Holla Forums Questions and Support

So, my laptop pretty much does this: reddit.com/r/videos/comments/35rtpi/my_asus_laptop_has_been_giving_me_shocks_for_a/
Now, I know this is a problem with the outlet I'm using, but the problem I have is that there's only one grounded outlet in my kitchen, which makes it really hard to place the laptop near it so I don't get shocked.
It's been bothering me a lot lately, since I use the laptop most of the day, and am exposed to it for hours on end, and in my room, I get shocked whenever I touch the radiator with bare feet.
I've tried wiring the case to the radiator, to act as a cheap-ass grounding, but that doesn't seem to work.
I have no other ideas on what to do. How can I solve this without having to rewire shit to make more grounded outlets?

>>>/reddit/

I guess that's the best answer I can get.

That's what you deserve for linking to leddit faggot.

I think I fucked up my grub. It gives me

sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command

whenever I run grub-mkconfig. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Please go step on a lego.

How does that even happen???

fixing thread

Found the problem. Something in /boot/default/grub was using sed with the wrong syntax.

Newfag here, I already have a vpn client that I barely know how to use.

Are there any additional measures I can take to prevent people from tracking my IP?

Consumer advice thread seems busted so I'm asking here...

Anyone have experience with uninterruptible power supplies? I need to protect my desktop from brownouts, apparently, and I'm trying to decide between APC or CyberPower.

How do I link a thread that's another board?

Like this:
>>>/civicrsturbo/378
Note the triple >.

Do these two rams seem similar enough?
Amazon: BLS8G4D240FSE
New Egg: N82E16820011110
When I built my PC I used the the latter (1x8gb), but I can't find it in stock anywhere so I can't expand. I'm hoping I'll be able to use the former to expand and not run into any issues

Can someone with a mod account post in to fix it? I tried to use my account that I used for a joke a while back but it doesn't work.

Doesn't the public mod account work? Anyone:0

If I raise the front feet of my computer case a little bit so it's at a bit of an angle, will this improve air flow at all?

Don't ask me where I heard this from.

No, tried it about an hour ago.

Any airflow question depends on your fan placement but this is probably not worth it. It's getting enough air if it's resting on a hard, flat surface. I can't imagine it's worth the risk of it tipping over unless you have zero airflow from the sides.

Not familiar with audio fuckery in the slightest, but I need to convert a .wav file into an .mpeg for the most autistic reasons imaginable. Is there a preferred way to do this? It's completely different from shit I normally do and Audacity doesn't seem to have an export option for it. Apologies in advance for being a retarded faggot.

Airflow's effect on cooling is practically negligible as long as you're not stuffing insulation in your case. Tipping it isn't going to get you any framerate increases.

If you need cooler temperatures, look into getting a better heatsink.

I'm a novice at Linux and I don't have the technical knowledge of systemd, but from my understanding it's like a spiders web that traps distros into it's web forcing dependency on it, and I've also read it's possible to be used to spy on and I don't doubt that. My question is, is there an easy to use distro without systemd? I breifly tried Manjaro and quickly dropped it when I could only login as root I figured I'd learn to use a rolling release distro but soon realized I'd rather not fight with the system if it breaks.
I tried Devuan and I couldn't add user as sudo. Whenever I tried to add my user to sudo, it'd say user is already added to sudo but when running sudo it'd say user is not sudo. I raged. Tried sudo apt-get install and it asked me to insert the CDrom fro Devuan, tried to fix it but I didn't know how to edit the .cfg. And during installation I tried to install another DE but it kept failing with no error code, just said no fuck you. Seems everything I try on linux doesn't work. I just want something stable, I don't need hundreds of packages. I was gonna use Trisquel as it's based on Ubuntu but the latest release is from 2014 and I can't imagine it's secure. Should I give Devuan another try and really try to learn it?

Also would like a distro that's as secure as can get that's not gentoo. With all this bullshit NSA spying I almost don't even want to use a computer and just fuck off from the internet.

Is it worth upgrading to a 1060 6gb if I already have a 1050 Ti?
I'm planning to stick to 1080p gaming.

Not exactly. It manages to be useful enough to get other software to depend on it, but that's because of its quality, not because systemd can't be kept optional.
This is just false.

ffmpeg -i audioin.wav audioout.mpeg

Audacity poster gave me an idea for dealing with Audacity's lack of output options more easily by piping directly to ffmpeg for encoding. Seems like mkfifo pipe.wav then export to WAV in Audacity, then ffmpeg -i pipe.wav -acodec libopus output.ogg should work, except it doesn't. What am I doing wrong here?

Save your money. I would think you'd only have problems with the most demanding games on max, only hog up vram for textures.

What is the error message?

how do I make it so that all files in another users home dir (even those that are created afterwards) have write permissions for his primary group?
(the user's primary group is the same as mine)

Audacity is likely trying to create an empty file instead of opening and writing into an existing one (like most programs do). You will need to have it write to a temp file first I'm afraid.

change the umask in /etc/profile to 002 or whatever
or put it in ~/.bash_profile if you only want this for specific users

Well shit, I don't know who to trust there's a lot of disinfo on the internet.

Any debian-fags around here? Trying to get pulseaudio to work on my new x220, any suggestions? Just shows up "Dummy Output" in pavucontrol. Should I just switch to jack?

Horizontal pink flickering lines. Wasn't there 4-5 hours ago when I went out.
Important specs:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti (bought last year)
SAMSUNG TV monitor LT24E390EX (bought in January)

Attempted fixes (google didn't help, just said REPLACE EVERYTHING):
For some reason changing the refresh rate below 50Hz gets rid of he lines, but also fucks up my desktop beyond use (can't really see anything half an inch away from the borders of screen). And my secondary monitor works just fine, as you can see in the video. Line flickering reacts to colors, before the icons load in my desktop's flat gray background is only flickering at the bottom (probably due to the Windows7 non-genuine warning text).

