>>2605 >Looking at the monitor from further away helps. That just makes parts of an image darker on mine.

>>2618 Not that Anon, but thanks for the great explanation Anon. I'm certainly interested. >uses Compiler Explorer

I can't get to install shit on Linux Mint after installing it over Ubuntu. >Wine <Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. <The following information may help to resolve the situation: <The following packages have unmet dependencies: <winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.0~bionic) <E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >FFmpegYAG <Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libavformat54 (>= 6:9.18) >QWinFF >>from repository <Cannot add PPA: This PPA does not support bionic. >>attempting to build from source code <cd /home/martin/qwinff/src && qmake DESTDIR=/home/martin/qwinff/bin OBJECTS_DIR=/home/martin/qwinff/build/obj MOC_DIR=/home/martin/qwinff/build/moc RCC_DIR=/home/martin/qwinff/build/rcc <UI_DIR=/home/martin/qwinff/build/ui DEFINES+=QT_NO_DEBUG_OUTPUT qwinff.pro && DATA_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/qwinff\\\" VERSION_ID_STRING=\\\"\\\" make </bin/sh: 1: qmake: not found <Makefile:49: recipe for target 'release' failed <make: *** [release] Error 127 Pretty sure something else is missing

>>2632 ><Cannot add PPA: This PPA does not support bionic. There's a clue. Bionic isn't part of Mint, but rather Ubuntu. You have to go and change the repository information. It's been a while, but I think it's in an app called 'Software Update'. Just look in the menus. There's a set of files you can edit directly but I don't remember what they're called atm.

>>2621 >What's the most autistic /tech/ way to browse imageboards? Just create a scraper for the JSON files themselves? It's what I did tbh.

>>2632 >overwriting ubuntu with mint Your PPAs will be fucked, not to mention version and dependency hell, as mint is generally behind ubuntu on a fair number of packages

>>2635 How can I clean my SSD completely then? After installing Ubuntu it changed the boot to UEFI and now I have to press F8 on startup to switch to Windows instead of just using the grub menu. That still remains now after overwriting it.

>>2636 If you're trying to dual-boot, you'll probably just have to live with it. And UEFI settings can usually be changed in the BIOS except for the kiked machines from HP & others that lock it down. If you're willing to wipe the SSD entirely (recommended) then just do it during the Mint setup from a live usb stick. Just be certain which drive is which before you wipe it, or you'll lose Wangblows entirely probably a good thing, but w/e :^).

>>2637 >If you're willing to wipe the SSD entirely (recommended) then just do it during the Mint setup from a live usb stick. Can that be done from a DVD?

>>2638 Sure, just like with a usb stick. DVDs are rare these days. Just so long as you can burn the Mint ISO to the DVD and then boot from it instead of the hard disk you're golden.

>>2638 btw, i'd recommend you use etcher if you decide to go with a usb stick, anon. https://www.balena.io/etcher/

>>2639 Welp, tried to wipe out what was left on the SSD (format disk -> erase), still have the same issues I had before. And for some reason it installed linux mint on the "reserved for system" partition of my Windows 7 HDD, despite having clarified to install it on the SSD. So now I have double the trouble and files losts forever

>>2646 >not making backups Shiggy diggy. The system reserved partition doesn't hold your files, you should be able to recover them. >>2640 That's the same garbage that crashes and burns if blocked in the firewall? And with exec calls taking unsanitized user input?

>>2646 then try using gparted first to clear teh drive, then do a clean install after a reboot.

>>2646 your fault for using linux mint. use devuan or something else.

Is a partition scheme like the one shown here a sensible security measure for desktops? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Filesystem/Security#Mount_options # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 noauto,nouser,noatime,ro 1 2 /dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime,nouser,ro 0 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda5 /usr ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,ro 0 3 /dev/sda6 /opt ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,ro 0 3 /dev/sda7 /var ext4 nodev,nouser,noexec 0 3 /dev/sda8 /tmp ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,noexec 0 3 /dev/sda9 /var/tmp ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime 0 3 /dev/sda10 /var/cache/distfiles ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime 0 3 /dev/sda11 /var/cache/binpkgs ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,noexec 0 3 /dev/sda12 /home ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,noexec 0 3 /dev/md0 /srv ext4 nodev,nouser,noatime,noexec 0 3 Do those mount options increase security significantly enough to make a setup like that worth the trouble? What if it's not physical partitions but LVM instead?

