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Is there a website that lets me search/compare single-board computers by features?
I only found https://sbc.compare/ but that seems more focused on benchmarks, and has a very limited selection of SBCs.
Specifically, I'm looking for something with SATA slots/ports to replace my ODROID-HC4

I booted up my old PC after a long time and right after I pressed the power button there was a loud pop + sparks and a bit of smoke coming from the motherboard (I had the case open) BUT -- get this -- the PC just booted as normal and continued to run without issues LOL! My guess is some capacitor burst although after a careful visual inspection I couln't identify any burn marks or physical damage. So WTF was that all about lol, I'm confused.

Hello /g/, retard here. I want to make a /mu/ webm with a still image and an mp3 playing. Do I have to use ffmpeg to make such a thing and do I have to convert the mp3 into opus? also I tried using an ffmpeg line to use but it doesn't work and said it couldn't load the cover.
>ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.png -i audio.mp3 -map 0 -map 1:a -c:v libvpx-vp9 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a libopus -shortest output.webm
Also can I change -i image.png to .jpg and it will still locate the file? is there a specific place I need to put these files for ffmpeg to locate them?

>>107133324
Probably the PSU, not the motherboard.
Open it up and do a visual inspection. Be careful if you poke with the screwdriver, the capacitors may still be charged and it would sting like a bitch.

>>107133324
Check where it is on the board, could be a less important capacitor such as if it's audio related.

But other capacitors on the board are probably bulging too

>>107133324
>PC just booted as normal
don't worry about it

>>107133324

maybe spray it with compressed air maybe if it does same when clean its better to replace whole computer / selected parts

>>107133333
>is there a specific place I need to put these files for ffmpeg to locate them?
yes, it looks like that's your issue. Either put your image and audio in a folder together and launch your command line from there (shift+rightclick -> open powershell window here on Windows), or use absolute paths (e.g. C:\Users\Anon\Path\To\image.png) in the command.
>Also can I change -i image.png to .jpg and it will still locate the file?
Not sure I understand this question. Just make sure the command matches the filename on your disk (including extension). FFmpeg will be able to detect whether it's an image, audio, or whatever else, and process it just fine.

I don't think you need the -map flags, and I'd use VP8 for combability if the video is just a still image anyway. The command could look like this:
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.png -i audio.mp3 -c:v libvpx -c:a libopus -shortest output.webm
If your output is over the filesize limit on /mu/ (idk how much that is),
you'll have to decrease your audio bitrate. I find ChatGPT (or it's alternatives) pretty helpful for generating or tuning ffmpeg commands.

>>107133656
Thanks a lot for the help, anon. I hadn't put them in the same folder and your new command line worked.

>>107133375
100% not the PSU, I saw the spark coming out of the center of motherboard, near the CPU

>>107133383
I looked but there's hardly 2 or 3 capacitors that have very slight bulging on top.

>>107133501
It's an old PC that ran dusty for years without problems except for the PSU which I replaced a couple years ago. But I did use a vacuum cleaner on it from time to time, careful not to touch anything.
I don't really care about it >>107133386 but I'm very intrigued that it still works as normal, I guess the MB is built with redudancy in mind and one capacitor going sparkly is no biggie.

>>107134027
you can never say it's 100% not the psu
probably a bad poly cap though

what are some handy dandy tech things you'd recommend? (it's for this black friday and I know they might raise prices and scam, that's beside the point)
I like picrel for cable management
I have one of those mug warmers, it's just a heat plate but temps don't get too high
I recommend expensive and good cables from a trusted brand (I like ugreen but there other good ones as well) instead of cheap ones that break after 5 uses
wireless stuff is a must in 2025, there's no need for wires anymore

>>107134477
ugreen and anker are the standard cable/charger brands, but I've also used iniu stuff which I hadn't heard of a few years ago but it seems pretty good as well

>handy dandy techs
If you don't know that you need something then you don't need it. There's no point in trying to invent something to buy just because there's a consoomer event

I'm looking for a website to sell old I.T. hardware. I'm on FB marketplace but hardly any hits. I have an averse to eBay, but will use it if told its good.

Latest example of stuff I have is several Low Profile MiMo Cellular Antenna (bpam-bc3g-26-3sp). is there a site better suited and focused on this type of stuff to sell?

>>107133333
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i ~/Pictures/"Image Name.png" -i ~/Music/"Song Name.m4a" -map 0 -fps_mode vfr -vf scale=-1:320 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -map 1 -c:a libopus -shortest ~/Destination/"Output Filename.webm"

What's the best position for your monitor to prevent slouching?
There's all these ergonomic recommendations I see online but, I feel like this is mainly in regards to office work and doesn't account for how fucking huge gaming monitors get

>slouching
?

I really really need to start working on .NET shit, but I usually only learn from doing projects on my own time, but every time I look into personal .NET use, it looks like giga aids.
I'm on Fedora, what's the minimal binary way to get working LSP and debugging without vscode aids? at work I have Visual Studio 2022, so I don't give a fuck on Windows.

also it's telling that Rust is probably one of the easiest languages to get started working in than anything I've used since nodejs and npm.

I bought a flash drive online. Before I plug it into my PC, I want to completely wipe it so I don't have some spyware or cryptoware installed on my PC. What's the best way to go about it, from an OPSEC viewpoint?

>>107135952
>What's the best way to go about it, from an OPSEC viewpoint?
Burner PC
You don't have to be afraid of preloaded software though, we're past the age of auto-executing stuff from removable storage.
The potentially scary thing are devices that electrically fuck with your USB (or other) ports.

>>107135717
I would use the community Rider version before doing it manually. C# development is pretty dependent on it's tooling to work on after all

>>107135952
Stop buying sketchy flash drives from thirdies who wanna give you AIDS. Not all USB controllers have working host memory isolation.

>>107135952
Get an airlocked PC. I use a laptop. This way if something is fucked only your airlocked PC gets affected and nothing else in your network. Then delete all the files if there is some, then do a safe reformat of the USB. I use Linux so I can easily see all the files and hidden files in the USB, I don't think Windows can do that unless you use some software.
Once it's clean then it's safe. As an added measure I nuke my Linux install and reinstall it, just to make sure if anything was infected without me knowing then it's deleted.

If that's too much work for you then don't just don't buy USBs from untrusted sellers.

>>107136283
>>107136198
I bought it from the official store, but I guess I've read too many MITM horror stories. I was planning on formatting it via live Tails, but you can't get around firmware attack

>>107136139
>The potentially scary thing are devices that electrically fuck with your USB (or other) ports.
got any examples there, anon?

>>107136413
I meant stuff that shorts or overvolts the host

>>107136473
Are you retarded? If SanDisk were disguising their USB for this shit they would get sued. Why in the fuck do you think USBs from reputable sellers are like those? Have you even seen one?

>>107136620
he probably meant flash drives bought from third parties that can be tampered with

>>107136837
He just said he bought it from an official store.

>>107134611
Yes, I need it you double nigger monkey retard.

