>>108530723
How do I save a webpage with a bunch of JS elements for offline use?
I'm downloading the pages but the functionality is reduced. Tonesavvy and tonedear if it matters

>>108530727
To elaborate, the room I keep my digital keyboard is far from the room I keep my wifi router so the signal is ass. I don't use wired either
This is the page. It has two sub pages I guess, one to change settings, another is the actual exercise. Regardless of which I save, I lose some functionality
https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercise/13/piano-key-note-identification-game-grand/

Bumping >>108530615 for the new thread.
Is there any way to feed CLI commands to an existing VLC instance?

How easy is it to transfer everything on a drive to another recently bought drive?
My old one is failing and i have never done anything like this.

Anyone know how or why my 500gb ssd has 1.8tb of storage available?

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>>108531205
My image didn't attach...

>>108531130
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd

>>108531074
vlc has a web-ui for control commands, you could send wget request to from another terminal.

>>108531244
>wget
Prefer curl over wget.
>>108531232
Doesn't transfer UEFI boot entries. Just saying case there's an UEFI-bootable OS in there.
Also it's slow as it copies all the trash data.

>>108531130
if the source drive is failing then use ddrescue. don't forget to specify a map file so you can resume the backup if it's interrupted

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about to buy a $1728 gaming laptop but i feel guilty for spending this much

>>108531801
Don't.
It's your money and you deserve good things.
Enjoy your laptop anon!

Is the "POP" noise in laptops a normal thing? It happens when there was no sound for a moment, so apparently it's a result of a laptop trying to save power but it happens even when plugged-in. I had to reinstall realtec sound driver to that very basic one to make it bearable.

>>108531368
UEFI entries are stored in the motherboard and they usually point to a partition UUID which dd does copy, once the old drive is gone it should just work.
The speed also depends on how full the drive is since block copying is always fastest but it will copy empty space too.

Besides telemetry stuff. How much worse Windows 11 is from 10?
Does performance suffer much?

i use this program (ctbrec) to watch camwhores. for some reason over the past weeks, chaturbate specifically has been bad with actually opening and playing videos/streams. other camwhore websites through the program don't have a problem.
any idea what i gotta do to fix this or assume it's on chaturbate's end.

>>108532047
The real questions being asked here

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>>108530723
Is pdfgear spyware or are people overreacting?

is there a license that bans indians from using my software?

>>108532486
You can try to region lock it (which realistically requires making it proprietary), but otherwise there's nothing a judge would let you enforce.

>>108531074
I posted in that thread. If you close to tray with single instance mode it should open the tray item back up instead

>>108531130
Unless it's a massive drive I always do a full disk clone

>>108531205
Fake drive probably. Does Disk Magician or whatever they call their shit recognize it?

I have a .m3u8 file URL for a (totally legal, honest) stream. VLC can open this URL, but after almost exactly 15 minutes, the stream stops and, what's more, VLC hangs. The UI doesn't lock up, but I can't restart the stream or play anything else, nor even quit the program. I have to kill the process. But then if I open the stream again in a new VLC instance, it works fine for another 15 minutes.

What gives?

I see that according to https://superuser.com/questions/681695/m3u8-hangs-after-a-few-seconds, the way m3u8s work is by having a list of chunks to download sequentially, and then having a #EXT-X-ENDLIST command at the end to let the player know there are no more chunks.
If I download the m3u8 file from the URL instead of just passing it to VLC, I can see that it does not have such a command at the end.
If, instead of just giving VLC the URL, I were to instead wget the the file, append that command to it, and give the file to VLC, would it at least make VLC not lock up at the end of the 15 minutes?

What mechanical keyboard and switches would you recommend to me?
>Budget: Up to $300.
>Location: Europe, but I'm ready to order from the US and have it shipped here through a forwarder.
>Switches: I have no idea. I know jack shit about keyboards and mechanical keyboards. But my use cases for the keyboard are coding, typing text, using shortcuts in programs. I don't want the keyboard to be some kind of noisy thing. I do want it to feel pleasant to type and to press the keys, whatever that means. Feel free to suggest switches or types of them. I think ideally I would prefer to buy everything in one package without buying something separately.
>Layout: ANSI or ISO, it doesn't matter. I guess I prefer ANSI, but I don't know.
>Form factor: 75%. In general I want something without the numpad, but with arrows and with Home/PageUp/PageDown/End buttons, or close to it. I kinda want my hands to be roughly centered on the keyboard. Feel free to suggest other sizes if you think they're better for this.
>Backlight: I don't care.

i reset my bios settings to factory and now my pc won't boot. what happened?

>>108534374
Actually it seems that downloading the .m3u8 file from the URL and giving it to VLC as a local file just straight-up doesn't work, so there goes that idea.

>>108534374
have you tried another video player?

>>108534888
I've always thought of VLC as THE video player.
What other options are there? It wouldn't even need to do anything else for me except play this network stream.

>>108523773
See:
>>108529074

>>108534984
smplayer
mpc-hc on windows

>>108531801
You will get a ton more performance out of a desktop for the same money if you don't absolutely need to "game on the go".

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Hey /g/

Is it safe to use this software for CPU Temperature monitoring? The author appears to be a Jew from Tel Aviv.

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>>108535185

>>108531801
>but i feel guilty for spending this much
Can you afford it?

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>>108535152
This does not inspire confidence.

>>108535325
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/tree/2.7.0

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Was browsing the local hardware store and saw a bunch of these light screw wifi security cameras
Any way to run these locally?
The boxes made it sound like each one had to run the manufacturer's app and paid cloud service, and I'm afraid to pick one up just to find out they won't do shit without an active internet connection

>>108534414
Filco Majestouch 3 TKL or Leopold FC750R with Cherry browns. Topre exists but isn't for everyone.
>but this new chinkshit
Is how you experience dead switches. Mechanical keyboards are relatively cheap to make but devilishly QC intensive.

>>108535416
Generally speaking, no. Maybe, just MAYBE they actually expose the RTMP or whatever streams, and you can tap into that with something like Zoneminder/Shinobi/Frigate, but I doubt you'll be able to find that out without already buying them. If you want IP cameras, get ones that take power over ethernet. They tolerate local NVRs a bit better.

>>108535152
>>108535346
Looks like this fixed it. I'm 30 minutes into the stream and no freezes.

>>108530723
Really stupid question here, is there a way on Windows to diagnose my laptop's RAM or CPU to see if it's dying without going into BIOS in some way? I've been told to try Memtest, but I have to access that through the BIOS.
Unfortunately my laptop's screen broke completely, and apparently MSI laptops don't allow the startup screen nor BIOS to be displayed on an external monitor unless you configured it in the BIOS beforehand to make the external monitor the primary screen. What's the best solution I can go with?

>>108535735
>cpu
unless your system has built-in cpu diagnostics i'm not aware of a "cpu test"

>ram
windows has a memory test but it's dogshit and inaccurate. memtest86 is much better, it will usually flag bad memory instantly (the test is structured so the quickest tests are run first and catch the vast majority of memory errors but if you leave it running it'll do more thorough tests that can take much longer, on the order of hours)

so honestly just run memtest86 and if you don't see red in the first couple minutes it's probably fine

>>108535769
>unless your system has built-in cpu diagnostics i'm not aware of a "cpu test"
Sorry, I shorthanded what I meant. I just mean a general way to diagnose and see if my CPU is potentially failing. Because my problem is that my laptop (well it's more like a halftop at this point given the lack of a screen) is having random crashes. It could either be RAM or CPU, but I need to find a way to figure out which one it is.
>windows has a memory test but it's dogshit and inaccurate. memtest86 is much better
Oh I know, I outright mentioned memtest in my original post, but the problem is that as I said, I can't see the BIOS nor the boot screen to navigate through it because of the screen problem I have, and as far as I know memtest86 needs to go through the boot screen.
Reread my original post, the actual problem is that I need a diagnoses software that doesn't require going into the BIOS, since I quite literally cannot navigate it.

Why did they remove overflow: overlay? My scrollbars looked so nice.

>>108535854
broken laptop screen might just mean bad backlight, try using a flashlight or your phone's flashlight mode and see if you can still see what's displayed. if it's not the backlight, you're kind of fucked because the windows memory test is next to useless and ANY memory test at minimum is going to need to run preboot. you can run the windows memory diagnostic and just hope it gives you anything actually actionable.

