windows-ios

[warm osprey]

is there an open source nvidia control panel alternative? It keeps resetting my monitor settings and it's driving me crazy

now it's doing this which is pecking great https://your-face.is-ne.at/ujYRGZ.gif

I usually run all my monitors at 75Hz, but nvidia keeps resetting it seemingly at random. I just go back to the control panel and it's reset.

Sometimes my custom resolutions are disabled, and I have to click Customize and tick them again so they show up.

This has persisted through DDU, Windows reinstalls, motherboard, CPU, RAM, and GPU upgrades.

[tired orchid]

No, there isn't.

You're just gonna have to suffer.

And probably stop using custom resolutions

[paper cedar]

How do I get to the bios from here

[strong surge]

You waited too long lol

[vestal ibex]

Reboot and mash delete until the screen changes

[paper cedar]

Bet

Thanks

I got a windows iso on a usb and reset but it still ain’t going

[strong surge]

Need to use the Media Creation Tool to make the USB bootable

Just putting an ISO on it won't do anything

[paper cedar]

So I need the exe

[strong surge]

You need to download the Media Creation Tool and then run it to let it make the bootable USB

It takes a while to do it

[paper cedar]

I got a chromebook so how would I do that

Can’t open executables

[strong surge]

Interesting

[last gorge]

install linux on chromebook, use app to create bootable ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[strong surge]

https://superuser.com/questions/1612877/create-bootable-windows-10-usb-from-chrome-os

[last gorge]

oh wow xD

[strong surge]

Chromebook Recovery Utility and the Windows ISO looks like

Not sure if that is UEFI compatible or not but I guess we find out

[paper cedar]

Can vms access flash drives?

If so then that would be easier

[last gorge]

some VMs can, depends on software i suppose

[paper cedar]

Hm

How about if someone did the media creation for me and sent me the file

Chromebook is from school so I have little control

[strong surge]

That's not how it works lol

Can't send the bootable USB drive via software. It needs to be created from the tool or the ISO

[paper cedar]

So like you can’t zip it and send it ? I thought it was just like any other file

[strong surge]

No, it's not

Has to be formatted a certain way, etc

SO it's bootable

[last gorge]

vintage trying to say its not something as simple as a file, the tool is required to format and setup needed files

there are usbs sold already set but they come at a price

[strong surge]

Right, it's not just a set of files you pop on a drive and boot from

:/

[paper cedar]

Would Linux be the same

[tired orchid]

Yes.

[paper cedar]

If I have an existing bootable drive, is it just a matter of copy and pasting the files?

To turn an empty usb to a windows bootable

[dense mirage]

No, you need to use an imaging tool like Rufus or balena etcher

You could probably also manually dd a bootable image onto the drive, but I'm not sure if Chromebooks allow you to do that

[strong surge]

They do with Chrome Recovery Utility

I posted a guide for it

Kind of a wonky workaround but it works https://superuser.com/questions/1612877/create-bootable-windows-10-usb-from-chrome-os

[dense mirage]

Nice

[paper cedar]

Can’t use that

It’s blocked on my Chromebook

[peak notch]

bruh you using a school chromebook or smthn?

broke ass smh

[dense mirage]

That complicates matters. Depending on the competency of the IT staff at your school it could be pretty tightly locked down

[paper cedar]

My laptop broke so I have limited options

[peak notch]

unfortunate

[fast carbon]

i keep getting the "dcp watchdog violation" bsod

does anyone know of a way to diagnose and fix my issue?

[cinder mauve]

ew windows

#linux-and-android

better

[paper cedar]

Windows is more user friendly imo

[cinder mauve]

no

try Pop!_OS

Pop!_OS is easy to use.

[paper cedar]

That’s a lot of effort

[cinder mauve]

no?

It's easy

Try Ubuntu or Pop!_OS

I think Pop!_OS is better for noobs

There is also the Pop!_Shop

[paper cedar]

I’ll install it alongside windows and see how it goes

[cinder mauve]

Nice

ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?version=20.04.2.0&architecture=amd64

Try this or.

pop.system76.com/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZ7_DVxztQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSAyiicyQY

try one of thos

[crisp spire]

Linux mint>>>>pop os

[cinder mauve]

Pop!_OS is better

then mint

[crisp spire]

but yeah if ur used to windows, linux can be a little bit of a learning curve

[cinder mauve]

true

[crisp spire]

If you dont have a compelling reason to switch, dont

[cinder mauve]

I like gnome the most

[crisp spire]

pop os is garbage as a 1st os after windows tbh

[cinder mauve]

pop os is good?

Manjaro is garbage

[crisp spire]

Now when making the jump from windows to linux

[cinder mauve]

and pamac is garbage

[crisp spire]

mint is more simple to get since ui elements are windows 7 like

[cinder mauve]

Arch Linux is good

not easy to install

but the aur is nice

[grand bramble]

can somebody help me? My pc is stuck on the asus screen and I can't boot into BIOS but I don't have an OS

[cinder mauve]

What do you think about Pop!_OS

[cinder mauve]

uefi

[cinder mauve]

uh

did it show your specs

when you boot?

try F11 or ESC or F12

idk

[grand bramble]

naw its showing me this:

[cinder mauve]

do you have a gpu

[grand bramble]

it now says the uefi is corrupted lol

yes

[cinder mauve]

I dont see it there

How did you get a GPU?

[grand bramble]

dafaq

I built this pc over a year ago lol

[cinder mauve]

I am building a PC

Soon

I got my board

[grand bramble]

I just rma'd my mobo

I have a rtx 2060KO

[crisp spire]

Nah

[cinder mauve]

I can't find any GPU's.

[crisp spire]

its saying the gpt partition is corrupted

just hit F1

[cinder mauve]

Here are the parts I got. www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B078LWV8PZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[grand bramble]

but what does the gpt partition corruption mean? I keep rebooting and my pc keeps taking AGES to go into the uefi or give me a error screen

[cinder mauve]

www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07TC76671/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[crisp spire]

a hard disk or ssd format will solve your problem

[cinder mauve]

www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07WF6ZQST/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[crisp spire]

its not major at all

[cinder mauve]

www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B017HA3RGE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

thats all

for now

[grand bramble]

ah, how would I go about doing that?

I don't have an os yet

[crisp spire]

Hit F1

[grand bramble]

but what does that mean?

ok I hit f1

i'm in the bios

uefi whatever

Isp?

Null?

@crisp spire ?

[crisp spire]

Ok so now you can get into the bios for sure

now wait till ur readyto install the OS

we can format the disk using that installer yeah?

[grand bramble]

ye

[fast carbon]

i keep getting the "dcp watchdog violation" bsod. Does anyone know of a way to diagnose and fix my issue?

can anyone offer actual advice?

it just happened again and i reviewed event viewer and there's no related events'

i also updated some drivers but it keeps happening especially during gaming

i had the same bsod while playing dying light, GTA5, and rocket league

[grand bramble]

@crisp spire I tried to install windows but now it just blue-screens and fails to install, while taking like 10 minutes to give me access to the bios, this is with a new installation media

[sly heath]

Anyone here good with DNS settings?

[crisp spire]

Format the drive

[crisp spire]

Yep what you need

[grand bramble]

how I do dat from the bios?

