/sqt/ - Stoopid Questions Thread

>GNU/Linux questions?
>PC building?
>Programming questions?
>Good, cheap, laptops?
>Cheap electronics?
>Buying headphones?
>How to activate any version of windows?
>Where can I get Win 7 or LTSC?
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>trap OP
>666
hmm

Reposting from last thread: Do dark themes make laptops run hotter since they absorb more of the backlight?

Yet another retarded Ryzen question.

I just updated my MSI Gaming Plus to the latest AC0 BIOS, and now my 3700x is permanently clocked at 4400 MHz and, as a result, my voltages are almost constantly 1.5v. Idle does nothing, and I changed nothing in the BIOS, but the new BIOS seems to have particularly fucked me, and I do not know why. I am using the same Ryzen balanced power plan, with the same updated AGESA/chipset drivers, but like I said I am constantly at 1.5v. The lowest I've seen it, is 1.48v.

Do I just revert back the old BIOS, or is there something amiss with these new chipset drivers?

Reposting my question from last thread
Just got a new laptop does anyone know of anything that can delete bloatware from it?
Also what are some pretty good programs to install on it?(like what browser,antivirus,media player etc.)

Did you remember to reset to defaults? You always want to do that after flashing a new bios.

Real stupid question here
Replacing my PSU, my graphics card has two 6pin slots and the attached cable has two 6/8 ends, with one attached to the back of the other so I can't get it to bend around. What do?

were boards not accessible for anyone else while Jow Forums.org was up? it happened about 10 to 20 minutes ago.

Yeah

I crashed it. I was in the middle of post when it stopped working

god i wish that were me

Yes, and nothing has fixed it. Still ludicrous voltages when doing nothing. All because of a simple BIOS update.

when i use miracast my tv doesnt get any sound.
i tried looking at tutorials online but none of them worked.

Going to be desperately looking for help on this one. Attempting to flash the BIOS back just one revision gave me a ROM layout warning, so rather than risk a potential brick I guess I'll be taking it easy with this 3700x for a while.

Like I said, it was just a simple BIOS update, but apparently MSI are still as shit as I remember them being in regards to motherboards, because nothing was altered in my system, and yet here I am idling at 4400 and 1.5v no matter what. Reinstalling AMD's latest chipset drivers also does nothing for me.

Asked in the last thread, but it died immediately.

Is there anything I could do to back up entire email accounts and store them offsite in searchable archive files? I use Thunderbird and assume there's a plugin or something similar I could use. Anyone done anything like this?

What is a good headset in the 50-75 dollar range?

Astolfo! Astolfo! Astolfo! Astolfo!

export to eml format, should work in many clients that way

how do you ensure w10 doesnt cuck your linux when dual booting ?

I have a dual boot w10/manjaro, with 2 SSDs
grub and manjaro are on the first and w10 on the second
when I go grub menu>manjaro I got a blackscreen
when I go w10 advanced reboot menu > manjaro > reboot >grub menu > manjaro it works fine

had the same problem with Kubuntu 19.04

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All proprietary software is harmful malware. Don't use it.

Any 4channel userscripts for violent monkey?

My phone is doing this weird thing where it's charging but the battery percentage kept dipping

I used the original charger btw

Can I trust an amazon seller who upgrades devices to specs not available from the manufacturer?
Specifically nexipc
They have a new ideapad with a larger SSD they added.

What's the point of using attributes in C#?

Thank you Satan.

but muh games D :

whats the best mouse i can get that still works with a usb-to-ps/2 adapter and is it still the mx518? i cant imagine the g400 or new 518 will support the adapter.

What's name of the device to test the efficiency USB power charger?

r u meme'ing boi

voltmeter?

Informing compiler what you want it to do, like inlining.
Reflection based shenaningans. Like shit that you'd use a marker interface for, except more configurable.
Serialization details.

It's probably stupid even to ask here, but how the fuck does iTunes decide when to show an icon for an artist or not ... and what can I do to show icons for artists that are supported by their system.