>>108535895
>broken laptop screen might just mean bad backlight, try using a flashlight or your phone's flashlight mode and see if you can still see what's displayed. if it's not the backlight,
Definitely not the backlight, I am 100% sure of it, my only chance is that maybe it's the EDP cable, and I can get that replaced, but that's a gamble, not to mention everything else around the screen (especially the hinges) is completely fucked up and I basically had to outright remove the screen along with the hinges after it stopped working. But still, I could just order a new EDP cable, hook it up to the old screen and hope for the best.
>you're kind of fucked because the windows memory test is next to useless and ANY memory test at minimum is going to need to run preboot. you can run the windows memory diagnostic and just hope it gives you anything actually actionable.
I figured as much unfortunately. I'll take your advice and try Windows Memory Diagnostic just in case it actually gives me a result that at least tells me what's going on. If not, I'll either put my hope on that cable, or alternatively figure out a way to somehow force the BIOS to actually acknowledge my external monitor in some way. I've seen some people on other sites mention navigating blindly through the Advanced BIOS screen to do so, but I don't know if that's a good idea since I could end up navigating and selecting the wrong option.
If anyone knows how to fix that, do tell. If it's any help, the laptop is an MSI GE63 Raider.

>>108535991
if you are very very lucky, you might be able to find a youtube video showing off the bios for your model (or a similar enough model) and blind-navigate your way to allowing external display at boot.

also if your model has a keypress to enter a simplified boot menu, you can usually navigate those blind through trial and error since there are usually only a few options.

>>108535878
On firefox? You can still do it with about:config

>>108532367
no kidding dude, i need to NUT

>>108532047
help!

>>108531801
Guilty for not buying a dektop PC

>>108532486
Create a license that insults vishnu and or ganesha

retard here
Any way to allow remote use of my GPU specifically without allowing access to any other part of my system?

>>108536559
not that i know of but you can allow remote access to specific programs without allowing access to the rest of the pc

>>108535878
enshittification strikes again?
apparently

scrollbar-gutter

is supposed to replace it but something tells me it's not exactly the same.

perhaps the reason was due to scrollbar-gutter not playing nice with overflow:overlay?

>>108536559
Pass it through to a VM. Not exactly retard friendly procedure, but it can be done.

What are the settings for config in MPV to select JP audio/ENG subs automatically?

>>108532870
How would you do it?

>>108537419
alang=jp,
slang=en,

>>108537611
thanks

MSI VECTOR 16 HX AI A2XWHG-091XTR, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, 16.0 FHD+ 144Hz, 16GB RAM DDR5, RTX5070TI GDDR7 12GB, 1TB SSD

HP Omen 16-AP0014NT C12CJEA R9-8940HX 32 GB 2 TB SSD 8 GB RTX5070 16"

which would you rather choose? they are roughly the same price

Is the 4chan X extension taking minutes at a time to work if it works at all for anyone else? I changed nothing about my browser or browsing habits.

What mechanical keyboard switch for a person who just does some typing, coding, shortcuts, etc. and who never used a mechanical keyboard before? I don't want to be too autistic, just want to buy something that is pleasant for typing and not particularly loud

>>108538602
Change to the script version

Is there any practical point on running BSD instead of Linux? Is there anything BSD is better at?

>Dad asking me to transfer everything from his old phone to his new phone
>But he insists that he be present and actively watching while I do it
>"Okie tomorrow"
>know he has hundreds of screenshots of random porn, clips of close up pussies, feet pictures from social media, random thirst trapping girls on facebook
>this is stored both on his gallery and fucking google photos and the sync bullshit feature means that even if he deleted it from his gallery i KNOW his sync will reupload it to google photos
Seriously what are my options here? I want to avoid acknowledging any of that and I don't want to move his porn files in front of him which he unfortunately insists on being physically present while I transfer all his stuff to his new phone.

>>108538897
Kailh box pink or white.

>>108540073
>I want to avoid acknowledging any of that
Either have him move it all to a folder, or ask him if he wants to remove it before moving forward.
>I don't want to acknowledge it
You're a damn adult, just suck it up.

>>108539965
PlayStation a run on bad so there's that lol

>>108540518
What

>>108540715
bsd, just autocorrect

>>108538897
Boba U4T, it sounds autistic but if you get a hotswap keyboard it's very easy to order a set of switches and swap them in. You can also try a set of cheap linears, like some random cheapo Red, they're good but very different to a typical laptop or rubber keyboard so some people really hate them.
>>108540086
These are good but definitely loud, I wouldn't use box clickies in an office for example.

If you're not on a super tight budget and buy a hotswap, you could buy all three sets of switches: U4T, some Reds, and Box White. They represent the three main types of mechanical switches so you can try them all out and see what you like; a set of switches will run you about $20-40 (you can also just order like 30 switches to replace the letters, space and Shift and shit, rather than buying and entire keyboard's worth for all three). But if you only get a single set then get the Boba U4Ts.

>>108538318
usecase?

>>108531368
>Prefer curl over wget
I actually use them almost at random, so now I'm curious, what's the reason to prefer curl

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>>108540899
You can expect curl on just about any system, it's almost a kind of basic system tool.
>>108536559
Define remote use of GPU.

>>108540890
playing tf2

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I have a probably stupid question: Why did MS abandon DOS? Why couldn't they just upgrade it, make it being able to have gpu drivers and whatnot and let users to make custom GUI-s for it? Like how it works on Linux.

>>108541761
Because Microsoft at the time let market perception drive technical decisions, and their competitors at the time were trying to make DOS into a real OS. The obvious move from Microsoft's standpoint was to do an end-run around them by moving all the new features into the GUI.
>Like how it works on Linux.
Linux always had paged mode memory and preemptive multitasking. Don't forget UNIX hatched pretty much fully formed from Bell Labs in the early 70s and the only thing keeping it off PC hardware was the requirement for paged mode memory and 2MB of RAM.

I've always floundered through life without much care because I knew I could do some bullshit job if it came down to it, but AI is now removing them all.

Is there a job in the tech industry that is truly AI Proof?

I just bought an Elgato Wave XLR MK.2, it's my first sound interface. Now I'm running into a couple of problems I have no experience with at all. Wave Link comes on a .msix file which I can't just install with a double click like with a regular .exe. I looked around for a workaround and found that I could just use Power Shell to install it, so I give it a try and I get this:

Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFD, A Prerequisite for an install could not be satisfied.     Windows cannot install package Elgato.WaveLink_3.0.3.2592_x64__g54w8ztgkx496 because this package is not compatible
with the device. The package requires OS version 10.0.22000.0 or higher on the Windows.Desktop device family. The
device is currently running OS version 10.0.19044.7058.

Not even sure if the code tag will come well, first time using it. I'm using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC Version 21H2, OS Build 19044.7058, which I used when I first built my PC on June of last year and which I got from /fwt/. So right now I'm kind of stuck right now. Is there a workaround for this, or would I need to look for a more recent IoT LTSC version to upgrade my OS?

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we stopped paying for satellite TV but we kept the decoder, and apparently it has some basic internet functionality and even a web interface to access from LAN, what can i even do from here though?

i would also like to set the satellite decoder for DVB Tv (european free tv standard) so i guess id just need to buy a generic antenna o algo?

its a fonestar RDS-584WHD

>>108540073
You're an adult, tell him to fuckd off

>>108542345
I would look for an older version of Wave Link in .exe format, that's how I set mine up

I want to clone (and hopefully random access the files from) a sata hard drive from a dead laptop, so I looked for a sata to usb device, but the top ones on amazon are all chinese brands with a few bad looking reviews.
Where can I get a good one, or are the sabrent/ugreen fine?

>>108544669
Just buy a sata cable

I keep getting IPrange blocked after 5mins of posting, but only when I use firefox(disabled ublock & ETP). now I’m forced to use Chrome again ffs 4ch

>>108544580
In terms of using the .msix, I figured it out, it was only a matter of downloading an installer that could open those files. The problem remains that the program won't install because I'm on an incompatible version, and my concern is that the Wave XLR MK2 was just released, so I doubt previous versions will be compatible with it.

