>>108955325
I forgot to add the first slash, what better way to start a stupid thread...

Does AI have an issue with admitting it was not able to collect enough verified information to give you a real answer? I've been trying google's AI out on getting video game gameplay advise but it seems to freely mix up sources including other games and real life analogs rather than say I'm not sure or can you provide more information so I can narrow it down. If you give it a sourced correction it will admit it just "hallucinated" information but it never prefaces that their info was not ironclad to begin with.

>>108955611
It's a word predictor bro it doesn't reason and it cannot know if anything it wrote is correct, it will always present things as correct and with confidence because it is trained on data that does the same

>>108955632
So it doesn't engage in anything resembling intelligence?

>>108955653
It can produce intelligent text but in itself isn't intelligent whatsoever, no

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>constantly feel like I've got some malware on my machine that's leaking all my shit to hackers
>have chatgpt look over my list of installed programs and running processes
>check my network logs
>can't prove it
Am I just paranoid? schizo? autistic? retarded? How to deal with this feel...

>>108956311
>How to deal with this feel...
reinstall your OS

>>108956311
even if you verify every process and whatever is running under svchost you still can't be 100% sure
more likely it's a browser extension or you entered your credit card details to a compromised website or some malicious employee selling data for everyone who signed up for a supermarket loyalty card

I have spoiler thumbnails disabled in my settings, but recently they've been enabled on webms. Is anyone else experiencing this, or was experiencing it but fixed it?

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how does this happen?

>>108956311
i also feel like this for some reason

>>108956481
i've done this a few times but i still feel like this

I bought a 32inch 1440p monitor and everything is extremely small unless you use 125% scaling. Does everyone use scaling or do people really just deal with everything being so small?

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>>108956744
like, this is how the catalog looks. is it really supposed to be like this

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How to download premium files from this site?
https://www.uploadcloud.pro/3ztv90jahahx/SillyToys_-_Minerva_Mink_Animaniacs_-_3D_Print_Model.zip.html

I already tried several "leech download" pages but nothing works

>inb4 just buy a premium account :D
lol

>>108956811
>>108956744
>Double dubs
It's almost like you should have just got a 1080p monitor
>I'm using a 32 inch vizio from walmart that I got when the xbox 360 was released.
>You can probably select the 1080p option in your monitor settings and get more FPS and not need to scale or wear glasses

>>108957241
>It's almost like you should have just got a 1080p monitor
1080p 32in monitors barely exist anymore is the thing
I'd be totally fine with 1080p if they did

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Never bought a laptop before, don't know what to look for. I just want something from a good brand with good support/warranty, good thermals and no oled display for light gamedev (blender/ue5) and gaming. RAM and SSD is not important as I already have it from a previous build. Thought about MSI, these 2 models:

https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/gaming-laptops/283735/msi-raider-16-hx-ai-16-intel-ultra-9-275hx-rtx-5070ti-32gb-1tb-win11h-raider-16-hx-ai-a2xwhg-667ca.html

https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/gaming-laptops/288801/msi-vector-16-hx-ai-16-intel-ultra-7-255hx-rtx-5070ti-32gb-1tb-win11h-vector-16-hx-ai-a2xwhg-285us.html

Thoughts? Should I wait longer for a sale? Differences between raider and vector? I hate rgb so fucking much

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>>108956827

>>108957364
I'm not a furryfag. I just want used that model to create a hentai human skin of her for a videogame that was released 21 years ago.

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>>108956712
>how does this happen?
OP here, I can't say for certain but I did first select the image for the post and then I changed the resolution in MS Paint not sure if that could've caused this, it was originally 400x400 I think

>>108957425
didn't do it this time so IDK

>>108956827
The same way you bypass megaupload limit change IP and delete cookies preferably you use a download manager instead of your browser that automates this

>>108956311
Install gentoo

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Should I disable auto updates for all programs and add ons and extensions and so on?
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/red-hat-npm-packages-compromised-credential-stealing-worm

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How do I change my Ethernet network from the default network, T-Mobile ADF3, to Aaron-Gaming? I only see options to change my Wi-Fi network at the bottom right corner of Windows 11 but not for my Ethernet or can you not change it?

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>homecluster with laptop and desktop for video games
how can i achieve this?
:^)

When are they going to start giving death penalty to annoying hackers?

>>108957828
Government agents first.

>>108957533
You want to rename it or what? That thing only has one physical port you know.

How many modern web browsers can display webp files?
What is the maximum filesize a static background image on a website should be?

How important is an ethernet cable for a fast connection? Will you notice a difference for most tasks if you've got a decent wifi?

>>108958112
Basically all of them https://caniuse.com/webp
Usually under 2MB in size, but you can use the <img> srcset attribute to get the browser to choose a smaller/larger one based on the width of the page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Responsive_images

>>108958090
no I want my ethernet to be a different network

>>108958154
That depends on a bunch of things, devices have different ports, not all cables are the same speed, same thing with network devices, if you mean internet connection specifically then your speeds might be capped by the plan you have and so even if you have everything else setup for higher speeds your ISP just won't let you.
But ethernet, like pretty much all wires, is more stable connection it doesn't get fucked with by other wireless signals and there's not really any signal drop off unless you're going to run a ridiculously long cable.

>>108958202
thanks anon!

>>108958238
Really, it should be far less than 2mb

>>108958208
Wired Ethernet blocks don't have names. Do you have multiple internets in there or what?

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>>108958359
No I have multiple networks.

>>108958283
is 800 kb too big?

>>108958403
Those are called access points and yes, they do have names. But it's the same ethernet block regardless.

Is Malware Bytes free enough to use for checking for malware?

>>108958412
depends on your needs, the smaller the better.
if you can compress further without loss of quality then do
the biggest photo on my website is like 700 kb but it's 2000x3000

Whats the safest most reliable email provider? I want to move all my shit away from gmail

>>108959161
so safest or most reliable?