Nobody was fucking around with the connections while I was away and the fan works fine.

What connectors do you use? Try swapping the monitors to see whether it's the monitor or GC output that's broken.

HDMI (monitor) - HDMI mini (gpu)
Can't swap monitors because I don't have any DVI cables and the other one only has a DVI and VGA (used) port.

Debian. But nothing will help you if you don't know what you're doing. Look at that gentoo idiot who got infected with ransomware.

I just ran the OCCT scan and it came up negative, no errors detected. Since it's not the GPU (screenshots don't have the lines + OCCT test) and it's not the screen (can watch TV through the second HDMI port just fine at 50Hz) then I guess it must be the connection. Why would it crack up like that and why does it function normally under 50 Hz?
I guess I'll buy a new cable tomorrow and see what happens? What do I go with, HDMI-miniHDMI or DVI?

Why is systemd so hated on then? I thought it's goal was to undermine gnu/linux philosophy.

Also doesn't Linus hate systemd?

It might still be the HDMI encoder on the graphics card. Don't rule that out.

In linux, what program would you use for very light image editing? I don't want to open gimp everytime i need to crop something or slightly move something in an image.
In other words, what's the equivalent to paint in linux.

KolourPaint, I guess.
Having said that, I don't think that Gimp or Krita are "heavy" for today's computers.

How do I install Replicant without a separate Linux machine handy? I have access to Windows ones, but nothing I can install Linux on right now.

Boot Linux from a LiveCD or run it in a VM under Windows.

He ran firefox as root, I'm not stupid enough to do that. How hard can learning Debian be? I'm not gonna do anything crazy just install a package or 2. Biggest roadblock was adding user to sudo and installing packages, I'll figure it out. I'm gonna run it in a VM before I install it.

From my memory you install packages with sudo apt-get install $package. DNF should have a similar syntax. As for sudo rights, simply run as root useradd -m -g users -G wheel,power -s /bin/bash $username for a new account. Finally run EDITOR=nano visudo and then uncomment (remove the ##) the line, %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

possible interference. try plugging in a different electric socket.

maybe poor cable?

Adding your user to sudo can be done already in debian installer, but you need to read what it says and not just blaze through it. I don't think security is for you, tbh.

It does conflict with the Unix philosophy, but so do GNU and Linux, although systemd does it a bit more severely. There's no gnu/linux philosophy.

He has some minor problems with it and one of its developers, but overall he likes it and he uses it.

Is it correct to say that the less I use ram and cpu the longer my laptop's battery charge will last?

to rephrase the question, If I want to make my laptop's battery charge last longer, should I aim to make it use as little resources as possible?

CPU usage matters a lot. Screen brightness, too.

RAM usage doesn't matter directly, but using less RAM means other things run more smoothly, and CPU usage and disk access go down. Keeping it down does help, especially if it's close to full.

How does disc access go down with less shit in memory? Only if you swap to disk heavily, otherwise loading more things into memory once should lower the disk usage.

Disk caching. "Unused" RAM is used to keep a cache of recently accessed disk content, so the less RAM you use, the more likely you can re-read disk content without really accessing the disk.

I just woke up and the monitor seems fine now.

Maybe you just needed to turn it on and off again :^)

it's an actual possibility, since I only tried restarting the computer and not the monitor

I want to set up a NAS system, but I'm not especially Holla Forums-competent.
I'm obviously not going to go out and buy a $2000 pre-built system, since that would just be paying for the pretty lights and fancy racks that only accept that manufacturer's shaped drives, so I figured I could build one myself.

I'm after a 4 bay unit with a RAID 1 config.
I figured all I need is a fast processor (on par with an i3 or i5 but not Intel) and a bunch of SATA cables.

How wrong am I?

I thought that RAID 1 only works on two drives?
A fast processor isn't really needed unless you want to try and stream stuff.
Not at all, however any ARM SOC smashes any CPU brand in power efficency. Mabye using a Celeron or such in addition to underclocking/undervolting, using lower voltage RAM and SSD`s may help with getting close while still allowing x86 to be used.

You don't need a fast processor, unless you want it to do shit like transcoding videos on top of typical home server tasks. You do need it to support AES instructions if you want to encrypt your drives though.

I'm trying to play some Stellaris on picrel, but get blackscreened (music and some buttons seem to still work when I click around). When I added Directx 9 it started to crash instead.

What libraries I should add to the virtual drive? Or maybe its something else?

trying to find a link to activate office 2016

I tried pirate bay and they were the entire office program. I just need a key gen or some activator.

If you have enterprise then search for: KMS_VL_ALL

What the fuck is this?

automated real-time doxxing

Any way to rip twitch videos on wangblows 7?
There were a few sites and programs before, but they got purged and the videos get deleted after a couple weeks now.

It's a fake forum that uses Holla Forums as a cheap source of material.

does anyone have a study guide\link to study materials for COMPTIA A+ cert test? I'm tired of scrounging for jobs so I decided I might as well put aside the entertainment budget for a few months and nab this so I can do something with myself.
I know it sounds fucking stupid to go get some damn test but everyone is asking for it at lower end jobs and it looks good on a resume

What's even the point of all these fake forums? Ads and getting visits from search engines?

Ads, yeah.

Exactly.

youtube-dl

Ah nevermind, I figured it out, you're supposed to generate it yourself with one of the tools.

Nice, I didn't know it worked for twitch. Thanks.

Is it possible to use shortcode in the front matter of Hugo? I need to color something that uses the front matter as a variable.

Example being in the pages front matter
reviewer = "my mother"
I need that to be blue, but I can't do it through the template, because in another page, whatever is in reviewer might need to be green. Anybody? I'm dying here.

systemd is hated so much because it completely goes against the UNIX philosophy how a program / system should be designed. The UNIX philosophy says that for every task you need to have 1 program that does this and only this one task but it should do it perfectly good.

