/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

Clean Install Edition

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I wanna buy a new laptop and I narrowed it down to 2 options and I wanted to ask Sup Forums for help to choose between them but I don't see a general thread for that and I feel like it would be a shitty thread if I made one just for that , wat do ?

Best Gui backup for Fedora? Trying my best to stay on the official repos

But there is a Thinkpad thread? You are buying a Thinkpad, right?

No actually I am getting rid of a thinkpad
because I neither can fix the fucking fan nor replace it

Is there something inbetween urxvt and st?

I really like the latter, but the delete key never works properly, Without the patch in queus help in neovim, with patch it does not delete anything in vim and fucks up in a couple of different places.

I need the terminal that uses Xresources for colors, has scrollback and that's it.

>Clean Install Edition

What irony, I'm trying to format my computer and install Windows 8.1, but I just wanted to hear if anyone has an idea which version is best suited for me. I don't want any pre-installed bloatware updates, but can't be assed to install every update from scratch.

Any ideas?

I can confirm that both InputAutoCfg.ini and mupen64plus.cfg are displaying the correct configuration for my controller, yet when I try them in-game they're not working as intended (default layout is used).

What's going on?

Pro or Enterprise is always good

Not sure if it is related to the thread but here it goes.

What kinds of jobs in Systems Development, or IT in general, that don't require experience on the field?

Long story short:
>Almost finishing Systems Development college but most classes were fucking awful
>Got a job as a intern with the promisse i would learn stuff related to the field
>End up doing really basic stuff, but i did my best and worked extra hours with the promisse that i would be hired after my internship program ends
>Boss says they wont be able to hire me after my internship program ends due to a funding problem

Now i am almost finishing college but i have close to no experience in the field, most things i know came from doing basic scripts and i got most of that from stack overflow. Now i have around a month or so to find a job on my field that don't require too much experience.

Gnome terminal

start low as IT (helpdesk) support and work your way up to become an engineer or dev eventually

Yeah I was thinking Pro, but there are monthly versions like
>Windows 8 1 8in1 x64 en-US Apr2015
which is essentially just the OS + released updates till that date. I was hoping some good user removed all bloatware and botnet telemetry updates like KB3068708 and KB3035583 beforehand. If I won't find anything useful I'll just install the stripped down version and remove updates as they come along.

i downloaded some .ttf fonts, opened them with gnome font viewer as su and installed the fonts
they are not showing up in tweak tool
what do?

DDR5 8000+MHz soon, right?

Then comes DDR6 16000MHz?

the future is now

Started cloning from a (possibly failing) SSD to another, using dd over usb2.0.
About 5 hours in (about 42GB copied) speeds dropped to only tens of bytes per second.
I decided fuckit and went to bed, now the next morning - 20 hours into the cloning - speeds are better but still abysmal. It managed about a GB during my sleep, and is now transferring around 200B/s.

Are the speeds because I hit a damaged block on the SSD? Will it likely return to faster speeds?

tl;dr: cloning slow - wat do

They have that sort of thing on Mydigitallife, but as a general rule it's not good to download ISOs created by unofficial sources, cause there's no way to verify a lack of malware. But if there was any place I would trust, it would be them.

how i authenticate my pirated win 7?

microsoft toolkit.
mydigitallife has the op i think

Is KB976932 safe to install? The name which has "Windows 7 Service Pack for x64-bases Systems)" is kind of suspicious, but I don't see it listed as a telemetry update anywhere.

So I bought an amazon tablet the other day and am wondering if I should root it and install normal android or if I should keep it as it is

Thank you, will try it out.

unless you wanna keep the bloatware, just root it

I'm looking for a reliable, yet basic, text file editor for android. One that comes with a nice night mode, and a nice file browser, too.

Could you please recommend me one?

what do i use an ssd for? i have a sandisk ssd that i never used but dont know what to do with it. It only has like 100 gigs of space on it. pic unrelated

Hey Sup Forumsuys, how can I use urllbi.request (in python3, duh) to import the Estonian minimum wage from [wageindicator.org/main/salary/minimum-wage/estonia]? I'm trying to get it to search for a three digit number in the page but desu I don't know how. Pls help

use it as a boot drive with your OS on it. also nice pic

What's the name of the google play client for android that doesn't need a google account? Not Blank Store, the other one.

Use beautifulsoup.

oh ok so i have a couple more stupid questions. do i have to install my os on it or can i use a program to move my os from my hdd over to it? also once it has my os on it do i keep my os on my hdd too?

Back up your files, format your disk, install OS on SSD, mount HDD as filesystem.

wew. Thanks user

cancer. he'd get cancer.

>back up files
fuck guess ill have to get another hdd

What's the program called that allows you to use less data on the internet?
It kind of lowers the total resolution of everything to a very small size like images become more pixelated etc.

the powers of sadness, depression, and lonliness

You guys don't reply to any of the questions so I never come here but I'll ask anyways.

I have a local internet connection in country B because someone I know who lives there. But I don't have a server or computer there.
I want to tunnel a connection through the router in country B, to my router in country A where I live.

In short I want to be connected to the router in country B as if I am there in person.
I want to do this so I torrent in peace because country B is lax concerning torrent stuff.

Is this possible without a computer that's turned on there 24/7?

opera turbo does that

Interesting but does something like that exist for Chrome?

>Is this possible without a computer that's turned on there 24/7?
no

What's the best software to make such graphs by hand?

I thought `mypaint' would suffice, but it has no dotted line brush.

i'm sure there's some specialized software for this, but you could try photoshop or gimp

why can't I just forward traffic from one router to another?

I use termite. Its pretty good.

