/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

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Why do you allow a pedophile to run this general?

I dunno if this is the best place to ask.
But me and a few friends need a type of chat service (voice optional) that fits the following criteria
>Works on Phone and PC
>Text Encoding (e.g. Italics, Bold, etc)
>Image embedding
>100% privacy from selling data to advertisers and from other people looking at my chat logs
>P2P or alternatively end-to-end encryption

Teamspeak is a close one for me but it doesn't have the image embeding or text fonts. IRC as well, but again no image embeding.
I heard of Matrix and Riot, but I am not sure if those are trustworthy and I'd like to hear more options. The image embeding is absolutely crucial.
If there is no such software, how do I go about starting or creating such a software?

Matrix is a protocol, not a service. You can host a matrix server yourself, and it'll be as trustworthy as you make it.

I've been having issues with [spoiler]windows 7[/spoiler]'s pagefile for a while now. If I enable pagefiles on my primary ssd, it uses up a ton of writes very quickly. If I use it on my hdd instead, the queue length gets saturated most of the time when I'm using multiple programs at once. If I disable it completely, windows refuses to use more than ~75% of my ram, remaining at 12gb and crashing any programs attempting to use more. I'm desperate enough to start using a ramdisk for the pagefile now, but I'm still not sure if this will produce any side effects.

Because nobody else can get the OP right

I'm going internet-less for a couple days and I'm looking for a YouTube downloader app to DL some videos and watch them offline during that time.
What do people use these days? If the app supports subtitles/captions that would be perfect.

youtube-dl is great and has an option for extracting subtitles. Never tried that feature though.

This feature combination does not exist. Signal is probably the closest you will get.
>If there is no such software, how do I go about starting or creating such a software?
Not trying to be an asshole, but if you are asking here it is beyond your abilities. It doesn't exist for some good reasons.

OP you are a pedophile and a faggot, kys.

I had an old pc run linux at home as a server just for fucking around and learning.
Harddrive died and rest of hardware is kind of outdated and i'd prefer not having a second PC adding noise and power consumption 24/7
Can I get the same thing at an online host at a reasonable price? like "here's ur virtual linux machine bro" and they will let me do whatever the fuck I want?

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Pedophile and faggot website.

Is this the best case for air cooling right now?

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>complains about pedophile faggot
>posts pic taken by incel creep/stalker

So I got myself a second partition on my hard drive and installed Ubuntu on it but now I want to delete it. I'm a brainlet so please someone explain to me how I can return it to the normal state again ( 1 partition only )

>g-guys just let me like little children s-stop saying it's w-wrong! I'm just t-trying to make a g-general

Go into your partition managing program, remove the partition and extend the first one to take the new free space.

>ctrl c ctrl v is so hard

I'm starting uni this fall, computer science. Is this overkill when it comes to a laptop used for programming and studying?

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very stupid question, how are you supposed to use this github.com/zaszthecroc/fix-my-twitter
do you download the js and json files then copy-paste them into violentmonkey?
i don't know how to use a computer

Sometimes my computer wakes up from sleep
Other times it just won't
I took it to a computer repair shop and their answer was "we don't know why it's doing this"
Any ideas? Cuz everything else works just fine

Is there any way I can reset my BIOS setting if I can get my computer to boot?
Does the ol' 'just take the battery out for 5 min' trick work?

Alright so threads ago I posted about how my laptop can't handle games anymore, and my laptop has gotten more loud. Someone told me to apply more thermal paste and reinstall windows. Should I reinstall 7 or 8? This laptop came with 8, but i can never go back since I did a clean wipe install for 10 at one point, mistakenly. Should I go with Windows 7? And is opening up a laptop safe?

i'm trying to learn java. can someone please explain me how coming up with a different compiler for every hardware is different from adapting a virtual machine to said hardwares?

Anyone running BB10 on their phones mind telling me if they can still run android applications?

don't take your battery off, it shortens its lifespan

i'm struggling in understanding the advantage btw, if i didn't make it clear

One java "binary" can be executed on any VM that meets its requirements.
One compiled binary-proper can only be executed on the platform it has been compiled for.

yes, but aren't compilers and vm doing the same job? and isn't setting them up equally hard? in this regard, what would be the advantage of setting up a vm rather than a compiler?