[crisp spire]

From the install media

Not bios

[grand bramble]

but the install media doesn't work either lol

I am waiting on my friend to bring me a new usb to install the windows installer and try that

cause those are 2 seperate issues

the BIOS thing and the install media thing

[sly heath]

I downloaded DNS Benchmark earlier, because I'm trying to figure out what the best server is for me. I get frequent lag spikes on Xbox, so I'm attempting to manually edit the DNS. I went through the process of benchmarking, and found the domain which the software claims is the best. I just want to make sure the domain is safe before I switch everything over to it

[crisp spire]

Dns benchmark is garbage tbh

Where do u live?

[sly heath]

Long Island, NY

[crisp spire]

So yeah primary- 1.1.1.1
secondary- 1.0.0.1

Thats the cloudfare dns

Should be the best one for you

[crisp spire]

Nope

The bios is telling you the disk is corrupt

The windows install media isnt installing because the disk is corrupt

Same issue

[tidal lintel]

foilpaperIQ#2040 has been warned

Reason: Duplicated text

[grand bramble]

OOOOOOH

No but I was talking about the slow bios boot, that was happening even before I inserted the media

What i mean that with my install of windows I could get better support for my pc then

[crisp spire]

It’s probably just error checking the hard drive

[grand bramble]

may b

[crisp spire]

Remove the hard disk from ur pc and try

[grand bramble]

Its an ssd that has nothing on it, its not even formatted yet because I haven't been able to get into windows PE

[crisp spire]

A windows install will do nothing to get you support for a hardware problem

[crisp spire]

PE?

[sly heath]

Do I only need to change the preferred DNS servers in the Network Connections settings on my PC and the Network Settings on the Xbox? Or is there another location I need to switch?

[grand bramble]

windows preinstallation enviornment

that's what the windows installer runs on

[crisp spire]

You can just do it in router

That applies it everywhere

[grand bramble]

I mean that I can get supportassist or some remote assistance so they can troubleshoot anything they can idk

[crisp spire]

Are you choosing to boot off the installer @grand bramble

[grand bramble]

yep

boot priority set to the flash drive

[crisp spire]

So u want a software to fix a hardware issue

Honestly rma the ssd

If its brand new

[grand bramble]

I just mean that since this is a new motherboard AND SSD that came back from an rma TODAY, it has to be a software or firmware issue

I just rma'd them

[crisp spire]

Does ur mobo have bios flashback?

[sly heath]

Not sure how to switch the DNS settings for the router. When I type the Gateway number into my browser, it brings me to a page from my ISP, where I can see the SSID, password, and security type. Doesn't allow me to change anything there, at least as far as I can tell

[grand bramble]

dunno, probably but dunno how to use it

and I had the latest bios on my old mobo and still had the same problem

[crisp spire]

So ill help you in a few hours because i gtg rn

[grand bramble]

kk

For the motherboard rma they said some skews were broken

[crisp spire]

Any other tabs?

[grand bramble]

some cpu socket

pinhead skews they said idk what that is

[sly heath]

Went back to the main dashboard and found the DNS settings for the router. These numbers are nowhere close to the ones on the Xbox lol

Should I try typing these in prior to the 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1?

[crisp spire]

Yes

[crisp spire]

We can check when i get back

[sly heath]

Done. I'd be ecstatic if the lag subsides

Thanks for the help ❤️

[crisp spire]

No problem glad I could!

[warm osprey]

How do I run my monitors at their advertised framerates, then?

The "native" refresh rate is 60Hz. The box said 75Hz.

[tired orchid]

Clearly the box lied

[warm osprey]

so do I sue acer or..?

[tired orchid]

No? You'd spend more money than you'd get back from the suit

[warm osprey]

Also I'd have to sue ASUS because my other 75Hz monitor does this too

I'm joking obvs

[tired orchid]

75hz vs 60hz is also so minor I don't think most humans could tell the difference.

Now, 60hz vs 144hz on the other hand.

That would be a big enough discrepancy that I'd she.

*sue

[warm osprey]

I can tell immediately when I get back to my PC if it decided to reset all my settings.

It is very noticeable to me.

[finite merlin]

Advanced Display Settings, maybe?

[spice beacon]

It doesn't seem like a huge amount but 75hz is 25% more than 60hz

[spice beacon]

See if you can do in the windows settings and not Nvidia control panel

[warm osprey]

oh god https://your-face.is-ne.at/bPAwjP.png

why is the resolution that lol. I'm definitely looking at 1440p here

[spice beacon]

Ehhh

Try change it

[warm osprey]

now NVIDIA has the Hz reset again 🤔

However the refresh rate option does not even go to 60Hz

oo I was able to change it here tho

let's hope this sticks. Thanks for the help!

[spice beacon]

Np

[cinder mauve]

what is going on? every so often, google chrome will just crash my computer. clicking on a yt video, switching tabs, it will jsut glitch and give me a grey screen, and the only way to fix it to force turn off my laptop from the power button and turn it back on

[verbal dust]

Stop using chrome, it eats ram for breakfast

Best browser firefox or duckduckgo

Because google is using your ram to send them your data

[strong surge]

Eh

I did a tab by tab comparison with Chrome and FF once

The difference was negligible

[verbal dust]

Love using Ublock Origin

[wraith timber]

mmm yes

duckduckgo the browser

[strong surge]

I have found AdGuard to be better than Ublock. Couple snuck through Ublock, none sneak through AdGuard

[wraith timber]

(they do have an actual browser lol)

[strong surge]

I set up the filters per a guide someone posted here, mebbe it wasn't the right one

Ublock let through a couple of FB ads

[verbal dust]

Hmm aight

[strong surge]

In the sidebar

[verbal dust]

Also I get the radio ad for DDG’s browser every morning I drive to work

[cinder mauve]

i know but i just like chrome better than out of all of them. its sleeker, runs great and is ez to use

i used to use firefox but switched to chrome

that

vs that

chrome looks way better

the 1 thing i like abt chrome better is that the websites under the search bar are just pinned websties, on chrome its recently visited

but i think im gonna switch back to firefox

only thing

is a lot of extensions i use on chrome

arent on firefox

like preMiD

[verbal dust]

use edge

Lol

[spice beacon]

Use brave then it's chromium based

But better

[cinder mauve]

whats chromium

[cinder mauve]

no

no no and more no

[crisp spire]

not at all

They really fixed stuff recently

I can have over 200 tabs playing youtube to start running out of ram

[cinder mauve]

I JUST WANNA KNOW

why i got that grey screen

and why it happens every so often

[spice beacon]

Chromium is the basis for chrome

It's kinda like pure android with no skin

[winged dagger]

I would never anyway lemme go check out my edge rewards from browsing

[crisp spire]

what grey screen

[cinder mauve]

scroll ip

[cinder mauve]

how do u get rewards from browsing if ur not using egde

edge

[crisp spire]

I see no grey screen

[cinder mauve]

this

[crisp spire]

notice how its called EDGE rewards?

[cinder mauve]

yea..?

