/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

I guess so, though if the speakers have screw terminals you don't need any fancy connectors, you can just use another 2 short pieces of wire. I'm guessing the ones in the picture do also have screw connectors, the guy just used banana plugs or whatever those are.

Thanks for the help user.
So wait, I just saw this which is the actual post system in the back. So just by having that metal connector it's already ready to go, right? So you would just need one cable from the terminal to the receiver?

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We usually do programming on uni on universities PCs, and one girl brought her own laptop.
She was about to enter directory called XXXXX where she had pre-completed tasks, and professor told her "Don't even think about entering the XXXXX directory, ms. Student".
Since it's her own laptop, she didn't have surveillance software they use installed.
How did he know she was about to cheat? They say he had no way of seein her screen. Is it possible through network or what?

Gigabyte DS3H B450M or Asus Prime B45M-A?

It doesn't take seeing the screen to know that the laptop of her own doesn't have the software restrictions of the uni PC's.

Yes, you just need to keep those metal connectors in place and connect your cable to one red and one black terminal.

I'm gonna guess they monitor the network traffic and they saw an unknown PC tried to access that folder and I'm also guessing her PC's name was her own name which is how he precisely knew it was her.

How are the Verbatim "archival" series discs for archival?

I have some data I would like to archive for 10+ years. It is a small amount (under 2 GB) and mostly small files. Some reasons I am considering these:
>supposed to be the best for lifespan other than M-disc
>Don't have to buy a new dvd drive (would like to use m-disk, but would need a new drive)
>Don't have bluray drive
>DVD drives are far more common than bluray drives, bluray drives also have dvd compatibility
>cheap compared to anything else for the small amount of data I have

Any comment or suggestions?

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The Cloud(tm)

Can anyone help give me some ideas on why my GPU is randomly dropping to near 0% usage during gaming causing frame drops?
I don't think it's temperature because the frame drops happen on less heavy games too. I don't think its a crypto miner because I scanned the shit out of my computer. I don't think it's the CPU because there's no succint CPU pattern I can glean from when the frame drops happen. It's not memory or RAM either. I don't think its age because I'm not getting any artifacting during gaming, just frame drops.
So my best guesses are that it's a faulty NVIDIA driver fucking with my 980 Ti or something to do with the power and voltage of the GPU. Or maybe power of the CPU. It still could be temperature, but I will need to turn down the temperature limit on Afterburner to make sure.

I'm going to do some Hardware Monitoring tonight to get a log.
And please AMD fanboys, I can't afford any GPU, so no I'm not going to just trash my current one and buy AMD if it's an actually fixable problem.

Anyone know if I'll be able to fit an xfx rx580 8gb in a thermaltake core v1? I'm the faggot who's mobo blew last night and I figure I may as well upgrade my case while I'm out buying a new mobo

Plssss

This wouldn't happen if you either bought a good psu or a Ryzen igpu

Archival CDs are a complete meme. Just write to a regular CD and leave it in a cool dry place where it wont get jostled and it will last until the end of time if you don't fuck with it.

Why My older CDs have visual wear then

Because they have been used. If you leave them in a case and never touch them after the original write they will stay new.

I recommend Taiyo Yuden. I haven't been able to find a good source for JVC Taiyo Yuden DVDRs online, but you can find the CMC Taiyos which are nearly just as good. They're expensive but excellent.

So they stay usable as long as I don't use them? Nice, very useful.

ok retard, whats your use case?

You're the retard, look at what you've just said

ha no

Interesting. These disks won't be used more than once every 2 years so they sould be ok then. All of my regular DVDs do seem to work, but they are also not scratched of UV exposed.

There do seem to be a lot of fakes around

Normal CDs/DVDs will work fine, as long as they are stored properly. Don't let (((them))) trick you into buying fancy discs

Latex is not nearly as complex as some people make it out to be, especially for something like a CV. Initially it might take you a while to get to grips with it but once you're finished with your CV you'll have all the main concepts down. Start with a template you find online and play around with it.

What do the cool kids use these days, Docker, runc or cri-o?

I have a good PSU.

Please help, I was playing Outward split screen with my brother today, and my computer crashed to black, no BSOD or error message. I thought I had mistakenly hit the power button with my chair or leg, but after trying to restart it, the fans kicked on like it was going to boot, but no BIOS beeps and then it turned back off. I tried powering on again, but this time not even the fans kicked on. Now all that happens is when I flick my PSU's switch, the mobo will light up for a second and then turn off, no LEDs on my power button either, but my DAC that's plugged in will get enough power to have it's on button on. I've tried unplugging the PSU and holding the button to drain residual charge, no dice, tried switching outlets and surge protectors, no dice. Can anyone help me out? If I was getting BIOS beeps I'd have something to go off, but I'm guessing since it won't POST I'm looking at either a fried mobo, or fired CPU. The CPU being fried would surprise me though, I make sure to monitor temps on Ryzen master and since undervolting I've never seen it go above 70. Here's my build

2600x with wraith spire
gigabyte b450
xfx rx580
EVGA 650 G3
intel 660p SSD
ballistix RAM 16gb

I know I posted this yesterday, but I've been trying to troubleshot since and almost all tips involve a computer that will atleast attempt to boot, mine won't do shit except flash the mobo light for half a second, not even the case or CPU fans will spin. I really don't want to take this to a computer shop and pay 25 burgers for some shit I could figure out on my own but in over a decade of owning PC's I have never had or seen such catastrophic failure out of nowhere. when it failed it didn't even blue screen, it straight up crashed to black

even if your CPU was fried, you could still get into the BIOS. this is likely a PSU problem if your computer just suddenly turned off.

