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my family's kitchen's range hood has been in disrepair for years. Somebody decided since the filter was so dirty, they would just remove it, so its been running without filter for 10 years or so until all the junk made the fans stop working.
How can i remove this old kitchen range and its fans, clean up the chimney somewhat, and install a new one? seems complciated but i dont want to spend a lot of money, but i also dont have a lot of time other than weekends

Is there anything that is like a "booru" for personal files? like something that lets me put tags into my images or any file in my computer and then search through that, kinda like that voidtools' everything but in booru style

>>106403603
It doesn't sound like it should be difficult, but if you can't figure it out, then try to find the original manufacturer's manual for maintenance if there is one

>>106403702
I don't know of a good one. Hydrus exists, for images at least, but it's got drawbacks as well - namely it has to copy all file data into its own database rather than just operating on your existing folder structure, it's written in python, and it's windows-only.
I think I remember hearing about alternatives but I don't remember if so and I'm not even entirely certain they actually exist. I'm pretty sure they would also be primarily for images even if they do exist.

If you find something good then do let me know.

Does anybody make, or how would I search for, super "thin" USB A to C converts that can be used right next to one another in a tight space?

My laptop has two USB C ports close together like this and the A to C converts I have are too wide for me to have one in each port

>>106403774
i have no idea what the brand is, its not shown anywhere
they probalby installed this in the 80's or 90's
how much do you think i would get charged if i asked a guy to do it for me? in europe

>>106403820
Maybe look into converter cables/dongles, that have the USB-A port then like a 10cm cable connecting it to the USB-C plug.

>>106403820
Actually nevermind, I found a bunch like this

What sort of specs should I be looking for to ensure that converts/adapters like this support all the power deliver, displayport and speed shit that the ports on the laptop can do?

>>106403852
>power deliver
Just check if it advertises power delivery specs
>displayport and speed shit
USB-A doesn't support any of that

>>106403843
I have no idea, it really depends what kind of "guy" you ask. I honestly don't know what specialty would even be the most appropriate. My best guess is the qualifications needed are "can do the job without wreaking things" meaning some lowest tier handyman would be fine as long as you trust him not to be a brutish retard that breaks shit he doesn't understand. Problem is if you asked me to find one myself I have no idea how I'd even start. Back when I lived in eastern europe as a kid most people know some local "handyman guy" who was usually morbidly alcoholic but if you could find him in a coherent state he'd come to your house to do random odd handy jobs that didn't need a qualified electrician or anything. If you can find someone like that it should be good enough and not too expensive

But seriously if you have the time and the will to do it, give it a try first, start digging inside and see if you can figure out how shit is connected and how to get it done

There's also a non-zero chance that it just wasn't designed to be taken apart and since the fans are fucked and you don't know the brand and even if you did it hasn't been manufactured for 30 years so they probably wouldn't know what to do with it, and basically it might just be fucked, but you won't know until you give it an honest try

>doing Lua for some video gaming
>just want to print a variable inside some text
>google it
>stackoverflow #1 of course

>top rated solution to "I want to print a variable inside some text" is some 50 line monstrosity
Why is stackoverflow like this and why are the Lua docs so bad? I want to reference an item in an array in some text. Literally just printing one number out of a datum. Send help

>>106403820
>>106403852
unironically when I have this issue with plugs of any sort, I just bust out my scalpel and shave that shit down.
>specs
I think power negotiation fails when you convert to any form of USB-A but it basically doesn't matter because if you're plugging USB-A (regardless of superspeed, standby, etc) into it while your laptop is on it will yeet out +5v up to 2a iirc. You won't get display out either but I imagine that's not your use case if you need USB C to A in the first place

check your laptop's manual/datasheet for specifics on max power delivery but USB-A and its derivatives are all backwards compatible so it basically doesn't matter except for speed unless you need a weird voltage (unlikely with a device using USBA) or display (same)

So I just bought an Nivida GPU after using an AMD one for the last year. Is there anything I should do before I swap it out? Will it Just Werk or am I better off reinstalling my OS and all my programs?

For my ISP to block connection to a website via VPN they'd have to block connecting to the VPN itself, right?

>>106404072
it will just werk, you can use DDU if you want to clean up the old driver off your system for good but its usually not an issue

>>106404100
Yes. If you're having sites blocked on a VPN you're leaking DNS queries or your exit node is in another place that blocks sites. I've pulled the latter a few times lately.