>>2652 >desktop linux >security Don't bother: there's too little market to have for-profit attacks in significant numbers, trusting poorly written (or maliciously edited) software will fuck you up regardless of partitioning, keep backups and you'll be more than fine. >Do those mount options increase security significantly enough to make a setup like that worth the trouble? No. >What if it's not physical partitions but LVM instead? No difference in security terms.

>>2652 That's not a security issue in general anon, but rather a maintenance one.

Is DuckDuckGo cucked? I've heard rumors about it taking data in the past and I'm not comfortable with its founder being a literal jew. I've head about Startpage but I don't know anything about it either.

>>2674 >ddg maybe botnet >startpage definitely botnet >inb4 what use? lurk moar

>>2675 Not the original asker but can you elaborate? I was under the impression ddg was definitely botnet and startpage was just google results with a proxy.

>>2676 >be thinking exactly like anon >use sp >always private mode, no cookies over night >on vacation, other side of the fucking Earth >search general stuff >got extremely personal hometown result >heart skipped a beat >sweat droplet wet my keyboard >clamped the shit up my thinkpad with my shaking hand >s-spaghetii everywhere >jump and scream >ITS BOTNET

>>2678 anon, are you sure they didn't just triangulate your position as you travelled?

So in he process of building a better pc to work from home on, currently when I work from home it's a lappy so not powerful enough. I do a lot of cg, texturing, modeling so I often have multiple programs open at once. My basic query though is r7 3700xk VS i7 9700k. Right now where I am the prices difference is nelegible to me, but looking at this video and some others i want some understanding of why the CPU usage of the r7 is so much less? I was considering an i7 until I saw this. Right now my laptop actually has an i7 but one of the biggest problems I have when working on the laptop now is CPU usage capping out when I have a few programs open which is sometimes unavoidable in what I do. Gaming is a consideration, but the 10or so fps difference is way less important to me than that cpu usage. So could anyone shine some light on this for me? Link to the vid too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaK8ter5WU&feature=emb_logo

Trying to install wangblows 7 but have no PS2 mouse/keyboard. How can I get the installation to detect my USB peripherals? Looked around a bunch of forums only to get dead links and "just use PS2 lmao"

>>2695 >>>4/g/pcbg How did you even find this place? >>2698 Fuck off wanblow loser. Literally got solution 2 min on ddg.

>>2698 I think people these days create a new install disc with the drivers added into it.

Did nyaa.si just blocked every Tor node from connecting to their website, or is it just me? I can't access it due to 403 Forbidden errors, and switching to different nodes doesn't fix the issue (like it used to).

are there any modern laptops that have a keyboard similar to the X220 or T420? Every single fucking laptop today uses a shitty chiclet keyboard that feels like shit to type on. The ones from Purism and System76 seem really nice but they all have that fucking keyboard.

I'm installing Devuan on a Lenovo L380. Usually when I get to the part where the GRUB bootloader needs to be installed I simply select the hard drive and proceed. This time, however, the options are completely different: /dev/nvme0n1 (nvme-eui.002538b58104a515) /dev/nvme0n1p2 (nvme-SAMSUNG) I'm not about to gamble on a new $500+ brick. What's the correct way to proceed with the installation?

>>2758 It just shows you that you have 2 saparate active physical storage. >Bricking while installing grub LOL, I'm not sure that's even possible.

>>2758 Check your "mount". You can switch to tty4 while d-i is running for a shell. Run "mount" to see what is mounted where. /dev/nvme0n1p2 is probably your root partition, and /dev/nvme0n1 is your main hard drive (what /dev/sda usually is). You'd want to install to /dev/nvme0n1. But again, double check.

