389967
maybe at best I can prevent a root kit when an attacker already has root access if I keep my keys separate.
Microsoft on the other hand gets a lot more control of your software with secure boot, which is nice to hand off that security to them instead of yourself.
Can you specifically say what points are wrong? I am about to sign all my kernel modules and the kernel on gentoo just to see it can be done but I don't see a long term benefit.

>>106379508
ALRIGHT! I installed Lubuntu 20.04.5, which installed nice and clean. Then I upgraded to 22.04.05.

What are my chances that, by upgrading to 24.x version, I will get that "The bootloader could not be installed." message?

restore files on SSD?

deleted all files on my previous SSD out of stupidity while installing fresh OS on new NVME

had some semi-important data on it

>>106375164
We shall see, I haven't done a legit overclock on it yet but I'm already seeing decent results, 47k cinebench @270w and max core temp is like 74c. 9950x3d has the Vcache under the die so it doesn't really limit the voltage/clock like it used to. I had a 5950x clocked to the edge of it's life and it ran great, am hopefully gonna do similar with this one over the next couple weeks. I want to get into top 100 3dmark leaderboard for my 9950x3d/5090 combo within the month

>>106378427
I tried to use these exact adapters to avoid running a cable, but they would just auto switch to 5ghz because it was faster than the power line Ethernet backhaul so there was no point. I ended up snaking an Ethernet port through my a/c vents to get Ethernet down toy basement goon cave

4chong slow for anyone else? Captcha fails to fetch all the time and images load forever.

>>106384592
Join a private tracker or pay for VPN

Anyone know how to deal with this?
I migrated my boot drive, fucked around with disk partitions, and now the .lnk file for my steam in the taskbar's context menu is broken, it displays as the default white paper, and when I click this icon in the context menu it does nothing, Shortcuts on my desktop still work, so does the start menu shortcuts, just not this specific taskbar one

>>106391122
Can't you just delete it and make another shortcut to Steam? Is the icon still fucked if you delete the taskbar short and then open steam.exe from its folder?

sirs, any good small gps trackers that don't require a phone app and I can parse the data manually?

>>106391162
I tried that several times and it didn't work.
but I managed to fix it in the end, I knew I had to find a specific shortcut hidden in some folder in order to correct this issue.
Uninstalling and Reinstalling steam didn't work, at the end it was hidden in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts

But yay, I fixed it...

Are Intel GPU cards reasonable at all?
Just found out they even make them.

Anyone here still using a HDD as boot device?

>>106391309

yes 5400rpm ones and 7200rpm ones

>>106391297
I know last gen they were competitive budget cards. When they first released the drivers were atrocious but they got a lot better over time, but they're still not perfect but AFAIK very usable.
This gen I'm not sure, the AMD cards are pretty good for the price and I don't think the intel ones have caught up

>>106391297
Not outside very niche ML workloads. The drivers are utter shit for games. They just don't put any money into them, and it's even worse on Linux where most people expect it to be better.

>>106390950
Get a pass poorfags

is there a way to reconnect a device that has already been safely disconnected on w11 without restarting? i've been restarting my computer because it's a pain to manually unplug and replug it back in.

>>106391524
What kind of device? Like storage? If so I don't know but wtf are you doing
There's probably a way, it's probably not super obvious but it should definitely be possible somehow. Sorry I can't be more helpful but seriously what the fuck is your setup where restarting is easier than replugging the storage

>>106391559
it's external hdd. i'm disabled and it's hard for me to climb over my monitors to manually do it.

>>106391626
Plug it somewhere in front where you can reach it, nigger
Why are you unmounting it anyway if you're not going to unplug it

>>106391655
it's the only place for it. i have to unmount since it makes my computer's fans work harder and i don't like the extra noise. it's also pretty loud sometimes and it randomly spins up even when i'm not actively using it. i just want a way to reconnect it through the computer without restarting.

