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>Where can I get Win10 LTSB?
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Based Range.

You should be using lewder pics though.

Is there anything program that'll say queue the archive websites every hour then provide a popup/email whenever the specific autistic topic I care about pops up?

Faggots complain too much. This is the lewdest pic I've used, mostly just crop the headshots, but this one has Jow Forums in it.

Just search loli once a day, ya lazy fuck.

>Faggots complain too much
Let them.
>but this one has Jow Forums in it.
Looks more like to me.

Does RAM speed really matter that much? I have 24GB DDR4 2133 and am wondering how long I can keep using before it will become "obsolete" if it ever will.

>Looks more like to me.
Shit, forgot that board existed. I only frequent a couple boards here, most of the rest of this place is not my fetish, or has turned to shit over the last 10 years.

It doesn't really matter unless you are using an AMD chip with integrated graphics. Even then, I'd advise buying a real GPU instead of over priced ram.

i am on a government network and Jow Forums isn't blocked, but things like steam are for some fucking reason. i just want to play some quake live and 100percent oj on my new shit tier mini laptop. i have been trying to find a (((free))) vpn all night, i discovered vpngate and am prepared to give all my private information to some random fuck running a server. i downloaded the ovpn files from vpngate and have tried to run them with "openvpn --config namename.ovpn" which tries to connect but its not working and the openvpn setup pages and everything else does not even try to explain how to use it as a client

TL;DR
how do i use openvpn as a client

>i am on a government network
Where, and what part of the government?
Most IA guys are perverts, and whitelist sites they like. Steam is blocked because some dumb fuck got caught playing games at work, and a complaint was submitted to the IA guy.

>or has turned to shit over the last 10 years.
That's this whole site, universally.
>reminder that techloli/g/y is no longer a thing

>That's this whole site, universally.
Probably. I just recently (couple years ago) started browsing Jow Forums, so I don't know the history of it that well. Thought it was a guro board.

A lot of boards will bump the thread off in less than a day, and some of the topics I'm thinking about are often talked about less than once a week. Besides, isn't technology trying to automate a lot of stuff?

Fine. Search around for a 'web scraping' program or how to write one.

>old computer died
>not main machine
>wanna fix old computer anyway
>first thought broken power supply
>350watt
>tested all components
>everything worked except CPU
>located error
>must be mobo problem, power supply problem or CPU
>borrowed CPU
>tested it again
>didn't work neither
>borrowed used 400watt (not sure if certified or not) power supply
>same problem
>came up with idea probably needs new or certified power supply that actually delivers enough power
>borrowed again different 420watt power supply
>420watt power supply worked
>don't know if 420watt was certified or not
>10 sec later noticed weird smell like something gonna burn
>saw some smoke that came from around socket/CPU
>shutted computer down
>smoke and smell probably came from new thermal grease I put on CPU
>wanna buy a new power supply for old computer now
>don't wanna spend much money since its only old computer so it has to be a inexpensive noname brand
>found one thats matching my conditions
>got option between 600watt no certification and 400watt bronze certification

My questions now:
Is the power supply really the problem, or is it the motherboard?
Why actually did it started to smell and smoking? Smell and smoke was just very light and fine but noticeable.
Is it save to use the 600watt power supply after the smell and smoke thing that I have mentioned before?
Would the 400watt bronze certified power supply be enough? The used one with 400watt I tested (not sure if it was certified or not) didn't work, the 420watt one (not sure if this was certified or not) was working.
Components are
>P4, AGP video card, 2x ODD, floppy drive, IDE HDD

in b4
>dun wayz muney on ol hurdwer

>Thought it was a guro board.
Originally it was, but that was more than 10 years ago.

its a trade school and i will live here for at least a year, i know why Jow Forums is unblocked but i was hoping i could get a vpn working. everyone else has working vpns actually, many people use steam here on their computers and out in public and we are allowed to but steam is bad for some reason. i just cannot figure out how to do this on linux, and it has to be free because the pay is both pennies and in cash

sec later noticed weird smell like something gonna burn
>>saw some smoke that came from around socket/CPU
>>shutted computer down
You need to pay someone to do this shit, because you obviously don't know what the fuck you're doing.
>dun wayz muney on ol hurdwer
Are you 12?

>Originally it was,
ah, that's why.
>but that was more than 10 years ago.
Fuck me. Why are we still here?

Just go to a starbucks and download steam. Pretty sure it has an offline mode.

how can I better secure my mesh network?

>offline mode
>for 100 percent orange juice and quake live
i mean that would work for singleplayer games too which i also want to try but my problem seems really specific to me and i know a vpn would solve this problem

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Is there any way to prevent this update from happening, or to change gmail back to the way it currently is when the update does happen?

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Pay for a VPN. They're all botnet.

