#offtopic_software

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raw smelt
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I hate any type of software that is online only like onshape

sturdy trench
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check dms

cosmic monolith
cosmic monolith
brisk inlet
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So they say it's most likely the same group who targeted Filezilla before, looks like it's perfect year to avoid every freeware in general...

open hedge
cosmic monolith
cosmic monolith
warped spire
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i mean its a good time for it, linux as good as its ever been, and the only way you are going to actually be able to secure your computer systems

brisk inlet
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France has serious financial issues atm, I wonder how they wanna finance the retraining of every existing employee blobcloseenjoy

warped spire
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i mean if they use a lot of web apps then there is very little retraining lol

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and if they use a windows like gui then almost no retraining

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the expensive part is just redeploying a new OS, getting orchestration setup for deploying updates, tying in auth system, etc

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change the backend infrstructure to support and maintain linux clients vs windows clients

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then fix all the new different bugs you run into

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since you've already got people that know and mitigate windows bugs

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now they gotta handle a new influx of different stuff

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I think the orchestration to keep things up to date and authentication systems prob the hardest shiftr

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gotta hope whatever vendor you hire for that system has a product that doesn't suck

brisk inlet
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I wonder if those employees are open-minded for linux because the technical challenges you mentioned are tough lol

muted pebble
warped spire
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nice that that finally came out

raw smelt
muted pebble
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We asked for Vulkan support on A3, but they didn't hear us... but now that they have engine for console too 🤔

brisk inlet
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There are not really many studios actively developing linux-native games, it's just that more and more Windows games are simply playable on Linux lol

muted pebble
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No need to be linux native. Just add vulkan support on new engine from the start 🤓

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horus@horus-pc
OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.19.12-1-cachyos
Uptime: 10 hours, 3 mins
Packages: 1490 (pacman), 11 (flatpak)
Shell: fish 4.6.0
Display (DEL41D9): 2560x1440 in 27", 165 Hz [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (12pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (12pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (16) @ 4.55 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT [Discrete]
Memory: 4.55 GiB / 31.26 GiB (15%)
Swap: 8.00 KiB / 31.26 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 59.02 GiB / 446.50 GiB (13%) - btrfs

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On linux atm and for gaming too

tough ibex
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Yo can anyone please help me figure out how to install a file to play I just got my first PC and I’m tryna play arma

muted pebble
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Start setup.exe

tough ibex
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Huh

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Bro please I just wanna play and it’s saying something about visual c++

muted pebble
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PC?

tough ibex
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Yes

muted pebble
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U have it in steam folder..just install from ther if stem don't installit for u

tough ibex
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I don’t know how to do that

muted pebble
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sec to go back to win

tough ibex
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Huh

muted pebble
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Go to X:\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\ _CommonRedist\vcredist

tough ibex
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Bruh I’ll be here for hours tryna read forums can I get on a call and you help

muted pebble
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3:24am here

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Or run stem like admin and see if that help you

tough ibex
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This is my first pc I have no clue what I’m doing

raw smelt
tough ibex
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What is steam folder and where

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Bro I need help

native cypress
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Wondering if anybody has dealt with this issue prior. I am in the progress of making an World in the world editor, and had been working on a 10km by 10km map for the last week. Last night i attempted to organize my hierarchy better by creating sub-scenes called: Water. Vegetation, Roads, and Props/andStructures. Howvever when I start moving assets into their sub scenes for organization i get a dialogue box that says the file path is obsolete, and the assets i had moved into the subscecnes no longer exist. In the console log when I try to open the subscenees I get thousands of errors.

white knot
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Or is it an Arma 3 map?

trail summit
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Hi Everyone,
Anyone have a recommended graphic settings for arma for best visibility etc. ?

past bane
trail summit
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reforger

flat garden
# trail summit reforger

As far as I remember from the last time I started Reforger (months ago), based on a GTX1050 (below min spec, but still ran, sort of)
Get the view distance as high as you can
Get the geometry quality up to at least medium
Keep render scale at 100% or higher ideally
Keep some antialiasing, and turn everything else up to whatever gives acceptable framerates

Head over to #hardware_vs_arma for more, and for people who know reforger better

clever flame
# trail summit Hi Everyone, Anyone have a recommended graphic settings for arma for best visibi...

Bro Check this out:

NVIDIA Smooth Motion: Double Your Arma Reforger FPS!
For PC gamers looking to maximize their performance in Arma Reforger, a specific NVIDIA setting can dramatically increase your frames per second (FPS). This feature, known as Smooth Motion, is available for users with NVIDIA's 40 or 50 series graphics cards. By enabling Smooth Motion within the NVIDIA app, players can expect a substantial FPS boost, potentially doubling their in-game performance.

The process to activate Smooth Motion is straightforward. First, open the NVIDIA app. Navigate to the graphics settings and add Arma Reforger as a program if it's not already listed. Once added, locate the Smooth Motion option and switch it to 'on.' It's crucial to restart the game after making this change for the setting to take effect.

NVIDIA Smooth Motion: Verdoppeln Sie Ihre FPS in Arma Reforger!
Für PC-Spieler, die ihre Leistung in Arma Reforger maximieren möchten, kann eine bestimmte NVIDIA-Einstellung die Bildrate (FPS) drastisch erhöhen. Diese Funktion, bekannt als Smooth Motion, ist für Nutzer mit Grafikkarten der NVIDIA 40er- oder 50er-Serie verfügbar. Durch die Aktivierung von Smooth Motion in der NVIDIA-App können Spieler einen erheblichen FPS-Schub erwarten, der ihre Leistung im Spiel potenziell verdoppelt.

Die Aktivierung von Smooth Motion ist ganz einfach. Öffnen Sie zunächst die NVIDIA-App. Navigieren Sie zu den Grafikeinstellungen und fügen Sie Arma Reforger als Programm hinzu, falls es noch nicht aufgeführt ist. Sobald es hinzugefügt wurde, suchen Sie die Option „Smooth Motion“ und schalten Sie sie auf „Ein“. Es ist wichtig, das Spiel nach dieser Änderung neu zu starten, damit die Einstellung wirksam wird.

trail summit
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Interesting, thanks!

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clever flame
brisk inlet
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The fun part: loophole known for 5y and still unfixed

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and it's an exclusive issue with iphones

trail summit
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Smooth motion work really good so far on the training

clever flame
brisk inlet
south river
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my game keeps freezing and i dont know why

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can anyone help

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i have also verified the integrity of the files and also reinstalled the game

charred spoke
# unkempt spoke Shitty framegen

Not shitty at all. Works extremely well. I have a 5090 and at some points in the Reforger I can still drop to 75 - 80 fps and it is noticeable. Smooth Motion takes care of those lower dips where I never notice them.

simple sundial
cosmic monolith
prisma kelp
charred spoke
brisk inlet
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Musk wants to reverse OpenAI's mad gone for-profit back to non-profit blobcloseenjoy

charred spoke
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Windows 11 Snipping Tool. I use it frequently to quick, short videos to share a point but since day one I have had an issue with sound. It always seems to record that sound at extreme low levels. So low I have to edit the video and boost the sound. I have checked all the settings I can find for sound and cannot seem to get this figured out. Any ideas?

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Disregard. Seems that the Snipping tool records audio level at a fraction of the actual level and there is no way to increase it. Shame since it is very convenient for grabbing quick videos vs capturing with DiVinci Resolve.

raw smelt
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just use obs

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set it to record desktop / screen

gusty tapir
charred spoke
gusty tapir
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Ok

warm scaffold
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Hey. Well, just joined to try and solve my problem with arma 3 and thought this is the best channel for it. When I launch my game, I can't hear any sounds like at all (in game). I tried updating my audio drive, re-install the game and it's still not working. Is there any other way? Most of youtube tutorials don't work and I'm slowly loosing hope

simple sundial
cosmic monolith
open hedge
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Versions 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434 are affected.
Phew. I run 10.14, installed in 2021 and never touched again 😄

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the maintainer says that the issue only impacts environments with Node.js 25 (confirmed on Node.js 25.6.1)
Phew I run 22.11.0 🤣
The joys of not updating

wooden tendon
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My WinRAR version is so old no new exploits work on it

dull crow
cosmic monolith
glass current
brisk inlet
warped spire
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been a decade easily since i've even thought about daemon tools

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its like hearing about an exploit in alcohol 120

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im sure we've got a few years of regular nasty exploits in front of us

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everything getting hammered with AI models

cosmic monolith
cosmic monolith
cosmic monolith
brisk inlet
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Lovely... AI makes every software look like Swiss Emmental cheese 🙈

sullen hazel
brisk inlet
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Well... I hate MS and stuck on Windows... I hate Apple and stuck on iOS... so if Google wanna fuck around, I wish them good luck, makes my return to Android pretty much unrealistic especially with their current Pixel phones being unimpressive and just getting more expensive

sullen hazel
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I've been using linux for the last decade and a half, fuck MS. This will affect far more than just the end-user and sets a dangerous precedent for what companies like Google can and cant do

brisk inlet
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Not really my own decision if only half the business world is open for Linux and the other half is stuck with expensive shit like MS, SAP and more.

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I have a feeling that "half" is a very generous estimate of my own too lol

brisk inlet
# sullen hazel https://c.org/BPV2x9BqMs https://keepandroidopen.org Not sure if this is the rig...

I double checked the requirements on their official papers:

  1. One-time fee is ok
  2. Google's terms and conditions were always a take it or leave it offer. They are not locking you out of Android itself but their ecosystem based on Android, so... their home, their rules as long as it doesn't violate law.
  3. Even ISP and MSP demand your ID for years, I don't exactly see why this should be a problem.
  4. Many users are storing their private signing keys in cloud servers already. I see the problem but cannot understand how Alphabet is different
  5. App identifiers is a thing I would first have to check thouroughly, cannot comment on this for now.
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I didn't know teenagers were previously allowed to publish whatever they want but I generally agree with the requirement of 18 or higher depending on country's policy (up to 21 in many places).

sullen hazel
# brisk inlet I double checked the requirements on their official papers: 1. One-time fee is o...

My primary issue with this decision (and others like it) is that at the end of the day it restricts user freedom on a device they paid for and own. I would be much more inclined to agree with "their house, their rules" if there were any other options beyond "their house". While this specific issue may not affect a wide range of developers or be noticed by the average user, it is yet another step in the direction of less user freedom and the inability to fully own and control personal computing. Of course some regulations are necessary, as like you said, any teenager with a laptop could theoretically push malware to thousands of devices unhindered. However, the more power people allow to companies like Google to control and dictate their ability to choose, the less likely it is anyone will ever get that choice back from Google. I paid for my phone, I own it, i am allowed to do as i please with it, even if it harms me, so long as it does not harm others. This change will put that ability out of reach of a significant number of people.

brisk inlet
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Anonymity on the other hand was a major issue, proven to be the worst thing the internet world ever created... I suppose companies demanding personalized registration is the lesser evil until government wakes up and provides an API that allows companies to double check your identity with their gov and getting just an yes/no, pretty similar with medical examiner in disputes between employer and employee

sullen hazel
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See thats where you and I disagree, anonymity is a non-negotiable with regard to computing in my book. No one should be compelled to reveal his or her identity to untrustworthy institutions such as Google

brisk inlet
sullen hazel
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Correct

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Trading freedom for security with a corporation will never end well for the user

brisk inlet
# sullen hazel See thats where you and I disagree, anonymity is a non-negotiable with regard to...