I've been reading about doing the paperclip test for PSU's, but my power supply is 2cool4school and all the cables are black, how can I tell which wire is supposed to be green and which one is black?

does the windows built-in battery saver help save battery ?

get a multimeter and check the voltages. Should be a 12v, 5v, and 3.3v

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If I buy a domain name for a year, am I pretty much guaranteed to be able to renew that forever?
As in is there a possibility someone could come in and take it off me around before the expiration ends?
Is it safer to buy for 5/10 years if that's the case?

Thinking about using my domain for email, and obviously don't want to lose it.

thank you user. Thankfully my PSU comes with a 24-pin dongle test piece for just such an occasion, and after testing it with that and calling EVGA it's for sure, my PSU is dead as a doornail after only 2 months of use. Really disappointing considering I fell for the meme of buying a top of the line piece only for it to fail like chinkshit. Thank you anons for the replies, I've been thinking about killing myself recently, and having this happen to me didn't help at all, but with it figured out atleast I only have to cope with my thoughts for about a week or so.

anyone else having an issue with chrome where clicking a bookmark randomly redirects to gmail?

Should I use zsh or bash? I'm using the default bash right now but I kinda wanna use zsh because of the cool powerlevel9k theme. I'm on Arch if it makes any difference

Does anyone have that screencap of iknowwhatyoudownload.com where the ip has a bunch of really nasty & illegal porn torrents. I remember one of them was called something like "maybe legal redhead fucks dead cow under overpass" or something like that.

how do I download the entire CSS file of tomorrow (using Jow Forums-x right now) just so I can change all color values and feed it back to Jow Forums-x?

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Probably a bug in a screensaver setting. If it's in, turn off screensaver

3000mhz ram in a single 8gb stick is just 3000mhz. But I if buy a 2x8gb set at 3000mhz does that mean the total for both is 3000 or individually

I found this when googling so i think its either and issue with gnome of the current nvidia driver bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/gnome-shell/ bug/1809407

Docker, but then again maybe I'm not cool.
Better question may be what are businesses using.

Are ssd prices bound to drop in the near future? I'm super late to the party, but I just got a 500gb ssd added to my case. The only downside to the thing is that it has highlighted just how much of a background hum my old hdd (which is now used purely for storage) adds while it's spinning. Or rather, how much quieter things get when it spins down after not being in use for a while. It's not that awful, any moderate amount of background noise will drown it out pretty effectively, but I'm still gonna look into replacing it with another ssd sometime in the future.

Book recommendations for a hobbyist Dev looking to get into reverse engineering and pen testing? My ASM knowledge isn't that strong, regardless of arch, but I really want to participate in a CTF by the end of the year. I'm 26 with a background in sysadmin work.

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I am writing a report where I compare the performance of an ARM processor and and x86-64 processor.
I want to take price and power consumption into the calculation of performance.
Performance is measured with a benchmark and also to see how many seconds on average it takes to run a certain set of programs.
I know that to find the performance-cost/power ratio for the benchmark is to divide its result by cost/power, as the higher the cost/power the more it drags down the ratio.
But what about measuring in seconds? As the less seconds it takes, the better the performance. But dividing an already fast processor by a large number would produce an even smaller number and wouldn't provide any sort of proper ratio right?

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Is there any tool that allows me to see separately the light sources from a directx game? Like their positions and how many are there.

My motherboard says it can support up to 1600MHz of memory. Does that mean I'm supposed to get two 800MHz RAM sticks or could I go the full hog with 1600MHz each?

Oh hey. I didn't think another retard would have the same question as mine.

>Are ssd prices bound to drop in the near future?
the prices already dropped like 50% compared to last year, don't expect them to get much cheaper any time soon. seriously
you can look up price histories on pcpartpicker, i randomly chose the samsung 860 evo for this screenshot.

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you'd need the sdk of the game engine the game uses, for example valve's source sdk comes with the hammer editor which should allow you to view the light sources of any source engine map if i'm not mistaken.
i don't a tool that works with every engine exists.

but how? it was on her drive, she was acessing it locally.
how did he see it and the exact name of folder if she didn't have monitoring software?

is it possible to replace the OS on a smart tv?
I was thinking it'd be cool to use it as a huge pc screen, then torrent to an external harddrive(for maximum media consumption)
also,
I could just connect my laptop to run an emulator, but is it possible to install an emulator directly to my smart tv?
it's a roku-tv which seems like a flimsy/hackable OS.

obvs I'm not that savvy or I'd just figure it out myself.

the style editor in the firefox dev tools can do that, but why aren't you just using the oneechan/stylechan editor? pic related.

anyway... p.teknik.io/cGOZ5

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I'm casting and controlling my Android phone using scrcpy on a desktop at work via USB. Obviously, desktop is connected to company's network, but I'm using my mobile data to browse and stuff on my phone.
Is there any way my employer can see what I'm browsing on my phone? What should I watch for?

