/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

will poosmear really force intel to drop prices?

You sure are
>>58402835

I posted in thinkpad general but didn't get a response...

I bought a T530 on ebay and I'm wondering if I did good or if the seller is suspect/the model is actually trash etc.

ebay.com/itm/291987726564

Also been slightly bothering me that I can't figure out if this particular model of T530 has a backlit keyboard or not, and if the included SSD is Samsung of Lenovo.

All the phone numbers that were saved on my phone through Google, rather than on the SIM card, have vanished. Messages from those numbers are still there, but they no longer have the name of the sender attached. How can I get those numbers back? I might have told my phone to ignore my Google account when I added a number recently, but I thought I already had that guy's number so it might have been a problem already when that happened.

My sister just bought a refurbished PC, I think she may have been fucked over.

Firstly the harddrive just sounds pretty rough. I know nothing about computers but I know thats bad. It doesn't quite sound like crunching and the system performs okay but I tried to do a /chkdskc and it the test didn't complete.

Then I noticed the hard drive had 1TB written on it, in some system utilities (like the windows partitioning tool thing and in the defragmenter tool) it showed up as 1TB but the computer was sold as having a 320GB HDD and only 320GB of the disk is formatted, the rest being empty space on the hard drive.

I have told my sister to return the computer, but I'm just so fucking confused as to why the refurbishing company would do that. Is it a way to conceal a harddrive fault?

It's been a full moth since I got an update for one of my apps, what the fuck is happening, I haven't received any update simce then.

what thinkpad and linux distro should i use

im new baby retard!!!!!

spoon feed me

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https://google.github.io/material-design-icons/#sizing
anyone familiar with Google icons?

I'm trying to use their predefined classes for resizing, but literally nothing happens when I do.

I tried

<i class="material-icons md-48">menu</i>

but it looks excatly the same as the default

<i class="material-icons">menu</i>

(24px)

my new gpu says it needs 500w psu with 30amps.
does the 30amps needs to be on a single rail? my psu has 2 rails of 24amps each

>>>>/b/

I have a 32GB USB flash drive. I want to be able to boot into TAILS and Kali (ideally both 32- and 64-bit) from it, as well as having a portion just for storage and using as a regular flash drive. Is this doable?

I looked into YUMI, but after installing the distros and shrinking the 'multiboot' partition to create another one for storage, 'multiboot' could no longer be found and I couldn't boot from the flash drive (it just gave me a flashing terminal prompt in the top-left until I held down the power button).

The 'storage' partition would have to be FAT32 as it would have to work with both Windows and GNU/Linux.

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What shade of red is this?

>>58405739
Google says wine, blood or garnet but I'm hoping one of you designers could help so I can be sure.

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where do i start with putting together my first rig to play cs:co well

thats all i care about

>>58405813
pcpartpicker
logicalincrements

What happens when browsers reach version 99, when DOES it become ridiculous ?

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Hello, lads. I've been facing some problems while playing online games.
When my computer is the only device connected to Internet, I can play games normally and my ping stays pretty low.
If any other device make any kind of downloading or use any streaming service, my ping goes high as fuck.
How can I solve that problem?
Thanks, lads.

>>58405739
>>58405791
#410005

>try streaming a 4k movie wirelessly to from compooter to android tv using plex locally(?)
>get stutters and "your connection to the server isn't fast enough blabla smooth playback"
>ok
>go buy a new cat 6 cable and connect between my tv and 1gbs tplink c7 router
>try again
>stutters and "your connection to the server isn't fast enough blabla smooth playback"
What gives?
Do I need to enable local mode or something?
Should I just use HDMI from my compooter? I don't really want to use HDMI because of new its 4k anti-piracy called HDCP 2.2

what do

>>58406090
Thanks friend

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my graduation has a decent amount IT but not much programming (like information theory, information security, system modeling), if my goal is mostly develop webpages, apps, programs for companies (what I mean is: programming as in IT field and not as in CS field), the time and effort to go through SICP would really be worth it for me or pic related or another book would better suit my needs? thanks
t. Not a pajeet ;_;

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I'm making a text-based adventure RPG in python for fun.

I have a save file system, but I want to make it so you can't just find out what a value does and edit it.

How can I make it so that it's not easily editable?

>>58406283
forgot to mention, I already went through a algorithm book and know a bit of C, PHP, Java, C#, CSS and HTML, I wanted something a bit more advanced

>>58406294
compress + xor encrypt it

>>58406283
No, web app development doesn't need SICP. Just start making web apps. Find a framework that looks cool (Phoenix is the new hotness) and learn it and make toy sites. That's the best way to learn marketable skills and build your portfolio.

>>58406335
will do
thanks

>>58406369
thanks

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Is there a /g/ successful way of getting rid of stuck pixels?

I have a x200t I got for 50$ on amazon. Can I flash coreboot or libreboot on it the same as on a regular x200 or not? Also, is there any other laptops besides older thinkpads that I could buy for this?

>>58405067
check the css hierarchy if you overwrite it somewhere.

how to get rid of nvidia botnet

>>58407046
uninstall it?
why did you install that shit in the first place.

I only use piratebay and rutracker. What are some other torrent sites?

>>58407057
my games run terribly without it

Searching for a way to increase my ping in a video game (and only that game).
Please no downloading or vpn solutions

Is there a /g/-recommended site that sells laptop monitors?
My Dell XPS 13 monitor broke like two months after the warranty ran out and I don't want to have someone repair it if I can do it myself for cheaper.

Which programs are the best for monitoring CPU and GPU temperatures?

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>>58406143
scrap that. the plex player even stutters when I use the server computer to play the file through the plex interface through chrome on the same computer. it works fine using mpc-hc. I also get the some message like "the server is not powerful enough to convert" even though I'm playing at the original quality.

I should mention the bitrate is 6100kbit/s of the file I'm trying to play

anyone? pic related is my setup btw, but i don't see how it would matter when it works fine on mpc-hc

What kind of build would necessitate those PSUs that go over 1000 watts?

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>>58407255

>>58407255
3-4 -way SLI

Niece asked to help her choose a netbook that has no problems with performance. What is a good choice ?