>>106368837 (OP)
I have had a problem for years now on windows where sometimes when I boot up windows the start key does not function and any time I change which window is active, my music player, foobar, will change the track it is currently playing. It will use the weird windows universal volume control as well.
I have tried different keyboards and changing out ram in the past. For the longest time I thought it was a broken windows install. Recently changed to a completely new computer entirely running a clean install of windows 11 ltsc. the only programs I installed so far were the amd drivers, librewolf,steam, honeyview, mpc, and open office. havent even installed the music player and it still does the windows key thing.
there are other harddrives with music, movies and games on them but I do not understand what I could possibly cause this.
It has been difficult to troubleshoot because it only happens on maybe 20% of startups and almost never happens after quickly shutting down and rebooting.
my current guess is that it has to do with the bios but I dont what I would be looking for. and why would I have theis problem on two completely different brand motherboards for different socket cpus.

>>106391751
Could there be something else plugged in that could be acting like an input device? E.g. have you tried unplugging or switching your mouse? An external numpad or macropad or gamepad or something? Any game controllers that happen to be plugged in OR connected wirelessly, or maybe a wireless bluetooth sitting in a drawer that wakes up from standy and autoconnects sometimes? Any USB devices in general that might have any reason to act like an input device? Some old chink dongle connected to an internal motherboard USB port that you forgot about?
Make sure you don't have any wireless shit that might be connecting, and then unplug all your other USB devices internal and external. And switch your mouse out for the most basic cheapest office mouse you have in your house (if you're already using a basic one try to switch to a different one just in case). See if it still happens.

How do I make it so that on ENG INTL (English international) I don't have to fucking type " followed by another key to write "?

>>106391832
And why do I have ENG UK on my Windows 11 when I never asked for it? It's not in my installed languages. All it does is shit up when I switch between German and English. I found out I'm not the only one with the problem:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3901056/remove-eng(uk)-keyboard-layout-from-language-bar
But when I search that location in regedit, I don't find the UK entry there

>>106391931
If you want to remove ENG UK as a language/keyboard option when you don't have it in Language & Region, you have to install the ENG UK language pack
(yes, you have to install it first)
and then uninstall it.

I'm assuming shit like 1.1.1.1 isn't safe right? Trying to sort out why my ethernet is slower than my wifi even with a gigabit ethernet directly into the router...

>>106392219
Did you make sure it's actually connecting at 1Gb? If the cable lost a conductor it'll fail down to 100M. You can use iperf3 to gather stats on link speed / packet loss.

>>106391796
I have used a few different zowie mice over the years as well as different brand keyboards like ducky and keychron and some external dacs.
I only ever keep 3 things plugged in at all times. Keyboard mouse and dac. none of them use a control panel or app like razer/corsair products.
I guess now that you point it out Im not sure how long ive had this specific topping dac relative to when I started having this problem. but I got it on a recommendation from a friend who has one, and is a much bigger computer nerd than myself and he hasnt heard of anything like this.

>>106392260
Yeah, set it manually to 1Gb in the settings and the connection displays as such. It's just slightly slower than wifi at 3 bars which is concerning.

>>106392315
Yeah that's what iperf3 is for.

>>106368837 (OP)
I was just trying to watch something on popcorfilmz or whatever, and it keeps throwing an error and the movie stops.
I wanted to get some idea of what is going on so I opened the console but then the site kicks me back to my previous page (as if I hit the back button) and clears the console. What the hell is going on here?

Plastic bags can produce static electricity right? Whats a good substitute for antistatic bags for storing electronics? Paper?

>>106390019
>Can you specifically say what points are wrong?
Microsoft gets no control of your software, read about public key cryptography before posting your opinions. Secure Boot does not require Microsoft keys, you can erase their key and install your own (or Canonical, or RedHat keys).
You keep blabbing about rootkits and physical access but SB doesn't deal with them, it merely validates that the stuff you boot and run has been signed by a trusted party (or yourself). Nothing prevents you from signing a rootkit, and Microsoft routinely does so. Again, you can erase their key in 5 clicks.
SB also deals with measurements – you can use PCRs from the TPM as proof that the boot chain hasn't been tampered with, and obtain access to remote resources based on this proof+authentication (say, access to Remote Desktop for remote employees).
Measurements can also be used to safely unlock encrypted disks without having to type a long ass passphrase and still maintaining strong security.