Systemd now put in a shitton of functions into one package for muh convenience and muh techn_progress and because linux devs are progressive and lazy cucks they adopted this crap.
There is no proof that it is bad per se but it was heavily pushed by red hat a possible CIA outfit and lennart a mega cuck. Also stuffing all those features into one package means that if someone would want to hijack your system, he only would have to hijack this 1 component where all the functions are unified => very convenient for future attacks => security risk

If you want a systemd-less distro you might want to try out Devuan or Trisquel. Keep in mind that trisquel devs might switch to systemd in the next few years as stated in one of their forum entried.
Devuan is basically Debian without Systemd and the installer even has a graphical one with full disk encryption and all that stuff is the same as debian. Maybe you want to use a netinstall cd to make sure your internet card works. If the card does not work they also have a netinstall cd with proprietary drivers. Devuan comes with XFCE but I think other desktop environments might be installed as well.
Trisquel has a mini version with LXDE desktop environment if you want something lightweight and similar to windows.

Good luck

If you want the Unix philosophy, go use real Unix. Everything in GNU/Linux violates the Unix philosophy. Including just about all of Linux, all of GNU, all of X11, all of Qt, and all major desktop environments. Refusing systemd because of the Unix philosophy is like making a meat pie without eggs because you're a vegan. It's completely inane.

Systemd actually splits most of its functionality into optional modules that run outside PID 1, so compromising those won't automatically lead to a compromise of your entire system. Unlike all other init systems it's not afraid to use Linux-specific security features to restrict the capabilities of its services, so your security probably gets better with systemd, not worse.

Where can I download templates intended for dynamic sites? Too lazy to write HTML/CSS

I told you to roll your own blog engine. It would be trivial to implement what you want, but you went with Uggo.
Seriously though, how is your website set up that you're unable to do that through the template? Why can't you check the reviewer attribute in your template code and use it to apply a CSS class to an HTML element?

I have a laptop I don't do much with so I decided to distro hop a bit just because.

What would be the difference as far as the average user is concerned between Ubuntu (specifically Xubuntu, but it doesn't really matter) and Debian?
would I still be able to get around using startpage to solve problems?
anything I'd need to get used to? will it 'just werk' less?

generic pros/cons?

I don't know if Debian installer's DE tasks include any "update manager" software that periodically updates your package cache in the background and notifies you of available upgrades - you will maybe have to install and configure such software yourself. Otherwise it shouldn't be too different.
Most of the time answers intended for Ubuntu will work on Debian unless it is Ubuntu specifically that is the source of the problem.

As for lazy pro/cons overview:
(+) Debian is more stable and flexible, doesn't pull stupid shit like that Amazon spyware, (-) but is not as perfectly polished as Ubuntu because they stay more close to vanilla upstream, including upstream's retarded decisions (e.g. GTK devs).
(+) Ubuntu has more polish and more noob users asking things on the web, (-) but it doesn't have user's security or privacy as much in mind and doesn't attempt to support variety of use cases.

do I really need an update manager when I can just sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade?

or am I being a colossal noob and missing something here? I'm willing to accept that possibility.

You don't need one.

I wrote that in case you wanted your system to be as similar to Ubuntu as possible. You could as well approach Debian as if it's Arch and install only a base system, then install and configure the rest yourself. However Debian installer already offers you to install DE "tasks" which are basically collections of packages to get a usable desktop system:
packages.debian.org/sid/tasks/task-desktop
For example, looking at the task-gnome-desktop one I can see that it already includes synaptics and gnome-software, the latter maybe also works like an update manager, but I've never used it.
There are also other ways to make updating more convenient than having to remember to run those commands daily. apt already comes with a daily cron job that can update cache periodically, you can also add hooks to notify you of changes.

If you're clued enough to know to do that regularly, then you don't need it.

I created an object inside a try-catch block, but then I can't use it outside of the try block. How is it possible to catch exceptions when an object is created and then use the object afterwards if it's just going to be destroyed as soon as the try block ends?
error: 'myObj' was not declared in this scope
My object never did throw an exception when it was created by the way.

So /prog/ got hacked but I was using the mathematical programming sticky quite a bit, did anyone screen cap it or know how I might get access to the same post?

Simply declare the variable outside of scope, then check after the try-catch block if its value is null to see if an object was assigned to that variable.

*declare variable outside of try-catch block

Because rolling my own blog engine would likely take way more effort than just learning Hugo. I could make a script to generate html/css, but then other people will have to edit ugly code.

The template has to be color neutral, because the params in it can be different colors. Making it a color in the template would make it a color regardless of whether the reviewer is "my mother" or "my father". That's not the point.

That's where Uggo's template engine comes in. I can only wildly speculate here but I'm guessing you have a template for a single blog post or whatever and you want to use different styles based on some attribute. Using Jinja or a similar templating engine you would do something like this in your template: Then you add a ".my-mother" class to your css. This is only one approach, but the point is that you use reviewer attribute within your template to dynamically set style.

Software question, how would someone go about dumping all content from an email account anonymously. Thunderbird through Tor or something?

Sounds like a good solution. Torbirdy is a Thunderbird extension for Tor support.

Pretty much. I would retrieve your emails over Tor, you would have to set it up to automatically download all attachments and all your folders.

Ok tinfoil hat mode now, what about anti-forensics precautions. I am thinking of completely installing the program and saving files inside a TC encrypted container.

Which monitor is better?

cnet.com/products/lg-e2351vr-bn-led-monitor-23/specs/

or

cnet.com/products/hp-compaq-la2306x-led-monitor-23-series/specs/

Planning to use either HDMI or DP. I'm leaning a bit towards the LG one because it has headphone jack, but I'm also leaning towards using DP over HDMI

Is there a working way to register an ebay account over Tor? I can pass through the registration process but I can't login after that, it keeps reloading the login form.
I just want to set up email notifications for some searches and don't intended to buy anything using this account.

