/sqt/ - stupid questions thread

What is the best browser to use if I only watch porn on it ?

>>59910261
firefox because of dwhelper?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

>>59910261
lynx

I have a question about SQL databases

I'm installing wordpress for the first time on a website. I'm doing it manually so I can learn how everything works.
One of the steps was to setup an SQL database, and so I used the database wizard on my host to make the database, make a user, and create a password.

What I want to know is what did this do exactly? Nothing new was created in the file directory, so where does this SQL database exist? Why does wordpress need it?

I recently made an imageboard software from scratch in spaghetti php i taught myself just for fun. I don't intend on ever running and imageboard (and if I did I would probably use some open source software), but I was wondering, how secure is it? It doesn't use any sql database and upon submitting a post a folder is created, named after the thread number and written to the index.php. This folder then contains a reply.php file, which basically just creates replies and includes it to the index.php

>>59910433

Depends on how you have your sever configured really. I'm guessing you're using LAMP?

Very stupid question, i know next to nothing about computers. I have a very old laptop and i'm trying to play WoW but it's a laggy mess even on the lowest settings. I can't raid or pvp so endgame is pointless. Is there anything i can do to make it run smoother?

>>59910433
at some point you should have told it where the sql database is, what did you enter?
what's your server running?

they are usually different services that run in the background.
see mysql, mssql, postgresql and what not.

wordpress needs it to save the data, saving into the file system is slow. no one does that.

>>59910471

You're manually writing into your index.php script?

That sounds like a recipie for disaster senpai.

>>59910483
you could try defragmenting the disk and dusting out the cooling slots.
though low chances it'll actually do something.

>>59910483
Get a new one or play lower spec games. I take it you already have the resolution and all turned as low as the game will run at.

>>59910473
I don't think I have a lamp

>>59910488
I entered the sql, user, and password into the config file just like the wp wiki told me too. I'm using hostgator hosting and I don't really know what it's running.

>>59910471
If people can find a "XSS" exploit they can make your php interpreter run arbitrary code and pwn the machine.

>>59910518
so hostgator runs a sql server for you.
there wordpress logs in everytime to read/write posts you create.

>>59910513
Yeah, money is tight, i can't buy a new computer so i'm trying to make it work. That's unfortunate.

>>59910483
There's a chance you have shitty software installed that slows it down more, delete those things. Or just reinstall Windows.
There's also a small chance that you could upgrade the RAM, but that won't likely do anything, and I'd just buy a new laptop at that point. Most laptops don't really allow that anyway.

Is TOR worth using for daily browsing?
I'm assuming there's no support for adblock or extensions in general as well as google's shit?

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reinstalling windows on aunts PC
she use outlook 2007
any way to back up and restore everything easily?

I know about pst files, but theres still need to recreate account and have password, and losts signatures and other small settings...

I googled, and found some wall of texts and guides, but still wanned to asked, maybe theres some nice handy tool.

>>59910543
hmm ok. i guess i dont' have to worry about it too much then. thanks anons

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How safe is dual-booting windows 7 and a Linux flavor?
Will the NSA be able to see what porn I watch on my Linux partition through the Windows partition?
Should I use GRUB 2 or another bootloader?

>>59910571

>Will the NSA be able to see what porn I watch on my Linux partition through the Windows partition?
who knows? Windows doesn't natively hive drivers for ext3 or other linux filesystems so you have a better chance at least
You'll be using GRUB 2 anyway

Say I want to buy a cheap laptop to fiddle around with linux for the first time, and use it primarely for watching movies and such. Will an elitebook 2560p/latitude e6230 do the job, or should I look for something with a better screen/whatever?

>>59910571
If you want your Windows isolated more, use KVM and then use PCI passthrough if you want to use your GPU.

>>59910519
Are there any XSS exploits that can't be prevented by replacing certain unicodes (such as greater and lesser than signs) with html entities? Sorry if it sounds too baka.

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I was in the process of rebooting my PC after installing a second HDD but now the monitor won't wake, so I can't get to the bios and change the boot order and what not (I was going to boot from a liveusb with Fedora on it anyway) What do I do? I know everything is on because the fans/gpu lights are on and I can hear the drives spinning

I've tried rebooting multiple times to force the troubleshooter

Drives: 1Tb WD Blue (original drive, W10), 500Gb WD Blue (newly installed drive, which unfortunately had an operating system on it--unkown)

>>59910651

Honestly, you kinda wanna tear it up.
This is exactly the sort of thing you want to use SQL for, not using it is just kind of crippling.

>>59910669
I figured as much.

>>59910659
serves you right for being weaboo fagget

>>59910490

Not him, but how are you supposed to write those scripts them?

I know nothing about web development. It looks like one needs to use a clusterfuck of different tools and languages to make even the simplest thing.

>>59910796
...scripts then*?

>>59910796

You're supposed to use a database.
Your index.php file will contain code that looks a little like this.

<?php
$result = $db->mysqli_query("SELECT `text` FROM `posts` WHERE `thread` = $thread");
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result) {
    print $row['text'];
}
?>

This PHP code asks the SQL server to look into its database and find every post it has recorded for whichever thread you're looking at. For each of those posts, it takes the body text of that post and prints it to the output. The output is the HTML page which gets sent back to the user.

There's a ton of bad practice going on in this code by the way, just take it as an illustration.

Hey /g/uys. Bit of a specific question here. So I installed Linux on my laptop for the first time about a couple months ago, but I did it on an external hard drive so that I didn't risk messing up my Windows installation. Now I want to switch out internal hard drive with the external one so I can easily use Linux on the go if I want to, but it doesn't work. When the Linux hard drive is the only one connected to the laptop, I get a "non system disk or disk error" message when I try to boot. I'm using an HP Elitebook 8530p if that helps. It's like the laptop will only recognize the Windows bootloader for some reason. The weird thing is, when I boot from the Windows hard drive and then select Linux (I used a program called EasyBCD to add Linux as on option on the Windows bootloader so I didn't have to keep messing with changing the boot order in the BIOS), it goes to a GRUB screen from which I have to choose Linux again. So I have GRUB on this hard drive, I have Linux on this hard drive, so why won't my laptop boot without the Windows drive?

>>59910931
grub needs to be installed on the new drive?