Whats up nerds,

I just setup an FTP server in my garage and torrented some films to it. Got on my pc in the house and was able to connect.

Problem is, one particular film has no audio. I am streaming them through Firefox and all the other ones have audio. Played the film on my server to ensure the file has audio. It just wont stream the audio. Any idea what im doing wrong? Weird to me that it's one particular file.

Win 10 pro on both machines

Probably not. You can always use a older third party e-mail ap, that isn't likely to be updated by a "web design" crew trying to justify their existence.

Is it by chance a 5.1 mix you're playing on stereo speakers? (We seem to get that one a lot around here.)

I obviously know what I do. I builded my last 3 computers together from zero, no help, no instructions, all worked fine with no problems. But If you are Mr. I know everything about computers, then tell me what the actual problem is. Power or MoBo?
>Are you 12?
I'm 12 and what is this?

nope, it's stereo. Firefox player shows the mute symbol when i open this file and toggling mute doesn't help.

>Why are we still here?
just to suffer

300 confirmed kills, and you don't know that smoke from the CPU has nothing to do with the PSU?

(Granted, it may just be a dusty heatsink, and have nothing to do with anything.)

Is it using the same audio codec/container as the other videos that stream audio fine? (If not, convert it.)

probably the audio codec
you can check and compare the codecs with mediainfo
when in doubt, stream the film over smb/nfs/webdav, which is more versatile anyway, and play it in vlc

So the problem is what? PSU? MoBo?

audio codec was different,

converting now, hopefully this works

Whats the cheapest way to upgrade windows 10 home to pro? I see licenses for sale on ebay for like $5, but they say they're only good for 1 installation, and upon re-install they need to be rebought.

I bought a off-lease dell that was supposed to be windows 7pro, but when i actually got it in my hands i saw the COA was for windows 8, but somehow the windows 7 pro installed on it was authorized. When i copied the internal code(using KeyFinder) and tried to input it on the windows 10 home(what automatically installed when i put the windows 10 disc in) after instillation, it does not work.

I kinda need those extra features(bitlocker)

Possible ya got some thermal grease in the socket, which may mean both the CPU and Mobo are now as toastie as they smell.

PSU doesn't enter into it, save that the 350w probably wasn't enough and/or decayed.

>(bitlocker)
Why? Everything you have on your computer is being scanned and sent back to Redmond.

thats decent advise but it doesnt answer my question

how do i use openvpn as a client

Anyone else's thumbnails not appearing on the catalogue?

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How do you build chromium with PGO on linux?

Why did you crop it? This one wasn't even NSFW.

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How do I make win10 not shit? I can't even begin to express what's wrong with this thing. It's like everything is a "user experience" app.

I want to get rid of background network activity and forced updates at least

Uninstall it.

To make it square. I have thumbnail autism.

I want to but Linux drivers for my laptop don't fucking work. Nvidia driver makes Linux hang before it's even finished loading the ramdisk. Something to do with EFI framebuffer I think. I don't want my 1070 to go to waste.

Thoughts on facebook lite and messenger lite apps?

>and upon re-install they need to be rebought
Wrong. They just can't be transferred to a different PC.

You sure? The listings for them explicitly say in bold red font:
>One-time use, cannot be used again when re-installing.
And i know that almost all the cheap windows office 2016 pro cdkeys work that way too(only activates once, if you uninstall it, and then reinstall it using the same supplied key it just goes into trial mode)

How the fuck do I get stereo mix to show up on windows 10?

I have both disconnected/disabled devices checked, still nothing there

This doesnt let me record audio from through sharex, only OBS seems to pick up my system audio

Is hexatech vpn safe?

Nothing went next to the CPU. Socket and mobo are clean.
>save that the 350w probably wasn't enough and/or decayed.
That it won't have enough power anymore after some years was my thought too, if you read my first post.
Probably you didn't read it or missunderstood it.
According to you, the problem is the PSU? But how to explain the smell/smoke. Smell/smoke probably nothing, probably some defect on the mobo?

are curved monitors a meme or should I consider one?

70% coding/browsing/20%low end gaming/10%gta5

also, if you love your monitor, pls tell me.

fast but feels bit clunky and misses some features from the bloated versions
perfect for people that only use facebook out of obligation and don't care about any stupid features

Go to a shop that sells them, and see if you like them. I think they're fine for single user use. If multiple people are viewing it at the same time then flat is better.

How fucked am I?

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You don't remember the Equifax hack last year?

I do, I think my parents said they think they were effected but didn't look into much beyond what I saw on the news. What exactly are you getting at? That I am super fucked?

EVERYONE was affected. Just get over the fact that privacy is a myth.

I care about security, not complete privacy

Saying any current problems cannot be PSU related. PSU's do not make motherboard's smoke.