>>106390625
Unfortunately, they are real.
If you can, make a backup of your disk as it is now, Clonezilla's disk to image mode should suffice.
Without knowing what exactly is wrong, it's hard to guess whether it will boot or not.

Why is FreeBSD using this much RAM running only Firefox?

Why is the upper eyelid on my left eye twitching involuntarily?

>>106392443
magnesium deficiency or calcium channels efflux

do you have calf cramps too

>>106392481
No, but I used to have them in the past, but when I had them I didn't have eyelid twitching. I drink MAGNESIUM ENHANCED mineral water every day, so how is this possible? I drink literally nothing else.

Fucking 92-95 degrees celsius on my desktop PC and all it's running is Firefox + VirutalBox. I just dusted it less than a week ago.

What do?

>>106392836
>so how is this possible?
same way potassium "competes" with sodium, magnesium "competes" with calcium so... you want magnesium *in* your cells, not your bloodstream because that can and does mess with calcium balance. do you drink milk or eat sardines? do you take vitamin b6?

>>106392928
>What do?
mx4 or new processor if its a newer one that degraded or overcloked

>>106368837 (OP)
I have never touched anything crypto related in my entire life. How do I renew my 4chan pass? There used to be a site you could use to have a renewal "gifted" to you with a convenience fee but it's gone now so I have to do this the hard way. Apparently I need a wallet of some kind? How do I set that up, ideally without having to hand over my ID to some corpo? I've heard that coinbase and coinme are both shit for that reason but I don't know what else to use since that field is entirely greek to me.

What is the purpose of "Pinned Tabs" in Firefox? I heard they were supposed to reopen after I close Firefox, but they didn't for me. Do I need to have enabled history for this? Useless...

>>106384615
Faviconbros pls respond

>>106392928
Is it actually being cooled? What is the temps at idle? Maybe there's an air gap
Otherwise, Underclock/undervolt/etc.

You could also add heatpads to areas of the metal and the bottom plastic to help a bit.

>>106377350
That's just photoshop for ya.

>>106393549
>disable history
>why doesn't this history feature work
Maybe you need to separate your privacy schizo profile from the one you use on discord where you have no privacy anyway.
Captcha G0YXM

>>106392401
you're not helping but I appreciate your efforts. I guess you're not understanding the question because I'm well aware I don't need MS keys as I explained I was going to use my own.
don't have a TPM device and use full disk encryption with passphrase so the rest is not useful as well, though I suppose I should have explained I've taken all the most important security measures outside secure boot already, including locking my computer in a rack to prevent physical access.

>>106368837 (OP)
>qbittorrent creates a new NAT-PMP mapping every 15 to 25 minutes
why?

>>106394803
In case you reboot your router probably. Why not?

is cock.li down for anyone else? i can't login on thunderbird or kmail.

>>106380157
I should mention that I am using the Linux Mint system package version, and the problem is persisting on a NTFS drive that isn't the aforementioned Windows primary install folder

>>106392381
They probably use a script to detect when DevToolbar is open and mess with it.

>>106392385
Paper may not be a good idea. Silicone, perhaps

Actual braindead question
I have these two screens:
https://aoc.com/uk/products/monitors/24b1h/specification
https://aoc.com/uk/products/monitors/24b2xhm2/specification
do I understand correctly that one of them cannot be VESA-mounted? It doesn't say so in the specs (first link) and I have it with me so I can see there's nothing on the backside. The other one says it can be mounted in the specs, but I don't have it at hand.

But a wise man on /g/ told me that every modern monitor supports VESA mounting. It was made in 2018 and it got none.

>>106393918
>locking my computer in a rack to prevent physical access
Can opener goes brrrr...
It all depends on your threat scenarios. Old workplace had armed guards and some doors were rated in terms of their resistance to heavy duty angle grinders. Still, the contingency plan was to smash as many HDDs as we could before the main doors failed, so none of the racks had doors installed.