>>59910931
boot linux as external, as you used to
go to terminal
lsblk to find out which one is what your drive
reinstall grub telling it where should it get installed
depends on your distro but maybe like this

grub-install /dev/sdX

change X
or google how to install grub for your distro

if you cant boot as external anymore cause hasstle, then you need bootable usb of your liunx, boot from it, then chroot to your installation and then reinstall grub pointing to your linux drive

>>59911017
I already did that. Didn't seem to change anything.

>>59911086
you did wrongly
its c2d notebook with simple bios and MBR

So from fucking around with many OSes, hackintosh, every modern version of Windows, some loonix distros, now I want to clean the whole drive. I checked that efibootmgr is showing quite a few entries from different boot managers.

Is there a way of just cleaning -all- except those that are needed for a completely new installation, or should I clean one by one? and where the hell are those EFI entries saved?

>>59911103
I don't really know how one would go about fucking it up.

[sudo grub-install /dev/sdb]
That doesn't fix it. And yes, the Linux drive *is* sdb. If it matters, I'm using Mint.

>>59911186

update-grub

after installing it?

What's /g/ opinion on skullcandy?

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Is there a way I can get font rendering on Classic Shell to be less shit? It's all jaggy

>>59911232
Nope.

>>59911247
great way to spend a bunch of money and tell people you have no taste

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>>59911278
Turn on font smoothing. If it's already at default, you should also use the ClearType control panel item to turn it on system wide.

>>59911394
So far, I've not really been disappointed with them. I really like them. There's some called "Blues" and their like 300 bucks and they are comfy as fuck.

Is it the name or the quality you don't like?

I want to get IT certification. Where do I start?

>>59911424
the audio quality is easy to beat at the same price points they offer (especially 300), and the aesthetic style looks like headphones trying to be edgy. and there are higher quality, visually discreet, more comfortable headphones for less than $300.

if you're happy with something, do yourself a favor and don't ask people what they think of it. you're literally just asking people to make you feel misgivings about the thing you were perfectly happy with.

i don't understand why people on /g/ do this shit. if you wanted to hear our opinion about things, ask before you buy. if you want us to pat you on the back about your latest purchase, go tweet about it or something, because this is the wrong place to look for that.

>>59911477
I know anon, I like asking and stating my opinion either way. I'm not mad at either. I just want to see what people think.

I like to hear from /g/ cause it can be 50/50 whereas someone is a complete moron or someone knows what they are taking about

>>59910227
Pluto is less than 20% the mass of the Moon.
It's a comet/asteroid that just happens to have an orbit that is roughly sun-centric. IE it's not very eccentric. It's not even in the ecliptic plane.

>>59911460
>IT certification
Why?

>>59911424
I don't care about the name, apart from that everything I've seen from them costs more than other things with similar quality. Same deal with Beats. Either sounds nicer than shitty cheapass headphones but worse than nicer things at a lower price point.

Skullcandy tend to be really heavy on the bass at least from the ones I've heard. Depending on the music you listen to, this might be perfect for you. Then again I've tried some $25 Monoprice around the ear headphones that are far from audiophile quality but sound damn fine for music you want to turn up and hear thumping bass.

But for $300 you can get nearly flat frequency response headphones or IEMs that will sound really good on all types of music.

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>>59910227
This is clearly not a planet.

>>59911564
My favorites I've used by SC has by far been my Hesh's and Crushers
As long as they have noise cancelation, I'm good and so far these do.

>>59911584
smartass

>>59911247
Apparently their $15 IEM's aren't terrible. That's probably due to the fact that nearly all IEM's at that price use exactly the same drivers, so it doesn't matter what you get for sound quality, only comfort, build quality, looks, etc.

I'm looking to buy a laptop, no idea what I should buy. I've heard thinkpads are good but don't know anything about them.

Basically I need a laptop that's portable (probably a 14" monitor, whatever's standard) enough to fit in my backpack and bring to class, and I want to run gnu/linux on it, no windows at all. It's gotta have a decent battery life, an HDMI/Ethernet/USB ports, and I'd like an optical drive if that's possible.

I won't be doing anything intensive on it, but i'd like a decent amount of RAM and a decent processor. I don't need much storage, probably >512gb SSD.

What should I get? Again, I want something that runs gnu/Linux well.

>>59911737
Forgot to mention, my max budget is $1000, but preferably in the $600-$900 range.

>>59911737
did you try browsing lenovo's site for this stuff? i feel like you could click around and sort this out yourself. if you're not sure about a model, google [model name]+"review".

there's "stupid questions" but in this case i don't know what meeting you halfway would be. do you need us to give you a link?

Is there a way to disable my keyboard without unplugging the USB?

>>59910692
Just make sure all the posts get convert to plain text

>>59911737
Pretty much anything that runs Intel HD graphics and Intel WiFi (that isn't kaby lake) will run just fine.
I'd recommend an XPS 13 if you can afford it, as they actually ship with Ubuntu from dell.
The ThinkPad 13 is also pretty good for the money.

>>59911784
Have you tried device manager?

Why can I connect to my plex server remotely using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32400/web over the tor network but can't over the clearnet

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>>59910227
I'm trying to learn LaTeX, but I'm having trouble with newlines... What am I doing wrong in pic related?

Is there an idiot's guide to setting up tor for the first time?

>>59911737
Dell XPS 13 or 15.
Thinpad T series.

>>59911932
Since your version of "setup" differs from others.
No.

>>59911928
move the \\ around
if that doesn't work, use \newline or just add a blank line

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My old router crapped out on me and since switching to the new one torrents all freeze at connecting to peers and I can't connect to my VPN or steam. This is having serious repercussions on my quality of life. What might be the cause?

>>59911770
I've never bought a laptop before, and I just want to know what /g/ likes.

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>>59912001
Hm... Doesn't seem to be working for me

>>59911932
To just browse and not set up a Tor relay or separate Tor box:
1. Download the Tor Browser bundle.
2. Run it.
3. Install/enable NoScript and uBlock Origin. Dunno why these aren't on by default but you need them if you don't want various malware and exploits to reveal your real IP.
4. Fiddle with the settings in the other stuff installed in that Firefox until you're happy.

>>59912029
We all have similar options.

Lenovo Enterprise or Dell XPS, MSI gaming laptops with a grain of salt.

Avoid HP, Acer, etc.