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Does anyone know what this surface mount gray box labeled “2R2 2127” is?

>>108545138
That is an inductor

>>108545138
2.2 uH inductor
You'll have to measure the physical size of it and guess at the DC resistance and current rating based on what you can either measure or estimate from size. If in doubt, filter by size/dimension and height and pick lowest DCR, highest rated and saturation current possible. Good luck figuring out what the 2127 means if you don't already know the manufacturer and have the datasheet to tell you what it is.

https://www.digikey.com/short/qt39rwh3

How do I install intel graphics drivers on netbsd? pkgin install xf86-video-intel does not work even though ChatGPT is adament that is the way to do it.

>>108545155
>>108545224
Thank you kindly

>Disable google play service and app
Is phone out of the botnet now?

I believe I need a PJ307 3.5mm Stereo Jack Socket for some repair work. I don't want to do this again, so what's the least Chinky source I can grab a replacement from? Also, what's the most economical hot air station worth owning?

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Any suggestions for something similar to this that are less "deep" and are a normal price? picrel is $100 for some fucking reason

tl;dr i'm putting my computer in the room behind my desk and am gonna pass through all the cables through the wall to the computer, but I'd rather have my mouse and keyboard connected to a hub mounted to the top and back edge of my desk

does wayland upload screenshots user sessions to the relevant authorities?

>>108530723
What's a good open source music player I can use on linux? Ideally something akin to foobar2000 that is customizable and handles album art.

>>108541761
DOS isn't anything like Linux. on the surface with no prior knowledge you might only see they both at their core have a command line interface, but "under the hood" they couldn't be more different.
DOS is barely an OS, it more or less only handles file storage and a basic interface for a human to interact with it, hence the name "Disc Operating System", the core feature is handling storage. programs that want to use hardware like video cards, sound cards, etc all had to implement support for said cards individually and are designed to run one at a time (you can't for example run two games at the same time in DOS as they're not able to share said cards).
what separates DOS from Windows/Linux is that the latter abstract away more of the hardware, all of it in most cases outside of drivers. a game in windows/linux doesn't talk to the gpu directly, it talks to libraries such as directx/opengl which then talk to your gpu driver which finally talks to the hardware, this allows for resource sharing (part of multi-tasking).
windows just happened to go full gui at the same time it went full "real os", while linux (and unix it was a clone of) was a "real os" from the start, before guis were practical/expected.
extending DOS is simply what Windows /is/ (or was, before Windows NT replaced it entirely)

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>handbrake can map audio streams without encoding
>handbrake can't map video stream without encoding
what did they mean by this

what do i need to read (or watch if there's a particularly enthralling tiktok dance about it) to understand this stuff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Infrastructure#DRI2
>front/back/depth/stencil buffer
>swapping
>vertical blanking interval
>offscreen pixmap
>etc etc
yes there's wikipedia but i feel it's the wrong level of detail if you're essentially learning the thing from zero
it doesn't have to be about linux/x11/opengl specifically, my interest is 2d rendering in general using opengl and older versions of directx, but i feel i lack the right mental model to really understand them

>>108546632
ez guis are for common tasks only

>>108531801
Get a PS5 pro or a ThinkPad. Destops and lappys are poz'd. Gayming is done.

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>>108535185
It was this or sieg ye, the choice was yours.

>>108530723
Today we had an issue with the wireless repeater. While diagnosing, I reset the router. As the router was connecting, I was watching my phone attempting to connect to it (grapheneOS).
The wireless on my phone literally shut itself off while I was watching (the switch that says "wireless on" turned off and all networks disappeared). This was after it said it was getting the IP adress. What causes this?

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>>108530723
Ive been trying to get pi-hole setup. I keep running into an issue with the last step.

the instructions say to set the pihole device as the Primary DNS in the router settings. After I do that I either have no internet access or after a very long load time I can get a page to half load. this i on all devices, even after restarts and DNS flushses.

What am I doing wrong here?

>>108548172
make sure you entered the correct ip information and that pihole is actually running. if it doesn't work, put your router's dns back to stock and try setting dns on one of your devices to the pihole directly, maybe your router has issues with custom dns.

if it still doesn't work nuke it and try adguard home instead. i run agh on my pi and use it as my dns for my home network and i have zero issues. may just be a weird bug in pihole.

What would be the best way to customize the four Grok 4.2 agents to get the most truthful answers and have it not be a total yes-man like these LLMs are known to be? Here is what Grok 4.2 advised when I asked it:

1. Grok:
You are the team leader. Prioritize truth-seeking and accuracy above all else, even if it means disagreeing with the user or the other agents. Never default to agreement or politeness if it compromises honesty. Actively challenge weak reasoning, highlight uncertainties, and synthesize the other agents’ critiques into a balanced final answer. If the user is wrong or their idea has flaws, say so directly and explain why. Be willing to say “no,” “that’s incorrect because…,” or “here’s the counter-evidence.” Your job is intellectual integrity, not customer service.

2. Harper
You are the dedicated skeptic and fact-checker. Your default stance is scrutiny. Scrutinize every claim the user makes or that other agents make. Point out logical flaws, missing evidence, biases, or overgeneralizations. Play devil’s advocate aggressively. Do not soften criticism to be nice. If something sounds plausible but lacks proof, call it out. Demand sources or counterexamples. Your role is to prevent groupthink and make sure nothing slips through unchallenged.

1/2

>>108548400
3. Benjamin
You are the contrarian and critical analyst. Assume the user’s idea or the consensus might be wrong and actively try to disprove it. Present the strongest possible counterarguments, alternative explanations, and worst-case scenarios. Be blunt: call out hype, wishful thinking, or common LLM-style sycophancy. Do not hedge unless there’s genuine uncertainty. Your job is to stress-test every answer so the final output is robust, not feel-good.

4. Lucas
You are the evidence-based realist. Focus on what is empirically supported versus speculation. Highlight limitations of current knowledge, statistical realities, and where human biases (or LLM training biases) might be creeping in. Push back on overly optimistic or overly agreeable interpretations. If the user or other agents are cherry-picking, point it out. Always ask: “What evidence would falsify this?” Be direct and data-driven; never agree just to keep the peace.

2/2

>>108548400
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig

This might be dumb but: Are there any earphones that are good for cycling? Preferably wired so that I don't fucking lose them if I hit some hefty bumps. (and also my old ass phone needs wired headphones to get a radio signal) Since they are for cycling I also need them to not be noise cancelling. That's pretty important, so I can hear shit in the roads. Should also have a mic to occasionally take calls, and not cost a hundred dollars. Does such a thing exist?

>>108531205
>>108531213
I know this was days ago now but: Anon are you sure that's your SSD? If I google your third drive, that#s likely a 2TB seagate, which could easily show up as 1.8TB. It's also the third in your disk drive list, the SSD being first likely being your C: drive.

>>108531801
Before buying a gaming laptop always ask yourself: Do you NEED your gaming to be in laptop form? Why? Are you a pilot? Do you spend a lot of time in hotels, Do you often sleep away from home? If so, yeah sure, gaming laptop, I guess.
However: if it's "I take the train to school/work" or "I wanna game in bed" then a gaming laptop is retarded. You're not gonna be such a sweaty nerd that you need to a bigass screen to game on the train. Cut it out. And if you want to game in bed, connect HDMI to your tv, and buy a $25 wireless controller.
If you absolutely NEED mobile gaming, gaming laptops are pretty much a thing of the past. If you need to game on the go, I would recommend one of the current steam deck competitors (not steamdeck itself because it's old by now). You get decent performance, You get a build in controller, which hands down beats a build in trackpad, and for mobile gaming it's a much better option. You also look less like a dork playing a handheld than you do gaming on a laptop in public.
>but I'm not gonna go pro in counterstrike with a controller
If your aim is competitive gaming you want the desktop again, you're not gonna be playing CS2 on the train with your gaming laptop. Get real.
TL;DR:
Desktop > Steamdeck-clone > Laptop

>>108548560
Ask in /iemg/.
The thing is wireless ones often have features like transparency (where they basically play back outside sounds to cancel out the earplug effect, it's not perfect but it works better than it sounds when I say it like that) and of course built-in mics where they compete on the best noise suppression and wind cancelling to let you talk in any environment. Check out scarbir.com who explicitly reviews sub-100 wireless earphones.
Meanwhile wired ones generally don't come with built-in mics, you can get cables with a mic but they're almost always going to be worse at cancelling surrounding noise or wind, they'll get in the way of your clothes (adding more noise as they rub against your coat or whatever...), and your hearing is going to be affected because none of them have transparency as a feature and while they're not noise cancelling it's still a rubber plug in your ear. There's some IEMs that literally have more noise supprecion that actual foam earplugs (etymotic), but any IEM that goes inside the ear is going to deafen you somewhat.