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When ordering RAM sticks, are the advertised 1600Mhz technically two 800Mhz or are they bother going to individually be 1600mhz?
pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/?compatible_with=NTdqqs#page=1
Without overclocking, the total memory my mobo can handle is 1600.

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Apologies, missquote

It's like cars on a highway. If you have two, you can carry more people, but they don't go twice as fast.

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Not gonna happen. You're stuck with what it comes with forever. Which sucks, because all the things are wrong with "smart" tvs, but nobody sells them without anymore. I'd fucking kill for a hard switch that lets you disable that shit.

You can get a TB for like $80 now. I'd say we're pretty much there. Most of the upcoming price drops are going to be in god awful QLC.

I mean do you know this?
Because I'm pretty sure[see: totally speculating] it could be reverse engineered, and then you'd have a tv with greatly augmented functionality.
and lets be real it's only a matter of time before TV's with custom OS's are widely available.

Yes, I know I'm not smart, but please I want an answer on the very bottom.

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I have a 254 gigabyte SSD. The usable space on the SSD is 232 gigabytes, and I've used up about 171 gigabytes of space.
How many gigabytes should I leave free on my SSD to be safe? I want to install a game with about 40 gigabytes of space but I've seen people suggest that you leave between 15 and 25 percent of your hard drive open.

Shit, it's a custom engine so there's absolutely no way to decompile or edit the maps. Thanks for the info anyway dude.

>oneechan/stylechan editor
link?

Roku doesn't have any open sauce components. Complete black box with no relation to any understood OS. And even android based ones aren't releasing the closed blobs, and they're generally getting forked even harder by the various manufacturers. It is totally possible to install a botnet on most of these shitty IOT devices, so in theory you could do something, but demand isn't really there. They're running on shitty, very customized hardware with many different model variants on the market, with more coming all the time, and stand alone devices that work better are cheap as fuck. It is supremely dumb that we've started pairing cheap, weak and quickly obsolete components to expensive ones that should last a really long time.

Yes, retards often have the same questions.

in essence isn't a smart tv just a big monitor with a tiny PC strapped to it though? couldn't you just remove the tiny PC and then do whatever you want to it?

>I realise this is oversimplistic, but it's better than pretending I know what I'm talking about.

I wish. If you did somehow manage to slice out the circuitry, the "monitor" part wouldn't even turn on. You'd have to replace most of what makes it a tv.

So each stick is 3000mhz and that's all the motherboard sees?

How do I scan qr codes on an old android phone?

is there a root general? looking for a new phone and i want to unlock the bootloader but im a pleb. please reply

here's the original script:
github.com/Chiiruno/OneeChan

and here's the fork with the fix for 4channel if you don't want to do it yourself:
github.com/KevinParnell/OneeChan

i don't think anyone backed up stylechan, disable the mascots in oneechan and it's the same thing.

i thought i had a you

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I swear I'm not trying to spam.
youtu.be/UWh1CWUO1Ok

Did I leave anything out? Do you think average people can follow it?

It must feel bad desu.

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Alright, so I have been curious about this for a while now, but what is the point of the ability of turning your HZ down from 60 to 59 or even 50HZ? What could this possibly do if you have a 60HZ monitor?

pic-related should be arriving tomorrow and I wanted to know if I can access the internet on it without a SIM card

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If you have two matching sticks in the correct slots, you get a minor performance boost from dual channel.

Video content that is made to run at a certain framerate will look uneven unless the monitor's refresh rate is a multiple of that framerate.

XDA

Yes.

Ah, okay, I was actually curious what the case was, and I really appreciate the simple and polite answer!

thanks user

How come whenever I'm eating chicken my cat always stands nearby and meows constantly

I'm building my first ever pc but so far I've only put together :
-Power supply
-HDD
-motherboard
-fan

After hooking up all the correct cables I tired turning it on bit nothing happens.
The power button switch will light up for a moment, but the fans wont turn on.

Is my PSU a dud or will it not start without more components?

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I don't know if this is a good place to ask, but what are some good external HDD ? i want to buy one at 100$ , at with 3/4 TB, is pic related good ? if not, recommend me something good.

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thanks user, it's great making me wonder why it's not built into Jow Forums-x

Also forgot to mention I do have the processor installed as well.

All thats left is graphics card and RAM but I dont have those yet.

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I use datalifeplus discs, both the 4.7GiB and 8.5GiB variants. It's been said that these are the best in the business for longevity. I've heard that some of those other discs with the more extravagant package design aren't actually manufactured by Verbatim yet still has the branding.

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Am I allowed to work remotely if I am currently serving time in prison? We have unrestricted internet access here though it is monitored.

Probably depends more on the rules at your particular facility. I don't think there's a law against hiring incarcerated people in general but many companies won't want to for obvious reasons. You might have more work finding contract based work, or even stuff like Amazon's mechanical turk (is that still a thing?)