/sqt/ Stupid Questions Thread

Ask your dumb fucking questions here.

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What's the easiest way to uninstall Win10 from my SSD?

I need a filemanager that works with i3wm, preferably with Split screen function like Dolphin.

If I want to round an unformatted timestamp I have in seconds (which will later be passed to a formatting function) to the nearest 10 minutes I just need do

round(time / 600) * 600

right?

install Roblox™ Studio 12 and delete the Windows 10 script.

What you mean "uninstall"? You can easily enough just install whatever OS over it if you want, or just format the drive if you don't want an OS on it.

Or do you want to convert it to a storage drive without losing the files currently on it? I guess you could mount it on another OS and then wipe all the Windows system files, though it still might get flagged as a boot drive (not sure 100% how that is decided) so you might need to do something additional to fix that.

My current build: pcpartpicker.com/list/

Now I want to upgrade at least one of these two things, RAM and storage. I want to get an SSD or I want to get 16GB of RAM but I don't know if I should get 16GB of 3000-3200MHz or just get two more sticks of what I got and make it 16GB. So which would be the best to upgrade first? PC used for gaymen, I can spend $400 total on these upgrades (i.e. $200 for RAM and $200 for SSD).

I want to to automate my network pentesting with code of my own. I want to try out custom exploits. Should I go for Python, Ruby, what?

I want to intercept, analyze, and send packets in unusual ways.

How can I stop being such a terrible person?

What are WASD keyboards like?
Thinking of buying a code keyboard from them but no idea what the switches are like.

I just want to remove the Windows file, yeah. I have Win7 on another HDD and that's what I use 99% of the time, so the Win10 installation is just taking up room. It's safe to just delete all the Win10 files?

As long as you have no intention of booting into W10 again it shouldn't hurt anything. It might still show up on the boot menu of your BIOS until you mark it not bootable, superuser.com/questions/1045999/make-my-old-hard-drive-not-bootable might help with that if it bothers you

How do I get old messages to load in Skype 8 for Windows desktop?

Thank you user

Would now be a good time to sell my RX480? It's the stock reference and I know miners love them, but after all of the craze, they bid on eBay for 350 average. Should I sell?

If you have a better card already then there's no reason to not sell, the price will only go down from now on

I dont know jack shit about GPU nvidia, How the fuck I use this shit?
I have to know if this shit is working, what do?
Do I really have to make an acount in gforce experience?
Do I have to install a game in orther to see if that gforce shit is working well?
Please help, i want to play video games and Im a breinlet

Do you guys unit test your server side form validation?
Do you just test against a whole bunch of possible user-inputs? It seems that users can think up an infinite number of ways to fuck things up.

are these bad temps considering i only have the browser open?

So, I have Spybot Anti-Malware, MalwareBytes and then Windows Defender.
Couple of days ago I installed some GoG games and also some audio related software which one had keygen. I always religiously check my running processes and also run virus scan on each and every new directory and executable.
However today when I booted up my computer I noticed 'nvupdater64.exe' and 'non sucking task manager' and custom 'wmiprvse.exe'. They werer inside windows/wmi and windows/nvidia directories. I quickly ran malwarebytes and one of them was infected with keylogger at least.
I wonder what the fuck is 'nvupdater64.exe' because I can't get any google hits. I ran HijackThis but it seemed to be clean and also Hitman64 couldn't find anything. These fucking scanners are useless... I then rebooted to command prompt and deleted the directories.
I'm pondering what is my next step - any suggestions? Clean install, wipe hard disk?
Why couldn't any of my scanners find any fucking thing? This is disappointing.

you linked that wrong retard

also 8 gigs is enough for gaming. even if you're a wingoy you won't be hitting your page file with chrome + shitty unoptimized game + skype

are you asking how do you know if your gpu is working?

My new main monitor doesn't have speakers and I intend on using to play MH:W. I need a solution to getting my discord audio and my monitor's audio out into a single cable.

I imagine a splitter wouldn't fix this issue because I don't see them being capable of merging 2 separate audio channels. Do I seriously need to get a cheap mixer to fix this?

New pc and it has a nvidia gpu, have 10 days to prove if the pc is ok and I want to know if the gpc is working well

use furmark

Thanks, I have a 560 I can put in it for now, the whole point would be so I could buy something a little better, I'm looking at a 1070 TI, but I'd need to wait for prices to come down then.

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sqt for stupid ppl

Why is /h/ so slow?

Get a WD Blue HDD.
A 850 EVO.

i don't know, user. i dont use /h/

Why?
What do you use?

i'd rather not say, if you dont mind.

