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>>106880822 (OP)
I bought one of those dual cartridge consoles that can play SNES and NES games. I ordered one of those 100 in 1 cartridges off ebay which seems to be taking forever to ship.

What's the moddidng community like? Are there any cool bootlegs or ports out there?

>>106880822 (OP)
Need a TV streaming box/stick. Mom doesn't wanna replace her big TV but now that we cut the cord it's useless as is so getting a box is much cheaper than a TV.
Never actually used one of these things so I don't know what to look for. Are some brands walled gardens? Do some brands/models have guaranteed updates? Will I regret getting some cheap no name chinese one?

>>106881015
When you say cutting the cord, I imagine you mean figuratively in the sense you're not paying for cable, right?

If you have a smart tv you can just download Pluto and Tubi and basically have free TV and movies.

Get an antenna if you want local news channels not that they're good for anything besides propaganda and piss poor weather forecasts.

>>106881056
>When you say cutting the cord, I imagine you mean figuratively in the sense you're not paying for cable, right?
Yep
>If you have a smart tv you can just download Pluto and Tubi and basically have free TV and movies.
That's the issue. It was "smart" like 10 years ago but it's appstore has been abandoned so I'll need a box/stick for those apps.

>>106880822 (OP)
Looking for the Stupid Questions Thread, any pointers?

>>106881100
>any pointers?

4080 super or 5070ti? I often see comparisons between the 2 and they seem pretty even

>>106881015

no one knows about boxes usually you go to isp sales desk and ask for their cable tv options

>>106881089
You can get a Roku stick of Amazon for like $30

>>106877069
i looked up that picture and that is about the face i made when i found it

>>106881100
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I'm replacing my desktop soon and want to at least try Linux. What's the distro that best handles bideo gaems? Arch?

I think the cpu on my server just died. I had truenas running on it and the drives weren't in raid so it should be fine to just pull them out, right?

>>106881318
i've never used it, but bazzite seems to be the go-to "gaming distro" atm

What's the sweet spot for HDDs nowadays? Thinking if I should get 8TB or 16TB Blue WDs. Though back a decade ago the higher they got the more failures they had. Is that still true? Has anything really changed at all?

>>106881887

one platter 500GB maybe has same motor as three platter 1.5TB not that it matters if you never reboot

Why would Microsoft simply abandon Windows 10? Even if you pay for the 1 year extention...it's still going to be abandoned. I love Windows 10...

>>106881015
>>106881089
Apple TV is a good long term solution if you don't plan to pirate since it will get like a decade of software/security updates. They're rumored to be releasing a new one this month. But it's going to cost more than >>106881182.
>>106881887
There isn't a correlation.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025/
Get whatever size you need at the best price you can find. I'd avoid used datacenter drives.

Posted at the end of the last thread. Are Amazon Basic cables reliable enough or are they trash? I need a USB-A to C one and they're the least expensive option, though suspiciously so.

I've lost the fullscreen option on Youtube with Firefox on Android in the last day or so. No one else is acknowledging this as far as I can find on google. Am I missing something?

>>106881948
>pay for the 1 year extention
why would you ever give microsoft any money when they already have all your data? If you don't like/want to go to the trouble of installing LTSC IoT, masgrave the 3 year ESU. They even have a placeholder for 6 year ESU. Maybe then W11 isn't as shit

>>106881948
>Microsoft simply abandon Windows 10?
Bean counters. IF they sold you something that worked, you wouldn't have any need to buy another. So they ship something they know doesn't work and 'improve' it in the field with a steady slew of shit before enforcing additional purchase of the same.

Do you have any idea how much money they would have lost if they surrendered to your selfish attitude?

>>106881948
>I love Windows 10...
Don't worry, you'll be able to get therapy.

>>106882249
>Are Amazon Basic cables reliable enough
For a given value of reliable.

>they're the least expensive option, though suspiciously so
It's almost as if scamazon are in control of the searching algorithym and are gaming what they show you based around what the algo thinks you're dumb enough to pay in order to give you an 'attractive' option....

Does stuff made with Grok ai stay private and get deleted after 30 days?

I'm having problems with playing webms when hovering over them in firefox. They just don't start playing, I have to repeatedly hover over them for them to start. I've tried uninstalling / updating 4chan x but nothing werks. How do I fix that? It works in other browsers.

>>106882494
you have no way of knowing

>>106881982
HDD guy here, thanks.
Unsure what to really conclude from the Seagate results. Nowadays they still seem to have some of of the highest rates of dying, but then you look at the 16GB and it might actually be comparable to WD, Then looking at the 24, what does the result really mean, it seems likely that I will get a different model if I buy that, so the result doesn't even matter. Though overall it does seem like Seagate has worse batches, but I might not even be able to trust the 16GB WDs anyway.
I guess it is all chance at the end of the day.

Is lineageOS still a thing? I came into an older Samsung galaxy tab (I think it's legit the first gen) and I'm having a difficult time finding what to install on it instead of the samsung crap.

>>106882825
should work fine if it's a galaxy tab S but don't expect to use it for much besides as an e-reader and videos (y'know tablet shit), you might have to install an older version

>>106880822 (OP)
Where are you going, OP?

>>106882494
>Does stuff made with Grok ai stay private and get deleted after 30 days?

"AI" needs more data. Apparently. So you're essentially asking "are they going to delete something they need?". I'll give you three guesses.

More importantly, lets pretend they do. Will they retain the prompt used to make it?

In task manger app history, uninstalled processes is using up CPU time and network. Not a whole lot, but I'm concerned. Over an hour it was about 8mb of network data, and the CPU time was like 40 seconds. Could uninstalling Mcafee have done this? I'm sort of worried about it.

>>106882825
>>106882864
That’s a tablet that’s over ten years old. LineageOS won’t even run on it unless you get an old ass version (which should work fine just make sure you use the correct model number). XDA might be better, but there’s really no need to fuck around with anything new since you’ll have an easier time pirating old premium apps that work just fine for whatever it can actually still do.

>>106883156
Did you reboot after uninstalling?

>>106882249
They work for me
>>106882368
Works for me
>>106881948
Money; People with old hardware will need to upgrade, and they get kick-backs from the licensing.
>>106881318
They're all pretty much the same. Just gotta decide if you want the latest software, stability, or both. If you want both, Fedora, if you want stability, Ubuntu LTS, if you want latest software, arch.

What is the best equivalent to a MacBook Pro for windows laptop?

>>106883363
In what metric

>>106883363
I would think something like this
https://www.amazon.com/HP-Touchscreen-Laptop-Anti-Glare-Accessories/dp/B0FQTHRJ63

>>106883293
I did reboot, at some point after uninstalling. This was a week or two ago though. I just noticed the uninstalled processes thing today

>>106883406
If you remember all your passwords and don't care about reinstalling software, I would just head over to windows update and reset this pc, then select keep my files. Should run better than new if it came with a bunch of pre-installed bullshit.

>>106883382
In durability and performance

>>106881318
I can recommend Kubuntu 25.10, try the live environment just to get an idea of it.
Keep in mind that you're going to struggle with any new OS for a bit, since you won't even know what to expect from it and won't be able to apply your muscle memory for a while. But it's worth trying, at least for experience.

Who are the best prebuilt pc sellers?

>>106882249
My go-to cable brands are Kenable and Ugreen.
Anker are overpriced but still decent.

>>106882825
LineageOS has an older version for Tab S and it works much better than Samsung's bloated mess. It's like upgrading the tablet for free.
Keep in mind that flashing a ROM will trip KNOX and this reduces the value of the tablet when trading in.

>>106883158
Found an unofficial contrition of lineageOS for the model I have on their forums, thanks.

Battlefield 6 requires you to enable secure boot for its anticheat to function correctly. However, in almost every UEFI, you can enroll your own keys, and even delete microsoft's keys, so does this actually improve security in any way? Like, is the root master key actually exposed to the OS so the anticheat can verify that it's microsoft's key or something, or can you just sign a modified kernel with your own keys and have the PC have a full secure boot chain of trust?

>>106883771
Lenovo, Alienware (Dell), Corsair

>>106883771
What for, office or gaming? For office, the usual ones, HP Dell Lenovo. For gaming, most of the time afaik you're better off going with a custom build service rather than a branded prebuilt and carefully comparing the prices, or failing that look up reviews for specific prebuilts because I don't know of any single brand that's fully reliable in building good and not astronomically overpriced gaming prebuilts

>>106882494
Even setting aside AI, you're asking
>is this data I input into big tech going to stay private and get deleted?
The answer hasn't been anything other than "no" for many, many years by now, long before AI even became a thing.