I have bought a suspicious new hard drive. The first time I powered it on, it already made a strange high pitched noise, like a beep. Sometimes you hear it from drives when you power them on/off, but normally not repeatedly and not as loud. Turned everything off, checked the cables, noise gone. Then I tried copying data from another HDD, after around 500GB it started to hang. Everything trying to access the disk would hang too. This happened repeatedly when trying to copy large amounts of data to the drive, but after half a minute or so it would just unhang itself and return to normal. I've run 30 hours of tests on the damn thing and the only test one that wasn't successful was the one I started while it was actually hanging. But that was in Seagate's proprietary tool that just showed some error code. Everything else seemed fine. So software seems unable to find anything because there isn't really any error, it just pauses and write speed drops to 0 while the load on the drive clocks in at 100%. This happens with every cable on every port. But only when I copy from HDD to HDD. When I copy stuff from my SSD. I can copy 600GB from my SSD and everything is fine. But try copying something from another HDD an it'll hang after 20GB. What the fuck is going on? I mean I'm going to replace the drive no matter what, how would I ever trust it, but should I return it for being damaged or just return it? And also I'm worried this is some controller fuckery a new HDD can't fix.

>>2763 drive is clearly fucked, rather than create a headache for yourself trying to figure out what's wrong with it it'd be best to just RMA it and forget it ever happened.

>new build with Threadripper 3960X and Cosair H100i water cooler >applied thermal paste all over the CPU with a qtip, it's all covered, secured cooler as tight as possible >hits 93C+ immediately after booting and keeps climbing what did i do wrong

>>2762 I'm sorry, but how do I parse the "mount" command here? I tried looking online and I found my way into tty4, but I can't find how to do whatever command you're instructing me to. All I'm getting are the typical terminal stuff for when an OS is already installed.

>>2772 He told you to type "mount" in your command line, wow. 'tty' is lke your terminal emulator where you can switch between tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 and so on once you invoke it by pressing ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 or F3 ect. Don't tell me you don't know how to 'lsblk'?

>>2773 I'll type "mount" in ur moms command line lmao

>>2770 Either one or more of your components, that you bought are damaged. Refund them, before it's too late.

>>2773 I did type "mount" and nothing happened. But it doesn't matter, I figured out which one it was after having to rerun the install because the machine got disconnected from the A/C adaptor. It was the non-SAMSUNG entry. >Don't tell me you don't know how to 'lsblk'? Most people aren't manual thumping autists that think forcing people to memorize a bunch of cryptic keyboard polka dances is good software design. Those of us with our heads screwed on straight just want an non-pozzed OS with good defaults so that we can actually get shit done. Now how the hell do you MAC spoof with wicd network manager?

>>2776 Found it myself: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd You have to stick the following in /etc/wicd/scripts/preconnect/ as a .sh script. #!/usr/bin/env bash connection_type="$1" if [[ "${connection_type}" == "wireless" ]]; then ip link set wlp2s0 down macchanger -A wlp2s0 ip link set wlp2s0 up elif [[ "${connection_type}" == "wired" ]]; then ip link set enp1s0 down macchanger -A enp1s0 ip link set enp1s0 up fi It only randomizes the MACs and not having it built into the GUI tool is niggerlicious. But at least the fix is a simple copy & paste.

Is getting an old 80s computer like a Commodore 64, etc. useful at all to learn low level and assembly programming? Would it be any different between actually buying one or emulating it?

Is running ipfs through torsocks safe or does it leak the user's IP?

Can I scam one of those "watch/click an ad get payed" type of shit via a virtual machine?

>buy new Thinkpad X220T, upgrading from X220 because i want to draw n shiet >take out mSATA SSD (boot) and HDD from X220 and transfer them to X220T >X220T sees both drives but can't boot off SSD >try resetting MBR, BCD, nothing works I am at a complete loss, wtf am I doing wrong?

>>2809 Can you swap where they're connected internally? Have you messed around in the BIOS to see if they're listed separately?

>>2809 >Format the new drive >Install whatever it is you're running >connect the old drive once you know everything works >profit

How do I h.264 video decoding in Cemu on Wine? Cemuhook doesn't werk anymore in recent versions and enabling DXVA2-over-VAAPI in Staging fails with libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null) even though mpv has no issues decoding h.264 video with hwdec=vaapi.

>>2798 tbh, I would just buy a calculator that has a Zilog Z80 (make sure to get one that can be programmed in asm! IIRC, TI-83+ can be used, for example) OR start developing software for GameBoy (or GB/C) Here are a few pointers: Pokemon Crystal disassembly: https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal GameBoy Assembler/Linker: https://github.com/rednex/rgbds/ (unofficial) GameBoy Docs: https://gbdev.io/pandocs/ and: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page Also, this page has comparisons of emulator accuracy: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs#Emulators_running_on_desktop_computers

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