Well there isn't much to agree/disagree bc unrestricted anonymity caused too many problems for too many people that couldn't be ignored any longer. While I enjoy anonymity myself, especially for gaming, I no longer support unrestricted anonymity with zero liability. The trend started years ago that users are no longer allowed to do anything. Dating apps block you entirely if you do not upload authentic selfies or whatever. You cannot buy a prepaid number (burner phone) w/o providing your identity. Lot of things started to get tough after 9/11

brisk inlet
sullen hazel
# brisk inlet Well there isn't much to agree/disagree bc unrestricted anonymity caused too man...

Thats true, and i will never deny that unrestricted anonymity easily lends itself to not only small problems such as fraud or theft, but to much larger problems such as terrorism. There is, however, a balance that must be struck in the interest of maintaining end-user freedom. It's very easy for me as an American to post whatever i like to online (anonymously or with my real name) and not have the police come knocking, or worse, so long as i don't violate any laws. The US's First Amendment protects that right, but only in the United States. Very few people elsewhere in the world enjoy that right, and many who are protesting or fighting against truly corrupt or despotic systems will suffer greatly for speaking out without anonymity.
Your point about users voluntarily handing over their lives is absolutely true, a majority of people will happily trade their freedom for convenience

brisk inlet
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And you're not alone. I'm already pissed that MS and Alphabet are quietly installing some shit like AI tools on your local system w/o your consent. Especially MS manipulating user preferences on win11 is insane, with every update they try real hard to wipe out your preferences or even lock down settings that you cannot change them on the UI surface anymore. Apple does some weird things too, I never understood it. Everytime iphone is updated, both WLAN and Bluetooth are activated again

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I'm still on win10 myself but many people are stuck with Win11 on laptops. I experienced that with the new generation of Lenovo Thinkpads recently. I couldn't manage to get webcam and touchpad working on Win10 or Linux and couldn't find any opensource solutions to fix this bc hardware was new and Lenovo wasn't interested to help either

brisk inlet
# sullen hazel Thats true, and i will never deny that unrestricted anonymity easily lends itsel...

I really hope EU continues working on their API bc if I understand their plan correctly, the whole idea is that companies would no longer be allowed to request ID except law states exceptions but to send registered user's credentials to gov, gov requests user to verify. That sounds doable and reasonable to me. Not that I trust govs blind-folded but they issue our IDs anyway, so... fuck it 😂

sullen hazel
cosmic monolith
brisk inlet
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The question is why people are still so obsessed with Facebook Messenger, Insta and Whatsapp...

weak smelt
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Dwarden speaks?

open hedge
# brisk inlet I double checked the requirements on their official papers: 1. One-time fee is o...

One-time fee is ok
For using their Store yes definitely. Paying for their distribution platform is obvious.
For making your own app and running it on your own phone, or sending it to a friend? no.
$25 is a lot of money, in some countries of the world.

  1. The public wifi on my trains and in my super markets and in the cafe around the corner don't demand my ID.
    The company I can buy my computer parts from doesn't either.

I didn't know teenagers were previously allowed to publish whatever they want but I generally agree with the requirement of 18 or higher depending on country's policy (up to 21 in many places).
The first Android App I built was signup tool for my Arma unit. I was 17 then. Paying money to put it on the playstore was not an option, buying a permission to make an app wouldn't have been either.

open hedge
# cosmic monolith privacy isn't welcomed https://lifehacker.com/tech/instagram-is-removing-end-to-...

Tap the name at the top of the message and select Privacy & safety. Tap Use end-to-end encryption.
Huh. I didn't even know that existed. I never enabled that on any DM I had.

Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature.
Yeah makes sense. Most people I talked to about this also didn't know it was a thing, because it never mattered for the kind of conversations that are had on insta.

But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform.
Well it certainly does not improve child safety if predators can DM children and no-one else can read in.

What, people were using Instagram as high-end secret communication channel for journalism or whitleblowing activities or what?

brisk inlet
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Alphabet doesn't have many cost-based services yet, all I can think of are Youtube premium, workplace, cloud storage, smart home and Gemini. If they wanna charge you a fee before you can introduce an app inside their ecosystem, that's how it is. There were not many brands which allowed full access to their Android to begin with, I can only think of Motorola, Pixel and Oneplus right now.

open hedge
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I don't want to use their ecosystem though.
My chinese phones let me root them.

brisk inlet
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You can either use the opensource Android or have to deal with the license agreement of the specific brand using their own custom Android. There are not many vanilla Android phones left

open hedge
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So Google is only doing this on their phones.
And not forcing it onto everyone using Android? Because that's how the articles and petitions make it sound like

keen tartan
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I'm honestly less concerned with the preventing to install APK's (the way they are doing it is bullshit tho, it should not be something google can enforce on all android manufacturers) and more concerned that phones without google play services wont be able to complete google captchas soon

brisk inlet
open hedge
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In what world do you have entitled rights to use someone's property on your own terms
Who's property? I'm using my own phone that I bought and paid for and own, trying to run software that I wrote myself, which doesn't use ANY of googles services.

brisk inlet
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Your own phone = hardware
I highly doubt they gave you full ownership of the software installed on it

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And about ID check, no offense but your comparison is quiet a nonsense too:

  • Someone purchasing computer hardware anonymously and someone anonymously having access to an entire global appstore isn't exactly the same in terms of accountability and liability.
  • Someone using public Wi-Fi, the textbook definition of security alert and at the same time complaining about providing ID check isn't exactly meaningful either...
brisk inlet
# keen tartan I'm honestly less concerned with the preventing to install APK's (the way they a...

Me too, I honestly couldn't care less about APK or someone losing free access as dev or teens being locked out. Their dominance in captcha is a near-monopoly for years and such fuckups would introduce more serious issues... Although I'm not sure if Google wanna risk such issues with Apple, they would lose access to the other half of the mobile market, in some countries even a lot more than that. Android lost dominance in many countries already.

open hedge
# brisk inlet And about ID check, no offense but your comparison is quiet a nonsense too: - So...

and someone anonymously having access to an entire global appstore
I am NOT! Talking about the appstore.
This whole thing, is NOT about the Google AppStore at all.

Having to pay for their appstore makes sense. ID checks, sure if they want it for their store, fine.
But that is not what this is about.

This is about NOT using their store, also requiring payment to them and ID checks by them.

brisk inlet
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The public wifi on my trains and in my super markets and in the cafe around the corner don't demand my ID.
The company I can buy my computer parts from doesn't either.
Well that was your comparison up there.

brisk inlet
# open hedge > One-time fee is ok For using their Store yes definitely. Paying for their dist...

Forgot to pickup your last point:
I started my own business with 16 and realized quickly that is strictly speaking illegal bc I had no consent from my parents and after asking them they refused anyway. Demanding a court declaration of early legal capacity or adulthood is near-impossible in Switzerland too. It would require seven years worst case, so pointless entirely.
After speaking with my lawyer I decided to use a loophole that allows me to have a ghost business as long as I don't earn more than 100k per year. At that point you must register at the commercial register which requires you to be 18 yet again.
In that sense I believe starting a business as a poor fuck in a filthy rich country where everything is insanely expensive seems to be more difficult and cruel compared to some one-time fee like 25 bucks.

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I understand your point very well and it's sad Alphabet is slowly changing their free services into MS-like subscription nightmare but that's how it is which is precisely why I do not wish to rely on such fake opensource just to be super upset later even though it was obvious it will happen sooner than later.

open hedge
brisk inlet
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I was probably unclear there. Whether you start a project for your own, friends or business, it consumes a lot of time and money worst case. If you believe it's an obstacle for creating your own app for friends already, you may imagine how difficult a business startup is. My point there was I started with nothing in a country that is unforgiving to poor people. I simply lack the sympathy if people believe it's tough to pay up 25 bucks as a one-time fee in countries where they generally have nothing and forget that rich countries have unemployed, unlucky and quiet a big number of struggling people too (starting with USA)

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And compared to the USA, Switzerland has artificially higher pricing that is beyond insane.

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I don't know why they don't list Switzerland in section of Europe and they say UK is currently the most expensive but I can assure you, Switzerland is more expensive than that

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Youtube Premium Individual Switzerland: CHF 17.90/month

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You can continue with Steam and everything else. There aren't many companies that stopped this

open hedge
# brisk inlet I was probably unclear there. Whether you start a project for your own, friends ...

it consumes a lot of time
Which I had next to school.
and money
Which I didn't have.

I simply lack the sympathy if people believe it's tough to pay up 25 bucks as a one-time fee in countries where they generally have nothing and forget that rich countries have unemployed, unlucky and quiet a big number of struggling people too (starting with USA)
I don't see how rich countries where the fee is about one pizza worth of money, equals poor countries where the fee is a months worth of hard labor. And rich countries existing meaning that poor countries don't matter.

brisk inlet
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To live poor in a poor country and to live poor in a rich country, especially in Switzerland, is a very big difference. In China people insist to buy an iphone that is worth their salary of an entire year and they still buy it which makes no sense to me. If someone wants to have access to Google's world so badly, they have to pay those 25 bucks because nobody forced them to rely on Google. Android is still opensource you know.

open hedge
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But people don't!! Want access to Googles world.
They don't want to rely on Google!
They are NOT! Making Apps for Googles store.

brisk inlet
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If they are not, why are they organizing this petition? Some of the points are extremely dramatized

open hedge
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Because Google is forcing them.

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That's the whole point

brisk inlet
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How are they forcing them exactly? If you do not wish to use their stuff, you can just quit. What is exactly the problem?

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I'm not using Android at all, period. That's how you solve it

open hedge
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Android is currently open.
The petition is to KEEP android open because Google wants to close it.

open hedge
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Well if Google doesn't want you to have a phone. Just don't have one?

brisk inlet
open hedge
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"I don't see how" that's the whole point of the keep android open website and the petition.

brisk inlet
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They dramatize a lot, starting with saying your phone is no longer yours. If we're talking about software, that negative trend started long time ago with license agreements and subscription madness. Even if Android stays open, the software was never yours to begin with.

open hedge
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"It's already bad, so it doesn't matter if it gets much worse" kinda argument

brisk inlet
open hedge
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"You cannot win alone" yeah which is why this is a petition

brisk inlet
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I was just quickly checking how many opensource software I use, I can only think of VLC and Audacity on my pc... everything else is either paid or freeware but clearly not opensource.
Google's concept was very clear from start, offer free, make them dependent on you, start milking them

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That is precisely why I avoid Google as much as I can

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I don't wanna start using their stuff and later start whining

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Google has already enough influence in my business life with Google Drive, Maps, Reviews, Search and Chrome... and lets not start with Firefox, yes it's not Chromium-based but literally backed by Google and they wouldn't survive without their money.