My bad, I misworded it. I need to change the color of text depending on what is inside the front matter. So if my single blog post has "my mother", make it blue. If it has "my father" make it red. But the template is only HTML/CSS, so I can only assign one color to it. The way I've inserted the text is using the front matter, and that seems to be the only way to do this for me. But shortcodes (which use CSS) don't work in front matter, only text.

I think I understood that before, but why do you avoid using Hugo's template engine within the template to produce style dynamically based on the whatever you define in the front matter of a post?
gohugo.io/templates/go-templates/
text file with front matter metadata + content -> Go "blog post" object -> template logic that uses Go object's attributes to dynamically set style

I need some advice for apache configurations. I have a raspberry pi with apache running a little node.js based tool that needs to be accessed from the local network. The node.js app is listening on port 8000, and I can hit it just fine by visiting 192.168.42.1:8000. The problem is that I want to use pi.local as the address, not 192.168.42.1:8000.

I tried setting it up to deal with pi.local DNS requests, but it only seems to work half of the time, and only when a Mac is connected to the network. I have to hit either pi.local:8000 or the full 192.168.42.1:8000 on windows machines and phones. Anybody know the correct way to do a redirect that, at the very least, lets me get rid of the port in the URL?

To spoon feed you further: in that link scroll down to "Hugo Parameters" section where it says:
A little further down there's in fact an example that changes style based on front matter.

What the hell do I look for in a good UPS to protect my desktop from brief power loss?

get a voltage regulator with battery.

Hey folks, got a question for ya:
I've been digging around the normal(ish) end of the TAILS community and reading up on about:config stuff and I've noticed that I can't make my adjustments to the Tor Browser (Mozilla FF) persistent even with the tails persistent volume. I can do it just fine with Tor on my desktop, just not through TAILS. Was wondering if anyone had any leads or ideas.
For fellow noobs, have some links. It's good stuff
vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-security
airvpn.org/topic/19582-hardening-of-firefox/

web-beta.archive.org/web/20170316060131/https://8ch.net/prog/res/3034.html

I have a weird fucking problem,
my cd/dvd drive isnt working as in its not showing up in "my computer"

so I went to check the device manager and for some reason my cd/dvd drive is in "Disk drives" instead of in "DVD/CD-ROM drives"so yeah in short my pc thinks the dvd drive is a harddrive

Anyone knows how to move it back/fix it?

see if you can run a linux live cd on it

if you can't then it's fucked

Plug the sata cable in another port.

Holla Forums proxy question. People talk about VPNs and TOR and proxies, but the only one of those I've used are proxy addresses.

Proxies don't work on Holla Forums though do they?

I think lots of proxies are banned, but not all of them. Tor is a good way to access Holla Forums, because it has official provisions for it, although you won't be able to upload files.

Is there a manjaro linux net install? I really want to install Manjaro OpenRC and replace my Archsystemdick setup.

I want a transparent cryptsetup installation and minimal install of KDE plasma

So, does anyone know the criteria for this?

it's becaues of widnwos update, winfag

yep I figured it out about 10min ago, its a new laptop that came with with it preinstalled.

good thing I messed with so many things now that I cant boot up my PC anymore and will probably reinstall, wish I could find my wangblows 7 somewhere

Yes... That's what a UPS is.

What is an open-source program that can mass-convert FLAC into MP3?

ffmpeg, if you can do very basic command line scripting.

I'm using two HDDs on SATA 2.0 ports, do i get an important boost or a minimal one if i change from IDE to AHDI? I have an OS installed in both HDDs

What is the cleanest method of protecting email addresses on a website from spambots?

None at all. It only matters on SSDs that need a deep IO queue to reach their peak IOPS.

Should I fall for the meme and install gentoo? I have no power in my life so I need to have overbearing control over my machine to give me a sense of smug validation.
In seriousness, I hear it's a really good OS without systemdicks (if that's still true) and there are loads of instructions on how to harden it for security purposes. Also thinking about installing libreboot, but that whole situation with the transfaggot dev nearly destroying the project and his team for the sake of progressivism is really drawing me away.

That's a good reason for installing it. Just make sure you keep viewing it as a hobby, not as a really useful activity.

Is it possible to uncuck a gayming laptop?
Or are they pozzed at hardware level?
After getting rid of winshit and so on, can you still play games on it?

I think the general criticism is that they're overpriced and marketed towards people who don't know what they're doing, not that they're fatally flawed in a way like that.

You can play games on Linux.

How am I supposed to install Virtualbox Additions on Ubuntu GNOME?

Ubuntu 16.10
Virtualbox 5.1.18 r114002

Nah, it won't work, I can tell you from experience. Too frequently you will realize that what you're doing is a useless distraction, at which point it will obviously fail to work even as a distraction.
I suggest becoming an alcoholic instead.

I was expecting to be ridiculed, so thanks.
To be more precise, can one install a Linux distro on the machine, and get good drivers for the grahical card ? Also, how good is the wine emulator? There are some programs that are useful for my job, and I think there arew no versions for Linux, for example Aspen Plus, but I guess i might be able to find free versions of it (process simulators, I'm a chemical engineer).

What would you suggest to someone who likes freedom, security, and ease of use?

...

You can probably get Linux running, but whether you can get it to run well, especially in the graphics department, depends on the exact hardware you have. Is this a laptop you already own?

You can try Linux before installing it, and you can even install it without removing Windows. If you do that you get to pick which operating system to use when you boot your computer.

Debian. All proprietary software is in dedicated repositories, so it's easy to keep out, and it has official packages for grsecurity-hardened kernels. You can run it without systemd if you're so inclined.

I actually have already installed lubuntu in the machine, doublebooting,
The laptop is mine yes.