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Is the IT Dusters CompuCleaner Xpert computer duster good? I'm tired of buying canned air and I was wondering if this thing will last me a few years. I live in Europe and I can't find a DataVac/MetroVac in my country.

I know about those small chink fans (like woflbox) but most of them use batteries that you can't easily find replacements for. And some of the wired ones have problems with the cable, they short out, or they overheat and light on fire.

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I thought my laptop had a hardware issue but now I'm thinking it's just a software issue and I figure some smart ni/g/gas might know. Maybe even there's some way to fix it.

So, when I scroll using mousewheel on discord's standalone app (not web browser version), often it leaves behind artifacting and duplicate ghost elements on the screen. Pic rel is a very common example where the emoji bar and message highlighting are duplicated on the message I was hovering before the scroll and after, when the app is designed to only highlight the current one. The artifacting breaks up sometimes in ways that looks really ugly (like half the emoji bar showing while half vanishes) and I thought maybe it was a GPU issue.

The thing I noticed that gave me a eureka moment is that I was using my old laptop today and it happened on this device too, when it never did in the years I used it normally. I suspect some windows setting I use is causing this, maybe changing the text size under Window's accessibility options is causing the app to malfunction? My eyesight has gotten bad and yesterday I tweaked several of these types of settings on my old laptop to match the new one, and also did security updates (old in Win10, new is Win11, issue is on both). I can't imagine it's to do with the updates since it's on both OS and not widespead because I can't find other people talking about this, which makes me think it's connected to accessibility settings and hopefully benign and not going to damage the machines or a sign the machines are already damaged. For reference I've tried changing plenty of settings within discord for things like turning hardware acceleration on and off, and the glitches happen both ways.

Any clues or explanations would be nice, or maybe someone knows enough about tech and discord to know about this obscure bug. I have searched and really couldn't find anyone else talk about this exact issue.

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>>108955611
AI will always try to appease you and answer your questions. You can see this happen even with insanely simple stuff, pic rel is a classic where it will often just make up a number for no real reason if you ask it how many of a letter is in a word. Another classic is asking if there is a seahorse emoji and to show it to you, there isn't one but often the AI will be trapped in a loop of presenting you an emoji while claiming it's a seahorse, then saying that was wrong, then showing you another and claiming this is the real seahorse, over and over until it runs out of room.

If you ask it "what is 2+2" it will search the info it can access and find you the answer. If for some reason the answer it finds is wrong (like sourcing a reddit user that posts 2+2=5 as a joke) or it can't find an answer, it will basically always just make something up that fits the scraps it did find. If it found no scraps it'll be a complete guess essentially.

If you do want to ask it things you don't plan to verify yourself, you should at least always type "verify this" or "I think you are wrong" because the success rate skyrockets on a 2nd attempt. I think this is because the AI sometimes gives a lazy low effort response to what it sees as an easy question (like the number of "c"s in the word tomorrow" and then if you tell it that was wrong it will actually take a moment to research it, even if it really should have done that before providing an answer the 1st time.

>>108956744
I use scaling, basically any boomer uses scaling, a lot of hardcore gamers or whatever will stick with tiny shit though. even 1080p computers often default to 125% scaling in windows these days.

>see a thread about privacy and government/corporate collection of data
>effort post
>thread is no longer available

Important topics disappear from this site and stupid bullshit repeats. Who is behind this?

>>108959291
Buy what the professionals use

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>>108958552
malwarebytes is one of the better ones in my experience, and the free version is fine, just make sure if it's not auto-running that you update and run it pretty regularly.

something I've found important is checking any sus downloads you're doing manually. like, if you pirate a movie file, run that shit through https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ before you open the file bro. You just upload the file and very fast it will check it with a huge list of good virus checkers. pic rel is an example of just 2 of the scanners thinking something is sus, and you can look further into it from there if you want. typically if something is bad it'll light up quite a few red ones because most people putting malware in something are using known malware instead of bespoke stuff. but if you care about the machine, and virustotal has even 1 site tell you not to trust it, just consider if it's worth any risk on whatever file you got.

>>108959573
Central air compressor is kinda spendy and disruptive though.

>>108959600
I hate the retarded "threat" names so much.

>>108959600
Should I do deep scan or just the regular scan every day? Should I turn on the thing that says rootkits?

>>108959641
deep scan when you first get it and any time you're worried and want better peace of mind. regular scans regularly are nice too, I don't personally do them daily but I do them any time I've used a new program or downloaded something that could contain a virus (most file types). no reason not to turn on options that will also check for other types of bad files like rootkits, it'll make the scan take longer but if you have a virus you want to know, right?

>>108958421
Hmm I guess there's nothing I can do.

Is a bios vulnerability very dangerous? Mine is outdated and has a known vulnerability but I dont want to update in case it just breaks everything.

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What happened to freetube (latest version btw)? Did i miss something?

>>108956311
i just reinstalled because my shit kept getting accessed even though i kept changing passwords and had 2fa on everything

>>108959712
if you get your updated bios from the manufacturer's website or equivalent, and have reliable power (aka it isn't gonna shutdown over like a 3 minute period) you might as well update it. for laptops this is trivial because of the battery, if it's a desktop and you're super paranoid you can use a backup generator to power it for that time if you need to, I hook my PC up to one for bios updates just to not jinx it.

the vulnerability only matters if someone tries to take advantage of it, but if they do it's gonna be free entry as a known vulnerability. bios is basically the deepest layer of the machine so if they compromise that they can brick the machine, and frankly if they just brick it and don't do something worse using that control you're lucky. if you never pirate anything or download files you're not sure are safe, you'll likely be fine either way, but I'd just update the bios if I were you.

>>108959745
this shit is the worst. make sure you never toggle on any of the shit like "remember me/stay logged in on this browser" because if they're getting past 2fa they probably have session tokens you allowed the website to generate.

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>>108956311
I also have this feel even though nothing I have has been accessed or anything. I'm super paranoid with all the AI assisted hacking shit lately. I'm afraid they will steal all my accounts.