>>58407316
>Netbook
>Performance

Pick one.

>>58407322
Watching movies and ocasionally using it with graphics tablet to draw.

>>58407316
used thinkpad x series

MacOS 10.11 or 10.12?
What will make a difference?

>>58407356
Thanks. What model i should be aiming for ?

>>58406048
Turn on QoS (Quality of Service) for your machine and gaming ports in your router / read up on it.

Trying to learn python. Don't care about the dead language meme, just doing it for a hobby.

What program is best to write and test code in?

I have a capture card and a sound card. If I plug a console into that capture card, will I benefit at all from my sound card? Or is the capture card the weak link?

>>58407388
Idle runs fine as an interpreter. Notepad++ is a pretty common program to use to write code in, just make sure to adjust "tab to indent"settings to be 4 spaces

>>58407570
thanks!

I'll check them out

>>58403749
Which model of the airport express should i get, the one that looks like a charger or the one that looks flat like usual. Do not want to se it for much except the wireless audio feature, but not only for music but also for watching movies, so the less late the better...

can get both variants used for 20 around 30 $...

What's a good Intel 65nm CPU I should upgrade from the Core 2 Duo E4500? It has a 500w PSU.
Doing LGA 771 to 775 mod and putting in a Xeon X3230? Core 2 Quad Q6700?

>>58403762
Why are people on this site so fucking brand loyal? You bought a product, you didn't join a team.

Q1?
Why do people worry about programming speed for menial task? those milliseconds will never slow anything down.

Q2?
Why does gradle builds take so damn long in android development compared to c# and java.

Q3?
Can I get a python script to run when a USB thumb drive is plugged in?

>>58406283
I'd still recommend the SICP as the way it makes you think about programming will make you a better programmer in general, take what I'm dating with a grain of salt however as I'm a huge Lisp cultist

>>58407851
1: eventually you might reuse it in a larger project where speed counts.
3: on windows every autostart from external drives is disabled.

>>58404966
T440s
ubuntu

then kill yourself for using ubuntu

>>58407851
Q3 yes

>>58407881
Does that really happen that often? How many programs actually run so many times that would ever be noticeable besides with a runtime clock.

>>58407913

I figure I could program a computer to react once a thumb drive is connected, but can I get a thumb drive to run a script when its plugged into a computer?

What's a cheap low powered mini pc that isn't one of the micro board/ARM family?
Or at least an alternative for a cheap server

Do I use the lotion on my dickhead too when treating scabies?

I know this is a /spg/ queation but
Is it posible to flash a custom rom via adb on a phobe with a locked bootloader?

Here's a stupid question: do I need to update to Nougat if I want CyanogenMod Nougat

>>58408101
no, your original rom gets replaced entirely.

>>58408132
danke

>>58408101
Didn't Cyanogen die?

>>58408162
It's alive bruh

what program should I use to interpret SMART status of my hard drives?

>>58408223
crystaldiskinfo

>>58408162
CM did die. There's a fork called lineage os

>>58408162
>>58408268
Cyanogen != CyanogenMod

>>58407978
Build your own with a mini-itx board/G4400 or G1820 combined with a mini-box PicoPSU and efficient adapter.

>>58403749
trying to make a css to change anonymous to anonymoose and leave namefags as is

got this:

.nameBlock .name['Anonymous']:before, .nameBlock .name['Anonymous']:after {
content: 'Anonymoose';
}

I've only started reading up on these pseudo-elements, but it should work as far as i can tell. anyone see what's wrong?

>>58408782
>name['Anonymous']

this isn't a CSS selector.

My S6 Edge won't boot into safe mode. When I boot into regular mode, it just hangs on a black screen, doesn't load my lock or anything, but tapping home twice opens my camera, and my notification bar is still there.

What do?

>>58408877
Oh i see now, I've pulled this trick off some site that says it's for the mozilla browsers only

Hurm... Any tip on how I could go about this in some other way?

>>58408782
>>58409041

  .name:only-child {
    text-indent: -99999px;
    line-height: 0;
    display: inline-block;
  }
  .name:only-child::after {
    content: 'Anonymoose';
    display: block;
    text-indent: initial;
    line-height: initial;
  }

>>58408782
>>58409041
>>58409106
oh, namefags, not tripfags.

you can't, there's nothing that makes the name different from "Anonymous" and you can't have a css selector based on text content.

>>58409159
>and you can't have a css selector based on text content.
So I should look into "userscripts" then? At least with JS I'll have conditionals. Thanks for help.

>>58404188
if it was a good deal why not just buy a new HDD or use one from an old pc or laptop she got

>>58407074
portforwarding

HEY! so maingear forgot to connect my ssd drive when they sent me my pc build last year, and being a dumb fag I just kept using my HDD for everything. Now, I want to install windows 10 on the ssd and transfer my apps and games to it. I've downloaded the windows installer on a flash drive, and am attempting to install it fresh on the ssd but am running into problems. CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME?!

>>58409188

(function() {
    'use strict';

    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.name'), (el) => {
        if (el.textContent === 'Anonymous') {
            el.textContent = 'Anonymoose';
        }
    });
})();

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Help.

My HTC10 skips when playing music (Poweramp)

Any idea what might cause this..?

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So I just got some new parts for my computer.
A gtx1080 and fx-8350.
I realize that the cpu might be bottlenecking the gpu a tad if it isn't overclocked, though I really don't know how much.

Anyway, I got these parts and tried to play Fallout 4 to test them out.
I started getting drops into the 30-40fps range from just walking around.

Is this normal for this set-up? I would have thought that this set-up would have at least been able to get a consistent 60fps in Fallout 4.
Any ideas what the problem is if there are any?

>>58409355
is this the correct thread for this kind of question?

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>>58409470
The cpu in general is shit for 75% of games. As you can see here overclocking it to 4.7ghz still won't help very much.

I have a Raspberry Pi that I am trying to install Kodi on.

Unfortunately I do not have direct internet from my router, and need to connect to another SSID and authenticate to access the internet.