Why is google linking pictures to completely unrelated sites?
In this example, pictures of an old japanese toy is being linked to the National Museum of Scotland.

>>106388057
your gpu doesn't have an nvme slot?

If I wanna test how a game preforms at 4k and I only have a 1440p display, is setting the internal resolution scale to 150% gonna mirror the actual performance i'd get at 4k?

>>106395853
Approximately
I think using DSR at 150% would be more accurate though

>>106380157
I think Steam explicitly doesn't support NTFS drives on Linux.

>>106395562
>every modern monitor supports VESA mounting. It
Almost every monitor. I can't remember the last time I saw one without mounting holes.
Indeed, yours has none. This is a good thing since that's a very poor monitor (250 cd/m2), you should consider throwing it away.

>>106395875
>a very poor monitor (250 cd/m2),
What makes a good monitor? I wanted to buy a "good" expensive one, but I literally can't tell the difference visually or what the numbers mean. Is there something like "explaining good monitors for dummies"?

>>106395212
Alright, now I've gotten to the point that Steam flat out broke by acting like there was no Internet connection, so I uninstalled and reinstalled, only to get
Steam needs to install these additional packages:
libc6:amd64 libc6:i386 libegl1:amd64 libegl1:i386 libgbm1:amd64 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:amd64 libgl1:i386 steam-libs-amd64:amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386

Press return to proceed with the installation:
.................

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libegl1 is already the newest version (1.4.0-1).
libgl1 is already the newest version (1.4.0-1).
libc6 is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.10).
libc6:i386 is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.10).
libgbm1 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgbm1:i386 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgbm1:i386 set to manually installed.
libgl1-mesa-dri is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libegl1:i386 : Depends: libegl-mesa0:i386 but it is not installable
libglx0:i386 : Depends: libglx-mesa0:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Press return to continue:

Followed by a dialog:
You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1

And then

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1

Alright, now I've gotten to the point that Steam flat out broke by acting like there was no Internet connection, so I uninstalled and reinstalled, only to get
Steam needs to install these additional packages:
libc6:amd64 libc6:i386 libegl1:amd64 libegl1:i386 libgbm1:amd64 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:amd64 libgl1:i386 steam-libs-amd64:amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386

Press return to proceed with the installation:
.................

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libegl1 is already the newest version (1.4.0-1).
libgl1 is already the newest version (1.4.0-1).
libc6 is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.10).
libc6:i386 is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.10).
libgbm1 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgbm1:i386 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgbm1:i386 set to manually installed.
libgl1-mesa-dri is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 is already the newest version (24.3~git2407250600.76ae27~oibaf~j).
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libegl1:i386 : Depends: libegl-mesa0:i386 but it is not installable
libglx0:i386 : Depends: libglx-mesa0:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Press return to continue:

And then

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1

(Yes I deleted that last post because I copied the second dialog twice, please excuse my monumental retardation)

How come both my drives are advertised as 4 TB, but one is 3726 GB and one is 3816 GB

>>106395958
tftcentral, rtings
Those are basic 1080p office displays. They're still perfectly usable, but that's the kind of thing I would get used because they've been the same forever and they're not biodegradable.

>Windows complaining I don't have Local Security Authorization on
>I check
>it's on???
what is this

Say I wanted to set a video as my wallpaper
What would theoretically be the format that would affect performance the least?

>>106395958
Minimum 300cd/m2, but really 350. 500 is great.
Minimum 90Hz, but 144 is better and 240 is great.
At 24", you want 1440p, 4k is great.
85% SRGB coverage as a bare minimum, 100% is good but not great.
Low latency is important for gaming, pay attention to that if you're into games.
Black level is important for gaming and critical for watching movies.
Black uniformity is important for games and video.
There's also pixel response time, which causes ghosting.

Lurk here: https://www.rtings.com/monitor

>>106390858
If there is any possibility (highly unlikely), it will be with cracked EaseUS Data Recovery or testdisk.

>>106388508
Youtube has a new security setup going on, it is hurting right now until yt-dlp devs figure out how to work with it.

>>106396670
GIF

>>106396550
Maybe the program which encountered that error was running under a different account which is more limited.

