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

[Car Won't Crank]

What are your guys' experiences with preventing GPU sag? Right now I can't go for waterblocking or a vertical mount/orientation and need something that can support a 4-5 lb air cooled card while being unsupervised for at least 6 months. Could I make it work with one of those Chinesium adjustable jackstands that sit right underneath and some suspension ropes like it's the Golden Gate Bridge?
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Use a case where the pcie slots are mounted vertically or the mobo is horizontal to mitigate sag.

 

[DavidS877]

Use a case where the pcie slots are mounted vertically or the mobo is horizontal to mitigate sag.

Finally, a use for these again.

But really I've found the supports work fine.

 

[anustart76]

What are your guys' experiences with preventing GPU sag? Right now I can't go for waterblocking or a vertical mount/orientation and need something that can support a 4-5 lb air cooled card while being unsupervised for at least 6 months. Could I make it work with one of those Chinesium adjustable jackstands that sit right underneath and some suspension ropes like it's the Golden Gate Bridge?
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My card came with a "leash" to hang the free corner with. You could always go the 3D-printed support route too.

 

[Nuclear Poisoning]

It's for tracking purposes, although what that info is used for, I don't know.

I use a browser extension called TubeTweaks which prevents those links from being generated, so you always get a plain YouTube link without the tracking part. It doesn't interfere with other extensions, such as uBlock Origin.

Using Firefox, when you right-click on the YT link you can choose "copy without tracking" which gets rid of the ?si part but still generates the ?pp part.

 

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What are your guys' experiences with preventing GPU sag? Right now I can't go for waterblocking or a vertical mount/orientation and need something that can support a 4-5 lb air cooled card while being unsupervised for at least 6 months. Could I make it work with one of those Chinesium adjustable jackstands that sit right underneath and some suspension ropes like it's the Golden Gate Bridge?
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you could turn your case sideways

 

[Wind Rammer]

I got some new RAM to go with what I had already but they dont show up on Windows. All 4 sticks appear in the BIOS. All of them work when tested individually. For some reason, in Windows only 2 slots out of 4 are used. Maybe related, if I enable XMP in BIOS, PC wont boot at all. Any idea what is going on?
Motherboard: Asus Prime B660-PLUS D4
RAM: 4x Corsair CMW32GX4M2D3600C18
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

I got some new RAM to go with what I had already but they dont show up on Windows. All 4 sticks appear in the BIOS. All of them work when tested individually. For some reason, in Windows only 2 slots out of 4 are used. Maybe related, if I enable XMP in BIOS, PC wont boot at all. Any idea what is going on?
Motherboard: Asus Prime B660-PLUS D4
RAM: 4x Corsair CMW32GX4M2D3600C18
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF

try out these solutions maybe.

 

[LurkTrawl]

So after reading an article about a breakthrough in quantum computing I was reminded of ternary computers:

So is a ternary computer being developed of more interest to a regular person?

I just found out about that the other day, they're apparently working on making ternary computers for the development of real AI not these stupid LLM things and I've been wondering about that vs this stuff.

I figured I'd ask this here too since I wouldn't even know where to start looking for an explanation and/or comparison of the pros/cons of either of these kinds of computer.

 

[Wind Rammer]

-Retard RAM Problem-

I had to contact Asus support. My setup will never work because the RAM model I got can only ever run 2 slots at a time. I didn't know that was a thing. I hope I can return it.

 

[std::string]

I figured I'd ask this here too since I wouldn't even know where to start looking for an explanation and/or comparison of the pros/cons of either of these kinds of computer.

In the specific context of LLMs they work by doing a metric shit ton of matrix multiplication. This is how they figure out what to infer. Restricting the domain entirely to {-1, 0, 1} as a way of weighting makes a lot more sense than using floating point numbers. Floating point numbers get imprecise when you multiply a bunch of them. All bets are off above 1e30 or below 1e-30.

