/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

>re-post from last thread

All of a sudden last night when using my laptop it's no longer adjusting the volume when I have my headphones plugged in. Whether I adjust the volume all the way to the max or all the way down to "1" it always sounds like it's playing at about 10 (which is generally where I have it) - the sound sounds perfectly fine outside of this issue and the headphones are fine on other devices, etc. Also the headphone jack doesn't seem damaged or loose in any way. It's also not a matter of this just happening in one program; also I've restarted my laptop since this began just to see if it was some weird one time thing. Using 8.1.1 by the way.

Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to go fullscreen on firefox but still have the windows taskbar pop up when u mouse over it?
On either windows 8.1 or 10

This is really fucking dumb, but every time I launch linux, two emacs frames open and I have no idea why. It's not in my ~/.bash_profile. It's not in my "Startup and Shutdown" settings. I'm really running out of places to look. Any ideas??

Check your ~/.xinitrc

What's the best Facebook app on F-Droid?

My College blocks me from downloading muh torrents. Any free ways I can get around this?

Is it possible to disable Intel Management Engine ?

sudo mount kyouko mypenis

If your country doesn't give a shit about torrenting from residential internet, set up a VPN server at your parents house and torrent through it. You still need the hardware to do that though, and if you're a burger your parents will soon be calling asking about the DMCA letters. There's no free service that you can just go and sign up for that will let you do this. Get a seedbox. It's safer, more reliable, and literally the price of a fast-food meal per month, you telling me you can't afford that? If you're like the college students I knew you probably spent more than that on beer in the last three days.

read through menuconfig and look up anything you don't understand
feel free to start at the interesting parts

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I need to track changes to a number that's displayed in a proprietary program, and there doesn't appear to be any way to access the number beyond OCR. Is there any simple way to continuously monitor this number and log any changes, or feed them into a script?

There used to be a program 20 years ago called cheat-o-matic that did this. It was meant for giving yourself more ammo in Quake 2 and shit like that, but it worked by just having you enter a value, scanning the target process' memory space for it, keeping a list of anything it found, and then asking you to change the number in the program, rescanning, and repeating until there was only one possible memory location holding the value you care about. You could then use the program to write new values to this memory location.

If you know how to program and use gdb you're probably already getting ideas as to how you might implement this. If you don't, sorry, I don't know a modern-day program with the same functionality.

Oh right, thanks, I completely forgot that I could just use a tool like that to read the memory. I'll see what I can find.

You can get a vps for about $5/ month with like 4-5TB of bandwidth per month.
Then just setup your favorite software and their web interface adn go from there.
Then you would just download it from within the browser(so port 80/443) or you could use ftp to download from the seedbox

DELET THIS
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

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In Linux there exists a command called free, which is a quick and easy way to get your system's current memory usage in whatever measurement you desire (kilobytes, megabytes, etc), and print it directly to stdout.
BSD operating systems seem to be missing this. What is the command to use for this on Free/Open/NetBSD?

Go ask in the *bsd thread.
Or ask google like you should have before you posted in this thread

when i hightlight pictures, it will sometimes put it as my desktop background on windows 10

how do i make it stop

what's gonna happen to my .sesx files if I try to pirate adobe audition? currently using the genuine version

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right clicking on a highlighted image shows the option to do exactly that, maybe you're accidentally pressing the wrong buttons or your mouse is broken

hey guys I'm taking some software dev courses in college right but realize I suck at programming. should I just switch to networking?

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Networking is alot of math

hello future sys admin

How do I remove the minmise/maximize/close buttons from firefox 60?
None of the css works.

>Go ask in the *bsd thread
There isn't one.
>Or ask google like you should have before you posted in this thread
I did, and I didn't get a clear answer.

Now answer the fucking question you nigger

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I usually line to lurk more before posting, but after some research in stumped enough to be a fag. I got a Miracast as a gift and was wondering if I could use it like a chromecast instead of doing retarded screencasting

i know. that's CS in general. I just don't want to be stuck in a cubicle wageslaving away only to be replaced by pajeet

well, that is an impressively shit i7
apparently about as quick as my t400's core2 duo
that said, my t400 works just fine, 1080p works fine. i don't use windows on it, though

Is there a script that adds an iqbd search button to sankaku?

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i want to cream that tomato

Managed to post my question just as the last thread died.

I'm running 2 msi optix g27c2 monitors for my system. When I run speccy they appear as generic pnp monitors. Any ideas on how to get them to correctly identify?

Hey, whats the name of the tool everyone uses to give you a genuine version of windows. I used to use it a ton, but Now i cant for the life of me remember.

I don't know of one, not that I've looked or know what's possible, but here are a few you might like:

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-options/
>Image Search Options provides a set of highly customizable reverse image search context menu options.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/
>Enlarge thumbnails, and show images/videos from links with a mouse hover.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/boorumate/
>This add-on helps save images from booru-style image boards to your PC. Just click on the icon in the address bar to save the picture to a configurable directory.

