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>>108613354
I have a telecom job (call centre drone) and need to tell the employer how well I can troubleshoot and work with computers
Considering that today I: installed windows 11 pro and updated the driver for my GPU, after it was stuck in low resolution; cleaned my hard drives after a botched clean in Windows 10, then use the prompt "clean disk" (after they were not able to install linux mint or pop! os) through the command prompt, then salvaged my new hard drive (which was booted with windows 11 pro iso image file) through disk management settings... what would you rate my technology skills? Be honest, I don't mind if it's low, but I want to learn how to get good so I can maintain this job. I hope that I can learn to code or work out IT issues, eventually.
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>>108613394
I'd say maybe 2 or 3 out of 10? The things you listed, I can think of normies who wouldn't have any idea where to start if you asked them to do that but in the grand scheme of things, it's all very basic
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>>108613394
it's more than the average person, but not more than an interested 12 year old.
it depends on the job requirements, if no specific knowledge was requested then i'd say the requirements are quite low and if you can "google" shit well enough you can probably handle it
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Just want to ask how I can bypass this faggot shit to verify my fucking email. Maybe I'm just being retarded right now because I have no sleep but 99% of the time I have no fucking clue what the answer is. I just want to get a fucking email verification. I've done this several times now and twice got the email, but after you get the damned email you have to do the same captcha shit again, and I keep running my chances out till it fucking expires. That's the kind of shit that makes you want to kill someone. I now have to wait 43 minutes before I can do it again.
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>>108613394
Yeah like the other anon said, more than an average person. Lots of normies treat computers like literal magic and their brain shuts down when something doesn't work. What you did is all pretty basic and simple but it does put you above the average normalfag in that sense.
However my question to you is, how much of that did you figure out on the fly (by googling, trying things, etc.) vs. how much of this would you consider an actual "skill" that you had learned previously and already knew how to do? In my opinion, in your position the greatest skill you might demonstrate and develop is the ability to learn and figure out things quickly. If you had never used disk management before or never did "clean disk" and figured it out on the fly, it probably means next time you have some unfamiliar situation you'll also be able to figure it out. But if you just happened to know how disk management works and how to do this exact shit, then it doesn't speak anything about your ability to adapt, only about your specific knowledge here and like the other anons said it's pretty shallow.
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Is there a way to get animated gifs in the Windows file picker?
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Is there an easy way to download youtube videos that require signing in? yt-dlp has some cookies approach but that's a pain in the ass. Website based downloaders don't seem to work for those videos that require sign in.
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Cuck wagie here. I'm using the Mobile Hotspot option on Win11 to connect my phome to this very Laotian boat-carving website. I have also downloaded many a torrents before, but since switching to newet laptops, I can't anymore. I'm on-site. Its a public service office.
Can my employer snoop the URLs, images, or torrent contents I have visited or downloaded on my phone?
On that note, I extensively browse sfw shit like vidya sites, news, tvtropes, a bit of YT on said laptop.
How fucked am I on both fronts?
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>>108615375
You could take a look with something like wiztree to see what's eating up the space. There's often surprising temp files and other crap that builds up over the years. Don't go deleting just anything though.
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>>108613572
Nevermind I thought I recongnized what might have been a consistent pattern that I might have overlooked, but it appears, I didn't. It's still very unclear.and I confirmed it's not even correct sometimes. It's a fucking scam to sell 4chan passes.
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>>108613394
watch a free video series for comptia a+ or similar. some of the info is questionable or worthless, like nobody's going to expect or need you to remember port numbers unless you're working with them on a regular basis (it takes five seconds to look them up and if you work with them frequently you'll start to remember them very quickly), but it's at least a somewhat standard "basic it knowledge" that lets employers know what to expect. plus the videos at least are free and the cert is useful if you get laid off or something.
check with your employer too, some employers will pay for you to get certs. some even offer incentives. if you want to advance in IT, certs are also a good starting point.
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>>108616863
It's probably the best way to use google anything. They will try to fingerprint you as much as possible, but Tor Browser is built to be as fingerprinting-resistant as possible, so ideally they will only see "some tor user is connecting" and nothing any more interesting.
The only issue is that I bet you need to enable javascript to use it, and there's no guarantee that the Tor Browser is 100% perfect at preventing fingerprinting. They might possibly be able to gather some data, because javascript is incredibly powerful and browsers have five trillion APIs that can be used by javascript to gather datapoints and Tor Browser is only made by humans.
Also I'm not sure if it will even work, everyone blocks the fuck out of Tor nowadays.
