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I fucked up windows so badly that I need to format my C: drive and reinstall it. What's the best way to get my files off of the drive, then back on after reinstalling?

How do I update my centOS 7 kernel without grub? I did all things google and it now just reports:

"Package kernel-ml-4.12.4-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do"

whenever I try to update again, but uname returns still "2.6.32-042stab120.19"

I believe Acronis True Image can do that for you.

Thu

What boot loader are you using?

So I have bought a russian steam key, which I obviously cant activate without a VPN. So does anyone know a VPN that has servers in Russia, Poland or Ukraine etc. that is for free? It doesnt matter if its slow as hell and I dont need over the top protection.

no idea, I have to fight with a pre-installed hosted server, how can I check that.

anyone know how to check the proper temp of a AMD apu? Speccy doesn't show the correct temp for some odd reason.

What's the cheapest tablet that doesn't lag? I'll be mostly using it for reading and watching shows. Nothing irks me more than having apps taking forever to load. Needs to have expandable storage. Display doesn't have to be that great. Don't care about the camera and speaker. I just want something i can take to the beach on my days off. Maybe suggestions at every price range? >$100, $101-200, $300+
Or if you can point me to the right direction when it comes to comparing tablet performance.

Try msi afterburner

I can't get daz loader to activate Windows 7. I have the legit, up to date loader (2.2.2.2) from daz. The only possibility is maybe my system is UEFI but I don't know how to check that. Help?

What do you set your seed ratio to before pausing/removing torrents, Sup Forums?

I currently have it on 5, mostly because I don't really like having torrents sitting there for too long.

KMSAuto Net

How do I know when 'mv' is completed?

zeroed out hdd, should i trust it?

How do you slow the connection in your router to certain websites only?

It appears my computer is MBR and not GBT so I don't see how daz loader is failing.

Woops, forgot to attach image

How do sound bars stack up for PC use? Want to get some speakers for my PC that are wall-mountable as desk space is quite restricted.

Why does unraid require disks to be wiped when adding them?

My understanding of the technology is that it should only require rebuilding the parity disk if an already populated disk is added.

Side question, what is the general opinion on unraid? Any better alternatives?

I know this place is not the right place to ask but screw it I will shoot.
1-) I have litreally no knowledge regarding coding will I be able to use Ubuntu?
2-) I have a shitty laptop with Intel Core i5-3317U CPU @1.70GHZ would Ubuntu work on this? (this might be an absurd question but I have know nothing regarding hardware as well)

1) you might unexpectedly break it just because you're a new comer to linux not because you don't know how to program
2) yes

Did you restart after updating?

live usb, transfer files to another drive then transfer them back after you reinstall windows

yes I did.

any CSS that makes Sup Forums look like it's any other site but Sup Forums?

I want to shitpost at work.

how can i get subtitles in my screenshots using mpc-hc without using meme codecs or shit like madvr

Thanks user I think I will give it a shot after all.

why haven't you switched to mpv?

it looks awful on windows

Repost:
Gonna add a Crucial ssd to my laptop, it comes with Acronis to clone my old drive. Is there any problem with doing this? I've heard transferring an os is a bad idea.
Are there better cloning programs?

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ive used utorrent and qbittorrent on the family laptop and files are still not fully downloaded in both of them
can i copy over both programs with their contents to my own laptop?
thanks

I'm cleaning viruses off a residential client's laptop for the second time this year, and noticed he has no files downloaded, no programs installed, and his search history for the past 4 months is exclusively fetish porn.
But it's also my fetish: should I leave him some links to sites that won't violently fuck his laptop while he masturbates?

do you ever feel too guilty to ask for a raise?

>black titlebars

mpc-hc just looks better lad

it's the best looking player lad

i care about the video quality not the player

but the quality is the same and you just have to press 's' for your desired functionality on mpv

delet

Is there an alternative to the Protectimus slim OTP token that supports multiple services at the same time.
I don't want to buy multiple tokens just so I can use them with Amazon, Paypal, Ebay etc.

Has lasik advaned enough already or should I wait longer?

Is the m3 6y30 version of this good enough for a comp sci course in college. I can get it on Amazon for 528. Are there any better 13in options for around that price point?

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I just reinstalled my OS. What should be my goto downloads, or is there a list somewhere? All I have is google chrome right now.

What's a good browser? I'm switching off Firefox.