>>106404158
Thank you very much friend

>>106403937
In Lua, you concatenate strings with ..:
local myVar = 42
print("The value is: " .. myVar)

-- For array items:
local myArray = {10, 20, 30}
print("Second item: " .. myArray[2]) -- prints "Second item: 20"

That's it. Two dots. No 50-line monstrosity needed.

The Stack Overflow phenomenon you're describing is real - often the top answers are overengineered solutions
when a simple one-liner would do. For Lua specifically, string concatenation with .. handles most cases,
automatically converting numbers to strings.

>>106403937
Can't you use the string concatenation operator together with tostring() (this isn't needed if the variable is already a string)?

>>106404311
I eventually found this buried somewhere on some third party tutorial site but I'm still mad that I can't find simple stuff like "how do i reference array length" or "what constants are available in the math library" or whatever without SO meming on me and the OFFICIAL FUCKING DOCS launching into advanced concepts without telling me the fucking syntax first. Worse yet, the video game I'm playing is itself absolutely terribly documented and I have to sift through 90 pages of fuddlore before finding any actual useful info before I even attempt to kitbash some Lua to drive it.

this has been a terrible experience and I will never use Lua in a professional setting after this. Instead I will be extra satanic and retain my policy of using Powershell for everything

>>106404339
Absolutely understandable frustration — Lua can be great, but only if you can actually get the basics without going on an archaeological dig every time.

Something that might help in the future: large language models (like ChatGPT or Claude) are actually really good at exactly the kind of stuff you're talking about — simple syntax questions, quick "how do I do X in Lua" lookups, or even digging through vague or poorly documented APIs in games or mods.

For example:

"How do I get the length of a Lua array?" #myArray

"How do I concatenate strings in Lua?" Use .., like "hello" .. " world"

"What functions/constants are in the math library?" It can list them instantly, with usage examples.

Instead of hunting for the one blog post or guessing keywords on Stack Overflow, you can just ask and get a direct answer, or even a step-by-step walkthrough. And if you're staring at a block of spaghetti game code, it can explain what it's doing and help you edit it — even if there’s zero documentation.

It’s not perfect, but for stuff like this, it saves a ton of time and frustration.

Hope your next experience with scripting (Lua or otherwise) goes way smoother.

>>106404397
>—
GET THIS CLANKER OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!

>>106404339
Add site:lua-users.org to your search results. It's a decent resource, but the site has pretty bad navigation. Of course, ai chatbots would be decent for these kinds of questions

>>106404499
fun fact, I wanted to give an obvious AI response but claude just didn't make it that obvious at first glance (still identifiable but not good enough for a joke), even when I told it to, I had to open chatgpt for that post

>>106404597
>>106404504
I get your point that this is literally the sort of task AI was made for, but it's also the sort of task conventional search engines (let alone furst party documentation) was made for and I prefer to earn Dan levels in Google-Fu rather than resort to AI sloppan

even if it's just for a vidya game

All was fine and dandy until I decided to upgrade my debian install to 13. Now qemu is shitting out some odd error about half the time on one of my virgl enabled linux VM. I'll get a blank screen until I try to resize the window or login and start my DE blind in the tty.
No problems if I switch off all virgl related flags. That's all with regular qemu not libvirt and virt-manager.

>>106404637
AI's best usecase is literally a search engine you can talk to. Search engines have been going to shit for at least a decade by now so it's not surprising.
I'm not saying you should use lua or anything, just that it will unironically make your life easier if you use them as a tool. For simple programming shit like that it's also extremely easy to see if they tell you something wrong within 5 seconds just by trying it out so there's none of the danger of the AI inventing something or anything.

its soo fucking over isnt it?

what's a voice changer program that includes generic feminine voices? not anime girl voices or anything like that. I need it to substitute a female voice actor and also sound natural (enough).

>>106404698
actually this looks like some fucking malware holy shit not even related to cloudfare

>>106404698
>>106404728
anything asking you to win + R is malware

>>106404698
>doesn't know how to take a screenshot

also yeah probably a fake thing but i would not be surprised if the people at cloudflare are dumb/lazy/malicious enough to do this to people.

How the hell do I get drag and drop working on Virtual box or VMware? I swear the shit never works.

What is the best adblocker for Chromium browsers? I tried getting used to Firefox but I just can't and I refuse to use Brave.

>>106404698
I remember when a popular Discord server started making you do this for verification and I got the fuck outta there.

