/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

let's be retarded edition

would changing the battery of a newer samsung galaxy to a third party battery remove quickcharge support?

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browsers aside.
on the topic of uBlock and Umatrix. I've read some people recommending to select all filters list in uBlock expect the ones that is already checked in uMatrix. That sounds a bit overkill to me.
atm my settings in uBlock are just the default list minus the ones checked in uMatrix plus some custom filters.

Also are these options the same:
>Disable hyperlink auditing - uBlock
>Block all hyperlink auditing attempts. - uMatrix
wouldn't it be beneficial to just have one checked in this case to minimize overlapping.

When I open Explorer and look at the shared folders on my network, it shows my Users folder. Why? Is that normal, or did I just think I was making something more private somewhere and instead changed a dumb setting wrong.
Depends on the battery, but probably. QuickCharge is a Qualcomm proprietary spec that basically just lets the voltages and amperages get silly high. Unless the batteries are built to handle it, that has a tendency to make things explode.

github.com/ahodesuka/ahoviewer

How do I install this? I'm new to Linux and I'm running Debian.

it even says how in the readme

Looking for a portable mouse and keyboard bluetooth combo so I can use my tablet as a portable laptop.

Do you mean a combo as in one of those shitty little keyboards with a built in touchpad, or just a regular mouse and keyboard? There's no shortage of good Bluetooth mice on Amazon and in /csg/ threads, and the Drevo Calibur is a great deal for a mechanical Bluetooth keyboard.

either you're reading a different readme or it's assuming I'm not a retard.

Last 3 lines in your pic
Assuming the dependencies above are met

i'm trying to get a galaxy s3 at a reasonable price but there's so much bullshit like rigged auctions by samefag sellers, sellers trying to pass off repaired phones as not repaired, buyers putting too much value on chink battery and battery cover replacements etc

is there any way to tell if the glass is chink on a cracked screen like if it has clean lines across the screen vs spider web cracks or can real gorilla glass look like whatever with scratches etc?

So there is this media player for android I used to use called "Asti media player" It was nice because unlike F-droid's gallery app, it doesn't blind me with white when I open a video from he home screen.

Anyway I had to format my tablet today and found this thing went poof from the play store. I don't believe this fact was ever communicated to me when I could've perhaps extracted a .apk of it from my tablet. What recourse do I have to get this back, and how may I ensure it's safe? Is there a way to know why it just up and went poof from the play store?

I was trying to install a new joystick into my fightstick but my stupid self inserted the screws crooked so now they're stuck. I've been trying in vain to pull them out to no avail, so the I wouldn't be surprised if the threads are stripped now as well. How the fuck can I get these 2 screws out?

What is the difference between detaching a LUKS header for an encrypted volume and using plain mode through dm-crypt?

Is one option inherently more secure than the other?

People say "do not use plain mode unless you know what you're doing" but, what's the real problem with using plain mode? (assuming you're using a strong encryption key)

You're a fucking idiot.

I'm aware unhelpful faggot

(it was also faster for the aforementioned purpose so not having it really sucks...)

i also would like to know about this.

Does it work like that? Maybe it's good enough and you shouldn't screw it up more than that

I just bought a new SSD drive to replace the original HDD that came with my ThinkPad. Do I need to reinstall my OS when I put the SSD in?

anker.com/products/variant/PowerCore-II-10000/A1230011

Is Anker the go to powerbank? Been seeing them shilled on lots of youtube channels and I like the look of this powerbank.

If you are going to replace it you will obviously have to copy any files over that you want to be on the new one, including the OS files.
I don't know if you can just do that on Windows though, assuming you use Windows.

Which should I get? A portable keyboard+stand or those case+keyboard things?
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The thing about the case+keyboard is that it's more portable but the stand+keyboard is that it's more flexible and I think would be better for typing.

I assume windows?
check "Share with" setting by right clicking on the user folder

Now you know, just a turn or two to get them in place until everything is lined up, then snug everything up, opposite sides first(1st, 3rd, 2nd, 4th screw, if you count clockwise on that thing), then tighten, same idea. Try unscrewing that thing while pulling it up, usually they're chowdered up enough that they won't back out, but there's enough grit in the hole now that you can't pull it out either unless it's moving. Or, ya'know, leave it if it works, because you fucked it up, at this point, you might just not get the screws to secure at all.

im trying to make a webm in xmedia recode but the files never show up in the temp folder
driving me crazy

Damn you're an idiot.
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Maybe try one of these. They're shit but they get the job done.