[crisp spire]

uninstall chrome and install again

[crisp spire]

It has edge in the name lmao

[winged dagger]

i use edge

[cinder mauve]

ur a psychopath

[winged dagger]

Thank you I know

[crisp spire]

Edge is decent nowadays

[winged dagger]

I mean its there

[crisp spire]

its come a LONG way from ie days

[winged dagger]

Id say Opera is better but im too lazy to install it

[cinder mauve]

im gonna be called weird for this but

i also like browsers depending on the logo Lol

because some browser logos

make my taskbar

look like crap

[winged dagger]

You can change the logo cant you?

By going into properties I believe

[crisp spire]

yep

[winged dagger]

And I think there are artists out there that make the logos but themed differentlt

So just take one of those images and slap it on

[cinder mauve]

should i get opera or operga gx

opera*

[crisp spire]

neither

Opera bad when it comes to security

lotta leaks

[winged dagger]

Yeah true

[cinder mauve]

o

ima try brave

[crisp spire]

slow

[winged dagger]

Edge is cool but it uses a lot of ram sometimes

[crisp spire]

all browsers

[cinder mauve]

no its faster than chrome from my knowledge

[crisp spire]

slower

[winged dagger]

Well true its only when all the extensions are on

Which is rare for me

[crisp spire]

brave and chrome are built off off chromium

[winged dagger]

I think you can press shift + esc on edge to see whats taking up memory

Yeah

[cinder mauve]

yea thts what i want

[winged dagger]

You can even end the processes

[crisp spire]

only thing is brave has 💩 hardware acceleration

[cinder mauve]

im probably gonna just stick with chrome

bc

extentions

ill just reinstall chrome

[winged dagger]

Dont all browsers have hardware accel?

[cinder mauve]

so no more grey screen

[winged dagger]

I know chrome does

[crisp spire]

chrome with adguard adblocker slaps brave

[crisp spire]

Implementation differs

[winged dagger]

Yeah edge also has hardware accel

Oo just found out you can set tabs to sleep earlier

[cinder mauve]

does hardware acceleration work

i found how to turn it on/off in chrome

[winged dagger]

All I know is that it sometimes interferes with screensharing on discord when its off I believe

[cinder mauve]

oh it does defo

[winged dagger]

Edge has a cool feature that I use on my school laptop that csn let you set a tab to open as soon as you start the browser

I use it to open my To Do list on google classroom

[crisp spire]

almost all browsers have that

[winged dagger]

Guess ive only seen it on edge since its the one I use the most

[strong surge]

I have Chrome set to auto open all the tabs I had open when I closed it. Super useful. Home page is programmed to my email.

[spice beacon]

Edge has been based on chrome for at least 6 months or so

[spice beacon]

Nah brave is faster it has auto adblocker cookie blocker etc so loads sites faster

[spice beacon]

Yeah this works or cntrl shift t does the same in most browsers

[crisp spire]

Bad hardware acceleration puts it behind chrome with adguard

[spice beacon]

Ahh

Well it's great on mobile anyway

[wraith sage]

ive got a laptop with windows 8, and my mom doesnt want to buy a new laptop and its much better then her current machine. Is it worth updating it to windows 10? and if so, do i update it or do i have to pull it off of my pc to a flash drive, if thats possible

or is updating to windows 10 still crappy

[spice beacon]

Windows 10 is soooóo much better windows 10 was never crappy especially compared to 8

It's quite easy, you should be able to use windows media creation tool

Just back up any important info

[wraith sage]

ty. no important info on it, deleted most files bc i didnbt think i could do it anyways

resetting it wasnt working

[wraith sage]

so i got windows 10, but it didnt delete my stuff

disc auto opened

as well as some other stuff

ima have to delete the stuff manually arent i

[vestal ibex]

If you look at the pattern of major Windows releases, Windows alternates between good and bad. 95, good. NT, cringe. 98/SE good (my favorite tbh). 2000, garbage. XP, so good it's still used. Vista... we all know about Vista. 7, epic. 8 was ambitious and fell way short. Now we have 10.

[strong surge]

The majority of problems with Vista were actually third party drivers

Not saying it was good but the problems mostly weren't MS's fault

[vestal ibex]

Fair enough but that meant that you essentially NEEDED to have a device that was designed to run Vista. If you tried to upgrade your XP system it was almost guaranteed to be problematic.

[spice beacon]

Yeah I mean I'm not old enough to remember before vista but Windows 10 has always been pretty good imo

No more Windows 8/8.1 mess

[strong surge]

7 was the best OS imo

Vista and 8 were hot messes

10 has too much spyware

[spice beacon]

Agree

[vestal ibex]

98 SE was always my favorite. I could never get that OS to crash except on purpose.

[strong surge]

OH dear lord

Don't mention Windows ME

[spice beacon]

But I'm not gonna still use windows 7 cuz yano security support and stuff lol

[strong surge]

That hot garbage was absolutely foul LOL

[vestal ibex]

Yeah I'm pretending that it was rolled into 2000 and moving on

[spice beacon]

You know what else is terrible actually, window 10 s

[vestal ibex]

Don't forget N editions too

[spice beacon]

I understand it can be useful for school etc

But windows 10 s is being shipped on budget laptops now which is such a scam imo because it's like 100$ to unluck the ability to install not ms store apps

[finite merlin]

Switching from Windows 10S is free https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-10-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307

[vestal ibex]

You have to do an "upgrade" though, meaning you need to either buy an upgrade key for the version you're moving to or you need to have a valid retail key.

[finite merlin]

Nope, I've done this on multiple Windows 10S laptops. You all ready have a valid key. It's one way though, can't revert.

[balmy grove]

^

You can switch to home

[spice beacon]

Mb they fixed it before you had to pay like 100$

[balmy grove]

Why is it a fix when ms still says it's free?

[spice beacon]

Because you used to have to pay 100$ to get Windows 10 home

[finite merlin]

Huh, Windows 10 S is home. Why would you want pro for home use?

[crisp spire]

[somber otter]

Exactly, some people use their workstations... At home.

[crisp spire]

I have a 3600x and a VERY nice RX 570

[vestal ibex]

I'm on pro too for VM purposes

[strong surge]

I'm on Pro because I got Windows 7 Pro for being a Beta Tester and Windows 10 was a free upgrade so........ I don't even use VM's XD

[spice beacon]

No it's not, windows 10 s only lets you download from the Microsoft store

[spice beacon]

I'm on windows 10 pro because i got it for free through work 😎

[strong surge]

Seems a lot peeps have it for reasons like that XD

[finite merlin]

Yeah, I only have 15 years in IT. I don't know what I'm talking about. 10S was MS way of creating a Chromebook. I give up.

[hardy pelican]

My Computer Boots from ESXI 7 anyway I can update my BIOS

any idea please

My computer is Tower Dell

[noble grove]

Hey

I have x570 gaming x mobo

Im stuck in bios and when i click on save a and exit then turn me back to bios

The problem solved

[prime valve]

hello every time i start me pc there windows showing getting reading dont turn of

off

y this every time showing should be only when update right?

[spice beacon]

If it doesn't stop and you have to turn it off and on again, reinstall windows imo

[fathom bramble]

Alright, ive been recently experiencing this weird thing going on with my pc, so I could just randomly be doing anything and my pc will just shut off and turn back on again, kind of like a restart, but it happens out of nowhere, out of the blue. It just happened to be like 3 times in 10 minutes and im starting to get a little skeptical, anyone have any suggestions on why this is happening?

cause im kinda desperate for answers.