Based christpilled OP dabbing on fat fedoras

Reminder that all anti-shota and anti-loli posters are trannies, faggots and sluts seething that bible explicitly forbids their deviancy, but is 100% fine with fucking lolis and shotas.

Is there something like onenote but open source

why the fuck can't i boot into gparted? when trying to boot normally it just gives me a glitched screen, and when trying failsafe mode it hangs on some message about an xhci device for about 3 minutes then says "unable to find a medium containing a live file system". i had been using a usb 3 port so i tried switching to a usb 2 port and it didnt change anything.
i just want to resize a partition for fucks sake

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Setting up a VM is usually harder than setting up a compiler and has an extra cost in performance.
You get advantages when your platform becomes hard to predict:
>new versions
>multiple supported environments
>operating systems
>one application that has to work on many of them
In this case, you can assume that the VM maintainer is responsible for meeting the VM requirements and you can just write your application for java VM.

If you have only one platform with only one operating system, compiler will almost always win.
Though it only covers the system side, programmer can still prefer Java/C# due to tools or personal preferences. Gains from compiled applications are often overrated.

Removing onboard battery works. Also picrelated.

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Jow Forumsentelman, redpill me on thinkpads. My two year old computer I had for gaming died a week ago and i'm wondering whenever to buy a new processor for it, or buy a thinkpad. I barely play games anymore, so I though to a thinkpad might be good. I am thinking about T440P.

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bump. i'm scared to open up my laptop

They are literally like any other laptop. Nothing special about them, just a brand name.

But are they better for Linux, or is that a meme?

Yes, but it'll do the job.

Feel free to replace him

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there's always a risk to doing something. doing something you don't know about is probably not a good idea since it raises the probability of it going wrong. this said, there are probably tons of youtube videos on that, just watch one that has your model and see if you're confident about doing it. also, from what ive heard by default win8 is worse than win7 but take this with a huge grain of salt since i don't know much about os' myself. though some games nowadays only run on win10

How hard is it to make a game impossible (or at least very very hard) to datamine/mod?

>They are literally like any other laptop
There are not many laptops that allow me to use 2 NVMe SSDs.

yeah he gave me youtube videos. still scared though. i'm not retarded i just feel like opening up a laptop is something you never are supposed to do. i think i'll go with windows 7 then.

>to datamine
Encrypt not yet released stuff and leave the key on the server until it's ready to be released.
See steam preloads.

>to mod
Impossible, if the client can run it it can manipulate it.

I see, thank you for the thorough explanation!

Go to Windows Event Viewer (Win + R, "eventvwr.msc"), Windows Logs - System. Filter current log - Event sources - check "Power-troubleshooter". Find out what's waking up your PC.

My graphics card keeps getting too hot and crashing, I assume it's crashing anyway.
So I replaced the paste but it is still happening. It's a new issue and I don't know what else to do.

Bump.
I don't really like the ton of empty space in the front.

>if the client can run it it can manipulate it.
Yeah but to what degree?

Buy a new one.

Everything.
Sure you can add something like timed checksum checks of models, but those can be manipulated as well.

If it's an online game you can add some server side checks as well, but any big MMO has a "hacker" problem. There'll always be a way.

It's a chicken/egg problem.

The only way to lock everything down is to also control the client, see consoles like the xbox or playstation, but there's no guarantee someone doesn't find some way to exploit a bug or something.

Then why is closed/open source software even a thing? If you can modify anything then for sure you could probably modify or customize what the program does. How are games different?
I'm not very smart about this these are genuine questions. Also I'm not asking about specific game engines that exist currently and can be used, but software in general.

apparently it is, because people keep messing it up. Such silly bakas.
Joplin

I just bought a HP workstation, and the seller is offering to upgrade the CPU and add an SSD for $45 extra.

The current CPu is a Xeon W3565 3.2ghz 8thread quad core.

He will add, for $25 a Xeon X5650 with 6 cores 12 threads and 2.66ghz.

Is it worth doing for the extra 25?

