/SQT/ - Stupid Question Thread

/SQT/ - Stupid Question Thread

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youtu.be/ctFg0XC9_8Y
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twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

Default browser behavior regarding links is open in same window on left click and open in new tab on middle click. Is there a way to reverse this in Firefox?

Posted at the end of the last one. Please help. I'm having a weird problem.

So, I usually have two hard drives connected to my laptop via USB, an old Dell running Windows Vista.

Recently, when I plug in one hard drive, it comes up with the same name as the other hard drive, none of the files are visible, and all it has is two random files. The two files show up every time I connect it even if I delete them, and under properties it still tells me it has all the files that were on it. This happens no matter what USB port I plug it into, even after shutting down or resetting the computer.

What could be the problem, and how could it be fixed? Pls it's my porn hard drive, I can't lose this..

dunno man
run the disk check utility with windows i guess

Trying to follow this tutorial, I have two pars that failed like this. I need to connect wiring in the metal circle to the metal below it, although now I melted off all the solder on the metal pole so it's just a straight metal piece and not a blob of solder, and am using new wiring I salvaged from my other broken pair.

Tutorials for soldering aren't helping at all. I basically can't get the solder to stick to the metal pole, I heat it up into a liquid, then when I make it touch the metal, it hardens into a ball and falls off. No idea what I'm doing wrong.

I also need to get more cabling cause I am fucking the small piece I salvaged from my other broken pair to fix this pair. Can someone please help me find what type of wiring the guy used at the end of the imgur tutorial, and how to solder this shit to metal?

link to tutorial I am trying to follow:
imgur.com/gallery/y3XU9

You enter MultiTask mode
youtube.com/watch?v=UiLSiqyDf4Y

How to make notification message box permanent?

i have an i5 7600k processor

how long until this becomes a bottleneck for gpu's and im forced to upgrade the cpu?

int x = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
x += 5 * i;
}


Ok so...in the 2nd iteration when i = 1, does x still add 5 to itself (being 0) or does x only add 5 to itself on the first iteration?

What I'm expecting is 5 added to x each time i is incremented.
>First iteration x = 0 because 6 * 0
>Second iteration x = 5 because 5 * 1

But running the code, second iteration is 1.

I'm needing a way to create -basically- an unlimited amount of Google Voice numbers, but they only allow 3 accounts per legitimate phone number. Anyone know a way around this? I've tried using some other call-forwarding apps like Burner to get another 3, but I'm not able to sign up with any call forwarding app on the market. Anyone have any idea?

>First iteration x = 0 because 6 * 0
>Second iteration x = 5 because 5 *
First iteration x = 1 because you declared x = 1 before the loop
and i is 0.

Second iteration x = 6 because it was already 1 and now you're adding 5 * 1.

The += operators adds to the existing value of the variable for example x += y is the same that x = x + y

Thank you very much. I have to remember x is being assigned the result of 5 * i instead of (x + x) * i.

What are ways I can make my github look like I'm a top-tier developer?

How can I weasel my way into organizations, so I can display them(and also contribute)? How many contributions is desired?

Main concern though is organizations. How the fuck do you get into them? I'm currently in one, and don't even remember being added.

I will bump this shit until someone provides proficient answers.

bump

is my ssd broken? i can't install windows to it, keep getting error messages during installation (not a problem with the installation media, i installed windows to another drive without problems). i can't clone a drive to it or restore an image to it, it works but says it needs to be formatted afterwards and i can't get to the files. after formatting, it shows up fine as a second hdd in on my desktop and I can move files to and from it with no problems. so i can only use it as a secondary drive, but I need to find a way to install windows to it to use in my laptop.

It was working 100% fine with no problems as an OS drive in my thinkpad up until last week when I went to reformat windows.

it's a samsung 840 evo for reference, latest firmware. wat do?

pni? piny? peny? penny? penay ? pen ? py ?
penuah?

this is really basic shit my dude. if the solder doesn't stick then you need more flux. but you probably don't need to solder if you don't feel like it, you just need metal to metal contact. just wrap some wires around it and tape it up. literally any wires will do.

i would be more worried about solder falling on the exposed drivers and fucking their shit up

remove any existing filesystem signature and check the disk with whatever windows has in it's properties tab

I don't know how to do any of this in windows

What's the best video editing software for simple Youtube videos? I keep reading Filmora but I don't want to be hasty.

Video editing how? Openshot or ffmpeg

I want to make a desktop application for windows 10. Without going in to to much detail, it's going to be a customizable planner. It will have check boxxes that once clicked will show an icon next to the event and blah blah blah. very basic and boring. nothing fancy.

I know absolutely nothing about languages outside of HTML. Can anyone tell me what language(s) I should learn in order to make this program.

here's a stupid question
what should a double minus an integer value give me in C?