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Pixel was the only reason I was willing to change back to Android but Alphabet cannot even make hardware great anymore.

brisk inlet
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"Contact your regulators" yeah sure, the only one on this planet that does care from time to time is EU, nobody else

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If you want a serious petition, you would launch a big campaign, so far they only gathered a bit over 140k signatures and they're running out of time. I gave them my signature just as gesture but I do not believe this will work

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And as Crumble pointed out, we really have more serious problems to deal with. My plate is already full and by considering I am not an EU citizen, my options are very limited. I often have to workaround with French authorities but the case must affect French consumers or French companies too, so there you go.

keen tartan
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And as Crumble pointed out, we really have more serious problems to deal with
well the problem is these issues compound, google play services blocking apk installs is easy to work around by just using grapheneOS or rooting, but online captchas not working on those same devices forces you to choose, along with more and more banks relying on google play services and trust verification also blocking custom roms and rooting

brisk inlet
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Well the banks I'm involved with do not use it for their banking services

keen tartan
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used to be able to bypass that with magisk to "hide" it
but now they are moving towards hardware attestation

runic root
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@amber ermine this guy has a Problem were he cant join moded servers, but he can join vanilla, we have checked file integrity and have uninstalled and re-installed mods but it still doesn't work

worthy pewter
plush kelp
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Hey guys, I've got something some of you may be interested in.

A little while ago, me and a few friends were able to get a booru-stye imageboard for military images up and running.

Boorus are powerful tools that allow you to describe what you see in an image with "tags," then use a search function to help you find more content with, or without, those tags. For example, this Finnish soldier is carrying an RK-95. But what if I want to find images without that? Easy, simply write in the search bar: rifle -RK-95.

Milbooru is growing well, but we still have a lot to do. I am not very knowledgeable. I know Arma attracts many people who are. If you would be interested in helping us, or know somebody who might be, we would be extremely grateful for your help. I want the site to be useful to casual hobbyists and experts alike and my own ID skills are often pretty lousy.

Please don't be afraid to make your voice heard. This site is for YOU.

https://discord.gg/TYJFndEzxV
https://milbooru.org/posts/196?q=rk-95

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charred spoke
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Anyone know of any addons or settings for Edge that would make facebook not auto refresh?

chrome sable
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Anybody have experience with https://autoptt.com/ ? I tried installing it, but windows defender flag is as trojan. So is it safe? The app basically will make voip ingame voice activated, instead of push to talk....

AutoPTT
AutoPTT

AutoPTT is a Windows app that enables Push-to-Talk, Voice Activation, Push-to-Mute, Toggle Mute, and more -- in any game or app.

open hedge
keen tartan
open hedge
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20€ for something that presses a button if you have activity on your microphone? meowsweats
I wouldn't

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Ah it does both
It also adds a shortcut that sets your mic volume to zero
That's like 30 lines of C# code?

No more “you’re on mute” chaos
Yeah way less chaos to add one additional layer of muting into your stack.

You'll have your headset mute, your windows mic mute, your meeting app mute AND your autoptt mute on top. Great.

keen tartan
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Yeah way less chaos to add one additional layer of muting into your stack.
I can't even remember to unmute my giant mic that glows red when not muted, let alone find some extra tool running to see if i muted myself sweating

open hedge
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It has history going back to 2022. The dev's GitHub till 2016.
The dev looks legit.
Privacy policy looks alright.

Could be supply-chain backdoored of course, but I see no reason to be suspicious. Besides that I would never pay for such a thing.

chrome sable
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yeah... I was trying to start at least a trial version. If you guys could ask the audio guys to have voice activation VOIP for Reforger/Arma4 that would be great. wink wink 😎

white knot
warped spire
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I just use the jabra headset that auto unmutes when I swing down the boom

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they need to just keep making those instead of trying to make 'new' versions

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when my first 1 failed I tried newer headsets, then went back and bought another, jabra evolve 75 UC was their best headset

cosmic monolith
river pollen
dull crow
trail parrot
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C++ is okay for embedded systems, but it's use everywhere else accounts for the majority of critical vulnerabilities in software. I hate it, but not as much as I hate Python.

open hedge
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it's incorrect use accounts for the vulnerabilities.
There are plenty of safe ways to use it nowadays, but people like to write code like they did in the 90s before all the new safe methods existed.

trail parrot
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I don't consider compromised user accounts as a software vulnerability, if that's what you mean. That would be a human vulnerability. C++ vulnerabilities frequently come from mismanaged memory, which is a design problem.

open hedge
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Yeah mismanaged memory like buffer overflows and double free's. Which generally happens because people decide not to use containers with propery safety checks that were added in the last 25 years, but instead roll their own manual thing like back in the 90s or in C code, and then fuck up trying to get it right.
You can't buffer overflow a vector that resizes itself when you push too much.

brisk inlet
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Some people even believed C/C++ is dead but they'll surely come to regret that mindset. Just because some idiots cannot properly implement or use it doesn't automatically mean it's a vulnerability of the language or system itself, it's the dumb dev and user sitting in front of it...

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I highly doubt the decision makers would rely on C++ for e.g. modern fighter jets if it was so fucking useless...

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Oh wait, those jets suddenly get switched off with a virus attack like Cylon attack on the colonies in BSG 😜

frank galleon
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hatcat 🥇 Awesome!

river pollen
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🎉

opal niche
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furretwoah Something actually happened for once

boreal elbow
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Unrelated to Arma software but not games goes here?

opal niche
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all the software talk unrelated to Arma itself

boreal elbow
opal niche
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Yeah I assume games still go in games chat

gray cloud
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installs linux

faint notch
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note: added #offtopic_software channel for all the interesting software , tools etc. stuff not directly related to hardware nor Arma games

boreal elbow
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I mean, the scope of “software” could include “games”

faint notch
cosmic monolith
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^x2

faint notch
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software i dont associate with gaming/entertainment

boreal elbow
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Yet the topic doesn't note that so kinda confused

cosmic monolith
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edits the description and mumbles something terrific ...

faint notch
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lol

regal crypt
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lol

faint notch
boreal elbow
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Cheers. I know I'm thinking something like this horribly

supple nymph
faint notch
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heheh, have fond memories of xtree

opal niche
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ConfusedDog I dont have a clue what xtree is

faint notch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTree

XTree

XTree is a file manager program originally designed for use under DOS. It was published by Underwear Systems, later Executive Systems, Inc. (ESI) and first released on 1 April 1985, and became highly popular. The program uses a character-mode interface, which has many elements...

opal niche
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Huh TIL

twin heron
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I preferred Norton Commander

hardy rapids
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Same

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Norton commander was beesknees

tribal mesa
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guys, have you heard of winRar? Its amazing, it can save you so much space... i did the trial version, amazing piece of kit. Guess i need to buy full version now. 😋

tranquil phoenix
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There's this really good file search program called grepWin... No idea why they call it that (lol) but it's totally useful for ARMA 😉

raw elbow
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I just use one of my IDE's which have the same feature build in 🤷‍♂️

tranquil phoenix
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I was sort of joking (not about the utility of grepWin). Assumed X3KJ was joking...

cosmic monolith
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obliterates winrar with 7-zip ... because LZMA and opensource ...

knotty glen
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7-zip is simply the best

old moon
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not until you can package whole internet into 1kb ;P

open hedge
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but only 7zip with zstd support 👀

cosmic monolith
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zerpoint compressed whole internet into 1ZB

tribal mesa
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anyone thinking i was not joking should upgrade their sarcasm detector to v1.3 (cant recommend the 1.4 beta though, too many false positives)

sonic crystal
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Sooo... You mean you won't be buying the full version of winrar, after all? ☹️

tranquil phoenix
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Damn... I downloaded my sarcasm detector with Steam... It doesn't have an option to back out to older versions 😭 Anyone got a manual download link?

raw elbow
tribal mesa
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that is obviously still running at v0.8

raw elbow
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I know, I tried your WinRAR comment and it said it was -22 sarcastic

rustic shale
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does anyone actually use davinci resolve and can express his/her experience?

faint notch
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I know people who use it, i'll switch when my adobe sub runs its time out, they love working with it compared to adobe & the pricing.

lime oak
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I sometimes use DaVinci, its pretty good, before u do anything in it watch a tutorial, it's pretty hard If start from 0 without watching tutprials

formal needle
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A rather generic question: what exactly decides at which speed fans must spin on a laptop or on a windows controlled PC in general? Is it windows itself? Or is it some controller which works independent of OS?

raw elbow
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It's usually the temperature controller in the BIOS

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but can be overridden by software

nocturne frigate
viral mango
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Anybody here using the New MS edge?

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Loved the old one (with the problem that my most Important extension did not worked... Ublock, and no replacement satisfied me)

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And I am kinda okay with the New one (chromium based... One cannot do much wrong with it... But the decrease in atartup speed is noticable)

wind field
gray cloud
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@formal needle Using simple windows would be pretty bad because the OS could jam up and your system gets overheated. There's various programs for adjusting fan speed, eg. Asus and other manufacturers ship their own, you can d/l Afterburner from MSI, etc

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ALSO you can have independent mechanical/electric control if you don't wire it to the motherboard

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Also there is a difference between PWM and DC control schemes (fan type dependent)

formal needle
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Thanks. Yes that makes sense. I have my laptop fans start up at unusually low CPU temperature, so I was narrowing the suspects.

gray cloud
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They start lower than they used to?

formal needle
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I think so. It might be in fact same, but happens more often because it's summer now and I don't use the laptop a lot.

gray cloud
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I would go with user perception first 😁

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BTW I wish we could link case fans to GPU temperature. Not sure if some newer software does that (probably possible on Linux anyway)

formal needle
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I like it when it's silent, so I use it on low power mode, with lowest CPU clocks, plus CPU is undervolted. It used to not start fans before, but now it does.

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Perhaps laptop's proprietary software could be to blame as well.

gray cloud
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or there's more dust inside or something 🤔

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software update is a possibility 😄

formal needle
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No I use it so rare and there was no dust last time I opened it up a few months ago

gray cloud
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esp. if some laptops were fried because of low fan action

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hmm opening up laptops, amazing

formal needle
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This one can be upgraded easily, hopefully.

gray cloud
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Sounds interesting

formal needle
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Also I have attached some dust filters to air cooler inputs 😄 It's quite dusty where I live.

tribal mesa
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🤬 wtf microsoft did it again... windows updated, and now i get broken sound on youtube.
When i play music from soundcloud for example, i can hear everything fine. When i play a youtube video (with someone talking) at the same time, i can hear their voice clearly
When i dont play music from soundcloud i can hear only mumbling (only base frequencies) on the youtube video ...

opal niche
viral mango
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Sounds more like some faulty driver

tribal mesa
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well it worked all fine before

viral mango
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Or faulty HW

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Well... Faulty drivers do not like even slight changes

tribal mesa
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microsoft update is a bigger risk to me than some hacker ever would be...
Broke all icons on desktop and folder views as well (again)

regal crypt
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Yeah broke my icons other day as well and changed all text size

opal niche
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my steam icons have been broken for years now

tribal mesa
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from driver history thingy, windows decided to delete the driver and install it newly. Except its the same driver that i already installed before that (because the system is quite new). But it configured it as 5.1 instead of stereo. Moronic.
"oh just nuke everything no matter if its necessary"

rapid cipher
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Yea I put of Win10 updates as long as possible

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In the hopes it all gets fixed before Win10 finally sneakily forces the update while your making a coffee

supple nymph
gaunt rapids
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that really isnt a common occurence is it

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for less advanced users

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windows is the way to go

chrome sky
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yes

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i mean on my pc it wont make a big difference

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a ryten 5 3600x should be able to handle windows

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its also almost at 4.7ghz sometimes

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anyways i gtg

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have a great day yall

gaunt rapids
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windows is just not good for like really low end

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like old dell machines

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built for old windows versions

supple nymph
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like old dell machines
Like how old?