I got one out by pulling on the plate while unscrewing, one left. It feels loose, I think I just have to line it up properly while pulling, hard to do that while unscrewing at the same time with my other hand

fucking got it out
thanks everyone, I'm gonna pick up that stripped extractor for next time just in case

I'm using Windows 7

nvm

i currently can't post with the firefox beta, does anyone know what's causing this? i already tried disabling ublock origin and umatrix, no dice. also using https everywhere, cookie autodelete and Sup Forums x + oneechan.
i also had to fill out a captcha when i first opened Sup Forums (and iptorrents for that matter), apparently my firefox 'looks like a bot'. console output in pic.

posting with opera + ublock origin seems to work fine. how do i fix this?

testing to see if disabling 4chanx fixed it

so, is this a bug in 4chanx? disabling it lets me post again.

are cf cards still in production? or do you have to get them secondhand from now on

Are you using greasemonkey or violentmonkey?

I know high end cards aren't coming back in stock soon, but when will low end ones will?
Fucking GTX 1050Ti is 75% more than it should right now.

Good to have, but won't solve this issue. The problem is that the hole the screw is going into is stripped, not the screw head itself. Those things work by drilling out the screw head(something generally not good to do around electronics if at all possible, conductive shavings and all), and then basically screwing themselves into the screw, in reverse of normal threads(Turn the extractor counter-clockwise and it inserts itself), then when it's in the screw, you have enough grip to rotate the screw. What you want to get are Vampliers(Which are rebranded Engineer pliers), pliers for screw extraction.
Make sure 4chanx is up-to-date. I'm having issues with mine not auto-updating lately, you might be too.

I wanted to try out some different minimal window managers and I keep running into this issue. So let's say for instance I want to open my browser, I do it from a terminal. But it opens up the browser in another window and the terminal is getting feedback from the browser window. I feel like I'm doing something wrong cause that just instantly takes up a lot of screen room. How do I open an instance of the browser, or other programs for that matter, without having it attached to the original terminal?

Recently, my computer has been simply shutting down during GPU intensive tasks. Having a look at the log I see the same bit of text before the shutdown.

pastebin.com/WUZegaXW

If someone can tell me the significance of this and point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

I want to write some tech articles.

Gonna publish is something like Medium;
Will have to get organisized first.


Any protips for writing software (i'm on the linux)

If I open a jpg and resave it as a PNG does anything change?

Probably just the file size.. It's like converting mp3 to flac.

tampermonkey

i've tried the latest builds, even the 1.14 branch. i guess i'll wait a week or so to see if anyone else is having issues, then file a bug report on github.

but right now it seems like this is on my end. tried it on my linuxbox as well, same shit.

I found the wiki page on this under android software, so I'm completely ok now. I didn't know asti media player hadn't been updated since 2013. rip. It wasn't perfect, and it had some issues with sometimes producing a notification I couldn't remove without terminating the program, which was an issue until a later android version let me hide them indefinitely, but it still serves me well. So I guess since 2013 the description said it'd add rotating but they never did nor will they ever, so rip.

I have a laptop of decent spec running W10 which I'm not using for anything. Want to learn more about computer science (specifically security, cryptography and programming). What should I do with it?

Anyway to do a hardware upgrade on my feature phone/ dumb phone from 2G to 3G or even 4G?

Thanks, I need to print some photos later and was wondering if there's an easy way to increase quality on the computer side of things but they were captured as jpg

Does a 4K TV require special hardware or connectors to actually output 4K video?

Can I connect my T420 via standard displayport > hdmi like I would to a 1080p display?
Can I daisy chain through my 1080p monitor with two hdmi ports?

No, you need firmware for that and the SOCs aren't reprogrammable.

If an iPhone running iOS 11 with both n/ac capability connects to a mixed mode n/ac AP, how will it choose which mode to use? At what point will it prefer the additional bandwidth of ac over the higher signal strength of n?
I don't have an iPhone to test.

Drill them away and buy screws of the same dimension. Don't fall for the screw extractor meme, use hot glue instead.

