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just bought a psp slim (couldn't repair mine and bought the new one that is pretty cheap)
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it boots and works with music and all that stuff but when I try to play any game it always hangs during the game boot and the memstick indicator won't even blink or light up then it fucking turns off.

I tried this fix
youtube.com/watch?v=VGRV9KX3btk&t=0s

then changed the driver to M33 and out of nowhere I was able to only boot a single game

I think the issue here is that my memstick is already corrupted and dirty. Even tried using microsd to memstick adaptor but it seems that the sd card is also dirty (had to fsck the card on windows after trying to copy some games and the games don't even fucking appear at all)

PSP still had it's warranty sticker, never been opened (in fact I was the first one to open it. button flex are all original too).

Is this a hardware issue or it's just that my memstick cards are shitty?

I also plan on doing this youtube.com/watch?v=2-6eEBsUVc0

Google hasn't helped. I've searched and tried a lot of shit to try to fix this but every random interval of time maybe 10 minutes or 20 minutes or so my keyboard will ignore the first key i press when I go to type into something, be it a browser, irc, discord. Its really fucking annoying. I'm running arch linux with i3wm. pls halp its driving me crazy. shit works fine in windows 10.

can't help you but have you considered posting here as well

are you using a wireless keyboard?

no its USB wired, a CM storm tenkeyless blue switch

Opened a picture through Dolphin Browser on my phone
picture from link was deleted
how do I get the picture again??

its got to be a kernel issue or an issue with X, through, right? I would think the wm would be unrelated.

Have you tried a different keyboard? Not sure but Try to disable USB suspending /power management or check your ACPI settings. Try disabling intel P/C States too.

Is it from Sup Forums? try changing Sup Forums.org to archived.moe.

what does dmesg tell you when this happens?

>Use a search engine before posting
Wich search engine should I use before posting?

startpage or duckduckgo work for me

ok i installed xkbset from the aur and disabled slow keys but im too damn tired to see if it worked ill check it out when i wake up because it would sometimes go 20 minutes before i'd notice the issue. sometimes it would happen 30 seconds apart though.

dmesg is silent when it happens. ill check back tomorrow

google
ddg has shit results :(

>dmesg is silent when it happens. ill check back tomorrow
sounds like me with your mom

how long do micro sd cards last on average?
i'm considering buying 10 256 gb micro sd cards for reasons

what's the best software with a gui for converting any video/audio format to any other video/audio format

Is there a way to make the bookmarks bar of Firefox display a bookmark's full name instead of a shortened version with a "..."?

It's built into windows these days. Open explorer and then select the file you want to convert, press f2, then change the extension as desired.

kek

i'm on windows 7 home premium, does that feature still exist?

No, from a imagehosting site
Can't I access the image cache

How can I block Sup Forums banner ads? I wouldn't mind them if they weren't mostly insinuating doggystyle sex or trying to give me seizures. I've tried blocking element with ublock but that doesn't work because the same ads keep coming back.

The response is here:

I am failing at getting the OEM unlock bootloader on my s4(GT-I9500)
ADB just doesn't responds while entering the
fastboot oem unlock or
adb reboot bootloader
Is there an different process I'm missing?I

I need to send text between my PC and Android phone. What's a good way to do this? Some sort of shared clipboard would be good.

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In what scenarios would I need to but thermal paste?

*buy

Samefag here, tried gif related but didn't worked.

politics aside, how do I get rid of the ads that appear on the lockscreen when spotlight is enabled in W10?
they're annoying as hell
>inb4 botnet

If your temps are above normal or when your shit is overheating.

Been watching for an ultrawide for awhile. While ultrawides in general lag behind true 4k in the resolution department this deal popped up and I want to know if Sup Forums approves before I jump on it.

amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTIZQQM/

This one is selling for $860 and the other sellers have it priced at over $1700.

At that price I can actually get a 1080TI to run the thing properly and still come out ahead.

Too good to be true? Can amazon fuck me over if it is a pricing error?

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How would I go about batch cropping images into a certain resolution?

Upgrade to Windows 7.

Is there a tool like ranger that can draw images on a tty?
Also looking for one that can read archives

pls tell me why this makes no difference in temperature compared to only having 1 upper exhaust, the front intake blocked by drive bays, and 1 pull fan on the heatsink

fuck fuck fuck i think my laptop GPU just fried. I was working on laptop and then suddenly monitor went black screen (still backlit could be seen). Fans was still spinning, Leds was showing. But OS was not responsive anymore I tried to press Power Button for a sec to initialize sleep but it didn't work so I forcefully shutted it down by holding power button. Then, Removed the cable, battery pressed for a minute the power button to discharge, plugged the cable again, tries to turn on and nothing, screen is not even turning on now, fully black. Fans are spinning and one LED is showing which indicates that laptop is turned on. Tried few times this. I even removed ssd in hopes it will turn on.
tl;dr Is my laptop gpu fried or something else? When turning on screen is fully black(no backlit), but fans are spinning.

