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Is stacking multiple dust filters on top over each other always a bad idea? My case has a built-in mesh over the CPU/at the top but i kinda want to my silverstone filters to it so i won't have to clean it as often

*want to add

Writing after fapping is hard indeed

Fixed by switching to thunderbird, i swear to god if it keep going like this i'm installing gentoo.

It's always a bad idea to clean filters less often, stacking or no stacking.

Unless you mean cleaning the PC less often by installing extra filters to have it dust less in general? Then sure, this will work.

Is 75c temp on 2010 Thinkpad while browsing on live boot okay?

Since there is no fglt currently I will post it here I guess.

I want to use :set cul in vim, is there a way that I can get the underline to be black where the invisible chars are?
I know I can get it to work this way if I change :hi Normal to black but that affects pretty much every other char so the text is unreadable,
I could also use hi CursorLine but that affects every char in current line.

So is there a way I could get it to work only with invisible characters?

for the life of me I can't find the google drive account I used to make a backup of my old computer.

I have 3 phone numbers and 8 possible backup mails, but can't remember the username nor the "name" I used.

How can I proceed, Sup Forums? i'm getting desperate

Is there a reason to still have adobe flash player installed?

I see Firefox works fine without it.

Starting to show age but still okay.
You should test it under heavy load though, that might not be okay.

There are cheap stop-bleed solutions for old laptop overheating in case you need it, so don't sweat it.

Do I need to make and acer account or I can ignore it and use my new windows 10 laptop?
Do I need to make an Norton account too or i can ignore it?
>Im a retard with computer


I can use windows 10, but I have a new laptop and im a computer iliterate..
And acer and norton are asking me for personal data and email acounts...
And I dont know what to do :(

...

Can someone tell me what exactly Spectre and meltdown allow someone (an attacker) to do?

i want something that's cheap and portable that I can load documents, books, and videos to use as a study companion in the train and stuff

I guess a tablet is what I'm after? I've never owned one and have no clue about the tablet market. I heard the surface is useful but I'm not a fan of windows or apple os'

What do? What's the T420/T430s of the tablets

does it matter what brand external/internal hard drive i get?

Kinda. Seagate are less reliable than Western Digital or HGST.

ive never understood, how come when you set a program priority higher than normal (in windows) it almost always ends up slowing down even if you have plenty of cpu to give?

Basically do whatever they want with your pc.

Meltdown lets them root your PC so they can do virtually anything on it including installing hardware (bios-level) botnet. Literally anything, if it's compromised their PC is yours.
Spectre I'm not exactly sure the extent of it, but at the very least they can read your keys and decrypt encrypted volumes, and collect/send all protected information on your PC.

If my windows 10 came with Norton do I have to change it to ESET internet security?

I've only used WD and friend only used shitgate. Had 1 drive fail that was ~5 years old running 23 hours/day average. Friend has none

I think you should replace it with Windows Defender. Unironically.

Is skullcandy any good? I keep hearing people talk about how easy they break

op of the thread you replied to
I have a wd and seagate. The seagate had a removable part where you connect the usb cable went bad so I took it apart and used an enclosure for it. am thinking of getting a wd and put all of the seagate's files on it just in case

How do i find win7 64 bit meltdown update?

They're cheap headphones. Bound to break eventually with neglect

Wasn't there an option to automatically add filtered threads to the thread watcher? How do I reimplement it?

what music player on Linux can you recommend?

HGST > WD >>>>>> Seagate

How do you organize everything on Linux?
Where do you clone GitHub projects?
Where do you store your programs?

Is it necessary to have internet when running ubuntu?

Best video download tool for Firefox?
Best hover image tool for Firefox?

Forget about Internet Security, get ESET NOD32

I didnt know that 2B is trap.

no.

Why wouldn't I buy a Pro?

No
You need internet to download security updates
Right click and choose download?
I too don't like Apple but iPads are really good. Go to a store and try one
Some websites still use it. South Asian streaming sites mostly

No. Drive reliability complex and there's more variability between models and individual units than brands, and you're much more likely to cause it to fail by dropping it or bumping it while it's running. Understand that all hard drives eventually fail, so buy the cheapest drive you can find and always have backups.

Projects in ~/src
Programs I manually install usually go in /opt/ and symlink the executable into /usr/local/bin, unless the program has some convention about where it prefers to be installed.

It's your money m8, do whatever you want

>Right click and choose download?
That doesn't work for YT by default, and all solutions I've found are convoluted and/or flawed.

Not him but I use youtube-dl for youtube and other streaming sites. For general downloading or grabbing video on websites, IDM has been working great for me.

somebody recently commented in a thread a great list of programs used to customize w10, anyone know of good 3rd party w10 customization programs? I've looked myself, the problem is I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for so I just wind up with mediocre start menu and taskbar shit.

What free software do you guys recommend me for burning CDs on windows?

I always used CDBurnerXP but now it wants to force me to install Opera and it mad me mad.

