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Hey /g/
The company i work for is very easily to throw away broken tech. I've already salvaged two 24" screens that were easily fixed. (Broken power button ffs)
Now I'm eyeing this nice big screen that i use all day and i was wondering if you could help me come up with a way to "break" that screen in such a way that i can fix it. But there cant be any traces of this being intentional of course.
What would you do?
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I would buy a screen, Jamal. You need to stop hustling your place of employment, ffs.
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>>57785599
This. Don't be a horrible employee.
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>>57785599
You're doing ironic racism wrong. Jamal doesn't have a job.
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Looking to buy a cheapo tablet, and both of these are on offer for £99.99
Which is better?
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>android tablet
what purpose?
get a windows 10 tablet
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>>57785336
go away Bill
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enjoy extreme carpal tunnel
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Continuing from >>57780837
Why are you not running openSUSE?
I've switched from Ubuntu 16.04 (when it was fairly new) to openSUSE Tumbleweed.
-the good of openSUSE-
-GUI for configuring everything! For those booing me, CLI is available too.
-Btrfs with Snapper to roll back updates if you mess up repository priorities or if updates break things.
-KDE fucking works
-Tumbleweed is rolling but stable in my experience so far
-Installation wizard (lol arch, gentoo and other time sinks)
Issues I've noticed so far
-Media playback-
Getting proprietary stuff for media playback is somewhat difficult, no single package like Ubuntu but adding a repository (Packman), figuring out repository priority takes some time, doing it wrong ends up with a broken system when doing zypper dup, Snapper is available to rollback though.
-Snapper and small disks-
When using a small disk, say 120GB, Snapper will happily try to create new snapshots until you run out of space, can be fixed by setting max snapshot and age but why can this happen in the first place?
-Far smaller community repositories and general support than Ubuntu/Arch-
-AMDGPU PRO is not yet available for openSUSE (muh games, looking at Dying Light)
-a lot of packages have to be added by unofficial repositories (Ubuntu PPA equivalent)
examples: keepass, deadbeef, atop and fatrace, xsensors I had to compile myself
-no apt-get autoremove equivalent?-
Closest I could find was:
Possibly unsafe: rpmorphan -gui
Safe: zypper packages --orphaned
-updates are not as quick as Ubuntu/Arch at times-
Case in point: Firefox 50.0.2 is not available yet, pending though.
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I've been running Tumbleweed for a while. It's great if you want the best KDE desktop around.
I didn't really have any issues with media playback, although all I really do on that front is watch YouTube.
I'm not using btrfs / snapper, am I doing it wrong?
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>>57785147
Eh, not using it is fine, I like to try out things that might possibly break stuff so I went with defaults with Btrfs for OS and xfs for home.
Something like Windows system restore for openSUSE or $populardistro would be great though.
Maybe that's possible with ZFS or LVM?
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I installed it two weeks ago but nothing fucking worked so i nuked it.
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How easy/possible is it to make a transition between mech eng and computing, as a career. I'm a year 2 undergrad of mech eng, so we have to do some computing, ie. matlab, as part of the course.
This is by far my favourite thing for me, so I'm considering transitioning to programming as a career. Has anyone else here started this way? How easy is it to make the transition and will my background with matlab be at all helpful, or is it pretty much irrelevant.
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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The fuck does matlab even do
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>>57785021
you only enjoy matlab because it's effectively a highschool subject. imagine how much you would enjoy highschool maths of you were doing it alongside thermodynamics. also matlab is not much like a real coding language, no pointers or that other difficult shit
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>>57785060
It's mostly used in engineering mathematics, we pretty much use it just for numerical analysis but the grad students use it for image processing afaik.
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Stupid Questions Thread
There isn't one at the moment, and I have a stupid question.
I got a new HDD today, a 3TB WD Red, and I'm copying everything on my old Caviar Blue over to it, around 500GB and 300k files. They are both using SATA. The speed it's copying at is only ~1MB/s though, with a low around 500KB/s and a high at 10MB/s. I know small files take longer to copy, but isn't this a bit too slow?
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So I'm kinda sick of waiting now.
Is there a way for me to tell defraggler (or any other tool) to just start moving the blocks that are breaking up the freespace counting from the end? Because I don't even need all of that freespace defragmented. I probably just need a third at most and that's a stretch.
I'm gonna dualboot on my SSD so I need to shrink this partition.
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>>57785073
just resize it, stuff that needs to move will be moved
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>>57785099
Not on windows 7 at least.
Tells me it could only crop it by <4GB or so.
I should of course look for a better tool for just doing the resizing. Which I didn't consider, stupid of me.
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How do we stop HDBits?
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>>57784853
Why would we want to, Anon?
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HDB invite please
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Could you guys recommend me the best NAS that:
-either supports iSCSI
-or can run any OS (FreeNAS is cool)
-and can fit 10TB in RAID 1 (at least 20TB of raw hard disk space)
It can be just a bunch of parts to use to build my own server if that's the best solution. I think that something like QNAP might be enough, though.
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>>57784834
prebuilt NAS's are for people who can't into putting a machine together and installing FreeNAS/whatever
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>>57784834
Just build one
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>>57785022
>>57785113
I don't need to prove anything to myself, I just need a solution that is the most solid and the least expensive. What is wrong with prebuilt NAS's? Why would I use a server/desktop grade CPU when I can get a box with a more energy efficient ARM that will still do the job?
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I am a computational astrophysicist and I have been recently using an SSD for my code runs. How bad is this for my SSD? Worried that each run gives me ~1-2 gbs of files and numerous runs a day might be a bad idea.
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1-2GB/day is nothing
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>>57784779
I am the Persident elect of the United States and I decree that there is no issue in using SSD for code runs if you're a computational astrophysicist. Rejoice!
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>>57784779
if they're temporary files, why not just use a ramdisk?
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thoughts on this floorplan
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>>57784663
Looks like a woman's butt in a handstand position.
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>tfw have to walk to media room from master suite
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What is a "wet bar"?
Looks pretty comfy... Not sure if I would like so much open space, but then it probably makes it feel more luxurious. Has this been built yet?
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If your OS won't let you do this, it's trash.
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>>57784641
why would i need that
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>>57784641
Thanks god it doesn't
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>>57784641
that's literally what I hate about linux
autistic af
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Holy FUG it's real!
https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/
RISC-V CPU based arduino clone. MUH FREEDOMS
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>320+ MHz
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>>57784632
And just like AVR chips the CPU on this has no cache so it can actually be used for safety-critical real-time embedded software.
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>>57784687
what does it mean? lol
that's way way faster than normal arduino
>2016
>not using Vim
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>>57784630
>using outdated piece of shit software
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i use evil mode in emacs
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>2016
>not using neovim
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Why does this piece of shit can't reconnect when I reboot my router?
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maybe the retard is u
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login
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>Wireless
>Linux
>mfw
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How long does it take you to copy and download a whole website using something like HTTrack? It's been an hour for me so far, just wondering. Also, any idea on how many GB a whole website will take up once it's saved?
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>not using wget -k -m
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>>57784556
Related question: is it possible to download *all* pages hosted on a webserver, even those that are not linked anywhere?
To find hidden stuff and such
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>>57784556
It is completely dependent on how large the site being mirrored is. Some are just a few megabytes, while others may be many gigabytes.
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Post a piece of technology we can bully for being lame
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