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Any reason why this script can't pick up any signals from the 433.92MHz controller I have for controlling outlets?
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This is the rf receiver I have connected to my raspberry pi.
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Might as well go with a large SSD drive then. In my use case it made sense to have a separate boot drive (ZFS setup) anyway. Your use case might differ. Often times it's better to have a spacious boot drive to have everything on.

How do i get AppChan for sea monkey?

can handbreak convert multiple files at once? and a follow up question: will it lose noticeable quality?
trying to convert a season worth of files into mp4/avi for a samsung tv that can't read .mkv

On ubuntu I plugged in a usb external hdd and it's locked and I can't do anything with it.
I need to reformat it to backup some files, but it's read only? What gives, I even used sudo gparted and can't touch the damn thing. It's mounted in media, like my flash drives.

So I have a .usb file but I don't know how to make it a live usb. How do I do this?

Rufus

I'm trying to fill out a PDF form on Linux, and for some reason, it's not ticking boxes of the form and the font size to write down information is too big. I don't know how, but on my previous computer running the same Linux OS I could edit PDFs quite easily. What am I missing?
I'd also like to sign this form, not sure how to do that either.

>What am I missing?
Very likely Adobe's PDF reader. Especially if that PDF was created using Adobe software.

I used Rufus, when I tried to boot from the USB it couldn't find the kernel.

This is the stupid questions thread.
You're probably looking for the stupid answers thread.

It's well-known adobe pdf forms won't work as intended with free software. I've experienced the problem myself.

I've built my computer a few months ago and recently the power button was stuck down (fractal define r5 case) and the computer failed to start. Since then it doesn't start anymore. It started once after I cleaned out some dust and made no other significant changes, but it shut off again about 15 minutes later.

The way it fails to boot is very particular: I dont hear any beeps (although I'm not sure it ever did beep), fans turn on, GPU lights turn on, PSU turns on, motherboard LEDs are on, I can hear my HDD work. The SSD that my case LED is hooked up to does not do anything. I get no signal to monitor.

I've had a similiar problem ~2 weeks before, where the computer would start, but it kept randomly rebooting. It went away after I just shut it off for a night and hasn't made a problem since. It's possibly related.

From reading up I found that it's either my PSU, CPU or Motherboard that's fucked. How could I get a proper idea of which part is broken? I dont have any replacement PSU, CPU or Motherboard to test with.

The thing that really throws me off is that it worked normally for like 15 minutes after dusting it off. I suspected a loose cable but I reconnected everything and it still doesn't turn on properly.

does anyone know how to host a radio station (mp3s to .m3u or something) hosted on a domain or setting up a http server?

Why tor pages don't load?

Appear "connection expired".

Ok, I installed it but I don't know how to get it to edit the document.

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Which programming socks is best when writing python and C?

My neighbor can't afford internet and asked if I could help him out.

I was thinking of setting up a guest server just for his apartment but I have some questions first.

Would he in any way at all be able to access anything on my network (if I enabled wireless isolation), also would I be entirely responsible for anything illegal he may do on the internet?

I have a lot of tabs in Firefox, and I'm using tab mix plus to get a scrollable list of 11 horizontally and 3 vertically tabs. I have about 100, so about 3/4 of these. I used to be able to scroll through this list by hovering the mouse over it and using the scroll wheel. After updating firefox to 55.0.2 from some 54 version, it now does nothing. Anybody any idea how to fix this?

Also, I'm using statusbar4ever to get link locations and such in top bar next to the address bar, but after the update that just says "Tekst statusbalk" which is "Text statusbar" in Dutch. And I needed to restore my session from backup after updating. So in short, fuck this update.

It works for me if I hold shift.

Blue and white is some of the cutest, so I guess they would be quite powerful and useful for harder C programing. With Python most should be good.

Really dumb question: I'm on Linux Mint, and whenever I save a file onto my computer, rather than being able to name the file, the file manager searches for what I type in, so I have to click on the filename AND THEN name it. It wasn't always like this. How do I get it to automatically rename the file.

