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

[Dieter Laser]

What's the easiest way to upload FLV files onto the Farms? Do I need to use a converter to convert them to mp4 if FLV isn't compatable?

Which currently available video converter is the best (out of the free ones)?

FLV to MP4 Converter - FreeConvert.com

Convert FLV to MP4 format using this free online tool. No software to install.

www.freeconvert.com

That’s the best for files under 1gb, hope that helps.

 

[WebLurker]

FLV to MP4 Converter - FreeConvert.com

Convert FLV to MP4 format using this free online tool. No software to install.

www.freeconvert.com

That’s the best for files under 1gb, hope that helps.

Thank you! I'll try it out and hope for the best

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

What's the easiest way to upload FLV files onto the Farms? Do I need to use a converter to convert them to mp4 if FLV isn't compatable?

Which currently available video converter is the best (out of the free ones)?

You should examine what the actual media format is. FLV is just the container. If it's something like h264(very common) you don't have to re-encode it, just save it to a Farms-compatible container. MPC-HC and VLC, probably more players than that, allows you to check the format. Drop it into the player, right click and click on "properties" or go up into the menu bar.

If it is h264, download AviDemux, a free, fast and small program. On the left in the window set audio and video to "copy" and "output format" to MP4 and save it. Takes a couple of seconds but it depends on how big the file is and how fast your hard drive is. I think the farms accepts anything that be saved into a MP4 or m4v container, and there's more than h264 that those support and in addition to that AviDemux will refuse to save anything that a chosen container can't contain. You straight up knows if the file will be viewable or not on here.

AviDemux is also excellent for clipping videos, if you clip it on keyframes(by default jumping around on those is arrow key up/down or left/right I think) the copy/copy/mp4 option will save that segment in a couple of seconds and it can be uploaded. Easy peasy.

 

[Skullwhalejelly]

Whats the best way to learn Java? I feel like its the best language to make a video game

 

[Deluxe]

Whats the best way to learn Java? I feel like its the best language to make a video game

Most games are not written in Java these days because there aren't any prominent Java based 3D game engines.

There is no best way to learn a programming language. If you can code, you can pick up any language by reading the documentation when you don't know how to do something. If you don't know the basics of coding yet, you should learn that first. Prestigious universities like Stanford and MIT upload their CS lectures and course materials on YouTube.

Computer languages are not like people languages. Your first language isn't important. If you understand the fundamentals, you can pick up any language of the same paradigm and belt out serviceable code.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nykOeWgQcHM&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63WbdFxL8giv4yhgdMGaZNA

 

[Aidan]

Whats the best way to learn Java? I feel like its the best language to make a video game

Are you Andrew Gower or something? What makes Java the best language for a game to you?
Anyway, as always with programming, you just gotta do it. Make a game, that's actually what Gower did to learn, he just kept making increasingly complicated games. That said, use any language you like to get started.

For context, Andrew Gower is the main guy behind RuneScape, an old in-browser Java game that somehow still exists. Some of his previous games were featured on the company's homepage which is charming in a way.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060222082620/http://www.jagex.com/

 

[Cantercoin]

Ok does anyone know why this is happening so far:


And should I be really concerned about this? So far this has only been happening in firefox where initally it was just very random screen flickerings whenver I have firefox on but now it seems to be going absolutely insane

 

[Least Concern]

Ok does anyone know why this is happening so far:
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And should I be really concerned about this? So far this has only been happening in firefox where initally it was just very random screen flickerings whenver I have firefox on but now it seems to be going absolutely insane

If you start seeing it happen in other programs too I'd be worried, as it kinda looks like a video card going bad, but if it's only happening in FF, then it's probably just a bug in FF. Unfortunate but hopefully it'll go away in the next update.

 

[thegooddoctor]

Is there any easy way to mod my MacBook so I can play Windows games on it that aren’t compatible with Apple? So many games I want to play on steam I could easily get but can’t since It’s not compatible at all with Apple computers ffs.

 

[Least Concern]

Is there any easy way to mod my MacBook so I can play Windows games on it that aren’t compatible with Apple? So many games I want to play on steam I could easily get but can’t since It’s not compatible at all with Apple computers ffs.

Assuming it's a model with an Intel chip and you don't want to just completely wipe out the Apple partition, the best way is using Boot Camp, an official Apple tool for creating a Windows partition on your disk that you can reboot into, with Windows drivers for all of the Apple hardware.

If you'd rather not dual-boot, there are virtualization tools like VMWare Fusion and Parallels which let you run a Windows environment inside of macOS, but the performance of these when it comes to games can be spotty. Works fine for most normal desktop apps though.

If it's a newer model that has an M1 chip, you can emulate an Intel chip and run Windows using an emulator like UTM (a user-friendly wrapper around the open-source QEMU emulation suite), but performance will definitely not be acceptable for any demanding games from the last ten years or so, perhaps more.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Ok does anyone know why this is happening so far:
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And should I be really concerned about this? So far this has only been happening in firefox where initally it was just very random screen flickerings whenver I have firefox on but now it seems to be going absolutely insane

Have you tried ctrl-shift-win-B to restart the graphics driver? Could help.

 

[I fucking love Cocaine]

Does anybody know how I can get my phone proximity and rotation sensors functioning again?