[fathom bramble]

Alright, looking at the little LEDs on my motherboard a second before it turns off it flashes red, then white, then green. Turns back on and the cycle repeats

[spice beacon]

Are you running any overclocks

[fathom bramble]

only on my ram, for xmp, also i managed to fix it with some help from some friends, all i needed was a bios update apparently

Nvm

Just turned off ani was typing my second sentence

Somethings still wrobg

Wrong*

On my phone now

[fathom bramble]

if your still available, you have any suggestions

[spice beacon]

Can you open event viewer and see what's there

[fathom bramble]

Alright its open

[fathom bramble]

alright, ive had it on for roughly around 7 minutes now

[spice beacon]

Open it full screen

[spice beacon]

Open critical

[spice beacon]

Okay download whocrashed

[fathom bramble]

this?

alright, downloading this one

[spice beacon]

Ye

[fathom bramble]

alright, what now?

[spice beacon]

Hit analyze

[spice beacon]

Can you scroll down?

[fathom bramble]

thats as far as it scrolls down

it just ends at conclusion

[spice beacon]

ehh try hit the link at the bottom

[spice beacon]

hmm

try update windows and all your drivers

[fathom bramble]

i already did my bios just now, ill get the rest of my drivers downloaded

[vernal heath]

So I dunno how many people will be happy with this...but the latest Windows Update FINALLY FIXED the HDR Washout with Snipping Tool! Finally! Sorry but I'm excited because the pain to copy and paste and crop screenshot images....

[dense mirage]

You know about windows+shift+s?

[vernal heath]

yes, however with HDR on the screen is washed out

SDR is fine

[dense mirage]

Good job windows

You finally add a good tool and then you don't implement it right

[vernal heath]

I mean now it's fixed. snip and sketch is the replacement of snipping tool..(old win7 for me) but it hated HDR. Looks like that's no longer the case. Only took like what, 5+ years to fix?

[dense mirage]

sudo apt install flameshot

[crisp spire]

Thats debian

Does it work in windows?

[vernal heath]

apk add flameshot

[dense mirage]

doas apk add flameshot

[vernal heath]

that's alpine

[dense mirage]

You forgot root privileges. Permission denied

[vernal heath]

meh im part of the wheel group

[dense mirage]

And?

[vernal heath]

and i rock like that

[dense mirage]

Permission still denied

[vernal heath]

boo. edit the sudoers file

[dense mirage]

You think I have sudo?

[vernal heath]

dunno, what does id say

[vernal heath]

should be able to su if alpine

[dense mirage]

su works in pretty much any linux

It's a pain though

[vernal heath]

ya. rhel loves their sudo

eh many others too

[vernal heath]

could install sudo if you wanted too. Tho i work with containers so rarely need too for what I want them to do

[dense mirage]

I have doas. Why would I want sudo?

Literally no use for it

[vernal heath]

more than one way to 2+2

[dense mirage]

Yup, and I already have one way. I don't need two

So I picked the lighter weight and arguably more secure way to do it

[vernal heath]

heavily depends on the flavor too. default rhel/centos/fedora :/

[dense mirage]

You can change that

[crisp spire]

Bob how many oses do you have on your pc?

[dense mirage]

This is my laptop

PC is win10 and debian, laptop is alpine

Side note, getting this on alpine was a bit of a pain

[vernal heath]

absolutely. not for job stuff 😦

[crisp spire]

How does that make any sense with regards to the question?

[vernal heath]

haha I just saw that! My bad!

[dense mirage]

I think that was meant as a reply to my post

[vernal heath]

yes it was. went to click you and it scrolled up! That's funny

[dense mirage]

Nothing saying you can't change it if you're the sysadmin

[vernal heath]

which is also true. I'm fine with sudo, rarely use it for my setup

anyway..thought i'd share the snip and sketch hdr fix. linux tangent aside 😉

[cinder mauve]

help! i wanna reset my computer but it says this. I have 2 usb thumbdrives with 64 gb if needed

im currently trying to download the windows creation software or whatever its called, its creating windows rn

[cinder mauve]

ok so the install media worke dbut

new proble,

how the heck do i navigate this screen? i literally cant navigate it because theres no mous no buttons to work it with

i cant move the mouse

like it wont work at all

[limpid storm]

use your arrow keys

[cinder mauve]

when i use my arrow keys it only navigates the selected box

and i can’t switch boxes or anything

@neat heart

sending a video now

i hit spacebar and it worked/ LOL

UGHH

i don’t want to upgrade it either

i just want a factory reset

i have the usb thumb drive with the windows media on it

[vestal ibex]

Tab to select things, enter to confirm it. You'll see a rectangle around selected items. It's perfectly fine navigating without a mouse in the installer.

If you're in a text field you'll see the blinking cursor.

[proper burrow]

Hey I'm unsure if this is the right place to ask but anyways, I was out of town over the weekend and while I was gone had my pc mining using nicehash, I noticed yesterday it listed as offline but just figured maybe my apartment lost power or something and my pc shutdown. anyways I come back today and it just is open on the bios, and whenever I hit exit on the bios the pc just rebooted to the bios and not windows. After completely shutting down the computer and turning it back on it booted right to windows. Could that have been a botched auto update or something? I'm really confused at what happened

Looking at event manager I can't find any info on why it shutdown only events referring to an unexpected shutdown on 5/28

[dense mirage]

Still could quite possibly have been a brief power failure. If it was unexpected, I'd say it almost definitely wasn't an update

[proper burrow]

Alright, yea the logs continue normal and then all of a sudden just stop on 5/28 and then I have logs dated from when I was trying to reboot it today mentioning an unexpected shutdown

[dense mirage]

I'd say that some sort of power issue is probably the most likely issue

[proper burrow]

Alright, thanks I just want to make sure there isn't something else wrong I need to address or look for

[dense mirage]

If you continue to run the rig for long periods of time, almost every modern BIOS has a setting where you can have it automatically reboot after power failure. If you then have nicehash set to auto start on launch, it should bring everything back up for you

[proper burrow]

Alright, Ideally I won't be out of town again for several days on end but thank you!

[dense mirage]

Only gotcha there is that windows isn't designed to be kept running for long periods of time, so you might start running into some performance issues after a day or two

[slim quartz]

should i get some help for my pc
bc when i try to update it it fails every time?

[vestal ibex]

Open an admin command prompt and enter these commands:
sfc /scannow dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Then reboot and try the update again

[flat pawn]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1400293920848977928

IGN (@IGN)

A special Windows event is coming June 24th. Microsoft is poised to reveal the "next-generation" of its operating system. https://t.co/GA5fAlKEZM

Twitter · Jun 3, 2021, 3:31 AM

windows 11?

idk

[vestal ibex]

MS already said years ago they're not doing anything past 10, just updating the core and interface of 10

It's hard to speculate, maybe we'll get leaks as the date approaches

[last gorge]

windows is dead

time for new os to rise

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-fire-burning-gif-8869638

[peak notch]

linux based win 10

[vestal ibex]

What about NO OS AT ALL, we just directly run the software we want to use

[last gorge]

yes

[vestal ibex]

Tell your bios to boot straight to CoD or something lol

[hoary nacelle]

is that possible

[vestal ibex]

I mean, theoretically sure but it would take a complete rewrite of literally everything

[tepid silo]

[flat pawn]

i want a new look to windows tbh

[crisp spire]

Yep windows mimicking intel 14nm... very soon we gonna get windows 10++++++++++

[hoary nacelle]

or maybe this announcement will just be a windows 10 arm

which i know already exists but its not very good lol

compared to what apple is doing with m1 and rosetta...