Sorted my library lately and now even artists that were shown with an icon previously and still have an icon on my desktop don't have one on my laptop. Whether I play something or not doesn't seem to make a difference nor do a couple restarts. Obviously all the stuff is pirated, so can't do the iCloud trick suggested after googling this shit.

Help my autism, bros.

Just bought a 2070 super for 600€

There are gonna be custom 5700 XT cards on sale this week for 100€ cheaper. Did I fuck up anons? There's still time to cancel

I see what you mean about doing what you'd use marker interfaces for, but I've never needed to tell the compiler to do anything.
I also don't understand why you'd want to ever use reflection unless you're making your own testing framework or something.
I really want to understand the power of it, because it seems like it could be handy I just don't get it.

So i got this mobo:

asus.com/mx/Motherboards/ROG-Strix-X570-E-Gaming/

This thing has ethernet ports, a regular one and a 2.5, question is, I dont think I have whatever is needed to actually get the 2.5 speed shit, If I connect the ethernet cable there will I get the same speed a regular ethernet port?

Whenever I load a board, Jow Forums briefly loads the Index before quickly switching to my default Catalog view. Happens every time and it's annoying. What's going on here and how do I fix it?

Using Brave, Violentmonkey, and 4chanx, all updated. (Not using FF for the time being because the latest Catalina beta nuked all versions)

>I've never needed to tell the compiler to do anything
This mostly comes up when optimizing. If you aren't writing high performance code or linking it with C/C++ binaries, you won't see many compiler hint attributes.

>why you'd want to ever use reflection
I've had some mundane uses when maintaining pajeetware:
>hinting which fields of a data-only class are sensitive data and shouldn't be logged
>printing/logging any of the billion classes in a messy system without having to special case it (that's just reflection, not attributes)
>marking that a class should be serialized to a [database table name], as [database type] and its component is in [other database table name] (that's more attributes than reflection)
Those could be done without reflection or attributes, but just imagine how much work would it be to add a separate ToLoggerString extension method to every class you want to log.
Generally if you're using reflection you should ask yourself thrice if you're doing the right thing, but sometimes after those 3 times the answer is still "yes".
Attributes are a special case - they're technically reflection, but accepted and common in things like serialization, because the alternatives are clunky.

My pajeetware was actually in Java, but same principles hold.

>it seems like it could be handy
Generally, if reflection is used/useful for something, it will be mentioned a tutorial for it.

How stupid is it going to be to not buy the ryzen 9 3900x but instead buying the intel 9900k?

How do you make large txt pages load faster? For example, distro package lists that have tens of thousands of entries, it takes minutes just to get to the letter "L", let alone load the whole txt.

Is there a way to emulate my phone as a nfc card so I can get free drinks at vending machines?

its probably down to the way to file is loaded into memory when opening, look for an editor that specifically mentions opening of large files in its feature list and it'll be better optimised

You fucked up big time mate

Attach another 6\8 pin cable to from your PSU to GPU, not two ends of the same cable.
If your PSU doesn't have enough 6/8 pin output cables for your system, return it and get a good PSU.

Boot into Manjaro, su(do) and reinstall GRUB. Do so after every Windows feature update or every time Windows fucks up the boot order.

Sure, as long as they aren't doing anything you couldn't have done yourself as an untrained user with no special equipment, it's probably safe.

If they were reballing BGAs or fixing/modifying PCBs, I'd be wary and look at the reviews and warranty very carefully.

Yes you will. Faster NIC will fallback to whatever the other side' speed is.

Akshully, you might even get better speed connecting 2.5GE NIC to a 1GE port on a capable switch/router, that you would if connecting to 1GE on the mobo.

I see, can you recommend me an editor

Is it possible to auto-clear history in chromium, when I exit?

Currently using icecat with that setup, but want to try out ungoogled chromium for better security and performance.

>A fresh 1 day old Windows 10 installation starts with Firefox open
>I didn't set up anything like that
What's happening? That's spooky

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I'd like to publish some sheet music I typset using lilypond that I have in a git repository. I tried github pages but I get build errors, so I thought of using gitlab pages which works. Now I have no experience setting sites like these up; I just want a page with links to the pdfs that are in the repo. Do I simply hardcode the url of all the files I want in the index.html?

good torrent search site?

decent laptop for University?
will be doing a Software Development masters, so good keyboard and screen would be nice. I have a good desktop at home so idc about gaming potential.

