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Would it be a meme to have two M.2 SSD's running in RAID 0? Important files will just go to the cloud so I just want raw performance. Are M.2 SSD's prone to failure?

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Any suggestions to troubleshoot why switching to a new router has caused a significant drop on my tablet's battery life? Everything else in the configuration is the same. It's using 2.4Ghz band, I don't think this old tablet even supports 5Ghz. Wifi enabled during sleep by necessity since I use the tablet as a backend for various home automation routines (convenient as it's a quiet relatively non power hungry device that I can trust to always be on and responsive)

Used to get around 8-10% drain per day but now it is as you see not so good even if I don't touch the tablet at all and just let it sit on my nightstand. Seems to pretty consistently stay on this level for the past few days, rebooted and recharged it to see if it would make a difference but doesn't seem it has.

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You arent using anything that will even get to 50% of the speed of the m.2.

I can't think of why you'd need to do that. Even a single SSD is likely to see you bottleneck somewhere else during most operations. Is there something you're doing often enough that actually requires and can make use of such throughput?

Honestly, I just have mozilla and chrome accounts, so when I frequently reinstall different operating systems, I just sign in and it remembers everything. Mozilla account is for work-related bookmarks, chrome is for NSFW and casual browsing bookmarks.

Is life really worth living?

Is it theoretically possible for two people to play Fortnite on one PC?

Would it work with having something like a Virtual PC running alongside, running fortnite connected to the internet on both, and having two sets of peripherals?

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No, they'll detect multiple instances from one device. Fortnite can be run on any toaster, and even mobile devices, so just buy a $100 computer or install it on your phone

I can not ping any website but I can ping google DNS for example and my steam account can connect to the internet too and I can play only What the fucking duck? Can I somehow set DNS in Windows to connect through Google DNS for full internet connection?

check C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and then write what you found

no , because the host and the VM will have the same IP

How do I move all my data from a dying drive to a new one? Using Win 7

are you sure that you didn't also do something to the device itself? (install a program , update the system , change a setting , etc.)

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BTW this is fucked up router because someone was touching it again.

Yeah should still be the same.

I think I remember having a similar issue a long time ago and fixing it by flashing advancedtomato onto my router but current one is a rental unit from comcast so I can't really do that

Yes when it is structured around meaningful activities

That's a shame cause my gf wanted me to show her how to play it and I wanted to play in game as well, but phone gaming is shit.

Transfer it to a decent capacity thumb drive and put on your new drive when it's ready.

Do I just cut and paste?

What's a good laptop for my boomer mother who just uses Chrome but prefers windows? Good build quality, will last a little while, those sort of things. Any brands to avoid/prefer?

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Or copy and paste. Whatever you like. If the drive is failing you get your important shit off of there and put it back on the new drive with the fresh OS. Very simple.

send the text in the file in the reply

Im not going to type that shit into the phone.

try looking into the router specs and confront it with the older router.

then just upload a photo of the screen.

I have an iPhone and an Apple watch. For complicated reasons, my whole family has my location available to them on the phone. Can I seperate my watch from that so only a select list of people can see the Watch location?

For example, I don't care if my wife knows I'm visiting my father, but my stepfather is going to give me shit about it because he thinks my dad is a drug dealer or some thing. So I want my wife to be able to see where I am all the time, but not my relatives.

Or I want to be able to tell them I'm too busy to attend dinner with them when I'm really just going the tiddy bar with some friends.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.

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try changing the bluetooth setting(i.e. device name and password)

I should mention the watch is cellular. Left out that key bit. Sorry.

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what series is it?

Series 4. OS is up to date. I know the iPad and iPhone can operate as 2 separate entities for Find My Friends, I just want the watch to do the same.

try on dell , toshiba and chromebooks , you can get 'em for a very low price but still they can run chrome and basic apps (when you get them i recommend to format the hard disk a few times and then install win7 or a linux distro , because some are sold with malware installed)

I have this weird issue in Windows 10 where the cursor will lag/freeze for a few seconds after closing any application.
Anyone have the same problem?

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You are literally on any web dev's level in any enterprise position from what it sounds like. You'll be fine.

The cheapest computer you can find with an 256gb SSD or M.2 of some kind if all she's doing is old people activities. I like Dells myself, but everyone you ask has different opinions on that.

Mmm. Maybe related to the desktop refreshing? Try going to the desktop and hitting F5 to see if it freezes a bit.

press windows key+r , type taskmgr.exe , go to performance and look if either the cpu or disk write speed are at 100%

just let her play and explain how things work

try asking on getsupport.apple.com/

There's no way to access the data folder on android without rooting the device, right? I need to backup a wi-fi password and all methods I found so far require rooting.