[crisp spire]

rosetta 2 is very nais

I remember using rosetta 1.

it was a pain

[vestal ibex]

Yeh probably just a new line of Microsoft branded notebooks running arm or something

[dense mirage]

You mean kinda like dos?

[vestal ibex]

Kinda, except dos was still an os

Close to that though

But more firmware level

[dense mirage]

In the absolute minimum sense of the word. I think grub is probably more fully featured at this point

[vestal ibex]

Yeah I could see using a bootloader like that working

[dense mirage]

Have you seen grub invaders?

[vestal ibex]

Yes

[dense mirage]

Yup

[vestal ibex]

Fun little ascii game right?

Or am I thinking of something else

[hoary nacelle]

waiting for grub valorant

[dense mirage]

That's the one. Space invaders launched directly from the bootloader. No other os required

[vestal ibex]

But imagine gaming with 100% of the hardware at your fingertips instead of wasting all this memory and CPU time on a background OS

[dense mirage]

Yeah

Only issue would be alt tabbing to discord 😂

[vestal ibex]

Who says only one program could run at a time? In my theoretical system it could be seamless to transition from a small menu overlay

[dense mirage]

So a task scheduling operating system? 🧐

[vestal ibex]

It might appear that way but I mean more like the OSD for your monitor kind of overlay, and having two programs run simultaneously would be trivial by simple multi threading.

[dense mirage]

I mean, not completely trivial, you're gonna run into context switching at some point, but sure

[vestal ibex]

Trivial enough, like having two terminal windows open

But not

[dense mirage]

Might be a good place to use a rtos

[dense mirage]

What might be really interesting is if you had your standard OS running on two cores only and then have the remaining cores cores dedicated to whatever intensive programs you need to run

Automatic core affinity

[last gorge]

weggOS

[empty helm]

hey one of my friends pressed on windows explorer in task manager and pressed end task and their computer has been on a black screen for like 10+ minutes with the pointer

[strong surge]

Restart

[crisp spire]

or ctrl alt delete and open task manager

hit file

run new task

explorer.exe

[hoary nacelle]

cant you also just do win + r lol

[crisp spire]

yep fair point

[jovial anchor]

anyone here happen to have experience with Deepfakes? I want to run stuff similar to what wombo.ai does (animating a still image), but with my own custom stuff.

im not sure if deepfacelab is the way to go with that, im also reading up on something called First Order Motion model, but im really not sure how to use that. if anyone has experience in that and can point me in the right direction that would be awesome 😄

[shadow jay]

yes deepfacelab is the key

too many tutorial in yt how to train your own data set

bunch of images in any angle

no blur allowed

too many lib besides that also do it like https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap

deepfake uses = gan method

[jovial anchor]

@shadow jay i think i found what im looking for
https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

but...

https://tenor.com/view/over-my-head-no-nope-gif-7356334

got a lot to learn if i wanna do this
first step
figure out how to use python
lol

[tepid silo]

Fun way to learn how to code

[tight ledge]

If you put windows in hard drive does is make you pc run slower??

[last gorge]

Yes

[finite merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/monsters-university-snail-slow-run-late-gif-4457171

[tight ledge]

when you open something it slow too

[dense mirage]

If it's on the HDD, yup

[tight ledge]

What happen when you delete window

And install back

[cinder mauve]

hello, Im trying to download a 3.6gb iso for vista and chrome is downloading in kbs. It should be mbs but I don't know what is making it slow. I got a CAT8 Ethernet cable plugged into my laptop aswell

[strong surge]

Probs the place you're getting it from

[cinder mauve]

Ohh alright, I'll try another website.

Yeah. It was the website I was downloading it from, thanks!

[tepid silo]

Why are you downloading Vista

[dense mirage]

Also why did you buy cat 8

[hoary nacelle]

vista is the best... duh

@tepid silo do you happen to know anything about what the channel bonding specification would be for the comcast issued gateway?

kind of specific question lol

i cant find anything on google

i learned about it doing training videos at best buy today

i know 32x8 is the best, right

[strong surge]

32x8 is for gigabit internet

Channel bonding depends on internet speed

[hoary nacelle]

alright best buy clearly didnt teach me enough lol

i have 650mbps plan

[strong surge]

32x8 for you then

16x4 wont be fast enough

[hoary nacelle]

is 32x8 what comcast issues though?

[strong surge]

It should be yea

They issue based on speeds

[hoary nacelle]

because thats not the speeds we get lol

hm

[strong surge]

Pwrsonally id get my own modem

I did and its fantastic.

[hoary nacelle]

yea, thats kinda why im researching lol

[strong surge]

Can check model number.

Once im back on desktop i csn help

Mobile right now

[hoary nacelle]

oh theres no rush lol i can probably figure that out on my own

was just confused because we get about 300mbps hard wired

[strong surge]

Hmmm....log into modem and see how many channels are bonded. And what the snr etc is

[vestal ibex]

Getting your own modem ensures you can take advantage of the over-provisioning by 20% that Comcast does. (If you have a 100mb plan they allocate 120mb to account for their modems being garbage)

[hoary nacelle]

that is good to know

only 5 upstream channels? (is that what that means?)

[vestal ibex]

Appears that way, what model is it?

[strong surge]

Upload always slow. Youre probably 10-20 up yeah?

[hoary nacelle]

CGM4140COM

25mbps up yea

wired or wireless

google search says that it is 32x8...

[vestal ibex]

That only means 8 channels available on the modem end of things, doesn't mean you'll actually get that many

tbh there's no real reason for cable modems to have slow upload to begin with, even 5 channels should carry 100mb no problem

[strong surge]

Yeah it should do your 650 down no problem

[hoary nacelle]

why does wifi suck so much

😩

(internet plans in general)

[vestal ibex]

Something something signal something, you know the answer lol

[dense mirage]

Look on the bright side, at least you don't have to worry too much about impedance matching on top of all this 😂

[distant cedar]

So, maybe someone here has experienced the same issue or has some kind of solution. I have 64 GB of Crucial Ballistix 3600MHz RAM (4x16GB). In every single RGB software that's available as well as things like OpenRGB, the software only detects 2 of the 4 sticks of RAM that I have. That being said, in terms of storage recognition, my PC recognized there are 64GB of available so that's not a concern. I am considering getting a new kit of RAM, thinking maybe that's the issue but honestly im not even sure anymore so any and all suggestions would be appreciated. My motherboard is the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master (Rev 1.0) and i have a Ryzen 9 5900X for my CPU. Please @ me with any responses. Thank you!