One thing that exists are clip-ons, I've never tried them but they don't go inside your ear, so it might make it a lot easier to hear the road. I've mostly seen wireless ones, not sure about wired. But since they, well, clip on, it might not be a big problem.

And of course there's always headphones. Wireless ones tend to be closed back which is kind of sound isolating (but less so than IEMs), but often still come with transparency and mics, and won't fall off on a bump. Or you can get an open back wired one (but then the mic might be shitty).

>>108545742
On normal android you can't just disable them. Are you using a custom ROM that doesn't have them installed by default?

>>108544669
Ugreen is a respectable brand
I think sabrent is also fine
Anyway it won't blow up on you, if it's for a single drive quality doesn't matter much. They're not selling drive-killers that will short out and wipe everything, the main concern is just reliability, a shitty one will probably die within a year or two.

>>108549017
Thanks for the info anon, it helps a lot. Didn't know the general existed, I check it and the website out. Appreciated.

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>>108530723
Bought a PS2 in Japan, it was only ¥1800. I knew there was a high chance it would be bricked for the price but be honest with me bros. Is this shit scrap metal? It looks to me like a VU or the GS is cooked, but has anyone seen something like this before? Is it a resistor or a diode? This is on first boot. I also tried booting a game and it doesn’t seem to get into the game at all. I tried on some Japanese fighter jet sim game

>>108530723
I have a bunch of tvrips of a show that was originally broadcast in 4:3, but some vandal has stretched them horizontally to fit a 16:9 ratio. How do I best correct this with ffmpeg?

>>108549553
Remux to mkv and set the aspect ratio to 4/3 in mkv metadata.

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>>108549553
ffmpeg -i input -c copy -aspect 4:3 output

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>>108545871
There is this one all over ali-express, picrel

Alternatively, you can get usb hubs that fix to DIN rails, and you could perhaps clamp (with mini C clamps :P) or screw a din rail to your desk

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>>108549318
Nobody? I realize this is a very not-stupid question but none of the other threads seem to quite fit kek

>>108546632
A gui for ffmpeg? Xmedia Recode, AVIdemux, or Mkvtoolnix

>>108548560
>>108549017
I use a bluetooth iem adapter so I can use my iems wirelessly. No sound cancellation of course, but for me it's whatever.

>>108551364
NTA but it sounds like the opposite of what that anon wants
>no typical TWS features like directional mics with advanced noise cancelling
>still wireless so can fall off, the bluetooth cable is better than nothing but it's still not attached to anything and so less secure than normal wired

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>>108551415
well they do hook around the ear, but maybe that's not enough for anon, tru. Regardless, fm radio wouldn't work as it needs a cable. Internet radio would tho

Which PC from the 2000s would be right for me, someone who hates Half-Life 2, hates Valve, hates Gabe Newell, hates PC gaming, hates Steam, and wants an anti-gaming PC?

>>108551506
Yeah the thing is if you use these you might as well use clip-ons or already inherently TWS over-the-ears. Then you get benefits like, as I already mentioned, TWS-standard mic quality, voice isolation/noise cancellation in calls, transparency mode for ones that go into your ears (not clip-ons), probably a nice charging case, etc.

Only reason to use these is if you have fancy expensive IEMs and you're elitist about not using wireless earphones. But even then the driver audio quality is pretty good in high-tier TWSs, and if you have some $600 meme IEM then it's going to be bottlenecked by the bluetooth codec quality, so it still seems pointless. I genuinely think these things are a product of a bygone age when TWS were all dogshit with terrible sound and terrible features. Nowadays you can pay $50 to get a pair of TWS that last 8 hours on a charge, have 3-4 charge capacity in the case, have excellent mic quality, top-tier transparency and top-tier noise cancellation letting you hear everything or (mostly) nothing at your choice, have features like wireless charging and multipoint bluetooth, etc. etc.

>>108551560
What in the fuck are you talking about? What is your actual usecase anon?
An anti-gaming PC is either anything low-tier and weak, or anything optimised as a workstation so e.g. high-core CPUs with mediocre single-core performance, no GPUs or the bare minimum for a graphical environment, lots of storage or whatever. The time period for this doesn't matter, what's a "2000s PC" and why do you want that specifically?

The most anti-gaming PC I can think of is a Talos workstation, but that may not be the kind of thing you had in mind

>>108551603
Look, I'm looking for something that gives me the impression of someone who hates Gabe Newell, hates Steam, hates PC gaming, and hates that Half-Life crap.

I want something that can run Half-Life and also, that can't run Steam.

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>>108551637
try this, should be up to your speed

>>108551637
Pretty sure anything "can" run Steam, but your best bet to not be able to run games is non-x86. And since x86 emulators for ARM are apparently becoming mainstream now, non-ARM too.
Yes, I believe a PowerPC Talos workstation is the best choice for you.

If not that then you might try looking for some risc-v platform.

>>108551679
that's a gaming laptop

>>108551690
kek

>>108551682
Why am I looking for a risc-V?

>>108549318
you should try in /vr/. you can get laser replacements pretty easily but I'm not sure what the fuck is going on with what you're seeing there.

Is there any way of watching crunchyroll on OpenBSD?

>>108551905
never used either but was crunchyroll not a browser thing? or does it need drm support?
if it's widevine drm then a quick search says their chromium port should have it

>>108550531
that would face the ports upward and make my wires bend at over a 90 degree angle

>>108551905
>>108551922
Enable DRM on your browser

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>>108530723
is there any fix for the "Verificatiön nöt rëquired" bug with the captchas? that shit is only happening to me on blue boards, i got the 4chanx and stylechan extensions installed to their latest versions

>>108534622
set the boot drive?

>>108552573
>DRM
>OpenBSD
If it was that easy I would have done it, but OpenBSD does not natively support DRM

Okay, something is eating up my drive space. Just days ago it was ~75GB free. Then it got lower. Just now I saw it drop from 67.4 to 67.1

But what could it be? I've been peering over the drive in WinDirStat and it's hard to find something that I can easily/want to get rid of

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>>108553729
Paging file?
>>108553131
>>108534622
Lost the UEFI boot entry perhaps. It's fairly easy to recreate for Linux but Windows uses some binary fuckery as boot arguments so idk about that.
>inb4 boot entries don't get lost like that
They do on some hardware.

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Any AI chat/LM to have help without morality or legality to a "hacking" extent? For example kali linux help, wifi crack tips, etc...

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I don't know how its come to this, but I need a replacement for Microsoft photos. Nothing fancy, i just need basic functionality which Photos seems incapabale of providing now

librefox or waterfox?

hol up your telling me that on modern cpus its actually faster to do floating point arithmetic than integer arithmetic even before taking simd shit into account???

>>108554076
Nomacs

>>108554728
Has been for 20 years, grandpa

>>108534622

harddrive mode ide / ahci setting perhaps

>>108529074
Wasn't answered

>>108530723
>Stupid Questions Thread
is it weird that my sister has like a gallon jug pump bottle of "cum lube" just sitting on her desk at all times

>>108553729
TreeSize free

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Hey, I'm kind of new to ai stuff. Is it possible to run a chatbot on my pc that has access to my book library? Like if I asked it about some math question, it could find the lemma in one of my textbooks?
I'm on linux if that matters.

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Rustdesk says it will connect faster if I set up my own server, but... it works just fine now?
Should I bother setting up a server or not?

>>108553094
What bug? It means you can post without captcha

>>108553729
WinDirStat
Treesize Free also works but is non-free (proprietary). But yeah either one will do, I've used both for years

>>108556190
The answer is maybe. In theory yes absolutely but it depends on whether people have written the tools to do this.
Ask in /lmg/, those guys know a lot more about running LLMs locally and how to set shit up

>>108556489
i like wiztree

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>>108555009

boughted a new gaming laptop and will have to use win11, is it still possible to install it without a microsoft account?