So I have had a Debian VPS for a while now and it's great for hosting my site. I've now decided to host a second site and for some reason it's being a pain in the ass. It's running Apache 2.4 I think, not using (httpd.conf). I'm getting all sorts of name resolution errors but if I go directly to the IP address of my VPS then it shows the second site. My original site works, just the additional site isn't resolving and I'm kind of stumped.

How's the performance of 3D applications/games under a virtual machine with only an integrated GPU? Keep in mind I'm going to use a notebook with an i5-4300M so I'm not going to play intensive games.

I ask this because I'm debating whether to dual boot Arch and Windows or just run Windows under a VM.

>firefox 55
>can no longer select a text and drag and drop it near the tabs to perform a seach
Did they literally take out a useful feature or what?

I'm trying to use CSS to add a color to each post, so using Sup Forums CSS, how can I target just the postMessage element?

Works on my machine(TM).

how do you make a screengrab gif like that

nevermind figured it out

Because diminishing returns happen
youtube.com/watch?v=8OmkmluAYAQ

How come I get garbled characters in console cli after booting a fresh cisco 3750 stack? Changing the baud with screen doesn't help.

>have to RMA a windows laptop
>backed up all my data

Now my plan is:
>boot into any random live linux usb I have around
>dd if=/dev/urandom of=
I've never done this before, is this good how it's done? Just looking for a quick sanity check.

Say hello to no warranty!
you want to only scrub the windows PARTITION - not the drive.
Then use the windows recovery bullshit to reinstall (unless the laptop is actual fucked and you can't boot)

DO NOT SCRUB THE ENTIRE DISK.

Shit, it works for me now, but the area where i can grab the selection is kinda wonky, gotta center the cursor pretty well

What about my other data partitions? Just do them individually I assume?

Also they wanted me to sign a document regarding authorization to access the OS, so I explicitly signed my denial of authorization. Meaning if they want to boot into the PC, they'll have no choice but to reinstall the OS first.
Should I still reinstall windows myself?

If it's too much of a hassle I'll just leave it be, hoping they won't run data recovery tools on my shit for whatever reason. It's a dodgy CPU fan causing the problem, so they really shouldn't need to mess with the OS much. Of course that assumes that they'll do their job properly, but this is ASUS so I don't think theres a huge risk.

Samefag here, halp pls?

Is there any way to make Sublime extremely aggressive with tab caching? Half the time I close it I loose what I have open yet I have unsaved notepad++ tabs open from almost 3 months ago

The EFI partition, MS Recovery and the smaller MS Reserved partitions need to stay unformatted.
Whatever would nominally be C:\ and any other user ata partitions should be formatted to remove your data.

Once you format your partitions, boot from the recovery partitionto reinstall windows to the standard image that came with your laptop.

This is all to prevent whomever is doing the RMA pinning whatever issue you have on not using the default windows install (this happens quite a lot)

Meh, sounds like a hassle. I'll wipe my data partition just in case they go through the trouble to piece together how I was torrenting games, however unlikely that is, and leave the rest intact.

Thanks for the advice user!

What are these two things? Like what do they do? Do I need them or can I safely uninstall them?

so atm im using this script to stream tv on youtube
gist.github.com/olasd/9841772
im wondering if anyone knows any options that wouldnt cause 100% cpu usage?

Is there a way to check which sdx device in /dev/ corresponds to which physical drive without mounting one of its partitions?

I'm using integrated graphics for my primary monitor. I put in a shitty old GPU for my secondary monitor and it doesn't work. What do?

If I did the power clip test and it triggered my power breaker(all components were disconnected from it), does it mean my PSU is faulty?

any way to play videos offline on a psp?
if i need to convert them to a format, it's fine

Okay so according to Apple, A11 has a 3 core GPU. How does such a GPU achieve an advantage over any other CPU? From my rudimentary understanding, a GPU achieves the huge advantage in graphics tasks due to parallelism, which is achieved through having tons of cores working together at the same time. So how does the A11 GPU achieve this with only 3 cores?