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I was trying to install Firefox-KDE-Opensuse from an AUR in Manjaro, it started building it but it took like 20 minutes and on top of that it failed because it filled up my entire disk (had around 20Gb free).

What the fuck is the meaning of this bullshit?

Alright then, maybe that's my best bet. My bad, I am a bit of a brainlet.

But I mean surely if Discord could exist then why can't an app that's like Discord but with P2P and/or End-to-end encryption exist? Then again Matrix/Riot looks pretty close to what I am looking for.

They are not different, that's why keygens, cracks, trainers exist.

Open source exists so you can share what you did and let others take advantage of it by learning from it or changing it to their needs (if the license allows it).
Where as finding out what a program is doing without its source you'll have a MUCH harder time doing so.
Pic related, some super simplified example of obfuscation, but you get the idea.

If you take game DRM as an example, it takes some skilled groups multiple weeks, if not months to circumvent it.
If they had the source code they could just comment out the DRM, recompile, done.
Game DRM today mostly only exist to delay immediate pirate releases, so the impatient actually buy it.

Another trend is going into the "cloud", so the software doesn't do anything locally anymore but relies on a server doing most of its things, which you can't manipulate.

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That's a shame, I wanted to make cool games but I fucking hate people and I wanted to make them impossible to be modded.

Do you do actual work to use those extra cores or are you just gaming?

Is my CPU dead?

The only way to do this is to not release it to the public.

>I wanted to make them impossible to be modded
I'm glad you don't make games.
Fuck you.

Forgot pic.

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Or release them on some onlive business

Reseat it, check for bent pins.

I need a new free vpn to torrent anime, currently using windscribe but it caps me at 20gb a month which is okay because i exclusively only use it when I torrent files. however it is not enough lately and i want more but i am NEET, what are some alternatives? I used up the protonvpn free trial already and the free version does not work with p2p.

just stream animu

Is there a YouTube mod that enables video playback in background and sleep mode for my phone?

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You should turn the question around.
Why is it still so small on other laptops?

jew pls go

Right now I have this permissions on the /home directory:
drwxr-xr-x root root
Is it ok or I fucked something up? I can write to my user's folder, though

No

You dumb nigger just go on pirate bay and just get the newest version for free

t. been using 2019 since release just fine.

Why?

drwxr-xr-x root root /home
drwx------ you you /home/you

I'm looking for software that will let me make copies of DVDs and Blu-Rays on my laptop to host on my Plex. Any decent programs I could use?

Thank you

My video is 28s long
How much should I put?

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back in the old days of overclocking we used to sand down our cpus to get the zinc off so the copper was exposed.
We would do it with a piece of glass and 2000 grit wet sand paper.

Is this still a thing overclockers do to help their temps?

file size in bits / length in seconds = bitrate in bits per second

What are you trying to do?
What's the resolution/frames per second of it?
What's its purpose?

In best case you shouldn't use constant bitrate mode but constant rate factor.

If I wrap my hard drives (that are not connected to any electric outlets) with several layers of tinfoil is it an adequate defense against data loss in the event of a huge solar flare?

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Because I like to have more freedom inside games.
Sometimes I like to cheat (in single player) to have more fun, sometimes I want to modify the way game behaves or enjoy other people's vision.

Some of my favourite games were spawned as mods. For example, half life is a mid of quake. Heretic 2 is a mod of doom and so on.

Not to mention that I simply hate the mentality of "taking the ball away" and faggots thinking that their vision is the only one.

No bent pins, applied thermal paste again.
Previously CPU fan started to spin, stopped then started again.
Now it starts spinning fine but red led stills.

I don't want fags to sully my beautiful worlds with their inane bullshit.

Converting my vid to a webm
Uh it's 30fps?
To post it on ?

Just give me the numbers user

Any beep codes? Maybe try reseating the RAM as well or try with only one stick.
Does the motherboard support the CPU? Like a 3rd gen Ryzen on a 2nd gen motherboard without patched bios.

overclockers nowadays just put a cooler the size of a helicopter inside their pc
if there's a huge solar flare it will destroy any device that could read the data so what's the point