>>106882630
try clicking somewhere on the page and then hovering over the webm

>>106881363
if the problem is the processor, then change the processor

>>106881138
the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 4080 Super offer very similar performance, with the 5070 Ti generally being slightly ahead in some titles and the 4080 Super being faster in others, making them practically a tie in many scenarios, so check if the video card you want will outperform the other in the tasks you really need

>>106882646
>Unsure what to really conclude from the Seagate results
The conclusion is extremely obvious and you're overthinking it: different models have different failure rates. Not all drives are made identically and Seagate isn't somehow globally incapable of making reliable drives; it just fucked up some models apparently.
Use this data along with diskprices.com to find the budget option. And ALWAYS have redundancy, even if you buy an "0.5% failure rate" drive: the probability of two mediocre 2% failure drives failing at the same time is 0.04% which is an order of magnitude better than any single drive in this table. RAID is not backup but RAID1 is indeed adequate protection against drive failure, if you're too lazy to backup externally.

>>106883156
>McAfee
run Process Explorer as Administrator with 'Check VirusTotal.com' selected to see if you have malware

>>106880930
I think there's a decent amount of mods, homebrew and romhacks, but normally people play those off of emulators, and if you want a living room experience you stick an emulator on a raspberry pi or something then plug that into the TV. The main point of a console that can read cartriges would be to play genuine old cartridges, I imagine.
Whether you're able to actually load and play any romhacks will depend on how the interface actually works, i.e. can you get a file from your computer onto either the console directly or onto the "100 in 1" cartridge somehow. If the console has an SD cart slot or a USB port or something it's probably doable, if it can actually load games from there. I have no idea how those consoles work, it could always be some locked down chinky firmware that has no options to play anything except what's in the cartridge port, and the cartridge could lack any external connection options for any modifications.

I have an issue in a game i play where if many sounds are playing at once, the audio quality of all of them is diminished greatly. A fellow player suggested I look into a DAC. As I understand, this DAC will plug into my computer via USB-C, and I'll plug my headphones into the DAC, and this enables higher sound quality? There is no added delay presumably? Since I'm just using it to play an old game with not very detailed audio, I also assume I can get by with something cheap? (Like 100 USD.)
And sorry for not posting this in a headphone thread like the OP suggests, but there is none. If it matters at all, I am using Sennheiser HD 599 headphones plugged into an Apple USB-C sound card as the audio inputs on my motherboard give a very grainy audio.

>>106884529
I think it's the motherboard is dead not the cpu, but eitherway I was planning on switching at least the storage to something like a synology nas either way

>>106881138
>>106884543
Not that anon but isn't the 5070ti automatically better simply from having newer DLSS and MFG and whatnot, assuming equal raster performance? That's the main selling point of nvidia nowadays so it'd make sense to me to just buy the newest gen

>>106884529
nix the stroke
I think it's the motherboard that's dead not the cpu, but either way I was planning on switching the storage to something like a synology nas.

>>106884604
To me this sounds like a game engine issue.
A DAC is a necessary component for converting digital audio data into the analog signal that your headphones actually take. Your motherboard already necessarily has an onboard DAC for its own audio ports. Sometimes those onboard motherboard DACs are really shitty, especially on older and cheaper mobos. Using an external DAC should add effectively no delay, if there was any it would come from the USB controller (but it should be effectively zero).
By "USB-C sound card" I assume you mean one of those dongles converting USB-C to a headphone jack, right? Those are DACs too, you have an apple USB-C DAC. (A sound card is generally only used to mean ones that plug into a PCIe slot inside your PC.)
These days, even relatively small and cheap dongle DACs are more than good enough for almost anything, and the apple dongle is known to be pretty good in particular as far as I'm aware - in the absence of /hpg/, you can ask about dacs in /iemg/ as well to confirm this. A $100 device is not necessary unless you want to get into the audiophile hobby; it should definitely not be necessary for "an old game with not very detailed audio". This is why I think you probably already have a good enough DAC and that the problem is very likely in the game audio itself, especially if the game is old. The most expensive audiophile setup in the world isn't going to sound good if the source audio file, or audio output generated by a game engine in this case, is low quality.
For example, maybe when playing multiple sounds, the game's audio engine tries to play them all additively rather than mixing them intelligently, but then also applies volume clamping, so as a result you get heavy clipping as anything above a threshold volume is cut off. So then if the game outputs digital data that sounds like shit, the quality of your audio equipment doesn't matter.

>>106884610
>>106884667
>switching from truenas to synology
Y tho, everything I hear is that prebuilt NASes like synology are overpriced, underpowered, and come with a shitty ass OS that's optimised for normie friendliness rather than being actually useful

>>106884699
Well, when I say many sounds at once seem to trigger the issue, that is including multiple people talking at once over voice communication. Which I presume could also be part of the issue software wise as opposed to my hardware setup. I actually assumed this issue was just a quirk of the game engine, which is why I was surprised when I brought it up the other night and everyone said they don't experience the same issue. The game has a variable that lets you alter the playback frequency of audio, and it does sort of sound like its defaulting to 11Khz instead of the 48Khz I use when this weird glitch happens. A big reason why I think it could be my setup is because the guy who suggested a DAC in the first place and also confirmed not having the issue, is a huge audiophile himself. I think he'd have noticed if his game audio was going out of whack.
Before buying a DAC I think I'll look into why my motherboards audio ports sound grainy. The Apple sound card is very finnicky and needs to bent at a certain angle or the connection isn't made, so I'm sure that is not helping.

>>106884611
it depends on what you'll do with your computer. if the benchmarks show that the 4080 super is superior in the tasks you will use, then you should buy that one

>>106884708
my isp blocks me from setting up a proper vpn and wireguard sucks. maybe I could call the isp and ask them to kindly fuck off but otherwise prebuilt nas' seem to come with built in ways for remote access.

what is missing?

>>106884749
>how many levels of pebcak are you on my dude

>>106884749
>a proper vpn
Wireguard is a type of proper vpn, but if you hate it fair enough. (Though I'm curious why, it's generally considered one of the best vpn options around nowadays.)
The prebuilt nas will almost certainly come with some standard vpn protocol, whether that be openvpn, wireguard, ipsec, or maybe something more obscure like ppp, but all of those are things you could install yourself if you wanted to. It could also be some sort of RDP rather than VPN but that would be surprising and probably not a good thing. Either way I'm pretty sure it's extremely unlikely that it would come with some awesome proprietary protocol that you can't use otherwise; the only exception is if they use a proprietary cloud connection for remote control, which also probably uses an existing protocol under the hood except it's also now mandatory for everything that you do to go through their cloud.

The one benefit of those prebuilts is that they will probably come preconfigured, so if you can't be bothered to set shit up yourself then that's an advantage.

How do i fix this shit? I've installed the 'wireless display' optional feature,
I've got a wi fi dongle that supports wifi direct,
i've updated my bios, my gpu driver, my network drivers, windows itself is up to date,
in dxdiag.txt it tells me that "Miracast: Available, with HDCP" but i still get pic related shit.

What the fuck more can I do??

>>106884817
Well you can just install wireguard on truenas and have it just werk, but since it's just directly connecting to the nas instead of the network I lose internet access while connected. I set up openvpn I think, and it was all working but the port stayed shut no matter what I did. Setting up a wireguard server might work better but I haven't tried that.

>>106884732
Interesting.
I would say, go ask in /iemg/ for a good cheap DAC, and try with a $20 one first. I continue to believe that there is no reason to buy $100+ audio equipment to play an old game.

>>106884883
>since it's just directly connecting to the nas instead of the network I lose internet access while connected.
I'm not sure what this means (how is it "directly connecting to the nas") but this sounds like a misconfiguration issue. It's true that by default wireguard is pretty minimal and leaves the network configuration mostly up to the user.

What the fastest/most light-weight media player that might allow my old potato PC (Win7/4690K/GTX980) to playback 4K video?

>>106884964
Arch, LXQT, MPV, FFMPEG

>>106884556
Problem is, if I try to buy the ST16000NM002J, I cannot find that one specific model exactly, at least where I live, at least online. Does it say it on the boxes? I guess in person I might able to find some, but I am sure they will cost more too. The most popular/cheapest one is labeled as ST16000DM001/EC (on amazon) or ST24000DM001 (different website, and just a bit more expensive than the 16TB one).
That's what makes the issue difficult. In that sense, across models (though it only h as 4 listed), WD seems consistently lower.

>>106884964
That's not really potato, back in the day the GTX980 was considered a card that could actually play VR games. Now you're not gonna play modern AAA on it but surely 4k playback is not causing problems for it... is it actually?

>>106885132
Just checked process manager and a few background apps were eating resources and causing dropped frames. So thanks for reminding me.

What 4g dongle should I buy for Openwrt WAN? Do Chinese ones just week?

>>106885190
That's a question for your carrier. The USB interface to the router is standard.

>Bought a thermal printer
>Need to go to the website to download the drivers
>Download the drivers
>Install them
>Get popup saying an older version is already installed
>Impossible
>Let it do its thing regardless
>Gets completed
>Nothing gets installed and printer doesn't work

Where do I go from here bros? Tried this about half a dozen times now and it's just the same shit.

is there any way to import my entire listening history form an offline music player into listenbrainz?
it says here https://listenbrainz.org/add-data/ that my music player (tauon music box) should be able to have my listen history added but i've only figured out how to sync my current and future listens, and not add ones i've listened to from the data the program's saved in the past.

