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I'm biased towards the Logitech K120 because I've been using one for something like 9 years straight. Legs break off easily but the keyboard itself works fine.
'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition
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Leaving aside the fact that there's a mechanical- or optical- keyboard switch for anyone nowadays, the Lenovo Preferred Pro keyboards are quite all right for membrane keyboards and a good value
Have you tried WinMerge?
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@ToroidalBoat According to this scholarly article, it's a delightful chemical cocktail including CO2 and some other chemicals whose solubility in water I'm uncertain of...assuming the decomposition reactions they were studying at all resemble the chemical contents of your average consumer-grade LiO battery. You'd think the study would be relevant but it's academia. Even STEM does weird shit because they have the money sometimes. At any rate, I'd guess it's the CO2 because CO2 solubility in water decreases as temperature increases, so it'd be forced out of solution as your battery heats up from doing battery things. This is my wild-ass guess, however. Any chemists out there who can actually provide an answer?
So, here's a question that might better be asked in the tech or vidya sections of the Farms but this is the area that claims there's no such thing as a dumb question so you might shit on me less for asking it here!
Anyone ever heard of file extension types .zpbn or .zxnb? Trying to rip sprites from the new TMNT game but the interwebs, for whatever reason, is as utterly clueless about these filetypes as I am...
So, here's a question that might better be asked in the tech or vidya sections of the Farms but this is the area that claims there's no such thing as a dumb question so you might shit on me less for asking it here!
Anyone ever heard of file extension types .zpbn or .zxnb? Trying to rip sprites from the new TMNT game but the interwebs, for whatever reason, is as utterly clueless about these filetypes as I am...
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Why not do a science experiment and try opening up such a battery to find out? (this is a joke please do not do that)
"z" in an extension typically indicates some type of compression. I'd try throwing them at your multi-format decompression app of choice and see if it does anything with it.
If you have access to a Unix command line, try using the "file" tool. It tries to find out the format of a file by looking for "magic numbers" in its headers and such, and can be helpful for identifying the true format of files with wrong or mysterious extensions.
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Some guy did just that: How I Repair Swollen Battery in a minute - DONT TRY AT HOME 2021 - YouTube
tl;dw: he poked a hole with a thumbtack, deflated it, then covered the hole with tape
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I humbly come to y’all for help.
I have a bootable flash drive with a Batocera Linux distro on it. It’s configured 100% the way I want it, works on the hardware I need it to run on just fine (Intel / Nvidia MAME cabinet).
Problem is I know nothing about Linux and I need to make a copy of the flash drive for a second cabinet.
What would be the best way to do it for someone without any Linux experience? Is there any way to do it while running windows where I’m way more likely to have success?
I’ve got a matching drive so I’m just wanting to make a 1:1 copy.
I know this is probably going to be the dumbest question ever posted here bc the answer is gonna be so simple I’ll feel dumb for asking, but this is a safe space
Ty in advance.
I have a bootable flash drive with a Batocera Linux distro on it. It’s configured 100% the way I want it, works on the hardware I need it to run on just fine (Intel / Nvidia MAME cabinet).
Problem is I know nothing about Linux and I need to make a copy of the flash drive for a second cabinet.
What would be the best way to do it for someone without any Linux experience? Is there any way to do it while running windows where I’m way more likely to have success?
I’ve got a matching drive so I’m just wanting to make a 1:1 copy.
I know this is probably going to be the dumbest question ever posted here bc the answer is gonna be so simple I’ll feel dumb for asking, but this is a safe space
Ty in advance.
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If you are more comfortable with windows then try Macrium Reflect(free program) and clone the thumb drive to the new one. I don't see why it wouldn't work.I humbly come to y’all for help.
I have a bootable flash drive with a Batocera Linux distro on it. It’s configured 100% the way I want it, works on the hardware I need it to run on just fine (Intel / Nvidia MAME cabinet).
Problem is I know nothing about Linux and I need to make a copy of the flash drive for a second cabinet.
What would be the best way to do it for someone without any Linux experience? Is there any way to do it while running windows where I’m way more likely to have success?
I’ve got a matching drive so I’m just wanting to make a 1:1 copy.
I know this is probably going to be the dumbest question ever posted here bc the answer is gonna be so simple I’ll feel dumb for asking, but this is a safe space
Ty in advance.
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I humbly come to y’all for help.
