'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

So enough bitching about linux, now it's time to bitch about windows:

Keeping it simple. I turn on a wireless controller like I usually do. All of a sudden my computer hitches for half a second, freezing my mouse input. I've been dealing with a bit more freezing and stuff recently. Any suggestions or ideas about what I'm dealing with.

I really, really fucking hate computers.

That's really weird, I'm using Linux and a knock-off wired DualShock 2 and this also happens to me. I found that by having the controller already plugged before turning the computer on reduces the frequency of freezes but it still happens sometimes, so I always leave it plugged because I never know when I'll decide to play something. Very strange, I thought it was a Linux problem or something, or we just coincidentally happen to have very similar errors.

 

[awoo]

Is there anyway to actually remove the scratches off any disc so that’s it’s clean and playable again, I can’t tell you how many games and Movies of mine have been fucked because of it. Is there any special wipe that can actually solve this lifelong issue of mine and millions of others?

Discs are not reliable storage formats for long term. Safer to keep everything in digital form backed up like with a NAS or online backup service.

Is there much of a difference between an intel I7 and an AMD ryzen 7? I was thinking of getting a prebuilt pc and there was an option te get either an I7 or Ryzen 7
E: for reference the I7 is an 10700 and the AMD is an 5800x

You can use game benchmarks online to get a rough idea of how they perform. I thought AMD had a small edge on value but iirc Intel has brought prices down so idk how they compare in value.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Is there much of a difference between an intel I7 and an AMD ryzen 7? I was thinking of getting a prebuilt pc and there was an option te get either an I7 or Ryzen 7
E: for reference the I7 is an 10700 and the AMD is an 5800x

The Ryzen 5800X is slightly newer. It should also offer slightly higher performance and better efficiency due to its 7nm archtecture. Get whichever brand you prefer since the difference in performance isn't that big.

 

[NogginKnocker]

Dunno if I should post here but i'll do anyways

i'm currently using a Legion 5 17IMH05 and I want to install an additional SSD on it. I looked up before and saw that the motherboard indeed has a second M2, but there's one problem:

Spoiler

The SSD is supposed to plug into the right side of the circle, but there's no mount to it. People already told me to just plug it in and let it "float", but in my case I move a lot with my laptop and I don't want it to break one day because it's bouncing around. Any ideas what should I do? is there any special mount I can get somewhere?

 

[Never Scored]

Dunno if I should post here but i'll do anyways

i'm currently using a Legion 5 17IMH05 and I want to install an additional SSD on it. I looked up before and saw that the motherboard indeed has a second M2, but there's one problem:

Spoiler

View attachment 2880966

The SSD is supposed to plug into the right side of the circle, but there's no mount to it. People already told me to just plug it in and let it "float", but in my case I move a lot with my laptop and I don't want it to break one day because it's bouncing around. Any ideas what should I do? is there any special mount I can get somewhere?

Can you drill a small hole in that metal sheet, I assume it's an EMI shield, screw in a standoff and screw the end of the SSD to that? Just make sure the screw doesn't come close to anything under that sheet if you try this though.

*Edit*
Maybe drill a hole and use a plastic clip standoff like this? You could clip the standoff into the hold and attach the drive to the standoff with a screw.

 

[NogginKnocker]

Can you drill a small hole in that metal sheet, I assume it's an EMI shield, screw in a standoff and screw the end of the SSD to that? Just make sure the screw doesn't come close to anything under that sheet if you try this though.

*Edit*
Maybe drill a hole and use a plastic clip standoff like this? You could clip the standoff into the hold and attach the drive to the standoff with a screw.

Seems risky tbh, I'm already super delicate with everything internal so drilling a hole and potentially fucking the entire hardware is too much of a big risk. For reference however I'm pretty sure it reaches up until this point:

Spoiler: autistic presumption

As you can see the hole is too big for a screw (lol)

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Dunno if I should post here but i'll do anyways

i'm currently using a Legion 5 17IMH05 and I want to install an additional SSD on it. I looked up before and saw that the motherboard indeed has a second M2, but there's one problem:

Spoiler

View attachment 2880966

The SSD is supposed to plug into the right side of the circle, but there's no mount to it. People already told me to just plug it in and let it "float", but in my case I move a lot with my laptop and I don't want it to break one day because it's bouncing around. Any ideas what should I do? is there any special mount I can get somewhere?

