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

Cantercoin said:
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
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If you plug in a USB keyboard, does that stop working as well?
 
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I had to "tighten the belt" for a while but ya boi's second paycheck is clearing tomorrow so I can start chipping away at projects. The problem: I currently have ~100TB of data across drives C-N on my computer and while it is no slouch File Explorer mogs my computer due to lack of resources. I also have a stack of drives not even plugged in. These are mostly interfacing with my computer via USB, and even with an externally powered hub simply looking for the right dank meme crashes things from time to time. I need to consolidate before organizing things if I ever want to actually complete it.

What I think I need: I have a router with USB support for an NAS. While one bigass drive could work, I am no stranger to individual drives failing. Meanwhile I have a decent desktop I got for free (i7, 32gb ram, HP prebuilt, have a "1337" EVGA 1100W power supply NIB to put it in) as well as a 12U rack I have been meaning to put to use for a while as well. My research says I need RAID. So if I were to take the HP's guts and power it with my nice supply, slap them in this, then plug this fucker in, and then I could plug in two 14TB drives that back each other up in real time for 14TB of actual storage. Then I can connect that to my router via ethernet and have something better than NAS for a similar price (with a bonus 600W supply).

Questions: First am I fundamentally wrong anywhere here? Are there better options as far as ATX mobo rack cases or RAID controllers? Assuming this is all correct, is there a reason I should avoid these to save $80/ea compared to something like this? I am assuming with two drives, if one fails completely, there is a way to replace it and restore from the functional one? Does it have to be the exact same size? Or just partition matches/is larger than 14TB in this case? With the linked controller I could have up to four drives right? Assuming 14TB drives what is the best configuration? My use case is more streaming my archived animoo and less intense kind of data needs. Finally, assuming I get all of this to work, is there a way for me to access this from the Internet without a static IP or needing to pay for a service? More asking if a retard asking questions like this could manage it, not if it is theoretically possible. Thanks in advance!
 
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BelUwUga said:
Questions: First am I fundamentally wrong anywhere here? Are there better options as far as ATX mobo rack cases or RAID controllers? Assuming this is all correct, is there a reason I should avoid these to save $80/ea compared to something like this? I am assuming with two drives, if one fails completely, there is a way to replace it and restore from the functional one? Does it have to be the exact same size? Or just partition matches/is larger than 14TB in this case? With the linked controller I could have up to four drives right? Assuming 14TB drives what is the best configuration? My use case is more streaming my archived animoo and less intense kind of data needs. Finally, assuming I get all of this to work, is there a way for me to access this from the Internet without a static IP or needing to pay for a service? More asking if a retard asking questions like this could manage it, not if it is theoretically possible. Thanks in advance!
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The WD drive looks like SMR based on its cache size, but who knows.

And the rest depends on your RAID level. What you're talking about is RAID 1, it mirrors the drives and the result is: same write speed, double the read speed. What you're probably looking for is RAID 5, the disks you add to it adds to the overall space and behaves like a single drive but there's also parity data distributed among them so one disk can blow up and nothing will be lost after swapping in a new one and rebuilding the array from the parity data left on the functioning ones. If you put 4x10TB drives in a RAID-5 you have 30TB of free space on what appears as a single drive in whatever OS you use.

You can use something like TeamViewer to access your computer remotely for file transfers without a static IP, it's free for personal use.
 
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What is this graph that's appearing on YouTube videos supposed to be telling me? It doesn't appear to be related to the audio volume.

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Im saving right now to get a new computer because my old 15 year machine finally died, to save in shipping to bananazuela i was thinking between MITX or MATX, the problem with MITX that i have is that the cases are super complicated (for me at least), their compatibility with GPU are weird (mostly dont accept more than 320) or they have terrible termals (like the NZXT h210i), my friends on discord tell me that is more cheaper just to eat the bullet and get a mATX to prevent problems with the GPU, but i wanted to make something tiny to be more cheaper to ship it and more easy to clean and handle

I compiled the 2 builds i imagine in PCPARTPICKER

Mini ATX

Mini ITX

I was asked why the Firecuda on discord, far as i know the Firecuda can blast 7 gb/s ish for the OS, i wanted something that boot fast (this coming from a pleb that has not seen a SSD in his life), the MiniITX build doesnt have a case because i cant decide on one, i have conflicting informations about the h210i, some youtubers like Jayztwocents has tested the case even covering the holes that blow air out of the PSU and showed that the thermals never go to high to trigger throttling but he was using a 1xxx series, some others said the case is absolute shit and cant hold the GPU i want to buy someday (Gigabyte 3070 ti OC)

Im rounding it by 1000-1100 ish because a uncle of mine will pay 50% so no GPU, i still have my old 970 so no homo tracing or Cyberbugged 2077 for me (:_(
 