>>108959789
Its a lenovo laptop and I never updated the bios and it has a vulnerability that was fixed like 2 or 3 years ago. I'm afraid the bios update will just break shit. I never pirate anything but I do watch shit on streaming sites.

>>108959822
lenovo will have a dedicated bios file for specifically your machine on their website, download it and put an extra copy of the installer on a flash drive if you want to be truly sure:

1. Download the latest BIOS and even the 2nd newest version if you want directly from lenovo, verifying the exact model # of your machine for compatibility
2. Copy the 2 BIOS installers to a flash drive formatted in FAT-32, in the root folder (aka it's not in a folder, you see it when you open the flash drive)
3. Make sure your laptop has plenty of power (no 20% battery BS) and plug it in to the wall
4. Run the BIOS update of the latest version. It's scary but it's over in like 3 minutes
5. If it breaks the machine somehow (less than 1% chance honestly), you're fine, just insert the flash drive and you can install the BIOS from that by selecting the BIOS file on boot up.
6. You even have a backup BIOS installer if the newest one is magically incompatible despite being for your exact machine, but realistically you'll never need that

whats some good backup software for windows?

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>>108959871
I dont know if lenovo stores old bios updates for download. I'm just on the page for my machine now and it only has the 1 latest bios update

>>108959935
they're really confident everyone wants to be on it then. you can download 2 copies of the file if you're super paranoid and want to avoid the .000001% chance your computer somehow fucks up the download of the 1st copy, but really you'll be fine.

>>108955611
it's called hallucination for a reason. it doesn't know what it doesn't know, it just sounds confident until you call it out.

anyone got the
>IPS glow
>VA ghosting
>OLED burn-in
>TN angles
four horsemen image

>>108956311
>constantly feel like I've got some malware on my machine that's leaking all my shit to hackers
>have chatgpt look over my list of installed programs and running processes
yeah you have malware, it's called chatgpt

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>>108960222
this one?

How are you supposed to clean the inside of your desktop without damaging anything? I really don't want to take it apart since that would take me 3 full days to take it apart and then put it back again.

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>>108955325
just and then picrel

>>108956712
oh so i rmrfed my system23 for nothing then: >>108961405

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>>108956744
>>108956811
>>108957241
>>108959534
I have a dedicated monitor in portrait mode just to flip through chans.

>>108958202
How do you use this to do a background image though?
I know how to make a background image in css by setting the contents of background-image: url() but I don't know how to affect that using html, and <img> srcset looks like an html thing.

I'm really new to html and css stuff and all of the guides I can find don't talk about how the css and html connect here

>>108961905
Can't you use a z-index -1 on an fixed positioned image? But if you need to do it in css then there's the newer https://caniuse.com/css-image-set

Is there an android to linux equivalent of iphone mirroring? that lets me see everything on my phone, not just features like kde connect (unpolished and crash prone)

Is there a Router brand to avoid?
want to get one for more security/control form my home and just set my ISP router to bridge mode

>>108956811
Just zoom in to 125%

>>108962715
>Is there a Router brand to avoid?
Yes, every router brand should be avoided
Only buy OpenWRT routers or Routers that can be hacked to install OpenWRT

>>108962769
like?

>>108956744
>>108956811
>>108962765
https://add0n.com/stylus.html

>>108962796
https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-Openwrt.html
Or find a supported router
https://openwrt.org/toh/start

How do I obtain the md5 image hash of an image?

>>108963346
https://imageonline.io/image-hash-generator/

How dangerous is it to run android phones with outdated security updates? The last time my phone got an update was in April.

>>108962715
>want to get one for more security/control form my home and just set my ISP router to bridge mode
Gigantic neckbeard option here but you could consider building a Linux box for the job. It's kinda hinky trying to find a decent Wi-Fi adapter case you want to run a nice Wi-Fi access point with it. But just saying.
The list of software required goes like
>NFtables (for NATing)
>DHCP client (for obtaining an IP from your ISP's network)
>DHCP server (for serving local leases (optional (networking itself works without a local DHCP)))
>caching DNS server (for serving DNS locally (optional, your clients can use any DNS they wish))
>hostapd (for hosting a Wi-Fi access point)
Systemd handles everything but NFtables and hostapd, for non-systemd setups you also need dnsmasq and some DHCP client.

Still don't remember the definitions of API and OOP. They never give fucking concise definitions. They're always like it's a "library" and it's the "attributes of an object", without actually explaining what they are. Hate the programming world so much.

If my USB ports switch to powersaving mode or whatever it is, basically when they just stop responding or things disconnect and reconnect at complete random, is that because my PSU is too weak or is something else?

>>108963725
Not dangerous unless you are a high value target that keeps millions of crypto on their phone or government files

>>108964185
Are they switching when they shouldn't? Have you updated your bios and chipset drivers? You could also just try turning off power management for your usb ports in device manager

>>108964379
Sometimes it's just like
>Plug something in
>Disconnects after a few seconds
>Pull out something in another port and plug the new thing in there
>It works
>The port that disconnected originally is effectively dead for the rest of the session
That's on a good day. Other times it just cycles through connect and disconnect and makes that annoying noises rapidly. Other times things will be going normal and it'll suddenly decide to disconnect something I'm using.
I've updated the bios and chipset drivers not long ago, and I think I turned off power management, but I'll double check that.

>>108956827
When a file is ONLY available for premium accounts, you can't really bypass it.
If you're poorfag you can use one of those "premium downloader" systems where they proxy you through one of their accounts to download the files from the servers they stole from someone else.
If you're only sort of poorfag you can use one of those "premium downloader" systems where you pay to download premium files from their proxies with accounts, and these usually work better.
If you're not poor, just get the premium.

>>108964423
im not a fucking furryfag like to spend money on this

My old ddr3 (sodimm) in my laptop failed.
Purhased Crucial ddr3 sodimm ram (supposedly genuine) on amazon and the laptop didn't even boot to bios/post.
Is this a bad ram or is it some imcompatibility? The reviews of the said ram are almost all positive. Should I just bite the bullet and purchase some chinese ram I never even heard the name of?

https://bpa.st/TGSQ

how to make this post after captcha is done or focus on submit button?