Is there any way to retrieve the original version of a YT video that has been partially struck by copyright?
There's a few DJ sets videos on YT which i wanted to download, but one or two songs in them have been removed due to copyright, meaning that now there's a sudden jump from the end of a track to the start of the next, between which the copyrighted song has been removed, and it's so jarring cause it obviously defeats the purpose of it being a DJ set, with transititions and mixing between songs, so i wanted to try and recover the original videos if possible, given the link is the same.

How do I create a java project in visual studios and run the program in the console?

>>106884964
ffplay

>>106885560
https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/

hey chat, am I retarded if I laughed at OP's pic like crazy?

>>106885704
yeah that didnt work, all options result in errors for all videos, and the waybackmachine only has the page itself showing "We have not been able to archive the video associated with this YouTube page." instead of the video

>>106885280
Sounds like shit's fucked in the driver, it doesn't sound like any generic issue I've heard of. You might need to google to see if anyone else has had the same issue, and/or contact the manufacturer, and/or return and buy a different printer
Though when you say you let it do its thing, does it actually proceed with the install or does it abort or something because of the previous version it found?

>>106885749
It is a good meme, only reason I didn't laugh is that I've seen a large amount of variations on this meme. Sounds like you just haven't seen enough of this joke before and still find it funny
Though that in itself is weird since you clearly have enough internet poisoning to use the "hey chat" meme, so in a way you are retarded yeah, you sound terminally online so you really should have seen this sort of meme before

>>106885783
Sorry man I tried

>>106881015
>Mom doesn't wanna replace her big TV but now that we cut the cord
I thought you killed your mom for a second.

>>106885907
the cat in the car made laugh hard lmao

When did you realize that 99% of modern mathematics is just a jobs program for worthless/retarded eurofags

>>106884964
Shouldn't any of them do fine for a gtx980?

>>106885865
It does proceed with the install. It says it's updating to the newest driver, asks to confirm, then installation finishes. What's a bit weird is it tells you to check your devices and printers to make sure it shows up and the first time it did show up. Every subsequent time it's never shown up.
It now shows a folder for it in the start menu, but the only thing in there is to uninstall. Doesn't show anything else.

One thing of note is that when it finishes installation it has little checkboxes to set as the default printer, open the control panel, and open the help page. In the manual it only shows an option open the control panel. This could be an update in the installer though I think so now it offers three options instead of just one.

Because I can no longer gen NSFW on Civitai I'm looking for cloud GPU hosts that rent out by the hour/day (or at least not per month) and allow crypto without KYC. I know about Vast.ai but it uses Coinbase or Crypto.com and both require extensive KYC. If there is no cloud GPU host that allows KYC-less crypto I'm okay with tactics to fool the KYC check as well.

Don't bother with "you're a pedo for wanting privacy" comments, I won't even dignify them with a response. The fact I was fine with genning on a filtered service like Civitai should say enough.

>the hottest progamming language is English
>AI is the new electricity
Do people seriously believe this shit?

>struggle with stutter/framepacing problems for months despite good performance, latency, and high fps etc(posted this here before)
>try everything, vsync settings, reinstall drivers, OS, try different cables etc
>nothing works
>have a sudden hunch and lower refresh rate to 60hz
>everything's butter smooth now
Apart from me being retarded for not trying this earlier, does that simply mean that the screen is garbage and unable to meet the advertised refresh rate? Or is this some kind of driver problem or something?

my keyboard keys dfjkl; and the numpad 5 that are all on the same row do not work so I've been using an on-screen keyboard
where should I go to fix this?

>>106886501
>the hottest progamming language is English
Objectively true if you're talking about industry. They'll hire any inbred thirdie who can feign speaking English as long as they work for cheap. The actual programming language is irrelevant. They'll make it whatever ranjeet already knows, even if the project is life critical.
>AI is the new electricity
The owners will spend however much they need to make it true because centralized AI greatly enhances their ability to surveil and control users.

>>106886777
What's your keyboard? If it's a hobbyist mechanical one, you might be able to DIY a fix, sounds like something's wrong on the PCB or controller if an entire row isn't working. If it's a cheap office one, just get a new one.

>>106885611
Do you mean visual studio or visual studio code? They're pretty different programs.
For VS code there's a guide: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java

Can anyone provide a guide about cloud computing? I want to practise CUDA on my mac, but I know nothing about connecting to cloud and SSH and whatever.

What's a good IT job that focuses on hardware? I've heard about IT field tech but the stories surrounding it makes me wanna question any other options if possible.

>>106884962
>It's true that by default wireguard is pretty minimal and leaves the network configuration mostly up to the user.
that's a bit of an understatement. wireguard /by itself/ leaves network configuration completely up to the user. if he's losing internet connection when using it, then it's either a gross misconfiguration, or he's using some kind of frontend which is doing something like setting his default gateway through it or something

>>106881015
Roku. Good UI for mom, 8-10 year software support, friendly with indie & self-hosted apps like Jellyfin. Amazon Fire sticks used to be good for side loading but I heard they curtailed that with newer models.

>>106881056
>Get an antenna if you want local news channels
There are apps that deliver local news gratis like Haystack.

>>106881982
Consider suicide.

The drive my PC boots from seems to have died or is damaged, I can't access it in any capacity nor does it show up in device manager, lost about a decades worth of data, but anyway, now my PC boots super fucking slow, I *think* it's due to the PC trying to find the dead drive and it can't so it checks for other drives which is why the boot takes a bit, my question is how do I swap boot drives, and will that do anything to said drive like damage or remove data?

>>106887692
In your bios there should be a boot order/boot priority setting.
>will that do anything to said drive
Changing the boot order? No. If anything it will avoid further damage. If your theory is correct, the bios is trying to access the disk, and the disk is just alive enough to be detected as connected but actually reading from it is timing out. Doing anything at all to the disk is likely damaging it further so stopping the bios from doing this is a good thing.

>>106888011
Ok, what's the safest way to get to the bios then?

>>106888061
Depending on your PC, mash Delete or F11 when booting.
If you're using windows it has that weird hybrid sleep thingy so sometimes you can't get into bios after shutdown (because it's not a real shutdown), but if you select restart it should work.

>>106888061
Almost all computers have different ways to enter BIOS, but it will always be displayed which keys you need to press, when the BIOS is loading.

If you turn off your computer, and start it up, it will briefly display a logo like "ASUS", "ROG", "MSI", or some other motherboard vendor. Underneath will be some text that you need to read.

Since BIOS boots so quick these days, it can often go by before you can even read it, so what I would suggest is to hold up your phone and record the monitor while it boots. You can even record it slow-mo, if your phone supports that.
Then view back the recording on your phone, where you should be able to pause and scroll through the frames.

It should say something like "Press DEL for BIOS setup" or something, but you can also take a screenshot and post here.

After you've found the key, shut down your computer again, turn it on, and furiously keep pressing that key over and over again.
It should boot up some ancient looking menu, which is your BIOS.

There's a name and firmware written somewhere, and you can use this information to look up how to change boot priorities. But you can also just take a picture, with your phone, and post it here.

After this you can change boot priority for your drives.

You can also install something like "MediCat" or "Hirens BootCD PE" to a USB thumbdrive, and boot into that instead. Here you should be able to rescue your data from your harddrive, and afterwards make a Windows (or Linux ;) ) USB and do a new install on your old Harddrive.

Is there a safe alternative source to download Windows 10 ISO from? The Microshit site refuses to let me download the fucking thing from Linux, Android and with a fake user agent shoves a W*ndows .exe in my hands because ofc it does.

>>106888684
Why don't you just torrent? I mean, the hash is public knowledge. As long as it matches the one on the MS site it's the same copy.

Hey lads I'm a complete noob

I'm looking to download an Ai chat bot model locally on my computer (offline) and I suppose feed it documents to make it an expert on things like medical, engineering, etc.

Any advice?
Is that what the "local model" general threads are for?

>>106888136
>>106888281
Thanks anons

>>106888823
You need a beefy GPU for that, I'm assuming you have one?

Also, you can't train your own model. It literally requires thousands of dollars to make. At best you can create a checkpoint merge or LoRA (this concerns images, I don't have much knowledge about text generation but I'm assuming the same techniques somewhat apply).

>>106888823
>>106888901
To my knowledge you can indeed fine-tune a model with specific documents and stuff. I think it's called creating an embedding?
Yeah the local model threads are the best place to ask. Like the other anon said, you do need a beefy GPU specifically with lots of VRAM, potentially even two or more older GPUs with more total VRAM (dual 3090s was quite popular for a time, I don't know if it's still the best value right now). And don't expect it to be at the same level of quality as the current best online models, but it can still be pretty decent afaik.

>>106888684
Massgrave.dev is a trustworthy source.
It is the same team that does the activation scripts.

https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media

>>106888986
>beefy GPU specifically with lots of VRAM
Yeah this, if you're still looking to buy, prioritize VRAM over anything. Also go with Nvidia, unless you're willing to invest a lot of time and effort because AMD is kind of a hassle and lags behind Nvidia in the AI race.