How can we merge technology and labubu

>>106404836
company laptop dude, fucking spooky considering I am inside their vpn and this is supossed to be a premium violin shopping site

>>106405006
ok fine. and yeah when i saw that it was on some really mundane site that I had used before. i think cloudflare really just is that dumb/lazy/malicious

>>106404698
I was thinking that might have something to do with remote attestation bullshit, but if pressing win+r on my keyboard doesn't modify the clipboard contents I think it's safe to say you have something running that even Microsoft doesn't really approve of on your computer.

>>106403702
>kinda like that voidtools' everything but in booru style
looks like it can already index and filter by tags, and for the
>booru style
part, you can try View -> Extra large thumbnails
though one issue I can see with this setup is that once you open an image in your image viewer of choice, navigating between next/previous images will suck because they'll be in a different order than displayed in Everything, and also not filtered by the tags you wanted.
sounds like a common case, maybe Everything already comes with something designed to alleviate this problem?

>>106402487 (OP)
I find it odd that the three credit bureaus all don't allow email addresses with plus signs (+) like youremail+equifax@gmail.com, Gmail for example allows this to give you more addresses and filtering options.
What are the odds they do this deliberately so they can sell your address and not get caught?

>>106405164
More likely explanation is their sites are all vibecoded jeetslop and use the same incorrect regex from stackoverflow to filter addresses.

>>106405164
>oh fuck checking mails is hard
>[[:alnum:]]*@[[:alnum:]]*\.[[:alnum:]]*
>good enough job well done closing ticket
Simple as.

>>106405245
validating email addresses is a spook anyway. name even one use case where it's important to bother making sure it's a "valid" email before sending one

inb4
>oh nooooo jeets can do fake signups with fake emails and dos me!!!
they can do that with valid-looking emails too

>>106405164
>What are the odds they do this deliberately so they can sell your address and not get caught?
send them an email and just ask, you know you can just ask them if they sell share your email to third party partners or whatever corpospeak and they have to answer the truth

>>106405587
I know they do, they say they do. It's their business model. They don't want you to know it was them.

>>106405633
>They don't want you to know it was them.
if you ask they have to tell you the truth, they can drown it out in legalese but they have to straight up answer if they do or dont, what you can find out at least is to who

>>106405164
pretty low since it would be trivial to strip that stuff out and even then what do they give a fuck if they send spam to your +equifax folder instead of the base address

it's more likely >>106405245 and they wrote a regex back in 1999 and never updated it. there are load bearing systems all over the world that can't handle shit like accented characters or figure out line endings on their own

>>106405647
It's just another hurdle for the user then to call to confirm they're doing what they're doing. I just want to see it happen so I know it was sold to them, because they almost certainly go through a broker to the final email sent, but as >>106405655
says, would be trivial to strip it out, but still, would be good to see it fall through the cracks

Can anyone please help me. Im not sure if this is Microstutter or just regular stutter or something else entirely. I posted this in the pc building general as well but maybe its better here.
This doesnt happen in all games but it happens enough where there will be "skipping" when I am playing.
My temps are all low so its not any kind of throttling but I will see skipping like in my webm I recorded. It will happen CONSTANTLY every second or so.
9600x and 5070 are the core components. Installed on a year old SSD

>>106405838
>live gameplay of what looks like a 20 year old game is full of artifacts, ghosting, looks like a fucking AI video from 2019
lmao

>>106405859
Well its a compressed video converted into a seperate file then converted into a webm.

>>106405868
you know you can just use the XBox Game Bar to record a proper full size video and then re-encode to webm/mp4, right

>>106405536
How many layers of shitskin do you need to be on to think like this? You can validate on client side without wasting the user's time or the host's resources, and this is something in every basic web dev kit. What's your excuse for NOT validating?

>>106406266
Not him, but what exactly would you validate for on the client side? What sort of error would you be after?

Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

HOW DO I GO BACK FROM THIS?

I had the external catalog turned on because I thought it would put the search bar on the top left instead of top right. But suddenly the external catalog turned to this?

>>106406266
also nta but I kinda agree, why bother either you validate the email address by sending an email and asking for a confirmation code or click or you don't and the user doesn't give a shit anyway or is too retarded to type a valid email address, in which case they don't get the emails, which is possible with a valid address too, it's just not theirs.

Why is the Windows 11 file explorer still such a worthless pile of shit?

It was terrible when I first used it in like 2022, and it hasn't gotten any better since. I had to switch to Windows 10 explorer via the "Switch Explorer" utility by some French guy, because it kept ignoring my folder settings.
>go to folder
>change setting from General Items to Pictures, apply to subfolders
>doesn't apply shit to subfolders
>when you close explorer and open it up again, it sometimes doesn't even apply it to the folder itself where you applied it

>>106406300
Just stop the user from submitting a wrong email address so they don't have to wait 2 minutes for it to bounce off your congested mail server. Seems like common sense.