>>108963948
API is a contract between two pieces of sourcecode that both agree to comply to. OOP has no one clear definition that everybody agrees on.

I blew an inductor in my laptop several years ago when changing the ram as it caused a spark and set on fire. My laptop still works perfectly fine and never had any issues despite that inductor being gone for like 3 years now. Why?

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>>108964718
Not my picture but its like this

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HOW THE FUCK DO I BLOCK THIS FUCKING FAGGOT GAY SHIT FROM DEVIANTART??!?!?!

I have ublock origin and already tried adding to the blacklist that fucking gay shit gif but doesn't works.

Why are images broken on 4plebs but desuarchive's images work fine?

>>108964744
>I have ublock origin and already tried adding to the blacklist that fucking gay shit gif but doesn't works.
try again, you might learn something

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>>108964844
sir this is the Stupid Questions Thread not the learn something thread

>>108964744
>use fag website
>complain about fag flags
What's the issue exactly?

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>>108964912
check the hot blonde on my screenscap. I only use that site to get xps, mmd, and fbx models of walking fleshlights(aka woMEN) in order to create hentai skins of with huge tits and big bushes.

>>108964945
Why rely on other people's work when you can extract the models yourself?

>>108964977
maybe because I have something called a life?
you are a linuxfag, do you?

>>108965033
No, I use Windows 11, watching Twitch on my second monitor right now. I just think it's sad that you have to rely on the work of gay folk since you hate them so much.

Is mail.cock.li down again? Connectivity works, but seems like logging in is busted.

>>108965196
Oh nevermind, seems like it just had a hiccup.

>>108964395
It could be that one of them has died and is effecting the rest? Maybe try going through them and disabling each one to test

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Why does this happen when you zoom in on some manga pages?
The screentones get all wacky

Why does my internet momentarily go down for like, less than a minute, multiple times a day? It happens on my PC that's connected to my router/modem through an ethernet cord and my phone.

>>108965215
your resolution aligns and misaligns with cell shading regular patterns, producing interference waves of a wavelength 1/c where c is a common denominator between a and b for wavelengths 1/a and 1/b for the cell shading and your screen. or something like that idk

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>>108965215
look at this GIF

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>>108965215
aliasing... or moiré, or is it moiré because of aliasing?

in any case, it's because it's a scan of a screen printed page (or one with a fake screen printing effect, doesn't matter), it's a bit hard to explain, but it's like your screen has a fixed number of pixels, and if the image has a lot more detail than your screen can display (esp when it's zoomed out), then only some information from the original picture can be displayed, naturally, but what happens here is that you're taking a repeating pattern and only displaying some of it, which can result in an effect which looks like you've zoomed the pattern in

it's kinda hard to explain in words, it's better to look up visual examples, but basically it's because of a mismatch between a pattern in an image and your screens' pixels

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>>108965283
the mismatched patterns create constructive and destructive interference at regular intervals, resulting in a 'zoomed in' appearance of the screen printing/half tone dots

>>108965215
blue board

>>108965245
You are in goverment watch list

what's the most autistic computer activity that involves lots of focus and involving your brain?
i thought programming but i have no creativity. maybe reverse engineer? but what would i reverse engineer?
idk. anything else?

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I lowered the volume on a youtube video and forgot to restore it the other day so now most of my tabs are low. Is there anything I can do to fix all of them without going through each manually?

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>>108965784
anon how many open tabs you have?

Should I get my mom a laptop? Shes 70 and does everything on her phone and has never had a computer.

>>108965895
why do you want give to indians access to the bank account of your mom?

>>108955325
what antivirus should i get? i had comodo internet security is there anything better?
yes i know that the best practice is to not opengayfurryporn.zip.exe now recomend me placebo

refresh one so it counts as new change the volume then unload all the rest and when you click on them again they'll refresh and will have the new volume

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>>108965965
>>108965784

>>108965895
no

>>108965895
my mum is 67, don't bother.
i really don't want to speak for all mums of this age, but unless there's a problem, just don't worry about it. maybe show her some cool tricks with what she has but don't try to flip what she's learned upside down.

>>108965895
>>108966141
-- oh and if you're anything like me, remember: she's lived her life up to your age /without a computer/. computers are a tool to her and nothing more.

>>108965215

basically in image file display 1:1 and shrink zooms greater than 2.2:1 are go because resampling

>>108965917 >>108966097 >>108966141 >>108966163
I meant for stuff like Youtube. She is always watching random youtube videos on her phone.

>>108966276
install on her phone newpipe then in order she don't see any other ad watching youtbe

>>108963725
do you download sketchy shit or apps that are new and untrusted? how about visiting weird websites like obscure porn shit? if not you're probably fine, you need to get a virus for security to matter, and you don't get them from nothing.

>>108964744
brother you need to accept that if you use a normie artist website you have to see normie artist things, and most normie artists these days are either some flavor of queer or highly in favor of them. if you're terrified of acceptance and other people's preferences, stay in our little chud holes like 4chan where you have a safe space. even if you block those images they'll cycle to new ones in a week and you'll have an aneurysm again.

>>108965245
unironically either your provider sucks or you have a 3rd party (could be government, could be hacker, whatever) that is accessing your history and info which momentarily reroutes your service to them.

>>108966276
desu she might be better off with a smart tv with apps for youtube built in and right on the homescreen. they are much cheaper than even a shitty computer, easier to use as long as the brand isn't dogshit, and she can watch youtube in 4k without needing to figure out what a url is.

>>108967056
This, we're a minority and getting smaller every year, even 4chan isn't fully ours, just peek at /fa/.

>>108965965
>>108965972
That seemed to work, thanks

is there a free editing software thats just as as good as pixlr?

>>108967328
depends on how you plan to use it, they all have pros and cons. I'm used to gimp.