>>106888705
I've never really compared hashes nor know where to get one for the ISO.
>>106888997
Thank you.

>>106888986
>>106889023
Interesting, don't know anything about computing power with AI, thought it would be a storage issue..

Let's say i got like 4 or 5 2TB SSDs..
What kind of processors would I need and how much would they cost?

>test Linux on a VM!
Okay, what's a braindead easy VM that lets me easily transfer files to-and-from my native OS and the VM OS without too much complicated configuring, because I tried Oracle and that shit didn't work.

What's a good mouse for big hands? Not for gaming, just regular usage.

What do I need to do to reinstall OSX on a ~2015 macbook pro?
I need to load up the latest OSX on a thumbdrive. How do I do this using Windows?
I dont have any other mac. installing it via internet via the bootload is not an option

Can you guys recommend me a free web scraper ?

I have a violentmonkey userscript that inserts links into a website based on strings on that site.
Something like a product page, and the script takes the title of the product and inserts a link to a google search for that product.

95% of the time, the links get placed and vanish immediately before the site finishes loading.
Why?
Is this some sort of "safety measure" by chromium or the website?

I tried googling for things like "userscript links vanish", but I haven't found anything. What do I even search for?

>>106889341
VMWare was, in my opinion, the most simple virtual machine manager, back when I used to dabble in this.
From my understanding, the company has been bought by Broadcom recently though, so the process of getting the actual VMWare Workstation executable seems to be horrendous. But once you've actually gotten it installed, it should be smooth sailing.

You can also use Hyper-V, if you have a Pro license for your PC.

Alternatively, skip the hoops of installing in a VM completely, and just use a Live USB to boot into your Linux distro of choice.
If you need files from your Windows install, you can either move them to a secondary harddrive, or just use another USB stick to serve as a temporary hold.

The benefit of this, is that your install will also be a lot more stable, as you don't have to go through a virtualization layer at all.
And hopefully that's enough to get you to ditch Windows completely. I did too, and I haven't regretted it one bit!

>>106889309
It's a memory issue. SSDs are "cold" storage, any software you run has to be loaded into RAM first, because even an SSD is going to be literally 10,000 times slower than RAM to access. To run AI, the entire model has to be loaded into RAM.
Tiny models can be as small as 6-8GB, medium sized models are around 20-30GB, huge models (like full sized deepseek) 400-800GB. Generally, the number of parameters in the model is a (very) rough indicator of its size in GBs.

Normal RAM is accessible by the CPU, while VRAM is accessible by the GPU. So if you run your model on the GPU, you have to have enough VRAM for it.
If you want to run an 800GB model, that's extremely difficult so some people run it on the CPU instead and just buy 800GB of RAM (which is "only" a few thousand $, or about as much as a couple of high-end GPUs would cost). CPUs are quite a bit slower than GPUs, but if you can't get enough VRAM, you have to put it into RAM.

For the actual compute power, a faster GPU is obviously better, but you have to fit the model into VRAM in the first place - if the model doesn't fit, and has to be constantly reload bits of itself from your storage, the power of your GPU won't matter at all.

How much this would cost depends entirely on how big the model you want to use is, and how much you wanna spend. If you don't know, I recommend going to /lmg/, getting 32 or 64GB of RAM, and setting up some models on your CPU to see if you like their output. See how small of a model you can get away with. Then start shopping for GPUs that have at least this much memory - and ask for up to date advice on /lmg/ while you're at it.
At the low end, a tiny model that fits into 8GB can run on almost any GPU made in the last few years and so you could spend as little as $200-500 depending on how beefy you want your GPU to be. At the high end, you're gonna be spending $2k-10k and building your own custom server-sized workstation out of exotic used parts.

>>106889384
Logitech MX Master seems to be the stable recommendation on here.
I have the MX Master 2s in my small-to-medium sized hands right now, and it's definitely a bit too big for me.

If you go to a PC store, they might have some on display you can try.
The sizing between all of the MX Masters does not change much between generations.

>>106889419
Probably the page re-creating the element based on when updating or something like that

If I have two CPUs and for example one is an i5 and one is an i9. Doing the exact same task will the i9 be hotter?

>>106889419
Since userscripts will only run once after the page loads, it might be that the elements are loading a bit after the userscript has run.

You can try to use a "setTimeout" to trigger the functions, that places the elements, to run a bit after the page has loaded.

Alternatively look into "MutationObserver()" function.
I used this function myself to attach elements to YouTube comments.
Since the comments are not displayed, before you scroll down on the page, it was the only way to do what I needed.

You will need to talk to ChatGPT about this a bit, but hopefully it'll give you something to go off of!

>>106889519
>page hasn't finished loading
>mutationObserver
Thanks, that looks like a good lead.
>You will need to talk to ChatGPT about this a bit
Or I just read the MutationObserver documentation?

>>106889384
elecom huge ^:)

>>106889442
>CPUs are quite a bit slower than GPUs
Isn't the difference simply because of the architecture (AI lending itself well for the multi-small cores design of GPUs)? I don't think CPUs are technically that much inferior to GPUs if they're made on the same process.

>>106889309
>>106889442
Wow. Thank you for the information.

So it will definitely require hundreds of gigs of Ram.

Thank you

>>106889631
If you mean in general, then yes, I meant that strictly in the context of AI. The conversation is "what hardware do I need to run an AI model" and so I answered "CPUs are a lot slower than GPUs", specifically for that anon who wants to run an AI model.

>I don't think CPUs are technically that much inferior to GPUs if they're made on the same process.
Do you mean manufacturing process? That's not really relevant, CPUs and GPUs have vastly different strengths. A CPU workload will go at a snail's pace on a GPU (if it can even do it) and vice-versa. It's impossible to make a statement like CPUs are inferior or not inferior to GPUs in general, because it's just comparing apples to oranges, it's like asking whether a snowmobile is inferior to a jetski.
The process node that they're manufactured on is going to have a very tiny difference on this comparison. If you have a CPU task, a 15 year old CPU will perform better than a modern GPU (again assuming it can even run it), and if you have a GPU task, a 10 year old GPU will probably perform better than a modern CPU.

>>106889649
Yeah, if you want to run a particularly large model you need a specialised build.
Double-check if you really need that. Running locally is great to avoid botnet, but there are independent providers for deepseek for example, so you can pick and choose who gets your data rather than just feeding it directly to google/openai/anthropic. Many AIs (I'm not sure how common this is in deepseek APIs, but it's definitely available for the big cloud AIs) offer facilities to create embeddings for your own documents and then access a personalised API for the AI that's aware of your specific context, so if that's the main reason you wanted it, you don't actually need to train your own - provided you're happy with using a cloud AI.

If it's purely for ideological reasons (you don't want openai etc. to have your data, your documents and your queries) then yeah this is unfortunately pretty difficult nowadays, you have to choose between small and not very smart, or larger, very expensive, and pretty smart but still not quite as good as the big tech ones.

>>106889566
>>106889519
>>106889478
I added a timeout of 200ms just to check if that was really the issue, and it already solved the problem.

Thanks again.

>>106889771
Interesting.

Thank you

From what I've read, I saw the ideas of..
1. Download Llama for local LLM
2. Download Document loader like LlamaIndex for indexing PDFs or notes the AI can search and reason
3. Data interface- local chat UI for a chat style interface you can query
4. Local data store like SQLite

>>106889859
Go to /lmg/, they will know more about the specifics of how exactly to set this up.

>>106889832
That's awesome!

It brings me back to my browser-automation days, where I would write custom scrapers in Python with Selenium. There always had to be so many delays for things, since certain elements seemed to take forever to load.

Later on I started using "Expected Conditions", which I guess is comparable to MutationObserver in JS.
But sometimes it's easier to just sleep for a moment. Glad you got it sorted!

>>106888684
It's end of life in like a week.

>>106889920
so?

>>106889920
It has years of extended updates left and they can all be enabled with a simple free tool.

>>106889940
you're supposed to download iot ltsc

I CAN'T FUCKING CODE FOR MY LIFE HOLY SHIT AM I SO SO FUCKING BADDDDDDDD
will reading structure and interpretation of computer programs or the MIT book about how to structure your code will make me better??? because holy shit I can't even do a simple muti file observer pattern on PHP!!
aaaaa help me!!

>>106890013
From personal experience; No.

Learning to code is less about learning every single function of the language, and how the syntax is properly formatted.
It's more about learning how to think as a coder, and how a computer program would solve a certain task.

My first real development experience was a Python script, which would open a website, look through all the elements of the page, click a few download buttons, and process the files that was ultimately downloaded.
I didn't know anything about Python, nor about coding really, so it was pretty much just me following a tutorial on how to use Selenium.

As the project moved on, I started learning new functions along the way, and getting to interact with a few libraries too.
The process was slow, yet still very exciting. The feeling of running the code, seeing an error, slowly troubleshooting it, and then finally figuring out what was wrong, was so incredibly rewarding.

Learning how to troubleshoot was a major step forward in my process, and the things I learnt, back then, are some of the things I still use to this day.
Learn how to isolate code, and learn how to figure out what part of it that goes wrong.