Yes. No.

Whichever allows more bandwidth

Install arch linux (Manjaro) and try to assemble TECHNICAL arguments as to why it sucks.

>special hardware
A decoder chip for the encoding and enough VRAM (manufacturers advertise this).

what if I set the 4K to 30hz?
what if I daisy chain through the TV?

I'm torrenting a 4K movie right now to check, haven't even tried before if this laptop can run it

Built a PC yesterday with an SSD and an internal 7200 rpm hard drive. When the HDD is connected to the motherboard boots are slow as shit (several minutes compared to a few seconds without the HDD) and Windows 10 freezes when I try to access the HDD in the Windows explorer. What is the problem here?

What if I ripped out the insides of a similar feature phone that has 3G and threw them in my 8800? Like the Nokia 6151.

is the toshiba z30 c good? spent $600 one with 8gb / i5 6300u / fhd IPS...

According to the computer repair guy, my motherboard (MSI G41M-S03) is fucked and needs replacing. Cost of repair would be only slightly less than the cost of the PC, so I'm going to try to do it myself.

When it comes to buying a replacement motherboard, how can I be sure it will be compatible with my PC? Do I need to buy exactly the same model, or can I buy another type? What information do I need to know?

Also, is a second-hand motherboard likely to last a few years, or would I definitely need to buy new?

I want to buy 10Gb switches. I found some single port Mellanox (MNPA19-XTR) for 30$. Does it sound like a good deal or should I keep looking?

Also, is it a reasonable idea to put a bunch (actually just one or two) of networking cards into an old PC, install FreeBSD on it and make it a switch combined with NAS? The reasoning is that I'd need 10Gb connection between PC and NAS anyway so I might make it a switch to reduce the number of connections.

>I want to buy 10Gb switches
I want to buy 10Gb NICs, fuck

When I turn on my PC, it boots to "no signal detected". I can only fix it by pressing the reboot button, why is that? All cables are sitting properly and not loose.

It started happening a week ago.

My GPU fan speeds up and then slows down frequently. That's not a problem right?
Also my PC is a prebuilt with a 1060 3gb slapped in. I'm checking speccy and my CPU is hitting 73m2 degrees. The orange colour that is its indicating gives me concern. Should I leave the side panel open? Its a prebuilt(no fans, no cooling) just the fans that are attached to cpu, gpu and psu, as I said and I live in a hot country.>pic very much related

I've opened up the side panel and put my (practically) industrial fan on fill blast.
>pic related of course.
You can see other temps have gone down which is expected since my PC is idle right now. But my CPU is still taking for ever to cool down.(as I'm typing mt CPU is still 65 degrees). I think cause its old(4+ years) the thermal paste is fudged(never replaced it) so I'll replace it soon at least.

>Any protips for writing software (i'm on the linux)

How do I run my mobile games on linux?

Is it possible to restart your google account (like associations, logins, etc) and but keep the email address?

i had that exact same issue: gpu fan spiing up randomlz and then slklwing down, making annzing noises. I also had a 1060 founders edition 6gb. I did not find a solution, but a nice workaround. I installed msi afterburner and set dthe gpu fan speed to be alwazs at least at 20%, so it wont make the slowing down noise.

>Is it possible to restart your google account (like associations, logins, etc) and but keep the email address?
>google is your friend

How do I get my own domain address/email without having to host it myself?

I care about privacy so I would self host but because this is for business I feel like having one or two servers means that if they fail I'm fucked talking to clients.

Can I use the thunderbolt 3 porn on a lenovo dock to hook up a eGPU to my Thinkpad? Given that thunderbolt 3 has far higher bandwidth than expresscard, I'd like to do it this way.

Got afterburner I'll try that out, thanks.
anymore advice regarding my thermal issues?

does anyone by chance know what

"bot is not defined" means?

I set my bot in discord to give a welcome when someone comes in but visual studio hasn't caught the error and I can't seem to find it either. What is CMD going on about when I do my command for welcome?

>porn
My friend. Its a filthy habit. Please stop

no sorry, dont know much about these things myself. I just know that my workaround for the 1060 seems to work fine

Your GPU is probably set to change fan speeds around 50C. If you constantly bounce between 45-55C, the fans will speed up and slow down.
Your GPU should have come with software that includes a temp monitor, which you can use to check its maximum temp after working under load. As long as your max is a sane number, you're good.

