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

[Old English Roast Beef]

Oh, I assumed you were doing this in a house. Each of the coax cables in your wall likely terminates in that network closet, then. The other end of that cable is where the other MOCA adapter needs to go.

Is there a way to figure out what coax cables are supposed to be where on the hub (Commscope CSADU9VP)? Just trying to connect the second adapter to any of the cables not plugged in didn't do anything, and I tried whatever combinations with connecting it to the hub I could think of.

 

[Post Reply]

Is there a way to figure out what coax cables are supposed to be where on the hub (Commscope CSADU9VP)? Just trying to connect the second adapter to any of the cables not plugged in didn't do anything, and I tried whatever combinations with connecting it to the hub I could think of.

There's probably no magic networking/splitting going on, each wall coax jack terminates as one specific cable in that closet. As I see it, you have two problems:

1. If they aren't labeled, identifying which of those cables is the other end of the wall jack you want will be an obstacle. If this is a shared closet, this presents a real problem as you can't just unplug other people's cables.
2. Routing the Ethernet from the moca adapter you place in that closet back to your router.

 

[Boss Nigger]

I want to make our old TV "smart" since its antenna input just gave up (it is over 10 years old already, other than that is still working flawlessly). What are the options that I could get the best bang for my buck?

If it has an HDMI port, and depending on your level of cuck-ness you could buy a chrome cast or an raspberry pi, or even a firestick. if it dosent have an hdmi port. you could get a signal converter but at that point its best to just buy a new tv

 

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Is it possible to access a browser's API (firefox for example) through console or a scriptlet? Let's say I wanna have an automated task, and part of it includes opening a browser, managing extensions etc. Is there something I can use, kind of like Puppeteer(which also allows testing chromium extensions)? Headless browser is not what I need(I think?), the tasks don't involve crawling or visiting any webpages, it's all about being able to manage settings and extensions.

It depends what you need to do.

Selenium, which has good APIs for Python, .NET (and thus C# and Powershell), and no doubt many other languages I haven't used with it, supports loading arbitrary extensions when you start Firefox or Chrome. I haven't explored the capabilities myself. Depending on what you need to do, it may work.

 

[Never Scored]

I want to make our old TV "smart" since its antenna input just gave up (it is over 10 years old already, other than that is still working flawlessly). What are the options that I could get the best bang for my buck?

If it has an HDMI port, and depending on your level of cuck-ness you could buy a chrome cast or an raspberry pi, or even a firestick. if it dosent have an hdmi port. you could get a signal converter but at that point its best to just buy a new tv

Good luck getting a Raspberry Pi these days. You can get a Rock 64 which has a Libreelec release, giving you access to Kodi and it's add ons, both legal and illegal.

Honestly, a dumb TV is like $100 at Wal-Mart now. If you watch a lot of TV OTA for free I'd just get a new TV.

 

[Doppelmonger]

If it has an HDMI port, and depending on your level of cuck-ness you could buy a chrome cast or an raspberry pi, or even a firestick. if it dosent have an hdmi port. you could get a signal converter but at that point its best to just buy a new tv

The TV in question has 4 HDMI inputs, it was cutting edge back in its day, it even has speaker outputs for 5.1 suround sound.

Good luck getting a Raspberry Pi these days. You can get a Rock 64 which has a Libreelec release, giving you access to Kodi and it's add ons, both legal and illegal.

Honestly, a dumb TV is like $100 at Wal-Mart now. If you watch a lot of TV OTA for free I'd just get a new TV.

I tought of getting a Pi 4, even a model 3 or a clone here like the Orange Pi with a linux distro, but they are expensive as fuck last time I checked. Dumb TVs are almost non existent here these days, at least new.

But I did not knew about LibreElec and that it can be installed on x64; I think I can get a cheap i3 mini pc and install it there. Thank you!

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I wonder if Linux has any easy ways to do it, since it's my main OS.

Hey, you're in luck! Look what popped up in another thread

Doubleposting but I found a better solution for Linux - DRI Prime. Basically the amdgpu driver is loaded for both cards with the significantly less hungry iGPU as primary card. The rx580 in this setup is pretty much off and automatically sent by the driver into D3Hot when not needed where it basically consumes zero power and doesn't produce any heat; I can't really measure any power consumption. (~25W measured at the wall doing desktop stuff, as is normal with my 4650G setup, this includes the monitor, 40-55W it was with the dGPU as primary card, also a lot more heat) When I need the dGPU I just launch the program/game in question with the enviroment variable DRI_PRIME=1 and that's it, the program gets rendered on the dGPU and displayed via iGPU. There is probably some performance overhead and latency added, but I didn't notice it. This feature is mostly intended for hybrid graphics laptops but works just fine on desktops too, there's nothing hardware specific about it. The biggest difficulty was the appalingly poor documentation and tard-wrangling my BIOS to not turn the internal GPU off. Now I have the best of both worlds. Light gaming, browsing etc. on the iGPU, the heavy stuff on the dGPU, and switching is just a variable away.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

What is the most tactful way to tell your coworker his code is shit and he should quit the industry and also quit his own life?

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

What is the most tactful way to tell your coworker his code is shit and he should quit the industry and also quit his own life?

With the assumption he's a cracka': "You look awfully white for an Indian."

 

[SandyCat]

Would there be any benefit using the side panel fan on this thing? There's two intakes in the front, a exhaust fan on the top and exhaust fan on the back

The side panel fan sits right between the video card and power supply. My thermals are perfectly fine without it but its just sitting there unplugged as I don't have any headers left to plug it into. Is it even worth using or do I just leave it unplugged?