Now a days you can get something like Kiro to write you a complete program, while not writing a single line of code yourself, but you'll still need to troubleshoot this eventually.

My best recommendation is to worry less about making good code, and more about getting things to work in the first place.
Using stuff like CoPilot can be extremely helpful, as it will show you different ways to do certain things, but be careful to not let the Ai take the steering wheel completely.

Once you've made 3-4 pet projects, you can focus more on doing things the proper way.
Until then, you just need to get some experience under your wings.

Ok so a creepy thing happened just now.
I was watching a Youtube video when everything froze for like 5 seconds and after that everything has worked normally but control panel shows extremely low CPU usage, 5-15% and sometimes even 0% despite the fact that i have bunch of Chrome tabs open and my RAM is at 50%.
Clearly something is wrong, but what?

I would like to grab new torrents with a seedbox, but also seed them long-term locally where I have more storage. How would I best automate not only transferring the downloaded files for each completed torrent, but also importing them into my local machine's torrent client and starting seeding them again after the transfer?

>>106890131
I mean how do I even start to think like a coder? I can't even pass the first step that is making things work. They never work. they always fail I don't even know how to even go about trying to make something aside from the "break the problem down into smaller problems" but that way of thinking never gets me far because I always run into a massive invisible barrier. like with the PHP thing. I spent like 4 hours trying to make the thing work and I didn't even bulge.

>>106890200
Pic

How can I spoof my location so that my employer thinks I'm at home?
I have 2 raspberry pis. I assume I leave one at home.
Any tips/tutorials are appreciated

>>106890247
Syncthing works great for keeping a duplicate folder on another machine (on another network).
You could do this for the data-directory, to easily copy the files over.

For automatically importing them to your torrent client, and starting the seed, it becomes a bit more complicated.
But I know that qBit keeps all active torrents in a folder (~/.local/share/qBittorrent/BT_backup), so you might get away with setting that path as the remote source, in Syncthing, and then pointing it to your local servers qBit watchdir.
By doing this, every time a new torrent was added to your remote qBit instance, it would also be added to your local qBit instance.

You will need to toy around with how Syncthing handles the changes, because the files will be deleted from the watchdir after they're imported. But selecting the proper "Folder Type" (Send only) should fix that for you.

In any case, make sure to test this with a small amount of torrents at first, because if the .torrent files are placed in the watchdir, before the torrent-data has been transferred, your client will start downloading them anew, which will hurt your ratio.

>>106890247
>>106890393
Another way would be to rsync, from your local server, to your remote seedbox.
If you write a small bash script, you can run two rsync commands, one after the other.

First you sync over your torrent data, and afterwards you sync over your BT_backup dir.
By doing one after the other, you make sure that the data is copied first, so that torrents will not start downloading again.

This script could be put in a cronjob, and made to run every night, or how often you might prefer.

>want to start a small blog
>rent vps
>set up debian 12, nginx, ufw, all that stuff
>everything is ready
>but i don't have an actual site to serve with nginx
my idea is to write all my blogposts inside obsidian with markdown and then convert that somehow to html and send that to the vps
what's the best cli software to do this md -> html conversion? preferably one that let's me feed it a page template so i don't end up with a generic site lol

>>106890295
>how do I even start to think like a coder?
>"break the problem down into smaller problems"
This is exactly how you start to think as a coder.
Instead of looking at the complete picture of the project, look at the small steps in between.

>I always run into a massive invisible barrier
You probably run into issues with your code, because you used an incorrect syntax, and this makes it seem like the entire thing is "not working", when in fact it might be just a small fix that needs to be done.

You say you code in PHP, so I'm going to assume you're making a website.
Instead of testing in the main PHP file, once you encounter an issue, you should isolate the code, place it in a new file, and focus on getting the output that you're after.
Use the "die()" command to check the output of every single line in the code.
Go through it, one by one, and find out where things are going wrong.
Then use Google to find old StackOverflow threads, or even consult with ChatGPT about the problem.

Troubleshooting in PHP can be a pain, as I've come to learn from my own experiences as a PHP developer, but the steps for troubleshooting are the same as with any other coding language.

There's some small tips to getting better error reporting set up though, so try placing this at the top of your new debug.php file:
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);


The most important thing, is to remember to step away at times when it gets too much.
Struggling with an issue for hours on end isn't enjoyable, and eventually it'll burn you out completely. I think that is what has happened here.
Be sure to take breaks often, and then come back to the project once you're ready for it.
You might even come up with some new ideas, which can help you troubleshoot, in the time that you spend not worrying about the code.

>>106890247
Use the python bindings for your torrent client's RPC interface. It's a lot simpler than you probably think. That'll let you query completed torrents, get the torrent file, and the path to the download directory.

>>106880822 (OP)
Windows 10 question. How do you continue to use it after e.o.l.?

>>106889515
They should both generate the same amount of heat, assuming the CPUs are from the same generation.

>>106890363
You want one Pi to be your VPN server or SOCKS proxy at home. You'll need a public IP and to forward the relevant port from your router to the Pi.
Now you can connect through it from anywhere.
The second Pi shouldn't be needed, unless you can't install the VPN client directly on your computer. In this case, make the second Pi a VPN client and DHCP server for your computer (perhaps plugged with a cable to make sure the computer doesn't prefer the WiFi from your router).

>>106890393
>>106890430
To make things more immediate than a scheduled task, and reduce the risk of redownloading on my local client or messing up my BT_backup for, I was thinking
>First transfer the torrent content to local folder A
>Transfer the torrent's .torrent file to local folder B
>Make cross-seed (cross-seed.org) or autotorrent2 look within folder A to match against the contents of each .torrent added to folder B (I think at least one of them can do that)
With >>106890683 I guess I could use that to narrow down the paths cross-seed or autotorrent2 would search through but I am pretty useless, that might be beyond me

>>106890616
I guess it's a good thing to be using ChatGPT?
But I will take a break then, I can't even read whatever I'm trying to type anymore. but THANK YOU SO MUCH for that ini tip that is way better now. finally I know what is going on.

Guess I could do another programming project while I cool my head about this one... thanks a bunch anon

>>106890888
I understand your concern with messing around with the BT_backup folder.
As an alternative, qBit has an option to copy the .torrent files to a new directory.
qBit Web UI > Options > Downloads > Saving Management > "Copy .torrent files for finished downloads to".

qBit allows allow you to run custom scripts after torrent completion, which does seem useful in this case.

I don't remember what I did when I set it up, but my virtual windows 10 machine will not start unless I disable my main pc's ethernet connection and enable wireless. How do I make it so I don't have to do this every single time? Every answer I found was "just enable x setting" when it was enabled this entire time.

>>106880822 (OP)
Okay, how do I avoid getting a ban evasion on reddit? I'm tired of making a new account every 2 weeks

I have a couple of questions about tablet repair:
1 - do all tablets use the same pinout for screens? I have one with a busted screen and no battery. I assume the battery puffed and cracked the screen. Anyway, on the bench it draws power and tries to turn the screen on, but I can't really test it further because no screen. If I take the screen from another tablet and plug it in, will it use the same pinout?
Second question is about those other tablets, there's two of them. They both turn on but are stuck at the slash screen. I've tried to access the recovery mode by holding the power and volume buttons but I can't, eventually they just try to turn on normally because the power button is pressed. To try this, I've been powering them from a cable, could it be they can't access recovery mode while being charged? Or maybe there's a different way to access it that doesn't involve volume and power buttons? I know back when smartphones had home buttons samsung used that as the recovery mode button, so maybe there's something else here.

is there a way to renew 4chan pass without having security key or confirming your ID to coinbase

Is there a way to access facebook marketplace without getting zucc'd?

>>106889940
I didn't know that. Sorry. I don't use Windows. I just knew it was end of life soon.

>>106892181
Have you tried called the mod a faggot?

Is there any reason to move to W11? I already have extended security updates in W10 and a separate Ubuntu drive. I only do gaymen on windows.

>>106893292
You need to updoot, saaaarr
If you don't updooooot your computer will be unsafe, saar, updooooot and get new version

>>106893292
>Is there any reason to move to W11?
no

>>106893292
Only reason I can think of would be when companies drop support for Windows 10 like when Steam stopped supporting Windows 7. Firefox said they'll still update for Windows 10 for the forsee-able future for example. But until when? Just a random example.

>>106893552
Is there even a list of things to do when upgrading to widnows 11? Like things to turn off?

Since I do have a good amount of steam games, I may have to upgrade eventually...this laptop is also 8 years old

>>106893577
>turn off
Why would they give you that option?
Best you can do is run debloater scripts, only for the bloat to come back after every reboot.

What are some good apps/programs to use for IPTV on Windows and Android plz?

I got an old laptop with a broken screen. From what I have seen everything else work normally when I connect it to an external monitor. I already have a laptop so what can I do with this extra laptop?

>>106893731
You could make it into a makeshift server, and get into self-hosting some stuff.
Just install something like Debian, and run Docker on it.
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

If you're not too keen on getting into Linux, you can also just remote-desktop to it with Anydesk, and run the services on it that way.