Sorry for the poor formatting, but just keeping the above stuff as a brick with no spaces looked poor in the quick reply window. My only complaint with the first addon is if you delete or change a reverse search option, there seems no way to undo that at all besides reinstalling the addon. So if you fuck up you have no recourse besides reinstalling. Also the yandex option will piss you off, since they will ask you to fill out captchas every once in a while. When I fucked up the yandex option and tried to manually recreate it, it prompted for a captcha every single time. Just reinstall if you fuck anything up.

The second addon is really nice, since it works for Instagram, which otherwise cockblocks you hard if you want to save anything posted there.

Daz loader

Thanks for these. What I'm trying to do is move as many of my sankaku bookmarks over to some other booru that provides the image source. If all else fails, I can always do it manually anyway.

>Greasemonkey asks for unacceptable authorizations
>remove Greasemonkey for Violentmonkey
>reinstall Jow Forums X
>everything works fine

>open FF a few minutes ago
>boards.Jow Forums.org/g/catalog
>no thread watcher
>no Jow Forums X
>check Violentmonkey, Scripts still active but doesn't work
>reinstall the script
>still nothing
What is happening ? Is Jow Forums X dead ?

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No, its part of 4chans malware payload, if you block them, you break the css

>Im going to be on the sex offender registry
Consider working city services or be a car mechanic. Hope for good luck to outpace your poor decisions.

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I am a lame brained novice. Why does this python code work? It seems to me that some numbers (those that are multiples of both 3 and 5) should be double counted.

"""If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9.
The sum of these multiples is 23.

Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000."""

x = 0

for i in range(1000):
if i % 3 == 0 or i % 5 == 0:
x += i

print(x)

should I use clover or dashchan?

Okay lets say you're at fifteen. That's a multiple of both three and five. you get to the if statement. Is 15%3 0? Yes, it is, true, so the if branch is executed. That's sufficient, it doesn't go back and check the if statement another time for each condition. If the condition is true, it gets executed once. Then execution continues after the end of the if block. Which is the end of the loop, so you go back to the beginning of the loop at the next number.

remember that "i%3 == 0 or i%5 == 0" is one statement. The whole thing is true if either side of it is true, since that's how logical-or works.

How can I verify my luks password while my system in online? It's been 3 months since I set up this computer and never turned it off, and I'd like to verify I know the password before being locked out.

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--test-passphrase

cryptsetup --test-passphrase?

It's back. I don't know why it stopped working.

protip: press '/' to search a manpage

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So
sudo cryptsetup luksopen /dev/sda2 --test-passphrase?

Why dont you try it?

What could be causing this? I switched out my router, and now I can't access my modem's webpage? I have no idea why I'm no longer able to access it.

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options before actions, c'mon user
> cryptsetup --help
cryptsetup 2.0.3
Usage: cryptsetup [OPTION...]
cryptsetup --test-passphrase open /dev/sda2

i just bought a opened box "never used" cpu i was looking to buy from a retailer on ebay out of impulse because it was quite a lot cheaper than all the retail new ones though still a lot more than used... my question is how fucked am I? description of "new (other)" on ebay says 'may include defects' but the item description said open-box condition. If it doesn't work will ebay have my back?

he's a top rated plus seller with 99.7% positive in the USA and quite a bit of feedback which all look legit.

just hoping i won't regret trying to save like $70.

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Thanks.

default gateway might be different for different routers. google "how to find default gateway on [operating system here]"

Sorry, it's late and I'm drunk and I also don't know anything about linux really.
Also, I'm fucked. I'm going to have to spend the rest of the night backing everything up because I don't recall the password and the ones I thought could be it didn't work.
Thanks user.

np, be thankful you remembered to check
consider writing the phrase down and hiding it somewhere just in case, this is obviously a negative security wise, but what's the use if you manage to lock /yourself/ out in the process of making shit more secure?

>What I'm trying to do is move as many of my sankaku bookmarks over to some other booru that provides the image source.
DOG, exactly, what the fuck. What the FUCK. I've complained before that Sankaku images just have entirely fucking unknown image sources, but someone claimed they do and I'm just blind. The functionality must silently be account-locked, since you sometimes see tags say like "bad id"; "bad pixiv id" or whatever. I think that means it literally does source to pixiv, and if the pixiv source returns a 404, the booru version is updated as the source dying. But I look and still don't see a source for the goddamn booru image.

I've seen a screencap of one once, by the same user who called me blind. But I've never seen that on my own ever, ever, ever. It must be behind an account, since they're cunts and want you to save shitty twitter images without questioning if there's a lossless pixiv version.

guys pls take a look at my question here:

Yeah, I guess I'm just gonna spend and get a stable setup. Thanks for the help, I also don't drink btw eks d

Thanks user I'll look into it

I have 4 harddrives, im making 2 of them mirrors of my first and i want to make a clean drive with only windows on it.

can i just somehow copy my windows os from the first drive and put it on a clean one?

thanks

so I have these images that look like paint scatters but they are supposed to be similar images and I want to align them so that the paint drops match up. what's a good method for automating this

This dude applies what you want to dim noises star pictures. Neat idea and implementation.

benedikt-bitterli.me/astro/

I'm a gaming newbie and purchased what's essentially a Sager/Clevo case with user-selected components from PC Specialist (I'm a uk fag).