Months ago, when I tried updating my phone, which is a Redmi Note 8 (ginko), from Lineage Os 17.1 to 18.1; somehow things didn't go well as I got stuck in a reboot loop.

Then I downgraded it back to 17.1, which I managed to fix the softbrick, but the proximity and rotation sensors no longer worked for whatever reason.

Now I figured out why it softbricked as I needed a new firmware from Xiaomi, which I did install today and I finally managed to update to 18.1

Thing is, that those damned sensors still refuse to work. I'm 99% sure that it's software related because the phone didn't go anywhere since I used a backup one until today.

Any ideas?

Edit: forgot to mention that the phone worked fine before the attempt to update it to the newer version.

 

[Doppelmonger]

Any recomendation for a decent pair of wireles earbuds around the $50 mark? I am looking for one that does not have the damn rubber cap on them (image attached, that shit just hurt my ears and they would not stay put more than 15 minutes even when trying all the caps they come with). Water resistant not a requirement.

 

[snailslime]

anyone know how to dig up a deleted/unavailable youtube video if i have the url? wayback machine/archive.org doesn't have it.

 

[Temperance]

anyone know how to dig up a deleted/unavailable youtube video if i have the url? wayback machine/archive.org doesn't have it.

I think your best bet is to view the metadata and search every single bit of information on Google/Bing/Yandex, etc. You never know - maybe a copy of the video is still floating around on some obscure forum or website.

Definitely read this and go through the steps: https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/wiki/Deleted-and-Private-Videos

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a hard drive that is 99% close to death, it is not plugged in of course but I would like to see if I can recover anything from it before it bites the dust and I would appreciate some advice or suggestions.

My immediate thought was Linux, put it in write protected mode, copy everything and ignore errors. The read heads would still jump around to copy files from wherever they are on the disk and that might not be so good. So I thought it might be better to try to image it to another drive and then let windows correct the errors on that drive, that should be a smoother read. But I don't know how to go about that in a good way, Acronis Reflect is great for functioning drives, but it is a Windows program and windows will probably poke and prod at thrash drive while setting things up and that's not ideal. This is done mostly as a technical exercise and out of curiosity.

Anyone have any suggestions or advice?

 

[Frail Snail]

I have a hard drive that is 99% close to death, it is not plugged in of course but I would like to see if I can recover anything from it before it bites the dust and I would appreciate some advice or suggestions.

My immediate thought was Linux, put it in write protected mode, copy everything and ignore errors. The read heads would still jump around to copy files from wherever they are on the disk and that might not be so good. So I thought it might be better to try to image it to another drive and then let windows correct the errors on that drive, that should be a smoother read. But I don't know how to go about that in a good way, Acronis Reflect is great for functioning drives, but it is a Windows program and windows will probably poke and prod at thrash drive while setting things up and that's not ideal. This is done mostly as a technical exercise and out of curiosity.

Anyone have any suggestions or advice?

DDrescue might work, but I have no practical experience of using it. Making a full disk image from a read-only mount and doing data recovery later sounds like a good idea though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a hard drive that is 99% close to death, it is not plugged in of course but I would like to see if I can recover anything from it before it bites the dust and I would appreciate some advice or suggestions.

My immediate thought was Linux, put it in write protected mode, copy everything and ignore errors. The read heads would still jump around to copy files from wherever they are on the disk and that might not be so good. So I thought it might be better to try to image it to another drive and then let windows correct the errors on that drive, that should be a smoother read. But I don't know how to go about that in a good way, Acronis Reflect is great for functioning drives, but it is a Windows program and windows will probably poke and prod at thrash drive while setting things up and that's not ideal. This is done mostly as a technical exercise and out of curiosity.

Anyone have any suggestions or advice?

Self-quoting for an update for anyone curious:

I am 189% pretty sure that the replacent USB HDD is an SMR drive. It completely shits itself after X amount of data is written to it, 100% disk access, locks up for a minute, then it starts going again. Unless it gets so desperate it disconnects itself or needs to be disconnected. This makes things extremely annoying. This is new out of the box by the way, plugged in earlier today.

Thrash drive is behaving fine so far when thing are only read from it, no panicky "Fatal Device Errors" or anything. nuDrive is the real problem. I've seen similar problems before so I tried a stupid solution for old busted crap: put nuDrive on a USB2 port. Oddly enough this really, really stressed thrash drive(USB3) and drove transfer speeds down to 100-300KB/s.
For garbage problems you need garbage solutions, so I just robocopy* it(the thing I wanted to avoid) with the addition of /IPG:15 to throttle the write speed so the most likely garbage SMR drive won't shit its pants. It's slow(35MB/s) but it is working,

*with thing like ignore errors etc, the "just keep trucking mode".

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Any recomendation for a decent pair of wireles earbuds around the $50 mark? I am looking for one that does not have the damn rubber cap on them (image attached, that shit just hurt my ears and they would not stay put more than 15 minutes even when trying all the caps they come with). Water resistant not a requirement.

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If the buds themselves are/work/sound fine I'd recommend buying a pack of Comply foam tips instead. Most cheap-ish models are going to have silicon tips anyway, that's the standard these days.

 

[Cantercoin]

Does anyone know what exactly is going on when laptop keys stop working. Everytime I turn my laptop on now the keys stop working after ~2 mins of it being on
E: i seemed to have solved it by uninstalling my keyboard drivers and restarting for now