Why do GPU drivers have a kernel space component and a user space component?

>>106893123
Ask your girlfriend to search for you. That's what I do, even though I have an account. Marketplace is cancer.

>>106892003
Any error messages?

>>106890762
Install a tool to enable extended security updates. Search for it on Mydigitallife, that's where all the reputable "hack" tools for Windows come from.

>>106894629
Oh and yes, you need an account, the pertinent posts are normally hidden.

Brainlet here, how do I set up a VPS anonymously if I can't get crypto without doxxing myself?

Is it enough to just buy some BTC on a site like RoboSats with my bank account and then use a service to obfuscate it and turn it into XMR? According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, this won't hide past transactions (obviously) or the fact I bought BTC, but should that even matter when the service I'm paying for won't know how I got my XMR in the first place or who I am at all since I'm connecting anonymously?

>>106893577
I think your best shot would be if something like Tiny10 was made for Windows11 (if it hasn't been yet, dunno) and then going apeshit with a debloater, because even Tiny10 needed something like Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility afterwards.

>>106895478
it has, ntdev, who makes tiny10, makes tiny11 as well. has for a couple years now (11 isn't exactly new at this point)

>>106891041
Use LLMs but only for advice and to bounce ideas off of, never use them to write the code for you while you're learning

>>106895852
never use them to write your code for you full stop
llms are more or less the equivalent of stack overflow with a faster back and forth

>>106895876
11:19
>jewish

>>106890445
Pandoc does format conversions well, but you might be looking for static site generators instead

>>106894934
IMO
>just use a non-KYC exchange to turn it into XMR
>churn the XMR a couple of times by sending it to yourself and always either send round amounts or randomise the decimal places, if you withdraw an amount from an exchange and then send the same amount down to 0.0000001 XMR somewhere else it's incredibly obvious (XMR transactions have hidden amounts but if you withdraw from somewhere or deposit to somewhere they will obviously know how much you deposited/withdrew)

This should be relatively fine, except for the fact that you bought bitcoin, converted it to XMR and then it disappeared. If you're worried about getting audited, have a cover story for where it went, e.g. "I forgot my wallet passphrase". (For small amounts for a VPS, this basically doesn't matter.)

Disclaimer, I've never actually bought shady shit myself so this is just theorycrafting based on what I know.

What is the best use case?

>>106895994
yeah and?

Am I the only person who's had trouble with Jewtube since the UI change? That could just be coincidence how it's happened immediately since then.

>Open video
>Takes like 5-15 seconds to start playing, but its done that for ages
>Usually scrolling down speeds it up
>Video starts playing
>Randomly freezes
>Doesn't buffer it just freezes
>Whole page freezes except I can still move the cursor
>If the cursor is anywhere over the video it'll be a regular arrow
>If I move it off the video it turns into the little hand like when you're seeking through the timeline
>If I've scrolled down when this happens then scrolling back up has cut off the top of the half of the video and it never comes back (not that I would need it to because it's not playing anyway)
>Can't refresh the page
>Even closing the tab takes several seconds
>If I click a link then it's just a white page with the address in the address bar
>If I leave that to try and load by going to another tab and coming back the address bar is now completely blank

Shit seriously gets on my nerves. Using Firefag btw.

Are there any mice without total dogshit QC? I got a Endgame XM1 that drags clicks and a Logitech that had the wheel get stuck within 3 months. The best mouse I've had is some chinkshit that I don't even remember buying and has been working fine the last 5 years except for the scroll going the wrong direction sometimes

>>106896400
Have you tried clearing the cache?

So what do I have to do about Windows 10?
I'd rather not reinstall into that LTSC version if I can help it.

>use linux
No

>>106896568
>>106894629

>>106884611
The main benefit of newer gen Nvidia cards is in the tensor core count and architecture, yes.

>>106896400
mpv + yt-dlp

>>106892936
You don't need to use coinbase, as long as you have the crypto. Getting crypto without ID is a bit of a pain tho

>>106896568
Windows 11 is basically the same as 10 so it's whatever regardless

How likely is it for both WIndows Defender, ProcessExplorer and Malwarebytes to NOT catch a virus? I torrented something and has all 3 of those scan my entire PC while offline, and I'm still paranoid that I might have downloaded a virus.

>>106897016
All antivirus do is check patterns. They rely on having seen the virus before. If it's a novel virus then they can't detect it. That said, novel virus are probably expensive and targeted to high profile individuals.
Either way, once you get a virus in your system, it is already compromised. Your only option to know you truly got rid of it is to wipe the system clean and start over.

>>106894353
>Any error messages?
Yes, these two.

>>106897076
Thank you for your response.
I kinda figured that if it's a virus the filehash or whatever should already be known to antivirus companies (since the torrent was from a public tracker and has been up for 2-3 months now). I'm still paranoid though.

>>106896870
let's assume i have crypto access, which one do i pick
man, they used to have a simple generated address that i can just wire my shit into, but now i need browser extension and stuff

Just got a new PC with built in bluetooth on the msi motherboard, installed nobara on it
I am trying to pair a Wii U controller to it but it keeps asking for a PIN code

On my previous PC (also Nobara) I can pair the controller through a usb bluetooth dongle no problem without any prompts for a PIN
On the new PC bluez is version 5.84 and the old PC has 5.81, tried downgrading it but it still asks for a PIN
Interestingly if I take that dongle out and plug it in to the new PC the controller is able to connect but if I unpair them and try to repair to the dongle on the new PC then the PIN prompt appears

What could be the issue here

>>106897130
Extension for what? You can just use the address for your wallet

>>106896893
>Windows 11 is the same
Sure, just make sure to turn off Recall (and hope they don't secretly turn it back on with an update).

>>106897223
all of these options requires me to install some sort of browser extension for some reason
that, or scan QR that's only usable by their app
maybe i'm dumb, but i just can't find an option where i can just see the address that i need to transfer to and then transfer there

>>106897127
NTA, but you should've used Virustotal before running something from an untrusted source.

Unless you torrented a movie or something in which case you're an idiot for worrying in the first place.

I got locked out of my twitter/X account because I used sharklasers. Anyway for me to find the unredacted email associated with the account? I cant login anymore and theyre asking me for the email to reset it

I thought about doing a GDPR request with my IP, IRL name, devices, some screenshots of me in the account and the account birthday maybe but that'll take like 2 months

>>106897251
Not this anon, but I tried decoding some of those QR codes but the QR code decoder I'm using says it can't read them. Why is that? Are they using some sort of custom encoding?

>>106897377
Seems they're using something called WalletConnect.

I'm using gallery-dl to download an artist's gallery from arca.live, but somehow this thing is also downloading everything from another user who has the same name plus some additional characters.
Is there any way to make it only download stuff from the user that I want? Or any other tools capable of doing that? So far it has already wasted time and storage space downloading some 45 THOUSAND screenshots of some shitty VN that this other mother fucker has posted, and these are just from the past 2 years and it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon.

>>106896410
Corsair Scimitar RGB. It has onboard memory for three profiles and a hardware button to switch the profile so you can uninstall the cancerous iCUE after the initial setup.

>>106897081
Well it tells you the exact problem. Go into VM settings and choose a different type of networking.

>>106897130
Which site are you using? Where is your crypto actually currently stored?

Your goal should be to get your coins away from this place, an into something local like CakeWallet.
From there you can swap it to any coin, for example Litecoin, without having to worry about these dark-patterns Crypto exchanges.

Please can someone who can read this better than I can tell me which two pins I'm supposed to short on the motherboard to simulate a power button press?
Same board different sides

>>106898215
i'm partially guessing here since the traces aren't fully visible. a multimetre to test it would be better

>>106898197
>Which site are you using?
this site
like, that's the options they offer
i just want to pay TO 4chan man

How can I change the hwid of a hard drive without

a) fucking up a windows installation
b) getting banned by whatever is sensitive to hwid changes

Is there a way?

What's the best android emulator for Windows? All the results I get from search seem like they're trying to squeeze some kind of weird gatcha-adjacent payout out of you.

>>106898825
MuMu Player is decent enough, there isn't really any option that's objectively good and bullshit-free (I specifically remember BlueStacks and Noxplayer being shite when I tried them).
If you just want the games, at least some of them are available on PC with the Google Play Games thing that came out some time ago. And if you can run them on your phone but want to mirror the screen on your PC, scrcpy does that perfectly with no bullshit.

Need quick and dirty cheap workshop PC, just for workplace shit. Youtube, 4chan, Discord, general browsing, spreadsheets. Will be running Debian Linux.

Best candidate is a used Thinkcentre M910S. Will an i5-7400 be suffering in 2025-26? Again, I don't use Windows.

Though right now my workshop machine is an ancient X220 Thinkpad that's falling apart.

>>106880930
everybody has either original cartridges or just emulates.

What's a lightweight music player for Windows that does playlists well and lets me group/sort by artist, album, and title simultaneously?

Is there a good way to detect how much compression artifacts an image has?