I'd like to install TWRP custom recovery for Android, will an .img file fom twrp.me work with Android 6?

yes you're responsible for anything illegal he does
yes he will have access to other machines on the network

>yes he will have access to other machines on the network
Even with wireless isolation?

Sure. Just make sure you select the correct device.

I have an important question.
Is Mon, 2014-12-01 12:42 before or after heartbleed?

Where would you add a third fan on your case? I have 1 cpu and 1 rear exhaust

Anyone here knowledgeable on laptop screens?

Is a 60Hz G-sync screen or a 120Hz standard (No G-sync) screen better?

Depends on the case? My case has has a read ehaust, CPU, 2 top fans a side fan, 2 front fans and a place for a bottom fan.

Mount it on to your rear exhaust that way you have a super exhaust its all you really need

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My laptop has speakers at the bottom. When I place the laptop inside a metal drawer, the magnets in the speakers stick to the metal pretty strongly. That's not going to hurt the laptop at all, is it?

1. There's a scan folder option that comes up at launch or if you click "Source selection" at the top. If all your videos are in the same directory you can add them all at once, select your encoding profile on the right, then add all of them to the job queue.
2. Really depends on your encoder settings. Pick a clip with a fast moving scene or one with lots of visual noise (e.g. a snowy scene), click the Preview button and make a 10-30 second encoding. Then go back and tweak the video settings to something as low or high as you can stand. Repeat this process until you're happy with the video quality/file size ratio.

Got a 1080p monitor noticed that curved lines tend to be a bit jagged anyone know why this is i'm using hdmi

Programing socks isn't really good for hiking, user.

Is your top fan exhaust or intake?

Thanks, fastboot flash was successful, but rebooting into recovery mode is taking a lot of time, is that normal?

I'm looking for an alternative to visual studio for C++.
I don't know the difference between "compiler", "IDE", and "editor".
I just need something lightweight with syntax highliting and a similar easy-on-the-eyes GUI.
Please no VSCode, I cannot comprehend needing addons and cryptic scritps to begin writing a hello world console app.

You made me smile. You may stay.

heat rises, it's exhaust

That's not how it works in a computer case, user.

Yes, it is

Convection is very weak relative fan airflow.

Which is why you have the same amount of intake

120Hz every time. Just use software vsynch, triple buffering, and limit pre-rendered frames.

He can't afford internet but can afford a device to use it?
He's shady as hell and up to no good like child porn.

thanks but that's not what I asked

No. It should take a few seconds at most.

My smartphone is 480p, anyone know of a good keyboard to use? the default google keyboard is so small

my dropbox suddendly doesnt work anymore.. it doesnt sync the files.. tried it with windows7 and win8.1 on two different laptops

anybody else with this problem today

How do I check if I have another OS installed while on windows?
I think I do, but I'm not sure. I don't have my USB with me so I can't just install another copy of ubuntu.

Enter the boot menu in your UEFI and BIOS mode and check manually.

Firefox is slow and hangs an awful lot, so I downloaded Google Chrome and it was perfect for maybe 2 weeks and now it's slow and hangs/crashes all the time on anything media related (Twitch, YouTube) I'm not an expert by any means but I don't think it's flash player as chrome has native HTML5? Any ideas on what the issue could be?

Get an addon to automatically delete cookies.

What happened to cloudflare? Why are there multiple threads about it?

Then it's pretty weird, the bootloader is unlocked, the phone could be rebooted so it's not bricked, I'm almost certain the .img version is correct, yet even fastboot boot .img results in an error (remote: dtb not found)

Started instantly terminating contracts with people they believe are involved in hate speech.
It's big news because conveniently, only right-wingers have suffered for now.

How do I add filetypes and applications to Firefox or Pale Moon's "Content" tab? I want links that end in .webm to open in mpv automatically when I click them.

They went full liberal and are ending contracts with a good amount of sites they dont like.

Expanding webms on Sup Forums gives me some mimetype error or something. Yet opening them in a new tab plays them.

rly maeks u thnk

Is a Dell Inspiron i3650-3111SLV good for $330 or are there better options?

what is best Sup Forums, windows 7 or 8.1?