Oh neat, it is actually fun to use. I only ever used it to convert stuff to webm

How the FUCK do you actually install Hardened Gentoo?
I can only find a handbook to install normal Gentoo. The only documentation on Hardened Gentoo is a FAQ that tells you about its features.

How do make clang target MinGW on Windows? I want to die over the fact that LLVM won't stop integrating itself automatically to msvc upon installation even though i've uninstalled all traces of all Visual Studio related things in my system.

Use the force, luke.

i forced a shutdown when i was using windows because it didnt want to shutdown normally, now when im using mint cinnamon im getting this error every time i want to access a partition that i use to share files for both OS.
I did a disk check for the drive when i was on windows and it didnt find any errors, what should i do now?

Do what it says. Shut down Windows properly, and make sure you disable the "Fast Startup" thing if you run Windows 8 or above.

I don't understand how installing GRUB to a partitionless disk works. Specifically, where is the 440-byte stage1 bootloader located, and why doesn't this conflict with the header of the filesystem?
Some context: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk

Second question: I was confused by the same sort of thing in various ISO images:
% fdisk -l alpine-standard-3.5.2-x86_64.iso Disk alpine-standard-3.5.2-x86_64.iso: 78 MiB, 81788928 bytes, 159744 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x6cbe220fDevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Typealpine-standard-3.5.2-x86_64.iso1 * 0 159743 159744 78M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
How is the start of whole file and the start of the first partition in the same sector? The only explanation that I can think of is that the bytes for the dos partition table header and the iso9660 file system header intersect perfectly.

I'm pretty sure you just install sys-kernel/hardened-sources through emerge in the place of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources and follow the handbook otherwise. You probably want to configure pax too.

Nevermind on the iso9660 question, the first 2^15 bytes are purposefully unused in the spec
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Overall_structure
i should have checked wikipedia before asking the question

Is this fucking real? Do you seriously need a phone number to make a new Youtube account these days? Someone please tell me I'm overcomplicating this and you don't actually need to make a Google Account just to set up a new youtube channel.

You don't need to switch to manjaro: systemd-free.org/

Of course it's real. But why not use a fake phone number? I once registered at textnow.com to get one because the publicly available ones are all used up. They seem to give you an unused one. Registration procedure includes google captcha though because every one of these fuckers tries to fuck you in the ass at every turn, most don't even realize it how painful it is. You can do all of this over Tor despite being treated like a nigger in the 50s.

This is so appalling to me that I think this might be enough to make me switch to Vimeo for my project right here and now. People like us can get around this fucking bullshit but it's too much to expect normies to do all that shit just to use a video uploading service. We need to encourage people to move to an alternative already.

Due to bullshit, I had to do this on a wangblows computer since that's all I was given, but I did indeed get it to work. Thanks a bunch, user.

All filesystems that originate from the PC reserve at least one unused 512-byte sector at the beginning for a bootloader. It would trash a non-PC filesystem that doesn't do that, obviously.

Thanks user.

I know free vpn's are really bad but atm I can't afford a vpn. So which free vpn is better?

Consider using Tor.

What this guy said:

If a notebook has Win10 and Linux, but I stop using Win10, can still spy me?

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No.

Yes.

Of course. It's foreverially delitized.

Do what the log file says you dirty nigger. Install GCC, make, the linux headers, and perl.

Wine is fucking garbage. If you're going the Linux route, invest in hardware with the ability to virtualize so you can use a VM.

Many programs run perfectly in Wine. It depends on what you need it for.

Except when Wine shits it's pants.

The point is that it doesn't do that for all programs. If the programs you need happen to work well in Wine there's no need for virtualization.

No, not just when Wine is so terribly inept it can't run a simple program; I'm talking about when Wine, the program, shits it's pants. Which happens so often and for so many reasons they general consensus is to reinstall instead of attempting to troubleshoot the issue. It's happened to me so often I have the Wine repo and deps in a folder on my desktop for reinstallation.

So I thought my PSU was fried recently and got it replaced on RMA. My motherboard spins its fans up like it's attempting to boot but no signal gets sent to any devices. Is my motherboard fried instead? Last time I saw this symptom replacing the PSU resolved it.

Is anyone else seeing missing icons today?

That happens when you don't use https.

That fixed it, but since when?

Yeah, same problem here. Why doesn't 8ch just force https?

hey goys, 'gifted' a win7 computer from an aunt, trying to cut the bloat down in case I feel like 'selling' it to Goodwill or similar basically if you're unaware, if you donate to specific long-time charities you get a certificate for a tax writeoff comparable to whatever the original list price was. A lot of the time they don't even research this, which I found out from an old lady who donates ratty old coats she finds scavenging and claims they're worth $100
Quick Q, while using the search to try and find unnecessary parts ahead of time to dismantle before going full autismo with a bunch of guides, came upon some undeletable movie files in Performance/WinSAT.
Any idea wtf they're for and why they aren't allowed to be deleted? It's almost all the same video just in different sizes.
Clip_480_5sec_6mbps_h264.mp4 my.mixtape.moe/fdhxiw.mp4
Clip_480i_5sec_6mbps_new.mpg my.mixtape.moe/gfgjki.mpg
Clip_480p_5sec_6mbps_new.mpg my.mixtape.moe/kndrek.mpg
Clip_1080_5sec_10mbps_h264.mp4 my.mixtape.moe/xkzpgn.mp4
Clip_1080_5sec_MPEG2_HD_15mbps.mpg my.mixtape.moe/vbuofz.mpg
Clip_1080_5sec_VC1_15mbps.wmv my.mixtape.moe/rvaheo.wmv
winsat.wmv my.mixtape.moe/yfbgjy.wmv
winsatencode.wmv my.mixtape.moe/dcpqdm.wmv
I tried searching by filename but only get a couple thousand results apiece, most also asking why can't you get rid of them (or occasionally why unplayed movie files keep fucking with the video card)

I am looking for traffic shaping software with features similar or equal to NetBalancer for Windows. Is there such a program that exists? If not, I only have a few requirements.
>needs to be able to count monthly data ONLY DURING CERTAIN TIMES OF THE DAY
>needs to throttle internet, not disconnect it

Can someone help me out? I'm so desperate I'm considering routing internet through a Windows 7 VM and routing back to the Linux machine.