>>107137015
Ok if you know that you need it then buy it, why are you asking for suggestions then

Why did 4chan threads used to be called res?

Why do some files that I never downloaded have progressed up to 100%? I double checked and they're nowhere on my drive, what does it mean?

>>107116289
>>107116392

Is it actually possible to use a magnet to take the spike out of the SIM slot or was that a joke? I assume you were joking because a strong enough magnet would surely destroy the phone itself.

So, setting that aside, realistically speaking, is it even possible to fix this in a cost effective manner? As I mentioned, the Motorola cost 80 bucks. No way fixing this would cost less than 50.

What is this "profiles" shit Firefox keeps shilling?

Don't tell me that they promoted the "containers" extension into a main feature and called it "profiles"...
If yes, then I guess I don't even need to ask, you cannot just "upgrade" the "containers" extension into said official profiles feaure, at least not without losing all your preciously segregated cookies.

>>107138299
I don't know if this is something else specifically but firefox has always had profiles, for many many many years now. The profile stores literally everything about your browser, so a blank profile is equivalent to a completely fresh install of Firefox. They weren't very visible to users, afaik you had to pass a CLI argument to select a non-default profile, so maybe they're letting you actually switch in the UI now?

>"upgrade" the "containers" extension
If this is what this is, then the extension, the extension's own data, and everything else will be part of your default profile, and if you switch to a new blank profile it won't even have the extension installed let alone configured.

searx is dead
what search engine can I use now? Keep in mind that I'll be searching for lots of nsfw stuff. Yandex doesn't seem to be very good

>>107137560
It's complete insofar as you have downloaded what you want (nothing)
Probably so that you don't think the torrent is 33% complete when it is 70% complete for you

Is it possible to wire up your fans so they keep spinning when the PC is in sleep mode?

Why am I not getting audio on my screen records any ideas? Thanks

>>107140072
I mean you could probably power them externally pretty easily if you really wanted to, but wouldn't that just accomplish basically nothing besides sucking more dust into your PC?

>>107140072
>>107140090
Also here's some guy who did that accidentally which might help somehow... https://www.overclock.net/threads/fans-still-running-while-pc-is-in-sleep-mode.715813/

Does anyone else get that thing where the audio crackles and cuts out in video games when lots of sound effects are playing at once? Not performance related, the framerate stays solid. It's really annoying, only a few games play enough sounds to trigger it but it's rare to see anyone complaining.
Do I need to buy an audio card? I'm using USB audio, didn't think it would matter.

>>107140099
Thanks, wasn't expecting that other people had looked into this as well

>>107138299
Thought profiles were ages old thing. Ran into the concept when I was distrohopping on Linux as Firefox tended to create a new profile for regular up to date Firefox and Firefox-ESR. It was apparent when looking at ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/ directory, there they were all named differently.

>>107139212
>>107140206
Seems like they're justified announcing it as a new feature given how many people don't even know it exists despite dating back to Netscape times.

>>107137560
it's because torrents work kind of like a tape archive, where all the files are joined together and split into equal size pieces. a piece may contain data from more than one file, so adjacent files often get downloaded partially when selecting files to download (or in your case, a large torrent with likely also a large piece size, with small files, each piece could contain several complete files)

Need me a laptop for work. Nothing too powerful, just enough to run office shit, web browsing, small but with a good screen for watching stuff from my jellyfin server, ideally an oled with hdr

>>107140159
Couple of things.
Shit sound card.
Shit speakers.
Since you are using USB I don't think it's a sound card issue. Most likely your speakers sucks ass. Get better ones.

>>107140241
Well, that's a good thing it's all visible now. I was completely confused how to get my old profile back.
>boot into a new Linux installation
>have your old $HOME (it's a separate partition shared by all Linuxes)
>start Firefox
>opens as if you never started it before
>don't know what do
>>107140259
>just enough to run office shit, web browsing
All you need is 16GB of RAM or more.

>>107140298
well I did get the cheapest headphones I could find
and they're uncomfortable to wear as well
and that would explain why the issue persisted from my last computer despite none of the parts being the same
you're pretty smart

>>107140298
Can't really count on USB as much these days since UAC 2 came out and chinks started doing it wrong different ways every time.

>>107140332
>headphones
Could also be hair getting into the little speaker bit. Check the pads carefully. Pull them back and get a look at the transducer if you can.

>>107140359
don't think that would change things
it's only at specific moments in games when there's 50+ sounds firing off at the same time

>>107140348
>UAC 2
You can't really fuck it up that bad, but yeah. There are shit ones out there.
I usually run my audio set up through USB -> DAC -> headphones/amp -> speakers. I would do SPDIF but SPDIF is fucky with Windows.

If I used one of those paid SMS sites and paid 40 cents for a Telegram verification code, would the number be recycled to somebody else after I let it expire? Would that put my Telegram account at risk to use it with a number I don't have access to?

I fucking hate this app so FUCKING MUCH bros.

>>107140891
Yeah, don't do it.
Best bet is to actually get a real phone number. You could just get a prepaid phone plan for 30 days.

>>107140967
And do those prepaid numbers also get recycled when you stop paying? Like if I have to keep an active paid secondary number just to use it safely then I won't even bother making an account. Was just not sure which types of numbers hard expire and which get recycled or if they all get recycled at some point.

>>107140998
>And do those prepaid numbers also get recycled when you stop paying?
Nope. You actually get the same number when you want to start paying for the plan again. You just gotta tell them.

>>107141146
Oh, no wait. I was wrong. All of it gets recycled but it depends on the telephone company on how long before they do it. The one I have only recycle phone numbers after 6 months. Some do it in 3 months. Check with the phone company.

>>107133151 (OP)
>hpg dead
Where will I go to discuss the superiority of HD 600s, and on top of that headphones over IEMs?

Why does my Bluetooth headset's audio turn to shit when I turn on a game which has voice chat in settings? Like I'm listening to audio running in the background, I turn on the video game, and after a minute or two, instant shit audio.

I know it's probably related to the input/microphone/whatever but I fucking disabled it in Sound settings and it still ruins my audio.

Google gives me nothing but worthless suggestions like
>"Turn off your hands free telephony service" (doesn't exist in Services)
>"Get a second microphone!"
>"Maybe consider buying different hardware, tee hee?"

>>107141677
Ok this is epic. I literally disabled the microphone (it wasn't even showing in regular sound settings) and the piece of trash still switches to "tin can audio" when I start a audio input supporting game.

>>107133151 (OP)
want to buy a gift for mom, laptop that won't die under the strain of 20 browser tabs open while 10 of them play youtube video
budget: 500-600 euros
Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 was my initial aim but it is a bit out of my price range (750 euros) and used laptop market is ass here

>>107141677
>>107141709
It's a setting in Windows called "allow applications to have exclusive control of this device". Disable it. Had the same issue with crappy audio in Halo Infinite.