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>>59911737
>>59911769
Thinkpad 13 gen2 2017 if you want to keep budget lower

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-13-2017-Core-i7-Full-HD-Laptop-Review.207712.0.html

Thinkpad T470 if going around and above $1000 is not that big of a deal

>>59912156
>>59911769
>>59911737
also be absolutely sure you are taking FHD display, they are IPS
far superior to shitty low res TN that are default

>>59912179
This. My T440p came with a 1600x900 TN screen and it looked absolutely dogshit for anything other than documents. I didn't really mind the resolution at 14" but the color was terrible, washed out, tons of backlight bleed, and some screen door effect with alternating rows and columns. I bought a 1080p IPS panel and installed it. It's way better.

Anybody know of a good book to read/website to learn more about networking?

Was just in a job interview for an internship and they asked me questions I was totally unprepared for (give an example of a private IP address, what does DSN stand for and what is it used for, etc..) I'm only a sophomore in college studying computer engineering and was hoping to get an internship over the summer and felt completely retarded when conducting the interview because I didn't know what they were asking me. I want to be more prepared for the next one and learn some things they don't teach me in school.

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I've got a problem with Linux Mint, often when I log in it seems the DE doesn't start and I just get a black screen with a cursor, I can use CTRL+F1 but if I try to startx from there it doesn't work. Any ideas/shared experience?

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I managed to snag a 120Hz triple-monitor setup for a good deal today.

My graphics card has two DVI-D outputs, 1x HDMI, and 1x DisplayPort.

These monitors only have DVI-D, HDMI, and component for inputs.

Two of the three monitors are able to output 120Hz while connected via DVI-D. I only get 60Hz when I connect the third monitor with HDMI.

If I were to get a DisplayPort-to-DVI-D adapter, would that allow the third monitor to output at 120Hz?

>>59912274
Checked the Xorg log?

looking for cheap laptop with good battery life for notetaking and light development on the go

what should I get, /g/?

>>59912295
If the adapter can handle it, yes. HDMI is probably the limiting factor here.

>>59912315
Chromebook + GNU/Linux

>>59912340
yeah I was thinking about that too
what's the /g/ approved chromebook?

>>59912354
There really isn't one now.
You get as much as you pay for, and just make sure you get one that can have Linux installed.

>>59912315
Thinkpad T400 or X200 for $70~90-

>>59912378
isn't thinkpad battery life atrocious tho?

>>59912387
Sorry, i kind of stopped reading at cheap laptop.

And yes, specially the C2D versions where its around 1 hour to 2:30.

>>59912387
Eh, if you throttle the CPU down to a minimum, and get a new extended battery, you can get 4-9 hours under Linux (depending on the model)

>>59912315
Look for a cheap 2-1 tablet with an Atom CPU.

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W10 update just changed this blue
I looks darker IRL

WTF, how do I change it back

>>59912450
Ask your question more clearly.

how can vampires shave if they can't see themself in a mirror?

What VNC server is best for a Linux system with DE? I'd like to see the same session that's on the physical screen.

>>59912517
kek

so i lost this action camera i had... is there any way to recover the data from the microSD card? i tried under windows and linux and it can't read it.. seems the only way to recover the data from the card is by having it plugged into the camera

wat do

>>59912542
what's the filetype?

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>>59910227
I want to screen-shot (i.e take pictures of games) on a PS4. Sony has a feature that would've made this easy using the "share" button but they allowed developers to block it. i'm looking for a device that would allow me to screen the game through my computer so i can take screen-shots.

https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-superior-technology-hardware-encoding/dp/B014MQIVPS/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1492303291&sr=8-8&keywords=avermedia+capture+card

has anyone ever used a PCi capture card? supposedly they have no preview delay which external capture cards have. i'm not necessarily looking to record video footage or stream i just want to take pictures. i don't know if this would be demanding on my pc or not but my specs are
>Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
>NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
>12 GB RAM

>>59912517
Have buffy do it. She always takes care of her man

>>59912648
If you're not encoding it shouldn't be very demanding, your hardware is plenty capable though.

Why do secondhand Apple products sell for ridiculously high prices? I was looking for a +-200 euro laptop to put some Linux distribution on and fuck around with on eBay, and thought I'd look into some old macbook pro. But these guys are sellingold, beat up and sometimes broken ones for several hundred euros. What's up with that?

>>59912680
buffy would kill him

>>59911824
>>59912156
Not that anon but I'm pretty much facing xps 13 vs thinkpad 13 too
Is it really worth getting a chinkpad? Especially after that Superfish shit?

>>59912770
XPS 13 is good but remember its a 2-1 tablet too.

>>59912768
Maybe at some point. They'd fuck later tho

>>59912770
well XPS is more expensive but much nicer design IMO
but its still a consumer tier notebook
if you take it, be sure you take it from somewhere where you can return it if you dont like it

issues of coil whine and mushy keyboard and drivers issues are commonly reported.
I have higher faith in thinkpads

Alternatives for iTunes that support Linux and Windows? I'd like to move to Linux, but I can't find a good alternative that has a library management feature like iTunes where it'll automatically move and manage my music files when I add new ones.

>>59912807
I forgot to add, it should be as simple as moving the entire folder to transfer my library between computers. The actual library and preferences should be all self-contained in a single folder.

>>59912807
try clementine and tomahawk

>>59912828
I'm trying Clementine right now and it doesn't move files when I add them (unless there's a setting I'm missing?).

Have a semi-new IDE drive, works fine.

Connected it to my PC with a SATA/IDE to USB adapter, and the disk shows up as RAW.

Googled it and apparently the drive is fucked until i recover the partition?
I don't give a fuck about the data or recovering the old partition, how do i wipe the drive and reinitialize it as NTFS?
Diskpart and disk management hangs and whenever i plug the drive back in it still shows up as Raw.

Any help is appreciated,

what chromebook should I get?

looking for something that works with lienucks

>>59912849
where should it move them?

you have place on your drive called mp3 or music
you point your player at it, the files are scanned and library a database of those files are created
this is not apple bullshit, it does not hijack the files for its own and move them someplace for its only use and no one elses

>>59912521
xvnc

>>59912875
>where should it move them?
Wherever I tell it to move them.

>this is not apple bullshit, it does not hijack the files for its own and move them someplace for its only use and no one elses
That's exactly what I want, minus the last bit. iTunes lets me set a specific location on a drive that it moves all my music to and maintains consistent filenames and locations whenever I add a new file.

>>59912905
Well, I dunno about that then.

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I'm fucking losing my mind here.