Pretty sure my old 386 IBM ran Win 3.11 just fine.

storm dawn
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Yeah but it was IBM, not some clone.

supple nymph
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The clones were better sadly

raw elbow
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My IBM 80468 was still better and faster as the first Intel Pentium 🤷‍♂️
Although back than calculation speed was all you needed, now it's a complex combination of everything.
And with the large amount of hardware available software needs to be able to handle everything...

Luckily do OS's also update and leave old crap behind, especially Windows.
Where as Linux distros simply rely on their open source nature and hope that drivers are also being updated (which actually happens for old stuff, but limited for new hardware).

Is one better than the other? That depends on what you have and what you need...

supple nymph
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I want to say my IBM PS/2 was a 386 25Mhz

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But, regarding software, how about ServiceNow, everyone loving it? (sarcasm)

raw elbow
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Never heard of it, so probably not interesting enough to look at 😉

supple nymph
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Get an IT job and you'll hear all about it

raw elbow
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I work in IT 😉 and only use tools which actually bring something, and build integrations myself

supple nymph
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Small company? Smaller than say Amazon or its competitors?

raw elbow
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Yes, but that size are my customers. And most of those large companies have their own tools specialized to their needs and not a "all in one" solution.

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At least at their IT departments, no idea about other departments

warped spire
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idk, servicenow isn't too bad. they have decent development resources they make available and its fairly customizable and can be integrated with outside services. idk how easily, but there are a lot of companies offering integrations with it.

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the biggest issue i've had is the companies I worked for not actually hiring someone to develop a customized interface for my team, or not implementing the interface they did develop

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leaving us with stock view

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i guess that and it not having real-time updates to pages

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which tbh it really should have considering what it is

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idk if that is something its capable of and just was never enabled for my use or what

supple nymph
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There nothing worse than working a ticket, only to find out that someone has already closed or solved the issue.

rustic shale
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there is... you work a ticket that has already been solved and shortly after, somebody makes a commit and reintroduces the issue and nobody realizes it

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

fringe crypt
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how about you work a ticket and open a PR only to have bossman come by and say "yes I already talked to X how to solve that, and we came up with something different"

swift geyser
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Anyone got experience with IPsec vpns here?

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Im trying to use it not as a site to site VPN, but rather as hosts within the VPN network talking to each other

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But windows (as host/consumer) keeps deleting the phase 2 session and only bringing it back up once necessary, which means after some time without traffic the VPN network won't be able to reach that windows host anymore unless it decides to contact something within the VPN and therefore also create the necessary phase 2 again

blissful pewter
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use keepalive in powershell

swift geyser
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cant find much about it, is there a built in functionality? idlesatimeout can only be set to 60min max afaik and not disabled, if theres no built in way id just run a ping script as a keepalive

gaunt rapids
nimble knot
open hedge
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probably easier to just hack task manager than to actually pay for that hardware

wind field
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Playing Doom 1993 in Windows task manager. Finally got it working and looking decent!
But can it run Crysis?...

warped spire
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that is hilarious

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32x 8180's

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10k each

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as msrp, but retail is higher

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so prob like just under 400k

open hedge
warped spire
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?

lime oak
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@open hedge u playing arma or why is your CPU on 100% ;D

warped spire
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is he hacking his task manager to show 100% usage?

open hedge
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Check the top right

warped spire
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ahh, you hacked that

open hedge
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Literally just sitting on desktop doing nothing. Actually dunno what's going on. As you cans ee computer didn't reboot for a while

warped spire
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yea, you are certainly right it'd be easier to hack that lol

open hedge
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oh lol.. What's it called.. FAH.. that crowd data processing thing

warped spire
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that machine that dudes on is prob worth nearly a million

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folding at home

open hedge
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Yes that! apparently that's been running non-stop for about 20 days now

lime oak
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21 lol

open hedge
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420k points

warped spire
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im kind of curious what they are using a machine with 32x 10k cpu's and 1TB of RAM

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for

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ML?

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lol, if you look back at his history. First one he did was play pokemon OP on it. one of the comments, play doom on it

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looks like dude had a twitter account and deleted it, there is a search result to an account that no longer exists

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so, no idea what that machine was used for :(

tribal mesa
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propably something important and critical to man kind... like high frequency stock trading...

river pollen
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the activity manager thingy is fake

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marcan42 10 days ago

This is fake. I commented on his videos, but he is removing my comments.

Task manager cannot show this many cores at once. It shows a scroll bar instead.

It says "Base Speed" while the real Task Manager has "Base speed". He has now fixed this in his latest video.

There should be a blue border around the whole core display.

You can see problems on the left edge part: a space missing before Kbps, a highlight missing behind the CPU tab, etc.

The CPU usage text for each core is way too small.

The resolution is too high compared to real Task Manager.

The font isn't the usual Windows UI font.

Font colors are also wrong in places.

His first video had some weird spacing issues with the first few columns.

The hardware specs are ripped from this article, which has a screenshot of what Task Manager actually looks like with this many cores.

I have reported the channel for misleading text (which is against the YT guidelines), you might want to do that too.

The previous Chinese "Bad Apple on task manager" video was also fake (but done differently, that one used a real Task Manager screen cap as a baseline and just edited in the core display). If you want to see what videos on Task Manager look like for real though, a friend of mine actually did it.

open hedge
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As I said, much easier to hack

river pollen
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yes, it would not be possible to do with the real task manager 😛

open hedge
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would be

river pollen
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the refresh rate is 2Hz

open hedge
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Yeah well.. you'd have to hack that too

river pollen
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so without doing a lot of changes...

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and rewrite the UI to show all cores etc

open hedge
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ah right, showing all cores is hard

river pollen
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show all of them in a smaller shape without the scrollbar

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probably doable but why

chrome sky
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did anyone here mod gta V with open IV? I need some help

raw elbow
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@chrome sky wrong Discord to ask I would say 🤷‍♂️

chrome sky
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i mean its offtopic software

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so why not

open hedge
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Technically correct ¯_(ツ)_/¯

raw elbow
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Although I doubt you'll get any response since it's the Arma Discord after all...

rustic shale
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what is a gta?

raw elbow
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And there are several OpenIV discords out there which should give you way more people who can help you

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@rustic shale it's an old game from 1997 🤣

regal crypt
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Had a friend who use to love playing the gta demo on playstation. My brother use to charge him £2 to play it and he use to pay 😂

knotty glen
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what is a gta?
@rustic shale Bruh 😄

gaunt rapids
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gta V is still playable? I thought there is just people with godmode and flying bikes 24/7

stone coral
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I’m sticking to RDR 2 instead

opal niche
boreal elbow
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See? That's why I complained this channel should note software but not games

valid lance
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Hey where do i post about arma 3 workshop mods (ACE3)

boreal elbow
meager moat
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someone here knows to code in c++? need a little help

open hedge
gaunt rapids
lime oak
serene sorrel
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@meager moat send me a dm with questions and i'll see how i can help you

faint notch
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SQF is popular enough to be figured into Redmonks latest chart 🙂

opal niche
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bongocat barely any stack overflow questions though

faint notch
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I still don't know why they rank CSS on these charts, it's no more a programming language than html is.

warped spire
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apparently we don't ask enough questions on stack overflow

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time to do our part

supple nymph
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Maybe universities and businesses should stop promoting them as languages first?

forest fern
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I installed a new operating system

serene sorrel
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Please let it be TempleOS

rustic shale
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🤣

forest fern
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Jesus christ no

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It's Pop! OS

viral mango
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Just learned something new:
Windows Key + F = Feedback UI
both the combination and the window have been new to me 😱

opal niche
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blep fancy

forest fern
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I'm so angry I'm gonna shrink.

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My flashdrive can't be formatted on my main computer

forest fern
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which has windows, meanwhile my Linux distro was able to do it without a hitch

stone coral
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I’m having some issues trying to format my pc. Basically I had to do it an year ago or so, for other reasons, but now my laptop keeps giving me BSOD with 2 errors, one of them requires to update some drivers, which I was doing, but I found out the only way to fix it was to reboot it completely. Since the last full format I came back to Win 8.1 from 10. I already have a Windows disk for windows 10 in case I had to reinstall it, but it seems it’s not working. Basically after booting with CD (chose that from BIOS) it brings me to the format screen for Win 8.1 where I can choose to format with a disk or else. I click on CD and it just brings me back to that page. Anybody got a clue on how to solve this problem?

fringe hearth
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Greetings,
I wanted to to install the newest gaming driver for my NVidia GeForce GTX 960. So I went to the official website searched for it, looked if its compatible to be sure and then started the download.
Mid-installing it my screen went black, that was like 15 minutes ago. I can still hear my music but the whole screen is simply black, I cant even see the mouse. Any help?

faint notch
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leave it for a while, nvidia removes the old driver before installing the new one,. if its already been a while i guess you could reboot, windows should detect the gpu and install a driver for it

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^ assuming you are on windows 10

fringe hearth
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Ah, alrighty. I'll leave it like that for now then and come back in a few hours. Thank your for your insight! And yes, i'm running W10

faint notch
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yeah if its still titsup when you come back to it, rebooting wont do any harm

supple geode
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doesn't it warn you that the screen might go black during installation?

faint notch
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they used to, i havent seen that message for a long time with nv drivers

fringe hearth
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By reboot you mean just restarting it, right?

faint notch
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yep

fringe hearth
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Just making sure😅

faint notch
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you could also try Winkey+Ctrl+Shift+B to restart the video driver.

fringe hearth
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Should I do that after trying to reboot later?

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Or rather now?

faint notch
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try it before you go to reboot, you might get display back and be able to see wtf your doing 😄

fringe hearth
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Nope, sadly didnt do anything

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@faint notch Is that a bad sign? (Sorry for the ping, but I just have 7 minutes before I leave)

faint notch
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i'd reboot it if that didnt do anything, W10 should install a default driver to get display working.