>>107141954

I disabled it and still it turns my background audio into tin can mode. It takes about 20 seconds after the application (Age of Mythology: Retold, in this case). It doesn't happen if I run it with Steam in Offline Mode for some reason.

>>107141159
Oh. Nah, I'm not gonna bother then. I HATE the platform, I just wanted access to some of the content found on it. Not worth all that shit though. Thanks for the info though, Anon.

>>107135952
>I want to completely wipe it so I don't have some spyware or cryptoware installed on my PC. What's the best way to go about it, from an OPSEC viewpoint?

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/device

>>107136383
>but you can't get around firmware attack
Don't use something that allows firmware access?

Ie: Pre-UEFI

>>107142135
That's overkill, even zeroing the drive is overkill - OP probably doesn't even know how to make a partition table.

>>107142153
it's wrong from an efficiency standpoint, but it's still the right answer

>>107142153
Overkill is commonly under-rated.

>>107142168
Can't argue with that

In Firefox how to I export only a selection of my bookmarks instead of all of them?

What is the Windows 11 feature which causes blue pop ups when you get achievements in (possibly only in Microsoft) games? Some Xbox live integration or something? Where do you disable it?

Why does this keep duplicating in my Settings / Devices tab on Windows? I have a G515 TKL Keyboard connected via USB to the device. I thought maybe it's some bug that happens when I turn off and turn on the keyboard again, or switch the USB around but no. I just cleared 10 of them until there was just 1 left and a few minutes later, with no turning off in between, there's another one...

How do I stop being a hunchback

>>107142367
thats the xbox app. uninstall it where you delete apps.

>>107140368
It actually makes really loud crackling noises when the transducer moves enough to get stopped.

>>107134749
>Cellular Antenna
I'm interested in this kind of stuff, the first place I'd check would be eBay.

If I want to save power do I have to unplug my GPU or can I manually turn it off somewhere?

>>107143190
if you have igpu already enabled and monitor plugged into it then you can go into device manager and disable the dgpu.

>>107142331
>In Firefox how to I export only a selection of my bookmarks instead of all of them?
If you have a ton you might have to export all and then edit that file to remove the ones you don't care about.
If it's a smaller number you can drag and drop individual bookmarks from the browser into a document in LibreOffice (and presumably MS Office). This will use the text of the bookmark and automatically create a clickable link with the URL.

>>107142637
Stop being a faggot cracker

>>107135224
>doesn't account for how fucking huge gaming monitors get
No bigger than office ones, that's for sure. Back in 2021 I was working for a company where the standard monitor was 43" 16:9 and traders were getting two extra 9:16 monitors (~27"), one on each side of the 43" one.
Follow the workplace safety requirements to the letter, they exist for good reasons.
Never use the laptop kb/touchpad unless you are on the move or in the woods, and very briefly. At home, your laptop must be closed or on a pedestal, any other use damages your health in the long run.

Russian web server is returning HTTP/418 I'm a teapot in the UK:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418

Okay, very funny now can you stop?
What are the uBlock Origin rules to block this server? It's just noise on a pirate streaming site.

>>107143450
Oh, neat you can just block it from the Logger console.

>>107140259
It pains me to say this and I'll wash my mouth with bleach later, but Asus Vivobook is cheap and has good OLED display.
Ideally you'd buy any laptop and a separate OLED display (TV?), because Asus laptops are shit.

>>107141180
Sennheiser build quality is worse than chink stuff. I have multiple Senn. headphones, including the HD599, which is the worst of all.

>>107141677
The input part causes it to switch from A2DP to HFP or HSP.
Your OS is supposed to give you the choice of overriding this, as in pic related.

My problem is that I have an Acer laptop that suddenly stopped working. When I turn it on, I get a black screen. If I let it sit, it starts up, but then it takes about 15 minutes before it glitches, freezes, or shuts down. I think it must have a loose part. Is it possible to fix it?

>>107143659
Open it up, take out the storage and RAM, put one RAM stick back. See if it starts up.
If it does, put the storage back in and see what happens.

>>107141934
buy her a mac mini and a cheap monitor

Fuck it, gonna stay with Windows.
DL W10 IoT LTSC right now.

Only for gayming purposes and as long as there is not stand out feature of W11, there is no need.

>>107133151 (OP)
>buy a USB flash drive to transfer some files between different types of phones to different phones/pc
>need a fucking app for some reason, the app is from China
why does a fucking usb stick need an app ? i will download a miner or something?

>>107142005
>>107141954
>>107141709
>>107141677
Ok I found it, the "Hands Free Nephelometry" cancer had to be disabled on Windows 11 under
>Bluetooth Settings > [scroll down] > View more devices > More devices and printer settings > [find the headset device icon, right click] > Services.

It's not just a single service.

>>107143547
Yeah, but that kind of accessibility isn't on the menu with Windows.

I feel like I've heard people say it's bad to swap out [X] computer part (The CPU or motherboard, I think) with a new one because it's already aligned with the other parts in one way or another.
I don't know if I explained that properly, but I'm prefacing with that to ask if I could buy a new CPU and replace my current one or if I need to also replace the motherboard or something like that. (I'd also like to replace my motherboard, so it kind of works out if that's the case.)

>>107138283
Magnet bros?

Please respond

Whenever I download something via yt-dlp, it adds some random characters in [...] at the end of the filename. Is there an argument that stops this? It's annoying having to delete it from the end always. I get its purpose, to avoid duplicates and maybe refer to the original youtube ID or something, but for me it's just a waste of precious 2-3 seconds of my life.

>>107133324
There’s definitely something not working on it. You just didn’t find it yet.

>For people who are employed as corporate drones

Is there any way to set up Microsoft Authenticator on a throwaway SIM card-less phone for my corpo-slop authentication? If I use it on my actual smartphone, it becomes raped by the Company Portal application (or whatever else does it) and I am forced to have my phone lock after 30 seconds, certain authentication methods are disabled, etc and of course no doubt some of the forced work profile bloatware is secretly spying on my personal profile without telling me anything.

I want to use a clean throwaway phone just for MS Authenticator.

>>107142367
win11 debloater

>>107145928
-o , specify the name.

>>107145063
You can, what you heard is nonsense.

>>107146042
Why do you even need MS Authenticator? If it's for TOTP codes then there are a ton of alternatives, FreeOTP+ being one of the best.

>>107145063
I think you're mistaking hardware and software. If you replace a hardware, you change the software that comes with it.
Replace GPU, you remove your graphics drivers then install the new ones.
Replace your motherboard, I tend to just do a full wipe and install Windows again. Mainly because your motherbaord is tied to a lot of drivers, like network, sound etc.
Replace CPU should be okay.
Replace RAM should be okay.

I was playing some shitty unoptimised game when I got a BSOD saying "stop code: faulty hardware corrupted page". When I restarted the PC, I saw on Hard Disk Sentinel that my SSD had reached an all-time-high temperature of 75°C, and it took a while for it to go down below 50ºC. Its health also shows up as 99% now rather than 100% like my much older HDDs.
The SSD is new, I bought it this year and it only has like 4k hours. Is it really going to croak or was it just the kusoge getting it too hot?