>press windows key+r , type taskmgr.exe
Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc

When i wake up my windows PC from hibernation it often doesn't detect one of my two monitors and to fix it i have to unplug and plug in again the vga cable. Any idea on how to fix this?

maybe a bit too much for basic tasks...
i think that a 500 gb hdd 7200rpm would be enough

Are posts taking longer to show up? Feels like when ever I make a post it takes almost 30 seconds to show up in the thread.
I think the thread isn't updating quickly anymore, even when pressing the update button.

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yeah

how 2 run app on rooted phone that doesn't let you run it on a rooted phone

just don't give it root permissions.
what app did you use to root the phone?

my custom rom came pre-rooted with magisk
it never asks for root permissions so i can't say no, and magisk doesn't let me not give it permissions since it never requested it

does it have a custom app pre-installed on the phone?

it came with magisk

then open magisk and try looking for a setting with a list of all your apps

Hiro throttled the API updating across the site a week or two ago

Best way to ship a digital product code on ebay?

Not gonna send it through email since I already had one person try to scam me with a Paypal chargeback, probably a stolen account but either way if you don't ship with a trackable service you don't get jack shit by way of protection so you can't do much on the dispute. Fortunately the idiot scammer never redeemed the code and it was an nvidia code that generated a new usable code when redeemed so I was able to block them from getting anything out of it besides a couple bucks in Paypal fees. Paypal also reversed the chargeback fee for me thankfully when I complained to them.

I could send it in a regular envelope with a stamp but that still opens me up to them claiming they never received it since there's no shipping confirmation or anything. I could spend like $2-3 and send it via media mail or something but is there a better option?

The windows 10 snipping tool has a free form selection method, but it doesn't actually save transparent images, which means it turns your snip into a rectangle either way and fills the edges with white.
Am I missing something? What the heck is the point of a free form selection if it turns it into a rectangle either way?

Jow Forums export settings
mostly interested in the filters.
I add the words to the filter section.
export settings and save the settings bookmark on firefox.
when I shut off the computer or close the browser and open the Jow Forums settings bookmark,
the settings and filters I had added don't work at all. they are empty.
I used to just open the bookmark and all the filtered words were there but now it doesn't work.
what do? anyone else having similar issues?

Is it safe to buy RAM on craiglist?

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Use 4chanx

I can't search porn in my PC with google suddenly. It used to be able to search a few days ago. It says SafeSearch is on at the top right corner of google search result. I can search porn with yandex. How do I disable the safesearch in google?

no, it probably has RAM rot if you buy it from a questionable source. it might have lost up to 40% of its memory capacity depending on how severe the level of micron degradation is. your best bet is to download some virtual RAM; often times this is enough to significantly speed up your computer.

Does anyone know how to change the mouse *sensitivity* on Windows 10? Every time I look it up, there are just guides on how to adjust the pointer speed, but this is different from the sensitivity. I want to change the mouse sensitivity like you can in games. Is it possible to do this?

A lot of higher end mice come with software that allows you to change the sensitivity of the optical element to a higher DPI, but otherwise the pointer speed thing is probably what you want

It's been over seven minutes since I press the power button and my desktop is still loading... W-what gives?

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why are you so evil with the normies? ;D
they're our life otherwise who downloads our RATs? ;D

The left is my 4TB HDD (ST4000DM000), the right is from a websites benchmark test of the same model, hence mine being on an older version of the software.
I don't expect 1:1 numbers but there is something I feel is off with my hard drive. Like whenever hitman autosaves I get noticeable stutter, did I just lose the hard drive lottery?
I'm due to buy a new SSD anyway so I could move my installs to that I guess.

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OK, I can search porn using Google UK. Now how can I change the default search engine to specific google (in my case google UK) in firefox? It only has google.com (default).

too many startup processes , probably.
windows key+r , type msconfig , hit enter and under the "startup" tab disable some stuff (DO NOT DISABLE PROCESSES WITH "MICROSOFT CORPORATION" WRITTEN NEXT TO THEM)

try benchmarking your HDD with crysis 3 highest level graphics mode then if it rattles it's an hardware problem.

Most of the time pressing update doesn't even do anything for me.

Okay, I'll try this whenever it starts up... (I haven't been waiting 10 plus minutes, I turned it off and back on to try again)
I disabled a bunch of things on Startup but that was a long time ago, I've never had to wait more than 2 minutes for it to power on before and I didn't do anything last night to change it so this is a little scary..

Problem is, pointer speed is set to max and it's still not nearly sensitive enough. Looks like I might just be out of look.

I have 3x2GB DDR3-1333 and a 4GB DDR3L-1600. After I installed the 4GB, everything went to shit. No signal was being sent from the PC to the monitor/mouse, then I had to remove all the RAM save for one and when that didn't work, I had to remove it and put it in the next slot over, which in turn fixed the issue as I got signals but there was an issue with BIOS and booting and then I find out the PC isn't recognizing the HDD which after some tinkering with that, it finally did and everything is literally back to how it was before this RAM came in the mail.