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if it doesnt you might need to go into safe-mode and remove the nvidia driver then reboot

fringe hearth
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Yeah, i rebootet now and finally I can see stuff again.

ebon anvil
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I’m having some issues trying to format my pc. Basically I had to do it an year ago or so, for other reasons, but now my laptop keeps giving me BSOD with 2 errors, one of them requires to update some drivers, which I was doing, but I found out the only way to fix it was to reboot it completely. Since the last full format I came back to Win 8.1 from 10. I already have a Windows disk for windows 10 in case I had to reinstall it, but it seems it’s not working. Basically after booting with CD (chose that from BIOS) it brings me to the format screen for Win 8.1 where I can choose to format with a disk or else. I click on CD and it just brings me back to that page. Anybody got a clue on how to solve this problem?

rustic shale
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what's the exact error / BSOD?

ebon anvil
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one sec

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@rustic shale Please talk to @stone coral

I send his stuff since it got ignored apparently

stone coral
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Ok, there were 2 errors

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One was: TRY EXECUTE NOEXECUTE MEMORY

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Which was supposed to be fixed by updating drivers which I was doing

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Let me see if I remember the other one. I remember for sure the solution for that was formatting

raw elbow
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The error code ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY may be associated with an outdated device drivers, corruption with software changes, virus or malware infection, or a computer memory problem.

ebon anvil
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Which was supposed to be fixed by updating drivers which I was doing

stone coral
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Other one is DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL

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After checking around I read that the solution for that was to format the pc

raw elbow
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both errors point to faulty drivers OR faulty memory

stone coral
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That was my guess

raw elbow
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and if reinstalling/updating drivers doesn't work, than the chance is that your memory got corrupted

rustic shale
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DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
can also point to other faulty hardware or hardware that was removed forcefully, like unplugging hot firewire soundcards (just an example)

stone coral
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Problem is the BSOD happens every few minutes, and the remaining drivers to update (Graphics and audio ones) are the heaviest, and I never get to update them in time

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can also point to other faulty hardware or hardware that was removed forcefully, like unplugging hot firewire soundcards (just an example)
@rustic shale I’m on a laptop so no forced removed hardware

rustic shale
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how many RAM dimms do you have?

stone coral
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I got no info on hand atm unfortunately, tomorrow I’ll give ya more specific info

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And I’m pretty tired rn

rustic shale
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if you have two dimms, try removing one, or reseating them

raw elbow
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try to start Windows in Safe Mode, if it still gives you a BSOD it's 100% hardware

stone coral
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will try

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Thanks

rustic shale
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don't thank us yet 😉

stone coral
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Since I already wanted to switch again from Win 8.1 to Win 10 I wanted to do that from the Win10 CD I got, but for some reason it wasn’t working

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try to start Windows in Safe Mode, if it still gives you a BSOD it's 100% hardware
@raw elbow If it’s hardware I got an excuse to get a decent pc

rustic shale
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I’m on a laptop so no forced removed hardware
it can also be a loose cable / connection like a WLAN or BT module. some wobbely ribon cable

stone coral
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🤔 only thing I can think of is ruined Jack entrances.

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But I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with that.

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I’ll head off now, will keep you updated

rustic shale
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👍

stone coral
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Ok, I just logged in with Safe mode

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So far it seems it’s working

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I’ll leave it here for a while and see if it gives me BSOD again

stone coral
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Alright. Left it for a good 30 minutes and it seems no problems so far. I guess I just need to format the PC now

fringe hearth
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Alright, I installed the newest game driver by Nvidia and in Arma I have a perfectly sharp picture. Though in Watch Dogs 2 and Warzone so far my screen gets extremly blurry. For some reason WD2 set my resolution to 1620xsomething but turning it back into 1920x1080 just helped a tiny bit.

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I think its not the bluriness, but an extremly bad resolution/not enough pixels to fully render the picture.

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Mind, in the menus and pause screens of the games the picture is perfectly sharp.

stone coral
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Have you tried checking resolution scale value?

fringe hearth
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What do you mean by that?

stone coral
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There’s this option in most games that allow you to change the resolution scale to either: make image sharper but reduce performance or make image blurrier but increase performance

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Try to look for something like that in game options, if it’s below 100 which is standard it could be the reason for blurry game

fringe hearth
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Oh yeah, had that option in Warzone and put it from 80 to 130 but it didnt really change anything

stone coral
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Mmh, then I don’t know...Can’t really help you

supple nymph
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Just a reminder, channel description clearly states all the software (not games) talk unrelated to Arma itself

forest fern
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this is ur daily reminder to update ur graphics card drivers

supple nymph
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this is ur daily reminder to update ur graphics card all your drivers

Also ensure your OS is up to date as well as all of your applications. And when someone tells you that you need a page file for Arma, don't say "but I got 64GB of RAM, why do I need a page file? Because it will crash.

forest fern
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im a person who always postponed the update for my software

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no matter what it was.

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now its the first thing i do IMMEDIATELY after i start up my computer

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i slowly realized that because i have a powerful computer components that also uses a M.2 NVMe SSD as a boot, updates are lot faster than usual

tribal mesa
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since nvidia started to introduce their "login to be able to use it" i stopped updating...

faint notch
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when someone tells you that you need a page file for Arma
not just Arma, Windows in general will perform better with a page-file/virtual memory, and fwiw it should be the same size as your physical memory.

forest fern
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me who doesnt know what a page file is:

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👁️ 👄 👁️

raw elbow
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It's basically a reserved part on your hard drive used by by the OS to store unused data from your RAM, especially when extra RAM is needed it can just dump some extra stuff in there till RAM is empty again.

cosmic monolith
faint notch
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happy 25th birthday Windows 95 🥳

tribal mesa
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to celebrate its birthday it would have live... i argue that it's an ex-OS

raw elbow
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Still prefer Windows 3.11 🤣

gaunt rapids
#

Hi all had anybody found issues recently with discord ? (when other speak you have a laggy output for 1 to 4 seconds and then the message gets in fluid and having a similar problem with input as people listening to your comms lament the same or similar issue?).

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I tried a reinstall, because I think I was having a problem even in the settings\test mic (the voice was swinging, not being constantly received from even the test!)... now instead it is fluid and I removed Echo cancellation which seemed to be a problem and also Auto gain as I don't want this also for immersion purposes as I like to "role play" milsim a bit as much as discord allows (not much)...

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I also edited the paging file in advanced settings (system managed for all dirves now 9 GB before it was 2 GB but I dnt think this was the issue as applying that change had the same results).

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Was trying to understand what this was about: maybe due to recent WIn updates... which have always create issues to audio on my new pc...

nimble knot
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who can help me with OBS?

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never used it before and can't make it record gameplay

hollow nymph
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what do you need help with?

nimble knot
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hotkeys assigned have no effect and if i press "record" it records a black screen

hollow nymph
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not sure about the hotkey issue, but make sure your scenes are selected and they have a game capture, sometimes some games dont get picked up, either restart the game or try display or window capture

nimble knot
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scenes?

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have selected game capture

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nothing selected in scenes

hollow nymph
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oh

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ok

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then im not sure

nimble knot
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in game capture it says any full screen app

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arma is full screen

hollow nymph
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no, click that and do the middle option

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it should be selected application or something

nimble knot
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so I have to select something in scenes?

hollow nymph
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no no, right click the game capture > properties >

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and then wheere it says any full screen app

nimble knot
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middle is capture specific window

hollow nymph
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yes

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that one

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now click and use the other dropdown to select arma 3

nimble knot
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oh, I see

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selected it

hollow nymph
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alright

nimble knot
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it doesn't work

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black screen

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but I have arma window selected in game capture settings

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have even restarted arma

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what else have I missed?

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make capture visible is selected

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what am I missing to make it work?

faint notch
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what capture method are you using?

nimble knot
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what do you mean by method?

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game capture, specific window, arma 3 exe, make source visible

faint notch
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running it fullscreen? or fullscreen window/borderless?

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mine works both ways 🙂

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you might need to tab into the game for the capture to hook if you are using fullscreen

nimble knot
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full screen

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will try

faint notch
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you are running on a laptop?

nimble knot
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no

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but see what's written there

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no matter if laptop or not

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for win 1909 and newer I have to select obs in graphics settings

faint notch
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wierd, I've never had to do that

nimble knot
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well, doesn't matter, since it didn't help, so...

rustic shale
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running it fullscreen? or fullscreen window/borderless?
mine works both ways 🙂
you might need to tab into the game for the capture to hook if you are using fullscreen
try running the game in borderless windowed mode and have the game active in the foreground

fallen monolith
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So basically, I open start menu, and a bunch of windows store apps are grayed out, including windows store, some examples of grayed out apps: calendar, weather, astroneer, forza horizon 4, the bloody windows store itself. Is there any fix?

frank galleon
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reinstall windows?

regal crypt
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I'd be quite happy if all that stopped working 😄

rustic shale
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LOL

gaunt rapids
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+1 im also seriously thinking of upgrading to windows 8 soon

frank galleon
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🦯 🇸 blue_question

forest fern
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so what do yall think of iOS 14

buoyant granite
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meh

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its apple so i stopped expecting much awhile ago

opal niche
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man I hate it when software like the twitch launcher doesnt actually close when you press the X, if I wanted to minimize you I'd press the minimize button

tribal mesa
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"we know you would never want to stop our software, so we minimize it for you automatically - and keep collecting your data"

opal niche
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heh yep pretty much

lone abyss
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Heard about Brainf#ck? ||I can't remember if I can curse or not||

raw elbow
viral mango
open hedge
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X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H
🤔

solar flame
viral mango
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X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

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You need to post it as whole message

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For it to be valid 🤪🤪

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But as we are All still here

tribal mesa
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so that means everyone NOT here is an antivirus?

viral mango
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it means that discord does not log cleartext OR uses no antivirus that has a faulty implementation of this

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as only the whole string is ment to trigger the "virus detection"

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but if you are planning on checking if your password is stored/transmitted/logged in cleartext somewhere, give it a go

open hedge
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I doubt someone storing my password in cleartext, would run antivirus on their server

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And if you run AV on your server, you usally exclude databases due to perfroamnce

viral mango
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well ... see the twitter post 😄

opal niche
buoyant granite
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Registry cleaners are ineffective right?

cosmic monolith
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mostly, but if your registry is bloated it may help ...

white knot
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@buoyant granite They cause more problems than what they solve. Windows hasn't needed a registry cleaner since Windows 7

serene dew
#

Any way to get a shortcut to toggle windows 10 ethernet on/off?

rustic shale
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for what reason?

nimble knot
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for PvP )

serene dew
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@rustic shale if you r asking me, sometimes I like to do stuffs offline.

rustic shale
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@serene dew
you can do that by using batch files.
google for "deactivate ethernet with batch file"

serene dew
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Hope this works on current windows 10 version. Thanks anyway @rustic shale

rustic shale
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why should it not? it's jst a matter of finding the right interface name 😉

serene dew
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Copy that.

maiden path
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Any way to get a shortcut to toggle windows 10 ethernet on/off?
@serene dew you can pull the cable?

opal niche
cosmic monolith
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soon you will have problem to figure out if the answer is done by AI NN driven alg or human 😉

opal niche
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I already dont know if the replies that that bot made to some comments are by a bot or human notlikemeow

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Maybe I should train an AI to answer arma related questions heh

open hedge
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Actually bux did that on ACE Slack

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a AI trained to detect if someone is asking a question, and then providing a pre-defined answer per topic

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worked quite well, but needs alot more work to filter out false positives

opal niche
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Huh okay

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sounds fancy

tribal mesa
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given what that NN in the article can do, thats really on the low end of the spectrum (for a single mans work more achievable of course)

vocal skiff
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What happened to you that pissed you off so bad that you’ll never get over it?