I had to return my first one and I'm currently using what I think is the Clevo p950HR/Sager 8952.

It gives off an incredibly annoyingly loud whine, I only get sound through headphones and not through speakers, and the trackpad is a pain to use.

Should I fork over more for a brand like Asus, MSI etc?

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The last time I checked it was Malwarebytes and Windows Defender

Pre-emptive Sorry if things have changed and those aren't the rcommended anymore

best brand of keyboards? no fancy stuff, just good old fashioned keyboards.

what's the most stable distro for development cross platform?

Is MEGA a good solution for transfering an infrequent and small amount of large files to friends using private links and then deleting the files off the storage because I don't need them there? Basically there are times I want to watch a relatively hard to acquire anime movie or whatever with my friends and I want to be able to just give them a private link they can download it from. That way we can all watch it via Syncplay.

Is there something different I should use? Since I'm not trying to host and open public link to distribute anime mega shouldn't give a fuck right?

Why not just host ftp from your home? Why not a private torrent?

Hey guys

For years I've been saving Jow Forums threads that I like by right-clicking and using "save as..." and saving the whole page as an html document.

Problem: Recently-saved threads aren't displaying anything. Any threads I've saved for the past few weeks just come up as a blank white screen when I open it in Chrome. When I open these threads in Firefox, they open just fine except there's a bunch of random characters at the top and bottom of the page. Also, the board-list at the bottom of the page is shown twice.

Is this happening to anyone else? Can someone else try saving a thread and see if it works?

so i'm working on an active github project for a particular issue, using git obviously. I have my master branch, which is a fork from the owners repo's master branch. Ive created another branch for the issue at hand. Now, i pull updates from project master into my master, and now my master is ahead of my issue branch. i know about git rebase, so i've done that. there's a message when i checkout my local master, saying my branch is ahead of origin/master by 22 commits.
Now, my question is about this whole rebase thing, i really don't want to fuck up my first pull request by killing everyone elses git history or whatever. When i'm done with my issue, i merge it into my local master branch, then have the pull request go from my master branch, right? as long as i don't push the branch i rebased (git rebase master typed in while the feature branch is checked out) there wont be those types of merge issues right?

Is there a difference between a proper usb-c docking station and a port replicator like pic related?
assuming I don't power my laptop with the docking station anyway

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how do you bypass region locked videos on youtube-dl?

you can open the videos on hooktube and save them from there. dunno how well it works for what you're doing though

why can't it download 1080p?

my jack port isn't working. i know it's not my earphone because it works on my monitor, but the port itself isn't working, only when I push it really hard, running the risk of damaging the plug and if I release it, it stops working again. what do?

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fix it

Recommended me a craptop with a 1050 or equivalent dGPU. Thinking about a clevo but I've never actually seen one. I'd prefer something without the gaymer aesthetic, poorfag suitable, decent screen and easy to service.

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Using tkinter for gui programming...
How do I get a widget to pack to a size proportional to it's master widget. Say I had one widget I wanted to fill 60% of the master's width and the other widget next to it the other 40%, while both fill the maximum height. Anybody got some experience with this I haven't been able to find any stack overflow pages or tutorials on this?

Where's a good place to get a cheap VPS, if i'm just gonna mess around with it and not do anything too demanding?

Alternately, if I decide I want to use it for some moderate seedbox type shit, what's are the options for that?

Need a basic free video editor

What's the Jow Forums recommendation?

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ok so at random times my compUter decides to Press the shift key for me. as you can see in this post. i am not intending to capitalize any letters. i have tried multiple keyboards. and it seemS tO be in the pc itself. how? why? how can i fix it? it aLso turned on some high contrast shit.

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because no one uses tk or tcl

I tried to look up what I could do but people talk about the plugs way more than they do about the ports. I don't think it's really broken, just wondering how it works and what could be possibly preventing it from functioning

>laptop
>specific specs
you're looking for a headache with this

I'm flexible. I just want to be able to run hearts of iron and similar at 1080p when I'm doing fly in fly out work.

can i auto save all images with Jow Forums x?

*ooga boogas internally*

Can somebody tell me how is the notepad that shows code in colors called ? i need it coz im a brainlet who cant distinguish values from properties

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Do these electrical pins gold-plated?

I see a lot of these, but gold coloured part fades out towards the end.

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pretty likely electroplated with gold, yes, perhaps an alloy with cobalt/nickel as well
not enough to be worth recovery, if that's what you're thinking