[crisp spire]

use RGB fusion

[distant cedar]

@crisp spireRGB fusion has the same issue

the RGB profile for RAM only applies to 2 of 4 sticks of ram

[distant cedar]

Follows the slot @molten bronze

if there r 2 sticks in any slot and 2 empty slots, works fine

as soon as i fill all 4 slots I begin to have issues

and sometimes it works but 99% of the time it isnt cooperative

i mean im considering another RAM kit but i dont wanna spend $700 on new ram if it isnt the issue

yea. I mean i may just go 1 stick at a time

and see how that works

[cinder mauve]

Hey guys. Having a preparing automatic repair repeat outta no where today. Any advice on how to fix this and any idea what may have caused this? Using windows 10 and a new build by me about 6 weeks ago.

[finite merlin]

What kind of storage are you using for your boot drive?

[cinder mauve]

M2

[finite merlin]

Did anything update? Can you get into troubleshooting mode?

[cinder mauve]

Cannot get into anything. I did not update anything today or recently that I can think of.

[finite merlin]

do you have a Windows bootable installation drive?

[cinder mauve]

I don't bud

[finite merlin]

can you make one?

Here is a list of common causes:

Issues with Windows Registry
BOOTMGR (Windows Boot Manager) file corruption
Missing or damaged system files
Issues with the hardware driver (hard drive driver, motherboard driver, graphics driver)
Other unknown reasons

[cinder mauve]

Thank you I'll try and do that thanks.

[finite merlin]

Good luck

[vestal ibex]

@distant cedar I had to reinstall Windows to get any software to recognize my RGB memory. One more thing you can try.

[distant cedar]

...

[orchid mason]

Hey all im currently having a problem thats driving me insane :/
All of my programs (besides important windows stuff like files, settings etc) are not opening. They open, freeze, then close. Ive ran Sfc /scannow multiple times but it says there is no problem found. My current version is 21H1

A full system restore is my last resort

[strong surge]

Emsisoft scan

[orchid mason]

Whats that?

[strong surge]

Antivirus

[orchid mason]

The installer closes when trying to download it

[strong surge]

Oooffff

Put it on a usb in another machine?

[orchid mason]

No other machine….

[strong surge]

Boot to safe mode and run?

Can you dl it to a usb drive?

[orchid mason]

Ill try booting in safe mode

Well it found PUP malware, hopefully deleting that fixes everything

[strong surge]

Let's hope so

however, I'd run a second scan again

[vestal ibex]

PUP means Potentially UnPopular software, it could be nothing or it could be sucking system resources like Nos4A2

[strong surge]

after that is gone

[orchid mason]

Seems malware bytes never detected any malware

[strong surge]

Did you ever run it manually?

[orchid mason]

Yes

[strong surge]

Interesting

[orchid mason]

Everything is still closing

Actually wait

[strong surge]

I would have run another scan in safe mode

to see what else it finds

[orchid mason]

Its detecting nothing else

My apps are actually working now

I can once again play tf2 and rust

[strong surge]

Noice

Keep Emsisoft on a USB stick handy

😉

[orchid mason]

I will, thank you very much

Also

Just another question

[strong surge]

Sure

[orchid mason]

Is it normal for System to use up 100% of my HDD

It stops using my hdd whenever i start an application

Is it just like running windows defender or something along the lines?

[strong surge]

Depends on what it's running

If it's an HDD and not an SSD, yes, it's possible but it shouldn't be all the time

My laptop was horrible about that until I installed an SSD, Windows was just flogging it

[orchid mason]

It stops after awhile but uses it for a good chunk of time after startup

I have an SSD which windows runs off of so idk why system uses my HDD

[strong surge]

After startup is normal, yes

huh, that's kind of odd TBH

What is installed on the HDD?

[orchid mason]

Everything that isn’t windows or Kerbal Space Program

[strong surge]

That's really interesting

I'd run another scan just to be safe

[orchid mason]

Aight

[strong surge]

If that's all that's on there I don't know why it would be using the HDD and not the SSD

[orchid mason]

Hmm

Well thank you for your help

I appreciate it

[strong surge]

Welcome!

Glad it's working

[cinder mauve]

Hey guys. Yesterday I posted about my PC not loading and going into 'preparing automatic repair'. I tried a number on things to troobleshoot by loading install media to a flash drive etc. I could not get anywhere doing anything recommended online for system restore, etc etc. Now the PC does not load anything and I just get a monitor logo screen TUF Gaming. Could my GT710 graphics card have been fried? It's not even 2 months old? I run a 5800x, X570 pro WiFi, 32gb ram at 3600, 1TB M2, RM850 AND 2 Asus 144hrts monitor one on DVI other on VGA convertor to HDMI? Any help is desperately needed at this stage. Thank in advance.

I could buy a 1660 super if that would help? My PC is not even that old and I'd settle for a full factory reset at this stage if it would work.

[vestal ibex]

You've probably already checked your boot order settings, but also try toggling legacy boot mode on and see if the Windows bootloader comes up.

Were you able to boot to the recovery menu tools on the flash drive? If so you can always nuke your boot partition and rebuild it. It's obviously a drastic step but I've had to before.

[cinder mauve]

I just so confused right now how everything was fine 24hrs ago and now I have nothing :(

I can even get to recovery menu I don't think.

[vestal ibex]

If you can't even get the USB to load the next thing to do is clear the CMOS

[cinder mauve]

Sorry bud. I'm very new to PCs. What is CMOS and how do I clear it?

[vestal ibex]

(This is from Intel but applies to all desktops)
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025368/processors.html

[cinder mauve]

Will check this now. Thanks.

[vestal ibex]

Battery method is typically recommended

[cinder mauve]

Ok. Battery out now to wait 5 mins.

Nope same result. Nothing loading.

[spice beacon]

Did you make sure to have pc unplugged while taking out battery?

[cinder mauve]

Yes indeed

[paper cedar]

Is there a software that can tell you exactly what is bottlenecking your pc? I’m upgrading my pc part by part and I want to know what to upgrade in order

[spice beacon]

Your pc will never not have a bottleneck

Just tell us your specs and we can help ya out

[paper cedar]

Ryzen 7 (I forget the number), b450 tomahawk max, GeForce 2060, 650w power supply, 16gb ddr4 ram

I think the power supply was gold rated

Been a while

[strong surge]

If you're playing 1080p, that setup is just fine

1440p could use a GPU upgrade

[paper cedar]

No need for a motherboard upgrade? Let’s say I upgrade to a 3070

[strong surge]

Nope

[paper cedar]

Nice. Only need to spend 3k in that case

[strong surge]

PCI-E gen 4 doesn't do anything for GPU's, PCI-E 3.0 just fine

[paper cedar]

(Exaggeration)

Dope. Thanks

650w is fine too?

[strong surge]

yes

[spice beacon]

Motherboard upgrades are only really for cpu upgrades

[spice beacon]

Maybe check what Ryzen 7 you have, if it's 1st gen i would recommend an upgrade but everything else is fine

[paper cedar]

4th gen 5800 if Amazon isn’t lying to me

[spice beacon]

Ohh then i wouldn't change a thing for now

[cinder mauve]

Hey guys. Im back again asking for some brains. I built PC for the first time about 5 weeks ago. Everything was working fine and on Monday it just went dead before going in to preparing automatic repair loop. I tried various things before dead... system restore and I had 2 different shops look at it... both said it is the motherboard. ASUS TUF GAMING X570 PRO - WIFI (beta bios). I swapped this with a new one and im getting the exact same problem. I cannot even get into a windows installmedia off a flash drive. Nothing. Only bios. Please can someone help if you have any idea?