>>106406597
if it's invalid it wouldn't bounce, the mail agent probably would just drop it

I can't get weird fonts like Shavian to show up on Firefox. I am on Ubuntu and they show up just fine wherever the fonts are rendered by the system itself including the tab bar in Firefox, but it's tofu in the body text of wikipedia etc.
Yes I have Noto installed, give me a break.

>>106406686
Still a waste of time for something that could be handled trivially.

What is the disadvantage of keeping your desktop PC uncovered? I just ran my PC for about 3 hours without the left cover on, and it reduced the temperature by about 10 degrees Celsius.

I put an SD card in an android device and selected use as internal storage. Now it doesn't seem to use the internal at all at is saying it's full again. How do I use all the storage?

>>106406713
Dust.

>>106406713
1. Dust.
2. Sometimes the case is designed to direct airflow a certain way. Apparently yours objectively cools better without it though.
Maybe you could compromise and drill some vents in the cover or something.

>>106406735
Well I can dust it easier when I have it uncovered, every evening before I brush my teeth and go to bed I dust my PC!

How can I into Zwift for cheap? I already have a bike and a smart trainer, but my only internet is my phone line and my laptop is an old thinkpad with ubuntu. Phone is a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS which I don't think I can display on a bigger screen. Second phone line and tablet?

>Posting from ip range blocked due to abuse
I can post using apps and and the browser of one of my phone's, but I get that error on my main phone and both my computers.

I want to share my recorded classes with a friend who is currently busy with work via the internet.
What solutions exist I can use safely and simple?

>>106406597
>submitting a wrong email
That's not a type of error. You can't possibly know whether they typed the right email or the wrong one.
First, you don't know whether the domain they entered even exists, and whether it has an MX record to begin with.
Second, you don't know whether they have a mailbox there.
Third, you don't know whether they typed their email or someone else's.
Fourth, you don't know what kind of rules their email provider has for the local part – whether they allow .+_- or not, or only some of them, or non-ASCII characters.

I think the best one could do is look for \w@\w.\w and hope for the best, but that'll catch maybe .1% of typos an nothing else.

Been noticing my PC is a bit slow, I do have a 1TB NVMe to boot from. Not a fast one by any means but y'know. Better than a SATA SSD.

Am I gonna get fucked or currently in the process of getting fucked by that W11 update that kills SSDs?

>>106410980
What model SSD?
How full is it?
Why not just remove the update?

>>106410071
Upload as unlisted to youtube and share the link(s)

>>106406691
Downloaded ubuntu-restricted-extras package?

>>106410990
It's a Team Group T-Force something something. I bought it in like 2021 and it's inside the machine, I don't remember.

>Why not just remove the update?
I'm not even sure if I have the exact update that fucks the drives, how do I know which one it is?
Really I only use it for games because you should never keep important files in a Windows PC, but I'd rather not have something die on me right now.

>>106405838
Cap fps to your monitors Hz rate, consider using dxvk

>>106404841
Installed the virtualbox extras?

>>106404100
Yeah, probably blocking a range of ports like they often do with popular file sharing ports.

>>106411018
>Google windows update ssd
>Read

>>106411072
But why would I do that when I can post a stupid question in the Stupid Questions Thread?

>>106411077
You might get stupid answers.
>Phison has recently been made aware of the industry-wide effects of the 'KB5063878' and ‘KB5062660’ updates on Windows 11 that potentially impacted several storage devices
>After testing, Phison has come to the conclusion that the issue may have been a false alarm.

Is there an addon that ads .01 USD to all prices so they all have even number prices I'm so tired of the .99 manipulative shit

There's gonna be people in jail for this in a year.

i got one of those keyboards with the dumb media/app hotkeys on it. Is there an easy way to rebind those to do more useful things?

inb4 "why did you even buy it" i didn't, my work was giving away old stuff so I took a spare keyboard

>>106406713
snow might get in there

My phone restarted itself while I was sleeping. Should I be worried of a bootloop? Can I do anything to fix it?

>>106406713
certain designs are made to create a specific path for airflow but if your computer is some glass-sided RGB monstrosity made to look cool and show off your overpriced GPU then it probably doesn't do that

mostly it's to literally avoid stuff getting in there but that can be mitigated by simply not putting it directly in the path you sneeze into

what's the best note taking app for the samsung tablet? Goodnotes doesn't feel that great

>>106406713
pigeons may nest in it

When youtube introduced shorts someone created a filter for ublock that would stop them from appearing on the desktop site.
Is there a filter for pic related?