That will be the network awareness service (nlasvc), if it detects a new connection is made it launches the default browser.
Set this reg key to 0 to disable it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet\EnableActiveProbing

I'd get a used/refurbished Thinkpad on Ebay.
Make sure to get one with 8GB RAM, an SSD and a 1080p screen, often they come with shitty 768p screens. Keyboard and build quality are god tier.

Thanks.

Does this one look decent enough?

ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T540P-i7-4712MQ-NVIDIA-730M-8GB-1080p-Backlit-SSD-SSHD/392330181412

searx has a files option
searx dot me is the official site, but there are mirrors (coz its foss)
also got an android app called searxer
you can even select which sites it should use

Any reason why it behaves like that on this installation? I got 2 tablets with Windows 10 before I got it on my new desktop and nothing like that did happen there.

Get something normie - low specs for mid-point price good ergonomics, battery life and importantly strong wifi (you'll need that at campus or during lectures). You won't be simulating water flow on that but you'll type loads and lose eye sight - get 13-14 inch for comfort. Ignore thinkpad bricks, your spine will thank you and you'll be able to carry more stuff too. TL;DR look for features over specs.

the Thinkpads with "P" at the end are a bit bulky, I personally wouldn't want to buy a laptop with a DVD drive in 2019. However it has a good processor and dedicated graphics.

Thanks!

incognito mode?

shouldnt my saphire 580 downclock automatically for games that run fine at lower frequencies? I've played around with FRTC and Chill but it doesnt do shit.
For example HoTS runs fine at 1200mhz and way lower voltage but if I go back to stock it runs at 1410mhz and almost 20C warmer.

Isn't this what the different powerstates are for? This behavior seems retarded.

What's her name

different network setup, firewall software? could be anything, especially with ever changing windows 10
you can also just disable the service, it isnt important

I have a Hitron router, a managed tplink switch, two freenas boxes and a few other wireless devices, one of the freenas boxes runs Pihole. Basically the hitron is a piece of fucking shit and I want to make my Pihole the DHCP server.
Any quick tips to make this a seamless transition? Will all devices get dropped as soon as I disable the DHCP server on the router? Should I start the pihole DHCP server before disabling the routers DHCP?

DHCP only actually works during the client NIC startup. So shutting down DHCP server on the shitty router and starting dhcpd (or whatever) on the pihole should be the right way and will go smooth as silk. If any issues, just reconnect wifi clients and manually DHCP release/renew the wired ones.

fucking WHY

The gateway will still be the router right? Do I have to somehow configure client devices to look for the new DHCP server?

>The gateway will still be the router right?
it's up to the DHCP server to hand out the correct gateway address
>Do I have to somehow configure client devices to look for the new DHCP server?
no, DHCP works via broadcasting, it can be anywhere on your network, there's no reason why it would need to be on the same machine as your gateway

Cool thanks that actually sounds simpler than I anticipated, most networking stuff just frustrates me.

If I want 2 versions of the same git repository (e.g. personal emacs config and work emacs config)… should I do in 2 different branches, or 2 different repos?

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it all just werks until it doesn't
regarding they will eventually use the new DHCP server, since DHCP is leased out for a set amount of time before needing renewal, but it's often 12 or 24 hours
if you want clients to use a new DHCP server, you need to either renew them on each client, or just disconnect and reconnect them. afaik you can't have the server tell the clients to drop their lease

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Starting yesterday my graphics card is doing weird things. Every now and then and with no warning, the screen goes black for a second and then it comes back. It happened maybe 4 times yeterday, and it's just happened now twice in like 10 minutes. There isn't any other weird stuff going on like screen artifacts or anything and games work fine so it can't be a dead/dying card, right? Maybe it's time to update the drivers
Or could it be a faulty HDMI cable?