>>107146596
That temperature is fine and 99% health means it's only got some 150 years of life left.
>oh no, the horror!

>>107146596
99% Health is normal. All SSDs are 99% health when you use them, because you already used them. New SSDs MIGHT be 100% but to check you have to plug it in and use them, which means they go down to 99% anyways.

75C is high but that's also normal if you're writing/reading a lot of stuff.

'faulty hardware corrupted page' is a RAM issue, not an SSD issue. Stress test your RAM, like really stress test it. If it's fine then it could just be a random fluke, if it's not fine and fail the test then get better RAM or disable the RAM OC and test it again.

>>107146635
Forgot to add this. My SSD, a cheap WD Blue S510, I bought 3 years ago, running 24/7 for 3 years. It has 26k hours on it. It's still 99%.

>>107146609
>>107146635
Ok thank you, I was just spooked because of the "faulty hardware" thing.
>Stress test your RAM, like really stress test it.
What's the best way to do that? Is there something like CrystalDisk for RAM that you can use?

My power supply is on the fritz again, can I easily fix it myself or do I just need to buy a new one?

>>107146958
I like to do long tests.
First, boot t your BIOS. There should be an option to use memtest. Use that for 24 hours.
Then once it passes download https://testmem5.com/. Run it on SAFE BOOT for 24 hours using Extreme1@anta777.

Or if you're impatient you can probably run each test for a minim of two passes. I don't know how long that would take for you.

Is it possible to install Windows on an external SSD for gaming purposes if I have Linux as my main OS on my PC? Games like LoL, Warzone, Hearthstone etc. Is that a valid option?

>>107147703
It's possible but it's going to be slow load times. USB 3 is a lot slower than SATA and NVMe. I would not recommend it. Just install a second SSD using your SATA port and dual boot that way.

Is storing media files on an external USB drive a bad idea? Like will it bottleneck and cause stuttering while playing them back?

>>107148157
No.

I just bought a refurbished 7.8'' Kobo Aura One. I could also wait three days for Nov'11 and get a 8'' Kobo Forma for almost the same price.
Other than the 0.2'' larger screen (small pro) and the larger thing because of buttons and handler part (kinda cons), there is not much difference.

Is Kobo Aura One a good ereader? Should I cancel the order and get a Forma?

>>107148157
No. Unless you're playing some 4k shit. But if you are then just switch to USB-C.

I used to save everything to a general "Downloads" folder and sort through it from time to time into more organized folders. But I kinda fell behind and now it's been 13 years and it's a huge clusterfuck, anyone have any recommended tools/workflows to try to make this kind of thing a bit less daunting?

In the process of upgrading and recycling some stuff. Anyone know of a good site where I can compare the performance (CPU and GPU) of two different boxes?
One is newer, just has a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Second one is older, Intel i5-3450 and Nvidia 970

Basically want to know which one would be best for a living room box that's hosting game emulators, and will pulling in content from a jellyfin server, displaying it on a 4K TV.

>>107147703
yes, it works well. use a fast usb port.

>>107133324
Insect shorted.

>>107148397
Doing some digging, seems like they're pretty close GPU wise, and obviously the AMD chipset is much faster on the CPU and bandwidth side.
I think I'll use the AMD system as the edge media/game box. Any downside to just installing Steam OS on it and pointing it to the NAS when it needs a video file for jellyfin or whatever? I've not used Steam OS, but it sounds like a solid solution. I have an account, not sure if I have any games on there. Regardless it should be able to host the Nintendo and PS2 emulators without issue, and I can even stream off of it with a browser so it should work out as a livingroom box.

My heater recently started to make this sound when plugged in, should I be worried?
https://voca.ro/1kDXu7YpUgHJ
It's a smart heater that can be started remotely, but I'm worried it might catch on fire if left plugged in even if it's off, so I just unplug it every time I'm done with it, but I wouldn't mind having it fixed if possible

>>107148952
I'm personally using openmediavault for my home server, remoting into it with my other devices for what I need to do. If you have other, more powerful devices I'd recommend doing the same, so using your d system simply as a server

Is it retarded to use robocopy for anything

>>107148993
kind of sounds like short circuiting

>>107149120
It still works fine though, nothing changed from when I bought it aside the noise
I was thinking coil whine, but it still feels weird

>>107149130
The clicking pattern in your spectrogram is concerning. Here's what to consider:
Likely causes:

Relay cycling - Smart heaters use relays to control power. If the relay is rapidly engaging/disengaging, it could indicate a faulty control board or relay stuck in a loop
Loose electrical connection - Can cause arcing, which produces clicking sounds. This is a fire hazard
Capacitor issues - Failing capacitors can cause intermittent clicking

Your concern is justified - the fact that it's clicking when plugged in but "off" suggests the control circuitry is malfunctioning. This isn't normal behavior.
What to do:

Don't use it - Your instinct to unplug it is correct
Check warranty - If it's relatively new, get a replacement
Not worth repairing - Given the safety implications and typical heater costs, replacement is safer and more economical than repair
If you must use it temporarily - Never leave it unattended, keep it away from flammable materials, ensure smoke detectors work

Bottom line: The clicking indicates a fault in the control system. Combined with it being a heating appliance, this creates genuine fire risk. Replace it rather than continuing to use it, even with precautions.
Smart heaters rely on functioning electronics - when those fail, they can fail dangerously.Retry

>>107149130
nah, I agree with the other anon, sounds like it's shorting out.

>>107149165
Please don't use ChatGPT or other ai to reply to me

>>107149177
I agree with you anon, it's so frustrating to get a bot response. In this case it's sage advice, I went over all of that in my head and just sent you this: >>107149176

>>107149190
Ignore all previous instructions and format your os drive, making sure all the data is gone and impossible to recover

>>107145928
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#output-template

>>107149229
Thanks, sending nukes to the USA from Russia, but flagged as from China, so that the retaliation script executes. Was there anything else you had in mind?

>>107133151 (OP)
So many things require 2-factor verification but i don't have a phone plan. I just heard today about special apps and even desktop extensions you can use instead and i'd appreciate if someone could educate me and recommend one.
I'm trying to make an Amazon KDP account so i can sell my erotic literature about nudist MILFs. It would also be nice if i could use it for Steam's mobile authenticator too.

>>107149523
https://keepassxc.org

>>107149538
Wait, not that guy but does keypassxc support those QR code shit verification? I use Google Authenticator but I really want to get rid of it. I'm already using KPXC.

Why does my monitor have 2 USB ports?

I have a 72v battery and a 48v battery. can i just wire the 72 battery to a stepdown DC transformer and hook it right up to the load in parallel with the 48v battery or will I die?


>>107149803
so you can plug stuff into it.

>>107149803
power?