So, case in point, why won't my PC boot with these RAMs together, or have I gotten the wrong RAM from Amazon? I ran a Crucial Scan on my PC to see what RAM I have inside of it, and I got this result back for compatible RAM:

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Pic related, on the left is the original RAM that was in my PC, and on the right is the new one. I have another pic where, on the back of these, the 2GB has an extra set of chips but the 4GB does not. On a Discord, I was told the 4GB is just a single-sided PCB, but then someone else said no, it's because they're different speeds and that's why they aren't compatible.

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Why do people steal?

Don't they know that they would feel sad if somebody stole from them?

There's probably a third party app out there to increase it further

Moto E5 Plus or iPhone 7 Plus idk

if that doesn't fix the problem try downloading combofix and run it , then if still the problem isn't fixed try windows key+r , type cmd , hit enter and type "chkdsk /F" and if it fails the scan download both SeaTools and PassMark DiskCheckup and run them

try driver booster or install device drivers then reboot , unplug the computer from the power supply , keep the power key pressed for 5 minutes and wait a few hours before turning it back on

any android phone is better than apple crap

W-what if I'm STILL stuck on Windows loading?

AND JUST AS I'M TYPING THIS MY COMPUTER WENT TO SLEEP AFTER 10 MINUTES, WHAT IS GOING ON

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m80s, do you use a program to import all your bookmarks?

One that you use manually so it's not botnet-dependent, and you can manually import bookmarks like you do when you install a new browser.

I'm reinstalling more often than ever, and having a go to place for all my bookmarks would be ideal, only think i should care is to remember to sync it once in a while and have the bookmark list in the cloud or a pendrive or something.

Well like I said, when I put the old RAM back in and did some minor tinkering around, everything is back to normal. Now I just need to know what RAM I need, as the new one I bought isn't working.

lulz. looks like you messed up something in the boot sequence. try holding the power button for 10 seconds , then restart the PC and instantly pres and hold f2 or DEL then the bios menu will pop up , insert the windows disk and boot from the disk , choose advanced trubleshooting and choose "repair" and pray , pray that you didn't damage the boot sector in your HDD

btw, just installed librefox, and had to prep the Google captcha like 2000 times, fail after fail, for it to work. Is because of all the privacy shit Google tells my i can't distinguish buses from fire hydrants?

oh sry

Is JDownloader 2 safe to use? I haven't found a good alternative that has plugins for so many sites.

What's the best graphics card I could fit into a Dell Optiplex 755 SFF without modding?

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the site looks too much like an old 90's scam site to be sure try 4kvideodownloader

it's ok user

what's the Jow Forums recommended software for creating virtual machines? I've got virtualbox, hyper-v and vmware player available . Which one is the best?

So I've been using the stock CPU fan with an Intel i5 6500 for a few years now. I mainly use the pc for gaming and never had an issue. I have never overclocker nor plan to, but a friend of mine saw my computer today and said I'm slowly killing the CPU since I game heavily and don't use a third party fan. Is there any truth to this?

no

>insert the windows disk and boot from the disk
It's all over for me, isn't it user?.. I installed w7 using a USB a year ago and I've deleted it or lost whichever usb I used since then...

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I use cp -r to copy my entire home folder whenever I switch OS's, it copies my .mozilla folder with all my addons, bookmarks, pinned tabs and configurations.

virt-manager with kvm and qemu.

try unplugging the PC from the power supply , hold the power button for ~5 minutes and then wait a couple hours and try rebooting it. now sorry but i gtg sleep , i will be reply tomorrow probably.

at worst turn your computer off, boot linux on a flash drive, backup everything you need, triple check you didn't miss anything, then wipe your hard drive and reinstall so you'll have a clean install of Windows 7
the chances of you losing something actually valuable that can't be redownloaded is pretty slim. don't panic either, windows 7 is easy to pirate and install. and that's if nothing else works or you want a fresh start

>Use Youtube-dl to download a playlist/channel
>Blocked video is in the list
>Youtube-dl stops downloading at 13/48 videos
Is there a command I'm not seeing in the manual to make it skip blocked videos and continue after?

>Is there a command I'm not seeing in the manual to make it skip blocked videos and continue after?
Yes

Nice try I'm not that gullible even in my time of desperation..
Hold on user, I have new information
>mb is a z97 gaming 5
>displays led codes when booting/use
>the code it is stuck on when in this "boot process" is 34
>34 means Early CPU Initialization
What does this information mean to us now?! Still a windows problem or hdd?
The cpu is an i7 4790k.

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