If I re-install Windows 10 to a laptop, will it be automatically activated when it detects the hardware, or do I have to do something? Will the windows 10 key shown in the activation settings tab work?

who knows, probably so people can sign in through wifi or whatever the fuck normies do to access the internet these days honestly

ok i researched it and this is the technical reason

>If the network requires credentials, Windows opens the default browser (such as Internet Explorer or Edge). If the network has a sign-in page, that page appears in the browser.

This behavior was introduced to improve the Windows user experience. In earlier versions of Windows, when you connect to a network that requires you to authenticate, the browser window does not open automatically. You may see a message that states that you must take further action in order to connect fully to the network. To complete the connection, you must click the message to open a browser window (or manually open a browser window) and enter a user name and password.

I can't get power to work on my PC (gets a short surge where lights flash on, then off, no fans) with my GPU. After I unplug the PSU cables from it and just run off the mobo, the two fans on the card do alternating sets of a few rotations
Is the graphics card just fucked or is there some power problem? PSU and card are both fairly new

Is sucking dick gay if you do it ironically?

Doesn't matter if you do it ironically or not.
It only matters if you enjoy it sexually and you're both adults of same sex.

Start by updating drivers and replacing monitor cable. If that's not it, it may be the PSU undervolting the rail so the card stutters.

Depends on why you want to suck it.

Just to help a bro out

>it may be the PSU undervolting
Why would it do that?

Well, assuming the guy is dying and wants to experience his dick getting sucked one last time and you're the only person around to ask and there is no time to get someone else ... pretty no homo.

If it was your own suggestion out of the blue, the line gets thinner.

Why do you want to help him out, though?
If it's just friendship then it's no homo, but if you actually love him then you may want to be the top instead since that minimizes the possible gay.

Oh yeah, and my headphones are getting crazy strong white noise which might point towards the power supply

Because some capacitor inside is shot and the PSU is dying.
Or because your power line voltage is all over the place and the PSU can't cope because it's not an intelfag.

About to install my new system.
I'll use it for shitposting, personal administrative stuff, raw photos editing, watching movies, maybe video editing one in a while.

What is the less retarded option, given that I'm quite retarded and paranoid and I'm reaching the 33yo boomer phase, meaning games and entertainment is becoming far from appealing nowadays.

>Qubes main OS with a virtualized Windows 7
>Windows 10 main OS with a Debian dual boot
>Gentoo or Arch and spend a year tweaking it and not do anything I wanted to
>Something else

Does anyone have any idea how to remove DRM from videos downloaded from DMM? I bought some Hitomi porn and it wants me to use some fucking DMM Player

You have to connect to the internet, that's it. Windows doesn't show a key, it shows a product ID, which doesn't do anything.

>Or because your power line voltage is all over the place
The weather's been a bit unstable the last couple days and there was a big thunderstorm last night so could that be it?

Yes, especially if you live in a separate house with subpar wiring.
Get an UPS after you replace your PSU.

Because if the youtube adds fall under first party, then you won't be blocking them. In the case of youtube/google that's a lot more likely because they don't have to pull traffic from other domains to verify they're running people's adds. There's really no reason to set anything to green 99% of the time. It's like if you just use ublock in regular mode, how often do you switch it off for a site? It's designed to only block things you would want to avoid.

I'm leaving to study abroad in two weeks and I won't touch this computer for a whole year so I think I won't bother replacing the PSU right now, and instead I'll upgrade the whole thing next summer
It's due for an upgrade anyway, the CPU is from 2014 and the GPU from 2015

pls respond i need it for work

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The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display.

Your mobo doesn't give you an error code?
Change your psu cable and if still the same try with another video card.

I said I was a boomer, not an homosexual.

Anyone else been having problems with youtube-dl video titles? It always gives me an error "unable to extract video title" on my Ubuntu 18.04 system. On my Ubuntu 19.04 laptop it works fine. My version is up to date (2019.08.02).

No error code, PC boots as normal without the GPU connected. I don't have any matching psu cables or spare cards, so I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow

Most Apple owners are heterosexual.
It's only those who use it for making movies, drawing or music who are always into own sex.

Though to be fair, most heterosexuals who own Apple products are females.

do you have the same youtube-dl version on both?