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I'm using a jcally jm12 with truthear hexa on an s25 fe. It works fine but every now and then my cell service just completely cuts out. It comes back fairly easily but is it being caused by my dac? Is that even possible?
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places like gumroad have a cool thing where you can set something you're selling to have a default/suggested amount you can pay, but is also something the user can freely change to being free (e.g. a text box that has a default price of $10, but is editable to $0).
is it possible to do something like this with crypto? is it just simple html or is there anything more to this? a guide on setting up crypto for personal websites would also be appreciated.
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>>108617560
Your question sounds a bit like
>Sometimes I see people in the market discussing the goods with the seller. Sometimes they haddle the price up or down, sometimes they discuss the weather. Is it possible to do this with a cheque?
Unless I misunderstood it, in which case please do clarify.
Otherwise: the textbox is defined entirely by the website and has literally zero relation to payment methods. You can make the website do, show or display absolutely whatever you want.
Then when the actual sale happens, the payment mechanism is invoked using some value and that's how the payment is coordinated.
>setting up crypto for personal websites
Do you know how crypto wallets work? The gist of setting up crypto payments is you publish your address and people can send crypto to it. If you're actually selling stuff, then you need some infrastructure to tie together payements you see in the blockchain vs. orders that just happened, usually by generating a unique address for every order (or on some blockchains, by adding some information to the transaction), and then validate that the user sent enough and then mark it as "paid" and proceed with the sale accordingly, you can also have systems for refunding if the customer overpays etc. It's not very complicated if you know how blockchains work, it just takes a bit of work if you want it to be 100% automated for e.g. an online store. If you don't need to automate it then it just works and you don't need to do anything.
If you don't know how crypto wallets or the blockchain work, then you should definitely read into the basics of that before trying to use it.
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>>108613354
I use handbrake to reencode obs vidya recordings to webms for posting on 4chan
however, it encodes them extremely slowly (0.5-1.2 fps) and never uses more than 20% of the CPU
is there an option or flag to force it to use more processing power to encode shit faster? I have a "good" CPU for a reason, why the fuck isn't it actually being used?
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>>108617831
>please do clarify
well say you want to buy a 4chan pass, the price is preset and can't be changed. what i'm talking about is something like pic rel, where the amount is preset at 0, but the user can change it if they want to. i only ever see this done on websites specifically made for purchases (previous example of 4chan links to another site) but what i want is to keep it all on my website and then to just send that off to my wallet.
>Otherwise: the textbox is defined entirely by the website and has literally zero relation to payment methods. You can make the website do, show or display absolutely whatever you want.
but i think this answers my question, i was just wondering if there were any security considerations that behind the scenes that i wasn't aware of
>Do you know how crypto wallets work?
not at all lol, i just want to have an alternative to regular payment processors now that everything's going to shit
>If you don't know how crypto wallets or the blockchain work, then you should definitely read into the basics of that before trying to use it.
sure, thanks for the brief explanation. do you have know any good resources for this? all i'm aware of is the page on landchad since i'm only just now getting more interested in this
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>>108618192
>well say you want to buy a 4chan pass, the price is preset and can't be changed
Yeah that's pretty much just like my example of making small talk with a guy at the market
You discuss whatever you want, agree to whatever you want, and then once you've agreed on a deal you pay the merchant in your preferred way, whether that be cash, cheque, bank card, or bartering with oxen. Whether you discussed the weather beforehand or signed a notarised contract about the sale does not affect how the payment is actually made, it only affects what is agreed upon, and then payment is made according to that agreement. That's why I found your question strange.
>do you have know any good resources for this?
Unironically ask an LLM. "Explain to me the very basics of something I know nothing about" is something that's usually very annoying to piece together by reading wiki pages and documents elsewhere but an LLM can explain all the basics to you, as long as it's a reasonably established topic and not something hyper-niche. Modern LLMs actually hallucinate surprisingly little as long as the question is not too complicated.
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/wsr/ and and /gd/ are dead as fuck so I'll ask you guys. Would anyone be willing to make me an icon real quick for the extension I'm making? It's a video subtitle editor for html5 subtitles. The default are black and white but I want the ability to change them around and save your settings, with it working cross site so if you have subtitles you like in one site it works for all sites that use html5 video tracks.
I circled what the icon looks like here in red, it's just a small extension icon up where extensions are. I was thinking maybe a colorful CC logo, but do whatever I'm not picky.