Do any of you guys use RSS? Or do you rely on social networking sites for your news (kys). Or perhaps, just chans.

thanks, user, it worked.

Does there exist any software to extrapolate an ed-x or opencourseware course-structure database?
They archive the courses, but there's no telling for how long. It'd be nice to run your own platform instance and not rely totally on SaaS
edx-dl is cool but it only downloads the videos.

I take care to check each news/magazine site personally and individually when I remember to.
All media has turned to shit, so lately I don't have to check much at all.

Ah, exactly what I do.

I want to build a PC with AMD's new R7 1700, but I also wanted to try out a linux distro for the first time, leaning towards Xubuntu. Will the lack of driver support for linux (none of the compatible motherboards have linux drivers) make running xubuntu a horrible broken mess?
If so can someone push me in the direction of some resource that will help me build a new PC for running linux?

I would seriously advise against considering using a "stable" distro on the latest hardware as the kenel is where system drivers (USB,Ethernet,etc) are located and to be "stable" a older kernel version is used. There are several decent rolling release distro`s available, most of which use Systemd.

Like what

A none exaustive list, Arch (and it`s forks e.g Parabela), techncially the unstable branch of Debain/Tumbleweed, The One That Shall Not Be Named and Gentoo.

Have you tried using a LiveCD, installing/checking for ntfs-3g then mounting the partition and removing them that way? I would assume the issue may be something related to permissions/filesystem metadata possibly getting confused if a system was turned off at the wall/PSU at the wrong time.

recently switched from systemd to openrc on manjaro, and am trying to get primusrun working again with bumblebee.

the bumblebeed.socket is at default runlevel but won't start. can anyone help? I can provide more info if needed

Does anybody knows an application like this one but for windows instead? Or anything that I can tag pics with and that have some kind of "sort pics by color" option?

addictivetips.com/mac-os/sparkbox-tag-rate-organize-and-search-your-images-by-color-mac/

Hydrus is by far the best thing I've found for tagging images but I don't think it has a sort by color option.\ yet. The developer is very receptive to adding new features though at request so you could probably ask them to add it, it already has a "Search for similar" images feature so maybe adding color detection wouldn't be too difficult.
hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

Usually people request features in whatever the latest release thread is.
>>>/hydrus/

My pc is not detecting one of my hard drives, is not even showing up in disk magnament. And sometimes it doesn't boot at all. I left it alone for a day and it detected all the hard drives for about an hour and then it crashed. Any ideas about what's going on and hoqw to fix it?

Is there any point to running a browser proxy on top of my vpn?

It was handed over after being through a couple of repairs (she's very... 'clicky' with email links in spite of 10 years of computer usage) so when I get home I'll have to check on that, thanks.

whenever I use nouveau drivers with two monitors one refuses to wake up after it goes to sleep
wat do

For what? What is your threat model?

X logs would be helpful to figure out whats wrong.
I had lots of problems with multiple monitors and a nvidia gpu, i eventually just gave up and only used one.

How pozzed is pic related?

So I'm on a work computer which has quite a few restrictions and none of the images come up when I'm on Holla Forums which is terrible. Curious as how to fix that. I'm not computer savvy what so ever.

Tried switching between http and https?
Does only Holla Forums get its images blocked or does it happen on all sites?
Have you tried downloading a portable browser and see if you have the same issue?

It's a government computer so I can't plug a USB in, and using http tells me I'm on an insecure connection. And yes its only Holla Forums

download one of these portable browsers and test it

portablefreeware.com/index.php?sc=8

I think I'm just fucked when I'm at work. I can't install any new programs either.

portable stuff doesn't have to be installed, all you have to do is extract the zipped file you got to a new folder - that is, unless your pc doesn't allow file creation. Download this one, extract to a folder and reply back what message you get when you try to run it

sourceforge.net/projects/pcxfirefox/files/Release/Firefox/52.x/52.0.2/x86/sse2/pcxFirefox-52.0.2-enUS-vc2015-x86-sse2-betterpgo-170402.7z/download

I extracted it and it gives me a firefox folder with a bunch of stuff inside. I'm not really what what I'm supposed to open

Every time I think I'm writing something in OOP...I'm not really sure whether I am. That's my problem with abstract concepts like these, because they aren't a rigidly defined process (like...well...a 'procedure'), I have no idea whether I'm actually doing it or not. For example, if I'm writing a function with a lot of subfunctions, isn't that...inheritance? Am I not doing OOP? And as for what the fuck polymorphism is, it's like...I read it, but when I try to do whatever the fuck I think it is, I'm left with this completely unsure feeling.

Tl;dr, I have no idea whether I'm actually even 'doing' OOP when I try to do it.

Also, can someone suggest something for me to read to understand exception handling?

...I doubleposted because I thought that I posted in a pre April Fools dead thread.

Is there a nice archive.is alternative that doesn't use CloudFlare?

I'm surprised they allow you to open Holla Forums at all.

archive.org/web/

Should I use arch as my first distro if I'm not retarded and I can follow instructions?

its still better to start with something like not-netinst-debian/ubuntu/manjaro and toy with things first imo.

So gay ass emojis are everywhere and I'm missing whatever unicode font pack it is to see them on wangblows 7 which I refuse to move from and can't update because reasons. What are my options for installing something that isn't spyware/bloatware and being able to see these font packs? Everything I find is basically an .exe and isn't some simple tff or some shit.

You can always try. But at least go with Debian net-install base instead of Arch, it's the same thing but better.

debian is a better system(has an actual alternatives system, for example) but arch has more software. the aur has EVERYTHING, and it really is nice.