Nothing is secure. Companies will do anything to make money, and that usually includes doing the bare minimum when it comes to securing their data.

why is this doing this where the fuck do I get this package

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How exactly does the C pre-compiler deal with defining number variables with different types?
For example, in the regular program, to define an int and a float, you go
int foo = 1;
float bar = 0.5;
However, with pre-compiler directives you can use
#define foo 1
#define bar 0.5
without the need to specify what type each variable is. What's the deal with this? Why is this abstractness acceptable in pre-compiler directives but not in the regular program?

By problems you mean smell/smoke?
So where is the problem then?
If I connect all components together.
>video card, 2x ODD, floppy drive, IDE HDD, RAM
>except CPU
all PSU work.
However, if CPU is connected it only work with the 420w PSU.
Even if only the CPU is connected, the 350w and 400w won't work.
Since every component seems to work fine, with limitation of the CPU attached to board. The CPU itself isn't broken neither. And you saying PSU is not related, that only leaves the mobo as error source. But the mobo seems also to work without the CPU limitation.

Why am I seeing ads on Jow Forums despite having uBlock Origin? It's turned on and I get 3 ads at the top of the page saying Paid Content. Pic related.

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Update your filters, or add more. There have been threads about this all week kid.

What are some free video organizers I can use for my porn library? I want to be able to set a thumbnail & tags for each video

Would it be possible to wire up the parameters in Honey Select's character creator to, say, a song on youtube so there'd be a visual equalizer of sorts?
I tried changing titty size using Cheat Engine but I can't seem to find the address

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Don't know C but it appears the macros are essentially constants and the pre-processor just replaces every occurrence in code with the constant value before compilation. So it's effectively as if you had written those values as literals in code but it's just easier for the programmer to use this kind of alias instead.

user... what the hell are you trying to do

The first piece of code is telling the compiler to set aside storage for two variables, and retrieve their values from their respective memory locations every time you use those names.
The second piece of code is telling the pre-processor to replace every occurrence of those names with the literal value that they represent BEFORE the code is compiled. They aren't variables, they're names for literals.

I'm trying to install Linux on a flash drive, full linux not a live installer, and I've got all the files on it but when I try to boot it I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor
How do I get this working?

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What's a good screen recorder that doesn't have obnoxious watermarks or paid shit and just lets me save it to the desktop? Even better if it lets me save as webm for uploading to Jow Forums. Windows 7 by the way.

try shareX

Messed with a bit, apparently only saved as .mp4, but you should have WebM for Retards by now. But damn can that thing screencap

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Get a live version and dd it on to the USB drive.

is there a way to know if i am still banned on an irc channel other than trying to join? i join and i instantly get banned because i "was ban evading" which i dont

OBS

Did you actually install it or just drag the files onto it? Blinking cursor probably is a bad GRUB install.

Are you the callisto poster as well?

No.

Are you talking about the X-Men character? Not a fan. Guessing it is something from /tv/? I don't browse that board.

Whats with all of these pedophile OP pictures?

They're cute. If you see that picture in a sexual way, I have bad news for you, user.

Maybe I'm retarded by how do I crop the black canvasm to the window itself? I don't want the enitre 1920 monitor and I don't know how large the actual window I'm capturing is. Can't I just trim to the scene?

Cultural throwback. We need a /sqt/ CoC to ban this fascist anti-trans soggy kneed cis-shit. And we need it now!

Based renge poster

Ah yeah that makes sense, I'm a dumb. Cheers lads

My geriatric father has an Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet. A couple of days ago, it started flatly refusing to stay connected to wifi. I've tried everything to get it working for him again (forget and rejoin network, toggle aircraft mode, hard reset, etc) and it won't connect at all any more. Anyone know how I can fix it?

How can I improve my wifi signal? Moved back to my parents place which is shaped like the letter U. The router is on one end and my room is on the other

can u compile linux with llvm and does it go faster if u do

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Have you tried asking them to move it more towards the center of the house?

i almost got hit by a car and my first reaction is to laugh
do i have autism or some severe depression?

Laugh or cry in this world user.

Laughing after avoiding death or serious injury doesn't sound like inappropriate reaction. Stop being edgelord.

i mean seriously the dude was more worried that i laugh than almost hitting me.
i just awkwardly left, now i feel guilty for not being a normal fucking human being

>almost hit by car
>could be dead right now or brutally maimed
>instead you're safe
>worried about social interaction with drive instead
You might have autism, yeah.

Unexpected release of tension is the reason why humans laugh.

wtf is with all these spazzy tech YouTubers like the Linus Tech Tips guy pretending they know anything about "tech"? They clearly know enough to scrape by and pretend they're experts by rattling off specs but they clearly aren't professionals or have expert knowledge of anything in the industry. Why do people trust their opinion on anything?

*There’s Something Inside You starts playing*

Can the mods start banning people who use little kids in their posts? This should be illegal.

>won't someone think of the fictional children