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>>108618349
alright anon, thanks again for the answers
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>>108618349
Here, for example, I asked Claude for you. Everything in the screenshot is correct, I'd just have been way too lazy to type it all out myself. Hopefully this gives you a starting point from which to look further by yourself.
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>>108618366
>asking /g/ to make the logo
kek
this cracked me up, so I gave it a try, what do you think<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 256 256">
<rect x="24" y="24" width="208" height="122" rx="28" ry="28" fill="#2d2d33"/>
<rect x="29" y="162" width="198" height="24" rx="7" ry="7" fill="#22c55e"/>
<rect x="60" y="198" width="136" height="24" rx="7" ry="7" fill="#a855f7"/>
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>>108618592
Not bad, is it supposed to be captions under a monitor? Fuck it I'll see if Google will let me change what I had. I just plagiarized this
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>>108618611
Yeah, captions under a video with bright colors
Since it's a simple SVG you can adjust the sizes of things to make it look better if you want, like maybe there's actually too much empty space around the objects right now
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>>108618625
Yeah Google isn't giving me the option to unsubmit. Fuck it using >>108618611
Thanks anyways.
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>>108613354
I've noticed a new trend in the comments on Youtube videos, and it's pissing me off.
For example, a video about a specific movie or vidya, there will always be a comment now within the first ten or so with this kind of template:
>I had the privilege of working on this back in [year before release]. I was responsible for [semi-important role, unverifiable]. I got to work with [known person] and [known person], and I even met [famous person] on a few occasions. He was pretty chill, but always too busy for the likes of me. Still, I'm really proud of what we accomplished, and it's great to see [youtuber] talking about it.
The first couple of times you see it you kinda think it's genuine, but it's EVERY fucking video now. It has to be the work of bots, but here's my question - WHY? What the actual fuck are bots trying to achieve with this? What's the play?
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so this whole ai coding feels like its only useful for those who already know what to use it for, i just paid a subscription but have no huge ideas to implement..also are you supposed to let it work and get everything out of a single prompt? I feel like and idiot chatting back and forth asking for the next feature
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Is a busy wait loop the best way to do frame rate limiting?
>>108618187
It depends on the encoder and the settings that it uses. It could just be that whatever encoder it's using (libvpx-vp9 for example) just can't spawn enough threads on your CPU. Is there not an option to use HW encoding?
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Recently my android phone changed doing sms by default to rcs or something which shows read status and active typing status, which I don't fucking want. It also is sometimes not delivering messages until I manually tell it to do sms. I don't know what my question is, just why did this fucking happen?
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>>108613173
Did you ever figure it out? Does that say "Date of registration"?
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>>108620164
>so this whole ai coding feels like its only useful for those who already know what to use it for
Yes obviously
>also are you supposed to let it work and get everything out of a single prompt
That's how you get slop. You're supposed to understand and guide the code yourself, just use the AI to get shit done faster than writing it manually
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>>108620599
From what I've seen it's apparently only a feature in Google Messages, so install literally anything else including AOSP's Messaging
If I'm wrong then just search "android disable rcs" and there seems to be a bunch of articles about it
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Is there any way to enhance old time movies?
Like upscale and improve colors?
Like pic related.
Preferably with real time filters with mpv, or ffmpeg.
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So I've got a weird bug.
OpenBSD 7.8
For some reason fonts aren't working right inside the terminal they work fine everywhere else after I installed the japanese font packs through the pkg manager but I just get ????? from ls and unicode blocks from less.
Is xterm just not recognising the font path or something else?
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>>108621599
>tell me what to think /g/
Retard use your own judgement
It sounds like you're using stock android which means you're running Google Play Services in the background at all times as a privileged system app anyway which sends constant live telemetry to google, so the sms app doesn't matter
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>>108621639
Probably some sort of AI tool; There's some filters for ffmpeg as well. Really depends on how powerful your system is I imagine.
>>108619002
Achieve highest comment; Change comment later to spread propaganda. Could also just been a teenager looking for clout.
>>108618187
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -fps_mode vfr -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 22 -c:a libopus ~/Videos/"Output.webm"
>>108617004
Toss Ubuntu LTS on it
>>108615375
There's a clean disk tool in explorer; Probably system restore snapshots taking up all the space, as well as previous updates don't automatically delete themself after installing
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Can my employer spy on what sites I visit or download on my phone, while connected to the mobile hotspot feature on Win11?
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I haven't used Steam in years (and never on this computer), I installed it and signed in (after much effort) and it's been doing spinny spinny for like 5 minutes now, is this normal?