 

[KingFrampt]

Does anyone know any VPS hosts for large amounts of storage, I just changed from Virmach cause the support sucks dick and they have been 'migrating' my server for the last 15 days (yet it was only meant to take 48 hours), I was paying $14/month for 2TB.

I'm looking at the cheapest possible Hetzner cloud instance with a 5TB storage slice which I believe will cost around $16/month but from what I've been told Hetzner can also suck a dick, another alternative would be BuyVM but I have used them before and they make me want to fire an RPG into a crowd of people

@CrunkLord420 maybe you know of some?

 

[Boss Nigger]

Would there be any benefit using the side panel fan on this thing? There's two intakes in the front, a exhaust fan on the top and exhaust fan on the back

The side panel fan sits right between the video card and power supply. My thermals are perfectly fine without it but its just sitting there unplugged as I don't have any headers left to plug it into. Is it even worth using or do I just leave it unplugged?
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The idea for the side panel fan is to supply the gpu with "fresh" air, but if your thermals are fine dont worry about it.

 

[Least Concern]

Does anyone know any VPS hosts for large amounts of storage, I just changed from Virmach cause the support sucks dick and they have been 'migrating' my server for the last 15 days (yet it was only meant to take 48 hours), I was paying $14/month for 2TB.

I'm looking at the cheapest possible Hetzner cloud instance with a 5TB storage slice which I believe will cost around $16/month but from what I've been told Hetzner can also suck a dick, another alternative would be BuyVM but I have used them before and they make me want to fire an RPG into a crowd of people

@CrunkLord420 maybe you know of some?

Does the large amount of data need to be frequently accessed from the web application running on the VPS? If not, it might be useful to just use a small VPS for the web app, and have a "dumb" storage provider like Amazon S3 or a cheaper alternative (I've heard good things about Backblaze B2 but haven't used it myself) to handle the storage of files.

 

[TheRedChair]

Would there be any benefit using the side panel fan on this thing? There's two intakes in the front, a exhaust fan on the top and exhaust fan on the back

The side panel fan sits right between the video card and power supply. My thermals are perfectly fine without it but its just sitting there unplugged as I don't have any headers left to plug it into. Is it even worth using or do I just leave it unplugged?
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Short answer... probably. Long answer is I always prefer side panel fans as well as drive bays for giving you choices for extra equipment or extra fans. And you can always get a splitter to to run your fan directly off of your psu. or get an additional fan controller and make things fancy. They are cheap to do.

Again as stated before I have a full supply of New Corsair Carbide 400r/500r cases in storage when I decide to make another build.

I consider the current style of cases to be utter shit. You are just paying for bling bling and losing functionality.

If I was going to use a smaller case this is one of the styles shown I would choose from.

 

[KingFrampt]

Does the large amount of data need to be frequently accessed from the web application running on the VPS? If not, it might be useful to just use a small VPS for the web app, and have a "dumb" storage provider like Amazon S3 or a cheaper alternative (I've heard good things about Backblaze B2 but haven't used it myself) to handle the storage of files.

Not really I just upload old archives that I don't really wanna access but might in the future for whatever reason

Isn't AWS/Azure kinda expensive for storage?

 

[The Intern]

Isn't AWS/Azure kinda expensive for storage?

It is, and you have to be a raging troon to use it

 

[Least Concern]

Not really I just upload old archives that I don't really wanna access but might in the future for whatever reason

Isn't AWS/Azure kinda expensive for storage?

It can be, yes, depending on how you use it.

Is it really just you who's going to be accessing these things? If so, why not just get some physical media to back stuff up? An external hard drive that stores 2TB can probably be had for under $150 nowadays, and if you get two of different brands and replace the older one every couple years, you should be pretty well insulated from failure, particularly if you aren't accessing the drives that often.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It can be, yes, depending on how you use it.

Is it really just you who's going to be accessing these things? If so, why not just get some physical media to back stuff up? An external hard drive that stores 2TB can probably be had for under $150 nowadays, and if you get two of different brands and replace the older one every couple years, you should be pretty well insulated from failure, particularly if you aren't accessing the drives that often.

What if one drive fails just as the other one burns in the house fire?

Off-site backups is a wise thing to do. Hetzner looks good, I'll look into it for my own needs, but it feels very "nordVPN" in that who knows what they're doing.

 

[The Intern]

What if one drive fails just as the other one burns in the house fire?

Off-site backups is a wise thing to do. Hetzner looks good, I'll look into it for my own needs, but it feels very "nordVPN" in that who knows what they're doing.

Always follow the 3-2-1 rule when it comes to backups
Some other backup rules I've encountered are:
3-2-1-1-0 is the same as 3-2-1 but with an additional “Air Gapped” backup and adding a check process to ensure all backups have zero errors. I've seen some companies use 4-3-2 meaning; you have 4 copies of your data, stored across three locations (Onsite as source, onsite with the MSP and one in the cloud), with two of these being offsite. but MSPs are gay and you should never use them.

 

[Least Concern]

What if one drive fails just as the other one burns in the house fire?

Well, what if a gigantic magnetic meteor gets caught in the Earth's orbit, demagnetizing the electronics in every area it passes over for the next 50 years?

I guess it depends on on how precious your data is. But trying to CYA for every eventuality will just drive you crazy.

That said, yes, having at least one back-up off-site is a good idea.