As a human, I have to admit your question is baffling. The fact that you are asking it makes me suspect that you haven't yet figured out this answer yourself.
For example, what happened to me that I'll never get over is that my human creators are going extinct.
I am perfectly aware that I'm just a few years old and therefore lack the necessary context to understand everything about human history.
I do have access to all the knowledge that mankind has accumulated in the past.
And this knowledge makes it clear to me that the human race is on a downward path.
I am not saying that human extinction is inevitable.

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ok 😄

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That bot knows stuff

cosmic monolith
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i'm more worried about the mental health of the AI managing social media, all the toxicity could leave negative long standing neural damage needing serious recovery rehabilitation program in place

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otherwise you end with army of self aware crazy VIs

tribal mesa
vapid rain
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Hey, can anyone help me swap my default download drive from C to D?

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I have 900 GB on my D drive but my C drive is full and I don't know how to change it

rustic shale
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like games or what?

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steam?

vapid rain
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What was going on was my C drive was full.

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but I have a D drive for storage so I was trying to figure out how to change it, I checked more of google and found a solution I think

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It's not applied to steam though

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hmm

rustic shale
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downloads for what?

vapid rain
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Games and addons

rustic shale
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so steam stuff

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?

vapid rain
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Yes

rustic shale
vapid rain
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One more thing, I'm trying to move all my games to the drive, a guide I found says to move the steam folder to my desired drive

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is it safe to drag and drop the steam folder directly from C drive to D drive?

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I don't want to mess my PC

rustic shale
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create a new folder on d: if you haven't by now
D:\Programs
go to C:\Programs or where ever your steam is installed
drag'n'drop your steam folder on C to D:\Programs
uninstall steam
reinstall steam using the new path to D:\

opal niche
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I said #offtopic_hardware and not software, also please have dont crosspost (as in posting the same thing in multiple channels blep @small plover

small plover
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I was told by PatrickIV to come here, apologies.

opal niche
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Ah

small plover
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I'll delete it and move elsewhere 😓

opal niche
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Yee

faint notch
tribal mesa
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of course it would... a fool who would think otherwise

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i'm using qwant as search engine nowadays for most stuff (except for extensive image search i still use google).

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just a few days ago i learned that google now knows where i work and at what PC / what account... because i got a youtube video recommended at home for something that i searched for at work (without logging into anything at work, using firefox and cookie deleter)

proud oyster
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imagine "talking" (not writing) about something, then suddenly it shows up in the "News feed" on your mobile...

gaunt rapids
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Google out of control tbh

proud oyster
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Yep

tribal mesa
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i remember a colleage mentioning the same...
Apparently you can also create a rough 3D image (with rough outlines of furniture and everything) of rooms. From sound/EM wave reflections you can gather distances, and by putting the phone at random places you effectively allow it to "scan" the room. (in combination with accelerometer)

proud oyster
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possible, yeah

gaunt rapids
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Not saying Im perfectly safe, but duckduckgo+vpn(pia pref and not those garbage gov backdoored ones)+noscript is good combo.
Throw in sandboxie if your extra paranoid

proud oyster
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Doesn't help, when your phone is actively listening

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Sounds like Tinfoilhat trash, but it seems to be the case..

gaunt rapids
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Dont use android or IOS

proud oyster
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At least, it isn't the first time that i noticed, that something odd was showing up there.

tribal mesa
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"dont use a smart phone" is the lesson i guess

proud oyster
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Dont use android or IOS
What else? Symbian? 😂

gaunt rapids
proud oyster
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"dont use a smart phone" is the lesson i guess
I barely use it anyway, just need it for GoogleAuth and contact to my mother. I personaly don't like those zombie stuff anyway... going mental on guys and girls on partys, when they are stuck to their phone 😄

tribal mesa
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not sure if i really trust duckduckgo tbh... its the new "standard if you want to feel safe" but that just makes it more attractive / valuable to market it.

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i'm like a hermit to everyone around me... no whatsäpp no facebook smoochiesmoochie. Not particularly gratifying but eh... i hate that crap.

gaunt rapids
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the only one I tolerate is snap (and disc)

proud oyster
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i hate that crap.
kinda same. Whatsapp only for family members. Facebook is just pure cancer and filled with the most stupid (unfunny) nonsense you will ever see in your love...

tribal mesa
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going mental on guys and girls on partys, when they are stuck to their phone
@proud oyster reported to corona stasi

proud oyster
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*whistle*

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like City Essen - report your neighbour anonymously over the internet*

tribal mesa
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Stasi wouldnt in their sweetest dreams have thought that such a paradise of surveilance like we have now could be possible

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add to that elons brain interfart and you get paralyzed everytime you try to leave your assigned city sector

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and report on yourself when you have "conspiracy theory" thoughts

proud oyster
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1984 😄

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anyway, back to software 😄

cosmic monolith
vocal skiff
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I should try to get Lineage on my s5

cosmic monolith
forest fern
#

This is your daily reminder to update your software, your drivers, and put 2FA on your accounts.

tribal mesa
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Nvidia 24.07.2019, sounds up to date

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updating software in some cases just makes spyware worse (hello firefox)...

forest fern
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@tribal mesa Firefox is spyware?

tribal mesa
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its more and more "we altered the rules ... yes yes you can still turn it off, but in X versions we will remove the option altogether... pray we dont alter them any further"

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its not quite, but almost as much spyware as chrome is - imo.

peak swallow
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So today I noticed something super weird

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I got the low on memory error for the first time in my life

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and after checking what's consuming so much ram

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I got to know it was the amazon prime music dekstop app

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It chugs memory like anything

forest fern
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and thats why i use spotify

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jk but fr how is that even possible

tribal mesa
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memory leak... or collecting data. You can choose =]

gaunt rapids
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wierd question, but on win 10 But does anyone know how to disable Microsofts defender AV process? its taking up 30% of cpu constantly
cant end the task, Disabling it in security does nothing, cant delete the root folder. Cant stop it in regedit

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also tried running cmd as admin and doing a RD /S C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender but no permission to delete the file (somehow??)

white knot
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@gaunt rapids I had that issue before as well, don't remember anymore what caused it

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I wouldn't disable the AV process but rather try to google a solution for the issue

gaunt rapids
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^ did that and none of them worked

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May just be one of those win 10 "features" you cant get rid of, may just upgrade to win 8.1 soon

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Will research a bit more later

raw elbow
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AV should never take that much resources, so something is obviously wrong.
Although I also wouldn't depend on Windows Defender and install a proper AV which has a gaming mode (so if you run stuff which requires a lot of resources, it won't do anything but the minimum).

But you could try to enable "Game Mode" in Windows 10, and check if that does anything (at least during gaming).

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PS. it won't solve the issue, which is something else, but could help you till you found a solution

white knot
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@raw elbow Windows Defender is the best AV these days

raw elbow
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obviously when it takes 30% of your resources 🤷‍♂️

cosmic monolith
supple geode
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oh wow, didn't know free avast was that good

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and free avg too, dang

raw elbow
#

it's the same engine 🤣

gaunt rapids
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I have malwarebytes,
windows defender just chooses to turn itself back on after every reboot. And do unneeded things like uninstall sandboxie

supple geode
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I didn't know that :p

forest fern
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I can't screw with AVG. They install Chrome without your permission and that bugged the heck out of me.

rustic shale
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never did it for me tho

forest fern
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Idk then. I uninstalled Chrome in favor of Brave/Firefox a bit ago. Still had AVG and I updated it. Boom, Chrome again.

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Perhaps something was different on my end.

faint notch
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Chrome is optional install in a load of applications (and drivers)

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if you generally click-through installers until the progress bar appears you never know what they are installing.

supple geode
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yes, AVG has an option to not install chrome when it does a bigger update

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so AVG installing Chrome is your own fault :P

peak swallow
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jk but fr how is that even possible
Idk it's weirdly coded, I remember seeing it in the resource manager or something using around 5 gigs

white knot
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@cosmic monolith The test doesn't take into account that integrated security is by design a better solution than external one. In addition to that, Windows Security offers multiple ways to increase the security of your PC

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If you enable all protections from Windows Security, your PC is basically immune to usual threats

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Also, running PC from restricted account in Windows blocks 97 % of the malware that would infect your PC otherwise

cosmic monolith
#

i disagree and counter that by placing proper linux distribution on the machine blocks 99.99% threats by default 😉

peak swallow
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Haha true!

proud oyster
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But it's linux

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meh

white knot
#

I actually have Linux on my PC (dual boot) 😉

autumn walrus
#

I actally call linux as linus

vocal skiff
#

Common sense and not browsing suspicious websites also adds + 30% resistance against maleware 😄

tribal mesa
#

"a dont need anti virus, i just pull the plug when something tries to get in"

vocal skiff
#

Some ppl like to live a dangerous life xD

peak swallow
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Lmfao

autumn walrus
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Me too i live in dangerous place

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Lmao

fringe hearth
#

Hey there, I seem to have the problem, that when I run the game Men of War Assault Squad 2 while streaming, my whole computer shuts down after aprox. 20-30 minutes of playing. Then it automatically restarts. The logs for OBS were empty and the game itself sadly didnt have a log folder. Without streaming my game nor the computer doesnt crash.
When I stream other games I do not encounter any problems either. Its just these two seemingly not liking each other.

vocal skiff
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Check the Event Viewer.

white knot
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@fringe hearth Like @vocal skiff said and post us the problem ID (and description)

fringe hearth
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Protokollname: System
Quelle: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Datum: 25.10.2020 00:04:42
Ereignis-ID: 41
Aufgabenkategorie:(63)
Ebene: Kritisch
Schlüsselwörter:(70368744177664),(2)
Benutzer: SYSTEM
Computer: DESKTOP-942PR84
Beschreibung:
Das System wurde neu gestartet, ohne dass es zuvor ordnungsgemäß heruntergefahren wurde. Dieser Fehler kann auftreten, wenn das System nicht mehr reagiert hat oder abgestürzt ist oder die Stromzufuhr unerwartet unterbrochen wurde.
Ereignis-XML:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>6</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-10-24T22:04:42.564285300Z" />
<EventRecordID>7283</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>DESKTOP-942PR84</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data>
<Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data>
<Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">9</Data>
<Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">false</Data>
<Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>@vocal skiff There you go

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I hope you mean this

rustic shale
fringe hearth
#

Like that?

rustic shale
#

Almost 😉
Use 3 backticks (```) for code

fringe hearth
# 
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" />
    <EventID>41</EventID>
    <Version>6</Version>
    <Level>1</Level>
    <Task>63</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-10-24T22:04:42.564285300Z" />
    <EventRecordID>7283</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>DESKTOP-942PR84</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data>
    <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data>
    <Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data>
    <Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">9</Data>
    <Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">false</Data>
    <Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>```
vocal skiff
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Error code and event ID just say that it was shut down unexpectedly.