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>>108622037
if it's their laptop/desktop and your phone isn't set up to use dns over https/tls or some other form of dns encryption then they can probably snoop the domains you access (i.e. 4chan.org). browsers are increasingly doing encrypted dns by default but it's still not universal and most browsers support it being turned off by policy on corporate domains.
also if you have to install any sort of certificate on your phone to access their internet (pretty rare, you'd probably remember doing this), then yes, they can spy on anything you do.
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>>108622049
i'd give it another like 10-20 and if it's still fucked, kill the steam task and make sure that all steamwebhelper processes are also gone (they should end shortly after you kill steam), then try it again.
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hi
i'm thinking of getting a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 9 8940hx and an rtx 5070. is there any bottleneck here?
thanks
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>>108622096
It's their laptop, yeah. I don't know about my browser's dns settings, will look into encryption. Using Brave but am afraid of using KurobaEx. I still do, regardless.
Thanks.
I definitely didn't have to install any certificate on my phone, just trying to steal some internets
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Is it strange to clear your browser history regularly? I clear my browser history weekly, but it seems like every website wants you to leave everything as it is. Some websites even think I'm a bot just because I log out and clear my cookies.
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>>108622496
not really. i know plenty of privacy-oriented people who do so. i don't because i'm less concerned with that topic and because convenience is a bigger priority for me, but it's not like it's rare or nonsensical. do what makes sense for you.
with that said, it might make more sense to use multiple browser profiles for different tasks and only clear history on the profile you do sensitive things with. but at the end of the day, just do what you want.
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>>108622544
that's fine too. it'll probably be a bit less convenient but it's not something you need to worry about. maybe do the reverse of what i said, then; if there are sites that you find are repeatedly problematic, make a separate "dirty" profile specifically for them so that they're less annoying to deal with and don't pollute your main one.
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>>108622802
Depends what games you play, don't expect to play newest AAA on ultra at 240Hz
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>>108623037
There is no such thing as a "static library" in itself. There are "static executables" which include all the libraries they use; sometimes people say "I'm including library X as a static library" but what this means is the library is going to be built into the executable.
By contrast dynamic libraries do exist standalone and executables "dynamically" link to them to use them. Therein is the difference between static and dynamic linking.
So if you have the source for a given executable, you can usually convert a dynamic library it uses into a static library FOR that executable, and recompile the executable. The result will still be a single executable, but now it won't link to the dynamic version of that library, because that library is built-in.
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Are there such things as social media managers for individuals? At this point, social media has completely banned or blacklisted me. Every account I make gets zero attention, in many cases it gets shadowbanned without reason. My Meta socials all got banned and deleted, only reason given is suspected automated activity, I don't post on them. I attempt to register with a social media site, and it will ask to verify my identity and then promptly shadowban me again so no other people see my engagement.
How exactly are normalfags evading this great nerd filter and is it possible to just hire someone to do it on my behalf?
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>>108623580
What exactly are you trying to do? There are definitely social media managers for individuals, but it doesn't make sense unless you're trying to become some sort of "influencer". Also they will almost certainly tell you to pozz yourself completely by verifying your ID and everything to the max.
For 99.9% of normal people, who aren't "influencers" nor trying to become one, hiring a social media manager makes no sense because what's the point of having "reach"? If you do want to gather followers and become a social media personality then yeah you can hire a manager.
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>>108624142
>What exactly are you trying to do?
I just want to be able to talk to people again someplace that isn't 4chan. I used to have a litany of social media, a faceberg (I don't miss it much, but I do miss having a marketplace account) a youtube channel, twitter, I used to be what most considered a normalfag.
I can't even register for most of these services, now. I register, and a day later I get banned for reasons I do not understand or are explained. Appeals 100% of the time result in "Denied, be a better person in the next life, permanent ban" automatic emails. I have never talked to a person behind these account services or what their reasoning is.
My biggest tell that I can find as to what is happening is that I do not have a device which allows any kind of telemetry and does not do data gathering of any kind. I use firefox nightly on my phone and use browserleaks to ensure my fingerprint is as generic as I can make it. I don't give anything other than my real name to these sites that require it, and if I can avoid it: I don't even give that. I try to avoid uploading pictures of myself. I attempt to be as private as I used to be ~10 years ago, and that's the only reason I can think of as to why these sites are shadowbanning or just banning me. But I know people much more paranoid than I am are browsing these sites, so how are they doing it? Why am I singled out?