With the NSA tool leaks, I went and updated Windows 7 (Ultimate, 64-bit) to its most recent updates for security and disabled a bunch of services I didn't need, such as Server and Workstation and NetBIOS. That was all fine and dandy. But now I've run into a weird problem where my font spacing in programs like Chrome and Steam is just off. It's not for every single font, but it's happening here on 4chan. I don't know what's going on. I've tried messing with ClearType, but that hasn't changed a single thing, and it's obviously not a Chrome-specific problem since it's also occurring in Steam. I've already launched Firefox and confirmed that the issue is not present there.

What the fuck is happening?

How do I into neural networks and language processing? I'm interested in different languages and I'd like to do something with it.

Also, do you guys read any journals related to CS?

>>59913102
what did you update from?

>>59913118
I'd recommend getting a crash course for statistics and linear algebra
then just play with data sets and read some tutorials/books/sjw blog posts on the side

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>>59913120
I just let it detect updates and install them, then specifically made sure that particular security updates were installed (which they were).

This is the shit I'm talking about here. Chrome is on the left, Firefox on the right.

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How do I get permission to move data from one drive to another? I'm one a liveusb version of Fedora. The backup disk is just 500gb of ext4 and the files are coming from a Windows disk

>>59913102
>it's obviously not a Chrome-specific problem since it's also occurring in Steam
Is it only in Steam's web browser?

>>59913145
No, this is occurring in the Steam client itself. I don't use the web browser. It's the same issue as how it appears in Chrome.

>>59913141
maybe they just updated the fonts?

>>59913142
if it's a user permission problem try running the file manager as root?
maybe the drive is mounted as read-only

>>59913118
How restricted am I going to be if I'm not the greatest at mathematics?

>>59913179
for
>>59913139

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>>59913174

>>59913197
>>59913174
Whoops, forgot to type
For some reason it doesn't show anything when I type sudo nautilus

>>59913179
you can get into machine learning without math, it's just easier to understand if you've learned stats and linalg

>>59913197
try copying from command line?
maybe something's read-only

>>59910612
Cheap laptop should be good enough for learning purposes.
If you really want to understand what is going on under the hood you should ditch the graphical desktop and work from the command-line as much as possible.

>>59913210
Alright. If you don't mind explaining, what are some of the obstacles - for beginners and intermediates both - that are common in neural networks? I'm going to do some research on it but since I'm in the thread, I might as well ask.

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>>59913222
nice digits
I think this has something to do with it

>>59910227
How do I get a gf interested in stuff like programming? Last gf asked me about what I was working on. When I talked to her about it, she started crying and saying that I am so smart she doesn't deserve me and I'm going to leave her because she is so stupid. It wasn't even complicated code it was just a simple socket programming for a web spider. The most tech thing I could get her interested in using is umatrix. How do I get a gf who is seriously interested in this stuff?

>>59910659
If you're using a video card, and you motherboard also has a video then try plugging into your motherboard video out instead?

If that fails unplug things one by one, starting with your new hdd, until you get some kind of output from your computer. (As it might be a power issue.)

>>59913285
Hi I'm actually >>59913245
I found an older monitor that uses hdmi->dvi and plugged that in, works
I think my DVI-D is broken on the gpu, or just plugged in incorrectly

>>59913243
at this point I should warn you I've never seriously dabbled with machine learning
uhhh
I guess understanding the algorithms and why it works would be a challenge
how to properly prepare the data and feed it into the network, how to interpret results
anyway, if you're really interested in it, don't worry about obstacles until you get there

how long do you guys wait to update video drivers after a new release? is there a site that confirms whether new drivers will kill your pc or not?

>>59911858
Are you sure xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx isn't a local address?

>>59913312
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks boss.

>>59912036
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46189/how-do-i-add-a-line-break-in-display-math-mode

I posted a question earlier about my laptop not booting without a Windows drive attached. I tried messing with a bunch of things. Eventually I tried updating the BIOS, which seems to have magically fixed it. The weird thing now is that if I have the Linux drive in the internal SATA port, and the Windows drive connected via USB, if I try to boot Windows 7 that way, it will get partially through booting (the part where the screen is black and the orbs fly around before forming the Windows logo), and then bluescreen for a fraction of a second and restart the computer. It still works fine if the Windows drive is the one inside the laptop, but I don't know why it does this. Any ideas?

>>59910554
if posting to 4chan is part of your daily browsing routine, no

4chan blocks posting from all TOR exit nodes. You can look, but can't post

>>59910554
what are you using it for?
you'll probably get blocked, captcha'd by many popular websites

>>59912014
Sounds like you have a naff router.
I'd try to get another one.

But if you want to try things before you do so, then:
>poke about in its settings, eg: firewalling, forwarding, dmz, upnp
>see it you have another power adapter that is powerful enough to power the router
>disable wifi and try plugging in directly
>see if there's a firmware update for it

>>59912249
https://netfilter.org/documentation/

Start with the Networking Concepts HOWTO.
Read the postscript versions as they have pictures.

what is vnc and can I use it from a laptop with no monitor?

what kind of bird would Humpty Dumpty have been?

>>59912274
Do you at least get an xterm?

From the console, I would try:

export DISPLAY=:0 xterm

Or some such to try to get something up to start troubleshooting from.

No idea how things work with Wayland if you're using that instead of Xorg, sorry.

>>59912744
The brand makes it normies desire it.
Get something else.

i have a sony vaio pcg that won't boot from its hdd. how do i boot from usb?

>>59912862

file -s /dev/whatever

to see what the file command things about it.

hexdump -n 512 -C /dev/whatever

to see if it's all zeros or if it contains a master boot record.

I've got a new Dell and I've attempted to 'clean install' Windows 10, problem is that in the Windows 10 installation procedure I've 'deleted' and then attempted to install Windows 10 on my PCIe NVMe ssd, but Windows 10 doesn't load - it goes to a "no boot disk" error screen, and now the SSD isnt' showing up in future attempts to install Windows 10. I tried downloading some drivers to load on installation, and one of them makes the SSD appear again... but i get the same thing over and over... with this 'no boot disk' screen.

>>59913655
You shouldn't need any extra drivers for windows 10.
Try playing around with all the boot and PCIe/storage options in the BIOS.

>>59913655
is the ssd fucked?

>>59913582
When you turn the computer on, you should see hit 'key' to enter BIOS. If not, keep tapping delete or f12 until you hear a beep. Go into the BIOS and go to the boot menu.

How much of the technology in this video is actually currently feasible? https://youtu.be/w-tFdreZB94

>>59913901
The better question is, what isn't currently feasible.