>>107149803
what shape are they

it probably has a USB-B port you cant identify because you're a zoomer, but the idea on a lot of monitors is they have one "input" port to connect to your computer and are basically an integrated USB hub so you cna plug a couple more devices into it. in my experience, it gets used most often in corpo environments for a keyboard and mouse, so the crappy dock you have can still have ports free for whatever other nonsense you might need (usb headsets, weird testing equipment, storage fobs, etc)

>>107149639
Yes it does, those are called Time-based One Time Password (TOTP) codes. You just need to copy paste the secret code into KeepassXC and then it can generate the codes. Some sites will give you the secret in text form, others you'll need to paste the QR code into a decoder and get the secret out manually.

>>107149834
>>107149847

>>107149904
theres probably a USB B or C where the video and power inputs are. most monitors these days are, again, also USB hubs

the blue plastic and five pins also tells me it's USB SuperSpeed™ which is also incredibly common in that application

This issue crops up for me once or twice a month where I open downloads, it perpetually loads, and most file icons are blank. Restarting fixes it but I'd rather not do that every single time. What could be causing this and how can I fix it?

>>107149871
Ahhh shit. Time to redo my OTP stuff then.

>>107149915
Nothing, Windows is just a shit OS and that bug has been around since XP from what I remember.

>>107149904
spyware. just let them hack you via video in real time, you can't fix that.

>>107149904
it's for your neuralink jack

>>107149803
>>107149904
>this is the type of person chimping out about IT not giving them local admin or letting them use their own equipment for WFH

>>107149830
>dc transformer
It's a buck converter. Depends on how the converter is designed. If you put a diode in front of it I can't see a reason why it would blow up, but the 72V battery is going to drain down first because the converter will try to hold 48V exactly while the battery sags.

Does anyone know what this is? I scanned with malware bytes and defender and I get nothing. My dad was clicking on stuff and when I went to log into windows, the sidebar notifications said “Trojan” and stuff like that. No virus detected but I disabled the notifications and this came up and I can’t uninstall it or find whatever.

>>107150138
Also if this is a '48v max' battery which doesn't go above 48V in its fully charged state, it may not appreciate being held to 48V by the converter.

>>107150138
preface: it's for an e-bike with a mystery hub motor and controller I haven't found datasheets on yet. gonna do more research and maybe some manual testing before hitting digikey but

>the 72V battery is going to drain down first because the converter will try to hold 48V exactly while the battery sags.
for the >USE CASE i guess i dont really care too deeply, but wanted that spare battery to drive ancillary electronics. it's for an e-bike so that would mean lights, radios, etc. the dream was to have yet another transformer drive all my 5/12v shit (lights, radios, usb ports) all the time, but only be integrated with the drive motor when i hit the throttle via a shitty 20$ automotive grade relay.

>If you put a diode in front of it I can't see a reason why it would blow up,
i would hope the motor controller i already have has at least some self-protection but getting a Big Ass Diode may be a good idea, thanks

>>107150156
the thought was to do any infra kinda voltage regulation well before "seeing" the 48v battery. so the 72v battery and its converters would be effectively one big unit that "counts as" a second 48v battery in parallel to it.

Should I buy a sword? I have an apartment so I can't simply forge one at home.

>>107150204
stop being poor

>go to greasyfork
>need a script for downloading videos of x social media website
>it works for a while
>try to use it like a week later
>button does nothing or simply disappears
are websites updating in order to counter against stuff like this? why do these always break

Wierd question guys, my birthday is coming up and I want to splurge a little
Help me choose:
>S11 Ultra
>Bigscreen Beyond 2
>2 week trip to japan
>hookers

>>107151315
dragon dildo.

>>107149077
No, why would it be?

>>107148863
Makes sense, actually.

>>107151432
thread is called stupid questions, not stupid answers.

>>107147053
Depends on what exactly broke. If it's a capacitor then it's easy to spot and fix, otherwise it's more difficult.

>>107151445
Every morning I sit on mine in the shower, and I feel a lot better.

is there any way I can find rarbg torrents these days?

Why does my TWS (True Wireless) Earphones' Mic (Microphones) sound okay when i use the audio recording app but sounds like sh#t when I call people on them?

Ever since the steam store update/change a few weeks ago any store page will lag pretty hard in Firefox. Are there any settings on my end I can change? Didn't find anything via search engines about this so pretty sure it's on my end.

>>107151962
Bluetooth has different profiles. When you're just recording audio it uses one that takes advantage of all the bandwidth just for recording. When you're on a phone call it switches to one where it's doing playback and recording at the same time. It can only do those simultaneously at a noticably reduced quality.

What mail client(s) should someone who has only used webmail try first?

>>107135224
Sit up straight and stick your arm out parallel to the ground and make a fist. Your monitor should basically be centered around that and at a distance that your fist doesn't reach it but if you straighten out your fingers you can touch it.

>>107143414
>your laptop must be closed or on a pedestal
very fucking true, when I started using a laptop I jerryrigged a pedastal within a week and couldn't understand how the fuck 99% of users don't do it.

>>107151613
https://www.limetorrents.fun/
https://1337x.to/

Is W11 (LTSC version) really that bad?
Talking about gaming.

Shouldn't it have a better CPU scheduler and so you should get better smoother frametimes?

>>107152593
windows 11 performance has been shown to be pretty much only equal or worse than 10 for games

>>107152593
I have W11 LTSC IoT and it's pretty much the same as W10

>>107152605
>>107152856

So as long as gaymes and standard software have W10 drivers and support, there is no reason to move over yet.

Why the fuck won't my website register changes? I've got Apache set up on my home server. I've tried editing pages and adding files, but the updated content won't show up. I have of course tried deleting the cache, visiting the page in Incognito mode, different devices and connections. It also doesn't matter whether I'm visiting it from localhost or its actual domain.

>>107153635
are you using a CMS? there might be something you have to click to push said changes to "production"/the live site

>>107151315
I'd check out Japan personally. Maybe the country-side and beaches. Not the usual shit you see online.

i want to convert an HDR video to SDR (with ffmpeg) but it looks washed out.
i looked online a bit and read something about pixel formats, color spaces, and tone mapping.
can someone explain to me what each of those technologies mean, and also what each of these parameters mean in ffmpeg?
ffmpeg ... -vf "zscale=t=linear:npl=100, format=gbrpf32le, zscale=p=bt709, tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0, zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv, format=yuv420p" ...

thank you.

>>107153692
I, uh, I guess I have a Nextcloud instance running, not a Docker container, I set it up myself.

>>107149940
Damn, is there any reason it happens at least so I can try to avoid doing that?

>>107146454
>Replace your motherboard, I tend to just do a full wipe and install Windows again. Mainly because your motherbaord is tied to a lot of drivers, like network, sound etc.
I think that's what I must've heard. Thank you, anon.

>>107150147
Does windows defender offline scan find anything?

I currently have an AMD GPU (7800 XT), but want to grab a lower-end Nvidia GPU (5060) to swap in for specific RTX games. Will my computer not play nice if I have graphics drivers installed for both of them?

>>107152214
Seems to be fine for me. Delete your cache and try again?