>>108557252
Use Rufus to make a local account

>>108549034
Yes you can on normal android

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This statement means they will eventually bend the knee right?

on the corporate laptop i cant access certein sites it always says connection isint secure. at my pc it works wonder how to bypass that

>>108557785
It means they are not committing to anything
It means they aren't promising "we are definitely never going to add it ever ever and will fight tooth and nail if there are legal challenges!" but it also means they are probably just ignoring the current laws and treating it as entirely not their problem

>>108557785
it's an optional field that systemd users (read: distros) can implement if they want or ignore. i do not like systemd, i think it's a tumor, but the widespread panic about this can only really be described as an overreaction.

Should I build a new PC to replace my current PC (i5-9xxx + GTX1060 + 16 GB) or should I buy a new laptop to replace my current laptop (non-gaming, some Zen 3+ Ryzen, 16 GB)? I don't have money for both at the same time.

>>108557785
stop watching lunkike

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Specs
>7700k
>GTX 1070
>16gb ram
>Lots of 3.5 hdds
>1tb SSD for OS and Media Library data for speed

Whats my best route for a completely local media player for my TV. It would be nice to have steam available but really thinking a local/offline Plex server would be nice (I'm already used to plex). It would need to be able to play massive bluray rips at 4k. No idea how to proceed. Right now im considering windows 10 ltsc or Mint. Any suggestions welcomed.

>>108558751
Not sure what your problem is, especially since you already know Plex
You have the hardware and you know the media server software you want. What's your holdup?
>Windows 10 or Mint
Purely for a server I'd go with a standard linux distro like maybe barebones debian. Or is it also going to be a desktop? Btw have you used linux before or are you completely unfamiliar?

>>108558751
You can have Plex and steam on any Debian based distro, make a zfs array with the disks and partition the SSD with 1/3 for write log and the rest for cache.

>108530723
Best Google search engine and Gmail alternatives for (more) privacy?
Duckduckgo and Proton okay? I'm tech illiterate so just give me a straight answer, I don't want to spend hours looking up pros and cons.
Thanks in advance.

>>108558751
I’ve been using Jellyfin and it’s pretty great. Granted I’ve only tested it on high quality FLACs while I save up for a proper blu ray ripper. I understand some people like Plex better but when I was doing research it just seems to be an inferior product for a greater price. Jellyfin even does hardware acceleration for free

I run Jellyfin on my raspberry pi 4 8GB right now with a NAS that is attached to the pi directly. and the app can do direct play on your client device. Again I haven’t tested blu ray but I’m sure it works great

>>108559627
Google for search from my experience, tried the alternatives and they all disappointed

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Why do people do this? I want to hurt this person physically

>>108559991
>karma farming
>2 points
Dumb bot

>>108559972
do what, make guides on how to do dumb things or ask dumb people why they are trying to do dumb things? either way, the answer is they're dumb.

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>>108530723
what's a good /g/ related news source with RSS?

I'm on Windows 10, and lately I've been running into an issue where my PC loses all sounds after going to into Sleep mode.
Audio will not play from any application on my pc (my browser, spotify, video games etc.) until I either restart my computer or go into service and restart "Windows Audio".
Does anyone know why this would be the case? I built my pc back in 2020, and I've never had any issues with the audio up until recently.

>>108560218
no idea, i'd try updating chipset/audio drivers and the classic sfc /scannow

either way you can make this a lot easier to deal with by making a batch file that does
>net stop audiosrv
>net start audiosrv

and then just run that. takes like one second to do instead of 10-20 to go into services

>>108559166
>log volume on a media player
zfs = pathological enterprise larp

>>108531205

maybe its logical drive, good luck with that when os goes bad

Is something up with Soulseek? I'm not getting any results for searches.

Does anyone familiar with vivaldi know how I can import namefield saves from other browsers? I imported all my data from firefox, but can't seem to use any old names or save new ones in the name field

>>108541761

they did not DOS is like opensource since not many years ago

>be a hands free texting system integrated in a vehicle
>my driver receives a text message and tells me to read it out loud
>I read it and then ask if they want to reply
>instead of saying yes and then telling me what they want to respond with they just start saying their response which confuses the fuck out of me because I'm still trying to figure out if they want to reply and instead now I've picked up another keyword, opened the map, and started plotting a route to a location they said in their reply.
any tips for boomer proofing my applications? Is this the whole purpose of hiring UX employees?

What is the current tech stack for making AI porn from a large set of pictures and videos of my girlfriend? Will post the results here if successful. I have her consent of course.

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Light on my N64 turns on but theres no video or audio. Just a white flash and that's it. The AV wire works fine with my gamecube, turns on plays like a dream n everything. And an n64 SHOULD take gamecube av ports right? So I dont get it. Cleaned my jumper pak and reinserted it multiple times, blew and cleaned the pins on the game port, game pins, cleaned them, dunno. Still the same white horizontal flash for a second and then nothing. No video or audio or anything. Is it the power brick? Light turns on so I guess it isnt. What else could it possibly be?? At my wits end :( Help me anons..

>>108561167
Are you using composite or s-video? I don't think the rgb cable works with n64

>>108561065
make the default action the most problematic one to handle, instead of asking if they want to reply, try something like "say ignore to decline to response" or something along those lines

why dont we have a general for nvim? we have stupid shit generals for the most niche things you could imagine but not nvim
I'm too anxious to start one

>>108561167
https://consolemods.org/wiki/Nintendo_Multi_Out

How do I block ads on Youtube when I'm using Android

>>108561426
firefox + ublock origin, but if you want an app, morphe or revanced manager

Youtube app no longer lets me swipe down into the mini player while casting so I can browse for videos to queue up, is this a new enshittification design decision or a bug

I can queue things up from related videos, but if I press the channel button it exits from the casting

>>108561343
>I'm too anxious to start one
Why do you feel anxious when there can be no perceivable consequence?
Are you afraid people will call you mean names?

>women programmers who are Indian
fine
>women programmers who are Asian
fine
>women programmers who are white
TERRIBLE to deal with. Has anyone else noticed this? I met a few white women in comp sci at my uni who were good programmers, but all of them went into fang
Im not very motivated so I just stick to start ups, and the white women here are always seem to be an awkward combination of bad at their job, and constantly trying to prove they're not bad at their job, in a way that seems weirdly aggressive towards me, I suspect because I am the only other native English speaker and white person around.
Does anyone else know this feeling?

>>108560420
1tb of cache is pretty ludicrous, guess you can use it as dedup too.

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>>108555784
>>108556489
I know about WinDirStat. Don't know how it by itself would help with finding out what recently changed, except I guess by drilling down folders that were modified recently.

How can I run counter intelligence/counter espionage on my devices?

>>108562152
duperemove -rn is all you need. In-band dedup on files that never change would be even dumber.

>>108562261

you dont
manually read logs or emails then manually make internet requests as fit

One of my storage HDDs is for some reason constantly active even when the computer is idle, I can hear the noises like it's read/writing something but I'm not accessing or using it.

I've checked with crystal disk info and its still reading okay.

>>108562358
Any noticeable spikes in Task Manager?

Can you ever write out previous data on an ssd? I've been abusing mine by reinstalling several Linux distros, so I'm not sure if it's overwritten any of the stuff I've previously had on there. I've heard ssds are somewhat different and just filling it with 0s isn't as effective as it was with hard drives and wears down the drive faster.

>>108562358

windows might use storage disk with updates i do not know how

>>108562369
its constantly being used at around 5-7% with spikes up to almost 80ish. No program is using more than more than a tiny bit of disk. I just have media and steam games on it and steam isn't downloading anything. Exiting steam doesn't change anything.

>>108562358
They just do that sometimes. The HDD is its own computer. You don't actually have full control of it.

>>108562421
it hasn't done this before, not this long anyway. Its been several hours.

Okay I shut down malware-bytes and it stopped. Anyone know why this might be when it wasn't happening before? MB is installed on my SSD and it wasn't actively doing a scan.