How much does gpu affect chrome video streaming? (youtube/twitch)

I have laptop with integrated HD4000 and 2 monitors, I want to add egpu and third monitor. Will my cpu usage drop? A little or a lot?

I just want to decrease 40-60% cpu usage to under 30% so the fan is quieter

I have two laptops.

One with ubuntu that im going to use as a reading kinda work laptop.

The other has Mint on it and has higher specs. It is a 2014 Dell computer...bretty shitty but at least it is something.

Should I try to put windows on it again or should I just buy a cheap laptop with decent specs? Or should I build my own computer with a 500$ budget just used for basic gaming like Fire Pro Wrestling and Sonic Adventure and Final Fantasy.

Depends on the GPU, and if it has VP9 decoding since that is what used in youtube or Twitch this days.
If yes, then yes to the monitors they are connected to.
If no not a lot.

Should I use clover instead of my web browser on android?

Yes.

I don't see it only this app called Mimi. It's adware shit

It's on Fdroid

Install F-Droid if you want it to auto update.
Or install the APK manually from:
github.com/Floens/Clover

The app was banned from Google because "pornographic content" and promoting hate speech (Which is funny because Reddit and Tumblr app do the same).

are portable exes preferred vs installing the software?

>solve captcha, get green checkmark, hit post
>Error: You seem to have mistyped the CAPTCHA. Please try again.

What the heck is going on and how do I fix it? I tend to have to solve the captcha half a dozen times. Yes, I already use legacy captcha for most posts but I can't use it when I create a new thread and that's when I run into this problem. Audio captcha doesn't work either, I get the nonsense about automated requests.

Is there any way for my to look into what other people using my router are doing on in the internet? I suspect my neighbor is stealing my wifi and I wanna know what he's using it for before I just kick him out.

user, Old captcha got cracked a while ago so bots use to shitpost and shill (See /qa/, Sup Forums, /vg/).
Manager (Not Hiro) decided to disable for thread creation for obvious reasons.
Old captcha is marked as insecure and google will shut it down in march.

So stream buffering is still fucked on Firefox and is using up to 50% of my GPU doing any streaming video while still tearing and buffering on a 1070 which is just ridiculous. Not a fan of Chrome having eight million processes running in task manager as well as what seemed to be nigh-constant memory leaking, what's a better alternative? Is Edge actually good or just a meme?

so up until now I used arch and after adding windows fonts it looked everything great and I didn't notice differences between windows and linux font rendering. I tried doing the same thing on debian and rendering is all messed up with no anti aliasing and with a weird font spacing between letters. I tried reconfiguring fontconfig and it helped with anti aliasing in the browser but I still have no anti aliasing in terminal and weird font spacing.. what do I need to do to have the same fontconfig as arch?

pls respond..

it's entirely up to you.

opera

Opera is just as bad

Could I please get some help?
Im trying to configure a network connection in a cent os vm.
Im trying to have it set to a static ip. The machine is firewalled from accessing the web. When I start the centos vm it will get its static ip but nothing can connect to it. The webserver is inaccessible, and ssh takes minus to respond. It will eventually ask for the password and if I try to actually log in then it disconnects.
If I take off the rule blocking its connection to the net, then suddenly I can connect just fine.
Since I am only working in a lan, a connection to the net isnt required, but for some reason it shits itself when it cant get to the net.
I have done the same thing for countless other vms and have never had this issue.

I dont know anything about network manager or anything else centos is using. I had it set up and working (fire walled from the web) just fine yesterday, but I went to make it so it starts headless on boot and doing so changes hardware assignment. I followed instructions saying to use nmtui to create a new static ip profile and i did, it loads and gets the ip. But nothing can properly interact with the machine.

The connection is taking forever like there is a mac address or ip address conflict, but there isnt.

Bump

Build a pc.

nvm forgot to turn off hardware acceleration and it's down to 5-10%, was at 50% on firefox even with acceleration off. Also nice get

Is there any resource where a retard like myself can learn programming?

how many people here dual boot?
I dont want to fully commit to Linux so im thinking about dual booting Ubuntu and win10 for gayming.
Im also curious on how to share folders and files between OSs that span multiple hard drives

Just got ordered an ssd. I have an i7-7700k running on Win7 currently. Should I install W10 on my ssd or win7?

I triple boot. Linux, OSX, and Windows. Rarely load up OSX, use linux a lot, and use Windows somewhat (I usually just hibernate it)

install amd

I'd wipe and run a clean install.
Malware bytes probably would never pick up something like that. If youre looking for an AV, ive personally never tried it but Ive heard ESET is the best you can get.