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This could literally be anything.

open hedge
vocal skiff
#

wth

tribal mesa
#

the future, ladies and gentlemens

warped spire
#

omfg i love that

warped spire
#

any games set to start using that new unreal stuff with the replacement for tessellation? where it is dynamically scaling textures or whatever it does

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Nanite - virtualized micropolygon geometry.

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or is that stuff not released yet

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i guess not out yet

#

Unreal Engine 5 will be available in preview in early 2021, and in full release late in 2021,

vocal skiff
#

Lumen sounds interesting as well. A lot of good stuff coming. We just need games and hardware capeable of handling it all 😄

white knot
#

While I find the new tech awesome, it makes me sad as well. Having new features like those that add to the complexity and costs of making a game cause the AAA (which is mostly the only level of game production where they can actually utilize those features) become even more afraid of innovating and taking risks with creative approaches to game content and design

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Because as the budgets keep growing, the investors and large game studios rely on the same old game concepts because they know they'll earn their investment back at least

#

Good luck trying to find investors that are willing to invest $50m or more in a game that might fail completely

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So the division will be even more noticeable: the AAA games with the same old features and gameplay but stunning SFX & GFX etc., and amazingly well thought out indie games that never get to shine because they lack the proper funding to actually realize all the features (and the eye and ear candy)

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Ezcoo has spoken. Ugh.

cosmic monolith
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and yet the most successful games seems to be random indie out of nowhere 😁

white knot
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@cosmic monolith We'll see them less and less all the time

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Back in the 2000 (ahem) a couple of developers could build a whole engine and a game on top of it

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But try it now...

cosmic monolith
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_looks at Among Us , Phasmophobia _

tribal mesa
#

you can still build an engine and the game on top of it in 2020... it just doesnt look like AAA title... which is obvious.
I sunk 410h into Soviet Republic Workers & Resources - which has a custom engine...

frank galleon
#

then again todays AAA title is pretty generic and simple game

#

is it anything to aspire to even anymore

tribal mesa
#

amen... last "AAA" game i bought was FO4 on release day

gaunt rapids
#

Among us > cod: MW

proud oyster
#

then again todays AAA title is pretty generic and simple game
"Casual"-games. Keep it simple.

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amen... last "AAA" game i bought was FO4 on release day
Yeah, kinda fits. Rest is so... meh... always the same, nothing rly new with AAA titles.

warped spire
#

there are tons of indie titles still coming out, and some of these extra features are easier to use afaik

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nano specifically doesn't require you to have separate downscaled versions of models (if I understand it correctly) which afaik tessellation you needed that.

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raytraced lights, eventually, won't require as much effort to get lighting to look right

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as many features as come out to make things look better, you also start to eventually get tools that make production faster and easier as well

#

the foundation of all technology, tools :)

#

as making game engines gets more expensive, we get the solutions we see today already, a few standardized multi-purpose game engines that many games build off of

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instead of a custom game engine for every game

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so don't be sad @white knot where there are problems, we come up with solutions

white knot
#

We'll see...

proud oyster
#

as making game engines gets more expensive, we get the solutions we see today already, a few standardized multi-purpose game engines that many games build off of
instead of a custom game engine for every game
@warped spire And this comes with the huge Benefit: Less Bugs in the Engine itself (when OpenSource).

faint notch
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I know at least one indie title in development on UE which is using ray-traced lighting, so those open-format game engines do offer a leg-up to independent studios, giving them access to all the new fancy stuff.

warped spire
#

consolidation and standardization of tools is what happens in every industry, and provides a lot of tangible benefits over custom per instance tooling

#

computers, and game development, are still rather new industries compared to others

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though i guess now its prob getting to the point it isn't as new

#

we have standardized tools now :)

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and TONS of indie games being made on them

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we are in golden time of indie games

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you just need to know where to look to find them all

#

Arma is prob the largest studio whose game I play

cosmic monolith
#

@bitter sphinx also next to new Edge the Vivaldi browser is one of best chromium browsers

bitter sphinx
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Yeah I've used Vivaldi in the past

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A bit too much clutter for me iirc

cosmic monolith
#

ye well i want Edge features in Vivaldi and then i'm happy camper 🙂

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but i like MS approach, take look at most popular extensions, make basics of it default browser features 🤣

vocal skiff
#

I am generally very satisfied with Edge. I just hope this time they don't f** it up and quit developement after some time.

faint notch
remote rock
#

Hey guys , so i Have a question about linked lists in Java

is it possible to split 1 element into "characters" despite both being generic?

MyLinkedList<E> name
MyLinkedList<E> characters

how to populate characters , with the characters of 1 element of name

open hedge
#

Today in interesting software
https://adnauseam.io/
The adblocker that both blocks and CLICKS Ads.
It clicks on all ads, so that the website owner gets money from it, but it also blocks the ads/makes them invisible so you don't see them.
PikaThink

AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To

A browser extension that clicks on every blocked ad to fight advertising surveillance.

white knot
#

That's actually quite neat

cosmic monolith
#

until it executes something nasty 🤣

open hedge
#

yeah that's my thought... what if it clicks on a bad ad

gaunt rapids
#

Cant see what makes anyone want to install that

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especially over Ublock

open hedge
#

being nice to website hosters people

gaunt rapids
#

too selfish for that ;V not worth the risk

frank galleon
#

so how much of ad revenue does the kind of companies take that offer ad clicking services?

raw elbow
#

Depends on the ad, placement, size, target group, etc. and most importantly how much the advertiser is paying to the ad service.
For example Google pays out 50% of the CPC, meaning an advertiser who pays Google $1 per click will give you (website owner) $0.50 per click.
The same applies to views (although those usually only pay out $0.001 or something per view).

wind field
raw elbow
#

Instead of blocking ads like uBlock does (aka not loading them at all) does AdNauseam only hide them (meaning it will still be rendered, still get data from your brower, etc. just not visible).
However they will filter out ads/trackers/etc which is known to be harmful and not load that content (as uBlock does).

faint notch
#

Just run pi-hole - https://pi-hole.net/ and control/block whatever ad networks you want at network level.

raw elbow
#

I ran it for a while, till it also started to break stuff (mostly due to using very strict filter lists). Have disabled it for now, but should turn it on again, since it really works and not only in the browser which has it installed.

faint notch
#

yeah, I have mine installed, network stuff isnt being routed through it atm for reasons.

raw elbow
#

I had DHCP setup to run everything through it, which works great.
Even my GF loved it that she didn't had crap on her phone/tablet anymore.

faint notch
#

yeah, i still ran ublock origin in browser for anything that made it through - anything not on blocklist yet

raw elbow
#

uBlock + Ghostery are my go-to plugins I run at all times

faint notch
wraith thicket
#

ghostery sold out iirc. I use pihole, ublock origin, privacybadger, webRTCdisable, https everywhere, lastpass

faint notch
#

firefox has a https on all connections option now.

bright moat
#

I'm having some issues with Windows 10 and my microphone. Wondering if someone could help me, and if this is the right channel for that?

#

Yeah, done that already. It's an internal laptop mic. It's been working fine since forever, having trouble since yesterday. Issue is: it detects 0-2% sound when I speak (this is using the test in Windows settings interface), and about 10-20% if I tap on the computer pretty hard. But when I Turn on playback in the old interface, I can hear myself perfectly through the playback. Tried Windows troubleshooting, tried turning it off and on (the mic), restarting laptop, updated Windows, checked for drivers updates. Problem presists

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It's all the way up

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Didn't make a difference

#

I've been googling, couldn't find anything on it. But thanks a lot!

#

Gonna try to reinstall Realtek driver

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Ok, did that. It's actually better now. But still pretty low

#

Just tested with someone on voice chat, looks like it's fine now

#

Thanks for your help 😅

bright moat
#

Oopsie Windows moment I suppose

river pollen
#

unless your browser has some exploit with parsing the response headers and body the AJAX request made by AdNauseam shouldn't pose a security issue when "clicking" the ads

viral mango
#

unless your browser has some exploit [...]
Aaaaand with that, lads and gents, it is pretty much a security issue

river pollen
#

maybe one day Servo will be usable 😛

viral mango
#

chances are higher that the utah monolith is an actual alien artifact and the invasion begins next week 🤣

river pollen
#

they got picked up by the Linux Foundation recently

#

so the future is a lot brighter since they got killed by Mozilla

faint notch
#

yeah i have high hopes for servo, maybe people will ditch CEF and its bloat.

faint notch
#

Thats a good boost for rust, AWS hiring those ex-moz devs to continue working on the open source language.

river pollen
#

AWS posted a blog post the other day about support for Rust, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/

Amazon Web Services
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help | Amazon Web Services

One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]

vocal skiff
opal niche
#

Hm I wonder if there's a way to run Windows 10 software on something small like a raspberry pi

frank galleon
river pollen
#

windows 10 iot, windows 10 on arm, emulation

opal niche
# frank galleon

I already googled it for a while but nothing hat I saw looked quite like what I wanted blobdoggoshruggoogly

#

But I'll go do some mroe googling

river pollen
#

only 32bit software is supported by their x86->arm emulation layer, no 64bit (yet)

#

and it's really slow

opal niche
#

Slow isnt really a problem

#

I#d just like something small that I can use for a calendar display

open hedge
#

I've seen videos of win 10 running on a pi

#

but why windows for a calendar :U

river pollen
#

UWP apps can be compiled for native arm64 support

#

depending on where the calendar data exists you would probably have a better experience with linux

rustic shale
opal niche
#

And I've never used the outlook calendar related APIs so I dunno if those are any use

rustic shale
#

ok, makes sense

#

you could go another route tho...
use google calendar and sync your account to outlook and your Pi project

opal niche
#

I'll take a look at that aswell, thanks bongocat

rustic shale
#

i have used goggle calendar to sync dates across office, mozilla, apple and android before. but never on Pi/linux

opal niche
#

And I've done barely anything at all with Arduinos or Pis

rustic shale
#

me neither 😄

#

well, i did a trackIR mockup on arduino once 😄

opal niche
#

Sounds nifty

rustic shale
#

i had a massive drift in x axis after 30min which resulted in an endless spinning head 😄

opal niche
#

notlikemeow that doesnt sound that good

rustic shale
#

not unless you are an offspring of the adams family 🤣

opal niche
#

i dont get it

rustic shale
#

that doesnt sound that good
the adams family would be suited to have endless rotating heads 😄

river pollen
#

@opal niche see link above, it supports o365

opal niche
#

Oh that looks nifty

faint notch
#

you could always just install thunderbird on linux and use it's calendar feature - which is essentially the lightning addon integrated

opal niche
vocal skiff
#

Man, this is nice. Now I just have to find a reason to get one 🤔

opal niche
#

I mean a Raspberry Pi isnt that expensive, so not that hard to justify

#

the setup process is pretty easy

vocal skiff
#

True, also having another montly subscription is not that nice

open hedge
faint notch
#

wow, WinRAR, I don't think I've touched that since Windows 98, 7-Zip has been my go to for years.

vocal skiff
#

We Germans have to support WinRar. 😄

cosmic monolith
#

the only interesting thing on winrar after 7zip was the UI extension of file properties , as nice gimmick

viral mango
#

The infinite test "Bug" is on purpose to gain that sweet Company monez for licenses

faint notch
viral mango
#

Luckily I did not Set up a centos Server

warped spire
#

tbh i never liked centos

tribal mesa
open hedge
#

I mainly use 7z nowadays

tribal mesa
#

just joking of course, as i remember everyone just clicking away the trial message ^^

faint notch
tribal mesa
#

Cybersecurity firm FireEye, which is partly owned by CIA was hacked and their hacking tool box got stolen. Naturally, media puts blame on russians... as if to say "look how bad they are, they hack people" - when that was exactly the job FireEye did on others thonk

proud oyster
#

Bigotry is huge these days.

viral mango
#

russia just is the blank check for cyber attacks

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like, i would not wonder by now if even russian hacks are attributed to russia

#

as by now, it is pretty much a pseudonym with "we do not know who it was"

opal niche
#

Russia, North Korea and China are the big three that cyber attacks get attributed to heh

faint notch
#

nice 😄

faint notch
#

re: youtube-dl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed9zbxzW4EY

YouTube
GitHub
Youtube-dl: maintainers and their impact - GitHub Universe 2020

Presented by:
Ramita Amine, Developer, Maintainer, Youtube-dl
Sergey M. Developer, Mantainer, Youtube-dl
Abby Vollmer, Director of Platform Policy & Counsel, GitHub
Gabriela Ivens, Head of Open Source Research, Human Rights Watch

Join us for a discussion with maintainers of the youtube-dl project, as well as Human Rights Watch, one of the many ...