So on my home network, I can Putty into the Pi and connect to the Pi's eth0 port. I then VNC into it, and connect to the internet network (wlan0).

Whenever I try to browse, it appears to use eth0 - as I am directed to my home network's router page.

What I think I am looking for is a command such as "chromium-browser --interface wlan0 URL", unfortunately after checking the man page this does not exist.

I tried to set chromium-browser to proxy through wlan0 but I don't think that's how a proxy is supposed to work.

Should I add the wlan0 default gw as the eth0 default gw? I would imagine not since they are on different networks and it would require a router.

Any advice would be appreciated.

>>58407231
push config.
disgusting

>>58409528
I see.
That's worse than i thought.

In that case I have a really retarded question:
If I wanted to get an intel cpu, would I have to get a different motherboard?

>>58409563
>push config
what does that mean?

where is my help? ;___;' bullying is not allowed here

>>58409599
Yup. So you are looking at atleast 400 for an intel motherboard and i5 or maybe i7
Is it too late to return your 8350?

>>58409664
Honestly, I don't know.
I received both of these parts as gifts that I didn't really ask for.

I'm realizing now that it probably would have been better to just get a new PC entirely.

>>58409639
The fans are on the wrong side of the radiator, pushing air into the rad instead of pulling it through it.

Check CPU usage. You set "original" but that doesn't mean the codec is compatible with the browser.
Did you try PMP?

Anyone able to give advice for installing windows on my new ssd?

>>58409759
Well if it was free, you can probably make due
If you don't like the performance though, you could probably sell your cpu, mobo and ram and either wait for ryzen (amds new cpu line coming in a couple months) or buy an i5/ i7 setup

>>58407374
x200-x220 depending on how much money you want to spend

>>58409809
Install it from a usb drive? Idk what you want, it's a windows install, it's pretty straight forward

>>58409820
Alright, yeah.
I mean in the end I still got a 1080, so I won't have to upgrade my gpu for quite awhile.

One more question then: if I do want to wait for a ryzen cpu, would my motherboard be able to handle it?

>>58409809
>plug in new ssd
>boot into the shit you got your windows installation on through mobo (google it fucker)
>??
>le profit

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I keep getting this error whenever I try to update any software, can't seem to google my way into victory.

>>58409863
well i thought so too, but now that I see the SSD drive as an option, it tells me "windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. on EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks." does this mean I need to reattach my HDD and go into bios, and reformat my ssd, then start the process over?

>>58410058
Delete any partitions on the ssd, format it fresh, then install windows

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>>58409800
>The fans are on the wrong side of the radiator, pushing air into the rad instead of pulling it through it.
w-whoops. I dunno what the difference would be but I guess I'll fix it

>CPU usage
100% while playing. I'm dumb. I didn't think of checking throttles.

Guess I'll be looking to overclock then since my rig should be well suited for some higher clock speed. That would fix the issue right?

dunno what pmp is

>>58406835
Poke it repeatedly with your finger

>>58409894
nope, ryzen is coming with a new socket and ddr4 memory support

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>>58409800
>>58410153
Another thing. When I playback the 4k movie on plex the gpu usage looks like this. Why is it not using the gpu all the time but only periodically?

>>58410153
>>58410509
I think its transcoding... (The only way to force no transcode is to delete/rename the transcoder binary).
Is it h265 or something?
Try PMP (plex media player) - it's pretty efficient.


BTW - A pull config is just easier to clean. With a push setup the dust is between the fans and the rad, with pull its on the other side. Performance-wise its the same.

How do I get full 24-bit colour output on a console?

>>58410740
https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

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just installed ubuntu 16.10, trying to get steam working. as you can see in the screencap i have a radeon7870 video card, and there appears to be some sort of graphics issue preventing steam from launching.

Please help! Need to play some vidya before i go crazy

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>>58410762
Cheers m8

>>58410737
>Is it h265 or something?
the video file? filename says (x265 HEVC 10bit) 2CH AC3 [Zeus]

>PMP
is it different from the usual plex? because I can't find it on their website. I click "open plex" on my server computer and play the movie from there.

>>58410819
thank you for your help /g/entoomen but it appears reddit saved the day. if anyone else is having a similar problem check this out, it worked for me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/57clur/cant_run_steam_on_ubuntu_1610/

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I just got done playing a few rounds of good old Counter-Strike 1.6. When it says precaching resources, does that mean the program is telling the operating system to load game assets like sounds and animations from slower memory (HDD) into faster memory (RAM) so they can be output faster to the user?

Trying to study for an Operating Systems exam that's hard as fuck.

Did I fuck up for ordering a 480 now? Should I have waited for Vega?

>>58403749
So I've been trying to install ku/lu/ubuntu on my laptop but whenever I start up the installer, my trackpad doesn't work. Everything else is working like the keyboard, nothing is freezing, but I can't move the mouse. When I do, it's extremely laggy like it would only move once every 5 seconds of sribbling with my finger. I really do want to be able to use the trackpad. Are there any other solutions besides using different distros. I'll be trying manjaro soon though I'd prefer debian based.

>>58411079
It depends on your use case retard. There's no "best card", it's what you need it for.

>>58411156
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DT4A2R4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

this is the laptop

>>58411169
Well, I don't need a high end card, just a solid one one for 1080p. But I heard some anons say AMD is going release a new Vega card meant to replace the 480.

>>58411269
Vega is going to be high end. A 480 is plenty for 1080p

can you install to disk from the shell of a debian standard live image?

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What are the drawbacks of converting my USB Drive to the NTFS file system?

Just tried to put a 5GB video on there and didn't realise it was literally impossible. Thought Windows was just messing me around

Also, if I were to change it from FAT32 to NTFS, everything would go, right?