7

Code::Blocks

How can I easily make music webms? Like the ones on YGYL/

Is there already a tool to keep track of time spent emerging in gentoo?

ffmpeg -i input.ext -c:v libvpx -crf 4 output.webm


Choose crf depending on your desired quality/file size.

why?

This is for Linux correct? Also what do you mean by choose crf depending on the desired quality, what quality does the 4 stand for?

>desktop
>prebuild
>no ssd
we build our PCs from parts we buy
its very likely that a better build would be possible depending on intented use
but if its office pc for whoever noob, then whatever

anyone know of a small ad-free T9 android keyboard?

Was going to install NetworkMiner on my nix machine, and I downloaded the first thing, libmono, which in turn installed 158 root certificates.

Fuck is this shit? How can I remove them? Or this fucking program itself, which I cannot find in terminal

this phone is being very dodgy. somtimes you cannot unlock it, the screen stays black, it also shuts down and it takes a long time before you can boot it up again. and sometimes pic related comes. it once shut down at 45, booted back up and it was at 20.

its a galaxy note 3

>This is for Linux correct?
Not necessarily. ffmpeg works also works on the botnet.

>Also what do you mean by choose crf depending on the desired quality, what quality does the 4 stand for?
CRF is the constant rate factor. Basically smaller means better quality but larger file size. I suppose it doesn't really matter in this case.

If you want to show a static image with the song you'd need something like this
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.jpg -i song.mp3 -c:a copy -c:v libvpx -crf 4 output.webm

is there a way to save this monitor from its death
its tft around 7 years old
its flickering like that
turning it off and on doesnt change anything nor cooling it or warming it or slapping that shite
it also flickers when vga and vdi are not plugged in so its the monitor itself thats fucked
somehow to fix this?

That just shifts tabs, like ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab. That's not the functionality I'm looking for.

7 Ultimate offers the biggest amount of control to the user possible and doesn't force you useless shit and bloat on you.

8.1 was designed for tablets and touch devices, not for desktops or most laptops.

Quick rundown:
* Compiler: the thing that reads your code and returns an (in C++'s case) executable.
* IDE: What visual studio is, comes with loads of features, has a text editor built in.
* Text Editor: Any program you can edit text in, most come with syntax highlighting for all the big languages.

Code::Blocks is a good alternative to visual studio.
But if you just want a simple text editor check out Notepad++ or Atom.

Ok thanks for the help

I'm just finding one for my parents so they don't need anything that great. I heard before that at that price it wouldn't really be worth it to build your own.

Just a shoutout to all people hosting pomf.se clones/variants

You're awesome

A pomf clone is not expensive, just $60 per month.

for parents it would be fine
but SSD would make difference in speed and reliability
I doubt anyone on Sup Forums would make pc without SSD in 2017

I just tested a bit. This one should work.

ffmpeg -i cover.jpg -i song.mp3 -c:a libvorbis -q:a 0 -c:v libvpx output.webm


Adjust audio quality with -q:a. Higher is better.

I understand that,but I still appreciate the effort done bye these d00des,It helped my a lot of times by offering (rather temporarily) online
storage.

what number should be good for -q:a?

From what I can see using 4 you usually stay below 4MiB at a relatively good audio quality.

Ok, also is it posible to use this tool to convert an mp4 song video to webm while changing the image?

Suggestions for squeezing some extra performance out of this old facebook bucket?

Sure

Bump?

There's a guide on ffmpeg wiki for using 2 pass encoding when shooting for a target file size.
You have to remember to include audio and video when calculating you're bitrates.
(MB * 8192 [converts MB to kilobits]) / seconds = kilobits/s
2 pass encode will also slightly improve video quality of vp8 webms.

nope

auth'd with a Sup Forums pass and need to solve captchas started happening since latest waterfox update on fedora

Not using Windows. Seriously, I don't know what else to really say. You've got enough RAM and even an SSD in there. It's just an old dual-core processor and there's not much you can really do about that. At least Linux will give you enough control over your desktop environment and background processes to really cut down on idle resource usage. That frees more up for Facebooking. But when you open a modern web page it's going to spike and that's just the nature of the beast.

How come we havent found a way to deal with heatsink fan dust accumulation?

Is there any opensource alternative to fake cam?