Transparent glass displays aren't.
Tabletop 3D holograms aren't.
Fabric foldable display devices aren't (they almost are though)

>>59913901
none because augmented reality isn't trending again just yet
absolutely NONE because of fucking battery life
the stupid faggots at microsoft don't realize that average amerifat fingers will smudge everywhere as well, notice how there is not one single fatfuck in the video
that video is one huge hollywood advertisement

Could someone post the /g/ programming challenge roulette?

>>59913901

I couldn't play the audio because I'm at work, but are they making some sort of femdom utopia point here? Seems like 95% of the people in that video are female, and they even make the point of having the elderly woman sitting next to an empty chair as if her partner just got raptured.

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Does the eGPU use the laptop's screen, or do you need a dedicated monitor attached directly to the graphics card?

Does that translate to the desktop? If I have an internal graphics card but had a display attached to the onboard graphics, would PCIe graphics card be doing the rendering? or the onboard graphics?

I ask because I noticed a Youtube video I was playing didn't seem to activate the onboard graphics from a sleep state, but the PCIe card clock seemed to tick higher. Also I don't see any issues with having half the video on each of the screens.

>>59913655
Make a Linux USB, boot into it and check if its detected.

Otherwise you need to check BIOS.

My ISP-provided modem router is garbage and I have one of these
https://www.dlink.com.au/home-solutions/DSL-2890AL-dual-band-wireless-ac1750-gigabit-adsl2-modem-router
that I'd like to use instead. Evidently it's not as easy as plugging all the cables into this thing instead, what kind of setup do I need to do?

Also, I think I might have to use the ISP-provided modem router. If I use its bridging mode, can I use the DSL-2890 as my router instead? Would I need to do anything other than enable bridging and plug it in?

>>59913994
> I have used a hololens and I would have to disagree with you.

>>59914055
Can said holo lens run 24 hours peak usage without recharging? Don't think so.

>>59914030
It's a catalog of women young and old for the ficki ficki group to choose from. Fucking Microsoft.

>>59914035
answers pretty much literally all here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D79GsrEqe4

i don't like linus but linking to him speaks to how stupidly google-able all of your questions were.

>>59914097
sort of answers the question, but what about the second half?

>>59914048
I don't know how that translates into real money, but that thing looks hella overpriced. Generally all you have to do to get DSL working is enter the PPPOE loggin information, which you would need to get from your ISP

>>59914225
It was a gift so it's all right, probably is hella overpriced though. Any way I can get the login info without dealing with my ISP? The router config page has the user and pass saved but the pass is censored so idk what it is.

How can I get rid of System Volume Information virus? (usb and computer)

>>59914288
Unless your old modem has hella shitty security, probably not. It's like the one thing you do need to talk to your ISP about. Just write it down, it never changes so you can save yourself a lot of time if you ever need to switch out equipment again or do a hard reset.

>>59914308
DBAN

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>JUST

>>59914327
DELET THIS
PLS NO GORE

>>59914327
My question is:
Can I fix it, or its fucked?
Are both connectors the same size?

>>59914332
I too, wonder why such misery must exist

>>59914311
Damn, I think I had to ask for it like a year ago as well. Should've kept it back then. Thanks for the help, I guess I'll ring up my ISP when I'm in the mood to sit on hold for half an hour and see if they can help.

>>59914356

its not even broken, just needs a clean, happens to all batteries eventually, chemicals and all

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What's the best way to learn the command line for linux?
I try to use it whenever I can but I don't use it that often because I can't find a reason to
Like, I wish I had some practice exercises or something to follow to learn it

>>59914387
Actually, the back of the battery is cracked, will get a pic later
Also, the plugs got fused with that shite, melting part of the cable, that's why I asked about the size

>>59914404
>What's the best way to learn the command line for linux?
Learn how to navigate around your computer in terminal using CLI only, like entering or exiting or making new folders or directories, copying and pasting or even deleting, or running a file in a program like an mp3 or a movie file.

>>59914404
I like to observe a thousand monkeys with keyboards and see what commands get through.

>>59914404
By using it.
Find something that interest you and go do it in the cli.

>>59914315
I haven't found a way that works, every method just hides the folder.

>>59914483
DBAN is not concerned with your puny folders.

>ISP has been throttling me all day
>Start uploading several gigabytes of data
>My internet hasn't been this fast today
what did they mean by this? What algorithm do they use to decide whose internet to choke? can you "game" it?

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How do I stop Andr open office from repeating words onto the next line?

there is an old silverlight application I would like to DL for offline use. is there a way to download it before it disappears from the internet? getting the code and assets is ok too, I know some c#

>>59911400
worked like a charm, thanks

I can't find my sd card reader
Can I use my phone as a card reader to install linux onto a micro sd card instead?

>>59914517
There was probably just a lot of traffic in your region earier

why is my audio so quiet?
i have it set to max on my monitor and in volume settings

also when sound plays, the volume bar never moves more than 10% of its' total, so it's as though my pc KNOWS it's fucking quiet

>>59914626
Probably not to install linux. Phones handle cards in a weird way because their OS competes with the PC's OS to use the data. You can copy files, but that's about it. You can probably make your phone a linux install drive though, if you have root and an OTG cable.

>>59914684
>pc KNOWS it's fucking quiet
kek. Annon's hardware is conspiring against him

>>59914517
>>59914656
No, that's actually not it. I finished uploading my data and now I'm throttled again.
Maybe I should have something uploading all the time to use the internet I pay for

My laptop won't power on (or off), and it's emitting a high pitched noise reminiscent of coil whine.

I haven't used the laptop regularly in 24 hours, and I've briefly used it to charge my mobile phone. I didn't even have it plugged in.

What the fuck could have gone wrong? Also, is my laptop fucked?

>>59914985
>coil whine
PSU is fucked or GPU is fucked.

>>59915020
Sucks. How could the PSU fuck up, though?

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Graduating soon with a degree in Information Systems, and I already have a AA in Networking. I only have internship experience in Automating Software Quality Assurance.

I want a career in Networking but no one will hire me in anything but QA! Are certs a meme or can I get a entry level Networking job with some certs?

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Why doesn't the camera on my LG work anymore? Is this the curse of using an LG phone?.

Linux virgin here.
How in the fuck do I get thumbnails?

>>59915220
You take it up the ass and go back to Windows.