That really makes no sense. You have to rely on unofficial AUR and risk getting pozzed just to get some packages that are already available in Debian's official repos because Arch has less packages than Debian. Debian also supports unoffical repos, the only difference is there is no centralized system for it like AUR.

who fucking cares you faggot
it has a gorillion packages. I installed a shitload of them when I used arch. I never had any problems at all.
Arch gives you access to vastly more software than debian, its a fucking fact, get over your distro wars butthurt.
Debian is better in every other way anyway.

Obviously you do, otherwise you wouldn't sperg out about muh package numbers, and you got even that wrong. What's more important is that you can trust your packages. I wouldn't trust some incompetent idiot uploading shitty software to AUR. I know, because some idiot uploaded one of my shitty unmaintained and unreleased toy projects to AUR and there are now other idiots out there using it.

Okay, so I want to get a new monitor, but I want to keep using my GPU audio (using a TV right now)

So obviously I have no issue getting a monitor with a 3.5 jack, but if I get one without it, how do I get the audio from the GPU, straight from the HDMI/DP?

Is there like an audio extractor I could use like those HDMI to VGA convertors but... you know, not VGA. I want to keep using HDMI/DP.

I envy you, user.

Why the fuck can't you just use audio out from your PC?! I understand when you have a display with integrated speakers (say a TV) you may want to avoid extra cables. But with separate speakers you use an extra cable anyway. What is the point?

so my pc died yesterday. I put it to sleep over night as I always do. in the morning it wouldn't wake up. I noticed that numlock was still glowing on the keyboard. I killed it via powerbutton and it won't boot anymore.
when I press the power button it gets power for half a second (lights go on, vents rotate for a bit) and it completely dies.

does this sound like a mobo issue or a psu one? the psu I got for free but the mobo is only a few months old

it's probably dead or dying. make sure that the hdd is visible in the bios. try a program like getdataback, it managed to save my data from a similar situation.

Xubuntu is fine, as long as you use 17.04 which will be out in the next few days. Older releases have too old kernels to properly support Ryzen and some AM4 motherboard features.

where did everyone go?

Some other, less jewy chan probably?

realtek sounds like shit.

When I try to stress and benchmark my CPU, it doesn't go full 100% usage anymore. It caps around 95% and drops even to high 85%

Anyone knows what's causing this performance limitation? I reset the BIOS settings and the issue is still there, with or without the turbo boost.

I want to learn Assembly programming, what are some good books or resources?

Why do you want to do that? Better learn C++.
Read, The C++ Programming Language Fourth Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup

Why do you want to do that? Better learn C++.
Read, The C++ Programming Language Fourth Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup

I mostly just wanted to learn it to have an understanding of how it works. I'm aware that assembly has no practical use for most developers.

Keep in mind archive.org deletes stuff on request (as in "hi I'm the owner of x.com, can you erase my whole site from your archives kthxbye" not DMCA requests)

Hey goys come to my image board! No datamining *wink* and free memes for everybody!

you need to run "firefox.exe" on the parent folder my dude

Any of the generation books from Kusswurm or Irvine. I prefer Irvine. You can probably find them online. You might also want to read as supplement if you are serious the programming from the ground up by Bartlett, I found it interesting.

Was fixing my MacBook Pro by reapplying thermal paste but now it doesn't boot into the OS.

First it just gave me white screen with no logo and no chime but I did control PR shift to reset the NVRAM and now all I get the chime on startup which indicates POST.

However, I cannot proceed from here. Any ideas?

Time to pay the Apple Tax.

I just installed Manjaro coming from Mint and first thing I notice is the audio quality is worse. I'm by no means an expert on linux and I've done very minor reading and I thought ALSA is supposed to be better than pulse audio?

I mean I wore an ESD bracelet and have done this before. Pretty frustrating

I'm assuming you want to learn x86-64 assembly for the common PC.
If you want a hand-holding step-by-step introductory textbook, then I'm afraid there aren't any up to date ones. Nearly nobody programs the PC in assembly these days, so there's no market for that shit. You'll need to learn on your own.
I would advise you to first learn C really, really well. Then wade through the disassembly of simple functions and code sequences in your C programs. See how the compiler transforms your code. Tinker with that until you're comfortable with it. Then try writing small functions from scratch and link them with a C program.
Intel's reference manuals for the x86 architecture are your friend. Look up instructions you don't understand as you go. Note that unlike many simple embedded/old architectures, you can't just read the reference manual start-to-end and dive straight into writing code. x86 has well over one thousand instructions by now most of which are very esoteric, and the instruction set reference alone is around 1500 pages long. Search for specific shit in there, don't try to read it all.
Also, don't be a nigger and use NASM - the only sane x86 assembler. nasm.us/
Ask Holla Forums for help if you ever get stuck.

I've found a lead, gonna see if I can do something about it. I should have looked harder before posting, sorry.

I'm strongly considering getting an LG G6 over the Galaxy S8 that I actually want strictly because it's essentially only half as expensive with a special deal that my carrier has going on right now. (Sprint if you're interested.) But I'm tired of not having an AI assistant. I really, really want the S8 and Bixby. But if I decide to save me and my family the big bucks and get the G6, I want to know if I'll have any options. My Galaxy S7 has Google Assistant, but it won't allow me to use it without having to enable a ridiculous number of permissions, some of which I don't want to give it. For example, browser history. Do any of the other devices, such as the G6, have the option to not give it as many permissions?

get a chinese phone. theres a page on the wiki about it m80

get a microcontroller board set and make sure the programming language is Assembler (modern sets also use C). Popular boards are PIC, Atmels AVR or their boards based on intels 8051. Back in the day I used a 8051-based board with Keil Software microvision as the IDE. You programmed your ASM code on your laptop and sent it through a cable onto your microcontroller.