>>58411593
unsupported format is slower transfer
most drives of a certain size support exfat which will accept the bige guy :)

>>58411593
>What are the drawbacks of converting my USB Drive to the NTFS file system?
Compatibility. Some systems (like game consoles for example) only use FAT32

Also if you format to another file system, all data will be lost (obviously)

Hey guys
a couple days ago I was posting about how my computer would turn on for 10 or so seconds then restart ad infinitum, and someone suggested using another, confirmed working PSU
I ended up doing it, and was getting the same problem
So I'm guessing it's either the motherboard or the CPU right? Could I have fucked the CPU by accidentally crushing it? I was really tired when I was first putting it together and forgot to remove the cpu cover at first which bent the pins. Tried fixing em but the pins were so fucked they came out so I had to buy another, but I assumed the CPU was good to go

I want to upgrade my graphics card but I'm worried about bottleneck.

Current:
i5 4460 3.2
8gb ram
GTX960 2gb
SSD + HDD

Could someone tell me if a rx470 8g is gonna bottleneck cpu/gpu?

Thx in advance

>>58410737
>>58411005
never mind, it worked perfectly by just playing it directly onto the tv from a usb 3.0 drive. I'll just stick to that.

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>>58411641
Oh that's frustrating given I actually do use my USB in my PS4 on occasion. Rarely but still.

>>58411631
It's 128GB, will exFAT basically solve the issue? No compatibility issues and larger sizes?

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Can you avoid the apple slow down update on iphones by not installing updates or something? Or am I screwed and gonna have to buy an android

>>58411649
Maybe it's the cpu. Check the memory, see if one or more sticks are broken. Start with the easy/cheap shit before moving to expensive things while troubleshooting. Move from one component to another.
Reinstall windows

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how to get started with backend development, I want to play around with it but don't know where to start.

What's the best way to reheat a boiled egg? I heard it's not safe to microwave them

>>58411836
Don't, they'll explode

Put them in hot water, but just to warm, not cook

Best VPN/Proxy service? TorGuard is shit now, IPs are being blacklisted all over the place.

>>58411739
Yeah I removed the memory and was getting the same problem
It's either the motherboard or the cpu, and this motherboard is brand new (and seems to light up when the power is turned on)

>>58412063
Check that something isn't touching it and shorting something out

Noticed little black specks in the water coming out of my hot water spigot thing, is this safe to drink?

>>58412106
the motherboard? what could be touching it?

>>58412189
Probably just sediment in the pipes

>>58412206
>what could be touching it?
I don't know. Why don't you check and see?

Is there any way to get a visual representation, or just tree-branch-style .txt file of all folders/files on my hdd?
I want to keep a sort of backup of what albums/artists I have, if the hdd ever fails or gets unlucky.

I accidentally touched my dick while I was masturbating the other day, does this make me gay now?

>>58412288
dir /s => filename.txt

Or dir /? if you want to look into other options available for customizing this output.

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Which monitor do you prefer?

This?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313&ignorebbr=1

...or this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160177&ignorebbr=1

...or this?
https://www.amazon.com/BenQ-Console-eSports-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B01H5KKRLO?th=1

What's a good free download manager? My internet is absurdly terrible and kicks me out of downloads. I need a way to continue them.

>>58412308
Thanks, mate. You're golden.

>>58412365
i can recommend the asus 24 inch 144hz. Its amazing imo.

How to format a microsd card? Just got a 64 gb and windows fucked it up. Had to put in phone to reformat it properly.

But after putting it in gparted it gives some bullshit error.

I had windows 10 but I switched to arch because I don't gayme anymore. I also have 3 monitors. Two connected via integrated graphics and one to my gtx 960. What drivers should I install to make all three of my monitors work on integrated graphics and my GPU?

>>58412571
Have you experienced any issues with it? There seem to be a bunch of complaints in the reviews.

Is it okay for me to shill my used computer parts here?

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Now that Zen is around the corner, by how much will Intel's prices drop? How long should I wait to buy a 6700k?

>>58412957
No, that's what Craigslist is for

>>58412992
No one fucking knows. Zen is a pipe dream, and will be until it's actually delivered to people's doors.

Literally no one but AMD knows anything about it, and how Intel will respond is anyone's guess.

>>58412779
It says "Can't have a partition outside the disk!"

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Guys I really fucked up. I'm trying to dual boot Mint and Windows. I got Mint to run but now I can't get back into Windows. What do I do?

One of the difficulties I had earlier was that I couldn't make partitions for Mint because of isw raid..... something. I followed some instructions online to get rid of that, I installed Mint, but now when I try to go back to Windows it knows that it's there in Grub but it won't load.

Pic related is what I see when initially booting up. Please help

What's the build quality on Asus laptops like? Need a new netbook and I've narrowed it down to the Dell Inspiron 7000 and a couple of Asus books. I'd go for Lenovo but I'm not really a fan of the Adware debacle.

What is the proper way to recycle an old laptop?

>>58413222
Asus makes great laptops

>>58412416
Free download manager
Get the 3.9 version not the 5.x

How big is the difference between 4K and 1080p on a 15.6" screen?

>>58413563
4000 - 1080 is 2920

>>58413563
>15.6" screen
What the fuck

>>58413632
it's a common size

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>>58413563

>>58413647
Not for 4K

Can you put an SSD into any laptop?

To save time I brought a hard drive that I've been having problems with into work and asked my IT guys if they could see if the drive is dying or what. A few hours later I get the drive on my desk and on the label they wrote "badblocks dead". The drive is still in warranty with WD and is a black RE drive but there's sharpie on the label. Is there an easy way to remove the sharpie writing or will WD still process the RMA with the writing?

>>58413694
Depends on the configuration and thickness, but generally yes as most of them use a 2.5" drive

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>>58413563
this is what you gain with a high PPI display.

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How would I mount a phone that doesn't show up as a block device?

I Can see it, it's a kyocera kona but I found it destroyed in a parking lot. It still work and can make calls which makes me believe the owner is looking for it, but since I can't actually navigate the phone, I want to pull the contacts off and contact somebody

>>58413563
You can tell the difference if you have them side by side but the reality of it is that 1080p looks great and 4k might actually give you more issues than its worth.
Battery life issues as well as potential app scalability problems.

I'm on a 3200x1800, it looks great but really it's just not necessary at all

My leased modem from spectrum has shit the bed and they refuse to send me a new one. How do I go about selecting a new one off of Newegg? What should I look for? Is it just PNP or do I have to do some shit for TWC to recognize my modem

does google care at all about hosting copyrighted content on drive? hosting a 2GB old Finnish movie for three friends. they don't give a fuck right, why would they? or name another easy-to-use service.