>>59915220
Change file browser

>>59915220
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/49c1d0eea4b64f24c4c7
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/01213036b58e510dc074

Fuck. I am so confused. I am making my first PC build since 2009. Its a Ryzen build, and I have pretty much everything but RAM settled. Should I buy RAM that is 2400 or 2667 and try and overclock it as high as I can? Or should I just buy a super expensive 3200MHz kit and keep it there? I dont know how RAM works very well, timings confuse the fuck out of me, and with Ryzen, i heard memory is a pain in the ass. I have never OC'd memory before. Also, i heard that Ryzen takes away XFR and other features if in OC mode, and I dont know what Im losing.
>inb4 >>>/g/pcbg/
I already did. Ill make a followup

>>59914985
Remove battery.
Turn it on, check if coil whine is still there.

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How would I troubleshoot sudden BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD's?

This BSOD only happens when I'm 'disconnecting' from something big. Examples like closing steam, leaving a server on a P2P game, and alike. No other one thing causes it. Googling it brings up shit about it in unrelated instances, and I have no guarantee that going as far as something like Driver verifier would be a good idea.

>>59910227
pluto is a planet and black science man can suck it. It's round, has a moon and even its own atmosphere.

>>59910227
It's a dwarf planet.

>>59915652
Your mom is round, and its 'moon' is almost as big as it is.

>>59910227
How do i use legacy captcha in mimi reader

How do you monitor your cpu temperature?

So randomly all of my usb ports stopped working completely only when booted to windows 10 install, mouse and keyboard don't work, even when plugging in mouse to ps/2 it doesn't work. Didn't create a system restore point so can't do that. What do?

>>59915756
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_Windows_software#System_information_tools

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which one should I get, guys? Can't afford a JBL LS305 at the moment.

Primary use is gaming, watching movies, and listening to music.

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I fell for the meme and bought the Chuwi Hi10. What should I know and how do I install Linux without fucking up the device? Does it install like a normal laptop or does this have bullshit bios with bullshit drivers and bullshit support?

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guys, what was the command to check the speed your linux computer boots? is there anything similar for windows?

>>59910592
>You'll be using GRUB 2 anyway

what other option is better than that?

>>59915832
systemd-analyze

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>>59915856
thanks anon, I'm new with linux and just forgot about it. Found on how to check boot time on Windows. Using Event Viewer, checking on Applications and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Diagnostics-Performance and creating a filter for Warnings with the ID 100. It measures boot times on ms. Event ID 200 displays how long it takes to shutdown.

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>>59910227
>error code: 0x80070017 while installing Windows 7 on a CD/DVD-ROM
>Skylake cpu won't allows me to install it from
USB

WHAT DO???

>>59916061
http://www.asrock.com/microsite/win7install/

>>59916061
http://pastebin.com/gHCCFBkt

I need a Win10 activator, wat is gud?

>>59916223
http://pastebin.com/smjvLZN4

>>59914684
>>59914684
>>59914684
pls respond

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>>59916074
Thank you, but why this takes trillion of years to load??? After this done, installing win7 from USB on skylake machine will be just fine right?

>>59916234
Can I just use a key from my legal laptop?

>>59916267
Have you played with *all* the volume controls?
Try outputting your sound through a differnet set of speakers. Try headphones too.

>>59916285
No. Licenses don't transfer to different mobos, unless it's a retail license you paid full price for. You can always try pairing it to your microsoft account then claiming you're replacing a broken mobo, but that probably wont work if the license was for a laptop

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why does qbittorrent not notice trackers for most of my torrents?

tracker status for every torrent is working

Dualbooting Arch and Win7. While fucking around in Win7, the disk started thrashing and I ended up having to reboot. Drive is acting all kinds of spotty now, can't even get into GRUB half the time. When I do get past it, either OS just hangs or spews errors when attempting to boot.

Managed to use a livecd to run ntfsfix to force chkdsk to run on win7 boot. Absolute cascade of errors, but the system ran fine for a little bit after that. About an hour later, Win7 did the same damn thing and now I'm back in the same boat.

Is this specifically Win7 causing this, or is my year old SSD crapping out on me? Arch doesn't seem to instigate the problem, but it's certainly affected by it.

>>59916556
Probably Win7 doing stupid shit but you could be an unlucky bastard and the ssd is dying. What brand? It never happened to me and I think if the ssd dies it just dies there's no works every other boot thing.

>>59916556
You could just have some file corruption, but it's probably the drive. Run crystaldiskinfo

>>59916305
>unless it's a retail license you paid full price for
nah, it came with a gamertop I use when away working

>>59916632
Pretty much assumed that. You can buy a key of kinguin or use MStoolkit

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What is the most stable/safest Nvidia driver version at the moment? I haven't upgraded in over a year (still on version 362.00, which has been super stable for me).

With intel desktop processors, why put the cap back on after delidding? Why can't you run them naked die like laptop CPUs?

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>>59915829
Bump

>>59916645
>not upgrading your vid driver for over a year

jesus fucking christ, people do this?

back when I still had a desktop pc I would dirty install the latest driver (amd) every time without an issue. stop living in the past, video drivers are nowhere near as fiddly as they used to be.

>>59916603
>It never happened to me
Unless you work in a datacenter that is the most counterproductive standard you could possibly use.

>if the ssd dies it just dies
Flash memory often fails little by little over time. You usually won't notice it because drives overprovision and if some malfunctioning sectors are undetected it could be causing his problem. His manufacturer's utility would probably be the best way to scan for errors.

>>59916687
Higher risk of damage since they're not designed to do that.

>>59916704
But the laptop variants of their CPUs are? I thought the dies were the same.

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Any idea if evga will offer a 1080ti other than the founders edition for the step up program?

why does plugging my monitor into my integrated graphics card (rather than my gpu) only let me output at 1280x1024?

>>59916645
Dude, just no. Games are meant to work with the latest drivers. They put a playing new releases. Never hold out on a new version for more than a few weeks at most.

>>59916711
Laptop CPUs are an entirely separate line, with different goals and considerations in mind.

>>59916695
>jesus fucking christ, people do this?
I've had very little time for gayming over the past year (school + work + having to travel a bunch). I simply haven't had time to mess with it.

>video drivers are nowhere near as fiddly as they used to be

Over all that's true, but Nvidia has a bad run of drivers lately. Every time I've thought about upgrading it seems Nvidia fucked up the latest driver, and they're recommending rolling back to the previous version, etc. I just haven't felt like opening that keg of worms until now.