So how do we patch?

looking for a career. I like cars and computers but i also hate electric/self driving cars wat do?

have you tried searching, desu. I feel like free CD burners should be easy to come by nowadays

Why is my toaster PC only uses 50-60% cpu usage when I'm playing mpv on linux, while I got almost 90-100% on windows?
Is it the case where the program is more optimized in one OS? Or is linux that efficient?

What do I download to root my lg g4 phone?

How may of these apply to W10 LTSB?
Does it really phone home as bad as normal W10?

1. Run ShutUp10, click actions up the top, and apply recommended and somewhat recommended settings.

2. Use Spybot Antibeacon, make sure not to disable anything you'll actually use

3. Go to Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security > Inbound Rules > New Rule... > Custom > All programs > Protocol tyre: Any > And block ALL of these IP Addresses under Remote IP Addresses:
111.221.64.0-111.221.127.255, 157.55.130.0-157.55.130.255, 157.55.235.0-157.55.235.255, 157.55.236.0-157.55.236.255, 157.55.52.0-157.55.52.255, 157.55.56.0-157.55.56.255, 195.138.255.0-195.138.255.255, 213.199.179.0-213.199.179.255, 64.4.23.0-64.4.23.255, 65.55.223.0-65.55.223.255, 104.96.147.3, 111.221.29.177, 111.221.29.253, 131.253.40.37, 134.170.115.60, 134.170.165.248, 134.170.165.253, 134.170.185.70, 134.170.30.202, 137.116.81.24, 137.117.235.16, 157.55.129.21, 157.55.133.204, 157.55.240.220, 157.56.106.189, 157.56.121.89, 157.56.124.87, 157.56.91.77, 157.56.96.54, 168.63.108.233, 191.232.139.2, 191.232.139.254, 191.232.80.58, 191.232.80.62, 191.237.208.126, 2.22.61.43, 2.22.61.66, 204.79.197.200, 207.46.101.29, 207.46.114.58, 207.46.223.94, 207.68.166.254, 212.30.134.204, 212.30.134.205, 23.102.21.4, 23.218.212.69, 23.223.20.82, 23.57.101.163, 23.57.107.163, 23.57.107.27, 23.99.10.11, 64.4.54.22, 64.4.54.32, 64.4.6.100, 65.39.117.230, 65.52.100.11, 65.52.100.7, 65.52.100.9, 65.52.100.91, 65.52.100.92, 65.52.100.93, 65.52.100.94, 65.52.108.29, 65.52.108.33, 65.55.108.23, 65.55.138.114, 65.55.138.126, 65.55.138.186, 65.55.252.63, 65.55.252.71, 65.55.252.92, 65.55.252.93, 65.55.29.238, 65.55.39.10, 77.67.29.176

What do I need to run to debotnet LTSB and how do I know if it worked

heh
I guess There were a few anons couple days ago where i got all this from about W10.

Also this may help:
4. Disable everything outlined in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=U9kFXnomRWQ

Yeah saw we posted at the exact same time haha, thanks. I'll check that video out.

I'm live booting and using solus, when suddenly it gets stuck after a few min. Cursor keyboard not responding
What do

Trying to setup x11vnc on a machine running ubuntu in another room. I want to use a windows machine to access it with tightvnc viewer. How do I setup up x11vnc so that it'll only accept connections from machines within the local area network? Will using -localhost work?

I'm looking for something like what's shown on the windows version of tightvnc.

Try with 192.168.1.0/24

I bought a Samshit S7 for my mom and I'm thinking of installing a custom ROM to cut off all the bloat.

Will that disable the wireless charging feature using the Samshit fast charge?

I just installed on vm trying to understand how it works as a beginner. Is there any way to use a darker theme and also make the terminal more readable? Different colors in the terminal would be nice to differentiate between the things

How do I open a secondary terminal on windows Linux subsystem?

So I installed solus and it still happens
Dammit

I like foobar2000, very customizable

/k/ fag here, Linux Mint 18.3 or Ubuntu 17.10?

>inb4 gentoo

Whats a better starting point for a beginner: Python or C++?

It depends on your goals, python is easier to learn but you can pick up a lot of bad habits.

If you're logged in as a regular user (not root) by default your ~/.bashrc should have an alias to make the ls command use color. Otherwise you can customize the font/font size in the terminal, just google arch linux font. If you google arch linux color as well there's a wiki page on it.

can you check your cpu temperature via entering bios?

mint for sure

Can thermal paste in lga contact pads cause bluescreens?

So I decided, wrongly, to thoroughly clean my pc and now it doesn't start. At all. It starts breefly after switching the psu on and then it just stops. Pressing the reset button or the start button doesn't do shit. did I just fry my CPU? I also "opened" the psu to clean the fan and then closed it again. Was that the big fuck up?

python or C, when you get the basics, you can move on to C++

cmus (cli), rhythmbox or banshee

imgburn is great for isos, been using it for years. though i think it comes with opencandy or some other adware crap, make sure to uncheck these options at the installation or remove them afterwards.
for audio cds use winamp.

>video download tool
youtube-dl, please learn how to use it. it works for most videos.

see pic for troubleshooting. you probably fried something for good, most likely the PSU or MOBO if you didn't completely remove the CPU

Nobody know what do to with this??