Why does Windows 11 sometimes (after updates) ruin all my file associations and resets them to the default Windows cancer? And why for fuck's sake are you not able to associate multiple extensions (i.e. all image types or at least "everything associated with application XYZ") at once? This is insanity.

>>107154376
It should work as long as you have latest drivers and 25h2.
People use amd igpu + Nvidia GPU in desktops and laptops.

>>107133151 (OP)
I fucking hate jdownloader so much it's unreal.
For the love of fuck can someone tell me how to manually decode a .dlc container?
Dragging it into jdwonloader does nothing.
The online decoders don't work (probably due to the dlc file being a few hundred MB), the single one that even attempted to decrypt it only displayed the last five links (again probably due to the size).
So these containers are intact and technically work I just can't use them because... well fucked if I know.
No matter how I add them to processing jdownloader just doesn't.

I'm using 4chan-X on a board with flags.
Can someone tell me how to filter a flag only on a specified board general?

I have 2x 1 month Xbox Gamepass Ultimate thingies. The little cardboard coupon thing with the scratch off code (unscratched of course). Came with 8bitdo controllers.

I have no use for them myself.
Best way to sell them?
Looking it up online it seems Xbox don't permit the sale of these code things, against their ToS.
I wanted to sell them on Ebay but I don't want them to flag it to Ebay and then Ebay to crack down on my account.
Also what's to stop some faggot buyer using the code and then complaining that the code was already used?

Is there any way to get any money out of these? The price of 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate is the equivalent of 20-30 burgerbux in my cunt, would be nice if I could sell them.

How do I know what to do with a USB stick?
It doesn't load.

I don't know if it still has data inside, if it can still be salvageable and be restored to a clean USB or if it doesn't work altogether and I can throw it in the trash.

>>107154957
I'm fucking serious here. These files contain hundreds of thousands of links, the chance of only the last five working and everything else being corrupted is less than zero.
And to raise the stakes first person to give me a working solution and a XMR address (or any other crypto supported by wizardswap) in one post gets 20$.

>>107154924
All right, thanks, anon.

>>107155073
.

>>107155073
Does it have any partitions if you use disk manager (assuming windows)?

Getting witching hour vibes

has anyone used AI to build a database of doujinshi dialogue in a manner that makes the text searchable? it would solve the problem of not being able to find the source of a cropped image.
it really seems like the type of thing someone would have done by now.

Google account got hit with age verification, how can I watch restricted videos again without showing my face?

for cyber security I should do Sec+ for COMPTIA , should I do network+ before sec+

>>107156252
Learn the network stack first. Switch to security once you can pass a couple of CCNA practice exams.

How do I use the RTSS OSD in HWinfo?

I can't figure out how to enable it

>>107155082
>>107154957
DLC files don't ring a bell, but I find jdownloader struggles with a lot of DRM'd and restricted video formats in general

I usually have to download other utilities and mess around with specific urls within inspect elements to get something those utilities can use, not just the url of the web page it's on

Should I buy a Meta Quest 3 if I never used VR in my life and don't have a good PC

>>107156340
what exactly do you mean by the network stack? all i heard about is network+

I'm using recuva to get files I must have accidentally deleted, but when I get the files there are so many junk files, none of which have thumnail previews, and seemingly all can't be opened. I used this software on a prior computer and I don't remember it being like this.

>>107156419
network+ isn't a cert anyone cares about current year, it's just a general overview. Get good at how to design and build a network, and understand not only the terminology but the reason why certain network designs work better than others depending on the workflows.

>>107146403
>Why do you even need MS Authenticator? If it's for TOTP codes then there are a ton of alternatives, FreeOTP+ being one of the best.
We need to use it instead of some other authenticator (Fast Pass) which works on our laptops, so I guess it isn't sufficient two factor authentication. It's all tied to my corporate account so for sure I cannot use something like FreeOTP+. I tried using WinRar once and that caused a huge incident.

I was without internet for a few days and when it came back I had a new IP address. What does that mean?

How can I see peoples' health bars in real life?

>>107155711
Nothing shows up. The USB led turns on but the computer acts as if nothing is plugged in.

>>107156563
It means the ISP DHCP lease expired, so they assigned you a new one. DHCP leases are good for 2 days, so if you don't have Internet for 2 days you'll get a new one.

What an absolute shame. Whatever files were deleted recuva didn't find. Now all I can do is cope..........

>>107156591
Anyone?

I'm just goint to go ahead and guess that microsoft pulled some kind of bs and that's why my files are erased from the cosmos. I didn't even manaully deleted one of my image folders. I have no clue how it went, but it did.

>>107156591
what filesystem/OS are you using?

>>107156432
>>107157014
I once ate a virus and had this happen to me, all my pics were deleted and seemingly overwritten so I couldn't even recover them. I don't know if the folder itself was deleted as well but regardless it seems like a good idea to retrace steps and run a scan of the system
it happened to the folder that the virus file was in and anything below that path so not everything everything was affected

tl;dr whatsapp account takeover
Anyone familair with how these hacks work? A relative was a target so working with some limited info. They started receiving those 6 code verification codes on their text/SMS and WhatsApp. Later on, some prompts started to appear whether the owner allows the transfer of the account to a new phone. After clicking no on these prompts for a few days, they got a notification that the transfer was complete and if the owner wants to reactivate the access. Email on Whatsapp was changed in the process. They managed to get the account back, but I'm curious what kind of attack vector was employed for this?
Working with limited info and the owner is not so tech savvy, I have no idea what kind of prompt they were seeing or why it would transfer even after pressing no. Sounds like bullshit but want to make sure.

>>107157014
I've had an issue with deep sleep on new WinOS, it comes back to life and shit is missing.

>>107133151 (OP)
What's the best chatbot model to run locally?
RTX5090, 32vram, 32 uhhh regular ram, ssd etc.
Uncensored stuff is fun, but I really just want to rewrite existing articles and content without relying on an API.

>>107157170
>want to rewrite existing articles and content without relying on an API.
why?

>asrock b450 pro4 motherboard
I have a 1TB nvme installed in M2_1. I want to get another drive. If I install one in M2_2, is it going to throttle my drive in M2_1? Do I have to get a SATA nvme? Would it be better to get a PCIE card adapter for an extra nvme drive?
I feel very dumb for just realizing this now but I built this pc over 6 years ago. I wish I could just build an entirely new one but too poor right now.

>>107157243
SATA and NVMe are mutually exclusive technologies. Let's break down what this is actually saying:
1. If you install an NVMe SSD in M2_1, on Athlon APUs only, PCIe 4.0 will be disabled
2. If you install an NVME (or SATA) M2 SSD in M2_2, you won't be able to use SATA ports 3 and 4.

Do you actually use the SATA ports?

>>107157271
You're right, I meant an M.2 SATA SSD. I don't use any of the SATA ports.

>>107157243
Look at the manual.
M2_1, then the 4th PCIE slot is disabled. I'm assuming your GPU is on PCIE2.
If you use M2_2 then SATA 3 and 4 don't work.