>>59916711
Laptops are designed around having the cooler attached that way
A desktop cooler/mounting puts a lot more weight on the cpu

>>59916699
you are right anon, the ones that I've seen die, they shit themselves and just stopped working. Mostly cheap shit or the chipset sucked ass.
But as you said on a datacenter where the ssd/hdds get grinded almost non-stop 24/7 is not the same as regular user abuse.

>>59916603
SanDisk, has around 800gb worth of writes to it.

>>59916699
I haven't actually had an SSD crap out on me before. I'm used to just listening for the tell-tale clicks, but beyond that I honestly have no fucking idea how to diagnose a drive.

I ran a SMART test, but I've literally never had one say shit was busted, even when a drive was very obviously fucked.

My only option for a replacement is a standard HDD, but these SSD speeds have spoiled the shit out of me so I'm pretty unwilling to write it off for anything short of a concrete "he's dead, jim" moment.

>>59916779
Put ssd in external usb enclosure and boot off that.
If you still have a problem then maybe ssd, maybe file-system.
If no problem then maybe sata-cable or motherboard or something.

Putting drive in another machine is an alternative to putting in usb enclosure.

>>59916779
https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15108/~/sandisk-ssd-dashboard-support-information

Have you been over it with this? It's best to use the brand's own utility, since they'll know exactly how their own controller works

>>59916556
>Is this specifically Win7 causing this

Very unlikely, especially if you're experiencing problems in arch as well. You could try sfc /scannow to repair windows system files, and maybe reinstall grub, but if it's a hardware issue that will only be a temporary solution

I don't understand how to download programs from github when they don't have a specific link for it. How would I get QuiterRSS here:

https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss

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can any computer wizard here help me retrieve or at least get a screenshot of this deleted tweet?

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/853418449757888512

i have tried everything, but not luck. just a screen-shot would be good enough.

thank you in advance!

>>59916797

Says everything's fine right off the bat, but I'm running the extended diagnostic test as I type this.

>>59916795

That's definitely my next step, it's just late and I've got the in-laws over for the weekend so I don't want to get up in dem guts until everybody's awake.

>>59916890

Green clone or download button on the upper right of the file list. Download as zip.

I don't see any binaries in there, so that's not going to do you any good unless you want to compile it yourself.

>>59916921
Ah, so I'm not missing any obvious exe files anywhere. I always figured there was some standardized default folder nobody told me about. How hard would it be to compile it? Their site has been down a couple of weeks and the only version I can find is the portable.

>>59916946

It's one of those "not worth the time or effort" things unless you're a huge masochist. It's not super difficult, just a massive pain in the fucking ass.

>>59916905

SanDisk test says the drive is perfectly fine. Green checkmarks all across the board, 27% reserved space remaining, etc.

While all the symptoms are screaming "hardware failure" at me, nothing is showing any actual problems with the drive, so I suppose it's time to just reformat it and see how that goes.

Thanks for the help, everybody.

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One of the reasons people still buy aging Thinkpads is the "modular" nature of them.

Being able to replace the optical drive with a caddy that holds a hard drive for example.

Do any brands till do this? Can you for example get a new Elitebook or Thinkpad where the optical drive is easily replaceable with either an upgrade or something else entirely?

>>59910227
What's /g/ drinkan? Ninkasi Total Domination for me. It's not the greatest IPA out there but it's easy to find and tasty.

how to rice 4chan to look like some normie forum

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>>59917219
Whoops

>>59917226

https://github.com/Gimu/chancli

>>59917196
Pretty much every machine with optical drive can have it replaced by a 2.5" bay. Number of laptops with an optical drive at all is dwindling.

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My /g/PU has broke (LOL XD) i know why it broke though, the case was open and i knocked it accidently while putting on the cover for the case. Is there any way this can be fixed? it's a 7970 sapphire won't cover it my warranty ran out a few years ago.

Im unsure whether i should just upgrade because i recently bought a ps4 to play vidya with and im enjoying that too

i have an encrypted lvm group (root 16G, swap 8G and home fills the rest). how would i expand the rood partition? shoukd i remove swap, expand rood to it and move swap at the end after shrinking home?

how would i do tge actual resizing when it is a crypt lvm partition?

>>59917384
Ok thanks. I don't care about portability as much as usability

I'll read up on it

>>59916645
I just run driver-manager and choose the recommended proprietary driver. nvidia drivers have given me lots of hassle so i don't manually install them anymore.

So I've been sitting here with the following question for a while now:

Generally, what is more power efficient?

M.2 SATA drives or SATA 2.5 drives? (The M.2 slot does not support NVMe)

I've got this choice of getting either for my laptop and it's the same model (Samsung 850) for about the same price.

>>59917460
Did you create partitions on your logical volume, or do you have several logical volumes?

>>59917460
The great thing about lvm is that you can resize them however you want and don't have to worry about them being contiguous.
You resize encrypted volumes the same way you resize unencrypted ones. LUKS doesn't care about sizes.

my keyboard is not usb, how to connect to rasppi

>>59917726
Highly doubt there's a noticeable difference. Just get the M.2 so you've got an extra drive bay.

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>>59917831

A USB-PS2 adapter.

>>59917864
Alas, wrong direction.

>>59917863
Haven't thought about that one.

This laptop has space for 2 M.2 drives and 1 SATA 2.5 drive.

It has some sort of toshiba M.2 128 GB SSD drive and a Hitatchi SATA 1TB drive and I wanted to replace them both with just one M.2 850 EVO 500 GB drive to save some energy and speed it up since I don't need all the extra space.

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Why is my 1080 performing "way below expectations" on UserBenchmarks? It's the most powerful 1080 for a start.

The card was not hot whatsoever, and I've been playing games with this for a few months and getting the expected fps.

Does it make a difference if I'm on a G-sync enabled 165hz monitor when running UserBenchmarks?

>>59917787
i have one primary partition for boot and other is cypt lvm with those 3 logical partitions listed inside.

The CLI really only seems faster if you know your directories by heart

>>59917789
so can i shrink home from the beggining of the partition? i do not think that will work.

>>59917878

So get one going in the other direction. They exist. PS2 female to USB male.

>>59917952
what's the rest of the specs?

>>59917968
Get a shell with decent tab completion.

>>59917980
There are no partitions with lvm, they're called logical volumes. You don't have to worry about shrinking them in certain areas. You can shrink home at the end and add that to root.

>>59917890
Yeah I doubt it'll matter much. Laptop HDDs are designed to be power efficient, and it will definitely spin down when you aren't using files on it. Biggest difference will probably be that the laptop is slightly lighter. If you want to extend battery life without buying a new laptop it's going to be mostly down to your settings/OS and disabling unnecessary processes.