[spice beacon]

youre gonna have to reinstall windows using the media creation tool i think

sounds like corrupt windows install not motherboard

or downgrade the bios to non beta

[cinder mauve]

Thank you for responding. How do I remove the current one? Do I need a new SSD? I cannot even boot to my stick with install media on it. I'll format the disk and start again I guess?

[spice beacon]

ehh try donwgrade the bios to a non beta first

then install windows again if that doesnt work

[amber summit]

I can't seem to allow programs to do anything in C:/ProgramData. I've tried just about everything i can think of and been googling for a while but with no solid results. I've ran into this problem several times before, I don't remember how or if I resolved it. I only ran into it again because I was just trying to install the epic games launcher. Here's a screenshot of the error. I'm using an administrator account and I've already tried giving the "Everyone" group full control of the ProgramData folder. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions appreciated.

[dense mirage]

It'll most likely depend on the software, so not really worth checking

[cinder mauve]

How much do I gain from disabling indexing on Windows really? Thinking if it was even worth it. Also O&O Shutup10 I disabled telemetry, automatic updates, updates in general excluding drivers, and turned off Windows Defender. It regularly fails to suppress windows from attempting automatic updates and telemetry. I've done registry edits, services edits, and the other one I can't recall atm. Only successfully suppressed Windows Defender from running. The rest Windows keeps fighting with me on it and it's annoying. Still have no idea how I deleted Windows Defender off of my laptop. Still trying to repeat that on my desktop.

5600X/3080/3600Mhz cl14

Tried cleaning up Windows as much as possible. 0-1% utilization at idle

Is disabling indexing make a meaningful difference on a higher end computer, or should it only apply to something like my ASUS VivoBook that's pretty crappy?

[tepid silo]

Sounds like you should try linux

[cinder mauve]

Inconvenient

[spice beacon]

So is going through the hassle of disabling all those other things but if it made an impact it would make more of an impact on not as powerful hardware

[cinder mauve]

I'll elaborate. I can't play certain games on Linux. My bad for not being clear.

[spice beacon]

Dual boot linux?

[crisp spire]

Or dualboot macos

hehe

[spice beacon]

https://tenor.com/view/linus-tech-tips-ltt-its-time-to-stop-stop-the-hand-gif-21368100

[crisp spire]

Why?

[spice beacon]

X)

[crisp spire]

Whats wrong wit h mac os

[spice beacon]

I think macos icky but that's just me

Also hackintosh effort

[crisp spire]

I can make an efi folder for you if you wanna try it out

itll be pretty much plug and play for ya

I like making hackintoshes

[spice beacon]

Hmmmmm mayhaps i could always through on my old sata ssd so don't have to partition my nvme

[cinder mauve]

Could you do that with a 5600X/3080?

[cinder mauve]

Why would I want to dual boot with Linux? Mac OS I get, but I'm not so keen on complicating going from games to basic work on something with a bunch of compatibility issues. Sure I get a handfull of programs actually run better, but Adobe suite of applications weren't working. Then again that was a long time ago last I checked.

[spice beacon]

Ofc

[spice beacon]

Afaik adobe support is weak yeah but didn't know you wanted to use adobe ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cinder mauve]

Ofc?

[cinder mauve]

Well that and a lot of non steam games, forgetting that roughly 30% of titles on steam don't play nice.

[spice beacon]

Of course

[spice beacon]

Hence the dual boot, game on windows everything else you can do on macos/linux

[cinder mauve]

Some dude who was testing steam games and giving them colored ratings through proton? Or whatever it was called developed by Steam.

Mac OS for programs like Final Cut Pro would be cool.

[spice beacon]

Gaming on windows is just easier

Proton is spotty

[cinder mauve]

Oh so it's called proton. I was doubtful because all I can think of was ProtonMail.

[spice beacon]

I think it's proton I'm not 100% sure tho

[crisp spire]

Yes

just wanna point out game support is loads better on linux than macos tho

[cinder mauve]

Oh I never even think about games when it comes to that wasteland of recreational content that is Mac OS

All business

[crisp spire]

Then just do linux if thats what you want

lol

@cinder mauve

[cinder mauve]

THE EXCLUSIVEEEEEESSSS

[crisp spire]

what exclusives lol

theres like 1

final cut

[cinder mauve]

The programs that come with Mac OS and the integration with iPhone. The privacy and control of Linux, and the compatibility of Windows. Dream os

Final Cut is like an apple product?

[crisp spire]

LMAO NOPE

[dense mirage]

You're already breaking your windows to the point of causing issues, so why not

[crisp spire]

Doesnt break windows if you dualboot macos

[cinder mauve]

Excuseee me? I didn't break it? That was the past 2 times before formatting everything.

[dense mirage]

All those things being disabled are gonna cause issues

What AV software are you using in the place of windows defender?

[crisp spire]

So you didnt break it but you broke it twice?

[cinder mauve]

Nah brother. Me screwing around with the registry is what screwed me twice.

[dense mirage]

Don't touch the registry unless you know exactly what you're doing

[tidal lintel]

Zžźżz#0001 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[crisp spire]

lmao

[cinder mauve]

Oops

F'ed around the first time with reg and bios config when I used to have my 3600/2060

[dense mirage]

Tldr, it's not usually making all but the most basic performance tweaks on windows

[cinder mauve]

Who knew you could trip several BSOD just from BIOS 😊

[icy oak]

Windows Defender is an okay enough antivirus as long as you're not being stupid.

[cinder mauve]

Somehow deleted it off my laptop.

[dense mirage]

It has the potential to break a lot of stuff and doesn't gain you anything

[crisp spire]

Literally everyone who knows even a little about how their pc works

[dense mirage]

You get more performance from a basic oc than this sort of stuff

[crisp spire]

TBH just slap on syncxes debloater on a windows install and call it good there

[dense mirage]

Yeah

Also don't disable your antivirus. That's just asking for trouble

[icy oak]

I got paid recently to help someone fix the performance issues on their PC. Lady said the Internet was not working, but it actually turned out a program was eating so much processor and RAM it slowed it to a crawl. Turned out someone had installed Malwarebytes on her computer without disabling Windows Defender and they were conflicting something awful. Since Malwarebytes was being stupid and wouldn't let me actually get in the program (It kept wanting to enable the free trial of the Premium version), I just uninstalled it and made sure Windows Defender was properly turned on. (This was for an older lady who was basically just surfing the Internet.)

[dense mirage]

And if you do disable automatic updates, make sure you update manually every few days

[crisp spire]

Security patches good

[dense mirage]

@cinder mauve what games do you play?

[cinder mauve]

You screwed up that much too?

[spice beacon]

No they didn't lol?

As in it's very easy to bsod if you f up something in bios

[crisp spire]

Pato let the guy live in his delusions for a while

lmao

[cinder mauve]

Warzone, Cold War, Kingdom, Apex, Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas, Minecraft, Captain Forever. That currently, but sometimes I go back to old ones.