I haven't seen any real research as to the uses in actual AI and not LLMs but I would imagine this is the problem. You need an inference to be able to continue for an arbitrary number of steps which is achievable with ternary but not with FP.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

the RAM model I got can only ever run 2 slots at a time

This is a new one to me, I've been grabbing random sticks of RAM and making them work for decades at this point. So the RAM itself has some kind of limitation that it will only allow CPU addressing to one channel? Is that RAM somehow using both channels? Now I have some research to do lol

Edit: Back with some thoughts. I see absolutely no information about RAM not working together in certain circumstances in the Asus or Corsair documentation. My suggestion would be to ensure you have the "pairs" of RAM into the same channels, so pair 1 is in A2 and B2, and pair 2 is in A1 and B1. That way it doesn't have issues with detecting its pair if they are serialized in some way to only work properly when it detects its twin.

 

[Wind Rammer]

Edit: Back with some thoughts. I see absolutely no information about RAM not working together in certain circumstances in the Asus or Corsair documentation.

That's what fucked me over but if you go to this page to check compatibility between the motherboard and memory, you can see on the last column "Socket Support" how many slots can be used. My RAM "CMW32GX4M2D3600C18" can only use 1 or 2 slots. Plenty of other models can use up to 4. I dont know what controls this or why its even a thing. Could another MOBO use this same 4 ram in 4 slots instead of 2? Who knows! Are Corsair just being dicks? Yeah, probably.

 

[Local Fed]

I hope that this is the right place for this type of post: I'm looking to buy a new laptop and would like it if anyone could tell me if the choice I've narrowed things down to has some kind of big glaring flaw that I'm not aware of (I know kind of the basic things about computers, but I'd certainly not consider myself to be some authoritative figure on it.)

I've narrowed things down and have decided that I want to go with this one here. I'm just looking for something to use every day to do mostly basic things like web browsing, watching/reading/listening to locally stored media, etc. In other words it doesn't need to run Starfield at max settings while streaming to Twitch or any other crazy thing.

 

[Wind Rammer]

I hope that this is the right place for this type of post: I'm looking to buy a new laptop and would like it if anyone could tell me if the choice I've narrowed things down to has some kind of big glaring flaw that I'm not aware of (I know kind of the basic things about computers, but I'd certainly not consider myself to be some authoritative figure on it.)

I've narrowed things down and have decided that I want to go with this one here. I'm just looking for something to use every day to do mostly basic things like web browsing, watching/reading/listening to locally stored media, etc. In other words it doesn't need to run Starfield at max settings while streaming to Twitch or any other crazy thing.

If you don't care if it's brand new, I usually recommend getting a refurbished ThinkPad. They are cheaper and (maybe) have more under the hood. They may have scuff marks but nothing major. Note that I am also not an authority on the matter. They just do the job well enough in my opinion.

 

[Local Fed]

If you don't care if it's brand new, I usually recommend getting a refurbished ThinkPad. They are cheaper and (maybe) have more under the hood. They may have scuff marks but nothing major. Note that I am also not an authority on the matter. They just do the job well enough in my opinion.

Yeah, ThinkPads are something I did give some consideration to actually. Leery of refurbished ones though, but that might just be me being overly paranoid. Still pretty set on the HP one from my previous post, but I might do a bit more looking around.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Can anyone recommend a good program for "math doodling"? I just want a blank sheet where I can type math wherever I want without too much rigmarole. You know, like you would if you're working stuff out with pencil and paper.
I've fooled around a bit with Lyx but it doesn't seem much more convenient than just doing "Insert Equation" in your word processor of choice.

 

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Is Breachforums.st the current legit site for Breachforums? Need to buy some voter lists and fake ID templates.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Does yt-dlg work on downloading YouTube with closed captions? I've tried downloading the Super Mario Bros. anime with multiple settings but the resulting file doesn't seem to have closed captioning per VLC.

 

[anustart76]

Does yt-dlg work on downloading YouTube with closed captions? I've tried downloading the Super Mario Bros. anime with multiple settings but the resulting file doesn't seem to have closed captioning per VLC.

You mean yt-dlp? Try passing these options:

--write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en.*"

 

[Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang]

I thought I remembered seeing a guide on the farms for removing bloatware/spyware from Windows 10/11, but now I can't find it.

Anybody know where it is or want to call me delusional retard?

EDIT: yes I'm a retard I checked the Windows thread and it's not that hard