>For how long will it be the standard for business and industrial use?

How do I run multiple terminals in VSCode on win10? Say I want to use Anaconda prompt and git bash and still be able to access cmd or powershell?

Is ublock and privacy badger enough to protect my browser from constant online rape or do I need to stop being a retard and work out how to use umatrix?

Are you saying that the monitor itself is reporting no signal? Like the same message you'd receive if your PC was off but your monitor was on?
Do you turn on your PC before your monitor, or vice-versa?

Bump

If you can find out all your other components (especially the CPU), you can check compatibility buy making a parts list on pcpartpicker

Quantum and chrome have pretty decent built in security. If you learn medium mode for uBo that's even better.

why do gpus die so often compared to cpus?

>Are you saying that the monitor itself is reporting no signal?
Yes

>Do you turn on your PC before your monitor
PC first usually, but I have tried monitors first.

i've been using xubuntu for few years. i can't upgrade to 16.04 so i need to install everything from scratch.

should i stay with xubuntu or do you recommend any other "it just works" distros? please no mint.

My max is temp 70-75.(hot country). It actually surprisingly cools down quick like say when your in menu between matches in games. And goes down to 50+. I here that's bad for the GPU to jump temps up and down bit im not sure what to do about that. My biggest problem now that I've checked my CPU temp. It idles at 45 basically, normally. But I've got a game open in the background (paused for now maybe an hour now its been paused) and the temp hasn't dropped to normal at all. Pic related
It seems quite comfortable at 65 so I hope that's okay.

I'm asking because some GPUs won't output video unless it detects something to output to, so it's generally a good idea to turn the monitor on first.

Do a CMOS battery reset.
>google it
It might work. Pull it out and wait 5mins put it back in and switch it on. It'll take longer to boot up first time as the motherboard is basically default factory. So it'll test all your components for like a minute before it boots up properly

is arch linux arm any good? wondering if I should use it on my pi or trying to install it on a random chromebook

should i sell my vega on ebay for $1200? that's twice what i payed for it.

>should i sell my vega on ebay for $1200? that's twice what i payed for it.
Might as well. Gtx 1060/1070 is all you need really

You should be able to control GPU fan settings in the manufacturer's software, to get it to stable temps.
The CPU fan speed can be altered in the BIOS/UEFI

But that'll probably mean I have to let/make the fan run at a higher operational frequency continuously(it'll run when I'm not using it i.e. Browsing)
The hassle to change it on and off will be worse than just letting it die prematurely

What's a good way to access my network shared folders from my android phone? I've been looking around but 95% of sources recommend ES File Manager, which might have been nice a year ago, but is now ad-infested bloatware.

>windows update 2 days ago
>new creators build
>I get a double lock/pin screen on start up now

How do I go back to 1? I have to enter twice my pin now..

I'm trying to connect to phpmyadmin, which is being hosted on nginx, but I'm getting a 502 error. When I check the logs, I get this.
*46 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream
I've looked around and I'm not really sure what I need to do to fix it, of if the error is coming from php or mySQL. Can you help me out, /sqt/?

>1-TB internal drive: personal files
>2-TB internal drive: videos
>Daily backup to internal 1-TB and 2-TB drive
>Weekly backup to external portable 3-TB drive
Is this a good idea?

I've always hated smart phones because my mental age is at least 62. I just got my second one because if I am to own a phone I might as well get one I can also use as a navigator and entertainment platform.

I made a fresh start because my Nexus 5 had gotten pretty cluttered but there were some files I wanted to save, especially images. So I connected my old phone to my Win10 bot machine and started browsing through IMG folder, copying my favorite pics onto D drive.

The next week I happened to browse through my Google Pictures or whatever bloat app and noticed that my old Nexus 5 pictures, the ones I copied for Win10, were all there. Why? What the fuck? Where do I find settings for this sort of bullshit? Will my aunt eventually see my dick pics if I let this insanity continue? I have no idea why this is happening, I guess I've logged onto Win 10 botnet and my Android device using the same e-mail but what the fuck

Can Samsung Kies update my phone's firmware?