I have a bootable flash drive with a Batocera Linux distro on it. It’s configured 100% the way I want it, works on the hardware I need it to run on just fine (Intel / Nvidia MAME cabinet).
Problem is I know nothing about Linux and I need to make a copy of the flash drive for a second cabinet.
What would be the best way to do it for someone without any Linux experience? Is there any way to do it while running windows where I’m way more likely to have success?
I’ve got a matching drive so I’m just wanting to make a 1:1 copy.
I know this is probably going to be the dumbest question ever posted here bc the answer is gonna be so simple I’ll feel dumb for asking, but this is a safe space
Ty in advance.
dd. Read the man page. tl;dr:
Code:
dd if=/dev/thediskyouwanttocopyfrom of=/dev/thediskyouwanttocopyto bs=1MDouble-check your input carefully before pressing Return because it is quite unforgiving and will gleefully destroy data on your disks if you tell it to.
If you expect to make a lot of these disks, you can give the path to a file as the
of parameter to make a disk image on your main drive, then use that as the if parameter to copy that image to a disk.If the output disk is mounted, you might have to
umount it first - I can't remember.
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Definitely umount the destination first. You can get udev rules going off and causing all sorts of chaos if you don't.
Anyway, my dumb question:
Has anyone had weird pageload issues with Brave recently? I've observed it on linux/windows/android: Attempting to load a site causes a perpetual loading spinner which I can immediately resolve by hard-reloading the tab. It's irritating as hell and consistently happens on sites I'm positive are already in the DNS cache so I doubt it can be related to that. It also breaks most forms. Whee. Clearing cache does nothing and the problem persists in private tabs and under different profiles, but other browsers I've tried (edge, chromium) don't have the problem so I know it's specifically Brave.
Synergy went closed source commercial but left the old license attached to their last release, which the community continued and now it works much better than the original (and you can actually play most games with it instead of it spazzing out and interpreting mouse movements wrong!)
Anyway, my dumb question:
Has anyone had weird pageload issues with Brave recently? I've observed it on linux/windows/android: Attempting to load a site causes a perpetual loading spinner which I can immediately resolve by hard-reloading the tab. It's irritating as hell and consistently happens on sites I'm positive are already in the DNS cache so I doubt it can be related to that. It also breaks most forms. Whee. Clearing cache does nothing and the problem persists in private tabs and under different profiles, but other browsers I've tried (edge, chromium) don't have the problem so I know it's specifically Brave.
Just for reference if anyone else needs this, get Barrier instead.
Synergy went closed source commercial but left the old license attached to their last release, which the community continued and now it works much better than the original (and you can actually play most games with it instead of it spazzing out and interpreting mouse movements wrong!)
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Is this a good price for a Nintendo Dreamstation?
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Depends. Is it a Nintendo Dreamstation One X Max or a Nintendo Dreamstation Two dash Zero Zero Seven Delta Switch S DS?
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Looks like I accidentally bought the wrong RAM, and it's already arrived. Is there enough of a difference between 3200 and 3600 (G.SKILL Ripjaws V, both CL16) that I should return the ones I got and buy new ones? Not planning on doing any competitive online gaming or overclocking. The most demanding thing I'll be using my PC for is any new games that look good, like Elden Ring.
Edit: Ryzen 5600x and a 3060 ti.
Edit: Ryzen 5600x and a 3060 ti.
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Short answer: no.
Long answer: 3600 MHz could give you a higher rating in benchmarks but the rest of the hardware matters more than the 400 MHz difference. The 5600x is rated for 3200 MHz anyway.
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Ok, I have a question. My Game pass is suddenly in japanese.
Internet/google says it defaults to the default language of Windows, but...
And wtf is this shit, it looks like a japanese character.
What the hell is going on?
Internet/google says it defaults to the default language of Windows, but...
And wtf is this shit, it looks like a japanese character.
What the hell is going on?
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Check your locale. Maybe it defaulted to another time zone.
And do not worry about the Japanese character with the uppercase A, it is just the Windows way to tell you that it is a configuration menu related to language.
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Thank you, but I checked and everything looks normal and timezone is correct. Only game pass is affected.
Is it passive aggressive revenge for me shutting down windows search indexing?
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Have you tried leaving Sweden?
Seriously though, try setting your regional format to an English speaking country, see if that changes anything.
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Uhhh I don’t know how possible this is but is there anyway to bypass a block on any social media? I was blocked on a Twitch stream recently for saying some nonsense I regret, is there anyway to get by that using software or is it not possible?