I can't copy, cut or paste text from google docs. When I try to copy "manually" I'm told to use the shortcut ctrl-v but doing it and trying to paste only pastes an space instead of whatever text I originally selected.
I'm using firefox in fedora, have umatrix enabled (only one script is disabled and enabling it doesn't let me copy text so I doubt it's this) and did the about:config tweaks privacytools.io recommends.
I know using chrome could solve the problem but I'd like to be able to do it from firefox, any help?

>python or C, when you get the basics, you can move on to C++
Thanks. Also I'm using opera because it has the built in VPN is that good or is there a better one? Also a good way to download videos into mp3s on opera?

Is there any side affects of keeping my dryer running with the heat hose(?) out in the laundry room if it's only heat and moister?

I did this for my dog cause she sleeps in there and it's freezing in there. Not really sure why but I have a few ideas.

I through a soaked towel in there to dry and that's it.

my friend knocked my calculator and now the display doesn't display with full brightness (i don't know how to put it. in one angle of viewing it's barely visible but in other it's more visible).
it uses two 1,5V batteries.
what part did he fucked when he knocked it over, battery slot or display or something else?
i opened calculator so far and i have no idea what to do.

Humidity in the room might get a little too high..
Anyway, would rather ask about this

no, you don't need to make these accounts. it's just datamining.

also uninstall norton and install malwarebytes instead. malwarebytes only runs on demand, so make sure to do a system check every once in a while. you don't need the live-protection norton offers, that's for stupid people that browse shady pornsites without adblocker. you're not one of those people, are you?

>a good way to download videos into mp3s
youtube-dl should be able to do this

no idea about the vpn, it's free so it can't be that great. wouldn't use it for anything illegal.
opera recently got bought by the chinese, so your data should be safe and you should be fine unless you ever want to travel to china. i keep hearing about PIA and nordvpn here, maybe those are worth checking out if you want a paid vpn.

what's the best antivirus to get?

is youtube-dl capable of downloading mp3s? i know it downloads .webm and .m4a but i'm not sure about mp3.
anyways , clipconverter.cc

No im not, but dont acer needs to register mi laptop and my name and email to send me updates?

I proceeded like this
>remove everything form case
>don't remove aftermarket cooler and pcu because fuck that shit
>open psu, clean fan, blow some air to remove dust from the inside of psu. Close the shit.
>put everything back together
>shit doesn't start
So I connected the mobo and start switch pin to another psu and case I had laying around and it didn't start all the same.
Sadly I don't have the means to test neither the pcu, mobo or psu

Again thanks guys.

Is firefox the same that firefox quantum?
Do I have to remobe firefox and instal firefox quantum in mi windows 10 for more security/privacy?

do you have any experiences with calculators?
bumping my question lol

I dont know shit but seems like in Sup Forums everyone have a different favorite antivirus...

On Fedora, will I receive microcode updates out-of-the-box for both Intel and AMD systems?

It doesn't give a shit what container you want it in, as long as you have ffmpeg.

No.
Windows updates comes from Microsoft, and it happens automatically (unless you fuck with the settings).

what FurMark is about?

Malwarebytes for on demand, bitdefender for always on, avast if you have any problems with bitdefender.

measuring how fast your computer is

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3

should do the trick

no, the updates are provided on the manufacturers website.
the software acer offers is supposed to make it easy to update drivers (for the noobs), but i wouldn't trust it, download the drivers from the website and use windows update instead.
i have an acer v3-771, never needed any acer account. in fact i wiped the system as soon as i got it and installed a fresh copy of windows to get rid of all the crap acer put on there.

firefox just got a new name, firefox quantum is firefox v57+. just update your existing installation.

paid: probably kaspersky (full protection suite) in terms of detection rate
free: malwarebytes (only on demand scans)
google recent av reviews if you want to be sure, each year another program is ahead of the competition. but malwarebytes should be enough if you're not an idiot.
or just use linux for webbrowsing (dual boot or virtualbox work)

furmark is a benchmark/stresstest for your gpu

Depends on your OS.
If you're using Windows, and you're not a dumbfuck clicking every link and downloading all the shit you find here - use Windows Defender.
It's more than enough for most users, it's built-in, no fees, and doesn't use a lot of resources.

It still amazes me that people recommend kaspersky after all the russian BS it's been tied to. Not that the poor bastards had any choice, but still I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole these days.

It is included in the latest Windows Update.

Bbut I will need to regulary enter to the acer website to look for new updates?
Excuse me for my ignorance user

okay, only bottom right part of display is fucked (where the result is). dafuq should i do? should i just buy a new one?

Is there a way to make a folder anywhere on W7 that indexes the newest files added to a specific group of folders on my computer? For example:

>Folder has three subfolders in it
>One of the subfolders is the "indexer" and the other two have files in them
>When files are added to either of the two latter folders, the indexer folder lists them according to the date they were added as shortcuts, in a descending manner

I don't wanna use the Libraries folder because it's too easy for people to find and snoop through it. I wonder if I can make such a folder anywhere on my system.

Which antivirus you would use?

>russian BS
you've been fake newsed