>>106389915
digital and physical computer security is basically an onion with a dozen different layers. many of the layers directly compliment each other, but when judged individually, they seem weak/pointless.

For example, I work in enterprise IT and the number of techs (including directors) who don't understand Bitlocker is staggering. But tbf it's not like it really matters that much unless you're the one who's responsible for writing policies.

So those scam drives and other storage media. Where they appear to be so-and-so capacity, but if you actually try to fill it with that much data, it ether gets overwritten or just gets corrupted.

Could making a smaller partition and only using that work as a quick countermeasure of sorts?

>>106397090
Yeah there's a program called Fight Flash Fraud that detects where the drive rolls over and makes a partition to fit the actual size.

I'm running jupyterhub in docker. How do I stop users from
1. Uploading/downloading
2. Linking from urls

>>106374078
nomachine is good

>>106322157
>>106322235
>>106326864
Super happy with how it turned out. The domino block worked like a charm and the unit works perfectly as far as I can tell.
Don't worry about my shitty exposed wires, I went back and redid it cleaner after testing.
11 bucks spent on wires, aux chord etc. Money well spent.
Oh and I need to return my the previous owners wedding cd mix that I found in the tray.
Thanks anon/s.

>>106380030
Help

>>106398186
holy shit dude you just dusted off a bunch of memories, my uncle had that exact mini hifi at his old house

need to install something that autoplays an android game in the background and these are the only supported emulators, which one is the most optimized? google play games runs like dogshit on the 4c8t zen+ laptop i'm stuck with (and it's not supported anyway)

>>106398459
Is your uncle a SEA monkey? This thing says made in Malaysia and I'd wager good money that the neighbours brought it with them when they immigrated.
This thing is pretty neat though, 3 disk-tray cd player, radio, casette, aux in, supports a whole speaker system beyond left and right. Would recommend.

I tried downloading gta v onto my usb but I cancelled it halfway and deleted it. Now, whenever I format the usb the file always reappears and takes up ~100GB of space.

I even went into diskpart and cleaned it but immediately after my pc acts weird and I'm forced to restart.

How do I permanently remove it so I can use this USB again

Is there a way to make windows 10 audio increase gradually instead of 'steps' every few increases to the volume slider or does that require buying actual audio stuff (headphones use)

kek just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourusb for a few seconds
then reinitialize it with your preferred partition type n shit

>>106398481
>>106398861
windows version id disk managament and fuckin make a whole new ass partition table n shit

>>106398870
wrong anon my dude

>>106398819
short answer: no
long answer: autohotkey script can reduce the volume steps to 1 instead of 2 but it's a hassle
windows just doesn't have granular volume control
the absolute cheapest way to do this would be buying an inline volume control dongle, koss sells theirs for $10 but you can buy noname chinese ones if you really want to save money (you get what you pay for though)

Let's touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow.

>>106398782
Have you ever tested your USB drive? Has to be faulty if formatting doesn't work.

>>106398186
The white connector you used to splice the cable reveals exposed wire. Very dangerous.
You need to redo that commection, all the exposed wire must fit inside its white sockets.

>>106368837 (OP)
Guys why does this happen to pictures? Sometimes it happens when I save them, sometimes when I try to copy/paste them into reverse image search.

why the FUCK do I need to enable Location Services (=let Windows know where I am at all time) in order to use netsh to connect to a nearby network?

>>106399702
>faulty
it must be, putting so much as an image into the usb makes my taskbar blank and forces me to do a hard restart using the power button.

I didn't think stopping a download onto the usb would do this much to it, sucks

>>106399702
>The white connector you used to splice the cable reveals exposed wire.
>>106398186
>Don't worry about my shitty exposed wires, I went back and redid it cleaner after testing.

>>106400005
Nothing to do with the download or stopping it. Your drive was faulty, you just hadn't tested it before that download.
Have you ever filled that drive successfully with data that you could later read from it?
What model is it?

>>106400028
Ah, I misread that part. Good job, enjoy your music center. Source some tapes if you can.