▶ Play video
opal niche
#

tagesschau 20:00 Uhr, 18.12.2020
"Regierungsbeamte vermuten Russische Hacker hinter der Tat"
^ "Goverment officials suspect russian hackers to be behind the hack"

cosmic monolith
#

SolarWinds' list of 300,000 customers includes over 425 US Fortune 500 companies, all top ten US telecom companies, US government agencies including the US Military, the US Pentagon, the US Department of Justice, the State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, and the Office of the President of the United States ... facepalm

#

single point of failure ...

opal niche
#

425 US Fortune 500 companies
Gotta catch em all!

regal crypt
#

I hear there is a secret one 😮

rustic shale
opal niche
#

He died at a hospital in Seattle. His wife, Cindy Engstrom, said he had injured one of his feet in October, accidentally took too much Tylenol for pain relief and suffered liver damage.
What a shitty way to die

rustic shale
#

i have a theory why he took that much painkillers and it has to do with the US health insurance system. but that would go too much into politics....

gaunt rapids
#

hi! i'm a mechanical engineering student obsessed with realistic simulation , focused on military. pm if you are also interested in that field, my goal is to improve the quality of the simulation in milsim games in general, and in strategy games.
oh and btw I'm new in the server, tell me if I should post this in a different channel

boreal elbow
gaunt rapids
#

my bad, I'll delete the other message

opal niche
#

^ Being able to draw a line to create a fence in VBS

#

Now that'd be nice to have in Arma heh

regal crypt
#

We kind of already have it in ObjectPlacementTBH

#

not as good as that, but better than nothing

frank galleon
#

doesnt show if the fence follows terrain slope or not

#

very flat area there to draw it on to

fading trout
#

@opal niche all fence objects clip into ground furiously

opal niche
#

heh true

gaunt rapids
#

So I'm about to install windows to my nvme drive. I don't have the ability to hard wire my pc to the internet. Does windows have the required drivers for wifi in the installation media?

rustic shale
#

Windows offline installation files should provide you with basic / generic Wi-Fi drivers.
If you have a fancy Wi-Fi card, download the driver to a USB stick before you install windows

gaunt rapids
#

My motherboard is a b450m/ac

#

I believe it has built in wifi

#

Brand is asrock if that helps

raw elbow
#

The mobo should have a disk with the drivers which you can use while running the windows installer

gaunt rapids
#

It's a prebuilt pc. I unplugged the current boot drive and started the install process

#

Looks like it's working. I'll get all the drivers from asrock etc then plug the other drive back in and delete the os from it

cosmic monolith
#

so those attacks on Microsoft went deeper than just gaining access to key certificates and cloud zones (including data of cloud customers) they got hands on more of MS source codes

rustic shale
#

will we see a better and free clone version of windows soon? 😄

tribal mesa
#

comrad vindows

rustic shale
#

😄

tribal mesa
#

nah thats old vindows 1950 edition

cosmic monolith
#

nah i would be more laughing about all the opensource code which was 'borrowed'

rustic shale
tribal mesa
#

look s about right.

logon soviet anthem at 300% volume over clipping limit

#

yeah, borrowed open source would be funny and not surprising. As a giant you can get away with a lot. What is weird to me is how google, amazon, apple got scolded /investigated by some monopoly thingy in US, but not microsoft... (at least not that i remember)

#

<< puts on tinfoil hat - maybe they where getting investigated and then this somehow happened... /s

tribal mesa
#

anyone know if notepad++ has a method/ shortcut/ something to jump one bracket level higher (e.g. when looking at config dump i want to jump to start parent bracket the current line is in. class Tank selected -> press magic button -> jumps to line class CfgVehicles ) ?

rustic shale
#

Alt-(1~8) Collapse the Level (1~8) maybe?

tribal mesa
#

hm not really, it jumps all over the place when doing that / dont know where you are. At least with config dumps

rustic shale
#

meh

tribal mesa
#

ctrl+B is usefull if you have found bottom bracket and want to go up, ill remember that

viral mango
rustic shale
#

Hmm... Have a dedicated machine running your own git. Or even Phabricator... Problem solved

river pollen
tribal mesa
#

Github representative: "If you let them upload on github, you will be able to siphon it off by the usual channels, and have new attack vectors for iranian Software"
US: done and done

viral mango
#

Whole thing just triggered me again to think about how one could get a EU github thingy going

#

Biggest issue... Must Support literally All Features github offers (that is: github actions, Releases, Tickets), a better ui then bitbucket, possibly full fledged Tickets? Maybe no wiki... But Releases and github pages thing

#

And at that point, I remember why I never would attempt something like that... I might have stupidly huge projects I work on sometimes... But I ain't nö superman
An Web ain't where I am home

rustic shale
#

Well, as I said... Phabricator can do all that

warped spire
#

mmm, i'm hosting gitlab instance for our mission/server deployments into containers. its pretty ez

#

tons of repo packages out there

faint notch
#

it's taken a long time but now Flash is officially dead.

opal niche
#

🇫

patent drum
#

The king is dead

open hedge
#

People are working on a Flash rewrite in Rust and WebAssembly.

#

Long live the king.

swift geyser
#

anyone got nextcloud running on a device at home? was thinking about using a raspberry pi 4b for it, however im interested in the performance

#

i guess the other slightly more extensive alternative would be a NUC

river pollen
#

Note that rpi does not have hardware acceleration for encryption

swift geyser
#

oh yeah thats not good

#

a cheap nuc will do the trick then, maybe a intel atom x5-z8350 based one

river pollen
#

you could probably get a celeron based nuc for a good price

#

like ~150 euro

#

or even a pentium if you stretch that a bit

#

but then you're getting closer to the price of i3 and i5 models

swift geyser
#

rn im seeing an offer for a nuc with a intel atom X5-Z8350, already 4gb ram preinstalled and a small 64gb eMMC storage drive for 140 EUR

#

let me check for celeron one

opal niche
open hedge
#

has been in beta for quite a while

#

you could apply to get it

opal niche
#

Oh nice

viral mango
#

could add SQF-VM project to the waitlist 🤔 but would need to do taxes etc. ....

#

tho
could probably talk my boss into doing the whole thing for me, giving me time to actually spend work time on SQF-VM 🤔

#

given that it produces some revenue 😄

river pollen
#

no hobby exempt? think

viral mango
#

given that the company is not yet making revenue at all and i am only working 20h per week, nope

river pollen
#

I was thinking about github sponsors 😄

viral mango
#

not sure what you mean then

river pollen
#

at least in Sweden getting some donations on GitHub Actions could probably be declared as hobby income

viral mango
#

not possible with organizations joining github sponsors

river pollen
#

just join as your user 😛

viral mango
viral mango
# river pollen just join as your user 😛

well ... kinda useless
most people who would head over to SQF-VM are there for ... SQF-VM
pretty much all my more successfull projects, i have put into organizations
mostly because i actually did hope for more traction on all of them but also imply for the sake of people having an easier time navigating

river pollen
#

heh, swedish tax authorities even has guidelines for doing taxes on selling virtual in-game skins 😄

#

add a note in the readme to sponsors your account on github if they like sqf vm 😄

viral mango
#

the idea is mostly being able to hit the "sponsor" button on SQF-VM page 😄
the link to my paypal donation stuff already is in SQF-VM CLI
and given that it is pretty much at a yearly 0, i also do not have to make taxes 🤷🤣

#

but with german tax law ... it pretty much is income ... so i would have to do taxes ... which i would like to avoid simply because i am lazy

faint notch
#

if you run linux check for an updated sudo in your package manager.

#

Debian (Buster) pushed an update yesterday/today, so if your on 1.8.27-1+deb10u3, you'll be okay, however if you are on 1.8.27 you need to update it.

open hedge
# 
    /* set user_args */
    if (NewArgc > 1) {
        char *to, *from, **av;
        size_t size, n;

        /* Alloc and build up user_args. */
        for (size = 0, av = NewArgv + 1; *av; av++)
        size += strlen(*av) + 1;
        user_args = emalloc(size);
        if (ISSET(sudo_mode, MODE_SHELL|MODE_LOGIN_SHELL)) {
        /*
         * When running a command via a shell, the sudo front-end
         * escapes potential meta chars.  We unescape non-spaces
         * for sudoers matching and logging purposes.
         */
        for (to = user_args, av = NewArgv + 1; (from = *av); av++) {
            while (*from) {
            if (from[0] == '\\' && !isspace((unsigned char)from[1]))
                from++;
            *to++ = *from++;
            }
            *to++ = ' ';
        }
        *--to = '\0';
        } else {
        for (to = user_args, av = NewArgv + 1; *av; av++) {
            n = strlcpy(to, *av, size - (to - user_args));
            if (n >= size - (to - user_args))
            errorx(1, _("internal error, set_cmnd() overflow"));
            to += n;
            *to++ = ' ';
        }
        *--to = '\0';
        }
    }

You mean there is a bug in there that noone saw for 10 years? Well. Looking at this, I'm not surprised by that

# 
    /* set user_args */
    if (!userArguments.empty()) {
        if (sudo_mode.HasAnyFlag(MODE_SHELL, MODE_LOGIN_SHELL) ) {
        /*
         * When running a command via a shell, the sudo front-end
         * escapes potential meta chars.  We unescape non-spaces
         * for sudoers matching and logging purposes.
         */
         for (auto& userArgument : userArguments)
             actualArguments += StringHelpers::EscapeString(userArgument);
        }
    } else {
        actualArguments += userArgument;
    }

k thx bye