'Cores' user 'Cores'
Technically a FuryX/Vega64 is a 64 core GPU, but it depends on your dfinition of a 'core' when dealing with a GPU.
If a 'shader' is core, then Vega64 has 4096 cores.
If a Compute Unit is a core, then you have 64 cores, each with 64 bipelines.

okay so each of those three cores are clusters of x amount of shader cores? well that answers the question, thanks

i have a Lenovo ideapad 100 laptop
some reason my keyboard keys won't even function jackshit everytime try to get it to work again
stuff like the spacebar, BN,./[Shift], and any Arrow Keys that isn't the Up button

is there way to fix the problem?

Should I be using gamemode when I hook my Pc to my tv? Also I'm playing non competitive games.

Plug them both into the GPU
You mean Windows 10 Game Mode? No.

Does installing a game on an SSD improve performance?

Depends, if a HDD is having a hard time keeping up then yes
Usually all it does is reduce stuttering caused by HDDs loading in large textures

No no. My tv has a thing called gaming mode that decreases input lag by sacrificing visuals I think

Ah right, you could try it, I've heard a lot of monitors that have that feature encounter noticeable ghosting when enabled
Just try it and see how it goes I guess

Alright thanks

Is there a good all-in-one email client that works both on Linux and Android?
One that respects privacy

how I teach my gf to use torrents?

What's so hard about downloading a torrent or clicking a magnet link?

If the keys aren't even working in the BIOS then it's time to replace the entire keyboard.

youtube.com/watch?v=h0eyi0XS8DI&t=67s

Why does objdump -D print out hundreds of lines of assembly when I target a .cc file while the output is much shorter for a (functionally identical) .c file?

How basic is she? Does she understand file sizes at all? Does she get the difference between a media file and a program? Are you using any kind of protection against copywrite letters?

what the hell does it mean to "learn linux"?
does it mean to learn how to use it; like learning to use windows / macOS?

Is it possible/practical use use raid-0 on RAM?
say i have 4x4gb of ram, could i reduce my ram to 4 gb to increase my speed by ~4 times?

this desu

Basically. It's like a "for dummies" book. But with linux there's more base shit you want to know for when something goes wrong and you need to fix it. Also shit like logging in or connecting to internet is different, using a command line is way more helpful to the average linux user than most mac/windows users. Then there's shit like choosing a distro and working with package managers

You probably could, but goddamn would that be useless. Most people don't even benefit from a ram disk in the first place.

How in the fuck am I supposed to get OS X working in Virtualbox, on a Kaby Lake CPU? I've tried multiple versions, and the command prompt tweaks, but with no help.,

anyway way I can switch my sensei raw side buttons?
I mean, the buttons on the right side are pgup and pgdown, and the ones on the left are... well it depends witch program
I'd like to switch them up, so I can use my thumb to pgup and pgdown, without switching left and right click
any ideas? thnx in advance

How do I safely activate Windows 8 in 2017?
What's the equivalent of DAZ Loader?

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Is there any way to get Netflix to work on Firefox ESR?

my windows 10 ltsb enterprise edition 90 day trial ran out a few hours ago, and since that exact moment my pc shuts down randomly, i havent timed it but its once every hour or so.

windows gives me no heads up, just shuts every program and shuts down (not reboot)

is there a way to stop this shit without buying a key? I have seen people on here numerous times say that you can run windows 10 without activating it indefinitely and only suffer the consequence of the watermark in pic related

tried google already, only thing i can find is that allegedly this is windows trying to activate itself of something like that

it's supposed to shut down every hour or so to make you want to activate it

you'll have to activate it to make it stop doing that, just google a key or try this key:
WNMTR-4C88C-JK8YV-HQ7T2-76DF9

github.com/eight04/select-text-inside-a-link-like-opera?files=1
there should be other similar options
this one works for me, so I never bothered looking elsewhere

Should I replace my i7 980x with a Xeon x5680?

I occasionally play some games, got dual 680 in SLi.

Will I get better performance with 6 cores?

Don't know much about audio, was wondering if Sup Forums could help me out. Was looking into a DAC/Amp or something for my desktop. Nothing too expensive. Looked online but no real concise answers.

Are these things worth it, or just a meme? I've seen some that are small enough for your pocket ; would they work on phones /earbuds?

Any help, opinions, and recommendations plz thx.

Without looking up any specifics, I can tell you that increasing your core count is almost always the worst way to improve gaming performance, especially beyond 4. Single core performance is by far the most important stat. Also gaming can be pretty hard on dual card setups these days. You might actually get better performance on a 1050ti on a lot of games, but if you're happy there then don't worry about it.

So what the fuck happened here? Early today my C Drive just started spewing these 200mb entities. It stopped when I shut it down. I don't even know what they are or how to open them. They're hidden files and just listed as '~' with an integer next to them. Virus?

We'll go into specifics cause the 5680 has the same single clock core speed as the 980 I believe