>>58414218
i don't really think they give a shit, my friends send me pirated textbooks hosted on their google drive all the time with no problems

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Should I be concerned with m.2 SSD thermal throttling when it's mounted on the back of a motherboard with no airflow and I'm using it as an OS drive?

What causes that crunchy sound in computers? Is it the HDD?

>>58403749
on gnome I'd like to use one wallpaper on my vertical monitor and one on my horizontal monitor, I found a fix using nitrogen but nitrogen crashes - any way to do it without nitrogen?

>>58414527
feh

>>58414153
They might have a website where you can activate it but worse comes to worse you'll need to call them and activate it like a phone

Is it basically expected that wireless routers from all manufacturers have high failure rates or is it reporting bias? I'm uneasy about anything because of it, but I think I need to stop giving a damn and go with my first choice.

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Looking to upgrade my old Core 2 Duo rig (yes i know) to probably a Skylake build - what do i need to be aware of since I want to put Win7 on it? I remember there being something that tried to coerce people to going full Win10.

>>58403749
Is OpenSSL browser sided or server sided?

>>58414384
Idk, are you concerned by it?

>>58414385
Most likely. Fans and pumps can also make noise. Anything that moves really

>>58407827
Because some brands are better.

so now that malwarebytes is actually malware itself, which anti-virus is gud?

>>58414695
If I wasn't concerned by it, then why would I be asking?

>>58414741
So cut a hole in your case an put a fan next to it

How much does a cube weigh?

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What are drivers I want to AVOID for my thinkpad W520, to ensure the least amount of botnet? I'm about to freshly install Win7

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Having a bit of trouble with Matlab... Trying to draw a histogram based on the result of 10,000 dice rolls, but I have no idea what MATLAB is trying to do when it's actually drawing the graph...


Here's my code:

%Make a histogram of the result of 10_000 trials of (two dice) 
%being thrown

range = 6; % rand() returns a number between 0 and one
result_array = zeros(1, 12);

num_trials = 10000; 
for (i = 1:num_trials)
    a_throw = floor( rand() * range + 1 );
    b_throw = floor( rand() * range + 1 );
    
    result = floor(a_throw + b_throw); %Convert to integer    
    result_array(result) = result_array(result) + 1; %add one to resp. entry
end
result_array %Print out resulting array
hist(unidrnd(10000, 1, 6));

>run defrag
>program shits itself and locks up midway
will i lose data if i kill the process?

I'm wanting to make a site that integrates with the Google Maps JS API and uses an SQL db. Would Angular work okay for that, or is there anything else that would suit it better?

/g/-approved OCR?

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I'm using a 1680x1050 monitor with a windows 10 desktop. There's a program I can only run at exactly 720p. Is there any way to minimize the distortion from using a non-native resolution and aspect ratio on the software side of things?

Anyone know why trying to remove the action bar on my Android app just breaks it?

 <activity
            android:name=".Splash"
            android:configChanges="orientation"
            android:label="No More Sores"
            android:theme="@style/NoActionBar"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>

That's in my manifest.xml file and this is my style xml

  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>
    <style name="NoActionBar" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

Tia

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Why is this happening. I thought formatting a microsd card would be easy.

>>58414826
>>58414649

http://pastebin.com/quC0gz4j

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3128983/microsoft-windows/how-to-prepare-for-the-windows-781-patchocalypse.html

Windows 7 doesn't try to upgrade to 10 anymore

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What software can I use to (safely) stress-test my PC components, particularly my GPU? I believe my GPU may be failing, but am unsure. I have many of the tell-tale signs, like blue checker-board squares and freezing/crashing applications, but it isn't consistent.

I need to know what component may be causing my problems, whether it is my GPU or not. As far as I'm aware, GPU-Z doesn't have testing capabilities either.

I'm just sick of crashing all the time now.

>>58413371
Alright, thanks. Question though. Is there a way to get it to not activate when I do something like "Save As"? I only need it for big files, I don't have a problem using the normal interface for images.

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Can you still get Windows 10 for free? And how?

>>58415326
http://pastebin.com/4LvsAFk7

Question related to my hard drive.

I've had it since 2011. Lately my computer has started to freeze for a bit while reading data from it and I hear the plate wind up followed by one audible click (only one, not a repeating click)

Should I go ahead and replace this one?

>>58415351
Back up your data, replace it when it fails

>>58415351
Well that freezing is concerning if it's new. Try running a checkdisk and crystialdiskinfo. And as always keep a backup of anything you give a shit about

>>58415055
You put all 10,000 trials in a giant array like: [1, 4, 10, 12, 3, ...] and then you call hist() on that:

 hist(results_array, 12) 

or how ever many bins you want, I don't remember how they work exactly.

>>58415360
Don't even bother waiting for it to fail

>>58415351
Just replace it. A disk that goes click isn't worth fucking around with, you need to replace it ASAP before it fails.

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Compounding on my question ( >>58415300 ):

How dangerous is FurMark? Quote:

>Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU

Is it a viable GPU stress-test option? Will my GPU die?

>>58415322
Pls respond. It's misery having this stupid dialogue box pop up every time I try to save an image, and I can't find a way to change it. I've been through the settings.

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Will the AM4 socket have a Mini-ITX sized motherboard? AMD only seems to have their FM2 support that size motherboard currently.

>>58415415
FurMark is only really dangerous on anything that isn't cooled properly, or has really crap VRM's.
The PowerColor RX 480 "Red Devil" had shitty VRMs that could blow out on furmark because it had current spikes that the VRMs weren't rated for. FurMark pulls more current than any video game because it hits the areas of the GPU that require the most energy to run, and thus generates an insane amount of heat.

It's fine on any decently built card, but make sure other people have run it on the card that you have without failure.

DO NOT RUN AN OVERCLOCKED CARD ON FURMARK, unless you know exactly what you are doing. If you think you know better, you probably don't.