Just simple edits like trimming while making sure it keeps the quality. Always been paranoid that I'll work on one and it'll sound like it was made in a cardboard box.
I'll check those out. Thanks.

If you see something that says reversedns on netstatf. That's bad right?
How to fix it. Fresh windows install.

Arch linux issue.

I was trying to install sublime-text on my system with this
sublimetext.com/docs/3/linux_repositories.html

And it for some reason it fucked up the key signatures.
I can't install new programs now, and nothing I've tried works.

This is what I get every time I try to pacman -S.
error: sublime-text: signature from "Sublime HQ Pty Ltd " is unknown trust
error: database 'sublime-text' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

I've tried the pacman-key --init thing. As well as the dirmngr_ldapservers.conf file fix. No work.

I feel like a retard.

pacman -S archlinux-keyring?

Did that already, didn't make any difference.

Actually I can't even run that because the error fucks it up.

The easiest and fastest way is expensive:

Get Visual Studio and learn C#. Not my favorite language, but it’s the best for doing what you want on windows.

The second eastiest and fastest is free, but the results tend to be a bit clunky/ugly(maybe they got better):

Get and learn Java with JavaFX. There’re lost of free IDEs, like eclipse, net beans, etc.

The hardest and slowest is free if this isn’t a commercial endeavor, but still cheaper than VS (probably) if it is. It also has the benefit of being cross platform (ok, so’s java, but this less ugly):

Learn C++ and QT. You can install cygwin, get gcc, and a bunch of other free, but probably hard to deal with, stuff to work on windows. It’ll be a bitch to set up, both are rather difficult to learn with no other background, so it’ll take a while. On the plus side, if you can sucessfully do this, you’ll know how to do a lot of useful things.

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20171013-1-any.pkg.tar.xz?

loading packages...
warning: archlinux-keyring-20170823-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)

Is there anyway to reset the database?

Thanks so much! I'll look into all of it.

what does the ? operator do in C?

i don't know man
i don't use 3rd party repos. just the AUR occasionally.

maybe change your pacman.conf and mirrorlist back to defaults and try to pacman -Syy.

You’re welcome and good luck.

It's the interrogation operator. It is used for runtime type inference.

???!?!??!
can you help me evaluate this expression?
(m==n)?4:5

It’s called the “ternary operator”.

It’s basically a really short way of writing an “if/then”

You start with a boolean expression, say (x == 17) and you want to do ACK if it’s true and OOP if it’s false. Like:

if (a==17) {
ACK;
}
else {
OOP;
}

Instead, you can use the ternary operator to write:

(a ==17) ? ACK : OOP;

A lot of other languages have a ternary. It’s really useful, but really confusing until you get familiar with it.

that was mean

It's the ternary operatory
?:
where true and false are 1 and 0
basically a short if/else statement.

I just replaced the screen on my Moto X Pure, and after booting it back up again the battery read 27% (much lower than before I disassembled) and has read exactly the same since then (about 3 hours).

Should I let the phone battery run dry and then recharge it and see if it fixes itself? Is there a battery sensor that I fucked up when disassembling/reassembling?

can someone explain to an idiot the difference between == and = in C?
what would these two evaluate to?
(6==7)
(6=7)

They’re totally different.

== is the equality comparison. (6==7) returns 0 because 6 doesn’t equal 7. (7==7) would return 1.

= is the assignment operator. (6=7) is a syntax error since a numeric literal, 6, is not an lvalue (something that be assigned to).

Fug... Thanks anyways though man, you've helped. ADIOOOOSSSSSS

I've been experiencing a lot of crashes ever since I unplugged my second monitor. I noticed this a while ago but didn't make much of it, but now that the second monitor will be gone for a while it's absolutely driving me insane.
My screen shows weird artifacts and then just turns black, computer still runs for a while (audio continues to play just fine) and then seems to completely crash.
Updated my GPU driver - problem still persists (R9 390).
I'd really appreciate if someone knew what the fuck is going on.

is it possible to add chapter marks to a video by having a separate file rather that embedding it in the video file itself (similarly to external subtitle files)? preferably in a way that works with MPCHC or VLC?

Do these optimization software like Razor and such actually work?

Sounds like a dying GPU. Test all hardware components individually to isolate the issue. Replace faulty parts.

Fuck, it does?
The thing is, this problem never occures when I have my second monitor plugged in.. everything runs just fine without any crashes whatsoever.

You're going to need to go in to more detail about your setup.

Just about to unlock my phone to install lineageos, is pic related exagerating?

I don't have anything life-ruining on my phone, nor do i use it for anything too important

forgot pic

What music does Sup Forums listen to?

...

What're some good benchmarking and monitoring software? It's been 15 years since I built a PC, overclocked, everything.