>>108956311
>>108959745
>>108959799
>Get rid of windows
You guys are already a bit paranoid, so installing random.exe's with a "run as admin?" prompt will constantly spike your cortisol and it will always feel dirty. So switch to MacOS, but only stick to the AppStore, or switch to Linux, but only stick to the main repo and verified packages.
>Account reset
Switch all your accounts to a new email provider / fresh email address. Escape the botnet, you are not in huge scammer databases anymore. Have multiple: job, gaming, throwaway, banking, social media. This is effective and calms the nerves. And don't give every fucking service your phone number, only ""reputable"" ones and only, if you really need to. (or get a burner).
>Check your apps
Remove the network access on MacOS from most apps, you can do this on Linux as well with Flatseal, just manage your Flatpaks and remove the network access. Remove apps you never use.

>>108967587
Which email provider/providers do you recommend?

>>108967110
she has two smart tvs. One in the living room and one in the kitchen but she still keeps watching stuff on her phone. Maybe I should just get her a tablet

>>108967647
You need to understand that emails fundamentally suck. But for serious stuff: Proton, also tuta. And for social media (if needed), just use gmail, honestly, you will need it for playstore/youtube anyway... and maybe xitter or idk what the fuck you are using.

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This might be really stupid question, but I'm the correct thread so bear with me.

Is the computer parts price rising going to stop or is the prediction for them to keep increasing?
I want to get some upgrades for my computer while I can, but I don't have enough money at the moment but I also worry if I delay too much it will be straight unaffordable with the Cloud Computing push.

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I hope this can apply here. I have this gague cluster for an old scooter that I want to make sure the gagues work before I reassemble the whole bike. How can I do this?
>Why?
Mainly the temperature gague. While the fluids are still drained I wanted to see if it still worked so I can know if I should start looking around for aftermarket gagues/sensors so I don't have to drain the fluids more than I need to.

The circuit "board" is just a flimsy green plastic sheet with wiring running around it if that means anything. Is it as simple as finding the right circuit and applying a small voltage to it?

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>>108967826
>Is it as simple as finding the right circuit and applying a small voltage to it?
Yes. Hope you won't fry anything but I'm fairly sure the temperature and fuel meters use zero to 5 volts. If 5 volts won't make it turn all the way try 12.
>>108965781
Port virtIO drivers to Windows 7 and XP.

is it just me, or is lazy evaluation obviously stupid and scales far worse than eager evaluation in terms of real-world performance?

>>108967750
Whats your current setup? Whats your budget? And just pray for china for their cheap ram and storage.

Also, the used market is sometimes really good. RDNA2 GPUs with 16gb VRAM. Yes, CPUs and GPUs are a bit more expensive, but it's just storage and ram.

>>108967750
Absolute worst case chinks will undercut western suppliers and everyone will buy grey market chinkshit hardware that's like 3 generations behind but actually affordable. I doubt it'll come to that. Remote personal computing always fails because it sucks, and nothing fundamental has changed to negate that. You can't have anarcho-tyranny and also 100kW cloud gaming machines outside every shitty apartment building.

My desktop has space for two extra cooling fans, one 80 mm in the back and a massive 100 mm on the side (I don't know if I would fit due to the GPU, but whatever). I know how to physically install it. Software side, do I need to do anything? Is there any configuration to tell it it has another fan it should use or something? Maybe some BIOS setting? I'm on linux if that matters (dual botting with windows but I haven't booted into that since last year I think).
I don't really need the extra cooling but I have an extra fan lying around, might as well just shove it in there.

>>108968480
Your mobo will almost certainly detect it automatically on boot. Just check in the BIOS to make sure the fan is enabled and set correctly how you want it.

what is the latest kuroba? I have a version from a year or two ago and cannot post and there is no repo in f-droid anymore

>>108969500
https://github.com/K1rakishou/Kuroba-Experimental

when i boot my pc up, i have three cmd’s that open and quickly close (doesn’t even show the black background) how do i check wtf they are doing? chatgpt was fucking useless

>>108969828
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

>>108968665
Alright, thanks.

>>108955325
When someone asks what processor you have they mean the CPU right?

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>>108970727

>>108970727
without any other context besides "computer", yes, i would assume they meant the CPU. while computers have other processors, the CPU is "the main one", and without clarification i'd assume they mean that.

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Would I learn anything that can transfer to a job or a waste of money

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Should I get protonVPN? It's currently $115 AUD for a two year subscription.

>>108971138
Why do you +need+ it

>>108971141
legitimately because porn is banned in Australia and most sites dont let you sign up, also i hear its better to use a vpn

>>108971150
Tor not good enough?

>>108971138
get mullvad instead

>>108971123
Hackthebox is less for learning and more for showing off your skills.

>>108963764
>Gigantic neckbeard option here but you could consider building a Linux box for the job
sir, this is a sqt

>>108971174
never considered tor, but i guess its built into brave so ill check it out
>>108971177
whats better about it?

>>108971179
Then try hack me?

>>108971150
May you find God instead

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What is going on? I have a western digital blue SSD 2tb that i bought a year or so ago. it was fine at first but chokes now. it caps out at like 100mb read write per second. it's kinda unusable. I know the blue's are slower but my HDDs are better than this and are actually usable. the SMART thing says it's fine. what is wrong with it? I need more space and buying a new ssd is kinda out of the question atm. I'd like to be able to use this thing

Should I turn off auto updates for all android apps to prevent getting taken over by potential malicious app updates?

>>108971541
Typical cheap QLC drive behavior. Write speed craters when you run out of cache.

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>>108955325
How do I share a comic I bought on Amazon e-books for kindle?

There's this comic I started reading because of a /co/ thread we had recently but some of the issues are not available anywhere for piracy. SO i decided to bite the bullet and buy the issues so I could share it on the usual places. However there's is no way to download them anymore and I was not able to find a script that I could use. The only one I found relied on the download button to be there (it was literally just a lazy way to not have to click on every download button)).