>>58415445
Most likely, but it might take a few months to come through.
AM4 is replacing FM2, so we should see similar mITX boards to the current FM2 boards.
It will most likely land with "Raven Ridge", which is coming out later this year.

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Why the fuck does Chrome not refresh to the top of the page when I click on my bookmark bar? The easiest way to browse this shithole of a site was to just click on my bookmarked button and have it refresh back at the top. Now it refreshes back to where I was before, which is usually the fucking bottom of the page.

Someone has to know how to fix this.

Is there an alternative to Nvidias shadowplay that I can leave running in the background without a big performance hit? I really want that "hit hotkey to save the last X minutes of gameplay" feature but for some fucking reason Shadowplay only records on true fullscreen and since I'm running a multi monitor setup I really don't want to go fullscreen in my games.

>>58415528
Actually. I think I just figured it out. Never mind.

>>58415445
yep, x300 and something else, i think a300 something like that

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>>58415467
It seems there have been only a few FurMark tests on the same series card, and not the specific model I have (a Gigabyte G1 GTX 980ti).

Is there anything I can do to investigate my card, or should I just assume it will kick the bucket in the near future? I experienced similar hang-ups with my (now fried) GTX 780 in the past, but surely different and more critical. My temperatures are more stable, for example, and

My GPU is at about 35C idle. It can run games, but will experience sudden crashes out of the blue often enough to be a problem. I typically don't get "checkerboarded" often, so much as experience a driver crash or outright crash of either my software or PC entirely, where it will either hang or sometimes restart on its own.

I'd like to save this GPU if I can. If it means I have to do some small amateur messy work, so be it.

>>58407915
any modern 3d video game
weather mapping software
ocean current mapping software
particle accelerator analysis software

anything that has a lot of shit going on

>>58413127
try getting into mobo BIOS
boot from the right partition

>>58415587
Sounds like drivers to me.
DDU that fucker and clean reinstall drivers.
If it's still happening, It's probably damaged silicon, which you can't fix.

>>58415587
It sounds more like a bad power supply.

>>58415631
I apologize, but I just want to clarify my symptoms. This is typically from within gaming (Rainbow 6 Siege, for example).

+ Sudden crashing (no apparent overheating) to desktop.
+ Driver crashes, as indicated by a pop-up in my taskbar indicating such.
+ Full PC crashing (either complete freezing requiring manual shutdown or, sometimes, automatic restart).

I don't actually get checkerboarded often within games, so much as outside of them, oddly enough. I've seen checkerboarding at system boot-up sometimes after a crash, for example.

Wouldn't you think that other issues would cause the drivers to fail? I'll DDU it and install the latest drivers regardless, though.

>>58415640
How do you suggest I test the quality/condition of my PSU? I know there's some videos and guides around, but what do you personally suggest?

What able cables? Could it be that I'm using the wrong kind? I'm using 6+2 PCI-E cables. I have heard there's simple '8 PCI-E' cables that are supposed to be used with higher-end GPUs, but am unsure if that is just misinformation. Are there even different 6+2 cable types? Maybe I need a better cable?

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I've only just got a dual monitor setup.

Whenever I go to do something on the second monitor, the game in playing in the main monitor minimises.

How do i stop this from happening?

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I've got a 6600k at 4.2ghz with 1.25v. Using a hyper 212 evo. I ran several passes of cinebench at according speccy, this was my worst thermal spike. Didn't seem to throttle at all all. Can I consider this a stable OC? I don't want temps any higher than this but I can live with 70 if it's the peak.

what's the best free antivirus?

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What is the benefit of flashing a GPU BIOS? Can it help reduce the frequency of driver crashes or other errors?

My GPU manufacturer released a BIOS update on 2016/12/07. I don't know if I've ever flashed a new bios to my card (GTX 980ti).

>>58403749
34 in 21:9 or 27 in 16:9?
Mostly for watching shit, internet and occasional gaming

>>58415785
Run it through an actual torture test, not just a benchmark. Try something like Prime95 or aida64 for a few hours. If it doesn't crash, it's most likely stable.

Those temps aren't bad, but 1.25v is a little high for only 4.2ghz. Bump up the clocks a little and see if it fails or not.
Overclocking takes a lot of tuning to get just right, it's not just set it and forget it.

>>58415766
Don't play in fullscreen
Once you click away you basically tab out of the game

>>58416079
So is there no way to actually keep the game running on one display while doing something in the other?

>>58415959
well the motherboard auto-OC set it to 4.1 @ 1.32v, lol. I figured 1.25 was being light with it. But ok I'm going to install aida64 right now.

>>58416085
10 mins into aida64 system stability test. Temps are pretty good. Core 0 and 1 get into 71-72 but nothing big. I don't really want to spend a bunch of time finding the "perfect" oc because I'm already somewhat close to the thermal limit of the hyper212. Think I can just save the profile and call it a day?

>>58415926
gaming and watching shit: 16:9
internet: 21:9

>>58415274
It could be corrupted. Can you return it?

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This is a unique problem. I'm getting absurd ping spikes when other devices other than my desktop is connected to my router. Even if the device is not taking up bandwidth, my ping will spike from 25 ms all the way to 400 randomly.

I'm pinging youtube.com. It's not even normally this high. And then when the ping spikes is where i turned on my device and it connected to my router.

And these spikes don't go away. I will just fluctuate between normal ping and get sudden 300 ping spikes. Help?

An add-on for Firefox and Chrome called Stylish recently sold themselves to a company that now collects user data to sell. I've stopped using it, but I want to know if there is a way I can host the skins for the different websites myself instead of using Stylish. There are some skins I would like to keep using even if they are no longer updated.

Whats the best single card motherboard I can get on the market with kaby lake support? Or is kaby lake a meme? I see it's new and has a higher clock rate for only 20 more dollars, and conisdering I'm not upgrading, is it worth it?

What are some simple things I can do to increase privacy and security on my computer and online. I've decided I should start being safer when using my PC. So far I have

>Drive encryption
>Random strings as passwords
>use a vpn

Anything else easy to do that will increase security? Or are these pretty much the big three things I should do?