You should have a puppet script that does all the downloading and installing for you.

Depends on the OS

Depends on why you're switching and what your requirements are (privacy, speed, addons, features etc.).

The only features I really have are Greasemonkey which I have a few scripts. I'm mostly aiming for a browser that is private and lightweight.

Otherwise, I could just simply stay on Firefox and install privacy addons but I'm not sure how well that works.

Windows 7.

I mostly use it for watching movies so I DLed VLC player but I don't know what codec pack i need, if any.

ninite.com

Select what you need, download the installer and wait.

so I'm about to root a phone w/ towelroot; all guides on it say to install supersu after, but apparantly that's deprecated now according to some Sup Forums anons. Do I need to use supersu specifically, or will other root managers (magisk, rom manager) work?

is the rule with mega you get 5gb every 30 minutes?
cos ive waited more than 30 minutes and it wont start downloading again
anyone know the issue?

fire up the legacy options in daz loader

Im stucked, what is a good antivirus that is not a botnet that raped my shitty internet speed and RAM? is there a good one? im on a emergency i need one

ninite is botnet
it phones home to some french faggot's place
do not use
get portable versions of programs at their original developer source

Is it possible to remove the annoying ICloud activation lock?

>INB4 GIVE IT BACK JAMAL

give it back daquan

If i dont have an amoled screen: do the white and black parts of the screen need the same amount of power?

I've got a Twitch channel I've been running for around 6 months now, where I pick a book and read it out loud to my viewers for a few hours a day. It's been gradually growing in popularity and I enjoy doing it for the most part, but recently I've got a copyright complaint from the publisher of one of the books I've been reading. It seems they're happy enough as long as I move on to something else but is this going to be an issue going forward? I was under the impression that this was fair use, just like someone streaming footage from a game they are playing or something. What exactly is the difference here, if there is one?

Does a lightweight OS make that much of a difference when using it on a laptop running on battery? Let's say, if I were to switch from Windows 7 to Xubuntu on my x220, would it last that much longer or is it just a matter of a couple extra minutes?

>What exactly is the difference here, if there is one?
For starters, audiobooks are a thing. Streaming is (at least arguably) fair use because the actual "work" is in the player experience, and watching a stream doesn't give you that. For books, the actual "work" is the writing(the plot, the characters, etc. not the precise form printed on a paper or screen), and it makes little difference whether it's spoken or written.

would be there any problem getting something like this?
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i'm a usb junkie, i use usb a lot and the motherboard i bought only came with 5.
my question is, if i have all usbs plugged and stuff, would it suffer from power, would i get disconnects? or that thing its as safe as it looks?
im open to usb suggestions, i really like those 2011-v3 mobos that has like 12 usbs, but, im on skylake

so i've built a pc for the first time, and basically i get no video output whatsoever through hdmi
the gpu is an rx 560 from gigabyte and i think it might be the culrpit in this case
the display is also new, so at first i thought the display could be faulty, so i've connected it with hdmi to my old pc and it worked
then i've reset the old pc and to my surprise, i didn't get any video output until after my os actually booted and only then i could see the cursor and stuff
i've taken the old gpu out of the old pc and swapped the new rx 560 to that old radeon hd3870 and connected it to the screen through D-SUB (VGA) and it allowed me to see the mobo's splash screen and i was able to boot a clonezilla live usb key i've got lying around so that would mean the mobo, cpu, ram are all working as expected
now i'll try to make a bootable windows usb key to try and install windows on the new pc using the old gpu and then switch to the new one to see if i could get video signal over hdmi when windows actually gets to boot

is it normal that you can't see the mobo's splash screen, the POST procedure, the bios settings etc over hdmi?
the new rx 560 also has dvi-d and display port (the monitor has both as well) but i can't try any of these because i've got no such cable
anyone here was in a similar situation? what do?

My second display connected by displayport to dvi-d doesnt receive a signal until i'm at the desktop.

Depends on the Laptop. Windows generally has better power saving features than Linux.

But if the Laptop is old and running at high CPU usage while idle, you may benefit from a lightweight DE.

no, disassemble and sell as parts before you get caught

none

all AVs are just adware nowadays

ungoogled-chromium

does your cpu have integrated graphics?

use verbose flag (-v)

>seeding

i need to check some drive with files and is a fuck ton of files, there is seriously not a "good" antivirus out there?