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>>108624266
>talk to people
Can't you do that while shadowbanned? I thought that just meant you wouldn't have "reach" and wouldn't be promoted algorithmically to additional followers.
Though if you get hard-banned then yeah it can be annoying.
Anyway most "people" talk on discord nowadays, I've never really seen people socialise on twitter or whatever, that site just exists for engagement baiting
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>>108624276
>Can't you do that while shadowbanned? I thought that just meant you wouldn't have "reach" and wouldn't be promoted algorithmically to additional followers.
Depends on the site.
On X, yes. I can reply to people and they will probably see me but I'll be buried below hundreds of comments, if I reply directly to friends, I'll be the only one commenting so my comment won't be swept up.
On youtube, no. When I try to comment, this happens:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dt4E5UQLOA0
This happens on multiple accounts, btw. Again no reason specified. It's related to this issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fByyl8BLXo
Which has been reported on for years. It's 50/50 if a comment posts, if it does post- I will never appear on a front page or not hidden from sight unless "All Comments" are enabled.
On other social media sites: Faceberg simply bans me, Instagram posts simply do not show up, frankly I don't care about these sites in general- Meta can go to hell. I just want to be able to talk to friends and be normal again.
>Anyway most "people" talk on discord nowadays, I've never really seen people socialise on twitter or whatever, that site just exists for engagement baiting
I actually do not know what social media sites normal people use now because I can't talk to them. I have several discord accounts, should I just use those?
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>>108624359
and yes, as I type this I am aware this is probably related to my generic fingerprint browser making my virtually non-existent ass worthless for marketing and that may be the real reason they're banning me. Either ways I can't seem to get away from it and attempts to even verify with my own face has resulted in bans (likely because I'm the most generic white guy you can imagine and they probably think I'm AI generated)
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>>108619983
Haven't found the culprit yet, but word on the internet goes it's a fault of a bug in Windows 11.
So I will just reinstall the OS before I get too used to it.
Driver pack like this
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000122490/precision-7540-wind ows10-driver-pack
Should handle all drivers after reinstall, correct? Of course there is NET Framework stuff, but it's usually installed along with programs, so it should be fine or am I forgetting something?
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Some times like twitter or paypal occasionally load extremely slowly or not at all for me, but when i use a VPN they work perfectly.
Why is this and how can i fix it? Please help.
I'm in germany btw so it's not like those sites should be geoblocked or anything.
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>>108622496
Yes it is really strange. You are standing out like a sore thumb
>>108622525
Those privacy oriented people are a minority of a minority, they are really rare
>>108622544
How is your browser having a history and cookies making it "dirty"?
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>>108623580
What devices are you using to make those accounts?
>>108624266
>I do not have a device which allows any kind of telemetry and does not do data gathering of any kind. I use firefox nightly on my phone and use browserleaks to ensure my fingerprint is as generic as I can make it. I don't give anything other than my real name to these sites that require it, and if I can avoid it: I don't even give that. I try to avoid uploading pictures of myself. I attempt to be as private as I used to be
Oh si that's why then just stop doing that you retard.
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7th year trying to finish my college course in CompSci honours. I'm not from the states so I don't have to pay too much to repeat. I started in 2019 and everything was going good until the plandemic occured. I couldn't do a lot of work at home during the plandemic since my dad is a dickhead and needs a justification for everything. I then had to repeat two classes during the summer of 2020 however free because of the plandemic. I unfortunately failed the one that I hated the most which had to do with adobe animate and creating an animation video, my project didn't get a pass and I got really pissed off. From then on I didn't attended a class and only went in person if I had an exam. I passed the animation class the next year but I decided to not attend classes anymore and try to pass the repeat classes during the summer like I did in the previous years since I thought it was easier over the summer. I ended up passing half of my classes but I didn't realise how much work it required. I didn't pass everything so I had to try again, I got lazier and the next year I only passed 2 classes. I eventually started a job in 2023 (and trying to pass the 2nd year of college for the 3rd time) I ended up passing another class in 2024 and then another in 2025. I had to pass only another class but the reason I didn't was because it's supposed to be a giant project with 4 people and to take around 3 months. We are now close to the summer of 2026 (class starts in july) and I have started to look a bit into the work provided from the semester. Any tips outside of emailing the lecturer? I am not giving up, you have no idea how shit the job market is if you don't have a college degree so this is why I'm definitely not dropping out. Hopefully I graduate before 30 (currently 24). Even if I won't find a job once I get my degree I'll try to do a part time masters degree if I get a good enough grade for my final year, any tips or tricks?