So is there like some sort of ytb-dl script for this kind of thing?

I can access card rush with my brothers iphone but not with my Motorola phone. Does anyone know why that might be? I can't be hogging his phone all the time

I keep getting a 403 forbidden, this is the site in question
https://www.cardrush-pokemon.jp

Please help

>>108964718
>>108964736
If its in a similar position to the one in the pic then probably the other inductors in parallel with it are enough to limp by on. IIRC parallel inductance works roughly like parallel resistance so you'd probably see a voltage drop in that part of the circuit from the lost inductor, but you got lucky enough that its still within tolerance for whatever that part of the circuit can take I guess.

I'm broke as hell and need to get access to MSoft's Office suite. How fucked am I if I got a "AutoKms!MTB" warning while trying to install it through less than reputable means?

>>108972934
I was afraid it was going to make my laptop explode or something but its been fine for several years now with zero impact at all

>>108972995
Because you have Defender or some kind of AV enabled like a retard.

>>108973201
I thought using Windows Defender was the way to go. What's everyone using now?

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>>108973298

>>108973335
I typically follow common sense. What is wrong with using Windows Defender, besides potentially enabling telemetry?

>>108973380
More attack surface, performance loss, your Office crack not working, ...

>>108973401
I'll do more research. Thanks.

>>108972995
massgrave

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>>108973478
This is way better than what I was doing. Thank you anon!

>>108973038
Belatedly I realize I recognize that particular configuration of inductors and capacitors in that picture. In that specific instance it's being used as part of a noise filter (probably for whatever that coil is to the left of it). Loss of one of the inductors would just make it a bit worse at suppressing noise, maybe leading to the occasional extra bit flip of spurious interrupt, possibly the occasional random BSOD.

>>108973528
welcome

Does sudden outages affect a desktop computer?

>>108973536
It has never had a BSOD even once. And it is whisper silent 90% of the time. The fans only spin up making noise if I play a video game on it or when its doing a virus scan.

>>108973804
By noise I mean electrical noise, not sound.

>>108973822
oh right. I haven't noticed anything like that

>>108973766
Yes. You can lose pieces of files in write cache, and more than that if your drive is given to fucking up.

I just got accepted into a mainly programming but also media rendering school so I can work in cybersec and engineering in the end.
They told me I should get a beefy "gaming" laptop or a Mac. The only con is that it takes place in France and most of the prices feel like a scam... Any references, recommendations?

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Is there an objective, measurable advantage to using the bass/treble knobs on my active speakers or the amp knobs on my bookshelf passives over just using the built-in EQ in poweramp? like maybe some circuitry fuckery that makes the knobs apply a better EQ or something I dunno

So is Verilog the #1 go-to logic simulation program out there? Because last time I messed around with this stuff I used Logisim and it's so horribly out of date it's not even funny. Program doesn't even have options to change the scaling of the display so you can actually read text.

What's a good general like...IT 101 course?

Already in a place where I'm handling some IT work but I lack some technical fundamentals (i.e: "i was family's computer child but didnt move into CS/IT work")

So I have some time to learn on my own, no certs necessarily needed but they'd be dope to have. Just want a better grasp on doing things so I can start diving further into different areas of computer work

>>108975849
Context: already have an IT-like position where I can spend my time learning, hence "certs not necessarily needed". They wont advance me here but they'd be cool to have

Can you shrink an OS partition that is encrypted with VeraCrypt and clone that to a smaller drive and boot or would you need to decrypt, shrink, clone, then encrypt again after on the smaller drive?

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in trying to understand why I need a DAC like this instead of plugging my MacBook air directly into a za3 amp?

How do you load FreeBSD UFS from OpenBSD?

Why did the two BSD teams implement their respective improved UFS implementations so differently?

>>108974605
But it's not gonna break the computer i assume? Or is there a risk of slowly degrading it? Also got a system in place that's supposed to protect house and electronics from uneven or high currents.

>>108976941
Does your Macbook have an analog audio out port? If not, what do you think DAC stands for?

>>108977157
nvm just saw that it probably does, in that case you can probably get away with just using the AMP on its own, provided the DAC of your macbook isn't garbage

>>108977157
yes it's got an aux port, but I've heard people say it's better to run it through an external DAC over USB c ? idk I'll research if the MacBook air has a good DAC or not

best bsd for laptop wifi?

>>108977181
it depends what you want to use it with, if it's just some ok speakers it probably doesn't matter at all. you get into snakeoil territory with that audiophile stuff very quickly.
I use a $200 DAC/AMP with $150 headphones and the difference in sound quality compared to the chip in my $200 mainboard is negligible at best, the AMP part is definitely making a difference though. If you have very expensive speakers or headphones I'd just go for it if you got the budget anyway

>>108977210
thinking a pair of q acoustic 3050c and for my amp i was going to get a fosi za3. the main thing im worried about is hiss at idle (cant remember is that total harmonic distortion or signal noise ratio)

>>108977223
>hiss at idle
I'd just try the AMP on its own and if it's bad, buy the DAC. Problem is, you can also get that with an external DAC, might be the USB if it's powered through that or the power plug.

>>108977255
thanks, yeah its basically the one thing im trying to avoid, i dont want to get super high end gear, but from what i can tell this should do

Is there anything particularely wrong with the m5 macbook airs that reviews tend to gloss over? I'm looking for a device for essentially getting away from my desk. I'll still be doing all of my gaming and work stuff on my desktop, so I really only need the second device for media consumption and browsing on the couch and in bed. Ideally it would also last at least 3-4 years and not require much fiddling. I don't mind fiddling and messing with my desktop, but I'd prefer my secondary device to just work.

I have t450s with linux on it, but the screen is hot garbage and the fan makes this anoying slight whistle noise even at low speed, so it pretty much goes unused since a couple of years. Currently I use a 2021 Fire HD tablet with the amazon shit removed, but the battery is starting to go and I'm getting increasingly annoyed at using mobile apps instead of having desktop programs.
Reason I'm considering the M5 air is because I can get it through a program at work that means I get about a 55% discount on it. I can get windows laptops as well, but the selection is limited to current models only and most of them seem pretty big.