[cinder mauve]

The BSOD codes never hinted remotely towards BIOS config in my experience wasting hours on forums.

[cinder mauve]

A question is not delusions.

[cinder mauve]

Why so? Security updates?

[dense mirage]

Yup

[cinder mauve]

I stay on top of driver updates

[dense mirage]

If you're running naked, keep your software up to date

Super critical

[cinder mauve]

I don't screw around the net to care about anti-virus. Most breaches are through human error and I stay almost exclusively within my home wifi wired. I'd agree if it was disabling firewall for "Durrr lower pinggg" or some other stupid advice.

[dense mirage]

Zero days don't need you to do anything stupid

[spice beacon]

But buggy bios can cause crashes etc

[cinder mauve]

For a laptop, especially a slower one, you benefit a lot. I questioned the need for it on my higher end system.

[dense mirage]

They can be deployed through a specially crafted image

[cinder mauve]

Now I do. Trial and error. Learn someway.

[spice beacon]

So you don't go onto the internet at all then? Only use the internet to connect to other pcs on your network? If so not safe

You gotta be super careful

[dense mirage]

Trial and error is not knowing exactly what's going on with registry, that's the sort of thing where you want to find and read the documentation

[cinder mauve]

I've heard of that. Wouldn't be a problem if I use discord exclusively on my phone and distrust others from downloading files.

[crisp spire]

AME

[cinder mauve]

Services, has a helpful description for every one.

[cinder mauve]

Or brick - _-

[crisp spire]

Hard to do tbh

[cinder mauve]

Does zero day affect Intel only?

[spice beacon]

Well brick only happens if bios update and bye bye power really

[spice beacon]

No zero day is software related usually

[dense mirage]

No?

[spice beacon]

But can be any hardware

[cinder mauve]

I don't like Windows updates. I used to do security. Now it's apps and drivers.

[spice beacon]

Bruh

[dense mirage]

Keep your computer updated

[spice beacon]

Even if you have AV always update asap

[cinder mauve]

Wouldn't bricking situations still have power, but it's a useless board nonetheless?

[dense mirage]

You're going into battle without a shield and then just letting your armor fall off

That's just dumb

[crisp spire]

Add a spear without a tip to that

[dense mirage]

lol, yeah

If you're going to break your computer that badly, just use Linux

[spice beacon]

What lol

[cinder mauve]

It's just questions man. My recollection of all the flaws are a jumble. Intel chips have an inherent security flaw, and I couldn't remember what. Are zero days remotely?

[crisp spire]

Only place AV isnt needed is a pc with no wifi or ethernet

[spice beacon]

So a stick XD

[crisp spire]

Yes.

A missile launcher pointed at you and youre running in with a stick

[spice beacon]

Amd have similar things to meltdown which is what you're thinking about

[cinder mauve]

You said no power when it's bricked. Am I the only one folling up on that?

Yes

[spice beacon]

Or usb ports XD

[crisp spire]

Specter and meltdown are a bane

[dense mirage]

Zero days are security vulnerabilities that are discovered in the wild before they're found in the software

[crisp spire]

Yep

[spice beacon]

You loose power in bios update process

[cinder mauve]

So not a specific. Gotcha

Bricking in general was what I was thinking. Not everything bricked lacks all power. Not specifically talking about mobos

[crisp spire]

What now?

[dense mirage]

I mean, yeah. You can put power into something that's bricked

It just won't do anything

[cinder mauve]

I'm trying to learn a thing or two, and recall other things from long ago. I gotta start somewhere.

[dense mirage]

I would recommend not learning them by trying to minimize your computer

You're playing with fire that you don't understand

[cinder mauve]

The discussion, not the computer

I understand the common sense risks of lowering walls. Not firewalls, but you know what I mean. I'm not invulnerable.

[crisp spire]

I remember the last time I stripped windows down to the bare essentials

[dense mirage]

Firewalls aren't really that much protection from most attacks

[crisp spire]

There were like 5 things in the menu that comes up when you press the windows key

and half the OS was stripped out

including explorer

[dense mirage]

Firewalls are common place enough that most attacks will either go around them or penetrate right through them

[cinder mauve]

Wouldn't Linux be worse security wise in comparison. Or does the kernel make a big difference?

[dense mirage]

The windows defender firewall is not great

[crisp spire]

ofcourse that was a second windows install on my pc and it was to get as much score out of my OC on timespy

[cinder mauve]

What firewalls are there other than blood sucking anti virus programs?

[crisp spire]

It was deleted soon after the run

[dense mirage]

No, Linux is constantly being scanned for vulnerabilities. Windows can't be scanned like that

[cinder mauve]

Non Microsoft I'm saying

Constantly as in how often?

[dense mirage]

Additional. most attacks out there are targeted at windows user

Constantly as in hundreds or thousands of work hours every day

Maybe more

Linux is what keeps the world running

It needs to be hardened

Combined with the better security work to start with, an actual robust firewall available, and most attacks ignoring Linux anyway, it's much more secure

And most of the attacks that are targeted at linux will be targeting servers and data centers, not common users

[cinder mauve]

Doesn't sound invulnerable if it's something as simple being scanned from time to time. What I'm getting at is security because like Mac OS, most things aren't programmed for it? Am I getting this right?

[dense mirage]

How do you think windows security is handled?

[cinder mauve]

updates virtually every day?

[dense mirage]

And where do those updates come from?

[cinder mauve]

Their team that has a name tied to the Office branding. I forgot

[dense mirage]

Yup

They scan the software for vulnerabilities, patch them, and push the update

[cinder mauve]

Pen test too. A separate team

[dense mirage]

Correct

That's part of scanning for vulnerabilities

[tidal lintel]

Zžźżz#0001 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dense mirage]

Problem is that anyone outside of microsoft and their partners have a much harder time trying to do any of that

[cinder mauve]

Oh crap

My bad

Habit

[dense mirage]

Linux is doing all of the same security scans as microsoft, except that it's distributed around the world with some of the best security experts available

Like I said, Linux is required to keep the world running. It needs to be secure

[cinder mauve]

Like you said about zero day. Sometimes you're screwed from the start, or months without notice like microsoft this past year.

[dense mirage]

Yup

Linux and FOSS also tends to have better response time to zero days

Usually within a day

[cinder mauve]

What things that Linux runs on to make the net run as needed?

[dense mirage]

Servers, the grid, phone network, internet backbone, satellites, cell towers, emergency response, etc

[cinder mauve]

Is there a peer review process with Linux security updates?

[dense mirage]

Linux is FOSS. The entire thing is massively peer reviewed

[cinder mauve]

Trust being the issue

So who makes the final decisions , or is it up to distros founders to make the decision?

[dense mirage]

Final issue for what?

[cinder mauve]

Fixed

[dense mirage]

Decisions for what?

[cinder mauve]

I swear SwiftKey got worse when Microsoft bought it

The security updates

[dense mirage]

Security updates are reviewed by the software managers. In the case of the kernel, that's Linus and his team

[cinder mauve]

Is it widespread, or up to each individual distros to have security updates implemented

Linus?

[dense mirage]

All main distros have them

[cinder mauve]

Who's Linus?

[dense mirage]

Linus Torvalds

[cinder mauve]

Cool last name

[dense mirage]

He's from Finland