The microcontroller will usually come with a CD and on this CD you have an IDE for writing your code, compiling it and sending it to your controller through wire. Keep attention to what cables you might need. Some controllers use RS232 cables for data transfer. On my laptop I used an RS232 to USB cable so I can connect to my board.
My microcontroller board came with Switches for input and LEDs for output. I programmed the microcontroller to do X with the LEDs depending on how the switches are pressed. You can program various things with the commands and build your own primitive delay subroutines by letting the controller perform mathematical operations that take as much time as your delay has to be.

Assembly is a language mostly for drivers and programming chips on a board used in embedded systems. You might not use it on your home pc but by experimenting on your microcontroller board you will also learn how assembly works. It really is a very primitive language and the jump command is used very often which leads to spaghetti code. If you are interested in the 8051, you might be interested in reading this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AT89_series
circuitvalley.com/2011/06/usb-8051-avr-microcontroller-programmer.html

No. Flagship or bust. Also, the question was about Google Assistant. When it comes to which phone to buy, I think I've pretty much got all the facts and will just have to come to that decision on my own.

Why the fuck spend money on all that shit when you can just program your PC?

Upon further research I ran speaker-test and it showed it was running at 48000hz which is windows default and I assume Mints. I'm no audiophile, it could be all in my head because when I first played music the volume was lower and had less bass, I've gone back and forth to see the audio difference and I think it just is in my head unless I'm missing something.

What's a good video player? Just updated to a newer version of Linux, only to discover Bomi hasn't been updated for years and isn't supported.

Last I tried them all out, MPV's default frontend was trash, VLC was trash, the built-in Videos was trash, SMPlayer was trash, and Xine was fossilized on its feet.

How the fuck do I unscrew my g402? I have god damn clock screwdrivers and even they can't fit properly or something.

What's wrong with SMPlayer?

How can I make it so that Firefox does not shorten file names when I select save link as on linux?

read up on jewler screwdrivers

Reading won't tell me the size I need. If you want to tell me something about the way I should hold it, why not just tell me?

you said it doesn't fit
find a smaller one, or some sort of torque

if that's not what you are talking about then you need to do a better job of asking the question

you could google an answer for this question here is the first result
overclock.net/t/1504917/logitech-g402-hyperion-fury-gaming-mouse-review-by-ino/670

you don't even know if you're doing it right, how would I know if you are doing it right when you don't even describe what you are trying to do or how you are going about it.
you don't even know if the screwdriver is fitting properly, so get your shit straight and either figure out if you are using the right screwdriver bit or if you are doing it wrong

How about some trust in humans? I already trying to find information about and your link is even about something completely different and still does not include screw size. Of course I wouldn't know if it fits if I don't know the size and it doesn't work. I tried different screws and went as low as 1.2mm, but none seem to do the job.
What I am doing matters very little when if you know what you are talking about you will just tell me the size and maybe how to hold the screwdriver, which is not exactly hard but this is what you implied I don't understand with your post.

how bout you quit acting like a little bitch

If you can't say anything useful why did you engage in this conversation to begin with? Saying to people to use google is not going to help most people.

Ah, how I love the sound of flames and shitposting in the morning. Never change, Holla Forums.

ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer

What is so stupid about the question? I have like a dozen different screwdrivers and none of them even budge the mouse. And so I am stupid for asking about the size of the screw? Shouldn't this be something very basic that is written somewhere in the products manual or whatever?

your QUESTION is stupid, for many reasons
most notable now because you have fully rephrased it into an entirely different question

Maybe it was more poorly phrased, but it is the same message.
The fix would be to tell me what are the screw requirements of the mouse.

...

How do you unscrew something?
You get the correct screwdriver for the screw you want to unscrew.
Yes, it is the same. Two of the the sentences are even basically the same. Or what is next "But you didn't use the word 'mouse' anywhere, that is different!"

in the first sentance you say "they can't fit properly or something."
in the second you say "none of them even budge the mouse."
the first implies that you cannot figure out what screwdriver bit you need
the second that you have the bit but cannot get the screw to turn
lrn 2 english

One doesn't exclude the other. In fact usually it wouldn't move if you are using the incorrect screwdriver. That is the whole point. Why are you so autistically stupid about this?

"Its Stuck" is not by any measure "I cant get the right bit" you royal retard

Either all screws are not moving, because I am not using the correct size and features and whatever screwdrivers, or/and I can't even figure out which one is even the correct as it doesn't budge regardless of using the correct size or not. So yes, both are truth at the same time, thanks to each other.

no because if the bit is too big or too small and you're turning it anyway you're probably gonna strip the screw like a retard
is that what you did?

So now that you gave on this "discussion" and refuse to admit you are austistically wrong, you move to the "I bet you are breaking it in the most obvious way to break a screw," even though I am specifically sitting on my ass with the hope that someone will tell me the requirements of the screws so I wouldn't do exactly that.
How lonely are you to be desperate for this type of human interaction?

all you have to do is go from biggest to smallest until you get one that fits, then try the one above it just to make sure that one doesn't fit tighter

then you apply pressure to make sure the screwdriver does not slip out of the screw and slowly turn it while maintaining high pressure on the screwdriver to make sure it stays in place

and I'm only giving you as much shit as you give me, so if you want a civil discussion quit being such a cunt

So you are giving me the obvious to try out the screwdrivers and the obvious way to use them. And then blame it all on me, even though it is you that started with "lol just google it" and then went to "you totally didn't say that."
How super useful.

how super spiteful
you should have presented your question as "what size bit do I use for the screws on my g402 mouse" not the shit you started with and not most of the shit I had to drag out of you
and yeah, google it
google the bit size, google how to ask for help without being a bitch about it, you're about as bad as faggots on forums asking why a game doesn't work on their computer without presenting the specs, except they have better appreciation of their position and act less like entitled cunts

So now we are pretending that the whole conversation so far about why you are wrong doesn't exist? Just like the part where google is useless, about as much as you.

ya winnin son?