Like for example say a JPG was created with 20% quality (a lot of artifacts) and then turned into a PNG. Can I still estimate that it was a JPG at 20%-ish quality originally?

>>106898975
YouTube is going to kick its ass a little without hardware AV1. MSI and Asus have some good minis under $200.

>>106899121
Alphabet still encodes non-AV1 versions of the videos for all the millions of TVs out there without hardware for it.

>>106898914
I just need to install microsoft authenticator on something and I'm sure as hell not installing it on my actual phone

>>106898825
An alternative is MSI app player - a skinned version of bluestacks without a lot of the bloat

How far away are we still from fully mac gaming? My PC is getting to the point where I may need to upgrade sometime soon and I would hate to invest into another windows machine. Would much prefer a Mac Studio or so for that sweet OS that works like a charme usually for other things I do (music production, photo/video editing, etc). But I also enjoy muh Battlefield 6 and other fps shooter that don't seem to work on mac yet. I also have a PS5 but I can't play shooter on it (I'm a mouse keyboard person)

>>106899257
You're fucking retarded dude, just dual-boot into Linux on a normal PC and stay away from appleshit.

What extension or script can I still to block pajeet videos on YouTube or their channels?

>>106899153
Yeah but you have to eternally fuck with plugins to get it on a desktop session. Not to mention weird sites your plugins won't support. Current hardware codecs > slightly faster CPU for web browsing machines.

>>106899410
If watching with an account it looks like there's a setting to only use AV1 for 480p and lower.

>eternally fuck with plugins
Isn't it just adding it once and then forget about it?

>>106899484
ok now fix every other site with embedded video

>>106899525
the topic was videos on youtube so no

>>106898298
I'll buy a multimeter I guess

Oh meant to post that before
I bought the multimeter
And yeah you're right
But I shorted them and the motherboard still didn't turn on...

I got a schematic too btw

>>106882444
Sounds like they surrendered to their own selfish attitude and are projecting

>>106884611
The newer pipeline in the 50 series is a half assed cluster fuck and borderline worse than the pipeline in the 40 series with worse drivers. The 50 series is a sidestep bullshit generation and I feel sorry for anyone that didn’t skip it.

>>106899593
ok now fix discord

>>106899159
>microsoft authenticator
What for? You may be able to use FreeOTP+ or KeepassXC.

i have like 100 pages of images open how do i save all the images in bulk and put them all into a folder with minimal work?

>>106900252
forgot to specify the images are open via individual tabs within my firefox browser

Don't think it's an actual stupid question, but for some reason I can't access Dropbox from my pc. Tried with Chrome and warned that access with this website is not possible. I switched off adblock, tried again and nothing. Tried via Firefox and the blank page continued.

What should I do? Clear cache? My Windows are Home and not S as it warns against. Any ideas?

>>106900252
Honestly 100 separate tabs isn't that much, just get into a rythm of right click -> save -> Enter (you'll only need to browse to the folder the first time) -> Ctrl +W (close the tab and go to the next one). You can do it at a few seconds per image, should take 5 minutes max.

It's only worth trying to find an automated solution if this is a problem you regularly have.

was reading this blog, hoping the experts in /sqt/ could help out because no amount of googling turned up the answer

1. Why would they become FM transmitters if they didn't fluctuate their clocks? I get why they'd emit signals but why does the flock have to clucktuate randomly?
2. What are the other reasons?

>>106894353
What's a girlfriend?

>>106898586
>change the hwid of a hard drive
If you mean the WWN of the HDD itself, you can't, obviously - it's burned into the drive. But I'm getting the idea you're talking about some software-based "ID" from Microsoft? If you don't want your OS to fingerprint you like you're some kind of criminal by default, use Linux.

>>106900547
Allegedly it's something some people use as a money siphon in exchange for unreliable sexual transactions.

>>106900589
What kind of firmware does it use?

>>106880822 (OP)
Any """good""" recommended air mice?
I want to use it on a Raspberry Pi running a Kodi client hooked up to a TV, instead of having a whole KB+M cluttering up the room.
Otherwise, suggestions for small keyboard+trackpad combinations are welcome.

>>106897164
I would assume that it's because your Mobo Bluetooth is an integrated part of the the system and thus a more vulnerable vector for attacks and thus you need to confirm that it is in fact you the owner that wants access?

That pin it's asking for must be your root password, so just type it in when you need to use your controller on your new PC?

>>106899116
Yes, there are ways to do this. Cheap, ineffective tools will just read out the JPEG quality indicator but that's easily faked (or misreported) or lost in the case of conversion to PNG. You have to analyze the image for characteristics of the compression algorithm. All JPEGs divide the image in 8x8 MCU blocks that get taken through a DCT. Also, usually the image first gets downsampled to 4:2:2 (USUALLY - the JPEG spec allows for 4:4:4 subsampling even if most JPEG encoders don't do this) so you could check the chroma channels to see if the image has gone through color space conversion, which a PNG shouldn't have (though it could). You can check for ringing or other artifacts especially around MCU blocks.

It's been ages (decades) since I looked into this and I couldn't find a good freeware/open source tool for it back then, but there might be one now. In any case, ImageMagick can't do it, despite many people recommending this tool for the job.

>>106900626
Not sure, it's kind of a black box.

>>106899159
>microsoft authenticator
Most of those corporate authenticators work with the same protocol. You don't need Google Authenticator either, for example, just use any free authenticator that can generate TOTPs. I'm using KeePassXC myself.

Don't use Authy, by the way. Forgot what the reason was exactly, but there was a good reason to not use them.

>>106900708
What's wrong with your TV remote? You don't need a separate one for Kodi.

>>106900219
NTA, but
>using Discord in the first place

>>106900902
>Don't use Authy, by the way. Forgot what the reason was exactly, but there was a good reason to not use them.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/04/authy-got-hacked-and-33-million-user-phone-numbers-were-stolen

They also do not allow you to export your TOTP tokens.
That alone should be enough to avoid like the plague.

>>106900907
I want to use it as a mouse/keyboard for my Raspberry Pi.
Can you use a TV remote on a Raspberry Pi?

>>106901207
Didn't know about that leak, I already left them earlier.

>They also do not allow you to export your TOTP tokens.
I think this was the reason, coupled with the software not being open source/auditable by an impartial third party.

My question:

Let's say we have a malicious hardware-level rootkit/backdoor on our example CPU/GPU with some secret opcodes/instructions at the transistor, logic gate level on our ISA, everything is baked into the sillicon, let's say in our example it's a standard desktop computer.

What, if any chance do we have to fix or salvage it, even partly?
What are some ways to bypass it if any?

>>106901369
Yes, in Kodi and any other program that supports HDMI CEC.

>>106901463
Zero chance.

Is there a way for me to stop this? I have never opened the default gallery, but slopsung forces me to have it installed.
Also they keep showing me those notifications even though the settings say I haven't granted any permissions to the app.
(My phone isn't compatible with lineage)

>>106901463
To get rid of it completely you'd need to decrypt the chip's microcode and write your own. For all intents and purposes this is pretty much impossible. But in case you're talking about the IME then if your chip is old enough (before Skylake) you can turn the software responsible for doing most of the known damage into a stub with me_cleaner, as long as your system doesn't have vPro. If it does, or your chip is too new, you can toggle a bit in the motherboard's firmware that professes to turn off most of the "functionality" provided by the IME. However, since all of that is based on speculation, in essence all it really does is give you a good feeling without any evidence that it actually does anything beyond turning off the only actually legitimate functionality provided by the IME like your TPM (unless you have a hardware TPM - most non-OEM mainboards don't) and the software controlling your fans, so your system will be running fans at full blast all the time.

If hardware-level privacy is paramount, don't use Intel or AMD. Buy a RISC-V system (and even that might have this shit, I haven't looked too far into it).

>>106901463
firewall it in a proxy network that cant escape then what harm can it possibly do?
access it to do whatever, it can never do anything itself

Does anyone else use the PixelDrain bypass script? It recently stopped working for me. Instead of getting me to the download it just redirects to some discord ad.

>>106901765
>it just redirects to some discord ad.
is the ad for the same thing? lol thats funny, payup.

>>106901753
If it's the IME, it literally runs code on the most privileged level of the system (ring -3). You'd need to literally block ALL connection to the ENTIRE system to prevent it from contacting something without your knowledge or consent, in essence making it a standalone workstation. Moreover, the newest IMEs have Wifi which they can use to connect to a key server in case one of the keys gets compromised and could theoretically connect to an access point without your knowledge even when the system is turned off (S5 rather than G3).

There is no escape. If it was as easy as you say people would have done so ages ago.

>>106901733
If you swipe to the right and press the gear icon (I think samsung's OS is similar to base android) you should be able to turn off notifications or that specific notification group

>>106900808
>but there might be one now
I searched a lot since writing that post over 5 hrs ago and there is no solution available, so I doubt "Yes, there are ways to do this" is accurate.
Some online-only websites claim to have detection with AI, maybe it works, but I need it to be offline.