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>>59917985
Never mind, it was G-sync. There's no bottleneck here.


Gaming 120%UFO
Desktop 104% UFO
Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier

>>59918016
>There are no partitions with lvm, they're called logical volumes
You can still create partitions within a logical volume. They're just disks as far as anything else cares after all.

>>59917980
It would help if you provided output of these commands:

sudo lvs
sudo vgs
sudo pvs
sudo parted -l

>>59918029
Yeah, I've undervolted the CPU and adjusted a lot of settings in order to get it from 4 hours to 5 hours, I run a lot of programs from the SATA drive so I thought that if I were to upgrade the storage of the SSD and remove the spinning drive all together that would at least give me some extra minutes and make it a bit lighter

>>59917983
But the passive PS2>USB adapters don't work universally. No guarantee pi supports them.

>>59918061
>You can still create partitions within a logical volume.
You can, but it would be retarded and nobody would ever do that.

>They're just disks as far as anything else cares after all.
No.

>>59915652
Yes it's a planet, they've confirmed it last year. They took back almost everything the blackie said.

>>59918063
You'd get much better results with a larger battery if they offer it for your model. Also switching to a semi-lightweight linux distro could help, and disabling your wifi when you don't need it.

>>59918071

At that point, just get a different keyboard. Cheap chink boards are like $10 on Amazon.

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>>59915652

Hmm yes, pluto certainly does fit in perfectly here. Definitely doesn't stick out like a sore thumb at all.

>>59918113
Nah, there was just a small group of nasa scientists that suggested maybe changing the definition of planet so that it would include pluto. If they did, the moon would also be a planet now.

>>59918063
It only has an internal battery as it is a very thin lightweight laptop. A semi-lightweight Linux distro huh? I could boot that on the go. I did notice Ubuntu only getting 1-2 hours of battery life on it. So there's that.. What exactly are you suggesting? Lubuntu?

why is this thread always at the bump limit

>>59918061
lvs

 
LV   VG  Attr       LSize    Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  home vg0 -wi-ao---- <273.59g                                                    
  root vg0 -wi-ao----   16.00g                                                    
  swap vg0 -wi-a-----    8.00g

vgs

  VG  #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  vg0   1   3   0 wz--n- <297.59g    0 

pvs

  PV              VG  Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
  /dev/mapper/vg0 vg0 lvm2 a--  <297.59g    0 

parted -l

Model: ATA ST320LT007-9ZV14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  538MB  537MB  primary  ext4         boot
 2      538MB   320GB  320GB  primary               lvm


Model: WD Elements 1078 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  500GB  500GB  primary  ext4

lsblk

NAME           MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda              8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk  
├─sda1           8:1    0   512M  0 part  /boot
└─sda2           8:2    0 297.6G  0 part  
  └─vg0        254:0    0 297.6G  0 crypt 
    ├─vg0-root 254:1    0    16G  0 lvm   /
    ├─vg0-swap 254:2    0     8G  0 lvm   
    └─vg0-home 254:3    0 273.6G  0 lvm   /home
sdb              8:16   0 465.7G  0 disk  
└─sdb1           8:17   0 465.7G  0 part  /run/media/nixi/6e814a52-
sr0             11:0    1  1024M  0 rom   

>>59918247
actually, i forgot to filter out my external drive to which i am backing up my home partition. ignore that.

>>59918245

because this board is full of edgelord retards who want to be Neo.

>>59918245
Because there are always retards.

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F-droid won't install applications if I install it on a different user on my phone.
My brother broke his phone and I'm a NEET so I want to lend it to him for a week but he told me f-droid was giving a "can't install due to an unknown error" message every time he tried installing anything inside the app.
On the main account it works just fine, tried reinstalling and unknown sources are enabled obviously, does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

>>59918231
Lubuntu is good. It even lets you choose netbook mode or straght up openbox from the login screen. Doesn't get much more resource friendly than that.

If you're willing to put up the cash, an external charger could probably get you a lot more time. They weigh a couple pounds, but you always have the option to leave it behind.

I just got a new laptop (dell xps) with windows, but I'm planning on formatting the whole drive and removing windows to install Linux. Will I have to buy a new key if I want to put windows back on it? How would I go about restoring windows if I wanted to?

>>59918247
What you want to do is:
1. shrink the home filesystem
2. shrink the home logical volume
3. expand the root logical volume
4. expand the root filesystem

For safety, I would recommend shrinking the home filesystem more than you need to and expanding it again at the very end.
I'm not sure if there are any (graphical) tools that would do it automatically for you. For doing it manually, you can find all the information you need on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM
You will need the lvresize and resize2fs commands.

>>59918339
Windows 10 is paired to the hardware for life. Just download from microsoft and reinstall whenever you want.

>>59918339
If it came with Windows 10, no.

If not, why not create a backup image through Acronis?

>>59918304
Thank you for the help, those external batteries are not cheap. But it might be worth it.

>>59918247
Yeah, I fall for that setup every time I install Fedora. Having root and home separate by default is stupid. I just get rid of the home LV.

# shrink your home logical volume to 150GB (or whatever you want), shrink the ext4 FS too
lvresize --resizefs --size 150GB /dev/mapper/vg0-home
# grow your root logical volume to use whatever is available in that volume group
lvresize --resizefs -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/vg0-root

I'd double check to make sure those device paths are correct.

https://www.systutorials.com/124416/shrinking-a-ext4-file-system-on-lvm-in-linux/

>>59918390
> --resizefs
Neat, I didn't realize lvresize could do that, although it only works for some filesystems. You can ignore my post then I guess. >>59918349

>>59918178
Then I was reading fake news. Fuck the internet nowadays, it's just used to spread misinformation.

what sound drivers are best for windows 10?

>>59918275
Pls respond

Does G-sync impact fps? Outside of limiting it at your refresh rate? I have a 165hz monitor and with G-sync on I UserBench a 1080 at 250fps, above my refresh rate, but without it, 450.

>>59918275
uninstall f-droid from the main account and install it again from his

>>59911818
What do you mean exactly? That i store them as .txt files instead of .php or...?

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>>59916891
Anyone?

Please?

Help?

New Thread

>>59918807
>>59918807
>>59918807
>>59918807

>>59918390
so is it better to not have a separate home partition? why does everyone keep reccomending it?

>>59918606
Tried this, still doesn't work :/

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>>59918791
>>59916891
No idea bud