>>58416738
Using random strings for passwords is only a "big thing" if your old passwords were really bad. If your passwords are good then it's not an improvement.

>>58405813
if all you want to do is play csgo I'm pretty sure you should just build a 500~ computer and a 144hz monitor as the game runs well on anything

>>58416619
Web of trust started doing that shit too. I guess you can't get anything good for free. Go figure.

>>58416738
Use bleachbit

If I have an external HD that I want to use to regularly back up (once a month) a lot of files (my music folder), where most of the files don't change but new files get added, how should I go about it?

My concern is that copying the entire music folder every month would degrade the drive too fast.

>>58416848
If you're on windows, try file history

>>58416738
Clear cookies often / browse in private browsing mode often.

Use AutoProxy (Firefox plugin) and set a machine on your LAN to be ssh proxy, then you can use your home IP only for Google / Facebook / anything that you're logged in to that is linked to your real account. For bonus points, put Tor on it and switch to that in private browsing when you need anonymity.

Privacy badger + ublock + noscript to swerve those trackers and IP leaks.

Be aware that private browsing is a new identity shared between all private browsing tabs / windows. So you can't be a new person until you've closed the last private window.

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Might as well ask here since I don't really know this board's etiquette, being the computer near-illetrate that I am, so here goes

I recently fucked up my computer and had to do a clean install of windows 10 from a usb drive. Ever since then, it kept failing at installing any type of windows update. Always getting stuck after the update itself is done being downloaded. I suspect it might have something to do with some kind of license but I have no clue what to do at this point. I tried google already and it failed me.

Would any kind anon here care to give it's opinion on that matter?

I just did a win 7 repair install to try and fix some bullshit driver issue that coudnt be fixed with sfc scannow because it "found some corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" and now after hours of waiting, my problem stil isnt fixed, and my browser, slimjet, is giving me a fucking BEX64 error and it wont even load anything. I cant even get to the fucking settings. What the fuck do I do?

>>58416848
rsync

>>58416894
Try a fresh install instead of a repair

>>58416455
Sounds like a router bug. Is it ISP-issued cack or OpenWrt master race?

>>58416877
http://www.howtogeek.com/222532/how-to-repair-corrupted-windows-system-files-with-the-sfc-and-dism-commands/

>>58416877
Are you sure it's actually failed? There's two fucking huge updates to Win 10 that take several hours to install.

Did you leave it overnight?

>>58416894
Try running sfc from safe mode

Anyone have a good replacement for breakingnews.com? Fucking NBC shut it down on december 31st

>>58415274
Did you buy it cheap? If you you may have been robbed. Some scum format small SD cards to look like large ones, then when you write over the max size it bricks the thing.

>>58416867
Thanks

>>58416901
Thanks

>>58416967
All I know is last time I let it update, it reaches 100% install overnight and got stuck for two entire days doing the very same step of the install process before I had to force it to power down.

At this point all I can do is let you be the judge from

>>58415206
/g/-approved open sores will be shit-tier.

Get a Windows XP VM and a pirate copy of ABBY Finereader or Acrobat.

If you need free software then https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

>>58417042
Yeah, it's probably stuck

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any way to bypass Google Trends' quota with pytrends or some other library? I spaced my queries by 12 seconds and still get hit by the quota.

What is the best way to convert speech to text?
I'm transcribing a video and it is so tedious, I feel like it would be faster to convert it to text with some software and then do a quality check.

>>58403749
Why can't your penis be detected when using it as a USB device? xD

What are some silent keyboards?

Is this the same as the 5g tube just with more?

https://www.amazon.com.mx/Arctic-Silver-Disipador-calor-Plata/dp/B001JYVFLY/
>Inb4 price too high
Its in pesos.

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Why the fuck do I have the ability to eject/safely remove my OS install SSD?

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>>58403749

>Had to reload a new Windows10 after OS failure, had Win10 previously. 64bit.
>Reloaded programs such as OBS Studio (streaming/video recording), Adobe Auditions, and driver for VB Audio Virtual Cable.
>Went to loop audio from headset mic (definitely working) to Adobe Aud and then into OBS through VB Audio Cable.
>No sound coming from VB Audio Cable in OBS.

Adobe Aud and OBS recognize the virtual cables but no sound in OBS. I made sure they were on the same frequencies, set to the same mode (stereo/mono), and tested to make sure that it wasn't just an OBS problem by checking to see if the VB virtual cable worked in other voice programs such as Discord, Curse, etc.

I also downloaded Virtual Audio Cable to make sure VB Audio Virtual wasn't the cause. Neither works.

The sound is coming into Adobe Aud (shows in input audio levels and everything). Checked on everything in recording/playback, recognizes everything. The problem appears to be coming from either Adobe Aud or my computer not truly registering input/output of the virtual cables even though the drivers are properly installed?

All of this suddenly occurred after having to reload windows and re-download these programs/drivers.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

(Already posted in /wsr/ cause sticky but wsr seems to be a dead board.)

Is the filesize of a YouTube video the same as any other of the same quality and length?
A music video vs a video with a still image of that song's lyrics, for example

how can i manage cables for PC peripherials more easily?
>want to play flight sim
>have to plug in flightstick and headtracking camera
>want to play fighting game with friends
>have to plug in fighstick and fightpad
>want to play driving game/gamepad game
>have to plugin dualschock gamepad

what's a non Prism/non Botnet alternative to Evernote?

>>58411805
Backend like in web backend? Forget it, full stack development everywhere... Even if u find a comfy back end position sooner or later ull have to change something in the front, later u will find urself jumping all over the app anyway..

>>58403749
I'm using a 64 bit architecture, how the FUCK do I get WINE to work?

Compiling from source is a pain in the ass.

Is buying a used hdd (not primary) a bad idea?

>>58417466
ask the guy to show you crystaldisk to see if its healthy
i bought a few 2nd hand HDD in the past and never had any problems with them

>>58417162
You need to use the micro adapter.

>>58417321
Keep them all plugged in or keep a hub right in front of where you're sitting so you can just plug right in.