What was the name of the site where you upload an image and you can make parts of it jiggle by creating a depth map?

depthy.me/

No. Malware generally exploits bugs, which outdated miui probably has lots of. The reason xiaomi started locking their devices bootloaders was because people were selling them on ebay etc in america with extra bloatware on them.

Is it still unsafe if i don't use miui? I mentioned i was going to install lineageos

Thanks. I guess that's the last time I'm using duckduck-shitalgorithm and returning to the jewgle overlords

Try cleaning and re seating your components. You shouldn't be getting crashes with those specs at 1280 rez, unless you have horrible tower ventilation/dirty computer.

Do the symptoms occur randomly or are they in tandem with other things, like gaming,porn, rendering, whatever it is you do on your PC.

Check the event logs if you're windows. They can be very helpful in identifying what the issue might be.

What's up with that screen though man? It's making me depressed.

They seem kinda random although I believe it happens more often when watching stuff on youtube/twitch. Played a few games of League the other day and nothing happened.

My main monitor died on me so I'm stuck with this little fella for a while until I can afford a new one, that's all.

>Is it still unsafe
I said it wasn't unsafe, you brainlet! The primary attack vector for mobile malware is not affected by a locked bootloader.

Sup Forums hipster shit and a bunch of anime OST's

why does the latter print 11,10?

Why did your monitor fail?

Are these brands like Galax trustworthy?

No that guy on the box is obviously a criminal and/or on drugs.

use your common sense fampailama.

ebay.com/itm/1pc-Home-BGA-SMD-Soldering-Paste-Flux-Grease-RMA-223-10cc-Tool-/301998547013?hash=item4650842045:g:V7gAAOSwPhdVL2w0

Okay should I buy this?

When I turn it on it immediately shuts off afterwards. Tried it on other systems, same problem - so it has nothing to do with my rig.

Because it is using post increment i gets incremented after it has been compared to 10 and found to be equal.

youtu.be/ctFg0XC9_8Y

peee ennn whyyy

Jazz.

Is it a bad idea to build a pc using used parts? I live in a random 3rd world country and the new ones are really expensive here. Should I do it or should I save up for another 2-3 more years? But by that time there will be an even newer and expensive parts...

It's either your RAM or your GPU. based on what you've told me. Try removing a slot/ swapping to another slot. take out the GPU and boot with just the on board graphics if your mobo supports it.

Sometimes weird things can happen to the power distribution when a large component is removed,or begins to short while plugged in(the screen failing)

my advice, troubleshoot all components, tear down the PC and boot with the bare minimum, keep adding components until the fault is isolated. HAVE FUN!

won't it exit at 10?

Used parts are fine if you can trust the source or the medium/website allows for easy to access refunds ie ebay

Yes, and then i will get incremented after that. What part of post don't you understand?

My mouse is double clicking. I switched the primary and secondly button thinking that may fix it. Nope it's still double clicking. Is it my mouse or my PC? The mouse is 3 or 4 years old. A Logitech G300s

Definitely your PC. You should replace the PC and keep the mouse that's what I would do.

Ok I need a frank answer right now.

Is it possible AT ALL to create a Google account without a motherfucking goddamn phone number? Is it possible or impossible?

Impossible. Go buy a 9 dollar prepaid phone if you need to.

Ok. I cannot even begin to comprehend or fathom a word strong enough to describe my hatred of Google.

>logitech
it's a common problem with their mice/trackballs

Niggers.

I hate Google more than the niggiest nigger in all of niggerland.

user!
user! CALM DOWN user STOP CALM DOWN.

I was about to let my computer download something overnight, when after a couple of minutes its fans started going full power. I couldn't find an unfamiliar process running. The GPU's monitoring software shows the GPU's clockspeed jumps from 300MHz to the max 1MHz after 2 minutes from the moment I turned the recording on.
What could be the reason for this? Google searches came pretty dull in answers.
Windows 7, Intel CPU, AMD GPU.

How would I go about installing Windows 7 on skylake using USB?

ASRock released a patching tool to the Windows 7 installer. You can find the tool and walkthroughs online showing you how to patch it. Then you put the installer on your USB flash drive and install it like you did in the past.

and then how would I go about removing the telemetry updates?

First thank you for this thread

Next pls, what's the best SSD that can fit my mobo ?

asus.com/fr/Motherboards/P8H61M_LX3_PLUS_R20/specifications/

why bother? you don't have an m2 slot and pcie isn't any faster than sata is it?

Control Panel->Programs and Features->View installed updates. You can select the telemetry updates and uninstall them by clicking the "Uninstall" button.
Pic relates is kind of old, you can find listings of the updates online.

Perhaps a french one

They got rolled into the security patches sometime in july 2016. So, security or privacy. Thanks M*croshaft.

Are there any Sup Forums approved phones for like 70-80 euro?