>>106901733
Gallery app -> Menu (bottom right) -> Settings -> Stories;
- Toggle off "Auto create stories"
- Toggle off "Notifications"

What's the best Linux office suit (or something of a similar use to obsidian), which I can easily use to edit the same files from my phone and computer?

>>106901386
>I already left them earlier.
I did too.
Unfortunately, from what I remember, it turned out that they were still storing data about previous customers.

>>106901898
>>106902024
I mean, I need a way to remove a bit of the default pozz without installing a custom rom

>>106902072
Universal Android Debloater (GUI) allows you to disable & uninstall stuff via adb

I can't get a single YT video to load any longer with either
>Firefox + ublock origin
>Brave
on Windows 11.
I'm getting the "experiencing interruptions?" popup but it's stuck in a loop it seems and doesn't start playing at a few seconds.
Worked fine yesterday.
Is this the end?

Did something happen to YouTube? Suddenly all the software I use to watch movies stopped working.

>>106902559
Hello fellow despair enjoyer. >>106902553

>>106902553
Wait a minute this just happened to me too right now.
>Firefox+Ublock Origin
>Windows 10

>>106902553
>>106902559
>>106902588
I just watched all of the youtube UI elements change in real time

>>106902553
>>106902559
>>106902572
>>106902588
youtube's down, it ain't you

>>106902618
Ah, false alarm then.

>>106902616
maybe they're forcing the new UI globally rn

>>106902639
They are definitely fucking around with the UI at the moment.
6 hours ago I had all recommended videos in a grid, below the video, when I was using Cinema mode. After writing a userscript to fix this, it was magically reverted like 2 hours ago.

I don't get their obsession with testing in production...

I have a Dell laptop that has soldered RAM. The thing started randomly crashing soon after I purchased it, so I ran memtest and it showed a few errors (few dozen? don't remember exactly). I loaded these bad memory values into memory page blacklist and the PC never crashed once in the last 2-3 years since then. My dumb ass didn't pursue warranty replacement/repair because it ran fine. Today, I'm thinking about selling the laptop, and running memtest again in preparation to do a fresh OS install I get nearly 10k errors.
What does this mean? It's not crashing, yet there are tons of memory errors? Is the thing just trash now? New mainboard costs more than the thing is worth, and I don't have the skills to replace individual memory modules.
I'm thinking about just selling it as-is (noting the bad RAM) for like $60. It's unfortunate because the specs are good; someone could have gotten good use out of this thing if it weren't for the soldered RAM...

>>106902737
>Errors: 8019
they're completely fucking dead holy shit

I got too cocky and bricked my clevo gayman laptop bros. flashed a newer bios for a generic model that looked identical.
feelsbadman

>>106902737
you'd profit more if you got it fixed, the repair isn't that expensive for RAM chips

Which is correct?

>>106885280
>Tried this about half a dozen times now and
pathetic pic related

find a tool to trace the driver install or to snapshot registry entries before and after and nuke every item you can find

make a backup first though chimp-brain

So Firefox is rolling out a new profile management system? What does this mean for profiles made the old way i.e. through about:profiles?

>>106885350
Never heard of tauon, looks neat, thanks! I can't help you though, I've also never heard of listenbrainz

>>106900484
Yikes
Just drag the image into a folder and skip all that shit

>>106892936
made it werk i guess
installed metamask extension, generate my account, and wired my shit to that address before finally able to pay with the coinbase thing
maybe if i'm a bit smarter, i can scan the qr thing instead and maybe find the address directly without going thru two wallet like this but i'm dumb
not even sure if metamask is the right one to use

how can i download videos from pornhub in the uk? (its blocked here)
neither jdownloader or yt-dlp seem to work with it either

How do I save Photobucket images in their original formats without the watermark? Using wget didn't work.

>>106905038
vpn

Since how long has 4chan been crypto only for the pass brehs? It’s not recent right?

>>106905282
Solved. I installed an extension to remove webp support.

Been hosting my blog on github, but considering a move cause this shit is ridden with ai so fucking much I can barely stand it any more. Any cheap, privacy respecting, non-ai-flooded vps with fixed price per month out there?

>>106902726
Normally it would be A/B testing, which has to be in production because the "test" is seeing how real users react to it
Then again given global pajeetification, and the rapid pace of changes, I wouldn't put it past them to fuck that up and test actual UI changes in production (I don't think A/B tests are supposed to last 4 hours)

>>106903915
That anon has 100 tabs, can you drag 100 images at once?

>>106904931
yeah metamask should be fine, it's an actual local wallet (that just lives in a browser extension because niggers)

Why is trace.moe so shit? Was it ever good? Is there a working alternative? I can never get it to find anything even close and end up using yandex

>>106880822 (OP)
is it time?

>>106906958
Massgrave and get 3 more years of updates in ~4 key presses

>>106906958
that message is such a middle finger when you know that Microsoft could give people updates from the LTSC. there's almost no difference between that version of win10 and the regular one.

Anyone knows if you can still update Windows Defender even if Windows Update has shut down on your computer?
It would make sense for Defender to still be able to update its definitions without WinUpdate but I want to know if Microsoft has intentionally sabotaged Defender or not.

>>106902559
somehow my youtube-local just keeps working, even though it hasn't had an update in 2 months

>>106902976
The text rendering? Depends what you like, I think the right text looks too thin

>>106906861
Yea it seems kinda shit, it only worked once for me

I want to train a super resolution AI model. I have a collection of images and low resolution versions of those images. Some of the OG high resolution images are missing and I want to recreate them as close as possible with the pairings I already have (the artstyle is the same through the collection).

What can I do? My idea was to train a super resolution model with my collection as regularization images or something similar, but I don't know.

>>106880822 (OP)
What are top 3 alternatives for youtube (in 2025), and why?

https://ideaexplainers.com/video-sites-like-youtube/
https://www.tech21century.com/best-video-sharing-sites-like-youtube/

Youtube is like like titanic, and we are sinking with it.

>>106893705
Freetuxtv

>>106906056
been with knownhost for years they aren't the cheapest but they do have cheap plans

>>106908628
1) rumble.com because it has some talking heads on it that I actually listen to.
2) bitchute.com because free speech, HOWEVER they still censor by preventing viewers to watch videos if they are in a country with thought crime laws.
3) odysee.com because some youtubers still mirror to that site.

dailymotion.com as honorable mention because it is still around

I'm wanting to move my OS from one drive on my PC to another, where my current is W11 home and the new one would be W10 or W11 LTSC

Is there a way to simultaneously have the PC running both instances of windows at once and being able to swap between them quickly without turning the PC on and off, that way I can view both of them at once and see what software I need to install and what their settings are to have parity between both OS's?

I suspect the answer is "no", but maybe I can run one OS normally then the other drive's OS inside the other through virtualization? I've never done virtual machine stuff before though.

I want a main disk for my computer, I need big storage and something that doesn't break on a couple of writes; I'm thinking something work heavy, I need it for tech work and AI and also gaming.

I was thinking a 2tb M2 maybe

>>106909496
i was thinking about which brand/model of 2TB M.2 you were thinking of, like that alone was just a given

Whats considered as plagiarism in programming when you're in college? I don't understand how you can plagiarize code because apparently my code got flagged for plagiarism.

>>106908672
>Freetuxtv
thank you but it seems to be Linux only?

>>106909413
just clone the drive if you can't be bothered for a fresh install then switch editions via massgrave

>>106906056
gitlab

>>106909928
>just clone the drive

I don't know how to do this

> then switch editions via massgrave

Even if it's possible to go from home to LTSC with this method, wouldn't that leave all the windows bloatware i'm trying to avoid on there, or is it automatically removed when switching editions, not just when starting with a fresh LTSC install?

>>106909732
Same as what counts as plagiarism for any other case: if you copied someone else's code.
There is a difference between code and prose in that in code, it's expected to import existing code; however, you have to do that with attribution, and it's not plagiarism in this case. Also, if your assignment was "write code to solve X problem" and you just imported an x-problem-solver library and your assignment was x_problem_solver.run() you probably won't get high marks, but it's not plagiarism either - unless you copy-paste the code from inside x-problem-solver and try to claim that you just wrote it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that since you're a student solving an assignment, releasing your solution for other students to reuse would be counted as collusion and generally punished alongside plagiarism; you can't just post your solution licensed under GPL or MIT and let your classmates use it. Legally, you can license it, but academically, you cannot release it until the assignment submission is over (unless your university's policy says otherwise one way or the other - maybe they claim copyright over your code produced as part of the degree, for example, and forbid you from ever releasing it, seems unlikely but technically possible).

If you didn't do anything of the sort and it's getting flagged, fact is code can often look similar especially when multiple people are trying to independently solve a very specific problem, and normally if you can adequately explain how you came up with this solution and there's no evidence of cheating or collusion then any even remotely decent university would not put any particularly strong weight on the automatic detectors for code. Like, if both you and a friend submitted identically implemented algorithms and both have variables named with the exact same typo that would raise a lot of eyebrows, but in general you'll be fine.

We are dying. Someone needs to bake.