>>108977202
Clearly freeBSD. though a lot of drivers get ported to the other BSDs.

>>108977321
you sound a lot like me, i got an m4 macbook air because genuienly the state of windows laptops is atrocious. being fanless was my main draw to it, and from my day to day use ive not had any problems whatsoever
having a fanless m4 has been great, i love this laptop, cant wait until alpine is supported on it. might even buy an m1 just for that reason.

ama i guess lol, iirc the only differences between ours are m4 vs m5, and base storage is higher on the m5

>>108977388
Thanks. The fanless design is also a big draw for me. Having had that one whiny fan, that shit was so annoying that I just don't want to deal with it anymore.

Do you do anything other than browsing or watching movies on yours? Ever had it overheat or slow down a bunch?
Any particular annoyances coming from windows/linux? Things like folder structures, settings, programs behaving differently and such?
How do you find using it as a secondary device along with a windows/linux main device? Supposedly apple wants you to get into their ecosystem and stay there. But I'll probably try and not get "caught" in their stuff as much as possible, I guess.

>>108977466
>Do you do anything other than browsing or watching movies on yours? Ever had it overheat or slow down a bunch?
i use stats packages, jamovi, and have a bunch of tabs open while doing research
>Any particular annoyances coming from windows/linux? Things like folder structures, settings, programs behaving differently and such?
the sheer locked down nature and the DE are fucking annoying but i can adapt enough. youll likely have to make an icloud account
>How do you find using it as a secondary device along with a windows/linux main device? Supposedly apple wants you to get into their ecosystem and stay there. But I'll probably try and not get "caught" in their stuff as much as possible, I guess.
air is the only device i have thats apple, the main thing i ran into is DONT USE PAGES, its installed and free but nothing else can open it, libre office always says its corrupt
uhh, yeah

>>108977501
>the sheer locked down nature and the DE are fucking annoying but i can adapt enough
Could you elaborate a little what you mean with this? Any specifics?
I've never used a macbook extensively before, so I'm not sure what to expect. I know you've got less options to customize it, but I don't really know the extent of it. Granted, since it's not going to be my main device I'm willing to let a lot of things slide.
>youll likely have to make an icloud account
Slightly annoying, but what's another account at this point
>air is the only device i have thats apple, the main thing i ran into is DONT USE PAGES, its installed and free but nothing else can open it, libre office always says its corrupt
Good to know, thanks

>>108972858
Try accessing without SSL, and/or setup as static IP and manually change DNS to cloudflare

>>108977538
like the way full screen works, the way window management looks, youre forced to use their style. even alt tabbing doesnt work as expected
imo disable animations for a smoother experienece

>>108975076
Well, turns out the answer is a program called Digital, posting it here for anyone else who has the same question. But given I didn't get an answer in over 8 hours, I'm guessing very few people on /g/ understand what logic gates even are, much less messes with them. I'll leave you folks to arguing over OS's.

>>108977148
Yeah the power supply doesn't like having the line side low volted while it's running. It's not super dramatic, but when you get a UPS you start noticing things last longer.

>>108978442
People who work with logic gates typically use software proprietary to their work site or component vendor and aren't worried about what 'the best' is.

Paranoid person here. What virus scanning tools should I use? I have used Bit defender and malwarebytes to scan my machine but what else should I use?

>>108977673
Ah, in that sense, I see.
>imo disable animations for a smoother experienece
Noted, thanks

Maybe one more question, any peripherals you had that didn't work with the macbook, or something that you got later you whished you'd gotten from the beginning?

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>>108961553
me too and the screen turns black if I put on sunglasses, demons live in my house

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>>108965287
you have caused me pain

>>108978920
everything has just worked, i use a dock, audio splitter and a usb switch with it to hook up both my mac and my pc to two monitors, speakers and a bunch of peripherals no issue. believe it or not i also use something illegal without issue (a usb c extension cable)

this is the dock i got https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0D1XK8H21

Currently, I'm sorting my bookmarks in the following way:
>guy makes good horror reviews + OK RTS game reviews
>bookmark goes in the reviews > movies > horror > "good" folder
>duplicate bookmark goes in the reviews > games > RTS > "OK" folder
Is there maybe a Firefox app that's better for this? Also does having a bunch of duplicate bookmarks slow down a browser or is it so minuscule that I shouldn't worry?

>>108978810
If it's important for good pc health and to protect from damage during outages shouldn't a UPS be built into the computer? Or that it's at least recommended to get one on the side when buying a computer. Never heard it mentioned before

>>108979010
>everything has just worked
Well, that's good news. Thanks for linking the dock as well, I've had Ugreen in the past, they make good stuff.

Thanks for answering my questions, I appreciate ya. OS peculiarities aside, the air does seem like it's exactly the kind of device I'm looking for. I'm gonna give this shop from my job's program one more once-over to see if there's a hidden gem windows machine skulking in a corner somewhere, but I doubt it. Otherwise I'll just have to figure out what ram/ssd combo for the air to go for.

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>laptop fans start spinning up at 2am while doing nothing

>>108979018
Firefox has bookmark tags, make a tag for some of them?

If my desktop has no wifi but my laptop does can I just connect them through an ethernet cable and get connection an internet that way?

>>108977363
didn't work for me tbqh

>>108980231
Well maybe, but he asked for the best bsd for wifi support and realistically I don't see Obsd, Dbsd or Nbsd being anywhere near as well supplied.
So unless you managed to somehow connect with Netbsd I don't see what else you mean

Probably doesn't belong in /g/, but I was playing DMC4 SE on Windows and the in-game benchmark gives you an uncapped frame rate and the cutscenes are also uncapped, but gameplay is locked to 120. Is there any reason for this other than old jank Nip game logic? The benchmark looked fantastic in motion at locked 240fps.