Why is this code ass and not stablishing a connection.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DaaqXbA0wqBZINPb3YuCaBZgcFRcexub2v2nO5cleg/edit?usp=drive_link

>>106411980
Might have just been a system software update

>>106410476
>I think the best one could do is look for \w@\w.\w
>single dot
Why are shitskins allergic to good programming? You pull up one of a thousand RFC5322 validators and run it. It doesn't matter if the error rate is small, it gets multiplied by a big number and it's trivial to catch. There's no excuse not to validate email address at the point of entry.

>>106413882
All the more reason that the credit bureaus would limit + in addresses for nefarious purposes rather than incompetence. If it's that simple to do correctly then they know what they're doing by going beyond the simple already established implementation

>>106414281
No because you can use any random a-z string as an email account and keep a note somewhere that's the email you gave Equifax. They have no way of knowing. You're just seeing webshitter brainrot on full display.

>>106414345
yeah I think I'll do this, one email address for each separate credit union.
while I'm at it, I should do this for every account I have, as many people do, because that way I will know who sold my address to a data broker along with all my info, because I can't trust that the broker will simply remove the details after the +.
This will also make my profile harder to link and aggregate since they won't have a common address to identify me by.
seems legit. thx for the tip

Is there even one good piece of software? I don't think I've ever looked at how anything works inside and gone "Oh, that's actually sensible and even a little clever!" like I can with basically any mechanical object.

Where can I find Lake Barousse's courses for free? I'm a poorfag.
He has free videos on YouTube, but I would like the supplemental material as well if possible.

>>106413882
>boo hoo I'm a retard
>the email bounced
>WHY DID IT BOUNCE it was RFC3232 compliant!!!1!
The point was that "validating" on the client is pointless and retarded, but your stupid ass saw a straw and started grasping at it.
Well done proving my point.

>>106414425
Because clever is bad for readability. When good programmers see clever looking stuff come out of the keyboard, they whack at it until it looks dumb again.

>>106414770
>saving the customer's time is pointless
I know, you're a web dev. Of course you think that.

>>106414796
the literal only thing clientside email validation "protects" against is forgetting the @ and similarly specific and unlikely typos

>>106414796
How can you save them time in that scenario, retard?

Did youtube change something with their search algorithm?
many videos that were the first to come when I search had disappeared and I get meaningless shorts, and need to go in my history to get the videos I want.

Why do zoomers demand youtube tutorials for everything? What ever happened to text manuals? Why do these fucking jeets think I want to watch a five minute video to find out where an option is buried?

>>106413882
>>single dot
lmao learn regexp you waste of oxygen

>>106402487 (OP)
I have a Corsair 4000D Frame case, which forces me to mount one of my internal HDDs on the side behind the motherboard.
Since building and getting the computer set up this drive has become very slow, copying files to it keeps stopping and going and the drive makes a ton of grinding noises. Crystal Disk Info doesn't show anything wrong with it but this definitely isn't normal. (This drive worked fine in my old case but I needed to replace it and this was the only one I could find locally with space for two internal drives.)
I double checked that the plate it mounts on is secure and all the screws are tightened and everything is in the correct place, and it's still loud and slow. I don't want to ruin this drive. Is mounting drives vertically just bad for them? Or am I incredibly unlucky and just happen to have drive trouble upon building a new rig that CDI isn't showing me?
Side note: why the fuck are all modern cases so bad for HDDs? My old case had nice plastic enclosures I could slide in and out at my leisure and the drives never made any noise or had any problems. This seems to be dead as every case I could find locally either had no space for a second drive or forces you to place them on metal brackets in weird positions like this one.

>>106415460
>how does preventing the use from submitting a form with clearly invalid data save time
Impressive deflection.

>>106415520
The regex is incorrect. Read the standard.

>>106415564
>Is mounting drives vertically just bad for them?
yeah actually, or at least it was in the IDE days. i think more modern drives are built properly but it's still not ideal

> why the fuck are all modern cases so bad for HDDs?
zoomer obsession with showing off their "rig"'s "guts" so suboptimal layouts made for displaying gpus. everyone into "tech" these days is not-so-secretly retarded

>>106415591
congrats you can prevent your mail server from being told to send an email to nowhere in 1/100000000 cases