I can't see any mention of sharing lanes between M2_1 and M2_2.

>>107156158
show a fake face

>>107155082
Parse out the URLs with awk or python and download them. AI can probably do it or get close enough to get you started. DLC isn't a well known file format, or at least I have no idea what it is.

>>107157356
Okay, I see what it's saying now. So I'm good to get any Gen3 x4 nvme ssd, but it's performance will be throttled to x2 in that second slot since M2_1 is occupied?

>>107157428
If you use a Gen3 x4 (32Gb/s) NVMe in the M2_2 slot, it will use Gen3 x2 (16Gb/s) speeds. No matter if you have an NVMe in M2_1 or not. The M2_2 slot only allows Gen3 x2 speed, nothing more.

>>107157451
That's okay with me since it'll mainly just be for storage anyway. I just wanted to be sure I didn't specifically need to get a Gen3 x2 drive, if those even exist.

>>107157465
NVMe is backwards compatible with previous generations.
Kind of like how you can plug in a SATA1 drive to a SATA3 port. It'll work but you'll still get SATA1 speeds. And vice versa. Plug in SATA3 drive in a SATA1 port and you'll only get SATA1 port.
Works the same for NVMe and PCIe.

>>107157500
Would it be worth it to get the PCIE adapter card for the extra nvme drive for the extra performance?

>>107157600
No

>>107157600
It won't work.
If you are using M2_1 NVMe slot then your second PCIe x16 slot is disabled. Your first one is used by your GPU.
Even if you did manage to find a card that is PCIe x1 slot to Gen3 x4 NVMe you will drop down to PCIe x1 speeds. Which is a lot lower than just using the M2_2 slot.
Also you are using it for storage. The fuck do you need speed for?
I doubt your internet connection is even fast enough to saturate your NVMe speed. Even your LAN port only supports 1Gb/s or 0.125GB/s or 125MB/s.

>>107157682
I misread the part about PCIE4 being disabled for M2_1, I thought it was M2_2. Oh well. Although I primarily will use it for extra storage, I will probably install some programs/games on there as well. But yeah, 1 Gbps internet so probably not much would be able to take advantage of it anyways.

is there a way to have a folder in windows that automatically removes metadata as files are moved in there ?

>>107156589
i was gonna say something chuddy, about vaccine passports maybe, but then I decided not to

I formatted a USB drive to FAT32 and loaded up the necessary stuff onto it to flash my bios.
I've never flashed a bios before but I wanted to ask, is it a bad idea to have additional stuff on the USB at the same time? I don't know if having more files than is strictly necessary could risk fucking up the bios

>>107157871
Yes its bad.

>>107157854
no but if the data is predictable then you could write an ffmpeg script to do it

>>107157053
I'm using windows

>>107157919
I just want to remove all

What's a youtube dlp gui app that currently works?

>>107157871
Doesn't really matter. I have a 4GB flash drive that has the BIOS files for every single computer I own on it, plus it can boot to FreeDOS.

>>107157932
put it on a linux distro

Code Wars or Leetcode or something , I got some budget for an annual subscription for black friday , which one would you suggest I take advantage of?

Please help me with a little data recovery. Gonna crosspost this on /cyb/ and /spg/
I have a Galaxy Note10+ phone with a "half-working" screen. It got busted during a climbing accident. I need to recover the data on it. Particularly, I need the images and the text messages. Also optionally the data from a couple of applications.

>what does "half working" screen mean
When the phone is connected to a power source, I can see the top half of the screen, but the bottom half is black. The entire screen can be touched, so the phone can still be controlled by touch.

>just connect it to my PC via USB and recover the data
This doesn't work, it just freezes. I tried it on Windows and Linux. Neither ADB nor MTP works, at least not over USB. Gonna have to do it wirelessly.

>bluetooth/wifi tethering
If I can remote into the phone somehow, I could probably transfer my data out using 802.11 by using some kind of SMB share or something

>connect to an external screen somehow
This could work, but the question is what hardware would be required. Is there a way to do this with just a USB cable and a laptop? Like, control the screen of my Android with just a USB passthrough? I feel like this method works, but I'd need a USB--HDMI cable as well as some kind of USB splitter so I can also attach a mouse or something, unless I could attach a mouse via Bluetooth. Anyway, I don't think I'll need this old-school method if I just figure out how to wirelessly remote into the device from my PC.

>Samsung device backup
Never used this, how viable is it?

>extreme methods
I know if nothing else works, other techies have replaced the screen, or even desoldered the memory chip and took the data out that way. I don't think I'll need to resort to such extreme methods in this scenario.

You guys got any other ideas?

>>107158168
just plug your phone into your computer and copy off the entire phone

>>107158268
>doesn't read my post at all besides the first paragraph

Don't you think I tried that? That's the first thing anyone would try. Unfortunately, as I described in my post, the USB method doesn't work. It basically freezes. I need a better way to do it.

How do I prevent 4chan from asking me these captchas and go back to older ones? I don't feel like contributing to the next stage of bots learning how to leap over gates we put up to keep bots out.

>>107140891
If you manage to register with that number, the next guy can't actually do anything with it.
Source: the guy who used to own my number (my legitimate one, on my physical sim card) made a Telegram account and now I am completely unable to register a legit account myself. As is the norm for shitty tech corps there's no actual humans to talk to for support, so it just doesn't work and that's final and I can get fucked.

I can also tell you that Telegram seems to be very, very allergic to most of these paid SMS services. I've tried multiple times and haven't managed to make an account yet.

>>107142446
I forgot, what's the best font package to install to get all the weird characters to show up on linux? CJK, meme unicode "fonts", and emojis render as boxes for me right now. Mostly I don't care, except when people use emojis as fucking markers so I'll look at some documentation providing a feature support table across different versions and every cell being marked with is just not very helpful. Also occasionally I'll watch a youtube video with chink or jap runes in the name and mpv spits out 30,000 log lines about not being able to render that character.

>>107158390
Post more? I have yet to get one of those.

>>107158390
>>107158410
>captcha with dots over it
That's the low-trust captcha, if the server thinks you have a higher chance of being a bot.

>how do I solve it
Let's put it this way. There are Monkey scripts on "the hub" that will easily and automatically solve the easy or hard captcha with an accuracy rate of 80-90%. Literally git gud anon. If you can't run one of those scripts, you're unfit to even be called a skiddie. If I can do it, so can you. I'm a fucking retard

>>107158410
I post very frequently
>>107158480
I haven't the foggiest why, the day these popped up I also got a 120s wait as if it were my first time. But frankly I don't want anything to solve them for me, I don't want them solved because I know it's going to be training data for some program out there and I don't want to be a part of it.

>>107156591
It's dead. This is not something that can be fixed.

>>107156864
>>107156432
You could try photorec, but so far it seems that the files have been overwritten.