Both will work just fine.
You will need use MSI Smart tools to add USB 3.0 drivers to the Windows 7 installer though.

Please, reposting from last thread:

Anyone got a WASD keyboard?
Looking at getting a code keyboard from them but I don't know what all the different switches are like.
Are brown that shit?

>Old captcha is marked as insecure and google will shut it down in march.
fugg, new captcha is an annoying mess

I pretty sure that there have been millions of threads before with the question im about to ask, but what specs would you guys recommend me to build good gaming pc that can run games like PUBG at about 60FPS.

I have about 800$ for the pc.
And im going to have whatever much money a good monitor will cost.

Is it possible to get a decent PC for that price?

Cheers.

>PUBG at about 60FPS.
The game is unoptimized as fuck not even a high end GPU can run it at 60FPS.

Anyway, I5-8600K and GTX 1060 6GB (Not 3GB), should be enough to run most if not all games at max settings at 60FPS.

Forgot to mention, at 1080p.
If you want 1440p look for GTX 1070 or better.

Do pre-frozen meals just taste like crap because they are made from cheap ingredients? Or are they ruined by the freezing/reheating process and even if they were made from good stuff it wouldn't matter much?

dont have that keyboard but if you wanna know how the different switches feel id reccomend the Akwox 9-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester on amazon. I thought I wanted browns, bought the tester and now i love blues.

Both, but it is more because the use of low quality materials to store it and the food they are made of is low quality too.
Example, MREs taste really good even after 10 years, hell there are MREs that are 60 years old and still stay tasty.

...

What's the best book and/or online resource to learn about OSGi?

damn they are a little more expensive than i expected, thanks

i have another question, can i use usb 3.0 to hdmi adapter to connect the third monitor and does it affect performance in some (bad) way?

what makes windows 7 better than 8 and 10
pls no gentoo

>can i use usb 3.0 to hdmi adapter
There is no such thing.

Is there a way to figure out if an application is actively using your microphone in windows 7/8/10?

>7 better than 8/8.1
8 was a mess from the start so 8.1 came, and 8.1 is a mess thanks to metro, everything else just werks but its a Laptop/Tablet OS.
>7 better than 10
10 introduced a shitload of useless things that waste performance by a huge amount, DX12 is not that useful, Spying at full force now, and so on.
Main problems performance wise are telemetry service, forced windows updates (Home), and Windows defender never turns off unless you force it with regedit or group policy.

>The game is unoptimized as fuck not even a high end GPU can run it at 60FPS.
The fuck are you talking about? I mean yeah it's unoptimised as fuck sure but my mid-range 1070 runs it at like 130-140FPS pretty consistently

I turned down some really useless settings like shadows and foliage because you're there to shoot people, not sight-see, there's stuff like Witcher for that, and I wanted to maximise my draw distance and FPS. But I'm pretty sure I would still get minimum 60+, if not 100+, on max everything.

Can I run an Ethernet cable from the downstairs modem to the upstairs and plug it into another modem with WiFi to get better WiFi upstairs?

I know about legacy captcha shutting down, my problem only pops up with the new captcha BECAUSE thread creation requires the new captcha. I literally solve the captcha and it says that I didn't, and it takes quite literally a dozen tries before it finally accepts it and lets me create a thread. This is annoying because this is a very real problem with the new captcha and people either misread my question and tell me to use legacy captcha, or they tell me that legacy captcha is being removed. Which has nothing to do with my problem, which is going to become a much bigger problem when I'm forced to use new captcha for every single post instead of just thread creation. Let's say it takes 30 seconds to solve new captcha normally if you don't mess up, which is already an absurd amount of time just to make a single post, it could take upwards of five minutes per post with my issue depending on how much this glitch decides to happen. So I really wonder why there aren't more people bringing this up. It's weird because new captcha actually used to be pretty fast when they had you solve only one of them, now they have this ridiculous shit with 6 pages of street signs or the fucking fading ones that take forever to load and I have no idea why. But I'm getting off topic. Not that I expect anyone here knows the actual solution to my problem at this point. Although, you did answer a question I'd been wondering about but hadn't asked, which was if the old captcha was the reason /qa/ had such an irritating bot problem. And the worst part is at least one of the botters is some smug prick who genuinely believes he's bettering the board by doing this. So if removing legacy captcha makes it harder for those people to flourish then I'm glad at least one benefit is coming from this.

Noticed sometimes rarely when I restart my computer not all of my programs will start up properly on the next boot, and if I try to reboot it again it will always get stuck trying to shut down. Anyone have any idea the best way to go about troubleshooting what might be causing this? Assuming some kind of program/service it gets stuck trying to launch or something?