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Cubanodun said:
Im saving right now to get a new computer because my old 15 year machine finally died, to save in shipping to bananazuela i was thinking between MITX or MATX, the problem with MITX that i have is that the cases are super complicated (for me at least), their compatibility with GPU are weird (mostly dont accept more than 320) or they have terrible termals (like the NZXT h210i), my friends on discord tell me that is more cheaper just to eat the bullet and get a mATX to prevent problems with the GPU, but i wanted to make something tiny to be more cheaper to ship it and more easy to clean and handle

I compiled the 2 builds i imagine in PCPARTPICKER

Mini ATX

Mini ITX

I was asked why the Firecuda on discord, far as i know the Firecuda can blast 7 gb/s ish for the OS, i wanted something that boot fast (this coming from a pleb that has not seen a SSD in his life), the MiniITX build doesnt have a case because i cant decide on one, i have conflicting informations about the h210i, some youtubers like Jayztwocents has tested the case even covering the holes that blow air out of the PSU and showed that the thermals never go to high to trigger throttling but he was using a 1xxx series, some others said the case is absolute shit and cant hold the GPU i want to buy someday (Gigabyte 3070 ti OC)

Im rounding it by 1000-1100 ish because a uncle of mine will pay 50% so no GPU, i still have my old 970 so no homo tracing or Cyberbugged 2077 for me (:_(
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A Firecuda is useless for games and such at this point in time, if you're doing video from multiple 4k+ sources or things similar to that it sounds great though. Also be aware that any mechanical drives plugged into your computer, SATA or USB, will slow down the start because BIOS and OS needs to recognize them(you can hear it in a quiet room). An SSD is absolutely the best upgrade you can buy though.

Don't think too much about thermals and mATX is the way to go. Alternatively, as I have said in the past, if you don't own a cat you don't need a case. You can buy that in the future.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
A Firecuda is useless for games and such at this point in time
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I dont want it for games just for the OS, i only want fast booting, that is why in all the lists is only 500 gb, in the future i expect to buy a EVO Plus for piracy storage i mean not illegal media preservation, i have a policy of having a dedicate disc with OS only that in case it goes to the shit i just have to reinstall the OS in another disc (i have a mountain of HDDs that people just did not give a shit about so i have plenty spares) and not lose anything valuable except time use Generation 2 windows iso that come preactivated and with office but you did not hear it from me

BelUwUga said:
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How do I get rid of these gay emoticons?
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why do people still use the search bar of 10? just right click on the bar ---search---hide, that thing is useless when you can just type in the start menu
 
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Cubanodun said:
I dont want it for games just for the OS, i only want fast booting, that is why in all the list is only 500 gb, in the future i expect to buy a EVO Plus for piracy storage i mean not illegal media preservation


why do people still use the search bar of 10? just right click on the bar ---search---hide, that thing is useless when you can just type in the start menu
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I just did the start menu still out of habit, the search bar right next to it didn't make much sense to me but was generally inoffensive sans-emojis. You make a good point though.
 
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BelUwUga said:
I just did the start menu still out of habit, the search bar right next to it didn't make much sense to me but was generally inoffensive sans-emojis. You make a good point though.
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I always remove cortana, the search bar and the news and weather thing and activate the option of small icons, mostly because almost all those services dont work here, Cortana doesnt work in anything below mexico

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I upload images onto yandex reverse image search or waifu2x and I get nothing but stripes, how do I fix this?
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I work in a place which uses slim docker images (the debian family, so, buster and bullseye). I don't know docker so I try not to fuck with it, but I noticed a linux package for the wrong database in the Dockerfile (mysql instead of postgres), so I decided to check what else might be unnecessary there. I know I need libpq and some pdf related stuff.

So I watch the docker image assembling and it turns out when it gets to RUN apt-get install my_shit it pulls like 120 MB from the online, which it says would expand to 450 MB. Python fucking 3.7, JDK, libasound2, then python3 python3-cffi-backend python3-minimal python3-ply python3-pycparser (yes this is separate from python 3.7) - say what? the image is supposed to come with Python 3.10 already. When it's done installing Linux packages, it downloads python libraries from the repo (all of them are cached locally, but the image doesn't know about it).

I suspected the -y option might be saying "yes" to some stupid "for newbies" prompt and looked for ways to stop it. --no-install-recommends gets me down to a 98 MB download and 400 MB of "additional disk space" used.
This looks horribly inefficient.

How do I prevent Linux from installing all the unnecessary shit? I mean, better people than me designed that slim image. If 3.7 were mandatory they'd have kept it in.
How do I prevent docker from downloading all the (necessary) shit every time I reassemble the container?
 
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