>>106400053
I've had it for years, it worked perfectly as intended.
I've reformatted it several times too and only until I tried that by ending the transfer early, problems arose.

its the same model as www.amazon.com/Samsung-MUF-128AB-AM-Plus-128GB/dp/B07D7PDLXC

Is it true that there's absolutely no difference between using a monitor's DVI and HDMI, in terms of display properties? I have a HDMI to DVI adapter and my monitor doesn't have an HDMI input. If I understand correctly, it's because HDMI is just DVI which carries audio data?

>>106400066
Sounds like a good drive that kicked the bucket. It happens, and flash storage usually becomes read-only when it dies.
The fact that you stopped the transfer is not the cause, it must have died while writing the data. It has reached its natural end and this would have happened anyway. Those small drives get very hot sometimes and heat isn't exactly good for them, but that's on manufacturers to implement safety measures which limit it's speed when the temperature increases.

>>106400206
To some extent, yes. HDMI has many more features (sound, Ethernet, 4K, 3D, CEC, DRM) but the basic video modes are fully compatible with DVI-D, you only need a passive adapter to convert the physical plug.
Some DVI connectors also had analog pins that don't map to HDMI.

>>106400283
F. thanks for the clarifying the cause

>>106393749
Not that anon but for example bookmarks still work when disabling history. There's zero reason pinned tabs would be implemented as a "history feature" as opposed to a "bookmark feature".
Or you know, a "pinned tab" feature that doesn't randomly get affected by unrelated settings in general.

>>106380157
>>106395875
I have had no issues playing Steam games from NTFS myself. But maybe I just got lucky or something

>>106399938
Don't try to understand the rationale behind it. It's probably because of some requirement in another layer you aren't even aware of.

>>106396236
Remember that hard drive manufacturers use decimal storage capacities. So "4TB" = 4000 "GB" = 4,000,000,000,000 bytes. Divide by 1024^3 and it works out to 3725.3 actual GB.
The second drive is a "4096 GB" drive for some reason. The GB is obviously still decimal so it's 4,096,000,000,000 bytes, again divide by 1024 three times to get 3814.7 real GB

>>106396550
>this change requires you to restart your device
Maybe you turned it on, or it got turned on somehow, after your last boot. Try restarting

>>106399147
*workstream, anon

>>106399938
I know on android, location permission is required for wifi access, because datamined wifi SSID maps is how non-GPS location services work.
Having to enable location services in windows sounds retarded as shit but maybe modern windows is just this retarded

>>106369551
learn to hardware flash, faggot

I started getting sliding captcha and jk solver doesn't workd anymore. Is there an up to date alternative

Where do I get started for DIY self-hosted home automation? I want some kinda device that I install let's say at the light switch, and then I can program it turn lights on and off for example. There should be no internet involved whatsoever.

so the new sideloading thing with android, is it only if you have like a google account signed in and playstore enabled or does it affect all of android? like i disable google play services and skip the google side in, would I still not be able to sideload apps?

>>106401241
Step 1: buy a cheap device to run Home Assistant. A raspberry pi is good enough, but you can also get a minipc, or any old laptop that you want to run as a server
Step 2: for light switch automation, you should probably look into low-power stuff, like zigbee. You'll need a dongle for your HA server and it'll connect wirelessly to zigbee devices, and you can do some research to find a good smart lightswitch that's compatible with HA without requiring any online connection.

>>106399747
Is this firefox? Does it still happen with privacy.resistfingerprinting (the about:config flag) turned off?

>>106401321
I haven't looked into it very much but from what I've heard it's just for device attestation. So if a super botnet app that requires a Google Approved(tm) android installation (commonly seen in shitty banking apps), it will now fail if you have unverified apps installed. In the exact same way how right now rooted devices usually fail the google checks and similarly can't run some banking apps and stuff.
I'm not aware of google having plans to outright disable the ability to install inverified apps, but also even if they do it will most likely be patched out of most custom ROMs.