>>108974952

no-one knows better anon
have you looked vlc eqs at advanced options

>>108979638
Yes, just bridge the ethernet and wifi adapter on the laptop.

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My computer is obsolete and the graphics card is breaking down so I can only play old shit for the most part. I've been holding out for a steam machine, at first because I heard it's going to be good, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea of being rid of Windows forever.

A: Is there a ballpark release date and price for the steam machine? I trust Gaben more than Gates any day.
B: I got no learnings of electromagnetic hoozits. I look at computers or components on the build your own general and go cross eyed. What is a good way to shop for a prebuilt computer? I don't know any nerds irl I could bribe, is that a service people offer cheap?

Which would you do, keep playing old stuff and hold out, or bite the bullet and buy a new one? I can spend about 2-3K

Pic related, not me but that's what it looks like when I play something more complicated than Deep Rock Galactic.

>>108981318
it's most likely just overheating. dismantle, repaste, profit.

pcbuilding is easy enough even teen nigger can do it. if afraid - get some shitcanned pc for cheap and practice on it with screwdriver. if you can dismantle nad put back together in working condition then you are good to go.

>>108981435
I called a local repair guy about getting it cleaned and he said it probably wasn't overheating since the PC itself isn't rebooting to protect itself.

>dismantle, repaste

I'm not sure what you mean. Just tighten the screws and such, or get a deep clean?

>pcbuilding is easy enough even teen nigger can do it.

It's not the physical building, it's knowing the difference between components. People mention various things and it's like oh boy this one has 200 megaturds and this one has 210 megaturds but needs a 400xv12 peepee drive. IDFK, It's like listening to Charlie Brown's teacher. nothing makes sense to me.

When I was a kid my dad had a 386 and then he bought a 486 later and it was better because it had 100 more 86es than the old one did, and then Pentium happened and it all stopped making sense. That's about the maximum of my technical knowledge.

why dont we have system64 yet

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>>108981685
There is, it's just called System

not sure if this is the right place to ask but do you guys have a reliable source or site to watch live sports related events or matches without bs popups or constant buffering? specially with the world cup coming all

Has Reddit's new bot protection been cracked? I've been trying to do so myself and I've gotten it working with curl, but with Python requests it doesn't work for some reason. In fact, when I curlify the latter's failed requests then run that command, it works fine.

Why do digital things have such big file sizes today when they are just virtual and not real?

>>108955611
it's purpose is to train by extracting as much info from you as much as possible

>>108981685
64bit libraries in windows go into the system32 folder, and 32bit libraries go into the sysWOW64 folder
>>108981727
no, system is for 16bit libraries, these days it's not used for libraries

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>>108979638
Are you asking can you turn your laptop into a Wi-Fi client bridge? Yes, you can do that but it will require neckbearding. (and it's likely it can't act as a literal Ethernet bridge but something similar, a NAT at least)
>>108981200
Actual real deal bridge requires hardware support from the Wi-Fi adapter. Thing is not all Wi-Fi adapters can spoof MACs.

>>108979638
Easiest way in my mind (on a windows or linux environment) is to set a static route from the laptop to the desktop and route traffic from the desktop to the actual gateway.
That said you can get $10 pci cards.
>>108982791
I've never heard of the term neckbearding in this context

>>108955325
K I deleted system32, now what?

>>108982844
well, did it fix the problem or not?

>plug in ps3 controller via usb
>after 15-30 minutes, computer slows to a crawl, game fps drops, audio starts crackling
>unplug controller, fixes everything instantly
Already updated my usb drivers, what could be causing this

>>108982858
assuming windows, can you check the event logs or upload them
it sounds like a driver issue in anycase

>>108982883
Windows 10 Enterprise, I don't have it saved so I'd have to recreate it.
In the meantime, any idea on what else it could be? If not the USB driver, what?

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>>108982833
>I've never heard of the term neckbearding in this context
AFAIK no OS out there provides an easy method for turning the system into a client bridge. Thoughever the reverse - a hotspot - is a common feature. (doing a hotspot also requires hardware support)

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cock.li mail wont let me send emails but i can receive them, How can I fix this? I keep getting "The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.cock.li timed out. Try again." It was fine a few days ago please help

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How do I use gallery-dl to download all of the images off a booru with a specific set of tags at the highest available quality?

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How do I get claude to not do this?

>>108973893
What are the things that are good for smartwatches? I just got handed down my brother's old apple watch and noticed those things are priced as iphones and ipads which is insane. But I have no idea what to do with it aside reading messages which would be received in the phone anyway.
Feels I'm wasting this

>>108984640
Sorry for asking it here by the way, I wrote that reply in that thread thinking it was about watches when I saw the OP but then realized it wasn't so I copied the box to here that is the Questions general.

How do I encode an AV2 video? I want to see how bad the times are

I asked about this in /p/ but no one answered me.
I'm hoping you guys will be more helpful. I recently copied some files (photos and videos) from different sources. From an old PC with a HDD (it's 10+ years old), from some CDs and DVDs (also old) and from an old pen drive. I copied them to a SSD. Now here's the question. Some of the copied photos have bitrot. Is copying bitrotted files bad? If so why? The photos copied with the defects still visible.

>>108983487
This is so unbelievably gay. The LLMkikes go on and bitch about how much power's being wasted by thanking the random word generator but it's ok to waste it on apologies and fake defensiveness and telling people the nigger word is le bad

Why does a neural network have to be structured like the neurons and synapses in the human brain and who are hidden nodes hidden from in a NN?

>do photorec on a partition with 1.5gb free space
>get 17gb of files
????? how

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I currently have an AMD GPU, but I want to run software that requires CUDA, namely Blender Cycles and Meshroom. Would it be worthwhile to get a (relatively) cheap low-end 50 series NVIDIA GPU?

Is there a way to use vocalize.fm without having to register an account and use that stupid credit system?
I'm trying to record some chapters for an audiobook with specific fictional characters so if there's a way around those prerequisites I'd love to know