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Alright /g/ after spending the whole day looking for information and personally tweaking my laptop to try and achieve what I am after I come here defeated to ask for your help.
Before I continue my computer is an old Dell XPS l511z with a broken monitor (I use the hdmi cable with an external monitor) and a fucked battery.
The problem I have is the following, my laptop battery recently got fucked, like a week ago I tried to charge it and the laptop light blinks orange and it stays there all the time, when I disconnect the charger the laptop just shuts down because the battery is dead, now I wouldn't give a fuck about the battery if it just would be that but my laptop is a Dell and apparently they have a chip that when the battery gets damaged or the charger gets bad it forces your computer to work 30% with less CPU or more, I really don't know the number. And this shit is HORRIBLE for using stuff like emulators, virtual computer, video editing etc.
So when I looked that up it seems I could bypass that shit of a problem with just tweaking some options on the BIOS. But here is the other problem, I cannot access the BIOS on my external monitor, the monitor only works after the OS boots. I have been looking all day since the morning for alternatives and answers, I have fully dismantled my laptop trying to disconnect the LCD cables so it forces the second monitor (did not work) and I just finished putting it all together again and give up.

My question is, is there a way I could access the BIOS feature on a secondary monitor? Someone told me to try pressing F9 while on the BIOS to restart the settings and force the screen but that did not work. I have a headache since an hour ago because of this shit. Would really appreciate any input or help besides the obvious which is getting a new monitor or computer ( I don't have the resources right now)

Pic related my shittop

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THANK YOU BASED LOGITECH

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Why won't it stop uploading? I didn't modify my files at all

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Why do web browsers allow popups at all?

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whats the name of a paid view botting program to get 5 viewers on youtube?

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What are the new BlackBerry phones like?

Vid related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIlusV3Zgo

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hi /g/

so I have a stupid question

I'm looking for suggestions for books / reference on software design. I don't care if it's called architecture or engineering or programming or whatever but what I'm looking for is why functions and classes are structured a certain ways and why. I'm hoping for language agnostic general programming problems that are common to all software languages / designs. I get this is impossible to a degree as certain things are language specific.

I don't know the correct terminology for this. It's somewhere just below design patterns. Does anyone have a word for this?

thanks

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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act please sign this it might not do anything but why not

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good online sites to buy a DESKTOP PC online, with worldwide shipping?
its IBUYPOWER worth it?

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So thats why you alt righters all have thinkpads.

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So I have these really old B and O bookshelf speakers, and they sound pretty good.
They're massive though, I have no place to put them on my desk. The sound from my TV is shite so I wanna put those through my speakers too.
The red squares in the picture is where I want to put them. As you can see my television set is mounted to the wall on an arm so it can swing round and I can use it as a second monitor on my desk if I want, or for a TV (this is my living room) or against the wall when I don't need it. I know it's squint as shit but fuck off, it's squint on the wall so I can't have it straight anywhere next. I take out a spirit level and straighten it perfectly in one position, then I move it again and it's fucked.

Where's the optimum position for my speakers? On the red squares, it'll be alright for my computer I think, but for my TV it's all lopsided. Is it gonna sound fucked or what? I saw someone talk about their surround setup on youtube and they said they had adjusted the sound so it wasn't fucked when it wasn't symmetrical. Can I do this? How? How would that even work?

I have a giant speaker amp I got from a church, it has tons of inputs and outputs and it'll blow my speakers if I crank it to 11 and deefen me. Obviously I wouldn't want the sound all sideways for working on my computer. Is there some device that surround sound cunts use to set up their room? Could I plug that into the amp, if such a machine indeed exists?

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>actively developed
that's one hell of a pretentious way to say unfinished

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>He doesn't dual boot his ThinkPad T420 with Windows 10 LTSB and Fedora 26

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Hurricane is coming and my hardware/life is at risk
I'm drinking because this might be my last week on this fucking rock
I love you, /g/. Hard times ahead; might not make it back.

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Why doesn't Mozilla get rid of the gtk file picker and rewrite it in javascript+html5?