I don't really think letting it "float" would establish a secure mount between the laptop and the SSD anyway, especially when you're moving around a lot. Drilling or punching a small hole to clip a standoff through it would be best, just as @Never Scored said. I'd also suggest getting an M.2 heatsink to push against the bottom of the laptop. Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SABRENT-NVMe-Heatsink-Console-SB-PSHS/dp/B09HSQQWCL/

 

[Filthyphil]

Whenever I watch certain movies on my newest fanciest 5g galaxy s7 tablet I cant click on another tab. I have to restart then when it comes up I quickly close that tab and I can navigate however many tabs I want.
This is Google Chrome.
Should I try another browser?
Thanks in advance

 

[NogginKnocker]

I don't really think letting it "float" would establish a secure mount between the laptop and the SSD anyway, especially when you're moving around a lot. Drilling or punching a small hole to clip a standoff through it would be best, just as @Never Scored said. I'd also suggest getting an M.2 heatsink to push against the bottom of the laptop. Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SABRENT-NVMe-Heatsink-Console-SB-PSHS/dp/B09HSQQWCL/

I was about to give up until I found some reddit post from a year ago:

Spoiler

Apparently the highlighted metal thingy is the thing that supposedly screws the SSD into place so i'm gonna try it later. Besides that thanks for the help lads.

 

[awoo]

I was gonna say I'm pretty sure the M.2 SSD standard requires a mounting screw and pretty much every computer manufacturer is required to follow those standards in order to sell them as such (the whole point of standards)

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I would have said: tape it down and let god figure it out.

 

[Full Race Replay]

I'm safe in assuming chromium is not a good choice for a browser from a privacy standpoint, right? Thought it would be a good way to get a good experience without google spyware but chromium turns out to be bloated sketchy shit itself.

 

[Never Scored]

I'm safe in assuming chromium is not a good choice for a browser from a privacy standpoint, right? Thought it would be a good way to get a good experience without google spyware but chromium turns out to be bloated sketchy shit itself.

Normie option is Brave. Google "ungoogled chromium" if you don't mind fucking around a bit.

 

[Least Concern]

Normie option is Brave. Google "ungoogled chromium" if you don't mind fucking around a bit.

Edge is also a Chrome reskin nowadays. Opera is too but some people are weary of it as it's owned by a Chinese company now. Firefox is safe if none of the sites you're visiting require Chrome.

 

[MirrorNoir]

how do I download video off of Onlyfans via chrome browser?

 

[Dick Justice]

Edge is also a Chrome reskin nowadays. Opera is too but some people are weary of it as it's owned by a Chinese company now. Firefox is safe if none of the sites you're visiting require Chrome.

Tranniefox has been subverted and is just as bad as chrome now. You can mitigate it with a user.js but you can mitigate chrome with a fork. This is what passes for innovation at mozilla now.

 

[Full Race Replay]

If only brave could add local proxy support instead of me needing to make the whole computer go through my VPN, there would be no reason to use firefox.

 

[kant havand]

If only brave could add local proxy support instead of me needing to make the whole computer go through my VPN, there would be no reason to use firefox.

is there a reason to not use TOR over brave in your use-case?

 

[Frail Snail]

I'm trying to figure out how to get the best quality audio when downloading videos using yt-dlp.

Am I correct in thinking that it's just a matter of typing -F and then choosing the audio file with the highest bit-rate? A lot of the times 128 or 133 kbps seems to be the highest there is, this can't be right, though, can it?

Best formats have their own format aliases, there's no need to bother with manually specifying the number. "-f bestaudio" normally gets you opus encoding, if you want m4a instead it's "-f m4a/bestaudio".

 

[Least Concern]

A lot of the times 128 or 133 kbps seems to be the highest there is, this can't be right, though, can it?

Most normal humans cannot tell the difference between uncompressed audio and audio compressed at 128kbps with a modern codec. Maybe you think you're one of the 1% that can somehow, but are you sure? If someone sat you down and did a blind test, are you sure you'd be able to differentiate between compressed and uncompressed audio at least two-thirds of the time?

At any rate, it's not really YouTube's job to show you videos with amazing archival-quality video and audio. In reality they compress the hell out of the files they serve because at their scale they save a lot of money by sending people a 4.8MB fiile instead of a 5MB file. So yes, 128kbps is quite likely to be the best audio bitrate you can expect from a YouTube video.