>sideloading
BTW, it's not about disabling sideloading. Every app APK requires a developer signature which currently basically ensures that all updates you install are from the same developer you originally installed the app from, but that's it. (And Google Play apps are signed with Google's own keys.) As far as I understand it, this new thing is going to require every developer key to be registered with google - so you won't be able to just make an app, publish it on github, generate a keypair for yourself, sign your APK and have signed releases; instead you'll have to register with google and probably pay a fee, and then you can use google-approved signatures (somehow) and then publish your app wherever you want.

>>106401364
>zigbee
Seems like a wireless communication protocol, like a low-power alternative to wifi. Is there a hardwired version of this?

>>106401470
>like a low-power alternative to wifi
Exactly
>Is there a hardwired version of this?
If you want a wired connection then you basically run an ethernet cable. This doesn't require any special protocols or anything - but I haven't really heard of this being widely available in smart devices, because ethernet jacks are bulky and because running ethernet wires to every light switch in your house (and every lightbulb/light fixture, etc.) is not something most people are willing or able to do.
Powerline exists (basically ethernet over electric cables) but the adapters are also pretty bulky and it's not super reliable.

If you find a smart light switch that's got an ethernet connection AND actually want to run ethernet cables to your light switch, then go for it. But usually this stuff is going to be wireless, using wifi or zigbee. And of those zigbee is just nicer because the devices tend to be less botnet out of the box (wifi devices expect to be connected to your main access point and you might need to set up specific firewalling/filtering to prevent them from being able to access the internet, for example, on top of wasting more power and adding extra traffic in the wifi spectrum).

Why don't all phones have a notification light? Always On Displays use too much battery. I'm reading suggestions like "just check your phone every 15 minutes" like that's not fucking retarded. I can't find a solution to this stupid problem.

I need a light that blinks periodically to indicate I need to check my phone. Is that too much to ask, ffs.

>>106401848
I was thinking about this earlier myself, I think it's just that ubernormies - the main market, since they buy a new phone every single year - really do just check their phones every 15 minutes

What should I look for if I want a USB-C cable that can carry video?

>>106400662
I can't find an official statement from Valve, just tons of people saying so and some guides on how to make it work better.

>>106401470
>Is there a hardwired version of this?
Unfortunately no, and it's a great shame. The big advantage of Zigbee is that it's completely incompatible with Ethernet, so it would be great to get a wired version of Zigbee where both power and communication happens over a pair of wires.
Fuck changing sensor batteries every few months, buying 5 different types of batteries, and dealing with lack of signal in isolated areas.

>>106401945
Easiest method is buying a Thunderbolt cable, since they all do.
Otherwise you're stuck reading cable reviews and praying that they aren't scams.

New >>106402487
New >>106402487

>>106401848
My phone vibrates when I get a notification

>>106402728
Pretty sure that anon wanted something that would do something periodically while there are unread notifications, or better yet, something that would persistently stay on without draining power like the screen

>>106402080
>The big advantage of Zigbee is that it's completely incompatible with Ethernet
Ethernet is easy to isolate, though. I guess wifi is also easy but you need a separate access point and it starts taking up channel space from your normal wifi. With ethernet, just configure a separate network on the port you connect it to, and disable routing between them.
>Fuck changing sensor batteries every few months, buying 5 different types of batteries
For things like light switches and lightbulbs you should be able to wire them up to the mains normally, no?

>>106402795
>without draining power
If that's your concern why use an LED? Wouldn't something like this work?

>>106402877
NTA but because a LED is minuscule, extremely cheap, and trivial to add somewhere on the bezel, while your pic related is a gigantic component that would need a huge window somewhere on the phone case. It's true that it would drain less power than a LED, but only infinitesimally so, because one tiny LED already draws a practically negligible amount of power - on a phone which is in regular use, has working wifi and cellular radios and runs its screen and CPU for non-negligible amounts of time per day, the notification LED will effectively not drain any noticeable amount of power that would affect the charge levels in the battery in the timescale between typical recharge cycles.

A better example from your side would've been something like an e-paper dot able to change from black to white (or maybe even colours) without any persistent power draw, but the effectively negligible power drain of a LED is still worthwhile for the benefit of being able to see it in the dark.