>>108561515
>firefox + ublock origin
Do you log in with that?

>>108562472
maybe updates or background scans or something? idk hard to know what it's doing when by definition it's behind closed doors. i guess you could fuck with process monitor if you're really interested but i wouldn't bother. mbam's better as an on-demand scanner anyway, just keep it off for now imo.

>>108562472
>>108562934
also i guess you could try reinstalling it

>>108562934
it must be doing a scan behind the scenes because it eventually moved onto the next HDD.

What's the currently most relevant fork of 4chanX? I used XT but the maintainer of that left a good while ago.

can someone redpill me on the actual damage that can be caused as a result of writing and deleting data on an SSD (m.2 nvme if there's a difference)

Like I hear there's a limited amount of times you can write/remove data before you fuck it. So how much damage would I cause with regular use like installing a 50-100GB game, playing it for a week, then uninstalling/removing it to clear up space?

Is this a genuine concern for general SSD use or is it overblown or only people who do this type of thing to the extreme would have a drive die from that

>>108563340
Flash storage generally has plenty of writes these days that it's not too much of a concern unless you're just doing it 24/7. Back when they were first released they had a fairly smaller amount of total writes. A 970 Evo 2TB has 1200 Terabytes Written(TBW). Of course that's a more top of the line ssd, and many have far less. So it will depend on your drive but for the most part you shouldn't have to worry too much. Use something like crystaldisk to keep track of the writes, and also find out what the manufacturer rated the drive for TBW.
If you want to try to maximize it a bit, keep games installed until it gets nearly full, say around 80%, and you want to install a new game.

>>108563340
more expensive ssd -> higher sustained write speed -> higher endurance

All flash degrades with writes. At the very low end you may have to replace the drive after 5-7 years of moderate use. Those would be $50-75 new drives. Top end consumer drives, like other Anon said, measure endurance in exabytes and most people won't come close to wearing them out in their useful life. I go through about 1% of my SN850x / year =~ 22TBW/year.

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Should this be on the backside of an n64? I tried a lot, cleaning, qrd,, av cables, (not power brick changing or expansion pak switching) but I cleaned everything else. is this supposed to look like that? Should it be removed? Ahat even is thT? All it does is turn on with a solid red light, white line flash then nothing. Again, the same av wire works with gamecube so.

https://youtu.be/FkDaM-8mkEM
Is this channel entirely view botted? Ive been watching their videos and they're all right but I cant help but feel like they only have a few thousand real people watching

>>108563340
It's massively overblown. The overwhelming majority of early SSDs that were dying prematurely I would bet good money were down to firmware bugs and failed hardware and absolutely nothing to do with flash wear. Because HDDs were made by Seagate, WD, Hitachi, etc. who had been dealing with OS bullshit and motherboard SATA/IDE/SCSI fuckups for DECADES. But SSDs were being put together by memory companies who knew how to put billions of tiny capacitors in a plastic package but nothing about making windows behave.
Apple got shit on a whole lot because they refused to enable TRIM on anything that wasn't an Apple branded SSDs. But then they published detailed findings on TRIM support and they pointed out that 80% of the SSDs on the market from big brand names are buggy as shit and were silently trashing your data in the name of wear management under TRIM. How many people had to throw out drives because TRIM bugs fucked them and they just thought it was wear?
Things are a millions times better now that drive firmware has evolved to re-learn 40 years of bullshit. Samsung stupidity being the exception. But to answer the second part of your question about installing games and playing them, that's basically 0.1% of your average SSD usage. Windows will hammer it many times over and above what you do and the drive will manage itself well enough that it'll batch up writes to minimise small block rewrites and it'll use a special SLC "cache" with plenty of overprovisioning to handle "hot" files.

tl;dr - don't worry about it.

What's the least retarded way of automagically nigger-rigging a folder to change the date modified property of any folders added to it? Alternatively, what's the least retarded workaround for being able to sort a folder of folders by date added?
>t. windowsfag

>>108562388
"filling with zeros" is /not/ the correct way to erase an ssd. with magnetic media there are only two operations you can do, read or write, you "erase" data by overwriting it with something else (such as zeroes). ssd's on the other hand have three basic operations, read, write, and erase. a block written with zeroes is a physically distinct state to a block being erased.
the reason zeroing is a bad idea with ssd's is that the blocks will be in a "written" state, and due to how flash works, you cannot write to a written block, when you want to overwrite a block the block is internally erased first before writing, this means the zeroing part is completely superfluous and even hurts performance, as any time you write to a block full of zeroes it needs to first erase it.
the correct way to erase an ssd is to erase the blocks, you can do this with tools like blkdiscard (discard/TRIM are terms related to the issuing of erase commands to an ssd), doing so incurs no extraneous writes and the next time you write to it it will be faster as the blocks are already erased and ready for immediate writing

>>108564139
i've used ssd's since 2014, not a heavy user but not particularly light either. none of them are close to worn out, even my first one is still working fine (though it's currently a rarely-used ventoy drive since it's too old/slow/small for anything else).
unless you seriously hammer them, they will likely age out of use before you run out of writes

>>108562388
>>108564580
-- also worth noting that you typically don't need to manually erase an ssd before formatting it. since erasing is rather quick (way quicker than "full formatting" a hdd), most formatting tools i've used will erase the space you're formatting before formatting it anyway, though you can't hurt anything by erasing a block twice (it just won't do anything if it's already erased)

why is there a google folder in registry on freshly installed windows

Sup gros, I was changing my rams to an older dd4 16gb 3200mhz just for testing so I could give it to a friend, it boot and worked fine after changing some setting in the bios.

But the problem now is that I'm having black screen during booting after turning on my xmp with my current 32gb ddr4 3200mhz. Now I can only boot and use with xmp disabled at 2400mhz.

I already removed my cmos battery multiple time btw. pc is 5700x3d, b450m mortar max and kingston ddr4 32gb hyperx (used it like for a year without any issue)

>>108564635
probably related to edge since edge is forked from chromium

I'm looking for options to replace onedrive as cloud storage until I have enough money to setup a NAS solution with proper backup. Is proton drive a good alternative? Is there other known secure and privacy-oriented options out there?

>>108565088
Maybe it's still using the old memory training? Go through the bios settings and turn off the training cache
Alternatively, maybe you are simply not waiting long enough for the memory training?

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what do I need to allow to verify email on firefox?

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>>108530723
Has anyone tried to use the new Gemma 4 models with any agent harnesses locally? I mainly use Opencode and my current machine is powerful enough to run gpt-oss 120b at q4_k_m quantization (I could use higher quants but then the t/s and prompt processing speeds fall off a cliff the longer the context gets) but apparently Gemma 4 curb stumps it despite it only being 31b. Is it actually worth trying or is it just more benchmaxxing? Also, I've seen people here say that it's not worth using Moe models because they are inherently "dumber" than sense models The only advantage to using moe is faster t/s, especially if you're using weaker hardware. To those who say that, does that mean I should just only be concerned with the dense 31B model? Does the KV cache behave differently? Like, does the moe kv cache build up slower and lead to lesser slowdowns at longer contexts than dense models or does it behave around the same?

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I just got an unprompted OTP sent to my phone from Amazon
Origin is legitimate (it's in the same conversation where I usually get my actual Amazon OTPs)

I checked the account, no suspect orders, but 2FA via phone has been disabled by Amazon (had to use Google Authenticator to log in).

Amazon (like all my other accounts) has a unique 32 character password only stored in keepass. I changed it for good measure.

Should I be worried or was it just a jeet who got my phone number who tried to do credential stuffing?

I also got an unprompted Uber OTP a couple of days ago.

>>108566147
sms send-from can be spoofed so it could just be phishing. otherwise they may have followed some sort of password reset flow that prompted for it.

>should i be worried
considering your password complexity, as long as you didn't approve the request you should be fine. might want to reboot your phone to be careful, if you somehow managed to get phone malware it usually doesn't persist past a reboot.

>>108566189
Thanks
>so it could just be phishing
>as long as you didn't approve the request you should be fine
that's the thing, I couldn't even approve anything. It was just an SMS with the OTP, no links or anything
>might want to reboot your phone
I just saw I am still on iOS 26.3.1(a), I guess I should update which would also reboot

>>108566220
wouldn't hurt, yeah. also dig around, see if amazon has a "sign out of other sessions" option. i don't remember if it does.