I'm using KDE, and I want to keep my configurations for after I reinstall everything from scratch. I fucked up while trying to fix some things and now I just want to start off fresh.
Anyway, where are the configurations stored?
I would guess the home folder, but which files do I need to take with me?
Is it as simple as with other programs where you just copy and paste the dot-file and you're good?

I would recommend InkScape, shit is cash.
Or, if you are super comfortable with LaTeX, try out tikz. It might seem dumb and complicated at first, but you might thank me if you get good. Being able to change variable names and shit in your document is pretty smooth.

Use windows ME instead.

To be clear, InkScape pretty much is specialised for this kind of thing, we were ordered to use it for all figures in the first year of my physics bachelor.

I might have to do it in GIMP. Not very convenient, though.
Can't use inkscape for shit.
Will look into tikz, thanks.
Dammit. Guess I have to learn it then. Thanks for the info.

you're trying to VPN

some routers can do this, but not with a cheap router

how do I check if my router can do this?

What type of controller would you recommend if I want to get into PC gaming?
Any clear difference between wired and wireless (besides needing a wireless controller adapter) ?

google " VPN"

If you use linux, I highly recommend steam controller.

Probably should have specified earlier, but am on a mac.
I think I've narrowed it down to the (wired) xbox controller and the steam controller... Any suggestion?

What this guy said.
The steam controller isn't the very best for any one use case, but it's incredibly versatile.
I use mine for everyday stuff with my win10 htpc; with the right mappings, it works like a dream.

why do we have smartphones with gorillion cores and no heat sink AND slim af but no slim and quiet laptops??
>inb4 xps or spectre
coil whine

how do I download all images in a Sup Forums thread on mac?

Doesn't seem like there is any 1 click app that I can use.

There are some lewd wallpapers i want from /wg/

oh it looks like my router can do it.
Thanks

Alright... Much appreciated!


I'm not sure if 4chanx has a feature to download all images in a thread, but in case it doesn't....
Have you looked into the Sup Forums JSON API?
github.com/Sup Forums/4chan-API
That might be what you're looking for

Is a 100% quality jpeg the same as uncompressed targa?
I'm using VirtualDub to edit videos frame by frame, and it would save space and let me see thumbnails if I can extract as jpg but I don't want to lose any quality.

What software should I use to back up all of a possibly failing hard drive?

Windows, ~1TB of data, it isn't my boot drive.

What is the best apk to block ads completely on Android. Not just in web browsers

root + hosts file

I need a new chair

Any ideas?

is mint still botnet? is cinamon safe? aka can you just download ubuntu/debian and install cinamon instead ?

ikea

Anyone knows how to get rid of this shit? Fucking google kikes

how do you even get that, never seen it on jewtube

Watch videos in external player.

Is it possible to meta RAID? Have one volume of say a RAID 5 array be a RAID 0 array?

I remember seeing a comprehensive guide to uninstalling various telemetry services and cortana in windows 10. It mostly involved anally raping your registry. Now I can't find it anywhere for shit. Help?

>inb4 install gentoo

Can some explain why this happened to me last night?

>wearing a headset and talking to a friend
>playing on my n64 on a crt tv
>accidentally touch the screen
>blows the audio jack on my motherboard out

Why would this happen?

static electricity and a shitty laptop

It was on my desktop. I have had this mb for like 4 years though.

Good thing the front panel jacks work.

Ghosts

Can i take the dust off my pc with a hair dryer?

No, Too weak leaving aside is literally a static nuke.

Just go to the nearest gas station and ask them to use compressed air.
It's free and works wonders.

Insane amount of static and that most headsets have a grounded jack.
You were grounded, so the static went right trough your motherboard.

If you used in ear buds then you would have got a shock in your ears.

my friend's bf works in the tech industry (so I assume he knows a little about computers) and acts like i'm a retard for using a firefox app on my iphone instead of safari for web shit. is there any real reason that this would be true? he's big on brand worship so it may just be that.

too late

bought the best selling chair on Amazon because I'm lazy and it was only 104 dollars

Also
>Ikea
do I look like a refugee?

Safari is optimized for IPhones but it really doesn't make that much of a difference

90% of the tech industry is retarded. It is merely that the tech industry is ridiculously easy to get into and move up in.

An idiot can get the same job as a genius just by switching jobs every 6 months

How do I unbloat a fresh install of Windows 8.1 so it doesn't have any of the useless features such as the store and the "apps"?

Format
Install Gentoo

...

yeah i kind of figured. he's big into brand worship and will suck the dick of anything apple shits out. or any "next big thing" app or idea

o have an atrociously imbalance system running a ryzen 7 1800x and a gtx 1050. I want to upgrade my gpu. where is the pricing sweetspot and where can I go for a good deal?

So I just tried overclocking my 1600. I got a P95 solid 3.7 without touching voltages. I then booted up a game and after a few minutes my PSU started making an intermittent, soft crackling noise. It stopped as soon as I switched back to the default settings.

The fuck could have happened and should I be worried? PSU is a G3 650W.

DownThemAll.

Guys, I need a clone disk tool. A clone disk tool that works off a usb drive, since all our computers dont have cd roms, and I need to clone and replace the hard drives with new ones that have windows running on. Any recomandations?

RAID 1+0 and 0+1 are both things so yes, but I don't think you can do it on a per-disk basis.

SO, i need to switch my old dying power supply, but i can only find these new ones. It won't be a problem to use this? It has all the cable i need. And it's a but higher voltage than the current one (400W-500W)

Can you tell me what voltage is measured in?

It's measured in Wolts.

there's definitely some fucked up striping out there you can do with the right RAID card

230V but why is this necassery?

>And it's a but higher voltage than the current one
then stop buying the european version

Damn i meant i meant watt. how the fuck did a misspelt it as voltage is a mistery for me

Why do I hate myself?