>being a nigger

clamwin

If I'm playing a game that outputs audio at 44100khz then should I set my sample rate in windows to 48000khz? Or does it don't matter?

Also, does it matter that the game uses 16bit but I can only set 24bit on my playback device?

>44100khz then should I set my sample rate in windows to 48000khz?
Set it to 44100khz I mean. I usually left it at 48000khz because having the two lights so close to each other makes me nervous, 48000 leaves a space in between.

Newer versions of Snapchat are too "secure" against attempts of saving snaps.
Are there any reliable websites where i can download older versions (without malware and viruses) of Snapchat?

Ok so /cyb/ seems a little dead so I'll ask here. Im new to Wireshark and all this stuff, im trying to capture a 4 way handshake to decrypt traffic on my own network. Whenever I deauth, or reconnect a client being any of my phones or my laptop I can only see frames 1 and 3 of the eapol, having the AP mac as source and the client MAC as destination. I just can't seem to capture the client to AP frames. My card is set to promiscuous mode currently, I think I know what's wrong and that's that I need to use monitor mode for this, because promiscuous only captures local traffic meant for any of the clients on the network but since the client eapol ends with the AP I will never see it as it's never forwarded to anyone.

Can someone tell me if im wrong?

Why does autocomplete not work with the word 'matrix'?

I have a laptop with an integrated GPU, and also a dedicated GPU. I'm getting a bunch of errors when I try to run Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, I think they might be trying to use my integrated GPU instead of my dedicated GPU. Wat do?

I have a 7 year old hard drive. It still works fine and CrystalDisk says it is in "Good" health.

Would it be as good as new if I reformatted it, or should I spend $50 to get a new HDD and keep this one as a backup?

nope
it's the ryzen 5 1600
i've installed windows 10, and now i can't even get hdmi to work with the old radeon, this is weird as fuck

I wanted to ask Amazon customer support a question but is it risky to do this? I'm worried I might piss them off unintentionally and they will ban my account, and I'll lose all my leftover Prime months and $100 or so of credit I have stored... Does this ever happen?

create another account

is there software that would allow pic related on real hardware?
so that when i would turn on computer it would restore saved state

if I install rockbox on an old ipod, is there any way I can just keep the regular ipod theme instead of using a rockbox one? They all look really ugly. I'm just looking for better battery and more audio codecs moreso than changing what shit looks like

also, if i boot the pc with the vga cable unplugged, i won't get vga signal any more when i reconnect it and i need to reboot the pc with vga cable connected to get any video output

amazon customer support does not want to exercise power that could be seen as negtive, as you could give them bad feedback
it only takes two or three pieces of bad feedback before they're out of a job, and let's be honest, if you're working amazon customer support, your job opportunities were not looking good

they're not there to mess with you, even if they're not especially interested in solving your problem either
just be nice, they deal with self entitled assholes all day and you'll be a nice break from it if you can be calm about your questions

...you mean like hibernating?

Hello,
I'd like to set a video as a permanent wallpaper on one screen using i3. I would further look into doing that with mpv but I guess the window rules would fuck up my regular watching experience badly... What would you suggest?

whats the question

do you need gpu drivers installed in windows 10 to get video output over hdmi?

Likely depends on the video card itself. I would guess it will display enough of a picture to download the drivers without needing a second computer

cold boot and hibernation don't work on my laptop, only by restarting from os or bios can i boot into os

i get no signal at all over hdmi, the gpu is radeon hd3870
the intent is to use my new radeon rx 560 so i probably shouldn't install the hd3870 drivers
can i install the rx 560 drivers while using the hd3870 over VGA, then swap the cards and try to boot with the rx 560?

can you boot with both gpus installed on your motherboard? if you can, both gpu's should appear in device manager, then you should be able install the drivers of rx560

well, i didn't try that
good idea, gonna try it right now, thanks!
i guess i should put the old one in the primary slot and attach the vga cable to it, and put the rx 560 in the second slot without any signal cables connected to it?

Since this morning this thing has kept connecting to my wifi.
I don't understand why the "thing" is named as "Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center" , which is pretty funny.
If it was really connected, i guess the ip should be 192.x.x.x and not 10.x.x.x.
Should I be scared ?

learning babby's first javascript right now
what's the point of assigning a function another name like
var x = function foo()
you can call the function with just foo.
what's the purpose of x? you can return variables without the x there so I don't get the point