I don't even know if I want a mechanical keyboard and that's a bit pricey to find out.
Thanks though, I'll check if it's ever on sale.

cableleader.com/superspeed-usb-3-0-2-0-to-hdmi-adapter.html

Reposting from /diy/

I'm having a problem with my 2009 Mac Pro computer. It's hard to know what the source of the issue is but I believe the power unit is dead. The trouble is I can't get it out of the aluminum
processor cage because one of the screws is stripped. I need to remove the stripped screw to
get in there to check the condition of the PSU.

I've tried some basic methods. Using a rubber band to grant some additional leverage. Hammering in a larger sized allen key in an attempt to create a new impression. The hole is completely hollow, no purchase whatsoever.

Do you have any suggestions to help?

Welding an allen key to the screw is out of the question as there are delicate components inside. I tried epoxy glue. It didn't work. Among the last solutions I can think of are drilling and cutting a notch with a dremel to twist with a flat head screwdriver.

>Windows 7 was made purely to fix how shit Vista was
>Windows 8 and 10 were made to be new and "innovative"
10 would be great if it weren't for all

>What the heck is going on
Welcome to jewgle, the captcha is only usable if you let the botnet track you - otherwise it assumes you're likely a bot because pretty much everyone these days is either signed in to google or linked to their shadow account
>and how do I fix it
There's a no-javascript version of the captcha that's A LOT easier to use. I've never managed to get it working manually with umatrix or whatever; I've only seen it when trying to shitpost from a Wii U (works surprisingly well btw), or using a third-party tool to force it (an app on the phone, like Dashchan, or 4chanX on desktop).

I have no clue about anything networking but in general yeah sure, wifi extenders like that are a common concept. You might need to fiddle with the setup or settings to get it working properly, no idea.

Are there websites like faceapp?

like preset filters? wanna try different hair colours.

fucking massive issue with shitos not connecting accepting incoming lan network connections if it isnt able to access the wan.
send help plox

WASD keyboards are garbage, had two of them break on me in the scope of 2 years.

Get a Ducky, they are a solid board and have good customer support

why do no girls love me

>So I really wonder why there aren't more people bringing this up
Pretty much everyone hates it as much as you do and we've had a lot of threads about it since legacy's death was announced. The problem is Hiro is a prick who doesn't want to use anything else, using bullshit excuses like "hosting costs" (even though some anons have demonstrated that self-hosting a captcha for Sup Forums would have absolutely negligible costs, or have suggested alternative third-part solutions that aren't as horrible as recaptcha). This means that he probably doesn't actually care about the actual problem and can't be reasoned with.

>take forever to load and I have no idea why
There's a version which loads very quickly. I highly doubt it's actually anything in the network being slow, instead there's an artificial delay introduced, which I'd assume is there to make bruteforcing harder. Which is utterly idiotic when noscript captcha exists, because bots and paid pajeet solvers will always use that, and the artifically slowed down captcha will only end up being shown to legitimate normie users who don't have an optimised noscript setup for their captchas and just want to get on with whatever they're doing.

Because 99% of people who come here to complain is because that.

Captcha v3 is based in AI, so its up to it to decide unless a simple verification, everyone gets fucked by it, more if you are not logged in a google account.

how to fucking turn off the voiced ads in bittorrent god fuck
i was trying to watch some shit and this fucking shit just scared me and made the whole fucking movie unwatchable due a fucking bitch talking about their shitty beauty i couldnt care less. fuck i am mad and i am not gonna uninstall this shit until my torrents are done so how can i turn off the sound on that shit?

By not using bittorrent, the fuck is wrong with you.
Transmission if you are in Linux.
Deluge if you are in Windows.

Dont use the shitty client
Use transmission or qbittorrent

how do i torrent securely. what security/anonymity measures should i take?

Why the fuck are you using that lol
>I am not gonna uninstall this shit until my torrents are done
As long as you have the .torrent file you can easily resume a partial download in any sane client. Just open the file, point it to the directory where you were previously downloading it, and sometimes you might need to force an integrity check whereas in other cases it will automatically pick up on the downloaded parts.

What the fuck is happening, my windows 10 PC just randomly restarted, wiped out some software and now refuses to recognize my GPU?

Depends completely on where you are. I'm pretty sure that in the sane world the worst thing that can happen is an ISP letter that has no actual impact, so if you're not sure, don't be afraid to try it out and see if you get away with it. If you do then get a warning, a good VPN should be all you need

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