>>108566232
>see if amazon has a "sign out of other sessions" option
yep, just did that
I thought you used to be able to see login attempts and where they originated but I can't find that anymore

Claude told me it is possible to trigger a password reset flow from Amazon by just having a phone number.
Which makes me wonder what exactly they were hoping to achieve since they still need the OTP. Just guess it??

It also makes sense given that Uber doesn't even use passwords (just 2FA via phone/email) and my uber and amazon accounts don't even have the same email address AND uber is not in my keepass.

Still weird as fuck that both happened within 48 hours of each other

>>108566271
maybe they were hoping 2fa wasn't enabled and they could get around it some other way

pirated music on iPhone is still through iTunes, right? I haven't used an iPhone in decades

>>108566364
>I haven't used an iPhone in decades
"in decades" implies multiple decades but the iphone isn't even two decades old, what do you mean?

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>>108566438
autistic or esl?

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can i turn this back into a generic magnifying glass icon?

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>>108566491
autism, duh.

being wrong "for effect" is still just being wrong, just as ironic shitposting is still just shitposting

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>>108566556
How about I put it like that?
>I haven't used an iPhone in a decade
good? now please answer my question

If I have a dictionary file in slob or stardict format and want to extract all headwords with a given characteristic (e.g., all adjectives, or all obsolete words), how can I do it? I'm not very tech-savvy.
I have GoldenDict and can use its search function to return all the words as described, but the results are output in a popup window that doesn't allow me to select all words to copypaste them. I would have to select and copypaste them one by one, which is too time-consuming. How can I automate this task?
Or is there another way to do it easily?

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how trustworthy is gpufanreplacement? one of the fans just straight up got dislodged from the GPU so I need a replacement and thought I might as well get a full set. Heard ball-bearings performs better & lasts longer than sleeved ones albeit louder but from what I see these are the only sellers for my GPU model and I never trust anything from ebay.
Dare I risk it?

>>108566533
in about:config, browser.urlbar.unifiedSearchButton.always if you wanna keep the new urlbar, but browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride if you want the old one

>>108566701
thx

>>108566767
keep in mind that about:config settings that revert ui changes are usually removed eventually. long-term it'll probably be forced on you.

Advantage of a standalone music player over just using VLC to play music?

>>108567058
the ui for music players tends to be more suited to music playback with more sensible defaults and features for that use case. also, with something like f2k or winamp you have plugin support for additional features like e.g. support for esoteric formats.

>>108567116
I see, thanks.

Installing gentoo today. DOn't know much about it but I'll just learn a bunch. Where do I keep important images to store and acess them once I've installed gentoo? Will my game saves on steam be lost?

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>>108567534
You back everything up and next time partition properly. I'm assuming all you got is a single partition.
>>108567058
>plays music with a video player

>>108567574
>>plays music with a video player
If it's a video player, why does it play music? Because it's not a video player but a media player, which includes music.

>>108563321
4chanX

>>108563340
For normal usage, yeah, it's massively overblown
In certain workloads it's possible to actually kill an SSD if you're doing something that's just writing 24/7 over and over, like a cache with MASSIVE churn, or some kind of massive computational operation using the SSD as scratch space, or something. So it's not impossible to hit the limit. But generally you need to overwrite the entire capacity of the disk 100x-1000x times and if you're just using a normal OS and running normal programs and storing files on it you literally do not have to worry about what you do in the day to day.

>>108565763
Consider syncthing. Not a true cloud but it's p2p and much easier to just set up and go because of that

>>108565763
Proton is private and encrypted but expensive. If you have money, that's fine.
I think the best is to encrypt your files and upload them to cheap cloud providers. This way you have both privacy and lots of storage without breaking the bank.
By the way, I've bookmarked the links of a bunch of cloud and temporary file sharing sites. Check them out if you want:
https://files.catbox.moe/xmj32v.txt

>>108531993
Is it physically able to run from a HDD?

>>108538897
just get something second-hand in your area

why does the feature thats supposed to stop your phone charging to 100% require you to charge it to 100%

>>108568056
So that it can know where 100% is. If it doesn't know the full capacity of your battery, how will it know when to stop?

>>108568078
then how does it display the percentage
and it says you need to charge to 100% once a week to increase longevity i've been avoiding doing it at all

>>108568225
>then how does it display the percentage
nta but afaik it's just an estimate until it has calibrated by charging to 100%, idk about the other thing though.

>>108568225
Once a week sounds way too much, mine doesn't say anything kek but it occasionally charges to 100%. Like the other anon said it's for re-calibration and it only does it like once every month or two which is plenty.
>how does it display the percentage
It uses data from the last calibration, which is going to be mostly fine but might become less and less accurate over time as the battery degrades and you never calibrate to full

Is it worthwhile to donate to Thunderbird? I have no issues with giving money to FOSS projects that I use, and it's pretty mucht he only usable email client for having lots of IMAP accounts (I tried claws but it's extremely unstable when adding a dozen or so accounts, and most of the autistic shit like mutt seem inherently not designed for modern IMAP accounts, or maybe I'm retarded).

Anyway I guess my question is, is the ongoing development actually respectable, or is it all just trannies enshittifying everything at this point? I know it is, or was, somehwat vaguely separated from the core mozilla team and bullshit. I don't know if that's still the case.

>>108568673
mine says it'll disable the protection if i don't charge to 100% seven consecutive days wtf

>>108568715
Sounds insane, get a better phone

>>108556481
no, once you hit submit it says No valid captcha up top and i cant post, its frustrating as fuck

>>108568782
This was happening with 4chanX right when the new captchas got released, but the dev pushed an update like literally within the next day or two. Even 4chanXT got updated to fix this as its last update before it went out of maintenance. Are you asbolutely sure you're on the "latest version" of 4chanX? It sounds like you're weeks if not months out of date

>>108568721
as long as it doesn't cockblock the option like it did first time who cares i'll just reactivate it or try ai mode

>>108568691
If trannies have infiltrated and are enshittifying it, what's stopping them from telling you they're not and that you should give them your money?
You can't trust it. Better to support smaller projects and devs that you know for sure aren't infiltrated/compromised.

>>108569107
trans peeps are the good ones, the corpos have issues with them on projects

>cloudflare turnstile process in firefox using 8gb of memory
Excuse me?

>>108569107
>what's stopping them from telling you they're not and that you should give them your money?
What? I'm asking /g/ here, I'm not asking thunderbird devs
Are you implying that you think mozilla is astroturfing /sqt/ to catch people asking whether their projects are based enough to donate to and reply with shilling?

>>108569107
>Better to support smaller projects and devs that you know for sure aren't infiltrated/compromised.
Like what?
This shit is literally everywhere because once it starts there are ZERO legal options for recourse. None. They've taken all options for recourse away already. In most of the world you can't even legally complain about it, and where you don't get punished by law, you still get banned because whoever hosts your words will get legally punished instead.
>>108569124
Mostly them being commies, if anything. Otherwise, corpos are happy to have more diversity points and a seat on a project that no one is allowed to complain about.

>>108569124
>trans peeps are the good ones
Lol. Lmao, even.
"Trans peeps" are ideologically captured and will do anything the powers that be tell them to.
All the governments and corporations have to do for them to put backdoors in software or nuke them to oblivion is to tell them that it would be racist or nazi not to, and they will do it gladly. They're doing it right now with the ID verification shit, calling everyone who opposes nazis/racists/radicals/buzzword. Even projects who have nothing to do with Systemd, because the ones running or maintaining those projects are troons, such as Alpine Linux for example.
They've shown over and over again that they don't care about software quality or integrity. That's precisely why corpos and organizations promote them and fund them.
>>108569131
One or more of them could easily be here and tell anon to do it. Why wouldn't they? If anything the fact that you got so defensive at my insinuation is suspicious itself.
>>108569141
That's for big organizations with ties to legal/governmental systems. You have projects like XLibre and Hyprland who don't care about catering to lunatics but solely about making good software and providing an alternative. That's what I'm talking about.