>>58417466
It would have to be a hell of a discount. New drives are cheap

>>58417300
Bitrate tends to be variable. A still image has no changing data from one frame to the next. If it's well encoded, it shouldn't be as large

>>58417466
Enjoy your see pee.

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Is this enough/too much/too little thermal paste?

Hey /g/ents, I made a budget build for Autocad/light 3D rendering. Is this overkill?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HP649W

>>58417625
Use half that amount

>>58417625
A bit much, but should be fine anyways. If you feel like it, remove about a third of that

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>>58417635
>>58417650
How's this?

>>58416084
depends on the game, most well made games will have a windowed borderless option

>>58417670
fine

>>58417670
Good enough

>firefox deletes all my saved tabs, overwrites the backups then presents me with a big FUCK YOU empty screen when i restart
how do i restore my tabs i had like 150 saved

>>58417670
not enough, add the rest of the tube

>>58416949
My modem is isp-issued, my router is my own linksys one from like 3 years ago

>>58417099
>http://www.
>>58416962
>howtogeek.com/222532/how-to-repair-corrupted-windows-system-files-with-the-sfc-and-dism-commands/
Tried some of the repairs on that tutorial before. Just tried them again and apparently the computer can't find it's DISM file and can't perform any of the repairs by itself. Been running the command prompt as admin so it shouldn't be the issue.

What am I supposed to do now? Pls halp

Is DirectX botnet?

How come some Japanese games display garbled text if date/time format isn't set to Japanese? Seems such a random thing.

I have programs that can add album art (and other tags) to mp3s, but is there a program that can mass REMOVE album art?

>>58418042
I mean as opposed to going into each and every file individually and removing the art.

So the connection we pay for to our house is 1MB/s. For months it has rarely been getting to that speed and has constantly be fluctuating up and down.

My PC is hooked up via ethernet, everything else in the house is connected via wifi. There's 3 laptops and 4 phones that could be on the network but usually it's just one or two of the laptops.

It used to be that both of the other laptops could be watching Netflix and I could still sustain a decent connection and be able to play an fps or moba or someshit with decent ping. Now, even when I'm the only one on the network I'll average at best like 600KB/s, more likely I'll be sitting on 200 - 300KB/s.

There's been work going on and off for a new fibre network to be implemented in my area (NBN), which is ''''expected'''' to be finished this month (but I wouldn't hold my breath); could this really be effecting my connection speed this bad?

Is my ISP just cucking me? Is there anyway I can stop them? Is there anyway I can prioritise my PC over everyone else's devices on the network? I've looked into QoS but I don't really know how it works

>>58415322
Please?

>>58417880
yes

>>58417853
Try again in safe mode

If you buy a monitor and there is backlight bleeding on it, is that a valid reason for them to replace the monitor, or will I just have to live with it?

How do I know for sure my GPU is dead rather than "dead"? Power comes on and fans work but nothing shows up on the monitor. Onboard works with the same DVI and the PCI-E slot works with another GPU. I've done all the "unplug other devices, reinstall device, reinstall drivers etc" stuff but nothing has worked so far. Even took it apart and cleaned it up good. I don't think it's fried since according to my knowledge it never reached temperatures above 60 Celsius.

Is it RIP?

>>58407074
write a script to cut off internet connection extremely quickly

i run a dual monitor setup with the right side monitor as my primary but when i use windows + P to disable the left monitor my primary monitor turns off instead. how can i make the win P command turn off the left side instead of the right?

>>58418658
might aswell try and get it replaced. some places will replace it if you do enough bitching

what is the literal lightest weight linux distro for a VM? im running a ton of copies of the same distro and i literally need nothing except for a desktop enviroment.

>>58418060
aussie? i was living in a house that had dodo once and we were given 1 mb/s connection aswell. unfortunately its the ISP's fault and there isnt really a way to deal with it

>>58418967
select the other option.

>>58419060
ive tried switching the left to primary but no matter what i do win + P turns the right side monitor off

>>58419110
win-p gives you multiple options to either turn off the primary or the secondary.

Any of you play clash of clans? I'm looking for an anon clan for some banter.

>>58418696
Probably yes.

>>58417466
If it's SATA, then no.

SAS is the way to go.

I don't know too much about FC and the others, though.

>>58414726
Proofs?

You probably downloaded it from a fake site.

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>>58417427
PLS HALP

fuck i will ask:

is there a file/folder sorter? i want a program that will merge my files/organize/sync/whatever by subject or date, etc...

>>58419442
How about you give us some more fucking info instead of only supplying your architecture

>>58419503
What do you want to know?

I've got an old Pentium 4 computer, which distro should I put on it? Lubuntu?

Also, is it 32 bit or 64 bit? If I recall, all Pentium 4s are 32 bit, is this correct?

>>58419604


You are better off with a barebone win7 32 bit

Pentium 4 instruction sets were 32 as well as 64

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do any of you guys had a sony ericsson j210i?
do you remember what that game where you are supposed complete a level without collecting gems called?
can you play it somewhere?

>>58419503
Seriously, what do you want to know?

My 32-bit Xubuntu machine runs it fine, but shit's fucked on 64-bit Debian.

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I've got the correct display set to "primary", as indicated by the asterisk in the pic, but how do I get it to be numbered "1" here?

Basically, everything is working as intended, except the numbers for each monitor seem to be wrong.

And if I go to Win + P and select 'PC screen only', the secondary display is the one with images on it.

>>58411670
please help me boys

>>58420612
is arma 3 the main game you play?

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>>58420051
To make them change numbers you need to switch the plugs around on the GPU.
Otherwise just select second screen only.

>>58420681
Thought that might be the case.

My GPU only has one HDMI port and one displayport so I can't switch them around unless I get some adaptors.

>>58420659
No. I play overwatch and cs go alot but I'd like to play battlefield 1 more with good fps and games like the witcher 3, gta v etc.

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Why don't I have these folders in my home directory with their own icons like pictured?

I made a livedrive of elementary last night, tried it out and I fucked up downloading a 64 bit instead of 32. I couldn't find a 32 bit version so I went and got puppy and ran the same process of creating the live drive as I did with elementary except with a no pae 32 puppy iso
what's going to go wrong when i try to boot it?