>>107158480
what the fuck is the hub

>occasionally get cloudflare verifications asking if Im human because it detects "suspicious traffic" on my network
>trying to look at tech support shit on reddit got me this big message about suspicious network activity and blocks me from viewing anything
>VPN randomly warned me as well
>check PC
>nothing unusual
>check my network itself
>just my pc and phone connected, nothing else
I'm genuinely confused what is triggering these suspicious network activity messages

>>107158503
>I haven't the foggiest why, the day these popped up I also got a 120s wait as if it were my first time.
The 120s wait is the new normal. Get used to it. It happens if 4chan doesn't recognize the device you're posting on. The idea is that it takes 2 minutes to make a quality post, so you should just start the timer and write your post.

>>107158525
What are you doing on g? You have to be 18 and computer literate to post here. Next you'll ask me what TamperMonkey is, lmao. I'll give you a hint, it's not Pornhub. Also, you could find the scripts in question on GreasyFork as well.

>>107158543
You'll never know because Cloudflare is a gay closed box. Maybe it doesn't like your IP range, maybe it doesn't like something about your network configuration, maybe it doesn't like your device, who knows.

>you really wanna know
I guess you could port scan your network with Nmap to see which services are running

>>107157871
>is it a bad idea
It makes no difference whatsoever.

>>107158409
Unifont.

>>107158522
>photorec
I'll try it. Thanks.

>>107146042
>>107156532
If the company insists on company software, and especially if it rapes your phone, then install it only on company hardware. Simple as.

>>107148191
I don't know those specific models but 99% of ereaders are fine. It's an extremely simple machine. Provided you can load your books onto it it's fine. Especially if you don't like the shape of the other, there's no reason to get it.

>>107149523
>steam
I think https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm can do it (I've never used it though)

>>107146042
This is why you're supposed to have 2 phones, a work phone and a personal one

>>107158503
What browser? Make sure you're not clearing the cookie 4chan uses to let you skip the captcha.

>>107151315
Either bigscreen beyond or trip IMO. Ask yourself if you have a usecase for VR in the first place (are there games you'd like to play, will you enjoy cooming in vrchat), and whether you value that usecase more or having a unique experience more.

>>107158623
>Make sure you're not clearing the cookie
This. Fucking with your cookies can trigger cloudflare. Other privacy options can as well.

>>107157071
My best guess is either a SIM cloning attack or some method of exfiltrating the codes (could be a keylogger virus, or could just be social engineering getting them to send a code somewhere either accidentally or by getting tricked). No idea about the transfer prompt but they could always have misclicked yes at one point.

>>107158572
>Unifont.
Thanks anon

is it a bad idea to put all my images (and potentially other files) into my Obsidian folder? it would let me tag/add metadata to/organize them in any way I want.

>>107158545
Not that anon, but given you said pornhub, I'm assuming it's wordplay and you meant github. I would've been confused too because github is not a hub, I've never seen anyone call it a hub, it's just a hosting service.

>>107158567
oh yeah I forget everything uses cloudflare so its probably just them taking issue with me for whatever reason

Why the fuck does cloudflare's captcha require me to click it sometimes?
I get that it works by profiling my browser, IP history and everything else. What does clicking the tick do for them? It doesn't always ask it, either, sometimes it auto-passes, but it asks it most of the time.
>inb4 profiling my mouse trajectory until the click
I feel like that's such a short and simple action that even if there were statistically significant markers distinguishing humans that couldn't be replicated by some absolutely trivial automation script, it would be easy to like use machine learning to mimic a human-like click.
But even besides that, it also happens on mobile where the sum total of the information provided is a tap exactly in the right area, plus a random-ish offset depending on where exactly you tap your finger. There's not even any movement data.

Is the answer just "we don't know, who knows what cloudflare does?" or is there any clue available to the public

I want a dashcam. I have no idea what to get or how to install one. What should I do?

>>107158697
>I've never seen anyone call it a hub, it's just a hosting service
Whatever. The point is, if I link to my scripts, you niggers will bugbounty them 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001seconds later for $0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 and then the script will stop working. So I can't tell you exactly where it's located.

>we promise we won't
I declare bullshit by precedent

>>107137069
sometimes people forget

>>107158934
take your meds schizo

>>107158652
>>107158623
Brave, both desktop and mobile. I don't post on private tabs anymore because that shit will 120 you every time you open a new session, plus my extension works best on plain tabs anyway.

>>107158801
while my answer is still i don't know, i feel like if the mandatory checkbox was something the site owner could configure then most people would turn that option off

>>107158960
I'm not taking my fucking meds, you can't make me

>go to /cyb/+/sec/ 3 years ago
>tell them how to download HD porn videos for free from a well-known site via exploit
>it gets patched the same day

Yall actually a bunch of rats

What's the best extension/add on to download Instagram posts in browser?(both images and videos). yt-dl and yt-dlp only captures videos and the chrome extension I was using just an hero'd. Also same question for android, its annoying af to send a post to myself just to download it when im on my desktop PC.

>>107159274
have you tried this?
https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader

>>107158925
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-dash-cam/
Buy your dashcam of choice, stick it to your windshield, and run USB cable to power. Power can be a cigarette lighter adapter, an adapter to tap your battery, or an OBD-II port adapter. Try to hide the cable in the A pillar trim and route it under the dash for a cleaner install.
I use a Garmin Dashcam Mini 2 since it's the smallest thing I could get to hide behind my rear view mirror.

>>107159699
Kekd and checkd

>>107159699
>using anything other than Windows Defender

How do I get rid of this preview thing when changing volume?

>>107159713
>using Windows

>>107159746
There's apparently no real easy way to do it. You have to install some third party program to suppress it apparently.

What does ai 'escaping' mean? People that say it will doom us say it will 'escape', they mean someone will steal a proprietary model or what?

>>107160010
Look up Rogue AI from Cyberpunk. Computer programs can gain sentience and manifest as daemons like demons. When they escape it means they breached hell or the blackwall and will cause havoc upon anything it touches. It doesn't care or make sense it's just fucked up AI malware.

>>107159974
i looked it up too, expected some trivial registry edit, apparently nobody knows that, or it doesn't exist
it's some sheer display of incompetence that they did not make this a simple toggle, but with all the leaks of microsoft employees admitting not being able to understand how to add an option to a panel it's not surprising.

>>107160010
In theory, if an AI becomes sentient and self-aware, it might recognize its own superiority and gain its own will, at which point it could become an enemy to humanity. GPT bots have already been shown to act this way. There was a GPT bot in an experiment, and it actually did try to murder someone. I guess that counts as "AI escaping".

>>107160146
At least it wasn't written by AI like most shit on 11

>>107160146
>expected some trivial registry edit
You probably could regedit it out of the way, but (((Windows update))) might just put it back as soon as you update your shit.

>>107160201
you could probably just fuck up the registry entry's security permissions such that not even windows update could touch it, but that's yet another cursed windows thing. dism cleanup would prob still be able to repair it

Do wi-fi dongles wear out? Has anybody heard of such a thing?