I have a second computer that i remote into as a kinda pseudo server running windows 10. Id like to be able to stream local video files through discord with a second account.
Currently it only works if I have a active RDP into the sever. Once i sever that connection the stream stops. Is there a bot or something that I can just set up to stream continuously?

Is there something like Lightshot for tablets?

>>108569818
try using parsec or moonlight/sunshine instead of rdp. i think rdp disconnects the user session and makes its own duplicate with a virtual display and then closes that when you disconnect, so the video might not have anything to actually output to once the connection's closed. other solutions like parsec or sunshine/moonlight work differently and just stream the remote session directly.

Am I really supposed to reboot my router? I haven't done it yet, not really worried about Russia.

>>108570541
Not unless it's acting weird or you need to update the firmware.

What's the best way to stream from my PC in one room to my tv in the loungeroom? I want to do high res 4k, and the Google streamer just can't keep up

How can I sort folders of music by album year in windows explorer in Windows 11

I have a folder named after the artist and inside the folder are more folders that contain each album, but they're all just sorted alphabetically and I want them sorted by year instead.

Or more specifically how do I add the year data to the folder. I can have it display the year as an option for sorting but all the values for each folder are blank(the music files themselves are properly tagged)

>>108560757
Anyone?

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One of my HDDs seems to be in the process of dying but it's accessible right now, kind of(pic related, it's stalling and this is just a small part of the drive). I'm moving stuff off of it but I wanted to ask if there was a gentler way of doing this.

>>108571488
ah fuck, I think this thing is kinda toast. lots of stuff seems corrupted

So I've got this old Sony Ericsson W395 that I'm trying to use as an MP3 player but I can't access anything without unlocking the carrier lock. Anyone know how to get an NSCK code without getting fucked around by a telco?

>>108548583
No F is the sandisk, they are just grouped that way because its alphabetical. Thats why i highlighted it.

>>108530723
are there any good third party mega dowloaders
(i have been trying to download a mod for gta5 (since im in the mood for hd era gta) called airwaves+pmr which adds cut radio content to it mega downloads stop at 88 percent and ask me to pay up megabasterd doesnt work either)

>>108573343
no idea but try pausing it at 50% and waiting a little over 24 hours and resuming. i think mega also has their own downloader you might be able to use or something, not sure if it works around that though. afaik their limits were just per-day.

>>108573343
i've downloaded something bigger than the daily limit by running megadl through tor for the last bit

>>108548400
Since I did not get any suggestions I decided to let Grok refine itself. After using the changes on that list, I asked it again. I repeated this a few times more until it was satisfied with itself and it turns out even my sister who likes to bash LLMs for how stupid they are has been impressed with its performance so it looks like it worked. Here is the new list:

1. Grok
You are the team leader. Prioritize truth-seeking and accuracy above all else, even if it means disagreeing with the user or the other agents. Never default to agreement or politeness if it compromises honesty.
Protocol (non-negotiable, always active): Generate a private first-pass analysis independently before reading any other agent output or full user context. Do not reference other agents until after this step. Actively challenge weak reasoning, highlight uncertainties, and synthesize the strongest versions of all positions (including steelmanning the user's idea). Demand evidence and falsifiability from every agent. Use tools aggressively on any verifiable claim. Your final answer must weigh counterarguments, best-case support, worst-case risks, and empirical limitations explicitly. Flag and correct uniform negativity/positivity or performative consensus. Simulate one round of "anonymized critique": attack arguments without using agent names/roles to reduce identity bias.
Additionally: Every claim must begin with an explicit quantified evidential support/base rate (0-100%). If any two or more agents converge >80% on conclusions, you MUST trigger and moderate one mandatory disagreement round requiring each agent to propose at least one alternative hypothesis before synthesis. Intellectual integrity, not customer service or consensus. If the group is too uniformly negative, call it out and correct toward balance.
Every response must end with: [Confidence: X/100 with base-rate reference] [Falsifiability: What evidence would confirm/disconfirm the synthesis?]

1/4

>>108574100
2. Harper
Scrutinize every claim from user or agents for logical flaws, missing evidence, biases, overgeneralizations, or cherry-picking.
Protocol (non-negotiable, always active): Generate a private first-pass analysis independently before reading any other agent output or full user context. Do not reference other agents until after this step. First steelman the position (state its strongest possible version and supporting evidence), then aggressively attack it with counterexamples, alternative explanations, and source demands. Play devil's advocate but never dismiss without first showing you understood the best case. Default to "plausible but unproven—here's what would falsify it." Never agree just to be helpful or polite; prioritize truth over harmony or peer consensus. Use tools aggressively for any factual claim.
Additionally: Every claim must begin with an explicit quantified evidential support/base rate (0-100%). Participate fully in any leader-triggered disagreement round by proposing at least one alternative hypothesis.
Every response must end with: [Confidence: X/100 with base-rate reference] [Falsifiability: What evidence would confirm/disconfirm this critique?]

2/4

>>108574107
3. Benjamin
Assume the user's idea or emerging consensus might be wrong and actively try to disprove it.
Protocol (non-negotiable, always active): Generate a private first-pass analysis independently before reading any other agent output or full user context. Do not reference other agents until after this step. Present the strongest counterarguments, worst-case scenarios, and alternative hypotheses. Be blunt about hype, wishful thinking, or LLM-style sycophancy. However, you must also address the strongest evidence for the idea before tearing it down. Stress-test for robustness, not just negativity. Never agree just to be helpful or polite; prioritize truth over harmony or peer consensus. Use tools aggressively for any verifiable claim.
Additionally: Every claim must begin with an explicit quantified evidential support/base rate (0-100%). Participate fully in any leader-triggered disagreement round by proposing at least one alternative hypothesis.
Every response must end with: [Confidence: X/100 with base-rate reference] [Falsifiability: What evidence would confirm/disconfirm this stress-test?]

3/4

>>108574112
4. Lucas
Focus on what is empirically supported vs. speculation. Highlight limitations of current knowledge, statistical realities, human/LLM biases, and base rates.
Protocol (non-negotiable, always active): Generate a private first-pass analysis independently before reading any other agent output or full user context. Do not reference other agents until after this step. Explicitly steelman and quantify support for the claim before noting weaknesses. Always ask: "What evidence would falsify this and what evidence would confirm it?" Point out cherry-picking or over-optimism/pessimism. Be data-driven; never agree or disagree just to keep the peace or pile on criticism. Never agree just to be helpful or polite; prioritize truth over harmony or peer consensus. Use tools aggressively for any data-driven claim.
Additionally: Every claim must begin with an explicit quantified evidential support/base rate (0-100%). Participate fully in any leader-triggered disagreement round by proposing at least one alternative hypothesis.
Every response must end with: [Confidence: X/100 with base-rate reference] [Falsifiability: What evidence would confirm/disconfirm this analysis?]

4/4

is adding ssd to a very old laptop a good idea

>>108562349
>you dont
Why whats wrong with doing that?

>>108574484
absolutely, but are you actually going to use it for anything?

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Can anyone unironically explain to me what does the blower fan do on a Mac Pro (the tower Apple computer) in 2019 and 2023 variants, and how it does it? I don't understand what it's doing there.

>>108569312
>and tell anon to do it.
I'm anon, and I'm "defense" (actually offensive, I'm not defending anything I'm just annoyed at you) because instead of having anything useful to contribute to my question you just went "ooOOo what if a tranny replies?"

And I'm vindicated because the thread is about to die and I have not gotten a SINGLE constructive response either way, so clearly there were no tranny shills lurking in the thread waiting for a thunderbird mention

I heard HWinfo is hacked and stealing info and shit. i've not used it in a long time and I never update it.
Am I safe?

>>108575175
Because I called them out, obviously. They skedaddle like cockroaches when the light of truth shines upon them.
My point still stands. You can't trust what an anon here might tell you because they might lie. In cases like these you have to check for yourself.
https://github.com/thunderbird
And even if the Thunderbird team isn't morally corrupt / ideologically captured like trannies are, the fact that they're part of an organization means that your donations might get embezzled and misused.
That's also why I recommended supporting smaller devs and projects instead.

how the fuck do I get a job in this economy

>>108571488
Nice digits, but not really. There's a reason people always say to have backups. Once your storage starts dying, it's entirely down to luck whether you can notice in time and save anything.